The Unionville-Chadds Ford School District is now ranked number one in Pennsylvania by the recently released Pittsburgh Business Times rankings of Pennsylvania school districts.
Last year the district was rated third best.
According to U-CF Superintendent John Sanville, “Alexandre Dumas said it best: ‘Nothing succeeds like success.’ UCFSD did not earn the top spot overnight because academic achievement is a process not a goal unto itself. The hard work and dedication of everyone at UCFSD has contributed to creating a learning environment that rewards accomplishments of all kinds. We are humbled by the recognition and grateful for the efforts of the many at UCFSD who embody the spirit of excellence.”
Sanville added that everyone in the district works extremely hard to provide and maintain a top quality educational atmosphere. The district is honored to be number one, but rankings are not the only measure of success.
“UCFSD is honored to be named number one in the commonwealth and will carry that banner proudly. However, we will not rest on our laurels as we know that that the hard work of providing students with a solid education takes place every day in every classroom in every school. We are dedicated to ensuring that every student in UCFSD has access to the best learning opportunities possible,” Sanville said.
Tredyffrin-Easttown School District, also in Chester County, was ranked number five, while the Radnor and Wallingford-Swarthmore districts in Delaware County were rated numbers three and 10, respectively.
Lower Merion School District, in Montgomery County, was number nine. The remaining five districts in the top 10 are in Allegheny County.
The Pittsburgh Business Times annually ranks the state’s school districts based on state-administered assessment tests.
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.
Bill Bunch, of William H. Bunch Auction and Appraisals, is proof that if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.
After 40 years in the auction business, Bunch said he couldn’t be having a better time.
“I’ll have as much fun [at our next auction] as I had 40 years ago. I hope I keep doing what I do because I love coming to work. It’s not coming to work. For me, it’s coming to play. It’s not a business, it’s a lifestyle,” he said while celebrating his 40th anniversary.
Bunch began his career in March 1974 when he and two friends went to auctioneering school in Mason City, Iowa. The class was 10 days of intensive training, he said in a 2002 interview.
His first auction was April 13 of ’74. Bunch still has a copy of the ad for that first sale, a two-column by 4-inch ad that ran in the Cecil Whig. The ad listed only 30 items.
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Bunch remembers times in the early days when there were more people working for him than there were people buying items.
“That’s a scary situation,” he said, “but you weather it, you tough it out and enjoy the ride.”
He spent years working out of West Chester and more than another decade holding auctions at the Concordville Inn. In May 2002 he moved into his permanent location along Route 202 at Hillman Drive in Chadds Ford Township.
The site was once the home of the Lancaster Truck Body Co. And while Bunch’s first auction only had 30 items, his space today accommodates much more. He has more than 15,000 square feet with a main showroom of 5,400 square feet.
Over the years, Bunch acknowledged seeing good times as well as the bad.
“We’ve had some low points,” Bunch said chuckling, “but one of the most exciting moments was in 2000 at the Concordville Inn when we sold a painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner for $560,000…We continue to hold the record for his works at auction, not beaten by anybody, Sotheby’s, Christy’s whoever. We hold the record and I’m very proud of that.”
He added that there was a second high point, that of opening in Chadds Ford in 2002.
“This was really a demarcation between an auctioneer who operated out of leased and temporarily rented space, such as the Concordville Inn. As great a venue as that was, and we had many great auctions there, to have our own location with our own branding in a great town like Chadds Ford Township has been a real blessing and a real plus.”
On the downside, was the recession of 2008. He said that resulted in sales prices reverting to those of the 1970s.
“There were a couple of scary years in there. I came out of the ‘90s, which were the boom decade in so many ways in our economy and society, and opened in the teeth of a recession. But, I will say the market is showing signs of revival today.”
As for the next 40 years, Bunch just wants to keep on coming to play.
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.
