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Northeast Philadelphia

Northeast: Comics & Memorabilia Store Gets Collectors In The Game

April 30, 2014  0

https://vimeo.com/93045443] The Garden of Earthly Delights, located in Northeast Philadelphia, houses thousands of collectibles as well as numerous volumes of hundreds of different comic books, including some that date back to the 1960s. Owner Chuck […]

Bridesburg

Bridesburg: Delaware Avenue Extension to Help Traffic, Increase Waterfront Access

April 30, 2014  0

The Bridesburg community is in the midst of a major change. The Philadelphia Department of Streets has embarked on the first new major road creation in more than a decade – the extension of Delaware […]

Mantua

Lancaster Avenue: Human Rights Coalition Starts Letter Writing Night to Prisoners

April 29, 2014  1

In the little room of the Lancaster Avenue Autonomous Space, three members of the Human Rights Coalition focused on the papers in front of them. HRC Facilitator, Patricia Vickers turned to member Karen Lee and […]

Education

Juniata Park: Saint Lucy’s Offers New Tools for the Visually Impaired

April 29, 2014  1

As students worked quietly in the classrooms at Saint Lucy’s, Principal Sister Lisa Ann Lettiere walked briskly down the hall towards one of the classrooms in the back of the school. “There are 40 students […]

Education

City Schools: Makerspaces Providing Resources for Creativity and Innovation

April 29, 2014  0

Klint Kanopka still remembers the time when technology’s purpose in school could be boiled down to defeating your classmates on the Oregon Trail. “Even shop class used to carry a negative stigma,” Kanopka said, “and […]

Amateur Sports

Fairmount Park: Yoga Class Nourishes Cancer Patients

April 29, 2014  0

Michelle Stortz has been practicing yoga for a little more than a decade but in 2008 found a new, profound purpose for the activity. Stortz’s husband, Jonathan Mark Lustig, was diagnosed with cancer. In an […]

Gayborhood

LGBTQIA: Directive 152 and Ending Discrimination Against the Trans Community

April 28, 2014  0

Imagine the fear, frustration and mistrust you might feel upon being called ma’am when you’d clearly rather be called sir – or vice versa. This is the struggle transgender people of Philadelphia have been fighting. […]

Southwest Philadelphia

Southwest Philadelphia: Revitalizing the Schuylkill by Bartram’s Garden

April 28, 2014  0

Over the summer, Bartram’s Garden hosted a meeting to get community feedback on the Bartram’s Mile, a stretch of trail that would connect Bartram’s to the Schuylkill River Trail that currently ends around South Street. […]

Environment

Waterfront: Cooperation Is The Name Of The Game

April 28, 2014  0

Jacob’s Ladder, Solomon’s Seal and Shooting Star. No, these aren’t references to characters and events from the bible. Yet, as the shooting star signaled the birth of Jesus to the three wise men, so too […]

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Northeast Philadelphia

Northeast: Holocaust Awareness Museum Brings Together Students, Survivors

April 25, 2014 tub10245 0

https://vimeo.com/92579370] The Holocaust Awareness Museum, which opened in 1961, is located inside the Klein Jewish Community Center at 10100 Jamison Ave. It has held many events, including one on April 11, which brought 139 students from five […]

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