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After Mummers dustup, groups undergo training

By Jeremy Rodriguez jeremy@epgn.com As a result of this year’s Mummers Parade, performers involved in the New Year’s Day event have undergone training about the effects of cultural appropriation, the proper use of satire and issues that are sensitive to the LGBT community.

The 2016 parade was the subject of controversy after homophobic and transphobic displays by the Finnegan New Year Brigade.

In one skit, a Finnegan member dressed as Bruce Jenner performed an Olympic victory routine before sitting in a wheelchair. Performers dressed as doctors and nurses pushed his chair into the crowd as the skit transitioned to Aerosmith’s “Dude (Looks Like a Lady).” As the song played, another performer dressed as Caitlyn Jenner emerged from the crowd to signify the transgender woman’s transition. Meanwhile, a sign compared Jenner’s Wheaties cereal box to a box of “Froot Loops” featuring a cutout of her June 2015 Vanity Fair cover.

Additionally, a man from Finnegan chanted “f*** the gays” while holding the cereal-box sign to mock Jenner. In a statement, the Mummers said they banned the performer from future performances.

“What we can expect this year is for the group of performers and the organization to be more informed about issues that might cause offense to different groups of people,” said Ajeenah Amir, the deputy communications director for the mayor’s office. “We are expecting a performance that will honor their traditions but also be done in the right way.”

Amir said the groups were required to submit their skit themes as well as ideas related to costumes and makeup at the start of the application process. The city then made recommendations on acts that may be considered offensive. If a group did not comply with the guidelines, the Mummers leadership would prevent them from marching.

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KEEPING THEIR MEMORY ALIVE: The William Way LGBT Community Center was filled Sunday night with about 175 community member and allies paying tribute to the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. The event, held at the center for six years, included a reading of the names of the transgender lives lost to violence in the last year in the country, as well as recognition of local members of the trans community killed in recent years. Participants also were encouraged to share thoughts and concerns, which included a theme of a call for unity in the community and a plea for action from allies. Photo: Scott A. Drake

At a press conference Tuesday, a collection of local and federal officials pledged to track down whoever was responsible for an explosive device that seriously injured a Center City resident, who is reportedly gay.

The incident happened at 4 a.m. Nov. 22 in a first-floor apartment at 1808 Pine St. Investigators say a 60-year-old man, who had just returned home from a trip, opened what he thought was a package of medication and the parcel detonated. The explosion and shrapnel caused injuries to his face, upper body and left hand. He underwent surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and was in stable condition at presstime.

Multiple news sources identified the victim as Jim Alden, a gay man who works in the catering industry and lives in the home with his partner, though officials declined to confirm the victim’s name or sexual orientaPAGE 14 tion. Officials confirmed

City, state issue guidance on bias incidents

By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com The wave of bias incidents that has swept the nation since Donald Trump was elected president is drawing targeted responses from the local and state governments.

The office of Gov. Tom Wolf last week outlined a formal “response plan” following a series of race- and religion-based incidents in Pennsylvania schools. According to a release from the governor, all school districts in the state have been directed to contact the Office of Safe Schools directly after any bias-related incident occurs. The office will then supply counselors to the school and work with the Pennsylvania Commission on Human Relations to evaluate if further resources are needed.

“We need to fight racism and bigotry when it arises and my administration will work actively with school districts and other public institutions to stand up to intolerance,” the governor said in a state-

ment. “Our schools must be safe and open spaces where all children can learn and grow free of concerns for their physical, mental and emotional safety.”

In the days following the election, reports surfaced of chants of “white power” at a York high school, racist and anti-LGBT graffiti at a Bucks County high school and several verbal and physical attacks at local colleges.

According to the governor’s outline, representatives of the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Mid-Atlantic Equity Center, Intermediate Units, Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network and PHRC met to address the issue and formulated the response plan.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education disseminated the plan Nov. 16 and urged superintendents to also come up with their own targeted efforts to “effectively prevent and address harassment, intimidation, violence and discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, ances-

try, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, national origin or disability.”

The department also intends to engage with nonprofits and commissions within the governor’s office to generate further suggestions on curbing hate-based incidents in schools. Its Office of Commonwealth Libraries has also forwarded a booklist of titles that “share a message of unity, acting with kindness toward others and promoting peace” to schools, which can be found at http://www.ala.org/alsc/booklists.

If students or families feel that harassment is not being adequately addressed in their school, they are encouraged to contact the Office for Safe Schools’ Bullying Prevention Consultation Line at 1-866716-0424. Messages can be left 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Trans birth-certificate lawsuit filed in New Jersey

By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com A federal lawsuit was filed last week that seeks to enable trans people born in New Jersey to change the gender on their birth certificate without undergoing gender-confirmation surgery.

The plaintiff, “Jane Doe,” is a New Jersey trans woman with gender dysphoria who wishes to change the gender on her birth certificate without undergoing gender-confirmation surgery.

On Nov. 18, attorneys Julie Chovanes and Paul R. Fitzmaurice filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Doe in Camden. The suit contends that trans people are entitled to accurate birth certificates, regardless of their surgical status.

The defendants are state Registrar Vincent T. Arrisi and state Health Commissioner Cathleen D. Bennett, along with the agencies they head: the New Jersey Office of Vital Statistics and the New Jersey Department of Health, respectively.

They couldn’t be reached for comment by presstime.

New Jersey currently requires gen-

der-confirmation surgery prior to the issuance of a revised birth certificate with a different gender.

According to Doe’s lawsuit, the requirement violates state and federal laws, including the equal-protection and due-process clauses of the 14th Amendment, the Americans With Disabilities Act and New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination.

“The requirement harms [Doe] by forcing her to undergo surgery that she does not want and forces [Doe] to sterilize herself before she is allowed a correct birth certificate,” the suit states.

Many trans people with gender dysphoria aren’t appropriate candidates for gender-confirmation surgery yet they still need accurate birth certificates, according to the suit.

The attorneys also noted that several states, including Pennsylvania, New York, California, Iowa, Oregon, Vermont and Washington, permit gender changes to birth certificates without requiring gender-confirmation surgery.

Additionally, the attorneys noted that New Jersey doesn’t require gender-confirmation surgery to change a gender marker

on a driver’s license.

“A birth certificate is a fundamental identification document and, without their gender being accurately stated on their birth certificates, trans people with gender dysphoria who have not undergone [surgery] may undergo suffering, emotional and mental distress,” the attorneys wrote in the suit.

They also blasted New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

“Gov. Christie declared on a radio show, shortly after vetoing a bill that would have provided birth-certificate protections like those sought here for trans people, that people like [Doe], who do not desire to open their genitalia for the governor’s inspection in order to obtain an accurate birth certificate, are ‘beyond the pale.’ The governor was then heard laughing at people like [Doe] and others,” they wrote.

A spokesperson for Christie had no comment about the suit by presstime.

The attorneys requested that state officials be ordered to “provide accurate birth certificates to trans people according to their gender identity or expression without requiring any medical or other procedure.”

Doe is also seeking compensatory and

Top of the Tower new venue for TOY

By Jeremy Rodriguez jeremy@epgn.com The Delaware Valley Legacy Fund’s TOY event, a holiday party aimed at providing toys for children and meeting the needs of the LGBT community, will give out grants to six nonprofits during its 10th-anniversary event. The grantees will include organizations that address LGBT issues such as youth homelessness, transgender-inclusive services and healthy aging.

DVLF announced this week that The Attic Youth Center, LGBT Elder Initiative, Support Center for Child Advocates, Therapy Center of Philadelphia, Valley Youth House and William Way LGBT Community Center are its 2016 beneficiaries. Following their recognition at the Dec. 10 event, Philadelphia singer-songwriter Aiden James will perform a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “River.”

DVLF executive director Samantha Giusti said the work of the grantees is in line with the agency’s goals.

“Our mission is to promote philanthropy,” Giusti said. “[The grants are] a direct correlation to our mission. We were founded to meet the emerging needs of the community, which at the time was HIV and AIDS, and certainly has shifted throughout the years. These are the organizations that the community grant-making folks feel like are representing some of the most emergent needs in the LGBT community and that’s what we were created to do. We’re happy all these years later to continue to be able to do it.”

TOY will feature a cocktail party, dancing, appetizers, an open bar and a silent auction for more than 400 people. Attendees are encouraged to bring an unwrapped toy for donation to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Action Wellness.

Throughout its history, TOY has varied its venue and the 10th-annual event continues this tradition by using Top of the Tower. Feedback from previous TOY events

showed that some attendees preferred a cocktail party while others would rather have a dance celebration; Top of the Tower provides both of these elements with a lounge area for socializing and a separate space for a dance party, Giusti said.

“Looking at the city lights feels bright and festive,” Giusti said, noting the panoramic views the venue offers from the 51st floor. “I like that people can get the best of both worlds. It’s plenty of space and we can really spread out and have a nice time. It can allow us to give a couple of different feels to the party.”

Giusti also said it’s a good time for the community to come together, given how the presidential election showed that there is “still a lot of work to be done” in regard to LGBT progress.

“I think there’s a rallying cry that we might lose some of the rights we worked so hard for and that we really need to come together as a community,” Giusti said.

“We have a fight ahead of us and any chance to come together and celebrate with members of our community is a beautiful thing.”

Kevin Burns, executive director of Action Wellness, said the past few weeks have made the country question the virtues of others. However, he said the TOY event “reinforces people’s goodness.”

“I’m looking forward for TOY to boost our spirits these days,” Burns said.

Burns also noted how Action Wellness works hard every year to make sure families the organization serves receive at least one toy during the holiday season. He said they “couldn’t achieve that goal without this tremendous support” from DVLF. “It’s one of those events where it feels like the community really comes together to make a difference for people who are less fortunate,” Burns said. “It’s really inspiring to be part of a group that does that.”

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punitive damages, along with reasonable attorneys’ fees.

The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp.

Shannon P. Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, issued this statement: “This is an important case.

The medical community recognizes that a transgender person’s identity as male or female is an inherent part of who they are.

Transgender people need ID that reflects who they are and how they are living their lives. It is irrational to require a transgender person to undergo surgical treatment, as more and more states have recognized.

It is time for New Jersey to update its law to reflect current medical science and best practices.”

Chovanes expressed optimism that the suit will be successful.

“Trans people shouldn’t have to undergo sterilization in order to obtain a correct birth certificate,” Chovanes told PGN. “I’m confident that New Jersey officials will do the right thing and issue accurate birth certificates to trans people, regardless of their surgical status. And we applaud the bravery of our plaintiff in bringing suit.” n

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and empathy around LGBTQ people and issues and to educate them on why certain things that they have done in the past are offensive and dangerous.”

In these discussions, participants learned about gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation and the barriers LGBT people face in their day-to-day lives.

“In those talks, people had great questions and have said at the end of them that they are viewing everything very differently and are grateful for the information,” Fitzpatrick said. “I can only be hopeful at this point but this really is about the Mummers evaluating their behavior, policing their own behavior and making sure they’re taking the actions they need to put out a product that is not hurtful or offensive.”

Amir said, “The city believes that this parade can be done correctly” if the Mummers performers keep themselves in check.

“We want to celebrate Philadelphia and use satire in a right and respectable way,” Amir said. “If we have another year like last, there will be consequences. We are asking the Mummers to self-police and to be accountable for one another.”

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The Attic’s Queer Thanksgiving serves up food, fun, ‘framily’

TURKEY TOGETHERNESS: Micah Rodriguez (right) and other members of The Attic Youth Center came together for a holiday feast Monday night at the center. The annual Fall Harvest Dinner, also known as Queer Thanksgiving, featured a full Thanksgiving meal, prepared and served by the LGBT employee-resource group at Dow Chemical Company. The organization has partnered with The Attic on the holiday meal for the last four years. Dishes were also donated by board members of The Attic and by representatives of Harrah’s. Photo: Scott A. Drake

By Jeremy Rodriguez jeremy@epgn.com Micah Rodriguez said she was looking forward to seeing many people she hadn’t seen in a while at The Attic Youth Center’s Queer Thanksgiving. However, Rodriguez does not refer to these individuals as her friends. Instead, she calls them “framily.”

“The reason why I use the word ‘framily’ is because they are friends and family at the same time,” said the 21-year-old who serves as an intern at The Attic’s Justice League program. “Usually, you don’t get a mixture of both.”

LGBT youth ages 14-23 were in attendance at The Attic’s annual holiday meal on Monday. The event featured a space filled with dozens of young people enjoying traditional Thanksgiving dishes such as turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes.

“When you come to The Attic, you usually have this home environment and coming [to Queer Thanksgiving], we always have the chance to sit down at the table and talk about all of the stuff that makes us feel good and to make each other feel nice,” Rodriguez said.

According to its website, “The Attic’s goal is to reduce the isolation felt by LGBTQ youth by providing a sense of community and developing programs and services to counteract the prejudice and oppression that LGBTQ youth often face.” Queer Thanksgiving serves as one of these initiatives.

“For many of our youth, some of them don’t have families,” said Chris Kyle, program specialist at The Attic. “Some of them are dealing with homelessness. When it comes to the holidays, it can be a bit tough and difficult for them. So we try to create a space where they can feel like they have a family, feel like they have people who care about them and just make sure we provide them with all of the resources that they need. Today is one of those reminders where we let them know we’re here for them.”

Members of GLAD, Dow Chemical Company’s resource group for LGBT and ally employees, attended the event to help serve dishes, which Dow, Harrah’s and board members of The Attic donated for the event.

“We’re glad to do it,” said Marco Baker, GLAD secretary and office professional in Dow’s legal department. “It’s a labor of love. Sometimes it can be a little stressful, but in the end, it’s all worth it, especially seeing how appreciative the youth here are, as well as the staff. It’s just something that keeps us invigorated throughout the year.”

The Attic’s associate director, J. Grant, noted that “people associate Thanksgiving with family and friends.” Queer Thanksgiving provides this for the youth, Grant said.

“We think it’s important for young people who may or may not have some biological family to go home to and have this type of moment,” Grant said. “We’re very happy to be able to provide that for them." n

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Applications open for LGBT Latinx program at Creating Change

By Jeremy Rodriguez jeremy@epgn.com Applications opened last week for the Philly Latinx LGBTQ Embajadores. The Embajadores, which translates to “ambassadors,” will be comprised of 10 Philadelphia residents who identify as LGBT and Latinx.

The winners announced Dec. 5 will attend the annual Creating Change Conference, which will be held Jan. 18-22 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown.

The program began as part of Unión-Fuerza, an all-day institute promoting LGBT activism in the Latinx community at the National LGBTQ Task Force’s annual Creating Change conference. Members of the institute asked Latinx individuals who attended previous Creating Change events to create a host committee to support the conference through a local perspective.

The Embajadores will learn about topics such as media, messaging and networking in professional-development workshops prior to attending the conference. After Creating Change, the ambassadors will meet on a monthly basis to hone the skills they learned and strategize around social-justice issues that may arise.

Elicia Gonzales, a member of the host committee, said that after conferences typically end, “everybody is left with this kind of feeling of, ‘Well, that was fun.

Now what?’”

The Embajadores program aims to continue the skills learned at Creating Change, she said.

“Given the results of [Donald Trump being elected as president], which really strikes at the heart of what it means to be a queer Latino, we have to build the momentum that has already been building over past years and also support the empowerment of new and emerging leaders so we can react to any sort of injustices that come down the pike and ideally be proactive in ensuring social and racial justice for our community,” Gonzales said.

The group coordinated a GoFundMe page to help pay conference fees for the Embajadores.

As of presstime, the page had raised $921 of the $2,000 goal.

Fran Cortes, GALAEI’s Youth Program coordinator and member of the host committee, said he attended Creating Change for the first time earlier this year in Chicago and met many individuals he still networks with today.

He wants the Embajadores to have the same experience.

“This resource is a privilege that a lot of individuals are unfortunately unable to get, so we want to give them that opportunity to go out there and work on their own professional skills but also uplift the queer Latino community here in Philadelphia,” Cortes said.

He also noted he is eager for conference attendees to see that Latinx people in Philadelphia are “striving and thriving.”

“We want people coming from out of town to see that we have a vibrant, queer Latino population here in Philadelphia,” Cortes said. “I want to make sure that they see these individuals and then we want local activists to see themselves in these large networking experiences.”

Gonzales said she is excited to see the camaraderie and connectivity among the Embajadores.

“I think it really will become this core group that we can then build on in the future,” Gonzales said.

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World AIDS Day 2016 events 13th Annual Red Ribbon Awards 5 p.m. Dec. 1 Philadelphia City Hall, Conversation Hall The Penn Center for AIDS Research will sponsor its annual event to honor individuals doing work in the fight against HIV/AIDS; med. upenn.edu; 215-898-5000.

A Walk For Passion: A Night of Fashion 6 p.m. Dec. 1 Ethical Society of Philadelphia, 1906 Rittenhouse Square The Art Institute of Philadelphia, POSSE Project Philly and the University of Pennsylvania will showcase the house and ballroom scene while incorporating the work of local art students.

AIDS Fund will provide its AIDS Memorial Quilt for display; Phillyethics.org; 215-7353456.

AIDS Memorial Quilt and Educational Tabling 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Dec. 1 Thomas Jefferson University, Hamilton Lobby, 1001 Locust St. The Student National Medical Association and the Emergency Medicine HIV Opt-Out Program will provide educational materials and giveaways. Additionally, the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display in the lobby Nov. 28-Dec. 2; jefferson.edu; 215-955-6000.

Free showing of “The Last One” 6 p.m. Dec. 1 Grace Episcopal Church, 108 N. Fifth St., Allentown A free showing of the documentary tracing the history of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be held at the Episcopal Church to benefit Fighting AIDS Continuously Together. Stick around afterwards for refreshments; Graceallentown. org; 610-435-0782

World AIDS Day Prayer Breakfast 8 a.m. Dec. 1 Doubletree by Hilton Philadelphia Center City, 237 S. Broad St. Philadelphia FIGHT hosts its eighth-annual event where faith leaders come together. The Rev. Jay Broadnax, president of the Black Clergy of Philadelphia and Vicinity, will be the keynote speaker; Fight.org; 215-985-4448 ext. 253.

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No matter our age, we have a vast array of needs that we must care for throughout our lives. Caring for our physical health, emotional wellness and social connections is an ongoing process that requires consistent attention.

Self-care becomes all the more important during times of transition, periods of stress or as we face uncertainty about our health, relationships and futures. As we age, practicing good self-care plays a vital role in allowing us to form the social, medical, emotional and financial support structures needed to age successfully.

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How are you caring for your emotional wellness?

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How are we caring for our social connections?

In many cases, our mental health is closely tied to our relationships and social connections. Aging comes with an increased risk of becoming isolated, especially within LGBT communities. Good social self-care will help us to fight against this isolation by maintaining connections and forging new relationships. Organize Griffith outings with friends and family members. Attend community events, join social groups or take classes where you can meet new people who share common interests.

Technology can also be a useful tool in staying connected and forming social relationships. You can email or video chat with friends you can’t spend time with in person. While meeting new people online comes with some risks, people of all ages utilize online dating sites and apps to meet prospective partners. Even if you are not looking for romantic relationships, there are plenty of online communities and discussion groups where you can interact with people from around the world who share your interests. The use of technology shouldn’t replace all face-to-face interactions, but can be used as a self-care tool to improve your social connectedness.

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Caring for your physical David health can take many forms.

We’ve all heard how exercise and diet can benefit our physical well-being and prolong our lives. But exercise doesn’t have to strictly be working out in a gym. Consider doing yoga, tai chi or Pilates, all of which can be done at varying levels of intensity and impact. Find daily activities and hobbies that have a physical component, such as gardening, bike riding or playing with a pet. Simple changes to your daily routines, such as walking more and spending more time outside, can improve your self-care practices.

Even if you lead a healthy lifestyle, occasionally physical ailments develop that require the attention of medical professionals. An important part of your physical selfcare is knowing how and when to access care. Do you have a primary-care doctor?

Do you have your insurance or Medicare information accessible? Do you keep a record of all medications that you are taking?

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itive effect. For some, expressing our spirituality can tie in with our emotional wellness. Attending religious services, praying or meditating have all been used as effective self-care tools to maintain emotional health.

We can often tell when there is something ailing us physically, but we aren’t always as tuned into our mental-health needs. But caring for our mental health is an ongoing process — not just something to pay attention to when feeling depressed or anxious. There are times when speaking with a mental-health professional or participating in a support group will be useful.

There are many types of mental-health services available that utilize different settings, clinical approaches and payment options (including some that are covered

by Medicare or Medicaid).

There are also activities we can incorporate into our daily lives that can aid our emotional wellness. Exploring creative outlets, such as painting, writing poetry or learning a musical instrument, can positively impact our mental health. Getting out of the house more often, even just to take a walk or sit in a park, can have a pos-

There are several free tools available to help you take stock of your self-care practices. Self-care checklists on the Internet can help you identify areas for improvement and activities to incorporate into your daily life. Talking to a health-care provider, spiritual leader or mental-health professional can also enable you to evaluate your current self-care practices.

On Dec. 3, the LGBT Elder Initiative will host a free community forum for LGBT older adults and their allies at the Philadelphia Senior Center. “Caring for Ourselves: Aging with a Healthy Mind, Body and Spirit” will explore the topic of self-care and aging as LGBT people, offering tips and strategies for improving physical, emotional, social and financial selfcare. To register or for more information, contact the LGBT Elder Initiative at info@ lgbtei.org or 215-720-9415. n David Griffith is the director of programs and outreach for the LGBT Elder Initiative. To learn more about the LGBT Elder Initiative and upcoming programs for LGBT older adults, visit www.lgbtelderinitiative.org.

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News Briefing Sanctions hearing set for Judge Segal Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge Dawn A. Segal was scheduled to appear at a sanctions hearings this week because she improperly discussed court cases pending before her.

Segal, who’s openly gay, has been suspended without pay since February. She faces discipline ranging from a reprimand to permanent removal from the bench.

In 2011-12, Segal discussed three cases pending before her with then-Municipal Court Judge Joseph C. Waters. Segal allegedly was influenced by those discussions to rule in accordance with Waters’ expectations. The state Court of Judicial Discipline recently found Segal liable for several ethics violations.

A sanctions hearing by the Court of Judicial Discipline to determine Segal’s discipline was scheduled for 2 p.m. Nov. 21 in Harrisburg. Additional information was unavailable by presstime.

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Free Adoption Café to feature stories from LGBT parents The National Adoption Center and Wells Fargo Center will sponsor an Adoption Café, a panel featuring adoptive parents from the LGBT community.

