THIS SATURDAY, MAY 10, Peabody High School will be hosting Promise for the Future: Reducing Teen Violence and Enhancing Life Opportunity.

This community event will offer over 40 local service providers with valuable information, as well as information workshops. The event will also highlight the positive initiative already going on with our youth, such as catering from the Peabody culinary arts program, as well as the Union Project’s Youth Talent Showcase later on in the evening.

The event begins at 8 a.m. with breakfast, music and a good crowd. Make sure to be there on time to get all of the goodies and information! This is a valuable event for Peabody students, parents and supports! Even if you don’t have children, you should still support our local schools!

TOMORROW MORNING, Saturday, May 3 at 8 a.m. will begin the Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community at Heinz Field.

100% of the money being raised goes to a number of local non-profit organizations, including East Liberty’s own Sojourner MOMS House.

If you are interested in getting involved at the last minute, go to their website and sign up!

On Thursday, May 1 from 6 to 8 pm in the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, the Office of Public Art presents an artist lecture with Sheila Klein. Sheila is an artist from Bow, Washington who has worked on public art projects throughout the country. Originally from Pittsburgh, she is currently in the design phase for a pedestrian bridge that will connect Ellsworth Avenue in Shadyside to the East End Development project in East Liberty.

Please join us as Sheila talks about her past work, current projects, and her design for this new pedestrian bridge.

A reception with the artist follows the lecture.

This lecture is free, but reservations are requested. Please rsvp to opa@pittsburghartscouncil.org or call 412.391.2060 x233.

Happy Arbor Day, everyone!! This is the one day a year everyone should be a tree hugger!

On Monday April 28th at Construction Junction from 11am to 1pm, the Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest will be handing out 1,000 Fraser fir seedlings with Mayor Luke Ravenstahl . Visitors can have up to five trees, be sure to stop by!

Everyone be sure to make it to the polls today and have their voices heard!

The Post Gazette is offering a voter’s guide for any primary day information you may need!

TOMORROW, Saturday, April 19 from 9 am to 12 pm will be the East Liberty Litter Sweep! Join East Liberty residents and volunteers to clean up our community.

The Litter Sweep will begin in the Home Depot parking lot and equipment and refreshments will be provided. After the clean up, volunteers will enjoy a party including food, local vendors, live local music and entertainment!

This project is coordinated by Allegheny CleanWays, in conjunction with the Great PA Cleanup and other partners in a effort to prevent and eliminate litter and illegal dumping. Do your part to make this community as beautiful and healthy as possible!!

Yesterday, Wednesday, April 16, Friendship Development Associates, Landmark Community Capital Corporation, the URA and many other partners celebrated the groundbreaking for 5000 Penn, three townhomes nine years in the planning. This $800,000 development, on the corner of Penn Avenue and Gross Street, will bring loft-style housing to the heart of the Penn Avenue Arts Initiative.

For more information on the groundbreaking, read the post gazette article, or what Pop City has to say!

Many may have noticed today that the streets surrounding East Liberty Presbyterian Church has been swarmed with camera crews, trailers and onlookers. The silver screen has come to East Liberty again!

The Post Gazette is reporting that the movie is the DreamWorks romantic comedy, “She’s Out of My League,” but filming staff and ELPC staff are saying the movie is “The Shelter,” a suspense thriller starring Julianne Moore about a troubling schizophrenia patient.

They will be filming outside the rest of today and inside of ELPC tomorrow.

TOMORROW, Saturday, April 12 from 11 am to 6 pm, the Center for Minority Health and the Healthy Black Families Program will hold their annual Minority Health Fair at the Kingsley Center, located at the corner of East Liberty Blvd and Frankstown Ave.

Service providers will offer free health screenings, immunizations, blood pressure tests and, for the first time at this fair, teeth cleanings! Don’t pass up this opportunity to utilize important, free health care facilities!

There is a new pizza shop in East Liberty and the people seem pleased! Pizza Sola, which originated on Carson Street in the South Side, has opened a store at 6004 Penn Circle South.

Pizza Sola prides itself on using quality ingredients and traditional techniques to bring great taste to their customers. These pizza slices are so big you need two paper plates to carry them!

Stop by, they are open from 11:30 am to 12 am during the week and until 1 am on Friday and Saturday. Eat in or carry out, either way you’ll enjoy!