Join the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program to help paint a mural with members of the West Philadelphia community!
No experience neccessary, all are welcome to participate.
Date: Saturday, October 29th
Time: 11:00 AM- 3:00 PM
Location: 39th and Lancaster Avenue

Help paint a mural, Bob for apples, Eat good food and decorate cookies, get your
face painted for Halloween, listen and dance to music, and lots more!!

If any of you find yourselves walking around Olney tomorrow with nothing to do…consult a police officer. Then come to LaSalle’s Homecoming. Students and non-students are welcome (Hey, when you’re here, you’re family.” Schedule of events is as follows:

11AM Oktoberfest at the Alumni Tent, Hayman parking lot.
1PM LaSalle Football game.
2PM Blackthorn performing on LaSalle’s quad in a free concert.
3PM Rugby field. E-mail me for details into “event” lol
11PM Finnegans Wake for LaSalle Alumni and over 21 students.

The Inquirer reported today that six long term Reading Terminal Market vendors have been told by the merchants’ association that they will not be renewing their leases and that they have to be out of the market by January 31st. Only one of these vendors had been planning on leaving. The merchants’ association already has two new tenants lined up to fill the gaps they are creating.

The six who have been booted are:
-Sandwich Stand (20 years at the market)
-A.A. Halteman’s Poultry (run by current owner for the last 9 years, at the market much longer)
-Tokyo Sushi Bar (25 years)
-Braverman’s Bakery (23 years)
-Franks-A-Lot (23 years)
-Nomad Trading Co. (5 years, the one who was planning on leaving)

I wasn’t aware that this was how Reading Terminal functioned. I’ve been kind of disturbed by the changes that have occurred at the market over the four years that I’ve lived in Philly. The focus has shifted to feature more national and upscale retailers, which for me undermines the purpose of the market.

Click here to read the complete article.

Hey folks, it’s that time again, when the bloggers of the city of brotherly love reluctantly remove their fingers from their QWERTY keyboards and head over to the Nodding Head (1516 Sansom 2nd Floor) to meet the rest of the blogging crew.

It’s this Saturday, October 29th and starts at 3 pm.

The second week of competition in the 4th season of the CT Hockey Association took place last night. Once again all four teams were in action with Team Hemi and The Kings going at it in the early game and The Wolfgang Pucks and Venom battling in the late game.

The Kings came in with high hopes after notching a win in their first ever game the week before. A renewed Team Hemi had different plans though totally outplaying the Kings, whom looked like the draft team they are at times. Team Hemi played as a team and out skated the individual play of the Kings. Dan Gillman got things going in the first period beating Kings goaltender Benny Peterson. Team Hemi never looked back, notching two more goals in the first period (by Anthony Merrigan and Ryan Malone). Unlike in their first game where Team Hemi came out strong but faded in the second and third, Hemi came out strong and never let up on the fledgling team. Hemi goaltender Sean Cipressi looked solid when he had to face shots only allowing two by him. On the other end of the rink Ben Peterson said,

I never went to school in Lansdale, but I lived there for a while off and on, and I thought this article was pretty interesting:

School District to Stop Reusing Cutlery

After students objected to using utensils that were often literally chewed up, the North Penn School District has agreed to end a longstanding practice of giving students plastic utensils after each meal and then washing and reusing them.

“It’s just gross. Really gross,” said Andrew Gawell, a sixth-grader at General Nash Elementary School in Towamencin Township. “You would sometimes get spoons with bite marks in them.”

The ever-informed part-time SEPTA employee Pa_SuburbanGuy has been issuing all sorts of useful info for mass consumption to the SEPTA lovers on LiveJournal. I’m going to pull some of his advice together into one post, because the man knows what he’s talking about.

!. Expect delays on Regional Rail trains early in the strike.

Be warned…it is possible that the TWU or UTU may establish picket lines at outlying Regional Rail yards in the first days of a work stoppage. If that happens, the trains will NOT roll at that location until an injunction is granted.

Union members on Regional Rail (UTU and BLET representing train and engine crews) WILL honor a TWU or UTU picket line and not cross it until it is cleared.

@. The R2 Wilmington, R5 Thorndale (maybe), and R7 Trenton lines are pretty safe from stike action.

Trenton is the only place they store equipment on the Amtrak-owned lines, since there are no storage facilities on the line to Wilmington/Newark. I’d say they’re pretty safe as well.

R5 Thorndale can get thorny, as pickets could possibly be set up at the Frazer yard entrance…

#. SEPTA has a limited number of trains they can run on the Regional Rail tracks.

Part of the problem is that SEPTA has no extra rail equipment or personnel to run extra trains. They can only get a limited number of extra trips with what they do have.

During the 1998 strike, they borrowed cars from Virginia Railway Express to create one extra trainset to run between Bryn Mawr and Center City. This time around, they do not have that option, as the cars in question have been retired by VRE, and no other agency has equipment to spare.

Also, the number of trains they can run on the R5-Thorndale, the R2-Wilmington/Newark, and the R7-Trenton are partially dictated by Amtrak schedules and their ability to handle SEPTA trains en-route or at turnaround points without delaying their own trains.

$. Strike breaking is not an option. It just doesn’t work that way in this city.

Nope…they’ve never done that. If they tried that here, things would get ugly fast.

They will run pilot trains every hour or so on the El and Broad St. Line with supervision just to keep the rails shined up and signals working.

There you go. Four pieces of strike wisdom, thanks to a local SEPTA expert. All four are direct quotes from the man himself. Now I’m going to go back to my corner and be terrified, THX.

I was standing in the trolley stop yesterday, listening to my sister’s album on the pod (for the 102nd time), waiting for SEPTA to come and take me to work, when I looked up and saw that my next door neighbor was standing three feet away. She was trying to break my music induced reverie by waving a small, orange colored piece of paper at me.

She says, “I was going to slip this under your door, but since you are here, I thought I’d pass this along now.”

“This” was an invitation to the 2nd Annual Apple Fest!, which is a fundraiser for St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, put on by their foundation. It is going to be held Thursday, November 10 from 6-9pm at the Philadelphia Horticultural Center, in Fairmount Park.

I am not able to attend, but if you are interested in an evening of Caramel Appletinis, live music, “Fabulous Fall Fare” and two auctions (silent and live) as well as supporting the construction of an Injury Prevention Center for St. Chris, please check it out.

I know this is late notice, but tonight at 6:30 the German Historical Society and Friends of Independence National Historical Park will be presenting “Poe House by Candlelight.”

For $10, the event offers a chance to explore Edgar Allan Poe’s National Site by candlelight. In addtion to a specially guided tour of the House that many feel inspired some of Poe’s greatest work — including the “Tell-Talle Heart” and “The Black Cat” — re-enactors and interpreters will provide a series of vignettes with some of Poe

Hey guys, this came my way from one of my Internet news sources. It’s not tied in directly with Philadelphia, but it’s something I’d like to hear reader and blogger response to.

Brady

Catholic school tells students to remove Internet blogs
By WAYNE PARRY
Associated Press Writer
October 26, 2005, 4:02 PM EDT

A Roman Catholic high school has ordered its students to remove personal blogs from the Internet in the name of protecting them from cyberpredators.

Students at Pope John XXIII Regional High School in Sparta appear to be heeding a directive from the principal, the Rev. Kieran McHugh, to remove personal postings about the school or themselves from Web sites like myspace.com or xanga.com, even if they were posted from the students’ home computers.

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