March 8, 2007 edition


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COVER STORY:

Such an ice treat at Tarken

The timing was odd, to say the least.
After a year of renovations, the city Department of Recreation last week held a grand reopening for the Tarken Ice Rink.
The rink reopened as scheduled the day after Thanksgiving and closed for the season on Sunday. The celebration took place on Feb. 28, four days before the season finale.
The delay can be attributed to difficulty by city dignitaries to find time in their busy schedules.
While the facility will be closed to the public through November, the Tarken Recreation Center staff wants the community to know there’s a state-of-the-art ice skating rink in Oxford Circle.
"Tell your friends we’re open for business," said recreation leader John Giargiari. "And, we’ll be open for many years to come."

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EDITORIAL

No rotten apples

Accounts of recent student assaults on teachers at Germantown and West Philadelphia high schools and other schools are positively sickening.
Here you have teachers nobly doing their jobs — trying to prepare kids for their futures, often under atrociously adverse conditions — in inner-city public schools, and they are rewarded by getting brutally beaten, kicked and choked by human filth. A group of attackers reportedly called one of the victims a "cracker." It’s enough to turn the stomachs of people in every neighborhood in what is supposed to be the City of Brotherly Love.

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