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Friday, November 4, 2011

Thursday, November 3, 2011

REP Kenyatta'S views of the community

1.       What were some of his legislative events?  Healthy Senior Event,  186th College Achievement Fair, Career Fair, Small Business Symposium, just to name a few.  
2.       What were the demographics of his district in the past and how has this changed? Gentrification has change the community and it has improved the community.  (I’m thinking it was always a mixed community so not much has changed,)

The current demographics for Rep. Johnson’s district are as follows:Women make up a large percentage of his district ( ages 18-35). The residents of this district are approximately 70 percent African American, 20 percent Caucasian and 10 percent Asian. The majority is low-income, however there is a subset of constituents, particularly in the South Street area of the City, that are progressive and policy-focused. This subset includes a substantial student population.  Business and economic opportunities:Rep. Johnson’s district consist of five main business corridors, which are Point Breeze Avenue, Passyunk Avenue, South Street, Washington Avenue and Grays Ferry Avenue. Many of the establishments in these corridors are small businesses and the recent decline in the economy has had a negative effect on many of them.  Because Small Business play a major role in helping to sustain the economy on both the local and national level, Rep. Johnson hosted the Small Business Symposium to help bring resources to the businesses in his district, including information about the Small Business Act. Rep. Johnson continues to advocate for small businesses to ensure that they receive the support they need including tax credits and other incentives to help them spare and grow their businesses.
This isJordan Harris Mayor Nutter and Rep. Johnson.

Rep. Kenyatta volunteers hard at work.

Rep doing the peace  not gun walk to help decrease the crime in the neighborhood

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

My community of Point Breeze South Philadelphia

The area of point breeze   Alter (near Washington Avenue) to McKean streets, Broad to 27th streets
Population is  25,000 78 percent : white 8percent ; Asian, 11 percent; Latino, 2 percent; other, 1 percent. About 30 percent of the population is under 18.
The community of  Point Breeze was establish in  1895.
Point Breeze was tidy and well-maintained. Its growing  business district. Point Breeze Avenue is filled with restaurants and stores. Over the years, the businesses suffered because of the. Drugs, blight and crime crept in, which made the area the way it is. The population drop 10% during the year of 1990 and 2000, because of school closing . The Point Breeze Performing Arts Center opened at 1717-21 Point Breeze Ave. 20 years ago and has trained a lot of talented dancers. Universal Companies, at 15th and Catharine streets, took on the mission of renovate  South Philly areas in the mid-'90s.  the founder of the universal company Kenny Gamble donate a 100 million to bulid house between south federal west of board to 19th. this was only the beginning  the nonprofit company envisions eventually constructing about 2,000 homes in the area surrounding its headquarters.
Universal is also in the education business, running William S. Peirce Middle School, 24th and Christian streets, and Edwin M. Stanton Elementary, 17th and Christian, for the School District of Philadelphia. Edwin H. Vare Middle School, 24th Street and Snyder Avenue, has been converted to a charter, also under the company's operation. The organization also has its own charter school, Universal Institute, 801 S. 15th St.
   Celebs of  Point BreezeMiami Heat forward Rasual Butler, from 20th and Manton streets; Anthony Burrell, 22nd and Dickinson streets, is a product of the Point Breeze Performing Arts Center and now is a backup dancer for Beyonc; legendary jazz musicians the Heath Brothers -- tenor saxophonist Jimmy, drummer Albert and bass player Percy; Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter, lead vocalist/rapper of Grammy Award-winning band The Roots, from 23rd and Watkins streets; H. Patrick Swygert, president of Howard University, from 15th and Wharton streets
Land marks : The Point Breeze Performing Arts Center and the avenue itself, once a major shopping district.
Types of Architecture: Rowhouses and townhouses
State Senate district: First, Vincent Fumo (D); Eighth, Anthony Williams (D)
State House district: 186th, Harold James (D)
City Council district: Second, Council President Anna Verna (D)
Civic groups and townwatches: Point Breeze Civic Association, Point Breeze Community
The civic association is a non profit organazition which there jobs are to support and help bulid the comminty of point breeze  by servicing the community.

Friday, October 28, 2011

Philadelphia is great place to live and raise a family. Philadelphia has been around since 1682. William Penn establish a treat with the Lenni Lanape the native americans . to learn  more about the history and events that happen in the philadelphia (south ) here a link to a time line of event that happen in philadelphia 
  


Sports

Sports in Philadelphia


No one could have realized it at the time, but when the Phillies were formed in 1883, history was in the making. Now, as the 21st century begins, the Phillies are the oldest, continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional sports.

The first Phillies game was played May 1, 1883 at Recreation Park on the corner of 24th Street and Ridge Avenue with the club losing 4-3 to the Providence Grays. The club would go on to win just 17 of 98 games that season, pitcher John Coleman losing 48 of them
Thirty-three years after their first National League season, the Phillies finally reached the World Series. They did it in 1915 with a powerful team led by first-year manager Pat Moran. The Phils swept to the pennant with a 90-62 record, leading most of the way and finishing seven games ahead of the defending world champion Boston Braves. Grover Cleveland Alexander won 31 games and pitched four one-hitters, Erskine Mayer won 21, and Gavvy Cravath (photo at right) set a Major League record with 24 home runs while also leading the league in RBI and runs scored. The home run record would last until Babe Ruth broke it in 1919. After Alexander and the Phils won the first game of the World Series, the club lost four straight to the Boston Red Sox, the end coming when Harry Hooper bounced his second ground-rule home run of the game into the center field bleachers for a 5-4 Red Sox victory, Boston's fourth straight one-run triumph.










link to the history on the philadelphia eagles