KenCrestCares Pottstown Event ID50632

							502 W. Germantown Pike, Suite 200
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462

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                                                               Contact: Eileen Falchetta
                                                               610-825-9360, ext. 209
                                                               efalchetta@kencrest.org


                 KenCrestCares Event in Pottstown A Huge Success


       (Pottstown, PA) Despite rain showers and cloudy skies, over 125 neon green

shirts stood out in Pottstown’s Riverfront Trail Park on Saturday, May 2 as families,

staff, and adults who are served by KenCrest volunteered as a part of KenCrestCares at

their second volunteer event. KenCrestCares raises awareness of providing quality

services to people with disabilities through community service projects. The group picked

Pottstown for their second event because of the large amount of people served by

KenCrest in the area, including 16 group homes, and EmployNet. KenCrestCares

cleaned up alongside other local groups from the area, including volunteers from

Pottstown Parks and Recreation staff, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and students from Ursinus

College.

       Saturday’s clean-up included picking up trash and debris, and mulching mulching,

and planting flowers and trees. The event concluded with songs from the Rejoicing
Spirits Choir, of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities who sing at

worship and fellowship opportunities.

       This event was sponsored and made possibly by the Rivercrest Fund, Pottstown

Parks and Recreation Department, Schuylkill River Heritage Area, Fast Signs, Giant,

Walmart, Copy Fast Printing, Sanatoga Thriftway, DesignArt, and Smith-Edwards-

Dunlap Printing.



Photo captions:

Photo 1: Pottstown’s Tyree Nasif and his friend Jonathan Dunning joined the

efforts of the park cleanup at Riverfront Trail on Saturday, May 2nd.

Photo 2: Lower Pottsgrove Commissioner Steve Klotz cleans up alongside Roberto

Krieble

Photo 3: Friends Emily Hesser and Katie McCurdy did not mind getting dirty: both

cleaned up the park and sang in the Rejoicing Spirits choir after the clean up.

Photo 4: The Rejoicing Spirits Choir, a group for people with disabilities, sang after

the park clean up.



       About KenCrest: Now in its 103rd year, KenCrest serves more than 7,300

children, youth and adults with developmental disabilities at 300 site locations in

southeastern Pennsylvania and the state of Delaware each year. The Philadelphia

Business Journal named KenCrest a top-3 “Best Places to Work” for large companies in

2007. For more information about KenCrest’s services, please call: (610) 825-9360, or

visit www.kencrest.org.