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JCC at the “South Hills 7th Night Chanukah Celebration!” Free and open to the entire community, the annual Chanukah celebration includes a holiday-themed dinner—featuring traditional latkes (potato pancakes), jelly donuts, and more—a live DJ, dreidel tournament, inflatables, swimming, and special surprises throughout the night! The festivities kick off with Havdalah (a brief ceremony marking the end of Shabbat), the lighting of the 7th candle on the menorah, and singing Chanukah songs. This celebration is presented by South Hills Jewish Pittsburgh in partnership with Beth El Congregation, Temple Emanuel of the South Hills, JCC of Greater Pittsburgh, Congregation Ahavath Achim (The Carnegie Shul), PJ Library, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. While the event is free and open to the entire South Hills community, reservations are strongly encouraged at southhillsjewishpittsburgh.org/ chanukah18. There are numerous Chanukah events and activities throughout the South Hills during the holiday, which begins Sunday evening, Dec. 2. For a complete list visit South Hills Jewish Pittsburgh on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn, or at southhillsjewishpittsburgh.org. 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. 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. W hat S etS U S a part ? Stacy & Emanuel Romanias W e Care! C A ccess: A team of Realtors at your fingertips. R esolute: Our client’s interest ALWAYS comes first. We ommunication: Open, honest, and often. No surprises. ® take our fiduciary duty very seriously. E xperienced: Serving western PA since 2002. Residential & Commercial. [email protected] www.stacyromanias.com “Serving the Greater Pittsburgh & Surrounding Areas” ONE-OF-A-KIND CAR DONATION PROGRAM Community Auto, a nonprofit program of The Lighthouse Foundation, accepts donated cars, repairs and inspects them when feasible, and sells them at discounted prices to low-income working families and individuals. The used car in your garage that you don’t have time to sell, or didn’t get the trade-in value you wanted, or a car the kids used but no longer need would be the perfect car to donate. Your generous donation is tax-deductible. Please contact Community Auto at communityautolico.org or call 724.538.5081 for details on how to donate your car. ■ Brick Repair & Replacement Lentil/I-Beam Replacements Chimney Rebuilding & Repointing Whole & Partial House Pointing 412-561-6463 412-831-7074 [email protected] PA HIC# PA029487 UPPER ST. CLAIR ❘ WINTER 2018 9