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The Neighborhood Parenting Program

The Neighborhood Parenting Program is sponsoring a Free Bus Trip to The Garden State Discovery Museum on Saturday, May 10th, 2008 from 9 am to 2 pm for parents and their young children.

 

The Garden State Discovery Museum is a hands-on museum for young children. It offers fifteen larger-than-life, kid powered interactive exhibit areas. You’ll be able to get inside of a gigantic bubble, scale a rock climbing wall, bandage a wounded teddy bear, whip up a pretend exotic meal at the Discovery Diner or build a two-story house! Space is limited. First come, first served! Pack a brown bag lunch to eat there for you and your children.

 

The Neighborhood Parenting Program, a part of Frankford Group Ministry, provides parenting classes, trips and activities for parents and their children age 12 and under.  We are located at 4620 Griscom St., Philadelphia, PA 19124.

 

In Person registration required, please contact Rebecca Daniel at 215-744-2990 x212.

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Woman dies in hit and run in Frankford

A woman was hit by a red dump truck Thursday morning at Cheltenham and Bustleton and died. 

A 58-year-old woman was fatally struck by the operator of an industrial truck that drove off yesterday morning in Frankford, and authorities said the driver might not have known he’d hit someone.

“With a truck that large, it’s possible the driver did not know,” said Sgt. Albert Gramlich of the Accident Investigation District.

Witnesses told police an industrial truck, possibly with a red cab and blue trash receptacle on the back, struck the woman, who was standing on the southwest corner of Bustleton and Cheltenham Avenues, about 9:30 a.m., Gramlich said.

Read the report on philly.com here.

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Northwood Civic Association meeting

Tom Waring reports this week in the Northeast Times on the Northwood Civic Association meeting held on April 15th.  You can read the entire article here.

I was not aware until I read the article of the meeting tomorrow night, April 24th, at Frankford High School.  The subject being:

“The state Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting on Thursday, April 24, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Frankford High School.
PennDOT will provide information and ask for comment on projects to improve Interstate 95 and the Bridge Street and the Betsy Ross Bridge/Aramingo Avenue interchanges.”

They may discuss the long awaited connection of I-95 to Torresdale Avenue.  It’s only been on the drawing board since the 1960s.  We’ll see.

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Frankford resident a murder victim

From philly.com, for an incident on Monday:

Shortly after 3:30 p.m., police responded to a report of gunfire on the 3700 block of Frankford Ave. and found the victim with a gunshot wound to the head.

Muliek Brown, 19, of 5100 Penn St., also in Frankford, was taken to Temple University Hospital, where he died at 9:24 that night.

Police are still investigating to determine possible suspects and a motive.

The location of the crime is incorrectly, again, identified as Frankford.  Read the entire story here.

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Lydia Darragh

This is another source of information and another version of the events about Lydia Darragh, provided by Joe Menkevich.

This passage is page 294 and 295 from the book “Historic Tales of Olden Time: Concerning the Early Settlement and Progress of Philadelphia Pennsylvania” by John Fanning Watson – Philadelphia (Pa.) Published in Philadelphia by E. Littell and by Thomas Holden in 1833.

“I have very direct and certain evidence for saying,
that Mrs. Lydia Darrach (the wife of William Darrach,
a teacher, dwelling in the house No. 177, South Second
street, corner of Little Dock street,) was the cause of
saving Washington’s army from great disaster while it
lay at Whitemarsh, in 1777. The case was this:—
The adjutant general of the British army occupied a
chamber in that house, and came there by night to read
the orders and plan of General Howe’s meditated attack.
She overheard them when she was expected to have
been asleep in bed; and making a pretext to go out to
Frankford for flour for family use, under a pass, she
met with Colonel Craig, and communicated the whole
to him, who immediately rode off to General Washington
to put him on his guard. The next night, at midnight,
the British army, in great force, moved silently
out of Philadelphia. The whole terminated in what
was called, I believe, the affair of Edge Hill, on the 5th
December; and on the 8th following, the British got
back to the city, fatigued and disappointed.
Mrs. Darrach, although a small and weakly woman,
walked the whole distance out and in, bringing with her,
to save appearances, twenty-five pounds of flour, borne
upon her arms all the way from Frankford. The adjutant
general afterwards went to her to enquire if it had
been possible that any of her family could have been up
to listen and carry intelligence, since the result had
been so mysterious to him. Mr. and Mrs. Darrach
were of the society of Friends”