Neast Philly reports that Frankford’s state representative Tony Payton came to the aid of a drug addled girl having an apparent health crisis last week.
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The Great Debate
My apologies for not posting this sooner. We have been behind due to some personal issues this week.
Incumbent State Representative, Democrat Tony Payton of the 179 district will debate the Republican party candidate, Matthew Franchetti, at Great Awakenings cafe on October 31, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. Public is naturally invited.
Crime Camera Still a Dud
We noted that this camera, corner of Frankford and Pratt) was not and has not been working on September 19th. Representative Payton’s office reported it downtown to PPD headquarters. Seems like it has been enough time to fix it doesn’t it unless the priority for Frankford issues is so low that they just don’t think its important. I guess it will take somebody getting shot under before it gets fixed.
We’ve heard all the excuses before. Just get the job done.
UnLitter Us Please
So how did this all come about? A while ago the Frankford CDC and the Frankford Business and Professional Association both decided to work on the litter issue in Frankford. The time had come to take a shot at improving the situation here. By a stroke of serendipity, the city of Philadelphia awoke from its slumber and decided it was time to do the same thing citywide. So UnLitter Us Frankford is the first in a citywide effort to work on this problem.
It took a lot to drag me out of the house and down to Frankford and Pratt today for the UnLitter Us rally. I support the idea but the rain was still dripping and the sun wasn’t out and I didn’t feel like taking the video equipment down there etc. But I decided to go because I knew I would live to regret it if I didn’t. I was pleasantly surprised by a congenial crowd milling about chowing down on Mark Gilbert’s Thriftway hot dogs. It was a stroke of genius to schedule this event on the first of the month thereby ensuring a large crowd of happy shoppers passing by.
The mural arts people had a decorated trash truck down there and I can relate to that. Its beauty rivaled the trucks I saw traveling through the Khyber pass back in 1968 during the vacation that Lyndon Johnson sent me on. No surface is left undecorated as if it would be an insult to the gods of art to see a patch of plain unadorned paint. It was a site to behold.
SEPTA had a big green bus which was a big green diesel electric hybrid bus. Neat idea combining the two technologies.
The speechifying commenced with introductions by Tracy O’Drain of the CDC. Tony Payton spoke and Jason Dawkins spoke on behalf of Councilwoman Sanchez who was downtown on official business. Denise McVeigh of the recycle bank, Diane Richardson and Mark Gilbert of the Frankford Business and Professional Association also addressed the crowd.
Now I admit that I am ignorant of this spoken word art idea. My experience with it has been those idiots who are always riding around in their little cars playing their radios so loud that it shakes your bones a car length away. I was expecting that experience today and much to my delight it turned out otherwise.
Greg Corbin performed “The City Has a Heartbeat“. Carlo Campbell did his “Reconsider” and Whitney Peyton presented “Broken Bottles“. I get it now. Thanks.
The event is to be followed up by a Frankford wide cleanup on Saturday October 2nd.
Aria Health Names New Chief
From the Philadelphia Business Journal:
Kathleen Kinslow will take over as president and CEO of Aria Health in November.
Kinslow is currently CEO and executive director of Pennsylvania Hospital. At Aria, she will succeed Roy Powell, who stepped down from the posts in February after 14 years to lead Aria’s effort to expand in Bucks County — where the health system is seeking to building a new hospital in Lower Makefield.
Kinslow joined Pennsylvania Hospital in 1992 as director of the school of nurse anesthesia. She continued up the management ranks serving as vice president of clinical services/chief nursing officer and chief operating officer before becoming CEO and executive director.
Too soon to see what this will mean to the Frankford division. You would think with her background in nursing she might build on the nursing school’s success and expand here in Frankford. Somebody in Tony Payton’s office should have a talk about that.