The event is part of the NAC’s efforts to provide outreach to prospective adopters by presenting information about the adoption process, qualifications for adoptive parents and about chil-

dren available to be adopted.

The free event will feature a panel discussion with director of the Office of LGBT Affairs Nellie Fitzpatrick along with Meredith Erdman and Brianne Peregino, social workers with Adoptions from the Heart. Additionally, a birth mother who selected two men to be the father of her child; as well as Susan Shachter, an adoptive mother of two with her partner; and Ryan Wexelblatt, a father who adopted an 8-yearold boy, will be participating to provide first-hand experiences.

NAC director of communications Gloria Hochman will moderate the discussion.

Meanwhile, NAC executive director Ken Mullner and Michael Soileau, the vice president of competitive planning and strategy for Comcast and a board member for the center, will be available to answer basic adoption questions for attendees.

The event will be held 5:307:30 p.m. Nov. 30 at the Wells Fargo Museum, 123 S. Broad St.

Wear red for World AIDS Day On Dec. 1, Action Wellness will launch its “Action Heroes Wear Red Campaign” to commemorate World AIDS Day. Participants of the campaign can submit photos of themselves wearing red along with a caption explaining the reasons why they are participating.

Photos will be displayed on Action Wellness’s website and social-media pages Dec. 1, and all participants will be invited to participate in a Facebook Live event to mark the completion of the campaign.

“Your participation will shine a light on the continuing stigma, discrimination and other injustices faced by people living with HIV disease locally and throughout the world,” the agency said in a statement.

Visit actionwellness.org for more information and to download a registration form. n — Jeremy Rodriguez

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Creep of the Week

D’Anne Witkowski

Donald Trump

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What is the PGN staff thankful for?

Don: I’m thankful that I’ve made it through another year in reasonably good shape. At my age, that’s getting to be quite an accomplishment.

Greg: This year I’m grateful for my friendships — new and old — my family’s good health, UberEATS, wine, NBA League Pass and having Caller ID at work.

Jen: The health of my family, friends and new puppy. And the Facebook unfollow button.

Jeremy: This year has had its share of ups and downs but when I look back on 2016, I am incredibly thankful for the “ups.” I have amazing family and friends who love me despite (or maybe because of?) my weirdness and I’m glad to be surrounded by so much positivity. I am also grateful that after freelancing for a year, I now get to work full-time for a publication I absolutely love, the Philadelphia Gay News. Donald Trump becoming president may not be something I’m happy about, but I still get to write about it as a jour-

nalist and for that, I am thankful!

Larry: Considering we lost Prince and David Bowie, among others, and that America has become quite the political dumpster fire ... gee, I guess I’m thankful that this borderline-hellish year is almost over. I’m also thankful for the following things: my passport, red wine, creative channels for my anger and frustration, Burlington Coat Factory and Canadians.

Mark: In these uncertain times, I’m thankful for the family, friends and people I work with here at PGN and throughout the community to create unity.

And on a personal note, it amazes me how wonderful it is to be married. I know it’s been a bad year in some ways, but I’m certainly a lucky man and I wish the same for each of you this Thanksgiving.

Prab: I’m thankful that both my biological and PGN families are in good health, and I’m grateful for their continued love and support.

Sandy: I’m grateful that

I get a chance to verbally kick people’s asses on social media and in person. And that my 11-yearold daughter knows bad politics when she hears it.

And, above all, for the life and health of my loved ones.

Scott: This year I am most thankful that I get to spend Thanksgiving with my family for the first time in about 15 years.

Logistically, it’s challenging (and expensive) to fly to Moline and back in the allotted time, but it will be sweet being at my mom and dad’s home for dinner. I am also thankful I will have my guy Micheal with me at the table. Love you all!

Sean: I’m thankful for my family, for music and that I don’t have to face a single Trump supporter at Thanksgiving dinner.

Tim: Mostly, I’m grateful for life. I’m an old fart and the world hasn’t finished me off yet! I’m also grateful for having a community-based support network. That support helps me view setbacks as opportunities for growth and improvement. n

Hey, so how is everybody doing? Feeling optimistic about the future? If the target audience for this column was KKK members and fans, the answer would be, “Heil yes!” Because they got their man in the White House! Faced with the choice between a woman with experience and intelligence and a completely unqualified man who doesn’t like brown people, ladies or thinking very much, America essentially told Hillary Clinton to go make Donald Trump a sandwich.

I admit I was shocked that Trump won.

I didn’t see this coming. I was so sure that Clinton would prevail. Any other outcome seemed positively insane.

But never underestimate the power of racism and sexism in America. After all, that’s literally what this country was built on.

And so now what was once a nightmare scenario is now a nightmare reality. Trump is going to be our next president. It’s going to be a long and ugly four years.

LGBTQ Americans have a very uncertain future ahead of us because Trump is filling his administration with LGBTQ foes. Not to mention the fact that Vice President-elect Mike Pence is one of the most antigay elected officials ever. And he’s the guy in charge of picking who’s going to work for Trump. So far it also looks like Pence is going to actually be the guy running the country.

Which is why it really doesn’t matter that Trump said that he’s “fine” with marriage equality and considers it “settled.”

When Lesley Stahl told Trump during a “60 Minutes” interview that LGBTQ people were concerned about marriage equality being overturned, Trump said the fear was “irrelevant.”

“These cases have gone to the Supreme Court, it’s settled and I’m fine with it,” Trump said.

Keep in mind that Trump has said he’s against same-sex marriage and during his campaign said that he’d appoint Supreme Court justices that would overturn the ruling.

But now he’s fine with it, so no worries, right?

Wrong. If anything, Trump’s answer is further proof that he has no idea how government works and that he has being president confused with being king. President Trump doesn’t get to pick and choose which cases are heard before the Supreme Court or how they will be settled. Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees is

a who’s-who list of right-wingers.

Since the election, Trump has reiterated his goal to see Roe v. Wade overturned and abortion criminalized and expressed his commitment to appoint justices who would do just that. Never mind that the right to choose is also “settled.” Not surprisingly, right-wing judges who are against abortion rights are almost certain to be against LGBTQ rights,

Trump is not a normal president and Americans who believe in justice and equality and think that diversity is a thing to be celebrated — not a problem to be solved — have an obligation to resist and to speak out. And I don’t mean just retweeting the crazy shit Trump says with a “WTF?” attached to it. too. So the idea that Trump being “fine” with marriage equality now somehow protects that law is ludicrous.

I think the best advice I’ve heard since Trump was elected is to keep vigilant and don’t become complacent. Trump is not a normal president and Americans who believe in justice and equality and think that diversity is a thing to be celebrated — not a problem to be solved — have an obligation to resist and to speak out. And I don’t mean just retweeting the crazy shit Trump says with a “WTF?” attached to it.

Get out of your houses and volunteer your time to organizations that work for what you believe in. Send them your money. We can’t afford to retreat.

Do not shut up. Do not give up. Do not lose hope. But do fight like hell. n D’Anne Witkowski is a poet, writer and comedian living in Michigan with her wife and son.

She has been writing about LGBT politics for over a decade. Follow her on Twitter @ MamaDWitkowski.

The staff of PGN wishes everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

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A tour of gratitude It might sound surprising but I’m actulast year?” My answer is the people I met ally looking forward to 2017. on that book tour throughout the country.

This past year was one of the busiest of While they may have felt that I gave them my life. With the publication of my memsomething, they gave me a gift as well. oir late last year, the last 12 months have In many areas I visited, there were major also been more rewarding than I could issues of oppression or discrimination. The have ever imagined and gave me people I spoke with explained an opportunity to look back at how they were dealing with my life. Not only did I do a lot that struggle, and I heard new of reflection as I was writing my ideas and saw these individuown history, but as I was out on als’ willingness to be involved the road promoting the book, and never be invisible again.

I met people who said my life

Seeing people overand actions had touched them in come the obstacles put in their ways I never expected. way with a brave and deter There was the radio intermined outlook is something viewer who, after an almost to behold. To all of them, I hour-long interview, told me am personally thankful. They live on air that she witnessed my inspire me.

Writing this makes me disruption of Walter Cronkite in realize how important words 1973 and that evening told her are and how this newspaper mother she was a lesbian. There its staff have contributed was the man sitting in the back Mark Segal and row at the Harvard Coop who to that battle for visibility and came up and asked me to sign his equality for 40 years now. Our book and explained that he was studying staff, like the people I met, contribute to civil-rights law at Harvard in order to go creating and building a strong community, and that has never been more important back to his country to fight homophobia. than now. n The country was Uganda.

I’m writing this column before Mark Segal is the nation’s most-award-winning Thanksgiving — since we go to press commentator in LGBT media. His recently pubahead of time — and that holiday is on lished memoir, “And Then I Danced,” is availmy mind. Of course, the question is often able on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble or at asked, “What do you give thanks for in the your favorite bookseller.

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Street Talk What are you grateful for this Thanksgiving?

"I'm a jazz vocalist. I'm grateful for my voice.

I get a lot of positive feedback from friends.

I lived in New Orleans Sophia Astles for several musician months.

North Philadelphia Jazz is very prominent down there. I'm grateful that experience helped hone my skills."

"I'm grateful for my family.

Family is very important to me. I have a larger family.

Everyone will be Yavah Briggs together for security guard Thanksgiving Germantown dinner.

I'm looking forward to it. It will remind me of my dear grandmother who passed away."

"I just saw 'Selma’ in class. So I'm grateful I can walk down the street and not get hit with a nightstick.

I still Morgan Mack have some student/wait staff concerns for Carlisle, Pa. my safety. I live in an area where there's a lot of racist people. But I try to surround myself with friends when I'm out in public."

"I'm in the Army. I'm grateful the Army is paying for my education.

They're basically paying for me to go to Emanuel Stiff school. I'm student/Army attending specialist classes at Germantown Penn State, Abington [campus]. All the education I'm receiving will be beneficial in my future career.

I'm very grateful for that."

Remembrance I’ve long dedicated my life to transgender causes. Yet there is one thing I will forever be most known for, and that is the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

It started in anger, as I heard of yet another transgender murder and saw a community seemingly unaware that our lives were being taken from us. I started a website featuring George Santayana’s famous quotation, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” and an ever-growing list of names of those killed due to anti-transgender violence and prejudice.

From this led to a street protest in San Francisco that, with the help of Penny Ashe Matz in Boston, became the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

On Nov. 20, 2016, we honored the 17th Transgender Day of Remembrance.

A lot has changed in those years, including the transgender community itself.

At the time we started, just getting transgender support groups to acknowledge that trans people were being murdered, and to honor their passage, was a challenge.

While a few of the so-called “safer” cities

would hold large candle-lit marches, many others held events behind closed doors, with only a handful of people quietly memorializing those we’d lost.

At the time, we were at the very end of Bill Clinton’s presidency, with Bush around the corner. We still had “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and the next president would not necessarily be favorable — especially to transgender folk. Many of us were outed to employers thanks to the “Gender No-Match” letters the Social Security Administration sent out under George W. After Bush, and into Obama, the world changed. Transgender people have — in spite of recent difficulties over public accommodations and such — become a part of the popular consciousness like never before. We’re on America’s television screens, whether it be in reality shows like “I Am Jazz” or on Fox for the reboot of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” to name just two examples.

Likewise the community in the beginning of TDoR was a small one, largely closeted and more than a little hegemonic.

It was largely white, largely older, largely

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cross-dressers and transsexuals. Today, that has changed as we see more people exploring new avenues with gender, and more people of color and trans youth. There are still huge steps to be made here, but we’re moving in the right direction.

With greater visibility has come an unmistakable reality. In 17 years of TDoR, we have not seen a decline of anti-transgender murders. Indeed, we’ve seen the number of murders trending upwards as transgender visibility grows.

Many on the right have set out to demonize transgender people after they lost the battle over marriage equality. We wer an election-year issue, and as fears about trans people in restrooms grew, so has the threat of violence against us.

We’re being killed at a rate greater than two per month in the United States.

Worldwide, that becomes more than two each day, particularly in Brazil. This is simply unacceptable. I would also be utterly remiss if I did not remind people that it is trans women of color who remain most at risk in the United States, and that we cannot ignore issues of racism and sex-

ism in any discussion of anti-transgender murders. This is an intersectional fight.

Our community is at another crossroads.

With the election season behind us, and an uncertain road ahead, it is once again up to each of us to rise. We need to band together. We need to continue to secure our unalienable rights. I hesitate to add that one right stands above all else that we need to fight for: the right to exist.

Being aware of these murders has never been enough. I’ve always been a firm believer in the words of Mother Jones, and have applied them to the Transgender Day of Remembrance many times: “Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”

We set aside this one day to mourn — but take all the other 364 days and fight, keep them in your heart and do what you can to ensure that not one more falls.

On Nov. 20, we honored our fallen. On Nov. 21, and thereafter, we need to continue the struggle and make this world a better one for all transgender people.

Remember. n Find Gwen Smith at www.gwensmith.com.

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Holiday Survival Guide Every year, the team at Mazzoni Depending on where you plan to spend Center’s Open Door Counseling program your holidays, and with the results of the puts together what we call a “Holiday recent presidential election, suddenly tenSurvival Guide,” filled with tips and sions at the Thanksgiving table may be advice on navigating a season that can raised to a whole new level. The subseoften bring challenges. Despite the joyful quent feelings of fear and uncertainty that reputation, we all know that the holidays have gripped so many people can make it can also be a tough time for LGBTQ folks a particularly difficult time to think about who may have strained relahow to prepare for the holiday tions with families of origin; for season. trans or gender-nonconformAs you look ahead to speing folks coming to terms with cific interactions, pay attention family who may not be fully to what you are feeling and accepting or affirming of your thinking. If you have a sense identity; for people who are in that conversations might come recovery; for those who have up that will leave you feeling been through a recent loss or hurt, sad or scared, consider break-up; or for anyone who preemptively setting commubraces themselves as this season nication boundaries around approaches. these events or relationships.

For many people, including Consider putting it in terms of members of the LGBTQ comeveryone’s shared enjoyment of munity, the holidays can also the occasion or grounding in a Amanda Moyer shared value. become a kind of anniversary.

This may be your first time celand Heather You can do this using four ebrating the holidays without a principles of nonviolent Doughty basic loved one. This may be the last communication: observations, time you think you will have a feelings, needs and requests. loved one around to celebrate with. It may “When the topic of the election comes mark the time of year that you experiup, I feel scared because of the things that enced a loss or trauma of some kind in the were said on the campaign trail that felt past, and the specific date or time of year targeted at the rights of certain groups of stirs up memories or feelings that stay at people. Can we agree not to talk about bay the rest of the year. the election while we are together for There are a host of reasons people Thanksgiving this year?” tend to get down over the holidays, or Or, “Our family believes in treating find themselves in stressful situations. everyone with respect and showing each

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another individual was in the apartment and was not hurt.

“I’m not going to get into particulars in terms of the identity of the victim; I believe that information is circulating out there,” Sam Rabadi, the special agent in charge at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said at the press conference.

There was a rainbow “Love Trumps Hate” sign in the victim’s window, prompting speculation that the incident was a hate crime.

“We don’t have a motive but we’d be remiss if we didn’t track down every possible lead,” Police Commissioner Richard Ross said, adding, “We’re not placing any particular onus on any sign that you saw.”

When asked if the victim’s potential involvement in the LGBT community or political positions were being looked at as motives, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Joe Sullivan said, “We’re open to all possibilities and we’re not discounting anything. I’m aware of the issues [a reported suggested] and it is certainly part of our investigation and we’re keeping that in the back of our mind. There is no reason to believe that is the motivation but we’re not discounting it either.”

Philadelphia Police are collaborating with the FBI, ATF and United States Postal Inspection Service on the investigation. Investigators do not believe the incident is related to terrorism and said it was “target-specific.”

other compassion, so I’d like to ask that we don’t talk about how everyone voted.”

There may be some who read this and feel that they don’t want to steer clear of these difficult topics and would rather seek out intentional conversations with friends and family whose views may differ dramatically from theirs. This is not easy — and is not always possible — but some folks feel obligated to at least attempt a productive dialogue, explaining to a friend or family member why the views they hold or appear to endorse are causing them, and people they care about, pain.

If you feel comfortable, you may want to engage relatives in a respectful conversation about why language matters and how hateful rhetoric that goes unchallenged can have very real, devastating consequences. In a year where the nation’s worst mass shooting took place _ and specifically targeted LGBTQ people and people of color — it should not be difficult for us to see a connection between hateful attitudes and hurtful actions. What may seem like “harmless” talk to some people can have devastating and dehumanizing consequences for the lives of others.

With all of this being said, there is no reason we should feel obligated to listen to language that feels damaging to our self-esteem or self-worth. We cannot control the responses people will give, but we can ask for our boundaries to be honored around certain topics or ideas. If you feel like you are asking for simple respect and are not getting it, then you can also let

There is no indication the victim had been targeted previously.

The device was in a padded envelope wired to explode when the victim opened the flap.

“The preliminary indications are what we term a ‘suspected explosives device’ that detonated inside the house,” Rabadi said.

The device is being transported to an ATF lab in Ammendale, Md., for testing. Michael Harpster, the special agent in charge of the Philadelphia Division of the FBI, declined to comment on the sophistication of the device but said it wasn’t a common setup.

“It’s not something we’d normally see out there; it is a little different,” Harpster said.

It is unclear how the parcel came to arrive at the home, Ross said, noting investigators are combing the area for surveillance video.

“It is a possibility it went through the mail but we do not know that now. It is my belief it may have been placed there but it’s one of those things we have to figure out through the investigation,” he said.

Rabadi said the incident has the full attention of the collaborating agencies.

“I think you can see from the collective response here obviously we will bring every resource to bear to try to figure out what actually happened here. This is not something we see every day in our city. I assure you, no expense will be spared and we will bring every available resource to try to find the person responsible for this violent crime.” n

people know that you are excusing yourself from the table, the room or the event.

It may not be easy, but sometimes this is the best way to ensure you aren’t being exposed to triggers or otherwise hurtful conversations.

If it is too difficult to be with your family, create your own holiday gathering with friends and loved ones. Remember that you don’t need your family’s (or anyone else’s) approval.

Ultimately, you may want to take time to be alone, stay connected to who you are and remain in contact with close friends and supportive loved ones. There are many ways to approach a situation where you feel uneasy, uncomfortable or even in conflict. There are also many ways to respond to what we need individually and personally in these moments and situations. Each individual and family situation is unique; consider what feels best and most healthy for you.

A few final thoughts: Show gratitude to the positive, affirming people in your life. Accept the love and support of those who offer it. Don’t expect to have all the answers now. And remember that you are not alone in this. Breathe deeply. Hold onto your good friends and loved ones.

Offer kindness to others and to yourself. n For more information on Mazzoni Center, visit www.mazzonicenter.org. Amanda Moyer and Heather Doughty are students at Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and interns in Mazzoni Center’s Open Door Counseling program.

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of the six geographic zones that make up the office to “vigorously prosecute any hate crime.”

In a statement, Williams added that violence or property damage “will not be tolerated.”

“Regardless of whether these actions are committed in the name of the president-elect or in opposition to him, they have no place in the city of Philadelphia,” Williams said.

The Mayor’s Office of Communication last week also released a guide on the city’s effort to support diversity and inclusion. The document defines a hate crime as “a criminal act that is motivated by prejudice or bias,” based on a victim’s “race, color, religion, gender, ethnic identification, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation or gender identity.”

Victims or witnesses of a hate crime should immediately call 911 and also report the incident to the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations at 215-686-4670 or pchr@phila.gov. Calls can also be made to PCHR’s new anonymous hotline at 215-686-2856.

The guide noted that the police and District Attorney’s Office work jointly to investigate and prosecute hate crimes.

PCHR investigates and responds to hate

crimes and bias incidents on a community level, conducting community meetings, facilitating disputes and connecting victims with resources.

The document also included resources for immigrants concerned about deportation after Trump’s pledges to deport millions of illegal immigrants. Among the organizations the city cited are Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society/Council Migration Service of Philadelphia, Nationalities Service Center, Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition and Community Legal Services of Philadelphia.

The guide also urged Philadelphians to get more actively involved in their communities to stem the tide of bias.

“Mayor Kenney has asked Philadelphians to step up and become educators, foster parents, rec-center volunteers, homeless-outreach workers, participants in our Police Service Areas and all those jobs and volunteer roles that make Philadelphia its best self,” city officials wrote in the guide. “There are so many productive ways that you can channel your feelings into productive actions that help build bridges and strengthen our communities.”

Volunteer opportunities are available at www.serve.phila.gov. n

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Picking up the shards Trump stands for — bullyI made a cake Nov. 8 to ing, name calling, racism celebrate what I thought and misogyny — and will would be Hillary Clinton’s keep doing so. election. For decoration, Clinton may not become I melted sugar into sheets president, but we can still and broke it into shards to help deliver on her vision represent the glass ceiling of “Stronger Together” — that I hoped she would a vision with shatter. On Nov. roots in the “one 9, however, I out of many” found myself that our counlooking at the try’s founders remains of the promised. We cake and wonmust work to dering if it betbring together a ter represented nation that has an earlier event become deeply on that date: divided — not Kristallnacht, only by the when Nazi-led election, but by mobs vandala history ized hundreds of synagogues, Dana Rudolph that separates peoJewish homes, ple and has allowed schools, businesses, hospitals and cemeteries, leaving racism, sexism and all of the other “-isms” to the streets littered in broflourish. ken glass.

Others in this counWe are not at that point try have more to fear yet in the United States, from a Trump presbut it feels like we have idency than I, and I taken a step in that direcmust keep fighting for tion. Donald Trump’s them, too. I feel extra racist rhetoric, constant pain this week thinkname-calling and general ing of my friends of demagoguery have set a color and those who tone that some have comare Muslim or immipared to that of Hitler. I grants. I know they would like to believe that the checks and balances we wouldn’t want my have in this country — and pity, however, but my the fact that more than half allyship. I am privileged in being white of the country did not vote and middle class and for Trump — will keep us not currently disabled, away from a racist dictadespite being a lesbian torship, but the echoes are and a Jew. I must use nonetheless disturbing. the privilege I have Whether we can heal our to support those who nation and create a more have less. I must lishopeful future depends on all of us, not just President- ten to their perspectives and learn from elect Trump. them how best to help None of us can predict, advance their rights of course, exactly what and opportunities.

Trump’s presidency will Many who voted for mean for us or our country, Trump did so because but here are some fragof a discontent with ments of what I do know: our current system My family is still a family. No matter what the law and their place in it.

