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Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle: (left - right) Jakie, 80 of Chicora; Lucille Karenbauer, 78 of East Butler, and Kristina Funkhouser, manager of the Chicora Senior Center, work together on an arts and crafts project.

Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle: Connie Collier 70, of Chicora, recently participated in the arts and crafts project at the Senior Center.

Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle: Chicora Senior Center art project

Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle: Kim Palmieri takes a brisk walk Monday moring in Cranberry Twp. Community Park.

Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle: Longtime friends and neighbors Jan Tedesco, left, and Kathy Soriano take a brisk morning walk Monday morning in Cranberry Twp. Park.

Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle: According to PSP Trooper Sheppeck, the driver of a white, 2-door pickup truck was traveling west on Eakerstown Road, Monday, Oct. 28 when the driver lost control of his vehicle striking a utility pole. It took emergency workers more than an hour to reach the driver as utility workers had to shut down power before removing wires from the vehicle. The driver walked out of the truck on his own power. According to the Trooper Sheppeck, the driver was only wearing the lap strap of this seatbelt and hit his head on the windshield. Rescue personnel from the Butler Ambulance Service transported the driver to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle: Emergency and utility workers were called to the scene of an accident at 892 Eakerstown Road, Monday. According to PSP Trooper Sheppeck, the driver of a white, 2-door pickup truck was traveling west on Eakerstown Road, Monday, Oct. 28 when the driver lost control of his vehicle striking a utlilty pole. It took emergency workers more than an hour to reach the driver. The driver walked out of the truck on his own power. According to the Trooper Sheppeck, the driver was only wearing the lap strap of this seatbelt and hit his head on the windshield. Rescue personnel from the Butler Ambulance Service transported the driver to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle: Utility workers remove a utility pole from the scene of a one-vehicle accident at 892 Ekastown Road, Monday. According to PSP Trooper Sheppeck, the driver of a white, 2-door pickup truck was traveling west on Eakerstown Road, Monday, Oct. 28 when the driver lost control of his vehicle striking a utility pole. It took emergency workers more than an hour to reach the driver as utility workers had to shut down power before removing wires from the vehicle. The driver walked out of the truck on his own power. According to the Trooper Sheppeck, the driver was only wearing the lap strap of this seatbelt and hit his head on the windshield. Rescue personnel from the Butler Ambulance Service transported the driver to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle: Utility workers remove a utility pole from the scene of a one-vehicle accident at 892 Ekastown Road, Monday. According to PSP Trooper Sheppeck, the driver of a white, 2-door pickup truck was traveling west on Eakerstown Road, Monday, Oct. 28 when the driver lost control of his vehicle striking a utility pole. It took emergency workers more than an hour to reach the driver as utility workers had to shut down power before removing wires from the vehicle. The driver walked out of the truck on his own power. According to the Trooper Sheppeck, the driver was only wearing the lap strap of this seatbelt and hit his head on the windshield. Rescue personnel from the Butler Ambulance Service transported the driver to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle: According to PSP Trooper Sheppeck, the driver of a white, 2-door pickup truck was traveling west on Ekastown Road, Monday, Oct. 28 when the driver lost control of his vehicle striking a utility pole. It took emergency workers more than an hour to reach the driver as utility workers had to shut down power before removing wires from the vehicle. The driver walked out of the truck on his own power. According to the Trooper Sheppeck, the driver was only wearing the lap strap of this seatbelt and hit his head on the windshield. Rescue personnel from the Butler Ambulance Service transported the driver to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle: Freeport's #13 brings the ball down the field against two Yough defenders in the first half.

Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle: Yough's #17 battles for position against Freeport's #24.

Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle: Yough's #17 plays applies pressure against Freeport’s #5 in first half.

UPMC Passavant - Cranberry's Hillman Cancer Center staff Monday received a Ford Warrior Quilt, decorated with supportive messages. The quilt, made by Karen Womack, will hang in the hospital's hallway. Alex J. Weidenhof/Butler Eagle

Tuesday is National Cat Day and to bring awareness to homeless casts we are highlighting Autumn, who just got her stitches out recently from a knee surgery. Autumn is a young cat who came into the Butler County Humane Society recently with a broken knee and had to be taken to the vet for a surgery that cost about $1,000, according to the Alicia Sharer, the community outreach and volunteer coordinator of the Butler County Humane Society. To fund the surgery, the Humane Society ran a fundraiser on their Facebook page and according to Sharer, the community came together chipped in the cost for Autumn's surgery in just a couple of hours. Sharer said by the time her and Autumn arrived at the vet, the fundraiser had reached it's goal. The fundraiser ended with a total of $1320.Photo by Lauryn Halahurich