Replacing their button-down collars for T-shirts, employees of several local firms and organizations grabbed scrapers and paintbrushes and helped 20 families in the 6th Ward spruce up the facades of their homes Saturday.
It was part of Operation Facelift, run by Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Berks Inc. since 1989.
This year it focused on the 200 and 300 blocks of North Second Street and the 100 block of Elm Street.
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From a $10,000 gift to Reading police to clearing a trash-clogged storm drain, the city’s three-month effort to get more local nonprofit groups to voluntarily pay either cash or services in lieu of taxes is paying off.
The city has received $27,000 in new payments it didn’t get last year from more than a dozen churches and several other groups.
It’s also gotten more than 9,000 new volunteer work hours in more than 30 new service projects including more than two dozen cleanups – worth $65,000 at minimum wage – from local groups.
“We have received an overwhelming response,” Mayor Vaughn D. Spencer said.
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