We must listen to their or anyone else says, nothfears and concerns, ing can change that. too, for only by underWe must tell our kids standing other perthat when bullies win, the spectives can we work good people try harder. to create a more equiWe must tell them that table society for all. change takes time, but we This does not mean will always love and prowe need to tolerate tect them. racist or sexist comGood people have been ments or actions, or standing up against what

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forgive Trump supporters for voting in someone who will likely set back social justice in many ways. We do, however, have to try to understand why they did so. Only then will we have a chance to help find different solutions.

We parents have a key role to play here. All of us want to protect our children, to help them learn, to give them opportunities. That is an immediate commonality across every political persuasion. That means we have a starting point for conversation.

We have to keep telling our own stories. We cannot

expect others to understand us if we do not share our experiences as well. Stories can lead to understanding, and that can drive action.

Communication is best when we check the facts.

Misinformation about both sides was flying around during the election. On a very basic level, we should read through articles and watch videos before forwarding, reposting or retweeting them.

We should try to confirm from multiple sources. We shouldn’t assume that just because something supports our worldview, it’s true.

I have confidence that we will make progress towards a more just and equitable society — perhaps not in the short term, but in alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., when he said, “We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

The obstacles are daunting, but I am also thinking of Dr. King’s observation, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” Pair that with the words of Harry Potter’s

Albus Dumbledore: “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

If many of us are feeling a little broken right now, therefore, we should remember: Shards of glass may appear to be broken, but they are sharp, there are many of them, and they reflect the light.

Light and love to all of us. n Dana Rudolph is the founder and publisher of Mombian (mombian.com), a GLAAD Media Award-winning blog and resource directory for LGBTQ parents.

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All He Is Saying Is Give Trump a Chance Brady draws a line of support for president-to-be

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f anyone has a right to be angry and critical over a Trump presidency it would be Congressman Robert Brady, chairman of the city’s Democratic Committee. After all, on Election Day he delivered over 560,000 votes for Hillary Clinton out of Philadelphia, leaving her a buffer of 450,000 as polls were counted, moving west across Pennsylvania. You would think that this margin would have been enough to carry Clinton to victory in the Keystone State. As it turned out, it was 70,000 votes short, but that shortfall needs to be placed at the doorstep of Democratic officials in Scranton, where Clinton lost outright, and those in Allegheny County, where Hillary won by less than 100,000 votes.

But Brady has a different message for the Democratic faithful; a message grounded in something as American as mom and apple pie: rallying around a new president. In a letter penned to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Brady writes: “No one was more disappointed in Tuesday’s election results than me.

Philadelphia did our part. We produced votes, energy and financial resources to fuel her historic candidacy. But it

wasn’t enough.

Few people did more to elect Hillary and NOT elect Donald Trump than I did.

But we need to move forward.

Donald Trump will be our President.

And his success could be Philadelphia’s success. Where he opposes our interests, no one will work harder to stop him.

Let’s not blame Trump for leading the nation as the Republican president he campaigned to be.

We have work to do — creating jobs, rebuilding schools, keeping gun violence from our streets — and that fight remains no matter who is President.

So I’m ready to get to work, and I know Philadelphia is as well. And where President Trump is on our side, I welcome him enthusiastically.”

So, let’s deal with the metrics upon which we should judge Trump and his

relationship to the City of Brotherly Love.

First, let’s not blame Trump for leading the nation as the Republican president he campaigned to be. Building a wall, as deplorable as we may believe that to be, does not cross the line for a Trump presidency, as he told us that was what he was going to do. Neither is scrapping trade deals — which Hillary Clinton supported on the campaign trail — and the Iran nuclear deal or being merciless toward ISIS. Again, fulfilling campaign promises is to be expected.

So, when Trump fills Supreme Court vacancies with right-wing justices, he does not cross the line. If, however, he chooses an avowed racist or homophobe, he has. Build a wall if you can, don’t launch deportation squads across this land. Get tough on ISIS, we’re all for it; start killing the family members of ISIS soldiers, you’ve crossed the Brady line.

Repeal Obamacare, have at it; if that means throwing thousands of Brady’s constituents off Medicaid with no substitute for their healthcare, you’ve gone too far.

Some of Trump’s platform and his control of the legislative branch may be really good for Democratic constituen-

Congressman Robert Brady. Photo courtesy of brady. house.gov.

cies: Trump never supported bathroom discrimination against the transgender community; Trump’s support for working women, articulated best by his daughter Ivanka, has a chance to move the needle for women in the workplace; and Trump’s ambitious public works agenda to rebuild our nation’s infrastructure should be Continued on page 2 N O V. 2 0 - 2 7 , 2 0 1 6

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All He Is Saying Is Give Trump a Chance Continued from page 1 music to the ears of those in the organized labor movement.

We don’t believe that Trump will cross the Brady line on substantive policy initiatives. He has shown that he is far more likely to cross it between the hours of 2 a.m. and 4 a.m., not from the White House pressroom, but from the smartphone on his bedside table.

So far, since becoming president-elect, he has slipped up only once, when he chose to lash

out at the post-election protests springing up in big cities across America. His inner circle was quick to clean this up in a subsequent tweet, but we found out one thing in the post Trump election world: the tweet of a candidate can be dismissed as in the heat of the campaign; a tweet coming from the leader of the free world is 140 opportunities to create chaos. That will surely cross the Brady line.

Greener Pastures Continued from page 12 him play, he performed well. He has always had all of these skills in his arsenal. His high school team is very talented, like his AAU team and sometimes he has to do more for them or for us. He has great skills at the point position with his vision, defense and penetration. I am glad everyone saw how good he is at a point guard. They already know how talented he is as a shooting guard and a guy who can score in many ways.”

Many people think Green is the top guard prospect in the city since Kyle Lowry, a Cardinal Dougherty graduate, who has become an Olympic Gold medalist and two-time all star with the Toronto Raptors. “He has a lot of fire to his game,” said John Mosco, an Archbishop Wood coach, who had mentored Green as a member of the Neumann staff in 2013 and 2014. “He is a terrific player and a great kid.” Green really doesn’t care about the personal accolades right now. He said his final choic-

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es for college suitors are Kansas, Kentucky, Syracuse, Temple and Villanova. He had dozens of other great offers as well. “It’s great to have these scholarships available.

I am grateful,” he said.

For now, it’s about bringing back something that Neumann hasn’t won in two seasons, a Catholic League championship. Roman Catholic won it the last two years although the Saints went on to win a PIAA AAA title. “We have been working hard every day since our last game in my junior year,” Green said. “Our goals are team goals and they stay the same. We want to win the state, city, and Catholic League titles.”

Green has huge help this year from Dhamir Cosby-Roundtree, a 6-foot-8-inch forward who has committed to Villanova and is academically eligible, like Green, to play for Jay Wright in 2017.

“I’m excited about everything,” he said. “I think it’s going to be a great last year here at Neumann.”

Hip-hopping into the business world Local institute teaching entrepreneurial skills through new avenue

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kasha Maples, a Jersey City native and recent graduate of Temple University, says she has “an intensely creative mind.”

But the DJ, who has a degree in audio engineering, confesses that “I don’t have that business background.” So she applied, and was accepted, to Philadelphia’s Institute of Hip Hop Entrepreneurship.

The nine-month tuition-free program for Philadelphians between the ages of 19 and 35 kicked off its inaugural weekend session earlier this month at an office building at 15th and Chestnut streets and with a class of 29 cohorts.

“Our goal is to create graduates with the skills, confidence, and networks to be successful in Philadelphia’s wider business community,” said the institute’s co-founder, Meegan Denenberg, in a recent news release.

Maples says, “This program was right for me.

I’m hoping to refine my skills and realize the things I’m doing well and work on the things I’m not. I’m really strategic by nature, but I feel like I can always be better. I’m conscious of that.”

Tayyib Smith, outreach and creative lead of the institute, notes in a news release that the institute wasn’t created to “market the latest mixtape, or find the next great MC.” It merely uses hip-hop “as a medium to give young people the skills they need to create, innovate, and scale their ideas,” explains Patrick Morgan, Philadelphia program director for the Knight Foundation, which named the Institute a King Cities Challenge winner, and in April awarded the institute $308,640.

Smith points out why this generation may better relate to hip-hop as a business model than what young people might learn in a traditional business course.

“Hip Hop culture created its own unique form of entrepreneurship — some call it hustle — for young

Program founder Tayyib Smith. Photo by Sarah J. Glover.

people of color, and created hubs of commerce and communication that spread the culture to cities, and eventually boardrooms, around the world,” he stated in the release.

He traced the culture back to its roots, which grew out of the “very restrictive socio-economic forces in the South Bronx” and a time when “DJs, promoters, MCs and all involved parties had to be creative, not only to have their artistic voices heard, but also to make a living with an approach to music and entertainment that hadn’t yet been established.”

With hip-hop entrepreneurs such as Ice Cube, Russell Simmons, Sean Combs, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Kanye West, who can argue with him?

Held once a month, each weekend-long session at the Institute will focus on such topics as building a business — from business proposals to marketing plans — as well as staffing and finding funding. Students are challenged to hone their skills with friendly competitions, and ultimately they pitch their businesses to investors in the final session to make their venture a reality.

As they say in hip-hop, “It’s on.”

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First District Plaza, 3801 Market Street, at 9:00 AM. (EST) Conditions of Sheriff’s Sale for JUDICIAL/FORECLOSURE SALE Ten percent of the highest bid for each property auctioned off shall be deposited in certified check, attorney’s check or money order with the Sheriff by each bidder when his bid is registered, provided that in no case shall less than Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) be deposited, otherwise upon failure or refusal to make such deposit, the bidder shall lose all benefit of his bid and the property may be offered again and sold unless a second bid has been registered, then, the second highest bidder will take the property at the highest bid price.

Additionally, where there is active bidding, the highest bidder, and the second highest bidder, if any must post the entire amount of the cost of the distribution policy for the property at the time of sale by certified check, attorney’s check or money order with the Sheriff. The Sheriff reserves the right to reject any certified check, attorney’s check or money order that on its face has an expired use date and is presented for payment of the deposit.

The balance of the purchase money must be deposited in certified check, attorney’s check or money order together with a Deed poll for execution by the highest bidder to the Sheriff at his office within 30 days from the time of the sale. An extension of time for an additional 30 days may be granted at the discretion of the Sheriff upon receipt of written request from the buyer requesting the same, except when a second bidder has been duly registered. Also, if the first bidder does not complete settlement with the Sheriff within the thirty (30) day time limit and a second bid was registered at the sale, the second bidder shall be granted the same thirty (30) day time limit to make settlement with the Sheriff on his second bid. Thereafter, the Sheriff shall be at liberty to return the writ to court. A second bid must be registered on any property immediately after it is sold. The second bidder must present the same amount of deposit that the highest bidder delivers to the Sheriff at the sale. An extension of time under no circumstances will be granted or honored by the Sheriff whenever a second bid is registered on a property at the sale.

The first bid or opening bid on each property shall be set by the City of Philadelphia. In no event will the successful bidder be allowed to settle on the property unless all the Sheriff’s costs are paid notwithstanding the final bid.

The deposit by any bidder who fails to comply with the above conditions of sale shall be forfeited and the funds will be applied to the

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Sheriff’s cost, then to any municipal claims that the City of Philadelphia has on the property. Finally, if a balance still remains, a Sheriff’s Distribution Policy will be ordered and the money will be distributed accordingly.

No personal checks, drafts or promises to pay will be accepted in lieu of certified checks, attorney’s checks or money orders made payable to the Sheriff of Philadelphia County.

The Sheriff reserves the right to grant further extensions of time to settle and further reserves the right to refuse bids from bidders who have failed to enter deposits on their bids, failed to make settlement, or make fraudulent bids, or any other behavior which causes disruption of the Sheriff Sale. Said bidders shall be so refused for the sale in which said behavior occurred and for said further period of time as the Sheriff in his discretion shall determine.

The Sheriff will not acknowledge a deed poll to any individual or entity using an unregistered fictitious name and may, at his discretion, require proof of identity of the purchaser or the registration of fictitious names. The bid of an unregistered fictitious name shall be forfeited as if the bidder failed to meet the terms of sale.

All bidders are advised to remain at the sale until after the last property is sold. The Sheriff reserves the right to re-sell any property at any time before the end of the sale, upon the successful bidders’ failure to tender the required deposit. The Sheriff reserves the right to postpone or stay the sale of any property in which the attorney on the writ has not appeared and is not present at the sale.

Prospective purchasers are directed to the Web site of the Philadelphia Bureau of Revision of Taxes, (BRT) brtweb.phila. gov for a fuller description of the properties listed. Properties can be looked up by the BRT number – which should be cross checked with the address. Prospective purchasers are also directed to the Room 154 City Hall, 215-6861483 and to its website philadox. phila.gov and to its website at http://philadox.phila.gov where they can view the deed to each individual property and find the boundaries of the property.

PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE NATURE, LOCATION, CONDITION AND BOUNDARIES OF THE PROPERTIES THEY SEEK TO PURCHASE. The BRT # refers to a unique number assigned by the City Bureau of Revision of Taxes to each property in the City for the purpose of assessing it for taxes. This number can be used to obtain descriptive information about the property from the BRT website. Effective Date: July 7, 2006 NOTICE OF SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION The Sheriff will file in his office, The Land Title Building, 100 South Broad Street, 5th Floor, a

Schedule of Distribution Thirty (30) Days from the date of the sale of Real Estate. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed thereto within ten (10) days thereafter.

The name first appearing in each notice is that of the defendant in the writ whose property is being sold. All Writs are Writs of Executions.

The letters C.P., Court of Common Pleas; O.C., Orphans’ Court; Q.S., Court of Quarter Sessions; C.C., County Court - indicate the Court out of which the writ of execution issues under which the sale is made: S. 1941. 223. means September Term, 1941. 223, the term and number of the docket entry; the figures following show the amount of debt; and the name following is that of the attorney issuing the writ.

Attention is called to the provisions of Act No.104, approved July 27, 1955, which requires owners of properties which are used, designed or intended to be used by three or more families, or of commercial establishments which contain one or more dwelling units, to deliver to the buyers of such properties a use registration permit at the time of settlement, under certain terms and conditions. Sheriff Sales are not subject to provisions of the said Act and the Sheriff will, therefore, not deliver use registration permits in connection with any sales conducted by him.

Very truly yours, JEWELL WILLIAMS Sheriff City and County of Philadelphia

IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Lamonya Works, in Her Capacity as Heir of Macie Widamen, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns and All Persons, Firms or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Macie Widamen, Deceased C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 03511 $37,246.19 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-303 4732 Bingham St 191204512 42nd wd. 1139 Sq Ft BRT#421486500 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW CONV/APT 2 STY MASON Miqueas Santana C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 03452 $23,928.13 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-304 12719 Minden Rd 191541419 66th wd. 1783 Sq Ft BRT#663335900 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Alfred Naussner C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 03290 $225,819.52 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-305 2829 Winchester Ave 191361713 57th wd. 6000 Sq Ft BRT#571007400 IMPROVEMENTS: DET W/GAR 2 STY FRAME Michael E. Chatary and Susan M. Chatary C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 01629 $376,446.84 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-306 2025 N Wanamaker St 191313020 52nd wd. 1137 Sq Ft BRT#522227300 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Tyrone S. Howard, Original Mortgagor and Real Owner; Denise A. Howard, Real Owner C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 02898 $99,384.26 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-307 3157-59 Richmond St 19134-5808 25th wd. 2669 Sq Ft BRT#251160201 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Salvatore A. Finazzo a/k/a S.A. Finazzo C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 01026 $244,828.45 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-308 7138 N Mt. Pleasant Pl 19119 21st wd. 10,000 Sq Ft BRT#213259190 IMPROVEMENTS: DET 1.5 STY MASONRY+OTHER Janice Cofield and Rudolph Cofield C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 00513 $355,463.16 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-309 169 Fern St a/k/a 169 W Fern St 19120 61st wd. 1020 Sq Ft OPA#612209200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gerald Mercier; Marie Michele Desir a/k/a Marie M. Desir C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 02588 $100,327.91 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-310 1201 Stirling St 191115837 53rd wd. 1800 Sq Ft OPA#531054100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL

PROPERTY Marjorie PierreMerritt; Wade J. Merritt C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 00348 $198,257.30 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-311 1421 Robbins St 19149 54th wd. 1740 Sq Ft OPA#541083900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shawn T. Amos and Celeste Bligen-Amos C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 00395 $139,290.42 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-312 1100 S Broad St #204B 36th wd. BRT#888113632 IMPROVEMENTS: RES CONDO 5+ STY MASONRY William Rader a/k/a William Radar and Christian Richard C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 03106 $144,439.29 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-313 517 N 52nd St 19131 44th wd.

1493 Sq Ft OPA#442272600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Valerie Jackson a/k/a Valerie J. Jackson C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 01268 $77,232.58 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-314 4804 Princeton Ave 41st wd.

2115 Sq Ft BRT#412050300 IMPROVEMENTS: SEMI/DET 2 STY MASONRY Michael Callahan and Heather Callahan a/k/a Heather McGregor C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 01994 $164,009.19 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-315 4421 Knorr St 19135 55th wd.

1694 Sq Ft BRT#552162900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John Flaton, III C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 00400 $92,999.41 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-316 6539 Guyer Ave 40th wd.

1184 Sq Ft BRT#406308000 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Robert P. Davis C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 03027 $57,109.42 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-317 261 E Fariston Dr 19120 61st wd. 2625 Sq Ft OPA#611384900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tyra Coles C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 00324 $103,663.72 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-318 7134 Walker St 41st wd.

1286 Sq Ft BRT#412268800 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY David Raab C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 03279 $162,095.81 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-319 2314 Pemberton St 19146 30th wd. 840 Sq Ft OPA#302041900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of Jacqueline L. Banks a/k/a Jacqueline Banks C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04787 $197,456.04 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-320 2521 S 2nd St 39th wd.

732 Sq Ft BRT#391274800 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Jesse Shemesh C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 01685 $161,897.61 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-321 5281 Jefferson St a/k/a 5281 W Jefferson St 19131 52nd wd.

1215 Sq Ft OPA#521034100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Geraldine Simmons C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 00201 $65,388.73 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-322 6024 Edmund St 19135 41st wd.

1728 Sq Ft OPA#411388800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Turhan Butler C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 01395 $136,994.46 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-324 2131 W Passyunk Ave 191453414 48th wd. 1500 Sq Ft OPA#482131000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nasser Albarouki C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 01014 $172,452.50 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-325 7234 Glenloch St 19135 41st wd. 1440 Sq Ft OPA#412334300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lillian Naranjo C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 02400 $92,584.03 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-326 2521 S 73rd St 19142 40th wd.

1120 Sq Ft OPA#404070600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robin Tucker C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 01130 $81,996.97 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire 1612-327 2827 S Marvine St 19148 39th wd. 1431 Sq Ft OPA#395305100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Thomas Cotter C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01476 $207,450.02 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire 1612-328 1533 N 27th St a/k/a 1531-33 N 27th St 19121 29th wd. 3150 Sq Ft OPA#291381100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ronald Lockman C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 03698 $47,101.63 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1612-329 6117 Frontenac St 19149 53rd wd. 1504 Sq Ft OPA#531273300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Faith S. Rothkoff C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 04470 $89,536.27 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire 1612-330 6652 Tulip St 19135 41st wd. Land Area: 1260 Sq Ft BRT#411436600 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING John F. McNasby, III a/k/a John McNasby, III C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 01633 $57,124.53 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather

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1065 Sq Ft OPA# 871543110 Baldemiro Rodriguez C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 00306 $150,000.00 Joseph B. Silverstein 1608-589B 4212 L St 19124 33rd wd.

1764 Sq Ft OPA# 332391600 Subject to Mortgage Baldemiro Rodriguez C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 00306 $150,000.00 Joseph B. Silverstein 1612-301 6434 Montour St 191115323 35th wd. 2365 Sq Ft BRT#353293300 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Michael Friel and Karen Friel C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 02537 $148,946.91 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-302 1641 N 26th St 19121-2847 29th wd. 918 Sq Ft BRT#32-41027-00; PRCL#13 N 11-319

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Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1612-331 6121 N Fairhill St 19120 61st wd. 1600 Sq Ft BRT#611107700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Frank Roberts and Sopheap Roberts a/k/a Sopheap S. Roberts C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02231 $98,635.39 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1612-332 507 W Mount Pleasant Rd 59th wd. 2318 Sq Ft BRT#092008400 IMPROVEMENTS: SEMI/DET 3 STY MAS+OTHER Rodger P. Selby, Sr. C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03241 $116,328.09 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-333 3431 Saint Vincent St 55th wd.

1503 Sq Ft BRT#551452300 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Laura J. McCoy and Joseph J. Kennish, III C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00638 $181,628.76 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-334 6150 Argyle St 35th wd. 1659 Sq Ft BRT#352262900 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Tamera Evans C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 01023 $101,073.61 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-335 264 S Ithan St 19139 60th wd.

1040 Sq Ft OPA#604227500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Cynthia A. Ghee a/k/a Angel A. Ghee C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 01390 $76,414.73 Joseph R. Loverdi, Esquire 1612-336 1815 S 17th St 48th wd.

1088 Sq Ft BRT#481220600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Wannetta Williams C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 03539 $45,728.52 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-338 2948 N 26th St BRT#381155900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Bruce Carter a/k/a Bruce E. Carter C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 01036 $46,921.32 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-339 12604 Calpine Rd 19154 66th wd. 1360 Sq Ft BRT#663286900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Maureen A. Vansant C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02033 $174,392.60 Edward J. McKee, Esquire; Stern & Eisenberg, PC 1612-340 4037 Lawndale Ave 19124 33rd wd. 1096 Sq Ft BRT#332273000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Renee Turner C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 000425 $43,092.21 M. Troy Freedman, Esquire; Stern & Eisenberg PC 1612-341 220 Rubicam St 42nd wd.

910 Sq Ft BRT#422205800 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Sonya R. Outen

C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00341 $49,790.06 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-342 2220 N Melvin St 52nd wd.

1298 Sq Ft BRT#522252700 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Keith M. Woodson and Lakeisha S. Adkins C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 00433 $161,760.15 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-343 403 Sentner St 19120 35th wd.

2500 Sq Ft OPA#351231400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY William M. Dixon; Joeann Dixon C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02932 $102,158.67 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1612-344 2126 Fernon St 36th wd.

658 Sq Ft BRT#363093300 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Annie Chandler and Ronald Chandler C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 04268 $79,356.88 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-345 5533 N Fairhill St 19120 61st wd. 2432 Sq Ft OPA#612305300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Loretta Hughes C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 03047 $31,655.55 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1612-346 6963 Forrest Ave 10th wd.

