The Holiday season is upon us!

We are bringing back your favorite Halloween and Christmas events!

                It’s that time of year!  The leaves are changing color, the Steelers fans are cheering in Heinz Field, and the winds are whistling throughout our city—we’ve reached fall in Pittsburgh.  It is time to plan our annual Lawrenceville holiday parties: Lawrenceville United’s Children’s’ Halloween Party and Light Up Lawrenceville.  These long-time neighborhood traditions serve hundreds of Lawrenceville children and their families each year.  Both events will be held at the Teamsters Temple building on Butler Street, The Halloween Party will be on October Saturday, October 29th from 5:30 – 7:30pm and Light Up Lawrenceville will be celebrated Saturday, December 3rd from 11a – 2p.  With your continued support, we are able to build upon the success of each past year to create fun events for long-time and new residents to enjoy!

We have heard from you and are working to tailor these events to better suit our community’s needs.  We solicited feedback from participants in the events last year and have made changes to help ensure that more residents and stakeholders are able to enjoy the festivities. For example, this Halloween, we would like to partner with you to facilitate a trick or treat event for the local children with local businesses, i.e. kids will be able to trick or treat at your business from 4p – 5:30p thus creating a safe festive atmosphere for residents, stakeholders, and businesses alike.  In addition, we are working to create an even bigger and more exciting haunted house for the children, and will certainly be bringing back a DJ for the monster mash in addition to many more fun activities!

Simarly, we have worked to organize a Light Up Lawrenceville event that compliments some of the other exciting events happening in the neighborhood in honor of the holiday season.  This year, Light Up Lawrenceville and the Joy of Cookies tour will be working in tandem.  With this partnership, we have decided to split the holiday party for the children and the tree lighting.  We will invite everyone out to light the tree (near the entrance to Allegheny Cemetery) with a small outside reception and celebration on Wednesday November 30th which will launch the weekend of holiday festivities in Lawrenceville.  Our traditional Light Up Lawrenceville event will be held with the Cookie Mall on Saturday, December 3rd.  Santa will be available for pictures and with gifts for each child, and we will have fun activities and games for all families to enjoy!

Interested in volunteering for any of the events? Contact Becky Thatcher at becky@lunited.org.

We would like to thank all of the sponsors who have supported us thus far!

Halloween 2011
*indicates trick or treat stop

Supporter
(under $50)

Advocate
(under $100)
Champion
(under $1,000)
Sponsor
($1,000 +)
Coca Café
Cochran Associate
Renzo Gracie Pittsburgh Jiu Jitsu
Wildcard*
Technicuts
Anonymous Resident
Barb's Corner Kitchen
Gallery on 43rd Street
Kelly Custom Furniture
Evolve Salon
The Darwing Room*
Crazy Mocha*
Crystal Bead Bazzar*
Isle of You Salon*
Cutitta Chiropractic
Javo Studios
Save-A-Lot Store #24545
Trinity Gallery
T's Upholstery Studio
43rd Street Concrete
D'Alessandro Funeral Home
Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania*
Lawrenceville Corporation
Pennsylvania Free Masons
Shop n Save
Tom Troy Enterprises
Vocelli Pizza*
Walter J. Zalewski Funeral Homes Inc.
Wendys
Southwestern Family Services*
Spector Studios

 

Light Up Lawrenceville 2011

Supporter
(under $50)

Advocate
(under $100)
Champion
(under $1,000)
Sponsor
($1,000 +)
Cochran Associates
Gallery on 43rd Street
Harvey Lipsitz
Kelly Custom Furniture
Lawrenceville Vision Care
Schaefers Office Furniture Upholstery Service, Inc.
Technicuts
Wildcard
Allegheny Cemetary
Barb's Corner Kitchen
Javo Studios
Jeff's Notary Service
T's Upholstery Studio
720 Records
Vocelli Pizza
43rd Street Concrete
Engine House 25 Wines
Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania
Lawrenceville Corporation
Pressure Chemical Company
Rieder Photography, Inc.
Shop n Save
Signs by Tomorrow
The Clemente Museum at Engine House 25
Union Orthotics and Prosthetics Company
Walter J. Zalewski Funeral Homes Inc.
Omega Federal Credit Union
Senator James Ferlo
Southwestern Family Services
Sargent Electric