Chester County Press 11-18-2015 Edition

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Covering Avon Grove, Chadds Ford, Kennett Square, Oxford, & Unionville Areas

Volume 149, No. 46

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The community gets a voice regarding student safety in Unionville-Chadds Ford

By John Chambless Staff Writer

Kennett Square Today Magazine

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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

The audience got some sobering news at a Nov. 11 “Community Conversation” held at Unionville High School.

Charles Gaza, the chief of staff for the Chester County District Attorney’s Office, is also a district parent. He was invited to outline what safety procedures have been taken in the district since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, as well as the exploding local heroin crisis, and student cyber-bullying and sexting, “I guarantee you that every

school in the county has had every one of these problems,” Gaza said. “As parents, me included, we have to have those uncomfortable conversations with our children.

The problem is at all of our doorsteps.”

In the wake of the 2012 school shootings in Newtown, Conn., Gaza said, “we studied all of the vulnerabilities at our schools and made recommendations.”

He pointed out the reconfigured entrances at the district’s schools, the sign-in process in which every visitor must wear an ID badge, and the Photo by John Chambless unseen changes – such as Community members met in small groups to discuss issues with UnionvilleContinued on Page 3A

Chadds Ford administrators.

Oxford area officials Dinniman: ‘Public health discuss fire and ambulance funding has failed this population’ Medical leaders draw criticism at Lyme disease symposium

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer

A world of ‘Small Creatures’ at Bookplace................1C

Photo by Steven Hoffman

North Penn ends Unionville’s season with a 48-7 win.........6C

Municipal leaders from the Oxford area met with officials from the Union Fire Company No. 1 in Oxford to discuss funding for fire and ambulance service. The fire company is pictured responding to a fire in town during the summer.

By Steven Hoffman Staff Writer

Nottingham, Elk, Lower Oxford, Upper Oxford, and West Nottingham came Elected officials from together for a special public Oxford Borough and meeting to discuss a request Calendar of Events......3C the townships of East for additional funding for Opinion........................8A

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Obituaries...................5C Classified....................9C Police Blotter..............5A

Oxford Union Fire Company No. 1 and its ambulance division. The meeting took place on Nov. 12 at the Lower Oxford Township Building.

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Business owner declares candidacy for State Senate

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer

Jack London, the president and chief executive officer of the London Financial Group in West Chester, has begun what will be a year-long effort to defeat State Sen. Andrew Dinniman (D), in order to represent the 19th District in the State Senate in Harrisburg, in

an election that will be decided next November.

London, a Republican, officially announced his candidacy on Nov. 12 at the Avondale Fire Company, before 50 friends, family and business associates. In his opening remarks, Photo by Richard L. Gaw London excoriated the cur- Flanked by mushroom industry leaders, West Chester business owner Jack rent political system – and in London on Nov. 12 announced his candidacy for the State Senate seat for the 19th Continued on Page 3A

District, currently occupied by State Sen. Andrew Dinniman.

U-CF board votes down adding Hillendale teacher, says goodbye to one member and appoints another

By John Chambless Staff Writer

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In the battle between Lyme disease and the medical field which is attempting to come up with a unified method of proper diagnosis and treatment, the disease–now generally thought of as an epidemic in southern Chester County–seems to be winning.

At last Thursday’s Lyme Disease presentation, one that brought three medical health professionals to the New Garden Township Building, the bad news severely overshadowed the good, and if there was an elephant in the room, it appeared in the form of a telling statistic, one that has changed the lives of many of the more than 100 citizens who attended the event.

For close to two hours,

those in the audience, many of whom told the health professionals that they are living with Lyme disease, joined State Sen. Andrew Dinniman in excoriating the medical field for what they deemed was a complete lack of urgency to address the “epidemic” that the disease has become in the Commonwealth.

The numbers are staggering: Over the last three decades, Pennsylvania has led the nation in the number of residents who have been affected with Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, with an estimated 50,000 to 70,000 affected each year. To give the severity of the disease a local flavor, Chester County has become, in effect, the epicenter of Lyme Disease in the Commonwealth. From 2008

In a meeting that stretched almost four hours, the Unionville-Chadds Ford School Board took some big steps on Nov. 16 and said goodbye to one member who has served for the past four years.

In voting to appoint a

new school director to take the place of retired member Keith Knauss, the board chose Elise Anderson out of a field of three candidates who were interviewed by the board last week. The final vote was five for Anderson, three for Jeanne Best and two for Albert M. Iacocca.

Board president Victor Dupuis swore in Anderson

and she took a seat at the table. “Welcome to the board,” he said as the audience applauded.

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Pa. lawmakers, school directors boost Delaware economy

By Uncle Irvin By kowtowing to the demands of teachers’ unions and raising property and sales tax rates so that teachers can have higher salaries, health and pension benefits, Pennsylvania lawmakers and school directors are marketing the state of Delaware as a more efficient place to live.

Since Delaware has zero sales tax and much lower property taxes than Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania General Assembly and Governor can’t wait to raise taxes, that makes Delaware even cheaper to live in than Pennsylvania.

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Union Fire Company No. 1 is seeking about $80,000 in additional funding for the ambulance division in response to an increase in demand for those services.

This additional funding would be divided among the six municipalities in the coverage area. Most if not all of these municipalities are already having a difficult time balancing their budgets for 2016 without the additional costs.

During the presentation at the public meeting, eight members of the fire company and its ambulance division outlined some of the challenges that the fire company is facing, and why the additional funding is necessary

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as elected officials prepare to approve the annual contracts with the fire company for 2016.

Bob Prettyman, Sr., the chairman of the fire company board, talked about the increasing need that the Oxford area has for fire and ambulance service. Last year, there were 2,776 calls for fire and ambulance service. This year, with two months left to report, the total number of incidents is already more than 2,500.

The fire company covers approximately 92 square miles of territory, while the ambulance service serves a coverage area of approximately 112 square miles.

Fire company officials said that the increase in the number of calls is making it necessary to boost the

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staffing of the ambulance division. There have been more than 2,100 ambulance calls so far in 2015, according to EMS Manager Nicholas Sawyers. He explained that of those, 1,699 were first calls—the ambulance was heading out with no other calls at that time. But on 361 occasions, it was a second call, which means that an ambulance was already out with another call and a second ambulance had to be dispatched. There were 48 times when two ambulances were out and a third call came in. If a call comes in and Oxford’s ambulance division can’t respond in a timely manner, the person who is experiencing an emergency, depending on the specific area, will have to wait for the arrival of an ambulance from Rising Sun, Avondale, West Grove, or one of the other surrounding fire companies. Oxford has a mutual-aid agreement with all the surrounding companies, but most of them rely on volunteers, which means that response times can be inconsistent. Fire company officials don’t want to see the response times increase because, sometimes, a life is hanging in the balance.

Oxford Fire chief Bob Prettyman, Jr. said that the fire company has had a difficult time, especially in the last four or five years, finding a way to pay for everything that is necessary to meet the needs in the community. He said that as early as last year, fire company officials were telling local municipal officials that more funding might be necessary.

“We’ve been hinting to the townships that this would be coming,” Prettyman, Jr. said.

He explained that the funding that the fire company receives from the municipalities is used for fire apparatus, fuel and maintenance for the vehicles, as well as insurance. It is then up to the fire company to fund other

operating expenses, like paying for the electric or the telephone service.

Costs to staff the ambulance division have been on the rise. Oxford’s ambulance division provides basic life support, while Medic 94 provides advanced life support throughout southern Chester County. Oxford’s ambulance division includes a staff of five full-time emergency responders, nineteen parttime emergency responders, and six active volunteers.

Two decades ago, there might have been thirty volunteers actively responding to calls, but Oxford and other fire companies have seen a marked decrease in the number of people willing to volunteer.

The ambulance division charges a fixed amount to everyone who is picked up and transported by an ambulance, but they are unable to collect payment on 20 to 30 percent of those calls.

Medicare coverage of ambulance fees leaves a lot to be desired as well, fire company officials said.

Fire company and ambulance officials described some other challenges that they are facing, most significantly a lack of volunteers from the community who are willing to answer fire and ambulance calls.

Chris Obenchain, the deputy fire chief for Oxford, said that there were approximately 300,000 volunteers who supported Pennsylvania’s fire companies in the 1970s.

That number has dwindled to between 50,000 and 60,000 today.

“This is not just an Oxford issue as far as the decline in the number of volunteers,” Obenchain explained.

There are a number of issues that contribute to the decline in the number of volunteers. Many more families have both parents working full-time jobs than 30 years ago. Additionally, the training that is necessary

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to become an active volunteer firefighter is much more daunting today. It used to be that only 40 hours of training would be necessary for a volunteer firefighter to enter a burning building. That has increased to about 240 hours of training simply to be able to go into a building to battle a blaze. Officials said that the time commitment necessary discourages volunteerism.

The lack of volunteers has hindered the fire company’s fundraising efforts, too. At one time, fire company members volunteered their time to run the Oxford Carnival each year. The event would raise thousands of dollars to offset some of the costs, but the fire company simply didn’t have enough volunteers to continue to put on the carnival.

A weekly bingo fundraiser was halted because it no longer generated enough revenues to make it worth the effort for the volunteers that it took to run the event.

The fire company continues to do a mail campaign to collect donations from the community, but even this effort has fall short by several thousand dollars from previous years.

The fire company is now looking to the municipalities to provide more funding.

“We have gone above and beyond to use money from fundraising to provide services,” said Prettyman, Sr. One point of contention between the elected officials and the fire company seemed to be the fact that each municipality would no longer have representation on a committee that evaluates the purchase of new fire trucks and ambulances.

East Nottingham Township supervisor Scott Blum said that he and other elected officials feel like they don’t have any representation with the fire and ambulance service, which limits that the input that they have into

the decisions that are being made.

There was also considerable discussion during the meeting about the replacement schedules for the fire trucks and ambulances, as well as the costs associated with purchasing new vehicles.

According to fire company officials, the fire trucks are replaced every 20 years, while the ambulances are replaced every seven years, on average. That replacement schedule is similar to those of neighboring fire companies, officials said.

The costs of fire apparatus have skyrocketed, so it often takes much more to purchase a new fire truck than it cost to purchase the one that is being replaced.

“Buying fire apparatus is not like buying anything else,” Obenchain said. Fire company officials noted that a new ladder truck built in 1989 would have cost about $325,000, whereas the truck with the same ladder height in 2014 would cost $938,000. The new trucks have safety features that weren’t available in 1989, but the new truck would essentially be the same as the old one, it would just cost nearly three times as much.

While some of the municipalities had enough members to constitute a quorum, which would make it possible for them to take action as a board, this meeting was more about sharing ideas and getting some questions answered rather than taking votes on the additional funding that is being requested.

Eric Todd, the chairman of the West Nottingham Township Board of Supervisors, said that the fire company should prepare the annual budget earlier so that municipalities would have more time to prepare for the increases.

Prettyman, Jr. talked about the possibility of doing a three-year contract with the municipalities instead of a one-year contract, which could help municipalities as they budget for the fire and ambulance costs. Another idea, Prettyman, Jr. said, is to hold quarterly meetings that would include representatives from each municipality to keep them informed about fire company business.

Another potential change that could be considered is how each municipality calculates its share of overall costs. Prettyman, Jr. said that right now, each municipality’s funding level is based on millage. There have been discussions about making a change so that the level of funding would be calculated by a formula that would include a municipality’s population, call volume, and millage rate.

Several elected officials expressed their gratitude for the services that the fire company provides, including Blum, who said, “As a resident, I appreciate everything that those volunteers do down there.”

Fire company officials emphasized that they need help from the community to continue to provide the same level of fire and ambulance protection to the Oxford area. Residents who can afford to do so should make a donation during the annual fundraising campaign through the mail. Additionally, the fire company and ambulance division is always in need of volunteers who are willing to help out.

“The community needs to know that the fire company is still one hundred percent volunteer,” Prettyman, Jr. explained. “We want to provide the best service we can to residents. We are all residents here.”

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

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the safety film put over all outside glass doors to prevent an intruder from shooting the door and walking in. During the presentation, a video was played that showed an armed intruder shooting a reinforced door. The glass shattered but stayed intact. The intruder fired several times and spent a minute and a half kicking the glass before finally gaining entrance.

District superintendent John Sanville told the audience of about 100 that the safety film is in use throughout the district. “It provides a minute and a half for staff members and students to react, to get to safety,” he said. “Hopefully, we never live through an instance where that safety film will be used.”

Gaza spoke about how the District Attorney’s Office has worked with all 57 police departments in the county to train them on what to do in a mass shooting incident.

“That’s about 800 officers, who have to have one platform of training so they know how to react if an incident occurs anywhere in the county,” he said.

The crisis situations are now called an “active threat,” Gaza said, since not all could involve guns. The “Mass Casualty Response Plan” includes any place where large numbers of people could be victims – movie theaters, offices, businesses or schools.

Gaza said that the chaos of reuniting hundreds of people after an incident, of securing the scene and processing each part of it could take up to 72 hours. “And it can take a month to begin to get answers,” he said.

An immediate concern to families nationwide is the heroin epidemic. “It is one of the greatest threats to our children,” Gaza said. Overprescription of painkillers means many of the pills go unused, and are forgotten in

medicine cabinets. Children and teens know where to find them, and since the pills are prescription medicine, they assume they are safe to experiment with. “There’s a good chance you will be your child’s first drug dealer,” Gaza said.

