More than 500 participants in the American Horticultural Society’s “Growing Fertile Minds and Communities”conference will visit the Camden Children’s Garden from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 26. The Garden is co-hosting the conference along with Longwood Gardens, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and Winterthur Museum and Country Estate. This is the 16th annual National Children and Youth Garden Symposium sponsored by AHS, the largest and oldest organization of its kind in the nation.

KICKS
(Kiwanis International Charity Kickball Tournament)
These KICKS are for kids!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
12-6 p.m.
Kendrick Recreation Center
Manayunk, PA

Join the fun!
Help to raise money for disadvantaged and physically challenged Philadelphia children by playing kickball! Get a team together (10 person/3 female minimum) and sign up today at http://www.uckiwanis.com The registration deadline is September 5, 2008.

A $12 registration fee (per person) includes at least 2 playoff games, a BBQ, AND an AFTER-PARTY complete with drink specials at Kildare’s in Manayunk!

Prizes will be awarded to the top teams and the team with the most team spirit.
Proceeds from the tournament will benefit the Variety Children’s Charity of Philadelphia and the Kendrick Recreation Center.

*Tournament will be held rain or shine.

MiND: Media Independence is an open forum where ideas are exchanged via 5-minute television programs. MiND is the only place on television where all of our voices can be heard – it’s about community participation, knowledge sharing and improving our world.

Come meet us in person (when’s the last time you heard that from a TV station?) Attend the MiND Open House on May 28th and meet our staff, learn about MiND, tour our studio and meet others in the community.

Thursday, July 31st
4:30 – 6:30pm
8200 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19128

RSVP to membership@mindtv.org
215.483-3900 x228

MiND is Media for the People, By the People

St. Michael’s Lutheran Church, 6671 Germantown Ave., is holding a community-wide flea market, book drive and fun day to benefit the Emlen School on Saturday, July 12 from 9:00 am – 2:00 pm. The rain date is Saturday, July 19.

In addition to the flea market, there will be a barbecue, activities for children, singing, praise dance, and knitting lessons.

St. Michael's is looking for people to rent tables ($10 donation), donate elementary age books (new or used and in good condition), and/or provide bookstore gift certificates or tax deductible cash donations for the school.

This is the second community event and fund raiser that St. Michael’s has organized to benefit Emlen. St. Michael's is concerned about inequities in the education system and decided to partner with its local public elementary school to support its success. St. Michael's hopes to provide mentors for students in the fall. St. Michael's sees the flea market as a way to raise community awareness and show give support to one of our local public schools.

For information about the flea market, to rent a table or make donations: Kathryn Mariani 215-380-0842 or kathrynmariani@aol.com. For information on how to partner with St. Michael’s to support the Emlen School, contact the church office at 215-848-0199.

Baltimore Ave mommy meet up is embarking on its second meeting. Please join us on June 28, 2008, at noon in Clark Park. This is yet another incentive for moms in the area to come to the park. Every Saturday Clark Park host a farmer's market and every month a fleamarket. So grab the kids, stock up on fresh produce, and stop by the mommy meet up. See you then.

ABOUT THE GROUP:
Meet mothers from the West Philadelphia and University City area who frequent or live nearby Baltimore Ave. With the avenues rich diversity and welcoming atmosphere, I find it fitting to create a mommy meet up here. I envision this group tailoring to moms who want to utilize Clark Park as an outside meeting place and a safe place for our children to play. This meet up is particularly for mothers who are interested in becoming educated consumers and long to green our lives and our children. Our future will depend on our relationship with the environment. Do we protect it and respect it? Now more than ever, global warming and climate change are receiving a lot of media attention and we are being taught different techniques to reduce our carbon emission but what does that mean for mothers. It doesn't have to be overwhelming and we can't expect to be able to do everything but every little bit helps. So, what can we, as mothers, do? And how does what we do now impact our children's future? I hope this organization will give you better insight into how the safety and health of our children are tied to the environment.

For more information: http://sahm.meetup.com/2904
sahm-2904@meetup.com

The latest and most informative website site for Seger Park located between 10th and 11th Streets in Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia - Seger Park

If you like, you can visit the site through Friends of Seger Park.

The Mad Poets Society Fox Chase Reading Series will feature poets Vincent Quatroche and Alla Vilnyanskaya on Saturday June 28th at The Three Sisters Corner Café located at Barnes and Loney Streets in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia. The reading begins at 2pm.

Vincent Quatroche is a poet and professor from Fredonia State University in New York. He has recorded several cd’s to include “In Dreamthink” and “Matador From Another Planet”. Quatroche has published several volumes of prose and poetry most recently “Cyberstein”. His website is www.rubbereden.com

Alla Vilnyanskaya was born in the Ukraine and moved to the U.S. when she was 8 years old. She has been writing poetry since the age of sixteen. Vilnyanskaya is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a B.A. in Communications and writing with a poetry track. Her work has been published in online journals such as Flutter, Aurora Review, Lost Beat Poetry and the Fox Chase Review.

