March
02, 2006 Issue
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March
02, 2006 Issue
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2006 Philadelphia
Flower Show set to enchant visitors
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The 2006 Philadelphia Flower Show boasts a 10-acre garden of earthly delights, celebrating the power of Natura, the Goddess of Nature, with a fanciful pageant of water, wind, earth and fire. “Enchanted Spring … A Tribute to Mother Nature,” March 5-12 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, will take visitors from the fantastical to the practical and will feature the largest plant sculpture in the world, rising 27 feet from the showroom floor.
This year the all-new Hive Lounge, specially designed for the Flower Show by IKEA, will give visitors a place to “chill” during show. The lounge will be open from 5 to 9:30 p.m. every day (except Sunday) in Room 203 offering appetizers from some of the city’s finest eateries, such as LeCastagne, Twenty21, Happy Rooster, El Vez and others. Guest will also be able to enjoy live performances on the XPN Philly Local Stage (see box on pg. 9 for complete schedule).
The Chestnut Hill Community Association approved amended procedures, authored by board member Ann Ward Spaeth, for the 2006 CHCA elections for the board of directors. The procedures, Spaeth said, coincide with what is dictated in the CHCA bylaws, but now include exact dates for deadlines and publications of names for 2006.
Women’s History Month, celebrated in March, often brings into the light the amazing women in America’s history that have impacted our way of living. Though each of these women deserve their honor and attention, the Local wanted to focus on a different angle for this year’s Women’s History Month. A woman, who not only honors the historic endeavors of women in March, but celebrates these achievements each and every day, and ignites the interest in other generations as a history professor.
On the morning of Monday, Feb. 27, the Chestnut Hill Local’s Interim Editor Carole Boynton was taken to the emergency room of the Chestnut Hill Hospital.
As of press time, all that is known of Carole’s condition is that she is in critical condition and her family is by her side. Details will follow next week.
A wide variety of topical issues were on the agenda of the monthly board meeting of the Chestnut Hill Community Association on Thursday, Feb. 23 at the Hiram Lodge.
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On Jan. 13, the Garrett House at 7048 Germantown Ave. in Mt. Airy was placed on the city’s Register of Historic Places by the Philadelphia Historic Commission.
The house was created in three stages, according to the research done by West Mt. Airy Neighbors, Bruce Laverty of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia and staff of the Historical Commission. Little is known about the initial building phase, except they believe it was built in the 18th or early 19th century.
The Chestnut Hill Health Care Foundation is granting $20,000 to Women of Faith and Hope, a non-profit organization that educates women about dealing with, preventing and treating breast cancer.
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Walking into the Holy Family College gymnasium for the Friends School League girls basketball finals last Friday night, Germantown Friends fans saw banners reading “Welcome to the Tigers’ Den” hanging overhead.
But despite the fact that GFS and the host institution shared the same team nickname, it was the Abington Friends School Kangaroo which would enjoy mascot bragging rights at the end of the evening, as AFS held off Germantown, 54-49, to repeat as Friends League champion.
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Inter-Ac League champion Penn Charter defeated runner-up Chestnut Hill Academy by 6-1 scores in both of their regular-season matches this winter, but the CHA Blue Devils finished a much closer second at the Middle Atlantic Squash Association tournament last week. In the end though, the Quakers came away with another title, winning the tourney with a total of 21 team points to Chestnut Hill’s 18.5.
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The girls on the Penn Charter squash team felt they were one of the top scholastic squads in the country this year, and the Quakers stated their case eloquently at the U.S. High School National Championships held in New Haven, CT February 10-12.
Starting out with a pair of 7-0 wins against Mercersburg Academy and Agnes Irwin, Charter moved into a semifinal match against Episcopal Academy, the team that shared the Girls Inter-Ac League title with the Quakers this year. Episcopal had edged out PC for the championship at the Middle Atlantic Squash Association tournament, but in the national semifinals Charter knocked off the Churchwomen, 4-3.
Springside School’s basketball team had reached the end of its 2005-2006 schedule before the school’s new field house opened last month, but the Lions were able to arrange a second meeting with league rival Episcopal Academy on February 16 in order to log some time on their new court.
The girls on the Penn Charter squash team felt they were one of the top scholastic squads in the country this year, and the Quakers stated their case eloquently at the U.S. High School National Championships held in New Haven, CT February 10-12.
In the third winter of men’s basketball at Chestnut Hill College, the Griffins experienced a season of hot and cold streaks, producing a record of 10-16 overall and 9-7 in the North Eastern Athletic Conference.
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Palm, the recently expanded classic American steakhouse on the ground floor of the historic Bellevue Stratford Hotel, 200 S. Broad St., may be part of a huge chain (30 Palm restaurants, stretching from New York to California), but it is definitely not a corporate clone.
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Life is full of disappointment. People disappoint. Experiences disappoint. Expectations fall far short, and we are left with a little space inside us that remains unfulfilled. We’ve all been there. Anticipation is usually the precursor to something far less “whelming” than is truly “anticipated.” Enter the rare character, the living myth, the American God. His name is Neil Gaiman.
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What kind of art would a man create who attended business school to please his dad, studied in seminary school to gain credentials to work as a minister, left the church when his ideas were more liberal than his church’s, became a parole officer and supervisor for 32 years with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and then retired to life as an artist? The answer is serene and beautiful paintings by Chestnut Hill artist Bob Joachim in Plein-Air, a French term artists use for painting outdoors, along with his emerging work in abstract art.
When Weavers Way member Caren Goldstein was approached to help design the co-op’s new logo, she figured she would take the project on in part to fill her work requirements. Little did she know that after several brainstorming sessions and numerous conceptual drawings, she would actually meet her work requirements for the next three years.
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The glamour of the Academy Awards is lost on veteran Academy member Ralph Hirshorn, a Chestnut Hill resident who has been to the award ceremony three times and has been a member of the Academy since the 1960s.
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