May 8, 2025 • 30 mins
Our mission is simple - we provide a one-stop "hub" for our community. Here you'll find access to a variety of resources: a library with computers and internet access, support services such as a food pantry and counseling center, and enriching youth programs. Through the efforts of our volunteers and the support of our neighbors in West View, we are striving to give our patrons a place where they can enjoy themselves, enrich their lives, and find help when they need it. https://www.westviewhub.org/
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
And welcome in. This is a public affairs program shedding
the light on the interest, issues and concerns of the
greater Pittsburgh. Very good morning. My name is Johnny hert Well,
I'm your host, and in studio with me is an
old friend, Scott Pablet of the Westview Hub. How are you, Scott?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hey doing great? Johnny, Thanks for having me. It's great
to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I know you've done these programs before, and I know,
but for people who are familiar with the Westview Hub,
and everybody should be familiar because you do some amazing work.
Can you kind of tell us the history of we
kind of understand exactly what you do.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Sure. So the Westview Hub was something I founded back
in twenty nineteen after being forcefully retired because I was
over fifty five from a major corporation and we'll leave
it at that. Yeah, and I just felt like I
was being pulled in a different direction. It was time
to do something more meaningful with my life life, and
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so I started a foundation and we got funding and
we created a Westview Hub. The Westview Hub is a
library first and foremost located in Westview, obviously, which is
an underserved area in the Pittsburgh area, and so we
started the Hub. We call it the Hub because we
use the analogy of a hub on a bicycle wheel
with spokes that support the wheel. We built out spokes
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to support the community. So in addition to a library,
which by the way, is located in an old bank,
and we retained a lot of the architectural features like
the old P and C bank.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, we have the vault as a reading room and
it's pretty cool. We had a little food pantry in
a back and we were serving fifteen families. Today we
took over an empty bakery next door. We have a
food pantry with over eleven hundred families registered and it's
it's quite an endeavor and it's very nice. Everything we
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do is free to the community.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So you started in in twenty nineteen, right, and then
things kind of changed once COVID hit when twenty twenty came,
and then, like you said, you had a small food pantry,
and that's expanded quite a bit, hasn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
It has, and it continues to, you know, with inflation
and then wes U has had a large influx of
non English speaking families that come in for food as well,
and it's a really cool dynamic. I mean, we have
a good mix of people. We build community. It's one
of our tenants, and the folks that come to the
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pantry have become friends and so you have a whole
community of folks that come in for food, but they
all also care for each other, which is something very unique.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Are you originally from the Westview area?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I grew up on the edge of WESU, but my
first girlfriend was from Westview, Okay, and we used to
make out on the Betsy and Chocolate steps in the back.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Oh dearly noted. Thank you, Scott, Thank you for that
little historic update. So tell me about the evolution of
the mission of the Hub. Now, when you first wanted
to do something philanthropic, was it just to build the
library and then it built from there and then you said, hey,
let's call it the Hub or was the original idea
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to call it the hub and provide different things for
the community.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
The original diet The idea was to call it the
Community Life enrichmentd Center, but it was too much to
put on a hat, so you went with Hub.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
But you do have a spiritual aspect of your mission,
right right.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, our tagline is building body, mind, and spirit. And yeah,
it's interesting from a spiritual standpoint, I felt God called
me to do this. And my favorite word is providence,
where God puts good things in your path. The Westview
Hub there's been a living example of providence because good
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things come and not because of me. I'm just a
catalyst that got started. The Hub has a life of
its own and people are drawn to it. It's amazing.
And we have the library, We have programs. You know,
last year we did over one hundred programs in the community.
We welcome everybody, We give out food. We also started
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an art center called Hubworks. It's an immersive arts center
where we offer you know, dance lessons, music lessons, art classes.
We have a full blown recording studio.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I was going to ask you about that. Yeah, and
we'll get to that because there are so many things
that you do. But I want to drill down a
little deeper about the library. So when you where did
you get the books? Where did when? How did the
library start? Okay, the library started, believe it or not.
I went to a Netflix prop sell. They had an
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airplane used from mind Hunters. It was a Boeing seven
to twenty seven from the back in the seventies, but
they had tons of books that were props, and yeah,
a lot of the books are out of dated, you know, right,
legal journals from the seventies, but they look impressive on
a shelf.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
So we brought these books in. We built the airplane
as a kids theater. You know, I think we have
the only airplane theater in the North Hills or maybe
in the Pittsburgh area, I don't know wherever.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well, that's funny that because I knew the history of
the airplane. Once you go in into the hub, that's
the first thing you see, right, It's very noticeable. And
I knew that you got it from Mine Hunters, which
I love the show, and it's coming back. There's no
chance they're going to bring back the plane or take
back the books they are yours.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, there ares they wouldn't get it through the door.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So I didn't realize the books also came from that
estate sale. For lack of a better word.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Right, initially we brought them in, but we quickly replaced them.
