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South Street roundup
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More than 30 teens were written up for roaming a popular thoroughfare past curfew over the weekend. Amanda L. Snyder Review Managing Editor
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eventy-one juveniles were cited for violating curfew last weekend in the areas set by Mayor Michael Nutter’s executive order with about half occurring on South Street. Those under the age of 18 had to be home by 9 p.m. starting last Friday in the designated areas including along South Street where officers checked identification and transported youngsters hanging out there to the 3rd Police District, 11th and Wharton streets, where their parents See CURFEW page 9
Sports
Chew on this
Ten-year-old Kaya Thomas eagerly plucked raspberries at Chew Playground just before the presentation of a vehicle that will help others to be as enthusiastic about horticultural as she is. S ta f f P h o t o b y G r e g B e z a n i s
Day campers at a Point Breeze playground have filled a garden with edible endeavors.
By Joseph Myers
Give me some skin
Area products are eager to obtain gridiron greatness this college season. By Joseph Myers.............Page 33
R e v i e w s ta f f w r i t e r
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an we plant blueberries soon?” Arnera Bryant girlishly asked overseer Sean Roulan. The inquisitive 10-year-old, a fifth-grader-to-be at F. Amedee Bregy School, 1700 Bigler St., posed her question before she and 19 fellow campers posed their bodies in front of a vivid Subaru Outback Aug.
11 at Chew Playground, 18th Street and Washington Avenue. Children and adults will cultivate their fondness for flora through the vehicle, which the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society will use for its Green Machine Initiative. A 13-park project, the four-month-old undertaking has sought to strengthen gardens and transform young minds. A PHS consultant with the society, Roulan has added his expertise to both objects and
will continue to do so through October. “There was almost nothing here when we started,” the Northern Liberties resident and tender of all the sites said of last month’s planting. Roulan revealed some locations needed little modification while others required extensive treatment. Chew found itself a mix of the descriptions. Seeking to morph See GREEN MACHINE page 9