Chester County Press 01-13-2016 Edition

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KCSD unveils $82.2 million preliminary budget

By Steven Hoffman Staff Writer

Education Guide

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The Kennett School Board approved the release of a preliminary budget for the 2016-2017 school year at its meeting on Monday, Jan. 11.

The $82,248,395 spending plan will continue to be revised in the coming months as district officials look for ways to reduce expenditures and factor in other changes in revenue sources.

“It’s been an interesting year without a state budget,” explained board member Michael Finnegan, who serves on the district’s finance committee. Finnegan and district business administrator Mark Tracy led the budget presentation.

Overall, spending is increasing by $3,351,076 year-to-year. The rising costs for employee benefits is responsible for more than half of the increase. According to

KCSD Preliminary budget Millage Rate

Proposed Millage rate

2015-2016

2016-2017

28.6017

29.4605

budget figures, there will be a $2,032,270 increase in employee benefits. That can be attributed largely

The issue of whether or not to report a student’s class rank to prospective colleges has been studied extensively by the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District, and at their Jan. 11 work session, the School Board heard from some students on the matter.

A proposed policy change will be examined at the board’s Jan. 25 meeting.

Board president Victor Dupuis explained to the students in the audience at the meeting that, “When you apply for college, we give the school your GPA, but we also tell them if you’re in the top 10 percent, the

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Vying to occupy Sen. Pileggi’s vacant seat in 9th District

By John Chambless Staff Writer

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next 10 percent, and so on, of your class.”

Dupuis asked to input from the students on whether eliminating the class rank is a good idea, and heard responses on either side of the issue.

One senior in the audience said, “I’m only in the top 50 or 60 percentile of my grade, and for a college that’s maybe out of state that I’m applying to, that might make me look bad.”

Another senior said, “I only had one school that I had to give my decile ranking to, but when colleges see we’re coming from a school like this and how hard we work, maybe if they see the decile ranking, it might be the

deciding factor.”

Board member Carolyn Daniels told the students that, “If the ranking is is presented by the high school, it is used by colleges; but if it is not presented, it actually isn’t held against you. They just look at everything else that you’re submitting.”

Assistant superintendent Ken Batchelor added, “Many colleges shared with us that this is not the major piece in the application process. They look at the total application.”

If the policy change is approved, Dupuis said, “We would go from reporting a decile ranking to not reporting a class rank of any kind.”

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Former District Magisterial Judge Dan Maisano has announced his bid for the State Senate’s 9th District, representing Chester and Delaware Counties.

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer On the night of May 19, 2015, Dan Maisano, then the Magisterial Judge for District Court 15-3-04, sat in the bedroom of his home, staring down into his laptop computer with his wife beside him, following the results of his race for a seat on the Chester County Court

of Common Pleas.

As he saw the votes tally in during the primary election, Maisano began to see the vanishing hole of his aspirations. That night, Allison Bell Royer and Julia MalloyGood soundly defeated Maisano and Parkesburg attorney John Carnes on both the Republican and Democratic ballots. On the Continued on Page 4A

The Unionville-Chadds Ford School Board.

Islamic society seeks funding to build Muslim cemetery in county

By Richard L. Gaw and John Chambless Staff Writers

Township, for the purpose of building a cemetery and a funeral facility for the Muslim community.

As listed on its website and Facebook page, the Newark-based group is calling for financial sup-

port from its members to purchase property listed at 1406 Penns Grove Road in Lincoln University, just north of the Route 1 bypass. There is a business, Forestville Builders, located at the intersection

A new election cycle already!

of Penns Grove and Forest Manor roads, with a large empty lot on its northern edge. A farm sits down a The Islamic Society of long lane that runs next to Delaware has submitthe builder. ted an offer to purchase In its request, originally property in Upper Oxford dated Dec. 4, 2015, the Society [ISD] requested that its community members “participate fully in this important project solely for the pleasure of Allah,” by offering physical, intellectual and financial assistance. The group seeks “to establish a Muslim cemetery for now and a full service Muslim funeral home not too far in the future,” the website posting reads. “One basic need for a dead Muslim person is to be buried Photo by John Chambless according to the teaching A farm property at the intersection of Penns Grove and Forest Manor roads in of Islam.”

The full 203 members of the State House of Representatives and half of the State Senate, including the seat held

by Democrat Andrew Dinniman, are up for grabs in 2016.

Jan. 26 is the first day to circulate nominating petitions. The last day is Feb. 16. It is highly probable that Democrat incumbent Andy Dinniman will run again in a new district.

Dinniman is the first

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Upper Oxford Township is being sought by the Islamic Society of Delaware for a Muslim cemetery.

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Chester County Press

Local News Franklin Board of Supervisors reorganizes for upcoming year

By John Chambless Staff Writer The Franklin Township Board of Supervisors joined other township boards on Jan. 4 in reorganizing for 2016.

Supervisor John Auerbach was unanimously reelected Chairman. David Snyder was re-elected Vice Chairman.

Joan McVaugh was reappointed as Township Manager and Township Treasurer. Sharon Norris was re-appointed as Township Secretary, and Lamb McErlane as Township Solicitor. LTL Consultants was named as Township General and Traffic Engineer, URS/AECOM

Corporation as Township Sanitary Engineer and Hydrologist, McCormick Taylor as Township General/ Traffic Engineer, The Brandywine Conservancy as Township Planner, and LTL Consultants as Township Building Inspector/ Zoning Officer and Code Enforcement Officer.

David Philipp was appointed to the Vacancy Board. Chuck Phillips was reappointed to a fouryear term on the Planning Commission, to expire on Dec. 31, 2019. Harold Walls was reappointed to a oneyear term as the Emergency Management Coordinator, to expire on Dec. 31, 2016.

Connie Chiasson was reappointed to a five-year term

on the Zoning Hearing Board, to expire on Dec. 31, 2020. Sara Beth Kohut and Dolores Hughes were reappointed to five-year terms on the Historical Commission, to expire on Dec. 31, 2020.

Auerbach appointed Tracey Schreiner to a fiveyear term on the Historical Architectural Review Board, to expire on Dec. 21, 2020.

Bill Finch was reappointed to a five-year term, and Eric Brindle was appointed to a five-year term on the Uniform Construction Code Appeals Board, expiring on Dec. 31, 2020.

Three resolutions were adopted on motions made

by Auerbach: Resolution 2016-03, authorizing the use of National Penn Bank and PLGIT (Pennsylvania Local Government Investment Trust) as designated financial institutions; Resolution 2016-04 – a fee resolution, outlining the costs involved in doing business within the township; Resolution 2016-05 – the signer’s resolution, authorizing the current supervisors and the treasurer to sign township checks.

The 2016 meeting schedule was also adopted. Board of Supervisors meetings will be held on the third Wednesday of every month, and if deemed necessary, on the second Wednesday of every month beginning at 7

p.m. Planning Commission meetings will be held on the first Thursday of each month, beginning at 7 p.m.

Historical Commission meetings will be held the first Wednesday of each month beginning at 7 p.m.

Historical Architectural Review Board (HARB) meetings will be held the first Wednesday of each month immediately following the Historical Commission meetings.

The board discussed new legislation allowing for the addition of alternate members to the Planning Commission. The alternate members would be able to participate only when a quorum of regular PC members was not available. The board agreed to appoint three alternate members to the Planning Commission.

There will be more discussion of the topic at the Jan. 20 Board of Supervisors meeting.

For more information about the township, visit www.franklintownship.us.

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

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The ongoing construction at Patton Middle School was discussed by Rick Hostetler, the supervisor of buildings and grounds.

“The original date for completion of the Patton office and guidance area was Dec. 18,” he said. “We have been delayed, but we should be ready to check off punch list items by the last week of January or the first week of February for a move-in.

The goal is to get everything finished properly.”

The renovation of Patton’s auditorium is coming up as the next part of the district’s 10-year plan, and Hostetler said, “We are working on a design that’s about 75 percent complete. We plan to go out to bid on Feb. 2, get bids back by March 3, and then come before the board at the March work session to review the bids.

Assuming the project does come in on budget, we are looking to begin exterior work in May, and then do the inside work over the summer.”

The renovations will include new seating, stage and audience lighting, flooring, and sound equipment, as well as a renovated lobby and entrance area.

Daniels also announced that the board would be voting next week on a concurrent enrollment agreement with West Chester University that would allow Unionville

High School students to take classes at the university that are not offered as part of the regular high school curriculum.

The board will vote on the district’s preliminary budget at their Jan. 25 meeting, and Robert Cochran, the director of business and operations, explained that, “The bottom line is to reflect to the state the district’s expected budget situation, given that the Governor hasn’t even settled last year’s budget, let alone proposed the 2016-17 budget, which he will do in early February. In order to apply to the Department of Education for exceptions to the Act One Index, this budget means to reflect a need for those exceptions to the index. It has been the practice of the district to apply for them as much as available, so that the board has the flexibility right through the entire budget process in the spring to utilize the exceptions, or not.

“What the budget reflects is approximately a $950,000 use of fund balance, and utilizing about $1 million use of exceptions. That gives us an average of about a 4 percent millage impact,” Cochran said. “This in no way locks this board into using these exceptions or raising taxes to that level -- that’s just the maximum that you could raise them to.”

Dupuis added, “All we’re really doing is taking a referendum off the table with this budget, at this point.”

Board member Jeff Hellrung clarified that, “We’ll have to reduce our spending by about $1 million to at least stay within the Act One Index.” Cochran agreed, saying, “We would have to reduce the number by about $950,000 to keep it within the Act One Index plus exceptions, and not use any fund balance.

There will have to be some combination of program reductions or decisions to use fund balance.”

District superintendent John Sanville said, “We’ll have discussions in February, March and April, then in a real way in May during budget hearings, so the board can consider a number of options wrapped around what tax rates mean to our program. This year we’re looking at changes in the program.”

For more information, visit www.ucfsd.org.

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

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control over the employercontribution rate, which is now above 30 percent.

Other expenditure increases include a $671,602 jump in employee salaries, which factors in the addition of two new teaching positions; a $947,194 hike in professional services; a $246,112 increase in contracted services; and $120,866 jump in property services.

Charter school funding is also increasing by about $300,000 for 2016-2017.

Finnegan said that the budgeted charter school expenses—in the form of tuition payments that the district must make for each student who attends a charter school—amount to a projected $3,050,000 for 2016-2017. This breaks down to $10,686 for each regular education student, and $26,241 for a student who needs some form of special education.

Finnegan noted that Kennett currently has 178 regular education students in charter schools and 45 special education students in charter schools. Having 25 percent of the students in charter schools identified as requiring some form of special education is much higher than the district’s overall rate for the student population in Kennett schools, and is an indication that changes in the funding formula may be necessary.

There have been concerns raised by districts throughout Pennsylvania regarding the percentage of students that charter schools are identifying as in need of special education. Additionally, charter schools receive the same amount of tuition for each special education student from a district, regardless of how much it costs to provide those special education services. For example, a student with a slight hearing impairment would carry the same tuition rate as a student that needs significant assistance throughout the school day. Finnegan also noted that students that attend cyber charter schools from a school district carry the same tuition rate as students who are attending regular charter schools, even though the costs are not comparable.

If the budget were improved as is, there would be a three-percent tax increase necessary.

The millage rate would increase by .86 mills, from 28.6017 mills to 29.4605 mills.

For the average taxpayer in the district, a three-percent tax hike would equate to an increase of $156 in the tax bill, Finnegan said.

The average property tax for school district residents is currently $5,202, and that would increase to $5,358.

Finnegan did note, however, that in past years, the district has been able to reduce expenditures from the time the preliminary budget is released until the time that a final budget is approved.

The ongoing state budget stalemate has led to considerable uncertainty regarding the proposed budget. School districts still aren’t sure about the funding they will receive in the current year, so that makes it harder than usual to project state subsidies

for 2016-2017. Finnegan noted that the district’s collective-bargaining agreement with the teachers’ union expires at the end of the current school year, so they had to do some estimations on the impact the new contract could have on the proposed budget as well.

The Finance Committee will be meeting on the first Monday of each month between February and June. The public is invited to attend these meetings.

The preliminary budget is now available for review on the district’s website and in the District Office each Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. until a final budget is approved on Monday, June 13.

In other business at the meeting, the school board approved a list of personnel changes, the use of school facilities by various organizations in the coming months, and a series of readings for policy changes.

The board also approved the establishment of the Johnson Family Scholarship after the Johnson Family Philanthropic Fund was deemed to have met all the criteria necessary. The $10,000 scholarship will be awarded to a Kennett High School graduating senior whose intent is to continue his or her education.

The application process

and requirements will be established by the Johnson Family Scholarship Agreement, and the recipient each year will be selected by a Johnson Family Scholarship Committee.

Tracy said that this is one of the largest scholarships available in the district for students, and district officials expressed their gratitude to the people that are creating this opportunity for Kennett students.

