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Next Week in Frankford

  • Saint Valentine’s Day Family Dinner
    When-Sat, February 14, 6pm – 8pm
    Where-Frankford Memorial United Methodist Church, 1300 Dyre Street Philadelphia, PA 19124 (map)
    Description-Frankford Memorial United Methodist Church will be holding a Saint Valentine’s Day Family Dinner on Saturday, February 14th, 2009. Dinner will be served at 6:00 pm. and there is one seating only. Singles, Couples, and Groups are welcome! Tickets are $15.00 for adults and $10.00 for children 10 and under. For tickets please call the Church Office at (215) 288-9800 by February 10th. Sorry, no tickets sold at the door. For more information and the menu see our web site at www.FrankfordMemorial.org.
  • NORTHEAST CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL open house
    When-Sun, February 15, 10am – 12pm
    Where-1842 Torresdale Avenue (map)
    Description-Open House on Sunday, February 15, 2009 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 NOON. Please take this opportunity to experience our campus, and meet with our students, faculty, administration, alumni, activities moderators and athletic coaches. Any questions, please contact Terri Barrett at 215-831-1234, ext. 217.
  • 15th district’s commander, Capt. Frank Bachmayer Town Hall Meeting
    When-Tue, February 17, 7pm – 8pm
    Where-St. Joachim Parish Hall, Chursh St. at Griscom St. (map)
    Description-Come tell the captain how it’s going on your block. He wants to know.
  • 311 phone system
    When-Wed, February 18, 7pm – 8pm
    Where-Tacony Baptist Church, 4715 Disston Street (map)
    Description-GENERAL MEETING TACONY TOWN WATCH, INC HOLMESBURG/UPPER MAYFAIR TOWN WATCH GUEST SPEAKER: PATRICK J MORGAN ASSISTANT MANAGING DIRECTOR DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT OFFICE OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR CITY OF PHILADELPHIA TOPIC: NEWLY LAUNCHED PHILLY 311 SYSTEM The 311 service is available to anyone who needs to know more about Philadelphia, City Services, or general information.
  • Frankford Friends School’s 2009 Winter Soiree & Silent Auction
    When-Sat, February 21, 4:30pm – 7:30pm
    Where-Crane Arts Building, (map)
    Description-On Saturday, February 21, 2009, Frankford Friends School’s Winter Soiree & Silent Auction will take place at the exciting Crane Arts Building in Philadelphia. The event will be held from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Proceeds from the event and the auction will help us realize our dream of a new building on our historic site at 1500 Orthodox Street in Northeast Philadelphia. (For more information about our school, click the “banner” at the top of this page.) In advance of the event, the bidding will begin here, at this online auction site – allowing people who can’t attend to bid and have a chance to win. (Auction items will begin appearing on this page in January, so please keep checking back.) All items will close at the live event, so if you really want something, you may just have to be there! This year our event will include a very special wine tasting with Greg Moore pouring his remarkable artisan Moore Brothers wines. Also featured will be a cheese tasting and light fare. We look forward to seeing all community members there, new and old! The online auction runs from February 8 through February 19. Tickets to the live event are a suggested minimum donation of $40 per person, or $75 for two people. There are a limited number of tickets available, so reserve yours early.
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Black History in Historic Frankford

Dr. Harry C. Silcox and Jack McCarthy have another facinating history in this week’s Northeast Times.  I had some inkling of this story since I spent my first few years down on Plum and Wilmot Streets but they explain how all this developed.  Read it all here.  You have to roll down quite a bit since the Times online did not give them their own page.

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Northeast Times Says Stick it Elsewhere

The Northeast Times in their editorial this week notes that the NorthEast Treatment Centers plans to open a methadone treatment facility at Roosevelt Boulevard and Grant Avenue.  We sympathize with their concerns.  Treating people with drug addiction can be a challenge.

Addicts have no constitutional right to get their fix in the middle of a stable and decent neighborhood in a stable and decent section of Philadelphia. The rights of immediate neighbors as well as those in the entire Northeast to live without an influx of drug addicts far outweighs the right of those addicts to get treatment in a neighborhood that does not want them.

I have to commend those folks in Bustleton for somehow having managed to exist without having any drug addicts living among them.  It is truly an amazing story that I have referred to Matt Drudge for investigation.  You have a good population up there and not even one druggy.

Or could it be there there are folks up there who are drug addicts and maybe you would rather have them treated elsewhere.  You know, send them to some down and out section of the city, send them to Frankford?

Certain sections of Philadelphia may be down and out, but dragging the Northeast down with them would be patently unfair. It won’t happen if Bustleton residents have their say – and if the politicians back them up.

It might be more unfair if other sections of the city have to bear the burden of your drug addicts.  So let’s get to the bottom of this, once and for all.  If the clients who will use the facility come from your neighborhood, they are yours.  Keep them.  We have enough of them now.  And if we find we have some of them down here with us, in the “down and outs”, we’re sending them back.

Read the entire editorial here.

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Jill Porter of the Daily News Apologizes

Jill Porter recap’s the 2006 arrest of Luigi and Antonio Lanzara of Frankford for drug and weapons violations.  There were great headlines in the papers as the repeated what they were told by the police.

As it turns out, the case was an overblown farce – and a tainted one, at that.

The arrest of the Lanzara brothers was a high-profile collaboration between a Philadelphia narcotics officer and a confidential informant who claims that they fabricated evidence in other drug cases.

Nothing was falsified in this case.

But the facts hardly fit the hype. And greed may have been the primary motivation for the bust

Read it all here.