This November people in East Whiteland finally have a chance to get real change. There is a ballot question that is simply yes or no to add two more supervisors.
VOTE YES.
Please note East Whiteland or Great Valley whatever they call themselves Republicans are telling people to vote no. the Democrats? They’re not really taking a position, but they have the ballot question on their sample ballot.
What this comes down to is control. And neither party wants to lose control. If East Whiteland gets five total supervisors, people stand a good chance for the first time in years for balance and representation in all matters.
And maybe if East Whiteland get two more supervisors, we can clean house on staff that really shouldn’t be there.
Vote for the government you want, not what the political parties are telling you that you should do. Also, you need to ponder the point that perhaps both parties are for data centers.
Shame on the Republicans here, but can’t say I’m particularly surprised. They are quite limited in their thinking in this area.
They were sent to Harrisburg to serve the people, but they have only served themselves. They are just perfect for reality TV, not public service.
It’s time to hold the current cast of characters in Harrisburg accountable. Doesn’t matter what party, they all need to realize for whom they should be working. This bunch just happened to be DINOS.
I suppose next time Dicranian will run for Governor? She is failing all the way up the political food chain so it makes sense right?
Send this runs for everything Screaming Mimi packing…again.
She doesn’t show up at any meetings, she doesn’t participate anywhere anyone can find in the community, she doesn’t support ANY of the residents against data centers and thinks brownfields AKA Superfund sites are ok for data centers?
Yeah mmkay and bye 👋 girl. (and in case Republicans in Pennsylvania wonder why they can’t win more races look no further than this candidate.)
It was a historic farm. Farmed until the bitter end. Part of a Penn Land Grant. But when Jack Bogle passed away, Vanguard which had bought the land at some point during his tenure, sold it….for development. Next is the old historic resource survey form, which seems to have disappeared from Pennsylvania websites?
So listen, if this had to be mega warehouses or whatever why is the whole site a ghost town? You can apparently just drive in and someone I know did that and sent the following video with this note:
Not one tire rub mark where truck drivers are always turning wheels hard leaving black marks. Not one oil drip. Pure virgin concrete.
Here, you look for yourselves:
So this begs the question which is a horrible thought and that is what else could this site be used for and does Uwchlan Township know or keep tabs on this? The sad fact of life is don’t you wish you could look at swaths of land like this and not worry it might someday become a freaking data center?
This morning so far, one utterly unsolicited email to Tredyffrin Township saying the Vice Chair etc owe ME an apology for violating my First Amendment Rights. I have permission to share. And NO I have not solicited such an email but I appreciate it for the kindness…and truth. They do also owe an apology on their behavior last night in general and not just to me. And someone should tell that local guy it was very little man of him to bring his dog and pony show as far as personal animus towards me and another resident to the meeting. For a guy worried about what is appropriate and fair, that was anything but.
Also this is not the first time a Tredyffrin supervisor or supervisors have pulled shenanigans similar to this. And last time it was a now former Republican supervisor. This wasn’t towards me but it was towards another blogger who was also a resident.
This event last evening was the public hearing over Mount Pleasant.
Of course after the meeting the Vice Chair Sharon Humble took to Facebook to continue her Joan of Arc of Tredyffrin against the evil blogger routine. She seems a little obsessed doesn’t she? I mean is this really the best use of her time? Do her residents actually wish she was as attentive to other things as she is to trash talking me? Oh and she is a fluffy cloud loving Tredyffrin Democrat no less? I mean I could just tell her to shut up or remove her, but her keyboard warrior mode is well interesting isn’t it?
What happened was last night the Vice Chair of Tredyffrin Township Sharon Humble throws this blog, me, and RESIDENTS under the bus about Mount Pleasant problems with student rentals and IMHO Supervisor Carlotta Johnston Pugh tagged along. Careful Sharon Humble you are a politician (as is Carlotta Johnston Pugh) and if you were so caring or however you have phrased it these issues would not have to be addressed again now. And are you also saying that 6ABC lied? Or NBC10? Or the Philadelphia Inquirer? Or Main Line Media News years ago?
