St. Charles Borromeo Seminary awards 2022 John Cardinal Foley Award to 6ABC News Anchor Jim Gardner
LOWER MERION » St. Charles Borromeo Seminary hosted its Annual John Cardinal Foley Symposium celebrating the 56th World Communications Day on Thursday. The symposium is named for the late Cardinal John Patrick Foley, a Delaware County native, in recognition of his instrumental contributions in advancing the work of communications in the Catholic Church.
The symposium began with a dialogue centered on this year’s papal message for World Communications Day: “Listening with the ear of the heart.” Editor Matt Gambino of CatholicPhilly.com, Dr. Angela Corbo, Widener University Associate Professor of Communications, and 6ABC Action News Anchor Jim Gardner served as featured panelists during the discussion.
Following the free public symposium and a private luncheon afterward, seminary Rector Bishop Timothy Senior awarded the 2022 John Cardinal Foley Award for Excellence in Communications to Gardner for his lifelong commitment to excellence in communications. Senior said the Philadelphia area has been “extremely blessed” to have Gardner deliver their news for four and a half decades.
The Award for Excellence recognizes a communications professional who works in any of the realms of mass media, including journalism, publications, productions and oral communications.
Gardner is an icon in Philadelphia news, having worked at Action News’s anchor desk since 1977. In January, Gardner delivered his final 11 p.m. broadcast, but continues to anchor the 6 p.m. news until he fully retires at the end of this year. He holds the unique distinction of being the longest serving anchor in 6abc Action News — WPVI Philadelphia history.
After accepting the prestigious Foley award, the longtime Philadelphia newscaster talked about some of the Delaware Valley’s most memorable stories over the last 40 years, including his coverage of several popes, most recently Pope Francis’s visit to Philadelphia in 2015.
Like all Cardinal Foley Award winners, Gardner was given the opportunity to select a charity of his choice to receive a donation of $1,000 in his name. He chose the Saint Joseph University Kinney Center For Autism Education and Support. Angus Murray, executive director of the Kinney Center For Autism, was in attendance to thank Gardner and St. Charles Seminary for the donation.
Gardner attended the event with his family, as well as Bernie Prazenica, president and General Manager of WPVI-TV/6ABC Philadelphia and Thomas Davis, Vice President of News. The Advisory Committee of the John Cardinal Foley Chair makes nominations, and the Archbishop of Philadelphia selects the award recipient each year. Previous award recipients include ABC News Correspondent John Quiñones, NFL Hall of Fame Sportswriter Ray Didinger, Pat Ciarrocchi, formerly of CBS-3 Philadelphia, Mark Abrams of KYW News Radio, and Wall Street Journal Columnist William McGurn, several of whom were in attendance Thursday.
Fostering Hope
Delco hosts Disc Golf Tournament
Fostering Hope Delco invites the community to its first Disc Golf Tournament fundraiser, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 25, at the Haverford Reserve Disc Golf Course, 101 Green Lane, Haverford. This event will raise money that will aid in providing the resources needed to support Fostering Hope’s three main initiatives: dignity duffels, bags of hope, and the foster-share closet. Fostering Hope Delco accepts a variety of donated items to serve registered general foster-care, kinship fostercare, pre/post-adoptive, and first families on safety plans.
Course admission, food, refreshments, and festivities are included in the ticket price. Other festivities include face painting, a decorate your own frisbee station, and opportunities to win raffle baskets. There will also be a princess, Delco Batman, and Delco Spiderman in attendance for meet and greets and photos.
Cost is $25 or $60 for a team of four or family. Raffle item donations and sponsorships for this event are being accepted until June 18.
Fostering Hope Delco is a volunteer-run, 501(c) (3) nonprofit, dedicated to offering meaningful services help to families and children in care. Fostering Hope strives to provide an exchange of resources to families and children in the foster care system.
The dignity duffel initiative addresses the need to eliminate the use of trash bags for children’s belongings.
Dignity duffels fold down to the size of a file folder but can hold an entire wardrobe inside. Fostering Hope Delco gives these duffels to caseworkers. It is more realistic for caseworkers to keep these in their cars than suitcases due to their size. Fostering Hope Delco’s bags of hope are a simple way to comfort a child entering foster care and offer quick emergency items to the foster family for last-minute calls/placements. Drawstring backpacks that are age and gender-specific are filled with basic items such as toiletries, nightlights, activity books, diapers, wipes, and more.
A foster-Share closet is a place where general foster-care, kinship, pre/postadoptive, and first families on safety plans will have the ability to ‘shop’ in the foster-share closet free of charge for needed items. The closet includes essential gear, clothing, diapers, wipes, toys, furniture, and additional child-care items.
For more information or to purchase tickets for the Disc Golf Tournament fundraiser,
email info@fosteringhopepa.com or visit https://fosteringhopepa. com.
White Horse Village hosts Walk to End Alzheimer’s
White Horse Village, 535 Gradyville Road, Edgmont, will host its third annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s event, 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 14. The nonprofit senior living community raised more than $40,000 at its first two Walks and was recognized as Rookie of the Year for 2020 and Top Continuing Care Retirement Community Award for 2021.
Open to the public, the walk is a community-wide weeklong celebration supported by residents and team members who have volunteered countless hours to organize activities, including decorating, costume and exercise contests, in addition to many raffles.
White Horse Village welcomes a new special guest at this year’s walk, Viton, a two-time world champion white horse owned by a local resident, Mindy
Tatz Chernoff of The Resonant Horse. Chernoff is an equine specialist, TEDx speaker, and author of “From Muck to Magnificence, How Cleaning Horse Stalls Can Lead to an Astonishing Life.”
Back by popular demand, DJ Malcolm Poindexter III, KYW Newsradio traffic reporter, will get toes tapping and hands clapping with a motivating Walk to End Alzheimer’s playlist. Losing his father to Alzheimer’s, as well as having a mother with advanced dementia, has created a personal connection for Poindexter III to the White Horse Village event.
Residents at White Horse Village are also able to participate in other less traditional ways, such as logging time in the swimming pool, working out on the elliptical machine, miles walked on the treadmill, as well as time working out on other exercise equipment in the active living community’s Wellness Center.
The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Since 1989, the Alzheimer’s Association mobilized millions of Americans in the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk; now the Alzheimer’s Association is continuing to lead the way with the Walk to End Alzheimer’s. For more information, visit https://act. alz.org/ or contact White Horse Village at http:// www.whitehorsevillage.org or call 610-558-5000.