A 1947 topographic map of the Reading, Pennsylvania area. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Reading PA – The one-hour CBS Christmas Eve special focusing on Reading’s hopeful holiday spirit amid poverty will be broadcast tonight at 11:35 pm without commercials in the “David Letterman” time slot.
Tuesday, November 6th
7:00 PM
Grace Lutheran Church – “The Lounge”
660 N. Charlotte Street
Pottstown, Pa
After the VOTE, you are cordially invited to a FREE viewing of the award winning documentary, “The Greenest Building.” This is an hour long documentary, narrated by David Ogden Stiers. The Greenest Building explores the myth that a “green building” is a new building and demonstrates how renovation and adaptive reuse of existing structures fully achieves the sustainability movement’s “triple bottom line” – economic, social, and ecological balance.
Click Here for preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyY4DnTapN4&feature=plcp
Discussion to follow.
Consider running for Ward Representative/Council Seat in 2013. There can be no greater contribution or satisfaction than aligning with other candidates in the Reform Movement to guide the future of Pottstown. Run on the issues, not party affiliation. Team work will be key. Information will be available at this event.
Wards 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 are up for re-election.
Map of Pennsylvania highlighting Schuylkill County (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
As a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer was on his way to the coal region to scout ideas for a film about working-class America, all hell was breaking loose in Shenandoah.
David Turnley remembered the call he received en route from New York City to Schuylkill County.
“As I was heading to the coal region, a friend of mine called and said, ‘You should go to Shenandoah, Pa., where four of the town’s star sons, all straight-A students and football players, have been charged with killing an undocumented Mexican immigrant,” Turnley recalled. “I thought, ‘Well, I guess I should go to Shenandoah.’ “
He stayed two years, filming, shooting photographs and documenting the events surrounding the beating death of Luis Eduardo Ramirez Zavala.
Read more: http://republicanherald.com/news/photographer-to-release-shenandoah-documentary-this-fall-1.1355046
A 1947 topographic map of the Reading, Pennsylvania area. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Reading and its struggles with poverty will be the Christmas story this year on CBS.
The network has asked Odyssey Networks, a multifaith media coalition, to produce an hourlong special to be broadcast on Christmas Eve, said the Rev. Eric Shafer, Odyssey senior vice president and a Berks native.
“We’ve decided to come to Reading to tell ‘One Christmas Story: People Rich in Spirit,’ ” he said. “The special will rejoice in the true spirit of Christmas through the words of the Gospel, glorious choral music and the unique character of the community in Reading.”
Shafer said the Collegiate Churches of New York City have already given a $50,000 grant toward the television production and plan to award an additional $50,000 to help fight poverty in the city.
A shortage of anthracite coal may have landed Kelly Brown her first movie role.
Brown, assistant manager at coal seller F.M. Brown’s Sons Inc., 717 Lancaster Ave., went on camera last month when documentary filmmaker Alexis Manya Spraic came to town.
Spraic, whose credits include a 2010 Sundance Film Festival selection, is traveling the world to make a film on the future of global energy. Titled “POWER,” it is intended to portray the deeply personal nature of the world’s ultracomplex energy problem.