This has been going on for YEARS. You see I remember how people had to fight to get the initial student housing ordinance. And IMHO why it happened it all was residents from more affluent neighborhoods showed up because back then some had these houses pop up next door to them all of a sudden and why? Because at that point back in the day Tredyffrin knew there were issues, but had never dealt with them, correct?
NO ONE has ever said ALL off campus students are bad EVER. But we have said that you Tredyffrin pretty much sucks on this issue (and others) and why? Because they have allowed the issues haven’t you?
In my opinion, this township hides behind the word grandfathered as in student houses are grandfathered in the area known as Mount Pleasant. So this area also has the largest concentration of student rentals I think in that entire township unless I’m mistaken? This has literally been going on for decades, and even when they got the first student housing ordinance you still have these houses where they go way over the occupancy limit for example. I’m sure a lot of of that has to do with the amount of rent being charged for students to rent the houses. And while no one has ever said, all student housing rentals are bad in this area, there is a total disregard for the people who have lived there in some cases, their entire lives. Like you can’t help but wonder if there had been more basic enforcement actions when neighbors have called over the years. Would they even be looking at this today? And the history of this particular area is very important and more of it seems to disappear day by day because they’re also the issues of predatory development where houses are being bought and land cleared and big expensive jammed in new construction etc. going in.
So there you have it. If I am told I can share the email, I will. And again, it was not solicited in any way. Thank you all for your kind words on this issue.
This morning is a memorial service for a woman I knew. It actually started a bit ago.
Her name was Sara. Her obituary actually didn’t really sound like she wrote it, or I should be more specific, it didn’t sound like the obituary she originally wanted. It also didn’t contain any information about making contributions in her memory to things that were important to her.
For decades, we have all known this adorable little house as Sara Pilling’s house. Sara died in early July. The always too absent while being the more local son is cleaning it out.
Yes there’s been stuff all over the lawn this week. And yes, we know this is what happens. It’s not like it’s cruel. It just feels cruel and there’s a great finality to those of us who knew her. I kind of wish that dumpster could have waited until after the memorial service to appear.
I said goodbye to Sara when she called me in January to tell me she had cancer and it was terminal. Back then she thought she only had a few short weeks and she actually got a few extra months.
We had been mostly disconnected almost the past year prior to this, because to be honest, I couldn’t deal with the other things that were ailing her. I chose that route because I didn’t wish to fight with someone that I actually loved who was turning 89 years old. I wanted to remember her as I knew her for more than a couple of decades.
She was a bright, yet complicated and fiercely independent woman who did not have a very nice life at times. She did her best in a time that was often not really nice to women, and honestly, sometimes I felt she was born in the wrong time. That leaves its mark. She had the most basic human desires to be liked, loved and more importantly? Belong.
I also chose to remove myself because when she was in that last stage of life, literally the death watch beetles appeared out of nowhere. People who were in a lot of cases incredibly hypocritical because they really weren’t friends with her. Some I know neither cared for her nor respected her. I also chose not to bear witness to that, and I don’t know why people do that.
I also felt something was wrong healthwise prior to her 88th birthday and she didn’t want to go to the doctor. Let’s face it, if you knew her you knew she didn’t like hospitals and didn’t trust a lot of medical professionals.
We also had differences of opinion about her constantly going to “No King’s” protests when she was becoming far less mobile and no one knew what was wrong with her but healthwise you knew something was off because she was getting quite frail. One of the protests I was most concerned about ironically is where they arrested the man with all the weapons in West Chester Borough, and where she had been that day was probably only a block or so away.
As a result of those different opinions between us, she really sniped at me after that. And that did hurt at first because we had been truly close. If you didn’t agree with something Sara decreed, she was unpleasant. I always thought that was a defense mechanism on her part.
Sara died in early July, after the Fourth of July.
That has made a lot of us who cared for and knew Sara at one point in time or another very sad. She’s literally one of those women that you just thought would go on. I’m really grateful that a mutual friend helped find her beloved dog a new home.
