OTHER TIMES
100 Years Ago — 1922: More than 100 life-saving guards will begin a 10-day encampment
next Wednesday at the Salvation Army fresh-air farm of 32 acres at Upland, after which hundreds of poor children from the city’s courts and alleys will be taken to the farm for outings in July and August. “Visitors’ day” will be observed on July 4 at the farm, with exercises and addressed by Lt. Col. Arthur T. Brewer, Charles H. Webb, chairman of the Advisory Board, and others. Nearly 300 Salvationists and their friends will “celebrate” at the farm.
75Years Ago — 1947: A huge mound of clay and rock, with a backbone of interlocking steel plates, will be thrown across the Octoraro Creek in Chester County to create the large lake from which Chester will get its drinking water three to five years hence. Decision to construct an earthen dam rather than one of concrete was made today in a special meeting of the Chester Municipal Authority, Fifth and Welsh streets, after Francis S. Friel, consulting engineer, pointed out that such a project would be less expensive than a concrete impounding wall.
50 Years Ago — 1972: Hundreds of Delaware County residents rallied to the aid of Pennsylvania flood victims during the weekend after the county virtually escaped any serious water damage. More than 300 volunteer firemen with nearly 50 pieces of apparatus took a convoy of fire engines of the flooded state heartland and spent Sunday pumping water out of homes.
25 Years Ago — 1997: Aston Commissioner Beccy Sammartino announced the township has received two $10,000 grants to be used toward the Aston Free Library, currently under construction on Concord Road. A $10,000 state Community Revitalization Grant will be used toward actual construction and furnishings; a $10,000 grant from the Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Memorial Fund will be used for equipment and furniture in the library’s children’s area. A formal grand opening of the library ommunity center is scheduled for September. The library may open prior to that date if it is completed and deemed safe, Sammartino said.
10 Years Ago — 2012: The Garnet Valley School Board adopted the 20122013 budget at its recent work session. The $84.2 million budget calls for a 2.45 percent tax increase, which is largely attributed to limited state subsidy support and the increased state retirement costs. Finance Chairman Edward Plasha said were it not for the pension increase of more than $900,000, the tax increase could have been held at 1 percent.