Topgolf will hire 500 for its South Fayette location
With plans to open later this summer, Topgolf Pittsburgh announced it will hire 500 workers for its location in South Fayette’s Newbury Market.
A company news release said available positions at Topgolf’s 42nd location include servers, bartenders, guest services, kitchen workers and maintenance staff.
“We are very excited to meet the talented candidates of Pittsburgh,” Chad Duffield, director of operations for Topgolf Pittsburgh, said in the news release. “We look forward to putting a unique flair on our interview process and inspiring applicants to begin a career with us.”
Topgolf will be hosting “Mission: Ambition” auditions starting later this month. Auditions will be non-traditional, as the news release requests that job-seekers leave “their dress-up clothes and pre-rehearsed answers at the door and start thinking mission-minded.”
The 65,000-square-foot venue at 400 Presto Sygan Road is the first Topgolf location in Pennsylvania. The three-level facility will feature a driving range, point-scoring golf games with microchipped balls, food and beverages, private event spaces, tournaments, instruction and programming events.
For more information, visit topgolf.com/careers.
Movements on Main
Ever-evolving Main Street in downtown Washington changed a little more recently, as Dragich’s Main Street Market & Coffee Shoppe closed and Center for Coalfield Justice, an environmental nonprofit, moved elsewhere in the city.
Dragich’s, a convenience store without customarily high convenience store prices, shuttered officially April 30 following an online auction of equipment and fixtures. Virtually nothing could be spotted inside last week.
The Dragich family operated the shop at 16 S. Main, near East Beau Street, for 18 years, but it apparently became a casualty of the apartment construction project in the Washington Trust Building. Family members could not be reached for comment.
Speaking of the Trust Building, the Center for Coalfield Justice recently relocated into the basement there, with an East Beau address.
“We’re still committed to Washington. We needed more space because we’re probably taking on a larger team,” said Veronica Coptis, the executive director. She expects to add a fourth full-time staffer this year.
“We’ll now have enough space for community meetings and gatherings, room for people with social justice issues,” Coptis added.
The center was on South Main, near the intersection with East Maiden Street, for nearly a decade.
A wonderful life
Randy Riggle, the standup comedian from Lone Pine, has performed in some interesting venues in 47 states. Seventeen months ago, he entertained crowds in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the 75th anniversary of the Japanese aerial attack that drew the U.S. into World War II.
Riggle’s Nostalgia Show always includes a salute to the military, and always ends with him reading a serious poem he wrote, “This Hat I Hold.” It is a tribute to not only his late father, Earl, a WWII veteran, but to military people past and present.
On Saturday, he will salute a military veteran who also was a fairly well-known actor. The Nostalgia Show will celebrate the life of Jimmy Stewart, an Air Force reservist, who would be 110 if he were alive. The event will kick off at 1:30 p.m. at the Jimmy Stewart Museum in Indiana, Pa., the actor’s hometown.
The briefcase
- It’s About Time Antiques & More opened about two weeks ago at 143 East High St., Waynesburg.
- Anova Hospice and Palliative Care, with clients in Washington and Greene counties, has acquired Seven Oaks Hospice Care in Castle Shannon.
- Directors of the Greene County Conservation District are taking applications until Aug. 31 for the Greene County Reinvestment in Agriculture: Cost-share Enhancement (GRACE) Program, aimed at soil enrichment. For more information or to apply, call 724-852-5278, e-mail gccd@co.greene.pa.us or visit the office at 22 West High St., Waynesburg.
- Ediri Montoya,
- a physician, and nurse practitioner
- Joanne Lewis
- have joined the medical staff at Senior LIFE Greene, 100 Evergreene Drive, Waynesburg. Senior LIFE is a provider of the Living Independence for the Elderly (LIFE) program in Pennsylvania, serving people 55 and older. It is funded by Medicare and Medicaid.
- Walter Lober,
- of Chartiers Township, an attorney with Edgar Snyder & Associates, has been certified as a specialist in workers’ compensation law. He was certified by the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Workers’ Compensation Law Section. Lober has an undergraduate degree from Washington & Jefferson College.