This is every family’s nightmare. You entrust the care of a loved one to a retirement community/facility. And tragedy strikes.
This started YESTERDAY. And in this heat, whether or not she was an independent living the media reports and the police reports both infer cognitive issues. She was seen leaving, didn’t they think to keep tabs on a brand new person unfamiliar with the area IN THIS HEAT?
Main Line Media News and others reported that she had been seen by someone’s housekeeper yesterday and declined help on Morris? Imagine if someone had just called the police? The nouveau Main Line is full of busy bodies and no one noticed her???
She was found on Garden Lane in Bryn Mawr. That is quite the walk from Waverly Heights. Waverly Road across big roads like Conshohocken State Road, up to Morris, down Morris, crossing over other streets like Old Gulph Road, to I guess Carisbrooke Road to Garden Lane. That is about 3 miles, maybe slightly less. But this isn’t a straight shot. These are roads that are windy, often busy, and hilly in places.
Are we also wound up in our lives that no one else saw an elderly woman during brutally hot weather? How long was she gone before Waverly Heights called the police? This comment below (next) from Lower Merion Police Department’s Facebook page indicates she had just been moved from Colorado.
Apparently she has family in Chester County. I am so terribly sorry for them and sad. I have known many who have lived at Waverly Heights quite happily and this chain of events shocks me as much as everything else. For what this place costs, you would never expect this.
She was so new, not driving that anyone has mentioned, and it was brutally hot. If she wasn’t happy being there as well as so new to area and again so hot, they should have kept more of an eye on her or assigned her a walking buddy or something don’t you think?
The other day I posted one West Whiteland was putting up the NO PARKING signs on Route 100. It’s pretty simple: it’s not about depriving small businesses of anything, it’s common sense and safety.
(Besides if you own three or four other bars, are you still a “small business”?)
Anyway, the amount of ridiculous commentary from what can only be described as a great intelligentsia blaming it all on me (of course), when all I’ve done is write about it, made me think well some will just ignore the signage. Of course, human nature, dictates it would be sooner rather than later note the photo above. I understand they were ticketed.
But for these people, no parking will always be for other people.
The “No Parking” signs are pretty hard to miss
So I’m sure soon as I hit publish on this post the comments will all start again about me being on American and horrible etc. People? I don’t work for West Whiteland Township. I don’t work for West Whiteland Township. Police. I don’t work for the Pennsylvania department of transportation, either.
And interestingly enough, the types of comments always being left about this and people wonder why middle school kids are harassing and torturing teachers on TikTok? Yep, but I am sure someone will blame me for that too since it is always easier to blame the blogger or whomever thinks your comments are ridiculous, right?
But back to The Brickette. This bar if they wanted to come to some kind of an arrangement for satellite parking and a shuttle/valet service on these super busy nights. Even if it’s as busy as this every night, they could still come up with something, they are choosing not to.
And for the residents on Sorber Drive behind The Brickette, I don’t believe you are in West Whiteland Township. I believe you are in West Goshen Township which means you have to go to your township and speak up at a public meeting and ask them to do something about the parking. But don’t hold your breath, West Goshen isn’t proactive for residents, are they?
Now I am going to ask a basic thing about The Brickette. What is their actual capacity? I ask because there was an article in the Daily Local they were getting ready to open.
PUBLISHED: November 4, 2022 at 12:56 p.m. | UPDATED: November 4, 2022 at 1:26 p.m.
WEST WHITELAND — With a nod to the past, and a two-step leap into the future, the classic Texas-style Honky Tonk joint called the Brickette Lounge, is back.
Historically, the Brickette Lounge, at 1339 Pottstown Pike, leaned country, with weekly line dancing, live music and DJs. All that will return.
Temporarily closed in July, the “Brick” is leaning even further to all things Texas, with the addition of two massive stick-fired BBQ pits built from decommissioned 1,000 gallon propane tanks.
The menu will be fairly simple with six meats, all cooked over oak and sold by the pound, along with six sides. As the smell of cooking BBQ wafts over the new patio, with the addition of new picnic tables and two seater tables outside, the game corn hole can be enjoyed. A custom fabricated fire pit will give visitors a chance to congregate and watch the sun set.
The interior is decorated with vintage beer signs, lots of neon, pool tables and a 1940s antique shuffle board table.
While the Brickette Lounge no longer sells breakfast, the new owners proudly display on a wall a menu from 1963…The Brick reopened Friday night. 3 West Hospitality also owns the Square Bar and Slow Hand restaurants, in West Chester.
