Pa. Trolley Museum sets record for visitors in 2015
Photo courtesy of Pennsylvania Trolley Museum The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum had the best year in its history in 2015, the museum reportedly recently.
Heidi Hare
Toni Seaberry-Murphy
Editor’s Note: This story has been modified from a previous version to correct information that the “Daniel Tiger’s Weekend” event is sold out, not the “Bunny Trolley” event.
Though its cars move cautiously, the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum was on a fast track in 2015. It drew a record 32,647 visitors, a 4.5 percent leap from 31,246 a year earlier.
The museum in Chartiers Township also established new standards in the number of park-and-ride passengers transported to the Washington County Fair and on the Santa Trolley.
Now the museum is planning for its season opening March 18, with an event, “Bunny Trolley.” It will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 18-20 and March 25-26. A new event, “Daniel Tiger’s Weekend,” is planned for April 23-24, that already has been sold out. It will include photos with the animated star of “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood” on PBS TV.
And following its 40-mile relocation last June, Wexford Trolley Station will open at the museum this summer. It is a vintage 1908 trolley station that operated as “Wexford Post Office Deli” for years.
In a news release, the Trolley Museum also said it plans to start a capital campaign this year to pay for an upcoming expansion of facilities.
For more information on events, visit patrolley.org.
In Chartiers Township, UPS could stand for Unparalleled Safety.
For the second year in a row, an employee at the North Main Street terminal has been inducted into United Parcel Service’s Circle of Honor.
Donald Brown, of McMurray, was among 70 from Pennsylvania, 13 from the southwest corner of the state and 1,613 worldwide to receive this corporate honor, which commemorates 25-plus years of safe driving.
Chip Orbin, of Washington, was selected last year from the Chartiers center. Co-workers Mike Rogers and John Fidazzo were inducted previously.
The honor is a testament to more than their safe driving skills. A number of UPS drivers log more than 100 miles, and pick up and deliver numerous packages, each workday, while, of course, being on the lookout for careless drivers.
Toni Seaberry-Murphy of Peters Township has enhanced what was already a varied résumé. She is the new vice president of Comcast Cable’s Project Management Office for the Keystone Region.
Seaberry-Murphy oversees development, implementation and administration of strategic planning in a large region: Western, Central and Northeastern Pennsylvania; eastern Ohio; northern West Virginia; and the Maryland panhandle.
A Princeton University graduate, Seaberry-Murphy has a background in private equity and investment banking.
She joined Comcast in 2008 as manager of financial and strategic planning, where she was involved in mergers and acquisitions and developing long-range planning.
She later worked in business support and analytics and business development in the Chicago and California regions.
She and her husband have three children.
Heidi Hare continues to move up at Olive Garden.
She is the fairly new general manager of the restaurant chain’s Old Mill location in South Strabane Township. She was promoted to that position Feb. 1, after two years there.
A native of Garrett County, Md., Hare is in charge of a team of 80-plus. This is the fifth Olive Garden where she has had a management position, following stints at Morgantown, W.Va.; Evansville, Ind.; Uniontown; and Wheeling, W.Va.
Hare started working for the chain in 2008, as a server.