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In preparation for the influx of visitors we’ll be hosting next week, the Mt. Washington CDC is recruiting volunteers to help clean up our neighborhood this weekend.
When: Saturday September 19th from 9 AM – 12 PM.
What: Help tidy up streets, sidewalks and green spaces.
How: If you’re interested and willing, meet at the CDC office at [...]

According to the PG, it’s our turn to get spiffed up for the G20 (not to mention the Netroots Nation conference coming into town this week. Keynote speaker is Bill Clinton by the way.) TODAY.
Excerpt:
Trees newly planted near the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, a mayoral sweep of Mount Washington today, a Wednesday inspection of [...]

If you haven’t checked out the new SeeClickFix on our menu [between Message Boards and Events Calendar], you should.
SeeClickFix was designed by a small group of community-lovin’ folks in Connecticut and we incorporated it into our site because we believe that we’re all responsible for what happens in Mt. Washington. It allows any individual to [...]

Sick of staring at Mr. or Ms. fade’s tag on every surface in Mt. Washington? Tired of people parking too close to your driveway because they can’t see the yellow curb? Well, it looks like the mayor and City Council feel your pain and are stepping up to help city neighborhoods get spiffy. According to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]