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Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal to resume Sheriff Sales - virtually

By Christopher Doyle Contributing Writer

set to resume on April 6. The sales, which have been on hold since March of last year due to hiladelphia sheriff the coronavirus pandemic, will sales, which have been now be held exclusively onhalted for months, are line, a model that replaces the set to resume next Tuesday – practice of hosting in-person and from now on, they will be sheriff sales. The sheriff’s office held exclusively online. selected Silver Spring, MaryPhiladelphia Sheriff Rochelle land based Bid4Assets to host Bilal hosted a virtual press the city’s new virtual auctions. conference Monday where she Bilal said that the decision to discussed how sheriff sales are adopt a virtual auction model,

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which was revealed to the public only several weeks ago, would protect bidders against COVID-19 and modernize the sheriff’s office.

“This transition is taking place because it’s time to bring the Philadelphia Sheriff Office into the 21st century,” Bilal said. “A year without sheriff sales gave us a chance to think outside the box and then we found the ideal partner, after

reviewing others, to help us build a whole new box in Bid4Assets.”

In Philadelphia, the sheriff is the elected city official responsible for conducting court-ordered auctions of foreclosed properties to pay off mortgages owed to lenders, as well as any taxes and liens on the property still owed to the city. Proceeds in excess of these costs are transferred to the

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Congresswoman, Philadelphia tech leaders present pathways to achieving gender equity in the workplace Inaugural Future Works Alliance PHL addresses “shecession” labor crisis disproportionately impacting women across the region & nation

cluded Philadelphia leaders in technology, human resources and talent development, and economics fields. Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), the founder of the reater Philadelphia Congressional Future of business leaders Works Caucus, was the keyearlier this week to note speaker. The discussions discuss the current economic and work sessions addressed recession’s disproportionate the “shecession” labor crisis impact on women in the work- impacting women across the place as part of Future Works region and nation, and offered Alliance PHL’s virtual event, pathways that policymakers, Women, Work and Covid: The employers and employees can Future is Still Female. take to foster continued progThe free interactive event in- ress in workplace gender eq-

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uity and prevent the pandemic from erasing the gains already made.

“Private companies and public policymakers must act now to prevent the pandemic from offsetting the advancements made in recent years.

Adapting to the needs of working women is a must to ensure the resiliency of our regional and national economy,” said Anne Gemmell, the founder of Future Works Alliance PHL, which hosted the event alongside Chariot Solutions, the Federal Reserve

Bank of Philadelphia and The Philadelphia Citizen. “By convening working women committed to the future of work, the Future Works Alliance PHL is providing strategies for private and public leaders to modify existing programs and create new initiatives that help our economy continue its path towards gender equity.”

“When I first founded the bipartisan Future of Work Caucus, it was my belief that forces such as automation and machine learning would be the driving forces of change in our

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City Safari: “A correct movement inspired by the Holy Spirit”

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n Ordination Day, May 18, 2018, I stood outside the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Sister Cities Park talking to Regina Bannan of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Women’s Ordination Conference (SPWOC).

A steady rain has just ended so the fifteen or so (mostly) women protestors who celebrate their version of the Mass outside the cathedral every Holy Thursday and Ordination Day are huddled near the entrance of a coffee shop comparing notes. Some are wearing collapsible rain hats that

foreclosed-upon homeowner through the Homeowners Asset Recovery Team, or HART. (The sheriff is also responsible for providing security services to Philadelphia courtrooms.)

Bid4Assets CEO Jesse Loomis described the new bidding process at the press conference. He said new bidders would need to register an account at https://www.bid4assets.com and review local auctions at https://www.bid4assets.com/philadelphia . When bidders want to participate in an auction, they would fund a deposit for any property on a particular sales date, and log on during the auction time to place their bids. Bidders could also set the bidding system so a proxy would bid up to a set amount for them.

Under the new system, Bid4Assets would X have a wide range of responsibilities in ...undertaking the city’s sheriff sales.

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counties in Pennsylvania region, according to a sheriff office press release – namely Berks, Bucks, Montgomery, Adams, and Monroe Counties.

Bilal said that the new system would make sheriff sales more accessible to the city’s businesses and residents who were unable to attend in-person auctions.

“As a matter of fact, we have had people who are business owners in this city that actually wanted to come to the sheriff sales, [but] because they were not able to leave their businesses during business hours, they weren’t able to participate,” Bilal said. “Now we’re getting letters that are saying thank you because now they will be able to participate.”

Bilal added that virtual auctions would also save her department around $207,000 annually. According to Bilal the department would save the $10,000 a month paid to rent out First District Plaza in West Philadelphia for in-person auctions, as well as the $3,200 a month paid for the staff’s event lunches. It would also save $4,000 a month in payments to its previous auctioneer. Bilal said the new system would therefore be implemented at “no cost” to the city, with Bid4Assets being paid by a 1.5% fee being

charged to the winner of an auction.

“The move to virtual will be a permanent one based on cost savings alone,” Bilal said. “It is a no brainer.”

This “no brainer” has been met with resistance.

Representatives from Community Legal Services, an advocacy group that provides legal aid to marginalized Philadelphians, maintain that the virtual process could attract investors from outside the city who could hasten gentrification and cause displacement. CLS workers have expressed additional concern that these buyers could remain anonymous in virtual bids by registering their accounts through an LLC. “We definitely heard from community groups and community members that this is one of the things they’re concerned about,” said Kate Dugan, a CLS staff attorney.

“They’re concerned about new, out-of-town people snapping up properties in their neighborhoods.”

Bilal noted at the press conference that the increased accessibility for potential developers and the resultant increase in bids would mean that homeowners could ultimately recover more money from HART. She also said that the online bidding process could actually increase accountability and transparency by putting the process

out in the open on the internet – something important for a sheriff’s office that has historically been accused of being biased towards influential and politically connected bidders.

“Switching to online environments also allow other benefits including eliminating the possibility of favoritism, intimidation, human error, and the other issues that have been raised about the sheriff sale in the past,” Bilal said.

Advocates at CLS, however, are concerned that sheriff sales on foreclosed properties which can be accompanied by evictions, were resuming at all at this time. Dugan said that restarting the sales could force people into vulnerable or crowded situations – all while the city and country still battling to vaccinate the population against COVID-19.

(Around 130,000 Philadelphians and 30.4 million Americans have tested positive for COVID-19, and more than 3,200 Philadelphians and 550,000 Americans have died of the disease.)

While a federal foreclosure moratorium is still in effect, it only applies to people living in the subset of houses with federally backed mortgages.

Bilal asserted at the press conference Monday that none of the properties being put up for sale were occupied, and moreover, there were

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only 24 properties set to go up for auction at all on April 6. Dugan disputes this – saying that she herself has a client that will be affected by the restart sales.

“I personally have a client that is on one of those [auction] lists, as do many of my colleagues at CLS,” Dugan said.

“We’re worried about the public getting incorrect information about what kinds of houses are going up for sale.”

Dugan also claimed that the number of properties going up for sale is much greater than the sheriff had implied. She said that while there are only 24 mortgage-foreclosure properties going up for sale on April 6, scores more would go up for sale on additional tax sale dates throughout the month as a consequence of tax foreclosures.

“That’s potentially a lot of people,” Dugan said. “We’re worried that somebody who’s living in their house might have heard what the sheriff said and think ‘oh, I’m safe this month.’”

At press time, a sheriff office spokesperson had not yet returned a request for comment on whether the office stands by its assessment of the total number of properties up for auction and its assessment of their occupancy statuses.

Members of City Council harbors some of these same concerns.

