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Strawberry Mansion: Recreation Center Helps Children Learn and Grow

November 30, 2015pnadmin

Children gathered their backpacks and lunches as they got ready to leave the Cecil B. Moore Recreation Center. The recreation center, located near the corner of 22nd Street and Sedgley Avenue, provides children with a

Olney: Music School Serves as Cultural Beacon for Residents

November 30, 2015Rovell S Vialva

Situated on the crowded commercial blocks of Olney dwells one of the last bastions of music education in the community. The Gibson School of Music and Arts seeks to preserve musical tradition in the community

Brewerytown: Laid-Off Teacher Gets Back on His Feet by Opening CrossFit Gym

November 24, 2015pnadmin

For most people, being laid off from a position as a high school social studies teacher would be a stroke of bad luck. For Brian Terpak, it was the universe’s way of telling him to

Hunting Park: Ryan Harris Helps Youths to Think, Grow Outside of the Box

November 11, 2015Harrison Brink and

When you leave the neighborhood you grew up in, it can be easy to simply move on from the troubles you faced there. Many want to escape their, perhaps, troublesome pasts and move on toward

Strawberry Mansion: Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facility Helps Build Better Community

November 10, 2015pnadmin and

Rochelle Amos sat nervously at a desk in a conference room at Stop and Surrender Inc., a substance abuse treatment provider located at 2522 W. Huntingdon St. In a shaky voice, she talked about what

Strawberry Mansion: Widener Library Block Party Teaches Vocabulary

November 9, 2015pnadmin

It was a sunny and cool afternoon for the Widener Branch Library’s first Words at Play Vocabulary Initiative block party. Words at Play, hosted by PNC, is a community-wide initiative to show the importance of learning

Brewerytown: Rep. Donna Bullock Gives Residents a New Voice in Harrisburg

November 9, 2015pnadmin

State Rep. Donna Bullock was sworn in as the legislator for the 195th District in August after her predecessor, Rep. Michelle Brownlee, pleaded guilty to a conflict of interest charge and tendered her resignation. The 195th District stretches

Northern Liberties: Liberty Lands Brings the Community Closer

November 9, 2015pnadmin and

The Liberty Lands committee wakes up early many Saturday mornings not to drink coffee and relax but to plant trees, clean up trash and pull out weeds from more than 30 garden plots. Liberty Lands sits

Northern Liberties: Getting the Community’s Hands Dirty

November 6, 2015pnadmin

Terrariums hang from the ceiling and green plants are everywhere inside City Planter. The former warehouse on 4th Street neat Brown is now a gardener’s sanctuary, with shelves of green plants and colorful flowers spilling out to the sidewalk, bringing

Juniata Park: Animal Group Aims to Educate Pet Owners This Winter

November 5, 2015Harrison Brink

As the weather starts to get colder, people are covering up to stay warm. Yet animals are sometimes left out in the cold. This can be due to neglect or due to innocent ignorance. Regardless of