March 14, 2019 - ChaddsFordLive.com

CFES art show opens next Friday

_1JF1186-Kathy,-Rick — Kathy Ruck and Rick Phillips are the featured and donating artists for this year's Chadds Ford Elementary School Art Show and Sale set for next Friday and Saturday, March 22 and 23.

Next Friday, March 22, marks the opening of the 70^thannual Chadds Ford Art Show and Sale. There will be 65 artists taking part in the event that was started by Betsy Wyeth when her son Jamie attended the school in 1949.

For two of the artists, that history is significant. Kathy Ruck, this year’s featured artist, and Rick Phillips, the donating artist this year, both said the history is a main attraction for them. This is the fourth year for Ruck at CFES while Phillips has been part of the show since 2011.

“The Wyeths started it,” Phillips said, “and it’s great because it doesn’t cost you anything if you don’t sell, but we do like to sell. And it’s very well attended.”

He added that he likes the fact that it’s a local event with “my people,” meaning fellow artists and friends.

Ruck’s reasoning is similar. “It’s the history of the show; it has quite a reputation having been started by Betsy Wyeth. A lot of my friends are here also.”

Phillips interjected that having friends in the show and other friends viewing “is like being with an extended family.”

The piece Phillips is donating shows a bicycle in a field with a farmhouse in the background. It’s titled “Vintage Americana.”

Ruck’s featured piece is “Spring on the Brandywine Battlefield.” It’s a scene from the Battlefield Park showing the side of the Gilpin House and the old sycamore tree with a splash of blue flowers in the foreground.

In addition, this year will include another visit by Chadds Ford artist Karl Kuerner, but Mary Cronin from the Brandywine River Museum of Art will also be on hand 1 p.m. Saturday to discuss the history of the Wyeths.

The show is a fundraiser for the PTO with that group getting 30 percent of the sale price. Nicole Scull, who’s chairing the event for the third year, said last year’s event made $20,000.

According to school Principal Shawn Dutkiewicz, the money goes toward a variety of enrichment programs, technology applications, special programs. “They’re opportunities that we don’t have as part of our regular budget to do,” he said.

Everything gets underway with an adults-only event Friday night from 7-10 p.m. That night includes live music, complimentary hors d’oeuvres, and an opportunity to meet and talk with the artists, many of whom will be available to sign or personalize their work.

Saturday’s events go from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. In addition to Cronin’s talk, there will also be a “Paint Party” class offered by artists Christine Burke and Diane Micklin from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and a raffle drawing at 3 p.m.

MasterCard and Visa are accepted. All proceeds support educational enrichment programs at Chadds Ford Elementary School.

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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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Time matters for stroke victims

Health

Getting prompt treatment for a stroke is of major importance. That was one of the lessons driven home to Chadds Ford Business Association members during a lunch meeting at Crozer Keystone’s Brinton Lake Facility. Dr. Erol Veznedaroglu, a neurosurgeon and the director of Drexel Neurosciences Institute at Drexel University’s College of Medicine was the guest speaker.

Known as Dr. Vez, he told the group that two million brain cells die for every two minutes the brain goes without blood flow. “Fast treatment can save some of the areas affected by a loss of blood flow,” he said.

Veznedaroglu added that strokes are on the rise, causing deaths every four minutes. In addition, strokes are now happening to people in their teens and 20s, along with heart disease, obesity and diabetes.

Neurological disorders are the leading cause of disability, he said, and that they represent 15 percent of all medical burdens in the United States. He also called them “the number one crippler and killer.”

Surgical techniques have improved over the years, he said, and quick surgery can improve blood supply by opening arteries. He considers strokes to be a “surgical disease.”

Crozer, he said, now has a dedicated neurological emergency room, operating room and an intensive care unit. And the team has grown as well. Dr. Vez said there were four neurologists and three neurosurgeons at Crozer in 2017. Today, there are 10 neurosurgeons and 20 neurologists. It’s the largest group of its kind in the mid-Atlantic region.

“You’ll get no better care anywhere” he said.

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Around Town March 14

Along the Ford

Golden ragwort (Packera aurea) is one of many spring-blooming wildflowers featured in Mt. Cuba Center's gardens.

• Unionville High School presents the musical “Little Shop of Horrors” this weekend. Opening night is tonight, Thursday, March 14 at 7 p.m. Showtimes for Friday and Saturday, March 15 and 16 are also 7 p.m. Tickets are available online at www.showtix4u.com. Prices are $12 in advance, $14 at the door and $12 for students and seniors.

The Pied Piper is on stage Saturday, at 2 an 5 p.m. in West Chester

• Missoula Children’s Theatre will present The Pied Piper Saturday, March 16, at 2 and 5 p.m. in the Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall, Philips Memorial Building at 700 S. High Street in West Chester. Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for children, students and seniors. They can be purchased at http://wcupatix.com/wculive.

• Brandywine Battlefield Park Associates presents Nancy K. Loane, a former seasonal ranger at Valley Forge National Historical Park, who has studied more than five hundred Revolutionary War-era diaries, journals, letters, returns, orderly books, and records. She is the author of Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment(Potomac, 2009). She will discuss her work on Tuesday, March 19, at The Gables Restaurant, 423 Baltimore Pike, in Pennsbury Township from 6-9 p.m. Cost for dinner and the talk is $50.

• It’s sunflower season and Mt. Cuba Center is celebrating. The gardens will open for general admission starting Wednesday, April 3. The gardens will be open to visitors from Wednesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will be open until 8 p.m. on Fridays between Memorial Day and Labor Day. The annual Wildflower Celebration, where garden admission is free to the public and includes family-friendly activities, will take place on Sunday, April 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Rachel Kohl Library hosts an Instrument Petting Zoo from 11 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 23.

• The Delaware County Symphony invites all families to a free Instrument Petting Zoo for children at Rachel Kohl Library from 11 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 23. Seven classically trained musicians will explain and demonstrate to the children how their specific instruments: flute, violin, viola, cello, bassoon, oboe, French horn, bass, and clarinet, individually sound and are uniquely used in classical music to make a full symphonic sound. The program will conclude with an ensemble performance of “Simple Gifts” and “When the Saints Go Marching In”so the children may hear the sounds of the instruments performing together.

• Unionville High School presents the a capella ensemble, Chanticleer in concert on Wednesday, April 3, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.The group takes its name from the “clear-singing” rooster in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Chanticleer was named Ensemble of the Year by Musical America in 2008 and inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame the same year. Tickets are $25 for preferred seating or $35 for premiere seating. Purchase online at www.showtix4u.com.

The Veterinary Dentistry Specialists at 455 Old Baltimore Pike

• A new veterinary dental office is now open in the Chadds Ford area. Veterinary Dentistry Specialists is located at 455 Old Baltimore Pike. According to a press release, “VDS is entirely dedicated to advanced dentistry and oral surgery for pets. It is one of only a few dentistry practices in the country where a full-time, board-certified veterinary dentist and a full-time, board-certified veterinary anesthesiologist work together onsite to ensure the best care and outcomes.” To contact VDS, call 484-775-0557.

In recognition of Historic Kennett Square’s efforts to make the borough a vibrant and welcoming place to live, Tom Bentley, CEO, Bentley Homes (right) presented Executive Director Mary Hutchins (center) and Board President Tom Sausen (left) with a check for $2,500 at the March 6, Grand Opening of the Stonehouse Model Residences.

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