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State: Health
Insurance For
The High Risk
State Sen. LeAnna M.
Washington has announced
a new program that offers
uninsured individuals with
pre-existing conditions quality health insurance.
The PA Fair Care program is offered by the Insurance Department and is
Pennsylvania’s health plan.
“This program will provide much needed relief to
those Pennsylvanians who are
living with debilitating conditions that have prevented
them from receiving quality
healthcare,” Washington
said. “It is important that
those uninsured individuals
with pre-existing conditions
apply for this critical program.”
PA Fair Care will be administered statewide through
a contract with Highmark
Blue Shield. Benefits will
include preventive care, physician services, diagnostic
testing, hospitalization, mental health services and prescriptions. The cost to enrollees is a subsidized premium of $283.20 monthly.
To be eligible for PA Fair
Care, applicants must:
• Be a U.S. citizen or lawful resident • Be a Pennsylvania resident •Have a pre-existing health condition •Be
uninsured for the previous six
months
“This program is one of
the key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the federal
health reform bill,” Washington said. “Pennsylvania will
now join several other states
in providing coverage to those
individuals considered “highrisk” and lacking insurance
to receive treatment.”
Beginning in 2014, the
full implementation of federal reform will prohibit discrimination against individuals because of their health
status. This high-risk pool
will provide critical bridge
coverage to those Pennsylvanians desperately in need of
health insurance.
The state Insurance Department estimates that there
are currently 880,000 Pennsylvanians without health insurance.
Applications can be completed
online
at
www.PAFairCare.com.
Those without internet access
may call the toll free helpline
- 1-888-767-7015 (TTY 1888-767-7018) Monday thru
Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
More information about
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calling 1-888-767-7015.
News For and About
The People of
West Philadelphia
August 6 - 12, 2010
• Vol. 24• No. 22 • (215) 474-7411 • FAX (215) 474-WEST
• P.O. Box 19437 • Phila., PA. 19143 • E-Mail: WestsidePA@AOL.COM
A Teen Dies While Cop Stays in Donut Shop
Police Probing Officer For Refusing To Respond To “Trouble”
By Napoleon F. Kingcade
Westside Reporter
A donut shop has become
a part of a Philadelphia Police investigation into the July
11th shooting death of 17year-old Michael Anthony
Parker-Barham.
Parker-Barham was shot
several times in broad daylight inside the entrance way
of the 52nd & Market Street
SEPTA El Station.
However, just minutes
before the teenager was
killed, a female police officer,
who was inside a donut shop
a few yards across the street
from the EL station, was informed by an eyewitness that
trouble was about to happen.
The female police officer
allegedly told the eyewitness
that she was not going to respond to the commotion
across the street because
“that’s not my district.”
Moments later, at least 14
shots rang out and Michael
Anthony Parker-Barham
staggered from the El lobby
and fell dead on the sidewalk
directly across from the donut shop.
His assailant fled the
scene.
The 18th and 19th Police
Districts are separated by
Market Street. The accused
officer is from the 19th District on the north side of Market Street.
Police began the probe
after they said a witness filed
a complaint about the
officer’s refusal to respond
to the escalating incident.
According to the grandmother of the murdered teenager, the same eyewitness told
her that he tracked down the
police officer inside the donut shop and he informed the
officer about a commotion
inside the SEPTA station
across the street.
“He (the eyewitness) told
me that he told the officer
that a crowd was gathering
across the street and a fight
was about to breakout,” explained Joyce Barham, the
victim’s grandmother. “He
said the officer told him that
she didn’t work in that district and the other side of
Market Street is not her district.”
According to the eyewitness, the officer remained inside the donut shop and minutes later, shots were fired.
It was reported that the
teenage victim was struck
three times in his torso area.
