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INDEPENDENCE DAY SHERIFF JEWELL WILLIAMS easily rebuffs City Controller’s charges with proven facts.

Controller Behind Times! Pages 3-15 Responding officially to the Memorandum of Understanding Audit released by City Controller Alan Butkovitz, Sheriff Jewell Williams has given the public a point-by-point address that exposed several major errors in the audit of the MOU between the Office of the Sheriff of Philadelphia City & County and Philadelphia City Administration.

“It’s not unusual to disagree with the findings of any audit, but when the findings are both dated and inaccurate, there must be a response,” said Sheriff Williams.

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STATE REP. Ed Neilson stands with his family, Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley and Gov. Tom Corbett as Neilson's youngest son Ryan adds his name next to the governor’s signature on legislation establishing the Dyslexia & Early Literacy Pilot Program. After Corbett signed bill, he passed the pen to Ryan, who was the inspiration for the legislation. Story page 2

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Sheriff Jewell Williams Corrects Corbett Signs Dyslexia City Controller’s Latest Audit Legislation Into Law

(Cont. From Page 1) In a letter to City Controller Butkovitz, Sheriff Williams pointed out that the findings of the audit: • Cited processes and procedures from more than a year ago that have since been either eliminated, and/or corrected.

• Incorrectly stated the Office of the Sheriff of Philadelphia City and County were not following the “city’s required procurement and contracting guidelines” when in fact every major contract has gone through the competitive bidding process as required by the city.

• Incorrectly stated “new bank accounts had not yet been established” when during

the period of the audit, the City Treasurer conducted a lengthy review of all city banking relationships, including those of the Sheriff’s Office. In response, the Sheriff’s Office chose one of two banks recommended by the City Treasurer, which is also aware of all accounts and has online, real-time access to these accounts.

Butkovitz’ audit also offered several solutions to correct situations that had already been put in place over the course of the audit and were not mentioned in his final report.

“Trying to tackle the problems and concerns of an office that have accumulated over

more than 20 years is not an easy task,” said Sheriff Williams.

“We have spent an enormous amount of time and energy correcting situations and putting safeguards in place to protect the integrity of the o fice,” he continued. “It’s no small matter for us to not see that same type of integrity in an audit that apparently failed to update itself on real-time situations in the Office of the Sheriff of Philadelphia City & County.”

A copy of the response was also sent to The Mayor and City Council Members.

For more information, contact Joseph P. Blake at (215) 495-4174.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett has signed into law HB 198, the Dyslexia & Early Literacy Intervention Pilot Program. The program will provide early screening for all students enrolled in full day kindergarten for potential risk factors for early reading deficiencies and dyslexia. The pilot program will operate in three school districts for a full three years. Participants will be selected from a pool of district applicants that will be given the opportunity to apply for the program in the near future.

“Finally we can start providing children with dyslexia the resources they need to thrive,” said State Rep. Ed Neilson (D-Northeast), who has pushed the legislation.

“This program will allow us to better identify children in need of extra assistance and attention, and it has the potential to provide us with a model for other special-education efforts that can produce better outcomes at a lower cost.”

Diane Reott, a Newtown Square resident and mother of a dyslexic child, has, along with several others, started the Pennsylvania Dyslexia & Literacy Coalition, which worked DEPUTY Sheriff Officer Cathleen Remmert and Deputy Sheriff Officer Timothy Prout have with Neilson on HB 198. The successfully completed Bike Patrol training with Yeadon Police Dept. and are now part of coalition consists of parents, Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office Bike Patrol Unit. In photo are, from left, Police Officer Kevin educators, professionals and O’Gara, Deputy Sheriff Officer Lt. Michael Bastone, Remmert, Police Officer Lt. James like-minded groups, including Reif, Prout, and Police Officer Capt. Dave Madonna. the International Dyslexia As-

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sociation, Decoding Dyslexia PA and Learning Ally, whose goals are to raise awareness of dyslexia and the need for better teacher training so that all children can learn to read.

“According to the latest research studies, early intervention, particularly in kindergarten and 1st grade, can make a significant difference in students’ success in school,” said Reott. “Thanks to HB 198, this pilot screening will finally put into place welldocumented research that early intervention can help all students who are struggling readers while helping to recognize the dyslexic students early.”

On average, one of two kids in every US classroom has dyslexia, a brain-based learning disability that often runs in families and makes reading difficult, and in many cases painful. For these children, the path toward reading is often marked by struggle, anxiety and feelings of inadequacy. Students who have been diagnosed with dyslexia usually have already experienced multiple failures at school.

“In 2013, 27% of Pennsylvania fourth graders read at a Below Basic level in 2013,” continued Reott. “But with early intervention we can decrease the number of poor readers significantly.”

SEPTA Adds Service For July 4th Celebration SEPTA will run extra service on Jul. 4 to get people toand-from the Wawa Welcome America Celebration.

All SEPTA Regional Rail, bus, trolley, Market-Frankford and Broad Street Line Service will operate on a Sunday schedule on Jul. 4, with additional late-night service to accommodate holiday revelers from the Parkway.

Market Frankford Line: Ten additional trains will be added to provide service every

5 to 7 minutes beginning at 4:30 p.m. These service levels will remain in effect through 1:15 a.m. SEPTA’s Overnight subway service pilot will be in effect through the holiday weekend with service operating every 20 minutes until 5:00 a.m. 15th Street Station provides easiest access to/from festivities on the Parkway.

Broad Street Line: Eight additional trains will provide service every 5 to 7 minutes beginning at 4:28 p.m. These

service levels will remain in effect through 1:15 a.m. Overnight subway service will be in place throughout the holiday weekend with service operating every 20 minutes until 5:00 a.m. Spring Garden, Race-Vine and City Hall Stations provide easy walking access to the Parkway.

Regional Rail: SEPTA will extend Regional Rail service for customers leaving Center City after the fireworks display on the Parkway. A total of 17 trains will depart from Suburban Sta-

tion between 11:30 p.m. and 12:45 a.m. Trains will make all local stops. Special schedules are accessible online at www.septa.org/events/holiday.html.

Trolley: Additional trips will be added on Routes 10, 11, 13, 34, and 36 after the fireworks as needed.

Buses: Bus riders should be on alert regarding detours that will be in place for road closures related to the festivities on the Parkway and around

Center City. Specific detours for routes 5, 7, 9, 17, 21, 33, 38, 42, 43, 44, 47, 48, 57 and 61 have been posted online with some taking effect on Wednesday, Jul. 3. Specific service detour information is available on the service status section of www.septa.org.

To speed their trips home, passengers are encouraged to purchase fares before beginning travel. Complete service information is available on SEPTA’s website.

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lated incidents in Pennsylvania include a mishap in Palmyra in 2010 and another near New Castle in 2013. In both of these cases, young people sustained serious burns and other injuries.

People also like to experiment with fireworks at their homes. However, even if fireworks are legal in your community, PaACEP strongly suggests you do not use them at your home. If you do use fireworks, however, these dos and don’ts will help make your 4th of July display a safer experience: Do: Read warning labels and follow all instructions; keep a bucket of water or fire extinguisher on hand; light fireworks one at a time, and dispose of all fireworks properly.

Don’t: Give any fireworks, including sparklers, to small children; older children should be supervised by an adult;

light fireworks indoors or near other objects; wear loose clothing while using any fireworks; set off fireworks in glass or metal containers; the fragments can cause severe injury, or try to relight or handle malfunctioning fireworks.

“We don’t want to see you in the emergency department this 4th of July, but rest assured, Pennsylvania’s emergency physicians and other emergency healthcare providers are there for you 24/7 if you need emergency care.” said Dr. Bohrn. “Enjoy the show from a safe distance and let professionals handle the fireworks.”

PaACEP is a state chapter of the ACEP, a medical society that has represented physicians specializing in emergency medicine since 1971. PaACEP is committed to advancing emergency care through continuing education, research and public education.

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Most everyone enjoys a dazzling fireworks display on the 4th of July. In Philadelphia and towns across Pennsylvania host pyrotechnical shows each year. But no one enjoys the burns and other injuries that can result from being too close to the spectacle or mishandling a firecracker.

“You can’t be too careful around fireworks,” says Dr. Michael Bohrn, president, Pennsylvania Chapter, American College of Emergency Physicians. “Emergency professionals see more fireworkrelated injuries around the Fourth of July than people would like to believe.”

Emergency departments in Pennsylvania treat thousands of fireworks-related injuries each year, many of which occur among children under 15. Most injuries involve burns, but others include damage to eyes, head, face and ears. Notable fireworks-re-

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JANNIE L. BLACKWELL WE CELEBRATE FREEDOM, FAMILY AND FAITH AND ALL THOSE WHO SACRIFICE DAILY FOR OUR ABILITY TO ENJOY THESE BLESSINGS.

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...From Our Supporters In This Issue And Staff Of The Public Record Jul. 19- State Sen. Anthony Williams, State Rep. Margo Davidson and Yeadon Friends & Neighbors at Nile Swim Cl., 513 S. Union Ave., Yeadon, Pa., 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Jul. 31- State Rep. Michelle Brownlee hosts Senior Expo at Blumberg Garden Apartments, 2311 Jefferson St., Sr. Community Rm., 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. For info (215) 684-3738.

Jul. 31- Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown hosts Summer Bash at Woody’s, Hip Hop Rm., 202 S. 13th St., 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tickets $20.

For info (267) 275-2120.

Aug. 2- Councilman Jim Kenney hosts Shellfish Shindig at Shucker’s, 9403 Margate Ave., Margate, N.J., 5-7 p.m.

Oysters $1,500, Clams

$1,000, Mussels $500, General Admission $30. Checks payable to “Kenney 2015”.

R S V P LPerryConsulting@gmail.com or (267) 275-2120.

Aug. 6- Kensington’s St. Anne’s Church hosts Shore Thing at Keenan’s Irish Pub, N. Wildwood, N.J., 3-7 p.m.

