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The Home News Santa Run in Bath
Second Harvest Food Bank Re-locating to Bath Area by BILL HALBFOERSTER The Home News
Members of the Bath Fire Fighters and Ambulance Corps pose with Santa Claus. They delivered presents in Bath on Sunday. –Home News photo
Two men honored at Northampton dinner by BILL HALBFOERSTER The Home News
The Borough of Northampton held its 28th annual dinner meeting on Saturday at the Northampton Memorial Community Center, where employees and volunteers for the borough were guests. Borough Manager Gene Zayako presided and introduced a number of people who have made outstanding contributions to the community over the years. This year’s Cement Bag plaque was awarded to Steve J. Kerbacher and was presented by Council
President John Yurasits. Kerbacher, 49, is a 27-year employee of the Northampton Borough Authority and volunteers with the Northampton Athletic Association. Chief of Police Ron Morey was given a gift by Yurasits. He has been a police officer for the past 30 years and has been chief since December 2008. Yurasits said Morey handles issues before they get worse, and is easy to work with. Among those Zarayko introduced were Northampton County Judge Emil Giordano, a former
Northampton Borough solicitor; Ed Pany, curator of the Atlas Cement Memorial Museum; Mayor Tom Reenock, soon to receive a 40-year award from the Pa. State Association of Boroughs; George “Skip” Walsh, a 40-year police officer; Victor Rodite, planning consultant; Councilman Anthony Pristash, president of the Chamber of Commerce, who led a collection of 40 cases of food for the Northampton Area Food Bank; and Larry Oberly, an Allen Township supervisor and who asContinued on page 9
Second Harvest Food Bank of Lehigh Valley and Northeast Pennsylvania will be re-located to the former Phillips Pet Food & Supplies warehouse in East Allen Township in three or four months, closing down its present Allentown warehouse. The new location will be along Silver Crest Road, east of Rt. 512, about a half mile south of Bath Borough. The move was made necessary, according to Second Harvest officials, because more than 10% of Lehigh Valley residents need food assistance. The facility now is serving more than 70,000 people a month. With the warehouse in the Bath area, they will be able to distribute 15 million pounds of food annually instead of seven million pounds. The Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley, Second Harvest’s parent organization, bought the Phillips warehouse for $2.7 million. The budget for new equipment includes about $450,000 for new equipment and renovations. In all, it will cost $3.6 million. CACLV officials say they need to raise about $1.9 million more. A fund-raising project has started, co-chaired by Capital Blue Cross executive Anne Baum and Just Born CEO David Shaffer. About $1.2 million has been raised so far and it is expected that CACLV will get $500,000 from the sale of its present warehouse in south Allentown. Included among the contributions are $100,000 from ESSA Bank & Trust and $20,000 from the R. K. Laros Foundation. Second Harvest serves Northampton, Lehigh and four Continued on page 7
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