A Little Dough, A Lot of Fun!
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The Fifth Annual Pretzel Fest,
an event open to the public is a festival that celebrates the significance of pretzels in Berks County. This year, it was held on
Saturday, September 23rd at the First Energy Stadium.
This year's pretzel vendors included Unique, Tom Sturgis Pretzels, Uncle Henry's Pretzles, Foltz and many others. Craft beer brewers include Stoudts Brewing and Black Angus Rest. The Adelphia booth handed out free crab cakes and the attendees enjoyed the puppy corner thanks to Cats Incorporated.
Close to 30 volunteers from Berks Catholic and Kutztown University participated at the event to ensure its success.
Three locals bands were featured at the event and attendees were able to participate in
kids and adult pretzel games and contests.
A big thank you to all the sponsors, vendors and attendees of Pretzel Fest 2017!
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Habitat for Humanity Chapter at Kutztown University
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Kutztown University (KU) is a long standing pillar of higher education that draws students from near and far. Not only does the university stress the importance of student academics, but it encourages student development through hands-on experience through various clubs and organizations. Throughout the years, KU students have worked alongside Habitat for Humanity of Berks County, as event support, home project rehab volunteers, and ReStore volunteers. Now, students have taken on the H4H mission by establishing a chapter on KU’s campus!
The purpose of this organization is to provide volunteer opportunities to students with an interest in improving the community of Berks and surrounding counties. Students achieve this goal by working cooperatively with Habitat Berks.
The KU H4H chapter is headed by Morgan Rutkowski, who is the acting President. She is supported by Ashley L. Kolb, Vice President, Brooke Gladfelter, Treasurer, and a host of student volunteers.This club meets monthly on Tuesday’s in the Old Main building, where students establish their chapter‘s volunteer opportunities and fundraising activities.
We, the Berks County chapter, are delighted to work with KU students to increase home-ownership to families in need. Thank you!
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Building the Birdhouse Challenge
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We welcome Patrice Bentz, a realtor of Re/Max Reading as the Chair of Birdhouse Challenge. With her guidance, we are planning to make Birdhouse Challenge bigger than it has ever been!
Interested in making a birdhouse?
There is no fee!
Promote your business, organization or hobby by building your own birdhouse. Birdhouses must be available for display by the 20th of February.
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Are you or your organization looking to plan an event or service project that benefits your local community? If so, Thrivent Financial can jump start your project. Thrivent Financial is a nonprofit organization that specializes in financial strategy services that help people make wise financial decisions and live generously.
Thrivent promotes your organization’s cause by bringing together Thrivent Action Teams ( your organizations volunteers) with an event starter kit including:
- Promotional banner.
- Invitations and thank-you cards.
- Thrivent Action Team T-shirts.
- A $250 Community Impact Card you can use as seed money to get your project off the ground and make a bigger impact.
To take advantage of this great offer, your organization must apply for your project at
Thrivent Action Teams
.
Once your project has been approved, Thrivent will send you your starter kit that will no-doubt promote your cause and event’s success.
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Would you like the opportunity to volunteer with a well-known organization for a great cause? Do you want the satisfaction of creating lasting change? Do you want a free t-shirt? United Way of Berks County can offer you that and much more. United Way, a nonprofit organization located Berks County, wants to promote positive change in people’s lives. Not just to the lives that their organization serves, but to the lives that partner alongside of their cause.
United Way annually hosts a “Day of Caring”. This preselected date hosts a day of volunteer projects throughout the Berks County area. These projects include gardening, painting, maintenance, and item organization.
As a potential volunteer, you can volunteer with an established United Way community project or your group or organization can propose a community project to tackle. All projects must be submitted through the United Way project submission portal at
www.uwberks.org
. Each project must be approved by United Way, in order to receive the “Day of Caring” affiliation.
This initiative brings together people from all walks of life to create lasting change and an overall enriched community.
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Berks Catholic Habitat Chapter
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Tis' the Season of Giving
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Shop at the Store that Builds Homes
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You Donate It. We pick it up. Others buy it.
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When “its out with the old and in with the new” consider donating your gently used appliances, furniture, building supplies and other materials to the ReStore.
We accept all furniture, gently used appliances, lumbar, windows, doors, miscellaneous hardware, wall covering, electrical and plumbing fixtures, ceramic tiles and many other items.
In addition to diverting millions of pounds of material from landfills, we sell these donated items at 60%-80% off their initial price.
For donations and volunteer opportunities, Contact Joe Marmontello at
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Building Homes for Our Community and Future
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Newest member of our Habitat Family!
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Penny Hummel, a native of Hamburg, Pennsylvania has joined Habitat for Humanity of Berks County as the Director of Family Services / Volunteer Coordinator. She has a Bachelor's degree from Cedarville University in Business, Marketing, and related Support Services.
In her professional career Penny, has held a plethora of positions all over Pennsylvania. She began her career as a Campaign Associate for United Way of Berks County, moved on to be a reporter at Berks-Mont newspapers. She then moved on to work for more prestigious organizations in Berks County such as Berks Career and Technology Center, Schuylkill Valley School District, Pipe Up! Media and AHEAD.
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You can Help the Hurricane-Affected Habitat for Humanity Affiliates
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When you make a purchase at Habitat for Humanity Berks County's ReStore between September 12 and November 31, 2017 ReStore will DONATE 20% of its net sales during this time period to Habitat for Humanity of Berks County's Hurricane-Affected affiliates.
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We Invite You to Make A Difference
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We are looking for volunteers
at our ReStore location. Our ReStore volunteer hours are Wednesdays through Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 6 p.m.
We also have opportunities for bilingual volunteers and mentors.
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Thanks for reading this newsletter and I hope we can count you as part of the Habitat family. As a recent graduate of Albright College, I am excited to continue my role in marketing this wonderful organization that is doing such incredible things. Getting the message out to this community is such an important responsibility because you make this all happen with your donations, volunteer hours and best wishes. My goal is to keep you informed and excited about the things Habitat will be doing so stay tuned for more great happenings and I hope you will share this with your family and friends.
We hope that our newsletter makes you proud to live in this community as you get to know more about Habitat for Humanity of Berks County with people working hard to make sure their neighbors have opportunities to better their futures and become more stable, stronger and self-reliant members of Berks County.
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From All of Us...A Heartfelt Thank you!
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From our Habitat for Humanity family to yours...have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!
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