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Chopped giver A twinned Pennsport church’s congregants have needed to nd new spiritual homes due to their site’s impending sale. By Joseph Myers R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
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ike her beloved savior, Joan Pettit cherishes children. She has accomplished the task predominantly through motherhood and a 38-year School District of Philadelphia teaching career, with membership at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1332 S. Third St., giving her other occasions to assist youths and advocate for adults in need. The passionate parishioner and her peers have consulted the heavens for consolation, as they needed to vacate their 145-year-old Pennsport location, which welcomed congregants from Emanuel LuSee ST. JOHN’S page 8
Sports
A splitting headache
Demonstrators from Abigail Vare School have voiced continuous opposition to their site’s proposed closing.
Photo Provided by Dana Jenkins
A pl pla plan lan tto o cclose lose a P Pennsp Pennsport ennspport sschool chooll andd rel relocate locatte iits ts st students tuddentts to a Dickinson Narrows site has bred communal discomfort.
No gripping the Griffins A Hawthorne high school basketball team is proving elusive to its divisional foes. By Joseph Myers..........Page 30
mensing Ave., mensi ing A ve ffor or ffour our years aand ndd hhas as delighted in observing the secondgrader’s progression into a stellar student thanks to tireless teachers. The proud father might need to By Joseph Myers root for his offspring at a different R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r site next year, as the School District eil Mininger has sent his of Philadelphia has proposed closing son, Ryan Stem, to Abigail the Pennsport facility and relocating Vare School, 1621 E. Moya- its enrollees to George Washington
The fifirst Th rst iin n a th three-part hree part se series ries i cov covering proposed changes to the School District of Philadelphia’s learning institutions.
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School, S. Fi Fifth St., whose proS chhooll 11 1198 98 S Fif fth S fth t wh gram options the educational overseer plans to halt. The potential changes and two further recommendations for South Philly’s public institutions constitute a tiny, yet powerful portion of a design that could shutter 37 schools See SCHOOL DISTRICT PLAN page 10