We love our crafty word ability here at SAC, which is why we had SO much fun creating our new tag line for our holiday ad to support Ardmore merchants which is currently running in Main Line Life. Anyway, imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, much to our delight we discovered when some of us received our Philly.com e-mail deals that an ad for Ardmore featured our tag line for 2008!!!! Is that cool or what? AI has a famous ad man on it's board, yet it's our super cool line "Discover MORE in Ardmore" tag line that makes the grade?! We are so excited we could help!

So in order to celebrate the fabulous Ardmoreness of it all, we are posting BOTH ads to remind ALL OF YOU OUT THERE to discover Main Street in your OWN backyard! You really don't need the mall because in Ardmore, we have it all!!! (say now there is yet ANOTHER catchy phrase!!!)

At the Save Ardmore Coalition we feel that the Lower Merion School District has not been acting in the best interest of anyone in Ardmore. The community of Ardmore and Ardmore's children are not being considered fairly. To that end, we release the following statement from Sharon B. Eckstein, President of Save Ardmore Coalition:

The Save Ardmore Coalition does not support the recent redistricting plan proposed by the Lower Merion School District (Plan 3). The Save Ardmore Coalition (SAC) believes that maintaining a walkable Ardmore community is critical if Ardmore is to maintain its unique character and is to flourish in the years ahead.

Ardmore school children live in the most walkable neighborhood of Lower Merion yet are bussed the farthest distance for both their elementary school and middle school years. This hardship has been offset by the fact that Ardmore's teenagers could walk to their neighborhood high school, Lower Merion High School.

LMSD Redistricting Plan 3 proposes to bus these Ardmore students, who currently walk to their high school, to one located miles away. It undercuts the Township's goal of promoting walkability and fostering a pedestrian friendly lifestyle through its Ardmore revitalization efforts.

With Redistricting Plan 3, we have Lower Merion Township promoting transit-oriented development and touting the benefits of population density and a "live, work, play" community in Ardmore while simultaneously, the School District proposes transferring Ardmore students away from the high school located here in Ardmore! To do so not only negates the needs of Ardmore's current walking-based community, but also undermines our efforts to increase walking, cycling and the use of public transit in day to day life.

The addition of more buses to Lower Merion's already traffic congested roads will impact the quality of life to all who drive in our Township. Plan 3 is environmentally irresponsible since it increases pollution; it is financially irresponsible since the LMSD will incur an additional transportation cost to bus teenagers from hundreds of Ardmore homes. Residents of Ardmore love Ardmore precisely because it is walkable.

We choose to live in Ardmore because it a community where neighbors know each other, walk on sidewalk filled streets to shops, offices and houses of worship located in our midst and look forward to our children being able to walk to high school. For these reasons, SAC urges the LMSD to honor the value of walkability for all of students and to continue to allow all Ardmore children the ability to attend Lower Merion High School.

Sharon B. Eckstein
President
Save Ardmore Coalition

GO PHILS! This World Series is rockin'! The Phils were Phabulous last night! Come on Billy Penn! It's time to lift the Philly sports curse! GO PHILS!

Up on flickr there is an awesome photoset from mjkmjk on Game 4 - check out a couple:

As per an e-mail from earlier today and if you have questions, please forward them to and we will forward along to Ms. Martin. We applaud Ms. Martin for taking a stand in the community on an issue important to many:

From: Sharomine Martin
To

11:50am
Please be aware that there is an important redistricting meeting being held tonight...

Thursday, October 23, 8 PM - Special Redistricting Meeting

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This past weekend, SAC VP Scott Mahan represented the Save Ardmore Coalition at the Institute For Justice's Partners Retreat in Austin Texas. He was one of many speakers that told our stories about our experiences with eminent domain abuse. There were also other presenters that described their battles for freedom of speech, school choice and economic liberty.

Wooooo Hoooo! Yippppppeeeee! They DID IT! The Phillies are going to the World Freakin' Series! YIPPEE!!!!!. It's no joke of course that Ardmore loves their Phillies ( and the Phatastic Phanatic who came to visit recently!) So if you can't get tickets to watch the game live, make Ardmore your destination to watch the World Series! J.R. Monaghans and the VFW make GREAT places to watch the game if you are of legal age to be in a bar - and of course to watch in the VFW you need to be a member - but hey, go join! It's a bargain and you are doing a good thing by keeping your Ardmore dollars local! (You know what we say - Be Vocal/Shop Local: Discover More in ArdMORE!)

Excellent News! We have learned just a moment ago that in addition to the approximately $6 million we are getting from the Federal Government (thru Gerlach/Omnibus) and the $6 million from Harrisburg (from Rendell through Dranoff) for Ardmore, SEPTA today announced that they were pledging up to $10 Million towards Ardmore! Way to go SEPTA!

Well here we go again....only the drilling and pipeline aren't neighbors of the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska. We're talking much closer to home, we're talking Chester County.

Trouble-is-a-brewing because all of a sudden gas companies want rights of ways off family farms...and if the farmers don't sell the land the gas companies have asked to buy,according to The Philadelphia Inquirer today, it also means eminent domain for private gain...after all we're not talking public purpose, we're talking private companies:

So, you know we're big on fighting graffiti because it adds a decrepit air of blight to our communities, right?

Well look at this photo we found noodling around on flickr looking for cool Ardmore photos from a person called "Marty In Ardmore"

We're pretty sure this is the same mailbox that one of our members photographed before somewhere around Cricket and Spring?

Event photos now available! Click HERE and HERE...Check these out kids (we had SO MUCH FUN!):