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Monday, January 19, 2015
Fwd: We need your help on Saturday - Please consider Volunteering some time.
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Friday, January 16, 2015
Fwd: Wendy's Drops Sodas from the Kids' Menu
From: "Margo Wootan" <actionalert@cspinet.org>
Date: Jan 15, 2015 11:53 AM
Subject: Wendy's Drops Sodas from the Kids' Menu
To: <mark@rauterkus.com>
Cc:
Dear Mark, For more than a year, CSPI supporters like you have asked Wendy's to drop soda from the children's menu. I have good news to share: Wendy's heard your concerns. Wendy's no longer includes soda in its children's meals or lists it on the kids' menu! Soda is a leading promoter of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Soda and other sugary drinks are the largest source of calories in children's diets and provide nearly half of their added sugar intake. However, most major restaurant chains continue to push soda through their children's meals. That's why CSPI and our coalition partners at MomsRising and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility have been urging restaurants to stop promoting sugary beverages as part of meals for young children. Thank you for helping to make this change happen. It is a good reminder that companies can and will change, but only if companies hear from you. Soon we'll be in touch about urging Burger King, Applebee's, and IHOP to drop soda from their kids' menus too—stay tuned. Warm regards,
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Fwd: 9 Days til the next Summit Against Racism - Check out the Great workshops
From: "Summit Against Racism" <summitagainstracism@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 15, 2015 7:59 PM
Subject: 9 Days til the next Summit Against Racism - Check out the Great workshops
To: "Mark Rauterkus" <Mark@rauterkus.com>
Cc:
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Fwd: Invitation: PPS Summer Dreamers Event Thurs Jan 22nd at 2PM at Pittsburgh Faison
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From: Superintendent Office <superintendentoffice@pghboe.net>
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Subject: Invitation: PPS Summer Dreamers Event Thurs Jan 22nd at 2PM at Pittsburgh Faison
To: Superintendent Office <superintendentoffice@pghboe.net>
Mark January 22 on your calendar! The Wallace Foundation has released the first round of findings from their $50 million study on summer learning. These results describe the near-term impacts of the program that was offered during the summer of 2013. Please join me, The Wallace Foundation, RAND Corporation, Grable Foundation, the Heinz Endowments for the summer learning community event "Looking Ahead to Summer" taking place Thursday, January 22, 2015 from 2:00 – 2:45 p.m., at *Pittsburgh Faison K-5, in the school's Gymnasium. We will use this time to share the initial results and other exciting news related to this year's program with those who have been valued partners. As a partner in our work to strive for Excellence for All, we wanted to provide you with an opportunity join us and share in this exciting moment for Summer Learning.
Please RSVP to Kristen Frankovich at kfrankovich1@pghboe.net or by calling (412) 529-3668 by Tuesday, January 20th.
*Pittsburgh Faison is located at 7430 Tioga Street, Pittsburgh PA 15208.
Linda S. Lane
Superintendent
Pittsburgh Public Schools
341 South Bellefield Avenue. Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-529-3600 (W) | 412-622-3604 (F) | superintendentoffice@pghboe.net
Hotline: 412-529-HELP (4357) | zz-parenthotline@pghboe.net
Please make note of the new phone number for our office as well as our schools and offices district-wide.
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Mark Rauterkus Mark.Rauterkus@gmail.com
PPS Summer Dreamers' Swim and Water Polo Camp Head Coach
Pittsburgh Combined Water Polo Team
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Fwd: New! Red Cross Aquatic Attraction Lifeguarding Course
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Date: Jan 13, 2015 10:31 AM
Subject: New! Red Cross Aquatic Attraction Lifeguarding Course
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Sunday, January 11, 2015
Fwd: Sam Hazo's 'Tell It To the Marines'
From: John Hemington
Subject: Sam Hazo's 'Tell It To the Marines'
Sam Hazo's 'Tell It To the Marines' shows the brutal cost of war
Sgt. Mark Fayloga/Marine Corps
Brian O'Neill / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
January 11, 2015 12:00 AM
I was wondering how Sam Hazo, author of a string of books as long as your arm, still has the drive to write at 86. Then I came to this line in his latest play:
"You're never too old or too young when it comes to matters of conscience, Leo,'' an old priest tells his twin brother. "Conscience has no birthdays.''
