Beginning Tuesday, the Pennsylvania SPCA will extend the hours at its low-cost veterinary clinic at 350 E. Erie Ave. The clinic will be open to the public from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Clinic hours on Monday, Friday and Saturday will remain 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Paschall Village groundbreak
The Philadelphia Housing Authority yesterday kicked off its effort to beautify Philadelphia's gateway from Delaware County with the groundbreaking of Paschall Village in Southwest Philadelphia.
The new 100-home development, featuring the latest in green technology, is scheduled to be completed in October 2011, replacing the antiquated Paschall Apartments, which was demolished earlier this year.
3rd set of remains found
Investigators have discovered a third set of human remains at a Reading apartment where they found the remains of an infant and a fetus in a cooler late last month.
Investigators said yesterday that they had removed the latest set of remains from a block of cement found in a closet. A woman who lives at the apartment, Michele Kalina, 44, was charged with a third count of abuse of a corpse. She's being held on $5 million bail.
Five Below to sell Alex 'Bandz'
Discount retailer Five Below will sell Alex's Lemonade Stand "Lemon Bandz" - silicon rubber-band bracelets that take the shape of a lemon when removed - for a week starting today and will donate all proceeds to the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation of Wynnewood to fight childhood cancer.
The Bandz will be available at all Five Below stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. To find a store near you,
go to www.fivebelow.com/
storelocator.
- Staff and wire report
