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Nearly a full year after it began production, a Chinese plastics manufacturer is looking to capitalize on its strong growth.

Rettew Charitable Foundation, a mission of the engineering firm Rettew – which has Lehigh Valley and Berks County offices – awarded $5,000 in grant funding to the Little Lehigh Chapter of Trout Unlimited, which it will use for a restoration project. The effort will result in 350 native trees and shrubs planted along a segment of the Little Lehigh Creek. Boy Scout Troop 131 of Wescosville will help with the planting. Luke Portieles, a geologist in Rettew’s Lehigh Valley office,...

St. Luke’s Miners Hospital in Coaldale awarded 14 students with $1,000 scholarships at a May 17 ceremony in the hospital lobby. The awards are presented annually to graduating seniors from seven area high schools who will be pursuing health care degrees from an accredited four-year college or university. Pictured are St. Luke’s board members with students.

Thomas Williams Jr., real estate director of Cityline Construction in Allentown, celebrated his 30th birthday by hosting ‘Party for a Cure,’ a benefit for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, at The Hamilton Kitchen & Bar in Allentown on May 13. Nearly 100 guests attended the event, sponsored by several businesses and personal donors. It raised nearly $4,000 for the society. Pictured are Tom and Tina Williams.

RCN Lehigh Valley, a cable television provider, contributed more than 200 items to the Children’s Home of Easton in its third year of a company-wide sports drive. Items included basketballs, footballs, Wiffle bats, balls and hula hoops, as well as a regulation-sized soccer goal. Pictured from left: Bryan Jung of RCN and Children’s Home of Easton employees Mike Miskevish, Ramon Rivera and Andrew Shiroff.

The Whitehall Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its new office May 19. WACC is now in Suite B10 of the Fullerton Building at 881 Third St., Whitehall. Pictured from left to right: Dianne Fran; Mario Stuart, board member; Mary Jo Roma, board member; Faye Westover; Christine Muller, assistant at the chamber; Vince O’Domski, district director, U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent’s office; Donna Braden; Ann Marie Slavick, Whitehall Chamber executive; Eric Eberhardt, vice...

With last year's budget impasse still fresh in everyone's minds, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said this year's upcoming budget talks are expected to be more constructive.