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Freedomofspeech

(4,388 posts)
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 03:13 PM Aug 2017

So they are selling confederate flags at the Westmoreland Co. Fair...

here in Southwestern, PA. This is disgraceful. We have not attended the fair for years because the Fair Board allows this to happen.

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So they are selling confederate flags at the Westmoreland Co. Fair... (Original Post) Freedomofspeech Aug 2017 OP
Westmoreland County Pennsylvania Soldiers in the Civil War struggle4progress Aug 2017 #1
Let's honor our dead by waving their killers' flag LeftInTX Aug 2017 #7
I haven't gone to the fair in years either. johnp3907 Aug 2017 #2
Lucky you... Freedomofspeech Aug 2017 #3
They wont be happy until they are gunning down blacks, gays, liberals, etc. Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #4
No kidding. Freedomofspeech Aug 2017 #5
I lived just over the mountain Cirque du So-What Aug 2017 #6
Hey now, it's just Pennsylvanians honoring their hereditary GulfCoast66 Aug 2017 #8
I went to a vigil for Charlottesville in Greensburg. johnp3907 Aug 2017 #9
Why am I not surprised? Freedomofspeech Aug 2017 #11
Population decline, poverty plague Westmoreland County yortsed snacilbuper Aug 2017 #10
Ted Kopas is wonderful!! Freedomofspeech Aug 2017 #12
KARMA? Brainfodder Mar 2020 #13
Lucky you... Freedomofspeech Mar 2020 #14

johnp3907

(3,913 posts)
2. I haven't gone to the fair in years either.
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 03:29 PM
Aug 2017

And my wife and I are moving to Pittsburgh next month. I'm so excited to get out of Westmoreland county!

yortsed snacilbuper

(7,947 posts)
10. Population decline, poverty plague Westmoreland County
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 08:24 PM
Aug 2017

Westmoreland County lost more population between 2010 and 2016 than any other county in Pennsylvania, peeling away jobs and businesses in a place brimming with local governments, water supply and treatment agencies and school districts.

New thinking is needed to reverse the decline, to improve local government collaboration, Westmoreland County Commissioner Ted Kopas told the audience at a strategic planning hearing at Westmoreland County Community College in Youngwood.

http://www.post-gazette.com/business/pittsburgh-company-news/2017/07/02/jeannette-westmoreland-county-pa-population-decline-economic-impact-de-industrialization/stories/201706250004

Brainfodder

(7,181 posts)
13. KARMA?
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 03:48 PM
Mar 2020

Thanks for this thread, I am from there originally, escaped in the 80's.

YIKES!

0 chance of me ever returning, 2700 miles away now, just enough?

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