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Updated May 6, 2005
This Week's Front Page (pdf)
Noted in the
Northwest
Annual Mt. Airy
Day This Weekend
Mt Airy Day, sponsored by East and West Mt Airy Neighbors, will be held on Saturday May 7, from 11 am to 5 pm. The rain date is Sunday May 8.
Bridal Issue: May 19
Ad Deadline: May 12
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 Local Earns Three 2005 Keystone Awards
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 The Garden Festival
A local vendor shows off his wares at the ninth annual Chestnut Hill Home and Garden Festival, which brought thousands to Germantown Avenue on Sunday, May 1, for games, music, food, rides and shopping.
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Woodmere neighbors make their case
A ruling is expected this week
by MICHAEL J. MISHAK
A group of Chestnut Hill residents opposing the expansion plans of Woodmere Art Museum outlined their case before the Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment last week, contending that increased attendance and inadequate parking would ultimately harm their quality of life.
Ex-Miller aide survives a public challenge
by MICHAEL J. MISHAK
Activists called for Steven Vaughn's ouster from a Germantown community development corporation. The group's board tabled the action.
Cresheim Valley Drive Reopened
 Local dignitaries including, above from left, Streets Department commissioner Clarena Tolson, Councilman at-large Frank Rizzo, 8th district Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller, and Cindy Bass, policy advisor to Congressman Chakah Fattah, joined Sen. Arlen Specter aide Susan Segal and business and community leaders for the grand reopening of Cresheim Valley Drive on Thursday, April 28. Fixing the road, which partially collapsed into Cresheim Creek during last September’s flooding, involved roadway reconstruction, installing jersey barriers, stabilizing the stream and backfilling the washed-out area, according to a Streets Department press release. The total cost of repairs was $300,000. (Photos by Jimmy J. Pack Jr.)
Study Calls for Traffic Calming
by JAMES STURDIVANT
It doesn’t take an expert to know that Chestnut Hill has too many vehicles passing through its streets, but a recently-released traffic study may provide grist for the mill of those looking to find solutions to the problem. Links to the decision and dissent are included with the story.
Church panel overturns defrocking
A Methodist appeals court restored the credentials of Beth Stroud, a lesbian minister from Germantown
by MICHAEL J. MISHAK
Beth Stroud, the lesbian pastor who had been defrocked by a church trial court last December for violating her denomination's ban on gay clergy, is again an ordained minister. May 6 Update: Decision, Dissent posted with story
9th Ward Dems back D.A., split on controller
by MICHAEL J. MISHAK
In endorsing the party-backed candidates for the two major races in this month's municipal primary, the 9th Ward Democratic Committee upheld a time-honored tradition of independence last week with process, if not outcome.
CHA Track eclipses Episcopal
by TOM UTESCHER
It was just a regular-season Inter-Ac League dual meet, but by the end of last Tuesday’s track and field encounter it was clear that host Chestnut Hill Academy didn’t take it lightly.
GA Lacrosse Tops Springside, Baldwin
by TOM UTESCHER
The race for the Girls Inter-Ac lacrosse crown came into sharper focus last week, as the month of April ended with Germantown Academy and Episcopal Academy still undefeated in league play, while all of the other teams owned at least two losses.
Late rally lifts Springside Lions past Phil-Mont
by TOM UTESCHER
A five-run surge in the bottom of the fourth inning gave Springside School its first lead in last Thursday’s non-league softball encounte.
CHA Captures Another Golf Series
by TOM UTESCHER
The Chestnut Hill Academy linksters raised their record in the Inter-Ac League to 5-1 last week with home and away wins over Germantown Academy.
GFS Baseball Routs League Leaders AFS
The Germantown Friends School Tigers played a near perfect game at home last Friday to beat a very strong Abington Friends club 10-0.
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 Lemons and Limes is a sweet
addition to Germantown Ave.
Cynthia Demaio and daughter Laura Demaio, contrary to the time-worn suggestion of merely making lemonade “when life hands you a lemon,” saw only unlimited possibilities in lemons in general, and simply by adding a few limes to the mix came up with Lemons and Limes.
by LEN LEAR
Triple-threat in Germantown
Director, pro-golfer, cabinetmaker shines in each discipline
by CLARK GROOME
Classes for kids still
available in Mt. Airy
by GAIL COHEN
Children — babies through teens — can still sign up this week for Moving Arts of Mt. Airy’s (MaMa) spring classes in various kinds of movement. Most classes started in late April and are still suitable for entering kids. Fees have been generally pro-rated for the six weeks that remain in most series.
Two p’s in this Pod:
pricey and pan-tastic
by LEN LEAR
I had heard that the “pods” at the futuristic, five-year-old pan-Asian restaurant in University City called Pod were usually as hard to get into as a senior citizen trying to get a linebacker’s job in the National Football League.
Grief Cannot Defeat
West Mt. Airy Pianist
by MICHAEL CARUSO
For musicians who spend hours, days, weeks and months practicing at their instrument to perform a certain score in concert, the reward goes far beyond a round of applause and a well-earned paycheck.
Opinion: A List of Concerns, Offered to the Community
by a group of community residents
Opinion: Recent Management of Community Fund Troubling
by Marie Lachat
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