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100 Years Ago – 1918: Two robberies were reported to the police department yesterday. Louis Ponnachi, of Front Street and Morton Avenue, was flinched for a gold watch and chain, three $20 bills, and a registration card. Mrs. J.C. Cole, of 500 Franklin St., told police her house was entered last night and several articles were stolen. Mrs. Cole suspects one of her roomers in the theft.
75 Years Ago – 1943: Among the students enrolling at Eddystone High School last week is an 18-year-old boy entering the junior class. This would not be news except that the boy is blind. Rocco Bonivita, of Huddel Avenue, Linwood, has for the past nine years attended St. Mary’s Institute for the Blind. While discussing his future with Arthur E. Copeland, executive director of the Delaware County Branch of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind, Rocco expressed an earnest desire to attend a public high school so he could better be able to get along with sighted people. 50 Years Ago – 1968: About 120 hourly workers reportedly walked off the job this morning at Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co.’s Wetherill Plant on Sixth Street in a dispute over the company’s removal of a vending machine. The walkout did not affect several thousand Boilermakers and Shipyard Workers Local 802 workers at the shipyard proper.
25 Years Ago – 1993: A 10-year-old Concord Township boy called 911 to get an ambulance for his mother after she fell on the sidewalk outside her home, struck her head against a rock and badly cut her forehead, requiring 15 sutures, state police said. Daniel Sweigart will be given a safety certificate for his efforts in helping his mother, Cindy Ann Sweigart, according to Trooper Robert R. King IV who responded to the scene on Pyle Road at 12:39 a.m. Oct. 10 with Trooper Scott Weaver. Sweigart said she tripped over a plastic aquarium and cut her head. “I got up and came in and saw a gash in my forehead,’ she said. “I was going to call a friend of mine and he already called 911.” Daniel is a fifth-grader at Garnet Valley Middle School.
10 Years Ago – 2008: Eddystone Borough Council recently took steps to crack down on construction dumpsters that overstay their welcome and take up valuable street parking in the community. Council President Tom Orio asked Solicitor Jack Whelan to draft an ordinance regulating how long the dumpsters can remain on the streets.