Curvey scholars clean up borough parks
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL FILE - The sign at the Bridge Street side of Bicentennial Park.
SHENANDOAH – Shenandoah’s three parks received some care and attention courtesy of some of northern Schuylkill’s best and brightest.
Borough Manager Tony Sajone said at Monday’s meeting that a group of Curvey Scholars — locals who had been awarded the Curvey Scholarship to attend Villanova University — spent a day cleaning Girard Park, Bicentennial Park, and Vine Street Park.
The group did so with the help of two borough workers on August 2.
“They did a heck of a job cleaning up,” Sajone said, “They got all of the dead lumber, how many truck loads of dead branches and everything. They really did a great job.”
Jaden Anczarski, Jamie Anczarski, Collin Stanakis, Matt Creasy, Justin Williams, Jacob Irvin, and Kael Quick were all part of the clean-up effort, Sajone said.
Jon Levandusky and Steve Usalis assisted, Sajone said.
The Curvey Scholarship is open to students at Shenandoah Valley, Mahanoy Area, North Schuylkill, Marian, and Nativity.
It was established by James C. Curvey, a 1953 Mahanoy City High School graduate. He received a bachelor’s degree from Villanova in 1957
Since 1999, an endowed scholarship program in his name has provided financial aid resources for talented young people from Mahanoy City and the surrounding region to pursue their education at Villanova, according to the scholarship’s website.
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