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SANATOGA PA – Weekend activities for western Montgomery County residents (and anyone else!), Dec. 11-13, 2009:

• These events have been added to The Post calendar.

The Phoenix sculpture, under construction for weeks in Phoenixville, goes up in flames Saturday during the Firebird Festival. See below.

Friday, Dec. 11

A gallery exhibit titled “Members and Friends Showing of Small-Priced Works,” which features – you guessed it – small-priced art in a variety of media, is being presented through Jan. 6 (2010; Wednesday) to observe the first-year anniversary of Studio B, 39 E. Philadelphia Ave., Boyertown PA. The Studio B gallery is open Fridays from 5-7 p.m., and Saturdays from Noon to 3 p.m.

Annual Holiday Spectacular activities in downtown Pottstown borough, sponsored by the Pottstown Downtown Improvement District Authority, continue from 6-9 p.m. with visits to Santa House, featuring a chance for children to visit with Santa and give him their wish lists. Pictures with Santa cost $6 this year. There are also horse and carriage rides for $5, free gingerbread cookie decorating for children under age 12, and roasted chestnuts and apple cider will be available.

Up for a challenge? The Amity Chess Club meets from 7-10 p.m. at St. Paul’s UCC Church, 1312 Old Swede Rd., Douglassville PA, for chess matches and lessons at all ages and skill levels. For more information, call 610-385-6324.

Playing in Pottstown.

“Honk,” a holiday musical that retells the Hans Christian Andersen story of “The Ugly Duckling,” will be staged Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., and in a Sunday matinée at 3 p.m., at the TriCounty Performing Arts Center 245 High St., Pottstown PA. Tickets are $23 for adults, $21 for seniors age 65 and older or students, and $15 for children age 12 and younger. Tickets can be purchased at the theater’s website, and at the door as available. For more information, call 610-970-1199.

Jazz violinist Regina Carter will bring her distinct blend of musical styles to Montgomery County Community College at 8 p.m. in the Science Center Theater, 340 DeKalb Pike, Blue Bell PA. Tickets cost $25 for general admission, $20 for students and seniors, and $10 for children. For information and tickets,  call 215-641-6518.

Saturday, Dec. 12

“Holiday Celebrations With Cheese,” which promises to be a lip-smacking event featuring both fresh and aged artisanal goat cheeses made using age-old processes borrowed from both French and Italian traditions, will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Yellow Springs Farm, 1165 Yellow Springs Road, Chester Springs PA. The farm, owned by Al and Catherine Renzi, breeds and raises Nu­bian goats, with occasional genetic crosses, that are selected for their naturally nutrient rich milk. Their goods will be available for tasting and sale. (This event from AroundPhoenixville.com)

He's here!

Santa Claus will visit the Gallery on High, 254 High St., Pottstown PA,  from noon to 2 p.m. for its holiday open house.  Guests can have their picture taken with Santa,   enjoy cider and cookies,  participate in holiday projects, and maybe get some Christmas shopping done, too.  For more information, call 610-326-2506.

Older actors take to the stage at 3 p.m. to present music, sketch comedy and monologues in a “Senior Holiday Cabaret” in the Newberry Loft of the Tri-County Performing Arts Center, 245 E. High St., Pottstown PA. Seating is limited. Tickets cost $12 for adults, $10 for students and senior citizens, and $8 for children ages 12 and younger. For more information, call 610-970-1199.

Pet owners can have photos of their pets taken with Santa Claus from 3-5 p.m. in the offices of Pottsgrove Animal Hospital, 1361C Farmington Ave., Pottstown PA. For more information, call 610-326-8700.

