Our summer camp makes the local paper!

Longacre Leadership made the local newspaper recently. On Aug. 3, our summer camp students helped volunteers from Project MOVE (Millerstown Offering Volunteer Efforts) clean up and beautify the Millerstown PA square. Here's what was written:

The Millerstown square got “prettied up” Aug. 3 as campers from Longacre Leadership teamed with volunteers from Project Millerstown Offering Volunteer Efforts (MOVE).

The beautification project saw 17 campers and three staff members from the Newport-area summer camp work with seven volunteers from Project MOVE to clean up the Routes 22/322 underpass on Sunbury Street and scrape paint from a house on the square.

Other projects included stone sweeping in advance of the Aug. 6 Millerstown Firemen’s Carnival parade, weed pulling at the borough building and another home along South Market Street, and other duties.

The joint effort sprang from a meeting last year between Matthew Smith, Longacre Leadership program director, and Kathy Magill, Project MOVE coordinator. Project MOVE’s goals were in line with Longacre Leadership’s community service initiatives.

“It’s been great working up here. We’re happy to assist Project MOVE any way we can in beautifying the Millerstown square,” Smith said.

The whole article can be read here. Here are some pictures of our campers cleaning up the square: