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

[Highland Park] looking for Joe Pye Weed
by Joan Soulliere 06 May '10

06 May '10

Hello Neighbors, After digging up and giving away a lot of Irises and Hostas, I'm in search of Joe Pye Weed or Aruncus (Goatsbeard) If there is anyone out there willing to part with some, I could surely use it along a fence. Thought I'd ask before hitting the nurseries. Thank you, Joan Soulliere Farragut Street

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[Highland Park] Weekend @ Bernies, kidding @ Bryant Street Market
by Robert Collins 06 May '10

06 May '10

Greetings from 5901 B St. Stop in Saturday for a tasting of grand proportions :) Hand Dipped Gelato Flavors Vanilla, Dark Chocolate, Sugar Free Strawberry, White Chocolate Raspberry, Caramel Pecan, Roasted Pistachio Sorbetto- Lemon, Mango, Black Cherry Pints to go- Vanilla and Triple Chocolate We will be sampling all hand dipped gelatos and sorbets as well as Smicksburg pepper jack and mild cheddar. List of deals............... Boars Head Oven Roasted Turkey.....................5.99 LB..................Save 2.00 Land O Lakes Yellow American.........................3.99 LB..................Save 2.00 Smicksburg Pepper Jack...................................2.99 LB..................Save 2.00 Smicksburg Mild White Cheddar.........................2.99 LB..................Save 2.00 2 Organic Avocados & 1 Organic Cilantro.............5.00 Bundle............Save 1.50 Limited Supplies We now have fresh all natural salsa, fresh hummus, and garden fresh tortilla chips @ 3.99 or 2/7.00 mix n match everyday. Columbus salami is here @ 6.99......2 bucks cheaper than everywhere else. Greenawalt eggs are here Organic Grass fed beef and poultry coming soon.......Question for dog owners.....Would anyone be interested in organic beef bones for dogs? I mean real bones. They are available for $25.00 for 5 LBS...........Just wanted to see if there was any interest.... Also working on the raw milk situation Thank you all so much for the support so far, things will only get better. Rob Store Hours M-F 9-7 S-S 9-5

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[Highland Park] Tomoto plants found a home!
by Nancy Levine-Arnold 06 May '10

06 May '10

I'll plant more next year! Would you like to encourage the restaurants you eat at to care about the environment? Leave them an encouraging message when you leave a tip: www.dinegreen.com/downloads/2008Suggestioncard.pdf

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[Highland Park] Garfield Community Farm Seedling Sale
by Lisa Collier 06 May '10

06 May '10

Garfield Community Farm 3rd Annual Vegetable Seedling Sale Sun, May 9 & 16, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. @ the Union Project Side Yard. We will be selling many of our favorite tomato, pepper, chili, eggplant, and herb plants. Proceeds will support our work to transform abandoned property in Garfield and provide healthy, local and organic food for our neighbors. If you would like more information, please email John (john(a)pghopendoor.org)

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[Highland Park] Rug taken!
by Jamie Phillips 06 May '10

06 May '10

So many replies! The beige area rug is no longer available.

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[Highland Park] sweet, beautiful rescued lab mix needs a loving home!
by Ellen Botkin 06 May '10

06 May '10

Hi all! My good friend Ali rescued this lovely, lovely dog and is looking for a loving home for her ASAP. Layla is an approximately 1 y/o lab mix who was rescued from a high-kill pound in Youngstown, OH. It's hard to tell what she's mixed with, but she's absolutely beautiful! She is sweet and affectionate, and loves to be with people. She is working on basic obedience, and aims to please, but still has some of the typical puppy silliness (like occasionally jumping up on you and putting household items in her mouth), so her new owner should be prepared to continue her training. Layla is crate trained and has had no accidents in the house. She loves her toys and going for walks, is great with other dogs (she is currently living with 3 dogs with very strong personalities), people of all sizes, and cat-friendly too! She is extremely versatile and would make an excellent addition to a multi-dog household or a great only dog. Her ideal home would have a fenced yard and/or an active owner. She's such a great young dog and would be a perfect addition to any family, even one that has had little experience with dogs. The simple adoption process includes a meet and greet at your place, contract, and a negotiable adoption fee to cover her expenses thus far so that I can afford to help other dogs in the future. To learn more about Layla, please contact Ali at a.a.krynski(a)gmail.com.

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[Highland Park] $200 Giant Eagle gift card
by whitney philipps 06 May '10

06 May '10

I have a $200 Giant Eagle gift card, but need cash. I would like $190 for the gift card (though a generous person offering $200 will not be turned down!!). Please e-mail me to arrange an exchange. Thanks, whitney philipps

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[Highland Park] Garfield Community Farm
by Lisa Collier 06 May '10

06 May '10

Garfield Community Farm 3rd Annual Vegetable Seedling Sale On Sunday, May 9th and 16th from 10am through 2pm we will be selling many of our favorite tomato, pepper, chili, eggplant, and herb plants at the Union Project side yard (801 N. Negley Ave.). Proceeds will support our work to transform abandoned property in Garfield and provide healthy, local and organic food for our neighbors.

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[Highland Park] Looking for someone to weed my garden
by Allyson Holtz 06 May '10

06 May '10

Neighbors, looking for help in the garden. Please call 412.688.0417.

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[Highland Park] Viewing of *East of Liberty* Documentary at May 20th HPCC Meeting
by Eric or Sue Randall 06 May '10

06 May '10

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

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