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Volume 153, No. 18

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Avon Grove School Board approves proposed final budget

By Steven Hoffman Staff Writer

approved as is. The millage rate, which currently stands at 30.69 mills, would increase to 31.61 mills under this scenario.

For the average property owner in the school district, with a property that has an assessed value of $170,000, a 3-percent tax increase would equate to an increase in the tax bill of approximately $156 before the Homestead/Farmstead exemption is factored in.

The vote was 5-4 in favor of approving the proposed final budget, with school board members Tracy Lisi, Bill Wood, Bonnie Wolff, Herman Engel, and Jeffrey Billig voting in the majority, while John Auerbach, Lynn Weber, Charles Beatty, and Rick Dumont once again

voted in a bloc. It’s unusual for a school board to be so divided on a spending plan The Avon Grove School that is still being worked Board approved a proposed on, but this board has been final budget for the 2019divided on many issues 2020 school year at its during the last two years. meeting on April 25.

School districts in The proposed spending Pennsylvania are required plan totals $98,620,103, to follow set procedures an increase of about during the annual budgeting $1.7 million over the process. A proposed final expenditures budgeted for budget, for example, must the current fiscal year. The be advertised and put on school district’s projected display for the community expenditures for 2019to review before a final 2020 did decline by about budget can be adopted. The $227,000 over the last two months of work leading months, and the spending up to the point where a plan remains a work-inproposed final budget is progress until the final being approved typically budget is adopted. allows board members to A 3-percent tax increase support the spending plan. would be necessary to Both Auerbach and Photo by Richard L. Gaw balance the budget if it is Dumont talked about how Amanda Daley and Jan Michener of Arts Holding Hands and Hearts, Inc. (AHHAH) participated in the they appreciated the effort Kennett Area YMCA’s Healthy Kids Day, which was that has gone into preparing held on April 27. AHHAH also held its inaugural 5K the spending plan, but they and 1K Run/Walk for Children’s Literacy at Anson said that they would not be B. Nixon Park earlier in the day. To read more supporting it. about Healthy Kids Day, please see Page 4A. Auerbach said that the district is always developing a budget that requires the Former Pittsburgh Mayor: maximum increase in taxes that is allowable under the Act 1 Index in a given year.

“It always adds up to all we can get,” Auerbach said.

By Steven Hoffman Several board members Staff Writer expressed their frustration that Auerbach, Beatty, For the second time in less than six months, Avon Dumont, and Weber will Grove School District officials are pushing back against cast “no” votes without a deliberate attempts to spread misinformation about the reasonable explanation as to facilities project that includes the construction of a why they are opposed. new high school and renovation of the current high Wood pointed out that the school into a middle school. school district is required At the April 11 budget work session of the by state law to approve a district’s Committee-of-the-Whole, the school board

By Richard L. Gaw proposed final budget by unanimously agreed that the maximum authorized cost Staff Writer a certain date so that the for the facilities construction project is $127 million. budgeting process can This vote was in response to false information that If the convergence of sevcontinue.

Pennsylvania has been circulating that indicates that the facilities eral initiatives like vision, school districts must project will cost $269 million.

Continued on Page 3A Continued on Page 3A technology and partnerships helped revitalize the City of Pittsburgh 20 years ago, the city’s former mayor told a local group of engineers, builders, planners and architects on April 23 that the same formula can also revive smaller communities

By JP Phillips will be installed on the desk, installing moveable in Chester County.

Photo by Richard L. Gaw Tom Murphy, the forCorrespondent high school junior varsity bookshelves, a makerspace S.A.V.E. Board member and varsity baseball fields, (place for collaboration) mer three-term Mayor of Dr. Louis Kaplan delivered Supervisor James keeping balls in play and and adding a small meeting Pittsburgh who served opening remarks.

Whitesel and the Buildings away from spectators and room. These renovations from 1994 to 2006, deliv“Intentionality: confronting the challenges and Grounds department other fields. are designed for optimal ered of the Unionville-Chadds The middle school media flexibility, as spaces can Communities Succeeding of effectively moving its Ford School District have center will be modernized be quickly reconfigured in the 21st Century,” the communities forward.

“As the former mayor of a their work cut out for them. for the first time since 1998. to suit the need of which- keynote address at an event The April 8 and 22 school Improvements include ever group is using them. held at the Mendenhall city and after having visited board meetings centered repositioning the circulation Continued on Page 3A Inn that was co-spon- over 100 cities during the sored by S.A.V.E. (Safety, last few years, I’ve come around many general Agriculture, Villages & to realize that things don’t maintenance projects, plus Environment, Inc.) and happen by accident,” one Long Range Facilities the Delaware Valley Smart Murphy said. “Great places Plan (LRFP) item, most Growth Alliance. happen because people to be completed over the An eight-term member are very intentional about summer. of the Pennsylvania State it. Whether you’re trying Major items include parLegislature, Murphy to protect the land or tial roof replacements at is currently a senior great cities, the choices a Patton Middle School and resident fellow for urban community makes have an Chadds Ford Elementary development at the Urban impact on their future.

School at a total cost of Land Institute, which “Those choices are $822,000. The four high provides leadership in the becoming increasingly school stairways that were responsible use of land important, because not updated as part of the and helps create thriving ultimately, the rules are major 2010 construction project will get a $126,000 Courtesy photo communities around the getting turned upside down – the rules that we have facelift. The $187,400 Principal Michael Audevard and members of Hillendale world.

Chester County, Murphy based our decisions on in retractable safety netting Elementary’s Student Council present the school’s Continued on Page 2A system (from the LRFP) wellness initiatives at the April 22 U-CF board meeting. said, is not alone in

Avon Grove School Board unanimously consents to facilities project budget

U-CF School Board approves building projects Patton library due for a significant facelift

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the fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties.�

Murphy ticked off six converging forces that are currently having a major impact on how communities plan for their future: globalization, environmental regulation, technical innovation, demographics, the recruitment of talent and finding the money to pay for all of it. In order for a city or a community to meander through the thicket of potential roadblocks, Murphy said, they will need strategic vision and collaboration between government and the private sector. “[Cities and communities] need to know where they want to go,� he said. “I’m not a believer in government solving these problems. I’m a believer in government being in partnership with

the private market, who are the primary drivers in strategic planning, while it’s government’s role to encourage the private market to take risks.�

Murphy said the most important investment that can be made in a city or community is in “Tomorrow. How are you investing to position your city to compete in a world that is changing?�

While Murphy reeled off the stories of U.S. cities that he said are successfully reinventing themselves – Denver, Seattle, Cincinnati and Greenville, S.C. were among those he mentioned – he spent most of the presentation discussing how, during his three terms as the Mayor of Pittsburgh, the city reinvigorated its economy, grew its population and repurposed its abandoned steel mills into vibrant and walkable centers of housing, open space, business and retail.

Murphy said that during World War II, Pittsburgh was responsible for making 60 percent of America’s steel, but after most of the mills closed between 1970 and 1995, the city lost an average of 50,000 residents a year – about 60 percent of its previous population – and its unemployment rate grew to 22 percent. Clearly, a change needed to be made, Murphy said, so during the first 18 months of his tenure as Mayor, the city purchased 1,500 acres of property that had previously housed steel mills, with the intention of cleaning them up and giving them a new definition.

Thirty-four of those acres later became the site of SouthSide Works, an open-air retail, office, entertainment, and residential complex located just across the Monongahela River from the Pittsburgh Technology Center, the University of

Mayor Murphy with members of the S.A.V.E. Board of Directors.

Photos by Richard L. Gaw

Former three-term Mayor of Pittsburgh Tom Murphy was the keynote speaker at a presentation co-sponsored by S.A.V.E. And the Delaware Valley Smart Growth Alliance, held April 23 at the Mendenhall Inn.

Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. The $300 million complex opened in stages between 2002 and 2004.

The SouthSide Works initiative was completed in concert with the urban investment the city was making in several other abandoned factory buildings in Pittsburgh. As a result, several retail stores are now thriving in the city, such as Whole Foods, Google, Home Depot and Neiman Marcus. It’s an example of a great public-private partnership, Murphy said, an initiative that has led to the creation of several smaller businesses which have followed the lead of their larger colleagues and set up in the downtown vicinity.

Pittsburgh has also seen the residual economic

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benefits from having built two new professional sports stadiums on the riverfront near the downtown district – Heinz Field and PNC Park – that have kick-started the opening of several tourist attractions, retail stores and bars and restaurants. “We made a fundamental decision in 1994, when I was becoming Mayor, that we were going to pursue a take-no-prisoners kind of approach,� he said. “We needed to fundamentally change how we thought about Pittsburgh, and so we began to re-evaluate our city.�

Murphy advised those in attendance to have the willingness to take risks; recruit great leadership; create partnerships between the public and private sector; and to not be afraid to delegate money in order to engage in bold

initiatives that attract jobs and recruit talent. “Finally, if you’re going to build anything, build something great,� he said. “Those are your choices, and cities all over the world who are making the right choices and taking risks are succeeding. Those who are trying to protect the status quo are struggling.�

The event also invited Sonia Huntzinger, the economic development administrator for 2nd Century Alliance, a strategic action plan for the City of Coatesville, to discuss the status of the plan.

To learn more about S.A.V.E., visit www. savepa.org. To learn more about the Delaware Valley Smart Growth Alliance, visit www.delawarevalley smartgrowth.org.

To contact Staff Writer Richard L. Gaw, email rgaw@chestercounty.com.

Newlin Grist Mill history program slated “Newlin Grist Mill: Serving the Community for Over Three Centuries,� a free talk by Tony Shahan, will be presented on May 9 at 7 p.m. at the New London Academy (902 State Rd., Lincoln University).

The Newlin Grist Mill, located in Glen Mills, was built in 1704. Since then it has had to adapt to the changing needs of its community, from community sustenance to the international market, to a tourist destination and an educational, preservation, and conservation resource.

Shahan, director of the Newlin Grist Mill, worked with his father, a carpenter and cabinet maker, from a young age. Much of his career has focused on historic mills such as Greenbank Mill and Newlin Grist Mill, where he has been involved in documentation, restoration, programs and interpretation.

This talk is jointly sponsored by the New London Area Historical Society and the Franklin Township Historical Commission. Everyone is invited, and refreshments will be served afterward.

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by June 30 of each year, so there is a deadline to approve the proposed final budget.

“This is still a preliminary budget,” Wood said. “There are still opportunities to continue working on the budget.”

Wood said that if the four members are voting against the proposed final budget because of the size of the tax increase, they should be offering suggestions on how to trim the budget, and offering details about what level of spending that they would be comfortable with so that the district can adopt a final budget.

“What would it take for you to vote yes?” Wood asked.

“I wish I could answer that,” Auerbach replied. He said that he did not have access to the information necessary to provide such details.

Wood pointed out that after spending many months during the last fiscal year

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According to a press release that was distributed by the school district following the Committeeof-the-Whole vote, the false information “was most likely derived from a hypothetical bond repayment schedule included in the bond parameters resolution that the school board passed in November 2018.

The district would like to emphasize that the project is not going to cost $269 million, and the district is not going to borrow $139 million for this project.”

School board president Tracy Lisi addressed this misinformation printed in the Daily Local News on April 1, indicating that the “total cost of the project is expected to be well below the $127 million the board has authorized as its maximum expenditure.” While the maximum expenditure is $127 million, there is currently no expectation that the cost of this project will be well below this figure.

The district has asked the newspaper to print a correction, according to the statement that was released.

The statement went on to say that, “Board policy states that it is the responsibility of the school board to clearly communicate the accurate budget to the community. The district has worked very hard to be as transparent as possible to ensure that every stakeholder is well informed regarding this district initiative. Avon Grove School District will continue to provide updates about the facilities construction project as we reach various benchmarks. For more information, visit https:// w w w. a v o n g r o v e . o r g / facilities-1.”

Late last year, the school board—despite objections from a few members—issued a statement attempting to correct what it called inaccurate and misleading information regarding the high school project that was shared on social media and website posts.

At that time, Lisi specifically addressed a post on a website maintained by the Avon Grove Taxpayers for Responsible Spending that

on developing the budget for the 2018-2019 school year, the end result was still having Auerbach, Dumont, Beatty, and Weber opposing the plan at the end of the process.

