April 24, 2013 - ChaddsFordLive.com

Farm fresh fast food from Farmers’ Road

Courtney-95-copy-2 — Farm fresh fast food from Farmers’ Road

The Beatles sang about the “Long and Winding Road” and the Hollies sang about a “Long Dark Road” that had “many a winding turn.” Now, Courtney Rozsas comes up with the Farmer’s Road Drive Thru, a restaurant that aims to please the palates of all, especially the locavores.

The restaurant is in the Painters Crossing shopping center between T.G.I. Fridays and El Gran Rodeo. It’s a drive-thru that also has indoor and outdoor seating.

For Rozsas — who also owns Lotus Farm to Table in Media — it’s a fusion of fast food and healthy food from local farmers. There’s even a list of those farmers on a chalkboard in the restaurant.

“It’s a farm to table drive thru,” Rozsas said during a grand opening celebration on Sunday, April 21. “It’s better for you, farm-fresh fast food. We’re taking comfort foods and making them healthier.”

She said the idea for a fast food/health food restaurant has been percolating for sometime.

“In our area there are so many farms, so many resources, so many restaurants, but nothing you can get fast. You have your quick-serve restaurants that are healthy, but I think that these days we’re all on the go and have time constraints, so I wanted to make it more conducive for my customers and add a drive-thru,” Rozsas said.

Lunch and dinner entrées include the stadium dog, an all-natural grass fed beef hotdog with sodium-free sauerkraut, low sodium yellow mustard on a rye pretzel hotdog bun with an option to substitute a vegetarian hotdog. There’s the beef burger made from grass fed beef, local organic American cheese, turkey bacon, house dill pickle, lettuce, low sodium mustard on a multigrain bun. There’s also an apple sandwich, which is a grilled cheddar cheese sandwich with a slice of Granny Smith apple and raw honey on maple, sourdough bread.

Breakfast dishes include scrapple, pork roll, a tofu scramble, salmon wrap and a breakfast burrito.

Desserts include gluten free chocolate chip cookies, Rice Krispie and Linvilla Orchards candy apples. There are also kids’ meals, shakes and coffee.

Combo menu items will range in price from $6-9 per entrée. A sandwich only is about $2, Rozsas said.

The restaurant will be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner six days a week, Monday-Saturday, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. On Sundays, the restaurant will open for breakfast and lunch and will close at 2 p.m. so patrons and employees can focus on family dinners at home.

One of the reasons Rozsas chose the location is that she’s from western Delaware County.

“I’m from the area and I love the area,” she said. “I thought it was perfect, a no-brainer…I used to go to the movies here.”

(Photo: Courtney Rozsas welcomes patrons to her new restaurant, Farmers Road Drive Thru, in the Painters Crossing shopping center.)

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Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.

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Around Town April 25

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• Chadds Ford Live celebrated four years of service during an open house for members of Neighbors in Business hosted by Mike Bullinger of Slim & Fit in Springwater Plaza. A dozen businesses were on hand as was mascot Griffin Bullinger who had his eyes on some people food.

• The Chesco Pops will have two upcoming performances at the new Performing Arts Center at Unionville High School. The Unionville Chadds Ford Education Foundation and the Unionville Chadds Ford School District are presenting the concert series. Proceeds from the concerts going to the Pops and the Foundation. The first performance — “From Beethoven to Broadway” — is scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Saturday May 4. Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for seniors (older than 62). Students and children are free. Go to www.chescopops.orgfor tickets.

• The Chester-Ridley-Crum Watersheds Association/Concord Township is looking for volunteers for the 16th annual CRC Streams Cleanup scheduled for May 4. Volunteers will meet at the parking lot across from Il Granaio Restaurant at 711 Concord Road. The cleanup will begin on the road side and bridge area; the group will then proceed down Concord Creek onto Newlin Grist Mill property. Any resident interested in volunteering, should contact Kristin Civitella at 610-812-3164 or kcivitella@gfnet.com Volunteers are invited to a free picnic at Pavilion 8, Ridley Creek State Park from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.

