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Kensington Tigers Rise to Victoryby Max Pulcini

The Kensington Tigers faced off against the Strawberry Mansion Knights at Northeast High School at 3PM on Fri., September 12. Kensington went on to defeat Mansion 36 – 6. With this victory, the Tigers notched their first varsity win in school history. /Photo: Max Pulcini

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The Kensington Tigers football team notched their first victory at the varsity level after a 36 - 6 victory against the Strawberry Mansion Knights. The game was played on neu-tral ground at Northeast High School at 3PM on Fri., September 12. The game, played under a picturesque sky and per-fect conditions, started fast. After a quick three and out by Strawberry Mansion, Kensington struck with a deep pass, as sophomore quarterback Imere Lubin connected with senior wide receiver Luis Graciani for six points. A successful two point conversion made the score 8-0 with 9:18 left in the first quarter. “I saw a wide open pass,” Lubin said after the second start of his young career at Kensington. “I felt it and wanted a touchdown. We needed that touchdown to help us get this first varsity win.” Later in the first quarter, the Tigers sacked Straw-berry Mansion quarter-back Marvin Dozier in the

end zone for a safety, giving Kensington 2 points and possession of the football. The ensuing 6-play drive

was capped off by another touchdown pass, this one a fade route to Graciani in the corner of the endzone

with 5:04 left in the first. Lubin pump-faked once, allowing Graciani to get behind the corner and haul

in the scoring pass, making the score 16-0 following a blocked PAT. “It’s like having Megatron

out there— [Graciani’s] like Calvin Johnson on the field,” Lubin said, com-paring his teammate to the superstar receiver of the Detroit Lions. “I have faith in him and my team to make all of the catches.” “[Lubin’s] got all the talent in the world, hope-fully he’s got three more years with us,” Kensington Head Coach Sean Ryan said about his young sig-nal caller. “He’s learning though—he made a lot of great plays today but there’s a lot we can work on. I’d like to see him run the ball more since he’s a great threat running the ball too. But we didn’t need him to today— our receiv-ers were making plays and our offensive line was firing off their blocks.” Both teams were careless with the ball, combining for five fumbles in the first half and six overall. One Strawberry Man-sion fumble was scooped up by Kensington senior defensive lineman Antonio Sanchez, who returned the ball across midfield to the

Local Artist Making a Splash at Philadelphia’s First “FLOW” Festival

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The Fairmount Water Works’ first-ever FLOW Festival will be held from 1 p.m. to dusk Sunday, Sept. 21. See story on page 12. /Photo courtesy of Fairmount Water Works

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On the street where I live there is a lot of new con-struction. The construc-tion craze started about four years ago when a little tugboat shaped house across the street from me went up for sale and was then promptly demolished to make way for a mam-moth 4 story mega-house that looms over the street like a Noah skyscraper. While I generally love tall buildings, all the little houses around this mother lode of a mansion look like wimpy wannabes in a toy train exhibit. When I did architec-tural criticism for another newspaper, I often found myself criticizing con-servative architects who would complain that some downtown office building or high rise was out of scale (meaning too high) compared to the buildings surrounding it. While the design dynamics of Center City are different than they are in residential neighbor-hoods like Port Richmond and Fishtown, when I was confronted with an out of scale new building on my

own street it hit me like a ton of bricks. “Progress is coming to our street,” one of my neighbors commented as this mega house was being built. “Progress, maybe,” I re-plied, “but this also means higher property taxes down the line, so that one day many of the indig-enous residents might not be able to afford to live here anymore. Then we’ll have to move to crime-ridden Mayfair or some other innocuous Northeast neighborhood.” The fact is, I miss that little tug boat house that somehow always reminded me of Cape May, New Jersey. Not long after the Tower of Babel was built, a large vacant lot a block away from my property was sold to a California-based developer who knows how to build houses fast, and on the cheap. Previously this lot was fenced in and used as a massive back lawn for one or two houses on E. Thompson Street. For a few summers there was a massive above ground swimming pool placed in this area. In the warm

months the pool was the scene of many beer parties. Now, there’s something about beer and water that brings out the devil in many people. A friend told me that the party screams that came from this pool really resembled the yells you hear people make all the time on roller coasters. And beer being beer, he sometimes heard louder, beer-fueled arguments. While the California de-veloper was busy clearing away the old pool and prepping the ground for two more fast out-of-scale Noah skyscrapers, a hum-ble house very close to mine sold, and another developer began to ply that structure with a new gran-ite counter top kitchen,

new windows, a new coat of exterior stucco, cherry pine floors, a remodeled bathroom, and “cleaned up” bedrooms. As far as I could tell, the basement was cleaned up but not refinished. The rehabber-jobbers covered the stairs in carpet, and carpeted the entire second floor— a sus-picious move that had me thinking, “are they hiding something?” Wall to wall carpet, after all, can hide a multitude of sins. “Let’s hope you get good neighbors,” one of the for-mer tenants of this house told me. “Because… you never know….” Neighbors can make or break the quality of daily life.

When I was a boy there was a wicked neighbor on our street who screamed every time a child walked through her property. In Center City, when I lived in the Adelphia House at 13th and Chestnut, liv-ing quarters were so tight I knew every sexual fetish of my Don Juan neighbor. What I heard was so em-barrassing I couldn’t even make eye contact with him in the elevator. On the other side of me was a woman whom I jokingly referred to then as Ms. Fanny Hill. Ms. Hill would bring home one night stands from the East Side Club, a hardcore punk rock nightclub next to the Adelphia filled with men and women with Mo-hawks. Despite these nerve wracking sound intrusions, I liked this small efficien-cy apartment because it looked straight into the bell tower of Saint John’s church on 13th Street, so that from certain angles the room resembled a living space in Paris. In Germantown, I lived in a third floor walkup. While my downstair s neighbors were nice, they played loud music 24/7 and smoked grass night and day. Visiting friends sometimes complained (or rejoiced) that they were getting “big contact highs,” so I was constantly open-ing the windows for fresh air. Things became lively when the old Victorian house next to my apart-ment caught on fire. The flames gushed out and missed touching the house I was living in by just a

few feet. At another Center City address, my neighbors were a family of gypsies who threw trash and gar-bage out their second story window into the alleyway below my bedroom win-dow. For a year I slept with the aroma of rot-ting bananas, pound cake, Spam, chicken fingers and liverwurst. So, yes, I do hope that the new neighbors next door will be “nice” people, even if the houses being built on that vacant lot one block over seem to be composed of the cheapest materials possible. For starters, the houses do not seem to have fire walls and many of the wood materials used look like wood chips stuck together with glue. The construc-tion crews that built the homes were all foreign speaking, which is not nec-essarily a bad thing (I’m not xenophobic). But if you saw what I saw—how these workers struggled to understand what to do next as they tried to decipher the ‘how to build a house’ directions on their blue-print spreadsheet—you too would come away thinking nervous thoughts. But here’s the rub: the old, little toy train houses that surround these mega houses were built to last, and they look much stron-ger than these high-in-the-sky cheap material houses that use almost no stone or brick. Most people in the area hope that the new neigh-