After she died, people kept waiting for an obituary to appear. One didn’t appear until a couple of weeks ago, and it seemed more perfunctory than personal and not really capturing the essence and life of the deceased. Sara gave and gave her time to many people and many things over the course of her life.
Then came the planning of the memorial service. If you were really close to Sara, you knew for probably the last seven years what she wanted to happen when she passed on. You knew the music, you knew whom she wanted to speak. You knew what about her life she wished to be remembered. And above all else, you knew that it didn’t have to be the last supper after the service, but she wanted it to be gracious. Well, along comes the literally brown bag, potluck email. Cheap and mean and petty IMHO.
As a result, there are those of us whom you will not see at her memorial service now in progress. It’s not a sign of disrespect to her. It is actually a sign of respect because we knew her wishes. We know where the grave will be, and we will take her sunflowers at another time. Hopefully someone at least has remembered that Sara wanted a church full of sunflowers.
I’m also not going because of the people in Radnor Township (politicians and others) who literally were not nice to her most of the time who are all now saying “Oh such a great loss blah blah blah” when you know in their heads they’re thinking things like “Oh good she won’t be at meetings anymore or emailing us.”
Sara should be remembered for being a driving force behind the Skunk Hollow Garden in Radnor.
She should be remembered for her big part in working with volunteers to help save the Willows Cottage, which now is a train wreck because Radnor and the Radnor Conservancy allowed it to rot after the crazy amount of money that was raised to restore it.
She should also be remembered for the one who tried to get Radnor to pay attention to what was being sprayed in the fields close to Ardrossan near the cows. This was after the land was subdivided for lots of mansions in part.
She should be remembered for her work in Haiti, which was considerable.
She should be remembered for being a master gardener who shared her knowledge. She didn’t lord over people with it. I will remember with fondness our many trips to Lancaster County for plants over the years.
She should be remembered for more ordinary things like her wonderful quilting and the knitting and other things that she did. She taught me how to make jams and preserves. She taught me many things about gardening.
She was also incredibly knowledgeable about the history of the region because she descends from a family that just went back far enough.
She should also be remembered for having been the last surviving grandchild of Charles Barton Keen the esteemed architect of places like the….Willows. (Willows Park Preserve as a related aside should do better remembering her that just a tree like I heard.)
Again, Sara was a remarkable, albeit complicated human being. I will honestly miss the many conversations we had over the many years I was connected to her. I will miss the random acts of email or text messages that were often quite amusing.
Until she didn’t like the fact that I didn’t agree with her on everything, she often referred to me as another daughter and being an other mother to me, which were incredibly meaningful compliments as I always knew how much she missed her real daughter, who had died shortly before we really became real friends. She also never got over that loss. I have two baby trees off of the redbud tree in her garden that she planted in honor of her daughter.
Soon her house will be on the market. I bet you it becomes a teardown because so many people can’t be bothered with old houses. It’s really sad and that will truly leave its mark. Sara made that house her home and she had a lovely garden.
I don’t feel badly about not being at the memorial service. I do not do death circuses even if they are small.
Please refrain from telling me you’re sorry for my loss. I have already grieved this loss. This is like the period on the end of the sentence.
Sara had a quote that she had on every email at the bottom where her signature was. I always liked it and I will close with that:
“Do what is fair and just to your neighbor, be compassionate. Don’t take yourself too seriously. Walk humbly with your God .”[Micah 6:8]
How we will remember the house.
POST SCRIPT:
They didn’t even get sunflowers and the eulogy? Well when someone gives a eulogy that no one will remember particularly?
I really hate these text messages. Especially since I didn’t sign up for them and it’s an invasion.
They didn’t actually get a user-friendly version of me via text back. They got a blast just like Red Whiners and Blue. These groups can piss off.
When I was a Republican (until 2016) I was on do not solicit lists. I didn’t get emails, text messages, phone calls. When I tried to be a Democrat, I had to repeat the whole process. When I realized that both major parties were not for me and went to an Independent status, I’ve had to do it all over again and while the Republican Party has respected my do not call/do not text/do not contact them at all, I can’t say the same for Democrat groups. My husband who is also a registered Independent gets bombarded by both parties.
