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New ventures & cool events; VF Park closure update; Dissecting the demise of Valley Forge Military Academy; Tasty tidings, Pumpkins, Pop Art & more

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Tough week to be a tourist at Valley Forge Park.  The government shutdown has sent park rangers and staff home, The Visitor’s Center and all park buildings are closed.

Wayne welcomes World Wide Stereo, a next-level hub for the latest in home tech and entertainment

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Prepare to scrape your jaws off the floor, folks – World Wide Stereo in Wayne is a WOW!!!

Newly opened in the old Starbucks, it’s a welcome 180 from that sketchy CBD/kratom shop that Radnor township wisely gave the boot after a hot minute. It’s also a snazzy upgrade over its former Main Line home in Ardmore.

Indeed, World Wide Stereo Wayne is way more than a store – it’s a show-and-tell emporium: a place – for homeowners, builders, architects and designers – to not just see the latest in smart tech and whiz-bang entertainment, but to EXPERIENCE it.

Legendary Eagles Coach & winemaker Dick Vermeil to headline Malvern longevity luncheon, ‘Aging Like a Fine Wine,’ hosted by Surrey

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Looking to live longer, healthier?

Take a page from Coach Vermeil’s playbook.

You’ll get that chance Friday, Oct. 17 at an inaugural luncheon summit hosted by Surrey Services’ new Beilenson Institute for Innovation in Aging.

The Hall of Fame Coach will headline the program at The Desmond Hotel Malvern which is ticketed and open to the public. Vermeil will share his personal tips for positive, vital aging and field audience questions. (No doubt he’ll tackle a few Eagles questions, too. ’Cause you can take the man out of football but ….)

Saluting Sandi Gorman: T/E’s most impactful organizer. Newly retired, she’ll take a curtain call when T&E Care – the nonprofit she founded and led for 20 years – honors her at its Sept. 20 fundraiser.

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For Sandi Gorman, charity has always begun at home.

Scratch that – near home.

With a servant’s heart, a teacher’s dedication and a leader’s vision, she turned a simple idea – local families helping local families – into a crackerjack nonprofit that has touched thousands.

As impactful as it’s been, T&E Care was but a capstone to more than four decades of dogged, unpaid service to her community.

The Clubhouse Wellness Center near Valley Forge focuses on fun as it builds friendships, social skills and resilience

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It’s easier to explain the new Clubhouse Wellness Center by telling you what it’s not.

It’s not drop-in daycare or eldercare, it’s not an indoor playground and it’s not therapy.

What it is: a place for screen-free play – mostly for kids but also for grownups – that inspires connection, sparks creativity and fosters personal growth.

Handel’s Ice Cream will mark 20 years with a daylong celebration of one of Berwyn’s finest: “Big Dan” McMonigle, who passed in late June

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Handel’s Ice Cream could easily have made its 20th anniversary celebration all about Handel’s.

After all, Buck Buchanan’s first ice cream venture has been a hit since Day One, a place so enmeshed in the fabric of family life in Berwyn and beyond, it feels like always been there. Heck, even Adam Sandler famously found his way to Handel’s – and not just once.

And they’re off! Radnor Hotel hits trifecta with dashing new Triple Crown Restaurant, Bar and Garden

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When Rosalie opened in the Wayne Hotel six months into the pandemic, we raved about its exuberant transformation of staid and stuffy Paramour.

Rosalie felt like a respite from those dour days, a technicolor treat for our deadened senses.

Five years later and a mile down the road, the Main Line’s most prolific restauranteurs have done it again.