October 5, 2006 Issue
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Local NewsNew Northwest Artists Collective:
in unity, strength
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.
CHC president, Sister Vale,
plants seeds early and often
This is the first in a new series of articles by Chestnut Hill writer Paula M. Riley. Each week Riley will profile a local business, community or educational leader. “When I walked in I didn’t have the gift of faith, but I did when I left,” says Sr. Carol Jean Vale, SSJ, Ph.D., President of Chestnut Hill College, describing her first experience at a Catholic Liturgy. Though only an eighth grader at the time, the daughter of an Army Colonel who was raised Episcopalian was intrigued with the faith shared by her neighbors. After attending an Easter celebration with her neighbor’s family, she knew she wanted to convert to Catholicism. “I somehow just knew that something happened in there,” she says.
Special helpers’ feel
kneaded at Hill’s Night Kitchen Bakery
Warren Bronner used to bike to work from Roxborough to Chestnut Hill with a broom strapped to his back. Though it might seem an odd sight to any passerby, it was part of Bronner’s daily routine. Each morning he tied the broom on his back and took it with him so he could help neighborhood residents sweep the sidewalks along Germantown Avenue on his way to his weekly job at The Night Kitchen Bakery at 7725 Germantown Ave. in Chestnut Hill. The Night Kitchen Bakery has been a Philadelphia institution for over 20 years and is currently owned and operated by Amy Edelman. Amy has more than 16 years experience as a pastry cook and chef, and she purchased The Night Kitchen Bakery in 2000. When Amy purchased it, she not only inherited its celebrated reputation, but along with it, three special helpers: Warren Bronner, Crystal Euell and Philip Carrington.
Irish music, blarney, food,
revelry at Shanachie
When owner Gerry Timlin, 56, gets up to sing at Shanachie (“storyteller” in Gaelic), a two-year-old Irish pub at 111 E. Butler Pike in Ambler, he says with a sly grin, “If you have any requests, don’t ask for them. It’s my place. I’ll sing whatever I want to sing.” But there are always thorns in high cotton, and there are always customers who make requests. So when a customer yells out, “Do Danny Boy,” Gerry responds, “OK. I’ll do it at 10 of 2 a.m.” (Of course, he promptly sings Danny Boy — beautifully.) “If I do your request, we may slip an extra charge into your bill, and you may be so bombed, you won’t even know you’re being charged.” Renaissance band comes to
life at Hill church
Piffaro, the Renaissance Wind Band, opened its 2006-07 season with a performance of “Iberica Resplendens: Music from the Great Cathedral Collections of Spain & Portugal” Friday night in the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill. It was the first of four programs the internationally acclaimed period instruments ensemble will be presenting, each one several times, in Greater Philadelphia this season. All four will be played in Chestnut Hill Presbyterian. It’s a mark of distinction that testifies to the church’s stature as one of the region’s finest concert venues. Piffaro’s contingent of players for the program of Spanish and Portuguese cathedral music was comprised of Rotem Gilbert, Grant Herreid, Greg Ingles, Joan Kimball, Christa Patton, Robert Wiemken and Tom Zajac, and they performed on bagpipes, guitar, recorders, vihuela, harp, sackbuts, shawms, dulcian, pipe & tabor and percussion.
Good marriage advice overflows
from Two Rivers
They are so convinced it will work that they offer a money-back guarantee as proof. And, as of now, the guarantee has paid off. “We feel confident giving that deal because everyone has been happy,” said Elise Rivers, who, with her husband Max, owns Two Rivers Mediation, a counseling business that the two have operated out of their home in Mt. Airy since 2003. They offer mediation to couples who are having difficulty communicating, working with them to help solve problems and teach communications skills. According to Max, the technique they use is called Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and it serves to mediate conflicts.
Magical transformation should
delight area children
A few months ago I wrote a piece about Philadelphia’s Memorial Hall, a rotting piece of history abused by the city that had introduced it to the United States of America for the 1876 World’s Fair — the Centennial Exhibition celebrating the first 100 years of the U.S.A. My worry was that one of the (if not the) most architecturally stunning and significant buildings in the city of Philadelphia would be left to rot to the point that only a demolition crew could save it. Or, worse, that it would become the victim of a sociopathic teen with arson on his mind. (The latter being probably the most likely, only because so many other buildings of past World Fairs had been burned down by drunks and reckless juveniles.)
Audiences can be grateful
this ‘Prayer’ is answered
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