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RECOUNTING his own experiences with school violence growing up in W. Phila., State Sen. Anthony Williams tells Boys Latin School it’s time to hold problem parents to account, as Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Stewart Greenleaf pays heed.

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by Tony West Young persons who repeatedly violate the law may wind up in court for their misdeeds. If a measure now being considered in the State Senate comes to pass, some of their parents may wind up standing before a Judge as well.

State Sen. Anthony Williams introduced SB 99, which provides for “liability of parents and guardians and for pretrial diversion program.” It would impose a fine of up to $2,500 and a sentence of up to one year on an adult deemed responsible for a minor child is getting into serious trouble with the law or at school, if that adult does not work with authorities to mend the child’s ways.

A coalition of the city’s top leaders in law enforcement and education appeared in support of Williams’ proposal at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week. They included Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, School District Superintendent Arlene Ackerman, DA Seth Williams, and a representative of Philadelphia Federation of Teachers President Jerry Jordan.

Youthful violence has triggered public outrage as street shootings and flash mobs capture headlines. But most unruly behavior first crosses society’s radar in school. Poor academic achievement, serious disciplinary infractions and truancy go hand in hand. An early life of crime often begins with crimes in school.

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GOP Infighting Adds 400 More Committeepersons

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Judges Weigh In On Petition Fights A record number of people filing for committeeperson shows there are Democratic struggles for control inside at least 10 of the City’s 66 Wards. Challenges are also heated as a result.

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Sen. Williams Seeks To Cure Wayward Parenting

(Cont. From Page 1) The Senate hearing took place in Boys Latin School in Cobbs Creek, and the setting was part of the message. Although this charter school is in a hard-pressed inner-city neighborhood, its students are disciplined and achievementoriented. This school is known for strong parental involvement.

With proper adult guidance, Philadelphia’s teenagers can succeed.

Too many don’t get that guidance, though. “In many cases, we have kids raising kids.

We have parents in poverty dealing with substance abuse.

We have parents who themselves are engaged in criminal activities. Some are violent in the home. Some had bad experiences in school themselves,” argued Seth Williams.

It’s not that they don’t care

about their children’s future, the DA continued. But many of them lack essential parenting skills or need to improve them.

“The intent of SB 99 is to address the conduct of offending parents, not to produce convictions.”

Not all bad youngsters have bad parents, and Sen. Williams’ legislation relies on DAs to recognize those who are cooperating with academic and juvenile-justice authorities to the best of their ability. But others need leverage to learn to clean up their parental act, and that is what the threat of a misdemeanor conviction would provide. In the same way low-level DUI defendants are “diverted” into ARD treatment programs to improve their understanding of substance abuse, parents who are not providing adequate supervision would be steered into

programs that press their duties upon them.

Teachers in troubled schools know they’re not getting enough backup from parents. “Our research and experiences tells us that somewhere between 70% and 90% of discipline problems have their root cause in places outside the school,” said Rosalind Jones-Johnson, who is Director of Education for the PFT Health & Welfare Fund. “SB 99 is necessary because in far too many families the values necessary for success and safety in schools are either untaught or, more importantly, unlived.”

Parents are already required to supervise underage children to prevent truancy, and to work with treatment programs for the child. But Judges are reluctant to use their contempt-of-court sentencing power to enforce the rules on balky parents. Giving

prosecutors a legal tool to go after these adult offenders would strengthen their compliance with the programs, Seth Williams asserted.

And prosecutors have a stake in better-disciplined school-age youths, he continued, because “the best long-term strategy to reduce crime is to ensure that our children get a good education, are not truant, and graduate.”

Sen. Williams’ bill will undoubtedly be worked over. The DA proposed several technical changes. He also expressed concern the added treatment programs would become an unfunded mandate upon courts – and that the programs themselves wouldn’t be created.

Some witnesses saw these as fatal flaws in the legislation.

Shelly Yanoff, who heads Public Citizens for Children and Youth, said imposing new fines and fees on troubled low-income families “may exacerbate rather than improve their family life.” As for the diversion programs, she noted, “In many cases, these, like other prevention-type pro-

by Joe Shaheeli The Republican Party in Philadelphia is far from dead.

It just needed a little competition to begin lifting the Elephant off his haunches, and that came from within.

That infighting began when several ward leaders and key movers within Republican Party ranks, wanting change within the City Committee leadership, felt change would bring about a more-aggressive stance and more-definitive presence by the GOP in this city.

The Republican City Committee leadership quickly responded with the appointment of Jim Dintino, well known for carrying the Party banner, as RCC’s executive director. His 26th Ward was one of the more prominent in consistent voter production over the last decade.

He had replaced Al Schmidt, who had resigned from that position to run for Controller. After his loss in November, Schmidt, together with several high-level Republican ward leaders, including Matt Wolfe and Mike Cibik, met with State Republican leader Robert Gleason.

Gleason has been fretting over the fact the Democrat City Committee's ability to bring out huge numbers has proven to be the big weapon that destroys the ability of statewide Republican candidates to win seats. He wanted more Republican output from the City's Republican leaders, Chairman Vito Canuso and Republican Counsel Michael Meehan.

So Gleason anointed the rebel faction as the Philadelphia branch of the Republican Party of Pennsylvania and funded it as well, making Al Schmidt its senior advisor.

Both sides moved to bolster their strength. The Republican City Committee approved administrative changes in how its State Committee membership is made up, while getting ward leaders’ approval to make Republican registrations a key factor in how much voting power each ward leader would have in caucus and Party votes.

With battle lines drawn, both sides moved to increase registrations and the number of committeeman throughout the city.

As of filing deadline for the nomination petitions for the

new committeepersons, approximately 1,300 were filed, 400 more than was done four years ago, with the City's regular Republican Party acknowledging it had filed over 1,100. Al Schmidt's group reports it documented the petitions it turned in, which were 289 new committeepersons. It also zoned in on Republican wards where they felt their friendly leaders were targeted and succeeded in buttressing those leaderships.

However, as of last Tuesday, only a total of 724 Republicans have registered in this City since November. It's a bit disappointing for the leadership, a situation both sides agree will be their next focus.

Also expected is a rapprochement between the two.

It’s necessary. Both sides have indicated they need to work together for the common good.

Schmidt said, “We are aggressively moving into a public-relations effort to educate all the voters of this city as to how bad the city administration is doing, what it should be doing, and why it isn't.”

He added, “It is time we start fighting Democrats.”

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Unionized guards at the Philadelphia Museum of Art were shocked to learn their shop steward, Walter Lunsford, had been fired.

After six years of protecting the Museum with a perfect employment record, Lunsford was let go one week after having accompanied his coworker and fellow shop steward, Nate Alston, to a meeting to question Alston's recent termination.

The security guards at the Museum, represented by the Philadelphia Security Officers Union, organized a rally last Friday. Its purpose was to call attention to the suspicious nature of the firings of their fellow members by AlliedBarton, the company that the Philadelphia Museum of Art subcontracts to employ the guards.

The union contacted the media, City Council, and PSOU supporters. Minutes before he was scheduled to speak at the rally, which was held at the Museum and attended by dozens of commu-

grams, have been very vulnerable to being defunded and thus tend to disappear when the economic going gets tough.”

Yanoff has a point. This year, for instance, Don’t Fall Down In The Hood, an early-intervention program for youthful offenders, lost half its funding from the Dept. of Human Services and had to let most of its clients go.

That’s not something either the DA or Family Court can control.

An attorney from the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia echoed Yanoff’s criticism.

“Imposing large fines on poor parents and threatening or putting them in jail does not eliminate, or appear to reduce, truancy,” he stated. “In fact, it allows school districts to avoid working with parents to develop truancy-elimination plans. Instead, they just go to court.”

In the City of Lebanon, Pa., with 4,500 students, Churchill reported courts imposed $500,000 in fines on parents last year and sentenced three single mothers to jail. “We don’t need to fill our expensive and over-

nity activists, Walter Lunsford received a call from Allied Barton, offering him his job back.

“I went to the rally ready to speak out about the dangers

crowded jails with more nonviolent offenders because someone thinks they can be better parents,” he said.

Figuring out whom to prosecute and whom not to is the devil in the details of Williams’ proposal. But in Philadelphia, powerful advocates now think it’s an effort worth making.

Sen. Williams recounted his own experiences on the receiving end of school violence, as he grew up in West Philadelphia.

“We need a system that holds parents accountable for their inability to instill discipline, but also ensures parents they can steer their children in the right direction. I am glad we are beginning to have this conversation,” he said. Don’t be surprised if it enters into his bid for the gubernatorial nomination in the Democratic primary this spring.

