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From kyw1060.com:
The victim of a center city Philadelphia hit-and-run has died. Police are still hunting for the car that struck him.
Twenty-two-year-old Theodore Thomas, from the Frankford neighborhood, died on Tuesday from injuries suffered when he was hit by a car on the evening of February 22nd, while he was crossing the street at Ninth and Market Streets in Philadelphia.
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From Tom Waring of the Northeast Times this week:
State Rep. John Taylor feels welcome again at Northwood Civic Association meetings.
Taylor (R-177th dist.) had a strained relationship with Joe Menkevich, the colorful former president of the group.
Now, with Barry Howell as president and a united board of directors, Taylor thinks the meetings are now more warm and respectful.
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nbc10.com reported on their web site that a shooting in the 5900 block of Horrocks was in Frankford. Wherever you might call it, it’s not Frankford.
This is the original report, I asked them to make the correction. We’ll see how that goes.
From Foxbusiness.com:
As part of the partnership kickoff, this week in Philadelphia, ARAMARK’s global headquarters, over 100 ARAMARK employees will work with City Year Corps members to enhance the physical environment of the Frankford Group Ministries, a community based organization that provides human services to residents of Frankford, a neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia. Together they will update kitchens, build shelves, paint murals and sort clothing for donations to local families.
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From the Daily News:
The pupils who used to attend teacher Kristin Palmer’s third-grade class at a charter school in Frankford would go to Room 118.
Not anymore.
Now they go into Room Temple.
It’s the same room at the First Philadelphia Charter School for Literacy, at Tacony and Church streets, only the name has been changed as part of a program to instill in the 8-and-9-year-olds the concept of college.
“Many of the students live in poverty, and I believe if young children are exposed to college, even at the conceptual level, there’s more of a chance that they’ll attend college when they’re finished high school,” Palmer said.
“It puts the idea on their radar: They know that college comes after 12th grade and after college, a good job.”
Read the entire story by TOM SCHMIDT here.
