Wednesday, March 13, 2013

CAADC Home Repair Program


Community Action Agency of Delaware County is now accepting applications for the Homeowners Energy Efficiency Loan Program (HEELP).
HEELP is an affordable loan program designed to help homeowners make their homes more energy-efficient.This program offers a great way to reduce high energy bills and make home improvements at a very affordable rate.
HEELP offers loans between $1,000 and $10,000.  The loans have a fixed interest rate of 1% for the 10-year term with no prepayment penalties.  Allowable uses of the loan proceeds include insulation and duct-work;  new energy-efficient windows and doors; energy-efficient heating and cooling systems; hot water heaters and roofs. Other permissible work includes repair of interior damage from roof leaks, electrical repairs as well as any repairs that permit weatherization work to take place. 
For more information, call 610-891-5101 and ask about the HEELP Program.  Income limits apply.  For example, the maximum allowed annual income for a family of four is $53,300.

Book Drive Extended


Donate a NEW or gently used Children's Book

1/7/13 through 3/22/13

Collection boxes are in:
Room 105B &
The Main Office of 
Upper Darby High School


Books will be donated to CHOP and local homeless shelters


                                     National English Honor Society
Community Service Project

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Spoken Hands at the Upper Darby Performing Arts Center

Spoken Hand

The world music percussion ensemble, Spoken Hand, brings its pulsating rhythms to Upper Darby Performing Arts Center March 22



Known for its high-energy live performances, the acclaimed percussion orchestra blends North Indian tabla, Afro Cuban bata, Brazilian samba and West African djembe in an exhilarating evening of traditional and contemporary drumming and choral compositions

DREXEL HILL, PAMarch 6, 2012 – The acclaimed world music percussion ensemble, Spoken Hand, blends the pulsating rhythms of North Indian tabla, Afro Cuban bata, Brazilian samba and West African djembe in an exhilarating evening of traditional and contemporary drumming and choral compositions. The high-energy performance takes place at Upper Darby Performing Arts Center on March 22 at 7:30pm.

Tickets are $7-$10 and UDPAC members save $1 off each ticket. Tickets may be purchased online at www.udpac.org or by calling the box office: 610. 622.1189. Upper Darby Performing Arts Center is located at 601 North Lansdowne Avenue in Drexel Hill, PA. The 1,600 seat theater is just minutes from the Main Line and Center City Philadelphia and offers free parking. The performance is one hour and appropriate for all family members ages seven and over.

A celebration of polyphonic rhythms, Spoken Hand unifies four percussion batteries into one distinct voice. Since its inception over fifteen years ago this uniquely robust orchestra of percussionists has traveled the road to perform giving drums their individual voices.  Linking the past and present, the sacred and secular with a symphonically textured fusion of traditional and contemporary drumming and choral compositions, Spoken Hand has twice earned the title of “Best World Music/Roots Performance” by Philadelphia City Paper, and continues to share this cultural musical experience with audiences far and wide.

Artistic Director Daryl Kwasi Burgee recently interviewed on WHYY TV discussed formulating Spoken Hand. “The drum is always in accompaniment to something else. And I realized that most people aren’t aware of the harmonic and the melodical aspects of the drum. Giving people the opportunity to experience that in a collage of melody and sound, that’s what this project was all about. It was the opportunity to give the drummer voice.”


The four corners of the world are represented as Spoken Hand fills the stage with percussionists who blend the rhythmic Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, North Indian, and West African sounds in an artistic mission to share with audiences their passion for music.

The Upper Darby Performing Arts Center and Upper Darby Summer Stage are jointly sponsored by the Upper Darby School District Board of School Directors and Upper Darby Township Mayor and Council through the Department of Recreation and Leisure Services.

Friday, March 1, 2013

Go Blue


Crozer-Keystone ‘Goes Blue’ with a Range of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Events
Crozer-Keystone Health System, a longtime leader in cancer treatment and gastrointestinal health, has planned a range of activities to raise awareness and provide education about colorectal cancer and how it can be prevented and treated.
Here is a full listing of programs taking place throughout March:
  • March 1: “Dress in Blue Day.” Employees at Crozer-Keystone sites will wear blue in recognition of Colorectal Cancer Month. Informational tables will be set up in the cafeterias from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
  • March 4: Informational tables, “Get in the Game,” Healthplex® Sports Club, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
  • March 7: Lunch and Learn Education Program, “Colorectal Cancer: A Preventable Disease,” Springfield Hospital, Lower Level Conference Room, noon. Lunch will be provided, Speaker: To be announced.
  • March 12: An Education Program, “The Importance of Screenings,” St. Charles Borromeo Ladies Auxiliary Church Hall (3400 Dennison Ave., Drexel Hill), 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Patti Hollenback, R.N., nurse navigator.
  • March 15: Lunch and Learn Education Program, “Colorectal Cancer: A Preventable Disease,” Crozer-Chester Medical Center, NE Conference Room #2, noon. Lunch will be provided. Speaker: Michael Farber, M.D., CKHS gastroenterologist.
  • March 18: An Education Program, “Colorectal Cancer: The Importance of Screenings,” Haverford Township Free Library (1601 Darby Rd., Havertown), 7 p.m. Speaker: Patti Hollenback, R.N.
  • March 19: Lunch and Learn Education Program, “Colorectal Cancer: A Preventable Disease,” Delaware County Memorial Hospital, Meeting Room A, noon. Lunch will be provided/ Speaker: Brian Karp, M.D., CKHS gastroenterologist.
  • March 26: Lunch and Learn Education Program, “Colorectal Cancer: A Preventable Disease,” Taylor Hospital, Classrooms A and B, noon. Lunch will be provided. Speaker: Ingram Roberts, M.D., CKHS gastroenterologist.
  • March 27: An Education Program, “Frankly Speaking: A Program for Survivor and their Families,” DCMH, classrooms A/C, Registration and light dinner, 5:30 p.m. Program: 6 to 8 p.m., Speakers: To be announced.
  • March 28: An Education Program, “Colorectal Cancer: A Preventable Disease”, Crozer-Keystone Regional Cancer Center at Brinton Lake (500 Evergreen Drive, Glen Mills). Registration and light dinner, 5:30 p.m.; Program, 6 to 8 p.m. Speaker: Michael Davis, D.O., CKHS gastroenterologist
For more information and to register for any of these events, call (610) 284-8158.