As the Senator enjoys backing from the able Senate Judiciary Chairman Stewart Greenleaf along with three of his colleagues from Philadelphia, it is a conversation that must be listened to.

we face,” Lunsford remarked, “and instead I got to declare victory. I am proud to stand here with these folks who mobilized immediately in the name of justice.”

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CONGRESSMAN Bob Brady looks over portions of Harriet Tubman artifacts donated by Dr. Charles Blockson, left, as Museum curator Dr. Lonnie Blount looks on. artifacts. “It also means that Smithsonian’s National Muthere are scores of people who seum of African American will be encouraged and in- History and Culture is the spired to donate treasured most suitable place for “an items to the Smithsonian and unparalleled collection to be help to build a world-class mu- shared with millions of visiseum to honor the contribu- tors to the museum.” tions Africans Americans have Bunch said while the museum made to our great country.” has some enslavement objects, Chairman Brady was also such as shackles, that the Blockjoined at the event he hosted son gift is one of the first donaby Lonnie G. Bunch, III, tions representative of the more founding director of the personal aspect of enslavement.

NMAAHC and Congress The National Museum of Members Donald Payne and African American History and Eddie Bernice Johnson.

Culture was established in Dr. Blockson is founder 2003 by an Act of Congress, and curator of the Charles L. making it the 19th Smithsonian Blockson Afro-American Institution museum. It is the Collection of rare texts, slave only national museum devoted narratives, art and other his- exclusively to the documentatorically significant artifacts. tion of African American life, On making the donation, Dr. art, history and culture.

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In recognition of Women’s History Month and on the 188th anniversary of the birth of the African American abolitionist Harriet Tubman, Congressman Robert A. Brady, chairman of the Committee on House Administration, has honored historian and collector Dr. Charles L. Blockson.

The recognition was for his donation of his 40-piece collection of Harriet Tubman artifacts to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The collection includes a silk and linen shawl given to Harriet Tubman

by England’s Queen Victoria, historic photographs and a hymnal signed by Tubman.

Calling him an American treasure, the Congressman said he wanted to thank Blockson personally for donating the priceless collection to the Museum. “Today during Women’s History Month and on the 188th birthday of Harriet Tubman, we celebrate both the courage of abolitionist Harriet Tubman and the contribution Dr. Blockson has made to the Museum,” Brady announced.

The Congressman added the donation will insure thousands of visitors to the Smithsonian will see the treasured

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A US Senate Debate Without Stars?

A debate that presupposes the primary outcome for two US Senatorial candidates will be held Apr. 11 at La Salle University, with the state of the economy as its principal topic.

Democrat candidate Joseph Sestak has an uphill primary battle over endorsed Democrat incumbent US Sen. Arlen Specter, but believes this debate with Republican endorsed favorite candidate Pat Toomey will spike up his poll numbers.

Specter has refused several invitations to debate Sestak. The pragmatic politician understands why one should not give credence to the opposition by sharing a debate.

He will challenge Toomey in the General.

“The voters deserve to’hear the candidates’ views on the economy and our plans to put Pennsylvania back to work,” said Joe. “I am disappointed Arlen Specter continues to refuse his basic duty as a public servant to state his views clearly and honestly and be accountable to the people. However, I appreciate Pat is ready, willing, and able to engage in the kind of discussion that Pennsylvanians deserve to hear at this critical time in

our recovery.”

Why The Only Poll That Counts Is Election Day Sen. Arlen Specter has overtaken former Congressman Pat Toomey in a secondstraight poll, showing a 47-41 lead in a Research 2000 poll for the liberal website Daily Kos. Quinnipiac had Specter ahead 49-42. These polls show the incumbent with a lead. Toomey had earlier shown double-digit leads in some polls.

Specter’s resurgence is wiping away his unfavorable ratings as well with Research 2000 showing him with a 48% favorability.

Specter holds a 51-32 lead over Congressman Joe Sestak in their May 18 primary.

Toomey leads Sestak 42-39 in another potential general election matchup.

In another poll, Republican Toomey holds a six-point lead over Democrat Specter, thanks to his strength with Republicans, likely voters and independents, according to Dan Hirschhorn. He reports, “The GOP firm Susquehanna Polling & Research found Toomey winning 42% of likely voters, compared to 36% for Specter

and 18% who are still undecided. The results cut against a couple of recent polls that showed Specter retaking the lead against Toomey, but they’re in line with many other surveys conducted over the last several months.”

One key reason for the difference is Susquehanna’s specific selection of respondents; it polled only those who voted in General Elections from 2005-2008, emphasizing off-year voters “to reflect likely turnout in a non-presidential General Election.”

So the only real poll that truly counts is how the voters feel when they go to the polls Election Day.

Montco 8th Ward Endorse Hoeffel For Governor Democratic committee members in Philadelphia’s 8th Ward and Pennsylvania's 3rd-largest county – Montgomery Co. – have endorsed Joe Hoeffel for Governor of Pennsylvania.

The Eighth Ward, located in Center City, also known as “Silk-Stocking” Ward, is another key ward to endorse Hoeffel. Last month Hoeffel was endorsed by the 9th Ward in Chestnut Hill. Both wards are known for the progressive tilt of their voter base.

Eighth Ward Leader Stephanie Singer said, “The 8th Ward has always loved Joe’s values and his ability to

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Marcel Groen, chair of the Montgomery Co. Democratic Committee, said, “This endorsement vote clearly shows Joe Hoeffel continues to have strong support from Democratic committee members. We know he'll be a great leader for the commonwealth.”

Hoeffel is currently a Montgomery Co. Commissioner and served three terms in Congress, in addition to serving in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

How Long Will Debate Last If Held In 194th?

Josh Cohen, Democratic candidate for State Representative in Pennsylvania’s 194th Legislative District, which includes Roxborough, Manayunk, Wynnefield Heights, West Parkside, and parts of Wynnefield and East Falls in the City of Philadelphia, as well as Lower Merion, Belmont Hills, Bala Cynwyd, Merion, and part of Merion Station in Montgomery County, has challenged his six Democratic opponents to a series of formal debates on the issues that matter to the diverse residents of this unique city/suburban District.

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Cambria County Democrats Endorse Jack Wagner For Governor The Cambria Co. Democratic Committee has announced its endorsement of Auditor General Jack Wagner for Governor. Continuing to meet with Pennsylvanians in all 67 counties, Wagner said, “I look forward to working with these and other local leaders on the important issues facing Pennsylvania in the months and years ahead. It is an honor to have the Cambria Co. Democratic Committee's endorsement for the May primary election.”

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194th Debate? Wards Endorse (Cont. From Page 4) State’s independent fiscal watchdog, received recordbreaking vote totals in his reelection in 2008. As a gubernatorial candidate, he has earned endorsements and support across the state. In February, he was endorsed by the Pennsylvania Restaurant Association, which represents more than 7,000 Pennsylvania restaurants and foodservice establishments.

He has also been endorsed by the affiliated political-action committee of the Pennsylvania Business Council and Henry Nicholas, President of the National Union of Hospital and Health Care

Employees, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, and President of District 1199c of the national union.

Wagner was the top votegetter at the Democratic State Committee’s endorsement meeting in February, earning more than 50% of the vote and twice the total of his nearest opponent. He earned the majority of votes in 43 county caucuses.

Green Party Has Candidate In The 194th Legislative Race Hugh Giordano has kicked off his campaign for

State Representative as the Green Party candidate in the 194th Dist. in Roxborough and Wynnefield.

“I care about working people and will fight for workers’ rights,” said Giordano. “I have seen three generations of poverty living in the same house – that’s almost 90 years of poverty among hard-working people, people who worked in factories and never took a dime from the system. There’s something wrong with that picture.”

Giordano’s current boss, Chad Brooks of the United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 152, spoke

of Hugh’s hard work and dedication, “In my 13 years, Hugh is the only person I’ve ever recommended for a job.” Brooks met Giordano when the latter was a student at Philadelphia University and helped to unionize the dining hall where he also worked at the time.

The next stop in Hugh’s campaign will be the kickoff of his petition drive to get on the November ballot. As a third-party candidate, Giordano will have to collect approximately 450 signatures from registered voters by August. Petitioning began Mar. 10.

Jewell’s Staffers Educate

IN A SERIES of four meetings over last two weeks, like this one at Jones Memorial Baptist Church in North Central, State Rep. Jewell Williams’ staff has been reaching out to community residents with vital array of information about State and local government actions.

