Tag: covid19

North Light Weathers the Viral Storm

[caption id="attachment_273862" align="aligncenter" width="600"] North Light's Jared Poindexter helps one of his students in the community center's after-school program, one of the many services the center provides.[/caption] Remember when the pandemic hit back in March 2020, and non-profits like the Schuylkill Center and North Light Community Center shuttered our doors, assuming we’d close for a few weeks,  “flatten the curve,” and reopen in April? Well, that didn't happen. Instead, non-profits have been battered financially and programmatically by choppy waves in the viral ocean. Some of us have swum these pandemic seas-- not always gracefully-- but many non-profits have sunk, disappearing…

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Schuylkill Center’s latest response to COVID

While the Visitor Center remains closed during the week, we are open on Saturdays for the month of August.  Hikers and visitors to our trails will be able to use our facilities and visit our gift shop from 9-5 on Saturdays only.  The Visitor Center will remain closed weekdays The gates to our main parking lot are now open 9-5.  The Wildlife Clinic is currently accepting patients for rehabilitation, but is unable to accept walk-in patient admissions. If you have found an injured or orphaned animal in need of assistance, please call our 24-hour wildlife hotline at 215-482-7300 x option…

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