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Breathing easier for the holidays A Point Breeze family is being blessed with the miracle of an asthma-friendly home. Stephanie Weaver Review Contributor
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nna Johnson currently rents a twobedroom rowhome on the 2500 block of Latona Street with her husband, brother and daughter, who battles asthma and is confined to a wheelchair. After next week, her family will move three blocks east to a brand new home that caters to her daughter’s physical needs. Johnson’s family was one of four selected from across the country to participate in Build Smart, Breathe Easier, an asthma educational program, that teamed up with HGTV’s Carter Oosterhouse; Merck — a pharmaceutical company; Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia; and the Asthma and
Rosetta Miriello, from left, Pasquale Nestico and Maria DiDonato hope to help 100 local families. S ta f f P h o t o by Greg Bezanis P h o t o I l l u s t r at i o n by Brendan Moss
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Sports
Senior-rite-is
Six athletes continued their schools’ traditions of producing collegiate signees. By Joseph Myers.............Page 38
A kindhearted crusade
A Marconi cardiologist’s cultural organization is marking its sixth year of making Christmas merry for area families.
By Joseph Myers r e v i e w s ta f f w r i t e r
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he recent fair temperatures soon will yield to traditionally frigid ones that will increase the likelihood of walking in a winter wonderland. The lower digits may make many
giddy for Christmas but may sap others who dread not being able to provide their children with garments to brave the cold or presents to celebrate the holiday. Dr. Pasquale Nestico and his colleagues at Filitalia InternationSee FILITALIA page 14