Derrick Morgan, a defensive end for the Tennessee Titans, is helping to provide Coatesville children with backpacks.
Residents invited to donate supplies, recycle materials, and clean up city
Coatesville residents will have an opportunity to get donations and make some on Saturday through two back-to-school drives, each from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Coatesville Memorial Community Center. In addition, multiple groups will be cleaning up the city, recycling discards, and promoting education.
Lancaster native Derrick Morgan of the Tennessee Titans, in conjunction with the Helping Hand Relief Fund and the Derrick Morgan Youth Foundation, is holding the First Annual Backpack Drive at the center. Backpacks will be available for children in grades kindergarten through fifth with a limit of two per household.
The Coatesville Parks and Recreation Commission and Community Policing Committee is hoping to receive donations of supplies for the upcoming school year.
Among the items that would be appreciated are markers, crayons, paints, pencils, erasers, paint brushes, glue, writing and construction paper, straws, popsicle sticks craft sticks, index cards, and gently used toys and board games of all kinds.
Before the fall donation drive, the Coatesville Parks and Recreation Commission and the Community Policing Committee will be participating in the 4th Annual Back to School Cleanup, an initiative to get the streets, bus stops, and parks ready for the opening of school. Through a partnership with the Coatesville Youth Initiative this year, all recyclable collected items will go to them at Gateway Park, where the Third Annual Coatesville Recycling and Living Green Festival will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
In addition to recycling, paper shredding, the festival, a service project for the Coatesville Youth Initiative teens, will feature children’s games, face and rock painting, temporary tattoos, and a moon bounce. Snow cones and a dollop of education will round out the activities.
Clean-up volunteers are needed. Meet at City Hall, 1 City Hall Place, at 9 a.m. on Saturday. For more information, call 610-384-0300, ext. 3250 or visit http://www.coatesville.org/back-to-school-cleanup-2#sthash.9lec0Dpy.dpuf. The community center is located at 99 N. Ninth Ave., Coatesville.