Two school board members, Finnegan and Joseph Meola, offered separate reports that mentioned the district’s ongoing efforts to work with municipalities regarding future residential growth. Finnegan explained that as many as 500 homes could soon be in the planning stages across the district. Meola, who serves on the district’s liaison and communication committee, reported that the district is attempting to set up a date for a public meeting where district officials can discuss the issue with elected leaders from each of the municipalities in the district.

The Kennett School Board will meet again on Monday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Lang Kindergarten Center.

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

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Kennett School Board member Michael Finnegan led the presentation of the preliminary budget on Monday night.

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Winners are United Way of Chester County, and 3D Auto Body and Collision Centers The Chester County Chamber of Business and Industry is presenting the Small Business Awards Dinner on Jan. 20, with awards being presented for Small Business of the Year and Nonprofit of the Year.

The Small Business of the Year Award honors a business that epitomizes entrepreneurship, leadership, and civic responsibility. The company selected is 3D Auto Body & Collision Centers, founded in 1981

by Chester County native David Niestroy. There are five locations across Chester and Delaware counties, providing jobs to more than 80 colleagues.

“The entire team at 3D Auto Body & Collision Centers would like to thank the chamber for the prestigious award,” said Craig J Camacho, VP of Marketing

& Business Development.

“We are sincerely humbled to be recognized by such a fantastic organization such as the Chester County Chamber and we will proudly display our award in our showroom for all of our customers to see.”

The Nonprofit Organization of the Year Award is going to The United Way of Chester County. For more than 35 years, the United Way has been partnering with the corporate sector, civic leaders and health and human service agencies to help meet the needs of residents. Some of these include the Share the Warmth home repair and winterization program, First Call for Help, Days of Caring Volunteer Program and Leadership Chester C o u n t y.

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President and CEO, said, “Being named the nonprofit of the year is such an honor when you consider that there are so many really outstanding nonprofit organizations in Chester County. It makes us very proud to stand out in a field where so many are leaders. We don’t think of this as just any award. This is prestigious, coming from the Chester County Chamber, and we are very grateful for the recognition.”

The evening’s keynote on Jan. 20 will be delivered

by Craig Adams, President and CEO of PECO Energy.

The awards dinner will be held Jan. 20 from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at The Desmond Hotel and Conference Center (1 Liberty Blvd., Malvern).

For more information, visit www.

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in Delaware extends as far back as the origin of the Delaware Moors, a mixed-race community in Kent and Sussex counties, whose origins are variously attributed to 18th-century shipwrecked Moorish pirates.

Chester County also has a Muslim presence, associated mainly with The Islamic Society of Chester County, which was founded in 1978, to accommodate a growing Muslim population in the county.

The ISD’s wish to establish a presence in Upper Oxford Township comes as recent news to Scott Rugen, the township’s Chairman of the Board, who said he learned about the plan last Friday, when a resident called the town-

ship to inquire about it. He said that no other information about the sale of the property exists within the township.

Rugen said that if there is any public backlash about the purchase of the township property, any voices of opposition will be heard. “Any application for zoning in the township has to go before the Zoning Hearing Board, and any residents who have concerns can show up as a party of interest and voice their concerns,” Rugen said.

Phone calls to the ISD were not returned to the Chester County Press.

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Islamic funerals follw specific rites, but are subject to regional interpretation in various customs.

In all cases, however, Islamic religious law calls for the burial of the body, preceded by the bathing and shrouding of the body, and followed by prayer.

Cremation of the body in the Islamic religion is forbidden.

The ISD, also known as Masjid Ibrahim, identifies itself as a mosque, community center and religious organization, is located on 28 Salem Church Road, and has the largest Muslim community following in the state. Communal prayers are held, providing an opportunity to learn about Islam, pray in congregation and meet Muslims. It offers two jumuaa prayers to a large congregation weekly, as well a Sunday School and a Quranic School on its campus.

Although it is unknown how many Muslims live in Delaware, at least five mosques operate in the state. The history of Islam

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Republican side, Royer earned 57 percent of the votes (12,721 votes), while in the Democratic primary, Malloy-Good gathered 8,714 votes, good for 63 percent of the votes.

“It became pretty obvious at some point that I wasn’t going to win the primary, so my wife turned to me and asked, ‘What’s next?’”

Maisano said recently from his offices in Kennett Square. “My response was, ‘The primary is not even over yet.’ We started to talk about running for the Senate seat right then and there.”

His defeat in last year’s primary may have been a blessing in disguise. Because Maisano was 63 at the time, and the mandatory retirement age of Common Pleas is age 70, the likelihood to re-run for a ten-year seat on the Court – if he were elected – seemed out of the question.

“I was getting to the point where it wasn’t going to make much sense to appoint, elect or endorse me [to the Court], because I could only do a portion of that term,” he said. “So we thought, ‘How many opportunities were there for me to be involved in public service and make a difference?’”

On Jan. 5, Maisano formally announced his candidacy as a Democrat for Pennsylvania’s 9th Senatorial District, representing Chester and Delaware counties. The seat became vacant on Jan. 4 by State Sen. Dominic Pileggi, who announced his resignation in order to assume his new role as Delaware County Court of Common

Pleas Judge.

Pileggi, a Republican force in Delaware County and a former Senate Majority leader in Harrisburg since 2007, was ousted by State Sen. Jake Corman in a Nov. 2014 election. In Feb. 2015, Pileggi announced his candidacy for the vacant seat on the Court of Common Pleas, and began his new job earlier this year.

Maisano has tossed his name in the ring for both a special election, which will be decided on April 26, in order to fill out the remainder Pileggi’s term, which expires at the end of the year -- and a general election, to be decided on Nov. 8 which, if he is elected, will appoint Maisano to the Senate post for a four-year term. He’s up against tall odds; traditionally, the Senate seat has been held by a resident of Delaware County, and Republican candidate Tom Killion has been considered by many Delaware County leaders to be the heir apparent to Pileggi. Killion, who represents the 168th District, has served in the State House since 2003.

In addition, Democrat and Delaware County resident Marty Molloy, the Director of Vocational Programming at the Philadelphia YouthBuild Charter School, is expected to announce his candidacy for the Senate seat soon.

Citing a roadblock of ideas and legislation that he feels is crippling Harrisburg, Maisano’s campaign is focusing on four major components: The need for action on property tax elimination, a fair and equitable school funding formula, protecting open spaces, and a reason-

able natural gas severance tax.

“I think the property tax is the only tax that can take away a person’s home, and it’s a fact that many of our seniors are having to make a choice about, between buying groceries and their medications, or paying their tax bill, which I think is unconscionable,” he said.

“In effect, they’re a tax hike away from losing their home.

“You’ve sacrificed and you’ve struggled. You should be able to enjoy your later years. You should be able to enjoy your grandchildren, or travel, and not be home bound because you can’t afford to do anything.”

The elimination of property taxes in the Commonwealth, Maisano said, would stimulate the growth of businesses in Pennsylvania, “because employers will be able to see that more employees will be able to live and work here,” he said.

Maisano said that he would work to implement a fair severance tax on natural gas extraction – a principal now in effect in neighboring states – and support legislation to promote, protect, and preserve the Commonwealth’s open spaces.

“Pennsylvania is the only major gas-producing state that does not have a severance tax,” he said. “We don’t want to discourage the gas companies, but perhaps a five percent tax [on the extraction of natural gas in the Marcellus Shale region] would be reasonable. It’s not out of line with what everyone else is paying.”

The problem with schools throughout the

Commonwealth, Maisano believes, begins with what he sees as a “great disparity” between districts in wealthy areas versus those in inner-city districts. He called for the State to create a funding formula that is intended to help underserved school districts rise to the level where there is parity between all school districts.

“We should have perhaps a formula that gives each school ‘X’ number of dollars for each student, so that each student in Pennsylvania has so much dollars allocated for his or her education,” Maisano said. “How a district spends that money would be a local decision.

And then they will be able to compete on a fair playing field.”

He also said that the State should consider the idea of consolidating school districts, in order to save money and allocate more money per student.

Throughout Maisano’s 36-year legal career, and in particular, during the two decades he served as a Magisterial District Judge, he saw hundreds of young people whose problems with the law could be traced to school truancy.

“We have to recognize that there are various reasons students aren’t going to school, and if it’s a mental health issue, we need to have plans in place to address that,” Maisano said. “If it’s a bullying issue, having police officers in the school would help that, but I think a lot of it is that children are not being challenged. I’ve dealt with kids who have high intellect but their performance was poor, and it was

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Democrat to win a legislative seat in the history of Chester County. If Dinniman runs, the Republicans will offer up a token candidate because Dinniman’s popularity crosses party lines.

All House seats are up for re-election. It is expected that Chris Ross will not run again for good, and that John Lawrence will run for re-election.

Dinniman, Ross and Lawrence were all part of the most dismal legislature ever, and should all be too ashamed to run for re-election.

Going to Harrisburg isn’t about getting anything done for voters, but only as means to a job with a handsome salary, benefits, pension and other goodies like having another job on the side, because being a member is not a full-time job. The members for the 2015-16 year took turns driving to Harrisburg and back while accomplishing almost nothing, not even a budget.

They should all be sent to a special ward for penance and be banned from being re-elected.

(Uncle Irvin’s column is his opinion only, and is not a news story.) because they have not been challenged.”

Placing special effort to engage this cross-section of our student population is part of what Maisano sees as a need to reconstruct the entire educational system.

“We’re teaching the way we did one hundred years ago, but maybe dissecting frogs isn’t for everybody,” he said. “I always told kids who sat before me, ‘School is the key to your future. It opens doors, and ultimately, it’s about getting employable skills for your future.

You have to learn critical thinking skills so that when you compete in the job market, you can articulate what you want and how you want to do it.’

“We’re not looking at the children and saying, ‘This kid has an aptitude for X, Y

or Z. He has no interest in college, but he’s great with his hands.’ So why aren’t we teaching him how to measure voltage in a car, for instance, so that instead of dissecting frogs, we’re taking his natural talents and developing them?”

If elected, Maisano said that he would take that dialogue to Harrisburg, join educational committees, and introduce potential legislation intended to change the definition of a traditional education.

“You have to start generating the discussion, which will percolate additional ideas, and hopefully, a new bill comes from that,” he said.

To contact Staff Writer Richard L. Gaw, e-mail rgaw@chestercounty.com.

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Making the world a safer place

Miller Edge is a family-owned business with nearly 80 years of experience manufacturing innovative products that safeguard everything from automated doors to gates to machinery

By Steven Hoffman Staff Writer Bearge Miller and his sister, Flossie Mohler, take great personal satisfaction in knowing that “Making the World a Safer Place” is much more than a tagline for Miller Edge, the family-owned company that their father founded nearly eight decades ago. Miller Edge’s engineers and technicians do make the world a safer place by designing and manufacturing products to safeguard automated doors, gates, and machinery. These products have many uses—from the sliding front doors at the grocery store to the loading dock at the local post office to the hangar at the regional airport to the automated gate in a parking garage—and they help reduce the risk of injuries and property damage everywhere they are installed.

“Our name has become synonymous with safety,” Mohler explained during an interview at the company’s headquarters in Jennersville. “We never hear about the accidents that we are able to prevent, but there’s definitely a sense of accomplishment for knowing that we do make the world a safer place.”

The industry that Miller Edge works in is highly competitive, very specialized, and constantly changing. The company has always prided itself on being at the forefront of what’s coming next. Miller explained that he is continually looking to develop new products that will perform an important function or address a specific need for clients, and the company now manufactures between 40 and 50 different products that are on the market.

In addition to the aforementioned uses, Miller Edge’s products can be found on driveway gates, storefront grills, mass-transit vehicles and in automated manufacturing plants.

“There are so many diverse applications for our products,” Miller explained. “Our designs and manufacturing techniques are really unique to us.”

Miller, a resident of West Chester, Pa., heads up the Jennersville facility that includes the company’s East Coast manufacturing, engineering, sales, and marketing departments. The company holds nearly 150 patents and has built a growing list of longstanding customer relationships to show for its product innovation through the years. While the general public might not be aware of the many places that they encounter

the company’s products each day, Miller Edge has earned a stellar reputation within the industry, and its products are favored by door professionals, plant safety managers, gate professionals, architects, and transit system designers.

The products are primarily used in the United States and Canada, but the company also exports to Mexico, Europe, and South America.

One of Miller Edge’s core products is the Sensing Edge, which is a touch-sensitive switch that sends a signal to start, stop, or reverse a motor. Sensing Edges can be used for many different applications because they are so varied in their height, width, and length. They are used for everything from the leading edge of a motorized door or gate, along the length of a conveyor, as a pinch point protection on various machine applications, or on the bumper of an automatic guided vehicle. The sensing devices reduce the risk of personal injuries and costly damage to equipment caused by automatic systems in industrial environments.

To accommodate the needs of customers, the Sensing Edges are offered for direct mount, for noncontact, as slide-in extrusions with mounting channels, or they can be customized to suit the individual needs of the client.

Another core product is specialized safety mats that can be used at manufacturing plants, airports, banks, hotels, and gymnasiums.

“Eighty percent of what we do is our core products,” Miller explained. “The other 20 percent is custom work.”