At least 14 shots were fired
inside the El Station’s lobby
in this incident, according to
The donut shop near the corner of 52nd & Market Sts.
police, that occurred on a Station and across the street to
Sunday shortly before 2 in the north side of Market Street
the afternoon. The teenage where he collapsed and died in
victim ran from the EL train Officer Probed..
Continues on Page 9
Witnesses Finger Police Killer, 16
By Napoleon F. Kingcade
Westside Reporter
On August 11, inside
Courtroom 306 at the
Criminal Justice Center,
Joyce Barham will get to
see the 16-year-old boy
who shot her grandson to
death inside the 52nd&
Market Street SEPTA EL
Station.
Face-to-face.
Eye-to-eye.
The grieving grandmother will see Timothy
Hartwell at his preliminary hearing. She will be
able to hear why he killed
her grandson.
On August 2nd,
Hartwell, of the 100 block
of North Peach Street, was
charged with the July 11th
murder of 17-year-old
Michael Anthony ParkerBarham.
According to Homicide
Detective Tim Bass, several eyewitnesses came
forth and identified Timothy Hartwell as the shooter
of the teenage victim.
“Several witnesses said
they had seen him (Hartwell)
shoot the victim,” said the
homicide detective. “The
witnesses said there was an
argument between Hartwell
and the victim.
They said
Hartwell
pulled out his
gun and shot
A makeshift memorial was set up for
him.”
Detective Parker-Barham near the spot where he
Bass said he was killed near 52nd and Market Sts.
would like to
thank those witnesses for came forth three days ago.
coming forth with informaOnce the witnesses idention about Hartwell. Detec- tified Hartwell as the person
tive Bass calls this “Com- who killed Barham, the Dismunity Cooperation.”
trict Attorney's Office isAccording to an inside sued a warrant for him to be
source, Timothy Hartwell charged for that murder.
was already in jail for an“I’m glad that they have
other shooting as it took sev- him locked up,” said the
eral months before police victim’s grandmother about
could catch up with Hartwell Hartwell. “I hope he goes to
in connection to that shoot- hell. I want to see him. I
ing. Police were able to ar- want him to see my face and
rest Hartwell on July 16 for see the pain he has put me
that shooting, but they didn’t through.”
know he was the one who
“I’m glad he’s off the
murdered Michael Barham streets,” said the grandon July 11 - five days earlier mother. “This keeps him
— until several witnesses from killing someone else.”
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Pajil Battle Honored for Commitment to the Community
Maria Pajil Battle, senior
vice president, Public Affairs
and Marketing, Keystone
Mercy Health Plan, was honored with one of the Philadelphia Business Journal’s
2010 Minority Business
Leader Awards.
Ms. Pajil Battlewas profiled in a print supplement in
the August 6 edition of the
Philadelphia Business Journal.
Ms. Pajil Battle’s role at
Keystone Mercy Health Plan,
the largest Medicaid managed
care organization in Pennsylvania, consists of managing
all of the company’s marketing activities and community
affairs in the Greater Philadelphia area. Working closely
with other Keystone Mercy
senior executives, Ms. Pajil
Battle designs, implements
and oversees marketing,
membership and health promotion strategies and initiatives that drive Keystone
Mercy’s mission of providing quality and accessible
health care services to its
members.
During the past 10 years,
Ms. Pajil Battle's leadership
has contributed to the
company’s market share
growth from 48% to 60% and
membership from 220,000
members to over 320,000.
The company’s business
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a special concern for the poor
and disadvantaged.
“I am honored to be recognized as a 2010 Minority
Business Leader, among my
colleagues who are talented,
driven
and
devoted
awardees," said Ms. Pajil
Battle. " At Keystone Mercy
Health Plan, I am passionate
about serving my members
and the community.
"Quality of life is a journey and healthcare is a critical component which I am
pleased to contribute each day
by, building healthier, stronger communities and creating initiatives that positively
affect diverse audiences.”
