Comments for Community Matters http://pattyebenson.org Your voice matters. . . Join the conversation! Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:22:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Against Illegal Guns in Pennsylvania by Firearms Owner Against Crime http://pattyebenson.org/2012/02/03/against-illegal-guns-in-pennsylvania/comment-page-1/#comment-39864 Firearms Owner Against Crime Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:22:29 +0000 http://pattyebenson.org/?p=9321#comment-39864 I defend the Constitution and my rights as a gun owner. I support and am a member of: Firearms Owners Against Crime http://www.foac-pac.org/ I oppose the proposed legislation. I defend the Constitution and my rights as a gun owner.

I support and am a member of:
Firearms Owners Against Crime
http://www.foac-pac.org/

I oppose the proposed legislation.

]]> Comment on Against Illegal Guns in Pennsylvania by Township Reader http://pattyebenson.org/2012/02/03/against-illegal-guns-in-pennsylvania/comment-page-1/#comment-39861 Township Reader Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:06:36 +0000 http://pattyebenson.org/?p=9321#comment-39861 Movie Runaway Jury....fiction with facts underying it. Movie Runaway Jury….fiction with facts underying it.

]]> Comment on Against Illegal Guns in Pennsylvania by Pattye Benson http://pattyebenson.org/2012/02/03/against-illegal-guns-in-pennsylvania/comment-page-1/#comment-39846 Pattye Benson Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:02:03 +0000 http://pattyebenson.org/?p=9321#comment-39846 Thank you for the link! Keeping illegal guns off the streets doesn't have to infringe on 2nd amendment rights. Thank you for the link! Keeping illegal guns off the streets doesn’t have to infringe on 2nd amendment rights.

]]> Comment on Against Illegal Guns in Pennsylvania by kate http://pattyebenson.org/2012/02/03/against-illegal-guns-in-pennsylvania/comment-page-1/#comment-39845 kate Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:50:06 +0000 http://pattyebenson.org/?p=9321#comment-39845 Here's the ad. It's not heavy-handed - even though the topic is deadly serious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BO94AdhCg0k#! Here’s the ad. It’s not heavy-handed – even though the topic is deadly serious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BO94AdhCg0k#!

]]> Comment on Paoli Train Station Back on Track with $7.5 Million from SEPTA! by Sam p http://pattyebenson.org/2012/01/31/paoli-train-station-back-on-track-with-7-5-million-from-septa/comment-page-1/#comment-39834 Sam p Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:28:49 +0000 http://pattyebenson.org/?p=9316#comment-39834 Don't hold your breath the station isn't getting built anytime soon........"SEPTA’s fiscal budget for 2012-13 lists the Paoli Transportation Center project construction project as a capital project for 2016-23 and it is, at this time, a proposal. But that’s when the dirt would finally move." Don’t hold your breath the station isn’t getting built anytime soon……..”SEPTA’s fiscal budget for 2012-13 lists the Paoli Transportation Center project construction project as a capital project for 2016-23 and it is, at this time, a proposal. But that’s when the dirt would finally move.”

]]> Comment on Paoli Train Station Back on Track with $7.5 Million from SEPTA! by Township Reader http://pattyebenson.org/2012/01/31/paoli-train-station-back-on-track-with-7-5-million-from-septa/comment-page-1/#comment-39811 Township Reader Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:36:13 +0000 http://pattyebenson.org/?p=9316#comment-39811 June 2010: from Pattye's blog referring to the $1,000,000: “The solar component of this initial phase, funded by these dollars, reflects the opportunity for our community to reclaim an otherwise unusable contaminated soil containment cell for use as a 400,000 watt solar power generation facility.” The solar portion was and is in Duane Milne's district. June 2010: from Pattye’s blog referring to the $1,000,000:
“The solar component of this initial phase, funded by these dollars, reflects the opportunity for our community to reclaim an otherwise unusable contaminated soil containment cell for use as a 400,000 watt solar power generation facility.”

The solar portion was and is in Duane Milne’s district.

]]> Comment on Paoli Train Station Back on Track with $7.5 Million from SEPTA! by Township Reader http://pattyebenson.org/2012/01/31/paoli-train-station-back-on-track-with-7-5-million-from-septa/comment-page-1/#comment-39810 Township Reader Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:29:43 +0000 http://pattyebenson.org/?p=9316#comment-39810 Here's the irony of that money -- the "project" associated with it, to my understanding, was in Duane Milne's district -- and he had done the leg work to get the grant. It was simply politics that Drucker appeared because it was with Dwight Evans. I may be incorrect, but it was about grant money I think. The Septa money has been actively sought for several years. Anyway -- I have asked and haven't seen any answers to WHY this project is so beloved? Since I don't like it, I sort of need to understand what about it besides Paoli residents wanting change? A transit center is where people park to get on trains and buses. I'm asking? Here’s the irony of that money — the “project” associated with it, to my understanding, was in Duane Milne’s district — and he had done the leg work to get the grant. It was simply politics that Drucker appeared because it was with Dwight Evans. I may be incorrect, but it was about grant money I think. The Septa money has been actively sought for several years.