Phoenixville’s sixth annual Firebird Festival has evolved to become a day-long celebration. Its arts- and music-related activities this year begin at 2:30 p.m. and stretch well into the night. See a full schedule here. The festival’s premier event is lighting – make that “setting on fire” – a wooden sculpture of a mythical Phoenix bird for which the borough is named, and which was to have risen from its own ashes. The sculpture has been built over several weeks in a cleared area just south of the busy downtown district. The actual lighting of the bird will begin at 8 p.m. (This event from AroundPhoenixville.com)

Hundreds of luminary candles will line the towpath of the Schuylkill Canal from the bridge on Route 29 in Mont Clare PA back to the Locktender’s House at Lock 60 on the canal from 6-9 p.m. Holiday music will be played by Meadowlark, and Santa Claus will greet children from 6:30-7:30 p.m. The Schuylkill Canal Association, and sponsors Fitzwater Station and PECO Energy, will serve holiday treats and hot cider in the house. The lighted path will be canceled only if there is a steady downpour of rain.

Sunday, Dec. 13

Participants from Montgomery County Community College’s Jazz Improvisation Workshop will perform at 1 p.m. in the Science Center Theater, 340 DeKalb Pike, Blue Bell PA. Free of charge and open to the public, the concert will feature two ensembles with a diverse mix of standards, modern jazz arrangements and holiday songs adapted to the jazz idiom.

The Historic Pottstown Neighborhood Association will again sponsor its annual holiday house tour, called “Historic Pottstown by Candlelight,” from 1-6 p.m. at several homes throughout the borough. The event showcases some of Pottstown’s architectural wonders, both inside and out. The day includes service of a Victorian tea, presented by the Doe Club, from noon to 2 p.m., at the Pottstown Elks Club, High Street, Pottstown PA. A model train display also will be operating. Tickets cost $12 for each visitor, and include all activities and homes on the tour, as well as free refreshments and trolley transportation between stops. For more information, call  Sue Krause at 610-323-2220.

An annual holiday memorial service that pays tribute to loved ones and friends with a Tree Of Remembrance has been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. at the offices of the Visiting Nurse Association of Pottstown and Vicinity, 1963 E. High St., Pottstown PA. The program is open to the public. For more information, call 610-378-0481.

Handel’s Messiah, the Christmas classic for orchestra and chorus created by the famed music composer, will be presented at 3 p.m. by the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra and the Coventry Singers in Trinity Reformed United Church of Christ, at the corner of Hanover and King streets, Pottstown PA. Tickets cost $15, and are available for purchase from the symphony’s website or at the church. For more information, call 610-327-3614.

The fifth annual Christmas luminara worship service conducted by the Limerick Garden Of Memories will be held at 7 p.m. in the Good Shepherd chapel and mausoleum on the grounds of the cemetery, 44 Swamp Pike., Limerick PA. The Rev. Dr. Daniel M. Peters, pastor of Limerick Chapel, will officiate.

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PRETTY AND WHITE FOR THE HOLIDAYS – Visitors during Saturday’s (Dec. 5, 2009) Candlelight Tour at Peter Wentz Farmstead, the Montgomery County historic site in Worcester PA, had the realism of their Christmas trip back in time enhanced by the first snowfall of the winter. Although it made driving to the restored 18th Century Pennsylvania Dutch farm tricky from Sanatoga and Limerick, it also helped the candles along a walking path to the site gleam and glisten. See more photos below, and in a gallery here.

Temperatures dropped enough so that Colonial soldiers, standing guard outside the farmhouse in a Valley Forge-like encampment, gathered around an open fire for warmth. The cold also sent a young lamb scurrying for the warm and stomach-filling comfort of its mother’s milk.

And as the snow accumulated atop the leaves and berries of a nearby holly tree, Wentz Farmstead volunteer Rich Poole kept watch outside the farm fence and greeted guests as they entered the gates.

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THE GUY IN RED LOVES TOMATO SAUCE – Santa Claus paid a visit Saturday evening (Dec. 5, 2009) to the Sanatoga Fire Company, as its volunteers served up a fund-raising spaghetti dinner for the Jolly Elf and members of the public. Kennedy, left, and Madison Albright sat on Santa’s lap, above, before dinner and told him what they’d like as Christmas gifts. Then everyone trooped into the fire hall for a pasta and meatballs meal. See more photos in a gallery here.

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NORRISTOWN PA – Montgomery County (PA) emergency dispatchers directed police units, firefighters and emergency medical responders within the past 24 hours to a variety of incidents. A selective list of their activity appears below.