Aug. 8- Councilman Mark Squilla hosts annual Summer Soirée at Keenan’s Irish Pub, N. Wildwood, N.J., 7-10 p.m. Tickets $50. For sponsorships and other info Lindsey (267) 275-2120.

Aug. 9- Local 98 and Gas Workers Union hold galas at Keenan’s Irish Pub, N. Wildwood, N.J. Aug. 16 - Councilman Curtis Jones holds Block Captains

Boot Camp & 4th Dist. Day Street Festival. Boot Camp at Beeber MS, 59th & Malvern Ave., 12-3 p.m.; Street Festival on Upland Way between 57th & 59th Sts., 12-8 p.m.

For info Ajeenah Amir (215) 686-3416.

Aug. 16- Operating Engineers hosts summer gala for members at Keenan’s, N. Wildwood, N.J. Aug. 16- George Brooks leads crab and shrimp festival in Baltimore Harbor. Tickets $155. Round-trip coach leaves Progress Plaza 1 p.m. and returns 11 p.m.

Aug. 16- State Sen. Anthony Williams holds Beautification Project + Summer Peace event on Cobbs Creek Pkwy between Catharine and Chris-

tian Sts. Aug. 24- Billy Meehan Clambake at Cannstatter Turnfest Verein, 9130 Academy Rd., 4-8 p.m. Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley is honored. Tickets $100. For info Republican City Committee (215) 561-0650.

Sep. 1 - AFL-CIO Labor Day Parade & Penn’s Landing Picnic, starting from Delaware & Reed Sts. Sep. 6- State Sen. Anthony Williams holds Summer of Peace Event at Clark Park, 43rd & Chester Ave., 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Old-school games, free food.

Sep. 6- Annie Havey Hosts Flea Market Buy & Sell starting on parking lot of V&S Elmwood Lanes, 7235 Elmwood Ave., 7 a.m.

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Jul. 7- Al Bustan Seeds of Culture to conduct K-8th Arabic-language lessons at Friends Select, 17th & Parkway. To register visit http://albustanseeds.org/programs/al-b ustan-camp/.

Jul. 10- State Rep. Michelle Brownlee hosts Senior Expo at Francisville Village, Community Rm., 1510 Poplar St., 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. For info (215) 684-3738.

Jul. 10- State Sen. Mike Stack with special guest Congressman Bob Brady for General Election Campaign Kickoff at Union League, 140 S. Broad

St., 5:30-7:30 p.m. For info (267) 275-2120.

Jul. 12- Councilman Kenyatta Johnson, State Rep. Jordan Harris and Unity in Community host summer event at Smith Plg., 25th & Jackson Sts., 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Jul. 18- Sippin on Seabreeze with Councilman Bobby Henon is hosted by Retired Sheriff Barbara Deeley at 270 Seabreeze Ct., Angelsea, N.J., 7-9:30 p.m. Suggested contribution $100. RSVP badeeley@gmail.com or (215) 906-0339. Checks payable to Bobby11 c/o 7730 Richard St., Phila. 19152.

Jul. 19- Congressman Bob Brady Bunch Summer Starter Party at Westy’s, N. Wildwood, N.J., 3 p.m.

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monies that celebrate the Declaration of Independence, including the re-enactment of the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence on Independence Square on Jul. 8. A full list of Independence Day events can be found on the park’s website and the Independence Visitor Center website.

The fight for civil rights continues long after our nation’s founding. The Civil Rights Film Series honors the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, one of the most -pivotal opinions ever rendered by that body.

Films shown during the Civil Rights Film Series will include films from: Booker

T. Washington National Monument; Frederick Douglass National Historic Site; Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site; Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site; Women’s Rights National Historical Park; Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site; and, Little Rock Central HS National Historic Site.

Visitors and neighbors are invited to join the park in commemoration of the anniversary of the Brown v.

Board Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in public schools with this series of films from NPS sites around the country that tell the stories of civil-rights advocates and pioneers, in celebration of Independence Day.

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As part of its Independence Day celebrations, Independence National Historical Park will screen films from seven National Park Service sites that tell the stories of civil-rights advocates and pioneers.

On Jul. 5 and 6, Independence will host a Civil Rights Film Series in the Independence Visitor Center.

The film series will run 12:00-5:00 p.m. with a new film starting every 30 minutes.

The series is one element of the weeklong celebration of Independence Day at Independence National Historical Park. Events throughout the week include traditional parades, a symbolic tapping of the Liberty Bell and a variety of programs and cere-

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Area Military Kids Can Get Free School Supplies

Operation Homefront of Pennsylvania/Delaware/New Jersey has opened registration for Back-to-School Brigade events taking place starting Aug. 2, 2014 where free backpacks full of school supplies will be given to military kids.

Service members wishing to bring their children to the event to receive free school supplies must register online at www.operationhomefront.net.

Enlisted service members from all branches of the Armed Forces, E1-E6, are eligible to

receive free back packs filled with school supplies for their children and must register by Aug. 1, 2014 in order to pick them up on the day of the event.

“Military families deal not only with deployments and the other stresses of military life, but also the economic difficulties shared by all Americans,” said Pete Stinson, executive director of Operation Homefront’s PA/DE/NJ Field Office.

“These donated school supplies enhance the morale and the success of our military children,

while easing the burden military families carry.”

The school supplies will be donated by people from around the Philadelphia area and collected at local Dollar Tree stores as part of Operation Homefront’s nationwide Backto-School Brigade program.

A national nonprofit, Operation Homefront leads more than 2,500 volunteers with nationwide presence who provide emergency and other financial assistance to the families of service members and wounded warriors.

July 4th Fun For Kids

Looking for family fun?

Then follow parents and children will start July 4th by breaking a sweat with a variety of activities at Smith Memorial Playground in East Fairmount Park during the second installment of Go 4th & Learn. Kids will enjoy the 6.5-acre playground, which includes the Ann Newman Giant Wooden Slide and more than 50 other

pieces of equipment.

Later in the evening, the Philadelphia Orchestra will perform a free Neighborhood Concert on the River Stage at the Great Plaza of Penn’s Landing.

Guest conductor for one of the pieces will be Mayor Michael A. Nutter. Following the concert, there will be a small landside fireworks salute.

Finally, the Philly @ the

Movies series continues with the second installment of the Hunger Games series, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Movie-goers will be able to cheer on the triumphant leading lady, Katniss Everdeen, as she returns to the Hunger Games arena with one of Philadelphia’s most-loved parks, Rittenhouse Square, in the background.

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Celebrate July 4th in Philadelphia Philadelphia, the birthplace of independence, is celebrating the 4th of July in a big way. From the start of the annual Wawa Welcome America! festival on Jun. 28 to the Independence National Historical Park Service’s reading of the Declaration of Independence on Jul. 8, events celebrating America’s birthday will light up the streets, the skies and the stages from the waterfront at Penn’s Landing to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on the other side of town.

POPS on Independence, Thursday, Jul. 3, 8 p.m.Independence Hall Join the Philly POPS!® on Independence Mall for a free patriotic celebration in honor of America’s birthday. Bring a blanket and lawn chairs for the annual all-American themed concert which includes a performance of the “1812 Overture” and excerpts of the Declaration of Independence read by Thomas Jefferson.

Celebration of Freedom Ceremony, Friday, Jul. 4, 10-11 a.m.,6th & Chestnut Streets Pay tribute to the history of our great nation at Independence Hall with a patriotic and inspiring morning of music, speeches and a reading of excerpts from the Declaration of Independence. This year’s ceremony recognizes the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision.

Independence Day Parade, Friday, Jul. 4, 11 a.m. Starts at 6th & Chestnut Streets More than 5,000 participants will take to the streets of Historic Philadelphia for a patriotic and colorful parade featuring marching bands,

floats, military members and more.

Let Freedom Ring, Friday, Jul. 4, 1-2 p.m., Independence National Historical Park Descendents of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence and Pennsylvania Society’s Sons of the Revolution take part in this special event in the shadow of Independence Hall. The morning celebration concludes with symbolic tapping of the Liberty Bell at 2 p.m.

Party on the Parkway, Friday, Jul. 4, noon-7 p.m., Benjamin Franklin Parkway Head to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to celebrate America’s Birthday with a massive celebration featuring live music, family-friendly activities, games, food and more.

Super Scooper All-You-Can-Eat Ice CreamFestival, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Jul. 4-6, 12-5 p.m., Penn’s Landing Bring your sweet tooth to Penn’s Landing for the three-day, immensely popular all-you-caneat ice cream spectacular benefiting the Joshua Kahan Fund for pediatric cancer. A $7 donation is required to join the fun.

Philly 4th of July Jam and Grand Finale Fireworks, Friday, Jul. 4, 7-11 p.m. Benjamin Franklin Parkway The Roots, Ed Sheeran, Nicki Minaj, Jennifer Hudson and many more will take the stage for the “Largest Free Concert in America” followed by a magnificent fireworks spectacular over the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Want a great view of the show? Check our interactive online map of the top places to watch the fireworks.

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Gracie To Rock Disston Rec “Philly’s first” rock star”, Charlie Gracie will perform at the next Tacony Summer concert at 7p.m. Jul. 10 at Disston Recreation Center.

Gracie’s records topped the American & British charts in 1957 with his smash hit” Butterfly”, which sold over 3 million copies. He followed with hits like “Fabulous”, “99 Ways”, Wanderin Eyes” and “I Love You So Much It Hurts”.

A major presence on shows like American Bandstand, Ed Sullivan and Alan

Freed, Gracie helped Philly’s famous CameoParkway record label rise to the top of the music industry in the late 1950s. He still plays the two Guild X-350 guitars he bought for $750 each in South Philadelphia in 1957.

