Saturday’s “redd up” was a big success, thanks to members of the Bloomfield Development Corporation and lots of volunteers from the Immaculate Conception-St. Joseph Parish. I took photos of the workers (hint: taking photos gets you out of doing hard work) and posted them to Flickr and Facebook.
Volunteers clean up Bloomfield during Pittsburgh’s Spring Redd Up.
Photo courtesy of CarmanAvenue
If you’re on Facebook, consider becoming a fan of our new Bloomfield Development Corporation page, and if you’re on Flickr, consider joining our brand new Bloomfield group. The group is open to everyone, so add your shots of our neighborhood — Flickr’s drag-and-drop interface makes it very easy to add your existing photos to the group.
BDC board members and neighborhood volunteers helped beautify Bloomfield.
Photo courtesy of CarmanAvenue
If you’re a Flickr pro and you’d like to get more involved, email me about becoming a moderator of the group.
The Bloomfield Development Corporation will host the second of six community meetings for 2009 on Tuesday, April 28. Come and hear about the exciting new developments, and sign up for one of the new committees!
To help promote the event, download a printable PDF flyer.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
6:00 PM
West Penn Hospital Auditorium
4800 Friendship Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
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Care to help beautify Bloomfield? This Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 9 AM, volunteers will be meeting at St. Joseph’s Church for a street cleanup. Refreshments will be provided courtesy of Starbucks and Subway, and cleaning supplies have been donated by PA CleanWays.
RSVP by email or at Fifth Third Bank, and for more information, call the BBA at 412-681-2054.
To help promote the event, download a printable PDF flyer.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
9:00 AM
St. Joseph’s Church
4712 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
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Dear Bloomfield Neighbors and Business Owners:
You are invited to join the newly established Lighting Committee. The purpose of this committee is threefold:
- Determine the best street lighting option for the Bloomfield business corridor on Liberty Avenue.
- Determine the best strategy for holiday lights and explore models of other neighborhoods and business districts.
- Determine funding options for short- and long-term sustainability. Develop a budget with projected fundraising revenue and costs (electricity, installation, maintenance, permits, etc.).
Explore ideas about how lighting can increase bottom line of businesses: ex. make it into a holiday event, drive customers to the business district, have stores stay open later, plan for promotion events around the lighting at holidays and all year long. Lighting always goes along with safety. Shoppers want safe, well lit-streets, so we can promote a “safe, walkable business district”.
If you are interested in creating a more viable, dynamic Bloomfield business district we look forward to hearing your ideas!
Please email Dana at dacton127@hotmail.com with your name, address, telephone number and email address. Most correspondence on this committee will be through email. Our first meeting will be at Grasso Roberto Café, 4709 Liberty Avenue at 7 PM on Wednesday, April 29. Looking forward to some fantastic, progressive ideas from all of you!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
7 PM
Grasso Roberto Café
4709 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
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Originally posted by City Councilman Bill Peduto:
“Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect, and hatred is violence to the heart.” Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes there are no answers. Sometimes there are no words. In times like these we often struggle to find the right thing to say and a simple solution to the problem. But tragedies evade words, and circumstances are many times beyond our control. I don’t know if I will ever be able to communicate my feelings as eloquently as President Lincoln did on the battlefield of Gettysburg, but the same emotions of senseless violence and human suffering pervade me.
I know what I can do, what all of us should do. We must do everything we can to help the families involved in this tragedy. We must guarantee the parents, wives, brothers, sisters and innocent children that their dreams did not die when their loved ones were taken from them. We must reach out to those around us, the troubled souls, and help them to find the path toward peace. We must break this cycle of violence in our country, in our city, in our homes, and in our hearts.
Maybe someday this type of violence will be a relic of the past. It may not happen in our lifetime or the lifetime of our children. But, there is no reason – there is no excuse – for those of us who have lived through this tragedy not to dedicate a small portion of our lives to realizing that day, when these senseless shootings are a footnote in history.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
On Friday, May 8, 2009, Courtyard by Marriott will host a Community Day event to support community organizations. There will be a blood drive for Central Blood Bank, non-perishable food items collected for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, and a raffle of Pittsburgh Neighborhood baskets to benefit Children’s Miracle Network.
Each basket will be themed around a Pittsburgh neighborhood, and Courtyard is asking for donations of any size, product or quantity. All proceeds from the raffle will be donated to Children’s Miracle Network, so consider taking this opportunity to promote your business and our neighborhood while supporting a wide range of patient care needs at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.
Courtyard is asking that any donations be made before Monday, April 13, and will be happy to pick up any donated items. Please download this letter and fill out the form to include with your donations so that your contribution can be properly recognized. For more information, call Renee N. Taylor, Sales Coordinator, at (412) 992-5082.
Friday, May 8, 2009
10:00 AM–6:00 PM
Courtyard by Marriott
5308 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15224
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