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A private suburban swim club accused of racism after it canceled the memberships of dozens of minority children says it will seek a meeting with the kids camps to work out an agreement for them to return.Amy Goldman, a member of The Valley Club, said those able to attend a hastily called meeting Sunday afternoon voted unanimously in support of reinstating the membe
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stanley water bottle reed upon.The Creative Steps camp had arranged for 65 mostly black and Hispanic children to swim each Monday afternoon at the gated Huntingdon Valley club, which is on a leafy hillside in a village straddling two overwhelmingly white townships. But after the group arrived June 29, camp director Alethea Wright said, several children reported hearing racial comments and some swim club members pulled their c
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