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In March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic began, nursing homes closed to visitors for what was supposed to be a 14-day quarantine. When Greenfield native JoAnne Klimovich Harrop got the news, she knew where she needed to be. She left behind her husband, her South Hills home, and her job as a journalist in the busy TribLive newsroom, to move into the Charles Morris nursing home with her 93-year-old mother.

The Oct. 14 Greater Hazelwood hybrid community meeting saw lively discussions about land use throughout the neighborhood and city. A lifelong resident proposed building a year-round baseball facility below the tracks, and staff from the Department of City Planning invited feedback about the Adopt-A-Lot program and expanding the greenway system.

On Oct. 3, about 65 people gathered at the City Reformed Presbyterian Church in The Run to discuss solutions to the neighborhood’s flooding. The discussion has occurred repeatedly over the years, at times in the same basement assembly room when it was owned by International Union of Operating Engineers Local 95.

Eighty people were gathered around tables at the Energy Innovation Center in the Hill District on Oct. 22, talking very seriously about the future of Pittsburgh. The discussions were about three possible scenarios to guide the Pittsburgh 2050 Comprehensive Plan. Those three scenarios gave the attendees a choice: Do they want a plan that makes the city better by focusing on housing, or jobs, or climate resilience?

As I stood and watched the completion of the Glen Hazel Highrise in 1975, I thought how wonderful it was for the community to finally have an affordable building completed for seniors and those with disabilities. Glen Hazel Bernice Crawley Highrise residents celebrated 50 years of their building’s existence on Sept. 26.