Miller Edge traces its roots to 1936, when Norman K. Miller, a recent immigrant to the United States, started manufacturing products with his two brothers in the basement of a Philadelphia home. They were in pursuit of the American Dream. He became a U.S. citizen and later enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving in the 182nd Infantry in the South Pacific during World War II. He had a knack for improving things, and during his service time he found a way to improve the Reising gun so that it would jam less frequently.

Later on, he started putting safety padding inside tanks to help prevent U.S. soldiers from getting injured. This innovation was a success, too.

Following his time in the

Army, Norman continued to build his business. He also married his wife, Virginia, in 1949. Then Norman received a phone call from Gen. Merrill Burnside, who remembered his ingenuity in developing solutions to product issues. Burnside asked him to develop a safety product for use on hangar doors at Wright Patterson Air Base in Ohio.

Norman developed the product, which he called the electrically activated safety edge for hangar doors, in 1957. It turned out to be the first of many innovations that he would get patents for. Over the years, he attained over 100 patents on products manufactured by the company, and he continued to grow the business with the help of his two brothers. For decades, the business was called Miller Brothers.

When the second-generation joined the family business, the company became Miller Edge.

Today, Miller and Mohler work alongside their three siblings, Karl, Norman, and Ginny. They all received their introductions to the family business early in life.

Mohler fondly recalls being paid in ice cream cones after they would come in to sweep the floors on Saturday afternoon.

“We were convinced that it was fun coming to work,” Mohler said with a laugh. “The business was always something that was a part of us.”

At the time Miller and Mohler were growing up, the plant was located in Upper Darby.

It was eventually relocated to Concordville, and then to Jennersville in 1992. The second facility in Arizona came after that.

Miller and Mohler both credit their father for encouraging them

to build and create at work, and for instilling in them a drive to own and operate a business.

“We were raised with that entrepreneurial spirit,” Mohler explained. “My goal in life was to work for myself.”

Miller added that their father always taught his children to invest in themselves, which is an important lesson to learn.

Miller said that he knew from the time he was 14 or 15 that his future was in running the family business. Mohler, meanwhile, studied marketing and worked at an advertising agency before she joined Miller Edge when she was in her mid-twenties. They were able to seamlessly transition into their leadership positions, always carrying with them the business lessons that they learned from their father.

One of the most important lessons that they learned pertains to protecting the engineering and manufacturing techniques that the company utilizes to develop new products.

“We are very heavily patented,” Miller explained. “Dad always told us that if you have a good idea, patent it.”

Work on many of the new products start out as a response to a client’s specific needs.

Miller explained, “We listen to our customers and find a solution.

We will create whatever we need to so that we can come up with a solution.”

Other ideas are born out of necessity. The company is already prepared for the new UL-325 safety standards for doors and gates that are going into effect in January.

They have five new products that were specifically developed to meet the needs of clients who must

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Owners Flossie Mohler and Bearge Miller take great pride in knowing that ‘Making the World a Safer Place’ is much more than a tagline for Miller Edge. comply with these new regulations.

“We make sure that we are always informed about any changes in safety standards,” Mohler explained, noting that the majority gate opener manufacturers recommend Miller Edge products.

She added that she thinks her father would be thrilled with the new standards for safety the company’s products provide.

Mohler and Miller are both extremely active in the industry, which is one way that they stay informed about new trends or changing regulations. Mohler serves as the vice president of the International Door Association, and Miller will be the president of the Door and Access System Manufacturers Association.

They also make a point to be involved in the local business community, and to participate in local efforts like a recent toy drive.

Another thing that they picked up from their father is the firm belief that providing a positive atmosphere and good work environment for the staff is important to any company’s success. Many of the employees have worked at Miller Edge for years.

Miller is also glad that the

company moved to the bucolic southern Chester County community, with its large and dedicated workforce.

“We love this area,” Miller explained. “It’s a slice of heaven.

It’s one of the prettiest places you’d ever want to live.”

The siblings are also proud of the fact that their father’s inventive spirit live on in the company that he founded almost 80 years ago.

According to Miller, the legacy of innovation could move to a new generation as there are some avenues open for a third-generation of the family to eventually take over the business.

Miller and Mohler agree that it would be great if the next generation of the family is interested in continuing the company’s legacy of innovation in the industry.

For now, they both take a great deal of pride in knowing that the company helps to make the world just a little bit safer.

“There’s a fulfillment you get out of creating products that protect people and make their lives better,” Miller said.

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

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2016

EILEEN L. ZELLER

JAMES J. MALEY

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Eileen L. Zeller, 91, of Kennett Square, formerly a longtime resident of Westport, Conn., passed away on Jan. 3 at Crosslands Retirement Community.

She was the wife of Andrew F. Zeller, who passed away in 1994, and with whom she shared 48 years of marriage. Born in Saginaw, Mich., she was the daughter of the late Oscar M. and Esther Nurminger List. She was a secretary, working for various employers in Philadelphia and in Connecticut. She was a member of St. Michael Lutheran Church in Unionville. She enjoyed traveling, collecting antiques, and being with her family and friends.

She is survived by one son, A. Martin Zeller and his wife Sandy of Los Angeles, Calif.; two daughters, Amy Aycock and her husband John of Alexandria, Va., and Katie Lawrence and her husband Laddie of Fairfield, Conn.; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

A memorial service was held Jan. 9. In lieu of flowers, a contribution may be made to St. Paul Christian School (Scholarship Fund), 41 Easton Road, Westport, CT 06880. Online condolences may be made by visiting www.griecocares.com.

James J. Maley, 83, of Oxford, passed away on Jan. 6 at his daughter’s home in Oxford, surrounded by his family.

He was the husband of Louise E. Haag Osborne Maley, with whom he shared 25 years of marriage. Born in Oxford, he was the son of the late James C. and Margaret J. Durham Maley. Jim was employed as a foreman with PennDOT until his retirement. He was also employed at Thiokol in Elkton. He was a member of the Media Mennonite Church in Oxford. Jim was an avid bowler and bowled on different leagues for many years. He enjoyed watching football and baseball, and spent hours talking about baseball with his grandson.

He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Deborah L. Maley and Sandy M. Sweed, both of Oxford; one grandson, James S. Sweed; three stepchildren, Kimberly Bunting of Gap, Daniel Osborne of Kirkwood, and Karen Summers of Quarryville; and three step-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a sister, Jane Maley.

Funeral services were held Jan. 12 at the Media Mennonite Church, 866 5th St., Oxford, PA 19363.

Interment was in Oxford Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to the Media Mennonite Church. Online condolences may be made at www.elcollinsfuneralhome.com.

Pauline G. Twyman, 87, of Oxford, went to be with the Lord on Dec. 31.

She was the wife of the late Hubert Twyman, Jr., with whom she shared 52 years of marriage. Born in Avondale, she was the daughter of the late Paul and Mary Wilson. She was a stay-athome housewife, where she raised seven children. She was a member of the Apostolic Fellowship Worship in Oxford. Pauline enjoyed spending time with her family and friends, watching television, reading and cooking.

She is survived by seven children, Marguerite Warren of Oxford, Paulette Twyman of Oxford, Cynthia Ralph (Samuel) of Oxford, Kenneth Twyman (Sandra) of New Jersey, David Twyman of Coatesville, Jannette Twyman of West Chester and Glenn Twyman (Missy) of Little Britain; 14 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild; and two brothers, Ulysses Wilson and Leonard Wilson, both of Wilmington, Del. She was preceded in death by two sisters, Lauren Gonzalez and Inez Martinez.

Funeral services were held Jan. 8. Interment was in Union Hill Cemetery in Kennett Square. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to the Edward L. Collins, Jr. Funeral Home, Inc., 86 Pine St., Oxford, PA 19363, to offset the funeral expenses. Visit www.elcollinsfuneralhome.com.

LONA P. FABIUCCI Lona P. Fabiucci, 71, of West Grove, passed away on Jan. 3 at Jennersville Regional Hospital.

Born in West Chester, she was the daughter of the late Arturo and Violette McIntire Fabiucci. She was a retail sales manager at various jewelry stores in the area. Lona enjoyed reading, traveling, watching movies and spending time with her family.

She is survived by nieces and nephews, as well as greatnieces and great-nephews. She was especially fond of her niece Darlene Selk and her husband Steven, and their children, who helped care for her. She was predeceased by one sister, Joan French.

Her memorial mass will be at 1 p.m. Jan. 16 at St. Patrick’s Church (212 Meredith St., Kennett Square).

Burial will be private. Online condolences may be made by visiting www.griecocares.com.

BARBARA ANN WOODS Barbara Ann Woods, 73, of Oxford, passed away peacefully on Jan. 1 at her home.

Barbara lived in Oxford for her entire life, and many will remember her as a gifted piano teacher and maker of exquisite woodworking arts. Barbara was a member of the Oxford Presbyterian Church. She was an avid lover of music and the arts.

Barbara was predeceased by her parents, Robert and Grace Holton; and her brother, Robert Holton. She is survived by her two sons, Richard (Tracey) and Kevin (Laura) Woods; siblings, John Holton, Lorraine Holton, and David Holton; and four grandchildren, Rylynn, Sophia, Jasper, and Arlo.

A memorial service was held Jan. 7. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to the Barbara Woods Scholarship Fund, in care of Street Lamp Productions, P.O. Box 1163, Rising Sun, MD 21911 (www.streetlampproductions. org). Visit www.elcollinsfuneralhome.com.

MARGARET W. THOMAS WOLF Margaret W. Thomas Wolf, 88, of Oxford, died on Jan. 4 at the Jennersville Regional Hospital in West Grove.

She was the wife of the late Harold Wolf, who died in 1979, and with whom she shared 31 years of marriage.

Born in Upper Oxford Township, she was a daughter of the late Leroy and the late Minnie (Slauch) Thomas. Margaret worked for many years in the cafeteria of West Chester University. She loved Elvis Presley, reading, and doing word puzzles. She adored her Jack Russel, Katie, and her cats.

Survivors include one grandson, Howard Storey, Jr., of West Chester; and a sister-in-law, Virginia Thomas of Oxford. In addition to her husband, she was predeceased by a daughter, Denise Storey, in 2006; two brothers, Bob and John; and two sisters, Mary and Anne.

A funeral was held Jan. 8. Interment was in Faggs Manor Cemetery in Cochranville. Contributions in her memory may be made to the American Heart Association, P.O. Box 15120, Chicago, IL 60693. To view her online tribute, visit www.griecocares.com.

PATRICIA A. MOORE WHITE Patricia A. Moore White, 84, of Coatesville, formerly of Kennett Square, died on Dec. 30 at her home at Freedom Village.

She was the wife of William R. White, with whom she shared 61 years of marriage. Born in Dayton, Ohio, she was the daughter of the late Russell H. and the late Ruth (Young) Moore. She was a 1953 graduate of Ohio Univeristy, where she earned a BS in zoology. She participated on the altar guild at Church of the Advent in Kennett Square and numerous other churches she belonged to throughout her life. She enjoyed golf, playing bridge, antiquing, traveling, reading, needlework and volunteering.

Survivors include, in addition to her husband, two sons, W.R. White of Exton, and David White (Suzanne) of Reston, Va.; one daughter, Stephanie Hoffman (Rene) of Downingtown; one brother, Russell E. Moore of Kyle, Texas; and four grandchildren, Kelly, Shannon, Maddy and Emma.

A memorial service celebrating her life was held Jan. 9.

Contributions in her memory may be made to the Episcopal Church of the Advent, C/O Altar Guild Fund, 201 Crestline Drive, Kennett Square, PA 19348. To view her online tribute and to share a memory with her family, visit www. griecocares.com.

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Letter to the Editor

Letting the illusions die

Will the real Jane Ladley please stand up?

Because its impact is not often immediately felt, it is said that change occurs best when it happens slowly, over time.

In the arena of politics, however, change arrives after all other avenues to prevent it have been exhausted. In politics, change is the proverbial tortoise who slogs through the muck and mire of crossed swords and clashing egos, who crosses the finish line not because of any great inspiration to do so, but because it is the only alternative remaining.

After Scudder Stevens won his seat as a Kennett Township Supervisor in November of 2011, after a long and contentious campaign that threatened to split the township’s allegiances in half, he sat at the end of the table at meetings like a lone warrior.

Many in the township – those who were used to a certain protocol perpetuated by Robert Hammaker, Michael Elling and Alan Falcoff (whom Stevens defeated) believed Stevens’ reasons for being on the Board of Supervisors were motivated by his own selfish interests. Yes, he pointed fingers over what he called a lack of transparency in how the township was being run; yes, he took the township to the legal mat over the right to view certain documents; yes, he implied that the township’s method of accounting was questionable and perhaps illegal; and yes, he wrongly alienated many among a legion of volunteer leaders who had helped make Kennett Township one of the most well-respected municipalities in the Commonwealth.

However, as the Chester County Press provided coverage of that messy period, it was the belief of this newspaper that whatever motivation contained within Stevens’ to upturn the apple cart of politics, it was not being done for his own gain, but ultimately, for the township’s sake.

