Bryan Exley, a senior at the public cyber school Commonwealth Connections Academy, is using his musical talents and connections with local musicians to give back to the community for his senior project.

Exley has organized 4 concerts with his band and other local musicians, with all proceeds being donated to The Clinic in his hometown of Phoenixville – a free medical center for the uninsured. The last concert of the series will be this Friday, February 5 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at Epiphany Church, 209 South 3rd Ave, Royersford.

With his first three concerts, Exley has raised about $500 and hopes to hit the $800 mark with his last show on Friday.

There will be 6 local acoustic acts in Friday’s show, including Exley’s Indy rock/jazz band The Charlotte Hotel. Tickets will be $7.00 at the door. Other local acts playing are The Rescue, Hillary Wallace, Boog, Pelley, and Nicole Vell

PHOENIXVILLE – JBW Enterprises of Phoenixville, PA hosts its debut CAREER CURE event, PHARMA CAREER CURE, to address the issues individuals are facing from local industries in transition. This debut event in the CAREER CURE series offers pharmaceutical professionals of all levels an empowering evening that features industry experts offering counsel on resume development, social networking, financial rollover, benefits, positive thinking, and more. PHARMA CAREER CURE takes place WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM at the Valley Forge Convention Center, 1160 First Avenue, King of Prussia, PA.
“Pharma Career Cure is designed to place, resolve and secure local pharmaceutical professionals in career transition due to recent mergers, acquisitions and downsizing in the area’s major pharmaceutical companies,” said Julia Brufke Wenger, renowned area job transition expert, JBW Enterprises, LLC. “This event will feature industry experts leading essential panels and break-out sessions offering counsel in the areas of resume development, social networking, financial rollover, benefits and positive thinking.”
Special on-site offerings available at the premiere PHARMA CAREER CURE include: motivational workshops; financial planning; tax consulting; LinkedIn counsel; relocation advice; on-site resume review; head shots; recruiter networking; and dinner. To kick-off the night, Lynn Doyle, host/executive producer “It’s Your Call” on The Comcast Network, www.lynndoyle.net, will serve as keynote speaker to inspire and motivate event attendees, sharing her personal career journey and ongoing transitioning in the professional world.
Featured break-out sessions and industry expert presenters include: “Your Retirement Plan…Now What,” Jason Brown, Vice President, Prudential Annuities, www.prudentialannuities.com; “Overcoming Age Bias in the Job Search,” Charlene Holsendorff, Right Management, www.rightmanagement.com; “Staying LinkedIn to Mobilize and Socialize Online,” Kristen Kane, Senior Consultant & Social Media Expert, Kane Partners, LLC , www.kanepartners.net; “Continuity of Protection Insurance,” Anthony Nicolai, Investment Advisor Representative, Bala Financial Group; “Starting your own Firm,” Julia Brufke Wenger, JBW Enterprises; “Manage Stress with a Journey to Fitness,” Linda Jassmond, Certified Personal Trainer & Author, Linda S. Jassmond, LLC, www.FitnessLinda.com; “Surviving the Volitile Real Estate Market,” Nancy Haas, Real Estate Transition and Relocation Expert, Keller Williams Main Line Realty, Bryn Mawr, PA, www.nancyhaas.com; “Saying YES to Who You are Meant to Be in 2010,” Reverend Dr. Lorraine Cohen, Spiritual Life Coach & Advisor, Inspirational Speaker, Broadcaster, Powerfull Living, www.powerfull-living.biz; and “Health Insurance Options for the Individual,” Mark Hogan, Vice President, TRION, www.triongroup.com.
The empowerment entrance fee to Pharma Career Cure is $30 in advance and $35 at the door. Please call 610-933-3507 or email your contact information to careercure@gmail.com and we will respond within 24 hours to register you directly. A delicious dinner is included. More information is available at www.careercure.net.
ABOUT JBW ENTERPRISES, LLC:
JBW Enterprises is a comprehensive financial planning, career transition, tax service, real estate investment/development, and new-business practice based in Phoenixville, PA. Founded by Julia Brufke Wenger, who also serves as principal, Phoenix Tax Consultants and Bala Financial Group, Inc., Phoenixville Branch, JBW offers individuals the personal expertise of a registered investment advisor, insurance agent and certified retirement counselor. JBW serves as an active leader of the Phoenixville business community and the Phoenixville Regional Chamber of Commerce.
As founder and president of JBW Enterprises, Julia Brufke Wenger offers personal experience in the areas of divorce, elder care, parenting, and business ownership. She is sensitive to the concerns of individuals making financial decisions and considers the clients’ complete situations when planning for them. Her vision for JBW, Enterprises has evolved into a one-stop source for taxes and financial services. This expanded role is convenient for clients and assists in developing tax-efficient investment strategies aimed at maximum results.

One Heart. has a new post office box in which monetary donations and correspondence can be sent to. One Heart. needs your donations to continuing help those in the Appalachia. One Heart. is working right here within our own borders to make the United States of America not only the best financial and technological country, as the government is looking to do, but so that everyone can be the best.