The entries are taken from publicly available feeds supplied by the county Department of Public Safety. Feed content has been edited by The Post for relevance to readers in Lower Pottsgrove and Limerick PA townships, the borough of Pottstown, and surrounding municipalities. It consequently is incomplete and is not intended to be comprehensive.

In most cases, the entries can be read as:

1. Type of service (EMS = emergency medical services, Traffic = police, Fire = firefighters);
2. Type of incident (vehicle accident, etc.)
3. Location of incident (usually by closest intersection or landmark, and the name of the municipality)
4. Date and time of the incident (YYYY-MM-DD) @ (“at”) (HH:MM:SS) in military time format.

Dec. 9, 2009

EMS: Cardiac Emergency
Brooke Dr & Joshua Dr; Limerick; 2009-12-09 @ 23:06:00;

EMS: Subject In Pain
Big Rd & Colonial Rd; Upper Frederick; 2009-12-09 @ 21:57:52;

EMS: Abdominal Pains
Red Tail Ct & Hunter Ln; Limerick; 2009-12-09 @ 20:26:55;

Traffic: Disabled Vehicle
Rt422 & Ramp Rt422 WB To N Lewis Rd; Limerick; 2009-12-09 @ 18:35:20;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
2nd Ave & Old State Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-09 @ 18:22:04;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Bridge Rd & Skippack Pike; Skippack; 2009-12-09 @ 17:27:29;

Fire: Fire Alarm
Cresson Blvd & Mill Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-09 @ 17:10:51;

EMS: Fall Victim
Stone Hill Dr & Farmington Ave; Upper Pottsgrove; 2009-12-09 @ 15:44:23;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident Injuries
Main St & 6th Ave; Collegeville; 2009-12-09 @ 15:37:06;

EMS: Vehicle Accident
Main St & 6th Ave; Collegeville; 2009-12-09 @ 15:35:40;

EMS: CVA/ Stroke
7th St & E 7th St; Pennsburg; 2009-12-09 @ 14:30:36;

EMS: Fall Victim
Mt Vernon St & Chestnut St; Pottstown; 2009-12-09 @ 14:30:03;

EMS: Cardiac Emergency
High St & Manatawny St; Pottstown; 2009-12-09 @ 14:15:15;

EMS: Hemorrhaging
Main St & W 7th Ave; Trappe; 2009-12-09 @ 14:09:06;

EMS: Altered Mental Status
Black Rock Rd & S Trappe Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-09 @ 12:31:03;

EMS: Diabetic Emergency
Black Rock Rd & S Trappe Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-09 @ 12:10:17;

EMS: Seizures
Black Rock Rd & S Trappe Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-09 @ 08:55:58;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Campus Dr & Arcola Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-09 @ 08:24:56;

Traffic: Disabled Vehicle
N Charlotte St & Bleim Rd; Lower Pottsgrove; 2009-12-09 @ 08:14:18;

Traffic: Hazardous Road Conditions
Windy Knoll Dr & Hidden Valley Dr; Upper Providence; 2009-12-09 @ 07:59:28;

Fire: Pump Detail
High St & N Pleasant View Rd; Lower Pottsgrove; 2009-12-09 @ 07:51:06;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident Rescue
Park Ave & Woodland Ave; Lower Providence; 2009-12-09 @ 07:28:34;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Rt422 & S Township Line Rd Overpass; Limerick; 2009-12-09 @ 03:41:42;

EMS: Subject In Pain
5th Ave & Main St; Royersford; 2009-12-09 @ 03:01:41;

EMS: Respiratory Emergency
High St & Flagg Ln; West Pottsgrove; 2009-12-09 @ 02:09:10;

Traffic: Disabled Vehicle
Keim St & Yerger Rd; Lower Pottsgrove; 2009-12-09 @ 02:08:43.

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SANATOGA PA – Once every three years, Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township re-states the obvious to builders, contractors and remodelers: it abides by nationally accepted building codes.

It will say it again Dec. 17 (2009; Thursday).