• The Brandywine Ballet Company presents The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a new full-length ballet as its 2012-13 season-culminating performance, May 3 – 5, at the Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall, 700 S. High Street in West Chester. Individual tickets range $25-$40. Tickets and a complete schedule are available by telephone a 610-696-2711 and on-line at www.brandywineballet.org. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz will feature world premiere choreography by Brandywine Ballet’s resident choreographer, Nancy Page, who wowed audiences with her recent presentations of Beauty & the Beast and Dracula.

plant_sale_sm — The annual plant sale at the Brandywine River Museum is scheduled for May 11 and 12.

• Celebrate spring with the Brandywine Conservancy’s garden volunteers at the annual Wildflower, Native Plant and Seed Sale on May 11 and 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Conservancy staff and volunteers will be available to answer questions and provide planting and horticultural information. All proceeds from the sale benefit the Conservancy’s diverse and beautiful Wildflower and Native Plant Gardens. Free admission.

• Tyler Arboretum’s annual plant sale is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, May 3 and 4. Members will receive a special preview on Friday, May 3, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The sale will be open to the public on Saturday, May 4 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free to everyone for Saturday’s event. Those who are not currently members can still take advantage of the preview sale and shop a day early by becoming a member of Tyler Arboretum at the sale on May 3. Tyler Arboretum’s annual Plant Sale will be held rain or shine. For questions or more information, please call 610-566-9134 or visit our www.tylerarbortum.org.

• The Delaware County Veterans Memorial – Alice Grim Boulevard and West Chester Pike in Newtown Square, will hold a grand opening ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday, May 11 at 11 a.m. Speakers include: Tom Ridge, former governor of Pennsylvania and former secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Corbett, governor of Pennsylvania, US Rep. Patrick Meehan, from the 7th District, and others. Master of ceremonies is Benjamin Patton, grandson of Gen. George S. Patton Jr.

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Police log April 25: Attempted child abduction

Police

Bike-towed — Police log April 25: Attempted child abduction

• State police from the Avondale barracks reported an attempted child abduction on Route 41 in Avondale borough just after 3 p.m. on April 19. A report said a white, Hispanic male, average build, 5 feet 7 or 5 feet 8 inches tall, in his early 20s and wearing a black/gray stripe shirt and jeans grabbed the wrist of a 14-year-old girl who was walking home after getting off a school bus. The suspect put his hand over the girl’s mouth, but she was able to break free and run away after kicking and punching him. The suspect fled on foot.

• No press release was issued, but a motorcyclist was taken to the hospital by helicopter after he rode into a deer on Creek Road south of Bullock Road on April 19. Concord Towing removed the bike from the scene. (See photo.)

• A woman from Media lost $1,000 in Chadds Ford Township when someone broke the right rear window of her black GMC SUV and removed a tan purse containing the cash. The vehicle was parked at the Brandywine River Museum between 11:30 a.m. and 1:50 p.m. on April 14.

• Pennsylvania State Police apprehended two Chester residents who, they said, were responsible for breaking into cars parked at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford Township. Police identified the pair as Israel Rivera, 48, and Angel Maldonado Rivera, 32. According to a report, the two broke into vehicles and stole property. They were taken into custody without incident on April 21 at 2:30 p.m., the report said.

• Police reported a case of criminal mischief on Heyburn Road in Chadds Ford Township. A press release said someone broke a pane of glass in the front of a home in the 200 block of Heyburn Road sometime between 8 a.m. and 4:55 p.m. on April 17.

• Multiple residences in Chadds Ford Township had several windows shot out with a pellet gun on April 17. No other information was released.

• Someone broke a basement window at a house on Keepsake Lane in Chadds Ford Township on April 17. Nothing was reported stolen, but police categorized the incident as attempted burglary.

• Residents of a home on Samuel Lane in Concord Township were the victims of a burglary that happened sometime between 7 a.m. an 2:45 p.m. on April 22. Police said someone broke into the house and stole an Acer laptop, an iPod and a Nook E-Reader. Anyone with information is asked to call state police at 484-840-1000.

• A woman identified by police as Natalie Marie Griffitts, of Glen Mills, faces charges of DUI after she drove her 1997 Dodge Grand Caravan off the roadway at a cul-de-sac on Cottonwood Drive in Concord Township and crashed into a tree. She was taken to Crozer Chester medical Center with severe, non-life threatening injuries, according to police.