Billig also expressed his frustration that the four board members consistently vote against issues without working with the rest of the board by providing specific improvements.

“You’re telling us what you don’t want to do,” Billig said. “What do you want to do? It’s easy to say no. It’s a lot harder to propose an alternative.”

Wood also took exception to the suggestion that the board members were denied access to all the information that they needed to make decisions about the budget. He explained that the school district changed its budgeting process, moving away from the system where the Finance and Budget Committee took a lead in developing the spending plan, to one where the full board had a more active role throughout the whole

process.

Wood added that all the board members had the option of talking to Superintendent Dr. Christopher Marchese and the district’s director of business administration, Daniel Carsley, to have specific budget questions answered.

Marchese himself cast doubt on claims that the board members didn’t have all the information that they needed. He called Avon Grove’s budgeting process the most detailed that he has seen during his 21 years in education.

“It’s a little upsetting to me to hear board members say that they don’t have enough information to make a decision about the budget,” Marchese said. “It’s disappointing.

Countless hours have gone into these presentations.”

The school board is expected to adopt a final budget for the 2019-2020 school year at its meeting on June 6.

To contact Staff Writer Steven Hoffman, email editor@chestercounty.com.

had a summary of a Nov. 15 meeting of the Avon Grove School Board. The summary included a headline which read, “Board votes 5-4 to increase borrowing from $127 to $139 million.”

The summary then went on to say that the board voted to approve the borrowing resolution of $139 million, which is $12 million more than what was the previous “ceiling” of $127 million.

Lisi offered four detailed “fact checks” to the online posts. The most significant fact check pertained to the amount that the school district expects to borrow in order to construct a new high school and renovate the existing high school into a middle school. There was also a fact-check on a claim posted on the website that the facilities project would lock the school district into maximum tax increases for a number of years.

Lisi emphasized the need at the time for the board to correct any misinformation that is being circulated in the community to deliberately mislead residents.

“I felt compelled to correct the inaccurate information,” Lisi said.

Superintendent Dr. Christopher Marchese supported Lisi’s statement about the importance of correcting any misinformation that might be circulating.

He implored the school board members to be proactive when it comes to making sure that the correct information is being shared with the community.

“If we see things that are inaccurate, I feel strongly that we have a responsibility to correct it,” Marchese said. “When you see things like this, please correct it.”

To contact Staff Writer Steven Hoffman, email editor@chestercounty.com.

Avon Grove students succeed in the Delaware Valley Science Fair Competition On April 3, Avon Grove High School (AGHS) students Zoe Frantz and Josh Schindler earned numerous honors for their research at the Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF) in Philadelphia.

Frantz, a junior at AGHS, conducted a research project titled “Testing of the Future,” which questioned whether taking a test on paper or a computer will impact the test score.

Nearly 600 participants in grades 4 through 9 were given a paper test and an online test using state standardized questions. The results of the study indicated that middle and high school students scored higher on the paper exams, but students in the lower grades had the same scores regardless of how the test was administered.

Frantz secured first place in the behavioral and social sciences category, and won a silver medal for her age group. She was recog-

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nized with the American Psychological Award from the American Psychological Association, and qualifies for the INTEL International Science Fair in Phoenix, Arizona in May. In addition, Frantz has been offered scholarships from Drexel University, Harrisburg University and the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

The research project conducted by Schindler, a freshman at AGHS, looked at how positive and negative reinforcement affects the success of a participant in a challenge. Schindler tested this by putting participants in conditions with positive, negative and no reinforcement.

Results indicated that positive reinforcement had the best effect on the participant.

Schindler earned first place in the behavioral and social sciences category for his age group, won the Jack Mixit Award, and was also recognized with the ovens for the high school.

No tax money is used, as the $55,000 cost will be paid for from the self-funding food service budget.

At the work session, Director of Curriculum and Instruction Tim Hoffman proposed joining an Ebook and audio library sharing consortium, where libraries band together and offer all of their online items to other members. This allows U-CF libraries to increase their digital offerings at a much more moderate price, versus owning all of the items outright. Hoffman also presented a new

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Avon Grove High School freshman Josh Schindler and junior Zoe Frantz proudly display one of many awards received by each of them at the Delaware Valley Science Fair competition.

American Psychological Award from the American Psychological Association.

Founded in 1949, the Delaware Valley Science Fairs, Inc. is a non-profit organization sponsored by area companies, foundations, universities and individual donors.

One of the oldest and largest fairs in the country, DVSF embraces the philosophy that students learn science by doing science. In the process, students learn how to think and develop critical problem-solving skills that they will need for college, careers and citizenship. catalog program (called Destiny) that will make searching for books much easier, especially for younger readers. The user interface would be more intuitive, similar to Netflix.

Additionally, unlike the current system, searches will be successful, even if an author’s name or book title is misspelled.

The 2019-2020 budget will be formally revealed at a special May 6 school board meeting. The budget would be available for public comment and review before its final approval in June.

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Bike Kennett distributes 55 free bicycles at YMCA’s Healthy Kids Day

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer

Photos by Richard L. Gaw

Members of Bike Kennett helped distribute 55 donated bicycles and 120 bike helmets to the community, as part of the Kennett Area YMCA’s Healthy Kids Day on April 27.

The event gave local children the opportunity to engage in several games and activities.

On spectacular early Spring days, it is customary for parents to tell their children, “Go out and play. It’s beautiful outside.”

As the Saturday morning sun broke through the clouds along Broad Street in Kennett Square on April 27, that’s just what hundreds of youngsters did, as the Kennett Area YMCA’s annual Healthy Kids Day joined several local organizations in encouraging families to live healthy and active lives.

Throughout the event, children participated in bike rodeos, rollerskating, moon bounces and obstacle courses, as well demonstrations for Zumba for Kids and “Minute to Win It” games.

In advance of the 30th anniversary of the Kennett Run on May 11, Race Director JJ Simon conducted a short fun race for children in the Broad Street area.

Perhaps the largest takeaway from Healthy Kids Day was in the form of free bicycles – 55 to be exact, as well as 120 bike helmets – that were distributed to children and families by Bike Kennett, a local bicycle advocacy

Kennett Run Race Director JJ Simon, right, led a group of youngsters on a fun run through the neighborhoods around Broad Street in Kennett Square.

Camila Zavala gets her new bike inspected by Jim Chaya of Trek Wilmington, who donated four dozen new bikes to Bike Kennett.

group. Throughout the event, Bike Kennett members introduced riders to their new bicycles, the majority of which were donated by Trek Bicycle Wilmington, while the Newark Bike Project donated eight children’s bikes. Bike Kennett also received financial support from Velo Amis and the Mushroom Cap Half Marathon to purchase the helmets.

Bike Kennett also donated bicycles and helmets to the community in 2018, but organization president Josie Marsh continued to see a need to provide more bicycles in the community.

“There is no bike shop here in Kennett Square, so whether you have a bike that needs to be repaired or want to purchase a new one, there’s no way to do that locally,” Marsh said. “For the second consecutive year, we’re working with Trek Wilmington, which does a trade-in program with bike owners, giving them a $50 discount on their new bike if they bring in the old one.”

Established in 2016, Bike Kennett has been collaborating with local municipalities to link safe bicycle riding with the establishment of new bikeways, trails and sidewalks. In the past few years, the organization has worked with the Kennett Township Sidewalks and Trails Committee in the development of the township’s Active Transportation Plan, which includes the establishment of a trail connection from Kennett Square to Chadds Ford that will ultimately link to the Circuit Trails in Philadelphia. The organization has also played a part in upgrading the Parish Trail from Herb Pennock Park to Hillendale Road, adding an off-road trail from Hillendale Road to the now-closed Chandler Mill Bridge, creating the Magnolia Trail from Cannery Row to Herb Pennock Park, adding bike lanes on Cypress Street and Old Baltimore Pike between Mill Road and Toughkenamon, and continuing its sidewalk construction project with additional sidewalks to be constructed on McFarland Road and Cypress Street.

The continuing distribution of bicycles, Marsh said, helps to force the hand of local decisionmakers to make more bicycle trails possible.

“We want to encourage everybody and anybody to ride bikes, and the more people who are doing it, the easier case we have to tell Kennett Square Borough and Kennett Township to build trails, install bike lanes, and create opportunities for people to get around on bikes,” she said. “We don’t yet have the infrastructure here to do so yet, but it’s slowly coming, and the more people who want to use bicycles, the better case we have, and the healthier our community and our environment becomes.”

To contact Staff Writer Richard L. Gaw, email rgaw@chestercounty.com.

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Local News Kennett High School Future Business Leaders attend state competition Thirty-one members of Kennett High School’s Future Business Leaders of America club attended the state competition in Hershey from April 7 through 10.

In order to qualify for the state competition, students placed in the top three in online events and the top four in performance events at the regional level competitions held in December.

Eighteen of the 31 members who competed were state finalists. Those students included: Jason Leaeno - Accounting II (first place); Benjamin Cohen and Connor Hollick - Banking and Financial Systems; Jack Reindl and Josh Faust - Banking and Financial Systems;

Rhea Jiang - Business Calculations (second place); Chris Ferrighetto, Jack Mullen, and Connor Schmidt - Global Business; Sebastian Kley and Jonathan Morgan - Marketing; Matt Hauptschein, Jonathan Bell, and Davis Piercy - Sports and Entertainment Management; Kyle Robertson, Noah Rasero, and Alex Starr - MIS; and Colin Petersen Organizational Leadership.

The purpose of FBLA is to prepare members for careers in business and to assist them by becoming better employees and citizens. FBLA helps students develop leadership abilities, prepares them for entry into business-related occupations, and offers

Future Business Leaders of America club members.

a setting in which members compete at regional, state, and national levels in a business and technology curriculum.

The Kennett High School Chapter of the Future Business Leaders of America is co-advised by business teacher Bill Fritsch and social studies

teacher Joe O’Sullivan, who accompanied the students to the conference in Hershey. School librarian Lisa Teixeira also served as chaperone.

“All 31 members who attended did extremely well and were terrific representatives of Kennett High School,” Fritsch said.

Avondale man arrested for sexual assault of children An Avondale man is in Chester County Prison, facing additional charges of raping children after more victims were interviewed by police.

Jose Alfredo VilchisNava, 27, was arrested and arraigned on the additional charges related to an investigation and arrest initiated by the Kennett Square Police Criminal Investigations Division.

He was originally arrested

by Kennett Square Police on Feb. 14 for raping a pre-teen girl in Kennett Square numerous times.

On Feb. 15, Vilchas-Nava was turned over to Chester County Prison for booking.

On Feb. 16, he was taken to Chester County Prison

Barrar to host a REAL ID informational session on May 16 Rep. Steve Barrar (R-Chester/Delaware) is hosting a REAL ID informational session on Thursday, May 16, from 6-8 p.m. at Garnet Valley Middle School auditorium, 601 Smithbridge Road, Glen Mills.

PennDOT will share information about REAL ID and answer questions from the audience.

Additionally, staff will be available to preliminarily review people’s REAL ID

documents to ensure they have what they need when they visit a driver license center.

“I have heard from some residents of the 160th District about the frustration they experienced as they have tried to obtain a REAL ID. As the process is new for everyone, I wanted to host an event to clear up any confusion and give people the opportunity to make sure they have the documents they need before

spending a weekend morning at the DMV – only to find out the documents they have are insufficient,” Barrar said.

The federal REAL ID law established guidelines for states to provide new and more secure forms of identification cards. In the future, residents will need these new REAL ID cards, or another form of federally accepted identification, such as a passport, to enter federal buildings, including

courthouses, as well as to board commercial flights.

Residents who would like their REAL ID materials to be reviewed should bring original versions or certified copies of the necessary documents: ~ Proof of identity: Birth certificate with raised seal, issued by an authorized government agency, or valid U.S. passport. ~ Social Security card. ~ Proof of all legal name changes: marriage certifi-

cate, court order or divorce decree issued by resident’s county’s family court. ~ Two proofs of current, physical Pennsylvania address: current, unexpired Pennsylvania license or ID and a bank statement or utility bill that is no more than 90 days old with the same name and address.

