More than 500 Chester residents receive COVID-19 vaccines at Chester City Hall
CHESTER » The city of Chester and the Chester Health Board, in partnership with Crozer Health, has announced that more than 500 Chester residents received their second dosage of the Pfizer vaccine, thanks to a COVID-19 vaccination distribution event hosted at Chester City Hall.
People who were vaccinated received their first dosage on Feb. 18 or 19 at City Hall. The second event, which culminated on March 11 and 12, came together after several conversations between city officials and Crozer Health administration. A total of 507 people were vaccinated. More than two dozen volunteers chipped in with support during the fourday event. Nursing students from Widener University, EMTs, and Registered Nurses assisted in administering the vaccines. Members of Delta Sigma Theta, Chester-alumni chapter, also volunteered by placing more than 400 appointment reminder phone calls to those who were vaccinated back in February. All persons who were vaccinated during this event were determined to be eligible, according to the state of Pennsylvania’s Phase 1A criteria. The vaccination list was curated by Crozer Health administration, in conjunction with Rosetta Carter, who received hundreds of phone calls from senior citizens from Chester.
Residents are reminded that vaccination eligibility requirements are constantly changing. People should monitor those changes and take advantage of local vaccination opportunities when they are available.
OLPH Parish offers two-part Lenten event
Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Morton, will present a Lenten event during Holy Week, 7 p.m., Sunday, March 28, and Monday, March 29, streamed via Zoom. The virtual event is free and able to be enjoyed from the comfort of home.
The two spiritually powerful nights will feature Harvard professor Roy Schoeman, a noted author and speaker.
On March 29, Schoeman will present “A Personal Journey from Judaism to Atheism to Catholicism: The Remarkable Story of Roy Schoeman.” The speaker grew up Jewish, the son of German Jewish Holocaust refugees, and received a solid Jewish formation from three of the most notable rabbis in America at the time. After losing his faith in God at university (MIT), he went on to Harvard Business School where, shortly after receiving his degree, he joined the faculty at the age of 29. Without God, life seemed entirely meaningless, despite his worldly success, he says. Then, entirely unexpectedly, God revealed himself to Schoeman and led to his conversion, he says.
On March 29, the topic will be “Why the Last Supper and the Crucifixion took place on Passover: The Transformation of Judaism into the Catholic Church.” Why did the very first Catholic
Mass – the Last Supper – have to also be a Jewish Passover Seder? Why did Jesus have to be crucified on the eve of Passover? In this presentation, Schoeman, a frequent guest on EWTN and author of “Salvation is from the Jews” and “Honey from the Rock,” will explain why he believes God’s perfect plan for salvation depended on both Judaism and the Catholic Church, resulting in their convergence on Good Friday.
Schoeman has taught theology at Ave Maria University and Holy Apostles College and Seminary, hosts a weekly Catholic radio show on Radio Maria, appears frequently on Catholic television and radio, and gives talks, missions, and retreats throughout the world.
To register and get the Zoom link for these two live
presentations, visit www. olphmorton.org.
Ten Radnor students advance to finalist round of National Merit Scholarship Program
All ten Radnor High School seniors that were previously named semifinalists have advanced to finalist standing in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program. Maya Casillas, Colin Cheshire, Jesse Conen, Shanti Hug, Brendan Hung, Richa Kuklani, Soo Min Lee, Dingmohen Li, Jane O’Grady, and Joshua Yoo join approximately 15,000 high school seniors from across the United States and are eligible for some 7,500 scholarships worth more than $31 million.
The National Merit
Scholarship Corporation will announce the Merit Scholar designees in four installments in April, May, June and July.
About 1.5 million juniors in more than 21,000 high schools entered the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2019 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. To become a finalist, the semifinalist and his or her high school had to submit a detailed scholarship application, in which they provided information about the semifinalist’s academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards received. A semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn SAT® scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.
TruMark Financial® Credit Union donates $30K to Philabundance
Due to the pandemic, millions of Americans are out of work and unable to provide adequate nourishment for themselves and for their families. To help combat food insecurity, TruMark Financial® Credit Union donated $30,000 to Philabundance.
In addition to the Philabundance donation, the credit union has scheduled smaller monthly initiatives throughout the year. In February, the credit union delivered more than 2,000 pairs of socks to shelters in the five-county area. For the millions of people living homeless, a clean pair of warm socks is a luxury.
The following shelters each received a supply of socks: Broad Street Ministry, Philadelphia; Connect/ Connect by Night, Upper Darby; Family Service Association of Bucks County; Orion Communities, Phoenixville; and Your Way Home, Norristown.
A driving force behind the initiative is fulfilling one of the seven cooperative principles, Concern for Community. Other ways TruMark Financial gives back to the community is through its financial literacy program in which employees conduct workshops on topics such as saving, budgeting, credit, and investing at local schools and community organizations and its TruCommunity program where employees receive eight hours of paid time off to allow them to volunteer at a non-profit of their choice. To learn more about TruMark Financial, visit www.trumarkonline.org/.