1500 Sq Ft BRT#102530500 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Shalyn Martin C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 00005 $191,223.13 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-347 91 E Duval St 19144 59th wd.

1557 Sq Ft OPA#592162800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ivanette Carter; Charles A. Rivers C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 01454 $55,862.09 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1612-348 5438 Wayne Ave 191443408 12th wd. 4857 Sq Ft OPA#124117800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Troy R. Warren, in His Capacity as Administrator and Heir of the Estate of Glenis R. Warren; Michelle Warren, in Her Capacity as Heir of Glenis R. Warren, Deceased; Daryll W. Warren, in His Capacity as Heir of Glenis R. Warren, Deceased; Kalhyll Warren, in Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Glenis R. Warren, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Glenis R. Warren, Deceased C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 01137 $283,271.02 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-349 2514 S Ashford St 19153 40th wd. 1107 Sq Ft BRT#404138700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Norma

Moseley C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00862 $91,728.68 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1612-350 5842 Kemble Ave 19141 49th wd. 2400 Sq Ft BRT#172330200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Philemon Enoch a/k/a Phillip Enoch C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04097 $147,455.55 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1612-351 1118 Tabor Ln 19111 56th wd.

2622 Sq Ft BRT#561467122 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Angela Burke and Barbara Khalid C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 00934 $187,997.34 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1612-352 5232 N Front St 19120-3532 42nd wd. 2591.5 Sq Ft BRT#42-2-3193-00; PRCL#130 N 12-7 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Sereyvorn Sok a/k/a Vorn Lay C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 01708 $87,309.03 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-353 1221 Foulkrod St 191242930 23rd wd. 1808 Sq Ft BRT#234102100; PRCL#130N-16-0064 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Agnes Santiago and Gilberto Melendez, Jr. C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 01070 $110,956.05 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-354 225 Catharine St a/k/a Catharine St 19147 3rd wd.

1600 Sq Ft BRT#022032000; PRCL#5S16-68 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Frank Reynolds and Jessica Reynolds a/k/a Jessica Little C.P. January Term, 2009 No. 01746 $705,493.73 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-355 3753 N Franklin St 19140 43rd wd. 900 Sq Ft OPA#432289300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Carlos M. Padilla a/k/a Carlos Padilla C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 02567 $78,383.19 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-356 924 Carver St 19124 35th wd.

943 Sq Ft OPA#351242600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Eric Rollins C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 03261 $121,064.67 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-357 1447 Lardner St 19149 54th wd. 987 Sq Ft OPA#541035100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sharita E. Oliver C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 02140 $85,371.48 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-358 6138 Christian St 19143 3rd wd.

2310 Sq Ft OPA#033069400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Brenda M. Brumadge C.P. July Term, 2016 No. 00494 $62,709.96 KML Law Group, P.C.

1612-359 4076 Creston St 19135 62nd wd. 917 Sq Ft OPA#622192500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Isabelino Llanot C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02409 $77,628.67 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-360 1423 Gilham St 53rd wd.

1215 Sq Ft BRT#531176100 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Laquanda A. McCoullum C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00636 $144,139.82 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-361 6901 Valley Ave D-3, a/k/a 6901-29 Valley Ave Unit: D3 19128-1545 88th wd. 780 Sq Ft OPA#888211035 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Geoffrey Houston a/k/a Geoffrey Mark Houston, in His Capacity as Heir of Irby Houston-Davis a/k/a Irby Demaris Davis a/k/a Irby Davis, Deceased; Charlton Houston a/k/a Charlton Dwayne Houston, in His Capacity as Heir of Irby Houston-Davis a/k/a Irby Demaris Davis a/k/a Irby Davis, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Irby Houston-Davis a/k/a Irby Demaris Davis a/k/a Irby Davis, Deceased C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01604 $91,845.41 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-362 828 Avon Rd 58th wd. 4601 Sq Ft BRT#582114800 IMPROVEMENTS: S/D W/B GAR 2 STY MAS+OTH Robert J. Farmer, Jr. and Darlene Swope-Farmer C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 00228 $208,256.19 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-363 4846 N Franklin St 49th wd.

915 Sq Ft BRT#491239300 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Denise Watson a/k/a Denise M. Poindexter C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02051 $80,969.67 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-364 5966 Palmetto St 35th wd. 960 Sq Ft BRT#352289800 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Gilbert Tyree a/k/a Gilbert L. Tyree a/k/a Tyree Gilbert C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 01897 $77,587.25 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-365 7324 Kinglet Pl 40th wd. 1792 Sq Ft BRT#406672400 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Martino Fleming C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 01959 $214,607.25 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-366 5423 Sylvester St 22nd wd.

972 Sq Ft BRT#621374700 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Jamie Williams C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 03878 $81,132.60 Milstead & Associates, LLC

1612-367 4527 Loring St 191364017 41st wd. 1078 Sq Ft OPA#412186000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Eileen Harris a/k/a Eileen B. Harris C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 04121 $50,159.21 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-368 1809 Bridge St 19124 62nd wd.

1213 Sq Ft OPA#622116200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Carol Ann Biello C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 01831 $72,694.43 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-369 6405 Marsden St 19135 41st wd. 1444 Sq Ft OPA#411271200 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Maria Roman C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02908 $92,907.61 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1612-370 1811 N 18th St 19121 32nd wd.

2598 Sq Ft OPA#321213700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Adina Mintz C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 00844 $365,223.41 Kimberly A. Bonner, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1612-371 5986 N Norwood St 19138 17th wd. 2508 Sq Ft OPA#172482600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Louis B. Stevens; Kim D. Stevens C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 04025 $99,936.16 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire 1612-372 729 E Dorset St a/k/a 729 Dorset St 19119-1526 22nd wd.

2050 Sq Ft OPA#222022800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Patricia Hines C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 01609 $227,198.23 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-373 5938 N 19th St 19141 17th wd.

1480 Sq Ft OPA#172348900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rozita J. Bolton C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 01511 $133,929.55 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1612-374 1418 N Robinson St 19151 34th wd. 1316 Sq Ft BRT#34-2282500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Cora Nixon C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04701 $56,045.96 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1612-375 1224 S 12th St 19147 2nd wd. (formerly part of the 26th wd.)

1374 Sq Ft BRT#021596800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mary Collaretti; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Anna

Divanno C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 01514 $364,951.02 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1612-376 2938 Normandy Rd a/k/a 2938 Normandy Dr 19154 66th wd.

1632 Sq Ft OPA#662495700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Teresa Rushton; Timothy J. Rushton C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00500 $116,965.13 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-377 335 E Sheldon St 191203519 42nd wd. 1212 Sq Ft OPA#421171100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kiera Hooks; Abner Roberts a/k/a Abner C. Roberts C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 02536 $168,001.57 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-378 69 E Logan St 191443016 12th wd. 4250 Sq Ft OPA#121006000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Afia McKinley; Malcolm J. Musgrove C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 00304 $378,316.71 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-379 1204 Sanger St a/k/a 1204 E Sanger St 19124-1107 62nd wd.

1280 Sq Ft OPA#621048400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Manuel DeJesus C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 00441 $52,471.98 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-380 1619 North St 191303304 8th wd. 4500 Sq Ft OPA#084087820 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Carmen Dicamillo C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00091 $697,285.75 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-381 5023 N 8th St 191203105 49th wd. 1092 Sq Ft OPA#491257700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kim S. Malone C.P. April Term, 2012 No. 03600 $77,131.24 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-382 4535 Loring St 191364017 41st wd. 1078 Sq Ft OPA#412186400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Keesha Whittaker C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00053 $103,570.25 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-383 2339 College Ave a/k/a 2339 N College Ave 191214809 29th wd. 1734 Sq Ft OPA#291029900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Herman Keese a/k/a Herman Keesse, Jr. C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 02548 $18,745.64 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-384 2632 S 65th St 191422813 40th wd. 1236 Sq Ft OPA#406003400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL

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PROPERTY Quianna Hunt C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 00340 $92,933.81 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-385 5134 Parkside Ave 191314715 52nd wd. 2400 Sq Ft OPA#521093900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Derrick Francis, in his capacity as Heir of Ella Deans-Francis, Deceased; Janice Francis, in her capacity as Heir of Ella Deans-Francis, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Ella Deans-Francis, Deceased C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 00033 $162,710.37 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-386 534 Righter St 191283738 21st wd. 1600 Sq Ft OPA#213211000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Liam Kemmerley; Kimberly Yelland Kemmerley a/k/a Kimberly Y. Kemmerley a/k/a Kimberly Y. Kimmerley C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 04314 $250,371.32 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-387 5431 Chester Ave 191434913 51st wd. 1840 Sq Ft OPA#514128100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jacob Hasis C.P. March Term, 2009 No. 01204 $142,300.77 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-388 4903 Rawle St 19135-2403 41st wd. 900 Sq Ft OPA#412010600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Lynne Ann Lewis, Deceased C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00555 $47,455.19 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-389 941 E Church Ln a/k/a 941 Church Ln 19138-2314 12th wd.

1148 Sq Ft OPA#122050200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gwendolyn A. Jackson, in Her Capacity as Administratrix of the Estate of Nedator Cunningham; Barbara Cunningham a/k/a Barbara A. Cunningham, in Her Capacity as Executrix and Devisee of the Estate of Robert Cunningham C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 03389 $13,568.83 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-390 815 N 6th St 19123-2103 5th wd. 1260 Sq Ft OPA#056249407 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Benjamin F. Peterson, III a/k/a Benjamin F. Peterson C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02014 $110,485.06 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-391 2139 Magee Ave 191492314 54th wd. 1246 Sq Ft OPA#541138100 IMPROVE-

MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Olga June Feldman C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 02590 $121,431.71 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-392 413 W Cayuga St 191402432 7th wd. 1152 Sq Ft OPA#072253000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lucinda Snipes; Lulinda Snipes C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02616 $16,657.82 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-393 4738 “D” St a/k/a 4738 D St 19120-4536 42nd wd. 1650 Sq Ft OPA#421455900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Miguel A. Moreno C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 01670 $40,626.55 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-394 2622 S Carlisle St 191454620 26th wd. 1110 Sq Ft OPA#261137300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Phyllis M. Valentino a/k/a Phyllis M. Castelli C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 03996 $79,585.21 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-395 5921 Belmar Terr 191435210 3rd wd. 1150 Sq Ft OPA#034104000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Barry Fitzgerald C.P. December Term, 2006 No. 02794 $38,294.62 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-396 400-16 S 2nd St Unit 416A 19147 5th wd. 668 Sq Ft OPA#888030338 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Dominic Diventura C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 02340 $218,478.20 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-397 1400 Kings Pl 191223415 20th wd. 1720 Sq Ft OPA#202223600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Preston Wakefield, Jr., in His Capacity as Heir and Heir of the Estate of Preston Wakefield, Sr.; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Preston Wakefield, Sr., Deceased; Leonard Wakefield, in His Capacity as Administrator of the Estate of Preston Wakefield, Sr. C.P. May Term, 2012 No. 00269 $142,426.59 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-398 3051 N Bambrey St 19132 38th wd. 940 Sq Ft OPA#381116500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Fernando J. Press; Wanda M. Press a/k/a Wanda Maria Press a/k/a Wanda Maria Screen C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04923 $27,855.54 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-399 6239 Langdon St 191115806 53rd wd. 1296 Sq Ft OPA#531225900 IMPROVE-

MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Darryl Toliver C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 03967 $65,408.37 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-400 5657 Boyer St 191381732 12th wd. 1200 Sq Ft OPA#122254400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Luther Allen, Deceased C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 03384 $47,039.36 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-401 1627 E Gowen Ave 191501007 50th wd. 1320 Sq Ft OPA#501492700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Wanda Farlow C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00547 $105,660.53 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-402 3509 Sheffield Ave a/k/a 3509 Sheffield St 191363518 64th wd. 1432 Sq Ft OPA#642226900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ilham Draissi; Mounir Draissi C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 00152 $176,498.80 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-403 41 E Walnut Ln 191442002 59th wd. 2056 Sq Ft OPA#592069700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Leroy N. Brown a/k/a Leroy Brown C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04702 $175,331.30 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-404 4902 Woodcrest Ave 191312612 52nd wd. 1435 Sq Ft OPA#521169400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Evelyn Orji C.P. August Term, 2009 No. 03673 $119,646.79 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-405 1504 S 24th St 19145 36th wd.

1248 Sq Ft OPA#364142300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY George J. Rechner, Jr. C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 02410 $47,539.58 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-406 907 Disston St 191114416 53rd wd. 1369 Sq Ft OPA#532204100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Elena Pau; Steluca Bukur C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 02452 $132,099.69 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-407 7513 Brentwood Rd 191512104 34th wd. 1120 Sq Ft OPA#343228400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Salima Thompson C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 00024 $104,025.99 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP

1612-408 2346 S Marshall St 191483849 39th wd. 840 Sq Ft OPA#393136700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Seth L. Maile C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 02210 $116,595.10 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-409 425 Fern St 19120 61st wd.

1038 Sq Ft OPA#612204900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Darnell R. Minus C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 01877 $74,967.21 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-410 531 N Creighton St 19131 44th wd. 1001 Sq Ft BRT#442263200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Andrea Whitefield C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 00476 $58,660.97 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1612-411 5929 N Warnock St a/k/a 5929 Warnock St 19141 49th wd.

1365 Sq Ft OPA#492204900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nikiya Newton as Executrix of the Estate of Harold J. Johnson, Deceased C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01012 $81,213.02 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-412 5131 N 16th St 19141 17th wd.

1480 Sq Ft OPA#172117000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Alberta Jenkins and Rosalind Jenkins C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 02374 $38,380.04 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-413 1812 S Newkirk St 19145 48th wd. 991.2 Sq Ft OPA#482367200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kim Carter C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 04147 $50,351.21 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-414 7313 Pittville Ave 19126 10th wd. 1275 Sq Ft OPA#101059700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Vernon Moore C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02495 $90,865.37 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-415 1860 Widener Pl 19141 17th wd. 1360 Sq Ft OPA#171186700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Cheryl Grandy C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02055 $121,930.99 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1612-416 5709 N 3rd St 19120 61st wd.

2500 Sq Ft OPA#612384900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Leroy N. Brown, Sr. C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 03392 $118,013.72 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1612-417 135 E Westmoreland St 19134 7th wd. 1096 Sq Ft

OPA#073235200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Antonio Silva C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 00425 $85,788.39 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-418 12603 Dunksferry Rd a/k/a 12603 Dunks Ferry Rd 19154 66th wd. 1825 Sq Ft OPA#663148800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Charles J. Shorten; Robin Shorten C.P. January Term, 2011 No. 03697 $209,242.19 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1612-419 6223 Revere St 19149 62nd wd.

1368 Sq Ft OPA#621558800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY William J. Welch, Jr. C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01260 $40,952.90 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-420 155 E Meehan Ave a/k/a 155 Meehan Ave 19119 22nd wd.

2179 Sq Ft OPA#222094400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jayne Marie Young C.P. March Term, 2011 No. 02965 $143,209.86 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1612-421 6545 Wyncote Ave 19138 10th wd. BRT#102091000 Christine M. Jackson (deceased) C.P. April Term, 2012 No. 02938 $192,175.10 Emmanuel J. Argentieri, Esquire 1612-422 750 W Cheltenham Ave a/k/a 6855 N Franklin St 61st wd.

Beginning Point: Situate on the Southwesterly side of Harrison St (fifty feet wide) in Frankford. OPA#611462800 IMPROVEMENTS: DET 2 STY STONE Lawrence Witherspoon and Michelle McDonaldWitherspoon C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 01111 $279,381.83 Richard J. Nalbandian, III 1612-423 1928 E Cambria St 19134 25th wd. 1520 Sq Ft BRT#252084300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Olabisi K. Laniya C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00273 $28,273.72 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1612-424 5523 N American St 42nd wd. 3250 Sq Ft BRT#42-24215-00;PRCL#123N8-80 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Jorge V. Maldonado C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 01745 $27,565.70 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-425 6069 Kingsessing Ave 40th wd.

1148 Sq Ft BRT#401255000 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Sandra J. Smith a/k/a Sandra Smith C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00782 $50,772.45 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-426 2227 N 54th St 19131 52nd wd.

19200 Sq Ft BRT#521363300

IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Ramona Dereef C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02185 $326,388.58 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1612-427 7053 Reedland St 40th wd.

1110 Sq Ft BRT#406211700 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Venus Gachelin C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 01609 $34,152.61 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-428 4981 N 2nd St 19120 42nd wd.

943 Sq Ft BRT#422397800 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY John G. Campbell C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03013 $72,276.05 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-429 2613 Southampton Rd 191161526 58th wd. 9360 Sq Ft BRT#583068400 IMPROVEMENTS: DET W/D GAR 1.5 STY FRAME Elizabeth Ortiz C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 01354 $340,470.80 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-430 1409-13 N 76th St, Unit 4C 34th wd. BRT#888340015 IMPROVEMENTS: RES CONDO 2 STY MASONRY N’Neka Truehart C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 01731 $59,237.52 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-431 4109 Salem St 19124-4624 23rd wd. 588 Sq Ft BRT#232501000 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Michael Kuders C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00863 $40,958.90 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-432 507 Burgess St 58th wd.

6099 Sq Ft BRT#582242000 IMPROVEMENTS: DET 1.5 STY FRAME Randolph M. Hosear and Kristine M. Hosear C.P. February Term, 2012 No. 00949 $219,468.59 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-433 6764 Marsden St 191352226 41st wd. 1120 Sq Ft BRT#41-2-3720-00; PRCL#115 N 5-409 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Michael Valentino C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 00031 $69,252.72 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-434 5033 Knox St 19144-3637 12th wd. 2670 Sq Ft BRT#123179100; PRCL#47 N 23-240 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Magdalena Lebron C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 03471 $129,221.68 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-435 698 Mayfair St 191202646 35th wd. 2658 Sq Ft BRT#351066400; PRCL#148N17-0130 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Anh T. Lam C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 00157 $57,269.07 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC

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1612-436 614 Adams Ave 35th wd.

Beginning Point: Situate on the Southwesterly side of Adams Avenue (100 ft wide) at the distance of seven hundred six feet eleven and one-half inches Northwestwardly side of Tabor Rd OPA#351006700 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Tina Lloyd a/k/a Tina Lavette Morrison C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 00491 $159,682.00 Richard J. Nalbandian, III 1612-437 3442 Reach St 19134 33rd wd.

BRT#331315500 Lawrence Weinmann, Jr. (deceased) C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 02320 $82,792.53 Michael F.J. Romano, Esquire 1612-438 3825 Fairdale Rd BRT#662573000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Richard Gephart, Jr. C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 00524 $174,212.03 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-439 1915 S Norwood St 19145 48th wd. 722 Sq Ft OPA#482143800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Wayne J. Waters, Sr. C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02036 $57,317.96 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-440 546 N Vodges St 19131 4th wd. 945 Sq Ft OPA#041194400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Louis Vicks C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 00193 $64,107.74 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-441 4816 N Sydenham St a/k/a 4816 Sydenham Street 19141 13th wd. 1375 Sq Ft OPA#132095100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mary E. Dearry C.P. July Term, 2016 No. 01256 $58,361.32 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-442 4938 D St 19120 42nd wd.

ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1240 Sq Ft BRT#421459700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Virginia Betts a/k/a Virginia B. Betts C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00546 $84,671.28 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-443 6510 Allman St 19142 40th wd. 828 Sq Ft BRT#403104800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Daryl S. Douglas C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 02866 $40,542.51 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1612-444 3973 Lankenau Ave 19131 52nd wd. 2100 Sq Ft OPA#521437600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kristine F. Peart a/k/a Kristine F. Ponds C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02183 $136,765.67 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-445 8640 Gilbert St 19150 50th wd.

1440 Sq Ft OPA#502123400

IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY James Mosley C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01575 $119,728.66 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-446 1223 Kenwyn St 19124 62nd wd. 1198 Sq Ft OPA#621013200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bernadette Y. Tanner a/k/a Bernadette Tanner and Willie James Taylor C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 03251 $78,518.33 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-447 4029 Maywood St 191245331 33rd wd. 900 Sq Ft OPA#332483900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Maglyn E. Melendez C.P. November Term, 2007 No. 00227 $49,613.79 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-448 4357 O St 19124 33rd wd.

1600 Sq Ft OPA#332557700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Anna McCready C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 05056 $86,959.42 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-449 12484 Sweet Briar Rd 19154 66th wd. 1930 Sq Ft OPA#663182900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Christina M. Galanaugh and Daniel R. Galanaugh, Jr. C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04539 $238,410.26 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-450 3144 Unruh Ave 19149 55th wd.

1760 Sq Ft OPA#551142700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Albert J. Galzarano, III; United States of America C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 02663 $97,722.40 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1612-451 2507 S 68th St 19142 40th wd.

1112 Sq Ft OPA#40-6090800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Cherif Haidaraben C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 02180 $106,967.93 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1612-452 6338 Leonard St 19149 62nd wd. 1511 Sq Ft OPA#621514400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Christina J. Bauer a/k/a Christina Bauer; Robert C. Hilsee; Dianne Hilsee C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 04009 $108,532.77 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1612-453 7036 Jackson St 19135 55th wd.

2246 Sq Ft OPA#552471400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Maria T. Haff, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Robert M. Budano, Deceased; Christy M. Skale, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Robert M. Budano, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02361 $70,574.35 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-454 1204 Unruh Ave 19111 53rd wd.

1731 Sq Ft OPA#532059400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Levi Benjamin C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 04407 $120,725.67 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-455 1451 Conlyn St 19141 17th wd.

1360 Sq Ft OPA#171139900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kimberly Nelson, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Burrell Anderson, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02571 $108,812.49 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-456 269 S 57th St 19139 46th wd.

