Week in Photos: March 14-20

People hold signs and chant as they march across the Roberto Clemente Bridge toward Downtown during the “Americans for Freedom Rally” to protest mask mandates and other restrictions on businesses, Saturday, March 20, 2021. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Jennifer Stroud, center, of Turtle Creek, waves at the Easter Bunny to encourage her daughters Sadira, 5, and Makenna, 2, not to be afraid during an Easter celebration at the Hollander Project, Saturday, March 20, 2021, in Braddock. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Kayden and Kaylie Cartlidge of Wilkinsburg, ages 2 and 7, take a photo with the Easter Bunny during an Easter celebration at the Hollander Project, Saturday, March 20, 2021, in Braddock. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Attendees listen to a speaker during a “Stop Asian Hate” rally to protest the recent surge in hate crimes against Asian Americans, Saturday, March 20, 2021, on Forbes Avenue in Oakland. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

A woman replaces text reading “January 6” with “March 20” on a poster before a march across the Roberto Clemente Bridge towards Downtown during the “Americans for Freedom Rally” to protest mask mandates and other restrictions on businesses, Saturday, March 20, 2021. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

A man holds a sign as he marches across the Roberto Clemente Bridge towards Downtown during the “Americans for Freedom Rally” to protest mask mandates and other restrictions on businesses, Saturday, March 20, 2021. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Protesters march down Liberty Avenue, Downtown, towards Point State Park during the “Americans for Freedom Rally” to protest mask mandates and other restrictions on businesses, Saturday, March 20, 2021. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

People bow their heads during a prayer at the “Americans for Freedom Rally” to protest mask mandates and other restrictions on businesses at Point State Park, Downtown, Saturday, March 20, 2021. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

People sit on Flagstaff Hill to enjoy warm spring weather, Saturday, March 20, 2021, in Oakland. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Former Pirates manager Jim Leyland watches his former team take on the Tigers Saturday, March 20, 2021, at Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Fla. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)

Pirates shortstop Cole Tucker is tagged out by Tigers catcher Wilson Ramos at home plate Saturday, March 20, 2021, at Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Fla. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)

Pirates second baseman Kevin Newman is caught stealing by Tigers third baseman Jonathan Schoop Saturday, March 20, 2021, at Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Fla. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)

Beaver’s Makenzie Weiland looks to the hoop while Villa Maria’s Ava Waid tries to block her during their PIAA quarterfinal game on Saturday, March 20, 2021, at Beaver Area High School. Beaver lost 28-29 in overtime. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)

Beaver’s Payton List tries to get the ball past Villa Maria during their PIAA quarterfinal game on Saturday, March 20, 2021, at Beaver Area High School. Beaver lost 28-29 in overtime. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)

Beaver’s Madison Weiland, center, reacts to a call made in favor of Villa Maria in the final seconds of their PIAA quarterfinal game on Saturday, March 20, 2021, at Beaver Area High School. Beaver lost 28-29 in overtime. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)

Beaver walks off the court while Villa Maria celebrates at the end of their PIAA quarterfinal game on Saturday, March 20, 2021, at Beaver Area High School. Beaver lost 28-29 in overtime. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)

Villa Maria’s Sydney Pearson, left, Beaver’s Makenzie Weiland, and Villa Maria’s Jayden McBride go to the ground as they try to get the ball during their PIAA quarterfinal game on Saturday, March 20, 2021, at Beaver Area High School. Beaver lost 28-29 in overtime. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)

Beaver’s Makenzie Weiland tries to get the ball out of the arms of Villa Maria’s Jayden McBride during their PIAA quarterfinal game on Saturday, March 20, 2021, at Beaver Area High School. Beaver lost 28-29 in overtime. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)

Upper St. Clair High School Panthers earned the 62-57 victory with only six players available due to COVID-19 issues. Upper St. Clair’s David Pantelis steals the ball from Erie’s John Woodward during their PIAA Boys Class 6A quarterfinal game on Saturday, March. 20, 2021, at Upper St. Clair High School, in Upper St. Clair. (Barry Reeger/For the Post-Gazette)

The Upper St. Clair High School Panthers earned the 62-57 victory with only six players available due to COVID-19 issues. Upper St. Clair’s Matthew Gaither sits alone on the bench against Erie during their PIAA Boys Class 6A quarterfinal game on Saturday, March. 20, 2021, at Upper St. Clair High School, in Upper St. Clair. Barry Reeger/For the Post-Gazette)

Client Martha Yannessa, left, holds shih tzu Joey while Bobbie Best trims Jack Tomayko’s hair on Best’s last day at his salon in the Diamond Building, Downtown, on Saturday, March 13, 2021. Best his moving his business, Bobby Best Design, to the suburbs. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)

