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Tuesday, 07 February 2012 12:10

Written by Diana Nelson Jones

Maybe by this summer, dogs in Larryville will finally have their fenced-in play space. The committee for the Bernard Dog Run has raised $30,000 of the $60,000 it needs and hopes to reap another $7,000 from the annual gourmet spaghetti dinner fund-raiser, which is March 2 at the Teamster Hall, 4701 Butler St.

The dog run will be a linear acre on city-owned land between CSX Corp. railroad tracks and the Allegheny Riverfront Trail.

It is named in memory of Jay Bernard, the late co-owner of Jay Designs on Butler Street and a champion of fostering and adopting dogs from the pound.

Some invasive trees and other growth has been removed.

Susan VanAlstine, chair of the dog park committee, said the group got a $23,500 grant for solar lighting from Duquesne Light and expects the installation to cost about $3,000. The fencing will cost between $15,000 and 20,000 (yikes! you could buy a house for that!) and some tree removal remains to be done, which will cost about $7,500, she said.

“For right now. we’re only concerned about the fencing, and our hope  is to be installing it by this summer,” she said. The wish list down the road would includebenches, a water fountain and climbing apparatus.

The gourmet spaghetti dinner fund-raiser is sponsored by the Boys of Lawrenceville, and they are planning for 800 and 1,000 people.

Chris Lugo, chair of the fund-raiser, said the spaghetti dinner is the big fund-raiser but that the committee is hoping to conduct other fund-raisign activities involving neighborhood businesses through the year.

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