Hello there, my name is Millie. I’m a mature lady around 8-years-old and I’m already spayed. I was brought to the Chester County SPCA in November when my previous owner couldn’t care for me any longer. I’m a friendly kind of gal patiently waiting for my forever family to come adopt me. I’m a gentle soul and there’s nothing I want more than a lap to curl up on purring the day away. Because I’m an older lady, I don’t have much of an interest in playtime. I’d rather us spend a quiet day together relaxing on a comfy sofa keeping each other company. If you are able to provide Millie 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 or go to www.ccspca.org. Not quite ready to adopt? Consider becoming a CCSPCA foster parent.
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.
Whenever I cross a covered bridge, I think how different they are from the towering steel monstrosities used today. Then my thoughts dwell on the people on horseback and wagons that passed that way many years ago. Thomas F. Gordon’s “Gazetteer of the State of Pennsylvania” calls our commonwealth “the state of bridges,” Pennsylvania being “unrivaled in number, magnitude and boldness of design…”
In his book “Covered Bridges of Chester County, Pennsylvania,” Arthur E. James states that our local heritage includes one built across the western branch of Brandywine Creek when Thomas Jefferson was President in 1807. By the 1830s, Pennsylvania had more of these charming structures than any other state. Over the next 90 years, 77 covered bridges were built locally, in addition to 21 others which crossed over to neighboring Delaware, Lancaster and Montgomery County. At the end of the 19th century, 85 were still in active use. There’s even a group devoted to following these lovely reminders of a bygone era. The Theodore Burr Covered Bridge Society of Pennsylvania maintains an updated listing of all those which remain on the landscape. Despite replacement over the decades, Chester County still has at least 15 of them still standing.
The Valley Forge/Knox Bridge was first built in 1851 by Ferdinand Wood across Valley Creek near present day Valley Forge Park. It was later destroyed by fire and replaced in 1865. It is sometimes called the Knox Bridge, two well-known men with that name being the source. Gen. Henry Knox was George Washington’s chief of artillery during the Revolutionary War. He had his quarters in one of the homes along the creek very near where the bridge was later built. Philander C. Knox served two terms as U.S. senator, attorney general and later as secretary of state under President Taft. After he purchased land and a home in close proximity to the bridge, some people started calling it the Knox Bridge. Later the bridge was nearly destroyed by fire, but due to the quick action of the Valley Forge Park Police, it was saved and reinforced with steel girders.
Bartram’s Bridge over Crum Creek is an inter-county structure with a 60-foot span and a 13-foot wide roadway that came to life in the year 1860. Connecting Willistown Township in Chester County to with Newtown Township in Delaware County, it was first described as “high and wide as a load of hay.” Although closed to traffic, it has been preserved and well maintained over the years.
Gibson’s Harmony Bridge over the Brandywine near Downingtown was built in 1872, gaining its name from local farmer James Gibson and the local village of Harmony Hill. This bridge is one of the remaining structures that span the Brandywine, the original marble stone marker still there on the southeastern wall.
Mercer’s Bridge (top photo) over the Octorara Creek is just under a mile south of Atglen. Prior to its construction, there was a log for foot traffic chained to an iron post deeply buried in the ground so that floodwaters wouldn’t carry it away. The name comes from John Mercer, a local farmer who erected a flourmill prior to the Civil War. The commissioners of Chester and Lancaster counties awarded a contract for bridge construction, allowing an expenditure of $1,652 for the 85-foot span. The bridge was considered so picturesque, the Chester County Tourist Board presented a photograph of the structure to U.S. Rep. Paul Dague of Downingtown, who kept it on the wall of his office for 20 years.
Speakman’s Bridge connects East with West Marlborough Township spanning Buck Run roughly 1 ½ miles upstream from the Mary Ann Pyle Bridge built at the same time in 1881. Speakman’s was named after Jonathan Speakman who converted a pre-Civil War era paper mill into a gristmill. With a 75-foot span and a 14-foot width, it was a well-travelled bridge for many years, despite also later being damaged by fire.
The Linton Stevens Bridge stands near the intersection of East Nottingham, Elk and New London Townships. A popular thoroughfare running from New London Village to the Hickory Hill Post Office was partly responsible for its name, as Linton Stevens was the local Postmaster who kept shop in his general store.
