Looking to Hire: FANS 4 HELP Learning and Play Center is looking to hire a few good preschool teachers/childcare workers for our new play and nature-based learning space in the Donaldson's Crossroads Mall, McMurray, PA.  All new clearance process will be required and paid for by FANS 4 HELP prior to the start date.  Call (724) 825-5121 for more details.  We will be a work in progress for more progress in nature-based learning and play. - www.fansofplay.com/

My Dear FANS 4 HELP,
We just did something, truly amazing and great. We just went 12 for 13 for a 92% success rate in raising some funds and raising the awareness for some nonprofits and volunteer services. That is unprecedented in any business, organization, work, sports or games people play. And, we did it together with very little investments regarding money, time and materials.
This is how we did it.
The PA Lottery and probably lotteries everywhere and in every state have a relatively new, two-digit lottery game. Also, some sports have scores that can simulate the two-digit probabilities involving numbers 0-9 for 100 block pools. Football and basketball have these higher scores that can equally involve numbers from 0 - 9. Additionally, with sport's pools, there is a greater entertainment value with more reinforcements for the chances and hopes of winning. Isn't that what we all need sometimes, the thought and opportunity to entertain a chance and hope of winning, which will sometimes come true in a more probable way.
That is what we did, and we did it twice as good as the PA 2-digit lottery and even better than a casino, by doing it our way. The PA Lottery pays out 50% on a winning ticket, but since FANS 4 HELP is a nonprofit ourselves, we have to payout 100% to the winning players. The casinos set their own odds, with little oversight by regulatory agencies.
We did it, we will do it, and it still isn't over till it's over, because we still get to watch an honest to goodness basketball game tomorrow at 9:20 PM.
Thank you FANS for Health, Environment, Learning, and Play, through Fitness, Arts, Nature, Science, plus Fun, Accessible, Nurturing, and Safe opportunities.
Dennis Smiddle - Founder and Executive Director of FANS of Play and FANS 4 HELP.

Former C-M volunteer coach convicted of numerous sex crimes
By Mike Jones July 29, 2022 Publication: Observer-Reporter (Washington, PA).
A former Canon-McMillan volunteer coach was convicted last week in Pittsburgh on numerous child porn, sex assault and rape charges stemming from separate cases in Washington and Allegheny counties. Anthony Lee Fletcher, 38, of Crafton, was convicted July 20 during a non-jury trial before Allegheny County Judge Jill Rangos in which he was charged with hundreds of sexual crimes.
Fletcher was arrested in May 2021 after state police said he installed a hidden camera in a gymnasium bathroom at The Armory Youth Center in Canonsburg and filmed three girls undressing. He was not an employee or volunteer at the center, but apparently was able to access the bathroom as a contractor renting space in the building. State police investigators also found videos at his home of him sexually assaulting a woman while she was unconscious. The two separate cases from Washington and Allegheny counties were merged together and went through the Court of Common Pleas in Allegheny County.
Fletcher was brought on as a volunteer softball coach for Canon-Mac in March 2019 and then to a similar volunteer position with the football team that August, according to school board meeting minutes posted on the district's website. School Superintendent Michael Daniels said Fletcher is no longer involved with the district's sports activities, although he declined to say when he left his volunteer role. However, the school board approved the termination of an unnamed "non-professional employee" on May 27, 2021, just days after Fletcher's arrest.  Daniels said he could not comment on Fletcher due to personnel reasons. None of the accusations included in court documents involved the school district or students.
Fletcher was convicted by Rangos last week on six felony counts of filming prohibited sex acts, three felony charges of child pornography and three misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy in the Canonsburg case.​ He was convicted of 170 separate charges in the Allegheny County case involving the unconscious rape victim. His public defender, Art Ettinger, declined to comment Thursday.
Rangos is scheduled to sentence Fletcher at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 18 at the Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh.

