Community Meeting With Library Officials

SPECIAL LIBRARY EDITION of the BACC Meeting

DATE: Thursday, November 5th, 2009

TIME: 7:00pm The Beechview Area Concerned Citizens and Block       Watch Mtg. will be combined to address this important issue

PLACE: Beechview United Presbyterian Church,

1621 Broadway Avenue, Pgh. PA 15216 (across from Foodland)

Come and be a part of what’s going on in Beechview!

Library Officials Attending: Mary Francis Cooper, Deputy Director

and Mary Monaghan, Neighborhood Libraries – Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Beechview Library Happenings

Friends of the Beechview Library Customer Appreciation Day Book Sale/Author Event with special guest Brian O’Neill!

The Friends annual Customer Appreciation Day and Book Sale will take place on Saturday, November 7th, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-Beechview Library, 1910 Broadway Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15216. All are invited to stop in for refreshments and to browse the book sale. At 1:00 pm, Brian O’Neill, award-winning columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, will sign copies of his new book, being released November 15th, “The Paris of Appalachia: Pittsburgh in the 21st Century”. The books will cost $17.00 including tax. Brian will donate $5.00 for each book sold to help save the Beechview Library. Please stop by to purchase a book, say hello and thank him for supporting our cause.

New this year is the Members Only Preview Sale at 9:30am before the doors open for the regular book sale hours.

Donations of “gently used” books will be accepted at the library until November 5th.

For more information, please call the library at 412-563-2900.

SAVE OUR LIBRARY PETITION

If you haven’t yet signed, there is a petition to the Mayor and the Library Board online at http://www.petitiononline.com/CLP123/petition.html to stop the closure of the neighborhood libraries in Beechview, Hazelwood, Lawrenceville and West End. You can read the signatures and messages already posted, and preview any message you write before approving your signature. If you care about our communities, sign it. We need lots more signatures, so please pass this link on.

Appraisal Fair TODAY!!

Don’t forget tonight’s appraisal fair at the Beechview Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh!

Take The Survey!

Click HERE to learn about the great work some communtiy members are doing to bring a Boys & Girls Club to Beechview. Please take the survey on this page to help their efforts!

New Neighborhood Websites

Two neighborhood websites have been added to the links on the right.

First up is beechview.org a community website with information about community groups, a great community calendar, and an online version of the Beechview Summit!

Secondly, you can join and follow the Beechview Walking Club online as well! You can see great pictures of their walks and the community on their website.

Transit Meetings

Appraisal Fair

Appraisal fair is coming to the Beechview Library Tuesday June 16^th 2009. The hours of the fair will be 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. The library is located at 1910 Broadway Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pa. 15216. The participants will be:

Robert O. Stakeley is an Archivist with a wide range of expertise especially in photographs, documents and sports memorabilia

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Edie’s Glassware will bring years of experience to the library. Edie is extremely knowledgeable in depression glass, elegant glass, kitchen glass and pottery.

Ken Kroft or Eide’s Entertainment will bring his 37 years in business. His knowledge of comic books, pulps, non sports cards, character toys, record albums and 45’s is overwhelming.

Blaine Shiff is better known as Cybercoins.net. It seems that when the media needs information on coins, currency, stamps and precious metals they go to Blaine.

Richard Seewald is the owner of South Bank Galleries. His 30 plus years in business will bring his expertise in antiques and art.

Anthony Luppino is one half of Luppino Brothers. Anthony has been involved in numerous events and he has a tremendous amount of knowledge on jewelry, watches, clocks and crystal.

Friends of the Beechview Library are pleased and excited to bring these participants to you. Friends of the Beechview Library felt that this appraisal fair would be a benefit to all involved. This is an opportunity to find out the value of  items that you have been holding onto for years. You will now be able to get verbal appraisals from individuals that bring their expertise to you.  The appraisals are not for insurance purposes. Friends of the Beechview Library request that you do not bring large items such as furniture, cars, etc. For their generously donated services Friends of the Beechview Library will charge a fee of $5.00 for each item with a limit of 3 items. The fees will be accepted at the front entrance of the library. Friends of the Beechview Library members will receive a discount of $1.00 for each item. For questions please contact George Wazenegger at 412-341-0406

Beechview Senior Center

At 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 7 in the 13th floor board room at 200 Ross St., the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) of Pittsburgh will hold a monthly board meeting. At this meeting, the URA is expected to vote to allocate increased funding for the new Beechview Senior Center. Rep Wagner will be there, along with the director of CitiParks, to testify in support of the increased funding allocation for the center.

As many of you are aware, Rep Wagner was able to secure an additional $500,000 in state funding to the project, which is being added to the original $1 million previously sponsored through my office. The URA must now officially take board action to accept this increase. Please try to attend this meeting so that we can demonstrate the community’s desire to finally have a new senior center in Beechview.

This meeting WILL STILL BE HELD on April 7, 2pm, 200 Ross Street, 13th Floor

Candidate’s Night

Beechview Candidate’s Night

Featuring City Council Dist. 4 and District Justice 19th Ward candidates

When: Thursday, March 26th at 7:00 pm.

Where: St. Catherine of Siena’s McCann Hall, located at

1907 Broadway Avenue, Beechview.

Beechview Area Concerned Citizens (BACC) will hold a candidates forum in Beechview on Thursday night at 7 p.m. Candidates running in the Primary Election for City Council and District Justice will be on hand to introduce themselves to voters.

The format for the evening allows each candidate to make a 3 minute presentation followed by prepared questions and audience questions. The District Justice Candidates will go first, followed by candidates for City Council. The Beechview Area Concerned Citizens will moderate the question session.

At this time, confirmed attendees include Jim Motznik for District Justice and Anthony Coghill, Patrick Reilly, Natalia Rudiak, Rich Weaver for City Council.

Friends of the Library Spring Flower Sale

It’s Spring Time Again!

You can now order your flowers for the  Annual Spring Flower Sale and Gently Used Book Sale! The 19th annual sale will help the Friends of the Beechview Branch Library raise money for the library.

All of your favorite flowers will be available, and this year, you can also purchase Potting Soil!

An order form is available at the Library. All orders must be returned with payment to the Library by Monday April 6, 2009.

Order form: Beechview Flower Sale Order Form

Flowers can be picked up between 10am-3pm on Saturday May 16th. The annual Gently Used Book Sale will also be at that time. If you’d like to donate books for the sale, you can drop off books at the Library beginning April 16th.