Calm Down & Carry On

Featured … A “History of the 1724 Courthouse” presentation and essays prepared by students from Toby Farms Elementary

School focused upon the theme “The Constitution in Times of Change, Toward a More Perfect Union.” Other students from the Chester Upland STEM School offered oratorical presentations from Frederick Douglass.

Devin D. Holmes, Jr., Princess Jones, Shyanne King, Charm Moore & Adam Salim

WINNERS … Rachelle Bobo & Mariama Kabbah Frederick Douglass … One of America’s pioneering historic figures—fighting for his people’s emancipation through the power of words, faith, and education.

The Program also marked the formal announcement of the American Bar Association’s Outstanding Law Day Activity Award for the Delaware County Bar Association’s 2021 Chester Law Day Program, which featured the moot court arguments of 6th grade students from Chester’s Stetser Elementary School.

Congratulations on this well-deserved achievement! … The American Bar Association names the Delaware County Bar Association’s “Chester, PA Law Day Program” as a recipient of a “Law Day Outstanding Activity Award” for programming efforts related to the 2021 theme: “Advancing the Rule of Law Now.” The program achieved broad outreach to the community, with a substantive understanding of the Law Day theme. The program engaged target audience(s) in meaningful conversations to help foster understanding about the rule of law in our society. The ABA truly commends the bar associations work!

Collaboration” focuses on rebuilding trust in our institutions, respect for one another, and our willingness to collaborate to address the challenges that face our nation.

Have you seen this guy? He can often be found climbing the tree on the corner of 4th and Monroe Streets in Media. What does seeing a white squirrel mean? A white squirrel, a.k.a the albino squirrel, is a mythological creature that symbolizes the coming of change and the need to prepare for it.

White squirrels are also symbolic of good luck and peace because they are rare and the peaceful nature of this species.

MEDIA — First it was fish, now it is squirrels.

September, 2022. Building on the success of a traffic-calming mural “Four Trout” at Third and Jackson Streets in 2021, Media placed a new mural to help slow the speed of traffic with the “Squirrels of Media” at Third and Monroe Streets.

Traffic studies by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission done before and after the fish mural was completed, found the following: • a 35% decrease in the number of cars that did not stop or slow down at the intersection stop signs; • a 13% decrease in roll-throughs, drivers that slowed down but did not come to a stop; • a 32% increase in cars that came to a complete stop at the signs.

The squirrels’ mural celebrates the black, white and gray squirrels that live in the borough, and was created by Tania O’Donnell.

The murals are one of the recommendations of Media’s 2020 Traffic Calming Plan. They have plans for another street mural in 2023 but they do not yet have a location or theme.

The street mural program is a collaboration between Media, the Media Arts Council and Transition Town Media.