She continued, “I’m
thankful to those who nominated me, the judging panel
and the Philadelphia Business Journal for this esteemed
award. I will continue to advocate for those less fortu-
nate and do all that I can to
assist in providing quality
healthcare to those from
underserved communities
especially children.”
Ms. Pajil Battle was also
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THE WESTSIDE WEEKLY
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High schools throughout
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to fight hunger. The goal: to
collect 25 tons of food for
Philabundance and the thousands of local families who
rely on the food services they
provide. Shire will present
the school that collects the
most food per student a grand
prize of $10,000.
“With their unbridled energy and ‘we can do it’
mindset, teenagers can accomplish great things,” said
Mike Cola, president of Shire
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show how their students can
put food on the table for parents struggling to feed their
children, seniors who can’t
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“A regional high school
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school students get wind of
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they’re going to energize entire communities and we can’t
wait to hear about their successes,” said Bill Clark, President
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Police Explorer Program
The Philadelphia Police Explorer Cadet Program is accepting applications starting this Saturday, August 1, 2010, for the
2010-2011 enrollment.
The Police Explorer Cadet program is designed to introduce
teenagers and young adults 14 to 20 years of age interested in
pursuing a career in law enforcement. Any explorer cadet that
completes the minimum of two years of service with the
program will be awarded three preference points, applied to the
Police Recruit examination.
Applications can be obtained from the website:
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August 6 - 12, 2010
PROFILE: ACTRESSSINGER GLORIA
HENDRY
By Don Smallwood
Entertainment Correspondent
Actress-Singer Gloria
Hendry certainly made black
people, young and old, very
proud of her portrayals of nononsense, kick butt female
characters in the action films
she made in the 1970’s, that
were labeled “Blaxplotaton
films.”
When I was working at
the now-gone Capital Theater (52nd and Girard Avenue) during the era of the
70’s the audiences who patronized this theater enjoyed
seeing black actresses like
Cicely Tyson, Diana Ross,
the late Roalind Cash, the late
Vonetta McGee, Janet Mac
Lachlan, Judy Pace, Brenda
Skyes to name a few in dramatically roles.
My friend Debra T.
Smallwood recently informed me about an upcoming appearance that Gloria
Hendry will be making at The
Cinema Wasteland Movie
And Memorable Expo, in
Berea, Ohio on October 1-3,
2010 where she will be joining other celebrities greeting
visitors and signing autographs.
Gloria Hendry was born
in Florida and raised in Newark, New Jersey. She landed
her first job as an assistant to
the legal secretary in the New
York office of the NAACP.
During her time at the
NAACP she began to develop her career as a model
and also working at one of
Gloria Hendry and how she appeared in James Bond's
"Live and Let Die" with Roger Moore & Jane Seymour
Hugh Hefner’s Playboy
Clubs there.
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Hendry’s first film role as a
cocktail waitress in the 1968
motion picture “For the love
of Ivy” starring Sidney
Pointier and Abby Lincoln..
Her destiny prevailed in
1973 with co-starring roles
in Director Larry Cohen’s
“Black Caesar,” with Fred
Williamson, and alongside
Roger Moore’s James Bond
in “Live and Let Die,” (becoming the first black love
interest of 007). She stood
alongside Jim Brown in
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become far and few.
Gloria Hendry realizing
that she needed to move on
with her career sought roles
in the theatre, television and
documentary films.
She also wrote a book
entitled “Gloria’ Bond’ And
All” (you can check out her
book on her website:
www.gloriahendry.com).
She would return to the cinema screen in the feature films
“Doing Time On Planet
Earth,”
(1988),
“Pumpkinhead 2: Blood
Wings,” (1994), a suspense
thriller “Absolute Evil,”
(2009).
It’s not surprising that
Gloria Hendry has been a survivor in the cinema industry
because she dedicated herself to developing and working hard to give audiences
her very best efforts whenever she appeared in movies,
theatre, television and now
singing at events along with
emerging as an author with
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She would return to work with
Larry Cohen again in “Hell
Up In Harlem,” the sequel to
“Black Caesar,” with Fred
Williamson once again.
