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SPORTS
Volunteers helped clean up everything from shattered glass to hubcaps as part of a citywide cooperative cleanup. Photo by Corey Carter
Springing to action Volunteers V olunteers o oversaw versaw d dozens ozens o off llocal ocal p projects rojects d during uring S Saturday’s aturday’s seventh annual Philly Spring Cleanup. ■ By Amanda L. Snyder Review Contributor
■ A South Phillytraining boxer hopes to gain national renown. See page 37.
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hile car tires are typically unscathed by grime and debris that accumulate on city roads, bike tires are more susceptible to damage from those items that sometimes include nails and bits of glass. Owen Sindler
knows rsthand. He recalled riding along Columbus Boulevard four years ago when an object in the bike lane attened his tire and ended his and his then-teenage son’s ride. “I was unprepared and ended up walking back to Performance Bicycle, [1300 S. Columbus Blvd., to get it fixed,]” the Center City resident said. Sindler hoped to lessen the chance of that hap-
Big & Tall at heart
pening to other bicyclists along a stretch of Columbus Boulevard south of Oregon Avenue, he said, as he and fellow members of the Bicycle Club of Philadelphia picked up debris in the bike lane Saturday as a part of the seventh annual Philly Spring Cleanup. See SPRING CLEANUP page 10 >>
Mark Rosenfeld is retiring after a 77-year run for his South Philly family business.
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