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AUGUST 9, 2012
A great Scott A Point Breeze teenager too familiar with loss will receive recognition for helping to halt violence. By Joseph Myers R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
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aniyyah Scott has shed far too many tears for a 17-year-old. Despite losing 11 acquaintances, including her father and boyfriend, to gun violence over the last decade, she has never deemed herself snakebitten, choosing to use pain to prove her mettle. She will accept kudos for her efforts today, as the National Liberty Museum will dub her one of its 17 Young Heroes Award winners. “I felt so happy to learn of the honor,” the resident of 22nd and Dickinson streets said Monday of inclusion in the 12th celSee YOUNG HEROES page 8
Sports
Greg Oliveri, a Nepali translator, assisted non-English speakers to learn how to surf the Web for information in their native tongues in a Southern computer lab during the School District of Philadelphia’s back-to-school event. S ta f f P h o t o b y G r e g B e z a n i s
Celebrating education Southern served as the central meeting point for parents and students to enjoy a little school-related fun prior to next month’s start.
The seven-week itch
A Marconi tennis team capped its summer program by earning a City runner-up distinction. By Joseph Myers..........Page 37
By Lauren Hertzler Review Intern
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he first day of school is still about one month away, but that didn’t prevent students and families from braving the heat for a mid-summer visit to South Philadelphia High School, 2101 S. Broad St. to roam the hallways of the Lower Moyamensing institution and take
advantage of the School District of Philadelphia’s annual Back to School Education Extravaganza. The nine-hour gathering featured workshops for kindergartners through 12thgraders, including the “Philly Students Got Talent” show — a local take on NBC reality series “America’s Got Talent.” Darby Township seventh-grader Daiyon Lowman, 13, said he enjoyed attending the
event with his cousins, who live in South Philly. “I got some stuff for college, high-school and after-school programs and tutoring and all-around help,” he said. This marked the second time Southern has hosted the one-day extravaganza, which was sponsored by Forman Mills, See EXTRAVAGANZA page 10