The honky tonk can seat 38 at the bar and has approximately 70 seats overall.
So what is the capacity here altogether? And please *note* before everybody jumps down my throat I am not saying they are over capacity because I am not saying that. I am only asking what the entire capacity of the place is? Does the number of parking spaces available match capacity?
I think the reason I’m asking about the capacity is perhaps that is even more of an argument given the success of the business that they spring for valet or remote parking with a shuttle?
Anyway, that is all on this for today.
Aesop says if you park where it says “No Parking” you will get a ticket. That has nothing to do with “hurting” a small business so some people need to grow up.
A few months ago now I posted the above photo showing where people were parking for the brickette lounge on Old Route 100 / Pottstown Pike.
I have written about this topic before, because I thought the parking was nuts, and the residents on Kirkland and surrounding streets can attest to this craziness because they live it.
So the first, no parking zones went up on Kirkland. As of early this morning, the signs went up on 100.
I hope this helps the residents. If you see 100 all parked up, you can call the police now. If you see Kirkland all parked up, you can call the police now as everyone already knows if you see Sorber all parked up that is I think West Goshen and they have to deal with it.
So the other day I wrote about West Goshen. And what I saw in the recent meeting video was completely appalling. And Supervisor Ashley GagME is ridiculous. Ashley recently declined again to be interviewed by Barry Dee on WCHE.
Truthfully and ironically, he was trying to be fair and give Ashley GagME a chance to tell her side of this story. However, there was something in an email from her that basically translated to me was “Well you’re not a West Goshen resident, so I’m not going to speak to you.” But then she does she really speak to her residents anyway? Also full disclosure I thought she was ridiculous the first time she ran for office, but hey West Goshen is not my country, not my people.
West Goshen as a whole is a perennial cesspool as far as municipal government no matter what political party has all the toys at that moment and I feel sorry for her residents. (Pssst tell their solicitor that the First Amendment ain’t dead yet, hear?)
Anyway, the snippet of on Barry Dee’s show today on WCHE is embedded. I will post the entire podcast when it becomes available but I took a little recording of this segment so people didn’t have to wait.

And basically, I think the reason West Goshen is doing this whole thing with the EV chargers to begin with is because of grant money, aren’t they? But gosh, I guess they need to fill the coffers for “squirrel time“ again anyway, right?
So Supervisor Ashley GagME? Your spotlight and a spotlight on West Goshen Township continues and you and your counterparts give Democrats a bad name. In truth, you’re just petty dictators of the breakfast table.
So West Whiteland has realtors on their historic commission and I know they want the house saved. I wish they could find a preservation buyer that could budge the demolition by neglect owners off of the property before it is too late.
There was a rumor a few months ago that someone once again was interested in buying the house but guess like all the other attempts, the demolition by neglect owners didn’t go through with it?
There are also a couple of trees in really bad shape.
The place has zero security it seems like and does the place look safe and secured?
West Whiteland has that property maintenance code, right? Maybe they can sit on the owners to NOT just let this gem rot?
West Goshen is a curious place. Watch the recent meeting which I have embedded below from YouTube. Especially starting at the 1:24 mark. It has to do with electric vehicle charging stations.
There is a gentleman who got up to speak about this who a resident. Not rude or offensive. He was measured and thoughtful in his comments. And what he was asking was reasonable.
I also don’t know this man at all. But I wish people would be more thoughtful and plain spoken and polite and conversational like this, when discussing things at township meetings anywhere.
And at first there’s the township solicitor who seems to speak a little too often for the supervisors and so it begs the question of who actually runs the township? And I know that solicitor doesn’t like me. It all stems from a cartoon from many years ago that was well within my first amendment rights just like my comments today.
The man politely persisted in spite of many rude interruptions on the part of the township, and he never lost his cool and again polite well spoken. Then this Twinkie of a supervisor, I guess the vice chair I’m not really sure starts basically telling him that he doesn’t have First Amendment rights in West Goshen and what kind of crazy is that? 
And I’m not making this up, here listen for yourself :
They are rude and argumentative with him, and it’s really out of line on their part and very unprofessional isn’t it?
However, what they are saying basically is First Amendment rights are subjective in West Goshen Township and how does that work exactly?
This whole thing with electric vehicles and charging stations is a hot topic in multiple municipalities. And if you build it into the zoning, the man who was interrupted and threatened with being removed by a police officer wasn’t wrong, saying that the language had better be tight or they will be subject to litigation. He also wasn’t wrong like some of the other residents in questioning who would be paying for the electricity at the stations if they’re at a township, for example? I know that this came up in West Vincent Township.
