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Police log Nov. 11

• Jake’s Hamburgers, on Route 202 in Concord Township, was
the scene of an attempted robbery shortly after 8 p.m. on Nov. 8. Police are
looking for two black men, both described as 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10
inches tall, wearing all black with black face masks who were carrying
shotguns, a report said. Police said the two employees in the shop at the time
were able to lock themselves in a back room. No injuries were reported.
According to the report, police responded to a 911 hang up at 8:12 p.m. Two
minutes later another 911 call came in from one of the employees saying two men
with shotguns were trying to rob the store. Suspects had broken out a window to
gain entry. Delaware State Police aided in the initial search of the area, but
the suspects had fled. The investigation is continuing.

• Two women were arrested for retail theft at the Marshal’s
Department Store in Concord Township Nov. 9. According to a state police
report, Ebony Lee Hargrow, 25, and DaJuana Diane Craig, 20, both of Wilmington,
were apprehended outside the store in the Concordville Town Center. Police said
both have previous retail theft convictions and were being held in lieu of
$10,000 bail. Hargrow reportedly stole $27.98 worth of merchandise and Craig
stole $24.97 worth. A hearing has been set for Nov. 18 before Judge Richard
Cappelli.

• Two heaters were stolen from a garage on Tally Ho Drive in
Chadds Ford Township sometime between 9 a.m. an 1 p.m. on Nov. 9. A poli9ce
report said the perpetrator(s) gained entry through an unlocked window on the
side of the garage. Anyone with information is asked to call the state police
at 484-840-1000.

• Gary Thomas Kemmerer, 58, of Kennett Square, was charged
with DUI after a traffic stop on Route 1 near Brandywine Drive on Nov. 8. A
police report said Kemmerer was observed weaving through lanes and driving
through a red light.

• A 27-year-old woman from Wallingford had her purse stolen
from her car in the rear parking lot of Springwater Plaza on Route 202,
according to a police report. Police said the victim’s. Police said someone
smashed the passenger side window of her car. The incident occurred on Nov. 2
between 6:30 and 9:30 p.m.

• The Concordville Fire & Protection Association was the
victim of vandalism sometime between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2. State police said
someone broke several windows of a vehicle used for training purposes.

• State police reported that Amy Lindgren, 59, was arrested
for DUI after a Nov. 3 traffic stop on Route 202 at Hillman Drive. Lindgren was
stopped at 8:28 p.m., the report said.

• State police said a Chester Township man, Zachary Pope,
23, assaulted an ex girlfriend in the parking lot of the Shops at Brinton Lake
at 5 p.m. on Nov. 1. The victim sustained an abrasion near her nose and
complained of a headache, the report said.

• A Baltimore, Md. woman was arrested for DUI after a
traffic stop in Pennsbury Township. State police from the Avondale barracks
said Ramonito Cui Ridenour was stopped Nov. 7 at Route 1 near Old Baltimore
Pike.

• State troopers from the Pennsylvania State Police Media
barracks will be inspecting child safety seats at the Rock Run YMCA on Route 1
between 3 and 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 17. No appointment is necessary, a
police press release said. Certified technicians will inspect the seats and show
people how to install and use them.

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The flat Earth of American politics

Opinion

It will be months before the public knows for certain what
the results of the Nov. 2 elections will mean to U.S. policy and legislation.
Likely, it will mean more of the same that we’ve seen for generations, but with
a continued decline of a once great nation.

Things will remain the same in the sense that no new ideas
will come to the forefront, that Democratic and Republican party office holders
and party officials will continue their finger pointing and rhetoric.

Both parties, and most of the American public, are stuck in
the same mental rut. They can only think left and right. Such thinking is
tantamount to creating a political flat earth philosophy.

Just as the illiterate and uneducated of ancient history
thought the earth was flat, so, too, do most people today in thinking there’s
no other way than left/right or liberal/conservative.

Left and right exist, to be sure, but there’s more to a
compass than east and west. There’s also a north and south. And it is truly the
battle between north and south on the political compass on which people should
focus.

Left and right is the battle between those who believe in
the welfare state, and want to continue the practice, and those who continue
the warfare state. Sometimes these lines blur, too. There are warfare statists
on the right who believe in corporate welfare and there are welfare statists
who love to talk about stopping wars, but continue to appropriate funds for
their prosecution.

