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Frankford Business and Professional Association

The general meeting of the Frankford Business and Professional Association was held at at Frankford Hospital on Wednesday, February 13th, with 19 in attendance. The meeting was chaired by Elizabeth McCollum Nazario the new President.

  • Discussions centered around the ongoing issue of crime and safety and the perception of Frankford as an unsafe area. While statistically crime has declined in the area, headlines have not.
  • Guest speaker Maria Quinones Sanchez, new City Council representative, talked about her first month in office. She plans to return to a future meeting of the FBPA for more detailed discussions of what can be done to develop the area economically.
  • Scott Lodise, Chief of Staff for State Rep. Tony Peyton made a presentation on National Safe Place. He encourages businesses in the area to consider joining this network.

The next general meeting of the FBPA is scheduled for Wednesday April 9, 2008. If you are in business in any way in Frankford you are invited to join the FBPA.

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Frankford Civic Association meeting

Though the Frankford Civic Association, formerly known as the East Frankford Civic Association, is still awaiting official paperwork from Harrisburg to finalize its more inclusive name change, the group is moving forward with its agenda to be more proactive in the community.

From Diane Prokop of the Northeast Times, we have this summary of the proceedings at the last meeting. Read it here.

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150 weasels captured

Not.

Well maybe they were. Then maybe they were not. How would we know?

Fact is, the city government does a pretty good job of keeping us in the dark. Remember the good old days when you could read the crime report in your local neighborhood newspaper? Well those days seems to have slipped by.

Now, the only way you will find out how the newest anti crime program is going, is when the next innocent child gets caught in the crossfire or attacked by some maniac who is walking the streets on unsupervised probation.

At the very least, we deserve to know the truth. While the commissioner is devising those new information systems, one of them should start providing information to the public.

They work for us. We pay the salaries. We’re entitled.