[UC] basketball pole and top soil

2002-06-07 Thread JAFISHBURN
I have a 3-4 year old used basketball pole available to anyone who will remove it. It is in pretty good shape. Our backboard broke, and we got a new portable set-up. I also have a bit of topsoil available for the anyone who will haul it away (I lost a flower bed to the basketball court expansio

[UC] Re: Spruce Street Improvement Project

2002-06-07 Thread Robert Duncan
Bicycle only streets sound like a good idea to me as a cyclist. But as someone who also needs to use a car at times and park it on the street, I realise the choice of streets raises questions. I live at 46th and Locust . If both those streets were bike only -- as suggested by Gerardo -- I wonde

[UC] Interesting report on a model "plan" for Parkside

2002-06-07 Thread Krfapt
Interesting report on a model "plan" for Parkside by a group assembled by The Daily News. Parkside, unlike Spruce Hill, has a lot of blight and abandoned buildings. Also it's been an area of "disinvestment" as opposed to our past 10 or 15 or so years of heavy investment. But many of the points in

[UC] Well, what do these Brits know from Victorian, anyway?

2002-06-07 Thread Krfapt
From Death in Holy Orders by P D James: "In his [Adam Dalgleish's] boyhood it had been fashionable to despise Victorian architecture and he had viewed the house with a proper if half-guilty disdain. The architect, probably over-influenced by its original owner, had incorporated every fashionable f

[UC] Pancakes, Pancakes, Pancakes!

2002-06-07 Thread Turner,Kathleen
Join Boy Scout Troop 152 and Cub Scout Pack 352 at St. Francis de Sales for our 3rd Annual Pancake Breakfast, Sunday June 9th. Breakfast will be served in the beautiful St. Francis de Sales School Hall, 917 S. 47th Street, from 10 am to 2 pm. Tickets will be on sale at the door -- or buy in a

[UC] FW: Penn Bookstore June 2002 Newsletter

2002-06-07 Thread Chris Hibbard
Title: FW: Penn Bookstore June 2002 Newsletter I'm forwarding this to PFSNI and Univcity because the Penn Bookstore has lots for great summer reading items for both adults and kids, the Dive into Reading program is especially cool as is the Clark Park bedtime stories on Thursdays. Chris Hibba