Anyway — I have asked and haven’t seen any answers to WHY this project is so beloved? Since I don’t like it, I sort of need to understand what about it besides Paoli residents wanting change? A transit center is where people park to get on trains and buses. I’m asking?

]]> Comment on Tredyffrin: Open for Business . . . and Closed by David Dows http://pattyebenson.org/2011/07/29/tredyffrin-open-for-business-and-closed/comment-page-1/#comment-39805 David Dows Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:39:18 +0000 http://pattyebenson.org/?p=8228#comment-39805 I wasn't around when Twaddels became something else, I was living over in Horsham or Ambler, then a few blocks below Front and South, in South Philly. After marrying and moving to Collegeville, I drove by and saw it as the Paoli Diner. The last time I ate there was at a Little League Banquet in the early 60s, while my brother was in the same class as Howard Twaddell, at Paoli Elementary, now Delaware Valley Friends School. I doubt I'll return, after reading the reviews on Yelp! Before becoming a Roy Rogers, the Boston Market was a Marriott Hot Shoppe, and it was THE teen hangout in the late 60s. Does anyone else remember the WigWam drive-in restaurant, across from the old Post Office on Lancaster Av. (now a Radio Shack, I think), where they brought your meals to you on trays, something like the Sonic Drive-Ins at Limerick and Norristown. I wasn’t around when Twaddels became something else, I was living over in Horsham or Ambler, then a few blocks below Front and South, in South Philly. After marrying and moving to Collegeville, I drove by and saw it as the Paoli Diner.

The last time I ate there was at a Little League Banquet in the early 60s, while my brother was in the same class as Howard Twaddell, at Paoli Elementary, now Delaware Valley Friends School. I doubt I’ll return, after reading the reviews on Yelp!

Before becoming a Roy Rogers, the Boston Market was a Marriott Hot Shoppe, and it was THE teen hangout in the late 60s.

Does anyone else remember the WigWam drive-in restaurant, across from the old Post Office on Lancaster Av. (now a Radio Shack, I think), where they brought your meals to you on trays, something like the Sonic Drive-Ins at Limerick and Norristown.

]]> Comment on Paoli Train Station Back on Track with $7.5 Million from SEPTA! by From the West http://pattyebenson.org/2012/01/31/paoli-train-station-back-on-track-with-7-5-million-from-septa/comment-page-1/#comment-39721 From the West Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:40:41 +0000 http://pattyebenson.org/?p=9316#comment-39721 Yes, drucker announced his candidacy this week to remind people he gave his campaign donor a million dollars of taxpayer money. I m sure that is what he wanted. Yes, drucker announced his candidacy this week to remind people he gave his campaign donor a million dollars of taxpayer money. I m sure that is what he wanted.

]]> Comment on Paoli Train Station Back on Track with $7.5 Million from SEPTA! by Township Reader http://pattyebenson.org/2012/01/31/paoli-train-station-back-on-track-with-7-5-million-from-septa/comment-page-1/#comment-39674 Township Reader Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:17:00 +0000 http://pattyebenson.org/?p=9316#comment-39674 While it is hard to imagine what the connection could be for the next race, I will again ask this forum to help me understand why this project is something so many support? I look at Ardmore and 69th Street as varying levels of transportation centers, and I see no development around them to suggest they serve as a catalyst. There are more empty storefronts in Ardmore than in Paoli. (and plenty of municipal parking lots) I understand we need to plan for the future, but is the infrastructure required to support a transit center likely to produce “middle class” jobs? Since we do not have a tax in place that relies on sales or income generation, where’s the beef? I’m not challenging it — I am genuinely asking….because I just don’t see it making things better….different and more crowded, but better? Mr. Yang got beat up in Berwyn — hardly a metropolis….does urbanization always bring prosperity? Are we sure this is a direction that will serve our community, and not just some landowners in Paoli? While it is hard to imagine what the connection could be for the next race, I will again ask this forum to help me understand why this project is something so many support? I look at Ardmore and 69th Street as varying levels of transportation centers, and I see no development around them to suggest they serve as a catalyst. There are more empty storefronts in Ardmore than in Paoli. (and plenty of municipal parking lots) I understand we need to plan for the future, but is the infrastructure required to support a transit center likely to produce “middle class” jobs? Since we do not have a tax in place that relies on sales or income generation, where’s the beef? I’m not challenging it — I am genuinely asking….because I just don’t see it making things better….different and more crowded, but better? Mr. Yang got beat up in Berwyn — hardly a metropolis….does urbanization always bring prosperity? Are we sure this is a direction that will serve our community, and not just some landowners in Paoli?

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