Chocolate Avenue Real Estate - From the Sweet Street

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Real Estate Broker/Owner - Fred Pickard Innovations Realty Inc
Hershey area events, real estate, political comments and whatever strikes me.
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When you sign on to become a Realtor® you agree to abide by the rules of NAR, your state association and your local board. One of the most often misuses of membership occurs when using the word Realtor® in advertising, website names and e-mail addresses.The following is directly from the Realtor....
04/30/2007
I think everyone just takes municipal lighting of our streets for granted.In an effort to make Hershey different and bring attention to the main business here in Chocolatetown, the street lights locally take on a whole new look:     Many years ago the street lights were changed to reflectthe look...
04/30/2007
After a week or so the Hershey Company announced a new round of plant closing and job cuts. Chairman and CEO Richard Lenny (that's Lenny, not Squiggy) announced:Hershey is closing the factory in nearby Reading Pennsylvania which will mean about 250 jobs will be eliminated.Then this week, they ann...
04/26/2007
You might be from Central Pennsylvania if: Your favorite time of year is Funnel Cake SeasonYou consider Pittsburgh to be somewhere out westYou go on vacation "Down the Shore"You can dodge potholes at 55 mphYou know the lyrics to the Chicken Dance songThe first day of deer season is a school holid...
04/15/2007
Well the top management of Hershey Company has spoken, it just took them 2 weeks to speak all of the words.The week of March 25 they announced at the two Hershey plants that they anticipated that they would eliminate about 650 jobs that are union jobs. On Friday, they announced an addition 250 to...
04/08/2007
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The United States Census Bureau has so many statistics available you could spend half your life just looking at numbers, but one that was brought to my attention the other day really surprised me. It is the bureau's list of states ranked by median age from oldest to youngest. I had always imagine...
04/08/2007
One of our agents sent me this article early this morning about a incident involving a Craigs List posting.Evidently, someone placed a fake ad inviting anyone to take anything from a house in Tacoma, Washington.The end result is that the house was stripped over everything, including fixtures, woo...
04/06/2007
Easter Weekend can be special for people of all ages here in Hershey.This is the weekend that Hershey Park opens for "Springtime in the Park"The park is open Friday and Saturday from 10AM to 9PM and Easter Sunday from 10AM to 6PMAdmission is a real bargain:          Ages 9 to 54 - $19.95         ...
04/05/2007
                             Our 28th Anniversary is TomorrowNo, not a Wedding Anniversary, the 28th Anniversary of the Nuclear "Accident" at Three Mile Island.Many of the Active Rain contributors were not even born in 1979 when this "event" occurred and a lot more were still in school way back t...
03/27/2007
Well, they came up with some numbers the last couple of days. The plan is that there will be about 650 manufacturing job cuts spread between the 3 manufacturing plants here in town. Since two of the plants are unionized, there will be voting on Thursday & Friday by the union membership about acce...
03/27/2007
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