Honey Brook Community Partnership

Activities are back in full swing with the Honey Brook Community Partnership. It feels great to resume our monthly meetings in person after starting off the year with video conference meetings.

For those who are not familiar with the Honey Brook Community Partnership. We are a group of community members and business owners in the Honey Brook Borough and Honey Brook Township who meet on the second Tuesday of every month. Our mission is to bring together borough and township partners to facilitate communication, share resources and work together to enhance our community. We accomplish this mission through community events, social media communication (www.facebook. com/hbpartnership.org), scholarship and grant programs and volunteering to enhance the beauty of the Honey Brook area.

This year, our two big events are the Name the Brook contest and Family Health and Safety Fair on Harmony Day.

Our Name the Brook contest garnered a lot of attention in the borough via our Facebook page and HBCP website (hbpartnership.org) and was one of the most talked-about events in the first half of the year. The Name the Brook contest was a community contest to name a tributary that originates in the borough and flows through the township to the Brandywine River. The contest started in the early spring with residents submitting names for the tributary via Facebook, ballot boxes in local businesses or through our web page. We received close to 250 entries to name the brook. Names ranged from silly and clever to historical references in the Honey Brook area. After reviewing all of the entries, the winning name was selected. Sweet Water Run was the winner which has ties back to the name of Honey Brook. The next step is to have the name of the brook officially submitted to the USGS so all records can be updated accordingly. If you are a borough or township resident, keep an eye open for future contests. Through researching this contest, it was discovered that there are a few more tributaries that are unnamed so there might be a future contest pending.

Another big event for the Honey Brook Community Partnership and the community is the annual Harmony Day Health and Wellness Fair scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 18 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Honey Brook Fire Department’s fair grounds. This event is always wellattended and includes all kinds of events for the whole family. We will have health and safety service providers on site providing information, interactive tools, health assessments, CPR demonstrations and fun activities for adults and kids. There will be live music, country line dancing and a variety of food vendors to round out the carnival atmosphere. As of this letter, we are still looking for sponsors (through Aug 22). Be sure to mark this event on your calendar and visit our lovely community. The town really comes alive during Harmony Day as there are other events all throughout the borough in celebration of community Harmony.

In addition to our big events in 2021, we have resumed some of our smaller-in-scale events that have a big impact on our community. In May, we granted two Twin Valley High School seniors $500 scholarships to help them with their next steps in education. We attended the high school’s award ceremony on May 27 and awarded the seniors personally. This is an event which the Honey Brook Community Partnership is involved with each year, and it is always a joy to hear how much the extra funding is appreciated by the students and to hear about their posthigh school experiences and successes.

Finally, one activity that should get recognized is one that enhances the beauty of the local area—the beautification of the areas around the “Welcome to Honey Brook” signs on the four main entryways into the borough. Through our incredible team in the Honey Brook Community Partnership, we have some “green-thumbs” who lend their floral expertise to cleaning up and beautifying the welcome signs for the borough. This is a great volunteer effort and helps showcase the beauty of Honey Brook.

So far in 2021, the Honey Brook Community Partnership team has been full steam ahead with our events and outreach to the community. There are more events planned for the fall and winter so please like and follow us on Facebook and keep a close eye on our web page. We have our annual Deck the Brook on tap for the December holidays, which is always a fun and well-received event. There are also a few other community supported events and programs that are also listed on our web page such as the Fresh2You Mobile Market and events with the Honey Brook Food Pantry. If you are a Honey Brook township or borough resident or business, we welcome you to attend one of our monthly meetings. Details are posted on our web page. Speaking for the Honey Brook Community Partnership, it feels great to be able to resume activities and to further our mission.