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In 1960, Temple University made headlines when presidential can-didate Senator John F. Kennedy addressed a crowd gathered near Montgomery Avenue. Throughout my years at Temple, I would pass the easily overlooked stone marker that commemorates this histor-

ical event for the University. Kennedy went on to win that election and his life and legacy would forever influence American politics. The site where he spoke is currently under construction. The PA Presidential Primary is on Tuesday, April 26 and the swirling vortex that is the 2016 Presidential Election is closing in on Philadelphia. On April 6, Temple University once again became a stopping point for a candidate who is on the rise. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders made an appearance at the Liacouras Cen-ter and addressed a crowd of around 11,000 supporters. The line to get

into the rally wrapped all the way around the building, leading to an over-flow room filled with more than 3,000 people unable to get into the main rally and hundreds more still waiting outside. Inside the rally, support for Sanders was fervent. Families brought in banners reading “Kids For Bernie” and others hoisted signs calling for what Sanders has dubbed a “Political Revolution” — the Senator’s call to empower populations of minorities, young people and middle class Americans to shatter voter turnout records in order to break the political machine and a corrupt campaign finance system. Other supporters inside the rally expressed their disdain for other can-didates with signs reading “Hillary Clinton Smokes Mids...” referring to

Yoga has a tendency to conjure up specific images in the minds of the general public. Some may picture thin, young women carrying iced coffees, mats tucked neatly under their arms. Others may think of India, where the discipline has its ori-

gins. Whether you have experienced the joy of movement before or are just vaguely familiar with the practice, it is important to remember that yoga is for everybody. This, at least, is the philosophy of Fairmount’s long-standing yoga studio Wake Up Yoga (2329 Parrish St.) and its founder, Corina Benner. Benner moved to Philadelphia from New York City in 2000, where she

had worked jobs ranging from assistant to a money manager on Wall Street to a waitress in Union Square. Her final job before moving was as a teacher of yoga through The Om Yoga Center. It was in this position that she found her happiness. Unfortunately, upon arriving in Philadelphia, she quickly realized there were few options for practicing yoga, let alone teaching. The yoga studios that did exist were sparse and spread around the city. It was this lack of available outlets that led Benner to establish Wake Up Yoga in 2001. The hope was to share the practice with those who,

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The inside of the former Diamond Hot Yoga stu-dio at 1000 Diamond Street is gutted, chalked, painted, and decorated with white paper flames. The mirrors remain along the back wall, but

chairs sit where college students once Sun-Saluted. Peo-ple of all ages, from Temple students to grandpas and their baby grandchildren, fill the room. Blips of passion-ate political conversations and boisterous endorsements rise above the general hum of laughter and noise. A speak-er adorned with a tie-dye “VOTE (working families)” sticker blasts The Talking Heads’ hit, “Burning Down the House.” As people file into the revamped room, they get in line to sign up for volunteer opportunities, to receive wrist-bands for advanced access to the Wednesday night rally at the Liacouras Center and to snag a slice of the “yuge” amounts of free pizza provided. It’s Tuesday April 5, and Senator Bernie Sanders’s new campaign office is open for business. “We like to kick it off with a bang,” said Ryan Hughes, the Pennsylvania state director of Sanders’ campaign. The doors to the new office opened at 5 PM, with the grand opening celebration kicking off at 6 PM. Several speakers, including Hughes, Kim Selig, a Temple student and active Sanders volunteer, and Kendrick Sampson, star of television’s “The Vampire Diaries” and “How to Get Away with Murder,” addressed those gathered. Sanders’ new campaign office sits just across from the train tracks leading to the Temple University SEPTA Re-gional Rail station, a short walk from the epicenter of campus. The campaign office will focus on in-person interactions with voters, canvassing, calling prospective volunteers, entering recruit and interest data after big events, and will sometimes hold rallies. In very, very rare occasions, the Vermont Senator himself will make an ap-pearance. But, don’t get your hopes up, says John Lazarz, a Sanders campaign volunteer of four months. “Bernie [very] occasionally visits an office. [It] is an ‘almost never’ type of thing.” “The senator has strong support among college stu-dents, so we always try to be close to a college campus,” said Hughes. “We’re going to talk to everybody in every neighborhood, but absolutely, it’s no secret that when young people turn out to vote, the Senator does very well.” “Really, what he’s about is unity,” said Selig. “That peo-ple aren’t going to be stuck at a low level. That together, we really can achieve greatness.” Lazarz echoes her sentiment. Lazarz is a firm believer in group work and achieving together. “I’m a full-time volunteer, so what I do is whatever the campaign needs me to do,” he said. The Woronoco, Mass., native arrived in Philadelphia before the Sanders campaign did. “At first, our goal was voter registration, so we worked every single day,” he said. “Me and two of my friends here got 1,300 people registered ourselves, [and] we recruited 300 volunteers. So when the campaign got here, we were like, ‘All right, let’s do this, you have the re-sources, we know the people, let’s get started.’” Sampson emphasized this theme as he addressed the crowd, airing his belief in the importance of volunteering.

