The Spirit of Penn's Garden – February 4, 2016

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The push to build a $100 million football stadium on Temple University’s campus continued Monday afternoon during a public meeting. Temple University President Neil D. Theobald and Athletic Di-

rector Pat Kraft led the discussion by answering selected questions from the student body. “My first hire when I came here four years ago was the football coach,” Theobald told about 250 audience members. “I remember interviewing him in my condo, and I said, ‘what do we need to raise the quality of this program?’ I mean quality, not just winning. Graduating players, having a team we’re proud of, doing it the right way, all of those things. And he said we need an on-campus stadium.” Although Temple Student Government described Monday’s meeting as an “open forum,” the only approved attendees were students and journal-ists. TSG’s Facebook page cited “limited space” as the reason for the cap. The result was a meeting about North Philadelphia that lacked North Philadelphia residents—and it did not take long for tensions to boil over. At one point during the meeting, two young boys walked silently to the front of the room, bearing a sign that read, “where is the community?” Crowd members began to applaud and chant—phrases like “community

says ‘no’ to the stadium” were sprinkled throughout the event. The boys were immediately escorted out as Student Body President Ryan Rinaldi, the forum’s facilitator, attempted to reign in the discussion. “I hear you guys, okay?” Rinaldi said as students continued to chant. “But let’s continue the program.” If built, the stadium will house between 30,000 and 35,000 seats. The fa-cility will stretch from Broad to 16th streets east to west, and from Norris St. to Montgomery Ave. north to south. The four-block area, Theobald said, would not encompass 16th and Berks, where the Amos Recreation Center currently stands. “It’ll stay there,” Theobald said when a student voiced concerns about the community-based playground. Both Theobald and Kraft expressed hope that the stadium, and the po-tential retail development accompanying it, would bring alumni back to campus—encouraging more donors and local economic activity. Temple’s football team currently plays its home games each season at Lincoln Financial Field in South Philadelphia. According to Theobald, the Eagles have doubled the annual rent from $1 million to $2 million,

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Brewerytown earned its namesake in the mid to late 1800’s when it was home to a number of breweries. Prohibition chased many of the orig-inal breweries out of the neighborhood in the

