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Northeast EPIC Stakeholder’s Meeting Update

Another fast paced EPIC meeting was held at 2nd Baptist Church on Thursday, May 30th.  The highlights were:

  • The 8th Annual National Fatherhood Conference at the  Pennsylvania Convention Center from 9AM to 3PM on the 200 Level. The Conference is a FREE event that provides a national forum for learning and workshops centered on educating male parents and mentors.  The event attracts a truly diverse and national audience including over hundreds of Fathers from over eight different states, of all races, cultures, backgrounds, religions, orientations, and colors attend. The conference focuses on Parenting, Financial/Asset Building, Health & Wellness, Legal Rights, Education and Healthy Relationships.
  • The recent Frankford Youth Rally held at Frankford High School managed in spite of some bad weather.  The kids had a great time.
  • The first annual Mother and Daughter Bonding Summit will be held on June 22nd from 9AM to 2PM at Belfield Recreation Center, 2100 West Chew Avenue.  More information is available at http://www.motherdaughterbonding.org/
  • Becky Espanol and Denea Whitest made a presentation for the Parents Involved Network.  The subject of dealing with charter schools and some of the unique issues that your children might encounter.
  • David Lapp, from the Education Law Center, gave a wide ranging presentation on legal issues related to education.  The School to Prison Pipeline concept rang true with the group.  More information is available at http://www.elc-pa.org/

The next Northeast EPIC Stakeholders meeting is scheduled for Thursday June 27 at 5:30PM at the 2nd Baptist Church at 1801 Meadow Street.

 

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Frankford’s First 5K

It was a beautiful day for a walk or a run on Saturday, June 1st and over 200 people gathered over at Harding Middle School to show their support for the CHICKS health and welfare program.  The event was sponsored by the GrassROOTS Community Foundation and Tariq (Black Thought) Trotter of The Roots.

Black Thought was there cheering on the runners in a great display of community involvement.

See the short video from our YouTube channel.


 

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Kimberly Washington to the Helm of the Frankford CDC

Kimberly Washington has been chosen as the new Executive Director of the Frankford Community Development Corporation.  Kim has served as the leader of the Northeast EPIC Stakeholders group for several years and will be stepping down from that position.

In addition, the Frankford Neighborhood Advisory Committee has moved into the Frankford CDC headquarters at 4900 Griscom Street.  The NAC had been resident at the Carson Valley Children’s Aid office on Frankford Avenue.  Carson vacated that location and has moved into another of their locations at 2300 West Allegheny Avenue.

 

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Love Your Park Plant Sale at Overington Park

On May 18th we held our second annual perennial plant sale in our park as a fund raiser, and we planted our new flower bed around the shed. We had a small turnout but we made more money from our plant sale then last year! All of the plants came from 4 FOOP (Friends of Overington Park) member’s gardens. The rain held off until we were done. The JR ROTC came out to help as well as members of the Frankford Garden Club. Our thanks goes out to all the neighbors who came out to support our efforts in the park by buying a plant or two.

The new bed around the shed looks beautiful, but we have already had people pulling out what we put into the bed. It surprises us that the work we put into the park can be undone by a few bad people. Over the weekend someone came into the park and dug up a beautiful Hydrangea from our shade bed. How special for them to steal form everyone for their own enrichment. The Friends of Overington Park would like to hope that if anyone sees the destruction of our park, that they will step up and tell them to stop. We can only do so much to make this park a better place.   We need everyone who enjoys the improvements in our park to make a stand about doing the right thing and protecting what we have planted for everyone to enjoy.
If you would like to do some good in our park come out and join us on our park work day Thursday’s from 9 till noon, we would love to see you there.

Diane Kunze, president, Friends Of Overington Park

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