Ward Wars Go To The Judges More than enough nominating petitions for Democrat committeepersons have been filed to indicate there are leadership wars underway in at least 10 wards.

The wards were the conflicts are most obvious are 2, 7, 12, 19, 33, 55, and 63.

Wards 1, 18 and 28 show some interference, but not enough to give the incumbent ward leaders anything but a nuisance headache. The reasoning is they all understand there have been nips at their committee structure the last time around, which was four years ago.

Second Ward Leader Ed Nesmith has a full-fledged war on his hands, this one led

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Twelfth Ward leader Gregory Paulmier knows who’s coming after him. It's because he is always running against Councilwoman Donna Reed

VOTER Registration Administrator Bob Lee, right, with staffer Gregory irving were kept busy scheduling petition challengers who visited Registration Commission to check petitions.

Miller. He realizes she is putting up opposition to him, but “will not bother to file challenges against those petitions.

They’ve won some in the past and may do so again, but I believe I can hold on,” he says.

Twenty-five petitions were filed by the opposition in the battle to control the majority

of the 48 divisions in that ward. Paulmier intends to again run for the 8th Dist.

Council seat against Miller, saying, “She never gets a full majority because the rest of us who run split the majority vote.”

The 7th and 19th Wards can be called “la Guerra Latina”, the Latin War. It’s a war that will be decided by the court challenges each side is mounting.

Thirty-third Ward Leader Donna Aument finds herself in a battle with Candido Silva, from whom she had wrested back the leadership of that ward. This is a continuing odyssey.

Attorney Bob Dellavella, now the director of SELF HELP, the renowned drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, will have to spend some time defending his leadership in the 55th Ward from former loyalists of now-Traffic Court Judge Mike Lowry, who had

been the ward leader.

Sixty-third Ward Leader Bernice Hill is undergoing a full onslaught from Fred Mari, who ran for Traffic Court last time out but lost.

He believes between what he has filed and what committeepersons in the ward loyal to him can do, he could win the leadership.

All the petitions filed by committeepersons in both parties are subject to challenges. Deadline for the challenges was Tuesday at 5 p.m.

Prothonotary Joseph Evers reported a record number of challenges were filed.

Petition challenges were being heard Friday and Monday by Judges Chris Wogan, Idee Fox and Roger Gordon.

All of them have a sense of what truly constitutes an adequate challenge.

Three hundred and three hallenges have been filed by both parties in some of the wards.

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Energy rate caps for PECO and many Pennsylvania energy providers are set to expire on Dec. 31, 2010. Once removed, prices are predicted to increase from 20 to 50%, and numerous stranded costs will be passed onto the consumer.

These caps were established through the 1996 Pennsylvania Electricity Generation and Consumer Choice Act. Hoping to avoid the full brunt of the financial impact on Philadelphia's consumers, Council Majority Whip Darrell L. Clarke is introducing legislation which would create a publicly-owned, nonprofit energy authority in Philadelphia, allowing the City to enter the wholesale energy market. It would be called the Philadelphia Energy Authority.

The legislation would allow the City to shop around for different prices, services and types of energy (e.g. renewable/nonrenewable) and help to curb high costs from dominant

COUNCILMAN Darrell Clarke discusses legislation with constituent. companies.

According to Clarke, the measure's main objective is to curb any one company from setting the costs and to eliminate passing onto the customer any of PECO’s costs which it had been unable to in the old state of affairs which will expire Dec. 31.

Such publicly owned energy agencies already exist throughout the country — from small towns such as Auburn, N. Y. to big cities like Seattle and Los Angeles. The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission oversees the competition between these businesses.

Clarke noted, “Energy rate deregulation is fast approaching in Pennsylvania. I believe the City should be in the best position to be protected from exorbitant rate hikes that could occur, and if possible, to utilize of the most efficient energy it can.”

The City's Consumer Affairs Director Lance Haver added, “This is an important first step to protect consumers, small businesses and the city itself from skyrocketing electric rates that, without any action, would go into effect when the electric rate caps come off.”

The authorizing act reflects Clarke's thoughts on the matter. It states, “The control of the costs of electricity is an important factor in decisions made by businesses concerning locating, expanding and retaining facilities in the City of Philadelphia. The availability of alternative sources of electricity will benefit the consumers.”

Dear Neighbor: Believe it or not another election will be upon us. As neighbors and citizens we all have an obligation and personal interest in electing someone who will represent our needs and the needs of the community. I was born and raised in this area and have deep roots in the community at large. Who am I? • William “Bill” Morris born May, 1970 • Graduate of Archbishop John Carroll High School in 1988 • Served proudly in the United States Air Force and the Army National Guard • Carpenter Since 1995 with Carpenters Local 8 Youth Sports Coach since 1991, serving the Roxborough Eagles, 21st Ward Junior Baseball League, Region 5 Steelers, Cooperstown All-Star Team and currently coaching Roman Catholic High School Football In Addition to my involvement with the youth in the community, I have been personally involved in service in other areas such as: • Assisted with the construction of ramps for the handicapped and elderly • Assisted in the construction of a shelter for homeless pregnant mothers • Mentored in the recovery of alcoholics and drugs addicts I look forward to meeting you as I campaign for State Representative of the 194th District. Please e-mail me with your thoughts on issues that are of importance to you at bmorris2010@live.com Sincerely,

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locations in the same week and worked more than 40 hours, I was paid straight time when our contract called for overtime pay when we worked more than 40 hours.

That was the way they did business,” Whatley said.

Philadelphia Joint Board manager Lynne Fox labeled the suit “wage fraud.”

“Aramark apparently can’t read the wage laws or has failed to learn how to do simple math,” she said. The wage laws require Aramark to calculate properly the overtime rate based on all earnings. This includes gratuities and other earnings. The company consistently has failed to do this,” said Philadelphia Joint Board Mgr. Lynne Fox. Phyllis Valentino-Amatrudo, who worked for Aramark for more than 12 years as a server at the Wachovia Center and as a lead bartender at Lincoln Financial Field, is another lead plaintiff in the class-action case. She said she was routinely paid about half the gratuities customers were charged. “When I tried to correct these illegal and unethical wage practices, I was fired,” she said.

The filing in Common Pleas Court seeks that Aramark be ordered to immediately pay the long-owed

wages to affected workers and to stop these illegal wage practices.

Specifically, the workers and former workers contend the firm engaged in a pattern or practice at the stadiums of not paying workers overtime for all the hours worked in a week; in a pattern or practice at the stadiums of not paying workers overtime for work performed over 40 hours in

each work week; of failing to properly compensate workers when they worked through their meal periods; and of violating the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act of 1968 by failing to pay these workers minimum wages and overtime wages.

The Court will be asked to order payment of back wages and overtime for the losses suffered by the workers.

JOHN WHATLEY, one of the lead Plaintiffs, tells reporters about his experience working the concessions at both Lincoln Financial Field and at Citizens Bank Park for Aramark.Whatley also works full-time for Aramark at another location.

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by Rory McGlasson Aramark has been throwing a curve ball to its 3,000 employees working at the Sports complex in South Philadelphia when it comes to paying proper wages, according to a lawsuit set to be filed against the food-service giant.

Food- and beverage-service employees who work for Aramark at Philadelphia’s sports stadiums have gone to Common Pleas Court, claiming more than 3,000 employees were shorted over $2 million in pay by the Philadelphia-based company.

The employees, members of the Philadelphia Joint Board of Workers United, say the company paid straight time rather than overtime for work performed over 40 hours and used a confusing pay stub to intentionally obscure pay rates and gratuities.

John Whatley, a Chesterbased chef, is one of the lead plaintiffs, who worked on concessions at both Lincoln Financial Field and at Citizens Bank Park. He also works full-time for Aramark at the Boeing Co. in Chester.

Although he is still on Aramark’s books, Whatley has stepped up to the plate on behalf of the 3,000 employees.

“When I worked at these

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Keystone Mercy Opens Scholarship Program Keystone Mercy Health Plan members have a chance to receive help in pursuing their

by Michael A. Cibik, Esq. American Bankruptcy Board Certified Question: Have the Chapter 13 debt limits been increased?

Answer: Debt limits for Chapter 13 increase Apr. 1, 2010, to $360,475 of unsecured debt and $1,081,400 of secured debt. This change represents an increase of about 7% over the Chapter 13 debt limits in effect prior to the change.

