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Latest in wave of storms brings extensive damage
Hill among areas hardest hit by Jeanne
by JAMES STURDIVANT
When the tropical system called Jeanne brought its vicious swan song to Southeastern Pennsylvania last week, it hit the entire region hard, but dumped the greatest amount of rain in two areas: Chester County near the Delaware border, and Northwest Philadelphia and its immediate suburbs.
Chestnut Hill, Mt. Airy and environs escaped the deadly floods that plagued lower-lying areas along the Schuylkill River, but suffered the effects of torrential runoff caused by as much as 10 inches of rain.
In West Mount Airy, flooding made many roads impassable. Along the Wissahickon and Cresheim Creeks, swiftly rising water collapsed banks, undermined bridges, washed away parked cars..
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In Sports...
It's Tiger time for MSJ's Reinprecht
by TOM UTESCHER
For Mount St. Joseph Academy senior Sarah Reinprecht, a member of the United States Under-19 and Under-21 field hockey teams, it really wasn't possible to make a poor college choice.
Her "short list" included ardent suitors from Duke, Princeton, and the University of Virginia, and when she made her decision public late last month, it was Princeton which received a verbal commitment from the Mount midfielder.
"It's not too close, and not too far, and obviously it's one of the best academic universities in the country," said Reinprecht, who paid her official NCAA visit to the New Jersey school October 2 and 3, but had made overnight trips there twice before. "There's a lot of school spirit; everybody's like "Go Tigers!" and there's a lot of support for the sports teams."
Princeton's second-year mentor, Kristen Holmes-Winn, had...
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In LocalLife...
High on marble dust on High Street
Rodin-esque couple create exquisite sculptures
By MARIE FOWLER
An artistic dialogue has been going on for 27 years between the two talented sculptors in a studio at 47 High St. in Germantown and there is not always agreement.
Like legendary French sculptor Auguste Rodin, Gianni Benvenuti is older, male and opinionated. And like Rodin's muse and fellow sculptor Camille Claudel, Elfie Harris is younger, female and outspoken. And both Benvenuti and Harris are fiercely passionate about the other's art, just as Rodin and Claudel were.
It makes for a most creative, if tempestuous, environment! Harris and Benvenuti work in a cavernous, light-filled space that she notes was once the oldest American Legion Post in the country, just across the street from Germantown High School. Stone has now taken center stage in what was once the building's theater.
The sculptors work in marble -- from Vermont, the Alps, Belgium, Africa and of course, from Carrara, Italy, where Michelangelo quarried his stones. Amazingly, even stones from the Americas...
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