The township Board of Commissioners unanimously agreed Monday (Dec. 7) to advertise its intent to adopt new laws that set minimum requirements for:

• design, construction, or removal of residential buildings (the Residential Building Code);
• design, construction or removal of all other buildings (Building Code);
• property safety and sanitation (Property Maintenance Code);
• installation or removal of plumbing (Plumbing Code), mechanical (Mechanical Code), fuel and gas (Fuel Gas Code), and energy conservation (Energy Conservation Code) systems; and
• regulation of fire safety (Fire Code).

The township doesn’t produce the requirements itself, Manager Rodney Hawthone noted. Instead, he said, it relies on codes written and published by the International Code Council (ICC), an association dedicated to building safety and fire prevention. The ICC updates its codes annually; Lower Pottsgrove will use the 2009 ICC code editions to set its new base standards.

Township Director of Codes and Zoning Officer Keith A. Place is responsible for their enforcement.

A public hearing on the codes’ adoption was set for the board’s second December meeting at 7 p.m. in the municipal building, 2199 Buchert Rd., Pottstown PA.

• This event has been added to The Post calendar.

Advertisements announcing the hearing were published Tuesday (Dec. 8) in The (Pottstown PA) Mercury, the township’s newspaper of record for legal notices. The ads themselves took up more than 110 column inches on The Mercury’s classified pages and, to put that expense in context, cost the township about as much as buying a good stove, refrigerator and dishwasher for a modern kitchen.

Commissioners Bruce Foltz and Stephen Klotz were absent from Monday’s meeting and did not vote.

Related (to the Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners’ Dec. 7 meeting):

• Keeping What’s Natural In Talks For Park
• Sunnybrook Displays Vision Of A New Sign

Photo from the Interntional Codes Council

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Meadow and woodland make up a significant portion of Snell and Norton Park, as seen during August 2009. The cooling towers of the Limerick Generating Station, to the southeast, are at right.

SANATOGA PA – An apparently growing public consensus for the future use of Lower Pottsgrove‘s Snell and Norton Park, on the township’s northeast side, is to improve what’s there and possibly exclude what’s not.

“There’s interest in enhancing the park’s natural features, but limiting the amount of active recreation,” township Assistant Manager Alyson Elliott told the Board of Commissioners during its Monday (Dec. 7, 2009) meeting. That translates to creating nature areas and walking trails, and not ball fields, according to some who attended initial discussions on the park’s use.

The 30-acre park currently consists of wooded land and open space, with access available from Shire Drive, Rivendell Lane, Rockwood Court, and Snell Road.

Commissioners agreed during September (2009) to spend up to $59,900 to have a master plan for the park’s combined parcels drawn up by landscape architects Simone Collins of Berwyn PA. Residents of neighborhoods surrounding the park so far have attended two meetings on the project. Others are scheduled for:

• Jan. 26 (2010; Tuesday);
• March 9 (2010; Tuesday);
• April 6 (2010; Tuesday); and
• June 1 (2010; Tuesday).

all at 6:30 p.m. in the municipal building, 2199 Buchert Rd., Pottstown PA.

Elliott also reported the township Parks and Recreation Board did not meet in December due to lack of a quorum.

Related:

• Snell and Norton Park Meeting Tonight
• Want To Help Plan A Park? Here’s Your Chance
• Park Master Plan Discussion On Board Agenda
• Township Seeks Grant For Park Site Plan

Related (to the Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners’ Dec. 7 meeting):

• Sunnybrook Displays Vision Of A New Sign

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NORRISTOWN PA – Montgomery County (PA) emergency dispatchers directed police units, firefighters and emergency medical responders within the past 24 hours to a variety of incidents. A selective list of their activity appears below.

The entries are taken from publicly available feeds supplied by the county Department of Public Safety. Feed content has been edited by The Post for relevance to readers in Lower Pottsgrove and Limerick PA townships, the borough of Pottstown, and surrounding municipalities. It consequently is incomplete and is not intended to be comprehensive.

In most cases, the entries can be read as:

1. Type of service (EMS = emergency medical services, Traffic = police, Fire = firefighters);
2. Type of incident (vehicle accident, etc.)
3. Location of incident (usually by closest intersection or landmark, and the name of the municipality)
4. Date and time of the incident (YYYY-MM-DD) @ (“at”) (HH:MM:SS) in military time format.

