Delco Restaurant Is Tonight’s Restaurant Impossible

The episode of Restaurant Impossible starring Italian Village at 902 MacDade Blvd in Ridley Township airs 10 tonight on the Food Network.

At a meal there in May waitress Nancy said that Robert Irvine was just as big a jerk as he appeared to be on the show albeit he knew his stuff.
The restaurant is offering food “on us” for those that show up to watch it at 10.
If one should miss it tonight it is expected to air several more times.

Report: GOP-e Shunning McGinnis Campaign

Montgomery County Tea Party activist Bob Guzzardi is reporting that the Pennsylvania House Republican Campaign Committee is refusing to support Tea Party-supported Dr. John McGinnis in his quest to represent the 79th District in the State House.

The district is in Blair County.

McGinnis beat long-term GOP incumbent Richard Geist, who had represented the district since 1979, in the primary angering the establishment.

McGinnis has a doctorate degree in finance.

ACLU Is Putting On A Parade At Voter ID Hearing

The Independence Hall Tea Party Association notes in its most recent newsletter that: The PA Voter ID Hearing is entering its 5th Day of trial with no end in sight. The ACLU is parading witness after witness.  They are testifying, with straight faces, that making a trip to the local Penndot office, to obtain a photo ID, would be a terrible burden for them–both financially and logistically.


So, how come the ACLU has never before expressed a concern about these deprived people being able to cash checks, open bank accounts or get a library card?
What a narrow-minded group of people. Don’t they think dead Pennsylvanians should have access to books?
IHTPA notes that the hearing is open to the public and should last until the end of the week. Sessions start at 9 a.m. in Courtroom 3002 Pennsylvania Judicial Center, 601 Commonwealth Ave., Harrisburg, Pa. before Judge Robert Simpson. The IHTPA is offering transportation. Call 1-215-663-1983.

Reviews Matter To Car Shoppers

Emarketer.com reports that seven out of 10 consumers say dealership reviews affected their decision on where to buy their vehicle. 

So salesmen remember the words of the famous bouncer Dalton when dealing with prospective costumers and “be nice”.

New Charter School Has Swarthmore College Ties

The Chester Fund for Education and the Arts, a private  foundation also known as The Chester Fund (TCF), has announced  that a charter has  been approved for the Chester Charter School for the Arts (CCSA), which will open its  doors on Sept. 10. 
It will cover kindergarten through sixth grade and any child residing in the Chester Upland School District is  eligible to attend.
“I am thrilled that we have the opportunity to build a great school for the beautiful  children of Chester,” said John Alston, a music professor at Swarthmore College who is founder and president of The Chester Fund, which  will raise funds to provide specialized arts and academic programming at the new school.  
In 2008, through Alston’s efforts, The Chester Fund formed a partnership with the  Chester Upland School District to create the Chester Upland School of the Arts (CUSA).  Last fall, however, CUSA’s educational programs were compromised and 70 percent of  CUSA’s staff was furloughed because of massive cuts in the school district budget and  state education funding. This inability to protect staff and programming was the key reason TCF decided to terminate the partnership with the district and apply to open a  charter school. 
In January, the Chester Upland School Board voted to deny The Chester  Fund’s application to open a charter school and in the spring, TCF brought an appeal  before the Charter School Appeal Board in Harrisburg. The Appeal Board decided in favor of the charter school on July 24.
“I am delighted that the  Appeal Board in Harrisburg has awarded our charter to create the Chester Charter School  for the Arts,” said Maurice Eldrige who chairs the board. “We are working to provide the finest education program possible for the  children of Chester. They have great potential and deserve to realize it. We look forward  to fostering their growth and hope as well to become a beacon of success for the district  itself through collaboration with its other schools.”
Anna Hadgis will serve as principal of Chester Charter School for the Arts, which will  offer full-day kindergarten and classes in music, dance, drama, physical education,  Spanish and the visual arts as part of the core curriculum. An extended after-school  program in academics and the arts will begin in January. The new Chester Charter School for the Arts, which will be  at 200 Commerce Drive in Chester Township although it has an Aston postal address.
The plans call for it to grow by one grade each year through Grade 12 and will also include a Pre-Kindergarten 3 and  4-year-old program starting in 2013.  
Hat tip Celina De Leon

Hey! Got A Minute?