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ago. Since then it has trav-eled with them across the country until it reached its final resting place in the home they bought in Fishtown. About a year and a half ago a bump into a shelf in the middle of the night sent the fan tumbling. Since then, it has sat in the Szeliga’s basement until finding its way here, face-down on this table. By the time I walked up to the fan and heard its story, the back panels had been opened, tinkered with, and reassembled. The glue on the back was setting. Just a half hour for it to dry, and then they can take it home in working order. The Sze-liga’s didn’t know to fix the problem with the fan but someone at the Repair Fair certainly did. Saturday’s event, organ-ized by the Philly Fixers Guild and hosted at the Philadelphia Sculpture Gym (1834 Frankford Ave.), was an educational event for the public. Any-one could show up with an item --anything that was not a weapon or a car-- and a volunteer “fixer” would repair the item along side its owner. “Everyone has a friend who everyone goes to for help fixing things,” Ben Davis, the founder of Philly Fixers Guild, said. “These are people who think of themselves as people who repair things.” Davis, a Fishtown resi-dent and an active mem-ber in local sustainability causes sees this as a poten-tial learning experience for people. Oftentimes, he sees people simply drop things off to get repaired instead of seeing the pro-cess through. Davis and the Fixers Guild have a different vision. “If we actually give the screwdriver to the guest and say ‘okay, take the bot-tom panel off that blender that doesn’t work and see what’s inside.’ We want to empower people to think in a repair; rather than re-place mindset,” Davis said. “You know, they’re not just having you drop [something] off. They’re teaching you how to fix things, showing you how things are put together, how things are made and how they can be fixed. It’s self sufficiency. It’s both empowering and you’re

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hesitates to help those less fortunate than others. “If somebody needs something I tell my em-ployees to give it to them,” McCormac said. “If you hear a mom say to their kid, ‘we can’t afford that,’ we’ll just let them have it. We can make money else-where.” The Thrifty Irishman (3251 Cedar Street) is lo-cated one block off bus-tling Aramingo Avenue in Port Richmond and see THRIFT STORE next page

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that.’ We called my hair-dresser to see if they knew anybody that needed it. Sure enough they had an 80-year old lady in Brides-burg who needed it be-cause Medicare wouldn’t cover something like that. So we dropped it off to her— it was awesome. She needed it and we just so happened to have it.” The store also runs cloth-ing drives with several organizations. If an or-ganization wants to raise money through a clothing drive, the Thrifty Irish-man will weigh out the total collection and buy it for their showroom. Mc-Cormac will then make a donation to St. Vincent’s de Paul church or the Sci-ence Leadership Academy, a school downtown. “My son went to Science Leadership Academy—it’s a good school with kids from all over the place,” McCormac said. “I basi-cally said to the principal that I have people just dropping stuff off [at the Thrift Store] and I want to keep this place karma based. So if somebody [do-nates] something, I’ll write a check to the school. We don’t do this because we have to—it’s good karma and a win-win.” The Thrifty Irishman also performs house and base-ment cleanouts, pickups and will even deliver to a customer’s front door for free. McCormac believes it is customer service like this that will keep his store in business. And if there’s ever something you’re looking for, McCormac says never hesitate to ask for it. “If you come in look-ing for X, we’ll put you down on a list and give you a call first if it comes in,” McCormac said. “I think that’s something that customers latch on to. We have an older guy in his 60s who comes in collecting old

The Thrifty Irishman is located on 3251 Cedar Street in Port Richmond and is owned and operated by Robert McCormac./Photos: Max Pulcini

toys and games. Whenever we get something for him we’ll give him a call. You never know what someone will want.” After almost a year in business, what’s been Mc-Cormac’s favorite story from The Thrifty Irish-man? “It was an old 70s scenery painting as long as a couch and the thing just wasn’t selling,” McCormac said. “This guy comes in and he starts staring at it and then I watched him go into

the painting. I’m no artist, by any stretch, but the guy just loved it. He didn’t have enough money for it, and I told him that I wanted him to have it because he loved it. I knew he wasn’t going to take it back and sell it; he was going to cherish that painting. Even though he couldn’t afford it we wanted him to have it because he loved it.” Just l ike the karma, what comes around to the Thrifty Irishman goes around to those who sin-

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Richmond Book Club MeetingThe next meeting of the Richmond Book Club is on Thurs., Sept. 18 to discuss the “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Ange-lou. Monthly meetings are every third Thurs. at 6:15PM at the Richmond Library (2987 Almond Street). Bring sugges-tions for our next book. Copies at the branch, call 215 685-9992 for more information.

September FNA MeetingJoin the Fishtown Neigh-bors Association (FNA) for our September monthly meeting, happening on Thursday Sept. 18 at 7PM at the Fishtown Rec Center (1202 E. Mont-gomery Ave). The meet-ing will focus on sustain-ability in Fishtown and the River Wards. FNA meetings take place on the third Thursday of every month. Join us at 6:45PM for refreshments. See you there!

FNA Zoning Remapping MeetingFishtown Neighbors As-sociation (FNA) and the Philadelphia City Plan-ning Commission (PCPC) are hosting a zoning re-mapping community meeting on Tues., Sept. 23 at 7PM at Fishtown Recreation Center (1202 E Montgomery Ave). The purpose of the meeting is to review the neigh-borhood’s zoning rec-ommendations from the October 2013 remapping workshop, and to vote on the proposal developed by PCPC. This is our final opportunity for input to City Council! For more information, visit http://www.fistown.org or email us at [email protected].

