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PBPA President Marie Thibault

Welcome! To a New Paoli Business & Professional Association.

We believe that Paoli is the greatest place to live, work and play. Nothing “new” about that. But our goals for Paoli are. We want to make Paoli even better, more community centered, more walkable, more beautiful, more pedestrian friendly, more reasons to linger and enjoy.

We need you to believe and help. Join us now – because the “power of businesses” working together will make it happen.

- Marie Thibault, President


Catch the Blues - Oct. 3rd in Paoli, 12 noon til 6:00pm, Rain or Shine!

Free Main Stage Headliners plus bands playing all through the business community.

Street Fair, food, dancing, kids stuff and lots of music. Paoli will be hummin', singin' and swaying to the Blues. More details to come so check back often!

Click image for printable PDF Bluesfest poster.

Check out all the music locations > Click here for a map of Blues
Venues, parking and shuttle info.
   

PBPA 2009 Program Schedule
Mark your calendar!

Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 12:00 noon
Tweets, Links, Faces & Spaces: Social Networking 101

If you have ever wanted to know more about social networking but didnt know what to ask, come for lunch and Social Networking 101.

Our speaker will be Mary Motz, of ProVirtual Solutions. Mary will present an overview of the "whys & hows" of social media. After the session, you will have a better awareness of the role that social networks can play in your business marketing and customer support.

COST: $10.00 PBPA Members
$15.00 Non-Members

WHERE: The Paoli Design Center, 1604 E Lancaster Av
Paoli, PA 19301

RSVP: Betty Colmery 610-647-2828


4th Annual Breakfast for Champions:
May 1, 2009 - Congratulations to This Year’s Scholarship Winners

Conestoga High School:

  • Caitlin Donahue
  • Shriya Patel
  • Emily Sosangelis

Great Valley High School:

  • Kyle Blackwell
  • Alec J. Koffer
  • Jacob H. Koffer
  • William Nelson Zandi

Thank you to all the students that submitted essays as well as Conestoga and Great Valley School for their participation and inspiration!

Thank you to our Speaker, Sponsors & Hosts!

  • Judy Difilippo, Speaker; Tredyffrin Township Supervisor and Chair of Chester County Planning Commission
  • Penn Liberty Bank
  • Paoli Hospital
  • Upper Main Line YMCA
  • Paoli Village Shoppes
  • Toscani & Lindros, LLP
  • Preston & Shea, LLP
  • McQuiston Insurance

The Breakfast for Champions is an event held to recognize and present scholarships to high school seniors who are making a difference in their community through volunteer efforts and/or school and civic involvement. Scholarships are provided from the Front Porch Trust which was created in 2005 by the Paoli 250 Anniversary Committee and the Paoli Business & Professional Association.


Welcome New Members!
We are pleased to introduce the following new Businesses as new members of the Paoli Business & Professional Association. Please call or email them and say Hi as well as use their services or products.

Glad you joined and we’ll work to get you acquainted with our membership and more business in 2010! - Thanks, Marie

Robert J. Kratz & Company
Robert J. Kratz
145 W. Lancaster Avenue Paoli, PA 19301
(610) 296-2500
rkratz@robertjkratz.com
Accounting Firm
Ruggiero Law Offices, LLC
James J. Ruggiero, Jr.
16 Industrial Blvd, Suite 211 Paoli, PA 19301
610-889-0288
jim@paolilaw.com
Attorney
Paoli Chiropractic Group
Joel A. Stutzman, DC
15 Industrial Blvd., Ste. 202 Paoli, PA 19301
610-644-3166
jstutzman@paolichiro.com
Chiropractors
Tyler Griffin Co.
J.T. Griffin, Jr.
46 Darby Road Paoli, PA 19301
610-647-1550
tgc46@mac.com
Industrial Equipment

Congratulations!
Welcome to Joanne Martin, our newly appointed Secretary.

A special thanks goes out from all the Paoli Business members to Betty Colmery for all her involvement in the PBPA. Betty has stepped down from the Secretary position and we will miss her. Betty, could not have done it without you!


We Need YOU ... Blues Fest Planning
Posted 5/5/09
IWe need sponsors, music lovers, musicians and people who want to help make this a fantastic event next Oct. 3.

Blues Fest planning dates are: May 18, June 10, June 22, July 28, Aug. 11, Sept. 9, 16, 21, and 30. All meetings start at 5:30pm at the United Methodist Church of Paoli, the corner of Devon and South Valley Roads.
Please let me know if you'll be attending and feel free to call me with any questions - 610-296-7443.