In West Vincent (and if I could find the meeting tape, I would post it) they put in one of these charging stations near the township, and again the question came up with who’s paying for the electricity? And one reason it came up in West Vincent is there were people that were parking their bikes at the township building, apparently and charging their car and coming back after the car was charged.
So residents in West Vincent looked into it and discovered that townships can add a mechanism in place where if you want to charge your vehicle, you basically swipe a credit card and you “fill up”, much like you do for gas at a gas station. What also came out after they added the pay as you go component is that if people had to pay for the electricity to fuel their car battery, they weren’t interested. They only want it free electricity.
And some of this language being built into township codes is also curious to me because it’s like if you do certain things to your house now, they want you to add capability for one of these charging stations, and should people be made to spend the money for that if they’re not necessarily going to use it ever? This is like a big Emperor’s New Clothes boondoggled to an extent isn’t it? For example, what if you’re putting a deck on your house and they want you to add this onto the deck and your deck is all the way around in the rear of your property where there is no driveway?
Just because there is grant money for something it doesn’t mean that everybody has to hop on it immediately before they know the ins and outs. Unless of course you work for a local municipality I guess?
This was a hot topic in Narberth as well. And at one point Narberth Borough had apparently installed charging stations on public streets in front of peoples homes where parking is a premium (little off street parking) without telling them and that was a problem. What was also a problem, was a lack of conversation with residents, who would be affected by these charging stations, who may or may not have electric vehicles, but again what they also didn’t have were driveways, and that’s the parking in front of their house or on their street.
Ironically, this nice man, who basically got threatened by the supervisor Twinkie at West Goshen last evening it looks like was on the Barry Dee show at WCHE last week. Barry show is called All Politics Are Local.
And here is the link to the complete West Goshen meeting:
So this man and other residents aren’t asking unreasonable questions. And my favorite out of all the speakers, I think was the guy with a man bun who looked like a plant who said everything was lovely in his world view and butterflies would be charging their wings, which again this is his right to public comment, but if you’re going to allow him to speak you allow the others to speak.
So once again, spotlight shines on West Goshen. And speaking of West Goshen whatever happened about that report that was supposed to be made public about the man who works for the township who committed suicide? And what’s happening with that litigation because it is in federal court still isn’t it?
Signing off with It’s always shady in West Goshen Township.
Now this is in West Whiteland Township. This is the United States Post Office in Exton, PA. If this were a residential property, they would be getting a citation most probably, but it’s USPS so what happens? Louis De Joy shows up with a weedwacker?
The weeds are 4 feet high in places and there are dead trees. A friend of mine took these photos. I’m taking these photos to the next level because it shows you some pretty basic things wrong with USPS. Other than the fact that we hardly get mail these days and they can’t keep employees because they treat them so poorly.
I think where a possible conundrum comes in is USPS doesn’t own all of their sites. And a lot of cases they are tenants on the land where they have the post office so who is responsible? The landlord or the tenant if it’s rented and if it’s not rented and USPS owns the property who is responsible? Is USPS responsible for property maintenance or do they get to skate under Donald Trump’s cloak of immunity?
Also at this post office are little signs posted over the USPS mailboxes. The people shouldn’t use the mailboxes outside because of theft, essentially. Another friend took that photo.
I will point out that Louis De Joy, the Postmaster General is a Trump appointee. From Wikipedia:
Louis DeJoy (born June 20, 1957) is an American businessman serving as the 75th U.S. postmaster general. He was appointed in May 2020 by the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service (USPS). Prior to the appointment, he was the founder and CEO of the logistics and freight company New Breed Logistics and was a major Republican Party donor and fundraiser for Donald Trump.[1]DeJoy is the first postmaster general since 1992 without any previous experience in the USPS.[2]His companies still hold active service contracts with the USPS, generating controversy over conflict of interest.[3]
Anyway, I don’t know what can be done, but USPS should not be above the law for property maintenance, should they? I mean it seems like they are already not responsible for stolen mail most of the time as well, right?
Yet another reason why Louis De Joy needs to go, and why when it comes to glaring basic examples like this we don’t want Donald Trump back as president because of the cronies he appoints to do nothing but spend OPM and run things into the ground, right?
Signed me, still writing under the beloved, First Amendment until Pravda drives the bus in.