Port Richmond CommunityGroup MeetingPort Richmond Com-munity Group will meet on Thurs., Sept. 25 at 7PM at Our Lady Help of Christians Church Hall in basement on Al-legheny Ave. at Gaul St. Guests: Rep. John Taylor will be there to provide Neighborhood Updates. PhillyRising program - for those who live on the following blocks we will implement that program on Sat., Oct. 18 with a clean up kicking off at 9AM. 3000 to 3100 Janney, Weikel, Tulip, Memphis, Aramingo and 2300 East Allegheny to

Ann. If you have quality of life issues, license & inspection issues or police issues please come with specific addresses and written problem so we may provide this to the PhillyRise coordinator Jay Marquez. It can be given anonymously. If you wish to be the contact person for your street - please attend this meeting. Sup-plies from the city will be provided the morning of the clean up to the contact person for that street. Bring any other quality of life issues you may be hav-ing so we can help to get them addressed. Please provide exact address for submission to appropri-ate agency. Email: [email protected].

Al-Anon Meetings at Holy Name Church HallAl-Anon Meetings are held every Monday night from 7 to 8PM at Holy Name Church Hall, Berks and Gaul Sts. Members share their personal experiences and stories. Personal contact is an important element in the healing process. The meetings provide strength and hope for families and friends of ad-dicts. If you are worried about a loved one with any type of addiction, this meeting will help you. Everyone is welcome to attend. Anything that is shared at meetings stays there. Al-Anon Meetings are free, anonymous and confidential.

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Cione Playground ActivitiesCione Playground (Ara-mingo and Lehigh Av-enues) is now taking registrations for the fol-lowing Fall/Winter activi-ties: Tumbling, Gymnas-tics, Peewee Soccer, Arts and Crafts, Chess Club, Tot Rec and Bike Polo. For more info call 215-685-9880.

PRO-ACT Family Addiction Education Program Serves PhiladelphiaEach month PRO-ACT (Pennsylvania Recovery Organization–Achieving Community Together) hosts a Family Addiction Education Program to help individuals and fam-ily recognize and address an addiction problem in a spouse, parent, child or other loved one. Fa-cilitated by trained vol-unteers who have been in the same situation, these

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Info on Girl Scout Troops in Fishtown, Port Richmond and BridesburgWith the start of the pro-gram year beginning, here is information about Girl Scout Troops avail-able in Fishtown, Port Richmond and Brides-burg, for community in-formation: ST. MIKE’S CHURCH, Trenton and Cumberland St., on Fri-day evenings 7PM – all grade levels; SHISSLER REC CTR, 1800 Blair St (Front & Norris Sts) K-3rd Grade: Monday 6:15-7:15PM; HOLY NA M E C H U RC H , Gaul & Berks St. It’s that time again!! Girl Scouts at Holy Name Church Hall, 701 Gaul St. at Berks St., GLAVIN PLAYGROUND, 2600 Westmoreland St. K-1st Grade: Tuesday 6:05-7PM, 1-3rd Grade: Monday 6:45 PM – 8PM, 4th-6th Grade: Wednesday 6:45-8PM, 6th-12th Grade: Tuesday 7 - 8 P M ; B R I D E S -BURG REC CEN -TER, 4625 Richmond S t . : 1 s t -3 rd Grade : Thursday 6:30-7:30 PM. Information regarding troop organization and registration would be available at any troop meeting, so stop in to speak to the leader, or go to www.gsep.org for registration information.

Bridesburg Rec Center EventsREACH OUT AND READ: Bridesburg Rec-reation Center (4625 Richmond Street) is col-lecting new or gently used children’s books for the Reach out and Read program. This program collects books for chil-dren who are patients at doctor’s offices associ-ated with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Please bring your donation to Brides-burg Recreation Center, weekdays 9 AM – 9 PM.FALLS BOWS AND BRIDESBURG PRIDE BANNERS: Falls Bows and Bridesburg Pride Banners are available at the Center for $3 each,

any weekday from 9AM – 9PM. All proceeds benefit the chirldren’s activities of the Center.Gymnastics and Tap-Jazz-Ballet Classes: The deadline to join these classes available through the Bridesburg Recre-ation Center (4625 Rich-mond Street) is Fri., Oct. 3. For more information call the Rec weekdays between 9 AM – 9 PM. Call 215-685-1247 or 533-6448 for more infor-mation.Winter Adult Activi-ties: ZUMBA: Classes offered year-round. Mon. and Thurs from 7-8PM, Zumba toning on Wed. from 7 -8PM. $4 walk in.S C R A P B O O K I N G : Held year round on Wed. evenings from 6:30-9:30PM. $5 each time you attend. All you need is your photos and a book, everything else will be provided.LADIES BOWLING LEAGUE: Tues. morn-ings, 9AM at Erie Lanes. All ladies are invite to join.Call Miss Jackie at 215-685-1247, 533-6448, or 331-9417 for more informa-tion.

First Emmanuel Prayer PartnersPrayer MinistryFirst Emmanuel Prayer Partners Church, 711 W. Girard Ave. Prayer Min-istry. Looking for Prayer Partners. Everyone is welcome to come pray with us every Tuesday night at 8PM. 215-456-9974 or 267-746-0448.

First Presbyterian Bible Study GroupOn Wed. evenings at 7PM a Bible Study Group meets at First Presbyteri-an Church, 418 E. Girard Ave. Come and bring a friend for informative, exciting and lively open discussions. As always, everyone is welcome.

Richmond Library ProgramsPreschool Storytime is every Wed. at 10:30AM. This program is intended for children from one- to four-years of age and their caregivers. Siblings are always welcome. Day-cares should call for sepa-rate appointments. Richmond Library, 2987 Almond St. 215-685-9992.

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Knight’s 30. A few snaps later Kensington senior running back Lorenzo Banks fumbled, turning the ball back over to Mansion. “[Ball security] is defi-nitely something we need to work on,” Ryan said. “In the first half we had three turnovers inside the 30, one was inside the 10—you just can’t do that. We have to be more responsible with the ball.” The second half opened with more dominant pass-ing from Kensington. A long run on a screen pass to Graciani brought the Tigers within striking dis-tance. The very next play, Lubin hit Graciani down the seam for another pass-ing touchdown with 10:55 left in the third quarter, bringing the score to 22-0, Kensington, after another blocked PAT. “I’m determined to go up there and get it,” the senior pass catcher said. “I know Imere is going to put it up there, he’s an excellent quarterback. I just have to go and make the play.” Kensington’s defense held strong throughout the game, continually bring-ing the pressure to drop Strawberry Mansion ball carriers behind the line, as well as forcing turnovers on special teams. When a bad snap on a punt had too much hang-time and fell into the arms of the Strawberry Mansion up-back, Kensington swarmed and tackled, allowing for a short field. “I saw heart out there,” Kensington coach Ellwood Erb said. “I saw kids out there who worked hard all summer and wanted to win the game. Our leaders like Jacob Rodriguez and Lo-renzo Banks, Josh Williams and Carlos Guerrios on the line, as well as the young guys who got in the second half, they all showed us a lot of great stuff today. It was a beautiful day to watch our defense play. Our guys came out with desire—they couldn’t lose.” After taking a hard sack on 2nd down, Lubin sprinted out to his left, finding Banks over the

