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Germantown Chronicle 

August 2, 2012 • Volume 4, Number 7 

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Pennsylvania Voter ID Law 

Raises Serious Concerns ... page 2 

A Colleague 

is Mourned 

... page 6

Page 2 August 2, 2012 Germantown Newspapers 

Voter ID Issues at the Fore as Sen. Washington Launches Initiative 

by Tracie Johnson 

Staff Reporter 

State Senator Leanna M.Washington, 

of the 4th Senatorial District, 

held a press conference last 

week at the Center in the Park 

community center to launch the 

voter ID education initiative. 

In accompaniment was fellow 

State Senator Shirley Kitchen, of 

the 3rd Senatorial District, former 

councilwoman of the 4th councilmatic 

district, Donna Reed Miller, 

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representatives from the NAACP, 

ACLU, and more. 

Sen. Washington said that in her 

district, there are an estimated 

40,000 registered voters who will 

not be able to present a photo ID 

at the polls on election day. 

“I think that’s 10,000 in Montgomery 

County and in 30,000 in 

Philadelphia,” Washington said. 

Washington said that Pennsylvania 

Republicans have insisted on 

enforcing the voter ID law which 

has, since its inception, undergone 

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criticism for disproportionately affecting 

voters of colors, the ill and 

disabled, the youth, the working 

poor and senior citizens. 

Center in the Park, a center 

known for assisting the more elderly 

population of Germantown, 

hosted this event in hopes to further 

educate senior citizens on the 

disadvantages they may face upon 

their arrival to the voting polls. 

According to the Brennan Center 

for Justice, eighteen percent of 

citizens at the age of 65 or older do 

not possess current government-issued 

photo ID. One major reason 

being is that many senior citizens 

do not have access to past government-issued 

forms of identification 

like the birth certificate, which 

is necessary to apply for photo 

identification. 

Sen. Washington noted that 

many senior citizens of the Germantown 

area migrated north 

from the south. Therefore, their 

out-of-state records are less easy 

to come by and for some, due to 

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file anymore. 

“Our greatest concern is the 

amount of seniors in Philadelphia 

who have come from the south 

and now birth certificates are a 

concern for them,” said Gail Garrett, 

of the Philadelphia Corporation 

for Aging. 

Sen. Kitchen echoed this testament 

in saying, “If you are 69, 

even 70 and certainly above 70 

and you weren’t born here in 

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Concerns Raised at Sen. Washington’s Voter ID Conference 

Donna Reed Miller, center, with Sen. Leanna Washington to her left. 

by Scott Alloway 

Associate Editor 

CIP members sign in to the conference. 

PA Voter ID Coaltion 

Opens Northwest Office 

The Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Voter ID Coalition is attempting to 

establish verifiable numbers to compare to disenfranchised voter rolls 

and preliminary numbers indicate a huge disparity between Commonwealth 

claims and research results. 

According to Joe Certaine of the Philadelphia Eighth District Council 

office, “We're trying to get out that the 8th council district, by numbers 

of voters not having the right ID, of all the districts, ranks the highest” 

in disenfranchised voters. 

“In Philadelphia County, of the 187,000 persons thought lacking 

proper ID 10 days ago, we now see it is 100,000 more than that,” Certaine 

added. 

In the Eighth District, “a fairly careful analysis shows about 35,000 

people meet the criteria of not having valid voting ID. That means in 

Philadelphia the eighth district ranks the highest” in disenfranchised citizens.” 

The coalition opened an office on 310 W. Chelten Avenue because it 

wants people to understand the urgency of confirming their IDs. 

Compounding the voter ID problem is confusion at the highest levels 

of the state. A post in Talking Point Memo said Pennsylvania Secretary 

of the Commonwealth Carole Aichele testified on July 31 at the state 

trial on the state’s voter ID law. “She wasn’t sure about the details of 

the law, but stood by her unsupported claim that 99 percent of voters had 

valid identification,” the story reported. 

“I don’t know what the law says,” CBS News reported her as stating 

under oath. 

TPM rported that “Aichele also couldn’t provide any evidence that 99 

percent of voters already have a valid form of ID, as the state has 

claimed. CBS reported that when lawyers cited testimony from a Department 

of State official calling the number likely inaccurate, Aichele 

responded ‘I disagree.’” 

Certaine observed that even if the judge decides to enjoin or not, there 

will be an appeal to the state Supreme Court. 

The danger is, a final decision may be too late to do anything about 

disenfranchising citizens. 

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Pennsylvania say you were born 

in Mississippi, or Alabama, 

Louisiana, or it could be any of 

the other states too... and you send 

for your birth certificate. You may 

not be able to get it, and we’ve 

had that experience in our office. 

And so far, we have not been able 

to solve it.” 

David Scholgel, a local resident 

and Center in the Park member of 

10 years, was in attendance at the 

press conference and shared concerns 

with Germantown Newspapers. 

“I am concerned because 

clearly the new voter law will 

weed out a lot of people who are 

legal voters but don’t have access 

to photo IDs. That’s particularly 

true for seniors, for young people, 

for minorities and I’m also concerned 

about homeless people, 

those who are living assisted living 

situations, both the legal and 

the not so legal… 

“Those folks may not have 

photo ID or even proof of residence. 

The law is very nasty and 

overly tight making it much more 

difficult for people to get the 

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proper photo ID. I’ve heard of 

people going down to the Pennsylvania 

Department of Transportation 

to get the so called free 

photo ID and have been turned 

away. Some are being asked to 

pay money. Some are being asked 

to come back with all type of 

things like birth certificates,” 

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Scholgel said. 

Sen. Washington added that a 

major part of the voter ID education 

initiative is to encourage voters 

to take the necessary steps 

towards obtaining the proper 

photo ID. She hopes to stifle the 

feelings of discouragement many 

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The access to online sites that 

promote innocent Flirting is drawing 

attention by law enforcement 

because of the growing incidents of 

rapes on minor boys and girls. This 

is scary as a parent and elementary 

school teacher with over 20 years 

at the elementary level and even in 

higher education. Presenting at 

workshops and seminars to teach 

youth and teens about their online 

content and the dangers of making 

unseen friendships. Social Media 

sites entice and encourage young 

girls and boys to flirt, but it is being 

found that older men are enticing 

young girls and even boys to meet 

face to face with dangerous results. 

News Reports 

News reports from sources as 

Huffington Post, NY Times, and 

CNN have shown a dangerous 

trend with online contact with older 

men and minor young teen girls. 

Flirting is seen as innocent and 

playful; high school girls and boys 

flirt, even elementary school age 

kids experimenting with who they 

like. This ”greenness” form of flirting 

is perceived as cute and harmless 

in most cases. Skating the 

edges 

of emotional connectivity to see 

if there is a potential for a relationship 

either as friends or a more serious 

relationship. The Internet has 

created a dangerous opportunity for 

sexual encounters for girls and 

even boys. 

Parental Awareness 

Parents need to be aware and involved 

in their children’s Internet 

activities. The seriousness of this 

can be seen from NY Times reports 

that show this is not an isolated incident 

of rapes, but a growing national 

concern. The challenge is 

that technology has allowed an 

open and unregulated connection 

that parents must be concerned. 

Unfortunately pedophiles, stalkers 

and child molesters visit SM sites 

and pretend to be youth and teens. 

They study the conversations, 

styles, words, slang and the best 

times to be online to make contact. 

Teens also will lie about their ages 

to gain access to adult sites. Even 

though there are dangers, teens discount 

the dangers for the chance to 

act as adults and engage in adult 

wordplay and sometimes behaviors. 

Parents Check Phone Records 

Cell phone apps are being used 

to interact online and parents are 

hesitant to check their child’s 

phones. Too many parents are either 

scared to monitor their child’s 

phone records for fear of the child’s 

reaction or work to be their child’s 

friend instead of parent. Just as 

Facebook is researching lowering 

Children Dangerously Flirting Online 

the age for allowing younger members 

access, there are thousands of 

minors already using Facebook because 

they lied about their ages. As 

an elementary school teacher I talk 

to students at my school and their 

conversations are adult in nature, 

discussing their online activities, 

parents have no clue. These results 

could eventually be dangerous as 

seen from information that has 

shown by sexual assaults against 

girls and boys. Parents need to 

make sure that even if they allow 

their minor children or teens to access 

sites that promote social contact 

that their children understand 

not to post their address, phone 

numbers, or other personal information 

that can be used online to 

find them. When kids are adamant 

about not allowing parents to look 

at their phones or online content 

then that could be an indication 

they are hiding something. The recent 

case of a 12-year-old California 

girl that disappeared, the police 

had to check the girl’s cell phone 

records and found that she met 

someone through a mobile app. 

Fortunately the girl was later found 

at the home of a 24-year-old man 

who said he had alleged sex with 

the underage girl. 

Parental Ignorance 

is Dangerous 

Parents should understand that 

information online never goes 

away, it is archived and stored 

somewhere and can be found later. 

This makes it easier and deadlier 

for stalkers and pedophiles to find 

and potentially threaten children 

and teens. Vint Cerf, considered 

one of the “Fathers of the Internet” 

stated, “The Internet is a reflection 

of our society and that mirror is 

going to be reflecting what we 

see.” Protecting children takes 

more than laws it takes parental 

participation. 

Conclusion 

An Austin, Texas women whose 

niece was abducted and used for 

prostitution shows the violence 

children maybe exposed too. Parents 

are missing the warning signs 

and children are exposed to content 

that has long term psychological 

and emotional damage. Kids 

are being kidnapped, raped, forced 

to work as prostitutes, both male 

and female. Interaction on Facebook 

and other social media sites 

has grown dangerous for youth and 

tees. The tragic events of the 

Austin, Texas girl are a prime example. 

Austin, Texas 12-year-old 

lured into sex trade through Facebook 

invite, if parents do not enforce 

or reinforce safety on the 

Internet for their minor children 

this will continue to happen. 

Prevention and education are the 

keys, statements like, "I had no 

clue this was even going on, I 

thought it was a third world country 

situation." Parents if you have 

not done so talk to your children, 

don’t wait until a tragic event. 

Social Media Workshops 

Social Media / Social Network 

workshops are available, parents 

must participate and be involved. 

Churches and other organizations 

that work with children need to educate 

their youth, tweens and teens 

of Social Media and Social Network 

dangers and safety. 

William Jackson, M.Ed. 

