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Operation Bennett Trifecta Kudos — Kudos to the Chester Police Department, Pennsylvania State Police Troop K Vice Unit, and the Delaware County Criminal Investigation Division for busting up a long-running cocaine ring in the city’s Ruth L. Bennett Homes housing project.
Fifteen were arrested and city life got just a little bit better.
The investigation was named Operation Bennett Trifecta.
A list of those arrested can be found here.
Free Joe Kenney Concert In Broomall — Pianist Joe Kenney will be giving a concert at New Hope Christian Church, 551 Paxon Hollow Road, Broomall, PA 19008, on Sunday, April 24, at 4 p.m. He will be performing works by Bach, Schubert, Liszt, and Debussy. The performance is free and open to the public.
Kasich Bores Delco — Ohio Governor and puzzling presidential candidate John Kasich bored a crowd of 300-plus at a campaign town hall this afternoon, April 21, in Delaware County, Pa.
The event was held at the Penn State Brandywine Campus Commons Building in Middletown Township. Among those in attendance were curious students who had no plans on voting for the GOP candidate whoever it would be.
It is impossible for Kasich to get the required number of delegates via the primary process to secure the nomination. So why is he running? Well, he was introduced by establishment epitomes Bob Asher and Andy Reilly, who chairs the Delaware County Republican Party. Maybe he figures there is way to get the prize outside the primary process.
Anyway, Kasich’s performance was boring. Mind-numbingly, painfully, excruciatingly boring. He even sadistically alluded that he was being boring on purpose. He gave long, rambling answers to audience questions. He said strange things that made no sense such as his claim that drug problems would go away if schools and churches taught that doing drugs was bad. Okay. Guess that’s never been done. He blamed the rage in the country on talk radio and (cough, cough) talk TV.
He said things of substance as well, though. His hallmark was the danger caused by our $19.251 trillion debt and even included as part of his visuals a running debt counter, so kudos there.
He advocated war against ISIS and an expansion of global intelligence capabilities.
He endorsed devolving government services to states and said — unfortunately quite boringly — that problems were best solved locally and even individually.
He boldly said that the 11 million illegal aliens — his estimate — now in this country should be given a path to legal residency if they have not been involved in crime. “But never citizenship,” he emphasized.
And there were times he sounded almost Trumpian.
If elected, he said that in his first hundred days he would stop all federal regulation excepting those involving health and safety, and require all regulation be made by legislative votes rather than administrative fiat.
He said he would cut the corporate tax and the personal tax rate.
We are probably missing some things but we are only human and he was Boring. Note the capital B.
Kasich Delaware County Visit — Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who has absolutely no chance of becoming the Republican nominee via the primary process, will be bringing his presidential campaign to Delaware County, Thursday, April 21 at the Penn State Brandywine Campus Commons Building, 25 Yearsley Mill Road, Media (Middletown Township) Pa., 19o63.
Doors open at 1:30 p.m., and the program runs 2:30 -4.
Sign up early here as they will likely be turning people away due to the massive crowd.
Just kidding.
Actually, we suspect they will manage to fill the venue due to the Governor’s support among party regulars and those with government jobs but can you seriously imagine Donald Trump picking the Brandywine Campus Commons Building as a site for an event?
GV Takes Hi-Q Title — Kudos to the Garnet Valley (Pa) Hi-Q team for winning the national championship.
The Jaguars took on in the final Henry M. Jackson High School in Washington and Peshtigo High School in Wisconsin.
The final score was GV 48; Jackson, 46; and Washington, 33.
The event was held via video conference.
The Green Party Presidential Caucus in Delaware County is 1 to 3 p.m., Saturday, April 23, in Swarthmore Borough Hall, 121 Park Ave., Swarthmore, Pa. 19081. 
The campaigns scheduled to participate are those of:
Darryl Cherney (California)
Bill Kreml (Illinois)
Kent Mesplay (California)
Sedinam Kinamo Christin Moyowasifza-Curry (California)
Dr. Jill Stein (Massachusetts)
The public is invited to attend and witness democracy in action in Pennsylvania, says event organizer Jocolyn Bowser-Bostick.
Villanova makes Delaware County proud. Congrats to the Wildcats. Now only eight places have more NCAA Division I basketball champions than Delaware county.
If you count Division II it goes up to nine.
Spring Craft Event Cometh — The Haverford Guild of Craftsmen’s Spring Fine Arts and Crafts Show will be April 30 and May 1 at Saint Anastasia School, 3309 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square 19073.
Saturday hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Event spokeswoman Judy McGrane of Springfield notes that the show features works for sale by a large and varied group of Delaware County artists, including painters, potters, photographers, jewelers, wood, clay, leather and glass workers.
The Haverford Guild was chartered in August 2009 as the 16th chapter of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen.
The parent guild is headquartered in Lancaster and was founded in 1942. It is among the oldest professional craft guilds in the country.
Pennsylvania Delegate Pledge 7th District — Pennsylvania will be sending 71 delegates to Republican Presidential Convention this July. Seventeen will be bound to the state’s top vote-getter. The remaining 54 — three per congressional district — have no restriction as for to whom they may vote. Theoretically, they can vote for anybody or anything.
Springfield GOP Chairman Mike Puppio notes that in the 7th Congressional District the three party-endorsed delegate candidates have pledged to vote for the district’s leading vote-getter on the first ballot.
These candidates are Puppio, Bob Willert and Joan Miller.
The election is April 26.
Granite Run Mall Demolition Starts — A hole has been knocked into the Granite Run Mall where Ruby Tuesdays had been.
The mall in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa., is being demolished for a mixed used residential, retail, and entertainment project called Promenade at Granite Run, which is expected to open in 2017.
As of now the Boscov’s and Sear anchor stores are open.