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SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXII • NO 13
Daniel Boone Homestead to host Children’s Day Children’s Day will be celebrated at Daniel Boone Homestead on Sunday, May 5, from noon to 4 p.m. During the event, which is being sponsored by the Daniel Boone Homestead Associates (DBHA), youngsters and their families will be able to experience Colonial life through hands-on
activities such as textile processing, candle dipping, quill pen writing, butter making and more. Children will learn about Daniel Boone’s mother, Sarah Boone, who was well-known for making butter and cheese. They will be able to explore the spring cellar and smokehouse, where See Children’s Day pg 2
Elanor Hamel (left photo) and Eleanor White (right photo) enjoy riding the carousel.
Birdsboro library holds story time program at Pottstown carousel BY FRANCINE FULTON
During last year’s Children’s Day, volunteer Mary Ann Bowman (left) taught participants how to seal letters with wax after writing with a quill pen.
Event collects money, food donations for Honey Brook Food Pantry BY FRANCINE FULTON
Amber Hamel (center) took a ride on the carousel along with the youngsters.
organization. Hamel said that she wanted to share her love of the carousel with the youngsters from Birdsboro. “We have been (volunteering) for six or seven years,” said Hamel. “It is kid-oriented. Why not bring kids here?” According to www.carousel
atpottstown.org, the carousel was built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company in 1905. Its first home was at Euclid Beach Park in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1909, the carousel was moved to Laurel Springs Amusement Park in Hartford, Conn., and it remained
The Honey Brook Food Pantry (HBFP) recently announced the results of its March Madness fundraiser, a friendly competition that pits local companies against each other to see which one can donate the most food and money to the pantry. The event coincides with the NCAA March Madness Tournament. The Honeybrook Golf Club/
See Carousel pg 2
Greenside Grill was this year’s winner. It defeated Knies Insurance at the end of the competition. Other companies that were close to the win included the Wright Agency; NovaCare Rehabilitation, which won last year’s event; and Truist Bank. Collectively, the companies donated more than $3,800 and 1,400 pounds of food. Donations will go to providing supplemental food for elementary-age students See Food pantry pg 4
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ince Amber Hamel’s appointment as youth coordinator at the Boone Area Library in January, she has taken the biweekly story time program on the road, hosting the event at the Birdsboro Community Memorial Center and at Main Bird Park. Most recently, she hosted Story Time with Miss Amber at the Carousel at Pottstown, where children enjoyed stories, including “Up and Down on the Merry-Go-Round,” and a coloring activity followed by a ride on the historic indoor carousel. Hamel provided a history of the carousel, which is the secondoldest wooden carousel in the country, and recounted interesting facts about the carousel, including the fact that the center pole and wood on the carousel came from an 1934 naval ship. Hamel and her mother, Brenda Supplee, are volunteers with the nonprofit Carousel at Pottstown