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Contents Area Contact Information ...........2 Upper Merion Farmers Market...2 Community Events ......................4 Serving The Community .............6 Environmental Update ..............8 Local History.............................10 Spotted Lanternfly....................14 Pool Safety ...............................16 Yard Waste Collection ...............16 Household Hazardous Waste....18 Parenting Corner......................20 Stormwater Management.........22

Emergency.........................911 Administration....610-265-2600 Animal Control ...610-265-3232 Courthouse.........610-278-3000 Library ................610-265-4805 Parks & Rec.........610-265-1071 Police ..................610-265-3232 Public Works.......610-265-2606 Safety & Codes ...610-265-2608 Senior Center......610-265-4715

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Open Every Saturday Through Mid-November 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Check for the website newsletter on the Wednesday prior to the market for vendor schedules, news, and specials.

The 10th Annual Zucchini 500 race will take place on Saturday, July 13! Wheel packs will be available for purchase in advance on June 29 and July 6; they are $2 each. To participate in the race, children, 12-years of age and under, will create and decorate racecars using zucchini and UMFM-supplied wooden wheels and axles.

The cars will then race in pairs down a 16-foot wooden ramp. Prizes will be awarded to the top four winners.

Health & Wellness Day Part of the market's mission statement is to "enrich the quality of life in Upper Merion through supporting an environment for community gatherings and education." So join us Saturday, September 14 as we bring together several local businesses and groups whose purpose involves keeping you and your family healthy, fit, and well!

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Community Events

UPPER MERION TOWNSHIP’S 44TH ANNUAL

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UPPER MERION TOWNSHIP PARKS AND RECREATION

FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION Thursday, July 4 at Heuser Park 3:00PM: Celebration begins (Carnival, Beer Garden, Food & More...)

5:00PM: Music Dusk: Fireworks

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SATURDAY, OCT. 5 2019

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Live music, crafters, food vendors, wagon rides, pumpkin patch, games, pony rides, face painting , and more!

HOLIDAY VILLAGE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 TOWNSHIP BUILDING CONCOURSE & UPPER PARKING LOT 175 WEST VALLEY FORGE ROAD, KING OF PRUSSIA Gingerbread House Contest Tree Lighting Food & Drink Holiday Vendors Crafters & Artisans Santa Visit Children’s Crafts Live Music & Performances

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Serving the Community The mission of Neighborhood Meals on Wheels is to provide nutritious, wellbalanced meals to the aged, convalescent and handicapped in our township without regard to race, religion, creed, nationality or economic need. Since its inception in 1974, Neighborhood Meals on Wheels has grown steadily, both in the number of patrons we serve and in the number of volunteers needed to keep the organization running smoothly.

In 2018, thanks to generous donors to Neighborhood Meals on Wheels, 96 volunteers were able to deliver 3,854 meals to 47 homebound residents in our community of West Conshohocken, Bridgeport, Swedeland, Swedesburg, parts of Wayne, King of Prussia and Gulph Mills. Our volunteers delivered meals (one hot and one cold) 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year.

A Neighborhood Meals on Wheels volunteer's primary goal is to deliver meals to the homebound, but just the presence of our volunteers assures a homebound person that members of our community care. For some of our homebound patrons the smiling face and warm “hello” of our volunteers is the only human contact they have all day. Sometimes a volunteer is the first to notice that a call needs to be placed to a homebound patron's emergency contact, because his/her condition has become a matter of concern.

Neighborhood Meals on Wheels of King of Prussia reaches those residents of the greater Upper Merion Area who need our service. Many people don't know that we are here to serve all needy members of our community, not just the elderly. Anyone in the community who finds themselves in a position where they have become homebound, either temporarily or permanently, can contact us to see if we can help them with meals. For example, we might be of temporary service to a 19-year-old who lives alone, has broken his leg or is recovering from surgery and therefore finds it hard to shop for groceries and cook meals. Or we might be of permanent service to an elderly person who can no longer drive. Many people are also not aware that we will serve anyone in our community based on need, not based on personal income. Most of our patrons contribute towards our service of two meals a day delivered to their door. However, for patrons who are unable to contribute at all, we have a special fund set aside to fully supplement service to them.