Dec. 8, 2009

Fire: Building Fire
3rd St & Johnson St; Pottstown; 2009-12-08 @ 22:12:07;

EMS: Seizures

5th Ave & W Main St; Trappe; 2009-12-08 @ 21:57:44;

EMS: Fall Victim
Fort Bevon Rd & Easter Ave; Skippack; 2009-12-08 @ 18:49:39;

EMS: Fall Victim
Mill Rd & North Dr; Upper Providence; 2009-12-08 @ 18:57:50;

EMS: Cardiac Emergency
New St & Maple Ave; Upper Providence; 2009-12-08 @ 18:48:10;

EMS: Vehicle Accident
S Collegeville Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-08 @ 18:39:10;

EMS: Diabetic Emergency
Hillside Dr & Queen St; Pottstown; 2009-12-08 @ 18:16:13;

EMS: Head Injury
Robinson St & Tucker Ct; Pottstown; 2009-12-08 @ 17:29:43;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
S Collegeville Rd & Arcola Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-08 @ 17:55:27;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident Unknown Injuries
Main St & Park Ave; Schwenksville; 2009-12-08 @ 17:55:07;

Traffic: Disabled Vehicle
Rt422 WB & S Collegeville Rd Underpass; Upper Providence; 2009-12-08 @ 17:16:35;

Fire: Special Service
Charlotte St & Union Aly; Pottstown; 2009-12-08 @ 14:57:19;

EMS: Abdominal Pains
Lakeview Dr & 10th Ave; Limerick; 2009-12-08 @ 15:17:57;

EMS: Vehicle Accident
High St; Pottstown; 2009-12-08 @ 15:14:28;

EMS: General Weakness
Cresson Blvd & Mill Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-08 @ 15:00:37;

EMS: Head Injury
Big Rd & Colonial Rd; Upper Frederick; 2009-12-08 @ 13:51:09;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident Injuries
High St & N Washington St; Pottstown; 2009-12-08 @ 15:18:18;

EMS: Hemorrhaging
Evergreen Rd & W Lightcap Rd; Lower Pottsgrove; 2009-12-08 @ 12:14:50;

EMS: Fall Victim
Ridge Pike & Swamp Pike; Limerick; 2009-12-08 @ 11:41:57;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Rt422 Byp & S Hanover St Underpass; Chester County; 2009-12-08 @ 12:13:42;

EMS: Respiratory Emergency
Black Rock Rd & S Trappe Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-08 @ 07:25:08;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
King St & N Evans St; Pottstown; 2009-12-08 @ 08:01:47;

EMS: Unknown Medical Emergency
Fox Run Dr & Derby Cir; Upper Providence; 2009-12-08 @ 07:01:49;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Swamp Pike & N Charlotte St; New Hanover; 2009-12-08 @ 06:25:11;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Cider Mill Rd & Egypt Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-08 @ 06:19:28;

EMS: Respiratory Emergency
Spruce Ln & Yellowwood Ct; Upper Providence; 2009-12-08 @ 05:09:52;

Traffic: Disabled Vehicle
2nd Ave & Black Rock Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-08 @ 00:53:13.

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SANATOGA PA – Whenever money becomes available, directors at Sanatoga’s Sunnybrook Ballroom have a promotional sign ready to spend it on, the Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township Board of Commissioners was assured Monday night (Dec. 7, 2009).

A proposed sign for Sunnybrook commissioners seemed to favor Monday.

Sunnybrook board of directors’ member J. Wilmer “Wil” Hallman showed commissioners designs, created earlier this year, of a prototype sign to replace an aging billboard on East High Street that currently is used to promote events at the ballroom, 50 Sunnybrook Rd., Pottstown PA. The new sign features a computer-programmable, internally-lighted message board that would need township Zoning Hearing Board approval.

It needs funding, too.

