Monday, May 28, 2012
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Trappe Fire Company Ambulance's Paul Giannini submitted the following information: Trappe Fire Company Ambulance is thrilled to announce that Jeff Long is the recipient of the 2012 Pottstown Memorial Medical Center Local EMS Hero award. This award is given annually during EMS week by PMMC. Recipients are nominated by their peers and the award winner is chosen by the hospital. Jeff is a career paramedic with Trappe EMS. He started his career at Trappe 16 years ago as a volunteer EMT. He was certified as a paramedic in 2000. Jeff currently serves as TFCA battalion chief and is responsible for company logistics and supplies. He has held multiple positions of responsibility within TFCA including chief engineer and chief of EMS. Jeff also …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Limerick Police Department recognizes area resident for tip that led to arrests
Chief William Albany of the Limerick Police Department recognized Collegeville resident Ken Leflar at Tuesday night's Board of Supervisor's meeting, presenting him with a Citizen's Commendation. Leflar called the police in February 2012 to report two suspicious men buying items with multiple credit cards at the Sunoco convenience store on Ridge Pike. Leflar had noticed the same two men earlier in the evening, also purchasing items with multiple cards, at a Wawa store in Collegeville. When Limerick officers stopped the two men, they found fraudulent cards, cigarettes and gift cards in the car. They were arrested and charged with fraud. Albany said that the arrests led to the discovery of an international fraud ring. The two suspects had …
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Wawa
310 Main St, Collegeville, PA
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Local teen Stanley Antosh took on project on his path to become an Eagle Scout. Donation boxes are in PV-area businesses.
One of the primary purposes of an Eagle Scout project is to provide community service and fulfill the part of the Boy Scout oath: “to help people at all times.” Eagle Scout candidate Stanley Antosh, 17, of Royersford, has organized a food drive for the Jerusalem Community Food Pantry, because he wanted his Eagle Scout project to have the maximum community impact. “I started it because I wanted to do something that would help a lot of people,” Antosh said. “I helped out at a food bank in the past, and saw there was a lack of food for people.” The planning for Antosh’s community food drive began in April. The Eagle Scout project guidelines require that all projects benefit a religious institution, school or community, and must present an …
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Jerusalem Lutheran Church
311 2nd St, Schwenksville, PA
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Students and parents nominated fourth-grade teacher Michele Beddis for the honor
- LOCAL CONNECTIONS
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Perkiomen Valley School District Communications Director Jessica Lester submitted the following information: Skippack Elementary School teacher Michele Beddis was named the grand-prize winner at the elementary level of the “Voices of Inspiration for Teaching Excellence,” an award ceremony that was held May 9 and sponsored by the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit and Freedom Credit Union. Twenty-three finalists – one from each Montgomery County public school districts, one from the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit and one from a Montgomery County non-public school – were honored at the ceremony. From this pool of 23 finalists, one high school, one middle school and one elementary school teacher were awarded with the Voices of …
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Skippack Elementary School
4081 Heckler Rd, Collegeville, PA
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Local organization collected tomes to help restore library collection that was damaged in the Hurricane Irene flooding.
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy submitted the following information: Allegra Nottage, founder and executive director of The Nottage Project, recently donated more than $130 in books to the Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy’s Children’s Library. Allegra learned that the Conservancy's library was damaged by the flood waters of Hurricane Irene and wanted to help. The books she gave to the Conservancy were donated by families in the area. The Conservancy thanks Allegra and The Nottage Project for their generosity and support! The Nottage Project is a volunteer organization created to address the growing needs of communities in the Greater Philadelphia suburbs. They look for opportunities to support and enhance existing local services provided…
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Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy
1 Skippack Pike, Schwenksville, PA
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Board recognizes championship victories
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The following is from the Perkiomen Valley School District website: The School Board is proud to honor the Perkiomen Valley High School boys and girls swimming and diving teams and coaches. For the second year in a row, the boys swimming and diving team was the PAC-10 Champion and won its first ever Ches-Mont League Championship. The team was undefeated in both leagues and won 21 consecutive meets dating back to last year. The girls swimming and diving team were champions in both the PAC-10 and Ches-Mont League and finished with an undefeated season. They have won 24 meets consecutively since last year. Together, the Viking swimmers are a combined 45-0 in swim meets since January 2011. Girls swimming and diving team: Boys swimming and …
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Perkiomen Valley High School
509 Gravel Pike, Collegeville, PA
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For nearly four decades, Strawoet has guided students in the classroom and on the court
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The following is from the Perkiomen Valley School District website: The School Board (recognized) Coach John Strawoet, a retired Perkiomen Valley School District teacher who has given back to our community by serving as a coach for various student athletic teams. He is being honored for his outstanding record as the Perkiomen Valley High School ninth-grade girls basketball coach. His history of coaching winning teams extends back to the 2008-09 school year, when the girls were 8-3. The following year, the girls team finished 9-3 and won its last two games. That led into a 25-game winning streak and two back-to-back, undefeated seasons in 2010-11 and 2011-12. Prior to coaching the ninth-grade girls team, Coach Strawoet was an eighth-grade …
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Perkiomen Valley High School
509 Gravel Pike, Collegeville, PA
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Saturday, March 24, 2012
Students raised money and purchased books for the Collegeville-based charity.
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Saturday, March 24, 2012
The Schwenksville Goddard School recently hosted its spring Scholastic Book Fair. The Scholastic Book Fair strives to promote literacy and one way they do this is through the One for Books program. Scholastic matches the monetary donations that schools generate, with a donation of up to one million books to three national non-profit organizations dedicated to helping kids and families in need: Kids in Distressed Situations, Inc., the Kids In Need Foundation, and the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation. The students at The Goddard School in Schwenksville participated in a classroom coin challenge during their week long book fair. The students raised $101 from their loose change challenge! Scholastic in turn donated 101 books to children …
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The Goddard School
300 Seitz Rd, Schwenksville, PA
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Friday, March 23, 2012
Organization lost hundreds of tomes due to Hurricane Irene flooding.
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Friday, March 23, 2012
The Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy submitted the following information: Brownie Girl Scout Troop #7105 of Schwenksville visited the Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy, Thursday, March 15, to drop off a donation of 65 books for the Conservancy’s Children’s Library. The third-grade members of the troop collected books for the Conservancy after hearing that we had suffered the loss of 500 books in the floodwaters of Hurricane Irene. The Conservancy thanks leaders Debby McFarland and Jules Cosenza and the members of Troop #7105 for their hard work and generosity! The books that they donated will be enjoyed by children who visit the Conservancy for many years to come.
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Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy
1 Skippack Pike, Schwenksville, PA
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Inspired by her cousin, Meaghan Burke aims to raise money and awareness
It's been a work of heart this past month as Evergreen Elementary student and Perkiomen Township resident Meaghan Burke, 10, organized a fundraiser for the Epilepsy Foundation of Eastern Pennsylvania. Meaghan's cousin and best friend Grace, 13, has epilepsy, and while the Burke family has participated in events to raise money for the cause, last month during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, Meaghan had the idea to spearhead her own effort. She decided to have a tea event because it was "a fun idea," and she found a willing host in the Lederach Tea Room. With the tea's three sponsors -- Budget Maintenance, Dynamic Landscaping and L2 Partridge Architecture -- Meaghan had already raised $1,200, and then spots for the event sold out …
henry eroh
9:10 pm on Monday, May 28, 2012
the guys at the trappe ems station are really great people- they had dealings with my dad and were superb and in the past couple of years were there for my mom so I cannot say enough good about them all but thank you so very much and sure glad to see this man get the recognition that him and the rest of the people all deserve. more ›