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The Art Museum
August 31st to September 1st, 2014

Featuring:
Nine Inch Nails, Beyoncé, Deadmau5, Phoenix, Queens of the Stone Age, Calvin Harris, Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, A$AP Rocky, Wiz Khalifa, Gaslight Anthem, Public Enemy, Solange

CONTAINER GARDENING WORKSHOP AT GLEN FOERD
Saturday, June 1st from 11:30am to 1:00pm
Registration required $25 for members, $35 for non-members.

Have you always admired those lovely pots of flowers at public gardens or nurseries? Want to learn how to create them for your own backyard patio? This workshop will teach you the basic techniques and design considerations to produce beautiful ornamental container plantings. This is a hands-on class, so bring your gardening gloves and a container to plant and take home. Please – no containers larger than 10 inches in diameter and height, with drainage hose in the base.

Glen Foerd on the Delaware
5001 Grant Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19114
215 632 5330

NEW YORK CITY
by the Occupy Movement

Occupy Wall Street (OWS) gets another victory! The city of NY will have to pay for destroying the OWS library, Global Revolution’s media equipment, and Time’s Up NY’s bike generators when they cleared Zuccoti Park during the eviction. The Bloomberg administration was also forced to write an essay about what it learned from the incident. “Plaintiffs and Defendants recognize that when a person’s property is removed from the city it is important that the City exercise due care and adhere to established procedures in order to protect legal rights of the property owners.”

Fans of justice will be glad to hear that New York City will pay for all those books and all that media equipment that the police trashed when it famously raided the Occupy Wall Street camp on November 15, 2011. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York just announced a $366,700 settlement in Occupy’s case against the city for the damage caused during the raid as well as all of the legal fees the movement’s poured into seeking retribution. New York City Will Pay Over $365,000 for Its Destructive Raid on Zucotti Park ADAM CLARK ESTES http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/04/new-york-city-has-fork-over-365000-its-destructive-raid-zucotti-park/64062/ also- Under the terms of today’s settlement, Brookfield agrees to pay the city $15,666.67. While not an outright admission of blame, the language Siegel referred to does read a little like the Bloomberg administration was forced to write an essay about what it learned from the incident: “Defendants acknowledge and believe it is unfortunate that, during the course of clearing Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011, books were damaged so as to render them unusable, and additional books are unaccounted for. Defendants further acknowledge and believe it unfortunate that certain library furnishings and equipment likewise were damaged so as to render them unusable, and other library furnishings and equipment may be unaccounted for. Plaintiffs and Defendants recognize that when a person’s property is removed from the city it is important that the City exercise due care and adhere to established procedures in order to protect legal rights of the property owners.” City Settles Lawsuit Over The Destruction of the Occupy Wall Street Library http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/04/city_settles_la.php see settlement agreement here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/135002275/Occupy-Wall-St-v-City-of-New-York-Settlement

PHILADELPHIA, PA — Over the past decade, PA has given tax cuts to big corporations. This has drained resources from our schools, healthcare and communities while failing to produce good jobs. Loopholes do not work as incentives, yet PA is 1 of only 8 states that has not taken common sense steps to close loopholes.  Now, Gov. “Corporate” has proposed “reform” that is a big new tax break for profitable corporations. He is making loopholes bigger!

JOIN US this Thursday April 11th 10am as we travel to Harrisburg to protest this on a day of a budget hearing about these issues. We will depart from Fight For Philly at 10am & return by 4:30pm. Come with us, invite friends on Facebook or BOTH!  Just reply to this email to rsvp.

The 227th graduating class of the Philadelphia High School for Girls (Class of 1983) celebrates its 30th reunion weekend:

Friday, May 31, 2013
Pink Marble Hall Reception at Girls’ High
5:30 – 8:30PM

Saturday, June 1, 2013
30 with Finesse Semi-formal Soiree
Manayunk Brewery & Restaurant River Club
4120 Main Street
Philadelphia, PA
7:00 – 11:00PM

Fore more information contact GHS227reunion.30@gmail.com

Mission Moment: Full House, The Need is Great

American Red Cross Southeastern PA crown jewel of disaster recovery is the Red Cross House, the only one of its kind in America. In recent weeks, Red Cross House has been exceedingly busy, often filled to capacity. In this mission moment, you’ll learn more about what Red Cross House does for disaster survivors and why it’s been full lately.

