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FEBRUARY 2, 2012
Bank shot
A Lower Moyamensing school has a chance at bolstering its environmental identity courtesy of a recycling advocate. By Joseph Myers R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
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ith Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa as its chief occasions, December dominates the gift giving calendar. Lower Moyamensing Civic Association president Kim Massare hopes locals can make the other winter months equally notable expressions of philanthropy. She has centered her aspirations on South Philadelphia High School, 2101 S. Broad St., which two months ago became one of the city’s 10 participants in the Recyclebank Green Schools Program. The initiative will further environmenSee RECYCLEBANK page 8
Sports
Economic woes for their providing agency could jeopardize intergenerational meals like between Kareem Koger left, and Jennie Onorato in 2005 at the Samuel S. Fels South Philadelphia Community Center.
A debt of ingratitude
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Bok-analia Additional gusto has helped an East Passyunk Crossing basketball team to earn a division crown. By Joseph Myers..........Page 44
A Marconi school’s plan to purchase a neighboring community center facing nancial peril has spawned conicting reactions. By Joseph Myers R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
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hough content with solitude, Ronalta Conn has enjoyed bonding with fellow seniors at the Samuel S. Fels South Philadelphia Community Center, 2407 S. Broad St., for nine years. One of more than 1,000 members of its Marconi Older Adults Center, she has contributed to its theater
group for five years, yet mounting debt will likely drop the curtain on her performances and all other activities at the 43,000-squarefoot site. Overseer Caring People Alliance has placed Fels up for sale, with the Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter School, 2600 S. Broad St., emerging as a leading candidate to make its second purchase from the Center City-based company.
Conn, of the 2300 block of South Mildred Street, has gathered six pages of signatures for her petition to keep Fels serving friends, teenagers and young children and employing consummate workers. Her pen has proven concern for the affected parties, but her contemporaries have won her heart and roused her activist streak. See FELS page 12