YOUTH APPRECIATION
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Vol. 66 NO. 27 ■ July 4 , 2013
Happy Independence Day
■ Ellen Duong, a Julia R. Masterman High School graduate, will join the other Youth Appreciation Award winners as the final honoree July 8 at southphillyreview. com/news/youth.
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■ Holly Ricciardi displays her baking skills at Magpie where she enjoys making Strawberry Rhubarb Crumb Pie. See page 27.
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Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey explained the significance of the center’s linking with other entities. Photo Provided by The Philadelphia Police Department
A sign of intelligence A Marconi facility will help four states and numerous agencies to strengthen their public safety missions. ■ By Joseph Myers R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
■ An East Passyunk Crossing high school grad aided his team’s run to the College World Series.
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his is a proud day in Philadelphia,” Mayor Michael Nutter said Friday at the formal opening of the Delaware Valley Intelligence Center, 20th and Johnston streets. “I can assure you that preservation and protection will be our missions.” He, fellow City leaders and other allies ventured to the 40,000-square-foot Marconi location to cap
seven years of preparation and frequent frustration in establishing a security hub to rival the nation’s 77 other fusion centers. Fully operational since January, the space is enabling authorities to form a nexus of intelligence collection, analysis and dissemination services, with addressing and suppressing terrorism and tending to weather-related woes and other emergencies as their top tasks. “We have the same mission as our country’s other such sites,” Chief of Staff and Deputy Mayor for
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Public Safety Everett Gillison said, a nod to their predecessors’ linking atypical gatherers of intelligence such as colleges and universities, private businesses and public health organizations with law enforcement agencies. “With our progress thus far, we have eliminated any potential barriers to communication.” Having accomplished that, the overseers are stressing the strengthening of Berks, Chester, DelSee INTELLIGENCE CENTER page 10 >>
A Newbold health center graduated its first class of PEER advocates. 8