KACS, The Garage, & the community answer the call in Ida’s wake
Copious amounts of rain and wind from Hurricane Ida led to flooding and the displacement of 86 residents from Avondale Apartments in Southern Chester County. Some of the tenants experienced up to three feet of water in their first-floor units. When Leah Reynolds, Executive Director of Kennett Area Community Services (KACS), and Kristin Proto, Executive Director of The Garage and Community Youth Center,...
Chester County Sheriff’s Office leads kids ‘Safely Home’
Students from the Garage Community Youth Center in Kennett Square boarded their school bus and headed “safety home” thanks to the Chester County Sheriff’s Office, Unionville Presbyterian Church and the Iota Tau Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alphoa Sorority, Inc. Pictured left to right are Rev. Annalie Korengel, Unionville Presbyterian Church; Nelson and Cassandra, students at the Garage; Kristin...
Book Bash to benefit The Garage in Kennett, June 5 & 6
Kennett Resale Book Shoppe volunteer Marice Bezdek (left) and Mikey Glass, Garage Youth Center Director, display used books to be available at the Garage’s Book Bash to Benefit the Kennett Area Senior Center June 5 – 6. (photo Juan Duran)
KENNETT SQUARE — Teens and book-loving volunteers will be working together to offer thousands of “pre-read” books for sale during Kennett Square’s First...
Benefit concert for The Garage, April 17
David Kim
KENNETT SQUARE — The Garage will be hosting a benefit concert at Kennett High School featuring David Kim, April 17.
Kim is a local violinist and international sensation. He was named Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1999. In 1986 he was the only American violinist to win a prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and in 1990 was a prizewinner at the International...
Community Conversation on youth center postponed
Foundation wants time to answer questions about The Barn on Doe Run
EAST MARLBOROUGH — The Unionville-Chadds Ford Education Foundation has asked for and received a postponement of the planned May 1 Community Conversation on the proposed youth center project at The Barn on Doe Run.
Earlier this year, the Education Foundation proposed converting the old barn on Doe Run Road into a youth center, similar...
Donations sought to help Kennett family
Family of UCFSD employee seeks housing after fire burns home
A Kennett family — and a Unionville-Chadds Ford School District employee — is looking for housing in the Kennett Consolidated School District — after a fire left them out of their home for as much as year and destroyed almost all of their possessions.
The family of Israel Rivera, who works in the school district’s buildings and grounds...
Free children’s summer art program returns
Hour-long classes will be held at the Garage; walk-ins welcome
Teachers will have different art projects prepared each day during the free, seven-week program for children at the Garage.
Starting on Monday for seven weeks, the Chester County Art Association is once again offering free summer art camps at The Garage Youth and Community Center in Kennett Square, courtesy of a local donor and State...