A local library was having a book sale where they
were selling a lot of duplicates or things that might
have been slightly out of date. So we brought in
about two thousand books. And then we always offer the
patrons the opportunity to buy a book and put a
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placard inside this book's in honor of or this book's
in memory of And so we always have a influx
of new books and today we have a very nice, current,
solid collection.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
So once you developed the library, what was the next
program that you introduced to the Westview Hub?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
The next program was a technology center. At the time
when we built a hub, thirty five percent of the
residents had no computer and no access to internet. So
we put in obviously a big Wi Fi network, and
we took the old teller stations of the of the
bank and turned those into computer centers computer stations, and
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we have maybe ten or eleven stations there and folks
come in you all the time, you know, to research,
to print off things, you know, apply for a job,
print off the application. In addition, we also do technology
training for seniors. We work with different partners, and you know,
it's just an ongoing evolution, I guess, and technology is
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so current and prevalent and it's not going away. And
with everything new coming out. We're starting a class, an
AI class for seniors. Oh okay, it should be interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
So you also had a program where some of your
patrons were able to get free computers. Do you still
have that program?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So that program was coming through a partner at Computer Reach,
and last year we offered that This year we hope
too as well. Basically, we do technology training for seniors.
At the end of this session, they get certified and
it's a four day session, well four sessions at two
hours apiece, so eight hours they invest eight hours in learning,
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they get a free laptop.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Okay, well, hopefully that program will continue. So once you
built the library and some of these, you know, the
computers and stations, what was the next program that you introduced?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Now, let me think about it. Well, so the next
program was a series of programs in the summertime for
children and adults. We had book clubs, we had reading
circles for young children. We had we called it Staycation
and it's a very popular program. The kids come in,
they learn about different states. So they come in, they're
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gonna learn about Pennsylvania. They'll go into the airplane, typically
in groups. Because the airplane can hold sixteen, we probably
get you know, twenty five to thirty kids. So one
group's doing a craft, the other group's watching a documentary
on Pittsburgh or Pennsylvania. Then we swap. Then we read
a book, we have a snack, and we do an
art project and it runs all through the summer and
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a kids love it.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And you still continue those programs, right.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, this year we're doing Staycation, which is going to
focus on Pittsburgh areas of interest, the museums, Wow near
the Blockhouse, all the different things that you know, make
Pittsburgh special.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
We kind of talked a little bit about the food pantry,
and you said that it had a modest beginning, right,
but it's grown. For those who just tuning in, tell
us a little bit more about the food pantry.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Okay, So the food pantry is located in an old
bakery next to the library, which was an old bank
and today, you know, when we started, it was very modest,
fifteen to twenty families. Today we're over eleven hundred families
that are on our rolls. Now, if they all came
on the same day, we'd be out of business. But
we typically we were open two days a week, you know,
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Tuesdays and Thursdays, and we'll typically feed you know, two
hundred and fifty to three hundred per day. Wow. We
get donations from Whole Foods Shop and Save Chick fil
A Olive Garden. It's amazing how much food comes in.
At the beginning of the distribution day, our food, our
tables are just packed almost to the ceiling. Two hours later,
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we're empty.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
So what do you have to do to qualify for
the food at the pantry?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Show up? Yeah, if you have a need, we're going
to feed. Yeah, that's our motto. We don't require financial information.
We feel everything we do is done with respect and dignity.
And what could be more undignified than having to sit
there and pour your financial heart out to some stranger
and then beg for food.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
But it's costly because you have refrigerators and you have
other you know things to take care of the food. Sure,
So it's expensive, right, So how do you fund that
portion of the hub?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So we rely on a lot of foundational ants. We
have a lot of tremendous partners. And what we do is,
you know, I'm constant. You spend probably fifty percent of
my time applying for funding through different foundations. And that's
how we fund it because you can't go tin cup
in the community that you serve.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Right, especially a community that's underserved. Right, they're struggling, and
that's the reason why you're there, and that's why you're
so important. You're you're part of the re revitalization of Westview, Right,
you must be very proud of that.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I'm very pleased with the results. Proud. You know, you
hate to.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Be he's modest. He's being modest. And then you also
have to rely on on volunteers.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Right, There's a lot of volunteers, and that's what really
keeps us going. I would I would say in the
course of a year, well over one hundred volunteers are
involved with the Hub, and I can't say enough good
about them. I mean, the most valuable thing we have
in our existence is our time. And so when you
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think about it, you can always get more money, more cars.
I don't think I can get any more hair, you know,
follically challenged. But you're not gonna ge any more time
than God has planned for you. So when you share
your time, you're sharing your greatest treasure.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
You know. I kind of said you're modest, and I
do believe that you're You're honestly modest, but you also
had some health issues last year, you want, you had
a stroke, and you're still fighting for the people at
Westview and fighting for the programs here at the Hub.
So you have a lot to be proud of and
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the community has should be proud of you and what
you're you've been able to accomplish. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Well, the stroke was a little bit of a setback,
but not too much. And I wouldn't use the word proud.
I'm not proud. I'm thankful, Okay. I'm thankful for the
opportunity to serve, and I'm thankful that I'm here.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
So we talked about the library and some of the programs,
and we talked about the food pound in pantry, but
that kind of just scratches the service. You mentioned you
have over one hundred programs.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Right to.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Talk about every one, we'd need certainly more time. Sure,
but what are some of the other But let's talk
about some of the programs that involve the Hub in
the summertime. Okay, Well, so in the summertime, we have
we so we have Hubworks, which we set up in
an old gun shop next to the bakery. So we
basically owned run three storefronts on the plaza and Hubworks
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is an immersive art center. It's got a large performance space,
it's got a big art studio and a full blown
recording studio. Not quite as nice as yours, but it's
it's up there. How make tracks, you have it? We
have sixteen okay, all right? And so in the summertime,
you know, families are looking for ways to involve, to
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continue to enrich their children, and creativity is a great way.