Councilmember Cherelle Parker announced Monday that she was planning to introduce a resolution asking to review the transition to an all-virtual auction model, as well as the decision to resume sales April 6.

West Philadelphia Councilmember Jamie Gauthier signaled opposition to the move as well, echoing the concerns sounded by CLS about transparency and community control.

“I do not believe that the City should be launching into such a radically different model for sheriff sales, especially at a time when so many Philadelphians find themselves in precarious housing situations,” Gauthier said in an emailed statement sent to the UC Review and Free Press. “Conducting sheriff sales in an online forum could have a variety of negative im-

pacts, including sales to anonymous entities that are not good stewards of our communities.”

“I appreciate that the Sheriff’s office is concerned with the efficiency of their processes—but this efficiency can’t be at the expense of equity in our city.”

Efforts are also mounting at Harrisburg to stop the measure. West Philadelphia State Rep. Amen Brown introduced a legislative memorandum in the state house Wednesday, that would postpone all Philadelphia sheriff sales until “after the COVID-19 Emergency Declaration has been lifted.”

“We must protect our families and neighbors from this predatory act,” Brown said in text accompanying the memorandum, referring to foreclosures in the midst of a pandemic, with the emphasis his. “Please join me in co-sponsoring this legislation and help save our neighbor’s homes.”

Bilal noted at the press conference that the sales were mandated by “the order of the courts, the [and] duty of the Philadelphia Sheriff Office is to ensure court orders, including when to hold sheriff sales.”

Notably, a Dec. 23 court of common pleas order schedules sheriff sales to resume April 6 –although the text of the order indicates that the date was set at “the request of the Sheriff of Philadelphia.”

At the Monday conference, Bilal told any Philadelphian concerned about losing their home to reach out to either CLS or City Council to look for support or aid programs.

“We still care about the people in this city, and for homeowners,” Bilal said. “The one thing they shouldn’t worry about in this pandemic, is somebody knocking on their door saying we’re coming to take your home.”

“We’re trying our best to streamline all of that to make sure that doesn’t happen,” Bilal added.

Anxieties about a resumption of sheriff sales and a permanent change to how their conducted is just the latest in a decades-long series of controversies surrounding the sheriff’s office.

Jewell Williams, who

was the city’s sheriff before Bilal, serving from 2012 to 2020, was accused of sexual harassment by his subordinates, which led the city to pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal settlements. John Green, who worked as Williams’ predecessor from 1988 to 2010, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2019. He was accused of taking bribes in exchange for awarding no-bid, sheriff department contracts worth millions of dollars.

The office has continued to be dogged by controversy under Bilal’s tenure. In November, Philadelphia City Controller Rebecca Rhynhart announced that she, with the help of Bilal, had uncovered that more than 200 firearms that were supposed to be in the sheriff’s office’s inventory had gone missing.

By February, moreover, three former sheriff office employees had sued Bilal. The trio alleges that they each had been retaliated against for trying to expose serious misconduct that they observed within the sheriff’s office, including alleged waste, theft, and sexual harassment. At press time, a sheriff office spokesperson had not yet returned a request for comment on these lawsuits, although the office has previously declined to discuss the litigation with news media, citing a policy to refrain from commenting on ongoing legal matters.

Despite these decadesold misgivings surrounding the sheriff’s office, Philadelphian homeowners and investors will likely still have to prepare themselves for impending move to virtual auctions.

Bilal, while emphasizing Monday how virtual auctions would be “major change for all involved in the sheriff’s sales,” because of the transition to virtual bidding, she also said that homeowners should take comfort in knowing the system would remain familiar.

“Nothing is changing for homeowners, homeowners’ attorneys, advocates, other than the venue,” Bilal said. “All the policies and procedures that were in effect for in-person sales will continue with virtual sales.”

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Pennsylvanians Reminded to Register to Vote by May 3 for Primary Election Harrisburg, PA – With the May 18 municipal primary election fast approaching, Acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid reminds eligible Pennsylvanians that the deadline to register to vote is May 3.

“I encourage all eligible voters to make sure that they are registered, and their information is up to date. Municipal elections give residents the opportunity to select the local leaders who make decisions that affect our daily lives,” Secretary Degraffenreid said. “It’s easy to register to vote or update your registration online.”

On May 18, voters who are registered as Republican or Democrat will choose their parties’ nominees for seats on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Superior Court, Commonwealth Court, county Common Pleas Courts, and Philadelphia Municipal Court.

Also on the party ballots will be a wide variety of county, school board, and local seats such as mayor, city or borough council member, township commissioner or supervisor, magisterial district judges, and precinct election officials.

All registered voters, regardless of party affiliation, will be eligible to vote on four ballot questions in the primary election –­­ ­­­­­­­­­­­­­three proposed constitutional amendments and one question regarding fire and EMS company eligibility for an existing state loan program.

In addition, all registered voters in the following four districts, regardless of party affiliation, will be voting in special elections to fill vacancies: • 22nd State Senate District (Lackawanna County and parts of Luzerne and Monroe counties)

• 48 State Senate District (Lebanon County and parts of Dauphin and York counties) • 59th State House District (parts of Somerset and Westmoreland counties) • 60th State House District (parts of Armstrong, Butler, and Indiana counties) Individuals who wish to register to vote in the May 18 primary must be: • A citizen of the United States for at least one month before the primary.

• A resident of Pennsylvania and of the election district in which the individual plans to register and vote for at least 30 days before the primary.

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Applicants using the online voter registration system must complete and submit their application by 11:59 p.m. on May 3. Traditional

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Pennsylvania voters wishing to vote by mail ballot in the primary must apply for their ballot by May 11, but the earlier the better so they can return it in plenty of time before the election.

They can apply online, by mail or in person at their county election office to receive the ballot as soon as it is available.

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arrisburg – The Pennsylvania departments of Health and Education today announced modifications to their instructional model recommendations for Pre-K to 12 schools in response to updated guidance recently issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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ted to doing everything we can to create the conditions for a return to in-person instruction as soon as safely possible,” said Acting Secretary of Education Noe Ortega.

“Our updated instructional model recommendations create additional flexibilities for school leaders to make decisions at the local level consistent with best practices

front.”

In alignment with updates from the CDC, the departments recommend K-12 public schools in counties with a moderate level of community transmission of COVID-19 now consider returning students to full in-person instruction in addition to blended/ hybrid learning model.

Counties with a substantial level of community transmission should consider blended/hybrid learning in addition to remote learning for K-12 students.

The instructional models, which are also available on PDE’s website, are pictured bottom, left. *For all instructional models, it may be appropriate for a school entity to provide in-person instruction for targeted student

Learners, etc.) regardless of grade.

“A safe return to inperson instruction will look different across every school, district, and county depending on a variety of factors, one of which is the spread of COVID-19 within these communities,” Department of Health Acting Secretary Alison Beam said. “As we look to protect the safety and well-being of school staff and students, it is critical for everyone to continue proven public health practices of washing hands, wearing a mask, and practicing social distancing regardless of instructional model offered.”

For the week ending April 2, there were five counties in the low level of transmission, 17 counties in the moderate level of transmission, and 45 counties were in the substantial level of community transmission: Low – Cameron, Forest, Fulton, Potter, Sullivan Moderate – Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Clarion,

ean, Mercer, Snyder, Somerset, Tioga, Union, Venango, Warren Substantial – Adams, Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Berks, Bradford, Bucks, Butler, Carbon, Centre, Chester, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Elk, Franklin, Greene, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lawrence, Lebanon, Lehigh, Luzerne, Lycoming, Mifflin, Monroe, Montgomery, Montour, Northampton, Northumberland, Perry, Philadelphia, Pike, Schuylkill, Susquehanna, Washington, Wayne, Westmoreland, Wyoming, York This update is a recommendation and not a mandate. The transition of instructional models is dependent on local factors, including the size of the school building, the classroom size, resources, proportion of staff and students with special needs and underlying health conditions, and the ability to accommodate learning with equal access for all students.

