Author: Gil

I’ve had to get up early several times during the last few months to travel for work. So at 5:30 a.m. as I’m out loading the car with my tools, people are strolling by the house. Now these folks aren’t walking by, they are strolling by.

When you walk to catch a bus or the el you move along to get where you’re going. When you stroll you’re in no great rush to get anywhere. They walk in two’s and three’s chatting as they go and always chat loud like it’s 5 in the evening not 5 in the morning.

So I wonder who are these people who are either up very late or very early and have no place to be. They don’t look homeless. They are fairly neat and clean. They don’t seem to be crazy or escapees from an asylum.

The only answer I can up with is that they are vampires. The sun isn’t up yet so they can still be out. I have never seen them in daylight so that fits. I guess they don’t have to be anywhere because they don’t work. They live by sucking the life from the community.

How did Frankford come to be populated with these creatures? How can we make them go away?

On Philly from the inside out, another great review for Mozaic. Read it here: http://www.uwishunu.com/2007/08/17/you-may-not-have-to-travel-as-far/

I emailed CBS3 the following tonight:

The story below indicates Pennypack park is in Frankford. It is not and now once again you have besmirched the reputation of our neighborhood. Get your facts straight.

The link to their story is here: http://cbs3.com/topstories/local_story_225142058.html

Feel free to blast them if you have time. Every time something bad happens within a mile of Frankford Avenue these morons call the neighborhood Frankford. If it’s something positive they somehow manage to get the neighborhood correct.

On Wednesday I got this email:

Hey Gil, The article will be updated to reflect the correct section. Thanks for taking the time to write and for watching CBS 3.

and they changed the story to:

(CBS 3) PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia Police are searching for a suspect who allegedly sexually assaulted a female during a robbery in Northeast Philadelphia Saturday.A 29-year-old female told police she was walking in Pennypack Park when she was grabbed from behind by an unknown male at about 8 p.m.

I posted our first poll last month about the Art Holiday more as an experiment than for any other reason. However a good number of people responded and the results are in.

Not many of us miss that venerable old institution. My opinion is that the Art Holiday was a blight on our neighborhood that served to mock the “Welcome to Frankford” signs on Womrath park.

On a nice sunny day you would drive up Frankford avenue coming up from Torresdale and see the Womrath park in all its greenery and there find a pleasant sign welcoming you to the neighborhood. Then as you get to the end of the block, there was the Art Holiday with the dirt and trash and prostitutes offering a welcome of a different sort.

Now, hopefully, it is gone forever, never to rise again. We were fools to have tolerated its existence all those years.

Residents of the 179th Legislative District are invited to a free senior fair on Friday, August 17 from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the New Frankford Community Y at 4700 Leiper St .

My staff and I will be available to answer your questions on prescription drug programs, health insurance, property tax/rent relief and more.

Come test your checkers skills in our checkers tournament, play some chess against a new friend, or be one of the lucky ones who wins a prize in our raffle.

This is a great opportunity to have some fun, meet your neighbors in the community and learn about the programs and services for which you may qualify. For more information, please call or visit either of my constituent service offices.