YEARNING FOR OUTDOOR TENNIS FUN? HPTC ANNUAL SUMMER CLINIC IS JUST WEEKS AWAY.
THE NEW PITTSBURGH COURIER SPOTLIGHTED THE HIGHLAND PARK TENNIS CLUB’s WINTER TENNIS PARTY FOR THE Sickle Cell Society Inc, www.sicklecellsocietypgh.org – 7643 Frankstown Avenue, Pittsburgh – (412) 371-0628. THE ARTICLE AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY DEBBIE NORRELL OUTLINE IN BRIEF THE HISTORY AND SOME OF THE RECENT HIGHLIGHTS OF HPTC. ALSO, DEBBIE MADE EXCELLENT USE OF OUR MOTTO.
AND YES THE FUNTION WAS AN ACE!
THE HEADER PUTS LILLIE SIPP (not Sapp) on the front cover.
THOSE FEATURED IN THE ARTICLE ARE MEG COOPER, JOYCE SCOTT, LILLIE SIPP, ERNIE BEY, DANNY JONES, SHELDON INGRAM, FRED CRAWFORD, RALPH JACKSON, DAVID STRUTHERS, VICKIE BEY, GLORIA HILL, AND LAWADE GARRIS. IF YOUR NAME OR PICTURE IS NOT IN THIS ARTICLE, YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF ON MY PREVIOUS POST.
THE FIRST NOTICE OF ALPHA TENNIS AND FITNESS WAS SOUNDED BY VINCE ROMITO. VINCE IS THE PROMOTER OF A COMPETITIVE SUMMER LEAGUE THAT USES THE FLEX FORMAT INSTITUTED BY THE USTA. TO GET IN ON THAT CONTACT VINCE AT vinceromito@comcast.net .
ALPHA TENNIS AND FITNESS IS OPEN FOR TENNIS AND MORE:
EXCERPT FROM PITTSBURGHLIVE WEB ARTICLE
Mar 3, 2010 … The indoor tennis complex set for construction along Alpha Drive … W.Pa. gets a dusting of good fortune compared to neighbors … The result will be a 70000-square-foot, steel-frame building housing eight courts, a fitness center, … of tennis players in the Pittsburgh (region),” Santilli said. …
www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleynewsdispatch/s_669794.html
Anthony Santilli, one of the developers, said construction of the $3 million facility should begin in April and take about six months to complete. The result will be a 70,000-square-foot, steel-frame building housing eight courts, a fitness center, a spa and a running track. The complex will sit on the former 84 Lumber site. Crews recently finished demolishing the lumber building.
Santilli said memberships will be available for the tennis complex. Those memberships will range from $50 per month to $130 per month and will be available for tennis or gym use only, he said.
Santilli said nonmembers will be able to rent court time, albeit at a higher rate than members.
Two professional tennis players — Craig Perry and Rob Gregoire — will staff the facility, Santilli said. Santilli also said the pair will have other professionals working under them.
There are multiple owners behind the development. They operate as Alpha Tennis Partners.
LOCATION:
WHO THEY ARE ON FACEBOOK
MORE ON ALPHA FROM ED PRICE:
ATP – USTA Teams Forming Now!
From: Edward Price <blinded@comcast.net>
To: ALL
Hi Gang.
Alpha Tennis and Fitness of Pittsburgh located in Harmarville will be opening shortly and will be hosting several USTA teams as listed below this spring. Time is running short for the formation of teams, so if you’re interested, please respond to this email immediately.
Teams: Women’s – 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5 Men’s – 3.5, 4.0
If you don’t fit into one of the above categories and would like to play, let us know and we’ll try to get a team together. Please feel free to forward this email to ANYONE that you think might be interested.
Thanks, Ed Price 412-512-5987
HPTC WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS AS OF 2011
Tom Beck
Aldrich Jenkins
Ryan Longeway Family Membership
Robert Balter
SPEAKING OF MEMBERSHIP, SAVE HPTC A STAMP AND KEEP YOUR MEMBERSHIP ACTIVE. ALSO, REMEMBER, HPTC IS A 501(c) ORGANIZATION. HAVE YOU MOVED? ENSURE THAT WE HAVE YOUR CURRENT CONTACT INFORMATION. AND EVEN IF YOU HAVE MOVED IN TOWN OR OUT THAT DONATION IS TAX DEDUCTIBLE, AND DONATIONS ARE NOT LIMITED JUST TO MEMBERSHIP.
HAVE A NEED OR TIME TO VOLUNTEER? HPTC HAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU.
A NOTE TO STEELER FANS:
Stiller (Steeler) Nation lives on…
From: “oatestnn@aol.com” <oatestnn@aol.com>
To: My Friends
Subject: Stiller (Steeler) Nation lives on…
Fw: WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT STEELER FOOTBALL?
Saturday, February 5, 2011 1:54 PM
Being a Steeler fan means so much more than football. It means being from a corner of the world unlike any other.
It means being from a place where the people are so tough-minded that they have survived the Homestead strikes, the Johnstown flood and most recently the Etna Floods. These people have the DNA of hard work, in mills and mines, without the necessity of complaint. They live simply, with no frills. They don’t have movie stars or fancy cars.
Instead, they have simple traditions like kielbasa, Kennywood, and celebrations. They live in distinctive neighborhoods like Polish Hill and the Hill District and all of the surrounding counties. These people are genuine.
