Mark your calendars and plan to join us for the next event on our forum series calendar:

Making Schools Welcoming: A Discussion About Parent Engagement
Thursday, October 11, 2007, 5:30 to 8:30 PM James Centre, 327 South Main Street, West End Hear about best practices in parent engagement and discuss obstacles and opportunities for making schools welcoming. Share your ideas about key features that need to be included in parent engagement training for school staff. Parents, all school staff and community partners are encouraged to attend.

Hear about best practices in parent engagement and discuss obstacles and opportunities for making schools welcoming. Share your ideas about key features that need to be included in parent engagement training for school staff. Parents, all school staff and community partners are encouraged to attend. Space is limited! RSVP by Thursday, October 4, 2007!

To RSVP, please click HERE or give us a call at 412-258-2660 to register by phone. Space is limited!

Light dinner provided. Childcare is available for registrants with children ages 1 and up.

Please share this information with a friend! We hope to see you soon!  

Skip Schwab (ELDI) and Rob Pfaffman (Pfaffman and Associates) are getting the community planning process for “Bakery Row” geared up again. Rob writes:

Another key part of our planning team is Jim Hartling of Urban Partners Philadelphia, who is looking at the market and giving us important feedback about where things are heading in the real estate market. Last Fall a blog was set up by Rob Stephany that gives you some sense of the process and feedback.

http://eastlibertypost.com/bakery-row-forum/

Based on meetings with the steering committee, developer interviews and data analysis, Jim and I are beginning to gear up to develop new vision documents that build on last year’s community meeting and market research.

We will be focusing (while not ignoring of course all of the other ideas developed last fall) on a couple of key areas based on the initial recommendations of Urban Partners:

• Repairing the streetscape connection between downtown East Liberty and Penn Avenue developments (Bakery Row)
• Focus design efforts on the Giant Eagle Shakespeare Street Development to create a better designed mixed use urban development transformation. (need a new gas station site to incent GE!)
• Work with Club One to explore the redesign of the street edge of the facility.

Stay tuned for more updates.

From the Pittsburgh Police…

Welcome to our newest community safety project: CitizenObserver, the communication tool for a new century. We are providing information that will include new ways to keep us all connected and informed and will help keep our community safer.

Help create a stronger community by signing up to receive Citizen, Business, and Neighborhood alerts. You’ll get information directly from your local law enforcement agency that impacts your community.

The Alert Network allows the Police Department to instantly update you about crimes, emergencies and other important information.

http://www.citizenobserver.com/cov6/app/group.html?id=38

From Sarah Sumpter, Principal:

We have our Open House on Monday, October 8th from noon to 7pm — for parents and community members who would like to visit our school. Please pass this word on.

CITYWIDE CITIZENS PUBLIC SAFETY MEETING
HOSTED BY ZONE 4 & 5
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2007 at 6pm
KINGSLEY COMMUNITY CENTER
6435 FRANKSTOWN AVE.
(AT THE CORNER OF FRANKSTOWN AVE. & EAST LIBERTY BLVD.)
Officer Matthew White
Zone Four
Crime Prevention/Crime Analysis
5858 Northumberland St.
Pittsburgh PA 15217
412-422-6559

The Pittsburgh New Church is having a plant swap on Saturday, October 6th at 12:30pm. Anyone who would like to share plants is welcome to set them by the wall in front of the church. The plants should be in a container, free of weeds, and with a label. You do not have to bring plants to take some home.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007, 5:30 to 8:30p.m

Reizenstein School, 129 Denniston Avenue, East Liberty 

Learn about plans to open this new school, potentially with 6th – 9th graders in August of 2008.  This is an opportunity to gather information about the innovative design and offer your feedback.  Pittsburgh Public Schools will present the information and incorporate community feedback into the plans.  Parents, students, and anyone interested in public education and high school reform are encouraged to attend.  

Space is limited! Light dinner provided.  Childcare is available for registrants with children ages 1 and up.  

The deadline to register has been extended! To RSVP click HERE or call 412-258-2660!  

Our Co-Sponsors: Community Technical Assistance Center, Communities in Schools of Allegheny County, Good Schools Pennsylvania, The Education Policy and Leadership Center, The Pittsburgh Project, Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Development, Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project, Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh, Urban Youth Action, Wireless Neighborhoods & YouthPlaces. 

From Between Trio