Octorara AUGUST 4, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXI • NO 24
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Little Free Library Installed In Parkesburg BY FRANCINE FULTON
“You always have books that are too good to put back on your shelf and not share with someone,” said Denyce Tober, who has installed a new Little Free Library (LFL) at her business, Hidden Valley Self Storage, 105 Shamrock Lane, Parkesburg. “It’s a great way to share books that you enjoy,” she stated. The box, filled with free books for adults, youths and children, includes a sign summarizing the LFL program, “Take a Book. Share a Book.” See Little Free Library pg 5
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Bringing Fresh Produce To Chester County BY FRANCINE FULTON
arm-fresh produce is now more accessible than ever to residents of Chester County due to the Fresh2You Mobile Market operated by the Chester County Food Bank (CCFB). The market is open on Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to noon, with stops at Coventry Mall in Pottstown, the Phoenixville
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Senior Center, M&T Bank in Honey Brook, the Oxford Library and the Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The market also parks on Third Avenue in Coatesville. As part of the new Senior Living Circuit, the market visits the following locations on Fridays: Brandywine Valley Active Aging, Coatesville campus; French Creek Manor, Phoenixville; Westminster Place, Parkesburg; and
Whitehall Apartments, Spring City. On a recent Friday at Westminster Place, the Mobile Market was located in the center’s back parking lot offering a variety of selections of fruits and vegetables, including blueberries, cantaloupe, tomatoes, cucumbers, Swiss chard, carrots, squash, red beets, celery, onions and cabbage. “New this year to us are mushrooms from Mother Earth Farm,”
noted Roberta Cosentino, CCFB healthy food access programs manager, noting that the mobile pantry started in 2015. “ We are basically a traveling farmers market,” Cosentino explained. “We have two farmers on staff at the food bank who grow a lot of food that we carry. The rest we purchase from other local growers, so everything we have is locally grown and in season.”
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Roberta Cosentino (left) and Wendy Gaynor offer produce at the Fresh2You Mobile Market.
