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Your support and participation allowed Quakertown Alive! to accomplish the following highlights this year:

 · 11,000 residents and visitors attended Arts Alive, Autumn Alive, and the Holiday Tree Lighting

 · Donations enabled Quakertown Alive! to remain a stable Main Streets Organization to secure matching state funds for marketing grants and establishing additional Façade Grants to preserve and restore downtown commercial structures.

 · We continued to host 6 events in 2011, including the debut of the Garden Affaires garden tour and the Grapes ’N Hops Brewfest, the return of the Christmas House Tour with homes already committed to be involved for the holiday season 2012.  Properties of Merit will return for its sixth successful year in 2012. 

This year held the beginning of some exciting projects, the largest of which was the Streetscapes Project Phase 1 that was started in the spring and completed in November.  This project included antique lighting, a fountain, and additional park enhancements for the downtown business district .  QNB and St. Luke’s sponsored the new banners that were purchased to showcase the new antique street lamps, which will be on display in January.  Our  Economic   Revitalization Committee will continue to work with the Borough’s Economic Steering Committee to promote the committees accomplishments this year which include new marketing brochures, business incentives, LERTA program and the Historic Nomination designation.  Quakertown Alive! also hosted a successful business merchant meeting with strong support for the continuation of the marketing efforts by Quakertown Alive!. 

As  we  seek  to revitalize Quakertown’s  economy, your  support  plays a critical role in our continued success.  Quakertown Alive! needs to demonstrate private support and participation of local business in order to secure  matching funds from state sources.  Please consider supporting Quakertown Alive! by making a $100 or more contribution today.  Your donation check can be mailed to our office at 312 West Broad Street, Quakertown, PA 18951.

Thank you for your interest and support of our programs.

United Friends School (UFS) is a pre-school through eighth grade co-educational, independent Quaker day school located in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1983 by a group of parents seeking an education for children based on the Quaker principles of care for one another, truthfulness, simplicity, community, and peaceful resolution of conflicts. UFS continues this noble endeavor today.

Our family-centered approach provides a special opportunity to enrich the entire family's experience through school and community activities. Parental commitment to volunteerism and fundraising provides the backbone of our community and allows for a diverse range of families seeking independent schooling. This diversity enriches our educational program and nurtures our spiritual lives. Through careful stewardship of resources, the school attempts to balance its physical and program needs with its desire to maintain an academically and socio-economically diverse student population.

In the 2010-2011 school year

• 118 students attended UFS (57 boys and 61 girls).
• 10 percent of our student body are students of color.
• 25 percent of our students received $140,000 of financial aid.
• The school employs 22 faculty members and 5 administrative staff.
• Tuitions for the 2011-2012 school year are $3,175 to $6,775 for pre-school (depending on schedule); $12,400 for elementary school (kindergarten-5th grade); and $13,000 for middle school 6th-8th grade.

Following are the Pre-K through 8th Grade Schedule.

• Grade School Program: 
  K - 5th grades: Monday-Friday 8:30am - 3:00pm
  6 - 8th grades: Monday-Friday 8:20am - 3:00pm
• Preschool Options:
  3-Year Old Program: T/TH 9:00am - 1:00pm
  4-Year Old "Short" Program: M/W/F 8:30am - 1:00pm
  4-Year Old "Long" Program: M/W/F 8:30am - 3:00pm
• Children must be 3, 4 or 5 years-old by September 1 to enter their respective preschool or kindergarten class.
• Parents may drop-off children beginning at 8:00am in the 4 year olds to 8th grade program.
• After School Care (link to After School Care page) and After School Enrichment Classes (link to After School Enrichment Classes page) are available.

Engaging in Conversation on Racism

With: Vanessa Julye

Where: United Friends School Big Room

1018 West Broad Street

Quakertown, Pa 18951

When: January 24, 2012

6 p.m.

What is the Religious Society of Friends’ Testimony on Equality? How are we living it in the 21st Century? This evening will provide attendees with an opportunity to have these questions answered and to talk about racism with others.

This evening will be led by Vanessa Julye, member of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, and the coordinator for Friends General Conference’s Committee for Nurturing Ministries, Ministry on Racism Program. Vanessa travels internationally serving as a guest speaker, leading workshops about racism, and focusing on its eradication and the healing of racism’s wounds. 

Vanessa with Donna McDaniel is the author of Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans and the Myth of Racial Justice that focuses on the relationship between African American Friends and non-Friends with Quakers of European descent from the 17th through 21st Centuries.  Vanessa wrote the foreword for Margaret Hope Bacon’s pamphlet, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Faithful Attender Of Quaker Meeting, View From The Back Bench, and is the author of The Seed Cracked Open, Growing Beyond Racism as well as several articles.

Name: ______________________

Number of attendees:   Adult______________     Children ________________

Ages of Children: _________________________