PAD Search Unleashed

We have added new function in Pittsburgh Associtation of the Deaf site, our own search engine! It is built under WordPress plug-in, allows you to search more than a word in our own site! The search box is located on top right corner in header page. Give it a try!

Also, keep in the mind about disadvantage part is the search function.  The result will not display the album name of photos in Gallery page.

3rd Annual ASL Picnic Media Gallery

Spring is coming!  Spring is coming!  Students for Deaf Awareness (SDA) &
Greater Pittsburgh Community Center for the Deaf (GPCCD) hosted 3rd annual ASL Picnic, to support our local of Deaf sports team.  Don’t miss to click 166 photos of your mood level in spring time!

Also we posted individual video clips in Flickr, our first to have this new feature!

Children’s Easter Party ‘08 Media Gallery

Happy Easter to all of you! Our PAD is going to give you an Easter treat for your enjoyment: pictures and videos! Visit our gallery to see the photos!

Also, the video is the only place in this page you can watch almost 9-minute long video!

No Smoking Day

PAD is having no-smoking day on following schedule dates:

Friday, February 22nd - Poker League
Saturday, March 1st - Horse Derby
Friday, March 28th - Poker League
Saturday, April 5th - Bingo Night
Friday, April 25th - Poker League

Letter from PAD President - Feb 2008

PADETTE - Letter From the P.A.D. President, Cheryl Noschese
Volume 66 Issue 1

Hi,

I wish all of you a healthy, happy 2008.  In the year of 2007, PAD had gone through a lot of changes and accomplished our goals.  I want to thank all of you who made our club more livable and more enjoyable at our social times.  Also, I want to especially thank our volunteer who did a lot of work to improve our basement.

As you are aware our club house is the one of the fewest Deaf Clubs in the USA that is owned by its members.  You should be proud of your accomplishments.

Do not foreget to pay your 2008 membership dues.  Your dues are helping our club defray necessary expenses.

Please stop by at our club to say Hello and bring your friends too.

Cheryl Noschese
P.A.D. President

Softball Players Wanted

Hi everyone,

I just want to introduce u about myself. This is Lori Ann LaSorsa as Athletic Director, club manager assistant, newsletter editor and bartender in our Deaf clubhouse. I would like to know if you are still interesting to play softball this year, and please let me know as soon as possible throughout February. I can find out who will be interested to play and how many participants for either women, men or COED team.. That way I can make the reservation for the league here in Pittsburgh.

There will be possibly to have women team only or men team only, depends on how many participate to play against hearing teams in league. There will be CAAD tournament in July, to play against deaf team for either men and women’s team only (no COED). Also there will be another NSAD tournament in Colorado for men, women or COED team. We also can play COED league games against hearing teams in Pittsburgh league before departing to NSAD.

If you know anyone who are interested to participate softball for men, women and COED team, please let me know, so I can add your name on the list.

If you have any questions about this, don’t hesitate to email me, BlackmoleLR@aol.com and I won’t bite you!

Thanks,
Athletic Director
Lori Ann LaSorsa

New Year Eve 2008 Photos

Happy new year, 2008! Big thanks to Rosie Noschese who take her time to share her photos with you! Go to New Year Eve 2008 photo album, for your enjoyment!

Ralph also like to share their photos on different site, check this out!

PAD New Email Subscription System

We have been waiting for this for a long time - PAD has launched a new email subscription system today in our website. You might find this YELLOW box on the right side bar in all pages. PAD is in partnership with FeedBurner, a free news feed management provider to build the email subscription system.

This is the biggest advantage of your time - you can get our news, announcements, and other events first through email instantly. The quarterly newsletters come in later. Another advantage is to save PAD’s financial for sending out the newsletter mailings (reducing the cost of papers, printing, and postage).

When you are paying for the 2008 membership, we will ask you if you wish to continue subscribing our newsletter by mail. If you chose to say NO, we will remove your name and mailing address in our database to stop sending the newsletter. Then you will need to join the electronic email subscription for PAD news and events through our website.

To follow the steps on how to subscribe PAD news/events from your email:
1. Look at the YELLOW box on top right sidebar.
2. Enter your email address in text box and hit ‘Subscribe’ button.
3. The pop-up window appears. Feedburner will request you to verify the message. Follow this step.
4. Feedburner will send your email for another final verification message. Check your email.
5. In that email message, click the web address to activate your email subscription.

If you didn’t follow those steps above, you will not get email subscription from PAD news and events.

PAD Active Monthly Meeting

PAD passed a proposal in the new business at the last meeting that the PAD’s Active Monthly Meetings are to be held on second Saturday of every month at 7:30pm, replacing the second Friday of every month at 9:30pm. This is now effective, beginning in January 2008.

Don’t forget to schedule your times for these new dates of PAD Active Meetings.

January 12, 2008
February 9, 2008
March 8, 2008
April 12, 2008
May 10, 2008
June 14, 2008
July 12, 2008
August 9, 2008
September 13, 2008
October 11, 2008
November 8, 2008
December 13, 2008

Happy holidays!

Steelers Costume Winner / Photos

In the photo, John Noschese (left) was Steelers best costume in 2006, and he shares with 2007 winner of Steelers best costume, Dana Mingone (middle) and Tommy DeFazio (right) at our PAD clubhouse.

Don’t miss to see photo album taken by Jennifer Wojton.

New England crushed Steelers last Sunday, December 9th, and we do believe that both teams will rematch in playoffs, we want to make this happen like what Steelers did with Indianapolis Colts in 2005!

Let’s go Steelers!