It is not necessary to RSVP for the event, but residents are asked to call Barrar’s office at 610-3585925 with any questions.

Jose Alfredo Vilchas-Nava

after failing to post $1 million cash bail. He has been in Chester County Prison since Feb. 15.

The Kennett Square Police Criminal Investigative Division, with the assistance of the Chester County Detectives, the Crime Victim’s Center of Chester County, and the Chester County Department of Children Youth and Families, are investigating the case.

Vilchas-Nava is charged with rape of a child, statutory sexual assault, sexual contact with a person less than 16, sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault of a child, indecent assault of a person less than 13 years old, endangering the welfare of children and corruption of minors.

In 2018, he was arrested for DUI and related offenses after police stopped his vehicle during a sobriety checkpoint.

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Chatham grants bring robots to Oxford elementary schools With the increased role of robots in science, industry, law enforcement and national defense, it is becoming more essential for students to understand the concepts of robotics and to gain hands-on experience with robots, which may play a role in a student’s career path. In the Oxford Area School District, the opportunity for elementary age students to program and utilize robots in the classroom recently received a huge boost from Chatham Financial, a Kennett Square based firm that provides cloudbased software and advisory services for companies in the risk management field.

Through its Robotics @ Chatham program, the company awarded grants to support STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) initiatives at Nottingham and Hopewell elementary schools. The grants will support the capabilities of robotics and coding through the use of iPads, aligning with district and state science and technology standards in grades four through six.

The goal of Robotics @ Chatham is to ignite and sustain student interest in robotics and the STEM fields. Chatham believes that in addition to technical skills, robotics helps develop collaborative and problem-solving abilities, and also opens opportunities for college scholarships and internships that can have a lifelong impact on a student.

Nottingham fourth grade teacher Scott Schaffer secured a $3,000 grant to purchase Ozobots, small robots that can be easily programmed by students on an iPad or by using special markers that place embedded

codes on paper, creating a “design map” which the Ozobot reads in order to progress through a pre-determined course. With five skill levels from beginner to master coding, Ozobots teach basic STEM skills, critical thinking and debugging, and have gotten an enthusiastic response from Mr. Schaffer’s students. Hopewell STEM teacher Mark Neff used a Chatham grant to purchase the Sphero SPRK + robotics program, which features small round robots similar to Ozobots.

Bert Boehmler, a software development engineer at Chatham, serves on a committee that reviews Robotics @ Chatham grant requests. “We realize that tech purchases for schools are not cheap,” he said.

“Our goal is to get kids to be hands-on with technology, to use it and not be afraid of it. That starts with making technology available to teachers and getting them excited about it.”

“Technology needs to be democratized,” added Boehmler. “People, especially young people, need to feel comfortable with it because it’s here to stay. At Chatham we believe the more technology becomes part of education the better.”

Ben Eimer, a quantitative analyst with Chatham whose son Max is in Schaffer’s class, also serves on the grant committee. “I was genuinely and pleasantly surprised by the grant application from Mr. Schaffer,” he said. “It was great to see a teacher in my home school district making use of this opportunity, and I was excited to see what the kids could do with the technology.”

“In our science units I am I always looking for a more

hands-on approach to lessons, and then I’ll try to see how I can incorporate that approach throughout the curriculum,” said Schaffer. “Before applying for the Chatham grant I researched the kind of robots that would be effective in meeting the particular needs of a fourth grade class, and the Ozobots are very good in incorporating math into the robotics project.

“The Ozobots fit in perfectly with our math unit on angles.

We’ve had a lot fun drawing angles and other shapes and it’s amazing to see how the robot can do exactly what you want it to do.”

Much of the enjoyment factor of Ozobots comes from the ability to use different marker colors to command the robot to move in a particular way.

“There is a sensor on the bottom of the Ozobot that follows the marker code, so the black maker determines the basic pathway the robot follows,” Schaffer explained. “And then there’s a red, blue and green marker that the students can use to code tasks for the robot to do, like speeding up, slowing down, spinning and reversing course.

So as it progresses over the design map, the Ozobot is going

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Scott Schaffer (back, second from left) and his students are pictured with Oxford Area School District Superintendent David Woods (back, left), Chatham Financial grant committee members (rear from left) Sam Heriegel, Bert Boehmler and Ben Eimer; and Nottingham Elementary School Principal Lisa Yingst-Pyle, back right.

to read each color code and do what’s it was programmed to do.”

Schaffer said his students would eventually use an Ozobot app on their iPads to write block code and create more complex design maps. “By using the iPads, we are integrating technology the district already has with a supplemental piece like the Ozobots to take things to the next level,” he said. “The possibilities are endless.”

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Students in Scott Schaffer’s fourth graders at Nottingham look at a wall of design maps they created since they began using the Ozobots in class.

Nottingham Elementary School fourth grader Max Eimer places an Ozobot on a design map featuring a coded path he created for the robot to follow.

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Letter to the Editor

The alliance for Coatesville

Avon Grove School District needs forward-thinking school board members

“I pray for the faith, Lord We pray for your love, Lord We pray for the lost, Lord We pray for this world, Lord We pray for the strength, Lord We pray for the strength, Lord Come on, rise up.”

Bruce Springsteen, My City’s in Ruins For the past several years, Coatesville has been a city of two faces.

At its most visible, it is seen in the archaic and crumbling infrastructure of what it had been, which was carved out of the vision and success of the Lukens Steel Company, who for several decades engineered and orchestrated Coatesville’s economic heartbeat and gave the community its definition. At its highest powers, Lukens Steel made Coatesville “the Pittsburgh of the East,” employed 10,000 workers, but eventually, through several sales, those numbers dwindled to 5,000 and eventually to 2,000.

To the infrequent visitor, Coatesville has become merely a necessary thoroughfare, a middle point between home and a destination– a Chester County detour of broken promises and shattered confidence.

And yet, a far less visible face, led by a groundswell of leadership, vision and support, is midway through restoring Coatesville to its former greatness.

Begun in 2017, a five-year action plan known as 2nd Century Alliance has created a five-step process to cultivate partnerships, leverage public and private resources, and invest in human capital. The steps are as follows: • Create a vibrant commercial corridor • Inspire investor confidence and build a business-friendly atmosphere • Build strong, stable residential neighborhoods • Improve the overall quality of life • Communicate the positive attributes of the city While every lofty aspiration comes with its own set of Big Picture goals, the road to achieving them is found on the battleground of being able to check off dozens of objectives, and taking a look at what the 2nd Alliance has accomplished in its first two years is a checklist of progress.

They’ve produced an inventory of properties in the city’s commercial corridor – such as anchor and corner buildings -- that are being selected for improvements. They’ve established business partnerships who will coordinate development strategies, and found funding and training to assist staff who will support the rebuilding of neighborhoods. The Alliance has identified more than one dozen projects it anticipates accomplishing in 2019.

There is one objective – listed in Goal Five – that stands out above the rest. To that infrequent visitor, it may seem impossible but in fact, forms the endgame dream for what the residents and leaders of Coatesville want most to achieve: To market downtown Coatesville as a destination for living, working and recreation.

Imagine then, years from now, that infrequent visitor who drives through the new city of Coatesville. He will see a city renewed of spirit, of economy, of vision, and suddenly, it is our hope, that the vehicle he is driving does not drive through this town, but makes a hard left, directly into its reborn heart.

To learn more about the 2nd Century Alliance, visit www.2ndCenturyAlliance.org.

Letter to the Editor: The Avon Grove School District has long needed a comprehensive plan to meet the needs of current and future students.

Built in 1957, Avon Grove High School has served the district and community for over 60 years, but for nearly 20 of them, modular classrooms have been in use to address the overflow of students. Fred S. Engle Middle School has had modular classroom units for more than a decade. Most recently, Penn London Elementary added modular units in order to implement full-day kindergarten, which is research-informed best practice. For years, the development of a well-thought-out plan that would meet the needs of our growing community has been punted to the next board, creating the need to continually expand

use of modular units. While these units have added needed classroom space, their use doesn’t address the capacity within the main structure common areas (cafeteria, auditorium, gymnasium, hallways, rest rooms, etc.), which are unable to meet the needs of the school population effectively.

The Facility Input Group report included information demonstrating that Avon Grove School District lags behind 18 nearby districts in terms of square footage per student. The next-lowest district has 14 more square feet per student, and the top district has 110 more square feet per student! Last year, the Avon Grove School Board, after much research and deliberation, finally approved a plan that would ensure adequate space for students by building a new high school and renovating the current

high school to serve middle school students.

In order to ensure the board moves forward with the unanimously approved plan, it is imperative that we elect candidates who understand the importance of planning effectively for the expanding needs of our growing communities.

While some candidates are implying that enrollment is declining, population planning figures do not support that. The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission projections indicate that the municipalities within our district will expand by 15.6 percent over the 2015 population by 2025 and 43.9 percent by 2045. We need a longterm solution in order to avoid incurring more costs over time with continual short-term fixes that don’t last. Even if our population remains flat, we are still

over capacity in three of four district buildings.

Vote for candidates who understand we cannot put off addressing building capacity any longer. Vote for candidates who will not throw away the millions of dollars the school district has already invested in the new high school project.

Vote for candidates who are willing to review all of the information and make decisions that put the needs of students first to ensure the district can fulfill its mission to foster a learning environment for all students to be exceptionally wellprepared to succeed and lead full and meaningful lives. Vote for Dorothy Linn (Region I), Jeff Billig and Tracy Lisi (Region II), and Herman Engel and Bonnie Wolff (Region III).

Susan Burns London Grove Township

The election of the next Avon Grove School Board will determine the health and vitality of community for decades to come Letter to the Editor: Mark Stewart, Jr. and I are running for Avon Grove School Director. There are two seats up for election in Region II, which covers New London Township, Penn Township, and West Grove Borough 1. We entered this race because of our deep concern for the educational outcomes of the Avon Grove School District students and the financial welfare of families living in the district.

Having both graduated from Avon Grove, we are passionate about serving the community that contributed to the academic and professional success we enjoy today. Long ties to this community form the basis of the comprehensive plan we have for the future of the school district. Our goal is to provide

opportunities for academic excellence for future generations at a level of spending that is affordable to the taxpayers in our community.

Presently, the district’s facilities need attention.

They have not been properly attended to for far too long. The options to address the issues range from renovating and expanding current facilities to abandoning some facilities and building new ones.

The current majority on the board has opted for the latter option. According to board approved Parameters Borrowing Resolutions, the school district can borrow from between $127 million to $139 million, and ultimately spend anywhere from $200 million to $269 million on their proposed facilities plan. Their plan calls for a new high school, abandonment of the

existing middle school, and repurposing of the existing high school to a middle school.

We propose a balanced, far less expensive approach—to renovate and expand existing facilities.

Our plan eliminates the cost of roadway improvements, extensive site preparation costs on Sunnyside Road, the costs to operate and maintain an additional campus, duplicate bus transportation resulting from splitting the co-located high school and middle schools, etc.

A renovation and expansion plan will allow funding to be directed where it is most needed: classroom supplies, upto-date technology and teacher compensation. The renovation and expansion plan could be accomplished for approximately 20

percent of the cost of the plan being pushed by the administration and school board majority.

Furthermore, lower real estate taxes associated with our plan will allow parents to prepare for the future cost of their child’s higher education and allow people on fixed incomes to remain in our community.

The election of the next school board will determine the health and vitality of our community for decades to come. If elected, we will fight for a great education for our children, but also demonstrate strong common sense and financial stewardship for all the people who call the Avon Grove school district home.

Carmela Ciliberti Avon Grove School Board candidate

Outcomes matter Letter to the Editor: There are local school board candidates running on a platform to stop the 9-0 unanimous decision for the Avon Grove School District facilities project, even though the project has been underway for a year and a half, and is the result of four years of planning.

Avon Grove taxpayers have already invested millions of dollars into this project.

What would the outcome be of this reckless act to stop a facilities project that is already underway?

The millions of dollars already invested by taxpayers in this project would be wasted! The notion of throwing away millions of dollars under the guise of “responsible spending” is hypocritical and would be tragically ironic.

The community is a sought-after destination

because of our schools.