What followed in 1974
were parts in the action films
“Black Belt Jones,” starring
Karate Expert and Actor Jim
Kelly, “Savage Sisters,”
costarring Cheri Caffaro and
Rosanna Ortiz and in 1977
“Bare Knuckles.”
The "Blaxplotaton” era
of the 1970’s would come to
an end during the mid-year.
And, for actresses like Gloria
Hendry and others, they
would see film opportunities
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sponges. Mercy Philadelphia
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patient safety.
“This state-of-the-art
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patients undergoing surgery,”
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SmartWand-DTX was
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Both will take place on
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The expo is from 12 - 2
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A Tribute To The Music of Mahalia Jackson
Who else but the Calvin
Presbyterian Women could
put together a lovely program
saluting the music of what
some called “The Greatest
Gospel Singer of All Time” Mahalia Jackson.
Philly church.
Her signature song was
“Take My Hand, Precious
Lord.” You will hear such
tones at Calvin in this special, unique program.
The Westside Weekly is
giving our readers an early
start to mark their calendars
for what will be a moving and
soul-stirring event set for a
Saturday, September 4 at 4
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The program features the
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Brewington, The King Sisters and other musical guests.
Ms. Jackson died in 1972
at the age of 61. She possessed a God-given beautiful
and powerful contralto voice
that sold some 35 albums and
dozens of singles that went
gold.
This native New Orleans
would only sing Gospel, although she was offered plenty
of money to sing secular
music. She even divorced one
husband who insisted she
since popular songs to make
more money.
She often visited this city
during the 1950’s in a North
This might be one of the last Daily Vacation Bible
Schools in the neighborhood.
Calvin Presbyterian Church USA & Child Evangelism
Fellowship Presents their Daily Vacation Bible School 2010
from August 23 to August 27, from 6:00-8:00 PM.
The closing celebration on Friday August 27, 2010 (Refreshments provided each evening)
For more information contact the church at 60th &
Master St s., at (215) 877-7711.
Reverend Dr. Curtis A. Jones Pastor Calvin Christian
and Cultural Education Ministry Chairperson Elder Cassandra
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Viewing will be held on Thursday, August 12, from 9AM to
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Murder at 52nd & Market • Where’s the Camera?
O f f i c e r
Probed....
Continued From
Front Page
.....front of the closed Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurant.
According to police
sources, after the shooting,
the eyewitness was taken to
Police Headquarters (at 8th
& Race Streets) where he filed
an incident report against the
female officer for not responding to the scene.
“I’m aware of this complaint and we are launching a
full investigation,” said 19th
District Police Captain
Melvin Singleton. “I’m aware
that an officer was out there
on Market Street and that she
allegedly didn’t respond to
the scene.
“I’m also aware that no
matter what side of Market
Street that an officer is patrolling, it’s the officer’s responsibility to always respond to an incident.”
During a telephone interview with the Westside
Weekly, Captain Singleton
expressed a great concern
over the tragic death of the
victim as he promised a fair
investigation.
“Once an allegation is
made, an investigation is
launched,” explained Captain
Singleton. “We plan to find
out what exactly occurred.
The investigation is in the
hands of the Deputy Commissioner at Internal Affairs.
We do have allegations about
this officer not responding to
the shooting. We plan to interview the officer and interview the witness who filed
the complaint. If we determine that the office acted inappropriately, then that officer will be punished. Until
then, that officer will remain
working on the streets. She
will continue to work on the
streets until we conclude our
investigation.”
Captain Singleton said it
takes up to 75 days before a
decision would be made about
the police officer.
“I hope this matter about
the female police officer is
not true,” said the grandmother of the murdered teenager. “If it’s true, then she
should not be on the police
force. How can she live with
herself knowing that she ignored a witness’ warning her
about the incident.”