I can only say Democrat groups are being obnoxious with unwanted contact, I don’t know that it’s the entire party in PA with the lack of respect. This is the second one within about a week or so.
So to this group Contest Every Race which I never heard of before, can stick it where the sun don’t shine.
Here’s what I think: I don’t think any voter in Pennsylvania should be supporting candidates. I think the candidates should be supporting all of us against data centers.
I only know one politician for sure who is all about defending Pennsylvania against data centers and State Senator Katie Muth.
The others, regardless of party affiliation, I don’t necessarily know for sure. Well except for that guy who is running against State Representative Kristine Howard. His name is Joe Lewis. He is among other things, co-owner of a really good café in Wayne , Pennsylvania. And allow me to be clear, I am not endorsing Mr. Lewis, but he is literally the only person running for office besides Katie Muth who has stood up at a township meeting and basically say “What are you people doing?”
I have not heard another single candidate from either party do that. God knows the incumbents like Paul Friel, Danielle Friel Otten, Lisa Borowski, and Kristine Howard just to name a few are completely out of touch and have forgotten completely why and for whom they were elected. I have to wonder if they ever really knew if it is so easy to have selective political amnesia over data centers?
And I am very disappointed in the Democrats because they’re all lining up behind Josh Shapiro, who is data center happy.
Therefore, I think it is incumbent upon every politician running for office this November to actually really side with residents or get out of the way.
I just don’t know how else to say it other than plainly. We are fighting for our land, our property values, our water, our energy, our environment, and possibly our lives.
We need a full moratorium on data centers within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
I don’t want to hear any crap that we couldn’t look at Facebook, etc. etc. if they stopped building data centers. Newsflash to the idiots in the room is that those aren’t the kind of data centers they want to build. That is the bottom line.
So elected officials and politicians? What side of this issue do you want to be on? The right side or the wrong side?
Side with the people save us from what we haven’t asked for and don’t really need.
To all of the residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: you don’t have to support candidates with campaign donations when you need to fight for your righttoexist. You tell anyone who wants your vote they need to earn your vote without your hard earned money. They need to roll up their sleeves and prove themselves.
Actions speak louder than words and I’m not seeing much out of Pennsylvania politicians with few exceptions.
If you are a politician at all running for OFFICE in Pennsylvania this November, even as an incumbent, if you can’t say no to data centers, people shouldn’t say yes to voting for any of you.
To the data center neighbors groups across Pennsylvania I have a simple message: if any of these politicians aren’t taking your side of the issue, they aren’t worth your time. Saying that they side with whatever Shapiro is shoveling is not anyone you want in office. Same with Marge Simpson, otherwise known as Stacey Garrity.
Our choices for governor are definitely lacking because of data centers, but we do have a say so the rest of the state and local races we are voting in.
Look carefully at the candidates and don’t just vote because they are your party or someone tells you to vote for them. Being an independent thinker is important here.
Hey North Coventry it’s not the Bill Soumis show right?
Who is Bill Soumis? Why he is the chair of the North Coventry supervisors.
And tonight Bill Soumis threw a woman out by using the police to remove her. She was speaking at the microphone. She wasn’t saying anything bad. He just didn’t want to hear what she was saying.
And State Representative Paul Friel sat there and did nothing? And the rest of the stupidvisors did nothing?
Wasn’t there a municipality somewhere in Pennsylvania where residents have just filed suit against the municipality for doing something similar? I think in that case they got locked out of a meeting, but it’s kind of in the same vein, isn’t it?
Anyway, you know that line “film at 11” ? What kids I’ve got the film at 10 PM from the resident victim and I have the comments that the resident was reading and I’ve got her contact number so if you’re in the media and you want to talk to her, you just hit me up.
This is pure unmitigated bullshit.
Contact North Coventry AND also Paul Friel’s office…. these people all stood there like a bunch of stunads allowing a woman to be manhandled. Unbelievable.
