Week in photos: Sept. 26 – Oct. 2

A scare actor holds a sword and a lantern during Kennywood’s Phantom Fall Fest on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, at Kennywood in West Mifflin. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)

Guests walk through the Villa of the Vampire indoor haunted attraction during Kennywood’s Phantom Fall Fest on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, at Kennywood in West Mifflin. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)

Elizabeth Tatomir, of Mercer, confronts an anti-abortion protester during a rally and march organized by Women’s March Pittsburgh as part of a national day of action to protest restrictions on reproductive rights, Saturday, October 2, 2021, Downtown. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Protesters hold signs and cheer in response to a speaker during a rally and march organized by Women’s March Pittsburgh as part of a national day of action to protest restrictions on reproductive rights, Saturday, October 2, 2021, in front of the City-County Building, Downtown. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Laura Horowitz, who has volunteered as an abortion clinic escort since 1991, speaks to the crowd gathered in front of the City-County Building for a rally and march organized by Women’s March Pittsburgh as part of a national day of action to protest restrictions on reproductive rights, Saturday, October 2, 2021, Downtown. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Protesters chant as they turn onto Liberty Avenue from Grant Street during a rally and march organized by Women’s March Pittsburgh as part of a national day of action to protest restrictions on reproductive rights, Saturday, October 2, 2021, Downtown. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

An anti-abortion protester prays over a Bible as pro-choice protesters march past the Planned Parenthood on Liberty Avenue, Downtown, during a rally and march organized by Women’s March Pittsburgh as part of a national day of action to protest restrictions on reproductive rights, Saturday, October 2, 2021. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

A pro-choice protester confronts an anti-abortion protester as he holds out figurines of fetuses as pro-choice protesters march past the Planned Parenthood on Liberty Avenue, Downtown, during a rally and march organized by Women’s March Pittsburgh as part of a national day of action to protest restrictions on reproductive rights, Saturday, October 2, 2021. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Protesters confront an anti-abortion protester during a rally and march organized by Women’s March Pittsburgh as part of a national day of action to protest restrictions on reproductive rights, Saturday, October 2, 2021, Downtown. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Artists Jackson Cornwell, Giuliana Fox, Reed Worth and Kelsey Robinson dance in the courtyard of Bakery Square at the Chase the Erase creative performance on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021 in East Liberty. The event was a state-wide call-to-action for fairly drawn voting districts. (Clare Sheedy/Post-Gazette)

Fair Districts member Susan Fudurich waves a B-PEP sign while the band World Rhythms plays behind her in the courtyard of Bakery Square at the “Chase the Erase” creative performance on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021 in East Liberty. The event was a state-wide call-to-action for fairly drawn voting districts. (Clare Sheedy/Post-Gazette)

Police officers take cover behind an armored police vehicle cover after several shots were fired on Manilla Street near its intersection with Bedford Avenue in the Hill District shortly before 5 pm on Friday, Oct. 1, 2021.
(Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)

People exit Heinz Memorial Chapel in Oakland after the memorial service of Dr. Freddie Fu, a pioneering orthopedic surgeon who founded the sports medicine program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Fu died a week earlier. He had gained a global reputation for developing procedures to repair the knees, shoulders and Achilles tendons of athletes and nonathletes. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)

A thick layer of fog fills settles into the valleys in the morning hours of Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, in Raccoon Township, Beaver County. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)

Steelers fullback Derek Watt works through during practice, Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)

A view of Downtown Pittsburgh from Sheraden photographed on Friday, Oct. 1, 2021. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)

Shantel Pizaro pauses while asking for the community’s help in finding the killer of her son Steven Eason, a teen who was shot to death at a haunted hayride event last month. At left is Eason’s father, also named Steven East. Pizaro made her plea at Allegheny County Police headquarters in Green Tree on Friday, Oct. 1, 2021. “I was looking forward to him graduating from central high school, going to college,” she said. “I can’t sleep.” Pizaro urged the shooter to “come forward. Something like this has to be eating you alive. You’ve hurt a lot of people. You’re destroying your own life and other people’s lives.”
(Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)