Now, as we begin 2016, all vestiges of a tumultuous past seem to have been taken out to the woodshed. Falcoff, Elling and Hammaker are no longer on the board; running on a campaign to further “open up” the township, Dr. Richard Leff was elected in 2013, and on Jan. 4, Whitney Hoffman, running on a similar campaign of improving lines of communication between township government and its residents, took her oath and became the third member on the board.

While navigating through the second of two unfortunate incidents involving former Police Chief Albert McCarthy, the township hired new Police Chief Lydell Nolt, who has emerged as a well-respected leader who has provided educational opportunities for his staff, while also immersing his department better into the fabric of township life.

After years of fighting against wild speculation that it had fabricated its own accounting methods by hiring what some believed was a made-up accountant named “Ed Johnson,” the township now uses a reliable accounting firm to do its books, the figures of which are shared openly with township residents.

In the last few years, the number of township employees has increased, while its volunteer corps has also spiked.

Perhaps the most telling sign of this transformation in Kennett Township is seen in the faces of those who have signed their names to the development of trail systems, scenic byways, and collaboration with other local organizations. The once regimented battle lines that had defined – and divided -- Republicans and Democrats in Kennett Township seem to slowly be crumbling.

“We would rather be ruined than changed,” the poet W.H. Auden said. “We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment, and let our illusions die.”

It is not certain where Auden was training his poetic eye here, but the power of the message could well be applied to our modern-day political system. At every level, from municipal government to the U.S. Senate and the White House, too many of our officials are choosing to be ruined rather than change.

Too many see ‘D’ or ‘R’ in a colleague before they see him or her as a potential ally. And yet, over the course of the past four years, whether by virtue of the ballot box or through ideology, one township has hung around long enough to see change finally reach the finish line, slightly battered but, most assuredly, slowly climbing the cross of the moment.

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Letter to the Editor: In reading the comments on the BillLawrenceOnline Blog, I am getting a description of a Jane Ladley I never saw. For four years, I sat through township meetings with her at the table and what I witnessed on several occasions was rude behavior and the disregard for the feelings of others.

She should have been more cognizant of the fact that cameras were on her. I will elaborate.

Whenever Ladley did not care about what someone in the audience was saying, she would look down at the table and shuffle her papers.

She often would not look at people when they were talking to her, or when she was talking to them, for that matter. Why is that?

I saw her publicly embarrass a resident, reading from her notes about how he had filed for bankruptcy.

She was eventually sued by the resident’s attorney for slander and then claimed government immunity so she did not have to be held accountable—all at taxpayers’ expense. (If you are interested in reading the court case, email entcohg@gmail.com or search YouTube for “Motion to Statement.”

It was also apparent in several meetings that Ladley is not as educated in subject matter as she wants people to believe. After she read from her script, if residents had questions she would often have no response. It appeared to me that if it wasn’t written down, she didn’t know what to say. You can see this for yourself on YouTube

At the last general election, I observed the people she had talked into working the table against passing open space. It was apparent that they had very little knowledge of the program, and what information they did have was mostly incorrect. I asked a couple of them why they were working that table if they didn’t really have any true convictions about the program and the answers were all the same. “I’m just doing this as a favor to Jane Ladley.”

It appeared to me that she set people up to look foolish because they were not properly armed with facts. That shows me that she really doesn’t care about people, but rather puts her agenda first.

And why, when she was running for supervisor, did she hide the fact that she was close personal friends with John P. Coldiron? He coached her through her entire campaign and yet she deliberately hid that fact when talking with people.

This is a man who got elected only because his father, John D. Coldiron, was at the polls telling people that he was running for supervisor. People knew and liked him because he was the township’s building inspector while many houses were being built. But when they found out who actually won the election, they were shocked and dismayed to learn they had been duped.

This is who Ladley has aligned herself with. And now she has gone around getting signatures to have Gary Coates fill her vacancy—a vacancy which should have been filled by now except that she has aligned

herself with John Seitz, owner of the junkyard at the old Coates’ property where Oxford Road meets Route 472. Seitz is also the author of the Joethegoat website.

Ladley can try denying the connection because she may not have spoken with him directly, but Coldiron and Raffa have, and they are still very connected.

Seitz is the person who forced Scott Blum out of office as a supervisor, by picketing Blum’s place of work, threatening his livelihood if he did not resign.

Raffa, who was appointed to finish Gene Turns’ term was in the middle of all of this as well. He thinks that just because he did not physically picket Blum’s place of work himself means his hands are clean.

He knew about it. This man tried to badger the Vacancy Board Chair, Pat Brady (also Township Secretary) into voting for Coates. He and Seitz were so aggressive that Brady finally had to make a public statement about it to get them to stop.

Raffa and Coldiron tried to filibuster the Vacancy Board Hearing in an effort to bully Brady and supervisor Art Rieck into voting for Coates.

Raffa insisted on allowing Coates to tell his war stories, but when his diatribe deviated to putting women’s feminine napkins into mason jars, he wanted it to stop.

Let Coates talk long enough and he’ll sink his own ship.

Supervisors Raffa and Coldiron then began throwing names into the mix, not really caring who filled the seat, just so long as Brady’s and Supervisor Rieck’s candidate, Joe Bauer, did not get appointed.

By the way, Joe Bauer served on the Township Planning Commission for several years, and also represented the township on the Oxford Area Recreation Authority. He is a far more qualified candidate than Coates. Just because Coates came in third at the polls does not mean he is automatically entitled to fill the vacancy. Twice as many people voted against him as voted for him.

These are the people with whom Ladley has aligned herself, though she has done it subversively. Her fingerprints are all over this. One need only look at the signatures and letters solicited to put Coates into office to see that they are all part of the Ladley machine. But she has been hanging out with Coldiron too long I guess. She can no longer tell the difference between the truth and a lie.

Mrs. Ladley, just because you say you have no knowledge of something doesn’t make it so. Your tactics are obvious to anyone who has been paying attention.

When did you stop thinking about right and wrong and make it about winning?

When did you become so corrupt in your thinking that the means justifies the end?

So when I read in Mr. Lawrence’s Blog “You go, Jane” I have to agree with that. You go, Jane, as far away from East Nottingham as your car will take you.

That is the only way the corruption that has existed in East Nottingham for the past four years will be purged.

Rick Orner Member, ENTCOHG

Unionville-Chadds Ford School District needs to cut spending Letter to the Editor: The new year is here and a new Unionville-Chadds Ford School Board is also here. I sincerely hope that this board will represent all the district’s taxpayers, and not just the

tax-paying parents of the school district’s students.

The administration’s proposed preliminary budget of $83.7 million is outrageous.

The call to reduce this budget by $2.1 million to bring it into compliance with the

Act 1 Index was even more outrageous. It is time for a true tax reduction by adopting other non-tax sources of income that exist, and by cutting the district’s unnecessary expenses.

The board has a tough job

ahead, but one that can be achieved with hard work.

Tax cuts must be implemented yearly over the next few years.

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Chester County Commissioners announce 2016 organizational leadership Chester County Commissioner Terence Farrell was elected to remain Chair of the Commissioners during the Board of Commissioners organizational meeting.

Commissioner Farrell has served as Commissioners’ Chair in 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015.

Commissioner Kathi Cozzone remains Vice Chair.

Commissioner Cozzone nominated Commissioner Farrell as Chairman, and Commissioner Michelle Kichline nominated Commissioner Cozzone as Vice Chair. The votes of the three-member board were unanimous.

Commissioner Terence Farrell commented: “I thank my colleagues for their confidence in my leadership as chairman of the board, and I look forward to serving with them as we continue to provide excellent programs and

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Chester County Commissioners Kathi Cozzone, Michelle Kichline and Terence Farrell.

services for the citizens of Chester County.”

Commissioner Kathi Cozzone noted, “This Board has worked hard over the past year to ensure our residents remain safe and receive the services they need and deserve – particularly with

regard to programs that were affected by the state budget impasse. I look forward to continuing to work with them as vice-chair of the board.

Commissioner Michelle Kichline said, “It has been my pleasure to serve alongside Terence and Kathi for

more than a year, and I know that throughout 2016 we will continue to focus on the best interests of our 500,000-plus residents by furthering the programs and services that help us achieve our strategic and economic development goals.”

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Students and families will make a difference on Jan. 18

By John Chambless Staff Writer While schools across the country will be pitching in to serve their communities on Jan. 18, the UnionvilleChadds Ford School District responds in a very, very big way.

To honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on his birthday, the district contributes to almost 40 different projects – everything from food donations to cleanups to working with nursing homes and shelters in the region.

At Unionville High School, the largest project involves sorting and distributing food donated to schools throughout the district on the morning of Jan. 18. Dozens of students gather in the school cafeteria to sort the packages, box them up and carry them to a tractor trailer, which then delivers the food to the Kennett Food Cupboard in the evening. But there are many more options,

including visiting residents at the Pocopson Home, the Adult Care of Chester County, Jenners Pond, the Kennett Senior Center, and the Twin Pines Health Care Center, where students plan and present a “Senior Prom” by dancing and celebrating with residents.

Students can also join clean-up projects at Anson B. Nixon Park, the Church of the Open Door, Family Promise of Southern Chester County, Friends Home in Kennett, His Mission, La Communidad Hispana, Luther House and the Tick-Tock Early Learning Center. There are books to be moved at the Kennett Public Library, medical supplies to sort at Project C.U.R.E., and playtime to be shared with students in YMCA daycare.

Students from Patton Middle School are part of the Anson B. Nixon Park clean-up. But even the district’s youngest students get involved. Children and families at Chadds Ford Elementary are collecting toys, dental hygiene items

and pajamas, as well as books, to donate to the Chester County Family Academy School in West Chester. At Hillendale Elementary School, families make 100 quarts of soup and 300 bagged lunches on the morning of Jan. 18 to be given to needy families in southern Chester County. The school is running a food drive,

and collecting backpacks and school supplies to be given to La Communidad Hispana. Students at Unionville Elementary School are contributing to the district’s food drive as well.

While Jan. 18 is a day off from school, the goal of the Day of Service is to make it a day of giving back.

The connections made by

students and families with the area’s organizations can become long-lasting, turning one day of helping into a habit of volunteering.

File photo by John Chambless

File photo by John Chambless

Families volunteered to make lunches at Hillendale Elementary School last year.

Sports equipment was collected last year at Pocopson Elementary School.

THREATS AND ASSAULT On Dec. 21 at 9:11 p.m., New Garden Township Police responded to a home in the 100 block of Eden Road for a report of a suspicious vehicle in the driveway. They found Edward Koenig, 53, of Landenberg in the car. The caller told police that she

and Koenig had been in an altercation that began on Dec. 20. The victim told police that Koenig threatened threatened to kill her and threw an alcoholic beverage in her face. Koenig was charged with making terroristic threats, simple assault and harassment. He was later released on $5,000 bail.

On Dec. 27 at 6:10 a.m., New Garden Township Police responded to the 100 block of Thompson Road and found Zachary Baker,

25, of Kennett Square, who had been sprayed with mace. The woman who had called police said that Thomas had struck her in the face and head several times, and that she had used mace in self-defense.

Police arrested Baker for simple assault, harassment and unlawful dissemination of images. He was taken to Chester County Prison after failing to post bail.

WALMART THEFT Pennsylvania State Police are investigating

Anyone with information is asked to call Trooper Sterling at 610-268-2022.

DUI Dennis Noel Garcia, 26, of Oxford, was arrested for DUI by Pennsylvania State Police Avondale on Dec. 20 after committing two traffic offenses on Third Street in Oxford.

Diego Armando Martinez Cordova, of Mexico, was arrested for DUI after a traffic stop on Dec. 19 on Route 1 in New Garden Township, according to

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

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Food donations were sorted and packed at Unionville High School during last year’s MLK Day of Service.

a theft from the Walmart store in East Marlborough Township on Jan. 2 at 3:30 p.m. Police said a man wearing camouflage pants and a dark top with a teardrop tattoo under his eye, and a woman wearing dark pants and top, took items from the store without paying. They were confronted by an employee, who was then punched in the back of the head. The suspects fled in a white Chevy Impala with PA registration JRP7326.

Pennsylvania State Police Avondale.

Patrick Alan Hayden, 33, of Philadelphia, was arrested for DUI by Pennsylvania State Police Avondale after a traffic stop on Dec. 18 at 8:39 p.m. on Route 1, north of Route 841.

Bobby Laron Pipkin, 34, of Oxford, was arrested for DUI by Pennsylvania State Police Avondale on Dec. 27 at 3:08 a.m. after a traffic stop on Route 1, south of Newark Road.

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Oxford defeats Kennett, 40-39 The Hornets push their winning streak to three games with a big win over a strong Kennett team

By Steven Hoffman Staff Writer The Oxford girls’ basketball team played what coach Matthew Messick called its most complete game of the season during a 40-39 win over Kennett on Jan. 7.

The two teams were never separated by more than six points and there were four ties and eight lead changes during the fast-faced, hard-fought game that showcased two of the Ches-Mont League’s most improved teams.

