Collingdale
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Collingdale Woman Wins Screenplay Award in Greater Philadelphia Film Office Competition
Kiz Mentor of Collingdale was named the inaugural winner of the Nina Lo Presti Award, given for best feature or TV pilot written by a female screenwriter with ties to the Greater Philadelphia area. Mentor will use the $5,000 prize to finish the film based on her screenplay, writes Peg DeGrassa for the Daily Times.…
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Collingdale Mayor Looking for a Big Truck to Haul Donated Water to Texas
A winter storm that wreaked havoc on the Texas power grid also eliminated the availability of clean water. Hoping to fill the gap, Collingdale Mayor Felecia Coffee waged a campaign to collect thousands of bottles of water. Now she just needs to haul it down to Texas, reports Dan Koob for CBS Philly. The 24…
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Work Underway to Preserve Collingdale’s Eden Cemetery Archives
Eden Cemetery in Collingdale is the final resting place for many influential Black Philadelphians, including Absalom Jones, Marian Anderson, Octavius Catto, Julian Abele, Frances Harper, and William Still. Its existence comes from segregation and the fight for civil rights. Now, Eden’s board has launched a GoFundMe campaign to digitally preserve its fragile centuries-old archival burial…
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Senior Housing Project Will Use Rehabilitated St. Joseph’s Elementary School in Collingdale
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is building St. Joseph’s Place, an affordable senior housing community in Collingdale, writes Max Bennett for patch.com. Construction is slated to start in the summer of 2021 at St. Joseph’s Parish. The $18.5 million development will have 50 units of affordable housing. It will be open to income eligible seniors 62…
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PennDOT to Resume Modified Driving Tests Tomorrow, Road Safety a Concern
When Kaliesha Canady, 26, of Collingdale, took her driver’s test at Driven2Drive in late June, she discovered the test would take place in a parking lot and the examiner wouldn’t be in the car with her, writes Sophie Burkholder for The Philadelphia Inquirer. She was relieved. “With them being outside of the car, I was…
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Coronavirus Takes Life of Collingdale Man Linked to Liberian Warlord
A Collingdale man who had been a Liberian warlord’s top lieutenant, died Sunday of coronavirus complications, writes Jeremy Roebuck for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Jucontee Thomas Woewiyu was 74. In the 1990s, he served warlord Charles Taylor and had been convicted in 2018 of lying to U.S. immigration officials about the role he played in war…
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Collingdale’s 2 Volunteer Fire Companies Will be One in the New Year
Collingdale’s two volunteer fire companies have agreed to merge, writes Pete Bannon for the Daily Times. The fire companies now provide fire and ambulance service to Collingale and Aldan boroughs. The new company will be known as Collingdale Fire Co., Station 33. It will dispatch Jan. 1 out of the Clifton Avenue station and its…
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$1 Million Grant Will Help William Penn School District’s Students From Pre-K to Third Grade
The William Penn School District is receiving a $1 million Ready to Learn Block Grant that will be used to maintain or expand the district’s academic programs. The grant was announced through a press release from the state House Democratic Communications Office. The grant can be used for children in Pre-K to third grade to…
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Delco Bear Spotted in Three Locations, From Villanova to Aldan
There’s a bear in Delaware County and he’s fast-moving, according to a report from Dan Koob for Philadelphia.cbslocal.com. Delaware County officials first heard about a black bear wandering a driveway on Harrison Road in Villanova Friday morning. By Friday night, there was a second sighting on Cove Road in Maple Township. Since then, two more…
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Her Great Aunt Was Delco’s ‘Most Catholic Mother’ in 1950. Who Knew?
The President of Elizabethtown College had no idea her great aunt was once voted “Most Catholic Mother of Delaware County” in 1950 until a college freshman told her, writes Samantha Galvez for fox43.com. Eric Schubert, 18, cracks hundreds of ancestry and adoption cases all from his Elizabethtown College desk. He’s been diving into genealogy work…
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Collingdale Couple Turns Pickle Cravings Into Award-Winning Delco Business
Delco Dills started out as a way for the Collingdale husband and wife team of Lee and Elaine Lawley to satisfy their own pickle cravings, writes Peg DeGrass for Daily Times. Now they make nine different varieties of pickles, plus pickled Jalapeno Peppers and Spicy Pickled Green Beans for stores throughout Delaware County and beyond.…
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Aaron Burr’s Son, John, Finally Gets a Headstone for His Burial Plot at Eden Cemetery in Collingdale
Aaron Burr, the United States vice president who shot dead Alexander Hamilton in a duel, had two children of color with Mary Emmons, an Indian servant from Calcutta. One of them, abolitionist John “Jean” Pierre Burr, had been buried in an unmarked grave in Eden Cemetery in Collingdale, after being relocated there from Olive Cemetery,…
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