2 injured in 2 shootings

Detectives were investigating two shootings last night in different parts of the city that left one man dead and another in extremely critical condition.

In the first incident police responded to Oakland Street near Magee in Northeast Philadelphia about 6:30 p.m. and found a 21-year-old man shot twice in the head. The victim was taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center in extremely critical condition.

Shortly after, police were called to Cambria Street near Hancock in Kensington where they found an 18-year-old man shot once in the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Both victims' names were withheld pending family notification. Tipsters can call the Homicide Unit at 215-686-3334.

Historic G'twn event recalled

A forum will be held on Nov. 19 on the subject, "Working Together: When the Harlem Renaissance Came to Germantown."

It will highlight a nearly unknown event, the Negro Achievement Week celebration held in Germantown in April 1928. The forum will begin at 7 p.m. at Center in the Park, in Germantown's Vernon Park, 5818 Germantown Ave.

Honoring Carver at Academy

Students from the George Washington Carver School for Engineering and Science, a North Philadelphia public magnet high school, will be the first to tour the Academy of Natural Sciences' fall exhibit on George Washington Carver on Nov. 13.

Academy President William Brown, a student from the Carver school, and Thomas Anderson, founder of the George Washington Carver Science Fair, will give brief remarks.

Pumpkin chucked 4,623 ft.

A team of pumpkin chuckers from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware is claiming a Guinness World Record title after launching a pumpkin 4,623 feet at a Youth Garden Project Pumpkin Chuckin' Festival in Moab, Utah.

The team used a 90-foot, compressed-air cannon and traveled to southern Utah hoping that the high elevation and thin air would help them set a world record. The group is awaiting final verification from Guinness. The previous record was 4,491 feet.

- Staff and wire reports