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READERS’ CHOICE AND SPRING GUIDE
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■ The 40 winners of the 2013 Readers’ Choice Award categories will be unveiled in next week’s issue.
YOUTH APPRECIATION
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Goody twoshoes An inaugural competition honored a pair of Point Breeze-based entities for their altruism. ■ By Joseph Myers R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
■ Youth Apprecation Award-winner A’laisha Evans of The High School for Creative and Performing Arts will be honored March 11 at southphillyreview.com/ news/youth
SPORTS
■ An esteemed coach and her East Passyunk Crossing athletes romped to a City hoops title.
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cottish poet Robert Burns noted in 1785 that “The best-laid schemes of mice and men often go awry,” and 228 years later, Christopher Norris is altering that sentiment by succeeding at endeavors he had never envisioned attempting. The 26-year-old entrepreneur received his latest unexpected honor Feb. 21, as the Philly DoGooders competition dubbed him an “Emerging Leader” for founding and heading Techbook Online Corp., an integrated Internet, multi-media publishing and sustainable marketing and news organization. It also commended Diversified Community Services, 1529 S. 22nd St., for a video on Western Learning Center, 1613 South St., a 42-year-old childcare center under its direction. “The news came completely out of left field,” the resident of 18th and Dickinson See DOGOODERS page 10 >> Athletes and school administrators visited a West Passyunk educational facility to celebrate the birthday of a popular children’s author.
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