We wish you a happy holidays from the South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association. Thanks to everyone who has joined us in 2024 for a party, a meeting, or a volunteer event. We hope to see even more faces in 2025!
Category: events
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Vote for the 1st Annual SSSNA Flower Contest
Help us pick the best flowers on the South Side Slopes! Vote for your favorite below by commenting here!
Want to walk and see the gardens in person? Follow the map!
Winners will be announced at the South Side Slopes picnic on Tuesday, July 11th!
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Enter the South Side Slopes Flower Contest and Showcase Your Green Thumb!
Do you love to garden? Are you excited to show off your green thumb this year? Then enter the South Side Slopes Flower Contest, open to all Slopes residents!
Focusing on the front-facing façade of your home, we will have prizes for:
1) Best Simple Planter (for those with little space but go above and beyond with a single pot or window box)2) Best Front Garden (for those who have more than a simple planter and want to go all in)
3) Most Popular (where your vote will determine the best out there!)
To be eligible, your garden space must be at least 80% green. We love a good statue, but we want to see your green thumbs at work!
Submissions must be in by Wednesday, June 14th with garden spaces to be ready to photograph by Friday, June 30th.
Voting will occur between July 5th to July 10th and winners will be announced at our annual community picnic at Bandi Schaum Community Garden on July 11th.
Feeling like trekking it? Maps will be available on Social Media around July 5th to help you explore the beautiful gardens and enjoy the scenery.
The South Side Slopes Flower Contest aims to beautify the neighborhood and showcase the gardening talents of our residents. Whether you have a small space or a grand front garden, we want to celebrate your efforts and inspire others in our community. By participating in the contest, you can contribute to a more vibrant and welcoming neighborhood for everyone.
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Climate Change Movie at St Paul’s Monastery
Climate Change
How aware are we of this problem?
Is there anything we can do about it?
Have we even talked about it?On Wednesday, March 8th, St. Paul’s Monastery will present a movie on the subject of climate change – The Letter. The film will be shown in the Retreat Center Conference Room – where we have held our Neighborhood monthly meetings in the past. The movie presents how climate change is altering the Amazon, India, Africa, and the Barrier Reefs of Mother Earth. Individuals experiencing these changes were invited by Pope Francis to come to Rome to tell their story, and share their experiences. The film helps us to better understand what is happening to our common home, the earth. Discussion will follow.
Everyone is invited to attend, no cost. Refreshments will be available.
If you plan to attend, please call St. Paul’s Monastery and let them know at
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Holiday Party is Dec. 9
When: Friday, Dec. 9, 2022, from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Where: Zenith, 86 S. 26th Street (corner of 26th and Sarah Streets)The South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association (SSSNA) invites all Slopes residents to its annual holiday party. Zenith has been our gracious host for the past few holiday celebrations and never disappoints! Come and enjoy the delicious food and reconnect with your neighbors.
The SSSNA will provide the food (both vegetarian and meat-based dishes), but if you like, BYO your own adult beverages.
Bring a toy! We will be collecting new, unwrapped toys for the Brashear Association’s annual toy drive.
Please register by Dec. 2.
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October General Meeting is Oct. 11
Join us on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom for the October public meeting of the South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association. Meeting agenda is listed below the Zoom information.
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1. Zone 3 Police Commander – Christopher Ragland (5-10 min.)
- Introduction and Zone 3 updates
- Q/A
2. Rep. Jessica Benham; PA House of Representatives 36th District (5-10 min.)
- State updates
- Q/A
3. Councilman Bruce Kraus; City of Pittsburgh, 3rd District (5-10 min.)
- District updates
- Q/A
4. Chrisarah Johnson; Office of the Mayor, Community Outreach (5-10 min.)
- City updates
- Q/A
5. Jamie Piotrowski; Pittsburgh Public School Board Member, District 7 (5-10 min.)
- Updates given by SSSNA board member
6. Committee Updates (10-15 min.)
- South Side Park
- StepTREK – 2022 review
- Beautification – Love Your Block Grant
- Outreach – Holiday Party
- Zoning
- Governance – Looking for new board members
7. Open Floor / Questions / Additional Announcements
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Love Your Block: Volunteer Day at Mission & Barry Streets is Oct. 15
On Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. we need a bit of your elbow grease to help beautify the hillside at the corner of Barry & Mission Streets. Through the City of Pittsburgh, the South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association was awarded a Love Your Block grant to beautify the site. Join neighbors to work by preparing the ground, plant flowering shrubs and perennials and spread mulch. We also hope to level a spot near the top of the hillside and build/place a sitting bench. Join us and bring a friend or three. Lunch is provided!
Sign up to let us know you’re coming!
Questions? Call 412-606-9372.
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2020 Public Meeting Schedule
Every year, the South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association holds six public meetings open to the community (two of which are parties!).
- Tuesday, January 14, 2020 at St. Paul of the Cross Retreat Center *
- Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at St. Paul of the Cross Retreat Center *
- Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at St. Paul of the Cross Retreat Center Zoom Virtual Meeting
- Tuesday, July 14, 2020 Picnic at Bandi Schaum Community Garden Zoom Virtual Meeting
- UPDATED: Tuesday October 20, 2020 – Virtual Zoom Meeting
- CANCELLED:
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 Holiday Party
All meetings start @ 6:30 p.m.
* St. Paul of the Cross Retreat Center is located at 148 Monastery St. (parking available)
All South Side Slopes residents are invited to attend. Join us to meet new people or reconnect with long-time neighbors, learn what is happening and planned for the community, and share your ideas, concerns and love for the Slopes.
In order to be a voting member of the South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association, you must attend at least 2 meetings and/or events per year.
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You’re invited to our holiday party Dec. 12!
Let us know you’re coming! RSVP ONLINE
Food will be provided. Please bring your own adult or regular beverage. See you there!!
