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Siobhan Lyons, Diplomat’s Daughter, Heads Irish Immigration Center
By Sabina Clarke Siobhan Lyons, the new executive director of the Irish Immigration and Pastoral Center in Upper Darby, is young, enthusiastic, accomplished, and bursting with new ideas. The well-traveled daughter of a career diplomat for the Irish Government, Siobhan spent five years of her childhood in Nairobi, Kenya. Before coming to the Immigration...
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Catching Up with ‘Smokin Joe Frazier’
Breakfast with the Champ… By Sabina Clarke I’m sitting before Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight champion of the world while he finishes a bowl of cereal. He is casual, warm and welcoming and greets me like an old friend. We’ve met before but I doubt if he remembers. It was in 1992 at the...
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Sister Mary Scullion, RSM, Named As One of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the World
Sister Mary Scullion, a member of the Sisters of Mercy, Mid-Atlantic Community and a Philadelphia resident, was recently chosen as one of the top 100 influential people by Time magazine. Sister Mary was ranked 49th on the list with 613,599 votes, according to the Time magazine Web site. Sister Mary, 55, co-founder and director of...
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That Ol’ Green Magic
by Ronnie Norpel Hope springs eternally green, and here we are kicking off another Phillies season—having lifted a curse? In early March, I stopped by a snowy Citizens Bank Park to congratulate my new old friend, the Phillie Phanatic. New, because Tom Burgoyne and I had never met in all those years, yet old,...
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AOH Launches National Campaign to Halt Sale of Offensive T-Shirts
By Sabina Clarke Several weeks ago, Denny Gaw, Pennsylvania president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, AOH, was alerted to the fact that Spencer Gifts was selling tee shirts that depicted the Irish in a negative and shocking manner, “I got an email from our members in Pittsburgh that Spencer Gifts had these tee...
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Medic Without Borders—The Life and Times of Jim McCans
Where to begin with this remarkable story. It’s heroic fantasy that movies are made of. It is about Jim McCans, Director of Paramedics for Haverford Township—a brave man who is all heart and Stache, his equally courageous black Labrador retriever ‘cadaver’ dog. This past October, Stache was honored by the ASPCA (American Society for...
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Breaking Bread with Father Berrigan
By Sabina Clarke When I first called Father Daniel Berrigan, the Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, teacher, poet and scholar to schedule an interview, he had company and asked me to call him the following morning adding, “If you don’t get me , keep calling because I am worth it.” I squeezed in a question about...
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The Commissioner’s Pride—Armed with Words
By Sabina Clarke Tommy Gibbons has vivid memories of riding with his Dad, Philadelphia’s First Police Commissioner and the City’s Top Cop in Car One, a big unmarked car with a blaring siren and flashing red spotlight. He remembers the time his father and namesake, Thomas J. Gibbons, Sr., suddenly turned a corner at...
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James Lee Burke: An Interview and Appreciation
By Deen Kogan Few contemporary writers, or even those long gone, come with the bona fides that James Lee Burke possesses. This amazingly prolific writer, with a great laugh, engaging smile and affection for and appreciation of the human race, with all its foibles, has produced 27 novels and two short story collections in...
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