Charlie enjoys a strong following and still performs at clubs and resorts along the Northeast Corridor of the United States, as well as in England, Italy, Germany, Austria, Finland, Spain and Holland. Paul McCartney

paid tribute to Gracie by recording a version of “Fabulous” in his 1999 CD series “Run Devil Run”. In 2013, Gracie released “For The Love of Charlie,” a critically acclaimed album, produced

by AI Kooper which featured rockabilly, blues, country, pop and a touch of gospel music.

Louj Iatarola, of Tacony Business Association, advises attendees to “show up early and bring a chair for what promises to be a memorable evening.”

PHILA.’S own Hon. Jessica Wright, Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness, was presented with Abraham Lincoln Award by Admiral Tom Lynch, Union League president. Wright spoke at Union League’s 239th Army Birthday.

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JESSICA WRIGHT, Undersecretary of Defense, is thanked for her recent Union League talk by 1st Regiment Corp. CEO Col. Tom Anglim; Scott Brown, City Veterans Commissioner; and Jon Peterson, commander of League Benjamin Franklin American Legion Post.

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Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE) program was created to address the gap in training between the Standardized Field Sobriety Testing and the Drug Evaluation & Classification programs.

ARIDE bridges the gap between these two programs by providing officers with general knowledge related to drug impairment and by promoting the use of DREs in states with the DEC program.

ARIDE is a 16-hour training course taught DRE instructors and officers attending the training must already be SFST-certified.

Pennsylvania piloted the program in 2007 and now has more than 6,000 officers trained in ARIDE. If you refuse to submit to a legal blood or breath test when requested to do so, you will automatically lose your driver’s license for at least one year.

The legal Blood Alcohol Concentration limit is .08. It is illegal to drive with a Blood BAC level of .08 or higher in every state of the United States.

Under federal regulations, drivers possessing a Commercial Driver License automatically lose their license for one year if they are driving while impaired in a non-commercial vehicle if their BAC is greater than .04 but less than .08.

There are now 117 Drug Recognition Expert officers in Pennsylvania specifically trained to both look for impaired drivers and assist other officers in DUI investigations where drug-impaired driving is suspected.

Fines range from $300 to $10,000.

For more information on Pennsylvania’s DUI legislation, visit the wesite at: http://www.dmv.state.pa.us/l egislation/dui.shtml.

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In 2013, alcohol-related deaths were 32% of the total traffic deaths, nearly the same as in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Pennsylvania continues to take an aggressive posture to prevent and deter drinking and driving (particularly through the widespread use of sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols).

In 2013, 381 people died in alcohol-related crashes in the Keystone State. Of the alcohol-related occupant deaths (drivers and passengers), 91% were in the vehicle driven by the drinking driver; 77% were the drinking drivers themselves. Three-quarters of the drinking drivers in traffic crashes were male.

About 74% of the alcohol-related crashes were during the hours of darkness, usually on weekends.

On average each day, 30 alcohol-related traffic crashes occurred. Each day, 1.0 persons were killed in alcoholrelated traffic crashes. Each day, 22 persons were injured in alcohol-related traffic crashes.

When law enforcement finds a motorist who is impaired but alcohol is ruled out as the sole cause of impairment during a checkpoint or roving patrol, the driver is brought to the applicable station or barracks. A Drug Recognition Expert is called to the location to evaluate the driver to determine whether drug impairment can be confirmed.

A DRE must be an active police officer and must pass a grueling training program.

Pennsylvania State Police coordinates the DRE program through the department’s Bureau of Patrol. DREs are required to receive constant updates and additional yearly training.

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NEWLY energized Chapel of Four Chaplains in Navy Yard hosted Appreciation Picnic last weekend. Attendees from several states were on hand. Chapel is heightening its emergency chaplain service and honors to deserving Americans, in memory of four chaplains who saved soldier lives, and perished when their troopship was torpedoed. Enjoying event were Fred Honigman; Capt. Louis Cavaliere, Chapel chairman; Steve Labor; Mischelle Noig; Christine Beady, Chapel director; Paul Fried; Dan Ockd, Esq.; Larry Haney; and Rev. Lamar Photo by Joe Stivala Golden.

Pennsylvania’s DUI Task Forces, the Pennsylvania State Police along with local law enforcement will conduct enforcement efforts through July 6. Police will conduct roving patrols and checkpoints to enforce Pennsylvania’s DUI laws.

Although alcohol-related fatalities account for more than 30% of all traffic fatalities in Pennsylvania, impaired driving enforcement covers more than just alcohol impairment. Law enforcement also works to identify motorists impaired by drugs and prescription medication, or some combination of these.

Pennsylvania continues to enhance its drug-impaired enforcement by training officers in Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement and the Drug Recognition Expert programs.

In 2013, there were more than 16,500 DUI-drug arrests statewide, which accounts for roughly 30% of all DUI arrests.

In Pennsylvania, drinking and driving remains a top safety issue. In 2013, alcoholrelated crashes decreased to 11,041 from 11,956 alcoholrelated crashes in 2012. Alcohol-related deaths decreased from 404 to 381 in 2012.

Of particular concern is the involvement of drinking drivers under the age of 21.

19% of the driver deaths in the 16-20 age group were drinking drivers, up from 18% in 2012. Improvement in this age group is a very important need.

Of equal focus is the 21 to 25 age group, in which 44% of the driver deaths were drinking drivers. This age group had the third worst percentage of all groups, and was up from 40% in 2012.

The 26 to 30 age group decreased to 34% from 44% in 2012.

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Pa. Building Trades Boost Wolf

by Joe Shaheeli Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf has gotten a rocket boost to his campaign to dethrone Gov. Tom Corbett. Boost came from Pennsylvania State Building & Construction Trades Council President Frank A. Sirianni who announced the statewide federation of construction unions’ unanimous endorsement of Tom Wolf for Governor.

The council, whose affiliated organizations represent approximately 136,000 highly skilled construction workers, along with their families, in every building trade and craft throughout Pennsylvania, is the united voice of construction labor in the Commonwealth.

In announcing the endorsement, Sirianni stated it was adopted at the organization’s convention “after a review of

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CONGRATULATING Mike Fanning and Vincent Melchiorre following unanimous approval by Senate Judiciary Committee of their gubernatorial appointment by Gov. Corbett are Sens. Mike Stack, Democratic Lieutenant Gubernatorial nominee, and Larry Farnese. the records of the candidates in virtually every community for both major parties and all of Pennsylvania by more than candidates being invited to be 3,500 construction contractors interviewed by our organiza- and subcontractors, have spotion’s political arm.” ken and they have told us with Sirianni further noted, “Our a forceful clarity that Tom members, who are employed Wolf represents a shining

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voice in the battle to make our Commonwealth’s government responsive to the hopes, needs and aspirations of working people in Pennsylvania. Tom Wolf is a voice of welcoming reason who knows, first and foremost, that strengthening our communities, assuring a family sustaining wage for working families, focusing on access to health care for all Pennsylvanians, rationally protecting our resources, fairly securing our economy and enhancing the quality of education for our children are the keys to the return of fairness and progress in our society.”

The construction workers also endorsed State Sen. Mike Stack (D-Northeast), Wolf’s running mate, for Lieutenant Governor. Sirianni stated the council “has worked with Stack throughout his years in State Senate and is looking forR EPRESENTATIVE

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STATE REP candidate for 163rd Dist. Vince Rongione, left, and Plumbers Local 690 Business Manager and 26th Dist. State Senate candidate John Kane celebrate Rongione’s office opening in Drexel Hill. Rongione is running for open seat from which State Rep. Nick Micozzie is retiring.

Kane is running for open seat from which State Sen. Ted Erickson is retiring.

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ward to his service at a higher level in the executive offices of Harrisburg.”

PSBCTC is a federation of unions representing unionized construction workers in all of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties.

Affiliates include 110 local unions and 16 regional councils operating in every corner of the Commonwealth.

Wolf expressed gratitude for the very meaningful demonstration of support from this huge segment of labor.

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State Rep. Ed Neilson (DNortheast) will soon change elective offices, resigning from Harrisburg with the completion of the passage of the budget. He states, “Expect me to be sworn into the Council at-Large seat vacated by Bill Green shortly after we complete the budget and other legislation I have supported.”

It might be a while, however, since the Governor didn’t sign the budget at the deadline hour. He just might get the pension change he is looking for as families torment their legislators to hurry home so summer can be enjoyed.

Last week, Neilson’s son

Looking Ahead To Council At Large

It’s easy to figure out who will be in the race for Council at Large next year, challenging the incumbents. But, we leave it to you to do the checking as to who scored in the top 10.

For sure, based on continuous emails about his activity, we know one of the names will be Isaiah Thomas. He’s planned a busy 4th of July agenda. Others planning a similar run from either party should give us a call so we can spread the word.

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SUPPORTING Republican nominee Billy Pounds at fundraiser were Lou Lanni, Pounds, Bo Birtwell and Michael Kinney.

Black Clergy Worry have been left alone after the About Seth’s Brush Pennsylvania attorney general Rev. Terrence Griffith, dropped the case. DA Seth president of Black Clergy of Williams has reopened the inPhiladelphia, believes allega- vestigation. tions of political corruption Before Kane was elected, against several state legislators the previous Attorney Genand a former judge should (Cont. Page 22)

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GOP LEGISLATIVE nominee for 194th Dist. believes he can do what Democrats failed to do in primary: unseat State Rep. Pam DeLissio. He’s seen here at fundraiser at McGillicuddy’s in Roxborough with GOP Ward Leaders Mike Cibik and Annie Havey.

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DEMOCRATIC 55th Ward Leader Bob Dellavella has one of city’s many family-team committee people in his ward.

He’s in middle, congratulating newly elected committeepersons Mike Canning and his daughter Megan, who voted against their own kin who had been challenging Dellavella’s leadership.

