Chester County Press 06-17-2020 Edition

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431 students While they condemn the actions that led to the death of

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Avon Grove High School seniors and their families participated in a senior caravan on June 8 to symbolize the final walk of the Class of 2020.

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By Steven Hoffman Staff Writer The Avon Grove School District celebrated the 431 members of the Class of 2020 with a virtual graduation ceremony on June 8.

It was the 92nd annual commencement in the school’s history—and certainly the most unique.

The traditional elements of a commencement—the student speeches, the musical performances, the walk across a stage, the turning of the tassels—were

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all there, even if it took the work of a talented and dedicated group of people involved with AGtv to create the virtual graduation ceremony.

In his address to the Class of 2020, Avon Grove High School principal Scott DeShong expressed how proud he was of the students, specifically mentioning how they handled the last few months when Pennsylvania schools were closed to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The seniors

The London Grove Township Board of Supervisors consulted with township solicitor Kim Venzie for comment and advice on air quality and the installation of 5G wireless facilities at the June 1 meeting, which was live-streamed.

Members of the township’s Environmental Advisory Committee had asked what could be done about air quality concerns, especially those arising from mushroom composting, at several different meetings. Venzie said the committee was especially interested in

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer Two weeks ago, the New York Times released a 9-minute, 31-seond video on social media that reconstructed the events that led to the death of 46-year-old George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn. on May 25 at the hands of officer Derek Chauvin and three of his colleagues who stood idle while Chauvin applied his knee to the neck of Floyd for a period of 8 minutes and 46 seconds, ignoring Floyd’s words, “I can’t breathe.”

To date, the video has been seen 11,432,907 times.

Over the last several weeks, the incident itself

– one piece of footage on a seemingly never-ending loop of video that captures white police officers beating, torturing and killing African American men and women – has ignited a firestorm of worldwide protest, calling for the entire institution of law enforcement to dramatically rewrite its protocol guidelines, revamp its hiring practices -- and in some arguments, be defunded.

When he first saw the raw footage of Floyd’s murder, Kennett Square Police Chief William Holdsworth could not believe what he was seeing.

“I was speechless, and I expected there to be something more that I was

missing in the first seconds I saw it aired, but the more I kept seeing it, the more disgusted I became,” he said.

“It is hard to believe with four officers standing there, this happened. It was mindboggling. I saw policing in its worst light.”

Holdsworth was far from alone in his reaction to Floyd’s death. Chief Gerald Simpson of the Southern Chester County Regional Police Department (SCCRPD) was equally disgusted by what he saw.

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London Grove Township supervisors discuss local air quality and 5G wireless facilities

By Chris Barber Contributing Writer

George Floyd, three local police chiefs say that changes in law enforcement are critical

finding out about controlling the odors in parks and playgrounds.

She said she first had to determine when the permits for the composting operations were issued, and those dates could affect whether they could be regulated.

She said she also consulted the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to see to what extent the township can control air pollution.

She added that she asked if there was any way the township could regulate pollution beyond the state’s regulations.

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Before a crowd of 500 protestors, William Holdsworth, chief of the Kennett Square Police Department, second from right, joined with two of his fellow department members and Chaplain Annalie Korengel in observing a moment of silence for George Floyd at the Black Lives Matter march in Kennett Square on June 1.

La Comunidad Hispana seeks to expand in Oxford A conditional-use hearing to operate a community health center at 14 S. Third Street is set for June 22

By Betsy Brewer Brantner Contributing Writer The Borough of Oxford will hold a conditional-use hearing on June 22 at 7 p.m. to hear the application by La Comunidad Hispana (LCH) to operate a community health center in the former Oxford Sewer Authority building at 14 S. Third Street in Oxford. The current Oxford location at 303 N. Third Street was opened in 2016. That location has been very successful, which

is why they are now looking at a larger building.

Mariana Izraelson, the CEO of La Comunidad Hispana, said, “We are so proud to be able to provide integrated health care, mental health, and social assistance to Oxford. It is an amazing community.

We can’t wait to continue to grow here.”

Once they secure a larger space in Oxford, they will be so much more accessible to the Oxford community.

Many people already walk to their current location,

even in the bad weather.

The new location will be convenient for those who do not have transportation.

One more thing they like about 14 S. Third Street is that it is located in the center of the town.

The new site would allow room to fully incorporate the integrated model of care preferred by LCH. There are so many external factors that affect overall health of a person, such as weight, stress, job loss, unhealthy relationships, that LCH Continued on Page 4A

Lawrence introduces legislation to require ratepayer referendum prior to any proposed sale of Chester Water Authority Ratepayers would have the ability to approve or veto any proposal to sell the Chester Water Authority, according to a new piece of legislation that has been introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

State Rep. John Lawrence, who represents the 13th legislative district that includes most of southern Chester County, introduced the legislation. Elected officials and residents throughout southern Chester County have expressed serious con-

cerns about the potential sale of Chester Water Authority and its assets to a for-profit corporation, because it could result it skyrocketing costs for ratepayers.

“This bill is about consumer protection and giving a voice to people most impacted by any proposed utility sale,” said Lawrence in a statement. “Chester Water Authority provides great water at a reasonable price to ratepayers across southern Chester and Delaware counties. My bill would require the Public Utilities

Commission (PUC) to abide by the results of a customer referendum in any decision surrounding the sale of a public utility, including any proposed sale of the Chester Water Authority.”

The legislation would require ratepayers to approve the sale of a public utility in the Commonwealth. The bill would directly impact any proposed sale of Chester Water Authority by providing ratepayers the ability to approve or veto any proposal to sell the authority.

Rep. Lawrence has

been a leading voice in Harrisburg on the effects of any proposed acquisition of Chester Water Authority.

Earlier this year, Lawrence grilled Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Patrick McDonnell in a House hearing after DEP took a position against CWA in a Delaware County court filing. More recently, Lawrence penned a letter to Department of Economic and Community Development (DCED) Secretary Dennis Davin that blasted the Wolf adminis-

tration for suggesting the City of Chester had ownership of the Chester Water Authority.

Other states, including neighboring New Jersey, require voter input prior to the sale of a publicly managed utility.

The proposal will be introduced shortly as House Bill 2597 and referred to committee. It has also been filed as amendment A06122 to House Bill 1718, which could be considered as soon as the House returns to session.

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Black Lives Matter protest on June 7 in West Grove, where he later addressed a crowd of 300 protestors. “I am still struggling with trying to understand what in God’s name happened that ended this man’s life.

“This man was actually saying, ‘I can’t breathe.’

Where are your heads at, police officers, to hear that, and not render that man aid? It truly, truly distresses me that this is where some pockets of our nation’s law enforcement are right now. I do know that the Minneapolis police department failed horribly.

“Never did I go into work a day in my life knowing that someone was going to die by my hands,” Simpson continued. “I realized every day that I might be in a violent situation and that I would have to react appropriately within my guidelines, but certainly, I never went into my job ever thinking that I would intentionally, negligently and recklessly take someone’s life, such as what we saw in that video. It was horrific.”

At the Kennett Township Board of Supervisors online meeting on June 3, acting Chief Matt Gordon said that Floyd’s death was “murder, pure and simple.”

“To make matters worse, there were three other officers who took no action to save Mr. Floyd, which is by the very definition of our oath, the thing that should have happened immediately after the handcuffs were applied,” he continued.

An industry now on trial While their across-theboard condemnation of the way that George Floyd was killed served as an overlap of similar emotion, the truth is this: Holdsworth, Simpson and Gordon are three of the leading voices of law enforcement in southern Chester County, but in a larger sense are part of an industry whose entire reputation, and some would say future – is now on trial, under the lens of inspection from the people they are hired to protect.

For all three police chiefs, they said that assessing the origins, the triggers and the policies that have led to the deaths of hundreds of African American men and women -- and most recently, 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, who was shot to death by a white officer in Atlanta, Ga. on June 12

– is like waving a deferential cloth of immediate judgment over the entire law enforcement industry.

The only proven answers, Holdsworth said, can be found in how his own department operates -- and how it hires.

When he began his career in law enforcement 23 years ago, Holdsworth said that it was common for as many as 150 applicants to seek one position. As law enforcement continues to come under scrutiny in recent years, however, a career in policing has become less attractive, which has resulted in a shrinking applicant pool, he said.