So we really focus on music programs. Children could come
in and learn to play the guitar, the keyboard, the ukulele.
We have drum circles, which gets a noisy. We have
acting classes, we have creative writing classes. We have our classes,
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painting classes, illustration classes. I mean, I could go on
and on. Well, how involved is the community. Have they
accepted and embraced the Oh yes, oh yeah, I mean
we might have like for guitar lessons, we might have
a cap of fifteen students. We put that up online, like, hey,
we're open within a half hours, sold out. And with
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the acting classes, do you have performances from time to time?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
They're a theatri The theatrical performances occur within the Hub.
One of our partners is Steel City Shakespeare Center and
they work closely with us. We also have it's interesting.
We recently hired a gentleman, John Sholkowski, who heads up
the Pittsburgh Historical Society, and he's a wild guy. He's
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got a lot of interesting programs. He does genealogy, Pittsburgh oddities,
movie nights like Pittsburgh theme movies or movies that were
filmed in Pittsburgh. He's all Pittsburgh. He knows everything about Pittsburgh.
He's also a ghost hunter. So he holds these classes
and they're a little bit off the rail, but we
get a really good turnout. People just love them.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
That's amazing. That's amazing. So they've embraced a lot of
these different kind of programs that you have. Now, you
mentioned a recording studio just a few minutes ago. That's
something that's you know, I wasn't aware of last time
we talked. I wasn't aware that you. I knew that
you had acting and you are a musician, that you
had instrument lessons at a recording studio. So how did
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that come about?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Well, I play in a band and selfishly I wanted
a recording studio, but I also thought it'd be good. Yeah,
if you're learning to play an instrument, what better way
to reinforce what you're doing right than to be able
to record and hear yourself.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
And so how long have you had the recording studio?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Well, we opened Hubworks two years ago, so it's been
there for two years.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Okay, all right, Well that's something new that's on the website.
And speaking of that, I'm going to bring the website up.
These are some ongoing programs. Tell us a little bit
about your North Hills Community Outreach. What is that all about?
Tuesdays at one to three? What is that all about?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
The North Hills Community Outreach is one of our partners.
They were established i think back in the sixties and
provide a lot of different services. They have a food
pantry as well, but they provide counseling, you'll help with
rental assistance, energy assistants and what we do. Rather than
reinvent the wheel, we have a strong cohort of partners
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that are able to compliment what we're doing. So we
pull them into the community. So once a week they
come into the Hub and they're available. Folks come in
and sit down and talk and work through different challenges
that they're facing. And it's just one of the services
that we provide.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Because you I saw the VFW regional office hours and
you also have a state rep also has satellite hours
that utilize the web for that. So that's what you're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Utilize the hub. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah. And so if somebody is interested in, you know,
establishing some office hours, well, what's the process? Can they?
Can they?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
You know, if they're serving the community? Yeah, best thing
to do is reach out to me wes U hub
at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
All right, so what's the mission again? You said body, body, mind,
and spirit and one of those you have you have
what is it? Mindfulness and movement? Is that yoga classes
as well? It's it's a combination of things. Okay, it's
kind of sorry the it's like chair yoga. Okay, all right,
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but with a but.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
You knows a lot of yeah, just for your spirit.
You know, it's a little I won't say it's hippy dippy, but.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, it's they're serving the community.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
We get a good turnout, okay every Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
So in addition to musicians and you you you you
drum circles and all that, but something that I saw
on your website. I was like, there is you will
do almost anything. A society of American magicians. You have
magic classes as well, we do. It's fabulous and kids
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love it. I'm sure. Yeah, I think as an adult
I would love it.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, it's an interesting class. Yeah. I wasn't very close
to it last year because I was dealing with this stroke.
But yeah, we get a good turnout and it's been
very popular and well received.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
So where do we get a list of all these
programs that you are able to provide?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
So the programs are always evolving, and that's one of
the things that makes us unique. We're barrier free. We
respond to the needs or the desires of the community
without going through a lot of red tape. Barrier free free,
what does that mean? That means we're not constricted. For example,
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we have some agencies we work with that do wonderful work,
but maybe in one or two or three lanes, we
have no lanes. We just you know, I mean, we
have lanes obviously, But if somebody has an idea, if
somebody has a talent they want to share. If somebody
is passionate about pottery and they want to come in
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and do pottery classes. We'll make that happen.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Do you have pottery classes? Have you had pottery classes before?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
No? But we could do it. I mean, we can
make that happen.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I love that. And so you're a little free spirit,
little hippie dippy yourself, aren't you. Yeah, that's funny. Can
you share maybe a success story of somebody who came
in with an idea, you thought about it and said, yeah,
we could do that, and it turned into a program
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that got completely embraced by the community.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Do you have stories like that? Yeah, I'm trying to
think there's a lot of them. I'm trying to think
of which onement be the best. So you know Still
City Shakespeare. Yeah, it was passionate about Shakespeare.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And were you initially skeptical or you completely open mind
and say, hey, let's give it a go.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
That was skeptical? Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, I don't
know what kind of draws Shakespeare has. But in this case,
the gentleman that ran Still City Shakespeare Center ended up
working for us for a while. He would hold summer camps,
Shakespeare camps. He gets thanks seventy five to eighty children
all week long. Wow, Yeah, that's a huge success.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
And how old are these children.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I'm gonna say they're third through middle school, like third
through eighth.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Wow, to get middle school schoolers passionate about Shakespeare, that's
that's quite an accomplishment.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
It is.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
I would have been skeptical too, but you gave it
a whirl and it actually worked.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
It worked.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, all right, So you said there's so many give
give us a couple more because that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
So I mentioned John Scholskowski, Right, he has some pretty
crazy programs, I mean Pittsburgh oddities. Yeah, just talk about
murders in the area and things that are forgotten. Again,
I thought, I don't know if people will be interested
that we get standing them only really Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
And what are some of the things that he talks about?