Photo by Harry Leech was photographed with Gov. the Philadelphia School DisTom Corbett at the signing of trict by amending a House bill legislation pushed by his dad so as to grant the City the to aide dyslexic children. (See power to impose a $2-per-pack cigarette tax for that purpose. photo Page 1.)

Complaints Galore – Williams’ amendment passed But Money Talks the Senate by a resounding 40Every Philadelphia Demo- 10 in the waning hours before crat in the General Assembly the state budget deadline. has issued statements to deConrad Fuller And Tempest In Teapot nounce Corbett’s action tying Fireworks erupted from our pension changes to School monies as unconscionable. short report in this column last Wish we had the room to week asking if Gov. Tom Corbett had shortchanged the quote them all.

Amid the hubbub, we do City’s Black Republicans.

36th GOP Ward chairman note one substantive accomplishment by a Philadelphia Daniel Pearson wrote to inlawmaker, State Sen. Anthony form us Conrad Fuller was not Williams (D-W. Phila.). The the Republican Ward Leader, Senator led the charge to fund but Terry Quinn was. We

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(Cont. From Prev. Page) paign stop in Philadelphia. “I don’t look at the polls.”

At the Welcoming Center in Philadelphia, Wolf stressed to its CEO Peter Gonzales that business opportunities are the key to the candidate’s philosophy.

“I’m looking for living jobs,” Wolf told the group of Pennsylvania business owners on a serious note. “There is social value in good jobs.”

want him to know we only identified Conrad as leader of a group of committee people in the ward.

His group wondered if they were overlooked since Gov. Corbett appointed Ryan Sanders over their choice Ella Butcher. We’ve talked to Sanders and anticipate a column on him in a week of two.

Our first impression is he’s fast on his feet and could help make a difference for the GOP. Ella, herself, has been in contact with him and “likes” him.

We also heard from a renowned GOP leader downtown, Fuller and the group have not lived up to their hype.

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Republican politics in Philadelphia has been quiet this week.

The real news has been in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C. The Commonwealth’s budget has been in the news and unsurprisingly, education funding has been at the forefront.

GOV. TOM CORBETT has dug his heels in about pension reform. He wants to increase funding for K-12, but he wants to see pension reform also. He is also willing to entertain new “revenue sources” – aka taxes.

Some in the media have pounced on the Governor, claiming Corbett is willing to sacrifice our children for his pension-reform agenda. I disagree. School districts throughout the state are being squeezed because of the need to fund their rising pension obligations. Now Corbett is focusing on the state-employee pension plan, the State Employee Retirement System, but he and all us should realize that the teachers’ pension plan, the Pennsylvania’s Public School Retirement System, is equally problematic. SERS is primarily funded by the state. PSERS is funded in large part by the municipalities; but as we see, the municipalities are knocking on Harrisburg’s door for more K12 funding in part to fund their rising pension obligations.

Historically, municipalities across the state have offered teachers and administrators modest salaries in exchange for gold-plated pension plans and other benefits, as well as significant job security. However, as times have changed these public-sector employees are not underpaid compared to the parents of the children they teach. In the School District’s budget for 2014-2015, the average teacher’s salary will be $69,000 with (Cont. Page 28)

As we speak, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is still without a budget.

A budget’s been passed, and so has the Jun. 30 deadline to get it done, but it hasn’t been signed into law. It’s got all of the stuff that Gov. Tom Corbett likes in a budget, like no tax increases, no Marcellus Shale tax. All that kind of stuff that would normally make the Governor jump up and down with glee.

But he hasn’t signed it. And here’s why.

Gov. Corbett wants to overhaul the Commonwealth’s pension system. Now what you think that means depends on where on the fence you’re sitting.

If you’re a legislator, someone who is getting paid a gang of money and looks to have a pension plan that would keep you in really, really good shape in your old age, you think things like making everyone become part of the Commonwealth’s pension plan, eliminating arbitration and making people pay more into their pensions has some appeal to you.

But if you’re a former Philadelphia schoolteacher who spent 35 years dealing with kids who have so much going on in their lives that learning as a priority was at the bottom of the list, parents who want to take responsibility for nothing, and a School District so impoverished that the folks at Staples treat you like Norm from the TV series “Cheers” when you come in – you’re probably losing sleep.

The Governor has tried everything short of buying the entire General Assembly dinner at the Progress Grill in Harrisburg to get them to pass pension reform. I mean, hey, he even (Cont. Page 28)

Yo! Do you talk “Pennsylvanian?” For those who think we Pennsylvanians talk funny or use “big words”, here’s why ... once a Pennsylvanian, always a Pennsylvanian!

About Pennsylvanians: You’ve never referred to Philadelphia as anything but “Philly” and New Jersey has always been “Jersey.” We don’t go to the beach — we go “down the shore.”

You refer to Pennsylvania as “PA” (pronounced Pee-Ay). “You guys” (or even “youze guys,” in some places) is a perfectly acceptable reference to a group of men and women.

You know how to respond to the question “D-jeet-yet?” (Did you eat yet?) Lunch meat is called “cold cuts” elsewhere. You know that the Iggles play football and so do the Stillers. You learned to pronounce Bryn Mawr, Wilkes-Barre, Schuylkill, the Poconos, Tamaqua, Kutztown, Tunkahannock, Bala Cynwyd, Kishacoquillas, Duquesne and Monongahela, also Conshohocken.

And we know Lancaster is pronounced Lank-ister, not Lan-kaster. You know what a “Mummer” is, and are disappointed if you can’t catch at least highlights of the parade. At least five people on your block have electric “candles” in all or most of their windows all year long.

You know what a “State Store” is, and your out-of-state friends find it incredulous that you can’t purchase liquor at the mini-mart. Words like “hoagie,” “crick,” “chipped ham,” “dippy eggs,” “sticky buns,” “shoo-fly pie,” “lemon sponge pie, “pierogies” and “pocketbook” actually mean something to you. (By the way, that last one’s PA slang for a purse!)

You not only have heard of birch beer, but you know it comes in several colors. You know the difference between a cheesesteak and a pizza-steak sandwich, and you know that you also can’t get a really good one anywhere outside of the Philly area. (Except maybe on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City.) You know that Blue Ball, Intercourse, Paradise, Climax, Bird-inHand, Beaver, Moon, Virginville, Mars, Bethlehem, Hershey, Indiana, Sinking Spring, Jersey Shore, State College, Washington Crossing, Jim Thorpe, King of Prussia, Wind Gap, and Slippery Rock are all PA towns ... and the first three were consecutive stops on the old Reading RR! (P.S.: That’s pronounced “Redd-ing.”)

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THE VIETNAM VETERANS of Cape May County hosted a 5k Run starting at the Vietnam Wall across from the Wildwood Convention Center. WIBG Radio of Ocean City hosted two hours of talk from Congressman Robert BRADY; Justice Seamus McCaffery; and Charlie MURPHY of Local 98. Charlie’s son AUDIE MURPHY is in the NATIONAL GUARD, deployed to the Baltic states, showing Russians our flag. Viet Vet Harry Weimar and fellow vets were also participants....

The leak that says Justice McCAFFERY is absolved is good news. I hope that the Chief Justice agrees. Bill HURT, former Traffic Court administrator, should now be exonerated.

WONDERFUL news: Ken WASHINGTON of LABORERS’ District Council was elected a Vice Chairman of Democrat State Committee!... DANNY BAUDER is appointed a Campaign Manager for AFL-CIO initiatives – they got a skillful fellow!

TONIGHT (and on Jul. 5), don’t miss the Penn’s Landing Fireworks. Monica Forkin SANTORO will be guiding the fireworks barges into position to fire for us!... An EXCLUSIVE dinner will be held at Old Fort Mifflin to mark the 2015 event when the French vessel LEMOYNE will lead a tallships parade into Penn’s Landing!

BIRTHDAYS in the Courts on Jul. 7 are Judge Ann BUTCHART, super class person, and Hearing Officer Joe “Ageless” STEWARD, Esq. And leading city Mason William C.JAMIESON, a retired City program analyst. Brian STEVENSON, USMC, celebrates his on the 8th with Local 98 associates.

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MAYOR MICHAEL NUTTER is once again holding his breath in anticipation of getting a tax increase to pay for Philadelphia public schools. He has been in Harrisburg regularly for the last week visiting with Republican leadership and Philadelphia Delegation members. But GOV. TOM CORBETT is determined to be the first Governor swept out of office as an incumbent.

He has wisely tied education funding for Philadelphia schools to pension “reform”. But he really doesn’t have the votes for his pension legislation because most legislators recognize it does little to solve the problem of unfunded liability. And the tactic of connecting that piece of legislation with helping Philadelphia public-school students is at the least ill-advised.

STATE SEN. ANTHONY HARDY WILLIAMS attempted to persuade several Philadelphians to vote for pension reform in return for the City to have the ability to levy a $2-perpack tax on cigarettes and provide funding for Philadelphia schools. But he found no takers.

The question isn’t, how can the Philadelphia delegation let down the public-school kids? The question is, how can Tom Corbett present such a ridiculous, unworkable budget?

Many legislators will actually work throughout the summer but still get a chance to go to the Jersey shore. CONGRESSMAN BOB BRADY presides in the Irish Riviera in N. Wildwood. He’s also the unofficial Mayor of Seabreeze Court. Among his neighbors are Supreme Court JUSTICE SEAMUS McCAFFERY and his brother, Common Pleas JUDGE DAN McCAFFERY. JOHN DOUGHERTY and City COUNCILMAN JIMMY KENNEY also have places in Wildwood. In the Brigantine area you’ll find STATE SEN. LARRY FARNESE, former STATE SEN. BOB ROVNER and Northampton/Lehigh Co. STATE SEN. LISA BOSCOLA. Pittsburgh STATE SEN. MATT SMITH goes to Stone Harbor. So it’s easy to see one can go on vacation and still get a lot of work done.

