CHESTNUT HILL LOCAL—NOVEMBER 18, 2004 Issue

November 18, 2004 Issue

In The News...

Northwest to Council: 'Retail and rail is just good business'

Area leaders make the case for SEPTA at Council hearing

by DENISE MAHER

With SEPTA rate hikes and service cuts looming in the air, the city's transportation council convened on Monday to compile testimony from city representatives to determine the need for dedicated state funding to close the transit agency's $62 million deficit.

Among those called to witness were two local representatives who testified that the Northwest's economy is inextricably tied to the services SEPTA provides, that more funding is needed to restore the Route 23 trolley line -- a feature advocates believe would revitalize the Northwest's public transit system -- and that SEPTA is extremely important, given massive roadway congestion.

Suzanne Biemiller, executive director of the Chestnut Hill Business Association and Farah Jimenez, executive director of Mt. Airy USA, provided committee overseer Councilman Michael...

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In Sports...

WINNING SEASON: Chestnut Hill Academy won their third Independence Football League championship in four years on Nov. 6, dominating Academy of the New Church 34-6. CHA's Mike Flannery (center) is seen here trying to break a tackle. (Photo by John O'Neil)

Patriot teams dominate on GA-PC Day

by TOM UTESCHER

The football and boys soccer contests were the only games that counted in the official Inter-Ac League standings, but school pride was on the line all across the board last Saturday as visiting Penn Charter took on Germantown Academy in all eight varsity fall sports.

As always, the highlight of the annual GA-PC day agenda was the longstanding football rivalry between the Patriots and Quakers, who have met on the gridiron every year since 1887. That was a good thing for Penn Charter, because it was the lone event won by the Quakers last weekend. The Pats prevailed in field hockey, tennis, water polo, boys and girls cross country and boys and girls soccer to easily secure the GA-PC Competition Cup, 7-1. Here's a rundown of the results.

BOYS CROSS COUNTRY - GA placed third in the Inter-Ac championships and first amongst the Division II teams (third overall) at the...

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In LocalLife...

Paulo Faustini is the grapest
opera singer in Chestnut Hill

By LEN LEAR

Paulo Faustini, 40, was brought up to sing in church, almost from the day he was born. His late mother was a piano teacher and church musician, and his father is a retired Presbyterian minister and composer of church music. So it was no surprise when Paulo went off to Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., on a scholarship and earned a bachelor's degree in church music and a master's in voice performance and pedagogy.

But Faustini, who sings every Sunday at the 9 a.m. service and 11:15 a.m. service at the Church of St. Martin in the Fields in Chestnut Hill, also has grape expectations. In addition to his acknowledged musical talent (Paulo has sung at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and other major venues under the direction of some of the world's greatest conductors such as Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta and the late Leonard Bernstein), Faustini is just as passionate about his wine business, CIAO!

The company, run by Faustini and his partner, Lisa Smith, goes to people's homes or to BYOB restaurants to conduct wine tastings and wine education classes. For example, a recent event took place at a BYOB near South Street. There was a one-hour class from 6 to 7, and at 7 the 15 participants ordered dinner. During the first hour Paulo and Lisa offered five different wines for tasting and explained how to savor the intensity and complexity in the wines, swirling them around in the mouth with close-eyed concentration so...

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