Neighborhood Meals on Wheels is proud of its forty-five year history of providing meals to those in need on a daily basis.

We are always in need of volunteers!

Our 'home' is the Valley Forge Presbyterian Church. Each weekday we utilize two volunteers who meet at the church and travel to Norristown State Hospital to pack the meals. These volunteers leave the church between 9:00 and 9:15 each weekday morning and return with all of the meals between 10:30 and 10:45 A.M. Eight more volunteers gather at the church at 10:45 A.M. Once the meals arrive from Norristown State Hospital, teams of two leave the church with meals packed to deliver to four different routes in the Township. Delivery can take anywhere from forty-five minutes to a little more than an hour.

We have volunteers that deliver meals weekly, monthly NEIGHBORHOOD MEALS ON WHEELS, INC. A Non-Profit Organization and on a substitute basis. If you would like to help, we would be happy to have you join us to see if this is a 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt ID 23-2036792 volunteer opportunity you would enjoy on a regular P.O. Box 60621 basis.

King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406 Please call the Meals on Wheels office to set up a 610-265-7051 mutually agreed upon date to pack or deliver meals www.NeighborhoodMealsOnWheels.com (610.265.7051).

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Environmental Update The Current Recycling Crisis

Ban the Bottle

Many communities are launching a “Ban the Bottle” initiative. Let’s start this summer by urging our children to take reusable bottles to day camps and trips to the playgrounds and parks. This will educate our children on environmental issues and stewardship, while also greatly impacting the production of waste, beautifying our parks, and strengthening our efforts to recycle more efficiently. As adults, we can also participate by implementing this practice in the work place and at home.

Ban the Bottle will be an easy first step in bringing our community toward Zero Waste.

Plastic water bottles consume an enormous amount of energy to produce, package, and transport. We spend over $11 billion per year on bottled water. Globally, it is estimated that more than 500 billion plastic bottles are produced each year, but only 14 percent are recycled. The rest are landfilled, burned or discarded in our environment. It is a staggering and depressing amount of waste that could have been reduced and re-used.

The Beginnings of Plastic and Throwaway Living

In August 1955, Life Magazine revealed a cover story entitled “Throwaway Living.”

Inside this article the term "throw-away society" was coined to describe the new trend of plastic products that promised to minimize the time housewives spent accomplishing their daily chores. Why spend valuable time washing and reusing household objects like plates and silverware when they can be inexpensively made of plastic and disposed of after use?

This launched a plastic revolution that quickly infiltrated every part of our day-today lives. In the last fifty plus years we have seen an explosion of products created with a one-use life span. Ironically enough, these single use products are manufactured from plastic, a material made to last thousands of years. It is estimated that today the average American throws away approximately 185 pounds of plastic per year. This accounts for 10 percent of the total waste we generate.

Not to mention 75 percent of this plastic waste goes directly to landfills, where it will not decompose for 500-1,000 years.

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On March 1, 2018, China followed through with its threat to prohibit the import of U.S. plastics, mixed paper and other materials.

For years, the US relied on China to take 40 percent of its recyclables for processing and manufacturing. Now, thousands of tons of materials that would have been recycled are going into landfills instead. Some municipalities have stopped collecting items that used to be recycled and others have been stockpiling them to combat this crisis.

In Philadelphia, for example, the city can no longer keep up with both the volume and the contaminated condition of recyclable waste. As a result, about 200 tons of recycling material is sent to the huge Covanta incinerator in Chester City each day.

The burning of trash releases a host of pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxides and particulate matter, which are tiny fragments of debris that, once inhaled, cause an array of health problems.

In addition to landfills, a large portion of plastic waste ends up in our oceans and waterways. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also known as the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean that amounts to approximately twice the size of Texas. Further, plastic is often mistaken for food by sea animals and has been found in the stomachs of more than 60% of all seabirds and in 100% of sea turtle species. When an animal ingests plastic, it can cause life-threatening problems, including reduced fitness, nutrient uptake and feeding efficiency.

Zero Waste

At the root of these complex issues is a simple change in habit. We need to reduce waste at the source itself. If we are more conscious about what we buy and use in our day to day lives, we can stop the chain of waste and litter before it even happens.