With respect to the increasingly volatile sentiment that points to loose hiring practices that have allowed too many “bad cops” to funnel their way through the system, these smaller numbers, Holdsworth said, are actually better for the industry.

“You’re keeping a lot of people who don’t need to be in this profession out of the industry,” he said.

The vetting process to become an officer with the Kennett Square Borough Police Department, Holdsworth said, includes written testing, oral exams, physical agility testing, polygraph and psychological exams, an investigation of the applicant’s social media history and an extensive background check, which includes interviews with family members, former employers, friends.

“We have our detectives spend days if not a full week digging and digging on each candidate and going as far back as we can,” he said.

“I don’t know what vetting processes are in place at other agencies. I have heard some horror stories of some candidates who have made it through without being properly vetted, and I do not know why anyone in their right mind would not take the proper procedure that has allowed some officers to have the authority to take away someone’s rights and apply deadly force.

“I do believe over the years problems have not been addressed properly,” he added. “I think our unions are not doing us justice as they defend these officers, which leaves administrations left not being able to properly deal with this issue. You see officers in some of these larger cities who are moved around, or hidden.”

Once an officer is hired in the department, he or she is beholden to follow

its policies and procedures manual, which Holdsworth called a “tool” that he updates regularly. It holds officers accountable for their policing practices, while also providing them with guidance.

It’s also periodically tweaked in response to inhouse incidents, statewide and nationwide policy changes, and sometimes, following events such as the death of George Floyd. On the day after the Floyd murder, Holdsworth updated the “Use of Force” policy to include a carotid restriction to further ban officers from using a choke hold – the application of any pressure to the carotid artery – on anyone who displays physical force or resistance to an arresting officer.

‘What shocks me to the core…’

COVID-19 notwithstanding, 2020 has already been a very trying one for Gordon and his department.

Lydell Nolt, the department’s former police chief, was terminated in February; the township is still reeling from the many charges levied upon former township manager Lisa Moore for allegedly stealing $3.2 million in township funds over the past several years; one full-time officer resigned and one additional officer was injured in an off-duty accident that required surgery, and has not returned to full duty.

Now, in the aftermath of Floyd’s death, Gordon has had to soldier a splintered department forward.

Immediately after the death of Floyd, Gordon sent the departments’ use of force policy to all officers and had them respond that they had reviewed it.

He also shared information listed on a national police network that specified proper guidelines for reacting to such an event.

“The truth is that a lot of what they suggested, we have already done,” Gordon said at the June 3 meeting. “Once handcuffs are on these people, they’re up and moving. We handcuff them, move them to the police vehicle and out of the crisis site. If there is an injury, the EMS is immediately contacted.”

While Gordon said that his department follows proper police protocol and hiring practices, it is crucial for the entire industry to examine how it applies that protocol, and the officers who apply that protocol. A

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Gerald Simpson, police chief for the Southern Chester County Regional Police Department, addressed the 300 protestors who attended the Black Lives Matter march in West Grove on June 7.

major violation of several police departments, he said, stems from police departments not addressing the elephant in the room: post traumatic stress.

“We don’t actually look at our profession and see what it is doing to our members,” he said. “You have to look at the process. Why is [Chauvin] being thrown back into the mix? What shocks me to the core is the one picture where he is kneeling on Mr. Floyd’s neck and looking at the camera, and there is zero emotion. His hands are in his pocket, and he is slowly choking the life out of Mr. Floyd. How does that happen? You have to see that way before the incident.

“I will tell you as a previous police officer for a busy city police department, there are may times that [police officers] feel like they are on an island,” Gordon continued. “No one supports them, the public hates them. The administration hates them. They have no one but themselves. In this particular case, that’s the conversation we need to have so that it doesn’t happen again. If we’re exposing these people to trauma after trauma after trauma, patting them on the head and telling them to go back into it, and something like this happens, we can’t just stop looking at just Derek Chauvin.”

Police defunding?

At the outset of the massive protests that followed Floyd’s death, the slogans both spoken and carried echoed a message of unity, solidarity and an immediate end to racial profiling and discrimination against African Americans by white police officers. While the ferocity of the sentiment has shown no signs of slowing down, a new sentiment has wound its way into the conversation: the defunding of police departments.

While some of those in favor of police defunding believe it is a proper retaliatory measure for the killings of black men and women by white police officers, other supporters say that it will lead to a complete and much-needed overhaul of the justice system and put an end to aggressive policing, especially in cities and towns where there is

a concentrated percentage of African Americans. The money that would normally be used to fund police operations, they argue, should be spent on education, job creation and housing, as well as health intervention, drug rehabilitation and family counseling.

Those who are opposed to defunding believe that it could lead to skyrocketing crime, and a lack of authority and accountability to the law – all of which may greatly compromise the importance of keeping communities safe.

While he hears the justification from both sides, Holdsworth said he does not favor the defunding of police, but agrees that the industry’s failure to improve how it operates is in crucial need of a severe overhaul.

“I don’t say that because of self-preservation,” he said. “I just know how important good policing is, and the areas that it improves across the county, looking past these horrible incidents.

“It’s not about defunding,” Holdsworth added.

“It’s about establishing good reform. How do we make changes to a system that we know has issues?

There also needs to be more accountability for policing out there. I don’t think these incidents represent the other 99 percent of law enforcement, but that one percent is growing.”

To Holdsworth, Simpson and Gordon, the steps that still need to be taken by law enforcement are long and tenuous, but are best found not just by revamping policies, procedures and hiring practices, but by strengthening how police departments engage in the communities they serve.

On June 1, Simpson asked department Chaplain Annalie Korengel – who is also the chaplain for the Kennett Square Police and the Kennett Township Police -- to steer a committee of elected officials, law enforcement officers and local stakeholders to begin open discussions with the public about how the police can do their jobs better.

“It will be communication not just to hear, but to possibly and potentially influence how we do our jobs,” Simpson said. “We are committed to the sincer-

ity behind this work.

“I am never one to kneel for injustice,” Simpson said. “Rather, I am going to stand to support those who are here at this protest. I assure you that our actions will be ferreted out in the days to come. We’re not just words. We are about actions.”

“We routinely partner with our residents, our neighbors, and all of our visitors to collectively work together to improve the quality of life for all of us,” Gordon said.

“If you look at the diversity within our own police department, you will see that well before the social ills that we all face, that we, the Kennett Township Police Department, have endeavored to mirror the community we work in. “[The murder of George Floyd] was disgrace upon our profession, but does it make us better? Yes,” Gordon added. “Does it paint us with the same brush? Maybe to the people who don’t know us, but to the people who do, we’ve already built those bridges.

They know we’re not that guy.”

In advance of the June 1 Black Lives Matter event in Kennett Square that drew 500 protestors, Kennett Square Police Officer J.D. Boyer asked Holdsworth if he could gain permission to kneel at the intersection of State and Union streets, and join with others in a moment of silence. Holdsworth not only gave Boyer permission to do so, but joined him, as did Korengel and Corporal Kenneth Rongaus.

“What we wanted to do was to truly show our community that we are standing in solidarity with them, to say to them that we believe that there was something horribly wrong that took place. It was special to be able to share that with the community, to say, ‘We are the community. We are Kennett Square.’

“As things change, as we see the procedures need to be tweaked, we do so in order to offer the most professional policing as possible,” Holdsworth added. “We’re always trying to better ourselves. We wholeheartedly realize that there is a problem with policing in America, and although we’ll continue to say that it’s probably a very small fraction, it’s there, and none of it is acceptable.

“We are willing to be a part of the solution, and we strive to be a part of that every day as we work with the community and continue to train our officers, in an effort to upgrade our commitment to this community on a daily basis.”

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

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missed out on a lot of special moments—the prom, the final sports season, and the opportunity to gather together as one group to celebrate a traditional graduation ceremony.

DeShong quoted Martin Luther King, Jr., when he said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.”

In her speech, titled “Dear Seniors,” Megan Schleiniger, the class president and valedictorian, talked about how challenging the last few months have been for the seniors—and how they responded to the challenges with resiliency.

“On March 12,” Schleiniger said, “we went to school together for the last time and we didn’t even know it. We thought we had more time.”

Schleiniger said that the seniors could learn something from their younger selves because when they were children they would live each day to the fullest.

