Philadelphia Public Record

Vol. XV No. 25

Issue 1012

June 20, 2019

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POOL PARTY!

Philadelphia City Councilman Bobby Henon kicked off the city’s public pool season by jumping – fully clothed, no less! – into the pool at the Bridesburg recreational Center. Among the other officials present – none of whom jumped in – were Mayor Jim Kenney and Parks and Rec Executive Director Kathryn Ott Lovell. Photo by Wendell Douglas.

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Parker Combats Predatory Lending

PUBLIC SERVANTS at WORK

Philadelphia City Councilmember Cherelle Parker took her longstanding battle against predatory lending practices – and against those who engage in them – to the national stage, thanks to a massive investigatory article in USA Today.

Parker, who has previously

pushed the Commonwealth to oppose payday lenders and their usurious lending policies, has been fighting against such tactics since she was a staff member of then-Councilwoman Marian Tasco, when she came out against the anticipation loan industry in the city.

In the USA Today article, Parker gives voice to her op-

position to the practice of reverse mortgages – a financial agreement in which a homeowner relinquishes equity in their home in exchange for regular payments, typically to supplement retirement income – which has frequently been used by unscrupulous lenders who have targeted lower-income, black neighborhoods and encouraged el-

derly homeowners to borrow money while glossing over the risks and requirements.

“Now that asset, that equity, is being drained out of some of the most vulnerable communities in America,” Parker said of the homes many older Philadelphians are at risk of losing. “We’ve asked: Why was Philadelphia so targeted to get this loan product? ... America should pay attention.”

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Casey Holds Hearing on Drug Prices

U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), the Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, held a hearing yesterday entitled, “The Complex Web of Prescription Drug Prices, Part III: Examining Agency Efforts to Further Competition and Increase Affordability.” This is the third hearing in a three-part series to highlight the difficulty older Americans face in affording prescription medications and efforts to reduce the cost of prescription drugs.

During the hearing, Sen. Casey discussed the importance of protecting the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid against sabotage attempts, allowing Medicare to directly negotiate drug prices and shining a light on the cost of prescription drugs through interactive tools.

Hearing witnesses included officials from the Trump Administration who testified about drug pricing initiatives at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General.

Older Americans struggle to pay for prescription drugs. There are more than 59 million seniors and people with disabilities with Medicare – and half of them live on low, fixed incomes of less than $26,200 per year.

Prescription drugs represent $1 of every $5 spent on health care among people with Medicare.

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DANIEL GRACE VICE-PRESIDENT PATRICK CONNORS RECORDING-SECRETARY JOCK ROWE TRUSTEE Rocky Bryan TRUSTEE MICHAEL BONADUCE TRUSTEE

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2019 SALUTE TO LABOR: KEN WASHINGTON

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Ken Washington For recognition by the Public Record As an Organizer/Activist, in addition to all of the contributions you make to the Community!!

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From Resident of Public & Assisted Housing & Resident Advisory Board Asia Coney, President

en Washington has been a political activist for 40 years, but his labor roots go back even further.

Washington’s father was the business manager of Laborers’ Local 332. On his retirement, he passed the baton to the legendary Sam Staten, Sr. Washington grew up breathing the air of union organization.

But the building trades come with “on” and “off” times. During an off time, Washington ran the campaign of a friend, Andrew Carn, for State representative in the 1970s. “We were the independent guys running,” Washington recalls.

He wound up as Carn’s legislative assistant, research analyst and chief of staff.

He fell into the art of North Philadelphia street politics: knocking on doors, handing out literature, the

whole nine yards. Washington fell under the tutelage of Robert N.C. Nix, Jr. and became close to John Street.

An effective union lobbyist learns how to work both sides of the aisle. Washington was hired as an analyst at the Philadelphia Parking Authority under Vince Fenerty, where he worked to implement the first booting program.

He then became special assistant to Congressman Tom Foglietta, who was later appointed ambassador to Italy. He worked in that capacity for Congressman Bob Brady and then for Bob Casey, who was Pennsylvania auditor general at that time. While at the Auditor General’s Office, Washington served as shop steward for AFSCME Council 13.

In 2004, Washington went to the Laborers’ Local 332 Christmas party. “Sam,

Sr. told me to come home,” he said. Washington became the union’s director of government relations. He put his talents to work by organizing the first Laborers’ District Council PAC, which developed into a powerful political instrument that exerts wide influence throughout the five-county Southeastern Pennsylvania area.

Washington’s vast political savvy soon made him an indispensable go-to man for the wider labor world.

In 2013, Washington became recording secretary for the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO – the first minority officer in its history. He is immediate past president of the National Labor Round Table, which is connected to the National Caucus of Black State Legislators.

Diligent political party work is a necessary part of Washington’s career. He

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has been both a City and State committeeman.

“In my work with elected officials, I have learned how to analyze problems, how to deal with them and how to explain labor issues to them,” Washington says.

Union organizing and political organizing cannot be viewed in isolation, Washington insists; both must apply to the greater world around them. “Labor (Cont. Page 30)

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orty-four years in the same union tells the story of Dan Grace’s life – as well as the story of all the members he has served in it.

Grace was born a Teamster. Both his grandfathers were Teamsters, as were his father and uncles. He can look back at a century of family history in the trade.

“Whether on a picket line or at a protest or volunteering community service, they always pitched in,” he recounts.

Grace was initiated into Teamsters Local 830 in 1975. He began his career as a production worker at Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. in 1976 before he graduated from Archbishop Ryan High School in 1977. Grace studied automotive and diesel technology at Lincoln Technical Institute.

By 1979, he had made transport driver at Pepsi.

The next year he was elected shop steward.

In 1995, he started his labor career as a business agent and organizer for Local 830. His ascent within the organization was swift, being promoted to recording secretary in 1997 and then to president in 1998.

In 2001, Grace was elected to the position of secretary-treasurer/business manager and principal officer of Local 830, which represents over 3,800 active members.

“The industry was booming at that time,” Grace recalls. “Soda was booming and provided good, family-sustaining jobs.”

Still, union work wasn’t easy. There were always political challenges. And Grace takes pride in reor-

Daniel Grace, Teamsters Local 830

ganizational efforts at Local 830: “There was a lot of righting the ship, straightening out all the things that were wrong, putting money in the bank,” he says. “Today, the building is paid off.”

Local 830 represents all beer and soda in most of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. A lot of warehouse workers shelter

under its umbrella. It represents the maintenance department at Jefferson Hospital.

“We are always looking for new members. It is absolutely critical to the union movement today,” he asserted.

The foremost issue for Grace these days, though, is the impact of the soda tax.

“We beat it off under Mayor Nutter two times,” he says. “But since the Kenney tax went through, we’ve lost over 400 members’ jobs. We are actively trying to get them rehired in other industries” – so far, he adds, they have been successful in finding 300 of them new jobs.

“Everybody said we would pick up in the new deliveries in the counties,” he added. “Wrong. The city is down 40% but the sub-

urbs up only 12%.”

Grace is co-chair of the Health & Welfare Fund, Pension Fund and Retirement Savings Plan.

