Student-run business teaches life lessons
by DENISE MAHER
A dozen or more bowls of shiny and sparkling beads, dewdrop and round, spotted and metallic, small and large, were dispersed along the skinny table below the eye level of 14 special education high school students.
But this wasn't arts and crafts time, and it certainly wasn't break time. These teenagers were fashioning the product line for their new business, CR Strings.
"I thought I couldn't make it," said Ashley Kay, 18, holding up her completed, gorgeous, glistening blue-beaded...
Stone steps ease access to Indian statue
by Barbara McCabe
The Indian statue, one of the most popular sites in the Wissahickon, is now more accessible as the result of a joint effort by the Friends of the Wissahickon and the Fairmount Park Commission.
The statue, which is a tribute to the Lenape Indians who hunted and fished in the Wissahickon prior to the arrival of the colonists, can now be visited via stone steps that lead down to the statue off the White Trail.
With the help of a private donation, the Friends of the Wissahickon hired FPC stonemasons, who worked weekends to construct the steps. The FPC cooperated in the effort by delivering...
Mt. Airy nonprofit director shatters political stereotypes
by MICHAEL J. MISHAK
In Philadelphia, a city that remains distinguished for its racially polarized voting record, the tendency to label minority voters as Democrats is strong. But Farah Jimenez defies blanket categorization. The Cuban-American executive director of Mt. Airy USA, an area nonprofit, is working the frontlines for Bush-Cheney '04, a scenario that can engender confusion.
"There's a big leap in assumptions," Jimenez said.
Her political passion extends far beyond pulling a lever on Election Day. As treasurer of the Pennsylvania New Majority Council and a member of the Bush campaign's national steering committee for Pennsylvania outreach, Jimenez last month found herself an alternate delegate attending the Republican National Convention in New York.
Jimenez hopes to broaden the base of her party and shatter the image of the...