They wouldn’t wish away one single day to reach a milestone like graduation.

Yet, as teenagers, many students couldn’t wait for prom or for graduation. She encouraged her classmates to live every day like it was their last day because, just as the seniors didn’t know that March 12 would be their last one together, there are no guarantees about tomorrow.

In her speech, titled “Life’s in the Journey,” senior speaker Eliza Wright augmented some of the valedictorian’s points.

“Milestones are important,” Wright said, “but they don’t define us.”

She explained that, for the graduating seniors, there were many small moments in the journey to graduation that have helped shape their lives and make them who they are today.

“This journey has brought us here tonight,” she said, “to a destination that we longed to reach. What do we have to remember? The journey it took to get here.”

Rachel Donten, the class salutatorian, delivered a speech titled “Only at Avon Grove” that started with her humorously recounting some things that could be experienced “only at Avon Grove.” One example was the pungent smells from the mushroom farms that local

children become accustomed to as they grow up in the community.

Donten went on to say that what really makes Avon Grove special is the great school spirit that the students felt, the plethora of activities that are available to the students, and the supportive teachers and staff who helped the students so much.

“Avon Grove is a unique school indeed,” Donten said. “We wouldn’t be who we are today without attending Avon Grove.

I wouldn’t want to go to school anywhere else. Only at Avon Grove.”

Brisa Luzzi Castro started her speech, “So You Think You Can Graduate,” by identifying one humorous positive to the coronavirus pandemic. Had she been delivering the graduation speech under normal circumstances, with several thousand people in attendance, she might have been a little nervous. But instead she was delivering the speech mostly to an empty room, and there was no need to be nervous.

She talked about how much work it took to reach this milestone moment, and how there were moments— when rushing to complete a project or frantically studying for a test—when they didn’t think they would make it. But they persevered and they made it to the big day.

Hayley Pousson, a senior speaker, talked about how the graduates can take their potential, work hard, and achieve success that can’t even be imagined. Her speech, “The Best is Yet

to Come,” featured several examples of people who achieved great success that didn’t seem possible at the time they were in high school. Michael Jordan got cut from the high school basketball team and used that slight to motivate him.

Pousson went on to explain that Ralph Lauren, the elite fashion designer, grew up in poverty. He never let that stop him from achieving his goals. Steve Jobs took one good technology idea and built a huge business around it. If the graduates learn from these examples, utilize their potential and work hard, then success awaits, Pousson said.

She added, “Believe me when I say, the best is yet to come.”

The virtual graduation ceremony featured each student walking across the stage in their caps and gowns. During the weeks leading up to the event, each senior came to the high school to record their part of the video while adhering to the recommended health and safety guidelines. The video also featured the recognition of seniors entering the military, the traditional changing of the guard for class officers, and musi-

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Seniors and their families traveled together, in their own vehicles, from Avon Grove School District’s elementary campus to its secondary campus, under police and fire escort. Students had an opportunity to see their teachers and administrators one last time before heading off to begin the next phase of their journey.

cal accompaniments that typically take place during Avon Grove High School’s commencement.

The class of 2020 graduation video is available for viewing on the Avon Grove School District website by visiting https:// www.avongrove.org/agtv/ commencement.

Avon Grove is planning to hold an in-person graduation ceremony at the Avon Grove High School stadium on Monday, July 27, as long

as Chester County is classi- finalized. fied as being in the green To contact Staff Writer phase of reopening by July Steven Hoffman, email edi21 so that the plans can be tor@chestercounty.com.

Avon Grove High School seniors and their families participated in a senior caravan on June 8 to symbolize the final walk of the Class of 2020.

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offers a mix of providers and services that are mindful of all issues. LCH staff work as a team to provide health care, behavioral health, and social services. For example, any patient would have access to the social assistance team, which is a group of case workers who help patients with applying for health insurance, getting connected with local community resources like Oxford Area Neighborhood Services Center (NSC) and coordinating specialty appointments and follow-up medical visits. They would finally have room for the whole team to provide services to Oxford residents.

LCH also works with Domestic Violence Center of Chester County (DVCCC). Staff from DVCCC work on-site in their Kennett Square and West Grove locations, and they plan to have a person in LCH’s space in the Oxford office as well. It is important to have someone on location so they can provide as much support as

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she said, referring to the state law that ensures that ordinances adopted by local governments to regulate normal agricultural operations are not in violation of state law. A farm owner can challenge the ordinance if the local ordinance inhibits his or her farm operation.

Venzie said also that the

possible at the moment the support is needed.

LCH was founded in 1973 in Kennett Square, and since then has opened facilities in Oxford and in West Grove. The health centers in Kennett Square and Oxford focus on integrated primary care services as well as chronic care management.

West Grove is a specialty site, housing a dental center, a women’s health center, and pediatrics. Behavioral health is available at all three of the locations. They offer integrated behavioral health, where counseling is a part of a medical visit, out-patient therapy, and psychiatric medication management.

The organization has a long, strong history of serving the community. But a big challenge is to get the message out that LCH is there for everyone.

“LCH was originally founded as a small nonprofit to help the Latino population new to the area, but over the years, as we have transitioned to a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), we as an agency have grown and changed to better serve the

entire community,” said Laura Mackiewicz, brand manager. “We are so proud of our cultural roots, and the rich diversity of the community. We are absolutely here for everyone.”

Mackiewicz works with the local community and media to spread the word about LCH services, and to share the message that LCH welcomes all.

Regardless of insurance status, LCH makes the promise that they can help.

They evaluate everyone to determine if they qualify for discounted services through a sliding fee scale based on income and family size. But no one is turned away due to inability to pay. LCH also accepts Medicaid, Medicare, and most private insurance. LCH caseworkers can also help patients find insurance. When LCH was first founded, there was no Affordable Care Act, and very limited options. The caseworkers help patients understand and apply for an insurance plan that best fits the needs of their family.

LCH has been getting to know Oxford for the last several years through community events like

township could inquire into the actions of other municipalities that had been effective in dealing with composting odors.

“Your township could look at ordinances that have been stronger about composting.

Some have said that Lower Oxford Township did have an ACRE challenge, but [their] provisions in the zoning ordinance that were stronger and more detailed than London Grove Township have been

upheld. … Mandatory air and water sampling doesn’t conflict with ACRE. You could look into ordinances that make them more stringent,” she said.

Venzie added that in order to enforce standards of water and air quality, it is necessary to have the technology to measure them.

She had also been asked in January to investigate and propose responses to the coming installation of facili-

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La Comunidad Hispana Oxford team members (left to right) are Brenda Aviles, member relations specialist, Elaine Kirchdoerfer, MD, physician, and Anna Roosevelt, LCSW, a behavioral health consultant.

Oxford First Fridays. Their outreach team has also partnered with local nonprofits like the Lighthouse and SILO for wellness checks and community programming.

As Mackiewicz

continues to get the word out, she is also excited about getting to know and work with other non-profits and leaders like Oxford Borough mayor Phil Harris.

“We have been hoping to

grow in Oxford for quite a while,” Mackiewicz said.

“We will be reintroducing ourselves and learning how we can all work together to build a strong, healthy community.”

ties to provide 5G wireless capacity.

“Wireless communication is being deployed across the United States, and you have outdated provisions in your ordinances. I looked them up and updated them,” she said.

“About 20 percent of people in Chester County have been approached about putting them in,” she added.

Venzie said she needed to address “small wireless

facilities,” not the big ones on high towers.

“If you don’t have regulations, they can be put anywhere and look however they want,” she said.

She added the township can specifically control appearance and – to some extent – location on their roads, but not on state highways like Route 41, or if the facilities are underground.

She advised members of the board to drive to West

Whiteland Township to see what the poles look like because they are there in great quantity.

Venzie said she was presenting them with a resolution for design guidelines sets forth on what the facilities would look like.

In other business, the supervisors approved a motion to spend $14,800 repairing the driving range netting at Inniscrone Golf Club.

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Opinion Editorial

‘We are all brothers and sisters under the same sun’ In every edition of the Chester County Press, we devote this space to reflect on the ebb and flow news cycle of our community. Occasionally, we take on the largest issues of the world and run them through the prism of their impact on the residents of southern Chester County.

