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Peter Becker Retirement, Cura Hospitality Hold First "Green Fair"; Older Adults Promote Eco-Friendly Living
WHAT: Residents of Peter Becker Retirement Community together with their dining services provider Cura Hospitality (both organizations recently named Best of the Best in several categories including Best Retirement Community, Best Menu and Best Sunday Brunch by "Reader's Choice" contests in The Reporter and Montgomery Newspapers) will hold their first Green Fair that features what older adults do to green their community by purchasing better products, creating less waste and eating fresh and local foods– all while saving money and the environment. Attendees will also enjoy delicious organic food samples grown by local farmers, and informative seminars with representatives from the following organizations and farms:
- Sustainability Into the Future, Jamie Moore, Director of Sourcing and Sustainability, Eat'n Park Hospitality Group (1:30 – 2:30 p.m.): As healthcare and business leaders in our region begin to grasp sustainability, they need to have a better understanding of what this means. Jamie assists dining operations on defining the direction. We are faced with numerous choices and sometimes they aren't so black and white. As you can imagine, we will all become increasingly challenged to be leaders in sustainable and eco-friendly delivery of our services. Learn how Jamie develops partnerships with farms, helps to green dining operations and steps to expand our efforts to be more socially responsible so we can all provide a livable tomorrow for future generations. The time to educate and plan for success is now, as significant strides are being made by our peers and neighbors nationally!
- Community Supported Agriculture, Joseph McGonigle, Skippack Creek Farms (2:30 - 3 p.m.): From a handful of farms 15 years ago, the community-supported agriculture (CSA) concept has grown to as many as 5,000 nationwide. People sign up for a CSA, pay a regular fee and receive a box bursting with fresh, locally grown and harvested produce, generally delivered somewhere in their own neighborhood. This reciprocal relationship sustains the farm while it nourishes you!
- Composting Tips, Penn State Master Gardeners (2:30 – 3:45 p.m.): Tips and practical information on how to convert your yard, garden and kitchen waste into soil building compost. For example, Cura chefs at Peter Becker use the Earth Maker 124, a continuous-cycle compost maker, to compost Peter Becker dining rooms' pre-consumer food waste consisting of vegetable waste, cardboard, leaves and woodchips on-site. Featuring a 124- gallon capacity, the Earth Maker allows Cura chefs to compost approximately 18, five gallon tubs per week. The composted material is returned back to the residents' on-site gardens where natural fertilization yields safer and healthier vegetables and herbs which are used by Cura's executive chefs to prepare menu items for the residents.
- PPL, Project Earth (2:30 – 4 p.m.): PPL Corporation is improving life in the communities where we do business through a program we call PPL Project Earth. It's our employees donating their time to tutor school children, clean up creek beds and campaign for charities. It's cutting emissions from our power plants and protecting endangered species. Project Earth is our way of doing business, our way of providing energy responsibly. It focuses our corporate resources on energy, the environment and education.
Other Participants:
- JP Mascaro and Sons, Trash and Residential Recycling Company
- Peter Becker Retirement Community Green Committee
- Singer Equipment Corporation, Largest Foodservice Equipment and Supplies Dealer in the
mid-Atlantic Region
WHEN:
Thursday, July 29, 2010; 12:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
WHERE:
Peter Becker Retirement Community
Arbor Conference Center at Maplewood Estates
815 Maplewood Drive
Harleysville, PA 19438
215-703-4011
INFO:
www.peterbeckercommunity.com
www.curahospitality.com
ABOUT CURA HOSPITALITY
A member of Eat’n Park Hospitality Group, Cura Hospitality is a highly responsive and innovative dining services and hospitality provider dedicated to a mission of Enhancing Life Around Great Food. With its headquarters in Orefield, Pa., Cura serves over 50 senior living communities and hospitals throughout Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia. Cura’s professionals provide hospitality and clinical care to more than 20,000 residents, patients and guests each day. Visit us at www.curahospitality.com.
