Volume 86 • March 2019

Greetings Willistown sewage disposal problems and to prevent Unfortunately, repairs to these systems can Residents! future issues. The Act 537 Program requires often lead to financial hardships. municipalities to develop and implement Late last year we sent comprehensive official sewage plans that State Law requires every municipality to a questionnaire to address existing sewage disposal needs or develop and implement a comprehensive landowners in an area of Manager’sissues, account for future Messageland development, official Sewage Management Plan. The the Township designated and provide for future sewage disposal latest update to Willistown’s Official Act as the “Northwest needs of the entire municipality. 537 Plan, completed in 2001, was approved Quadrant” (generally, north of Paoli Pike by the Pennsylvania Department of and west of Sugartown Road) seeking Currently, approximately 30% of Willistown Environmental Protection in 2004. Since information about the age and condition Township parcels are either undeveloped then, there have been several updates to of on-lot sewage disposal systems (i.e. septic or serviced by on-lot disposal systems. the Plan to accommodate new subdivisions systems). We included a letter explaining the Malfunctioning systems, regardless of type, and land development projects such as survey and received a few questions that I’d pose a serious threat to public health and Applebrook Meadows, Chapel Hill, and Paoli like to share the answers to here. the environment. They can pollute public Walk. and private drinking water sources by As background, the State legislature discharging directly to the groundwater, The survey of the Northwest Quadrant is not adopted the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities and they can expose humans and animals directly related to a particular development; Act (Act 537) in 1966 to address existing to various bacteria, viruses, and parasites. rather, it is driven by our continued efforts Towne Crier Continued on page 4… Willistown Township 2019 Approved Budget • All Funds Available for Appropriation (View the Township Manager’s Budget Message and Approved Budget at willistown.pa.us)

Governmental Funds Available Governmental Funds Available Funds Available for General Appropriation for Restricted Purposes for Restricted Purposes Description Total State Penns Valley Low WillistownCapital Township Bartram 2019 Liquid Budget Preserve West at Chester a GlanceForge Pressure General Projects Open Space Bridge Fuels/Highway Sewer Pike Sewer Sewer Sewer Fund Fund Fund Fund Aid Fund Fund Fund Fund Fund

Revenue:

Real Estate Taxes $346,000 ------$346,000 Local Service Tax $270,000 ------$270,000 Real Estate Tranfer Tax $650,000 ------$650,000 Earned Income Tax $6,200,000 - $725,000 ------$6,925,000 Licenses & Permits $300,000 ------$300,000 Fines & Forfeits $23,000 ------$23,000 Interest, Rents & Royalties $45,800 - $35,000 - $4,000 $2,000 - $13,000 $1,300 $101,100 State Funding $343,100 - - - $393,781 - - - - $736,881 Local Government - - - $1,500 - - - - - $1,500 Charges for Services $568,964 - - - - $145,515 - $1,783,370 $62,000 $2,559,849 Other Financing Sources $75,497 - - $1,500 - - - - - $76,997 Unclassified Operating Revenue $7,205 ------$7,205 Total Revenue $8,829,566 - $760,000 $3,000 $397,781 $147,515 - $1,796,370 $63,300 $11,997,532

