Here's our own Main Street on one of those beautiful spring days in late April, pear trees in bloom, traffic up and down the street.
April and May are our months to beautify town, beginning with the Great PA clean-up on April 23 and ending with Adopt-A-Planter on May 21. By Memorial Day we'll be more beautiful than ever.
In this update, you'll find information on our the progress of our Sprout Fund Mural, photos, planting dates and information for Carnegie's planting sites and Adopt-a-Planter 2005, information on a two-day Canoe Sojourn on Chartiers Creek, information on our annual exhibit Carnegie Painted V, a Landslides and Erosion program in Scott Township, updates on banners and our upcoming mixer and other items of interest in town, and a new event, Dog Day in Carnegie Park.
Latest update May 1, 2005
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SPECIFICALLY BUSINESS
Banners
The new banners are
on order, ready for when we can reshuffle for businesses who
have moved around town or who are no longer in business.
Business
Mixer
We're still working
on a venue for the business mixer, and the Carnegie Rotary Club
has offered to assist with hosting. The mixers are intended not
only to get businesses together, but also to highlight the business
that hosts the event. We usually schedule them on the third Thursday
of the monthPrior to Cefalo's we normally had about 35 attendees,
but even if we don't meet there I hope we'll see increased attendance
as we get to know each other better and exchange business interests.
Please e-mail
me if you would like to host the meeting or would like to suggest
a venue.
List Your Business
I'd like to make Carnegie
Renaissance's site a resource for businesses to contact each
other, residents to find businesses in town, and those outside
Carnegie to find out about our business district. Building off
of "What Our Businesses Are Doing", which was a regular
feature of the site during the flood recovery months, I will
begin a categorized directory of businesses. If
you would like to be listed, please e-mail me your business's
full name and address, contact information, a link to your website
if available, and a general category. To ensure I include
only those who want to be included, and that I get your information
correct, I will only list your business if you have contacted
me and sent your information to me. I'm
still waiting for a few more responses!
Flood-relief
Assistance Information
Since much of the information
is still pertinent, I've maintained most of the articles about
flood relief assistance and clean-up that have been on this page.
Information on flood-relief assistance
for businesses
ABOUT TOWN
Sprout Fund Mural
We
have a mural! The old Rome Hardware Building at the corner of
West Main Street and Third Street was chosen, and the growing
group of us have been meeting to brainstorm about the idea and
to view sample art from artists in the program. Everyone is and
encouraged invited to attend these meetings, including the event
on May 13 to view artist's speculative renderings of ideas from
all the communities in the program—let's make a strong showign
from Carnegie! Click here to read about
this event, where we are with the mural right now, scheduling
and a link to their site.
OUR ARTS COMMUNITY
Carnegie
Painted V
In the honor and memory of Jean
Salvato
Hosted for the
fifth year in a row by the 3rd Street Gallery, the "Carnegie
Painted" art exhibit celebrates images and impressions of
the town of Carnegie, PA. In conjunction with Carnegie's annual
Arts & Heritage Festival, "Carnegie Painted" gives
visitors to the festival and to the town in general a view of
the town they might not have seen as artists exhibit their impressions
and renderings of Carnegie's sights and scenes. Click
here to read more.
Gallery Walk
Our April Gallery Walk
was a great success for all four galleries, and if it hadn't
begun to rain as hard as it did we may have even had more visitors.
All four galleries noted several times when their places were
full of people. Best of all, we had people from other communities
who had either never been ehre before or who didn't make a regular
habit of visiting, and they were very pleased with what they
found here. Click here to read
about the gallery walk.
URBAN PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENTAL
Adopt a Planter
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy sites and others around town
Canoe Float on Chartiers Creek
Landslides and Erosion
The Chartiers Trail
Great PA Clean-up
Flower Power
Adopt-A-Planter
2005
This program was so fun and successful last year, Carnegie Renaissance
is once again offering families, individuals, groups and organizations
as well as businesses the opportunity to "Adopt A Planter"
along Main Street in Carnegie. People who adopted last year are
signing up again, too! Each adoptee is given a watering can with
the program logo, a plaque with the name of the adoptee to place
on the planter and enough flowers to fill the planter.
Western Pennsylvania
Conservancy Planting Sites
We have three planting sites within Carnegie which are sponsored
by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy--the Carnegie Interchange
on the Parkway West, the intersection of Mansfield and Chartiers
and the intersection of Lydia and Chestnut. The Carnegie Interchange
was planted on Saturday, April 23 with the help of Boy Scouts
Troop 831 and Kappa Phi Lambda sorority from CMU. The WPC also
offers your name on the signs at the planting sites for a donation
to their Community Garden Program. Click
here to see photos, the planting layouts, scheduled dates and
other details.
