Steel Valley residents can now take advantage of Nixle

Steel Valley Matters is launching a new Community Information Service designed to deliver important and timely information to residents in our area using the latest technology.

Residents of The Steel Valley can now take advantage of Nixle, a community information service that alerts you to community information and events via web, e-mail, and cell phone. Nixle is completely free, simple, and trusted. You can sign up at www.nixle.com and share this new service with friends and neighbors to spread the word!

We are very excited to have you experience it for yourself.

Nixle is a new community information service provider built exclusively to provide secure and reliable communications. Its authenticated service connects municipal agencies and community organizations to residents in real time, delivering information to geographically targeted consumers over their cell phones (via text messages), through e-mails and through Web access. Nixle is offered at no cost to all governments, their agencies and organizations, nongovernmental organizations and consumers.

For now, Steel Valley residents will be able to receive community-related information via Nixle. Channels providing other kinds of information may be introduced in the future.

To sign up for Nixle, visit: www.nixle.com

Steel Valley Matters Nixle Site

Craig Mitnick, the founder and CEO of Nixle, said Nixle differs from current services such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, which provide unauthenticated platforms for connections. Nixle solves that problem by providing a single standardized service for consumers to receive immediate and credible neighborhood-level public safety and community information. Mr. Mitnick said, “When it comes to public safety information, you have to trust the source. Residents of The Steel Valley can rest easy that the local messages they receive are authentic.” “Nixle is a first-of-its-kind tool for communities that need to provide critical information to their residents,” said Craig Mitnick, founder and CEO.

BMNECC 2009-10 Dance Season

The Bulgarian Macedonian National Educational & Cultural Center is proud to announce the beginning of the 2009-10 dance season. The monthly dance schedule, starting times and dates of the first dance are as follows:

At 8 p.m. every second Friday, blues dance, starts Sept. 11.; 8 p.m. every second Saturday, salsa dance, starts Sept. 12; 7:30 p.m. every third Saturday, Balkan dance, starts Sept. 19; 7:30 p.m. every fourth Saturday, zydeco or country swing, starts Sept. 26; 7:30 p.m. every first Saturday, Cajun dance, starts Oct. 3.

Each dance begins with a one-hour free lesson teaching basics. No partners needed. Admissions $6 and $8, at the Bulgarian Cultural Center, 449/451 W. Eighth Ave.; call 412-461-6188.

AFL-CIO Convention Meeting in Pittsburgh, City Rich with Labor History

The 26th AFL-CIO Convention, Sept. 13-17, will convene in a city rich with labor history. Pittsburgh is the birthplace of both the AFL and the CIO, as well as the United Steelworkers (USW), the Ironworkers and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM). It also is the site of two legendary strikes—theHomestead steel mill strike in 1892 and the U.S. Steel strike in the 1930s.

Labor historian Charlie McCollester writes inThe Point of Pittsburgh:

[Pittsburgh's] workers and industries had produced incalculable volumes of coal, iron, steel and glass. Its inventors and laborers had been the first to refine oil, manufacture aluminum and create some of the primary mechanisms of electrical generation and distribution. In a stupendous effort, its mills and factories had been the arsenal of democracy, providing much of the muscle that made the United States of America the world’s most powerful nation.

Delegates and guests can view a map of labor history sites within walking distance from the David Lawrence Convention Center, where the convention is meeting. Click here to see the map.

One of the area’s most famous struggles, the Homestead steel mill strike, took place after robber baron Andrew Carnegie assigned Henry Clay Frick the task of breaking the union. Seven workers and three Pinkertons were killed in a riverfront battle and the state militia crushed the strike.

Pittsburgh workers later went on to victory at U.S. Steel, the nation’s largest steel company. Following passage of the New Deal’s National Labor Relations Act, U.S. Steel agreed in 1937 to recognize the CIO’s Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Other steel companies followed suit.

The following year, after the advances of the steelworkers in Pittsburgh, as well as the vast numbers of Pennsylvania and West Virginia miners who had joined the Mine Workers (UMWA), the legendary John L. Lewis told the CIO’s founding convention that

The Pittsburgh area today is the most completely organized of any city or area in industrial America.

blog.aflcio.org

August 23, 2009

Bulgarian Macedonian Cultural Center

Located on the West Eighth Avenue in West Homestead, the Bulgarian Macedonian Cultural Center has evolved to meet the needs and interests of new generations of immigrants from Southeastern Europe (areas now in Bulgaria and Macedonia) by establishing special groups geared towards women, children, education, cooking, and arts. It is the oldest Bulgarian and Macedonian organization in the United States.

Upcoming events at the BMCC:

Visit new museum and Dimitrov exhibit starting October 27! There is a new museum display and the latest exhibit of works by Bulgarian master painter Vladimir Dimitrov.

