July 24, 2007

Where The Elite Meet to Eat (and Greet)

Steve and Mona Kazour of Pitaland Mediterranean Bakery & Grocery in Brookline at the White Oak Farmers Market

Stuck for an idea for dinner tonight? Your solution is as close as Rainbow Village Shopping Center, at least through early November.

Irwin Bank, White Oak Chamber of Commerce and White Oak Borough are holding their first annual farmer's market from 3:30 to 6:30 every Tuesday afternoon this summer and fall "until pumpkin season," as one vendor told me last week.

In addition to fresh vegetables (including sweet corn) and fruit, several vendors are offering hot and cold prepared foods, like Pitaland Mediterranean Bakery & Grocery of Pittsburgh's Brookline neighborhood. Flowers, hanging baskets, and bedding plants are also being sold, along with fresh squeezed lemonade.

(I say to heck with the vegetables --- let me at the baklava.)

For more information, call the chamber at (412) 678-2450. Additional vendors are being sought as well.

If you can't make it to White Oak today, there are also several produce markets around the Mon-Yough area on Wednesdays which are supported by the state Agriculture Department and Department of Health.

Mon-Yough Community Services holds one from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Market Street and Fifth Avenue, Downtown; "farm stands" are also open from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Braddock Avenue in Braddock, across from A.J. Silberman & Co.; in Turtle Creek at the Westinghouse Valley Human Services Center from 12 to 2:30 p.m.; and in Wilmerding's Town Park on Westinghouse Avenue from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

There's also a farm stand from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursdays at the Family Dollar on Miller Avenue in Clairton.

More information on those "farm stands" is available from the Allegheny County Health Department.

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Band on the Run: An Alert Reader snapped this photo of what appears to be one of Pennsylvania's newest specialty license plates. See the logo?

It's the logo of the booster club for the Norwin High School Band, also known as the "Norwin Band Aides." No, I am not making that up. And I thought the "NASCAR fan" license plates were too much.

Perhaps the state's license plate program is out of control (at last count there were 169 different special tags available from PennDOT). Nevertheless, I think Dr. Harry Dinkle, the world's greatest band director, would be proud to sport one of those on his car.

Anyway, they sure do love that band out in Norwin. In case you weren't aware, Norwin's band camp starts in five days. It's an event almost, but not quite, as hotly anticipated in certain parts of North Huntingdon as Steeler training camp.

Can a "Tube City Online" license plate be far behind? (Answer: Yes.)

Posted by jt3y at July 24, 2007 07:52 AM
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as an almunus of Norwin SHS, I am not surprised in the least that the band boosters have made this happen. while they're all crazy, they're also a veritable model of what a booster organization should be.

Posted by: Schultz at July 24, 2007 11:51 AM

As someone whose high school band used to be routinely crushed in competitions beneath the spats-clad boots of the Mighty Norwin Marching Machine, Inc., I feel compelled to say "Feh!"

On the other hand, as a wanna-be band parent (only 12 more years to go until the A-man is wallowing in the mediocrity of Shaler High School!) and also as a sometimes correspondent of someone named Steve "Crikey" Norwin, I also feel compelled to say "Good on ya, mates" to that awesome band booster organization.

Posted by: Bob at July 26, 2007 01:58 PM
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