University City Review 3-17-2021

The National League of Cities: Reimagining Public Safety

By Christopher Doyle Special to the Press/Review

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he fight against COVID-19 has played out against a backdrop of surging gun violence and a reckoning with racism and police brutality. Now, as a vaccine campaign begins to inoculate the country against the coronavirus, a nationwide taskforce of local public of-

ficials, including one from West Philadelphia, are looking to better protect their communities from the spread of violence with innovative new policies that would reimagine public safety in America.

The National League of Cities, an organization dedicated to helping local leaders improve their communities, announced the launch of the Taskforce on Reimagining

Public Safety in February. The NLC invited on to the taskforce a group of 25 public officials from across the country, including West Philadelphia City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier. Over the course of the next few months, the taskforce will work to craft policy recommendations designed to reduce police brutality and improve public safety.

Gauthier said that she

believed the taskforce was coming at a critical time for Philadelphia. She said that there was a vital need for action in response to the killing of Walter Wallace Jr. – a Black man who was shot and killed by police in West Philadelphia last October – and a need to respond to the city’s unrelenting gun violence.

“We do not have the appropriate resources to support

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PEC and Barnes West Presents Everyday Places Artist Partnerships

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arnes West, a collaborative partnership between The Barnes Foundation and People’s Emergency Center, is connecting West Philly artists to our communities in the new Everyday Places Artist Partnership program. Pairing with “everyday places,” such as parks, rec centers, local businesses, service organizations, etc., artists will build interactive, participatory artistic projects for West Philly neighbors.

Partnerships will provide a space for residents to engage with themes of HOPE and HEALING. The program is designed to prioritize West Philly resident voices in the artistic process. Click on the link to learn more details.

Display from The Bank 3750 Lancaster Avenue in 2017. Chanel Cheri. Beyond Progress, 2017. Mixed Media.

The Banner

By Patricia Pate Community Contributor

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ince 2014 a Black Lives Matter banner demonstrated commitment to the cause on the Calvary United Methodist church building at 48th and Baltimore Avenue.

Over the years the banner became tattered and worn and had to be taken down. Patched with duct tape and plywood it was re-installed in the front church garden to honor a BLM protest caravan July 2020. Following the protest, the banner enriched the garden and our community for weeks and was then stolen! The banner team as well as the congregations worshipping in the church

Pictures of the installation. The 2 installers on the lift are Carl Ballinger and Brett Thomas.

building pray the banner is well cared for and cherished in its new unknown location.

A banner team was organized and formulated a design for a new replacement banner.

Local Spruce Hill artists, Carl

Ballinger, Greg Scott, and Joy Ude, incorporated both the Black Lives Matter message along with the rainbow colors exemplifying “All Means All” representing the Calvary United Methodist tradition

as a reconciling congregation where “all are welcome in God’s inclusive love”. Textile artist and local seamstress Aetna Gallagher sewed the banner. Installation was managed by the Calvary Center for Culture and Community (4C’s), the non-profit management corporation of the building. Rich Kirk, President of the 4C’s board, states, “The banner installation represents an incredible team effort that shows the commitment to our diverse community.” February 26, 2021 the new banner is installed and now beams down at 48th and Baltimore Avenues, the corner of spirituality and justice!

The Calvary Building is home to local community associations, refugee groups, continued on page 4

Councilmember Jamie Gauthier.

particularly people in Black and brown neighborhoods to get the care and the empathy that they need,” Gauthier said.

“And while for years we’ve dealt with [gun violence] with a law-enforcement response, I think we need to move much further into the area of addressing gun violence as a public health crisis and emergency.”

Kirby Gaherty, the NLC program manager for justice reform and youth engagement, said that protests against police brutality over the summer motivated the launch of the taskforce. She said the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police, and the subsequent racial justice movement that swept across America and the world in his memory, made NLC officials decide to promote public safety reform that was less reliantXon policing. ... “This summer we really realized we needed to do more to really support cities more holistically thinking about public safety,” Gaherty said.

“We decided that this was something that was long overdue and the things that we saw happening Page x in cities drove us to bring together this taskX officials.” force of local elected “The hope is that this group ... can create a twenty-first century public safety agenda for America’s cities,” she added.

Gaherty also cited the increase in shootings and murders in large cities over the continued on page 2

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past year, as well as the increase in domestic violence in municipalities of all sizes. She emphasized that reducing violence would be complemented by efforts to reduce police brutality.

“Violence is a priority for the taskforce,” Gaherty said. “It’s definitely something that we are prioritizing in our report, and the relationship between community violence and police violence is another thing that’s come up a few times as well.”

To confront these issues, the NLC taskforce will embrace diverse perspectives and bipartisan dialogue, Gaherty said.

Signifying this approach, the taskforce is being cochaired by Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka, a Democrat, and Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt, a Republican. According to an NLC press release, officials were selected to the taskforce on the basis of “their demonstrated commitment in reimagining public safety in their communities,” and in order to “help ensure representation from a wide range of viewpoints, locations and community sizes.”

“Each taskforce member in some way has taken a step toward reimagining public safety whether that’s on a police reform standpoint or from a larger, really reimaging their public safety system standpoint,” Gaherty said. “It’s really just making sure we have diverse perspectives on the issue, but commitment from each of the taskforce members to work on this in some way.”

Academic institutions and think tanks, including the Vera Institute of Justice, the Urban Institute, Cities United, and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at The City University of New York, will work with the taskforce to help members explore different avenues of reform.

Daniela Gilbert, the Director of the Policing Program at the Vera Institute, said the taskforce could help explore alternate ways and methods of preventing violence aside from policing. In an emailed statement to the UC Review, Gilbert

Kirby Gaherty, the NLC program manager for justice reform and youth engagement.

said that she believed that some emergencies should be dealt with by civilian rapid-response teams.

“We over rely on law enforcement to deliver public safety and must recognize that our current investments and systems are inadequate in producing public safety,” Gilbert said. “Calls that don’t require a law enforcement response ought to be diverted to behavioral health responders, EMTs, or other civilian responders.”

A Philadelphia program featuring rapidresponse mental health professionals was announced by the city in October. Staffers from the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services are to help monitor 911 emergency calls and identify “behavioral health crisis” situations. The program also pilots a “co-responder” initiative, where both police and mental health professionals respond to an emergency.

After the killing of Wallace – whose shooting by police came during a mental health crisis he was experiencing – the implementation of the program was expanded and accelerated.

Gilbert indicated in her email to the UC Review that she was hoping that local governments would start implementing crisis response programs that would avoid dispatching police to certain kinds of emergencies altogether.

“Calls that don’t require a law enforcement response ought to be diverted to behavioral health responders, EMTs, or other civilian responders,” Gilbert said. “The co-responder model, as a sole alternative, does not reduce police involvement in handling crisis calls.”

Jesse Jannetta, a senior policy fellow at the

Urban Institute Justice Policy Center, said the taskforce could help find ways to hold police more accountable and improve police-community relations – something he has previously studied in six cities across the United States. He said improving that relationship is crucial to making policing and public safety efforts more effective.

“Without functional and effective relations and trust between police and communities, it is extremely difficult to do effective safety or antiviolence work,” Jannetta said. “And consistently across the six cities, the area where trust and confidence in the police was lowest in those neighborhoods was around whether the police department held officers accountable for wrong and inappropriate conduct in the community.”

Jannetta said there was also a need to deploy non-police “violence interrupters,” – people with good relationship with the community and who can intervene in people’s lives and steer them away from violence – similar to the work of the Philadelphia AntiDrug/Anti-Violence Network, or PAAN. “There’s been a real expansion both of knowledge and practice around how anti-violence work can look that doesn’t involve traditional criminal justice actors, uniformed police officers, and so on,” Jannetta said. “This is the world of people who are doing violence interruption, conflict mediation, engagement with people at high risk of shooting and being shot.”