“If you get one person when you’re out there knocking on doors,” Sampson said, “that person could create a net-work bigger than you ever could.” Sampson was on his first trip to New York at the time of the office opening, but made it a point to travel down to Philadelphia to speak at the event. “I believe [that Bernie] has a heart for the disenfran-chised,” Sampson said. “He is the first candidate that I’ve seen that I feel really genuinely cares about those people and kind of feels like it himself. There hasn’t been any-thing yet that shows me he’s not a loving, peaceful guy that really wants to change the world for the better.” Although the office opening is, to the campaign, clearly worthy of celebration, Lazarz says the work is not done. He believes that the Sanders campaign is working with the grassroots of America to create a larger movement. “Nothing is an accomplishment until we actually make Bernie the president. That’s the goal and it will be worth it if we build something beyond one candidate, beyond one election.”

As the last few supporters trickled out, tossing their pa-per plates in the trash cans and saying goodbye to their friends and the campaign workers, the previously blank paper designated for responses to the question “What does Bernie mean to you?” was full of colorful words and phrases written in the provided markers. Arguably the brightest and boldest of all of them sat dead center. It read, “a future.” ·

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Are you kidding me?!?! Last week was insane as we witnessed one of the wildest April snow events in more than a decade. While it was difficult for the snow to stick in the city — the