My Quest To Teach 

myquesttoteach.wordpress.com 

For the first time since 1965, 

when the Orpheum Theater graced 

the corner of Germantown and Chelten 

Avenues, feature films will be 

shown on one of the main streets of 

Germantown. 

Germantown Movie Night is 

being sponsored by the newly 

formed Germantown United Community 

Development Corporation 

(GU CDC), whose mission is to promote 

and facilitate the sustainable 

community and business corridor 

development of Germantown, 

Philadelphia. 

Germantown Movie Night will 

take place on Saturday nights, August 

11, 18 and 25, and will be 

hosted at the Flying Horse Center’s 

parking lot. The Flying Horse Center, 

a property that pays homage to 

the industrial past and provides a vision 

for a new industrial urban renaissance, 

that is located at 5534-46 

Pulaski Avenue, close to the intersection 

of Pulaski and Chelten. 

In addition to the Hollywood feature 

films being shown, short films 

produced by Germantown-based 

Big Picture Alliance will also be 

shown. The Big Picture Alliance’s 

mission is to engage and educate underserved 

youth by developing selfexpression, 

academic, life and job 

skills through the inspiring and collaborative 

process of creating digital 

communication and media arts. Participants 

in the Big Picture Alliance 

programs have gone on to produce 

award-winning films and secure careers 

in the film and television industries. 

“Many neighborhoods have 

movie nights, but our program represents 

the coming together of all 

that GU CDC hopes to bring back to 

Germantown on a bigger scale; creative 

reuse of historic buildings, 

showcasing our homegrown artistic 

About William Jackson: 

Graduate 

of Camden 

High 

School, 

Camden, 

NJ; 

South 

Carolina 

State 

University,Orangeburg, 

SC (Bachelors Degree); 

Webster University, Jacksonville, FL 

(Masters Degree) 

Employed by 

Duval County Public Schools – Primary 

talent, and bringing people and energy 

back to our commercial corridors”, 

said Yvonne Haskins, GU 

CDC Board member and chair of 

the Programs Working Group. 

“I am thrilled to support this fun 

event at my location, and look forward 

to seeing and joining with our 

friends and neighbors to watch the 

films”, said Stan Smith, a local community 

developer and the developer 

for the Flying Horse Center. 

This is a great way for our Germantown 

neighbors to learn more 

about Big Picture Alliance's digital 

media arts programs. We appreciate 

the Germantown CDC offering a 

great venue to showcase our students 

recently completed films with 

the community. We also hope to 

build more interest and awareness of 

the positive impact our programs 

have for youth, teens and out of 

school time young adults", said Teri 

Yago-Ryan, Executive Director of 

the Big Picture Alliance. "It’s not 

just that these films are inspiring, entertaining 

and informative, but you 

clearly see the great work that went 

into their production while they 

build life and job skills.” 

Edward Waters College – Secondary. 

Memberships: 

Executive Board Member of: 

JCCI Forward 

ImpactJax Education Member 

E3 Business Group Member 

National Association of Black Journalists 

Blogging While Brown 

National Education Association 

American Federation of Teachers 

Contact Information 

Gmail: 

williamderekjackson@gmail.com 

Twitter: @wmjackson 

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/wdjackson 

Movie Night Comes to 

Germantown’s Chelten Avenue 

This is the first public event for 

the newly formed Germantown 

United Community Development 

Corporation, which made its public 

debut at a February 29 community 

meeting. Since then, it has been 

working behind the scenes building 

its organizational structure, attaining 

non-profit 501(c)3 status, and recruiting 

new board members. 

Germantown United Community 

Development Corporation is a 

newly formed entity that was created 

to promote and facilitate sustainable 

community and business corridor 

development in historic Germantown, 

Philadelphia. Founded in 

2011, Germantown United CDC’s 

primary mission is to develop a 

comprehensive strategic plan and 

marketing plan that will present an 

inspirational vision of Germantown’s 

Business Corridors and surrounding 

neighborhoods, create 

innovative case studies and sustainable 

business models to attract 

green-oriented developers, and Recruit 

forward-thinking investors to 

Germantown committed to fostering 

sustainable economic growth and 

development. 

Night Market returns to Mt. Airy on Thursday August 16th from 

6-10:30 pm. They need a good number of volunteers to help out with 

festival set-up and clean-up, as well as during the event. For more 

updates and information on the Mt. Airy Night Market, visit 

http://www.gomtairy.com/events/night-market.html. 

Night-of volunteer duties include everything that goes into making 

the event a success: set up, customer counting, picking up litter, handing 

out programs, greeting visitors, breakdown, clean up, and more. 

All volunteers will receive free food from one of our amazing vendors 

during Night Marke. 

There will be 3 volunteer shifts: 

2:30-6:30 pm • 6:00-10:00 pm • 8:30 pm - 12:30 am 

Orientation will be held on Tuesday August 14th at 5:30 pm in two 

locations and will last one hour or so.If you would like to volunteer, 

please contact Hilary Malson (hmalson@mtairyusa.org) and Ryanne 

Jennings (rjennings@thefoodtrust.org) by Wednesday August 8.


Germantown Union Issues Move to City-Wide Stage 

by Jim Foster 

Editor 

Two large scale renovation 

projects in Germantown have 

moved along without too much 

publicity considering that for 

many they are trend-setting on 

two levels. 

Two long-neglected apartment 

complexes west of Wayne 

and Chelten Avenue had been 

acquired by a private investment 

group known as the “Post 

Brothers,”,whose actual names 

are Michael and Matthew Pestronk. 

Completed a short time ago 

with private funding, the historic 

the Del Mar Morris on 

Chelten Avenue at Morris Street 

has been given a remarkable 

restoration of the sort that many 

feel are trend-setting and the 

kind of development that can 

reverse years of neglect and 

wasted public funding on 

poorly planned eyesores. 

As that project neared completion 

a major renewal of the 

nearby Imperium apartment 

complex on Rittenhouse Street 

was begun by the same developers 

but this brought out the 

trade unions with their pickets, 

the inflatable rat, signs and tactics 

designed to slow progress 

down and run costs up so that 

management gets the message. 

Reports are that both union and 

non-union contractors have 

been employed, but details are 

sketchy and hard to nail down. 

Phone calls for details were not 

returned. 

No longer confined to Germantown, 

another major 10 

story project - the Goldtext - by 

the same developer at 12th and 

Wood streets has the union effort 

out in full force and there 

are reports of some of the same 

old uses of excessive force and 

property damage that has characterized 

this city’s union efforts 

in the past. Of course 

there is always the possibility 

that non-union employees can 

cross the line as well. 

Letters from citizens recall 

union structured situations that 

have chased business from the 

city in the past, particularly at 

the Convention Center. So far 

most are not supportive of the 

union’s actions and other unionbased 

issues that have been simmering 

for years also come to 

the forefront. The amount of 

union money in politics and the 

power wielded by union leader- 

ship is no secret, nor are the 

complaints that racial imbalance 

within most of the major 

unions continues to be and unexplained 

phenomenon. 

Some feel these projects are a 

lead up to a serious showdown 

between developers and the 

unions where some kind of balance 

should be engineered by 

the political leadership that is in 

the overall public interest.


In Our Opinion 

Points to Ponder 

In Memory of Our Colleague, 

Chris Warfield 

Cora Christina (Chris) Blackley 

Warfield of Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, 

passed away July 21 at Hahneman 

University Hospital aer an eightyear 

battle with ovarian cancer. She 

was 75. 

She was born on Dec 23, 1936, in 

Newtown Square, PA. Her siblings 

included Marietta Ennamorato and 

John Blackley, deceased. 

Upon graduation from Marple Newtown 

High School in 1954, she went 

to work for the Red Arrow Transit 

Company, a forerunner to SEPTA. 

Chris followed that employment with a career as the Executive Secretary 

to House Counsel at Proctor Silex Corporation in Philadelphia and Valley 

Forge, a post she held until 1983. While there, she attended college at night 

from 1978 through 1984, earning a bachelor of science in business administration 

from St. Joseph's University in 1984. 

Chris then went to work as the Office Manager for Videojet Corporation 

in Mt. Laurel, NJ, a manufacturer of bar code machines for 10 years before 

becoming involved the publishing industry as an advertising salesperson 

for the Germantown Courier, a Journal Register company newspaper from 

1996 until the paper closed in 2009. 

With the advent of Germantown Newspapers, founded by her husband 

James Foster in April 2009, she resumed her work in advertising sales and 

continued in the newspaper business as Director of Advertising with GNI, 

remaining at the job and in the office until days before her passing. 

Chris pursued many activities outside of work, much of what she did was 

not known to many. 

Among her interests was gardening. She loved flowers, and tended her own 

garden and plants throughout her home for years. 

In the community arena, Chris was an active Republican Party member 

and served as a poll worker for a number of years in Philadelphia. 

Her illness did nothing to reduce her recreational activities. Chris played 

tennis on a weekly schedule and also enjoyed aerobics and home decorating. 

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Opinions & Letters to the Editor … 

Time to Fight Voter Suppression 

I am not surprised that Republican Governor Tom 

Corbett has hired (a) the Presidential Candidate 

(Mitt Romney) fundraiser advocate Chris Bracavosto 

run the state wide educational initiative to 

educate the general public about the new Voter ID 

law. at's politics, the GOP controls the PA State 

House and the Senate and they have pushed legislation 

that is not in the best interest of the average 

Pennsylvania. 

However, we as Ward leaders needs to mobilize our 

committee people and constitutes from the grassroots 

level. We must inform them that it takes on average 

12-14 weeks to acquire a Birth Certificate in 

the state of Pennsylvania for those who have misplaced, 

lost or for whatever reason needs to acquire 

a new one. 

We are aware that those young people that were l7 

years old and could not vote in 2008 are now 23 years 

old. We have a new generation of voters that have 

graduated from High School, returned home from 

College and the military that we believe that Governor 

Corbett and the Republican part is trying very 

hard to dis-enfranchise and suppress their votes. Our 

elders and seniors that are aging out in senior homes, 

assistant living facilities or no longer driving but are 

the backbone of the civil rights movement and the 

voter rights act of 1965 might be the hardest hit because 

they basically voted all their lives. 

I feel that the GOP has been playing fast and loose 

with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the 15th and 

19th Amendments, not counting in 1975 and 1982 

it was amendment yet again. I believe that the controlled 

House and Senate calculated the cost of updating 

the colleges and universities with issuing new 

ID's to their students as well as Corporations who issues 

ID's to their employees however most companies 

and corporations who issue IDs have the 

technology to deactivate them by a push of a button. 

e new law states that without expiration dates on 

their employee lD cards they won't be able to use 

them. 

