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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.
Read the entire story here.
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.
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.
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.
Read the entire story here.
The city is finally getting serious about recycling which means that Frankford will start getting better service this week.
Starting this week, the city’s single-stream recycling program is expanding to North Philadelphia, and parts of the lower Northeast, including Frankford and Logan.
Coordinator Scott McGrath says it now includes nearly half a million homes:
“Residents can put all their recycling out in one or more bins and they can also add #1 and #2 plastics and they can add cardboard, if it’s flattened, which makes it easier for us to get it in the trucks.”
But it is still only every other week. Weekly recycling for us will start next year. Read the story at kyw1060.com.
Read the press release, from the Streets department, with detailed instructions here.
