These skillful young folks have and are lending their talent to Nana's Attic, a consignment shop in the Lawrence Park Shopping Center. They have the place looking good.
The profits benefit the Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County, Inc.
If you are looking for bargains, Nana's Attic is the place to go.
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I have more good news for the saddened tree huggers who believe there is more pollution today than ever in the past.
Philadelphia's 2nd Annual Urban Shad Watch will be held at the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center tomorrow, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The shad arrive at their Schuylkill home every spring to spawn.
When they reach the fish ladder across from the Water Works, they can be seen swimming upstream in real time via the Fish Cam in the Interpretive Center's exhibit, Water and Wild Life.
The shads' return to the Schuylkill, after an absence of 100 years, represents enormous progress in the quality of the river. The Schuylkill is one of the city's two sources of drinking water. Dams and pollution forced out the shad and other species.
However, with the installation of the fish ladder in 1978, many pollution sites cleaned up, and with shad stocking upstream, the fish are returning by the thousands. Today, 45 species of fish thrive in the Philadelphia portion of the Schuylkill.
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Our state legislators can lower our school taxes simply by shaking off the shackles placed there by the powerful teachers' union and approving school vouchers.
If parents are given a chance to select a low-cost option, homeowners would benefit because school districts would be forced to reduce taxes.
Say the average cost of educating a pupil is $10,000 a year. Give the parents a $3,000 voucher and there will be a saving of $7,000 for everyone who has taken advantage of it.
So far, the only discussion about school finance is how to raise more money, most of which goes to teachers' salaries and benefits. There are other expenses too -- costly buildings, equipment and buses come to mind.
Let's think of ways to spend less and get more for the dollar.
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The Republicans in Harrisburg recently passed a bill, which would call for voters to show a form of official ID or a utility bill.
Another bill would end Philadelphia's wacky system of putting some 900 polling places in such places as bars, abandoned buildings and offices of local politicians.
City officials confess that they have a lot of ghosts on their voter rolls. Philadelphia has about as many registered voters as it has adults.
Fast Eddie Rendell vetoed both bills last month. He said (with a straight face), requiring identification could disenfranchise the homeless, nursing-home residents and the poor. He said (again with a straight face), there is no evidence that people routinely impersonate others to vote.
The legislature should pass another bill, which calls for a fine, imprisonment and the disfranchisement of anybody convicted of voter fraud.
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President Jacques Chirac has followed French tradition. He surrendered! Riotous adolescents and unshakable unions took the president of France to his knees. Apparently riots and unrest pay. It sounds a little like the Democrats.
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Off the Internet.
This was first posted August 2004
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By G. Gordon Liddy.
Good vs. Bad. I'M CONFUSED . . .
Clinton awards Halliburton no-bid contract in Yugoslavia -- good . . .
Bush awards Halliburton no-bid contract in Iraq -- bad . . .
Clinton spends $77 billion on war in Serbia -- good . . .
Bush spends $87 billion in Iraq -- bad . . .
Clinton imposes regime change in Serbia -- good . . .
Bush imposes regime change in Iraq -- bad . . .
Clinton bombs Christian Serbs on behalf of Muslim Abanian terrorists -- good . . .
Bush liberates 25 million from a genocidal dictator -- bad . . .
Clinton bombs Chinese embassy -- good . . .
Bush bombs terrorist camps -- bad . . .
Clinton commits felonies while in office -- good . . .
Bush lands on aircraft carrier in jumpsuit -- bad . . .
Clinton says mass graves in Serbia -- good . . .
Entire world says WMD in Iraq -- bad . . .
No mass graves found in Serbia -- good . . .
No WMD found in Iraq -- bad . . .
Stock market crashes in 2000 under Clinton -- good . . .
Economy on upswing under Bush -- bad . . .
Clinton refuses to take custody of Bin Laden -- good . . .
World Trade Centers fall under Bush -- bad . . .
Clinton says Saddam has nukes -- good . . .
Bush says Saddam has nukes -- bad . . .
Clinton calls for regime change in Iraq -- good . . .
Bush imposes regime change in Iraq -- bad . . .
Terrorist training in Afghanistan under Clinton -- good . . .
Bush destroys training camps in Afghanistan -- bad . . .
Milosevic not yet convicted -- good . . .
Saddam turned over for trial -- bad . . .
Ahh, it's so confusing!
