Clarks Summit Council gets their photo taken in front of the new electric sign. From left, are Councilman Bob Sheils, former junior councilman Ron Thomas, councilman Frank Besten, solicitor Mariclaire Hayes, councilwoman Roni Lopez, council president Gerrie Carey, former councilman Pat Williams, Clarks Summit patrolman Tim McCoy, councilwoman Kathleen Simrell, councilman David Jenkins, and councilman Josh Mitchell.
Ben Freda | For Abington Journal
Clarks Summit has a new sign located near Dunkin Donuts on Northern Boulevard. It will display messages for nonprofit organizations and for profit businesses as well as Amber Alerts.
Patrick Williams a former member of the Clarks Summit Borough Council was instrumental in getting the new sign in place. He served on council for 18 years.
“CEIS took down the old sign and put up the new sign,” he said. “They did all the landscaping around the sign. There was no cost to the Clarke Summit Borough for the work.”
“CEIS pays the borough for the sign and provides us 14.5 % of their advertising space to promote nonprofit events,” said Virginia Kehoe Clarks Summit Borough manager. “Clarks Summit Borough deposits the money into the borough’s general fund.”
“I wanted Welcome to Clarks Summit on top of the sign,” said Williams “I drove a truck for Consolidated Freightways and I’d be in a town and would not know where I was. I want people traveling through Clarks Summit to know where they are.”
He also worked for the County of Lackawanna Transportation System.
He is an Army veteran who is member and chaplain of Abington Memorial VFW Post 7069. He was named Chaplin of the Year.
Williams is a member of the Shade Tree Commission and the Emergency Management Agency. He is a mentor for the Veterans Drug treatment Court. If a nonprofit wants to get a message on the sign. contact Virginia Kehoe at manager@clarkssummit.gov A text and images need to be supplied and she will arrange for the message to run at no charge. A for profit business, needs to contact Marcie Kretzmer at marcie@ceisigns.comand they’d pay CEIS for advertising.
“The new sign is excellent. I am thrilled to be part of it and it looks beautiful,” Williams said.
