Sports

GA girls capture title and tourney
by TOM UTESCHER

With the help of co-captains Colleen Magarity (left) and Jenna Washabaugh (right), Germantown Academy coach Sherri Retif piloted the Patriots to their eighth straight Girls Inter-Ac League championship. Washabaugh, the team’s only senior, will attend Princeton and will play lacrosse for the Tigers

The final week of the 2005-2006 basketball season was a busy one for Germantown Academy, which won the Girls Inter-Ac League championship on Tuesday, and went on to win the league’s postseason tournament, as well.

The Inter-Ac title goes to the team with the best record in regular season play, and GA captured that honor by beating the visiting Academy of Notre Dame on Tuesday, 41-27. Both the Patriots and the Irish had won all of their other five Inter-Ac games.

 

Springside opens new courts with a win
by TOM UTESCHER

Springside School said hello to a brand new athletic facility and goodbye to a quartet of seniors last Thursday afternoon, when the squash team closed out its 2005-2006 season by becoming the first Lions team to play an interscholastic contest in the impressive sports hall.

Springside netters snare Panthers
by TOM UTESCHER

In the final match in their old volleyball venue, the Springside Lions did themselves proud last Tuesday, closing out the 2005-2006 schedule with a 3-1 victory over the visiting Panthers of Princeton Day School.

Quakers drub Devils in squash square-off
by TOM UTESCHER

For the Chestnut Hill Academy squash team, the task of repeating as Inter-Ac League champion began to look a lot tougher after last Tuesday’s home match.

Mount seeded third for AACA playoffs
by TOM UTESCHER

With a split last week in its final two regular season games within the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies, Mount St. Joseph locked up the third seed in the league playoffs. The top-ranked St. Basil’s prevailed 58-49 in a Monday match-up against the host Magic, who rebounded with a 53-34 victory over visiting Sacred Heart on Thursday. The locals would face number two Villa Maria in the AACA semifinals.

 

Hiller an eyewitness to history
A guest at Grace Kelly’s royal wedding 50 years ago
by JIM WEAVER

Grace Kelly at her wedding 50 years ago. Chestnut Hill resident Marie Rambo is leaning on the rail and facing the camera.

Weddings are always special events, but when the bride becomes a princess it’s certain to be truly memorable. Fifty years ago on April 19, 1956, Philadelphia’s Grace Kelly married Monaco’s Prince Rainier in one of the most publicized weddings in the past century. Kelly was arguably the top actress in Hollywood when she announced she would give up her film career to marry the Prince.

 

Our lass survives ‘speed dating’ with humor intact
by KRISTIN PAZULSKI

Two young singles explore the world of eight-minute “speed dates” at the Manayunk Diner. (Photo by Kristin Pazulski)

I am an efficient person. I am the product of the cell phone/laptop/ speedy-Internet generation. I always look for the fastest way of doing things – from traveling to eating to working, even playing.

Chestnut Hiller aids long-time sufferers with trauma and pain
by CAROLE VERONA

Bob Chapra uses the Feldenkrais method to relieve the pain of his wife, Mimi, a former professional dancer who suffered a broken neck in a horrific accident. (Photo by Len Lear)

Former city planner Edmund N. Bacon believed that in order for people to design cities well they had to be highly aware of and more sensitive to the environment. To teach this lesson to his students at the University of Pennsylvania, Bacon called on Bob Chapra, 55, a Feldenkrais Method practitioner and long-time Chestnut Hill resident.

 

Local student’s talent is knot going to waste
by KRISTIN PAZULSKI

Griffin Horter (right) and his brother Alec recently began their own business, “Griflec.” Griffin’s knotted keychains are being sold at Artisans on the Avenue.

While many 13-year-olds are working on their latest video game scores, Griffin Horter is developing his nautical knotting skills and creating a business around his unique talent and interest.

 

Our TV reviewer is high on ‘Weed’
by JIMMY J. PACK Jr.

I have never been interested in any movies or television shows where the focus is on drug use, which immediately made Showtime’s new series, Weed, a non-entity to me.

Tasty Caribou migration for classy French chef
by LEN LEAR

Olivier de Saint Martin, the highly regarded chef/owner of Caribou Café, talks to a customer about his new menu. (Photo by Len Lear)

Even though it’s now in its 17th year in business—which is comparable to about 75 ordinary commercial years, considering the high mortality rate of restaurants—the Caribou Cafe at 1126 Walnut St. is one of the best-kept secrets in the area (except to theater-goers). Its loyal neighborhood patrons are probably not anxious to share their hangout with outsiders, but if the word ever gets out to a wider audience about the food and ambience at Caribou Cafe, there just may be a stampede of two-legged creatures across the tundra of Market and Chestnut Streets.