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Notch Eight Craft House Restaurant and Bar, 107 Broadway St., Jim Thorpe, PA. along with the Notch Eight Running Club, held a 5K on 9-26-2022 donating all proceeds to the Bo Tkach Foundation. The event was held D&L Trail in Jim Thorpe, PA.

Blair Thomas is one of the lucky ones. The former Penn State running back recalled coach Joe Paterno telling him he’d never play in Happy Valley again if he repeated a fumble he made during a pre-practice warm-up his freshman...

My name is Billy Drake and I am doing a holiday food drive on behalf of the Bo Tkach Foundation for my Eagle Scout Project.  I have been collecting the food for the Palmerton Food Pantry at the Turkey Trot every year.  Since there is no Turkey Trot I thought we could...

Brett Snyder was a rugged, tough football player who was beloved by coaches and teammates at Northwestern Lehigh High School and Lehigh University, where he was a key figure as a fullback on Mountain Hawks’ Patriot League championship teams in the 1990s. But Snyder’s...

Not long after his son Michael took his own life in March, Roger Berger heard from someone who had been down the same path: Jim Tkach, co-founder of the Bo Tkach Foundation. Jim's son Bo committed suicide in 2007 after struggles with depression and...

To the outsider, Michael Berger had it all going for him. The 2008 Palmerton High School graduate had a degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University. Working for FlexLink Systems Inc., he was developing what Proctor and Gamble brass referred to as...