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This week in the Northeast Times is the second part in a 3 part series byDr. Harry C. Silcox and Jack McCarthy. It still reads like a good novel. Because it is an regular column, you have to scroll down the page to find it. This is the link.
Also this week is a feature story on Harry Silcox to go along with the series. Read that one here.
Dr. Harry C. Silcox and Jack McCarthy have another facinating history in this week’s Northeast Times. I had some inkling of this story since I spent my first few years down on Plum and Wilmot Streets but they explain how all this developed. Read it all here. You have to roll down quite a bit since the Times online did not give them their own page.
The Northeast Times in their editorial this week notes that the NorthEast Treatment Centers plans to open a methadone treatment facility at Roosevelt Boulevard and Grant Avenue. We sympathize with their concerns. Treating people with drug addiction can be a challenge.
Addicts have no constitutional right to get their fix in the middle of a stable and decent neighborhood in a stable and decent section of Philadelphia. The rights of immediate neighbors as well as those in the entire Northeast to live without an influx of drug addicts far outweighs the right of those addicts to get treatment in a neighborhood that does not want them.
I have to commend those folks in Bustleton for somehow having managed to exist without having any drug addicts living among them. It is truly an amazing story that I have referred to Matt Drudge for investigation. You have a good population up there and not even one druggy.
Or could it be there there are folks up there who are drug addicts and maybe you would rather have them treated elsewhere. You know, send them to some down and out section of the city, send them to Frankford?
Certain sections of Philadelphia may be down and out, but dragging the Northeast down with them would be patently unfair. It won’t happen if Bustleton residents have their say – and if the politicians back them up.
It might be more unfair if other sections of the city have to bear the burden of your drug addicts. So let’s get to the bottom of this, once and for all. If the clients who will use the facility come from your neighborhood, they are yours. Keep them. We have enough of them now. And if we find we have some of them down here with us, in the “down and outs”, we’re sending them back.
Read the entire editorial here.
As reported by KatieRose Keenan in the Northeast Times this week, Romain House at 4245 Romain Street offers transitional housing for veterans. They are in the running for a makeover from HGTV. To vote for them follow this link. Help the Vets and help Frankford.
Tom Waring of the Northeast Times reports on the Northwood Civic meeting last week. Focus on the Cancer Treatment Center’s need for expansion space. Read it here.
