Jon Campisi of the Northeast Times reports on last weeks meeting. 
Members of the Frankford Civic Association, who have opposed the recent influx of drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities in the neighborhood, addressed a member of Mayor Michael Nutter’s staff at their meeting last week, attempting to seek resolution to the issue.
Roland Lamb, director of the [...]

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John Campisi of the Northeast Times reports on last week’s meeting of the Frankford Civic:
While they lost round one of the fight, the Frankford Civic Association vowed to keep pressing ahead in its quest to deny the Wedge Medical Center sanctuary in the neighborhood.
During an association meeting on May 1, president Frances Clay told those [...]

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This is the agenda for the Frankford Civic Association meeting scheduled for Thursday, May1st.
 
Frankford Civic Association
4900 Frankford Avenue, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19124
frankfordcivic@gmail.com
 
Agenda for May 1, 2008
 
1. Introductions and welcome to guests
 
2.  Minutes to be adopted from last month’s meeting- 4/3/2008
 
3.  Cancer Treatment Centers of America Presentation
 
4.  Civic Boundaries handout
 
5.  Quality of Life concerns or reports
 
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The Frankford Civic continues to oppose the use of 4243-47 (map) Frankford Ave. as a drug- and alcohol-rehabilitation center. Emphasizing that their opposition is not to the commendable work being done but the fact that there are just too many of these centers already on Frankford Avenue.
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Diane Prokop at the Northeast Times has done her usual fine job of summarizing the Frankford Civic meeting last week on the subject of Wedge medical. Wedge came to the meeting with letters of support from a handful of politicians who must have carefully studied the workings of this “for profit” company and [...]

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