When the pills – which can cost $20 to $30 each on the street – run out, a young addict turns to heroin, which “costs about $6 a bag,” Gaza said. “Philadelphia has some of the cheapest, purest heroin in the world.”

Drug cartels based in Mexico are sending heroin north, accompanied by pure crystal meth, “and they do that to create a new demand through the Philadelphia hub,” Gaza said.

The third large issue facing schools and the community is internet communications.

Because teens typically know more about technology than their parents do, it’s easy for an illicit photo of an underage person to be sent from student to student, and for students to hide their activity online.

“I tell students that everything you put on the web or on your phone, you’ve lost control of it,” Gaza said. “As soon as you hit ‘send,’ it can be on every phone in your eighth grade homeroom. It ruins lives, and some don’t recover from it.”

The Tredyffrin-Easttown School District is currently grappling with a similar cyber-bullying problem, Gaza said. “This can give students criminal records. If you have a naked picture of an underage person on your phone, that’s child pornography.

And if you share it, that’s a felony.”

Gaza credited UnionvilleChadds Ford School District administrators and staff with being extraordinarily cooperative and open about incidents in the district.

Sanville agreed, saying, “If we do have a problem, we tackle it head-on.”

In the wake of recent inci-

dents at Patton Middle School and Unionville High School, Sanville said, “I got over 100 emails. People in this community are passionate about safety, and rightfully so, but we don’t always agree on what that means.”

He discussed an incident in the parking lot of Patton Middle School, during which a parent unwittingly left a loaded gun in an unlocked, running car, while the parent went briefly into the school.

“What happened in that incident was that someone from the high school security team came over, saw a running car, opened the door and saw the gun,” Sanville said. “When that happens, we call police.”

The parent meant no harm and the issue was fully investigated, but Sanville said it brought up issues of what constitutes a threat on school grounds.

In a later incident in the high school parking lot, a routine inspection of the lot by a team with a dog that is trained to detect explosives and drugs indicated that a student’s car was positive for gunpowder. The subsequent investigation revealed that the student had been hunting over the weekend, accounting for the trace element of gunpowder, but he admitted that he had a knife in the car.

“It was a hunting knife with a 3-inch blade, on the back seat,” Sanville said. “We have a memo of understanding with the surrounding police departments. There are things that we say we will do. We say that we will notify them when there is a weapon on school property. The criminal code says that a knife is a weapon.”

There is no “zero-tolerance” policy at the school, Sanville said. “In the end, we decided not to press charges.

We didn’t think charges were warranted. Ordinarily, having a weapon means expulsion.

But the superintendent has grounds to consider the context.”

As an administrator, he said, “it’s not an easy position to be in with a student who simply makes a mistake. But we do have to draw a line.”

In another incident, high school students were caught drinking alcohol on a school bus and were suspended, Sanville said. “They made a bad decision, and there were consequences. But if there is a silver lining here, it was that other students reported what happened to the administration. So things were handled in a timely manner.”

For the second half of the meeting, the audience broke up into smaller groups and met under the guidance of a district principal or administrator to focus on several questions: How might we encourage students and parents to come forward to report possible issues?

At a neighbor’s home, a student’s parents are out of town. You notice students arriving for what appears to be a party. What do you do?

How do we keep our kids safe in the new cyber world?

What are the greatest safety issues confronting our students?

What should parents/students/UCFSD/community members do to improve student safety?

Where do you believe the district should focus in the next phase of improving student safety?

As the meeting drew to a close, community members tallied up which issues they felt most strongly about, and the administration will study the results and issue a report.

“That will give us ideas for the next steps,” Sanville said.

He thanked the audience, saying, “We wanted to provide a forum for you to give us information and share your perspectives, and we thank you for coming.”

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particular, state government in Harrisburg – accusing it of being a “business as usual” environment, run by professional politicians.

Advertising his candidacy from the standpoint of being an outsider, London extolled the virtues of his 20 years in the private sector as a financial services leader, which have focused on wealth management, equipment finance and private equity. It’s a skill set that London said would make him be able to better circumvent through the often murky waters of getting things done in state government,.

“Are you tired of government looking to you every time there is a problem, to your wallet?”

London said. “Do you feel that government service should be a service and not a career?

Would you like to see someone go to Harrisburg and work on reforming the systems that are broken?”

Sen. Dinniman has served in Pennsylvania legislature since 2006. Prior to serving the 19th District in Harrisburg, he served for 15 years as Chester County Commissioner, making him the longest serving commissioner in county history.

During his speech, London directed most of his attention toward his opponent.

“I understand the pain that small businesses go through every day – health care costs, red tape, taxes – these things are killing American small business every day,” he said.

“In stark contrast, Politician Andy Dinniman has no experience in the private sector. Andy Dinniman has lived off the taxpayer his entire career. Let me repeat that, his entire career.

Andy Dinniman’s lack of understanding of private business resonates in his lack of understanding in the economy, and how government affects private business.

“How can we expect someone who collects three taxpayerTo contact Staff Writer John funded pensions to work on Chambless, email jchambreforming a woefully-underless@chestercounty.com. funded pension plan, to the

tune of $50 million,” he added.

“How can we expect someone who takes money from unions and special interests to privatize and modernize (the sale of liquor in the Commonwealth), when the fact is the doing that would threaten the very unions who give him money?”

London continued his tirade against Dinniman, accusing his opponent of siding with Gov. Wolf in the continued wrangling that continue to delay approval of the State budget, as well as voting against emergency funding to keep health services such as health centers, rape crisis centers and senior centers afloat in nearby Montgomery County.

“Folks, Chester County is right behind them,” London said. “What really irks me is that the state legislature put forth a stop-gap measure that provided emergency funding for these centers, and your state senator voted against it. Andy Dinniman voted against the most vulnerable people in this state, and sided with the political bosses.”

James Sherockee of Sherockee Mushrooms in Lincoln University, was joined by other mushroom industry leaders, in introducing London.

Making a veiled reference to Dinniman, Sherockee said that the growth in the business world has been stifled by the actions of government, particularly by professional politicians who have no ‘Real World’ experience. The only way to solve this problem, he said, will be to elect those with private sector experience.

“We need to elect people who are running for office to serve the public, not those looking for a job serving themselves,” Sherockee said. “Jack London is a businessman. Jack London knows what it takes to create jobs, and to grow a business. Today is the day we say, ‘Enough is enough. We need to stop electing politicians to office, and start electing business leaders.”

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

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was a lengthy presentation by board member Robert Sage about class sizes and policy throughout the district. He summed up his points by saying that, “The board should not rewrite or override policy ‘on the fly,’ and that the ‘special circumstances’ at Hillendale are not, in fact unusual. Our local data, albeit limited, does not indicate that reducing class size will make any difference in student outcomes in the district.”

Board member Kathleen Do said, “While I appreciate the time you spent on that study, the issue is about the day-to-day experience of a child in the classroom, not just PSSA results.”

Board member Gregg Lindner added, “There’s no perfect solution, so what’s on the table today is a solution for one particular class, at one of our elementary schools.”

Board member Jeff Hellrung commented that, “as a district, we made a choice for neighborhood schools. One of the bad characteristics of that is that there will be more variations in class sizes. It’s troubling, as a parent of a child who is part of that 20 percent in a relatively larger class size, but that variability will not change. That’s one of the features of neighborhood schools.”

In a lengthy statement to the board, Dupuis said, “This is not an endpoint to this discussion. It’s really, in many ways, a starting point for the district as a whole as we look at class sizes. I have parented through class sizes with my own children that have been equal or greater to the ones we’re currently discussing. My family has experienced that at three different elementary schools.

“I can appreciate your concerns,” Dupuis said to

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the Hillendale parents in the audience. “It’s been suggested that this advocacy group deserves a vote. I respectfully disagree. You deserve a decision, not a vote.

Sometimes votes are necessary, but when we already know the outcome, they are merely points of inflammation that add no value to the continuing discussion.

“As to the proposal to force the administration to add a section, I have to say we have still not heard any tangible, irrefutable reason from any board member as to why this is necessary,” Dupuis said. “Perhaps more frustrating is that none of the board members proposing a change have visited the actual classes in action for extended periods of time. ... Finally, when pressed on their concerns, the parents of this advocacy group aren’t advocating that class sizes be reduced by one or two students. They are advocating the reduction of four, five or six students. That’s not a solution we’re prepared to deal with as a board.”

Dupuis pointed out that the district’s administrators have studied the class sizes in person throughout the district, “and for us to question their judgment on this represents, at best, a vote of no confidence. At worst, and my greatest fear, is that this becomes a wedge that encourages ongoing division between parents and teachers, teachers and administrators, the district and the community. Responsible board governance demands better behavior from us.”

Do clarified that, “the parents are not asking for a third section. They understand that cannot happen.

They are requesting that an additional language arts teacher be brought in so that these students will have a third language arts teacher, so each teacher would have fewer students to work with.

That is the only thing we’re voting on tonight.”

In the voting, Michael Rock, Carolyn Daniels, Kathleen Do and Gregg Lindner voted in favor of adding a .4 position at Hillendale. Voting against the motion was new member Elise Anderson, Robert Sage, Steve Simonson, Victor Dupuis and Jeff Hellrung.

“The motion does not carry,” Dupuis said. There was no further comment on the vote.

Sanville introduced the board’s farewell to Do by saying, “Being a board member is a thankless job in many ways. It’s not a paid position. It’s something you put hours and hours of work into. I remember four years ago we had new board member orientation, and the pride that you had in following in the footsteps of your father as an elected official, and the dedication that you have brought to your position.

You have made your mark on the board, and you should be proud of the legacy you are leaving behind.”

Other board members echoed the thanks. In her final statement, Do thanked the board, administration, families and students. “My first message is to my fellow board members,” she said. “You were elected or appointed to serve all the people. The best way to do that is to always do what you know to be the right thing in your own heart. I believe in the wisdom and experience of our administration, and the overwhelming majority of the time I have supported their recommendations.

However, I do not believe that the voters want us to be a rubber stamp for the administration. When we disagree, we have a responsibility to say so. These last four years, I voted my conscience. I have loved serving with you on the school board. We

have had our good days and bad days, but in the end, we served this district well.”

Addressing the district administrators and principals, Do said, “I ask you to listen a little harder to the things that are not said.

Sometimes you might need to read between the lines and recognize the possibility that employees might be telling you what they think you want to hear.”

To the teachers, Do said, “Be more candid about the challenges you face, and about challenges that directly impact the quality of the education you are able to provide.”

To the district’s students, Do said, “Challenge yourselves to be the best you can be. Do not ever be intimated by fear you cannot keep up with the next student.

Above all, be kind. Care about each other. Stand up for each other. I will never stop rooting for you and the wonderful adults you will become. If you want to dance, then dance.”

Do left the room as the board and audience stood to applaud her.

About an hour of the meeting was devoted to presenting the District Achievement Report, which featured principals Jim Conley, Tim Hoffman, Clif Beaver, Steve Dissinger and Shawn Dutkiewicz speaking about 2014-15 PSSA results, and their goals going forward. The full report is posted on the district’s website (www.ucfsd.org, under the Board Docs link).

While there were some declines in test scores scattered throughout grades 3 to 8, Rock was quick to come to the defense of the schools.

“I am not alarmed by the decline in proficiency results as seen in these test scores,” he said. “They reflect the fact that the Pennsylvania PSSA is like almost every other standardized test that

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How much will a new 7.25 percent sales tax hurt Pennsylvania households? A family of four in a single-family home on a 1.25-acre lot spends between $5,000 and $10,000 on school taxes and another $3,500 on sales taxes, while a smaller home in Delaware could cut taxes up to $8,500 per year.

That’s a pretty handsome head start for a growing family or new empty-nesters.

Pennsylvania’s citizens are collectively blind by not realizing the deep mess this state is in. Pennsylvania’s unwillingness to tackle its overspending is no different than Detroit and Puerto Rico, and makes the state vulnerable to bankruptcy.

(Uncle Irvin’s column is his opinion only, and is not a news story.) came into being under No Child Left Behind. They were initially designed with a low bar and a low proficiency standard. It was done deliberately so that schools and states would look good.

When Pennsylvania started, it had a really low bar. And what it’s been doing over time is raising that bar. And that was raised partly by Common Core.

“The states deliberately gamed the system to make us all look good,” Rock said.

“Now they’re fixing it. It’s OK -- if you’re a proponent of high-stakes tests, you should be pleased by these results. Those of us who have followed No Child Left Behind know that those tests were never meant for us. They were meant to provide negative and positive incentives to low-performing schools and districts. As far as I know, we don’t have

any low performing schools.

As a result, our teachers are trapped in a testing system that was never designed for us. I also know there’s nothing we can do right away.

Given the fads in education, this too shall pass.

“My fear is that we do less with engaging kids in creative stuff because we’re trapped in a testing system that pushes us in a direction that was never designed for us,” Rock said. “And it takes up an enormous amount of energy. My hope is that we, the school board, can take the same time and energy that we did this evening to explore the great things that our students and teachers do that don’t have a damn thing to do with standardized tests.”

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

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DRIVER RAMS CAR On Oct. 27, New Garden Township Police were informed of an incident in which a driver repeatedly rammed another car. Police said the victim was driving into the New Garden Plaza and was followed by a man in a black Chevy truck.

