Feb. 3, 1966

Audience braves first snow to hear anti-prejudice panel

A small but enthusiastic audience turned out to hear the Chestnut Hill Community Association-sponsored “Panel of Philadelphians” last Thursday evening at the Springside School. Braving the first big snowfall of the season, about 40 persons heard the panel of housewives, each representing a different race or religion, describe her personal experiences with prejudice and discrimination.

Feb. 5, 1976

Hill’s Meals on Wheels

Towering straight and tall with intermittent bursts of smoke winding skyward, the yellow brick smokestack identifies from miles around the location of the Chestnut Hill Hospital. Besides offering health care and service, the Chestnut Hill Hospital, together with the Chestnut Hill Community Association, began in December a food service called the Chestnut Hill Meals on Wheels.

Snow, ice removal

Homeowners and the administrators of institutions are warned that they should have snow and ice cleared off their sidewalks six hours after the snow has stopped falling. They are liable, according to a city ordinance, for any damage incurred if their sidewalks are not shoveled.

Feb. 6, 1986

Pastorius Park slated for restoration

Pastorius Park is always lovely, but never more so than when Mother Nature paints it with a coat of white as she did this week. The park has been designated for restoration, with $27,500 having been allocated from a $1.3 million grant from the J.N. Pew Jr. Charitable Trust to the John Bartram Association, which will enable implementation of the Fairmount Park Master Plan, adopted officially in 1983.

Black History Month options varied

Cliveden will mark Black History Month with a special observance on Valentine’s Day, Friday, February 14. It is one of a variety of events planned by schools, museums, and cultural organizations here over the next few weeks.

Feb. 8, 1996

McNally’s puts zoo rebuilding project on its menu

McNally’s Tavern has added yet another good cause to its list of beneficiaries. The popular watering hole, which each year sponsors the Run for the Hill of It to benefit a child with extraordinary medical expenses and supports Father’s Club sports, will donate a portion of its sale of sandwiches to the Zoo Restoration Project.

Philadelphia Flower Show to bloom in new space

The Philadelphia Flower Show, a city tradition for generations at the Civic Center, will open a new space this year. Fans of the annual floral extravaganza will not be parking their cars underground, rushing through the cold past the fountain, and then riding the escalator downstairs to the show. They will be visiting the handsome new Pennsylvania Convention Center, February 23 to March 3, to see “This Land is Your Land…Philadelphia in Flower.”

Feb. 2, 2006

A standing monument to Black History in Germantown

Important moments in African American history will be celebrated this month as Black History Month begins Feb. 1. From Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” to Rosa Parks’ admirable persistence to stay in her seat, the brave actions of these heroes are remembered and honored each February.

Therefore, during this month, it is important to remember a building that serves as a visible reminder to a time when African Americans not only had trouble riding the bus and attending certain schools, but further back to an era when they were denied the most basic rights and freedoms of a human being.

Three Mt. Airy teens showing their LOVE for previous skating “mecca”

Almost four years after skateboarding was banned in Philadelphia’s JFK Plaza, or popularly known as LOVE Park, skaters and supportive organizations are still trying to bring back their skating mecca. This past summer, three 14-year-old Mt. Airy boys worked on a documentary video based on the LOVE Park ban and the skaters’ rallying to change it.

Feb. 11, 2016

Women recall 1960s’ protests to desegregate Girard College

Freedom fighters Karen Asper Jordan, 67, and Bernyce Mills-DeVaughn, 68, clapped their hands and sang when one of the eighth graders at Wissahickon Charter School, 815 Washington Lane in East Mt. Airy, asked them to sing one of their freedom songs. It was just one of the many songs they sang while marching to protest the segregation of Girard College.