The Times Herald (Norristown, PA)
BELLS WILL BE RINGING ...
... in Conshohocken as the borough prepares to honor frontline workers
CONSHOHOCKEN >> Just three minutes — three noisy, joy-filled minutes — is enough to show you care.
For the second year in a row, Mayor Yaniv Aronson will join mayors across Pennsylvania on May 2 in welcoming the sound of ringing bells in Conshohocken and throughout the state.
“The Pennsylvania State Mayors Association (PSMA) started this right at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 as a way of honoring emergency workers and frontline workers, so we decided why not continue that annually,” Aronson said. “The initiative represents mayors from all over the state, from Whitehall Borough, just outside of Pittsburgh, to myself in Conshohocken, to every borough in between. The mayors of PSMA hope this initiative becomes a yearly statewide tradition.”
Conshohocken residents are asked to “ring bells and make noise” starting at 7 p.m. on May 2, Aronson noted.
“I wanted to be a little more organized this year so I asked council for permission to have the fire department ring their sirens and I’ll be reaching out to all the local churches to make sure they’re ringing their bells and trying to get the word out otherwise.”
Last year’s Bells Across Pennsylvania Day received an enthusiastic reception in town, he recalled.
“I was at the United Methodist Church where they had a huge contingent of their congregation ringing the bells on the grass that could be heard up and down the street. Once you get the first one out of the way you kind of know how to do the next one, so I just want to make sure we get the word out early enough.”
The PSMA proclamation states that “in every municipality, there have been emergency medical personnel, firefighters, police officers, and employees of grocery stores, pharmacies utility workers and other life-sustaining businesses who have braved the viral elements, at the expense of themselves and their families, to maintain essential services to