Lamont A. Nelson Making the Cover of the Philadelphia Front Page News-Magazine

Mayor Hepkins’ Launches Project “You’re Worthy” To Aid Yeadon/Southwest Philly Residents by Van Stone frontpagenews1@yahoo.com (267) 293-9201

Mayor Hepkins’ Launches Project “You’re Worthy” To Aid Yeadon/Southwest Philly Residents by Van Stone frontpagenews1@yahoo.com (267) 293-9201   

Just this week, Mayor Rohan K. Hepkins noticed several types of nuisance crimes happening along the Church Lane downtown Yeadon Borough business strip southwest between Baltimore Avenue, through Whitby Avenue to 63^rd and Cobbs Creek Parkway.   What he noticed was that there were many youths loitering for what appeared to be drug selling crimes, bullying behaviors towards traveling immigrants, and open bottle alcohol drinking disturbing business owners of shops and stores, to name a few.

Therefore Mayor Hepkins is introducing a two year experiment that would work as a Borough wide platform base that he has called the “You’re Worthy Project” to mobilize improved quality of life in Southwest Yeadon and with Southwest and West Philadelphia.  Service will once again be on the broad shoulders of a community and city government partnership program. And the program will be free. “Of course the project may expand deeper in both Delco and Philly if full potential is reached,” says the mayor.

The free programs consist of a “Mayor Letter of Invitation” program. The mayor will send a letter. The special letter will be meant as a gift from Mayor Hepkins — the mayor known for his conservative, sturdy  empowerment ideas— for all  concerned citizens throughout the Delaware and Philadelphia county areas. Mayor Hepkins, who is of Jamaican ancestry, will invite organizations and/or individuals having each invitee’s home countries and native neighboring volunteering experiences and career linkages to Yeadon Borough Hall having both Yeadon and the City of Philadelphia priorities in mind.

Mayor Rohan has created the You’re Worthy Project as an experimental Yeadon Borough government service program.  The project for action in Delaware County and the Philadelphia County areas is to promote equitable, participatory, and sustainable self-help development through volunteering means. The project welcomes volunteering from all citizens who are of both American-immigration status and native Philadelphian and Delaware County status.  

The idea is to award both Yeadon Borough and Southwest and West City of Philadelphia interested residents as well as others of Philadelphia County and Delaware County with support highlighting city nuisance crimes, crime reduction, housing, employment, public schools concerns, and even clean-ups. Black-Native Americans, African Americans, and American -Immigrants (from Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, to China, Asia, and African Countries, etc.) will meet with the Mayor Hepkins to discuss the need to unite awareness and bridge the gap between suburbs and inner city life.

Such partnerships between mayor of cites and professional organizations and professional individuals are hardly new on the West coast, but have a new beginning, sort of, in recent years with this mayor of Yeadon Borough. 

Mayor Hepkins has been increasingly eager to find new positive reception of public safety and immigrant relations channels for his You’re Worthy project.   Hepkins has high hopes of gaining new sustainable residents for what he now considers “Big Yeadon,” as more people have been buying homes in other counties to get away from both Yeadon and Philly because of out of control taxes, troublesome schools, increased nuisances, and dumping grounds.

“Dumping also breeds crime, infestation and blight and this is a major problem,” Mayor Hepkins says.  “The national and state policies in housing, education, transportation and infrastructure are geared towards big cities,” he said. Some main target areas of concern are back routes of activity near 65^th and Woodland Avenues, in Philly and the business strips along Church Lane as far as Chester Ave, in Yeadon to Cobbs Creek Parkway in Philly.

And from the office of the Yeadon mayor, he wants “reports of troubling crime hotspots and chaotic schools” to come to him so he may “help to bridge solutions for a better suburban and inner city”.  “There is a better way of creating a more successful community, cultural, and ancestry environment,” he says.

Rohan K. Hepkins has added a touch more worthiness to the more traditional organized events and citywide services which benefits city projects in hopes of attracting younger and older concerned citizens. Yeadon and Philly would seem to align with that ambition.

As a legislator, he must deal with these issues every day, but says that his work as a minister and pastor of the Chapel of the Good Sheppard Church located at 654 Church Lane helps equip him for the duties and responsibilities of mayor.

Mayor Rohan hopes to demonstrate the importance of finding borough and city solutions to common challenges by creating a project that combines service, make public leadership work harder and reform to improve neighbor’s lives.   For more information about project You’re Worthy contact the Yeadon Mayor’s office at (610) 284-1606 or at facebook page Yeadonmayor Rohankhepkins.