In this editorial, however, we proudly and without hesitation surrender this space to the words of a young woman who spoke at the Black Lives Matter protest in West Grove on June 7 before a stilled and silent audience of 300 peaceful protestors of all colors, all demographics, all persuasions and all beliefs.

Holding a microphone in one hand and the words you are about to read in the other, Satoria Johnson delivered a speech so eloquent, so filled with breathtaking honesty and so powerful in its vision of hope that we feel it needs to be shared with others, so that others may learn.

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I remember being a child and being told by my bi-racial mother, “Tori, throughout your whole life, you will have to work twice as hard as

your friends to get to the same point because of the color of your skin.”

I also remember not understanding and thinking that it was just one of those lectures that all parents give their kids, but as I grew up in a predominantly white community and attended schools in Chester County, I soon realized that what my mother said was true.

The first time that I was called the “N” word with a hard R, I was only 9 years old, and I was in school.

At the time, I didn’t really understand the magnitude of that experience. I didn’t realize how it would bring on a whole childhood of shame about the color of my skin, about the texture of my hair, about the shape of my lips and nose.

Fast forward four years, it was 2008 and this kid on the bus tells me that he bets that I want Obama to win so that my dad can get food stamps and abuse the system, “if I even know him,” he said. My father is a black man that owns multiple successful businesses, has a substantial real estate portfolio, and has been a prominent and successful lawyer for 42 years. He owns his own law firm and has never received welfare, never collected unemployment benefits, and has never lived on the public dime.

I only hope today that the child who made that

statement about my father can boast the same about his dad and himself. At that time, I felt that anger in my heart that makes me understand the pain and frustration that people of color all over the country are currently and consistently feeling.

That was the first time that I was aware of how ignorance thrives in our society. It is now obvious to me from that child’s remarks that those remarks and his feelings about people of color was a learned behavior. This type of ignorance is generational and is usually picked up on from the adults in their lives.

It took me growing up into adulthood in a family full of people of color to consider that what I learned in school for those 10 minutes during Black History Month and the way people of color are presented in the media couldn’t be the full story.

It was not until I was 17 years old that I decided to truly embrace and love my hair and my skin, not for myself but for my beautiful brown daughter -- to love my blackness in front of her, and teach her that she is worthy and perfect the way that she is.

When my daughter was 5, my sister asked her what she wanted for her birthday and she said she wanted “to take off my skin and replace it with white skin.”

Hearing this comment from my daughter at this young and tender age was devastating to me, as it would be to any parent. I hope no other child or parent ever has to deal with a situation as heart shattering as that one. Despite all of my attempts to teach my daughter to love herself, the society that we live in teaches her that she wasn’t enough because of the color of her skin through the Eurocentric idea of beauty that is presented on TV and even in books. *

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My daughter is now 7 years old. The other day, we were having a discussion about racism at dinner in light of the circumstances in the United States and in her sweet, innocent mind, her idea of racism was when people run in races. I had to explain to my daughter that despite the fact that she is such a kind and wonderful human being, there are people in the world that may treat her differently because of the color of her skin and just like that my whole life came full circle.

I want to live in a world where little babies of color don’t have to deal with the spirit- crushing realization that they are viewed differently and will have to work harder to overcome oppression.

There have been plenty

of instances where I have been seen as a threat by strangers for the color of my skin despite the fact that I always choose mercy and value each life on this planet whether human, animal, or bug.

My skin is not a weapon; it is not scary; and it should never be a death sentence People of color are not thugs. We are not dangerous, and we are not second class citizens. We are humans that are full of love and dreams like every other race, culture, or group of beings. I challenge everyone here today to reevaluate what you know about American history. I know that when it comes to the injustices that people of color have faced throughout history, we are often told to “forget about it” because it was “so long ago,” but both of my parents who are alive and here today were alive during the Civil Rights Movement. It was not that long ago. We should not turn a blind eye to the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it makes us.

I think the single stories that we have in our education system are leaving out the portions that teach us about systemic racism that has happened in this country and has created the humanitarian issue that we have today. If we do not know the full history of the past, not just the parts we like or that make us feel comfortable, we are

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I challenge all of you to learn as much as you can about the oppression of people of color that has taken place in this country since its inception and that continues to take place and then demand that our schools teach our children the full story and if they won’t, we need to at home. Then and only then, I believe we will see a new world where we won’t have to mourn over all the George Floyds, Trayvon Martins, Tamir Rices, Breonna Taylors, and Sandra Blands of the world.

We are all brothers and sisters under the same sun, under the same God, and sharing the same home on this beautiful earth. I know that a lot of people say that they’re colorblind but through colorblindness also comes blindness to the systemic and institutional injustices that take place against people of color.

I challenge you today to see color, to value color, and to celebrate the diversity among us.

Color is what makes the world such a beautiful and vibrant place.

Letter to the Editor

Statewide shutdown was excessive Letter to the Editor: Being a Pennsylvanian myself, I know firsthand that Gov. Tom Wolf’s excessive statewide shutdown was trying, tedious, and exhausting.

Millions of Pennsylvanians watched as other states opened their restaurants,

stores, and gyms, while we were barely allowed to pick up groceries. I understand this was for the safety of the people of Pennsylvania, but it raises the question: Did our governor take it too far?

In my opinion, yes he did. A thirteen-week full lockdown is not only unbearable, but feels almost

unconstitutional.

That is an extremely long time for people to be stuck in their houses, and has devastating consequences for small businesses in particular. I wanted to jump up and down with joy when I read that the Pennsylvania Legislature had an almost unanimous vote to overturn

Wolf’s coronavirus state of emergency. I absolutely think that is the right thing to do for the people of Pennsylvania, and it feels so good to have even a small sense of normalcy back.

I feel that Gov. Wolf may have lost the trust of the people of Pennsylvania, and

it may be hard for him to gain it back. I am not saying that what he did is simply wrong, but I do think that extending the lockdown without notice multiple times made people feel hopeless.

Several stores in my hometown of Kennett Square do not look like

they are reopening, and that makes me very sad. I know action was taken in order to prevent even more devastation from COVID-19, but I think Gov. Wolf handled it very poorly and hurt the people of Pennsylvania.

Alison Weldon Kennett Square

Pa. Auditor General’s criminal justice report cites costly death penalty Pa. Auditor General Eugene DePasquale issued a report indicating that the state’s death penalty has cost taxpayers close to $1.06 billion between 1978 and 2018. Of that amount,

half was spent on persons later removed from death row because their sentences or convictions were overturned.

The report shows during that same 40-year period the

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state released six innocent men from death row and executed three men who had given up their rights to appeal. The cost of seeking a sentence of death after a jury returned a different

sentence was $277 million, in Pennsylvania, nearly 24 percent of the total. In other states, including Maryland, Ohio, Kansas, Nebraska, and California, only about one-fourth of individual

cost studies have consistently found that the costs of capital punishment are many times higher than seeking an alternative sentence.

In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Linell Patterson, whose father and stepmother were murdered in Lancaster County, said, “The death penalty is exponentially more expensive than imprisonment for life, and it has been proven that the current system does not deter any more murders than locking up prisoners for life.”

In a bipartisan push to end capital punishment in the state, both the Pennsylvania House and Senate have introduced bills. The AG’s Special Report on Criminal Justice includes recommendations for a series of reforms to improve lives and safety of commonwealth residents.

The death penalty represents our criminal justice system at its worst, according to Ben Waxman, former Director of Communications

for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. “It wastes precious resources while doing nothing to promote public safety.

We should abolish capital punishment and invest the massive savings back into our most vulnerable communities,” said Waxman.

Widener School of Law Professor Akin Adepoju said, “This report establishes that our death penalty system has been a failure.

It is applied more often to people of color and those with mental disabilities, has wasted millions of taxpayer dollars that could instead go to crime victims and crime prevention measures such as mental health services, drug and alcohol treatment, and education-related and community-based programs.

Adepoju believes the death penalty has prevented us from being tough on crime and the causes of crime. He added, “The only thing it does well is waste money, prolong the agony of the victims’ families, and increase the risk of executing an innocent person.”

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Car parade celebrates the Unionville High School Class of 2020 On Monday, June 8, the Unionville High School Class of 2020 participated in a car parade to mark the end to their time at Unionville High School.

The seniors were split into groups to create four separate parades, each one departing from one of the District’s four elementary schools.

