We continue publishing breakfast and lunch menus served at schools in the School District of Philadelphia. Here’s the menu for Monday, Oct 6 through Friday, Oct 10. If your school uses a Satellite menu, click here. Come back every Sunday evening for the coming week’s menu.

BREAKFAST (K-12)

A variety of three cereals is offered daily and served with a yogurt parfait or a mini loaf.

Monday

Mini Pancakes
Bake Crafter Cereal Bar & Yogurt
Choose 1: Pineapple Juice or Fresh Pear
Variety of Milk

Tuesday

Steak, Egg & Cheese on a Bagel
Benefit Bar
Choose 1: Mixed Fruit Cup or Fresh Apple
Variety of Milk  Continue Reading

A neighbor, Lauren, needs help locating her dog, a Pomeranian named Jason, who got out very late Thursday night/early Friday morning. He was last seen near 50th and Market. “Jason means the world to me,” writes Lauren.

Lauren created this sweet poster to spread the word about Jason.

Photo courtesy UC Green.

West Philly is home to a number of great non-profit organizations that do many important things in the area. One of them is UC Green, a group of dedicated members and volunteers who make this area greener by planting and taking care of trees. On Thursday, Oct. 9, UC Green is celebrating its 16th anniversary and hosting its second Harvest Moon Social. This is a fundraising event supporting UC Green’s community tree planting and greening initiatives throughout West Philadelphia neighborhoods.

Community members are invited to join UC Green staff and volunteers at the event and enjoy a buffet and cocktail party. There will also be a raffle with some great local items, including gift baskets and certificates from the Four Worlds Bakery, Milk and Honey and Local 44.

Each year, the organization manages close to 2,000 volunteers who plant and tend hundreds of street trees and enhance public green spaces contributing thousands of hours in service to the neighborhoods. Harvest Moon Social is one of the events that helps UC Green to continue doing their work.

“I rely on the folks at UC Green as the go- to people when it comes to all things having to do with trees. They have given not only material support but moral support in helping us address many challenges we face as community gardeners working in vulnerable areas where efforts are sometimes undermined by many factors of the urban environment. Thanks to their hard work over many years, a greener, calmer and healthier landscape is unfolding in our neighborhood,” says Maureen Tate, a Cedar Park resident and block captain.

Harvest Moon Social will take place from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. at the recently opened Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships (3509 Spring Garden St). Tickets are $85/person, two for $150. Please call: 215-573-4684 or email: suemacqueen@ucgreen.org for more information and to reserve your ticket.

This one was about as easy as it gets for police. A resident on the 4300 block of Baltimore Avenue reported a burglary after she was awoken just before 2 a.m. on Thursday by noises and a first floor security alarm.

The resident found a window open, several thousand dollars worth items missing from the first floor of the house and cinder blocks stacked outside below the window. Police arrived to find many of the items in an alley near the home. As the scene investigation continued, police noticed someone peering around the corner of a building on 44th Street. When the man reached for his ID after being stopped by police, an i-Phone that was later identified as the resident’s fell out of his pocket.

The man, 20-year-old Lakim McDonald of the 5600 block of Washington Ave., faces burglary and related charges.

Joe Murray of Southwest Detectives tweeted about the arrest earlier today:

This has been another episode of Being A Cop Is Really Easy Sometimes.

— Joseph Murray (@PPDJoeMurray) October 3, 2014

A pedestrian was struck this morning by a box truck near the intersection at 45th and Baltimore, according to media and witness reports. The incident happened shortly after 7 a.m. We’re trying to get more information on the person’s condition. Police remained on the scene for a while investigating the incident and inspecting the truck, which could be seen parked at the Gas and Mini Mart at 46th and Baltimore.

NBC reports that there was another incident on the west side of the Schuylkill this morning, when a pedestrian was struck by a car on the South Street Bridge and taken to HUP. UPDATE: Witnesses say that it was a bicyclist and appeared to have minor injuries.

The number of burglaries and robberies in the University City area went down over the last few months, but this report is a reminder to residents to be vigilant and report any suspicious activity.

A Spruce Hill resident reported a break-in attempt at a small building with four apartments on the 4500 block of Spruce St. The incident happened early in the morning on Wednesday, Oct. 1, between midnight and 3 a.m. and was also reported to the police. The person who wrote us about the incident is one of the tenants in the building.

“…Someone attempted to break into a building on this block (Spruce St. between 45th & 46th) between the hours of 12-3 a.m. They did serious damage to a security door but did not get inside. To our knowledge, it was not anyone known to the tenants,” she wrote in an email.

The building tenants were a little shaken up by what had happened, according to the email. They want others to know about the incident and are also asking neighbors to contact police if they saw or heard anything suspicious that night.

“Neighbors can help keep neighbors safe,” the building tenant writes. “Please be alert, and don’t hesitate to dial 911 to report suspicious activity.”