GVCO Caring Hands Foundation News

GVCO Caring Hands News

Our GVCO Caring Hands has had a very busy month of September culminated by two community service events on Saturday 9/25.

Numerous volunteers helped this past weekend at the new GVCO Community Center Complex on Bacton Hill Rd donating time and energy with our donation drive for the Brandywine Valley SPCA. The SPCA held an adoption day where numerous pets had a chance to show off how cute they were. In addition the volunteers worked with our GVCO youth cheerleading group stuffing Kongs and socks for the SPCA to take back to the shelter. It was a beautiful day and at least one pup found a new owner this week!

Meanwhile over in Charlestown, 41 GVCO Caring Hands student volunteers gave their time at the annual Charlestown Day event hosted by Charlestown Township. The day started with a 5k run, hosting numerous vendors, carnival games, along with plenty of food and drink. GVCO Caring Hands student volunteers combined for over 175 community service hours to help what turned out to be a very well attended event.

Looking forward to October the student run community service group has a number of opportunities planned headlined by our nearly month long 3rd Annual Cradles 2 Crayons donation drive.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

- Mitch Albom

Coming This Fall

Crayons to Cradles

Children’s Clothing Drive starts 10/23

This will be the 3rd Annual C2C drive. First two years were a great success and we're looking forward to greater things this year! From mid-October through early November we will be looking for many volunteers to help.

GVCO Caring Hands Tent Sale – Fall 2021

Once again we have received a significant donation Christmas holiday items from an online gift retailer and we will be hosting our Tent Sale at the GVCO Community Center complex for several weekends this fall. We will be looking for numerous volunteers to assist with this event.

Home of the Sparrow

Winter White Out Event - November

NEW event this year! We will be partnering with Home of the Sparrow to assist women facing homelessness to secure housing and achieve long-term stability. There will be more info on this event as we move forward in the calendar.

"Good Neighbors" Initiative - Holiday Gift Wrapping

For many years, we have been wrapping hundreds of gifts and delivering them to several local senior centers during the holidays.

GET INVOLVED

We have lined up numerous opportunities throughout the coming school year. Students in grades 7-12 can join Caring Hands and help us make the difference.

Parents - you are welcome to come out and help too!

GVCO Project Update

GVCO Community Center

Project Update

THE STONE BASE COURSE FOR THE DRIVEWAY & UPPER PARKING LOT HAS BEEN INSTALLED

For 3 straight days last week, Charlestown Paving worked to get the drive/upper parking lot installed. What seemed like 100 truckloads of material were delivered, leveled and than rolled. The picture above is taken from the back of the site from behind the practice field. The pad for the building is on the left. The driveway down to Bacton Hill Rd can be seen at the far end.

See the vision of our Great Valley Community Center to find out all that will be offered at the new facility.

The GVCO Future

We are on our way...

to a world-class community resource that delivers a broad range of sports, educational, arts, recreational and senior programs that address key community needs.

GVCO Walk Through Video

We need your help to finish what we've started! We will not get the necessary financing to complete the project without raising additional funds.

DONATE NOW to finalize the building of our brand new GVCO Community Center!

The time is NOW.... Together we can make it happen!

What can we accomplish together? See GVCO Inside and Out

More GVCO Programming

Winter Basketball

"Early Bird" registration of $150 ends 10/1.

Regular registration of $175 ends 10/26.

There is no sibling discount.

Waitlisting begins Oct. 26th or when a section fills.

Waitlisting does not guarantee team placement.

Preliminary schedule for Grades 1-8:

· 10/18 Skills assessments begin

· Early Nov.: teams finalized

· 11/6: Coaches meeting and uniform distribution

· Week of 11/8: GVBL Winter League practices begin

There will be one practice (roughly 1 hr) sometime during the week and one game (roughly 1 hr) a week on the weekend. Games and practices will be held at a location with GVSD boundaries.

During registration, we allow parents to choose one day a week that will NOT work for practice in order to allow some flexibility in scheduling other activities.

Players must be Great Valley Residents: Register

GVBL Boys High School Basketball League

Open to Great Valley resident boys in grades 9-12 in September 2021.

Teams have only games and no practices

Below is the preliminary schedule for Grades 9-12

· 11/29: Games begin and run until the first week in March.

· No games will be played from Dec. 23rd through Jan. 2nd.

Players must be Great Valley Residents: Register

As always please reach out to basketball@GVCO.org with further questions.

Flag Football for K-1

K-1st Flag Football has begun!

Download a season schedule and team roster.

Reminders:

Season lasts 9/24 - 1st week of Nov.

1 hour weeknight practice

1 hour game on Saturday mornings

GVCO Community Center Complex, 51 N Bacton Hill Rd., Malvern.

Registration remains open for friends who might still want to get involved.

For further information and the full season schedule, visit our K-1st Flag Football page on www.GVCO.org website.

GVCO Cheer

Fall Cheer for grades K-1
Fall Cheer for grades 2-6
Register for Fall Cheer

Questions can be sent to Cheer@GVCO.org

Fall Cheer begins Aug. 16. Athletes will learn cheers and routines to be performed during Fall football games.

Cheer for Grades 2-6 will include Fall competitions and early Winter basketball games.

Fall Crew - Grades 8-12

To Register for Fall Crew, contact John Brewer at gvcrewpd@gmail.com

Rowers must be area High and Middle School Students in grades 8-12 for Fall 2021.

Great Valley Crew will be rowing out of the John S. Trinsey Jr. Memorial Boathouse in Bridgeport. There is a Voluntary Parent-led carpool for those that want to participate.

Practices begin Aug. 16th and are MONDAY-WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY 3:45-6:15PM and SATURDAYS at Trinsey from 10AM to 1PM.

Purchase Crew Raffle Tickets

GVCO Community Partnership

For many years, GVCO has enjoyed a tremendous relationship with Temple University's School of Sports Tourism and Hospitality Management. Recently GVCO has reached out to Immaculata's Office of Career and Professional Development to initiate a similar relationship.

As a local community partner, Immaculata is a natural fit for GVCO as we continue to develop further programming here in the Great Valley Community. Immaculata has strength in areas like adult programs and Education - areas that GVCO plans to focus on with the onset of the new facility. As we move into the new school year, look for GVCO and Immaculata working together for the betterment of our local community.

GVCO Donor Spotlight

The Muck Family

"Yes, count us all in"

During the Muck family vacation, one of the kids had the wild idea of hiking Mt. Marcy, the tallest mountain in NY.

The hike is 15 miles, 7.5 hours, and 3,574 feet in elevation. What? This is certainly a wild idea! “Yes, count us all in!” During the climb, we passed many other hikers, who offered bits of what to expect ahead and words of encouragement. This picture is at the end of the day, dirty and tired, but the smiles show we were so glad we did it!

The folks at GVCO are embarking on another wild idea with building the community center. It has taken and will continue to require a lot of hard work and determination, and help from others along the way is essential. When GVCO asked us to help with the Capital Campaign, of course, we said “Yes, count us all in!” All six of us have graduated from GVHS and we love Malvern. We see the GVCO Community Center as being a pinnacle in the lives of those of us lucky enough to call Great Valley home and we are sure it will bring smiles to all the faces from young to old in the community at the end of the day.

Keep climbing GVCO!

Wiley, Brian, Jill, Ellie, AJ, and Danny Muck