Some high profile crimes of Pittsburgh. Yeah, that maybe occurred
back in the eighteen hundreds that we know we're no
longer aware of. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, it's just interesting. I mean, Pittsburgh's an interesting town.
For example, back in the in the nineteen thirties, on
Prom night, the thing to do after Prom was to
go down to the County Morgue and look at bodies.
You know who would know that, well, you know, you
didn't have eton parked and for an after party, you
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might as well go to the morgue, right, all right?
So is there has there been a program that somebody.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Was introduced that you said that might that might be
a step too far for us.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
No, I mean wen't turned to anybody away. We give
them all a shot. Yeah, and typically we're very well pleased.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
And so how large of a staff you mentioned volunteers?
Do you have a like a full time staff?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, sure we do. We have and we think here,
I think we have six at this point.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
So if somebody was going to come to you and
you were going to kind of introduce the Westview Hub,
how do you describe what your organization does? Some people
understand that you know that there's you know, you talk
about one hundred programs. That's difficult to kind of you know,
put it in a in a you know, a pigeonhole
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and say this is what we do.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
So I think the way I describe it is, you know,
we're here to serve the community. Whatever the community needs,
we endeavor to accomplish. You know, they need a library,
we got a library they need we did a food pantry.
We got a food pantry. The Art Center was something
that was born out of a desire to help children
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dealing with what's called aces, adverse childhood experiences which really
manifest from like addiction in a home, ABU, mental abuse,
physical abuse, and in the North Hills area Alleghany County
states at one in six families have a drug addict
in the home and that has a profound impact on
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learning capability, emotional stability, and socialization for the children living
in those homes. Psychologists have found that sustained participation in
the creative process aka the arts, can mitigate those negative effects.
So the Art Center was born. That was the inspiration
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for it. Of course it's taken on a whole new life,
of a whole big life of offering much more. I mean,
you know, not everybody comes in is dealing with aces,
but for those that are, they're immersed in a welcoming, warm,
creative experience.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
You talked a little bit about individuals and they would
go to you or the Hub and suggest an idea.
But do you have any like local businesses. What kind
of partnerships have you made in Westview are that are
helping you achieve some of your goals.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
So we have a very strong cohort of partners that
range from politicians, our district drap our senator, to the
local police department, to the schools, local businesses. Yeah we have, Yeah,
there are businesses you know. For example, if we get
in you know, ten cases of bananas, we'll call up
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the Kkery, which is a big bakery in wes U. Yeah,
and they can always use bananas. And it'll come down
to take bananas. When we're doing an event and we
need you know, five hundred cookie for like our summertime
event which is coming up by the way on June fourth,
our six year anniversary, they'll provide free cookies. So that's
a symbiotic relationship. The flower shop across the street provides
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us with flowers when we're doing an event, you know. Yeah.
The local pizza shop does a kind of like a
book it if you remember that back from the eighties
with the schools, Like when the children read so many books,
they get a free certificate from the hub and they
get a free pizza.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Oh nice.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah, So the partnerships are very valuable. They're not I
won't say they're grandiose, but they're grandiose to us because
it allows us to bring that extra measure to the community.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
But you're reaching out to the community at large. Oh sure,
and you're getting the feedback. And what kind of feedback
do you get from the schools and the you know,
the police and things like that. Do they do they
value what you guys are able to bring to West.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Oh definitely, Yeah, we get tremendous feedback. The schools are
very close partnership. I sit on the Northfield School District
Advisory Council. I have insight into what the challenges are
that the students face or the teachers face, and we
work to develop programs to help mitigate those challenges.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Well, we only have about a minute left, So is
there a particular message you want people to know about
the Westview Hub.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I would just say, first and foremost, we have our
anniversary coming up in June. Come on down, check out
the hub, see what's going on. You'll get to learn
about the programs, meet the staff, meet the volunteers.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
What day is that?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I think it's June fourth this year, June fourth. If
you go to our website you'll see it out there
and the anniversary. So how many years have you been
since twenty six and six years? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So it's a library, it's a food pantry, a computer lab,
numerous the programs, hundreds of programs for all ages. The
Westview Hub dedicated to improving the intellectual, physical, and spiritual
life within Westview. And I'm proud to say that you're
a friend and you deserve any kind of accolade that
you get, because you certainly deserve all the love for
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all that you do for Westview and in the and
the greater Pittsburgh community. Scott on behalf of all of us.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Well, thank you, Johny, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
And if you have if you want more information, the website,
what is it Westviewhub dot org. That's pretty easy, Wesview
dot org, west USU Hub dot org. I'll forget the
hub because that's what they're all about, the Hub. Scott,
thank you so much and good to Hopefully we'll see
you very very soon. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Take care.