That is why we are urging our community to consider adopting Zero Waste practices.

Many communities across the country have already pledged to work toward a Zero Waste Plan or Resolution. Some examples include Oakland CA, NYC, and even Philadelphia.

Zero Waste is about guiding people in changing their lifestyles and practices to match sustainable natural cycles which encourage waste prevention, reusing, recycling and composting the materials we typically dispose. This will promote clean production, prevent pollution, and create communities in which all products are designed to be cycled safely back into the economy and the environment.

What are the key benefits?

Climate Impact

Extracting raw materials from natural spaces requires large amounts of energy and causes pollution, whether it is logging a forest, mining for minerals or drilling for oil. Processing these materials requires more energy and causes more pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Once they're used, the goods are simply dumped in a landfill or destroyed in an incinerator.

In contrast, a Zero Waste approach conserves natural resources and reduces pollution from extraction, manufacturing and disposal. Reducing and reusing means fewer products are made, as people buy less and as products are made to last.

Save Money

Zero Waste builds a circular economy where one person's “waste” is a resource for something new. This greatly reduces the cost of having to buy continuous disposable materials for single-use such as like plastic water bottles, paper lunch bags, and plastic utensils.

Build Community

Zero Waste starts at home and finds its way through various sectors of the community. Community projects focused on re-use help redistribute useful goods to those in need, from leftover food donated to shelters, to furniture for refugees, to business clothing for those entering the job market. Communitybased zero waste strategies like composting at a community garden, tool sharing and skills sharing to reuse and repair, build capacity to reduce waste and costs.

Strengthens Health and Wellness

A Zero Waste approach ultimately protects the health of communities by reducing pollution in the air, water and soil by keeping toxics and waste out of landfills and incinerators.

The benefit of being waste conscious and reducing harmful impacts on our environment is beyond calculation. As residents, it is our responsibility to keep our open spaces clean and beautiful for generations to come. This initiative is the first step toward a more sustainable future.

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Local History The following is an edited excerpt from the Spring 2019 issue of the King of Prussia Gazette’s article, Ten Little Bits of Yesterday. All members receive a copy of the Gazette quarterly via post. Please help us preserve, interpert and share the history of our community - becom a member today!

GAS PUMP On the Mother of Divine Providence Church grounds, near a garage that was once a small barn or wagon shed stands an old vintage style gasoline pump. It has been there before the church and one-time MDP School were built. Back when the property was a farm. At the very least some seventy-five years.

CEDARCROFT PILLAR This pillar on S. Gulph road near the Gulph Mills Apartments is the surviving one of two that stood at the entrance to a Henderson family estate. Now misaligned, the pillar has a stone slab on top inscribed with the word “Cedarcroft”.

MILE MARKER The Mile Marker is near Hooter’s restaurant. It dates to the early days of the American nation and denotes 18 Miles to Philadelphia. But today, barely anyone pays attention to it.

ST BURGESS POSTS These posts once upheld the “ST Burgess Arboretum” sign that identified the arboretum named after a well-respected local arborist. The arboreal sanctuary was established and managed by Upper Merion Township when the one-time Irwin Moore estate on Moore Road was the Upper Merion Cultural Center.

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White Horse Village Enlists K4Connect as Technology Partner White Horse Village Invests in Next-Gen Innovation for Residents and Team Members, Enlists K4Connect as Technology Partner.

White Horse Village, a not-for-profit continuing care retirement community in Newtown Square, Pa., announced the deployment of K4Community, the premier senior living solution from K4Connect, a purpose-driven technology company that creates solutions that serve and empower older adults and those living with a disability. K4Community will lay the foundation for White Horse Village’s ongoing digital transformation, bringing the latest advancements in connected-life technology to Community residents and team members.

White Horse Village is one of the Philadelphia area’s most revered Life Plan Communities with 30 years of experience providing residents with premium housing, full continuum healthcare services, life enrichment programs, and support offerings. Through this partnership, White Horse Village is institutionalizing technology as a longterm solution to meeting the evolving needs of the 520 residents and 375 team members across its expansive 96-acre campus. K4Community enables this through a comprehensive solution that integrates the latest in-home automation, connected health, and wellness products, as well as social engagement services, ultimately empowering everyone at White Horse Village to live simpler, healthier and happier lives.

