March 11, 2010

Pennsylvania State Police are continuing to look for a person of interest in connection with a home invasion in Concord Township in January. According to police, the person used a credit card that belonged to the victim. The incident occurred on Jan. 17.

According to a police report, the three suspects entered a residence on Ivy Mills Road with a shotgun and confronted a female guest at the home who was in the bedroom at the time. They then got the male resident out of the shower and their hands and feet with duct tape before taking cash and credit cards, the report said.

Police say the person of interest used the victim’s credit card at various stores in the tri-state area. He arrived as a passenger at a store in a white colored pick up truck with a ladder rack, the report said.

The suspects are described as follows:

Suspect 1 is a black male between 6 feet and 6 feet 2 inches tall with a thin build and a medium complexion.

Suspect 2 is black male, approximately 5 feet 5inches to 5 feet 6inches. He has a heavy build, dark complexion and had some sort of bumps on his face. He was armed with a shotgun.

The third suspect is a black male, 5 feet ’inches to 5 feet oinches with a thin to medium build and light complexion. He had a short beard.

The three men fled in a Mercury Sable or Ford Taurus, red or maroon in color.

Anyone with any information should contact Tpr. John O’Donnell, Pennsylvania State Police at 484-840-1039.

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Chadds Ford Township supervisors accepted the recommendation of the Historical and Architectural Review Board and granted a certificate of appropriateness for new signs at the Cattie Shack. There is still a bureaucratic hoop to jump, however.

After the board voted 3-0 in favor of the certificate, Code Enforcement Officer Richard Jensen told the applicant, Bill Bondarchuk, that he must still get approval from the Zoning Hearing Board.

Jensen said that the current relief was needed from the zoning board because the current signs, and the ones Bondarchuk wants to put up, don’t conform to code. Going from nonconforming to nonconforming requires consent from the zoning board, but Jensen said there should be no problem in getting the approval.

Once the new signs are up the Cattie Shack will also have a new name, the Old Wooden Market and Deli. Bondarchuk has been planning the name change for months and thought it would happen by late January.

Bondarchuk told the supervisors the signs would have a hardwood floor look and there would be no change in the dimensions or the lighting.

He said he will go before the zoning board in April.

Other business

• Jill Egan, president of the Chadds Ford Civic Association announced the launch of a program to benefit the Brandywine battlefield park. The program is entitled “4 the Love of the Battlefield.” The association is planning four separate fund-raising events for the park.

The events include a special luncheon to kickoff the campaign on April 17 at Outback Steakhouse, in Glen Mills, from noon to 2 p.m. The price is $50 per person. There will then be a golf outing on May 14 at Inniscrone Golf club in Avondale with an afternoon tee time scheduled. This includes lunch at the start and a dinner buffet at the end. Price is $100 per player.

A canoe trip along the Brandywine is planned for June 13 (with a rain date of June 27.) Starting time is 11:30 a.m. Price is $65 per canoe.

The final event is a Blue Rocks baseball game on Aug. 15 at Frawley Stadium in Wilmington at 1:35 p.m. Price is $20 per ticket. Proceeds from these events will go directly to help save the Brandywine Battlefield Park.

• Chadds Ford supervisors now have more formal seating for their meetings. The township is now the owner of a three-section council table. Township manager Joe Barakat said the township got the table for free from Newtown Township Bucks County. All the township had to pay, Barakat said, was $2,100 for moving the table and chairs.

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Health insurance should be mandatory, but it should be through the private sector not government. So said David Holveck, president and chief executive officer of Endo Pharmaceuticals of Chadds Ford.

Addressing members of the Chadds Ford Business Association during a CFBA breakfast meeting at the Chadds Ford Township building March 4, Holveck said the United States should maintain its employer-based healthcare system, that the federal government should not be the healthcare provider.

His view is that the individual state governments should make health insurance mandatory as they now do with automobile insurance, and that the federal government should focus on the economy and the creation of more jobs. Having the federal government address healthcare before the economy is like treating a symptom, rather that a cause, he said.

“The private sector has to bring more people into the healthcare system to defer costs,” he said in a private interview after his talk. “So the idea of carrying mandatory insurance is the best approach. That coupled with the consumer paying more for their co-pays, so they’re more aware of what they’re getting and what it costs them.”

He said he sees no other way of making our healthcare system more affordable or in getting more access for more people. The overall goal he said, is to lower the overall cost and bring more access to healthcare.

“The best approach is more jobs,” Holveck said. “That would go a long way. In light of a sluggish job recovery, then you’re going to have to mandate and put more healthy people into the equation…Anybody who gets out of college or goes into a job, they have to have health insurance like you have to have auto insurance.”

He said the system needs people who will pay into it, but not draw on it.

Holveck added that making insurance mandatory would have to come from the state level because states must have a balanced budget, unlike the federal government.

But Holveck said there’s another step to be taken, a step that would work to reduce the cost of healthcare itself, not reducing the cost of health insurance. That way is through tort reform and doing away with the need to perform tests that are now done for the purpose of avoiding lawsuits.

“One of the ways is to relieve defensive medical issues. If you relieve defensive medical issues, then you can set up more health clinics using non-physicians to be your first line of defense for people who, if we could treat earlier, would avoid more expensive issues later,” Holveck said.

Tort reform and alternative delivery networks would give more people affordable access to health care, Holveck said. He likened the alternative delivery networks to a military triage system where patients see a medic first, then see a doctor only if necessary.

“I don’t have a doctor in every platoon. I have a medic. And that triage system works pretty well,” he said. “…We’re finding, if you can give access earlier, you really do cut the cost of managing a more chronic or critical disease later.”

Holveck became president and CEO of Endo in April 2008. He was previously an executive Johnson & Johnson and with Centacor. He also worked for General Electric, Corning Glass and Abbott Laboratories.

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Members of carpenters’ Union Local 845 of Delaware County are protesting work being done at the former gap store location in Glen Eagle Square in Concord Township.

Council Representative Mike Wells said the union is protesting the Keystone Interior Systems, Inc., one of the contractors for “destruction of area standards.”

Wells said Keystone is a union shop but is paying wages below an area standards agreement.

“There are standards that are set out here. It’s a wage that’s put in throughout the county. Contractors who work out in the area put that in to get a prevailing rate for the area so people [can make] a good living wage,” Wells said.

Wells and others started picketing earlier this week. He said the picketing would continue “for as long as the area standards are being destroyed.”

There was no one available from Keystone at the job site who could comment, nor was there anyone available from Glen Eagle’s management.

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T.R. and Walker are two domestic short hair gray tabby cats that are available for adoption through the Chester County SPCA. T.R. is a 2-year-old spayed female and Walker is a 2-year-old neutered male. T.R. and Walker have formed a special bonded with each other and they would like to find their forever home together. They came to the shelter in January because their owner was moving and could not take them. They enjoy soft pets, a belly rub, and a warm lap to curl up on and after losing a pound or two they may even enjoy being picked up. T.R. and Walker are two very affectionate cats that are now waiting for their new forever home with a responsible care giver who will give them the love and attention they deserve. If you are able to provide that home, visit the Chester County SPCA at 1212 Phoenixville Pike in West Goshen or call 610-692-6113. T.R.’s registration number is 96798341 and Walker’s registration number is 96798340. To look at some of the other animals available for adoption, visit the shelter or log onto www.ccspca.org. 

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