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Just a couple of quick items! Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend--it is GORGEOUS outside today!
Best,
khrys
TONIGHT! 7:30 PM -- Free Screening of GASLAND, Blue Slide Playground, Frick Park
Want to know what all the brouhaha over drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation is all about? Want to know what the Marcellus Shale formation is? Want to know what the frack is going on in our region, and within our own City limits? Would you come if I told you that there is a right-of-way lease across Commercial Rd. from Frick Park? Or that a large Catholic cemetary has signed away the gas rights under its property? (No, I'm really not kidding.)
Find out the answers to these questions and more by coming out to Frick Park tonight for a free screening of Josh Fox's documentary, GasLand....
Don't miss this FREE community screening of GASLAND, an eye-opening film about the controversial form of gas drilling called "fracking."
7:30PM Live Music: David Shelow and Gene Gelblum (guitar and fiddle) followed by Local singer-songwriter Mike Stout.
8:15PM Film
10:00PM Q & A with Director Josh Fox and local activists
Local panelists include Pittsburgh City Councilor Doug Shields (5th District), who is introducing legislation to ban gas drilling in Pittsburgh; former PA Green Party Candidate for U.S. Senate and MarcellusProtest member Mel Packer, who is organizing a mass march and rally opposite a gas industry conference at the David Lawrence Convention Center on November 3rd; and PennEnvironment Clean Water Advocate Erika Staff. Other panelists include Ben Price, Projects Director, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund; and Bill Belitskus, Board President of the Allegheny Defense Project.
Local Sponsors include: All One Water, Allegheny Sierra Club, East End Food Coop, MarcellusProtest.org and others.
Local Contact: Dorothy Basset, 412-657-8063, debassett1@gmail.com or David Meieran, 412-999-0649, admin@marcellusprotest.org
RAIN DATE: August 28
About "Fracking"
Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," is a process to extract oil and natural gas deep within the earth. Drillers blast water, sand and chemicals 8,000 feet into the ground. The natural gas industry says fracking will create jobs and provide cheap energy for decades. But the truth is that fracking poses a serious threat to clean air and water, biodiversity, and the health of our communities. Companies are now drilling, or seeking to drill, all throughout the Marcellus Shale: a region in the Appalachian Basin that includes large chunks of Pennsylvania which contain largely untapped natural gas reserves. And Halliburton – yes, Halliburton – is building a huge outpost in Williamsport, PA to service decades of drilling in the Marcellus Shale.
The PA Department of Environmental Protection has granted five permits for fracking sites in Allegheny County. They list two of those sites as "active."
About GASLAND
When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown."
more info:
http://gaslandthemovie.com/
http://rooftopfilms.com/
http://marcellusprotest.org/
REMINDER! -- RUN AROUND THE SQUARE THIS SAT.!
8:15am
Run Around the Square
Henrietta and Milton Avenues
Run - or walk - through Frick Park's beautiful Fern Hollow. Citiparks and the Regent Square Civic Association host an event featuring musicians, costumed characters and themed-water stops sprinkled throughout the course. The first 1,000 registrants receive T-shirts and all registrants will be eligible for a post-race raffle. For more information, call 412-246-9506 or visit www.runaroundthesquare.com.
ALL PARK PLACE KIDS WILL NOW GO TO THE SAME SCHOOLS!!
(from a neighbor)
The Park Place public school feeder pattern has been changed! When the school board approved the new high school plan a few days ago, they also approved a change for Park Place.
Effective for the 2011-2012 school year, ALL streest in Park Place will feed to Minadeo, Sterrett and Allderdice. The new assignments start at Lexington and move east all the way to the Wilkinsburg line (with Penn Ave. as the northern boundary).
School board member Sharene Shealey was incredibly responsive and determined on this issue. She came out to see Park Place folks one day last spring and walked the neighborhood. In the course of our walk, we ran into various neighbors who offered some wonderful feedback and suggestions.
A COUPLE OF OTHER FUN THINGS...
(From Phipps Conservatory)
Sun., August 29, 2010
11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Juicy tomatoes of all stripes take center stage along with garlic during Red, Ripe & Roasted, our sixth annual tomato and garlic festival. Held on the front lawn and in the Outdoor Garden, the day-long celebration will include garlic roasting and tastings, live chef demos, kids' activities and a farmers' market on the front lawn. Local celeb Doug Oster will sign copies of his new book, Tomatoes Garlic Basil, from 2-3 p.m. and will demonstrate a recipe from 1-2 p.m. Bring a labeled packet of open-pollinated seeds to exchange with another variety during
our seed swap, and bring your ugliest, smallest and largest ripe tomatoes for the chance to win a Phipps prize basket. Be sure to bring a bag of fresh produce from home or buy a bag from the farmers' market to donate to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank for free admission to the Conservatory during festival hours. Red, Ripe & Roasted is free and open to the public.
Save the Date!! (From NMRWA)
Nine Mile Run History Tour
Saturday, September 25th, 9am -noon
Meet at the parking lot on Commercial Street across from the Irish Center
Join Zachary Falck, PhD for this early morning walk along the lower Nine Mile Run area. Learn about the events that shaped the Nine Mile Run Valley and the stream's influence on the social and environmental history of the Mon Valley. Zach has written about Nine Mile Run in the Western Pennsylvania History Magazine, a publication of the Senator John Heinz Regional History Center and the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. Register by contacting Lisa at 412.371.8779 ext 115 or email lisa@ninemilerun.org.
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