Chester County News in Brief

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, February, 2006

Ciccarone gives $1 million

for new East Goshen YMCA

A West Chester businessman, John Ciccarone, has donated $1 million to a capital campaign to built an 80,000-square-foot YMCA in East Goshen, officials of West Chester Area YMCA announced last week.

The organization plans to close its West Chester YMCA and build a new one on a 14.9-acre tract at Airport Road and Paoli Pike. The new facility, which will include a teen center, child-care rooms and two pools, will be named the Norma Ciccarone Family Center in honor of Ciccarone's late wife.

The announcement was made at a reception at the Dilworthtown Inn, where Ciccarone spoke of his early connections to the Y and his longtime support of its programs. "I've been very close to the Y all my life," he...