Day: December 1, 2009

Mt. Ephraim Food Pantry & Thrift Store Looking for a Home

The Touch New Jersey food pantry and thrift store, serving Mount Ephraim, is urgently looking for a new home, officials said.

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However, that site will be demolished in early 2010 as part of the parish’s consolidation efforts, and to accommodate more parking.

Touch New Jersey, a choice model cupboard and one of Philabundance’s agencies, serves more than 1,000 individuals monthly with a selection of perishable and nonperishable food items rather than prepared bags or boxes.

Philabundance, the Delaware Valley’s largest hunger relief organization, sends Touch New Jersey enough produce for 625 individuals weekly.

\”Mount Ephraim will lose a vital service to its community and the many people served if a new location cannot be found by March 1 for the food cupboard and thrift store,\” said officials from Touch New Jersey, which operates another pantry in Camden and is committed to staying in and serving the suburbs.

On November 19, the group distributed Thanksgiving provisions to about 500 families. reprinted from the Gloucester City News

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\”Local First\” Campaign Seeks to Protect Delaware and Chester Counties Economy.

Press Release

As gas prices rise and financial markets slip, a new local business is hoping to insulate \"Local Delaware and Chester County’s economy with a multifaceted campaign to explain the benefits of keeping purchases close to home. Over a year in the making, the \”Local First\” campaign is a joint effort of locally owned small business entrepreneurs from Delaware and Chester County who partnered together to develop this business strategy for locally owned businesses in Delaware and Chester Counties.

The campaign will utilize a variety of media for advertising including Internet, television, radio, various newspapers, and through their web site GetLocalFirst.com promoting loyalty to Delaware and Chester County businesses. It will also include events such as \”Lunch Local\” and \”Local First Day\” events featuring locally-owned, independent businesses.

Delaware County and Chester County residents will start hearing the \”local first\” message within the next month, in time for the holidays. The concept is simple, what is spent in our counties stay in our counties. Similar campaigns across the country have been widely successful.

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Not Much Going on at Gloucester City School Board Meeting

By Linda Boker-Angelo

NEWS Correspondent

Gloucester City Board of Education (BOE) members were pleased last week to once again hear comments by the Students of the Month, selected to rep-resent each of the District’s schools.

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With Pa. boost, solar-cell plant set for Navy Yard

By Andrew Maykuth

Inquirer Staff Writer

With a promise of $49 million in inducements from Gov. Rendell, a Greek solar-cell maker says it will break ground next year on a sprawling manufacturing facility in Philadelphia\’s Navy Yard.

HelioSphera US says the $500 million plant will employ 400 people when it begins operations in late 2011. It will be able to produce 1.2 million thin-film solar modules per year.

Panos Ninios, president of HelioSphera US, said the company chose the Navy Yard site after reaching out to eight states and visiting 35 locations.

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