Expenditures: -

General Government $966,733 $50,000 $10,063 ------$1,026,795 Public Safety $6,373,062 $146,000 ------$6,519,062 Sanitation $30,000 - - - - $157,006 $328,808 $1,859,994 $55,000 $2,430,000 Highways & Streets $976,658 $407,300 - - $409,000 - - - - $1,792,958 Culture & Recreation $394,856 $40,000 - $3,000 - - - - - $437,856 Debt Service $86,757 - $554,660 - - - - $395,228 - $1,036,645 Other Financing Uses $1,500 ------$1,500 Total Expenditures $8,829,566 $643,300 $564,723 $3,000 $409,000 $157,006 $328,808 $2,255,221 $55,000 $13,244,817 Willistown Parks & Recreation Celebrating our community through people, parks, and programs Get Go WilMa! 2019 Summer Adventure Program Outside! GO program at Malvern and Paoli Libraries Let’s GO WilMa! Park Party on WilMa! receives a GO WilMa! Field Guide—a passport June 11 at WIllistown’s stands of sorts. The Guide includes scavenger hunt Greentree Park, for “Get clues leading to hidden “Inspiration Stations” 21 Grubb Road, Outside around in our wonderful local landscape. Each Station Malvern. Sign-up Willistown and will highlight outer space and what you’ll see is ongoing at Malvern!” Our on a trip to the moon in entertaining ways, the Malvern and summertime outdoor adventure program shapes, and forms. Kids and their adults will Paoli Libraries makes reading, learning, and being outside have a blast exploring our special area of throughout fun for our community’s children—and the globe while being transported to the the summer. GO the adults have a ball too! Inspired by and moon and back. I hope our adventurers and WilMa! concludes on modeled after the Healthy York County their families are inspired and awed by what August 17, and the raffle Coalition’s “Get Outdoors York” program, this surrounds our planet as well as the wonderful drawing will take place at the Willistown year GO WilMa! is paired with the Chester places “in our own backyard.” Country Fair at 6:30 PM at Greentree Park on County Library System’s new Summer Quest The Inspiration Stations include a rubbing August 20. program through Malvern and Paoli Libraries. post with an etching on top where the kids The program team is led by Willistown Summer Quest is a collaborative project “stamp” their Field Guides. Then it’s back to Parks and Recreation and includes Malvern of the Chester County libraries that makes the library where participants receive raffle and Paoli Libraries. I am very grateful to summer reading exciting and incorporates tickets for each Inspiration Station stamp our Inspiration Station hosts: East Goshen writing and creative activities that keep they have earned and for each book they Township, East Whiteland Township, Historic children’s minds active and engaged all have read. Our space travelers will earn a Sugartown, Malvern Borough, Natural Lands, summer long. Kids will earn Summer Quest GO WilMa! patch by adventuring to 6 of our Paoli Battlefield, Paoli Hospital Research badges much like those awarded in the Boy 15 different destinations and locating the Library, Willistown Conservation Trust, and Scout programs. Inspiration Stations there. and Willistown Township—thank you! GO In honor of one of the greatest outdoor Last year, over 850 GO WilMa! explorers WilMa! is funded in large part by Willistown adventures, the 50th anniversary of the and their friends and families were out and Township with assistance from Malvern Apollo Moon Landing and the first human about in our local parks and special places Borough and East Goshen and East Whiteland steps on the moon, this year’s GO WilMa! throughout the summer. That’s about two Townships. There is no participation fee. For theme is “Outer Space,” and our adventurers hundred more than 2017—if you haven’t more information, go to willistown.pa.us or will be going “To the Moon and Back!” Each tried it yet, join the fun! contact me, Mary Hundt, Director of Parks child who signs up for the Summer Quest GO WilMa! kicks off at the School’s Out— and Recreation at 610-647-5300 x224.

Celebrating 100 Years of Scouting! Chester County Council’s Centennial Anniversary Day of Service Willistown Township’s Okehocking Preserve April 13, 9 AM-Noon

o celebrate its 100th birthday, the Chester County Council of Boy Okehocking projects include trail clearing and maintenance, TScouts of America is joining Willistown Parks and Recreation vine management, and more. Please contact Ian Peltier with to host a special Day of Service at Willistown Township’s questions and to register at [email protected]. Okehocking Preserve. An essential component of the We will be in touch with more details as the date Boy Scouts of America program is giving back to approaches. The rain date is April 14. Postponement the community, and we are excited to provide a information will be posted on the Chester County meaningful day of service at Willistown’s picturesque Council and Willistown Township websites. 185-acre Okehocking Preserve. The event is open to We are also looking for Crew Leaders—adults all—you do not need to be a Scout to join us! who will meet with Mary Hundt, Willistown Parks To honor this centennial celebration, Scouts can and Recreation Director, prior to the Day of Service earn the commemorative Fleur-de-lis Patch which to review projects and who will manage a group is a compilation of five separate patches. The fleur- of ten volunteers day of. To inquire about Crew de-lis, or lily flower, has special meaning to scouts Leadership and the projects please contact Mary at as it was commonly used as the symbol for north on [email protected] or 610-647-5300 x224. maps, and a Boy Scout is to show the way to be a good Many Scout Troops including Willistown Troop 78 and citizen through doing his duty and helping others. All who Malvern Troop 7 have contributed countless hours of service attend the special Day of Service at Okehocking will earn the at Willistown’s parks and preserves. We look forward to working Scout Service Patch center plume of the Centennial Fleur-de-lis Patch again with Troop 78 on this special day and wish Troop 7 a wonderful pictured here. on your camping trip—we will miss you!

