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One summer camp in Luzerne County received a lifesaving donation right before the start of the season.

It may be small in size, but when it comes to saving lives you are going to want to have an automated external defibrillator or AED close by and know how to use it.

That’s one of the lessons camp counselors learned during a training session before the start of the summer season at Camp Orchard Hill near Dallas.

In Center County, bankers from across the state met at the Nittany Lion Inn to discuss their banking policies for Pennsylvania’s ag economy. More than one hundred bankers were at the University Park to hear about efforts to help farmers. Including the recently passed farm bill. Those bankers say it’s important for financial advisors to know what kinds of challenges farmers are dealing with so they can help them save money.

Pennsylvania dairy farmers, a coalition of dairy leaders and sympathetic politicians are urging legislators in Harrisburg to push Congress to pass reforms that would permit whole milk to be served in schools.

A June 18 rally in the state Capitol rotunda focused on the passage of measures in Washington that would give students access to a full range of milk choices, and called for regulations prohibiting the labeling of milk alternatives as milk, according to a June 18 press release.

State Sen. Tom Killion, R-9, has introduced legislation that would protect Pennsylvanians’ digital property for generations.

Killion’s bill would allow music, books, videos, photos and documents stored by tech giants such as Apple and Google to be transferred to beneficiaries once an individual dies. This would be done the same way tangible property is transferred: by providing instructions in a will, trust or power of attorney.

High Hotels Ltd. held a grand opening celebration for the new Residence Inn-Lancaster, a 127-suite extended-stay Marriott-branded hotel located in The Crossings at Conestoga Creek. The Crossing is a cool-convenient, mixed-use lifestyle center in Lancaster that is anchored by a Wegmans grocery store which opened in September 2018.

Community leaders joined High Hotels and Marriott representatives in a brief program during which Aaron’s Acres, a leading Lancaster nonprofit benefiting children with special needs, was presented with a $1,000 contribution from High Hotels.

Jonestown Bank & Trust in Lebanon, founded in 1873, is the kind of bank where tellers smile, where they know customer names, where they ask how the kids are doing in school, and how Uncle Gus feeling after his knee replacement.

“Our customers don’t represent transactions,” said bank CEO Troy Peters. “They are the people we coach Little League with, go to church with, and live next to,” he said.

Ground was broken Wednesday for a four-story, 175-unit luxury apartment complex on a 14.4-acre tract on Millers Hill Road, very close to the Kennett Area YMCA.

“This is a form of smart growth and it preserves the area’s natural beauty,” said Brad Mowbray, senior vice president and managing director of High Real Estate Group LLC, developer of the project.

The PA Family Support Alliance is looking for five good men or women who help keep children safe.

The Harrisburg-based nonprofit known as PFSA, devoted to protecting children from abuse, will honor five individuals from across Pennsylvania with the 2019 PA Blue Ribbon Champions for Safe Kids award.

The award recipients will be announced at a ceremony in Harrisburg on April 3, as part of National Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Central PA Public Relations Society of America honors firm’s Child abuse prevention PR and media campaign

HARRISBURG, Pa. – For the second consecutive year, Nell McCormack Abom Communications, a public and media relations firm based in Mechanicsburg, Pa., captured two top honors in the Public Relations Society of America Central PA Chapter (PRSACP) annual awards competition.

From theburgnews.com

Plant guilt. It’s a thing. Drop a plant in the ground. Watch it wither. Bear the shame.

Enter Gnomesy, a startup in development to “take the time and guesswork out of planning and maintaining a customized green space through regular deliveries of plants and related products.”

“We’re creating a safe space of sorts, so that maybe a plant only lives for three months, but that’s OK,” said Gnomesy co-founder Joella Gamon.