Forest Easter Egg Hunt a great success! Over 150 people attended including our own Easter Bunny! Pottsgrove High School’s Spark the Wave volunteers planned, organized and carried out a fun event for everyone. Thanks to Kimberton Whole Foods Douglassville for the healthy snacks! They were a hit! Heard someone leaving say, “See, this is what we used to do for Easter at Grandma’s” – ah, family memories and good times in the making! Save Save
Deadline extended to April 4th! The Greater Pottstown Foundation has challenged us! If we can raise $5,000 for the Althouse Arboretum, the Greater Pottstown Foundation will match it with another $5,000 for special summer programs for at-risk and low-income children at the Arboretum. The money will pay for transportation, program costs, and provide scholarships for our local high school student interns who will run the programs. We have already established partnerships with The Rickett’s Community Center and Art Fusion to…
8:30am Saturday morning. 10 degrees. Althouse Arboretum, student volunteers arrived. 9am cars and trucks with trees began arriving. Spark the Wave students from Upper Pottsgrove high school and students from Boyertown high school spent from 9am to 3pm unloading Christmas trees and kept moving to stay as warm as they could. Community residents showed up continuously throughout the day, delighted to not even need to leave the warmth of their vehicle to unload their trees. Many expressed their gratitude with…
With less than 48 hours notification and temperatures only slightly above freezing, 13 volunteers showed up on Sunday, December 7th clearing Penns Wood Trail in less than two hours! Middle school students, students from Pottsgrove High School Spark the Wave Club, neighbors and a Township Commissioner all joined in to make short work of a project that would have cost the Arboretum a significant amount of money if we had to pay for it. The trail along Snyder Road will…
The day is overcast. Student representatives from the Spark the Wave Club and the Environmental Club of Pottsgrove High School meet to discuss the upcoming work day they’ve scheduled for classmates and members of their organizations. As it starts to drizzle they’re asked if they want to put off physically mapping out the areas where their teams will work. “Nope, let’s do it.” As we walk through the future Children’s Forest, they decide where areas for various activities will be…