Larry & Terian Chertok participate in Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Trial. As Barry Rabin said, Bill & Joann Chertok truly lived to serve people. Larry & Terian Chertok continue service to the community as a family tradition.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Larry and Terian Chertok do everything together, even being part of the Phase 3 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trial.

“We are guinea pigs but we don't mind, it's totally fine,” Larry said.

“If our contribution did anything good then thats all that matters,” Terian added. 

The Chertoks say after the first shot they had no side effects, but the second one caused symptoms that were on and off for about 72 hours.

“It goes in waves, it's not like being sick straight through,” Terian said.

"It's like 2 hours you're exhausted and you get up and start doing something and you're fine and then you want to lay down again,” Larry said, agreeing.

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Larry’s dad Bill Chertok served in the Korean War, as a Coatesville City Councilman & as a Democratic Party leader in Coatesville & Chester County PA. 

Unlike many of today’s politicians, Bill viewed pubic service with humility, putting service to our community above his personal interests.

Our Chester County shopping malls are shutting down. Chertok’s Store in Coatesville is, how can I put it, not thriving but struggling and surviving at a time when most downtown in the U.S. are becoming ghost towns. 

I believe Larry’s expertise in the furniture business is in his DNA. Although a lot of furniture manufacturing has moved out of the United States beginning in the Reagan years, domestic furniture is, in spite of COVID-19 coming back as the mainstay of the retail furniture business.  

The furniture business in the United States is one of the few industries that survived the usual U.S. factory move to China. SEE:

"Most people in business have a story about how China has changed their industry, how over the past 30 years it has upended supply chains and grabbed daunting market share. But very few have the sort of China story that John Bassett III has.

One day in November 2002, Bassett, a third-generation furniture maker from Virginia, found himself in China meeting the Communist party official and businessman intent on putting him out of business.

This official’s ambitions and instructions were clear and direct: His company would soon be the biggest furniture manufacturer in the world, and resistance was futile. Bassett was told he should shut his U.S. factories and contract his production to China. It was the only way his business would survive.

'He was not belligerent, but it was just like you were speaking to a judge,' Bassett recalls for author Beth Macy in her new book, “Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local — And Helped Save an American Town.”

'Factory Man': how a Virginia furniture maker took on China

Citizens of Coatesville PA are poised to witness the revival of the City of Coatesville PA that was inspired by Bill Chertok when he returned to the Coatesville City Council 

Coatesville PA is forever indebted to the Chertok family 

I think Chertok's is a City of Coatesville Pennsylvania treasure. It’s not just a furniture Store.

 

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