After harrowing accident, an uplifting Christmas
A Conshohocken family gets a helping hand from friends in Chestnut Hill.
by Jennifer Katz

It was primary election day, and Bailey Ehasz and her friend had the day off. The two girls had been up late at Bailey’s house, hanging out, noshing on junk food and being silly. They passed out on the couches in the living room, and when Dawn Ehasz left for work the next morning, she remembers looking at the girls and pausing for a moment before she walked out the door with a “buh-bye, luv ya” to her sleeping 11-year-old and her friend.

“You remember the last thing you said to your child,” said Dawn, sitting in a friend’s house a few doors up from her family’s home in Conshohocken, recalling the morning of May 19.
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Bailey Ehasz (second from right) is joined by her family (from left) dad Mark, brother Noah, mom Dawn, and brother Riley at their friends home over the weekend. Bailey has made tremendous progress since a near fatal accident in May. (Photo by Jennifer Katz)

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Chestnut Hill restaurateur always does it his Wei
By Len Lear and Bennett Fairorth

There’s an old Chinese saying (are there any new Chinese sayings?) which maintains, “You will never stumble upon anything good while sitting down.”
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The Christmas spirit

Last week I received an e-mail from a reader demanding to know why on earth I’d headlined a story about the Sovereign Bank nativity scene “The Crèche is Back.” That headline ran at the top of page one with a story about the return of the crèche to the Sovereign Bank location after a year absence.

“It’s a nativity scene,” wrote the e-mailer. “Write it that way! Shame on you!”
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Henry-Nelson wedding
Beth Ann Henry, daughter of Drs. Nelson and Rosemarie Henry, Laverock natives who currently reside in Alexandria, Va. , married Eric Scott Johnson , son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene R. Johnson Sr. of Upper Marlboro, Md., during a  Oct. 3 in a private outdoor ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay in Cambridge , Md.
The bride is a graduate of Mount Saint Joseph Academy in Flourtown. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Richmond and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Virginia. She is currently employed with AcademyHealth in Washington, D.C., as a research associate.
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Host CHA runner-up at wrestling tourney; PC, GFS also appear
by Tom Utescher

Although host Chestnut Hill Academy only had athletes entered in 10 of the 14 weight classes, the Blue Devils were able to finish second at the 14-team CHA Wrestling Invitational Tournament last Saturday.

Defending Friends Schools League titlist Westtown School repeated as the team champion in the Chestnut Hill event, winning four weight classes and scoring 192.5 points to CHA’s 118. Another FSL team, George School, was third with 96.5 points.
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DROP AND SHOP  J.S. Jenks  Elementary school students (from left) Taylor Daniels, Sydney Montgomery, Sage Foster and Eloise Kadlecek stayed late for games and a pizza dinner last Thursday for a Jenks Drop and Shop event designed to allow parents to take advantage of Chestnut Hill’s Stag and Doe Night during which businesses stay open late for holiday shoppers. (Photo by Jaime Perez) For more photos visit here

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