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Allentown, PA, Sept 2021 — Pennsylvania’s Music Preservation Society (PAMPS) presented the Lehigh County Agricultural Society with ten movable planters containing Red Maple trees to help beautify the Allentown Fairgrounds for the 2021 Great Allentown Fair and all future events. The planters were put together with the help of these community partners:
- Allentown Fairgrounds Farmers Market: Eleven 5-gallon watering bucket
- BF Brown & Co Asphalt Paving: Signs for planters
- City of Allentown: Three tons of mulch in twenty 55-gallon cans
- Danner Paving: Cleaned crushed stone
- Lehigh County Agricultural Society: Donation
- Lehigh Law Enforcement Officers Assoc.: Topsoil sheeting
- Mother2Mother: Donation
- Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley: Youth volunteers who planted the trees
- Signal 88 of the Lehigh Valley: Tree watering and other assistance
- Tilley’s Nursery: Design & consultation; ten red maple trees with topsoil
- Uline of the Lehigh Valley: Ten tree boxes with shipping protection
- Williams Signs: Four large signs with white plastic box wrap
Several trees were placed in front of the Agri-Plex, and signs were placed on the planters to give tribute to the many volunteers who worked at the Ag Hall vaccination clinic during the winter. These many helpers assisted the Allentown Health Bureau and Lehigh County Emergency Management in giving thousands of people their COVID shots. One of the large signs shows a list of “Health Bureau Heroes”, while another lists the Allentown Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps (AVRMC) and Lehigh County’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) volunteers who worked at the Allentown Health Bureau’s COVID vaccine clinics. A third sign lists members of Pennsylvania’s Music Preservation Society, the organization responsible for the tree planting initiative.
Information provided to TVL by:
Pennsylvania’s Music Preservation Society
https://pamusicsociety.org/
