UGLY SWEATER ALL NIGHT BOWLING
12-10-10 It was FUN!
DORMONT STREET FAIR-OCTOBER 9TH
POTOMAC AVENUE COMES TO LIFE WITH
MUSIC, GOOD FOOD & FUN
FOR ALL!
SEE YOU THERE! :)
We Build Pitcher Park: A benefit show for
Pitcher Memorial Skate Park
(JUST GOT WORD: Chinese Auction is going to be great! Here is a list of things so far:)
Zspot gift certificate
20$ Gift Certificate to Slacker on the South Side
50$ Gift Certificate to the Church Brew Works
2 tickets to Horror Realms Convention
Gift Certificates to the South Park Board Room
Gift Certificate to Dormont Dogs
A couple of Gift Baskets with different themes
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The Zomburgh Center is helping to organize a special benefit show for Pitcher Park! If you aren't familiar with the story, go to their website at pitcherpark.com to see what they're doing and why. In short, coming to this shindig will help local kids have a safe and secure place to skate where they don't have to worry about getting hit by cars.
The event will run from 9PM until 2 AM at Belvederes in Pittsburgh. We'll have a pretty decent chinese auction going and everybody gets 2 tickets with admission, and extra ones are 2 for 1$ or 15 for $5. Pitcher Park shirts and other mechandise will be available for purchase, and if you like the bands most will have band merch for sale too. Check back here over the next week for chinese auction pictures and other updates. It'll be a great time for a great cause! Visit our Zomburgh's Pitcher Park Page or click the Pitcher Park tab at the top of our site to order advance tickets. Contact Zomburgh with any show specific questions, or Mary Pitcher with any Pitcher park questions.
(Belvederes is located at 4016 Butler St. Pittsburgh, PA 15201)
CAPTAIN BLASTO COMES TO THE HOLLYWOOD THEATER
FOR PITCHER PARK
CAPTAIN BLASTO, the independent, award-winning film from Chris Preksta & Aaron Keliber (Pittsburgh natives & friends of the Pitcher Family) will be showing at the Hollywood Theater in Dormont! Located on Potomac Avenue off West Liberty (Rt 19 ) or off Banksville Rd.
HALF OF THE DOOR COST WILL BE GIVEN TO PITCHER PARK!
More info at Pitcher Park at PitcherPark.com
Tickets are only $6!
3 SHOWINGS AVAILABLE:
- SATURDAY, APRIL 24th at 4:30PM
- MONDAY, APRIL 26th at 7PM
- TUESDAY, APRIL 27th at 9:30PM
About Captain Blasto:
Suitable for ages 10 & UP
Captain Blasto, a comedy video web series, follows Colin Carter, a high school outcast, who recruits a middle-aged crew of comic crooks, including his high school janitor, to stage fake robberies in their small town which he can foil as his childhood comic book super hero. But what happens when these bogus burglaries become real?
With its distinctive visual style and cast of comic characters, Captain Blasto is a funny, genuine, and original online episodic series which has been greatly received by film festivals and audiences across the world.
See more at CaptainBlasto.com
SEE YOU THERE! :)
A PITTSBURGH FIRST!!!!
The movie showings will be as follows:
May 22, 2010 Saturday
2:00pm- "Rolling Through the Decades"
4:30pm- "Thrashin"
May 23, 2010 Sunday
2:00pm- "Downhill Motion" 4:30pm- "Never Been Done"
Ticket cost: $6.00 General Admission $5.00 with Student ID
PITCHER PARK MUSIC FEST 8-08-09
Pitcher Park along with New Sun Rising show cased the hidden talent we could fit in at our all day PITCHER PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL on August 8th, 2009!
A lot of people "Pitched in for Pitcher Park" and we would like to give a HUGE THANK YOU TO FRANNY GORMAN who manned the stage in what was a feat that no one else could handle! :D Thank ya Maam! I owe you big time! (at least a roll of gaff tape) Dave Patterson, the accomplished sound man for the County Parks was impressed and without him...the sound would not have been as "perfect" as it could be...and it was!
The Bands who played were ABSOLUTELY GREAT!!! They all donated their time and talent to HELP SUPPORT PITCHER PARK They were: The Fuzz, The Bastard Bearded Irishmen, Flounder, Obscured By Pink, The Justin Fabus Band, The Young Bucks, Instead of Sleeping, Bacchus, The Jay Wiley Band, The Kozmonauts, Third From First, J. Karner and the Peterson Brothers, Cardboard Roosevelt and Adalie.
Adalie enjoyed the Festival and one of their members is actually opening up a skateboard shop in Philly and helping to promote
Pitcher Park! We wish them luck and thank them for coming to the states "friendliest city" for real! :)
Castle Blood magic show was awesome! We all watched while Lisa Borland's head shrunk! You had to be there to believe it!
Thank you all for attending and making this day so much fun!
Below are 141 pictures! It takes a while...but well worth the watch! :D
Jeff Lysle's 6th Annual Birthday
BASKETBALL CLASSIC FOR PITCHER PARK!
Type: Causes - Fundraiser
Date: Saturday, June 6, 2009
Time: 10:30am - 4:00pm
Location: Dormont Municipal Building Gym 1st --Then Outdoor Ct Banksville after 4PM
Street: Hillsdale Ave City/Town: Dormont, PA
Phone: 412-513-5089
Email: Jeff Lysle on Facebook
A GREAT TIME WAS HAD BY ALL! My goodness..how you guys have changed! Thank God I don't have to feed them all!
About 50 or more people showed up to play a friendly competition with half the proceeds going to Pitcher Park thanks to our good friend Jeff Lysle who has been conducting this Basketball Classic for the past six years to honor his Birthday!
Jeff did an excellent job of organizing and making sure everyone got their playing time in! The winners....in the first picture made off with a hefty sum of money, but the smiles on everyone there and signs of friendship were well worth the event!
It was great to see all of you on a Saturday morning all working out out together again!
We are going to have to do this again, eh?
ON BEHALF OF VINCE & STEPHEN AND PITCHER PARK...
THANKS GUYS!
PITCHER PARK PIRATE NIGHT
May 29 Friday
We are selling tickets either $12.00 seats or $20.00 seats and a portion of the ticket price is being donated to "Pitcher Park" by the PITTSBURGH PIRATES thanks to our friend Doug Stoker!
We have forms to fill out to get your group together to come watch the game! Friends, family, co-workers,,,,IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO! Just come on down and have some fun! We will be tailgating prior to the game and hopefully we will have Pitcher Park t-shirts available so we can
SHOW OUR PRIDE TO ALL ON THE JUMBO-TRON! :)
PLEASE CONTACT MARY PITCHER 412-853-0515 OR USE THE CONTACT FORM ON THIS WEBSITE FOR FURTHER INFO.
ALSO IF YOU WOULD LIKE FORMS TO PASS AROUND YOUR OFFICE./SCHOOL./RELATIVES, ETC
DO NOT HESITATE TO ASK. IN FACT WE CERTAINLY WOULD APPRECIATE IT!
THIS IS GOING TO BE FUN!!!!!!!!!!
PITCHER PARK APRIL FOOL'S LOTTERY
and the WINNER IS:
DONALD JENKINS of Allegheny Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa. !5110
It was like the "Publisher Clearing House" prize patrol! We called his wife, Dorothy and said we had a suprize for her! We showed up with the money and she was shocked! Mr. Jenkins works at the Heinz Plant where he was tonight working overtime. " He often purchases tickets", his wife told us! Well APRIL FOOLS DAY was THEIR LUCKY DAY!
CONGRATS TO THEM & PITCHER PARK WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL WHO PURCHASED A TICKET & for your continuing support of our project!
Drawing to be held on April 1, 2009
Will go by the daily number drawn at 7:00PM
Tickets are $5.00 each or 5 for $20.00
Looking for people to sell as well!
