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Training Tomorrow’s Tycoons: C&N Educates 600 Local Kids on Financial Management
C&N bank team members, out to seed the next generation of citizens with fiscal skills, participated in an American Bankers Association Education Foundation educational program. The 2022 Teach Children to Save initiative had its staff making 21 financial presentations and bank tours throughout April, reaching over 600 children. It’s been an ongoing effort at C&N…
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Area Household Budgets Are about to Get Hosed as Local Gas Prices Cross $5 per Gallon Threshold
Pa. and N.J have caught up with at least 12 other states in requiring residents to dig deeper to keep cars on the road. AAA reported yesterday that one gallon of gasoline in the Commonwealth will now set purchasers back an average $5. That’s one Abraham Lincoln exiting the wallet for every gallon chronicled by…
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Training Tomorrow’s Tycoons: C&N Educates 600 Local Kids on Financial Management
C&N bank team members, out to seed the next generation of citizens with fiscal skills, participated in an American Bankers Association Education Foundation educational program. The 2022 Teach Children to Save initiative had its staff making 21 financial presentations and bank tours throughout April, reaching over 600 children. It’s been an ongoing effort at C&N…
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Jefferson Health – Abington Holds Its Way-More-Than Fair Fair, 109th Annual Cancer Patient Fundraiser
A dog and pony show is a somewhat pejorative term for an overblown, over-hyped event. A horse and pony show, however, is an altogether different animal. It’s a competition among beautiful equines, groomed to perfection, and evaluated under the professional eye of a team of breed experts. It’s also, referring to this weekend’s Jefferson Health…
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Three of Four Phila. Collar Counties See Month-to-Month Unemployment Numbers Tick Up
Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties saw slight increases in their April unemployment numbers, while the overall Pa. rate continued to trend downward. Only Bucks County bucked the month-over-month trend. Donna Rovins reported the mixed-bag of economic news from the state’s Department of Labor & Industry in The Pottstown Mercury. The overall unemployment rate for the…
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DELCO Careers — CCRES
CCRES, Downingtown, specializes in providing over 1,500 professional, dedicated staff members to meet the needs of children and adults challenged by autism, behavioral health issues, mental illness, intellectual/developmental disabilities, and physical disabilities. It works in collaboration with school districts, intermediate units, and the behavioral health system. There are numerous advantages to a CCRES career, including…
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Bryn Mawr High Schooler Receives Scholarships from the Green Family Foundation, Firstrust Bank
High school seniors from the Greater Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley region were recognized this week by the Green Family Foundation and Firstrust Bank at the 53rd annual Samuel A. Green Scholarship program ceremony. The high school scholarship program — one of the region’s most renowned — granted $180,000 in total to 29 students. One attends…
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Seven Bucks County High Schoolers Receive Scholarships from the Green Family Foundation, Firstrust Bank
High school seniors from the Greater Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley region were recognized this week by the Green Family Foundation and Firstrust Bank at the 53rd annual Samuel A. Green Scholarship program ceremony. The high school scholarship program — one of the region’s most renowned — granted $180,000 in total to 29 students. Seven of…
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DELCO Careers — CCRES
CCRES, Downingtown, specializes in providing over 1,500 professional, dedicated staff members to meet the needs of children and adults challenged by autism, behavioral health issues, mental illness, intellectual/developmental disabilities, and physical disabilities. It works in collaboration with school districts, intermediate units, and the behavioral health system. There are numerous advantages to a CCRES career, including…
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Angst on the Assembly Line: Manufacturing in Phila. Area Sees Weakest Growth in Two Years
A survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia shows that regional manufacturing expanded only marginally in May, recording the weakest growth in two years. John Carney reported the numbers in Breitbart. The Business Outlook Survey index for current general activity went down to 2.6 in May compared with 17.6 in April. The survey covers…
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AAA: When Projecting Summer Vacation Costs, You’re Going to Need a Bump to the Gas Budget
The Phila. region is heading toward a 2022 Memorial Day Weekend that is absent overt COVID worries in a long time. That reality brings upbeat thoughts of impromptu zips to the Shore or the Poconos, family reunions, graduation parties, and other reasons to travel. But yet another spoiler — gas prices — is set to…
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Climbing Grocery Costs Has Us Peeling off More Green to Purchase Greens… and Other Staples
April provided a modest reprieve in inflation, dropping to 0.3 percent from March’s staggering 1.2 percent. Nonetheless, some grocery items still saw prices steeply climb, writes Lauren Liebhaber for Stacker. Year-over-year, the cost of groceries went up by 10.8 percent, the largest annual foodstuff increase in more than four decades. The increase was primarily driven…
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Peddler’s Village Welcomes 2 New Shops: 1 for Fans of Wizards, 1 for Fans of Wines
By mid-summer 2022, visitors to Peddler’s Village will be able to practice casting spells and then wine-toast their magical outcomes. The robes-rosé mashup comes from the opening of two new shops in the Lahaska destination: The Cloak and Wand and Nissley Vineyard. The former is a fantasy store from appropriately named Mystic, Conn. The latter…
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Walter Liss, Co-creator of One of the Most Iconic TV Theme Songs in Phila. History, Has Died
Most Phila.-area residents won’t know who Walter Liss is. But they would definitely recognize his work if they heard it. Liss was co-writer of one of the best-known theme songs in the region: the jazzy, upbeat music that opened each edition of Action News. Heather DeLuca reported his passing at age 78 for Cat Country.…
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C&N Bank Brings Big-Time Personal Touch to Small Business Week
C&N Bank did not celebrate the May 1–7 Small Business Week with giveaways of corporate-branded tchotchkes. It went an entirely different route when it offered a home-spun representation of its personal relationships with commercial customers. Employee teams took time out to home-bake cookies to thank business banking clients. The sweets were one of a number…
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Firstrust Bank CEO Richard J. Green Delivers Anti-Hate Message at ADL Event: ‘Be That Somebody’
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) event that honored Firstrust Bank Board Chairman and CEO Richard L. Green became an opportunity for the corporate leader to decry society’s alarming rise in hate. Green’s comments came during his acceptance speech for the ADL’s Americanism Award. The Americanism Award recognizes individuals or companies in the financial services industry for…
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Office Break Rooms That Once Produced Gallons of Coffee Could Soon Yield Medical Breakthroughs
Office space that once produced things like ideas and strategies — and their kitchens that once bred weird things in the refrigerator and countless pots of coffee — could soon issue something else. Emptied by work-at-home employees, these sites are finding new purposes, writes Jake Blumgart for The Philadelphia Inquirer. “Landlords in their private moments…
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$1.6 Billion in Funding Connects 3,000 Pa. Bridges with Upkeep and Safety Resources
Pennsylvania will receive $1.6 billion in funding to repair 3,000 bridges across the state, writes Priyanka Singh for Contractor News. The once-in-a-generation boost is being facilitated through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The major initiative was first unveiled earlier in the year by Gov. Tom Wolf and U.S. Dept. of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “This is…
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