They don’t have chic internet cafes and cappuccinos, but they have The Original Hot Dog joint, Primanti’s, Eat n’ Park and Iron City Beer. People from Pittsburgh don’t have sunny beaches or fancy boats, but the rivers roll gently, connecting the small towns of people whose histories have been built on strength and humility.
People from Pittsburgh don’t have the biggest shopping malls or the best nightclubs, but they’ll take Friday night high school football and Steeler Sunday over anything.
Steeler football means so much more than you think. It symbolizes a Diaspora of generations who had the best childhood they could imagine.
They ran free without a care or concern in the valleys of those Allegheny Mountains . Their blue-collar world was easy … there was no one to tell them that they lacked material things. There was no one to tell them that they needed more.
As the steel mills closed and the jobs disappeared, some of these people had to leave. While the world benefits because they spread their Pittsburgh values, they long for their home where things were simpler and more pure.
They teach their kids about Jack Lambert, Lynn Swann, Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Jack Ham, L.C. Greenwood, Joe Greene, and Myron Cope in hopes of imparting not just the knowledge, but the feeling that they represented.
They are everywhere, those Terrible Towels. They wave, not just for the team, but for the hearts they left behind.
They wave in living rooms in Fort Lauderdale and in the bars of Washington , D.C. They wave all the way to the
Seattle Superdome! They wave for the Rooney family, whose values mirror our own – loyalty, grit, and humility.
They wave for football players like Jerome Bettis and Hines Ward, whose unselfishness and toughness have
allowed sports to be about the game and the team.
Make no mistake that Steeler football is not just about football. I could not be prouder to be from the Pittsburgh area than I am right now!! Even if you no longer live in the area, you have South Western Pennsylvania in your blood no matter where you go.
And deep down in your heart of hearts, you can still hear the Super Bowls of times past, the excitement in everyone’s
voices especially our fathers, cousins, and anyone else who gathered around the TV on Football Sundays!
Make no mistake, its just as exciting right now! It’s not just about rivalries and who is better than the other, it’s about family, tradition and roots! It’s more than football, but its football at its finest! If you now live in Arizona , Colorado , Ohio ,
Indiana , California , Florida , Nevada , or Texas , be proud of where you were born and who your FIRST favorite football team was! Go Steelers
Picksburgh GO STILLERS! Ah yes! “Picksburgh”
Yunz is from the Picksburgh area or maybe you grew up there if:
1. You didn’t have a spring break in high school.
2. You walk carefully when it is “slippy” outside.
3. You often go down to the “crick.”
4. You’ve told your children to “red up” their rooms.
5. You can remember telling your little brother/sister to stop being so ” nebby.”
6. You’ve gotten hurt by falling into a “jaggerbush”.
7. Your mother or grandmother has been seen wearing a “babushka” on her head.
8. You’ve “worshed” the clothes.
9. I ask you to hand me one of those “Gum-Bands” an’ you actually know what I’m talking about.
10. You know you can’t drive too fast on the back roads, because of the deer.
11. You know Beaver Valley , Turtle Crick, Mars, Slippery Rock, Greentree and New Castle are names of towns. And you’ve been to most, if not all, of them.
12. A girl walks up to three of her girl friends and says, “HEY,YENZ GUYS!”
13. You hear “you guyses” and don’t think twice. Example: “you guyses hause is nice.”
14. You know the three rivers by name and under stand that “The Point” isn’t just on a writing instrument.
15. Someone refers to “The Mon” or “The Yough” and you know exactly what they’re talking about.
16. You remember the blizzard o f 1993 (or 1976, or 1950, or 1939,
or…) and remember not being able to go outside because the snow was over your head and you would
have suffocated.
17. Someone starts the chant, “Here we go Still-ers!” and you join in.
In the proper cadence, waving the appropriately colored towel.
18. Bob Prince and “There’s a bug loose on the rug.” hold special meaning for you.
19. You’ve either eaten a Farkleberry Tart or know someone who has.
20. You drink pop, eat hoagies, love perogies and one of your favorite sandwiches actually has coleslaw and French fries ON it.
21. You know what a “still mill” is.
22. You expect temps in the winter to be record-breaking cold and temps in the summer to be record-breaking hot.
23. You know what Eat ‘N Park is and frequently ate breakfast there at 2:00 AM after the bar closed and made fun of people.
24. You order “dippy eggs” in a restaurant and get exactly what you wanted.
25. You spent your summers, or a school picnic at Luna Park , Kennywood, Westview, Sand Castle , or Idlewild.
26. You’ve been to the Braun’s Bread Plant or Story Book Forest for a school field trip. We went to the Heinz plant and the
Isaly’s plant for Cub Scouts.
27. “Chipped ham” was always in your refrigerator when you was growin’up.
28. You refuse to buy any condiments besides Heinz.
29. When you call the dog or the kids you shout, “Kum-mere” and they come.
30. Franco, Roberto, and Mario don’t need last names and you can recite their exploits by heart.
31. Food at a wedding reception consists of rigatoni, stuffed cabbage, sauerkraut and polska kielbasa.
You’ll send this on to family and friends who used to live in the Pittsburgh area as well as to those who have never lived
there, just so they can appreciate how different western PA really is. Wonder how many of yinz guys actually understood all dat? Some folks just don’t.
*I just had to share this with my fellow Pittsburghers! Not sure who the author is..they nailed it!
Cheers,
Janice “Jae”
Jems & Jewels by Jae
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