Exchange Club Ornaments Now on Sale, Proceeds Benefit Local Charities

Area residents can add a touch of old Newtown to their Christmas trees with special edition Greater Newtown Exchange Club Christmas ornaments, which are now on sale.  

Each year’s edition features a notable Newtown landmark. This year’s ornament showcases The Stocking Works, a historic still-standing building which housed the Excelsior Bobbin and Spool Company in the late 1800s and is currently operated by several businesses.

Greater Newtown Exchange Club sells the ornaments as a charity fundraiser with the assistance of local merchants.  

They can be purchased at three First National Bank & Trust locations: the Main Office on State St. in Newtown, the Newtown Township Branch on Newtown-Yardley Road and the Wrightstown branch. 

The $10 ornaments also will be sold at Newtown Hardware House, McCaffrey’s of Newtown, Countryside Framing, 2 South State Street, and the Newtown Library Company.  On weekend's the ornaments will be sold in front of Newtown Wine and Spirits, 10 W. Centre Ave.

In the past 17 years, more than $68,000 has been raised through ornament sales and donated to local charitable organizations such as Family Services of Bucks County, A Woman’s Place, Interfaith Housing, Bucks County Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired and Pickering Manor.

The Greater Newtown Exchange Club is a Bucks County service club dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and family services. For more information, visit www.greaternewtownexchangeclub.org.