JSP - Serve-A-Thon with City Year

Transportation from MOST schools, breakfast, and lunch provided! See details below!

DAY: Saturday, November 10
TIME: 8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
PLACE: Cecil B. Moore Recreation Center
2551 N. 22nd Street (just below Lehigh Ave)
Philadelphia, PA 19123

WHAT: Join Building with Books and City Year in our efforts to revitalize Cecil B. Moore Recreation Center! Help this center become a hub for safe, educational, and fun activities for local children.

HISTORY: Cecil B. Moore Rec Center was built in 1923 and is located in a neighborhood with a rich cultural history. The playground and activities offered at Cecil B. Moore Rec Center have a special place in the hearts and childhood memories of many of those who grew up here. However, times have changed! In recent years the Rec Center has faced many problems. In 2004, the city was going to destroy the rec center because it lacked funding. The facility's condition was miserable, and when a 10-year-old boy was shot and killed several blocks away, several people in the community decided the time had come to make some changes. They decided it was time to restore the aging center to its former glory. Help the center achieve this goal!

Volunteers will:
* Paint!
* Landscape!
* Indoor cleaning and beautification!
* Playground restoration!

Schedule of Events:
8:30 am - Registration and Breakfast
9:00 am - Opening Program
9:30 am - Volunteer projects
1:30 pm - Lunch
2:00 pm - buses depart

Bus Schedule:
6:45 am - University City
6:45 am - Motivation
7:10 am - Sayre
7:15 am - Furness
7:25 am Germantown
7:35 am - Upper Darby
7:40 am Masterman
7:45 am - Martin L King
7:50 am - Bodine

For more information contact PC Joanna Lautenberger at 215.772.2957 or call 610.608.9319 the day of the event.

DO NOT FORGET YOUR SIGNED JSP Permission slip! You will not be permitted to ride the bus without a properly filled out permission slip.

DRESS FOR MESS, RAIN, and COLD!

Driving Directions:
There is safe and secure parking in a lot along Sedgley Ave, directly across from the Recreation Center. Use 22nd Street and Sedgley Ave as the end location for finding directions online.
From I-95:
* Take exit 23 toward Girard/Lehigh Ave.
* Merge onto Delaware Ave and follow signs toward Aramingo Ave.
* Merge onto Aramingo Ave (Wawa, CVS, Applebee's along the street)
* Turn left onto Lehigh Ave.
* Follow Lehigh Ave west to Sedgley Ave.
* Turn Left onto Sedgley Ave - Parking lot will be half-way down the block, directly across the street from the recreation center.
From I-76E:
* Take exit 340A on the left toward Lincoln Drive/Kelly Drive.
* Follow signs towards Ridge Ave East
* Turn right on ridge Ave
* Turn left on Lehigh Ave.
* Turn right onto 22nd St.
* Turn left onto Sedgley Ave - parking lot will be half-way down the block, directly across the street from the Recreation Center.

SEPTA Directions:
The Recreation Center is essentially at 22nd Street and Lehigh Ave, just behind Dobbins High School. The easiest ways to get to Cecil B. Moore via SEPTA are to use the route 33 Bus (stops directly in front of the Center's building on 22nd St) or the Broad Street Subway/route 54 Bus. Use 2551 N. 22nd St as the end location if using SEPTA's "Plan My Trip" Function on www.septa.org.

From City Hall (Via 33 Bus):
* Take the route 33 Bus Westbound at 15th Street and JFK Ave (direction: Venango St)
* Disembark the route 33 Bus on 22nd St just after passing Sedgley Ave, directly in front of the recreation center.

From City Hall (via Broad St Subway):
* Take the Broad St Line Local (make sure it is not an express) north towards Fern Rock Transportation Center
*Disembark subway at North Philadelphia Station (Lehigh Ave)
* Take the route 54 Bus westbound at Broad St and Lehigh Ave (direction: Strawberry Mansion)
* Disembark the route 54 Bus at 22nd St and Lehigh Ave.
* You can also walk from the Broad St and Lehigh Ave instead of taking the route 54 bus. Just walk west along Lehigh Ave until you reach the Recreation center. The walk will take about 15 minutes.