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Newsletter Re-launch: A New Beginning

Hopefully you’ve noticed our April newsletter either thru email subscription or in print at one of the local businesses.  If you haven’t the newsletter can be viewed at this link.  We hope to maintain the newsletter on a quarterly basis (or monthly, if we find some good help!), so keep your eyes open for it in the future.

For now, if you’d like to subscribe, either by email or print, please send an email to the main THC email or give us a call.  The same applies if you’re an individual, organization or local business with a story or announcement you’d like featured in the newsletter.   We hope to have an email signup form up within the next week to streamline this process, so please bear with us! Thanks!

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Block Watch Meeting Minutes – March 2017

Guest Speakers

Zone 1 police officer Payton, Doug, Tim

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Officer Payton gave a recap of recent crime activity in the neighborhood.   There were a string of license plate thefts, and unfortunately some drug overdoses.

Tim spoke about street awareness, including always being aware of your surroundings and always having your keys ready when approaching your car or house.  He also spoke about remembering to lock your car and to not have any visible items inside the car which would prompt a break in such as CDs, purses, bags and so on.

Doug gave a talk about on-line safety such as keeping an offline list of user accounts and passwords, password strength, using anti-virus software, computer backups, and avoiding scams and spam.

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2014 Board Election Results

If you haven’t heard the news yet, the 2014 Troy Hill Citizen’s Board election results are in and were official as of January 5th, 2014. Open this post for more details or view the new board members on our About page.

Board of Directors 2014

Matt Stidle, Chairman

Don Mahaney, Vice-Chair

Tony Benvin, Treasurer

Janet Koch, Secretary

Jeff Anesin

Penny Barrett

Cathy Baysek

Steve Kalajainen

Tom Tortella

Kathy Turner

Ron Zotter

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Stay cool at the Troy Hill Spray Park

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2014 Weather permitting, all five Citiparks Spray Parks are scheduled to open Memorial Day weekend.

For current 2014 Season information on the Troy Hill City of Pittsburgh Spray Park  please visit: http://pittsburghpa.gov/citiparks/spray-parks  or call the CitParks Aquatic Office: 412.323.7928

The spray park opens from late spring to early fall.  It’s located on Goettman Street at the Cowley Playground.  It has an array of giant water canons and sprayers than will cool you off.  The City has built additional spray parks in Shadyside, Beechview, and the East Hills neighborhoods,

In the summer of 2009,  the City of Pittsburgh had unveiled its newest addition to its recreation facilities – Troy Hill Spray Park.

The City choose to replace the pool with the spray park because, it is a solution that provides the Troy Hill neighborhood a place for recreation and also is economical for the City.  Spray parks are historically less expensive to operate than a swimming pool since it does not require lifeguards and the water does not need chlorinated.  Also, it provides greater accessibility for people that can not swim and for the disabled.