He was later identified as Eduardo Alcantar, 43, of Kennett Square. Alcantar pulled in front of the victim, blocking his path, and struck the victim’s car with his hand. The victim’s car was then followed

by Alcantar’s truck, and Alcantar rammed the rear of the victim’s car repeatedly as they entered Kennett Square Borough. The victim pulled into the parking lot at the Kennett Square Police Station, where he reported the incident.

Alcantar was later located at his home, arrested and released pending a court appearance.

ARMED ROBBERY A 15-year-old boy told Pennsylvania State Police Avondale that he was held at gunpoint and forced to the ground on Nov. 7 on Lake Road in Avondale.

Some belongings were taken from him at the time.

Police said the victim was targeted, and that this was not a random criminal act. The investigation is continuing. Anyone with information is asked to call Trooper Jason Sperazza at 610-268-5640.

BURGLARIES On Nov. 5 at 12:27 p.m., someone forced their way into a locked home on Good Hope Road in London Britain Township, but fled without taking anything, according to Pennsylvania State Police Avondale.

Anyone with information is asked to call call police at 610-268-5640.

Overnight on Oct. 26, a home in the 200 block of East Linden Street in Kennett Square was burglarized. According to Kennett Square Police, items taken were a DeWalt chop saw, a table saw, two Makita cordless drills, two Makita cordless saws and a bag containing miscellaneous tools.

During the day on Nov. 11, a home at 776 W. State Road in West Grove was burglarized after someone forced open a rear door and stole jewelry. Anyone with information is asked to call Pennsylvania State Police Avondale at 610-268-2022.

Overnight on Nov. 5, a vehicle parked at 216 Stella St. in Oxford was burglarized and $20 in

cash was stolen. Burglars also entered an unlocked shed nearby and stole five gallons of gasoline.

Also overnight on Nov. 5, a vehicle parked at 204 Stella St. in Oxford was burglarized, and cash, an iPod, an electric tape measure and $10 in change was stolen. An unlocked shed was opened but nothing was taken.

On Nov. 2 between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m., a home at 575 Kennett Pike in Pennsbury Township was burglarized, and a handgun and money were stolen, according to Pennsylvania State Police Avondale.

PLOW STOLEN Sometime overnight on Oct. 23, someone stole a Cub Cadet plow from behind a home in the 600 block of Limestone Road in Oxford, according to Pennsylvania State Police Avondale. Anyone with information is asked to call trooper Ryan Smith at 610-268-2022.

DOWNSPOUTS STOLEN Sometime between Oct. 18 and Oct. 28, three downspouts were stolen from a building in the 100 block of Marshall Street in Kennett Square, according to Kennett Square Police.

ASSAULT ARRESTS On Oct. 30 at 4:15 a.m., Kennett Square Police arrested Drew DiCarlo Jr., 34, of Kennett Square, for simple assault and harassment after an altercation in the 600 block of Crossing Court. He was arraigned at Kennett Square District Court and released on $10,000 unsecured bail.

On Nov. 1 at 1:18 a.m., Kennett Square Police arrested Eric Melendez, 22, of Kennett Square, for aggravated assault, simple assault, harassment, possession of marijuana, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness after an altercation in the 200 block of Birch Street. He was unable to post $10,000 cash bail and was remanded to Chester County Prison.

DRUG CHARGES On Oct. 27, New Garden Township Police stopped a car after seeing a traffic violation at Baltimore Pike and Thompson Road. The passenger, Cody Kinsley, 19, of Nottingham, was seen putting something under his car seat, and there was an odor of marijuana in the car. Kinsley admitted to hiding marijuana under his seat. A metal grinder was also found in his pocket. The driver,

Zachary Sweeney, 21, of Landenberg, had a bag of suspected marijuana under his car seat. A glass pipe was found in the car’s glove compartment. Sweeney and Kinsley were charged and released pending a court appearance.

On Nov. 2, Pennsylvania State Police Avondale pulled over a car being driven by Willie Earl Harriott, 28, of West Grove, for a traffic violation.

They found marijuana and drug paraphernalia inside the vehicle. Harriott and passenger Christian Castro-Fernandez, 22, of West Grove, were taken into custody for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, and traffic violations.

On Nov. 5, just after 2 a.m., Pennsylvania State Police Avondale found a car parked in the lot of a closed business on Pennsylvania Avenue in Avondale. The driver, Breanna Castillo, 19, of Toughkenamon, was found with drug paraphernalia inside the car and outside the car by the driver’sside door. She was taken into custody and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.

Kennett Square Police filed charges of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia against Michael Hindman, 23, of Kennett Square, after receiving a call about drug paraphernalia found at a relative’s residence in the 500 block of East Cypress Street on Nov. 1.

On Nov. 7 at 10:42 p.m., New Garden Township Police saw a car commit a moving violation at Main and Center streets in Toughkenamon. A traffic stop was attempted as the driver continued east on Maple Lane. The driver, later identified as Jose Lopez-Nunez, 24, of Toughkenamon, tossed out a baggie from the passenger-side window before stopping. Two small children, ages 1 and 3, were in the back seat.

Lopez-Nunez admitted to tossing the baggie, which was retrieved and found to contain marijuana, a pipe and U.S. currency folded to contain more marijuana.

The children were picked up by a family member and Lopez-Nunez was taken into custody for possession of a controlled substance.

A chemical breath test showed results just under the legal limit for alcohol.

He was processed and released pending a court appearance.

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Shots fired at Lincoln University Shots were fired on the campus of The Lincoln University in the early morning of Nov. 14, but no injuries were reported.

A statement posted Saturday on the university’s website read, “There was a shooting that occurred on The Lincoln University main campus this morning at approximately 5:40 a.m., where five shots were fired toward a dormitory on campus. No one was hurt and the residents of

the dormitory are safe and secure.

“University police responded immediately to the scene to assess the situation and locate the person responsible for the shooting. It is believed the suspect fled the campus.

“The Pennsylvania State Police Crime Scene Unit and an investigator responded to the campus to assist Lincoln University Police in the investigation.

Further assistance will be provided by the

Chester County District Attorney’s Office. Once University Police assessed the situation, the alert system was dispatched at approximately 6:20 a.m. and informed recipients of the situation, and to cooperate with local and state law enforcement officers.”

The university is asking anyone with information about the shooting to contact Lincoln University Public Safety at 484-3657211 or 484-365-8139.

Chester County Sheriff warns about jury service scam

Chester County Sheriff Carolyn Bunny Welsh has issued a warning to county residents following reports of jury service scams in Chester County and neighboring counties.

Bogus calls to county residents, claiming to come from the Sheriff’s Office, note failure to report for jury duty, resulting in the threat of an arrest warrant. The caller instructs residents to purchase a prepaid debit or credit card for several hundred dollars to suspend the arrest warrant, and threatens that failure to purchase a debit or credit card will result in an arrest.

Sheriff Welsh noted: “Residents should be aware that the court or the Sheriff’s Office would

never contact a person via telephone or email to demand payment of a fine to avoid being arrested for failure to appear for jury service.

“Individuals who fail to appear for jury service may receive a letter from the court with a date to appear and explain to a judge why they failed to appear, but they would never receive this communication in a telephone call.”

Only a judge can require people to pay a fine for failing to appear for jury service, and this may occur only after a people have been given the opportunity to explain themselves in open court.

Anyone receiving a call like this should not provide any requested information, and instead

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Winchester receives Historic Preservation Award

The Oxford Area Historical Association also honors Ware Presbyterian Village for its preservation efforts

By Steven Hoffman Staff Writer The Oxford Area Historical Association presented its Historic Preservation Award to Dr. Richard Winchester at its annual meeting on Nov. 10. Ware Presbyterian Village was honored with the organization’s Historic Preservation Award for a group.

“We are always pleased to give out these awards to those groups and individuals that keep history alive,” explained Ken Woodward, the vice president of the Oxford Area Historical Association.

Woodward noted that the organization doesn’t automatically give out these awards each year, but rather only selects recipients when an individual or group is truly deserving.

More than 115 people people turned out for Oxford Area Historical Association’s program, which also included a presentation called “The Navajo Code Talkers of World War II” by guest speaker David Manuel.

Dr. Winchester, a wellrespected member of the Oxford community, is a retired history professor and administrator of

Photo by Steven Hoffman

Ken Woodward (left), the vice president of the Oxford Area Historical Association, presented Dick Winchester (right) with the Historic Preservation Award on Nov. 10.

The Lincoln University.

Winchester enjoyed a 39-year career in education, and he is a good source of information about the educational history of the area. He also served on the Oxford School Board for a decade, including four of those years when he was selected to be the president of the school board. He wrote a book about the Oxford Presbyterian Church’s history. He was also instrumental in starting the Oxford Educational Foundation, which provides support to Oxford’s schools in numerous ways, including mentoring and tutoring students and providing grants to teachers for innovative

programs. In 2014, Winchester was named Director Emeritus of the Oxford Educational Foundation.

Woodward explained that Winchester speaks to the new teachers in the Oxford Area School District each year when they are going through the new teacher induction program.

With regard to the group award, Woodward said that Ware Presbyterian Village was selected for this honor because of the work preserving the Ware Mansion and the Frank E. Brown House on its campus.

After the awards were handed out, Woodward introduced Manuel, the guest speaker. The Mountville, Pa. resident

has been a member of CNH Americas Toastmasters Club since 1999, as well as a member of the Lancaster County Speakers Bureau since 2002.

Manuel entertained the audience with his presentation about the Navajo Code Talkers and their role in helping the U.S. military during World War II. Japanese intelligence personnel had early successes breaking U.S. military codes. This enabled the Japanese to anticipate U.S. attacks, which cost an untold number of American lives. The U.S. forces needed a better way to communicate, and the Navajo code talkers provided the solution.

A man named Philip Johnston was working as a civilian in Los Angeles, but still maintained connections with the Navajo people with whom he grew up, when the U.S. entered World War II. Johnston read that the U.S. Army was using Comanches to transmit military communications, and he presented the United States Marine Corps with a proposal to utilize the Navajo language.

Manuel explained that the Navajo language was

Read, Eagles Read Six-year-old Brian Lightner of Avondale and his nine-year-old brother Kevin were among the 60 area children who participated in the “Books Build Character” event at Lincoln Financial Field on Nov. 9, that featured appearances by two Eagle players, Jon Dorenbos and Brandon Bair. The players dressed up as Thing 1 and Thing 2 while reading to the children. The event

launched the Santander Holiday Book Drive, presented by Santander Bank and the Eagles Youth Partnership, to benefit high-need public schools in the Greater Philadelphia area.

Through Dec. 11, individuals and families can donate books at any of the 60 participating Santander Bank locations in the area appropriate for kids ages three to 12 in support of the book drive.

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Brian and Kevin Lightner of Avondale, pictured with Jon Dorenbos and Brandon Bair of the Philadelphia Eagles.

passed down orally from one generation to the next, and was still a largely unwritten language during World War II, making it extremely difficult for anyone to decipher the U.S. military code. The Navajo Code Talkers proved to be an invaluable resource for the U.S. during World War II. Manuel, an expert on the Navajo Marines, said that he enjoys sharing the story about the Navajo

Code Talkers with audiences.

“These events carry a certain emotional weight to them,” Manuel explained.

For more information about the Oxford Area Historical Association, including how to become a member, visit www. oxfordhistorical.com.

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

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A ‘banner’ way to honor U.S. military vets Hometown Hero Banners are on display in Oxford honoring five U.S. military veterans. Families in the area now have the opportunity to honor their loved ones who served in the military with these banners

By Steven Hoffman Staff Writer Last week, banners honoring five U.S. military veterans were hung on lightposts in downtown Oxford.

Motorists and pedestrians can now see these Hometown Hero banners that pay tribute to the military service of CPL. Curtis R. Teel, SPC. John Mosley, Petty Officer John “Jack” Lynch, CMGST. Robert Stewart, Jr., and Petty Officer John W. Orcutt, Jr. The local Oxford American Legion Roy W. Gibson Post 535 is hopeful that many more Hometown Hero banners will be on display in time for Memorial Day of 2016.

John Thompson, a council member for Oxford Borough, was at a convention for borough officials when he saw information about the Hometown Hero banners that had been put on display in other municipalities. He liked the idea, and talked about it with Oxford Borough officials and members of the local American Legion Post.

“It’s a good way to recognize veterans in our area,” said Thompson, who served in the Navy.

“I want to emphasize how important our veterans are—past and

present.”

Thompson, who is also a Finance Officer with the Oxford American Legion Roy W. Gibson Post 535, said that every time he talked to people about the Hometown Hero banners, they were supportive. The Oxford American Legion Roy W. Gibson Post 535 paid for the first five Hometown Hero banners. This kind of support for veterans in Oxford is not unusual.

According to Thompson, Oxford is very good at honoring its servicemen and servicewomen.

He mentioned several illustrations, including the fact that the Memorial Day ceremonies are always well-attended.

Efforts are also made to honor those veterans who can’t made it out for the Memorial Day Parade. A local high school student, Kassidy England, completed a project last year that resulted in a permanent display honoring those people who attended Oxford Area High School and also serviced in the military. The Wreaths Across America effort that places wreaths on the graves of military veterans each December is also productive in Oxford.

The Hometown Heroes banners are one more way to honor

military veterans. The banners can honor any U.S. military veteran in the area, not just Oxford Borough residents.

