EARTHDAY COATESVILLE 2014
Channel: James Pitcherella
Date: 26/04/2014

Earth Day Coatesville 2014 

At the "Welcome to Coatesville" sign the flowers, ornamental trees and bushes are a beautiful sight that is seen over and over by the many people that go buy the "Welcome to Coatesville" sign. 

Our parks, buildings and towns can often be pleasing to the eye. Those places didn't just happen. 
People got together and made it happen. 

Thousands of people drive by the "Welcome to Coatesville" sign at Maple Avenue and 1st Avenue in Coatesville. 

Coatesville Police Sergeant Rodger Ollis said that the area around the sign was covered in weeds for a long time. 

Sergeant Ollis and Chief Laufer adhere to the "broken windows" theory espoused by James Q. Wilson. 

The perception of safety is not based on crime rates, but on wether the neighborhood is well cared for. 


Coatesville has no shortage of people who go out of their way to care for our town. 

Volunteers from Coatesville and nearby planted trees and flowers and cleaned up several areas in Coatesville for Earth Day.

About a half-mile away Coatesville City Councilperson Marie Hess led a group of adults and children cleaning up and planting at the Brandywine Creek Trail.

Special thanks to Sergeant Ollis, Chief Jack Laufer and Coatesville City Councilperson Marie Hess and the many adults and children who made Coatesville a little bit nicer.