Please contact us at the website for tickets or to sell!
YOU COULD BE "ONE LUCKY FOOL"!
THE PRIZE IS: $3,000.00 CASH!
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!
PASTA FOR PITCHER PARK
FEB. 21, 2009
GRACIOUSLY HOSTED BY THE
MT. LEBANON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
We unfortunately had to edit this to ten minutes for You Tube.....! we have the full length version!
A HUGE THANK YOU TO THE WONDERFUL...AND I DO MEAN WONDERFUL PEOPLE FROM THE
MT. LEBANON UP CHURCH FOR MAKING THIS ONE OF THE MOST "UPSCALE, WELCOMING, AND DELICIOUS PASTA DINNERS THAT MANY OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE EVER ATTENDED!"
ALSO TO ALL THE "PITCHER PARK" PEOPLE.....YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH FOR YOUR RELENTLESS EFFORTS!
Adam Bernard....our chef for the evening....DID A SPECTACULAR JOB along with Barry and Kathy Bernard who tirelessly slaved in the kitchen for us. Linda Bobak, unbeknownst to her, went from the kitchen making salad to the Chinese Auction area, all for Pitcher Park! The baskets for the auction were SPECTACULAR and we hope all that won enjoy them!
There are so many people to thank that I hope you all read a brochure! Vincent's poem said it all!
WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE, MAYBE NOT FOR THE WHOLE WORLD , BUT IN OUR WORLD!
I know we are out to raise money for Pitcher Park, but I pray that when we do, these types of functions continue, as they bring our community and families together like never before!
Vincent and Stephen would have wanted that for us all.....more than ANYTHING IN THIS WORLD!
NOTE: PLEASE TURN YOUR VOLUME IN HALF... WE ARE NOT PROFESSIONAL MOVIE EDITORS. YET!
BOWLING WITH SANTA
DECEMBER 14, 2008
ALL NIGHT BOWLING
A GREAT NIGHT WAS HAD BY ALL!
NOVEMBER 14, 2008
FIRST, before we go into any detail .... I would like to thank all the people involved with making this night so successful and please, if you go into any business establishments or people who have helped us or have a donation box...speak up and thank them for helping Pitcher Park become a reality! :)
DORMONT LANES- (AND THE WHOLE STAFF) for allowing us to hold this fundraiser at the place where my sons learned to bowl and spent many nights..... and I knew they were safe there! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
LYSSA GLAZE , HER ENTIRE FAMILY, AND JASON.... for doing all the work... acquiring the lanes, making the delicious food and manning the tables! Even little Loralie was stoic through the entire night! Because of them, the Pitcher family enjoyed themselves and knew this fundraiser was in good hands!!!! WE TOTALLY APPRECIATE YOUR EXTRA EFFORT FOR OUR CAUSE!!! THE ENERGY WAS WORTH IT BECAUSE YOU MADE THE NIGHT A NIGHT TO REMEMBER FOR ALL OF US! THANK YOU!
PAPPA JOHNS PIZZA (West Liberty Avenue)- for their donations of Pizza and discounts! EXCELLENT because we just brought it accross the street!! Could not have been fresher!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT! WE APPRECIATE IT
NOW..... TO ALL OUR OLD AND NEW FRIENDS WHO ATTENDED..... YOU ARE THE IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN OUR LIVES!!!! (alright I'm going to get mushy here) BUILDING THIS SKATE PARK IS OUR PRIORITY...YES, BUT I CAN'T EVEN BEGIN TO TELL YOU ALL, WHAT A GOOD FEELING IT IS AT THESE EVENTS, TO SEE EVERYONE ENJOYING THEMSELVES......TOGETHER!!!! To me, raising the money is one thing but seeing entire families... and friends .....together....HAVING FUN :) completely warms my heart!