How many young people in major metropolitan 

areas in this state due to mass transit needs a Driver's 

license? ey have ID's just not what the republican 

party is asking for to vote. is is our dilemma and 

we must educate ourselves and not wait on the same 

individuals and party afflictions to do it to us by taking 

away our right to vote. 

President Obama won the State of Pennsylvania in 

2008, since 1992 Pennsylvania has been able state 

when it came to Presidential elections, however, with 

30 percent, 18 counties out of 67 counties, going to 

President Obama, I believe that the GOP in Pennsylvania 

and across this county is calculating that suppressing 

the inner city and urban vote will tun this 

State Red, and we cannot allow this to happen. 

e largest cities in these counties that supported 

President Obama in 2008 have a large college presence 

or a large minority voter block. We cannot rely 

on the pass accomplishments in this upcoming election, 

we must get the vote out. 

When time is of the essence, our State Representative 

Rosita C. Youngblood, whom I have supported for 

many years and is a true advocate for the everyday 

person in her district, maintains an updated website 

for those individuals in the Legislative Districts of 

Philadelphia County. Representative Youngblood 

has more information on the Voter ID law and how 

to register for this upcoming election. Please visit her 

at www.pahouse.com/youngblood for more information. 

I believe that most voters have forgotten that President 

Clinton balanced the National Budget and 

President George W. Bush, squandered that. President 

Barack Obama deserves another for four years 

to put America back on the right track because he is 

leading up in the right direction. e 12th Ward is 

committed to doing everything to educated and get 

out the vote. 

John Connelly 

12th Democratic Ward Leader


Repressing the Vote in Pennsylvania 

by Victoria A. Brownworth 

I’m a voter. I’m not just registered 

to vote, I always vote. I know all the 

people at my polling place which 

used to be in the garage next door to 

my ward leader’s house and now is 

in the John B. Kelly elementary 

school. 

It takes me a while to vote. I stand 

around and talk to the people working 

the polls and then joke with the 

two women–one a Democrat, one a 

Republican (pretty brave, in Germantown)–who 

sign us in. I talk 

politics with my ward leader and 

anyone else who happens by. 

I’m an informed voter. I know 

who the candidates are. I know why 

I will or will not vote for someone. I 

know what the ballot questions are. 

I know which judges should be retained 

and which should not. 

e majority of the people in my 

district are African American. e 

majority of the people who vote are 

over 35. 

But the fact is, depending on the 

election, not a lot of people vote in 

my district. ey might be registered, 

but they don’t get out to vote. 

In 2008, there were a lot of voters. 

I worked the polls the entire day 

during the primary and I saw people 

I had never seen before. Many of 

them explained that they had never 

voted. ey were there for one reason: 

to vote for the first black presidential 

candidate. We’ve had three 

black mayors–Philadelphia is the 

largest American city with an 

African-American mayor–but it was 

Barack Obama who got the vote 

out. 

When Pennsylvania became the 

first state to pass a voter ID law, I 

didn’t think about myself or those 

people I see every time I go to vote– 

the same 50 people out of my 800 

person district. I didn’t think about 

those people my lovely polling place 

women recognized as voting regulars 

like me. e people I thought 

about were the people who showed 

up to vote in November 2008, the 

people who had never voted or who 

rarely voted, the people who weren’t 

even sure they were at the right 

polling place–and some of them 

weren’t. It took a lot to get them to 

vote–it took something that felt lifealtering. 

Will those people get 

themselves a state-approved ID, 

even if it’s to vote to re-elect the first 

African-American president? 

I have a voter ID card. e one 

the state sends you. It’s been laminated 

and it’s in my purse with other 

cards of mine. It says right on the 

card that it’s proof of voter registration, 

proof of who you are. 

Except when the new law passed, 

that card–and I got my most recent 

one a few days before the primary 

and aer the law had passed–doesn’t 

qualify as proof of identification to 

vote. 

Pennsylvania’s is a swing state– 

one of the six states that matter 

come November. If you live in California 

or Texas, I don’t want you to 

not vote, but electorally speaking, 

your state is already decided. California 

for the Democrats, Texas for 

the Republicans. at’s the case for 

all but those six swing states like 

Pennsylvania, the states they call not 

red, not blue, but purple, because 

they could go either way. 

I’m not a cynic, but I think that’s 

why we now have this voter ID law. 

Because as I always say, this is Pennsyltucky–blue 

at the edges with 

Philadelphia on the east and Pittsburgh 

on the west and then 

red(neck) as Alabama in between. 

e voting registration is so close to 

50/50, that the state could go either 

way in any election. 

at’s what happened in the last 

big election in 2010. We lost a moderate 

Republican-turned-Democrat 

senator who had been in the Senate 

for 30 years to one of the furthest 

right senators in Congress. We lost 

a Democratic governor to a Republican 

one and we lost a lot of Democratic 

seats in both the state house 

and the House of Representatives to 

the Republicans. 

By the numbers, that turned 

Pennsylvania into a red state, but 

both parties knew better. Pennsylvanians 

still swing and the political ads 

running here prove it. Pennsylvania 

was the state that pushed Barack 

Obama over the edge for the win in 

2008 and that could happen again 

in November. 

Or the state could go for Mitt 

Romney. 

Which is why that voter fraud 

issue is so big. ere’s an investment 

in making sure only the registered 

voters vote. Listen to local rightwing 

talk radio, and voter fraud is a 

huge topic. Listen to NPR and it’s 

barely mentioned. So you get who’s 

setting the agenda. 

I don’t think there’s voter fraud in 

Pennsylvania. I have nothing scientific 

to base that assessment on, just 

the fact that I have never missed an 

election since I first voted when I 

was 18. I don’t think people even 

people who are actually registered 

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are always committed to voting. 

What would make people who 

aren’t registered pretend to be someone 

else to vote? e ballots in the 

voting booths are only in English, so 

even if, as right-wing radio hosts 

fear, members of the increasingly 

large undocumented immigrant 

population in Philadelphia might 

crash the polling place, but how 

could they read the choices? 

Me, I’m turning up in November 

with my laminated card. at’s it. If 

anyone tries to stop me from voting, 

I’m prepared to sit down on the 

floor of the gym at John B. Kelly 

school until they let me vote or they 

arrest me. I’ve earned my right to 

vote by turning up for every election 

and doing political work the rest of 

the time. Try and accuse me of voter 

fraud. Try and stop me from voting. 

I wish I could say that it’s only the 

Republicans invested in repressing 

the vote in Pennsylvania, but it isn’t. 

For years the Democratic Party 

has done everything possible to prevent 

the Green Party from being on 

the Pennsylvania ballot. It’s an outrage 

and it’s a repression of voting 

choices. Currently the Green Party 

is once again trying to get their presidential 

and vice-presidential candidates 

on the 2012 ballot. 

I will be voting Green Party regardless 

of whether they make it 

onto the ballot or I have to write-in 

my choice. Dr. Jill Stein was voted in 

as the presidential nominee a few 

weekends ago at the Green Party 

convention in New York. A medical 

doctor and a politician, she believes 

in pretty much everything I believe 

in. Her platform is solid, no one had 

to hold her hostage to good politics. 

I gave Obama my vote and four 

years, but in those four years he’s 

moved the Democratic Party so far 

to the right I no longer recognize it. 

His covert wars, the drone attacks 

killing children on a weekly basis, 

policies of indefinite detention and 

assassination of American citizens 

which every liberal newspaper in the 

country from the New York Times 

out has decried all make him Bush 3 

rather than Mr. Change You Can 

Believe In. I didn’t vote for Bush 3, 

but now that I know that’s who 

Obama is, I can’t vote for him again 

since I never voted for Bush 1 or 

Bush 2. 

Dr. Jill Stein really is change you 

can believe in. If every liberal, progressive, 

leist and disenchanted 

Democrat (or even Republican) 

who complained that Obama scares 

them actually voted Green Party, we 

might actually get somewhere as a 

country. 

But she has to be on the ballot, 

first. 

Her vice presidential running 

mate is a Philadelphian and one I 

have admired and voted for in the 

past, Cheri Honkala. She ran for 

Sheriff in the last election as a Green 

Party candidate and I endorsed her. 

Honkala started the original Occupy 

movement in Philadelphia 20 

years ago. She founded and ran the 

Kensington Welfare Rights Union 

(KWRU), built a tent city in Kensington 

and organized to take over 

buildings that were vacant to house 

homeless women and families. 

Honkala’s presence on the Green 

Party ticket makes me eager to vote. 

e vote for her and Stein is one I 

can cast without trepidation or regret. 

Both Stein and Honkala are 

true activists. ey are real progressives 

and women who have dedicated 

their lives to grassroots change 

and made it happen. Honkala herself 

has worked for the citizenry of 

Philadelphia since she came here 

with her infant son from Minneapolis 

nearly three decades ago. 

I’m not sure why Pennsylvania 

Democrats are so hot to keep the 

Greens off the ballot. I imagine that 

they fear a demographic shi in our 

swing state. But the reality is, that’s 

as much a suppression of the vote as 

is the bogus voter ID law the Republicans 

pushed through. Voters 

deserve choices. 

My candidate of choice is Jill Stein 

(who ran against Mitt Romney back 

in Massachusetts, which just makes 

the idea of voting for her even more 

enjoyable to me). Even if you have 

no intention of voting Green Party, 

sign the petition to get her and 

Honkala on the ballot. Because 

voter suppression is a bad thing, no 

matter which side is doing it. Suppressing 

anyone’s vote harkens back 

to the darkest days of our democracy. 

And in a city like Philadelphia 

which is overwhelmingly poor and 

overwhelmingly people of color, we 

need to vote and we need to be darn 

sure no one stops us from doing so. 

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Green Party Submits Signatures for Ballot 

This week the Green Party of Pennsylvania more than the required 

20,600 signatures to the Bureau of Commissions, Elections, and Legislation. 

Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein, and Vice Presidential 

candidate Cheri Honkala, will speak to members of the press about Pennsylvania’s 

oppressive ballot access laws. Carl Romanelli, who ran for Senate 

in 2006 and was kicked off the ballot that year, will also speak. The 

Green Party of Pennsylvania is independent political party that stands in 

opposition to the two major parties. It says the party in Pennsylvania 

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Public Affairs & Governance 

Opinion: PICA: Reject the City's Spending Plan 

by Brett Mandel 

Last week, Mayor 

Nutter submitted the 

City's plan to raise and 

spend public money for 

the coming five years to 

Philadelphia's state-established financial-oversight 

agency for review and approval. is is 

how it has been ever since Philadelphia flirted 

with bankruptcy two decades ago. But, this year, 

the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation 

Authority (PICA) must reject the Plan for 

the first time ever, and return it to the Mayor for 

revision because this Five-Year Financial Plan just 

does not add up. 

e Five-Year Plan submitted to PICA is not 

balanced. It fails to account for the expenses of 

the contract awarded to City firefighters by an 

arbitration panel, makes no provision for the 

costs of future contracts with the City's unionized 

workforce, and counts on nearly $50 million 

in savings from "Anticipated Workforce Savings" 

that may never be realized. ose additional expenses 

would plunge the Plan into a red sea that 

even Moses couldn't part. 

Under state law, PICA has the power to review 

and approve the City's Five-Year Plan and, given 

Philadelphia's troubled fiscal history, it is an incredibly 

important function. Prior to the creation 

of PICA, City budgets were oen balanced 

only on paper, the product of imaginative financial 

wizardry that made the City seem solvent 

even as it struggled to pay its bills. Ever since, 

PICA has nudged and pushed City number 

crunchers to provide legitimate budgeting to 

show that the City will remain solvent, not only 

through the current year, but for five years into 

the future. 

In reviewing the City's Five-Year Plan, PICA 

must ensure that projections of revenues and expenditures 

are based on reasonable and appropriate 

assumptions that will allow the City to 

operate without a projected deficit for the current 

fiscal year and the life of the Five-Year Plan. 

But, there is no way that one can look at the 

spending assumptions surrounding the City's 

municipal workforce and declare them reasonable. 

at is why PICA must reject the Plan and 

return it to the Mayor for revisions that will 

bring the Plan into balance. 

Just weeks ago, a three-person arbtration panel 

issued an award for City firefighters which provided 

for wage increases and additional funding 

for health benefits from 2009 to 2013. is 

award closely mirrored a 2010 arbitration award, 

which was appealed by the Mayor, who contended 

the award failed to take into consideration 

the City's ability to afford the increases (the 

arbitration is supposed to use this as a factor in 

making its determination). e Mayor estimates 

the cost of this arbitration award at approximately 

$200 million, which is definitely not part 

of the City's spending plan. Now the Mayor is 

re-appealing the decision and the firefighters' 

union is suing to implement the award and the 

budget hangs in limbo. 

If the arbitration award is upheld, the Five-Year 

Plan is in the red. Even if the City wins its appeal 

on the current contract and the arbitration 

award is reconsidered, the firefighters are due a 

new contract next year. Police officers are also 

due a new contract, and City white- and bluecollared 

employees have been working without 

a contract for years and deserve a contract that 

takes into account increases in the cost of living 

(not to mention the increased cost of City taxes). 

is is certainly not to say that it is impossible 

to re-engineer our governmental services or to 

right-size our governmental approach to agency 

spending. It is clear that government can be 

more efficient and more effective in service-delivery 

efforts, but the City's Five-Year Plan makes 

no suggestion that such large-scale efforts are underway. 

It is simply inconceivable that Philadelphia will 

somehow make it through the next five years, not 

only without a single extra dollar being spent on 

increased costs for our municipal workforce, but 

with "anticipated workforce savings" of nearly 

$50 million over the next five years. Even if it 

were possible to believe that Mayor Nutter could 

achieve these savings and avoid any future costs 

during his mayoralty, it is certainly not prudent 

to believe that we can forecast similar achievements 

into the next Mayor's tenure, which will 

commence before the end of this Five-Year Plan. 

Years ago, I lauded Mayor Nutter for his approach 

to accounting for increases in workforce 

costs by explicitly including a reserve for wage 

and benefit increases in his first Five-Year Plan: 

"By putting forth an amount for future union 

pay and benefit increases, the Nutter administration 

essentially says, ‘here's what the city can afford…if 

we are to pay more, we will have to 

change our budget priorities.'...Such an approach 

should help focus union negotiations on creating 

labor-management consensus on a way to deliver 

quality city services at reasonable costs." 

e current Five-Year Plan includes no such reserve 

and with the arbitration panels consistently 

awarding contracts with costs for uniformed employees 

-- and with no productive negotiations 

underway to generate savings in new agreements 

with white- and blue-collared employees -- its 

workforce-cost assumptions must be rejected. 

PICA should return this plan to the Mayor so 

he can incorporate contingencies to show how 

he will account for these increased costs. Even 

better, he should sit down at the bargaining table 

and negotiate deals to create certainty for 

Philadelphia's financial future. 

Brett Mandel 

Twitter: @brettmandel 

Editor's Note: Brett Mandel has begun fund raising 

for a possible run for City Controller in 2013. 

Mr. Mandel has worked in the Controller's Office 

and has run for the position of City Controller in 

the past. The ballots will not be formalized until 

February 2013.


Public Affairs & Governance 

Opinion: The Aftermath of Child Abuse Cases 

by Victoria A. Brownworth 

Special to Germantown Newspapers 

he big trials are over 

now. Jerry Sandusky is in 

prison, likely for the rest 

of his life and Penn State 

has been handed a hey 

penalty by the NCAA. 

e statue of legendary 

coach Joe Paterno has 

been removed and the 

ground where it stood planted with young 

trees. 

Monsignor William Lynn has been sentenced 

to three to six years for his role in the 

priest sex abuse scandal that has rocked 

Philadelphia for what we now know to be 

decades. Lynn attempted to have his sentence 

vacated and reduced to probation or house 

arrest, but the judge was adamant, declaring 

that Lynn’s actions–and inactions–had condemned 

children to be "raped" and "have 

their souls stolen." 

Lynn’s attorneys called the judge’s sentence 

an outrage, since Lynn himself had raped no 

one and another priest who had been scheduled 

to be tried with Lynn had pleaded guilty 

to one count of rape and had immediately 

gone off to serve only two years in a deal that 

meant he wouldn’t serve time for other victims 

who had come forward. Why, Lynn’s attorneys 

asked, should Lynn serve more time, 

completely missing the point that Lynn was 

in charge of these priests as well as the complaints 

of their victims. 

More trials have yet to be held–other members 

of the Penn State faculty who have been 

charged with the cover-up of Sandusky’s serial 

rape of children at the college, and Lynn’s codefendant, 

Rev. James Brennan, who had 

been charged with attempted rape, but about 

whom the jury could not agree on a verdict– 

these men all face trial before the year is out. 

ere’s been a surprising amount of outrage 

over the verdicts in these cases and the ensuing 

fallout at both Penn State and the Archdiocese. 

Perhaps not so much for Sandusky, 

but for Lynn, Brennan, the late Paterno and 

of course, the Penn State football team legacy. 

I find it hard to fathom. How can anyone 

not get what happened in these cases? Children’s 

lives were destroyed. As the judge in the 

Lynn trial noted, innocence was obliterated. 

Lifelong trauma was visited on the victims 

and so many people at both the Archdiocese 

and Penn State could have stopped the violence 

and didn’t. 

If you witnessed or heard of a child–a ten 

year old–being raped, what would you do? 

Better yet, since all the people involved in 

these cases are either priests or deeply religious, 

what do you think Jesus would do? My 

guess is Jesus would not have looked the other 

way or passed the buck to God the Father 

with the caveat that there was a process for 

dealing with problems. 

ink that’s sacrilegious? I think it’s far 

more sacrilegious that men of God would 

rape children and other men of God would 

hide it from police. 

Yet that’s what happened. If you were Monsignor 

Lynn or Joe Paterno (who was raised 

to the level of saint by Penn State), you apparently 

wouldn’t do the normal thing, the instinctive 

thing, and call the police to save the 

children. You’d look the other way. Lynn, Paterno, 

the other members of the Archdiocesan 

and Penn State hierarchies–their 

attitudes were anything but normal. It was: 

"Unpleasant, yes, but think of the scandal!" 

When they thought about protecting 

something, it was themselves and the reputations 

of their institutions that were foremost 

in their minds. e screams of the children 

and teens being assaulted or the life-long 

trauma that would ensue for the victims when 

they were ignored, threatened or bought off– 

that was just annoying background noise to 

them. Lynn and Paterno actively protected 

the rapists, not their victims. 

Figures of great respect in their communities, 

they chose to ignore and cover up crimes. 

No one can assert–not Lynn’s family nor Paterno’s–that 

these men didn’t know what 

they were doing. ey did and they didn’t 

care. e innate societal dictate that we must 

protect the most vulnerable–children, the 

elderly, animals–from harm was utterly ignored. 

Paterno was fired, but died before he 

could be indicted or further implicated in the 

horrors he helped cover up. At 61, however, 

Lynn is merely on the far side of middle age. 

His sentence will help pay for his own crimes 

of cruel indifference and what I refer to as the 

Nazi defense: "I was just following orders." 

It’s not, pardon the pun, Monday morning 

quarter-backing to see that Lynn and Paterno 

should have acted differently. 

Rape is a crime. e rape of children by 

grown men is horrifying to imagine. Small, 

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A Miracle on Coulter Street: An Eyesore Cleaned Up 

Thanks to pressure from our 

councilperson, Cindy Bass's office, 

a small miracle happened yesterday. 

A crew of five L&I workers, 

wielding saws, wackers, brooms, 

shovels and admirable work ethic, 

cut, cleared, bagged & put out the 

collection of weeds, construction 

debris, salvage & plain old trash 

that accumulated since their last 

clean up in March. 

You can view their efforts lined 

up on the entire Coulter side of the 

property. They cut up the timbers 

from the towering "firewood" pile, 

cut the electric service, so this is no 

longer a potential source of a fire, 

sealed the front door and the basement 

door, which has been open 

for at least four years, and attached 

orange "DO NOT ENTER" signs. 

I hope that this is the beginning 

of a solution to this neighborhood 

eyesore. If a solution really is 

wanted by Philadelphia to blight, to 

return this historically certified 

property to a tax paying status, and 

to stop providing such an extraordinary 

amount of city resources in 

continued litigation & free mainte- 

nance, then now is the time to enforce 

all of the laws. Charge the 

owner for this clean up. Pursue the 

tax arrears and fines from previous 

cases for water and gas fees. Apply 

the "up to $300 a day fine" to the 

sealed, broken & boarded up windows. 

