Ted Pace welcomed the Chadds Ford Business Association for its annual holiday celebration. The organization is more than 20 years old, and many of the members have known each other even longer than that.
Originally founded as a group of businesses who wanted to unite their voices to PennDOT regarding the reconstruction of Route 1 through Chadds Ford. The result may not have been perfect, but the placement and quality of the barriers was improved from the original plan as a result of the fledgling group’s input.
The organization is so old, it claimed the domain Chaddsford.org before other official entities realized they might want it. Chaddsford.org was chosen because cfba.org was already taken by the Connecticut Farm Bureau Association.
Old-time music played by the Ron Feldman Band gave the party a homecoming feeling.
Pace is the General Manager of Brandywine Catering, which hosted the event Thursday, Dec. 4. His facility provides banquet rooms in addition to off-site catering.
Anne Pounds from Welcome Neighbor and Marty Milligan from Brandywine Convention and Visitors Bureau compare notes on hospitality. Welcome Neighbor visits every new resident with a welcome basket of gifts from local businesses. Brandywine CVB helps visitors feel at home with the many tourist opportunities in the Brandywine Valley.
Representing two mainstay institutions of downtown Chadds Ford are Hillary Holland from the Brandywine River Museum of Art and Jim Leader from Leader Sunoco.
The organization thanked Mary Marines for taking photos and providing the music. Marines, president of Pennock Insurance, is on the board of directors of the CFBA, currently serving as secretary.
The next meeting of the Chadds Ford Business Association will be at Brandywine Prime on Jan. 8 at noon. Jim Leader will be bringing items from the archives. It is not a meeting to miss. See http://www.chaddsford.org for more information.
