Back-To-School Event Lights Up Faces

By Travis Caldwell

MILFORD — Pike County Children and Youth Services (PCCYS) held a Back to School Backpack Drive last Friday afternoon at Ann Street Park in Milford in which Pike County kids and families were given 100 backpacks filled with the needed school supplies such as pencils, erasers, notebooks, and folders.
Family Promises of Pike and Monroe Counties, Angels & Dragonflies Children’s Charity Inc., the County Commissioners, and some local schools and Churches, along with private individuals, donated the school supplies.
Other organizations attending and making known the services they offer were the Children’s Service Center, the Ecumenical Food Pantry, the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, and the Pike County Substance Abuse Task Force.
Michele Burrell spoke for PCCYS, describing the event as “all in an effort to build the community and to work together” and that it is “a community endeavor to bring us together, support each other, know what we have to offer, and make better, safer, happier families.”
Also available to kids in the community were winter jackets, hats, and boots donated by the McGoey Hauser & Edsall engineering group, and by Family Promise. Alissa Depadua of Family Promise of Monroe County said, “With everything going on in the world sometimes you just need a little pick me up and a little extra hand out there.
“It’s nice watching the kids; faces light up. I love bringing a smile to a family, it warms my heart, that’s all I need to be happy.”

 

Pike Proclamation Health Centers Week

 

MILFORD – Staff from Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers’ administration team and its Pike County centers were welcomed in Milford by the Pike County Commissioners, who proclaimed next week, August 7 – 13, “National Health Center Week” in the county. The commissioners’ proclamation encouraged Pike County residents to visit their local health centers and celebrate the important partnership between Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers (WMCHC) and the communities they serve.
In Pike, WMCHC operates the Pike Family Health Center, Pike Pediatrics, the Pike Dental Center and the Tick-borne Disease and Wellness Center, all in Lords Valley, and the Pike County Women’s Health Center in Dingmans Ferry. WMCHC operates close to 20 sites in four counties. Other services include Behavioral Health Center, surgical and neurology services.
Community Health Centers help increase access to primary care for vulnerable populations by reducing barriers such as cost, lack of insurance, distance, and language. They receive funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration to help them fulfill their mission. Today, there are 1,400 health centers in the U.S. providing care to more than 28 million people.

 

Artful Bear Debut

 

MILFORD – Black Bear Film Festival Artful Bear Debut will be held on August 13 from 2-4 p.m. Milford Community House, 201 Broad St. The 2022 Artful Bears will be on display.
The event is free and gives the community the opportunity to meet the art-ists that designed the Artful Bears this year. The Bears will make their debut with a celebration of movie music and trivia by Jane Quattrocchi, coloring activities for kids and free snow cones for all.
After the event, the Artful Bears will be on display throughout town and a map will be avail-able with their locations at the Community House and online at BlackBearfilm.com.
Prizes will be awarded to those that post their picture with the Artful Bears on social media this Fall. The Artful Bears will be rounded up mid October and sold at the Silent Auction during the Black Bear Film Festival, October 14, 15 & 16 at the Milford Theater.