Jannetta said that having trustworthy figures in the community intervene could help stop one instance of violence from escalating into a continued on page 8

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COVID Diary

By Elizabeth Campion Special to the Press/ Review

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oday, March 10, 2021, on the first anniversary of the first documented case of Covid in Philadelphia, I got my second MODERNA vaccination through PENN-Med. The rise of cases was steady and exponential.

10 more cases were diagnosed in the first week, and the first death was death was announced on March 25th. Since then, Philly has suffered 3,200+ Covid deaths and dealt with 116,000+ positive test results, loss of jobs, cultural venues and recreation.

It has been a rollercoaster of a year.

We were as lab rats, navigating a challengPennsylvania DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell testifies before the Senate ing and ever-changing Appropriations Committee on March 11, 2021. maze. We lived our lives Image courtesy of the Pennsylvania Senate Republican Caucus on plans made in 2-week increments but facing

By Christen Smith McDonnell also estiThe Center Square mates that gross domes- abrupt and often unwelcome changes. tic product in the state Our adaptability, resilhe Pennsylvania would grow by $2 billion ience, perseverance and Department of while producing 27,000 endurance were tested Environmental clean energy jobs and Protection shrugged off more than $6.3 billion in daily.

Our vocabularies grew legislative disapproval health benefits over the to include: Asymptomatof its efforts to join the next decade. ic, Community-Spread, Regional Greenhouse “Given the overContract-Tracing, CoroGas Initiative this week, whelming evidence of pointing to strong public what we are seeing in the nageddon, Distancing, Flattening-the-Curve, support for its plan to comments and the pollreduce air pollution. ing, that’s what leads us Hydroxychloroquine, “Over 90% of the [pub- to be confident in making Immunosuppressed, lic] commenters spoke in the statement that this is Incubation, Lockdown, favor of RGGI and our something the residents joining it,” DEP Secreof Pennsylvania want,” tary Patrick McDonnell he said. told the Senate ApproBut lawmakers dispriations Committee on agree. Last year, a proThursday. “More broadly, posal to halt the state’s there’s been polling done entry into RGGI until out of Yale [University] the Legislature approves that within Pennsylvania, passed both chambers 70% of our residents sup- with bipartisan support.

By C. M. Schmidlkofer port some kind of carbon Gov. Tom Wolf – who in The Center Square fee in order to address 2019 ordered DEP to craft contributor climate change.” rules for joining the proRGGI, an 11-state coali- gram as of 2022 – vetoed ennsylvania Detion, charges power pro- the bill in September. partment of Reveducers for the pollution If successful, Pennsylnue Secretary Dan they emit. Participating vania would be the first Hassell recently defendstates reinvest proceeds state to join RGGI withed a $950 million revenue from the fees into proout the blessing of its difference between the grams and projects that General Assembly.

Independent Fiscal Office lower electricity demand “Under the Air Polluor improve air quality. tion Control, we have the and his administration’s DEP says its interauthority to regulate pol- 2021 estimate during last nal modeling shows lutants,” McDonnell said. week’s Republican Senate Budget Hearing. that joining the pro“Carbon has long been Fiscal year-to-date gram would reduce recognized as pollutant.”

General fund collections carbon emissions by 188 Sen. Gene Yaw, Rtotaled $23.9 billion, million tons; asthmaWilliamsport, said RGGI $901.3 million or 3.9 percausing nitrogen oxide will generate $300 milcent, above estimate. emissions by 112,000 lion in emissions fees, “It’s one thing if tons; and acid-rain proeffectively levying a tax they are close, but they ducing sulfur dioxide on the qualifying power aren’t close,” Sen. Scott emissions by 67,000 tons. continued on page 9

Pennsylvania DEP says public supports carbon emission fees

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Novel-Coronavirus, Pandemic, PPE, Quarantine.

Super-Spreader, WFH & others.

Our understandings of “Essential” and “Equitable” were challenged.

Covid may have been the lead, but its storyline was complicated by the flowering of BLM and raised awareness that inequities moved from economics to education, health-care and justice.

On March 11, the Phila School District announced schools would be closed for 11 days. A year later, students and parents are contemplating an April reopening.

In March, my scientist husband began a multi-month marathon of working toward Covid tests. He was on the Siemens teams that produced excellent Covid and IGG tests.

He worked 60-80 hours per week (with no extra compensation) and the teams compressed years of work into a few months.

On March 22nd, Mayor Kenney issued a “Stayat-Home” order and closed all non-essential business. In my field, Real Estate, 80% of all home sales were delayed or lost. As a more experienced agent, I was able to quickly transfer closings to Delaware and

Montgomery County, (Title and Banking laws pass from the State, not the county), and so saved all of my transactions. Newer agents gradually adapted.

On March 27th the CARES Act sent out $1,200 per adult. There were also extensions for those receiving Unemployment Compensation, but the economy was taking too many blows to feel normal.

The list of business closing permanently was starting to grow.

On April 8th, SEPTA implemented drastic service cuts. The unintended consequence was some stations and even cars becoming ad-hoc homeless shelters.

Hospitals became overwhelmed and on April 20th, TEMPLE U converted the Liacouras Center to an overflow ‘Field Hospital”.

Problems from mismanaging the USPS began to trickle down, and all of us were advised to make early application for Mail-inVoting, and to verify our Votes digitally.

George Floyd was murdered on May 25th, in a widely televised 8 minutes and 46 seconds that brought every compassionate person low, and saw many rise to challenge a very broken system which led to riots. continued on page 9

Pennsylvania revenue officials defend discrepancies, discuss upside of employees working remotely

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Hutchinson said.

Hassell explained the administrations prepare budgets in different time frames and have been impacted by various federal stimulus packages.

The governor’s budget used economic forecasts available in December and early January, which are different from what revenue officials had available.

“And to be fair, as of that time the scope of the further stimulus package … was completely unclear,” he said, referring to the $1.9 trillion federal COVID-19 relief package that was signed by President Joe Biden on

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Hassell said he expected as stimulus packages continue to pump money into the economy, there will be a strong upward influence on the state’s revenue.

Most discussion was centered on how the department is operating during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Twelve Step programs, the historic preservation society, art and cultural activities, music series, theater, peace and social justice organizations, educational classes, and several religious congregations. The building also offers a variety of spaces for events such as neighborhood movie nights, town meetings, lectures, and educational and cultural programs for all ages. Unfortunately, the building has been closed during the COVID pandemic, but we are hoping to reopen this summer if all goes well.

We are using this time to do some much-needed repairs.

The 4C’s is the proud recipient of a 2020 Pennsylvania State RACP grant to restore the church building.

The $500,000.00 grant requires a full match, 50% is due on June 23, 2021. The 4C’s plans a fund-raising campaign and will be reaching out to our local community.

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SCORE Philadelphia Earns Prestigious “Diamond Leadership Award” For Service and Operations Excellence in 2020 Less Than 10% Of The 330-Plus SCORE Chapters Nationally Are Bestowed This Highest Recognition arch 8, 2021 — Philadelphia, PA — The national office of SCORE, “Mentors to America’s Small Business,” has honored SCORE Philadelphia with the “Diamond Leadership Award” for outstanding performance in 2020. Less than 10% of the 330+ SCORE chapters across the United States are bestowed this highest recognition for service and operations excellence. Additionally, in order to be considered a Diamond chapter,

you have to have been awarded as a Platinum level 5 years in a row.

Says Mary Livingston, the Chapter Chair of SCORE Philadelphia for the past 5 years, “I am so very proud of the work that all the volunteers have done over the years to receive this wonderful distinction and highest recognition.” “Our volunteers are committed to educate, mentor and support Philadelphia’s start-up, entrepreneurbased and minority businesses through our free one-on-one mentoring sessions and workshops,” added newly-appointed SCORE Philadelphia Chapter Co-Chair, Jack Musgrove.

SCORE Philadelphia has been a part of the Philadelphia smallbusiness community for 15 years. In 2020, SCORE Philadelphia experienced significant demand due to COVID-19. The chapter’s volunteers provided 918 free one-on-one mentoring sessions and 66 low-cost workshops (all virtual as of April 2020), for 1,654 aspiring entrepreneurs and small-business owners.

