By Amanda L. Snyder
Cheerleaders at a local school have found a new way to bond with their grandmothers. The students have been sitting around after school once a week over the past four months with a needle and skein of yarn in hand — all for a good cause.
By Jess Fuerst
Before the earthquake in Haiti made the country’s failing infrastructure the topic of conversation, children of all ages were spending their nights on the street corners of Port-au-Prince. When the massive January natural disaster leveled buildings and put three million people in need of emergency aid, those same kids, who had no home, were largely unaffected.
By Phyllis Stein-Novack
My Viennese-born grandmother was a master home baker. As a little girl, my eyes filled with wonder while I watched her carefully pull homemade strudel dough, stretching it and stretching it over a large floured English linen tablecloth. She filled it with apples, raisins and cinnamon.
Swishes and well-wishes dominated the proceedings Saturday at Neumann-Goretti High School, 1736 S. 10th St., as Philly Girls Got Game — a new organization that hopes to use basketball to inspire girls’ entire lives — hosted its debut event.