Veteran's Memorial Planting Sites in Carnegie
We also have two municipal war memorials in Carnegie which can
accommodate flowers, one at the bottom of Beechwood Avenue and
one in Carnegie Park. Read about
details of planting these sites.
Carnegie Park
Memorial Fund
Established in 2004 by Dorothy Kelly, we are designing a garden
for perennials and trees in Carnegie Park. Please
e-mail for further details.
Canoe
Float on Chartiers Creek, March 14 and 15
Actually, Chartiers
Creek is a recreational asset in this valley offering long stretches
navigable by canoe and views that are totally unexpected if you've
only seen the creek from up on the banks. The Canoe Sojourn is
an annual two-day event, this year sponsored by the Scott Conservancy.
It begins on May 14 at a launch site in Canonsburg followed by
12 miles of canoeing to Chartiers Park in Bridgeville, an overnight
camping adventure, and then continues on Sunday at the Chem Tech
Building in Collier Twp. across the street from the Neville House,
and continues downstream for 11 miles to McKees Rocks. Please
visit www.scottconservancy.org
for more information, and click
here to see photos from last year's sojourn.
Landslides
and Erosion Program, May 5, 7:30 p.m.
The Scott Township Environmental Advisory Council is sponsoring a program on landslides and erosion. Please join us if you have the time. Spread the word to anyone who may be interested. Information is below,
Due to unusually heavy rains, many residents have been affected by landslides and erosion this past year. Learn what you can do to prevent this from happening in the future. Please join the Scott Township Board of Commissioners and the Scott Township Advisory Council for a program on landslides and erosion.
The featured speaker for the evening will be Dr. Charles Shultz. Dr. Shultz will talk about the types and causes of landslides. He will also talk about the human impacts and effects of erosion.
Charles Shultz, Ph.D., P.G., an expert on landslides and erosion, will be speaking on the topic in the Community Room located above the pool in Scott Park, Scott Township on May 5, at 7:30 P.M. The event is open to all municipal officials and to the general public.
Dr. Shultz is a retired professor of geology. He has published numerous papers on a diversity of topics, and was the editor/author of the “The Geology of Pennsylvania,” An 888 page book co-published by the Pittsburgh Geological Society and the PA Geological Survey. He has also been the recipient of a number honors among which are Fellow, Geological Society of America, the John Moss Award for Excellence in College Teaching, and the Antarctic Service Medal from the National Science Foundation.
The presentation will be followed with a question and answer session. Light refreshments will be served.
The Chartiers Trail
The draft Trail Feasibility
Study was presented two years ago, and plans are in the works
for beginning walking/biking loop trails through Carnegie's neighborhoods
and connections to other trails in the area, along with greenspace
development in Carnegie. Please
let me know your interest in this subject. I will be providing
regular updates on this, and public support from both residences
and businesses will be critical as this progresses.
Creek Information
Stormwater management
is the issue with the Lower Chartiers Watershed, encompassing
Chartiers Creek and all its tributaries. Here is a briefing on
some of what's happened in the past few months, with more to
come in the future. In addition, I've maintained some of the
environmental articles from the original
flood information page.
Great
PA Clean-up Day
It may not have been
"great", but four hardy souls braved the rain and falling
temperatures on Saturday, April 23 to help clean up Carnegie
as part of the Great PA Cleanup in honor of Earth Day. Joanne
Letcher of J&L Travel, Peg Bowman of Computer Training Associates,
Colleen Downey Mitchell of Collier Friends of the Panhandle Trail,
and Bernadette Kazmarski of Carnegie Renaissance traveled up
and down East and West Main Streets and in the adjoining side
streets and alleys, gathering about two dozen bags of trash.
Read more and view a few photos here.
Carnegie Writer's
Group Meeting
The Carnegie Writers
Group will meet on Saturday, May 7, from 10:00 am to noon, at
the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall in Carnegie.
Share ideas, talk about writing, being a writer and the business
of writing, and share new works if you'd like. Any style or subject
matter, new members are welcome. ACFL&MH is located at 300
Beechwood Avenue in Carnegie. For more information, call 412-429-9553
or 412-276-3456 or e-mail
Carnegie Renaissance.
Dog
Day
It will be a day for
dogs in Carnegie Park on June 11 as the Animal Rescue League
and the Himalayan Institute sponsor an animal wellness fair to
benefit the shelter. We'll have more information on this later
this week after one more meeting, and we'll be looking for businesses
and residents to participate and sponsor events.
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