Community Events

This page will list and link to ongoing news and happenings within the community. Please visit often...
We are a community that takes pride in our neighborhood, not only to keep up property values, but for our own personal satisfaction. We also take great pride in our friendliness and the willingness of neighbors to help each other.

Event Listings

Annual Shareholders' Meeting - Dec. 7, 2019 from 10 am to 12 noon at the Homewood Carnegie Library, 7101 Hamilton Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15208.

VOTE!!!
Belmar Gardens polling place until further notice is located at:
Chadwick Park (the ballfield)
Mingo Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Poll Hours: 7:00 AM-8:00 PM

General Election Day – Tues. Nov. 5, 2019
Belmar Gardens polling place is located at Chadwick Park until further notice.
Registration Deadline: In Person, By Mail or Online is:
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Last Day to request an absentee ballot is:
OCTOBER 29, 2019
In a general election, Pennsylvanians vote for federal, state, and local officials, including:
  • U.S. senators and U.S. representatives to Congress
  • Pennsylvania governor, lieutenant governor, general assembly, attorney general, auditor general, state treasurer
  • County and city officials (only elected in odd-numbered years)
  • Judges and magisterial district judges (only elected in odd-numbered years)
In odd-numbered years, like 2019, these November elections are also called municipal elections because there are no federal or state office on the ballot.

There is a Weekly Wednesday Fresh Vegetable Pantry for Penn Hills and surrounding community residents to receive free fresh vegetables and some fruits on a weekly basis.  Plan to arrive no earlier than 4:30 p.m.  Bring your own bags/boxes to carry your food. Held at the Lincoln Park Community Center Food Pantry, 7300 Ridgeview Avenue, Penn Hills, PA  15235.  Phone No. 412-441-6150.

Lincoln Park Family Center (AIU) is free to all families living in the Penn Hills School District and the surrounding neighborhoods.  Services are free to families with children age 0-5.  There are no income restrictions.  Call 412-661-1057, e-mail at lincolnparkfc@aiu3.net or stop by at 7300 Ridgeview Street, Pittsburgh, PA  15235.

If you have information to share with the community, please see one of the Board Members assigned to your unit or any Board Member.

Belmar Gardens Updates

Carrying charges will remain the same for 2019.

Please continue calling 311 to report the pothole at the corner of Oberlin and Mingo.
Zone 5 police can be contacted at 412-665-3605 for non-emergencies. 911 can be used for anything that you need the police for right now.

Currently, there are two positions available on the Board.  If you are interested in public service to the Belmar Community, please contact the Rubinoff Company.  If you have complaints, consider being part of the solutions of Belmar Gardens.

Please remember, according to Belmar Gardens Rules and Regulations, anyone over 18 who moves into your unit must pass a criminal check.

Please encourage your neighbors to come to the annual meeting.  This is where you have a voice and hear updates to Belmar Gardens.

Lock your car doors!!  Thieves are going around the community trying unlocked car doors and vandalizing once they are in.

Fall has started September 23, 2019. Soon our flowers will no longer bloom and it will be time to turn your outside water faucets off.  Please remember to turn it off inside your basement also.  We have had many pipes burst in the winter because shareholders did not turn the water off from the outside and the inside.  If you do not know where it is or you cannot reach it, please call Rubinoff Company to help you.

Soon, Stahl Plumbing will be visiting every house to check the furnaces and change the batteries in your smoke detector.  If your smoke detector or carbon monoxide detector is determined to be bad, Belmar will replace it, not Stahl.  
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Cement work is complete for this year.  Cement work will be done in emergency situations and is an on-going project as weather and funding permits.
 
Asphalt work is completed for the back common driveways and the garages in the back.

Remember, the responsibility for Belmar lies on all of us, not just the Board members.  Help do your part in keeping Belmar safe and liveable!

Neighborhood Community Updates

The Health Department reminds all county residents to avoid contact with wild animals or animals they do not know. Residents should have their pets vaccinated, and watch for unusual behavior. Rabies is a virus transmitted by an animal bite or scratch. It is almost always fatal when exposures are left untreated. The rabies vaccine is highly effective when given promptly after an exposure, but is still a major expense and inconvenience that can be avoided. The best prevention is to avoid stray animals, wild animals or those acting strangely as they can be potentially rabid.

LOCK YOUR CAR DOORS! Someone is checking car doors at night and stealing personal belongings. If at any time you see someone or something suspicious, please call the police and report the incident AND report it to the Board on the “Contact Us” section of the website or to your Board Member. You can also call Rubinoff and report it to Katie Smerkol.

Dogs and other pets – All dogs must be kept on a leash at all times.  Please carry a pooper scooper to clean up when walking your dog. If you see a dog without a leash, please report it to Animal Control and to the Rubinoff Company or the "Violation Reporting Form" in this website.  The violator will receive fines from both places.

Please remember, parking in the common driveways is prohibited.  Parking against the fences in the back of units is also prohibited.  This restricts your neighbor from maneuvering in or out of their garages.  This will be enforced and fines attributed to the shareholder.  If you see this happening, please report it to the Rubinoff company or on the company website.

Parking on the one side of the street, on the grassy areas or up on the curbs is also prohibited.  It causes problems for buses to get through and concreting the sidewalks is a costly expense to all shareholders of Belmar Gardens.  If you see this happening, please call the police and then report it either to the Rubinoff Company or the "Violation Reporting Form" in this website.

All units should plan an escape plan with your family in case of fire.