Lexie Settlemire, 14, gets a congratulatory kiss from brother Coen, 2, after the two had completed a portion of an oversized puzzle of the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh campus near the museum’s steps on the North Side on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021. At left is sister Lily, 10. The family lives in Mars. Building of the puzzle was one of several events celebrating the launch of the Northside Cultural Corridor, the Northside’s one-mile cultural district. The establishment of the corridor is an effort to build relationships between institutions and neighborhoods. In addition to the children’s museum, partners include the Mattress Factory, The Andy Warhol Museum, City of Asylum, the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and the National Aviary.(Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, center, speaks to Mayor Bill Peduto, right, and Astrobotic CEO John Thornton, left, during a tour of Astrobotic on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, in the Strip District. Sec. Raimondo toured some of Pittsburgh’s innovative research facilities and companies on the second day of the inaugural meeting of the newly formed U.S.-E.U. Trade and Technology Council on Wednesday. (Ashley Murray/Post-Gazette)

Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives a thumbs up to researchers during a tour of Biomedical Science Tower 3, Center for Vaccine Research at the University of Pittsburgh with Leeanna McKibben, Chief of Staff at University of Pittsburgh, and Paul Duprex, Director of the Center for Vaccine Research, on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, in the Strip District. Secretary Blinken toured some of Pittsburgh’s innovative research facilities and companies on the second day of his visit after the inaugural meeting of the newly formed U.S.-E.U. Trade and Technology Council on Wednesday. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)

A guest of the Carnegie Science Center gets a sneak peak at the Carnegie Science Center’s regional Premiere of POMPEII: The Exhibition during a media event Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021 in Pittsburgh. Opening officially Saturday, October 2 in the PPG Science Pavilion, the World Heritage Exhibition features more than 180 authentic priceless artifacts from historic Pompeii. (Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette)

Sewickley Academy junior Joey Mucci and Ellwood City senior Milo Sesti wait to tee off at the third tee during WPIAL Class 2A Boys Golf Individual Championship on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, at Allegheny Country Club, in Sewickley. (Barry Reeger/For the Post-Gazette)

People enter Row House Cinema for a screening of “Blackmail”, a silent film by director Alfred Hitchcock, with a live piano accompaniment during an event organized by the Pittsburgh Silent Film Society and Row House Cinema to mark the first National Silent Movie Day, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, in Lawrenceville. National Silent Movie Day was established to celebrate silent film history and raise awareness about preserving silent films. Row House Cinema resumed normal operations Sunday after a year and a half hiatus due to the pandemic. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

People wait in line for concessions and to get their seats at Row House Cinema for a screening of “Blackmail”, a silent film by director Alfred Hitchcock, with a live piano accompaniment during an event organized by the Pittsburgh Silent Film Society and Row House Cinema to mark the first National Silent Movie Day, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, in Lawrenceville. National Silent Movie Day was established to celebrate silent film history and raise awareness about preserving silent films. Row House Cinema resumed normal operations Sunday after a year and a half hiatus due to the pandemic. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

People wait and stand in line for concessions before a screening of “Blackmail”, a silent film by director Alfred Hitchcock, with a live piano accompaniment during an event organized by the Pittsburgh Silent Film Society and Row House Cinema to mark the first National Silent Movie Day, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, at Row House Cinema in Lawrenceville. National Silent Movie Day was established to celebrate silent film history and raise awareness about preserving silent films. Row House Cinema resumed normal operations Sunday after a year and a half hiatus due to the pandemic. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

An audience watches “Blackmail”, a silent film by director Alfred Hitchcock, with a live piano accompaniment during an event organized by the Pittsburgh Silent Film Society and Row House Cinema to mark the first National Silent Movie Day, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, at Row House Cinema in Lawrenceville. National Silent Movie Day was established to celebrate silent film history and raise awareness about preserving silent films. Row House Cinema resumed normal operations Sunday after a year and a half hiatus due to the pandemic. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Pianist Tom Roberts performs a composition to accompany a screening of “Blackmail”, a silent film by director Alfred Hitchcock, during an event organized by the Pittsburgh Silent Film Society and Row House Cinema to mark the first National Silent Movie Day, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, at Row House Cinema in Lawrenceville. National Silent Movie Day was established to celebrate silent film history and raise awareness about preserving silent films. Row House Cinema resumed normal operations Sunday after a year and a half hiatus due to the pandemic. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Steelers wide receiver Chase Claypool walks with a trainer during practice, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)

The U.S. E.U. Trade Tech Council meets at Hazelwood Green Mill 19 Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021 in Hazelwood. (Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette)

Secretary of State at the table of the inaugural U.S. E.U. Trade Tech Council at Hazelwood Green Mill 19 Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021 in Hazelwood. (Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette)

