Treatment: Box Blight is a fungus that spreads by spores which can lay dormant around the garden. Once symptoms begin to appear you should cut away infected branches so only healthy leaves are left. Clean up any dead leaves on the ground and then all infected material should be burnt.
The Bedford County Community Drum Circle will hold their May drum circle outdoors on the town square in downtown Bedford. from 3-4:30 PM. Free and open to the general public. In case of rain the event will be moved to the Yoga Bedford Studio, 106 S. Richard St., Bedford, PA.
Bedford was so named for the English Duke of Bedford. Berks county derives its name from the fact that Admiral Penn, the father of the founder of Pennsylvania, owned lands along the Thames in Berkshire, England, and for this reason the descendants of William Penn, in 1752, named the new county Berks.