Project Pride Community Garden Receives Honorable Mention
Johnstown, Pa. – The City of Bradford’s Elm Street program was presented with an Honorable Mention award in the category of Community Greening for its Project Pride Community Garden at Pennsylvania Downtown Center’s (PDC) annual statewide Townie Awards gala. The Townie Awards are a festive and venerable tradition designed to recognize the commonwealth’s core communities and individuals for creation and implementation of programming and events that exemplify the goals of PDC’s community revitalization mission. All of Pennsylvania Downtown Center’s 270 member organizations are eligible to win, making the Townies a competitive award process each year.
“Bradford Elm Street’s Project Pride Community Garden should be applauded at many levels, but most especially for sparking involvement by the young people of Bradford in the community revitalization effort,” said Bill Fontana, PDC’s executive director. “With this project we were able to engage so many individuals and groups that had never been involved with the program before. This effort is not only a sustainable initiative in the context of produce and plants, but sustainable in the relationships that were built as part of the overall effort,” said Lisa Campogiani, Elm Street Manager for Project Pride.
The Townie Awards are a part of PDC’s annual statewide conference, which is held in a different commonwealth community each year in order to highlight the respective city or town’s accomplishments in community and neighborhood revitalization. This year’s conference, held in Johnstown, was attended by more than 200 individuals, including borough and municipal officials, experts in community planning and landscape architecture, and dozens of Main Street and Elm Street managers. Highlights of the conference included nationally-recognized speakers, more than two dozen educational sessions, a community night at Point Stadium and mobile workshops to the neighboring town of Bedford, a Main Street community.
For information about the City of Bradford’s Elm Street program, contact Lisa Campogiani at (814) 598-7098 or .lcampogiani@bradfordpa.org For information pertaining to Pennsylvania Downtown Center, contact Norah Griffiths Johnson at (717) 233-4675 or norahgriffiths@padowntown.org.
“Bradford Elm Street’s Project Pride Community Garden should be applauded at many levels, but most especially for sparking involvement by the young people of Bradford in the community revitalization effort,” said Bill Fontana, PDC’s executive director. “With this project we were able to engage so many individuals and groups that had never been involved with the program before. This effort is not only a sustainable initiative in the context of produce and plants, but sustainable in the relationships that were built as part of the overall effort,” said Lisa Campogiani, Elm Street Manager for Project Pride.
The Townie Awards are a part of PDC’s annual statewide conference, which is held in a different commonwealth community each year in order to highlight the respective city or town’s accomplishments in community and neighborhood revitalization. This year’s conference, held in Johnstown, was attended by more than 200 individuals, including borough and municipal officials, experts in community planning and landscape architecture, and dozens of Main Street and Elm Street managers. Highlights of the conference included nationally-recognized speakers, more than two dozen educational sessions, a community night at Point Stadium and mobile workshops to the neighboring town of Bedford, a Main Street community.
For information about the City of Bradford’s Elm Street program, contact Lisa Campogiani at (814) 598-7098 or .lcampogiani@bradfordpa.org For information pertaining to Pennsylvania Downtown Center, contact Norah Griffiths Johnson at (717) 233-4675 or norahgriffiths@padowntown.org.
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