Meet the school board candidates

Posted by Press Release on October 15, 2009

The Chester County League of Women Voters
has again partnered with the PTO’s of the Unionville-Chadds Ford School
District to host a “Meet The Candidates Night.” This informational meeting will be held in the auditorium of
the Unionville High School on Thursday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m.

All candidates running for school board
are invited to participate and share their platforms with the public. The audience will have a chance to
write questions on index cards, which will be presented to the League of Women
Voter’s moderator, and asked of all the candidates. There are 5 open seats and
7 candidates running for those seats. The breakdown is as follows:

Region A (East Marlborough and West
Marlborough Townships) – has 4 candidates running for 2
seats. After 8 years of service, current Board President Kathy Brown will not
be seeking re-election. Incumbent Karen Halstead will be running for her second
term. Jeff Hellrung and Keith
Knauss, who previously served on the UCFSD Board of Education, are running and
Vic Dupuis is seeking his first seat on the board.

Region B (Newlin, Pocopson, and
Birmingham Townships) - has 2 candidates running for 2
seats which are currently held by Ed Murray and Therese West, neither of whom
are seeking re-election. The
two candidates running in Region B
are Jeff Leiser, Holly Manzone.

Region C (Chadds Ford, Pennsbury and
Delaware County Townships) – has 1 open seat due to the
recent resignation of long time board member Ed Wandersee. Running for this
seat is Gregg Lindner (board appointed incumbent) and Frank Murphy.