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If anyone is up for helping with bike valet at the Spillapalooza festival on Saturday, please let me know. All proceeds from this event go to the Gulf Restoration Network.

It's going to be a the Leslie Pool in Lawrenceville. There is an extremely lovely flier that goes along with this.

PP: (Personal Plea) My birthday is this weekend and my best friend is visiting me in Pittsburgh for the first time so if you're considering volunteering for one day and are available Saturday, I will throw in a mystery prize.

PS: The forecast is 74 degrees and sunny.

Woah, there are two Lollys.

I can help with the bike valet on Saturday. What is involved in that? Is it really a 7 hour shift?

Also, what is Spillapalooza?

I can't help Saturday - but an early happy birthday!!

There is only one Lolly (at least on this message board), but somehow I have two accounts, one with a capital L.

@dwillen -- Ideally I'd like to have 2-3 volunteers so one person doesn't have an incredibly long shift.

Here's is a story from the Post-Gazette about Spillapalooza. It looks pretty awesome.

"“Spillapalooza,” the Leslie Park Pool Collective’s fund-raiser, is from 12:30 to 7 p.m. If it rains, the event will jump to Sunday. The pool is at 4700 Butler St.

The event is the brainchild of FedEx employee Shane Freeman.

It will include live music and Zumba, a wildly energetic fitness dance; a demonstration of how an oil spill affects wildlife by Steven Sarro, director of animal programs at the National Aviary; raffles and product sales and refreshments.

Admission donations are $10 for Zumbathon participants; $10 for festival attendees and $20 for those participating in both the Zumbathon and the festival. Net proceeds will benefit the containment and clean-up efforts of the Gulf Restoration Network. Learn more about the GRN at www.healthygulf.org.

Spillapalooza is one of a series of events the pool collective is staging in its effort to find a continuing use for the decommissioned city pool. Future events now being planned are “DEEPEND,” a dance party on July 24 from 6 p.m. until dusk (rain date July 25, 1 to 3 p.m.), featuring live instrumental classic and modern surf music; bands you can dance to, such as Daikaiju, Kabuki Surf from Alabama, The Action Cats and the Wakening; and classics sixties sounds and zombie surf music. That event is funded by a grant from Lawrenceville Corporation’s Mainstreets Community Event Microgrant Program."

Lolly, what exactly is "tabling?" I'm guessing that we sit at a table and hand out information on / represent Bike Pittsburgh?

Yep, it's the verb form of sitting at a table. It is not the MOST glamorous activity but I think is one of the most fun types of volunteering because you get to talk to all sorts of people.