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It's about the community built together. So gravity, it's comfortable, and let's grow with creativity side by side. Come on to light.

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Welcome to Papa Joe's Grove. We're a 100% volunteer organization, part of the Sellersville Fire Department, and we perform a lot of weddings and different events in our venue here. So come on in and take a tour.

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Let's go! So we're gonna we started most of these renovations back in 2016, mostly with the paint job of our uh kitchen-ish area and then our refreshment building. Um, so this is our kitchen. Um, we have a stove in there. A lot of catering people use this for their setup.

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Um we do a lot of weddings, but we also do a lot of events here as fundraisers and gathering baby showers and birthday parties, so it's could could be used for any event, and people can just come in and make it their own. They can do anything that they feel that they would want for their own party. So it's a great space to do it your own way.

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And then this is our refreshment building um where you can get all your beverages. We have um tap for beer and sodas, and the black one is for birch beer that people like to use. Um, and then we have a walk-in cooler, so that's where that beer comes from. Yeah. And then this is the fan shell, which was destroyed in I don't remember what year. I don't know what year it was. 2020?

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Within a hurricane.

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In a hurricane, and it was completely destroyed.

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It floated down into the creek.

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Yes.

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And then uh uh Lori's husband, Tim, who's amazing and does a lot of construction work. Construction work. He built this all himself pretty much. Um this is the dance floor.

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Great place to entertain and place for DJs. We have all the setup in there for DJs for electric and power, and we have addition of our new lights since I guess 2016.

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Yeah, 2016, 2016, all the lights. Um, one of the I guess newest buildings is our pavilion. Um, this was built in 22, 23. Yeah. And um the old one was falling apart, so we decided to get this one built. It has the Edison lights, it has fans, um, the concrete floors, which is really nice. Um, and we do have uh picnic tables that line up this entire area. Um, and we do remove them for weddings.

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So sometimes if they're requested, if requested otherwise, weddings can use the tables as well. This fountain was donated by the ladies' auxiliary to beautify the grove, so it's been such a great addition this year.

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And at night it does light up, so that's really cool. You can change it to whatever color that you want. It has all the colors of the rainbow.

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And then we should walk this way.

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So the best thing I think about this grove is when we do weddings, um, people like to have their ceremony like right in this field or up on the trolley, like a trolley bridge, trolley bridge area bridge thing that used to be part of the trolley that came in.

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But we have such a beautiful backdrop here. Yes. It's such a beautiful backdrop for weddings or any kind of an event.

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Yeah. We got horseshoes, people like to play all different types of long games here. Um we're pet friendly too.

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Look how beautiful. So beautiful. It's a great backdrop for any event.

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Yeah, absolutely. The graffiti's cool too. A lot of cool artwork. Um I think my favorite like photo spot is like this rock thing right here. That's like a really cool. I think we did my graduation.

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We did graduation photos here. Yeah.

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It's a really cool photo drop.

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We did uh prom two years ago. We did prom pictures down here, and that is so beautiful with the sun coming through. Oh, yeah, that's it. It looks gorgeous.

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Yeah, and the prick is right over there.

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Another beautiful area.

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Yeah. It's just a really pretty place. Beautiful location. 100% volunteer, so this is not our day job.

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All proceeds go directly to the fire department to support the department.

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Nice.

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So that's I would just close and saying my favorite part about this is having all of the families and different clients come here and how much it creates such wonderful, wonderful space for memories.

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So it's I love how everyone, when they come here for the first time, they're like, Oh my gosh, I didn't know this is back here. This is great.

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This is a hidden gem. It's a hidden gem. And we get so many really positive reviews from people down here. It's beautiful.

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Until next time, keep creating, keep connecting, and keep building together. Remember, we're in this together, so let's keep each other shine alive.