Mayor Hepkins’
Launches Project “You’re Worthy” To Aid Yeadon/Southwest Philly Residents by
Van Stone frontpagenews1@yahoo.com (267) 293-9201
Just
this week, 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. What he
noticed was that there were many youths loitering for what appeared to be drug
selling crimes, bullying behaviors towards traveling immigrants, and open
bottle alcohol drinking disturbing business owners of shops and stores, to name
a few.
Therefore
Mayor Hepkins is introducing a two year experiment that would work as a Borough
wide platform base that he has called the “You’re Worthy Project” to mobilize
improved quality of life in Southwest Yeadon and with Southwest and West Philadelphia.
Service will once again be on the broad
shoulders of a community and city government partnership program. And the
program will be free. “Of course the project may expand deeper in both Delco
and Philly if full potential is reached,” says the mayor.
The
free programs consist of a “Mayor Letter of Invitation” program. The mayor will
send a letter. The special letter will be meant as a gift from Mayor Hepkins —
the mayor known for his conservative, sturdy
empowerment ideas— for all
concerned citizens throughout the Delaware and Philadelphia county
areas. Mayor Hepkins, who is of Jamaican ancestry, will invite organizations
and/or individuals having each invitee’s home countries and native neighboring volunteering
experiences and career linkages to Yeadon Borough Hall having both Yeadon and
the City of Philadelphia priorities in mind.
Mayor
Rohan has created the You’re Worthy Project as an experimental Yeadon Borough
government service program. The project
for action in Delaware County and the Philadelphia County areas is to promote
equitable, participatory, and sustainable self-help development through
volunteering means. The project welcomes volunteering from all citizens who are
of both American-immigration status and native Philadelphian and Delaware
County status.
The idea is to award both Yeadon Borough and
Southwest and West City of Philadelphia interested residents as well as others
of Philadelphia County and Delaware County with support highlighting city
nuisance crimes, crime reduction, housing, employment, public schools concerns,
and even clean-ups. Black-Native Americans, African Americans, and American -Immigrants
(from Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, to China, Asia, and African
Countries, etc.) will meet with the Mayor Hepkins to discuss the need to unite awareness
and bridge the gap between suburbs and inner city life.
Such
partnerships between mayor of cites and professional organizations and
professional individuals are hardly new on the West coast, but have a new
beginning, sort of, in recent years with this mayor of Yeadon Borough.
Mayor
Hepkins has been increasingly eager to find new positive reception of public
safety and immigrant relations channels for his You’re Worthy project. Hepkins has high hopes of gaining new
sustainable residents for what he now considers “Big Yeadon,” as more people
have been buying homes in other counties to get away from both Yeadon and
Philly because of out of control taxes, troublesome schools, increased
nuisances, and dumping grounds.
“Dumping also breeds
crime, infestation and blight and this is a major problem,” Mayor Hepkins
says. “The national and state policies in housing, education, transportation
and infrastructure are geared towards big cities,” he said. Some main target
areas of concern are back routes of activity near 65th and Woodland
Avenues, in Philly and the business strips along Church Lane as far as Chester
Ave, in Yeadon to Cobbs Creek Parkway in Philly.
And
from the office of the Yeadon mayor, he wants “reports of troubling crime
hotspots and chaotic schools” to come to him so he may “help to bridge
solutions for a better suburban and inner city”. “There is a better way of creating a more
successful community, cultural, and ancestry environment,” he says.
Rohan
K. Hepkins has added a touch more worthiness to the more traditional organized
events and citywide services which benefits city projects in hopes of
attracting younger and older concerned citizens. Yeadon and Philly would seem
to align with that ambition.
As
a legislator, he must deal with these issues every day, but says that his work
as a minister and pastor of the Chapel of the Good Sheppard Church located at
654 Church Lane helps equip him for the duties and responsibilities of mayor.
Mayor Rohan hopes to demonstrate the importance of finding borough and city
solutions to common challenges by creating a project that combines service,
make public leadership work harder and reform to improve neighbor’s lives.
For more information about project You’re
Worthy contact the Yeadon Mayor’s office at (610) 284-1606 or at facebook page
Yeadonmayor Rohankhepkins.
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