Glen Hope marker
The Glen Hope Bridge near Oxford in Elk Township was built when Grover Cleveland was completing his first term in Washington. The total cost of $1,767 was divided between Menander Wood, who earned $994 for the woodwork and George E. Jones who was compensated $773 for the stonework. Jones came to Oxford after the Civil War; he did much of the stonework on many other Chester County bridges. The bridge with a posted “Three-Ton Limit” was later damaged when the driver of a 20-ton cement truck tried to cross it, literally falling through the bottom and sinking into the stream below. The bridge was saved Chester County Commissioner J. Carl Empie allocated funds for its repair.
Although less often used, these old friends survive despite decades of wind, rain and snow and still offer travelers their sturdy beams for transport. If you haven’t ever driven or walked across an old covered bridge, enjoy a tour through the countryside where one stands. Take a long look. You’ll see a proud symbol of our heritage that continues to offer its services to all who need it.
(Photos by Gene Pissasale)
* Gene Pisasale is an author/lecturer based in Kennett Square, Pa. His books and lecture series focus on historical topics. Gene’s latest book is “The Forgotten Star” which delves into true-life mysteries surrounding the War of 1812 and an American icon- The Star-Spangled Banner. His lecture series on this topic is being presented around the region to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of this historic event. He can be contacted atGene@GenePisasale.com. His website is www.GenePisasale.com.
Gene Pisasale is an historian, author and lecturer based in Kennett Square, Pa. His eight books and historic lecture series focus on the history of the mid-Atlantic region. Gene’s latest book is Alexander Hamilton: Architect of the American Financial System, which delves into the life and many accomplishments of this important Founding Father who almost single-handedly transformed our nation from a bankrupt entity into the most successful country in the history of mankind. Gene’s books are available on www.Amazon.com. His website is www.GenePisasale.com; he can be reached at Gene@GenePisasale.com.
• A Community Conversation planned for May 1 on the proposed Youth Center Project at the barn on Doe Run Road in the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District has been postponed at the request of the Unionville-Chadds Ford Education Foundation. The foundation proposed converting the old barn into a youth center, similar to The Garage in Kennett Square and West Grove. A press release said many questions came up as the foundation was exploring the possibilities and members want to have answers before going ahead with the meeting.
• The Affordable Care Act will be the topic of conversation during a breakfast with the Delaware County Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, April 23 at 1001 Baltimore Pike, Suite 9LL in Springfield. A panel will be on hand to answer questions. Cost is $35 for members, $50 for nonmembers. To register, go to http://www.delcochamber.org/events/Panel-Discussion-Affordable-Care-Act-55336/details
• Darlington Arts Center invites families to preview Darlington Preschool, an arts-integrated preschool program, on Thursday, April 24from 10:30– 11:30 a.m. Parents are encouraged to bring their children and experience first-hand how an arts-based curriculum can build a strong foundation for young learning. Children will participate in a morning of arts-integrated lessons with Darlington’s preschool teachers while parents will have the opportunity to meet teachers, tour the facility, and ask questions about the curriculum. Parents are also welcome to stop by preschool open house every Thursday and Friday through the end of the school year, from 10 a.m. to noon. Spaces in the 2014-2015 Academic Year are open. By attending Preschool Preview Day, families will receive a $10 coupon.Please RSVP to Katie@darlingtonarts.org.
• State Rep. Stephen Barrar will attend a Resident Awareness Program in Pennsbury Township on April 24. Pennsbury is now part of the state’s 160th Legislative District. The actual program begins at 7 p.m., but there is a light supper planned for 6:15 p.m. To attend the supper, call Kathy Howley at 610-388-7323 to RSVP.
• Chadd Ford Township’s annual Recycling Day, along with the semi annual Road Cleanup, is scheduled for Saturday, April 26 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Items for recycling include electronics — anything with a plug — and residential propane tanks and gas cans beginning at 8 a.m. Goodwill Industries will also be on hand to collect gently used donated clothes and household goods. A document shredding truck will arrive at 9 a.m. and the Civic Association will coordinate the collection of food for the needy.
• Pennsbury Township’s annual Yard Sale is scheduled for Saturday, April 26 beginning at 9 a.m. in the township park.
