Garden of Cedar, Everhart Museum Seek Messages of Love from Scranton Alumni

The Garden of Cedar will be planting Valentine hearts bearing personalized messages on the lawn of the Everhart Museum at Nay Aug Park until Feb. 14, and the leaders of both nonprofit organizations hope their fellow Scranton grads will help them reach their goal of collecting 2,000 inscribed hearts during this snow-dusted season of love.

“I’d like to issue a challenge to the University community to assist the Garden and Everhart in obtaining 2,000 Valentine participations, including every U.S. state, and as many countries as possible,” said Frank Dubas ’75, a former University trustee and the president of the Garden of Cedar, a nonprofit urban community garden/park and children’s discovery area that serves the Scranton community from its home base on the 700 block of Cedar Avenue. “Claim your personally inscribed heart and tell the world what you’d like to say to your loved ones.”

Dubas has already placed more than 700 hearts on the lawn to date as part of the Garden’s fourth annual Valentine’s Day event, and the hearts will remain on display at the Everhart until the first week of March.

“We’re a couple of U of S alums teaming up to do something really cool for the community,” said Tim Holmes ’88, CEO of the Everhart Museum, which has been enlightening Northeastern Pennsylvania through natural history, science and art since 1908.

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