In 2001, he became vice president of the Philadelphia Chapter AFL-CIO. He is a trustee for the Joint Council 53 Health & Welfare & Pension Fund, the Maritime Port Council, the Pennsylvania Conference of Teamsters and Joint Council 53 Executive Board. Currently he serves as the vice president of Joint Council 53 and holds the position of international representative for International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Grace is involved with the community. He belongs to AOH Division 1 and the Irish Society, the Knights of Columbus and the Elks.

He serves as commissioner for Delaware River Joint Toll

Bridge Commission and sits on the Bucks County Prison Oversight Board. He volunteers for Aid for Friends, who feed the homebound.

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FRANK BANKARD, ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER ROBERT T. WALSH, REC. SECRETARY JAMES REILLEY, PRESIDENT JAMES JONES, TREASURER JAMES GITTENS, VICE PRESIDENT VINCENT ASCIONE, FINANCIAL SECRETARY BUSINESS AGENTS & EXECUTIVE BOARD

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Compliments of

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DANIEL H. GRACE Secretary-Treasurer ● Business Manager CHARLES T. WHITE President ANTHONY MASTROME Trustee

GLENN P. FULCHER Vice President BRIAN BURKE Trustee

JOHN O’ROURKE Recording Secretary WILLIAM PEAL III Trustee

THE OFFICERS AND MEMBERSHIP OF LOCAL 19 CONGRATULATE MR. TODD FARALLY FOR BEING RECOGNIZED AS PUBLIC RECORD’S 2019 RISING STAR!!!

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SHEET METAL WORKERS’ INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION LOCAL UNION NO.19 1301 SOUTH COLUMBUS BOULEVARD, PHILADELPHIA PA 19147 215.952.1999 GARY J. MASINO PRESIDENT/BUSINESS MANAGER BRYAN J. BUSH ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER/FINANCIAL SECRETARY

TODD P. FARALLY RECORDING SECRETARY

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EXECUTIVE BOARD BRIAN CUMMISKEY JADE FLADGER JEREMY HUNSICKER ERIK KOSZALINSKI KEITH MEYER WILLIAM J. PFEIFFER JAMES SEXTON, JR JOHN SILCOX, III MICHAEL SULLIVAN JOSHUA TURNER GERALD ZIMMERMAN JAMES MCGROARTY ROBERT DAVIES

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WILLIAM C. DORWARD MICHAEL J. FORD HOWARD VANBUREN, III

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GERARD E. GONTZ ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER

of trainers – two part-time and one full-time – Fuller runs safety programs like those on fall prevention, organizes the annual Workers’ Memorial Day remembrance event, and raises awareness and funding for PhilaPOSH. For someone who nev-

er planned on leaving her hometown, Fuller has become an integral part of Philadelphia’s organized labor community in the past 12 years – and she gives plenty of credit to those who have helped along the way.

“I took advantage of op-

portunities, even when I didn’t know where they would take me.

I follow the advice of the folks I trust – my mentors.

If you trust them and their judgment, listen to them. If it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t be where I am now.”

Congratulations to the Nicole Fuller, PhilaPOSH

knew that taking over the organization was the right move, but before she accepted the new role – after a months-long recruitment effort – she had to talk to one person: “My boss at AFL-CIO, Pat Eiding, I didn’t want to disappoint him. I had two bosses through this longstanding partnership. I sat him down and told him I thought it was time to go, and he gave me his blessing.”

Alongside her small staff

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my construction background, she says with a laugh. “But I paid my way through college working heavy highway for the family construction business. I’m comfortable on construction sites to this day – I have no problem putting on boots and a hard hat.”

Going into the UAW was also like getting into the family business, she recalls. “I’m a union baby: my grandfather was UAW, my mom, my dad, almost all my relatives – it’s all I knew.”

Fuller has been on the job since January, when she left her previous job as the associate director of labor participation for the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and the community services liaison for Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO, where she had worked since 2011.

Thanks to her previous work at PhilaPOSH, Fuller

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icole Fuller is the executive director of the nonprofit organization PhilaPOSH, whose acronym stands for Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety and Health, which performs the crucial training and education to help keep workers safe on the job across the spectrum.

Fuller knew a thing or two about on-the-job safety even before taking on her current role at PhilaPOSH. The Detroit, Michigan native was a longtime UAW member at a Ford facility before moving to the Philadelphia area in 2007, when she began her first stint with PhilaPOSH, as the organization’s training coordinator and OSHA trainer for construction workers – a role for which she was uniquely qualified.

“People look at me sideways when they hear about

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for Local 19, which include being the Recording Secretary, and writing and editing the Local 19 quarterly magazine, Todd is an Executive Vice President for the Delaware County AFL-CIO Central Labor Council.

When asked what’s next for him, Farally demurs and turns the focus back to his union. “What I am focusing on is doing the best job for our members and working with the business agents, organizers, the

assistant business managers, the president, and our membership to move everything forward. It’s not me, it’s the team. The team makes this all happen. I’m just lucky enough to be doing a job I love.”

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public safety,” he acknowledges. “It was eight years of work, and was thanks to many people before me who worked on this for many years. We are a very good team.”

In addition to his duties

Todd Farally, Sheet Metal Workers Local 19

Farally’s job focuses on both the electoral and legislative aspects of the political world. “I deal with vetting candidates and incumbents to see who warrants support,” he says. “I see which races we want to get involved in and, just as important, which races we want to stay out of. Sometimes the smart play is not to get involved in at all.”

During election cycles, he helps with the coordination of roughly 250 apprentices, who get involved by volunteering on Saturdays doing whatever the candidates need. “They are hardworking – they know what they’re doing, Farally adds.

“They go through training for canvassing, learn the talking points and work on Election Day – we are one of the few locals where Election Day is a paid holiday for us.”

Last month’s primary was an overall success for the candidates Local 19 supported, which included all City Council incumbents and newcomer at-Large candidates Isaiah Thomas and Katherine Gilmore Richardson. Out of their slate, only Jannie Blackwell lost.

On the legislative side, Farally has been part of significant successes as well, none more so than the passage of a fire safety bill in City Council long championed by Local 19.

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or Todd Farally, his current role as the political director of Sheet Metal Workers Local 19 can be traced back directly to the Great Recession. As a twentysomething who had just come out of his time – finished his apprenticeship – he found himself laid off.

To keep busy, he recalls, “in April 2010, I started writing, doing a lot of blogging, getting involved in social media. Then activism came into play.

Writing helped me get involved with my local in a way I didn’t think I could and it’s given me a lot of opportunities throughout my career in and out of the trade.”

His efforts were noticed

by Local 19 President/Business Manager Gary Masino, who brought him in parttime to work in the union’s political wing. Eventually, thanks to his work in the 2016 election and the importance of the 2018 midterm elections, Farally was asked to give up working in the trade and come onboard as the full-time political director.

In a sense, it’s a job he has been preparing for since childhood. “I’ve always been naturally drawn to politics, always politically involved,” he explains. He grew up steeped both in the inside baseball world of local and state politics – and in Local 19, where three generations of his family – grandfather, father, uncles, brother and cousin – have all been members.

“My father was the business agent for Delaware and Chester Counties,” he says.

“Politics was what we talked about at home growing up. When we would bring friends over, they would think our family was a little strange – their families didn’t talk about that.”

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While Boyle appreciates being honored, he wastes no time putting things in context.