“It was a big win for us,” said Messick. “Kennett is a great team, and our players played their hearts out tonight.”

Oxford guard Emily Shallow sparked the offense early on, hitting a jumper and then finishing off a fast-break with a short basket as the Hornets claimed an early lead.

On defense, Oxford

focused its efforts on Jess Hussey, Kennett’s talented senior forward who helped her team win 9 out of its first 10 games before some recent tough losses. Oxford guard Hannah Bahls drew the difficult assignment of trying to stop Hussey, but the Hornets’ game plan also had other players hustling to lend support whenever it looked like Kennett was going to push the ball inside. Oxford had some success with this strategy, limiting Hussey to just one point in the first quarter.

Kennett turned to freshman guard Andrea Prestianne, who knocked down a three-pointer to keep her team close.

Both teams got contributions from the bench. For Oxford, Grace Hennessey played valuable minutes helping to stop Hussey in the middle. And for Kennett, sophomore forward Alexa Hussey provided her team with

an advantage in the front court.

Oxford went on a 7-1 early in the second quarter.

Bahls hit a three-pointer to give her team a brief sixpoint lead.

Despite Oxford’s best efforts, Jess Hussey was determined to get her points and rebounds on the offensive and defensive glass. Kennett sophomore Caroline Hertz, a guard, made two free throws to cut Oxford’s lead to 16-13 in the waning seconds of the second quarter.

When Bahls hit a three-pointer early in the third quarter, it looked like Oxford might go on another run. But Kennett quickly answered with a shot from beyond the arc by Prestianne. A few minutes later, she gave Kennett a 20-19 lead. Despite missing one of its best players, coach Vince Cattano’s Kennett squad battled hard to find a way to win. After

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Hannah Bahls was Oxford’s leading scorer, and she also spent most of the game guarding Hussey, Kennett’s top scorer.

a jumper by Hennessey helped Oxford tie the game at 21-21, Hertz poured in a three-pointer to answer back. Later in the third, Hussey tracked down an offensive rebound, scored a basket and drew a foul. Her free throw made it a 28-27 game. Bahls finished the third quarter the same way that she started it—with a three-pointer—as Oxford held a 31-27 lead.

Photo by Steven Hoffman

Photo by Steven Hoffman

Kennett coach Vince Cattano goes over strategy with his team late in the fourth quarter.

Jess Hussey scored 13 points to lead Kennett.

Photo by Steven Hoffman

Oxford coach Matthew Messick’s basketball team has a winning record this season despite the fact that there are only a few seniors on the squad.

The fourth quarter was a back-and-forth battle.

Kennett claimed a 33-32 lead after a fast-break led to a basket by Melissa Houck. Oxford came right back with a basket by Hennessey, followed by a beautiful jump shot by freshman guard Miranda Porretta that made it 36-33.

Hertz pulled Kennett to within one point with under two minutes to play when she scored a basket and got fouled. Her free throw made it 38-37. But then Bahls was fouled trying to drive to the hoop. She made both free throws for a 40-37 lead.

Houck drove to the hoop for another score with 19 seconds to play, making it 40-39, and neither team could score in the closing seconds.

The victory improved Oxford’s record to 7-5, while Kennett’s record stood at 9-4. Bahls led Oxford’s balanced scoring

attack with 13 points, while Shallow finished with 11.

Hussey’s 13 points led the way for Kennett.

Hertz added 12 points, and Prestianne chipped in with 9 more. Kennett’s young team—there’s only two seniors on the roster—has a lot of promise.

Messick said that he was pleased with how his team played during its three-game winning streak.

Oxford only has two seniors on the team, and the emergence of younger players like guards Porretta, Madeline Williams, and Hannah D’ aquanno bodes well for the team’s future.

“We know that we can do special things,” Messick said. “We believe that if we play hard and we play our game, we can compete with anybody.”

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

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Explore the ‘Art of Writing’ along the Brandywine Artisan Wine Trail

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer For the next several weekends, the NFL will successfully hijack millions of American families.

Among those millions of viewers, however, a large contingent will watch the games with feigned interest, wishing they could be elsewhere. For those locals who are looking to add something a little more palatable to their winter weekend plate, eight wineries along The Brandywine Artisan Wine Trail will be celebrating the “Art of Writing” with writer’s workshops, book signings, book clubs, blog how-to’s and book sales.

Paradocx Vineyard will be hosting a monthly book club starting Jan. 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. at their location in Landenberg. The new club kicks off with “The Round House” by Louise Erdrich.

Come to the book club after having read the book, relax with a glass of wine and discuss this mystery/love story with other members of the club.

Wilson Vineyard will be hosting a lesson in painting a sunflower on Jan. 16, from 1 to 4 p.m., led by artist Sally Wilson.

On Jan. 17 from 2 to 4 p.m., local French chocolate blogger extraordinaire Estelle Tracey will visit the Galer Estate Winery discuss turning her passion for chocolate into an international blogging hit, and also a new book. To complement Tracey’s passion for chocolate, renowned chocolate maker Robert Campbell will be discussing the art of chocolate, provide samples, and have his awardwinning chocolate available

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Lele Galer (left), of Galer Estate Winery, welcomed author Donna Duffy (right) on Jan. 10 as part of ‘The Art of Writing,’ a series of events scheduled through January at several local wineries. On Jan. 17 at Galer, local food blogger Estelle Tracey (center) will share her love of chocolate.

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At Ten Gallon Hat Winery on Jan. 24, six local authors will come together from 1 to 3 p.m. for a discussion about the art of writing in Chester County. Authors include Matty Dalrymple, Merry Jones, Jon McGoran, Bruce Mowday and Elizabeth Bodien. Dalrymple writes suspense/murder mysteries including her latest, “The Sense of Death.” Jones writes that her characters “never know what lies ahead” and she also writes in the suspense and mystery genre.

Her latest book is called “In the Woods.” McGoran writes mysteries, science fiction and thrillers, and his latest book, “Dust Up,” will be published in 2016.

After 20 years in journalism, Mowday is most famous locally for his Historic Walking

Tours and contribution to “Reporting The Revolution” in 2012. Bodien is an wellpublished poet and writer, and is working on a book of translations and a collection

lead a “Plein Air Writer’s Workshop” using “Place” as the point of inspiration for those who participate in a writer’s workshop. Visiting writers will be invited to

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Authors Bruce Mowday and Merry Jones will be part of a panel of local authors at the Ten Gallon Hat Winery on Jan. 24.

of her trance writings. This group of writers will meet again at Galer Estate in the spring.

On Jan. 24, from 1 to 5 p.m., Galer will invite local writer Karen Myers, who will

share their writings, and a prize will be given for the most compelling piece.

On Jan. 31, from 3 to 5 p.m., Galer will host representatives from Schiffer Publishing, who will be

on hand to talk about the publishing business, how to submit an idea for publishing, and offer a variety of new books for sale, with authors in attendance.

At Grace Winery, noted writer Dave Emmi will discuss his latest book, “Divine Philly,” on Jan. 23, beginning at 3 p.m.

Emmi, whose book deals with Irish immigration to the Delaware Valley, will discuss his research into the Irish Hemphill family and the start of Sweetwater Farm (the location for the current Grace Winery). The conversation will include materials from the 1700s, and live music performed by the author.

Throughout January, Penns Woods Winery will be stocking their shelves with the book “A Wine Tasting Course” by local author and wine expert Marnie Old.

“Our area has so many interesting cultural aspects to it -- writers, sculptors, musicians -- so I thought, ‘Let’s pull all of that together,’” said Lele Galer of Galer Estate Winery, who helped to organize the event.

“Events like these increase the customer base [of our local wineries], but they’re also quite a bit of fun, and they incorporate well with wine.”

Galer said that several local wineries will be combining forces for “The Art of the Valentine,” in February, and “The Art of Photography,” in March. For more information about each of these events, visit www.brandywinetrail. com, or the individual participating winery sites.

To contact Staff Writer Richard L. Gaw, e-mail rgaw@chestercounty.com.

Explore creativity at the Oxford Arts Alliance this winter

By John Chambless Staff Writer If you have a budding young artist in your family – or if you’re looking for a way to expand your own artistic talents – the Oxford Arts Alliance is offering a wide range of classes this winter.

The Mini Monet Art Club meets Fridays from 10 to 11 a.m., and is for ages 3 to 5. Participants will get messy and have fun with instructor Caitlin Daugherty. The schedule includes: Color Wheel (Jan. 15), Rothko (Jan. 22), Picasso (Jan. 29), Lines (Feb. 5), Color With Kandinsky (Feb. 12), and Sculpture (Feb. 19).

The classes are $10 for members and $12 for nonmembers (All six classes are $60 for members and $72 for non-members).

The Monday Art Club meets Mondays from 4:30

to 6 p.m., and is for children in grades 1 to 4. Each class will focus on a craft project.

A snack and drink will be provided. The schedule includes: Celebrating Jackson Pollock (Jan. 25), Presidential Photo Transfer (Feb. 1), Valentine’s Day (Feb. 8), Winter Theme (Feb. 15), Celebrating Renoir (Feb. 22), TBA (Feb. 29), In Like A Lion, Out Like a Lamb (March 7), Self-Portrait (March 14), and Spring Theme (March 21). The classes are $10 for members and $12 for non-members (All nine classes are $90 for members and $108 for non-members).

The Saturday Art Club meets Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to noon and is for children in grades 1 to 4. Each class will focus on a craft project. A snack and drink will be provided.

The schedule includes: Celebrating Jackson

Children and adults can learn about art and get more experience with creativity at the Oxford Arts Alliance.

Pollock (Jan. 30), Op Art (Feb. 6), Zentangle (Feb. 13), and Celebrating Renoir (Feb. 20). The classes are $10 for members and $12 for non-members (All four classes are $40 for members and $48 for non-members).

The Wednesday Art Club meets Wednesdays from 4:30 to 6 p.m., and is for children in fifth grade or older. Local artists will work with students

on a different project each week. The schedule includes: Recycled Art with instructor Maggie Creshkoff (Jan. 27), Melted Plastic Flowers with instructor Maggie Creshkoff (Feb. 3), Assemblage with instructor Caitlin Daugherty, and 3D Art and Sculpture with instructor Francesca Phillips (Feb. 17). The classes are $10 for members

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and $12 for non-members (All four classes are $40 for members and $48 for non-members).

A Youth Photo Workshop on March 9 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. is for students in grades 6 and older. The class focuses on the basics of photography, composition, lighting and more. A digital camera is required. The instructor is Jennifer Zduniak. The class is $35 for members and $42 for non-members.

Watercolor Adventures meets on Tuesdays from Jan. 26 to March 15, from 10 a.m. to noon.

The classes will focus on different techniques and papers, with student-led projects that will result in several finished projects.

Email the instructor at GSDiener@gmail.com for a list of materials required.

The classes are $128 for members and $153 for non-members.

Making Compelling Images meets on Tuesdays from March 15 to April 19, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Instructor Steve Miller will delve into composing photographs that tell stories and prompt imagination.

The class is suited to people who are new to photography, or who want to take more dynamic photographs. Each class features tips and weekly shooting assignments.

The classes are $120 for members and $144 for nonmembers. Two students may sign up together for $180.

All classes are held at the Oxford Arts Alliance (38 S. Third St., Oxford).

Visit www.oxfordart.org for more information, or to sign up.

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

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Through Jan. 20 Avon Grove Seniors schedule The Avon Grove Seniors meet on Wednesdays at 10 a.m. at the West Grove Presbyterian Church (139 W. Evergreen St., West Grove).

There is a covered-dish meal every third Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. The schedule includes: Grateful Alive band (Jan. 13); covered dish (Jan. 20). Call 610-255-4477 for more information.

Jan. 13 Fitness for seniors The Oxford Area Senior Center is hosting a wellness workshop on Jan. 13 at 7 p.m. Fitchett Chiropractic will discuss the facets of a healthy lifestyle and the role chiropractic plays. The presentation will highlight best practices for prevention, improving overall health and productivity. Refreshments will be served. The Oxford

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Area Senior Center is at (12 E. Locust St., Oxford. Make reservations for this free program by Jan. 8 by calling 610-932-5244 or emailing oxsrctr@zoominternet.net.

Jan. 16 Kennett Old Timers Banquet The 36th annual Kennett Old Timers Baseball Hall of Fame Banquet will be held on Jan. 16 at 6 p.m. in the Red Clay Room of the Kennett Fire Company. Tickets ($36) can be purchased at Burton’s Barber Shop at 105 W. State St., or call 610-444-9964.

The guest speaker will be Chris Wheeler, the longtime Philadelphia Phillies broadcaster and ambassador.

Jan. 18 CommUNITY Breakfast The MLK CommUNITY of Greater Kennett announces the 15th annual MLK Jr. CommUNITY Breakfast on Jan. 18. This

year’s program includes inspirational readings, music led by Leon Spencer and the CommUNITY Choir, a display of relevant books, and elder Jerry F. Poe, speaking on the theme “We Hold These Truths.”

There will be a collection for local food cupboards, and the Day of Sharing community service projects.

