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Winter Clothes Give Away a No Show?

Back in September we got this email:

I apologize John and Bob,
The date should be Friday, October 29th.  I will correct the flyer and send it to you.

Unfortunately, we never got the revised flyer and published the original.

From one or our readers on the Winter Clothes give away scheduled for today:

I went over to Overington Park with my kids for this event. The park was filled with people waiting. We all waited until almost 4 o’clock and nobody showed up. I drove over to Wilmot Park and there was nobody there either. Everyone who was there waiting was very upset that the event did not happen.

We’ll  see if we can find out what happened when the pols offices open on Monday.

Update from Jason Dawkins of Councilwoman Sanchez staff:

The event was held on Oct. 29, 2010 at the rain locations listed on the flyer. Bob you have an old flyer, Ms. Washington changed this flyer to reflect changes last month. She also, announced at the Frankford’s Park meeting Monaday and Thursday at NE. Epic Stakeholder meeting. The event was a huge success, over a 100 jackets were giving away, along with 5 tables full of winter clothes. Bob I will have Ms. Washington forward pictures from event. On behalf of the Park’s group we apologize for the miscommunication of dates.

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Be a Brat Pajama Party

No, we’re not taking advertising but I couldn’t resist that title.

I got a tip on this from Mike Mawson, Pete Specos and now this from one of our best informed sources:

On the heels of the Art Holiday for rent party space (which seems to be closed, judging by the “Wedding Reception has been moved to Broad Street ” signs that were taped to the building last weekend) I spied a flyer announcing The Third Floor’s Nov 12th “Be a Brat Pajama Party”.  According to the flyer the Third Floor is located at 4651 Frankford Ave across from the Free Library.    I think that would make it that building with the big glass windows that faces the El platform.  Mattress and home improvement stores are on the bottom.

Here is a myspace link to party there back at the end of August:

http://events.myspace.com/External/MySpace/Event/View/6873369

Looks like it has been having events for a few months now.

I posted on the renovations to the building back in 2008.  Ownership links here.  Questions

  1. Is it legal to hold parties like this at this location?
  2. Do any of our elected officials know that this is going on?
  3. Is anybody going to do anything about it?
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Overington Park Fall Festival

It was a beautiful Fall day today and a perfect day to sit on a park bench and watch the passing scene.  So I went over to Leiper and Orthodox to see what was happening at the festival.  I finally got the opportunity to get Diane and John on camera to find out once and for all what they are up to.  You can see the results below.

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Halloween in Frankford 2010

We started last week running around taking pictures of all of the houses decorated for Fall and Halloween.  The slide show below has the locations of the houses.  It was fun to see how nice some blocks looked.

But the winner is the 5000 block of Duffield for the huge inflated black cat looming over the yard that he is guarding.  If you get a chance, drive down that way and take a look.  Say hello to Jim who is often sitting on the porch there.  Here he is in a short video.