Newsletter editor Lara Hall Blosser has been joined by Caroline Kalich, a new member of the Sewickley Creek Watershed Association who is assisting as a reporter.
Caroline (Carol) is currently a proofreader for GA Communications of Atlanta, Ga., at the company's North Huntingdon site (formerly Creative Services of SuperValu, Inc., a national grocery distributor with warehouses in New Stanton and Belle Vernon). Prior to that she served as feature news and associate editor at The Catholic Accent, a newspaper of the Catholic Diocese of Greensburg, Pa., and as reporter, photographer and editor at The Advisor, published by Laurel Group in Scottdale. She is a graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania where she majored in secondary English education and Point Park College where she was a journalism/communications major with a concentration in newspaper reporting.
Church music has been a continuing interest; she started playing the organ at Holy Cross Church, Youngwood, in the eighth grade, and is currently head organist at the parish. Since leaving The Accent , she has taken music courses at Seton Hill College and Westmoreland County Community College.
"Earlier this year I felt it was time to do more writing and to get involved in a community activity. Henry Sobota invited me to the SCWA annual banquet in March, and both he and Joe Polansky invited me to consider writing for the association's newsletter. I welcome this opportunity to both write and be active with a group working to improve our local environment."
As such the Association shall use its resources to educate the citizens of the watershed as to sound environmental practices. In addition, the Association will seek out and cooperate with government agencies, interested organizations, businesses and individuals to implement programs to improve water quality and encourage proper land use.