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About a dozen residents conversed with city officials last week on the proposed tax and fee that is now before City Council. By Amanda L. Snyder R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
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f the 10 largest U.S. cities, Philadelphia is ranked as the poorest. It also has the highest rate of obesity among the nation’s largest cities, according to the city’s Deputy Mayor for Health and Opportunity and Health Commissioner Don Schwartz. But with the addition of the sugarsweetened beverage tax — that, if approved would levy a two-cent-per-ounce tax based on retailers’ annual sales of the See SOSNA page 11
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Kirbee the Krimpet struts his buttery stuff before eager onlookers at the grand opening of the 345,000-square-foot Tasty Baking Co. facility at the Navy Yard. P h o t o b y N ata l i e K e l l e m
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Tasty Baking Co. sweetens up the Navy Yard by opening what will become the world’s greenest bakery. By Joseph Myers
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Uniting past and present, Neumann-Goretti honored the 1985 and 2010 boys’ basketball championship teams at its annual athletic banquet. By Joseph Myers................Page 37
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outh Philadelphia has become a little sweeter, thanks to Charles P. Pizzi, the president and chief executive officer of Tasty Baking Co. May 4 marked the official grand opening of the company’s 345,000-square-foot facility 4. Pizzi brought products that have reigned as area staples since the company debuted in 1914 to the Philadelphia Navy Yard. His ingenuity also will allow South
Philadelphia to become a key location in an environmental revolution. The new bakery replaces the company’s six-story Hunting Park factory in the Allegheny West section of North Philadelphia. This new venture allows Tastykake to join a host of other companies poised to “green” the Navy Yard’s 1,200 acres. The South Philly location, a one-story building occupying 25 acres, includes seven baking lines, five of which were operational on opening day. Two lines will prepare cupcakes, with one each
for cookie bars, Juniors and Kreamies, Kandy Kakes, Krimpets and pies. The number of lines is down from the 15 that highlighted Hunting Park’s operations, but nobody, especially Pizzi, expects the newcomer to struggle. “As a company, we believe we are wellprepared and poised to seize the moment and build upon the momentum of this successful project,” he said in a press release. Tastykake, the brand name for a line of See TASTYKAKE page 9