70 years of profound love for mom – Mother’s Day very tough when mom is losing her mind

Local Life May 9, 2013 0 Comments

by Janet Gilmore “Hello?” “Hi, Jan? It’s mom.” I knew the voice at the other end perfectly well. Why was she identifying herself? A few months earlier, at Thanksgiving dinner, my mother looked around her dining room table filled with people she loved, sighed and said, “We’re very lucky. We have lots of things to [...]
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Stunning violin concert, modern & baroque, at Woodmere

Local Life May 9, 2013 0 Comments

by Michael Caruso Chestnut Hill’s Woodmere Art Museum presented Emlyn Ngai, the concertmaster of the baroque instruments ensemble Tempesta di Mare, in a solo violin recital Sunday, April 28, in its acoustically resplendent rotunda. Playing on both a baroque, gut-strung violin and a metal-strung modern instrument, Ngai proved himself equally at home on both instruments [...]
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Local kids put out a whale of an effort to save Lolita

Local Life May 9, 2013 0 Comments

by Sally Cohen and Len Lear Gwynedd Valley local animal welfare group 22 Reasons, founded by former longtime Chestnut Hill resident Gigi Glendinning, has begun an innovative art-humane-education project in the Philadelphia-area schools, enlisting young people to paint massive, life-sized murals of the killer whale Lolita (a.k.a. Tokitae). Lolita was taken from her family off [...]
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Where’s the will to fix schools?

Opinion May 8, 2013 6 Comments

by Pete Mazzaccaro As the school year enters its final six weeks, the future of Philadelphia’s public schools looks as grim as ever. Short more than $300 million and having no interested parties willing to act to close the financing hole, the School District of Philadelphia has proposed a brutally austere budget that would limit [...]
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Heart-shaped beds and cars that go boom

Opinion May 8, 2013 0 Comments

by Hugh Gilmore Years ago my mother-in-law kindly agreed to take our 6-year-old son Andrew for the weekend, so Janet and I could go on retreat for the first time. Not the kind you’re thinking, but the kind where the hotel has heart-shaped beds and bathtubs. Going to one of those corny Poconos places seemed [...]
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Society – and sports – are changing for the better

Opinion May 8, 2013 0 Comments

by Clark Groome Remember when it was impossible to see a black man on a Major League baseball team? Remember when it was impossible to imagine a Roman Catholic being elected president of the United States? Remember when it would have been ridiculous for a presidential candidate to name a Jew as his vice president? [...]
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Friends of Jenks to host 2nd annual silent auction

News May 8, 2013 0 Comments

by Sue Ann Rybak Friends of J.S. Jenks, an independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to “enhance the educational and enrichment opportunities at J.S. Jenks Elementary School in Chestnut Hill,” will host its second annual silent auction and reception to benefit the school’s art and music program from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, June [...]
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