Pottstown’s Edgewood Cemetery cleanup was ‘best-ever’

by medianews group

POTTSTOWN — A cleanup dubbed the “best ever” was held this past Saturday, April 13, at Edgewood Historic Cemetery.

The twice-annual (spring and fall) events have been organized since the fall of 2018 to provide care for the cemetery, located at 989 High St., which was abandoned by its official caretaker in 2012. Prior to volunteers stepping up the cemetery had become overgrown and now it is cleaned up twice a year by an ever-growing cadre of volunteers.

This volunteer said he learned about the cleanup through an announcement made at a Pottstown Borough Council meeting. (Image courtesy of Sandi Yanisko)
Pottstown residents and Hill School students combined forces to give the gutters along Edgewood Cemetery a clean sweep. (Image courtesy of Sandi Yanisko)
These and other members of the Red Horse Motoring Club came to the cleanup manned with chainsaws, weed whackers, muscle, and energy. (Image courtesy of Sandi Yanisko)
Hill teachers Ellen Nelson and Matt Gettings worked as partners at the cleanup. (Image courtesy of Sandi Yanisko)
Volunteer Andy Skitko brought his Gator to the cleanup to help move heavy bags of leaves and other debris to the curb for the Borough to pick up. (Image courtesy of Sandi Yanisko)

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The windy, chilly weather did not deter more than 50 of them from raking and bagging leaves and other debris, picking up sticks to make mowing easier, planting flowers, trimming trees, weed whacking, cleaning out the storage shed, and spreading multiple bags of mulch generously donated by an anonymous Pottstown resident.

About half the total number of volunteers paused for a photo after spreading mulch in the Edgewood flower beds off High Street. Groups represented here include Hobart’s Run and The Hill School, Red Horse Motoring Club, The Deviators, and Pottstown Rotary Club members, among others. (Image courtesy of Sandi Yanisko)
One of the job lists included cleaning out the old storage shed near Edgewood and Beech Streets. (Image courtesy of Sandi Yanisko)
Hill students spread sunshine on the blustery day by planting flowers in the front bed. (Image courtesy of Sandi Yanisko)
Fall leaves were bagged by the bushel to help prepare for the spring and summer mowing season. (Image courtesy of Sandi Yanisko)

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Noted Andrew Monastra, president of the Edgewood Historic Cemetery Board of Friends, “I am so proud of the community spirit that Hobart’s Run, students and teachers from The Hill School, and Red Horse Motoring Club shared on Saturday, along with many other volunteers. We have never before accomplished so much in one day,” Monastra added. “We are fortunate to live in such a giving, unselfish community.”

The volunteers also were treated to lunch donated by Little Italy/The Pourhouse and Sodexo, Hill’s food service provider.

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