School Support

For years now, PCF has helped out Emlen Elementary during their Parent Orientation day at the beginning of the year and their Students Play Day held just before summer break. Both events involve cooking a massive number of hotdogs...like 450 of them for each gig! PCF is lucky to be able to recruit neighbor volunteers for these events. "Henny" and "Rick" both have helped us with these events. In fact, Henny brings her griddle each [...]

More than 11 years ago, PCF changed its focus to work mostly through schools and other organizations (rather than with families directly) in order to support our youth. And one of the first schools we contacted was Emlen Elementary in East Mt. Airy. During our first meeting with them, they mentioned that they desperately wanted a full basketball court and that a company had donated a brand new "goal" (post/board/hoop) but that the District had [...]