Please visit the Fox Chase Review at www.foxchasereview.org to read the works of Quatroche and Vilnyanskaya.

EXPERIENCE GUANTÁNAMO
IN Philadelphia
Visit Amnesty International’s replica of a Guantánamo cell and join us in calling on the U.S. government to charge detainees and give them fair trials, or release them. Indefinite detention without charge or fair trial is illegal and violates American principles of justice.
When:
Friday, May 30th, 1pm – 7pm
Saturday, May 31st, 9am – 7pm
Sunday, June 1st, 10am – 5pm
Where:
Dilworth Plaza, 1400 JFK Blvd, Philadelphia, PA
Special EVENT:
Saturday, May 31st, Noon – 2pm
FREE admission to the cell & special event
Info: www.amnestyusa.org/celltour

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For Immediate Release:

Presents

“DRIVING THE VOTE, BRIDGING THE GAP”
Concert
Featuring
Wildphyr
Other names to be announced

April 20, 2008
Festival Pier at Penn’s Landings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

“We are not our government”
“We will make our government again”

OUR MISSION
To inspire young Americans to be a part of their political process. To help them understand that it is their government and they have a voice. That America began as and still is “We the people! By the people! For the people!” - Realize the best way to create positive change at home and abroad is to exercise your right to vote, speak out and make a difference.
The show, “Americans on the Mend”, is a non-partisan event to encourage young Americans support the democratic process and express their freedoms by voting and / or registering to vote. The show includes political speakers, bands and other talents from all genres. Sponsors such as “The Association of Diversity in Motor Sports”, “Rock the Vote”, and political candidates will have representatives delivering their message throughout the venues.
“Americans on the Mend”, founded by Griffin Stewart in Los Angeles, CA, is continuing to build momentum after completion of its tour though Los Angeles, Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus and now has reached the political hotbed of Philadelphia. Griffin, a Philadelphia area native, is quoted; “voting is a choice that we make as individuals that connects us to our communities and to our country. It is our freedom to challenge our elected representatives to enact on the will of the people.” Griffin has spent the last few years developing the band Wildphyr which organized the show in Los Angeles to helped boost voter turnout for the Super Tuesday elections in California. Recent speakers at our events include Rev Michael Beckwith from the movie “The Secret” and Councilman Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles.
“Americans on the Mend” has been working with the campaigns to reach all Americans to help make a choice in this import historical election.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

THE ASSOCIATION FOR DIVERSITY IN MOTORSPORTS KICKS OFF
“DRIVING THE VOTE, BRIDGING THE GAP”

Association For Diversity in Motorsports promotes educating the youth in achieving professional opportunities in Motorsports.

(Greensboro, NC) -- The Association For Diversity In Motorsports (AFDIM) and Infinity Business Affiliates INC., will be traveling throughout the country to various Motorsports and political venues, registering new voters and educating various groups about the business/career opportunities and family entertainment found in Motorsports.
This 2008 “Driving The Vote, Bridging The Gap” voter awareness drive gives AFDIM, with the assistance of strategic Corporate sponsors, the chance to make Motorsports fans a “voice to be heard” on social issues as well as expands the opportunity to become Professionals in Motorsports, for a more diverse community of youth. In the media, we always hear about the “Soccer mom”. AFDIM and its partners now believe, it’s time for the “Motorsports Mom and Dad” to have a voice.
We will have “Driving The Vote, Bridging The Gap” booths at various Motorsports sponsored races. Also, as we travel across the country, we will have representatives from local/national civic and political groups, celebrities, corporations and media outlets appear in support of our drive. From NASCAR to Drifting, “We will be voters encouraging new voters to register until the deadline for the 2008 Presidential election. After the voter registration deadline we will be reminding people to vote in November”, said Wayne Clapp, Executive Director of AFDIM.
The “Driving The Vote, Bridging The Gap” voter registrations drive will not stop after the November 2008 Presidential election. This database of new politically active Motorsports fans and other individuals that pledge their support will be followed-up with electronically or by mail with our monthly newsletter highlighting racing news and whatever social issues our readers say are the most important to them. We will then inform the rest of the community on the issues of importance and how, together, we can lend our voice or letters to effect change.

