Chester County Briefs: Old-fashioned Pet Portraits, Kilby Cream Begins Milk Delivery, Kennett High FBLA Going to State, and SCILEX Pharmaceuticals Adds Leaders

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A new business in Chester County is trading in old-timey pet photographs.

Chester County Briefs are concise reports on what’s going on with Chester County businesses, nonprofits, people, schools, and more.

Turn Back Time for your Pet with the Help of a Chester County Artist

We all love our pets and now a new local website PotraitofMyPet.com gives the opportunity to commission a portrait of any pet, be it a dog, cat, horse or bird by using a unique style of photography that will capture their image and give it an 18th century classical style.

Andrew Pinkham uses his unique style to blend both photography and illustration by using modern day techniques to create portraits that are printed on archival canvas. The result creates an image of your pet that previously could only be enjoyed in historic paintings.

“Six years ago, I set out to create a body of work that draws on my childhood influences” says Pinkham. “After visiting houses that had grand and opulent paintings portraying their ancestors and creature companions, painters such as George Stubbs, James Audubon impacted my work in a big way.”

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Cecil Whig, founder of Kilby Cream–via Ed Okonowicz.

The Milkman is Staging a Comeback Through Kilby Cream

The milkman, a familiar and welcome morning doorstep delivery person for all things dairy and more, used to be to be familiar sight in many American cities before the growth of suburban supermarkets and car ownership made them all but obsolete.

However, Kilby Cream is now leading a revival by offering a home delivery service to customers in the Chadds Ford area in addition to its already established ice cream and milk processing operations.

The company’s four trucks now operate weekly runs delivering goods as diverse as eggs, bacon, Angus meats, half chickens, various types of sausage, bread, coffee and maple syrup direct to customer’s doors when they order from its website kilbycream.com

“That’s what people want nowadays,” says Stacey Stearrett, Kilby Cream’s Office Manager. “They want local and fresh. And that’s what we deliver right to their door. It’s all from local small farms.”

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The Modernaire Hotel on a site one Chester County developer wants to turn into a retail center.–via Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record. 

Springettsbury Township Denies Proposed Shopping Center

Last Thursday, the Springettsbury Township supervisors voted 4-1 to deny the rezoning of 12.5 acres on the northeast corner of East Market Street and Mount Zion Road from neighborhood commercial to highway commercial with a town center concept.

This vote has effectively blocked the development by Malvern based Spring Lane, for a new shopping center that would have included six retail buildings including a Lidl grocery store.  The main issue, which has sparked significant opposition from local residents, is that the development would require demolishing the old Modernaire Motel and other historic buildings in the Bloomingdale area.

“It could bring jobs in, but it also would bring traffic, too,” said Supervisor Kathleen Phan. “Maybe the township needs to be more proactive and make sure officials have it zoned in the interest of the residents and municipality.”

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Kennett High Schools Future Business Leaders of America qualified for state championship competition.

Kennett High School Cleans Up at the Regional Future Business Leader of America Competition

On December 3rd, the Future Business Leaders of America held its regional competition at the Great Valley High School where Kennett High School dominated the event winning a record eleven first place trophies.

The proud members of the Kennett High School FBLA team won first place in areas such as Management Information Systems, Hospitality Management, and Securities and Investments with thirty of the club’s fifty-five competitors qualifying for the State Championship in Hershey next April.  

FBLA Club Co-Advisors Joe O’Sullivan and Bill Fritsch were over the moon with the result and attributed the team’s performance to the dynamic co-operation between the students and their educators.

“Their results speak for themselves,” said O’Sullivan. “All of the teachers who have worked with these students have played a huge role in their academic and social development.”

SCILEX Pharmaceuticals Boosts its Executive Team

Malvern based SCILEX Pharmaceuticals, which develops new products for the treatment of pain, has appointed several new executives as it works to build its team to support the commercialization of the recently FDA approved treatment, ZTildo.

The new hires, which include Dean Ferrigno, as Vice President of Finance, and Kip Vought, as Vice President of Development, will help promote ZTildo to help secure its position as the next generation lidocaine patch for the treatment of postherpetic neuralgia.

SCILEX is not done hiring yet, as it expects that these latest appointments will be followed with further senior hires in sales and marketing to help expand its pain product pipeline.

“Our ability to secure this caliber of industry expertise places us in an excellent position as we determine the commercialization potential of several pain treatment products beyond our initial product, ZTlido,” said Anthony Mack, Chief Executive Officer of SCILEX.

To learn more about SCILEX, watch the company tour video below.

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