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Local Life
It’s a dog’s life for Chestnut
Hill pet sitter By JOHN ROSENBAUM During this time of year many of your neighbors have left Philadelphia
and gone on vacation. Some of them do their best to bring along their
extended family of pets, but many cannot, or for some reason choose
not to. So what do these families do, and where do these animals go,
when they unwillingly part ways with their loved ones? To shed some
light in this matter, I delved into the world of pet care. Looking after pets has become a lucrative business, and there has
emerged a lively market of professionals doing this for a living. There
are also others doing it for several other reasons, such as an exceptional
passion for animals and/or spare time during the summer months. This summer, Cindy Miller, a 6th grade teacher with 25 years experience... Mt. Airyite’s tea house turning over a new leaf By LEN LEAR Mt. Airy resident John Wicks, whose background is in audio production, was approached by a friend, Wharton Business School junior Kun Hsu, with a business idea in the spring of 2000. Hsu suggested that some enterprising businessperson could be very successful by being the first to bring “Bubble Tea” to Philadelphia, and that businessperson might as well be Wicks. Hsu, a native of Toronto, said there were at least 10 “bubble houses” in his hometown. He added, though, that just because someone had a good business concept, there was no guarantee it would be successfully executed. “I had no idea what he was talking about,” recalled Wicks, 51, brother of Judy Wicks, well known peace activist and owner of the White Dog Cafe, “but after reviewing his excellent business plan and doing research in a few other cities, I began to like the idea more and... by TOM UTESCHER Although Mount St. Joseph Academy’s indoor summer basketball league wrapped up last month, a number of the Magic players are taking their act outdoors as they play in the Upper Gwynedd League. The schedule in this al fresco endeavor has been erratic, as our excess of rain this summer has caused numerous postponements. Despite a shower around dinnertime last Wednesday, the courts were dry enough for the Mount’s Team Green to take the court later on. With just one sub, the Greens were edged out by the Beige Bunch (mostly North Penn H.S. players) in a low-scoring contest, 23-21. After more than six minutes of play there was only a 2-2 tie on the scoreboard, as a jumper by the Beige was matched by two free throws by Kate Hagedorn of the Magic. Hagedorn’s quickness on defense forced numerous turnovers by the North Penn club during the evening, but even lay-ups didn’t come easily for the Mount, which was unable to capitalize on many of its fast breaks. Kaila Wiand netted a bucket with an inside move and then Jenna Poligo scored... Mt. Airy studio quite a stretch by ED MAHON Law school is stressful enough, but for 27-year-old Katonay Mosley, who suffers from sciatica — a pain along the sciatic nerve, which runs from the lower back down the legs — the added stress of law school was torture. “I had it before law school, and I thought it was under control, but my first year made it worse,” said Mosley. Mosley tried various forms of traditional therapy — from epidural shots to a morphine drip, from hot pads to cold pads, from moist heat to dry heat, from stretches to surgery. Nothing helped. That is, nothing helped until she went to The Balance Point in Mt. Airy... Philly’s favorite sculptor featured at Art Museum By MARIE FOWLER “We would never have a mayor today who would cut funding for the arts,” a mover-and-shaker in the Philadelphia art world was overheard to remark impishly at the opening of the Jacques Lipchitz and Philadelphia exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Our irreverent speaker refers, of course, to the controversy attending former Mayor Frank Rizzo and Lipchitz’s Government of the People in the Municipal Plaza opposite City Hall. The Lipchitz sculpture was commissioned in accordance with a city mandate that one percent of the construction cost of a new building be set aside for the fine arts. In an attempt to cut city spending, Rizzo balked at footing the bill for a sculpture that famously offended his sensibilities (not to mention that his own comments about the work in question offended even more sensibilities). As many readers will remember, the more polite among the city’s reporters simply paraphrased Hizzoner to the effect that this particular work of art resembled more than anything else, a pile of plaster accidentally dumped by plasterers. Organized by Michael Taylor, the museum’s newly named Muriel and Philip Berman... |