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JUNE 16, 2011
Chants for a chance Seniors held a demonstration to rally against the possible closing of their gathering place. By Joseph Myers R e v i e w s ta f f w r i t e r
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e’re giving it the old college try,” Laurel Katz said Tuesday morning outside the Jacob and Esther Stiffel Senior Center, 604 Porter St. The resident of the 1600 block of South Juniper Street joined with roughly 30 seniors to demonstrate dissatisfaction with a plan to close the 83-year-old site. With exactly two weeks to go, she and her elders must raise $160,000 to maintain its roster of clubs, meals, programs and trips. The Save Our Stiffel Committee has collected $40,000 since May and is attempting to counter the April 12 vote by See STIFFEL RALLY page 11
Sports
Kenya Min, left, and Dipesh Rai made use of the Early Literacy Stations’ musical instruments program last week. The boys and their contemporaries have made the Hot Spot a big success one month into its existence.
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City kickers
A Girard Estate pitcher prepared for his college duties with an appearance at a tri-state tournament. By Joseph Myers.............Page 42
A local site with a warm name aims to give the area’s employment and literacy figures a surge. By Joseph Myers R e v i e w s ta f f w r i t e r
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ossessing a fourth grader’s customary energy level, Bianca Phan probably prohibits her mind from going idle even during sleep. Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Florida-based John S.
and James L. Knight Foundation, numerous computer programs allow Phan to indulge her creative curiosity at the Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia’s South Center, 2416-18 S. Seventh St. Dubbed a Hot Spot, the locale’s second floor contains technological and print goodies eager to enliven the surrounding community’s economic and educational
identities. A veteran of the first floor’s after school and summer camp programs, Phan has enjoyed ascending a few feet to enhance her computer competence since the second floor’s May 18 opening. The resident of the 200 block of South Fairhill Street See HOT SPOT page 8