WHAT’S NEWS IN BETHEL PARK
BETHEL PARK
COMMUNITY
FOUNDATION CHARITY
CONCERT ON DEC. 9
The Bethel Park Community
Foundation presents the 2018 Dean
Streator Holiday Tower Concert on
Sunday, Dec. 9, at 3 p.m., in the Bethel
Park Community Center featuring
Community Band South, directed by Jim
Bennett and Max Gonano; the Bethel
Park High School Top 21 Choir, directed
by Todd Kuczawa; and the Southminster
Presbyterian Church Handbell Ringers,
directed by Rich Pinkerton. Admission
is free and donations will be accepted
to benefit the Bethel Park Community
Foundation.
SOUTH HILLS CHORALE
TO PERFORM 58TH
ANNUAL HOLIDAY
CONCERTS
Sound the Pipes! The South Hills
Chorale will perform its 58th annual
holiday concerts at 7:30 p.m. on Friday,
Dec. 14, and Saturday, Dec. 15, at
Westminster Presbyterian Church,
2040 Washington Road in Upper St.
Clair. Enjoy familiar and new Christmas,
Hanukkah and other holiday tunes sung
in joyful celebration. Tickets are $20
and are available from chorale members,
online at southhillschorale.org, at the
door, or email [email protected].
For more information, call 412.221.9109.
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WESTERN
PENNSYLVANIA
DATA CENTER AND
ALLEGHENY LAND
TRUST COLLABORATE
TO BUILD
REGIONAL TOOL
Allegheny Land Trust and the Western
Pennsylvania Regional Data Center have
just launched Urban Greenprint, an
interactive online regional mapping tool
that will guide urban greening priorities.
Urban Greenprint features a number
of land use data sets from public-sector,
nonprofit and private organizations, and
makes them available for public use at
tools.wprdc.org/urban-greenprint.
“The tool is an intersectional analysis
of the status of all Pittsburgh-area
land parcels that is equally accessible
to all organizations and individuals,”
ALT Community Conservation
Director Alyson Fearon said. “It offers
opportunities for public engagement and
self-education that we hope empowers
residents working on land use challenges
to take action in protecting their
community green spaces.”
Users of Urban Greenprint can view
environmental data on a map and interact
with regularly updated information
about properties in Allegheny County. It
is powered by the regional data sharing
infrastructure provided by the WPRDC.
In addition to developing and hosting the
tool, data featured in Urban Greenprint
is also available as open data on the
WPRDC’s website.
“The convergence of strong economic,
social, cultural and environmental factors
presents the Pittsburgh region with a
transformational land use management
opportunity that is unparalleled in recent
times,” Fearon said. “Local economic
expansion is spurring development in
parts of the city and county, benefiting
many residents while potentially leaving
others behind. Visionary, community-
supported land use decisions will be
needed to best address these issues and
maximize opportunities for all the region’s
residents.”
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ALT hopes Urban Greenprint
empowers residents to make their
communities more resilient by
addressing apparent opportunities to
affect community and environmental
issues including recreation opportunity,
neighborhood revitalization, urban green
space preservation, urban gardening/
farming, and remediation of issues like
flooding, combined sewer overflow,
landslides and air quality. This map helps
to outline where opportunities to preserve
environmentally sensitive and important
properties are greatest.
Some ways individuals could make
use of this data are by utilizing it to reach
out to individuals whose properties are
suitable for use as green infrastructure,
to identify opportunities to turn
vacant land into community gardens
or other neighborhood assets, or spark
a discussion about risks in developing
flood- or landslide-prone properties.
CHABAD OF THE
SOUTH HILLS
UPCOMING EVENTS
South Hills Lights Community-Wide
Chanukah Event
On Monday, Dec. 3, at 5:30 p.m., the
community is welcome on Potomac
Avenue in Dormont for indoor and
outdoor activities, lighting of a 12-foot
Menorah, a Chanukah musical laser light
show, live music, latkes, doughnuts, prizes
and festivities for all ages to celebrate
Chanukah. Admission is free. RSVP is
appreciated but not required. Those who
pre-register will receive a free entry into
the Grand Chanukah Raffle. The event
is a project of Chabad of the South Hills
with co-sponsor South Hills Jewish
Pittsburgh. For more information visit
www.chabadsh.com or 412.344.2424.
Israel at the Crossroads
Chabad of the South Hills presents an
evening with Gill Hoffman, chief political
correspondent and analyst for The
Jerusalem Post. He will give an insider’s
look at the quest for security, democracy
and peace in the Middle East on Thursday,
Nov. 15, at 7 p.m., at Chabad of the South