Please send monetary donations for One Heart. to:

ROYERFORD MAIN POST OFFICE
ONE HEART./ CHAPEL IN THE MEADOW
PO. BOX 751
ROYERFORD, PA. 19468

BERWYN--State Rep. Mike Sturla (D-Lancaster), Chairman of the House Majority Police Committee, announced that the committee will hold a public hearing to explore the issue of redistriciting from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28 at teh Tredyffrin Township Municipal Building, Keene Hall, 110 Duportail Road.

State Rep. Paul Drucker (D-Chester/Montgomery) requested the hearing and will serve as co-chairman.

The current agenda for the hearing is:
--2 p.m.: Welcome and opening remarks from Sturla and Drucker
--2:10 p.m.: Scott Casper, director of the Office of Demographic Analysis, Penna. House of Democratic Caucus
--2:40 p.m.: Sara Steelman, vice chairman of issues for Common Cause of Penna.
--3:10 p.m.: Panel from League of Women Voters of Penna: Olivia Thorne, president, and Lora Levin, vice president for issues and actions
--3:40 p..m: Closing remarks

For more information about the Policy Committee, please go to www.pahouse.com/PolicyCommittee

The hearing is open to the public

PHOENIXVILLE—PAPA Board Member Cary Moore is one of the lucky people who spend their careers doing what they love. As a professional photographer, Cary spent a lifetime behind the camera—and now, in retirement, he's "putting his focus" on volunteering for organizations like PAPA.
Starting in February 2010, Cary will share his passion with students aged 9 to 14 as part of PAPA's after-school class on digital photography. In this six-week course, students will learn how to use a digital camera and will be introduced to the principles of photographic composition. On the final night of class, students will host an exhibit for family and friends showing off their new skills.

Having built a career out of his passion for photography, Cary wants to help the youth of Phoenixville discover their own passions. That's what brought him to PAPA two years ago, and it’s something he feels PAPA can give the community.
Finding his hobby at a young age has given him a constant throughout his lifetime. Introduced to photography by a pastor at age 15, Cary knew he'd found his calling the moment he took one look through the viewfinder on a twin-lens reflex camera. On his first visit to a darkroom, "I smelled the chemicals, and I was transformed,” he recalled.

Cary's love of photography has followed him every step of a remarkable life.
"In 1965, I received a letter that started, 'Hi there. Your friends and neighbors have selected you to serve in the armed forces of the United States of America,'" he quipped. "I knew I was going to Vietnam." With a Kodak Instamatic and a Yoshika Electro 35 by his side, he spent a year in Southeast Asia. He came home with thousands of photos—and many health problems caused by herbicidal warfare.
Cary spent more than 20 years working for the international chemical company Rohm and Haas, eventually becoming the company's full-time in-house photographer. He retired in 2000, and has devoted his retirement to community service.

PAPA's digital photography class begins Wednesday, February 3 and will be held at the organization's Franklin Commons headquarters. Registration is $99, but scholarships are available. To register for this or any other PAPA activity, visit www.PAPAphx.org or call 610-983-4110. Other after-school classes offered by PAPA include Creative Writing, MathAdventures, Forensics, and Web Design. In March 2010, PAPA will offer elementary and middle-school children a spring break camp.

PAPA is the only formal, structured program for at-risk youth aged 7-17 in the Phoenixville area. Primarily a volunteer, grass-roots organization, PAPA works closely with the Phoenixville Area School District, the Borough of Phoenixville, and other local organizations to create a positive, effective, and motivating force in the Phoenixville community.

In the fall of 2002, The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania proclaimed the second Saturday of every January as “Invite your Neighbor to Dinner Day”. Since then, neighbors in communities all over the country have been participating as word of Dinner Day continues to spread!

We are a grass roots group that has formed to promote this simple idea to bring neighbors, communities and thus America closer together. Ask a neighbor you have never met, or one you have waved at but never taken the time to get to know. Make a difference in your own community and in your own backyard! Invite your neighbor before they invite you!

Please help us get the word out by forwarding this to everyone you know – everybody has neighbors.

Our dream is that everyone from coast to coast have the opportunity to re-create an American tradition within their own community!

Enjoy your dinner!

