Newsletter

As of October 1 2009 Riverview Park Alliance will cease active operations.  We will maintain our name and keep the records from the time we started on October 25 2000.  We will exist as an inactive non-profit untill such time as we will become active again or completely desolve our organization.

The reasons for this decision are many.
when we started the park was in need of a lot of trash cleanup and trail maintenace. We performed a lot of this kind of work in the begining but as time went on the park workers under the supervision of Bob Lackey has done such a good job that we no longer are needed in this capacity.  In more recent years as the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy became more active in Riverview we turned to working with them to create meadows and restore areas where invasive species of trees were removed and along with the park crew planted a number of flower beds.

We no longer recieve any funding other than our memberships and a few sponsors.
It has gotten hard to get volunteers together when they don't see a need for the work any more.
We had planned to write a History Book of Riverview Park but it seems like there is verry little interest in this.
We thought of trying to restore some Historic things in the park or at least make markers to commemorate them but there is no one that can commit to the long term that this would take.

It is my hope that sometime in the near future we may be able to get some people that would be able and willing to take on projects. If this happens we will still be here and will be willing to return to an active status.

Thanks to all who have been involved with us over the last nine years.

Will Fordenbacher
President Riverview Park Alliance