Collectible jewelry and accessories will be on sale November 1, so mark your calendars for the second Estate and Collectible Jewelry sale featuring accessories such as scarves and purses!

The museum is celebrating their 80th anniversary April 17-18, 2010.

The mission of the Bulgarian Macedonian National Educational and Cultural Center - BMNECC - is to embrace, preserve and present the cultural values and rich traditions of the Bulgarian and Macedonian people, and to articulate and promote those values and traditions as a way of enhancing tolerance, preserving tradition, and promoting understanding among all people.

www.bmnecc.org

Munhall Crime Watch Parade

Hope everyone had a great summer. Although I have not sent out many emails out or had any meetings it has been a busy summer. Many of you have been sending in information to us about problems in your areas and we have been dealing with those issues. I hope to start having some meetings in late Sept. and Oct. with a light up night in October.

If you have not heard Munhall is having a Parade again this year on Sat Aug 22nd starting at 5:15pm at the High School. I know it is pretty late but I was hoping that if anyone is free please come and march in the parade as part of Crime Watch. I think it will be a great message if we can get a good turn out. So if you can line-up starts at 4pm. Please feel free to bring your families, kids, neighbors and anyone else who may be interested.

Daniel Boehme
Munhall Police Dept.
412-464-7300

munhallcrimewatch@comcast.net

51st Annual Sports Banquet

Thompson Run Athletic Association

51st Annual Sports Banquet

Sponsored by The Homestead District Lions

Sunday, September 6, 2009 6:30 PM

Thompson Run A.A.

4901 Ball Avenue

West Mifflin, PA 15122

Tickets $40.00

Reservations:

Howard Caspar 3605 Valewood Dr. Munhall, PA 15120

412-461-4649

Only 200 tickets will be sold

The Honorees this year will be:

Sally Wiggin – The Bob Prince Memorial Award

Reverend Ray Saunders – Community Service

Jess Strom – Achievement in Women’s Basketball

Bill Fralic – Man of Yesteryear

This is the first year women are involved and are invited to attend what was once strictly a STAG affair.

Bill Hillgrove will be the toastmaster and he will be joined by many of the past recipients.

After dinner a very entertaining evening is promised with many funny stories.

It is one evening you do not want to miss.

The West Mifflin Community Day & Crime Watch Parade

The West Mifflin Community Day & Crime Watch Parade will be held on Saturday, September 12th at the WM Area High School.

Crime Watch Parade gathers at Calvary Baptist Church at 10:30 am.

VFW Post 914 ‘Intrepid’ to Raffle Steelers Tickets Sept. 12

Thanks to the generosity of a local businessman and his family, an area veterans’ service organization will be providing a chance for two lucky winners to see the Super Bowl Champions play the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, Oct. 25.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 914 ‘Intrepid’ will raffle off two Steelers tickets at West Mifflin Community Day Saturday, Sept.12.

Following sales by the Post membership that will begin immediately following the Crime Watch Parade, the winner will be drawn by borough Mayor John Andzelik at 7 p.m.

The winner must be present at the drawing.

All proceeds from the raffle will be used to directly benefit area service members and veterans.

Steel Valley Rotary News

Thanks to all who attended our August 4 meeting with District Governor Richard Martin

Highlights Include:

Rotary International Year’s Goals

· Health & Hunger (support local food banks)

· Literacy (continue dictionary project)

· Worldwide Clean Water –(future speaker on the topic)

Visit District Website -http://www.rotarydistrict7300.org/

November 6, 2009 – Rotary Foundation Dinner

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Congrats to the Steel Valley Rotary - Voted Non Profit Organization of the Year by The Steel Valley Chamber of Commerce

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Visit our Website: www.svrotary.com

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Raffle tickets are now printed for our Steeler Fundraiser. Tickets are $5.00 each

Prize - 2 Tickets to Steelers vs Cincinnati, Sunday Nov 7

Plus Dinner for 2 to Dave & Busters and $100 cash

Get your Tickets at Tuesdays meeting

If unavailable, please pick up tickets at State Farm office.

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Upcoming Events

Tuesday, August 11 - No Meeting

Tuesday, August 18 - Dave & Busters, Noon

Guest Speaker – Scott Green

Web Streaming – Live Rotary meeting on the Web

Tuesday, August 25 - No Meeting

Tuesday, September 1 - Dave & Busters, Noon

Guest Speaker – Terry Farrell - TBD

Come join us For a meeting. See what Rotary can do for you and what you can do for Rotary.

As a guest at a meeting, your first Lunch is on us.

Sunny Funny Fair at Carnegie Library of Homestead

Sunny Funny Fair

Saturday August 15, 2009

12:00 Noon-3:00 pm

Come to the library on this day for a community event!

All ages can come enjoy free food, music, information booths, games and art show!

Bring the whole family!

Contact: Emily Salsberry 412-462-3444 salsberrye@homesteadlibrary.org