middle. The senior power back barreled in to the endzone, making it 28-0, Kensington, with 6:48 left in the third. Whereas the first half was an air assault by the Tigers, the second half saw Kensington establish a running game, allowing them to milk the clock down. The rushing attack prominently featured ju-nior running back Martell Waiters who showed some agility and burst, as well as contributions from a stable of backs including sopho-more Hakeem Thompson, senior Chris Dantzler and Banks. The Tigers would go on to score once more on a 1-yard swing pass to Banks (Extra point good). “Coach Erb has helped build this program with great linemen and in the Public League that’s a blessing,” Ryan said. “Hav-ing depth along the of-fensive and defensive lines allows us to put different guys in there, keep both sides fresh, and gives us options on what plays we can call. We got guys who can pass protect and we have guys who can help us run it.” Strawberry Mansion’s lone score was set up by a 94-yard fumble return to the Kensington 5 yard line. Dozier punched it in on a quarterback sneak, bringing the score to 36-6, Kensington. “I saw a bunch of guys who worked hard all week, came out here and showed it,” Ryan said after the game. “I saw a lot of tal-ent on the field and the confidence these guys have is finally starting to show through.” The Tiger’s record cur-rently stands at 1-2. Up next for Kensington is Lower Mer ion High School. That game will be played on Sat., September 20 at 315 E. Montgomery Ave.•

The Tiger’s were led to victory by sophomore quarterback Imere Lubin and senior wide receiver Luis Graciani. /Photo: Max Pulcini

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Miss Know-It-All’s QUIZZO CHALLENGE:

Fashionistas are shopping for leather boots, scarves and denim jackets; sports

fans are breaking out their football jerseys; beer lovers are celebrating the recent release of their favorite pumpkin ales or stouts. Fall is upon us.

Gourmands also associate the season with the orange squash, as well as recipes with fruits like apples and cranberries, veggies like sweet potatoes and turnips,

and spices like nutmeg and cinnamon. The flavors I lean on in the brisk, autum-nal months bring a little heat, a lot of color, and stick to your ribs. Indian food and Thai food and their signature curry dishes are what I crave most as the season changes. Something about a spicy, hearty meal with a thick sauce on a bed of noodles or rice is so nour-ishing when I’m seeking to satisfy both my appetite and desire for comfort and warmth. This recipe showcases several of my personal criteria for com-fort food: a thick, spicy sauce on top of slices of deep fried meat.

Chicken-Fried Steak with Redeye Curry SauceFrom Dale Talde for Food and Wine Magazine1 large egg, lightly beaten½ cup milk1 ½ cups all-purpose flourSaltFreshly ground pepper1 ¼ pounds of ¼” thick slices of top-round beef Vegetable oil1 small onion, thinly sliced2 garlic cloves, minced1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger1 tablespoon mild Madras curry powder1 ½ tablespoons chili gar-lic sauce½ cup strong-brewed cof-fee

One 13-ounce can un-sweetened coconut milk2 tablespoons lime juiceLime wedges for serving1 ½ teaspoons sugar

In a pie plate or shal-low bowl, whisk the egg with the milk. In another pie plate or shallow bowl, generously season the flour with salt and pepper. Dredge the beef in the flour, tapping off the ex-cess. Dip the coated slices in the beaten egg mixture and dredge again in the flour, lightly patting the coating to help it adhere. In a large skillet or sauté pan, heat ½” of vegetable oil of medium high heat until shimmering. Working in batches, fry the steaks, turning once, until golden and crispy, about 5 min-utes. Drain on paper towels and season lightly with salt. Add about 2 tablespoons

of vegetable oil to another large skillet or pan and heat over medium flame or setting. Add the onion, garlic and ginger. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the onion is softened and browned, about 5 minutes. Add the curry powder and chili garlic sauce and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes. Add the coffee and boil until reduced by half, about 3 minutes. Add the coconut milk, lime juice and sugar, season the gravy with salt and pepper and simmer until thickened, about 5 minutes. Top steaks with sauce and serve. This recipe marries two of my personal comfort food philosophies: the curry based craving and a classic diner dish. I’m typically fearful of recipes

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Taking it to the Streetsby Lisa Shaat (a.k.a. Miss Know-It-All)

the song named “The 59th Street Bridge Song”, which is com-m o n l y k n o w n b y its’ alter nate title ________________?A. Feeling Groovy B. Mrs. RobinsonC. Still Crazy D. Sound of Silence 10. Lombard Street is known as being the most crooked street in America, with eight hairpin turns and a speed limit of 5 m.p.h. In which city is it lo-cated?A. Beverly Hills B. PhoenixC. San Francisco D. Boston

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In Response to the Letter From Candy DiPietro: Your church will never compare to St. Laurentius. Being a smaller church, everyone knew everybody. You could feel the friendly atmosphere as soon as you walked in for mass. Our old pastor, Father Frank Gwiazda, knew everyone’s name including non-parishioners. He would greet you with a friendly hello and smile as soon as you would walk in for mass. I was told that your pastor is never at the church during the day. He should be at the rectory for any emergency that might occur. He probably does not know many parishioners by their first names. I was told that he would walk by someone and not even acknowledge them. St. Laurentius always had a warm feeling when you entered. St. Anne’s does not have a loving spirit. Some of our people have gone there and do not like the church. It does not feel friendly inside. A big church does not have a personality like a smaller one. There is nothing around to compare to St. Laurentius Church and never will. It is our neighborhood jewel that will be in our hearts forever.

