Katy has been with us for about 18 months, and is one of our best hosts.  She is Friendly, dependable, and works well with everyone.

Katy Beckman

• She has been to Mexico to do volunteer work with the organization Estado 29, which helps orphans.  She painted houses and cooked meals.
• She was part of Hearts for Honduras, a group that travels to Honduras to help the underprivileged.  She lead the Bible school there, and helped build latrines. 
• Katy is a crew leader for her vacation Bible school. 
• She is on the student council at her school.
• She is a member of S.A.D.D. ( students against destructive decisions). 
• Katy is also a member of her church choir, and hand bell choir. 

She plans on attending Temple this fall.

We are very proud of Katy, and pleased to have her as a valued part of Isaac’s family!

Ashlee is part of the huge roller derby comeback that’s sweeping the country.  It’s a DIY indie sport, and predominantly made up of women.  There are three teams in the Dutchland Roller’s League, and Ashlee’s next goal is to be placed on one of these teams.

Ashlee is stoked about this opportunity!  As she explains it, her world is basically three things: school (she’s a senior at Lancaster Catholic), Isaac’s (25 % Tron and 75% Deli), and roller derby.  She practices about five hours a week on her $275 skates.

Ashlee got into this sport because she likes to have fun, likes the exercise, and likes to go fast.  Her position is a blocker.  She tries to support her team’s jammer while, at the same time, blocking the opposition’s jammer.  She says it can be a little violent at times!

The Dutchland Rollers practice and have bouts at Overlook Skating Rink.  Ashlee says it’s a great spectator sport, and everyone should come to Overlook to see a bout.  The season runs from March through November and all the entrance fee money goes to charity.

Sounds like an Isaac’s night out to me!  Who’s up for it?

Do you know Isaac’s employee with secret passion?  , and let me know!

Well, at Isaac’s, part of our mission statement is to give back to our communities.  We, in the Central Office, encourage the stores to figure out their own way to live the mission, without telling them exactly what to do.  Many choose to benefit charities by collecting stuff during the holidays, and that’s why you probably see a drop-off box sitting in the lobby!

Here is a list of some of the things employees in our 20 restaurants are doing to put our mission statement in to action:

Isaac’s in Greenfield
Collecting new and used toys for Goodwill
Employees volunteer to help sort and distribute donated toys at the Boys & Girls Club.

Isaac’s in Downtown Lancaster
Collecting hats and mittens for the Water Street Rescue Mission

Isaac’s in Spring Ridge
Adopting a family from the Beacon house. It consists of a single mother and 4 boys all under the age of ten.

Isaac’s in Lionville (Exton)
Employees are organizing a giving tree. They have a nondenominational evergreen in their lobby with ornaments on it with items to buy and bring back. The organizations are- Women of Hope, Holy Family Home, Birthright, Crisis Residential, and Bethesda Project. They are doing this through Sts. Simon and Jude Church in West Chester.

Isaac’s in Paxton Street (Harrisburg near Bass Pro)
Employees “adopted” a family through the YWCA of the greater Harrisburg area.  They are putting the wish list on an angel tree in the lobby to encourage customers to help out, as well.

Isaac’s in Hershey
Employees have chosen the Leukemia and & Lymphoma Society. They are collecting art supplies (markers, crayons, paint, colored paper, etc.) for children with cancer, to be distributed in the various hospitals.

Isaac’s in Thornbury (West Chester)
Employees adopting a family through Chester County Cares. There are seven children they are getting gifts for.
Employees will be volunteering in a local soup kitchen.

Isaac’s in West York
Collecting food for the York County Food Bank
Gives soup every week to the York Rescue Mission.
Will be sponsoring a family for Christmas, where the employees collect gifts for a particular family.

Isaac’s in Silver Spring (Mechanicsburg)
For the third year, employees are “adopting” a family from the Domestic Violence Shelter. This is a family who has been safely housed at the shelter for a while and is ready to go on their own. They have their wish list and employees will be buying and wrapping the gifts for mother and children.

Isaac’s in South York Plaza
Monthly contributes soup to Our Daily Bread soup kitchen.
Collecting food for the York County Food Bank

Isaac’s in West Shore (Lemoyne)
Collecting Toys for Tots

Isaac’s Central Office Staff
Collecting supplies for Clare House
Volunteering to clean up and paint at the North Museum

In addition to all this, we recently completed our employee United Way pledge drive for 2008, and we achieved an amazing 86% participation rate, with an average pledge of almost $100 per employee!

Check out what’s going on at your local Isaac’s, I am sure they are collecting for a worthy cause.  They would be extremely grateful if you would help out with a contribution of your own next time you drop by for a sandwich and soup.  And the world would be blessed through your actions.  Happy Holidays, everyone!

• BIB Number:  #556
• Clock Time 4:53:15 (From the time the gun went off until she arrived at the finish)
• Chip Time 4:49:46 (This is 3 1/2 minutes shorter than her clock time, which means it took that long to get to the start line after the race started. The “Chip” is an electronic timing device that is attached to the shoe.)
• Overall Place 5,660th out of 6,906 runners (she was ahead over over 1,000 runners)!
• Gender Place 2,127th
• Age Grade 46.8%
• Pace per mile 11:03.3
• Time at Half 2:18:23
• Time at Mile20 3:34:40

It’s appropriate for Marathon runners to write their name across the front of their shirt so the crowd can cheer support by yelling the names.  Amanda wrote “GO CRAZY” on her shirt, so she ran with the enthusiastic yells of “Go Crazy!” in her hears.  Next time you see her, make sure you tell her “Go Crazy!”

Way to go, Amanda!  What an incredible accomplishment.

She is planning to run another!