One of the SAFE STREETS corners, 20th and Carpenter, visited by Street, Verna and James is the target of a clean-and-green effort by Northwest South Philly on Saturday, June 22. [MORE INFO]

 

(We don't have everyone's name on these photos yet. We apologize...)

1. Hicks and Tasker.	2, Hicks and Tasker.
3. Sixteenth and Catharine. John Street (center) tells Council President Anna C. Verna (left) and Democratic Party 30th Ward Leader Terry Gillen (right) about an elderly woman who bragged that she is walking to the corner store "because I can." People feel safe to venture outside their homes for the first time in years, Street commented.	4. John Street and Terry Gillen in front of the Southwest-Belmont Y. A flourishing 30th Ward social center during World War II and the postwar years, the community center is now underutilized.
5. Sixteenth and Catharine.	6. Twentieth and Carpenter. John Street and friends. The lot beyind Mayor Street was cleaned in the summer of 2001 by volunteers from Ward Leader Terry Gillen's "30th Ward Is On The Move" initiative.
7. Twentieth and Carpenter, including committeeperson Karen Mudd (background, with bicycle)	8. Twentieth and Carpenter. John Street (with children), Harold James, and children from the neighborhood.
9. Twentieth and Carpenter. Committeeperson Marion Jones (blue denim jacket) with ward leader Terry Gillen and area residents.	10. Twentieth and Carpenter, with St. Charles Borromeo church in background.
11. Anna C. Verna, left, with South Philadelphia Blocks Association chairman Wayne Rahman and Allison Sprague.	12. Twentieth and Carpenter. Area resident, John Street, Harold James (background, right)
13. 20th and Carpenter. Left to right: unidentified area resident, John Street, Rita Butler, Harold James	14. John Street and constituent
15. John Street, center, and area residents.	16. Left to right: Sylvester Johnson, ___, John Street, Anna C. Verna, Harold James, ___, Ed Wiggins.
17. Harold James, Sylvester Johnson, and area residents.	18. Sylvester Johnson, Harold James, John Street, and area residents.
19. Wayne Rahman, left, and John Street.

Photos by Laura Blanchard and Rita Butler.

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