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	<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>BTC Culinary Arts Grad Makes Good</title>
		<link>http://manchesterbidwell.org/news/2010/01/24/btc-culinary-arts-grad-makes-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drew</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cafe Notte serves a taste of tapas
By Pam Starr for the Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Sunday, January 24, 2010
It&#8217;s impossible not to feel Jerry and Debbie Santucci&#8217;s excitement over their new Emsworth tapas restaurant, Cafe Notte, on Ohio River Boulevard.
They transformed an old motorcycle shop into a take-your-breath-away restaurant that has customers coming back week after week, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>W. Pa. innovators’ contributions resulted in significant change</title>
		<link>http://manchesterbidwell.org/news/2009/09/20/w-pa-innovators%e2%80%99-contributions-resulted-in-significant-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drew</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kim Leonard, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Innovators have long called Pittsburgh home. Here’s a look at 20 men and women whose contributions in science, medicine,
journalism and the arts resulted in significant change.
&#8230;Bill Strickland (1947 - )
The accomplished pottery maker has founded educational programs and centers that are being replicated in other
cities.
Strickland is the chief executive of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Your Donation to Our Organizations Go Further!</title>
		<link>http://manchesterbidwell.org/news/2009/09/18/make-your-donation-to-our-organizations-go-further/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drew</dc:creator>
		
	<category>press release</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 28, 2009, The Pittsburgh Foundation will match your online gift of $50 - $2,500 with $.50 on the dollar up to a maximum of $1,250 per donor! You can view our profiles and make a secure, matched gift on October 28, just by clicking on the appropriate link below. Thank you for supporting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Innovation as an Art Form</title>
		<link>http://manchesterbidwell.org/news/2009/09/08/social-innovation-as-an-art-form/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drew</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dennis Nishi, Wall Street Journal
Bill Strickland turned his love of ceramics into a creative outlet for disadvantaged city kids.
Mr. Strickland started a Pittsburgh program in 1968 called the Manchester Craftsmen&#8217;s Guild to offer arts classes to kids; now he&#8217;s CEO of the 138-employee nonprofit Manchester Bidwell Corp., which also provides vocational training to adults. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning On Kids at Manchester Craftsmen&#8217;s Guild</title>
		<link>http://manchesterbidwell.org/news/2009/08/26/turning-on-kids-at-manchester-craftsmens-guild/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drew</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Abby Mendelson, Pop City Media
It&#8217;s a sunny Tuesday morning, and 300-plus Pittsburgh Public Schools third-graders are in the Manchester Craftsmen&#8217;s Guild auditorium. Listening with rapt attention, they&#8217;re watching Roger Humphries, dean of Pittsburgh&#8217;s ultra-rich jazz community, slap the skins silly. Ripping off a drum solo of intricate rhythm and blinding speed, he has the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students step into shoes made for chalkin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://manchesterbidwell.org/news/2009/05/20/students-step-into-shoes-made-for-chalkin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 19:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drew</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Platform shoes like you&#8217;ve never imagined and an art performance that connects North Side cultural organizations add up to &#8220;Paths to the Park,&#8221; a free event with a high cool rating taking place from 5 to 7 p.m. May 29 in Allegheny Commons (West Park).
Last month, internationally known Brooklyn performance artist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MCG featured in North, a graphic guide to Pittsburgh&#8217;s Northside</title>
		<link>http://manchesterbidwell.org/news/2009/03/19/mcg-featured-in-north-a-graphic-guide-to-pittsburghs-northside/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drew</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Pittsburgh&#8217;s Northside has a new visitors guide. The book, called North, features short comic vignettes of great Northside destinations such as The Warhol, PNC Park, and The National Aviary. North offers visitors and locals alike the opportunity to find new places to visit, or to be reminded of old favorites. The guide is available by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MCG After-School Students Promote Positive Change Through Public Art Project</title>
		<link>http://manchesterbidwell.org/news/2009/03/07/mcg-after-school-students-promote-positive-change-through-public-art-project/</link>
		<comments>http://manchesterbidwell.org/news/2009/03/07/mcg-after-school-students-promote-positive-change-through-public-art-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drew</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Pittsburgh, PA— Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild (MCG) Youth &#038; Arts is proud to present a community service project and exhibition by the 2008–09 Arts Leadership &#038; Public Service (ALPS) interns. On view from March 23 – April 26 at MCG’s satellite gallery, Perry Hilltop: Back Again is a student-curated exhibition that reveals how teamwork, talent, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blooming Success</title>
		<link>http://manchesterbidwell.org/news/2009/02/19/blooming-success/</link>
		<comments>http://manchesterbidwell.org/news/2009/02/19/blooming-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drew</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At Bidwell Training Center, Orchids Inspire Passion and Promise
By Melissa Meinzer, Pittsburgh City Paper
You wouldn&#8217;t expect to find Eden tucked away behind a UPS facility in Manchester. On a chilly January day painted over with Pittsburgh Gray, there isn&#8217;t much to inspire warmth at the Drew Mathieson Center&#8217;s acre-sized lot. If you didn&#8217;t already know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jazz exhibit feels the vibe</title>
		<link>http://manchesterbidwell.org/news/2009/02/15/jazz-exhibit-feels-the-vibe/</link>
		<comments>http://manchesterbidwell.org/news/2009/02/15/jazz-exhibit-feels-the-vibe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drew</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kurt Shaw, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
When I was a student at Carnegie Mellon University in the mid-1980s, one of my instructors, Color Field painter Sam Gilliam, often made the connection between his art and another distinctly American art form, jazz.
So it is that the art exhibition, &#8220;Seeing Jazz,&#8221; currently on display at Manchester Craftsmen&#8217;s Guild in [...]]]></description>
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