The 306 graduates participated in the parade route that started at the elementary school they previously attended.

From there, each parade followed a designated route led by local fire and police departments to the high school and middle school campus, where teachers and staff were

waiting to cheer them one. Families and community members gathered

along the parade routes with signs to cheer on the seniors as they drove by.

The cars were decorated in blue and gold, with some seniors add-

ing a personal touch to their vehicles. It was a fun event and an exciting way

to honor the seniors while following social distancing guidelines.

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The 306 graduates of Unionville High School’s Class of 2020 were honored with a car parade on June 8.

Longwood Gardens and Unionville-Chadds Ford School District promote the importance of horticulture The initiative is called UnEarth It: The Great Debate Eighth graders from Patton Middle School participated in an online debate on May 28 as part of a new joint initiative with Longwood Gardens called UnEarth It: The Great Debate, to raise awareness of the importance of horticulture.

Two teams explored the question, “How do horticulturists help to improve the quality of life in

urban areas?” with Milo Berghouwer taking the top spot. The goal of the project was for the students to research, discuss, and debate horticultural and environmental topics while providing them the opportunity to practice their speaking, teamwork, and debate skills.

“Engaging young people in the importance of horticulture is key,”

said Sarah Cathcart, vice president of education at Longwood Gardens.

“We are thrilled to have worked with UnionvilleChadds Ford School District to raise the profile and understanding of plants among young people and look forward to continuing this partnership in the future.”

“I am very proud of the work our stu-

dents and teachers have done with the inaugural Unearth It: The Great Debate program through the partnership between Longwood Gardens, Patton Middle School, and our Unionville High School Speech and Debate Team,” said Patton Middle School principal Steve Dissinger.

“I would like to also like to give a special thank

you and congratulations to the students for their excellent work and for serving as our pioneers in this new journey.”

Since the district moved to online learning in March as a result of COVID-19, students have been working on the project remotely and presented their projects virtually to a panel of judges which included

Tim Hoffman, director of curriculum and instruction at Unionville-Chadds Ford School District; Matt Taylor, director of research and conservation at Longwood Gardens, and Naman Razdan, Unionville High School student and member of the Speech and Debate Team.

To view a recording of the debate, visit youtu.be/ LCLeIaMHQqg.

Renna Van Oot named new executive director of Family Promise of Southern Chester County Renna Van Oot has been named the executive director of Family Promise of Southern Chester County as the agency expands support services for area families in need. COVID-19 has caused the program to shift its housing model and provide more direct funding to help families remain stably housed and engage volunteers in new ways.

“Our new reality is that more families are at risk of spiraling into homelessness,” said Kim Zuleba, board president. “Family Promise is responding by offering prevention and stabilization services. Renna’s combination of nonprofit leadership experience, operational expertise and strategic planning is welcomed as the demand for our shelter, services and programs

are at an all-time high and we are evolving our longterm support strategy to meet community needs.”

Van Oot has served as an interim executive director with Family Promise since March. Her previous nonprofit leadership includes Big Brothers and Sisters Independence Region, Friends Home, Tressler Center of Delaware, Family Services Association of Holcomb

Behavioral Health and AIDS Delaware. Van Oot received her bachelor of arts degree from the University of Delaware, a J.D. from Delaware Law School and a master of Social Service and a master of Law and Social Policy from Bryn Mawr College. Van Oot resides in Kennett Square.

Family Promise of Southern Chester County is committed to helping

children and their families experiencing homelessness in the Avondale, Kennett Consolidated, Octorara, Oxford, and Unionville-Chadds Ford school districts. Its goal is to help families achieve lasting self-sufficiency and stability by providing comprehensive case management services, as well as shelter and meals through a network of congregations and volunteers

until they find sustainable housing. Family Promise of Southern Chester County is part of a national, nonprofit initiative founded in 1988 with more than 200 affiliates across the U.S. To volunteer, make a donation, or provide services, please contact Family Promise of Southern Chester County at www.familypromisescc.org or ED@ familypromisescc.org.

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Obituaries JOHN L. FERGUSON The Reverend John L. Ferguson, a resident of Ware Presbyterian Village in Oxford, passed peacefully on June 9. He was 87.

“Jack,” as he was lovingly known, was born on June 21, 1932 in Colerain Township in Lancaster County. He was the son of the late T. Walter and Zeeda (Hess) Ferguson. Jack’s wife, the late Valaria (Herr) Ferguson, passed in June 2017.

He is survived by three children, daughters: Elaine and Ellen of Asheville, N.C. and a son, Kirk Ferguson (and his wife Mary Jo) of Kirkwood, along with grandchildren, Robyn Ferguson and Megan (wife of Mike Sirera).

He was preceded in death by his five siblings, Louis, Evelyn, Thomas, Aileen, and Alma.

Jack was a graduate of Lincoln University and the Lancaster Theological Seminary.

He was pastor emeritus of the Unionville Presbyterian Church. Jack and Valaria served this Chester County community from 1955 to 1996. After retirement, he served other churches in the Donegal Presbytery in various capacities.

Interment will be private in the Union Cemetery. Life celebration services will be announced at a later date in the newspaper and at www.dewalds.com.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Joy Ranch at www.Joyranch.org.

To sign the online guestbook, please visit www.dewalds. com.

DAVID C. THOMAS David C. Thomas, a resident of Little Britain, passed away while surrounded by his family at his home on June 7. He was 78.

Dave was born on June 8, 1941 in Twin Oaks, Pa. to the late Clyde and Addie (Lord) Thomas.

He is survived by his wife of 58 years, MaryAnn (Bard) Thomas.

Dave was a graduate of Oxford High School and served in the United States Navy from 1959 to 1965.

He was active in fire protection all of his life, having his own fire protection business for more than 25 years. He went on to work for and retire from Marco Fire Suppression.

A lifetime member of Union Fire Company in Oxford and a past member of Robert Fulton Fire Company, he held many roles, including Fire Chief for a number of years. He was an active member of Washington Lodge #156 F.&A.M. in Quarryville and Zembo Temple Shriners. Dave was also a 30-year member of Brookland Hunting and Fishing Club and a past member of the Wakefield Lions Club.

Dave enjoyed his years in the fire protection field and was a huge advocate for fire prevention all of his life. He valued the time he spent with his family and friends. When not at home, he enjoyed spending time at the family camp in Potter County. He loved the mountains and was an avid hunter and fisherman.

In his later years, he enjoyed watching his grandson’s baseball games, rarely missing one.

David is survived by two sons, David Jr. (Michelle) of Little Britain and Joshua (Paula) Thomas of Little Britain. He is survived by three grandchildren, Ben Thomas, Brooke Thomas and Brady Thomas. He is also survived by two brothers, William of Nottingham and Allen of Rising Sun, Md. Dave was preceded in death by three siblings, Lois Perry, Janet Jones, and Merle Thomas.

A private funeral service will be held at Dewald Funeral and Cremation Services, 227 West Fourth Street, Quarryville.

Interment will be in the Cochranville Methodist Cemetery.

Memorial Contributions may be made to Hospice Community Care, P.O. Box 4125, Lancaster, PA 17604.

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CHARLES CLAYTON PEAK Charles “Shorty” Clayton Peak, a resident of Landenberg, passed away on June 8 after a long battle with cancer. He was 76.

At the time of his passing, he was surrounded by his three loving daughters and he had seen his grandchildren and great-grandchildren the day before. He had lived in his home in Landenberg since 1949.

He was born July 30, 1943 in West Chester, Pa. to Ruby Dale Loggins Peak and Fitzhugh Lee Peak.

He enjoyed hunting, fishing, crabbing, bowling, punch embroidery, painting, volleyball, horseshoes, and playing corn hole. He loved planting a large vegetable garden each year to share with family and everyone he met. He enjoyed spending time with his family, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and his various animals including two chicks he raised from eggs. One of his greatest joys was having family and friends over for outdoor gatherings and cookouts.

He was a member of the Future Farmers of America, and in 1972 he won the Silver Trap Shooting Trophy from Avon Lake Club, shooting a 98 out of 100. He was a longstanding member of the Loyal Order of Moose Lodge No. 851 in Elkton, Md. since 1993.

During his lifetime he had worked for Chrysler Corporation in Newark for 31 years, Ben Stoltzfus Plumbing and Heating, and Bill Worth Electrical and Plumbing.