early 20th century, and Brewerytown remained largely de-void of them since. That is until late last year, when Crime and Punishment Brewery (2711 W. Girard Ave.) opened its doors for business. Mike Wambolt, one of the founders of Crime and Punish-ment, was just out of college and, like many recent grad-uates, was not where he thought he would be, “I couldn’t get a job,” Wambolt said, “I was painting walls for Van-gaurd, that mutual fund company. I just painted white walls all day.” With Wambolt’s student loans going into repayment, he decided to double his shifts, working from 6am until 11pm. “I would read Crime and Punishment on my breaks and I was just feeling the existential angst of Raskolnikov. The dark and dreary nature of the book was just hitting me.” During this time, Wambolt was home brewing, and get-ting better and better at it. At first, friends and owners of other local businesses like the Fishtown-based Pizza Brain were encouraging Wambolt to take his brewing to new heights. Crime and Punishment, while still in its home-brewing phase, started serving their beer during First Fridays at Pizza Brain to promote their name. “That was our first Iteration of, ‘hey, come try our beers, come try what this thing is,’” Wambolt said. “We would brew two half-barrels of beer and bring them over. It was a catalyst. We started getting press— really early press.” Dan Grivjack, one of the original partners and one of the kitchen managers, further described the importance of Pizza Brain to the development of Crime and Punishment. “They were always pushing us. They had to go through a lot of the city stuff for us and they kind of went through a lot of it for us,” Grivjack said, referring to the myriad of zoning and licensing requirements a new business with both food and alcohol needs meet in order to open. “At least for me, Joe Hunter, the cook over there [at Pizza Brain] is somebody who’s just vibrant, has a lot of ener-gy and is willing to talk and answer [any questions] for us about the kitchen.” It was not long before Wambolt realized some of these friends – who would later become partners in the busi-ness – were interested in investing money into Crime and Punishment. During this time Wambolt met Mike Paul, who helped Wambolt turn a home brewing operation into something larger. “I was still brewing on my stovetop at home and Mike [Paul] had a full system, like 15 gallon propane burners, pumps and everything,” Wambolt said. Since then, Wambolt and Paul have been perfecting Crime and Punishment’s recipes together. Once the project started to pick up momentum, Crime and Punishment was approved for a grant for $50,000 from the city, which was enough to pay for a kitchen. Wambolt and his partners had a meeting in July of 2013 to discuss when Crime and Punishment would open its doors. “That’s when I was saying, ‘oh yeah we’ll be open in April 2014.’ [Philadelphia Magazine’s] FooBooz was printing that. I had no idea what I was talking about. Like, I had to do this NPR interview in January of 2014 and any time I was interviewed over that first year, I was so ignorant say-ing, ‘yeah, we’ll be open in a couple of months,’ not know-ing that those next few things don’t happen as quickly as I would like or as you think,” Wambolt said. “It’s so slow and methodical and—“ “Brutal,” Grivjack interjected. They even brewed a beer called Red Tape in honor of the red tape the fledgling brewery had to endure. The space that holds Crime and Punishment Brewery was transformed over 2 years from a vacant space to a ful-ly operational brewery and kitchen. “There’s $25,000 of plumbing, $14,000 of electrical work, $50,000 of general construction, not to mention tanks,” Wambolt said. “We just bought 8 new tanks,” Grivjack said, “$50,000 there.” On cue, Wambolt laughs, “I thought it was over!” “The whole time though, Mike [Paul] and I knew we were making some of the best beer in Philadelphia,” Wambolt said, “and that’s what kept driving us every day.” Now that Crime and Punishment has worked through those admittedly “brutal” parts of opening a business, they have turned their focus to the community they in-habit. Wambolt has been living in Brewerytown for 6 years and expressed a passion for having an overall positive in-fluence on the neighborhood and city they call home. One of the non-profits Crime and Punishment works with is Give and Go Athletics, a community organization that helps kids learn life skills while helping provide intra-

mural sports programs in the area. Last year, Crime and Punishment had a fundraiser in which it raised money to supply uniforms for the year. “They’re called The Brewers, it’s pretty funny” Wambolt said. Crime and Punishment also brewed a beer to raise money for the Catholic Worker House in Kensington, a non-profit that provides free healthcare to the disadvantaged in the area. “It was called Jesus Wept, and a dollar of every one of those beers [sold] goes to Catholic Worker House.” They also work with local non-profits CineSPEAK, Northern

Light and Neighborhood Bikeworks. With Crime and Punishment growing so rapidly, it begs the question: what’s next? “Honestly, I’d like to see the growth slow down a bit,” Wambolt laughs. The craft beer game is a crowded field, which is not lost on Wam-bolt, Paul, and Grivjack. To them, the underlying concept moving forward remains the same, “Beer is for everyone, that’s what I’m all about,” Wambolt said, “that’s what it’s been since day one.” ·

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and bring us some precipitation. Now, this storm has yet to develop and it could bring mostly rain. However, I think we will get some snow out of it and it could be significant. Not a blizzard, but plowable snow. The storm would wrap up on Tuesday and we would watch another storm develop to hit us later in the week. There’s still a lot of details that need to be worked out with these storms but keep the umbrella and snow boots handy. The weather winner of the week is Saturday; the weather loser is Monday. ·

This past week featured a warmth surge that melt-ed the blizzard snow and made a lot of us hap-pier. Don’t get used to it though. This week we start off extremely warm — in the 60s! However,

by early next week we will be watching another potential snowstorm and get locked into the cold winter pattern again. The pattern is just rebooting for a final 6 weeks of the season, so get ready for another bout with “Old Man Winter.” Snow chances this week: It will rain on Wednesday and then we will cool things down for Friday, Saturday and

Sunday. We’ll be watching a storm try to come up the coast and bring us either snow or rain (or both) for Monday and Tuesday. Then there is another storm after that and anoth-er one after that! Yeah, you get the point; it’s about to get stormy around here. More shoveling will be in order soon! I will keep you updated on all these snow chances on Twit-ter and Facebook. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday all feature chilly weather. It will not be brutally cold, but temperatures will be in the 40s each day with lows near freezing each night. On Monday we watch a storm come up from the south

