Archive for the 'Litter' Category

Are you kidding me with this!? Shiloh Planters

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

This morning I saw this on Shiloh:

Late last night a vandal or group of vandals made the decision to knock over 3 of the planters on Shiloh St. Why would they do this? That is the question of the century I think. I’m starting to think that we shouldn’t even give these idiots to opportunity […]

Adopt Mt. Washington and CleanUp

Friday, April 11th, 2008

One great cleanup day a year is great and it brings attention to the litter problem, but most places in Mt. Washington need constant attention and there’s no better way to maintain a street, park or area of your neighborhood that adopting it and taking personal responsibility for it.
Hence the new forum we’ve created called […]

3/29/08 Bigbee Cleanup this morning 11AM

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Diane, left this message and I wanted to post it real quick for anyone interested.
I wanted to put this under latest news. A few of us will be cleaning around Bigbee Field this morning. Anyone that walks the area and want to join us we will be there about 11:00am.
If you have an hour this […]

Mt. Washington Cleanup… not really

Friday, March 28th, 2008

It looks like Grandview Ave. is getting it’s annual clean-up this weekend. The Explorers Club of Pittsburgh will descend upon the hill to clean up all of the trash that tourists leave behind and throw over the viewing pods.
I think it’s great they come up here every year and make a big event of the […]

Guest Contributor Wants Mt. Washington Pet Owners to be More Responsible

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

From: brk_05
Re: Dog Doo
I wanted to bring to everyone’s attention a growing problem that I have noticed on the streets of Mount Washington. The problem is poop! There seems to be an increasing number of pet owners who do not take responsibility for their pets’ actions. One of the major responsibilities of owning […]

Kosovo looking up to Mt. Washington

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Thanks go out to KIM for letting us know about this story.
Former Yugoslavian (now Serbia) province Kosovo will be filming a report/documentary about Pittsburgh’s Redd-Up program to help demonstrate how a community can pull together to clean up its own neighborhood and turn things toward improvement.
This is good timing as we fight to improve […]