Linda Jakubowski, St. Laurentius Parishioner

(Candy DiPietro’s Letter to the Editor appeared in the Wed., Sept. 10 issue of the Spirit Newspaper)

with a fried component, as I struggle with ensuring the meat is cooked through while not burning the coat-ing. For that reason, I often produce meat that’s safe to eat with an undercooked and unattractive breading. This is foolproof since the meat is cut so thin it’s prac-tically impossible to serve it anywhere near raw. The dense, creamy sauce has a hint of spice thanks to the chili garlic sauce, but is per-fectly balanced with sweet coconut milk. I like to think I make my coffee strong,

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but I couldn’t taste any of its flavor in the dish; per-haps next time, I’ll increase the amount of grounds to water in my batch. Addi-tionally, this recipe yields a large quantity of sauce and could use extra veg-gies to even out the ratio of solids to liquid; I suggest incorporating sliced red peppers with the onions and adding thawed, frozen peas just before adding the curry and chili sauce. Served over a bed of rice or egg noodles, this recipe brings the heat of a classic Indian or Thai meal with the comfort of a well-loved diner dish.•

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Local Artist Making a Splash at Philadelphia’s First “FLOW” Festival

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Recently my father and I visited an art gallery which was exhibiting, from my perspective, some fairly safe, unchallengeable art objects. He, seeming a little lost, asked a few ques-tions, so I tried my best to provide a little context to help him out. A quick crash course on abstrac-tion, neo-expressionism, Bay Area figurative, “Bad Painting,” etc. and we left the gallery. I guess this all left a sour taste in his mouth, and a week later he rang me up late night while I was out hav-ing drinks. He asked me, “where were all the artists who were making work for the common person, those who don’t have degrees in art?” I replied something along the lines of, “they lived 1000 years ago and have paintings of flowers or landscapes in the mu-seums. They are all dead.” I was dead wrong. They are alive and in the streets. One of them, spe-cifically, is alive and in our own streets, Kensing-ton’s own Lee Tusman. Tusman has created an art practice which has no limits. Whether it is creat-ing, curating or directing, his DIY (Do It Yourself) projects always remain fresh. His work is not in-tended to be framed on a wall or set on a pedestal, rather it is meant to move and breathe organically in ways that directly engage with a community. Mobile tea carts, traveling arcades, and pirate radio stations are Tusman’s paint and clay. Tusman’s projects ap-pear to employ the same language as Nicolas Bour-riaud, an influential French thinker and art critic, with terms like open-ended, DIY, social engagement. Bourriaud is credited with solidifying Relational Art a multidisciplinary art prac-tice which asks the view-ers to directly engage in the work and become the art. One can even notice similarities been Tusman’s work and artists who oper-ate under Bourriaud’s um-brella, such as artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, known for his DIY free soup kitchens set in galleries. A recent proj-ect from Tusman, titled “HOT TEA,” was a year long mobile tea cart which travelled through the Chi-natown North neighbor-hood providing free tea and a whole schedule of community programing, ranging from music events to yoga sessions. Tusman’s projects are designed to bring people together. Tusman’s DIY, socially conscious practice

administers a heavy dose of audience participation, highlighting human in-teractions rather than the self. Tusman is essentially shifting his role of the artist from alchemist to the stim-ulus for social interaction. On Sun., September 21, Tusman brings us Philadel-phia’s first ever “FLOW” festival at the Fairmount Water Works. According to Tusman, this unique event will emphasize “art, sci-ence, technology, and also participation, and the idea that we can build our world creatively.” Tusman’s own contribution to the festival is an organ crafted from simple technology and buckets of water, which viewers can interact with throughout the festival. Along with Tusman’s or-gan, various participatory events and performances are scheduled through the festival, culminating with a dramatic light show, expected to be a poeti-cally moving homage to the power of the river. I recently had a con-versation with Tusman about his work and the up-coming “FLOW” festival: Scott Cooper : You were born and raised in Phi ladelphia from w h a t I u n d e r s t a n d . Lee Tusman: Yeah, I’m from Philadelphia. I’ve lived in a bunch of differ-ent places. I was born in Manayunk, lived in Over-brook, I’ve lived at the main line, I live in Kensington. SC: Do you think that living and growing up in Philadelphia has affected your practice or aesthetic? LT: I think that for a while I have been focused on cre-ating artwork that’s based on place and that has a social engagement com-ponent. I guess it’s artwork that’s based on specific communities. I would say that the work I have been doing the past couple years

Children get a chance to play Lee Tusman’s “Splash Organ” during a recent visit to the Fairmount Water Works. /Photos courtesy of Fairmount Water Works

Local artist Lee Tus-man demonstrates the “Splash Organ,” an interactive exhibit that uses buckets of water connected to a laptop to make a mu-sical instrument. The Splash Organ will be on display at the Fair-mount Water Works’ first-ever FLOW Fes-tival on Sunday, Sept. 21.

is heavily dependent on the spaces I’m working in. SC: I was looking over your portfolio and there are all of these different things you do. It seems that you keep bouncing around from creator, pro-grammer, curator, educa-tor and editor. Would you say there any other hats that you wear as an artist? LT: I primarily think of myself as an artist and curator and I do draw dis-tinctions between the two. I enjoy both conceptualizing an art project and think-ing through all the public programs that go with it, in addition to writing about it, inviting other people to participate. I usually combine all those differ-ent task sets in the projects I work on. I’m interested in using new technology and finding new forms to present things democrati-cally. I often work outside of traditional institutions, outside of major muse-ums. I particularly enjoy working outside because you connect to a new com-munity that way. I’m inter-ested in a very democratic model that wide open and participatory as possible. SC: You have your back-ground in sociology? LT: Yeah, I kind of cre-ated my own study in art and social change. I think that may be why I do things the way I do. SC: I can’t help but no-tice similarities between your work and those artists that were work-ing under Nicolas Bour-riaud’s Relational Aesthetics. Have you drawn much influence from that camp? LT: I think his work led to Social Practice and the idea of creating socially engaged community work and that has been very influential on my practice. There’s a number of cura-tors, thinkers and artists working in that realm. In