Newly elected City COUNCILMAN ED NEILSON is still waiting to get sworn it. He will still be able to vote on the state budget before taking his seat. CHS suspects the timing of the City Council swearing-in was strategic so Neilson could be a vote for state revenues and School District funding if needed.

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MEGAN RATH, blue dress center, assembled 10 of her Republican ward leaders at a “Fun Raiser” at Phila. Cricket Club to energize her campaign for 1st Congressional Dist. seat in November.

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by Michael P. Boyle, Esq. SSA currently relies on the Dictionary of Occupational Titles and its companion volume, the Selected Characteristics of Occupations, for information about occupations that exist in substantial numbers in the national economy.

This is crucial to determining whether a claimant can return to past relevant work or perform other jobs.

The problem for SSA, and

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(Cont. Next Page) ford a house payment, only to find that you were now a member of a no-credit underclass, shunned forever by mortgage lenders, permanently consigned to a cot in your parents’ basement.

If this has been a factor in your thinking about bankruptcy, there is good news for you: The federal home-mortgage guaranty agency says bankruptcy will not stop you from qualifying for a mortgage to buy a home. Better still, you don’t have to rely on this writer’s credentials or anecdotal evidence to know that bankruptcy won’t stop you from buying a home. FHA and HUD regulations, publicly available to anyone who cares to look, say in so many words that a Chapter 7 or 13 filing will not disqualify a borrower from eligibility for an FHA-insured mortgage.

Next Week’s Question: What do you mean you included my home/car in the bankruptcy?

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As you can, see more diagnostics need to be ran to determine the cause of the tapping.

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JUDGE Mike Fanning is congratulated by Democratic City Committee’s Charley Bernard on his judicial appointment by Gov. Tom Corbett.

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(Cont. From Prev. Page) It likely will take SSA several more years before the OIS project is able to replace the DOT. For more on OIS, see http://www.ssa.gov/disabilityresearch/occupational_info_s ystems.html.

In other news, President Obama announced that he will nominate Carolyn W. Colvin as the new Commissioner of Social Security.

Colvin, who became the acting Commissioner in February 2013, worked for SSA for many years, most recently serving as the Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund. Her appointment is subject to approval by the Senate. If approved, she will serve a six-year term.

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by Tom Flynn and Rocco DeGregorio Question: I have a 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee and the engine keeps making a tapping sound that is worrying me. Miles are 140,000. I just had head machined and replaced. When I got it back, it taps and sounds like a rocker. Check light code is P0303. It did not tap before. My oil psi is 40 + and temp reads normal. I reset the check light it only had the 1 code and it runs with good power.

Answer: Reader, Who replaced the head? If it was a shop, they should not have given you your vehicle back this way and you should start by calling them.

If it was something you did or was not done by a professional shop, I would take it into one.

Reason being that this code

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(Cont. From Page 17) eral’s office employed a lobbyist — accused of fraud and theft — to present gifts and cash to Democratic lawmakers from Philadelphia who then failed to disclose them. Taking the gifts, as long as they are not a quid pro quo for a vote or official action, is not illegal in Pennsylvania, though disclosure is mandatory.

Rev. Griffith said it’s wrong to “use dirty people to bring in anybody” and that Williams made a mistake when he formed a grand jury to look into case again into the case.

Attorney General Kane said the prosecution of the sting had been racially tainted.

Rev. Griffith says he doesn’t have all the facts, so he can’t agree or disagree with Kane’s assessment. But he says the issue does offer an opportunity to address the disproportionate effect the criminal-justice system has on African Americans.

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Looking Behind Ads Designed To Influence

The Committee of Seventy in Philadelphia, the Sunlight Foundation in Washington, D.C., and the Internet Archive in San Francisco have teamed up to help voters determine exactly who is trying to influence elections.

The groups hope to launch the effort by logging detailed federal information about political commercials on a Sunlight website: politicaladsleuth.com.

They are looking for volunteers for this project. To volunteer for it, contact Ellen Mattleman Kaplan at the Committee of Seventy at (215) 5573600, ext. 102.

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If the following haven’t filed their campaign finance reports, they’ll have received or will be receiving warnings and charged with financial penalties.

On the hit list are 2nd Senatorial Dist.’s John J. Jenkins, III and Daniel J. Savage; Art Haywood and State Sen. LeAnna Washington in the 4th; in the 8th Senatorial Dist., State Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams.

Brady Lauds HUD Grant To North Philly Both Brendan and Kevin Boyle need to update their filings for 170th and 172nd Dists. respectively, and Jeffrey Voice in the 172nd Dist., as well as Michael Tomlinson in the 173rd.

The same goes for Jason Dawkins and David Hall in the 179th; in the 181st, Kenneth Walker, Jr. and Kenneth Williams Medley; in the 182nd, Babette Josephs and Brian Sims both failed to file on time.

Also recalcitrant were State Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown and Isaac Patterson in the 190th; Billy Pounds in the 194th; David Henderson. Ed Lloyd, Jr. and J.P. Miranda are late in the 197th; and Jared Solomon, still moaning over a close election in the 202nd.

How About Requiring Purple-Thumb Votes?

Watchdog.Org. has released information approximately 6.9 million Americans are registered to vote in two or more states. They report Catherine Engelbrecht, president of the election-watch group True The Vote, charges, “Our nation’s voter rolls are a mess. Sensible approaches to roll maintenance are fought tooth and nail by radical special interests who can use the duplicity in the system to their advantage.”

Registrations Division Chief Greg Irving said, “These duplicates are originally erased by systems in place here in Philadelphia. Much of this occurs because out-of-staters moving in believe their registrations in the state they’ve left have been automatically delete when they register here.”

Watchdog previously reported Virginia and Maryland have 44,000 duplicate voters between them.

Maybe it’s time for states with this problem to take a tip from the Iraqis who eliminated duplicate voting when they held their first post-Saddam election.

Their voters dipped thumbs in purple ink prior to voting, an ink remaining visible despite washing until a few days after election day.

Congressman Bob Brady (D-Phila.) lauded Mayor Michael A. Nutter’s announcement Philadelphia was awarded a $30 million Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant by the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development to revitalize the neighborhood of North Central Philadelphia.

“I was proud to advocate on behalf of this project. This grant will be a long term solution to many of the long overlooked problems in the area,” Brady said. “Even though city officials brought this request to me at the last moment, I was glad to urge HUD to grant the award.

“The Nutter administration has assured me that low-income North Philadelphians will receive their fair share of good jobs from this program and I expect that will be the case. The grant is important to the development of a comprehensive revitalization strategy, a strategy that will hopefully work for the long-suffering but committed residents of the area.”

The Congressman also had praise for Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha, Inc. “This is a major feather in the cap of APM and its President and CEO Nilda Ruiz. I have worked with this group in support of their tireless push to ensure quality social services and community economic development,” he said.

The Choice Neighborhood Implementation Grant will create 300 new units of housing, 600 construction jobs and permanent employment for 300 workers. The grant also offers the opportunity to leverage the $30 million to generate $125 million in additional federal, state and other public and private funding.

Mayor Michael Nutter noted, “This is exciting news for the residents of the North Central neighborhood and the entire City of Philadelphia.

This grant is critical to our comprehensive revitalization

strategy – it will help us to address many of the serious challenges facing this community: poverty, unemployment, poor educational attainment and decreased opportunities for residents.

US Sen. Bob Casey (DPenna.) commented, “I weighed in with HUD about Philadelphia’s strong application, and I’m glad they also saw the great opportunity this neighborhood presents for economic growth and job creation.”

Council President Darrell Clarke said, “The Choice Neighborhoods grant will be an important catalyst for revitalization efforts already under way in North Central Philadelphia. I am grateful to HUD for making this significant investment in our shared vision for better affordable housing and services for the residents of this neighborhood. Community involvement is and always has been key to this process. I congratulate all parties involved in securing the Choice Neighborhood grant.”

To obtain the grant, the City worked with more than 40 partners, including the School District of Philadelphia, Temple University, the Philadelphia Housing Authority, the Philadelphia Police Dept., local leaders and community stakeholders through the Office of Housing & Community Development to create the resident-driven North Central Philadelphia transformation plan.

“This grant is one of the most-significant investments in affordable housing by the federal government in Philadelphia in recent years.

This important grant will enable PHA and the City to invest in affordable housing and gives us a roadmap to build stronger, safer, more vibrant and sustainable communities,” said Kelvin Jeremiah, president and CEO, PHA. Nilda Ruiz, president and CEO of APM, added, “Providing quality social services

and community economic development is vital to change a community. This grant gives the opportunity for the private and public sectors to work together to positively influence the quality of life for current residents and future generations.”

The Choice Neighborhoods program supports locally driven strategies to address struggling neighborhoods with distressed public or HUD-assisted housing through a comprehensive approach to neighborhood transformation.

The program is designed to stimulate critical improvements in neighborhood assets, including vacant property, housing, services and schools.

Choice Neighborhoods Implementation grants focus on three core areas: Housing: Replace existing distressed public and assisted housing with high-quality, mixed-income, energy-efficient housing; People: Increase access to or create new services and supports delivered directly to youth and their families to improve education outcomes and intergenerational mobility within the community; and Neighborhood: Support the conditions necessary for public and private reinvestment in North Central, including safety, good schools and commercial activity.

A series of community meetings identified the following resident priorities: more job training and opportunities; reduced crime and increased neighborhood safety; elimination of trash-strewn vacant land; and high-quality educational resources. The North Central Philadelphia transformation plan will address all of these areas of concern.

Corridor investments will enhance the economic vitality of the neighborhood by linking residents to assets such as transit, retail, parks and schools. Streetscape amenities – sidewalk repairs, lighting, bus shelters and tree planting

– will beautify corridors, improve neighborhood safety, and create a healthier and more sustainable urban environment. Neighborhood walkability, new recreational opportunities and health initiatives will improve both the physical and mental health of community residents. A revolving-loan fund provided by Philadelphia LISC will help to fill vacancies and attract mixed use development to the Germantown Avenue commercial corridor.