Woman Abducted From Germantown Returns Home Safe; Suspect Reportedly Confesses

Woman Abducted From Germantown Returns Home Safe; Suspect Reportedly Confesses

 

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A woman who was abducted off a Philadelphia street and then found alive three days later is now back home with her family, and the suspected kidnapper has reportedly confessed to the abduction.

Twenty-two-year-old Carlesha Freeland-Gaither arrived home with her family early Thursday morning, a day after she was safely rescued in Jessup, Maryland.

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Show Highlights Works of William Glackens, Albert Barnes’ Friend and Art Mentor

Show Highlights Works of William Glackens, Albert Barnes’ Friend and Art Mentor

Exhibit curator Avis Berman, in orange blouse, describes some of
the works in the current Glackens show at the Barnes.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A lifelong friend of Dr. Albert Barnes is having his own moment in the limelight at the Barnes Foundation, on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

A retrospective look at the works of William Glackens begins this weekend.

As Barnes began to ponder what his collection would become, he dispatched his friend and former Central High School classmate William Glackens to Paris in 1912 on an open-ended buying trip for “some good modern paintings.”

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President Obama Visits Temple To ‘Get Out The Vote’ For Wolf

President Obama Visits Temple To ‘Get Out The Vote’ For Wolf

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Tom Wolf’s campaign for Governor of Pennsylvania got a boost from the White House. President Obama campaigned for Wolf Sunday at Temple University.

The night was for Wolf, but the President was the man of the hour. He spoke for nearly 30 minutes at the Liacouras Center on everything ranging from education to job creation.

“Together we can build up our middle class, that we can pass down something better for our kids,” Obama said. “That’s what built Pennsylvania. That’s what built America.”

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Camden Hosting Several ‘Anti-mischief Night’ Activities

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Camden Hosting Several ‘Anti-mischief Night’ Activities

CAMDEN, NJ (CBS) – Officials in Camden County are encouraging kids and teens to forgo the traditional “Mischief Night” festivities in favor of other activities.

Camden is hosting several events in area parks that are meant to act as safe alternatives to the once typical acts of vandalism such a toilet-papering trees and egging homes.

The events are being held from 5 – 7 p.m. and include refreshments and giveaways as well as activities.

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Lamont A. Nelson Helping To Improve Neighborhoods Creating His Halloween Graffiti by Van Stone frontpagenews1@yahoo.com (267) 293-9201

Lamont A. Nelson Helping To Improve Neighborhoods Creating His Halloween Graffiti by Van Stone frontpagenews1@yahoo.com (267) 293-9201

His graffiti is much like trying to make sure that no one is erasing a part of themselves during Halloween.  Lamont A. Nelson, a local graffiti artist, is doing some nice work in Philly’s iconic 60th and Washington Avenue street area in support of any Halloween that will promote improving neighborhoods.

Nelson wants to use graffiti art on white paper as backdrop for much of anyone’s safe Halloween party. He wants the fun party to also be some sort of reminder and explanation about the importance of knowing a little something about culture and graffiti artist. And, Nelson wants kids as well as adults to know much more about what hand writers do as artists.

So, by Saturday morning, on October 31, 2014, this Halloween, the white sheets of paper that were once used to just fill up printers and copy machines will be adorned with colorful graffiti handwritings that are black, gray and blue.

In graffiti work to create something special for the festive seasons is the ultimate form of respect. So for Nelson to design, pen and ink in his graffiti work solely to support this Halloween that is work which stands out.

Nelson wants to work along with other artists he has in mind who are at the ready to write up the papers and by Saturday morning help kids and parents happy to get some graffiti treats.

Lamont, a teacher by trade, want kids to be safe during Halloween and ask their friends to consider try some handy handwriting on blank sheets of paper.

Many in the neighborhood and graffiti artists are upset about how Halloween most always gets a bad rap. 
Only those who really don’t understand what the fun of a safe Halloween is about make a fuss about Halloween being evil amongst other things.  But the truth about Halloween is that the celebration gives kids, and those who are kids at heart, a chance to be allowed to party. 

They’re good kids and parents who just like to have safe fun. They’re not evil. They’re not promoting the destruction of a good community after participating in Halloween. And Nelson, using his graffiti hand skills, is checking to see that his artwork will be used for the safe family fun.

Philadelphia City Council Pulls Plug on PGW Privatization Deal

Philadelphia City Council Pulls Plug on PGW Privatization Deal

 

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia City Council president Darrell Clarke today notified the Nutter administration that City Council will not be endorsing the sale of the Philadelphia Gas Works to a private owner, effectively killing the deal.

