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Busy Saturday in Frankford Tomorrow

Just a reminder that tomorrow is packed with events.

  • The first annual Frankford 5k starts off at Frankford Stadium, Dyre and Large Streets.  Registration starts at 8 AM with the run and walk starting off at 9 AM.
  • The 3rd annual Frankford Community Spirit Day in honor of Al Stark will run from 11 AM till 2 PM at St. Mark’s at 4442 Frankford Avenue. Fall activity for kids: hot dogs, soda, chips. Face painting, activities, games and Autumn Autos.
  • The Overington Park Fall Festival is always a good time for the entire family.  In Overington Park at Leiper and Orthodox Streets from Noon till 3 PM. Pumpkin Patch, games, craft table, candy and fun

 

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The Frankford Avenue Sweep

The community came together to make the point that if you want to do business in Frankford, you have play by the rules.  Tuesday, October 18th was a beautiful Fall day to sweep the streets.  That is exactly what happened on Frankford Avenue as the Pennsylvania State Police, Philadelphia Health Department and L&I swooped in for inspections on the bars that had complaints filed on them.  As of last night there were 4 that remained shuttered and others that were cited for various reasons.

This was no accident but the result of a plan put into place several months ago to clean up the Avenue.  You can’t expect decent businesses to move there with drugs being sold on the sidewalk and the drunk and disorderly crowd making life miserable for the rest of the population.

Thanks to Kim Washington of the Frankford CDC for hosting the meetings and she says “Thank you Councilwoman Sanchez for bringing all the City departments together so that everyone is operating on the same page.  Representative Dawkins and Sgt. Clark thank you for jumping right in and making sure State Police played a role in the task force.  Bob Smiley thank you for shining a light on some of these issues by writing articles in the Frankford Gazette, and Ken (McDonalds) thanks for making sure the CDC stayed abreast of the numerous events taking place down there.  We are extremely grateful for everyone’s participation.  We hope that we can continue to work together to clean up Frankford Avenue. “

The program will continue to bring these businesses into compliance.  Other actions are possible now with the passage of the Nuisance Business bill by City Council in June.

 

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The Frankford Gazette and the Frankford Civic Association Honors Block Captains

The Frankford Gazette and the Frankford Civic Association honored Ray Gant of The Ray of Hope Project for his contribution over the last 14 years in community cleanups not only in Frankford but throughout the city. Area block captains were also honored at the meeting on October 6th at St. Mark’s Church. Block captains in Frankford, Northwood and throughout the city play an important part in mobilizing the community to work on clean up projects. In addition, they are an important conduit for disseminating information in the neighborhood. As we continue to mobilize our community for the betterment of all, block captains play a very important role.

We were honored to have Stephanie Robinson, Foreman Crew Chief and Relief Supervisor, and Diana Oliveros, Bilingual Clean Block Officer, from the Philadelphia More Beautiful Committee join us to present the awards.

If you are a block captain or know a block captain that could not attend the meeting, please email gil@frankfordgazette.com and we will see that they get their award. Congratulations to all of our block captains and residents who are striving to make Frankford sparkle and shine!!

The next meeting of the Frankford Civic Association will be held on Thursday, November 3rd at 7 PM at St. Mark’s Church at 4442 Frankford Avenue.

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Waiting for a Tree to Fall

It’s that big tree on the Boulevard just as you turn on to the 900 block of Foulkrod.  Looks like it has been bumped by a few cars and clearly there is not much holding it up.  The only question is, will it fall on a bus, a car, a pedestrian or some politician’s reputation.

Joe Menkevich reported the hazard in the third week of August.  He called the Philadelphia 311 hot-line  to report a dangerous situation.

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After spending several minutes of wait-time for an answer, he spent another several minutes giving all the pertinent information about a dangerous tree and was then instructed to call another city department, which did not answer the phone.

He then immediately called 911 and reported the tree as an imminent threat to public safety.

Nothing happened and that tree is not getting any better.  It still stands there waiting for the next gust of wind to blow it down onto somebody or something.