Assistant Manager

At Kitchen Kapers in Ardmore, one trendy tabletop product occupies most of the front window display. At Simply Elegant Home in Media, owner Mary Rhoads has devoted an eight-foot-long wall unit, plus a 48-inch round table, to this French-designed import — in a store that is 1,000 square feet. And, at Everything but the Kitchen Sink in Hockessin, Del., manager Suzanne Edgar devotes to it four five-foot shelves. "It doesn't go on sale," she says. It's Le Cadeaux, and customers can't get enough of it. Last year Rhoads had a "smattering" of sales.

Charles P. Jacian 3d has been appointed development director and assistant to the manager of Whitemarsh Township. Township supervisors appointed Jacian to the position with an unanimous vote at their meeting Thursday night. He is scheduled to begin work Sept. 19. "Charles is well-qualified, and we are looking forward to having him as part of our staff," said township manager Lawrence J. Gregan. Jacian will work closely with Gregan on many of the day-to-day operations of the township.

Nancy A. Goldenberg, a Philadelphia planning consultant and former legislative aide with City Councilwoman Joan Specter, has joined Lower Merion's township staff as an assistant manager. Goldenberg began her duties Monday and will oversee about half the township departments, including personnel, building regulations, planning, health, libraries and community development. "I feel very, very welcome," Goldenberg said on her first day, adding that she had long been impressed with the quality of government in Lower Merion.

Less than two weeks after Towamencin Township's manager announced his resignation, the assistant manager, Brian Dehart, said he, too, would be leaving at the end of the month. Dehart, who was supposed to be taking care of business while Towamencin searched for a new township manager, announced Monday that he was resigning to become an assistant township manager in East Norriton. The township manager, Greg Prowant, will be leaving in three weeks to become township manager in Upper Pottsgrove.

A broad, a clerk and a princess. Those are the names that Abington commissioners have used to refer to Deborah H. Rendon, the township's acting assistant manager, according to a letter that Rendon's lawyer sent to the board. In the letter, lawyer Neil A. Morris of Philadelphia also says that one commissioner had Rendon "followed and placed under surveillance by another township employee without cause, justification or right. " Rendon, 30, has been working as the township's acting assistant manager since July 1986, but last December, the commissioners declined to appoint her to the position on a permanent basis.

READING, Pa. - An assistant manager at a McDonald's restaurant was shot in the head yesterday while working at the drive-through window, and later died at a hospital, officials said. Shawnee M. Koch, 40, of Reading, was the second person to be shot dead while working in the drive-through window of the McDonald's restaurant at Ninth and Spring Streets. The previous one was a man killed in 2004. Police did not immediately identify any suspects or motive for yesterday's shooting, Police Sgt. Guy S. Lehman said.

A former store security guard was ordered yesterday to stand trial on murder, robbery and related charges in the strangulation of a Center City Rite Aid assistant manager last month. After the store closed March 26, Gary Rowlett, 35, a store guard, stayed behind while William Watts, 24, counted the day's proceeds and locked the store, Assistant District Attorney Carlos Vega said. Rowlett, in a statement to police that was read in Municipal Court yesterday, said he asked Watts if he could borrow $30. When Watts refused, the guard told police, he tried to grab the money and the two men struggled.

A year after it first solicited applications, the Board of Commissioners has agreed upon an assistant township manager. At a closed meeting Monday night, the seven commissioners who were present unanimously agreed to hire Michael English, according to a source familiar with the decision. English is a member of Haverford's Planning Commission and a township Republican committeeman who is recreation director for Lower Merion Township. Commissioners are likely to vote on English's hiring at their next public meeting, March 11. At the Monday meeting, the board interviewed six candidates who were culled from 175 applications received in January 1994.

A security guard was charged with murder yesterday, hours after a Center City Rite Aid assistant manager who had been strangled was found by employees arriving for work. The assistant manager, William Watts, 24, of the 5300 block of Sylvester Street in Frankford, appeared to have been strangled with his own tie, police investigators said. Gary Rowlett, 35, of Wyneva Street in Germantown, was charged with murder, robbery, theft, possession of an instrument of crime and receiving stolen property.

At Kitchen Kapers in Ardmore, one trendy tabletop product occupies most of the front window display. At Simply Elegant Home in Media, owner Mary Rhoads has devoted an eight-foot-long wall unit, plus a 48-inch round table, to this French-designed import — in a store that is 1,000 square feet. And, at Everything but the Kitchen Sink in Hockessin, Del., manager Suzanne Edgar devotes to it four five-foot shelves. "It doesn't go on sale," she says. It's Le Cadeaux, and customers can't get enough of it. Last year Rhoads had a "smattering" of sales.

