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Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools, the largest scholarship organization in Pennsylvania, hosted its annual gala at the Please Touch Museum on May 29. BLOCS funds more than 33,000 scholarships for Pre-Kindergarten to 12th-grade students. The theme was Building What Matters Most. The hostess was Alicia Vitarelli, Channel 6 Action News anchorwoman who attended Catholic […]

State Sen. Joe Picozzi spoke at last week’s Holme Circle Civic Association meeting. A day earlier, Picozzi visited St. Jerome Elementary School, the 20th school of 56 in the 5th Senatorial District that he’s visited since taking office in January. Picozzi said he is working on legislation to empower police and neighbors to end homeless […]

KleinLife, 10100 Jamison Ave., continued the celebration of its 50th anniversary by presenting a plethora of original creative works, including paintings and drawings, sculptures, videos, needlepoint, knitting and photos, as a salute to National Creativity Day. Hal Croasmun and the ScreenwritingU founded National Creativity Day in 2018 to celebrate imaginative spirits everywhere. ••

Payton Killman, May Abuayhood, GBCL president Jack O’Hara, Taaki Thomas, Abigail Frizzle.

Michael J. Crescenz Medal of Honor Rising Sun VFW Post 2819, 6850 Martins Mill Road, last week held its annual Memorial Day ceremony. Steve, Chris and Joe Crescenz represented their brother, a Cardinal Dougherty graduate who was the only Philadelphian to earn the Medal of Honor for his heroics in Vietnam. The event also included […]

The Philadelphia Protestant Home last week observed Memorial Day, with director of community relations Bill Conaway serving as emcee. Conaway asked all veterans to stand for a round of applause and explained the meaning of the table set for one for Prisoners of War and Missing in Action. Boy Scouts of America Troop 160 Scoutmaster […]

Avonna is a beautiful Neapolitan Mastiff who is about 4-5 years old. She adores people and is the sweetest, happiest girl. Avonna was underweight, overbred and desperately in need of TLC. Unfortunately, she went without proper care for her skin and eyes for too long. She had successful entropion repair, but will need eye drops […]

St. Martin of Tours Elementary School recently held a Prayer-A-Thon, with students and staff praying the rosary and paying tribute to veterans and first responders. The event took place on May 23, the start of Memorial Day weekend. In the morning, a couple of grades at a time walked around the school praying the rosary. […]

The Pennypack Music Festival will take place on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. at Cannstatter’s, 9130 Academy Road. The schedule is June 4 (Black Dog, tribute to Led Zeppelin), June 11 (Pure Petty, tribute to Tom Petty), June 18 (The Land of Ozz, tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath), June 25 (Romeo Delight, tribute to […]

A Safe Summer Gun Buyback Event will be held on Saturday, June 14, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the parking lot of St. Mark’s Church, Frankford (4442 Frankford Ave.). Community members are encouraged to bring in unwanted firearms, which will be accepted anonymously — no questions asked. In exchange, participants will receive a […]