Montgomery County has indicated it still has an $80,000 grant to help pay for the sign, money the commissioners rejected in July (2009) because they didn’t like and couldn’t change grant requirements. Commissioners Jonathan Spadt and James Phillips have been working with county officials on a compromise in the contract that makes Lower Pottsgrove responsible for both the sign and the grant’s use.

Sunnybrook still wants the sign, Hallman repeated Monday.

He and Sunnybrook President Thomas Sephakis expressed concern, during the commissioners’ first December meeting, that the grant may disappear when the county closes its 2009 financial books unless the township specifically states its support for the sign. The county “is looking for some kind of response by the end of the year,” Sephakis said.

Commissioners liked one of the two prototypes Hallman displayed, and agreed that, “generally speaking, you have that support,” Spadt said. But commissioners held off on a formal motion to that effect “until we’ve had a little more time to talk,” Spadt added.

If the grant money, which Sunnybrook first applied for during 2008, ever arrives, Hallman and Sephakis also said they hope the commissioners will let the Zoning Hearing Board know they endorse the project. That’s possible too, Spadt said.

Related:

• Still Hope For Sunnybrook Grant Township Rejected
• Its Grant Gone, Sunnybrook Looks To ‘Something Else’
• Township Says No To Sunnybrook Grant, Citing Risks
• Sunnybrook Grant On Township’s Agenda
• Sunnybrook, Township at Odds Over Grant

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POTTSTOWN PA – In a battle Saturday (Dec. 5, 2009) over $40,000 in prize money, Pottstown resident Maureen Gallant and thousands of others squared off against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Sadly for Gallant and the accompanying horde, the MIT team left them empty-handed.

A Boston-based university known for its scientific prowess, MIT took only hours to claim victory and the cash award in a contest devised by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). During October, DARPA invited groups and individuals to successfully locate 10 large red weather balloons that had been hidden at secret locations around the country.

The balloons that had thousands of people on the lookout.

The contest was intended as an experiment to discover how the internet could help with rapid problem solving, so the defense agency made just one demand: competitors had to rely on the ‘Net and social networks to discover the balloons’ hiding places.

DARPA expected the competition, which officially launched Saturday, to take nine days. It ended in less than one. Poor Mo – as Gallant is known to her friends and blog readers – never had a chance.

Gallant works for a Lower Pottsgrove chiropractor, lives in the Owen J. Roberts School District, and in her spare time writes “Pottstown’s Blog.” It’s a conversational website she uses to voice her opinions and those of her readers on hot topics of the day. In a Friday (Dec. 4) blog post titled “I’m a Darpa Hunter,” Gallant announced she had registered and would compete for the prize.

“(Ten) balloons shouldn’t be that hard to track across the U.S., should they?,” she rhetorically asked at the time.

Turns out, it wasn’t hard at all for the MIT team. The Guardian, a British newspaper, reported MIT “created a viral campaign to encourage people to put forward information they gleaned about the locations.” It paid for submitted tips that panned out, and also offered “a scheme of incentives aimed at getting people to urge their friends to take part,” The Guardian said.

The eight-foot balloons were found in nine states: Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

Gallant acknowledges she wasn’t as organized as MIT, which was helped in its attempt by Facebook pages and Twitter accounts. In the end, Mo said in a Monday (Dec. 7, 2009) follow-up blog post, “I didn’t even look.”

DARPA claimed it learned a thing or two that could come in handy in future threats faced by the United States. It can be proud, too, that it’s “baby” has matured so quickly. That would be the internet itself, which began 40 years ago as a secure means for military communications, called ARPAnet.

Photo from The Guardian

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GAMES RAISE FUNDS TO HONOR FOOTBALL TEAM – Bingo players of all ages gathered Sunday (Dec. 6, 2009) in the cafeteria at Pottsgrove High School to both enjoy their favorite game of chance and help raise money to honor the Falcon’s championship varsity football team. The fund-raiser, conducted by the Falcon Football Club, benefits the team’s upcoming awards banquet. See other photos from the games here.

As balls flew around the caller’s machine, and players dutifully daubbed their cards with ink to mark numbers already selected, they competed for prizes that included Longaberger baskets filled with themed items and Silpada jewelry.

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