The north/south, or vertical thought process is different.
Those on the bottom are authoritarian and want to see the welfare/warfare state
continue. On the top of that vertical axis are the libertarians who want to put
an end to the welfare/warfare state. They place individual liberty and personal responsibility at a higher priority
than the power of the government.

Yet, when people read most newspapers and all but two
television shows, all they’re presented with is the left/right spectrum,
liberal versus conservative, Democrats versus Republican.

The trite truism that says insanity is doing the same thing
over and over again but expecting different result, has been bandied about
often. It’s been used by the left to denigrate the right, and vice versa. It
should also be applied to the American voting public. For more than 100 years.
Voters have bounced back and forth between Republicans and Democrats. Why would
voters think that continuing the same thing will bring anything other than more
debt, more instances of the U.S. acting as the policeman or bully of the world?

The right will continue the warfare state while disregarding
civil rights. It will continue to create its own form of authoritarianism with
the failed, unconstitutional and self-devastating war on drugs and refusal to
accept the rights of gays as being equal to the rights of straights.

The left will continue its own authoritarian practice of
forcing people to pay for a failed welfare state while dictating how businesses
are to be run, what foods people should eat. They will also continue to destroy
the right to keep and bear arms.

No change. That’s insanity.

There will be no change until people acknowledge that the
policies of both the left and right are authoritarian and destructive to the
concept of liberty where people can do as they see fit so long as they don’t
interfere with the rights of others. There will be no change until people start
thinking vertically.

The philosophical battle is not left versus right, but
authoritarianism versus liberty.

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Bits & Pieces Nov. 11

Along the Ford

• On Nov. 13 (rain date
14th) from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Rose Tree Park in Media on Route 252, the
Delco Cruisers car club will be hosting a free Car and Bike show to demonstrate
the community’s support to the organizations that aid and sustain our active,
reserve, retired, and disabled veterans.

Military support organizations will benefit from donations collected and will
be distributed on the spot. The Marine Corp League, VFW, etc have all received
funds in the past to support their efforts to maintain our military forces with
all types of assistance before, during and after their service to our country.
Donations will be collected from over 50 different car clubs, individual car
owners, spectators and vendors and donated to agencies that day.
Any groups wishing to participate or show their support please contact Tom
Manning at 610-329-2830.

•Send our troops a little
taste of home for the holidays. Grieco Funeral Homes is participating in the
annual Veterans & Family Memorial Care “Christmas Stockings for Soldiers”
initiative. From now thru Dec. 1 you may stop in to pick-up a free Christmas
stocking to take home, decorate and stuff with Christmas cheer. You will
receive a list of recommended items along with the free stocking. Grieco,
Beeson or Gebhart funeral homes will then ship the stockings at their expense,
to troops abroad in time for Christmas. If you know of a specific platoon who
should receive this gift, please let us know.
To pick up your stocking, please visit in PA, Kuzo & Grieco Funeral home,
250 W. State St. Kennett Square, PA 19348, and in DE, Beeson Funeral Home 2053
Pulaski Highway Newark, DE 19702
or Gebhart Funeral Home 3401 Philadelphia Pike Claymont, DE 19703.

•The Kennett Symphony, under the
direction of guest conductorSalvatore Scarpa,
presents “Ring in the Season” at Kennett HS Auditorium on Saturday, Dec. 4, at
4:30 and 8:00 p.m.

Scarpa leads two holiday performances which include Leroy
Anderson’s “Christmas Festival”, a Centennial Tribute to West Chester composer
Samuel Barber with his Die Natali –Chorale
Préludes for Christmas, a jazzy Nutcracker Suite “à la Ellington”, and other
joys of the season, with the gifted Kennett Symphony Children’s Chorus,directed by Kristen
Albert.

The
two performances are at Kennett High School
Auditorium:
A “one-hour” free Family Concert on Saturday,
Dec.4, at 4:30 pm.
A full length ticketed concert on Saturday, Dec. 4, at 8:00 pm.

Familiar
to Kennett Symphony audiences, Scarpa is Director of Orchestras at Rowan
University, where he conducts the University Chamber Orchestra, Community
Orchestra, Opera Company productions, and teaches conducting. He is also
Assistant Conductor of the Pennsylvania Ballet, Music Director/Conductor of Bel
Canto Lyric Opera Company, and Conductor of the Atlantic Brass Band.

For tickets or information, call 610-444-6363 or visitwww.kennettsymphony.org.
Student and group discounts are also available by calling the Symphony office. This
concert is sponsored by Genesis HealthCare.

