2007 News

April 23, 2007

In Concert with Bucks County Commissioners' Earth Week Observances, Minimum-Custody Inmates Clean Core Creek Park
Part of Preparations for Candlelight Tribute to Crime Victims on April 24

As part of a cooperative effort designed to spruce up Bucks County’s Core Creek Park, a detail of minimum-custody inmates from the Bucks County Men’s Community Corrections Center spent three hours on Sat., April 21, cleaning the park’s Victims’ Commemorative Arbor and its surroundings.

The spring-cleaning endeavor, which beautified the area adjacent to Core Creek Lake, was part of the commissioners’ initiative to “Celebrate Earth Week (April 22-28).” It was completed in preparation for the Bucks County Network of Victims’ Assistance (NOVA) Candlelight Tribute to Crime Victims, which will take place at the Commemorative Arbor, Tues., April 24, at 5:30 p.m.

“We are pleased to be able to provide this type of assistance to a very worthwhile project,” noted commissioners’ Chairman Charles H. Martin. “Since 1974, NOVA has offered a support and counseling network to individuals throughout Bucks County. Furthermore, we are committed to maintaining first-class parks for all of our residents and visitors to enjoy.”

According to county Director of Corrections Harris Gubernick, community service projects like the Core Creek Park cleanup are a critical component of the corrections’ cycle, or a “type of restitution to the community which is also victimized by an offense.”

Along those lines, the Board of Bucks County Commissioners, which includes Martin, James F. Cawley, Esq., and Sandra A. Miller, is proud to partner with NOVA in its mission to “support, counsel and empower victims of sexual assault and other serious crimes, and works to eliminate violence in Bucks County through advocacy, community education and prevention programs.”

For more information about NOVA’s Candlelight Tribute to Crime Victims, call 215-343-6543 or visit the NOVA website, www.novabucks.org.