Thompson said that he was very pleased with the banners that are already in place. The first group of veterans to be honored includes Mosley, who served in the U.S. Army from 1959 to 1964. Teel served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Stewart is a U.S. Air Force member who was in the Iraq War.

Orcutt was in the U.S. Navy and served during World War II. Lynch served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. Thompson’s duties in the Navy found him aboard the U.S.S. Cole on Oct. 12, 2002, the day that it was hit by a terrorist attack. Seventeen U.S. sailors lost their lives that day, and 39 more were injured. One of Thompson’s friends who died in the attack was from about a half an hour away. Thompson said that he thinks there

will be a lot of interest in honoring veterans with these Hometown Hero banners.

Families will need to send photos and information about the veteran’s service in the military, including the branch of the military that he or she served in.

Thompson will forward that information to the company that makes the banners. Thompson said that families interested in honoring a loved one with a banner should contact him between

now and April so that the banners can all be ready in advance of Memorial Day. “I’d like to have the banners up for the month of May,” Thompson said.

Anyone who wants more information about honoring a loved one with a hometown hero banner can call Thompson at 610-335-5476.

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

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Why I am still backing Gov. Small problems Wolf and his proposed budget that point to (and think you should too) global concerns Letter to the Editor:

The large crowd of parents and school officials that turned out for the Nov. 11 “Community Conversation” on safety at Unionville High School was a clear indication that people are concerned.

Sparked by incidents that loomed large for a few weeks – a loaded gun mistakenly left in a car at the middle school, a small knife spotted in a student’s car at the high school – the meeting was a chance to reassure parents that there is no immediate danger facing students in Chester County schools. But district superintendent John Sanville and Charles Gaza of the Chester County District Attorney’s Office painted a sobering picture of the reality that nobody wants to face.

Gaza outlined the disaster training that local police departments have had, just in case a madman with a gun or a bomb decides to strike. It is, of course, extremely unlikely that anything will happen here. But then, the world thought that no one would walk into an elementary school and open fire until that awful day at Sandy Hook in 2012.

Today, as parents learned at the meeting, there are number stickers by every door in every school in the district, so that response teams can orient themselves quickly in the chaos of an armed attack. There are security cameras and a check-in system that at least puts a person and a window between students and the outside world. There is shatter-resistant coating on entry doors at every building.

Parents sat in silence as a video was shown. In one scene, a masked intruder fires once into a glass door and walks in after the glass disintegrates instantly. In the next scene, an armed man shoots repeatedly at a door treated with a safety film on it, and he spends a minute and a half kicking the glass and firing again before he finally peels a hole big enough to climb through.

As Sanville said, the district hopes that the safety features will never be tested. No one wants to see if these measures – both seen and unseen – at the district’s schools will actually stop or deter a deranged person.

On Nov. 13, of course, the world got another wake-up call in Paris.

The same queasy feeling we had as 9/11 unfolded has now gripped us all again. It is madness, it is inexplicable, but it is not on our doorstep – at least not this time. But it will be. Cowards consumed with their own perversion of Islam will stop at nothing to destabilize a world they see as evil. They want to light the world on fire and watch it burn.

It may not be ISIS that strikes us next. It may be a disgruntled man with a grudge. But the scary thing is that it is so easy. It doesn’t take a network of spies or satellite surveillance or any particular cunning to walk into a place where people are gathered and start killing. It could happen at a football game. It could happen at a parade. It could happen at the movies. It could happen at a school.

Despite all the measures we take – whether it’s more police training, more cameras, more checkpoints and more intrusion into all of our lives – there is, essentially, nothing we can do to stop evil with a weapon.

The incidents at Unionville seem so small now, so benign, but they point to a larger issue that is being played out today around the world. We have to be vigilant. We have to prepare. We have to go on with our lives, but we have to keep an eye open for the next time madness will strike.

So yes, pray for Paris. And pray for us all.

We have been without a state budget for over four months. The “budget stalemate” makes the nightly news almost every day.

You hear the horror stories and threats everywhere— schools might have to close, teachers working without pay and foster families who cannot afford to feed children may have to turn them in because their allotments may dry up due to cash flow. After hearing all these struggles, you might think, “Why doesn’t he just give in already?”

I, for one, am happy that he is standing his ground. He is exactly what Pennsylvania needs—someone who believes in fixing something and will fix it.

Pennsylvanians, you have

taken your public education system for granted for too long. It is now in extreme crisis. We have not sufficiently funded our schools in years. Schools are still reeling from the Gov. Corbett cuts. Schools are not recovering—they are reeling. And our kids are suffering.

Surely you’ve seen and heard the anecdotes from friends and on social media.

Frustrated teachers quitting and retiring early because they don’t have the resources to teach and are forcing content on children all to pass some standardized test.

The test scores are mediocre at best. The one thing that made America great was our ability to develop entrepreneurs and critical thinkers.

We don’t do that anymore.

We warehouse our kids and

put them through an assembly line, not giving schools the resources they need to teach and treat each child as an individual. No wonder so many of my teacher friends are counting down the days until retirement.

This year, we will see the 40th anniversary of IDEA 1975, the monumental legislation that brought children with disabilities into the public school systems and guaranteed them a free and appropriate education.

But after 40 years, due to insufficient resources at the school level, we have not changed outcomes. People with disabilities still face a higher than 75 percent unemployment rate. That’s not progress.

Gov. Wolf’s budget makes education a priority. It not only restores the previously

cut funds, but it creates an accountability system for that funding. Our state legislature is in the final steps of creating a fair and equitable funding formula for education.

Pennsylvanians, we need to stand behind this. Our future and our kids’ futures depend on this. We cannot continue to take our public education system for granted. We must get involved and demand better. Call your state legislators and tell them to pass Gov. Wolf’s budget.

Call your federal legislators and tell them that you want public education to be a priority, and that after 40 years, it’s time to fully fund IDEA. Our kids deserve better and so do our teachers.

Lisa Lightner Avondale

Seeking a seat on East Nottingham Board Letter to editor: Dear Residents, Supervisors, Secretary, and Editor, I recently ran for East Nottingham Township Supervisor in both the May 19th primary election and the November 3rd general election. I ran a successful Primary Write-in Campaign.

In the General Election I received over 450 votes.

In response to the recent resignation of a supervisor, I wish to state the obvious, that I want to fill that vacant supervisor’s position.

My application to fill the vacated Supervisor slot should be given highest priority because I ran a successful write-in primary campaign and a hard fought general campaign. During the extensive time I spent on these campaigns over the last six months, the following has transpired: 1. Residents and voters of East Nottingham Township were allowed the opportu-

nity to look at my stances on township issues. The voters have not been and will not be given any opportunity to vet any of the other applicants.

2. In the past six months, the time that I spent talking with residents has allowed me to think carefully about the issues facing East Nottingham and to come up with solutions to some of these problems. Other applicants have not had the luxury of thinking about these issues from a supervisor’s viewpoint.

3. I garnered enough votes to be the next in line for Township Supervisor, giving me documented proof of support among many township residents.

4. I support protection of farm land with the minimum use of tax payer money. I have specific ideas about how to move forward protecting our prime farmland, while providing incentives for new businesses, existing business growth and lim-

ited well planned housing development.

I have lived and worked in the township my entire life and know it like the back of my hand.

I was part of the road crew that did much of the initial grading and paving of many of our roads, I know the areas with poor visibility, drainage, drifting and flooding problems and have solutions in mind. I am qualified and licensed to operate all of the township’s heavy equipment, I can pitch in during times of need and emergencies.

I support our farming and small business development which this town needs to bring cash and jobs into our area.

I will be available to all town’s people to help solve problems and address concerns. I will perform my duties as a supervisor and want nothing in return. I will not accept payment for my services.

I worked closely with

Dave Shelton on several issues when he was supervisor of this township. I saw firsthand how a dedicated supervisor worked for the people, I will try to live up to the high bar that Dave set.

I feel I am a better choice than former supervisors, as I will bring a fresh set of eyes on the current issues, I do not have any personal agendas. I am retired with few other obligations for my time. I can be available 24-7 to address the concerns of my fellow residents. I will do all I can to provide transparency in our local government.

As supervisor, my phone number and email address will be publicly available on my website, www.garycoates.org where I will post announcements and topics of interest for residents.

There is the ability for public comments on every page of my website.

Sincerely, Gary V. Coates

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What do we mean by ‘representative government’?

By Lee H. Hamilton With a presidential election year fast approaching, we’re in for a lot of public talk about the state of American democracy. Much of that discussion will be insightful and thought-provoking, but there’s a good chance you’ll also find a lot of it vague and hard to pin down.

There’s a reason for this.

Even our political leaders, the people who are most

familiar with the system’s workings, have a hard time describing it.

In fact, they even have a hard time labeling it. Ours is not actually a pure democracy: it’s more accurate to say that we live in a “representative democracy” – that is, the people don’t themselves make decisions, but delegate that authority to their elected representatives. In this sense, we really live in a republic, a word you don’t often hear

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from the podium.

Perhaps the best way to start thinking about what American representative democracy really means is to recall the Pledge of Allegiance, which is an oath to the Republic that our flag symbolizes, and in particular to an ideal: that our nation will strive for liberty and justice for all. Plenty of well-meaning people, in the heat of the political moment, seize on one or the other of those twin poles to support their agenda — they insist upon liberty or they demand justice. The Pledge, however, makes it clear that these core principles are inseparable.

Still, they are ideals.

They’re not sufficient to define a representative democracy.

Indeed, no single feature does. One of our core tenets holds that the people are sovereign — that we give our consent to be governed through regular participation in the elections that decide who will represent us. Yet elections in and of

themselves don’t define our republic, either; there are plenty of countries around the world whose elections are used to distort democracy.

So the rule of law is also key, and along with it the notion that everyone ought to be subject to equal justice under the law. The separation of powers among the different branches of government creates a balance designed to protect the people from overweening power. The rights guaranteed by our Constitution ensure that the rights of minorities of all kinds are safe.

The big challenge in all this is to set up the structures and practices that protect and defend these beliefs. The courts, legislative bodies and executive branches at the federal, state and local level are an example of this, along with a system of checks and balances that promotes accountability and transparency. So are the freedoms we often take for granted: under our Constitution, we do not put to a vote whether to continue protecting free-

dom of religion or the right to express unpopular sentiments or publish news that challenges those in power.

While representative democracy rests on a core set of principles, it remains a constantly evolving concept. At the beginning, ours was limited: our Founders began with an inspiring set of beliefs about how a nation ought to govern itself, but they also ignored women and chose to set aside the question of slavery. This was a democracy of white males of a certain age who owned property. Representative democracy by its nature is always a work in progress; we never really get the balance between liberty and justice exactly right.

This is worth remembering at the moment, when the problems we confront seem so overwhelming and our institutions are under so much strain. The problems they have to resolve — the outsized role of money in politics, excessive partisanship, the sheer complexity of the policy challenges we

face — are daunting, but that doesn’t mean representative government itself should be called into question.

In fact, it is our great strength. It protects against arbitrary authority, strives for justice, hears our varied and conflicting opinions before it acts, and moderates tensions among competing interests.

It works in a measured fashion that tends — over time — to encourage policymakers to find consensus. It is the form of government that, when allowed to work properly, is most likely to lead to wise policy, firmly rooted in the consent of the ordinary people on whose shoulders it rests.

Lee Hamilton is Director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University; Distinguished Scholar, IU School of Global and International Studies; and Professor of Practice, IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 34 years.

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Kennett High School students attend Model UN conference On Oct. 17, 26 Model UN club members attended OwlMUN, a Model UN conference sponsored

by Temple University.

Kennett High School students participated in a variety of activities as they debated world issues

and crises. Senior Emma Hopkins was awarded Honorable Mention for her work on the Age of Exploration 1450 Crisis Committee.

Kennett’s Model UN advisor is social studies teacher Amanda O’Connor.

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Kennett High School students who participated in the recent Model UN.

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Ladley resigns from East Nottingham Twp. board

By Steven Hoffman Staff Writer The East Nottingham Township Board of Supervisors announced that Jane Ladley is resigning from the board at its meeting on Nov. 10.

Ladley was not present at the meeting.

Scott Blum, the chairman of the board of supervisors, read an email from Ladley informing the board about the resignation, which was effective on Nov. 9. In the email, Ladley expressed her gratitude at the opportunity to serve the township. She said that she would be spending more time on various projects and endeavors, as well as dedicating more time to her family.

Supervisor John Coldiron made a motion to accept the resignation, and Blum seconded the motion. It was unanimously approved.

The board now has 30 days to fill the vacancy. Anyone

who resides in the township and meets the requirements to serve as a supervisor can submit a letter of interest to the township. The letters of interest need to be turned in to the township building by the end of the day on Nov. 30.

The person selected to fill the vacancy will serve as a supervisor for the duration of the term, which runs through the first meeting in January of 2018.

The supervisors are expected to hold a special public meeting at 6 p.m. on Dec. 1 to interview all the candidates who are interested in the position.

Also at the Nov. 10 meeting, supervisors unanimously approved a motion to keep the millage rate at zero for 2016. Not surprisingly, there was no objection to this. The supervisors also signed off on a recommendation by township treasurer Suzanne Hamlin to keep the same

Senator Andy Dinniman recently visited the Kennett Area Senior Center to recognize residents who have reached 90 years or older with special Senate Certificates of Recognition.

