Remaking Our Communities

The Chestnut St. Playground needs a makeover and an orgnanization has been created to help see that it happens.  Chestnut Street Playground Community CARES is graciously accepting donations and support now through April in hopes of raising $65,000 before breaking ground in early summer.

Chestnut Street Playground Community CARES is engaging the community to re-gentrify a playground in dire need of repair.  The playground has always been and continues to be the gathering place for children and families.  Over time, through heavy use, and with weather wear and tear the need to repair or replace the playground has only grown.

Highlighting the goals Chestnut St. Playground Community CARES is looking to achieve are as follows:

• Handicap Accessibility: 
• Adaptive Seats with Belts 5 ft. wide black-top pathways for wheelchair and walker accessibility
• Safe Equipment:
• with pour and play matting
• Learning Integration:
• Music Maker with drums, rattles, wheels and more encourage learning and intellectual growth.  The play-set includes brail for the blind.  It has also been a wonderful piece for autistic children to participate in the fun.

To help support this great endeavor, many volunteers are going to great lengths to make this vision become reality.  To that end there are many opportunities for the public to participate and support the project, as well as sponsorship's for families or businesses who want to get involved.  

There are many businesses and local community advocates working to create fundraising events.  For a listing of upcoming events please go here. 

Individual donations are also being accepted.

News Articles relating to the project:

• Souderton Independent: Plans Move Ahead to Improve Souderton Playground
• Phillyburbs.com: Souderton Playground Campaign Underway
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Happy Holidays and a Heartfelt Thanks

2011 was a milestone year for us.  We celebrated our 21st year in business. We saw our growth rate jump at its highest level in our history with the first full year of the Gerharts Engraving acquisition under our belt.  We had a banner year for trophy production with Oaklane Quarter Midget Racing Club hosting the Quarter Midget Racing Association nationals race.

This year was not without its challenges however.  We worked to improve each and every day and to continue to provide you with the absolute best engraving and recognition services in the area.  The breadth of our services expanded, but that was met with the logistical challenge that comes with having a decentralized manufacting set up in two geographic locations.

Thanks to you our customers, and the wonderful employees that enable us to help serve you, here we are looking into 2012 with high hopes!  We are eternally grateful for all of you that enable us to be in the position we are in.

The recognition industry is a unique and wonderful business to be in.  While the financial returns aren't always optimal, and the great recession affected even us where the previous recessions did not, we are in a business that is forever rewarding to run and be a part of.  The stakeholders involved in this business are all high quality amazing individuals who get the importance of recognizing achievements.  To see the people who come in to order awards for other individuals who so selflessly give their all everyday to a variety of tasks in their daily lives is simply amazing and inspiring.

We help recognize the achievements of those who save lives, and those who sacrifice their time and energies not for profit but to leave this world a little better place than it was when they got here.  To see them put in all their hard work and dedication is really the most rewarding part of this job and it makes waking up and coming to work each and every day a pure joy.  Thank you to those of you who have enabled us to help serve you, and we look forward to helping you recognize achievements in the future.

Bux-Mont Awards would not be here with out the many individuals who do so much to change the lives of so many people, and the hard work our employees put in to make sure that the hard work does not go unrecognized.  We love what we do, and we look forward to doing it for the next twenty years and beyond!

Have the happiest holidays and the brightest new years.  We are looking forward to seeing you all, and a heartfelt thank you to each and everyone of you that helped make Bux-Mont Awards what it is today.  The leading provider of recognition services in Bucks and Montgomery County!

Healthy Eating in Youth Sports

Todays post comes courtesy of Yahoo Sports Blog.


Diet and nutrition is incredibly important in youth sports. The young person's body is still growing and often needs more nutrients than adults do in a normal day. When you add to this a sport or activity that is practiced regularly, you can really see the importance of healthy eating in youth sports.

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Neets racing team challenge cup champion.

Check out the cup we just made for a enduro race season Champion.

The award cups come in many different shapes and sizes!

Engravable pewter trays

Stop in to see our line of custom engravable pewter and silver. The perfect anniversary gift and other occasions as well.

Calendar of Events - Planning for promotions

Its time (already!) to be looking into your end of year promotions; maybe even your first quarter promtions.  Now is when you should assess how your year went in terms of your marketing plan.  Is your marketing plan working for you?  Do you need to change something?  Let's get it taken care of so Bux-Mont Awards can help you start 2012 off your way!  Set your goals, meet and exceed them!

If you have some extra money allocated for marketing in your November and December budget, please contact me @ 215.855.5052 or leave a comment and I will help you.  Whether you need help on choosing the right imprinted promotional product for your business, or need help going over your marketing plan, we can certainly help you.

Now onto the upcoming events.  Here they are in the order they occur.  Also included in this list are ideas for uses of promotional products in conjunction with these events that will help your company increase its brand awareness.  Creating an association with your company and an event is one way to help stay at the forefront of your customers memory, and promotional products are a great way to make that happen!


Upcoming Events

• November 2011 - National Healthy Skin Month, Good Nutrition Month
• 11 Veteran's Day
• American flags - no logos needed on these promotions.  Displaying proper respect for those who fought for our freedoms is a great way to promote your business!
• 15 America Recycles Day
• Recycled / Green promotions
• 17 Great American Smoke Out
• 24 Thanksgiving
• December 2011 
• 1 World AIDS day
• 4-10 National Hand Washing Awareness Week
• imprinted hand sanitizer
• 20 Hanukkah Begins
• 21 First Day of Winter
• an imprinted scarf or fleece hat keeps your logo on top of the mind
• 25 Christmas
• imprinted toys / or gift items are a great way to thank your existing customers.
• 26 Kwanzaa begins
• 31 New Years Eve
• January 2012 - National Get Organized Month, National Financial Wellness Month

             Great giveaways for the entire month include organizations tools & financial literacy promotions

• 1 New Years Day
• 1-7 Diet resolution week
• 16 Martin Luther King Day
• 23 National Handwriting Day
• Imprinted Pens & Pencils

If you need help brainstorming ideas, please give me an email or a call or leave your ideas to the comments!

Sponsor Plaques

We can help you create art from your photos, or you can bring in your own and we can mount it under Plexiglas on one of our many plaque choices.

These are an effective affordable way of recognizing your sponsors and getting your organizations brand in front of more eyes.

This leads to a greater following which makes you worth more to your sponsors!

See how this recognition thing works? Please leave your thoughts in the comments.