If the school district abandoned the project, Avon Grove would become known for this “scandal.” We would be the community that elected individuals who stopped a much-needed school construction project that was already underway for more than a year and a half. Who would still want to move here for the schools?

We will be the only district in Chester County with significant facilities problems and homebuyers will know it. They will move to other districts that have fulfilled the responsibility to their community’s children and their schools—Oxford, Kennett, Unionville, Garnet Valley, West Chester, etc.

Every local district except Avon Grove has managed to see their projects through to completion and take care of their schools.

We will be the only district in Chester County that spent millions on a facilities project, stopped it halfway through, and left

generations of Avon Grove children to suffer the educational consequences.

Whether or not you agreed with this project to begin with is a moot point now. The project has started. Even after the last election, this project was supported and voted on 9-0 by the school board.

Those board members who previously opposed this project came to recognize the extensive and pressing need for a comprehensive plan to address our facilities crisis. And now, a year and a half later, millions of dollars have been spent.

Now is the time to unite and see this project through with integrity and responsibility.

Outcomes matter. Vote to re-elect Billig and Lisi (Region 2) and Engel and Wolff (Region 3) for their proven record. Support newcomer Dorothy Linn (Region 1) for her record of support for schools and fiscal responsibility.

Leslie Erb-Wallace New London Township

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Oxford Rotary makes a donation to Oxford Area Recreation Authority

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The Oxford Rotary, through the Oxford Rotary Foundation, presented a check in the amount of $300 to the Oxford Area Recreation Authority at the April 24 Rotary meeting.

Pictured presenting the check is Rotarian Raymond Fischer. Representing the Recreation Authority is Marcella Peyre-Ferry, a Recreation Authority board member for Elk Township. She serves as the secretary for the board.

The Oxford Area Recreation Authority is a multi-municipal authority that includes Oxford Borough, East Nottingham, Elk, Lower Oxford, and West Nottingham townships. Funds will be used to help support projects at the Oxford Area Regional Park, located at 900 W. Locust St., in Oxford.

Now in Effect: Pennsylvania won’t suspend driver’s licenses for non-driving offenses Act 95 of 2018, signed into law by Gov. Tom Wolf in October 2018, is now in effect to eliminate driver’s license suspensions for non-driving infractions in Pennsylvania. The law amends Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes to reflect that a driving privilege suspension will no longer be imposed for certain non-highway safety violations, including substance use violations.

“The General Assembly stepped up and enacted this common sense legislation that promotes smart sentencing reform but there is more work to do,” Gov. Wolf said.

“We need to break down even more unnecessary and especially difficult roadblocks to success

and stability. Having a valid driver’s license often is the key to finding and keeping a job, especially in parts of Pennsylvania where public transportation isn’t readily accessible.

“We must ensure penalties promote rehabilitation, instead of the opposite. We need to make this our goal when it comes to probation and parole, and bail policies. If our policies make a second chance harder, especially in a way that is disproportional by economic status, they need to change.”

The law that Act 95 amended was one of many Congress enacted to punish drug crimes in the early 1990s when the War on Drugs sought to significantly reduce drug crimes. Congress had threatened states

with reduced federal highway funding if they didn’t enact the automatic driver’s licenses suspensions for drug crimes.

Over the next two decades states began using a provision of the federal law that allowed them to opt out of these suspensions.

Pennsylvania’s Act 95 allows that the state will no longer automatically suspend upwards of 20,000 driver’s licenses each year for reasons that don’t include driving offenses.

“I hope the nine remaining states with this archaic law will follow Pennsylvania’s lead in championing common sense criminal justice reform such as ending driver’s license suspensions for nondriving offenses,” Wolf said.”

Township secretary graduates from Municipal Government Academy Dawn Maciejczyk, secretary of London Grove Township, recently graduated from the Municipal Government Academy (PMGA), a leadership and municipal education program of the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors (PSATS).

“PSATS launched the Municipal Government Academy several years ago to give township officials and staff a leg up on performing their duties,” said PSATS executive director David Sanko. “In the academy, education in leadership and communication skills overlaps the training

in four technical tracks: administration, planning and zoning, public safety, and public works.”

PMGA participants earn p r i m a r y, secondary, and elective credits by attending classroom workshops and webinars and other PSATS educational opportunities, such as

the Annual Educational Conference, Human Resources and Labor Management Institute, Boot Camp for Township Officials, and Grassroots Advocacy Day. In this year’s graduating class, 10 people, including Maciejczyk, completed the diploma program

by earning 60 credits from across the four tracks. Six individuals completed the certif icate program by earning 30 credits in the administration track.

PSATS structured the academy to give participants practical information they can use in their positions,

Sanko said.

“We didn’t want to just have courses on abstract local governance topics,” he said. “We wanted to make sure that students came out with useful strategies and techniques to help them do their jobs better and more efficiently. That’s our ultimate goal.”

Devon Horse Show & Country Fair returns on May 23 The Main Line is gearing up for the 2019 Devon Horse Show and Country Fair. This annual tradition has benefitted Bryn Mawr Hospital for the past 100 years, with completion of a five-year, $2 million pledge bringing the total donation to the hospital on behalf of the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair to more than $18 million.

Complete schedules for the numerous equestrian and Country Fair events as well as ticket, raffle, and vendor information can be found at www. d e v o n h o r s e s h o w. n e t .

Event for the fair, which runs from May 23 through June 2, include: May 23: Community Night, Alumni Night, Dog Show The show kicks off with free admission and free parking after 5 p.m. Alumni Corner welcomes all local high school grads with fun activities and special themed drinks and food specials. The 3rd Annual Dog Show, presented by What a Good Dog in the Dixon Oval, will feature a crowd-pleasing exhibition and four classes: Walk-Trot with Me, Jumpers, Tricks, and Lead Line Costume Parade. New this year are the Halo Awards, honoring dogs who provide service.

May 24: Border Collies, Sheep, and Ducks Don’t miss this crowdpleasing demonstration featuring border collies, sheep, and ducks.

May 25: Children’s Tea Party, Radnor Hunt Foxhounds Bring the littles ones

to watch the adorable leadline classes and pony hunt teams. Children 12 and younger are invited to the inaugural Children’s Tea Party, to be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Limited to 40 guests. In the evening, don’t miss the Radnor Hunt Foxhounds, when horse and rider will parade with a pack of hounds.

May 26: Pony Steeplechase, $50,000 Arena Eventing Class Enjoy the fast-paced pony steeplechase in the afternoon, followed by eventing in the evening.

Beginning at 7 p.m., elite horse and rider pairs will navigate 15 standard crosscountry jumps and 10 show jumps over a 1,000meter course designed by Olympic gold medalist Mark Phillips.

Monday, May 27: Tribute to Heroes Military personnel, first responders and their families get free admission and special seating. A tribute starts at 6:30 p.m., with the winning Halo Award dog recipients honored as well.

May 28: Family Day The Country Fair offers discounts on food, midway rides and souvenirs. Take a peek behind the scenes with free Back-Barn Tours from 3 to 6 p.m.

May 29: Ladies Day Ladies are invited to gather in their best hats to enjoy this year’s theme, “An Enchanted Garden.”

Festivities run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and include live music, raffle prizes, an elegant cocktail reception,

and gift bags. Returning this year is celebrity style expert Carson Kressley, who will join other local celebrity judges for the Hat Day Contest. All ladies in elegant hats get free general admission to show grounds until 1 p.m.

May 30: Sapphire Grand Prix of Devon This FEI event features the highest caliber of riders, including many Olympians, competing for a $250,000 purse. Tickets are $75 each.

June 2: Family Day/ Devon Plant Sale Bring your children to the Country Fair for musical entertainment and special activities, including the Itty-Bitty Hat parade led by an area drum corps.

After the last horse show event, the Devon Plant Sale takes place inside the Main Gate, where plants from the show and fair are available at reduced prices. .

Tickets to the Devon Horse Show & Country Fair can be purchased online at www.devonhorseshow. net/devon-horse-show/ purchase-tickets, by phone at 610-688-2554, or in person on the first floor of the Devon Club, located on the corner of Dorset and Berkley roads. The ticket office in the Devon Club is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Started in 1896, the Devon Horse Show is the oldest and largest outdoor multi-breed competition in the United States and draws top competitors from around the world.

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Face painters were among the busiest and most popular vendors at the festival.

Jason Ulikowski of Brewski’s BBQ competition team stoked up the fire at his team’s tent.

Capacity crowd attends New Garden BBQ fest

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer When this year’s Brandywine Backyard BBQ Festival got underway at the New Garden Township Park on April 28, a slow and steady stream of vehicles arrived in prompt observation of the noon start time.

Less than an hour into the event, however, the park’s lot was full, as was the area at the township’s maintenance center, forcing festival organizers to direct the overflow traffic to the New Garden Township Building on Starr Road, and ask visitors to cut through the park.

They did, and by 2 p.m., many of the 1,800 who attended the festival were scattered throughout the park in pockets of fun, food and activity.

For the second consecutive year, nearly a dozen competitors rolled their BBQ equipment and recipes to compete in the Brandywine Backyard BBQ Challenge for the right to claim the award for best chicken and/or pork ribs. After judging by the Kansas City Barbecue Society, the winning entrants were grand champion Poultrygeist, captained by Carlo Prestileo; and reserve grand champion D’Qued Barbeque, captained by Steve Dotson. The first place winner in the chicken category was If You Got It Smoke It, captained

by Mike Norris; and first place in the ribs category went to Poultrygeist.

While the general public did not have the opportunity to sample any of the food entered in the competition, they did take on the culinary delights that came out of the several food trucks at the festival, including The Road Rancher, Uncle John’s BBQ, El Mercadito, 22 BBQ, Natalie’s Fine Foods,

Rita’s Water Ice, Swamp Town BBQ, On The Roll and Baked of West Chester. Adults sipped on beers from Victory Brewing Company and wines from the Harvest Ridge Winery.

Two bands – The Late Ambitions and Old 442 – performed throughout the festival at the park’s pavilion.

If half of the festival served as a tasty forum that determined winning BBQ entries, then its remaining half was owned by the hundreds of children in attendance, who participated in an obstacle course, ladderball, cornhole, volleyball and badminton, paintball, Twister,

hula hoops and archery.

Hosted by the Chester County Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the festival raised money that helps defray the cost of scouting for young people through the Friends of Scouting Program; specifically, scouts in the Kennett Consolidated, Unionville-Chadds Ford, Avon Grove, Octorara, Oxford and Cecil County school districts.

Funding will help pay for uniforms, registration fees, camps and leadership training.

To contact Staff Writer Richard L. Gaw, email rgaw@ chestercounty.com.

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This happy group enjoyed a water ice break.

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Ron Calloway of Zoni-Q in Lincoln University chilled and grilled as a competitor at the second annual Brandywine Backyard BBQ Festival.

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Students to perform ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer The upcoming production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Kennett Middle School on May 3 and 4 celebrates not just an anniversary for its creators, but also for the school at which this production will be performed.

In 1968, Joseph was f irst presented as a 15-minute “pop cantata” at Colet Court School in London, with music by Andrew Lloyd Weber and lyrics by Tim Rice. It was the first musical by the team that had ever been performed publicly, and the idea of basing an entire musical on the “coat of many colours” story of Joseph that appears in the Bible represented a huge creative risk for Weber and Rice.

A year later, the musical was published and recorded in an expanded form by Decca Records, and it premiered on Broadway in 1982. Over its 50-year existence, Joseph has become one of the mostproduced musicals in the world, and as recently as 2008, the musical had been performed in more than 20,000 schools and amateur theaters, a number that has easily doubled in the last few years.

Twenty years ago, under the direction of Heather Uster, the Kennett Middle School unveiled its first musical production, entitled Castaways. While it served as an opportunity for a group of middle schoolers to dip their toes into the experience of musical theater, that first production has led to an annual tradition that’s inspired – and challenged -- hundreds of students under Uster’s direction.

“We like a challenge, and when students are told that they need to be up to challenge, they meet that challenge,” said Uster, who is working with a cast and crew of nearly 90 students, with the assistance of stage

manager Gretchen Coe and other volunteers.

