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Frankford Author Publishes First Novel

Lisa A. Forrest is a mother and grandmother from Philadelphia PA, whose lifelong dream has been to write a book. She found the focus and drive to blog over the past few years, but still hadn’t been able to focus long enough to write a book. During her humanities class while working on her business degree, she was inspired and knew she needed to finally write that book. She started and didn’t stop until the completion of her first novel, “Parlons Cafe’ | And the Journey Through a Transcendental Love”.

The Forrest family roots run deep in Frankford and we are proud to highlight her achievement.

Will SEX or LOVE win when Charlie finds love in a very uncustomary way? Come share Charlie’s journey, while peeking in on her exciting and intimate liaisons, as she attempts to figure out what love means to her, and her unconventional approach to accepting it. Parlons Café (And the Journey Through a Transcendental Love),” …is the story of Charlise (Charlie) Langston. An entrepreneur whose answer to disconnecting from social media, is a café where people can socially intermingle in a live environment (as opposed to a virtual environment), and have real live conversations again. Parlons is French for ‘Let’s Talk’, an intentional and apropos name for the café that Charlise created. Parlons is also a story of female empowerment and sexual freedom, while journeying through an unconventional path of learning to love again. Charlie is an independent thinker, with anti-societal views, non-religious convictions, unbridled passion, cyber-sexual inclinations, with a struggle to balance her moral compass.

The book is available from Amazon at this link.

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Price of Children’s Lives

NEAR AND FAR

We must ride the tide for Humanity, dig deep for sanity.
No longer can we not face reality, when the nature of life is not a fantasy.
When children are dying in buildings that they call sanctuaries.
Politicians should hear the call of parent’s near and far.
When children are dying not on the battlefield, but on school room floors,
Someone should pick up the call, with children going to school to learn-not to hide.
Where are our leaders?  Why can’t they hear the mother’s cry?

“Our kids don’t go to school to hide.”

Lenny Jaynes

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Tour the Northeast Frankford Boys and Girls Club

We took a tour of the Northeast Frankford Boys and Girls Club last week to see what the renovations look like that have going on for the last year.  I get in there at least once a month but never have the time to stop and look around at everything.

Besides all the interior improvements, all the windows have been replaced and that was a huge job.  There was a lot of concrete work done outside.  The gym had no heat and that was resolved.

Inside, the building has been upgraded from top to bottom, including the basement.  The kitchen is not finished yet but the work is in progress.  The new John and Katie Ericksen Family Literacy Center, the Kids Café, STEM Learning Lab and Technology Center at the Club are all shown in the video below.

Its not easy to call anything in an old building like this beautiful but the old metal ceilings up on the second floor have been restored and, yes, they are beautiful.

Northeast Frankford Boys and Girls Club restored ceiling

Change came to the Northeast Frankford Boys and Girls club with the arrival of the new CEOs of the Boys and Girls Cubs of Philadelphia in 2012.  Joseph & Lisabeth Marziello have had a profound impact of the lives of the children in Frankford.

See the short video below to hear Denise Matza and Donald Travers on a tour of the club.

 

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Three Wise Men to Visit Grace-Trinity UCC

The three wise men are coming back to Frankford this year and will stop by on January 21st at 3 PM at Grace-Trinity United Church of Christ at 5200 Oxford Avenue.  “Amahl and the Night Visitors” is a great piece of family entertainment.   The musical director, Joseph Krupa, held a much acclaimed piano recital to benefit the Historical Society of Frankford in 2015.   See details below.