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Kindred spirits The green-thinking owners of a cabinetmaking/mill shop donate their scrap wood to Christmas tree vendors, who use it to keep warm as the temperatures drop.
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D E C E M B E R 17, 2 0 0 9
Back to school
By Lorraine Gennaro R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
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hristmas tree vendors sprout up on street corners this time of year, many keeping warm as the temperatures dip by lighting makeshift fires in metal trash barrels. Normally, the workers scrounge up whatever wood they can, but the owners of a Newbold business are making things easier by donating their scrap wood as just another extension of their green philosophy. For the first time last year, Carmana Designs, a custom cabinetmaking and mill shop owned by Carmen and Anna Maria See TREES page 12
Sports
Most of the Asian students who boycotted Southern after attacks at the school have returned following a meeting with district officials Tuesday. By Amanda L. Snyder R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
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Aloha, Saints
The boys’ basketball team from 10th and Moore traded in the cold weather for a week under the Hawaiian sun and games against unfamiliar squads. By Bill Gelman................Page 43
About 30 Asian students were part of Southern’s dismissal yesterday. Just last week, students supported those testifying before the School Reform Commission on violence at the school. S ta f f P h o t o s b y G r e g B e z a n i s
wo weeks ago, about 25 Asian students were attacked due to a lack of action by South Philadelphia High administrators — and it was not the first time, according to students at the 2101 S. Broad St. school. The result of the unrest between Asian students and their African-American classmates, who they say are the ones that have attacked them most recently, and the lack of protective, proactive measures by Southern officials, led to the Asian students boycotting classes for eight school days. The students ended their walk-
out Tuesday evening after meeting with school officials at a continued session of the Human Relations Commission meeting that began Monday and are slowly returning to class. In order to involve more students and start a dialogue with school organizations, about 30 still-boycotting pupils agreed to return to Southern yesterday after a “frank and occasionally pointed exchange” with Superintendent Arlene Ackerman, the students said in a statement. “Through our trials and struggles, we pushed the school to hear us,” the students said. “We have made change by standing See BACK TO SCHOOL page 13