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The Brown Brothers, April 5th at Chester County Historical Society!

04-01-09
Susan Mangigian, West Chester PA Realtor RE/MAX Preferred, ABR


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Sunday, April 5th at 4:00, come and hear West Chester native Matt brown in an entertaining performance with NPR newscaster and musician Paul Brown!

Purchase your tickets today and take advance of advance admission rates!

Date: Sunday 4/5 at 4:00 PM

Admission is $12 in advance and $15 at the door.

Fun for the entire family!

Both Paul and Matt are accomplished multi-instrumentalists and singers, having spent years learning and performing American roots music. You'll feel right at home with the banjos, fiddles and guitars!

Registration is recommended. Please call 610-692-4800 or email: mfeliciani@chestercohistorical.org

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RE/MAX PREFERRED, NEWTOWN SQUARE AND WEST CHESTER

03-25-09
Susan Mangigian, West Chester PA Realtor RE/MAX Preferred, ABR

Re/Max Preferred

If you look really closely, you'll see me, first row on the right. This is most of the people in both offices, crowded out in front of our Newtown Square office.

Our brokers, Mike Santoleri and Mike D'Adamo continually strive to provide us with state of the art equipment and continuing education classes to keep us at the top of our game and educated on all of the latest changes in the market.

In another of the series of seminars that our brokers provide for us, today, Scott Einbinder, will present insight into today's pricing strategies, surviving and growing in the current market and how to plan and motivate yourself ever day.

RE/MAX PREFERRED

A great big public thank you to my brokers, two very nice men, for providing me with such a wonderful place to work, alongside some of my favorite people on the planet.

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To Stage, or not to Stage, that is the question.....

03-23-09
Susan Mangigian, West Chester PA Realtor RE/MAX Preferred, ABR

Hamlet wonders aloud, "to stage, or not to stage, that is the question".

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
by showing a vacant house free of all furnishings,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them by hiring a good
stager and providing visual interest in a home?


The proof is in the pictures.  Staging done by Linda Sticklin, Berwyn, PA - an Active Rain member!

1557 Tattersall Way, before and after staging:

dining room unstageddining room staged


den/study not staged
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family room not stagedfamily room staged
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Mayors for Meals, a Meals on Wheels Program

03-18-09
Susan Mangigian, West Chester PA Realtor RE/MAX Preferred, ABR

This year Mayors For Meals was once again a major success, as over 1,000 mayors from the United States and Canada delivered meals with their local Meals On Wheels program to home bound seniors. We had many great people visiting the home bound of Chester County today, not all of them mayors, by the way. Some are city councilmen, township supervisors, commissioners, etc.

Right here in Goshen Towne, which is what the chapter that I oversee is called, we were proud to have Carmen Battavio, East Goshen Township Supervisor, and Kathi Cozzone, Chester County Commissioner.

Dave Rathburn, the driver for route 1 had the pleasure of taking Carmen Battavio around. Carmen is an old and dear friend to an agent in my office. He is also a township supervisor in my township and the owner of Battavio Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning, so I know Carmen well. Carmen is also a substitute driver for Meals on Wheels, wanting to give back to a program that was such a big help to his father in his later years. Carmen and I spent a Thursday going around showing him my route a few weeks ago.

Carmen Battavio, Dave Rathburn, Kathi Cozzone

My normal day to deliver Meals on Wheels is on Thursday, and I will be delivering tomorrow, but Jeani Purcell, the Director the Meals on Wheels of Chester County, asked me if I could deliver today with Kathi Cozzone. I have met Kathi on several occasions, as I am also on the board of the Chester County Women's Commission. She's a great lady and a real asset as one of our Commissioners and I am happy to know her. We had a delightful day of delivering meals and greeting the home bound, many of whom were impressed to see me in such stellar company. Click on Kathi's name above to find out more about her. She's a very accomplished lady.

Susan Mangigian and Kathi Cozzone

The weather was wonderful, the company spectacular and I was doing what I love best, helping others. After a successful day, I got home to let my beloved dog JJ out, looked down at my feet and realized that I HAD TWO DIFFERENT SHOES ON!! Well if Kathi Cozzone didn't know I was just a little dipsy before today, she certainly knows it now! A laugh filled ending to a lovely day.

Please click on Meals on Wheels, to find out more about the program and to find out how you can help end Senior hunger.

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Chester County Food Bank Fund

03-14-09
Susan Mangigian, West Chester PA Realtor RE/MAX Preferred, ABR

At a luncheon today with a few fellow board members of the Chester County Women's Commission I learned some shocking facts about hunger in Chester County. The flier that I was reading started with the following statement: "In Chester County, we hide our poverty all too well". I can attest to this fact. I never go out to dinner around here that there isn't a long wait. Everyone is talking into expensive looking cell phones, everyone is well dressed. Go to a happy hour in West Chester, and the bars are 3 deep to get a glass of wine. But there is a hidden group of people in the county that do not have enough money for food. While my children feel badly that I haven't had a sale in a while and they can't have the latest video game, there are children going hungry. This saddens me.

Here are some more facts about hunger in Chester County:

  • Nearly 1 in 10 of our neighbors skip meals due to lack of money to buy food.
  • 122,000 households in Southeastern PA must reduce the size of meals or skips meals because they cannot afford to purchase sufficient food.
  • Those 122,000 households include nearly 61,000 children.

Now I don't know about you, but I think that one hungry child is one child too many.

Here are some facts about the Chester County Food Bank:

  • They serves 33 food pantries and congregate feeding sites.
  • Nearly 700,000 pounds of state/federal funded food were delivered to these sites during the fiscal year 2007/2008.
  • Donations are also made in large quantities to these sites from individuals, community groups, Wegmans, Vanguard, Acme, QVC and other corporations.
  • The last half of 2008 saw a 37% increase in food requests at the 3 largest food pantries in the county (when compared to the last half of 2007).
  • 66,500 pounds of food were gleaned by volunteers in fiscal year 2007/2008.
  • A total of 39 farms in the county participate in the Gleaning Program. (To learn about the Gleaning Program and the local farmers and companies that support it go to Chester County Community Foundation
  • A total of 543 volunteers assist in picking from the fields for the Gleaning Program.

There are ways to help.


You can donate money.

You can donate food.

You can frequent establishments and stores that do help.

Most importantly, you can volunteer your time.

Hunger and joblessness can happen to anyone. We need to help.

Please visit Chester County Food Bank Fund to see how your time and talents can be put to use. www.chescocf.org

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