Charles is survived by his daughters, Janette Benner (Chad), Karen Smith, and Larraine Campbell (Charles); granddaughters, Cheyenne Smith and Alexis Campbell; grandsons Cameron Smith, Gabriel and Ryan Benner, and Charles Campbell II; great-granddaughter Paige Smith; great-grandsons, Nathaniel Boyce, Aaron Smith, Frederick Worden IV and loving lifelong friend and ex-wife, Kathleen Peak.

He is predeceased by his parents Ruby and Fitzhugh Peak; brother, James Peak; and grandson, Joshua Smith.

There will be a private viewing at Foulk Funeral Home, 200 Rose Hill Road in West Grove and a private burial at the Kemblesville United Methodist Church Cemetery.

There will be a public Celebration of Life when it is appropriate.

In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to the Moose Lodge No. 851, Loyal Order of the Moose, P.O. Box 328, Elkton, MD 21922, In memory of Charles Peak.

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Local News Despite closures across the state, one State Senate office answers the call Marie Henry, Office Administrator for the Office of State Senator Andy Dinniman, takes hundreds of live calls per week “And remember, even if your questions weren’t answered this evening, there’s always a number you can call,” State Senator Andy Dinniman said at the end of his May 21 telephone town hall. “Marie will always be there to take your call.”

This line has marked the end of the past few telephone town halls hosted by Dinniman this month, and with reason: Marie Henry, his office’s administrator, is always ready to answer the constituent calls coming through.

After closures throughout the county and state,

Dinniman asked if any members of his office would be able to continue taking calls. Marie was quick to volunteer.

“Marie receives anywhere from 50 to 100 calls per day, ranging from questions on unemployment and voting, to concerns about small businesses,” Dinniman said.

“She is a true asset to our county and state, and I am so thankful she’s working for our constituents.”

The gratitude isn’t just from Dinniman, either.

One caller on the May 21 town hall stated that the Office of State Senator

Andy Dinniman was the only place where “I don’t have to talk to a robot.”

When this all started, Marie volunteered to attend to the phones in the office almost single-handedly, and has been doing so since mid-March. Over the past two months, she surmises that she’s taken thousands of calls.

“The first thing I hear when answering the call is relief,” Marie said in a telephone interview. “They’ll usually say something like, ‘Oh, it’s a live person!’ If they leave a voicemail, I will call them back. It’s always a

mix of a surprise and relief.”

On a given day, Marie will tackle questions ranging from unemployment compensation, to small business waivers, to timelines for reopening the county and state. More than the state assistance, however, she provides an ear.

“Sometimes, people just need a live person to talk through these issues. That’s part of the reason why I’m still taking calls – not just to help them, but to hear them.”

She urged anyone facing Courtesy photo these issues, or other state- Marie Henry, the office administrator for the Office of related issues, to call the State Senator Andy Dinniman, takes hundreds of live office at 610-692-2112. calls per week.

New Garden to serve as new donation site for KACS’ Food Cupboard

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer For those residents of Chester County who are looking to make donations of food to the Food Cupboard at Kennett Area Community Service (KACS), they will have a new drop-off location for the next five months – at the New Garden Township Building on Starr Road in Landenberg.

At its June 15 online meeting, the New Garden Township Board of Supervisors approved using the lower level of the building to store and inventory the food that community members will drop off in the building’s parking lot. Donations will be accepted there every

Tuesday between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., beginning on July 7 and ending in December.

In speaking to the board, KACS Executive Director Leah Reynolds said that before COVID-19 hit, 90 percent of the food available for distribution came from donations. During the first week of March, as the alarms first sounded about the pandemic, donations began to dry up, and soon after, Reynolds had to suspend the 75 volunteers who had helped secure food donations from stores and residents in the Kennett Square community.

Beginning in April, a citizen-led food drive at the Kennett Area YMCA collected over 60,000 pounds of food over 20 collection

periods. Reynolds said that the request to relocate the drop-off site to New Garden is because the YMCA needs to use their gymnasium in order to conduct socially distant summer programs.

“Since March 13, we’ve had about 5,300 people visit the Food Cupboard because of the pandemic,” Reynolds said. “This health crisis is quickly becoming a hunger crisis. Our Emergency Assistance Program has helped about 300 families to the tune of about $233,000 in assistance to help them pay for rent, utilities and other life expenses.”

KACS’ food donation process at the New Garden Township Building will collect food in the same fashion as had been conducted at the

YMCA. Donors will arrive at the location after having stored their donation in their trunk, and volunteers will remove the food from the trunk and add it to the Food Cupboard’s inventory for distribution to needy families.

In other township business, the board approved the selection of four houses in the township to be included in the township’s historic resources inventory and map. Two of the selected properties are located at 1 Altemus Drive and 1610 Yeatman’s Station Road, while the others are owned by the township: the Lyceum House, located in New Garden Township Park, and a farmhouse that is situated in St. Anthony’s

in the Hills.

Bob Wise, an architectural historian with Richard Grubb & Associates in Cranbury, N.J., told the board that he had been retained by the township to conduct an architectural survey of all five properties and ascertain whether they met the two or more of the four criteria for consideration to be included in the inventory.

In order to be considered for historical significance in the township, Wise said that a house must be constructed on or before Jan. 1, 1940; it must have significant character, interest or value as an example of development, heritage or historic character of the township; it must reflect the environment in an era of history

characterized by a distinctive architectural style; and it must embody the distinguishing characteristics of an architectural style and engineering specifications.

Based on Wise’s recommendations, one additional home that had been considered for the list – 1511 Yeatman’s Station Road – was not chosen to be among those properties to be included in the inventory and map. An attorney for the homeowners later told the board that the couple who owns the house did not wish to have their property considered for inclusion on the list.

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

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ESTATE NOTICE

Estate of Elizabeth G. Hershey Late of West Fallowfield Township, PA, LETTERS TESTIMENTARY on the above Estate have 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 payment without delay to, J. Robert Hershey and William E. Hershey, Jr. Executors, Or Attorney: : Ira D. Binder, 227 Cullen Rd, Oxford, PA 19363 6p-3-3t

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PENN TOWNSHIP ZONING HEARING BOARD NOTICE is hereby given that the Zoning Hearing Board of Penn Township will hold a Public Hearing at the Penn Township Municipal Building, 260 Lewis Road, West Grove, Pennsylvania, on June 25, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. at which time the Board will hear the following matter: Application of NVR, Inc., equitable owner, seeking a variance from the thirty-foot rear yard set back requirements of (former) Penn Township Zoning Ordinance section 1302.H.3 so as to permit the construction of singlefamily dwellings on up to 73 previouslyapproved individual building lots, with encroachments of six (6’) feet, resulting

in rear yards of open space on property located at 1015 West Baltimore Pike, West Grove, PA (UPI #58-3-17.3) in the Township’s C-I Community Institutional Zoning District.

If you are a person with a disability and wish to attend the public meeting scheduled above and require an auxiliary aide, service or other accommodation to participate in the proceedings, please contact the Township Secretary at (610) 869-9620 to discuss how Penn Township may best accommodate your needs. Edward M. Foley, Solicitor, Brutscher, Foley, Milliner, Land & Kelly, LLP, 213 E. State Street, Kennett Square, PA 19348 6p-10-2t

ESTATE NOTICE

Estate of Ellen M Vetter, Late of Downingtown, East Brandywine Township Chester County, PA, LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the above Estate have 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 payment without delay to George E Vetter, III 115 Constitution Dr Downingtown, PA 19335 , Executor.

