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Sat. Sept 3 – Raffle for Steel City Big Pour Tickets

Long time readers of IheartPGH know how much we <3 the Steel City Big Pour. The Big Pour is beer festival/annual fundraiser for Contruction Junction. We didn’t even blog about this years event because the tickets sold out so quickly – a testament to the popularity of this event. Not only does the Big Pour give one a chance to support a great organization like Construction Junction while drinking beer, but it is a very well organized event. We know there is a hard working crew of dedicated volunteers who work year round to make sure this event is a huge success.

One of those volunteers is Dave Lagnese – not only is he a super supporter of the Big Pour but he also volunteers his time to make the Farmers Market Cooperative of East Liberty a success. He is responsible for bringing the Kew Park Coffee Bar to the Farmers Market and does a ton of work to promote the Farmers Market as well.

If you are looking to get your hands on some tickets for the 2011 Big Pour – Stop by the Kew Park Coffee Bar at the East Liberty Farmers Market (it is the building across the street from the Home Depot) on Saturday, September 3 between 7 and Noon. There will be a raffle and an auction for a pair of Big Pour tickets.

Steel City Big Pour Ticket Raffle and Auction – proceeds benefit the Farmers Market
Saturday, September 3, 2011 7am-Noon
Kew Park Coffee Bar @ the East Liberty Indoor Farmers Market
Auction: 2 Tickets to the Highest Bidder
Raffle: 2 Tickets will be raffled off

G-Tree – Help Plant More Trees in Town

Lets talk Pittsburgh trees! Trees are an important thing here in the city – they help to keep the air clean and the city cooler. Tree Pittsburgh (which used to be called Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest) is an organization that works with the communities and neighborhoods to preserve and protect Pittsburgh’s urban forest.

Tree Pittsburgh has teamed up with Groupon’s charity site, G-Team, to plant more trees in Pittsburgh. This isn’t your usual groupon deal – just an opportunity to use the Groupon platform to help Tree Pittsburgh plant more Trees. Each donation of $10 will plant another Tree here in Pittsburgh.

Click here to buy a tree for Pittsburgh from Groupon

Don’t have a Groupon Account yet? Click here to sign up for Groupon via our referral link.

Bocce in the Burgh

Last weekend was all about pinball. This weekend… its all about bocce. The Heinz History Center hosts the 2nd Annual Bocce Tournament and celebration of all things italian. The tournament raised funds for Italian American Endowed Fund. The history center will be setting up 2 bocce courts in the parking lots at the corner of Smallman and 12th Street.

There will be italian food and music from Pure Gold, Vito DiSalvo & Daniella Pasquini and Jimmy Sapienza’s Five Guys Named Moe. You can read more about the Bocce Tournament in the Post-Gazette and the Tribune Review.

2nd Annual Bocce Tournament and Festival
Saturday, Aug. 20
1:00 p.m. – Dusk
Smallman and 12th Street parking lot
Free for Spectator

In Washington, Bocce and Barolo (tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com)
Crave Worthy: A Backyard Bocce Court (casasugar.com)

Want $5000 To Start a Business in Pittsburgh, Submit Your Idea to BusinessBout

BusinessBout is a competition for one new business idea to win $5000. Entry for the BusinessBout is pretty simple – just submit a 2 page summary of your business idea. One idea will walk away with $5000 to help start your business and a whole group of people to support your new idea. Ideas must be submitted by August 15, 2011. Get all of the details at BusinessBout.com.

I am very happy to help to spread the word about BusinessBout and I am sorry that we didn’t get the link to this posted here sooner. Hopefully you have seen some of the great press coverage on this – if not you still have a few days to submit your idea.

This is way more of a great Pittsburgh story than just a Pittsburgh business plan competition. The BusinessBout is an exciting idea not only because it is a chance to help a new company in Pittsburgh, but the whole project is created by a group of people that think Pittsburgh is great, have been working to make it a great place and who want to make it even better.

BusinessBout is the idea of 6 friends who have been doing some great stuff in Pittsburgh. These guys have been doing some great things for Pittsburgh in the public eye and behind the scenes for the past few years. I first met Luke Skurman years ago when he was just starting college prowler. I run into Luke occasionally and we have shared a few ideas over Facebook – I feel very fortunate to follow his updates by email and Facebook – I know that he is committed to Pittsburgh by starting and continuing to run College Prowler here, but also to mentoring a young Pittsburgher through Big Brother, Big Sisters since at least 2008 (thats is as far back as my gmail archives go).

So for the past few years these guys have been organizing some parties here in Pittsburgh and raising money for good causes. Now they are kicking it up a notch with BusinessBout.

Check out the BusinessBout team on Our Region’s Business

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Fight Cancer with Cornhole

Image via Wikipedia

We haven’t heard of any cornhole tournaments in awhile. While the sport certainly has become pretty popular here in Western PA – if you are new to the game. Cornhole is kind of like horseshoes but played with bean bags instead of heavy metal objects – probably much safer than horseshoes.

Gilda’s Club is hosting a Cornhole Tournament on Saturday, August 20, 2011 – spend an afternoon tossing some bean bags, meeting some of the great people from Gilda’s Club and supporting a good cause.

Fight Cancer with Cornhole
Saturday, August 20, 2011 @ Noon
Gilda’s Club, 2816 Smallman St., Pittsburgh PA
Register Here – $25
Facebook Event – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104632082971337

Looking for a cornhole league?

It looks like there is still space in the PSL fall cornhole leauge – which meets Tuesday nights at the Double Wide Grill (Sept. 13- Nov. 8) – get the details here.