Philadelphia, this includes the curator Nato Thomp-son, the works of Creative Time and the art collec-tive Temporary Services. There have been a lot of different kinds of thinkers and artists and curators that have directly influ-enced my work. I feel very much connected to and in-fluenced by the larger Phil-adelphia arts community, which I think is in a unique place to work on some of these concepts. I’m a mem-ber of Little Berlin which is a collective in Kensing-ton. There is a group of people based there that are actively interested in presenting artwork and thinking through how that work should both be pre-sented to a community and work with the community. SC: Can you speak a little about the upcom-ing “FLOW” festival? You are primarily the curator? What was the curatorial process like? LT: I’m involved in two ways: I helped curate and I’m also one of the artist in it. I worked along with other people to help figure out the right artists and what kind of projects we want to present. I have a piece called “The Splash Organ,” which is a water based organ, almost like in the movie “Big,” where you can actually perform on this organ. The sounds are cre-ated when you strike water. SC: Some of your previ-ous projects tend to fo-cus on mobility. In cu-rating a festival, were there any new cha l -lenges presented to you? LT: I think that what’s unique about this festival is that it is trying to create almost a new framework to get people involved. It’s working with the Fair-mount Waterworks, but the projects are presented outdoors so, we have a little bit of that kinda pop-

up and experimental feel. There are participatory ac-tivities that involve sound, playing music, listening, creating fish, etc. It is defi-nitely trying to get people actively involved with the Fairmount Waterworks. SC: Is there anything spe-cific that you are hop-ing the viewers will take away from this experience? LT: I think directly we want people to be think-ing about water, about the Schuylkill River, about Philadelphia’s watershed, and about the part they play in it. But we also want people to have fun, to think through the different ways that they engage with wa-ter; their past experiences and future experiences with water; that it is an en-vironment in a space that we collectively own; that we should take care of and have fun with. Philadelphia’s first ever “FLOW” Festival takes place on Sun., Septem-ber 21, 2014, from 1pm until dusk. For more infor-mation, visit http://fair-mountworks.com/event/flow/.


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Sustaining Our SoundsJoin Girls Rock Philly on Sat., Sept. 20, for Sustaining Our Sounds, the inaugural People’s Gala. Held at Impac-tHUB Philly (1227 N. 4th St.), there will be deli-cious food and drinks, DJ dance parties, GRP-style arts and crafts, a rockin’ photo booth, fabulous raffles, youth and spe-cial guest performances, and more. It’s going to be GRP’s biggest party ever!! $25+ Sliding Scale. More into at http://www.girlsrockphilly.org/

Worship at The Block ChurchThis SundayJoin The Block Church for their very 1st service. This Sun., Sept. 21 at 10:15AM. And then party with them after! Food, ice cream truck, bounce hous-es for kids, family photo booth and giveaways. All for FREE!. Richmond Hall, 2619 E. Indiana Ave. Street parking available. Public transportation ac-cessible. Visit them online at www.theblockchurch.org.

The National Association of the Holy Name Society35th Annual Mass for the Cause for the Canoniza-tion of Blessed John of Vercelli, Founder of the Holy Name Society. Cel-ebrant: Most Reverend Joseph F. Martino, D.D. Sun., Sept. 21 at 3PM. The Holy Name of Jesus Church, 701 E. Berks St. (at Gaul St.) Sponsored by the PAHNU and the Na-tional Association of the Holy Name Society. For further information con-tact Sean Clarke, Chair-man – 215-830-9649 or email: [email protected].

Polish Picnic in AndalusiaSt. Valentine’s PNCC will hold their annual Polish Picnic on Sun., Sept. 21 at 1PM at Pulaski Park, 837 Mill Road, Andalu-sia. Polish food, music, raffles. For info call: Joyce Paluszkiewicz at 267- 640-7340.

MDG’s Catholics Returning Home ProgramAre you a Catholic who has been away from the Church for a while? Have you thought about re-turning to Church or renewing your relation-ship with God? We at Mother of Divine Grace would like to welcome you back home. Consider participating in Mother of Divine Grace’s Catho-lics Returning Home pro-gram. It is a 6 week ses-sion consisting of 6 small group sessions. They will be held in the Rectory, 2918 E. Thompson St. on Mondays, Sept. 22 to Nov. 2 from 7-8PM. At these sessions, a per-son can ask questions, vent dissatisfaction, gain helpful information, and clarify what the Church really teaches on a variety of subjects. If anyone is interested, just call the Rectory at 215-739-0353 or send an email to [email protected].

PR Tigers BanquetThe Port Richmond Tigers wil l hold our

annual Sports Banquet on Thurs., Sept. 25 at the Polish American Club (Allegheny and Richmond) at 6PM. Early bird special prices are available if purchased by Thurs., Sept. 18. No one gets in without a ticket and seating will be limited, so act now! Tickets can be purchased a t t h e c l u b h o u s e , Chatham and Ann St., Mon. thru Fri., 6:30-8PM. For more info call Tom Mack at 215-275-8838.

Cione Playground Family FestivalSat., Sept. 27 from 11AM - 5PM. (Rain-date: Sun., Sept. 28). Cow Chip Bingo! Grand prize $10,000. $20 a ticket. See “Friends of Cione Park” Facebook page for rules. Music, games for kiddies, moon bounce. Throw a pie in Mike Marko’s face for only $5. Win a 51 inch TV! Chances are $5 each; 5 for $20. Hungry? We are having Food Trucks!!! All proceeds will benefit “Friends of Cione” and “ORCA”. Win or lose, this day will be “LOADS” of fun for the entire fam-ily!

Autism CarnivalAutism Carnival to take place on Sat., Sept. 27 at 2PM at 1127 High-land Ave., Bensalem, PA 19020. Contact Billie Suarez 215-796-5524 or email [email protected]. $5 dona-tion. Games, face paint-ing, sand art, raff les, 50/50, etc.

MDG Designer Bag BingoDesigner Bag Bingo at Mother of Divine Grace Catholic School, Sat., Sept. 27. 2612 E. Mon-mouth St. Tickets are $30, 10 games, door priz-es, 50/50. Call 215-813-0129 for tickets.

Youth Playwriting WorkshopUsing oral histories to inspire plays, youths ages 10-14 are invited to join for a playwriting work-shop on Sat., Sept. 27 from 2-4:30 PM at the Northern Liberties Com-munity Center (700 N. 3rd Street). Some excep-tions may be made for older/younger youth. $40-$60 sliding scale.

Designer Bag Bingo at MDG ParishMother of Divine Grace Parish will be holding a Designer Bag Bingo on Sat., Sept. 27 at Mother of Divine Grace Church Hall, 2918 E. Thompson St. Doors open 6PM; Bin-go starts at 7PM. Coach ~ Kate Spade ~ Michael Kors. Tickets: $30. Door

Prizes ~ Raffles ~ BYO Snacks & Drinks. Extra boards and bingo markers will be available for sale. To purchase tickets please contact Frank Valentino at 267-408-4926; An-thony Valentino @ 215-813-0129. Thank you for your support of Mother of Divine Grace Parish.

