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. [Read More…]
Category: PERSONAL GROWTH
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 [Read More…]
High School Graduate overcoming troubles
Elijah Fletcher ran away from the George Junior Republic residential school north of Pittsburgh last July because he was missing home and even missing trouble. [Read More…]
Reverend offers free prayer for Starbucks customers
The Reverend Paul Adler, installed just last summer as rector at the Episcopal Church of Saint Alban in Roxborough, Philadelphia prays for people who come [Read More…]
First Accordion Lesson
Dustin Beck gives your correspondent's wife her first accordion lesson at the Liberty Bellows Accordion Shop in South Philadelphia. We used a Groupon coupon. Watch [Read More…]
Sign Language Students Act Out
Students in an advanced American Sign Language (ASL) class offered by the Deaf-Hearing Communication Center based in Swarthmore, PA took turns acting out and signing [Read More…]
Started driving at age 33
Jamar White got his first car two years ago at age 33. He had failed his driving test when he was 16 and it wasn't [Read More…]
Sew yourself at Handcraft Workshop
Claire Chappelle had passed by the Handcraft Workshop in Germantown for a year before she ventured in and took a pillowcase-making class. So enthusiastic was [Read More…]
Taking a step away from homelessness
On the eve before Christmas Eve, Paul Rossetti was standing in the rain at the corner of Highland and Germantown Avenues hawking “One Step Away” [Read More…]
Chabad Rabbi lights public Hanukah menorah
It appeared that Rabbi Yitzchok Gurevitz’s faith in the accuracy of the weather forecast was rewarded last evening. Skies cleared just before the public lighting [Read More…]