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West Catholic High guard Destiney McPhaul is Named An All-Star For The “Who’s Next” All-American Game

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ast month, the Selection Committee made the decision to shut down the McDonald’s AllAmerican Game. It was the second year in a row that the McDonald’s All-American Game has been canceled due to the outbreak of Covid-19.

Despite the cancellation, West Catholic basketball star Destiney McPhaul was never picked to play in the game. The 5-7 guard never made the team roster.

However, the threetime All-Catholic guard was picked to play in this year’s Who’s Next All-American Game. The game will be played on Friday, April 2, at the George Gervin Center, located in SanAntonio, Texas. McPhaul is the only female basketball player in Philadelphia to be picked to play in that All-American game.

McPhaul is among the 42 best female high school basketball players

Destiney McPhaul. Photo Gavin Bethell.

in the country to play in the game. She was named to the All-American roster about three weeks ago Despite the great news, the West Catholic High senior guard decided to continue her workouts. “Yeah, there are still workouts for me to do,” said McPhaul who has averaged over

27 points a game at West Catholic High. “Now, I work out in the morning and then I will do more workouts after school. Sometimes, I will do four workouts a day depending on how I feel.

My workouts have gotten a lot harder over the years. I know if I want to get better in basketball, continued on page 6

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Youth America Grand Prix Dance Auditions returned to Philadelphia

2019 First-place winner from Australia, Grace Carroll. Photo courtesy of yagp.org

By Nathaniel Lee Press/Review Correspondent

international locations as well, Europe, Asia, South America and Canada,” he said. hiladelphia A great deal of effort, dance students planning and resources yearning for an are expended to host opportunity to show these global auditions, their talents were given but Gordeev says the a once-in-a-lifetime opcompetition is essential portunity to do so this to the dance world. weekend during the “Basically, all of these Youth America Grand auditions serve one purPrix where hundreds, pose, which is the reason 251 to be exact, particiwhy Youth America pated in the auditions Grand Prix was created, held Friday, Saturday and that is to identify and Sunday at Klein promising young dance Life, 10100 Jamison Av- talent, connect it with enue in Philadelphia. opportunities at the The auditions are world’s leading dance highly anticipated in academies around the the dance world by both world.” dancers and the dance The Youth America schools seeking promis- Grand Prix is a ballet ing young students. competition specifically “What’s happening in focused on classical balPhiladelphia is a region- let founded by a foral semi-final which is mer Russian ballerina, part of the Youth Amer- Larissa Savliev who ica Grand Prix’s United emigrated to the United States tour which enStates 1994 where she compasses 25 locations began teaching ballet. throughout the United As a teacher, she began States,” said Sergey Gor- searching for opportunideev, founding director ties for her students but of communications and found none. external affairs for Youth Savliev created the America Grand Prix Youth America Grand International Student Prix to help create those Competition. opportunities and the Oh, this is big stuff. results were incredible.

Not only does Youth Over 100,000 students America host these audi- have participated in tions in Philly but they Youth America’s workdo so throughout the shops, auditions and country and, in fact the master classes since it world. was founded and over “The United States 450 alumni have joined tour is part of the larger more than 80 dance tour which happens companies around the throughout the year world. which happens in 10 “Before the internet

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connected people in real time, the way dance talent was discovered were at these summits, at these auditions, at these dance competitions,” said Gordeev.

In those days, dancers ready to start their professional careers would attend these events “every year, every two years, every three years” and perform in these places where the dance world would gather.

“The dance world would gather in these places and then stars would be born, talents would be recognized, and the new up-andcoming brightest new talents were discovered,” Gordeev said.

In Europe, there was a competition for pre-professional dance students, but not so in America, at least until Savliev started one.

“The idea that she had was very simple but very powerful. The competition was to identify talent before it became professional so it’s for dancers from 9 – 19 years of age.”

This year the challenge extended its age limit to include 20-year old’s who may have missed out on the chance to participate in the auditions last year due to the Covid-19 Pandemic which temporarily brought the activities to a halt.

“The idea was to travel around the world, first it was to travel around the United States and

then it expanded to the world and the idea was to hold these auditions in regions, in different cities and different locations and to identify the most talented dancers in each location and then they would be invited to attend the finals.”

In the past, the finals were held in New York but because of the pandemic, they will take place in Tampa, Florida in May. These finals are significant.

“We travel around the world and we audition up to 12 - 15,000 kids, literally all over the planet and the best and most promising are invited to the finals and then the finals are attended by, literally every major dance institution on the planet earth,” Gordeev explained.

“The worlds’ most talented dance kids are seen by the representatives of the worlds best dance schools and they are awarded scholarships to these schools.”

Over the last 20 years, this effort has facilitated some $4,000,000 in scholarships to leading dance schools around the world.

“What Youth America Grand Prix does is basically solve the problem that existed before the competition was created which is that, if a dance student wanted to be seen by a school and be considered for a scholarship and find a place to study to develop his or her talent, the student had to travel to whichever school the dance student wanted to attend,” said Gordeev.

Many of those without the means and resources would be unable to do this. Afterall, you couldn’t visit all the dance schools you might be interested in visiting.

Youth America also helps to resolve a problem for dance schools who need talented students as well.

“The schools are also interested in having talented students in their schools and some

schools have audition tours where they would visit 3,4,5 10 cities perhaps but they can’t cover the entire globe. So, the schools were looking for talented students and the students were looking for promising schools, but nothing was connecting them. The Youth America Grand Prix became this connection.”

The founder of Youth America Grand Prix was understandably busy during the auditions, but we did get a chance to

break Ms Savliev away from her duties to get this statement: “It makes my heart so happy to see these dancers on stage once again, knowing how hard they’ve been working throughout the months of lockdown.

We always love coming to Philadelphia as it’s one of the first cities we started coming to when we started YAGP more than 20 years ago,” said Savliev.

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me things that goes beyond basketball. He continued from page 4 tells me a lot about how to conduct myself. And this is what I have to do. how to deal with things In this world, nobody is on and off the court. He going to hand you any- teaches me how to deal thing. You have to work with many tough situhard.” ations. He teaches me Since the outbreak about game of life.” of Covid-19, Destiney Another person who McPhaul has been dohas been a strong suping private workouts porter in her basketball inside her home and career, has been her at Shepard Recreation brother, Tymir Johnson.

Center. Before the outJohnson played basketbreak of Covid-19, she ball at Math, Civic and scheduled her workouts Sciences High School with Shepard basketball and now he plays bascoach Woo Robinson. ketball in college.

He ran different types “He talks to me about of basketball drills that my game almost every kept the young West day,” said McPhaul. “We Catholic High guard in even watch the games good shape. together. He shows me “Coach Woo teaches things that I need to me a lot about the game focus on. He constantly of basketball,” said talks to me about the McPhaul. “There are teams and the players. times when he will teach He’s always in my ear.

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He’s my protector and my teacher.”

Tymir is the main reason why Destiney McPhaul has become such a talented basketball star. Last year, according to ESPN.com, Destiney McPhaul was ranked the 25th best female guard in the country. Destiney McPhaul is also a player who can finish off great plays.

Last year, in a state playoff game, Destiney McPhaul hit the 1,000thpoint in her high school career. She did it with 6:12 left in the game. The crowd exploded on the court when McPhaul nailed a three-pointer from the top of the key.

The crowd staged a big celebration. McPhaul helped West Catholic defeat Susquenita in opening round of the state playoffs by a score, 91-38. She was the top scorer in the game. She scored 26 points. She managed to rip down 8 rebounds. She also dished off 6 assists and delivered 3 block shots against Susquenita. She led her team to victory.A week before that, McPhaul helped West Catholic High win the Philadelphia Catholic League Girls basketball title. She was the top scorer leading the way with 30 points. McPhaul helped seal the game in overtime. She drained a three pointer that gave West Catholic a 59-56 lead over Archbishop Wood. And then with 1:03 left in overtime, she came through again.

