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Age-old melodies
A Point Breeze disc jockey spins the hits for multiple generations at a local park Thursdays. Samantha Byles Review Intern
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onversation usually comes to a halt when talking about someone’s age, but when it comes to discussing the age of music, one can easily get caught up in the heated argument. “What you might consider to be old, I consider to be old school,” Ali Hackett, of the 2100 block of Reed Street, said. “Old school is Al Green, early Temptations, Earth, Wind and Fire. Oldies is music from the ’50s, ’60s and maybe the early’70s. “ Also known as the “King of Oldies,” Hackett is hosting “Throwback Thursdays” 5 to 9 p.m., or “till the cows come home” as he put it, every Thursday through Oct. See WHARTON SQUARE page 8
Sports
Rev. Stanley Wilson gained key community insights from his mother Mabel Wilson. Her example and his willingness to sustain character-building activities, including the tending of the pictured garden, have aided children for 66 years.
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A Grays Ferry youth club won a reprieve to postpone the sale of two of its cherished spaces.
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Neumann-Goretti put up a baker’s dozen to romp to its second straight City title. By Joseph Myers..........Page 37
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s Monday’s rain replenished the garden soil of The Central Club for Boys and Girls, 2537 Alter St., Rev. Stanley Wilson pondered his Grays Ferry roots. The 62-year-old preacher had his prayers answered May 15, as the Court of Common Pleas granted a six-month stay of execution on the sale of two nearby lots
he acquired in October 2010. The overseer of eight spaces along the 2500 block of Alter Street, has embarked on a crusade to have affiliated debt forgiven, a move that, if successful, will sustain full operation of the organization his mother Mabel Wilson chartered in 1946. Having enlisted the Public Interest Law Center to gain a 90-day delay, Stanley Wilson, the club’s 10-year leader, is seeking to receive rulings from the Philadelphia Of-
fice of Property Assessment pertaining to prospective and retroactive nonprofit real estate tax exemptions. He obtained the lots through a quiet title action and, not having received advice from former counsel to file nonprofit exemption applications for any of the properties, found himself stunned in November when learning of the proposed sale of 2530 and 2540 Alter St., a pair of See CENTRAL CLUB page 10