{"id":280674,"date":"2026-09-07T04:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280674\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T04:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:04:09","slug":"homewood-island-unites-community-members-for-4th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280674\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Homewood Island\u2019 unites community members for 4th year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Hundreds of people gathered for a celebration of community, taking over four blocks of Frankstown Avenue in Pittsburgh\u2019s Homewood neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The third annual Homewood Island Festival and block party started with a parade Sunday morning and featured about 80 vendors, along with food, children\u2019s activities and community resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Organizers consider this the final block party of the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">They tell us they wanted to recreate the feeling of family, while supporting local entrepreneurs, connecting people with help and inspiring the next generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cA lot of people, when they hear the word Homewood, they think of a negative connotation, and we want to sort of change that narrative and let folks know this is love, this is community, this is thousands of people coming together,\u201d said Vernard Alexander of the Homewood Island Planning Committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pittsburgh\u2019s mayor Corey O\u2019Connor and Councilmember Khari Mosley were also in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Both presented proclamations to Alexander, thanking him for his work in the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Hundreds of people gathered for a celebration of community, taking over four blocks of Frankstown Avenue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9410,1137,2163,117372,117370,117371,14761,73,84017,75,74],"class_list":["post-280674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-block-party","tag-festival","tag-homewood","tag-homewood-block-party","tag-homewood-island","tag-homewood-island-festival","tag-homewood-neighborhood","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-block-party","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}