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Twin Valley High School Celebrates Parade Held To Honor The Class Of 2020 Twin Valley High School (TVHS) celebrated the Class of 2020 with ceremonial graduation walks across the school stage. Students invited family members to attend the event, and the memories were captured with photographs and video. Graduation speakers were also recorded from the auditorium lectern. The speeches and graduation walks will be compiled into a virtual ceremony by the high school’s video production department.
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The graduation walks, which started on May 29 and continued through June 3, were held in accordance with social distancing guidelines for up to 12 hours each day to accommodate seniors and their families. Students were treated to several gifts, including personalized well-wishes See Twin Valley pg 8
Seniors, including (left photo, from left) Alexander and Cameron Whiteman and (top photo) Joshua Joyce, took part in a ceremonial walk across the stage at Twin Valley High School to celebrate graduation.
A parade, featuring carloads of graduating seniors accompanied by vehicles from first responders and local businesses, was held on June 6 to celebrate the Twin Valley High School Class of 2020. The parade started at Route 23 and Heritage Drive and continued through Morgantown on Main Street until it turned right onto Route 10 and ended near the entrance of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The parade was led by Caernarvon Township police, followed by several fire trucks and vehicles from the Twin Valley Fire Company. The seniors were grouped together and proceeded along the route followed See Parade pg 7
Boone Library Offers Curbside Pickup Habitat For Humanity Welcomes By Francine Fulton
In response to Berks County’s transition to the yellow phase of the governor’s reopening plan, Berks County Public Libraries locations, including the Boone Area Library in Birdsboro, have begun offering curbside pickup service to patrons. Limited curbside pickup began on June 15 by appointment only at the Boone Area Library, 129 N. Mill St., Birdsboro. Patrons can call the library at 610-582-5666 or visit www.berkslibraries.org/branch/boone to request items. “Once someone requests an item by phone or online, we will gather the items, call the patrons and pick a time frame for them to come - what day and what hours - and we will have it ready,� explained Sarah Terry, youth services coordinator for the Boone Area Library. “On that day and time, they will come in through the side door; we will have
signs directing patrons where to go. They tell us their name, and we put a bag on a table, and they grab the bag and off they go.� Parents with children who would like to take part in this year’s Summer Reading Program, “Imagine Your Story,� can also contact the library to arrange pickup of the reading packet, which includes an activity log. “They get a prize just for coming in to pick up the paperwork,� said Terry. “All the directions will be on the log. When they’re done, they will check off which (gift) baskets they would like to win.� Packets must be turned in by Saturday, Aug. 8, and winners of the gift baskets will be chosen through a random drawing. Photos of the baskets can be viewed at www.facebook.com/boonearealibrary. Terry pointed out that all summer reading activities this year will be virtual. An upcoming program will be a virtual painting party for children age 5 and up. On Monday, June 22, at 6 p.m., See Boone Library pg 3
New Executive Director By Francine Fulton
Habitat for Humanity of Chester County (HfHCC), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide affordable housing for low-income residents, recently named Chris Wiseman as its new executive director. Wiseman succeeds Charles “Chip� Huston, who stepped down from the position on Dec. 31, 2019, after serving HfHCC for more than 17 years. Wiseman has more than 20 years of experience in financial development, strategic planning and staff and board development. Most recently, he served as the director of operations at Germantown Academy. He was also the former executive director at the Brandywine YMCA. “I knew Chip from my time working at the YMCA and I knew some board members and they invited me to apply,�
said Wiseman, explaining how he heard about the job opening at HfHCC. “I was looking to come back to a nonprofit - to a community-based organization serving (people) in a significant way.� See Habitat pg 2
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