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lower grade marijuana. Another man held a sign reading “I’ve been an R [Republican] for 32 Years. I am voting Sanders.” The man holding that sign was Jay Falastad, a moderate Republican who has voted for GOP candidates on consis-tent basis for the last 32 years, even voting for Ronald Rea-gan in 1984. But on the day of the rally, Falastad took an hour and twenty minute drive to Philadelphia and waited outside in line for a few more hours to support Sanders and hear him speak. “The reason I came here is because Bernie Sanders is the only candidate, that I can tell, that truly cares about the future and the concerns of young people,” Falastad, who is in his 50s, said. “I have always been a moderate Repub-lican, but the corporate power in the country has gotten to big and they are screwing over all the young people. That, in addition to concerns about the environment, is what made me shift in this direction. I just changed my regis-tration yesterday so that I can vote in the primary.” Sen. Sanders’ visit came on the heels of what some are calling a sloppy interview with The New York Daily News Editorial Board on April 1st. The full transcript is linked in the online version of this article. Another recent point of Sanders critics is that he is a one issue candidate. A Washington Post article targets his use of the term “wealth inequality” as an answer to many questions that some be-lieve may deserve a deeper answer. According to Sanders’ website, one tenth of one percent of Americans own most of the wealth in America. But criticism of Sanders seemed to be out of mind and drowned out by the anticipation and enthusiasm of his thousands of supporters at the Temple rally. The candi-date was introduced by several people including 4th Dis-trict State Senator Art Haywood. “I heard about a man who believes in what I want for my community,” Haywood said. “In the past year, I’ve visited a number of struggling schools and they are part of the pipeline to prison.” According to Haywood, who is African-American, his son has been stopped “numerous times” by the police while walking to and from work. The crowd reacted with resounding boos and cheered loudly as he peppered the crowd on hot button topics like raising the minimum wage to $15/hour and eliminating the influence of billion-aires on elections. As Sanders took the stage, the crowd erupted in cheers of support and deafening chants of “Bernie, Bernie, Ber-nie…” “We have what appears to be a loud, large and raucous crowd tonight,” Sanders said.“This sounds to me like the sound of a political revolution.” Sanders, perhaps feeling the criticism of him being a one issue candidate, went on the offensive. According to Sanders, billionaires like the Koch brothers are pouring $900 million into the 2016 Presidential race to elect candidates who represent the wealthy and the powerful. The candidate, in other stump speeches, has pointed to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision as a major factor that has lead to today’s increased influence of money in politics. The 5 to 4 vote opened the campaign spending floodgates, as the justices’ ruled that political spending is protected under the First Amendment. This allowed for corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts of funds on political activities, as long as those activities are independent of any party or candidate. Sen. Sanders fired up the crowd at the rally by continuing to press his longstanding critique of the campaign financ-ing issue. “That is not democracy,” Sen. Sanders said. “That is oli-garchy and we will not allow that to happen. Democracy is not a complicated process. It needs one person one vote, not billionaires buying elections.” Sanders then pointed out his recent victories in state caucuses and primaries (Sanders has won 8 of the last 9 states) and moved on to calling out Republicans for enact-ing controversial voter registration measures that Demo-crats view as a means to suppress voter turnout. “If you don’t have the guts to participate in free, fair and open elections, get out of politics,” Sen. Sanders said. Sanders responded to recent comments made by Hillary Clinton stating she did not think Sanders was “qualified” to be president. “Secretary Clinton appears to be getting a little bit nervous,” Sen. Sanders said. His tone became deliberate and aggressive. “I don’t believe she is qualified. If she is, through her Super-Pac, taking tens of millions of dollars in special in-terest funds. I don’t think you are qualified if you get $15 million from Wall Street through your Super-Pac. This campaign is gaining momentum because we are listening to the American people, not wealthy campaign contribu-tors,” Sen. Sanders said. Donald Trump was also a target, much to the delight of Sanders supporters in the crowd who all seemed to loathe the real estate tycoon turned populist politician.

“The American people will not elect Donald Trump presi-dent because they understand that this country is about is bringing people together,” Sen. Sanders said. “That is our strength as a people. In this arena, there are people whose families come from hundreds of countries. We are differ-ent colors we are different religions. That is our strength as a people. Coming together always trumps dividing us up.” Other issues Sanders touched on included education and the crisis of student loan debt. The Senator has called for free public college for all Americans who perform well in school. He attests that his proposal for free college tui-tion would be paid for by a tax on Wall Street speculation. “Why are we being punished for getting an education?” Sen. Sanders asked the crowd. “The world has changed, people today need more education.” The candidate also spoke on women’s equality. “There is no economic reason for women to be underpaid, it is just old fashioned sexism,” Sen. Sanders said. Sanders harped on raising the minimum wage to $15/hr. He also explained how his postion on making college available to all Americans will curtail the rising numbers of people incarcerated. According to Sanders, minority youth are more likely to graduate high school without em-ployment. “It seems to me to make a lot more sense to in-vest in our young people in jobs and education and not in jails and incarceration,” Sanders said. He then compared the United States rate of incarceration to that of China. “Shamefully, in our country we have more people in jail than any other country on Earth. China, a communist authoritarian country — they don’t tolerate dissent very much — is four times our size and we have more people in jail than China.” Sanders also called on drug companies to stop charging outrageous amounts of money to sick Americans. “There are senior citizens all over America cutting their pills in half because they can’t afford the medicine they need. Meanwhile, the three top drug companies made $45 bil-lion in profit last year,” Sen. Sanders Said. Sanders platform has lifted the hopes of supporters across the country, collesing a renewed progressive coa-lition of voters. “It’s the people of America who don’t have voices, whose voices are suppressed, that are standing together. We are standing up for the things we believe in and the things that need to happen,” Diana Martin, a Sanders supporter waiting in line for a few hours, said. “I think that Bernie’s campaign has sparked some people’s thoughts and so many people’s opinions on things. Now people are mad and they are ready to make the change.” Despite the excitement, Sanders campaign and his “Po-litical Revolution” still face a severely uphill battle in the months to come. The Senator’s chances to win the Dem-ocratic nomination are slim as it stands. Even with the

