Posted on 20 February 2012. Tags: Coventry Christian Academy, Pottsgrove School District, Pottstown Area Health And Wellness Foundation, Rolling Hills apartment complex
Talk among participants at a prayer breakfast led to action by Coventry Christian Schools to form a tutoring-and-sports program specifically intended to help students living at the Rolling Hills apartment complex on Buchert Road. It won a grant for the project last December.
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Posted in Education, Health, Lower Pottsgrove, Pottsgrove Schools, Religion, Sanatoga, Sports
Posted on 10 October 2011. Tags: Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners, Pottstown Area Health And Wellness Foundation, regional recreation coordinator
Could a recreation coordinator help Lower Pottsgrove and other municipalities get more people involved in wellness activities and save money too? It’s being explored on a regional level now, the Board of Commissioners learned.
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Posted in Health, Lower Pottsgrove, Recreation, Sanatoga, Social, Sports
Posted on 29 September 2011. Tags: Body Mass Index, Pottsgrove School District, Pottstown Area Health And Wellness Foundation, student obesity
Pottsgrove, Pottstown, and Spring-Ford Area school district students seem to share a common trait: fewer of them are considered obese, and more are within a healthy weight range over the past three years.
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Posted in Education, Food, Health, Pottsgrove Schools, Pottstown, Social
Posted on 22 September 2011. Tags: L.L. Bean, outdoor activities, Pottsgrove School District, Pottstown Area Health And Wellness Foundation
A contribution to local organizations from retailer L.L. Bean, which is opening a store next week in King of Prussia, could help Pottsgrove and other school districts pay for students’ outdoor activities.
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Posted in Business, Education, Pottsgrove Schools, Pottstown, Recreation, Social, Sports
Posted on 02 May 2011. Tags: Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners, Occidental Chemical Corp., Pottstown Area Health And Wellness Foundation, Sprogels Run Park
Specifications for a proposed boardwalk nature trail at Sprogel’s Run Park in Lower Pottsgrove went out, but bids that came back for its construction were over-budget. The township plans some cost-saving changes.
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Posted in Business, Lower Pottsgrove, Recreation, Sports
Posted on 26 March 2011. Tags: Creative Health Services, Lower Pottsgrove Police Department, Pottsgrove High School, Pottstown Area Health And Wellness Foundation
Township Police Officer William James is one of several area experts tapped to discuss childhood bullying in a series of new videos released Friday by the Pottstown Area Health and Wellness Foundation.
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Posted in Education, Health, Lower Pottsgrove, Police, Video
Posted on 07 March 2011. Tags: Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners, Occidental Chemical Corp., Pottstown Area Health And Wellness Foundation, Sprogels Run Park
More than two years after it was marked out, construction of the enhanced nature trail at Sprogels Run Park in Lower Pottsgrove may be authorized tonight by the township Board of Commissioners.
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Posted in Lower Pottsgrove, Recreation
Posted on 28 February 2011. Tags: Pottstown Area Health And Wellness Foundation, Pottstown Memorial Medical Center
More than 30 projects proposed by community organizations in Lower Pottsgrove, Limerick, Pottstown and elsewhere will share in almost $1 million in grants announced Friday.
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Posted in Health, Limerick, Lower Pottsgrove, Pottstown
Posted on 25 January 2011. Tags: Pottsgrove School District, Pottstown Area Health And Wellness Foundation
A Philadelphia resident has been hired by the Pottstown Area Health and Wellness Foundation to manage its grants for Pottsgrove and other schools, recreation, and active living programs.
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Posted in Health, Pottsgrove Schools
Posted on 03 January 2011. Tags: Dr. Laurie M. Betts, Pottstown Area Health And Wellness Foundation
The Pottstown Area Health and Wellness Foundation continues its battle against child obesity.
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Posted in Health, Pottstown