Delco safety program promotes bike care and health services
Daryl Hodges rides through traffic cones with Keystone safety rep Bob Lemoine at Wallingford Elementary School as Keystone sponsors a bicycle safety program. The Pennsylvania Health Department offers a free child health clinic across Delaware County with exams immunizations tests and counseling at several locations and times. Call 447 3250 for an appointment.
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Daryl Hodges
Wallingford
Keystone Automobile Club
Bob Lemoine
Keystone
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Delaware County
Fiumara
9Th and
Market Sts
Linwood
Calcon Gardens
New Building
Calcon Drive
Darby Township
Tinicum Township
Essington
Nether Providence
Moore Road
Garden City
State Health Center
Chester
5Th and
Penn Sts
Zoning board rejects Puzzuolo special use request in Middletown
Middletown zoning hearing board rejects Joseph Puzzuolo's bid for a special exception to build a maintenance garage at South Pennell and Hunter Streets. Community notices include immunization clinic details and a summer arts and crafts exhibit in Upper Darby with an international theme.
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Middletown
Joseph Puzzuolo
South Pennell and
Hunter Sts
Upper Darby
Piza
Bazaar
Baltimore Pike
Clifton Heights
East Lansdowne
Borough Hall
Emerson
Lexington
Eddystone
12Th St
Saville Ave
Folcroft
Delmar Drive
Haverford
Darby Road
Bishop Hollow
Ridley Township
Park Avenue
Morton Avenue
Folsom
Thornbury
Cheyney
Darby plans to appeal order giving ex chief his job back
Darby Borough officials vote 5 to 3 to appeal Judge Reed's July ruling that Paul J. Coleman deserved his police post. Coleman, 51, has repeatedly fought demotion and firing from superintendent to police chief since 1976, claiming political motivation.
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Darby
Paul J. Coleman
Delaware County
Howard F. Reed Jr
Coleman
Peter J. Nolan
Commonwealth Court
Reed
Borough Civil Service Commission
Centenarian May Pride Reflects On A Life Well Lived
Middletown resident May Pride turned 100 this week and says she feels no different than at 50. She lists memories from Upper Darby, work at American Tobacco Co., and surviving typhoid, noting she’s content with life, thankful for better water, and glad she enjoyed her youth without wishing to relive it.
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Middletown
May Pride
Fair Acres
Toved
Zimmerman
Mrs. Pride
Jacob
Sun Ship Continues Layoffs Amid Slow Construction
Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. laid off about 50 skilled workers on Friday, bringing weekly total to roughly 130 and cutting staff from a peak of 4,500 in 1977 to about 3,000 now. Boilermakers Local 802 leader Leo Fine cited 25 welders and 19 boilermakers laid off with similar cuts among machinists last week. He noted many are relatively new hires. The company, having won a $150 million February contract to build three vessels, has delayed construction and expects more layoffs for at least a month as repair work remains limited and new build activity is slow.
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Chester
Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co
Leo Fine
Boilmaker
Fine
Former Trainer youth charged with arson and attempted homicide
John Cominskie, 19, of Boothwyn, arrested on arson and attempted homicide charges for incidents against police Chief Sgt. Hubert Morris on July 12 and 16, and Oct. 23, 1977. He faces multiple counts, bail set at 200,000 dollars, with a hearing scheduled for Aug. 10 before District Justice George Paige.
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The
Daily Times
Boothwyn
Borough
Hubert Morris
John Cominskie
3Rd St
Chichester Ave
Upper Chichester
Delaware County
Morris
State recommends £87,000 for Riddle Hospital project
The Pennsylvania Health Department urged HEW to approve 87000 dollars for renovations and new equipment at Riddle Hospital in Middletown. The plan seeks federal funds to upgrade facilities and add new gear at the health care center.
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Riddle Hospital
Pennsylvania Health Department
U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
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Delco
Flo Kain
Media
Upper
Providence
Aston
Brookhaven
Foscarini
Camille Antonello
Jacques Lane
Antonellio
Tinicum Wildlife Preserve
Falcroft
Afi
Sun Ship
Sun
Sgt. Morris
Dennis Chernecki
Sgt
Henry Johnson
Cominskie
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