“Doing an operetta like Joseph is more challenging for students because there are virtually no non-singing parts, but we’re able to find other roles for them, such as dancing, cheerleading, and acting the part of a children’s choir.”

Managing the directorial duties for a middle school musical requires several skills, such as organization, delegation and keeping on a schedule, but for Uster, there are other intangible requirements that have a lot to do with inspiration. “ I t ’s about understanding how a middle-school brain works,” she said. “They all want the opportunity to shine, and whether they know it or not, there’s a lot more inside of them than they realize.

All we do is attempt to pull out of them things that they don’t even know are there, in order to get them to realize the talent that has been hiding inside of them.”

For Uster, the thrill of directing the school’s musicals for the past 20 years was essentially dormant during rehearsals, which are conducted in a nearlyempty auditorium.

“One of the things that’s diff icult in rehearsals is not having an audience, but come performance time, the cast feeds the audience and the audience feeds the cast,” she said. “It’s a very organic moment that rises and rises, and it feeds not only every member of our cast, but me, as well.”

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will be performed at the Kennett Middle School gymnasium on May 3 at 7 p.m., and May 4 at 1 and 7 p.m. Tickets are $6 for adults, and $4 for students and seniors, and are available at the door.

Photos by Richard L. Gaw

Director Heather Uster meets with her student cast and crew during a recent rehearsal at Kennett Middle School.

Zachary Lucero will be performing the role of Benjamin.

To contact Staff Writer Richard L. Gaw, email rga w @ ch e s t e rc o u n t y. com.

A three-year veteran of the school’s musicals, Marco King will playing the lead role of Joseph in the upcoming production, which will be performed on May 3 and 4.

Blake Ciresa prepares for her role.

Members of the Children’s Choir rehearse, stage right.

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FAITH BOYD BROMM

JAMES D. ATWOOD

DANTE DIUBALDO

Faith Boyd Bromm, affectionally known as “Puddy” to family and friends, went to be with The Lord on April 20.

Faith was born in Beaver, Pa., in 1935. She graduated from Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pa. After graduating, she taught high school biology and English, always appreciating each student’s individual strengths and capability to learn. Her unequivocal faith was admired by most and has given her loved ones solace that she is with her Lord and Savior. Faith adored her family and friends.

She loved vanilla and butter pecan ice cream, crossword puzzles, puzzles, Sudoku, daisies, traveling, reading, playing games and cards with her grandchildren and “comfy” socks.

Faith will be remembered for her incredible kindness, sense of humor and inner and outer beauty. She touched many on this earth.

She was preceded in death by her father, Rev. Montgomery J. Boyd, and her mother, Cecille Tobin Boyd. She is survived by her loving husband of 60 years, Walter Mason Bromm; her son Stephen Boyd Bromm and his wife Kimberly Carter Bromm; her daughter Shelley Bromm Roberts and her husband Edward Parrish Roberts; seven grandchildren; her sisters, Ellen Boyd Urie and Betty Boyd Dolby; and lifelong friends, Sally Ross Frye and Rosalie Woodfield Kockenbach.

Internment and a celebration of Faith’s life will be held in Vermont this summer. In lieu of flowers, send donations to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, 322 Eighth Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10001.

James “Boe” David Atwood, 59, of Cochranville, passed away on April 21.

Boe was born in West Grove in 1960 to Delbert C. Atwood and the late Blanche Ellen (Mahaffy) Atwood. Boe worked for Napa Auto Parts in their automotive warehouse, retiring in 2010. He had a love for nature and being outdoors. He thoroughly enjoyed fishing, deer hunting, camping and hiking in parks and mountains, especially the Southern and Pennsylvania mountains. He also enjoyed watching movies of all types.

He is survived by his wife of 18 years, Joanne Atwood; father, Delbert C. Atwood; brothers, Earl Atwood and his wife Donna, Woody Atwood and his fiancé Laura, and Gary Atwood and his wife Eugenia; siste, Ruth King, Pat Hansen and her husband Carl, Sandy Miller, and Chrissy Carr and her husband Tommy; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his mother, Blanche Ellen Atwood.

Services will be held privately and at the convenience of the family. To send an online condolence, visit www.rtfoard.com.

Dante DiUbaldo, 79, of Avondale, passed away on April 22 at the Christiana Hospital.

He was the husband of Lucy Lattanzio DiUbaldo. Born in Paterno, Italy, he was the son of the late Joseph DiUbaldo and the late Adeline Fabucci DiUbaldo. Dante was a retired mushroom grower. He was a member of St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother Church in Avondale.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by three daughters, Donna Swift of Landenberg, Lisa Scheibe and her husband Ed of Newark, Del, and Diane Szewczyk and her husband John of West Grove; one brother, Domenic DiUbaldo of Avondale; two sisters, Gina Constantini of Hockessin, and Ada Slavin of Wilmington; five grandchildren; and one great-grandson.

A funeral was held April 19. In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105. To view his online tribute and to share a memory with his family, visit www.kuzoandfoulkfh.com.

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May 4 Pitch, Hit and Run The third annual Pitch, Hit and Run competition will be held at Oxford Area Regional Park (900 W. Locust St., Oxford) on May 4 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (rain date May 5).

The event is open to boys and girls age 7 to 14, baseball or softball. Arrive any time. Birth certificate is required to show proof of age. Register on-site or in advance at www.mlb. com/pitch-hit-and-run. Top scorers qualify to compete at the sectional level, with winners there advancing to regional competition at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.

May 5 Cinco de Mayo in Kennett Square Thousands of people are expected for the annual Cinco de Mayo festival in Kennett Square on May 5 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Casa Guanajuato organizes the festival, which is marking its 18th anniversary.

Held on State Street, it features multiple vendors and organizations, live music and traditional dances, entertainers, a street dance, food vendors, children’s games and activities.

The event is free. No alcoholic beverages are allowed. During the festival, Miss Cinco de Mayo will be crowned. Contestants are selected from area high schools for the competition.

For more information, visit casaguanajuato kennettsquare.org.

May 12 Kids to Park Day The annual Kids to Park Day will be held at Oxford Area Regional Park (900 W. Locust St., Oxford) on May 12 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event features free games, activities, kites flying and crafts. For more information, visit Oxford Area Recreation Authority on

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May 26 Car show The 40th annual Chester County Car Show will be held Sunday, May 26, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in downtown Oxford. There will be antique cars, classics, muscle cars and Mustangs. The event will have a food court, flea market, DJ entertainment and door prizes.

May 26 to Sept. 28 Fireworks and Fountains Tickets are on sale for the 2019 season of Fireworks and Fountains shows at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square.

Each evening combines a different genre of music, followed by coordinated fireworks and a lighted fountain show. Tickets are $43 ($48 for members), and $53 for reserved seating. Reserved seating allows you to select your seat, then arrive to your chair placed and waiting for you. Visit www. longwoodgardens.org. The season schedule includes: To Philly, With Love (Sunday, May 26 at 9:15 p.m.); Star Spangled Spectacular (Wednesday, July 3 at 9:15 p.m.); The Piano Men – Billy Joel and Elton John (Saturday, July 20 at 9:15 p.m.); Swan Lake (Saturday, Aug. 10 at 9:15 p.m.); Night at the Movie II (Sunday, Sept.

1 at 8:15 p.m.); Queens of Soul – Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight and others (Saturday, Sept. 28 at 8:15 p.m.).

June 8 Upland School reunion Upland Country Day School in Kennett Square is hosting an all-school reunion on Saturday, June 8. There will be an evening gala with dinner and dancing under a tent beginning at 6 p.m.

The entire Upland community is invited -- alumni, parents, former parents, and faculty.

For more information, call

610-444-8114 or visit www. uplandcds.org.

Kennett Flash schedule The Kennett Flash (102 Sycamore Alley, Kennett Square) hosts regional and national artists. Tickets are available in advance at www. kennettflash.org, or at the door. Snacks and beverages are sold, or guests can BYOB. The schedule includes: Sacred Monsters (May 2, 8 p.m., $15); Li’l Walter Harmonica Tribute Show (May 3, 8 p.m., $20); Terry Reid and the Cosmic American Derelicts (May 4, 8 p.m., $30 and $35); Blind Hope with Hive Mind, Strange Highways and The Fainz (May 5, 2:30 p.m., $10); We Kids Rock Guitar Showcase (May 8, 6:30 p.m., $5); Yarn (May 9, 8 p.m., $18); The Steph Termini Comedy Show (May 10, 8 p.m., $15); Sin City 45th anniversary (May 11, 7 p.m., sold out, May 12, 3 p.m., $15 and $20); Mason Porter and Friends Sixth Annual Bob Dylan Birthday Bash (May 17, 8 p.m., $18); Brand X (May 18, 8 p.m., $53 and $58, May 19, 7 p.m., $53 and $58); The Bill Currier Band and Tony Travalini and The Still Lifes (May 24, 8 p.m., $12); Films & Words: “A Band Called Death” with Lamont Caldwell (May 26, 7 p.m.); Phil Collins tribute Hello I Must Be Going (May 31, 8 p.m., $25); Seventh Sojourn: Moody Blues tribute (June 7, 8 p.m., $20); Muriel Anderson with Tim Farrell and Dave Feder (June 8, 8 p.m., $25); Eilen Jewell (June 9, 7 p.m., $24).

To submit items to the Calendar of Events, e-mail jchambless@chestercounty. com. There is no charge.

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Connective Festival adds Americana Stage lineup The Connective Festival in Oxford has added the lineup for the Americana Stage. The day-long concert and festival will feature music on several stages.

Tickets are $10 (children under 5 free). Visit www. connectivefestival.org.

The Americana acts will be: Colebrook Road The five-piece ensemble comes from Harrisburg, and performs original bluegrass while staying deeply rooted in tradition. From driving instrumentals to thoughtful ballads, distinctive covers to three-part harmony, this five-piece band has a sound all its own.

David Wax Museum David Wax Museum’s fourth and boldest studio album to date, Guesthouse (to be released Oct. 16), is the sound of a band reconciling the accountability of marriage and parenthood with the uncertainty and challenges of life on the road; and of coming to terms with the limitations of the “folk” tag that launched their career and pushing past it into uncharted musical territory.

Rylan Brooks Rylan Brooks is the mainstay at the Skinny Dennis honkytonk in Brooklyn, with a dose of good-natured humor.

Originally from Havertown, the band splits their time between New York City and Nashville, Tenn. They are working on a new album in Nashville that’s produced

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by Dean Miller, son of entertainer Roger Miller.

Gooch and the Motion Gooch and The Motion deliver a unique blend of country, blues, and rock that’s straight out of South Jersey. They’re recording their sophomore album, Outside the Window, to be released later this year.

Formed in 2016, the band began as a rotation of many talented musicians from the Philadelphia and New Jersey areas. The core of the band has become a six-piece group that has performed with The Allman Brothers, Luther Dickinson, Lynryd Skynyrd, Robert Randolph and the Family

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Band, Walter Trout, and the Zach Brown Band.

Morgan Pinkstone Singer-songwriter Morgan Pinkstone has been writing and performing original music across the Philadelphia area since 2009. As the primary songwriter and front-woman for the band Swedeland, she is influenced heavily by 1960s soul, classic rock, Americana and jazz.

She released her debut solo album, Swimmer, in late 2016. The 11-song collection ranges from quiet waltzes to fully orchestrated neo-soul throwbacks.

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Kennett Square shows off its history during Home and Garden Tour

This is House 1 on the tour, designed by celebrated Philadelphia architect Frank Furness and built in 1884.

House 2 on the tour is a six-bedroom mansion with a pool out back, a carriage house, and professionally designed gardens.

Whether you’ve lived in Chester County all your life or are just visiting, you are certain to make some discoveries when the Home and Garden Tour, sponsored by the Bayard Taylor Library, comes to Kennett Square on June 1.

The annual event spotlights private homes and gardens that the public would otherwise never see, merging architectural history with innovative garden designs that will spark ideas for your own living space.

There are 14 stops on this year’s tour, ranging from spectacular Victorian mansions to new townhomes, and they are all open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets are $40 at www.kennettlibrary. com, and proceeds benefit children’s and adult literacy programs at the library. Stop by the library to pick up your program, map and wristband, which will be available beginning the first week of May. This year, your wristband will be your ticket, and should be worn throughout the day of the tour. Call 610-444-2702 for more information.

