This is something that everybody can support. The flier below is an offer to attend a rain barrel workshop at the Library on Monday. If you attend, you can apply for a free rain barrel. This is a free water collection system that you can use to water your garden. Installation is free too. What is not to like about that.
The Frankford Garden Club is rebuilding the community one garden at a time. This is their newsletter for September.
From Janet Bernstein of Friends of Overington Park:Friends of Overington Park will host it’s Second Annual ‘Art Under the Trees’ event on Saturday September 17th from 12 to 3pm. There will be a children’s Chalk Art Contest, with prizes, Tree Identifying and Mapping for kids and adults who want to join in, Leaf related art projects and games, and refreshments! Please come out and join in the fun! The park is looking great this summer so there is lots of inspiration to get your artistic juices flowing. We found out over this summer that our trees date back to the Civil War era. We need to get them on the map. Can you guess what tree stood watch during 1861? Come out and find the answers. Hope to see you there!
Frankford Garden Club Members and Friends,
At our March 22nd meeting we set a date to make Easter/Spring Floral Arrangements on Saturday April 9th. We will meet at Wissinoming Park Recreation Center from 10AM to 12PM to make our arrangements, and then we will deliver them to the Vitas Hospice in Aria Frankford Hospital afterwards.
New members and guests are always welcome.
Hope to See you there!
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Janet E. Bernstein
jamberstone@gmail.com
From adversity sometimes comes triumph.
A few months ago we were talking about the damage some dog owners had done to Overington Park and today we had kids and pets all over. Beneath the shade of the old tree near the play equipment the kids sprawled on the ground decorating the sidewalk blocks with chalk. Down at the park entrance on Leiper Street was PAWS offering low cost vaccinations and microchips to a long line of dogs. Looks like we all came out winners on this deal.
I talked to Diane Kunze, Janet Bernstein and Mary Ellen Post as I sat in the shade watching the kids work on their art. Over with PAWS, I met Kim Wolf, a volunteer, and Clinic Practice Manager Robin Ackerman.
The Friends of Overington park group is growing possibly as a result of this issue. People love this park. There is talk of another big event like this in the Spring.