Back in 2007, then Mayor
John Street announced that
the first of some 250 surveillance video cameras would
be installed in one of the city’s
most troubled crime spots:
52nd and Market Street.
Within weeks, the city
began spending the $9 million to install cameras all
around the 52nd and Market
Streets area.
Unfortunately
for
Michael Anthony ParkerBarham, 17, none was installed directly at the 52nd
and Market Streets to watch
over the crowds that congregate the intersection to board
buses or just to meet and greet.
If one was installed there,
police would had gotten a
picture of the person who shot
Parker-Barham as he ran from
the El station.
Instead, the city installed
several cameras around the
periphery of the 52nd and
Market hot spot with the nearest camera at 5116 Market
Street. Others were installed
on the side streets
and at 53rd and
Market.
A camera
owned by the
Valu-Plus store
on the southwest
corner of 52nd
and Market is installed on its
building, but the
lens is pointed
west up Market
Street - away from the El
station.
Joyce Barham, the grandmother of murdered teenager,
was also told that there were
never any cameras at 52nd &
Market Street.
“There have been conflicting stories about those cameras,” said the grandmother. “I
was told by police that there
weren’t any cameras and then
I was told by the homicide
detectives that there were cameras on 52nd & Market Street,
but those cameras were taken
down. And that those cameras
were never working.”
The surveillance camera at 5118 Market St.
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August 6 - 12, 2010
THE WESTSIDE WEEKLY
Something Dies When A Loved One Is Murdered
By Tyree Johnson
Editor/Publisher
You can see the sadness
in Dawn Lott’s eyes. Something died deep inside her.
It started she says the day
her only son, Norman LottWhite, 23, was shot and killed
on the corner of 53rd and
Delancey Streets.
That happened three-anda-half years ago on Decem-
ber 26, 2006 around 1 PM.
“His death started the first
day of my life,” she says.
That is the reason Ms.
Lott, 52, says she came to the
Westside Weekly. She wants
to let other people in our community know that when violence takes a life, it not only
kills one person, but the
people who loved them.
“A lot of people tell me to
get over it,” she says. “I’ve 5300 Block of Delancey
tried. I’ve tried.”
Street and can see the spot
She’s tried counseling. It where her son laid dead.
didn’t work. She talked to
Norman Lott-White, she
clergy. That didn’t work. She says, was a good young man
sought comfort with other who worked at the White Dog
groups of people whose loved Cafe in University City.
ones were murdered. The
He played basketball at
comfort wasn’t there. She Beeber Middle School,
even relocated to Arizona, earned a GED diploma and
only to find out that she was accepted at the Univercouldn’t escape the pain in sity of Arizona.
the desert.
He had no children and
She found it ironic that was her only son. Ms. Lott
while working in a hospital, has a daughter and two grandshe was helping others, “but children.
I couldn’t help
myself.”
Even her deceased brother
came to her in a
dream to tell her
that her son is
happy and for her
not to worry - but
somehow, those
words didn’t
comfort her.
The depression has caused
her to snap at
people and see
her circle of
friends grow
smaller.
And, what
makes matters
worst is that she
lives with a
Ms. Lott with a picture of her son
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On December 26, 2006,
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He singled out Norman.
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driven by his sister and sped
away. Unfortunately for him,
there were police nearby who
pursued the fleeing car in a
high-speed chase that ended
with a crash near 43rd and
Locust Streets.
Omar Payne was convicted and sentenced to
life without parole.
At the trial, Ms.
Lott said Payne’s family acted like she and
her family did them
wrong. But when the
verdict was read, Ms.
Lott tried to comfort
some of Payne’s relatives.
Ms. Lott hopes this
news article will let others know of the pain
they inflict when they
use violence to solve a
problem.
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pain and learn to love
and live.
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The following incidents
were reported
by police in the
19th District
(61st Street &
Haverford Avenue).
