Come check out the second annual Mt. Airy Kids' Literary Festival- from Friday, April 11 to Sunday, April 13, 2008, presented by the Big Blue Marble Bookstore in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia! Authors/illustrators/musicians include Two of a Kind, Alix Berenzy, Charlene Crawford, Dar Hosta, Adam Rex,Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Eloise Prescott, Muriel Feelings, Miriam Peskowitz, and Denise Valentine.

Here's the full schedule:

Mt. Airy Kids' Literary Festival
Friday April 11 through Sunday April 13, 2008
Friday, April 11

7:00-7:45pm - KIDS' CONCERT! with Two of a Kind.
Location: Big Blue Marble Cafe
Saturday, April 12

10:30am - Olivia Crafty Fun and Activities! (For preschoolers and younger readers)
Location: Big Blue Marble Cafe
Join Olivia the pig, and color, cut, and race her through a variety of paper activities.
With pastry refreshments from High Point Cafe.
Sponsored by High Point Cafe

11:00am - Reading and Collage/Art Activity with Dar Hosta, author of Mavis & Her Marvelous Mooncakes and If I Were a Tree.
Location: Big Blue Marble Cafe

12:00pm - Reading with Alix Berenzy, author of Sammy the Classroom Guinea Pig.
Location: Big Blue Marble Cafe
With refreshments from Weavers Way.
Sponsored by Weavers Way Co-op

12:45pm - Game/Giveaways!
Location: Big Blue Marble
Wander around the Big Blue Marble and participate in games and giveaways of kid literary fun!

1:00pm - Reading with Charlene Crawford, author of Adventures with Granny in the Garden.
Location: Big Blue Marble Cafe

2:00pm - Reading with Adam Rex, author of The True Meaning of Smekday and Pssst!
Location: Big Blue Marble Cafe

3:00pm - Reading with Catherine Gilbert Murdock, author of Dairy Queen and Princess Ben.
Location: Big Blue Marble Cafe

4:00pm - Daring Book for Girls Scavenger Hunt/Book Signing! Join us while we scavenge for books, following clues around the Big Blue Marble, and meet Miriam Peskowitz, co-author of The Daring Book for Girls.
Location: Big Blue Marble Cafe

5:00pm - Favorite Bedtime Story Reading!
Location: Maternal Wellness Center
Join the folks at the Maternal Wellness Center and cuddle up in their community living room for a cozy bedtime story reading. Kids, come dressed in your pajamas, share your stories, and eat snacks.
Sponsored by the Maternal Wellness Center
Sunday, April 13

12:30pm - Craft/Art Activity and Signing with Jan Jugran, author of Willow Becomes Brave and Puppy Love.
Location: Big Blue Marble Cafe

1:30pm - Reading with Muriel Feelings, author of Jambo means Hello and Moja means One.
Location: Big Blue Marble Cafe

2:30 - Storytelling with Denise Valentine, of Keepers of the Culture Storytelling Organization.
Location: Big Blue Marble Cafe

3:30 - Reading with Eloise Prescott, author of Aisha's Crowning Glory.
Location: Big Blue Marble Cafe

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If you are a Philadelphia resident who is unemployed, employed part-time, or under-employed, JEVS/Orleans Technical Institute has a FREE Job Placement Program available throughout January to May.

Applicants must be Philadelphia residents 18 years of age or older who are seeking full-time employment. The program will do a complete assessment of skills and work history to help determine a job that will be a good match. Participants must also meet the low-income government guidelines but not receiving cash assistance from welfare.

All participants will attend an intensive two-day job readiness program where they will learn to set up an email account for jobs and practice interviewing skills. The staff will prepare an effective resume and cover letter. They will also learn how to do a thorough Internet job search to help assist in their employment goals. Successful participants who find employment will be eligible to receive a gift card for $50.00 after their first month of employment.

The program is located at 1330 Rhawn Street in Northeast Philadelphia, accessible to public transportation from anywhere within the city. If you would like to join this excellent source of job searching support, please call Stephanie Scotton at at 215-728-4709 for more information.###

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There is going to be a new market opening in East Falls; basically a neighborhood version of Pike's Market in Seattle or our own Reading Terminal Market.

