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Fred Voigt, executive director of the Committee of Seventy. "This is a city in great transition," he said, noting that 1.5 million people now reside in a city whose infrastructure was designed to hold nearly twice that number. |
In The News... City's top political After nearly 30 years of advocating good government, Chestnut Hill's Fred Voigt will step down as executive director of the 100-year-old Committee of Seventy by MICHAEL J. MISHAK One hundred years after muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens famously declared Philadelphia "corrupt and contented," Chestnut Hill resident Fred Voigt is poised to step down as executive director of the Committee of Seventy, the city's esteemed political watchdog group. After nearly 30 years of advocating for good government, Voigt, 61, expects to shift positions early next year, but will assist his as-yet-unnamed successor in the transition and continue to serve the committee in an emeritus role. He is widely acknowledged as an expert on election law and has been at the center of every campaign since June 1976, joining the committee just four days before the petitions to recall Mayor Frank Rizzo were filed. Founded in 1904 in response to the pervasive corruption that defined the worst governed city in the country, the Committee of Seventy has been an instrumental force for reform with a focus on ensuring free and fair elections. Its name hails from a passage in the Book of Exodus where Moses...
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In Sports... Episcopal pins down
by TOM UTESCHER More than a dozen teams turned up for last Saturday's Chestnut Hill Academy Wrestling Invitational Tournament, and when the mats were finally rolled up at the end of the event, Episcopal Academy had dethroned defending champ Wilmington Friends School to become the 2004 team champion. Three weight class winners and four other finalists helped the Churchmen compile 210.5 points in the team standings, while Wilmington was runner-up with 136.5. Resting several wrestlers due to injury, host Chestnut Hill only entered athletes in nine of the 14 classes, and took fifth overall (with 113 points) as junior Sam Gilbert (171 lbs.) and senior Sam Greenwood (189) each... |
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A friend's death Local photog engineers new book about Wissahickon by LEN LEAR Former Chestnut Hiller and current Germantown resident Laurie Cameron, 66, is an engineer, as is every other male member of his family. For years he worked in the field of residential energy conservation. In the late 1990s, however, Laurie spent countless hours -- as do so many other area residents -- jogging, hiking, biking and skiing the trails of the Wissahickon. (The six-mile-long, 1,000-acre forested gorge that Wissahickon Creek runs through has been used for these recreational purposes for hundreds of years, as well as for hunting, fishing and horseback riding, by the Lenni Lenape Indians and later by mill workers and area residents.) Cameron (whose name almost requires that he be an expert with a "camera") was so captivated by the beauty of the area, as are most others who use it, that he began bringing along a small point-and-shoot camera every time he would enter the Wissahickon Valley. He'd shoot pictures throughout the seasons, capturing the timeless and mysterious qualities of the majestic trees and rocks, water and light streams throughout every season of the year. Laurie even took a course in digital imaging at Philadelphia Community College to improve his photos. In 2001 Cameron entered some of his photos of the... |
Laurie Cameron, 66, feels we are all fortunate to live in a big city and yet be so close to the six-mile long, 1,000-acre forested treasure that is the Wissahickon Valley. |
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