• Registration for the 2010 Deni Whiz Kids Baseball/Softball Season!!!!
  When – Wed, March 3, 7pm – 9pm

  Where – St. Joachim Church’s Pope John Paul II Room (map)

  Description – THE DENI PLAYGROUND ADVISORY COUNCIL Invites YOU to join us for the Exciting 2010 Deni Whiz Kids Baseball/Softball Season!!!! Registration: Wednesday, February 10th, 7-9 pm Wednesday, February 24th, 7-9 pm Location: St. Joachim Church’s Pope John Paul II Room T-Ball/In-house Baseball Registration: Only $15 Traveling Baseball/Softball Registration: $35 Late Registration Fee: $40 Divisions: 5-8 year old coed: T-Ball & Coach Pitch; 9-10 year old: NEPL Boys’ Baseball; 11-12 year old: NEPL Boys’ Baseball; 13-14 year old: NEPL Boys’ Baseball; 11-12 year old: NEPL Girls’ Softball. NEPL is a travel league. WE LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING YOU JOIN THE FUN! For more information, please e-mail the DPAC at deniplayground@gmail.com
• Frankford Civic Association Meeting
  When – Thu, March 4, 7pm – 8pm

  Where – Frankford Hospital – 2nd floor conference room (map)
• Grand Army of the Republic Museum Open House
  When – Sun, March 7, 12pm – 5pm

  Where – 4278 Griscom Street, Philadelphia, PA 19124 (map)

  DescriptionPresentation at 1:30 PM: Highlights of Civil War Medicine: The Men and Women who Served (Who they Were and What they did) Lesley Wood
• Historical Society of Frankford – Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 7:30 pm:
  ANNUAL MEETING and PRESIDENT’S “BEHIND THE SCENES” TOUR — Come out and learn what has been done this past year at your historical society, as the annual report and financial review are presented. Your ideas are important — so tell us what activities you would like to see — and how you plan to get involved to make these happen. Then, enjoy a rare, behind the scenes tour of our 1930’s building and vast museum and library collections by our president. Don’t miss it!
  BYLAWS (Constitution rev March 1995) CHANGES TO BE VOTED:
  Board of Directors: Article IV-Section 1: Change from “comprised of 15 persons” to “comprised of not less than 7 and not more than 15.”
  Board of Directors: Article IV-Section 6: Change from “Eight directors shall constitute a quorum…” to “51% of the directors shall constitute a quorum.”
• Northwood Civic Association Meeting
  When – Tue, March 16, 7pm – 8pm

  Where – St. James Lutheran Church, at Castor Avenue and Pratt Street. (map)
• Italian Style Family Dinner
  When – Sat, March 20, 4:30pm – 8:00pm

  Where – St. Joachim’s Church, 1527 Church Street, Phila., PA 19124 (map)

  Description – MARK YOUR CALENDAR Every Third Wednesday from September thru May Italian Style Family Dinner The Dinners will be served from 4:30 PM to 8 PM in Fitzmaurice Hall Take-out will be available. COST: $8.00 for Adults, $4.00 for Children. Come Join us!

This was in response to my post two weeks ago.  Councilwoman Maria Quinones Sanchez offered this in response.  It is not her full comment.  You can find that under the original post.

For the record,

I committed and helped to bring a new charter school to Frankford, Sankofa. Hundreds of kids are now provided with a quality education, a vacant church school is now fully utilized and jobs have been created.

I committed and have revitalized or am in the process of repairing ALL the recreational facilities, including the million dollar plus, Gambrell center, complete with spray park, the completion of Deni Playground and now our work at Overington Park and the work at the smaller passive parks.

I committed and have been working with the Philadelphia Housing Authority and the Office of Housing and community development to create a “real” housing strategy that provides for affordable homeownership and reuses for the large housing people in Frankford have left and have been converted to multi family rental and boarding homes.

I committed and am working to bringing resources directly to Frankford businesses for improvements and expansions on the corridor.

I can go on for pages and pages. But I will not. I have confidence that the majority of the folks in Frankford, who live the petty infighting everyday, know that I am working hard for them, despite the pettiness of a few.

As for the Halfway houses I inherited from the previous Councilpersons, I have led the first major city effort to address the zoning issues, bringing interdepartmental cooperation unseen in Frankford, EVER. Are we were we need to be, NO. We can do better, YES and I will continue to do so.