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In the summer months, a garden blooming with leafy greens and bulging fruits flourishes on the cor-ner near Strawberry Mansion high school at Ridge Ave and N.32nd St. An area largely considered to be

a “food desert” where junk food options are more readily available than their fresh food counterparts, this garden signifies progress, the first step in combatting a problem that had a 2009 report from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health indicating that the neighborhood had among the highest levels of diabetes and obesity in the city. Neighbors have praised the garden’s lightspeed growth. Even though new garden beds have been added each year, the waiting list has shown the consistent demand for more. But, up until this point, the winter months have put the progress on pause; not any more. A joint effort between the Strawberry Mansion Commu-nity Development Corporation, The Philadelphia Horti-cultural Society (PHS) and the East Park Revitalization Al-liance (EPRA), a greenhouse outfitted with solar paneling will soon be standing next to the oasis. A shelter is also being constructed to serve as education center and gath-ering place for gardeners as well as students from the high school’s culinary arts program. “It was originally in the plans when we first conceived the garden,” Tonnetta Graham, president of the CDC said. “But you know, funding issues. So, we broke it into phases.” Phase one was to construct about 40 plots for commu-nity members alone. Now they have moved on to the next stage: the greenhouse. Suku John of the EPRA explained that this greenhouse, the skeleton of which can already be seen protruding from the earth amongst the snow, is just the latest in a series built by PHS in conjunction with their City Harvest pro-gramming. “This garden is great because, not only is it fun, but it pro-vides healthy fruits and veggies which can be expensive,” Graham said. “Basically, in City Harvest we work to supply urban growers with materials and supplies to grow organically in the city, “ explained Lisa Mosca, City Harvest Program Senior manager. Mosca said that this means providing urban gardeners with equipment as well as seedlings to transplant into their own gardens and a variety of other resources, including educational ones. In regards to combating food deserts like Strawberry Mansion, studies have revealed that plopping a grocery store or a farmers market into a community in need, isn’t going to get the job done by itself. Put best by Mosca, “it doesn’t matter how much food is grown if people don’t enjoy eating it.” Residents have to be taught how to utilize the food and prepare it to suit their taste. Which is exactly what unfolds within the garden’s workshop series. “For a lot of us, including myself, who were new gardeners, there was a bit of a learning curve,” Graham said. The garden itself is facilitated by a neighborhood garden club that, in addition to meeting once a week, offers work-shops provided by EPRA and PHS ranging in topics from, how to preserve your foods to how to get rid of bugs. At the mention of the bug class, Graham laughs heartily.

“We wanted more workshops, we wanted to learn more about how we could sustain ourselves.” In addition to the workshops, the community, seeking more knowledge to embark on their greenhouse endeavor, sent four members to receive 350 hours of training as a result of another grant. The training is focused on organic produc-tion, agriculture and business skills among other topics. “It was really fortuitous that both grants came along at the same time,” Mosca said. “That way we were able to start constructing the greenhouse and get a core group trained at the same time.” Encased in a fence doused in vibrant shades of purple, orange and green, Graham calls the garden a bright spot in the neighborhood. She said that one of her favorite as-pects of the process has been watching the community grow together as well as the plants. “From 9 [years old] to 99, we have everybody out there so, it is really great to see the different interactions and to see us care for it because, well we thought maybe that people

would trash it.” Graham said that since the garden is only protected by a fence that is mostly for show, many feared that it would quickly be vandalized, but that has not been the case. In-stead, neighbors have joined together around it. Still, John emphasizes that while the garden, which began as a vacant lot a little over two years ago and now serves a mix of about 30 families and individuals, has made real strides, it has not vanquished the problem of food access in the neighborhood. The gardeners are really only a few members of a community of thousands. This is only one piece in a much larger effort to improve healthy food access and raise awareness of what John de-scribes as a “messed up food system,” within the Straw-berry Mansion community. “For people who were interested in gardening, this was great. But, now we need to figure out a way to engage oth-ers,” John said. “But, it is my hope that with the green-house the people will see it and say ‘hey, can I help?’” ·


