This week’s featured adoptable cats are Chewy and Roy.

West Philly resident Gina and her roommates have been taking care of the cats, but they are all going to graduate next month and need to find them a new home.

Roy and Chewy are brother and sister black and white cats. They are medium sized, very lovable, neutered, with updated shots, and can be adopted together or separately. They were victims of a break in at their old home, so they get very scared of plastic bags and loud banging noises. They are good with other animals and kids as long as you give them a week or so to get used to their new surroundings.

Here are their photos:

 
If you’re interested in adopting one or both of these cats or would like to meet them, please email Gina at: ginapiccari [at] gmail.com

 
A growing number of West Philly residents are trying to get “The Fuzz” back online.

Resident Amara Rockar has started an online petition aimed at persuading police Commissioner Charles Ramsey to allow Detective Joseph Murray to start tweeting again. Murray’s Twitter account, which has provided timely updates on crime and public safety for several years, has been offline since Jan. 11.

“Detective Murray’s use of Twitter is exactly the kind of useful and positive police-community interaction that the Philadelphia Police Department should encourage, not silence,” the petition reads. “Please approve his Social Media use under his official title immediately so that his updates to our community may resume.”

Murray’s Twitter account fell victim to the police department’s skittishness about its officers using social media publicly.

Murray’s updates on crime were invaluable for citizen awareness.

Dock Street’s West Philly T-Shirt contest is still on and West Philly-based artists are encouraged to participate. You can submit your design through Saturday, March 17. The winner will be announced on March 28.

Apart from seeing your friends and neighbors wearing a tee with your work of art, you can win free beer for a week – 14 drink coupons or two beers per day!

The design can be based around the brewpub, a specific beer or Dock Street beers in general.

Here are the rules:

1. Any West Philadelphia-based artist/illustrator/designer can enter.
2. All entries must be black and white.
3. Art must be submitted electronically (.pdf, .ai, .jpg, .png, .tiff, .gif)
4. There are no entry fees.
5. Submissions will be judged on creativity, style, printability and representation of Dock Street.
6. Dock Street Staff will vote on top 3 and announce on March 20. Once they’ve selected the top 3, they’ll open the voting on their website, Facebook and Twitter and at the brewpub on March 28.
7. The winner gets their artwork printed on a run of Dock Street tees and receives 4 t-shirts for their trophy case, free beer for a week (14 drink vouchers) and a bottle of one of Dock Street’s limited release beers. And of course, bragging rights!

Also, please send the following to dockstreetinfo [at] gmail.com:

-Name
-Address
-Telephone
-Email Address
-Preferred canvas for art

Neighbor Claire King spotted this female Red-bellied Woodpecker last week in her backyard on Regent Street.

On Saturday, March 10, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. the West Philly Tool Library is holding its Fourth Annual Garage Sale and Tool Drive. Hundreds of tools will be on sale, most of them as cheap as $1.

The Tool Library also accepts donations, so if you have tools in your basement that you no longer need, especially power tools, bring them along. Note: donations to the Tool Library are tax-deductible.

Finally, this is a great opportunity to become a member or renew your membership. More information about the Tool Library membership can be found here.

The Tool Library is located in a warehouse at 1314 South 47th Street, just south of Woodland Avenue.

Exciting news is coming from Mariposa Food Co-op. Mariposa has announced that the new store at 4824 Baltimore Ave. will open on Saturday, March 17 at 10:00 a.m. The last day you can shop at their old location at 4726 Baltimore Avenue is this Wednesday, March 7.

Mariposa is also going to reveal a new official logo to go with their new store. The logo was designed by their member-worker Cecily Anderson of Anagramist Design. Look for it this week on Mariposa’s Facebook and Twitter pages and on their website later this week.

Stay tuned for more news about the new store opening.