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12/18/2001 - CART Shuttle Bus Kickoff Event
The City Avenue Special Services District is excited to introduce CART, City Avenue Regional Transit. A kick-off event will be held on Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 11 a.m. at the Bala Cynwyd Shopping Center on City Avenue.
The festivities will take place in front of Eckerd Drugs at a CART stop. There will be giveaways and balloons for everyone and St. Joseph’s University President and City Avenue Special Services District Chairman, Rev. Nicholas Rashford, S.J., State Representative Lita Cohen Lower Merion Commissioners Jim Ettelson and Joe Manko, and Councilman Michael Nutter will address the group
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8/16/2001 - FREE City Avenue Special Services District Concert
The City Avenue Special Services District is pleased to present a FREE concert featuring Peter Stone Brown and In the Pocket on St. Mary’s Lawn of Saint Joseph’s University on August 16, 2001 from 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. The concert is being held rain or shine. Please bring chairs or blankets. The new CART bus will be at the concert and CART promotional items will be handed out.
Directions to the concert are as follows: At the traffic light, turn onto Lapsley Lane, which is located off of City Avenue, on the Lower Merion side between Old Lancaster Road and Raynham Road. Make the second left and look for concert event staff to direct you to the parking.
Peter Stone Brown is a roots-based singer-songwriter whose first professional gig was opening for blues great, Mississippi Fred McDowell. Involved in music, his entire life he has also been a strand mapper, record store manager, disc-jockey, newspaper production manager, free-lance writer, music journalist, and associate editor of an alternative weekly. But all the while he was writing songs, performing and leading various bands in the Philadelphia area.
Peter Stone Brown’s first Tangible Music album Up Against It was recorded at Bismeaux Studio in Austin, Texas, and features several Austin-based musicians including members of Asleep at The Wheel. The album was released in October ‘96 and reached the Americana Chart that December. The songs reveal a diversity of influences from folk and country to blues, R&B and rock, with an emphasis on melody and poetic lyrics.
Since the album’s release, Peter Stone Brown has been performing primarily on the East Coast from Boston to Nashville and in May ’99 played several dates in England.
In the Pocket is lead by George Cartwright, a member of the Saint Joseph’s University staff. They play a variety of jazz music.
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8/6/2001 - National Night Out Kickoff Festival
The Lower Merion Community Watch and the National Association of Town Watch is hosting a National Night Out Kickoff Festival on Monday, August 6, 2001 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the GSB Building located at City and Belmont Avenue in Lower Merion Township.
The City Avenue Special Services District will be present with the new CART bus and promotional material. The Festival will also include games, live music, McGruff and police and fire equipment.
Food tickets are $3.00 per person. The rain date is August 7, 2001.
4/27/2001 - PARTNERs Program - Hands Across City Avenue
As part of the PARTNERS Program 10th Anniversary Celebration, Hands Across City Avenue will occur on the Presidential Boulevard pedestrian Bridge at 12:00 noon on April 27, 2001.
A diverse group of city and suburban program participants will hold hands and form a human bridge across the bridge over City Avenue. Local dignitaries will join with the students in symbolically and literally linking the city and the suburbs and bridging racial boundaries.
The PARTNERS Program is a unique urban-suburban school partnership program which pairs first through eighth-grade classes from Philadelphia public schools with their suburban school counterparts to jointly pursue year-long academic activities and bridge-building social interaction.
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