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And welcome in. This is a public affairs program shedding
the light on the interest, issues and concerns of the
greater Pittsburgh. Very good morning. My name is Johnny hert Well,
I'm your host, and in studio with me is an
old friend, Scott Pablet of the Westview Hub. How are you, Scott?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hey doing great? Johnny, Thanks for having me. It's great
to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I know you've done these programs before, and I know,
but for people who are familiar with the Westview Hub,
and everybody should be familiar because you do some amazing work.
Can you kind of tell us the history of we
kind of understand exactly what you do.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Sure. So the Westview Hub was something I founded back
in twenty nineteen after being forcefully retired because I was
over fifty five from a major corporation and we'll leave
it at that. Yeah, and I just felt like I
was being pulled in a different direction. It was time
to do something more meaningful with my life life, and
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so I started a foundation and we got funding and
we created a Westview Hub. The Westview Hub is a
library first and foremost located in Westview, obviously, which is
an underserved area in the Pittsburgh area, and so we
started the Hub. We call it the Hub because we
use the analogy of a hub on a bicycle wheel
with spokes that support the wheel. We built out spokes
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to support the community. So in addition to a library,
which by the way, is located in an old bank,
and we retained a lot of the architectural features like
the old P and C bank.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, we have the vault as a reading room and
it's pretty cool. We had a little food pantry in
a back and we were serving fifteen families. Today we
took over an empty bakery next door. We have a
food pantry with over eleven hundred families registered and it's
it's quite an endeavor and it's very nice. Everything we
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do is free to the community.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So you started in in twenty nineteen, right, and then
things kind of changed once COVID hit when twenty twenty came,
and then, like you said, you had a small food pantry,
and that's expanded quite a bit, hasn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
It has, and it continues to, you know, with inflation
and then wes U has had a large influx of
non English speaking families that come in for food as well,
and it's a really cool dynamic. I mean, we have
a good mix of people. We build community. It's one
of our tenants, and the folks that come to the
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pantry have become friends and so you have a whole
community of folks that come in for food, but they
all also care for each other, which is something very unique.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Are you originally from the Westview area?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I grew up on the edge of WESU, but my
first girlfriend was from Westview, Okay, and we used to
make out on the Betsy and Chocolate steps in the back.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Oh dearly noted. Thank you, Scott, Thank you for that
little historic update. So tell me about the evolution of
the mission of the Hub. Now, when you first wanted
to do something philanthropic, was it just to build the
library and then it built from there and then you said, hey,
let's call it the Hub or was the original idea
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to call it the hub and provide different things for
the community.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
The original diet The idea was to call it the
Community Life enrichmentd Center, but it was too much to
put on a hat, so you went with Hub.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
But you do have a spiritual aspect of your mission,
right right.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, our tagline is building body, mind, and spirit. And yeah,
it's interesting from a spiritual standpoint, I felt God called
me to do this. And my favorite word is providence,
where God puts good things in your path. The Westview
Hub there's been a living example of providence because good
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things come and not because of me. I'm just a
catalyst that got started. The Hub has a life of
its own and people are drawn to it. It's amazing.
And we have the library, We have programs. You know,
last year we did over one hundred programs in the community.
We welcome everybody, We give out food. We also started
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an art center called Hubworks. It's an immersive arts center
where we offer you know, dance lessons, music lessons, art classes.
We have a full blown recording studio.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I was going to ask you about that. Yeah, and
we'll get to that because there are so many things
that you do. But I want to drill down a
little deeper about the library. So when you where did
you get the books? Where did when? How did the
library start? Okay, the library started, believe it or not.
I went to a Netflix prop sell. They had an
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airplane used from mind Hunters. It was a Boeing seven
to twenty seven from the back in the seventies, but
they had tons of books that were props, and yeah,
a lot of the books are out of dated, you know, right,
legal journals from the seventies, but they look impressive on
a shelf.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
So we brought these books in. We built the airplane
as a kids theater. You know, I think we have
the only airplane theater in the North Hills or maybe
in the Pittsburgh area, I don't know wherever.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well, that's funny that because I knew the history of
the airplane. Once you go in into the hub, that's
the first thing you see, right, It's very noticeable. And
I knew that you got it from Mine Hunters, which
I love the show, and it's coming back. There's no
chance they're going to bring back the plane or take
back the books they are yours.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, there ares they wouldn't get it through the door.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So I didn't realize the books also came from that
estate sale. For lack of a better word.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Right, initially we brought them in, but we quickly replaced them.
A local library was having a book sale where they
were selling a lot of duplicates or things that might
have been slightly out of date. So we brought in
about two thousand books. And then we always offer the
patrons the opportunity to buy a book and put a
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placard inside this book's in honor of or this book's
in memory of And so we always have a influx
of new books and today we have a very nice, current,
solid collection.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
So once you developed the library, what was the next
program that you introduced to the Westview Hub?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
The next program was a technology center. At the time
when we built a hub, thirty five percent of the
residents had no computer and no access to internet. So
we put in obviously a big Wi Fi network, and
we took the old teller stations of the of the
bank and turned those into computer centers computer stations, and
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we have maybe ten or eleven stations there and folks
come in you all the time, you know, to research,
to print off things, you know, apply for a job,
print off the application. In addition, we also do technology
training for seniors. We work with different partners, and you know,
it's just an ongoing evolution, I guess, and technology is
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so current and prevalent and it's not going away. And
with everything new coming out. We're starting a class, an
AI class for seniors. Oh okay, it should be interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
So you also had a program where some of your
patrons were able to get free computers. Do you still
have that program?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So that program was coming through a partner at Computer Reach,
and last year we offered that This year we hope
too as well. Basically, we do technology training for seniors.
