MARPLE – Surgical Technology students at Delaware County Community College are once again joining the Association of Surgical Technologists across the nation in an effort to “gLOVE” the world one person at a time. Surgical technologists, generally found in operating rooms helping surgeons into sterile gloves, want to extend their caring hands to help warm residents in need. Students are collecting gloves, hats, scarves and outerwear for local shelter residents. Collection boxes are being distributed throughout the College’s Marple Campus, 901 S. Media Line Road, Media, as well as at clinical sites throughout Delaware, Chester and Philadelphia Counties. The campaign runs through December 1.
For more information on the “gLOVE” campaign, call Anne Marie O’Shea, instructor of Allied Health, Emergency Services and Nursing, at 610-517-6928.
Cardinal O’Hara Craft Fair
Cardinal O’Hara High School will be hosting a craft fair this weekend to support the band and the color guard.
You can get an early jump on Christmas shopping Saturday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Pa. DEP awards $68K grant to Haverford School District
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) today awarded over $610,000 in grant funding to four school districts in the state for clean energy vehicle projects that will help improve air quality and public health and save the schools thousands in costs. The funding, which comes from the commonwealth’s Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants (AFIG) Program, will enable the school districts to replace older school buses with 44 propane buses and the installation of a fast-fill propane fueling system. These projects will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 316 tons annually and save the school districts more than 67,000 gallons of diesel per year. In Delaware County, Haverford Township School District was awarded $68,000 to purchase eight propane school buses, saving 11,913 diesel gallons per year.
Christmas train showcase and visit with Santa in Morton
The Knoetgen-Donohue Funeral Home, 746 Kedron Ave., Morton, will hold a Christmas train showcase and special visit with Santa 2-6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24, 12-4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 25, 2-6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 and 12-4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2. Everyone is welcome. For more information, call 610-544-0600 or visit www.kdfuneralhome.com/.
Community invited to trim-a-tree party at Swedish Cabin
The community is invited to celebrate the holidays Swedish Style at the Trim-A-Swedish-Christmas-Tree Party at the historic Swedish Cabin, 9 Creek Rd., Drexel Hill, 2-4 p.m. Sunday, December 2. Admission is free but donations are always appreciated.
The Friends of the Swedish Cabin will provide Swedish holiday food from their Julbord, beverages, decorations, and Swedish Christmas music. Attendees can help to decorate the Christmas tree, Julgran, with apples, heart baskets and straw ornaments, plus tour the cabin and warm themselves by a roaring fire, while toasting marshmallows. Additionally, visitors can shop for gifts at the Butiken.
Free soup luncheon at St. James every week
St. James Episcopal Church, 732 11th Ave., Prospect Park, has restarted their “Soup’er Lunch” every Tuesday at 11 a.m. The complimentary weekly luncheon will serve soup, beverage, bread and desserts. Everyone is welcome for free food and fellowship. For more information, call 610-461-6698.
Dance with the Friendly Seniors
The Friendly Seniors meet 12:30-2 p.m. every Thursday at the Ridley YMCA, South Ave., Secane, to dance and socialize. The first visit is free and after that, dues are $15 for the year and one dollar each week to dance. The Friendly Seniors also host about four luncheons per year. They welcome everyone to come and join in the fun. For more information, just show up on any Thursday or call Dee at 610-329-5382 or Cass at 610-461-4469.
Mansfield Brass Quintet offer outdoor Christmas Caroling event
The Mansfield Brass Quintet will play Christmas Carols outdoors in the Gladstone Manor section of Lansdowne, 6-8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15 , weather permitting. The Gladstone Manor section of Lansdowne has updated its picturesque, turn-of-the-century style street lamps with a newer, brighter, and more energy efficient style. The Mansfield Brass, so named from the street that its leader Paul Del Rossi lives on, will be playing Christmas Carols under these beautiful street lamps. Mansfield plays trumpet in the quintet and has been providing the neighborhood with Christmas Carols the Saturday prior to Christmas day for the last twenty years. Mansfield Brass was born twenty years ago performing this unique traditional Brass Choir Christmas event. This year, it will feature the full 5-piece brass group instead of the 3-piece group of its early years. The Mansfield Brass will include Carolers again this year, for the tenth year in a row, to accompany them and help celebrate their twentieth year.
The original Salvation Army arrangements of the classic Christmas Carols will be used for everyone’s enjoyment. These arrangements are truly unique and have a most unusual harmony. They are rarely heard at Christmas time with the full instrumentation of the Brass Quintet for which they were written. Many new arrangements of more popular and contemporary carols have been added to the Christmas Carol book. Tunes like Snowmiser, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause, Jingle Bell Rock, Santa Baby, and many more. There will be no charge for the event but attendees may have to drive around Gladstone Manor to find the Mansfield Brass, as they will be traveling from street light to street light. They will start under the light at the corner of Mansfield Rd. and Madison Ave. They will then travel down Madison Ave. to the Gladstone Train Station at the Septa R3 Media/Elwyn line, and then up Walsh Ave. They will finish at the entrance to the community where the large Christmas Tree was recently lit to signal the start of this festive holiday season. For more information about the event or about the Quintet, which is available to play all functions, call Paul at 610-284-2980 or visit at www.MansfieldBrass.com.
Broomall student wins part in NYC’s ‘The Little Dancer
PA Leadership Charter School (ALCS) 8th grade student Dominic Corcoran of Broomall will perform in the world premiere of the Off-Broadway production of the holiday musical, “The Little Dancer,” written by Steven Fisher, Dec. 1- Dec. 31 at Theatre 71 at Blessed Sacrament, 152 W. 71st St., 10023, right off Broadway. The cast includes 5 professional actors, as well as Dominic and 33 other theatrically talented singers selected by audition from the ranks of the Garden State Girl choir, the Keystone State Boy choir, the New Jersey Boy choir, and the Pennsylvania Girl choir. These young musical theater thespians have been participating in a weekly workshop with Broadway veterans Richard Vida and Lainie Sakakura in Philadelphia, before making their professional NYC debut.
Dominic has attended the the Center for Performing and Fine Arts program three days a week as part of the PALCS educational programming. He has attended the PA Leadership Charter School in West Chester since August. For more information or tickets, visit https://www.thelittledancermusical.org/.
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