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Young student of Southhampton enjoying giving back to her community by planting trees on a local soccer field.

Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo and an Honor Guard from South Philadelphia high school attend the dedication of the historical plaque honoring Eddie Gottlieb, the basketball icon and former coach and manager of the Philadelphia Warriors.

Lana Moraes and Dr. Leis after a successful surgery of having her Adam's apple removed at the Delaware Valley Orthopedic and Spine Surgery Center.

Six-year-old Kayla from Medford Lakes enjoying the 80 degree weather on a small private beach in her hometown.

Edna Fortson, admiring the plaque dedicated to her husband, former Deputy Roy J. Fortson Jr. who was killed in the line of duty on November 13, 1982. 

Friends and family of Roy J. Fortson Jr. at a plaque-laying ceremony for the former deputy who was killed in the line of duty on November 13, 1982.

PHOTO OF THE DAY May 30-David Weathington, CEO of Walter D. Palmer Leadership Learning Partners Charter School, motivates students and teachers to keep trying to prevent the school from closing during an indoor rally to help prevent.

Busy with constant costumers since the World Cup started, Matt O’Connor has been working full time at his family business, Humphrys Flag Co. on Arch Street since 2004, but the store has been running in Philadelphia since 1864.

Chris Toepfer and his "Team Camden" gladly giving back to 5 neighborhoods with The Neighborhood Foundation by boarding up and polishing 55 abandonded and run-down houses, 924 State Street in North Camden being one of them, in the span of 4 weeks and with a budget of 25,000 dollars.

After starring in an episode of "Save My Bakery" on Food Network last March, Manny Agigian and Al DiBartolo of the newly renevated Dibartolo's Bakery in Collingswood New Jersey share their memories and gratitude for their experience of competing in the fourth season of "Next Great Baker" which airs on June 24 for its two hour season premier.

Senior Vice President of administration for Comcast Corp. Karen Buchholz presented a model of the second Comcast Center tower that will be built by the fourth quarter of 2017. She displayed the intricate model to Comcast employees at the Comcast Center, but the project to build a second tower started January 2013 with a competition involving five architect firms and Foster + Partners by Lord Norman Foster won with this design.

(From left to right) Sgt. Nate Griffin, a seventeen-year army reservist, personal trainer and former army medic leads a ranger-training outdoor boot camp workout in Washington Square Park with clients Mike Kennedy, Michael Klinger and Denise Bahr.

Defendant Gebah Kamara holds up a 2013 1040-EZ booklet as he leaves the federal courthouse on 6th Street near Market on Thursday, June 12, 2014. He worked as a social worker for Catholic Social Services and is accused of giving foster kids’ names and Social Security numbers to tax preparers so the tax preparers could falsely put the kids down as dependents on their clients’ income-tax returns.

An employee that did not want to release his name cleaning the stairs of Locust and Juniper has had the same job for 5 years, but after being laid-off with ten other men who clean the subway concourses as well, June 30th will be his last day.

Artist Jody Pinto (left) and Mayor Michael A. Nutter (right) enjoying the view from the top of Jody Pinto’s spiral staircase called “Land Buoy” at the Washington Avenue Pier that the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation just opened to the public.

Jataya Taylor competing in the slalom portion of the Nation Veterans Wheelchair Games at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, racing through multiple obstacles with the help and encouragement of the staff, volunteers and audience.

Harold Hack (left) and Tammy Landeen (right) proud of each other after racing through multiple obstacles in the slalom portion of the Nation Veterans Wheelchair Games at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, with the help and encouragement of the staff, volunteers and audience.

Dan Zulker (seated man in red shirt) celebrating Germany beating Portugal with a score of 4-0 at Brauhas Schmitz, a German bar on South Street. Dan Zulker states he is rooting for Germany in the World Cup because he is, “ just an American with a German last name.”

Eileen Duffey, school nurse at Academy of Palumbo both chants and protests against Arnie Duncan (in the black car) as he leaves the conference for the Network of National State Teachers of the Year at the Hilton DoubleTree.

Erin O’Connor stands in her beautiful kitchen in Lafayette Hill that completed it’s renovation at the end of 2013 and won the Bucks and Montgomery County Best Kitchen Between 40-80 Thousand Dollars award.

Matt McClintock, part of St. John’s construction company partaking in Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia’s three-day competition with five local construction companies that win if they are the first to build a frame for a home in Point Breeze.