it takes a village
Philly Turned Yellow and Volunteers Wanted Green
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his spring, we sheltered in place for 68 days. When Philly moved from phase red to yellow, only 15 days of spring remained. The great outdoors beckoned—and doing something outside with neighbors and friends inspired volunteers to tackle clean and green projects in Queen Village. After all, community service is often the easiest, fastest and best way to meet new neighbors, catch up with friends, and do something good for the neighborhood. Here’s just three of the many good deeds done to improve our community.
Front Street Rose Garden grows green thumbs and more
Unmasking the Friends behind Moyamensing Point
On Saturday mornings all summer long, both experienced and budding gardeners volunteered to prune, weed, rake, and plant flowers at Front Street Rose Garden along with garden leader Maria Frizelle-Roberts. Caring for the four rose beds along Front Street between Christian Street and Washington Avenue is often described by volunteers as a labor of love.
Kudos to Friends of Moyamensing Point for being socially distanced while cleaning and greening one of our most charming parks. Indeed, socially distanced is the antithesis of this fun-loving group of volunteers who regularly tend the Point. The Friends group met regularly throughout the summer to tend to the garden. Friends of Moyamensing Point may be best known as the organizers of December’s annual Toys for Tots drive and Festivus celebration featuring Santa on a firetruck and carolers.
Investigative journalists of the Crier unmasked the names of Moyamensing Point’s volunteers (from left to right) as Matt Koger, Pat Bigley, Maureen Weir, Queen Village volunteers who gardened this summer included Dennis Doyle, Cassidy Ferrara-Pacetti, Maria
Tim Graham, Agi Czapka, Laura Burt and Craig
Frizelle-Roberts, Sanja Martic, Rachel Mele, Sarah McDonald, Sara McDonough, David O’Donnell,
Thomas. Also unmasked (yet unseen) is the volunteer
Dan Rosenzweig, Kathy Schneider, and Sung Whang.
group’s photographer, John Weir.
Queen Village Quarterly Crier \\ FALL 2020