The deal needed City Council approval, but the legislation was never introduced, nor hearings scheduled.

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SEPTA Union Leaders Speak Out About Possible Strike

SEPTA Union Leaders Speak Out About Possible Strike

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Transit Workers’ Local 234 voted unanimously on Sunday to authorize a SEPTA strike, which would impact the buses, trains and trollies. Union leaders spoke out Monday afternoon.

A decision on whether to strike could come as soon as Friday.

“It’s not something we take lightly.”

Local 234 President Willie Brown briefed reporters saying the union and SEPTA are as far apart as Pennsylvania is to California and SEPTA must use the next four days to close the gap on key issues like pension reform, and arbitration to avoid a strike.

“To me this is not about economics as past contracts have been — to me it’s about egos.”

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Indictment: 4 NJ Cops Allegedly Planned RetaliationIndictment: 4 NJ Cops Allegedly Planned Retaliation

Indictment: 4 NJ Cops Allegedly Planned Retaliation

 

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Indictment: 4 NJ Cops Allegedly Planned Retaliation

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EDISON, N.J. (AP) — Four Edison police officers have been indicted on charges that they conspired to retaliate against an officer from another department because he arrested one of the Edison officer’s relatives for drunken driving.

The indictment recently handed up by a Middlesex County grand jury alleges that in early 2012, the four Edison officers improperly accessed information about a North Brunswick officer and performed surveillance on him and his travel habits. But prosecutors say no actual retaliation occurred.

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SEPTA Trolley, Bus, Subway Operators Give Union Leadership Authorization To Strike

SEPTA Trolley, Bus, Subway Operators Give Union Leadership Authorization To Strike

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) –   Members of SEPTA’s largest labor union – which represents subway, bus, and trolley operators – voted to give its leadership the authorization to call a strike, but they say the buses and train trolleys will keep rolling, at least for now.

Members filing out of Sunday’s meeting say they’ve been told they will be on the job this week, but they say the vote was unanimous:

“I didn’t hear anyone say nay,” says Transport Workers Union Local 234 member Mark Hilton.
Hilton says no one wants to strike, but he says the strike authorization is their only leverage against SEPTA negotiators:

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Power WVSR 1360 In Association with the National Exhoodus Networks, LLC Summer Youth and Young Adult Exhoodus Retreat for Children and Young Adults of Incarcerated Parents

(Yeadon Mayor, Rohan K. Hepkins Facebook News Page)

Public Communications Department

Van Stone, Director / Malik Aziz, Interim Assistant Director

What we do

Malik Aziz of the National Exhoodus Networks, LLC Summer Youth and Young Adult Exhoodus Retreat for Children and Young Adults of Incarcerated Parents has been named Interim Assistant Director of Public Communication Department for the radio station Power WVSR 1360.us (West Philadelphia Van Stone Radio) in Pennsylvania. 

Malik Aziz will lead primarily children and parents who are interested in Incarcerated Parents, Parents who have been unjustly permanently separated from their own children due to family court orders, as well as issues pertaining to immigrants, black Indian peoples, Caribbean peoples, and African peoples in Southeastern Pa and the Dominican Republic.

Van Stone, Director of the radio station’s public communications will take the head lead in helping to bridge office of the Mayor, Office of City Council, Office of Congressman, amongst other offices of officials elected by the people to aid in public communications.    

We tell the stories of Philadelphia County, Delaware County and Southeastern Pa. City Concerns, as well as Immigration, Black-American Indian (Black Indian), and City Government, gathering and distributing information to keep folks informed about city policies, programs, services and neighborhoods.

Malik Aziz will participate in matters such as:  If you want to watch your City leaders in action but can’t make it down to City Hall, radio communication (air) City Council meetings on internet radio and TV and stream them on the web.

Exhoodus Retreat or radio station city brochure will be produced with participation of children and young adults involved in programming for a better borough, township, or city.

Malik Aziz will assist Van Stone with planning and collaborating with City leaders, departments, and outside professional organizations and even individuals to make sure that residents, businesses and visitors of the borough, township or city understand what is happening in their own city government and how it affects their lives.

How we do it

Internet and Social Media
We publish news and information on the following websites:  powerwvsr1360.us, frontpagenews.us, fpnnews.us, delcofrontpagenews.com, http://malikaziz.blogspot.com/, and (yeadonmayor rohankhepkins facebook news page).