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Help Us Raise $1000 for Underwear & Socks for Pittsburgh Homeless Shelter

Light of Light Ministries has an urgent need for socks and underwear! Here is the story… Yesterday – @JanePitt posted the following tweet that caught my eye – what is so important that Ken Rice is retweeting. First and only (so far) RT of my Light of Life tweet? @kenricekdka. My love. It grows and grows. — Virginia Montanez (@JanePitt) September 4, 2012 This morning on the Pittsburgh Bloggers Facebook group – one of the bloggers, who also works for Light of Life Ministries posted that they have been out of clean underwear and socks … for weeks. Within a… Read the rest

Bikes, Beer & A Better Pittsburgh – Two Wheels Lots of Green, Aug. 11

I love writing blog posts about events that combine lots of great things – I think it was last summer that I started noticing some super collaborations among Pittsburgh organizations.  Two Wheels and a Lot of Green may take the cake for an event that combines a whole lot of Pittsburgh goodness into one action packed day. Some of the folks who do amazing things for Pittsburgh that are partnering on this event… GTECH – GTECH is short for Growth Through Energy + Community Health.  GTECH is a Pittsburgh based non-profit that is doing some great work in Pittsburgh and… Read the rest

Just In Time for Halloween – 2 Costume Department Sales

Thanks to the IheartPGH reader for the heads up on not one, but 2 theater costume department sales! Perfect timing with Halloween just a few weeks away – you can score a creative costume and support local theater. Pittsburgh Public Theater Costume Sale Monday, October 17, 2011 9am-6pm lobby of the O’Reilly Theater $2-$20 CMU School of Drama Costume Sale Monday, October 17 and Tuesday, October 18, 2011 3-6pm Purnell Lobby All proceeds will help support the Drama Senior Showcase in New York and Los Angeles Rumor has it that most items are $5… Read the rest

Step Up To See the City

Well I was just about to write about the Fineview and South Side Slopes Step Treks.  But Diana Nelson Jones and I must be thinking the same thing.  She just posted about both of these events on her blog for the Post-Gazeete – Walkabout.  So click here to read her post about both of these great events. This is one of my favorite photos of Pittsburgh that I took on the Step Trek in 2006.  That was the graffiti on the wall at the time.  I wonder if it is still there… Fineview Step-a-thon 2011 Saturday, October 1, 8:30 am… Read the rest

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