McPhaul made a sweet layup that extended the Lady Burrs’ lead to 61-58. The West Catholic fans went berserk.

There was a mob scene that stretched across the Palestra floor. The Lady Burrs had not won a championship title since winning the Philadelphia Catholic League title back in 1988. West Catholic coach Beulah Osueke became the first Black basketball coach to win a Catholic League Title in league history.

“It feels great to win the Philadelphia Catholic League championship,” said McPhaul who talked reporters after the game. “A lot of people didn’t expect us to win. You could see people stop sharing the

love when we were on that losing streak. For our team, our hard work was finally paying off.

Those losses taught us a valuable lesson.”

That was a great moment for Destiney McPhaul. That was a moment that she never will forget. However, this year, the West Catholic Lady Burrs finished the 2021 regular season with a 5-2 record. They did advance to the Philadelphia Catholic League playoffs. About a week ago, the Lady Burrs lost to Cardinal O’Hara in the Philadelphia Catholic League semi-finals, 74-60. McPhaul was upset about the defeat. But she couldn’t do anything about it. She scored 30 points in the game. Now, she’s about to pack up her bags and catch a plane to San Antonio, Texas. Her grandmother, Marsha Baldwin, is going to make sure she has enough food to carry on the trip to the Who’s Next All-American Game.

“I feel awesome about it and I’m proud of Destiney,” said her grandmother, Marsha Baldwin. “I feel good she’s advancing and reaching her goals. One thing about Destiney, she treats basketball like a job. Win or lose, she doesn’t get emotional about it. She treats basketball like a regular job. She doesn’t let stuff overwhelm her. She doen’t get into conversations about it. She’s a bit spooky. But spooky in a good way. She doesn’t go to parties. She doesn’t smoke weed or drink.

She doesn’t do any of that stuff. She’s not like other teenagers. She’s strictly a basketball player and she’s dedicated to the game. I’m happy to watch her grow. She loves the game, and she keeps telling me she wants to play in the WNBA. And I think that’s a great dream for her to have. And I think she’s going to make it.”

After, McPhaul plays in the Who’s Next AllAmerican Game, she intends to graduate from West Catholic High. And then McPhaul will continue her fabulous basketball career at Virginia Tech University.

Visit these Irish pubs and many more around Philly

Photo submitted by BRU.

By Erin Flynn Jay

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he luck of the Irish is back!

One year after the pandemic cancelled most restaurant events for St. Patrick’s Day and Weekend, Center City restaurants will be offering creative ways to celebrate in a safe and socially distanced way for 2021.

I interviewed Teddy Sourias, owner of Irish pub Finn McCool’s Ale House for 20 years now. Sourias also owns BRU Craft & Wurst and Tradesman’s under Craft Concepts Group. “St. Patrick’s Day is a huge party. Last year, it was right before the pandemic. It wasn’t a regular St. Patrick’s Day, obviously, because everybody’s starting to get scared.

And we knew that a shutdown was coming because we had whispers of it,” he said.

Sourias said last March 15th when the shutdown happened, it was terrible for his restaurants.

“That’s one of the busiest days of the year for us, for all my restaurants, but Finn’s being an Irish pub, that was a big deal,” he said. “This year, skipping a year and then coming back to a little bit of normalcy feels amazing for us. Everyone is excited about it.”

More and more people that Sourias knows are getting vaccinated.

“That’s a great sign.

We’re hopefully expecting to be back to normal.

This year for St. Patrick’s Day, obviously we’re following guidelines,” he said. “I think that

people will be more open to coming out for a Wednesday where a regular Wednesday would be completely dead during the pandemic.”

Now that everything is opening back up, Sourias is happy to have an extra day to make a little bit of extra business, to try to get back to the numbers Craft Concepts Group was at last year. The city is allowing members of different households to dine together outside-and it’s six people per table as before it was four. Sourias said that is a big deal.

Craft Concepts Group had 330 employees but due to the pandemic, Sourias “laid off pretty much all of them except for the kitchen crew and some management that we kept on. So obviously that was terrible for us just to see all your business shuttered. And we were the first ones to board up because the first week went by, the second week went by and then I didn’t see any light at the end of the tunnel. Luckily, we did board up because soon after is when everything happened (protests over George Floyd’s death and looting of stores) and we were already boarded up.”

“We haven’t thought of doing a special for a long time. It’s exciting to say, ‘We’re going to bring some people out. We’re going to have some specials, some cocktail specials’,” he concluded.

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The much-admired Duo Parisienne returns to the German Society of Pennsylvania. on March 21 at 3 p.m. in a socially distanced concert of music by Piazzolla, Corelli, Debussy and Massenet for a limited audience of 25. The Duo’s artists (above, l. to r.) are Nancy Bean, violin and viola, and Anne Sullivan, harp. Photo: Submitted by the German Society of Pennsylvania.

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yric Fest’s “The Nightingale” is currently streaming through 7:30 p.m. on April 18 starring soprano Maeve Hoglund and pianist Laura Ward, directed and edited by Suzanne DuPlantis, 25 minutes of visual fantasy highlighted by the Nordic music of Karol Szymanowski, Jean Sibelius, Ture Ranstrom and Carl Sjoberg. On demand free; request tickets at www..lyricfest. org/tickets/ or further details at 215-438-1702.  “Tea With Mimi” is a regular fun event featuring flutist Mimi Stillman , founded of Dolce Suono Ensemble with occasional guests from her group and others. Beginning on March 18, Mimi invites all to the first Composerlab masterclass “Flute: Young American Composers”, providing a global online audience for developing artists to enrich their professional experiences. Information at info@dolcesuono. com or 267-252-1803. 

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents violinist Alexi Kenney and pianist Anna Polonsky on March 19 at 6 p.m. in works by Dvorak, Ko, Dancigers, Poulenc and Clarke for a very limited audience and by live streaming. Details at www.pcmsconcerts. org or 215-569-8080.  Angelica Negron’s “The Island We Made” premieres on March 19 on the Opera Philadelphia channel based on the memories of individual relationships of its collaborators: drag superstar Sasha Velour, composer Negron and filmmaker Matthew Placek, the third world premiere in OP’s Digital Commission. operaphila.tv or at 215-8933600.  11th Hour Theatre Co.’s next Quarantine Cabaret is set for March 20 featuring long time friends musical theatre artists Rob Tucker, actor/ musician/educator and Billy Bustamante, performer/director/ choreographer/photographer. 7:30 p.m. and streaming for two

weeks after the original date. info@11thhourt heatrecompany.org or 267-987-9865.  Up next at InterAct Theatre Co.is Elaine Romero’s “Revolutions” directed by Orlina Ortz from March 20 at 8 p.m., a mother searches for her missing son against the backdrop of a totalitarian regime with J. Hernandez, Frank Jimenez and Anjoli Santiago. A free reading presented over Zoom. boxofdfice@ interacttheatre.org or at 215-568-8079.  The Academy of Vocal Arts’ celebrated program of sacred choral music is a virtual experience this year on March 20 featuring AVA’s exciting young resident artists, a string quartet and all of it organized and conducted by David Anthony Lofton. On the long list of composers are Handel, Bach, Mozart, Schubert and others, available for two weeks after the launch time until April 3 at 11:59 p.m. For tickets and information, bbuddendorf@ avaopera.org, strygar@ avapera.org or 215-7351685 after11 a.m. M/F.  The German Society of Pennsylvania offers the return of the Duo Parisienne on March 21 at 3 p.m., Nancy Bean, violin and viola; harpist Anne Sullivan in works by Piazzolla, Corelli, Debussy and Massenet, followed by a coffee and cake reception in the Society’s ratskeller to meet the artists. 611 Spring Garden St. 215-627-2332.  It’s Women’s History Month at the Free Library of Philadelphia celebrating monumental women through a number of programs, exhibitions and resources, among them “Making Her Mark”, a show telling the stories of women who fought against disenfranchisement and voter suprression from the 1700’s up until today, the Voices of Change Podcast, and

the Rosenbach’s “I Am an American: The Authorship and Activism of Alice Dunbar-Nelson”. Check out many exciting events at info@ free library.org or 215567-7710.  A trip to Venice might be a nice break in this month of March and the America-Italy Society offers a virtual journey on March 23 at 1:30 p.m. when Bernard Aikema, prof. of art history in Verona, talks on “The untold story of the old Church of San Zaccaria, Venice, in the 15th century”.

