Thanks to Jon Campisi and the Northeast Times for noting our upcoming anniversary. It was on May 24th of 2007 that we posted our first entry. Thank you for your continuing interest. Read the entire story here.
Category: News
Philadelphia Community Arts Network is coming to Frankford
From the News Gleaner:
…the center will be offering programs at St. Marks Episcopal Church at 4425 Frankford Ave.Piano, guitar, voice and percussion lessons will be available at all locations and the cost is only $14 per lesson. Beginners Art, Cartooning, Theater and Dance Classes will be offered during our six-week summer schedule.
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Twins at PowderMill
Just wanted to post this link to our flickr slidewhow of all the pictures of PowderMill. There has been a lot of interest in them lately. This is the link.
The Frankford Festival is this coming Saturday
Read the full lineup in this story by Jon Campisi of the Northeast Times. Come out and have a good time. We will be there doing a some video.
Frankford Civic Association
John Campisi of the Northeast Times reports on last week’s meeting of the Frankford Civic:
While they lost round one of the fight, the Frankford Civic Association vowed to keep pressing ahead in its quest to deny the Wedge Medical Center sanctuary in the neighborhood.
During an association meeting on May 1, president Frances Clay told those in attendance that representatives of the civic group had been unable the previous day to persuade the city Zoning Board of Adjustment to block Wedge from opening a drug- and alcohol-treatment center at 4243-47 Frankford Ave.
The plan has been strongly opposed by the civic group, which thinks there already are too many of those facilities in the neighborhood.
Not counting Wedge, 16 similar facilities operate throughout Frankford, Clay said.
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