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Get Willistown Township Summer Fun Camps Now 7 Weeks! Outside! Hosted by Jump Start Sports at Sugartown Elementary School July 1–July 3: Celebrate America’s Games soccer, , flag , and street We are expanding our summer camps Campers play these traditionally , and camp games include team to 7 weeks! Boys and entering American games during this shortened dodge ball, capture the flag, and British grades K–6 will have a wonderful week of Independence Day (cost of bulldog. A different sport is highlighted summer filled with fun, learning, this week is pro-rated). Activities each day with fun, low-key games for and new friendships. include whiffle ball, cornhole, frisbee school pride. Kids will learn fun facts golf, spike ball, newcomb ball, about their chosen college and will make speedball and more. There may even school T-shirts and pennants to wear and OPTIONS: be some water games! display at “Graduation.” Full Day: 9 AM–3 PM Half Day: 9 AM–Noon July 8–July 12: Sports Around the World July 29–August 2: Sticks and Stones Extended Care: 8–9 AM and/or 3–5:30 PM Campers engage in an adventurous Have some fun with your favorite Location: Sugartown Elementary School week learning about different sports “stick” sports. This includes the oldest 611 Sugartown Road, Malvern that are played all over the world. American sport, lacrosse, as well as Children will be exposed to the culture hockey, whiffleball, noodle games, HALF DAY FEES and history of each sport as well as and more. Kids will create a Willistown Any 1 week: $115 Resident play a variety of games such as cricket, Kindness Rock (“stone”) to help $125 Non-Resident rugby, team , and bocce. spread kindness in their community. July 4 Week: $75 Resident, $85 Non Full Camp 7 Weeks: $700 Resident July 15–July 19: Color Games August 5–August 9: Olympics $770 Non-Resident A classic “old school” camp concept Willistown hosts the Olympics! Children FULL DAY FEES comes back! Campers are divided into are grouped by age and divided into Any 1 week: $180 Resident teams (colors) and play a wide variety countries to learn about a wide variety of $190 Non-Resident of sports and camp games competing in Olympic sports, including soccer, hockey, July 4 Week: $110 Resident, $120 Non their age/gender group for “Color Pride.” team handball, and track and field. They Full Camp: $1100 Resident This fun format enables children to learn also learn about the culture and history $1170 Non-Resident and benefit from the positive aspects of of their adopted country. Campers make EXTENDED CARE FLAT FEES/Week play while working with a team toward a flag to carry at the “Closing Ceremonies” NOTE: Can not be prorated a common goal. Some of the camp and “Presentation of Medals.” Kids 8–9 AM: $20 games offered include team dodge ball, benefit from the positive aspects of play 3–5:30 PM: $30 capture the flag, and British bulldog. while working with a team toward a June 24–June 28: Warrior Sports include football, , soccer, common goal. We’ll have camp games Looking for a fun fitness challenge? hockey, , lacrosse, and more. including team dodge ball, capture the Age-appropriate and safe activities Campers will make team bandanas to flag, and British bulldog. specifically designed to challenge, wear throughout the week. Registration inspire, and excite. The fun includes July 22–July 26: College Days Via willistown.pa.us or obstacle courses, relays, tug-of-war, Campers “enroll” in the college of their jumpstartsports.com and many other entertaining activities choice and have a blast playing in a Questions designed to teach cooperation and variety of sports and camp games for their Mary Hundt 610-647-5300 x224 or teamwork. “alma mater.” Sports include basketball, [email protected]