Free, but donations to further the restoration of Venice are most welcome. Details at www. aisphila.org or 215-7353250.  The sturdy and esteemed string ensemble 1807 & Friends announces the final virtual concert video of their 40th season, released on March 15 and featuring the Smitholm String Quartet//Quintet featuring Nancy Bean,

violin l; Nancy Bean, violin ll; Nancy Bean, viola l; Nancy Bean, viola ll; Lloyd Smith, cello in Sir Edward Elgar’s “Nimrod” from “Enigma Variations”; Samuel Barber’s String Quartet in B Minor, op. 11; and Antonin Dvorak’s String Quartet in B Minor, op. 96 (“American”). This collection of beloved works honors 1807 & Friends’ Davyd Booth, violinist, who lost his husband Christopher Carlos Perez after a long and valiant battle with lymphoma. “We dedicate our virtual concerts this season to the memory of Carlos, one of the kindest, most generous souls we have known”. All the group’s virtual concerts are posted on You Tube available day and night anytime through May 31. www.1807friends. org Details at 215-4324027.  STREAMING FROM AFAR: The MetropoliTan Opera’s generous nightly free

streaming of brilliantly sung, beautifully stageD and decorated opera videos have helped make life much easier for lovers of opera and vocal dexterity. These continue every night at 7:30 p.m. and are available until 6:30 p.m. the next evening. Here is the current schedule: March 17, Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena”, Anna Netrebko, Ekatarina Gubanova and Academy of Vocal Arts tenor Stephen Costello; March 18, Glass’s “Akhnaten”, Anthony Ross Costanza, Disella Larusdottir, J’Nai Bridges; 19, Rossini’s “Barbiere di Siviglia”, AVA alumna Joyce DiDonato, Curtis’s tenor Juan Diego Florez and Curtis’s bass John Relyea; March 20, Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin, Rene Fleming, Dmitri Hvorostovsky; March 21, Handel’s “Agrippina, Joyce DiDonato, Brenda Rae, Curtis’s Matthew Rose. www.metopera. org or 212-362-6000. 

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“A lot of communities have done great work building a service infrastructure in way of engaging with people coming back from prison, which is really important,” Jannetta said. “You can have a grant to work with people who are coming back from prison, and then you’ve got a person right next to them who’s got the same needs and a lot of the same concerns from a community perspective, but because they’re not in that situation, you’re not able to serve them.”

Generally, Jannetta emphasized the need to preempt violence by

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local governments, to include $5.1 billion for schools; $670 million for report from the rental assistance; and Tax Founda$60 million for vaccine tion concludes education efforts and that Pennsylvania will senior outreach. receive more than $13 Residents will receive billion in aid from the $14 billion in direct paynext federal stimulus ments, as well, according package. to Casey’s office.

This equals about “The American Rescue 10,000% more than Plan will deliver historic necessary to cover the relief to Pennsylvania state’s $67 million revfamilies and workers,” enue loss, according to Casey told The Center the foundation’s analySquare on Monday. sis. Nationally, states lost “When President Biden a combined $1.7 billion, signs the bill into law, representing less than that means money for one percentage point of schools, vaccines and the $350 billion in relief people.” included in President Joe Some municipalities Biden’s American Resacross the state say they cue Plan. still face budget deficits Given the political amid unforeseen exdivide on the vote in the penses of the pandemic.

U.S. Senate, which fell Pittsburgh reported a along party lines, it’s no $55 million deficit for surprise that Pennsylva- 2020 – a number that nia’s delegation to that Toomey described as imchamber – one Repubprobable. lican and one Democrat “By any plausible – see the rescue package measure, we more than very differently. offset the cost with the Republican Sen. Pat $500 billion that went to Toomey, during a call state and local governwith reporters [recently], ments,” he said. scoffed at the sum of The foundation’s money – of which $5.7 report calculated the billion will funnel to lo- amount each state will cal governments – and likely receive from the described 2020 as “restimulus package based cord breaking year” for on a formula written revenues. into the bill that distrib“And that does not utes the money based count the $500 billion on each state’s share of we sent them over the national unemployed course of last year for workers. Cities will all kinds of various pur- receive funding based poses,” he said. “Now on the existing Comwe are told they need munity Development another $350 billion. It’s Block Grant formula and ridiculous and it’s inde- counties will see their fensible and it’s a huge payments divided based chunk of money.” on population.

Democratic Sen. Bob In Pennsylvania, more Casey Jr.’s office shared than 2.6 million residents more details of Pennsyl- claimed jobless benefits vania’s estimated relief in 2020. The state ranked allocations, on top of the near the top of federal $13 billion for state and unemployment statistics

for months as Gov. Tom Wolf’s pandemic shutdown – described as one of the most restrictive in the country – brought economic activity to screeching halt for more than 10 weeks.

Toomey said at that time national unemployment exceeded 14% and the country needed an influx of cash, and fast, to prevent an economic collapse. That’s why, he said, he supported the first five stimulus packages.

Now, with unemployment cut in half, and the economy “roaring back,” states should open and send people back to work, he said.

“Look, I get it,” he said. “There’s a lot of mayors who would love to get another huge slug of cash. That’s fun to get a lot of other people’s money to spend as they see fit. But that’s not good for our budget.”

While state tax revenues came in higher than anticipated last year, the General Assembly still used more $1 billion in relief funds to plug a $3 billion shortfall. The Independent Fiscal Office forecasts that the state will carry a $2 billion structural deficit over the next five years as it repairs the economic damage inflicted by the pandemic.

“Markets are starting to indicate we could have some tough sledding ahead with inflation ticking up and interest rates rising,” Toomey said. “We’re on a very bad path and the Democrats seem to just be determined to jam this through on a partyline vote.”

Casey stood united

Kenney announced that the city would hold regular public briefings on the gun violence crisis to discuss “the strategies underway to address this public health crisis and create safe, healthy communities.”

And new strategies are urgently needed. Mirroring a nationwide trend of increased violence during the pandemic, Philadelphia saw 499 murders in 2020, the second high-

can help introduce new ideas that will empower the people of Philadelphia to help reform policing and public safety in their city.

“I think we need to do better as a city at supporting our communities through this,” Gauthier said. “People deserve to be heard and I encourage them to keep raising their voices in that way.”

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At press time, there were 100 murders recorded in Philadelphia so far for 2021, which, according to the Philadelphia Police Department, amounts to a 32% increase in murders over this time last year.

Gauthier said that despite this violence, she is hopeful that the taskforce

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plants. Pennsylvania remains a top power exporter in the region and many lawmakers, on both sides of the aisle, have expressed concern that RGGI will raise rates and send plants and thousands of jobs west to less-regulated states.

Yaw also pointed to a Pennsylvania State University study that found 86% of emissions reductions realized through RGGI would just be “picked up” by Ohio and West Virginia when fossil fuel plants relocate there.

McDonnell said the success of RGGI “is very dependent on what happens” with the yearly revenue collected through the program.

“If that gets invested in energy efficiency [programs], you’re driving down the amount of electricity you need and not paying for the most expensive days of the year.

Christen Smith follows Pennsylvania’s General Assembly for The Center Square. She is an awardwinning reporter with more than a decade of experience covering state and national policy issues for niche publications and local newsrooms alike.

eral months after closing down the first office in March 2020 before there was some semblance of normality. Eighty-five percent of employees are now working at home thanks to laptops provided for their use. The other 15 percent handles incoming and outgoing mail, which has to be done on site, or taking appointments for those who need custom services.

