| Hatfield seminary team helps Katrina victims in Mississippi | | Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:00:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | A team of counseling students, alumni and friends of Biblical Seminary, 200 N. Main St., Hatfield, recently worked as pastoral counselors in the Bay St. Louis area of Mississippi helping survivors of Hurricane Katrina. This was the group's second trip aimed at meeting the emotional and spiritual needs of local residents; the first team visited in August. .... | |
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| | | Union City father and son battle addictions together | | Posted Saturday, August 05, 2006 5:02:31 AM by Blog57 Team | | UNION CITY ? During his freshman year in college, Jeremy Chien once ate 50 Hooters hot wings in one sitting. They were pretty big, too, said Chien, now 26 years old and 82 pounds lighter. So how did he do it? Chien got a little help from an unlikely source ? his father. I guess I started to get pretty big when I was about 9, when we moved to California, said Chien, who was born and raised in Illinois. The food here is so good ? and the Chinese food is so much better, as my parents used to say. And so Chiens weight battle began, with what he describes as a yearly 10-pound weight gain. But it wasnt a passion for fast-food that Chien struggled with ? it was sheer quantity. I used to eat probably three or four times the average amount of food anyone else would eat.... | |
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| | | Omega Bank honored for community work | | Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 11:06:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | COLLEGE TOWNSHIP -- Omega Bank was presented with the Pillars of the Community Award from the FHL Bank Pittsburgh on Thursday for its support of affordable housing projects through its 14-county district. Three projects in 2005 -- all dealing with affordable housing -- set the bank apart from the others, said John Bendel, director of community investment for FHL. FHL honors just four of 340 banks in Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia annually for leadership and civic commitment, Bendel said. "Homes become affordable, businesses create jobs, neighborhoods gain new vitality and families prosper thanks to these very special banks," he said. FHL, which is part of the Federal Home Loan Bank System, is cooperatively owned by those 340 financial institutions, he said.... | |
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