Willistown Park Parties & Programs

Greentree Park Parties Pop Up Coffee Klatches Location: General Wayne Elementary 21 Grubb Road, Malvern Saturdays at 8:30 AM, sign up for Parks & School Field 1 at 20 Devon Road, Malvern Recreation Notify Me for invitations. Pizza & Puppets in the Park Willistown T-Birds T-Ball May 7 • 5:30–7:30 PM Rain Date: May 9 Kids ages 3–5 learn skills and game GO WilMa! School’s Out! Let’s GO WilMa! playing and receive a trophy and MLB Summer Adventure Program June 11 • 5:30–7:30 PM hat. Staff members oversee the games, June 11–August 17 Rain date: June 13 and volunteer team coaches assist. Willistown Country Fair Day & Time: Saturdays 9–10 AM and Weekly Sports Camps August 20 • 5:30–7:30 PM 10–11 AM (rotating schedule) Hummingbird Soccer Rain date: August 22 Fee: $80 Resident, $90 Non-Resident Kids ages 3–6 learn skills through age Parks in Tune: New 4 Adults! (includes team t-shirt) appropriate drills and fun, low-key, non- Live bands in the parks...stay “tuned!” Spring Session: April 13–May 18 competitive games. Summer Session: June –July kehocking reserve rogramming Day & Time: Thursdays 5:30–6:30 PM, 8 13 O P P Fall Session: Sept. 7–Oct. 12 Okehocking Weed Warriors 3–4 yrs old, 6:30–7:30 PM, 5–6 yrs old Location: Willistown’s Mill Park April 6 & TBD • 9–11:30 AM Fee: $75 Resident, $85 Non- 1 Mill Road, Malvern Contact Dave Smith at Resident (includes team t-shirt Registration & Questions [email protected]. and award) See info under Summer Camps Tackle invasives at the picturesque 185- Spring Session: April 11–May 16 above. acre Okehocking Preserve—fresh air fun! Summer & Fall Sessions: Coming Soon

3 Willistown Parks and Recreation Parks & Rec CommunityWatershed News Stewardship Parks & Recreation Board Vacancy The volunteer Willistown Parks and Recreation Board is looking for an Land to the Rescue! enthusiastic resident to join their team! Healthy Water Begins with Healthy Land The Board advises the Supervisors on Fortunately, natural, undeveloped parks and recreation related topics including Where human development dismantles areas can help restore unhealthy streams. improvements, programs, planning, and the natural processes that keep waterways One way they do so is by filtering policies. Board members clean, land protection can help restore contaminated stormwater runoff before assist Mary Hundt, these systems to benefit all who rely on it reaches the streams. This is called a Director of Parks and the watershed. Healthy water begins with “rescue effect.” Recreation, and become healthy land. We have data Park Ambassadors. Willistown evidencing a rescue Board meetings are Conservation effect along Ridley held the third Thursday Trust’s watershed Creek. The upstream of the month at 7 PM; team monitors site suffered however, the Board meets 10 stream sites from warm water about six per year. across the greater temperatures and For more info, visit Willistown area elevated levels of Pictured here willistown.pa.us, and including Willistown salts. The creek then are Parks & Rec please call Mary to discuss Township’s Board Chairman flowed through the position further, at Okehocking Andrew Vaskas wooded and 610-647-5300 x224. Send Preserve. Stream and one of protected lands. letters of interest and health monitoring our youngest The monitoring site resumes to the Board's is essential for Greentree Park below this section attention c/o Mary to maintaining local Party fans. had much healthier water chemistry. [email protected]. water quality and continuing to provide Everyone can make a positive impact on The Board will review the applications, healthy water downstream including our waterways, contribute to the rescue interview the applicants, and make their the 391-acre Springtown Reservoir that effect, and improve the lives of people appointment recommendation to the Board supplies drinking water to 200,000 local living downstream. Some things you can of Supervisors who make the final decision. homes. Our preliminary analysis of 12 months do: plant native plants and trees, limit the Please Help Your Parks & Trails! of baseline data collection suggests that use of salt during winter, limit use of lawn Willistown streams are in very good chemicals, and help preserve open space. Destroy Spotted Lanternfly condition with most of the monitoring Picking up garbage is another easy egg masses by May1! sites reporting low levels of contaminants, way to help! Join the Trust for the CRC low temperatures, and high dissolved Watershed Association Annual Stream Stations with supplies are located oxygen concentrations. Still, water quality Cleanup at Ashbridge Preserve on April 13 at each of our parks. Go to our website for tends to be lower in developed areas from 9:00–11:30 AM. Email Regan Dohm, informational links. The eggs hatch in May, so let’s all do what we can now! reflecting the impact of human activity [email protected], or call 610-353-2562 for and street and lawn runoff. registration information. Thank you! Administration

