Week in pictures: March 14-20

Southmoreland High School junior Josef Jefferson laughs in reaction to controlling his team’s robot in the arena in competition on Tuesday, March 15, at the preliminary rounds of the BotsIQ arena competition at Westmoreland County Community College.

Sister Carole Blazina (left) and Sister Jongnyeo Park take part in a river trail clean-up near Allegheny Landing on Pittsburgh’s North Shore on Monday, March 14.

Local artists Randi Stewart, of Penn Hills, and Tim Engelhardt, of Garfield, background, work on installing the brick wall facade at the tunnel entrance into Kennywood on Wednesday, March 16.

Lower Burrell Police Officer Steve Cernava and police K-9 dog Dax pictured in Burrell Plaza Wednesday March 16. Both are retiring at the end of the month.

Pirates shortstop Cole Tucker makes a sliding catch in front of left fielder Greg Allen during a spring training game against the Yankees on Friday, March 18, at LECOM Park in Bradenton, Fla.

A nun receives Communion during a Mass at Caritas Christi on the Seton Hill campus in Greensburg on Friday, March 18.

Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward, background left, and Hempfield Manor dietary staff Michelle Perkins, in hat, and State Rep. Eric Nelson, bottom left, talk to Hempfield Manor residents Virginia Airgood, left, and Wanda Lemley, right, as they are served lunch by the local officials for a Day of Caring event hosted by the Pennsylvania Health Care Association on Thursday, March 17, at Hempfield Manor.

A rehabilitation project continues on the Roberto Clemente Bridge on Monday, March 14.

Seton Hill University junior and member of the student organization the Feminist Collective, Ellen Davis, center, cheers at passing motorists with fellow student Chloe Walls, left, during a rally calling for equal pay for women outside the Seton Hill University Arts Center on the corner of College Avenue and Otterman Street on Tuesday, March 15, in downtown Greensburg. National Equal Pay Day fell on March 15 this year, symbolizing how far into the new year a woman must work, on average, to earn the same rate as a man in the previous year.

Independent truck driver Warren Horton, 63, of Pittsburgh’s Hill District, fuels his truck at the Flying J in Smithton Tuesday, March 15, Horton drives a auto carrier truck from the port of Baltimore

Illinois’ Kofi Cockburn grabs a rebound away from Chattanooga’s Josh Ayeni during the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday March 18, 2022 at PPG Paints Arena.

Marlene Rafferty spoons out Mexican chicken soup made by her sister and husband-in-law, Stephanie and Alfredo Hernandez of El Vaquero Mexican Restaurant in Ligonier, while serving soup with her mother Debbie DePalma, left, for the annual Ligonier Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Soups On! Event on Saturday, March 19, at Post & Rail Men’s Shop on the Diamond in Ligonier. About 16 soups were made by local restaurants, to serve at businesses near the Diamond in Ligonier.

Loyola Chicago fans cheer on their team during NCAA Tournament play on Friday, March 18, at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh.

A contract painter adds a coat of yellow paint to the ticket booth entrance way on Wednesday, March 16, at Kennywood.