Summer 2019 • Volume 26 • Issue 2
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The following is a showcase of our park system to provide you a description of offerings to assist you in planning your next outing. TOWNSHIP NewsSUMMER 2019 • VOLUME 26 • ISSUE 2 Chocolatetown Square Park, located in the hub of downtown Hershey is a venue for fun and interaction. Saturdays bring Market on Chocolate to the park June through August. Vendors sell a multitude of goods including fresh produce, artisan wares, and prepared foods. As part of the Saturday gatherings, there are musical performances, children’s activities, and free SUMMER IS THE SEASON TO EXPERIENCE fitness classes. Music on Chocolate draws a crowd on the second Saturday of the month, June through September. Bring RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES your chairs or a blanket to listen to talented regional and local musicians and enjoy savory bites from food IN THE TOWNSHIP’S PARK SYSTEM trucks and nearby restaurants. Derry Township’s nine public parks and the Jonathan Eshenour Memorial Trail provide endless options for The park, in the heart of downtown, is the location of outdoor activities and family fun. three community celebrations. Art Show & Culturefest, held in May, is a juried global arts, food, and music festival. Summer goes by quickly; make plans today to enjoy Chocotoberfest welcomes in fall and features chocolate activities and events in the Township’s most treasured and local craft beer in October. The Holiday Celebration assets. The parks offer many options for passive, active, features cookies, caroling, Santa, and a tree lighting. individual, or group activities. There’s nothing better Visit www.DowntownHershey.com for details on events than being in nature for rest and relaxation, or quality and activities. bonding time with family. (Continued on next page) 600 Clearwater Road, Hershey, PA 17033 P: (717) 533-2057 F: (717) 533-7174 Find us on www.derrytownship.org RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES IN THE TOWNSHIP’S PARK SYSTEM (Continued from Cover) Nearby, Bullfrog Valley Park is a convenient and tranquil setting with a pond as its major attraction, serving as the home of the Township’s annual Fishing Derby. The three- acre park was donated to the Township by the Smith family in 1985. The Jonathan Eshenour Memorial Trail provides a link between Bullfrog Valley Park and Shank Park. The Jonathan Eshenour Memorial Trail, named in memory of Jonathan Eshenour, a young and vibrant member of our community who was fatally injured in a biking accident in 1997, provides a safe, off-road location for running, walking, biking, and much more. The trail provides access to neighborhoods, parks, and commercial establishments, and travels through beautiful wooded areas and along creeks. Palmdale Park, Brookside Park, Gelder Park, Founders Park, and Koons Park are located closer to residential areas and offer sports fields and courts for both organized team sports and pick-up games. Palmdale Park is 10 acres near the eastern boundary of the Township and was acquired from the Hershey Trust Company in 1979. The park is also accessible from the Jonathan Eshenour Memorial Trail. Koons Park on Sandhill Road was donated to the Township by the Sandhill Lions Club and features two baseball fields. The neighborhood parks are attractive locations for picnics, featuring pavilions, grills, and playgrounds. Shank Park, located off Bullfrog Valley Road, is the Founders Park on Homestead Road was built in 2000 as a largest of the Township’s parks consisting of 90 acres. The collaborative effort between the Township, Hershey Trust park is host to many large athletic tournaments, the annual Company, and the Derry Township School District. The 41- Easter Egg Hunt, Shank Park Halloween, and Movies in the acre park across from Hershey High School is host to over Park. Known for its big red barn, the park was purchased twelve hundred athletic competitions throughout the year. from the Shanks in 1977. The historic barn was destroyed by fire and reconstructed in 1997 to maintain the heritage Gelder Park provides recreation to the residential of the park. The lush, green rolling hills, vast open space, developments off Middletown Road. The 28-acre park and nature trail are a perfect place to lose yourself in boasts baseball, softball, and soccer fields, basketball, any season. volleyball, and tennis courts, and a nature trail and life trail. https://public.coderedweb.com/CNE/en-US/ D6521AC19425 Sign Up Today to Boathouse Park, located along the Swatara Creek, provides access to boating, fishing, and swimming. This Receive Emergency natural environment is also near wetlands and is a great place to watch wildlife. Notifications From Plan an adventure and create life-long memories the Township in the Township’s park system. Each park has The Township has a high-speed emergency something special to experience. The parks are notification system to send messages to alert open from dawn to dusk. residents when there is a major event