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Main Street Flower Caretakers Needed

Five new flower planters will help beauify Hellertown's downtown this spring and add to the eight existing flower urns along Main Street. Help is needed to keep the flowers watered.

Five new flower planters will adorn Hellertown's Main Street this spring. The Hellertown Borough Business Revitalization Program (BBRP) recently ordered the planters as part of an image/identity grant initiative funded in part by the Chamber Foundation’s Main Street Lehigh Valley (MSLV) grant program.

While the Hellertown BBRP funds the seasonal plantings, we rely on the community to help maintain them. We are asking local residents, businesses or volunteer groups to commit to watering and tending to these additional planters.

We hope to display the planters along Main Street’s town center—between W. Depot and W. Saucon streets—as long as nearby property owners can commit to their care.

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Interested in lending a hand? Email maryh@lehighvalleychamber.org
or call 610-739-1520.

Eight planter urns are currently located along Main Street—crafted and sold to us by Andy’s & Pennewell’s Flower Shop; they’ve also been our supplier of plantings, and have been kind enough to undertake the physical plantings for us as well. Local businesses make sure they get watered and cared for.

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The committee was interested in purchasing large bowl planters rather than the urns, so the new planters had to be ordered from a local retailer: Peter’s Home and Garden in Quakertown. We will continue to utilize community suppliers to fill the urns with seasonal plantings.

Other image/identity projects funded by this MSLV grant include a sponsorship for last year’s Saucon Valley Restaurant Week, the purchase of 30 replacement American flags for the Main Street poles, and a gateway sign one mile west of Water Street Park which is currently undergoing zoning approval.

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