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Hatfield Quality Meats

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Local Food Pantries to Benefit from Nutrition Collaboration

Clemens Food Group, Philabundance and Nutrition Coalition are providing six pantries with refrigerated and frozen foods.

Six local food pantries are about to be filled up with food donated by a partnership of three Delaware Valley organizations. Last Friday, Hatfield Quality Meats and CFC Logistics in Quakertown, both subsidiaries of Clemens Food Group, Philabundance and the Nutrition Coalition announced a collaboration to provide food pantries with frozen and refrigerated foods. The effort is to fight hunger in the Greater North Penn and Indian Valley communities. Most of the donated foods will be in the form of protein products that are vital to a healthy diet, according to Kristyn DiDominick, development associate at Manna on Main Street in Lansdale. The six local Nutrition Coalition pantries benefitting from the partnership are: Hatfield Quality Meats …

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Five Things to Know Today

A Memorial Day Remembrance takes place today and a history on Hatfield Meats takes place tonight

1. Lansdale Catholic Boys’ Varsity baseball hits the field against Bishop McDevitt today at 4 p.m. at Lansdale Catholic High School. 2. Love Hatfield hot dogs? Remember The Smiling Porker sign that used to sit at Funks and Forty Foot roads? Nothing says “hometown” like Hatfield Quality Meats. Hatfield Museum and History Society presents “History of Hatfield Quality Meats” tonight at 7:30 at the Hatfield Fire Co., 75 Market St., Hatfield. The event is free. 3. A Memorial Day Remembrance ceremony will be held today at 11 a.m. at St. Mary Manor, 701 Lansdale Ave. The masters of ceremonies will be Craig Wilhelm, commander of the American Legion Post 255. Willard Bickel, World War II Battle of the Bulge veteran, will be the speaker. 4. Play …

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Illuminating the Past

Residents took a trip back in time with a historic look at Hatfield's past Tuesday night

Residents took time out Tuesday evening to reminisce about what life was like living in Hatfield in years gone by.  Larry Stevens, president of the Hatfield Museum and History Society, conducted the organization's meeting, which featured a presentation entitled, “This and That—An Eclectic Look at Hatfield History, Part 2”.  Stevens helped the audience travel back in time through a series of projected old photographs and thoroughly researched narration on each subject.  In some cases, previously unidentified buildings or people were recognized and confirmed by attendees.  The Township of Hatfield is thought to have acquired its name in 1742, from either a Welsh village in Hertfordshire or after John Hatfield, who was an early Welsh settler…

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