VOLUNTEERING - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Poll worker interviews candidates and poll workers

Your correspondent interviewed candidates and poll workers at the Grace Epiphany Church polling site in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, home to 3 voting divisions. Video playlist here. ----------------…

May 20, 2015

EVENTS 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…

October 25, 2014

ANIMALS ART Education

Hog Island Audubon Camp Journal 2014

Your correspondent volunteered for a week cleaning dishes and bathhouses at the Audubon Society Camp on Hog Island off of Bremen, Maine. He collected an old glass bottle encrusted with…

August 2, 2014

ENVIRONMENT NATURE NonProfits

Dozens clean up Cresheim Creek new parkland

(Above, volunteer Marilou Buffum) Dozens of volunteers showed up on Saturday to help remove invasive plants and debris from newly acquired Philadelphia parkland in Mount Airy. Efforts of the Wissahickon…

December 7, 2013

Children Current Affairs Family

Empty Bowl Dinner fights hunger and homelessness

Twenty five percent of Philadelphians live below the poverty level. This somber statistic was delivered last night to hundreds of diners, along with delicious soups and breads donated by dozens…

November 20, 2013

BUILDINGS HOUSING Poverty

Travelers Aid Kiosk offers some help

Chris Levey, a saturnine looking yet pleasant 3-day a week volunteer at the barren- looking Travelers Aide kiosk at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia says that Travelers Aide doesn’t offer…

July 16, 2013

BUSINESS HOBBIES INTERNET

We Freecycle recycle bookcase

Amy Hsu came by our house in her car to pick up a tall bookcase. She had seen my post on the popular Northwest Philly Freecycle website, where people give…

May 14, 2013

BUSINESS Education ENVIRONMENT

Life at Henry Got Crops Farm

During a break from cultivating and weeding a raised bed of peas at the Weavers Way Henry Got Crops farm in Roxborough where he volunteers, your correspondent captured a slice…

April 25, 2013

ANIMALS DISABILITY HEALTH

Donated kidney to animal rescuer needing rescue

“WHERE IS YOUR KIDNEY?” “Well, one of my kidneys is in North Carolina right now.” Hillary Rettig had been reading and thinking about donating a kidney for a few years.…

January 20, 2013

Current Affairs ENVIRONMENT VOLUNTEERING

Coop collects goods for Sandy victims

Through the initiative of one of its members, the Weavers Way Cooperative Association in Mount Airy, Philadelphia mounted a clothing and supplies drive for the victims of Hurricane Sandy which…

November 19, 2012