by MARIE LACHAT
Those who garden know you can’t build
a garden overnight; yet each year in January when catalogues
appear, so do our dreams of lush, colorful perennials,
plump shiny fruits and vegetables and glossy-leaved shrubs
and trees.
We pore over the catalogues. We draw up plans and talk
to our garden friends. We read garden books and attend
lectures. We place our orders. We plant seeds and for
days we see nothing.
Finally a tip of green peeks through the rich brown soil
and we are...
Light
Up A Life affords time
to remember loved ones, friends
by MADELEINE M. KEEHN
The community is invited to the tree-lighting
at the Wissahickon Hospice’s “Light Up A Life”
celebration on Sunday, December 7, at 4 p.m., at the Fountain
Plaza Park in the 8700 Germantown Ave., next to the Chestnut
Hill Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Because of the weather’s uncertainty at that time
of year, the committee has scheduled the event to start
indoors at the library, with a reception at 3:30 p.m.
Participants will have time for...
Bell’s Mill bridge begins next week
The West Bell’s Mill Road bridge will
repaired by Christmas, according to Jack Lutz, the city’s
chief bridge engineer. The road was closed to eastbound
traffic on October 31 after a crack was found in an arch
on the upstream, Roxborough-bound side of the stone bridge.
Lutz said that Rockport, a Lansdowne-based contractor
who does concrete stone mortar work, will repair the bridge
by restoring the integrity of the arch so that two-way
traffic can resume. Rockport was the contractor for the
Gowen Avenue bridge a few years ago...