“It is always a pleasure to meet, chat with and honor our senior citizens,” Dinniman said. “They are the people who literally fought for the freedoms we enjoy and built the towns

where we live today.”

Since taking office, Dinniman has visited senior centers and senior living facilities throughout the region to offer birthday wishes to almost 1,000 seniors each year who are part of his 90+ Birthday Program.

Under the program, area seniors 90 years and older receive honorary certificates on their birthdays.

health insurance plan for employees for the next year.

To do this, the supervisors approved a slight change to the preliminary 2016 budget to increase the budgeted health insurance costs from about $80,000 to $89,000.

The increased costs will be balanced by a projected increase in the sum amount of earned-income taxes that will be collected next year.

During public comment, township resident Joe Scheese asked Hamlin to clarify some of the information that was being shared about the township’s investment in its open space program leading up to Election Day. A referendum was on the ballot asking voters to decide if they wanted the township to continue to levy a tax to generate funding for the open space program.

Scheese said that opponents of the open space program were telling voters that more than $11 million

had been allocated by the township on open space since it was approved by voters more than a decade ago.

However, Scheese said— and Hamlin confirmed—that the actual number was the $7 million figure that supporters of the open space program were sharing with voters.

Hamlin said that the total taxpayer money spent on the program was the $7 million figure.

East Nottingham residents voted to continue the open space program by a fairly wide margin, with 693 voters answering “yes” to the referendum question, while 550 voted “no.”

The East Nottingham Township Board of Supervisors will hold its next meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 8 at the township building.

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

Oxford Borough Police Reports Dinniman salutes seniors with certificates The Oxford Borough Police Department reported the following incidents: A 12-year-old boy is facing charges of making terroristic threats, harassment, and other related charges as a result of an incident on Oct. 7.

On Oct. 13, a a 17-yearold female was charged with retail theft.

David L. Griggs faces charges of retail theft

stemming from an incident on Oct. 13.

Arielis Vargas was charged by Oxford Borough police with harassment on Oct. 20.

On Oct. 31, Rodger L. Pierce was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance, failure to obey stop signs and yield signs, careless driving, and other related offenses.

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From left: Edith Kegg, Ray Kegg, Harry Brown, Dolly Pettit, Senator Dinniman, Mary Versagli, Lois Fenstermacher, Helen Maraldo, Edna Bente.

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Penn Township chairman frustrated over intersection

By Nancy Johnson Correspondent Jay Ennis and William “Radar” O’Connell, who on Election Day won seats to the Penn Township Board of Supervisors, were introduced at the Nov. 4 meeting. The seats they will be taking are those of longtime supervisor Bill Finnen, who is retiring; and Tom Barlow, who chose not to run for an additional term.

The dominance that the discussion of the Jennersville Road and Baltimore Pike intersection holds at the board meetings month after month is a testament to how critical this intersection is to the township.

PennDOT has verbally committed to pay $800,000 through a pilot program toward the approximately $2 million project. As a public/ private program, matching private funds are expected.

Curtis Mason, the chairman of the board of supervisors, is frustrated because there are a number of commercial property owners in the township who want to develop their properties in the near future, and none of them have offered to help.

“We’ve had traffic counts done,” Mason said in a phone interview. “They’ve been to the meetings, but nobody is raising their hands.”

According to Mason, the township has already done

more than its share. “We bought the Red Rose Inn so we can give them any land they need for a right-of-way.

We are working on getting the grant money [approximately $250,000], we have $160,000 in a fund for improvements, and we have spent about $25,000 with engineers,” he said.

Mason explained that the “Red Rose Inn intersection,” as it is known, is currently rated “F” by PennDOT. Because of this, PennDOT would be hesitant to put any additional traffic through the intersection. “This means, as property owners, they better think hard,” Mason said. “They won’t be able to get an HOA permit for development.”

In other business, the supervisors passed a resolution that will allow them to finalize the purchase of a 43-acre tract from ConardPyle (Star Roses), which sits along Jennersville Road near Route 1. Settlement on the approximately $1.4 million property is slated this month.

Engineers for the township and The Shoppes at Jenners Village worked out their issues regarding parking, and therefore the Two Stones pub was given the OK to apply for a building permit. The restaurant will be located at the end of the shopping center, adjacent to Pets & Friends.

Oxford Borough Council formally adopts an updated revitalization plan

By Steven Hoffman Staff Writer Oxford Borough Council unanimously approved a resolution to adopt an updated revitalization plan at its meeting on Nov. 9.

Justin Smiley, an urban planner with the Chester County Planning Commission, and Jaime Larzelere, a community planner with the Chester County Planning Commission, led a PowerPoint presentation for borough council to review some of the information in the document. Smiley and Larzelere both worked closely with borough officials throughout 2015 to compile information.

Details about the revitalization plan were first unveiled to the public at a special meeting on Sept. 22. The last time that Oxford updated and approved the plan was 2003.

One of the major benefits for a municipality to have an updated revitalization plan is that it is helpful to secure county and state funding for projects. In the time since the last revitalization plan was approved, Oxford Borough has received more than $4.5 million in Community Development Block Grants and Community Revitalization Program grants for streetscape and infrastructure improvements.

The revitalization plan also serves as a guide for

Oxford officials, including Oxford Mainstreet, Inc. leaders, as they work to revitalize the downtown and plan for Oxford’s future.

The plan includes strategies and the actions necessary to implement those strategies. Some recommended actions to encourage economic development include extending the longevity of Oxford Mainstreet, Inc., which works to bring economic development to town; increasing downtown enhancements, such as new entertainment and recreational options; and continuing the community and business collaborations that have been successful for Oxford in the past.

Some other recommended actions include bolstering code enforcement to facilitate better rental property registration and inspection programs; continuing the police presence boroughwide to promote safety and dispel the perception of criminal activity; performing a “fair share analysis” to measure the amount of existing affordable housing; and improving the public parks and increase opportunities for openspace preservation.

The updated revitalization plan was received positively by borough officials when it was unveiled to the public in September.

Photo by Steven Hoffman

Oxford Borough officials have now adopted an updated revitalization plan to help guide decisions about the town’s future.

“I believe the plan is a step in the right direction to move the revitalization of the business district forward,” said Oxford Mayor Geoff Henry at that time.

Borough manager Betsy Brantner lauded Chester County officials for making two professional planners available to assist the borough with the work on the document.

Jerome Rodio, a business owner in town who served on the

committee that helped assist with the preparation of the revitalization plan, is among those people who is very optimistic about what will happen in the borough over the next few years.

“I think we’re going to have a lot more businesses,” Rodio said.

“I’m very optimistic about the future of Oxford.”

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

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A world of ‘Small Creatures’ at Bookplace

By John Chambless Staff Writer Dan Miller’s woodcuts have a warm, handmade quality that makes “Small Creatures,” on view at Bookplace in Oxford through Dec. 5, a welcoming destination.

Against backgrounds that show the grain of wood planks, Miller creates the natural world – a knothole becomes the sun, and swooping wood grain becomes banks of clouds or ridges in the earth. The birds depicted here range from slyly stylized (the owl in “Above Flowers” and the “Uncommon Bird” seen in several works) to realistically rendered depictions that have a fine, subtle use of color.

Strong moments in the

large show include the two spindly-limbed bats in “Two By Night,” the poised mouse in “The Small” and the deceased blue jay in “Fallen Sky.” There are intriguing little moments as well, such as the dragonfly zeroing in on its prey in “I Will Catch,” the pattern of thick snowflakes in “Owl and Snow,” and the gentle, uplifted posture of a

caterpillar on a branch in “Journey.”

In “Above the Fish,” there’s a sly expression on the bird peeking into a stream, but even the fish seem happy to be there.

Miller toys with scale as well, making the tiny struggles of ants into heroic gestures in “Antics.”

The rich textures and deft use of color make these prints – each very

limited and laboriously produced – a great gift for nature lovers, art collectors or yourself. The exhibition of 40 woodcuts is nicely presented, and the work has a gentle spirit that’s a reflection of Miller’s supreme skills.

“Small Creatures” continues at Bookplace (2373 Baltimore Pike, Oxford) through Dec. 4. The book store and

gallery is open Fridays from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. Call 717529-6618 or visit www.

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

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Benefit concert promises to be ‘Wild with Intentions’

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer Before you sit down with friends and family for Thanksgiving, there will be a stop to make the night before. But this one won’t come with a lot of tables and chairs. It will have a dance floor.

“Wild with Intentions,” a benefit concert featuring three local musical acts, will be at The Kennett Flash on Nov. 25 at 8 p.m.

Proceeds from the sale of tickets, as well as the sale of raffle items, will be given to Kennett Area

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Community Services and The Kennett Flash.

Concert organizers have agreed to move the table seating that is normally at Flash shows.

The concert will feature Jason Ager, Marlboro Road and The Rose Project. Now a regular in the club circuit between New York and Virginia, Ager is a blues-rock artist with hip-hop and R&B influences. Originally from Philadelphia, Ager leads a trio that moves audiences to the dance floor, and also performs upbeat acoustic music that tests the boundaries of the traditional singer-songwriter.

Marlboro Road is made up of lead guitarist Brad McNemar, bassist Glenn McNemar, drummer and vocalist Matt Creighton, and lead vocalist Chris Ferron.

Formed in 2008, The Rose Project has taken tales from travels around

‘Wild with Intentions,’ a benefit concert to support two local nonprofits, will be held at The Kennett Flash on Nov. 25.

the world and combined them with modern folk music. With a blend of acoustic folk, introspective lyrics, and passion for truth, The Rose Project conveys stories of struggles and anecdotes of civil oppression.

The Rose Project.

For more than 55 years, Kennett Area Community Service [KACS] has served the Kennett, Unionville-Chadds Ford and Avon Grove School districts. Its Kennett Food Cupboard offers food to families on a monthly

basis, with special food projects at Thanksgiving and Christmas, as well as to low-income senior housing residents. It is one of the three largest food cupboards in Chester County.

Last year, volunteers distributed $516,000 worth of food to 935 families. The program is run almost entirely by volunteers.

The KACS Emergency Assistance Program offers financial assistance for rent, utility bills, prescription medications,

transportation, and unexpected emergencies.

The Kennett Flash concert is a BYOB event, allowing attendees to bring beverages in with a $4 corking fee and ID check at the door. For dinner at the venue, food may be purchased from nearby La Verona. Tickets are $12 ($15 at the door), and are available by visiting www. kennettflash.org.

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

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E. Marlborough Township gets good news on taxes and Unionville Park

By John Chambless Staff Writer Residents got a double dose of good news at the Nov. 9 meeting of the East Marlborough Township Board of Supervisors.

There won’t be any tax increases in 2016, and the next phase of the Unionville Community Park project is on track.

Township manager Jane Laslo presented the 2016 budget, saying, “Things are very much similar to what we had last year. Property transfer taxes are the same.

All others remain the same – the library tax, the open space tax and fire tax.

That gives us income and expenses of $2,250,990. So the tax in this budget is the same as it has been, and the taxes will be set in December.”

There was additional funding earmarked for bridge repairs, $40,000, which will be used for fixing three bridges on Poplar Tree Road and Mill Road.

Real estate taxes will remain at 1.05 mills, the library tax is 0.183 of a mill, the open space tax is 0.2 of a mill, and the fire tax is 0.75 of a mill. Details of the budget will be posted at the township website (www.eastmarlborough. org).

Lisa Thomas, from the Glackin Thomas Panzak landscape architecture

firm, presented details about the next phases of construction at the Unionville Community Park. Township engineer Jim Hatfield prefaced her remarks, saying, “Phase One has been completed.

For Phase One, the bids came in significantly under the estimated budget. We needed to add additional work to that Phase One budget to maximize our use of grant dollars. So we are presenting here all of the Phase Two work, knowing full well that it’s probably going to exceed our budget. In round numbers, with three large grants – one from DCNR, one from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Greenways, and Chester County – and a couple of other smaller grants and the 50 percent the township has to pay, there’s about $750,000 to spend on construction of Phase Two. “What we’ve done is present a base scope, and five different alternates, which can be added on individually or in combination, so that when the funds come in, the township can maximize the grant money with township matching funds,” Hatfield continued. “We’ll build as much as we can.” All designs and permits are completed, he said.

A graphic showing the whole scope of Phase Two was presented by

Thomas. The first section to be funded will include landscaping, completion of 1,500 feet of trail, building a boardwalk crossing of wetlands, additional fencing at neighboring property lines, benches and trash cans, a “tot lot” play area for ages 2 to 5, and a picnic pavilion with restrooms near the parking lot.

If additional funding is found, another area near Route 82 could be completed, including new sidewalk, trees by the street, and painted crosswalks.

Next on the proposal list is eight new parking spaces and a new entry plaza by the sidewalk on Route 82, so walkers can access the park easily from the village of Unionville. Another area that could be built will provide a park entrance on Jackson Street, and a final section of trail to complete the 1.5-mile loop through the park. Finally, an area at the southern end of the park will connect the walking trail to nearby woodlands.

Hatfield said the whole project was outlined so that the process of getting bids and grant money could be streamlined. He asked for, and received, permission to solicit bids for the first part of Phase Two. “We’d like to advertise for bids on Jan. 11 and Jan. 14, with the bids due by Feb. 23,” Hatfield said. “We would then

Plans for the Unionville Community Park are divided into several sections, to be completed as funding permits.

review the bids and make a recommendation in time for the March 7 meeting. That will allow groundbreaking to begin as soon as the weather’s good, hopefully in March or April.”

