Admission: Bring a Salad for eight and $5.00
We’ll provide the Entertainment, Raffle Baskets, Soup, Beverages and Dessert!
Where: Mt. Hope Community Church, 12106 Frankstown Rd.
Please join us as we continue this traditional event that brings neighbors together in a community celebration. If you have new neighbors, encourage them to attend. No better way to get to know each other and a wonderful place to be on a cold day in January.
We have invited our State Representative Joe McAndrew who will speak about the $63,052 grant he and State Senator Jay Costa obtained for Penn Hills specifically for renovations at Crescent Hills Park. This is a dream come true! It would take us about 63 years to come up with that much on our own. At that pace there would be no court to repave. The application for this grant was written by Penn Hills officials and submitted to the State Legislature for consideration. We cannot thank Senator Jay Costa, Rep. Joe McAndrew, and Penn Hills Planning Department enough for their help in obtaining this award.
Our second speaker will be Brendan Becker, the curator of the new and soon to be opened “The Bloop Museum” presently situated in the former Penn Hills Municipality Building. Bloop is an electronic entertainment museum dedicated to computers, games, media, and gadgets. Brendan, who had such a museum in Baltimore, MD, started his move to Penn Hills this summer after he successfully raised enough money to purchase the long-empty municipal building.
The Bloop Museum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Brendan relocated 25,000 artifacts to get the museum started. It promises to be a hot spot for children, teenagers and families interested in anything computer related and best of all admission will be free. Brendan will tell us his plans, some stories about the building, maybe why the museum is called “Bloop,” and when that really cool sign featured in bloopmuseum.org and on Facebook might go up. This event promises to be a lot of fun; and don’t forget all those raffle baskets you will have a chance to win!