19th DISTRICT
ARRESTS
7/28 - Boy, 17; ROBBERY
7/30 - Richard Smith, 54, of 1300
Blk. S. 46th St.; STOLEN AUTO
7/30 - Williams Childs, 42, of 500
Blk. Wanamaker St.; HOMICIDE
7/31 - Richard Cook, 23, of 5400
Blk. Pentridge St; AGG. ASSAULT
8/1 - Rochelle Johnson, 22, of
100 Blk. N. Felton St.; AGG. ASSAULT
8/2 - John Bryant, 42, of 700 Blk.
N. 63rd St.; THEFT
8/2 - Katrese Watts, 41, of 6100
Blk. Sampson St.; THEFT
8/3 - James Muff, 27, of 100 Blk.
Charles Rd. Trenton, N.J.; THEFT
19th DISTRICT
NARCOTIC ARRESTS
7/27 - Kyle Hammond, 22, of 400
Blk. N. Simpson St.; arrested near
61st & Columbia
7/28 - Boy, 17; arrested in 7400
Blk. Haverford Ave.
7/28 - Nolan Carter, 27, of 5300
Blk. Berks St.; in 5300 Blk. Morse
St.
7/28 - Darlymir Larkins, 25, of
5400 Blk. Berks St.; in 5300 Blk.
Hazelhurst St.
7/28 - Shawn Soodoo, 18, of 600
Blk. Garland St.; near 61st & Columbia St.
7/30 - Michael Spivey, 39, of 5400
Blk. Addison St.; in 600 Blk.
Sickels St.
7/30 - Dannie Wiley, 27, of 6200
Blk. Race St.; in 6200 Blk. Race
St.
7/30 - Michael Yates Jr., 18, of 30
Blk. S. Salford St.; in 5900 Blk.
Market St.
7/30 - Boy, 17; in 20 Blk. N. 57th
St.
7/30 - Fatima Jones, 39, of 20 Blk.
N. 57th St.; in 20 Blk. N. 57th St.
7/30 - Shanute Blaktey, 20, of 400
Blk. N. Sickles St.; in 20 Blk. N.
57th St.
7/30 - Boy, 17; in 20 Blk. N. 57th
St.
7/30 - Anwar Bethea, 22, of 100
Blk. N. Millick St.; in 100 Blk. N.
Millick St.
7/30 - Robert Calland, 26, of 6300
Blk. Overbrook Ave.; in 100 Blk.
N. Edgewood St.
7/30 - Brian Miley, 20, of 100 Blk.
N. Edgewood St.; in 100 Blk. N.
Edgewood St.
7/30 - Sheilia Holston, 28, of 100
Blk. Woodland Ave.; near 52nd &
Market St.
7/30 - Ikia Phelps, 28, of 5400 Blk.
Market St.; near 52nd & Market
St.
7/30 - Anthony Livingston, 45, of
200 Blk. Wilton St.; in 100 Blk. N.
Wilson St.
7/31 - Kalvin Drummand, 19, of
1700 Blk. Redfield St.; in 6200
Blk. Jefferson St.
7/31 - Gregory Johnson, 36, of
200 Blk. S. Millick St.; in 300 Blk.
N. 54th St.
7/31 - Fredrick Porter, 37, of 1100
Blk. S. Peach St.; near 52nd &
Westminister
8/1 - Jermaine Chapman, 29, of
5100 Blk. Warren St.; in 1300 Blk.
N. 52nd St.
8/1 - Augustus Vanhorn, 43, of
1100 Blk. N. 63rd St.; in 6000 Blk.
Lansdowne Ave.
8/1 - John Deangelo, 21, of 10
Blk. S. 5th St.; in 600 Blk. N. 57th
St.
8/1 - Boy, 17; in 4100 Blk. Edgley
8/1 - Lucas Smith, 19, of 100 Blk.
Stone Way Lane, Bala Cynwd; in
4100 Blk. Edgley
8/2 - Saleem Hall, 20, of 8300 Blk.