Township solicitor Frone Crawford introduced an ordinance that would limit truck traffic on East Doe Run Road after the

township determined that heavy trucks have been using the road as a shortcut and the road has been damaged. The limitation will be marked with signs at the beginning and end of the stretch of road, and the ordinance can be enacted without performing an engineer study, Crawford said. If the township decides to expand the

limits, additional signs can be posted on other roads.

Board president Cuyler Walker said the board will examine the draft ordinance and be ready to vote on it during the board’s Dec. 7 meeting.

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

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Nov. 28 Photos with Santa Russellville Grange (on Route 896, one block north of Route 10) will have “Pictures with Santa” on Nov. 28 from 10 a.m. to noon. Mr. and Mrs. Claus will be waiting for children. We can take pictures or you may bring your own camera. Cookies and drinks will be served.

Donation is $5. For more information, call Jessica Reyburn at 717-572-0010.

Nov. 28 Holiday crafts The Union Fire Company and Auxiliary (315 Market St., Oxford) will be hosting their 23rd Holiday Craft Show on Nov. 28 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be holiday decorations and handmade crafts for sale, door prizes, a bake table, and luncheon items for sale. Chicken corn soup will be sold by the quart or gallon (bring your own container). Order soup in advance by calling 610-932-8796.

Dec. 5 Holiday Home Tour The fifth annual Holiday Home Tour to benefit the West Chester Public Library will take place on Dec. 5 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The tour will present 10 decorated homes in the northeastern section of West Chester.

This walking tour spans 151 years of home building history in West Chester. The homes date from 1836 to 1987. Tickets are on sale at the library (415 N. Church St., West Chester) or online at www.WCPublicLibrary.org.

Dec. 6 Holiday concert The New London Community Choir will present “Holiday Windows” on Dec. 6 at 4 p.m. at the Avon Grove High School Auditorium. The show will include holiday favorites as the choir observes various holiday traditions through local “windows.” The concert is free, but donations are accepted to defray the cost of music and supplies. The group is an outreach program

of the New London United Methodist Church. For more information, to join or to help sponsor the event, call 610-869-8129 or e-mail rcbidwell@comcast.net.

Dec. 13 Vendor shopping event Avon Grove Intermediate School (395 S. Jennersville Rd., West Grove) hosts a vendor holiday shopping event to benefit KX Athletics on Dec. 13 from noon to 4 p.m. Vendors will include Paparazzi, Altera Vita Home Design, Thirty-One, Jamberry Nails, Lucky Girl Cheer Bows, Rodan & Fields, Stella & Dot, Scentsy, Tupperware, Advo Care, Homemade Candies, Go Fit Bandz, Jewelry in Candles, Pampered Chef, Plexus, Soy Candle Creations and others.

Through Nov. 30 ‘Pairings’ in Kennett Square Five galleries and stores in Kennett Square have teamed up to present original artwork and furnishings together through Nov. 30. “Pairings” draws from Holly Peters Oriental Rugs, Carol Lesher Studio, Longwood Art Gallery, Mala Galleria and Trover Nine Studio. The design consultants are DeVignier Design, Zoe Hewitt, Hoffman Design, Kate

Poole and Francesa Rudin.

The exhibition of interior design and art is in the Salon at Holly Peters Oriental Rugs (109 S. Broad St., Kennett Square). Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, call 610-4440146 or 202-591-6548.

Through Dec. 5 Woodcuts by Dan Miller Bookplace (2373 Baltimore Pike, Oxford) hosts “Small Creatures,” a show of woodcuts by Dan Miller, from Nov.

8 to Dec. 5. A reception with the artist will be held Dec. 8 from 5 to 8 p.m.

The gallery and bookstore is open Fridays from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. Visit www.bookplaceoxford.com for more information.

Through Nov. 25 Linda Ford abstracts The Station Gallery (3922 Kennett Pike, Greenville, Del.) presents Linda Ford “New Beginnings: Encaustic Paintings”

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.

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Annual Unionville Art Gala offers one-stop art shopping For 40 years, the Unionville Art Gala has drawn from the rich pool of artists in the region to raise funds for student enrichment projects through the PTO at Unionville High School.

To mark the 40th year, the show continues to spotlight established and emerging artists, including two Unionville High School students, Molly Hutter and Victoria Latham. This year’s featured artist is Margaret Matuszewski, who paints impressionistic oils and watercolors, primarily landscapes. She has participated in juried and invitational shows in Pennsylvania and the northeast United States, and exhibited widely in Chester County, and in the Hudson River Valley.

The show opens at the

high school on Nov. 20 with live music and free hors d’oeuvres from local restaurants. Many of the artists will be on hand to meet visitors and discuss their work from 6 to 9 p.m.

On Saturday, the show runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The wide range of artwork includes paintings, ceramics, jewelry, glass art, mosaics, mixed-media works and more. Thirty percent of the price of each piece goes to support educational enrichment programs at the school, and is tax-deductible. Many artists are also donating pieces that will be sold at a reduced price, with 100 percent of the proceeds benefiting the school’s PTO program. Mastercard/ Visa, cash and checks are accepted. Admission to the show is free.

through Nov. 25. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call 302-654-8638 or visit www.stationgallery. net.

Through Nov. 28 David Diaz solo show Longwood Art Gallery (200 E. State St., Kennett Square), PA is hosting a solo show of plein-air landscapes of the midAtlantic region by David Diaz through Nov. 28. For

more information, call 610444-0146 or visit www. longwoodartgallery.com.

Through Nov. 30 Art at Metamorphosis Metamorphosis Wellness Center (331 E. State St., Kennett Square) is presenting art by Cindi Strengari, who works in papermaking, painting, reclaimed jewelry making, and mixed media. The show also features “Tradigital art” by Lisa Wray that combines traditional

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‘Wooded Path,’ by featured artist Margaret Matuszewski.

There are dozens of artists featured at the show, including Carol Apicella, Katee Boyle, Polly Davis Chalfant, Frank dePietro, Lele Galer, John Hannafin, Carol Lesher, Mitch Lyons, Jeremy McGirl, Christina Oddo, and MaryAnn Weselyk.

The school is at 650 Unionville Rd., in Kennett Square. For more information, call 610-3471600 or visit https://sites. google.com/a/ucfsd.net/ uhs-art-gala/.

painting, drawing and photography with digital media. The show continues through Nov. 30. Call 610444-8020 or visit www. metamorphosiswellnesscenter. net.

To submit items to the Art Spot, email jchambless@ chestercounty.com. There is no charge. Not every submission can be included.

Items should be submitted at least two weeks before the event.

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ELIZABETH STALLER WHITTLE Elizabeth “Betty” Staller Whittle, 95, of Kennett Square, died on Nov. 8 at Kendal Community in Kennett Square.

She was the wife of the late Wilson H. Whittle, who died in 2003, and with whom she shared 60 years of marriage.

Born in Mount Carmel, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Howard W. and the late Grace Owens Staller. Betty studied dental hygiene at Penn and was a dental hygienist in Philadelphia in the early years, where she met Wilson. They married in 1942. She was a longtime member of the Episcopal Church of the Advent and enjoyed hosting the annual church picnic at the family farm in Kennett. She was a member of the Seedlings garden club, and the Kennett Country Club, where she loved playing golf and tennis. She volunteered for many years at the Encore Resale shop. She loved gardening and cooking for her children and grandchildren. Her kitchen was known as “Gramma’s bar and grill.” She loved traveling abroad and to many of the 50 states with Wilson in their RV. They especially loved their campground in the Florida Keys and going to Penn State football games. She enjoyed the Philadelphia Orchestra, theatre, and playing tennis with the girls.

Survivors include one son, Jeffrey Whittle and his wife Carolyn of Kennett Square; one daughter, Katherine W. Turner and her husband Bill of Kennett Square; six grandchildren, Matthew Grieco (Sherry) of Avondale, Susan Grieco of West Grove, Scott Whittle (Gina) of West Chester, Leslie Brewer (David) of Leesburg, Va., Josh Turner (Angelina) of Maine, and Benjamin Turner of Maine; and 15 great-grandchildren.

A memorial service was held Nov. 14. Interment was in Union Hill Cemetery. Contributions in her memory made be made to the Kennett Area Senior Center, 427 S. Walnut St., Kennett Square, PA 19348; or to the Episcopal Church of the Advent, 201 Crestline Drive, Kennett Square, PA 19348. To view her online tribute and to share a memory with her family, visit www.griecocares.com.

JOHN C. DAVIS

John C. Davis, of Jenner’s Pond, formerly of Lexington Woods in Concord Township, Pa., died at age 88 on Nov. 10.

“Jack” was the husband of the late Barbara “Babs” Miller Davis, who died in March 2010, to whom he was married for 55 years. He was the son of the late Raymond O. and Pauline E. Davis of Amesbury, Mass. He was born in Newburyport, Mass., and raised in Amesbury. Jack attended schools in Amesbury and graduated from Wilbraham Academy in Wilbraham, Mass. After graduation in 1945, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served on the U.S.S. Taconic. After discharge, he entered Tufts University, graduating with a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering. He then moved to Bucks County to work at U.S. Steel in Fairless Hills for 14 years, to Gulf & Western in Swarthmore for 13 years, and finally to ICI Explosives in Valley Forge until retiring in 1992.

Jack and Babs were married in Washington, D.C., and lived in Concord Township for nearly 34 years before relocating to the Jenner’s Pond Retirement Community in West Grove in 2000. They enjoyed sailing their small sloop in the waters of New England, Pennsylvania and Canada. They also camped throughout the United States and Canada. They were members of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in West Chester, and most recently the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Mendenhall. Jack volunteered at the Newlin Grist Mill in Concord Township, and the Hagley Museum in Delaware; and was active in the Jenner’s Pond woodshop.

Jack is survived by two sons and their families, John and Barbara and their daughter Lindsey of Pequannock, N.J.; and Stephen and Randy and their three sons, Brian, Christopher, and Brendan of Branchburg, N.J.. Also his sister-in-law, Jean Lamson Davis of Amesbury, Mass.

A memorial service will be held in the Alison Building Theatre at Jenner’s Pond on Dec. 5 at 11 a.m. Interment will be private at the Washington Crossing National Cemetery, where he will be with his wife Babs again. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to The Benevolent Care Fund at Jenner’s Pond, 2000 Greenbriar Lane, West Grove, PA 19390. Online condolences may be made by visiting www.griecocares.com.

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AGNES HELEN KOREJWO

FRANK J. SIPALA, JR.

Agnes “Dolly” Helen Korejwo, 97, of Downingtown, passed away on Nov. 13 at Simpson Meadows Assisted Living in Downingtown.

Her first husband, Joseph Hamilton, passed away in 1958; and her second husband, Alfred Korejwo, passed away in 1997. Born in Chester, she was the daughter of the late Pius and Hedwig Munzer. Agnes was a salesperson at Wilmington Dry Goods in Wilmington, Del., until her retirement. She attended Assumption BVM in West Grove. She enjoyed cooking, gardening, and being with her family and friends.

She is survived by one son, Richard Hamilton and his wife Maggie of Dover, Del.; three daughters, Barbara Jones of West Grove, Frances Herbster and her husband Richard of Exton, and Marlene Howley of Mahanoy, Pa.; seven grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.

A visitation with family and friends will be held from 9 to 10:15 a.m. Nov. 19 at Assumption BVM Church (300 State Rd., West Grove). Her funeral mass will follow at 10:30 a.m. Burial will be at 1 p.m. at Lawn Croft Cemetery in Linwood, Pa. To leave an online condolence, visit www.griecocares.com.

Frank J. Sipala, Jr., 87, of Lincoln University, passed away suddenly on Nov. 7, surrounded by his family at Jennersville Regional Hospital in West Grove.

He was the husband of Marie A. Jacobs Sipala, with whom he shared 65 years of marriage. Born in Wilmington, Del., he was the son of the late Frank, Sr., and Mary Lamonica Sipala. Frank was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and served in World War II. He retired as a real estate broker. He was a member of Sacred Heart Church in Oxford. He was a founding member of the Knights of Columbus and served as usher. He was a golfer, artist and woodworker. Frank was a family man who was devoted to his family.

He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Debra Broadbent (Randy) of New London, and Joyce Justison of Wilmington, Del.; one son, Frank J. Sipala, III of Middletown, Del.; nine grandchildren, Jennifer Haws, Erin Sharp, Fredrick Justison, Jr., Katherine Broadbent, Dr. Jason Justison, Eric Broadbent, Jaclyn Wimmer, Frank J. Sipala, IV and Jamie Lynn Sipala; six greatgrandchildren; one brother, George Sipala (Helen) of Chadds Ford; one sister, Lucille North of Wilmington, Del.; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a brother, Joseph Sipala; and two sisters, Jenny Razze and Mary King.

A mass of Christian burial was held Nov. 14. Interment was in Oxford Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to Sacred Heart Church, 203 Church Rd., Oxford, PA 19363. Visit www.elcollinsfuneralhome.com.

WINIFRED FITTIN WISMER Winifred Fittin Wismer, 81, of Oxford, passed away on Nov. 9 at Ware Presbyterian Village in Oxford.