Partners such as the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the Village of Arts & Humanities will expand existing programs to turn derelict lots into productive and attractive spaces, while targeted infill housing will replace vacant lots with new housing. In all, over 700 lots will be greened or developed.

Education initiatives led by Temple University and other partners will increase and improve pre-K opportunities, provide intensive and targeted education supports to neighborhood schools, offer additional educational programming to students, help close the digital divide, and assist high school students as they prepare for college or the workforce after graduation. The workforce and education center will provide the space required to offer a full range of job training, educational and employment placement counseling programs and services. The Reinvestment Fund, Econsult Solutions and Temple University will lead a rigorous evaluation process to ensure that the strategic initiatives in the Transformation Plan remain on target.

“Previous strategic City investments have improved sections of the neighborhood,” said Deborah McColloch, director of the City’s Office of Housing & Community Development. “With this grant and the funding it will leverage, our successes to date will be expanded to include the entire community.”

Walking The Beat

HEALTHY GIRTHS Melodies Make the Heart Sing Part 169/170

A recent Baltimore Sun editorial commented that U.S. House Republicans are supporting "a provision in the 2015 funding bill that would give schools the option of waiving (nutrition) standards for one year in districts where the lunch program is losing money." This measure does not sit well with our First Lady, Michelle Obama, and her crusade for better school nutrition standards.

Concurrently, if those recipients paid for their food, there would be less money to spend on rock and rap concerts. Mrs. Obama's obesity campaign should focus on quality music that emphasizes melodies and harmonies instead of a preponderance of noise and rhythm, as rappers do. That is the major reason why Oprah Winfrey "bucked the tide" by excluding rappers from her TV show. Instead of educating and protecting her daughters from "noisemakers" (as Ms. Winfrey would do), our First Lady says with pride, her girls "love Jay Z." If money was pumped into refined music (as opposed to what Mayors Nutter and Bloomberg, and friends Warren Buffet, and Steve Forbes were doing by patronizing rappers, especially Jay-Z), the growth of quality music would be equal to our population's girth.

Footnotes: 1. MR. & MRS. OBAMA, AS LEADERS: "EAT UP. Low-income students who stop getting school lunches can still get fed this summer... thousands of children and teens in Philadelphia who rely on subsidized school lunches and snacks lament losing a consistent meal... Starting this month, any Philadelphian aged 18 and under can get free summer meals at more than 1,000 locations across the city without registration or identification.

Meals in the program, which is sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, are distributed locally in the city at recreation centers, community organizations and public housing complexes, among other places."

--METRO Phila., June 23, 2014

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Authority under Mayor Nutter TERRY GILLEN is contemplating a run for Mayor. She would be one of any number of potential female candidates that would be formidable. COUNCILMAN CINDY BASS would also be garnering interest and support.

(Cont. From Page 18) friend COUNCILMAN BOBBY HENON in Anglesea. The party will be in late July by the inlet in Seabreeze Court. Former Council candidate and Director of the Redevelopment

Waffleman (Cont. From Page 18) You can identify drivers from New York, New Jersey, Maryland or other neighboring states by their unique and irritating driving habits. A traffic jam in Lancaster Co. is 10 cars waiting to pass a horsedrawn carriage on the highway. (And remember ... that’s Lank-ister!) You know several people who have hit deer more than once. Driving is always better in winter because the

potholes are filled with snow.

As a kid, you built snow forts and leaf piles that were taller than you were.

You know beer doesn’t grow in a garden, but you know where to find a beergarden.

You actually understand all this and send it out to other Pennsylvanians or former Pennsylvanians. It’s scary, isn’t it! Yeah! That’s good ol’ “PA” and we love it! And send it to people that never lived in PA and confuse them, because nice matters.

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Meanwhile, the U.S. Government is spending more money for food to the same populace. This action eliminates the true value of food. If receivers had to pay for food with "real money," the obesity contagion which has "more than quadrupled in adolescents during the last 30 years," would probably drop to normal (healthy) ranges.

developer suing Councilman Kenyatta Johnson – also wants to run for Johnson’s seat. So does the suit seem credible?

HOW ABOUT the Mayor’s name coming up in the Traffic Court hearings?

Did the Mayor’s minions come back with some LOFTY REFORM Traffic Court prose? I remember, as a lad of 22, receiving a call from a top city reformer asking if I knew how to “adjudicate” a ticket...

A 28th Ward committeewoman told the City Commissioners’ meeting that Comm.

SINGER entered her polling place with a loudspeaker, distributing literature. If this is so, then it can be seen as the detritus of royalty that the founding fathers wanted to rid us of. The rules ARE FOR EVERYONE! CHUGGING ALONG: State Rep. Vanessa WILLIAMS, State leader of the Black Legislative Caucus, is awarding Caucus scholarships... State Rep. Louise BISHOP wants insurers to pay for alternate formula for allergic kids! State Rep. John SABATINA deplored the desecration of Congregation Ner Zedek.... State Rep. Ed NEILSON got his Dyslexia Bill through.

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“BAG-A-DONUTS” as “The Waffleman”, who shares a page with me every week…. A headline heralded that Sheriff Jewell WILLIAMS’ CONTRACTS violated an agreement. Like Jewell was convicted in absentia? Where was the evidence? Thank God we have City CONTROLLER Allan BUTKOVITZ to sort things out.

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And what of Vince FUMO visiting pols? He may be a lobbyist. WHY NOT? He has proven success in this area helping us. Buddy CIANFRANI did it, but Fumo will be better. Fumo will give advice that he himself would follow.

Reported: The DRPA has $23m left in its development fund. DON’T SPEND IT. Johnny DOC, protect Pennsylvania’s interests! (Also reported: Doc’s Union Pub up for sale at $500,000.)... Editorial that urges CITY COUNCIL to give up as lords of land use is wrong. Council is right to ignore that OLD call. Citizens have been saved from hubris of some developers by Council. How could you do the same in 215 City Hall? A

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(Cont. From Page 18) PNC Vice President Sal PATTI has his day on the 12th. He is one of those CENTRAL HIGH School grads who get together in the Union League talking MENSA. Lovely Teresa (the Etiquettelady) CAMPBELL is also on the 12th. Her graduates have successful careers in modeling.

Larry ZEIDEL, the Stanley Cup All-time Hockey great, has left us. Strength, courage, humility – he had it.... THE Perfect ADA? Take Judge Charles EHRLICH, elected in 2011. He was a powerful prosecutor with more than a blackand-white view of issues. A department head and a humanitarian. A real LOSS to the DA’s office. And there are MORE EHRLICHS out there with love of the law to help us.

And what about Judge Michael ERDOS, elected in 2007?

Erdos ran the DA’s crime-

house program in a very firm, yet human manner. Now it seems more aggressive, but I only got voicemail when I phoned (?).

I read where Kathleen KANE is now mum. GOOD. Don’t feed the piranhas! When Fina held what was called a competing press conference, I could only hope he took paid or unpaid LEAVE from his CITY employ...The BLACK CLERGY asked that the sting case be dropped. BRAVO! So many are so tired of the RANCOR that it should GO AWAY! BE brave. Get our TAXPAYER money back from ALI. On Jun. 25, at the 120th session of the Grand Chapter of the Order of the EASTERN STAR held in York, Pa., Joseph A. SBARAGLIA was presented with a commission as Grand Representative of ITALY in Pennsylvania. He is the first appointed Grand Representative of Italy from Pennsylvania. We all love Joe

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With the UNIONS There is a host of reasons why the members of the Metropolitan Council of Carpenters are continuing to protest their lockout from the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

For the second week in a row, over 200 carpenters participated in protests outside the Convention Center.

Two key points broadcast at their protests by the Carpenters is they signed the Customer Satisfaction Agreement before the May 10 expiration of their contract extension.

Despite that, now they’re being locked out.

The second is Carpenters gave back overtime starting in 2003 to make the center more successful. The Carpenters

charge those savings were never passed on but were pocketed by contractors who continued to bill exhibitors for overtime as well as adding the substantial markups.

Management blames the lack of bookings at the Convention Center on high labor costs.

The union refuses to be made the scapegoat and blamed for the high labor costs at the center.

Union carpenters make $39.90 an hour plus benefits – but contractors mark up this hourly rate to $137.00 an hour on straight time – and $192.00 an hour for overtime after 4:30 p.m. – and that’s if the exhibitor puts their labor order

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SHAWN DOUGHERTY chats with his men at informational picketing session outside PA Convention Center.

Carpenters To Continue Information Protests in before a certain date. If the exhibitor orders labor on site, contractors charge them $178.00 an hour for straight time and $250.50 an hour for overtime – while the carpenter that is supposedly making all this money still gets paid $39.90 an hour plus benefits.

Also protesting the lockout has been Teamsters Local 107.

PFT Pressed Legislature For Education Funding Over 100 school leaders from the Philadelphia Federa- SITTING IN at Penna. Convention Center Board meeting were Councilman Mark Squilla, tion of Teachers met face-to- forefront, facing labor leaders Ed Coryell and Ryan Boyer. face with state legislators in Harrisburg urging they pass legislation that will bring adequate and sustainable funding to public education in Pennsylvania.

This visit to the capitol culminates nearly a year of PFT efforts to seek a fair funding formula for public education implemented in the Commonwealth.

“Pennsylvania is one of three states without a funding formula for education,” said PFT President Jerry Jordan, “The result has been massive budget cuts and huge deficits for school districts like Philadelphia, where students RANK-and-file members pledge continued don’t have enough counselors, support to Edward Coryell, Sr., executive secDISCUSSING informational-line schedulschool nurses, certified librar- retary-treasurer/business manager of Metroing with Carpenters picket is union’s politan Regional Council of Carpenters, who ians and other programs and leader Ed Coryell, who won’t stop similar plans to maintain continuous information lines services.” demonstrations until record is corrected. at Convention Center.

