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Saturday, May 24, 2014

A few more free things to do....

Free ice hockey clinics available
  Ridley Ice Hockey will be holding two  free  Learn to Play Hockey Clinics for new and returning players in grades 1 through 8 at IceWorks in Aston,
  A clinic will be held 5:45-6:45 pm July 13 on Rink 4 and  6:45- 7:45 June 15 on Rink 3. All players are required to wear a hockey helmet.
 For more information go to www.ridleyhockey.com or contact rihwebmaster@icloud.com

Baseball historian to speak at Norwood Library

William Kashatus of History Live! will present “Baseball’s White Elephants:  Connie Mack and the Philadelphia Athletics” at the Norwood Public Library, 513 Welcome Ave, Norwood, 6:30 pm Wed. (June 3).
  Of all the professional sports teams ever to play in the City of Brotherly Love, Connie Mack’s Athletics remain the most successful and most frustrating.  The team’s five World Series titles and nine pennants were balanced with seventeen last place finishes.  Mack’s victories as a manager were only exceeded by the losses he suffered – still a record for most losses by a single manager.  This talk will explore Mack’s talented and comedic teams, from the early days of the American League, through the glory years and final decade in Philadelphia.
  Everyone is welcome.
The jazz bands from E.T. Richardson Middle School and Springfield High School will present their final performance of the year, entitled “Jazz Under the Stars,” Saturday, May 31. The event will take place in the high school courtyard/concesssion stand area starting at 6:15 p.m. Bring a blanket or lawn chair and enjoy some “cool jazz” under the stars. In the event of rain, the concert will take place in the high school auditorium.

‘Bully’ Documentary to be screened in Prospect Park
  The Delaware County Anti-Bullying  will present a screening of the documentary “Bully” 6 pm Thursday (May 29) at the Prospect Park Fire House, 1001 Lincoln Ave., Prospect Park.
  The award winning documentary follows five students and their families over the course of one year and gives an intimate glimpse into bullying. Following the film there will be a brief discussion as well as a resources fair.
  Due to the graphic content of the film, all youth under 18 should be accompanied by an adult. For more information, visit www.thebullyproject.com./. Everyone is welcome.

Summer reading program at Folcroft Library open to kids of all ages
 The Folcroft Public Library will present many special guests this summer during its “Fizz, Boom, Read” summer program 10 am Thursdays, June 26, July 3, 10 and 17.
 The kick off program will be 7 pm June 19 and feature Ran’D Shine, master musician. Other visitors will be from Heinz Refuge Center and Winterthur Museum.
  The reading program, open to all  children from the time they can read until 12th grade, will run all summer from June 19 until August 31. For every three books read, participants will receive a special coupon. For those reading six or more books, a certificate will be sent to their school.
  Registration is required. For information, call 610-586-1690.

Activist Betsy Leondar-Wright to Speak at Pendle Hill
 Discovering class cultures can be transformative for social justice groups, says author, activist, and teacher Betsy Leondar-Wright.  She will give a multimedia talk at Pendle Hill on “Are We Missing Class?   How Awareness of Class Cultures Can Enhance Social Movement Groups,” 7:30 to 9p.m., Monday (June 2) in the Barn at Pendle Hill, 338 Plush Mill Road in Wallingford. The event is free and open to the public.
Leondar-Wright, Ph.D., was a founding board member and is currently program director for Class Action, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending classism through workshops, organizational consulting, and public education. Her new book, Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures, focuses on class dynamics in activist groups. Also the author of Class Matters: Cross-Class Alliance Building for Middle-Class Activists (2005) and co-author of The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the US Racial Wealth Divide (2006), she has led over 100 workshops all over the U.S. on classism, cross-class alliance building, and economic inequality. She teaches college sociology courses on Social Movements and on Education, Race, Class and Culture.  Following her lecture, she will sell and sign copies of her latest book.
For more information, visit www.pendlehill.org, contact John Meyer, or call 610-566-4507 ext. 129.

Media Slates Memorial Day Parade
 Media Mayor Bob McMahon and Bob Dimond of the Veterans Legacy Project announced Media's Memorial Day Parade which will be held May 26 beginning at 10a.m.
McMahon said the Memorial Day observance is meant solely to honor military personnel who have served and sacrificed their lives in the service of their country. In that, the Media event is smaller and often more solemn that the very large Veterans Day event.
Penncrest High School Band will perform the National Anthem and other patriotic numbers. Several civic, military and first responder groups will join the line-up. Remarks will be made by Lt. Col. Michael Rounds who is the current president of Williamson Free Trade School. Rounds, a West Point graduate, retired from the United States Army in 2013 after a distinguished 25-year career serving around the world in a variety of leadership roles.
The parade will take the traditional route, beginning at State and Monroe streets, with a stop and salute at the memorial at State and Jackson streets, west to Orange Street and along Front Street to the Delaware County Courthouse for the brief ceremony.
McMahon said the entire event could be expected to be less than an hour. The public from around the county is encouraged to attend to recognize and remember the legions of men and women both known and unknown to them.


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