Oakmont Farmers Market Returns!

Oakmont Farmers Market STARTS Wednesday May 19 at 3pm!!!!

Job Opening at Oakmont Farmers Market!

Do you love your farmers market? Do you want to get more involved? Well, here is your chance, because we are hiring!

Job Announcment: On-site Oakmont Farmers Market weekly manager needed for the upscoming 2010 season

The Haverford Township Farmers' Market Association (HTFMA) is seeking to hire an onsite Market Manager to work as a team member with another Manager and the Board to oversee the Oakmont Farmers Market. This is a part-time job-sharing position. This position requires approximately 7 hours per week on Tuesday evening and Wednesday afternoons and the pay is $15 per hour. The Market season runs from May 19th until November 24th, 2010 and the job will be split between the two managers (to accomodate summer schedules, managers will decide in advance of the season which weeks they prefer to cover so that no-one misses any vacation!).

The Market Manager sets up and breaks down the market, oversees market activities during market hours and, with the assistance of the HTFMA Board, ensures the farmers market operates in compliance with state law, health codes and organizational rules. The Market Manager is the liaison of the Haverford Township Farmers Market Association to the vendors, customers and community at large on Market Day. The manager performs community outreach to promote the market and assists with in-market events and promotions.

The Market Manager is a team member who helps promote Oakmont Farmers Market goals by working closely with market vendors and board members to communicate ideas, provide feedback, identify potential problems, and offer creative solutions to further the goals to promote local agriculture and provide food and public health education to Haverford Township.

This position involves on-site management of the weekly market, set-up and clean-up, filling out required paperwork at market and submitting the market report details electronically each week, and attending a pre-season all-staff meeting and training session.

The Manager should be reliable, have excellent interpersonal and customer service skills, and be willing to work in a team environment.

To apply: Please send a resume and a cover letter explaining why you'd like to work at the market and why you think you'd be a good fit for the Association to oakmontfarmersmarket@gmail.com by Monday May 10th, 2010. Interviews will occur later that week and a decision will be made by May 19th. If you have any questions, please email us at oakmontfarmersmarket@gmail.com

Rain or Shine! Sunday April 25 is a build day for Freedom Playground

Freedom Playground
Sunday April 25 is a build day!!!!!

We have tents, tarps and the Pavillion.
Please come help us build today!

Beechwood Civic Association Chili Contest at 4:30 today!
Email to jane.stewartsmith@verizon.net for more info on participating.

The energy and community spirit at the build site is incredible and we are having a fantastic time today! We need additional volunteers for the today...stop by the site at Haverford Reserve to register or to volunteer...bring tape measures and power drills if you have them!

Freedom Playground Still Needs Volunteers

Help Freedom Playground by volunteering some time at the build site and by asking people you know to also come help.

They need 150 volunteers for three shifts a day and for Wednesday and Thursday.

Skilled or unskilled or if you have just a few hours, please come and help us build a 12,000 square feet handicap playground at Haverford Reserve.

Lunch, dinner and child care are provided at no charge.

More info at freedomplay.org

Freedom Playground's Build Week is quickly approaching!!!

Community volunteers will begin building the playground on Tuesday, April 19 @ 8 AM.

Please go to www.freedomplay.org and register for a shift that fits into your schedule.
This is a great opportunity and you won't want to miss out on it.


Welcome Freedom Playground to Haverford Township by joining us for a free day of fun at Merry Place on Glendale Road this Saturday April17th from 11am to 3pm.

Makin' Music will be there (12 noon), a kids DJ, face painting, a fire truck and fun and games!

We will be selling hand tiles painted with your child's hand or foot, pickets for the fence, pavers and maybe even t-shirts as well as hamburgers and hotdogs. All proceeds to benefit the playground!

Build Week is finally here- lets kick it off with a great party!!!!

For more information check us out on the web at www.freedomplay.org

Haverford Zoning Board Hearing

Haverford Zoning Board Hearing
Thursday, April 8th, 7pm
Haverford Twp Building, Havertown

The hearing continues at 7:00pm but the Haverford residents are given an opportunity to speak around 9:30pm. Hearty attendance shows our united opposition and supports our commissioners.

**If you are a resident in close proximity of any of the proposed sites and you have not addressed the Zoning Board already, please attend and communicate your concerns. Include pictures and approximate distance from the proposed sites. Speak to the health, welfare and safety issues as well as other concerns. If you are shy about public speaking, you will only be supported by your fellow residents.

If you have not signed the online petition, please take a moment to do so, on our website www.nobillboards.com .

We are making progress, see the latest article about the Hearing in Harrisburg http://www.delconewsnetwork.com/articles/2010/03/31/news_of_delaware_county/news/doc4bb380fe8474e956738225.txt