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string of primary victories he’s put together in recent weeks, the delegate math is not in Sanders’ favor. After the caucus in Wyoming this past Saturday, Clinton leads 1,286 delegates to Sanders’ 1,043. This math does not ac-count for Clinton’s large lead of 469 to 31 among already pledged superdelegates — party leadership members that are not elected by primary voters, but who are given a voice in the nomination process due to their position in the Democratic party. The concept of having super delegates partly deciding on a nominee for the party has come under harsh criticism from Sanders supporters and investigative media outlets. Both, to some extent, see the influence of super delegates as one that limits the voice of voters, while at times possi-bly allowing for conflicts of interest to arise. A report last week in The Intercept stated that “several superdelegates are former politicians and party insiders who now work as lobbyists for banks, oil companies, for-eign governments, and payday lenders, among other spe-cial interests.” A Washington Post article on Sanders slightly plausible path to the nomination stated that,

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Jersey — with roughly 60 percent of the vote. To put that in perspective: Sanders has thus far won only two prima-ries with that margin: Vermont and New Hampshire.”

The Post piece concludes that, “Needless to say, the size and demographic makeups of New York, Pennsylvania, California, and New Jersey are decidedly different than Vermont and New Hampshire.” Sanders and his supporters are trying to flip Clinton’s already pledged super delegates in an attempt to win the nomination outright. But time and states are quickly passing by as eyes turn toward the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia. This year’s DNC could hold special signifi-cance for our city and the country as it could once again serve as a flashpoint for the party — potentially providing a chance to reshape its make up and the movements asso-ciated with it. Sanders support from moderate Republicans, the youth, and others groups has lead to a partly mobilized populist movement of people focused on issues some supporters believe transcend the senator’s campaign. “It’s not necessary Bernie that we all want but it’s the changes he is going to make and how those will help and impact everyone,” Martin, a young college student, said. “Even if someone else gets elected, we will still move for-ward. Look at all these people, we are not going to be satis-fied with where things are. The problems are not going to go away unless we do something.” The DNC could serve as pivotal moment for Sanders, his supporters, and the Democratic party for two reasons: First, it remains to be seen if Sanders supports would eventually support Clinton in a general election, if she does in fact obtain the nomination of the party. Second, the start of another test will begin at the convention if

Clinton does in fact become the nominee — one that will decide if Sanders “Political Revolution” continues to rally millions of progressives around the country or dies on the floor of the Wells Fargo Center, just as the 76ers have all season long. Noam Chomsky is a professor of linguistics at Massachu-setts Institute of Technology (MIT), a world renowned po-litical dissident, and close follower of American politics.

He makes no secret of the fact that he supports Sanders’ ideas, while attesting that he would support Hillary in the general election against Republicans. The professor also paints a bleak picture for the movement currently at-tached to the U.S. Senator’s presidential bid. “That campaign ought to be directed to sustaining a popular movement which will use the election as an in-centive,” Chomsky said. “And unfortunately, it’s not. When the election’s over, the movements will die. The only thing that’ll ever bring about meaningful change is ongoing, dedicated popular movements which don’t pay attention to the election cycle. It’s an extravaganza every four years, but then we go on.” We asked Sanders supporters at the Temple rally to re-spond to Chomsky’s dim forecast and sharp critique of the “Political Revolution.” Some shared concerns, but most offered a more optimistic outlook to that of the MIT professor. “It has to be sustained, because if not it’s all for nothing. If we keep the momentum going beyond Bernie Sanders there may be other candidates like him at some point,” Nick DiDonato, a Sanders supporter in his mid 20s, said. “For example John Fetterman is running in PA, so we have to keep the fight alive we can’t just give up.” Other, older advocates of Sanders pointed to his youth supporters as the determining factor in whether the movement continues past the presidential race, in the event of a Clinton nomination. “It’s all up to the young people that are here,” Jay Falas-tad, the moderate Republican who now supports Sanders, said. “He is advocating for young people so the burden is going to be on them to keep this movement going.” ·