Glen Foerd is now open for guided tours on the second and fourth Saturdays each month. The next Saturday tour will take place Saturday, March 30th, then again on April 13th. Tours begin at 9:30am and 10:30am and will last about an hour. We will continue to be open to the public on Wednesdays, too, for tours at 11:00am and 12:00pm. Please call first to be sure there is access, but reservations are not required. The mansion does close on occasion for special events.

Evening tours take place on the third Tuesday of the month, the next one is scheduled for Tuesday, 4/16 at 7:00pm.

Guided tours of the mansion are also available by appointment Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, year-round. Please call at least two days ahead to plan your visit. Tours are not conducted on holidays or weekends.

The cost of a tour is $10.00 per person, $9.00 for students and seniors (65 or older).

For more information call the business office at 215 632 5330, or check our website www.glenfoerd.org.

The first-ever Franklin Institute-produced fulldome Planetarium show makes its world premiere debut.

Space exploration, our greatest adventure, is having a big impact on our lives. It is helping us to discover a universe of unimaginable scale and beauty, and it is reaching down into our world and influencing the way in which we live.

Produced by The Franklin Institute, together with Sky-Skan, and narrated by Top Gear’s James May, this brand-new technologically advanced Planetarium show takes audiences on an incredible journey from the far reaches of our known universe to our own planet. It is an extraordinary story of human ingenuity and incredible engineering, describing how the technology that transports us through space is paving the way for the devices and apps we use every day.

To Space & Back is the most visually stunning show ever presented in the Fels Planetarium.

by Jim McGovern

She had a four-wheel walker, and she was moving in super slow motion. ‘It’s a bit chilly, I need my sweater,’ she said sort of to me. But she declined my offer to help. She fussed with it for a while, but she did get it on. My bet is she is over 90. Seems that what she still can do, she wants to be sure she still does.

8:30 AM on a Saturday morn at the St Joseph’s Villa, the home for retired St Joseph nuns and a smattering of other ‘lay’ folk.

I was picking up a nun from my St. Malachy’s parish to take her over to a benefit 5k run at Valley Green not that far away. There was more activity this day as a funeral was on tap. The hearse out front, the serious yet friendly guys with the dark suits from the Funeral parlor. (I’m sure they have a more ‘politically correct’ name for them now, but I’m not sure what it is.) For sure in a retirement community such as this, funeral’s are part of the everyday flow of life and in a lot of cases, it is likely more happy than sad that the end did arrive.

The Villa really is a lot better than most of these places I have been. Cleaner and brighter for sure, but the main difference is in the attitude/behavior of the residents themselves. It would seem that these ladies, who have dedicated their lives towards serving the Lord in whatever capacity, are rewarded with a more positive and peaceful attitude as they head towards that final leg of that race we call a lifetime. Quite literally, God knows they deserve it.

I guess the major difference between these sisters and the heartbreakingly sad and lonely souls I usually see darkening the hallways in a secular rest home, is that sense of purpose and that peace of mind. Frequently ignored by their families, staring at your eyes as you walk by – longing to be noticed, to be looked at, to realize that they do and they did matter…

So, the race was run. Due to the cloudy weather and the even cloudier predictions the attendance was not great. But, everyone there seemed to have a great time. A personal friend of mine won the prize for the age 50-60 bracket. His daughter won the teenage one.

As snow showers came down, they got through the formalities and prize giving with enough dispatch that my ‘passenger’ was going to be able to make it back to the Villa, for the 10:30 funeral mass. I’ve taken her to enough places that we are getting the process down pretty well…although I usually have to wait a spell past the appointed pick-up time. Having had to do that earlier, I was able to see the old gal with the 4-wheeler shuffling back to the lobby as we loaded my sister in the car. Seems she was not going anywhere. Just taking a morning ‘constitutional’, likely to improve her health and mobility. I see very few folk there that seem to be lying around waiting to die. Would seem to me that our real Destiny is about staying alive as long as we can to do as much good as we can. I wonder about the worlds of prayer that get uttered out of that hallowed hall each day. I was not kidding when I asked my passenger for her prayers as I am struggling mightily even keeping my head afloat these days, let alone doing as my Creator wills. I know she’ll make good on her promise to do so.

Alas, this Saturday afternoon winds down. The second load of wash is in the washer and the house is cleaned up a bit. Up at the villa, there was a singing or dancing troupe scheduled this afternoon. They stay real busy up there. I really did try and try again to bring a poetry workshop up there, but the program director was too busy to get back to me. Maybe I’ll try again.