Category: Springfield

Wounded Springfield Vet To Get Big Welcome Home Today

Orchard Road in Springfield Pa. will be closed at about 12:30 p.m., today, April 14, for a big welcome home for Army Specialist  Russell (Rusty) L. Carter to his home on the street.

Rusty served as a member of the 101st Airborne Division and was deployed to Afghanistan In July of 2010. He came under hostile fire and ultimately suffering a concussion. A month after being treated from his wounds he returned to his unit. On Jan. 2, 2011 while returning from a night mission, Rusty was in the turret of his Humvee when, after experiencing mechanical problems, it went over the side of an unprotected bridge, crashing into a ravine and coming to rest in the river bed 50 feet below. While the five other soldiers on board sustained recoverable injuries, Rusty suffered several broken bones, severe lacerations to his face and skull and a complete C 4 separation of the spine.

While he has undergone spinal and neck surgeries, he is paralyzed from the elbows down. 

Rusty will be escorted home by Springfield Police and The Warriors Watch Riders, along with members of the community.

Please join Jerry in welcoming home a severely injured young soldier from Springfield, PA  (See the above link regarding our hero, Army Specialist Russell Carter).

The escort is expected to arrive at 1 p.m.

God Bless Our Troops, God Bless America and God Bless Rusty Carter.

Hat tip Cathy Craddock.

Aslo today, at 6:30 p.m., the World War II vets participating in the Inaugural Trip of Honor Flight Philadelphia will be returning to  Anthony’s Restaurant, 4990 State Road in Drexel Hill from their day in Washington D. C.

The  public is encouraged to greet them.

Honor Flight is a national non-profit organization founded in 2005 to give aging or terminally ill veterans a day of honor in Washington D.C. 

There is no cost to the veterans. Thousands of them have participated in the last six years.

The Philadelphia hub was started and is managed by Springfield resident Andrew Schiavello.

The Great Walsh Park Dog Raid

A decades-long tradition for dog owners in Springfield, Pa. has been to let their pets roam free at certain times of the day in Walsh Park which takes up 19.4 acres between Brookside and Scenic roads.

The township had been well aware of this unleashed transgression of ordinance and had turned a blind eye.
The county, however, has apparently figured the situation provides a way to reap some revenue. 
The site was reportedly raided by county agents a short time ago. Several were fined $100 and one outspoken protestor was nailed with a $2,000 fine as the story goes.
The dog lovers of Springfield are not happy.
Hat tip Robert.

Saint Patrick’s Day Snarls In Springfield, Pa.

Springfield, Pa.’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade is certainly thriving.

Traffic is snarled throughout the township for the event’s 34th year and there is hardly a parking spot left within a half-mile of Saxer Avenue.

Lights Back On Windsor Circle

A fallen tree at 101 N. Rolling Road knocked the lights out on Windsor Circle, Springfield, Pa. at 1:46 p.m., today, Feb. 29.

The came back on at 6:05 p.m.
PECO said that only 18 homes were affected which corresponds to the number on the circle.
Hat tip Margaret Lawrence
Lights Back On Windsor Circle

Stupid Traffic Flow Of Springfield, Pa.

Driving west on Baltimore Pike through Springfield, Delaware County, Pa, one will reach a stoplight flanked by Springfield Square North and South.

A few dozen yards behind  will be an exit from Springfield Square North which could but rarely  disgorges traffic back onto the Pike. Why would  it be used? It only allows right turns hence it merely puts a motorist in line for a light they would likely miss if he just used the main exit.

Now, if that driveway were an entrance on the other hand it would be used probably by more than half of those entering the center cutting down the snarl at the main entrance and bringing relief to those drivers who just want to pass on by.