that is a threat to the health, safety, or welfare of Visit the following links for creative ideas for additional township residents. activities to enjoy with your family in the parks: The system is geographically based to enable https://www.familyeducation.com/fun/nature- the township to target affected areas. It is activities/10-hands-nature-activities-kids vital to provide your street address. All data https://handsonaswegrow.com/nature-activities-kids/ collected will be confidential. https://leftbraincraftbrain.com/awesome-steam-nature- Register Here. activities-for-kids/ Park Amenities Chart Parks Acres Amenities Boathouse 8 Brookside 10 Bullfrog 3 ts ts Palmdale 10 ts our x our ields y Skiing rails our T ables rails T round Shank 90 T yg andbo ountr at Launch Swings Fishing ccer Fields etball C S Life BBQ Grills ennis C Pla Bo Picnic Nature So T Koons 4 Picnic Shelter Softball F olleyball C Baseball Fields V Bask Founders 41 Cross C Gelder 28 Chocolatetown 1 Friends of the Hershey Public Library 2019 Book Sale Friday, August 2 .......... 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. (Preview night is for Friends members only.) Family Fun Day Saturday, August 3.........9:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. at the Book Sale Sunday, August 4 ...........1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Sunday, August 4 Monday, August 5 ...........9:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, August 6 ............9:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Bring the kids for FREE fun activities and games when you visit the book sale. Wednesday, August 7 ..........9:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. No registration is required and everyone Thursday, August 8 ............9:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. is welcome. Sponsored by the Friends of the Hershey Public Library. Join the Friends of the Hershey Public 1. Online at: https://friendsofhersheypubliclibrary.wildapricot.org 2. By mail to: Friends of the Hershey Public Library, c/o 701 Cocoa Avenue, Hershey, PA 17033 3. Fill out the membership form and pay by check at the library. Join Neighbors & Friends at National Night Out Against Crime The Derry Township Police Department will hold Derry Township’s Annual National Night Out on Tuesday, August 6 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the 1st block of W. Caracas Avenue. Join us, meet your neighbors, and help celebrate community unity against crime! Business or community groups interested in hosting a table or wanting to volunteer should contact Officer Mary Kepple or Officer Darren Cotten at 717-534-2202 by June 8, 2019. You can also email them at [email protected] or [email protected]. t esen ed b Derry Township pr y Police Join celebration of global Crimewatch A arts, food & m The Derry Township Police Department us has joined the Crimewatch Network. ic w ith Crimewatch is a platform that creates a lo cal transparency by enhancing the method flav May 18 or! to release information to impact the safety of the community. 10AM to 5PM Sign up to receive free email alerts at More information at the following link: DowntownHershey.com https://dauphin.crimewatchpa.com/ @DowntownHershey derrypd/3742 Every Saturday all summer 9:30AM to 1:30PM ChocolateTown Square A multitude of goods ranging from craft prepared foods, to unique jewelry and artisan wares, to locally grown items. Free group fitness classes starting at 9 AM Children’s activities Music and entertainment Visit DowntownHershey.com for more information and full schedule. @DowntownHershey Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Leader Teaches Hershey How to Open Dialogue She encourages others to choose to embrace equality and showed a picture of individuals of different heights standing on a box or boxes to see over a fence to demonstrate the challenges, reality, and liberation of equality. “In order to build a community that creates a space to embrace all our identities, we have to talk about it. We must be willing to practice active listening which can mean sitting uncomfortably with awkwardness, and defensiveness, to have dialogue.” She told the audience that none of us are bias free even when we have good intentions and explained that there are four levels of change in building a community: institutional change, organizational change, community change, and individual change. Shaashawn Dial-Snowden, a professional in leadership, diversity, inclusion, and social justice, the founder and “ Language and words have weight. owner of Voycetress Media, LLC, providing training to Choose your words to be as inclusive individuals and organizations to affirm and empower, Director of Social Equity & Affirmative Action for the City as possible.What are you encouraging of Harrisburg, Chair of the Board of Directors of the LGBT people to do or not do? Think about Center of Central PA, and author of numerous books, was the presenter at the March 27 Hershey All Things Diversity what others need and share to make session held at the Hershey Story.