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and asked for an additional $12 million upfront pay-ment from the university. A student asked if the Temple Owls could continue to play at Lincoln Financial Field if the Eagles decided to lower rent rates. “That simply isn’t going to happen,” Theobald said. While some questions focused on logistics, others were less technical and more accusatory. “Why spend $100 million in building a football sta-dium as opposed to a sexual misconduct center?” one group of students asked Theobald, as crowd members applauded. The meeting lasted about an hour and ended on an ex-plosive note when Glenda Bryant, a 54-year-old resident of North Philadelphia, spoke openly of the administration’s decision to leave residents out of the meeting. While Bry-ant, a current Temple student majoring in social work, was permitted to attend the meeting, her fellow commu-nity members were not. “How dare you just not include us?” Bryant said shortly after the meeting. Bryant, who said she was born in North Philadelphia, is a member of the Stadium Stompers. Stadium Stompers is a new student-resident coalition which has meets at Church of the Advocate, a local com-munity staple on 18th and Diamond streets. 15 Now, a student organization that advocates for Temple to raise its minimum wage, helped start the association. “We think it’s really appalling that Temple would hold a panel and leave community members out of this event,” said Anna Barnett, a lead organizer of 15 Now and a junior at Temple. A public Board of Trustees meeting will be held Feb. 8 at 3:30 p.m. to continue the stadium discussion. ·

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Kathy Jordan is always thinking of ways to help Brewerytowns’ stray cats. Outside the store-front that will be Le Cat Café (2713 W. Girard Av-enue), she looks around at the construction on

West Girard. “There’s new apartments coming up across the street. That’s exciting, hopefully some of them will need a cat.” Jordan has lived in Brewerytown for the last 20 years and is excited about the changes in the neighborhood. “Businesses on West Girard are supporting each other. I’ve worked with a lot of people on this street, including Girard Vet right across the street for a long time. There’s a lot of good feelings. Everything is really up-and-coming right now.” Le Cat Café will function as an adoption arm of Green Street Rescue, the no-kill cat rescue Jordan has been run-ning since 2004. The 12 cats up for adoption will live in the West Girard café space and they will be cared for by Jordan and a volunteer staff of “cat wranglers.” She’s hoping for a March 1 opening date. “Green Street Rescue’s work needs more exposure and the best way to get people interested in anything is to have

fun with them. We want to educate people, adopt these cats and maybe help prevent cruelty,” Jordan said. There are plenty of strays in Philadelphia that need rescu-ing. According to statistics from the ACCT, animal control rescued 14,935 stray cats in 2015, but only 5,679 of those cats were adopted and almost 3,000 were euthanized. Due to zoning board regulations, the cafe will only be able to hold 12 cats at a time. In the high-ceilinged, freshly painted room Jordan lists her plans for the café, ideas coming to her as she talks. So far, she’s thinking: yoga and pilates classes, music nights with opera singers, senior nights and story times where kids can read to the cats, photography classes, a trap-neu-ter-release program and a lint roller station so you can freshen up after an afternoon of cat cuddles. She’s also planning on having the cats streamed live over iPet Companion, a service that allows digital users to in-teract with shelter cats in real time. Just don’t expect a third-wave coffee experience at Le Cat Café. “We’ll have a Keurig. Tea, coffee, hot chocolate, real sim-ple. The café is about cats and community. It’s not really about coffee.” She laughs, “You can bring in food from

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someplace else. It’s about the cats.” Cats in shelters spend most of their days in small, dark cages. Jordan believes that the free-roaming café cats will be healthier, friendlier and therefore more adoptable. It’s her belief that an animal’s personality shines through when they’re not caged. “It’s about adoption and education. Letting people see that the scraggly, filthy cat you saw in the street is the one you’re adopting,” she said. “They may need to learn some manners or have a bath but they’re friendly, they want to go to a loving home.” A $12 donation with get you an hour of cat time, a cup of coffee and Wi-Fi access. You’re welcome to bring your own food, and she’ll have cat treats for sale. The café will be 100% donation funded and they have a Giving Grid do-nation page set up. (https://www.givinggrid.com/lecatca-fe). All donations are tax deductible. Le Cat Cafe is also currently accepting applications for volunteers, who will be tasked with “scooping, sweeping and wrangling.” Pro-jected café hours will be 11am-7pm. So what’s the goal for Le Cat Café? Jordan says, “I hope we run out of cats.” ·

