A church in Dupont took part in Bells Across Pennsylvania Day on Sunday. Author: WNEP Web Staff Updated: 10:20 PM EDT May 2, 2021
DUPONT, Pa. Bells rang out in Luzerne County in honor of essential workers on Sunday.
The bells tolled at Holy Mother of Sorrows Church in Dupont as part of Bells Across Pennsylvania Day.
The bells rang for three minutes to recognize the hard work first responders, health care personnel, and grocery store workers have put in over the last year while the fight against COVID-19 continues.
Many other boroughs and cities across our area also took part in the hopes of showing that Pennsylvania will prevail over the pandemic.
Biglerville will participate in Bells Across Pennsylvania Day, Sunday, May 2 by mayoral proclamation.
The proclamation âcalls upon all residents, businesses and churches at 7 p.m. to ring bells or make other celebratory noise for three minutes to honor their hometown heroes, rally with other Pennsylvanians on the frontlines of the COVID-19 battlefield and show resolve to restore their local businesses and civic life to their former prominence,â according to a release from Phil Wagner, mayor.
Kutztown Mayor Jim Schlegel issued a proclamation declaring May 2 as Bells Across Pennsylvania Day to recognize essential workers as hometown heroes.
Schlegel presented the proclamation at the April 20 virtual Borough Council meeting, asking residents to ring bells or make celebratory noise for three minutes at 7 p.m. on May 2. Thank you, Mayor. Well done, said Council President Kevin Snyder.
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Schlegel issued the proclamation in support of a second annual statewide Bells Across Pennsylvania Day, an initiative of the Pennsylvania State Mayorsâ Association which will take place on May 2.
The purpose of the initiative is One: to recognize and honor first responders, healthcare workers, and employees of grocery stores, pharmacies and other life-sustaining businesses who have maintained essential services while at risk of infection from COVID-19; Two: to show solidarity with elected officials and residents of municipalities across the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
CONSHOHOCKEN â Just three minutes â three noisy, joy-filled minutes â is enough to show you care.
For the second year in a row, Mayor Yaniv Aronson will join mayors across Pennsylvania on May 2 in welcoming the sound of ringing bells in Conshohocken and throughout the state.
âThe Pennsylvania State Mayors Association (PSMA) started this right at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 as a way of honoring emergency workers and frontline workers, so we decided why not continue that annually,â Aronson said. âThe initiative represents mayors from all over the state, from Whitehall Borough, just outside of Pittsburgh, to myself in Conshohocken, to every borough in between. The mayors of PSMA hope this initiative becomes a yearly statewide tradition.â