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Eternal pioneer A highly esteemed Queen Village leader succumbed to pancreatic cancer last week. By Joseph Myers R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
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pathy parted with a great adversary Aug. 14 when Jeffrey Rush lost his brief fight against pancreatic cancer at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He was 67. The Queen Village crusader had devoted more than three decades to addressing a plethora of pressing issues with aplomb and garnered admiration from City officials and neighbors for adhering to his principles and analyzing the possible consequences of every community plan. See RUSH page 10
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Nineteen youth ambassadors received a strong lesson on the riskiness of finding a phone more interesting than inspecting one’s travel routes at Unitied Communities.
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A Point Breeze native is using track to help youngsters to improve more than just their athletic identity.
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Area youths gathered at a Lower Moyamensing organization to discuss the perils of texting while driving. By Joseph Myers R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
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hough he appreciates his studies at Edward Bok High School, 1901 S. Ninth St., Ernest Graham learned Aug. 6 that out-of-school occasions can prove just as educational. While bicycling to his job at United Communities Southeast Philadelphia, 2029 S. Eighth St., he
became a hit-and-run victim at 17th Street and Snyder Avenue, with the fleeing motorist being guilty of texting while driving. “He clipped me, but what might have happened if I had been going at a different speed?” the resident of 20th and Tasker streets said. “Incidents like mine are why we are here today and what we are trying to avoid.” Graham and 18 peers, gathered Aug. 15
as youth ambassadors for the It Can Wait Campaign, a three-year-old AT&T initiative, which has intensified its mission to remind drivers, especially teenagers, to forgo fidgeting with phones while on the road and courted the United Communitiesbased Southeast Philadelphia Collaborative members for means to quell catastrophes. See TEXTING page 11