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Frankford Community Development Corporation

The Frankford Community Development Corporation Board of Directors is looking for volunteer members. Please submit resume’s or letter of interest to Tracy O’Drain, 4900 Griscom Street, Philadelphia, PA 19124; email to frankfordmainstmgr@yahoo.com; or fax to 215-743-6582. No phone calls or personal visits please.

All submittals are due by November 15, 2007, 5:00p.m. and will be reviewed by the Frankford Community Development Corporation Nominating Committee.

The Frankford CDC is a neighborhood-based organization that conducts economic development activities designed to revitalize and diversify the commercial corridor while enhancing employment opportunities. Frankford CDC works with local businesses, the Frankford Business and Professional Association, and with the local neighborhood organizations, when appropriate, to aid in the stabilization and revitalization of the neighborhood.

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Murder in Franford

From the Daily News today reporting on a murder on Wednesday October 17th:

Shortly after 6:10 p.m., a 68-year-old man was stabbed in the chest at a halfway house in the 4400 block of Waln Street, East Frankford. He was pronounced dead a short time later.

Police identified him this morning as Robert Kitchen, who lived at the same address.

They weren’t able to release, however, the name of the 25-year-old man who was taken into custody. Police said both men were residents in the house and got into an argument in the living room.

This version from NBC10 is slightly different:

Police said a fatal stabbing was reported Wednesday night outside a home for mentally-challenged men in the Frankford section of the Philadelphia.

It looks like this was:

Northeast Community Center For Lth-Mental Retardtn – Branches, Adult Adjustment Program Philadelphia 19102Unity Waln Sts

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Home of the week

I was driving down Darrah Street a few days ago and as I was turning down Hawarth Street this place caught my eye I had to keep going but I eventually came back around and found this property on the corner.

It is more like some of the homes you see down in Society Hill and yet here it is in the heart of Frankford.