Thursday, May 26, 2016

Find at least five news articles on your neighborhood, good and bad






               

Kensington: After-School Program Allows For A Comeback In The Arts

An elementary school in Kensington John Moffet has started an after school program.Moffet has been able to maintain an after-school program that focuses on enriching students through art and music education.


In Kensington, the drug trade tells a tale of two neighborhoods

The ones who got into the game in their teenage years, served a few stints in prison, and by some statistical miracle survived to age 30 or 40, still working in the only trade they know — they try to keep the beef to a minimum. Gunshots are bad for business.



It was in the 1970s when drug use and the violent state of the neighborhood spurred a unique change among a small group of Puerto Rican women in West Kensington.

Kensington: Local Gardens Cultivate Community, Help Revitalize Neighborhoods
Philly's Cop-Free Heroin Zone

the biggest ever to flock to this well-known drug corner. The city’s unrelenting heat wave has left them worse for wear, their exposed skin coated in a glaze of sweat, their tank tops and shorts smeared with street grime.







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