“It’s great to get the accolades, but it’s the local guys that make it,” he emphasizes. “The office people

wouldn’t be here without the guys out there doing what they do. We came through hard times in the past couple years, but to be recognized and get good reviews, working hard and putting ourselves out of

jobs every week – that’s a great thing. I still pinch myself when they say, “You’re a labor leader.” I’m just doing my job. It’s good I’m the boss, but even better that Local 401 is getting recognized again.”

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cal 401 as a Trustee, overseeing Annuity, Vacation, Apprenticeship, Supplemental Welfare and Pension Funds; he also serves on the Board for IWAP (Injured Workers Assistance Program).

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much he misses being out there. “I love the business,” he exclaims. “You’re out in the weather, it’s physical.

It takes a toll on you at the end of your life, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything. One thing I miss is the men out on the job – going out to the shanties and talking. You worked hard and played harder. When you’re up there, knock on wood, you’re climbing a column on the outside of the 58th floor, it’s amazing.

If I can, I go out there, but I don’t like to bother them – if I start talking to them, then they’re not working.”

As the business manager of Local 402, one of Boyle’s most important roles is balancing the work, the people and the new technology, especially when it comes to safety.

“When I first started in this business,” he says, “you walked the iron without anything. The insurance game is what changed the construction business. Now, you have more people on safety than working. The more you save on lives and injuries, the better equipment you get. In our business, you don’t see technology catching up as much. You still need people walking the beam, putting the bolts in, dragging the deck, stuff like that.”

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o hear Kevin Boyle tell it, his path to becoming one of the most respected organized labor leaders in the region began not with a purpose but because he had no plan for what to do after finishing his football and college career at Delaware Valley College in the 1980s.

“I grew up with young Joe Dougherty,” Boyle remembers. “I knew his dad” – Joseph Dougherty, the longtime leader of Ironworkers Local 401 – “was a labor guy. We grew up playing ball together.

When we went to Roman Catholic High School, he was the All-Catholic running back and I was the All-Catholic wide receiver.

Joe decided to go into the Ironworkers after high school. When I got out of college, I didn’t know what I was doing, I asked Mr. Dougherty if I could get in – and 33 years later, here I am.”

In that time, Boyle has worn many hats. In addition to refereeing football games for many years when not working, he has acted as steward, foreman and general foreman for several projects both large and small across Philadelphia and its suburbs, including, as he proudly points out, “every stadium that was built in this city.”

His ascent began in 2011, when he was approached to run for the Local 401 recording secretary position. Then, as he puts it, “I got an opening – a bad opening” brought about by the 2015 conviction of Joseph Dougherty – “but here I am.”

Listening to Boyle talk about the union and his history with it, it is impossible to miss just how

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Congratulations to our Business Manager

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on receiving the Salute to Labor’s Outstanding Business Management Award Thank you for your dedication to the Union Labor Movement & to the Membership and Staff of Ironworkers’ Local Union No. 401

From all of us at the Philadelphia Public Record: Congratulations to this year’s honorees!

You are living proof of what makes organized labor such an integral part of America – and such an integral part of our future.

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Daniel Grace, Teamsters Local 830 Todd Farally, Sheet Metal Workers Local 19 Ken Washington, Laborers’ District Council of the Metropolitan Area of Philadelphia and Vicinity

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Congressman Boyle was on hand to greet the hundreds of Philadelphians who attended the event.

ongressman Brendan Boyle continued his tradition of supporting his older constituents by hosting another Senior Fair. This latest fair, held at Abraham Lincoln High School, was the congressman’s biggest yet, with more than 500 attendees who showed up to take advantage of the fair’s offerings, including multiple federal issues like health care, Social Security and much more.

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Among those Rep. Boyle met were Hal and Sue Rosenthal.

District Council 21

International Union of Painters and Allied Trades Of Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey Joseph T. Ashdale

Business Manager / Secretary Treasurer

Fran McLaughlin

Fair attendees got a hands-on tutorial with the city’s new voting machines, courtesy of the Philadelphia City Commissioners Office.

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Cleaning up Castor Ave.

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Director of Training Martin McNulty Training Instructors Jack Altieri Dennis McDonough State Rep. Jared Solomon, center, joined forces with the We Love You Foundation for a massive cleanup of the Castor Avenue Corridor.

Photo courtesy of Rep. Solomon’s Facebook page.

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Jim Hyland Scott Poluchuck

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he Trump campaign is wasting no time as they assemble their PA victory team. The dynamic young lady leading the 2020 charge in the Commonwealth is Brittney Robinson. The Republican National Committee hired Robinson as Pennsylvania’s State Director to assist with both the Trump Victory campaign and the GOP's 2020 candidates. She was the RNC’s Pennsylvania State Director for the 2018 midterm election. To add to her background qualifica-

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BY DENISE CLAY t’s been a while since I’ve had to refer to Philadelphia as the City of Brotherly Love and Put the Damned Gun Down.

But thanks to a Father’s Day weekend that included a dude who decided to settle an argument with a guy in a deli on Ridge Avenue by shooting his significant other in the head and a dude who decided to bring a graduation party to an end by shooting it up, I’ve got to dig it back up.

Right now, we’re on pace to break a record for the

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tions in politics, Robinson was the RNC Deputy Director for the recent special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District and she also served as the Operations Coordinator for the RNC Political Department for a few years prior to that.

Hired along with Robinson is super campaign strategist Ted Christian, considered by many to be the real brains behind the successful 2016 Trump campaign in the Commonwealth. His resume boasts working on major campaigns such as those for former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, the late John McCain; former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman; and President George W. Bush, to name just a few. He is a master of the ground game and combined with Robinson, should create a Republican campaign victory machine that hasn’t been seen in decades in the Keystone state.

So what does this mean

for us Republicans surrounded by Democrats in the “City of Brotherly Love”? Both of these leaders are looking to Philly Republicans to rise up, volunteer, register more voters, coordinate, and neutralize enough votes to help keep the state red. Some groups have already been laying the groundwork for President Trump, such as the University City GOP, South Philadelphia Republican Coalition, and the Center City GOP. These efforts are in addition to such pro-Trump ethnic groups including the African American, Hispanic and Asian communities, which are coordinating their efforts across the city.

One thing we can’t forget is that before he won, Trump was seen as having no shot. The Democrats dismissed him and so did the press. But we knew different because if history teaches us anything, it’s that Philly loves an underdog!

number of murders committed in Philly. That’s not something we should be aspiring to.

Which is why, I guess, State Sen. Anthony Williams decided to send a letter to Gov. Tom Wolf requesting that a State of Emergency be declared for the City of Brotherly Love and Put the Damned Gun Down.

Now this isn’t really much of a surprise. During the runup to last month’s primary election, Williams – who was running for Mayor, by the way – promised that he’d end the violence by making this particular move.

Also, the phrase “State of Emergency” brings to mind images that look a whole lot like what it looked like here in Philly during the World Meeting of Families in 2015.

Thing is, no one seems to know exactly what that means. I reached out to Williams for clarification, but hadn’t heard back by press time. When I reached out to several of the governmental

entities impacted by this, they didn’t know either – there’s no precedent here.

For his part, Gov. Wolf, who is probably going to have to make a decision on this request, is open to all ideas.

“Gov. Wolf strongly shares these concerns about gun violence in Philadelphia and the risk to people across Pennsylvania,” said his spokesman, J.J. Abbott.

