West Glenmoore, PA - Beautiful. Green. Home.

Just received my eNewsletter from Pearl’s Market, Eagle, PA today and in it was an announcement about the First Annual Spring Festival at The Eagle Village Barn and Grounds. The event will be on Saturday, May 16th from 10am - 5pm (Rain date is May 17th). The event sounds like a good time. Make sure to bring the whole family!

Planned events for the day:

• art show
• local wineries and tastings
• area restaurants
• antique dealers
• jewelry artists
• music
• children’s activities
• free chair massages
• spring portraits
• special discounts
• and much, much more!

The event is brought to you by:

Pearl’s Market, Vital Touch Wellness and Fili Gree Home and Gifts.

Directions to the event

On Sunday, April 26th a group of Wallace Township residents volunteered to be a part of The Great PA Cleanup. Fifteen people, including four under 18 years, walked the 2-mile stretch of Little Conestoga Road from Adams Drive to Whitetail Ridge (almost to Fairview Road). We met around 8:30am and completed the cleanup rather quickly! In just over an hour.

We reported the following statistics, which are down from last year, but we know that is because there was much less trash along our adopted roadside this time.

HERE IS THE REPORTING INFORMATION YOU ENTERED:

Volunteers: 15
Volunteers Under 18: 4
Number Of Communities Involved: 1
Cleanup Type: Litter Cleanup Event
Bags of Trash: 14
Miles of Road: 2

The results of all events will be combined into a statewide statistics for the Great PA Cleanup. Those results will be published on Keep America Beautiful’s website and will serve as a benchmark for future events.

If you are interested in volunteering to help keep our roads beautiful, please contact us and register for the cleanup, or subscribe to the West Glenmoore eNewsletter. The Adopt a Highway/Road program wants us to clean our 2-mile section of LCR 3-4 times a year. We typically run our first cleanup event coinsiding with The Great PA Cleanup in April. Other times we need volunteers is again in mid-summer and then again in October.

Hope to see some new faces during our next cleanup event! It fun to get out there and meet your neighbors and walk the road. You see a lot more than we all do driving at 40 MPH.

This is something I never really thought about…what happens if you break a compact fluorescent light bulb? Well there is mercury in each bulb and with kids in our house that is a health concern. Of course, I’m not going to stop using CFL’s due to the mercury, they are far superior to regular light bulbs. Besides, the most common risk of mercury exposure to children comes from canned tuna because kids eat so much of it (except if you are living in my house…my kids don’t eat a lot of ‘new’ foods”.

So what should you do if you break a CFL bulb?

Have a game plan…over on Earth911.com and in a recent email I received, they give you a simple 5 step action plan for cleaning up a broken CFL bulb.

1) Open a window before cleaning up, and turn off any forced-air heating or air conditioning.

2) Instead of sweeping or vacuuming, which can spread the mercury around, scoop up the glass fragments and powder. Use sticky tape to pick up remaining glass fragments or powder. Wipe the area clean with a damp paper towel or wet wipes.

3) Dispose of the broken bulb through your local household hazardous waste program or recycling program. If that service is unavailable in your area, place all clean-up materials in a trash container outside the building.

4) Wash your hands after cleaning up.

5) If vacuuming is needed afterwards, when all visible materials have been removed, vacuum the area and dispose of the vacuum bag in a sealed plastic bag. For the next few times you vacuum, turn off any forced-air heating or air conditioning and open a window before doing so.

Recycling Old Light Bulbs

Wow, I actually never thought of this and will definitely be recycling burned out bulbs from now on.

Many companies offer the benefit of allowing you to mail back your old, burnt-out lamps free of charge. You may visit the manufacturers’ site for take-back programs or recycle your lamps using Earth911.

• NEMA estimates that lamp recycling, in 2003, recovered about 5,720 pounds of mercury.
• When lamps are recycled at the end of their usable lives, less than one-tenth (<.1) of one ton of mercury is released into the air.

With lamps such as compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), mercury content needs to be taken into consideration before disposal.

Mercury is an extremely hazardous waste and is a major health concern when it comes in contact with humans and animals. In humans, mercury can cause brain and kidney damage. While many companies hope to have non-mercury CFLs in the near future, right now, such lamps are not widely available.

Full post and credit from Earth911.com

Here’s some info from an email I received from the World Wildlife Fund earlier this week.

On March 28, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. local time, millions of people across the globe will turn out their lights to raise awareness and take action to fight climate change. Will you vote for the Earth with your light switch? Sign up and let us count your vote!

The momentum for Earth Hour is growing in the United States and around the world. Here are some recent exciting developments:

• Washington, D.C. will join nearly 2,300 cities around the world in going dark for Earth Hour.
• A TOTAL OF 175 U.S. CITIES AND TOWNS have now pledged to “turn out” for the largest climate event in history, with more signing up each day.
• EDWARD NORTON VOTES EARTH: The Academy Award-nominated actor and environmental activist has agreed to be the official Earth Hour Ambassador for the U.S.
• Get your children involved in saving the planet through EarthHourKids.org.

Hello Friends and Families of Glenmoore!

Adopt a Highway Volunteers of Glenmoore

As spring is almost upon us, I hope you will again join us in our cleanup efforts along our adopted two-mile stretch of Little Conestoga Road. Many of us travel that road daily and have seen the build-up of trash and other debris. Most of this trash makes it’s resting spot along the side of the road as it blows out of truck beds, tossed from windows, as well as from our recycling containers on the windy winter days. Well now is the time for us to help beautify our section of the road and township.

