NewsBlues concert to open Pastorius Park series
Georgie Bonds and his band will present a blues concert on Wednesday, June 16, at 7:30 p.m. at Pastorius Park, Lincoln Drive and Abington Avenue. The concert is the first in the Chestnut Hill Community Association's 2004 concert series. Rain place is Springside School, Willow Grove Avenue and Cherokee Street
Bonds, an acoustic guitarist, harmonica player and lead singer in the band, became acquainted with delta blues after hearing a tape by legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. He soon went on stage at an "open mic" night, where he sang the only blues tune he knew and met musician Sonny Rhodes, who taught him how...
by MICHAEL J. MISHAK
What some thought were firecrackers turned out to be the gunshots that ended Joseph Wiley's life.
Wiley, 30, was gunned down in the 7100 block of Chew Avenue near Durham Street in East Mt. Airy on May 13.
Two weeks later, another man was killed in the vicinity of Germantown Avenue and Washington Lane near Duval Street. Police suspect the homicide was drug-related.
The recent violence has spurred community leaders to increase...
New Medicare program offers prescription drug discounts for seniors
by Carole Verona
Approximately 100 senior citizens recently assembled at Germantown's Center in the Park to listen to representatives from AARP explain Medicare's new prescription drug discount card program. At the end of the presentation, a gentleman from the audience stood and asked the two questions that were on everyone else's minds. "How did this get to be so complicated? And what are senior citizens to do, especially those of us who don't have sons or daughters to help us figure it out?"
The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act, signed into law in December 2003, makes major changes to Medicare, the nation's...