“The real pain points at this time continue to be our ability to handle paper documents at our Brookwood Street facility, which is where the incoming and outgoing mail occurs,” he said.

Staff was divided into shifts so employees could social distance, but Hassell said it was challenging to find people willing to work the second shift and he encountered the same when looking to fill the gaps with temporary workers.

He’s found that productivity under these circumstances is equal to pre-COVID-19 productivity, with the exception of non-electronic paperwork, where the department continues to struggle as it seeks solu-

with the Senate’s 49 other Democrats in approving the stimulus package over the weekend after a marathon voting session in which Republicans tried and failed to pare back the bill’s scope.

In a [recent] statement, he praised the expansion of tax credits for families, low income workers and a $12.7 billion investment he proposed that will help seniors and individuals with disabilities stay in their homes.

“For those in longterm care facilities, money to Pennsylvania will ensure that nursing homes have the resources they need to protect residents and staff,” he said. “A lot of families across our state and the country are hurting, and the American Rescue Plan will set us on the path to recovery.” tions.

Hassell said it is feasible the department may keep the work-at-home model in the future as so far it is working well, especially as it has consolidated some of its field offices due to the pandemic.

‘long-haulers’ struggling to recover from this continued from page 3 weekend disease.

On October 27, Philadelphia Police shot WalThe Primary Election which had been moved ter Wallace, in front of his mother and cameras to June 2nd, occurred during ongoing tensions. near 61st and Locust. The spillovers from this inciIn August the SDP dent created challenges made plans to level the to the 11/3 Presidential digital playing field.

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In November the ner in helping school children cross the divide. Biden-Harris Team was In September, colleges elected, only to suffer months of resistance. became a newly recogAlso, in November nized incubator for the the questions of the best disease. Asymptompath to fitness (access to atic young adults carried the disease home to health clubs and rec armore vulnerable parents eas vs desire to be physically distant), came to a and grandparents. The Archdiocese of Philadel- head.

In December, our phia managed to open most of its schools with “Year-in-Review” logs showed lost or diminfew new Covid cases, ished celebrations of but with huge expenBirthdays, Weddings, ditures on PPE and Anniversaries, Easter, rigorous training and Halloween, Parades, discipline. even as family gatherOn October 18, my ings for Thanksgiving sister Ellen died of Copropelled a spike in illvid. It was a crushing ness and deaths. Those reminder of how many have been lost, and how who have suffered the loss of a loved one in many others will be

2020 faced the New Year diminished. Robert Christian, the Founder and Editor of this paper spent the holidays (and months) in an ICU for Covid.

In January, Covid mutations popped up even as vaccines began to be distributed.

Ongoing problems with the Post Office meant cards and gifts mailed in December (including Priority Mail packages) were still being delivered in February.

In February, Philly faced snow totals not seen in almost a decade.

One year in, we can thank Scientists and the Research and Development that produced three FDA approved vaccines.

As I type this article, the temperature is 63 ° F, the sky is sparkling, I and many of my neighbors and friends are fully vaccinated and hope and faith are being restored.

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A person wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks by a closed storefront in Lebanon, Pa., Tuesday, May 12, 2020. Matt Rourke / AP photo

Toomey, who will retire after his term ends in 2022, criticized the “blue state bailouts” and other handouts to causes unrelated to the pandemic, including a debt cancellation plan for minority-owned farms and ranches.

“This is not a COVID

bill,” he said. “This is not a rescue plan. This is the last train leaving the station that the Democrats can plausibly pretend is about COVID or the economy and so they are loading it up with a long liberal wish list that has nothing to do with economic recovery or com-

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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 Friday, March 5th and Thursday, March 11th 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.: Rape: 1300 S Broad St. Arson: 1500 S 12th St. Assault: 500 Reed St, 1100 S 10th St, 1100 S Broad St, 1500 S Broad St, S Front St & South St, 1300 S Juniper St, 100 South St. Burglary: 900 Washington Av. Robbery: 400 Catharine St, 1500 S Broad St, 1000 South St, 1000 Washington Av. Theft: 1200 Alter St, 1300 Dickinson St, 1400 E Moyamensing Av, 1400 E Passyunk Av, 1800 E Passyunk Av, 800 Kimball St, 0 Mifflin St, 1400 S 7th St, 1700 S 8th St, 800 S 9th St, 1200 S 11th St, 1500 S Broad St, 1600 S Christopher Columbus Blvd, 1300 S Hancock St, 1600 S Iseminger St, 700 Sigel St, 900 South St, 1300 Tasker St, 600 Washington Av. Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 1000 Federal St, 0 Queen St, 900 S Water St, 1200 Titan St. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 900 Ernst St, 1100 Linn St, 600 S 3rd St, 1800 S 5th St, 1700 S 8th St, 1700 S 11th St, 1300 S Howard St, S Howard St & Reed St, 1800 S Sartain St, 500 Sigel St, 700 South 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.: Arson: 700 Sansom St. Assault: 1100 Chestnut St, 1200 Chestnut St, 1000 Filbert St, 1000 Hamilton St, 1200 Locust St, 1300 Locust St, 200 Market St, 400 Market St, 900 Market St, 1200 Market St (2 Incidents), 1300 Market St (2 Incidents), 1100 Pine St, 0 S 2nd St, 200 S 13th St (2 Incidents), 200 S Broad St, 1000 Sansom St. Burglary: 1300 Filbert St, 1100 Walnut St (2 Incidents).

Robbery: 1200 Market St, 100 N 10th St, S 12th St & Chestnut St. Theft: 400 Arch St, 1000 Arch St, 200 Callowhill St, 100 Chestnut St, 600 Chestnut St, 700 Chestnut St, 900 Chestnut St, 1000 Chestnut St, 1100 Chestnut St (2 Incidents), 1000 Filbert St, 1300 Filbert St, 100 N Independence Mall W, 400 Locust St, 1100 Locust St (3 Incidents), 1100 Ludlow St, 100 Market St, 700 Market St (2 Incidents), 800 Market St, 900 Market St (2 Incidents), 1000 Market St (12 Incidents), 1100 Market St (2 Incidents), 1200 Market St, 1300 Market St, 400 N 5th St (2 Incidents), 400 N 9th St, N 11th St & Market St, 0 N 12th St (2 Incidents), 500 Pine St, 1000 Pine St, 400 S 2nd St (3 Incidents), 300 S 5th St, S 8th St & Market St, 200 S 11th St, 1200 Spring Garden St, 1200 Spruce St, 1300 Spruce St, 200 W Washington Sq, 500 Walnut St, 900 Walnut St, 1100 Walnut St, 1200 Walnut St. Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 1100 Market St, N Front St & Callowhill St, 1000 Pearl St, 200 S 12th St. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 800 Callowhill St (2 Incidents), 1100 Chestnut St, 1200 Clover St, 900 Hamilton St, 1200 Hamilton St, 1300 Market St (2 Incidents), 300 N 5th St, 200 N 11th St (2 Incidents), N 13th St & Market St, 700 Race St, 1200 Race St, 400 Ranstead St, 100 S 10th St, 0 S 12th St, S 13th St & Sansom St, 300 S Broad St, 1000 Spring Garden St. 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: 1700 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, 1500 Chestnut St, 1500 Fairmount Av, 1400 John F Kennedy Blvd, 1800 Market

