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Wednesday, May 19, 1999 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Chester County B3 For Bush, a 2-day whirlwind of awards fn Conshohocken I The former president will be bestowing and receiving them. His portrait will be hung at the Union League. THIS FRIDAY NIGHT Tonight HAPPY HOUR with Tha Geator icdbv Dl AVAT You're Invited To Our DECK OPENING PARTY! The Party Starts at 5PM live at ior Happy Hour Continues All Night. (Please RSVP) Featuring DON'T CALL ME FRANCIS APPEARING SATURDAY NIGHT ii their two-month cross-country agenda. Meanwhile, the National Constitution Center had been planning to give its third annual "We the People" Award to Annenberg but had not picked a date.

Annenberg, incidentally, is a founding trustee of the Eisenhower Fellowships and first recipient, in 1988, of its Eisenhower Award. Since Annenberg had planned to attend the annual EEF meeting on May 20, he told the Constitution Center that this would be a good day for him. The center called Bush, an active member of its honorary committee, and asked him whether he would present its award to Annenberg. Bush said he would be glad to. Annenberg's staff then got in touch with the Eisenhower Fellowships Exchange to see whether it could arrange the day's schedule to allow Bush to buzz across Center City to give Bush an opportunity to present the award.

It could indeed. "We wanted to accommodate Ambassador Annenberg and we thought this would be an important civic event for Philadelphia," said EEF president Adrian A. Basora. The Union League, which had commissioned portrait painter Everett Raymond Kinstler to do Bush, also learned that Bush would be in town May 20. "We called his office and said, 'Could he be here on the His office said yes that's how we piggybacked on that," said the Union League's foundations director, Joseph A.

Dubee. The Yale Club of Philadelphia then piggybacked on the Union League. The club, which presents its Distinguished Yale Graduate Certificate only when the occasion arises, learned late last year that Bush would show up there tonight. The executive committee thought this would be a fine occasion to honor one of Old Eli's celebrated sons. Bob Roth, club vice president and a member of the Union League, asked whether the Yale Club could be part of the program, and "we wanted to accommodate them," said Dubee.

The Union League paid $40,000 for the portrait. The money, said Dubee, came from a single donor who is not even a member of the Union League Robert D. McNeil, head of Penguin Industries in Coatesville. His father, the late Henry S. McNeil, was a member, and the painting is dedicated to his memory.

It's the fifth portrait that Kinstler has done of George Bush. Kinstler painted this one of Bush against a Rose Garden background. "It's not a somber painting," said Dubee. "It does capture his energy." I By Leonard W. Boasberg INQUIRER STAFF WRITER "Every trip he takes is about as complicated as this one, and he travels a lot." That's Michael Dannenhauer, George Bush's chief of staff, speaking yesterday from Kennebunkport, Maine, about his boss' visit today and tomorrow to Philadelphia.

Here, in the space of a little more than 36 hours, the former president will give honors to two distinguished Americans and receive honors of his own. Late tomorrow afternoon, Bush Will present, on behalf of the National Constitution Center, its "We the People" Award to Walter H. An-nenberg. The philanthropist and former Inquirer publisher was ambassador to Britain and Ireland trom 1968 to 1974, when Bush was a Republican congressman from Texas, later ambassador to the United Nations, and still later chairman of the Republican National Committee. Tomorrow night, Bush will present, on behalf of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, its Eisenhower Medal to soldier-statesman Colin L.

Powell, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1991, Bush presented Powell with the first of his two Presidential Medals of Freedom. But first, Bush will get an honor of his own. Tonight, he will be at the Union League, where his portrait in oil will be hung, with due ceremony, to join the panoply of 19 presidents, from George Washington to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan (only one Democrat, Andrew Jackson) on the walls of the venerable institution.

The Yale Club of Philadelphia will also present him with its Distinguished Yale Graduate Certificate. How did all these things come together at once? Well, it started with Bush's planned appearance tomorrow at the annual meeting of the Philadelphia-based Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, which since 1954 have been inviting potential leaders of government, business and education from more than 100 countries for travel and study in the United States. Bush, since 1993 chairman of the nonprofit group's board of trustees, will preside after lunch at the Rittenhouse Hotel over a seminar of 25 Eisenhower fellows from 25 counties who have just completed CELEBRATING OUR PAST BUILDING OUR FUTURE June Arts Weekend Drunken-driving deaths on the rise in Pa. Deaths From Alcohol-Related Crashes Driver or pedestrian had 0.10 or higher blood-alcohol level. Saturday, June 5th Samuel Barber's Sonata for Piano featuring Carl Cranmer 8:00 p.m.