Congress limited the amount of debt owed by the debtor in a Chapter 13 case, but adjustments to the debt limits are scheduled to occur every three years on the first day of April in the year of adjustment beginning Apr. 1,

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Our Opinion ...

Teach The Parents Well

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State Sen. Anthony Williams has introduced an important bill to grapple with the world’s worst-kept – yet most-ignored – secret about juvenile crime. In a large number of cases, problem kids come with problem parents attached.

He is proposing to use misdemeanor charges as a hammer to drive inadequate parents toward training and treatment they need to become abler supervisors of their minor children. It’s an intriguing idea that commands respect from those who are stuck with the consequences of these parents’ failures. Schoolteachers cannot teach and police officers cannot police, when parents don’t back up the authorities. We hope the legislature gives serious study to the Senator’s bill.

We must address how to fund the “diversion programs” that are the real goal of Williams’ plan. Simply tossing inept parents in the pokey will not give an ill-bred youth better breeding.

Therefore, no jail sentence or fine can be imposed if a parent’s needed treatment cannot be obtained.

And forcing parents to pay the full cost of interventions, which may prove pricey, is unrealistic. Folks who can’t pay for an ER visit cannot pay for a substance-abuse program either. State and local governments must expect to pick up some of the tab, just as they do for schools, courts and police.

Court-ordered education and treatment for such parents must be earmarked as a public-safety priority, even when they are carried out by schools, social services or health departments.

That may protect them when the budget-slashers come around.

ANOTHER OPINION

Save State Services For Those Who Served Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, officially closed their doors Jan. 1.

My objective since this decision was made has been to find a way to save these centers, which have provided invaluable services to our veterans, through assistance in locating Federal dollars from my counterparts in US Congress.

Established in 1980, the GVOACs are a unique tool of the Commonwealth, its veterans and their families, and it is incumbent upon us, as a legislative body, to find a way to fund them. They simply cannot be abolished.

There must be a way to preserve this program and to secure permanent funding for it. My contention is that we will need to rely more heavily on the GVOACs as our active-duty soldiers and personnel return home from overseas.

It is a sad state of affairs to have an entity whose mission is to serve those who serve us close its doors, even in a time of recession. I believe we are duty bound to find a way to keep the GOVACs operational. It is the least we can do for our veterans who have sacrificed so much to protect our nation and the freedoms we enjoy.

I and my colleagues in the State House of Representatives – from both parties – are reaching out to our colleagues on the federal level, requesting assistance and support to rectify this pressing issue. It is our collective feeling that we are duty-bound to come to the aid of those who have proudly and bravely worn our country's uniform, and who have made the sacrifices – and for some, the ultimate sacrifice – in the name of freedom and in defense of our great nation.

Finnigan’s Wake, 3rd & Spring Garden Sts., 6-9 p.m.

Tickets $30. Available at door.

For info (215) 743-4699.

Apr. 1- Reelection fundraiser for Fraternal Order of Police President John J. McNesby at Cescaphé Ballroom, 923 N. 2nd St., 6-9 p.m.

Apr. 10- Penna. Golden Gloves tourney kicks off at Blue Horizon, 7 p.m. Tickets $35. For info Joe Hand Promotions- 1 (800) 557-4263.

Apr. 10- Simon Gratz HS Class of January 1965 mark 45th class reunion at School.

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Apr. 15- Fundraiser for State Rep. Rosita Youngblood at Finnigan’s Wake, 3rd & Spring Garden Sts., 7-9:30 p.m. Tickets $100. For info (215) 745-4306.

Apr. 17- Ducky Birts’ Medallion Awards Banquet at 1st Dist. Plaza, 3801 Market St., 6 p.m. Tickets $65 each, two for $100. Entertainment

by Amazin’ Grace. For info call 215-242-1220.

Apr. 21- Dr. Nicholas DePace, cardiologist, speaks to Caring People’s Alliance at Fels Ctr., Broad & Ritner Sts., 10 a.m. He will give out free copies of his best-selling health book The Heart Manual as well as sign them for those attending. Admission is free.

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by State Rep. Kevin Murphy In October 2009, I learned of the State Dept. of Labor & Industry’s plans to close five regional centers and two multipurpose centers which, for 29 years, have served our Commonwealth’s veterans. I am speaking about the Governor’s Veterans’ Outreach and Assistance Centers.

The decision to go through with closing the centers was made because of further budget constraints with the 2009-10 fiscal-year budget.

Labor & Industry decided, painfully, there was no other choice but to redirect the federal funding, which previously went to the centers, to other veterans’-service organizations.

These centers, located in Harrisburg, Erie, Greensburg, Boyertown and West Pittston, along with the two multipurpose centers in

Mar. 18- State Rep. W. Curtis Thomas holds job fair at Bright Hope Baptist Ch. Youth Center, 12th & Cecil B. Moore Ave., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. For info (215) 560-3261.

Mar. 19- Gov. Ed Rendell heads host committee for fundraiser for State Rep. Cherelle L. Parker at Comcast Corp., 1701 JFK Blvd., 45th fl., 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. For info (215) 437-3294 x202.

Mar.19- State Rep. W. Curtis Thomas chairs House Urban Affairs Committee hearing on HB 1914, State Rep. Mark Cohen’s bill to require adding 50 wheelchairaccessible taxicabs with workers comp for their drivers, Rm. 400, CIty Hall, Broad & Market Sts., 10 a.m.

Mar. 19- 9th Ward Wear‘n Of The Green St. Patrick’s Party Fundraiser at Venetian Club, 8030 Germantown Ave., 8-11 p.m. Live music, dinner, drinks. Special Guest State Treasurer Robert McCord. $40 at door. RSVP John O’Connell (267) 312-1925.

Mar. 20- State Sen. LeAnna Washington holds Tax Planning Seminar & Services at

Upper Rm. Baptist Ch., 7236 Ogontz Ave., 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Refreshments. Free. Limited seating, so reserve seat by calling (215) 242-0472.

Mar.20- National Peace Rally in Washington, D.C.For $30 round-trip bus ticket, send check to “Northwest Greens,” P.O. Box 44353, Philadelphia, PA 19144-7353. For info (215) 843-4256.

Mar. 22Germantown Lehigh Business Association Breakfast meeting with Congressman Bob Brady at 917 W. Lehigh Ave., 8-9 a.m.

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Mar. 24- Reception for Councilman William Greenlee at Pyramid Club, 1735 Market St., 5:30-8:30 p.m.

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Mar. 27- State Sen. VIncent Hughes hosts Road Map to Financial Aid for College at HS Of The Future, 4021 Parkside Ave., 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Mar. 27- Maurine McFarlane, author of Release the Prophetic Destiny in Philadelphia, A City Under Reconstruction, celebrates Book Release at Relish Restaurant, 7152 Ogontz Ave., 1-4 p.m.

For info (215) 276-0170.

Apr. 1- City Commission Chair Margaret Tartaglione hosts 62nd Ward fundraiser at

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College Fair Will Find Money For Students

William (Bill) Lucy William (Bill) Lucy is the first and only President of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) since its 1972 inception. His many roles include, International Secretary Treasurer of American Federation of State and Municipal Employees (AFSME), first African American elected as President of Public Services International (PSI), the world largest labor federation, and a member of AFL-CIO Executive Council. Mr. Lucy was also instrumentally active in the anti-apartheid movement and worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike. Please join us, the Philadelphia Chapter of the CBTU, in celebrating the life and legacy of one of the greatest black labor leaders of our time.

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Cocktail Reception (Cash Bar) - 6 - 7 PM Dinner - 7 PM • Dancing to follow

Donation - $75.00 • Dress - Semiformal Portions of all proceeds will go to the Philadelphia Chapter CBTU Scholarship Fund Special Service Award will be presented to William “Bill” Lucy, President of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists

Philadelphia high-school students will soon have an opportunity to learn one of the most important things about getting ready for college: where to find the money for it.

State Sen. Vincent Hughes, the Educational Advancement Alliance, the Mayor’s Office of Education & the School District of Philadelphia are presenting “Show Me the Money: The Road Map To Financial Aid For College.” It will take place on Saturday, Mar. 27 at the HS For The Future, 4021 Parkside Avenue, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

High-schoolers from the 9th through 11th grades should attend to find out about finding free money for

college. There’s much more scholarship aid out there than people think! And doesn’t all go to sports starts or super scholars.

Vital help for high-school seniors will come in the form of advice and on-the-spot electronic FAFSA filing, an essay-writing clinic and open conversations with college financial officers.

Parents should bring 1040s, W-2 and 1099 forms, their social-security number and other tax-related information.