Check out these upcoming beautiful poetry events in November:

Wednesday, November 14, 7:00pm. Poetry with Pandora Scooter and Samantha Barrow. Spoken wordsmiths Pandora Scooter (NJ) and Samantha Barrow (Philly-now-NYC) share new works inspired by motorcycles, sexuality, life, vegetarianism, introspection and love. Amazingly supportive of each other's work, Sam and Pandora go together like a Philadelphia Book Store and a poetry reading. Don't miss the fun!

Tuesday, November 20, 7:00pm.Poetry with Marion Cohen and Elaine Terranova. Marion Cohen’s new book, Crossing the Equal Sign, consists of poetry about the experience of mathematics. Her own experience of math has been as mathematician, mathprof, and most of all math lover. Her books total seventeen, and her previous book before crossing was Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a Well Spouse. Other interests are classical piano, singing, Scrabble, thrift-shopping, four grown children, and two gran's. Elaine Terranova was named a Pew Fellow in the Arts for 2006. Her most recent book of poems, NOT TO: New and Selected Poems, was nominated for a Pulitzer. For her first book, The Cult of the Right Hand, she won the 1990 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. She has received an NEA fellowship and two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships for her poetry. Her poems have been published in The New Yorker, Prairie Schooner, The American Poetry Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Antioch Review and other magazines and appear in various anthologies.

At: Big Blue Marble Bookstore
551 Carpenter Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19119
215-844-1870
www.bigbluemarblebooks.com

All events are free and open to everyone.

NO MORE HARMFUL REAL ESTATE DEALS BLESSED BY POLITICIANS AND CORRUPT DYSFUNCTIONAL MUNICIPAL SYSTEM!

East Sydney Street Needs City Wide help and support. If EAst Sydney street can WIN their right to orderly , healthy and inclusionary development -- the whole city can WIN. Leave a message at 215 525 1176 to lend your help and ideas. We need lawyers, publicity and DUST CONTROL!!!! We need to mobilize for the average citizen of Philadelphia. We need full transparency and exposure of the violations done in this project and the harm to our neighborhood. Neighborhoods are for Neighbors!

The City of Philadelphia needs its Day of Reckoning about how it treats its average citizen. East Sydney Street is a small one way rowhouse street in East Mt Airy but the problems inherent in this disaster reflect the greater issues of municipal corruption and abuse toward citizens in Philadelphia. If we can solve and expose the problems on East Sydney Street -it will force the city to be more accountable to other neighborhoods.

I have a lot of information. The residents on this street , who are mainly women and children have a lot to say, but we need help from the outside.

My neighborhood has suffered the results of an extremely bad plan, riddled with violations and environmental and social harm. We have suffered through the failed partial construction of this plan for over a year. We have ended up in the emergency room because of dust and other chemicals in the air and other factors listed below. Please Help. Please condemn this partially constructed site and start over with a better plan. PLease Attend NW GREEN PLAN Meeting on Tuesday OCT 9 at Library at Chelton and Green.

East Sydney Street continues to be violated by the City of Philadelphia
and the developer friends they protect. I have spoken to more and more
women on my street. We are all extremely angry at how this City and
this City has abused our way of life, our health and our property and our
children and the future of our respiratory health.

This is a very serious matter and we have many children on our street.
These are only some of the issues that our neighborhood has been
suffering.
1) Construction is poor and lowers the standard of living in our
neighborhood. Adds Congestion and Noise.

2) Public Health Hazards of Long Term Uncontrolled Dust is dangerous
to the health and future health of you and your children.
3) Many woman on East Sydney Street have experienced sexual
harassment by construction crew.
4) The children are forced to change their play areas to get away from
the construction.
5) The construction site has been regularly used as a “clubhouse” for
drunkenness, drugs and disorderly conduct. Rise in crime.
6) Our cars are constantly full of dust. We can’t walk to our cars, the train
or into our homes without getting dust on us.
7) Neighbors closest to the site cannot use their porches or backyards
because ot the dust hazards.
8) The city allowed us to be without a functioning fire hydrant for a year
or more, causing potential fire danger to our neighborhood.
9) Site was always an industrial site. It was coal yard for many decades,
Brick company, contractor’s storage yard, automotive storage and
underground gasoline tank. We were exposed to that contaminated
dust. This is a crime.
10) The Water Department gave violations for dust from a
Contaminated site and did not inform the neighbors of the health
hazards.

11) This unfinished project is a magnate to crime and pollution and
unlivable and harm to the neighborhood..

