Friendship News

Please consider volunteering this year for the Friendship House Tour.  We have beautiful homes on the tour again this year and are looking for your time and talent to make this year a success.  The tour this year is on Sunday, September 21st from 11AM until 5PM.  In appreciation for volunteering, all are welcome to go on the tour free of charge and also are invited to the post-to...

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All neighborhoods host clean ups, but you’ve never been to a clean up like this before! Friendship Development Associates is putting a spin on our ordinary Pick Up Penn and is hosting a competitive clean up complete with food and prizes. Participants from all around the Pittsburgh area will be divided into teams armed with gloves and trash bags and sent to a designated pick-up area. For an ho...

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Exciting things are happening and growing around the Pittsburgh Montessri School!  Grow Pittsburgh has started several vegetable beds between the two fences along S. Graham, the new Serviceberry tree is settling in well, roses are blooming and yes- the weeds are thriving too! 

Pittsburgh Montessori is looking for volunteers to help out with the tidying, watering...

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Jump start your summer and volunteer at the East End's summer kick off event - Art Cubed. We are in need of volunteers to decorate buses, distribute flyers, distribute promotional material, distribute supplies to participating venues, help gather information using a short, three question survey. If you're interested in volunteering, please contact Sarah at sarah@friendship-pgh.org or 412-441-61...

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Join your Friendship neighbors for a spring cleaning of Baum Grove ahead of the Friendship Folk and Flower Festival.

Meet at Baum Grove on Saturday May 3rd at 9 a.m.
 
Bring your gardening gloves and tools!
 
Thanks in advance for your help,
FPG Neighborhood Environment Committee
Questions, call Connie 412-441-7473.



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On Saturday, May 10 2007, please come and be a part of the neighborhood's annual fund-raiser for the maintenance of Baum Grove. We are looking for volunteers to help with set-up, flower sales, food sales, raffle sales and clean-up. If interested, please contact Julie Grove at pascalgrove@gmail.com or 412-600-1210.

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This is an update about participation in the big and growing Spring Redd Up that will take place on the April 18-19-20 weekend.

Citizens Against Litter is calling the event "Earth Against Litter", a name passed along to us by a third grader.  Schools will be participating on April 18th. The Garfield Redd Up day will be Saturday, April 19th from 10 a.m. to  1 p.m.  ALMOST ...

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In 2007, the Marketing Committee and its sub-committees implemented the 2007 marketing plan and hosted several successful events including the Friendship Flower and Folk Festival, 11 Unblurred events, Art Squared, PAAI video launch - Electric Avenue and the 14th Annual Friendship House Tour - Celebrating Glass.  

We are in search of resourceful, box-breaking, creative thinkers for t...

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Though the cold weather is back, it's not to early to begin thinking about spring and the Friendship Flower and Folk Festival.  We are looking for people to be on the planning committee -- whatever your interest or skill, we can accommodate it and the festival will be richer for it.  Interested in helping out? Contact Martha Terry (materry@pitt.edu).

Our first meeting will be a...

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Though the cold weather is back, it's not to early to begin thinking about spring and the Friendship Flower and Folk Festival.  We are looking for people to be on the planning committee -- whatever your interest or skill, we can accommodate it and the festival will be richer for it.  Interested in helping out? Contact Martha Terry (materry@pitt.edu).

Our first meeting will be a...

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