Here it is – your picture-perfect cabin in the woods! Beautifully maintained, nicely landscaped, and nestled on a private circle in a prime golf community offering a beautiful clubhouse, lake, Olympic-sized pool, beautiful new fitness center & more. Easy-living, with oversized closets, a big utility shed with workbench & electric, plus easy-access dry crawl space for extra storage. It’s all just minutes from popular Pocono attractions including Mt Airy Casino Resort. Close to everyday shopping, medical facilities & other services – and right across from the commuter bus stop, too!

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Karen Wagner, ePro
REALTOR
Commonwealth Real Estate YOUR WAY, LLC
Direct: 570-972-0112
Office: 570-839-0411
Fax: 866-534-0815
About Karen: http://bit.ly/aboutKaren

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Contrary to popular belief, Mother’s Day was not conceived and fine-tuned in the boardroom of Hallmark. The earliest tributes to mothers date back to the annual spring festival the Greeks dedicated to Rhea, the mother of many deities, and to the offerings ancient Romans made to their Great Mother of Gods, Cybele. Christians celebrated this festival on the fourth Sunday in Lent in honor of Mary, mother of Christ. In England this holiday was expanded to include all mothers and was called Mothering Sunday.

In the United States, Mother’s Day started nearly 150 years ago, when Anna Jarvis, an Appalachian homemaker, organized a day to raise awareness of poor health conditions in her community, a cause she believed would be best advocated by mothers. She called it “Mother’s Work Day.”

Fifteen years later, Julia Ward Howe, a Boston poet, pacifist, suffragist, and author of the lyrics to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” organized a day encouraging mothers to rally for peace, since she believed they bore the loss of human life more harshly than anyone else.

In 1905 when Anna Jarvis died, her daughter, also named Anna, began a campaign to memorialize the life work of her mother. Legend has it that young Anna remembered a Sunday school lesson that her mother gave in which she said, “I hope and pray that someone, sometime, will found a memorial mother’s day. There are many days for men, but none for mothers.”

Anna began to lobby prominent businessmen like John Wannamaker, and politicians including Presidents Taft and Roosevelt to support her campaign to create a special day to honor mothers. At one of the first services organized to celebrate Anna’s mother in 1908, at her church in West Virginia, Anna handed out her mother’s favorite flower, the white carnation. Five years later, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution calling for officials of the federal government to wear white carnations on Mother’s Day. In 1914 Anna’s hard work paid off when Woodrow Wilson signed a bill recognizing Mother’s Day as a national holiday.

At first, people observed Mother’s Day by attending church, writing letters to their mothers, and eventually, by sending cards, presents, and flowers. With the increasing gift-giving activity associated with Mother’s Day, Anna Jarvis became enraged. She believed that the day’s sentiment was being sacrificed at the expense of greed and profit. In 1923 she filed a lawsuit to stop a Mother’s Day festival, and was even arrested for disturbing the peace at a convention selling carnations for a war mother’s group. Before her death in 1948, Jarvis is said to have confessed that she regretted ever starting the mother’s day tradition.

Despite Jarvis’s misgivings, Mother’s Day has flourished in the United States. In fact, the second Sunday of May has become the most popular day of the year to dine out, and telephone lines record their highest traffic, as sons and daughters everywhere take advantage of this day to honor and to express appreciation of their mothers

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Karen Wagner recognized for achieving exemplary marketing results

MT POCONO, PA — March 19, 2012 – Karen Wagner, a Realtor® with Commonwealth Real Estate Your Way, has received the 2011 All Star Award from Constant Contact^®, Inc., the trusted marketing advisor to more than half a million small organizations worldwide. Each year, a select group of Constant Contact customers are honored with the All Star Award for their exemplary marketing results. Wagner’s results ranked her among the top 10% of Constant Contact’s customer base.

An e-Marketing specialist and Certified e-Pro, Wagner has been marketing Real Estate in the Pocono region since 1995. Her customer focus includes first-time and single home buyers, as well as older adults. In addition to her new recognition as a Constant Contact All-Star, Wagner is a past recipient of the Keith Gilpin Spirit Award, the Million Dollar Club, and the Realtor.com Internet Marketing Award of Excellence.

“Constant Contact’s e-marketing tools help me stay in touch with my clients while giving them helpful and fun information on home buying, home selling, and Pocono living in general,” said Wagner. “My e-marketing through Constant Contact also provides a vehicle to showcase my listings through virtual tours sent to my exclusive list of hundreds of potential buyers.”

Constant Contact customers using any combination of the company’s Email Marketing, Event Marketing, and Online Survey tools are eligible for this award. Constant Contact looked at the following criteria to select this year’s All Stars:

• Frequency of campaigns, events, and surveys
• Open, bounce, and click-through rates
• Event registration rates
• Survey completion rates
• Use of social features
• Use of mailing list sign-up tools

“There is nothing we like more than to see our customers finding success. It’s the reason Constant Contact was founded, and it’s a thrill to see the fantastic results that our All Stars are achieving,” said Gail Goodman, CEO of Constant Contact. “This group is really leading the charge when it comes to delivering relevant, engaging content that drives real business results. We salute this year’s All Stars for their success, and are honored to have played a part in their achievements.”

About Commonwealth Real Estate Your Way, LLC
Commonwealth Real Estate Your Way is a local industry leader known for innovative, flexible solutions for Northeast PA home sellers and buyers. The company combines state-of-the-art technology with a timeless emphasis on unparalleled client service modeled on the Platinum Rule: treating each client the way he or she wishes to be treated.

About Constant Contact, Inc.

Constant Contact is revolutionizing the success formula for small organizations through affordable, easy-to-use Engagement Marketing^TM tools that help create and grow customer relationships. More than half a million small businesses, nonprofits, and associations worldwide rely on Constant Contact to drive ongoing customer dialogs through email marketing, social media marketing, event marketing, and online surveys. All Constant Contact products come with unrivaled KnowHow, education, and free coaching with a personal touch, including award-winning customer support.

Constant Contact and the Constant Contact Logo are registered trademarks of Constant Contact, Inc. All Constant Contact product names and other brand names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of Constant Contact, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

Call Realtor Karen Wagner today at 570-972-0112 and ask about MLS #12-2936.

Virtual tour:

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Karen Wagner, ePro
REALTOR
Commonwealth Real Estate YOUR WAY, LLC
Direct: 570-972-0112
Office: 570-839-0411
Fax: 866-534-0815
About Karen: http://bit.ly/aboutKaren

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