LOOK AT ALL THE HAPPY FACES IN THESE PICTURES! (Glenn ...lol) We met a lot of really nice new people too! At a time in this world when things are so hard for everyone else...even though we all suffered when this tragedy struck our lives..we are coming together and enjoying ourselves and THAT IS SO IMPORTANT! Vincent and Stephen would be proud of all of us! BECAUSE OF ALL OF YOU.... I KNOW PITCHER PARK WILL HAPPEN! I want to thank YOU....for standing by us through this monumental effort!
WE RAISED $1,100.00!
I hope you enjoyed bowling and the awards that I had a lot of fun making up!
BIGGEST SHOES---- SIZE 15 WENT TO SHANE (no one else even came close!)
BEST GAME- 201 (geeeez!) went to JT (who we met for the first time last night!)
WORST GAME- 45 went to Jamie Nolte (who's older brother Ken has hid in the closet from us!)
BEST FORM- went to Joe Flaherty (but we've heard he's taken lessons...lol)
FASTEST BALL- 24.9 MPH- went to Adam Rumpler (and God knows he needed a new pair of socks!)
MOST GUTTER BALLS- went to John Zutter (who was bowling left handed because he lost the tips of three fingers last week due to an accident on the job-he is a carpenter!) He left the hospital and came bowling for Pitcher Park! Geeez!
EVERYONE ABOVE WON A TICKET TO THE BREAKERS BASH ON NOVEMBER 22, 2008 SATURDAY,
WHERE WE WILL HAVE FOUR GROUPS PLAYING! IT IS GOING TO BE A GREAT TIME AND WE HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL THERE!
THANKS AGAIN EVERYONE FOR MAKING THIS SUCH A SPECIAL NIGHT FOR EVERYONE THAT ATTENDED!
BREAKERS BASH II
GOOD MUSIC, GREAT FRIENDS, FUN!
LOOK ! LOOK! LOOK!
OUR HALLOWEEN
SPOOK-TAC-ULAR!
Title Text.
From:
Peg Bundy to Peg Carder (Referee)
Trees Huggers to the entire Dunder Mifflen
Staff of Paper Sellers!
Bunny Rabbit to Beer Pong Table costume!
Dora the Explorer to the Harlem Globe Trotters!
Angels to the Sexy Prison Guards!
Sarah Palin to a WHOOPIE CUSHION
The Roaring Twenties to the Futuristic Pink
David Bowie to the sexy Bumble Bee
Dorothy to a Neadrathall carrying a sword!
Bo Peep to a whicked Witch!
DJ Zutter to "the Spanish Seniorita"
aka "Spanish Hooker" THANKS JON! :O
THAT AND MORE.... IT WAS TOTALY
FANTASTIC!
A HUGE THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:
THE WONDERFUL VETS AT THE VFW
THE ENTIRE KARABASZ FAMILY
LAUREN DEGNAN & HER MOM
FRANCO'S
PITTSBURGH STEAK HOUSE
WIGGYS
JOSE AND TONY'S
Bethel Bakery for the cupcakes and cookies ( of which I ate three of before the party! Shhhh! they are hard to resist!
MRS. HUSSEMAN ( FOR ONCE AGAIN...EXCEEDING DONATION EXPECTATIONS!!! THANK YOU!!!)
BERNIE "THE WORK HORSE" MILLER- WHO "UNEXPECTEDLY GAVE HIS TIME TO HELP DECORATE! THANKS BERNIE!
DJ ZUTTER (FOR STEPPING UP WHEN THE DJ CANCELLED-
YOU ARE ON FROM NOW ON DUDE! PLEASE GIVE ALL OLD
CD'S TO JEFF ZUTTER FOR FURTHER FUNDRAISERS!!!
RUMPLER AND JOHN ZUTTER FOR FETCHING FRANCO'S YUMMY FOOD!
MS. PEGGY CARDER AND BRIAN KALINOWSKI (FOR TENDING BAR!-GOOD JOB PEGGY!)
