300 Durfor Street (cue the wild applause).
Clean Block Contest winners were announced Friday Night at the Philadelphia More Beautiful Committee Annual Awards Banquet, with the Mayor, Managing Director, and dozens of block captains in attendance. Other prize-winning blocks include 5900 Webster Street, 2400 North 16th Street, and 6400 Sprague Street. Special recognition was also given to the Mayor’s Neighborhood Transformation Initiative, and individual captains received awards for helping neighbors, beautification projects and Junior Block Captain of the Year.
A successful evening among block captains and City departments, I’d like to see a little more press coverage of the event next year. With so many different communities participating, I’m surprised most of the TV networks and a few of the larger papers missed out. Since news headlines are littered with the negative, this would be a nice "pick-me-up" in reporting.
