Non-Profit Geared Towards To Helping Women Looking For Volunteers
A non-profit who provides professional clothing and job-readiness training to women who are getting back to work is looking for volunteers.
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A non-profit who provides professional clothing and job-readiness training to women who are getting back to work is looking for volunteers.
The city's Mural Arts Program hosted a community paint day Saturday at its studio in the Gallery Shopping Mall.
Thousands of gun control advocates, including some from the Delaware Valley, are in Washington DC today for a march and rally on the national mall.
"We carry just antique and vintage merchandise only. We don't allow any new merchandise," coordinator Tony Soprano says.
Pamela Badolato, of Main Line Parent magazine, heard from a friend that a mother with six children has been turned away from the Upper Darby Food Bank earlier in the week so she reached out to her social network friends to help out.
Stakeholders in the big professional bike race held in Philadelphia every June are trying to figure out whether they can still stage this year's race, one of cycling's biggest one-day events in the United States.
Luigi Scotto, consul general of Italy in Philadelphia, says it took four hours to read off the nearly 8,000 names of Italian Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
The Campaign for Working Families in Philadelphia says now is the time to get ready.
Experts want to make sure you know how to screen the contractors you hire so you can stay safe when you need to bring someone you don't know into your home -- particularly if you live alone.
Mural Arts executive director Jane Golden says the plan is turn a benign wall of a parking garage into an 8,000-square-foot work of art.
Today, we rode along with two members of a social work team as they did their job.
Councilman Brian O'Neill now has withdrawn his plan after getting what he admits was an earful from advocates and organizers of community gardens.
Now midway into his first term, Gov. Corbett says there are "many causes crying out for funding."
"There were quite a number that were shut out of the process because it opened and closed so fast," says Broad Street race director Jim Marino, "so we felt the lottery would be a much easier way for everybody to get involved."
Conshohocken Borough's planning commission has voted down a proposal by to build a Super Wawa with a gas station on the site of a vacant former auto dealership.
Katz voiced concern that sticker shock could be in store for young families who bought in to gentrifying neighborhoods. "And if en masse large numbers of them put 'For Sale' signs out, it's going to drive the value of housing down," Katz said.
If the bond issue is approved, the average property tax bill would go up $189 a year.
At Girard College, they say about 4,000 people will give their time today, all part of the 18th annual Greater Philadelphia Day of Service.
Hunting and fishing retailer Cabela's Inc. will not participate in what has been billed as Pennsylvania's largest outdoor sports show next month following the decision to ban the display and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
The concert begins at 4pm on MLK Day at Martin Luther King High School, and the orchestra's new music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will be there.
The Philadelphia School Reform Commission (SRC) voted late last week to not renew the city's oldest charter school.
Artistic director and conductor Peter Nero says one of the highlights of the show is jazz pianist Marcus Roberts, who will perform Rhapsody in Blue.
Monday morning from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., it will be the 12th year of the "Hoops From The Heart" MLK Day of Service initiative.
The City of Philadelphia will be declaring a "code blue" at 6 p.m. Sunday.
If you're looking to lose weight and feel better, it may not simply be a matter of eating less and exercising more.