For more information, email mlkdayofsharing@gmail. com. The breakfast will be held at the Red Clay Room in Kennett Square beginning at 8 a.m. Tickets are $20 and must be purchased in advance, either online at www.mlkcommunity.org or by calling 610-444-4357.

Jan. 24 ‘Wine and Words’ The Brandywine Artisan Wine Trail’s celebration of the art of writing will include a “Wine and Words” event with local authors

talking with customers and signing copies of their books on Jan. 24 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Ten Gallon Hat Winery (455 Old Baltimore Pike, Chadds Ford). Authors taking part in the event are Elizabeth Bodien, Matty Dalrymple, Merry Jones, Jon McGoran and Bruce Mowday. For more information, visit www.tengallonhatwinery. com or www. brandywineartisanwinetrail. com.

Feb. 8 to 26 Free tax help for seniors The Kennett Area Senior Center (427 S. Walnut St., Kennett Square) sponsors free tax assistance to middle and low-income taxpayers, with special attention to those 60 and older. AARP volunteers will be available for appointments on Feb. 8, 16 and 23; and Feb. 5, 12, 19 and 26. The times are from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and are

Renowned chef to lead food service offerings at Brandywine River Museum Locally sourced American cuisine will be featured in the restaurant of the Brandywine River Museum of Art starting in February, with new dining and catering options available for private events and parties.

The Brandywine and chef MacGregor Mann have announced a partnership to create a new dining experience that reflects the quality of the museum’s art collection and the Brandywine Conservancy’s environmental focus on sustainable agriculture.

“We are thrilled to

welcome MacGregor Mann’s catering company, Blanch and Shock, as our on-site caterer,” said Virginia A. Logan, executive director of the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art. “Mann’s dedication to using locally sourced food matches perfectly with our commitment to preserving local family farms. His menu is renowned for its quality, flavor and creativity, and I look forward to offering food from our protected farms in our museum cafe and at our events.”

“I am delighted to have been chosen by the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art to provide food for their museum and events,” said MacGregor Mann. “I have long admired the work of the Conservancy and already use produce from one of the local farms they have conserved in my restaurant Junto. I look forward to offering selections of locally sourced food from the Brandywine Valley.”

MacGregor Mann serves as executive chef and owner of Junto Restaurant in Chadds Ford. Prior to

its opening in 2014, he worked as executive chef at Henry’s Fork Lodge in Idaho, serving an international clientele. His eclectic career also includes a stint at Restaurant Noma in Copenhagen, a twostar Michelin restaurant, as well as extensive work with chef Jose Garces.

Mann served as sous chef alongside Garces for two seasons of the show “Iron Chef America” and cooked at several James Beard Foundation events.

For more information, call 610-388-2700 or visit www.brandywine.org.

by appointment only. Call 610-444-4819 to schedule an appointment.

Feb. 21 Chocolate Lovers Festival The Kennett Chocolate Lovers Festival will be held Feb. 21 from 1 to 4 p.m. (connoisseur tickets from noon to 1 p.m.) at Kennett High School (100 E. South St., Kennett Square).

Hundreds of chocolate treats, including cakes, brownies, candies, cookies and cupcakes, will be available for tasting at this festival benefiting United Way of Southern Chester County. General admission is $10 per person and includes six tastings ($30 for a family of four). General admission parking is $5.

Connoisseur tickets are $25 per person or $45 for two people (includes beverages and parking). Visit www. kennettchocolate.org.

Feb. 27 Kennett Winterfest The Fourth Annual Kennett Winterfest will be held Feb. 27 from 12:30 to 4 p.m. in Kennett Square. There will be heated tents on South Broad Street between State and Cypress streets serving local beers, and foods from the Country Butcher, with live music by the Shady Groove Trio. Tickets are limited. They are $65 (designated driver tickets $20). No one under 21 admitted. The event will be held rain, show or shine.

Visit www.kennettwinterfest. com for tickets or more information.

Jan. 23 Buffet breakfast Oxford United Methodist Church (18 Addison St., Oxford) hosts a community buffet breakfast on Jan. 23 from 7 to 10 a.m. The menu includes buttermilk pancakes, French toast, scrambled eggs, fruit, sausage, bacon, roasted potatoes, dried beef gravy and breads. Tickets are $6 for adults, and $3 for ages 3 to 10. Proceeds benefit the church’s general fund. Call 610-932-9698.

Jan. 27 Joseph’s People The monthly JP West Grove meeting for the unemployed/ underemployed will be on Jan. 27 at 6:45 p.m. In the Parish Life Center of ABVM’s

Church (300 State Rd., West Grove). Deacon Jeff Hanna’s topic will be “Interview Preparation and the Interview.”

There will also be prayerful support, introductions of community resources, encouraging member interaction, and discussions of local job opportunities. Visit www.josephspeople.org.

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

Not every submission can be included. Items should be submitted at least two weeks before the event.

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

Information should be received at least two weeks before the event. Not every submission can be included.

Please include the address and contact information for the church in your submission.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ELK TOWNSHIP, CHESTER COUNTY, WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2016 AT 6:30 P.M. AT THE ELK TOWNSHIP BUILDING, 952 CHESTERVILLE ROAD, LEWISVILLE, PA TO CONSIDER FOR ADOPTION AND POSSIBLY ADOPT IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER AT A MEETING, AN AMENDMENT TO THE ELK TOWNSHIP ZONING ORDINANCE OF JULY 2002 AS AMENDED. THE PROPOSED ZONING ORDINANCE AMENDMENT IS AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Article IV R-H Residential District Section 401 Use Regulations Replace existing Section 401.A preamble with the following: 401.A. By Right Uses. A building may be erected, altered, or used, and a lot may be used or occupied, for any one of the following principal uses, and for no other: Delete existing Section 401.A.7 and Section 401.A.8 and renumber subsequent sections accordingly. Add the following to Section 401.C. Accessory Uses: 401.C.4 Minor Home Occupation in accordance with the provisions of Section 1215. 401.C.5 Accessory agricultural dwelling in accordance with the provisions of Section 1202.

SECTION 2. Article V R-1 Residential District Section 501 Use Regulations Replace existing Section 501.A preamble with the following: 501.A. By Right Uses. A building may be erected, altered, or used, and a lot may be used or occupied, for any one of the following principal uses, and for no other: Delete existing Section 501.A.7 and Section 501.A.8 and renumber subsequent sections accordingly.

Add the following to Section 501.D Accessory Uses: 501.D.6 Minor Home Occupation in accordance with the provisions of Section 1215. 501.D.7 Accessory agricultural dwelling in accordance with the provisions of Section 1202.

SECTION 3. Article VI R-2 Agricultural Residential District Section 601 Use Regulations Replace existing Section 601.A preamble with the following: 601.A. By Right Uses. A building may be erected, altered, or used, and a lot may be used or occupied, for any one of the following principal uses, and for no other: Delete existing Section 601.A.7 and Section 601.A.9 and renumber subsequent sections accordingly.

Add the following to Section 601.D Accessory Uses: 601.D.5 Minor Home Occupation in accordance with the provisions of Section 1215. 601.D.6 Accessory agricultural dwelling in accordance with the provisions of Section 1202.

SECTION 4. Article VII Agricultural Preservation District Section 701 Use Regulations Replace existing Section 701.A preamble with the following: 701.A. By Right Uses. A building or other structure may be erected, altered, or used, and a lot may be used or occupied, for any one of the following principal uses, and for no other: Delete existing Section 701.A.11 and replace with the following: 701.A.11 One single family detached dwelling on a non-farm lot which conforms to the standards of Section 702.C and which was a lot of record as of the date of enactment of Ordinance No. 2010-06.

Delete existing Section 701.A.7 and Section 701.A.9 and renumber subsequent sections accordingly.

Add the following to Section 701.D Accessory Uses: 701.D.3 Minor Home Occupation in accordance with the provisions of Section 1215. 701.D.4 Accessory agricultural dwelling in accordance with the provisions of Section 1202.

SECTION 5. Article VIII LV Lewisville Village Residential District Section 801 Use Regulations Replace existing Section 801.A preamble with the following: 801.A. By Right Uses. A building or other structure may be erected, altered, or used, and a lot may be used or occupied, for any one of the following principal uses, and for no other: Delete existing Section 801.A.11 and Section 801.A.13 and renumber subsequent sections accordingly.

Add the following to Section 801.D Accessory Uses: 801.D.5 Minor Home Occupation in accordance with the provisions of Section 1215. 801.D.6 Accessory agricultural dwelling in accordance with the provisions of Section 1202.

SECTION 6. Article IX C-1 Village Commercial District Section 901 Use

Regulations Delete existing Section 901.A preamble and replace with the following: 901.A.

By Right Uses. A building may be erected, altered or used, and a lot may be used or occupied, for any one of the following principal uses, and for no other: Delete existing Section 901.A.16 and Section 901.A.17 and renumber subsequent sections accordingly.

Add the following to Section 901.D Accessory Uses: 901.D.4 Minor Home Occupation in accordance with the provisions of Section 1215. 901.D.5 Accessory agricultural dwelling in accordance with the provisions of Section 1202.

SECTION 7. Article X C-2 General Commercial District Section 1001 Use Regulations Delete existing Section 1001.A preamble and replace with the following: 1001.A.

By Right Uses. A building may be erected, altered or used, and a lot may be used or occupied, for any one of the following principal uses, and for no other: Delete existing Section 1001.A.15 and Section 1001.A.19 and renumber subsequent sections accordingly.

Add the following to Section 1001.C Accessory Uses: 1001.C.4 Minor Home Occupation in accordance with the provisions of Section 1215.

1001.C.5.Accessory agricultural dwelling in accordance with the provisions of Section 1202.

SECTION 8. Article XI Natural Resource Overlay District Section 1103 Resource Conservation Overlay District Delete existing Section 1102.G.2.b. and replace with the following: 1102.G.2.b.

Stormwater management facilities, including conveyance facilities, when located in the Precautionary Slope District and when demonstrated that no feasible location on areas of lesser slopes exist to site the facilities. The proposed stormwater management facilities must also be fully compliant with the Elk Township Stormwater Ordinance as well as the standards of all other regulatory agencies.

Renumber Section 1103.E.4 Tree Protection Zone as Section 1103.E.6 Tree Protection Zone.

SECTION 9. Effect on Other Provisions and Repealer This Ordinance shall supersede all prior Ordinances and Resolutions as to the specific subject matter contained herein. All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances which are inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

SECTION 10. Severability If any section or provision of this Ordinance is declared by any Court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall not affect the constitutionality, legality or validity of this Ordinance as a whole, nor the constitutionality, legality or validity of any other section or provision of this Ordinance other than the one sol declared to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid.

SECTION 11. Effective Date The provisions of this Ordinance shall become effective five (5) days after its enactment.

R. Samuel McMichael, Esquire Solicitor, Elk Township 1p-13-2t

Notice

LONDON GROVE TOWNSHIP BOARD OF SUPERVISORS 2016 MEETING SCHEDULE EXHIBIT “B” Meetings of the Board of Supervisors will be held on the 1st Wednesday of each month except January. Agenda deadline is 12 noon the Wednesday preceding the regular meeting. All meetings begin at 7:00 p.m. and are held at the Township Office, 372 Rose Hill Road, West Grove, PA 19390 unless advertised otherwise. The public is invited.

The Board of Supervisors of the London Grove Township will meet in the 2016 calendar year on the following dates: January 4, February 3, March 2, April 6, May 4, June 1, July 6, August 3, September 7, October 5, November 2, December 7 PLANNING COMMISSION Meetings of the Planning Commission will be held on the last Wednesday of each month except November and December. Agenda Deadline is the Wednesday before the meeting at 12:00 noon. All meetings begin at 7:00 p.m. and are held at the Township Office.

The public is invited.

The Planning Commission of the London Grove Township will meet in the 2016 calendar year on the following dates: January 27, February 24, March 30 April 27, May 25, June 29, July 27, August 31, September 28, October 26, November 16, December 14 PARKS AND RECREATION Meetings of the Parks and Recreation Board will be held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month. Agenda Deadline is the Thursday before the meeting at 12:00 noon. All meetings begin at 7:00 p.m. and are held at the Township Office. The public is invited.

The Parks and Recreation Board of the London Grove Township will meet in the 2016 calendar year on the following dates: January 20, February 17, March 16, April 20 May 18, June 15, July 20, August 17, September 21, October 19, November 16, December 21 OPEN SPACE COMMITTEE Meetings of the Open Space Committee will be held on the 2nd Thursday of each month. All meetings being at 7:00 p.m. and are held at the Township Office. The public is invited.

The Open Space Committee of the London Grove Township will meet in the 2016 calendar year on the following dates: January 7, February 11, March 10, April 14, May 12, June 9, July 14, August 11, September 8, October 13, November 10, December 8 ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY COUNCIL Meetings of the Environmental Advisory Council will be held on the last Monday of each month with the exception of May, November and December.

Agenda Deadline is the Tuesday before the meeting at 12:00 noon. All meetings begin at 7:00 p.m. and are held at the Township Office. The public is invited.