• State police are looking for a woman in connection with the theft of a man’s sport coat from the Goodwill Store on Route 202 in Concord Township. Police described the woman as white, 35-45 years old, about 5 feet 9 inches tall, with brown shoulder length hair and wearing a black Adidas outfit. The theft took place on April 12, shortly before 3 p.m.

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Photo of the Week: Pause

Photo of the Week

Chadds Ford Township resident Andy Bell, who posed for Andy Wyeth’s “Stop,” pauses by a tree along the Brandywine Creek near the Brandywine River Museum.

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Adopt-a-Pet: Robbie

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Robbie is a young and fun-loving pooch who came to CCSPCA in November as a lost dog. We soon realized that Robbie had quite a unique and loving personality, but is also a high-energy pup in need of training and lots of exercise. CCSPCA staff and volunteers have been working on Robbie’s training but will need this to continue in his new home. Robbie gets along with other dogs but does best with dogs around the same age and energy level. If you are able to provide Robbie or any of our other animals here at the shelter a home, visit the Chester County SPCA at 1212 Phoenixville Pike in West Goshen or call 610-692-6113. Robbie’s registration number is 96812069. To meet some of our other adoptable animals, visit the shelter or log onto www.ccspca.org. Not quite ready to adopt? Consider becoming a CCSPCA foster parent – Kitten season is around the corner and CCSPCA needs fosters to raise kittens and mother cats. Additional information and applications are available online or at the shelter.

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Testimony: Wegman’s traffic plan bad news

Local News

Traffic volume and how it could be affected by the proposed Wegman’s development were the topics of the April 25 hearing into the matter in Concord Township.

Traffic engineer Andreas Heinrich testified on behalf of Glen Eagle Square, one of the entities opposing the development. He challenged findings previously presented by the applicant’s engineer.

Under direct examination, he said that the current traffic plan would have a negative impact along routes 1 and 202 and result in a degradation of service along numerous intersections in both Concord and Chadds Ford Townships.

He said the applicant’s traffic plan was way too conservative in anticipating increased traffic, that the real increase would be twice the anticipated amount and that the queues could be longer than the distance between intersections.

Heinrich specifically cited intersections along Route 202 at Applied Card Way, Hillman Drive and Ridge Road in Chadds Ford Township and along Route 1 at Applied Card Way and Brinton Lake Road in Concord.

He said the intersection at Route 202 and Ridge Road was already poor and would become overly congested with this development.

While the plan calls for building another leg of the loop road connecter between routes 1 and 202 on the south east corner of the intersection, Heinrich said the road would be deficient.

Attorney Robert Gundlach Jr., representing Chadds Ford Investors, the applicant, did not cross-examine the witness saying he would need time to review the report from which Heinrich was referring.

An agreement was reached between attorneys, supervisors and the township solicitor in which both sides would get together within the next few weeks to develop a modified plan that would satisfy both parties.

The hearing will resume Tuesday, May 7 right after the regular Board of Supervisors meeting scheduled for 6:30 p.m.

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Concord student wins research award

School & Education

Schreyer Honors Scholar Labanya Mookerjee, a senior English major at Penn State Brandywine, was honored by the Eastern American Studies Association with the Francis Ryan Award. The honor is given annually to the undergraduate with the top research paper.

Competition was fierce with numerous papers submitted from universities up and down the East Coast, such as Boston, Rutgers and La Salle universities.

Mookerjee, of Concord Township, attended the EASA Conference, which was held at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va. and despite the strong competition, took home the esteemed award. She also delivered a presentation to conference attendees that highlighted her studies.

Mookerjee submitted a chapter from her senior honors thesis paper to the EASA in February, which explores the connections between transcendentalism, feminism and social activism in the late nineteenth century through the life of Margaret Fuller’s disciple, Ednah Dow Cheney.

“I was really interested in learning about the research projects that others at different campuses were conducting. I saw some amazing presentations, ranging from Boston architecture to women in combat to the Harlem Renaissance,” she said.

