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To all who found us through today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: We at I heart PGH are happy that we can provide Pittsburghers with important information about events such as bacon night. This is just the tip of the iceburgh. For example, if bacon bracelets or even chocolate-covered bacon would make it to Pittsburgh, we’d be there. With reporter’s notebooks and digital cameras and a smile on our naseous faces. Why? Because we always go the extra mile to heart PGH. The bacon, the dogz, the beer, the cut. Any shape, any event, any form … we write to serve you, our… Read the rest

Girlcott Success

Oh yet another reason to heart western PA. The girls who are participating in the “Girls as Grantmaker” program called for a boycott of Abercrombie and Fitch’s t-shirt with saying like “Who needs brains when you have these” or “I had a nightmare I was a brunette” printed across the chest. The girlcott was successful and Abercrombie will remove the shirts from the stores.… Read the rest

Good Green News

In this months Utne Reader there is an article about ten cities that are leaning green. In the US – the article talks about Portland, Los Angeles and PITTSBURGH! SustainLane give Pittsburgh the number 1 spot for local food. Pittsburgh ranks #19 overall. I would say that is pretty good for a rusting steel town. Pittsburgh looses points for things like city innovation and a lack of a future plan – so there is still work to do. A big round of applause for those people supporting farmers markets. The Utne reader reports that Pittbsurgh has 7 farmers markets and… Read the rest

Joy to the ‘Burgh: Three who boomeranged back inject energy into their neighborhoods

Here is an article from today’s Post-Gazette about 3 residents that left and came back to living in Pittsburgh. Joy to the ‘Burgh: Three who boomeranged back inject energy into their neighborhoods Monday, September 19, 2005 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Every city neighborhood has its advocates. They go to the meetings. Neighbors ask them what’s going on. They got the new signs, the new lights and gathered the litter brigades. From their ideas come neighborhood events, neighborhood pride and, of course, change. Three people from three neighborhoods have joined those ranks as boomerangs — area natives who left… Read the rest

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