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Quizzo, Zumba and Breakfast Meetings Highlight the Week Ahead

A look at a few of the events this week in Lower Southampton.

 Have fun while dancing those extra pounds away. Join this Zumba class Monday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Neshaminy Activity Center near Trevose Shopping Center on Brownsville Rd. Networking through service helps Rotarians build their businesses while benefitting their community. Feasterville's Rotary Club has been meeting weekly since 1972. Join them at the Suburban Diner Restaurant, Tuesday at 7:45 a.m. Mixed Media Productions goes all out, making quizzo their Quizzo night feel like you are on a real game show. $5 pitchers for all participants. Join the fun at Chow284 beginning at 7 p.m. on Wednesday.   Be sure to add your event to the Lower Southampton Patch events calendar here.

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Lower Southampton Patch is looking for local bloggers. We're looking for bloggers who can riff on various topics, share their personality and engage our readers in discussions. Patch is more than a news site, it's an online conversation about your community. Then, we want to hear from you. This isn't a reporting job. It's blogging. You write what you want to say when you want to say it. Do it on your schedule, whether that's posting multiple entries per day or a couple times a month. Patch won't own what you post, so you can repost your entries to your other blogs. Much like The Huffington Post has done, Patch is providing local bloggers an online platform to have their words seen by a larger audience. Be interesting. Be provocative. Be …

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Easter Egg Hunt Saturday at Russell Elliot Field

The Feasterville Business Association is hosting the annual event Saturday morning.

The Feasterville Business Association invites families to come out Saturday morning at 10 a.m. to Russell Elliot Memorial Park and participate in the annual Easter Egg Hunt.  With dozens of plastic eggs dumped on the ground, it's really more of a scramble than a hunt, but semantics does not get in the way of the fun time. "It's great to watch the kids run around after the eggs," said Matthew Gilbert, director of the Lower Southampton Department of Parks and Recreation. "It's even better when the parents jump in." If the forecasts are correct, it looks like the weather will hold out long enough for the hunt. According to the National Weather Service, the Lower Southampton area will see temperatures in the 40s with a high of 49, but no rain …

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Lifesaving Efforts Recognized in Lower Southampton

Township board of supervisors thanked the firefighters and EMTs for their dedication to the volunteer services.

When a house on the 100 block of Orchard Lane caught fire last Christmas, three members of the Trevose Fire Co. were called to work their way past the thick smoke and rescue an elderly man trapped on the second floor. Because of their successful efforts to carry the resident out of the house and into safety, firefighters Brian Armstrong, Chris Doster and Tim Doster were awarded lifesaving medals by Lower Southampton Fire Marshal William Oettinger at Wednesday evening's board of supervisors meeting. Presentations were also made to two other groups of first responders for their performance during life-threatening incidents last year. In May 2012, Tri-Hampton Rescue Squad Medic Greg Reeves, EMT Steve Enigson, Feasterville Fire Co. Deputy …

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CPR Training for Lower South Employees Start This Week

All township employees have been asked to complete a two hour CPR certification program.

Lower Southampton Township Manager John McMenamin has asked all township employees to participate in a two hour CPR training course that will give each staff member certification for the life-saving techniques. Assistant Fire Marshal Nick Weaver has been leading two classes of 10 employees each day this week in the public meeting room at the township building. McMenamin expects the entire township staff to complete the course by the end of the week. According to the American Heart Association, about 100,000 lives could be saved each year if CPR is administered early enough.

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Journey at Patch Ends for Reporter

Patch's Tom Sofield marks his final day.

June 1, 2011: Levittown Woman Rescued From Cliff At Tyler State Park  - Weeks after starting with Patch.com in Bucks County, that was my first byline on the newly minted Levittown Patch. It was the start of the just over 540 stories I’ve covered for the site up until today. Thursday marks my last day at Patch.com. (This time it’s not a fake out like the last time when I moved to a new position in December.) I have truly enjoyed being out in the community and learning issues and meeting the people over the past two years and especially over the past six months I’ve served as the site's lead reporter. From covering a local sweets shop to middle-of-the-night police news - my time at Patch has been a wild ride. One I’ll never forget. I’d like …

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Jesseka Kadylak

11:01 am on Friday, March 1, 2013

It was a pleasure working with you, Tom! =)   more ›

Police & Fire

Teen Punches Cop After Underage Party, Police Say

An 18-year-old Lower Southampton man was arrested after he is alleged to have committed several crimes in Falls.

An 18-year-old Lower Southampton man is facing charges after an incident in Falls Township where he is alleged to have pushed a female police officer to the ground. Duncan Mullin is charged with aggravated assault, manufacture, delivery or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver, resisting arrest, false identification to a law enforcement officer, hindering apprehension and related offenses. Falls police report they were called to Danbury Road to break up a reported underage drinking party at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday. When patrol units arrived, they spotted several people jumping over a fence to flee the party, police said. A female officer was able to catch up with three young people - one of them being Mullin - who left the party…

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Lower Southampton Police News

Man Attacks With Pizza, Jumps on Car, Police Say

A 53-year-old man was arrested by Lower Southampton police after a fight with his wife.

A gun-owning man who was drinking vodka was arrested Friday night by Lower Southampton police after an argument, authorities said. James Keeney, 53, of Trevose, was arrested at the home he shared with his wife and charged with simple assault, terroristic threats, disorderly conduct, harassment and public drunkenness. He was arraigned and sent to Bucks County prison, where he was later released on 10 percent of $5,000 bail. As part of his release conditions, Kenney turned his handgun over to officials, agreed to not go to his home and not contact his wife, authorities said. Police arrived to the 620 block of F Avenue in the Trevose section of the township and spoke with Kenney’s wife after officers were dispatched for a domestic. The woman …

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Dolphin Swim Club Application Available

Those looking to apply to the Dolphin Swim Club now can.

Application for summer 2013 memberships to the township-operated Dolphin Swim Club are now available. Click here to see the 2013 application The swim club was opened in the 1950s and was transfered to township ownership in the early 2000s. In 2011, the club underwent many upgrades, according to the Lower Southampton Parks and Recreation Department. The club features pools, sports fields and plenty of children's events.

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