{"id":4408,"date":"2018-04-23T22:09:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T03:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2018-04-23T22:09:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T03:09:54","slug":"shillington-approves-renaming-portion-of-creek-rabbit-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2018\/04\/23\/shillington-approves-renaming-portion-of-creek-rabbit-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Shillington approves renaming portion of creek Rabbit Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an unsigned article published in the Monday, April 23 2018 <strong><em>Reading Eagle<\/em>,<\/strong> it was announced that the Shillington Borough Council &#8220;on Thursday voted unanimously &#8216;to name a portion of the unnamed tributary to the Angelica Creek, which runs along Gov. Mifflin School District property, in commemoration of novelist John Updike&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>School officials described the section in greater detail:\u00a0 &#8220;The stream originates within Cumru and winds through Shillington Park, then adjacent to Mifflin Park Elementary and Governor Mifflin Intermediate Schools to eventually join with Angelica Creek in the Ken-Grill area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jeanne E. Johnston, assistant secretary of Cumru Township, said that the name &#8220;Rabbit Run&#8221; was suggested last September by Cumru Township&#8217;s board of commissioners to commemorate the second and perhaps best-known novel written by John Updike, &#8220;whose childhood home was in the borough,&#8221; and that &#8220;the Kenhorst Borough Council already has agreed to support the comprehensive naming. The Berks County Planning Commission is also onboard. Thomas C. McKeon, vice-chairman of the BCPC, wrote a letter of support to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) stating that &#8220;The Commission notes that the naming is a great way to honor author John Updike, who was a resident of Berks County. In addition, the stream naming will aid local emergency services in identifying places around the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since the BGN has already notified Johnston of &#8220;its willingness to name the entire stream, including those portions in Kenhorst,&#8221; it is expected that the final decision &#8220;likely will be rendered this summer,&#8221; according to Johnston. Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/news\/article\/shillington-takes-key-step-to-have-segement-of-stream-named-rabbit-run\">online version<\/a> of the story; below is a scan of the article that appeared in the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/johnupdikechildhoodhome.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/04\/creek-name-story.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-379\" src=\"https:\/\/johnupdikechildhoodhome.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/04\/creek-name-story.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unsigned article published in the Monday, April 23 2018 Reading Eagle, it was announced that the Shillington Borough Council &#8220;on Thursday voted unanimously &#8216;to name a portion of the unnamed tributary to the Angelica Creek, which runs along &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2018\/04\/23\/shillington-approves-renaming-portion-of-creek-rabbit-run\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-berks-county-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4409,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions\/4409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}