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CHCA requests revocation of Commerce Bank’s permit
By Kristin Pazulski

A week after the city Department of Licenses and Inspections approved Commerce Bank’s zoning permit application, the Chestnut Hill Community Association is requesting that the permit be revoked.

 

Local women’s ode to motherhood
by JENNIFER KATZ

Camel-colored couches hug the walls and oversized earth-hued pillows are strewn on the floor as 30 women and a handful of men and children sit rapt at the front of the room. A young woman stands up behind a gold-edged, wooden podium with her back to a cloth sign that reads, “Every mother is a working mother.” She nervously begins reading from the pages in front of her. The story begins with an oddly humorous description of her two-year-old son’s loud romping through the house. By the time he turns three, just a few moments later, the story, his story, her story, is dark and heavy, and the audience is silent, anticipatory, saddened. His father, idol and workshop mentor, is dying and his toddler brain is desperately trying to cope with it.

 

Lane’s End: One woman’s dream
by JENNIFER KATZ

A view of Lane’s End taken around the time of construction in the 1920s. (Photo courtesy of the Springfield Historical Society)

Sitting on 47-acres in Wyndmoor, the Wharton-Sinkler estate was as much a monument to its mistress’ notoriety as it was to the English manor houses of the 15th and 16th century for which it was designed. That is according to historian and Springfield resident Terry Buckalew, who will give a lecture on the history of the home, originally dubbed “Lane’s End,” on May 25 for the Springfield Historical Society.

 

 

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Kentucky Derby roses, Springside kudos for ‘lifer’
by ELISABETH TORG

Newbold Strong (left) and Gretchen Schaefer Jackson won Distinguished Service Awards at Springside for co-chairing the capital campaign that raised $25 million for the recent building renovations at Springside School. They are pictured at the opening party for the new Vare Field House.

Looks like everything’s coming up roses for Gretchen Jackson these days.

Kentucky Derby roses, that is. And Springside laurels.

Jackson’s horse, Barbaro, just won the 132nd Kentucky Derby by six lengths on Saturday, May 6, placing Gretchen and her husband Roy in the Winner’s Circle at Churchill Downs. In doing so, Barbaro became only the sixth undefeated horse in the history of the Derby as well as the first horse in 50 years to win the race after a five-week layoff.

 

Charming Café Barcelona New eatery a little bit of Spain in Chestnut Hill
by LEN LEAR

The salads at Café Barcelona are aesthetically presented, made with the freshest ingredients and taste as good as they look. This one has goat cheese, greens of the day, honey, thyme, pine nuts and black olive vinaigrette.

When Montserrat Galiano was growing up in the mountains outside Barcelona, Spain, you might say she was surrounded by a garden of eatin’.

“Both my father and mother were very good cooks, and their cooking was very health-oriented,” she said. “My father would pick mushrooms and snails in the mountains. In fact, five years after he died, we still had jars of mushrooms he had picked ... Because they were such good cooks, I also loved to cook, and I made some very complicated meals.”

 

 

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