March
30, 2006 Issue
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March
30, 2006 Issue
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There were only two options running across Jack Coulter’s mind as he stepped on and off of the ledge, 15 stories above 4th Street: to jump or to seek help. Thank goodness for himself and the patients of Belmont Center for Comprehensive Treatment, he did seek the help he needed.
Coulter, 50, is a recovering alcoholic, now proudly claiming four years of sobriety. He also recently gained control over his bi-polar manic/major depressive illness. “I pop out of bed now,” said Coulter, who remembers a time when he never wanted to drag himself out of bed in the a.m., or when the back seat of his car served as his bed.
Coulter has spent the last 30 years back and forth, recovering from and reverting back to his alcoholism and mental illness. Now, with a job at the Crooked Mile Book Store in Mt. Airy’s train station and his own apartment in Germantown, Coulter is honored to share his struggling story not just with the Local, but also with others suffering from problems similar to his.
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I’m a closet romantic, and despite my laptop, digital camera, iPod and whatever other technology I tote around with me, I am an old-fashioned lass.
Hence my disappointment when I ventured out into the dating world and realized … well, it barely existed as I believed it did! I do put part of the blame on movies. I was expecting Freddie Prinze Jr. to save me from my geeky, glasses-wearing ways and turn me into the hottest girl at school (thanks, She’s All That). But alas, the dating world has become a forte of group hanging and non-intimidating cop-outs.
Let me illustrate. You meet a girl. You like the girl, but you are afraid of being alone with her and the awkward first date, or even the rejection. So instead of asking her out, you casually drop into a conversation that you are hanging out at Such-and-Such bar and that she should come by with friends. You are so slick, aren’t you? ‘cause now you don’t have to do the work; the ball’s in her court now, and if she doesn’t show up, there is no awkward moment of rejection.
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After making an 0-4 start on the 2006 softball season, Chestnut Hill College notched its first victory last Thursday, and might well have picked up another if its home doubleheader had not been curtailed by darkness.
In the opener, an RBI double by sophomore Michelle Bauer in the bottom of the seventh inning carried the Griffins past visiting Wilson College, 13-12, and in the second half of the twin bill CHC was ahead 5-2 when the umps called the game after three innings. As a result, Chestnut Hill improved to 1-2 within the Atlantic Women’s College Conference.
Although freshman Colleen Devlin went the distance to earn the victory in the first contest, she experienced some control problems early in the afternoon, and finished with 12 bases on balls and one strike-out. The Griffins wound up with a 12-10 edge in the hit column.
Down on the Schuylkill last Sunday the second chapter of the Manny Flick racing series boasted a more competitive cast of characters than the first installment, so the Mount St. Joseph Magic was pleased to see its eight-oared shells place first in four categories.
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The timing couldn’t have been worse for the Chestnut Hill College lacrosse team. At the end of Friday’s practice, the Griffins’ Katie Donovan stepped in a hole on the field, felt a jolt of pain and heard an ominous “pop.”
The injury turned out to be a relatively minor sprain, but it would sideline the high-scoring freshman for the following day’s home contest against the defending champ in the Atlantic Women’s College Conference, Maryland’s College of Notre Dame. Although the locals lost their first three games of 2006, Donovan’s performance was a bright spot, as she rang up a total of 14 goals.
After sitting out the first race of the Manny Flick series on March 19, the Springside School crew joined Chestnut Hill Academy on the Schuylkill last Sunday for the second Flick affair. Taking a little more time to hone their skills paid off for one Lions quartet, as one of the school’s JV quads turned in a first-place effort.
For the men’s tennis team at Chestnut Hill College, there was reason for optimism following last Wednesday’s 5-4 loss to the visiting Lions of Penn State, Berks County.
On March 21, a numbingly cold day for athletes in track-and-field attire, Penn Charter took a short bus ride to scrimmage Mount St. Joseph Academy.
Like many athletes in the past, Springside’s softball Lions have announced, “We’re going to Disney World!”
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