January 5, 2006 edition

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COVER STORY:

Support group is on hand

The Marine Corps was a likely calling for Cpl. Jackie Martin, a girl who marked the stages of her life with physical challenges.
She rode a bike through her childhood, swung through her preteen softball years and kicked around adolescence — and a soccer ball — in high school.
"If she got mad at me, she would do push-ups," said Alice Martin, a billing specialist at Holy Redeemer’s Home Health & Hospice Services in Parkwood.

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EDITORIAL:

Give ’em hell, Alan

For the City of Brotherly Graft, a new day dawned on Monday when Alan Butkovitz assumed control of Philadelphia’s pocketbook. In taking the oath of office as Jonathan Saidel’s successor as city controller, Butkovitz can give Philadelphia a fresh start and fresh air. Butkovitz should turn the might and clout and prestige of his position into a bully pulpit by calling a halt to the . . .

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