Meet these local soapmakers
Watch video here. Tim Minor and Theresa Peoples who originally were in IT fields started a bath and body business 14 years ago because they wanted soap where good ingredients…
Posted inANIMALS DISABILITY Elderly
52 paws delight nursing home residents
Marjorie Shoemaker brings her "Paws of the Spirit," to nursing homes and other venues. Her passel of animals include an easygoing white Labrador retriever service dog named Archie who, she…
Posted inCHESTNUT HILL Education HEALTH
Hygienist removes tartar – and invents!
Dental hygienist Kara Hershey assiduously removes tartar from your correspondent's teeth while more than holding up her end of the conversation and guardedly discloses her ideas for inventions that she…
Urges passage of paid sick leave bill in Philly
Dee Servance was canvassing door-to-door on a bitter cold winter night to raise support for a paid sick leave bill in Philadelphia. As it is now, low paid workers who…
Posted inEVENTS HEALTH VOLUNTEERING
Lisa’ Army- Pumpkin Race to help cancer patients
According to her Dad, Bill, when Lisa Loonstyn was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 20, she accelerated the process of having a baby in expectation that she would need…
Posted inCARS AND VEHICLES Education HEALTH
Drive out suicide
Tova Tenenbaum sports a “Drive Out Suicide” bumper sticker on her car’s hatchback door to make it easy for people to notice. The sticker has a crisis telephone number 1-800-273-TALK…
Posted inCurrent Affairs ENVIRONMENT HEALTH
Canvasses for clean air
Victoria Carrillo solicits memberships and petition signatures door-to-door in Chestnut Hill for the Clean Air Council of Philadelphia. The long established organization advocates for recyclling, bike trails, fracking restrictions and…
New baby, new studio at CH Fall for the Arts Fest
The youngest person at Chestnut Hill’s Fall for the Arts festival Sunday may have been two day-old Xavier Brubaker. Sleep-deprived but happy parents Japheth and Suzanne recently returned to Chestnut…
Posted inART Education ENTERTAINMENT
Combines yoga, hula hooping
Vanessa Hazzard-Tillman teaches hula hooping in East Falls, entertains at parties and at the Public Eye: Artists Animals July 4th Vegan Potluck picnic in Harper’s Meadow in Chestnut Hill, she…
Posted inEducation HEALTH Human body
Exercise science major no meathead
College students majoring in exercise science are not just a bunch of meatheads who love to work out and run around lifting up things, says Tristan VanderMeer, majoring in the…