Here is the latest from Jim Vanore at Good Writers Block:

I can’t—and won’t —speak for anyone else, but when we were kids hanging on a street corner, we always viewed ourselves as “being busy”—that is, we had to be doing what we were then doing, which of course, was “nothing.”

Anyone who has ever seen the 1956 Academy Award-winning movie, Martywould know exactly what I’m talking about. The theme of that film revolved around a group of single young men who, night after night, did little more than hang around a bar and talk about what they were going to do. Which usually turned out to be—hanging around!

I will have to admit, as teenagers, we would spend our summer days playing ball, then at night, we’d all gather on the corner and do essentially the same thing we had done the night before…and the night before that. And what we did was—nothing! It’s what young people tend to do with their time. Time means less to them than it does to someone in middle age, and a lot less to them than it means to a senior citizen.

That’s why it annoys me—yes, I do get annoyed—whenever I see a TV show that depicts youth as perpetually busy, while senior citizens are continually shown as dozing, sitting on a park bench, dozing, ambling along with a walker or cane, dozing, gossiping unashamedly, dozing, and drinking the omnipresent cup of tea.

Excerpt, read more at Good Writers Block

Mike Kelly’s Righteous Rant

If you haven’t seen Congressman Mike Kelly’s very righteous rant about our nation’s dire fiscal situation, which is something for which he blames both parties, and the inability for a U.S. budget to be passed, which is something for which the Democratic Party gets the blame in toto, here it is below courtesy of Cathy Craddock:
Kelly represents Pennsylvania’s 3rd District which extends from Erie to the Pittsburgh area. He is a businessman whose involvement in politics before beating incumbent Kathy Dahlkemper in 2010 was as a Butler County councilman.
What he is saying above is much like what Tom Smith, another non-career politician, is saying on the the campaign trail in his quest to unseat incumbent Senator (and career politician) Bob Casey Jr.

Blunt Letter From Joe Biden

Just got this in my inbox from Vice President Biden:

Bill —

This isn’t hyperbole or exaggeration:

If we don’t win this election, it will be because we didn’t close the spending gap when we could.

Because right now we’re seeing that voters have a choice between two very different men.

And the only way someone like Mitt Romney — who’s asking Americans to put him in charge of their taxes while refusing to come clean about his own, who wants to repeal Obamacare, end Medicare as we know it and give more tax breaks to billionaires who don’t need them — defeats someone like Barack Obama, is if the other side spends us into oblivion.

Tomorrow is the most urgent fundraising deadline of this campaign so far. Will you make a donation of $3 or more today to make sure we can keep this close over the last 100 days?

It’s already starting on TVs and radios in swing states, and it’s not going to stop.

In the last two weeks of this month, Romney and his allies had an almost 2:1 spending advantage in Florida, Iowa, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Virginia — and that could be the election right there.

We’ve got more than 2.4 million grassroots donors building this the right way.

But we’re running out of time to close the money gap when it really matters.

Please donate $3 today, and help make sure our message can get through to as many voters as Mitt Romney’s does:
 
Barack and I honestly wish we could thank everyone who contributes to this campaign personally. You’re our second family, you know.

Thanks,

Joe

Joe — I guess I can call you that as that is how you signed the letter — I can’t help. Maybe after next January when I expect things to be get a little better economy wise, I might be able to send a few bucks your way. Keep in touch.

Bill
Blunt Letter From Joe Biden

Hearings Heard On Marple DUI, Theft Cases

By Pattie Price

Jacquelyn Perez-Rocha, 19, of Marple, waived a hearing Thursday before Magisterial District Judge Dave Lang on the charges of DUI and possession of drug paraphernalia. In exchange for the waiver the charges of speeding and driving while her license was suspended were withdrawn. The charges stem from an incident 6:47 a.m.., April 4, in the 1700 block of Sproul Road, Marple, Pa.

According to the affidavit, Marple Sgt. Tony Colgan investigated a report of a reckless driver who struck several curbs and appeared to be falling asleep at the wheel of her red Nissan.