St, 0 N 16th St, 0 N 19th St, 100 N 20th St, 1500 Spruce St. Burglary: 300 Alexander Ct, 1900 Arch St, 2200 Green St, 200 N 16th St, 400 S 16th St. Robbery: 2100 Brandywine St, 1400 John F Kennedy Blvd, 1700 Market St. Theft: 2000 Appletree St, 1900 Brandywine St, 1900 Callowhill St (2 Incidents), 1400 Chestnut St, 1500 Chestnut St (2 Incidents), 1600 Chestnut St (3 Incidents), 2100 Chestnut St, 2500 Fairmount Av, 2000 Hamilton St, 2100 Hamilton St (2 Incidents), 1500 John F Kennedy Blvd, 1500 Market St, 2000 Market St, 2200 Mount Vernon St, 200 N 16th St, 400 N 21st St, N 21st St & Spring St, N 23rd St & Fairmount Av, 100 N Broad St, 400 N Broad St, 2000 Pennsylvania Av, 1400 Race St, 0 S 17th St, 100 S 17th St, 2000 Sansom St, 1500 Spring Garden St, 1500 Spruce St (4 Incidents), 1700 Wallace St, 1700 Walnut St (2 Incidents), 1800 Walnut St. Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 1500 Arch St (2 Incidents), 100 S 18th St, 200 S 18th St, 100 S 21st St, 1500 Sansom St. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 2000 Cherry St, 1500 Chestnut St, 1400 John F Kennedy Blvd (3 Incidents), 1400 Locust St, 1500 Market St (3 Incidents), 400 N 18th St, 0 N 19th St, 400 N 21st St, 400 N Broad St, 400 S 16th St, 100 S 21st St, 1700 Spring Garden St, 2500 Spring Garden St (2 Incidents), 1500 Vine St, 1800 Walnut St (2 Incidents), 2000 Walnut St, 1400 Wood St. 12th DISTRICT: To report a crime in the 12th District, please call 215-686-1320.

Reporting 12th District crimes within Southwest Philly bounded by Baltimore at 49th St. to Bartram Dr. at 60th St.: Rape: 5300 Hadfield St. Assault: 5300 Angora Ter, 5200 Beaumont St, 5400 Chester Av, 5500 Chester Av, 700 S 51st St, 1600 S 56th St, 2000 S Alden St, 1400 S Allison St, 2100 S Frazier St, 1900 S Salford St, 1400 S Vogdes St, 5600 Springfield Av, 5800 Willows Av, 5700 Woodland Av. Burglary: 5600 Gibson Dr, 1000 S 53rd St. Robbery: S 50th St & Beaumont St. Theft: 5200 Baltimore Av, 5400 Chester Av, 5200 Grays Av, 5200 Lindbergh Blvd, 5400 Lindbergh Blvd, 5800 Lindbergh Blvd, 1000 S 52nd St, S 54th St & Chester Av, 2100 S 57th St, S 58th St & Springfield Av, 1800 S Cecil St, 2400 S Edgewood St, 1300 S Lindenwood St, 2000 S Salford St (2 Incidents), 1100 S Wilton St, 5500 Saybrook Av, 5400 Woodland Av, 5800 Woodland Av (2 Incidents).

Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 5600 Kingsessing Av, 5400 Malcolm St, 1100 S 52nd St, 1600 S 57th St, 5500 Whitby Av, 5800 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): 5800 Fernwood St, 5400 Gibson Dr, 5300 Greenway Av, 5800 Hadfield St, 800 S 51st St, 2000 S 56th St, 2600 S 60th St, 1600 S Conestoga St, 900 S Paxon St, 1100 S Peach St, 5200 Upland St, 5500 Warrington Av, 5700 Windsor St, 5600 Woodland Av. 16th DISTRICT: To report a crime in the 16th District, please call 215-686-3160.

Reporting 16th District crimes from Girard Ave. to Market St. and from the Schuylkill River to 52nd St.: Rape: 800 N 44th St. Assault: 4400 Holden St, 3900 Lancaster Av, 4300 Lancaster Av, 0 N 39th St, 700 N 40th St, 800 N 41st St, N 41st St & Mantua Av, 0 N 48th St, 4100 Parrish St, 4600 Parrish St. Burglary: 4100 Cambridge St, 600 N 32nd St, 900 N Saint Bernard St. Theft: 4900 Arch St, 3500 Brandywine St, 3300 Fairmount Av, 3500 Hamilton St, 4000 Lancaster Av (2 Incidents), 3000 Market St, 3500 Market St (2 Incidents), 600 N 32nd St, 500 N 35th St, 0 N 39th St, 300 N 41st St, 600 N 42nd St, 800 N 46th St, 1000 N 46th St, 400 N Preston

St, 4800 Ogden St, 5000 Ogden St, 400 Sloan St, 600 Union St, 4100 Warren St, 4200 Westminster Av. Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 400 Dearborn St, 4600 Market St, 600 N 43rd St, 400 N 50th St, 400 N 52nd St, 4100 Warren St. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 3900 Cambridge St (2 Incidents), 4100 Cambridge St, 4000 Haverford Av (2 Incidents), 4400 Holden St, 3900 Lancaster Av, 4000 Lancaster Av (2 Incidents), 4500 Lancaster Av, 4200 Mantua Av (2 Incidents), 2900 Market St (4 Incidents), 3400 Market St, 400 N 40th St, N 40th St & Aspen St, 0 N 41st St, 800 N 47th St, N 51st St & Aspen St, 200 N 52nd St, 100 N Paxon St, 4000 Parrish St (2 Incidents), 5100 Parrish St, 4200 Powelton Av, 1100 Sloan St, 4000 W Girard Av, 300 Wiota St. 17th DISTRICT: To report a crime to the 17th District, please call 215-686-3170.

Reporting 17th District crimes from Lombard St. to Mifflin St. and Broad St. to the Schuylkill River.: Rape: 2100 Pierce St. Assault: 1500 Catharine St, 1400 Moore St, S 31st St & Grays Ferry Av, 1300 S Newkirk St, 1900 Tasker St (2 Incidents), 2300 Watkins St (2 Incidents).

Burglary: 1700 S Broad St. Robbery: 2100 South St. Theft: 1900 Catharine St, 2200 Cross St, 2300 Fernon St, 2600 Gerritt St, 1300 Grove St, 2400 Kimball St, 1500 Lombard St, 2200 Morris St, 2300 Mountain St, 2700 Pierce St, 1400 Point Breeze Av, 2000 Reed St, 2600 Reed St, 1600 S 22nd St, 1000 S Broad St (3 Incidents), 1100 S Broad St, 1700 S Chadwick St (2 Incidents), 1300 S Dover St, 1600 S Dover St, 1300 S Opal St, 1800 South St, 2100 South St, 2200 South St, 1500 Tasker St, 1400 Washington Av, 1500 Wharton St (2 Incidents).

Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 2100 Moore St, 1600 S 21st St, 600 S 22nd St, 700 S 22nd St, 2300 Wilder St. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 1500 Lombard St, 2300 Morris St, 1500 S 15th St, S 23rd St & Wharton St, 1700 S 25th St, S 28th St & Morris St, 1500 S 29th St (4 Incidents), S 34th St & Grays Ferry Av, 1700 S Napa St, 2200 Wharton St. 18th DISTRICT: To report a crime in the 18th District, please call 215-686-3180.

Reporting 18th District crimes from Market St. to Woodland Ave. and 30th St. to Cobbs Creek Pkwy.: Homicide: 5500 Christian St. Arson: 5900 Pine St. Assault: 5800 Addison St, 5800 Cedar Av, 4400 Chestnut St, 5500 Christian St (5 Incidents), 6100 Locust St, 6000 Ludlow St, 6000 Market St, 5600 Osage Av, 5800 Rodman St, 0 S 40th St, S 44th St & Pine St, S 47th St & Woodland Av, 0 S 52nd St, 0 S 54th St, 500 S 54th St, S 55th St & Walnut St, 800 S 56th St, S 57th St & Rodman St, S 60th St & Cedar Av, 0 S 62nd St, 700 S Frazier St, 0 S Redfield St, 0 S Salford St (2 Incidents), 5800 Spruce St, 4900 Walnut St. Burglary: 3900 Chestnut St, 1100 S 47th St, 200 S Felton St, 4800 Sansom St, 5000 Sansom St, 4300 Spruce St. Robbery: 5900 Chestnut St, S 51st St & Sansom St. Theft: 3900 Baltimore Av, 4000 Baltimore Av, 5400 Catharine St (2 Incidents), 4200 Chester Av, 3900 Chestnut St, 4000 Chestnut St (2 Incidents), 4300 Chestnut St, 4600 Chestnut St, 4700 Chestnut St, 5400 Chestnut St, 5600 Chestnut St, 5100 Hazel Av, 5400 Larchwood Av, 5500 Locust St, 4500 Ludlow St, 5700 Ludlow St, 5100 Market St, N 34th St & Market St, 5700 Osage Av, 5800 Pemberton St, 4400 Pine St, 5200 Pine St, S 38th St & Walnut St, 300 S 41st St, S 45th St & Springfield Av, 1100 S 47th St, S 52nd St & Pine St, S 56th St & Chestnut St, 500 S 57th St, 800 S 58th St, 600 S 59th St, 300 S 60th St, 700 S 60th St, 200 S Melville St, 5100

Sansom St, 3700 Spruce St (2 Incidents), 4300 Spruce St, 4900 Spruce St, 5100 Spruce St, 3400 Walnut St, 3600 Walnut St, 4200 Walnut St (2 Incidents).

Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 3900 Baltimore Av, 4700 Baltimore Av, 5200 Delancey St, 5400 Larchwood Av, 4500 Locust St, 0 S 48th St, 0 S 52nd St (2 Incidents), 300 S 52nd St, 200 S 56th St, 400 S 56th St. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 5300 Addison St, 5700 Baltimore Av, 5400 Catharine St, 5600 Catharine St, 5600 Catherine St, 5400 Chestnut St, 5700 Christian St, 5800 Christian St, 6100 Cobbs Creek Pkwy, 6100 Ellsworth St, 5000 Irving St, 5500 Irving St, 5400 Locust St, 3900 Locust Walk, 5800 Ludlow St, 5900 Market St, N 40th St & Market St, 5300 Pine St, 5500 Pine St (2 Incidents), 1300 S 49th St, 200 S 52nd St, 300 S 52nd St, 100 S 56th St, 300 S 56th St, 200 S 57th St, 200 S 59th St, 300 S 60th St (2 Incidents), 1000 S 60th St, 900 S Alden St, 900 S Cecil St, 0 S Redfield St, 3800 Walnut St, 5000 Walnut St, 5800 Walnut St. 19th DISTRICT: To report a crime in the 19th District, please call 215-686-3190.

Reporting 19th District crimes from City Ave. to Market St. and 52nd St. to 77th St.: Homicide: 1400 N 76th St (2 Incidents).

Assault: 5200 Arch St, 5600 Arch St (2 Incidents), 5800 Arch St, 6000 Callowhill St, 6100 City Av, 7500 City Av, 5800 Filbert St, 6500 Haverford Av, 5300 Jefferson St, 6600 Lotus Rd, 5800 Master St (2 Incidents), 6000 Master St, 5500 Media St, 1600 N 52nd St, 400 N 53rd St, 600 N 54th St, 0 N 56th St (2 Incidents), 1400 N 57th St, 1600 N 61st St, 200 N 63rd St (3 Incidents), 800 N 63rd St, 1000 N 66th St, 1400 N 76th St (2 Incidents), 100 N Conestoga St, 1200 N Conestoga St, 0 N Hobart St, 200 N Hobart St, 100 N Peach St, 1500 N Peach St, 100 N Vogdes St, 1400 N Wanamaker St, 200 N Wilton St, 6100 Nassau Rd, 5500 Pearl St, 5300 Poplar St, 5500 Race St, 5600 Race St, 6400 W Girard Av, 5200 W Montgomery Av. Burglary: 1200 N 56th St, 600 Wynnewood Rd. Robbery: 5900 Lancaster Av, 6400 Malvern Av, 5600 Market St. Theft: 5500 Arch St, 5900 Arch St, 5400 Arlington St, 7500 City Av, 400 Edgemore Rd, 5600 Gainor Rd, 7500 Haverford Av, 5700 Jefferson St, 6400 Lansdowne Av, 6300 Lebanon Av, 6700 Lebanon Av, 1100 Marlyn Rd, 1600 Meribrook Rd, 200 N 52nd St, 1200 N 54th St, 100 N 60th St, 1400 N 62nd St, 0 N 63rd St, 200 N 63rd St, 500 N 64th St, 100 N Conestoga St, 0 N Dewey St, 100 N Felton St, 1600 N Felton St, 400 N Hobart St, 1600 N Redfield St, 300 N Robinson St, 100 N Vogdes St, 1400 N Wanamaker St, 1700 N Wilton St, 5400 Sharswood St, 5600 Vine St, 1300 Westbury Dr. Vandalism/Criminal Mischief: 5400 Harlan St, 5500 Lansdowne Av, 5800 Master St (2 Incidents), 500 N 54th St, 1300 N 55th St, 1600 N 59th St, 100 N Salford St, 5700 Race St, 5800 W Girard Av. Other Offenses (Any incident that does not fit into other definitions, and may include public drunkenness, runaways, loitering, weapons offense or missing person): 6600 Callowhill St, 1300 Kimberly Dr, 6200 Lansdowne Av, 5200 Market St (3 Incidents), 5300 Market St (2 Incidents), 6000 Market St, 5800 Master St, 0 N 52nd St (4 Incidents), 1500 N 54th St, 2400 N 54th St, 1700 N 56th St (2 Incidents), 1400 N 61st St, 300 N 62nd St, 400 N 62nd St, 1600 N 76th St, 500 N Allison St, 1400 N Allison St, 0 N Edgewood St, 500 N Hobart St, 0 N Peach St, 200 N Salford St, 7600 Sherwood Rd, 5400 Spring St, 5900 Vine St, 6200 W Girard Av, 1400 West End Dr, 5400 Westminster Av, 5900 Woodcrest Av, 7500 Woodcrest Av, 600 Wynnewood Rd. 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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clude the return of their green beer - and this year you can add a touch of the pot of gold with edible glitter. At BRU and Tradesman’s, look for Irish Coffee, drink features, and BRU Bangers and Mash - available for indoor and outdoor seating, private heated tents available, and cocktails/ food to go.

Finn McCool’s will offer expanded outdoor seating, plus Irish Coffee, and Traditional bangers and mash. Tradesman’s and Finn McCool’s will offer added service for food and drink for takeout.

Evil Genius Beer Company will offer a St. Patrick’s Day Quizzo and two Special Beer Release.

Follow the rainbow of Skittles to the end of the rainbow for a magically delicious beer made with heaps of Lucky Charms cereal. March 12th was the debut of Magically Delicious sold in 4 packs of 16 oz. cans - 7.2% Hazy Oatmeal IPA brewed with heaps of Lucky Charms Cereal, Mosaic and Chinook Hops.

Then on March 23rd, drink the rainbow with the release of Ermahgerd Skurtles sold in 4 packs of 16 oz. cans - a Kettle Sour. This beer was brewed with sour Skittles and aged on Key Lime and Cherry puree.

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Before the fire at Bridget Foy’s in Society Hill, locals, visitors, and neighbors not only dined at the South Street hot spot, but they also spent major holidays there.

Now, three years later, Bridget, Paul, John and Bernadette present one of their favorite holidays.

They will be offering the following dinner specials (4pm-9pm): Guinness Beef Stew, Corned Beef & Cabbage, Chocolate Whiskey Cake with chocolate buttercream and baileys ganache, Guinness Draft, Irish Whiskey Flight and Irish Coffee plus other surprises.

Village Whiskey is back open and ready to celebrate with a St. Paddy’s Day Inspired Burger of the Month. Look for To Fineghy and Beyond all month long - featuring Lamb Burger, Irish Dubliner Cheddar, Jameson Cipollini Onions, Guinness Mustard, Bread & Butter Pickles, served on a Potato Bun. Also, look for special and extensive selections of Whiskey to pair with your burger during the month of March. Available for indoor seating in the new dining room or original bar dining room - plus for take-out and delivery.

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