A Tale of our dog "G."
Our dog G, has been able to teleport, ever since we rescued him as a puppy.  That's kind of why we named him "G." While we were driving G to his new home, already with two cats in our house, Veronica said, " I see you, looking all gangster and cool sitting in the backseat all alone." "We should name you The Great Gatsby, or "G, for short." G actually started to rise above the backseat all the way to the car roof.  We were both, shocked and amazed at the same time.
However, somehow NASA  found out about his powers, and  soon after we rescued G as a puppy and they threatened to take our G puppy away.
 NASA visited our home, late one night and threatened to take G away from us, unless we signed an agreement to never allow G to use his power to teleport "for good."  Little did we know that this "for good" agreement legally meant our little G puppy could never use his powers to teleport, ever again.  We unknowingly, agreed to sign the agreement to not let G use his powers at all, not for good and not even for fun, ever again.
Apparently, NASA was embarrassed  to admit that G was smarter than their smartest scientists.  They even threated to cut off G's tail, which would mean, other dogs would not know that G is very friendly and they would be fighting all the time.  As G's foster parents, we could not allow this to happen.  So my daughter, Veronica,  and I reluctantly signed the agreement with NASA.
We still had lots of fun with G, playing in our fenced-in yard, mostly with our family and friends.  G really liked playing with the children.  G was so smart and fast, we could never catch him or win, when playing ball.  G was really nice too, he would always give us a chance to get the ball or toys when playing.  In fact, G was so smart, fast and nice, we thought about taking out in public more often, because G really loved everyone.  But, we were always afraid that NASA would be watching us and they would make their threats come true.
Finally, Veronica and our family decided to make some moves of our own.  Veronica is a Director of Special Olympics, I am a retired Health and Safety Inspector, Play Safety Expert and PA School Safety and Security Assessor, the rest of our family includes a social worker, IU teacher, an engineer with the U S Navy and a stay- at-home parent/educator/homemaker of 4 amazing young children and 3 cats, so we formed our own forces for good and for G's rights., as a fellow animal.
We contacted PETA and the ASPCA secretly and we put our plans into action.  We formulated a goal plan with all of G's strengths and the needs or benefits that G can provide for our society and country.  It was a no-brainer for NASA to withdraw the agreement, and let G live his best life, as nature intended.
So, if you sometimes see G teleporting around town, it's just G being G and we are all living more happily ever after.
"G's" Family.

Yes America, we are getting dumb and dumber.
I believe this to be true, from experience and as evidenced, by how we play the lottery games.
We all know this to be true too, because this is an addiction and we are playing against all odds.
For example, take the PA Lottery Pick 2 game.
GAME DESCRIPTION
Have fun every day with the PA PICK 2, one of the PA Lottery games with great prizes and chances of winning! You can try to match the winning Lottery numbers twice a day by playing PICK 2 Day and PICK 2 Evening, and it’s really easy.
The truth:
If you make a straight bet of $1.00 and win, the payout is $50.00. This is because, there are 100 possibilities for 2 digits, (00 to 99). Therefore, the PA Lottery Pick 2, odds of winning are 100 to 1 and the PA Lottery payout is 50% or $50.00. ​This is easy and all lottery game payouts are based on the same odds. Playing these games are dumb, but the PA Lottery does donate or designate some of the profits to our seniors and we all love our seniors.
I am a senior too, so I'm not complaining or proposing any changes at this time, but playing this PA Lottery game is dumb!
Now, compare the PA Lottery Pick 2 game, with the FANS 4 HELP nonprofit 2 digit lottery game. The FANS 4 HELP game is still fun, with greater prizes and the same chances of winning, 100 to 1, and it's really easy. However, the ​​FANS 4 HELP payout is 100% and the payout for a $1.00 straight bet is $100.00. This can be done, because FANS 4 HELP is a PA nonprofit and all the proceeds go back to the players or winning player. Not playing the FANS 4 HELP 2 digit lottery game is dumber!?
Also, there are more great reasons to play the FANS 4 HELP 2 digit lottery game. ​FANS 4 HELP can focus more on helping our essential workers and essential services, along with our helpful and struggling businesses. FANS 4 HELP can place more limits on these games, while changing the results from addictions to donations and from problems to more solutions.
Let's get smart and smarter, America!
Have fun, stay safer, and stay healthier, America,
From FANS 4 HELP