KATHY AND ANNE BERNARD
TERRA PSOMAS - FOR GETTING TOGETHER LAST MINUTE KARAOKE AND GETTING DONATIONS! THANKS TERRA :)
HARRY FOR HELPING TO CLEAN UP AND HAUL THINGS TO THE CAR
KATHY PAPAELEO
BRADY PITCHER FOR MAKING THE FOG ( A LITTLE TOO MUCH AT TIMES! :)
ALL THE PEOPLE WHO DONATED, FOOD, THEIR TIME OR MONEY...WE THANK YOU!!! HEY HOW ABOUT THAT RICE KRISPIE PUMPKIN...
DARN...WAS THAT COOL ENOUGH?????
LAST BUT NOT LEAST.....
LAUREN...NO ONE KNOWS HOW MUCH YOU DO FOR THESE THINGS
AND IT IS ABOUT TIME! PLEASE, EVERYONE KNOW THAT LAUREN
WENT OUT OF HER WAY AND WORKED HARD TO GET DONATIONS
COOKED TWELVE POUNDS OF SPANISH RICE, BOUGHT THE LIQUOR.
AND DOES JUST ABOUT ANYTHING FOR PITCHER PARK!
WE LOVE YOU LAUREN!!!
BREAKERS BASH 10-18-08
They say
"Pictures are worth a thousand words"
...so here they are!
all i can say is.....
IT WAS FUN!
THE GROUPS WERE .......FANTASTIC!
WE LOVE OUR FRIENDS!
AND
WE THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING THERE!
WHAT A NICE (STRANGE :) GROUP OF PEOPLE WE ARE!
AND
HOW BLESSED WE ARE TO HAVE EACH OTHER TO BE STRANGE WITH!
A HUGE THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING:
BREAKERS & THE BREAKER FAMILY :)
THE GROUPS: CASINO BULL DOGS, RAGWEED, AND
THE FUZZ! TRUE local TALENT !!!!
Jim Mason- dedicated "sound man"
Shane McCallister- the "muscle" behind the scene
PITCHER PARK MADE $960.00!
YAHOOO!
SEE YOU AT THE ,,,,,,,
HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR
OCTOBER 24 FRIDAY 9-1AM VFW DORMONT
AND
GO TO FUN ACTIVITIES TO KEEP UP WITH US!
thank you all for your support!
we love you!
DORMONT STREET FAIR!
October 2008
For all of you who did not attend on such a beautiful night, you missed a great time!
Potomac was crowded with thousands of people. Family, friends, and people from all around came to hear Billy Price sing! Nothing like a couple of saxaphones on a beautiful fall evening! There was dancing in the streets (Sam, Lauren,Simon and Mary P...along with Mr & Mrs Mastrianni...awww, and random 80 year olds getting down! Now how cool is that? vendors selling their wares, good food, pumpking painting, games from the "Save the Pool Committe" and many more.
We set up to sell pumpkins that were painted by Sam Conn, Lauren Deignan, Harry, James Mason, Nick Terkell and others who meandered into Laurens and Sams place!
THEY DID AN EXCELLENT JOB! THESE PUMPKINS WERE LITTLE PUMPKIN MASTERPIECES, UNLIKE ANY SEEN BEFORE! CUSTOMERS ASKED THEM TO SIGN THE PUMPKINS ...SO WHEN THEY BECOME FAMOUS :) THEY CAN SAY THEY HAVE ONE OF THEIR EARLY WORKS!
Lauren also made chocolate covered pretzels which all sold out!
Then we had the "caramel apple" committee. God Bless Vicky Karabasz who furnished her beautiful kitchen for a "sticky" night!
Lauren, Ann, Vicky, Mary P, Allie, Kathy and oh yes, let's not forget our "UNWRAPPER" RICH! He did a fine job of unwrapping many bags of caramels (while watching football...of course!) By the end of the night we managed to manufacture 50 caramel apples of all different varieties! WE GOT SILLY TOWARD THE END...AND WE HAD FUN!
Shane Knapp worked behind the scene loading Mary Pitcher's car and helping to print out the many signs and the design board! He couldn't come because of.....BABY SHANE! How cute!!!
