January
12, 2006 Issue
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January
12, 2006 Issue
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For the record
… the truth
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October 13, 2005
SUNDAY NIGHTS ARE GENERALLY QUIET AT BREDENBECK’S BAKERY, but in the early evening hours of Oct. 9, the popular Chestnut Hill ice cream parlor was the scene of a brutal crime as a group of four men beat and robbed a 17-year-old employee waiting for a ride outside the store at 8126 Germantown Ave.
“The fate of empires depends on the education of youth” – Aristotle
A new face was recently seen in the principal’s office at the Henry H. Houston School. However, he wasn’t there to see the principal. Rather, he was there to be the principal. Participating in Greater Philadelphia Cares’ annual “Principal for a Day” program, Charlie Silla, senior vice president of recruiting & staffing for ACE INA, stepped in to serve as the school’s principal.
Members and non-members alike are invited to enjoy trips planned by the Chestnut Hill Senior Services Center. On Saturday Jan. 21, join us to visit the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Center City. As well as the permanent collection, which includes the work of Charles Wilson Peale, Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Maxfield Parrish and others, there is an exhibition of photography by Nan Goldin, a Faculty Exhibition, and a special exhibition entitled In Private Hands covering 200 years of American Painting.
There are different opinions regarding the recent announcement of the candidacy of Lynn Swann, former Pittsburgh Steeler, as a contender for the Republican Party primary in the upcoming election for governor. John Baer of the Daily News follows him through a Harrisburg farm show and sees him enthusiastically glad-handing with folks from rural Pennsylvania (that would be that section of our state that Democrat operative James Carville likened to Arkansas) with attention that took the limelight from Gov. Rendell, who attended the same show. They probably don’t get much more traditional and conservative than many of those in attendance at that event, but I would not for one minute think they are not informed.
Donna Thain, of Weichert Realtors, doesn’t think of herself as a heroine, just a very good friend. But others feel she has done something unusual — even extraordinary — in the name of friendship. Last June, she had elective surgery to remove one of her kidneys. It was a healthy kidney that she chose to donate to a close friend, Deborah Hartwell of Lower Gwynedd, who had kidney disease.
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The questions asked most frequently of restaurant writers are: “What is your favorite restaurant?” “Where do you get the most for your money?” and “What new restaurants have you gone to that are really good?” The answers to these questions and more will be contained in the following paragraphs, which encompass our favorite restaurants from the year 2005. They are listed in random order, not in order of preference:
Al Erlick, of West Mt. Airy, is the former editor of the Jewish Exponent.
The announcement of my retirement occasioned a question that would be repeated ad nauseum until the moment I rode off into the sunset: “So, what are you going to do now?”
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An experiment in using simple, traditional tools and techniques has resulted in a striking collection of Chestnut Hill photographs, now available either as a set of single prints or in a 13-month calendar produced by Penguin Photo, Inc., 7928-30 Germantown Ave.
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For the first time in four decades, local opera lovers will have the opportunity to hear Jules Massenet’s La Navarraise and Giacomo Puccini’s Le villi. The Academy of Vocal Arts Opera Theater will perform this double bill of one-act operas in concert version three times this month. Two performances are set for the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater on Thursday and Friday, Jan. 19 and 20, at 7:30 p.m. There will be a final reprise on Saturday, Jan. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Haverford School’s Centennial Hall.
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Welcome to 3000 BC Aromatherapy Spa, newly reopened and relocated at 8439 Germantown Ave., former home of the Hahn Gallery. Well! Talk about a new look! How about gold and copper on the walls and on certain shelves, accents of gleaming glass in hues inspired by the major colors of Egyptian jewels such as cobalt, carnelian and onyx?
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A minute into the second half of last Friday’s Girls Inter-Ac League basketball opener, host Springside was just two points behind Episcopal Academy. The visiting Churchwomen, who’d led by 10 earlier in the contest, convincingly quashed the insurrection by the Lions, rallying to outscore Springside in the third quarter, 21-8, and going on to win the game, 60-39.
After dropping a Girls Inter-Ac League match by a 1-6 count at Agnes Irwin last Wednesday, Springside’s squash Lions got back on the winning track a day later. Crossing the Schuylkill once more, the locals knocked off Lower Merion High School, 7-0, at the Cynwyd Club, lifting their overall record to 4-2.
The time seemed right for Springside School to pull off a volleyball victory over the Germantown Academy Patriots, a team the Lions have struggled against in seasons past. GA won the Girls-Inter-Ac League for four straight years from 2001-2004, and was runner-up to champ Agnes Irwin last winter.
After finishing out the old calendar year with its fifth straight championship at the Catholic War Vets Tournament and an overall record of 6-2, the Mount St. Joseph hoop squad faced the sobering reality of competition in the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies during the first week of 2006.
Last week Norwood Fontbonne Academy hosted its 33rd annual Snowball Tournament, and as in years past, the extravaganza featured eight-team brackets for both boys and girls grade school basketball squads.
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