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NEWTOWN BOROUGH, PA — The public is invited to attend a Jingle Mingle Sip-N-Shop fundraising event on Friday, Nov. 22 from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Newtown Hardware House on South State Street.
Fifteen percent of the sales will be donated to “A Love for Life,” a Newtown-based nonprofit that raises money to fund pancreatic cancer research at Penn Medicine.
The special evening of holiday shopping and fundraising will also include refreshments and a sampling of cookies for everyone who attends.
“This is our favorite time to catch up with all of our local customers and friends,” said Christine Edmonds, the president of A Love for Life who also helps with marketing at the Hardware House. “It’s just starting to be a really busy time for everyone so we like to take a few hours to have the shop open and start to celebrate the coming holiday season.”
Hardware House owners Bill and Meg Newell were good friends with Christine’s husband Kevin who died from pancreatic cancer in 2012.
Christine Edmonds with Hardware House owner Meg Newell. (A Love For Life photo)
“A Love for Life presented the Penn researchers with $100,000 on Wednesday,” said Meg Newell, “so we are happy to help jumpstart our fundraising efforts for 2025.”
A Love For Life has had a decades-long partnership with the Newtown Hardware House, which donates $1 to the charity every time a bag of Newtown Hardware House famous homemade cookies is sold.
The historic Newtown Hardware House offers a unique small-town shopping experience including traditional hardware products, in addition to unique gifts, old-fashioned toys and nick-knacks, and locally branded merchandise featuring Newtown and Bucks County themes.
The store has been in continuous operation from the same location since its establishment in 1869. For those old enough to remember, the store’s wooden floors and 19th-century store fixtures evoke nostalgic memories of family outings to the local hardware store. Unfortunately, more than 98 percent of these iconic stores have disappeared from the American retail landscape. Only a very few survive today including the Newtown Hardware House.