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until that point, might not have had the chance to experi-ence what yoga could do. “Creating community in Philadelphia has always been one of our missions, “ Benner explains, “I wanted to cul-tivate an environment where people could come and feel comfortable with the practice.” Since opening, the studio has focused primarily on Vi-nyasa yoga, or “flow” yoga. In essence, this is a style that combines passive and active yoga. There is a focus on the classic positions, how to move the body from one to an-other, with an emphasis placed on breath throughout. It is a comfortable and accessible form of yoga that can do wonders for beginners and experts alike. In fact, a 2015 study conducted by Yoga Journal reports that Vinyasa is a favorite type of yoga amongst Americans. Vinyasa, in many ways, is a push against the more milita-rized form of yoga that has dotted the country in recent years. The “boot camp” yoga is designed to strengthen the body as any intense exercise would, but the intention of the practice can easily be lost during this. Vinyasa allows students to slow down, to lose themselves in one way, and find themselves in another. “Yoga is casting a wider net than ever before,” Benner explains, “but it seems to be losing its depth. Yoga used to be perceived as something only for hippies. In my ex-perience, I believe it has become so popular with young women these days because many of them never liked gym class. Yoga is the first real physical activity many of them feel that they are ‘good’ at and this helps to boost self-es-teem. We want to get past the ‘good’ and allow them to get into the depth and understand yoga is more about ‘well-ness’ than fitness.” Students have reacted quite favorably to this focus over the past fourteen years and Wake Up Yoga has expanded

to accommodate the growing interest. A location in South Philly (1839 E. Passyunk Ave.) opened in 2009 and has con-tinued to draw in a wealth of locals from throughout the various neighborhoods in that area. Early in the existence of the studio, Benner also implemented a Teacher Train-ing Program to help to train new teachers for the classes. The rigorous program was designed to educate curious yoga enthusiasts about the specific way to teach Vinyasa yoga through the studio. One former student, Laura Edoff, has been teaching at Wake Up Yoga since she completed the program in 2012. She walked into the South Philly location looking for a place to practice and wound up getting involved with the Teacher Training Program along the way. Though she had not set out to teach, the program helped her to discover that she was more than capable of rising to the challenge. “Suddenly, I realized I knew what I was talking about,” Edoff remembers, “I felt that I understood the physical aspects of yoga, how to move the body through space in a safe and efficient way. I taught my clinics at the end of the program and thought, ‘Ok, I can do this.’” There are many opportunities for residents of surround-ing neighborhoods to take a class, regardless of their level of experience. Wake Up Yoga offers a range of classes for

$7, Monday through Friday, at 9:30 AM. If that does not work with your schedule, evening classes are held at 7PM classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Those interested in the full Vinyasa experience can join the “Brand New Beginners” series. Taught by Edoff, this class takes students on a seven week adventure to learn the foundational poses of Vinyasa yoga. The next series begins on April 26th. Wake Up Yoga also encourages members of the com-munity to come out and try their hand at this practice. On April 19th, Wake Up Yoga will hold an “Intro to Yoga” event. Run by teacher Jennifer Nehlia, the event will be-gin at 7:30 PM and will run for 90 minutes. Benner hopes that residents will take advantage of this opportunity, es-pecially those who have been curious about yoga but have never tried their hand at it. “If you want to come to class, come to class,” says Ben-ner, “You don’t have to act a certain way or be a certain race or follow a vegetarian diet. Throw out your precon-ceived notions. Yoga is for everybody. You can be social-ly awkward, you can be a smoker, you can be any size or shape or gender or age, whatever you are is fine. Just come to class.” ·

Laura Edoff (right), one of the Yoga in-structors, with Corina Benner, the owner of Wake Up Yoga.

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On April 5, 2016 just before 9:30AM, Temple University students were sent an email from President Neil D. Theobald regarding a very touchy topic — alcohol consumption. The

email discussed a new regulation saying they want “to en-sure the safety and welfare of our students and improve the quality-of-life issues in the neighborhoods around Temple.” Off-campus living has become more relevant as Tem-ple continues to push their location in all directions sur-rounding the campus. Temple is located in the middle of a residential neighborhood, with students living along-side long-time residents of North Philadelphia. Philly.com noted in a recent article that the non-student community is voiceing concern about the rowdiness of students on the streets and in their house parties. The community has expressed these concerns about stu-dents for years and complaints surrounding alcohol-relat-ed rowdiness have been on a steady rise in this academ-ic year — seemingly in correlation with the expansion of housing in different parts of North Philadelphia.

