Creative Steps Day Camp Floats Above Racism

Alethea Wright, director of Creative Steps Day Camp, guides young campers off the bus at the end of the day on Monday July 20. The camp was recently thrust into local, national, and international media attention after the Valley Club rescinded a membership from the group. Wright later announced that Tyler Perry would be funding a trip for Creative Steps Day Camp to Disneyworld, FL in early August. 

City Harvest - Curran Fromhold Correctional Facility

(clockwise from left) James Castro, Anthony Allen, Stanley Culbreth, Edward Jankowski stand in the vegetable garden behind the House of Corrections on State Road.
Sharat Somashekara is an instructor who works for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, walks by a golden raspberry bush behind the House of Corrections on State Road.
Raspberry bushes are in bloom in the garden behind the House of Corrections as a part of the City Harvest Program. Vegetables are grown and distributed to community gardens in and around the city. Inmates work in the garden and that provides about 4,000 pounds of food to a cupboard in Frankford.

Geckos !

Emma Stachelek, 7, admires the Leopard Gecko Morph Blanco
Tokay Gecko (right) clings to glass
Giant Leaf-Tailed Gecko
Giant Day Gecko

(right to left) Emma Stachelek, 7, and Carrie Chen observe the geckos at the Academy of Natural Sciences in center city. "Geckos - Tails to Toepads" will be on exhibit until September 7.

Citywide Garden Contest

Judges from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (from left) Nick and Ida Roman, and Cynthia Kolesar visit the vegetable garden of Giovanni Cancelliere in Bustleton. The judges look for quality as well as ingenuity in the city gardens. Cancelliere's vegetable garden is made up of tomatoes, peppers, and a fig tree. The 96 year-old works daily to maintain his garden.