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Thursday, February 4MINDFUL STRESS AND ANXIETY MANAGEMENT Mindful Stress and Anxiety Management Center of Phila-delphia is offering an 8 week Mindfulness Class starting at 7:30PM, donations only. It will take place at the The Phila-delphian, 2401 Pennsylvania Ave, Suite 1C-52.For more information call Harold at 610-517-3127. To regis-ter, visit anxietyocdbala.com.

Friday, February 5NEW WORKS BY SARAH GOODSarah Good, a Brewerytown artist, will be displaying new works at The Monkey & The Elephant. The opening recep-tion will take place at The Monkey & The Elephant (2831 W Girard Ave.) starting at 6PM.

Saturday, February 6WAGNER’S WINTER WONDERLAND In Wagner Free Institute of Science’s first Weekend Open House of 2016, visitors are welcome to carry out a winter themed scavenger hunt in Wagner’s natural history mu-seum, to handle real specimens, and to participate in various arts and crafts, all while learning about how ani-mals survive the cold. Tree House Books will present twice during the afternoon. The event will take place at 1700 W Montgomery Ave from 12-4PM. For more information visit wagnerfreeinstitute.org.

Saturday, February 6FMA VISITING ARTIST SERIES: J.T.TAGAKI In this Temple University workshop, open to the public, artist J.T. Tagaki will be teaching both students and citi-zens the fundamentals of sounds and acoustics. Topics in-clude one-man-band audio, professional double and single system setups, and how to operate both boom and radio microphones.Temple’s advanced level equipment will be used in this demonstration, which runs from 10AM-6PM on Saturday. Registration is required to attend the event. For further information visit events.temple.edu.

Tuesday, February 9SM COMMUNITY GARDENInterested in growing your own vegetables and herbs? Join us at the SM Community Garden and learn how and when to grow food naturally. There are a limited number of plots avail-able so come out and join the club soon. The meeting takes place at Ridge Avenue & North 32nd Street from 11AM-2PM. For more information, call the East Park Revitalization Alli-ance at 215-869-4208

Thursday, February 11WINTER BOOK CAMP Tree House books will be holding a showcase of their students’ work next Thursday. Over the course of their participation in Winter Book Camp, the students have diligently created art, music, and writing, and are now sharing their work with the public. The event will include interactive readings, puppets, and a student written and choreographed song and dance number among others. The event will take place at Tree House Books, 1430 W Susquehanna Ave. from 6:30-8PM.

Thursday, February 11 (Every two weeks) GROUP GRIEF SUPPORTMothers in Charge will be holding a group support ses-sion every two weeks, starting on February 11th. In this pressure free environment, women are welcome to come express their grief over lost children or other loved ones. A light meal will be served at 5:30PM, and the meeting will begin at 6PM. Participants are welcome to share and express their feelings, or to just listen. The focus of the group is healing and comfort for those grieving. The meet-ing will be taking place at 1415 N. Broad Street, Suite 229.

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Wednesday, March 16 CAN A KID BE A HERO, TOO?The Free Library of Philadelphia’s Cecil B. Moore branch is hosting an interactive seminar for all ages about the child heroes of the Civil War. Nearly 50 under-18 soldiers won the congressional medal of honor, and the library encourages guests of this event to use their curiosity, imagination, and research skills to learn their stories! The event starts at 4PM. For more information visit freelibrary.org.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY EVENTSGAMING FILM FRIDAYS: LEVEL FIVE – Beginning on Fri-day, February 12, join us for films that intersect with the Libraries’ spring 2016 Games Without Frontiers series. This semester’s critically-acclaimed films focus on the ties between games, the military, and violence.BUILDING THE 21ST CENTURY LIBRARY – Temple Uni-versity Libraries and the Division of Architecture and

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