She was the wife of the late Walter Graham Wismer and was preceded in death by her first husband, Thomas Francis Fittin. Born in Upper Darby, she was the daughter of the late Edmund M. and Edna McIntire Blanken. Winifred graduated from Hershey High School in 1952 and received her Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of Delaware in 1956. She was analytical chemist for Atlas Chemical, and later taught science for the Morrestown Friends School in Nre Jersey. She was a member of Oxford United Methodist Church. She served in a church choir since the 11th grade, president of Women’s Fellowship, served as a Sunday and Bible school teacher and was active in Christian Women’s Club. Winifred also served her community by volunteering at Ware Presbyterian Village.

She enjoyed sewing, knitting, counted cross-stitch, gardening and flower arranging.

She is survived by one son, David F. Fittin of Shillington; two daughters, Michele F. Jarvis (Richard W.) of Naples, Fla., and Deborah L. Snyder (Kenneth W.) of Wilmington, Del.; two stepsons, John G. Wismer (Vikki) of Williamsburg, Va., and Linwood R. Wismer (Cindy) of Marlton, N.J.; nine grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and one brother, Charles M. Blanken (Nancy) of Lancaster. She was preceded in death by her sister and brother, Carolyn Brown and Edmund M. Blanken.

A memorial service was held Nov. 12. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to Willow Tree Hospice, 616 E. Cypress St., Kennett Square, PA 19348; or Compassion International, 12290 Voyager Parkway, Colorado Springs, CO 80921-3668. Visit www.elcollinsfuneralhome.com.

JOAN C. WENERD Joan C. Wenerd, 83, formerly of Willow View Home in Lancaster, passed away on Nov. 9 at the Laurel Nursing Center in Hamburg, Pa. She was the wife of the late William Wenerd of Secane, Pa. Joan was the daughter of James Cameron, Sr., and Helen Albridge, and sister of James Cameron, Jr. Two nephews, James Cameron III of Maryland, and Scott Cameron of Nottingham, survive her; as well as two nieces, Michelle Henne and Paula Printz, both of Hamburg.

Joan was an avid Penn State and Eagles fan, and loved buying gifts for her family and friends on QVC. She will be greatly missed by her dear friends Janie, Gwen, Kathy, Carol and David.

Services were private. Online condolences may be expressed at www.burkeydriscoll.com.

Alleluia Jeff Lampl, Senior Pastor

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Indians finish with 8-3 record and Ches-Mont crown

North Penn ends Unionville’s season with a 48-7 win

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer Last Friday night in Unionville, the first-round District 1 Class AAAA playoff match-up between Unionville and North Penn – much like the weather – began with great expectations, but did not turn out as advertised.

The late fall evening seemed to offer the hope of seeing two teams, riding five-game winning streaks, playing in reasonable

football-like temperatures in the low 50s. By the end of the game, however, a 48-7 blowout win by North Penn left the hometown fans, or at least the hearty souls who remained huddled against the whipping winds, realizing that Pat Clark’s 8-2 team, the winners of the ChesMont American Division this season, were about to have their season end on their home field.

The Knights, the Suburban One National

Photo by Richard L. Gaw

Playing in his last game for Unionville, quarterback Brendan Boyle led the Indians to an 8-3 record and a Chest-Mont League championship.

Photo by Richard L. Gaw

North Penn quarterback Reece Udinski tossed for 128 yards in a 48-7 win over Unionville on Nov. 13, in the opening round of the Class AAAA Playoffs.

League champions and ranked 20th in the state in recent Maxpreps ratings, wasted little time in backing up their lofty position by jumping out to a quick 7-0 lead with a little more than six minutes remaining in the first quarter. Following an incomplete pass by Indians’ quarterback Brendan Boyle, Unionville was forced to punt at its own 21-yard line. Punter Pat Clark, Jr., received a poor snap and was promptly tackled at his own 8-yard line, and after a pass to running back Nyfease West moved the ball to the 7-yard line, North Penn quarterback Reece Udinski handed off to running back Justin Ostopowicz for a seven-yard score.

If there was a silver lining in a relatively large cloud for Unionville, it was that the Ostopowicz touchdown served as the only points the Indian defense gave up in the first quarter, but the floodgates opened to a 28-7 North Penn lead by the end of the first half. On just the second play from scrimmage of the second quarter, Nick Isabella scored the first of his three touchdowns on a 9-yard rush up the middle with just 35 seconds gone in the quarter. With under five minutes remaining in the first half, North Penn inherited the ball on their own 12-yard line, and on its first play, West carried the ball for a 47-yard scamper up the far sideline, into Unionville territory.

Photo by Richard L. Gaw

North Penn running back Nyfease West was stopped just short of the goal line during a fourth-quarter drive.

After passes to West and Ostopowicz and a handoff to West got the ball to the one-yard line, Isabella scored his second TD of the evening with a short plunge over the middle with 3:57 left in the half.

Down 20-0, a stifled Unionville offense received its only kickstart of the game late in the first half when, after a timeout, Boyle threw a perfect, 37-yard strike to Boon in the end zone with just 26.6 seconds left that eluded eight North Penn players positioned in the defensive backfield to prevent a long pass. Now down 20-7, the momentum had clearly shifted toward Unionville as both teams were about to head into the locker room, but on the ensuing kickoff, returner Justis Henley blew through the line for a 56-yard return, getting the ball to the Indians’ 24-yard line. On the first play from scrimmage, Udinski hit

wide receiver Ricky Johns for a 24-yard TD strike with just 8.5 seconds left in the half which, after a two-point possession, gave North Penn a commanding lead heading into the second half.

Just as they had done effectively in the first half, North Penn relied on a series of interchangeable parts on offense in the second half, highlighted by playmakers West, Ostopowicz and Isabella and topped off with the appearance of a few new names. Ostopowicz returned the second-half kickoff to midfield, and followed up by hauling in a 15-yard pass to move the ball to the Unionville 35-yard line. A 12-yard carry by West moved the chains to the 23-yard line and, with 9:55 left in the third quarter, Isabella ran 23 yards untouched for his third touchdown to give the Knights a 35-7 lead.

A two-yard run by Dontae Stewart early in the fourth quarter, followed by a 38-yard run by Tyler Gillet with 10:42 remaining in the game, rounded out the North Penn scoring.

For the Knights, West racked up 114 yards on 14 carries, while Isabella was right behind with 102 yards on 12 carries, and Udinski threw for 128 yards on 10 for 15 passing.

For the Indians, Brendan Boon finished his high school career with 64 yards on eight carries, while Brendan Boyle completed his Unionville career with 77 yards in passing.

With a record of 9-2, North Penn will face off in the District 1 Class AAAA playoff quarterfinals against top-seeded Downingtown East on Nov. 20.

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

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Local News Kennett Area Park and Recreation Board is scheduling leagues Registrations are being accepted for the Kennett Area Park and Recreation Board (KAPRB) Junior Basketball League. Boys and girls in grades 3 through 8 are invited to

play in this fun and competitive league. Teams practice once a week, with games on Saturday.

Evaluations are held to determine skills of players. Attending evaluations

is required to participate in the program. Practices begin in December and the league will run through mid-March. All games and practices are played in local Kennett School District

gyms. Everyone makes a team. Register at www.bluedemonssports.org.

-KAPRB Co-Ed Softball Leagues are accepting applications for new

teams. The league is played at Herb Pennock Park in Kennett Square. This is a recreational league that competes with other local teams from April through July, with games twice

weekly. Teams must have at least five females on a team. The cost to enter a team is $850. For more information, email kaprb@ verizon.net, or call Kevin Garris at 484-667-0561.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of:Upliftv-Capstone Legacy Foundation , located at Upliftv C/O Capstone Legacy Foundation, 900 West Valley Road, Ste 203, Wayne, PA 19087, 610688-8890 has submitted an application for a fictitious name under 54 Pa.C.S. pursuant to Pennsylvania's Fictitious Names Act. 11-18-1t

and copying by the public at the Kennett Township Building, 801 Burrows Run Road, Chadds Ford, PA 19317, the offices of this newspaper, and the Chester County Law Library all during regular business hours.

Lisa M. Moore, Manager/Secretary Kennett Township 801 Burrows Run Road Chadds Ford, PA 19317 610-388-1300 11p-18-2t

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DECEMBER 7, 2015 AT 7:00 PM AT THE ELK TOWNSHIP BUILDING, 952 CHESTERVILLE ROAD, LEWISVILLE, PA. The proposed Ordinance is follows: WHEREAS, the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has enacted Act 60 of 1995, setting forth certain guidelines and limitations for the compensation of supervisors of townships of the second class, and; WHEREAS, the act provides that supervisors of townships having a population of not more than 1,499 may be compensated in an amount not to exceed $1,875.00 per year, and; WHEREAS, the population of Elk Township is 1,681, and; WHEREAS, the General Assembly by Act 60 authorizes the board of supervisors of the various townships of the second class to determine the compensation of supervisors subject to the limitations set for the in the act, Now, therefore it is hereby enacted and ordained as follows:( 1. ) Each supervisor of Elk Township entering office after the effective date of this ordinance shall receive compensation as a supervisor in the annual amount of $1,875.00. (2. ) Such compensation shall be paid in quarterly installments.

(3.) This ordinance shall be effective five (5) days after its enactment. All communications relative to this hearing are to be addressed to Elk Township at the above address. Any person with a disability requiring special accommodation to attend this meeting should notify Elk Township at 610-255-0634. R Samuel McMichael, Esquire, Solicitor for Elk Township 11p-18-1t

Legals NOTICE

Notice The London Grove Township Zoning Hearing Board will conduct a public hearing on, December 9, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. in the London Grove Township Building, 372 Rose Hill Road, West Grove, PA for the following purpose: 333 Clay Creek Road- To hear the appeal of Yinpu Zhang and Jiyand Pei for a variance to allow an apartment on a mushroom farm. Section 602.1 of the Township Zoning Ordinance only permits one use per lot and does not permit apartment dwelling units.

The property is located in the Rural Residential (RR0 District.

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SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: VALUE ADDED INVESTMENTS CORP YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: RICHARD B. CARPENTER, ET AL. C A S E N U M B E R : 37-2015-00002790-CU-SL-CTL NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response.

You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has

a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

The name and address of the court is: Superior Court of California, 330 W. Broadway, San Diego, CA 92101. The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: Hugh D. Kelso III, Esq., 8799 Balboa Avenue, Suite 155, San Diego, CA 92123, (619) 840-5056.

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ESTATE NOTICE

ESTATE OF E. Wayne Martz, late of Penn Township, Chester County, Deceased. Letters Testamentary on the estate of the above named E. Wayne Martz having been granted to the undersigned, all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the said decedent are requested to make known the same and all persons indebted to the said decedent to make payment without delay to: Michael W. Martz, Executor c/o Attorney: Winifred Moran Sebastian, Esquire 208 E. Locust Street P.O. Box 381 Oxford, PA 19363 11-4-3t

ESTATE NOTICE

Estate of Lorrain M. Johnson, Late of Lower Oxford Township, Deceased, Letters testamentary on the estate of the above named Lorrain M. Johnson, having been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the Estate of the decedent to make known the same, and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payments, without delay to: Alvin E. Johnson, Executor C/O Attorney: Winifred Moran Sebastian, Esquire 208 E. Locust Street, P.O. Box 381, Oxford, PA 19363 11p-4-3t

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Notice is hereby given that Articles of Incorporation were filed with the Department of State of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for the purpose of forming a non- profit corporation, which was organized pursuant to the provisions of the Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation Law of 1988, as amended.

The corporation has been organized for the following purposes: To further charitable, and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501 ( C ) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code

of 1986 including, for such purposes the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations thereunder.

The name of the corporation is Oxford Rotary Foundation, Inc. Articles were filed on March 30, 2015 Ira D. Binder, Solicitor, 277 Cullen Rd., Oxford, PA 19363 11p-18-1t

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to 2010, there were 2,357 Lyme cases in the county, or 158 per 100,000 residents.

In 2014, the county recorded 173 confirmed cases of Lyme disease.

The good news is this: Act 83 of 2014 established a Task Force on Lyme Disease and Related Tick-Borne Diseases.

The individuals appointed to the task force culminated their year-long effort with the delivery of the Task Force Report to the Secretary of Health, finalized this September.

Dinniman, along with Sen. Stewart Greenleaf, helped to create the Lyme Disease Task Force related to prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease.

The 64-page report spelled out a comprehensive set of 18 recommendations to improve Lyme disease prevention, education, awareness and surveillance which the task force believes are the critical first steps of slowing --- and possibly reducing – the growing incidence of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases in the Commonwealth.

The Nov. 12 meeting in New Garden served as the first public meeting to discuss the findings of the report.

The symposium, sponsored by Dinniman, included Dr. Rachel Levine, M.D., Pennsylvania’s Physician General; Kimberly Stone, M.D., of the Chester County Public Health System; Marina Makous, M.D., of the Lyme & Tickborne Disease Research Center at Columbia University; Don Hannum, director of the Chester County Farm Bureau; and Doug Fearn, chairman of the Lyme Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Inc. Levine said that the report serves as a blueprint to help guide future planning for education, prevention and surveillance of Lyme disease across the Commonwealth, and the first effort to address the health problem. She said that in the report, the task force recommended protocol and funding strategies for high-risk areas, particularly schools and state parks for park staff and visitors. She said that the task force also recommended the development of a standardized brochure for physicians to consult in order to best treat their patients who have Lyme disease. In terms of of education and awareness, the task force recognized that many of Lyme diagnosis go unrecognized; that physicians’ practice varies; and that there are delayed on diagnosis and treatment, leaving many outcomes “less than satisfactory.”

