Good Neighbor Day 2023

AUGUST 22, 2023

The McKeesport Community Newsroom celebrated Good Neighbor Day by asking for community leaders and advocates from the McKeesport area for their thoughts on what makes a good neighbor and how to build community in their increasingly transient city.

Originally filmed on June 15, 2023.

Interviewers are Nya O'Neal, Jim Busch, Colette Funches and Nie'Zhay Jefferson.

Our guests (in order of appearance) are McKeesport Mayor Michael Cherepko, Social Worker Keenan Michel, Women for a Healthy Environment educator Germaine Gooden-Patterson, Meals on Wheels coordinator Rose Marshall, President of NAACP McKeesport Unit Brenda Sawyer, McKeesport resident Maria Palmer, photographer Kyle Nelson, Youth advocate Harold Allen and McKeesport Fire Chief Jeffrey Tomovcsik.

Audio/Video: Wayne Gaines and Tanner Knapp, from the Center for Media Innovation at Point Park University.

Editing: Nick Konopka, Broadcast production major at Point Park University.