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Residents promote back‑to‑school festival, car show and volunteer efforts; park cleanup and homelessness count announced
Summary
Residents used the meeting's public‑comment period to promote a back‑to‑school festival and a downtown car show, report park dumping found during a volunteer cleanup, announce a summer homelessness count and note streetlight outages.
Multiple residents used the public‑comment period to announce community events and raise local issues.
Cornell Wilson, 27 South Sixth Street, invited the public and officials to the county back‑to‑school festival at the YMCA on Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m.; he said organizers distributed 800 book bags last year and had prepared 900–1,000 for this year. Greg Gates, 47 Bartwan Park, announced the Community Lebanon Association car show returning downtown on Sunday, Aug. 17, with registration starting about 9 a.m. Gates also praised the city for maintaining hanging baskets and planters downtown.
Residents and trustees raised park issues. Norman Tobias, Widemood Street, and other volunteers reported trash and evidence of small burn‑pile dumping near the tennis courts at Coleman's Park found during a Day of Caring cleanup. Trustees and a park board member told the council they are increasing park activities — movie nights, a pickleball tournament and a planned dog park — and said incidents of dumping have declined though they still occur.
Dave Funk (609 Chestnut Street) and others announced the Lebanon County Coalition to End Homelessness will hold a summer point‑in‑time count on the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 6; volunteers can register through the Lebanon County Community Health Council website or by contacting a listed coordinator. Finally, Matt Driscoll, 439 Chestnut Street, reported several street lights at the intersection of Chestnut and Fifth that appear to need bulb replacement and asked the city to check pole numbers.
These items were announcements and public comments; no formal council actions were taken on the items during the meeting.
