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[Highland Park] This week in Highland Park
by Rudolph T Maceyko 10 Aug '03

10 Aug '03

ALL WEEK (EXCEPT MONDAY): The Wild Duck at Western Pennsylvania Family Center at 8:00pm ($20) TUESDAY Neighborhood walk starting at Enrico's Tazza d'Oro at 7:30 pm (every Tuesday) THURSDAY Summer Market at the Union Project at 4:00 pm (every Thursday through September 25) SATURDAY Community Festival on Bryant Street at 5:00 pm SUNDAY Reservoir of Jazz: "Family Day" featuring Jazz Workshop, Inc. Visit the Community Calendar on the Highland Park web site for details: <http://www.highlandparkpa.com/calendar/>

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[Highland Park] Pool stays open, Reservoir of Jazz schedule shortened due to City budget crisis
by Rudolph T Maceyko 10 Aug '03

10 Aug '03

Mayor Murphy announced massive layoffs yesterday in an attempt to deal with the City's budget crisis: <http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/mayor/html/city_press_releases.html#08-06-…> Just six of the City's pools will remain open after this week. According to the Post-Gazette, the Highland Park pool will continue to operate (as originally scheduled) until the end of August: <http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_city/20030807centersc3.asp#list> The Citiparks Special Events office, which runs the Reservoir of Jazz, is to be closed. There will be two more events, on the 10th and the 17th, but the remaining two have been canceled according to Kevin Amos, program coordinator of that office. Obviously, the effects of the budget crisis will be felt throughout the city. I have no information on other changes that will affect our neighborhood at this time. Rudy

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[Highland Park] News from The Learning Club in Highland Park
by Salvador Wilcox 06 Aug '03

06 Aug '03

Highlights from Education Innovations, Inc. * We are officially a nonprofit organization! * We have Learning Clubs from August 18 to August 22. * Golf outing on October 3rd at Hillcrest Country Club. The Learning Club in Highland Park, a project of Education Innovations, Inc., is working diligently to bring new, interesting, and quality educational programs to Highland Park. As a community-oriented non-profit organization, we will be taking time each month to share our accomplishments, and invite you to participate in our community's educational life. In our update, we will let you know about upcoming events at The Club, classes being offered, and new services being provided to the neighborhood. New at Education Innovations, Inc. and The Learning Club in Highland Park: * We are officially a non-profit organization! We received notice from the IRS that, based on our mission, we are classified as a charitable organization, otherwise known as a 501(c)(3) organization. This means that your gifts to us are tax-deductible. Your donation as small as $10 will be combined with the generosity of others in the community to improve our children's learning experiences in the neighborhood. It will also allow us to develop a robust fund-raising campaign for improving the educational opportunities here in our neighborhood. We are starting our fund-raising efforts with a golf outing. See information below. * Help your children jump-start their brains and get ready for back-to-school thinking during our August Learning Club. We have Learning Clubs from August 18 to August 22 for upper elementary to middle school students. We are offering two clubs: The 1600 Club and the Book Club. The 1600 club is designed to introduce concepts covered in the SAT through fun activities such as analogies, vocabulary building through Scrabble, brainteasers, and puzzles. The 1600 Club will meet each morning from 9:00AM until 12:00PM. The Book Club is designed to get your child back into the swing of school and the habit of reading with graphic novel by Avi. This club will meet each afternoon from 1:00PM until 4:00PM. The cost of each session is $90 (multiple clubs and sibling discounts are $80 per club). * We are hosting a golf outing on October 3rd at Hillcrest Country Club in Lower Burrell. This fund-raising event will allow us to develop the Fulton Project, to design learning opportunities that match the needs of the community, and to forge collaborations with other educational and human services organizations for improving the educational climate of the East End. The Fulton Project is our plan to bring much needed resources to Fulton Academy, our local public elementary school. Currently, the project includes the designing of a 20-week economics/financial literacy program for 4th and 5th graders, an intensive summer literacy project for all 2nd graders, and a human chess game at the park. If you have any questions about Education Innovations, Inc., or The Learning Club in Highland Park, please contact us at 412.363.7707, and visit us at 5808 Bryant Street, Suite 2, Pittsburgh, PA 15206.

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[Highland Park] This week in Highland Park
by Rudolph T Maceyko 03 Aug '03

03 Aug '03

TUESDAY Neighborhood walk starting at Enrico's Tazza d'Oro at 7:30 pm (every Tuesday) National Night Out at 8:00 pm THURSDAY Summer Market at the Union Project at 4:00 pm (every Thursday through September 25) "The Wild Duck" (fund-raiser) at the Western Pennsylvania Family Center at 7:00 pm SUNDAY Jazz Masters Day: Walt Harper, Jimmy Ponder Visit the Community Calendar on the Highland Park web site for details: <http://www.highlandparkpa.com/calendar/> Keep your porch lights lit for National Night Out on Tuesday evening. It's also a good excuse to sit on the porch with your friends and neighbors! Rudy

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[Highland Park] Babbling Brook and New Plant Celebration in September
by Abbie Pauley 02 Aug '03

02 Aug '03

The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority and the City of Pittsburgh invite you to PittsburgH20 - a ribbon cutting celebration of the new microfiltration plant and babbling brook in Highland Park. The event, which will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on September 13th, will feature tours of the brook and reservoir, music, food, wagon rides and a puppet show. The PWSA's original plans called for building a concrete channel to funnel backwash or wastewater from the plant down the hill to Lake Carnegie. But the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy stepped in with a more aesthetic approach. With the help of the landscape architecture firm LaQuatra Bonci Associates, the Conservancy created the watercourse with boulders and flowing water, a trail and bridge to create a pleasing experience for visitors. Wastewater from the plant with a high concentration of chlorine becomes naturally de-chlorinated as it is exposed to air, rocks and leaves. Funding for the project was provided by the PWSA and the PPC with a grant from the Eden Hall Foundation. PittsburgH20 is a members' day for members of the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy. It is open to the public but non-members will be encouraged to join. For more information, call 412-682-7275. Abbie Pauley Director of Public Education and Programs Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy 2000 Technology Drive, Suite 300 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 tel # 412-682-7275 fax # 412-622-0160 e-mail: Apauley(a)pittsburghparks.org

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Re: [Highland Park] This week in Highland Park
by Rudolph T Maceyko 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

--On Monday, July 28, 2003 12:41:16 -0400 Rudolph T Maceyko <rm55(a)pobox.com> wrote: > SATURDAY > > Free tennis clinic at the tennis courts on Stanton Avenue at 9:00 > am (every Saturday) I've been told that this ended last Saturday. Rudy

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[Highland Park] Quantum Theatre at Western Pennsylvania Family Center
by Annette Kolski-Andreaco 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

I would like to invite you to celebrate a unique event in our neighborhood. The Western Pennsylvania Family Center at 733 N. Highland Avenue is hosting Quantum Theatre in our 19th-century carriage house. The Highland Park CDC has supported our renovations of this property. At last we're doing the project and inviting the community to experience it by seeing a 19th-century play, "The Wild Duck" on August 7, 2003, 7:00 pm, light dinner and dessert after the play. The ticket price of $35 supports the Future Generations Fund of the Western Pennsylvania Family Center. Hope to see you there! Annette Kolski-Andreaco Western Pennsylvania Family Center <http://www.wpfc.net/> Quantum Theatre <http://www.quantumtheatre.com/> Highland Park Community Development Corporation <http://www.highlandparkpa.com/org/hpcdc/>

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