Brandywine Professor of English, Women’s Studies and American Studies Phyllis Cole served as Mookerjee’s senior honor thesis supervisor and worked closely with her leading up to the conference. “Labanya’s work is certainly evidence of what can be achieved on our campus,” Cole said. “She has been a joy to work with and makes us all Penn State proud.”

“I had a very good supervisor in Dr. Cole. She really prepared me,” Mookerjee said. “We were up several nights in a row getting this piece ready for the conference. When I received the award, my first thought was ‘I wish Dr. Cole was here!’”

Assistant professor of history Julie Gallagher attended the event and was thrilled to have Brandywine represented at the conference. “Knowing the quality of the papers that hers was up against speaks very highly of Labanya and her work,” Gallagher said. “I think we put out an opportunity on our campus for students to really seize the most of an educational experience.”

In preparation for her senior honor thesis Mookerjee conducted numerous hours of research using a variety of different outlets. During the summer she visited Harvard University’s Houghton Library in Cambridge, Mass. and the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston to obtain information used in her paper.

“I was always really interested in transcendentalism, even since high school,” she explained. “In my first semester at Brandywine I had a class with Dr. Cole, who specializes in transcendentalism and feminism, so it was perfect. In my junior year, I took a women’s studies class with Dr. Gallagher, and I knew I also wanted to do something with feminism when it came to my thesis.”

On Tuesday, April 16, Mookerjee presented her research at Penn State Brandywine’s Exhibition of Undergraduate Research, Enterprise and Creative Accomplishment.

Upon graduating in May she plans to attend graduate school, where she will study English.

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Free Your Space: I could never let a professional organizer into my house

Home and Leisure

The title of this article is a sentiment that I hear frequently once someone finds out what I do for a living. The reaction normally sounds something like this: “You mean you help people get rid of clutter and get their homes organized? Oh, I need you.” And then, “Your home must be perfect.”

Since I belong to the National Association of Professional Organizers and actively participate in the Greater Philadelphia chapter, I know for a fact that this is a response that every organizer has come to expect when meeting almost anyone new.

Yes, helping people free themselves of clutter and get organized is a good way to sum up what I do. Although, I have to admit that some of the time I’m asked if I organize rallies or weddings. I don’t.

Even though this profession has been around at least since the 1980s, it is relatively new to the general public and just beginning to be understood. Reality TV shows have given a glimpse mainly into one small area of professional organizing — hoarding. The industry is actually so much broader than that.

There are professional organizers who specialize in office and paper management, productivity, downsizing, digital organization, move-management, ADHD support, senior support, families and children, special needs and so much more! So, when someone says, “I need you,” they’re probably right. Everyone could use a professional organizer in some way or another, whether to help manage their homes, their businesses or their lives.

Finally, to address your curiosity about whether our homes are perfect, I’d like to share a story from my recent trip to New Orleans to attend the NAPO annual conference.

Having spent a full 9-to-5 day in training courses, an evening of networking with other organizers from around the country, and then preparing for the next day’s training, I was exhausted. It was the beginning of the week, and my roommate, a fellow organizer from my chapter, had just arrived. I was so happy to see her and yet apologetic because I had to admit that I sometimes snore at night. In response to my obvious embarrassment, she responded, “Oh, you’re human? Good. I’m human too. I was hoping to get a human roommate.” We laughed and then set out for a walk to the local 24-hour drug store to buy earplugs.

And this, my friends, is one of the most valuable benefits you will find if you hire a professional organizer. We’re human and we expect that you are, too. No judgment, no shame, no outrageous expectations. We are simply there to help, support and guide you in creating a peaceful and joyful space.

Yes, my home is organized. And no, it’s not perfect. I don’t waste my time on perfectionism. My time is better spent keeping a home that is happy and healthy, comfortable and efficient so that the people who live and enter into it feel the precious value of their worth.

* Annette Reyman is a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO®) and board member of its Greater Philadelphia Chapter. To contact her for organizing work, professional unpacking, productivity support, gift certificates or speaking engagements in the Greater Philadelphia area call 610-213-9559 or email her at annette@allrightorganizing.com. Visit her website at www.allrightorganizing.com or follow All Right Organizing on Facebook.

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