Former Philly Police Commissioner John Timoney stopped at the Irish Pub at 20th and Walnut on Wednesday on his way to Boston, where he's teaching "The Politics of Policing" at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Timoney honored Montgomery County D.A. Risa Vetri Ferman for her 125-person "Wheels of Justice" bike team, which raised more than $23,000 for the annual Irish Pub Tour De Shore in July. This year, 1,300 riders brought in $265,000, bound for police charities.
This reality life
CBS has announced that Moorestown-bred beach-volleyball player
Rachel Johnston will appear on the next installment of
The Amazing Race, premiering at 8:30 p.m. Sept. 26. Johnston, turning 25 on Tuesday, is a West Chester U. grad partnered with fellow volleyballer
Katie Seamon, 23, of Rahway, N.J.
Gretchen Krawczyk of Plymouth Meeting is one of five women and 15 men on the reality game show All-American Handyman, a four-parter premiering at 9 p.m. Sunday on HGTV. Winner gets a $10,000 Sears prize package and an HGTV development deal. Krawczyk, 43, a video editor and producer for NBC10, is to the hammer born. Her father, Anthony, built the house near Scranton in which she grew up. She bought a fixer-upper five years ago and has done most of the work herself - except putting in a steel door, which she found too heavy. When she saw the ad to apply for the show, "I said, 'I think that sounds like me. What do I have to lose?' " So she nailed it.
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