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Relative ease An East Passyunk Crossing resident will again honor her brother’s memory through a recovery walk. By Joseph Myers R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
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ighteen months after losing brother Ricky Ferrer to a heroin overdose, Jackie Ferrer still experiences “denial days.” “I know he is not coming back and that hurts, but I must somehow try to prevent others from dealing with similar pain and celebrate triumphs over their problems,” she said last week from her home on the 1000 block of Watkins Street. To help her interior to heal, the 25-yearold will use her exterior, namely, her feet, for Saturday’s PRO-ACT Recovery Walks! 2012 at Penn’s Landing. She will See RECOVERY WALK page 8
Sports
Life recently changed for Christina Wilson, from left, whose hand chef Gordon Ramsay raised in victory during the Season 10 finale of the Fox hit reality show “Hell’s Kitchen.”
Christening Christina
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A Point Breeze resident will become a head chef at a Nevada restaurant after winning a reality television cooking competition.
A verve for vintage The Philadelphia Navy Yard honored baseball’s beginnings with a weekend of spirited action. By Joseph Myers..........Page 30
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ith three older brothers and a successful basketball background, Christina Wilson has often eagerly displayed her competitive instincts. The 33-year-old relied on her drive to impress noted chef Gordon Ramsay, who named her the 10th-season winner of Fox’s
“Hell’s Kitchen” Sept. 10. Her victory endows her with a head chef position at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel’s Gordon Ramsay Steak and a $250,000 salary. To earn her new Nevada address, the Phillipsburg, N.J. native, who moved to the 1600 block of South Carlisle Street in December 2010, overcame numerous culinary challenges to defeat 17 competitors, capping her experience by winning a
two-chef final for which she prepared four appetizers and entrées and three desserts. As Ramsay, with a reputation for chiding inconsistency and malaise, dwindled the field, Wilson upped her gumption. “I had to find my footing early on, but my confidence picked up quickly,” she said Monday of handling tasks and her fellow See HELL’S KITCHEN page 10