That's from the third and final act of "Tell It To the Marines.'' The six-character play will have a like number of performances at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall in Oakland on the first two weekends of February.
That venerable hall may seem an unlikely setting for an anti-war play, but great homage is paid to Marines' sacrifice in this work, and there is no shortage of respect among Mr. Hazo's fellow military veterans for this playwright and his passion.
Mr. Hazo, who served stateside with the Marines in the 1950s, was an early critic of the second Iraq War. He's never wavered. His play, set entirely in a Pittsburgh living room in the fall of 2007, shows how that war — any war — devastates families.
It's such a fact-packed polemic it could be an op-ed piece in another form, but Mr. Hazo believes the better way to show the true consequences of war is through the same vehicle used by Shakespeare and the ancient Greeks.
On an afternoon last week so cold that schools were closing and all brass monkeys were advised to stay inside, Mr. Hazo crossed a couple of rivers to talk about the play in my North Side home.
"'Medea,' 'Oedipus,' 'Hamlet,' 'King Lear,' 'Othello,' 'Romeo and Juliet' — it all comes back to family,'' Mr. Hazo said. "It's the unavoidable unit of life. If you're sick in another city and have no one to look out for you, you know what family means.''
This play centers on four Marines from two generations in one family, the Killeens. Leo is the stalwart patriarch, a Vietnam veteran. His twin brother, Paul, is a Roman Catholic priest and godfather to Leo's two sons, Andy and Steve (who is never seen). Andy is home from the war in Iraq and Steve is still in the fight.
The arguments between father and son are heartfelt and bitter. Leo's wife, Edna, and Andy's wife, Madge, have cooler heads. The latter woman asks, "Neither of them are going to change, so what's the point?"
The same might be asked of the play itself. However artful the argument, it's coming long after most Americans have decided how they feel about the second Iraq War. But Mr. Hazo, who wrote this a couple of years ago, said he didn't write it to change minds. He doesn't believe writing is so much a willed activity as an "inescapable response to an impulse or idea or inspiration that demands to be put into words with the writer merely the indentured servant.''
The play's premiere at Soldiers & Sailors represents quite a turnabout. Back in 1991, during the first Iraq War, the hall's directors spent months trying to keep the local chapter of Veterans for Peace from even meeting there.
Current leadership is ready for the healthy clash of ideas in an all-American family. Soldiers & Sailors president and CEO John F. McCabe said this distinctive art form ties into the mission of honoring and remembering service members.
For director Rich Keitel, the challenge will be making sure the audience is watching a real family, not talking heads making political points. But with some of the city's best actors — Jeff Howell, Maura Minteer, David Crawford, Daina Michelle Griffith, Justin Fortunato, Tom Kolos — Mr. Keitel likes his chances.
Mr. Hazo, once Pennsylvania's poet laureate, has written before of the impotence of art against weapons. His poem "Parting Shot'' begins:
Nothing symphonic will come of this
nothing of consequence, and nothing
to silence those whose business
is creating funerals where widows
in their twenties carry folded flags
to empty bedrooms.
But there's dignity in the struggle to make sense of it all. Tickets are $20, with discounts for seniors and students. They're available at www.soldiersandsailorshall.org or by calling 412-621-4253.
Brian O'Neill: boneill@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1947.
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Friday, January 09, 2015
PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY SERVICES CAREER FAIR152
Friday, January 16, 2015
Location
480 Wadsworth Hall
Oak Hill Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15213
10 am – 2 pm
To visit the Pittsburgh Community Services Inc. website, click here.