A few hundred yards beyond Springfield Square is a small strip center across from the termini  of North Chester and Riverview roads. It  has a Starbucks, Talbots dress shop, an AT&T store and an absolutely bizarre traffic flow. The  first driveway, counter-intuitively, is the exit. This means the customers unfamiliar with the site use it as an entrance.
Drivers entering as they should often find themselves face to face on the narrow traffic way with cars leaving the back parking spaces for the exit.

This small center is abuts the larger Olde Sproul Shopping Village  which  has several entrances and exits with a light at the main one.

A small concrete barrier prevents cars from entering the Village from the Starbucks’ center and getting onto the Pike using the traffic light.

Why? Both centers are private property. It is possible the absentee landlords are not aware of the issue. It is possible they don’t care about the issue.

Regardless, the lives of the community could be improved with just a small bit of effort.

Stupid Traffic Flow Of Springfield, Pa.

Stupid Traffic Flow Of Springfield, Pa.

Maybe There Is Something To This Global Warming

This yard on North Rolling Road, Springfield, Pa. is not the blazing carpet of purple that it was last March 15, but it’s only Feb. 7 and the crocuses are popping up.

Maybe there is something to this global warming. It’s actually kind of pleasant. Pump out that CO2.

OK, if that last sentence really upsets you, and you are totally convinced that this warm winter is really a harbinger of the doom of our species here is a plan for you:

The United States has 104 operating nuclear reactors that produce about 20 percent of our electricity.  Most of them were built between 1970 and 1986. They produce zilch in the way of greenhouse gas.

The U.S. has 1,460 coal-powered generators. They produce half of our electricity, along with lots and lots and lots of greenhouse gas.

So if you are serious about saving the world from greenhouse gases you will immediately begin crusading to replace our coal-powered plants with nuclear ones. It will require about 300 new ones. If we put our mind to it we can do it within a decade.

And here is something for all right-thinking — sorry, correct-thinking –progressives to mull on: if the production of greenhouse gases is  as catastrophic as you insist it is,  it will turn out to be Jane Fonda who has destroyed the world.

 

 

Springfield (Delco) To Crack Down On Yard Sales

The Springfield (Pa) Commissioners, Jan. 10, had the first reading of an ordinance that would restrict yard sales by residents.  Residents would be limited to two a year and have to pay a $10 fee per sale.

Whose egregious abuse of residential zoning is causing such action to come about? You know who you are on West Springfield Road and on North Rolling Road.

Thanksgiving Day Trolley Crash

Thanksgiving Day Trolley CrashThanksgiving Day Trolley Crash — Trolley service was halted on SEPTA’s Route 101 line Thanksgiving Day when a Media-bound trolley hit a car at about 3 p.m.,  at the Springfield Road stop.
Photo by Anthony Lawrence

 

 

Thanksgiving Day Trolley Crash

A Miracle In Springfield And A New Saint

A Springfield man’s recovery from certain brain damage is being credited to intervention by an Italian priest who died in 1915.

William Glisson Jr., was rollerblading backwards down Baltimore Pike In Springfield, Delaware County, Pa in March 2002 when he hit a hole in the road, banged his head and went into a coma.

Glisson was 21 at the time.

Glisson underwent a serious of operations but little hope was offered.

A family friend organized prayers asking Don Luigi Guanella to make intercession with God for mercy. Joining in were
members of the Servants of Charity as well as residents and students of
the Don Guanella Village for those with developmental disabilities.

The village is in adjacent Marple Township although it has a Springfield address.

Don is Italian for father.

Don Guanella, who was born in 1842, founded several religious institutions dedicated to serving the needy.

He was beatified in 1964.

Glisson recovered soon after the prayers started and was back to work within three months.  He is now 30 and married.

The Catholic Church has accepted the miracle and will canonize Don Guanella on Oct. 23.

Hat tip Phil M.

Signs Of Support For SB1

Signs of support for SB 1, the school choice bill pending in Harrisburg, have been popping up in Springfield and throughout Delaware County.

The bill has not been changed since April 11.

Many Tea Party activist feel it goes nowhere near far enough.