Open House for Girlchoir NorthIf you like to sing and perform, Sister Cities Girlchoir is the place for you! Open to girls in 1st-8th grades, the Girlcho-ir rehearses weekly on Saturday in Northern Liberties and is FREE for participants. Regis-ter for a year of musical fun on Sat., Sept. 27 from 10AM-12PM at Walter Palmer Charter School (910 N. 6th St.) - Food - Meet the Teachers - Tours -Games - Music.

Bingo Sunday at American Legion Post 821, BridesburgSun., Sept. 28 at 12PM at American Legion Post 821, 4404 Salmon St. (Bridesburg). $5 and re-ceive 1 card, extra 50¢. Refreshments will be sold. Bingo starts 1PM.

Event at Fishtown LibraryThe Wagner Free Insti-tute of Science presents “Extinction: Life on Earth and Human Impact” for 6 Tuesdays, Sept. 30 to Nov. 4, 6:30PM to 7:45PM at the Fishtown Community Branch of the Free Library (1217 E. Montgomery Ave.) The course will be pre-sented by Professor Greg Cowper. No preregistra-tion required. Call 215-685-9990 for more info. Preschool Storytime will be held on Wednesdays at 10:30AM. The Amaz-ing Mr. Q is coming on Sept. 30 at 3:30PM. He will present his very funny Genie in a Bottle program. For more info, call 215-685-9990.

Nazareth Hospital’s 5th Annual Breast Cancer Education and Awareness Event with the Ladies of Port Rich-mondNazareth Hospital pres-ents its 5th annual Breast Cancer Education and Awareness Event, funded by a grant from the La-dies of Port Richmond, on Wed., Oct. 1. The event will be held at Richmond Hall (2619 E. Indiana Ave.) and will in-clude dinner, giveaways, raffle tables, and resourc-es from the American Cancer Society. Event check-in will begin at 4:30 PM. Guests will be seated by 5:15PM. Ad-

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Counting AnimalsHave you ever wondered how you could advocate against animal cruelty? Or how animal agricul-ture impacts all of our lives? If so, you might have heard of “Count-ing Animals”, a blog that gathers and presents quantitative information on the animal advocacy movement. Harish Sethu a Professor of computer sciences at Drexel Uni-versity and founder of the “Counting Animals” blog will take us inside the ani-mal advocacy movement and show us how we are quantifying our impact. On Thurs., Oct. 2, he will be giving a presenta-tion, from 6-7:30 PM at The Rotunda in Univer-sity City, appropriately named “Who We Eat”, where he will survey and examine the main factors driving factory farming. If you have seen the post-ers throughout Philadel-phia, you have seen that it has been described as an animated infographic presentation on animal agriculture. Mr. Sethu’s presentation is sponsored by The Humane League, a non-profit organization headquartered in Phila-delphia that works tire-lessly to educate people about factory farming and it’s impact on our lives (www.humanelea-gue.com).

EKNA Annual Cookout Join us for the an-nual EKNA cookout on Sat., Oct. 4 (rain date Sun., Oct. 5) from 12PM-4PM at Emerald Park (Emerald & Dau-phin). There will be live music, food, drinks, good times. Bring your own chair. Volunteers are still needed, email [email protected] if you can help with set-up, music, grilling, games, etc.

Palmer Cemetery NewsThere will be a clean up in and around Palmer Cemetery on Sat., Oct. 4 beginning at 9AM. They will concentrate on the pavements around the outside of the ceme-tery and the paths inside. Old decorations left on graves are the respon-sibility of the family’s of those buried in the cemetery, and should be removed before they de-teriorate. The trustees of the cemetery appreciate all of you that take care of their family’s resting

place while helping to care for and maintain our historic cemetery. The cost to maintain the grounds has increased this year, with tree work and the lawn care. Even small donations are ap-preciated to offset the cost to maintain the cem-etery. Donations can be made to: Palmer Ceme-tery c/o 1410 E. Palmer Street Phila PA 19125. Visit their website at Pal-mercemeteryfishtown.com for a link to contrib-ute through PAYPAL.

Pulaski Day Parade Celebrates Polish HeritageOn Sun., Oct. 5, Polish Americans in the Phila-delphia area will par-ticipate in the 81st Annual Pulaski Day Parade on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Center City, sponsored by the Polish American Congress, East-ern PA District. During October, Polish Ameri-cans celebrate National Polish American Heritage Month and the Pulaski Day Parade is one of the opening events in the Philadelphia area. The parade begins at 12:15PM from 20th and Benjamin Franklin Park-way at Logan Circle. Ev-eryone is invited to come out and view the Pulaski Day Parade or tune in to live television coverage on Channel 6 WPVI-TV from 12:30PM until 2PM. For additional in-formation call the Pol-ish American Congress office in Philadelphia at 215-922-1700 or visit PulaskiDayParade.com.

Portside Arts Center After School Arts ProgramHomework Help, Vi-sual Arts, Theater Arts & Character Education. Oct. 6, 2014 - June 16, 2015. Monday - Fridays 3-6PM. Ages: 5 - 11yrs. Cost: $15 per day. Must register for 1-month. Bus pick up for select schools. About the program: The Portside’s ASAP intro-duces children to the fun-damentals of arts educa-tion through theater arts, hands-on visual arts and arts integration program-ming, as well as character education. Parents will pick up their children from the Portside Arts Center at 6PM. Portside will provide bus service for...Our Lady of Port Richmond, St. Lauren-tius, Adaire, Hackett and Kearny. Children from other schools are welcome into program but they must provide their own transportation. Check their website…www.port-sideartscenter.org for a

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In MemoriamIn Memory of Ed Salmons

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bors are not renters. Generally, renters care less about the house they are living in than actual home buyers. The history of my own house illus-trates this nicely. Former renter-occupants, years ago, let the bathtub run until it overflowed and f looded the bathroom floor and ripped a hole through to the living room ceiling. When I bought my house “as is” I had to contend with a patio filled with discarded kids’ toys and an old swimming pool that been allowed to rot. In my basement crawlspace five feet off the basement floor, the window entrance way was covered with a cute Mar-tha Stewart draw curtain (all since removed), behind which were throw-away items of every description: chairs, kitchen utensils, broken baby dolls, piles of wood, broken furniture, more broken baby dolls, and a fossilized mouse that I wanted to present to the Mutter Museum in Center City. The image of the fos-silized mouse has stayed with me all these years. To me it is symbolic of how close some people can get, through sloppiness and carelessness, to the world of unruly farm animals. •

apart of a communi-ty,” said Darla Jackson, owner of the Sculpture Gym. The Sculpture Gym operates, not surpris-ingly, on the same model as a gym. A monthly membership g rants members access to a wood shop, metal shop, jewelry shop, forging area, ceramics area and a mold-making and cast-ing area. Jackson’s efforts at the gym have done a great deal to facilitate a com-munity of ‘making’ in

