CASA Youth Advocates honors volunteers at gala
CASA Youth Advocates will honor a special group of volunteers Friday, Dec. 7 at the Drexelbrook Catering and Special Event Center in Drexel Hill. The gala will celebrate CASA’s 26th year serving vulnerable youth and the volunteers who advocate for them.
At the gala, CASA will honor two Volunteers of the Year, Jim Reynolds and Gaye Woodward, and one individual celebrating her 20th year as a volunteer with CASA, Terry Yannuzzi of Aston.
Reynolds, of West Chester, first began volunteering with CASA in 2016. In just two years, he’s proved himself to be a committed advocate, who goes above and beyond the call of duty, even visiting his CASA child twice a month after the child relocated close to the Ohio border to help him receive his GED.
Woodward, of Glenmoore, will be honored as Volunteer of the Year. Since 2010, She has walked alongside the two children she was first assigned, seeing them through the past eight years, while they have experienced many changes and shifts in living situations. Her persistence has now landed them in permanent solutions.
Yannuzzi has reached an exceptional 20-year milestone as a volunteer with CASA and will also be honored at this year’s gala. Since
1998, Terry has served on 10 previous cases. During her tenure, Terry has seen CASA expand the number of children it serves, as well as the increased value the courts place on her work. While she has begun scaling back in other areas of her life, she asserts, “CASA’s not one of the things that I plan on giving up.”
2018 has been a groundbreaking year for CASA, as it has surpassed the number of kids served in 2017, opened a new office in West Chester, and brought on three new staff members, among many other achievements that have elevated its impact as an organization in Delaware and Chester counties.
For tickets and more information, go to https://one.bidpal.net/casagala18/welcome
Breakfast with Santa in Tinicum
Tinicum Elementary School will hold its annual 8th grade Breakfast with Santa and Fair on Saturday, Dec. 1
Breakfast time is 9 a.m. to noon. Vendor Fair is 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
The event takes place in the Tinicum School Cafeteria and Gymnasium, 91 Seneca St., Essington
Cost for children is $7 – includes a picture with Santa; adults $7. Admission to the vendor fair is free.
For additional information please contact Jennifer DeFrancisco at 610 580 6429
Sports Legends exhibit
The Sports Legends of Delaware County Museum welcomes iconic former Philadelphia Athletics and New York Yankees pitcher Bobby Shantz. This season the museum will be celebrating Delaware County’s Baseball Winter Meeting with the appearance of Shantz and more events during the Winter Wool and the Summer Game exhibit.
Shantz began his professional career in 1949, and in just three years was named the American League’s Most Valuable Player in 1952 as a Philadelphia Athletic. Then in 1958, Shantz helped the New York Yankees win their
18th World Championship. This American League All Star and World War II veteran stands proud at 93 years young as the oldest living major league player to have won baseball’s MVP award.
Rich Westcott is recognized as the one of the most prolific authors Delaware County has produced. Together with Shantz, Westcott will appear in the Mickey Vernon/Danny Murtaugh Gallery on Dec. 8 from 11 a.m. to
1 p.m. Rich will bring many of his 26 books so holiday shoppers looking for that special gift for the baseball fan in their life will have no trouble finding it at the SLDC Museum.
The grand opening of the SLDC Museum’s newest exhibit, Winter Wool and the Summer Game, will feature three of the most alluring pieces of baseball memorabilia in the nation. The museum will display the Silver Bat award that was presented to Roberto Clemente in 1967 by National League President Warren Giles. Sports’ fans can also view the 25 inch by
42 inch horsehide featuring the signatures of more than
200 American League baseball team players, coaches, and managers. This horsehide was collected by Mickey Vernon during the 1957 season at Fenway Park. The third featured displayed during the exhibit is an authentic, gameused bat by Ted “The Splendid Splinter” Williams in his
1960 season with the Boston Red Sox. Feel free to visit our website for more information. www.sportslegendsofdelawarecounty.com Jim Vankoski 610-909-4919 email
vankoski21@comcast.net
The museum is located in the Radnor Township municipal building, 301 Iven Avenue in Wayne.
Graham teams to save planet
Richie Graham, a partowner of the Philadelphia Union and founder of YSC Academy in Wayne, has announced he will donate 100 percent of profits from the sale of his fine art landscape photo prints to 1% for the Planet
Graham says the innovative partnership is designed to use fine art landscape photography as a tool to drive support and awareness for environmental conservation across the globe.
Graham has committed to donate 100 percent of profits from the sale of his fine art landscape prints to the global environmental organization,
1% for the Planet and its nonprofit partners who work on the frontlines battling the threats of climate change.
Graham’s photography has always been a philanthropic endeavor. The sale of his fine art prints has raised over
$100,000 in profits, which he’s chosen to donate to The Freshwater Trust, a 1% for the Planet nonprofit partner, and to YSC Academy, the first soccer-specific high school in the U.S. based in Wayne, Delaware County, which Graham founded in 2003. Over 80% of YSC Academy’s student body qualify for financial aid. Graham is the lead funding support for the school which is an integral part of a strategy to build a homegrown talent for Philadelphia’s Major League Soccer team, the Philadelphia Union, of which Graham is an investor. Graham has pledged to donate an additional $23,000 by the end of this year to 1% for the Planet and selected nonprofit partners from his most recent art installations.
Consumers who purchase a fine art print from Graham’s website are given the opportunity to choose which environmental focus area they wish to support: water, land, wildlife, food, pollution or climate. This provides the art consumer an active role in directing where Graham will donate the profits. 1% for the Planet and Graham have selected highly respected nonprofit organizations in each focus area: The Freshwater Trust, National Forest Foundation, Working Dogs for Conservation, National Young Farmers Coalition, Surfers Against Sewage, and The Rainforest Trust.