Homestead

By Josh Rizzo
Rocket Sports Editor

Giving to the less fortunate and providing troubled kids with a sense of community is important, said the current back-up quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Charlie Batch, in front of sport management majors Monday, Oct. 27 at West Gym.

The Sport Facility and Event Management class raised $9,000 for the Best of the Batch Foundation by hosting a golf tournament.

Batch made the trip to SRU to thank all of the students for their hard work.

“I started my foundation because I wanted to give back,” Batch said. “I know that I have been blessed to have the fortune of playing pro football and winning a Super Bowl with my hometown team.”

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It was only fitting on Halloween weekend that the Deadheads assembled at the Carnegie Library Music Hall of Homestead got to join in unison to sing, “steal your face right off your head.”

The most skull-centric piece of Grateful Dead lyricism was delivered by Bob Weir and Ratdog deep in the second set of a show that spanned nearly four hours.

The Dead’s co-frontman sports a bushy gray beard these days to go along with dropping as many beloved Jerry Garcia songs into the set as his own. In addition to the aforementioned “He’s Gone,” Weir even reached into the Garcia solo catalog for “Mission in the Rain,” a song he doesn’t sing with the tenderness Jerry did but was effective nonetheless.

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