There has been an economic downturn and resources are limited. But my record will show that I have made tremendous investments and have leveraged resources unseen in Frankford.  I understand frustration. But unless it is converted to positive work, its negative and unproductive. And more importantly, it doesn’t move Frankford forward.

I can’t say I disagree with any of the above.  I think we would all like to hear more.

• Italian Style Family Dinner
  When – Sat, February 20, 4:30pm – 8:00pm

  Where – St. Joachim’s Church, 1527 Church Street, Phila., PA 19124 (map)

  Description – The dinner has been canceled for February. Next dinner will be on March 20th.
• ROLL AWAY THE STONES
  When – Tue, February 23, 7pm – 9pm

  Where – St. Joachim Church, 1527 Church St. (map)

  Description – “ROLL AWAY THE STONES” A Lenten Presentation at St. Joachim Church, 1527 Church St. on Tuesday February 23,2010 at 7 P.M. Presenter – Sr. Louise Alff, OSF. Parish Office – 215-535-0580 Parish Website – www.stjoachims.org DON’T MISS IT!
• Registration for the 2010 Deni Whiz Kids Baseball/Softball Season!!!!
  When – Wed, February 24, 7pm – 9pm

  Where – St. Joachim Church’s Pope John Paul II Room (map)

  Description – THE DENI PLAYGROUND ADVISORY COUNCIL Invites YOU to join us for the Exciting 2010 Deni Whiz Kids Baseball/Softball Season!!!! Registration: Wednesday, February 24th, 7-9 pm Wednesday, March 3rd, 7-9 pm Location: St. Joachim Church’s Pope John Paul II Room T-Ball/In-house Baseball Registration: Only $15 Traveling Baseball/Softball Registration: $35 Late Registration Fee: $40 Divisions: 5-8 year old coed: T-Ball & Coach Pitch; 9-10 year old: NEPL Boys’ Baseball; 11-12 year old: NEPL Boys’ Baseball; 13-14 year old: NEPL Boys’ Baseball; 11-12 year old: NEPL Girls’ Softball. NEPL is a travel league. WE LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING YOU JOIN THE FUN! For more information, please e-mail the DPAC at deniplayground@gmail.com.
• Frankford Civic Association Meeting
  When – Thu, March 4, 7pm – 8pm

  Where – Frankford Hospital – 2nd floor conference room (map)
• Grand Army of the Republic Museum Open House
  When – Sun, March 7, 12pm – 5pm

  Where – 4278 Griscom Street, Philadelphia, PA 19124 (map)

  Description – Presentation at 1:30 PM: Highlights of Civil War Medicine: The Men and Women who Served (Who they Were and What they did) Lesley Wood

Following the presentation that my father and I went to by J-Lab on their proposal for a new content hub in Philadelphia,there was a lot of talk of scrapeable databases and Philadelphia’s creative technology community.  And since I can be loosely considered a citizen journalist and having a degree in computer science am definitely a technology professional,  I’m throwing my hat, so to say, into Philly’s creative technology community, and starting a new site to explore ways to use Philly’s data to keep citizens informed and elected officials accountable.

The most obvious benefit to success in that field for Frankford would be to replicate what Ed Goppelt did with the now defunct Hallwatch.  Frankford needs to be able to keep track of who is buying it’s houses, and knowing who’s buying multiple properties is important.  And you currently can’t search by name on the BRT’s website, but you could under Hallwatch.  Also, crime statistics are available on the web.  I don’t see a way of telling if Frankford’s crime is getting better or worse.  The data’s out there but not in a format where we can make easy comparisons to the past or compare to other regions.  So down the line, maybe I’ll help make that happen again.

[link] http://phillycoder.com

Police office Sgt. Rosenbaum came to last night’s Northwood Civic Associaton meeting to speak about a few things including the newish initiative of PSAs.  The 15th district is being broken up into three sectors: from the Frankford Creek to Bridge Street, Bridge to Unruh, and Unruh to Rhawn.  And so while a captain still has responsibilities over the district, lieutenants have been “promoted” to oversee each area.  Also, instead of officers rotating throughout the district, the same 60 officers are going to be around all the time.  Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month on the second floor of Frankford hospital in their conference room.  Pete Specos is the community co-leader.

Sgt Rosenbaum also talked about Philadelphia Ready Notify Pa.  A system from the Department of Homeland Security which was set up to notify community residents of fast breaking news.  It was designed to notify you via your cell phone(text message) or by email in the evens of emergencies, severe weather, road closures and crime alerts.  Instructions on signing up can be found here.