The task force also recommended the start of a statewide public awareness campaign called “Don’t Let A Tick Make You Sick,” as well as increased prevention efforts, finding new strategies for diagnosis, creating an advisory body and obtaining a cost analysis of implementing these ideas.

Although she said that while these recommendations are not happening all at once, Levine said, “we we will take these steps to try to help

curb the incidence of Lyme disease in Pennsylvania, with the goal of assuring that hopefully the Commonwealth will not be leading the country in the incidence of this disease.”

Stone said that while the county health department is also focusing its efforts on education and awareness, she said that the department still needs to make improvements on creating standardized forms of diagnosis for physicians – to better identify the appearance of Lyme – as well as giving them the tools to better help them determine diagnoses and recording, through a fundamental form of testing.

The bad news? Those in attendance at the event felt that despite these efforts, the medical community is adapting a kick-the-can-down-the-road approach to the disease, at a time when the needs of those who are suffering from the disease are urgent.

The key culprit? It’s the growing number of physicians who don’t want to handle Lyme disease patient cases, and the insurance companies who are reluctant to welcome it into the fold of their coverage.

Fearn said that because misinformation about Lyme disease exists, “the impact on patients can be really profound.”

“It’s unfortunate that in this highly epidemic area, that there are very few physicians who are treating it, and that problem arises for a variety of reasons,” he said.

“Unfortunately, doctors are afraid to get involved in this complicated disease. Research is very controversial, and there are two highly divergent schools of thought in how to diagnose it and how to treat it, so a lot of doctors don’t want to get in the middle of that.

It’s dangerous to their livelihood. As a consequence, they don't treat people.

“Many of the doctors who are treating Lyme patients have found that they can not participate in health insurance with their patients, and that comes because Lyme patients require more than ten or 15 minutes with doctors, much more than most insurance companies will allow, and insurance companies generally won't cover treatment with antibiotics. It’s a sad state of affairs throughout the country, particularly here, that patients have to have some independent financial situation that allows them to be properly treated. The majority of people are not in that [financial] position. Consequently, we know people who deplete their life savings and deplete their retirement funds and have to sell their houses, and they have lost their income because they are too sick to work. We know people who are homeless, and these are productive people in society, and now they’re homeless, because of this disease.”

Fearn called for the legal protection of physicians who treat Lyme disease, against the complaints issued by insurance companies, who bring charges against the physicians related to their treatment of Lyme.

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In many ways, Lyme disease is an illness with two faces: the medical statement, backed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control [CDC], who serves as the global epicenter of knowledge of the disease, and the statement of those afflicted with Lyme. The disease is now an epidemic, Dinniman said, but one that is being met by a medical community that seems content with attacking the disease through an arbitrary series of tests and treatment procedures. To date, there is no gold standard diagnostic test for Lyme disease.

“Some people who get Lyme know so, because of the bullseye [marking on the skin], but that’s not always the case,” Dinniman said. “We often find people who are not treated develop chronic Lyme, which has so many implications, in terms of neurology and psychiatric disturbances, in terms of simply feeling like there’s nothing to live for. And yet we know that when people sometimes go to doctors and ask for assistance, the doctors will tell the patient that there really is no chronic Lyme, or that it’s something else. We’re on the cusp of understanding tick-based diseases, but even our knowledge of the variety of these diseases is limited.”

Several attendees in the audience, many of whom have been diagnosed with Lyme disease, expressed their frustration with their treatment, echoing many of the roadblocks expressed by those on the panel. Most prominent among their complaints was their inability to find answers -- expressed in the form of their having to play a game of medical treasure hunt, in the hopes of finding a physician who will help them.

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State Sen. Andrew Dinniman, far left, served as the moderator at a panel discussion, held on Nov. 12 at the New Garden Township Building, that invited three medical health professionals and two advocates to discuss issues related to Lyme disease in Pennsylvania.

The problem was best illustrated by one attendee, who said that he has seen as many as 28 different physicians.

When one resident of East Marlborough asked the panel what they would recommend to Lyme patients who seek treatment, two of the medical community panelists said that patients should “find a physician that you trust and believe in.”

“You say you want an educated consumer, but the trouble with that is, none of us can be the educated consumer if we don’t know enough,” Dinniman responded. “The question remains is, ‘What do I do?’ If I have cancer, I know who the specialist is. I have a cadre of people who are going to lead me through this. But with Lyme, who do I go to? How do my constituents know what questions to ask? Do we print a booklet or something?

“To not say anything is not the response, so what’s hap-

pening now is that the people of this district, of this county, are saying that the number one medical situation is Lyme disease,” Dinniman added. “It goes on year after year. Some of us can’t even get out of bed in the morning. We’re in the epicenter of all of this, and all the government will say to us is, ‘Trust your physician.’

Well, which one?”

Following comments from additional audience members, Dinniman addressed the medical community.

“What you are experiencing here is a moment of change in public health when it comes to this disease,” he said. “You have a population that’s in revolt. They are no longer accepting the answers from our public health officials because they haven’t been sufficient for two decades.

They’re no longer accepting the fact that people are going to lay in their beds, helpless, day after day. They are no longer going to accept the fact

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that they don’t even have a place to call to get a sense of direction. Those of you who are in public health, what it is, to be quite blunt, is that public health has failed this population.”

Despite his comments, Dinniman said that he was optimistic that the task force he helped form will eventually solve the problem of Lyme disease, not only in Chester County, but in the entire Commonwealth. He encouraged those in the audience to organize their protests, in order to accelerate change in how Lyme disease is being addressed.

For more information on Lyme Disease in Chester County, visit The Lyme Disease Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Inc.’s website, at www.

LymePA.org.

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

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Oxford Cemetery announced as Oxford Educational location for 2015 National Wreaths Foundation named recipient Across America Program of Apple Festival proceeds Community fundraising efforts to culminate in wreath-laying ceremony on National Wreaths Across America Day

Wreaths Across America (WAA), a nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, announced that Oxford Cemetery in Oxford has once again joined in the effort to fulfill the national WAA mission of remembering, honoring and teaching under the 2015 central theme: “Cemeteries are for the living.”

This is the eighth year that Oxford Cemetery will be participating. Local event coordinator Laura Sperratore, along with the Oxford American Legion Post 535, which hosts the event, and the Chester County Sheriff’s Office, led by Carolyn “Bunny” Welsh, will be organizing several fundraising opportunities that will culminate in a wreath-laying ceremony to honor veterans on National Wreaths Across America Day on Saturday, Dec. 12.

Remembrance wreaths will be placed at the headstones of fallen veterans at more than 1,000 locations across the country and overseas. A remembrance ceremony will be held at Oxford Cemetery in Oxford on this day.

“The members of

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Randy Teel, a U.S. veteran, during the wreath-laying ceremony in Oxford.

American Legion, Roy W. Gibson Post 535 consider it an honor and a privilege to once again host this national event here at our local level,” said Ken Weaver of Post 535. “We are very proud of the Wreaths Across America Program’s commitment in honoring America’s veterans and making sure that those who have passed from this life after having served and sacrificed for the freedoms that we all enjoy, are not forgotten at this special season of the year. We encourage our community to join us in placing these wreaths of honor in our local cemeteries.”

“Wreaths Across America has grown on the passion of our volunteers,” said Karen Worcester, WAA

executive director. “Many of our organization’s most successful ideas came from those who do the real work of organizing and carrying out our ceremonies in their hometowns. It is overwhelming to realize that more than 1,000 locations are living our mission to remember, honor and teach the service and sacrifice of veterans.”

Those interested in volunteering with their local Wreaths Across America location in Oxford are invited to visit the WAA website and social media channels to follow the organization.

Those interested in sponsoring wreaths for the Oxford Cemetery this year should contact the event coordinator, Laura Sperratore, at waaoxfordpa@gmail.com.

In late September, the Oxford Presbyterian Church held the annual Apple Festival.

Since the first festival in 1989, this event has become a family tradition, and its purpose has shifted from funding the restoration of the church after a fire to raising money to support those who invest in the Oxford area community. Each year, a local service organization is selected to be the primary beneficiary of the day’s proceeds. This year, the Oxford Presbyterian Church Apple Festival Committee selected the Oxford Educational Foundation.

This year’s event drew one of the largest crowds to date, and had live entertainment including Nashville recording artist Chris Monaghan, artist

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Neeley Spotts and Sharon Brooks, OPC Apple Festival co-chairs, present a $6,000 donation from the proceeds of the 2015 Oxford Presbyterian Church Apple Festival to Steve Roberts, OEF president, and Dr. Ray Fischer, OEF executive director.

demonstrations, crafters, kettle-cooked apple butter, pies, and cider, as well as many free activities for children. When the proceeds were tallied, the Oxford Educational Foundation was presented with a check for $6,000. These funds will

assist the OEF in enhancing the quality of education in the Oxford Area School District by providing a mentoring and tutoring program for students, and professional grants for the faculty to encourage the development of innovative programs.

Local Girl Scout Brownie Bash serves 250 girls Local Girl Scouts hosted the 7th Annual Brownie Bash on Nov. 7 at the Unionville Presbyterian Church. This event covered eight badges in morning and afternoon workshops. The eight sessions were led by Senior Girl Scouts from Kennett Troop 41865.

Workshops discussed a variety of topics, including oceanography, Native Americans, the history and meaning of the American flag, best bones health, “Stitch in Time” and the states of New York, Georgia and Oklahoma.

The Brandywine Valley

Girl Scout Service Unit hosted troops from as far away as Philadelphia and Bucks County, as well as Delaware.

The program’s creator and leader was Lori Sullivan. A large amount of food was collected for the Kennett Food Cupboard as part of the event.

Rotary Club offers grants for undergraduates and graduates The Rotary Club of Oxford, in conjunction with the Gundaker Foundation of Rotary District 7450, announces the availability of several Undergraduate Grant Awards for study in the junior or senior year in colleges and universities during the 20162017 academic year. Grants range from $1,000 to $5,000.

To be eligible, applicants must be full-time students who will be enrolled in the junior or senior year of an undergraduate program in any college or university in Rotary District 7450, or be residents of Rotary District 7450 who will be enrolled in the junior or senior year of an undergraduate program in a college or university anywhere, during the next academic year. Applicants must have outstanding academic records and have records of leadership in their schools, communities, and/

or other settings. Applicants must be sponsored by the District 7450 Rotary Club in the community in which they are a permanent resident or where their college or university is located.

Completed applications must be submitted to the local Rotary Club by Friday, Jan. 15, 2016 at 5 p.m. Award announcements are made by May. Grants are paid between June and September for the fall term.

The club also is offering several Graduate Grant Awards for post-baccalaureate study in any field during the 2016-17 academic year.

Candidates may be graduating college seniors, other persons seeking admission to graduate or professional schools for the first time, or those already enrolled in a postbaccalaureate institution.

Candidates must plan to

enroll full-time. Candidates must be permanent residents of Rotary District 7450 or be enrolled in a post-graduate institution within the district.

The district includes all of Philadelphia County, much of Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties, and part of lower Bucks County.

Qualifications for these grants include high academic achievement; a record of leadership in school, community, or other settings; and evidence of involvement in giving service to others.

Financial need is also a consideration. Rotarians and members of their immediate families are not eligible for these grants.

Application forms and additional information may be obtained from: Charles Vickery 610-932-4167 OxfordRotary7450@ gmail.com.

Lincoln among marching bands chosen for ‘Battle of the Bands’ in Atlanta The votes are in and the lineup is set. Students, alumni and fans from America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) have helped select eight top marching bands to perform at the Honda Battle of the Bands Invitational Showcase, on Jan. 30, 2016, in Atlanta.

For the first time, The Lincoln University will be competing in front of an expected capacity crowd at the Georgia Dome, with a unique display of showmanship, instrumental performances and choreography. The 2016 lineup consists of new and familiar HBCUs, including: Alabama A&M University, Marching Maroon & White (Southwestern Athletic Conference) Alcorn State University, Sounds of Dyn-O-Mite (Southwestern Athletic Conference) Bethune Cookman University, Marching Wildcats (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) Jackson State University,

Sonic Boom of the South (Southeastern Athletic Conference) The Lincoln University (PA), Orange Crush Roaring Lions (Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association) Prairie View A&M University, Marching Storm (Southwest Athletic Conference) South Carolina State University, Marching “101” (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) Tennessee State University, Aristocrat of Bands (Ohio Valley Conference).

The eight bands were selected through a process that included online fan voting, as well as feedback from band directors, HBCU presidents and American Honda representatives. In addition to a $20,000 grant from Honda to support their music education programs, each participating HBCU will receive travel and accommodations to the Invitational Showcase in

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The Orange Crush Roaring Lions from The Lincoln University will be competing in Atlanta on Jan. 30.

Atlanta.

“Honda Battle of the Bands is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that helps HBCU student musicians showcase their talent and discover their greatness, both on and off the field,” said Steve Morikawa, vice president of corporate community relations for American Honda. “Honda is proud to have a longstanding relationship with America’s HBCUs, and is honored that many students consider this event a highlight of their collegiate experience.”

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