December 22, 2005 Issue                                                 

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Holiday House Tour: a spectacular event
by Maxine Maddox Dornemann

A Currier Ives image is one of the best descriptions of this years annual Holiday House Tour, which focused on the historic section of Chestnut Hill adjacent to the Morris Arboretum. Fridays snow was an unplanned bit of decoration that added to the festivities.

Safe toys for the holidays

Toys can bring hours of delight to young people, but if they are designed poorly or are given to children who are too young to handle a particular toy, the results can be deadly.

Christmas traditions around the country

Almost everyone has a gem of a tradition for the holidays. Whether it involves going out to dinner Christmas Eve, hiding gifts under the tree, putting out milk and cookies for Santa, or walking along the Avenue looking in shop windows.

Two boys walking past angels is part of the art work featured by Eugene Martin. More than 20 pieces of Martin’s work can be viewed and purchased at the Trolley Car Diner, 7619 Germantown Ave., Mt. Airy.

Martin’s artwork featured at Trolley Car Diner

The Trolley Car Diner is hostinga show and sale featuring the photography of Mt. Airy resident Eugene Martin, an award-winning filmmaker and photographer. All photographs, displayed for the first time on the diner’s walls, will be framed and priced.

Nick Schreiber plays out of the Philadelphia Cricket Club; now he is ready for the elite
by Jeffrey Puhan

Since Nick Schreiber was little, he has dreamed of playing tennis at the highest level. Well, his dreams are coming true. Over Thanksgiving Nick traveled to Florida to compete in The Eddie Herr International Tennis Tournament.

PennDOT takes over responsibility for paving

Responsibility for paving over the trolley tracks along Germantown Avenue from Gowen Avenue to Chresheim Valley Road has been turned over to PennDOT from SEPTA. Paving began on Dec. 2. Despite legal efforts to secure a temporary injunction, a fleet of orange and yellow vehicles assembled at dawn on Dec. 2 to pave over a portion of the longest street-running trolley line in the world.

Pictured l-r: Dr. Vicki D. Lachman, Chestnut Hill Light Up A Life chair and sponsor; Lisa Stanley, director, Wissahickon Hospice; and guest speaker Reverend Maxine Maddox Dornemann, Chestnut Hill Community Association board president

Annual ‘Light Up A Life’ celebration held on the Hill

On Sunday, Dec. 4 at 4 p.m., Wissahickon Hospice held its annual “Light Up A Life” celebration in the Chestnut Hill Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library, followed by the tree lighting in Fountain Park Plaza. More than 100 people attended the event, despite the morning’s snow and the icy conditions that followed.