The Society of St. Vincent de Paul Thrift stores are hosting a quarterly half-off sale at stores through the region on Friday and Saturday.

Proceeds benefit the Society's community programs.

The newest of the Society's thrift stores, at Library and Grove roads, will hold the sale from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day.

For more, call the South Hills store at 412-882-8519.

To mark the official start of summer and its 100th anniversary, the borough is sponsoring two community-based initiatives that will have residents and visitors eating, consuming and shopping more sustainably.

The Dormont Farmer's Market runs from 3:30 to 7 p.m. Mondays through Oct. 26 at a metered parking lot on Espy Avenue, near Potomac Avenue and the Dormont Presbyterian Church.

Local vendors interested in participating should contact recreation director Juliet Cameron, at 412-874-6881.

And, as part of the community's upcoming Centennial Celebration, set for Saturday through July 4, the Dormont Main Street Program is launching a Buy Local campaign dubbed "Independents Week."

Designed to promote the independent businesses along Potomac and West Liberty avenues, the Buy Local campaign will run from July 1 through 7.

To download and print Buy Local coupons, shoppers may also visit www.dormontmainstreet.org.

With support from local merchants, the Denis Theatre Foundation will launch a free outdoor film series at the Parse Way Pavilion on Washington Road beginning Saturday.

The Denis Theater, closed since 2004, is the focus of a community fundraising effort to revive Mt. Lebanon's classic movie theater for films, performance and community events.

"With the 'Last Saturday Cinema' series, we're demonstrating that movies and merchants go together," said foundation director Anne Kemerer. "We're planning special events before and after each screening."

The movies will be screened at the covered pavilion behind the theater, with technical support from Pittsburgh Filmmakers. The lineup starts with Saturday's "Bringing Up Baby," starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in a screwball comedy made in 1938, the year the Denis opened.

Empire Music will provide live music before the movie. Afterward, Bistro 19 will host a film discussion led by film critic Elaine Wertheim, of Mt. Lebanon.

"The Bread My Sweet" on July 25, is a tale of love, whimsy and biscotti, which was filmed in the Strip District in 2001. Filmmakers Melissa Martin and Adrienne Wehr will join the audience for a post-film discussion.

"Mad Hot Ballroom" on Aug. 29 is an award-winning 2004 documentary that follows three groups of public schoolchildren as they learn to dance in preparation for a ballroom competition.

All movies begin at 9 p.m. rain or shine. The space provides seating for 300. Chairs, concessions and restrooms are available. For more, visit www.denistheatre.org.

Providence Point, a senior living community on the former site of the original John Kane Hospital, plans to hire more than 200 employees at a job fair from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. today.

The fair, sponsored by Baptist Homes Society, is looking for applicants for numerous positions; everything from nurses to lifeguards.

Applicants should be prepared to undergo interviews and take a pre-employment physical and drug screening tests.

For more, call Kristina Beatty at 412-572-8302.

An Upper St. Clair woman filed a wrongful death suit last week against St. Clair Hospital and the physicians that treated her son.

According to the complaint, Steven Oswald was admitted to the hospital June 19, 2007, with a thigh abscess. He had surgery the next day and during recovery went into cardiac arrest. He died June 24, 2007, at age 23.

His mother, Marilyn Oswald, states in the lawsuit that doctors failed to properly monitor Mr. Oswald and did not assess the risks in the doses of painkillers they gave him after surgery.

The suit, filed June 18 in Common Pleas Court, names Dr. Judy D. Ross and Dr. Joel Warshaw as defendants, as well as St. Clair Hospital, Grace Surgical Associates and Mt. Lebanon Internal Medicine.

This month's meeting of the school directors will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, one week later than usual. The change was made to allow for sufficient advertising time for the 2009-10 district budget of $49,350,930, which holds the line on school taxes.