At the end of this session, they get certified and
it's a four day session, well four sessions at two
hours apiece, so eight hours they invest eight hours in learning,
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they get a free laptop.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Okay, well, hopefully that program will continue. So once you
built the library and some of these, you know, the
computers and stations, what was the next program that you introduced?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Now, let me think about it. Well, so the next
program was a series of programs in the summertime for
children and adults. We had book clubs, we had reading
circles for young children. We had we called it Staycation
and it's a very popular program. The kids come in,
they learn about different states. So they come in, they're
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gonna learn about Pennsylvania. They'll go into the airplane, typically
in groups. Because the airplane can hold sixteen, we probably
get you know, twenty five to thirty kids. So one
group's doing a craft, the other group's watching a documentary
on Pittsburgh or Pennsylvania. Then we swap. Then we read
a book, we have a snack, and we do an
art project and it runs all through the summer and
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a kids love it.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And you still continue those programs, right.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, this year we're doing Staycation, which is going to
focus on Pittsburgh areas of interest, the museums, Wow near
the Blockhouse, all the different things that you know, make
Pittsburgh special.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
We kind of talked a little bit about the food pantry,
and you said that it had a modest beginning, right,
but it's grown. For those who just tuning in, tell
us a little bit more about the food pantry.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Okay, So the food pantry is located in an old
bakery next to the library, which was an old bank
and today, you know, when we started, it was very modest,
fifteen to twenty families. Today we're over eleven hundred families
that are on our rolls. Now, if they all came
on the same day, we'd be out of business. But
we typically we were open two days a week, you know,
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Tuesdays and Thursdays, and we'll typically feed you know, two
hundred and fifty to three hundred per day. Wow. We
get donations from Whole Foods Shop and Save Chick fil
A Olive Garden. It's amazing how much food comes in.
At the beginning of the distribution day, our food, our
tables are just packed almost to the ceiling. Two hours later,
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we're empty.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
So what do you have to do to qualify for
the food at the pantry?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Show up? Yeah, if you have a need, we're going
to feed. Yeah, that's our motto. We don't require financial information.
We feel everything we do is done with respect and dignity.
And what could be more undignified than having to sit
there and pour your financial heart out to some stranger
and then beg for food.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
But it's costly because you have refrigerators and you have
other you know things to take care of the food. Sure,
So it's expensive, right, So how do you fund that
portion of the hub?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So we rely on a lot of foundational ants. We
have a lot of tremendous partners. And what we do is,
you know, I'm constant. You spend probably fifty percent of
my time applying for funding through different foundations. And that's
how we fund it because you can't go tin cup
in the community that you serve.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Right, especially a community that's underserved. Right, they're struggling, and
that's the reason why you're there, and that's why you're
so important. You're you're part of the re revitalization of Westview, Right,
you must be very proud of that.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I'm very pleased with the results. Proud. You know, you
hate to.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Be he's modest. He's being modest. And then you also
have to rely on on volunteers.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Right, There's a lot of volunteers, and that's what really
keeps us going. I would I would say in the
course of a year, well over one hundred volunteers are
involved with the Hub, and I can't say enough good
about them. I mean, the most valuable thing we have
in our existence is our time. And so when you
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think about it, you can always get more money, more cars.
I don't think I can get any more hair, you know,
follically challenged. But you're not gonna ge any more time
than God has planned for you. So when you share
your time, you're sharing your greatest treasure.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
You know. I kind of said you're modest, and I
do believe that you're You're honestly modest, but you also
had some health issues last year, you want, you had
a stroke, and you're still fighting for the people at
Westview and fighting for the programs here at the Hub.
So you have a lot to be proud of and
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the community has should be proud of you and what
you're you've been able to accomplish. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Well, the stroke was a little bit of a setback,
but not too much. And I wouldn't use the word proud.
I'm not proud. I'm thankful, Okay. I'm thankful for the
opportunity to serve, and I'm thankful that I'm here.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
So we talked about the library and some of the programs,
and we talked about the food pound in pantry, but
that kind of just scratches the service. You mentioned you
have over one hundred programs.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Right to.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Talk about every one, we'd need certainly more time. Sure,
but what are some of the other But let's talk
about some of the programs that involve the Hub in
the summertime. Okay, Well, so in the summertime, we have
we so we have Hubworks, which we set up in
an old gun shop next to the bakery. So we
basically owned run three storefronts on the plaza and Hubworks
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is an immersive art center. It's got a large performance space,
it's got a big art studio and a full blown
recording studio. Not quite as nice as yours, but it's
it's up there. How make tracks, you have it? We
have sixteen okay, all right? And so in the summertime,
you know, families are looking for ways to involve, to
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continue to enrich their children, and creativity is a great way.
So we really focus on music programs. Children could come
in and learn to play the guitar, the keyboard, the ukulele.
