Volume 22, Issue 1

Learn more about the Ombudsman Program in Schuylkill County.

If you’re looking for cool ways to donate your gently used items, check out this list of things you can and should donate, and some unique ideas of where to give them.

Berks Community Health Center (BCHC) will honor Donald F. Smith Jr., Esq., founding member and former Board member, with the health center’s Civitas Award at the seventh annual Picture Berks Healthy. Also receiving recognition is United Way of Berks County, which will be presented with the Community Partner Civitas Award. Picture Berks Healthy is BCHC’s signature awareness and fundraising event and will be held on Monday, March 16, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at the DoubleTree by Hilton Reading. Light, healthy fare will be served.

Donald F. Smith Jr. is a retired attorney who practiced personal injury law, concentrating in workers’ compensation cases, for more than 28 years with the Reading firm Liever, Hyman & Potter, P.C. He later served as executive director of the Berks County Bar Association and the Law Foundation of Berks County. In addition to helping establish BCHC and serving on its Board and committees, he has contributed his leadership to numerous local organizations, including the Central Berks Police Commission, Centro Hispano of Reading and Berks County, MidPenn Legal Services, Barrio Alegria, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association Political Action Committee. He earned his J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law and his B.S. from Shippensburg University, which recognized him with both its Distinguished Alumnus Award and Exceptional Service Award. He and his wife, JoAnn, have two children and four grandchildren.