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moth Goliath in his “cathedral” gold. Still, counting the number of people who showed up in the rain would be a misnomer because ask anyone in SPWOC about support for women’s ordination among Catholics and they will tell you that at least two thirds of Catholics believe that women should be ordained priests in the Roman Catholic Church.

Catholics these days are not like the Catholics of old unless you are talking about the much smaller numbers of Traditionalist Catholics who hold firm to the tenets of the Baltimore Catechism.

Two thirds is a hefty majority, so much so that I wonder if the hundreds of people packed into the cathedral celebrating the ordination of six men realize that the Catholic Church’s position on women’s ordination is comparable to the election of a U.S. president by the Electoral College rather than the popular vote.

I asked Bannan about this apparent disconnect in a phone call sometime after the May 18 ordinations.

“I think it’s because of the condemnations from the Vatican,” she said. “If you are going to be somebody out in your parish supporting women’s ordination, you may engender some difficulty. This happened in the distant past when a choir director was laid off partially because she was a very active member of our group.”

Opposition in the Church to women’s ordination is significant despite two thirds vote of confidence from the faithful.

Writing in The New Oxford Review, Anne Barbeau Gardiner argues that “while some feminists have argued that Jesus was conforming to cultural expectations in choosing only men as His Apostles. On the contrary, Jesus’ way of acting did not conform to the ‘religious and cultural norms of first century Judaism. He taught women openly, had them in His company and disregarded

the ritual-purity laws.

Therefore, He could have chosen women, but freely chose not to.”

At some point during SPWOC’s witness in Sister Cities Park, Regina handed me a red pamphlet containing the words from the table liturgy that was just celebrated by a woman.

At first glance I read the words: “We recommit ourselves to proclaim your Gospel of Liberation and Equality, for we are all created in your most amazing image.”

This is certainly not a prayer I would hear in my Russian Orthodox parish of Saint Michael the Archangel in Northern Liberties, and so I managed to let Regina know that prayers that have been altered to fit contemporary notions of equality isn’t my idea of good liturgy.

Bannan took my comment in stride and then calmly explained that she envisioned a future Catholic Church in which every manner of liturgy, traditional, innovative, feminist, Novus Ordo, etc. would be given its due under

A billboard promoting women priests in the Roman Catholic Church. Submitted by SPWOC.

the Big Tent of Universal Catholicism.

When I asked Bannan if the turnout for the Ordination event was indicative of failing membership, she told me that membership in SPWOC is always highest after a condemnation by the Vatican.

Bannan, a former school teacher, taught Women’s and American Studies at Temple where she also directed the program for returning adult students. Talk to her for a minute or two and you’ll notice that she has a soft North Jersey/New York accent that never rises above a certain level. She is an immensely likeable woman. Not only are her sentences beautifully constructed but when she speaks she shows no signs of “war” weariness despite the fact that she’s been at this women’s ordination thing for 30 years.

Women’s ordination activism can be unrewarding work with no guarantee that it will ever lead to face time with the current Archbishop of Philadelphia.

When I interviewed Bannan, Archbishop Chaput was in charge but it almost doesn’t matter. Go back in time—to Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua or Cardinal Justin Rigali—and you’ll get the same results. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Women’s Ordination Conference is used to being left out in the rain -- as Bannan likes to say-- “in Catholic conservative Philadelphia.”

“Even the more acceptable reform minded organizations were not able to converse with Archbishop Chaput.

It’s just not going to happen,” Bannan emphasized. “We actually wrote to Chaput and he didn’t answer.”

That changed with the

installation of Nelson Perez as Archbishop of Philadelphia. Archbishop Perez agreed to meet with a small delegation of representatives from SPWOC to talk about women’s ordination.

The story of that meeting was published in the organization’s March 2021 newsletter, EqualWrites, billed as a Catholic Feminist Newsletter for Women and Men. “ …They soon discovered his [Archibishop Perez’s] actually listening and expressing reaction or even curiosity was another matter.

On the positive side, they conceded, he was never angry or belittling; he did not lecture, reprimand, nor try to re-educate them. There was simply no reciprocity. He made it clear by his posture and the flatness of the conversation that he was not there as himself but in his role as representative of the Church and upholder of its views.”

Although the women who spoke to the Archbishop expressed their disappointment at the meeting, they felt that the encounter was ultimately worthwhile.

The overall tone of the current edition of EqualWrites tends to be strident and political, with many references to former President Trump. I did come upon an informative column written by a prominent activist woman priest, Eileen Difranco, whom I once met and liked, who described a visit to the Archdiocesan administration building.

“The clerics even go without masks in the administration building.

Two members of SEPAWOC were shocked when they were received at the archdiocesan office by a maskless Archbishop and his maskless secretary. In late January,

the Archbishop removed the Jesuit pastor of Old St. Joseph’s Parish for having the common sense and loving kindness to refuse to open his church during a pandemic which has killed over 450,000 post-natal souls.”

Two things: For better or worse, a church needs to be open during a pandemic, not closed.

Archbishop Perez is to be commended for his dismissal of the pastor of Old Saint Joseph’s.

As for the columnists’ shock that unmasked clerics in the Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul were “telling people to remove their masks as they approach the altar to receive communion,” I’ve only one thing to say: If you want Dixie cups, go to a Rita’s Water Ice stand.

Bannan tends to be optimistic about the future of women’s ordination.

“I think there are many people in the Church who believe in women’s equality, and I believe that some change is inevitable. It may not happen in my lifetime, but it might. But this is definitely a correct movement inspired by the Holy Spirit, I believe, so I think it will happen.

“Sometimes people do not understand what we are about,” Bannan told me. “A year or so ago a group of people from a Catholic school, probably 20 or 30 young girls from a high school and a couple of teachers, protested our witness before the cathedral by saying ‘We love our priests!’ It was so complicated because we love the priests that exist and that are active in the Church, we would just like to join them. We are not against male priests.”

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Dear Mercy Philadelphia Community, More than one year ago, we began a thoughtful and deliberate process of pursuing a new path forward for Mercy Catholic Medical Center – Mercy Philadelphia Campus, transitioning the campus away from an inpatient hospital and toward a more sustainable model. Since then, we have worked with our patients, colleagues, community, and local leaders to determine how best to address the future health needs of the West and Southwest Philadelphia communities.

Through a collaboration between Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC), Penn Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Independence Blue Cross Foundation, the transformation of Mercy Philadelphia to the PHMC Public Health Campus on Cedar officially began on Thursday, March 25, 2021.

Penn Medicine will continue to provide a full-service Emergency Department in the facility, as well as adult inpatient medical care, behavioral health, and drug and alcohol treatment care there.

We firmly believe this health coalition will deliver the right mix of services and care to the community for years to come. Thank you to our partners for ensuring a smooth transition for our colleagues, patients, and neighbors.

Many of the services and physicians our patients have relied on over the years have transferred to our Mercy Fitzgerald Campus, just a few miles away from our former Mercy Philadelphia Campus. For a complete list of Mercy Fitzgerald offerings or to find a Mercy provider, call 1.877.GOMERCY or visit www.mercyfitzgerald.org.