...Continued from page 1. to protect the environment and If your property is currently Homeowners, to help avoid malfunctions and ensure long- comply with state law. The results serviced by an on-lot disposal term use of your on-lot system try the following: of this and any future study will system, please monitor the • Conserve water and reduce waste flow into the septic be made available to the public WillisTowne Crier, the Township tank. andManager’s the survey property Message owners. website, and your mailbox Avoid• Have the Septic septic tank System pumped at leastMalfunctions every 3-5 years Should the results of this for further information. The depending upon tank size and household size. or any future study indicate Township will seek your input • Avoid putting chemicals in the septic system. a preliminary need for public before making such decisions. • Do not dispose of anything other than human waste and sewers, the Township will We are committed to informing perform additional planning and involving all affected toilet paper in the toilet and avoid non-flushable type and research for each potential property owners in the entire wipes or bulky, slowly decomposing wastes. project. If it is then determined process. • Inspect the septic tank, pipes, and drainage field that sanitary sewers are needed I understand that sewage annually. for a specific area, the Township facilities planning can be a • Maintain accurate records of the septic system will be required to develop complicated and unsettling (design, installation, location, inspections, pumpings, and implement a Sewage matter. Please call or email me malfunctions, repairs.) Management Plan to extend with questions, concerns, or • Prevent run-off from downspouts, sump pumps, and public sewers to that area. comments. paved surfaces from getting into the septic system. Hooking up to the public sewer — Dave Burman, Manager • Keep heavy vehicles, equipment, and livestock away from system could have a significant @WillistownDave the septic system. financial impact on potential • Do not plant trees and shrubs over or close to the septic users of the sewer extension. system.

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Ramon Townsend of ColonialBindery.com. Workshop Admission: $75/ Participant, all supplies included. Ages 14 & up. Paoli Volunteer Interest Meeting April 3 • 10 AM Battlefield Love history and want to share your passion with others? Join us! We need Wreaths Across America your help with school tours, programs, and Thanks to the families who helped the events, caring for our artifact collections, Paoli Memorial Association, Malvern and general office work. Registration is not Historic Commission, and the Paoli required, but we would be glad to know Battlefield Preservation Fund celebrate you are coming! Wreaths Across America, a program that 690 Sugartown Rd. Malvern, PA 19355 places an evergreen wreath on veterans’ 610-640-2667 Weekend Guided Tours graves across the country to honor their HistoricSugartown.org Starting May 4 service. Preregistration is required unless noted. Saturdays 11 AM–4 PM • Sundays 1–4 PM The cold and rainy December morning Please register on the website or contact Historic Sugartown is a beautifully restored did not stop hundreds of people from Faith at 610-640-2667 or 19th-century village crossroads located in joining school children, Girl and Boy [email protected]. Willistown Township. Named after tavern Scouts, historical reenactors, and officials in keeper Eli Shugart, Sugartown became honoring the 53 known Revolutionary War Paper Marbling a bustling village corner during the late soldiers buried in the common grave at the March 12 • 6:30–9 PM 1800s bringing people together to share Paoli Battlefield. Workshop: April 23 • 9 AM–2 PM their lives as a community. Tour the c.1880 Thanks to our volunteers from Paoli, Create marbled paper in Historic General Store, the c.1805 Garrett House, Willistown, and Malvern for managing the Sugartown’s Bindery. Ramon Townsend, the Book Bindery, the 19th-century bank event! Colonial Williamsburg-trained instructor, barn & agricultural exhibit, and the 2019 Lecture Series will lead the class. Participants take home Carriage Museum. Join us at the General Warren for dinner their finished papers. Admission: $7/Adult, $5/Child (Ages 3–17). and the following lectures for $49/person: Evening Session Admission: $45/Adult Children ages 2 and younger admitted free. March 11: “Results of the Paranormal Tours Workshop Admission: $65/Adult, $50/Child of 2018”, by Laurie Hull and Kelly Schmidt (Ages 8-17) All supplies included. Pop-Up Biergartens April 8: “The Impact of the Valley Forge May 30 • June 27 • August 22 Encampment on the Local Countryside”, by Hand Bookbinding Workshops We’re once again partnering with Locust Tom McGuire March 23 & April 30 • 9 AM–3 PM Lane Craft Brewery and Chaddsford Winery May 13: “Ben Franklin’s Navy”, by Tim Participants will create a book using to create these fun, relaxing summer McGrath traditional methods employed through the evenings in the village of Sugartown. Please register at rememberpaoli.org. mid-19th Century under the instruction of

