By Amanda L. Snyder
Keisha Walker was out of work for a month standing up for what she believed was right. While the Temple University Hospital nurse returned to work on Tuesday with a new contract, she was encouraging fellow parents at her son’s school to stand together in support of their children last week.
By Jess Fuerst
At age 17, Denine, from 12th Street and Oregon Avenue, was seeing her dreams come true. “It’s funny because there was a demo out — I made it in someone’s basement — of [Bette Midler’s] ‘Wind Beneath my Wings.’ Gino came across the demo, at 17 I had met him,” Denine said of her now ex-husband but still close friend. “An independent label backed my first record, put it out and then Viper/Metro picked it up.
By Phyllis Stein-Novack
Someone recently asked me, ”if you did not become a writer, what would you be?” An interesting list popped into my head. I would love to be an actress, a jazz singer, a police detective or an orchestra conductor. My No. 1 choice: I would love to own and operate an independent bookstore. If I chose any of the above, I would still be a writer. A writer is someone you are, not what you do.
By Bill Gelman
The Philadelphia Flyers might’ve taken the Wachovia Center ice last night trailing the best-of-seven series against the Boston Bruins 2-0, but there is still plenty of fight left in the home squad. Sure they’ve been hit hard by injuries, but that is all part of the game.
