Morgantown/Honey Brook OCTOBER 29, 2025
SERVING OUR COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
REACHING MORE THAN 7,480 HOMES
VOL XXXIII • NO 39
Community Connections Group Focuses on Service, Inclusion
FROM SNOW REMOVAL TO POWER OUTAGES, STOP ON BY! BY FRANCINE FULTON
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icki Habecker, founder and president of Community Connections - Berks Inc., asks that the next time you drink a soda or other beverage from a can, you save the tab and place it in the collection jar at the Boone Area Librar y, 129 N. Mill St., Birdsboro. The group is collecting the tabs to donate to Ronald McDonald House Charities in Central Pennsylvania. The group was able to collect nearly 1 million tabs last year. According to the charity, the tabs are worth money because they are sold to a local recycling company. “Last year, we were attempting to set the Guinness Book World Record, which is 6.2 million tabs donated over one year,” Habecker explained. “While we did not get the Guinness Book World Record, we demonstrated that ever y person can make a difference,
Members of the Community Connections group enjoy a drum circle at the Birdsboro Community Memorial Center led by Michael Clipman (far right).
and it begins with just one tab.” She said the effor t is also designed to shine a light on Community Connections, a group that promotes the values of friendship, value and belonging. “Community Connections is a group of young
adults with and without disabilities coming together with their caregivers in friendship, fun and service to the community. That is our mission statement,” said Habecker. “We are inclusion-based and community-based.”
Habecker’s son Joshua, who has cerebral palsy, founded the group in 2013. “It is a passion, a piece of my heart and love not only for my own children but for other young adults and their families, our community and our
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Youngsters do not have to put away their Halloween costumes after a night of trick-or-treating. Instead, they are invited to take part in Field of Screams, a night of baseball that is being presented by the Twin Valley Baseball Association (TVBA). The event will take place on
Saturday, Nov. 1, from 3 to 6 p.m. at Caernarvon Township’s Friendship Park, 3287 North St., Morgantown. The first-time event is open to baseball players in age 8 and under, 10 and under and 12 and under teams. However, the games are for all players in the area, regardless of where they currently play. “It’s basically a Wiffle ball game, and they
The Twin Valley Baseball Association’s 10U team recently marked the end
See Baseball pg 3 of the season with a Wiffle ball tournament.
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