“He has worked extensively with the Legislature and Philadelphia delegation to put more resources into community safety and advance commonsense gun safety bills. The violence in Philadelphia over the weekend is disturbing and horrifying. More can be done and we look forward to discussing further steps with members of the Philadelphia delegation and other partners, including the Mayor, Attorney General and law enforcement.”

Throughout the primary, Mayor Jim Kenney responded (Cont. Page 30)

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am not always in agreement with Ed RENDELL, but his suggestion that the U.S. Attorney has BETTER THINGS TO DO than get involved in City Injection site court action rings sonorously with me.

Did U.S. Attorney William MCSWAIN intend to jail, as Ed noted, volunteers who donate their time? What for? HEADLINES maybe?

Don’t forget the big U.S. Attorney in Washington is watching progress of his district chiefs. The use of Rendell’s remarks in McSwain’s motion seem to be

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udy Moore, the Democratic opponent of longtime Northeast Councilman Brian O’Neill, has been busy knocking on doors. She’s doing a decent job of raising money as well. But she will have to run a near-perfect campaign to beat the entrenched incumbent.

The last time O’Neill faced a woman opponent was Kathy McAleer in the 1990s. McAleer was the wife of 66B ward leader Mike McAleer. Back then, the Northeast was more Republican. It has been trending Democratic but is still

out of context. Still, the use of it was cute and CLEVER. Let’s hope a judge sees it as just that!

The media has noted elusiveness of Tracey GORDON to an interview. Gordon was nominated to run for Register of Wills in the recent Primary Election.

Media should be prepared for a rollicking ride in these attempts. Let’s interview the SHERIFF NOMINEE as well!

All hail the columnist who wrote that the underfunding of ACCT ANIMAL SHELTER is a disgrace. The KENNEY Administration has money in the coffers that might be getting rusty.

I heard that ACCT works hard and has the highest percentage of ANIMAL PLACEMENT in the city!

Contrast this to a shelter Director who reportedly earns a $150k salary. Mayor KENNEY: PLEASE help!...

The City STREETS Department was said to complete

254 days of patching reported potholes. REPORTED? What ever happened to ROVING POTHOLE PATCH CREWS? Citizens DO NOT REPORT like they used to in the past. If the City WAITS for a call – then that is a cost-saving STRATEGY. Remember the slip-up a few years back in City Council Budget Hearings when a spokesperson said that they repair potholes that are reported (later withdrawn)? How do you report potholes that are not alongside a known address?

Maybe: located at an angle of 6 degrees Southwest of an arc turning to the Northwest? Better yet, spray-paint a circle around it – or spray an arrow. ...HAPPY BIRTHDAYS: Dr. Mary Ellen BALCUNIS has retired from teaching POLI SCI, and is active with the DELCO DEM Women and theatre plays...Col. Tim WILLIAMS, Director of the (Cont. Page 35)

conservative.

The police union has been a staunch backer of O'Neill and, although the cops generally only sporadically turn out for elections, they have turned out well for O’Neill. He has a district office at the FOP headquarters. And in seemingly every other home in Northeast Philadelphia resides a police man or woman or relative of a police officer.

There will be nothing going on in the general election of consequence. Jim Kenney has already won reelection because Republican resistance is nearly nonexistent citywide. Accordingly, Moore will have to do everything she can to get the Democrats to actually come out and vote. She will also have to get them to vote for her. The shocking fact is that O’Neill usually wins by high percentages – sometimes close to 70%.

But there are a lot of women in the Northeast and maybe it’s time for a change. There

are also a lot of closet Donald Trump supporters in that area.

Speaking of the recent Democratic primaries for city office, once again the main issues were completely forgettable and irrelevant.

The media defined the issues as the soda tax, bike lanes, and extending the 10year tax incentives for new construction. In the meantime, CNN has just done a scathing exposé on Philadelphia as “the toxic city.”

Our schools are contaminated with deadly chemicals that risk the very lives of the kids. It would help if every Philadelphia kid could get a quality education and also not have to be at risk for toxic poisoning. Maybe that way, our children will grow up to be citizens doing productive things and not participants in Dodge City-type violence over drug turf. There wasn’t a lot of discussion about that in the primary campaign – and Sam guesses there won’t be in the general.

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Todd Farally Congratulations on your recognition as a rising star.

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ouncilman David Oh, the only military veteran serving on City Council, joined the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Veterans Affairs, the Undersecretary of the

United States Army, Ryan D. McCarthy, and the Army’s top recruiter, Major General Frank M. Muth, for an inaugural Army flag raising ceremony at City Hall.

To celebrate the recent 75th anniversary of D-Day and the Army’s 244th birthday, U.S. Army Recruiting Command is leading the Army’s “Call to Service” with more than

10,000 soldiers focusing on enlisting the next great generation of American military leaders.

Joined by Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army, Ken Wong, Under-

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Undersecretary of the United States Army, Ryan D. McCarthy, speaks outside of City Hall as officials, including Mayor Jim Kenney, L, and City Councilmember David Oh, third from L, look on.

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secretary McCarthy and Major General Muth received a resolution, introduced by Councilman Oh, “Recognizing the United States Army for Providing for the Safety and Security of the Nation Since its Creation in the City of Philadelphia 244 Years Ago.” At the outset of the American Revolution, the colonies relied on locally led volunteer troops from militia companies in New England. In the spring of 1775, as these troops prepared to face the British forces, the colonists recognized that they would only sustain a chance of victory if they organized and enlisted the support of all 13 colonies.

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on June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress formed the Continental Army as a means for the 13 American colonies to fight the forces of Britain. The troops based in Boston now had federal support.

The Second Continental Congress also resolved to form a committee which would draft rules and regulations for the Army, allocated funds to support troops in Boston and New York, and authorized the creation of 10 companies of expert riflemen from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to support the existing militia forces in New England. The Army thus annually celebrates its birthday on June 14.

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PHA’s Summer Meals Are Back

The PHA Summer Food Service Program, as it has for decades, will offer breakfast and lunch in addition to comprehensive summer youth enrichment activities, and running from now until Friday, August 12th.

Shown here, kids enjoying lunch at the John F. Street Community Center, one of 13 sites where the program is offered.

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Malik Staten Recording Secretary

Ryan N. Boyer Executive Board Member

Gracia Louis Executive Board Member

Shamsuddin Peterson Sergeant-At-Arms

Eric Oree (Hanif) Field Representative

Joe Rowland Auditor

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Finding Renewed Unity on Gun Violence

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here has been no shortage of coverage of the historically violent weekend suffered by Philadelphians last weekend, and that includes articles within these pages.

Therefore, no rehashing of those events will be found here. If any good can come out of the ceaseless escalation – and something must come out of it, no matter how incremental – maybe it is this: so many elected officials speaking with virtually the same voice, with the same sense of urgency, unanimously decrying the assault on lives and way of life. This is yet another opportunity for those in power to heed Rahm

Emmanuel’s maxim: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” This is the time for U.S. Attorney William McSwain to bury the hatchet and get on the same page as Philadelphia leaders. For too long, McSwain has engaged in pointless, Trumpian-inflected wars of words with Mayor Jim Kenney (over the proposed safe-injection site) and with District Attorney Larry Krasner (too many contretemps to count, but suffice it to say that gun violence is among his greatest hits). Combatting the scourge of gun violence must be a bipartisan effort to have any chance of success – because the resultant indiscriminate killing is certainly nonpartisan.

