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Nutrition accomplished A Lower Moyamensing school’s budding cooks prepared meals for five dozen seniors. By Joseph Myers R e v i e w s ta f f w r i t e r
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esires for certain joys may decline as one ages, but a hunger to halt hunger never droops. Eighteen future food specialists at South Philadelphia High School, 2101 S. Broad St., welcomed six seniors, including four from the JCC Stiffel Senior Center, 604 Porter St., in packaging meals for local elders March 23. The 10th Annual March for Meals campaign, part of the Meals On Wheels Association of America, united the groups, whose handiwork included an See MEALS page 10
Juan Savala of Garden Hangouts landscape design planted one of 17 trees along East Passyunk Avenue Tuesday as part of Passyunk Avenue Revitalization Corp.’s greening initiative.
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After multiple lawsuits tainted its former name, an East Passyunk Avenuebased group has resumed services, ending a nearly two-year hiatus. Amanda L. Snyder Review Managing Editor
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A Passyunk Square school made additional history by scoring a trio of titles. By Joseph Myers................Page 35
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ince March 21, workers in bright yellow vests have been hitting the streets to pick up litter, sweep sidewalks and remove graffiti on and around East Passyunk Avenue. The crew from the Center City-based ABM Janitorial Services will be utilized twice a day, six days a week along the avenue and its immediate area while outlying parts of the Passyunk Avenue Revitaliza-
tion Corp.’s boundaries — Federal Street to Snyder Avenue and Broad to Ninth streets — will be tidied up twice a week. ABM won the contract by the resurrected nonprofit, formerly Citizens Alliance for Better Neighborhoods, which halted its cleaning services April 30, 2009 due to ongoing litigation that resulted from its founder — former state Sen. Vincent Fumo — and former head — Ruth Arnao — being convicted of multiple counts of fraud for stealing from the nonprofit. Its board members were forced to resign as part a
settlement in the state suit brought on by then-Attorney General Tom Corbett, which included the court appointing Paul Levy as interim conservator to find whether or not the organization could be revived. Levy saw potential, so it relaunched in January after the court approved his findings. With new Executive Director Sam Sherman Jr., the group made plans to resume some of its cleaning services and maintain its duties as a landlord to many See PARC page 12