July 28, 1966

‘Where We Stand’ committee discusses community problems

The “Where We Stand Committee,” an independent group which published the “Where We Stand” statement in the Local during February of 1965, met informally on July 19 at the home of committee-member Mrs. George B. Ross, of 26 E. Bell’s Mill Road. The committee is concerned with the process of integration in Chestnut Hill. The committee’s “Person to Person Contacts Committee” is investigating ways that people of different races can be entertained in Chestnut Hill and meet citizens of this community and its environs. Many residents of Chestnut Hill and its immediate environs are eager to use their time and talent in specific ways to aid in the process of peaceful integration as it applies to any section of the nation.

July 29, 1976

New look at the top

A new station sign at Penn Central’s Germantown Avenue-Bethlehem Pike terminus went up last Saturday, July 24. Gold letters were designed by Tony Walmsley, former co-chairman of the Community Association’s parks committee. Joseph Distel of Chestnut Hill, a general contractor, put up the letters on irregular boards; he created an optical illusion to make the letters look straight. The new sign replaces the former SEPTA sign, which was taken down last April 7.

July 31, 1986

Hillers welcome string band with ‘z radosna energja’

There had to be a Polish phrase for it, and it’s z radosna energja: with joyous enthusiasm. That’s the way the Polish American Stringband played Wednesday night at the rained-out Pastorius concert. Arrayed in their sub-zero-insulated finery, they sweated freely and passed around small plastic water cans. Stuffed into the Chestnut Hill Academy cafeteria along with a SRO audience (cheering, clapping, singing throughout), those remarkable musicians never stopped smiling and showing lusty sound about us like welcome summer rain.

August 1, 1996

Weaver’s Way ‘Olympian’ bicycling around the world

Of all the great athletes from around the world currently competing for medals at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, few are doing anything more difficult, physically challenging, time-consuming, stressful, or unpredictable than Martha (“Marti”) Bowditch. Just to name a few, Marti will be bicycling through Borneo, New Guinea, Mongolia, Pakistan, Nepal, Uzbekistan, Albania, Iceland, Bhutan, Turkey, the Orkney Islands, Turkmenistan, etc. Not exactly like a day on the bicycle paths of West River Drive.

August 3, 2006

School bus hits Mount Airy home

Neighbors hope the accident heightens attention to Stenton Avenue’s “blind intersections.” Monday morning, around 8:30 a.m., a school bus with about a dozen children heading to Khepera Charter School in Mt. Airy hit the front of twin homes, 7823 and 7825 Stenton Ave., after swerving around a car that had run a stop sign at Phil-Ellena Street. Karen Pugh, resident of 7823 Stenton Ave., said she was sitting at her kitchen table toward the rear of the house, eating breakfast, when the whole house shook. She looked out the front window and saw the bus, which was embedded in the brick around her front door. All the children were taken to the hospital, according to police. Only two sustained minor injuries. The bus driver, approximately 30 years old, was also treated for injuries.

July 28, 2016

Hospital workers hold 1-day strike for better pay, benefits

Chestnut Hill Hospital workers held a one-day strike on Saturday morning, July 23, in front of the hospital, 8835 Germantown Avenue. Approximately 100 employees were gathered at the hospital by 9 a.m., waving signs and chanting for better pay.The workers, who represent nursing assistants, transporters, secretaries and emergency department technicians employed directly by the hospital, have been negotiating a contract with the hospital for several months, according to a release from the employees’ union, Service Employees International Union.