Boards

Head of the Schuylkill Regatta, a nonprofit organization that organizes Philadelphia's largest regatta, elected Benjamin Speciale and Jennifer Wesson to its board. Speciale is managing member of Speciale L.L.C., Philadelphia and New York. Wesson is community-development manager at the Delaware County Office of Housing and Community Development.   The Center for Professional Innovation and Education, a provider of biotech and pharmaceutical training courses, elected Michael Pierro chairman of its advisory board.

With just two days left before the Camden Board of Education is reorganized, Mayor Dana L. Redd appointed two Latino members Tuesday. Jose M. Brito, chief executive of a home-care agency in Cherry Hill, will take the place of Raymond L. Lamboy, whom Redd declined to reappoint. His three-year term expired this week. Taisha E. Minier, a sociology student at Rowan University, will serve the remaining year in the term of Kathryn I. Ribay, who resigned after Gov. Christie announced a state takeover of the district in March.

In a swift meeting Tuesday evening in which none of the Camden Board of Education members answered any questions from worried school employees, the board approved the layoff of nearly 100 teachers and support staff and all 113 lunch aides. The board also approved the layoff of Joseph Carruth, the principal who was just rehired by the district at the start of the school year after a tumultuous court battle to get his job back. More than 100 people showed up for Tuesday's meeting at the school administration building.

Beginning Monday, Small Business will once again have its own standalone section. Look forward to more compelling articles by Diane Mastrull about the region's innovators and entrepreneurs, more insights from columnist Mike Armstrong , and more of our popular features People in the News and On the Boards . In addition, the section will include the Monday comics, puzzles, and TV listings.

What makes Philadelphia's new zoning code such a landmark policy is that it embraces the modern view of cities first articulated by such urbanists as Jane Jacobs and William H. Whyte. They understood that cities couldn't survive with fortified streets and blank ground floors. In the spirit of that movement, the code took the bold step of banning a particular local scourge: garage-fronted rowhouses. Apparently, the Zoning Board of Adjustment never got the memo. The new rules went into effect eight months ago, and yet the board continues to conduct business as usual, handing out variances that allow rowhouse developers to install garages where the living rooms are supposed to be. Last week, it was a pair of houses at 19th and Catharine Streets.

Beginning Monday, Small Business will once again have its own standalone section. Look forward to more compelling articles by Diane Mastrull about the region's innovators and entrepreneurs, more insights from columnist Mike Armstrong , and more of our popular features People in the News and On the Boards . In addition, the section will include the Monday comics, puzzles, and TV listings.

The lunch-hour rush is under way at the convoy of food trucks that line Spruce Street near the University of Pennsylvania campus. From inside the cramped Chez Yasmine, Jihed Chehimi is serving gourmet street fare from around the globe - heaping salmon sandwiches sprinkled with caviar, homemade couscous, and cups of Indian red lentil soup - all with a side of conversation that occasionally turns to the science of AIDS. For more than two decades, the Ph.D. in viral immunology was an HIV/AIDS researcher, first at Penn and then at the labs of the Wistar Institute, where the senior scientist explored innate and adaptive immunity.