Forrest Av.; in 5800 Blk. Thompson St.
8/2 - Chantay Silver, 35, of 5400
Blk. Sansom St.; in 10 N.
Lindenwood St.
8/3 - Keith Melvin, 43, of 5900 Blk.
Arch St.; in 5900 Blk. Arch St.
8/3 - Phillip Harrison, 33, of 400
Blk. N. Wilton St.; in 500 Blk. N.
54th St.
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THE WESTSIDE WEEKLY
DA Williams
"Walks" The
Walk on 52d St.
The late night walks of
business corridors and drug
corners in Philadelphia continue last Friday (July 30th)
by District Attorney Seth Williams.
This time, the DA toured
the 52nd Street corridor.
DA Williams was joined
by a number of neighbors,
community leaders and officials, including Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, and
State Reps. Ronald G. Waters and Vanessa Lowery
Brown.
“By walking the streets
during the hours when a lot of
this violence takes place, we
can all send a message,” says
Williams. “We are not going
to let the thugs who are causing the misery have the upper
hand. We are going to take
back the streets.”
At his first walk in June
over 100 people showed up
to walk with him along 60th
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Councilman Jones' Job Fair
On Tuesday, August
10th, from 10am to 3pm, the
Offices of Councilman Curtis
Jones, Jr. and the Mayor’s
Office of Community Service will be hosting its annual “Job Fair” at St. Joseph’s
University, located at Cardinal and City Line Avenues.
The “Job Fair” will host over
100 employers. St. Joseph’s
University is an accessible
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August 6 - 12, 2010
THE WESTSIDE WEEKLY
location via public transportation and with parking also
available.
Over 100 employers are
confirmed to attend, ranging
from the fields of public transportation, hospitality, hospice
and customer service. To attend with current openings
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derstands that employment is
of a major concern for Phila- from employers to job seekdelphians and hopes to facili- ers. This “Job Fair” brings
resources directly to those in
need with hiring occurring
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If you are an employer
and would like to participate
in this year’s “Job Fair” please
contact Gary Green at 215200-1586 for more info.
If you are a job seeker
you may pre-register for the
“Job Fair” at www.phila.gov/
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Councilman Jones at (215)
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215-747-5248.
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Like New. $950.00
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE
Public Auction of ALL CITY SELF STORAGE, 5500
Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA on August 17, 2010
at approx 12:00 PM. In accordance with the Pennsylvania State Law Self Storage Facility Act, household
goods in the following units will be sold to the highest
bidder to satisfy operator’s lien for rent:
NAME
UNIT
Butler, Darren
- 44
Suggs, Denita
- 82
Gueye, Amadou - 83
Ward, Jacqueline - 107
Wise, Christina - 253
Gillard, Charles - 273
Burnett,
Cassonova - 295
Wynn, Donna
- 310
Jones, Keisha
- 345
Pindle, Shadera - 455
Stanely, Kenny
- 465
Holmes, Brenda - 469
Bright, Dominic
- 483
NAME
UNIT
Brown, Lynette
- 510
Williams, Josis
- 522
Garrison, Nathaniel - 528
Lake, Jameelah
- 531
McRae, Robert
- 540
Theodore, Taleda - 545
Thomas, Chauneka - 740
Hartshorn, Erin
- 767
Townsend,
Thomasina
- 772
Dacosta, Kerry Ann - 785
Stewart, Diamond - 968
Lawrence, Gilliam - 307
All items may not be available at time of sale. All City Self
Storage reserves the right to refuse any and all bids. Buyers
must secure units with their locks and remove all items within
24 hours. CASH ONLY.
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8 Tips for Getting Rid of
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The garbage disposal is a
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Tip #6: Bleach
A mild bleach, roman
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Tip #2: Ice Cubes
Ice cubes can also be used
to remove any strong odors
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time.
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Cut up an orange of any
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