89th Radnor Hunt Races 22nd Annual Saturday, May 18 CRC Streams Cleanup April 13 • 9–11:30 AM Race for Open Space Celebrate 89 years of horseracing in the CRC is seeking stream cleanup open countryside! Join us, and start your volunteers throughout the Chester, own spring tradition. Invite friends to Ridley, and Crum Watersheds. tailgate on the rail or enjoy the view from a box seat. High stakes purses bring the More than 800 volunteers at 34 different CRC’s initiatives include the stream best in steeplechasing to Radnor Hunt in sites in Chester, Ridley, and Crum creeks clean up, long term tree reforestation, Willistown Township. Advance sales only gathered over 10 tons of debris last year! streambank protection programs, at radnorhuntraces.org or at CRC is seeing long term positive results education and outreach programs, and 610-388-8383. No sales on Race Day. from this yearly cleanup. Volunteers report stream monitoring. CRC’s work improves Proceeds benefit the open space programs that sites seem cleaner year after year. the sources of our drinking water and of the Brandywine Conservancy. It stands to reason that when areas are restores and protects our natural resources relatively free of trash people are less likely benefiting everyone in our watersheds to dump there. and beyond! We are located at Willistown Township’s Okehocking Preserve Since 1970, the CRC mission has been to farmhouse—stop by to say hello! Please support, encourage, and promote the find a cleanup site near you or become a enjoyment, restoration, conservation, sponsor at crcwatersheds.org, or call us at protection, and prudent management of 610-359-1440. the natural resources of the Chester, Ridley, and Crum Watersheds. Thank you! Photo by Jim Graham

5 Recycling Roundup Willistown’s 18th Annual Township Drop-off Wood Chipping Recycling Event Willistown Residents Only Saturday, April 20 • 9 AM–12 PM April 27• 9 AM–12 PM 688 Sugartown Road Willistown Township Building 688 Sugartown Road PROOF OF RESIDENCY REQUIRED Willistowners have recycled over 100 tons of material—keep up the great work! Metal, Tires, Refrigerators, Air Conditioners, and Electronics (E-Waste)

