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Potato Pancake Sale At HMB — Holy Myrrh-Bearers Church in Swarthmore is selling delicious, fresh, homemade potato pancakes this week.
The cost is $5 for three and will be available for pickup 10 a.m., through noon, May 8.
Please pre-order by May 6 by calling Bob Long at 610-517-3711.
Holy Myrrh-Bearers is an Eastern-Rite Catholic Church at 900 Fairview Road, Swarthmore Pa. 19081 (Ridley Township) that celebrates liturgy at 5 p.m. Saturdays and 10 a.m. Sundays.
Donna Ellingsen Thank You — Donna Ellingsen, the independent-thinking Chester County committeewoman who the party powers tried to remove this winter, overwhelmingly won re-election to her post on April 26.
She has sent out the below heart-felt thank you to her many supporters.
Dear Neighbors and Friends,
In last Tuesday’s Primary Election, I was re-elected as Republican Committeewoman in Elk township by a vote of 195 to 119 votes. Here is the unofficial report.
I had the distinction of being the only Committee person in Southern Chester County to have a challenger run against me. Nevertheless, with your help, I easily won re-election to the Republican Committeewoman spot. Even though I was personally unable to visit everyone as usual this time, voter turnout in Elk Twp was the highest in all of our Area 19 at an unprecedented 61.9% of all registered township Republicans.
Thank you to all those who came out to vote, inquired about the state of affairs with the GOP HQ, and offered help in whatever is needed. Your prayers and support are a blessing to me.
Gratefully,
Donna Ellingsen
P.S.: In case you missed it here are the links to:
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Pennsylvania Bathroom Bills — A pair of very stupid bills were introduced in the Pennsylvania legislature last fall that would give emotionally disturbed males legal access to all public women’s rooms.
SB 974 has been sitting in the Senate’s State Government Committee since Sept. 8, as has HB 1510 in the House counterpart.
Biology is reality. Other people’s feelings matter. If a person born a male — which means he is a male — is uncomfortable using a man’s restroom he has an emotional issue and you can feel sorry for him. One has to recognize, however, that women have feelings too and most — the overwhelming majority we suspect — would feel very uncomfortable about him entering their private space.
And this is leaving aside the impossibility of weeding out males who merely claim to identify as female to enter ladies rooms.
Target gave men by-right access to the ladies rooms at their stores and have found it to be very bad business.
Voting for these bills would be very bad politics.
And that means you too, Scott Wagner.
A collection of mice is called a mischief.
News Game, a play by Delco resident Margie Royal featuring a character created by herself and fellow Delco resident Betty Lou Roselle, will be performed 8 p.m., June 25 and 2 p.m. June 26 at Players Club of Swarthmore.
It will be directed by Emily Fishman.
The play ponders the fate of newspapers in the 21st century.
Plot points include:
— The company again streamlines the workforce eliminating even more jobs.
— The company starts outsourcing their ad production to India.
— The company goes bankrupt and is force to sell to another hedge fund.
To whatever company can she be referring?
Tornado Tom Trump Report — Tornado Tom Padula of Unionville High School, unlike us, actually made it into Donald Trump’s rally in West Chester, April 25, and has a great report.
You can see it here:
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Target Bathroom Policy Bad Business — Target Corp., April 19, declared that men with severe emotional issues can use the ladies’ bathrooms at its 1,800 discount retail stores and its stock has since dropped $2.65 per share. 
More than a million people have signed a boycott petition against it.
If the organized boycott ended tomorrow the business’s future would still be bleak.
The vast majority of those who use the stores are women. People — especially women — don’t want to be in places that creep them out.
If one saw a mouse scamper across the floor of a restaurant one would never return no matter how much one had patronized it in the past.
So imagine a woman seeing the equivalent of a 200-pound mouse in lipstick and a wig and fishnet stockings scamper into the stall next to hers.
If you have Target stock sell it while you can.
And in a related issue, Montgomery County’s Springfield School District has opened its girls rooms to boys who say they feel feminine.
Hippette Superintendent Dr. Nancy Hacker says it was done because a junior at the school was afraid to use the boys’ rooms.
So now the 14 and 15 year old girls, many of whom are just as insecure about their bodies and the changes occurring in them as he, get to share their private space with him.
And maybe other males trying to make a big prank out of it.
With cellphone cameras.
Really stupid people are now running our institutions.
And for those who claim that this is now an undebatable matter of “settled science” here is what the most authoritative scientific voice says.
Mountain View Monster Email Escape — Google has obvious issues for those concerned about privacy. Paoli-based DuckDuckGo is an alternative for browsing the web but what about for those who depend on an email service like Gmail? 
And want it free.
In a Quora discussion, the most promising suggestions appear to be Hushmail.com and Zoho.com/mail.
Unlike with DuckDuckGo, which we use constantly, we can’t vouch for them from experience. We strongly suspect they are better than something associated with Google, however, and are certainly a starting point for those wishing to wean themselves from the clutches of the Mountain View Monster.
Hat tip Bob Small of Delco Debates.