Look for financial-aid workshops, Radio One, door prizes – and even a scholarship raffle!

Present tat the event to offer their counseling and support will college and uni-

versity financial-aid administrators, College Access Program, the Educational Advancement Alliance, Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, the James Hughes Memorial Scholarship Fund, United Negro College Fund, Campaign For Working Families and more.

Nobody knows the game better than those who have just played it. Current college students will also be at Show Me The Money, to give helpful advice and support to high-school applicants on what worked for them.

High-school juniors and seniors will definitely not want to miss this event.

For more information, contact Tamica Tanksley at (215) 879-7777.

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On Feb. 23, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s Office of Education opened a new PhillyGoes2College Office (PG2C) within City Hall and launched a companion website, www.PhillyGoes2 College.com. These two sources of college-access information are part of Mayor Nutter’s education agenda to double the percentage of Philadelphians who attend and complete college in the next five to 10 years. The other education goal set by Mayor Nutter for the Mayors’ Action Challenge for Children and Families is to cut the city’s dropout rate by half in five to 10 years.

“Philadelphia’s future depends on increasing the number of our citizens with college degrees as we know that when we fail to help more people get to college, we fail to create the competi-

tive workforce that is needed for our city and state,” said Mayor Nutter. “With PhillyGoes2College, Philadelphians of all ages will receive the information and referrals they need to plan for, attend and succeed in college.”

The new college assistance office responds to troubling statistics that prompted the mayor to act. Recent research showed that of 12,230 9th graders entering Philadelphia public high schools in 1999, only 58% graduated within six years, 24% entered college within a year of highschool graduation and 10% went on to complete college by the year 2009.

“With only 21% of our citizens now holding undergraduate degrees, the Mayor has set an aggressive goal to support all Philadelphia residents who want to further their education,” said Philadelphia Chief

Education Officer Lori Shorr.

Low college-completion rates have a direct impact on the city’s economic vitality, since college graduates earn an average of about $1.5 million more than high-school dropouts over their lifetimes, and will contribute nearly $1 million more in local, state and federal taxes.

“College degree attainment is critical to ensuring a city’s economic viability,” said NLC Executive Director Donald J. Borut. “Mayor Nutter is to be commended for his leadership to increase Philadelphia’s college attainment rate.

There is no doubt that this office will serve as a model for other cities nationwide.”

The PhillyGoes2College Office will provide middleand high-school students with a comprehensive set of information and referral services.

High-school students will re-

major component of attaining the two goals” set at the beginning of his term. “This is

for young people, and the young at heart, who want to continue their education.”

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ceive help with the multiple steps of the college-application process, and assistance in filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Last November, the office sponsored a College Awareness Week, drawing thousands of students to college fairs and prep sessions, including a session on Historically Black Colleges and Universities attended by more than 1,500 students.

This past winter, the office trained 100 City employees to help students complete the FAFSA form and prepare scholarship application essays. This effort increased financial-aid applications by 12%, resulting in nearly $200 million in additional financial aid for Philadelphia students.

During the spring, the office will sponsor workshops to help students apply for state financial aid. Mayor Nutter has also called on local postsecondary institutions to extend an additional 1,000 scholarships.

In addition to providing local and national college access information, the new PhillyGoes2College website provides links to services that let students input test scores and grades to generate a list of colleges that match their needs and qualifications.

The PhillyGoes2College Office will not only target young students, but will also make its services available to the 73,000 residents who have completed some college credits but did not earn a degree, and to adults who have no credits.

“As a country, we must do all we can to increase the resources and opportunities available to our citizens in their pursuit of a college degree,” said Greg Darnieder, special assistant to the US Secretary of Education, who joined Nutter, Borut, Councilmember Jannie Blackwell, State Senators and State legislative staff at the press conference.

According to Mayor Nutter, PhillyGoes2College “is a

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Mayor’s New Office Guides Anyone To College

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Trunk Man was asked to shovel out the old Elephant Exhibit at the Zoo this week.

I asked my cousin, Trunk Gal, to pick up the slack for me. Thanks, T.G.!

Filing petitions for this year’s elections was last week. There were not many surprises other than our very own STATE REP. JOHN TAYLOR is running unopposed in the General. It’s about time, considering this man treats each election like it’s the election of his political life. Democrats in his District wised up to the fact running a campaign against this formidable incumbent will do nothing less than take resources away from other candidates who can actually use the support. Kudos to Rep. Taylor … and the Donkeys for wising up. Also running unopposed is STATE REP. DENNY O’BRIEN from the Far Northeast’s 169th Dist. This was expected, considering O’Brien’s strong passing of a Democratic test in the ‘08 primary.

Major congratulations go out to two very opposite groups in terms of GOP politics. One group deserving much credit is the Philly City GOP itself. I guess that old pack of Elephants is not quite so dead after all. Republican City Committee recently came together and filed a record number of candidate petitions. Their elephantine output was an open statement that the rank-and-file committeepersons and ward leaders are actively committed to supporting the leadership and going forward with a clear and positive agenda.

It seems to this petite pachyderm that their output overwhelmingly trumped efforts to oust current ward leaders and sitting committeepersons. The paid-to-play Republican players had very little success in Republican wards and divisions.

It seems to this gal a lot of State money was spent on a dog that didn’t hunt.

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For the last five months, I’ve been unemployed.

If you’re a journalist, being unemployed, especially lately, isn’t something that’s foreign to you. It’s kind of par for the course, especially as the business contracts. But it’s still not anyone’s idea of fun.

But while I’m technically unemployed, I’m still working pretty hard. I’m in graduate school, so I have papers to write, research to do, and I’m also freelance writing, trying to learn new things and looking for a job. I’m not just sitting around eating bon-bons and watching television.

However, to hear former Congressman Tom Delay tell it, I’m a welfare queen.

According to the “Dancing with the Stars” alum, collecting unemployment encourages laziness and because of this, unemployment compensation should be shortened. No extensions should be granted because extensions just allow these lazybones to continue to sit on their butts and collect a check.

Spoken like someone who lived in subsidized housing for a chunk of his life and made a living off of my tax dollars.

The thing that ticks me off regarding Delay’s sermonizing is it doesn’t take one very important thing into consideration: People aren’t hiring.

Delay also doesn’t take into consideration the fact folks are trying to do anything they can to bring money home for their families. Heck, I took the Census exam and have even applied for a job at Wawa.

But hey, when you were among the group that put us in the economic mess in which we find ourselves, you’re going to spend a little time in Denialville when your handiwork and its (Cont. Page 15)

Yo! Here we go again with this question – do egg rolls really come from China? Don’t bet on it. Today Chinese Americans make up about 1% of the United States’ population, but about one third of all ethnic restaurants are Chinese and in almost every supermarket there is a “Chinese” food section.

So how did this all start? In the gold rush of 1849, a Chinese American named Norman Asing opened a restaurant called “The Macao and Woosung”. He charged $1 for an all-youcan-eat Chinese buffet. It was the first Chinese restaurant in the US and was a real hit with hungry miners and other San Franciscans. This success inspired dozens of other Chinese immigrants to open their own restaurants called “chow chows”.

By 1882, there were more than 300,000 Chinese national immigrants living on the West Coast. Most of them came from Guangdong Province, whose capital city is Canton, so most of these Chinese restaurants served Cantonese-style food. In this cuisine, very little goes to waste. Every part of an animal that can be eaten is used.

In those days, “going for Chinese” was considered an adventure for most white Americans, so Chinese cooks learned how to adapt their dishes to make them more palatable to their American customers. The result was what we call “Chinese food” – most of which was actually invented in America.

For example: Chow Mein is a mixture of noodles and vegetables and the Mandarin word for Chow Mein is ‘fried noodles.’ Egg Foo Yung means ‘egg white’ and is literally translated to mean ‘egg egg white’. Fortune cookies were invented in 1916 by David Jung, the founder of the Hong Kong noodle factory in Los Angeles.

No one knows who invented Chop Suey or even how it got its name. Here is one theory; In 1850 a bunch of hungry miners demanded to be fed in a “chow chow”. It was late at night and to satisfy them, the cook stirred all the table scraps and leftovers he could find into a big mess and served it to them. The miners loved it and asked the chef what it was. He replied, “chop sui,” which in Cantonese means “garbage bits”. So won ton soup, egg rolls, barbecued spareribs, sweet and sour pork and beef with lobster sauce were all concocted for American appetites.

By the way, in China there now are restaurants which serve an American dish called Chow Mein. Go figure.