Marple Officer Andrew Ronsvalle spotted and stopped the vehicle on Cedar Grove Road at Grant Road. The driver, Ms. Perez-Rocha was attempting to conceal items in the car and was ordered twice by Ronsvalle to “stop reaching into her bag.”

Colgan approached Ms. Perez-Rocha at the drivers’ side and asked her to turn off the car and give him the keys for safety reasons. Meanwhile, Ronsvalle went to the passenger side and retrieved the items Ms. Perez-Rocha was attempting to conceal.

Police confiscated four balloons and two silver cylinders from the passenger seat.

Ronsvalle also said that he clocked Ms. Perez-Rocha at 40  mph in a posted 25 mph zone in the 700 block of Cedar Grove Road. 

Ms. Perez-Rocha had difficulty maintaining her balance, slurred speech, and failed field sobriety tests. She was transported to Springfield Hospital for a blood test.

Ms. Perez-Rocha told police that she takes Suboxone and Valium, and that she has been clean from Heroin for about a month.

A computer check revealed Ms. Perez-Rocha’s license is suspended.

Ms. Perez-Rocha was released to her sister and is scheduled for an Aug. 23 arraignment in Common Pleas Court.

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Caren Dorsey, 30, of Wilmington was held for an Aug. 23 arraignment in Common Pleas Court on the charges of false identification to law enforcement authorities and retail theft. The charges stem from an incident 11:04a.m., July 11, at Walmart, 400 S. State Road.

According to the affidavit, Marple Sgt. Tony Colgan responded to Walmart after store security took Ms. Dorsey into custody. Security reported they saw Ms. Dorsey conceal various items and attempt to leave the store. The merchandise valued at $62.29 was recovered.

Ms. Dorsey told police several times that her name was Caren Winn. When Colgan escorted Ms. Dorsey out of the store to a waiting police car, Ms. Dorsey said her car was in the parking lot and if they check the registration, it will come back to her real name – Caren Dorsey.

At the police station Marple Detective Kurt Lindelow determined her real name is Caren Dorsey.

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Jeffrey Cooper, 44, of Bryn Mawr was held for an Aug. 23 arraignment in Common Pleas Court after a hearing on the charges of retail theft, false identification to law enforcement authorities, and defiant trespass. The charges stem from an incident 2:34p.m., July 7, at the Giant, 2910 Springfield Road.

According to the affidavit, Marple Officer Chris Barmes said a store manager detained Cooper after they saw him conceal four steaks, two packages of crab meat, a bag of shrimp, and a bottle of tea in a shoulder bag that he brought into the store. The merchandise was valued at $116.64. When Cooper was confronted he attempted to flee, but was caught by the store manager.

Cooper initially told police his name was Joseph Cooper but Livescan results proved he was Jeffrey Cooper.

Cooper was arrested at the same Giant for retail theft on March 29, 2010 and at that time was told he was never allowed to return to the store.

A computer check revealed Cooper has two prior retail theft convictions. Cooper was returned to jail to await his arraignment.

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Scott Kelleher, 28, of Havertown, was held for an Aug. 23 arraignment in Common Pleas Court on the charges of DUI, illegally operating a vehicle without the ignition interlock system, and lane violations. The charges stem from an incident 2:27 a.m., Jan. 20 on West Chester Pike.

According to the affidavit, Marple Officer Ray Stiles saw a silver Cadillac cross the lines on West Chester Pike near Springfield Road. The driver later identified as Kelleher, then crossed the left yellow line and almost struck the curb at Franklin Getz. He was stopped near I-476.

Kelleher displayed a limited license with an ignition interlock restriction.

Kelleher said he was on his way to Harrah’s casino with his cousin who was the passenger and the owner of the car.

Although Kelleher had an odor of alcohol, he denied that he had been drinking. He stumbled out of the car and almost fell. He was swaying during the field sobriety tests. A portable breath test revealed a high level of alcohol.

Kelleher refused a blood test and was transported to the police station. Refusing a blood or a breath test means an automatic 12-month suspension of one’s drivers’ license, even if the charges are dismissed or the driver participates in ARD.

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A warrant was issued for Tracy Kostack, 33, of Marple when she failed to appear for a hearing Thursday on the charges of criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. The charges stem from an incident 11:36p.m., June 8, at a home in the 100 block of 3rd Avenue.