October 5, 2006 Issue

Richard Wood Snowden
The ups and downs of a new age landlord

Because of substantial demand, the Local is republishing the three-part series on Richard Snowden which appeared in 2001. This is the entire series as it appeared in July and August of that year.
July 26, 2001

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September 1, 2006
Karl-Erik Strandberg, the former advertising manager for the Local, passed away. We have linked to the Philadelphia Inquirer report on his death.

August 28, 2006
The Philadelphia Daily News provides its take on the Chestnut Hill problem known as the Commerce Bank building site

August 18, 2006
Susie Madrak of Mt. Airy has a posting about a Mt. Airy renovation site on her web site. It's a neighbor's perspective on "historical preservation and updating to a condo building."

August 18, 2006
The Philadelphia Daily News has an interesting piece on the plants decorating the street poles of Chestnut Hill. Check it out here.

Ongoing
Local staff member Jimmy J. Pack Jr. has updated his on-line magazine with material from his Chicago trip.

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Arts Fest beats rain
by KRISTIN PAZULSKI

Many children were part of last Sunday’s Fall for the Arts Festival. For more Photos visit www.chlocalphotos.com.

A day that started with a wet and soggy Germantown Avenue was transformed into a glorious Fall for the Arts Festival on Sunday.

“It turned out to be a really nice day,” said Lynn Comoh, who has sold her gem and iron décor during Fall for the Arts for the past couple of years. “The rainy morning certainly didn’t stop people from coming out!”

The Chestnut Hill Business Association estimated that about 50,000 people visited the avenue during the 22nd annual fall arts festival.

“I think we had more people than ever,” said Kate O’Neill, of the business association. “And about 20,000 of them were dogs!”

It’s true that dogs accounted for a large share of visitors to the avenue, from small brown ones carried in the hands of their owners to a pair of large white fluffy huskies that looked as if they could be ridden by the children on the avenue.

New Northwest Artists Collective: in unity, strength
by MARY PRICE LEE
and RICHARD S. LEE

Wendy Osterweil of Mt. Airy, a member of the collective, makes whole cloth quilts like this one with silkscreen printing, fiber reactive dyes and machine stitching.

Julie Zahn is a tall lady with a big smile. This East Gorgas Lane resident has a lot to smile about. Married and the mother of three, Julie is an accomplished watercolor artist and printmaker with a resume as sparkling as her work. A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), she has exhibited at the Woodmere Art Museum’s Annual Juried Show, among a bakers’ dozen one-person and group shows in recent years. Her commissions have included woodblock prints for the Washington (DC) Area Printmakers Calendar for 2001, 2003, 2006 and 2007, and for a recent PAFA Women’s Committee calendar. One of Julie’s many awards was the J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Traveling Scholarship that took her to Japan, where she was apprenticed to a restorer of antique screens in Kyoto.

This is a mere sprinkling of the total awards, commissions and inclusion of her art in public collections. To say Julie’s work is that of a consummate professional is to belabor the obvious. As our interviewee, Julie perfectly represented the level of talent and experience to be found among the 18 professional artists who are members of the Northwest Artists Collective.

Mount field hockey rebounds from first loss
by TOM UTESCHER

Mount senior Carla Bryant drives the ball out of the defensive half.

After suffering its first field hockey loss of the 2006 season at the start of last week, Mount St. Joseph Academy bounced back with a pair of victories.

On Monday Villa Maria, the Mount’s AACA archrival, avenged a 3-1 loss to the Magic on September 12 by handing the locals a 4-2 setback out in Malvern. Sacred Heart, not the dangerous hockey foe it’s been in the past, was no match for the agitated Mounties the following afternoon, when host MSJ rolled to a 7-2 win.

On Thursday, in another home match, Mount St. Joe dispatched Gwynedd Mercy, 5-0, to reach a record of 8-1 in the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies, and 11-1 overall. Although the Mount and Villa have split in their two regular-season meetings, the Magic are still the league leaders because the Hurricanes’ record includes a tie with Merion Mercy Academy.

At the beginning of Monday’s match at Villa, the Magic failed to cash in on two open shots in the Hurricanes’ circle, and that would cost the visitors dearly. It was Villa, instead, which held a 2-0 lead at halftime, and the Mount never caught up.

A few minutes after play resumed, Katie Reinprecht’s icebreaker for the Magic was answered immediately by the host team. In the middle of the second period, Mount St. Joe again pulled within one goal, 3-2, when Mollie Flynn scored off an assist from Julie Reinprecht, but with a little over three minutes remaining the Hurricanes secured an insurance goal.