Electronics Recycling – April 22 at Hopewell Park 9 am to Noon
Paper Shredding event May 13 hosted with Representative Mackenzie 9am to 11:00am at Hopewell Park
Household Hazardous Waste Recycling Event – November 11 (Tentative) at Hopewell Park 08:00 to Noon
Movie Night # 1- June 9 at Hopewell Park
PAWS OF FURY: THE LEGEND OF HANK (PG, Animated)
Movie Night #2 – August 18 at Hopewell Park
TOP GUN: MAVERICK (PG-13)
Summer Concerts – at Hopewell Park
June 16 – One Way Back
June 30 – Cunningham & Associates
July 7 – Steel Creek Band
July 21 – Scott Marshall Band
August 25 – Craig Thatcher Band
National Night Out – August 4 – Supersonic Godfathers
Saucon Valley Community Center at Community Park
Please call SVCC at 610-838-0722 or email robertasvcc@gmail.com or angiesvcc@gmail.com.
Session 1 – June 19, 2023- July 14, 2023
Week 1 – Getting to Know You – Meet and greet everyone, review Park Program expectations and upcoming activities for the session. Facilitated team building activities for the children to work together as teams and to learn about each other’s similarities and interests. Focus on making new friends and being kind to each other.
Week 2 – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle – Talk about the importance of sustaining the Earth, protecting our parks and green spaces. Use recycled materials to make art such as: milk carton bird feeders, Ladybug lids (use plastic lids from jars) or water bottle art.
Week 3 – Super Hero Week – Celebrate favorite superheroes, identify your own “Superhero Power” and learn how you can be a “Superhero for Humanity”! Learn about your own strengths and the importance of “standing up” for others. Dress up as a superhero, make masks, create superhero comics, and develop a new superhero who protects the earth!!
Week 4 – Park Olympics – Spend the week competing with each other in teams or individually. Every day is a new event – win a medal – support your team and celebrate the end of the Park Program.
Session 2 – July 17, 2023, to August 11, 2023
Week 1 • Getting to Know You – Meet and greet everyone, review Park Program expectations and upcoming activities for the session. Facilitated team building activities for the children to work together as teams and to learn about each other’s similarities and interests. Focus on making new friends and being kind to each other.
Week 2 – Music in the Park – Listening to the sounds in nature, making music in the park, bringing your instruments, singing songs, and identifying sounds in the park that are “nature’s music”. Making sound makers out of natural materials such as seeds, stones, pinecones etc.
Week 3 – The Power of Plants – How do plants and trees protect the earth? Identify native plants in the park, create posters that have Protect the Park slogans, and make everyday Earth Day!!
Week 4 – Park Olympics – Spend the week competing with each other in teams or individually. Every day is a new event – win a medal – support your team and celebrate the end of the Park Program.
Wildlands Conservancy
Hopewell Park- Wild Things June 19-23
Look around if you were a toad or firefly where would you be? If you were a bird, mammal, or snake in this space what would you eat? Think, open your eyes, and notice what you have been missing. Find the wild things, get to know them, and do what you can to keep them safe. Experiments, games, and Wildlands Conservancy’s own Animal Ambassadors fill this week made for those who love all things furry, feathered, and scaled.
Hopewell Park– Science in Nature July 10-14
Curiosity, experimentation, and discovery- unearth the thrill of science, technology, and engineering, and the
beauty of the natural world. What will you create? What part of nature will inspire you? Get ready to put your
STEM glasses on through many hands-on experiments and investigations. Each day includes a new question to be answered.
Community Park- Wild Things August 14-18
Look around if you were a toad or firefly where would you be? If you were a bird, mammal, or snake in this space what would you eat? Think, open your eyes, and notice what you have been missing. Find the wild things, get to know them, and do what you can to keep them safe. Experiments, games, and Wildlands Conservancy’s own Animal Ambassadors fill this week made for those who love all things furry, feathered, and scaled.
Hopewell Park – Spooky Hoot Hike – October 20 7:00pm to 8:00 pm
The shuffling, snorting, hooting sounds in the darkness truly aren’t anything to be afraid of. See nocturnal wildlife, erase the fear before pavilion lights are left behind and we enter the darkness. (FREE)
