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SPRUCING UP beloved Marconi Plaza are local volunteers who joined in the “Lowe’s Heroes Program” makeover. The warehouse giant wants to improve communities where its employees work and live. Lowe’s donated trees, shrubs, 15 shovels, four rakes, gloves, lawn and leaf bags, landscape fabric and pins, mulch, bricks and adhesive, plus other supplies, to clean Photo by Maria Merlino up Marconi Plaza.
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EXCLUSIVE! by Maria Merlino I cherish Marconi Plaza. It’s a verdant jewel-box full of Mother Nature’s woody ornaments and grassy gems. Designed by the famed architects Olmsted Brothers from 1914 to 1916, and built as the grand entrance for the 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition, it led visitors south along a treelined corridor known as Southern Boulevard (now called S. Broad Street) to Packer Avenue and League Island (now called FDR Park or The Lakes). This neighborhood twin park, originally identified as Oregon
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State Rep. Kenyatta Johnson will host the first Peace Not Guns -Youth Town Hall Meeting on Thursday, Dec. 10. This innovative discussion aims to engage youth in dialogue with a group of panelists to address youth violence in the Philadelphia region -- including troubled parts of SouthPhiladelphia. Moderated by Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, distinguished professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, the forum will take place at South Philadelphia HS, located at 2101 S. Broad (Cont. Page 2)
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by R. George Linton Hundreds of Mummers from across the City strutted together at a pep rally to save the Mummers Parade and bring attention to the Bacon Brothers concert. It was the first time in a long time all the division and members of Philadelphia mummery joined together for one common purpose: saving the Mummers! Congressman Bob Brady, Save The Mummers Chairman of the Board George Badey, Councilman Frank DiCicco and special guest Hilary Bacon, oldest sister of the Bacon Brothers, joined hundreds of Mummers at their Museum, 2nd Street & Washington Avenue Sunday. Every Mummers club was represented as they marched up “2 Street”to draw attention to the concert event, and also to emphasize the beloved annual event needs extra funding. Michael & Kevin Bacon of the Bacon Brothers Band will headline a benefit concert at the Electric Fac(Cont. Page 2)
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