For more information check out: http://www.dinnerday.com/

THE PHOENIX STAFF REPORT
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READING -. King’s Promotions returns to the Allentown area on Saturday February 27th where they will host an exciting professional and amateur boxing card pitting Reading fighters against their nearby Allentown counterparts. The event will consist of five professional fights featuring local fan favorites, as well as five amateur fights featuring the Allentown Boxing Club vs Reading’s King’s Gym. It will take place at the Rodeway Inn & Conference Center at Routes 22 & 39 in Allentown.
The professional fights will feature Jason Cintron vs Doel Carrasquillo in the main event. Cintron, the brother of former IBF welterweight champ Kermit Cintron, is coming off a unanimous decision victory over Martinus Clay at Reading’s Sovereign Center in December. The co-feature will pit Reading’s Keenan Collins against Allentown’s Jorge Delgado. Eliud Torres of Allentown will face Hawaiian native Van Oscar Penovaroff, who currently resides in Reading. Also featured will be regional crowd favorites Travis Kauffman and Julio Cesar Matthews. Kauffman is looking to rebound from a controversial loss against Tony Grano broadcast on Shobox: The Next Generation . Kauffman was recently featured as one of boxing’s “new faces” in the December issue of Ring magazine. Matthews, a former resident of Allentown who currently resides in Reading, is riding a nine fight winning streak. Bragging rights will be at stake in the amateur portion of the night when fighters from the Allentown Boxing Club challenge their counterparts from Reading’s King’s Gym.
Tickets are priced at $25.00, 50.00 and 65.00 and are available beginning Jan.1st at the Rodeway Inn (610-395-3731), Kingsboxing.com and the Allentown Boxing Club (Luis Melendez: 484-860-5162). Doors open at 6:00 pm; first bout starts at 6:30.

PHILADELPHIA –Thousands of spectators, exhibitors, athletes, and their families will converge on the Valley Forge Convention Center for two days of world-class sports competitions, health screenings, healthy cooking demo’s and fitness seminars.
The 2010 Philly Sports Extravaganza featuring MMA Expo is the greatest sports and fitness experience in the Delaware Valley. The event is dedicated to help everyone start off their New Year’s Resolution with inspiration, perspiration and motivation to achieve all of their health and fitness goals!
“Everyone Deserves to be a Champion” –
Catch all the up-close excitement of fifteen action-packed sports and fitness events including, Olympic-style, weightlifting, strong man, and boxing with more than 1,000 competitors. New to this year is the amazing MMA Expo’s Combative Sports line-up, The Tokey Hill Challenge includes: OTM Grappling, USA Karate, Open Karate, USA Boxing, MMA Referee clinic and MMA Seminars with celebrities, Don’t miss it! Along with the MMA Expo’s diverse exhibitors the Philly Sports Expo’s Health & Fitness Marketplace offers the latest in fitness equipment, apparel, and nutritional supplements and non-stop fitness entertainment. Every event offers the opportunity for up-close and personal sightings and interaction with sports stars, celebrities and fitness personalities; traditional martial arts word champions Tokey Hill and Jimmy Pedro from Zebra mats along with Master Michael Graves and Master Jose Torres will be on hand. MMA champions Cung Le, Sean Sherk, Shonie Carter and Matt Hamill along with World Champion and just added UFC Hall of Famer, Ultimate Fighting Champion Dan Severn will be signing autographs all weekend for free. New sports this year also include the Mid Atlantic Cheerleading & Gymnastics Championships, Old Time Feats of Strength, Olympic Lifting Competition, USA Boxing and Submission Grappling.

The Philadelphia Sports Extravaganza will again present the FAME North East Bodybuilding, Figure and Bathing Suit Model Championships and the Battle of the TITANS Arm Wrestling and Strong Man Contests.
The show hours are Saturday, January 9th from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with the Celebrity Meet and Greet party starting at 8pm and Sunday January 10th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tickets are priced at $20 for adults, with children 12 and under admitted for free . Tickets purchased in advance online are priced at $15. Celebrity Meet and Greet Tickets are $50.00 per person
Visit www.phillyexpo.info for a full listing of events and to purchase advance tickets.

Local Boy Scout troop 85 and Cub Scout pack 85 collected over a thousand cans and boxes of food and baby formula for Phoenixville Area Community Services. John Lukowski, the scoutmaster said this is one of the many community service projects the scouts perform in the community. The boys enjoyed sorting the many cans and boxes on the porch of PACS. For information on joining one of the scout groups families can call John Lukowski at 610-917-0167.

On Saturday, December 12, at 11:00 AM, Santa Claus will be on hand for his usual story time with the Royersford Free Public Library; only this year it will take place at the Friendship Fire Company, 269 Green Street, Royersford. There will be plenty of room and. . .a parking lot! Makin’Music’s Mr. Daniel will start us out with a Christmas sing-a-long. After that Santa will read a few stories and begin to take the children’s requests. He will stay until every child has a chance to speak with him.
In addition to Santa there will be a bake sale, cookies and milk, crafts, and activities for children to enjoy while waiting their turn. Donate an item to the bake sale and be one of the first families to visit with Santa.
There will also be a holiday toy raffle. Tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5. Tickets are available at the library now, and the toys are on display at the library.
The library is located at 200 South Fourth Avenue. Hours are Monday through Thursday, 10 AM to 8 PM and Friday and Saturday, 10 AM to 2 PM. Closed Sundays. A used-book sale room is open during regular hours. For more info call (610) 948-7277 or visit the website at http://mnl.mclinc.org/General/BranchesRoy.html