Pride in Chestnuthill received the 2014 Waste Watcher Award in Monroe County from the Professional Recyclers of Pennsylvania.

Cindy Lieto, Monroe County Waste Authority's board secretary and administrative assistant, presented the award at Tuesday night's Chestnuthill Township supervisors' meeting.The award is given out to Pennsylvania's most outstanding recycling programs and projects for 2013. The Pennsylvania Waste Watchers program recognizes recycling, waste reduction, reuse and composting programs in Pennsylvania that have exhibited exemplary performance. Over 70 municipalities, counties, private businesses, individuals and community organizations throughout Pennsylvania were recognized for going above and beyond what is mandated under Act 101 for their communities or programs.PIC is dedicated to the beautification of Chestnuthill Township, collecting on 112 scheduled cleanup days, keeping thousands of bags of trash, roadside litter, as well as tires and other large roadside debris off the streets over the past 14 years. PIC is a volunteer-based roadside litter and debris cleanup organization. The work that is done by PIC is enjoyed by nearly all of Chestnuthill Township's 17,000 residents, plus many more who drive on the roads in the township.In turn, every year, PIC bestows the Chestnuthill Township Beautification Award to a business in the township for outstanding beautification of that property. PIC members say an attractive business attracts business. This year's award was presented to ESSA Bank in Brodheadsville.Accepting on its behalf was Kelly Borger, ESSA assistant branch manager, and Barbara Konawalik, ESSA branch manager."We are very honored to receive this award and do take pride in our property. We feel it welcomes people coming into the Brodheadsville area. It's nice to see other businesses really making an effort to look welcoming also," Konawalik said.PIC meetings are 7 p.m. the second Thursday of every month at the Chestnuthill Township Building. For more information, call 570-992-7247.In other business, the Chestnuthill Township supervisors approved, 3-0:• Awarding the freon bid to A.C. Pocono Refrigeration Service, the business that currently does the township's servicing, at the same rate of $20 for refrigerator and freezer, $25 for air conditioning and dehumidifiers.• Awarding the cleaning/maintenance/transfer station bid to its current service from Allied Services, (Burnley Workshop) at a 2 percent increase to $12.13 per hour for laborers and $23.51 per hour for supervisors.• Authorizing the roadmaster to call in subs to operate snow plow equipment as needed, at the road crew regular hourly pay rate.The West End Community Ambulance Association reported that it responded to 154 calls in October.The Pennsylvania State Police responded to 379 incidents during the month of October.The West End Fire Company responded to 32 calls in October.Bernie Kozen, West End Park and Open Space Commission's executive director, said that there will be bingo at the Chestnuthill Township park building on Friday, a craft and gift fair on Saturday and volunteers are needed to help put playground equipment together at the Ross Township VanBuskirk-Haney Park, Anchorage Road in Saylorsburg.