Put a timeline on compliance 

to the current case. 

Mr. Byrne has had 11 years of 

litigation, in which he has finessed 

his lack of compliance to have 

minimal effect on him. Twice, he 

has illegally bought back the house 

in sheriff's sale. It is foolish to think 

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M a n y 

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They are also more likely to 

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In Mastering the Mommy 

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working mothers, the challenges 

they have faced and lessons 

learned. She also offers solutions 

from experts on how mothers can 

overcome current issues in order 

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The Great Recession has had a 

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A 2010 Pew Research survey 

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As we gradually recover from 

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Mastering the Mommy Track 

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The dozen chapters each address 

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Mastering the 

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the tales of women who have 

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The need for such a book has 

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and 100 million Americans 

without jobs. "When shaping this 

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chapters," said Flynn Jay. "This 

was based on my personal experience, 

research, and feedback 

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Through a thoughtful and moving 

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MSN Careers, 

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Wealth Manager. In 2010, Erin 

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Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church 

Holds 7th Annual Run 

Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church of Philadelphia held its seventh 

Annual Fit For Eternity Walk/Run on Saturday, July 28. 

Shown are participants in the event. 

In keeping with Eon’s tradition of focusing on and issue in the community 

and offering monetary support, this years’ recipients are the 

Sickle Cell Summer Camp operated by the Sickle Cell Center at 

Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania and the Autism Society of 

Greater Philadelphia. The Sickle Cell Camp at (CHOP) allows children 

ages 7-14 to experience the fun of summer camp in a caring 

environment. The Autism Society of Greater Philadelphia offers a 

year round camp experience that allows children with Autism and 

other medical needs the opportunity to just have fun. 

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event presented awards, a variety of speakers, exhibitors, and activities 

for all ages. 

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Talking Philly Baseball 

Is This the Beginning or End? 

By Bill McFarland 

Were Tuesday’s trades of outfielders 

Shane Victorino and 

Hunter Pence the end or the beginning? 

It depends on your 

perspective, I guess. 

Some pundits say that the 

moves signal the end of an era, 

that the core group has had its 

day and that it’s time to rebuild 

for the future. With that in 

mind, it looks more like the beginning 

from this corner. The 

additions in these trades were 

less than the subtractions. 

Reliever Josh Lindblom could 

bolster a bullpen that sorely 

needs help in the middle innings, 

but outfielder Nate 

Schierholtz is clearly no replacement 

for Pence. This situation 

also gives me a chance to 

explain why the number didn’t 

add up in my last turn when I 

wrote that the Phillies needed at 

least two infielders and two outfielders 

for 2013. 

The scenario was based on 

two things — that the Phillies 

would re-sign Victorino and 

trade Hunter Pence for a relief 

pitcher. 

It was my opinion that the 

Phillies would offer Victorino a 

one-year contract for 2013 at a 

modest increase with performance 

clauses. Most players have 

their best seasons when they are 

playing for a new contract, but 

the Phillies’ center fielder was 

not doing so. Some opined that 

he was upset that other team- 

mates got contract extensions 

and that he didn’t. Even if that 

were true, Victorino would 

never admit it. 

With the Flyin’ Hawaiian in 

center, the team would need two 

outfielders because I believed 

that in order to get an experienced 

relief pitcher, the club 

would have to give up a starting 

player. Pence could have 

brought the most value in return 

for a reliever. 

That explains the outfield. 

There are fewer options in the 

infield. 

Ryan Howard, Chase Utley 

and Jimmy Rollins are all under 

contract for 2013. Despite rumors 

to the contrary, Rollins 

isn’t going anywhere, nor is 

Howard. Utley attempted to 

play last season with one bad 

knee and this season with two 

bad knees. He has one more 

year left on his contract, but 

how much more time will his 

knees give him? 

It’s beginning to look as 

though the Phillies might have 

to eat the least year of his deal 

and look elsewhere at second 

base. Freddy Galvis was impressive 

defensively when 

given a look, but he’s no replacement 

for Utley’s bat. 

Everybody knows that the 

team badly needs a power-hitting 

third baseman. Placido 

Polanco has played as hard as 

he could for as long as he could, 

but age and overly aggressive 

defensive play take a toll on 

In Memoriam 

Chris Warfield 

Dec. 23, 1936 – July 21, 2012 

So Refined 

So Kind 

So Courageous 

So Much Fun!! 

Best Tennis Friend ... 

Forever 

Rest in Peace 

Arlen & Allen Goodman 

everybody. 

That’s the rationale for needing 

two infielders and two outfielders. 

Tuesday’s trade only 

changed the outfield situation. 

Domonic Brown and Schierholtz 

could put themselves in 

the picture for next season, but 

I now think that the team will 

need three outfielders. 

The question still remains. Is 

this the beginning or the end? I 

say it’s both. It’s the end of an 

era and the beginning of the dismantling 

of this team. After July 

31, clubs can still trade players, 

but those players must first 

clear waivers. That rules out 

Rollins or much-maligned 

pitcher Cliff Lee, neither of 

whom will clear waivers. But 

some of the other guys mentioned 

in trade rumors over the 

last week will be gone by August 

31. 

Any contending team that 

needs a veteran starting pitcher, 

like Joe Blanton, or a pesky outfielder, 

like Juan Pierre, for a 

stretch run need only to negotiate 

a small price for them. If either 

Blanton or Pierre is still 

with the Phillies on September 

1, I’ll be surprised. 

That's my opinion. What do 

you think? 

Bill McFarland has covered 

the Phillies since 1991. Contact 

him at mcfarlandwilliam@hotmail.com 

Jewish Special Needs Program at 

Mishkan Shalom Grows 

Mishkan Shalom’s Celebrations!, an initiative offering Jewish programming 

to children with special needs and their families, has produced a 

comprehensive curriculum featuring two years of programs designed for 

children with different abilities. 

Last January, Mishkan Shalom – a Reconstructionist congregation serving 

Philadelphia and surrounding areas – received a $20,000 Ignition 

Grant from the Covenant Foundation for Celebrations!. Part of the grant 

went to producing the curriculum, which features worksheets, specially 

created books, and articles for parent discussions, in addition to Shabbat 

and holiday lessons. 

Three local synagogues—Ohev Shalom of Bucks County, Old York 

Road-Beth Am and Beth Or in Spring House will be hosting Celebrations! 

programs in their community, beginning this fall. In addition, Congregation 

Beth El in Sunbury will also begin a Celebrations! chapter. 

“We are excited to be able to share the years of work that went into creating 

our program with other communities. Each community can adapt 

the curriculum to make it work uniquely for their congregation,” said 

Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer, director of the Celebrations! program at Mishkan 

Shalom. 

Celebrations! is designed for students with cognitive, learning or developmental 

disorders - including autism, cerebral palsy and Down syndrome 

– and is open to families throughout the community. 

The Ignition grant also allows Mishkan Shalom to apply the successful 

Shabbat model to Jewish holidays. After hosting a successful sensoryfriendly 

Purim carnival last spring, they will also host a community-wide 

sensory-friendly Simchat Torah celebration on October 12. This celebration 

will allow children to hold and dance with Torah scrolls in a quieter 

setting than most traditional Simchat Torah services. 

The grant also allows Mishkan Shalom to expand its own Celebrations! 

program. Starting in October, Mishkan will host a program for 18-30year-olds 

with special needs called “Mitzvah Menshes.” Taking place on 

Saturday nights, Mitzvah Menshes will allow young adults to socialize 

and also engage in a mitzvah project designed for their developmental 

skills. 

“While people with special needs often become someone’s mitzvah 

project, Mitzvah Menshes changes those roles. The program allows young 

adults with special needs to give back to the community. It’s all about 

finding ways that everyone can serve, despite disabilities,” Kaplan-Mayer 

said. 

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FREE TRAINING 

G’Town Restoration CDC is offering 

a FREE 12 week Food Service Training 

program for low income residents. 

e Course consists of ServSafe training 

and testing, Nutrition, Food Production, 

Internships, and Job 

Placement Assistance. 

For more information, call 215-991- 

4744. All Participants must live in 

19144, 19119, 19126, 19138, 19141, 

and 19140 zip codes. 

Free ESL (English-as-a Second Language) 

classes for children and adults, 

each Monday and Wednesday, 6:45- 

9:15 p.m. Also a separate daytime free 

advanced ESL class for adults each 

ursday from 12:30 p.m. to 5:30 

p.m. Enroll throughout the year. Won 

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Abington Ave., Glenside. 215-884- 

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org. Web: woncommunity.org. 

Lovett Memorial Library to Host 

Outdoor Movie Screenings 

Summer lineup of films includes the 

wizard of oz, ghostbusters, and the 

muppets 

e Free Library of Philadelphia’s 

Lovett Memorial Library is getting 

into the summer spirit with its second 

annual “Moonlight Movies in Mt. 

Airy” program. e Library, which 

co-hosts the program with Mt. Airy 

USA and the Trolley Car Diner, will 

project eight movies—in addition to 

the opening ceremonies of the 2012 

Olympic Games in London—on a 

giant screen in their park for film 

buffs, families, and neighbors to enjoy 

free of charge. 

e line-up of this year’s familyfriendly 

series is as follows: 

August 3: West Side Story 

August 10: Up 

August 17: Ghostbusters 

“Our Lovett Memorial Library had a 

tremendously positive community response 

to their film series last summer, 

and I’m delighted they’re offering it 

again,” said Siobhan A. Reardon, President 

and Director of the Free Library. 

“As the Free Library of Imagination, 

we love to host a variety of programs 

that are just pure fun for our customers, 

and that provide a space for 

families and neighbors to connect. 

And what better way to spend a Friday 

night than at the Free Library of 

Philadelphia?” 

Seating in the Lovett Memorial Park 

(directly beside the Library) opens at 

8:00 p.m. and movies begin at 8:30. 

Attendees should bring blankets 

and/or chairs for seating. 

rough August 30 

Second Baptist Church 

of Germantown 

Teens and Older Adults Share Stories 

Mind the Gap unites teens and adults 

over 50 in eight storytelling sessions. 

At the end, participants will create a 

book with their achievements. e 

sessions will start ursday July 12 at 

6:30 at Second Baptist Church of 

Germantown and last until August 

30. 

During the program participants will 

learn techniques for developing their 

interviewing and writing skills. ey 

will also create their final product and 

end the program with a closing celebration. 

