Brookline Booster Group's Spring Fling Could Be Its Last

Saturday could be the last spring fling held by the South Pittsburgh Development Corp.

After running the annual event for more than a decade, Mary Anne Miller, the group’s treasurer, said she will not run for the position again and the spring fling is not expected to continue.

“It’s time for younger people to (get involved,)” Miller said, adding they would bring “a little more life, and new ideas,” to the organization.

The spring fling essentially served as an outreach program for the group.

It will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at ’s office and SPDC volunteers give out seed packages for residents to plant at home and serve free cookies and coffee.

The and provide the SPDC with discount cookies and is donating coffee, Miller said. Any leftovers will be donated to to charity.

SPDC will sign people up for its annual April cleanup and sell the Brookline history book. SPDC member Annette Ferrieri helps put the event on with Miller.

“You see people you haven’t seen all winter and Sunday’s spring,” she said. “Sometimes, the politicians will stop by.”

“In the beginning, it was very big,” she said.

Miller, a teacher’s aide at , said she’ll still be involved with the SPDC.