Urban Engineers Updates Dredging Progress Urban Engineers, Inc, reports there is good news on the Delaware River Deepening, with the awarding of two contracts for the river’s dredging.

Urban’s Roy E. Denmark, Jr., VP and director of the Ports, Waterways & Environmental Services Division, explains, “In May, the contract for Reach AA (Ben Franklin STATE REP. Cherelle Parker tells protesting teachers and Bridge to Walt Whitman parents in Harrisburg’s Capitol Building Democrats and Re- Bridge) was awarded to Great publicans must work together to find a way to fund Penna. Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. schools. Looking on are State Rep. Ron Waters, PFT Presi- for $25.4 million. The condent Jerry Jordan. and State Rep. Louise Bishop. tract will remove approxi-

mately 0.7 million cubic yards of material with placement in the Corps’ Fort Mifflin Confined Disposal Facility.

“In June, the contract for Lower Reach E (Lower Delaware Bay) was awarded to Weeks Marine, Inc. for $63 million. The contract will remove approximately 1.9 million cubic yards of material with placement/beneficial use on Broadkill Beach. It is anticipated that both contracts will start in September 2014.

“Finally, Fibria Celulose

SA, the world’s largest producer of bleached eucalyptus wood pulp, is relocating its Northeastern US distribution center to PRPA’s Tioga Marine Terminal. Infrastructure improvements are being completed at Tioga including berth dredging, rail modifications, resurfacing the dock area between the pier and the existing warehouse, and numerous upgrades to the 306,000-squarefoot warehouse including new doors and lighting, a dock canopy and a concrete floor.

“The first vessel is sched-

uled to arrive at Tioga the third week of July. Can’t wait to see it discharging its first load of cargo.”

Urban Engineers also noted a Change of Command ceremony on Jul. 1, with LTC Michael Bliss replacing LTC Chris Becking as the District Commander. Prior to becoming the 58th Commander of the Philadelphia District, LTC Bliss was the Northeast Region director for the Soldier for Life Program within the Office of the.

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In The Court of Common Pleas Philadelphia County Civil Action – Law No. 140304912 Notice of Action in Mortgage Foreclosure Midfirst Bank, Plaintiff vs. The Unknown Heirs of Rebecca Beard, Deceased, Bernard Beard, as Administrator of the Estate of Corinne Beard, Deceased, Valerie Walker, Individually and in Her Capacity as Heir of Rebecca Beard, Deceased, Anthony Beard, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Rebecca Beard, Deceased, Jeffery Beard, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Rebecca Beard, Deceased & Steven Beard, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Rebecca Beard, Deceased, Mortgagor and Real Owner, Defendants To: The Unknown Heirs Of Rebecca Beard, Deceased, Anthony Beard, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Rebecca Beard, Deceased, Jeffery Beard, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Rebecca Beard, Deceased & Steven Beard, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Rebecca Beard, Deceased, Mortgagors and Real Owners, Defendants, whose last known address is 656 East Annsbury Street, Philadelphia, PA 19120. This firm is a debt collector and we are attempting to collect a debt owed to our client. Any information obtained from you will be used for the purpose of collecting the debt.

You are hereby notified that Plaintiff, Midfirst Bank, has filed a Mortgage Foreclosure Complaint endorsed with a notice to defend against you in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, docketed to No. 140304912, wherein Plaintiff seeks to foreclose on the mortgage secured on your property located, 656 East Annsbury Street, Philadelphia, PA 19120, whereupon your property will be sold by the Sheriff of Philadelphia County. Notice: You have been sued in court. If you wish to defend against the claims set forth in the following pages, you must take action within twenty (20) days after the Complaint and notice are served, by entering a written appearance personally or by attorney and filing in writing with the court your defenses or objections to the claims set forth against you. You are warned that if you fail to do so the case may proceed without you and a judgment may be entered against you by the Court without further notice for any money claimed in the Complaint for any other claim or relief requested by the Plaintiff. You may lose money or property or other rights important to you. You should take this paper to your lawyer at once. If you do not have a lawyer or cannot afford one, go to or telephone the office set forth below. This office can provide you with information about hiring a lawyer. If you cannot afford to hire a Lawyer, this office may be able to provide you with information about agencies that may offer legal services to eligible persons at a reduced fee or no fee. Community Legal Services, Inc.., Law Center North Central, 1410 W. Erie Ave., Phila., PA 19140, 215-227-2400/215-981-3700. Phila. Bar Association, One Reading Center, Phila., PA 19104, 215-238-6333. Alyk Oflazian, Atty. for Plaintiff, KML Law Group, P.C., Ste. 5000, Mellon Independence Center, 701 Market St., Phila., PA 19106-1532, 215.627.1322.

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In The Court of Common Pleas Philadelphia County Civil Action – Law No. 140202028 Notice of Action in Mortgage Foreclosure U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee of the Security National Mortgage Loan Trust 2005-1, Plaintiff vs.

The Unknown Heirs of Ollie McColley, Deceased & Rudolph McColley, Jr., Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Ollie McColley, Deceased, Mortgagors and Real Owners, Defendant(s) To: The Unknown Heirs of Ollie McColley, Deceased & Rudolph McColley, Jr., Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Ollie McColley, Deceased, Mortgagors and Real Owners, Defendant(s), whose last known address is 5345 Irving Street, Philadelphia, PA 19139. This firm is a debt collector and we are attempting to collect a debt owed to our client. Any information obtained from you will be used for the purpose of collecting the debt. You are hereby notified that Plaintiff, U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee of the Security National Mortgage Loan Trust 2005-1, has filed a Mortgage Foreclosure Complaint endorsed with a notice to defend against you in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, docketed to No. 140202028, wherein Plaintiff seeks to foreclose on the mortgage secured on your property located, 5345 Irving Street, Philadelphia, PA 19139, whereupon your property will be sold by the Sheriff of Philadelphia County. Notice: You have been sued in court. If you wish to defend against the claims set forth in the following pages, you must take action within twenty (20) days after the Complaint and notice are served, by entering a written appearance personally or by attorney and filing in writing with the court your defenses or objections to the claims set forth against you. You are warned that if you fail to do so the case may proceed without you and a judgment may be entered against you by the Court without further notice for any money claimed in the Complaint for any other claim or relief requested by the Plaintiff. You may lose money or property or other rights important to you. You should take this paper to your lawyer at once. If you do not have a lawyer or cannot afford one, go to or telephone the office set forth below. This office can provide you with information about hiring a lawyer. If you cannot afford to hire a Lawyer, this office may be able to provide you with information about agencies that may offer legal services to eligible persons at a reduced fee or no fee. Community Legal Services, Inc.., Law Center North Central, 1410 W. Erie Ave., Phila., PA 19140, 215-227-2400/215-981-3700.

Phila. Bar Association, One Reading Center, Phila., PA 19104, 215-238-6333. Alyk Oflazian, Atty. for Plaintiff, KML Law Group, P.C., Ste. 5000, Mellon Independence Center, 701 Market St., Phila., PA 19106-1532, 215.627.1322.

It was late 2011 when SHADOWBOXER reported in this column that Top Rank CEO Bob Arum announced that Philly’s Mike Jones was on the list of possible opponents for boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao in 2012. Philly boxing fans were delighted to see Jones was gaining recognition for his great wins over Jesus Soto-Karass, Henry Bruseles, Hector Munoz, and Pito Cardona and was in the Pacquiao sweepstakes.

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WHAT better way than to contribute to neighborhood park than by sending Loews Hardware team to 5th & Wolf, where they brightened up benches and playground equipment with new colorful paint? Playing matchmaker was 3rd Police Dist. Community Relations officer Gary Harkins. Loews team was led by Plant Mgr. Gary Malak, with Joseph Padilla, Joanna Holland, Kevin Wilkes, Marybelle Nieves, Jazmine Lebron and Christy Seto.

Ringside With The Shadowboxer

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Loews Team Refreshes 5th & Wolf Park

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THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA Blavat Congratulates Kimmels Liberty Bell Plaque Awarded 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, July 22nd, 2014. 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 Projects require MBE/WBE participation as shown in the specifications.

B-040 C of 2013/14 BUDGET FEE General Interior Courtyard Grade Restoration $155,000.00 $100.00 Martin Luther King High School 6100 Stenton Ave Philadelphia, PA 19138 * A pre-bid conference and site tour will be held at the project location at the main entrance, on Thursday, June 26, 2014 at 10:00 a.m.

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 215-400-4730. Make checks payable to the School District of Philadelphia.

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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.

RADIO personality Jerry Blavat, center, congratulates Sidney & Caroline Kimmel at Thomas Jefferson University announcement of renaming Thomas Jefferson University Sidney Kimmel Medical College for Kimmels’ $110-million donation to school. Note Jerry already sports Kimmel Medical Photo by Bonnie Squires College T-Shirt.

MAYOR Michael Nutter and Wawa Welcome America Staff honored New Edition singing group for 30-plus years of continuous music throughout the world. They were given Liberty Bell Plaque with their individual names on them and a proclamation stating Jun. 28 was New Edition Day in City Photo by Leona Dixon of Phila.

OIC Gets Its Just Deserts

PHA Bartram’s Garden’s River Fest

GREATER Phila. Chamber of Commerce presented proclamation recognizing Phila. Opportunities Industrialization Center on its 50th anniversary. Phila. OIC was founded by the late Reverend Dr. Leon H. Sullivan in 1964 and has trained and/or educated more than 100,000 individuals in its 50 years of existence. In photo are Daniel K. Fitzpatrick, president and CEO of Citizens Bank; Atif Bostic, VP at Citizens Bank; Robert Nelson, president and CEO of Phila. OIC; and Harold Epps, president and CEO of PRWT Services, Inc.

