If you’re a regular reader of Newtown Edgmont Friends & Neighbors in print or online at www.TheNEMag.com, you’re experienced with our social
media that brings you together with friends and neighbors, some known, and others introduced to by your hometown magazine in service to our mission and motto, to be Bringing People Together.
Our mission in service to the people of Newtown, Edgmont and parts of Willistown townships, succeeds because of the people in our community. Those people include our local writers and residents who agree to allow us to tell their story, and our staff that designs, edits and proofreads each issue. Even our printer and your local mail carrier contribute toward our effort to be Bringing People Together with each new issue.
As a regular reader you also know I never fail to give the highest credit for the success of our Bringing People Together mission to our Sponsors – the local businesses you see advertising on the pages of your hometown magazine. Their advertising tells us much more than who we buy from locally. Just by being an advertising Sponsor of our hometown magazine, these local business owners are telling us they recognize the importance of our Bringing People Together mission for Newtown, Edgmont and Willistown residents, who they value and depend on for the success of their business.
Friends and neighbors consider this: your time spent reading our publication makes you a member of our publication team too, fulfilling our Bringing People Together mission, just as you might choose to contribute your time, talent and/or treasure to a local organization because you value the mission of that organization.
With this issue of Newtown Edgmont Friends & Neighbors, we inaugurate our first recognition of some Newtown Edgmont Friends & Neighbors of The Year – the Edgmont Township Fire Company. And I must admit, I am truly humbled by any comparison of our publication’s mission of Bringing People Together, to the keeping people together mission of the Edgmont Township Fire Company. They fulfill their mission of service to everyone in our community through volunteerism, without the needed level of public funding to operate, under an honorable commitment to protect people and property against fire and other life-threatening emergencies, at times risking their own health or life as firefighters.
Join me in congratulating our “2023 Newtown Edgmont Friends & Neighbors of The Year” by extending your gratitude to the members of the Edgmont Township Fire Company for their service to us, while being mindful that this local fire company is facing inflationary operational costs while also experiencing reduced annual contributions from local residents. And just as concerning, a lower number of new volunteers joining than the number of volunteers needed. New volunteers are urgently needed. From young adults to seniors, men and women, offer your time to this most dedicated service organization, even for roles that may never require you to respond onsite to a local fire or rescue scene. For a tour of the Edgmont Township Fire Company firehouse, and the opportunity to become acquainted with a few fire company members who can share their personal experience of friendships and service to the community, contact fire company President, Chip Miller, at 610-459-5688 or email Chip at: Info@EdgmontFire.org.