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YOUTH APPRECIATION
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Migration commendation Area teenagers and young adults had their community and personal achievements honored at a Pennsport institution.
■ George Nebinger School’s Amber Sutton will receive the latest Youth Apprecation Award April 8 at southphillyreview.com/news/ youth.
PASTA BOWL
■ View a highlight video and photo gallery of the South Philly Review’s first-ever Pasta Bowl at southphillyreview. com/multimedia.
SPORTS ■ By Joseph Myers R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
■ A West Passyunk ba s e b a l l team opened the month by stunning the two-time defending Public League champion.
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hough Karika Gnep considers herself an introvert, she enjoys any occasion that encourages her to shed her shyness. The 18-year-old senior at Horace Furness High School, 1900 S. Third St., experienced such an event Tuesday, as she and 42 other teenagers and young adults gathered at her Pennsport secondary site to receive Con-
Karika Gnep, second from right, and the other gold medalists accepted kudos from U.S. Rep. Robert Brady.
gressional Award medals for in the initiative, which uses nuenriching their communities merous activities to supplement S ta f f P h o t o b y the education of the offspring of and broadening their selfGreg Bezanis migratory farm workers who have knowledge. The afternoon cermoved within the School District emony offered added mystique, of Philadelphia’s boundaries within a as all the honorees participate in the given three-year period. “I’m still not very Migrant Education Program, whose local chapter operates at United Communities South- outgoing, but I have much more confidence when I’m in certain situations.” east Philadelphia, 2029 S. Eighth St. “I have come to feel empowered, especially in See AWARD CEREMONY page 10 >> my use of English,” Gnep said of her involvement
Holiday hoopla
Hundreds participated in a Queen Village thoroughfare’s renowned Easter promenade and costume contest.
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