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Among their many challenges, area small business owners cite dealing with the City’s trash fee increase as the foulest. By Joseph Myers r e v i e w s ta f f w r i t e r
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arie Ciminera overflows with frustration, much like the sidewalk and curb of her business do with trash. The owner of Card and Gift Gallery, 2132 S. Broad St., Ciminera has operated her small business for 33 years, but the discouraged proprietor soon will have to part with her tract, a victim of the City’s aggressive plan to reduce its staggering budget deficit. She and her fellow vendors along the 2100 block of South Broad Street already have endured what they see as excessively fishy taxes and See TRASH page 12
Sports The City’s Department of Licenses and Inspections condemned 739 Earp Street, which formerly housed about 90 animals — including Isabel (photo provided by the PSPCA), right, July 14.
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Biddle me this
No stranger to the neighborhood, the Phillies’ first-round draft pick has fans wondering how many more parades he will bring to the area. By Joseph Myers................Page 37
Even after 85 Chihuahuas were removed from a Passyunk Square home two weeks ago, the fight is far from over — for the residents and the animals. By Amanda L. Snyder R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
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sign posted by the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections on the door of 739 Earp St. instructed for the removal of debris and animal waste and deemed the residence “unfit
for human habitation.” The alleged owners Richard and Franny Rotunda — the latter who, according to residents, is believed to be a former Chihuahua breeder — were forced to vacate the property prior to midnight July 15, according to the sign. The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PSPCA)
received a search warrant July 14 for the property near Eighth and Reed streets and retrieved 85 Chihuahuas, two cats and two additional dead Chihuahuas over the course of several hours that evening from the three-story dwelling with feces coverSee RESCUE page 9