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REMINDER: Community Garden Poster Contest Deadline Friday

The deadline for the Community Garden Poster Contest is Friday! The Ellwood City Borough Department of Public Works opened up the contest last month to all children between the ages of 4-12 to participate by submitting their carefully crafted and drawn artwork. Here are the details: Open to all children between the ages of 4-12 years old that reside in the Borough of Ellwood City One winning design will be chosen from each age group (4-6, 7-9, 10-12) for a total of 3 winning designs. The winning artists will have their artwork prominently displayed in the community garden! Official poster…


Borough of Ellwood City Holding A Community Garden Poster Contest

The Ellwood City Borough Department of Public Works would like to invite all children between the ages of 4-12 to participate in a Community Garden Poster Contest! For area residents that may have visited the Community Garden at 5 points in Ewing Park, you may have noticed picture boards on the utility shed. The current drawings were chosen from our coloring contest held in 2020 – and it’s time to refresh the drawings on the shed! “This is a chore best accomplished by tiny hands and big hearts,” says Rhiannon Schnell. “The shed needs a little color and a lot…


2021 Hard To Recycle Event Will be Held In Ellwood City

Ellwood City Public Works Garage will hold a “hard to recycle” collection day on July 13th. The collection events have been created by the Lawrence-Mercer Recycling/Solid Waste Department to help people in the community recycle the things that normally are harder to recycle. The Lawrence-Mercer Recycling/Solid Waste Department offers this program on the second Tuesdays of each month from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. The collection are held in locations in both Lawrence and Mercer counties so that more people have access to the program. Residents only for this event, no commercial or institutional materials will be accepted. This program…


PHOTOS: New Wooden Bridge Constructed In Ewing Park

In July, a new little attraction was added into Ewing Park – a cute little wooden bridge surrounded by hand painted rocks and some flowers. The idea was born in the spring by the Director of Public Works, Randy Gatto. Gatto wanted to create a peaceful place for families to use as a memory maker. He hopes it’ll be used for family portraits or even for recently engaged couples to take pictures at. Since it’s placement, the little hands of Ellwood City have already gotten to work painting the rocks surrounding it. According to Public Works Secretary Rhiannon Schnell, the…