Willistown’s Recycling ranges, outdoor • Cell phones Residents may bring tree, bush, and shrub Commission has organized grills, dishwashers, limbs and branches no greater than 8” • Printer cartridges (ink jet, its annual one-day, no- clothes washers/dryers, in diameter. They will be unloaded and charge, drop-off recycling laser, toner) water heaters, and chipped free of charge. Thanks go to program for the following dehumidifiers • Rechargeable household the Public Works Department for their items: • Metal items (any type), batteries (NiCAD nickel- • All computer monitors including bedsprings, bed cadmium, lithium) Note: assistance! and peripherals: frames, lawn mowers Non-recyclable alkaline Specifications keyboards, CPUs, printers, (push and rider), gym batteries may be placed Wood other than that described above will modems, scanners, equipment, auto wheels, in the regular trash not be accepted. No wooden furniture, servers, terminals, doorknobs, shelving, • Fluorescent tubular, ladders, fence posts/railings, telephone network equipment, kitchen utensils, toys, compact fluorescent, and speakers, mouses, kitchen cabinets, metal incandescent light bulbs poles, landscaping wood, construction cathode ray tubes (CRTs), furniture, pipes, wire, etc. wood, paneling, scrap wood, or wood with and other computer parts Bring copper, brass, cast EXCEPTIONS: nails, hooks, or metal. No leaves or grass. • Fax and copying aluminum, steel, iron, tin, Will Not Be Accepted! machines, typewriters, and other lesser-known • No chemicals, paints, oils, PLEASE NOTE: All cut ends of the wood telephones, tape metals—if it’s metal, it or other hazardous waste must be facing toward the rear of the recorders, VCRs, DVRs, CD will be accepted will be accepted at the vehicle or trailer. Willistown residents and DVD players, record • Items containing Freon, Willistown site players, tuners, amplifiers, such as refrigerators *only—no contractors! • Completely remove all cameras, projectors, audio and air-conditioning oil and gasoline from and music equipment, units—Freon will be equipment Shred for speakers, test equipment, removed free of charge, transformers, videotape representing a savings of • Remove batteries from Security! lawn mowers recorders, antennae, $60/item! Willistown Residents Only cables, wire, and circuit • Tires, on or off the rim. • No oil tanks boards Limit of six (6) car tires per • No upholstered furniture May 18 • 9 AM–12 PM • Television sets and radios, vehicle. Truck tires larger Removed metal will be 688 Sugartown Road including portables, than 16.5 inches in rim accepted stereos, radio/TV tubes diameter must be off the • Outdoor grills must be • Household appliances, rim or they will not be clean accepted including irons, toasters, • No mattresses FREE! microwave ovens, • Lawn mower, auto, and mixers, blenders, vacuum boat batteries • No sneakers cleaners, hair dryers, • Propane tanks • Large tractor and truck electric cooking pans/ tires will not be accepted pots, lamps, clocks, • Videotapes, audiotapes, and computer disks kitchen ovens, cooking Dispose of sensitive documents to protect yourself from identity theft! Recycling Commission Township Manager, at Member Needed! [email protected]. Shredding will take place on site. Limit: six boxes. No newspapers, magazines, Hear ye, hear ye! Are you driven by a sense of community responsibility? Are Grants Fund Events Based cardboard, wallpaper, books, plastic, you a recycling devotee and practitioner? on YOUR Recycling! photographs, folders with metal strips, Are you looking for the companionship These events are provided free of charge three-ring binders, or binder clips. Items that comes from working with your to Willistown residents only and are paid containing staples, standard paper clips, or friends and neighbors? Then Willistown’s for through Pennsylvania Department rubber bands will be accepted. Recycling Commission might be for you! of Environmental Protection Recycling The Recycling Commission meets monthly Performance Grants based on the PLEASE NOTE: The shredding truck and plans recycling events and education amount our community recycles annually. will depart at 12 PM or when its five- and promotes public awareness of the Our recycling grant applications were ton capacity is reached. Do not arrive benefits of recycling. written for many years by Jim Tate. We *before 9 AM so that the shredding Interested? Please send your resume thank our newest Commission member, truck can access the Township campus. and a cover letter to Dave Burman, Susan Vogel, for taking on the job! No commercial enterprises! Have questions about recycling or recycling events? Contact Molly Perrin, Chair of Willistown’s Recycling Commission: [email protected].

6 our library therapy dog, in time slots on Library. Stop by and check one out! Thursdays from 4:30–5:30 PM. Email Miss Teen Programs Kelly at [email protected] to register, or call The Zen of Knitting for Teens & Tweens For details and registration us. Saturday, March 9, 2–4 PM: Grades 6–8 information call: 610-644-7259 This spring, Miss Kelly will host a special Saturday, March 16, 2–4 PM: Grades 9–12 or visit www.ccls.org. storytime at the new East Goshen Teens and Tweens are invited to attend Township playground! The storytime will a free workshop on therapeutic knitting New Monthly E-News! runLIBRARIES for four weeks from April 23 to May presented by Jamie Smith, LMFT, of the Visit our websiteMalvern to sign up. 14 at 10 AM by the Little Free Library. Couples and Family Wellness Center. New: Shared Calendar Please Support Your Library Many teens and tweens struggle to Burbio.com is a free website and app Our annual Give-a-thon is approaching! manage anxiety, depression, and just that puts school, library, and other From March 10 to March 23, you can give generally being overwhelmed. Parents local events all in one calendar. You to ensure the continued success of our worry that social media can make can create a personalized event feed, programs and services. We appreciate all these feelings worse and wish their sync events to your Google or of our library supporters and thank you child had tools for calming emotions, iPhone calendars, and receive for your yearly patronage! increasing focus, and engaging socially. important notifications if events Therapeutic knitting can help! Research change. Sign up at Burbio.com shows that knitting can boost mood or download the free iPhone and concentration, reduce stress, or Android App and follow For details and registration help with panic attacks, combat the calendars that interest you, information call: 610-296-7996 loneliness, and improve confidence. including ours! or visit www.tredyffrinlibraries.org. Kids will knit a scarf to wear home. Book Clubs Expect the Unexpected @ Paoli Library! Space is limited! For registration and Our morning and evening supply information, email: therapy@ book clubs are always open New: Forward PaoliLiteracy Packs couplesandfamilywellnesscenter.com. for new members. We meet The PA Forward initiative emphasizes Teen Advisory Board every second Tuesday of the month 5 literacies deemed essential in society: Paoli Library is recruiting students in at 10 AM and 6:30 PM. Check with the Basic Literacy, Financial Literacy, grades 7 through 12 to help plan library library to obtain a copy of the books Information Literacy, Health Literacy, and programs and activities for teens. Pizza being read. Civic and Social Literacy. Stephanie will be provided. Please call for info. Storytime Bragg, our children’s librarian, has Open Teen Space The spring storytime session starts on created 10 packs with a “toy” in each Every Monday evening we provide a Teen March 4 and ends on May 23. Register to practice the literacies at home as a Space for kids 13 to 18 to do homework, online for various times for babies, family. For preschool and elementary hang out and play board games, color, toddlers, and preschoolers. School-aged school students. The Literacy Packs must make a craft, or just relax. Drop in as you children can register to read to Holly, be checked out and returned at Paoli want or need to use the space!