HACKENSACK, N.J. - Bergen County prosecutors say a North Jersey lawyer helped two large-scale marijuana distributors launder money. Marcanton Macri, 44, of Edgewater, who serves as a municipal prosecutor in North Bergen, was freed Saturday after posting $50,000 bail. That came one day after he was arrested on financial-facilitation and money-laundering charges. County prosecutor John Molinelli said Macri "facilitated" a relationship between two Edgewater residents - Matthew Martin, 43, and Danny Saleh, 34 - and the assistant manager of a local bank.

Herman Cain hopes his route to the White House has come through the Philadelphia area, where former colleagues recall him fondly. "I ran the Philadelphia region, and I was with Burger King for a considerable number of years before I went to Godfather's" Pizza, Cain confirmed for me last week in an interview. As he details in his book This is Herman Cain! , he spent four years (1982-86) as Burger King's vice president and regional manager. Cain writes about his career path, which led from a VP job at Pillsbury to Burger King at age 36 as a part of the company executive fast-track program.

Gerald McFadden, 79, of Lansdale, a retired director of distribution for Acme Markets, died of heart failure Friday, Feb. 25, at home. Mr. McFadden was born in County Donegal, Ireland. One of 13 children, he left home at 14 to work in Dublin. Later, he worked on BBC sets in London before immigrating to the United States in 1953. From 1954 to 1956, he served in the U.S. Army. While stationed in Germany, he returned to Ireland to see his sister Agnes profess her vows as a nun. He earned his American citizenship in the military.

WITH unemployment hovering around 10 percent and a lot of economists worried that harder times may be on the horizon, it shouldn't really come as a surprise that a recent survey found that men worry more about losing their jobs than whether or not their wives are faithful to them. That's according to a recently published ING Direct survey, which found that 46 percent of men would be more upset about about losing their jobs than discovering their wives had cheated. Only 39 percent reported that they would be more upset over their wife's infidelity.

A Ridley Township police officer has been fired and a warrant issued for his arrest after he allegedly hit a Wawa manager who requested proof of age when he bought a tobacco product, authorities announced yesterday. Brian Decker, 33, of Swarthmore, was off-duty when the incident allegedly occurred. He has been charged with harassment, simple assault, and making terroristic threats, said Michael Mattson, spokesman for the Delaware County District Attorney's Office. The termination was unanimously approved at a township commissioners meeting last evening, said Commissioners President Robert J. Willert.

A former restaurant worker claims he was fired because he had demanded to see identification for a young-looking woman at Ben Roethlisberger's table where the NFL quarterback and his friends were drinking. Alvaro Brito, a former assistant manager at the Cabo Wabo Cantina at Harrah's Lake Tahoe who had worked for the company for 12 years, said he was fired in July 2008 in a lawsuit filed against the hotel-casino and its Lake Tahoe president, John Koster. The new lawsuit, filed Sept.

The Flyers announced yesterday that John Paddock has been named assistant general manager, and Jeff Reese has been named the team's goaltending coach. Paddock, 55, who joins Barry Hanrahan as assistant general manager, spent last season as the head coach of the Phantoms of the American Hockey League. He has served as a head coach in the AHL for six organizations and was a head coach in the National Hockey League for parts of five seasons with Winnipeg and Ottawa. He compiled a record of 142-161-43 in the NHL and served as assistant general manager of the Flyers (1989-90)

Francesca "Sue" Fazio Mansor, 95, a retired supermarket assistant manager and Gold Star Mother, died Thursday at the Downingtown home of her daughter, Helen Hopkinson. On July 18, 1968, Mrs. Mansor's son, Thomas, 19, a Marine Corps private, was killed in Vietnam. He had arrived there that day, Hopkinson said. To cope with her grief, Mrs. Mansor joined the American Gold Star Mothers. The organization, named for the gold star families hang in windows in honor of relatives who die in battle, was established in 1928 as a support group.

Mary DeSanctis Davis, 78, of Brookhaven, a retired bank vice president and volunteer, died of cancer Tuesday at home. Mrs. Davis began her career as a bookkeeper at the Philadelphia National Bank branch in Chester after graduating from Chester High School. Later she was a teller at the Chester branch. She then became assistant manager of the PNB branch in Brookhaven and was manager of the branch in Aston. She took courses at night at St. Joseph's University. Mrs. Davis raised a son and daughter while working.