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JULY 20, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXX • NO 24
Bringing The Bounty Of Chester County To Everyone BY FRANCINE FULTON
Four Revolutionary War cannons were recently unearthed by a crew from the French & Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to remove one of the cannons from the ground using a tractor and lifting straps.
Freshly picked cucumbers, radishes, onions, mushrooms, squash, blueberries and more are available to Chester County residents through the Fresh2You Mobile Market operated by the Chester County Food Bank (CCFB). The slogan of the mobile pantry is “Bringing the Bounty of Chester County to Everyone.” The mobile market will be open at sites throughout the county
through Saturday, Nov. 19. The current schedule includes stops at the Coventry Mall in Pottstown, the Phoenixville Senior Center, the Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center, M&T Bank in Honey Brook, Oxford Public Library and Coatesville Masonic Lodge. To view the complete schedule, visit www.chestercountyfoodbank.org, choose “Programs & Education” and then select “Fresh2You Mobile Market.” See Fresh2You pg 4
Unearthing History Four Revolutionary War Cannons Found At Local Nature Preserve by the Friends of Hopewell Furnace discovered after Ray Bentley, a on July 10 at the Hopewell Furnace neighbor and supporter of the our Revolutionary War cannons National Historic Site visitor center. nature preserve, commissioned a cast at historic Warwick Fur- The guest speaker was Jim Moore, a geophysical survey that is used to nace, which were buried in the board member of the trust who wit- detect large iron objects underground for at least 250 years, were nessed the revealing of the cannons ground. Dr. Martin Helmke, a geology recently unearthed by members of firsthand as part of the dig team. He began his talk by providing professor at West Chester Universithe French & Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust. The cannons were information about the trust, which ty, was brought in to help locate the found at the Thomas P. Bentley works to preserve land in northern cannons using a drone. “(People Nature Preserve, located in East Chester County. “Digging out his- ask), ‘How did (you) know where to toric Revolutionary War cannons is dig?’” said Moore. “We did a highNantmeal and Warwick townships. Details of the historic find were not in our mission statement,” he tech magnetic survey. (The) drone picks up magnetic anomalies due to unveiled during a program presented said with a smile. Moore said that iron things that are in the earth. reports indicated the (Helmke) is the one that did the possibility of cannons survey.” Moore showed an aerial view of being buried in the area, citing a report by the workers digging out the first historian and author cannon and then attempting to lift Daniel Graham, who the cannon out of the trench using stated, “During the a tractor. “We were going to lift it 1777 British advance out of the hole with lift wraps - in on Philadelphia, can- theory,” he said. However, the cannons cast at Warwick non was so heavy that the tractor were buried in the was unable to bear the weight. fields next to French “Twice (the) tractor almost fell into Creek to keep them the ditch. So we went with Plan B, from falling into which was to drag it out. It was the only way to get the cannon out of British hands.” the hole,” Moore said. The cannons were Jim Moore presented a program about the cannons
In July of 2019, the Community Courier featured a story about Vietnam veteran David Tillman and his dog, Dakota, a 6-year-old Labrador and pit bull mix, who received assistance from Lucky Dawg Animal Rescue (LDAR). At the time, Tillman was living out of his car and in hotels. Tillman was able to qualify for the Housing and Urban Development Veterans Affairs Support Housing (HUD-VASH)
See Cannons pg 8
See Dakota pg 2
BY FRANCINE FULTON
at Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site.
Manning the Fresh2You Mobile Market are (from left) Eva Soler, Scarlett Universe and Isabella Jenney.
Finding A New Home For Dakota
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