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100 Years Ago – 1917: What will be the greatest religious demonstration ever held in that section will take place Sunday afternoon at three o’clock, when the cornerstone of the new edifice being erected on Ridge Road, Linwood Heights, by the parish of the Church of the Holy Savior, takes place. This new structure will be the handsomest church building in this locality and will represent an expenditure of over $75,000.
75 Years Ago – 1942: In 1833, a nail mill operator of Rockdale decided the community needed a Sunday school, and established one in a vacant room in his shop, “appointing” his wife
and daughters as teachers. Yesterday the Calvary Episcopal Church, which grew from that lowly seed, honored the foresight and energy of Richard S. Smith at a 109th anniversary celebration.
50 Years Ago – 1967:
“I did not come here for a visit. I came here with the intention of staying,” Dr. Douglas F. Libby Jr. said Wednesday. Libby, newly-appointed president of Delaware County’s proposed community college, commented on Wednesday’s county court injunction to block his school’s establishment this September. Asked if the school still open this fall, he said “I have no reason to assume
anything different.”
25 Years Ago – 1992: The benches in front of 69th Street Terminal on Market Street have been carted off by the township after complaints about homeless person congregating in the area, officials said. However, homeless advocate Sue DeFeo called the move “inhumane” and claimed the move is having a detrimental effect on Shepherd Place’s nightly meal programs that feeds the homeless outside the terminal. “This will mean the elderly and the handicapped will have to stand up to eat their meal,” DeFeo said. 10 Years Ago – 2007: County task force detectives confiscated a pipe bomb and “materials conducive to bomb-making” in a Collingdale apartment building Thursday after borough police acted on a search warrant for the premises for narcotics, police said. A 27-year-old tenant of a Girard Avenue apartment was arrested for possession and sales of illegal narcotics, said Collingdale Police Chief Robert Adams. Charges relating to the man’s possession of bombs and bomb-making materials are pending investigation by Delaware County CID.