PHILA. Housing Authority hosted a Bartram’s Garden Community River Fest for its resident families, treating youngsters to a morning of boat rides and a chance to pet animals from little ponies to chickens and rabbits and the like.

Photo by Bill Myers

THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA

THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA

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, July 29th, 2014. 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 Projects require MBE/WBE participation as shown in the specifications.

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, July 29th, 2014. 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 Projects require MBE/WBE participation as shown in the specifications.

B-007 C of 2013/14 General

FEE B-006 C of 2013/14 BUDGET Electrical Elevator Replacement $1,468,600.00 $100.00 South Philadelphia High School 2101 South Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19148 * A pre-bid conference and site tour will be held at the project location at the main entrance, on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at 10:00 a.m.

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.

BUDGET FEE Roof Replacement & $1,148,500.00 $100.00 Structural Modifications Benjamin Comegys Elementary School 5100 Greenway Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19143 * A pre-bid conference and site tour will be held at the project location at the main entrance, on Tuesday, July 15, 2014 at 9:00 a.m.

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 215-400-4730. 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.

Information as to contract documents, etc., may be obtained at the above address, or telephone 215-400-4730. 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.

summer of 2013, the program served well over 43,000 healthy meals to children ages 3 to 18 from public-housing sites and the surrounding neighborhoods.

“The Summer Food Service Program is a necessity for families in Philadelphia, in part, because it takes the place of the school-lunch program,” said PHA President and CEO Kelvin A. Jeremiah. “We believe it’s important that our young people have access to good, nutritional meals that are critical for healthy growth and development. No child should ever have to go hungry in this city; and that is why

PHA is pleased to sponsor this program by contribution over $200,000 of its own funds to this effort.”

Philadelphia has a poverty rate of 26.9% according to the Census Bureau and the city remains the poorest among the 10 largest in America. Over 36% of its children are living in poverty.

Just over 26% of households in Philadelphia participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Programs such as PHA’s Summer Food Service Program are essential especially since Congress reduced SNAP funding last October.

PPA Ends Love Park Management After an extensive RFP (Request for Proposals) process, the City of Philadelphia awarded Chicago based InterPark, LLC, the sale of the underground garage at Love Park for $29.6 million. The sale closed last week with the garage transferred from the Philadelphia Parking Authority to InterPark.

The garage was built by the City in 1964 as part of the

development of JFK Plaza and the Municipal Services Building. It was operated by a private parking firm until 2008 at which time the Philadelphia Parking Authority began managing the garage.

Laz Parking has been retained by InterPark to manage the facility and will replace all the existing personnel represented by the Teamsters, many of whom have been employed at the garage for

over 20 years.

Other PPA parking garages in the area are: Gateway Garage, 1540 Vine Street; AutoPark @ Jefferson, 14-18 S. 10th Street; AutoPark @ Gallery, 44 N. 9th Street. For information on daily and monthly parking rates at these facilities, call (215) 683-9687 or visit the PPA’s website for other parking options: www.philapark.org.

Legislation to authorize PennDOT to suspend the licenses of serious municipal property code violators has cleared its first major hurdle in the Senate, passage of SB 1420, sponsored by State Sen. LeAnna M. Washington (D-Northwest) from the Senate Urban Affairs & Housing Committee.

Boasting bipartisan support, SB 1420 would allow PennDOT to suspend the driver’s licenses of three or more serious municipal-code violations. The bill requires municipalities to report such code violations if the owner has been convicted of a serious code violation; all appeals have been exhausted; the owner has taken no substantial actions to remedy the violations; and, if the conviction is the third such for the owner on that property.

“SB 1420 was the result of a series of hearings with local organizations and agencies about the issues facing municipalities,” Washington said. “One of the biggest issues we confronted was fighting blight and municipal property-code violations.

Local governments were looking for more tools to combat code violators, and through this legislation, landlords and slumlords will know that there will be serious consequences for serious violations.”

Rep. O’Brien Blasts Corbett Tactics

U.S. SENATOR PAT TOOMEY greets World War II veteran Stanley Brenner, 89, during breakfast honoring Phila. veterans at Atria Senior Living Center, 150 N. 20th Street.

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State Rep. Mike O’Brien (DKensington), along with his Democratic colleagues in the House, charges, “Gov. Corbett is holding our kids hostage for a so-called pension-reform bill that is great for no one but his moneyed interest friends on Wall Street. The bill does nothing to help solve the immediate $1.7-billion budget crisis facing the state. It doesn’t even pay down the current pension debt any faster than Act 120 of 2010,

which provided a long-term plan for the financial stability of Pennsylvania’s public pension systems.

“What the Corbett pension bill does do is harm the economic security of thousands of state workers and educators. It is very harmful to women, who make up the majority of our educators.

“Members of the Philadelphia delegation are attempting to help Philadelphia schools stay afloat and open in the fall – through a local cigarette tax, we will get the needed help to our children without costing the State one penny.”

State Rep. Ed Neilson (DNortheast) called on State Budget Secretary Charles Zogby to retract his recent comments regarding the Philadelphia School District and apologize to the people of Philadelphia.

“For the last few years, I and other Philadelphia House members have been calling for increased funding for our public schools. For the last few years, we have been offering practical ideas to raise the much-needed revenue and we have been met with objections and roadblocks at each stage,” Neilson said.

“The Secretary is now attempting to coerce members into taking action on a very complicated pension-reform bill, which has not been fully vetted and has received no public hearings, apparently in exchange for increased school funding. His comments were incendiary, divisive and very poorly timed, and I think he owes the people of Philadelphia, and every citizen of our state, an apology.”

Last week, Zogby said, “If Philadelphia Democrats aren’t going to be there for what needs to be done, then nobody’s going to be there for them. And they

can go home and tell their constituents why they couldn’t get money for the School District.”

Time and Materials, Pays For Consumer Protection

The House unanimously passed legislation sponsored by State Rep. Thomas Killion (RDelaware) that amends the Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act to allow home improvement contractors to offer contracts based on “time and materials.”

“Current law requires a valid home-improvement contract to include the total price of the project up front,” said Killion. “Having to provide a predetermined fixed cost effectively renders a time-andmaterials provision virtually unenforceable. My bill rectifies this by enabling contractors and consumers to enter into a contract that estimates the costs and provides a ceiling above which the contract cannot exceed without mutual consent.”

The contracts allowed under HB 1543 would specify the work to be performed and at what hourly rate. Contracts would be based on the actual cost of labor, materials and use of equipment, and an agreed to percentage of the total costs to cover the contractor’s fee and overhead costs for the project.

Under Killion’s bill, a timeand-materials contract must include a written cost estimate and a statement that the costs may not exceed 10% above estimate.

It must also contain the total potential cost of services, which would include the initial cost estimate and the potential 10% increase above estimate. Finally, the contract must contain a statement that the contract cannot exceed the total potential cost of services without a written change order signed by both the homeowner and contractor.

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This Philadelphia Housing Authority’s Summer Food Service Program will offer comprehensive summer youth enrichment activities in addition to breakfast and lunch for needy children this year.

The SFSP program begins on Monday, Jun. 23 and runs until Friday, Aug. 22. SFSP will be held at 20 PHA sites throughout the City and provide 35 part-time jobs for PHA clients and local residents. Hours of operation are 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

PHA is one of several large sponsors of the program in the City, which provides breakfast and lunch to youth. During the

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(Cont. From Page 18) another $44,000 in pension and other benefits. How many parents in Philadelphia have that compensation package?

Yes, Philadelphia teachers do not make what their counterparts do in the suburbs, but suburban schools also have much-higher graduation rates and test scores. A study completed last year by PROF. ROBERT COSTRELL at the University of Arkansas noted the City of Philadelphia curAMERICAN LEGION Latin American Post 840 participated rently paid $900 in 2011 per in St. John Baptist Parade in Camden, N.J. Hon. Francisco student for teachers’ pension “Frank” Moran, Grand Marshal, is in center. expenses and it is expected to rise to $2,300 per student by 2020 if our pension structure is not amended. To put this in perspective, the City spends approximately $16,000 on average for each student in total, including pension expenses.

So no! Corbett and the Republicans in Harrisburg are not trying to shortchange our 2400 E. Somerset Street Phone: 215-423-2223 students. They have been trying to get us to pay attention Philadelphia, PA 19134 Fax: 215-423-5937 to the pension problem.

contraception, especially the morning-after pill which to many is a form of abortion.

They and Arkansas-based Lobby Hobby claimed this mandate violated their freedom to practice their religions. The Court deteremined that smaller companies such as these family-

Out & About (Cont. From Page 18) held a press conference asking people from Philadelphia to call members of our city’s delegation and tell them that in exchange for passing a pension overhaul, Philadelphia would get the cigarette tax that the School District of Philadelphia had requested to close the gaping hole in its budget.

(If you’re going to hold up someone up at gunpoint, it shouldn’t be a bunch of kids in a school district that you control.)

But because these folks realize that they’re messing with something that will bring voters to the polls quicker than you can say “primary opponent.”

If you haven’t had to go into an office and do a 9-to-5, 12month-a-year job since Jimmy

owned entities where exempt from this mandate. The Court did note that large companies, especially those with publicly traded stock, could not seek this exemption as there is no practical reason why the owners as a group could be deemed to share the same religious opinions.

Carter was president, the thought of having to do regular work like a regular schmoe probably makes your skin break out in hives.

Thus, you’re not going to do anything to put yourself into a position to have to experience that.

In this case, you’re not going to mess with the pension system.

So Gov. Corbett is deciding not to sign the budget in hope of getting people on board with his new view for the pension system.

Not demanding more from the Marcellus Shale drillers. Not taking the Medicare expansion money that would allow more folks to get health insurance. This.

It’ll be interesting to see how long Gov. Corbett hangs on to his pen in defiance against the legislature. It’s immovable object against irresistible force.

Let’s see who wins this game of chicken….

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