Events

ASCEND is teaming up with South Side Community Council to host another Community Clean Up! We will be focusing on the blocks around ASCEND, more specifically under the train trestles on 21st and 22nd streets.

Meet up at ASCEND Pittsburgh at 10a on September 12th. (Right after Big Free Yoga!) Gloves and supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring your favorite gardening gloves and broom! We will be picking up trash, clearing out weeds, sweeping sidewalks, etc. This is a family friendly event, so bring the kiddos along! After the clean up, we can reward ourselves with a light climbing session together (free admission for non-members).

Registration is requested, but not required. We will need an estimate of how many supply kits we will need.

Masks are required during the clean up event and when you are in the ASCEND building

questions? email: events@ascendclimbing.com

 

     

Join Thick Bikes and the South Side Flats Block Watches

in the 2020 City of Pittsburgh’s Garbage Olympics!

 

On Saturday, September 26^th, the city of Pittsburgh is hosting its fourth Pittsburgh Garbage Olympics, which will turn the task of picking up litter into a sport. For this event, 36 neighborhoods will face off in a competition to see which neighborhood can pick up the most trash in two hours.

 

Residents of the flats will have from 9-11am to pick up as much trash as they can and deposit it in designated areas. Everything stops at 11am and a tally of bags and debris is counted as the trash is picked up.

 

The South Side flats now has seven designated Block Watches and residents are urged to contact their area Lead(s) for more information and to sign up to participate.

 

10^th – 15th South of Carson Street:

Michele Margittai (mqmargittai@gmail.com)

 

12^th to 17^th North of Carson Street:

Elizabeth Beech (beth@thickbikes.com) or Nicole Lockhart  (nlockhart78@yahoo.com)

 

16^th to 20^th South of Carson:

Robert Cavalier (cava_sty3@mac.com) or Evan Stoddard (stoddardge@gmail.com)

 

17^th – 22^nd North of Carson:

Gene Ricciardi (genericciardi1@hotmail.com)

 

20^th – 26th South of Carson Street:

Kathleen Petrillo (kathleenpetrillo@hotmail.com) or Frank Vitale (vitalefm@msn.com);

 

27^th – 29^th South of Carson Street:

Devon George (DGeorge@Cribsforkids.org) or Elizabeth Sethner (eas164@case.edu)

 

South Side Hollow

Amy Camp (amyrcamp@gmail.com)

Contact Mike Clark (mike.clark@southsidecommunitycouncil.org) for cleanup around Birmingham Bridge.