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Suddenly, a police car pulled up at the corner. blogs set up in the city dedicated to how poorly
you guys maintain your honor boxes.”) However, the city’s per-box administrative cost — and information as to whether it had, in fact, escalated by 400 percent — wasn’t immediately available. And as to why the fee change took three years to implement, Kennedy wasn’t sure. But one L&I official explained in an email to publishers that after the ordinance took effect, “We were never made aware.We became aware and —S.M. have put the fees in place.”
✚ WORDS ON THE STREET On a recent evening — one of the last blazing-hot nights of summer — this reporter was enjoying a beverage on a friend’s West Philly porch, when a man appeared, wordlessly, and stood behind a young woman who lived at the house. Everyone in the group at first assumed he must have known someone there. But he just stood there. And his smile got weird. He looked high, or disturbed. Upon being asked to leave, he started to laugh, and said something hard to understand, in an eerie voice. This reporter (in what seemed, at
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Baseline screening is recommended for all men age 35 years and older. Free screenings, offering a blood test for prostate specific antigen (PSA), testosterone and cholesterol, and a digital rectal exam will take place at the following two locations: • Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Kimmel Cancer Center –Bodine Building Jefferson University Hospital, Center City • Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Radiation Oncology Pavilion at Jefferson’s Methodist Hospital Registration is required. To register for your free screenings, or for more information, call 1-800-JEFF-NOW.
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the time, like an appropriate response) grabbed a whiskey
bottle — which, in what turned out to be one friend’s greatest concern, was not yet empty — and walked toward him. He darted out into the street. Members of the group asked him, again, to leave, but he kept hiding behind cars and then sprinting back toward the house. Suddenly, a police car pulled up at the corner. A
female, African-American officer got out of the passenger seat, opened the back door, and yelled out, in a slow, patient singsong:“Joooshuuaaah.” The
man, presumably named Joshua, froze in place.Then, he turned
and quietly ran toward to the waiting car, and leaped into the backseat without another word. The door slammed. The car sped off. And the whiskey
bottle was returned to the porch, where it was put to its intended —Daniel Denvir purpose.
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