🌱 Patch AM: Toy Drives Around USC: How To Make The Holidays Merry For Everyone

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In today's newsletter:

• How Upper St. Clair neighbors can spread holiday cheer with local toy drives

Also on today's calendar: Belle Voci: Winter Dreams Holiday Concert and 1 more event.

Today's riddle: I once read a book about anti-gravity. 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Friday: Cold with a flurry, with a high of 31 and low of 26 degrees.
• Saturday: Cold; a little afternoon snow, temps: high: 31, low: 11. ⛄️ Brr!
• Sunday: Cloudy, a snow shower; frigid, with a high of 19 and low of 16 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Toy Drives Around USC: How To Make The Holidays Merry For Everyone (patch.com) — Families in Upper St. Clair are encouraged to brighten the holidays for children in need by contributing to several local toy drives, including Toys for Tots and Best of the Batch Foundation’s Batch-A-Toys. The piece highlights numerous drop-off locations around the South Hills and greater Pittsburgh area, along with ways to support UPMC Children’s Hospital’s virtual toy drive and online registry.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Upper St. Clair

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Saturday December 13

• Belle Voci: Winter Dreams Holiday Concert
  Westminster Presbyterian Church , 2040 Washington Rd , Pittsburgh
  7:30 pm

Monday December 15

• BPSD: Brass Day
  Bethel Park SD Bethel Park, PA 15102

Friday December 19

• Christmas Observed (Elementary School Parties)
  Bethel Park SD Bethel Park, PA 15102

Sunday December 21

• Christmas party
  Trader Jack's Flea Market , 999 Steen Rd , Bridgeville
  11:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday December 12

• Toddler Time
  Bridgeville Public Library , 505 McMillan St , Bridgeville
  10:00 am
• Basketball - Junior Varsity Boys vs. Hempfield High School (Away)
  Hempfield Area High School
  6:00 pm
• Farmhouse Christmas Cookie Decorating Class
  Cookie Wishes , LLC , McMurray
  6:00 pm
• Winter Concert — South Hills Chorale
  Christ Church Preschool , 44 Highland Rd , Bethel Park
  7:00 pm
• HS Percussion Concert
  HS Auditorium
  7:00 pm
• Home By Nine! - Stand-Up Comedy at Cafe Conmigo in Wexford, PA
  Cafe Conmigo - Wexford , 10 N Meadow Dr Suite 4 , Wexford
  7:00 pm
• Basketball - Varsity Boys vs. Hempfield High School (Away)
  Hempfield Area High School
  7:30 pm

Saturday December 13

• Wrestling - Varsity Boys vs. TBA (Away)
  Moon Area High School
  8:00 am

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🗞 Nearby News

Bridgeville

• Outgoing Bridgeville councilmen recognized (triblive.com)
• Sewage, garbage rates in Bridgeville to increase; property tax remains the same (triblive.com)

Bethel Park

• Winter break is quickly approaching BPHS (bphawkeye.org)
• What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Dec. 10, 2025: It's Pratt brothers vs. Bauman brothers when Lincoln Park, Moon meet (triblive.com)
• In brief: Pierogi sale, holiday events and more in the South Hills (triblive.com)

Pittsburgh

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-- The Patch AM Team

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