VA to host virtual Women’s Health Public Forum
BRADFORD, Pa. – University of Pittsburgh at Bradford students will be on spring break March 4 through 12.
The university will close administrative offices on March 10 for a spring holiday.
Offices will reopen and classes will resume March 13.
Hanley Library will be closed March 4-5 and March 10-12. It will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 6-9. Regular hours will resume March 13.
The Marilyn Horne Museum Exhibit Center and Café in Marilyn Horne Hall in downtown Bradford will remain open. Regular museum hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Regular café hours are from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
ALTOONA- The James E. Van Zandt VA Medical Center is hosting a virtual Women's Health Public Forum on Thursday March, 9 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The forum, open to all female Veterans, will educate women about the wide-range of services the VA provides. Women Veterans will also have the opportunity to ask questions about their care or learn how to enroll and receive the benefits they have earned for serving the nation.
Altoona VA Chief of Staff, Dr. Angela Rowe, will be the featured speaker for the forum, which will also include VA representatives from: Women's Health, Patient Advocacy, Enrollment and Eligibility, Nutrition and Food Services, My Healthevet, Care in the Community and Mental Health.
"Reaching out to connect with Women who served our nation is an integral part of our mission to serve all Veterans in our community," said Dr. Rowe. "Women Veterans have earned the personalized and compassionate care we offer, and this forum will give these heroines individualized attention to ensure they receive the specialized services and benefits we offer.”
Those interested in in attending the Women's Health Public Forum should email: Susan. yohn@va.govor call 814943-8164 ext. 17186 to receive a Microsoft Teams link for the event.
The VA Medical Center, along with its five community-based outpatient clinics, serves 14 counties and more than 27,000 Veterans, including more than 1,400 women Veterans. During the last three years, the facility has grown more than 50 services and added 400 personnel, while expanding its infrastructure foot print by adding 70,000 sq. feet of additional clinical and administrative space.
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal warrant unsealed Thursday says agents found bombmaking materials at the apartment of the alleged gunman charged with fatally shooting seven people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago last year, a newspaper reported.
Among the items found in the Highland Park-area home of Robert Crimo III days after the attack were commercial components used for explosions and a timer, according to the Chicago Tribune report.
An affidavit attached to the warrant cited Crimo, 22, as telling FBI agents he mulled the possibility of deploying explosives in the attack on the annual holiday parade in Highland Park, just north of Chicago.
“It could have been planted if it worked, in theory it could have been planted . . . somewhere where it could cause harm,” Crimo was quoted as saying. “If it worked, I might have planted it early, or I might have just sat down, left the bag there, and walked away.”
The affidavit said that Crimo also told agents the explosives would have been “too heavy to carry to the parade, but he considered using them if the opportunity arose.”
A grand jury indicted Crimo in July on 21 first-degree murder counts, 48 counts of attempted murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery, representing the seven people killed and dozens wounded in the attack at the holiday parade in Highland Park. He has pleaded not guilty.
The warrant was filed in U.S. District Court shortly after the shooting, though no federal charges have been filed in the case, the Tribune reported.
Last month, Crimo's father, Robert Crimo Jr., 58, entered a not guilty plea to charges that he helped his then-19-year-old son obtain a gun license three years before the attack. A grand jury indicted him on seven counts of reckless conduct. Each count carries a maximum 3-year prison term.
The father is free on bail. His son was ordered held in jail pending trial.