Pottstown is Having a Field Day, Be Part of It

A Community Field Day to help families learn about low-cost fitness and outdoor activities will be held at the Chestnut Street Park in Pottstown on Saturday, Aug. 27 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The park is located at the corner of Chestnut and Washington streets.

The goal is to have at least 15-17 stations of fitness/sports or other activity for group participation.

Each station will have groups of approximately 10 people participating in the activity for about five minutes.

The DJ will play family appropriate music continuously until the five minutes are up.

Then, the DJ will use audio equipment to yell/announce SWITCH,  and each group will move on to a new station.

Each participant will receive a stamp on their activity pass for every station they complete. Once they complete 10 stations or more, participants will turn in their card and receive a free gift.

This way we can track how many people completed the minimum challenge equating to at least 45 minutes of fitness for each participant.

Organizations that want to participate, man a table, or donate a raffle prize or a gift to give to families for their participation should send an email to Laura Washington at  wash5000@msn.com or call (484) 300-2410.

The even is in need of healthy food items in order to provide free samples, gift bag giveaways and raffle prizes.

Volunteers are also needed for set-up. The set up will begin at 10 a.m. Tables and chairs will be provided but help is needed setting them up along with some of the activity stations.

In addition to the community field day activities, there will be a DJ playing music, children’s table activities and free food samplings.

A Busy Spring Saturday in Pottstown

Photo by John Armato. Who else?
Franklin Elementary School Principal Kevin Downes, left,
consults with his school's namesake about Saturday's re-dedication.

So, as our readers like to remind us with alarming regularity, neither The Mercury nor the Digital Notebook team, can be everywhere all the time.

And this Saturday was just one of those spring days when everyone was out and everything was going on all the time.

Luckily for Pottstown, John Armato often IS everywhere all the time.

So although, we couldn't cover the re-dedication of Franklin Elementary School Saturday because we were covering the youth anti-violence summit at the Ricketts Center, John could.

Photo by Evan Brandt (Yeah, I do some of my own work sometimes)

Mosaic Community Garden Manager Laura Washington Saturday.

And although we couldn't make it to the track meet at Pottstown High School, because fit for life reporter Michelea Patterson was covering the YMCA Healthy Kids Day in Boyertown, John could.

And although I had a mountain of laundry to do, and was up until 3 a.m. putting together the blog post from the Jazz Band Championships, I did manage to stop by the Moasiac Community Land Trust community garden.

There, I spoke with manager Laura Washington about a program Saturday teaching gardeners how to plan for the frost when planting, and about their efforts to use all organic, non-GMO seeds in their gardens.

Here is some video of what that was all about.



In the meantime, here are some Tweets and video stolen from lots of other correspondents, about a very busy Saturday in Pottstown.

A Very Pottstown Fourth

Surprisingly good photo by Evan Brandt

The Mercury/#StoptheViolence/MercuryMile/BikePottstown crew celebrate the completion of the Fourth of July Parade.

Folks from The Mercury were awfully busy for a holiday on Thursday, not only covering Pottstown's signature Fourth of July Parade, but participating in it!

Here are some Tweets, Touts, videos and links from the day.

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