Trash might not be what most people think about when recalling COVID-19’s unwelcome arrival in Wheeling. But for Trash Talkers, a project of local non-profit HoH-Share, Inc., it took a pandemic and piles of garbage for them to find their purpose.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs for humans is shown as a pyramid.

Bill Hogan was a beloved part of the Wheeling community. His heart knew no boundaries of economic class; if you were willing to sit down and talk with him, you were a friend.

These days I am jogging in East Wheeling. I take the steps, all the steps I can find. I thought I knew all the staircases on Vineyard Hill from years rambling as a kid, but I find more every jog.