All tagged 2021/04
The outreach committee of Trinity Church Swarthmore would like to thank all of those in the community who made donations to our March service project. In honor of National Women’s History Month, and as a Lenten service project, we collected monetary donations to purchase feminine hygiene products for St. Mary’s Food Cupboard in Chester and Family Promise of Delaware County in Parkside.
Last week, the jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin found the former police officer guilty on all counts for the murder of George Floyd. While we experience some momentary relief that our judicial system held Mr. Chauvin accountable for his actions, we also feel sadness at the needless loss of George Floyd’s life. Mr. Floyd has become one more symbol of the need for dismantling the structures of racism that thrive in our nation. We hope that this decision will compel us to confront what comes next: the systemic reimagining of service and protection, and the true valuing of life, in all of our communities.
I am troubled by an attitude I see too often: that somehow, because there is already some pollution in Chester, it can have even more! What is a little more pollution, after all? In response, I would ask: Where does YOUR trash go, and what will you do to help decrease the pollution it causes?
I am writing to bring National Healthcare Decisions Day — April 16 — to the attention of our community. This special day is a part of a movement “to inspire, educate, and empower the public and healthcare providers about the importance of advance care planning.”
Last fall, our “Senior Wellness Fair Reimagined” was a shortened, virtual version of the Swarthmore Senior Citizens Association’s annual Wellness Fair. I’m writing now to let local seniors know that they’ll want to “zoom in” on Saturday, April 10, for our next wellness program.
Would it not be supremely ironic if President Joe Biden, in his 78th year of life, and after 50 years in government, turned out to be not presiding over a caretaker presidency — not just being a bridge from the past to a new, much more progressive, future — but instead ushering in a new governmental paradigm and becoming a crusader for progressive values and governance?
Living on Cornell Avenue in the 1960s, my brothers and I were often sent to the butcher for a package. And we played in the creek that runs behind the Historically Black Neighborhood of Swarthmore. In short, those streets are in my bones. I am white. And back in the day, Jews and Blacks weren’t allowed to live “just anywhere” in Swarthmore. Inclusivity and diversity came later. So your questions about what Swarthmore should be are thought-provoking.
In my letter to the editor (April 2), titled “What’s wrong with Swarthmore’s Zero Waste resolution,” I inaccurately located the Covanta plant in the wrong place: on the north side of Interstate Route 95, which is far from its actual location on Highland Avenue.
As we head into spring, some people’s thoughts turn to love, some turn to renewal, some turn to lightweight clothes, and some turn to mosquito control. I’d like to urge those of you concerned about mosquitoes to turn to less toxic alternatives to get rid of them.
I think the passage of Swarthmore’s Zero Waste Resolution was ill advised. I also think that the Swarthmorean’s article reporting on this resolution (March 19) was not effective journalism.
Would that life were as simple as was suggested by the letter writer from Rutledge (March 19), regarding the toxic fumes from Covanta’s incinerator in Chester. Just use available technology, he says. Wonder why nobody has thought of that, in all the decades that the smoke coming out of that incinerator has been causing horrendous health problems.
Will you help keep the shelves of St. Katharine Drexel food pantry stocked?
