by Len Lear Salima Suswell, 41, grew up in a Muslim family in Southwest Philadelphia, but she has been a Germantown resident for the last five years and an entrepreneur. She is President and CEO of Evolve Solutions, LLC, a management consulting firm she founded in 2009. She is also the first Muslim woman appointed to the […]
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by Pete Mazzaccaro The Chestnut Hill Community Association announced that its summer slate of events – the Pastorius Park Concert Series, the Movies under The Starts at the Water Tower Recreation Center and the Black & White Gala – have all been cancelled. The announcement was made by Social Division Vice President Marilyn Paucker at […]
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Photos by Leisha Shaffer and Pete Mazzaccaro As Philadelphia was experiencing a third day of protests, Monday, sparked by the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police last week, many Chestnut Hill businesses decided to take precautions against widespread looting and protected their storefronts with sheets of plywood. An email went out Monday morning from […]
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by Len Lear If you watched “60 Minutes,” the top-rated CBS-TV Sunday night news magazine that been on the air for 52 years, on April 19, than you saw the piece they did about the thousands of coronavirus deaths in New York City. One of the experts interviewed by correspondent Scott Pelley for the story […]
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by Len Lear Normally, dozens of volunteer pilots from the Philadelphia area would be flying patients who desperately need the finest medical care but cannot afford it to Philadelphia’s top hospitals at no expense. The planes would leave and arrive at Wings Field in Blue Bell, thanks to a wonderful nonprofit organization called Angel Flight […]
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by Barbara Sherf While many organizations put a halt to activities inside church buildings because of the pandemic, St. Miriam Parish and Friary in Flourtown just held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for dedicated space to assemble food and hygiene bags for the homeless and food-insecure in our area through their Blessing Bag Outreach Program. Starting in […]
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by Sue Ann Rybak Philadelphia Nanny Network is providing free remote learning support for families of employees who work in healthcare through June. “Philadelphia Nanny Network, the go-to agency for nannies and babysitters, and the largest corporate sponsor of backup care in the Philadelphia region, wants to give back to the community by supporting people […]
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by Len Lear Karen Anderson, a West Mt. Airy resident for 28 years and a nurse at Philadelphia hospitals for 42 years, is a glowing oven of warmth and kindness with a razor-sharp switchblade of a mind. “It is an amazing time to be a nurse!” said Anderson, 63, who has been a clinical nurse […]
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by Sue Ann Rybak It’s hard to miss the “Keep It on the Hill” and CHYSC’s paper Lightning Jerseys posted on the storefront window of the future office of Benedum Law at 8640 Germantown Ave. in Chestnut Hill. Christine Benedum, who is the sister-in-law of Martha Sharkey, the former Chestnut Hill Business Director, said she […]
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by Len Lear How does John Adams, prepared foods manager at the Weavers Way store in Chestnut Hill, feel about the fact that many people now think grocery store and supermarket employees are heroes, something that no one probably ever said before the pandemic? “It’s definitely not something I thought I’d be referred to in […]
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