1296 Sq Ft (Land); 1484 Sq Ft (Improvement) BRT#604244000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Marilyn A. Hall Spivey and Elizabeth Spivey C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 003099 $106,949.41 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1612-457 2628 E York St a/k/a 2628 York St 19125 31st wd. 756 Sq Ft OPA#313151600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Patrick Foster C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02629 $52,004.92 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-458 4512 Van Kirk St 191354035 41st wd. 1320 Sq Ft OPA#411091100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Thamer Zaki Seoudi a/k/a Thamer Saki Seoudi; Arlene M. Seoudi C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01361 $42,461.17 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-459 540 E Walnut Ln 19144 59th wd. 1140 Sq Ft OPA#592067700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Priscilla Pettway C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 01043 $83,325.33 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-460 8031 Mansfield Ave 191503526 50th wd. 1518 Sq Ft OPA#502020500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Loren Hackney a/k/a L. Hackney C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01066 $141,646.95 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-461 4662 Edmund St 19124 23rd wd. 1398 Sq Ft OPA#232387200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of Madeline Hill, Deceased; Diane Morgan, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Madeline Hill, Deceased; Dorse Cottom, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Madeline Hill, Deceased; Juanita Gardner, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Madeline Hill, Deceased; Patricia Hill, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Madeline Hill, Deceased; William Hill, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Madeline Hill, Deceased; Merlin Hill, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Madeline Hill, Deceased;

Ann Lucas, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Madeline Hill, Deceased; John Hill, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Madeline Hill, Deceased C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 00471 $36,841.79 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-462 745 N 63rd St 19151-3804 34th wd. 2500 Sq Ft BRT#342359900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Maurice Thomas a/k/a Maurice R. Thomas C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 02216 $193,556.63 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1612-463 1531 S 24th St 191464131 36th wd. 1536 Sq Ft OPA#364135900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Diane McDaniel C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01362 $104,555.11 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-464 5846 Washington Ave 19143 46th wd. BRT#033115300 Roland Green (deceased) C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 02828 $122,163.75 Emmanuel J. Argentieri, Esquire 1612-465 5220 E Roosevelt Blvd 19124 35th wd. 1583 Sq Ft OPA#351030000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Samera Ahmad a/k/a Samera S. Ahmad C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00983 $125,502.62 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1612-466 537 Carpenter St 19147 2nd wd. 972 Sq Ft OPA#021066700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Theresa M. Colaizzo; Michael V. Colaizzo C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 01254 $366,021.01 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1612-467 1124 Marlborough St 191254139 18th wd. OPA#181055000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Louis Moore; Christie Moore C.P. April Term, 2010 No. 03816 $164,981.32 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-468 2601 Pennsylvania Ave, Unit 945 19130 9th wd. 954 Sq Ft BRT#888073154 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RES CONDO .5 STY MASONRY Yongping Wang & Malgorzata Wcislo C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00837 $23,453.59 Michelle J. Stranen, Esquire 1612-469 1522 Mayland St a/k/a 1522 E Maryland St 191381120 10th wd. 1250 Sq Ft OPA#102252500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nichole Renee Love a/k/a Nicole Love C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 00696 $68,475.83 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-471 2222 Trenton Ave 19125-

2014 31st wd. 1417 Sq Ft BRT#311207400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Margaret Mary Siciliano a/k/a Margaret Monahan C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00714 $104,895.15 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1612-472 3053 Winchester Ave 191361805 57th wd. 2258 Sq Ft OPA#571010700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Thomas Madison a/k/a Thomas J. Madison; Kristen L. Madison C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 00059 $298,232.09 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-473 1213 N 25th St 191214822 29th wd. 1072 Sq Ft BRT#291324200 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Jose L. Reyes and Cassandra Love C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 02094 $96,921.74 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1612-474 144 Covington Rd 191201004 61st wd. 2304 Sq Ft BRT#611441700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Nicole Allen C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 00295 $92,501.34 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1612-475 7808 Buist Ave 191531701 40th wd. 3188 Sq Ft BRT#405756106 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Simpson Lee C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 01981 $26,269.73 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1612-476 5622 Arlington St 19131 52nd wd. 1680 Sq Ft BRT#522059500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Rhonda Hicks C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 04396 $96,090.34 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1612-477 129 E Walnut Ln Lot 8 a/k/a 135 E Walnut Ln, Unit B 22nd wd. 2425 Sq Ft BRT#592071780 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Earleen Coleman C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 01987 $101,505.21 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-478 1251 N 29th St 19121 29th wd. 1280 Sq Ft BRT#292151500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Thelma Willis, Deceased C.P. June Term, 2010 No. 00043 $50,171.47 Jessica N. Manis; Powers, Kirn, & Associates, LLC 1612-479 2435 S Clarion St 19148 39th wd. 630 Sq Ft

BRT#394446200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Mary Martin C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 01809 $192,860.87 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1612-480 3738 Vale Ln 66th wd. 4036 Sq Ft BRT#661320020 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 1.5 STY MASONRY Barbara A. Capponi C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 03646 $202,115.63 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-481 1117 E Rittenhouse St 59th wd.

2712 Sq Ft BRT#591138000 IMPROVEMENTS: S/D W/B GAR 2 STY MASONRY Danielle Chenault C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 01722 $152,992.81 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-482 3253 Disston St 191492021 55th wd. 1104 Sq Ft OPA#551315400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Dana Rodgers C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01170 $146,252.65 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-483 8862 Manchester Ave a/k/a 8862 Manchester St 191521515 57th wd. 1536 Sq Ft OPA#571276700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jestina Harding; Gibrilla Dumbuya C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 04140 $230,311.24 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-484 7025 Passyunk Ave 19142 40th wd. On the N side of Passyunk Ave; 20 ft 0 in from the W side of Holbrook St; Front: 16’ Depth: 50’ OPA#406300000 Sallie Wilks, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02950 $99,010.45 Lois M. Vitti, Esquire 1612-485 4551 N Smedley St a/k/a 4551 Smedley St 19140 13th wd.

1246 Sq Ft OPA#132131200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Carolyn Smith C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02609 $59,560.93 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-486 4043 Dungan St 191245316 33rd wd. 1232 Sq Ft OPA#332420700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY James J. Dutill, Jr., in His Capacity as Administrator and Heir of the Estate of Thomas J. Cousin; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Thomas J. Cousin, Deceased C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00882 $24,388.55 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-487 1244 Ellsworth St 19147 2nd wd. 752 Sq Ft OPA#021207100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Catherine Aversa C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 04227 $469,144.78 KML Law Group, P.C.

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1612-488 4227 Marple St 191363608 65th wd. 1046 Sq Ft OPA#651104700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY George H. Crane a/k/a George H. Crane, II C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02498 $118,423.54 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-489 1453 W End Dr 34th wd. 3083 Sq Ft BRT#344431800 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Barbara Ayn Lilley C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 01460 $119,742.99 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-490 6518 N Smedley St a/k/a 6518 Smedley St 19126 17th wd.

1360 Sq Ft OPA#172174200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gwendolyn Hawkins C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02975 $96,550.02 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-491 7307 Brookhaven Rd 191512206 34th wd. 1120 Sq Ft OPA#344153200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY William Walker; Sheila Marshall a/k/a Sheila Walker C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 02674 $69,876.96 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-492 5640 Thomas Ave 191434645 51st wd. 1230 Sq Ft OPA#513092300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Richard Neal C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01126 $51,396.42 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-493 5740 N Front St 61st wd. 1615 Sq Ft BRT#612469400 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Senquetta Hunter Douglas a/k/a Senquetta H. Douglas C.P. January Term, 2011 No. 01432 $135,265.36 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-494 6132 Tulip St 191354224 41st wd. 1056 Sq Ft OPA#411426300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Dana Price-Skerrett C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 01473 $130,953.55 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-495 2321 E Somerset St 25th wd.

BRT#252032200 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Emanuel Rodriguez and Maria Rodriguez C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 04269 $83,513.27 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-496 1324 Wellington St 53rd wd.

5500 Sq Ft BRT#532339300 IMPROVEMENTS: DET W/D GAR 1.5 STY MASON Elizabeth Thomas and Thomaskutty Mathew C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 02579 $90,463.77 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-497 337 E High St 19144 59th wd.

SEMI/DET 2 STY MASONRY; 1650 Sq Ft BRT#592042400

IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Patricia A. Honesty, Known Surviving Heir of William Erastus Honesty, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Michele Honesty Young, Known Surviving Heir of William Erastus Honesty, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; William E. Honesty, Known Surviving Heir of William Erastus Honesty, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Unknown Surviving Heirs of William Erastus Honesty, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02041 $125,909.92 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-498 9140 Ellie Dr 57th wd.

Land Area: 3302 Sq Ft BRT#572365703 IMPROVEMENTS: APT 2-4 UNITS 2 STY MASON Patricia A. Valentine a/k/a Patricia Valentine; John A. Cann, Jr. a/k/a John Cann C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 02526 $27,263.41 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-499 4625 Kendrick St 19136 65th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1296 Sq Ft BRT#652072500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Melissa J. Keller and Faith Keller C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02882 $125,483.15 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-500 3215 Haverford Ave 19104 24th wd. ROW 3 STY MASONRY; 2067 Sq Ft BRT#242042300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Tamara Dewar C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 03389 $401,337.68 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-501 7237 N 20th St 19138 10th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1248 Sq Ft BRT#101155800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Surviving Heirs of Louise H. Rogers, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Roxana Rogers, Known Surviving Heir of Louise H. Rogers, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01271 $70,111.42 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-502 215 Buckingham Pl 27th wd.

1493 Sq Ft BRT#272136800 IMPROVEMENTS: S/D CONV APT 3 STY MASON Edgardo B. Ebora; Evelyn B. Ebora; Joseph S. Diaz a/k/a Joseph Sean Diaz; Evangelyn E. Diaz C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 03341 $373,881.26 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-503 6848 Grebe Pl 19142-2527 40th wd. 1296 Sq Ft BRT#406575300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Edward N. Scarborough, Individually and as Heir of J. Patricia Scarborough a/k/a Patricia Scarborough, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns,

and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under J. Patricia Scarborough a/k/a Patricia Scarborough, Deceased C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 01969 $143,493.64 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-504 2049 E Chelten Ave a/k/a 2049 Chelten Ave 191383043 17th wd. 1952 Sq Ft OPA#871522750 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rufus E Weary C.P. August Term, 2009 No. 00627 $165,617.24 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-505 4060 Howland St 33rd wd.

964 Sq Ft BRT#33-2-3660-00 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Ruth Colon C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 00040 $52,454.51 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1612-506 1134 Gerritt St 191475604 1st wd. 1176 Sq Ft OPA#012421900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Richard Nasuti C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 01156 $158,207.47 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-507 5925 N Beechwood St 19138 17th wd. 1260 Sq Ft BRT#172496800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Toni Bey and Frank B. Bey C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 01043 $37,832.01 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1612-508 7300 Cresheim Rd, Unit C-14 19119 9th wd. 1019 Sq Ft; All that certain Unit designated as Unit B-9 bein a unit in “Cresheimbrook Condominium”, a Condominium located at 7302 Creshei Rd, in the 9th Ward of the City of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as designated in the Declaration creating and establishing Cresheimbrook Condominium, dated April 3, 1979 and recorded in the Department of Records, in and for the County of Philadelphia, April 16, 1979 in Deed Book Doc 1924m page 454, and an amended declaration creating and establishing Cresheimbrook Condominium, dated April 10, 1979, and recorded as aforesaid on May 11, 1979, in Deed Book Doc 1949 Page 029, and in the Declaration Plan of Cresheimbrook Condominium Dated April 3, 1979, and recorded as aforesaid on April 16, 1979 in Deed Book Doc 1924 Page 478.

BRT#88-8-200034 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM Valyrie Patton C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01653 $2,417.96 Hal A. Barrow, Esquire 1612-509 2201-09 Arch St Unit 122 19103 8th wd. 1274 Sq Ft; All that certain unit in the property known named and identified as The Arches, a Condominium

located in the 8th Ward of the City and County of Philadelphia Commonwealth of Pennsylvania which as heretofore been submitted to the provisions of the Uniform Condominium Act, 68 Pa. C.S. Sec. 3101 et seq by the recording in the Philadelphia Department of Records of a Declaration and Plan attached hereto dated 4/11/1985 and recorded on 4/11/1985 in Deed Book FHS 119 page 551, being designated as Unit No. 122 together with a proportionate undivided interest in the Common Elements (as defined in such Declaration) of 2.5%. PRCL#88-8-0840-97 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM Lawrence C. Robinson C.P. January Term, 2012 No. 04177 $27,355.68 Hal A. Barrow, Esquire 1612-510 11809 Academy Rd, Unit E5 19154 66th wd. 1326 Sq Ft OPA#888660388 IMPROVEMENTS: CONDOMINIUM The Unknown Heirs of Roberta Williams, Deceased and David E. Wilson, Solely as Heir to Roberta Williams, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 00376 $177,886.78 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1612-511 612 Moss St 19139 6th wd.

2664 Sq Ft OPA#061322800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Irish F. Porter C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02318 $77,831.38 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1612-512 9199 Ryerson Rd 19114 57th wd. 4550 Sq Ft OPA#572197250 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ernest O. Tanoh C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00356 $209,509.17 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1612-513 1915 E Cambria St 19134 25th wd. 1275 Sq Ft OPA#252099900; BRT#22N06-136 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Herbert S. Pharo, Known Heir of Marilyn Pharo, Known Heir of Emerson C. Bender and Mildred A. Bender; Joanne Mackin, Known Heir of Emerson C. Bender and Mildred A. Bender; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Mildred Pharo, Known Heir of Emeron C. Bender and Mildred A. Bender; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Emerson C. Bender; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Mildred A. Bender; Wendy Pharo, Known Heir of Marilyn Pharo, Known Heir of Emerson C. Bender and Mildred A. Bender C.P. November Term,

2015 No. 03201 $40,246.45 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1612-514 6548 Windsor Ave 19142 40th wd. 1600 Sq Ft BRT#40-3438200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Richard B. Mack C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04459 $71,239.76 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1612-515 13035 Blakeslee Ct, Unit B 19116-1054 1704 Sq Ft BRT#888583220 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Eugene Yentin C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 01526 $178,893.03 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-516 1102 E Haines St 19138 8th wd.

S/D W/B GAR 2 STY STONE; 1895 Sq Ft BRT#591165000 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Columbus Williams and Naomi L. Williams C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 00381 $136,001.10 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-517 1961 Ashley St a/k/a 1961 Ashley Rd 19138-2726 10th wd.

1412 Sq Ft OPA#101368700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kevin Troy Lofton, Jr.; Michelle Desilva, in Her Capacity as Administratrix of the Estate of Celeste G. Lewis C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 02358 $74,073.24 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-518 2940 Hale St 19149-3005 62nd wd. 991 Sq Ft BRT#621266300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Ding Xiong Cai and Yang Guo Cai C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02407 $52,875.63 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-519 2739 Germantown Ave 19133 37th wd. 3036 Sq Ft OPA#871552540 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jamahl Simmons; United States of America C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 00392 $107,985.36 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1612-520 516 Cross St 19147-6513 1st wd. 1112 Sq Ft OPA#011292100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rosalind McCrea a/k/a Rosalind C. McCrea C.P. January Term, 2012 No. 00378 $105,915.37 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-521 4349 Potter St 19124 1718 Sq Ft OPA#332565100 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joseph G. O’Donnell C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 03260 $125,586.91 Michael J. Shavel, Esquire 1612-522 13039 Blakeslee Ct, Unit A 19116 58th wd. 1258 Sq Ft OPA#888583235 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Eugene Yentin C.P.

April Term, 2016 No. 02597 $178,835.21 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-523 2507 N 23rd St 191324104 16th wd. 1208 Sq Ft BRT#162224600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Rashidah Mathis C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02877 $43,548.99 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-524 2651 S 11th St 19148-4407 39th wd. 1266 Sq Ft OPA#39-41887-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Eric Bartello; Roberta Bartello C.P. May Term, 2011 No. 02734 $219,515.49 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-525 3 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Unit 249 a/k/a 3 N Columbus Blvd #249 19106 5th wd. BRT#88-8-0612-62 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Brian Hecker and Kara Hecker C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 04379 $311,200.61 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-526 1054 Tyson Ave 19111-4415 35th wd. BRT#532222200; PRCL#138-N-19-79 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Paul I. Pfeffer and Lena C. Pfeffer C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00896 $122,121.52 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-527 2048 Morris St 19145 36th wd. 1396 Sq Ft/improvement area, 1026 Sq Ft/land area OPA#363128700 Subject to Mortgage Dionne Cohen C.P. November Term, 2010 No. 01782 $26,719.41 & Interest from 1/3/2011 Robert M. Morris, Esq 1612-528 1821 Gerritt St 36th wd.

14’x45’ OPA#363010000 IMPROVEMENTS: 2 STY MASONRY BUILDING Dorian Westbrook and Teauntay Westbrook C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 00945 $129,158.97 Jay E. Kivitz, Esq. 1612-529 2921 Weikel St 19134 25th wd.

877 Sq Ft OPA#252380500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sonia I. Estrada C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02634 $65,979.73 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-530 7403 Woodbine Ave 19151 34th wd. 1548 Sq Ft OPA#343206600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Terrilynn Honesty and Lawrence T. Honesty C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02633 $66,338.21 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-531 3473 Weikel St 19134 45th wd.

1008 Sq Ft OPA#451435500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Brittany L. Ball C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02879 $65,604.75 KML Law Group, P.C.

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1612-532 436 E Phil Ellena St 191191943 22nd wd. 1615 Sq Ft OPA#221202100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rosa M. Mercer a/k/a Rosa Mercer C.P. January Term, 2013 No. 03604 $161,557.32 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-533 1238 Patrick Henry Pl 191224011 14th wd. 1224 Sq Ft OPA#141177100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Stanley Ingram C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 01655 $121,054.45 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-534 312 Hoffnagle St 191111819 63rd wd. 1823 Sq Ft OPA#631379700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michaela M. Parrotti a/k/a Michaela Parrotta C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 01318 $182,722.48 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-536 11859 Academy Rd Unit F-7 19154 66th wd. 1326 Sq Ft OPA#888660437 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kelly Scott a/k/a Kelly T. Scott; Robin Scott C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02319 $78,843.36 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1612-537 1816 Dickinson St BRT#363048600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Sophia Brodsky C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 02138 $139,606.54 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-538 226 W Ruscomb St 19120 42nd wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1362 Sq Ft BRT#422152900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Marie L. Miller C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03468 $68,382.27 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-539 7824 Bayard St BRT#501198000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Arnetha Hargrove C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 03050 $130,759.81 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-540 2552 S Holbrook St 19142 40th wd. 1088 Sq Ft BRT#40-61505-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING David Noonan, Sr. C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 05063 $49,673.67 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-541 6143 Limekiln Pike 19141 17th wd. 1640 Sq Ft OPA#172303200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lawrence Alston C.P. July Term, 2016 No. 00050 $43,718.72 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1612-542 1828 Jackson St 19145 26th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY;

1260 Sq Ft BRT#262229300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Theresa R. Andreoli C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01653 $137,108.89 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-543 4347 Malta St 19124 33rd wd.

1737 Sq Ft OPA#332143400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bilal E. Mohammad C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 01412 $122,786.68 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1612-544 1034 E Slocum St a/k/a 1034 Slocum St 19150 50th wd.

2688 Sq Ft OPA#50-2386000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Theodore Fagan; Barbara Campbell C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 00356 $159,499.07 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1612-545 2519 S 64th St 19142 40th wd.

1125 Sq Ft OPA#40-2134200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Chuck Moody C.P. April Term, 2012 No. 02025 $84,647.08 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1612-546 3057 Richmond St 19134 25th wd. 1163 Sq Ft OPA#251156900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jon P. Lattanzio C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 00762 $199,037.60 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-547 3943 N 7th St 19140 43rd wd.

1110 Sq Ft OPA#433090000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jesus M. Diaz C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 03491 $32,281.43 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-548 1243 Hale St 19111 53rd wd.

1075 Sq Ft OPA#531034600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Odolyn Pryor C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 01079 $53,927.98 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-549 437 W Roosevelt Blvd 19120 42nd wd. 2259 Sq Ft OPA#422111800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Clyde Martin, Jr. C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 02861 $75,236.07 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-550 6109 N Marshall St 19120 61st wd. 1360 Sq Ft OPA#611139200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John T. Brice C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 02445 $96,025.36 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-551 2554 N 18th St 19132 16th wd.

1039 Sq Ft BRT#162012700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Steven Beverlin C.P. July Term, 2016 No. 02131 $66,060.67 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire;

Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1612-552 1718 W Moyamensing Ave 19145 26th wd. 1409 Sq Ft BRT#26-2-3220-00; OPA#871535840 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Donald C. Maddox C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 00757 $198,338.30 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1612-553 824 Loney St 19111 56th wd.

2568 Sq Ft BRT#63-1274000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Estate of Jean Marie Kraft a/k/a Jean M. Kraft c/o Michael L. Kraft, Executor; Jean Marie Kraft a/k/a Jean M. Kraft; Michael Kraft, Executor of the Estate of Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns and all Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest from or under Jean marie Kraft a/k/a Jean M. Kraft, Last Record Owner C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 02120 $204,550.78 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1612-554 3907 L St 19124-5514 33rd wd.

1200 Sq Ft BRT#33-2-3978-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING David W. Johnson C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03937 $148,073.13 BARBARA A. FEIN, ESQUIRE 1612-555 2040 Tyson Ave 19149-1809 54th wd. 3698.20 Sq Ft BRT#54-2-0779-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Young Hae Park and Stone Park C.P. April Term, 2012 No. 01128 $143,441.55 BARBARA A. FEIN, ESQUIRE 1612-556 524 E Penn St 19144-1406 12th wd. 1163 Sq Ft BRT#121141400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Patricia John C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01357 $98,745.52 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1612-557 1031 Christian St 19147 2nd wd. 835 Sq Ft BRT#022246930 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Cheryl Ratliff and Anthony Orlando C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00587 $692,894.18 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1612-558 128 E Tioga St 19134-1031 7th wd. 980 Sq Ft OPA#073268000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert Derr C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01631 $47,842.34 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-559 1550 E Tulpehocken St 19138 10th wd. (formerly part of the 50th wd.) 1406 Sq Ft BRT#102200100 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Consuella E. Dancy, as Known Heir and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Patrick H. Clarke; Darrell P. Davis, Known Heir of Patrick H. Clarke; Estate of Patrick H. Clarke; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and

All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Patrick H. Clarke C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01003 $98,557.09 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1612-560 3037 N 15th St 11th wd.

1392 Sq Ft BRT#11-11548-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Harold Hawkins and Bessie Luffborough C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 02409 $30,460.32 Pressman & Doyle, LLC 1612-561 4164 Gilham St 191352513 55th wd. 960 Sq Ft OPA#552132000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Felix F. Filanovskaya f/k/a Valentina F. Filanovskaya C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 01662 $92,045.71 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-562 6166 Haverford Ave 19151 34th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1260 Sq Ft BRT#341072700 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Walter H. Roach C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01480 $73,777.05 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-563 4236 Passmore St 19135-3104 55th wd. (f/k/a 41st wd.)

1110 Sq Ft OPA#552097300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bryan H. Bolds C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 04594 $78,194.16 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-564 4130 N 7th St 19140 43rd wd.

ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1174 Sq Ft BRT#433311700 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Shirley Monique Folk, Known Surviving Heir of Thelma D. Folk, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Christopher Folk a/k/a Christopher Ross a/k/a Christopher Folk-Ross, Known Surviving Heir of Thelma D. Folk, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Derrick Folk, Known Surviving Heir of Thelma D. Folk, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Paul M. Folk, Known Surviving Heir of Thelma D. Folk, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Unknown Surviving Heirs of Thelma D. Folk, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 03589 $35,763.31 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-565 3044 N Water St 191342828 7th wd. 1016 Sq Ft OPA#071340700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Emilia Terekhina C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 03333 $41,751.49 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-566 1531 N 62nd St 19151 34th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1470 Sq Ft BRT#342297400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-

TIAL DWELLING Linwood L. Lipscomb, Known Surviving Heir of Shirley G. Lipscomb; John M. Lipscomb, Known Surviving Heir of Shirley G. Lipscomb; Julian M. Lipscomb, Known Surviving Heir of Shirley G. Lipscomb; Unknown Surviving Heirs of Shirley G. Lipscomb C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00757 $82,129.41 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-567 6637 Rutland St 19149 54th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1600 Sq Ft BRT#541170500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mei Yun Lin C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 01822 $82,893.05 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-568 1032 N Orianna St 191231549 5th wd. 2043 Sq Ft OPA#057095420 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joseph Steward, III; Sharon McPherson C.P. May Term, 2008 No. 03544 $436,757.89 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-569 6727 N 17th St 19126 10th wd.

1269 Sq Ft BRT#101046500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Marie Brown C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 00287 $31,353.67 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1612-570 6318 Anderson St 191381030 22nd wd. 6584.09 Sq Ft BRT#221311300; PRCL#097N-09-0089 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Kevin White C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03437 $216,951.89 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-571 5050 Umbria St 19128 53750 Sq Ft OPA#882971080 IMPROVEMENTS: AUTO REPAIR SHOP MASONRY + OTHER Harry C. Gallagher and Michael F. Gallagher, as joint tenants with right of survivorship C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 02398 $769,967.46 together with interest at the per diem rate of $120.18 accruing after March 15, 2013 and costs Louise Melchor, Esquire; Duane Morris LLP 1612-572 2026 Stenton Ave 19138 17th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1170 Sq Ft BRT#171347300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Surviving Heirs of Phillip Dubose C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 02127 $60,213.03 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-573 3420 Shelmire Ave 191363525 64th wd. 1432 Sq Ft OPA#642170200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Angelica M. Marquez C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 02406 $134,785.85 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP

1612-574 3165 Gaul St 19134-4446 25th wd. 1152 Sq Ft OPA#251385400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert J. Lindsay; Diana Glinka C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 04920 $171,904.66 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-575 155 Roosevelt Blvd a/k/a 155 E Roosevelt Blvd 19120 42nd wd.

1760 Sq Ft OPA#421136000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Daisy Hurtado C.P. June Term, 2008 No. 02380 $92,795.16 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-576 2906 Princeton Ave 191491411 55th wd. 1224 Sq Ft OPA#551378114 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Harvey Skolnick, in His Capacity as Executor and Devisee of the Estate of Hilda Skolnick; Janice Dassler, in Her Capacity as Devisee of the Estate of Hilda Skolnick C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 00801 $132,265.31 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-577 620 E Mount Airy Ave a/k/a 620 Mount Airy Ave 19119 22nd wd.

5098 Sq Ft OPA#222182800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs and/or Administrators of the Estate of Beverly Walter Greenidge; Annabel Greenidge, Believed Heir and Administrator of the Estate of Beverly Walter Greenidge, Deceased; Aaron Dean, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Beverly Walter Greenidge, Deceased; Adrianne Crowder, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Beverly Walter Greenidge, Deceased; Austin Greenidge, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Beverly Walter Greenidge, Deceased; Lisa Golphin, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Beverly Walter Greenidge, Deceased; Mark Greenidge, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Beverly Walter Greenidge, Deceased; Michelle McLean, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Beverly Walter Greenidge, Deceased; Stephen Greenidge, Jr., Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Beverly Walter Greenidge, Deceased C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 00041 $363,682.51 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-578 230 W School House Ln 19144-3927 12th wd. 4042 Sq Ft OPA#124069400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jeffrey C. Collins C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 02282 $122,049.75 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-579 227 W Rockland St 191204133 42nd wd. 1438 Sq Ft OPA#422117700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ronald D. Andrews C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 03544 $79,234.50 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP

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1612-580 7038 Erdick St 191351604 55th wd. 2291 Sq Ft BRT#552268000; PRCL#116N16-170 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Donna Scott and Thomas Jhinis C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 00464 $123,440.39 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-581 2758 Mower St 191522107 57th wd. 1584 Sq Ft OPA#571100000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mark E. Geist C.P. November Term, 2010 No. 03473 $180,182.35 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-582 460 W Winona St a/k/a 460 Winona St 19144-4508 12th wd. (f/k/a 22nd wd.) 1544 Sq Ft OPA#124062300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Martin F. Searcy, Jr., in His Capacity as Executor and Devisee of the Estate of Dorothy T. Burhanan a/k/a Dorothy Burhanan C.P. July Term, 2016 No. 02502 $52,180.40 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-584 11997 Dumont Rd 191162322 58th wd. 2365 Sq Ft OPA#582392100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Thomas P. George; Suja Thomas C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 00595 $420,072.25 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-585 5239 Pennsgrove St 19131 44th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1260 Sq Ft BRT#442066900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Ida Tisdale C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 02233 $70,851.80 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-586 3013 W Sedgley Ave 191211814 32nd wd. 990 Sq Ft OPA#323060500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Zebbie D. McMiller C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 01275 $8,422.44 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-587 5765 Jefferson St 191313417 4th wd. 1577 Sq Ft BRT#043251900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Duane Goings C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02417 $79,963.11 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-588 5132 W Stiles St 19131 44th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1088 Sq Ft BRT#442099600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Ruth Harris C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 03411 $44,883.96 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-589 1657 W Wyoming Ave 191401133 13th wd. 1216 Sq Ft OPA#132392600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gladys Hughes C.P.

February Term, 2012 No. 03458 $58,342.93 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-590 7414 Malvern Ave 191512921 34th wd. 1152 Sq Ft OPA#343168000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Haniyyah Shah Wilson, in Her Capacity as Heir of Apollo Wilson a/k/a Mr. Apollo Wilson, Deceased; Lisa Harvey, in Her Capacity as Heir of Apollo Wilson a/k/a Mr. Apollo Wilson, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Apollo Wilson a/k/a Mr. Apollo Wilson, Deceased C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 00449 $87,054.56 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-591 3336 Jasper St 191342536 45th wd. 1074 Sq Ft OPA#452380200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marylou Colon C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 03008 $34,061.08 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-592 1422 Castle Ave 19145 36th wd.

ROW 3 STY STONE; 2592 Sq Ft BRT#365403400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Huong Bach and Chi Dang C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01952 $388,012.37 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-593 5917 Agusta St 191493607 53rd wd. 1086 Sq Ft OPA#531255200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Teresa L. Bubier C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 00373 $113,728.51 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-594 6378 W Columbia Ave 19151 34th wd. 1360 Sq Ft OPA#344067800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Diane L. Richardson C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01640 $56,679.11 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-595 2446 N 15th St 191324435 16th wd. 2220 Sq Ft OPA#161039600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY George E. Glover C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03464 $126,182.63 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-596 636 N 37th St 24th wd. 2004 Sq Ft BRT#242181300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Dale Garbutt Lowry a/k/a Dale GarbuttLowry C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 03691 $66,713.01 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-597 2248 Snyder Ave 19145 48th wd. 877 Sq Ft OPA#482074500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ronald M. Delollis C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 00470 $74,980.05 KML Law Group, P.C.

1612-598 3941 Constance Rd 19114 66th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1386 Sq Ft BRT#661288803 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Michael Kuhner, Administrator of the Estate of Joanne M. Kuhner C.P. July Term, 2016 No. 01156 $30,863.23 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-599 5640 Hazel Ave 19143 46th wd. 953 Sq Ft OPA#463021200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Angelique Frazier C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 01287 $118,853.35 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-600 2323-25 Mifflin St 19145 48th wd. 1612 Sq Ft OPA#882006830 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shirlrick Corp, a Pennsylvania Corp and Mitchell Epps, Jr. a/k/a Mitchell Epps C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 01736 $239,963.51 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-601 3442 Chippendale St a/k/a 3442 Chippendale Ave 19136 64th wd. 1625 Sq Ft OPA#642202200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Anthony Cancelliere C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 03373 $76,808.60 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-602 8846 Hargrave St 19152 57th wd. 3424 Sq Ft OPA#571281000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Carlos A. Delgado a/k/a Carlos Delgado C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 03385 $142,768.42 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-603 1719 S. Avondale St 19142 40th wd. 1661 Sq Ft OPA#401178700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Damon B. McKie, Sr. a/k/a Damon B. Mc Kie, Sr. C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 03506 $61,819.23 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-604 6621 Hasbrook Ave 19111 35th wd. 2558 Sq Ft OPA#353197010 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Evelyn Plummer C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 00369 $143,407.19 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-605 143 Wilder St 19145 1st wd.

1312 Sq Ft OPA#011019200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Louis Raffa C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 03725 $222,293.17 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1612-606 6075 N Beechwood St 19138 17th wd. 1890 Sq Ft OPA#172502300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Myron L. Johnson C.P. June Term, 2016 No.

02013 $43,131.85 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1612-607 6744 Tulip St 19135 41st wd.

1760 Sq Ft OPA#412448100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jaime Spingler C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 02356 $107,728.85 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-608 5228 Osage Ave 19143 60th wd. 990 Sq Ft OPA#602138200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sim Bradley C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 02803 $57,254.00 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-609 6638 Marsden St 19135 41st wd. 1050 Sq Ft OPA#411260400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michael Ortiz C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 00763 $140,137.60 KML Law Group, P.C. 1612-610 7615 Linda Pl 19111 56th wd. S/D W/B GAR 1 STY MASONRY; 1060 Sq Ft BRT#561104400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Richard J. Speer, Known Surviving Heir of Stephen P. Mulyar; Michael Alan Speer, Known Surviving Heir of Stephen P. Mulyar; Paula Y. George, Known Surviving Heir of Stephen P. Mulyar; Rosemary R. Rifkin, Known Surviving Heir of Stephen P. Mulyar; Diana Elizabeth Speer, Known Surviving Heir of Stephen P. Mulyar; Unknown Surviving Heirs of Stephen P. Mulyar C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 00238 $177,454.82 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-611 2109 E. Lippincott St 19134 25th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 948 Sq Ft BRT#252286300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Vilai Sungdamrong C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01306 $39,105.28 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-612 3235 Rawle St 19149 55th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1528 Sq Ft BRT#551185800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Isabel Kozub C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01989 $133,505.52 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-613 4520 N Broad St 191401220 13th wd. 2808 Sq Ft OPA#132007900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Brian Wise C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 04125 $128,207.87 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1612-614 1647 N 61st St 34th wd. On E side of 61st St; Front: 15’ Depth: 90’ OPA#342246400 IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE Beverly D. Stokes C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 00729 $93,787.73 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq.

1612-615 819 Earp St 19147 1st wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 936 Sq Ft BRT#012202300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Violet Ressa C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 00350 $224,609.73 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1612-616 4440 Shelmire Ave 41st wd. On Southwesterly side of Shelmire Ave; Front: 16’5” Depth: 66’5-3/16” OPA#412223300 IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE Anthony M. Cancelliere C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 02343 $103,966.07 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1612-617 6018 Spruce St 19139-3738 61st wd. 1200 Sq Ft BRT#032003500 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Charles A.J. Halpin, III, Esquire, Personal Representative of the Estate of Ella V. Weston C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 03433 $103,026.84 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1612-618 530 Gerhard St 21st wd.

Situated on the Northwesterly side of Gerhard St (50 ft wide) at the distance of 438 ft 4/38 inches Northeastwardly from the Northeasterly side of Ridge Ave; Front: Irregular Depth: Irregular OPA#213157300 IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE Anthony C. Esbensen and Dawn M. Esbensen C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 00183 $189,833.75 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1612-619 19136-3723 4601 Vista St 41st wd. 943 Sq Ft BRT#412213700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Pauline L. Lefferts C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00861 $47,699.11 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1612-620 2757 Tolbut St 191522137 57th wd. 2677 Sq Ft BRT#571115600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Hector Donato C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 03252 $119,785.80 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1612-621 212-214 S. 24th St a/k/a 218 S. 24th St 8th wd. 1778 Sq Ft OPA#088085706/ OPA#888085577 IMPROVEMENTS: CONDOMINIUM WITH PARKING SPACE John C. Laning C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 00736 $9,114.77 plus interest in the amount of $1.50 per diem from 10/7/13 Michael V. Phillips, Esquire 1612-622 4262 Lawnside Rd 191542804 66th wd. 2237 Sq Ft BRT#662609600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Ricky Cummings and Lydia Cummings C.P. April Term, 2012 No. 02723 $200,412.93 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC

1612-623 4839 N 13th St 19140 49th wd.

1518 Sq Ft OPA#491504800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tanika Hamilton C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01204 $143,513.22 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1612-624 6209 Hasbrook Ave 19111 35th wd. 1527 Sq Ft BRT#353194400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING William G. Elwell C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 01085 $40,577.60 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1612-625 2060 E Stella St 19134 25th wd.

1060 Sq Ft OPA#252190600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Eufemia DePerez C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 00042 $23,223.29 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1612-626 413 Tyson Ave 19111 35th wd.

1733 Sq Ft OPA#353167800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Effie A. Haynes, deceased and Merlyn Rattery, Known Heir of Effie A. Haynes, deceased C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 001126 $102,550.40 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1612-627 1809 Fox Chase Rd 19152 56th wd. 2549 Sq Ft OPA#56-21814-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Yaser M. Saleh C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 01392 $266,190.86 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1612-628 3323 Rand St 19134 33rd wd.

4320 Sq Ft OPA#331360900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rafael Rosario C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02773 $32,361.40 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1612-629 1545 S 16th St 19146 36th wd.

1368 Sq Ft OPA#365123500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Darryl Woodard, Executor of the Estate of Bernice Woodard, deceased C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 02129 $131,775.74 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1612-630 1108 Elbridge St 19111 53rd wd. 1116 Sq Ft OPA#531086000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kazi Hashem C.P. July Term, 2016 No. 03077 $70,721.78 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1612-631 1210 W Jefferson St 19122 20th wd. 1800 Sq Ft BRT#201011200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING April Reeves a/k/a April V. Reeves C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 02666 $124,535.37 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1612-632 546 Levick St 19111 35th wd.

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DENTIAL PROPERTY Yanet Veras C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 02870 $120,659.18 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1612-633 7909 Bingham St 19111 63rd wd. 3036 Sq Ft OPA#631172600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mary Kennedy a/k/a Mary T. Kennedy C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 01281 $54,597.00 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1612-634 6308 Vine St 19139 34th wd.

1680 Sq Ft OPA#343006100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gill D. Coley C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00264 $95,925.69 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC

1612-635 925 Marlyn Rd 19151 34th wd.

1600 Sq Ft OPA#344267800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Edward Hester and Genita Hester C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 001274 $106,024.63 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1612-636 719 W Raymond St 19140 49th wd. 1080 Sq Ft OPA#491027700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Antonio Figueroa C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03442 $95,012.83 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1612-637 8739 Gillespie St 19136 65th wd. 2860 Sq Ft OPA#652242825 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lawrence E.

Kuscin and Patricia M. HarteKuscin C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 910 $128,658.87 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1612-638 5226 D St 19120 42nd wd.

1528 Sq Ft OPA#421466700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shirley Ann Evans C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 03321 $75,839.43 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1612-639 6616 Gerry St 19138 10th wd.

2172 Sq Ft OPA#102389700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Charlie Rickenbacker a/k/a Charlie S. Rickenbacker C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 01520 $35,561.06 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC

1612-640 2649 Maxwell St 19152 57th wd. 2927 Sq Ft OPA#571136000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jasalyn Realpe and Ryan Realpe C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 03015 $232,634.42 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1612-641 4654 Hazel Ave 19143 46th wd.

4779 Sq Ft BRT#881702000 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: MULTI-FAMILY Mia Ormes; Vincent Curtis; Maurice Thomas C.P. October Term, 2011 No. 00465 $517,626.00 Timothy Zearfoss, Esquire 1612-642A 1951 Laveer St 19141 17th wd.

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FAMILY HOUSE ATTACHED Joseph DeReef C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 03442 Norman M. Valz 1612-643B 1728 N 61st St 19151-3923 34th wd. 1350 Sq Ft OPA#342264700 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: TWO STORY SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE ATTACHED Joseph DeReef C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 03442 Norman M. Valz 1612-644 4726 Chestnut St IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Ecore Investments, LLC C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 04135 $776,366.25 Bruce S. Luckman, Esquire

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Standing Up to Cancer in Fashion By HughE Dillon On Wednesday, Nov. 9, The Cancer Support Community Greater Philadelphia held its 14th Annual “In Fashion!” event. Hosted by Neiman Marcus, this year’s fashion presentation was

by A-K-R-I-S-, a Swiss family-owned luxury fashion house for women. Proceeds from the event support the free services that CSCP provides to those with cancer and their families.

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4. Nicole Dresnin-Schaeffer, Paula Dubin, Ann Selkow, Karen Moses Kamens, and Michelle Schwartz 5. Hope Cohen and her mother Norma Michaels. 6. Babs Snyder, Wendy Rosen, and Barbara Brown-Ruttenberg. Photos by HughE Dillon.

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40 Years of Letting Kids Be Kids The Please Touch Museum Celebrates 40 years

By HughE Dillon On Nov. 3, the Please Touch Museum celebrated its 40th anniversary with a gala hosted by president Patricia D. Wellenbach. Guests enjoyed a cocktail party, sit-down program, and coffee and dessert. Honorees included Lisa & Gie Liem who received the Portia & Otto Sperr Legacy Award with PNC receiving the Corporate Philanthropy Award.

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HATBORO HORSHAM HIGH SCHOOL IS BACK

Quade Green and Neumann-Goretti are number one

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eumann-Goretti’s star senior point guard Quade Green posed for pictures Nov. 6 at Philadelphia University for his fourth Scholastic Playby-Play Classics pre-season photo shoot.

This will be his fourth year playing in big games with the high school showcase event company, “I love playing in these games,” he said. “They are a big highlight in the regular season and they prepare us for everything we are trying to do as a team.”

When the 6-foot-1-inch Green first showed up at the photo shoot with his veteran teammates in 2013 he was an up-and-coming freshman looking to crack the lineup at Neumann. Now, he may graduate as one of the best guards that has ever come out of the city. “I can’t really say,” he said. “I have been working hard every year and improving every

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year. I’m happy with how I have been performing in the spring and summer and fall and throughout my career. It’s been a great ride.” Green’s role for three years has been as a combination guard, mostly off the ball. But this summer, as its point guard, he led his AAU squad, the New York based PSA Cardinals, to wins in prestigious tournaments nationwide.

Suddenly, his stock jumped. By the end of August, he was ranked by most publications as a top-three point guard in the country and one of the nation’s best 20 players.

The increased praise led some in the Philadelphia basketball community to wonder if he was holding back in 2016. “No way,” he said. “I never hold back. I love playing. We had a great point guard in Vaughn [Covington] and he had the ball in his hands maybe more than I did. I have been the guy to

Neumann-Goretti basketball players Mike Millsip (#12), Dhamir Cosby-Roundtree (#10) and Quade Green (#1). Photo by Jeff Richman.

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make the drive or the shot. Now, I am just doing more and showing people at a national level what I can do. I have loved my role for my high school and AAU teams wherever I have been.” His high school coach Carl Arrigale agrees, “Quade had a great summer. Every time I came to see Continued on page 2

Matt Carroll starred together on the last great Hatboro team. But with the emergence of Clifton Moore, a 6-foot-7-inch center and Indiana recruit, Hatboro has put them in position to be a PIAA stalwart once again. “I think we’ll be competing for a [PIAA 6A title],” said Moore. “We have a good team this year. I am so glad that I have made a great college choice. I can’t wait to get the season going.”

Another team with tremendous promise is a young Abington team. The Ghosts are led by sophomore guard Robbie Heath, and sophomore sensa-

PRE-SEASON HIGH SCHOOL RANKINGS 1. Westtown* The school uses fifth year seniors so can’t play all the other PIAA schools on the list. However, this is arguably the most talented, on pa-

tions Lucas Monroe and Eric Dixon. Abington plays Roman, Neumann, Chester, and Archbishop Carroll this season. “Those games will help us in the post season,” said Heath. “I think we can win all of them, at least that’s the plan.” Monroe agreed. “We want to play all these top teams to help us learn about what we need to do to be the best. I think we can surprise these opponents.” Dixon also is confident. “We’re young but we’re good. We want to win now.”

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a good team.” Demery showed court toughness with

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Out country artist serves up striking sights and songs on new album

By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com

Alt-folk-country group Indiana Queen recently launched a new album and an accompanying film, “Summon Without Sorrow,” continuing to blaze a path for queer voices into the traditionally conservative genre of country music.

The group is largely an artistic umbrella project for its front man, openly queer singer songwriter Kevin Thornton, who brings in other members as needed.

“It’s part of a vision of how I wanted to present it,” he said about presenting his music as a group instead of a solo act. “There are lots of bands like that. Nine Inch Nails is really Trent Reznor and Smashing Pumpkins is really just Billy Corgan. There are people who play with me. When I do a live show it could either be with myself or with some

other players. There’s a revolving door of players who play with me on and off. I didn’t want to present it as a solo act. I wanted it to feel more like an artistic vision than just a singer-songwriter.”

To help promote the new music, Thornton created a visual album, consisting of a string of visually striking and sometimes NSFW videos to tell a story of pride, love and acceptance.

“It came together in a fairly short period of time but I worked on it non-

stop, like hours and hours a week,” Thornton said of the process of creating the film. “I literally did nothing else for those six weeks but work on the film. It was done very guerilla movie-making style. I filmed part of it in Cincinnati.

I filmed part in my hometown in Indiana and the rest of it here. It was an intense six weeks.”

With songs like “Nashville Don’t Give a Damn” and “Be My Man” featured on the new album, Thornton writes lyrics talking about queer experi-

ences in unambiguous fashion, set to a sonic backdrop of stripped-down, heavily folk-influenced songs. While he agrees this makes him somewhat of an anomaly in country music, the genre is far more inclusive today than it was a few decades ago.

