• The railroad crossing on River Road at West Carson Street in McKees Rocks will be closed tomorrow through May 24 while the surface is repaired. Detours will be posted.

• Smiths Ferry Road in Ohioville will be closed from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today while crews remove trees and relocate utility lines where a slide occurred above the road between Westwood Drive and Route 68. Suggested alternate routes are Tuscawas Road, Route 168 and Route 68.

Registration is under way for a forum on affordable housing that starts at 10 a.m. next Thursday at Goodwill Manor, 601 McMillen St., Bridgeville.

The meeting will assess citizens' needs and make nonprofit organizations and for-profit developers aware of grants for building or rehabilitating affordable rental and for-purchase housing projects.

U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Upper St. Clair, and John Bendel, director of Community Investment at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh, will discuss the qualifications that will enable nonprofit organizations and developers to apply for Federal Home Loan Bank grants for housing projects in Allegheny, Beaver, Washington and Westmoreland counties.

Also participating in the discussion will be representatives of the Allegheny County Housing Authority, Redevelopment Authority of the County of Washington, Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency and PNC Bank.

To register, call Tiffany Sinicki at the Federal Home Loan Bank at 412-288-7307; or e-mail tiffany.sinicki@fhlb-pgh.com.

Eat'n Park Restaurant has remodeled its location at 100 Park Manor Drive in Robinson with numerous green initiatives, such as removing paper place mats and installing more efficient hand dryers in the restrooms to reduce its annual paper waste.

The Dyson AirbladeTM hand dryer uses about 80 percent less energy than conventional hand dryers, dries hands in about 12 seconds and will save approximately 1,000 pounds of paper annually.

Other behind-the-scenes environmentally friendly changes have been made. All fryer oil is recycled and turned into bio-diesel fuel, and the majority of the light bulbs are compact fluorescent light bulbs, which use 70 percent to 80 percent less electricity than their incandescent counterparts.

The new table laminates, wallpaper, carpet and ceiling tiles have been manufactured using recycled raw materials. Plus, the restaurant, which is open 24 hours a day seven days a week, is smoke free.

Eat'n Park Restaurants, founded in 1949 as a family carhop, has 77 locations in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.

In observance of Bike to Work Day tomorrow and Great Outdoors Week starting Monday, the Port Authority is reminding outdoor recreation enthusiasts that three of its West bus routes have bicycle racks on the fronts of vehicles.

Buses with bike racks operate on the 21A Coraopolis, 26A Ingram-Sheraden and 26D Chartiers City routes.

Port Authority has 430 buses equipped with bike racks mounted in front of the bus to accommodate two bicycles. A short video demonstrating the proper operation of the bike racks can be found on Port Authority's Web site, www.portauthority.org.

For information regarding dates, times and locations of Great Outdoors Week events, visit www.greatoutdoorsweek.org. For more information about Pittsburgh's Bike to Work Day festivities, visit www.bike-pgh.org.