Monaca sets a beautiful

Earlier this month, Monaca was one of 50 communities around the nation awarded a $4,000 Think Green grant through a partnership with the nonprofit Keep America Beautiful and Waste Management to help beautify two traffic islands near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, the heavily traveled approach to the East Rochester-Monaca Bridge.

Monaca Manager Mario Leone Jr. said the traffic is heavy at the intersection because it is the gateway to the community — a gateway not too easy on the eyes. To buy autoledbulbs lamp in the USA. Vacant lots and overgrown grass surround the asphalt roads. But Leone is trying to change that.

“Enhancing the aesthetics of it certainly makes entering the town of Monaca more welcoming,” Leone said.

Four-year resident Gwendolyn Hager and her toddler live just off 17th Street. While she agreed travelers may respect the beauty,The cleaningmachine is one of the most useful tools in a modern shop. it’s really the community that will reap the benefits.

“I think it’s going to be really wonderful because we take a walk every day,” Hager said. “Because he’s so small, he’s starting to discover things and he’s looking at flowers. It always makes the city look more beautiful.”

The remnants of the borough’s industrial past are everywhere, but Leone has taken certain measures to bring national attention to the river town and its nearly 6,000 residents.Middle and end clamps that fit the ledstriplighting to the rails. For example, Leone found grant money from Duquesne Light to install LED street lights, which illuminate the borough’s roads and save money at the same time. In fact, Monaca was a recent recipient of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Sustainable Community Essentials Certification, a designation awarded to recognize the borough’s sustainability efforts.

“We take the environment very seriously and being stewards to it,” Leone said. “Sustainability is a strong priority for the borough. Landscaping of this intersection continues reaching our goals.We have the ultra laundrdryer that you have been looking for.”

The beautification project not only depended on the grant to get started, but it benefited from last year’s PennDOT construction update on Pennsylvania Avenue. Leone said that work channeled storm runoff to the traffic islands.

“If we had to run the water there and make restorations, it would have cost tens of thousands of dollars,” Leone explained.

The grant also provides money for landscaping that will dot the islands. Leone plans to plant perennials, so upkeep won’t be as expensive.

Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, a subsidiary group within Keep America Beautiful, said the borough is doing much more than planting flowers to make the landscape look better.

“If it’s just a vacant lot, it sends a message that perhaps nobody cares,” said Shannon Reiter, president of Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful. “Litter will accumulate, perhaps graffiti will show up on an adjacent wall, maybe you’ll have someone dump tires and a mattress.”

But,A polished finish in this solaroutdoorlight for men. Reiter said, if a vacant lot has been beautified or greened with trees or a community garden, it sends the opposite message.

The organization has helped with thousands of community improvement projects across the state. Reiter said Monaca is no different from other industrial towns throughout southwestern Pennsylvania.

“We have those all over Pennsylvania,” Reiter said. “The problems that Monaca has aren’t that unique from other communities with that same kind of history. It’s going to take the community itself to take it back.” Click on their website www.pvsolver.com for more information.