Delco Hi-Q regular season ends; Garnet Valley to host finals
Main Line Health and Bryn Mawr Rehab recognized for excellence
CHADDS FORD » In a nailbiting conclusion to the regular season, Delco HiQ’s playoff positions were determined.
Marple Newtown and Delaware County Christian School secured their spots last week, with just one point separating them, and season leader Garnet Valley slightly ahead of both.
Springfield narrowly missed out on a playoff berth despite putting up a strong performance against Penn Wood and Archbishop Carroll. Unfortunately, their point total wasn’t enough to clinch a playoff position.
The contest on Feb. 21 kicked off with a patriotic tone as the Penn Wood Patriots hosted the Archbishop Carroll Patriots, alongside the Springfield Cougars and a special performance by the Penn Wood band playing the national anthem. Springfield emerged dominant in the contest, while Penn Wood and Carroll vied for second place. Final scores were Springfield 42, Archbishop Carroll 17 and Penn Wood 11.
Garnet Valley, the defending champions, earned an impressive 150 points in the regular season, granting them an automatic bye to host the 76th Championship Contest on March 13. They will face off against the winners of two semi-final matchups.
Delaware County
Christian School, securing third place with 148 points, will host fourth place Haverford (148) and fifth place Strath Haven (145) on Feb. 27 at 10:45 a.m., while Marple Newtown, in second place with 149 points, will host sixth place Radnor (135) and seventh place Upper Darby (135), at 9:10 a.m. on Feb. 29.
In cases of ties for placement, last year’s standings were used to determine rankings. With a closely contested regular season, anticipation is high for an intensely competitive playoff round.
Delco Hi-Q is a partnership between Delaware County Intermediate Unit and Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union Foundation. FMFCU Vice President Rick Durante serves as director and quizmaster, FMFCU Corporate Social Responsibility Program
Manager Danielle Griffin is Hi-Q assistant director, and DCIU’s Dave Bramble is the production engineer.
In addition to support from the 21 participating schools, Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union and the Wilbur C. and Betty Lea Henderson Foundation are the primary corporate sponsors. Additional support comes from longtime sponsor Kimberly-Clark Chester Operations and the Delaware County Daily Times.
Registration begins for cardio drumming classes in Springfield
Senior Community Services’ Center Without Walls is adding Cardio Drumming to its programs, offering the 10-session program on Wednesdays, March 13 to
May 15 from 3 to 4 p.m. in the downstairs room at Springfield Township Building, 50 Powell Road.
Cardio drumming is a high intensity upper body workout that is suitable for all ages and fitness levels. With a fun mix of music, a ball, bucket and drum sticks, participants hardly know they are exercising. The instructor is Kristy Santarlas.
The fee is $50, and registration is required to attend. To register, or for further information, email Allison Alfieri at aalfieri@scs-delco.org or call 484-496-2143.
PA Environmental Council and Aqua PA team to protect drinking water
The Pennsylvania Environmental Council and Aqua Pennsylvania announced a new grant program
this week, aimed at improving the health of waterways that supply drinking water in Pennsylvania.
The Protect Your Drinking Water program will award grants ranging from $2,500 to $10,000 for watershed protection and education projects that address pollutants of concern to public water supplies, such as fertilizer runoff, road salts and bacteria. This year’s grants are targeting upstream areas of the Chester, Ridley, and Crum Creek Watersheds in Delaware and Chester counties, benefiting Aqua customers in those communities.
PEC’s Water Team will administer the new grant program in partnership with Aqua, an Essential Utilities company, thanks to a $74,000 donation through the company’s Essential Foundation.
The goal of the program is to raise awareness of and engage new partners in source water protection, which is the first barrier against contamination of public water supplies. Effective source water protection helps reduce public health risks and water treatment costs, among other benefits to communities and the environment.
Grants will fund projects such as green stormwater infrastructure, stream bank stabilization, agricultural best management practices, spill prevention planning, water quality monitoring, and educational programming. Outcomes could include on-the-ground projects, as well as the development and implementation of citizen, municipal and student educational programs.
“PEC collaborates with partners across the Commonwealth to protect and restore healthy watersheds,” said Patrick Starr, executive vice president of PEC. “Our partnership with Aqua is a great opportunity to ensure clean drinking water for communities who rely on the Chester-Ridley-Crum Watershed.”
PEC is also committed to empowering the public to be active, informed stewards. Educating people about where their drinking water comes from is an essential step toward improving the health and function of local waterways.
“Our mission is not only to provide our customers with quality drinking water, but to protect earth’s most essential resource,” said Aqua PA President Marc Lucca.
Organizations interested in applying for
funding are encouraged to visit https://pecpa.org/ grants-awards for more information. Applications are due by 5 p.m. Monday, April 15 and grantees will be announced at an awards ceremony on May 15.
Main Line Health, Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital recognized for innovation in patient care
Initiatives at Main Line Health and Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital were two of 13 entities recognized by The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) with 2024 Achievement Awards.
The program, started in 1978, recognizes hospitals and health systems that are taking innovative approaches to strengthening the safety and quality of care, enhancing operations and patient experience, and partnering with their communities to address public health needs.
Main Line Health and Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital competed against organizations of a similar size for the Optimal Operations Award.
Main Line Health, which has four acute care hospitals — Lankenau Medical Center, Bryn Mawr Hospital, Paoli Hospital and Riddle
Hospital — was honored for successfully developing and deploying a rapid improvement strategy to address emergency department crowding and resulting delays in care caused by local hospital closures and other factors.
At Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, educating staff on proper application of federal quality indicators resulted in facility performance exceeding regional and national benchmarks, with sharp increases in percentages of patients meeting self-care and mobility goals at discharge.
Entries were scored on specific criteria including results, adaptability and how the goal of advancing health equity was embedded in the initiative. In total, there were 93 entries for this year’s awards.
Additional information about the awards program and detailed descriptions of the winning projects are available at https://www. haponline.org. For more information on Main Line Health, visit http://mainlinehealth.org.
DCCC professor receives $150,000 grant from National Endowment for the Humanities
Ife Williams, professor of political science at Delaware County Community College, has received a $150,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support her project, Mapping Resistance of Africans and African Descendants to Colonialism and Segregation, 1945-1990.
The grant will fund a 15-month project to create curricular materials on the resistance of Africans and African descendants to segregation and colonialism in the late 20th century.
While much is known about the inhumane African transatlantic slave trade that saw thousands of individuals abducted and forcibly relocated to America and South America over several centuries, less is understood about the hundreds of slave uprisings emblematic of the indelible spirit of those captured and sold into servitude.
The 15-month digital humanities project will build upon the digital mapping of global slave revolts project which she conducted as the recipient of a $40,000 faculty research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies Mellon Foundation. That project provided information about nearly 400 slave revolts worldwide by Africans and African descendants against the transatlantic slave trade and slave owners. It was integrated into four courses at DCCC.
“This Pan-African approach to resistance is novel. Flat maps and timelines exist on colonialism, some anti- colonial revolts, and the Civil Rights movement in America and the Caribbean; however, they are absent of relational and contextual analysis, nor do they capture the global nature of the political struggles chronologically or comparatively,” Williams said. “Through its portrayal of a systematic Pan-African collective, this effort aims to counter the separatist narrative of Africans and African descendants.”
An accomplished scholar and political scientist, Williams received her doctorate in political science and government from Clark Atlanta University.
For more information, go to http://www.dccc.edu.
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