• Irving Street Blues bring blues, funk and rock music to
Garnet Valley at Darlington Arts Center’s first fall Coffee House of the
2010-11 series Nov. 19, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. This quartet has been playing
throughout Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland for 5 years, recently winning
the 2009 “Billtown Blues Challenge” Festival Audition at the
International Blues Challenge. Darlington’s Coffee Houses start with an open
mic for amateurs and students at 7:30 p.m. followed by the featured performers
from 8 to 9:30 p.m. A $10 ticket gets you an evening of live music,
beverages and dessert in an informal setting with great company.

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Corvette fans rally at Brandywine Picnic Park

Local News

More
than 400 Corvettes and hundreds of more enthusiasts rolled into the Brandywine
Picnic Park Sunday to raise awareness and money to fight amyloidosis.

The
event was Corvettes for Chip, hosted by The Corvette Club of Northern Delaware,
County Corvette Association and Keystone State Corvette Club. Chip was Chip
Miller, a car enthusiast who initiated a number of auto events in Lancaster and
died of amyloidosis in 2004.

According
to Wikipedia, “amyloidosis refers to a variety of conditions in which amyloid proteins are abnormally
deposited in organs
and/or tissues.
A protein is described as being amyloid if, due to an alteration in its secondary structure,
it takes on a particular aggregated insoluble form similar to
the beta-pleated
sheet.[1] Symptoms vary widely depending upon the site of amyloid
deposition.”

Proceeds
went to the Chip Miller Amyloidoisis Charitable Foundation. Admission to the
public was free. People showing their cars paid a registration fee.

One
of the cars on display was a 1963 Corvette owned by Rod Saboury of Millers, Md.
His car has a 2,400 horsepower, twin turbo engine, making it the world’s
fastest street-legal car. Saboury said the car can go from 0 to 60 mph in one
second and has been clocked doing a quarter mile in 6.95 seconds reaching a
speed of 210.54 mph.

One
of the reasons the car reaches such speeds, Saboury said, was that he has a
water cooler in the rear of the car that brings the engine coolant down to 42
degrees. The air intake is part of that system, so the engine operates as if it’s
winter.

Jim Campisano, the editor of Super
Chevy has driven the car and was quoted in an article in autoracingdaily.com: “Think
of a plane getting catapulted off the deck of an aircraft carrier; it was
insane. … And the tires he uses are street legal tires. His car runs on pump
gas. It’s not unusual to have a fast street car, but his has cup holders and
power windows.”

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School Board to decide on child abuse clearances

Local News

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The Unionville-Chadds Ford Board is scheduled to
discuss the extent of clearance for volunteers working in the schools. The
question of whether all volunteers will be required to have the state police
clearance plus the Child Abuse Clearance will be discussed. Some
volunteers with minimal student interaction might be exempt. The clearances cost $10 each for each
person.

The board will also decide on participation fees
for students in athletic and extra-curricular programs. The board will review
the results of community focus groups on the subject. An update on the subject can be found on the web athttp://www.ucfsd.org/userfees.html.

A request for proposal went out to
seek consulting services to determine the whether student transportation services
should be maintained within the district or contracted out. The responses to
the RFP are expected in this week, and the selection of consultant is scheduled
to happen at the next meeting.

The board will consider obtaining equipment to
allow members to participate remotely in the case of an emergency that
precludes the member’s attendance at the board meeting.

Advanced Placement physics will be divided into two
courses, mechanics (grades 11-12) and electricity and magnetism (grades
11-12). The new structure
corresponds to the AP test the students will take. The board anticipates the high school will need $12,000 for
new computers in the physics lab, but that expenditure would be necessary even
with the old course structure.

School year extended days will be offered for
special education support from June 27 to July 28. Grades K-5 will be held at
Hillendale. Grades six-12 will be
held at Patton Middle School.

That next meeting is next 7:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 15
at Patton Middle School.

As mandated by the state, the re-organization of
the school board will be Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the district boardroom.
The next full board meeting will be 7 p.m., Dec. 13.

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Emily Myers has lived and worked in Chadds Ford for over thirty five years. She founded the parent company of Chadds Ford Live, Decision Design Research, Inc., in 1982. ChaddsFordLive.com represents the confluence of Myers' long time, deep involvement in technology and community. Myers was a founding member of the Chadds Ford Business Association and currently serves on its board of directors. Her hobbies include bridge, golf, photography and Tai Chi. She lives with her husband, Jim Lebedda, in Chadds Ford Township.

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