July, 2016 - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Periscope viewers aid baby sparrow rescue

At our neighborhood train station my son and I heard lots of frantic chirping then saw a baby bird on the concrete ground. It appeared to have fallen from the…

July 30, 2016

Current Affairs PERSONAL GROWTH Poverty

She helps people find work

Sandy Ellis-Johnson, an interviewer at the Pa Career Link in Germantown (Philadelphia) office for helping people get jobs is the first staffer a person meets. According to Ellis-Johnson, employees laid…

July 30, 2016

HOBBIES NATURE

Plant swappers compete

"You bring a plant or garden-related item and you get an item that you like" explains Diane Olesik who has been coming to the Northwest (Philadelphia) Gardeners Association plant swap…

July 16, 2016

Current Affairs ENVIRONMENT EVENTS

Picnic and paddle to stop the oil trains

Under the watchful eyes of a score of officers from the Philadelphia Police foot and marine patrols, the PA Fish and Game Commission and the US Coast Guard, serious but…

July 9, 2016

Music WORK

Bethlehem and Sad Patrick play music for public

If you've ever had a butterfly collection, "Sad Patrick" says, you know the butterflies didn't die naturally- they were either stuffed in a jar and suffocated or stabbed with a…

July 2, 2016

DANCE EVENTS HISTORY

Merry Pranskters and Pure Jerry reincarnate the Grateful Dead

Watch video here. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters went around the country in the drug fueled 1960s in a school bus encouraging…

July 1, 2016