Newtown Quaker Kids Raise $1,078 for Honey Hollow Center

Quaker kids take a break from serving lasagna dinner for a group photo

Newtown Quaker Kids Raise $1,078 for Honey Hollow Environmental Center

The young people at Newtown Quaker Meeting host an annual Lasagna Dinner to raise funds for their “charity of choice” at the Meetinghouse, 219 Court Street, Newtown.

The event is organized and run by the 1-6 graders in the Quaker Meeting. They sell the tickets, collect the funds, serve the food, and wash the dishes. They usually raise over $1,000 and this year was no exception.

This year’s charity of choice was The Honey Hollow Environmental Educational Center in New Hope. Previous recipients have been: Mercer Street Friends Food Center in Trenton, Haiti Relief, Penndel Food Pantry, Save Darfur, Heifer International, Philadelphia Friends Center Green Building Project, and Right Sharing of World Resources, a micro-loan program founded by world Quakers.

The Honey Hollow Environmental Educational Center is based in a 1936 renovated barn at the Honey Hollow Watershed which is listed as a National Historic Landmark.

Workshops, seminars, lectures and tours cover such diverse topics as astronomy, wildlife art, butterfly raising, bird watching, fishing, and frog watching at the center's 700 acre watershed with 6 miles of trails meandering through woods, field and streams.

School group programs are featured for all elementary levels, including Animal Adaptations where students role-play different animals to learn how they adapt; Animal Habitats where students discover what animals need from their habitat to survive; Clean the Water where students discover just how much clean water is available and how human impact affects the water cycle; Insects where students catch their own insects for observation; and Rotten Log which provides insight into decomposition and its role in the environment.

Newtown Friends Meeting, co-founded by the Quaker artist and minister, Edward Hicks, in 1815, holds services every First Day (Sunday). During the school year, First Day classes for children and adults are at 9:45 a.m. and Meeting for Worship at 11:00 a.m. Professional childcare is provided. All meetings are open to the public and visitors are warmly welcomed.