Kamala Harris, in trip to Beaver County, speaks to Aliquippa’s football team

THE ALIQUIPPA FOOTBALL TEAM WITH JEROME BETTIS, SECOND GENTLEMAN DOUG EMHOFF, VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS, MINNESOTA GOVERNOR TIM WALZ AND HIS WIFE, GLEN WALZ. (PHOTO COURTESY PHILLIP K. WOODS/ALIQUIPPA) State champs received encouraging words from the VP Members of the Aliquip­pa High School football team on Aug. 18 welcomed onto their brand new field someone who, in a mil­lion years, they probably thought they would never meet. But then again, most people probably never thought in a million years they would be this close to seeing a Black woman become President of the United States. We’re less than 80 days away from the big day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, the presi­dential election that could make history, as current Vice President Kamala Harris seeks to become the next U.S. President. But on Sunday, Aug. 18, there she was, taking time out of her busy schedule to speak to the Aliquippa High School football team. On some students’ faces, a look of disbelief. But it was true; the vice president is here, talking directly to them, on their football field. “I’ve been reading about you all and hearing about you and your excellence,” Harris told the team on an overcast Sunday af­ternoon, flanked...