What is Temple’s response? The University is increas-ing fines that could go as high as $1,500 to those caught at parties, supplying the alcohol, or to whoever’s name is on the lease of the house where the party is being thrown.There is also a possibility of getting suspended or expelled depending on the severity of the offense. It is more than just house parties; areas like Gratz Street are known for having daylong block parties where people come and go with loud music blaring through the street. Places like Penn State have similar scenes and parties, but that’s a college town — Temple is built within a preexist-ing community. The University has Campus Security and Temple Po-lice set into place, but joining them are teams made up of graduate students patrolling off-campus “during peak party hours.” These measures were put in place last week the email was sent out. Spirit News reached out to Theo-bald’s office for comment, but have not received any calls back. Will these measure be enough to stop kids from party-ing? Only time will tell. ·

A frenzy of flurries may have come to call, some-what unseasonably, on Saturday, April 9th, but it was not enough to deter Crime & Punish-ment Brewing Co. from their mission. When

the owners of the brewery discovered that Kelley Elemen-tary School (1601 N. 28th St.) was facing budget cuts to their arts and music programs, the local brewpub imme-diately set their wheels to turning. The first endeavor was on Monday, March 21st. A dol-lar from every sale on this date was donated to the cause of raising money for the school. While there was a decent turnout, with over $120 raised, the owners felt that they could do more. “We had several goals when we first opened,” explained Mike Wambolt, one of the owners of C&P, “A main mis-sion was to integrate ourselves into the community via lo-cal art, music and non-profit opportunities. This seemed like a great chance to give back.” To promote the event, the owners created some incen-tives to bring additional customers through the doors. They contacted homebrewers Mike Hawkins and Mark Ricketts, patrons of the brewery, who had been discuss-ing their own concoctions with the owners for some time. Mike and Mark brought along homemade beer, mead and kombucha for customers to taste, with suggested dona-tions going towards the school. Ricketts also utilized his cooking skills to prepare succulent chicken on the grill, also available to customers for a donation towards the school’s waning arts program. The brewery also used this event as an opportunity to re-lease their newest stout: The Gulag Uprising is a Russian Imperial Stout (12.29% ACL). The combined efforts of the new stout and the samples of food and drink brought in a heavy flow of customers between the hours of 12-4 PM on Saturday. Members of the community came out to sup-port the school, and the reach of the brewery stretched far-ther than the immediate Brewerytown area.

Heather Johnson and Ian Sonderstrom, who know Haw-kins, admit that they had never been to the brewery before the event. “I’d heard of it before,” Johnson said, “never had a chance to come. It is always nice to go out and do something that you enjoy while being able to support a good cause and the efforts of your friends.” This was far from Crime & Punishment’s first attempt at working with local groups for a cause. The brewery also worked in the past with Give and Go Athletics Inc., a non-profit mentorship program designed “to meet the

emotional, educational and physical needs of youth.” The brewery also used The Pope’s visit in September to promote one of their special brews, the sour wheat beer Jesus Wept. Amidst a sporadic onslaught of April snowflakes and fragrant smoke from their industrial grill, the owners of Crime & Punishment made the best with the conditions the weather had presented them. A large amount of sup-port was found to help raise money for the Kelley Elemen-tary School, and more exciting partnerships await on the horizon. ·


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April 7 to April 23CINEDELPHIA FILM FESTIVALPhilaMOCA will host the Cinedelphia Film Festival. For showtimes, movie information and dates, visit Cinedel-phiaFilmFestival.com.

April 16, 9:30AMFAIRMOUNT CIVIC ASSOCIATION NEIGHBOR-HOOD CLEANUPJoin the FCA for our 4th annual Spring Cleanup, in con-junction with the Philly Spring Cleanup. Volunteers will receive supplies such as gloves, trash bags, and rakes. They will also be museum passes to Eastern State Peniten-tiary, 76ers tickets, and other items to be raffled away to volunteers. Refreshments to be provided.

