I kind of think it's a little column A and a little column B.

I've been involved in a few projects where we tried to redevelop the hill. The people who own the land are stifling any development. It's not a lack of interest.

My pleasure! Happy harvesting 😊

Today is actually open sign up day for McKeesport Community Garden. You put $30 down for a bed, and you get $10 back at the end of the season.

They have regular work partnership days, they ask you to try and attend a few each season, and you're expected to attend two meetings a year.

If you can't make it out there today message them on Facebook

Where about are you searching?

Lampert's breakfast sausage is bomb.

Idk but the poll in the article says 52% feel unsafe at Kennywood which is nuts to me. But that's the same demographic reading the trib I guess.

No, they're health experts. Which means you have to trust them. No profit motives in this industry.

I've always been curious about the specifics, but info is limited. The scope of damage was much larger than just the glass factory though, so I imagine someone had to come in and clean everything out. I'm sure plenty of it just ended up in the river.

>Property damage ran into the millions. The full force of the storm hit the U.S. Glass House (never worked again), Copperweld, the High School Stadium, and the Steel City Lumber Company. Sheets of corrugated steel were ripped from Copperweld and tossed far up the hill. The roof of the Reliance Hose Co. was dumped in the entrance way of Copperweld Office Building which had been severely damaged by flying debris. Copperweld’s new office building (2 years old) built in the excess of $500,000.00 was “practically in shambles”. The heaviest losses were in the casting department, the rolling mill, ground rod department, laboratory and the engineering departments. Gratefully, the mill was closed for the annual summer vacation or the loss of lives may have been heavy.

>Glassport Memorial Stadium damages were estimated at $100,000.00. Heavy steel floodlights were bent and twisted, one set of lights was flung over a car parked in front of the Roller Rink. The steel bleachers were crumpled like paper and huge holes were punched in the concrete wall. Broadway Roller Rink on Ohio Avenue had a group of approximately 25 teenagers inside when the wind virtually disintegrated the building. The roof was torn off and the walls collapsed, trapping the youngsters inside. By the grace of God, none of the youngsters were seriously injured but the building was never used again.

>The Petrosky Hotel was seriously damaged. Mr. William Petrosky and Mr. Robert Martin’s dead bodies were found in the debris.”

https://www.tornadotalk.com/glassport-pa-f3-tornado-august-3-1963/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20hands%20of%20the%20clock,the%20fury%20of%20a%20tornado.

It's a really great center for anyone who hasn't been, I highly recommend it.

Western Pennsylvania has such a fascinating history with glass, even today we are still a leader in manufacturing and innovation for the aviation glass market. It's not a huge market, but the players involved are all mixing a different combination of old techniques with modern technology and it's an enjoyable niche rabbit hole to get lost in.

And then of course there is this fascinating little footnote from local history:

>The United States Glass Company was located near the Monongahela River on Seventh Street. The company specialized in "pressed glass," tableware, and other glass products made from molds. Unfortunately, in 1963 the United States Glass Company was damaged by a tornado, and their 80-foot water tower collapsed through the building's roof. The furnaces shut down and the liquid glass cooled and hardened. Afterwards there was left a 250-ton block of solid glass, making any plans to rebuild too costly.

Anyway, yeah. Glass and Pittsburgh. I'm glad the long journey the two have shared has led (in part) to us having this wonderful facility, go check it out.

I oversee some hotels in Erie, our rates and demand are through the roof already.

He had been threatening to go on a shooting spree for weeks.

The failure of the system is that nobody picked up Morris sooner. He's been making shooting threats (and very credible ones) for weeks leading up to the incident.

But, him being a Veteran has nothing to do with anything. He was stationed in North Carolina for a bit, he never saw any combat.

>I can’t go back to school until I pay off that $3000

That's not how student loans work. You can go back to school with outstanding loans.

I understand how somebody can use $3000 but none of those things would change your life.

Those are paying for someone's costs, not an investment in them. It's once again the difference between giving a man a fish and teaching him to fish.

Right, and all of those benefits last as long as the $3k. Like giving someone a fish, it only is useful until they've eaten the fish.

Giving someone $3k to help pay for their bills is the same as giving them a proverbial fish. It isn't life changing, it's a band-aid at best. You aren't making them more capable of paying for future bills once that $3k runs out.

You ever hear the one about giving a man $3000 in fish?

Life changing things for $3k? Sounds like a great investment.

Neither do most of my posts lol, but I'm flattered.

How?

>It’s a state of the art, top of the line facility they have no pressing need for, so I’d say the comparison to a resort is pretty apt.

Nemacolin, the famous state of the art, top of the line training facility.

Maybe not for you.