“It’s moving slow,” Thornton said when asked about queer visibility and acceptance in country music. “When I first moved to Nashville 20 years ago, everyone told me to keep the gay thing on the down-low and it was going to hurt me. I was completely out on day one. It was 1999. I guess looking back, I wonder if they were right because here I am, still on the fringe. There are definitely artists in Nashville who have come out or become allies. The weird thing is the country-music industry in Nashville, like everyone who works in it, is super-progressive.

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and you see tons of people who work in the industry. But then they give this other face to the world. It’s unfortunate I guess. It is changing. It is slow but it’s definitely a different world than it was 20 years ago. I just kind of kept doing my thing and it’s only been in the last couple of years that I felt like I’ve cracked anything open. I felt like being openly queer in my lyrics and all my stuff is helping at this point. It wasn’t helping me 15 years ago.”

Thornton also felt the need to stick to his guns artistically, staying away from the formulaic rock- and pop-influenced sounds that dominate popular country music these days.

“When you show up in Nashville, there’s a dozen people ready to tell you how to do it,” he said. “For sure, I had people telling me to maybe go with a more mainstream sound or something that might sell. That never worked for me. I feel like when people do that, you can feel the disingenuousness of it. That’s not something that interests me. I’m not making any decisions based on what I think people will like. I just let it come out how it comes out and that’s how it is. The next set of songs I’m working on are not very country at all. It’s way more like ambient folks like Bon Iver.

But I’m not actually trying to be anything.”

Thornton doesn’t take his music on the road in the traditional sense as much as he used to, preferring to expose audiences to his music through other means.

“These days I just focus my entire attention online,” he said. “I used to play out in Nashville quite a bit but this town is changing a lot. It’s very tourist-based and I feel like [I found] my niche more on the Internet.

When I hit the road it’s a variety of venues that I perform in. I’ve performed at a lot of theater festivals where I make my show more of a storytelling thing. I’ve played smoky little dive bars. Basically I perform at anything and everything I can get my hands on.”

Thornton added that the desire for a more stable life is one of the big reasons he’s pulled away from the life of a traveling singer-songwriter, but he’s still figuring out

how to make that work.

“I literally lived on the road for over 10 years,” he said. “I went through a long period of time where I was literally homeless, intentionally so, because I was on the road so much that it didn’t make sense to pay for an apartment anywhere. If I was in town I’d just crash on somebody’s couch and hit the road again. At some point, by the time I was in my late 30s, I just wanted other things in my life that didn’t involve me drinking a box of wine at a Days Inn in the middle of Kansas. It started to become deeply unsatisfying. I wanted a love life that went beyond one-night stands. I just decided to revamp my life and have a home.

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Sharon Katz: Moving peace forward, from South Africa to Philly No doubt about it, the presidential election brought forth some real ugliness in our country. We are seeing racism, homophobia, sexism and many other -isms that we haven’t experienced as overtly for some time. But there is hope.

Sharon Katz experienced many of the same -isms at an early age. Born in South Africa during the apartheid era, Katz saw separation and divisiveness at its most extreme. She became a beacon of hope and unity through her Peace Train, which has traveled throughout her home country with a multiracial choir of children singing to bring people together.

Katz will celebrate the DVD release of documentary “When Voices Meet,” about her work in the name of peace, with a local party and concert Dec. 2.

PGN: So, you’re not a Philly gal.

SK: No, I was born in Port Elizabeth, a little town in South Africa. It’s now called Nelson Mandela Bay. I first came to Philadelphia in the ’80s to study for my master’s degree in music therapy at Temple University and I’ve been coming and going from South Africa to Philly ever since. It’s my second home.

PGN: Tell me a little bit about your family.

SK: I’m the youngest of three, and I grew up in the apartheid era of my country. I was born into it. Very brutal, a very, very vicious regime … As a child, I looked around and saw the evil being perpetrated in my country and it was a horrifying realization. I made up my mind that I wanted to understand the unexplainable — racism. Actually any of the –isms; none of them seem to have any rationale to them. But I was very lucky: When I was 15, I met a group of actors who were working with the renowned playwright Athol Fugard. I made plans to visit them secretly in the “black-only” townships around Port Elizabeth. Because of the danger from the government, I had to hide under blankets in the back seat of my friend’s car. It was a real awakening for me and the beginning of my work as an activist, using music to bring people together.

PGN: Were you parents progressive or conservative?

SK: They were progressive. It was a Jewish household so we grew up with stories of the Holocaust. Many of my parents’ friends were survivors and had the tattoos on their arms and every year we went to the Holocaust memorial services. My uncle actually worked with the African National Congress, the ANC, which was banned by the apartheid regime. My father helped him forge his papers to escape out of the country, stuff like that. They didn’t talk about it to us kids; everything was shrouded in secrecy because anyone perceived or caught working with the ANC could be subject to searches or put in detention. It was a fascist police state that we were living in. Kind of like what it feels

we’re headed towards now. It’s very upsetting. Seeing the kind of racism that’s been given a green light is very disturbing. I grew up with it so I can see the signs, so ominous.

PGN: How old were you when apartheid ended? Were you living there?

SK: When Mandela was released I was overseas, but I quickly made my way home. I went back in 1992 with my wife Marilyn.

We wanted to roll up our sleeves and help Mandela with the national building that was needed after apartheid was dismantled.

PGN: What was the project?

SK: It was an attempt to unite people through music. We formed a 500-voice children’s choir in Durbin, which is the largest port in Africa. We worked with communities and schools with black children and white children and colored, which is what they called biracial people under apartheid. The concert was so successful that we got offers to take “When Voices Meet” across the country. We hired a train to take 120 members of the group as well as guest performers like Ladysmith Black Mambazo all over the country. At each stop along the route, we performed the concert and encouraged people of all races, cultures, ages and political affiliations to put down their guns and hostilities and to prepare for the country’s transition to democracy. It was dubbed “The Peace Train.”

PGN: It must have been strange being from a Jewish family, to live in a place that discriminated by race.

SK: It was. My parents weren’t especially religious but they were very involved with the Jewish community. My grandfather, in the second World War, was part of a Jewish legion in Port Elizabeth and they would be attacked by Nazi sympathizers, called the brown shirts. So my parents built a Jewish school because they wanted to protect us from what they’d experienced and they didn’t want us to be taught in South African public schools, which were controlled by the Dutch Reform Church. They were the backbone behind apartheid and, as a result, racism was a part of the school lessons. I was very privileged to be able to avoid that and I’m glad that I was able to use the education that I received and to have music, which was my passport. It allowed me to travel to outlying areas and make friends with people from all different communities, to know black people who helped me understand my country: people like John Kani, who is the first person I used to visit in the townships when he was working with Athol Fugard. He’s a Tony Award-winning actor now; in fact, he’s in the new “Captain America” movie. He’s in the documentary about The Peace Train.

PGN: I have a bit of a South-African connection. My father was close friends with the actor Canada Lee, who starred along with

Sidney Poitier in the movie “Cry the Beloved Country” about South Africa and apartheid.

He was going to go with him for the filming, but unfortunately the government balked because my father was light-skinned and Lee was dark. They didn’t allow a “colored” man to work for a black man.

SK: Then you know how ridiculous it was, laws that separated people, families. We have an adopted son in South Africa; his mother was black, his father white. His father was put into prison because it was illegal to have a romantic relationship across the color lines.

Children would be taken away from their families and sent to live in a different part of the country. Just horrific.

PGN: During the civil-rights movement in the United States, white people who were allies were abused and harassed just as much as black activists. Did you experience that?

SK: Oh yeah, definitely. Though in the early years I kept it secret because I didn’t want my parents to find out and stop me. But in later years, oh yes, from all sides. I was told I

was working for Satan. The white communities were very threatened by the change that was coming and they saw me as a catalyst for that change. So I’ve always had to be very strong, and let’s not forget about homophobia; that comes from all sides.

PGN: When did you first come out?

SK: I think I was just into my 20s. There was a lesbian community of great women in South Africa. For me, it just was right and they gave me the kind of support that I

needed. But it was very undercover, very different from the norm.

PGN: How did you find them?

SK: I was a free spirit and a musician so I was always on the move, just like I am today.

I came into contact with women who were living on the land in communes, which was very popular both in South Africa and the states. I met someone and was like, “Oh cool! This is me.”

PGN: What was the most precarious situation you have experienced as an activist?

SK: [Laughs] Wow. You’re spanning a lot of years now. In the early days, I’d invite John Kani and Winston Ntshona to my house when my parents weren’t home and served them tea. It may not sound very revolutionary now, but we would have all been arrested.

It was illegal what we were doing but it was important to me. One of the stipulations of apartheid was that you couldn’t serve a beverage to a black person in your home. It was the law of the land and I wanted to break every law I could. They were brave for doing it with me, but it was a start to the movement. Getting together was also a way for them to educate us and to teach us to be a voice for them in the movement. How absurd it all was, I don’t know why I’m even talking about it.

PGN: I think it’s important to remind people, especially now, how insane things can get very quickly.

SK: It’s true, that laws like that can actually be made and regular people have to put themselves in jeopardy just to … think about all the people who are fearful of being deported right now. They’re going to have to hide and people will have to step up and be willing to hide them.

As LGBT people, we have to worry now about whether or not our marriages will be annulled. That’s what fascism does; it outlaws normal acts. Maybe that’s why I brought it up, because serving tea to friends should have been a normal thing. Instead it was an illegal act. During The Peace Train, we faced many things. The civil war was raging and up to 25 people a day were being killed in black townships right while we were working. It was so malevolent. The white police officers would paint their faces black and go into the townships and murder people so it looked like black-on-black crime. It would get reported by news sources as black violence and people PAGE 32

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Heart Harbor recently released a new single written in honor of those affected by this summer’s shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Fla. Heart Harbor vocalist and songwriter Kerry Hallett said she wrote “A Million Years,” featuring performances by Erin McKeown, Jesse Moore and Julia Rainer, as a way to process and sift through the myriad feelings the queer-identified community was experiencing after the shooting that claimed 49 lives at the LGBT club.

“When I was reading all the news that was coming in as it was happening, I sort of imagined myself in that situation because it felt so close to home that it could have been in any gay club,” Hallett said. “And because I’m married, I imme-

diately thought of the impact that such a thing would have on me and my partner.

So I tried to imagine that from the viewpoint of someone that was involved and how that was affecting them and their relationship.”

The effort also has a fundraising component, with sales benefitting GALAEI: A Queer Latino Social Justice Organization, whose work Hallett said she learned about during the vigil for Pulse victims at Philadelphia City Hall in July.

“We are donating all the proceeds from the sale of the single to the local organization that fights for queen and Latinx social justice,” Hallett said.

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Streets of Philadelphia to serve as backdrop for new gay film

By Gary M. Kramer PGN Contributor Philadelphia is the setting for out writer/ director Doug Spearman’s forthcoming romance, “From Zero to I Love You.” The film depicts the relationship that develops between Jack Dickinson (Scott Bailey), a married-with-kids publishing executive

in Haverford, and Peter Logdsdon (Darryl Stephens), a gay advertising copywriter who lives in the city.

The filmmaker, who is based in Los Angeles, has completed 75 percent of the film, but he needs funding to shoot Philadelphia-area exteriors, commuter trains and even the narrow windows and doors of rooms, because — despite movie magic — the proportions of Philadelphia townhouses can’t be faked in Hollywood.

“I want as much authenticity as possible,” Spearman said via Skype from California, noting he hopes to bring the actors back east in December to finish shooting. “When you walk down the Philly streets, it informs their characters.”

He explained that he originally hoped to make “From Zero to I Love You” in Boston, as the film was based on his life in that city.

However, he said the local film office was very “anti-low-budget indie film. They told me to go to Lowell, Ma., to shoot.”

Two weeks later, he was attending QFlix with his directorial debut, “Hot Guys with Guns,” and was smitten with the City of Brotherly Love.

“I saw how amazing and charming the city was. I love the area by Penn’s Landing, and I think Philly is more photogenic and more ‘old East Coast’ than Boston. There’s more to shoot here.”

After a meeting with Sharon Pinkenson in the Philadelphia Film Office, Spearman began work preparing to shoot. He did some research, included local angles — such as having the lead characters be Temple and Penn alums — and scouted locations around Independence Hall.

“The Philadelphia backdrop adds value,” Spearman acknowledged. “It becomes a character. It’s a quintessential American city, and it made sense to shoot here. Jack is a descendant of John Dickinson, who is one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Another character, Tracey Thayer, is named after Tracey from ‘The

Philadelphia Story,’ and John Borland Thayer, who was the second vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.”

“From Zero to I Love You” is a change of pace for Spearman after the warmly received comic mystery, “Hot Guys with Guns.” The filmmaker took what he learned from directing his last film and used it as he focused on creating a romance that harkens back to those classic late 1950s/early 1960s love stories, albeit with a queer twist. He explained how he approached this new film.

“I wanted to try a different genre. The costumes and the lighting to the smoothness of the camera movements — I love those things — and I had to learn how to be more restrained as a filmmaker to capture them with the right tone and feel.”

He continued, “Shooting in Philly, I had to learn how to see things cinematically.

Because it is a city, there are lots of wide shots. I took more creative chances with this film because of what I learned making ‘Hot Guys with Guns.’ I learned to open up after my first movie. I was more relaxed.

Shooting it, you appreciate the place.”

As such, scenes of lovers walking down cobblestone streets, or characters meeting in Love Park, or outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art provide nice Philadelphia flavor.

Still, one of the issues in making “From Zero to I Love You” is getting the funds to complete it. Spearman observes that one of the most difficult things about making an independent gay movie is “overcoming people’s mind set about how hard it is. Or that audiences have changed because of streaming. If you make a good film, people will want to see it and it will get distributed.”

A seven-minute clip from the production is available on YouTube [https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=81IstsESfPs] and Spearman said, based on initial response, there clearly is an audience for a film like this — and it is not just gay men. Spearman believes women whose husbands are gay are going to look at this film for identification, answers and representation.

Right now, the filmmaker would like Philadelphians to support his efforts.

“I would love to find investors in Philly.

The one I had moved to L.A. We have a crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe. com/fromzerotoIloveyou. It’s important to me to come back to Philly, and not finish this in Los Angeles. There’s more color and depth I can add by walking down the streets of Philadelphia. I want this to be a film Philly can be proud of. We’re shooting this to show the city off.

“People need to understand how hard it is to make and distribute a gay film. If an audience doesn’t participate up front, films don’t get made. It’s too hard to talk to mainstream production companies. We have to come together as audiences and artists.

These are our stories. It’s our art.” n

Theater & Arts An American in Paris The new Tony Award-winning musical about an American soldier and a mysterious French girl, each yearning for a new beginning in the aftermath of war, through Nov. 27 at Kimmel’s Academy of Music, 250 S. Broad St.; 215-7905800.

Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies, I through VII Philadelphia Museum of Art presents the premiere of a new work by Bruce Nauman that continues the artist’s exploration of video, sound and performance through Jan. 8, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-7638100.

Classical Splendor: Painted Furniture for a Grand Philadelphia House Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of furniture designed in 1808 by Benjamin Henry Latrobe through Jan. 1, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100.

A Christmas Story Media Theatre presents a stage play based on the beloved holiday film through Jan. 8, 104 E. State St., Media; 610-8910100.

Found Philadelphia Theatre Company presents the new musical about

a man obsessed with collecting the hundreds of irreverent, hilarious and weird notes that surround us every day, everywhere through Dec. 11 at Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St.; 215-985-0420.

Live and Life Will Give You Pictures: Masterworks of French Photography, 1890-1950 The Barnes Foundation presents vintage prints of nearly 200 classic images by French photographers and photographers working extensively in France through Jan. 9 at the Roberts Gallery, 2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway; 215-2787000.

Look Again: Contemporary Perspectives on African Art Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition drawing from the Penn Museum’s esteemed African collections through Dec. 4, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100.

Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910-50 Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of Mexican masterpieces by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo and many others through Jan. 8, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215763-8100.

SOMEONE’S IN THE BASEMENT WITH BARBRA: Bucks County Playhouse closes its season with “Buyer & Cellar,” the outrageous comedy starring Nick Cearley as a struggling Los Angeles actor who finds himself working in Barbra Streisand’s basement, eventually meeting Babs herself in the process when she comes downstairs to play, through Nov. 26, 70 S. Main St., New Hope. For more information or tickets, call 215-862-2121.

The Rape of Lucretia The Prince Theatre presents Benjamin Britten’s powerful tragedy set in ancient Rome through Nov. 20, 1412 Chestnut St.; 215-422-4580.

The Wizard of Oz Walnut Street Theatre has a yellow-brick road running through it until Jan. 8, 825 Walnut St.; 215574-3550.

Music An Evening with Peter Hook The former member of New Order and Joy Division performs classic songs from both bands 8 p.m.

Nov. 25 at the Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; 215922-6888.

Bret Michaels The rock singer performs 8:30 p.m. Nov. 25 at the Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St.; 215-627-1332.

The Sounds The rock band with an out singer performs 8:30 p.m. Nov. 25 at Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St.; 215568-1616.

Dinosaur Jr. The grunge-rock band performs 8:30 p.m. Nov. 26 at Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St.; 215232-2100.

PGMC All Wrapped Up Concert Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus performs a holiday concert Dec. 1-3 at Prince Theater, 1412 Chestnut St.; www.pgmc.org.

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basement through Nov. 26, 70 S. Main St., New Hope; 215-8622121.

Moonlight The acclaimed drama with gay characters is screened through Dec. 1 at the Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-1228.

PUMP THE ‘BREAKS’: Jazz-influenced Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Norah Jones is coming through town on the heels of the release of her latest album “Day Breaks,” performing 8 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St. For more information or tickets, call 215-893-1999.

Animals as Leaders The prog-rock band performs 8 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; 215922-6888.

Norah Jones The Grammywinning singersongwriter performs 8 p.m.

Dec. 2 at the Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St.; 215-893-1999.

Giraffe Tongue Orchestra The rock band featuring members of Alice in Chains and Mastodon performs 8:30 p.m.

Dec. 2 at Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St.; 215-568-1616.

Nightlife Tits for Tots: A Naughty Stocking Soiree HoneyTree Evil Eye, Tiel, Asha Rabbit, Tootsie Von Cuspid and

Aerial Gypsy Burlesque perform 8 p.m.

Nov. 26 at L’Etage, 624 S. Sixth St.; 215592-0656.

Bev’s Bitchfest Third Anniversary Show The monthly drag show turns up 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Nov. 26 at Tabu, 200 S. 12th St.; 215-9649675.

Queer Performances of Color The new performance showcase makes its debut 10:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. at CiBo Ristorante Italiano, 1227 Walnut St.; 215923-8208.

Spartans’ Meet and Greet Come meet the current members of the Spartans Club for a fun afternoon 3-6 p.m. at U Bar, 1220 Locust St.; 215-546-6660.

Molly Pope Meets Martha Graham Cracker The two performers join forces for one night 8-11 p.m.

Nov. 28 at Chris’ Jazz Café, 1421 Sansom St.; 215568-3131.

Outta Town Buyer & Cellar Bucks County Playhouse presents the outrageous comedy about the price of fame starring Nick Cearley as a struggling Los Angeles actor who finds himself working in Barbra Streisand’s

Almost Queen The Queen tribute band performs 8 p.m. Nov. 25 at Sellersville Theater 1894, 24 W. Temple Ave., Sellersville; 215257-5808.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail The classic comedy film is screened Nov. 25-27 at the Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-1228.

Gremlins The holiday action/adventure film is screened 2 p.m. Nov. 26 at the Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-1228.

Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience The Led Zeppelin tribute band performs 9 p.m.

Nov. 26 at the Borgata Music Box, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-3171000. n

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‘Gender Outlaw’ author talks evolution of labels in revised work

By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com Renowned author, playwright, gender theorist and performance artist Kate Bornstein is coming to Philadelphia for a book signing and discussion on the updated edition of her landmark work, “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us.” Bornstein, who was assigned male at birth, underwent gender-confirmation surgery in 1986 to become a woman. And while she said she loved her transformation, she came to realize she identified neither as male nor female.

So she began to wonder if the gender binary is restricting not only to trans people, but to anyone who has ever felt like less than the “perfect” man or woman.

To that end, she wrote the first book of gender theory by a trans person. “Gender Outlaw” was ahead of its time when it was published in 1994, and blended her own stories and experiences with an investigation into notions of gender.

We asked Bornstein if she could have envisioned the leaps forward and backward that society has made in its perception and treatment of the trans community in the last 20 years.

“Of course not,” Bornstein said. “But to pull it apart, where it has leapt forward and where it hasn’t leapt forward and where it’s all about to fall apart, when I wrote about transgender, I was writing about outlaws. I wasn’t writing about men who wanted to be women and women who wanted to be men; that was transsexual. Language changed.

Identities have changed. Respectability has changed. And nowadays, according to Time Magazine, who said transgender has reached a tipping point, transgender to some people has become an umbrella term. Everybody is fucking around with gender. Transgender is most commonly thought as what used to be called transsexuality. The big leap forward transgender, in that sense, has made is they understand that genitalia has nothing to do with it. That’s a huge fucking leap forward.

But in that leap forward, the transgender movement, using it as a binary identity — which is not bad, it just is — has left behind once again the non-binary trans people.”

Bornstein said the revised edition of “Gender Outlaw” updated the language and terms used to reflect the broadening spectrum of gender and sexuality that has occurred over the last two decades.

“Trans is now the umbrella term and we have non-binary and genderqueer and drag kings and drag queens and street fairies and cross-dressers and transvestites, who all fall under the transgender

umbrella,” she said. “Transgender is what is part of LGBT: men and women who have transitioned into another gender. For everybody else under the trans umbrella, the T is not present. The T is silent because everybody else who falls under that trans umbrella falls under the Q for queer. And that presents something really interesting that I never would have thought of when I wrote ‘Gender Outlaw.’”

Bornstein added that there was a time when all identities in our modern LGBTQ community fell under the umbrella of “gay.”

“Frist off, there was barely lesbian and gay,” she said about the era before “Gender Outlaw” was released. “It was all gay politics. Lesbian and gay took years to come about and they fought like cats and dogs. And they fought worse when bisexuals wanted a letter. Then it took well over a decade for T to enter the equation. The interesting thing to me is that LGBT had to add the Q and once it added the Q, it admitted that there was Q on one side and LGBT on the other. So LGBT has in fact become the conservative voice of sexuality and gender. It has in fact become straight. I’m not saying that’s bad. My gender expression is completely straight. I walk through the world like a little old lady. There’s nothing genderqueer about me. I’m straight. I embrace it. I love it. It gives me great joy.” n Kate Bornstein hosts a discussion and signing of “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us” 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 1 at Central Library, 1901 Vine St. For more information, call 215-567-4341 or visit www.katebornstein.com.

