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A Meeting on Water Tower proposal next week
A community meeting to discuss the Chestnut Hill Community Association’s proposal to assume operation of the Water Tower Recreation Center will be held Monday, July 18 at 7 p.m. at the Water Tower.
Grant for Cresheim Trail announced
The Chestnut Hill Rotary Club has received $20,000 from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for the completion of a feasibility study for the proposed Cresheim Trail.
Recyclebank goes ‘global’
RecycleBank, the company founded by two area natives that launched its coupons-for-recycling program in Chestnut Hill in January, was selected as the official recycling provider for last weekend’s Live 8 concert on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
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Local News
Parade participants, including a family whose float honors a relative serving in the U.S. Marines, doff their caps for the National Anthem. (Photo by Jimmy J. Pack Jr.)
A Celebration for the Kids
by JAMES STURDIVANT
As they have for the past 89 years, the bikes rolled and games were played at the Chestnut Hill Bocce Club’s Independence Day celebration at the Water Tower Recreation Center.
Developer, residents clash over East Mt. Airy project
DeSouza Brown Inc., of Bala Cynwyd, has proposed to build a 23-unit development on a six-acre site along Cresheim Creek. Residents are concerned about the intensity and environmental impact of the project.
by MICHAEL J. MISHAK
Organizers had hoped selecting a church as the venue for a discussion on a controversial housing development would ensure a sense of civility. Instead, East Mt. Airy residents sent an unequivocally clear message to developer DeSouza Brown Inc., of Bala Cynwyd, at a community meeting last week: take your plans elsewhere.
Banking on service
Slated to open this fall, Valley Green Bank is the Northwest's only community-based lending institution. Area residents are behind the effort and at the helm.
by MICHAEL J. MISHAK
Seeking to fill a void in the Northwest's commercial landscape, an enterprising group of area residents and business leaders have pooled their resources to establish Valley Green Bank, the region's only community-based lending institution.
A little peace of their hearts
Peace high school, the new Northwest magnet, will welcome 150 incoming freshman in September. About 600 students had applied.
by MICHAEL J. MISHAK
When Philadelphia schools chief Paul Vallas opened the region's first public military academy in West Oak Lane last year, Shelly Yanoff demanded an alternative. Backed by a contingent of Northwest community groups, she suggested a peace school, and much to her surprise, he gave it the green light. |
CHA’s Dziengelski, Ferry honored for athletics
by TOM UTESCHER
With the addition of new varsity teams and construction on new indoor sports facilities due to begin in the upcoming school year, Chestnut Hill Academy seems headed towards an athletic renaissance. If so, athletes such as Scott Dzeingelski and Andrew Ferry can be credited with helping point the school in the right direction.
Dziengelski, an Albright College football recruit who also played basketball and baseball at CHA, was honored at last month’s graduation ceremony with the Patterson Cup, which is presented to the outstanding all-round athlete in the graduating class. The school’s Lawrence Mallory Award, bestowed upon the senior who best exemplifies athletic and academic achievement, went to Ferry, who was a standout in soccer and track and will pursue the former sport at the University of Pennsylvania.
Germantown Academy felled by Rock North
by TOM UTESCHER
Playing with a relatively young crew last Monday evening, Germantown Academy suffered its first loss in summer league basketball, bowing to Council Rock North, 33-29.
Cardinals win CHYSC championship
The Cardinals recently won the CHYSC major level baseball championship, coming from behind to beat the Mets 6–4 in the final game of the annual double elimination tournament on June 16.
Mudhens are Champs
In the Chestnut Hill Youth Sports Club Minor League championship game on June 16, the Mudhens beat the Sidewinders, who earned the right to take on the ‘hens again after winning a semifinal game. The Minor League is the only CHYSC baseball league other than the majors to hold playoffs.
The Chestnut Hill Baseball program operates from early spring through mid summer in various age appropriate leagues including TeeBall (ages 5 and 6), Rookie Ball (ages 7 and 8), Minors (ages 9 and 10) and Majors (ages 11 and 12).
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Local Life
Hiller revisits America on the ‘dying Mother Road’
by JIMMY J. PACK JR.
It has been bothering me for years. When I took my first cross-country journey, it was in July of 2001. Two months later, on the 11th of September, the America I had traveled across changed. I’ve felt a painful need to get back on the road, the dying Mother Road, to see how my old America — an America so vulnerable to a destruction we hadn’t experienced since the Japanese destroyed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941 — had dealt with a terrifying blow from reality.
Chestnut Hill to Host Second Film Festival
During the weekend of Friday, July 15 through Sunday, July 17, Chestnut Hill will play host to the second annual Freedom Film Festival, to take place at The Stagecrafters Theater, and at which several award-winning films will be presented. This nationally touring event is intended as a showcase for young independent filmmakers, a number of whom live and work in Chestnut Hill and the surrounding communities.
All Dresses Hand-Made at New Shop on Hill
by PAT STOKES
Judging from the message lurking in the lines of the most recent On the Avenue columns, I think it’s safe to say there is presently a fresh new, creative breeze blowing through Chestnut Hill’s shops, as seen in some of the merchandise offered and the way it is showcased. A good example of this trend is the collection at Renee Bolden Designs, a newly opened shop at 8026 Germantown Ave., where every dress or costume has been dreamed up from Renee’s active imagination, then made by her from hand-picked fabrics that she deems most expressive and suitable.
Circle Hopes to Run Rings Around the Competition
by LEN LEAR
Meeting some of the fascinating staff members at the three-year-old restaurant in the Radisson Plaza Warwick Hotel at 17th and Locust Streets, you quickly learn there is nothing square about Circles off the Square. Although this 110-seat restaurant has been open much longer than some of the more splashy headline-grabbing eateries in center city, many area foodies do not even know it exists. About 60 percent of their customers are Warwick Hotel guests.
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