Police Update • From the Chief

e will hold our annual Police Willistown. PennDOT has determined that there will be a 4 way WAwards Night during the March stop sign at Sugartown and Monument Roads. We will also 11 Board of Supervisors meeting at have a no left turn sign on Dutton Mill Road southbound onto Sugartown Elementary School, 7 PM. This Street Road commonly known as Route 926. As always, we will is an excellent opportunity to recognize continue to monitor these changes and work with PennDOT if our staff for their outstanding work, and future changes are needed. it will be a very special night as we say, “ Please be advised that we have received several service calls Goodbye and thank you!” to Sergeants involving phone scams referencing Apple, The Social Security Jim Daniels and Mike Martin who will be Administration, and PECO. These types of companies will not retiring this year. Both have provided the call you. If you receive a call and are not sure if it is legitimate, highest level of service to this department for 30 years. Their call the police department. We will be glad to assist you. Don’t departure is a huge loss to our organization as we will be hard feel pressured to make an immediate decision and never give pressed to find their replacements. I look forward to honoring your personal information. them and recognizing Detective Sergeant Jeff Heim for 20 years As always, we are here to help, don’t hesitate to call us. of service, Officer Andrew Wahn for completion of his 15th year of service, and Officer William Viebahn who was voted by his Stay Safe, peers as our Officer of The Year. John M. Narcise, Chief of Police There will be some new traffic patterns coming shortly to

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Please destroy Spotted Lanternfly egg masses by May 1!

This #BadBug is in Willistown— action is needed in your yard and our parks and preserves. Go to willistown.pa.us for more egg mass photos and info. The eggs hatch in May, so let’s all do what we can now. Stations with supplies required are located at each of our parks. Thank you!

Mark your Calendars! March 11 May 18 The newsletter of Police Awards Night 89th Radnor Hunt Races Willistown Township Sugartown Elementary School • 7 PM radnorhuntraces.org WILLISTOWN TOWNSHIP April 13 June 11 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS CRC Annual Streams Cleanup School’s Out—Let’s GO WilMa! Park Party Robert T. Lange crcwatersheds.org Greentree Park [email protected] 9–11:30 AM 5:30–7:30 PM William R. Shoemaker TowneC rier April 20 June–August [email protected] Barbara L. Handelin Willistown Resident Recycling Event GO WilMa! Outdoor Adventure Program [email protected] 688 Sugartown Road Sign up @ Malvern & Paoli Libraries 9 AM–12 PM Details on page 2! TOWNSHIP MANAGER David R. Burman April 27 August 20 Willistown Resident Wood Chipping Willistown Country Fair POLICE DEPARTMENT 688 Sugartown Road Greentree Park Chief John M. Narcise 9 AM–12 PM 5:30–7:30 PM

HOURS May 7 8 AM–4 PM, Monday–Friday Pizza & Puppets Park Party CONTACT INFORMATION Greentree Park Coxe Memorial Campus 5:30–7:30 PM 688 Sugartown Road May 18 Malvern, PA 19355 Willistown Resident Shredding Event Telephone: (610) 647-5300 Fax: (610) 647-8156 688 Sugartown Road www.willistown.pa.us 9 AM–12 PM 7 Week Summer Camp & More NEWSLETTER EDITING & DESIGN Community Organization Events page 2 Mary N. Hundt See pages 5 & 7