Pizza makers: Blake, Dagny and Poppa Brian
Stella also celebrates her 8th birthday today. She will be on the porch and her friends will do a drive by and we will celebrate on Zoom.
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Giving back:
Stepping Up To The Plate
By Salena Zito
PITTSBURGH — When Ray Mikesell was a child growing up on the North Side in the 1970s and 80s, his family often found itself in need despite both of his parents working full time.
“When times were hard we went to the neighborhood church or community center where we would get a box, as I remember, that had canned corn, and I mean it was a can with a white label and the word 'corn' in black lettering, puffed rice cereal, and of course government cheese,” said Mikesell, the owner of Cafe Raymond on Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh.
Government cheese was a kind of iconic, five-pound brick of orangeness that tasted somewhat like Velveeta, somewhat like American cheese, and filled the bellies of children and families when times were tough.
Times are tough now, and Mikesell wanted to do his part to make sure that children and families in the Pittsburgh area have something to fill their bellies, something a little better than canned corn, puffed rice cereal, and government cheese.
So the restaurateur who has been barely staying afloat by doing takeout orders and Sunday dinner entrees sent out a text to all his friends and family and the people who typically attended the monthly family-style Sunday suppers he serves in long tables in the diner’s second floor, and asked them if they could donate a little cash to help feed those in need.
Within minutes he had secured thousands of dollars.
It is early Monday morning, and already his restaurant is filled — not with people as it was in the days before the restrictions of the coronavirus, but with neatly organized portions of food. It's good food: salads, chicken, fruit, pasta, all cooked Sunday and Monday, labeled and lovingly packaged for children and families within the Pittsburgh city limits who were going without.
Outrageous retirement benefits funded by money laundered through a corrupt system to help pay for politicians and their campaigns who authorized them and now the states and cities who authorized them want you to bail them out.
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