So anyway, if you hadn't already heard/figured out, residents of the 38th Ward (East Falls, Allegheny West, Nicetown, Tioga, etc.) are going to fight the coming of a "temporary" move of the Youth Study Center to the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (EPPI), located next to the site of MCP. The move was expedited to make way for the arrival of the Barnes Foundation to the Parkway.
Residents are not against bringing the Barnes to Philadelphia; but are upset that they were not consulted on the move which was suggested by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. At a meeting held at MCP last night, residents made known their dissatisfaction with the way the city government is handling the move. City officials only presented a third of their planned presentation because residents did not want to hear it.
Besides the city's managing director, Loree Jones, other high profile attendees included Jerry Mondesire of the Phila. NAACP, Councilman Frank Rizzo, Councilmanic Candidate Curtis Jones, Jr. and Irv Acklesberg.
We will have more on this story as it develops.
On a slightly lighter note, one East Falls residents is doing his part in honoring "the Greatest Generation". Mike Fraticelli is working on a non-profit independent film that talks about the survivors of Operation Torch, the first Allied landings in Northwest Africa during World War II. Mike has done a lot of research and has been laboring greatly to get the project finished. It is of course, far from complete but it is a great story to keep an eye on.
With more to come, stay tuned...
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