Participating in this program 

does not require any skills. People only 

need to have a willingness to share 

their stories about growing up and 

maturing. 

e group will meet weekly from 6:30 

to 8:00 pm at Second Baptist Church 

of Germantown (6459 Germantown 

Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19119). For 

more information, please contact: 

Marilyn Dyson 215-247-6431. 

e Big Blue Marble Bookstore 

551 Carpenter Street (near the corner 

of Carpenter and Green) 

www.bigbluemarblebooks.com 

You can learn more about Tea Leaves 

(available in bookstores and online) 

and Janet Mason’s author events at 

http://tealeavesamemoir.wordpress.c 

om/ 

August 8 

e Friends of Laurel Hill Cemetery 

present 

e Streets of Philadelphia: Part II 

Philly Streets followed by Philly 

Treats 

Philadelphia’s streets are as varied as 

her residents. Whether big and busy 

boulevards, quiet tree-lined lanes, or 

gray back alleys with asphalt as 

weathered as the old brick row 

homes that line them, each of our 

city’s streets bears a story all its own. 

Many of those stories end at the 

same figurative stop sign, however. 

From Shippen Lane to Gratz Street, 

Rittenhouse Square to Wayne Avenue, 

their namesake and extended 

family origins now rest at Laurel Hill 

Cemetery. Join us on this twilight 

trip through Laurel Hill – Philadelphia’s 

ultimate dead end – to learn 

more about how the roads upon 

which we live and travel earned their 

place on the map. 

is walking tour will be led by Laurel 

Hill Cemetery President & CEO, 

Pete Hoskins. It will take place on 

Wednesday, August 8 at 6:00pm, departing 

from Laurel Hill Cemetery’s 

Gatehouse entrance at 3822 Ridge 

Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19132, 

and concluding with Philly-style 

treats including hoagies, so pretzels 

and beer. Free parking is located in 

the lot across the street from the 

Gatehouse. 

e cost is $20/person; $18/students 

and seniors. Advance registration 

is requested. Tickets can be 

purchased at the door, by calling 

(215) 228-8200, or online at 

www.thelaurelhillcemetery.org. 



present 

Mohnton Professional Car Club 

4th Annual Service Car and Hearse 

Show at Laurel Hill Cemetery 

Mohnton Professional Car Club 

(MPCC) welcomes owners of any 

and all hearses, ambulances, flower 

cars, limousines and other service vehicles 

to participate in its 4th Annual 

Service Car and Hearse Show 

to appropriately take place on the 

grounds of Laurel Hill Cemetery. 

Join an eclectic collection of rare cars 

that include FYNLRYD, a 1947 

modified Pontiac Superior, which is 

believed to be one of just two known 

street rod hearses on the East Coast! 

e MPCC 4th Annual Service Car 

and Hearse Show will take place on 

Saturday, August 11 at 10:00am, 

rain or shine. Vehicles will be on display 

until 4:00pm. Refreshments 

will be available. Visitors may enter 

via Laurel Hill Cemetery’s Gatehouse 

entrance at 3822 Ridge Avenue, 

Philadelphia, PA 19132. Free 

parking is located in the lot across 

the street from the Gatehouse. 

e event is FREE and open to the 

public. Additional information may 

be obtained by calling (215) 228- 

8200, online at www.thelaurelhillcemetery.org, 

or through the 

MPCC Facebook page 

athttp://www.facebook.com/mohn 

tonprocars. 

Starting August 13 

Come join in the Vacation Bible 

School adventure at Second Baptist 

Church of Germantown, 6459 Germantown 

avenue, as we travel 

through time to Babylon. Learn 

about Daniel's courage while in 

captivity beginning August 13, 

2012 thru August 17, 2012 from 

6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. This adventure 

includes music, storytelling, 

crafts and games as we explore 

God's teaching. All ages are welcomed. 

Second Baptist of Germatown 

is also holding 

a pre-registration celebration 

for Vacation Bible School. Registration 

will take place August 11, 

2012 between 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 

p.m. in the church garden. Come 

play on the moon bounce, have a 

snack, register and get information 

about this exciting adventure 

to Babylon and learn 

about Daniel's courage in captivity. 

For more information, contact us at 

(215) 849-0257 or www.secondbaptistchurch.org. 



present 

Age of Discovery: Explorers, Inventors 

and Scientists 

e nation’s Industrial Revolution of 

the 19th century was accompanied 

by advances in many fields of scientific 

study. Following an illustrated 

lecture focused on this age of discovery, 

the gravesites of some of 

Philadelphia’s notable explorers, inventors 

and scientists will be visited, 

among them: John Adolphus 

Dahlgren, inventor of a cannon 

bearing his name and the “Father of 

Naval Ordinance;” Robley Dunglison, 

the personal physician to President 

omas Jefferson and the 

“Father of American Physiology;” 

Charles Ellet, Jr., a civil engineer who 

was a pioneer in the construction of 

wire suspension bridges, including 

the first at Fairmount; omas Godfrey, 

inventor of the sextant; Ferdinand 

Hassler, an explorer and the 

first superintendent of the U.S. 

Coast Survey; Elisha Kent Kane, 

Arctic explorer; Titian Peale, explorer 

and naturalist responsible for 

numerous illustrations of butterflies 

and moths; and Richard A.F. Penrose, 

Jr., an economic geologist who 

traveled to more than sixty countries 

to study their ore deposits. With the 

start of the school year around the 

corner, we show our appreciation to 

all Teachers by offering FREE admission 

to those with ID attending this 

tour. 

is walking tour will be led by Laurel 

Hill Cemetery guide, Jeff 

Wiernik. It will take place on Sunday, 

August 19 at 1:00pm, departing 

from Laurel Hill Cemetery’s Gatehouse 

entrance at 3822 Ridge Avenue, 

Philadelphia, PA 19132, and 

concluding with cookies and refreshments. 

Free parking is located in the 

lot across the street from the Gatehouse. 

e cost is $12/person and $10/students 

or seniors. Teachers with ID 

receive FREE admission. Tickets can 

be purchased at the door, or in advance 

by calling (215) 228-8200 or 

online atwww.thelaurelhillcemetery.org. 



present 

Laurel Hill: e Hot Spots and Storied 

Plots 

Join Laurel Hill Cemetery for this 

informative overview of Laurel Hill's 

long and colorful history, which will 

include many of the marble masterpieces, 

stunning views and legendary 

stories that afford the cemetery its 

WOW factor. is is the ultimate 

tour for first-time visitors to Laurel 

Hill, and anyone else who likes beautiful 

art, stimulating history, and just 

enjoying life...even amongst the 

dead. NEWHot Spots and Storied 

Plots will be presented monthly as 

part of Laurel Hill Cemetery’s 

Fourth Friday tour series, which take 

place on the fourth Friday of every 

month at 10 a.m. 

is walking tour will be led jointly 

by History Professor, Dr. David 

Horwitz. Dave has been leading 

tours through Laurel Hill for over 35 

years! It will take place on Friday, 

August 24 at 10:00am, and will depart 

from Laurel Hill Cemetery’s 

Gatehouse entrance at 3822 Ridge 

Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19132. 

Free parking is located in the lot 

across the street from the Gatehouse. 

e cost is $8/person. Children 

under 12 years are free. Tickets can 

be purchased at the door, or in advance 

by calling (215) 228-8200 or 

online at www.thelaurelhillcemetery.org. 

View Laurel Hill Cemetery upcoming 

SEPTEMBER EVENTS, including 

America’s first funerary 

concert, and a graveyard cabaret, at 

http://thelaurelhillcemetery.org/ind 

ex.php?m=4&id=95. 

Chestnut Hill Center for Enrichment 


215-248-0180 

Ongoing 

Monday Cra Group 10 – 12 noon, 

French Conversation 2:30 – 4 pm 

Wednesday Mah Jongg game 10 – 12 

noon, Chess or Backgammon 1 – 4 

ursday Bridge game 12 – 3 

Friday Scrabble 10 – 12, Short Story 

Group noon – 1 pm, Knitting 1 – 3 

CHCE offers “summer school” 

Adults seeking to exercise their minds 

this summer are invited to join in for 

a two-part course taught by Dan 

Jones, Ph.D., “e Role of Money in 

Politics”. We will explore the role of 

money in U.S. politics historically, 

what is happening now, what may 

happen in the future with dramatic 

changes to be expected from the recent 

Supreme Court Citizens United 

ruling. 

e class will meet on three Monday 

aernoons from 1 – 2:30 at the 

Chestnut Hill Center for Enrichment, 

8431 Germantown Avenue. 

Topics to be covered : e Advent of 

Television, Watergate and the Failure 

of Campaign Finance Reform ( July 

30); Current/Future Challenges and 

Possible Scenarios (August 6). 

Daniel P. Jones studied history at Carleton 

College (B.A. 1976) and Brown 

University (Ph.D. 1987), with specialization 

in U.S. History. For more than 

20 years he was historical editor at the 

New Jersey State Archives, while also 

teaching history (adjunct professor) at 

several universities in the Delaware 

Valley. For many years Dr. Jones has 

participated actively in the electoral 

and extra-electoral arenas. 

Classes are open to the community. 

Attend one or all three. e price of 

attendance is just $5 per week. e 

Center is air-conditioned and refreshments 

will be available. But perhaps 

the best thing about CHCE summer 

school is that there will be no quizzes, 

homework or exams. Contact the office 

( HYPERLINK "mailto:chEnr 

i c h m e n t @ c a v t e l . n e t " 

chEnrichment@cavtel.net or 215- 

248-0180) to ask that we set a place 

for you. 

Center on the Hill 

e Presbyterian Church 

of Chestnut Hill 

8855 Germantown Ave. 

orko@chestnuthillpres.org 

Germantown Jewish Centre 

400 W. Ellet Street 

Continued on page 18




P: 215-844-1507 Ext 19 

Israeli Dancing at 


Summer Wednesdays 7- 9 PM 

e Germantown Jewish Centre Israeli 

dance group meets virtually every 

Wednesday evening over the summer. 

Our repertoire consists mainly of intermediate 

dances, though we always 

begin with easier, older dances. ere 

is an emphasis on instruction and review 

in the earlier part of the session. 

We are an informal, friendly group, 

and always welcome new dancers! $5 

per session. For more info contact 

program@germantownjewishcentre.org 

or 215-844-1507 Ext 19. 

atprogram@germantownjewishcentre.org 

or 215-844-1507 Ext 19. 

