Waverly Church on the corner of Forbes and Braddock Aves. is offering a unique camp experience for school-age children in the East End. The full-day, week-long program has a special focus on music, art and drama, and includes creative arts, recreation and games, bible study, music, snacks and lunch. The week concludes with a Friday evening program by the participants for families and friends. The camp is run by Pittsburgh Presbytery’s Camp Crestfield professional staff and Waverly volunteers. There is no cost for the program. There will be opportunities to donate to a free will offering each day.
Pick up registration forms next to the church mailbox at the Braddock Ave. entrance to the church building or for more information, contact Jean Bird at Waverly Church, 412-242-0643.
PittsburghPA–June 16, 2008—Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest (FPUF) have announced its offerings of Tree Tender courses throughout the city.Tree Tenders learn to plant and care for young street trees, increasing a tree’s chance of survival and prolonging their life in the urban environment.FPUF is an environmental non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the City’s vitality by restoring and protecting the urban forest through community tree maintenance, planting, education and advocacy.
According to the 2005 City of Pittsburgh Street Tree Inventory, the city has approximately 30,000 street trees, and over 3,000 of those trees have been removed due to disease, vandalism or neglect.Thousands more trees are at risk of being removed if they do not receive much needed care.FPUF and the City Forestry Division are working to improve the urban forest, but residents can play an important role in increasing its health and reversing its decline.
Registration for Tree Tender courses is open online at www.PittsburghForest.org/TreeTenders.Local tree experts provide instruction, and the course covers everything from tree biology to planting and pruning. A $40 donation is requested to participate in the course, and scholarships are available.The course includes three evening sessions.Dinner will be provided at each session, and participants will receive a Tree Tender safety vest and certificate upon successful completion of the program.Participants may sign-up for continuing education workshops that cover pruning and tree identification in greater detail.Upon completion of an additional ten hours of volunteer participation at FPUF tree care and planting events, Tree Tenders will receive a pair of hand pruners.
Additionally, through TreeVitalize, a joint project of Allegheny County, the City of Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, neighborhoods with certified Tree Tenders who are able to organize neighborhood tree plantings will be eligible to receive ten or more street trees for their communities.TreeVitalize will work with community groups, non-profits, and municipal agencies to plant 20,000 trees throughout the region by 2012.
Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest Tree Tender Course Schedule
• Tuesdays July 1st, 8th, & 15th targeting Highland Park, Morningside, and Lawrenceville
• Tuesdays July 29th, August 5th, & 12th targeting Carrick and the South Side
• Thursdays September 4th, 11th, & 18th targeting North Point Breeze, Park Place, Homewood and Squirrel Hill
• Tuesdays September 23rd, 30th, & October 7th, targeting Marshall-Shadeland, Mexican War Streets, Brighton Road, & Federal Street
• Wednesdays October 15th, 22nd, & 29th, targeting the Hill District, Downtown, and Oakland
Park Place’s scheduled fall clean-up event is Saturday October 10th, 2008. From 9:00am-12:00 noon we will have a registration tent, providing bags, gloves, safety vests, etc.
We have had chilling rain for nearly all our past events, and though the rains were braved by many, it still kept many others from participating. We will be trying something slightly differently this fall.We will be asking participant to “pledge” a street, block, etc. And over the week-end, committ to picking up any trash in that area over the week-end when they can, and not just the hours durring which we hold the registration. Thay way, participants can still come get the free supplies, but they have the option of waiting for the better weather or time to complete their pledged area.
Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato & Wilkinsburg Mayor John Thompson cordially invite you to attend a Ribbon Cutting for Peebles Square
Friday, June 27, 2008
10:45 a.m. Peebles Square
123 Peebles Street, Wilkinsburg
Celebrate ACTION-Housing, Inc. & Hosanna House, Inc.’s renovation of six historic townhomes. As many as 10 additional single family homes will be built on the immediately adjacent site. For more information on this development, please contact:
Melana Mears of ACTION-Housing, Inc. at 412-281-2102.
RSVP to Megan Dardanell at mdardanell@alleghenycounty.us
Peebles Square Developer: ACTION-Housing, Inc. & Hosanna House, Inc.
Shawn Carter from Councilman Reverend Ricky Burgess’s office has passed on this invitation to a community meeting regarding a new mobile crisis unit for Western Psychiatric in the old beer world off Penn on N. Braddock.
As I understand it would be only for very short term/emergency treatment (including overnight stays) for patients.
See details below.
Dear Park Place Neighbors:
Councilman Reverend Ricky V. Burgess invites you to attend a
presentation about a collaborative between Allegheny County Department
of Human Services and Western Psychiatric Institutes & Clinic of UPMC to
be located at 333 N. Braddock Avenue in the old Beer World building.
Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Location: Waverly Presbyterian Church
590 S. Braddock Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15221
Presenters:
1. Ellie Medved, VP, Ambulatory and Crisis Services, Western
Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC;
2. Jewel Denne, Crisis Clinical Administrator, Western Psychiatric
Institute and Clinic of UPMC;
3. Dr. Rodney Williams, Crisis Physician, WPIC;
4. Talisa Burnett, HR Specialist, WPIC;
5. Denise Macerelli, Senior Director, Community & Government
Relations, WPIC
Shawn M. Carter, Sr.
Chief of Staff
Office of Councilman Reverend Ricky V. Burgess
President Pro Tempore
Pittsburgh City Council, 9th District
510 City-County Building
414 Grant Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
412-255-2137 phone
412-255-8658 facsimile
Missing Dog: medium-sized gray and white dog (Bearded Collie), collar,
no tags, missing from Celeron Street since afternoon on Wednesday (May
21). Please call 412-242-5208, for Penn and Katherine Hackney.
There will be a final presentation of the plans for the Peebles Square development project by Action Housing to the community on Thursday May 29th, at 6:30PM at the Church of the Nazarene location on the corner of Peebles and Waverly.(Across from Drawn In Cafe) The new architect for the project will be on hand to answer questions and present home designs and lot layouts.
All are encouraged to attend, as this will be the plan Action Housing is presenting before the zoning board.
