Year: 2010

The Meals on Wheels program at the Klein JCC in Northeast Philadelphia delivers nearly 50,000 meals a year, but expects that number to grow. “In a lot of cases it starts out where they need

After 20 years of what residents are calling abandonment, Catalina Hunter, One Hope Community Church, United Way and local residents decided it was time to make use of the vacant lot. Within a year, this

https://vimeo.com/17933003] Eric Pellini looks at Victory Outreach’s attempt to get drug users off the streets in Kensington.

https://vimeo.com/17933160] The Trolley Car Diner was transported by truck 10 years ago from Wilkes Barre, Pa., to its current site in Mount Airy. Owner Ken Weinstein was able to find a vacant Roy Rogers site

https://vimeo.com/18641367] On the main street of a little neighborhood sitting on the edge of Philadelphia’s border bleeding into suburbia, a once-popular pastry factory is resurrecting its namesake and the hot glazed doughnut. Standing underneath the

Leroy Fisher can’t help but smile when talking about Hunting Park, his boyish beam spreading across his cheeks that now glisten from the tears that fill his eyes. “Why [do I cry] in every interview?”

A thick magenta curtain closes in the room where Daren Dieter spends his time at his home on Lawnton Avenue. “I watch a lot more television than I used to watch,” says Dieter. Dieter, now

Thirty pairs of hopeful eyes gazed up at Mitch Little with anticipation as he cracked open the first pages of a children’s book. Surrounded by press and unfamiliar dignitaries of the South Philadelphia area, this