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[Highland Park] [Update.unionproject] It is a big one: Community Meeting, Margaritas in March, Youth Talent Showcase, Block Party, UPWords, and Tuesday Stew
by Katrina Struloeff 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

*Featured Items of the Week: COMMUNITY MEETING – DEVELOPMENT IN EAST LIBERTY - MAR. 31* Monday, March 31st, from 6:30-8:30pm the Union Project will host a Community Meeting to discuss the recent and upcoming residential and commercial development in the East Liberty area. This event will act as an open forum for community members to ask and answer questions about this important community change. Community organizations, partners and housing advocacy groups will be in attendance for this event to help answer question that community members may have. Attendees will aid in the creation for the discussion topics for the Monday Night Conversation Series held every Monday night in the month of April. The free event will be held at Union Project. For more information contact hilary(a)unionproject.org or 412-363-4550 x 26. *to view the full email update visit www.unionproject.org/about_us/news* *Other Upcoming Union Project Items: MARGARITAS IN MARCH – THIS SATURDAY - MAR. 29 – 7pm YOUTH TALENT SHOWCASE – APR. 1 – 7pm BLOCK PARTY – APRIL 8 - 5:30pm UPWORDS – APRIL 11 – JAMES HARM AND JIM DANIELS - 7pm TUESDAY STEW – APRIL 15* * to view the full email update visit www.unionproject.org/about_us/news* _______________________________________________ update mailing list update(a)unionproject.org http://unionproject.mennonite.net/mailman/listinfo/update.unionproject

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[Highland Park] 4 Brand New Tires P215/65R15 Only $250
by Ted Melnyk 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Dear Neighbors, My loss could be your gain. Two weeks ago I spent over $600 getting Goodyear Assurance tires on our 11 year old Plymouth Voyager. A week later our engine broke and it's off to the junkyard. P215/65R15 will fit most minivans and many other cars. I am trying to get $250 for these tires. These are 80,000 mile tires, with about 40 miles on them. They are currently off the car, but still on the 5 lug steel rims. If our rims match, I would be willing to change the tires myself. The advantage to taking rims and tires is that they have new valves and are already spun and balanced, which is usually about $12 per tire. Otherwise I will get them removed from the rims at Goodyear. Below is a link with info about the tires. http://www.etireandservice.com/tires/tires.htm Thanks, Ted Ted Melnyk, MPPM MAREastminster Presbyterian Church250 N. Highland Ave.Pittsburgh, PA 15206work (412) 361-7788 ext 108wireless (412) 215-0010home (412) 361-0533 _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail is giving away Zunes. http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/ZuneADay/?locale=en-US&ocid=TXT_TAGLM_Mo…

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[Highland Park] Addendum to CSA Email News
by Darcey 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

In regard to the last email about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) coming to Highland Park, here is the exact location of the pick-up spot in your community: HIGHLAND PARK: 1125 North Highland Ave, Enrico's Tazza D'oro coffee shop. (Wednesday pick up).

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[Highland Park] Suspicious Person At My Door Sunday Night
by Bridget Jakub 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hi neighbors, Just want to give everyone a heads up about an incident that occurred at my house in Morningside - which is only 6 houses in from the border with Highland Park, about a 3 block walk from the Union Project. Ultimately, nothing criminal occurred - but it was very suspicious. Between 9:30 and 10:00 pm on Easter Sunday (3/23/08), I heard a loud knock at my front door. The man at the door introduced himself as "Oliver" and described himself as a neighbor whose car had broken down and he just needed some help - just $3 would do it. As if to prove his case, he pressed a drivers license up against the window of my front door (I never opened the door). When I said I couldn't help him, but I'd be happy to call the police to come and help him out, he said "No, please don't do that, there's no need for that." By the time I had gone to grab my phone and come back to the front door, he was gone. I called 911 to report the incident and an officer came by within 15 minutes or so, spotlighting my property first and then coming to the front door to talk with me before further patrolling the area. "Oliver" was African American, medium to light complexion, in his 30's or 40's, with a mustache and wearing a gray hat (an "ivy cap" style hat according to my search online). I was not able to read his drivers license through my window. His obvious panic when I said I'd be happy to call the police to come help him was the most striking thing about the conversation. Ultimately, nothing criminal has yet happened related to this, but it was a strange interaction, and I wanted to give everyone a heads up. In case this makes you want to become more actively involved in public safety issues in our area, I do encourage you to attend the Citizen's Public Safety Committee Meeting for Zone 5 the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm at the Union Project. I have attended 3 since August and have found them to be very helpful in finding ways to work constructively with law enforcement and other community groups to address crime in our area. Stay safe everyone! Bridget Jakub Assistant Director of Admissions H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management Information Systems Management Programs Carnegie Mellon University Phone: 412.268.2164 Fax: 412.268.7036 E-mail: jakub(a)andrew.cmu.edu _____________________________________________________ Meet us on campus, online or while we are on the road. Check out our website <http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/admissions/visit/default.html> for more information! http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/admissions/visit/default.html

