Bringing it home City resident starts grocery delivery service
Angela Watters has launched her Midnight Munchies delivery business in Washington.
Brian Griffin
Cortney Capo receives a certificate of excellence from Michael Evanish, left, manager of Pennsylvania Farm Bureau’s MSC Business Services, and Louis Sallie, PFB’s administrative secretary.
Washington is relatively new to Angela Watters, and so is the business world. But she is determined to succeed in both.
She recently started a delivery business from the basement of her home called Midnight Munchies. Grocery orders can be made online or by phone, and for a minimum purchase of $7 and a $3 delivery fee, Midnight Munchies will bring those items to your door. For now, it is a 24/7 service that serves the city of Washington exclusively.
By day, Watters is a home health attendant with Tri-County Patriots for Independent Living (TRIPIL). After moving to the city with her family a little more than a year ago, she said she encountered a number of people who were elderly or did not have cars – or both. Add others who might simply appreciate the convenience of grocery delivery over navigating a store, and she thought there could be a demand for the service. For now, she and her husband are making deliveries.
Inspired by a relative who ran a successful delivery business out of state, Watters launched her enterprise Oct. 1. She stocks numerous items on shelves at home in anticipation of delivery, buying what she can on sale “so I can keep my prices low.”
Her goal, however, is to get a small storefront “because companies like Pepsi won’t deliver until I move out of the basement.”
Midnight Munchies has a Facebook page and offers discounts to senior citizens, military veterans and residents with a disability. Orders may be placed at www.midnightmunchies.xyz or by calling 724-215-9055.
Brian Griffin got a surprise visit at Peters Township Middle School recently. But his principal, Adam Sikorski, wasn’t surprised.
“Mr. Griffin has really helped our staff rethink what the teaching/learning environment should look like, sound like and offer,” he said. “Students are more excited than ever to take a technology education class. What was once a dreaded ‘wood shop’ class has now become an environment for students to showcase their creativity, manipulate and use new technologies.”
Griffin, who teaches technology education and video production to seventh- and eighth-graders, was the Week 2 winner of the Leaders in the Classroom program co-sponsored by the Steelers and Chevron Corp. A Chevron representative presented the award and a $1,500 donation from the company to support his classroom.
The program, introduced this school year, recognizes teachers in Intermediate Unit 1 and Allegheny Intermediate Unit for providing engaging instruction and curriculum and inspiring a passion for education to their students. The focus is on advancing STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and other educational initiatives.
“He’s inspiring an entire middle school to think outside the box and to reinforce the notion that taking risks in the classroom is OK and exciting,” Sikorski said.
Leaders in the Classroom was enabled by the Appalachia Partnership Initiative, a $20 million social investment launched by Chevron in 2014. API focuses on preparing students and adult learners with the problem-solving and advanced technical skills required for careers in energy and advanced manufacturing.
In addition to Chevron, API partners are the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, RAND Corp. and the Grable Foundation.
Sixteen teachers will be honored during the Steelers’ eight regular-season home games. Each will receive a $1,500 donation for his or her classroom.
Cortney Capo has been taking care of business and has the paperwork to prove it.
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau’s MSC Business Services recently presented Capo, of Washington, with a certificate of excellence. She is an account supervisor with clients in Washington, Beaver and Lawrence counties.
“The (certificate) recognizes exceptional performance and top-quality, professional service to clients in all program areas,” said Michael Evanish, manager of MSC Business Services. MSC provides tax planning and preparation, and consulting and financial analysis services to Farm Bureau members to help them improve their net income.
MSC has 35 account supervisors statewide who are assisting more than 5,000 members.
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau has a volunteer membership of about 62,000 farm and rural families from across the state.
Mancan Inc. has had an office in Washington County for nine years, starting in Washington in 2007 before moving two years later to its current location, Waterdam Plaza in Peters Township.
Heather Haas manages the branch, which has only one other employee, a staffing specialist. That is the company’s only Pennsylvania location, but it is not even a toe of the firm’s footprint. Mancan, a staffing solutions operation based in Massillon, Ohio, has 36 offices in six states with about 70 employees.
So it is an established business, one that is celebrating a milestone birthday – 40 years. President/CEO Jonathan Mason founded the firm in 1976, after purchasing a Manpower franchise in Canton, Ohio. The company went by its franchised name, Manpower Services, not its registered corporate name, Mancan Inc., until 2006, when Mason disengaged from Manpower and dropped that name.
Haas said her office serves clients in Washington, Allegheny, Beaver, Fayette and Westmoreland counties. She added that Mancan plans to open a second office in Pennsylvania.