Park Place Blog

Abbott Street, Sunday June 3rd, 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
• Petting Zoo
• Park Place Trivia Game
• Information Booth
• And More!

Spnsored by Pittsburgh City Parks.

Braving the chilly and soaking spring rain, twenty-one volunteers from Park Place showed up Saturday, April 28, 2007 to represent Park Place in the Squirrel Hill/Point Breeze/Homewood Redd-Up Coalition. Armed with gloves, vests, bags for trash and recycling, and free coffee from Startbucks- the volunteers were able to cover most of the streets in Park Place.

Streets covered by
clean-up volunteersIndividuals, couples, children, and the occasional accompanying dog took to the streets and alleys to amass a huge pile of trash which the city picked-up later that day at points along Edgerton Street. Old bicycle tires, hub caps, bottles, and other trash made its way from street to bag.

A big thank you to everyone that turned out to help!

Join GPPNA in to help clean up Park Place. As part of the local and state clean up campaigns, we are hosting our local clean up day, Saturday, April 28, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.

Register in front of the Waverly Church, Forbes and S. Braddock Avenues, to pick up your materials and choose your area to clean up litter. Gloves, bags, coffee and bottled water provided.

Sponsored by Redd Up Council and GPPNA.

2007 is a major year in local politics for Park Place. Pittsburgh residences will elect a new council representative for our district 9, and we will elect a new Mayor. The first “election” is actually the primary in May, where candidates are selected to represent the parties. As many local democrats run unopposed, the primary is the only time individual voters may have options. As I get any information on other announced candidates, I will add it here. The listing below is what I have received so far from my inquiries to the local Democratic and Republican parties. After the primary, I will expand this to include any known declared and/or registered candidates.

GPPNA is collecting candidate information and will begin posting it here. Any candidate or other person my send email to admin@parkplaceblog.com to have information posted or linked to. We will link to campaign websites and publicize any events where the public can meet and/or speak with the candidates. We will try not as a rule, to publicize events that are primarily fund raisers, as our purpose is not to support specific candidates, but rather provide information.

Candidates

• Mayor
  • Luke Ravenstall (D)
    Web Site: http://www.lukeformayor.com/
    In The News
• Pittsburgh City Council Distric 9 (More info from OurCampaigns.com)
  • William Anderson
    web site:
    News
  • Ricky Burgess
    web site:
    News
  • Twanda Carlisle
    web site:
    News
  • Ora Lee Carroll
    web site:
    News
  • Rachel E. Cooper
    web site: http://www.rachelforcouncil9.com/
    News
  • Judith K. Ginyard
    web site:
    News
  • Leah Kirkland
    web site: http://www.leahforcitycouncil.com/
    News
  • Eric S. Smith
    web site:
    News
  • Randall Taylor
    web site:
    News

Guides, Endorsements and other Information Sources

GPPNA does not endorse political candidates or engage in political campaigns. We provide the following links as tools for our community members to stay informed about local candidates. No agreement is expressed or implied for any of the opinions expressed in these site, and they are provided for informational purposes only.

• The League Of Women Voters Of Greater Pittsburgh, Inc.
• Steel-City Stonewall Democrats
• 14th Ward Independent Democratic Club 2007 Endorsements
• Videos of Candidates speaking in Park Place

There are some Park Place neighbors who have lots of papers at home which need to be shredded. Shred-It will come to the neighborhood and make confetti of everything we have. This is a great way to get rid of old financial records, credit card solicitations, or any other documents that have sensitive personal information that could put you at risk of identity theft. The shredded documents will be recycled.

Joni Rabinowitz and Bob Kubiak are looking at possibly bringing in a shredding truck for one hour, some Saturday in January or February.

It would cost $95 for an hour, for everything we could bring. The truck probably will stay in one place and we have to bring our stuff.  If we have enough, collectively, everybody who uses it could chip in some to make the $95.

People who are interested should email or call Joni at jonijohn@telerama.com or 412-241-8359.