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SuGa brings Susanna Foo’s culinary magic back to Philly

By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com Culinary pioneer Susanna Foo helped bring gourmet Chinese food to America and is once again making her mark in Philadelphia with her son, Gabriel, and their latest restaurant, SuGa by Foo, 1720 Sansom St. Foo originally made her mark on the Philadelphia culinary scene with her popular eponymous Walnut Street restaurant. But after running it for 22 years, she needed a break from the business and closed in 2009. Now Foo is back, and from the looks of things, she hasn’t missed a step.

The interior of SuGa by Foo is modern, mysterious and a bit stunning. It’s easy to see why this restaurant easily converts into a nightspot with a dance floor on the weekends.

The menu is another pleasant surprise, offering various Chinese traditions with some global twists to keep things interesting.

If you want to start off your meal with something familiar yet adventurous, order the dumpling sampler for two ($22), which serves up an array of the popular appetizer in varieties like vegetable, pork, lamb and shrimp. The stylistic standouts among the pack are the chicken curry dumpling, which has a heartier feel akin to a small empanada,

and the wild-mushroom dumpling, which has the most distinctive and least traditional — but still very interesting — flavor profile on the menu.

Other influences start to pop up on SuGA’s small-plates menu, if only in a departure of look and feel. The yellowfin tuna taco ($10) features the best sushi-grade tuna in the city, piled high in a crispy wonton taco shell with avocado, jalapeño and a chili soy glaze. The effect is a crispy, cool, spicy, silky playground of taste and texture that is so enjoyable, you’ll wish you had ordered a half-dozen of them. The goat-cheese wonton ($15), which we were told was from the Mongolian side of the Chinese culinary spectrum, was a clear standout. We can see why it has become a house favorite.

We then plunged into some of SuGa’s spicier dishes.

The Szechwan chili prawns were massive and wellcooked with a glaze on the sweet side of the spice

game, but altogether pleasant, served on a bed of red rice and bok choy. The buckwheat Dan Dan noodles ($13) were a bit more assertive, with saki-poached calamari and a Dashi broth adding a delightful, well-rounded kick to the hearty earthiness of the noodles.

The food at SuGa by Foo more than lives up to the reputation of the critically acclaimed, award-winning chef and innovator for which it is named. n

If you go SuGa by Foo 1720 Sansom St. 215-717-8969 http://www.sugabyfoo.com Mon.-Thurs.: 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

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Guide to the Gayborhood

The Philadelphia Gayborhood is roughly centered at 12th and Camac streets. Look for the rainbow street signs at intersections and remember to be aware of your surroundings wherever you go.

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200 S. 12th St. 215.964.9675 tabuphilly.com Sports bar / drag shows and bar food

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255 S. Camac St. 215.545.8731 Piano lounge with upstairs dance floor; Tavern restaurant below is open late.

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would respond, “Look at this, Mandela may be out of jail, but they obviously can’t control themselves. How can they control a country? If he gets elected, it will be total chaos!” That’s how the white regime tried to keep him from gaining power. There were many a day when we were being told by our colleagues in the black townships, “You’d better not come today. Lay low and we’ll see what tomorrow brings.”

PGN: Wow. Let’s lighten the mood with some of the happier things you’ve accomplished.

SK: I’d love to talk about the tour we did this past July. Marilyn and I decided to work with a person we’ve known here in Philadelphia for a decade, Wendy Quick. She’s a former Philadelphia police officer who left the police force because she wanted to practice peace in the communities. When we met, three of us automatically clicked so we designed a project where we pulled together 100 children, youth and families from all different walks of life and backgrounds, from Hawaii to Kansas to New York, similar to The Peace Train. We rehearsed and brought them together for a massive show at the Ethical Society in New York and then we lived together for two weeks on the road, performing concerts all over the place. At the release party for the documentary, we’ll also be releasing a concert video of the tour called “Putting The United Back in the USA.” We wanted to show that it can happen, that we can overcome the palpable division in the country right now. We wanted to do something to counteract the rise of this horrible person who is now our president-elect. We also joined with the LGBTQ community and brought a lot of issues up and the kids were so open to everything. That’s what’s great about the next generation: They are willing to talk.

When I get back, I want to start doing more work with youth, especially now.

PGN: Yes, that’s one of the reasons I was glad to speak to you this week. We have one side feeling empowered to let their anger and racism fly free and the other who is angry and scared as a result. But we’re going to have to find a way to come together eventually.

SK: Yes, people get pitted against each other, which is what we had during apartheid. The problem in this country is that people don’t know each other; they don’t mix and mingle.

There’s an “us and them” disconnect. In the cities, we manage to get along for the most part, but elsewhere it’s so segregated.

PGN: Tell me about your Grammy nomination.

SK: I was nominated for Best World Music Album for the first album we released in America. It was called “Imbizo.” It’s exciting, we’re on the ballot right now for the soundtrack for the documentary. It’s a great feeling to know that the thing you’ve worked on so hard is getting recognized. The music on this CD is very apropos to what’s going on right now; it’s a hopeful story about the power of music to unite people. When you’re playing music or singing, all barriers get dropped and there’s a sense of belonging that just happens. It’s magical. Time and time again, we see projects like The Peace Train and others like it that are able to bridge racial and cultural divides. I’ve seen

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it all over the world: Israel, Africa, America. It doesn’t solve the problem but it brings people together and gets them talking.

PGN: I’d love to know how you got to know Pete Seeger and Miriam Makeba.

SK: I met Pete when we were performing at the Hudson Clear Water Revival Festival. He was raising money to clean up the Hudson River, which he did. He fell in love with The Peace Train because of our message and the South-African music and every time we’d perform he’d make his way over to us. He invited me to visit him at his home and helped us raise money to build a school in South Africa. He was a wonderful ally; he performed at concerts with us and I’d have hours-long conversations with him. He was such a wealth of experience and knowledge. Miriam was another character who I was very lucky to meet. When she returned home after exile, I’d been working with her mentor who became a close friend, and I did a tour with Abigail Kubeka, who was in Miriam’s group Skylark. I got to sing with Miriam at a party at her house and it was a beautiful experience.

PGN: If you were to perform in the circus, what would you want to do?

SK: I would love to be one of those swinging-trapeze artists. Marilyn and I actually got married at the Circus Arts School in Mt. Airy.

We had some of the trapeze artists swinging and pouring champagne, it was so cool! We had my South-African friends and a Jewish Moroccan rabbi, it was just crazy and fun. But I also loved seeing the horses in the circus as a kid. I’ve had the opportunity to ride and I loved it, so I may choose that. I sometimes feel like I do belong in a circus; I love a big show.

PGN: A memorable experience on stage?

SK: Oh dear, I should let Marilyn tell this one.

M: Well, when Sharon decided to do a concert with 500 people on stage, it was during the midst of a civil war. She rented the largest venue in Durbin, which seated about 1,800 people. Everybody told her that no one would come and an hour before the show we were worried that the 500 kids and 10-piece band were going to be performing to an empty room.

But then people started coming and the streets surrounding the venue started filling up with people and we ended up with so many people who wanted to see the performance that they were threatening to break down the doors if they couldn’t get in, so we had to negotiate with the fire marshal to make it work. And some of the performers, kids, had never been in a building with electricity, so when the lights came on a few of them got really frightened.

It was an amazing experience to take on the South-African government and the fire marshal to do the right thing.

PGN: It sounds like you’ve moved a lot of people to do the right thing. n The DVD-release party for “When Voices Meet” takes place 7 p.m. Dec. 2 at 7165 Germantown Ave. For more information, visit https://www. facebook.com/WhenVoicesMeet/. For more information on Sharon Katz and The Peace Train, visit www.sharonkatz.com.

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38. Word after post or ad 39. Matthew of “Brothers & Sisters” 40. With 56-Across, source of the definition 42. Rob of “Brothers & Sisters” 43. A as in Austria 44. River in the land of Colette 45. Bette Davis feature of song 46. “___ Let the Sun Go Down on Me” 48. Give a cocky look to 50. Root word 52. Not necessarily brothers & sisters 56. See 40-Across 62. Zellweger of “Chicago” 63. Vehicle for cruising 65. Chaplin spouse 66. Belief summary for Troy Perry 67. Part played by Nabors 68. Body of soldiers 69. Like soap

operas 70. Room for Marga Gomez 71. Cash register section Down 1. Joltin’ Joe 2. Battery pole 3. Cushion under your bottom 4. Niles and Frasier 5. Leather sticker 6.

“M*A*S*H” vehicle 7. Composer Thomas 8. What “let” means to Mauresmo 9. Vidal’s “Visit to a ___ Planet” 10. Like Abe 11. From the top 12.

Colorado neighbor 13. Peter by the piano 19. Sites for three women in a tub 21. To boot 24. Twist an arm 27. Falcon grabber 28. Porn director

Francis 29.

Witherspoon of “Cruel Intentions” 31. “Hi, sailor!”

32. Wade’s legal antagonist 33. Deck foursome 34. Rep in the ‘hood 35. Birth state of Langston Hughes 36. “Just As I Am” novelist E. ___ Harris 41. Big name in soft balls 42. Cry from the closet 47. Tire patterns 48. “A Boy Named Sue” writer Silverstein

49. Rhine tributary 51. Piss off 53. Combined 54. Pinko’s hero 55. “Sailing to Byzantium” poet 56. “Before Stonewall” and others 57. Drag queen’s stocking shade 58. Went right with your stallion 59. Splits open 60. “Lord of the Rings” singer 61. Bear market order 64.

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Activism/Politics

ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) meets 6-9 p.m. Mondays at St. Luke and The Epiphany Church, 330 S. 13th St.; 215-386-1981, www.actupphilly.org.

Delaware Valley Chapter, Americans United for Separation of Church and State seeks activists and supporters of church-state separation. Holds monthly meetings and events; www.dvau.org.

Equality Pennsylvania holds a volunteer night 5:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month, 1211 Chestnut St., Suite 605; 215-731-1447, www.equalitypa.org.

Green Party of Philadelphia holds general meetings 7 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month, except August and December; 215-243-7103, www.gpop.org.

Liberty City LGBT Democratic Club meets seasonally; www.libertycity.org.

Arts

Library Book Club meets to discuss a new book 7 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month at William Way. Men On Tap, an LGBT group that performs with choirs, organizations and at the Fringe Festival, rehearses 8 p.m.

Mondays at The Bike Stop, 206 S. Quince St.; dale@ magicalfantasies.com.

Philadelphia Freedom Band, an audition-free LGBT band that does concerts and parades, rehearses 7-9:30 p.m.

Mondays; philadelphiafreedomband.com.

Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus rehearses 7-10 p.m.

Wednesdays; 215-731-9230, auditions@pgmc.org.

Philadelphia Voices of Pride, Philadelphia’s first mixed LGBT chorus, rehearses 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays at William Way; www.pvop.org.

Queer Writer’s Collective workshop and discussion group meets 3-5 p.m. the fourth Saturday of the month at William Way. Reading Queerly, open to all women and genderqueer/ trans people, meets 6:45 p.m. the first Thursday of the month at Giovanni’s Room, 345 S. 12th St.

Recreation

Gay Bridge Club non-beginners group meets Monday 2-5 p.m. at William Way; reservations required. Call 215732-2220.

Gay-friendly Scrabble Club meets 5:30-10:30 p.m. at Abner’s Steaks, 38th and Chester streets; 215-382-0789.

Humboldt Society: Lesbian and Gay Naturalists meets 7:30 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at William Way; 215-985-1456, www.humboldtsociety.org.

Independence Squares LGBT square-dance club, modern Western square dancing hosts an open house and Tuesday classes in the fall at Lutheran Church, 2111 Sansom St.; philadances@gmail.com, www.independencesquares.org.

Male Oenophile Group forming to discuss, appreciate and taste various wines. Will meet once a month to investigate the nuances and glories of the fermented grape; 267-2306750.

Mornings OUT LGBT Senior Social activities for senior gay men are held 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Tuesdays at William Way. PhilaVentures, Philadelphia’s LGBT outdoor group, meets for hikes in Wissahickon Valley and Valley Forge Park; philaventures.org.

Sports

Brandywine Women’s Rugby Club meets for practice at p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at Greenfield Park, West Chester; www.brandywinerugby.org.

City of Brotherly Love Softball League serves the Philadelphia metropolitan area with games on Sundays, beginning in April, at the Dairy and Edgeley Fields in Fairmount Park; www.cblsl.org.

Frontrunners running club meets 9:30 a.m. Saturdays for a run and brunch at Lloyd Hall, No. 1 Boathouse Row; www.philadelphiafrontrunners.org.

Philadelphia Falcons Soccer Club, open to LGBT and allies, practices 8-10 p.m. Mondays and 2-4 p.m.

Saturdays; www.falcons-soccer.org.

Philadelphia Fins Swim Team, open to male and female swimmers, meets 7 p.m. Monday-Thursday at Friends Select School and 10:30 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays; www.philadelphia-fins.org.

Philadelphia Gay Bowling League meets 8 p.m.

Wednesdays September-April at South Bowl, 19 E. Oregon Ave.; 856-889-1434, philagaybowling@yahoo.com.

Greater Philadelphia Flag Football League plays 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays at FDR Park; www.phillyflagfootball.com Philadelphia Gryphons Rugby Football Club, open to players of all skill levels, meets 7:45 p.m. Thursdays at Columbus Square Park, 1200 Wharton St.; 215-913-7531, philadelphiagryphons.org, becomeagryphon@gmail.com.

Philadelphia Liberty Belles women’s semi-pro full-tackle football league holds fall tryouts; phillybelles.com.

Philadelphia Liberty Tennis Association plays yearround, all skill levels welcome; philadelphialibertytennis. com.

Philadelphia Firebirds women’s football team seeks players; www.philadelphiafirebirds.com.

Philadelphia Women’s Baseball League seeks players, all skill levels and ages. Practice is 7 p.m. Thursdays at Marian Anderson Recreation Center, 17th and Fitzwater streets, with games at 2:30 p.m. Sundays; 215-991-5995 (day), 301-919-1194 (evening), phillywomensbaseball. com.

Philly Gay Hockey Association Philadelphia Phury seeks players; 917-656-1936, phury@gayhockey.org.

Philly QCycle LGBT bicycling club promotes organized recreational riding for all levels in the Greater Philadelphia region; contact the organization via Facebook.

Rainbow Riders of the Delaware Valley motorcycle club meets regularly; 215-836-0440, www.groups.yahoo.com/ group/rainbowridersdv/.

Rainbow Rollers gay and lesbian bowling league meets 7:45 p.m. Tuesdays at Boulevard Lanes in Northeast Philadelphia; rainbowrollers.com.

Spartan Wrestling Club gay wrestling team meets 6:30-9 p.m. Mondays at the First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St.; 215-732-4545, www.phillyspartans.com.

Etc.

AIDS Law Project provides free legal assistance to people with HIV/AIDS and sponsors free monthly seminars on work and housing at 1211 Chestnut St., Suite 600; 215587-9377, www.aidslawpa.org.

BiUnity, Philadelphia-area social and support network for bisexuals, their family members and friends; http://biunity. org.

Delaware Valley Pink Pistols, for LGBT people dedicated to legal, safe and responsible use of firearms for self-defense, meets 1 p.m. the third Sunday of the month at The Gun Range, 542 N. Percy St.; 610-879-2364; www.pinkpistolsdelval.org.

Delaware Pride holds planning meetings 7 p.m. the first Thursday of the month at the United Church of Christ, 300 Main St., Newark; 302-265-3020, delawarepride.org.

Haverford College’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance holds open meetings 10-11 p.m. Mondays during the school year in the lounge in Jones Basement at Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Ave.; 610-896-4938.

Men and Women for Human Excellence support group meets from noon-2 p.m. the first and third Saturdays of the month at 26th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue; 267-2733513, cmoore8300@yahoo.com.

Long Yang Club Philadelphia, social organization for gay Asians and their friends, holds monthly socials; www. longyangclub.org/philadelphia.

Our Night Out, a casual social networking party of LGBT professionals, friends and colleagues, meets in a different Philadelphia hot spot each month. To receive monthly event invitations, email OurNightOutPhilly@gmail.com; more information on Facebook.

Philadelphia Bar Association Legal Advice offered 5-8 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month; 215-238-6333.

Philadelphia Prime Timers club for mature gay and bisexual men and their admirers meets regularly; primetimersofphiladelphia@yahoo.com.

Philadelphians MC Club, for leather men and women, meets 7:30 p.m. the first and third Monday of the month at The Pit at The Bike Stop, 201 S. Quince St.; philadelphiansmc.org.

Rainbow Amateur Radio Association ARRL-affiliated, weekly HF nets, quarterly newsletter; www.rara.org.

Silver Foxes, a social and educational group for gays and lesbians 50 and older, meets 3-5 p.m. the fourth Sunday of the month at William Way; 215-732-2220.

SNJ Queers meets monthly for queer/queer-friendly folks in South Jersey to mix and mingle; 856-375-3708, wmf69@comast.net.

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Community Bulletin Board Community centers

■ The Attic Youth Center 255 S. 16th St.; 215-545-4331, atticyouthcenter.org. For LGBT and questioning youth and their friends and allies. Groups meet and activities are held 4-7 p.m. Monday-Tuesday and 4-8:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday. Case management, HIV testing and smoking cessation are available Monday-Friday.

■ Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center at the University of Pennsylvania 3907 Spruce St., 215-898-5044, center@dolphin. upenn.edu. Regular hours: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. MondayThursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday; noon-6 p.m. Saturday; noon-8 p.m. Sunday. Summer hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

■ ActionAIDS: 215-981-0088

■ Rainbow Room: Bucks County’s LGBTQ and Allies Youth Center Salem UCC Education Building, 181 E. Court St., Doylestown; 215-957-7981 ext.

9065, rainbowroom@ppbucks.org. Activities held 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays.

■ William Way Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center 1315 Spruce St.; 215-732-2220, www.waygay.org.

Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Friday, noon-5 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays Peer counseling: 6-9 p.m.

Monday-Friday Library: noon-9 p.m. Monday-Friday, noon-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday Volunteers: New Orientation, first Wednesday of the month at 7:30 p.m.

Key numbers

■ AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania: 215-587-9377

■ Equality Pennsylvania: 215731-1447; www.equalitypa.org

■ AIDS Law Project of Southern New Jersey: 856-933-9500 ext.

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■ Equality Forum: 215-732-3378

■ AIDS Library: 215-985-4851 ■ ACLU of Pennsylvania: 215592-1513 ■ AIDS Treatment Fact line: 800662-6080 ■ Barbara Gittings Gay and Lesbian Collection at the Independence Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library: 215-685-1633 n The COLOURS Organization Inc.: 215-496-0330

■ LGBT Peer Counseling Services: 215-732-TALK ■ Mazzoni Center: 215-563-0652; Legal Services: 215-563-0657, 866-LGBT-LAW; Family & Community Medicine: 215-563-0658 ■ Office of LGBT Affairs — Director Nellie Fitzpatrick: 215-6860330; helen.fitzpatrick@phila.gov

■ Philadelphia Police Department liaison — Deputy Commissioner Kevin Bethel: 215-6863318 ■ Philadelphia Police Liaison Committee: 215-760-3686 (Rick Lombardo); ppd.lgbt@gmail.com ■ Philly Pride Presents: 215875-9288 ■ SPARC — Statewide Pennsylvania Rights Coalition: 717-9209537 ■ Transgender Health Action Coalition: 215-732-1207 (staffed 3-6 p.m. Wednesdays and 6-9 p.m.

Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays)

■ Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Philadelphia): 215-572-1833 ■ Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations: 215-686-4670

Health

Anonymous, free, confidential HIV testing Spanish/English counselors offer testing 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday at Congreso de Latinos Unidos, 216 W. Somerset St.; 215-763-8870.

ActionAIDS Provides a range of programs for people affected by HIV/ AIDS, including case management, prevention, testing and education services at 1216 Arch St.; 215-981-0088, www. actionaids.org.

GALAEI: A Queer Latin@ Social Justice Organization Free, anonymous HIV testing from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday at 1207 Chestnut St., fifth floor; noon-6 p.m.

Tuesdays at the Washington West Project, 1201 Locust St.; 215-851-1822 or 866-222-3871, www.galaei.org.

Spanish/English HIV treatment Free HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment for Philadelphia residents are available from 9 a.m.-noon Mondays (walk-in) and 5-8 p.m. Thursdays (by appointment) at Health Center No. 2, 1720 S. Broad St.; 215685-1821.

HIV health insurance help Access to free medications and confidential HIV testing 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays at 13 S. MacDade Blvd., Suite

■ Gay and Lesbian Lawyers of Philadelphia Board meetings at 6:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at 100 S. Broad St., Suite 1810; free referral service at 215-6279090, www.galloplaw.org.

■ Independence Business Alliance Greater Philadelphia’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce, providing networking, business development, marketing, educational and advocacy opportunities for LGBT and LGBT-friendly busi-

108, Collingdale; Medical Office Building, 722 Church Lane, Yeadon; and 630 S. 60th St.; 610-586-9077.

Mazzoni Center LGBTQ counseling and behavioral health services, HIV/ AIDS care and services, case management and support groups; 21 S. 12th St., eighth floor; 215-563-0652, www. mazzonicenter.org.

Mazzoni Center Family & Community Medicine Comprehensive primary health care, preventive health services, gynecology, sexual-health services and chronic-disease management, including comprehensive HIV care, as well as youth drop-in (ages 14-24) 5-7p.m. Wednesdays; 809 Locust St.; 215-563-0658.

Philadelphia FIGHT Comprehensive AIDS service organization providing primary care, consumer education, advocacy and research on potential treatments and vaccines; 1233 Locust St.; 215985-4448; www.fight.org.

Washington West Project of Mazzoni Center Free, rapid HIV testing. Walk-ins welcome 9 a.m.-9 pm.

Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

Sunday; 1201 Locust St.; 215-985-9206.

Professional groups nesses and professionals; 215557-0190, www.IndependenceBusinessAlliance.com.

■ National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Philadelphia chapter of NLGJA, open to professionals and students, meets for social and networking events; www.nlgja.org/ philly; philly@nlgja.org.

■ Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus Regional organization dedicated to promoting LGBT tourism to the Greater Philadelphia region, meetings every other month on the fourth Thursday (January, March, May, July, September and the third Thursday in November), open to the public; 215-8402039, www.philadelphiagaytourism.com.

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