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OCTOBER 18, 2012
The gift of garb
The Whitman Branch aided a national cause with a pre-Halloween wardrobe celebration. By Joseph Myers R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
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houlishness and glamourousness dominated Friday afternoon’s festivities at the Whitman Branch, 200 Snyder Ave., as the facility helped children to prepare for Halloween by celebrating National Costume Swap Day. Fifty youngsters enabled the site’s initial participation in the two-year-old initiative to be a rollicking success, as they gathered goods for their impending excursions and knowledge of their altruism’s benefits. For Christopher Flores, the event kept literal gloom from matching the season’s See COSTUME SWAP page 8
Sports Leroy Cook, second from right, and his relatives are in a race against time to locate new living quarters. S ta f f P h o t o b y G r e g B e z a n i s
Homeward frowned Queen Village entities have united to assist a family that lost its residence to a re.
Alliterative annihilation A pair of stars helped a West Passyunk football team to make school history. By Joseph Myers..........Page 38
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or the first two years and one month of her educational existence, Zaniyah Byard needed to walk only three blocks to attend William Meredith School, 725 S. Fifth St. The 7-year-old now must set out before sunrise to receive instruction
at the Queen Village location because an Oct. 3 electrical fire destroyed her house on the 300 block of Monroe St. She and eight relatives have spent the last two weeks at a temporary site, hoping repairs can salvage the spot the girl’s great-grandfather, Leroy Cook, has called his home for 47 years. “I’m working through it,” Zaniyah said
Monday of the alteration to her life. The youngster and mother Angel Byard, neither present when, the episode broke out on the third floor at 5:48 p.m., have both faced scholastic disturbances, as the latter, a Community College of Philadelphia student, lost her books and laptop. The tools See MONROE STREET FIRE page 10