“As an active Life Plan Community, we place a high value on creating opportunities for our residents to live

extraordinary lives in an environment that emphasizes personal growth, connectedness, and relationships. When we learned about K4Connect and all of the benefits their technologies could bring to our residents and team members, we jumped at the opportunity to pilot it,” said Len Weiser, President and CEO of White Horse Village. “We’re thrilled to now officially deploy K4Community across the campus, enabling all of our residents to live more independently, while staying connected with each other, their families, and our team members.”

This campus-wide implementation follows a successful pilot in which participating residents — several of whom are part of the Resident Technology Advisory Committee that encourages tech innovation and education in the interest of residents — advocated for the technology long-term. White Horse Village will roll out K4Community in phases, starting with content creation, management, publishing and digital signage to streamline information-sharing across the broad campus. Future phases could include implementing new automation features such as smart lighting and thermostats in resident homes, along with enterprise-level voice access to content and community services through Amazon Alexa devices.

“Many of us at White Horse Village are interested in contemporary technology and the potential it has to assist us in our daily lives,” said Sam Goldstein, a member of White Horse Village’s Resident Technology Advisory Committee. “One of the K4Community features that I find truly handy is the voice capability through

Amazon’s Alexa. My wife and I both use it to turn lights on and off throughout our apartment, raise or lower the temperature on the thermostat, play classical music when we want quiet time or would like to read, or we ask it for the world and local news and weather.”

In addition to meeting resident demands for more modernized resources and amenities, K4Community will outfit White Horse Village’s team members with enterprise management tools and the advanced analytics necessary to continue providing the best in support services and hospitality. This is all possible through the underlying operating system, FusionOS, a first in the senior living industry.

Operators and staff are provided in-depth insights that drive overall efficiencies and cost savings through comprehensive backend data reporting, as well as features that signal trends in resident behavior.

“With the implementation of K4Community, White Horse Village is taking an important step toward institutionalizing technologies that will benefit hundreds of residents and team members today and in the future. From voice-enabled devices to comprehensive backend analytics, our FusionOS enables the integration and expansion of residentfacing technologies and enterprise-level tools that meet the ever-evolving needs of all who live and work in this Community,” said F. Scott Moody, Cofounder, CEO, and Chief Member Advocate of K4Connect. “We’re excited to support White Horse Village with dynamic solutions that can truly transform the lives of all residents and team members at this impressive

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K4Connect currently serves more than 15,000 residents across the U.S. through Smart Home, Smart Living and Smart Wellness specifically designed for older adults. To learn more about K4Connect and its current and future technologies, please visit www.k4connect.com.

About White Horse Village

White Horse Village is a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) dedicated to giving residents age 62 and older the best living experience. The Community is located on 96 acres in western Delaware County, Pa., approximately 20 miles west of center city Philadelphia. White Horse Village is a CARF-accredited life care community, granted its fourth five-year re-accreditation in June 2015. For more information, visit www.whitehorsevillage.org.

About K4Connect

K4Connect is a purpose-driven technology company that creates connected-life solutions that serve and empower older adults and individuals living with disabilities, together with the people, communities, and organizations that support them. K4Connect’s solutions integrate the latest in Smart Home, Smart Wellness and Smart Living technologies into single easy-to-use solutions designed specifically for and with those they serve.

The Company’s premier solution, K4Community, is currently being used by thousands of senior living residents and staff across the country. For more information, please visit www.k4connect.com.

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Spotted Lanternfly The Spotted Lanternfly is an invasive insect that has the potential to greatly impact agricultural crops such as grapes, hops, and hardwoods and reduce the quality of life in heavily infested areas.

Egg masses are laid on trees, decks, houses, and other hard surfaces and are protected by a mudlike covering. SLF adults are the most detectable stage since they are large, brightly colored, and mobile. If you believe you have SLF on your property, read Penn State Extension's guide for homeowners found at https://extension.psu.edu/spotted-lanternflymanagement-for-homeowners. Or call the Extension hotline at 1-888-422-3359 with questions on spotted lanternfly management or to report a sighting.

