The Uhuru Solidarity Movement Earth Day Fest and Flea Market scheduled for today in Clark Park has been postponed to 9 a.m. through 5 p.m. on Sunday (April 17) because of the weather. The “Earth Uprising” fest will feature a number of vendors, music, speakers and yoga in the “B” section of Clark Park – south of Chester Avenue.

Volunteers are needed in West and Southwest Philadelphia to help drive cancer patients to treatment. You need access to a vehicle, a valid driver’s license and current insurance. That’s it. For more information call 1-800-227-2345.

West Philadelphia icon Miriam W. Crawford, who along with her husband Bill were stalwarts of the political left in the city for decades, died on Saturday in a Germantown nursing home. She was 94.

Crawford retired as the director of the Temple University archives in 1986. She is the former coordinator of the Philadelphia chapter Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She marched against the war in Vietnam and was active in causes up until last year, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Miriam and her husband Bill Crawford, who was the great grandson of an escaped slave, were well known in West Philadelphia for their commitment to leftist causes. Both were committed Marxists and their dining room in the Parkside neighborhood was a gathering spot for social activists. The dining room walls were covered with political memorabilia that spanned generations. The walls were so intriguing that curators removed the political art work when the Crawfords moved and recreated it for a Philadelphia Folklore Project an art exhibition in 2005. Bill died in 2002 at the age of 91.

Bill Crawford ran the New World Book Fair bookstore at 113 S. 40th St. from 1961 to 1974. The store specialized in Marxist and African American books.

Miriam and Bill were married in 1949. They are survived by a daughter, Fanny Jean Crawford, a son, Douglass Barnes Crawford, and three grandchildren.

What could be a harbinger of fast food restaurants to come opened near 40th and Walnut this week.

Sweet Green features “make your own” salads that include season and, when possible, local ingredients for $6.35. Ingredients include a range of greens – from mesclun (lettuces combined with some dandelion greens or other edible leaves) to baby spinach – a ton of fruits and vegetables, five kinds of cheese, and more than a dozen dressings. Meats, tofu and shrimp are a little extra. Other salads and wraps range from $7.50 to $11.

Organic frozen yogurt is also on the menu. A naked cone is $2.50. A small bowl of soup is $3.75 and drinks include housemade lemonade and iced tea.

The West Philly location is the second in the area (the other is in Ardmore). Sweet Green started in the D.C. area and company officials say the West Philly location design is a throwback to their original store. The inside of a fast food-style restaurant can’t get much more hip than this place. The woodwork, for example, is made from recycled bowling lane planks.

The restaurant is taking advantage of the trend of buying local, something familiar to many of us in West Philly thanks to places like Mariposa Food Co-op, Milk and Honey Market and the Clark Park farmer’s market.

Here are two fine stories on two important entities in West Philly.

• Newsworks, WHYY’s community news service, takes us inside HMS School on Baltimore Avenue bordering Clark Park. Fifty six students attend HMS, a pretty fantastic place that has been educating kids with Cerebral Palsy for generations. The story reports on an art festival at the school and includes an inspiring slideshow. Eiko Fan, the school’s art teacher, said that students use special brushes, some paint with markers attached to headbands, others with their feet: “Everything is abstract, but it is powerful,” she told Maiken Scott.

• Philadelphia City Paper takes us inside NextFab Studio at 3711 Market St., which calls itself a “gym for innovators.” This is a place where you pay a membership to get access to all sorts of high-tech gadgetry. The idea is to use the space and the stuff to build things.  For example, one dude is working on a computer powered by a steam engine. NextFab founder Evan Malone told City Paper’s Theresa Everline: “My vision for this place was for inventors to be able to go from a concept to an aesthetically pleasing product that they could show people.”

Saturday is “Love Your Park Day” in Philadelphia. For most of us, I suspect that every day is love your park day, but this one is official. That means that volunteers are needed.

Volunteers are needed at Clark Park from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Projects include cleaning the peripheral areas of the park to get them ready for spring and putting mulch around tree bases, beginning with the trees near the shuffleboard court at 45th and Chester. If weather permits, park benches will get a coat of sealant.

Help is also needed at Malcolm X. Park for a general clean-up from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and at Barkan Park (50th & Spruce) from 10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Volunteers are also needed at Cedar Park from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. to help with the park gardens. Bring clippers and cutting shears if you have them. Other tools will be provided.