Mifflin Park Gets A Makeover; Becomes Ritner Street ‘Oasis’
MANY HANDS make the load lighter. Representing various organizations that came together to clean up Mifflin Park are Haeng Om, Mark Squilla,Cory Miller, Matt Migliore, Brooke Allen, Saron Chan, Mia-Lia Kiernan and Vyreak Sovan. Photo by Maria Merlino
by Maria Merlino Cleanup at Mifflin Park began about 13 months ago, according to Brooke Allen and Matt Migliore; the facility is now one month away from a real makeover. Together, Migloire and Allen founded SustainADELPHIA, a program whose mission is to work with some of the city’s more-established parks groups and neighborhood associations to help lift the City’s mostneglected parks and neighborhoods. Last weekend, area youth and park patrons were out again in force
to help beautify the park, located at 6th & Ritner Streets. It was the second phase of three cleanups scheduled for the park. Over 50 volunteers showed up to gather a couple of dozen bags of trash and nine trash bags of recycling. Volunteers, including boys and girls, took cans of paint and paint brushes to the drab park benches and livened them up with bright colors. When the work was done, everyone was treated to a healthy lunch, a basketball tournament and hoola-hoop lessons. (Cont. Page 2)
Children from Cambodian Association do their part to keep Mifflin Photo by Cory Miller Park tidy.
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Family, Friends Remember ‘Pittsy’
by Maria Merlino and Thomas James Emotions were certainly highly charged yesterday afternoon for family and friends of Tom “Pittsy” Pitts. The local pilot was laid to rest at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church in the Greenville, Del. area in front of mourners on Wednesday. It seemed like 1,000 family and friends attended a wake in his honor on Tuesday at Immaculate (Cont. Page 2)
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Troops Need Phone Cards To Call Home State Sen. Larry Farnese is seeking phone cards from you, so our troops can call loved ones back home. During a recent fundraising drive, Farnese joined The USO of Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey, The Philadelphia Union, Philadelphia Independence, AT&T and Blue Star Mothers as part of “Operation Touch of Home”, a collaboration to support our troops. “Sen. Farnese appreciates all who donated, and he has decided to continue the drive indefinitely,” said Farnese’s Communication Director Cathie Abookire. (Cont. Page 8)
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