SNOOPER SCOOPER: The Police Truck Enforcement Unit, whose job is to check out all these TRACTORTRAILERS to make sure they are complying with all our TRUCK REGULATIONS and RULES OF ROAD SAFETY, are constantly patrolling our HIGHWAYS & STREETS to make sure they’re all in compliance. This unit ‘nailed’ one of them on Whitaker Avenue. Being The Snooper, I asked what was going on with this particular TRUCK STOP. The Officer told me this truck has a few VIOLATIONS, one being OVERWEIGHT. The Parking Authority was also there to IMPOUND this particular truck.

I was told many highway accidents, such as “roll-overs”, are caused, either by being overweight, or in many cases, DRIVER ERRORS. Thank God for this Police Unit – they are great!

SNOOPER’S “GRATITUDE” BUREAU: We can’t say enough about our great Police Commissioner CHARLES RAMSEY and all his professional POLICEWOMEN and POLICEMEN. They mean business, and it’s about time all these “FLASH MOBS” smarten up, because if they don’t, their Parents can come see all of them in JAIL. To all our great JUDGES: Please do what you have to and put all of them in jail; if not, you will be sending them ‘THE WRONG MESSAGE’. The Police will do their jobs, and it’s very important the Judges do theirs, OK! We congratulate them all on their recent “CRACKDOWN”.

SNOOPER’S “BIG STORY”: I knew it wouldn’t take too long before MITCH RUBIN’S name would surface in regards to the “FUMO INVESTIGATIONS”. Hold it, there (Cont. Page 21)

The steady rain falling did nothing to deter the St. Patrick’s Day marchers and the parade went off as scheduled, although to an understandably reduced sideline crowd. The weather didn’t seem to dampen the enthusiasm of the participants.

The Irish American Lawyers of the Delaware Valley (The Brehon Society) anticipated the rain by hiring a Parkside trolley. Members of the Society took turns parading in the steady rain while the others took shelter in the trolley. The trolley was provided through the generosity of lawyer JOE KELLY, who was in the line of march with his son JOE, JR. and Joe’s three-year-old daughter. Also present from the Brehon Law Society was well-known vocalist and band leader, TERESA FLANIGAN. The President of the Society, JOHN O’MALLEY, was there resplendent in his Brehon scarf together with his wife and two children. John provided donuts, hot coffee and soft pretzels for the bus riders. Municipal Court JUDGE FAY STACK was there with her three daughters and seven grandchildren; LISE HARRIGAN with her two boys; JIMMY DONNELLY; and from Delaware Co., BOB KELLY and GENE BONNER. As the parade approached the viewing stand, JIM LYNN, one of the honored guests, left the reviewing stand to join the slightly damp marchers. Also on the reviewing stand was well-known attorney AUSTIN McGREAL. Included in the line of march of Irish dancers were PATRICIA TEMPLE and her daughter BRIDGET. After passing the reviewing stand, the group moved on to the Plough and the Stars, the well-known Irish restaurant and watering spot at 2nd & Chestnut Streets, where the celebration continued.

By the time the group had passed the reviewing stand, the rain had diminished to a drizzle and then it actually stopped.

ANITA PADOVA celebrated her 80th birthday with a reception for family and friends at the Buck Hotel. Her husband DON is a longtime Democratic committeeman in the Far Northeast. Among those in attendance were Federal JUDGE JOHN PADOVA, Anita’s brotherin-law, and DON PADOVA, JR., in from Columbus, Ohio for the occasion. Old-time friend JIM McGINLEY, also a Democratic committeeman in the Northeast, was among the guests as was MIKE STACK, ward leader emeritus from the 58th Ward.

The fare at the Padova reception featured a filet mignon.

Don Padova, Sr. was longtime member of the Board of Prisons, where he was a trustee.

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Out & About

(Insert George W. Bush joke here.)

However, if you’re poor, a person of color or a woman, the playing field that is America has some landmines.

But while we recognize the unfairness of it all, we bust our behinds nonetheless because like all Americans, we too are aspirants. We read the same magazines and watch the same television shows. We want the Glamorous Life.

Who wouldn’t?

However, some of us need a little help as we make our way up the ladder of aspiration and that’s what things like un-

employment and welfare represent.

It’s too bad that folks like Tom Delay would rather see folks starve while trying to reach their higher ground.

Elephant Corner (Cont. From Page 14) However, the GOP State Committee’s presence in Philadelphia filed hundreds of new candidates for committee positions in the various wards in Philadelphia. New blood is always good. And as the old

saying goes, if you can’t beat em, join em. The bloodletting has come to an end. It’s now time to get it together, change where it is needed and keep what may work. This is the only way we can keep contested seats like that of STATE REP. JOHN PERZEL and pick up seats like the seat formerly held by likeable STATE REP. GEORGE KENNEY. That’s all for now, my political pundits. Trunk Gal is off to Florida to see her favorite new Phillies third baseman … Pachyderm Polanco!

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Minorities Learn How To Open Jobs At DRPA

that if you simply work hard, do what your told, and follow the rules, you too can be _____ (rich, famous, respected, or all of the above).

While that is a lovely belief, it would require a lot of changes in this country for it to be actually true.

For one thing, the playing field that is America would have to be truly level. I am chiefly talking about class. If you’re a rich white dude, you’ve got resources that poor white dudes don’t. Those resources can put you on the right track, even if you’re as dumb as a box of rocks.

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(Cont. From Page 14) consequences rear their ugly heads.

However, the main reason Delay’s attitude doesn’t surprise me is because he’s bought into the lie that is

America.

America as a concept is about aspirations. That means just about everyone in this country aspires to be something other than who they are at the moment.

Part of the aspirational nature of America is the belief

HOST business developer Ed Nesmith shares moment with DRPA’s Robert Gross prior to meeting.

It took a bit of muscleflexing and vocal participation in two Delaware River Port Authority board meetings to get a meeting of the minds, but 2nd Ward Leader and developer Ed Nesmith managed to pull it off.

His persistence, coupled with a group of Philadelphia minority contractors, got the ear of John Estey, board chairman, resulting in a meeting of both groups at his business headquarters at 25th & Federal Streets. In attendance were John Macklin, president of the National Association of Minority Contractors, and Sam Foley, Esq., general counsel and board member for the minority group.

Discussed were business opportunities for minority contractors. Coming with jobs in hand were DRPA and United Parcel Service.

DRPA indicated it had opportunities for minority- and women-owned businesses in all of its contracting-out categories. It outlined step-bystep procedures for applicants. They also learned DRPA and PATCO offer technical-assistance workshops and a host of other programs for new bidders.

Chuck Pennelton, a UPS vice president, outlined how his firm contracts out work to minority bidders.

Nesmith commented, “I’ve finally seen an outreach effort by these firms to the minority communities that should have a far-reaching effect.”

DRPA in 2001 outsourced to minority firms 29% of its total work. That fell to a low of 12.80% in 2007, rising to 17.31% in 2008.

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No Dampening Spirit Of The Irish This St. Patrick's Day

THREE Irish American stalwarts were Councilman Bill Green, State Rep. Brendan Boyle and FOP President John Photo by John J. Kline McNesby.

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JUDGE PATRICK Dugan marched with 82nd Airborne Division Association.

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JUDGE JIMMY Lynn, along with his wife Barbara, hosted his annual St. Patrick’s Day Break- JUDGE JIMMY LYNN welcomes, from left, Judge Bob Mulgrew, John Keenan and Tim Brown. fast in Old City.

Blondell Hosts Moxie Women

JUDGE Joe Waters marched with his daughter.

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COUNCILMAN BILL Greenlee, right, escorted Auditor General and gubernatorial candidate Jack Wagner.

GALE GIVEN, President of Verizon PA, sponsor of Blondell Reynolds Brown's Celebration of Moxie Women, and Mayor Michael Nutter at the Photo by Bonnie Squires ceremony in City Hall.

FROM LEFT are Nina Tinari, of Wojdak & Associates, Councilman Bill Green, Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, Councilwoman Maria Quinones-Sanchez and Stephanie Humphrey, of CW Philly, Mistress of Ceremonies, participated Photo by Bonnie Squires in Moxie Awards.

GALE GIVEN, CEO of Verizon Pa; Alisesha Vaughn, Blondell Reynolds Brown's Community and Public Relations officer; Radio One's E. Stephen Collins; and Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown at her City Hall ceremony honPhoto by Bonnie Squires oring Moxie Women.

