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Roads to somewhere Two initiatives are aspiring to improve the corridor identities for parts of West Passyunk and Newbold. By Joseph Myers R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
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ndrew Pinkham confessed to being a willing victim of “the cleanup bug” Tuesday. The West Passyunk Neighbors Association president is indulging his panache for purity as the program manager for the Snyder Avenue Corridor Cleaning program, a 12-month plot to polish and beautify 18th through 25th streets. A $60,000 Philadelphia Department of Commerce grant is allowing Pinkham and Diversified Community Services, 1529 S. 22nd St., to continue their calling to improve Snyder Avenue as a vibrant stretch See CORRIDORS page 8
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Asante Samuel, second row in white shirt, with fiancée Jeniva Barrett, to his right, helped to secure funds to renovate a house for a single mother and her two children. The abode will be habitable by the middle of spring.
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An Eagles cornerback continued his philanthropic offseason endeavors by helping to rehabilitate a Grays Ferry home. By Joseph Myers R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
Holy stroke A Pennsport sharpshooter has helped her East Passyunk Crossing basketball team to parochial prominence. By Joseph Myers..........Page 30
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s a four-time Pro Bowl selection, Asante Samuel has provided commendable coverage for the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles. The deft defender displayed a different brand of safekeeping Friday morning, drilling and painting a property on the 1400 block of South Marston Street to aid the first local venture of his Bring It Home Single Moms Foundation.
By early May, Rasheeda Manning, a resident of the 3000 block of Dickinson Street, will come to occupy the house, which is part of a partnership between the foundation and Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia to provide affordable housing to lowincome single matriarchs. “It will be such a thrill to call this mine,” the 32-year-old mother of two said of the 1,150-square-foot, three-bedroom abode. “For a change, I am going to be the landlord.” While they waited for their esteemed helper, Manning, a West Philadelphia na-
tive, and the other participants furthered work that began in March. The former owners’ children donated the quarters to Habitat, which in its 27-year history has built or modified 13 South Philly spots, including an asthma-friendly home on the 2200 block of Latona Street Nov. 12 through the Build Smart, Breathe Easier program. “We are helping families to make significant investments,” Corinne O’Connell, Habitat’s associate executive director, said. See BRING IT HOME page 11