Patti Gerhauser, of Mars and a Navy veteran, hangs from a basketball hoop after putting in a new net while Aryanna Hunter, of Murrysville and an Army veteran, takes a photo of her during a service event with The Mission Continues and Veterans Leadership Program on Sunday, March 14, 2021, at Library Street Basketball Courts in Braddock. The group cleaned trash and overgrown brush from the area, built four benches, and put new nets in the basketball hoops. The group plans to return in May to repaint the lines on the court and to paint the benches. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)

Jackie Frazier takes a photo as her husband, Pirates first baseman Todd Frazier, kisses their son, Grant, 2, next to their other children Blake, 6, and Kylie, 5, Sunday, March 14, 2021, at LECOM Park in Bradenton, Fla. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)

Jody Speech, of Greensburg, assist her husband Larry Speech to the entrance to PPG Paints Arena during a COVID-19 vaccination clinic Monday, March 15, 2021, at PPG Paints Arena, in Uptown. UPMC partnered with the Pittsburgh Penguins to host a special community vaccine at PPG Paints Arena.
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Light emanates from an empty storefront on the intersection of Liberty Avenue and Sixth Street, Downtown, on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)

Sinful Sweets Chocolate Company is surrounded by empty storefronts on the 500 block of Liberty Avenue, Downtown, on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)

Martha Hunter, front, of the Hill District, and others attend a lunchtime worship service Thursday, March 18, 2021, at St. Moses the Black Orthodox Church in the Hill District. (Post-Gazette)

Bishop Canevin High School head coach Gino Palmosina talks with his players in the locker room after they forfeited their PIAA Boys Class 1A quarterfinal game against Berlin Brothersvalley High School on Friday, March. 19, 2021, at Bishop Canevin High School, in East Carnegie, Pa., a Pittsburgh suburb. The game was forfeited twenty minutes prior to tip-off due to a Bishop Canevin player testing positive for COVID-19. (Barry Reeger/For the Post-Gazette via AP)

Bishop Canevin High School’s Kai Spears, right, consoles senior Dom Elliott in the locker room after they forfeited their PIAA Boys Class 1A quarterfinal game against Berlin Brothersvalley High School on Friday, March. 19, 2021, at Bishop Canevin High School, in East Carnegie, Pa., a Pittsburgh suburb. The game was forfeited twenty minutes prior to tip-off due to a Bishop Canevin player testing positive for COVID-19. (Barry Reeger/For the Post-Gazette via AP)

From left, North Allegheny’s Lizzy Groetsch, McDowell’s Sydney Keinath, North Allegheny’s Kellie McConnell, and McDowell’s Elizabeth Spooner try to catch a rebound during their PIAA quarterfinal game on Friday, March 19, 2021, at North Allegheny High School in McCandless. North Allegheny won 60-30. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)

Pirates designated hitter Wilmer Difo scores against Orioles catcher Pedro Severino Friday, March 19, 2021, at LECOM Park in Bradenton, Fla. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)

Members from the inaugural class of Freedom House 2.0 celebrate after graduating from the 10-week program at the Elsie H. Hillman Auditorium at the Kaufmann Center in Pittsburgh’s the Hill District on Friday, March 19, 2021. From left are Chris Pollock, Elijah Sellers Jr., Zachary Diandreth, of Monroeville, Pa. and Desaray Noelle-Owens. Freedom House 2.0 provides emergency responder training and support for people facing health and economic disparities. Friday’s eight graduates faced additional hardships created by COVID-19. They had lost jobs or experienced cuts in working hours. Noelle-Owens’ grandmother Doris Owens graduated from the first Freedom House program in 1969 (that program existed from 1968-1975) and worked as an EMT. “I’m living in her legacy,” Ms. Noelle-Owens said. “I see myself in her. I heard her stories growing up and she always inspired me.” Doris Owens died in 2008.
(Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)

Pirates shortstop Cole Tucker warms up on St. Patrick’s Day before taking on the Rays Wednesday, March 17, 2021, at LECOM Park in Bradenton, Fla. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)

Pirates first baseman Colin Moran works out during batting practice Wednesday, March 17, 2021, at LECOM Park in Bradenton, Fla. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)

Joe Crowley of O’Hara Township sports an appropriate St. Patrick’s Day cap while receiving a vaccination from registered nurse Kathleen Marouse at a drive-up COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry Township on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. UPMC and the Pittsburgh Penguins teamed up to provide 500 vaccinations at the event. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)

Registered nurse Cheryl Leake prepares to vaccinates one of 500 people scheduled at a drive-up COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry Townshi on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. UPMC and the Pittsburgh Penguins teamed up to provide the vaccinations. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)

Houses along McMinn, Main, and Irwin Streets in Aliquippa photographed on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)

