PANCAKE BREAKFAST AT SOLARIS GRILLE The Rotary Club of Chestnut Hill is sponsoring a pancake breakfast at Solaris Grille, 8201 Germantown Avenue, on Saturday, April 19. The time is 8 to 10:30 a.m. Tickets are $9 for adults, and $4.50 for children, and are available at the door and from members of the Rotary Club of Chestnut Hill. Checks are payable to Rotary Club of Chestnut Hill Foundation. The pancake breakfast is in support of a literacy program for third grade students in Chestnut Hill, Mt. Airy and Germantown, and the International Orphanage in Guyana, South America.

TESTING THE “NORBOT” During their first year of competition, Norwood-Fontbonne Academy’s Robotics Team was awarded third place in the Junior Autonomous Division at Penn State’s Fire-Fighting Robot Contest on Saturday, April 5. Participants in this contest design computer-controlled robots that must navigate a maze, then find and extinguish a burning candle in the shortest amount of time.  The NFA team had been meeting every week for the past six, working and developing their program and model, “NorBot,” with help and guidance from NFA moderator Anna Marie Croney, NFA tech advisor Tom Shaw as well as Chuck Croney and Bob Bellini, engineers from Lockheed Martin. From left, Andrew Shaw, Naasir Perry, John Charlton, Patrick Davis and Emily Eck.

Allison Durkin of Jenkintown brought her daughter Chelsea, 9, to see Caroline Kennedy because this, like every election, “is part of history and part of the Democratic process.” Durkin attended the event as undecided voter also. (Photos by Erin Vertreace)

Marisol Greenberg from Chestnut Hill, pictured here with her 10-year-old daughter Lena, was hoping Kennedy would talk about Obama’s stance on health care, which is keeping her from making a confident vote for him on April 22.

 

ROTARY CLUB’S GOOD DEED: Ester Kurtz and Trish Bonsell of the Rotary Club of Chestnut Hill gave free dictionaries to third graders at the Jenks Elementary School in Chestnut Hill last week. The Rotary has as one of its missions the support of education in a variety of ways. Not in the picture (because he took it) was Jack Soeffing.