Yeadon Mayor Endorses Kenny for Philadelphia Mayor; Proposes Yeadon Mayor and Philadelphia Alliance Initiative by Van Stone frontpagenews1@yahoo.com (267) 293-9201
Yeadon Borough Mayor, Rohan Hepkins
Yeadon Borough Mayor, Rohan Hepkins
In 2014 Yeadon’s Mayor Rohan K.
Hepkins noticed several types of nuisance crimes happening along the Church
Lane downtown Yeadon Borough business strip southwest between Baltimore Avenue,
through Whitby Avenue to 63rd and Cobbs Creek Parkway. He
supported taking action, stay informed, and make good decisions for a better
community.
These kinds of things encourage parents
placing kids in after school programs that are not far from children homes. The
walk is safer.
In 2015 the Yeadon Mayor walking
through 60th Street between Whitby Avenue and Market
Street is searching for ways to reduce the tide of gun violence in
Philadelphia. Gun violence is a common challenge in the Yeadon. Gun violence is ruining business store fronts
and community activity in many healthy neighborhoods.
He wants to launch a Yeadon and
Philadelphia alliance between the Mayor’s Office of Yeadon, and city leaders,
state lawmakers, law enforcement, business owners, school leaders, clergy and
home-based after school program leaders, community groups, artists, and local
residents as focus of his first term in office.
He wants to help develop a diverse
group of people such as Black Americans, African Americans, Caribbean
Americans, government, civic, business, faith-based leadership, forming a better
alliance to “have discussions on policies and programs that would have a
positive impact in the lives of Yeadon’s and Philadelphia's businesses and
children,” says the mayor.
And the mayor hopes to be able to
invite Yeadonites and Philadelphians having a business sense and good after
school program reputation to become volunteers opening their homes as a free
homework help, snack and mentoring satellite for school children that up to
grade 9.
His own vision of an empowerment
zone targeting after school programming and business support will be “the model
to reach out to residents to help facilitate various goods and services along
several programs,” he says, that he hopes
the next mayor of Philadelphia, Jim Kenny, will have as an alliance.
The
2015 Philadelphia mayoral election will be held on November 3, 2015, to elect
the Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, concurrently with various other state and
local elections.
The mayor’s plan for Boroughs and
Philadelphia is “seeking to partnership with the faith-based community to
provide these services in a non-profit enterprise that would be staffed in a
Welcome Center to steer new and existing residents to these goods and services,
in order to create growing, diverse, self-contained, hospitable and sustainable
communities.”
A soon to be determined Welcome
Center will be created to answer questions and steer current and potential
residents to their specific area of interest or concern. “I’m endorsing Jim
Kenny for the next mayor of Philadelphia,” says mayor Hepkins. “Philadelphia needs another mayor who believes
in strong after school programming and diversity. “
Mayor Hepkins hopes to meet with
Kenny soon after a Philadelphia election win to discuss alliance for Yeadon and
Philly common challenges.