The sites this year are: Home & Garden 1 One of Kennett Square’s most historic and architecturally significant buildings was designed by celebrated Philadelphia architect Frank Furness and built in

1884. This Queen Annestyle home is best known for its top-heavy brick chimneys resembling locomotive smoke stacks.

The mansion, heavily damaged by fire in November 2014, has been beautifully brought back to life. Features include huge ornate fireplaces, elaborately carved woodwork, and period chandeliers.

Home & Garden 2 Tu r n - o f - t h e - c e n t u r y charm welcomes you to this beautiful property. It’s a six-bedroom mansion with a pool out back, a carriage house, and professionally designed gardens. It has the original elaborate crystal chandeliers, stained glass around the front door and fireplace mantels, and 11.5-foot ceilings.

Home & Garden 3 Visit the oldest house in the Kennett Historic District, which started as a log cabin, and was replaced by a fieldstone structure in about 1790.

Additions and renovations have happened through the years; but the floors, windows and doors are original.

Waterbury Kitchens was hired to install a kitchen that didn’t look new and would blend into the old house.

The gardens are mostly in shades of purple, and there’s a barn with a large covered porch, built in 1915.

Home & Garden 4 The cozy decor reflects the homeowners’ many interests in travel, fox hunting, horses, dogs, and birds. This quarter-acre garden is a wildlife habitat certified by the National Wildlife Federation.

Lots of surprises await, including a rear shade garden, an Australian native twig screen, and a small pond.

Home & Garden 5 This 1926 home was designed and built by Paul Hannum in the thenpopular Colonial Revival style. A traditional, wide center hall is flanked by two gracious rooms, with the kitchen tucked in the back. The current owners bought the house in 2000 and have renovated much of the interior, enclosed the porch, and updated the kitchen. There’s a redesigned landscape by Richard Lyon.

Featured Garden 6 Enjoy the gardens that surround this 1920s Arts & Crafts-era foursquare.

Locally quarried Avondale stone boulders are used as steps and paving throughout the gardens.

Both homeowners are landscape and horticultural professionals who have thoughtfully designed the gardens, creating a changing tapestry throughout the seasons.

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Home & Garden 7 The front stone walkway with three Sweet Bay Magnolias leads you to this charming, circa 1900 home. The owners have added an 800-square-foot addition that comprises a sun-filled kitchen on the first floor, and a master suite on the second. The back garden has a chicken coop and an espaliered apple tree on the garden shed.

Home & Garden 8 This four-square, sixbedroom stone house with latticed windows was built in 1910. Two original brick and stone fireplaces with gleaming white woodwork grace the living room and kitchen nook. The kitchen was remodeled with a large window that overlooks the gardens. The backyard has been certified as a sustainable wildlife habitat. And don’t miss the screened-in porch with views of the side lawn.

Home & Garden 9 A perfectly designed home for a couple wanting to age in place, it is energy efficient, with lots of light, low maintenance, and an elevator that connects all three levels. The dogs have their own shower in the mudroom. The plantings are almost entirely native species that attract birds, bees and butterflies. The house was built in 2016, tucked into a lovely, established neighborhood of older homes.

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The homeowners are enjoying this lower maintenance, more manageable, 2,800-square-foot end unit in Magnolia Place. There’s an open floor plan and first floor master suite, with a third floor living room that opens onto a rooftop patio, complete with a “living wall” and a Japanese maple.

Home & Garden 11 These homeowners were the first to move into Magnolia Place as it was being built. They have opted to have their kitchen in the front of the house, with a spacious living room leading out to their private, fenced-in back patio. The pocket-size back yard is beautifully landscaped with a Japanese maple, a dwarf Alberta spruce, daylilies and container plantings.

The Kennett Library 12 Stop by and learn about our plans for the new Kennett Library! Members of the Board of Trustees will be available to answer your questions about the plans for the future, and you can also learn about our current programming.

The Kennett Underground Railroad Center will feature a “Pop-up Museum” in the Library for the day. As you exit, be sure to grab an ice-cream bar from La Michoacana.

Home & Garden 13 This 1898 brick home was in great shape when the current owners bought it in 2003, just not large enough. They added an extensive addition onto the back of the house,

keying off the architectural features of the church next door. The first floor has been opened up for family living and entertaining.

Notice the arched entry gate to the back garden, handcrafted by John Borden.

Home & Garden 14 Do-it-yourselfers will not want to miss this stop on the tour. The owners bought this 1857 home ten years ago and gutted it, doing most of the work themselves. With inspiration from DIY shows, they have created a charming front living room, a grand open-plan kitchen, and a great family room in the back. Stepping outside, you’ll find a big brick patio and pergola, with a backyard stretching to the alley.

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House 3, the oldest in the Kennett Historic District, started as a log cabin.

Featured garden 6 is at this 1920s Arts & Crafts-era home.

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ESTATE NOTICE

215-563-7000

Estate of Robert Grobosky, late of Oxford Borough, PA, Deceased. Letters Testamentary on the estate of the above named Robert Grobosky having been granted to the undersigned, all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the said decedent are requested to make known the same and all persons indebted to the said decedent to make payment without delay to Jill E. DeShullo, Executrix, C/O Robert J. Breslin, Jr. , Esq., Papano 7 Bresslin, 3305 Edgmont Ave, Brookhaven, PA 19015 4p-17-3t

Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writs directed to Sheriff Carolyn B. Welsh, the herein-described real estate will be sold at public sale in the Chester County Justice Center at 201 W Market Street, 3rd Floor, Room 3300, West Chester, Pennsylvania, as announced on Thursday, May 16th, 2019 at 11AM. Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file with the Prothonotary and in the Sheriff’s Office, both located in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 W Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Schedules of Distribution on Monday, June 17th, 2019. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedules unless exceptions are filed in the Sheriff’s Office within ten (10) days thereafter.

SALE NO. 19-5-250 Writ of Execution No. 2014-09985 DEBT $227,418.83 PROPERTY situate in the Atglen Borough, Chester County, Pennsylvania BLR# 7-5-1.3 IMPROVEMENTS thereon: residential dwelling PL AINTIFF: Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, d/b/a Christiana Trust, not individually but as Trustee for Pretium Mortgage Acquisition Trust VS DEFENDANT: RON WHITNEY a/k/a RON WHITNEY, JR, IN HIS CAPACITY AS EXECUTOR AND DEVISEE OF THE ESTATE OF WALTER L. HANDLY and PHILADELPHIA REGION OF THE S.C.C.A. SALE ADDRESS: 404 Glen Run Drive, Atglen, PA 19310-9440 PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: PHELAN HALLINAN DIAMOND & JONES, LLP,

N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of sale. Payment must be paid in cash, certified check, or money order made payable to the purchaser or “Sheriff of Chester County”. The balance must be made payable to “Sheriff of Chester County” within twenty-one (21) days from the date of sale by 4PM. CAROLYN B. WELSH, SHERIFF 4p-24-3t

Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writs directed to Sheriff Carolyn B. Welsh, the herein-described real estate will be sold at public sale in the Chester County Justice Center at 201 W Market Street, 3rd Floor, Room 3300, West Chester, Pennsylvania, as announced on Thursday, May 16th, 2019 at 11AM. Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file with the Prothonotary and in the Sheriff’s Office, both located in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 W Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Schedules of Distribution on Monday, June 17th, 2019. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedules unless exceptions are filed in the Sheriff’s Office within ten (10) days thereafter.

SALE NO. 19-5-252 Writ of Execution No. 2018-12410 DEBT $293,362.44 ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate in Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, bounded and described according to a Plan of Properties owned by Fred J. Marenco, Jr., et ux & Mario Jon DiFilippo, et ux, made by Kenneth G. Crossan, dated August 21, 1986, and recorded as Plan #6676, as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at a point on the southwesterly side of PA Route 41, a corner of Parcel B-1 on said Plan; thence extending from the beginning point along said road, south 65 degrees 21 minutes 48 seconds east, 232.18 feet to a corner of lands now or late of John M. Perrone; thence extending along said lands, south 58 degrees 51 minutes 40 seconds west, 446.90 feet to a corner of aforementioned Parcel B-1; thence extending along Parcel B-1, north 27 degrees 33 minutes 50 seconds east, 378.11 feet to the first mentioned point and place of beginning.

BEING Parcel B-2 as shown on said Plan.

TOGETHER with all singular buildings and improvements, ways, streets, alleys, driveways, passages, waters, water-courses, rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances, whatsoever unto the hereby granted premises belonging, or in anywise appertaining, and the reversions and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof; and all the estate, right, title, interest, property, claim and demand whatsoever of them, the said grantors, as well as law in equity, of, in and to the same.

BEING the same premises as Gene E. Fulton and Patricia G. Fulton, husband and wife, by Deed dated June 29, 2006, and recorded on July 10, 2006, by the Chester County Recorder of Deeds in Deed Book 6892, at Page 2225, as Instrument No. 10666631, granted and conveyed unto Scott Feeney, an individual.

BEING known and numbered as 9166 Gap Newport Pike, Avondale, PA 19311.

TAX Parcel No. 62-9-11.3A. PLAINTIFF: Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC VS DEFENDANT: SCOTT FEENEY SALE ADDRESS: 9166 Gap Newport Pike, Avondale, PA 19311 PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: STERN & EISENBERG, P.C., 215-572-8111 N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of sale. Payment must be paid in cash, certified check, or money order made payable to the purchaser or “Sheriff of Chester County”. The balance must be made payable to “Sheriff of Chester County” within twenty-one (21) days from the date of sale by 4PM. CAROLYN B. WELSH, SHERIFF 4p-24-3t

Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writs directed to Sheriff Carolyn B. Welsh, the herein-described real estate will be sold at public sale in the Chester County Justice Center at 201 W Market Street, 3rd Floor, Room 3300, West Chester, Pennsylvania, as announced on Thursday, May 16th, 2019 at 11AM. Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file with the Prothonotary and in the Sheriff’s Office, both located in the

Chester County Justice Center, 201 W Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Schedules of Distribution on Monday, June 17th, 2019. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedules unless exceptions are filed in the Sheriff’s Office within ten (10) days thereafter.

SALE NO. 19-5-255 Writ of Execution No. 2018-08516 DEBT $306,073.38 ALL THAT CERTAIN, message, lot or piece of land situate on, in the Borough of West Grove, County of Chester, State of Pennsylvania, bounded and described, as follows, to wit: ALL THAT CERTAIN parcel of land situated in the Boro of West Grove, County of Chester, State of Pennsylvania, being Lot No. H-6, as shown on the Proposed Re-Subdivision Plan for Heather Grove Parcel 2, dated August 8, 1991 and last revised Feb. 4, 1992, prepared

by Brandywine Valley Engineers, Inc., Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors, Boothwyn, PA and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for Chester County, PA on June 1, 1992, Plan #11652, as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at a point on an un-named cul-de-sac on the northerly side of Winterset Court (50 feet wide); said point being located at the following five courses and distances measured along said side of Winterset Court from a point of tangency for a curve having a radius of 25 feet and said curve connection said side of Winterset Court with the westerly side of Heather Grove Lane (50 feet wide); 1) NORTH 56 degrees 06 minutes west, the distance of 12.75 feet to a point of curvature.

2) THENCE along the arc of a circle curving to the left with a radius of 651.11 feet, the distance of 101.05 feet to a point of tangency; 3) THENCE north 64 degrees 59 minutes 30 seconds west, the distance of 31.40 feet to a point of curvature; 4) THENCE along the arc of a circle curving to the right with a radius of 25 feet, the distance of 57.33 feet to a point of reverse curvature;

the arc of a circle curving to the left with a radius of 60 feet the distance of 11.02 feet to a point; THENCE leaving said cul-de-sac along the southerly side of Lot No 6 Block “G” north 55 degrees 29 minutes 53 seconds east the distance of 65.81 feet to a point.

