Benefit For Fletcher Fox

A benefit for Fletcher Fox, who suffered much in his young life and is now battling cancer, will be 1 p.m to midnight June 20 at the LNC Event Center, 1725 Huntingdon Road, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006.

There will be food vendors, craft tables and 10 bands with the music starting at 2 p.m.

Also, an evening light show.

Tickets are $42.50 in advance and $50 (plus fees) at the gate.

Fletcher spent his teenage years at  Logan River Academy in Utah and the Chamberlain International School in Massachusetts institutions noted for abusing their charges. Fletcher was among the victims.

Read some of his story here.

He was ordered into the system in 2012 during a bitter divorce against his will of his mother Renee.

He escaped the system when he turned 18.

Despite being diagnosed as he received a degree in Associates Degree in Business from Delaware County Community College in 2021 and bachelors in psychology in 2023, both with honors.

Fletcher had to take remedial classes at DCCC due to the poor education received at the other institutions.

The ending would be happy but Fletcher was found to have colon cancer in August 2025 which had metastasized to the liver.

“It’s been a hell of a year,” said Renee. “They botched the surgery.”

She said the last several blood tests have indicated improvement, however.

“We are not out of the woods yet, ” she said.

Ribbon Cutting For Middletown War Memorial

Ribbon Cutting For Middletown War Memorial –There will be a ribbon cutting, 1 P.m., May 30 for a war memorial at Middletown’s Roosevelt Community Center, 464 S. Old Middletown Road, Media, Pa.

The center is the site of the former Roosevelt Elementary School and the township is seeking veterans who were pupils there to participate.

Contact jmaull@middletowndelcopa.gov

The memorial is the dream-come-true of noted Middletown businessman Oliver Armitage, who served in the Navy during World War II and was an advocate for veterans.

Oliver died in May 2019 at Lima Estates. He was 94 years old.

Ribbon Cutting For Middletown War Memorial

Spots On Sale For HMB Flea Market

Spots On Sale For HMB Flea Market –Spaces are on sale for the flea market and crafter at Holy Myrrh-Bearers Church Slavic Food Festival.

It’s 9 a.m. through 3 p.m., Saturday, May 16 at the church at 900 Fairview Road, Swarthmore.

Spaces are $25. No food may be sold though.

Payment is required by May 7.

Call 610-544-1215 or email HMBChurch@Verizon.net for information

Spots On Sale For HMB Flea Market

Free Piano

Free Piano — Our friend Katie tells us the time for music lesson is over in her home and she is giving away a piano to anyone who is ready to pick up the instrument again or for a family ready to let their children learn how to play it.

She lives in Middletown, Delco, Pa.

If interested call her at 610-888-4807.

Free Piano

HMB Cookie Walk Dec. 13

HMB Cookie Walk Dec. 13 — Holy Myrrh Bearers Church is holding a “cookie walk” starting at 10 a.m., Dec. 13 at the church, 900 Fairview Ave., Swarthmore, Pa. 19081.

The cookies will be homemade and include Ukrainian and European specialties.

A cookie walk is where a customer is given a box and let loose to fill it among rows of cookies. The box is weighed and the customer pays.

The event lasts until the inventory is sold out.

HMB Cookie Walk Dec. 13

Holy Myrrh-Bearers Basket Raffle

Tickets are now on sale for the Holy Myrrh-Bearers Basket Raffle which will occur at the church’s annual Feast of Saint Nicholas Luncheon, Dec. 7.

They start at $2 each for a regular basket and but one can get 17 for $20.

Grand prize basket tickets are $5 or five for $20.

One does not have to be present to win.

The church is at 900 Fairview Road, Swarthmore, Pa.

Services are 5 p.m., Saturdays and 10 a.m., Sundays.

Holy Myrrh-Bearers Basket Raffle

Ukrainian Food Fest Is Saturday At Holy Myrrh-Bearers

Ukrainian Food Fest Is Saturday At Holy Myrrh-Bearers — Holy Myrrh-Bearers Church is holding its Ukrainian Food Festival and flea market, Saturday, Sept. 27, at the church, 900 Fairview Road, Swarthmore, PA, 19081.

It runs 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Come out and have a great and delicious time.

Ukrainian Food Fest Is Saturday At Holy Myrrh-Bearers

Swarthmore GOP Presents Curt Weldon

Swarthmore GOP Presents Curt Weldon Former Congressman Curt Weldon will be the guest of the Swarthmore Republican Party, 7 p.m., Sept. 24 at the Inn at Swarthmore, 10 S. Chester Road.

In addition to his 20 years of service in the U.S. House of Representatives (1987–2007) for Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District (now the 5th District), Curt Weldon has built a remarkable career as a firefighter, fire chief, teacher, and advocate for first responders.

He is the author of Awakening the Sleeping Giant (2017), which highlights his decades-long effort to empower firefighters and first responders worldwide; and Countdown to Terror (2005), which recounts critical intelligence warnings ignored by the CIA.

He is also the subject of the 2021 documentary Firefight, which follows his journey from small-town fire chief to the halls of Congress.

For event information, contact: Jim Riviello at 215-880-5230 or jimrsbwp@outlook.com

Swarthmore GOP Presents Curt Weldon

Art for the Ages at DCCC

Art for the Ages at DCCC

By Bob Small

Having previously written about the music series at Delaware County Community College — which continues — we move on to the visual arts.

When visiting the colleges free art gallery which is hosting the 2025 Senior Community Services Art Show through July 31.

My expectations were modest but they were pleasantly exceeded.

Senior Community Service Centers involved included:

Chester Senior Center

Friendship Circle Senior Center

Good Neighbor Senior Center

Schoolhouse Senior Center

Also involved was the Center Without Walls – Senior Community Services.

Feeling that pictures are worth the thousand words, see below;

Art for the Ages at DCCC

Art for the Ages at DCCC
Art for the Ages at DCCC
Art for the Ages at DCCC

HMB Food Fest May 24

HMB Food Fest May 24 — Holy Myrrh-Bearers Ukrainian Catholic Church will have a food festival and flea market 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., May 24, rain or shine.

The food includes homemade Ukrainian delicacies including pyrohy (perogies) halupki, halushky, and kielbasa and sauerkraut.

Take out is available.

The church is at 900 Fairview Road, Swarthmore, Pa. 19081.

Call 610-544-1215.

HMB Food Fest May 24