TWO of Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown's "rising star" award-winners, left to right, Autumn Adkins, president of Girard College, and Anika Hawkins, 6abc producer, are congratulated by State Rep. Kenyatta Johnson at City Hall ceremony and reception.

REPUBLICANS showed up in force as seen here with Pat Meehan, Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Tom Corbett and Photo by John J. Kline Bucks Co. Commissioner Jim Cawley.

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City Hall Sam (Cont. From Page 14) STATE SEN. MIKE STACK’S St. Patrick’s Day Party was a rousing success. It was held at the Somerton Springs at the Brookside Manor. Among those in attendance were CONGRESSMAN PATRICK MURPHY; MIKE McALEER, ward leader from the 66th Ward; HENRY WINKLESPECHT; ARLENE PETROFF, the chairperson from the 58th Ward; and PETER MARKS and his wife SHIRLEY, who

drove down from Harrisburg especially for the occasion.

The fare was excellent.

There would have not been a St. Patrick’s Day parade without the excellent efforts of CONGRESSMAN BOB BRADY and JOHN DOUGHERTY, who is chief of the Electricians Union.

Both were heavily involved in a negotiation with the City with regard to the City’s claim for costs incident to last year’s parade and this year’s parade. Both Brady and Dougherty were instrumental in obtaining substantial con-

tributions to fund the parade.

A very fine ward leader, ANN LAND, departed this life after a long illness. Her ward, the 38th, included the Falls of the Schuylkill and East Falls. She was succeeded as ward leader by MIKE NUTTER, who, as you may know, is now the Mayor of Philadelphia. She was a close friend of MARYANN LEONARD WEINBERG and helped make Democratic Committee function smoothly during the time MARTY WEINBERG was the chairman of the Party.

Anthony Williams Helps Hunt BRAVING snow day, 40 eager applicants were standing in line as State Sen. Anthony Williams’ Job Fair opened on Thursday morning.

More than two dozen employers were on hand with information on employment opportunities for S.W. Philadelphians.

STATE SEN. Anthony Williams with hopeful jobseekers at Job Fair he had organized at University Of Sciences in University City.

Mayor Warms Kitchen

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DISCUSSING serious 2010 budget issues at kitchen-table chat in Kingsessing rowhouse of Helen-Hellon Divers, standing, Mayor Michael Nutter informs S.W. Philly civic leaders of his choices and seeks their input.

STATE REP. Ron Waters was glad to give his longstanding ally Chester Avenue business leader Josephine Blow a hug.

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Painting The Town ‘Red’ At Ball Guv Honors Staten. Jr.

STATE REP. Jim Roebuck joined CBS 3’s Jim Donovan and Tom Foley, CEO of S.E. Penna. Red Cross’ Red Ball.

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Brady Backs Chile Grapes

Rep. Cruz Opposes Soda, Trash Taxes State Rep. Angel Cruz has announced his opposition to Mayor Michael Nutter’s proposal to utilize two new tax programs to balance the City's budget.

The proposed tax programs include a 2-cent-perounce levy on sugary drinks, such as soda, and charging property owners $300 a year for trash collection.

Cruz said the proposal unfairly shifts the burden of the City's financial problems to residents.

DA Seth Williams brought two of his daughters to Red Ball and joined up w i t h Deputy Mayor Everett Gillison.

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“Residents are already feeling the pinch from the economic downturn and the Mayor's sales-tax hike from last year,” Cruz said. “At least that increase in the sales tax sunsets after five years.

The Mayor's new proposals”would be permanent.”

“We applaud them for so tirelessly giving of themselves to better their communities.”

A special honor went to Rev. James S. Allen Sr., a US Air Force veteran who has served in a variety of leadership roles including several with the National Baptist Convention, USA. Rev. Allen was a special assistant to former Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode.

Currently, he is chairman of the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations and pastor of Vine Memorial Baptist Church.

“Rev. Allen's civic engagement began when he joined the Air Force in the 1950s, and he has not stopped working to empower others,” said Rendell.

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The International Longshoremen’s Association has joined a broad coalition in a petition asking US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to suspend for humanitarian reasons for up to 20 days in April the restrictions on all table grapes imported from Chile.

In addition, retail giant Wal-Mart has sent a letter in support of the petition. So far, the Walmart Foundation has donated $1 million for emergency relief efforts in Chile.

Congressman Bob Brady has also joined the effort, saying, “Philadelphia’s port system is our most important economic engine.”

Brady continued, “Throughout my service in the Congress, I have been proud to lead efforts to increase produce imports into our ports.

With that in mind, I’m calling on Secretary Vilsack to suspend Table Grape Import Regulation No. 4 and protect family-sustaining jobs in the Philadelphia region’s ports.”

SINGER Adam Crossley, who entertained at American Red Cross' Red Ball, was interviewed at event by ClearChannel's Loraine Ballard Morrill. Photo by Bonnie Squires

Brenda Alton, pastor of Kingdom Embassy in Harrisburg; and Pittsburgh Police Assistant Chief Maurita J. Bryant.

“For the past eight years, it has been a privilege for Midge and I to honor dynamic African American leaders for their contributions to Pennsylvania," said the Governor.

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ATTENDING Phila. Chapter American Red Cross were Marcus & Tamica Allen; Roosevelt & Sarah Hairston; Tom Foley, CEO of S.E. Penna. Red Cross; and Keth & Tamiko Photo by Bonnie Squires Glover.

Samuel Staten Sr., business manager of Laborers' Local 332, was one of four honored this pat week by Gov. Edward G. Rendell and First Lady Judge Marjorie O. Rendell at a luncheon at the Governor's Residence in celebrating Black History Month.

Also honored were Rev.

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Classic cookbook dinners at ‘Kitchen’

by Len Lear Beginning on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 7 p.m., Pub & Kitchen, 1946 Lombard Street, will host an ongoing monthly series of “Retro Cookbook Dinners,” featuring chef Jonathan Adams’ interpretations of recipes from classic cookbooks. The first cookbook dinner will feature dishes from Craig Claiborne’s

New York Times Cookbook, published in 1961.

C h e f A d a m s , known by “Kitchen” regulars as “Jonny Mac,” has amassed a collection of over 100 cookbooks, and these original dinners will feature his own 2010 adaptations of recipes and landmark dishes from those books. The dinners will be $40 per person, not including tax and tip.

“These evenings will be exciting for me because

they’ll allow me to pay tribute to various chefs and their books, while simultaneously creating something new,” Adams said last week. “I want to encourage my guests to rediscover the vintage cookbooks that sit on their shelves collecting dust, because you don’t need a newly published or glossy cookbook to make a great dish. All you need is a sensible approach and your own creativity.”

Future dinners will be held on Wednesday, May 5, and Wednesday, Jun. 9, and will probably include Jeremiah Tower’s New American Classics (1986), Wolfgang Reighert’s Culinary Excursions Through Germany (1986) and Marco Pierre White’s White Heat (1990).

Chef Adams said he is also open to suggestions for cookbooks to feature in upcoming dinners on his Twitter account: @ChefJonnyMac. Entrepreneur-owner Dan Clark, managing partner Ed Hackett and Chef Adams opened Pub & Kitchen in

2008. Chef Adams previously worked at Marigold Kitchen in University City, among others. For more information about Pub & Kitchen, including their Retro Cookbook Dinners, call (215) 545-0350 or visit www.thepubandkitchen.com.

Bar Ferdinand Restaurateur Owen Kamihira’s tapas restaurant, Bar Ferdinand, 1030 N. 3rd Street in Northern Liberties, has just begun offering “Thursday Night Tastings,” a 13-plate feast that changes weekly to reflect the restaurant’s Spanish fare for $35 per person.

For an additional $25, four wines are paired with each of the four multi-plate courses.

Selections change weekly.

Menu items from recent Thursday Tastings include: sea-urchin flan baked in an egg shell cup; house-made fettucine with braised pork shoulder and black olives; and house-smoked trout sliders with horseradish crème fraiche.

“Whenever possible, our

Len Lear veggies come from local gardens, including the ‘Teens for Good’ garden, a non-profit garden that is tended and marketed by Philadelphia public high school students,” said Kamihira, who is also a noted artist and the person behind the iconic Buddakan Buddha and Continental martini olive.

For more information, call (215) 923-1313 or visit www.barferdinand.com.

A Supper Passover On Monday, Mar. 29, and Tuesday, Mar. 30, chefowner Mitch Prensky of Supper, 926 South Street, will

offer guests a Passover celebration: his Supper Seder Passover Dinner. The meal will feature traditional dishes, served in Supper’s “urban farmhouse” setting.