New Council Committee to Fight Poverty City Council President Darrell L. Clarke (5th District) on Thursday named Councilmember Maria Quiñones-Sánchez (7th District), Deputy Managing Director of Health and Human

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Social Safety Net. In the creation of this Special Committee, Philadelphia City Council aims to end the incremental approaches of the past.

Council has already begun to implement recommendations from “Narrowing the Gap” and has prioritized poverty reduction and prevention in the Fiscal Year 2020 budget. This is a welcome, necessary step to more effectively battle against the city’s stubbornly high poverty rate, and of a piece with other efforts like the Working Families Tax Relief Act, a bill currently being co-sponsored by Congressman Dwight Evans that would provide tax cuts that would help lift some 4 million Pennsylvanians – including many in Philadelphia – out of poverty. No doubt, with the completion of the city’s budget and the seemingly smooth path to getting the state budget in on time, combined with rare budget surpluses and a currently strong economy, initiatives like these will be

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Services for the City of Philadelphia Eva Gladstein, Urban Affairs Coalition President and CEO Sharmain Matlock-Turner, and One Day At A Time, Inc. (ODAAT) President and CEO Mel Wells as co-chairs of the Special Committee on Poverty Reduction and Prevention.

The Special Committee, which was authorized following adoption of a resolution by Council President Clarke and Councilmember Quiñones-Sánchez on April 4, 2019 will hold hearings to propose and implement actionable policies and programs that substantively prevent and alleviate poverty in every Philadelphia neighborhood.

Building off a report issued by Council in March 2019, “Narrowing the Gap: Strategies to Alleviate and Prevent Poverty in Philadelphia,” the membership of the Special Committee will be expanded to include leading experts who will serve on three Subcommittees focusing on: Housing, Jobs and Education, and the

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coming out of City Hall and the Capitol with greater frequency before year’s end.

Ballot Question on Minority Businesses to Be on November Ballot

City Councilman at-Large Derek Green’s efforts to smooth the path of Blackand minority-owned businesses toward securing city contracts took a major step forward when City Council approved a resolution adding a ballot question to the November 5 general election on the issue.

Voters will be asked to approve or reject a change to the City of Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to increase the threshold that triggers a request for proposal (RFP) and formal bids from businesses for most city contracts. Under the proposed amendment, thresholds for formal bids and Requests for Proposals (RFP’s) from the Office of Procurement for all business would increase from $34,000 to $75,000 and State Rep. Jason

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up to $100,000 for local businesses, thus expanding access to more small business owners – especially for minority and woman-owned establishments – and incentivizing more diverse competition and opportunities. Contracts less than $34,000 will continue to not have to go through the traditional RFP process.

The change should help Black- and minority-owned businesses: Currently, despite people of color making up roughly 65% of the city’s population, Black- and minority-owned businesses are securing less that 34% of available city contracts – a figure that is below even the city’s own goal.

“We are seeing an influx of entrepreneurs – particularly those with successful startup and tech companies – as well as major corporations, looking to invest in and grow their enterprises right here in Philadelphia,” said Councilmember Green.

“They are looking to settle down and raise families here. Their dreams and the longevity of their ventures is contingent upon how easy it is for them to get started in the first place. The onus is on us to empower them and thus, empower our communities.”

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City Councilwoman Cherelle L. Parker 9th District

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Photos courtesy of Nina Ahmad for Pennsylvania Facebook.

Nina Ahmad stands with a historical reenactor during the Juneteenth festivities.

State Rep. Stephen Kinsey presents a citation to Cornelia Swinson, Executive Director of the Johnson House, who is the lead organizer of the annual Juneteenth observance in Germantown.

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Philadelphia City Councilman Derek Green is all smiles as he presents Citation of Recognitions to this year’s Art en Noir honorees: Patty Jackson, legendary WDAS radio personality; Grammy-nominated artist Jean Baylor; urban culture observer and adventurer Bobbi Booker; journalist Karas Lamb; and spoken word recording artist Ursula Rucker. The women were feted at the second annual Art en Noir: A Celebration of Black Women in Music event for Black Music Month. Photo by Wendell Douglas.

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(Cont. From Page 22) to Williams’s request for a State of Emergency by pointing out that he’s part of a electoral body that has some responsibility here, too.

Through his spokesperson, Deana Gamble, the mayor reiterated that sentiment.

“Mayor Kenney supports any and all efforts to combat gun violence in Philadelphia and across the Commonwealth,” she said. “Unfortunately, for decades the General Assembly has failed to

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pass meaningful gun reform legislation, and seen fit to strip local jurisdictions from passing their own gun laws.

This violence is a symptom of a much larger problem, stemming from historic disinvestment in our education system, and removing the social safety net by eliminating programs like General Assistance. We hope that the General Assembly will follow Philadelphia’s lead and invest in our communities and not back corporate interests like Big Soda and the natural gas lobby."

Welp.

Hopefully, we’ll soon know exactly what the City, the Commonwealth, and everyone else will do to try and stop the violence that’s taking people out right now.

But I’m not sure if armed members of the Pennsylvania National Guard is necessarily the best way to do it.

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(Cont. From Page 6) and community go hand in hand,” he says. “My community work sustains me.”

Washington sits on many boards. Among them are North City Congress, a body of senior-citizen activists; and Strawberry Mansion Learning Center; the Diamond Coalition, which seeks housing for the homeless.

“A community is always as strong as the information that flows through it,” Washington admonishes.

We have to communicate with our members, elected officers and the community.”

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NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND FORECLOSURE SALE WHEREAS, on June 11, 2009, a certain mortgage was executed by Alice Lucas, as mortgagor in favor of Gateway Funding Diversified Mortgage Services, LP as mortgagee and was recorded in Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Philadelphia County in Mortgage Document Number 52079841 (“Mortgage”); and WHEREAS, the Mortgage encumbers property located at 1120 South Paxon Street Philadelphia, PA 19143, parcel number 511190000; 027S10-0156 (“Property”); and WHEREAS, Mortgagor Alice Lucas died on February 6, 2013 and Letters of Administration were granted to Harriet Wright on January 25, 2018 by the Register of Wills of Philadelphia County; and WHEREAS, the Property is owned by Harriet Wright by virtue of deed dated April 17, 2018 and recorded August 28, 2018 in Document #: 53409977; and

WHEREAS, the Mortgage is now owned by the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (“Secretary”), pursuant to an assignment recorded on 4/18/2012 in Document Number 52472374, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; and WHEREAS, a default has been made in the covenants and conditions of the Mortgage (paragraph 9 (a)(i)), as Alice Lucas died on February 6, 2013, and that upon the death the entire principal balance becomes due and owing, and that no payment was made, and remains wholly unpaid as of the date of this Notice; and

WHEREAS, the entire amount delinquent as of March 21, 2019 is $119,639.12 plus interest, costs and other charges through the sale date; and WHEREAS, by virtue of this default, the Secretary has declared the entire amount of the indebtedness secured by the Mortgage to be immediately due and payable;

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The sale will be held on July 11, 2019 at 10:00 AM at the Southeast Entrance of Philadelphia City Hall located at Broad Street and Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107.