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ESTATE NOTICE

ESTATE OF LEROY A. KOLB, DE-

CEASED. Late of Spring CityTownship, Chester County, PA, Notice is hereby given that, in the estate of the decedent set forth above, the register of Wills has granted LETTERS TESTAMENTARY 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 payment without delay to Sara L. Kolb Executrix, C/O 15N. Spruce St., Lititz, PA 17543, Or Attorney: Timothy E. Shawaryn, Esq. Legacy Law, PLLC, 15N. Spruce St., Lititz, PA 17543 6p-17-3t

ESTATE NOTICE

Estate of JESSE L PENNYPACKER, JR,. Deceased, Late of Westtown Township, Chester County, PA, LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the above Estate have 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 payment without delay to Connie Kvech , Executor, Or Attorney: David A. Peckman, Peckman Chait LLP, 29 Mainland Rd. Harleysville, PA 19438 6p-17-3t

PUBLIC NOTICE OF MUNICIPAL ADOPTION

NEW GARDEN TOWNSHIP NOTICE IS GIVEN pursuant to Section 108 of the Municipalities Planning Code that on June 15, 2020, the Board of Supervisors of New Garden Township adopted Ordinance No. 242 as follows: AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWNSHIP OF NEW GARDEN, CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, AMENDING THE NEW GARDEN TOWNSHIP HISTORIC RESOURCES MAP AND OFFICIAL LIST, AS AUTHORIZED IN CHAPTER 200 OF THE TOWNSHIP CODE, BEING THE ZONING ORDINANCE, BY ADDING CERTAIN PROPERTIES AS HISTORIC RESOURCES. EFFECTIVE FIVE (5) DAYS FROM ENACTMENT. BE IT ENACTED AND ORDAINED by the Board of Supervisors of New Garden Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and it is hereby ENACTED and ORDAINED, that the Historic Resources Map and Official List, as authorized in Chapter 200 of the New Garden Township Code of Ordinances, being the Zoning Ordinance, are amended as follows: Section 1. The Historic Resources Map and Official List of New Garden Township, as authorized by Chapter 200 of the New Garden Township Code of Ordinances being the New Garden Township Zoning Ordinance, Article XXI, Historic Preservation, §200-168, Map Created; Classification of Historic Resources; Revisions, attached as Exhibit A, are amended to add the following properties: -6750 Limestone Rd., New Garden Township, UPI:60-6-44.1, Description : House -1610 Yeatmans Station Road, New Garden Township, UPI: none, Description: House -1 Altemus Drive, New Garden Township, UPI: 60-7-4, Description: House -8936 Gap Newport Pike, New Garden Township, UPI: 60-3-243.6, Description: Lyceum House Section 2. This O rdinance shall become effective five (5) days after enactment.

The ordinance and its exhibit are available for public inspection and copying at the Township municipal building during normal business hours. For further information, please contact Ramsey Reiner, Township Manager (610-268-2915).

This publication is intended to provide notification of the passage of Ordinance No. 242 and that any person claiming a right to challenge the validity of the decision must bring a legal action within 30 days of the second publication of this notice. Any appeal or action contesting the validity of the decision shall be dismissed, with prejudice, as untimely if not filed by the 30th day following the second publication of this notice.

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Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writs directed to Sheriff Fredda L. Maddox, the herein-described real estate will be sold at public sale in the Chester County Justice Center at 201 W Market Street, 3rd Floor, Room 3300, West Chester, Pennsylvania, as announced

on Thursday, June 18th, 2020 at 11AM. Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file with the Prothonotary and in the Sheriff’s Office, both located in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 W Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Schedules of Distribution on Monday, July 20th, 2020. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedules unless exceptions are filed in the Sheriff’s Office within ten (10) days thereafter SALE NO. 20-6-285 Writ of Execution No. 2019-07887 DEBT $94,901.49 Property situate in the NEW LONDON TOWNSHIP, CHESTER County, Pennsylvania BLR # 71-2-68.6S IMPROVEMENTS thereon: Residential Dwelling PLAINTIFF: Ditech Financial LLC VS DEFENDANT: Glenn R. Koch

ing to a survey made by George E. Regester, Jr, & Sons, Inc., Registered Surveyors, dated 1 l /13/84, as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at a point on the title line in the bed of Public Road L.R. 13I, known as Baltimore Pike, said point being the Northwesterly comer of other land now or late of Achille Ciarrocchi and the Northeasterly comer of the about to be described lot; thence from said point of beginning and extending along said other lands the two following courses and distances: (I) South 14° 25’ 30” East, 16.50 feet to a point; (2) South 21° 29’ 46” East, 155.79 feet to a point in line of lands now or late of James D. Bertrando; thence extending along said land of Bertrando, South 64° 49’ 38” West, 95.80 feet to a point, a comer of lands now or late of Donald C. Sassaman; thence extending along said lands, North 14° 25’ 38” West, 175 feet to a point in the aforementioned bed of L.R. 131; thence extending through the bed of said road, North 64° 49’ 30” East, 70 feet to the first mentioned point and place of BEGINNING. BE the contents what they may.

SALE ADDRESS: 118 Thames Drive, Lincoln University, PA 19352-1315 PLANTIFF ATTORNEY: PHELAN HALLINAN DIAMOND & JONES, LLP 215-563-7000 N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of sale. Payment must be paid in cash, certified check, or money order made payable to the purchaser or “Sheriff of Chester County”. The balance must be made payable to “Sheriff of Chester County” within twenty-one (21) days from the date of sale by 4PM. FREDDA L. MADDOX, SHERIFF 5p-27-3t

Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writs directed to Sheriff Fredda L. Maddox, the herein-described real estate will be sold at public sale in the Chester County Justice Center at 201 W Market Street, 3rd Floor, Room 3300, West Chester, Pennsylvania, as announced on Thursday, June 18th, 2020 at 11AM. Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file with the Prothonotary and in the Sheriff’s Office, both located in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 W Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Schedules of Distribution on Monday, July 20th, 2020. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedules unless exceptions are filed in the Sheriff’s Office within ten (10) days thereafter.

SALE NO. 20-6-293 Writ of Execution No. 2020-00415 DEBT $161,453.28 ALL THAT CERTAIN land situate in New Garden Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, bounded and described more particularly accord-

BEING known as 1534 Baltimore Pike, Toughkenamon, PA 19374 BEING THE SAME PREMISES which Achille Ciarrocchi, by Deed dated 11/19/1984 and recorded 11/21/1984 in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for Chester County in Deed Book 64, Page 444, granted and conveyed unto Richard A. Sydenstricker.

PARCEL NO.: 60-1Q-3 IMPROVEMENTS thereon: Residential Dwelling PLAINTIFF: Citizens Bank, N.A. S/B/M to Citizens of Bank of Pennsylvania VS DEFENDANT: Richard A. Sydenstricker SALE ADDRESS: 1534 Baltimore Pike, Toughkenamon, PA 19374 PLANTIFF ATTORNEY: LAW OFFICE OF GREGORY JAVARDIAN, LLC 215942-9690 N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of sale. Payment must be paid in cash, certified check, or money order made payable to the purchaser or “Sheriff of Chester County”. The balance must be made payable to “Sheriff of Chester County” within twenty-one (21) days from the date of sale by 4PM. FREDDA L. MADDOX, SHERIFF 5p-27-3t

Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writs directed to Sheriff Fredda L. Maddox, the herein-described real estate will be sold at public sale in the Chester County Justice Center at 201 W Market Street, 3rd Floor, Room 3300, West Chester, Pennsylvania, as announced on Thursday, June 18th, 2020 at 11AM.

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Chester County Press

Local News State establishes $225 million grant fund to help small businesses

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer For those small businesses in Chester County who are feeling the financial sting of the global pandemic, help will soon be on the way from Harrisburg.

In partnership with the 17-member Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) network and lawmakers, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf recently announced the launching of a $225 million statewide grant program that will go to support small businesses throughout the state that have been impacted by the COVID-19 public health crisis and the subsequent business closure order.

CDFI is a group of 17 Pennsylvania-based community development financial institutions that primarily provide financing options for small businesses.

The fund will be distributed through the recently enacted state budget, which includes $2.6 billion in federal stimulus funds through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act -of which $225 million was earmarked for relief for small businesses.

The Department of

Community and Economic Development (DCED) will distribute the funds to the CDFIs, which will then administer the funding to businesses as grants. Under the grant program’s guidelines, eligible businesses will be able to use the grants to cover operating expenses during the shutdown and transition to re-opening, and for technical assistance including training and guidance for business owners as they stabilize and re-launch their businesses.

The funds will be available through three programs: • $100 million for the Main Street Business Revitalization Program for small businesses that experienced loss as a result of the governor’s March 19, 2020 order relating to the closure of all non-life-sustaining businesses and have or will incur costs to adapt to new business operations related to COVID-19; • $100 million for the Historically Disadvantaged Business Revitalization Program for small businesses that experienced loss as a result of the business closure order, have or will incur costs to adapt to new business operations related to COVID-19, and in which socially and economically disadvantaged individuals own at least a 51 percent

interest and also control management and daily business operations.

