The Movement to hold public meeting, Dec. 10
The Movement Community Development Corporation (CDC) will hold its second and final public meeting on December 10th at 630 PM at the New Life Christian Fellowship 1 South 5th Avenue. The meeting is part of the process of applying for Keystone Communities status with the Commonwealth’s Department of Community and Economic Development.
The CDC is holding public hearings to test the goals and...
Mushroom Farmers to unveil ‘Philly Port Sandwich’ at Pa. Farm Show
Taste the delicious, nutritious new Philly Port Sandwich from Mushroom Farmers of Pennsylvania at the 2020 PA Farm Show.
AVONDALE — After ringing in the New Year, festivities will continue at the 2020 PA Farm Show, January 4-11 in Harrisburg, featuring the state’s number-one cash crop, Pennsylvania mushrooms. Delicious, nutritious and highly versatile, mushrooms feature prominently at America’s...
What To Do: Holiday season kicks into high gear with celebrations in Kennett, Downingtown
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Holiday Light Parade in Kennett
The holiday season will officially arrive in Kennett Square on November 29 when Downtown Kennett Square hosts the town’s annual Holiday Light Parade (Downtown Kennett Square, 610-444-8188, www.historickennettsquare.com).
Festivities begin at 6 p.m. with dance performances by Longwood Dance Studio and the parade scheduled...
What To Do: Thanksgiving? Pshaw. Bring on the Christmas events!
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Longwood Gardens
It’s countdown time for Thanksgiving 2019 and the number of days left is in single digits. And we all know that Thanksgiving is the traditional “unofficial” start of the Christmas holiday season – even though the season commercially “started” when Christmas items were being stocked on stores’ shelves on Labor Day Weekend.
Longwood...
What To Do: 44th Annual Unionville Art Gala
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
A work by Diane Cannon, the featured artist for this year;s Unionville Art Gala.
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, so you know that Christmas-related events will be filling the event calendar over the next few weeks. Fortunately for the traditionalists who would prefer Christmas events to get underway after Thanksgiving, there are several special...
Friends Association receives shoes for kids in need
Tom & Lynn Engle, Sandra Lawson, Claire Engel, Jennifer Lopez, Richard Marinari, Christopher Pawlowski and Christopher Murphy.
WEST CHESTER — Max’s Kicks for Kids (MK4K) is an organization that provides new back-to-school shoes for children in need in Chester County. MK4K was founded by Lynn and Tom Engle in July of this year in honor and memory of their son Max, who passed away in 2018. Max...
US News offers top honors to Wellington at Hershey’s Mill
WEST CHESTER — Benchmark, a human connection company and leading provider of senior living services in the Northeast, today announced that Wellington at Hershey’s Mill, a Benchmark continuing care retirement community in West Chester, Pa., has been selected by U.S. News & World Report as having some of the best skilled nursing and rehabilitation care in the country.
Wellington is recognized...
What To Do: Saluting our veterans
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Valley Forge National Park
Monday is Veterans Day – a special holiday created to honor those who have served the nation as part of United States Armed Forces.
This is the weekend that America celebrates Veterans Day.
Valley Forge National Park (1400 North Outer Line Drive, Valley Forge, 610- 783-1000, www.nps.gov/vafo) is presenting “Artillery Demonstrations”...
Burritt featured speaker at Chesco Libertarian event, Nov. 12
The Libertarian Party of Chester County will host a discussion by Doctor Christopher Burritt next Tuesday. Burritt is a Chester County psychiatrist who will be discussing several topics of interest at the next meeting of the LPCC. Burritt will offer observations and answer questions about well-publicized concerns about opioids, pending approval of Marijuana use (and possible ramifications from a...
DCCC offering accelerated, online courses this winter
Want to get ahead on your education this winter? You can earn credits between semesters through Delaware County Community College’s accelerated Winter Online session. The session is from Monday, December 9 through Thursday, January 9. Registration is open until December 6. New, visiting and returning students are invited to apply.
