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 inCurrent 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…
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…
Posted inBUSINESS CARS AND VEHICLES WORK
Uber Pool confuses riders
I was the first of three riders and we were all a little confused about how many potential riders there could be, how far out of our way we'd be…
Posted inENVIRONMENT Public Safety WORK
Felling a diseased tree
Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation project coordinator Curt Helm oversaw the felling and removal of three large diseased trees at the Allens Lane Art Center. The trees were in…
Posted inCurrent Affairs WORK
Striking Verizon workers picket
Unionized Verizon telephone company workers (Communication Workers of America - CWA) conducting an informational picket outside the Chestnut Hill Philadelphia central station, which houses thirty to forty thousand landline connections,…
Posted inART STORES TECHNOLOGY
Makes custom pewter gifts
Kyle Gerckin, head of the caster department at Wendell August: American Made Gifts in Grove City, PA shows how to pour pewter into a custom-made mold to create an ornament. …
Posted inCARS AND VEHICLES INTERNET WOMEN
Pretty Uber driver knows where to hit you
Nine hundred dollars is how much Kabria Johnson’s friend told Johnson she made in one day driving for the ride-sharing service Uber. Out on just her third day on the…
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 inBUSINESS CARS AND VEHICLES CRIME
Car body shop manager talks shop
Your correspondent took his wife’s car to Dr. Ralph’s Automotive Services Center in Roxborough after she discovered one morning that it had been bashed overnight. While a technician was dusting…