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[Highland Park] April 9 symposium on gun violence
by Jana Finder 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

> Please try to attend. I am trying to get a table for our local > coalition so we have a presence. >> > > >

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[Highland Park] Fwd: Message and call list for Allegheny County House Members
by Jana Finder 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Neighbors, This is an update to the work some of us are doing on the gun violence issue. We have a growing coalition of local residents, including Highland Park neighbors, as well as local doctors, members of law enforcement including Police Chief Nate Harper, Detective Jill Rustin of the Firearms Tracing Unit, our own Rashall Brackney, Pittsburgh City Council President Doug Shields with the support of the entire council, Mr. Shields' wife Briget Shields, and staff and board members of CeaseFire PA. As you know, on March 17, CeaseFIre held a rather impressive press conference in the capitol rotunda in Harrisburg. There were many speakers and attendees there supporting sensible gun laws. After the conference, we went door knocking to speak to individual representatives to ask them to vote yes on the lost or stolen reporting amendment (called the Levdansky amendment). The house ended up debating the amendment until 11:00 p.m. that night to avoid voting on it. The debate was postponed until March 31st. We are mobilizing to contact our legislators this week to show our support for this amendment and encourage them to vote "yes" on the Levdansky amendment. The more calls they receive the better, so please do what you can! Below are talking points for your calls to PA legislators as well as contact information for the representatives. If you wish, you may incorporate the talking points into a letter to the editor and/or organizational letters of support that you would like to write. Any letters of support should go to Representative David Levdansky. If you would like your name included on a group letter to the editor, please let me know. Also, if anyone is interested in joining our coalition, please let me know your general availability for an in-person planning meeting in the next two weeks. I'd like to know if you prefer daytime or evening, and if specific days are never good for you, etc. Your suggestions for a convenient meeting place are welcome as well. Jana Finder **************************************** Dear Member of the Allegheny County/CeaseFirePA coalition against handgun violence, CeaseFirePA thanks you for your help and your work on this critically important issue. Mandatory reporting of lost or stolen handguns to the police is a common sense reform whose time has come in Pennsylvania. Law enforcement and police across Pennsylvania strongly support a lost or stolen handgun reporting law as a key tool to help police crack down on straw buyers of illegal handguns. The Pittsburgh Police Department, led by Chief Nathan Harper, supports a lost or stolen handgun reporting requirement. The PA Police Chiefs Association supports this law. So does the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Last week, the PA House of Representatives considered and debated this bill on the floor of the House. It marked the first time in 10 years a handgun violence prevention law reached the House floor, a historic moment. The bill is an amendment to H.B.1845, and the amendment is sponsored by Rep. David Levdansky, D-Allegheny County. The Levdansky Amendment requires people who buy a handgun to report the handgun if lost or stolen to the police within three days of discovering