Pottstown Ward 1-2
Empire Hook & Ladder Fire Company
76 N. Franklin Street
Pottstown, PA 19464
YWCA
315 King Street
Pottstown, PA 19464
Pottstown Ward 6
Chesmont Building
13 Armand Hammer Blvd.
Pottstown, PA 19464
Rupert Elementary
1230 South Street
Pottstown, PA 19464
I believe I am the right candidate for Pottstown Council. I have no personal agenda; simply a desire to bring Pottstown (as a whole) back to greatness — not what it once was, but rather something better. Pottstown needs real jobs, ones in which people can obtain gainful employment. Industry DOES still exist — it is just different now. Although Pottstown is “built out” I do believe it is still marketable.
I enjoy attending council meetings, making a point to not miss them. I use this opportunity to learn what works and what does not work. I welcome the frustration I feel during such meetings. This frustration becomes fuel which inspires some of my best ideas and I have many, to tackle some of the tough problems facing the borough such as far too many opportunistic investors, crime, and not of any less importance, the current distance between decision making and real communication with the community.
I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Crime & Justice from Albright College achieving highest honors. My most recent employment was working as a program specialist in a day program developing, coordinating, and implementing vocational, educational, social, health, safety, & personal client centered goals for adults with Developmental & Intellectual Disabilities. Among many responsibilities, I also accompanied and supported the individuals during community outings and community service including delivering Meals on Wheels to the elderly and reading to the pre-school children at the YWCA. I held this position for four years prior to leaving in July of 2012. Prior to my employment, I volunteered for two years at the facility.
Previously I served for two years on Pottstown area’s Montgomery County Youth Aid Panel. I also completed Montgomery County’s Victim Offender Conferencing Program.
For many years, I volunteered with several animal rescue groups. My greatest love — animals. My passion — Pottstown.
I graduated from Pottstown High School. Upon graduating I moved to Oaks for four years. After marrying (my husband is Spring Ford Alum) I told my husband I wanted to buy a house in my home town, which I have always loved. We found a nice corner property which was to be our starter home, and here we have stayed for 23 years. We will be celebrating our 25th (silver) anniversary in September.
I feel that it is of the utmost importance to stay closely connected to the community. Although I have worked and lived locally for many years, my eyes were opened even wider when I began walking door to door in my ward having the opportunity to see and hear up close and personal the many challenges we face.
And I am just getting started!!
Sheryl Miller
3rd Ward Pottstown Council Candidate
This place is so new, you can smell it. Walk into the low-slung warehouse on Hamilton Avenue in Homewood, and the effect is immediate: Fresh-cut lumber, a little bit of sweat, a flash of motion — hey, did that kid just pop a wheelie?
Locator map with the Homewood West neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania highlighted. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A year ago, this building was stuffed with city equipment and impounded cars, 80,000 square feet of space that officials never quite knew how to handle.
Where Harry Geyer is standing? That’s where the Pittsburgh Public Works Department used to dump their junk, something the 40-year-old has to laugh about now, surrounded by the loops and whorls of his creation.
This is the Wheel Mill, a massive indoor bike park the Lawrenceville entrepreneur has built almost single-handedly, a testament to his twin loves of mountain biking and sustainable construction that he hopes will resonate with the city’s cyclists.
Say poverty in the Philadelphia area, and it conjures images of North Philadelphia or Kensington, not the suburbs.
But the suburbs on both sides of the Delaware River are becoming steadily poorer, part of a national trend that confounds long-held beliefs that life is always better in greener pastures beyond urban limits.
“People have this cliched notion of poverty being based in the inner city,” said Adele LaTourette, director of the New Jersey Anti-Hunger Coalition, which has offices in Trenton and North Jersey. “But it’s been moving into suburbia for some time.
“No one wants to think that their neighbors are becoming poor.”
Map of Pennsylvania highlighting Berks County (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Editor’s note: Two Roy’s Rants thumbs up for Penny Dutch Apparel and private sector involvement!
Vanessa Velez and her mother, Karen, worked in tandem as they shoveled leaves, dirt and debris into orange bags at Reading’s 10th & South Playground.
“We’re just trying to help out, and give the kids a nice place to play,” said Karen Velez of Ephrata.
The mother-daughter pair were among about a dozen volunteers who helped clean up the playground Saturday.
The cleanup was organized by Penny Dutch Apparel of Mountville, Lancaster County, with support from the nonprofit Reading Beautification Inc.
The Pottstown YMCA, a branch of the Philadelphia Freedom Valley YMCA, located at the corner of Adams & Jackson Streets in Pottstown is running a Membership Event through May 31st. Become a new member and the normal joiner fee of $75 is being waived. Join now and take advantage of access to recreational swimming year round and join as an Association member for access to outdoor pools. Hundreds of programs offered for infants though Seniors.
Next session of programs runs June 10 – August 18, with registration for members beginning May 20th. Camp registration is on-going, as well as, child care for ages 6 weeks through 12 years of age.
Call 610.323.7300 for details, stop by for a tour or visit us on the web at https://philaymca.org/
Wednesday, May 22nd, 10am-2pm
Sunnybrook Ballroom, 50 Sunnybrook Road, Pottstown
Over 80 employers!
Special thanks to event sponsors: Exelon, EDSI, J.P. Mascaro & Sons, LifeSpan,Pottstown Memorial Medical Center, The Mercury, and the TriCounty Area Chamber of Commerce.
This event is brought to you by the
TCN Exelon Nuclear Workforce Development Program
For more information, please call TCN at 610-705-3301, Ext.2.
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