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The Local office
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May 30 in
observation of
Memorial Day.
The classified ad deadline for the June 2 issue is
Tuesday, May 31.
Updated
May 27, 2005
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May 26, 2005
CHCA Board Election information
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Neighborhoods network for reform
With a focus on election reform, a grassroots political organization founded in part by two Mt. Airy residents will hold its founding conference at the University of Pennsylvania Law School on June 4.
Area Memorial Day celebrations
Chestnut Hill and Wyndmoor will both host ceremonies to honor the nation's fallen on Memorial Day.
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Fun was bubbling over for Mt. Airy residents Aya Furin-Campbell, 4, Kathy Furin, Chaundra Furin-Cambell, 18 months, and Gino Campbell during a Town Watch party at Allens Lane Train Station over the weekend. The annual family fun fair is sponsored by Mt. Airy-Nippon-Bryan-Cresheim Town Watch and features music, food vendors and kids activities. (Photo by Jimmy J. Pack Jr.)
 For Caruso's cashier, a 'stepping stone' to Parkinson's cure
by MICHAEL J. MISHAK
As an outside plant engineer for Verizon, Mike Dean led a life of detail. Work orders, bid proposals and inventory levels were all a part of the veteran assistant manager's everyday duties. So when Dean found himself unable to knot a tie or twirl spaghetti, he realized he had ignored a series of subtle clues that announced a devastating illness. “All of a sudden, you know something’s wrong,” Dean said. At 43, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
PRIMARY 2005: Washington wins Senate seat; NW favors Williams in D.A. race
by MICHAEL J. MISHAK
Marked by low voter turnout, last week's primary yielded little surprises. LeAnna Washington, a six-time Democratic state representative, easily bested Republican Ron Holt in the special election to succeed U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz in the state Senate. Though District Attorney Lynne Abraham won the Democratic nomination, her challenger, Seth Williams, swept the Northwest.
Technology events take off at Springside
by MEG CHARENDOFF
This was no ordinary school science fair. There were no potato-powered batteries. No papier-mâché solar systems. No poster-board displays. And no boys. This was Springside School’s celebration of science and technology.
Center brings computers to community
by KIA MUHAMMAD
The Mt. Airy community is taking a leap into the technological world through the Mt. Airy Community Computer Center. The center, located at 6335 Wayne Ave., is a place where individuals can gain access to 11 computers linked to a unified network.
Treble gold for Mount crew at Stotesbury
by TOM UTESCHER
Two gold medals arrived in a Chestnut Hill household last Saturday evening, as sisters Margaret and Mollie Flynn of Mount St. Joseph Academy returned home from the Stotesbury Regatta.
GFS repeats as league champs
The Germantown Friends School Tigers pulled out a 9-7 win over always-tough Abington Friends School to secure their second Friends Schools League Championship in as many years. The win is the first back-to-back championship for GFS Baseball.
CHA golf ties for championship
by TOM UTESCHER
Working under the name OMC, a Maori musician hit the charts in 1997 with a single called “How Bizarre.” CHA golf coach Jim Talbot thinks that the tune would’ve made an appropriate theme song for the Blue Devils’ home-away series with Haverford School last week. A tie in a scholastic golf match is rare enough, but the Devils and Fords were deadlocked at the end of both of their bouts, leveling out at 238-all at Sunnybrook on Tuesday, and reaching a 242-242 stalemate at Gulph Mills two days later. Each sporting a final league record of 7-1-2, Chestnut Hill and Haverford will share the 2005 Inter-Ac title.
GA, PC track tops in Girls Inter-Ac
by TOM UTESCHER
Senior Elisse Douglass finished first in four events for Episcopal Academy, but the Churchwomen still fell short in their attempt to repeat as champion at the Girls Inter-Ac League Track and Field Championships on May 14.
Silver medal four leads CHA & springfield crew
by TOM UTESCHER
The Chestnut Hill Academy and Springside School crews have always been known as sculling programs, but it was a boat full of sweep rowers that shone brightest for the Blue Devils and Lions at the Stotesbury Regatta last weekend. Chestnut Hill’s junior four earned a silver medal at the prestigious event, finishing the final race on Saturday in four minutes, 55.75 seconds to come in behind Mathews (4:51.22) and ahead of bronze medalist Grimsby (4:57.27). Mathews is a Virginia team which is also nicknamed The Blue Devils; Grimsby hails from Ontario, Canada.
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Young Hill environmentalists speak to try to get Sen. Specter's attention
 An estimated 65 people from the Chestnut Hill area came together on Sunday, May 22, to voice their concern for the future of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Grounds for optimism
at new Mt. Airy café
by PAMELA ROGOW
Meg Hagele’s delight in coffee is so unbridled that I am tempted to wonder whether it is itself fueled by a stiff morning cup of joe. But no, her love of coffee runs deep. Meg waxes enthusiastically and expertly about the beans, the roasting, the milk, the steam, the customers, the timing.
New golf store in
Chestnut Hill on par
by PAT STOKES
Interviewing shop owners is fun, because no matter what you expect from the conversation, you’re always rewarded with one total surprise. ParBreakers - the shop itself, the idea, and its presence - is already a pleasant surprise. ParBreakers opened May 1 of this year at 8609 Germantown Ave. Its “grand opening” will take place on Sunday, June 5.
After 20 years,
Mt. Airy
choral leader
passes baton
by PAMELA ROGOW
After 20 years conducting the country’s oldest feminist choir, Jane Hulting is passing the baton. The Anna Crusis troupe she conducts performed a splendid sold-out farewell concert on May 14.
Hill resident to star
in Academy of
Music operetta
by MICHAEL CARUSO
Chestnut Hillers will see and hear one of their neighbors on the stage of the Academy of Music Friday and Saturday nights, May 27 and 28, when the Savoy Company presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Gondoliers. Susan Blair will be essaying the role of Tessa in one of the most convoluted yet loved of all the G&S operettas.
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