• The 11th annual Unionville Track & Field Invitational is scheduled for Saturday, April 26. Events will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Unionville High School track and run till 3 p.m. The gates will open at 8:30 a. Top athletes who have competed at the national, state, and district level will be participating. More than 25 schools will be represented this year. Admission is $5 for adults, free for students and seniors. Come out and show your support for the Track & Field team. Food and T-shirts will be on sale.
• Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art’s annualWildflower, Native Plant and Seed Sale, is set for Mothers’ Day weekend, May 10 and 11, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This event offers a wide variety of regional plants and seeds — many not available in retail garden centers — which are great for all types of gardens — sunny, shady, damp or dry. The museum is also offering free admission on Mothers’ Day.
• Furthering its mission to bring live theater, music, dance and film to the heart of West Chester, the Uptown! Entertainment Alliance announces its new First Friday Film Series beginning on May 2 at the Knights of Columbus Hall at 110 W. Market Street, West Chester. The series is planned to coincide with West Chester’s First Fridays shopping and dining events, and will continue throughout the summer with subsequent showings on June 6, July 11, August 1 and September 5. Screenings will begin at 8:30 p.m. and viewers will be able to purchase light refreshments, including beer and wine, to enjoy with the films. Film titles and tickets are available through the Web site http://uptownwestchester.org
• Birmingham Township will present a re-enactment of the 1777 Battle of the Brandywine on the weekend of May 17 and 18. The event will be at Sandy Hollow, part of the actual battle site and the location where the Marquis de Lafayette was wounded.
• Two people were reported injured in a two-car crash on Route 1 at Stoneybank Road on April 15. Police said a 2001 Volkswagen GTI, driven by 20-year-old Daniel Stillman, of Swarthmore, was struck while turning left onto Stoneybank from southbound Route 1. The other vehicle, a 2003 Toyota, driven by Kathryn Elizabeth Ward, 32, of Pensacola, Fla., was northbound on Route 1. Stillman was taken to Riddle Memorial Hospital while a passenger in Ward’s car was transported to Crozer.
• A former employee of Edible Arrangements in Chadds Ford Township is accused of fraud and theft by unlawful taking. Police said Christopher Raymond Orsini, 45, of Downingtown, is alleged to have stolen a credit card belonging to the store and made some fraudulent transactions.
• State police are investigating the reported theft of a laptop computer. A 17-year-old female from Concord Township said the computer was taken from her school bag in the lobby of 500 Brandywine Drive in Chadds Ford on April 4.
• Electronics and jewelry were reported stolen from a single family home on Chevers Drive in Concord Township on April 9. Police are investigating the theft that the 48-year-old victim said happened sometime between 8:30 a.m. and noon.
• Police are also investigating another burglary on Chevers Drive on April 9. In this incident, the unknown suspect took jewelry, a laptop, an iPad, Coach Sunglasses and 12 purses. The theft took place sometime between 7:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
• Also on Chevers Drive, police are investigating an attempted burglary. A report said a resident of the Windsor Condos reported seeing tool marks on the back door to his garage. There was no entry and nothing was taken, police said. This incident happened between 8 p.m. on April 13 and 1 p.m. on April 14.
• A 76-year-old Concord Township man was the victim of theft from a vehicle, according to police. Sometime between noon, April 9 and 7 p.m., April 13, an unknown suspect removed hubcaps from the vehicle that was parked in the victim’s front yard.
• Shortly before 3 a.m. on April 13, police cited Eric J. Pasternak, 24, of Concord Township for DUI following a traffic stop along Route 202 at Watkin Avenue.
• Police reported that Ashley Bloxom, of Newark, was cited for public intoxication. The report said she was found passed out in the 500 block of Route 202 at 4:02 p.m. on April 13. She was cited and released.
• No injuries were reported, but one driver, April M. Scarantino, 36, of West Chester, was cited when her 2014 GMC Acadia hit a trailer on Route 202 near Woodland Drive in Chadds Ford Township on April 1. Police said Scarantino was pulling out of a parking lot onto the roadway when she hit the trailer heading north on 202. The trailer was changing lanes at the time.
