Grace Lutheran Preschool Craft Fair – Saturday, November 10th In Pottstown

Come join Grace Lutheran Preschool for a Vendor/Craft Fair on Saturday, November 10th from 9:00am – 2:00pm.

Vendors include:  Pampered Chef, Close to My Heart, Two Birds, One Sewn; Autism Speaks, Thirty One, InCare RX, It Works!, Origami Owl, and Silpada Designs are just a few of our vendors that will be available for this event.

Food will be available for purchase.  Begin your Christmas shopping early, and support our preschool!

Thank you very much!

Grace Lutheran Preschool is located at 660 North Charlotte Street in the North End of Pottstown.  There is plenty of free parking in our lot.

Sheraton Valley Forge Takes It Up A Notch

English: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

UPPER MERION TOWNSHIP, PA — The building that has known incarnations such as Sheraton Park Ridge Hotel & Conference Center, Park Ridge Hotel and, briefly, Clarion Hotel, was demolished to bare bones more than a year ago and reinvented as the Sheraton Valley Forge.

The $30 million-plus facility at 480 N. Gulph Road ups the ante — even by King of Prussia’s emerging platinum standards.

“We gutted the entire property,” said Eric Davies, COO of the hotel’s owner and operator Wurzak Hotel Group, standing near a dramatic, high-ceilinged entrance way shimmering with reflective daylight.  “Everything is pretty much 100 percent new.  We raised the bar area to lobby level and opened up a two-story entrance to have natural light coming through and into the lounge seating area.”

Philadelphia-based Wurzak purchased the 9-acre property in 2009 and continued operating it as a Clarion Hotel such for a time prior to franchising the Sheraton brand from Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc., through a deal that was closed by HREC Investments Advisors.

Read more: http://www.pottsmerc.com/article/20121019/FINANCE01/121019353/sheraton-valley-forge-takes-it-up-a-notch&pager=full_story

Millions On Way For Long-Done Reading School District Project

Map of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States Public School Districts (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Reading School Board got a more than $3 million surprise this week.

The board was informed Wednesday night that district administrators had filed the final paperwork to receive state reimbursement on a long-finished construction project, something that had fallen through the cracks for more than a decade.

The state has approved the district’s PlanCon Part J filing for construction at 10th & Penn Elementary School. The state will cover almost 65 percent of the construction cost, which will mean just under $3.4 million for the district.

It was unclear why the paperwork was never filed.

Read more: http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=421973