On a lovely Friday evening we took a tour through parts of Frankford to see the lights. It was an eyeopening tour and we have posted the pictures as a slide show.
This is a sample from Duffield Street. Click here to see the slide show.
Month: December 2007
The Twins at PowderMill
Construction on the long awaited new housing at Castor and Wingohocking is about to begin. Follow this link to the website.
Lorenzo Compton
From the New York Times:
PHILADELPHIA — Lorenzo Compton did not have a promising start. His parents kicked him out at 17 for refusing to obey, he dropped out of the 12th grade when he got a girl pregnant, he served almost two years for drug dealing and he carries a bullet in his thigh.
At 43, Mr. Compton is again a force in the Frankford section of northeast Philadelphia — but this time as a one-man block patrol, as a mentor to countless young men, and as keeper of the keys to the fancy new football field that helps bring a ragged neighborhood together.
Read the New York Times entire story here.
Read in the HeraldTribune.com here.
Frankford High School
There are a lot of good things going on in Frankford High but we can’t ignore the news:
Frankford High School was locked down this morning while school police searched for a male student who had brought an unloaded handgun to school in a bookbag.
The 17-year-old eleventh grader bolted down a hallway after school police manning the X-ray machine spotted the weapon in his bookbag at approximately 8:15 a.m. Fernando Gallard said the lockdown was lifted at 9:30 when it became clear the student was not in the building.
Read the entire story from the Inquirer here.
Frankford home of the week
This is the 17th week of our series. We found this pair on Jackson Street near Kennedy. Getting ready for the holiday on a rainy afternoon.
