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DECEMBER 15, 2011
Help fronted A Point Breeze community center hosted the launch of a multi-partnered strategy against employment woes. By Joseph Myers R e v i e w s ta f f w r i t e r
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ittle brings more satisfaction than landing a job, and less forges more frustration than losing that post soon after its acquisition. Low-skilled workers find themselves having to part with positions in such extreme numbers that numerous agents combined to announce a three-year initiative to reduce worry and increase bank accounts Dec. 7 at Dixon House, 1920 S. 20th St. A division of Diversified Community Services, 1529 S. 22nd St., which promotes self-sufficiency among children and families through an abundance of activiSee DIXON HOUSE page 8
Two communities’ residents rallied Dec. 4 to preserve an area that may become a site for real estate development. The citizens are hoping their summer and autumn toils will be springboards for their preferred growth plans.
Space cadets
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Dickinson Narrows and Pennsport residents are ghting to preserve the existence of a spot they have deemed a park, a title the City has contested. By Joseph Myers
In eighth heaven
An octet of high school basketball teams is hoping to give the area more hoops renown.
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ddressing the reality of appearances, American poet Gertrude Stein famously stated “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” Taking up her logic, 30 Dickinson Narrows and Pennsport community members have wondered when a park is not a park, to which the City has said when it is a lot.
The locals hope their eight-month mission to salvage Manton Street Park, 405-11 Manton St., bears figurative fruit, as they plan to have its adjacent garden produce the literal kind. “This situation illustrates some of the communication issues in getting information from City agencies to neighborhoods,” Jessica Calter, a nearly two-year resident of the 400 block of Manton Street, said at Monday’s gathering of group members.
Her referenced matter centers on the classification of the area she and her fellow members of Friends of Manton Street Park and Community Garden want to be a beacon of beauty and camaraderie. They suffered a setback Nov. 23, learning that the City had sold their beloved turf as part of a bundle of empty lots. Parks Coordinator Barbara McCabe told See MANTON STREET page 14