PCA: April 2007

Help make Philly more senior-friendly:
-A senior-friendly Philadelphia is a better Philadelphia for everyone. Be part of it. Take a few minutes to lend a hand to an older person. This week's Senior-Friendly Tip: Help Clean Up Your Neighborhood!

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April 2007

April 2007 Articles:

Founder of Aid For Friends retires after 32 years as executive director

By Catherine Green

Rita Ungaro-Schiavone has retired as executive director of Aid for Friends, which she founded in 1974.

Rita - everybody calls her that, from clients to drivers - didn't realize what she was getting into when she shared part of her own family dinner, cooked in her own kitchen, with some homebound people in her Frankford neighborhood.
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His goal is to see that the story of Negro Leagues 'is not lost'

By Bill Kent

Facing a group of elementary school children at the Overbrook Park branch of the Philadelphia Free Library, "Doc" Glenn, 80, begins a story that seems inconceivable today - that until 1947, when Jackie Robinson joined the Dodgers, black athletes were not permitted to play on white professional teams.
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