Lutty De Paon, of Mt. Lebanon, tours a gallery at the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild’s jazz and art open house, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, in Manchester. The event was part of RADical Days, a month-long event of free admission, tours, performances, and family activities offered by organizations that are funded by the Allegheny Regional Asset District (RAD). (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Germaine Watkins, photography teaching artist, explains film processing in the darkroom at the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild’s jazz and art open house, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, in Manchester. The event was part of RADical Days, a month-long event of free admission, tours, performances, and family activities offered by organizations that are funded by the Allegheny Regional Asset District (RAD). (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Scout Johnson, 4, puts on a costume while playing on the sidewalk in front of his house on Morris Street in Waynesburg, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. Scout and his brother Ryman, 5, were home from school with their mother Laura Johnson after testing positive for COVID-19. Ms. Johnson, a lifelong Waynesburg resident, who co-owns ManKind Gentlemen’s Cuts barbershop said, “when we first opened, there were a lot of gas and oil workers, and those clients have disappeared. Those shifts, it has a lot of an impact on businesses. I still see little fluctuations. We see people coming back, so hopefully that continues.” Ms. Johnson is also working on launching a women’s clothing boutique in town.
(Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Kayakers paddle on North Park Lake, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, in McCandless. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

John Brown, a 6th and 7th grade English teacher, far right, looks on as students from left, Brandon Greene,11, Cayden Rankin,11, Antonio Goodman,11, and Terrell Pettiis,11, read their assignment Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, at the Life Male Steam Academy, an all-boys 6th and 7th grade charter school in Wilkins. Life Male Steam Academy is the only single-sex school in this region that caters to African American boys and specializes in STEM education. (Post-Gazette)

A a portion of a Snow White themed maze at Maze Craze photographed on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, in New Springfield, Ohio. The 24 acre maze has over 9 miles of trails. The maze is open Friday thru Sunday, until Nov. 17. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)

A worker walks on top of the I-79 Neville Island Bridge over the Ohio River near Glenfield on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. The bridge is in the midst of a $43 million rehabilitation project that includes painting of the structure, structural steel repairs, bearing, and deck joint replacements, and repairs to the deck and barriers. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)

The pumpkin patch at Janoski’s Farm and Greenhouse photographed on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, in Findlay. Janoski’s Pumpkinland is open every weekend in October from 10-5 and includes a pumpkin patch, hayride, petting zoo corn maze, haunted barn, corn pit and straw maze. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)

A kayaker paddles down North Park Lake, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, in McCandless. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Members of the Penguins Elite players work out on the Covestro Innovation Rink at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex where new more flexible dasher boards – created in a collaborative effort by The Pittsburgh Penguins, Carnegie Mellon, Athletica Sport Systems and Covestro – are installed Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021 in Cranberry Twp.(Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette)

Taking advantage of the beautiful afternoon, Dorothy Robinson, of Highland Park, walks her three Dachshunds around Highland Park Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. Mrs. Robinison, who said she is known as the “Queenie of the Weenie,” walks her dogs in the park everyday. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

A pedestrian walks along the sun-drenched 1100 block of East Carson Street on Pittsburgh’s South Side on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)

Dancers participate in an inter-tribal dance at the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center’s annual pow wow, a two-day event to showcase dancing, music, arts, and foods from American Indian tribal members from across the region, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021, in Dorseyville. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Yafa Schnadower, of Squirrel Hill, and her daughter Liora, 6, look up for direction as they create a beaded wooden lulav, which is traditionally made of palm fronds, myrtle and willow and used in observance of Sukkot, during a session of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh’s “Head to Toe Sukkot Celebrations” class at the center, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021, in Squirrel Hill. Participants were asked to explore the visual imagery of the eyes, lips, and spine in the branches of the lulav and relate them to ways they could better their communities. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Siblings Cole, 5, left, and Ellie Pentland, 7, of Robinson, cheer for their mother Valerie Pentland while their father Jim Pentland stands behind them during the 10K portion of the Richard S. Caliguiri City of Pittsburgh Great Race on Boulevard of the Allies on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021, Downtown. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)

Jamie Marshall, of Churchill, right, and Krista Elston, of Forest Hills, both with Oiselle Volee running group, cheer on runners during the 10K portion of the Richard S. Caliguiri City of Pittsburgh Great Race on Boulevard of the Allies on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021, Downtown. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)

Jason Macko, left, and his father Dave Macko, both of Belle Vernon, sit on a bench at North Shore Riverfront Park before the Steeler game on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021, on the North Shore. Jason and Dave said they are season ticket holders and were excited to see the Steelers take on the Bengals. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)

Week in photos: Sept. 26 – Oct. 2

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