12) Ask that Green Plan, a division of the City Planning Commission
take over this site and use Green Plan principals to work with the
neighbors to create a place of health and beauty for our children and
future generations.
Please help. For once please help create a healthy neighborhood for
the people who live here and stop allowing builders to abuse and harm
us. The dust pollutants are illegal and our civil rights and health have
been violated.

This crime against this neighborhood must be corrected in full.

GO to NW GREENPLAN Meeting on Tuesday Oct 9, at Library Greene and Chelton

Madmags

East Sydney Street Needs City Wide help and support. If EAst Sydney street can WIN their right to orderly , healthy and inclusionary development -- the whole city can WIN.

HARRY POTTER MADNESS!

Friday, July 20 and Saturday, July 21.

Harry Potter Book Release Party! The party starts at 7:30 pm with a handmade costume contest (with a chance to win a free book!), then the night is filled with a Harry Potter band, ''The Marauders'' , playing a smashing set of Potter tunes, plus card games, crafty circles, Potter trivia and dialogue, a kids' section filled with multimedia activities and crafts, and more! Midnight starts the book release; remember to preorder your book. Recommended for ages 7 and up.

This summer, the Sedgwick Theater was home to Films at the Sedgwick, and on First Friday, we brought Movies back to the Avenue in Mt. Airy. It was great fun and demonstrated once again that Mt. Airy wants a movie theater. So where do we go from here? Well, we’re thinking BIG and starting small.

Introducing Sedgwick’s baby sister—the Little Theater in Video Library, 7141 Germantown Avenue. Beginning on First Friday, November 3, the Little Theater officially joins the Avenue and Films at the Sedgwick will have movies every Friday and Saturday evening. With all the ambience of a movie theater, the Little Theater is an intimate setting where 25 family, friends and neighbors can view movie favorites, recent or classic, that they might have missed or want to share with others.

Visit our website to learn more about the Little Theater, and for a listing of what's playing tonight and in November!

-David Titus
Director, Films at the Sedgwick
www.filmsatthesedgwick.com
filmsatthesedgwick@gmail.com

If little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff, did the other kids make fun of him?

If I'm leavin' on a jet plane, is it because you laugh at me?

When I'm 500 miles away from home, can I find some respect?

If I had a hammer, would I hit someone?

If this land is your land, will you let me in?

Don't think twice it's alright, the answer is blowin' in the wind.

If these lines make sense to you:
(a) you're a folkie,
(b) you live in Mt. Airy,
(c) you're a flower child,
(d) you're a child of a flower child, or
(e) all of the above.

If they don't make sense, then like me you may need to Google a guy named Peter Yarrow.

Or if even Google is to slow for your information acquiring needs: Peter Yarrow is the Peter of Peter, Paul and Mary. Yeah, that Peter. Who knew they had last names? (If you're still stumbling here, talk to anyone who fits items a - e, above.)

Peter, Paul and Mary are still at it. In fact, you can catch them at The Kimmel Center on June 3rd.

The Mifflin School in East Falls ascends! See the East Falls School Committee Blog for more.

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Formed in the Summer of 2002 to explore/promote public school options in East Falls. The EFSC’s primary mission is to support the Mifflin School in East Falls. We meet on the first Wednesday of every month (except for July and August) at 7:00 PM at the Presbyterian Church at the corner of Midvale and Vaux Streets. These meetings are open to the public, including Mifflin staff, parents of Mifflin students, and any other concerned or interested citizens from the broader community. The EFSC is a committee of the East Falls Community Council, one of three major East Falls civic groups; the others are the East Falls Development Corporation and the East Falls Business Association.

If you're considering public school options, come find out why the Mifflin School in East Falls might be a great choice. See the East Falls School Committee for more info.

East Falls heartily welcomes Ms. Allyssa Schmitt as the new principal of the Mifflin School. Prior to beginning her tenure at Mifflin, Principal Schmitt was a teacher in the Pittsburgh Public School System for fourteen years. Principal Schmitt has had a multitude of urban teaching and administrative experiences in Pittsburgh and is thrilled to be collaborating with the East Falls community. The East Falls School Committee looks forward to a long and productive relationship between Principal Schmitt, her leadership team, and the broader East Falls community as we work to make Mifflin the best grammar school in the City.

See the East Falls School Committee blog for more info

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We'll be meeting at the Presbyterian Church at the corner of Midvale and Vaux Streets in East Falls. We'll be talking about the Mifflin School and the various initiatives we're working on.

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