Peanut Bar Toasts Grand Gentleman Of Penn Street

Posted: 3:49 pm EST November 23, 2010Updated: 10:11 am EST November 24, 2010

READING, Pa. -- Anyone who has ever stepped foot inside The Peanut Bar in downtown Reading may very well have met the man behind much of the establishment's success. Harold Leifer represented the second generation of the family that has owned the bar and restaurant in the 300 block of Penn Street since 1933. Leifer passed away Monday. He was 85. In a 2004 interview with 69 News, Leifer talked a little bit about The Peanut Bar's success over the decades. ?Everybody seems to like peanuts," he said. "So the peanuts, and the beverages, and the food seem to go hand in hand. And besides, the government says peanuts are healthy for you.? 2004 Interview: Harold Leifer Talks About Peanuts But even the peanuts don't go all the way back to the bar's beginnings. Jimmie Kramer opened the location as The Old Central Cafe in 1933. The peanuts followed two years later, with Kramer insisting his customers toss the cracked shells on the floor. Leifer took over leadership of the bar after marying one of Kramer's daughters, Beatie. He would later turn management over to his son, Michael, representing the third generation. But Harold Leifer always remained a familiar face at The Peanut Bar, right up until his recent illness. And his commitment to the community spread beyond the front doors on Penn Street. He was also a major advocate for development in and around downtown Reading. Many of those whose lives he touched over the years will gather at the Peanut Bar at 6:00 this evening "to toast Harold's wonderful life and share happy memories of the grand gentleman of Penn Street," said Councilwoman Donna Reed, (D) Reading. Services will be held at 1:00 Wednesday afternoon at the Kesher Zion Synagogue in Reading. Copyright 2010 WFMZ. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Grand Chase World Championship Tournament 2010 Announced

IRVINE, Calif. - Ntreev USA, Inc., developer and publisher of several popular free-to-play games, today announced details about the upcoming Grand Chase World Championship. The tournament, in which players from six countries will fight it out for $20,000 in total winnings, will take place in South Korea from Oct. 29 through Oct. 31.To help all Grand Chase players get in on the action, Ntreev is also hosting a Facebook event where players can create tournament brackets and predict which team will win. These two events are coming on the heels of the release of a full Grand Chase guild system.

"We are thrilled to provide our players with continual promotions for and additions to our games," said Chris Lee, CEO of Ntreev USA. "Grand Chase's World Tournament is a fantastic competition between the very best Grand Chase players from across the world, and we are looking forward to seeing how well our players predict the outcome on Facebook."

The Grand Chase World Tournament will include 3 players each from Korea, Brazil, Taiwan, USA, Thailand and Indonesia for a total of 18 participants. These top Grand Chase brawlers will compete for cash prizes in 3v3 team matches as well as 1v1 solo matches – and every North American participant will walk away with a pair of GWC Astro headsets. The tournament is scheduled to run from Oct. 29 to Oct. 31, and will take place in the Daegu Exhibition & Convention Center in Daegu, South Korea.

"Not only do I get to represent North America in Grand Chase," said JRTSeven, a North America Grand Chase team member headed to the World Championship Tournament. "but I get to travel to South Korea, meet the Ntreev and KOG staff, hang out with some bros, and overall have the time of my life. I feel truly honored.

The Facebook event connected to the tournament allows more fans to participate in the World Tournament from afar by selecting tournament brackets in a bid to guess the victorious players at the event. The most accurate predictions will win prizes, with the grand prize being a pair of custom-made GWC Astro headsets. Players must submit their brackets between Oct. 22 12:00 a.m. PST and Oct. 28 5:00 p.m. PST.

And just when it seems the excitement is waning, Ntreev will be bringing more community events to its players in celebration of the recent release of a guild system for Grand Chase. To create a guild, players can visit Guild Manager Bestair in the Park and redeem Game Points.

For more information about Ntreev, please visit: www.ntreev.net.

About Grand Chase
Grand Chase is an online action brawler set in a medieval fantasy world. It follows the story of a few brave young knights who join a group of nobles known as the "Grand Chase" to defeat an evil usurper to the throne, a villainess known as Kaze'aze. Grand Chase combines traditional side-scrolling dungeon crawling with intense, skill-based player versus player (PvP) matches.

About Ntreev USA Inc.
Located in Southern California and established in the fall of 2006, Ntreev USA Inc. is a sister company of Ntreev Soft, specializing in online game development and publishing. Ntreev USA currently publishes the anime MMORPG Trickster Online: A New Discovery, online action brawler Grand Chase and the online casual golf game, Pangya.

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