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You Got Game?
Police Take On Public In
Basketball Tourney
by R. George Linton
Forget the Philadelphia 76ers pre-season swoop of all-star Elton Brand, the
biggest basketball story of the summer will be taking place this weekend in
Point Breeze.
Law-enforcement officials will don their best long baggies and sweats as they go
head to head against street basketball players in the district.
Peace Not Guns & the Point Breeze Youth Development Basketball League will host
the 3rd Annual Law Enforcement Basketball Tournament.
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Race For Beau
Community Unites To Raise
$ For Slain Resident
A South Philadelphia resident will run a marathon later this fall in honor of a
man he never actually had the pleasure to meet.
… Beau Zabel tragically killed in
June last year for his iPod.
Andrew Shanks will run the Marine Corps 27-mile slog on Oct. 26 in Washington,
D.C.
The young Philadelphian says he will represent all victims of crime, the city of
Philadelphia, and the heroic life of Beau Zabel.
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Olympic Boxing Coach
Comes To Tell ‘A Storey’
by R. George Linton
Four-time Irish Olympic Boxing Coach
Gerry Storey, MBE, has spent a lifetime uniting kids on different sides of
Belfast’s pernicious religious divide, ironically -- through fighting.
Storey is head coach of Belfast’s Holy
Family Boxing Club and has worked to help bridge the sectarian divide in
Belfast, as he trains both Catholics and Protestants.
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South-Philabundance!
STATE REP. Bill Keller, right, took a tour through the offices and warehouse at
the Philabundance headquarters, 3600 Galloway Street. In fiscal 2007, they
distributed 24 million pounds of food. Guiding Keller on the tour is Executive
Director William Clark.
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