SANATOGA PA – Recent jottings from a reporter’s notebook:
A Verizon Corp. truck parked near a utility pole Tuesday (April 20, 2010) at Buchert Road across from the Lower Pottsgrove Police Department.
So, When’s FiOS Going To Be Here?
That may be the question now most-asked by Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township residents. The answer: a non-committal “pretty soon.”
Members of crews for Verizon Corp. have been busy in recent months – really, ever since the snow melted – stringing the fiber optic cable that will bring the company’s FiOS-branded television and other electronic services into Lower Pottsgrove homes. Trucks and workers have been spotted within the last three weeks on North Pleasant View Road, North Sanatoga Road, East High Street, and Welsh Drive.
When Verizon’s franchise agreement was approved last year by the township Board of Commissioners, company officials estimated the work would be done, and the services available, by August. In fact, in township areas closest to Pottstown services reportedly are already up and running, workers report. For those on Lower Pottsgrove’s east end, August still holds.
Drink It Up By The Cup
One Village Coffee, a coffee bean roaster and retailer at 18 Cassel Rd., Souderton PA, has found a new customer at Montgomery County Community College‘s campus in Blue Bell PA.
The college announced Thursday (April 22, 2010) via Twitter that the ATC Café on its Central campus in Blue Bell had begun serving “local, sustainable and fair trade” coffees supplied by One Village. The news of its new hot beverage vendor coincides with the college’s Earth Week observances.
There was no word on whether or when One Village Coffee might be served at the Pottstown PA campus as well.
Celebrating 105 Times, And Hopefully More
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Limerick PA this Sunday (April 25, 2010) will observe the 105th birthday of parishioner Sophie Voyner with a special Roman Catholic Mass to be said in her honor at 10:30 a.m. in the church, 256 Swamp Pike. Voyner, now a resident of Manatawny Manor Nursing Home, will attend, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced Tuesday (April 20).
In Social Studies classes at the adjacent Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Education Center, students have learned about important events that have occurred since Voyner’s birth in 1905. They’ll conduct a presentation during the Mass, and well as present her with home-made cards, balloons, a birthday cake, and a spirited rendition of “Happy Birthday.”
For the record, Voyner’s actual birthday was Wednesday (April 21).
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