the loss or theft. Violating this law brings penalties ranging from a summary offense for a first violation to a felony for repeat violators. The Levdansky Amendment (A06178) is pending in the House now. But opponents of this common sense reform, led by the NRA, don’t want this amendment to ever be brought up for a vote. They want it to just go away. We cannot let them do that. Opponents in the House, led by the NRA, are raising a host of procedural objections, all under the guise of questioning the bill’s constitutionality, for one purpose only: They don’t want to vote on this common sense reform. They don’t want to let the people of Pennsylvania know where they stand on the lost or stolen handgun reporting law. The debate and voting on the lost or stolen handgun reporting bill will resume next Monday, March 31st, in the House of Representatives. Time is of the essence! We need Allegheny County residents, elected officials and others to call their local state representatives and urge them to do the following when the House returns next week: 1. Vote NO on any procedural motion to defeat the lost or stolen handgun reporting bill sponsored by Rep. Levdansky (A6178 to H.B. 1845). 2. Vote YES on the Levdansky Amendment. This amendment is the lost or stolen handgun reporting law. Below is a list of Allegheny County House members, by party and district #, along with a thumbnail of where they stand on the issue (according to telephone surveying of all House members conducted by CeaseFirePA.) These phone calls to House members in the next few days before March 31st can make a difference. The calls should be made tomorrow, Wed., March 26th, Thurs., March 27th and Friday March 28th to have the desired effect. Let your representative know you care about growing handgun violence in Allegheny County and across Pennsylvania and you want them to act – now. Support the Levdansky Amendment and vote YES for a reporting requirement for lost or stolen handguns. Once you’ve made these calls, please report by email ANY information or feedback you receive from a legislator or staff to Jana Finder, CeaseFirePA’s Allegheny County coordinator, at jana(a)oldphones.com. Feel free to copy Joe Grace, CeaseFirePA’s executive director, at Joe.Grace(a)ceasefirepa.org . Thank you very much. The telephone calling list is on the next page. CALL LIST/Allegheny County House members DEMOCRATS Rep. Sean Ramaley, Leaning yes. D-16th, Allegheny/Beaver. 724-266-7774. Don Walko, D-20th. Undecided. PLEASE CALL. 412-321-5523 Lisa Bennington, D-21st. Leaning yes. Call anyway. 412-361-2040. Joe Preston, D-24th. Yes. Call anyway. Joe Markosek, D-25th. Allegheny/Westmoreland. Undecided. "Interested but noncommital." 412-856-8284. Tom Petrone, D-27th. Leaning yes. Give a quick call. 412-928-9514 Frank Dermody, D-33rd. Leaning No. PLEASE CALL. 724-274-4770. Marc Gergely, D-35th. Undecided/leaning No. 412-754-3500. Harry Readshaw, D-36th. Undecided/Leaning No. PLEASE CALL 412-881-4208 Bill Kortz, D-38th. Leaning No. "Opposes gun control." 412-466-1940. Dave Levdansky, D-39th. Yes. Rep. Levdansky is the prime sponsor of the Amendment. Call him and thank him for his leadership on this important issue. 412-384-2258 Matt Smith, D-42nd. Undecided. 412-571-2169. Nick Kotik, D-45th. Leaning Yes. Please call. 412-264-4260. Jesse White, D-46th. Alleghny/Beaver/Washington. Undecided. 724-746-3677 John Pallone, D-54th. Allghny/Armstrong/Westmoreland. Undecided. 724-339-1990 REPUBLICANS Mike Turzai, R-28th. Undecided/Leaning No. PLEASE CALL 412-369-2230 Randy Vulakovich, R-30th. Undecided. 412-487-6600 John Maher, R-40th. Leaning Yes. CALL HIM. 412-831-8080 Mark Mustio, R-44th. Undecided. 412-262-3780

