Business briefs Dec. 6

Posted by ChaddsFordLive on December 6, 2019

Happy holidays from the Board of the Chadds Ford Business Association. The CFBA donated 252 pounds of food and more than $500 in cash and gift cards to the Kennett Area Community Services. Leah Reynolds, executive director of KACS was unable to attend the CFBA meeting at the Gables on Dec. 5 but passed on her appreciation to everyone who made donations following the October fire that wiped out half of food at the Kennett Food Cupboard.

• BHCU — Boeing Helicopter Credit Union — will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its new location, 1100 Baltimore Pike in Concord Township, on Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 9 a.m.

• December Holiday Party of the Business and Professional Association of Western Delaware County is on Wednesday, Dec. 11 from 6- 9 p.m. at La Fava Restaurant & Bar. Advanced reservation required. Click here for Fun, Food & Live Music.

• Tom Gallagher was named the new executive director of the Kennett Area YMCA on Dec. 2. He returns to the Kennett Y after a five-year hiatus from the association as he worked at the Spring Valley YMCA, first as associate executive director in 2015, then as executive director beginning in 2018. Mr. Gallagher began his YMCA career in 2004 as the health and wellness director at the Kennett Y, where he remained until he transferred to the Brandywine YMCA in December 2012. Mr. Gallagher turned to the YMCA after graduating from Temple University with a bachelor’s degree in exercise physiology and working in corporate wellness.

• Iron Hill Brewery & restaurant is launching Brew with a Legend, a regional beer competition where homebrewers will vie for the opportunity to brew their signature recipe with craft beer pioneer and Iron Hill’s co-founder, Mark Edelson. Five winners will be chosen, one from each region in which Iron Hill operates, including Delaware, New Jersey, South Carolina, Central Pennsylvania and the Greater Philadelphia area. In keeping with Iron Hill’s tradition of community involvement, the winning beer will be available on tap with $1 per pint donated to the winner’s charity of choice as well as a dedicated Give 20, a fundraising evening where the selected non-profits can earn twenty percent of food sales. In addition to bragging rights, winning homebrewers will receive a $500 Iron Hill gift card and a sixtel of their prize-winning beer. Homebrewers must register online before Dec. 20, and can find a comprehensive parameter of rules and regulations, as well as the registration link here.