Oct 15, 2014 2 min read

“Global Gas Markets in Transition” will be the next topic in the Washington & Jefferson College Energy Lecture Series, beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Burnett Center’s Yost Auditorium.

Kenneth B. Medlock III, Ph.D., senior director of the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University, will speak.

The series is sponsored by the Center for Energy Policy and Management at Washington & Jefferson College.

The lecture is free, although registration is requested. For more information, visit www.washjeff.edu.

Irene Keirsbilck is having a good year.

The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency selected Keirsbilck, a longtime employee of Community Action Southwest in Washington, as “Best Housing Counseling Specialist” in the region. She was honored last week at a ceremony in Harrisburg.

Keirsbilck was chosen because of her “exemplary service to Pennsylvania residents.”

This was her second statewide award in 2014. In April, she was named CAS Staff Member of the Year.

Keirsbilck is a 35-year employee of CAS, the past 27 as a housing counselor. She has helped thousands of Washington and Greene County residents purchase first homes and to keep them.

A West Brownsville native is Optometrist of the Year in New Jersey.

William R. Marcolini, California Area High School class of 1993, received the award from the New Jersey Society of Optometric Physicians. He practices at Washington Family Eye Care in Washington, N.J.

Marcolini received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Pennsylvania State University and an optometry degree from Pennsylvania College of Optometry, where he is an adjunct faculty member.

Gov. Tom Corbett recently announced the confirmation of Michael P. Rollage of McMurray to the Pennsylvania Board of Accountancy.