Diocesan newspaper wins national award
The A.D. Times, newspaper of the Diocese of Allentown, received an award for sports reporting in the Catholic Press Association 2019 Catholic Press Awards.
Third place for Best Sports Journalism was awarded for “Support for Student Battling Cancer” by Staff Writer Tami Quigley in the November 15, 2018, issue. The story chronicled how the school and greater community rallied around a Berks Catholic High school student battling cancer.
The A.D. Times competed against other nonweekly diocesan newspapers in the United States and Canada with a circulation of 25,001 and higher.
This brings to 36 the number of CPA awards for The A.D. Times in its 30 years of publication, in reporting, news writing, feature writing, editorial writing, sports writing, news coverage, front page content and design, graphic design, and photography.
NAI Summit sells 19+ acres in Schnecksville
NAI Summit’s Jay Haines recently represented the owner, Debra L. Grote, in the sale transaction for 19-plus acres located at 4311 Locust Drive in Schnecksville. The Light Industrial land located near Route 309 boasts level topography, professional business park setting, multiple corporate neighbors, and easy access to main highways. The buyers, Landston Equities, LLC, were also represented by Jay Haines.
Statewide Teacher in the Workplace grants shines light on careers
Lehigh Carbon Community College is one of the recipients of a statewide Teacher in the Workplace grant, in partnership with the Workforce Board Lehigh Valley to shine the light on local manufacturing careers by introducing teachers to local companies.
The $25,000 grant is part of $2.6 million awarded statewide by Gov. Tom Wolf. Teachers from Allentown, Salisbury and Whitehall-Coplay school districts are spending time over a few weeks at Mack Trucks, Lutron, B. Braun Medical, Uline and ATAS.
The manufacturing TIW program, administered by the Workforce Board Lehigh Valley and Lehigh Carbon Community College, received a grant to educate teachers about local manufacturing jobs to help them develop lesson plans that teach students the skills for in-demand careers.
County Collaborative Recognition Award for CYF and the Court of Common Pleas
Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure announced that the Department of Children, Youth & Family and the Court of Common Pleas received a County Collaborative Recognition Award. The award recognizes a collaborative effort between a county court and a county CYF agency which expedites child placement through adoption, formal kinship care or permanent legal custodianship.
Heart Association honors Allentown EMS
Allentown EMS has received the 2019 American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline EMS Gold Plus Award for implementing quality improvement measures for the treatment of patients who experience severe heart attacks. This is the fifth consecutive year Allentown EMS has been honored.
Every year, across the country more than 250,000 people experience an ST elevation myocardial infarction the deadliest type of heart attack caused by a blockage of blood flow to the heart that requires timely treatment.
The Mission: Lifeline initiative provides tools, training and other resources to support heart attack care following protocols from the most recent evidence-based treatment guidelines. Mission: Lifeline’s EMS recognition program recognizes emergency medical services for their efforts in improving systems of care to rapidly identify suspected heart attack patients, promptly notify the medical center and trigger an early response from the awaiting hospital personnel.
Butz Family of Companies receives CMAA awards for two projects
The Butz Family of Companies, consisting of Alexander Building Construction Co., Alvin H. Butz, Inc. and Shoemaker Construction Co., received two 2019 Construction Management Association of America Mid-Atlantic Chapter Project of the Year Awards.
Alvin H. Butz, Inc. was the construction manager for The Penn State – Schuylkill Campus – Student Community Center Addition and Renovation project and the architect was Spillman Farmer Architects and received an award for LEED/Sustainable Projects.
Shoemaker/Synterra, A Joint Venture was the construction manager and BLTa was the architect for the Philadelphia Housing Authority Headquarters at Ridge Avenue project which received an award for Public Building Projects over $20 million.
The five-story, plus basement facility consolidated PHA’s offices into one main headquarters facility bringing all public and administrative functions together in a modern Class A office building. The project is seeking LEED Silver Certification.
The addition of the 2019 awards mark 17 regional CMAA Regional Project Achievement awards received by a Butz Family Company
