MLK Day volunteer event at Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust
Despite the freezing weather and a few thorny vines, volunteers kept their day of service at PERT a warm and fun event.
Crunchy snow and gray skies covered the 800 acres of the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust (PERT) today, Jan. 17, as a handful of volunteers and PERT staff worked to pull invasive vines from sleeping trees. The temperature never quite reached past 26 degrees during this MLK Day event at PERT, which took place at its Huntingdon Valley headquarters. However, the frigid conditions and tough task ahead didn't stop volunteers from turning their day off into a day on for community service. "Even now it's beautiful," Keith Colquitt, a Jenkintown resident, said. Colquitt found out about the PERT volunteer opportunity through his biology professor at Penn State Abington, where he is studying secondary education. He said that he jumped at the …
