the neighbor fred rogers has was a local television icon and treasure of pittsburgh he really was a pioneer in children's programming for some forty years in the city of pittsburgh and he began every one of his shows with just a very simple statement won't you be my neighbor that's what we're asking in the village of in the show to come and be our neighbor i'm richard roberts in the passion of rights and edward united methodist churches and also a resident of  ship we've got lots of things we've been doing in the last eighteen months in that little village that we've been i kind of let you know about we've been on public television here before they kind of let you know some of the events on irma gregg owes a senior  perspective but now it's just some of the things that are coming up for for christmas starting this first weekend of december and by the time you see is this may already be over but it's going to continue for thirty days throughout the whole month of december christmas in the village of  it'll start the first weekend with a lighting of the thirty foot christmas tree it's an outdoor tree that are continually be lit for the right december but we're also going to try to make it we did last year for the very first time got  a tree landscaper gotta come and bring his his truck out with a bucket on it then had one of the church members scaling that thirty foot tree to put these lights on in and so we did it for the very first time and surprise to the community  that starts the summer fifth but it also runs every night in december to come see that tree put some music to it this year make it an animated event so we're hoping that works i'm not really big on technology so if anyone out there knows anything about bluetooth which i imagine a lot of you do give me a call in we'll get that hooked up just adding some other events to that also something that happens throughout the month of december and back it happens all year around is the day or model railroad club not if you're aware but in the venetian community center all year round and there's a model railroad club run by officer dave stan here from peter's township and it's all about putting together platforms and train layouts and the kids that work with their program come every thursday and come and build that last year was the first time i said let's do something at  christmas if you remember when when i was a child and maybe yourself bill planetarium down on the north side of pittsburgh had a wonderful train display and then they moved it to the carnegie science center and that's where it is right now well it's in that same december we got fires campfires built all over the campus there with smores and hot chocolate in an apple cider and again it's just to promote the village atmosphere where so fortunate to live in peter township in and that part of peter's township in the venetian area is kind of the foundation from what i understand just living here a little over eighteen months when some of the pioneers that came across the mountains settled in this homes there in seventeen eighty that homestead or a facsimile of that is still there right in the new ship and that's also part of our month long celebration it's called the right house and the first weekend of this number is a soup and stroll that's a traditional fundraiser for that but the cabin that was built in seventeen eighty and then in front of that is the right house museum western expansion and that's just a wonderful place with great artifacts from this local area willie is a local historian and this guy travels around the country talking about the history i mean december but on the outside you'll see some of the period decorations that will be at the right house museum and so we invite you to come and be a part of that local history back to the community center they'll be a scarf mitten and glove drive by a brownie troop of forty or fifty two for ninety nine and again if you miss it the first weekend of december contact that brownie troop and be able to bring those donations those collections for gloves hats and mittens that's not only the only way to give during this thirty days of december that's what we're calling it thirty days of giving other organizations to heifer international if you find yourself what can i do to give a gift to a family that would really have a great impact could you  that they can be a part of feeding their family later on or buy seeds for folks to grow crops heifer international you can come to rights in edwards united methodist churches in and be a part and give donations to that the red bird mission also is in the appalachian in kentucky and that's an organization run by united methodist women that has been serving in rural appalachia for over one hundred years and and there and great need there to so many opportunities for service to make really the world better place and we're just calling on everyone who enjoys the holiday traditions to maybe  a part of part of the what is the uniqueness of every community that we live in and when we first moved to venetia that's what i saw i saw the village that was right before the school the  we can't stop there and with the traditions of the past it's moving on into the future and as a peters township continues to grow we can grow because we know our past you know when we know our history  better prepares us for our future and so that's exciting with all the other activities that are going on in the peter's township area let me remind you of some other things coming up that first weekend of the summer but also every weekend in december  next on december the thirteenth it's a saturday night we're going to have a presentation of gloria it's a musical that is about the nativity what is what was that travel like for three wise men for shepherds watching their flocks in a field by night it's a musical with children and for youth and adults and it's free it's up in the public starts six o'clock december the thirteenth we invite you to come out to be a part of that the following following saturday night at six o'clock is for the first time in forever a frozen sing along celebration i've got three girls at my house and my children and this frozen thing is kind of tracked the world by storm it's just a wonderful story and if you don't know it it's a disney movie but you know the theme of that is just what we need to hear in the world today is only true love can melt a frozen heart that comes from an old hans christian andersen tale but it's provided through the magic of disney how to make it a great wonderful motion picture anyway i think every twenty first it's the bethlehem in it's kind of a real just funny dinner theater and if you could travel back to december the twenty fourth the year zero zero zero zero and be in the in  traditions that you're a part of on december the twenty fourth invited to go be a part of those but if not come visit us that rights are at edwards met united methodist churches and enjoy lighting a candle and being a these pieces together to make thirty days of caring and sharing and the village of any show and the last eighteen months that we've lived there we have got the saw a lot of great activity so we can fly all night long but that was just a great undertaking again it's bringing the community together to make the village atmosphere which is what it grew peter's township in was really what grew america  from our old world roots of the village the village atmosphere so you could come see the flagpole that's there and maybe think of your school days when you were maybe a student there at the play ball on the fields there in the soccer folks or their little league baseball when that comes in season lots of opportunities and reason to come to our little village of the nation so i bid you all a grand farewell and merry christmas happy new year to all of the folks out there come visit us in venetia again just stay tuned to our 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