All Aboard!
Keller Urges You Ride The ‘Help Is Here’ Bus AT A BUS STOP at Shoprite in Snyder Plaza last month, Domenick & Joy DeMaro, State Rep. Bill Keller and Jessica Wilson helped people find medical prescription aboard “Help Is Here Express” bus. Photo by Donald Terry
Vol. II No. 40 (Issue 53)
by Rory G. McGlasson Need help getting the medicines your doctor prescribes? One of our local legislators has just the ticket. State Rep. Bill Keller is urging those uninsured or financially struggling South Philadelphians to grab
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a ticket and come see if you may qualify for programs that provide free or nearly free prescription medicines. The Partnership for Prescription Assistance “Help Is Here Express” Bus will be back in our area soon. (Cont. Page 2)
Value 50¢
Race Cars For Rehab Over the last 18 years, former Magee Rehabilitation Hospital patient, Jerry Segal, has raised over $7 million through his annual Friends of Jerry Segal Golf Classic to benefit Magee’s patients. But when a fall this past March landed Segal back at Magee as an outpatient, he didn’t slide on his commitment to Magee’s patients, even though his physical therapy took up too much time and energy to host a major golf outing. He just switched gears. Next, Segal and his generous friends, along with Kerry Pacifico and the Pacifico family, and Dr. Fred Simeone are hosting Race Cars for Rehabilitation, a cocktail reception fundraiser at the brand new Simeone Foundation Race Car Museum in Philadelphia.
October 9, 2008
...JERRY SEGAL Attendees of the event will have the opportunity to enjoy cocktails and dining while viewing 60 of the worlds most beautiful and rare race cars. Individual tickets for Race Cars for Rehabilitation cost $195. For those who would like a more exclusive experience, VIP tickets, which cost $495, provide auto-enthusiasts with the opportunity to take a tour of the museum’s collection with Dr. Simeone, the museum’s founder who has inti(Cont. Page 2)
All Welcome To Parade It’s the 516th anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus and it will be celebrated, as it has been for over a half-century, by Philadelphia’s Italian American community with a huge parade down S. Broad Street. The parade, featuring string and marching bands, will march off at noon Sunday from their starting point at Broad & Federal Streets. Prior to the parade and a breakfast at Galdo’s, 20th & Penrose, a Mass will be celebrated at St. Rita’s Church at 9 a.m. by Msgr. Charles L. Sangermano, state chaplain of the Order of the Sons of Italy. VIPs will convene at JNA Culinary School to get their staging instructions. The parade will then march down Broad Street to Marconi Plaza, where, after passing the parade stand, it will disband and join the many attendees at the Italian Food and Cultural Festival situated between Broad and 15th Street, Oregon and Bigler.
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