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By Amanda SturgesPittsburgh Post-Gazette

IUP alumnus supportsshelters, students,

protesters and others

The masked giverIn place of a birthday gift, social mediausers sometimes ask friends to donateto causes they’re passionate about.Sanketh Yalamuri Sathyanarayan,25, did that on his birthday, Oct. 14,

and it sparked a much bigger effort.So far, the native of Bangalore, India,

has donated over 600 masks to students,protesters and others across the country,including 100 masks to his alma mater,Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

The 2019 graduate, who still lives in In-diana, Pa., said he didn’t get much in hisbirthday fundraiser, but it inspired himto try again. He raised $300 for FourFooted Friends and the Indiana CountyHumane Society, an animal rescue andshelter, to help buy pet food during theCOVID-19 pandemic. He knew he coulddo more.

“What I was doing was very little.There were so many people who were suf-fering, and I wanted my next social causeto be something that could make an im-pact for a lot of people,” he said.

He had heard that international stu-dents at IUP who lost on-campus jobsduring the pandemic couldn’t afford to

buy masks. He got eight companiesfrom around the country to donate 400masks and bought more with $200 ofhis own money and $160 in donationsto his new Masks for Everyone web-site, wishboard.co. Donors can give $3for one mask, $10 for masks for a fam-ily and $25 to give masks to homelesspeople. Donations are used to buymasks and ship them around the

country, he said.With the help of his friend Chaitanya

Shastry, also from Bangalore, India, heshipped masks to people in 15 cities, in-cluding Detroit, New York and LasVegas. He encouraged friends there tohand out masks at their cities’ protestsover police brutality and the death ofGeorge Floyd in Minneapolis.

Mr. Yalamuri Sathyanarayan has runa snack subscription business, designedand sold socks and started an online com-munity where people could barter theirskills. In his free time, he said he walksaround downtown Indiana and some-times sits at local bus stops with a signthat reads: “Free masks.”

Once face masks are no longer neces-sary, he hopes to take on an even biggercause: alleviating poverty.

“I want to make WishBoard better bytaking it to an international level,” hesaid. “My main focus would be food, ed-ucation and shelter for those in pov-erty.”

Amanda Sturges: asturges@post-ga-zette.com

Sanketh Yalamuri SathyanarayanSanketh Yalamuri Sathyanarayan sometimes sits at bus stops in Indiana, Pa., offering free masks to passersby.

Oglebay tohost in-personconcerts, foodand drinks

The Wheeling Symphony Orches-tra plans to present a trio of in-personchamber music performances thisfall, with small, socially distancedgroups of musicians, three-coursemeals and specialty cocktails.

Performances are set for Sept.13, Oct. 11 and Nov. 8 in the OglebayWilson Lodge Glessner Ballroomin Wheeling, W.Va., roughly anhour and a half from DowntownPittsburgh. Seating will be limitedand socially distanced.

The orchestra’s music director,John Devlin, is no stranger to pair-ing music and food: He founded theGourmet Symphony in Washing-ton, D.C., prior to taking the post inWheeling in 2019. This fall’s series,WesBanco presents SoundBites, isthe product of a partnership withchef Thomas Raymond of Oglebay.Hors d’oeuvres will be served be-fore each performance.

The Wheeling Symphony hasnot yet announced plans for its tra-ditional subscription series. Fortickets or programming informa-tion, go to wheelingsymphony.comor call 1-304-232-6191.

— Jeremy Reynolds,Post-Gazette

Steph Chambers/Post-GazetteJennifer Hogan, of Duquesne,enjoys the sun during MemorialDay weekend in May at OglebayResort and Conference Center inWheeling, W.Va.

Metallicaconcert willhit drive-inson Aug. 29

Metallica’s first show of 2020 willbe screened at local drive-ins onAug. 29 as part of the new EncoreDrive-In Nights series.

