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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 year’s annual Holiday House Tour, which
focused on the historic section of Chestnut Hill adjacent to the Morris
Arboretum. Friday’s 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.
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.
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.
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GA
girls come of age against Peddie
by TOM UTESCHER
Only one of the Carey sisters was able to participate
in last Saturday night’s basketball showdown between
host Germantown Academy and the Peddie School, but the one
who played, GA freshman Jesse Carey, accomplished enough for
both of them.
GA
Patriots topple Northeast Catholic
by DREW LAZOR
Villanova-bound senior Andrew
Ott had 23 pointsand nine rebounds and junior Kyle Griffin
tallied 29 as the Patriots of Germantown Academy (6-2) toppled
head coach Mike McCarron’s Northeast Catholic on Saturday,
Dec. 17.
CHA
racquetmen roll over Shipley
by TOM UTESCHER
Defending Inter-Ac squash champion Chestnut Hill Academy
was scheduled to host 2004-2005 league runner-up Haverford School
last Thursday, but with precipitation in the forecast for that afternoon,
most area schools pushed the panic button and postponed the day’s
sporting events.
S’side
spikers overcome ANC
by TOM UTESCHER
Winning its home opener by a 3-1 count over the Academy
of the New Church, the Springside School volleyball team evened
up its record at 1-1 last Tuesday afternoon.
Mount
swimmers succumb to Hatters
by TOM UTESCHER
To celebrate her 16th birthday last Wednesday, Mount
St. Joseph Academy sophomore Jackie Hain reversed the usual protocol
and gave some impressive gifts to the Magic’s swim team. The
Norwood Fontbonne Academy graduate took first place in both the
breaststroke and the individual medley, and was part of winning
MSJ quartets in the 200-yard medley relay and the 400 freestyle
relay.
CHYSC
Friday Night League
by TOM AMODIE
The Chestnut Hill Youth Sports Club Friday Night
basketball league began playing for the ’06 season with an
abbreviated schedule of games. This year the league has eight teams
down from 10 a year ago.
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| Rebecca Paul plays with
her beloved Jack Russell Terriers. (Photo
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Every
DogHaus has his day, thanks to Rebecca Paul
by MARIE
FOWLER
“We’ve all had babies,” interior designer
Rebecca Paul remembers vowing, “so we can do this!”
Paul speaks of the nine-month time frame in which three Chestnut
Hill women conceived and brought into being the first DogHaus
fund-raiser in 2003. Co-founders Lynn Lehocky, Robin Allen
and Paul, all Hill natives, whirled into action, launching
a designer showcase to benefit the Pennsylvania Society for
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
‘Family
Guy’ irreverent, politically incorrect, hilarious
by Jimmy
J. Pack Jr.
When Matt Groening took his comic strip characters,
The Simpsons, and turned them into a weekly-animated TV show
for the FOX network almost 20 years ago, he had no clue how
long the show would run or how much audiences would love every
episode. The Simpsons have been a Sunday night staple for
the network and a meter for popular culture, or rather, a
meter for the decline of popular culture ever since.
Visitors
didn’t stand a“ghost of a chance” George
G. Meade Easby, a one-of-a-kind Hiller
by LEN LEAR
When The MorrisArboretum in Chestnut Hill
had the official opening for its fall art exhibit, Plants
for all Seasons, one piece had already been sold. The sale
represented a first on two counts; it was the first painting
in the exhibit to be sold, and it was the artist’s first
sale of his art. The artist is 13-year-old, Kevin Wiesner,
a student at Germantown Friends School and a resident of Wyndmoor.
Brilliant
Christmas concerts in area
By Michael Caruso
Two of Philadelphia’s leadingchoruses presented Christmas
concerts this past weekend. With sufficient energy, it was
possible to take in both performances on the same day, which
is what I did on Saturday. I heard the Mendelssohn Club’s
“A Feast of Carols” right here in Chestnut Hill
at 4 in the afternoon in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church;
then, at 8 in the evening, I caught the Choral Arts Society’s
“Christmas in Leipzig, 1723” in the Bryn Mawr
Presbyterian Church.
Area
novelist features Hill sites in latest book
by PAULA RILEY
You may not recognize the name Yin Yang, a Chinese
restaurant with a bit of French flair, but once you read Philadelphia
Holidays 2004, Turkish Pleasures 1997, you’ll surely
know it as Cin Cin, the main character’s favorite dinner
spot.
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