Enjoy an evening of fine music as world renowned pianist Carl Cranmer performs Samuel Barber's Sonata for piano. Free and open to trie public. Chesfer County Historical Society, 225 N. High St. Sponsored by The Samuel Barber Foundation West Chester University Sunday, June 6th Super Sunday 12:00 p.m.

p.m. The streets of West Chester come alive with music, food, arts and crafts, strolling entertainers, a special children's block with amusements, crafts, face painting, costume characters, an antique car show and more. Downtown West Chester Sponsored by West Chester Parks and Recreation Sunday, June 6th Samuel Barber's Choral Works 4:00 p.m. Enjoy a concert featuring two of Samuel Barber's choral works conducted by Dave De Venney, with members from several West Chester Church Choirs. Free and open to the public.

Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, High i Union Sts. Sponsored by The Samuel Barber Foundation West Chester University Friday, June 4th Gallery Walk 5:00 p.m. p.m. Come into town to browse the galleries and shops in the evening. Thie year's June 4th Gallery Walk is the kick-off event for the Bicentennial Arts Weekend.

A Gallery Walk Guide will be distributed. This guide contains a map of the downtown area and features a scavenger hunt for all to participate. Sponsored by Chamber of Commerce of Greater West Chester Saturday, June 5th Flea Market 9:00 a.m. p.m. The Borough Hall 1 Municipal Building parking lot comes alive with treasures lost and found.

Enjoy the search, arts and crafts, old and new, food and fun for all ages. Borough Hall Sponsored by West Chester Parks and Recreation Saturday, June 5th Art Extravaganza 10:00 a.m. p.m. Wander through an outdoor gallery at the Chester County Art Association. Buy original artworks from area artists.

Music provided by the Chester County Concert Band and the Rob Dickenson Band. Chester County Art Association, 100 N. Bradford Ave. Sponsored by Chester County Art Association 10- Rate per 100,000 National mmm Pennsylvania dropped to 6.95 nationwide. In contrast, Pennsylvania's rate of fatal alcohol-related crashes has crept upward in recent years.

For every 100,000 licensed drivers in Pennsylvania in 1993, there were 7.20 alcohol-related crashes involving a driver with a blood-alcohol level of 0.10 or higher. That rate dropped as low as 5.83 in 1996, but crept to 6.42 in 1998. Evanko, the state police commissioner, said his department would continue its efforts to fight drunken driving, but he cautioned that law-enforcement efforts were not the ultimate answer. "It is the responsibility of each driver," Evanko said. "When in doubt, don't make a fatal mistake.

Give the keys to someone else, phone for a taxi, or call a friend or family member for a ride." vania is falling behind." Last week, Texas became the 17th state to adopt a 0.08 blood-alcohol limit. States with that standard have seen drunken-driving deaths drop by up to 16 percent, according to a study by Boston University professor Ralph Hingson. In Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the legal blood-alcohol limit remains 0.10. A bill proposing the 0.08 limit never made it out of the transportation committee in the Pennsylvania House last year. "All I can tell you is there just doesn't seem to be any heart for it with some of the members," Rep.

Katie True Lancaster), a sponsor of the failed bill recalled yesterday. "We're tampering with a mentality. When you go to parties, you drink, the booze flows. You're talking about America's number-one drug of choice. As it stands in the legislature, there's more that don't want it than do." As more states enact stiffer blood-alcohol limits and other measures such as confiscating a driver's license or car at the scene of the arrest researchers say the rate of alcohol-related fatalities per 100,000 drivers nationwide has declined steadily since 1993.

For every 100,000 licensed drivers in 1993, there were 8.06 alcohol-related fatal crashes involving a driver with a blood-alcohol level of 0.10 or higher. By 1997, that rate DUI arrests also rose last year. Some say the figures indicate a need for stricter standards. By Jere Downs INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Deaths from drunken driving in Pennsylvania rose slightly last year, despite a crackdown that saw state police arrests for driving under the influence increase by 13 percent over the year before. The figures show that 534 people died as a result of what state police said were alcohol-related crashes 20 more than the 514 who died in 1997.

Nationally, 12,704 people died in alcohol-related crashes in 1997, the most recent year for which figures are available. state figures reflect the overall number of alcohol-related driving deaths in Pennsylvania and arrests by state police. Sobriety checkpoints and more stringent enforcement by the state police netted 12,407 arrests last year, up from the 10,988 arrests made by troopers in 1997, Police Commissioner Paul Evanko said yesterday. Of the 1998 figures, 3,771 of the arrests, or nearly a third, resulted from trooper investigations of high-Way crashes. Advocates of stricter laws against drunken driving said yes- Look for this West Chester 200 calendar of events every Wednesday in this space.

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She swipes the last corner with egg wash, rolls the whole thing over, and plops the tube onto a tray. Later, the egg rolls will be fried and packaged. Recently, she hired two people to help her. She hopes to open a Thai restaurant in the building and to expand her line to other prepared foods. She lived in the building, but mainly she made egg rolls in it, working from 8 a.m.

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After taxes and attorney's fees, the money she was paid for the building dwindled to $3,400. For a while, Hammond could not eat or sleep. She lost all hope. But she found new life as a nun at a Buddhist temple in Silver Spring, Md. There, she learned that suffering is a necessary part of life, and came to believe in reincarnation.

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