Golf Tourney Raises Dollars for Senior Center

Blogger's Note: The following was shamelessly pilfered from the Pottstown Area Senior Center's June newsletter.

Join baseball legend Bobby Shantz and community leaders from across the tri-county area on June 29 at beautiful and challenging Hickory Valley Golf Club for a great day of golf! 

A hot picnic lunch and a barbecue chicken and rib dinner will bookend your day on the course. 

In between meals, the well-maintained, 3 1/2-star rated course will challenge your game, and lots of contests and prizes will make it a day to remember. Only $99 per golfer.

Click here to download a registration form with more details.

Shotgun start is at 1 p.m. and the rain date July 13

Sponsors to date include:

• Thrivent Financial - Lunch Sponsor
• Keller Williams Realty - Eagle Sponsor
• Fred Beans Ford
• Knies Insurance Group
• Wrigley's Business Products and Services
• White Star Tours
• National Penn Bank
• McKnight Steel & Tube
• Catagnus Funeral Home & Cremation Center
• Kultivate
• Klein Transportation
• David Garner, Esq.
• McCormick Chiropractic
• As Time Goes By Singers
• Robert Lang

Good Food Cheap

Many of us take the food that graces our table for granted.

Others, usually those involved in a struggle to obtain it, know it isn't always so easy.

For those living on a tight budget (more and more of us it seems these days), Genesis Housing is providing some tips Thursday on how to fill that icebox on an ever-tightening budget.

The outsized poster above has all the salient details.

The workshop will be held at the Cluster Outreach Center run by the Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communities which, itself, could use a little help.

This photo at left was posted in the Cluster's Facebook page on May 10 with the following caption:

"For anyone living near Pottstown, please consider donating canned soup to the Pottstown Cluster. This is a picture taken today of the soup shelves in the food pantry."

Needless to say, donations will be welcomed.

The Outreach Center is located at the corner of King and Franklin streets in Pottstown in the old American Legion building. It provides free food and clothing to needy families in the area.

You can also help out by playing golf in the Cluster's annual golf tournament.

It will be held Monday, May 20 at Hickory Valley Golf Club (Presidential course).

A green on Hickory Valley's Presidential course.

The format is a scramble/shotgun start.

Registration is from 9:30 to 10:40 a.m. and the cost is $110 per golfer or $440 per foursome, which includes lunch cart, greens fee, beverage reception and dinner. 

Tee-off time is at 11 a.m. The rules briefing is at 10:40 a.m. and the reception begins at 4 p.m., which is also when the putting contest conclusion will be held.

Dinner, the awards, silent auction and 50-50 drawing will all begin at 5 p.m.

Local Heroes Club

Blogger's Note: This just in from the chamber:

The TriCounty Area Chamber of Commerce held its annual Golf Outing on Sept. 11.

Frank Strunk with Marcy Toepel

In honor of this date, Chamber Members were asked to nominate local heroes who were invited to participate in the Golf Outing compliments of Hickory Valley Golf Club.

These heroes were people who go above and beyond to better our community.

State Representative Marcy Toepel presented a Certificate of Recognition to each of these nominated individuals at the Clambake portion of the Golf Outing:

Frank Strunk, National Penn – Nominated by Leslie Unger and Shelly Stockmal.

Gary Pace with Marcy Toepel

Strunk is President of the Pottstown Vietnam Veterans Chapter and a member of the Pottstown Rotary. He has dedicated much of his life to his country and has been instrumental in helping to make Pottstown a better place.

Gary Pace, Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communities – Nominated by Barbara Wilhelmy

Pace is the PCRC’s lead volunteer chaplain. He is an example of someone who goes above and beyond for the needs of the organization and the people in the community.

Charlie Dickinson with Marcy Toepel

Charlie Dickinson – Nominated by Sylvia Landis, SCORE

Dickinson volunteers his time to plant and water the local hanging flower plants in downtown Pottstown taking responsibility for the beautification of the downtown.

For more information, visit www.tricountyareachamber.com or contact 610.326.2900.