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[Highland Park] Accounting Internship
by Adam Mercer 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

Hi Neighbors! I am writing to see if anyone in the neighborhood is, knows someone who is looking for an accounting intern. I will be a senior at Duquesne University this coming fall. I would prefer to work on the local level where there is customer interaction, which is hard to find downtown! If anyone is interested or knows of someone who is, please e-mail for a resume and/or cover letter. Thanks for your time and Happy Spring! Adam Mercer mercera(a)duq.edu 330.831.1618

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[Highland Park] Be an on-line mentor to a high school teen
by Susan Robison 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

Help a High School teenager by Mentoring On-Line! To explain their program about mentoring on-line, Jonathan Livingston from Smart Futures will be the featured speaker at the Kiwanis Club of East Liberty meeting tomorrow at 12:15 PM at the East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 149 S. Highland Ave. Pick up you lunch at the Cathedral Cafe and bring it to the meeting! Prospective new members and visitors are always welcome. For more information about the Kiwanis Club of East Liberty, please call Susy Robison at 412.392.4839. Kiwanis is an international organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time.

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[Highland Park] sing-along, free films at Pitt & Carnegie Mellon, PICT ushering
by Myra Carbonell 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

Please email this out to the Highland Park neighborhood. The next sing-along will be at the home of Sherry Goldman and Marty Sivitz, 412-215-9631, on Tuesday, April 15 from 7:30 p.m. until however late people want to stay. We will sing some songs in parts. If you wish to bring refreshments to share, they would be welcome. Please RSVP by replying to this message and I'll give you their address. Please reply if you'd like to be on my sing-along and house concert list (the person who hosts sing-alongs in Shadyside doesn't want me to send out an invitation to all of Highland Park) and/or my free films list at Pitt and Carnegie Mellon. Carnegie Mellon is currently having a free foreign film series. I am forwarding this request for ushers since I think that the Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre is the best theatre in Pittsburgh. Subject: PICT usheringDate: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:34:33 -0400From: amerryman(a)picttheatre.orgTo: amerryman(a)picttheatre.org Hello, Everyone! Sorry I’m late on this—busy times here at PICT! We’re excited about KING LEAR, which opens April 9—just around the corner. This message is to sign up for an usher date. Also, there are 10 am student matinees on Weds April 9, Tues April 15, and Weds Apr 22, if you’d like to usher for one of those—report around 9 am. We’ll use 6 – 8 ushers each show. The following is the KING LEAR schedule to date. WEEK 1 Weds April 9, 10am -- could use 4 or 5 Thurs April 10, 8 pm – need 4 more Friday April 11, 8 pm – no one yet—need at least 6 Saturday, April 12, 8 pm is full: Sunday, April 13, 2 pm –need 4 or 5 more WEEK 2 Tues, April 15, 10am – could use 5 or 6 Tues, April 15, 7pm – need at least 6 Wed, April 16, 8 pm – —need 2 or 3 more Thur, April 17, 8 pm – at least 2 more Fri, April 18, 8 pm – – need at least 4 more Sat, April 19, 8 pm – no one – need 6 – 8 WEEK 3 Tues, April 22, 10am – open Weds, Apr 23, 8 am – open Thurs, Apr 24, 8 pm – open Friday, Apr 25, 8pm – open Sat, Apr 26, 2pm –– need at least 4 more Sat, Apr 26, 8 pm -- open While I’m at it, I might as well do IDEAL HUSBAND. Here are the dates: WEEK 1 Thurs, May 8, 10am – need 4 or 5 Thurs, May 8, 8 pm – open Friday, May 9, 8pm – open Saturday, May 10, 8pm is full: Sunday, May 11, 2 pm, , need at least 4 WEEK 2 Tues, May 13, 7pm – open Weds, May 14, 7pm – need 4 Thurs, May 15, 8pm – full Friday, May 16, 8pm – open Sat, May 17, 8 pm – open Sun, May 18, 2 pm –need 5 WEEK 3 Weds, May 21, 8 pm – need 5 Thurs, May 22, 8 pm –open Friday, May 23, 8pm – open Sat, May 24, 2 pm – open Sat, May 24, 8 pm – open Sun, May 25, 2pm – need 5 WEEK 4 Tues, May 27, 8 pm – open Wed, May 28, 8 pm – open Thur, May 29, 8 pm – open Friday, May 30 8pm – open Sat, May 31, 2 pm – open Sat, May 31, 8pm – open That’s enough for now. I’ll have sign-up sheets at the theatre on nights you usher so you can sign up for future shows. See you soon. Thanks, Arlene Arlene Merryman Office and Company Manager Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre 412-561-6000 Ext 207 amerryman(a)picttheatre.org 2008 Season: "Family Affairs" King Lear by William Shakespeare April 9 – 26, 2008 An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde May 8 – 31, 2008 Wilde Tales World Premiere musical by Bruce Dow May 21 – 31, 2008 Salome by Oscar Wilde June 12 – 28, 2008 The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington July 17 – August 16, 2008 Synge Cycle One Acts by John Millington Synge July 25 – August 17, 2008 Dublin Carol by Conor McPherson December 3 – 20, 2008 For tickets contact ProArts(412) 394-3353 www.proartstickets.org _________________________________________________________________ Watch “Cause Effect,” a show about real people making a real difference. Learn more. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=text_watchcause

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[Highland Park] Homeownership and Foreclosure Prevention Fair 3/29/08
by Bob Staresinic 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

Hello All Here is an email from Senator Ferlo's office about an event this weekend. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Bruder" <SBRUDER(a)pasenate.com> To: Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:58 AM Subject: [HPCC] Homeownership and Foreclosure Prevention Fair Good morning, Attached is a postcard from Senator Jim Ferlo and ACORN encouraging anyone that has had recent trouble with a home mortgage loan to attend this one day fair. Please pass the word along! Thank you for your hard work! Stephen Bruder, Chief of Staff Senator Jim Ferlo's Office Room 535 Capitol Building Harrisburg, PA 17120 717-787-6123 (phone) 717-772-3695 (fax) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > __ > <http://lists.highlandparkpa.com/mailman/listinfo/hpcc>

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