A tasty springtime side dish.
Happy early Memorial Day, readers! While you’re making your hotdogs and hamburgers next weekend, these proscuttio wrapped asparagus spears will make a tasty addition to your holiday picnic spread. They are also fast and easy to make. Ingredients Directions
The Rally to Protect the American Dream has real estate agents telling Congress that home ownership matters
The National Association of Realtors has a planned event today in Washington, D.C. known as the “Rally to Protect the American Dream.” Most people don’t know about the extra efforts many realtors put forth for their industry, livelihood, and most importantly, clients. Realtors across the country are gathering on Capital Hill to tell members of Congress that home ownership matters to people, to communities and to America. The goal of the rally is to make Congress aware that Realtors are focused on homeownership, housing and real estate issues amidst the election year rhetoric. The aim is to fight obstacles that make it more difficult for people to buy, own, and invest in real estate. The obstacles that many in the real estate industry …
One parent who is upset over the loss of Stony Creek fourth grade teacher, Judy Harris.
My name is Amy Ostroff and I live in Blue Bell. I want to publicly thank School Board member, Dick Stanton, for being the only person from this administration to show an ounce of compassion to the parents of Judi Harris’ class. Mr. Stanton reached out to those of us who are pulling our children from this school district to meet and hear our concerns. One child has actually already left - he started Catholic school a couple weeks ago, as his parents felt that starting over with only 40 days left in the year was preferable to keeping their child at Stony Creek. I learned from Mr. Stanton that there are things that School Board members know and things that you don’t know, like a judge in a case. I feel ethically bound to let you know what …
Vesta, part of the solar system's asteroid belt, is a relic from the time when Earth and the other planets took shape.
Vesta was the Roman goddess of hearth and home, but there's nothing warm or cozy about her celestial namesake. That Vesta is a barren, airless "protoplanet" that circles the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter amid the primordial space debris of our solar system's main asteroid belt, where it is regularly pelted by its much tinier neighbors―and, as scientists have learned, occasionally clobbered by not-so-tiny ones. Vesta is in the news this week because of the initial published findings from NASA's Dawn space probe, which arrived at Vesta last July as part of its mission to collect information about the earliest days of the solar system, when the planets formed. Vesta is about 330 miles wide, which makes it the second largest …
Lisa Loper of the Scott Loper Team will be volunteering at the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure this weekend.
It used to be that I would make Mother's Day all about ME. Scott and our kids tend to spoil me on that special day and without any reservation, I would soak it all in. However, two years ago I tried something a little different on Mother’s Day. My daughter and I got up at 4:30am and headed to Philadelphia to volunteer at the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. We served food to the nearly 50,000 runners and walkers at the Wawa tent (thanks to a very good friend who is a director with Wawa). I was so impressed and amazed at the number of men, women, and children who make Mother's Day about someone else. Every year, over 100,000 people attend this annual event in Philadelphia. So many participates wore shirts or carried signs saying who …
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12:51 pm on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Two of my cousins reported that turnout dropped this year; the word-of-mouth yielded their conclusion that the boycott was political. more ›
This Montco Mommy took a staycation with her hunny to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary.
It has been half a decade. It doesn’t sound long, but it’s a wide variety of peaks and valleys. This past week, I celebrated my fifth wedding anniversary with my husband. When you have two young children, getting a date in at all is pretty tough. We aspire to get out at least every other week, but that ends up to be more like once a month, at best. Between nailing down a babysitter, timing our work schedules and the cost of going out, we seldom take the time to do it. But, relationships take a lot of work. We try to remember, though it isn’t always easy, that time together can be the best way to “work” on it. Thankfully we have my college-aged sister in town for a few more days, so we took advantage of a free Aunt to get away for an entire…
Energy efficiency doesn't exist just within the four walls of your home
Energy efficient homes don’t end with the structural and interior elements. One of the most important factors to operating a more energy efficient home is the landscaping around it. Not to mention that landscaping is more of a long term plan that one day will affect the re-sale value of the home. It’s a topic we’re familiar with this time of year, as we make our trips (and more trips) to the local home improvement stores looking for that ideal combination of plants, shrubs, trees, and grasses. With the summer months approaching, we’ll soon be looking at cooling costs that air conditioners and fans bring to our utility bill. Did you know that all plants naturally lower the temperature through a process called evaporative cooling? …
9:36 pm on Thursday, May 3, 2012
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The rising expense of children's photos breaking Montco Mommy.
Don’t get me wrong. I love capturing the rare moments of my children’s childhood on film. Er, should I say, on digital cards and websites. Regardless of the format, I realize that these young years are fleeting, and pretty soon my husband and I will be sitting her with an empty nest wondering where all the good times have gone. And, while you’ve already heard my rants over the challenges of having professional portraits of your children taken, I have one more unique bit of photography frustration to vent about here. The quantity of photos a parent is bombarded with in the span of one school year is pretty shocking to me. I grew up with school pictures. Who didn’t? And, as much as we’d like to forget most of them, they chronicled our …
Lisa Loper of the Scott Loper Team knows the value of a good home inspector
Just like auto mechanics, dentists, plumbers, financial planners, electricians, attorneys, hair dressers, tailors, Realtors ... you name it: home inspectors are human just like any other service provider. Some are really good, some are not so good, and some are bad. Luckily word of mouth typically drives the bad service providers out of the marketplace … but not always. There are a few universal truths about homes and home inspections: A good home inspector is looking for “material defects.” A material defect is defined as any condition that would have a significant adverse impact on the value of real property. It is important to understand, home inspectors are not looking for cosmetic issues; these are evident at the time of showing …
The School Board is asking the wrong people to pay these fees.
Our Wissahickon High School students graduated in 2006 and 2007 and we paid the $87 exam fee for their Advanced Placement (AP) exams. With successful testing, our son entered his freshman year at Virginia Tech with 29 college credits, allowing completion of his chemical engineering degree in just 3.5 years. Having paid approximately $500 in fees, we saved $28,000 in tuition expense. It’s not the taxpayer’s responsibility to help reduce college tuition for individual families. With the district’s recent facilities study completed, reflecting an expense upwards of $150 million in possible construction costs, the $70,000 exam expense, is a luxury the Wissahickon taxpayers can no longer afford. Additionally, the district’s administration …
5:30 pm on Saturday, April 28, 2012
I agree with Shirley. The senior citizens need a break from taxes. A great deal of them are on fixed incomes. more ›
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11:06 am on Monday, May 21, 2012
I recently had this at a restaurant in Peddlers Village. It is absolutely delicious. more ›