Lisa Schneider and her son Aaron took Flat Freddy to the Phillies game last night at Citizens Bank Park. They all had a great time, even if the hometown boys did drop their second in a row to the Mets, this time 7–4. We think they needed Freddy in the line-up.

And here are all the images from Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day® at Fred Beans on Thursday, April 26, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

Illusionist Jeff Carson and young girls at Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day® at Fred Beans Dodge on April 26

More than 100 children joined their moms, dads or other significant adults on April 26 for Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day® at Fred Beans Family of Dealerships in Doylestown.

The kids engaged in tasks, tours and interacting with workplace co-workers at the parents’ work sites, Read the rest of this entry »

Looking under the hood of a Chevrolet Volt are Josh Holder of Pipersville in black tee, Chris Jastrzebski of New Britain in yellow tee and Bill Licopoli, the students’ AP Environmental Science teacher at Central Bucks West.

On April 17, twenty-six Central Bucks West seniors from Bill Licopoli’s Advanced Placement Environmental Science class were guests of the Fred Beans Cadillac Buick and Chevrolet dealerships on North Easton Road in Doylestown, where they learned about “clean vehicles,” emissions and tech advances in the automotive industry.

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Fred Beans Nissan of Limerick, in collaboration with Mishock Physical Therapy & Associates, hosted a free professional basketball skills coaching session by Hall of Fame master coach Bob Koch and his company, Hoops.

The two-hour session on Saturday, April 14, was expressly for boys and girls ages 8-14. It featured shooting, passing, dribbling, ball handling and speed drills with Coach Koch and his associates. Read the rest of this entry »

Fred Beans likes books. He even built a wing on his Doylestown home for his library. Each Christmas, managers and employees, vendors and colleagues, family and friends receive copies of a tome or story that has captured his interest. He reads voraciously and quotes liberally. Read the rest of this entry »

Janet Manion 1954-2012 (Courtesy Travis Manion Foundation)

The following is taken from the Travis Manion Foundation website.

On April 24, the Travis Manion Foundation lost its founder, chairman and visionary when Janet Manion, mother of 1st Lt. Travis Manion, passed away after a valiant battle with cancer. She died surrounded by her loving family in Doylestown, Pa., at the age of 58.

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2013 Chevrolet Malibu

Doylestown Athletic Association has hooked up with the 2012 Chevy Youth Baseball Double Play Giveaway, a national sweepstakes featuring a grand prize of the all-new 2013 Chevrolet Malibu along with other great prizes such as HD tvs, courtesy of local Chevy dealerships around the country.

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Master Tech John Powers and William “Cody” Shaner, a senior at Daniel Boone High School, under the hood

Two students from the Berks Career & Technology Center in Oley, Pennsylvania, recently completed a training program at Fred Beans Ford of Boyertown in preparation for this year’s Ford AAA Student Auto Skills Competition. The students have been chosen to represent BCTC at Pennsylvania’s 2012 competition this Wednesday, April 25, in Warminster, Bucks County.

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Tim Mears, sales manager, and Mark Donahue, general manager, with the 2011 Mark of Excellence Award from General Motors’ Chevrolet division — the second year in a row that Fred Beans Chevrolet in Doylestown has earned this honor.

General Motors’ Chevrolet division has named Fred Beans Chevrolet in Doylestown one of its elite Mark of Excellence Dealers for 2011, the second time in as many years that the successful dealership has been so recognized.

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