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Amateur Sports

Hunting Park: SquashSmarts Prepares Kids For What Is Next In Life Through Squash

March 28, 2017Dalton Balthaser and

The loud sound of the collision of a rubber squash ball with a white wall reverberated around the squash courts at SquashSmarts, on the second floor of the Lenfest Center, as sweat dripped down the

Amateur Sports

Hunting Park: Community Leader Preaches Squash and Family to Students

February 21, 2017Dalton Balthaser and

Nabilla Ariffin is the community impact director at SquashSmarts, a non-profit academic and athletic program which uses the game of squash to keep kids healthy, in school and on track to graduate. Since joining the

Amateur Sports

Hunting Park: Five Places That Uplift The Members of the Community

February 20, 2017Dalton Balthaser

Hunting Park in North Philadelphia offers many places for its community members to come together. These places inspire growth in the community and keep the lights on to promote a positive environment. Here are five

Amateur Sports

Hunting Park: Mentor Uses Education and Squash Experience To Enrich Youth

November 3, 2016Ashley Nicole Portillo and

Scott Redpath is the program director of SquashSmarts located at the Lenfest Center on 10th and Pike Streets. Since graduating from St. Lawrence University in 2009, the Philly native has been mentoring students both in

Amateur Sports

Hunting Park: Squash Promotes a Youth Enrichment Program

October 5, 2011

The Lenfest Center is one of two locations for the SquashSmarts program in Philadelphia. Driving down the 3800 block of 10th Street, one might not expect to see the massive building where the lives of

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Hunting Park: City Year and Neighborhood Teens Participate in Community Service

March 2, 2011

Every Saturday morning, the doors of the Lenfest PAL Center are opened to the kids of Hunting Park for City Year’s Young Heroes program. The middle school students who participate in this weekend day of

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