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Northeast EARN Center

From the Northeast Times:

Simone Woods and Lisa Lewis are taking full advantage of the Northeast EARN Center’s community service program.
Woods and Lewis are single moms who are clients at EARN, an acronym for Employment Advancement Retention Network. The office is located at 4739 Frankford Ave. (map).
The agency, which opened in November 2006, seeks to find work for people.

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Despite low profile, Dougherty’s White highly regarded by Temple

Congratulations to Quinten White, a 6-3, 195-pound outside linebacker from Cardinal Dougherty.

White and a Dougherty teammate, Keith Dockery, attended a 1-day combine that happened to be held at Temple. Working with the defensive backs, White performed well. Owls assistant Curtis Bray pulled him aside and suggested he attend coach Al Golden’s camp. He did.

“Up to then I’d only been hearing from Bloomsburg and Shippensburg,” said White, who lives near Frankford and Church (map), in Frankford, and intends to become a fitness trainer. “But to go to coach Golden’s camp and then be told, ‘We’re looking at you,’ that really got my attention. I was pretty excited. On the way home on the bus, I was calling my friends. ‘Guess what happened today! . . . ‘ “

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Crime in Frankford

From Philly.com:

…investigators last night (January 30th) were still searching for the man who killed Robert Overton, 21, outside a Kmart (Google map)in Northeast Philadelphia about 8:40 p.m. Wednesday.

Overton, of Ditman Street near Wakeling (Google map), was shot multiple times over an apparent ongoing neighborhood argument, a police source said.

Witnesses told detectives that the gunman fled in a light-colored sedan. Overton had a history of arrests on charges that included drug possession and carjacking, court records show.

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Crime in Frankford

Thanks to a tip on Phillyblog from B-REAL we found this on 6abc.com:

FRANKFORD – February 3, 2008 — The manager of a nightclub has been shot in the back while trying to break-up a fight.

The gunfire erupted outside Platinum nightclub just after 2 a.m Sunday in the 4100 block of Torresdale Avenue (Google map).

The manager apparently asked several men who were fighting inside the club to leave. As the manager tried to escort them out of the club, they all began to argue.

That’s when one of the men pulled out handgun and started shooting.

The manager was struck once in the back. He was taken to Frankford Torresdale Hospital in stable condition.

No arrest have been made.

See the video report and read the entire story here.