Exton Region Chamber of Commerce is hosting a luncheon on September 20th to connect high school students from the West Chester and Downingtown area with local businesses in a Business and Education Partnership. The event starts at 11:30 a.m. at the Universal Technical Institute in Exton. Tickets are $25 for members and $40 for non-members from www.ercc.net.

Following its approval for the National Register of Historic Places in May, Chester County’s Town Tours and Village Walks hosted guided tours of the Carver Court development last week. Carver Court, named after African-American scientist and inventor George Washington Carver, was developed as a public housing project in 1944 for African-American veterans of World War II and their families.

Janis A. Walker, Executive Director with the Oxford Area Chamber of Commerce, passed away on August 9th. Formerly the Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Lincoln University, she is survived by her husband of 25 years and her daughter, three step-children and three grandchildren. The Memorial Service is at 11 a.m. on Saturday, August 20th, at the Community of Love Lutheran Church in Oxford.

For the last 10 years, Waste Oil Recyclers has been taking the used vegetable oil from fryers in restaurants, hospitals and universities and sending it to refineries turn into biodiesel. The company has now expanded its operation in a big way, after the completion of a nearby railroad spur that allows it to send the waste oil via rail tankers rather than by truck, saving hundreds of trips a year.