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Charitable Outreaches Resurrect Doylestown Hospital Daycare Center Ravaged by 2020 Tornado
On August 4, 2020, vestiges of Tropical Storm Isaias sparked an EF2 tornado in Doylestown that damaged both the hospital and its childhood education center. Now, a year later, a rebuilding project is moving forward, reports Peter Howard for the Bucks County Courier. No one was hurt when shearing winds ravaged the Children’s Village, tearing…
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Grieving Owner-Operator of Promised Land Organic Farm in Yardley Gets Help with Summer Harvest
A Yardley organic farm family, left short-handed and heavy-hearted by the passing of its matriarch, received some unexpected help with a labor-intensive task. Freda R. Savana, for the Bucks County Herald, covered the volunteers who responded to this grieving clan at Promised Land Organic Farm. Paul Hansen and his wife, Jackie, were the owner-operators of…
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The Meet Group, Inc., of New Hope, Collaborates with San Francisco Tech Firm to Stop Livestream Hate Speech
The Meet Group and Spectrum Labs are expanding their existing R&D partnership to devise a high-tech method of counteracting online toxicity. The bicoastal effort — The Meet Group works out of New Hope, while Spectrum Labs’ HQ is in San Francisco — uses voice moderation technology to quell rhetoric before it becomes livestream hate speech.…
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American Heritage Credit Union, Whose Foundation Brought Music to CHOP’s Pediatrics Unit, Holds Car Show/Concert
In 1996, American Heritage Credit Union became the first credit union in the country to form its own charitable organization when it began the Kids-N-Hope Foundation. After CEO Bruce Foulke visited the Children’s Seashore House of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), he was inspired to help the program. From that commitment grew the Kids-N-Hope…
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Historic Organ Donation Enables Langhorne Mother of Two Help Montana Woman Become the Mother of One
Cheryl Cichonski-Urban, of Langhorne, gave a priceless gift — her own uterus — to Chelsea Jovanovich. The historic organ donation was Penn Medicine’s first living-donor uterus transplant. But it also drew two women together in maternally grounded friendship, as Sarah Gantz reported for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Cichonski-Urban saw television coverage of Penn Medicine’s uterine transplant…
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Bird Feeder Pushback Reported as Songbird Mortality Declines
The call to take down bird feeders and birdbaths while scientists figure out what is causing a mysterious and deadly disease among songbirds met strong and angry public opposition, writes Marcus Schneck for the Harrisburg Patriot-News. The Pennsylvania Game Commission reported the disease affected songbirds in 27 counties, though the mortality rate is subsiding. Cause…
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Keeping the ‘Community’ in American Community Journals, BUCKSCO Today Parent Company Hires Julie Kovaleski as Relationship-Building Ambassador
American Community Journals (ACJ), publisher of BUCKSCO Today, continues to expand and deepen its reach throughout the greater Philadelphia Region. To cultivate, build, and maintain high-touch service among its existing relationships and forge new ones, the organization has hired Julie Kovaleski in the new role of community ambassador. Kovaleski, of Collegeville, brings with her the…
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Crown Holdings, Inc., Yardley, Recognized for Mitigating Environmental, Social, and Governmental Risk
Crown Holdings, Inc., of Yardley, achieved a “negligible risk” rating from Sustainalytics, a Netherlands-based corporate sustainability ratings service. The evaluation looks at corporate tactics for mitigating environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks. Crown Holdings supplies protective packaging products made primarily from metal or glass. Its status in Sustainalytics’ negligible risk category is a professional recognition…
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DeSales MBA Program Enhances Professional Skills for Success
The DeSales MBA program has been at the forefront of graduate education for more than 25 years. In an effort to serve both its student population and members of their surrounding communities DeSales is pleased to offer graduate-level courses designed to enhance professional skills or to provide valuable knowledge to those just seeking to learn. …
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The Lenape Lived in Pennsylvania. Now They Want to Come Home
For thousands of years, the Lenape occupied territory in eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, parts of New York and the coast of Delaware, writes Kenny Cooper for WHYY. Today, Pennsylvania has no official Native American tribes. But the Lenape survive. Curtis Zunigha is a member and cultural director of the Delaware Tribe of Indians, one of…
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Lesson from Skippack Couple: Homebuyers Who Skip Their Inspections May Want to Bee Careful
When Sara and Jason Weaver decided to buy their Skippack home in December, they also opted, in the name of brevity, to skip the associated inspection. They knew there were bees in the walls of the house. But they figured things would work out, writes María Paula Mijares Torres for The Philadelphia Inquirer. What they…
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Washington Post: Malvern Prep Swimmer Would Have Won Olympic Gold Today, But Not in 1972
At the Munich Olympics in 1972, swimmer Tim McKee, a Malvern Prep grad who grew up in Newtown Square, thought he had won the 400-meter individual medley, writes Barry Svrluga for The Washington Post. Then, McKee saw the score of Sweden’s Gunnar Larsson. Both had a “1” after their name, but McKee didn’t tie for…
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Hail Marilu! Former ‘Taxi’ Star Marilu Henner’s Live Show Drives Audiences to Bucks County Playhouse
Stage and screen star Marilu Henner debuted her all-new club act, “The Marilu Henner Show,” in front of an enthusiastic audience at Bucks County Playhouse, on Saturday, July 29. The autobiographical show, which includes songs, dances, and stories from her life and career, runs through August 15. Henner’s talents, probably best known from the cast…
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In the Aftermath of Recent Weather Disasters, Penn Community Bank Partners with United Way to Help
Penn Community Bank, the largest mutual bank headquartered in eastern Pennsylvania, partnered with United Way of Bucks County (UWBC) to establish a coordinated disaster relief fund. The two entities are collaborating to help individuals and families affected by the recent severe flooding and tornados in Lower Bucks County. Launched with initial donations of $25,000 from…
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Mint-in-Box Nintendo Game System, Rescued from a Goodwill Shelf, Nets Huge Windfall at Auction
One can only imagine the dusty Nintendo game system sitting on a Goodwill shelf, evoking the sad Toy Story 2 castoff fate of Jessie the Cowgirl before her rescue. The mid-1980s unit hadn’t even left its shrink-wrapped box. But when a local worker recognized it for what it was, everything changed. Goodwill Keystone Area related…
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A Notable ‘Garbage’ Pie Turned a Would-Be Broadway Star into a Pizza Master Chef
The influences that redirect a budding career are often unpredictable. Eliyahu Kheel’s transformative moment came from some “garbage” pizzas that almost ruined his wedding day. Jeff Werner for Bucks Local News covered Kheel’s lane-swap from Broadway performer to impresario at Yardley Pizza. “I got into pizza making when I had the worst pizza in my…
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Weekend Wanderer: It’s Not Really a Vacation If There’s Magma — Or a Pandemic
I am writing to you from vacation. Not our normal vacation, the kind I call “Rank Working Vacations.” Rank Working Vacations are not for those looking to relax. It is how one sojourns when one marries an outdoorsman. This was not the life I signed up for but now I find guys in hiking boots…
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This Timeless Hatboro Diner Serves Up Heaping Plates of Nostalgia
Is there a better place for comfort food than in the comfort of a familiar diner? Katie Kohler profiled one such spot in nearby Hatboro for the Valley Forge Tourism and Convention Board. Daddypops unlocks all types of nostalgia in both its setting and its food. It is arguably one of the best diners…
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