Chester CountyPRESS
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Covering Avon Grove, Chadds Ford, Kennett Square, Oxford, & Unionville Areas
Volume 149, No. 40
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Vying for votes
There are six candidates running for three seats on Kennett Square Borough Council. The community got the chance to learn about them during a meet-thecandidates event organized by Historic Kennett Square.
Newark Life magazine
Celebrating the art of food...........................1C
Oxford toppled at Homecoming game...4C
By Steven Hoffman Staff Writer When Wayne Braffman woke up on the morning of Tuesday, May 19, he had no intention of running for a seat on Kennett Square Borough Council. But then he went to vote in the Primary Election and discovered that there was just one candidate on the ballot for the three seats that are up for election. Incumbent council president Leon Spencer and council members Chip Plumley III, and Brett Irwin all decided not to seek reelection, and only one person filed on time to be on the Primary election ballot. By the time Braffman got home from the voting booth, a sense of civic duty had convinced him to begin
a campaign for a council seat. “This town is too good not to have a full slate of candidates,” Braffman explained. Now, with the Nov. 3 general election less than a month away, there is a full slate of candidates, with three Republicans and three Democrats vying for the three open seats on borough council. Last Thursday night, all six candidates— Democrats Braffman, Doug Doerfler, and Jamie Mallon, and Republicans Mark Krahforst, Jennifer MacFarland, and John Thomas—all took part in an informal but informative meet-the-candidates event at Philter. Photo by Richard L. Gaw Each candidate had The Oxford Area High School Cheerleading Squad helped prepare for the school's the opportunity to make Homecoming Festivities on Oct. 5 by preparing several balloon displays. For more
HORNET HOMECOMING
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photos and a game summary, turn to Pages 4C and 5C.
Chester County’s MIRT Team helped with unprecedented security for visit by Pope Francis John A. Trevisan, Jr. and Jeremiah Boyer from the Kennett Square Police Department were part of the team that helped protect the Pope during his appearances in Philadelphia
By Steven Hoffman Oxford Senior Center Staff Writer program coordinator steps down after 26 Det. John A. Trevisan, Jr. years........................1B and officer Jeremiah Boyer,
two members of the Kennett Square Police Department, took part in the security effort to protect Pope Francis while he visited Philadelphia Calendar of Events......9C during the last weekend in
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Opinion........................5A Obituaries...................8A Classified....................6C Police Blotter..............3B
September. The historic six-day visit by Pope Francis to New York City, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia produced one of the biggest security operations in U.S. history, and ten officers throughout Chester County were a part of the large security team in Philadelphia because of
their special training with the county-wide Major Incident Response Team (MIRT). Trevisan, a 16-year veteran of the Kennett Square force, explained that there are about 25 officers who serve on the Courtesy photo MIRT, and the response team Members of Chester County’s Major Incident Response has a mutual-aid agreement Team (MIRT) were assigned to assist the Philadelphia with Philadelphia and other Police Department with numerous law enforcement Continued on Page 4A
agencies during the visit by Pope Francis.
East Marlborough supervisors lay groundwork for weight-limit ordinance By John Chambless Staff Writer
The East Marlborough Township Board of Supervisors took a step towards keeping heavy trucks off of East Doe Run Road at their Oct. 5
meeting. The road is not built to handle the loaded tractor trailers that use it, resulting in cracks and dents. At last month’s supervisors meeting, Police Chief Robert Clarke told the board he has spoken to one
of the drivers for Diamond State Recycling, one of the companies whose trucks are frequently seen driving through the area. “They run three trucks carrying two loads of scrap metal a day out of Wilmington.” Clarke said. “One of the
drivers said that when they come up 926, they can’t make the turn at Landhope if there’s two sets of cars there. It’s too tight to turn a tractor trailer. So they go down East Doe Run Road.” Suggestions from the
Joaquin who? Despite rain, 91st Unionville Fair carries on By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer
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Although all of the weather forecasts had correctly predicted that Hurricane Joaquin would drift off into the Atlantic Ocean, the storm blanketed Chester County with rain last Friday, drenching the Unionville Community Fair & Farm Show grounds to the point where not a single musical note or the squeal of a barnyard animal could be heard. By about noon the next day, the fair grounds were a quagmire of mud, and the victim of a cold October wind that whipped the activity tents into a flapping frenzy. And
yet, it was inside those tents that the resilient spirit of this 91-year-old fair was alive and well, despite the rain. On Friday evening, the first night of the fair, Danielle Chamberlain, Unionville Fair president, texted longtime fair organizer Bonnie Musser, who was attending her grandson’s birthday party. Chamberlain texted that a last-minute decision by fair organizers enabled the lip sync contest to be moved from a smaller tent to the main activity tent, and that more than 100 fairgoers were there, enjoying the lip-sync contest, eating Photo by Richard L. Gaw cotton candy and pizza, and Kyle Rasmussen of Martinville displays his entry in the Continued on Page 3C
Hocus Pocus produce decorating contest.
board included imposing a weight limit on East Doe Run Road that would keep the trucks on routes 1 and 82, which are built to handle heavier loads. At the Oct. 5 meeting, township solicitor Frone Crawford Continued on Page 4A
Another plan to sit on By Uncle Irvin Courtesy of the Chester County Commissioners who assigned two county planners, Oxford Borough has another Revitalization Plan to sit on, because it’s virtually guaranteed the Oxford Borough Council will not implement anything in the plan, just like the last one the county did in 2003. The money spent on Oxford infrastructure has come solely from grants. Continued on Page 4A