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From YouTube: Pittsburgh City Council Public Hearing - 2/15/23

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Bills #2023-1157 & #2023-1181: renaming Herschel Park Field & Chartiers Field

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Good afternoon and welcome to the city council, cable, cast public hearing regarding field renaming for Elliott West End Athletic Association for the Herschel Field Park field to be named the lower field as the Danbury field and the second one will be for Chartiers field and Chartiers win Gap field to be named structures when gut field. I'm. Sorry, do you want to read the purpose of the.

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Bills, bill 1157 resolution naming the lower Herschel Park field is Dan berryfield and Bill 1181 a resolution authorizing renaming Chartiers field to Charter's Wind Gap field. Thank.

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You and I'm going to start out we're going to start with Chartiers since the president, the community group is here. Leanna. Do you want to come to the podium? Please state your name and neighborhood for the record, and you have three minutes to speak when the yellow light comes on. You have one minute to summarize.

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Good afternoon my name is Leota. Rhodes I am the President of the Wind Gap Chartiers Civic Club. My attention today is for us, as a community, to come as one I'm a lifetime resident of Wind Gap Charter, City Community.

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My immediate family is also um to spend their lives entire lives there living well past their 60s and 90s in this community.

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um I'm here today, not to say I'm against a renaming the park.

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But my question is: why is at this time as a child I remember going to Charter School I um played in the park, but I have older brothers, who did say that um The Wind, Gap side of the community did initiate the park and did have a baseball team named Wind Gap I have no memory of the field actually being named Wind Gap, but um as today, I just watched, all of us will come to the uh as one as one Community um as a Civic Club member.

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We have several Community Days and events in the park with little support from the Wind Gap, neighbors and again I would like for us all to come as one thank you.

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Thank you Leah. Thank you very much for your comments. Are there any speakers registered online Madam Clerk, no registered speakers online? Is there anyone else in the audience wishing to address the Chartiers Park?

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Okay, seeing no further speakers for Chartiers we'll move on to the next hearing, and that is for the um the renaming of lower Herschel Park field as the Danbury field? Is there any with the first registered speaker? We have is Thomas spife Thomas. Do you want to approached the podium? Please please state your name and neighborhood for the record. You have three minutes to speak when the yellow light comes on. You have one minute to summarize. Thank you. My.

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Name is Todd Fife I'm, a former city resident and I heard the good news about the renaming of the field. uh It's really a proper thing to do uh Dan, but so much uh work and love into that. You know Endeavor over many many years. uh You know it's really nice that uh it's going to carry his name I, think it's a a really big deal and uh I'm real happy for him and uh whatever impetus was behind it I'm grateful to those people for uh getting it to this stage.

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So I really don't have that much to say other than.

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There's no way.

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Of knowing how many uh young many may have helped over the years, he's pretty influential guy, so I can't help, but thank a lot of these kids stayed on a straight and narrow because of his example and his support.

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So uh it's really a good day for him and from for me to thank you.

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Thank you very much for your comments. Any further speakers, Mr Berry, you don't want to speak. Mr Berry is here who's a Vietnam veteran. He was actually he helped start. The Elliott West End Athletic Association.

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Thank you. My name is Dan Berry um I grew up across from Herschel field, I mean exactly across from Herschel field.

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um And I I want to say, I think it's an excellent idea. Adding Wind Gap in at the field I played baseball down there when I was a kid, never understood why it wasn't called Wind Gap, but great idea.

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You know I I got involved right after the military, uh uh with the little league Foundation back, then it was only known as uh Elliott Little League.

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We we extended it into Elliot West End, and uh it was a real pleasure to work and watch the project of watching The League grow as big as it is.

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um This is our 60th anniversary, uh uh Elliott uh Little League was formed in 1963 and it's it's a great tribute to think of the fact that it's been going on strong for 60 straight years, and it's a great honor for me to even be considered. uh They have a field named after me. I certainly didn't get involved with with doing this.

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For that reason, I just love, kids and I like being around kids, never even thought of what like Tom said, how much you you contribute to changing uh kids, attitudes or kids that don't have fathers how they look up to you later. You find that it's a great tribute and I want to thank you for this. Consider operation.

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Thank you and thank you for your work in the community. Anyone any further speakers, but that said I just say that if you don't remember when Gap Chartiers being called Wind, Gap short tears, then I'm really worried, because that's one of the things somebody said to me when they wanted to change the name. They said it was always Wind, Gap short tears, but the city took off Wind Gap and that we want to be one community, so I, hopefully either they do come to your meetings, because you do amazing work matter of fact.

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We spoke today about church or city during our meeting and what a great neighborhood it is and how it is predominantly black. The highest home ownership in the city of Pittsburgh, 90 of the properties and Chartiers are homeowner occupied homes, low crime and the credit goes to the community group, which you are now the chairperson, so I just want us our present, so I do want to say you've done a great job there in the community. So thank you for your work. There and I know you'll bring everyone together.

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If you can and I just want to say, Mr Berry, thank you so much for the work that you've done. Our kids went to school together, um Mr Fife, but several copies of your book.

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Yes, he wrote a book about the veterans in in um in our area and that could be that went off uh to Vietnam War. So I just want to. Thank you all, because a lot of you came back and you gave back to the community even further um and you Mr Berry, with helping the kids in the community and coaching them for years and I do know they they think of you very highly.

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So um with that said, this will be on the agenda for Madam clerk would be Monday or Tuesday for final vote or back to committee on Wednesday, okay, so we'll be back to our committee on our standing committee's meeting on Wednesday final vote will be a week from there for them. Okay, thank you, madam clerk, for that. That's it I'm going to join the meeting is adjourned or the this business is over. So thank you all for attending and for speaking meeting adjourned.

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