Hostyn-Plum Group Volunteers in New Castle, PA

Ten teens and four adults from Fayette County are doing a service/learning week in New Castle, Penn., as part of the Catholic Heart Workcamp program. The locals are from Queen of the Holy Rosary in Hostyn and Sts. Peter and Paul in Plum. They have been working at disadvantaged homes and charitable organizations along with hundreds of other teams from around the country. New Castle, for a variety of reasons, has the dubious distinction of being named “the worst place to live in Pennsylvania.” It is in the far western part of the state near Ohio. Catholic Heart Workcamp is the same organization that brought hundreds of teens to help in La Grange in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.