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Destroy egg masses Use sticky bands to capture spotted lanternfly Registered insecticides can be effective Avoid moving gravid (fertilized) females Avoid moving viable egg masses Treat most tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus altissima) trees with herbicide Treat tree-of-heaven “trap”trees with systemic insecticides

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Pool Safety & Yard Waste Collection Yard Waste Collection

Your greatest water safety assurance comes from adopting and practicing as many safety steps as possible.

Adding an extra safety step around the water can make all the difference.

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You can never know which safety step will save a life until it does.

Stay Close, Be Alert and Watch Always watch your children and never leave them unattended Keep children away from pool drains, pipes and other openings Have a phone close by at all times If a child is missing, check the pool first Share safety instructions with family, friends and neighbors

Now Through the Week of October 28 Upper Merion Township conducts a Yard Waste Collection each year.

Pickup days will vary each week depending on workload and weather.

We will make every eff ort to collect yard waste the same week the request is submitted.

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Learn and Practice Water Safety Skills

Learn to swim; it's fun and good exercise Know how to perform CPR on children and adults

Understand the basics of life saving so that you can assist in a pool emergency

Have the Appropriate Equipment

Install a fence around the perimeter of the pool and spa of at least four feet in height

Use self-closing and self-latching gates Ensure the pools and spas you use have compliant drain covers Install a door alarm from the house to the pool area Maintain pool and spa covers in working order Have life-saving equipment such as life rings or reaching poles available for use

Residents who want their yard waste picked up during these periods must contact the Public Works Department: Call 610-265-8465 (Hotline) Requests must be made before 12:00PM on the Tuesday of the week residents wish to have their yard waste picked up. www.umtownship.org/request-for-service If you do not make an appointment, your yard waste will not be picked up.

Guidelines

No more than 150 pounds of brush will be removed from any residence per pickup. All bundles should be placed at the curb in an orderly pile.

Leaves will be collected as long as they are placed in biodegradable bags. To learn about acceptable items, please visit www.umtownship.org.

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The Upper Merion Community Garden is a citizen group overseen by Upper Merion Park and Rec, and is part of the non-profit Upper Merion Foundation. In shor, the Garden exists to allow the entire community to leverage and experience an existing asset in a manner respectful to the past and the environment while offering much needed food assistance to those in need.

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HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE 2018 MONTGOMERY COUNTY PA RESIDENTIAL EVENTS 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Free residential collection events are held outdoors from 9am-3pm. Residents may attend any Household Hazardous Waste event held by Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Philadelphia Counties.

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OUTDOOR PRODUCTS

AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS

HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS

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Turpentine

Swimming Pool Chemicals

Grease & Rust Solvents

Drain Openers

Acids, Caustics, Solvents

Paint Thinners

Weed Killers

Fuel Additives

Rug Cleaners

Flammables

Strippers & Removers

Septic Tank Degreasers

Carburetor Cleaners

Wood & Metal Cleaners

Oxidizers

Oil-Based Paints

Asphalt Sealers

Transmission/Brake Fluid

Mothballs/Flakes

Reactives

Stains, Varnish

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Rechargeable batteries, Lithium, Ni-Cad, Button, Lead Acid

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Antifreeze Car(lead-acid), Truck, Motorcycle, Marine, Batteries

Other Solvent-Based Paint Products Wallpaper Cement

Roof Cements

Gas, Oil, Gas Oil Mixture

Spot Removers Spot Removers

Lead Mercury (Thermostats & Thermometers) Fluorescent Tubes, Ballast, and CFLs

MINI Propane Tanks

Flares

Fire Extinguishers

Aerosols

Spray Paint

Pesticide

Kerosene

Electric Oil-filled Heaters

UNACCEPTABLE MATERIALS Explosives & Ammunition Infectious or Medical Waste Tires Latex Paint* (Water-Based)

Electronics Pressurized CFCs & HCFCs Helium Tanks Gas Cylinders

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• BUSINESSES AND CONTRACTORS WILL BE TURNED AWAY, commercial/industrial generated hazardous waste will not be accepted.

