On Tuesday, June 13, Building A Better Boyertown was awarded the Safe Clean and Green Award for Community Greening for the 150th Anniversary garden, during the Pennsylvania Downtown Center’s 30th Anniversary Gala in Harrisburg.
The 150th Anniversary garden was paid for by the James K. and Nancy Lang Boyer Family Fund of the Berks County Community Foundation, specifically funded for native plants. Building A Better Boyertown partnered with the Ellixson Tae Kwon Do Academy to place the native garden in the Gardens of Boyertown, backing up to the natural migration railroad corridor of the Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust.
This garden brings native plant diversity to the urban core, in support of the animals and insects, passing through the greenway corridor. BBB would like to thank both the 150th Anniversary committee, the BBB tree committee, the James K and Nancy Lang Boyer Family Fund, and all the volunteers who made this happen, especially Donnie and his family and team of Black Belts who volunteered more than 210 hours to make this beautification project a reality.
