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READERS’ CHOICE AWARDS
A school district police officer has begun transforming a Point Breeze park’s amenities.
■ The 2013 Readers’ Choice Awards will be here before you know it — and your say says a lot. There are new categories, returning favorites and the chance to win $100. See ballot on page 37.
Jahmall Crandall, who has resided in Point Breeze for most of his life, hopes possibilities will be more prevalent courtesy of key relationships with City officials and a developer.
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SPORTS
■ By Joseph Myers R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
A A Point Breeze track star qualified for the finals of a hygienicallynamed competition.
s a coach within the Marian Anderson Recreation Center’s Urban Youth Association Developmental Basketball League, 744 S. 17th St., Jahmall Crandall loves talking hoops. As a School District of Philadelphia police ofcer and an entrenched Point Breeze resident, he also adores discussing hopes. The ambitious figure has combined the two by
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overseeing the revitalization of the Ralph Brooks Tot Lot, 20th and Tasker streets, with alliances striving to make it a beacon for social growth. “It seems the push to fix this spot has been in my mind forever, with last year finally giving me the wisdom to make a move,” the 37-year-old inhabitant of the 1900 block of Mountain Street said Monday at the space. “I’m looking to make it a blueprint for any urban neighborhood with at-risk youth.” Crandall and more than 60 peers sought support Jan. 21, using the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of
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Service to plot the lot’s transformation after more than two decades of disarray. The location derives its name from the 6-year-old victim of a July 12, 1988 drug-related shooting on the 1500 block of South 20th Street for which authorities arrested, convicted and sentenced Lonnie Summers, the last element coming Sept. 21, ’89, according to court records. The incident paralyzed the child and led the City to establish the nearby location as a recSee TOT LOT page 10 >>
A victim and the parents of both victims addressed the court at a baseball coach’s sentencing for sexual assault.
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