Throughout these two campuses, our health ministry has served this community for more than 100 years, and we care deeply for the families who depend on us. Our Community Health & Well-Being team will continue to provide community-focused initiatives to keep you healthy. Our Mercy Senior Health – West Philadelphia location at 5901 Market Street will continue our legacy of providing services for seniors. Most importantly, we remain engaged with elected officials, religious leaders, and the entire community to address the health and wellness of those in need.

This is the mission of Mercy.

Thank you to the generations of families who have trusted Mercy Philadelphia with their care, and to our colleagues who have delivered years of compassionate and healing care for all. We look forward to serving West Philadelphia in this next chapter.

“A good beginning is of great importance.” – Catherine McAuley, foundress of the Sisters of Mercy

In good health,

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Chris Cullom President Mercy Catholic Medical Center

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new economy. Instead, as our country continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been the resulting health and economic crisis that has forced us to confront our changing world,” said U.S. Rep. Blunt Rochester (D-Del.). “One of the most prominent problems that we’ve seen during the pandemic is the exodus of women from the workforce.

That’s why we must be intentional in creating solutions that are scalable, systemic, and universal as we ensure that all women have the economic opportunity they deserve.”

The U.S. unemployment rate for February 2021 is 6.2 percent with both women and men over 20 years of age experiencing unemployment at the same rate (6.0%). A closer examination of the data, however, indicates the situation is more dire for women, especially women of color.

While the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics does not produce unemployment rates by gender and race at a local level, the city of Philadelphia’s current unemployment is already significantly higher at 9.3 percent.

Department of Health Offers Update On COVID-19 Investigations, Contact Tracing, Monitoring Efforts

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arrisburg, PA - The Department of Health (DOH) shared a weekly update on Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 case investigation and contact tracing data, encouraging Pennsylvanians to download the COVID Alert PA app, as more than 864,000 have already done, to aid in contact tracing efforts.

“Please remember, even as our weather warms up, that answering the call from a public health professional remains important for us to contain and mitigate the spread of COVID-19,” Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam said.

Here’s how the process works: A person with a positive COVID-19 result is contacted by a case investigator – a public health professional – to gather information and offer guidance. For the week ending March 27, public health professionals completed 6,391 case investigations. This equates to 25percent of positive cases reported for the week.

Contact tracers take the case investigator reports and reach out to contacts identified in the reports.

A total of 200 contact tracers reached out to in-

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Development Project invites one and all for a day in the Spring sunshine on April 10 for the 14th Annual Philly Spring Cleanup from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., on the Center City segment of Schuylkill Banks, a morning of trail beautification projects such as leaf collection, mulching, light pruning and trash pickup. 215-309-5523 or schuylkillbanks.org.  Pianist Claire Huangci takes center stage at the German Society of Pennsylvania on April 10 at 3 p.m. in a live Lantern Theatre’s Archives Program continues with a filmed version of their program of J.S.Bach/ 2019 mainstage production of Shakespeare’s “Measure For Measure” now Busoni, J.S. Bach and through May 2 with an all-star cast of eight Lantern veterans under Charles McMahon’s direction.

Beethoven. Ms. Huangci is a graduate of the antern Theater’s crafts lovers to pay virSettlement Music School tual visits to studios in Plays from the and the Curtis Institute Archives contin- venues all over town. In- and is now a resident ues from April 6 to May cluded are behind-theartist at the Hannover scenes tours, voice chats Hochschule fur Musik 2 with their streaming filmed version of Shake- with local artists and art in Germany where she demonstrations. Each speare’s “Measure for pursues a flourishing Wed. in April: 7, 14, 21, Measure”, directed in international concert 28. philaopenstudios.

2019 by Artistic Direccareer. 611 Spring Garorg.  tor Charles McMahon den St. 215-627-2332 The Annenberg featuring an ensemble or www.germansociety. cast of Lantern veterans: Center’s April 8 event org  at 7 p.m. is a virtual Chris Anthony, Kirk Amici Opera’s 23rd performance by Zakir Wendell Brown, Ben season continues on Dibble, Adam Hammet, Hussain, composer April 11 at 3 p.m. with and percussionist, with Verdi’s powerhouse Claire Innie-Richards, emphasis on Indian mu- “Luisa Miller” featurAnthony Lawton, Jered sic. He is joined by other ing young operatic McLenigan and Charartists for this tabla con- voices with piano aclotte Northeast. This cert. annenbergcenter.org companiment singing in infrequently performed 215-898-3900.  but magnificent play Italian for limited audiThe Philadelphia “will surprise and move ences socially distanced Chamber Music Somodern audiences with and wearing their own ciety offers streaming its timely insights into masks. Hand sanitizers events that can also be human motivation and will be available. Reviewed in person at the peated on April 17 at 4 resilience”. Details at www.lanterntheater.org American Philosophip.m. Redeemer UMC, cal Society limited to 25 1128 Cottman Ave. 215or 215-829-0395.  attendees. On April 8 at 224-0257.  April 7 seems to be 6 p.m. pianist Shai Wosa good day for virtual Wilma Theater’s 2001 ner performs works by sight-seeing. Here are Virtual Fete is set for three such events: a Vir- Schubert, Scarlatti, RzeApril 11 at 5:30 p.m. wski and Beethoven. Vio- “in the comfort of your tual Open House Tour linist i Joseph Lin is the of FDR Park runs from own home!” This Fundsoloist on April 9 at 6 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. ,a look raiser’s musical guest is p.m., in an all Bach proat upcoming projects “Philly’s own Low Cut gram of two partitas and Connie” and hosts are including a welcome a sonata. Tickets and center and a new chilJaylene Clark Owens dren’s playground. Free, details at www.pcmscon- and Justin Jain. This certs.org or at 215-569registration required at virtual event looks 8080.  myphillypark.org. The back on the past year Astral’s April 10 Penn Museum’s War and celebrates Wilma’s digital program features resilience along with Memorials of Imperial cellist Thomas Mesa Rome are on view from its thanks to its generin an unconventional 6 to 7 p.m., offering inous supporters. Low sight into ancient Rome’s duo recital with organCut Connie was named ist Greg Zelek from the “Pandemic Person of the monuments and war magnificent setting of memorials including Year” by the New Yorker Longwood Gardens. On Magazine and he played statues, arches and columns that were erected the 7 p.m. program, the Biden administrato mark victories, led by works by Beethoven, tion’s inauguration last curator in charge C. Brian Debussy, Bach, Dvorak, month.events@wilmaRossini, Lydia Jane Pugh theater.org or at 215-546Rose. penn.museum.

Also free is this season’s and Lecuona. Informa7824.  tion at astralartists.org or Philadelphia Open StuInterAct The215-735-6999.  dio Tours, an annual atre’s newest producThe Schuylkill River event that permits art/

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tion, streaming free from April 13 to May 9 is Eleanor Burgess’s “The Niceties”, the tale of a brilliant Black college student and her white history professor squaring off over the role slavery played in the American Revolution. Kathryn MacMillan directs a cast of two: local superstar Janis Dardaris opposite Angela Bay. 215-568-8077.  STREAMING FROM AFAR: How about a dance with legendary choreographer Mark Morris. This free session is set for April 7 at 3 p.m. and offers dance, movement and singing classes for people with Parkinson’s Disease, their family, friends and caregivers, an hour-long program addressing such balance, motor skills and physical confidence. danceforparkinsons.org/resources/ dance-at-home.  Also on April 7, at 5 p.m., the free video premiere of Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s version of Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man”. Rossen

Milanov conducts. 609497-0020 for details; Free access at princetonsymphony.org.  What could be more pleasant than a tour of the amazing Frick Collection in Manhattan?