The Environmental Advisory Council of London Grove Township will meet in the 2016 calendar year on the following dates: January 25, February 22, March 28, April 25, May 23, June 27, July 25, August 29, September 26, October 24, November 14, December 12 INNISCRONE GOLF COURSE COMMITTEE Meetings of the Inniscrone Golf Course Committee will be held on the 2nd Tuesday quarterly. All meetings begin at 7:00 p.m. and are held at the Township Office unless notified otherwise.

The public is invited.

The Inniscrone Golf Course of London

Grove Township will meet in the 2016 calendar year on the following dates: February 9, May 10, August 9, November 8 Steven C. Brown Township Manager Visit our website: www.londongrove.org 1p-13-1t

NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of: GMI Insurance, located at 99 Starr Street, Wayne PA 19460, has submitted an application for a fictitious name under 54 Pac's. pursuant to Pennsylvania's Fictitious Names Act. G.M.I. N.A. INC. 99 Starr Street, Wayne PA 19460 1p-13-1t

Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writ directed to Carolyn B. Welsh, Sheriff will be sold at public sale, in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 West Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, announced Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 11AM prevailing time the herein-described real estate.

Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file in her office located in the Chester County Justice Center, Sheriff’s Office, 201 West Market Street, Suite 201, West Chester, Pennsylvania a schedule of distribution on Monday, February 22, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed hereto within ten (10) days thereafter SALE NO. 16-1-4 Writ of Execution No. 2014-12484 DEBT $383,073.64

Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Spirit of Giving Luncheon celebrates 25 years Proceeds benefit Neighborhood Services Center The Martin Luther King, Jr. Spirit of Giving Luncheon celebrates 25 years during its annual luncheon and observance, which will take place at noon on Monday Jan. 18 at Penn’s Grove Middle School in Oxford.

The event will feature keynote speaker Dr. Martin Hudacs, a retired Solanco School District superintendent.

The luncheon, which was started 25 years ago by a few Oxford business owners to generate funds to help local residents who need help during the cold winter months, is a key fundraiser for the Neighborhood Services Center (NSC), who provided food for nutritious

meals for 384 households, financial assistance for housing, heating, utility services and health care needs for households and Christmas gifts for more than 240 children last year.

“This is a beautiful community event, and I always leave feeling inspired and reinvigorated,” said Jim McLeod, one of the Spirit of Giving Luncheon committee members. “This wonderful event would not be possible without the support of Oxford Area School District, Penn’s Grove Middle School Helping Hands Club Members, Buchanan’s Buds and Blossoms, Sher Rockee Mushroom Farms, Acme Markets, Feesers Foods, Inc., US Foods, Giant Food Store, and Oxford

Educational Foundation.”

Keynote speaker Dr. Hudacs, who spent over 39 years in education and community service, retired in June 2014 after serving for seven years as the superintendent of the Solanco School District.

Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials (PASBO) recruited Hudacs and several retired superintendents to provide local school leaders throughout the state with professional development and advocacy related to school funding.

Luncheon tickets are $35, but seating is limited. Please RSVP to Neighborhood Services Center at 610-932-8557.

purchase money must be paid at the time and place of the sale.

10% payment must be paid in cash,certified check or money order made payable to the purchaser or Sheriff of Chester Co. and the balance made payable to Sheriff of Chester Co. thereof, within twentyone (21) days from the date of sale by 2pm.

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Schedule unless exceptions are filed hereto within ten (10) days thereafter

PROPERTY situate in the New Garden Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania CONTAINING 1.153 acres of land more or less.

BLR# 60-4-96 IMPROVEMENTS residential dwelling

thereon:

PLAINTIFF: Nationstar Mortgage LLC VS DEFENDANT: LOREN HOPKINS TAYLOR a/k/a LOREN TAYLOR, IN HER CAPACITY AS EXECUTRIX and DEVISEE OF THE ESTATE OF LOUIS E. HOPKINS, THE HOPKINS FAMILY PROPERTY TRUST, TARYN LINDSAY ALBERT a/k/a TARYN ALBERT, IN HER CAPACITY AS BENEFICIARY OF THE ESTATE OF LOUIS E. HOPKINS, BRADFORD E. HOPKINS a/k/a BRAD HOPKINS, IN HIS CAPACITY AS BENEFICIARY OF THE ESTATE OF LOUIS E. HOPKINS, UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES OF THE HOPKINS FAMILY PROPERTY TRUST SALE ADDRESS: 101 Interlachen Court, Avondale, PA 19311-9747 PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: PHELAN HALLINAN DIAMOND & JONES, LLP, 215-5637000 N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of the sale.

10% payment must be paid in cash,certified check or money order made payable to the purchaser or Sheriff of Chester Co. and the balance made payable to Sheriff of Chester Co. thereof, within twentyone (21) days from the date of sale by 2pm.

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Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writ directed to Carolyn B. Welsh, Sheriff will be sold at public sale, in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 West Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, announced Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 11AM prevailing time the herein-described real estate.

Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file in her office located in the Chester County Justice Center, Sheriff’s Office, 201 West Market Street, Suite 201, West Chester, Pennsylvania a schedule of distribution on Monday, February 22, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed hereto within ten (10) days thereafter SALE NO. 16-1-5 Writ of Execution No. 2010-02018 DEBT $257,294.29 ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of land with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate in New London Township, County of Chester, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, described according to a Plan of “Steep Meadows.” Made

by George E. Regester Jr. & Sons, C.C., Kennett Square, PA., dated 9-2-1986, last revised 12-4-1986, recorded at West Chester in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds in Plan File #6951, as follows: BEGINNING at a point of curve in the bed of Saginaw Road (LR 15238), a corner of Lot #4 on said Plan: thence extending from said beginning point through the bed of said road and along the arc of a circle curving to the right having a radius of 485.00 feet, the arc distance of 129.94 feet to a point of tangent, thence extending north 86 degrees 42 minutes 18 seconds east, 32.40 feet to a point, thence extending south 76 degrees 25 minutes 39 seconds east, 5.98 feet to a point; thence extending south 76 degrees 54 minutes 07 seconds east, 67.40 feet to a point, a corner of Lot #6 on said Plan; thence leaving the bed of said road and extending along line of Lot #6 and Lot #7 on said Plan; south 04 degrees 32 minutes 04 seconds west, 253.20 feet to a point, a corner degrees 32 minutes 56 seconds east,120.28 feet to a point, another corner of Lot #4; thence extending along line of Lot #4, north, 18 degrees 38 minutes 42 seconds west 315.68 feet to the first mentioned point and place of beginning.

BEING Lot #5 as shown on said Plan.

BEING UPI #71-3-14.5 BEING the same premises which William J. Meinzer & Margaret A. Meinzer, by Deed dated 11/29/96 and recorded 12/5/96 in the County of Chester in Deed Book 4114, Page 1678, granted and conveyed unto Michael P. McGarvey, Jr. and Virginia S. McGarvey, husband and wife, in fee.

PLAINTIFF: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association VS DEFENDANT: MICHAEL P. McGARVEY, JR. and VIRGINIA S. McGARVEY SALE ADDRESS: 711 Saginaw Road, Oxford, PA 19363 PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: SHAPIRO & DeNARDO, LLC, 610-278-6800 N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the

Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writ directed to Carolyn B. Welsh, Sheriff will be sold at public sale, in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 West Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, announced Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 11AM prevailing time the herein-described real estate.

Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file in her office located in the Chester County Justice Center, Sheriff’s Office, 201 West Market Street, Suite 201, West Chester, Pennsylvania a schedule of distribution on Monday, February 22, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance with the

SALE NO. 16-1-15 Writ of Execution No. 2014-06242 DEBT $591,773.63 PROPERTY situate in Township of New Garden TAX Parcel #60-4-20.9 IMPROVEMENTS: dwelling.

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residential

PLAINTIFF: The Bank of New York Mellon FKA The Bank of New York as Trustee for the Certificateholders of the CWABS, Inc., Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-17 VS DEFENDANT: ANITA A. POWELL and MARVIN J. POWELL SALE ADDRESS: 229 Honey Locust Drive, Avondale, PA 19311 ATTORNEY: KML LAW GROUP, P.C., 215-627-1322 Continued on Page 4B

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CHESTER COUNTY PRESS

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2016

Classifieds

ATTENTION CDL-A TRUCK DRIVERS It’s a new year and you probably have another big healthcare deductible to meet out of your pocket. Here our drivers get a 100% Family BC/BS health plan, dental, vision & Rx for just $35/wk and the annual deductible is only $250! Plus we pay 100% of the cost for a true PENSION PLAN like gov’t workers get. Make the choice to come on board here and put money back in your pocket where it should be.

44 cpm all miles, hourly pay ld & unld FAMILY BC/BS health plan $35/wk!

100% Company paid Pension Plan * Paid vacations & holidays Safety Bonus pay * Dedicated tractors * The respect that you deserve

1-800-4A Drive(800-423-7483) P.E. Kramme, Inc.

DEFENDANT: CHANDLER DINORSCIA

N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of the sale.

10% payment must be paid in cash,certified check or money order made payable to the purchaser or Sheriff of Chester Co. and the balance made payable to Sheriff of Chester Co. thereof, within twentyone (21) days from the date of sale by 2pm.

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Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writ directed to Carolyn B. Welsh, Sheriff will be sold at public sale, in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 West Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, announced Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 11AM prevailing time the herein-described real estate.

Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file in her office located in the Chester County Justice Center, Sheriff’s Office, 201 West Market Street, Suite 201, West Chester, Pennsylvania a schedule of distribution on Monday, February 22, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed hereto within ten (10) days thereafter SALE NO. 16-1-18 Writ of Execution No. 2012-13323 DEBT $294,169.44 PROPERTY situate in the East Nottingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania BLR# 69-6-472.6 IMPROVEMENTS residential dwelling

thereon:

PLAINTIFF: Bank of America, N.A., as Successor by Merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP f/k/a Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP VS DEFENDANT: BEVERLY FOXSMITH and JAMES L. SMITH SALE ADDRESS: 343 Yorklyn Road, Oxford, PA 19363-2426 PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: PHELAN HALLINAN DIAMOND & JONES, LLP, 215-563-7000 N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of the sale.

10% payment must be paid in cash,certified check or money order made payable to the purchaser or Sheriff of Chester Co. and the balance made payable to Sheriff of Chester Co. thereof, within twentyone (21) days from the date of sale by 2pm.

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Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writ directed to Carolyn B. Welsh, Sheriff will be sold at public sale, in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 West Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, announced Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 11AM prevailing time the herein-described real estate.

Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file in her office located in the Chester County Justice Center, Sheriff’s Office, 201 West Market Street, Suite 201, West Chester, Pennsylvania a schedule of distribution on Monday, February 22, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed hereto within ten (10) days thereafter SALE NO. 16-1-21 Writ of Execution No. 2014-08663 DEBT $126,914.13 ALL THAT CERTAIN tract of land with the improvements erected thereon, situate in the Borough of Parkesburg, County of Chester and State of Pennsylvania.

PARCEL/UPI No. 8-5-222 BEING the same premises which Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation by Kamiel Houston, Attorney in Fact by Power of Attorney granted and conveyed unto Milton C. Burrell and Yvonne V. Burrell by Deed dated December 9, 2004 and recorded February 28, 2005 in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds for

Chester County, Pennsylvania in Deed Book 6421, Page 935.

PLAINTIFF: LSF8 Master Participation Trust VS DEFENDANT: MILTON C. BURRELL and YVONNE V. BURRELL SALE ADDRESS: 408 West 2nd Avenue, Parkesburg, PA 19365 PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: RICHARD M. SQUIRE AND ASSOCIATES, LLC, 215-886-8790 N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of the sale.

10% payment must be paid in cash,certified check or money order made payable to the purchaser or Sheriff of Chester Co. and the balance made payable to Sheriff of Chester Co. thereof, within twentyone (21) days from the date of sale by 2pm.

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Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writ directed to Carolyn B. Welsh, Sheriff will be sold at public sale, in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 West Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, announced Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 11AM prevailing time the herein-described real estate.

Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file in her office located in the Chester County Justice Center, Sheriff’s Office, 201 West Market Street, Suite 201, West Chester, Pennsylvania a schedule of distribution on Monday, February 22, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed hereto within ten (10) days thereafter SALE NO. 16-1-22 Writ of Execution No. 2014-11447 DEBT $119,936.28 PROPERTY situate in Borough of Kennett Square TAX Parcel #03-04-0250 IMPROVEMENTS: dwelling.

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residential

PLAINTIFF: Midfirst Bank VS DEFENDANT: RAFAEL CAMACHO and TERESA CAMACHO SALE ADDRESS: 717 Lafayette Street, Kennett Square, PA 19348

BEING the same premises which Dale R. Petrak and Susan E. Petrak

by Deed dated June 24, 2005 and recorded July 11, 2005 in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for Chester County in Deed Book 6544 Page 1656, as Instrument Number 10550900, granted and conveyed unto Susan E. Petrak and Helen Flanyak, as joint tenants with the right of survivorship, in fee.

