Downingtown
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Balance in Life Is Key for Founder of Downingtown Health Center and Cancer Survivor
Arianne Missimer, a cancer survivor and founder of Downingtown’s Movement Paradigm Integrative Health Center, knows a lot about wellness, writes Kim Douglas for the Main Line Today. “Losing my brother inspired me to help others become their best, and it gives me purpose,” she said. “Surviving cancer reinforced that.” Her first advice to people just…
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Student-Led Nonprofit Launches Mental Health Project for Chester County Teens
Downingtown STEM Academy junior Sophie Fontecchio started her nonprofit, Let’s Bake the World A Better Place, in August 2021. Her mission is to engage local youth in the support of a wide range of non-profit organizations through baking. Let’s Bake the World a Better Place empowers youth to turn their passions into progress and to…
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Downingtown West Basketball Player Continues Star Career Westward to West Point
Downingtown West basketball star Dylan Blair will continue his sports and educational careers in the Army, writes Joey Piatt for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Blair started playing basketball with his brother Hunter. Both were learning from their father, Damien, who is a former standout guard at West Chester University, where he currently works as the men’s…
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Life-Saving Legislation Could Require PA Schools to Have AEDs
“I’m sorry, you didn’t have an AED? I’m sorry, the coaches weren’t trained? They didn’t know what to do? That’s unacceptable,” said Downingtown’s Christy Marshall-Silva at a news conference in Chester County earlier this week, writes Abraham Gutman for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Marshall-Silva lost her 7-year-old son Aidan Joseph Silva in 2010, when…
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Neumann University Honors Downingtown Alumna Regina Lennox
Neumann University in Aston has presented its 2023 President’s Distinguished Alumni Award to Regina Black Lennox of Downingtown. Lennox is a lifelong educator, former teacher, administrator, and consultant dedicated to improving the lives of children and building awareness of and action around corporate social responsibility. She currently serves as executive vice president and chief of…
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One of Pennsylvania’s Most Frustrating Cold Cases Still Surrounds Twin Tunnels in Downingtown
The dreaded twin tunnels near Downingtown — source of numerous local legends — are also linked with one of the most frustrating cold cases in Pennsylvania, writes Matt Gilligan for Mental Floss. In July 1995, a local fisherman discovered a suitcase with the top-half remains of a murdered woman in Brandywine Creek, in the shadow…
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Wall Street Journal: Here’s How Downingtown ‘Survivor’ Contestant Made It Onto Her Favorite Show
Downingtown pediatric nurse Lindsay Carmine was able to snag a spot for the 43rd season of her favorite reality TV show Survivor back in September, but the road to landing that position was not easy, writes Daryl Austin for The Wall Street Journal. Carmine spent years submitting audition tapes, but to no avail because she…
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Once an 800-Strong Gathering in Downingtown, Fundraiser Grows to Over 4,000 Participants
The cancer fundraiser “Pink Invitational,” which began as a meet of 800 gymnasts in Downingtown, has since grown into a weekend-long competition with over 4,000 participating athletes from all over the country, writes Matteo Iadonisi for 6ABC. The fundraiser was envisioned by Sue Weldon, a breast cancer survivor. “I was a gymnastics coach many years…
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Downingtown Sixth Graders Learn Impactful CPR, AED Skills
Downingtown sixth graders are taking safety into their own hands, literally. The students are receiving training to become certified in CPR and AED use. A local non-profit, Aidan’s Heart, assists in the training, writes Hank Flynn for FOX29. The non-profit was founded by Christy Marshall-Silva who lost her 12-year-old son, Aidan to cardiac arrest. It’s…
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Graduate of the Former Downingtown Industrial and Agricultural School Honors Mother Through Philadelphia Cuisine
Downingtown Industrial and Agricultural School alum Tyrone Stewart is bringing Philly cuisine to the streets of Altoona, all while honoring his late mother. Stewart, who was raised in the City of Brotherly Love, got his passion for cooking from his mother Elizabeth, writes Courtney Murphy for WTAJ. After finishing school in Downingtown and working…
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Downingtown Movie Star Featured in Super Bowl Commercial With a Special Guest
Already a movie star in his own right, Downingtown native Miles Teller and his wife Keleigh will have the spotlight in an upcoming Super Bowl commercial for Bud Light with a special guest: their 6-year-old French bulldog Bugsy, writes Samantha Kubota for Today. The set of the commercial is designed to look like the couples’…
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Chester County Brewery Among Top Ten Breweries with Most Highly Ranked Beers in Pennsylvania
The explosion of smaller and craft breweries in the last decade has given beer aficionados the chance to try a wider and, in some cases, more experimental selection of brews, writes Stacker. While some of those beers come with a higher price tag, consumers are more than willing to pay more for something that stands…
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Hankin Group Prepares for First Phase of Opening New Downingtown Community
The first phase of Hankin Group’s River Station in Downingtown is nearing completion, and like much of Hankin’s developments, it’s focused on community and people, writes Paul Schwedelson for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Located on the site of the former Sonoco Products Co. paper mill, the $80 million community sits west of the Boot Road…
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With More Locations Closing, Regal Downingtown Now One of Few Remaining Regal Cinemas in Southeastern PA
Cineworld, the parent company of Regal Cinemas, is planning to close 39 movie theaters throughout the country, including two in the Philadelphia suburbs, but the sole Chester County location is not among them, writes Michael Tanenbaum for the Philly Voice. The nation’s second-biggest movie theater chain announced in September that it was filing for Chapter…
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Quadruplet Sisters from Bishop Shanahan High School Show Animals Together at Pennsylvania Farm Show
Quadruplet sisters Emma, Hannah, Deborah, and Sarah Uhlman — Bishop Shanahan High School seniors — are competing together at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, writes Elizabeth Worthington for WNEP. The sisters are showing pigs this week, something they have done together many times since their first event when they were eight. They started with pigs but…
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Downingtown Young Whippets Win Two Championships at Pop Warner Super Bowl
Downingtown Young Whippets managed to bring home two trophies from the Pop Warner Super Bowl youth football championship held recently in Orlando, Florida, writes O.J. Spivey for The Philadelphia Tribune. The Pop Warner Super Bowl is the premier national championship youth football event that emphasizes fun, safety, academics, and character. The Division I 10U team…
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Downingtown Native Conquers Tourettes Syndrome to Give Graduation Speech at Her University
Downingtown native Diana Sears spoke of “finding her own resilience” since being diagnosed with Tourettes Syndrome — a diagnosis that she did not let stop her from being the featured student speaker at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida, reports The Daily Local News. During the commencement ceremony on Dec. 15, Sears told her peers that…
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WCU’s Incomparable Golden Rams Marches to 2024 Rose Parade
West Chester University’s marching band is known for its innovation. In recent years, eclectic performances have helped the Incomparable Golden Rams stand out in the crowd — literally, writes Susan Snyder for The Philadelphia Inquirer. A few years back, 40 members of the over 300-student band performed sitting in the audience before starting the show. This…
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