About Handy Ande
Read about Handy
Ande's Work Ethic. Also read our
Founder's
Philosophy.
The company owner/founder
is Andrea
Reynolds, nicknamed "Handy Ande"
as a child in Erie, PA because she could take care of a
home from the age of 6. The nickname Ande
- female
version of Andy - stuck through high school at McDowell
High School. Then she studied Family and Consumer Sciences
(Home Economics Education) at Kent State University and
became a home economist for Sears, McCall Pattern Co., and
Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Self-employed since
1977 her varied side jobs have included wardrobe
counseling, a concierge service, pet-sitting, home and
business sitting, appliance demonstration, radio and
television broadcasting, commercial voice-over work,
newsletter and column writing, book publishing, bed &
breakfast hosting, public relations and publicity,
investigative journalism, and author-publisher of a number
of practical how-to books.
Article printed in Girard PA newspaper.
She created
"The
Butler Did It!" in 1987 in Toronto
and Handy
Ande in
Girard PA in 2004 and took it with her to St. Catharines
Ontario where she lived for 3 years. She is presently
re-establishing the business Erie PA, hoping to employ men
and women who are skilled but unemployed or underemployed.