• $25 million for the Loan Payment Deferment and Loss Reserve Program, which will allow the CDFIs the opportunity to offer forbearance and payment relief for existing portfolio businesses that are struggling due to the impact of COVID, as well as shore up the financial position of the CDFIs that are experiencing significant increased defaults in their existing loan portfolios.

“As we continue to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and shift our focus toward reopening our commonwealth, we need to help all Pennsylvanians recover. We need to provide assistance for those who were hurt by the pandemic and the resulting economic downturn,” Gov. Wolf said. “This new program will provide direct support to impacted businesses to cover operating expenses during the shutdown and the transition to reopening.”

“I have spoken with many business owners in my district, and the bottom line is that they want to work, they don’t want assistance, but hopefully this grant program will help bridge expenses,” said Rep. Christina Sappey (D) of the

158th legislative district.

“It’s important to note that this is not a huge pot of money. It will go fast so I strongly encourage small business owners to apply.”

“We are certainly appreciative of the Governor’s efforts to continue to offer funding opportunities to our small businesses that have been incredibly impacted by COVID-19,” said Christine Grove, Executive Director, Oxford Area Chamber of Commerce. “To date, our hair salons, gyms and dance academies, to name just a few, have been shuttered for almost three months.

“The Main Street Business Revitalization and Historically Disadvantaged Business Revitalization programs will provide the much needed funding and might just be the difference in a business being able to survive the pandemic. This round of funding will be administered a bit differently in that the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) will be administering the grants.

“Our small business are looking forward to the opportunity to apply and receive these new grants.

These small business owners, who are our friends and neighbors are ready to safely open and welcome customers back to their

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf recently announced the launching of a $225 million statewide grant program that will go to support small businesses throughout the state that have been impacted by the COVID-19.

businesses.”

484-200-8264.

Those business owners seeking additional inforTo contact Staff Writer mation about the program Richard L. Gaw, email can call Rep. Sappey at rgaw@chestercounty.com.

The Pennsylvania Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Network is a group of 17 Pennsylvania-based community development financial institutions that primarily provide financing options for small businesses. Those CDFIs serving businesses in Chester County are: Beech Capital Enterprise Center Capital Entrepreneur Works First Fund Neighborhood Progress Fund Reinvestment Fund United Bank West Philadelphia Financial Services Institution Women’s Opportunities Resource Center

Legals Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file with the Prothonotary and in the Sheriff’s Office, both located in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 W Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Schedules of Distribution on Monday, July 20th, 2020. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedules unless exceptions are filed in the Sheriff’s Office within ten (10) days thereafter.

SALE NO. 20-6-300 Writ of Execution No. 2019-10091 DEBT $201,116.12 Property situate in the PARKESBURG BOROUGH, CHESTER County, Pennsylvania BLR # 8-7-13 IMPROVEMENTS thereon: Residential Dwelling PLAINTIFF: CitiMortgage, Inc. VS DEFENDANT: Kelly D. Taylor & Brian K. Taylor SALE ADDRESS: 707 8th Avenue, a/k/a 707 Eighth Avenue, Parkesburg, PA 19365-1326 PLANTIFF ATTORNEY: PHELAN HALLINAN DIAMOND & JONES, LLP 215-563-7000 N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of sale. Payment must be paid in cash, certified check, or money order made payable to the purchaser or “Sheriff of Chester County”. The balance must be made payable to “Sheriff of Chester County” within twenty-one (21) days from the date of sale by 4PM. FREDDA L. MADDOX, SHERIFF 5p-27-3t

Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writs directed to Sheriff Fredda L. Maddox, the herein-described real estate will be sold at public sale in the Chester County Justice Center at 201 W Market Street, 3rd Floor, Room 3300, West Chester, Pennsylvania, as announced on Thursday, June 18th, 2020 at 11AM. Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file with the Prothonotary and in the Sheriff’s Office, both located in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 W Market Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Schedules of Distribution on Monday, July 20th, 2020. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedules unless exceptions are filed in the Sheriff’s Office within ten (10) days thereafter.

SALE NO. 20-6-303 Writ of Execution No. 2019-11591 DEBT $161,689.99 ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PIECE OF GROUND SITUATE IN SADSBURY TOWNSHIP, COUNTY OF CHESTER, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED ACCORDING TO A PLAN OF THE MEADOWLANDS, MADE BY JOHN D. STAPLETON, 111, REGISTERED LAND SURVEYOR, COATESVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, DATED 1/17/1989

AND LAST REVISED 4/17/1989 AND RECORDED IN CHESTER COUNTY AS PLAN NO. 9396, AS FOLLOWS, TO WIT: BEGINNING AT A POINT ALONG THE WEST SIDE OF THE ULTIMATE RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF COMPASS ROAD (T-348), SAID POINT ALSO BEING THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LOT NO. I AS SHOWN ON SAID PLAN; THENCE EXTENDING ALONG THE ULTIMATE RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF COMPASS ROAD (T-348), THE TWO FOLLOWING COURSES AND DISTANCES,(1) SOUTH 44 DEGREES 55 MINUTES 55 SECONDS EAST, 174.25 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; AND (2) ON THE ARC OF A CIRCLE CURVING TO THE RIGHT, HAYING A RADIUS OF 250 FEET, THE ARC DISTANCE OF 36.77 FEET TO A CORNER OF LOT NO. 3; THENCE EXTENDING ALONG SAME, SOUTH 64 DEGREES 18 MINUTES IO SECONDS WEST, 368.75 FEET TO A POINT ALONG LOT NO. 5; THENCE EXTENDING ALONG SAME AND ALONG LOT NO. 6, NORTH 30 DEGREES 23 MINUTES 05 SECONDS WEST, 200.67 FEET TO CORNER OF LOT NO. 1; THENCE EXTENDING ALONG SAME, NORTH 64 DEGREES 18 MINUTES 10 SECONDS EAST, 318.22 FEET TO THE FIRST MENTIONED POINT AND PLACE OF BEGINNING. BEING LOT NO. 2 AS SHOWN ON SAID PLAN. CONTAINING 1.583 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS. TAX MAP AND PARCEL NUMBER: 37-1-17.2 PLAINTIFF: TIAA, FSB VS DEFENDANT: Brian J. Madonna and Deanne M. Madonna SALE ADDRESS: 421 Compass Road, Parkesburg, PA 19365 PLANTIFF ATTORNEY: McCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 215790-1010 N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase money must be paid at the time and place of sale. Payment must be paid in cash, certified check, or money order made payable to the purchaser or “Sheriff of Chester County”. The balance must be made payable to “Sheriff of Chester County” within twenty-one (21) days from the date of sale by 4PM. FREDDA L. MADDOX, SHERIFF 5p-27-3t

Sheriff Sale of Real Estate

By virtue of the within mentioned writs directed to Sheriff Fredda L. Maddox, the herein-described real estate will be sold at public sale in the Chester County Justice Center at 201 W Market Street, 3rd Floor, Room 3300, West Chester, Pennsylvania, as announced on Thursday, June 18th, 2020 at 11AM. Notice is given to all parties in interest and claimants that the Sheriff will file with the Prothonotary and in the Sheriff’s Office, both located in the Chester County Justice Center, 201 W Market Street, West Chester, Penn-

sylvania, Schedules of Distribution on Monday, July 20th, 2020. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedules unless exceptions are filed in the Sheriff’s Office within ten (10) days thereafter.

SALE NO. 20-6-304 Writ of Execution No. 2016-11103 DEBT $321,620.11

Proper t y situa te in the EAST WHITELAND TOWNSHIP, CHESTER County, Pennsylvania 19355

VS DEFENDANT: Rodney V. Nutt SALE ADDRESS: 37 Deer Run Lane, Malvern, PA

BLR # 42-4K-52 IMPROVEMENTS thereon: Residential Dwelling

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

PLAINTIFF: Wells Fargo Bank, NA

N.B. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase

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money must be paid at the time and place of sale. Payment must be paid in cash, certified check, or money order made payable to the purchaser or “Sheriff of Chester County”. The balance must be made payable to “Sheriff of Chester County” within twenty-one (21) days from the date of sale by 4PM. FREDDA L. MADDOX, SHERIFF 5p-27-3t

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