The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development will bid $119,639.12 plus interest, costs and other charges through the sale date. Ten percent (10%) of the highest bid is the deposit required at the sale.

The amount that must be paid to HUD by the mortgagors or someone acting on their behalf so that the sale may be stayed is the total delinquent amount of $119,639.12 as of March 21, 2019, plus all other amounts that would be due under the mortgage agreement if payments under the mortgage had not been accelerated, advertising costs and postage expenses incurred in giving notice, mileage by the most reasonable road distance for posting notices and for the Foreclosure Commissioner’s attendance at the sale, reasonable and customary costs incurred for title and lien record searches, the necessary out-of-pocket costs incurred by the Foreclosure Commissioner for recording documents, a commission for the Foreclosure Commissioner, and all other costs incurred in connection with the foreclosure prior to reinstatement.

There will be no proration of taxes, rents or other income or liabilities, except that the purchaser will pay, at or before closing, his prorata share of any real estate taxes that have been paid by the Secretary to the date of the foreclosure sale.

When making their bid, all bidders, except the Secretary, must submit a deposit totaling ten percent 10% of the Secretary’s bid as set forth above in the form of a certified check or cashier’s check made out to the Secretary of HUD. Each oral bid need not be accompanied by a deposit. If the successful bid is oral, a deposit of ten (10%) percent must be presented before the bidding is closed. The deposit is nonrefundable. The remainder of the purchase price must be delivered within thirty (30) days of the sale or at such other time as the Secretary may determine for good cause shown, time being of the essence. This amount, like the bid deposits, must be delivered in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. If the Secretary is the high bidder, he need not pay the bid amount in cash. The successful bidder will pay all conveyance fees, all real estate and other taxes that are due on or after the delivery of the remainder of the payment and all other costs associated with the transfer of title. At the conclusion of the sale, the deposits of the unsuccessful bidders will be returned to them.

The Secretary may grant an extension of time within which to deliver the remainder of the payment. All extensions will be for fifteen (15) days, and a fee will be charged in the amount of $150.00 for each fifteen (15) day extension requested. The extension fee shall be paid in the form of a certified or cashier’s check made payable to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. If the high bidder closes the sale prior to the expiration of any extension period, the unused portion of the extension fee shall be applied toward the amount due.

If the high bidder is unable to close the sale within the required period, or within any extensions of time granted by the Secretary, the high bidder’s deposit will be forfeited, and the Commissioner may, at the direction of the HUD Field Office Representative, offer the Property to the second highest bidder for an amount equal to the highest price offered by that bidder.

There is no right of redemption, or right of possession based upon a right of redemption, in the mortgagor or others subsequent to a foreclosure completed pursuant to the Act. Therefore, the Foreclosure Commissioner will issue a Deed to the purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire purchase price in accordance with the terms of the sale as provided herein.

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ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground with the messuage or tenement thereon erected.

SITUATE on the Southwest side of Paxon Street at the distance of 159 feet 9 inches Southeastward from the Southeast side of Springfield Avenue in the 51st Ward of the City of Philadelphia.

CONTAINING in front or breadth on the said Paxon Street 16 feet and extending of that width in length or depth Southwestward between parallel lines at right angles with the said Paxon Street 64 feet 6 inches to a certain 3 feet wide alley which leads Northwestward and communicates with a certain other 3 feet wide alley which leads Northeastward into Paxon Street and which first mentioned alley leads Southeastward into a certain other 3 feet wide alley which leads Northeastward and Southwestward from 52nd Street to said Paxon Street.

BEING known as 1120 S. Paxon Street.

TOGETHER with the free and common use of the said alleys at all times hereafter forever.

Being Parcel: 511190000; 027S10-0156

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NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to powers vested in me by the Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994, l2 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., by 24 CFR Part 29, and by the Secretary’s designation of me as Foreclosure Commissioner, recorded on September 29, 2011 in Misc. Document ID #: 52395684, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, notice is hereby given that on July 11, 2019 at 10:00 AM at the Southeast Entrance of Philadelphia City Hall located at Broad Street and Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107 all real property and personal property at or used in connection with the following described premises will be sold at public action to the highest bidder:.

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mong the most brutally effective media analysis of the ongoing and worsening epidemic of gun violence in the United States can be found at the online satirical news site The Onion. What makes their take so effective is that regardless of where the shooting happened or how many casualties, the headline is always the same: “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.”

We are reminded of that scathing bit of satire every time we have to confront

the next news cycle, our thoughts and prayers already turning to the next wave of tragedy, much like what has happened with the national response to mass shootings.

This horror, this outrage, this sense of violation that we feel must be harnessed and channeled into some kind of change. If we don’t, then our future will no doubt look a lot like a recent photo of State Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell asking the students in an elementary school class to raise their hands if they know someone who has been shot – and virtually every student puts their hand in the air.

Whether it’s the Gun Violence Task Force, the DA and the US Attorney finally playing nice, the PPD improving on its rate of gun-related arrests – which themselves are already almost double what they were just four years ago – something must be done.

If not for us, for our children.

State Sen. Christine Tartaglione made an impassioned speech in the state Capitol alongside home health care workers and Pennsylvania Department of Human Services Secretary Teresa Miller to demand that those who take care of the elderly and disabled make living wages.

From Sen. Tartaglione’s Facebook page.

September. With the intense interest focused on the 2020 presidential race, those numbers may even go higher.

However, party activists and the influential will comprise a large part of the audience for all the debates.

The large Republican primary field in 2016, with its unanticipated results, evokes comparison to the similarly large Democratic field this year. Many expect similar fireworks and unconventional results.

Maybe – but debate history stretching back to the 1960s suggests otherwise. Indeed, unlike the GOP 2016 contest, early front runners historically tended to remain front runners as the debates continued. Their relative support may change but none of them should be knocked out of the race early.

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New Jersey Ave., N. Wildwood, N.J., 3-7 p.m.

July 13 - The New 42nd Ward Flapjack Fundraiser will take place at Applebee’s on 2525 Castor Avenue. $10 per person, $5 for kids!

8-10a.m. Hosted by Sharon Vaughn, Ward Leader.

July 14- Whitman Council hosts Shore Party at Keenan’s, 113 Olde New Jersey Ave., N. Wildwood, N.J., 3-7 p.m.

July 14- Teamsters Union hosts Shore Party at Keenan’s, 113 Olde New Jersey Ave., N. Wildwood, N.J., 3-7 p.m.

July 21- Glaziers’ Union hosts Shore Party at Keenan’s, 113 Olde New Jersey Ave., N. Wildwood, N.J., 3-7 p.m.

Aug. 3- Local 14 Insulators Union hosts Day at the Beach at Keenan’s, 113 Olde New Jersey Ave., N. Wildwood, N.J., 3-7 p.m.

Aug. 4- Firefighters Union Local 22 Union hosts Shore Party at Keenan’s,

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BY G. TERRY MADONNA AND MICHAEL L. YOUNG ho will win the 2020 presidential election seems endlessly debatable – and the Democrats are preparing to demonstrate just how endless that debate will be.

Overall, there will be 12 sanctioned Democratic presidential debates during the party’s nomination battle, six of them in 2019 with six more in 2020. The first is scheduled over two days in late June, a second at the end of July, and a third during the middle of September.

