Three renewable and sustainable energy projects â including two in Berks County â have received grants totaling $85,000 from the Met-Ed Sustainable Energy Fund of the Berks County Community Foundation.
Recipients can be anywhere in the Met-Ed service area, and on Wednesday the foundation announced in a press release that the following projects have been selected:
Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust: $50,000 to create an off-the-grid education center called the Colebrookdale Childrenâs Educational Grove to showcase sustainable energy practices.
Dickinson College in Carlisle: $25,000 to construct, study and demonstrate a commercial anaerobic digestion system for the generation of renewable electricity from agricultural and food-processing wastes at a scale appropriate for an average Pennsylvania dairy farm.
The esteemed and historic Ringgold Band, a regional music treasure, is in its 169th year of presenting music in our fair community. The orchestra has an exciting and stirring patriotic concert planned for Sunday, May 30, from 4 to 6 p.m., at The Etchberger Park, otherwise known as Hamburg Community Park, Franklin Street, Hamburg. The concert will be offered free and as we move from COVID-19 lockdowns and isolation, itâll be grand to get some fresh air and enjoy the traditions of bonding music with community and leisure activity in a scenic gathering place. Bring your lawn chairs, blankets and cameras to capture and preserve precious moments of our communal emergence from the darkness of COVID-19.
Shirley McMarlin | Tribune-Review
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Fort Ligonier’s Cannon Ball Online Auction and Party to Go received a 2021 Special Achievement Award from PA Museums, an independent statewide museum association that supports the Pennsylvania museum community.
Usually an in-person event, the Cannon Ball was restructured in September due to pandemic gathering restrictions.
It featured an online auction of items such as print No. 2 of Chas Fagan’s painting, “Flash Point,” and packaged hors d’oeuvres by Vallozzi’s.
Fort staff dressed in period clothing to provide curbside pickup service of Party to Go packages on Sept. 18.
Feb. 7
Leesport Area Historical Society Open House: 1 to 4 p.m. The museum resides in the former West Leesport 4-room school house built in 1858 at 128 Main Street, Leesport. See area and regional artifacts including a classroom circa 1940s and a Quaker Marriage Certificate predating the Declaration of Independence.
Feb. 7
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Literatour Berks author event: 4 p.m. children’s author presentation via Zoom “Such a Library - A Yiddish Folktale Re-Imagined” by Jill Ross Nadler. Presented by Exeter Community Library in cooperation with the Jewish Federation of Reading/Berks and the Sinking Spring Library. To register, visit www.readingjewishcommunity.org/home/literatour.