Category archive for ‘Community’ 
Memorial Hospital Auxiliary wins award at 2013 Pennsylvania Association of Healthcare Auxiliaries Conference (0)
6/18/13 •
Memorial Hospital’s Auxiliary was presented with an award plaque for having the most creative fund raising event among all of the Pennsylvania hospital auxiliaries at the annual Pennsylvania Association of Healthcare Auxiliaries Conference. The Pennsylvania Association of Healthcare Auxiliaries (PAHA) is divided into six regions: Philadelphia, Central, Southwest, Eastern, Northeast and Northwest. Each region has [...]
14th Annual Early Childhood Conference held in Sayre (0)
6/18/13 •
Friday, April 26, 2013 marked the Learning Early Network’s 14th Annual day-long Conference, held at the Sayre Theatre and Guthrie Campus in downtown Sayre. This year’s theme was “Learning & Inclusion Through the Arts”. Early childhood advocates, parents and educators filled the theatre’s Guthrie Performing Arts Center after a light breakfast and coffee. Conference introduction [...]
‘Dairy Through the Ages’ at the Heritage Village and Farm Museum (0)
6/18/13 •
Bradford County Heritage Association’s Heritage Village and Farm Museum announce the theme of “Dairy Through the Ages” for 2013. This year’s special display highlights the advances in dairy methods and equipment. The dairy display shows the progression from the box stall to wooden stanchions to iron stanchions and finally to the tie stall. In one stall [...]
The Blue Ribbon Foundation supports Nurse-Family Partnership in Bradford County (0)
6/11/13 •
The Blue Ribbon Foundation of Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania recently awarded a $5,000 grant to Memorial Hospital in Towanda for its Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) program. NFP is a national, research-based nurse visitation program that provides health education and screenings, counseling, life skills training and other prenatal intervention to low-income expectant women or new mothers [...]
ACS participates in Karma event (0)
6/11/13 •
On May 29, Joan Smith-Reese and Rachel Higham from Animal Care Sanctuary (ACS) traveled to Long Branch, N.J. to celebrate their 45th Anniversary with donors that helped establish the sanctuary in Toms River in 1967. The event was originally scheduled for November 2012 but Hurricane Sandy occurred and changed the plans. Instead the staff went [...]
Canton High School takes first place in Bradford County 2013 Envirothon competition (0)
6/11/13 •
The Canton High School Envirothon Team including students Vanessa Bonnell, Seth Martin, Trever Hartford, Caleb Jackson and their advisor Tom Hojnowski; took first place in the Bradford County 2013 Envirothon competition held on Friday, May 10 at Larnard-Hornbrook County Park. Competing with 20 other teams from five other school districts, the team scored 310 points out [...]
Planning for farm and land succession (0)
6/11/13 •
The Ag Coalition of Bradford County is working hard to sustain and promote agriculture in the area. A recent workshop, facilitated by Darlene Livingston of PAFarmLink was held at the Stoll Center in Wysox on May 23 to promote the effective transition of farm and land ownership and management. Look for another Succession Workshop in [...]
Bradford County Historical Society announces new tour guide, new exhibits and new hours (0)
6/11/13 •
The Bradford County Historical Society announces the opening of its 2013 museum season. The Society’s summer tour guide is Heather Palmer of Canton. Heather is a History and Religious Studies major at Albright College. She is available to give tours of the museum during regular business hours. Heather will also work on various projects for [...]
Troy High School Football Team volunteers for beautification efforts (0)
6/04/13 •
Members of the Troy High School Football Team and their Coaches recently volunteered their time in the beautification of the Austinville Union Church Park and Prayer Garden by edging and mulching.
Special birthday balloons (0)
6/04/13 •
Pictured, Deanna A. May, balloonist, made a special birthday balloon for Mary Ann Randall to take downstate to her mother for her birthday recently. May and Randall are both nurses at Darway Eldercare.