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Volume 08, Issue 1		January 2008

Wynnefield Residents Association 5301 Overbrook Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19131 Phone: (215) 878-0571 Fax: (215) 878-0646 Wynnefieldresidents@hotmail.com Web Site: www.wynnefield.org   The WRA membership campaign for 2008 is now underway. Your membership is very important if we are to continue our many services to meet the needs of all residents. Please stop in at the John C. Anderson Cultural Center, 5301 Overbrook Avenue or call 215-878-0571 for an application.   When donating to United Way we would appreciate you assigning your donor option to WRA # 5174   Inside this issue:       Click subject to jump to page     2    WRA CHRISTMAS PARTY   2    MEMBERSHIP DRIVE     3    CITY AVENUE   3    ANDERSON CENTER     4    5k RACE   4    OHS GOLF OUTING     5    HISTORICAL SOCIETY   5    SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCH   5    WEED & SEED     6    GOMPERS SCHOOL   6    LIBRARY HAPPENINGS

WRA FUNDRAISERS Plans for the proposed Community Recreation Center include appealing to major private and public philanthropic agencies for funding help. In preparation for writing funding grant proposals, WRA will be holding several fund raising drives to demonstrate to potential benefactors the grassroots commitment, support, and involvement of the Wynnefield community in the project.   One of the fund raising events sponsored by WRA will be an “ethical fashion show”, to be produced by the Bel Esprit group under its Director Deb Pokallus. The organization Bel Esprit is committed to promoting new and emerging international fashion designers. Bel Esprit’s mission is to promote ethical business practices   and products by promoting companies which observe fair labor practices, and which produce fashion collections while respecting and observing ethcal treatment of the environment and its inhabitants. The WRA sponsored show will include professional & aspiring professional models, and fashions from several international designers from London, Paris, Nigeria and other fashion centers. The show will be held at St. Joseph’s Campion Center, on March 29, 2008. Following the show there will be a Reception and Bazaar where attendees will have the opportunity to purchase fashions & jewelry from the show, and WRA Tee shirts and buttons. Bel Esprit also will be producing a fashion show at the Phila. Convention Center in May of 2008.   Ethical fashion means producing materials and goods in the fashion industry that sustain use of natural resources, preserve natural environments and respect the inhabitants of ecosystems, ie. fashion fabrics, materials and goods, man made or natural, using process and that: respect and preserve the environment, guarantee sustainable use of the local natural resources, do not disrupt or destroy the local ecosystem. WRA is pleased to be able to sponsor this special show. Please join in the fun and help support our efforts for the Community Recreational Center by purchasing your tickets now.   Call the WRA Office (215-878-0571) for ticket information.     RECYCLE YOUR OLD CELL PHONE Another program WRA is sponsoring to mobilize community support for our recreation center project is a cell phone recycling drive. WRA has enlisted Overbrook High students who, in the coming weeks, will visit local businesses to request permission   to leave collection boxes for used cell phones. (There is a collection box in the WRA office at the Anderson Center.) We are requesting that our neighbors deliver their old cell phones to these collection boxes. All collected phones will be sold   by WRA to a cell phone recycling company, who will recondition the phones and distribute them to women’s shelters and seniors for emergency use (to call 911). This program will accomplish several things: it will help WRA (continued on   page 2)