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90.5 WESA Celebrates 90 Neighborhoods, 90 Good Stories

90 Neighborhoods, 90 Good Stories is a weekly series of radio and online stories celebrating people who make the place they live a better place to live. We invite you to nominate someone you know who is making a difference in his or her neighborhood for possible inclusion in our series. Please use the form below to share how your nominee is making a difference. The story could be about helping others; it could be about improving the neighborhood itself. All nominations will be considered, but we expect many nominees per neighborhood—so not every suggestion will result in a broadcast story.Thanks for sharing!00000176-e6f7-dce8-adff-f6f7720a0000

90 Neighborhoods, 90 Good Stories Podcast: Episode 9

90.5 WESA | By 90.5 WESA

Published August 14, 2018 at 3:25 PM EDT

The 90 Neighborhoods, 90 Good Stories Podcast introduces you to people in the Pittsburgh area, who are striving to make their community a better place to live.

This episode, we speak with Gary Cirrincione, an architect who’s volunteered his skills to rehab housing in Garfield; Siggy Pehel, who helped restore a 50-acre lake in Butler County; and Shannon Merenstein, the founder of the Hatch Art Studio, a place for children and families to gather and make art in Point Breeze.

90.5 WESA Celebrates 90 Neighborhoods, 90 Good Stories, is sponsored by UPMC.