It’s Your Business
Uniontown Helfer honored by PLCB
Janice Helfer of 7 1/2 Johnson St., Uniontown, was named Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) employee of the month in October. The statewide honor comes from being recognized by peers for outstanding work.
Helfer has been with the PLCB since November 1997 as an intermittent liquor store clerk. Prior to her appointment in that role, Helfer worked as a seasonal employee during summer and winter holiday seasons from 1988 to 1997. She is currently employed at the Wine and Spirits Shoppe 2601 in Uniontown.
District 3-5 manager Ronald Kalnicky nominated Helfer for the statewide award. Kalnicky said Helfer is his “go-to’ person. “When I need someone to assist me in staffing a short-handed site or I need someone in a temporary assignment position, I know I can count on Janice to be there. Her response is always the same. She willingly gives up her days off to help.’ Helfer was also recognized for consistently exceeding standard work requirements, neatness, professionalism, enthusiasm, dedication, her pleasant smile and demeanor.
Eighty Four
Schultz named to board
Michael Schultz Sr., owner of Schultz Construction, Eighty Four, has been elected regional vice president of the Pennsylvania Builders Association (PBA) based in Lemoyne.
Schultz will serve on the 200-member board of directors, where he will be responsible for overseeing the association’s legislative efforts on the state level.
Schultz will represent the southwest region of Pennsylvania including Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Washington and Westmoreland counties. He is a member of the Washington County Builders Association and a past-president of the PBA.
The PBA is the statewide association representing the construction industry. The PBA has 41 local association affiliates throughout the state.
Connellsville
Brooks Funeral Home in listing
Brooks Funeral Home Inc. in Connellsville has been named one of the country’s top funeral service e-business firms according to a new listing published by Aurora Casket Co. Brooks Funeral Home Inc. is listed in the Funeral Service e-Business 200, which recognizes companies in the funeral industry that use Internet technology to improve customer service and business operations.
“Funeral homes in the Funeral Service e-Business 200 are continually finding new ways to improve their traditional, personal services through technology,” says Chris Barrott, Aurora’s executive vice president of operations. “More and more people are embracing the concept of on line business transactions – including funeral planning. These new tools do not take away from the personal approach that is the foundation of the funeral service industry. Instead, they make it possible for funeral homes to meet the needs of more families more completely and more efficiently.”
Brooks Funeral Home Inc. launched its e-Business initiative in 2000. Today the firm offers its own Web site at www.brooksfuneralhomes.com and conducts many aspects of its business online: working with families, offering products and services, conducting business transactions and researching products and services. “Our e-business capabilities have enabled us to prove more and better services and merchandise, to the families that we serve at no extra cost to them,” says Mark C. Brooks, funeral director at Brooks Funeral Home Inc.
With three locations in Connellsville, Mount Pleasant, and Melcroft, Brooks Funeral Home Inc. is a family-owned funeral home that has been serving the families of the Fay-West area since 1860.