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Thursday, November 17, 2011

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LETTERS, from Page 4 few short blocks to Linwood Park where volunteers will be using lawn mowers to mulch the leaves. The leaves will then be used to mulch the planting beds at the park. Last fall the Friends of Linwood Park gathered many of the leaves in the park, mulched them on-site, then used them to mulch the park. We will be doing that again, but the soil and plants in the park need all the nutrients they can get (it was a parking lot after all, as we constantly realize every time we dig!), so we are happily taking the leaves from P.A.L.M. Many of the leaves at P.A.L.M. fall onto the parking area and its perimeter, so we arent stealing anybodys nutrients! It is also important to keep the area clear for safe footing for the folks who use P.A.L.M. It makes us proud to be a part of a closed loop in Linwood Park, keeping our beneficial insects happy in their home, not using harmful fertilizers and using volunteers to cut down on township expenses. It also makes us proud to be able to involve another township and neighborhood organization and use what would otherwise be their waste to help Linwood Park stay beautiful and healthy a place you want to let your kids touch the flowers and play on the grass. We welcome volunteers either at P.A.L.M. (117 Ardmore Ave., Ardmore) or at Linwood Park (corner of Linwood and Athens avenues in Ardmore) on Sunday, Dec. 4. The raking at P.A.L.M. runs from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The mulching at the park will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. We have gloves and some rakes, but please bring your own marked tools if you prefer. If you have an electric or gas-powered mower to help with the mulching please contact Kate Galer at kategaler@verizon.net. Sincerely, KATE GALER President, Friends of Linwood Park KRISTINE PRENDERGAST Welsh Valley Community Service

Positives of Gesu School education

ROSEMARY McDONOUGH, from Page 4 school teachers were members of religious orders. Today, 90 percent are members of the laity and require a living wage. We need a new financial model to address this change. So Cristo Rey schools require each student to have a job to offset their tuition. Last year, 6,900 students generated $37 million in working revenue. These jobs not only provide income; they open windows to new life experiences. One Cristo Rey student had never seen a revolving door before; now shes on full scholarship at Franklin and Marshall College. Maria Kefalas, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Richard Johnson Center for Anti-Violence at St. Josephs University. She lectures widely on the challenges facing poor families and has studied the stop snitching culture in high-crime communities. On any given day in 2006, a young black man in Philadelphia was more likely to die a violent death than a soldier in Iraq, she reported. Y oung people can help us learn how to transform school violence. For six years, Ive been a classroom aide and mentor at the Gesu School. No other volunteer work has given me more pleasure. If you would like to learn more about this inner-city gem, check out their Web site at www.gesuschool.org. Y just may change a ou childs life. Rosemary C. McDonough lives in Narberth.

Stormwater workshop could help homeowners

GREEN LIGHT, from Page 4 opportunities exist in the face of the challenge of stormwater. St. Josephs Universitys Department of Energy grant makes this workshop possible at no cost to participants. For registration information, visit www.sju.edu/stormwater. Next spring a similar workshop will be offered to landscape professionals and property managers. Patty Thompson is the conservation director for the Lower Merion Conservancy, which is installing a rain garden at its Rolling Hill Park headquarters. Want her to visit your property? She can help you with your streamside stormwater challenges at patty@dragonfly.org or 610-645-9030. Mike is back next week.

Aftershocks continue from Penn State

BONNIE SQUIRES, from Page 4 Governor Corbett is on the board of directors of Penn State University. If you check the dates, Corbett was serving his second term as attorney general of the Commonwealth when the sickening revelations about Sanduskys predatory activities first rose to the surface. So the question becomes: who knew what, and when did they know it? The doctoral dissertations that will be written about Penn State and its fall from glory, because of the cover-up, will be endless. As I write this, there are probably dozens of screenwriters knocking out television scripts for full-length movies about the fall of an icon named Joe Paterno. About the administrative paid leave of the assistant coach who had witnessed the sexual crime. About the firing of the university president and the coach who seems to have been the definition of we are Penn State. The lack of courage and moral responsibility at Penn State certainly extends to the board of trustees who did not even have the courtesy to summon Paterno to the boardroom, or to go to his home in order to deliver the edict, You are fired, effective immediately. Maybe thats the way the corporate leaders do it fire someone and instantly have that person escorted out of the building

value of meadows in buffering stormwater. Speakers from Montgomery County, the Natural Lands Trust, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, the Philadelphia Water Department and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society will help you navigate solutions for your own landscapes. Rounding out the day is a visit to Villanova by corporate security. But Paterno, despite his flaws and the Universitys campus to see some of the inmassive cover-up, after 46 years of raising situ stormwater-management features they tremendous funds for Penn State, attracting have on their campus. This workshop symbolizes the first step students and corporate donors, deserved at for a community that imagines looking forleast an in-person dismissal. One could almost feel sympathy for the ward to a walk by the stream after a rainassistant coach, McQueary, who witnessed storm because it weathered it beautifully. the alleged attack on the 10-year-old boy so Join St. Josephs University and the Lower many years ago. How could he not have Merion Conservancy in considering what intervened, as shocking as the scene must have been? How could he not have called the police immediately? The Harrisburg Patriot-News reporter is to be commended for having written frankly about the many years of suppressed attempts to gain justice for the boys who were victimized by Coach Sandusky, and the many instances of his superiors enabling a sexual pervert to continue preying upon the very at-risk kids whom he purportedly was trying to help. We cannot even begin to wrap our minds around the years of suppressed knowledge about such a heinous crime. But columnists of all stripes will certainly have fodder for years to come. Bonnie Squires writes weekly for Main Line Media News and can be reached at www.bonniesquires.com. She hosts the weekly Radnor Studio 21 interview show Bonnies Beat.

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