We have drum circles, which gets a noisy. We have
acting classes, we have creative writing classes. We have our classes,
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painting classes, illustration classes. I mean, I could go on
and on. Well, how involved is the community. Have they
accepted and embraced the Oh yes, oh yeah, I mean
we might have like for guitar lessons, we might have
a cap of fifteen students. We put that up online, like, hey,
we're open within a half hours, sold out. And with
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the acting classes, do you have performances from time to time?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
They're a theatri The theatrical performances occur within the Hub.
One of our partners is Steel City Shakespeare Center and
they work closely with us. We also have it's interesting.
We recently hired a gentleman, John Sholkowski, who heads up
the Pittsburgh Historical Society, and he's a wild guy. He's
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got a lot of interesting programs. He does genealogy, Pittsburgh oddities,
movie nights like Pittsburgh theme movies or movies that were
filmed in Pittsburgh. He's all Pittsburgh. He knows everything about Pittsburgh.
He's also a ghost hunter. So he holds these classes
and they're a little bit off the rail, but we
get a really good turnout. People just love them.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
That's amazing. That's amazing. So they've embraced a lot of
these different kind of programs that you have. Now, you
mentioned a recording studio just a few minutes ago. That's
something that's you know, I wasn't aware of last time
we talked. I wasn't aware that you. I knew that
you had acting and you are a musician, that you
had instrument lessons at a recording studio. So how did
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that come about?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Well, I play in a band and selfishly I wanted
a recording studio, but I also thought it'd be good. Yeah,
if you're learning to play an instrument, what better way
to reinforce what you're doing right than to be able
to record and hear yourself.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
And so how long have you had the recording studio?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Well, we opened Hubworks two years ago, so it's been
there for two years.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Okay, all right, Well that's something new that's on the website.
And speaking of that, I'm going to bring the website up.
These are some ongoing programs. Tell us a little bit
about your North Hills Community Outreach. What is that all about?
Tuesdays at one to three? What is that all about?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
The North Hills Community Outreach is one of our partners.
They were established i think back in the sixties and
provide a lot of different services. They have a food
pantry as well, but they provide counseling, you'll help with
rental assistance, energy assistants and what we do. Rather than
reinvent the wheel, we have a strong cohort of partners
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that are able to compliment what we're doing. So we
pull them into the community. So once a week they
come into the Hub and they're available. Folks come in
and sit down and talk and work through different challenges
that they're facing. And it's just one of the services
that we provide.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Because you I saw the VFW regional office hours and
you also have a state rep also has satellite hours
that utilize the web for that. So that's what you're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Utilize the hub. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah. And so if somebody is interested in, you know,
establishing some office hours, well, what's the process? Can they?
Can they?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
You know, if they're serving the community? Yeah, best thing
to do is reach out to me wes U hub
at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
All right, so what's the mission again? You said body, body, mind,
and spirit and one of those you have you have
what is it? Mindfulness and movement? Is that yoga classes
as well? It's it's a combination of things. Okay, it's
kind of sorry the it's like chair yoga. Okay, all right,
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but with a but.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
You knows a lot of yeah, just for your spirit.
You know, it's a little I won't say it's hippy dippy, but.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, it's they're serving the community.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
We get a good turnout, okay every Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
So in addition to musicians and you you you you
drum circles and all that, but something that I saw
on your website. I was like, there is you will
do almost anything. A society of American magicians. You have
magic classes as well, we do. It's fabulous and kids
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love it. I'm sure. Yeah, I think as an adult
I would love it.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, it's an interesting class. Yeah. I wasn't very close
to it last year because I was dealing with this stroke.
But yeah, we get a good turnout and it's been
very popular and well received.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
So where do we get a list of all these
programs that you are able to provide?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
So the programs are always evolving, and that's one of
the things that makes us unique. We're barrier free. We
respond to the needs or the desires of the community
without going through a lot of red tape. Barrier free free,
what does that mean? That means we're not constricted. For example,
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we have some agencies we work with that do wonderful work,
but maybe in one or two or three lanes, we
have no lanes. We just you know, I mean, we
have lanes obviously, But if somebody has an idea, if
somebody has a talent they want to share. If somebody
is passionate about pottery and they want to come in
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and do pottery classes. We'll make that happen.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Do you have pottery classes? Have you had pottery classes before?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
No? But we could do it. I mean, we can
make that happen.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I love that. And so you're a little free spirit,
little hippie dippy yourself, aren't you. Yeah, that's funny. Can
you share maybe a success story of somebody who came
in with an idea, you thought about it and said, yeah,
we could do that, and it turned into a program
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that got completely embraced by the community.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Do you have stories like that? Yeah, I'm trying to
think there's a lot of them. I'm trying to think
of which onement be the best. So you know Still
City Shakespeare. Yeah, it was passionate about Shakespeare.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And were you initially skeptical or you completely open mind
and say, hey, let's give it a go.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
That was skeptical? Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, I don't
know what kind of draws Shakespeare has. But in this case,
the gentleman that ran Still City Shakespeare Center ended up
working for us for a while. He would hold summer camps,
Shakespeare camps. He gets thanks seventy five to eighty children
all week long. Wow, Yeah, that's a huge success.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
And how old are these children.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I'm gonna say they're third through middle school, like third
through eighth.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Wow, to get middle school schoolers passionate about Shakespeare, that's
that's quite an accomplishment.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
It is.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
I would have been skeptical too, but you gave it
a whirl and it actually worked.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
It worked.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, all right, So you said there's so many give
give us a couple more because that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
So I mentioned John Scholskowski, Right, he has some pretty
crazy programs, I mean Pittsburgh oddities. Yeah, just talk about
murders in the area and things that are forgotten. Again,
I thought, I don't know if people will be interested
that we get standing them only really Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
And what are some of the things that he talks about?
