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Chestnut Hill Rotary volunteers recently helped spruce up the local environment at Jenks Academy for the Arts & Sciences and Pastorius Park.
Watch the short video clip of the spring clean up at Pastorius Park.
Taking advantage of the pleasant late winter-early spring weather, volunteers first joined with the Friends of Jenks to refresh the school’s playground surface to keep it safe for children. The playground is a popular gathering and play site for children and families in Northwest Philadelphia. With shovels and rakes in hand, volunteers dumped a truck’s worth of engineered wood fiber in the play area, damaged by the harsh winter and daily use.
The following weekend, member volunteers helped the Friends of Pastorius Park remove sweet gum balls, sticks, and other debris from the heavily traveled areas in the Park. Sweet gum balls are the spikey spherical seed pods that fall from the American Sweetgum tree that present a tripping hazard to the park’s visitors.
Rotary volunteers joined with Friends of Jenks School to refresh the playground surface for children’s safety.
Jenks is one of four elementary schools that Chestnut Hill Rotary supports in Northwest Philadelphia through hands-on volunteer service and financial support through its grant program to support special projects that arise.
In addition to ongoing volunteer service, Chestnut Hill Rotary provided a grant to the Friends of Pastorius Park to support its Northeast Woods Restoration Project. The Project is an ambitious multi-year effort o restore natural habitat, reduce soil erosion, and improve pedestrian circulation in the northeast section of the Park.