Kailin Clawson, standing, of the Brookline neighborhood in Pittsburgh, a manager at Bigham Tavern, talks with, from left sitting, Ali Romanias, of Beechview in Pittsburgh, Nicole Mozena, of Mount Washington in Pittsburgh, and Dave Geary, of Duquesne Heights in Pittsburgh, during an outdoor St. Patrick’s Day party, Wednesday, March 17, 2021, at Bigham Tavern on Mount Washington above downtown Pittsburgh. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Cal Mitchell cannot come up with a ball hit by Minnesota Twins infielder Andrew Romine Tuesday, March 16, 2021, at Hammond Field in Fort Myers, Fla. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)

Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Casey DeSmith makes save on Bruins left wing Nick Ritchie Tuesday, March 16, 2021, at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh. (Peter Diana/Post-Gazette)

The Rev. B. DeNeice Welch, senior pastor at Bidwell Presbyterian Church on Liverpool Street in Pittsburgh’s Manchester neighborhood, on March 16, 2021. She joined state health officials to describe her experiences getting her urban congregation to accept vaccinations as part of the state’s equity efforts, which include a social media campaign. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)

Stuart Rattner, of Fox Chapel, who works with Uncover Squirrel Hill, removes a snowflake light from a light pole on Forbes Avenue in Squirrel Hill, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

On Tuesday, March 16, 2021 McKees Rocks Borough sued Allegheny County Sanitary Authority (ALCOSAN) in the county’s court of common pleas to halt one of its business district’s properties from becoming a dumping and hauling ground as part of the authority’s Wet Weather Plan. Chariers Creek, shown here, is near the former site of Crivelli Chevrolet which ALCOSAN purchased to handle excess materials from a mile long dig under the Ohio River. (Post-Gazette)

Keith Taylor and Jason Heffrick with the Borough of Etna’s public works department paint one the many curbs in the borough Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2021 in Etna. Taylor and Heffrick, along with three other public works employees, are hoping to put a fresh coat of paint on all the yellow curbs in the borough this year. (Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette)

Pirates first baseman Todd Frazier tosses a ball to fans before taking on the Phillies Sunday, March 14, 2021, at LECOM Park in Bradenton, Fla. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)

Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm scores against Pirates catcher Jacob Stallings Sunday, March 14, 2021, at LECOM Park in Bradenton, Fla. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)

Carmen McIntyre, of Port Vue, director of operations at Tree of Life Open Bible Church, Selah Rhoades, 12, of Brookline, and Jamie Rider, 7, of Bethel Park, prepare Easter eggs at the church, Sunday, March 14, 2021, in Brookline. Families will be able to pick up their own Easter egg hunt kit or come to the church in small groups to participate in an Easter celebration there. They plan to serve about 240 kids. Its even more important to have something to celebrate this year, said Pastor Lance Rhoades. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

From left, Joe Backstrom and Lyle Milner of Allegheny City Electric, install a solar-powered light near a pedestrian path along Corrigan Drive in South Park on Monday, March 15, 2021. The county is installing 122 solar lights. The $738,750 project includes light poles with a solar panel, battery, and LED light and will save the county more than $1,300 in electricity costs per year. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)

West Mifflin High School students Sabrina Duche, left, Alivia Calvert, and others carry food to vehicles during a food distribution at the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank in Duquesne. Tomorrow, March 16, 2021, marks one year since Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank held its first COVID-19 response distribution. (Post-Gazette)

People receive the COVID-19 vaccine during a COVID-19 vaccination clinic Monday, March 15, 2021, at PPG Paints Arena, in Uptown. UPMC partnered with the Pittsburgh Penguins to host a special community vaccine at PPG Paints Arena.
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Penguin fans arrive at PPG Arena Monday, March 15, 2021, in Pittsburgh. (Peter Diana/Post-Gazette)

A fisherman tries his luck fishing off the Thirteenth Street boat docks on a chilly afternoon Monday, Mar. 15, 2021, in Sharpsburg. (Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette)

A trolley exits the tunnel near the port authority’s Dormont Junction station at the Dormont-Mt. Lebanon border on Monday, March 15, 2021. Some people who live near the tunnel say noisy exhaust fans are disturbing residents. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)

West Greene’s Elizabeth Brudnock (4) and Rochester’s Icis Witt (42) fight for possession of the ball during the Class 1A WPIAL championship game, Monday, March 15, 2021, at Peters Township High School. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

South Allegheny’s Antonio Epps and Ellwood City’s Alexander Roth go after the ball during the Class 3A WPIAL championship game on Monday, March 15, 2021, at North Allegheny High School. Ellwood City won 53-50. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)

Ellwood City players pose with their trophy after winning the Class 3A WPIAL championship 53-50 against South Allegheny on Monday, March 15, 2021, at North Allegheny High School. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)

Pittsburgh Penguins left wing Jake Guentzel battles Bruins left wing Anders Bjork for loose puck Monday, March 15, 2021, at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh. (Peter Diana/Post-Gazette)

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