Posted on 28 January 2009.
Editor’s note: Because the Pottsgrove School District is closed today due to weather conditions, these scheduled events are likely to be canceled.
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Posted on 27 January 2009.
On Armand Hammer Boulevard.
LOWER POTTSGROVE PA – Dozens of people employed by Home Depot at its 295 Armand Hammer Blvd. store will return to work today, knowing that – for now at least – they still have work to go to.
The store and its staff may feel some effects from operational changes its parent company announced Monday (Jan. 26, 2009), but they are not included in Home Depot’s plans to close 48 stores nationwide and layoff about 7,000 people.
Rank-and-file employees in Lower Pottsgrove and other remaining Home Depot locations are still eligible for merit-based raises and earned bonuses, the company said in a statement, and it will continue to match contributions to employees’ 401k retirement plans. “We’re very fortunate that the soundness of our company lets us live our value of taking care of our people, even in this time of unprecedented economic hardship,” Home Depot chairman Frank Blake said.
Store closings in 14 states during the next two months – none are in Pennsylvania – are part of plans the company is making to adjust to a lack of business in the nation’s continuing recession. Home Depot’s layoffs were only part of the job losses made public Monday; others occurred at Caterpillar, Sprint Nextel, and five other companies.
Home Depot said it would pull the plug on its 34 EXPO-brand Design Center stores and 14 others, ending jobs for 5,000 people in those locations and related support and distribution centers. Another 2,000 will be laid off as the company decentralizes support functions elsewhere. “These changes will make us a stronger company and will allow us to continue to grow associate employment over the long term to benefit our customers,” according to Blake.
The idea, the company said, was to focus resources on “core orange box stores” like the one in the township. Home Depot’s Lower Pottsgrove store of more than 114,000 square feet qualifies it as the township’s largest retailer by size.
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Posted on 27 January 2009.
Closed for the winter (or at least until the ice departs).
SANATOGA PA – The east entrance to Sunnybrook Ballroom, 50 Sunnybrook Rd., and its one-lane bridge crossing Sprogels Run, last week was closed to traffic for the duration of the winter, according to Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township Fire Marshal Lew Babel.
Drivers attempting to turn into the ballroom property from Sunnybrook Road, or exit from it after events, found the bridge and driveway apron icy and slippery on several days. For safety’s sake, Babel said, it was decided to run a chain across the entrance and secure it with a lock until better weather arrives.
Sunnybrook Ballroom guests can continue to use its south side entrance from East High Street.
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Posted on 27 January 2009.
They rate a discount.
POTTSTOWN PA – Four- and eight-hour educational programs approved by the state Department of Transportation (PennDOT) to help lower automobile insurance costs for senior citizens will be conducted by the East Penn AAA during February and March in its offices at 95 S. Hanover St.
The 4-hour driver improvement refresher course will be held Feb. 11 (2009; Wednesday) from 12:30-4:30 p.m. Its cost is $10 per AAA member, $15 per AAA member couple, and $20 for non-members. The 8-hour driver improvement core course, titled “Safe Driving for Mature Operators,” will be held March 18 and 25 (2009; Wednesday) from 5-9 p.m. on both days. Its costs are $15, $20, and $25, respectively.
Successful completion of the courses allows insureds age 55 and older to qualify for a state-mandated reduction in the cost of their premiums. For more information on the Pottstown courses, call toll-free 800-564-0300.
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Posted on 27 January 2009.
POTTSTOWN PA – The Home Care and Hospice Department of Pottstown Memorial Medical Center, which provides at-home health care and other services for patients deemed to be terminally ill, has changed its name to TriCounty Home Health and Hospice, the hospital announced Thursday (Jan. 22, 2009.)
The unit, located at 1600 E. High St., has been in business since 1995, and currently employs more than 40 nurses, therapists and home health aides, according to agency director Cheryl Barr. She said it would continue to offer skilled nursing, personal care, physical, speech and occupational therapy, social services, and hospice care at patients’ residences.
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Posted on 27 January 2009.
WPAZ-AM Radio 1370 will broadcast the St. Pius X – Pottsgrove game.
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Posted on 26 January 2009.
Desiree Colon, left, and Mary Jo Brurner sell Girl Scout cookies Sunday (Jan. 25, 2009) at Thriftway in Sanatoga PA.
SANATOGA PA – Inside the Thriftway supermarket on High Street, and at other places where the hungry gathered, members of local Girl Scout and Brownie troops during the weekend (Jan. 24-25, 2009) began their annual push to fill stomachs and raise funds by selling boxes of cookies. They had particularly good news for lovers of the scouts’ peanut butter treats called Tagalongs and Do-Si-Dos: they’re safe to eat.
