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Major bust at the Courtyard Apartments
Twelve locals were arrested Tuesday morning in connection to a drugtrafficking organization. Amanda L. Snyder Review Managing Editor
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uthorities had been undercover investigating an alleged Queen Village drug ring centered at the Courtyard Apartments at Riverview, 1021 S. Fourth St., since March 2009. Tuesday they announced the arrest of 15 people — all but three reside locally. Mayoshi Sanders is believed to have been at the helm of the Sanders DrugTrafficking Organization that allegedly distributed crack cocaine, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, Oxycodone — used to See DRUG BUST page 11
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Newbold’s St. Rita of Cascia led four local congregations with 100 attendees at Sunday’s gathering. The parishioners and their allies throughout the city want constant attention to their neighborhoods’ most troubling afflictions.
POWER trip
P h o t o P r o v i d e d b y R e v. D a n i e l M c L a u g h l i n
Members of nearly four dozen congregations ventured to a South of South church for an interfaith group’s founding convention. By Joseph Myers
Supporting his union
A professional soccer team chose a Packer Park prodigy to join its training program. By Joseph Myers.............Page 36
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hat if change were really possible?” a slide asked 2,000 souls Sunday evening at Tindley Temple United Methodist Church, 750 S. Broad St. Primed to respond, the Christian, Jewish and Muslim figures beseeched dignitaries and God to help to heal their fragmented
neighborhoods. Members of 42 congregations, the eager voices courted intervention as representatives of Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower and Rebuild (POWER), an interfaith movement intent on diminishing communal distress. Tindley Temple, a 174-year-old site listed on the National Register of Historic Places, won the hosting honor for the founding convention because of its 3,200-seat capacity. Pews buzzed with anticipation
for a full hour before the 6 p.m. opening, as attendees, including those from Tindley Temple and three more South Philadelphia locations, hoped the night would yield a promising return on their two-year-old transformative mission. Rev. Lillian Smith, the location’s senior pastor, delivered the welcome before Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and Protestant See POWER page 9