Archive for July, 2010

7 New Flower Barrels on 3rd St.

In addition to our community cleanup, on July 10 two volunteers placed seven new planted barrels outside the following businesses along Third Street between Verbeke and Forster: Midtown Scholar, Broad Street Market, Historic Harrisburg Resource Center, the HodgePodgery, Gifted Hands, the Soup Spot, and Urban World. The barrels contain canna lily, variegated liriope, portulaca, and [...]

Summer Newsletter

Within the past few days, several volunteers have begun distribution of FOM’s Summer Newsletter throughout Midtown. Distribution is expected to be completed by early next week. Thanks to those who have volunteered to fold and distribute the newsletters.

July 10 clean-up results

Thanks to the 24 volunteers who, despite the threatening weather, showed up on Saturday July 10 for our first summer community clean-up.  With so few volunteers, we still managed to remove 81 bags of trash and weeds from five miles of streets, alleys, and sidewalks. That is the same number of bags filled as the [...]