{"id":9592,"date":"2012-05-31T15:30:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T19:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=9592"},"modified":"2012-05-31T15:30:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T19:30:49","slug":"kennett-unionville-to-share-community-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=9592","title":{"rendered":"Kennett, Unionville to share community breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Annual June 9 Community Breakfast event expands to invite neighboring Kennett<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

By Mike McGann,<\/strong> Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Unionville-Chadds Ford School District administrators serve up a hot breakfast the 2011 Community Breakfast. For this year's breakfast, on June 9, they'll have company \u2014 administrators from the Kennett Consolidated School District.<\/p><\/div>\n

EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 What more American tradition is there than inviting the neighbors over for a hearty meal?<\/p>\n

How about inviting in the neighboring school district, then?<\/p>\n

The Community Breakfast \u2014 the brainchild of former Unionville-Chadds Ford Superintendent of Schools Sharon Parker \u2014 is now officially a joint venture of the Kennett Consolidated School District and Unionville-Chadds Ford, and something administrators in both districts hope become a regular occurrence.<\/p>\n

That means this year\u2019s free breakfast, on June 9, 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at Unionville High School, is open to residents of both school districts as a way to build community not just within, but between the neighboring school districts.<\/p>\n

As in past years, district administrators will be on hand to cook and serve \u2014 the difference is that it will now be both Kennett and Unionville administrators donning the aprons and wielding the cooking implements. While both districts will have about 10 \u2014 give or take \u2014 administrators, breakfast attendees will be able to tell them apart: Unionville personnel will be in navy, while Kennett staff will be in royal blue.<\/p>\n

Although just finalized in the last couple of weeks, the idea had been percolating as the two district leaders \u2014 Superintendents Barry Tomasetti of Kennett and John Sanville of Unionville would chat. As those chats evolved, both agreed that there was interest on both sides in looking for ways to bring the two districts \u2014 and their communities \u2014 together when possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe first started talking last September, when Barry called me to welcome me to the club (of local school superintendents),\u201d Sanville said. \u201cWe talked then about doing some things together, going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI really have to give John a lot of the credit,\u201d Tomasetti said. \u201cAs a new superintendent, he initiated talks about this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everyone involved agreed that it\u2019s a natural pairing, with so many community connections from youth sports, to the fact that one municipality \u2014 East Marlborough \u2014 is shared between the districts. At the same time, the two schools have a distinct rivalry \u2014 whether in sports, academics or just in the communities surrounding the two school districts. At times, that rivalry has become a little heated \u2014 and both Sanville and Tomasetti said they were looking for opportunities to keep the relationship between the neighbors a little bit more, well, neighborly.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a rivalry between Unionville and Kennett,\u201d Tomasetti said. \u201cBut we want to keep it healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that both districts signed on with the idea of doing some small things together \u2014 earlier this year students from Kennett Middle School and Patton Middle School worked together on a clean up of Anson Nixon Park on Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n

Tomasetti said he hoped that the breakfast would attract folks from the Kennett community \u2014 the Unionville community has been turning out for the breakfast since its inception.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it will be interesting to see how many people from Kennett come to the breakfast,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

If the joint breakfast is a success, could the school districts take turns hosting the event in future years?<\/p>\n

The answer is a little complicated, Tomasetti acknowledges.<\/p>\n

As is usual, the breakfast coincides with the Relay for Life, the American Cancer Society\u00a0 a walk-a-thon fund-raising event that takes place on the track at Unionville\u2019s stadium, throughout the evening and early morning hours before the breakfast. Many participants\u00a0 enjoy breakfast after their walking stint and the two events have become somewhat intertwined.<\/p>\n

While Tomasetti said Kennett would like to be able to host the Walk For Life event, currently its football stadium\/track does not have lights. While the lights remain in process \u2014 and subject to approval by Kennett Square \u2014 once installed, he said, it would be possible to have the entire event alternate between the two schools, something he expressed interest seeing happen at some point down the road.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, on June 8, the Kennett\/Unionville Walk For Life event kicks off at 6 p.m. Some 18 teams with 180 participants have raised pledges totaling more than $31,000 to aid in the fight against cancer. For more information, or to sign up to walk, click here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Annual June 9 Community Breakfast event expands to invite neighboring Kennett By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 What more American tradition is there than inviting the neighbors over for a hearty meal? How about inviting in the neighboring school district, then? The Community Breakfast \u2014 the brainchild of former Unionville-Chadds Ford Superintendent of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,924,7],"tags":[376,25,43,24,1402],"class_list":["post-9592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-events","category-featured","tag-breakfast","tag-kennett","tag-schools-2","tag-unionville","tag-walk-for-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}