November 2008
By Elaine Welles
Frances Moss and Carlotta Fareira have
shared many good times at Center in the Park (CIP).
“By the time I joined, I felt like I had already been a member,” Fareira says, recalling visits to CIP with her mother, Helen V. Fareira, who was one of the women who met in 1968 at the Germantown YWCA to form what became CIP.
CIP, which now has 6,000 members, moved to its present location in Vernon Park at 5818 Germantown Ave. in 1986.
Fareira’s mother was among those who helped raise funds to convert the long-shuttered Carnegie Library into a senior center.
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Vet has fond memories of ‘The Waffleman’
By John Oliver Mason
Joe 'Bag-a-Doughnuts' Sbaraglia in the Melrose Diner: 'Things had changed.'
Just about everyone in South Philadelphia knows “Joe Bag-a-Doughnuts.”
He writes a nostalgia column, “The Waffleman,” in the weekly Philadelphia Public Record, and has written a series of books on what South Philadelphia was like “way back when.” More