7-14-10 ECS Community Meeting Presentation

7-14-10 ECS Community Meeting notes

06-03-10 Park Place Presentation

06-03-10 Park Place Community Notes

Featuring a panel discussion: What can we do to improve the health of our neighborhoods?

Wednesday, June 9, 2010
6 pm – 8 pm
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh- Homewood
7101 Hamilton Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15208

Healthy refreshments provided by the Ujamaa Collective. Childcare available – RSVP required

RSVP by phone (412-431-8960) or info@justharvest.org.

Food, Inc., a feature-length documentary by director Robert Kenner, lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing a system controlled by international corporations that prioritize profit over the health and safety of consumers.

The Ingredients for Change Campaign includes public screening events of the film Food, Inc. in thirty lower income communities around the country in an effort to raise public awareness of the U.S. food system, and to address issues of food access, childhood obesity, and other diet-related health problems.

• Pick Up Games
• Neighborhood Games
• Learn as You Play

each Thursday Evening starting at 7 pm

Adults, children age 11 and up with parent, and quiet pets welcome. First lesson is free then each game $10 donation to help us pay the $10,000 cost of keeping these Championship Greens as part of your neighborhood. The only Public Greens in the State lets keep this 70+ yrs Regional Asset alive and well by bowling on it as much as you can. [See this link for directions to the greens.]

Hank FPLBC

Abbott Street, Sunday June 13rd, 1pm-4pm

Come join your friends and neighbors at Park Place’s annual picnic. Abbott Street will be blocked off and set up for the annual community picnic. Hotdogs and beverages will be provided for free, and attendees are encouraged to bring side dishes or desserts to share. This is a great way to meet your neighbors and have fun.

Come enjoy:

• Live Music
• Moon Bounce
• Air Brush Tatoos
• Information Booth
• And More!

To that end, Jon McCann, the principal,  has reserved the social hall at the Waverly Church on the corner of Forbes and South Braddock avenue for Thursday June 3rd, at 6:30PM.  Community members are encouraged to attend to learn about the proposal and provide input.

As this would seemingly require a zoning change, this would be an early opportunity to interact with the charter school representatives to ask questions, express concerns, etc. before it gets to the planning commission and zoning board.

Eastern area neighborhoods are once again partnering with various organizations, including the the Community Design Center of Pittsburgh to put on another free workshop for homeowners interested in improving the values of their homes. This year’s workshop will look at making homes more energy efficient.

1:30 – 2:30 Presentations on:

• Your home’s energy performance
• DIY energy improvements
• Getting professional help
• Alternative energy sources
• Tax credits, rebates and incentives
• Project planning and keeping it in style

2:30 -3:00 Breakout Sessions with Experts

• Pennsylvania Home Energy Program
• Window and Door companies
• Insulation and HVAC installers
• Energy audit providers
• and more!

Special Activities

• Volunteer architects from the Community Design Center of Pittsburgh will offer fess individual  “mini-consultations” on selecting the proper windows and doors for your home. So, bring pictures of the outside of your home to show them.
• Tours of the Mifflin Avenue Church and its historic windows

Local residents are strongly encouraged to attend this Zoning meeting to both learn more and to let their voices be heard. We all should have a part in the development and direction of our community.

There have been quite a few new developments in the immediate area that has kept the community engaged. This facility is located near the new Peebles Square housing development, the new GetGo, and other shopping.

You may visit the following link to check out what Abraxas Cornell does. (http://cornellcompanies.com/index.html)

Zoning Meeting
Wednesday, October 28th, at 7:00 pm
718 Wallace Ave
Wilkinsburg, PA 15221-2299

Please try to make this meeting.  We need as many people there as we can!

Reverend Payne and the Church of the Nazarene has benefited the neighborhood by very graciously providing meeting space to the community over the last several years, completely free of charge. This has significantly helped our fledgling non-profit group who is also tight on funds, and without a permanent meeting place of our own.   This played a key role in facilitating the Peebles Square community meetings among others.

Church of the Nazarene is located at 300 Peebles Street, Wilkinsburg, PA 15221.

Morning Service at 10:00 a.m. guest speaker will be: The Rev. Dr. James Smith of Deliverance Center Original Church of God and congregation.

Afternoon Service at 3:30 p.m. guest speaker will be:  Elder Frank Tillman of Christian Fellowship and congregation.

For further information call: 412-242-9949 or 412-361-1477

The Friday planting will be in the business district on Trenton, with the volunteer tent at the corner of South and Trenton. Saturday’s tree planting will be for the houses in the new Peebles Square development, where Nine Mile Run has already installed rain barrels.

Volunteers are needed to help with the planting to help further beautify our neighborhood!