THENCE along a Common Lands Area the following two courses and distance; 1) SOUTH 89 degrees 59 minutes 30 seconds east the distance of 72.00 feet to a point; THENCE along the northerly side of Lot No 5 Block “H” the following two courses and distances: 1) SOUTH 89 degrees 59 minutes 30 seconds west the distance of 107.63 feet to a point; 2) THENCE south 66 degrees 01 minutes 03 seconds west the distance of 5.45 feet to a point on the aforesaid cul-de-sac, said point being the first mentioned point and place of beginning.

3) CONTAINING within said metes and bounds an area of 3,964 square feet of land, more or less.

BEING subject to a portion of a certain 20 foot wide water main easement across a portion of said parcel as shown on said plan.

West Grove, PA 19390 PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: MANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI, LLC, 614-220-5611 N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of sale. Payment must be paid in cash, certified check, or money order made payable to the purchaser or “Sheriff of Chester County”. The balance must be made payable to “Sheriff of Chester County” within twenty-one (21) days from the date of sale by 4PM. CAROLYN B. WELSH, SHERIFF 4p-24-3t

Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writs directed to Sheriff Carolyn B. Welsh, the herein-described real estate will be sold at public sale in the Chester County Justice Center at 201 W Market Street, 3rd Floor, Room 3300, West Chester, Pennsylvania, as announced on Thursday, May 16th, 2019 at 11AM. Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file with the Prothonotary and in the Sheriff’s Office, both located in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 W Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Schedules of Distribution on Monday, June 17th, 2019. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedules unless exceptions are filed in the Sheriff’s Office within ten (10) days thereafter.

SALE NO. 19-5-261 Writ of Execution No. 2018-10097 DEBT $145,835.50

BEING UPI Number 5-7-133 PARCEL No.: 5-7-133 BEING known as:. 6 Winterset Court, West Grove, PA 19390 BEING the same property conveyed to Joseph Robert Taraba, no marital status shown who acquired title by virtue of a deed from Gregory J. Neely and Carrie T. Neely, no marital status shown, dated January 15, 2003, recorded February 19, 2003, at Document ID 10190642, and recorded in book 5575, page 1604, Office of the Recorder of Deeds, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

5) THENCE along the arc of a circle curving to the left with a radius of 60 feet the distance of 94.65 feet to the point of beginning;

PLAINTIFF: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for MASTR Specialized Loan Trust 2006-02, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates VS DEFENDANT: JOSEPH R. TARABA, aka JOSEPH ROBERT TARABA, aka JOSEPH TARABA

THENCE along said cul-de-sac along

SALE ADDRESS: 6 Winterset Court,

BEING the same premises which Giovanni Zanfrisco and Celesta Zanfrisco, by deed dated July 2, 2002 and recorded August 12, 2002 in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for Chester County, Pennsylvania in Record Book 5354, Page 799, granted and conveyed unto Matthew J. Anzaldo and Maria Anzaldo.

PLAINTIFF: Fulton Bank, N.A., formerly known as Fulton Bank VS DEFENDANT: MATTHEW J. ANZALDO and MARIA ANZALDO a/k/a MARIA ZANFRISCO SALE ADDRESS: 261 Sunnyside Road, West Grove, PA 19390, Penn Twp PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: JOSEPH P. SCHALK, ESQ., 717-299-5201 N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and

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Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writs directed to Sheriff Carolyn B. Welsh, the herein-described real estate will be sold at public sale in the Chester County Justice Center at 201 W Market Street, 3rd Floor, Room 3300, West Chester, Pennsylvania, as announced on Thursday, May 16th, 2019 at 11AM. Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file with the Prothonotary and in the Sheriff’s Office, both located in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 W Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Schedules of Distribution on Monday, June 17th, 2019. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedules unless exceptions are filed in the Sheriff’s Office within ten (10) days thereafter.

SALE NO. 19-5-267 Writ of Execution No. 2018-06146 DEBT $192,260.09 ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of land with the buildings and improvements thereon erected.

GROUP, P.C., 215-627-1322 N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of sale. Payment must be paid in cash, certified check, or money order made payable to the purchaser or “Sheriff of Chester County”. The balance must be made payable to “Sheriff of Chester County” within twenty-one (21) days from the date of sale by 4PM. CAROLYN B. WELSH, SHERIFF 4p-24-3t

Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writs directed to Sheriff Carolyn B. Welsh, the herein-described real estate will be sold at public sale in the Chester County Justice Center at 201 W Market Street, 3rd Floor, Room 3300, West Chester, Pennsylvania, as announced on Thursday, May 16th, 2019 at 11AM. Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file with the Prothonotary and in the Sheriff’s Office, both located in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 W Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Schedules of Distribution on Monday, June 17th, 2019. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedules unless exceptions are filed in the Sheriff’s Office within ten (10) days thereafter.

SALE NO. 19-5-276 Writ of Execution No. 20 DEBT $244,691.11

SITUATE in the Township of Elk, County of Chester and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, described according to a Plan of Property made for Richard L. Speer & Robert L. Hetherinton,

by George F. Register Jr., & Sons., C.F. Kennett Square, Pennsylvania dated 1/8/1974, last revised 2/25/1974, recorded at West Chester in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds in Plan Books 58 Page 16, as follows:

ALL THAT CERTAIN piece or parcel of tract of land situate in the Borough of Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and being known as 501 Washington Avenue, Parkesburg, Pennsylvania 19365.

BEGINNING at a point in the title line in the Red Public Road L.R. No. 15162 known as “Media Road”, said point being measured north 70 degrees 25 minutes 22 seconds east, 350.00 feet from a point at the intersection of said Media Road with Hilltop Road; thence extending from said beginning point and along said Media Road, north 70 degrees 25 minutes 22 seconds east, 160.00 feet to a point, a corner of Lot No. 16; thence leaving the road and extending along line of Lot No. 16 south 17 degrees 30 minutes 17 seconds east, 336.91 feet to a point in line of Lot No. 15; thence extending along same south 69 degrees 05 minutes 57 seconds west 140.00 feet to a point in line of Lot No. 12; thence extending along same and Lots 11 and 10, north 20 degrees 54 minutes 03 seconds west, 340.00 feet to the first mentioned point and place of beginning.

SALE ADDRESS: 501 Washington Avenue, Parkesburg, Pennsylvania 19365

BEING Lot No. 17 on said Plan.

BEING the same premises in which Wendy L. Cook a/k/a Wendy L. Cook Battaglini, by deed dated 03/27/2006 and recorded 03/29/2006 in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for the County of Chester, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Deed Book 6801, Page 46 and at Instrument No. 10636140, granted and conveyed unto Charles Chambers and Tracey Chambers, husband and wife.

PLAINTIFF: Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Mr. Cooper VS DEFENDANT: TRACEY CHAMBERS and CHARLES CHAMBERS SALE ADDRESS: 101 Media Road, Oxford, PA 19363 PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: SHAPIRO & DeNARDO, LLC, 610-278-6800 N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of sale. Payment must be paid in cash, certified check, or money order made payable to the purchaser or “Sheriff of Chester County”. The balance must be made payable to “Sheriff of Chester County” within twenty-one (21) days from the date of sale by 4PM. CAROLYN B. WELSH, SHERIFF 4p-24-3t

Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writs directed to Sheriff Carolyn B. Welsh, the herein-described real estate will be sold at public sale in the Chester County Justice Center at 201 W Market Street, 3rd Floor, Room 3300, West Chester, Pennsylvania, as announced on Thursday, May 16th, 2019 at 11AM. Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file with the Prothonotary and in the Sheriff’s Office, both located in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 W Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Schedules of Distribution on Monday, June 17th, 2019. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedules unless exceptions are filed in the Sheriff’s Office within ten (10) days thereafter.

SALE NO. 19-5-273 Writ of Execution No. 2017-07866 DEBT $306,630.99 PROPERTY situate in Township of New London TAX Parcel #Tax ID/UPI Parcel No. 71-01-0024.250/71-1-24.25 IMPROVEMENTS: A residential dwelling.

PLAINTIFF: Amerihome Mortgage Company, LLC VS DEFENDANT: STYVENS GEORGES SALE ADDRESS: 206 Locust Drive, Lincoln University, PA 19352 PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: KML LAW

PLAINTIFF: HomeBridge Financial Services, Inc. VS DEFENDANT: LORRIE HARING

N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of sale. Payment must be paid in cash, certified check, or money order made payable to the purchaser or “Sheriff of Chester County”. The balance must be made payable to “Sheriff of Chester County” within twenty-one (21) days from the date of sale by 4PM. CAROLYN B. WELSH, SHERIFF 4p-24-3t

Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writs directed to Sheriff Carolyn B. Welsh, the herein-described real estate will be sold at public sale in the Chester County Justice Center at 201 W Market Street, 3rd Floor, Room 3300, West Chester, Pennsylvania, as announced on Thursday, May 16th, 2019 at 11AM. Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file with the Prothonotary and in the Sheriff’s Office, both located in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 W Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Schedules of Distribution on Monday, June 17th, 2019. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedules unless exceptions are filed in the Sheriff’s Office within ten (10) days thereafter.

SALE NO. 19-5-286 Writ of Execution No. 2018-11219 DEBT $136,788.78 PROPERTY situate in Borough of Parkesburg TAX Parcel # IMPROVEMENTS: A residential dwelling.

PLAINTIFF: PNC Bank, National Association, Successor by Merger to National City Mortgage, a Division of National City Bank VS DEFENDANT: LEONARD DEMKO SALE ADDRESS: 506 West 2nd Avenue, Parkesburg, PA 19365

PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: McCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC, 215790-1010

PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: KML LAW GROUP, P.C., 215-627-1322

N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of sale. Payment must be paid in cash, certified check, or money order made payable to the purchaser or “Sheriff of Chester County”. The balance must be made payable to “Sheriff of Chester County” within twenty-one (21) days from the date of sale by 4PM. CAROLYN B. WELSH, SHERIFF 4p-24-3t

N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of sale. Payment must be paid in cash, certified check, or money order made payable to the purchaser or “Sheriff of Chester County”. The balance must be made payable to “Sheriff of Chester County” within twenty-one (21) days from the date of sale by 4PM. CAROLYN B. WELSH, SHERIFF 4p-24-3t

Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writs directed to Sheriff Carolyn B. Welsh, the herein-described real estate will be sold at public sale in the Chester County Justice Center at 201 W Market Street, 3rd Floor, Room 3300, West Chester, Pennsylvania, as announced on Thursday, May 16th, 2019 at 11AM. Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file with the Prothonotary and in the Sheriff’s Office, both located in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 W Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Schedules of Distribution on Monday, June 17th, 2019. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedules unless exceptions are filed in the Sheriff’s Office within ten (10) days thereafter.

By virtue of the within mentioned writs directed to Sheriff Carolyn B. Welsh, the herein-described real estate will be sold at public sale in the Chester County Justice Center at 201 W Market Street, 3rd Floor, Room 3300, West Chester, Pennsylvania, as announced on Thursday, May 16th, 2019 at 11AM. Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file with the Prothonotary and in the Sheriff’s Office, both located in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 W Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Schedules of Distribution on Monday, June 17th, 2019. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedules unless exceptions are filed in the Sheriff’s Office within ten (10) days thereafter.

SALE NO. 19-5-280 Writ of Execution No. 2018-11216 DEBT $34,506.15

SALE NO. 19-5-287 Writ of Execution No. 2018-11548 DEBT $367,144.70

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground with the buildings thereon erected, situate in said Borough of Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows, to wit:

PROPERTY situate in New Garden Township

BEGINNING at a point in the middle of Fourth Avenue at the southeast corner of lot now or late of Robert L. Faddis, and extending thence along said lot by a line passing through the middle of the partition wall dividing the house erected on the lot herein conveyed belonging, now or late, to the said Faddis, north ten degrees twenty-three minutes west (N 10º 23’ W), one hundred thirty (130) feet to the middle of Third Alley; thence along the alley of said alley north seventy-nine degrees thirty-seven minutes east (N 79º 37’ E), thirteen and eight hundred seventy-three thousandths (13.873) of a foot to a point opposite the middle of the partition wall dividing the house erected on the lot herein conveyed from the house erected on the lot immediately adjoining on the east; thence along said last mentioned lot by a line passing through the middle of the last mentioned partition wall, south ten degrees twenty-three minutes east (S 10º 23” E), one hundred thirty (130) feet to the middle of Fourth Avenue; thence along the middle of said Avenue, south seventy-nine degrees thirty minutes west (S 79º 30’ W), thirteen and eight hundred seventy-five thousandths (13.875) of a foot to the place of beginning.

