FIVE MT. LEBANON SENIORS have been named semifi-
nalists in the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Competition.

Semifinalists come from a pool of about 1.6 million students
from about 22,000 schools, who take the Preliminary Scholastic
Achievement Test (PSAT) in the spring of their junior year. Only
about 1 percent, 16,000, of high school students become
National Merit Semifinalists. A select group of students from
among the national semifinalists will be named finalists and be
eligible for National Merit Scholarships.

Ashley Hlebinsky with fellow judges Zeke Stout, center, and Trenton
Tye on the Discovery Channel’s Master of Arms series. Her parents
are Mt. Lebanon Rec Department’s Bob Hlebinsky and his wife, Susan.

photography george mendel
jacqueline radin
Mt. Lebanon’s 2018 National Merit Semifinalists: From left, front,
Rebecca Schwartz and Alayna Mikush. Back, Alexis Schulte-Albert,
Margaret Brown and Meera Whitson.

MT. LEBANON NATIVE ASHLEY HLEBINSKY, chief curator
of the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the
West, in Cody, Wyoming, is a judge on the TV show Master of
Arms on the Discovery Channel. The show is a competition
among blacksmiths and armorers to construct authentic weap-
ons from selected periods of history. Hlebinsky, the first woman
to be named curator of the Cody Museum, also lectures across
the country and Canada about the history of firearms.

Beverly Road will light up on Thursday, December 6, for Beverly Brite Night. Beginning at
7, the event will feature activities for kids, a tree lighting, a visit from Santa and shopping
and dining specials.

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