Endless Pools donates $10,000 to help The Wardrobe fight local clothing insecurity

ASTON » Endless Pools, a Delaware Countybased aquatic fitness innovator in Aston, announced a donation of

$10,000 to The Wardrobe,

62 W. Marshall Road, Lansdowne (formerly Career Wardrobe) on Giving Tuesday. The donation will be used to help The Wardrobe outfit those in need and fight clothing insecurity in Delaware County and Philadelphia.

Through Endless Pools’ Endless Access program and backed by their parent company, Masco Corporation, the 32-year-old company contributes to programs that suppor t diversity and promote inclusion. The Wardrobe’s Executive Director Sheri Cole says this is just another example of how businesses and individuals have stepped up during this COVID19 economic crisis.

“I have been stunned at how generous companies like Endless Pools have been, and their donation will outfit 200 people with clothing and renewed confidence. When people come to The Wardrobe, they are treated to a whole shopping experience designed to uplift them and give them back some of the dignity that is often lost when you are unemployed and having to make your family budget stretch too far.”

After the pandemic hit, 50% of The Wardrobe’s employed clients lost their jobs, resulting in their families facing food, housing, and clothing insecurity. With economic support from the government lagging for those who are still unemployed, organizations like The Wardrobe have opened their ser vices to anyone in need to help fill the gap.

“Inclusiveness and creative problem solving are core tenets at Endless Pools,” says Endless Pools General Manager, Darren Pearse. “The Wardrobe delivers an inspired solution to bring more Philadelphia-area citizens into the workforce. By dedicating themselves to addressing clothing insecurity, which is an often-overlooked barrier to employment and advancement, the entire community benef its. We’re excited to suppor t them with this donation. To further our commitment, I’m actively encouraging our employees to donate any gently used attire.”

Since 1988, Endless Pools has been trailblazing the path for better health and wellness through aquatic fitness. For more infor mation, v isit w w w.endlesspool. com.

The Wardrobe is a nonprof it social enterprise that uses clothing to inspire change. The Wardrobe believes clothing shouldn’t be a barrier to success and works to eliminate clothing insecur it y. For more information, visit www.wardrobepa.org/services. The Wardrobe locations in Philadelphia and Lansdowne are currently open Tuesday-Saturday from 12-6 p.m. for shopping and client appointments. Donations are accepted on Tuesday and Thursdays using a no contact process where donors drop items in carts provided at each location.

Media Chamber Chorale presents ‘Christmas Carol – A Musical Storybook’

This holiday season Media Chamber Chorale will present a dramatic performance of “A Christmas Carol” featuring holiday repertoire and traditional Christmas carols recorded by chorale singers. The performance will be available on YouTube at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec.

18, and 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19. Chorale members also perform the voice acting for the characters and narrators.

The script is based on the abridged version created by Charles Dickens himself for his own public readings. Original illustrations from the late

1800s and early 1900s are featured to enhance the listening experience.

The performance is free, but people must register in order to receive the link by visiting www.mediachamberchorale.org.

Delco is offering drive-thru COVID-19 testing this week in Darby and Upland

Delaware County will again be conducting public drive-thru COVID-19 testing at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, 1500 Lansdowne Ave., Darby, and at the US Army Reserve, 500 W. 24th St., Upland, from Monday, Dec. 14, through Friday, Dec. 18, at both locations.

Testing will be available for insured and uninsured indiv iduals, 12 years of age or older, who live or work in Delaware County and have CO

VID-19 symptoms, were exposed to COVID-19, or are considered critical/essential workers. Individuals must pre-register at www.delcopa.gov/testing to receive a test.

Those who have health insurance should bring their insurance card to the test site. However, there are no out-of-pocket costs or co-pays for CO

VID-19 testing. Masks or face coverings must be worn.

COVID-19 test results t y pic a lly take between four-seven days. Additional testing information, including details regarding how to obtain faster results and the locations of additional public and private COVID-19 test sites, can be found on the link listed above. Anyone who gets a positive test result may be called by the Chester County Health department Disease Investigation team to complete an investigation.

The hours in Upland are 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Monday, Dec. 14; 11 a.m. to

3 p.m. Tue sd ay, Dec.

15, Wednesday, Dec. 16, T hursday, Dec. 17; and Friday, Dec. 18.

The Darby loc ation’s hours are: 3-6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 14; 1-6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15, Wednesday, Dec. 16, Thursday, Dec. 17, and Friday, Dec. 18/

Residents can call Delaware County’s Department of Intercommunity Health at 610 -891- 6129 with any questions regarding COVID-19 health services.

Public invited to webinar featuring Brandywine Battlefield updates

A Brandywine Battlefield webinar, open to the public, will be hosted by the Chester County Planning Commission Thursday, Dec. 17, at 6:30 p.m. The free webinar will highlight new findings about the Battle of Brandywine, plus give a sneak-peek into the next phase of the battlefield study.

Driv ing through the Brandywine Valley, most drivers w ill likely pass many historical sites. Most people don’t realize that the largest single day land battle of the entire sevenyear American Revolution happened right in the Brandywine Valley. The action and events of the Battle of Brandywine that took place 243 years ago, on Sept. 11, 1977, spanned approximately 35,000 acres over portions of Chester and Delaware counties, as well as New Castle County, Del.

Featured in the webinar will be new discoveries about Crown (British, Hessian, Loyalists) and American military activity in the southern battlefield, located in East Marlborough New Garden, Kennett, Kennett Square and Pennsbury, grounded in 18th century sites that still exist today.

Given the battlefield’s large size, thousands of properties in the area comprise this legacy of our nation’s founding. The Battle of Brandywine was not only one of the largest of the American War for Independence and involved the most troops in active combat, but it also demonstrated that the f ledging American citizen army could withstand a direct engagement with the formidable professional Crown forces and still rally to fight again.

The webinar is part of multi-phased Brandywine Battlefield strategic landscapes planning, which involves analysis of key battle areas, sites, and activities to provide focused guidance for local planning, land conservation, historic resource protection, and heritage interpretation and public education programing. Project funding is from NPS’s American Battlefield Protection Program with in-kind support by Chester County Planning Commission, along with dedicated work of Task Force partners.

The public can visit ht tps://chescopla nning.org/HisResources

Camp1777.cfm for more information about Brandywine Battlefield Task Force, Philadelphia Campaign of

1777, and related planning efforts. To attend the webinar, register at: https:// zoom.us/ webinar/register/

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