Meals and James also hauled a multitude of things to the stand!
Nick brought food to the starving workers! :) John Scott manned the booth while the workers strayed for a little!
Without everyone .... none of this would have been possible!
Then of course, Lauren and Sam were wonderful! Since we couldn't get a male volunteer to wear the scarecrow costume...THEY BOTH DID! SAM TOOK IT A STEP OR TWO FURTHER AND LOW AND BEHOLD WE HAD A ZUMBA DANCING SCARECROW ON STAGE AND HERE IS SOMETHING THAT HAS NEVER EVER HAPPENED IN DORMONT.... A SCARECROW DANCED WITH THE "DORMONT DOG" HOT DOG! OHHHHH, WHAT A SITE! ....VIDEO TO COME!!! :D
The event was completely sucsessful as we not only raised awareness for the Park, we made $565.25 and met a lot of wonderful people that are very interested and wish to volunteer to help the skate park!
A huge thank you to Bedner's Farm Market for making this happen!
(if you have read to here you deserve a Bedner's Farm Market tip: After you carve a pumpkin, put a thin coating of vaseline on the inside and around the cut out eyes, nose, teeth, etc. This vaseline coats the pumpkin and delays the shriveling effect! Cool right? Who knew except maybe Martha :)
THANKS TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED AND OUR SUPPORTERS!
IT WAS GRRRRRRREAT!
see you on October 18th a Breakers! :D
REPORTS ON FUNDRAISING EVENTS
CUT-A-THON September 14 HAIR GEOMETRICS
(Hosted by Jenny Santorelli) Potomac Ave. Dormont, PA. 15216
We had a WONDERFUL turn out and a WONDERFUL time at the Cut-a-thon on September 14 at Hair Geometrics on Potomac!
WE CERTAINLY BEAUTIFIED DORMONT with well over a 120 hair cuts & styles :D EVERYONE SEEMED VERY HAPPY WITH THEIR CUT!
(Shhh...not too sure about the Mohawk Rumpler got! ...lol lol)
This was not a snip snip you're done event ....oh no! They gave some new and fresh styles...that were awesome!
The beauticians WERE AMAZING! I was tired just watching them, but boy
they were totally professional even under heavy customer traffic! No one felt rushed and they certainly got their moneys worth!
A HUGE THANK YOU TO JEN SANTORELLA, WHO OWNS HAIR GEOMETRICS FOR COMING UP WITH THE IDEA AND SUPPLYING THE USE OF HER SHOP FOR THE EVENT! (She didn't even know the boys...but felt compelled to help! (make sure you stop in and thank her if you are in the area!)
Without Lauren Karabasz (who I"ve decided is related to the Energizer Bunny :) , her Mom, and Allie....this event would not have been as sucessful!!! They gave 100 percent on this event...trust me!!!!!!
And how about that Pizza Company pizza? Mmmm..,,, tasty!!! :D
They donated all of it. Thank you for you support!
but the real treat which was chocolate chip COOKIES came from Elyse's Mom!
THEY ARE GREAT!
and because of that......
WE MADE $3,260.43 WAY OVER OUR EXPECTED GOAL!
I HAVE A FEW "HERO CONTRIBUTORS" TO MENTION AS WELL!
Mrs. Bobak (Mike's Mom) ALL I CAN SAY IS..GOD BLESS YOU!)
Mike Bobak
Donna Mersing (A woman I just met that day! Special lady she is!:)
Lauren Degnan
Morris Feldman
Morgan Kelly
Deborah Mancuso
and MANY other people who just dropped off money and didn't even get their hair cut!
THESE PEOPLE WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY...WITH GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS...AND I DO MEAN GENEROUS!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart on behalf of my sons, Vincent and Stephen, our family, and the future generaion of children in our area who will be enjoying a beautiful skate park! I CANT WAIT!
Love to you all!
Mary P
PS...Mrs. Bobak won the 50/50 which was $44.00! Way to go!
