April 19, 2007 edition


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COVER STORY:

Time’s up!

With the planned opening of a city curfew center a week away, Mayor John Street visited the Frankford Group Ministry last week to emphasize the importance of volunteers who are needed to help run the center.
The city’s newest curfew center will open on Thursday, April 26, at FGM headquarters at 4620 Griscom St. It will serve the 15th Police District as a facility where police can bring youngsters who are picked up for violating the city’s curfew laws.
"If anybody can make a program successful it’s the Frankford Ministry, but if we don’t have volunteers . . .

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EDITORIAL

A tragic lesson

The blame game has begun. Some point to lax security, lax gun laws or lack of communication as reasons for Monday’s massacre on the campus of Virginia Tech.
The person responsible for the spree is Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech student from South Korea. He killed 32 students and teachers before turning the gun on himself.
As the madman on the rampage, he deserves most of the blame. But Virginia Tech is not without fault..

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