May 2010 - test-neighbhorhood@test.highlandparkpa.com

[Highland Park] FOR SALE - Portable Air Conditioners and Dehumidifier
by Erik Schark 17 May '10

17 May '10

2 Sharp Portable 9,500 BTU Air Conditioners for sale. Originally $500 - used for two years - selling for $250 each. Worked great last year - we are installing window units this year. Here is a link: http://www.amazon.com/Sharp-CV-P10MX-Portable-Conditioner-White/dp/B0014IFE… 1 LG 45 Pint Dehumidifier. We moved and no longer need this. Works great! Paid $170 three years ago. Asking $75. Here is the link: > http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/LG-LHD45EL-45-pint-Dehumidifier-Refurb… > Contact Erikschark(a)verizon.net Thanks!

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[Highland Park] Camp in HP
by Emily Lilly 17 May '10

17 May '10

Hi! I just signed my kids up for a great art-based foreign language immersion camp, located right here in the middle of Highland Park--my kids will be able to walk themselves there are back. :-) The two weeks of camp will be at St. Andrew's, July 12-16 and 19-23. There are full-day and half-day options, and there are four languages to choose from. (I'll be sending two kids to French, two to Spanish, and two to German; I have four kids, and two are taking two sessions. The other language is Japanese.) For each language, the children will be lead through an art class, utilizing many media, all run in the chosen language. Sounds like a really fun way to learn language! Unfortunately, the sessions will not be able to run if there aren't enough kids signed up. So, if you are looking for something different for your kids to do in mid-July, check out the website or the attached flyer! http://www.instituteial.com/index.html --Emily King Ave

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[Highland Park] Reminder: Viewing of *East of Liberty* Documentary at May 20th HPCC Meeting
by Eric or Sue Randall 17 May '10

17 May '10

The "East of Liberty" presentation will be taking place this week. We hope to see you there! Eric ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Eric or Sue Randall <boardwalk_2000(a)yahoo.com> To: Highland Park listserver <neighborhood(a)highlandparkpa.com> Sent: Wed, May 5, 2010 9:29:43 PM Subject: [Highland Park] Viewing of *East of Liberty* Documentary at May 20th HPCC Meeting Hello everyone - I wanted to copy to the listserve my article for the May HPCC Newsletter. Our special guest at the May HPCC meeting will be local documentary filmmaker Chris Ivey, who will be bringing to us an installment of his East of Liberty film series. I would heartily encourage all of you to join us for the viewing and a time of conversation following. I hope to see you there... Eric PS. You can get a preview of some of the East of Liberty footage by visiting Chris Ivey's website, www.eastofliberty.com. /// Hello, Highland Park! The month of May brings, once again, our annual Community Council newsletter to every address in the Highland Park neighborhood. I want you to know, if you don’t regularly receive newsletters, that the Highland Park Community Council is a group of neighborhood residents and business owners who are working to make our neighborhood the best it can be. I would like to encourage you to get involved in the great things the HPCC is doing, from planting trees to celebrating Bryant street restaurants to maintaining the Super Playground to talking about issues of community concern. As HPCC President, I have the privilege of working with the outstanding volunteers on our board and committees to bring you the Reservoir of Jazz concert series, maintain the community listserve, help you connect with the local schools, coordinate the Annual Yard Sale, run children’s activities, and do all the other things in which the HPCC is engaged. I also get to write articles for our newsletter, which goes out ten times a year to all HPCC members and which will hopefully (read my lips!) start going digital this year. I am, and for some time have been, a big fan of documentaries. I loved Paper Clips, which was about an 8th-grade school project to develop a memorial of the Holocaust; Spellbound, which highlighted eight contestants in the 1999 National Spelling Bee; and Word Wars, a documentary about serious Scrabble players. I have also watched several fascinating documentaries in recent years that involved serious social commentary, most notably Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine and Spike Lee’s Hurricane Katrina film about New Orleans, When the Levees Broke. Part of what I liked about each of these films was the space they afforded for exploring their various subjects. There also is a certain skill involved in picking people to talk about a given event or issue, letting them have their say, and assembling it all into a narrative that’s worth watching. With the stories and film footage, you feel like you actually get to live, for a time, the lives of these people – so different from you, and yet simultaneously so much the same. Which makes it all the more shocking when you suddenly, unexpectedly, watch a documentary and you recognize some of the people talking…you see places you pass by every week…and you realize that some documentary filmmaker has turned his or her gaze towards your corner of the world. This was the experience I had a couple of months back, when I first was exposed to the East of Liberty film series by documentary filmmaker Chris Ivey. As a Highland Park resident for 13 years, I was aware of the high rises that were demolished in East Liberty a few years back to make room for redevelopment efforts. I was there with my family on the day that people got to take turns launching paintballs at the windows of one of the buildings, before the the building was actually knocked down. What I was not aware of was how many of the previous residents and their neighbors had mixed feelings about the building’s impending demise, and the larger process issues and changes that had been made in the community to get to that point. Chris Ivey, who was in the neighborhood capturing video footage to chronicle the demise of the towers, was surprised to hear about these mixed feelings. It was, for him, the beginning of a journey of exploration of the many changes that have come to East Liberty over the last few decades, and how various people who live, work or shop there feel about those changes. Ivey’s many interviews for the East of Liberty project evoked perspectives and voices that I hadn’t previously heard, or heard clearly, in many of the presentations and discussions I’ve previously been involved in regarding development efforts in the East End of the city. Many of the speakers cast a fairly critical eye on these development efforts. Watching the film made me feel like I was rediscovering a place I thought I knew fairly well, but had never truly understood. The fact that this is a neighborhood next door to me – to us – made the film all the more compelling. So I asked Chris Ivey if he would be willing to come to the HPCC and share some of his East of Liberty footage with us. He graciously agreed to do so. On Thursday, May 20th, Chris will be our featured presenter at our next HPCC meeting. During this meeting, he will introduce and then present a one-hour segment of his documentary, with time afterward for questions and answers. As the East of Liberty project is ongoing, he may be videotaping the Q&A session and using some of the questions and issues raised there for future installments of the documentary. I invite you to come and join us for this special presentation. Bring an open mind and some good questions! As the evening will be quite full, I plan to start the meeting promptly at 7 PM, so get there early to get the best seats! For those of you who haven’t joined us before, the HPCC meets on the third Thursday of most months at 7 PM at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 5801 Hampton Street. Please take some time to read through this issue of the newsletter and get a sense of the many ways the HPCC engages in the life of our neighborhood. We ask that you consider joining the HPCC, and that you also consider participating in our neighborhood listserve (neighborhood(a)highlandparkpa.com) I always welcome people contacting me at boardwalk_2000(a)yahoo.com or 412-661-1176 with any thoughts, questions, concerns or suggestions they might have. And again, please join us for our meetings the third Thursday of the month, including our special East of Liberty presentation by Chris Ivey on May 20th. I look forward to seeing you! Eric D. Randall, President Highland Park Community Council -- <http://lists.highlandparkpa.com/mailman/listinfo/neighborhood>