Eicha & God’s Silence 

A Tisha B’Av Program with Germantown 

Jewish Centre’s New Assistant 

Rabbi Annie Lewis 

Saturday, July 28 at 8 PM 

Drawing on rabbinic sources and the 

theological work of Kathleen O'Connor, 

Rabbi Lewis will explore the 

"missing voice" of God in the book of 

Lamentations. e program includes 

a participatory discussion and all texts 

will be available in English. All are 

welcome. e program will be followed 

by an evening service and 

chanting of Eicha. For more information 

contact program@germantownjewishcentre.org 

or 215-844-1507 

Ext 19. 

5k Run & 1k Walk to support 


Scholarships 

Sunday, August 5 

Join us for this Fundrun along Forbidden 

Drive and the Wissahickon 

Creek to raise money for financial assistance 

to attend the Early Childhood 

Program (ECP) at 

Germantown Jewish Centre. e 

start and finish will be Northwest Avenue 

and Forbidden Drive in 

Philadelphia, PA. e event will feature 

a 5k run starting at 8:30 AM 

sharp, a 1k walk starting at 9:15, and 

an open picnic. 

For more information and registration 

details contact program@germantownjewishcentre.org 

or 

215-844-1507 Ext 19. 

Opera Under the Stars: 

A Verdi Preview 

Annual GJC Hazak (Adult 55+) 

Program with Sam Feinberg 

Tuesday, August 14 at 7:30 PM 

2013 will mark the 200th birthday of 

Giuseppe Verdi, whose operas are preformed 

every day of the year in some 

city in the world. We'll get a jump on 

next years celebrations by taking a 

look at scenes of several Verdi's masterpieces. 

is musical giant, considered 

by many to be the greatest opera 

composer of all time has an underlying 

humanity in his operas that has 

made his work accessible to all peoples 

and in all places. With Video and 

Audio you may find some old fa- 

vorites and some new ones that may 

become your favorites. Wine & 

Cheese will be provided, as will some 

seating. If you wish, please bring your 

own lawn chairs, blankets and favorite 

bottle of wine. FREE for Hazak 

Members and $5 for guests. Please 

RSVP to program@germantownjewishcentre.org 

or 215-844-1507 Ext 

19. 

Summer Sampler at 


Wednesday, August 15 at 7 PM 

Get a taste of GJC with a preview of 

classes and programs we offer 

throughout the year! Join us for an 

evening of community, music, study 

and dessert! 

is event is geared towards both current 

& prospective members. If you 

are curious about GJC please join us! 

Sessions include Yoga & Chant, Race 

through the Jewish Holidays, More 

Tough Social Issues in Israel, Chesed 

Cooking Marathon & Training, Israeli 

Dancing, Wine & Cheese in the 

Little Shop, Chilly Philly Ice Cream 

and more! Please RSVP to program@germantownjewishcentre.org 

or 215-844-1507 Ext 19. 

Israeli Dancing at Germantown 

Jewish Centre 

Summer Wednesdays 7- 9 PM 

e Germantown Jewish Centre Israeli 

dance group meets virtually every 

Wednesday evening over the summer. 

Our repertoire consists mainly of intermediate 

dances, though we always 

begin with easier, older dances. ere 

is an emphasis on instruction and review 

in the earlier part of the session. 

We are an informal, friendly group, 

and always welcome new dancers! $5 

per session. For more info contactprogram@germantownjewishcentre.org 

or 215-844-1507 Ext 19. 

Happy Hollow Playground 

News and Notes 

4800 Wayne Ave 

(Wayne & Logan St.) 

Computer classes @ 

Happy Hollow Playground! 

Free access hours to the public 

Mon-Thurs 6 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Sat. 

11 a.m.-4 p.m. 

Jeaneen Cook, Computer Instructor 

City of Philadelphia’s Div. of Tech. 

For info: Tyrone Gross, Facility 

Mgr. @ 215 685 2195 from 1 pm - 

9 pm. 

Wayne Ave 

Merchant Association (WAM) 

Clean, Green, Safe! 

Wayne Ave: Berkley-Schoolhouse 

(4500-5400) 

Lot’s of good information to share. 

Info: A. Weiss 215 843 5555 

Unitarian Universalist Church 

6900 Stenton Avenue 

Singles Scene 

e Singles Scene Is A ree Phase 

Program For Mature Adults 

7:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. every Saturday 

night 

Phase 1. 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. 

Refreshments, socializing. conversation 

and so music in a café setting, 

8:00 - 10:00 p.m. 

Line Dance with Liz and Friends 

Phase 2. 9:00 - 10:00 p.m. 

Discussion Groups and 

or Workshops 

Phase 3. 10:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m. 

Dancing 

11:30 P.M.ANNOUNCEMENTS 

AND DOOR PRIZES 

DONATION. $8.00 

Ongoing 

Water Aerobics 

Pickert Pool 

e Water Aerobics class at Pickett 

Pool is moving into summer hours beginning 

Tuesday, June 19. Classes will 

be held every Tuesday and ursday 

from 9 to 10 a.m. 

e ending date will be in August, to 

be determined. ere is a drop-in fee 

of $5 per class. Pickett Pool is located 

at the intersection of Wayne Avenue 

and Chelten Avenue. 

Instructor Beverly Rolfsmeyer is AEA 

and Arthritis Foundation 

certified. e class includes warmups, 

use of bouyant and drag equipment, 

core strengthening, cardio and 

stretch techniques at the end. e 

class is for swimmers and non-swimmers 

alike. 

Call Beverly at 215-685-2229 for 

more information. 

rough July and August 2012. 

Summer Workshops and Classes at 

Mt. Airy Art Garage (MAAG) 

Courses including digital photography, 

quilting, drawing, bookmaking 

and acting are offered for adults and 

children at the newly renovated spacious 

art garage at: 11 West Mt. Airy 

Ave. See mtairyartgarage.org/2012/ 

06/07/ summer-classes-at-the-mtairy-art-garage/ 

for details. 

Contact MAAG to register for 

courses 

215.242.5074 or email donna@ 

mtairyartgarage.org. 

Contact Person: Linda Slodki - 

215.242.5074 

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Awbury Arboretum Plans 

Aug. 10 Waggle Dance 

So, if you know a kid over the age of three who has seen “Bee Movie,” 

or if your kids are into nature programs such as Nova/PBS/Discovery, 

then you probably already know what a waggle dance is. 

But for those of you not yet up to speed on just how smart our pollinating 

honey bees are, let’s start with a mind-blowing factoid: Bees can 

count. They can also calculate distance and angles in relationship to the 

sun. Foraging honey bees use these math skills to give very specific directions 

about how to find plant X at location Y where quantity X of this 

great tasting pollen and/or nectar will be found. 

This in-hive chit-chat about resources and directions among girl bees 

– you know we girls are not shy about asking for or giving directions – 

or recommending anything about which we are enthusiastic – is what 

our waggle dance is all about. Here’s how to find the good stuff! 

Think of a waggle dance as a super-animated “Like” on Facebook! A 

waggle dance is survival social networking at its best. 

Karl von Frisch was the first person known to observe the waggle 

dance and to care enough about the behavior to study it and understand 

the implications. Honey bees have developed a form of symbolic language. 

The only other animals known to possess this capacity are humans. 

Thank you, Karl! We also know that scout bees will do a waggle 

dance to campaign for a new location in which to hive a swarming 

colony. 

On Friday, August 10th we’d like you to benefit from the social networking 

fun of our first annual Waggle Dance at Awbury Arboretum. 

We are celebrating our community partner, Awbury Arboretum, as an 

exceptional free public green space, its Agricultural Village, and Green 

Sanctuary Community Apiary, home to four educational hives and about 

200,000 honey bees. Lots of good stuff for you to discover and then waggle 

about to others! 

Think old fashioned Saturday night social: light refreshments, 

BYOB/W, a summer night, live music, lightening bugs, dancing on the 

porch of an old house and on the grass, too, barefoot if you like, to live 

music. Meet resident beekeeper, Anaiis Salles, and the apiary’s hive 

stewards. Sample the organic honey coming from a happy assortment 

of bees and an amazing variety of plant and floral sources. Learn about 

honey bees and how to be a good neighbor to these generous, intelligent 

insects. Our bees are pollinating your vegetable and flower gardens if 

you live within three miles of Awbury Arboretum. 

Our Waggle Dance is a great deal for a family night out. $15 p/p but 

$5 for one or more kids. Add grandma, grandpa, cousins, aunts and uncles, 

and for $50 you can reserve a table at which to sip your favorite 

beverage while finding out more about the Apiary’s mead making club 

and upcoming beekeeping classes. We’ll be giving away a few door 

prizes, too. 

The fun starts at 4:30 with an open apiary tour. Food & festivities from 

6:00 p.m. and goes until 9:00 p.m. Thanks to Hot Club of Philly for 

music to waggle to. This is a friend raiser for Awbury Arboretum and 

Green Sanctuary Community Apiary. We hope we can count on you to 

keep our apiculture education program strong! Our 4-H Beekeeping Club 

and Scout badge initiatives have room to grow. 

RSVPs are much appreciated. 

Awbury Arboretum Francis Cope House, 1 Awbury Road Phila, PA 

19138. Contact: Beth Miner; bminer@awbury.org; 215-849-2855, ext. 

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Big Blue Marble Bookstore 

A neighborhood bookstore for Mt. Airy and beyond. 

New Books and Toys! 

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In Memory of Chris Warfield 


In the late 1950s, she married Harry Warfield of Newtown 

Square. ey divorced in the 1970s. 

Chris and Foster were together since July, 1982. 

"We met later in life but had exactly 30 years of the best 

relationship one could ever hope for," Foster said. "She 

turned a midlife delinquent into a reasonably acceptable 

person and without her behind me I would never 

have been able to particpate in all the life experiences I 

have. As much as I battled to help her through her medical 

challenges, she was always doing the same for me 

in my advertures, reckless and otherwise." 

"Jim and Chris battled this dreaded and silent killer 

with tenacity and the kind of optimism that spoke of a 

fearless courage that he can remember with pride and 

with some appreciation that her life continued for eight 

years aer diagnosis - much longer than most with the 

disease," Germantown resident and community activist 


virginal children having the adult 

penises of grown men forced into 

their rectums and mouths and in 

the case of priests who had also sexually 

assaulted girls, their hymen-intact 

vaginas. 

Makes you want to turn the page 

or throw up or both, doesn’t it? 