For the first two debates, the candidates can appear onstage if they gain 1% in three national polls or obtain campaign donation from 65,000 donors in a minimum of 20 states. A candidate must also secure at least 200 unique donors from each state.

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the carnage wrought by gun violence in our city. But rarely have things seemed as grim as last weekend. In the latest chilling escalation of the trend toward weekend violence, citizens were terrorized by 19 separate shootings that left 28 people shot and five dead. The scenes of the crimes ranged from the crowded nighttime throngs on South Street to a deli in North Philadelphia to the formerly placid environs of Finnegan Playground in Southwest Philadelphia. These and the other 16 crimes over that 72-hour period produced exactly the kind of nightmare scenario that gun-control advocates and local politicians have been warning about.

This is not normal, but unless our response becomes more forceful, there is the clear and present danger that it does become the new normal, that our outrage will crest and subside with

Twenty candidates have now qualified for the two hours of debate each evening, with 10 candidates on stage each day. Only five of the candidates register 5% or more in national polls, while three more have more than 1%. This means the bulk of the 12 remaining debaters are virtual unknowns to the voters.

The large field will certainly make it more difficult for any one candidate to dominate the debate. For the 8 better known candidates, this will likely serve to cull the large field down from the many to the few.

But for the lesser-known candidates, their challenge is to somehow end up in that select group.

Some 15 to 20 million viewers are expected to watch the June debates with smaller audiences likely to tune in for the later debates in July and

MARK your CALENDAR June 28 to 30- he State Federation of Democratic Women Conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Harrisburg-Hershey, 604 Station Rd., Grantville. To register: www. opafdw.org.

July 6- DCC Chairman Bob Brady hosts “The Brady Bunch at Flip Flopz, Bar & Grill, 106 W. Spruce Ave., N. Wildwood, N.J., 3-7 p.m. Tickets: $35.

July 7Carpenters’ Union hosts Shore Party at Keenan’s, 113 Olde

113 Olde New Jersey Ave., N. Wildwood, N.J., 4-8 p.m.

Aug. 5- Veterans Comfort House Union hosts Shore Party at Keenan’s, 113 Olde New Jersey Ave., N. Wildwood, N.J., 3-7 p.m.

Aug. 10- Councilman Mark Squilla hosts Summer Soirée at Keenan’s, 113 Olde New Jersey Ave., N. Wildwood, N.J., 7-10 p.m.

Aug. 11- IBEW Local 98 hosts Down Under at Keenan’s, 113 Olde New Jersey Ave., N. Wildwood, N.J., 3-7 p.m.

Aug. 11- Local 686 Gas Workers’ Union hosts Shore Party at Keenan’s, 113 Olde New Jersey Ave., N. Wildwood, N.J., 4-8 p.m.

Aug. 24- Bridgemen’s Local 401 hosts Shore Party at Flip Flopz, Bar & Grill, 106 W. Spruce Ave., N. Wildwood, N.J., 3 p.m.

Aug. 25- Katie’s Komets host Katie Kirlin Day at Keenan’s, 113 Olde New Jersey Ave., N. Wildwood, N.J., 4-8 p.m.

understanding BANKRUPTCY MICHAEL A. CIBIK, ESQ. AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY BOARD CERTIFIED

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UESTION: Will Bankruptcy Stop the

pudding and crumbs until the pan is full. Top with chopped walnuts. Place the pan in the refrigerator (icebox) until the puddings had set; the icebox cake was then ready to eat and enjoy.

INK ERADICATOR: was a fluid that was sold in a little (2-oz.) brown bottle.

It contained a glass rod attached to the inside of the lid. It smelled like bleach and it probably was. It was an essential staple that had to be readily available when using fountain pens. This miraculous fluid eradicated errors that were made while writing in ink. The fluid bleached the ink from the paper to eliminate mistakes.

Ink eradicator did not help

Creditor Calls?

ANSWER: Yes, the minute you file bankruptcy, the Bankruptcy Court issues an order telling all of your creditors to leave you alone. No more phone calls. No more collection letters. No more lawsuits.

No garnishments. No repossessions. No foreclosures. Nothing.

No actions whatsoever against you or your assets. This order has a name. It is called the “Automatic Stay,” and it is issued pursuant to Title 11 of the United States

Code, Section 362.

The Automatic Stay prohibits your creditors from taking any action that could be considered an attempt to collect a debt from you or your assets.

Once you file bankruptcy, the creditor is not even allowed to call you or send you letters. In addition, the creditor must stop any collection attempts already started.

The Automatic Stay is very powerful and puts the full weight of the United States Courts to work for you, to make

sure your creditors leave you and your assets alone.

And if you file for Chapter 13, section 1301 of the Code also applies the automatic stay to a co-debtor on any consumer debt.

If a creditor violates the Automatic Stay, you have the right to bring the creditor before the Court for Contempt of Court, and to be compensated accordingly. This is not a hollow right. Bankruptcy Court Judges do not take kindly to creditors who ignore their Order-the

Automatic Stay-and these Judges have been known to punish creditors severely.

Very simply, once you file for bankruptcy, creditors must leave you alone or suffer the consequences.

Next Week's Question: Can a Person in a Coma File Bankruptcy?

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Intent to Remediate to an Environmental Standard and Final Report Submittal Pursuant to the Land Recycling and Environmental Remediation Standards Act, the act of May 19, 1995, P.L. 4, No. 1995-2., notice is hereby given that Broad Street 725, LLC has submitted to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection a Notice of Intent to Remediate for the site located at 725-729 S. Broad St. in Philadelphia. This NIR states that petroleum hydrocarbon impacted soils in excess of PADEP SHS attributed to a historic leaking underground storage tank (LUST) are located 6’ to 12’ below the building slab at the rear of the building and that the building is planned for partial demolition and re-development. Remediation measures included excavation and disposal of the soils impacted in excess of PADEP SHS. The proposed future use of the property will be commercial and/or residential mixed-use.

Notice is also hereby given that Broad Street 725, LLC of Philadelphia has submitted a final report to the PADEP to demonstrate attainment of the Statewide Health Standard for the site.

Remediation measures taken have attained compliance with the SHS established under Act 2.

PUBLIC NOTICE T-Mobile proposes to modify an existing facility on the 114.3’ building at 1101 N 63rd St (new tip heights of 121.5’, 131.5’, and 145.5’) (20190990) and on the 160’ building at 640 N Broad St (tip heights 137.5’ & 157.5’) (20190993) in Philadelphia, PA. Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

PUBLIC NOTICE T-Mobile proposes to modify existing facilities on the buildings at 1-33 Brown Street (new tip heights 110’) (20190707), 3233 Amber Street (tip heights 94’) (20190652), 221 S. 12th Street (tip heights 151.5’) (20190648), 3101 Tyson Ave (tip heights 54’) (20190710), 124 E. Indiana Ave (tip heights 131’) (20190638), and at 4950 Parkside Avenue (tip heights 103’) (20190653) in Philadelphia, PA. Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

me with some errors. Some- 33 how, misspelled words, incorrect grammar or punctuation marks always got into my reports.

