April 13, 2006 Issue                                               

©2006 The Chestnut Hill Local

Election Issue corrections

• James Foster is running for the CHCA board as a member of the Second Opinion Caucus.

• Lisa Sullivan-Mancuso has been a nurse practitioner for 10 years, and employed by PHMC for the past six years, and is not a temporary employee as previously reported.

• Meredith Fuller Sonderskov attended Springside School and Smith College, and did graduate work at LSU and PSU. Her family is husband Robert F. Sonderskov, two sons and their wives.

• Brian and Laura Coughlan, Steve and Michelle Coughlan; one grandson, James D. W. Coughlan.

• Ron Recko attended Vanderbilt University Law School for one-and-a-half years. He was a single parent of two children for 22 years. He was married in 1993 — inheriting two stepchildren and now has three grandchildren.

Adam Meadows
Residence: Wyndmoor
Family: Wife Kathie; three children Evan (6), Cole (5), Grace (3)
Education: Central High, BS from Pennsylvania State University
Occupation: Restaurant owner/operator of Thomas’ Restaurant
Organizations: Greater Philadelphia Restaurant and Purveyors Association, Young Involved Philadelphia, Action Aids, Youth Golf and Academics, OMC (parishioner).

Statement: I am raising my family here, and want it to be the best home it can be for them. As a successful small business entrepreneur, I believe I can bring some helpful understanding to the challenges of our business district. As a member of the Action Alliance, I am focused on the future, not the past.

Priorities: To preserve the beauty and charm of Chestnut Hill. The Hill’s small family-owned stores and restaurants are what make our “downtown” so livable, and I will work to encourage new enterprise while making sure that we maintain the unique fabric of our neighborhood.

To work cooperatively with all the many institutions that serve our part of the world — the Business Association, the Historical Society, BID, the Water Tower, Friends of the Wissahickon, our schools and churches. Few places have as many organizations devoted to the welfare of the community as does Chestnut Hill.

To treat all my fellow board members with the same respect and courtesy I would hope for from them, so that we can operate openly and fairly to come up with solutions for our shared problems and to achieve our common goals.