Some high profile crimes of Pittsburgh. Yeah, that maybe occurred
back in the eighteen hundreds that we know we're no
longer aware of. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, it's just interesting. I mean, Pittsburgh's an interesting town.
For example, back in the in the nineteen thirties, on
Prom night, the thing to do after Prom was to
go down to the County Morgue and look at bodies.
You know who would know that, well, you know, you
didn't have eton parked and for an after party, you
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might as well go to the morgue, right, all right?
So is there has there been a program that somebody.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Was introduced that you said that might that might be
a step too far for us.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
No, I mean wen't turned to anybody away. We give
them all a shot. Yeah, and typically we're very well pleased.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
And so how large of a staff you mentioned volunteers?
Do you have a like a full time staff?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, sure we do. We have and we think here,
I think we have six at this point.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
So if somebody was going to come to you and
you were going to kind of introduce the Westview Hub,
how do you describe what your organization does? Some people
understand that you know that there's you know, you talk
about one hundred programs. That's difficult to kind of you know,
put it in a in a you know, a pigeonhole
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and say this is what we do.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
So I think the way I describe it is, you know,
we're here to serve the community. Whatever the community needs,
we endeavor to accomplish. You know, they need a library,
we got a library they need we did a food pantry.
We got a food pantry. The Art Center was something
that was born out of a desire to help children
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dealing with what's called aces, adverse childhood experiences which really
manifest from like addiction in a home, ABU, mental abuse,
physical abuse, and in the North Hills area Alleghany County
states at one in six families have a drug addict
in the home and that has a profound impact on
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learning capability, emotional stability, and socialization for the children living
in those homes. Psychologists have found that sustained participation in
the creative process aka the arts, can mitigate those negative effects.
So the Art Center was born. That was the inspiration
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for it. Of course it's taken on a whole new life,
of a whole big life of offering much more. I mean,
you know, not everybody comes in is dealing with aces,
but for those that are, they're immersed in a welcoming, warm,
creative experience.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
You talked a little bit about individuals and they would
go to you or the Hub and suggest an idea.
But do you have any like local businesses. What kind
of partnerships have you made in Westview are that are
helping you achieve some of your goals.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
So we have a very strong cohort of partners that
range from politicians, our district drap our senator, to the
local police department, to the schools, local businesses. Yeah we have, Yeah,
there are businesses you know. For example, if we get
in you know, ten cases of bananas, we'll call up
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the Kkery, which is a big bakery in wes U. Yeah,
and they can always use bananas. And it'll come down
to take bananas. When we're doing an event and we
need you know, five hundred cookie for like our summertime
event which is coming up by the way on June fourth,
our six year anniversary, they'll provide free cookies. So that's
a symbiotic relationship. The flower shop across the street provides
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us with flowers when we're doing an event, you know. Yeah.
The local pizza shop does a kind of like a
book it if you remember that back from the eighties
with the schools, Like when the children read so many books,
they get a free certificate from the hub and they
get a free pizza.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Oh nice.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah, So the partnerships are very valuable. They're not I
won't say they're grandiose, but they're grandiose to us because
it allows us to bring that extra measure to the community.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
But you're reaching out to the community at large. Oh sure,
and you're getting the feedback. And what kind of feedback
do you get from the schools and the you know,
the police and things like that. Do they do they
value what you guys are able to bring to West.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Oh definitely, Yeah, we get tremendous feedback. The schools are
very close partnership. I sit on the Northfield School District
Advisory Council. I have insight into what the challenges are
that the students face or the teachers face, and we
work to develop programs to help mitigate those challenges.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Well, we only have about a minute left, So is
there a particular message you want people to know about
the Westview Hub.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I would just say, first and foremost, we have our
anniversary coming up in June. Come on down, check out
the hub, see what's going on. You'll get to learn
about the programs, meet the staff, meet the volunteers.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
What day is that?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I think it's June fourth this year, June fourth. If
you go to our website you'll see it out there
and the anniversary. So how many years have you been
since twenty six and six years? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So it's a library, it's a food pantry, a computer lab,
numerous the programs, hundreds of programs for all ages. The
Westview Hub dedicated to improving the intellectual, physical, and spiritual
life within Westview. And I'm proud to say that you're
a friend and you deserve any kind of accolade that
you get, because you certainly deserve all the love for
(28:18):
all that you do for Westview and in the and
the greater Pittsburgh community. Scott on behalf of all of us.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Well, thank you, Johny, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
And if you have if you want more information, the website,
what is it Westviewhub dot org. That's pretty easy, Wesview
dot org, west USU Hub dot org. I'll forget the
hub because that's what they're all about, the Hub. Scott,
thank you so much and good to Hopefully we'll see
you very very soon. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Take care.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
As always, if you have any comments, concerns, or an
idea for a future program, please email us from this
radio station's website. Johnny Hartwell, thank you so much for listening.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Hitsburg divas are gathering to make sweet music in the
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inviting you to join me for the Songs for Live
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(29:27):
your lawn chairs and picnic basket or order one of
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