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Greener future A Bella Vista school received a six-figure grant to implement innovative infrastructure on its property and surrounding areas. By Alexis Abate Review Contributor
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revamped playground area, an outdoor classroom complete with gardens and a campus-style reading space, rain barrels, a tree infiltration system and the implementation of porous pavements are just some of the innovative green infrastructures planned for George W. Nebinger School, 601 Carpenter St., and its surrounding neighborhoods. Nebinger, as well as other sections of Bella Vista and a Queen Village playground, received word April 26 that it was the recipient of a $200,000 U.S. EnvironSee NEBINGER page 8
Sports
The flaxen felon
Mixtli Lazaro read her jury’s opinion on the fate of Gold E. Locks, accused of four counts of bad manners.
P h o t o i l l u s t r at i o n b y G r e g B e z a n i s
A boyish win
A freshman overshadowed his senior baseball brethren to help a West Passyunk squad claim a dramatic victory.
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Capping the City’s Law Week festivities, a Passyunk Square school’s students found a fairy tale gure culpable of multiple crimes.
By Joseph Myers
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hymir Cruz has years to select a vocation, but the precocious secondgrader at Andrew Jackson School, 1213 S. 12th St., might have had his path chosen Friday at City Hall. He and 24 classmates participated in the site’s seventh Law Week celebration, using their wits in a mock trial to debate the innocence of Goldilocks, the curious character who enters and alters a home in “The Story of the Three Bears.” The 1837 Rob-
ert Southey tale provided the youngsters a glimpse into the legal world and might have convinced Shymir to crack open a few new textbooks. “I like learning about laws,” the resident of the 700 block of South 13th Street said. “I might want to become a judge.” If the Hawthorne inhabitant comes to don a robe and wield a gavel, he might fraternize with members of the Young Lawyers Division of the Philadelphia Bar Association, who helped him and nearly 300 other See GOLD E. LOCKS page 10