On April 9 at 5 p.m., the weekly “Cocktails with a Curator” happy hour offers Xaviere Solomon’s good company as he chats about Saint-Porchaire ware, a rare style of ceramics from Renaissance France. Free. frick. org/interact/miniseries/ cocktails.curator.  Still a bit stressed?

Unwind on April 10 at 1:30 p.m. with a relaxing meditation session from the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and the SF Zen Center. alender. asianart.org/event/ san-francisco-zen-centermeditation-session-04-10.  The Met Opera’s nightly free streaming of complete operas from the current and rchival collections bring soothing happiness and violent passions to opera lovers of all ages and tastes, gorgeous productions of great master-

pieces rich with glamourous costumes, sets and starring the world’s greatest singers. Here’s the week ahead: April 7, Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin”, Anna Netrebko, Elena Maximova, Peter Matthei; April 8, Zandonai’s “Francesca da Rimini”, Renata Scotto, Placido Domingo; April 9, Shostakovich’s “The Nose”, Paulo Szot, Andre Popov; April 10) Gounod’s “Romeo et Juliette”, Netrebko, Roberto Alagna, Nathan Gunn; April 11) Verdi’s “Luisa Miller”, Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczela, Domingo; April 12) Massenet’s “Cendrillon”, Academy of Vocal Arts alumna Joyce DiDonato, Stephanie Blythe; April 13)a double bill: Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta”, Netrebko, Becszala, Domingo plus Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle”, Najda Michael, Mikhail Petrenko; April 14) Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”, Golda Schultz, Rene Pape, Charles Castronovo. metopera.org or 212-362-6000. 

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HMS School: Coming out of the pandemic stronger than ever

By Christopher Doyle Contributing Writer

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he HMS School has been teaching students with cerebral palsy and other disabilities since 1882 – and few events in its more than 138-year history have been more harrowing than the past year’s coronavirus pandemic. But with wideaccess to the vaccine on the horizon – and some help from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia at the ready – HMS is finally slated to begin reopening its doors.

HMS President Tom Quinn said that the school will partially reopen its building to in-person learning on April 8. The HMS school, located at 44th and Baltimore, will be ready to welcome half of its 52 students in the building on Mondays and Tuesday, and the other half on Thursday and Friday – although around a dozen families have opted to keep their children learning virtually fulltime.

Wednesdays, meanwhile, will be reserved for deep cleaning. On the three weekdays students are

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not in the building, they will be learning virtually.

Quinn said that the school has a tentative goal to reopen in-person learning for five days a week by the end of June, during the summer session that HMS offers.

“For us, with our kids being so specialized medically, what we had to basically do to make this hybrid happen, is we had to reschedule all of the 52 kids that are with us to basically get them a new schedule,” Quinn said. “And we can have

that running by the first week in April.”

The reopening of the school is the product of expanded access to COVID-19 vaccines. HMS teachers began receiving vaccinations towards the end of January. Quinn said that not all of the staff had been vaccinated as of mid-March, but that all should receive at least one shot of a vaccine by the April reopening date. This level of protection is crucial for HMS students, who all have cerebral palsy or another neurological disability, and thus require close contact, and cannot all wear masks.

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that, as far as everybody’s experienced that, and some of our staff have been able to process that, get on, and get an appointment quickly, and others have struggled just to kind of navigate through that, but we’re in a much better place access place than we were three weeks ago.”

HMS has also instituted a strong testing regimen with the aid of CHOP. Certified staff is administering regular, surveillance COVID-19 tests to teachers and students, meaning they are testing asymptomatic individuals to prevent a coronavirus outbreak.

The system was first implemented earlier this year, allowing HMS to bring in six to 10 students into the building per day for physical and occupational therapy and treatment sessions with the school’s staff beginning in late January. As of mid-March, the school was testing around 20 staff members and eight students per day as part of this effort.

“CHOP’s been huge with that, with having rapid testing available for staff and for students,” Quinn said. “CHOP’s been our saving grace, with really everything, they’ve just been remarkable in getting us access to testing, and then that grew into also each conversation I’ve had with somebody from CHOP I kept asking about the vaccine, and finally somebody reached out to us, and they’ve been a huge help to us.”

CHOP has taken an important role in leading area schools through the pandemic. The Policy Lab, a research institute at CHOP, has been publishing research about the pandemic, and is distributing tests to schools via a program called Project ACE-IT. Maggie Eisen, the Project ACE-IT managing project lead, said that CHOP had worked with county health departments and school districts to supply coronavirus tests to schools throughout the Southeastern Pennsylvania region. The project also trains school staff to administer COVID-19 tests.

Eisen said that she was proud of the project and

Student Niara with members of therapy staff. Courtesy of HMS School.

CHOP for helping set up more than 450 testing sites across Montgomery, Chester, and Delaware Counties, and Philadelphia.

“We sort of had this snowball effect, where we started [working] with the core public health and education leaders, and they’ve been able to galvanize their partners in the counties,” Eisen said. “It’s boggles my mind that we’ve scaled to that level, but it’s been quite a whirlwind.”

Eisen added that HMS was particularly able to make use of help from CHOP and Project ACEIT. “[HMS staff] are such professionals and experts in their [student] population, it really felt as though all they needed was the test inventory and the basic training and they could take it from there,” Eisen said.

“Any sort of additional measures that need to be taken are taken at the local level by the HMS nurses and I’m sure with support of the parents.”

These reopening efforts are just the latest part of how HMS has supported its students over the course of the pandemic.

In addition to the therapy and treatment sessions, HMS has worked to implement an entire online-based curriculum for students access to the internet and computers.

These computers had to be purchased with specialized interfaces, so the students, many of whom

have limited motor skills, can participate.

HMS has also hosted a variety of virtual “community-based” events, including virtual Friday assemblies and games, music therapy, and a virtual prom.

“A big part of our mission for our kids is to give them the school experience that the kids who don’t have their challenges have, so the community-based things are really fundamental to what we do,” Quinn said. “Obviously, that’s been impossible to do in the way we normally do them, so what we’ve done is we’ve maintained a very consistent virtual schedule that is about that, that is about connecting kids with families.”

Quinn, meanwhile, has helped lead an effort to support the school financially, successfully pushing state lawmakers and local school boards to keep intact the school’s state and district funding. He and his colleagues launched an impressive private fundraising effort as well, which has helped to finance the installation of a new air-filtration system to help prevent coronavirus infection. And HMS has worked to outfit staff with personal-protection equipment.

“With PPE and with masking and with testing, and now with vaccinations, we feel like we’re in a much better place to get kids in,” continued on page 10

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America 2am: People’s Light Explores The Darkness

By Richard Lord Contributing writer

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n his somber essay “The Crack-Up”, F. Scott Fitzgerald observed that “In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning …” The People’s Light Theatre has given its own spin to this insight, bringing the time forward by an hour and then revealing that 2 AM can also host a kinky night of the soul as well as a dark night.

Their recent online production put together a quartet of short plays under the umbrella title America 2am that probed very different darkened corners to see what goes on in different milieus at two in the morning. All four pieces also shrewdly turn the disadvantage of online productions into an advantage: the four pieces are staged as Zoom calls, an online web page, or online sex calls. As remote becomes intimate, we’re invited in to witness the emotional jousting and/or soul-searching.

The best of the four short pieces was Episode 1: Oh, Canada, written by People’s Light’s producing director Zak Berkman and directed by the company’s executive artistic director Abigail Adams. This one peeks in on a late-night Zoom call between two erstwhile lovers whose last contact was years earlier.

