If you’re a regular reader of Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors in print or online at www.NewtownSquareMag.com, you’re experienced with our
social media that brings you together with friends and neighbors, some known, and others introduced by your hometown magazine in service to our mission and motto: Bringing People Together.
Our mission in service to our Newtown Square community 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 Newtown Square’s hometown magazine, these local business owners are telling us they recognize the importance of our Bringing People Together mission for Newtown Square 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 Square Friends & Neighbors, we recognize our 2023 Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors of The Year – the Newtown Square Fire Company. And I must admit, I am truly humbled by any comparison to our publication’s mission to be Bringing People Together, to the keeping people together mission of the Newtown Square Fire Company. They fulfill their mission of service to everyone in our community through volunteerism, without the promise of public funding to operate, under honorable commitment to protect people and property against fire and other life-threatening emergencies, at times risking their own health or lives as firefighters.
Join me in congratulating our “2023 Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors of The Year” by extending your gratitude to our local fire company members for their service to us as residents of Newtown Township, while being mindful that our Newtown Square Fire Company is facing inflationary operational expenses while also experiencing reduced annual contributions from local residents. And just as concerning, a lower number of new volunteers joining than older volunteers must retire. New volunteers are urgently needed. From young adults to seniors, men and women offer your service to our most important hometown service organization, even for roles that may never require you to respond onsite at a local fire or rescue scene. For a tour of the new Newtown Square Fire Company’s firehouse on the Ellis Preserve, and opportunity to become acquainted with a few fire company members who can share their personal experience of service to our hometown, contact fire company Public Information Officer, Bill Baker, at 610-356-9590 or email Bill at: BBaker@NSFC.org.