The Indiana County Chamber of Commerce held its annual celebration of the county’s business leaders Thursday night, with the induction of five new members into the Business Hall of Fame.
The newest Hall of Fame members are Edward Bennett (1889-1960), a banker, business owner, and State Senator; Andrew Stahura (1900-1980), who was also a banker and business owner with interests in a number of arenas; Charles Altemus, the owner/operator of Altemus Farms and Pikes Peak Nurseries; Tom Zaucha, general partner of the Zaucha Family, LP, with an extensive background in real estate and in the physical therapy industry; and Renda Broadcasting’s own Tony Renda, whose long career in broadcasting has included extensive holdings in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Oklahoma.
An Indiana native, Tony Renda is the recipient of a Western Pennsylvania Business of the Year Award, Western Pennsylvania Entrepreneur Award, and a “George Bailey Award” from the Jimmy Stewart Museum. He worked at his father’s grocery store in Indiana as a boy and has served in the U.S. Marine Corps. He embarked on a broadcasting career as a part-time announcer at WDAD in his hometown of Indiana, and soon focused on the sales and business aspect of the industry, finally purchasing his first radio station in the 1960s. Today, he owns 18 radio stations in Pennsylvania and Florida.
Renda Broadcasting salutes all of the 2019 Indiana County Business Hall of Fame inductees, and proudly thanks Tony Renda for his tireless advocacy of the broadcast industry and his hometown radio stations, WDAD, WCCS, WLCY, and WQMU.