April 16, 9AMSTRAWBERRY MANSION SPRING CLEANUPJoin in the 9th Annual Philly Spring Cleanup with a clean-up at a neighborhood basketball court in need of revital-ization located at W. York Street and N. 31st Street. Mayor Kenney will be on hand to kick off the festivities.

Tuesday, April 19SM COMMUNITY RESOURCE GARDENInterested in growing your own vegetables and herbs? Join us at the SM Community Garden and learn how and when to grow food naturally. There are a limited number of plots available so come out and join the club soon. The event runs from 11AM-2PM.

April 19, 7-9PMVOTER EDUCATION FORUMA Voter EDucation Forum held to discuss the importance of voting. Constituents of North Philadelphia will have the opportunity to learn why their vote matters in elections. Forum t be held at Community College of Philadelphia Northwest Regional Center (1300 W. Godfrey Ave.)

Wednesday, April 20GAMBA U: HR 101You’re a pro at what you do, but that doesn’t make you an HR expert. Some changing city policies around paid sick leave to new regulations with health care, managing your employees is difficult! Learn about the policies that affect your HR management and hear tips to make the whole process easier. The event takes place from 6-7:30PM.

Sunday, April 24SYMMETRY, SEQUENCE, AND STARFISHCount on having exponential fun when science meets math at the Wagner Free Institute of Science on Explor-er Sunday from 12-4PM. Discover patterns and sequenc-es in Wagner museum specimens; see how complicated math was done in the age before calculators with the aid of our giant, historic slide rule; and learn the mysterious ways that math and nature intersect from professionals in different science disciplines. Activities such as slide rule demonstrations and math- and nature-themed arts and crafts will take place throughout the afternoon and are geared toward children ages 6-12. Admission is Free. Suggested donations of $10 for adults and $5 for children. For more information visit wagnerfreeinstitute.org.

April 25, 6-8PMHOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE POLICELearn ways to communicate with law enforcement. Spe-cial guests speakers are Michael Coard and Yusuf Jackson. Join in the discussion at the Mander Recreation Center (N 33rd St & Diamond Dr)

Monday, April 25WHO STABBED KING?Join us for The Edwin Forrest Play Reading Series: Who Stabbed King? as we learn more about this little known incident in history, about the woman, her illness, and how the King family cared for Izola Ware Curry. Audience dis-cussion will follow the reading with a focus on the effects of mental illness in the African American society. The reading takes place at the New Freedom Theatre, 1346 N. Broad St. at 6:30PM.For more information visit freedomtheatre.org.

Monday, April 25HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE POLICELearn ways to communicate with law enforcement. Spe-cial guests speakers are Michael Coard and Yusuf Jack-son. Join in the discussion from 6-8PM at the Mander Rec-reation Center, N 33rd St & Diamond Dr.

Tuesday, April 26PENNSYLVANIA PRIMARY ELECTIONPennsylvania’s Primary Election is April 26. Pennsylva-nians will be able to cast primary votes in a number of elections, including President, US Senate, US House of Reps, PA Senate, PA House of Reps and Attorney General.

Tuesday, April 26“THE COLOR BLUE” HEALTH FAIRThe Color Blue is a free healing fair with workshops, re-sources, and more focusing on you, your mind and body to heal yourself from within. Workshops will be available from 3-7PM. The event will take place at the Stephen Klein Wellness Center, 2144 Cecil B. Moore Ave. RSVP at HEAL-INGFAIR2016.bpt.meFor more information call 267-816-2591.

Wednesday, April 27SCIENCE EXPO 1866We cordially invite you to travel back in time, and examine cutting edge science of the past. Delight in the curiosities you will find and wonder at relics that then were unsur-passed. Marvel at the feats and innovation in medicine, technology and engineering, accomplished by the world’s most advanced minds. Glimpse how yesterday’s science laid today’s foundation, forever changing humankind.For more information on this event and others, visit wag-nerfreeinstitute.org.

Saturday, April 30FLEA MARKETThe Greater Brewerytown CDC will host a flea market from 10AM-5PM. To be a vendor, register by April 25 by going online or visiting the office at 3000A W. Master St.

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