Participating theaters includethe Dependable Drive-In in Moon,Evergreen Drive-In in MountPleasant, Skyview Drive-In inCarmichaels and BrownsvilleDrive-In in Grindstone.

Presale tickets, available exclu-sively to Metallica’s Fifth Memberfan club, will go on sale Wednesdayat ticketmaster.com/encore-metal-lica. General on-sale tickets will besold beginning on Friday. Everyticket purchase — which admits onecarload of up to six people — will in-clude four digital downloads of Me-tallica’s “S&M2,” the album docu-menting the two historic concertsthat reunited the band and San Fran-cisco Symphony for the first time in20 years.

Tickets will be sold for $115 pervehicle (up to six people).

The concert will be shot at a loca-tion near the band’s Northern Cali-fornia headquarters and will be ed-ited and mixed by Metallica’s pro-duction team. It’s the first Metal-lica show since September 2019.

— Scott Mervis, Post-Gazette

Post-GazetteJames Hetfield, lead singer andrhythm guitarist for Metallica,performs during the Hardwired Tourat PPG Paints Arena in October2018. See a review of “S&M2” onpage C-2.

By Judith Martin, Nicholas IvorMartin and Jacobina Martin

Daniel Marsula/Post-Gazette

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Iwas invited to a wedding beforethe pandemic broke out, and I ac-cepted the invitation. Then whenthe couple found out that theywould not be able to have thatwedding, they decided to have oneon Zoom.

Well, when it came time for thewedding, I sat in front of my com-puter, logged into the account andwaited — and waited and waited— for them to start. Forty-fiveminutes later, still no wedding.

Now what I want to know is, doI have the right to be upset? Ididn’t say anything to them be-cause I didn’t want to ruin theirspecial day, but I did respond“yes” to the invite and sent them awedding card and cash.

I just thought they should havemade sure we were going to beable to celebrate with them. Iguess in the end, they didn’t reallycare if they shared the day with usat all. I’m feeling very hurt.

GENTLE READER: If youhave never had a computer glitch,Miss Manners congratulates you.Everyone else has, and some mayeven have learned not to take oth-ers’ such problems personally.

Why would anyone, no matterhow callous, cut a Zoom guest list?It is not as though it would enablethem to avoid feeding you.

Please give your friends thebenefit of the doubt. It would begracious of you to express regretto the couple that you missed thewedding and ask if they would letyou see any pictures or videos ofthe event.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Dueto the virus and my age, I am liv-ing in isolation, but a dear friendrecently went out to a restaurantand brought me an order of clam

linguini. It was very good, butmessy.

Please advise me on how to han-dle getting the clams out of theshell when eating out. I’m afraid Imade a mess at home by myself, soI have decided never to orderclams or mussels when diningwith friends.

GENTLE READER: Thatseems too drastic a solution. Whatyou need is a seafood fork, whichis small enough to spear those crit-ters in their shells.

You don’t actually need it athome, as no one knows you made

a mess — or wouldn’t, if youhadn’t told Miss Manners — butyou should ask for one in a restau-rant if it is not supplied.

DEAR MISS MANNERS:While etiquette dictates sendingthank-you notes for significantgestures, such as sending flowersor bringing food to your home, is itnot necessary to send thank-younotes for sympathy cards? Do yousend them if there was money inthe cards?

My mother just passed, and Iam not familiar with how to ad-dress these issues. I have never ex-perienced a close, personal loss be-fore now.

GENTLE READER: Givinganything, even money, counts as asignificant gesture. So does writ-ing a thoughtful condolence letter.Those require an expression ofgratitude.

Miss Manners counts a mere sig-nature on a pre-printed sympathycard as a minimal gesture, al-though perhaps better than noth-ing. A response is optional.

Send your questions to MissManners at her website,www.missmanners.com; to heremail, dearmissman-ners@gmail.com; or throughpostal mail to Miss Manners, An-drews McMeel Syndication, 1130Walnut St., Kansas City, MO64106.

Guest who sent gift is angry over missing Zoom weddingMiss Manners