Saturday, January 03, 2015
Hill District event on Sunday with ministers
Contact:
Rev. Victor J. Grigsby; Email: vic6179@aol.com; Tel No: (412) 566-1437
Rev. Glenn Grayson; Email: glennggrayson@aol.com; Tel No: (412) 621-9612
The Hill District Ministers Alliance (HDMA) will hold a “Prayer and Justice” Rally at Freedom Corner (Centre Ave. & Crawford St.) at 2:00 p.m., in Pittsburgh’s Hill District on Sunday, January 4, 2015 to pray for God's blessing and healing upon our communities and our nation, and to respond in non-violent demonstration against the recent
non-verdicts by Grand Juries across our country and to the senseless violence in our communities against civilians and police. We also pray for God's intervention in the homicides in our city and the "Black-on-Black" crime that continues to plague our communities. As we transition into the New Year, with one prophetic voice, the rally is a collective effort to bring people together who have a conviction to pray over the city of Pittsburgh and address the safety and policing concerns of the African American community. This Rally will convene as members of Hill District churches march down Centre Avenue (beginning at Centre and Kirkpatrick at 1:30 p.m.) and join in solidarity and pray for National and World Peace, Federal and Local Governments, and Human and Civil Rights. We will cry out to God and appeal to city officials for community safety.
The Hill District Ministers Alliance, which is leading the Prayer and Justice Rally has organized to provide an avenue for people of all denominations to rally against the violence and victimization of African American males across this country. HDMA’s mission is to bring Pastors and churches together to relieve the burden of all people, promote justice and equality, and to strengthen families and communities and consists of the following nineteen African American churches: F.O.C.U.S. Pittsburgh, Rev. Paul Abernathy, Bethany C.O.G.I.C., Rev. Cleo Brooks, New Light Temple Baptist Church, Rev. Phillip Battle, Warren United Methodist Church, Rev. Leslie Y. Boone, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Rev. Dr. Vincent Campbell, John Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church, Rev. Rebecca Cherry, Macedonia Baptist Church, Rev. Brian Edmonds, Church of God in Christ, Rev. Eric Ewell, Wesley Center A.M.E. Zion Church, Rev. Glenn Grayson, Central Baptist Church, Rev. Victor J. Grigsby, New Pilgrim Baptist Church, Rev. William A. Hill, Bethel A.M.E. Church, Rev. Steven A. Jackson, First Church of God in Christ, Rev. Kenneth Irvin, Grace Memorial Presbyterian Church, Rev. Johnnie Monroe (Pastor Emeritus), Olivet Baptist Church, Rev. Tyrone Munson, Calvary Baptist Church, Rev. Marie Kelley, Warren United Methodist Church, Rev. Don Blinn, Jr., Trinity A.M.E. Church, Rev. Yolanda Wright, Amani Pastor-Exec. Director, Rev. Lee Walls.
During the Rally, Pastors will address such community concerns and make demands of local officials (Mayor Peduto and Chief of Police McClay) and leaders concerning:
- police community sensitivity training that includes African American leadership in the training
- a Pittsburgh Police force that reflects racially and proportionately the community in which the officers serve with an overall increase in the number of African Americans on the Pittsburgh Police force
- a broader conversation of city officials with the African American community’s leadership to further discuss solutions to:
• poverty and income inequality which couples with it the Commonwealth’s efforts to reduce unemployment and poverty among the State’s minority population.
• the equitable allocation of public dollars for community and economic development
• the high degree of incarceration of African Americans
Established as an entity to address community needs as a voice for the underserved and underprivileged, the Hill District Ministers Alliance recognizes the systemic and societal issues that have had negative impact on the African American community and are determined to take action to create justice for all people. We are dedicated to the promotion of human rights, equality, and the complete fulfillment of the Gospel mission “to act justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God.” (Micah 6:8).
30 December 2014