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Lower Pottsgrove's municipal building

SANATOGA PA – If you’ve got business to conduct with officials in Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township, it’ll have to wait until after the Christmas holiday.

The township municipal building, 2199 Buchert Rd., Pottstown PA, will be closed and – with the exception of police department employees – the people who work there will be on vacation from Friday (Dec. 23, 2011) through Monday (Dec. 26).

Regular office hours will resume Tuesday (Dec. 27) at 8 a.m.

POTTSTOWN PA – With the holiday season approaching, members of the Pottsgrove High School Choral Department are scheduled to perform in the Big Apple, the City of Brotherly Love, and several local venues beginning Nov. 22 (2011; Tuesday) and continuing through late December, Director Cynthia Foust said Friday (Nov. 11)

Pottsgrove Concert Choir and Choraliers singers begin their holiday performance season Nov. 22 in New York City with a by-invitation performance at The Actor’s Chapel, 239 W. 49th St. Then they’ll have dinner at Ellen’s Stardust Café on Broadway, and attend a performance of Sister Act.

On Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 24; Thursday), the Pottsgrove Show Choir will perform at about 10:41 a.m. in the Dunkin’ Donuts Thanksgiving Day parade in Philadelphia, broadcast locally by television station WPVI Channel 6. Its singers will join a mass “Glee”-like youth choir of Mid-Atlantic region students on the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum.

Show Choir and Choraliers members will be sing throughout the community during December, and cap their season Dec. 22 (Thursday) by joining the Concert Choir for an annual holiday concert at 7:30 p.m. in Richard J. Radel Auditorium at the high school, Kauffman Road, Pottstown PA.  The concert is free and open to the public.

• This event has been added to The Post calendar.

Show Choir members during 2011 are Erin Amole, Krisina Antonio, Seth Ayres, Ashley Cole, Erica Edwrds, Alivia Faison, Stephanie French, Thomas J. Galamba, Justin Hernandes, Ashleigh Kleinschmidt, Jennifer Korb, Kelsey Lloyd, Mollie Marko, Tiara Mitchell, Trevor Noll, Brianna Petitti, Jazmin Reddick, Rebecca Smith, Joshua Toth, Courtney Weaver, Emily Weaver and Nick Wolfe.

Adam Canigiani.

GILBERTSVILLE PA – It’s not your average light display, according to internet television station WZAR-TV in Boyertown.

A Gilbertsville family has taken the spirit of Christmas to a whole new level. The display consists of thousands of lights, tons of wiring, and is even software-controlled to the rhythm of music. It’s anything but an “out-of-the-box” system, and has all been custom designed and built by village resident and home owner Adam Canigiani, WZAR News reported Sunday (Dec. 26, 2010).

• Watch the video, above, or see it at the YouTube account of user wzartv.

WE WISH YOU THE BEST OF THE SEASON – And to do that, The Post turns to the cover of a postcard (above), dated Dec. 22, 1916, and mailed at the time “from Eva” in Philadelphia PA to “Lizzie” on North Fairhill Street in the city’s Olney section. The cost to send it? One cent.

All four Post Publications will take today (Friday, Dec. 24, 2010) through Sunday (Dec. 26) off to enjoy the Christmas holiday, and will next publish on Monday (Dec. 27). As always, thanks for reading The Post. Managing Editor Joe Zlomek sincerely wishes you and yours a bright and blessed season, filled with joy, wonder, and peace.

Out with the old.

SANATOGA PA – “O, Christmas tree; O Christmas tree! What’ll we do with thee, O’ Christmas tree?”

OK, so maybe that’s not a favorite holiday tune of yours. But if, like those substituted lyrics, you’re wondering what to do with your tree once the holidays are over, Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township offers a solution. January is tree collection month in the township.

Discarded trees will be collected on Mondays only between Jan. 3 and Jan. 31. The township asks that trees to be picked up be placed at curbside by Sunday night for collection next morning.

• This event has been added to The Post calendar.

Photo from Google Images

Lower Pottsgrove's municipal building.

SANATOGA PA – If you’ve got business to complete before Christmas with officials or staff members representing Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township, you’d better get it done today (Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010) between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.

The township has announced on its website that the municipal building, 2199 Buchert Rd., Pottstown PA, will be closed Thursday and Friday (Dec. 23 and 24) for the Christmas holiday. Its doors will open again to the public next Monday (Dec. 27) at 8 a.m.

The offices also will be closed Dec. 31 (Friday) in observance of the New Year’s holiday, according to the township.

• This event has been added to The Post calendar.

POTTSTOWN PA – Who says mascots never have any Christmas fun?

Chip, and a friend.

Chip, the sparkling, diamond-headed mascot of Diamond Credit Union, headquartered on Medical Drive in Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township, was the break-dancing spectacle of the credit union’s recent Christmas party. Chip waltzed into a conference room filled with employees and food, and – accompanied by Santa Claus himself – proceeded to bust a move to a holiday record by the rap group Run DNC.

The file was uploaded Monday (Dec. 20, 2010). Radical, dudes.

• Watch the video, above, or see it at the YouTube account of user DiamondCU1.

Photo from YouTube

Robert Lindgren.

HERAT, AFGHANISTAN – Former Pottsgrove School Board member Robert “Bob” Lindgren may be thousands of miles distant from his Lower Pottsgrove Township family this Christmas, but he’s now also just a click away.

Lindgren, a Pine Hurst Drive, Pottstown PA, resident and U.S. Navy Reserve commander stationed in Herat, Afghanistan, is one of 7,079 Pennsylvanians who have had their videotaped holiday greetings for family and friends sent to the media by the Defense Video and Imagery Distribution System (DVIDS) during the past two months.

• Watch a video message from Lindgren, above, or see it at The Post’s YouTube account.

Two such greetings, from area servicemen and women stationed in Germany and Alaska, respectively, were put online by The Post Publications this week. Lindgren’s however, apparently was lost in paperwork exchanged between DVIDS and the Joint Hometown News Service, with which The Posts work.

Lost, that is, until the service’s Broadcast Chief Natasha Schleper notified Post Managing Editor Joe Zlomek by Monday afternoon (Dec. 20, 2010) e-mail that dozens more “last-minute” holiday videos could be downloaded immediately. Lindgren’s was among them, and now is ready for viewing.

DVIDS records indicate Lindgren’s greeting was taped Nov. 15 at 3:53 p.m. as he stood outside the regional command headquarters where he works in Afghanistan. He offered his love and best wishes to his wife and children by name, and said he’s looking forward to seeing them all soon.

Lindgren resigned from the Board of School Directors of the Pottsgrove School District earlier this year so the board could complete district business with a successor. That turned out to be Director Patti Grimm. He also left the chairmanship of the township Sewer Authority, although his name and title still appear on the authority’s page at the township website.

Lt. Col. Jagodzinski and his family.

BIRDSBORO PA – U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. James J. Jagodzinski and his family, stationed in Vilseck, Germany, offer holiday greetings to his father, James Jagodzinski of Birdsboro PA, in this video produced by the Joint Hometown News Service (JHNS) and released for distribution this month (December 2010).

• Watch the video, above, or see it at The Post‘s YouTube account.

Editor’s Note: For a second consecutive year, The Post is proud to have been selected by the San Antonio TX-based JHNS to carry video holiday greetings from U.S. Armed Forces troops to their family members who live within 25 miles of Pottstown PA. None of the greetings made available this year were from servicemen or women with ties to Lower Pottsgrove or Limerick (PA) townships, or the Borough of Pottstown. We know, however, that residents of our coverage areas join families across the nation in thanking our troops for their service, and wishing them and their families the happiest of holidays.