July 17, 2008 Issue                                                     

Local News

Run for the Hill of It on for July 26 with new organizer
by Paula Riley

The Run for the Hill of It has attracted hundreds of runners to Forbidden Drive to raise money for children in need. This year Montgomery Child Advocacy Project is the run’s new organizer and beneficiary. (Photo by Jimmy J. Pack Jr.)

For 20 years, the Run for the Hill of It has raised money to help children in need.  This year is no different.  On Saturday, July 26, at 8:30 a.m., community volunteers and hundreds of racers will gather at Northwestern Avenue and Forbidden Drive in Fairmount Park. 

Some will be there to run the shady trail and others will stroll Fairmount Park on the one-mile fun walk while volunteers distribute water and families enjoy the visiting Phillie Phanatic. 

Everyone there will be helping needy children. 

New firm brings ‘green’ products to Chestnut Hill residents’ doorsteps
by JENNIFER KATZ

Tim Shoup (Photo by Erin Vertreace)

In Chestnut Hill, the unofficial “garden district” of the city, where streets are lined not only with trees but also with thoughtfully designed and meticulously cared for magazine-quality front yards, it was only a matter of time before someone thought to bring the eco-friendly gardening movement to Hillers doorsteps, making the transition to sustainable gardening a phone call away.

Chestnut Hill resident and landscaper Tim Shoup, who owns and operates Green Earth Gardening, has launched a new venture that does just that. Green Earth Supply provides homeowners with access to the latest environmental trends in gardening. The company also supplies its larger commercial clients with the same service.

For the first time, however, homeowners can call Green Earth and order hard-to-find, state-of-the-art materials that are good for the earth in more ways than one.

“Gardening and green really go together,” Shoup said in an interview last week with the Local. “The biggest thing with these products is that they are made from recycled materials, so we are not cutting down forest to make mulch (for example).”

Local Sports

CHA, Mount rowers part of top twosomes
by TOM UTESCHER

Chestnut Hill Academy’s Don Leatherwood (left) joined up with New Yorker Corentin Morel to win the junior double event at the 2008 Independence Day Regatta.

Chestnut Hill Academy’s Don Leatherwood and Mount St. Joseph’s Mary Maginnis, both rising seniors and both stroke seat rowers in crew, happened upon an unfamiliar formula for success at the Independence Day Regatta, which was staged on the Schuylkill July 5-7.

During the spring scholastic season, Maginnis helps power the Magic’s varsity eight and Leatherwood sculls in a CHA quad, but at the IDR each picked up a gold medal while racing in a two-man boat at the nation’s largest summer regatta.

Column: A Tribute to Yankee Stadium
by IVAN LEVINGSTON

As the 2008 All-Star Game played out on the field of the greatest stadium in the world, fans were aware of the historical significance of the event. When MLB and the commissioners’ office chose Yankee Stadium as the site of the 2008 All-Star Game, they were saying goodbye to baseball’s grandest stage. The House that Ruth Built, the Cathedral, and every other nickname glorifies Yankee Stadium and will continue to honor it as it passes from reality to legend to myth. It has already transcended every other ballpark in America.