The date that we are shooting for is Sunday, April 26th from 8:30 AM to 11:00 AM (going to have to determine a rain date). We usually meet between 8:30 and 9:00 am to pass out trash bags, safety vests and go over some of the regulations imposed by PennDOT. Even if you can only help for an hour or so, that is much appreciated.

To Register:

To register yourself and/or your family, visit our Cleanup Registration page.

Please forward this link onto other residents live along Little Conestoga Rd and side streets. You can also read our initial post on Glenmoore Residents Adopt Little Conestoga Road

We are hoping to have at least 20 people this time for the cleanup event.

The following is a message from the Acting Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection for PA, John Hanger.

President Barack Obama has issued a national call to service, and the Great American Cleanup of Pennsylvania is a great place to start.

“Change happens from the bottom up because people imagine a world as it should be and are willing to put in the hard work to change the country block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood,” then-candidate Obama said at the ServiceNation Summit on 9/11/2008.

Please consider serving with the Great American Cleanup of Pennsylvania to cleanup and beautify your community. The success of this annual campaign depends on community volunteers like you who organize and manage cleanup events. Your contributions as event leaders in securing the right locations, rounding up volunteers, arranging for gloves, trash bags and waste disposal, and all of the other tasks, are the keys to success. Without your help, Pennsylvania wouldn’t have the outstanding results the Great American Cleanup of Pennsylvania has achieved over the last five years, including:

• More than 35 million pounds of trash collected
• 768,925 volunteers
• 69,180 miles of highway cleaned

With your help again this year, we can all make the 2009 Great American Cleanup of Pennsylvania a change for the better.

Let’s Pick It Up, PA!

Here is a message that was forwarded to me this evening and I wanted to post on the blog to get additional publicity and notify all of the readers of WestGlenmoore.org.

I’m sure most of you are aware of the awful arson fires happening lately in Coatesville. Next weekend their will be a bake sale at Village Hardware in Guthriesville, PA. If you are in the area stop by and help donate for this cause.

You can also join a Facebook group to Stop the Fires in Coatesville!

Message from State Representative Curt Schroder:

Help Coatesville Residents!

The good folks at Village Hardware of Guthriesville are holding a bake sale fundraiser next weekend, February 7-8, 2009.

Proceeds will benefit the people in Coatesville who have been the victims of arson.

All of us locally are aware of this and some of you might have seen the stories on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News as it has become a national story.

If you live in the area, please donate some baked goods to Village Hardware (in Guthriesville, PA) next weekend and/or stop in to buy some and have some free hot dogs as well (donations requested for the hot dogs). Proceeds will go to a fund established for the victims by Citadel Federal Credit union.

Village Hardware
1155 Horseshoe Pike
Downingtown, PA19335-1367

Phone: 610-269-4200

Spread the word!
Becky A.
East Brandywine Twp., PA

Here is another link on the Coatesville Fire Department’s site

Help for the Victims of Coatesville Fires - Coatesville FD

If you are like us and print your own photos you’ll have lots of empty inkjet cartridges to recycle. I’ve looked in the past for a simple recycling solution and never found anything good. I’ve been holding onto a dozen or more old cartridges to wait for a program such as the one Staples is going to be offering.

I just found this article over on Got2BeGreen called Staples’ Ink and Toner Cartridge Recycling Program

Beginning February 1st, Staples will begin to offer a comprehensive ink and toner recycling program. This program is part of their EcoEasy suite of green initiatives. Staples will accept any brand or type of cartridge. In exchange for each recycled cartridge, customers will receive $3 in Staples Rewards. Staples will accept up to 10 cartridges per customer per month.

Read the full post over on Got2BeGreen

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I just received an email regarding this event coming up at Victory Brewing Company on Sunday, February 8th.

Here are the details…

Guardians of the Brandywine Tour and Tasting Event
http://www.watchourwaters.org/

THE VICTORY BREWING COMPANY (web)
420 Acorn Ln
Downingtown, PA 19335

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2009
3-5PM

PLEASE COME AND ENJOY A “BEHIND THE SCENES” TOUR OF DOWNINGTOWN’S OWN VICTORY BREWING COMPANY LED BY A MASTER BREWER!

SAMPLE FIVE DELICIOUS HAND CRAFTED BEERS SERVED ALONGSIDE ONE OF THEIR FAMOUS PRETZELS!

BRING YOUR FRIENDS!

RECEIVE A COUPON GOOD FOR 10% OFF YOUR CHECK IF YOU STAY FOR DINNER!

SUPPORT A GREAT CAUSE!
HAVE A GREAT TIME!
TRY A GREAT BEER!

*TICKETS: $35.00 PER PERSON*
Tickets available online at:

Call 484-238-8541 for more info
or email: watchourwaters@gmail.com

PLEASE HELP PROTECT OUR LOCAL WATERS!

PLEASE MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO ‘GUARDIANS OF THE BRANDYWINE’

Guardians of the Brandywine

You are Cordially Invited to Help Protect the Brandywine on

Sunday, November 9, 2008
5-7pm
$50/person
includes food and all beverages

Victory Brewing Company (web)
420 Acorn Lane
Downingtown, PA
(610) 873-0881

For directions to Victory, click here.

To RSVP to receive tickets to the event please send an email to watchourwaters@gmail.com

For more information visit WatchOurWaters.org

All proceeds benefit Guardians of the Brandywine

Here is another blog that has been setup to “Preserve Our Watershed“.

There will be a series of public hearings on the Conditional Use Application for the creation of the Spa/Golf Course/Hotel Resort proposed by developer Albert Greenfield III. The first hearing will take place on Tuesday Sept. 23, 2008 at 7:30pm, Wallace Township Building, 1250 Creek Rd., Glenmoore 19343.

For more information about Protecting Wallace visit Preserve Our Watershed