If you’ve noticed that downtown Glenside has been looking a little more festive lately, you can thank Montgomery County District Judge Christopher Cerski and a helpful band of Arcadia undergraduate students.

Cerski, a Pre-Legal Studies Advisor and Adjunct Professor of Law & Government at Arcadia, has helped decorate downtown Glenside with Arcadia students each winter for the last decade.

“I typically do it with my First Year Seminar, which is about citizenship and the law. It’s about how to actually go about exercising citizenship, and doing community service is one of those ways,” he said. “This year I relied on the Men’s soccer team because we had a participation gap from FYS students. We decorated Wesley Plaza in previous years, and this year we were asked to do the entirety of Easton Road.”

This year, he led a group of students as they strung lights and wreaths from street poles on Wesley Plaza and S. Easton Road.

“We had a lights team and a wreaths team on either side of the road, so essentially four teams, each of which were using ladders. An additional team worked with the Downtown Glenside Foundation to put bows on the wreaths,” Cerski said.

“The students always like doing this,” he said. “It only took two hours this year because of the group we had. It usually takes 4-6 hours. The Foundation asked us to do something a little more simplistic this year.”