Throughout the year we will be fundraising through concerts and fun entertainment racing events in order to lend a hand to our racing community. Through this effort we hope to bring the existing Motorsports family together and bring new Motorsports fans into our community; all the while, making sure that every voice is accounted for and heard.
We reach out to our corporate community for sponsorship and donations, for information in how to donate funds to our cause or to receive information on how to become a sponsors at one of many events that we will a part of such as Formula Drift, NASCAR, Indy cart, Formula 1, etc… Contact David Resendes, Director of Marketing, Executive Board of Directors AFDIM at info@one2infiniti.com.
The racing community consists of all types and varieties of individuals and corporations making up the fabric of the United States, yet when it comes to social issues, we are left behind. “It is now time to Bridge the Gap in Motorsports”, said Dave Resendes, President of Infinity Business Affiliates, INC.
Thank you for your support,
Event Producer
Vision Technical Group, Inc.
216 Brooke Rd. Pottstown, PA 19464
Brian Boatwright – Larry Hecklin
610-495-8050

Studio 34: Yoga | Healing | Arts, the West Philly yoga-and-creative arts studio, is opening for business with a week of free events that includes free yoga and Pilates classes from March 22-29; an opening reception for a 15-artist show on Friday, March 28; and a grand-opening party on Saturday, March 29.

In February, Studio 34 hosted the Artclash! Collective's Fun-a-Day 4 show. Now it's opening for real, and everyone's invited.

All Grand Opening Week events will take place at Studio 34: Yoga | Healing | Arts (4522 Baltimore Avenue, http://www.studio34yoga.com, 215.387.3434).

MARCH 22-29: FREE YOGA AND PILATES CLASSES. Studio 34 is proud to offer classes free of charge during its first week of business. Come see our new studio! Check http://www.studio34yoga.com for class schedule.

FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 7-10 p.m.: "FINDING BLUE" RECEPTION. What is blue? Is it the happiness of blue skies, the blues of sadness? When is blue not a color, but a journey? In "Finding Blue" by the Midwives Collective 15 artists explore hue and metaphor in oil, pencil, fiber, photographs, and other media. With individual works, room-sized installations, and a video projection, the show makes fine use of Studio 34's facilities. The reception will feature live music and refreshments, and select artworks will remain on display through April 23.

SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 7-11 p.m.: GRAND OPENING PARTY: We're throwing a party in our newly renovated, 5,000-square-foot space on Baltimore Avenue, and everyone's invited! Enjoy the music of the Citywide Specials and Philadelphia's own Jessi Teich. Snack on refreshments, savor the art of "Finding Blue," win a door prize — we'll be giving away 3 months of free yoga and much more!

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A new yoga-and-creative arts studio, Studio 34: Yoga | Healing | Arts will offer yoga and Pilates classes, healing services, community workshops, musical performances, creative arts events, support groups, and community meetings. Founded by three longtime neighborhood residents, Studio 34 serves as a wellness and community hub, offering an experience and service unique in the Philadelphia area. We have low-cost spaces for rent, including four wellness rooms, two studios (1,700 and 700 square feet), a conference room, and a community space with a stage.

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Studio 34: Yoga | Healing | Arts. 4522 Baltimore Avenue in West Philly. On the #34 trolley line. 215.387.3434. http://www.studio34yoga.com.





The South Jersey Vikings are a semi-professional football team based in Gibbsboro, New Jersey. The Vikings are currently looking for coaches, players and volunteers to fill their roster for the 2008 season.

The Vikings compete in the Colonial Football Alliance, which currently has teams from New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The regular season runs from July 2008 to October 2008.

Open tryouts will be held on the following two dates:
Sunday, March 16th, 2008 from 10:00AM to 2:00PM
Sunday, March 30th, 2008 from 10:00AM to 2:00PM

Location of tryouts will be at the Viking’s home field (Giangiulio Field) on Victor Blvd in Gibbsboro, New Jersey (08026). This field is located between Route 73 and Route 561 in the Voorhees, New Jersey area. This field is an ; artificial turf field.

Tryouts are open to anyone 18 years of age or older. Bring cleats or shoes and dress for the weather. Water will be provided but it is also recommended you bring your own water.

Tryouts will consist of the following drills: 40-yard dash, shuttle run, bench press, position specific drills, physical measurements and player interviews.

If you can not make the above tryout dates contact us and you will still be able to tryout for the team at a future date.

Please call Head Coach Jim MacNeill at 856-373-8520 or e-mail him at info@southjerseyvikings. com to confirm your attendance at tryouts or if you have any questions. More information can also be found at the team’s official website: www.southjerseyvikings.com.

What: The 4th Annual Fun-a-Day Show, hosted by The Artclash! Collective
When: Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008. 7 to 11 p.m.
Where: Studio 34 Yoga | Healing | Arts, 4522 Baltimore Avenue in West Philadelphia [locator map] (on the No. 34 Green Line trolley)

Take a Shot for Love this Valentine's Day at our first ever Valentine's Day Party! This not-to-be-missed event will take place at McFadden's Restaurant and Saloon in Old City Philadelphia, on Thursday, February 14th. Donate your $5 cover to Second Chance Heart Transplant Group and enjoy $1 Well Drinks 9pm-11pm, $1 Miller Lites 9pm-12am, and 1/2 price appetizers until 10pm. Be sure to mention the Kiwanis Club at the door and your donation will go directly towards helping heart transplant patients in need. Celebrate this Valentine's Day at McFadden's and enjoy a night filled with games, contests, and the hottest singles in the area!