TITLE to said premises vested in Charles Joseph Persch, Jr. by Deed from James E. Stauffer and Jason M. Stauffer dated March, 15 2004 and recorded March 30, 2004 in the Chester County Recorder of Deeds in Book 6105, Page 1029 as Instrument Number 10394822.

PLAINTIFF: Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc. VS DEFENDANT: CHARLES JOSEPH PERSCH, JR. SALE ADDRESS: 537 West 4th Avenue, Parkesburg, PA 19365 PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: MILSTEAD & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 856-482-1400

TAX Parcel # 6004 01710000 IMPROVEMENTS: A residential dwelling.

PLAINTIFF: M&T Bank VS DEFENDANT: BOUBACAR TOURE SALE ADDRESS: 106 Birkdale Circle, Avondale, PA 19311 PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: KML LAW GROUP, P.C., 215-627-1322 N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of sale. Payment must be paid in cash, certified check, or money order made payable to the purchaser or “Sheriff of Chester County”. The balance must be made payable to “Sheriff of Chester County” within twenty-one (21) days from the date of sale by 4PM. CAROLYN B. WELSH, SHERIFF 4p-24-3t

Oxford Rotary Club honors Seniors of the Month Oxford Area High School students Reagan Dolinger and Matthew Towey were recently honored as Oxford Rotary Club Seniors of the Month for April.

Reagan, daughter of Lauren and Jason Dolinger, is a member of National Honor Society, National English Honor Society and Spanish Honor Society. She has played field hockey since age seven and for the past three years was a member of the varsity team.

Reagan also coaches and referees with the Oxford Youth Field Hockey League, and credits this volunteer work with helping her develop mentoring skills and foster a love of the game among younger players.

Reagan enjoys surfing and this summer will work for a second year at the K-Coast Surf Shop in Ocean City, Maryland. She also enjoys playing guitar, exploring the outdoors and reading, and is a particularly gifted writer.

This fall Reagan will enroll in the honors program at the University of Delaware to major in linguistics. However, she will spend the first semester of her freshman year studying at the University of Auckland in New Zealand as part of the university’s World Scholars program.

Reagan’s goal is to become fluent in critical languages such as Mandarin, Japanese and Russian in anticipation of a career as an interpreter, translator and travel writer.

Matthew, son of Patricia and Scott Towey, is a member of National Honor

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The Oxford Rotary Club recently honored Oxford Area High School students Reagan Dolinger and Matthew Towey as its April Seniors of the Month. From left are Jason, Reese, Lauren and Reagan Dolinger; Rotary Club President Dr. Raymond Fischer, Matthew Towey and Rotary Club Seniors of the Month liaison Connie Winchester.

Society, the STEM Club, Helping Hands community service club and the ping-pong club. He volunteers as an umpire and assistant coach with Oxford Little League, and organized and ran a youth baseball clinic as his graduation project.

Having relocated with his family from New Jersey to Oxford, Matthew remains a dedicated fan of the New York Mets, New York Giants, New Jersey Devils and Brooklyn Nets.

Matthew will soon complete his fourth year of study in the high school’s Project Lead the Way STEM curriculum. This fall he will attend West Virginia University to study computer engineering.

Art, bourbon and chocolate event benefits Garage Patrons can explore the worlds of art, bourbon and chocolate and benefit The Garage Community & Youth Center on May 3 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Stonehouse, a Bentley Homes carriage home community at 912 S. Union Street in Kennett Square.

“Whiskey Whisperer” Mike Jasinski, an internationally acclaimed bourbon expert featured in Whiskey Advocate, will serve up a

variety of bourbon samplings and explain the subtleties of each, while chocolate sommerlier Estelle Tracy, author and TV personality from 37 Chocolates, dives into the secrets of small-batch chocolate making.

Home, lifestyle and apparel merchandise by Deanna Johnson of Marche and David Ferron of Unionville Saddle, and works by renowned local artists Katee Boyle and Ellen

Cantanzaro, will be available for sale.

Attendees must be 21 or older. Guests are encouraged but not required to make a donation to the nonprofit, and 10 to 20 percent of all artwork and merchandise sales will be donated to The Garage Community & Youth Center for the benefit of area youth.

For more information, call Beth Giangiulio at 484-604-2227.

CLASSIFIEDS Sales Representative: Kennett Square, PA. Sales Representative. FT. Req: 2 years exp. in int’l sales.

Educ: BA in Bus. Admin or related/For. Equv. accepted. CL/R: Sylvan America, Inc., 652 W. South Street, Kennett Square, PA, 19348

YARD SALE Cochranville, 400 Faggs Manor Rd. May 3rd and 4th, 8-3.

Annual Relay for Life Yard Sale to benefit the American Cancer Society.

Lots of new and great condition items. Teapot collection, jewelry, stamps, and more.

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Sensitive depictions of the land by Tim Wadsworth

By John Chambless Staff Writer There’s a lovely, soft green-brown tone to Tim Wadsworth’s watercolors that gives them a unifying sense of place, whether it’s the Brandywine Valley or the coast of Maine.

His solo show at Barbara Moore Fine Art in Chadds Ford opens on May 1 with an artist’s reception from 5 to 8 p.m. The show continues through May 15.

Wadsworth gets a wonderful depth in his view of a winter stream and pale, slanting light on tree trunks in “Thin Ice on the West Branch,” and a deep swirl of reflective stream surface in “Muskrat Alley.”

Even his smaller

watercolors – the russet and green woods and road in “Murphy Road” and the portrait of an inquisitive goat in “Billy” – have an assured air and fine details that reward repeat inspection.

“High Water Mark” implies past drama with a drape of marsh grass wrapped around tree trunks on the bank of the Brandywine. “Lobsta” is a quintessential Maine view of a discarded lobster claw on a rocky shore.

One of Wadsworth’s best is “Mother,” an expressively gnarled old sycamore that seems to be gesturing with its twisted branches. His small autumn farm view, “Harvest,” is a tidy scene bathed in a just-right autumn light.

Over the fireplace in the gallery is “Lowell’s Boat Shop,” with stacked rowboats and a sweeping water view beyond the windows. The 1793 location is the oldest operating boat shop in America, according to Wadsworth’s notes, and his painting of it has a strength and serenity befitting the subject.

Barbara Moore Fine Art (1609 Baltimore Pike, Chadds Ford) is open Wednesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Call 484776-5174 or visit www. barbaramooref ineart. com.

To contact Staff Writer John Chambless, email jchambless@ chestercounty.com.

‘High Water Mark’

‘Down East’

‘Lowell’s Boat Shop’

FAIRY TALES TO NURSERY RHYMES The Droller Collection of Picture Book Art

March 2 – May 12, 2019

Climb into the magical world of children’s literature through this stunning collection of more than 100 original and imaginative illustrations.

Fairy Tales to Nursery Rhymes: The Droller Collection of Picture Book Art is organized by The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts. This exhibition is made possible in Delaware by the Edgar A. Thronson Foundation Illustration Exhibition Fund and the Hallie Tybout Exhibition Fund. Additional support was provided, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com. Image: “‘Who are you?’ said the caterpillar,” 1983, Illustration for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1984).

Justin Todd (born 1932). Gouache on illustration board, 11 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches. Collection of Michael and Esther Droller. © 1984 Justin Todd.

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Brandywine Valley Chorale and UHS Chorale slate concert about suicide awareness The Brandywine Valley Chorale (BVC) and the Unionville High School Chorale are joining forces for an uplifting concert to raises awareness of suicide prevention.

The concert, “Love, Light, and Hope,” is slated May 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Unionville High School.

The BVC and UHS Chorales are partnering with C h r i s t i a n ’s Compassionate Mission and other local organizations to bring an evening of hope to the community.

“One of the missions of the BVC is to dive into contemporary issues that affect us all,” said Jason Throne, BVC and

UHS Chorale director.

“We are using music to explore the issue of suicide and how music can bring us together to help one another. This will certainly be an event that will change us all for the good, in a way only music can deliver to our souls.”

The program will feature the Pennsylvania premiere of composer Dan Forrest’s newest choral work, “LUX: The Dawn From On High.”

This f ive-movement work explores various facets of Lux (Latin for “light”), in texts ranging from ancient liturgical chant to biblical scripture to modern secular poetry.

Individual pieces will also be performed, including “This is Me,” from the motion picture The Greatest Showman, and “Please Stay” by Jake Runestad, a song written specif ically to bring awareness to suicide prevention.

“We have to remind the community that no matter what’s happening, there is always going to be light at the end of the tunnel, there is always hope,” said Margaret Wu, UHS Chorale singer.

This is not the first time the BVC and UHS Chorale have collaborated.

However, Throne said the partnership is particularly significant

for this concert.

“The collaboration of the BVC and UHS Chorale is especially meaningful for this concert due to the subject matter,” he said. “It was important to me, as a director, that we experience this repertoire and subject matter together.”

UHS Chorale singer Anna Ehlers says the theme of the concert is important and that there is a powerful message in the music that she hopes will resonate with the audience.

“Love, light, and hope mean that people can help one another,” Ehlers said. “No one is really on their own, and this

concert shows that you can have an impact on people, and if you need help you can reach out.

Our hope is that people are impacted by the music and that it brings awareness to the fact that suicide is real and depression is real, but there is always another alternative to suicide.”

During the p e r f o r m a n c e , Brandywine Valley artists Diane Micklin and Laurie Murray will be creating musically inspired works of art on stage that will be available for purchase at the end of the concert.

An orchestral ensemble will accompany the

singers. Some numbers will feature spoken word and personal messages about loss, love, and perseverance.

BVC singer Jennifer Gottesman said, “Our hope for this concert is to help bring awareness to the topic of mental health that we are touching on in so many areas, in politics, and in education, but is still really limited in its acceptance and its inclusion in our daily lives.”

Tickets can be purchased on the BVC website (http://thebvc. o r g / l ov e - l i g h t - h o p e ) or at the door ($20 for adults, $15 for seniors and students).

Take a chance on Willowdale Steeplechase constructs Willowdale party new timber fences with safety in mind “Willowdale in White” is a mystery dinner being held on May 10 at 7 p.m., sponsored by Wi l l owd a l e Steeplechase.

If you have a taste for adventure, you will be buying tickets and finding out on May 10 exactly where the event will be held. Some things are certain: There will be party music by The Cameltones, the theme will be white, and patrons should bring whatever they would

like to eat and drink – from takeout to lavish, formal fare.

The fun will be in converging at the place chosen and making the best of the mix of people.

Tickets are $40 and will not be available on the day of the event. Check the website (www. willowdalesteeplechase. org) on May 9 to find out where the party is going to be held. For ages 21 and older, this will be an outdoor, fairweather event.

Willowdale has a race course with various types of fences which are made of brush or timber.

This year, the brush fences will remain the same, but the timber fences are being rebuilt to make jumping them safer.

“The big news,” said race chairman Dixon Stroud, “is that we’re changing the timber from solid, unbreakable round rails to breakable split rail post and rail fences. These rails are smaller in width and

circumference and taper at the ends where they slide into the posts.

This is the type of fence you see throughout the Cheshire Fox Hunt countryside.”

When Stroud originally designed the Wi l l owd a l e Steeplechase race course, he used a breakable cedar rail for the top rail of the former fences. That was 27 years ago, and now those breakable round rails are impossible to find.

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The new fences will make the racing safer for horses and their jockeys.

The fences will be made of four rails and will be less solid and massive than the former fences. The horses can break these new rails if they hit them hard.

“While falls may still occur, they should be fewer – knock on wood!” Stroud said.

“But in order to win, you still have to jump the fences.”

The other major safely

improvement this year is the reconstruction of the landing side of the water jumps. Keeping the race course pristine is an ongoing task and the turf is regularly maintained ever y year by fertilizing, irrigating, seeding as necessary and stuffing the brush fences for a more solid appearance.

“All in all,” Stroud said, “the course is looking super.”

The races will run on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 12.

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