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[Highland Park] Typo! Patio umbrella base is $25!
by Patricia Butterfield 17 May '10

17 May '10

Here's my last email with the typo corrected: I've lowered the price! This doesn't fit under my very tiny table and the return postage on a 50-pound item is a killer. The base, designed to anchor a patio umbrella, is green; it's 20" in diameter; and the neck dimensions are 1.75" x 9" length (it will hold a standard 1.50 or 1.75" umbrella pole). I paid $109.90 for it and am now selling it for $25. You can see the base at this link: http://www.allbarstools.com/Dayva-International-MB1xxxx-DA1302.html. If you can't open that link for some reason, email me and I'll send you a PDF copy. The base is very good looking and would be perfect if it fit. Please email me if you're interested in taking a look at it.

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[Highland Park] Fitness in the Park
by Cathleen Fink 17 May '10

17 May '10

Fitness in the Park! Look Great and Feel Even Better with our Total Body Conditioning Class! Our Program Includes: Meal Plans Motivational Coaching Daily Exercise Plans Group Activity Every Mon. & Wed. @6:30pm Our Certified Personal Trainers have the knowledge and experience to help you safely improve your overall level of Fitness. You will learn creative and simple was to implement healthy changes in to your current Lifestyle. Why do it alone if you don't have to?? Let Us Help Create a Better You! To sign up or for more information, feel free to contact us at Creative Fitness at: 412-361-6000

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[Highland Park] Upcoming Cabaret Performance--not to be missed!!
by Susan Blackman 17 May '10

17 May '10

I'm working on a really fun production with the Renaissance City Choirs--that should be artistically satisfying as well as, uh, well read on: June 4th, 5th and 6th – Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby featuring an ensemble of 8 (including your humble correspondent) RCC Singers in a special Pride Week cabaret performance. They will provide a light- hearted take on everything you always wanted to know about sex (but were afraid to ask) at the Grey Box Theatre, 3595 Butler Street in Lawrenceville. One of my special bits is "Special" from Avenue Q, which was originally performed by the talented Lucy the Slut. I'll try to do it justice. The show will include Tom Lehrer's The Masochism Tango, (amazingly fresh and naughty 50 years later), Gratuitous Nudity from the hit show Naked Boys Singing! and another hilarious number from Avenue Q that will teach you what the Internet is really for. (Statistical documentation may be provided.) Parental discretion is advised. I'll have my three kids there, of course. This is a much better teaching tool than I've ever come up with. I have tickets for sale; you can call 412.362.9484 or order online at rccpittsburgh.com. If you're interested in coming, I'd get them in advance--it's a small performing space and if we sell out, well... Hope to see you there! Susan Blackman susan.blackman(a)verizon.net 412.687.8777

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[Highland Park] Community garden?
by Marta Spangler 17 May '10

17 May '10

Hi All, I'm new to the Highland park community and I noticed what appears to be a community garden on Stanton Ave. Does anyone know who I would need to talk to in order to reserve a plot? Thanks, Marta

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[Highland Park] Couple looking for city rental/sublet June 1-Aug/September
by Bonnie Pfister 17 May '10

17 May '10

Could you please post for me? Thanks, Bonnie ________________________________ Hello everyone, Two friends who are moving overseas this fall are looking for a summer rental or sublet in the East End or Lawrenceville right away. They are nonsmokers, have no pets, and are tidy, responsible, friendly people with full-time jobs. Please contact me if you have any leads you can share. Thanks, Bonnie Pfister

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[Highland Park] Bike trailer
by Michelle Butler 17 May '10

17 May '10

The train table has been sold but the bike trailer is still available. Someone had emailed about being interested and I have foolishly lost that message, so if you're still interested, please contact me again. Sorry! Michelle -- If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much. --Lewis Carroll

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[Highland Park] preschool experience
by Michelle Butler 17 May '10

17 May '10

Has anyone had a child in St. Raphael's preschool? I was hoping to hear about other people's experience before deciding whether to sign our son up. Cheers, Michelle -- If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much. --Lewis Carroll

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