• Bring all substances in original containers with labels. Items must be identifiable. Do not mix materials.

• Gas containers returned upon request.

• Tighten lids on all containers. If containers are leaking, pack in larger container with newspaper to soak up leaks.

*Take off lid, dry out paint, discard can without lid; or pour paint into plastic bag with absorbent material (clay based kitty litter, saw dust, rags) place bag and can without lid, in trash. Paint hardener can also be purchased at hardware stores.

Asbestos Radioactive Waste Unidentified Waste Alkaline Batteries (Trash)

Appliances/White Goods Freon Appliances PCBs Smoke Detectors

• Maximum amount accepted is 25 gallons or 220 pounds. No 25- or 50gallon drums.

• Event workers will unload your materials so please remain in your vehicle.

• There are no permanent drop off locations in the region for household hazardous waste, only the listed collections.

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Parenting Corner How Will You Spend the Summer?

prune trees close to power lines. When a minimal level of competency is reached this could be on their weekly chore list.

around the tent perimeter to allow the kids to see wildlife really close up. Let me know how that goes.)

Hello Parents!

Go Paintballing! The kids might be ready for this now. I recommend finding the people with annual memberships, wearing camouflage, toting their own high-end equipment, and challenge them to a game. Pain can be good for the kids.

What did you love to do before you had kids?

Maybe the kids are ready to learn and participate in those activities. Long bike rides, fly fishing, golfing, knitting, wild boar hunting. If you loved it, maybe your kids will too.

an excerpt from Andrew Mullen’s book Middle Schooled.

The summer is here! What are you going to do? It is crazy how the years fly by. Having the summers to spend with your middle school kids is such a gift (really, it is) and the time can slip by so quickly. Take full advantage of this opportunity and make some amazing memories. Here are a few ideas for you and your family to think about:

When it is hot and humid, and you need time inside, have the kids watch the original Karate Kid. When it cools down, they can wax your car.

Totally unplug. If you go on vacation, you and your kids should turn off and put away the cell phones. This is liberating and allows you all to reset and get back to basics. Things like talking to each other, looking around instead of down and being present in the here and now are good things.

Do something new that is outside of your comfort zone. Try a new restaurant, go camping, visit a town you have always wanted to see.

Doing some-thing new can be energizing and breaking the routine can be refreshing. (If you go camping, you may want to sprinkle hot dogs

Having amazing family time does not mean spending a ton of money. It means sharing real time to-gether, laughing and having fun.

Too much family time? Need some time without the kids? Play and sing along with the song “Wannabe” from the Spice Girls and your kids will leave you alone. Guaranteed to work. Tried it last night and it cleared the room.

I hope you have a wonderful summer!

Go back to the 1970's! I vividly remember being outside all day, working on my burn, playing Wiffle Ball (you still can't hit my knuckle ball), swimming and having completely unstructured time to be a kid. Allow your kids this same opportunity and embrace it! Play some Lynyrd Skynyrd, put on some tight OP shorts, relax and play with your kids. Having nothing planned is awesome. Un-structured time also allows your kids to use their imagination.

Use all of the vacation/personal time you can.

The kids are only young once. When possible, take more than a few days off so you can get into a re-laxed vacation tempo. I think in the travel business they call this the rhythm method, but I may be wrong on that.

The school year is crazy busy with homework, sports, etc. Perhaps your kids have not had time to really help with the daily chores around the house. Consider creating new responsibilities for the kids during the summer months. Cooking lunch, folding the laundry, whatever helps your home run, they can contribute. For example, at Camp Safety Last, the kids are learning how to

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EAGLES MERE—SUMMER CAMP FOR ADULTS Imagine waking to fresh cool air, sounds of owls hooting, woodpeckers drilling, and wandering with a steaming latté to the lake's edge to see eagles fishing on Pennsylvania's second highest natural glacial lake. What could be a more inviting way to begin the day, every day? Your kids left the house 30 minutes ago on their bicycles to join in at “Sports Week” at the beach. Today you have a choice - sneak away and get some needed personal time, catch up on your reading, play golf….whatever…the kids are safe and engaged all day in the athletic program, prowling the woods as part of the guided outdoor conservation program, taking tennis and golf lessons, or just hanging out with friends. Cars and traffic are hardly an issue. Lunch is available indoors or out at the beach, the Country Store, or the Sweet Shop. Everyone is friendly. Life feels like a throwback to the 50's and 60's, a less pressured time. Is this summer camp for the kids or for the adults?

Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania is unique. It is a 2 ½ hour drive from Philadelphia, deep in the Endless Mountain region of Pennsylvania. Founded in the mid 1800's as Philadelphia's “East Hampton”, it is rich in history. It is on the National Historic Register and virtually all of the gorgeous original architecture remains. It is home to

a William Flynn designed “links” course (think Marion), boundless preserved woodlands and trails, organized mountain and road biking, hiking, canoeing and sailing, tennis, croquet, summer arts, antique, and craft shows, shopping, museums galore, and more recently a revived Chautauqua. Engage as little or as much as you desire. Famous artists make it their home. The town boasts three Olympic Gold medal winners. There are noted authors and photographers. There is something for everyone.

The town's one remaining historic hotel is the Eagles Mere Inn (1887), seventeen rooms and three unique restaurants (www.eaglesmereinn.com).

Eagles Mere Historic Village Inc. is a 501C3 organized to preserve the downtown and its website provides good insight into the town (www.eaglesmerehistoricvillage.com).

Two world class museums exist just out of town, the Eagles Mere Air/Auto Museums (www.eaglesmereautomuseum.com) (www.eaglesmereairmuseum.org).

More insight into the athletic programs can be found at the Eagles Mere Athletic Association (www.eaglesmereathleticassociation.com).

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Stormwater Management Washing Your Vehicle

Swimming Pool Owners Responsibilities to Protect Local Streams

Where you wash your car matters.

The best option for our rivers is to take your vehicle to a commercial car wash, especially if you plan to clean the engine or the bottom of the car.

Most car washes reuse water several times before sending it on to a water pollution control plant.

Every year, there are fish kills in our local streams due to the discharge of water that has not been fully dechlorinated to storm drains.

Pennsylvania's Clean Stream Law prohibits the discharge of any swimming pool water without a permit. However, it has been the DEP's policy not to require permits for discharges from single resident pools provided the guidelines outlined below are followed. Please check if your municipality allows discharges to sanitary sewers.

Vehicles washed in driveways and parking lots allow dirty wash water to find its way to the nearest storm drain. That water often contains oils and grease, phosphates (from the soap) and heavy metals—all substances that are unhealthy for people, fish, and other living things.

If you would rather wash your car at home, protect our local streams with these tips:

Home Car Wash Tips: Wash your vehicle on gravel, grass, or another permeable surface so the ground can filter the water naturally.

Use soap sparingly and try to use non-phosphate detergents.

Phosphates are pollutants that can be harmful to nearby waterways and promote excess growth of algae.

Use a hose that is high pressure and low volume. Fit your hose with a nozzle that automatically turns off, or has a pistol grip or trigger nozzle to save water. Wash one section at a time and rinse quickly.

Residents and property managers who drain water from swimming pools need to be aware of ways to minimize environmental impact from pool water which contains chemicals that may be harmful to the environment.

When you are done, empty the bucket of soapy water down the sink—not into the street.

If you are hosting a car wash fundraiser, consider selling coupon books. Many car wash companies offer fundraiser savings books to nonprofit organizations and sports teams at reduced prices. The coupons can then be used anytime by the supporter.

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Rain gardens are shallow, planted depressions that are designed to absorb water from your roof, allowing it to drain directly into the soil. Typically, a downspout from your home is diverted toward the rain garden. This can prevent hundreds of gallons per year from entering the stormwater system. Rain gardens are one of the most cost effective ways to manage stormwater runoff and can be a beautiful addition to your existing landscape design.

Rain Gardens Tips Check your soil first! Rain gardens require well-draining soil.

Rain gardens must be planted at least 10 feet from any below-ground basement.

Rain gardens can be designed to suit your landscaping preferences by using a variety of native, perennial plant species.

This is not a vegetable or herb garden. Rain gardens are designed to absorb stormwater and filter out pollutants—not for growing food.

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