APRIL 2018
CHAMBER CENTRAL
A PUBLICATION OF THE WESTMORELAND COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
APRIL EVENTS Register at westmorelandchamber.com
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7:30 am - Murrysville Business District Update, Murrysville Community Center
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8:00 am - Small Business Roundtable on Workplace Violence presented by Blackburn Center and Standing Firm
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11:00 am - Ribbon Cutting, Boston Market, Greensburg
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8:00 am - Golf Committee Mtg.
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8:00 am - Marketing Committee Meeting 11:30 am - Member Luncheon, Westmoreland Country Club, Export
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7:45 am - Wake up Westmoreland Breakfast, ServPro of Greensburg
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5:00 pm - BASH, Westmoreland County Food Bank, Delmont
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11:00 am - Annual Staff Appreciation Luncheon, Greensburg Country Club
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11:00 am - Government Affairs Committee Meeting
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8:30 am - Coffee & Connections, Hayden’s Pharmacy, Mt. Pleasant
NO PLACE LIKE MILLENNIALS ARE COMING BACK TO THEIR ROOTS
IN WESTMORELAND COUNTY By Mike Dudurich, Contributing Writer
It has been said you can never go home again. There was even a book written, based on that sentence and sentiment. But that’s not always the case and Westmoreland County is happy about that. Alicia Henry, Jessica Jewart and Jeff Garcia are examples that you can, indeed, come home again.
When the show ended, it gave her an opportunity to consider her life and future. “I lived in Manhattan for nine years,” she said. “I enjoyed the bustle of the city. I could walk to work if I wanted to. But my family was still here and I just felt like it was a good time to reconnect with my roots.”
And reconnect she did. Henry lives in Murrysville and, in 2016, became the manager of communications for the Westmoreland County InThey left Greensburg and Vandergrift, respecdustrial Development Corporation in Greenstively, for big cities and big city life but now find burg. themselves back in Westmoreland County “To me, it’s completely different here,” she working and glad to be home. said. “My parents and sisters are here. The area Henry, a 2000 Hempfield Area High School has changed for sure, but one of the things graduate, went off to college at Boston Univerabout the area is I know the history of where I sity, majoring in broadcast journalism. She landlived and the history of the whole county.” ed a job in New York City at CNN as a producJessica Jewart is a native of Vandergrift and a tion assistant and soon became a media pro2009 graduate of Kiski Area High School. She ducer on the Show Biz Tonight show. excelled at Penn State-Altoona and the main “I really liked it, it was great,” Henry said. “I campus. enjoyed the fast pace, something new every day. It was a kick to see what you produced every day.”
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