Parkside Bulletin Board

Our Parkside Bulletin Board is a place we provide community & partner updates, event follow-ups and anything else that Parksider's might want share or be informed about.

Join the Justice Team in sending postcards to Pennsylvania voters for the November state election. We are reminding voters to get out and vote to retain the Democratic state Supreme Court justices. Postcards must be mailed on 10/15/25. Please contact Greg or Lisa Pshide to get your postcards!

Summer SSIP "Food"raiser. We are collecting nonperishable food items to be given to the SSIP food closet. Please bring donations each Sunday during the summer. Any food item will be greatly appreciated. Let's help out our fellows neighbors who are in need.

CRV Fundraising

Please help us raise money for the Roofing Fund with PASSIVE FUNDRAISING. What is passive fundraising? Passive fundraising refers to any campaign in which supporters generate revenue for charitable causes as they go about their daily activities, often without spending any money they wouldn’t have otherwise. How cool is that?!?

At the Congregation Meeting on Sunday, June 22, Craig Chalmers talked about the fact that he and Trina have been collecting CRV beverage containers for about 10 years to turn into money for, at the beginning of our effort, a renewal of the north parking lot. Now we are collecting CRV beverage containers to raise money for Roof Repairs of the legacy building. HOW CAN YOU HELP?

You can contribute your empty CRV beverage containers to us by

  1. Bagging them and putting them in the CRV recycling container in the Fellowship Hall, if you don’t have much. (Please let us know so that we can collect them),

  2. Giving us a heads up that you’ll be bringing a large quantity of bagged CRV containers to church, and we can get them from you there,

  3. Dropping them off at our house, or

  4. Arranging with us to pick them up from you.

  5. If you are able, you can further help by smashing the aluminum cans and plastic bottles. This would be very helpful but not required.

What are the CRV items you can donate to this effort? ALL of them! Aluminum, Plastic, and Glass beverage containers. These are the beverages you would buy on the water/sparkling water isles, soda/iced tea/beer isles and on the liquor isles, including wine bottles. Also any alternative non-dairy milk and juice bottles are CRV bottles. Please note that milk and dairy smoothie bottles are NOT CRV items, in other words, you did not pay a CRV deposit for them.

We are currently recycling about $115 worth of CRV containers approximately every month-and-a-half for the Roofing fund. We’ve been collecting from Parksiders, among others, since before the pandemic. Now, there are many more of you who didn’t even know we’ve been raising funds this way! With your help, we can recycle much more and grow that Roofing fund to help our Budget.

Please speak to Craig or Trina Chalmers about the history of our effort, who started it and participated in it, and how you can help in this effort.