Bethel Park Spring Makeover Challenge underway

Bethel Park is coordinating the Bethel Park Spring Makeover Challenge through June 20. According to a news release, the program is a joint effort of the Buy Bethel Initiative and the Bethel Park Kindness Project.

“We felt that this would be an enjoyable spring event that would also support our local business community,” said Bethel Park Mayor Jack Allen. “We’d love for everyone to participate; and, the great thing is that residents may already be doing what’s needed to be part of the fun!”

When residents plant, decorate or improve the outside of their home, they can submit before and after photos of the project to the Municipality of Bethel Park Facebook page under a special ‘Spring Makeover’ post.

Residents should include the names of any local businesses where they purchased flowers, plants or other supplies or materials that helped make the project happen.

Entry categories include:

• Window/Door Decorating: Decorate windows and/or doors of your home in a spring theme.

• Planting/Growing: Children (up to age 10, and age 11 and up): Flowers grown in either pots or in a garden/ground. Adults: Flowers and plants of any type (pots or ground).

• Landscaping: Larger scale projects to the front or rear of a home or business such as retaining walls, fencing, pavers, fire pits, patios, walkways, etc.

• Water Gardening: Ponds, pond plants, and structures/plants in and around the pond.

• Home Improvement: Any changes to a home’s façade.

Everyone who submits photos will be entered into a prize drawing that will be held at the July council meeting.

“We’re also going to be posting a variety of informative ‘how-to’ videos throughout the project,” Allen said.

To view videos, visit www.bethelpark.net. During the project, videos will feature local experts offering ideas, inspiration and guidance. Special discounts or other surprises may be added along the way.

The project is open to Bethel Park residents and businesses.