• Saturday, April 26 is National Drug Take-Back day and the Pennsylvania State Police, Media barracks, along with the Drug Enforcement Administration will be accepting old, unused and unwanted prescriptions. The service is free and anonymous. People wanting to get the old medication out of their homes should take them in plastic or brown paper bags to the barracks between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Liquids and creams may be in their original container, but personal information should be removed.
For Chester County residents in need of assistance from the county’s Register of Wills office, county employees will travel to meet citizens.
Register of Wills Terri Clark instituted the policy to better serve the public. “This service was not previously offered,” Clark said. “So far we have served several clients in the areas of Unionville, West Chester, Pottstown and Coatesville.”
The Chester County Register of Wills office is sending representatives to hospices, nursing facilities, hospitals, and private homes to execute legal documents pertaining to marriage licenses and notarizing power-of-attorneys for those in their last stages of life or not ambulatory.
“We are now offering this service for those with severe health problems who need assistance in completing these legal documents,” said Clark. “Our staff will go on the road to help our needy residents.”
Clark said marriage license applications have been serviced by the new program as have notarizing power of attorney documents.
My recent days have been spent in Washington, D.C., being overwhelmed by intelligent, erudite people.
Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs sponsored an event on “The Common Good,” after which I attended a Bowen Center Conference on epigenetics and the family. In the midst of many heady moments, I walked through the cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin, happening upon the Martin Luther King and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorials.
A week before, I attended a meeting at Daylesford Abbey on human trafficking in Pennsylvania. What unites these varied venues is, I think, the concept of the common good.
Michael Gerson, syndicated columnist and senior advisor at “ONE, a bipartisan organization dedicated to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable diseases,” had just flown to the Common Good discussion from CAR, the Central African Republic. He remarked that CAR had great religious tolerance for many years and now it is devastated with violence and murder. He warned that presently, in the United States, polarities are modest; however, a working, tolerant society is “quite fragile.” Furthermore, he said, the ideal of common good in life is not identical to market forces or state acts, nor is it about autonomy, but that it is about “allowing all to flourish.”
Saba Mahmood, an anthropologist, voiced concerns about the waning care about the common good. I resonate with her worry about the privatization of the public school system (and I would add the privatization of the prison system). The privatizations of public goods in general leads to a great institutional loss, she noted. It disturbs me greatly that the public domain continues to be eroded by the private for-profit sector.
And so what about my walk through the cherry blossoms and the memorials past the Smithsonian? These are all part of the National Park Service and when I trek here I feel a sense of pride of connection to country. I don’t want this any more privatized than it already is. This is common good—common space—to be shared in community. I read the words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Martin Luther King and Thomas Jefferson—all men who espoused the common good. Among MLK’s words, inscribed at his memorial, are these: “I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits.”
Martin Luther King’s words ring true even in the field of epigenetics, where genetics meets environment, so to speak. Scientists at the Bowen Family Therapy Conference related their studies on how genes are imparted by early adversity, misfortune, and, yes, socio-economic class. In other words, the environment makes a dramatic difference in the development of children and families. So science confirms what anthropologists observe and visionaries, such as Martin Luther King see, that the common good is the foundation for both the well-being of the individual and society as a whole. That’s the real bottom line—not the profit motive.
One example of a lacuna in the common good is human trafficking—in Pennsylvania too. Not only is human trafficking found in the sex “industry” of prostitution and entertainment, but also in labor exploitation, domestic work, restaurant work, sweatshop factories, and agriculture. When you go to a hotel or a restaurant or have landscaping, do you ever wonder? Are the people in the kitchen modern day slaves, beholden to the restaurant owner? Are the landscapers getting paid? Is the young woman in the nail salon captive to the salon owner? Two things you can do for the common good. One, if you suspect trafficking, you can call the Trafficking Information and Referral Hotline (1-888-3737-888). Two, support Pennsylvania State Senate Bill 75, which would revise the Pennsylvania law on human trafficking.
* Kayta Curzie Gajdos holds a doctorate in counseling psychology and is in private practice in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. She welcomes comments at MindMatters@DrGajdos.com or 610-388-2888. Past columns are posted to www.drgajdos.com.
