Nile Swim Club is hosting a food distribution event featuring contactless drive-thru pickup of family food boxes and serve-n-go meals for children 18 and under.
Saturday January 30, starting at at 10 a.m.
Nile Swim Club, 513 South Union Avenue, Yeadon, PA 19050
The Delaware County Wellness Center officially opened on January 27, 2021. The Delaware County Council were joined with Yeadon Borough officials, and other elected leaders and staff. Located at 125 Chester Avenue, the Delaware County Wellness Center will now serve as a vaccine storage site, a vaccination site, and a COVID-19 testing site for Delaware County. Furthermore, the Wellness Center will begin to transition into a clinical space for the future Delaware County Health Department.
Read more at delcopa.gov.
Villanova University providing ReachOut – a program for seniors to reduce isolation called through connections with student volunteers.
The main goal is to help decrease the feeling of social isolation among seniors. Volunteers, mainly nursing majors, contact an older adult partner approximately once weekly for 20-30 minutes to engage in social discussion. No medical advice is provided. Calls continue weekly or at a mutually agreed upon frequency between the older adult and student. Currently ReachOut receives referrals from self-referrals, primary care practices, insurance companies, and senior centers.
Referrals can be made either by emailing reachout@villanova.edu, calling 610-519-5969 or using the ReachOut Older Adult Partner Referral Form
Visit the ReachOut website for additional information.
The Delaware County Office of Services for the Aging (COSA) is sponsoring the acclaimed, evidence-based Steps to Healthy Living: Chronic Disease Self-Management Program developed at Stanford University to provide participants with self-care tools and life skills to support them in reaching their personal goals to manage their chronic conditions.
The program will meet online once a week for six weeks on Tuesdays beginning February 3 through March 10, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Don’t miss out. The program is offered FREE and includes your personal copy of the book Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions, through support from COSA and the PA Department of Aging. Space is limited and registration is required.
To register contact Ellen Williams, Health and Wellness Program Manager, at williamse@co.delaware.pa.us or call 610-499-1937.
Notice is hereby given that the Zoning Hearing Board under “The Upper Darby Ordinance of 2010” will hold a Special Public Hearing on Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 7:00 P.M. via an authorized telecommunication device due to the COVID-19 disaster public emergency.
Anyone who wishes to view this hearing can do so via the Upper Darby Township YouTube channel.
Those who wish to provide public comment must register on the Upper Darby Township website to be provided with a login code. The Board will consider matters within its jurisdiction and will receive testimony from persons who would be affected by the Granting of this Application for Special Exception, Variance or Appeal from the terms of the aforesaid ordinances.
1-4 of 21:Application of William J. Santora for a Special Exception from Article III, Section 301 to allow a Solid Waste Management Facility situate 41 S. Union Ave, Lansdowne, PA 19050. C-4 Commercial Industrial District, 7th Council district.
All communication relative to the zoning applications are to be addressed to Christopher McSween, cmcsween@upperdarby.org, Department of Licenses & Inspection, Municipal Building, Room 109, 100 Garrett Road, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, 19082-3135.
Delaware County opened a COVID-19 Call Center on Monday, Jan. 25, to answer COVID-19 related questions from individuals, organizations, and businesses. In addition to responding to phone calls, the Center will also respond to emailed inquiries.
While the Call Center staff will attempt to answer all COVID-19-related questions, the immediate mission will be to address questions related to the County’s updated COVID-19 vaccination plans and to provide assistance to individuals interesting in receiving a vaccination or test. The Call Center staff’s focus will be:
On Monday, January 25, 2021 the 500 block of Church Lane will be closed to traffic.
Southbound traffic on Church Lane will be diverted to Baily Road whereas northbound traffic will be diverted to Myra Avenue & Bonsall Avenue.
The Police Department will permit local access to the businesses within the detour area to the maximum extent possible.
The Chester City Bureau of Health and the Health Board presents free COVID-19 Testing on/at the following dates and locations. For additional information about the events, please call Rosetta Carter, Director of Community Health Education Services, at (610) 447-7700, ext. 7955.
10 AM – 2 PM
Bethany Baptist Church, 1121 Tilghman St., Chester, PA 19013
10 AM – 2 PM
Crozer Library, 620 Engle St., Chester, PA 19013
10 AM – 2 PM
Laborers’ Local 413, 222 Penn St., Chester, PA 19013
10 AM – 2 PM
Crozer Library, 620 Engle St., Chester, PA 19013
10 AM – 2 PM
Laborers’ Local 413, 222 Penn St., Chester, PA 19013
People who live or work in Delaware County can now pre-register for the COVID-19 vaccine by completing a form found on the Chester County Health Department’s COVID-19 website. Vaccines are free of charge and for people age 16 and older who live or work in Delaware County. Sign up via the form found here.
Completion of the form registers a person’s interest in receiving the vaccine, and the information provided helps the Chester County Health Department to place each individual into the Phase 1A, 1B, 1C, and Phase 2 categories. The recent change in Phase 1A groups, announced earlier this week by the PA Department of Health, led the Chester County Health Department to revise its original pre-registration survey.
Read the full press release at http://www.delcopa.gov/publicrelations/releases/2021/covid_jan22update.html
The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission approved the Nile Swim Club for the dedication of a state historical marker. There will be a ceremony dedicating the new marker on Saturday, May 22, 2021 from 10:00 a.m. to 12 p.m. More details will follow regarding the event soon.
Nile Swim Club was one of the earliest African American owned and operated swim clubs in the U.S. The story of its establishment is an important example of a marginalized group successfully working for equality. In the mid-20th century, Yeadon was a segregated community, but in 1957, three black men applied for membership in the newly opened Yeadon Swim Club. When they were denied, the black community worked together to raise the money to buy land and build a swimming club of their own.
Learn more about the Nile at nileswimclub.org.