The 95-degree heat wasn’t enough to keep some of Pottstown’s best community crusaders from spreading their message.
Clustered underneath the shade in Riverfront Park Saturday were members of a variety of community organizations who gathered there for the eighth annual Stop the Drugs, Stop the Violence event.
Representatives from the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, Women’s Center of Montgomery County, Pottstown School District and several religious organizations came together to educate the public about some of the troubling problems in Pottstown.
“Our mission is really to eradicate the drugs and violence in Pottstown and we want to show people that there is help,” explained the Rev. Georgiana Harris of Harris Ministries. “We try to do it in a family setting and make it pleasant but it’s a very serious thing that we want to see change in.”
As volunteers prepared food under the pavilion, members of the organizations met with each other to discuss issues and build relationships.
[For more of this story, written by Marian Dennis, go to http://www.pottsmerc.com/artic...60723/NEWS/160729894]
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