Volunteering – Friends of Yellow Creek

Recognizing Volunteers – IUP Cook Honors College

by friendsofyellowcreek@gmail.comNews, Volunteering April 23, 2025April 23, 2025No Comments

From tree planting, to trail clearing, from running bike races to hosting sailing lessons, all of the activities and service the “Friends” provide to the Yellow Creek involve volunteers. As we look towards the end of the school year a special thanks to students from the IUP Cook Honors College who have stepped up to volunteer this season. We hope you have found it rewarding to give back to the park. Your help makes a difference. And we know you will continue to give back to your community, no matter where you end up after graduation.

Remembering Pat Gates

by friendsofyellowcreek@gmail.comVolunteering August 30, 2023August 30, 2023Comments are Disabled

Friends of Yellow Creek remembers our founding board member, Patrick F Gates, 86 of Nanty Glo, who passed away on March 17, 2023. Pat was an enthusiastic, no-nonsense volunteer. H was always ready to help, whether planting trees, registering bike racers, or building picnic tables. When we rehabbed a pontoon boat for the Friends group, Pat showed up with a battery he’d purchased for us at Walmart — “I thought this would be useful.” He also made connections and sought donations from other groups for the park. Pat was born April 10, 1936 in Hollsopple. Pat was a United States Marine Corp Veteran and retired from Bethlehem Steel. True to form, Pat made sure to renew his own membership for 2023, signing up in December, beating all the rest of us. Here he is pictured after helping us sink posts for a canoe rack at the lake.

Litter Cleanup – Volunteers Sought – Sat Nov 12

by friendsofyellowcreek@gmail.comVolunteering November 1, 2022February 28, 2023Comments are Disabled

FOYC members are invited to participate in a litter clean up day! We are part of the Adopt-a -Highway program and are responsible for a section of 422 near the park. Join a group of IUP students who have signed up to help. Safety signs, vests and gloves are provided to us by PennDOT. Coy’s pizza will be provided as a treat when we are done!

We will meet Saturday, Nov 12 at 11:00 AM in the Environmental Learning Center at Yellow Creek State Park. (Turn off route 422 at the main park entrance, continue past the park office, and look for the building on the left as the main lake comes into view. )

We hope you can join us!

If you can participate, please RSVP to friendsofyellowcreek@gmail.com

Share your labor: thanks 2021 volunteers

by friendsofyellowcreek@gmail.comVolunteering October 19, 2021February 28, 2023Comments are Disabled

As this year comes to a close, we at FOYC would like to thank the volunteers who devoted many hours to the park, maintaining trails, organizing events, planting trees, running races, offering sailing lessons, etc. We will highlight their work in our January annual report.

Meanwhile, if you volunteered but did not “log” your hours, please help us accurately report this information but sharing your volunteer hours here.

Friends’ Kayak Rack

by friendsofyellowcreek@gmail.comUncategorized, Volunteering July 27, 2019July 27, 2019Comments are Disabled

Thanks to volunteers for installing a kayak rack at the FOYC Community Sailing base. A group of seven volunteers installed a pair of racks on Saturday on the north shore. The original racks were built on the south shore for FOYC by Luke Hamilton for an Eagle Scout project.

Now the racks have been repurposed and are available for friends storage. Would you like to keep a kayak at the park? Are you on the wait list for the McFeeter’s Cove racks? We have 12 bays available on a first-come, first-served basis. Donations of $130 are accepted for a seasonal rack space. (April 15-October 31). In order to fairly meet demand, we limit any family to one slot. Please contact FriendsOfYellowCreek@gmail.com for more information. Kayaks are stored at the owners’ risk; we encourage you to use a cable to lock it to the rack.

Please contact friendsofyellowcreek@gmail.com for more information.

IUP Honors College and LHORBA Join Forces on Trail Day

by friendsofyellowcreek@gmail.comVolunteering May 10, 2018May 10, 2018Comments are Disabled

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Last month, a group of over two dozen IUP (Cook Honors College) students joined FOYC volunteers and members of LHORBA to prepare mountain biking trails for spring and summer riding.

The volunteers helped clear brush off the trails, mulched newly planted trees around the parking areas, and scoured the south shore from the day use area to Grandma’s cove for litter. LHORBA folks also build a new access bridge to the trails, fording a muddy gully.

FOYC appreciates all the volunteers from various groups who come together to help improve the park.

Please check the FOYC website and Facebook pages or contact the Yellow Creek Park Office for information on future volunteer activities.