- Marie Thibault, President, Paoli Business & Professional Assoc.
MORE TO COME ABOUT THE BLUES FEST...

Please Note: The July Blues Fest planning meeting has been changed to Wed. July 28.


Main Line Today Article: Parallel Tracks
Posted 1/14/2009
Marie Thibault, Photographed for Main Line TodayIn the beginning, there was a village. One boisterous St. Patrick’s Day, the burghers at Joshua Evans’ 18th-century tavern launched a series of toasts to Corsican leader Pasquale Paoli, who’d fashioned independence and democracy for his island republic. [ ... ]

Continue article online at Main Line Today...


PBPA 2008 Awards
Posted 1/14/2009
Paoli Business & Professional Association Awards Recipients:

  • 2009 Business of the Year: Paoli Village Shoppes
  • 2009 Citizen of the Year: Rep. Carole Rubley
  • Summit Award for Outstanding Community Service: Andy Wilson

Held November 20, 2008 at the People's Light & Theater Company Farm House. Click the collage below to view photos from the event.

 


Plans mulled for train station site
By DAN KRISTIE , Daily Local News - 09/16/2008

TREDYFFRIN - Community leaders are working on a proposal to help sell the Paoli Transit Center project to neighbors who may be wary of it.
The plan is to make the current Paoli Train Station, which will be demolished after the transit center is built, into a "village green."

"Downtown Paoli has almost zero green space," said Ed Auble, a Paoli Business Association member who helped craft the proposal. "If there were a village green, and it were well done, it would be something we could all point to as a Paoli landmark."

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Paoli train station project gets big boost
By DAN KRISTIE, Staff Writer, Daily Local News - 09/03/2008

TREDYFFRIN — The Paoli train station project received a $500,000 bipartisan boost from Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach and Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak. The pair jointly announced the federal earmark for Amtrak to build a new transit center at the Paoli Rail Yard.

The congressmen said the new transit center will have implications beyond regional transit.

"We recognize, Joe Sestak and I, that this is such an important project for the continued redevelopment of this area," said Gerlach, R-6th, of West Pikeland. "It will improve the quality of life and the quality of transit here."

Sestak, D-7th, of Edgmont, has opposed the change in FAA flight patterns that would take many of the Philadelphia International Airport's flights over residential areas in his district. He said a better Paoli Transit Center could help decrease reliance on air travel.

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NEW PBPA Officers:
Paoli Business & Professional Association Board Members:

  • President: Marie Thibault
  • Past President: Ed Auble
  • Vice Presidents: George Steinmetz, Judy Huey,
    George Vosburgh
  • Secretary: Betty Colmery
  • Treasurer: Dan Green
  • Directors: Jim Newhard, Linda Goldstein, David Rau, Dave Rowland, Debbie Cornell Naughton, Brad Zerr, Bonnie Haughey, David Scott
  • Director Emeritus: Ed Shanaughy, Andy Wilson, Sam Pilotti,
    Dick Streeter

2008 Breakfast for Champions Scholarship Award Winners: Click here to read their winning essays....

 


WELCOME NEW MEMBERS! The Paoli Business And Professional Association is growing! We look forward to building a better community together.

The Front Porch Trust was created as a long-term legacy of the Paoli 250 celebration. There have been 18 scholarships awarded to date. It is PBPA's goal to continue this yearly. Click here for more details (PDF)

Click here to read the winning essays and view the photo gallery.


Packages to Iraq – Let’s Keep Them Coming
And Going!
The PBPA and Paoli Presbyterian Church have received several generous gifts from “postage angels” to not only enable the delivery of the existing 75 care boxes to soldiers in Iraq, but we can even continue to collect more boxes to mail.
Read more..


“Welcome to Paoli” POLE BANNERS! Get a banner, or two, for your business this fall. When the “Tredyffrin Township 300” banners are removed, there will be an opportunity for more “Welcome to Paoli” Banners to take their place.
Read more..


Paoli Master Plan – Transportation Center
In 2001, the Paoli Community Master Plan lays out a vision for long range development of the Paoli Community.
Read more…



Sept 23: Biz Blues & Networking Event, The Center on Central in Paoli.
Details



Oct 3: Paoili Blues Festival
Details



PBPA is now offering banner and text advertising on this website for our members.
Proceeds support the PBPA. For rates and formatting information, please click here or contact Marie Thibault.

 

 

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