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the neighborhood. Given the Gym’s support of the Fixers Guild it seems that, to the people involved, it is important not only to have the ability to make new things but also to sus-tain the things one already has. Not everyone can be a repairman but Saturday’s event seemed to provide people with a start. “It’s giving people some sort of in between, so that people keep the stuff they have by learning to do the little fixes... and the serious stuff saving for the repair shops.” Jackson smiles when she talks about “giving people the ability to realize its possible to give

Bryan Szeliga and a volunteer fixers discuss Szeliga’s broken fan. /Photo: Matthew Albasi

what you have value.” Everyone has things too precious to replace. The Szeliga’s have a fan that they bought on the other side of the country, and have had a long on the trip that is their life together. Events like the Repair Fair help show us that we can keep the stuff that we have and don’t want to throw out, and that fixing it isn’t as hard as we might have thought. There is value in that as well. You give a man a fish, you help him for a day. But if you teach a man to fix, you help him for a lifetime. •

list of their fall classes. Portside Arts Center, 2531 E. Lehigh Ave., 215-427-1514.

Save the Date!State RepJohn Taylor’sSenior ExpoState Rep. John J. Tay-lor’s Annual Senior Expo will take place on Fri., Oct. 10 from 10AM-12 Noon at Cohox Recre-ation Center, Cedar and Ann Sts.

Ladies of Port Richmond Breast Cancer Breakfast/BrunchPlease come out and support The Ladies of Port Richmond for their 3rd Annual Breakfast/Brunch in their fight for a cure for Breast Cancer at the SugarHouse Casino on Sun., Oct. 12 from 10 AM-2PM. Cost is $28. Contact Marylou Leuters at 215-427-3222.

Ladies of Port Richmond Breast Cancer 10th YearAnniversary MassThe LOPR will hold a Research, Hope and Cure, 10th Year Anni-versary Mass on Sun., Oct. 19 at 10AM at Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Gaul & Allegh-eny Ave. Coffee and do-nuts after mass. Everyone is welcome to come and join us. For information call Marylou Leuters – 215-427-3222.•

Campbell Square EventsSat., Oct. 25, HAL-LOWEEN, 1:30-3PM - go trick or treating in the park, balloon man, arts and crafts, face paint-ing, scary music! Parents must be accompanied by children; Tues., Nov. 11: VETERANS DAY -salute to our veterans, flag raising by Korean War Veterans PFC Stan-ley A. Gogoj Chapter #38. 11AM – 12PM. Fri., Dec. 12, Christmas Tree Lighting/SANTA! Starts at 6:30PM. Light refreshments will be for sale at all events. Rain date policy: While the Friends of Campbell Square will make ev-ery effort to resched-ule events cancelled by bad weather, we cannot guarantee that alternate dates will be scheduled. The Friends of Camp-bell Square would like to thank all our local spon-sors, volunteers, Phila-delphia Parks & Rec and the Pennsylvania Horti-cultural Society. Please call John Rajca

at 267-304-2993 or Susan Ongirski at 215-426-3766 on event dates for possible cancellations. Volunteers are needed for gardening and main-tenance on Wednesday nights at 6PM.Campbell Square is located at Belgrade St. & East Allegheny Ave., in the heart of Port Richmond!

Questions About Total Joint Replacement? Nazareth Hospital Has Answers During Information Classes Thinking about having a Total Joint Replacement? Scheduled to have a Total Joint Replacement? You and your family are in-vited to learn more about Total Joint Replacement at Nazareth Hospital. The classes will be held on the following: Monday Morning Classes Begin at 11:30AM: Oct. 20, Nov. 24 (A), Dec. 15 (A), Wednesday Evening Classes Begin at 6PM: Sept. 3, Oct. 1, Nov. 5, Dec. 3. Classes at Naza-reth Hospital, located at 2701 Holme Avenue in Philadelphia, in Marian Conference Rooms A and B. To reserve your seat, call 215-335-6313. You will be asked for your name, telephone number, number of people attend-ing, date of your surgery and the name of your surgeon.

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Friends of Konrad Square Flea MarketThe Friends of Konrad Square will host a Flea Market on Sat., Sept. 20 from 8AM to 3PM at Konrad Square, Tulip and Dauphin Sts. Anyone interested in renting a space should call Vicky at 215-426-9654.

Glavin Playground Flea MarketSat., Sept. 20 - 9AM- 2PM - $10 rental space (2 blocks width). Vendors must supply your own table. Vendor set up loca-tions is FIRST COME / FIRST SERVE. No Food Vendors please. Almond and Westmoreland.

St. Michael’s Church Flea MarketSt. Michael’s Church, located at the corner of Trenton Ave. and Cum-berland (a block below Frankford Ave.), will be having a Flea Market on Sat., Sept. 27 from 10AM until 2PM. Vendor space available around the outside of the church ( you must supply your own table) for a $20 fee. If

interested kindly contact Pat Walder at 215-425-6190. No food vendors. The church staff will be sponsoring a snack bar for your eating pleasure. When attending the Flea Market, please bring a canned food item to sup-port St. Michael’s Food Pantry that serves the community.

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LOPR Breast Cancer Fundraiser Trip toResorts CasinoLadies of Port Richmond Breast Cancer is spon-soring a fundraiser at Resorts Casino in Atlan-tic City. The bus leaves from Campbell Square (Belgrade & Allegheny Ave) at 11:30AM on Sun., Oct. 26. Price is $30, Return of $25 Slot Play. Please call Mary Lou at 215-427-3222 for more information.

Trip to Lancaster with LOPRLadies of Port Rich-mond Breast Cancer is running a trip to Lan-caster on Sat., Nov. 29, to the American Theater for a show called “Joy To The World”, following a trip to Rockvale Outlets

and a Buffet Dinner at Shady Maple Restau-rant. Round trip mo-torcoach transportation and all taxes and gratu-ities are included (except driver). Cost is $105 per person with a deposit be-fore hand. Depart from Campbell Square at Belgrade and Allegheny at 9:30AM and arrive at Rockvale Outlets at 11:30AM. Arrive home approximately 9:30PM. For information call Ma-rylou at 215-427-3222.•


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