Dr. Kathleen Curzie Gajdos ("Kayta") is a licensed psychologist (Pennsylvania and Delaware) who has worked with individuals, couples, and families with a spectrum of problems. She has experience and training in the fields of alcohol and drug addictions, hypnosis, family therapy, Jungian theory, Gestalt therapy, EMDR, and bereavement. Dr. Gajdos developed a private practice in the Pittsburgh area, and was affiliated with the Family Therapy Institute of Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, having written numerous articles for the Family Therapy Newsletter there. She has published in the American Psychological Association Bulletin, the Family Psychologist, and in the Swedenborgian publications, Chrysalis and The Messenger. Dr. Gajdos has taught at the college level, most recently for West Chester University and Wilmington College, and has served as field faculty for Vermont College of Norwich University the Union Institute's Center for Distance Learning, Cincinnati, Ohio. She has also served as consulting psychologist to the Irene Stacy Community MH/MR Center in Western Pennsylvania where she supervised psychologists in training. Currently active in disaster relief, Dr. Gajdos serves with the American Red Cross and participated in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts as a member of teams from the Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.Now living in Chadds Ford, in the Brandywine Valley of eastern Pennsylvania, Dr. Gajdos combines her private practice working with individuals, couples and families, with leading workshops on such topics as grief and healing, the impact of multigenerational grief and trauma shame, the shadow and self, Women Who Run with the Wolves, motherless daughters, and mediation and relaxation. Each year at Temenos Retreat Center in West Chester, PA she leads a griefs of birthing ritual for those who have suffered losses of procreation (abortions, miscarriages, infertility, etc.); she also holds yearly A Day of Re-Collection at Temenos.Dr. Gajdos holds Master's degrees in both philosophy and clinical psychology and received her Ph.D. in counseling at the University of Pittsburgh. Among her professional affiliations, she includes having been a founding member and board member of the C.G. Jung Educational Center of Pittsburgh, as well as being listed in Who's Who of American Women. Currently, she is a member of the American Psychological Association, The Pennsylvania Psychological Association, the Delaware Psychological Association, the American Family Therapy Academy, The Association for Death Education and Counseling, and the Delaware County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Board. Woven into her professional career are Dr. Gajdos' pursuits of dancing, singing, and writing poetry.
Joe DiMarco demonstrates 3-D printer
(Photo Credit: Sofia Clinger)
The past met the future at the historic Chadds Ford Inn Wednesday night. A 3-D printer was busy producing a linked chain for the members of the Business and Professional Association of Western Delaware County. The Inn, home of Brandywine Prime, served dinner as members saw objects produced by a printer.
No assembly is required. One of the most amazing features of the printer is that fully formed objects are produced. Linked chains have loops connected. Boxes with hinges are assembled and fully functional directly from the printer.
For larger projects, components can be printed then assembled.
Joseph DiMarco, Vice President of Excel Office Equipment, demonstrated the printer and teased the audience with the possibilities of such a device. He suggested that someday you may have your foot scanned and a custom shoe will be printed.
While the printer is not viewed as a process for mass manufacturing because of its speed, it is very well suited to prototyping and custom individual products.
The printer works by feeding a cord from a spool into a heater which melts and shapes it into layers. The layers are applied successively until the object is complete. It took about 20 minutes to produce a 5 inch chain.
The cord used was made from corn based filament. Other materials can be used as well.
The printer can take directions from different computer programs. An engineer or an architect can design an object using a CAD (Computer Aided Design) program. Alternatively, objects to be copied can be 3-D scanned. The printer will reproduce the object from the scanned image.
The chain produced was one color. DiMarco picked his company color, orange. There are 3-D printers which can produce full color objects. Instead of one spool feeding the printer, there are four Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black, just like the four toner cartridges in a common computer color printer.
The model on display was Maker Bot Replicator 2. DiMarco said that his current approach to selling the range of 3-D printers they plan to carry is to show people the possibilities.
The price point printer makers are aiming for is from $500 to $1000 for the printer to come into common usage. As the objects were passed among the audience, one could literally touch the future.
DiMarco is available for questions at 302-453-1500 x 102 or visit website at www.exceldigital.com.
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.