JAVELLA WATER MAN: from his horse-drawn wagon, he sold powerful homemade laundry bleach. It was a yellow-greenish-colored liquid used to bleach clothes in the washing machine. You brought your glass gallon or half-gallon bottle to his wagon where he filled it with the bleach. If you did not have a bottle, he could supply it. He always had empty half-gallon and gallon bottles on his wagon. There was an extra charge, of course. Javella Water was to be used with extreme caution. If it was used straight from the bottle, it could destroy, not bleach, your clothing.

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were called 5-&-10-cent stores because you could buy things there for 5 & 10 cents. There were two 5 & 10’s on Broad Street, between McKean Street & Snyder Avenue. There was another 5 & 10 at Passyunk Avenue & Morris Street.

ICE-BOX CAKE: It was really “baked” in the icebox.

Here is how to do it: Line a pan with graham-cracker crumbs. On the crumbs, spread a layer of chocolate pudding. On top of the chocolate pudding, spread another layer of graham-cracker crumbs. Then gently pour vanilla pudding on the crumbs. Spread more crumbs on the vanilla pudding. Then alternate the

PUBLIC NOTICE – LIEN SALE AUCTION This is to advise that the personal property of Lorenzo Miguel Custodio located at Garage #7G at 1366-1370 Ruan Street, Philadelphia, PA 19124 will be sold to auction to the highest bidder at 1366-1370 Ruan Street on Monday, July 1, 2019 at 11:00 AM to satisfy the owner’s lien for rent.

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o! Here are few more things that the Waffleman hopes will get your memory stirred up. Do you remember any these?

CHLOROPHYLL: A component of plants that was marketed in the 1950s. It

ed this extra support. The clothes-prop prevented the clothes from touching the ground while drying.

FIORE’S: A great restaurant and pizza place on Passyunk Avenue. Mr. Fiore was always there. The food and pizza were homemade and great. The restaurant walls were tiled with pink and white tile. The tables had marble tops. It wasn’t a fancy restaurant; it was a family restaurant. A large pizza and a pitcher of soda or beer cost $3. The pizza was about 12” x 24” inches.

It was garnished with lots of cheese and other delicious toppings.

5 & 10: We shopped at the 5-&-10-cent stores. They

PUBLIC NOTICE T-Mobile proposes to modify existing facilities on the 54.7’ building at 3211 Cedar Street (20191062) (new tip heights 61.5’) and on the 180’ building at 1601 Walnut Street (new tip heights 196.5’) (20191063) in Philadelphia, PA. Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

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was used in a hundred or more products, everything from toothpaste to dog food.

Most Americans believed the promise that chlorophyll would make the user of those products smell fresh as a daisy. Millions of dollars were spent on advertising. Chlorophyll was touted as an effective natural deodorant until it was pointed out that goats always ate plants – plants that contained chlorophyll – but they still smelled bad.

CLOTHES-PROP VENDOR: He sold 1” x 3” x 8’ boards that were notched at one end. They were used to prop up clotheslines, heavy with wet clothes attached to them with wooden clothespins. The clotheslines need-

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(Cont. From Page 32) debates have often failed to provide a decisive moment or determine who wins the nomination.

Certainly, there have been a few memorable exceptions.

In 1972, Ed Muskie’s weak debate performance enhanced the prospects of his top rival George McGovern, who ulti-

mately won the nomination.

In 1984, the one-liner “Where’s the Beef” stole the thunder when the eventual nominee Walter Mondale used Wendy’s popular commercial jingle to attack opponent Gary Hart’s “New Ideas” slogan. Then in 2004, John Kerry benefited when his opponents sniped at each

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ered express lanes (a waste) and taking away lanes (a disaster in the making) are just expensive time-wasting exercises. Hey, Angela DIXON, Director: Proposed Rail service DOES NOT GUARANTEE public use of it. Studies show that if you add an extra lane – additional cars will FILL that lane...The REAL answer is a DOUBLE DECKER highway (costing billions of U.S. funds)...The South Philly incident of a cyclist hit by a pellet gun illustrates how EASY it is for a bike-car issue to escalate. The biker was on a street wide enough other incessantly, allowing him to slip through the debates and win the primaries.

Any kind of breakthrough by unknowns, however, will be challenging given the time limits imposed by the large field. Even dividing the 20 qualifying candidates into two separate two-hour debates means in practice each will have but a handful of minutes to make his or her case.

for a car and bike to fit. The police commander in the district was once quoted in the daily press as saying that it is COMMON SENSE to SHARE THE ROAD. Motorists feel that bicyclists make the rules of the road as they travel. Bikers seem to have an I have my rights mode. It does NO GOOD for reporters to get a quote from the Bike Coalition after incidents – and NOT from motorists. Such stories always seem to TILT toward the vocal bikers, and not the silent majority. ...CONGRATS: Perry DE MARCO has 43 years as a This means many candidates, especially the lesser-known ones, will seek that striking sound bite, the “zinger” that will be shown ad infinitum on rebroadcasts, guaranteeing the author his or her 15 minutes of political fame.

These can catapult a candidate into serious competition or they can misfire, consigning said candidate to presidential candidate purgatory.

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lawyer! Cathy PEBERDY reached 20 years as an AMTRAK executive...Gwen COLLINS has six years with the Federation of DEM Women - two of them as president...Peter MCDERMOTT survived his first year as Ward Leader of the 64th...David KRAIN celebrates 13 years at AFSCME Local #2187 – he is a super smart guy who is called "Cranium."

FEDERAL: The rioting in Memphis is due to excessive enfilading gunfire by U.S. Marshals – causing injury to 36 police officers. Do they have freedom to shoot unnecFinally, you can’t rule out some atrocious faux pas that will cause a candidate’s campaign to crumble, such as Gerald Ford’s notorious assertion in 1976 when he debated Jimmy Carter that the Soviet Union didn’t dominate Eastern Europe.

And yes, there is always the possibility the debates might produce and invigorate another unlikely candidate –

essary rounds, and disrupt 35 a city?…MEXICO will send National Guard troops to its southern border. National Guard troops sent by President “Dubya” BUSH ended up answering phones, and getting coffee for agents...

TRUMP & BIDEN traded insults. Joe BIDEN should not respond in a presidential manner – Hillary tried that. Use the Trump method of sharp word bluster with small words. This will hasten the day when Trump BLUSTER gets old with the public – like that of former Governor CHRISTIE. think Donald Trump – who emerges to capture the nomination.

But much more likely look for modest adjustment up or down in the polls for the competing candidates.

The race for president is really a marathon and the early debates are but the first mile.

Democrats have a lot of those miles ahead of them.

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Veterans Multi Service Center, worked through his birthday. He has ended the problem of Veteran Homelessness in Philly...Harriet LESSY, a PR GIANT, cannot have a birthday, since she is AGELESS! ...STATE: The decline in the use of FOOD STAMPS is down in the state. Some say that the good economy is the reason. NOPE. New rules make it HARDER to get them – and if you do, it could be in a smaller amount...

Workers at SIKORSKY in Coatesville now know what NON-UNION means. I get worried when you read that management will make every effort to relocate 400 workers...TEAMSTERS reported that an employer did not report a criminal conviction when applying for state tax benefits. ...CITY: GOOD RULING: City Judge Paula PATRICK gave the OK for a shelter to house 60 undocumented kids in North Philly...The City Transportation Office has looked at variations of how to modernize Roosevelt Boulevard. Ideas like cov-

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