Category Archives: Community Resources

Walking in Wilmerding

If you are a frequent reader of this blog, you know that I don’t like to leave the city limits (I like sidewalks and being able to get home by bus should you get a flat tire).  But I will make rare exceptions, for interesting non-strip mall activites that happen to fall outside of city limits.  Today I make an exception for Wilmerding.

This Saturday, June 8, Urban Hike heads to Wilmerding.  I participated in the last urban hike in May, and had a delighful afternoon on Neville Island, complete with a stop at Tasty Freeze (if someone knows of a Tasty Freeze with in the city of Pittsburgh, please let me know).

So I would highly recommend a trip to Wilmerding.  Not only do you get to participate in a hike, You can check out the annual George Westinghouse Days festival which happens to be the same day.  The hikes usually take 2 to 2.5 hours with lots of stops for ice cream and interesting things – when is the last time you spent 2 hours on the treadmill at the gym.

Here are the details from Urban Hike (directions are available here):

George Westinghouse did his thing in Wilmerding. George who? Wilmer what? Sorry, you’ll have to come on our hike to find out. We’ll walk in Wilmerding Saturday, June 9th beginning at noon. The hike will take about three hours. Then stick around for a while afterward to partake in the borough’s annual George Westinghouse Days festival (I’m telling you, this guy was important).

Meet us at the war memorial in the parklet surrounded by Herman Avenue, Station Street and Commerce Street. You’ll see it once you get there if you follow our directions.

Park on the street or at the George Westinghouse Museum (325 Commerce Street).

Allow plenty of time to get there! The outbound Parkway East is under construction this weekend in Squirrel Hill, so things are going to be a little crazy. Including these directions, by the way.

text YINZ to 41411

I have been checking out this company Reactee today (you can see my other post about Reachtee here).  Basically, your order a t-shirt from Reactee that has a code on it.  When people text your code to 41411, they get a message back from you.

I was browsing the gallery and I wanted to make sure that the code “yinz” was put to good use.

Check out the IheartPGH Reactee

The code is live, so feel free to send a text to 41411 with the word yinz.

I haven’t ordered one yet.  Would you wear a t-shirt like this?  I can change the reply to the text at any time.  I am open to suggestions – feel free to submit ideas below or email me at info – at – iheartpgh.com

Help Pittsburgh 6th Grader with a New Baseball Field

So I am just catching up on the IheartPGH emails and I was more than happy to read this one from Ellen M.

Hello I Heart PGH BLOG,
I am Ellen McCague and I’m a 6th grade Creative Writing Major at Rogers Middle School for the Creative and Performing Arts. I have just recently won the Pittsburgh Regional Briggs & Stratton Diamonds In The Rough. I am now going for national but I need votes.
Go to www.briggsdiamondsintherough.com and vote for Ellen M.
It takes 10 seconds. Go to the website, fill in the dot next to Ellen M., put in an e-mail address, and click submit! It would help so much.
Diamonds In The Rough is an essay contest which can help me get a new field for my school. I go to Roger CAPA but I play softball at Sunnyside Elementary which is on Stanton Ave. in Stanton Heights. If you could put this on your blog for everybody to see it would help so much.
Thanks So much again,
Ellen M.

Craftology

The Pittsburgh Craft Mafia will be starting craft classes that will be held throughout the year to help new indie businesses learn the tools of the trade.
Topics include taxes, craft business101, and consignment. This first class, Craft Show Basics, will be hosted in the basement of In the Blood Tattoos and Rock and Roll in South Side (2005 E. Carson St.) and is free of charge. May 17th 6-8pm.

pre-register: http://www.pittsburghcraftmafia.info/shop/

Blogging in the Burgh

We may have blogged about this before, but it certainly worth reblogging about.

Pittsburgh Bloggers is THE site to find out about blogs in the burgh.  If you want to see what people are blogging about in Pittsburgh this is the place.  Pittsburgh Bloggers has hundred of blogs in their blogroll.  If you live in Pittsburgh, and have a blog, then you should list your blog here.
Pittsburgh Bloggers also syndicates the feeds of the Pittsburgh blogs so it is has a minute by minute display of new blog posts in Pittsburgh.  As I write this post people in Pittsburgh are blogging about everything from the Pens loss to shoplifting.