And yet, Lynn and Paterno just 

shrugged it off. And one wonders if 

anything has changed in the aermath 

of the trials. For there was the 

new president of Penn State–the 

former president having been fired 

for participating in the Sandusky 

cover-up–making the rounds of the 

Sunday morning talk shows on July 

29 talking about how the punishment 

meted out by the NCAA 

could have been worse. As if that 

were the issue. 

All these punishments could have 

been worse. 

Is it fair that Penn State football 

players be tainted by the crimes of 

their coaches? No. But then that’s 

the argument Lynn’s attorneys were 

making as well: that Lynn wasn’t 

the perpetrator, he was just a bystander. 

He never raped a boy or 

Yvonne Haskins said. 

girl. Perhaps not, but he knew 

dozens of priests had and he did 

nothing. 

I do feel bad for the athletes at 

Penn State. ey are tainted by this 

scandal, and it’s a shame for them, 

especially those stripped of their 

victories in the period of 13 years 

that their revered coach knew his 

assistant was raping boys in the 

same showers they used aer a 

game but did nothing to stop it. 

It is to be hoped that the current 

team as well as previous players all 

learn something from what has 

happened here. Let’s hope they 

don’t get caught up in "fair" or "unfair" 

and instead understand that 

when people in charge do the 

wrong thing, innocent people get 

hurt. ere are a myriad of victims 

in both the priest scandal and the 

Penn State scandal. But the reason 

for that is that there exists in our society 

a culture of men protecting 

other men’s right to rape and until 

that changes, there will always be 

more victims. 

We must not forget what these 

cases were about. ey were about 

rape. ey were about forced sexual 

Besides Foster, she is survived by her sister Marietta Ennamorato 

of West Chester, PA, two nieces, Jodi Pucci 

and Elaine Irvine, and a nephew, Rob Ennamorato. 

"She lived a good eight years aer being diagnosed with 

Ovarian cancer, many years longer than most with that 

disease. I think God decided I needed her so much and 

let me have her," Foster added. "By far these 30 years 

have been the best years of my life." 

e family said flowers may be sent in Chris's memory. 

On Saturday, July 28, family and friends gathered at the 

Kirk & Nice Funeral Home in Plymouth Meeting 

where a number of mourners spoke about Chris and 

how she touched their lives. 

Chris was interred in the Foster family plot at Hillside 

Cemetery in Roslyn, PA. 

Scott Alloway 

Opinion: The Aftermath of Child Abuse Cases 

assault on minors. Sandusky ran a 

charity program for underprivileged 

kids. e Philadelphia Archdiocese 

did much the same thing. 

Sandusky and various priests used 

their power over these vulnerable 

kids who needed them to sexually 

assault them–some once, some repeatedly. 

ese kids were literally 

and metaphorically backed into a 

corner by men who had power over 

their lives. ey had no choice but 

to submit. 

Some of these men thought they 

were offering these kids love and attention. 

Certainly this was true of 

Sandusky who wrote his victims 

what could only be characterized as 

love letters. But these men were also 

manipulating their victims’ vulnerability 

until they got them into secluded 

places where they then 

raped and sodomized them. 

So as we prepare for the next 

round of trials from Penn State and 

the Archdiocese, let’s remember 

what this is all about: a culture and 

acceptance of rape, a culture and acceptance 

of sexual violence. 

ese trials can’t stop that–there 

will probably always be rapists–but 

they can repeatedly state what 

should be obvious: taking what isn’t 

yours is a crime. ese trials can– 

and should–teach the students at 

Penn State and the boys serving at 

Mass of a Sunday that they need 

not be victims and they must not 

become perpetrators. 

ese cases are justice served but 

they are also cautionary tales. Now 

if we can just heed the warning. 

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infamous group 

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47. Spawned 

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60. *Decathlon event 

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69. Pooh’s wise friend 

70. *Medal holders 

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73. Rendezvous 

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Mishkan Shalom’s Celebrations!, an initiative offering Jewish programming 

to children with special needs and their families, has produced 

a comprehensive curriculum featuring two years of programs 

designed for children with different abilities. 

Last January, Mishkan Shalom – a Reconstructionist congregation 

serving Philadelphia and surrounding areas – received a $20,000 Ignition 

Grant from the Covenant Foundation for Celebrations!. Part 

of the grant went to producing the curriculum, which features worksheets, 

specially created books, and articles for parent discussions, 

in addition to Shabbat and holiday lessons. 

Three local synagogues—Ohev Shalom of Bucks County, Old York 

Road-Beth Am and Beth Or in Spring House will be hosting Celebrations! 

programs in their community, beginning this fall. In addition, 

Congregation Beth El in Sunbury will also begin a Celebrations! 

chapter. 

“We are excited to be able to share the years of work that went into 

creating our program with other communities. Each community can 

adapt the curriculum to make it work uniquely for their congregation,” 

said Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer, director of the Celebrations! program 

at Mishkan Shalom. 

Celebrations! is designed for students with cognitive, learning or 

developmental disorders - including autism, cerebral palsy and Down 

syndrome – and is open to families throughout the community. 

The Ignition grant also allows Mishkan Shalom to apply the successful 

Shabbat model to Jewish holidays. After hosting a successful 

sensory-friendly Purim carnival last spring, they will also host a community-wide 

sensory-friendly Simchat Torah celebration on October 

12. This celebration will allow children to hold and dance with Torah 

scrolls in a quieter setting than most traditional Simchat Torah services. 

The grant also allows Mishkan Shalom to expand its own Celebrations! 

program. Starting in October, Mishkan will host a program for 

18-30-year-olds with special needs called “Mitzvah Menshes.” Taking 

place on Saturday nights, Mitzvah Menshes will allow young 

adults to socialize and also engage in a mitzvah project designed for 

their developmental skills. 

“While people with special needs often become someone’s mitzvah 

project, Mitzvah Menshes changes those roles. The program allows 

young adults with special needs to give back to the community. It’s 

all about finding ways that everyone can serve, despite disabilities,” 

Kaplan-Mayer said. 

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Property owners, builders, and developers in Philadelphia may now 

have their valid building and zoning/use registration permits and 

Board decisions of approval extended for three years or more. An 

amendment recently passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly 

extends until July 1, 2016 all valid permits and Board decisions that 

were originally set to expire between January 1, 2009 and July 1, 

2013. The amendment was passed in part to provide additional time 

for projects throughout Pennsylvania that had been affected by the 

difficult economic climate. In the City of Philadelphia, the Department 

of Licenses and Inspections (L&I) is responsible for processing applications 

for the extensions of permits and decisions. 

Important information for applicants, including mailing instructions, 

can be found in the accompanying Bulletin. L&I will respond to valid 

applications by issuing a document confirming that the original permit 

or Board approval will not expire until July 2, 2016. 

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COTA Celebrates with 

Annual Fundraising Affair 

Actor and R&B artist Christopher Williams, famous for role in 90s film New Jack City and chart-topping 

hits like I’m Dreamin and Every Little Thing U Do, closing the show. 

by Tracie Johnson 

Staff Reporter 

On July 21, The Children of the Arts 

Foundation held a fundraising event at 

Treasures Banquet Facility. The dresswhite 

affair welcomed performances by 

local talent Taphy Spencer and R&B 

singer and actor Christopher Williams. 

Although this was COTA’s first dresswhite 

affair, this is their third annual 

fundraising event. Battle said the dresswhite 

affair served as the pre-launch to 

a future event to be held in September, 

where the children will put on a full performance 

showcasing elements of theatre, 

dance, and music. Tickets were $25 

but attendees were welcomed to pay 

more or contribute donations. 

The Children of the Arts Foundation 

is a 3-year-old, 501c(3) non-profit organization 

that affords children access 

to performing and visual arts programs. 

“Our goal with this event is to allow 

any child who wants to pursue music, 

whether it be instrumental training, 

vocal training, dance or visual arts, the 

opportunity to pursue their passion,” 

said Sharon Reeves Battle, Executive 

Director and Founder of Children of the 

Arts, COTA. All proceeds go towards 

funding COTA’s youth chorus, a free musical program 

afforded to children of all ages. 

The event was cosponsored by children entertainment 

company AIKAN entertainment and local food 

show, Ewe Nique Taste of Philly. Nakia Dillard, a 

Philadelphia actor who has been casted in the HBO 

hit series The Wire and the 2010 Sundance Film, 

Night Catches US, attended the event in representation 

of AIKAN entertainment along with Darnell 

Richardson, a local performing artist with his own 

production and entertainment group. Dillard and 

Richardson serve as instructors to theater students of 

the COTA foundation. 

As for the musical talent of the night, local singersongwriter 

and lyricist Desi Scott served as the opening 

act in the line-up. Scott was excited to lend his 

support and perform at the event free of charge. “It’s 

a beautiful thing, for our children to learn. Children 

are our future. No pun…it’s the truth,” Scott said. 

To follow was Taphy Spencer who, along with her 

full band, performed a selection of songs honoring 

From left: Germantown newspapers reporter Tracie Johnson; CEO 

and Founder of COTA, Sharon Battle; Music Director of COTA, 

Jason Rodgers and Public Relations Director, Chris Taylor. 

the life of her beloved mother. Spencer finished off 

with a ladies anthem all the women in attendance 

could sing along to. Spencer who is a singer-songwriter 

and producer serves as the choir director of the 

COTA youth chorus. 

To close the show, Christopher Williams came out 

performing a wide variety of R&B songs. Showcasing 

his talents, Williams performed a few of his songs 

a cappella. Closing the show with his 1991 hit I’m 

Dreamin, Williams brought everyone to their feet. 

Battle spoke very highly of Williams, saying that he 

did not hesitate when asked to come perform at the 

fundraising event. Williams said he was happy to 

come contribute to an event geared towards helping 

children. 

“Just make sure you love it, number one, and two, 

that you get into your craft because there’s going to 

be good days and bad days like any other job… it’s 

not always glitz and glamour,” Williams said offering 

advice to kids pursuing a career in music. What’s the 

key to longevity? “Grace,” Williams answered.


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No. 295, effective March 16, 

1983, of the filing in the office 

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at Harrisburg, PA, on July 

18, 2012. Said application is for 

the conduct of a business in 

Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 

under the assumed fictitious 

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with the principal place of business 

at 137 W Apsley St, 

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5:00 PM Thursday, December 6, 2012 

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5:00 PM Thursday, May 23, 2013 

5:00 PM Thursday, August 1, 2013 

5:00 PM Thursday, December 5, 2013 

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Pamela K. Burell, Executor 

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