The two ex-lovers are Professor Allyson Remminger and Aaron Schwartz, sometime writer and teacher. Allyson initiated the out-ofthe-blue contact, to the surprise of Aaron. After some obligatory catching-up exercises, Allyson reveals the main reason she’s contacting Aaron: she needs him to provide refuge for her son, an environmental activist who, together with some close associates, has been dabbling in cyber-sabotage against environmental villains.

As we quickly learn, Aaron himself has spent the last three years in an isolated region of Canada, himself an ideological refugee. But Aaron’s escape wasn’t out of any fear of arrest. As both Allyson and Aaron

Mainly, she wants to talk about her sexual needs (without going into specifics) and her sexual play is weak. It felt as relationship with her if the piece had run out boyfriend, which is far of steam just when it from ideal. needed to deliver the Before long, Sophi and final punch.

The final verdict here Lucía start connecting on a level deeper than would be that Leavthat of performer and ing Teaching is just one sharply focused rewrite customer. They discuss away from being a first- the roles assigned to women in today’s sorate one-act play. Canciety and how they can drice Jones should not pass up the opportunity find more fulfilling lives. to give her work another Sophi even returns Gabby’s fee because “friends draft where she trims Claire Inie-Richards and Aubie Merrylees in AMERICA 2AM The Perilous Flight. Photo submitted by People’s Light Theatre. the excess dialogue and don’t charge friends”. devices because she is The exchanges beprovides the strong end“in debt up to her ears” ing that a strong one-act tween the two are and helping pay her dia- needs. handled efficiently here, betic mother’s medical but there are no great Author Jones was bills. If that’s not enough nonetheless served insights, no revealing of an incentive, Cordae surprises, no impreswell by the acting and reveals that she pretty sive language. Sadly, the directing of her work. much loathes teaching, play never rises above Sola Bamis was quite which she considers effective as Cordae, De- a predictable series of a dead-end job and is exchanges. The script Wanda Wise as Lillith looking for a way out. seems like a writing served as a good foil to We learn all this durexercise for Playwriting Bamis’ Cordae, and Eric America 2am Sola Bamis in AMERICA 2AM Leaving Teaching. Photo ing a post-show Zoom Robinson Jr as Franklin 101 turned in by one submitted by People’s Light Theatre. call with Lillith, who handled his part nicely. of the better students out on the movement runs the sex trinkets in the class. Even the Episode 4 of the just as they’re becoming put it, he just wanted a company Cordae works quartet was Lucía and thoughtful direction of effective – i.e., a threat to divorce from America for. During the call, David Mendizábal and Sophi Moans, written the powers that be. as the American Dream Cordae lets it be known by Guadalís Del Carthe solid performances The piece is also wellturned a bit nightmarthat she sees the Virgin men, directed by David by Kara Young as Sophi written, but not as imish. Allyson’s son Jayson Menace persona as sim- Mendízabal. This is and Cindy De La Cruz pressive as Oh, Canada. needs to escape, as he ply a slow, step-by-step another look at the onas Lucía were unable The acting was praisethinks he and the others way to leave the profes- line sex industry. As the to lift the material to a worthy: Aubie Merrylees in his group are about to sion she loathes, retire point where it deserved clock hits two a.m., we be framed for some seri- hit all the right notes as all her debts and take anything more than a find ourselves in Sophi Jayson, and Clair Inieous crime. care of her mother (with Moans’ Boom Boom courteous shrug.

Richard provided steady The piece is wellwhom she still lives, by Room, an online portal I would be remiss if I support as Miri. written, with sharp, the way). After one VM where customers click, wrapped up this review Wedged between these emotionally laden diapay, and then indulge in without mentioning the two playlets was Leaving presentation, however, logue that delivers its she gets an unusual ofsexual fantasies with the work of Omkar Girish Teaching, written by Canrevelations at well-timed fer that might allow her alluring Sophi. The play Purandare, director of drice Jones and directed intervals. (Some revelato do all the above very brings Sophi an unusual photography & editions are only hinted at, by Steve H. Broadnax quickly: a fan of her tor for the production, customer – Lucía (real III. This playlet opens because it’s all that is online show has offered name: Gabby) Lucía whose precise but unwith what seems to be needed. The production Cordae $50,000 to allow doesn’t want the stanobtrusive work gave the an online sleaze-tease was also well-directed him to terminate her show its commendable dard remote sex games sex show.

A woman who and well-acted. Janis virgin status. She and menu, she wants to talk. visual quality. goes by the name Virgin Dardaris as Professor Lillith quickly hatch a Allyson Remminger and Menace pops up on the scheme for an American screen, wearing a preTHE MORE YOU UNDERSTAND David Ingram as Aaron version of the Japanese Covid mask covering HER WORLD, THE MORE delivered what were mizuage, whereby aponly the top half of her POSSIBILITIES YOU SEE. arguably the two best prentice courtesans For Julia’s family, early screening for face. performances in the proautism made a lifetime of difference. would hold an auction On her live Virgin Find out more at ScreenForAutism.org gram, thereby contributfor the right to end their ing to the overall success Menace web page, the lady demonstrates vari- virginity. of Oh, Canada.

The next scene brings Episode 3, The Perilous ous ‘trinkets’ which en- on Franklin, the man able females of the virFlight, was a companwho made the generion piece to Oh, Canada, gin persuasion to pleasure themselves without ous offer. Cordae and he from the same writing engage in an extended damaging the hymen. and directing duo. In give-and-take on the The tone of her voice this playlet, we see Alwhat and why of his lyson’s son Jayson talk- and the facial gestures offer. This could have ing to Miri, a girlfriend/ we can see are standard been, should have been, sex-hawker fare. partner-in-principled where the play takes But less than ten crime about the dilemoff. Unfortunately, this minutes into Leaving mas they face. Jayson Teaching, there’s a quick is where playwright shares with Miri the Candrice Jones loses the turnaround. The show broad outlines of his thread. The negotiations ends, Virgin Menace mother’s scheme to get between client and supslips off her mask, and him out of the country plier goes on too long, we learn that she is acand into a Canadian meanders a bit, and renook where no one will tually Cordae, a rather treads material that had proper young woman; bother to look for him. been adequately covered In fact, she’s a high Miri is not at all on earlier – with no need board with this plan; she school teacher. She’s for going over yet again. taken up this side gig thinks Jayson is bailing flogging Virgin Menace More, the ending of the © 2019 Sesame Workshop. All rights reserved.

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Crime Blotter

Crime Incidents as reported by the Philadelphia Police Department via opendataphilly.org. Feedback and inquiries can be sent to Dorian@Pressreview. net. This crime report does not cover the entire boundaries of each police district. It reflects only incidents in or near our circulation areas.

The Following Crimes Occurred Between March 26th, 2021 and April 1st, 2021.

3rd DISTRICT: To report a crime in the 3rd District, please call 215-686-3030.

Reporting 3rd District crimes from Lombard St. to Mifflin St. and Delaware Ave. to Broad St.: Assault: 500 Morris St, 400 Reed St, 900 S 4th St, 1300 S 7th St, 800 South St. Robbery: 1200 E Passyunk Av. Theft: 100 Bainbridge St, 700 Dickinson St, 700 E Passyunk Av, 600 Earp St, 500 Fitwater St, 1100 S 5th St, S 7th St & Dickinson St, 1600 S 11th St, 1800 S 12th St, 1100 S Broad St, 1300 S Broad St, 900 S Front St, 1200 S Front St, 700 South St (2 Incidents).

Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 1400 S Front St, 1000 South St. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 1000 S 3rd St, 1700 S 5th St, 1800 S 5th St, 500 S 10th St, 600 S Fairhill St, 600 S Leithgow St. 6th DISTRICT: To report a crime in the 6th District, please call 215-686-3060.

Reporting 6th District crimes from Spring Garden St. to Lombard St. and Front St. to Broad St.: Assault: 1000 Arch St, 1300 Filbert St, 800 Locust St, 1100 Locust St, N 9th St & Market St, S 9th St & Walnut St, S 12th St & Chestnut St, 200 S Broad St, 1200 Spring Garden St, 1200 Vine St, 800 Walnut St, 500 Wood St. Robbery: 1300 Locust St, 800 Market St, 1000 Spring Garden St. Theft: 400 Arch St, 1200 Arch St, 200 Chestnut St, 1100 Chestnut St (2 Incidents), 1300 Locust St, 300 Market St, 700 Market St, 900 Market St (3 Incidents), 1100 Market St, 1300 Market St, N 8th St, N 10th St & Market St, 500 N Broad St, 0 N Front St, 1200 Noble St, 0 S 2nd St, 400 S 2nd St, 300 S 5th St (2 Incidents), 300 S 8th St, 100 S 10th St, 100 S 11th St, 0 S 12th St, 1200 Spruce St, 1200 Summer St, 500 Wood St. Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 700 Market St, N 4th St & Arch St, 900 Race St, 0 S 2nd St, 400 S Broad St. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 1000 Filbert St, 1100 Filbert St (2 Incidents), 0 N Front St, 700 Race St, 1200 Race St, 1300 S Penn Sq (2 Incidents), 1300 Sansom St, 1000 Spring Garden St (2 Incidents).

9th DISTRICT: To report a crime in the 9th District, please call 215-686-3090.

Reporting 9th District crimes from Fairmount Ave. to Lombard St. and Broad St. to the Schuylkill River.: Assault: 2100 Appletree St, 1500 Arch St, 1600 Chestnut St, 2000 Chestnut St, 1900 Hamilton St, 200 N Broad St. Burglary: 300 S Smedley St. Theft: 2000 Appletree St, 1700 Brandywine St, 1900 Fairmount Av, 2000 Fairmount Av, 1600 John F Kennedy Blvd, 1800 Market St, 1900 Market St (2 Incidents), 100 N Broad St, 400 N Broad St (2 Incidents), 2500 Pennsylvania Av, 1800 Pine St, 2100 Sansom St, 1500 Spruce St, 1600 Walnut St, 2300 Walnut St, 700 Water Works Dr. Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 2100 Appletree St, 1500 Arch St, 1500 Chestnut St, 1500 Pine St, 100 S 17th St, 1600 Spruce St, 2400 Spruce St.

Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 1400 Chestnut St, 2100 Ludlow St, 0 N 15th St (2 Incidents), 600 N 16th St, 200 N Broad St, 2500 Pine St, 2500 Spring Garden St (3 Incidents), 1800 Walnut St. 12th DISTRICT: To report a crime in the 12th District, please call 215-6861320. Reporting 12th District crimes within Southwest Philly bounded by Baltimore at 49th St. to Bartram Dr. at 60th St.:Assault: 4900 Chester Av, 5700 Greenway Av, 6000 Kingsessing Av, 6000 Lindbergh Blvd, 5600 Litchfield St, 5700 Reedland St, 1100 S 56th St, S 57th St & Elmwood Av, 1600 S Conestoga St, 1600 S Frazier St, 1600 S Wilton St, 5900 Warrington Av. Burglary: 4900 Pentridge St, 1500 S 53rd St. Theft: 5800 Elmwood Av, 5700 Greenway Av, 6000 Reinhardt St, 1200 S 52nd St, 1100 S 54th St, 1800 S 54th St, 800 S 55th St, 1900 S 56th St, 1300 S 57th St, 1900 S 57th St, 2000 S Alden St, 1500 S Wilton St, 5000 Woodland Av. Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 5400 Chester Av, 5200 Litchfield St, 1200 S Peach St, 5400 Warrington Av, 5000 Woodland Av, 5300 Woodland Av. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 5700 Elmwood Av, 5400 Gibson Dr, 5300 Grays Av, 5400 Greenway Av, 900 S 49th St, S 50th St & Woodland Av, 800 S 53rd St, S 56th St & Thomas Av, 1300 S 57th St, S 58th St & Chester Av (2 Incidents), 1600 S Conestoga St (2 Incidents), 1600 S Frazier St (2 Incidents), 5400 Warrington Av (3 Incidents), 5700 Warrington Av, 5500 Windsor St. 16th DISTRICT: To report a crime in the 16th District, please call 215-6863160. Reporting 16th District crimes from Girard Ave. to Market St. and from the Schuylkill River to 52nd St.: Assault: 3600 Aspen St, 1000 Belmont Av, 100 Dearborn St, 3800 Haverford Av, 3800 Lancaster Av, 4000 Lancaster Av, 3500 Mantua Av, 4200 Mantua Av, 3000 Market St, 3400 Market St, 800 N 42nd St, 900 N 43rd St, 900 N 50th St, 0 N Preston St, 600 N Preston St, 4100 Poplar St, 4100 W Girard Av, 4200 W Girard Av, 5200 W Girard Av. Burglary: 300 Busti St, 4400 Haverford Av, 400 N 40th St, 4200 Powelton Av, 3800 Wyalusing Av. Robbery: 4100 Lancaster Av, 4600 Market St (2 Incidents), 0 N 30th St. Theft: 5100 Brown St, 3400 Hamilton St, 3700 Haverford Av, 400 N 39th St, N 41st St & Haverford Av, 100 N 49th St, 500 N Creighton St, 3700 Powelton Av, 4300 Powelton Av, 300 Saunders Av. Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 3400 Lancaster Av, 3900 Lancaster Av, N 40th St & Parkside Av, N 46th St & Market St, 4000 Ogden St, 4900 Olive St, 4900 Parrish St, 4800 Wyalusing Av. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 900 Belmont Av, 3900 Lancaster Av, 2900 Market St (2 Incidents), 4700 Market St, 3700 Melon St, 0 N 30th St (2 Incidents), 600 N 34th St (2 Incidents), N 40th St & Filbert St, 700 N 41st St, 500 N 52nd St (3 Incidents), N 52nd St & Westminster Av (3 Incidents), 700 N Dekalb St, 500 N Paxon St (2 Incidents), 4000 Westminster Av,

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Reporting 17th District crimes from Lombard St. to Mifflin St. and Broad St. to the Schuylkill River.: Assault: 1700 Christian St, 1100 S 15th St, 1400 S Bancroft St, 1000 S Chadwick St, 1300 S Mole St, 1400 S Napa St, 2500 Washington Av. Robbery: 1700 S 20th St, S 27th St & South St. Theft: 2100 Christian St, 2100 Dickinson St, 2700 Dickinson St, 1900 Kater St, 1500 Latona St, 1700 Montrose St, 2700 Oakford St, 700 S 17th St, 1000 S 17th St, 1000 S 21st St, S 22nd St & South St, 800 S Broad St (2 Incidents), 1000 S Broad St (2 Incidents), 1700 S Chadwick St, 1600 S Etting St (2 Incidents), 1400 S Patton St, 2000 Saint Albans St, 2400 Tasker St, 1600 Titan St. Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 2300 Carpenter St, 1800 Dickinson St, 2200 Titan St, 1900 Wilder St (3 Incidents).

Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 1700 Carpenter St, 2100 Federal St, 3000 Reed St (2 Incidents), 3100 Reed St, 1300 S 23rd St, 1200 S 26th St, 1500 S 28th St, 1000 S Broad St, 3100 Tasker St, 3400 Wharton St. 18th DISTRICT: To report a crime in the 18th District, please call 215-6863180. Reporting 18th District crimes from Market St. to Woodland Ave. and 30th St. to Cobbs Creek Pkwy.: Rape: 900 S 58th St. Arson: 5700 Larchwood Av, 0 S 57th St. Assault: 5500 Baltimore Av, 5200 Cedar Av, 5300 Cedar Av, 5600 Cedar Av, 5800 Chestnut St, 5900 Christian St, 5400 Delancey St, 6000 Delancey St, 3300 Market St, 5700 Market St, N 52nd St & Market St, 5500 Pine St (2 Incidents), 500 S 44th St, 400 S 48th St, 400 S 56th St, 500 S 60th St, 5100 Sansom St, 5000 Walnut St, 5200 Walnut St. Burglary: 3400 Chestnut St, 3900 Chestnut St (2 Incidents), 6000 Locust St, 300 S 48th St. Theft: 5600 Addison St, 3700 Chestnut St, 3900 Chestnut St, 4100 Chestnut St, 4300 Chestnut St, 4600 Chestnut St, 5600 Chestnut St (2 Incidents), 5200 Locust St, 5300 Locust St, 5400 Locust St, Locust St & S Allison St, 6100 Ludlow St, 6200 Ludlow St, 3100 Market St, 3300 Market St, 5300 Market St, 6000 Osage Av, 4900 Pine St, 1000 S 48th St (2 Incidents), 4400 Sansom St, 5500 Sansom St, 4800 Spruce St, 4600 Walnut St, 6000 Washington Av, 4800 Woodland Av. Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 5500 Baltimore Av, 3700 Locust Walk, 4500 Market St, 100 S 55th St, 700 S 59th St, 5200 Sansom St, 5100 Spruce St, Spruce St & Woodland Walk, 5600 Walnut St, 5200 Walton Av. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 5500 Baltimore Av, 4600 Chestnut St, 5300 Delancey St, 6000 Hazel Av, 5200 Larchwood Av, 5800 Ludlow St, 4000 Market St, 5600 Montrose St, N 40th St & Market St,

4100 Pine St, S 30th St & Market St, 400 S 48th St, 100 S 50th St, 200 S 50th St, 700 S 51st St, S 52nd St & Market St, S 52nd St & Locust St, 400 S 54th St (2 Incidents), 300 S 56th St, 600 S 57th St, 0 S 58th St, 900 S 59th St, 600 S 60th St, 1000 S 61st St, S 62nd St & Chestnut St, 600 S Conestoga St, 4000 Walnut St, 5400 Walnut St, 6100 Webster St, 4800 Woodland Av.19th DISTRICT: To report a crime in the 19th District, please call 215-6863190. Reporting 19th District crimes from City Ave. to Market St. and 52nd St. to 77th St.: Assault: 6100 City Av, 5300 Haverford Av, 5500 Hunter St, 6100 Lancaster Av, 5400 Lansdowne Av, 7600 Malvern Av, 5600 Master St (2 Incidents), 6000 Master St, 300 N 58th St, 1300 N 60th St, 1400 N 60th St, 700 N 63rd St, 1100 N 64th St, N 64th St & Lansdowne Av, 1400 N 76th St, 200 N Alden St, 400 N Gross St, 500 N Hobart St, 0 N Ithan St, 1400 N Vogdes St, 6000 Race St, 6000 W Girard Av. Burglary: 5500 Arch St, 200 N 60th St, 5800 Overbrook Av, 1300 Pennington Rd. Robbery: 5700 Race St. Theft: 5400 Arch St, 5300 Haverford Av, 5200 Jefferson St, 5400 Lancaster Av, 5800 Malvern Av, 300 N 52nd St, 1900 N 54th St, 1400 N 62nd St, 500 N 65th St, 1500 N Conestoga St, 6300 Overbrook Av, 6300 Race St, 5400 Summer St, 5800 Vine St, 5800 Woodbine Av. Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 900 Kenmore Rd, 6000 Lancaster Av, 5500 Lansdowne Av, 800 Marlyn Rd, 1200 Marlyn Rd, 200 N 60th St, 1700 N 60th St, 1600 N 61st St, 1400 N 76th St, 200 N Edgewood St, 5400 Vine St, 5400 Woodcrest Av. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 5700 Commerce St, 7400 Haverford Av, 5800 Malvern Av, 5200 Market St (2 Incidents), 5900 Market St, 800 Marlyn Rd, 5600 Master St (2 Incidents), 0 N 52nd St, 2000 N 52nd St, 200 N 54th St, 1400 N 55th St, N 56th St & Vine St, 1400 N 58th St, 500 N 59th St, 1300 N 59th St, 0 N 60th St, N 60th St & W Columbia Av, 300 N 61st St, N 62nd St & Vine St, N 63rd St & Master St, 900 N 64th St, 700 N 66th St, 500 N 67th St, 0 N Dewey St, 0 N Edgewood St, N Edgewood St & Vine St, 600 N Frazier St, 1400 N Hirst St (2 Incidents), 300 N Salford St, 1700 N Wilton St, 5400 Sharswood St, 1900 Upland Way, 5300 W Columbia Av, 5900 W Girard Av. Crime Incidents as reported by the Philadelphia Police Department via opendataphilly.org. Feedback and inquiries can be sent to Dorian@Pressreview. net. This crime report does not cover the entire boundaries of each police district. It reflects only incidents in or near our circulation areas.

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Quinn said. “We’re all really striving to get up and running as best we can so we’re really looking at some level of normalcy by the fall.”

“I’d say we’re O.K., but we’re always going to be weary of [finances],” Quinn added. “We hardly feel like we have an excess of anything.”

While the year of online learning has been a struggle, Quinn said that it has also allowed HMS to explore new ways of teaching its students. He noted that the implementation of virtual teaching has actually been able to increase attendance among a student body, which due to its health conditions, have typically had a high absentee rate.

“The silver lining of all this has been what we’ve learned and been able to do virtually,” Quinn said.

“We’ve had perfect attendance for many of our students through all this because accessing our programing virtually has been easier.”

Quinn also said that a virtual environment has allowed teachers to better connect and communicate with students’ families. He called the development “eye opening,” for both a students’ parents and guardians, as well as for HMS staff.

Eisen, from Project ACE-IT at CHOP, took an optimistic tone about how COVID-era innova-

tions could be applied in the future. She said that experiences during the pandemic could help inform future collaboration between CHOP and schools around the region.

“It depends on the schools’ appetites for doing new things,” Eisen said. “I think CHOP’s attitude has always been what can we do to make things better for kids and their families, and I would always be open to hearing from the education leaders and from the families what their ideas can be.”

Quinn echoed that optimism. Though he acknowledged that COVID-19 has placed “a great burden” on HMS families, Quinn said that the school could come out of the pandemic as an even stronger resource for students in need – especially by expanding virtual learning.

“Whenever all this is over, whatever that looks like, I’d anticipate that the virtual program is going to be a permanent part of what we do in a pretty exciting way,” Quinn said. “[Students] can really connect with us even it’s just for a therapy session or just for a check-in in a way that we were never doing before.”

“It’s the law of unintended consequences,” Quinn added. “It’s something that we never would have discovered unless necessity had forced us to figure it out over the last year.”

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