UPI# 62-5-67.61

S. M.

PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: PHELAN HALLINAN DIAMOND & JONES, LLP, 215-563-7000 N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of the sale.

10% payment must be paid in cash,certified check or money order made payable to the purchaser or Sheriff of Chester Co. and the balance made payable to Sheriff of Chester Co. thereof, within twentyone (21) days from the date of sale by 2pm.

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Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writ directed to Carolyn B. Welsh, Sheriff will be sold at public sale, in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 West Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, announced Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 11AM prevailing time the herein-described real estate.

Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file in her office located in the Chester County Justice Center, Sheriff’s Office, 201 West Market Street, Suite 201, West Chester, Pennsylvania a schedule of distribution on Monday, February 22, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed hereto within ten (10) days thereafter SALE NO. 16-1-25 Writ of Execution No. 2014-07327 DEBT $127,593.75 ALL THOSE TWO (2) CERTAIN messuages, tenements and tracts of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate in Elk Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows: TRACT #1 – Beginning at a stake in the west side of a public road in a line of land formerly of William Anderson, now Frank Carr; thence by the same south 26 1/2 degrees east 25.8 perches to a stake; thence by land now or late of Carleton Abernathy, south 74 degrees west 57.3 perches to a stake in line of land now or late of William T. Scott; thence by the same north 9 1/4 degrees east 46.3 perches to a stake in said line; thence by land now or late of Maurice Hickey south 82 1/2 degrees east 35.7 perches to a stake; the place of beginning.

CONTAINING 9 3/4 acres, more or less.

Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

CONTAINING 7,590 square feet of lane, more or less.

SALE NO. 16-1-24 Writ of Execution No. 2014-00226 DEBT $543,349.00 PROPERTY situate in the Chester County, Pennsylvania BLR# 60-4-20.4 IMPROVEMENTS residential dwelling

thereon:

PLAINTIFF: Bank of America, N.A. VS

TOGETHER with and under subject to the free and common use, right, liberty and privilege of the aforesaid 50 feet wide private right of way, as and for a driveway, passageway and watercourse at all times hereafter, forever, in common with the owners, tenants and occupiers of the other lots of ground bounding thereon and entitled to the use thereof.

will be sold at public sale, in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 West Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, announced Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 11AM prevailing time the herein-described real estate.

Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file in her office located in the Chester County Justice Center, Sheriff’s Office, 201 West Market Street, Suite 201, West Chester, Pennsylvania a schedule of distribution on Monday, February 22, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed hereto within ten (10) days thereafter

MICHAEL and LISA

N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of the sale.

10% payment must be paid in cash,certified check or money order made payable to the purchaser or Sheriff of Chester Co. and the balance made payable to Sheriff of Chester Co. thereof, within twentyone (21) days from the date of sale by 2pm.

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By virtue of the within mentioned writ directed to Carolyn B. Welsh, Sheriff will be sold at public sale, in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 West Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, announced Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 11AM prevailing time the herein-described real estate.

Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file in her office located in the Chester County Justice Center, Sheriff’s Office, 201 West Market Street, Suite 201, West Chester, Pennsylvania a schedule of distribution on Monday, February 22, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed hereto within ten (10) days thereafter

BEING Parcel No. 62-5-67.61.

SUBJECT, however, to the proportionate part of the expense of keeping said driveway in good order, condition and repair at all times hereafter forever.

TRACT #2 – Beginning at a stone on the westerly side of an unimproved dirt road leading to Hickory Hill; thence leaving said road and by land of Raymond R. Lindsey, et ux, south 70 1/2 degrees west 100 feet to a point; thence by the same north 25 1/2 degrees west 75.09 feet to a point in line of other land of Andrew J. Maze; thence by the same north 70 1/2 degrees east 100 feet to a point in the westerly side of the first mentioned road; thence along said road south 25 1/2 degrees east 75.09 feet to the first mentioned point and place of beginning.

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

BEING Lot No. 25 on said Plan.

1685 Baltimore Pike, Avondale, Pa, Chester Co CDL-A w/tanker, 2 yr min exp

SALE ADDRESS: 219 Honey Locust Drive, Avondale, PA 19311-0000 Continued from Page 3B

point at the northwesterly terminus of a certain 50 feet wide private right of way; thence extending along same, south 41 degrees 46 minutes 47 seconds west, 221.41 feet to a point on the northeasterly terminus of Walnut Valley Road cul-de-sac, aforesaid; thence extending along the side of said cul-de-sac along the arc of a circle curving to the left having a radius of 50 feet, the arc distance of 83.61 feet to the first mentioned point and place of beginning.

BEING known as 1003 Kings Row Road, Oxford, PA 19363 PLAINTIFF: Presbyterian Homes, Inc., d/b/a Ware Presbyterian Village VS DEFENDANT: BETTY LEE EVANS, B. DOUGLAS EVANS and JOSEPH M. EVANS, III SALE ADDRESS: 1003 Kings Row Road, Oxford, PA 19363 PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: SCOTT A. DIETTERICK, ESQ., 717-533-3280 N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of the sale.

10% payment must be paid in cash,certified check or money order made payable to the purchaser or Sheriff of Chester Co. and the balance made payable to Sheriff of Chester Co. thereof, within twentyone (21) days from the date of sale by 2pm.

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Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writ directed to Carolyn B. Welsh, Sheriff

SALE NO. 16-1-30 Writ of Execution No. 2014-11760 DEBT $272,031.95 PROPERTY situate in the East Marlborough Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania BLR# 61-6-361 IMPROVEMENTS residential dwelling

West Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, announced Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 11AM prevailing time the herein-described real estate.

Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file in her office located in the Chester County Justice Center, Sheriff’s Office, 201 West Market Street, Suite 201, West Chester, Pennsylvania a schedule of distribution on Monday, February 22, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed hereto within ten (10) days thereafter SALE NO. 16-1-38 Writ of Execution No. 2012-04255 DEBT $83,710.52 ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate on the south side of Elm or 3rd Avenue in the Borough of Parkesburg, County of Chester and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows:

thereon:

PLAINTIFF: Caliber Home Loans, Inc. f/k/a Vericrest Financial, Inc. VS DEFENDANT: LISA HOYLE

TAX I.D. #: 08-05-0293 PLAINTIFF: EverBank VS DEFENDANT: JENNIFER HATTON

SALE ADDRESS: 208 Cherry Lane, Kennett Square, PA 19348-4709

SALE ADDRESS: 414 West 3rd Street, Parkesburg, Pennsylvania 19365

PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: PHELAN HALLINAN DIAMOND & JONES, LLP, 215-563-7000

PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: McCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, P.C., 215790-1010

N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of the sale.

10% payment must be paid in cash,certified check or money order made payable to the purchaser or Sheriff of Chester Co. and the balance made payable to Sheriff of Chester Co. thereof, within twentyone (21) days from the date of sale by 2pm.

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N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of the sale.

10% payment must be paid in cash,certified check or money order made payable to the purchaser or Sheriff of Chester Co. and the balance made payable to Sheriff of Chester Co. thereof, within twentyone (21) days from the date of sale by 2pm.

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Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writ directed to Carolyn B. Welsh, Sheriff will be sold at public sale, in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 West Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, announced Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 11AM prevailing time the herein-described real estate.

Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file in her office located in the Chester County Justice Center, Sheriff’s Office, 201 West Market Street, Suite 201, West Chester, Pennsylvania a schedule of distribution on Monday, February 22, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed hereto within ten (10) days thereafter

By virtue of the within mentioned writ directed to Carolyn B. Welsh, Sheriff will be sold at public sale, in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 West Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, announced Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 11AM prevailing time the herein-described real estate.

Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file in her office located in the Chester County Justice Center, Sheriff’s Office, 201 West Market Street, Suite 201, West Chester, Pennsylvania a schedule of distribution on Monday, February 22, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed hereto within ten (10) days thereafter

SALE NO. 16-1-52 Writ of Execution No. 2014-11854 DEBT $259,120.93

SALE NO. 16-1-54 Writ of Execution No. 2013-03378 DEBT $468,555.62

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot of land situate in the Township of East Nottingham, County of Chester, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, bounded and described according to a final plan made for Wayne E. and Mary A. Reisler by N. M. Lake and Associates, Inc., Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors, dated September 30, 1987, last revised March 23, 1988 and recorded in Chester County Recorder of Deeds Office as Plan No. 8195 as follows, to wit:

ALL THAT CERTAIN tract or piece of land, situate in the Township of Kennett, County of Chester and State of Pennsylvania, described according to a Plan of Property of a Final Subdivision Plan of Phase II of Cross Creek for Joseph and Carol Grace, made by Regester Associates, dated 9-19-1989 last revised 8-23-1994 recorded 9-301994 at West Chester in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds in Plan File #12672, as follows:

TAX I.D. #: 69-7-27.7

BEGINNING at a point on the northwesterly terminus of Walnut Valley Road at its point of intersection with the southerly terminus of a certain 50 feet wide future right of way (to be offered for dedication) thence extending from said beginning point and along the easterly side of said right of way the 4 following courses and distances (1) north 58 degrees 53 minutes 33 seconds west, 76.05 feet to a point of curve (2) along the arc of a circle curving to the right having a radius of 225.00 feet the arc distance of 91.68 feet to a point of tangent (3) north 35 degrees 32 minutes 45 seconds west, crossing over a 50 feet wide stream and drainage easement, 305.30 feet to a point of curve and (4) along the arc of a circle curving to the right having a radius of 245.00 feet the arc distance of 117.34 feet to a point in line of lands now or late of Route 52 Associates; thence extending along last mentioned lands, north 87 degrees 05 minutes 56 seconds east, 413.65 feet to a point, a corner of Lot 26 as shown on said Plan; thence extending along line of Lot No. 26, south 28 degrees 02 minutes 14 seconds east, recrossing the aforesaid stream and drainage easement, 340.78 feet to a

PLAINTIFF: Sun East Federal Credit Union VS DEFENDANT: SUSAN E. PETRAK and HELEN E. FLANYAK SALE ADDRESS: 25 Walnut Valley Road, Chadds Ford, PA 19317 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 the sale.

10% payment must be paid in cash,certified check or money order made payable to the purchaser or Sheriff of Chester Co. and the balance made payable to Sheriff of Chester Co. thereof, within twentyone (21) days from the date of sale by 2pm.

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Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writ directed to Carolyn B. Welsh, Sheriff will be sold at public sale, in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 West Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, announced Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 11AM prevailing time the herein-described real estate.

Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file in her office located in the Chester County Justice Center, Sheriff’s Office, 201 West Market Street, Suite 201, West Chester, Pennsylvania a schedule of distribution on Monday, February 22, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed hereto within ten (10) days thereafter SALE NO. 16-1-58 Writ of Execution No. 2014-04049 DEBT $230,911.29 ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situate in the Borough of Parkesburg, County of Chester, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, bounded and described according to a Final Subdivision Plan of Parkesburg Knoll, Phase I as made

by Ruth Engineers dated 06/08/1987 and recorded in Chester County as Plan File No. 7432 as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at a point in the south side of Fifth Avenue said point also by a corner of Lot 46 on said Plan, thence extending from said beginning point along Fifth Avenue north 73 degrees 10 minutes 58 seconds east 60 feet to a point, a corner of Lot No. 44 on said Plan; thence extending along same south 16 degrees 49 minutes 02 seconds east 150.00 feet to a point in line of Lot No. 65; thence extending along same and along Lot No. 64 south 73 degrees 10 minutes 53 seconds west 60.00 feet to a point in line of Lot No. 46; thence extending along same north 16 degrees 49 minutes 20 seconds west 150.00 feet to the first mentioned point and place of beginning.

BEING Lot No. 45 on said Plan.

PLAINTIFF: Fifth Third Mortgage Company VS DEFENDANT: NICHOLAS B. COLLINS and NICOLE L. QUILLEN SALE ADDRESS: 661 5th Street, Oxford, Pennsylvania 19363 PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: McCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, P.C., 215790-1010 N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of the sale.

10% payment must be paid in cash,certified check or money order made payable to the purchaser or Sheriff of Chester Co. and the balance made payable to Sheriff of Chester Co. thereof, within twentyone (21) days from the date of sale by 2pm.

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Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writ directed to Carolyn B. Welsh, Sheriff will be sold at public sale, in the Chester County Justice Center, 201

BEING the same premises which Ricky K. Kinney and Kim G. Carlin

by Deed dated June 10, 1998 and recorded August 16, 1998 in the County of Chester in Deed Book 4403 Page 1612, conveyed to Rickey K. Kinney and Kimberlie G. Kinney, husband and wife.

PLAINTIFF: Nationstar Mortgage LLC VS DEFENDANT: RICKEY K. KINNEY and KIMBERLE G. KINNEY SALE ADDRESS: 422 Fifth Avenue, Parkesburg, PA 19365 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 the sale.

10% payment must be paid in cash,certified check or money order made payable to the purchaser or Sheriff of Chester Co. and the balance made payable to Sheriff of Chester Co. thereof, within twentyone (21) days from the date of sale by 2pm.

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