Menu items will include: charoset, a relish of chopped apples, walnuts and red wine, along with hard-boiled egg and house-baked matzo for the table; hors d’oeuvres of chicken liver mousse with port wine and crispy fried onions, or pickled baby beets with orange gremolata; first course of gefilte fish with fresh grated horseradish and beet essence or old-fashioned chicken soup with matzo ball and dill; main course of ovenroasted chicken with 40 cloves of garlic, and many more choices.

Supper, opened in 2007 by husband-and-wife team Mitch Prensky and Jennifer London Prensky of The Global Dish Caterers, was recently named to Philadelphia magazine’s “Top 50 Restaurants, 2009.”

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March Madness

(Cont From Prev. Page) (215) 592-8180 or visit www.supperphilly.com.

March Madness Almost everyone automatically thinks of Le Bec Fin as an ultra-pricey restaurant, but now until the end of March, Le Bec Fin is offering a special three-course menu and a glass of complimentary champagne for just $35.

One can choose from several appetizers such as soup

of the day or escargots with hazelnut champagne butter; entrees such as olive oilpoached salmon with vanilla salsify and blood orange emulsion; braised prime short rib with pommes de terre and mushroom tomato compote; and others, and dessert selections. Seating is limited and available in the mezzanine only. For more information, call (215) 567-1000 or visit www.lebecfin.com.

CIALS, and also MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS too.

TITLE 18 does not provide protection for all CROSSING GUARDS; this is why I cosponsored this BILL”. This BILL has already passed The House Judiciary Committee and is now ready to be voted on by THE FULL HOUSE. I hope THE HOUSE is sensible enough to see why this BILL is needed, especially in the troubled times of today’s Society.

SNOOPER’S “LAMENT”: I hope the boxing fans will allow me my moment of sadness, regarding the passing of a great guy, HON. GEORGE CHAVANNE. He was a true ‘boxing historian”, as well as The President of THE BOXING HALL OF FAME. Yes, he was also ‘The Commander’ of The Municipal War Veterans and held this post till he passed away. He was very remarkable, and a true friend of mine. We will all miss him, and he will finally REST IN PEACE – God Bless him!

SNOOPER’S ‘UPDATES’ Sideline Reporter, St. Paddy’s Day: What a fantastic Parade, one of THE BEST! I got to meet the great MR. SEAMUS BOYLE of MAYFAIR. He happens to be THE NATIONAL PRESIDENT of the famous A.O.H. CLUBS

of AMERICA. I had the pleasure of being ‘on the sidelines’, and what a pleasure I had meeting all the Philadelphia ‘celebrities’; MR.JOHN DOUGHERTY of The I.B.E.W. LOCAL 98 Union; His Eminence CARDINAL JUSTIN RIGALI; BILL GAULT, The President of the Fire Fighters’ Union; BOB KELLY of KYW TV; P. J. FITZPATRICK, one of the ‘co-sponsors’ of the parade;

ah yes, the man himself, ST. PATRICK – besides chasing snakes out of Ireland, HE also kept the rain away from this Parade. Erin go Bragh!

SNOOPER’S MEMO: To all our POLITICIANS, If I were you, I would NOT be taking your ELECTION, or REELECTION, for granted, trust me! The people of this City are FED UP and I can tell you, after talking with

many of them, they can’t wait for ELECTION DAY.

Correction In our Mar. 11 issue, the story “Socks Or Shoes (S.)O.S.) Drive For Homeless A Success” referred to Connie Little as “Deputy Sheriff.” Little actually holds the position of Undersheriff.

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Sealed proposals will be received by the School Reform Commission at the School Administration Building located at 440 North Broad St., 3rd Floor, Office of Capital Programs, Philadelphia, PA 19130-4015, until 2:00 P.M., on Tuesday, April 6, 2010. A non-refundable fee for each set of bid documents is as scheduled. The School District will only accept bids from companies that have been placed on its current Pre Qualified Contractors List as shown at psit.org. All School District Project require MBE/WBE participation as shown in the specifications.

FEE BUDGET B-041 (C) of 2008/09* General Contract James Logan ES $225,000.00 $ 100.00 Door Replacement 1700 Lindley Ave.

Sealed proposals will be received by the School Reform Commission at the School Administration Building located at 440 North Broad St., 3rd Floor, Office of Capital Programs, Philadelphia, PA 19130-4015,until 2:00 P.M., on Tuesday, March 30, 2010. A non-refundable fee for each set of bid documents is as scheduled. The School District will only accept bids from companies that have been placed on its current Pre Qualified Contractors List as shown at psit.org. All School District Project require MBE/WBE participation as shown in the specifications.

BUDGET FEE B-017 C of 2009/10 Electrical Contract Feltonville Intermediate $120,000.00 $200.00 Boiler Replacement 238 East Wyoming Ave.

*A pre-bid conference and site tour will be held at the project location, on March 15, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.

B-026(C) of 2009/10*

BUDGET Electrical Contract Edward T. Steel ES $200,000.00 Fire Alarm Replacement 4301 Wayne Ave.

FEE $ 100.00

*A pre-bid conference and site tour will be held at the project location, on March 19, 2010 at 12:00 p.m.

Information as to contract documents, etc., may be obtained at the above address, or telephone 215400-5225. Make checks payable to the School District of Philadelphia.

The School Reform Commission reserves the right to reject any and all bids and make the awards to the best interests of the School District of Philadelphia.

B-016 C of 2009/10

Mechanical Contract Feltonville Intermediate Boiler Replacement 238 East Wyoming Ave.

BUDGET FEE $1,400,000.00 $200.00

Specifications and/or plans and contract documents may be examined and copies thereof obtained from the School Reform Commission, 440 North Broad Street, 3rd floor, Philadelphia, PA 19130.

Information as to contract documents, etc., may be obtained at the above address, or telephone 215400-5225. Make checks payable to the School District of Philadelphia.

The School Reform Commission reserves the right to reject any and all bids and make the awards to the best interests of the School District of Philadelphia.

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(Cont. From Page 14) is more to this story, and I can tell you, through “A RELIABLE SOURCE”, this one isn’t over till they get themselves another “BIG FISH”.

They are working feverishly on this investigation and, I’m told, will wrap it up very shortly. Yes, there is definitely more coming, and it will ‘drag in’ others too.

Question: When will it be over?

Snooper’s ‘Late News’ Bureau: This one comes right from The Chief Justice of The Supreme Court, HON. RON CASTILLE. He stated, “JOSEPH EVERS, The Prothonotary of Philadelphia, is a very good ADMINISTRATOR, and he will be taking

over the Clerk of Quarter Sessions offices. The Chief Justice, along with Mayor Nutter, and The President Judge, HON. PAMELA PRYOR DEMBE, all stated, “NO ONE will lose their jobs, because this move will wipe ‘the slates’ clean. We know their choice of Mr. Evers was one that was well thought out and we admit it was really the best choice selected by them.” OK! SNOOPER’S HARRISBURG BUREAU: Philadelphia’s State Representative, HON. JOHN TAYLOR, has co-sponsored a BILL in THE HOUSE to protect our CROSSING GUARDS. Taylor stated, “TITLE 18 of the ‘Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes’ merely protects POLICE, SCHOOL OFFI-

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You are also warned that if you fail to file either an acknowledgment of paternity pursuant to 23 Pa.C.S.A. Section 2503 (d) relating to acknowledgement and claim of paternity, and fail to either appear at a hearing to object to the termination of your rights or file a written objection to such termination with the court prior to the hearing, your rights may be terminated under Pa.C.S.A. 2503(d) and 2504(c) of the Adoption Act. LAWYER REFERRAL AND INFORMATION SERVICE 100 West Airy Street, P.O. Box 268, Norristown, PA 19404 (610) 279-LAW1

The Golden Gloves tournament has started and, as customary, has drawn a number of top competitors. Tomorrow night will be the first round of the female division and Port Richmond’s Kelly Ryan will be one of the entries.

Competing in the premier amateur boxing tournament in the country can be a very challenging experience, but the 24-year-old is looking forward to the task. Kelly trained for the Gloves at the famed Harrowgate Boxing Club.

Her preparation included running three miles six times a week, tons of bag work,

VETERAN Boxers Association members John DiSanto, Charley Sgrillo, John Gallagher, and Fred Druding, Jr. present amateur boxer Kelly Ryan with a $500 scholarship check.

jumping rope, physical-strength exercises and sparring. With a shortage of female boxers at her gym, Kelly has even sparred with men to prepare herself for the Gloves.

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