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Come out and enjoy our annual Art Under The Trees event at Overington Park, 4600 block Leiper St. and 1300 block Orthodox St.
Saturday September 29, 2012 from 10am to 1pm.
There will be art contests, prizes and fun packed games for everyone to enjoy.
Hope to see you there!
Friends of Overington Park
Diane Kunze, President Janet Bernstein, Vice President Mary Ellen Post, Secretary Lorraine Fortino, Treasurer
From the Friends of Overington Park and the Northeast EPIC Stakeholders: “PUSS & BOOTS”
Showing at: Overington Park, 4600 block of Leiper St. and 1300 block of Orthodox St.
Show Time: Friday September 14, 2012 at 8PM
Bring your blanket or chair and your family and friends to enjoy Movie Night In The Park.
Friends of Overington Park
Diane Kunze, President Janet Bernstein, Vice President Mary Ellen Post, Secretary Lorraine Fortino, Treasurer
Well it turns out that 95 people showed up on Saturday June 9th to help us celebrate our greening success stories. The band was wonderful, the weather perfect, the food was good, and the company beyond compare. The salsa contest was hot and heavy. There were 9 entries. While the judges sampled the contestants fretted. Finally the winners were announced, first place, Jason Dawkins, from councilwoman’s Quinones Sanchez office, second place was Marilyn Funk, and third place was Nona Bloom. Everyone had some laughs and a good time. A fierce competition is developing for next year.
I’d like to thank everyone who pitched in to make the day a big success, PHS, FHS Junior ROTC, Americorp, Epic Stakeholders, Senators Tartaglione and Payton, Councilwoman Maria Quinones Sanchez, Frankford Garden Club members, FOOP members and the Frankford community. Like most things that turn out well, it takes a lot of dedicated hard work to pull it off, and our group really shined on this day.
Thank you for coming out to Overington park and kicking off Summer 2012! Hope to see you in the park, Diane Kunze, President, Friends of Overington Park
Just wanted to get the word out about tomorrow! Overington Park is hoping to be buzzing tomorrow June 9th from 11 to 3 with green people. Not martians, but folks who Green Frankford.
The Friends of Overington Park will host Frankford Greening Meet and Greet. There will be live entertainment, water ice, pretzels, hot dogs and pot luck picnic. Get a taste of our second annual Salsa dip contest. Bring your best salsa and maybe take home the trophy.
We will be honoring the Frankford Gazette for 5 years of faithful service to the Frankford community. Also lots of positive talk about our community and how together we make it a green paradise.
Please come out and join your neighbors for a hot dog and some old fashion conversation. Hope to see you there, Diane Kunze, President, Friends of Overington Park
By John Thomas Scharf, Thompson Westcott
The Frankford Gazette formerly the Holmesburg Gazette was commenced in the spring of 1868 by William F Knott who continued to publish it until Oct 1 1883 when he disposed of his interest to James France The Gazette was commenced and continued to remain as a thoroughly independent local paper The originator of the enterprise commenced publishing the paper without one cent of capital borrowing enough to purchase the white paper for the first issue renting type etc and doing the entire work connected with its publication for the first six months himself The Gazette is published every Friday at the southwest corner of Main and Church Streets Frankford.
That is quite an illustrious history. The original Frankford Gazette ended publication sometime in the 1930s. It resumed on May 25th of 2007 when I wrote our first post which was about the Historical Society of Frankford new web site.
The genesis of the idea came the day when my son Jim told me to stop sending him emails about Frankford and to start blogging about it. I had heard about blogging but didn’t get the point. Then I found Blogger.com and started thinking about the possibilities. There was nothing to lose in trying it out and so we did. And thus the Frankford Gazette was resurrected.
I had no idea what to do except that I was tired of reading and hearing all about what was wrong with Frankford from people who knew little or nothing about the people who live here. My plan was only to balance out the story by making sure that some of the positive got covered. That is what we started to do.
We have evolved a bit along the way. At first it was all words and then we tried to get graphic with pictures. We have done a lot of video in the last two years. Our YouTube channel has over 14,000 views. Last Summer we began a collaboration that lead to a monthly print edition that is distributed along the Frankford Avenue business corridor.
What started out as my voice alone has now morphed into a group of collaborators. My wife Pat is a specialist in education and has written extensively on the schools and childcare. My son Jim finds things of interest that I do not even see coming (as well as being our web master and technical expert). He sniffed out the Globe Dye works long before I knew anything about it. The Frankford CDC is a major contributor mainly about the Frankford Avenue business corridor. Our special interest collaborators like the parks and Garden club are welcome additions. We have some new people coming along in the next few months from other parts of this large community that will give voice to a greater number of people.
Thanks to all who have contributed. This would be nothing but some old guy talking to himself without you. It has been an interesting five years.
