March
23, 2006 Issue
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March
23, 2006 Issue
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The Norwood-Fontbonne Academy broke ground Sunday for its new Commons Building, part of a $12 million building project designed to “enhance the facilities we now have to match the programs and services we offer,” according to Sister Jean Laurich SSJ, the school’s principal. Construction of the building is set to begin later this spring.
Female drivers say a con artist posing as a mechanic flagged them down, insisting that there was a dangerous problem with their vehicles, and charged them money to fix it on the spot.
Community organizations and local council representatives were caught off-guard last month when word of a proposed homeless shelter on the New Covenant Campus was released in the media. The city’s Office of Emergency Shelter and Services and church officials insist that no final plans have been made on the shelter, though discussions have been taking place since December.
The Water Tower Recreation Center building has been in need of numerous repairs, as evident by the current projects of repairing the roof and painting the interior. It’s no secret that the 87-year-old building is in need of other repairs.
It will be months before drivers can use the Willow Grove Avenue bridge, according to streets department officials. They met last week to finalize plans to repair a deteriorated steel beam, said Department of Streets spokeswoman Keisha McCarty-Skelton on Monday.
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Clarissa Sligh is a compelling story teller. The talented Philadelphia photographer uses her visual medium as a narrative. She is one of six artists featured in the Second Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Photography at Chestnut Hill’s Woodmere Art Museum, March 26 through June 25. Sligh’s photographic series, titled “Jake in Transition,” is a provocative yet sensitive view of a female-to-male transsexual. When I was growing up, I thought there were boys and girls and that you were one or the other. In actual fact, it’s not that simple.
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There was something about Mary, at least this one.
Mary Harris, reared a ‘Yunker and educated at a girls’ Catholic high school, traveled to Egypt at age 19, took a ride on a camel and fell in love with Oriental rugs.
“That trip was when I first toured the weavers’ workshops and bought my first rug,” Harris said Friday. “I couldn’t stop buying them. I just love them so much.”
By her mid-30s, Mary had run out of space for her purchases. So she opened a shop, Rugmaven, on Main Street in Manayunk. A second Rugmaven opened in Chestnut Hill after that. Harris also maintained her practice as a psychotherapist.
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Paul Nolan and Kelley White, both of Germantown, and Michele Trackman, of Mt. Airy, appear in the new WHYY production CIRCLE OF CARE: THE ARTS IN MEDICINE, a half-hour documentary that explores how the creative arts are used to aid communication in healing and healthcare. The program will premiere on Wednesday, March 29, at 8 p.m. on WHYY TV12.
The documentary will be followed at 8:30 p.m. by a live, one-hour discussion with leading local experts, documentary subjects and a live studio audience on the role of arts and humanities in medicine. Television viewers can also participate in the conversation by e-mailing their questions and comments during the program on arts/medicine to widerhorizons@whyy.org. At 9:30 p.m., the PBS special The New Medicine about integrative medicine will be aired.
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Chestnut Hill Academy and Penn Charter got together for their annual St. Patty’s Day scrimmage Friday, and Valley Forge Military Academy arrived at CHA with a few athletes, as well.
The Mount St. Joseph Academy crew posted one-two finishes in both the varsity eight and second eight races as the annual Manny Flick series got underway on the Schuylkill on Sunday
If the Mount St. Joseph Academy lacrosse team is to make its way back to the championship game in the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies, the Magic will have to undergo a successful makeover.
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Precise pitching and a fifth-inning scoring outburst helped Chestnut Hill Academy’s Blue Devils (3-0) top the Catholic League’s Neumann-Goretti Saints, 9-1, on Friday. The game served as a hometown warm-up for the teams. Soon, both squads will travel to Florida to scrimmage opponents from around the country.
Last year, the Devils went 23-10 and tallied a 4-6 record in the Inter-Ac League. Head coach Stan Parker stressed a singular goal for this season. “Our biggest expectation is to compete for the [league] title,” he said. “I think it’s wide open this year. I’ve got four seniors who have been playing with me since they were freshmen. This is their year, so hopefully we’re ready for that.”
The Chestnut Hill Academy and Springside School crews usually skip the first of the five races in the Manny Flick series that launches the spring rowing season.
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March Madness is upon us, and anyone who drives out towards the Main Line can see it — giant blue V’s for Villanova painted on white sheets and hung out of dorm windows, plastic banners strewn across the fronts of factories that face Interstate 76 proudly booster, “Go Nova!”
But for those who were unable to obtain tickets to any of the division tournaments and are anxious to experience the madness first-hand, head to your local bookstore or log onto Amazon.com and order yourself March Madness: An Insider’s Look at the Final Four, co-authored by C. Jones (the athletic director of Central Connecticut State University) and Tom Hazuka (associate professor at CCSU and author of The Road to the Island and The City of the Disappeared).
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