Environment & Outdoors
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Five-Year-Old Uses Birthday Gifts to Collect Donations for Springfield Fire Company
Five-year-old Ryan Natow recently surprised the Springfield Fire Company with a selfless donation he collected as gifts for his birthday, writes Ginger Dunbar for the Daily Local News. The young Springfield resident collected an impressive $115 in donations for the volunteer fire company during the block party organized for his March 31st birthday. Before the party,…
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Widener University Acquires Historic Grounds of Wallingford’s Taylor Arboretum
Widener University has acquired Wallingford’s Taylor Memorial Arboretum, a 30-acre reserve of plantings and natural lands. The arboretum will remain free and open to the public while providing the university with greatly expanded opportunities for research and hands-on learning in the environmental and biological sciences and science education. The university acquired the arboretum, which has…
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Listen Up, Singles! Study Indicates Wawa the Perfect Trifecta for Romantic Encounters
Forget the romantic run-in at a dreamy park or a quaint coffee shop encounter. There’s a good chance your next date could be waiting for you at Wawa. That’s the word from a state-by-state Psychology Today study of the most popular sources of missed connections, based on the popular Craigslist section. “Sociologists cite several factors…
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Cityteam Ministries in Chester Helping Mothers in Need
Chester’s Cityteam Ministries, through its Mother-Baby Care program, provides food and diapers for more than 1,000 families every year, writes Peg DeGrassa of Delaware County News Network. Two times a week, moms in need can walk into Cityteam Ministries and get the diapers, food, clothing and formula that they need for their babies and other…
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Drexel Professors Receive Grant to Study Delaware River Basin after State Receives a D Grade in Water Infrastructure
Four Drexel University professors will receive $190,000 to fund their projects for the Delaware River Watershed Initiative, which aims to protect and restore the Delaware River Basin’s water quality and overall ecological health, writes Dan Norton of the Philadelphia Business Journal. The grants are financed by the William Penn Foundation and administered through Drexel’s Academy…
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