None of the Girl Scouts’ eight different varieties of cookies available for sale this year contain peanut butter or paste suspected to be contaminated by salmonella bacteria, according to the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) national headquarters.
Tainted peanut products are said to be responsible for sickening 500 people in 43 states, including Pennsylvania. As of Saturday, more than 200 products made with the contaminated spread, distributed nationally from Georgia by Peanut Corp. of America, were being recalled and pulled from retailers’ shelves.
Scout cookies are not affected, scouting leaders said.
Neither of two baking companies licensed to produce Girl Scout cookies – ABC Interbake, and Little Brownie Bakers – bought peanut butter used in their recipies from PCA, and so are not involved in the current peanut butter salmonella scare, a GSUSA press release stated. “Food safety and quality are of the utmost importance to us,” it added.
On their own websites, both bakers posted separate notices attesting to the safety of their products. ABC Interbake pledged to “volunteers, parents, girls and customers of the Girl Scout Councils that work with us that the peanut butter in our cookies is not linked to the salmonella contamination.” Little Brownie Bakers said it was working “closely with all of our ingredient suppliers … as part of our goal to bake safe, great tasting Girl Scout Cookies.”
A platefull of Samoas and peanut butter Tagalongs.
Customers apparently appreciated the reassurance. Desiree Colon and Mary Jo Brurner were selling cookies Sunday afternoon at the Thriftway, 2190 E. High St., possibly as the perfect snack between college basketball games. Both are members of Girl Scout Troop 7366, which meets Monday nights at Grace Lutheran Church in Pottstown.
GSUSA reported “all of the proceeds – every penny – from a local council’s cookie activities remains in the area where the cookies are sold.” In addition to raising funds, it added, the sales help “girls practice useful life skills like planning, decision-making, and customer service.”
Photo of plated cookies by Sadaqah via Flickr
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Posted on 26 January 2009.
They paid how much?
LOWER POTTSGROVE PA – The top price for a home sold within the township from Oct. 6-10, 2008, fell just below $235,000, the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper reports.
The home – at 2886 Shire Dr. – sold for $234,900. A second, at 29 Blackberry Dr., sold for $220,000; and a third, at 646 N. Pleasantview Rd., went for $198,900. This week’s top reported prices were listed Sunday (Jan. 25, 2009) in “The Top 50,” the newspaper’s weekly review of highest prices paid for homes sold within the city of Philadelphia and the townships in its surrounding counties.
By contrast, during the same period, the top home sales price in Pottstown Borough, immediately to the west was $255,000; Limerick Township, east, $269,000; New Hanover Township, northeast, $320,375; Upper Pottsgrove Township, northwest, $330,000; and North Coventry Township, south, $238.000.
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Posted on 26 January 2009.
WORCESTER PA – The drive from Sanatoga to Worcester covered 16 miles and took just 33 minutes, but those who traveled Saturday (Jan. 24, 2009) to Montgomery County‘s historic Peter Wentz Farmstead were set back 232 years.
Ruth Konrad of Bally stokes a fire in the kitchen of the Peter Wentz Farmstead.
The farmstead, where Revolutionary War Gen. George Washington was a guest in October 1777, over the weekend showcased a paltry 60 square feet of its many acres on Route 73 east of Valley Forge Road. Its roughly 8-foot-by-8-foot stone smokehouse, used to preserve meats and cheeses during the 18th Century, was the center of visitors’ attention in a program called “Smoking Saturday.”
Wentz Farmstead educator Kim Boice mixes batter for griddlecakes.
Smokemeister (master of the smoke) Rick Poole is a Bucks County resident who, with his wife, volunteers his time at the farmstead. To a day-long stream of young and old alike, he explained the intracacies of preserving food by first curing it with salt and spices, and then letting it hang for up to a week in smoke produced by wet hickory chips smouldering on an enclosed and carefully tended fire.
Peter Wentz Farmstead, part of Montgomery County’s Department of Parks and Heritage Services, is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sundays from 1-4 p.m. Its next special program will be held March 7 (2009; Saturday), and will feature Revolutionary War reenactors conducting winter drills. For more information, call 610-584-5104.
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Posted on 26 January 2009.
Raking them in.
SANATOGA PA – Leaf collection in Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township will be held next Monday (Feb. 2, 2009), as it is on the first Monday of each month. Leaves are not be collected on any other day as a result of state requirements to recycle organic material.
Leaves must be placed in bags acceptable for recycling. They can be purchased at minimal cost from local supermarkets or the township municipal building, 2199 Buchert Rd. Leaf bags should not be left at curbside until Sunday evening (Feb. 1, 2009).
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