Mifflin students claim prize-winning orchids and art; good eats on May 5
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ifflin students continued to distinguish themselves in March, with the latest standout performances coming at the Philadelphia Flower Show. Mifflin student Daiyanah Winning entries at the Philadelphia Flower Show from Mifflin students Brielle Gibson won a second place Canady (r), who captured a third place award, and Daiyanah Gibson, whose entry award for her Princess Canary won a second place finish. Photo by Marie Filiponni.
April 2019
Vol. 1, No. 12
Philaenopsis Fuller’s Gold orchid, and Brielle Canady won third place for her entry in the same category. Joining Daiyanah and Bielle in entering the orchid competition were their Mifflin school mates Tamir Sidney, Essence Coleman-Bey, Neveah Jones,
Leeasia Chance, Jayda Wright and Zion Norns. Leslie Mason, Mifflin Principal, offered thanks to Barbara Schmidt for supplying the orchids and showing the students how to tend them. She also thanked Johanna Schoeller (Continued on page 11)
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More changes implemented on Henry Ave. by John T Gillespie
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ork crews are continuing to install new safety devices and speed warnings in the accident-prone 3900 block of Henry Ave. between School House Ln. and W. Coulter St. Two temporary radar speed signs, also known as driver feedback signs placed at each
Ln. from 7 am to 4 pm weekdays through late May. A PennDOT statement said its contractor will rehabilitate the structure over Monoshone Creek by performing scour rock placement repairs, repairing stone masonry and milling and overlaying the roadway surface. The single-span bridge was built in 1816. It has two-
to make the road easier to see and follow at night. Other changes include 10,400 linear feet of milled rumble strips -the kind employed on approaches to highway toll booths -- and 24,000 feet of hot yellow thermoplastic striping. The purpose is to make delineation of the road clearer and to warn drivers in advance of the sharp curve, which undoubtedly played a role in the late night fatal crash Jan. 27 when a car, traveling north at high speed, left the road, knocked over a utility pole and destroyed a stone wall. The driver, alone in the car, was killed. Scott Palimeno of Prudent Engineering said that PennDOT was treating the job as a “priority” in response to the fatal crash. The state agency is planning major changes on Henry Ave. between Allegheny Ave. and Port Royal Rd. in Andorra, but they remain at least a year or two in the future. Following the Jan. 27 crash, Philadelphia Deputy
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end of the block in February, have been replaced with permanent yellow flashing 25 mph signs, also at both ends of the block. Workers from Prudent Engineering in King of Prussia and Atlas Signs in Pottstown have plans to install raised pavement reflectors along a new four-inch double yellow center line and the shoulders, the goal being
Lane closure set for Wissahickon Ave.
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s East Falls NOW was going to press the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced that construction would begin Mon., March 25, to rehabilitate the bridge carrying Wissahickon Ave. over Monoshone Creek in Philadelphia. The work will close one lane of Wissahickon Ave. between Lincoln Dr. and Rittenhouse
East Fall’s Frank Kaderabek – a look back at life with the Phila. Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra was a great sell,” says Kaderabek. “RCA recorded everything aving just started his we did! “ new job as lead trumpet After Ormandy, there was for the Philadelphia Riccardo Muti and Wolfgang Orchestra, Frank Kaderabek Sawallisch, but Ormandy occuwas surprised to receive the fol- pied pride of place for Frank. lowing note from an admirer: “Playing for him was the best “I was at the Messiah perforfive years of my professional life. mance last Monday. Your play- The orchestra was his family. ing lifted me out of my seat!” He was totally dedicated.” The admirer was Gretel Of another legendary and earOrmandy, wife of Frank’s new lier Philadelphia maestro, boss and maestro, Eugene Leopold Stokowski, or Stoky, Ormandy. The so-called Frank says, “He had a great ear “Philadelphia sound” that for sound.” But when Stokowski Ormandy is said to have asked him to leave his first job inspired – a blend of lush inter- with the Dallas Symphony and pretations and sweeping break his contract to join him strings – was captured in more and the Houston Symphony, than 100 recordings by RCA and Frank, already under contract to later by EMI. join the Chicago Symphony, ”The combination of Ormandy refused.
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The Cold War was a good time for culture. “The Soviets were constantly saying we had no culture,” says Frank. Symphonies responded by doubling the playing seasons from 20 to 42 weeks and 200 performances. Musicians were contracted to play eight times a week, including four performances and four rehearsals. That meant staying in shape physically and mentally. Frank was 46 when he joined the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1975. At the time he was playing third trumpet with the Chicago Symphony when the call came to audition. Exactly one year earlier Frank and his wife, Mary, had rejected a summons from the New York Phil(Continued on page 10)
New blinking speed signs posted at both ends of the 3900 Block of Henry Ave. in mid-March, following a Jan. 27 one-car fatal crash. (Photo by Bill Epstein.)
No meeting April 8; Grant Apps Due April 15; Nominations open Due to a lack of official business the Monday, April 8 general membership meeting of the East Falls Community Council has been cancelled. But we have real news: Arboretum Clean-up The annual Mifflin Arboretum Clean-Up is scheduled for 10 am Saturday, April 6. Join your neighbors in helping to shape up this important site. Lunch will be provided. Grants Apps due April 15 The deadline for applications to the EFCC’s Grants Committee is April 15. Visit the EFCC website, eastfallscommunity.org, for the application form. Nominations Nominations for all EFCC officer positions can be made at info@eastfallscommunity.org, Atention: Search Committee. Elections will be held at the June 10 general membership meeting following the presentation of nom-
inations and acceptance of nominations from the floor at the May 13 meeting. The officer positions are President, Vice President for Zoning, Vice President for Events, Treasurer, Corresponding Secretary/Communications Director, Recording Secretary/Grants Chair and Executive Committee Members-at-Large. Zoning meeting The Community Council’s Zoning Committee will meet at 7 pm Wed., April 17 in Downs Hall on the Jefferson University campus. As of East Falls NOW press time the agenda includes work proposed on a property on Conrad St. near Sunnyside Ave., and a proposal to change the use of the ballroom/events space in Sherman Mills. Details will be posted at eastfallscommunity.org., and in the EFCC’s weekly email newsletter. Anyone not receiving the email can contact info@eastfallscommunity.org.
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