You could be the designer of this year’s annual East Falls commemorative t-shirt!
Show us your vision of East Falls as an environmentally conscious community by submitting a design for the t-shirt.
Open Call! Anyone, of any age, can enter! If it can be scanned, we can put it on a t-shirt.
Submission guidelines…
- theme – the environment - East Falls Goes Green
- the design color scheme is limited to 4 primary colors and will be printed on a white t-shirt
- your design may be created freehand or be computer generated
- digital (scanned) submissions only
- save as a jpg. Image at a resolution of 150dpi.
- save at an image size of 12in.(W) x 12in.(H)
- an entry form is available on-line at www.eastfalls-pa.com
- Each submission must include the entry form
- Send via email with form and design image to the East Falls Development Corporation: info@eastfalls-pa.com
Send by US mail, or drop-off a CD, to: EFDC, 3654 Midvale Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19129
Entry Form
Disclaimer .doc .pdf
Entry deadline is March 31, 2010
All submissions will be juried by a select panel. The t-shirt with the winning artwork will be sold to the public at the Bike Race Block Party, Arts by the River, local businesses and other events.
Small Business Energy Rebate Program
The City of Philadelphia's Small Business Energy Rebate Program. Click here for more info and forms.
Bike Race Block Party set for Sunday, June 6
Be a sponsor of East Falls events and get promoted all year long. Here's the form for more information.
Photos of the Bathey- Gateway Center and Trolley Car Cafe are coming!
The Building is Under Construction - Janauary 2010
Special Groundbreaking Ceremony Nov. 12!
4th Annual
Midvale Avenue Design on Community Council Agenda, August 10th
An open design conversation about Midvale Avenue from Ridge to Warden Drive was on the agenda for the EFCC meeting on Monday, Aug. 10. For more information on East Falls Goes Green!, check out Plans & Projects. To see the presentation click here, go to this website and contribute to the blog.
Rain Barrel Workshop on August 18th
On Tuesday, August 18th we had our third East Falls Goes Green! workshop on the topic of Rain Barrels. Surveys conducted during other workshops and of local residents showed that rain barrels were the Go Green! action that most people wanted to know
more about. There was a brief presentation and then a demonstration installation. Photos of the event are on the East Falls Development Facebook Page.
Find out more about East Falls Goes Green!
East Falls Farmers Market - Open June to October 
3712 Midvale Avenue (just up the street from Ridge Avenue) This is a Lancaster farm
family who come to us through Farm to City.
The market is seasonal from June to October. 3:30 - 7 p.m.
- Fruit
- Vegetables
- Amish Baked goods
- Preserves
- Crafts
Vote for our Farmers market! www.localharvest.org
T Shirt For Sale at participating local businesses and our office (5/20/09):
Organic, locally designed and locally produced. 100% cotton. Only $10.
FRONT BACK
GET YOUR T-SHIRT NOW!!!
Buy it through our sercure server and start wearing it within 1 business week.
Or...
Find them at these participating locations:
- National Penn Bank
- East River Bank
- East Falls Chiropractic
- Wee Care Child Care
- Murphy's Irish Saloon
- About Face Type and Design and The Fallser
- Slices
- East Falls Fitness
- Chuck's Garage
- The Marketplace at East Falls
- Sweet Escape Cafe on Midvale
East Falls Development Corporation, 3654 Midvale Ave.
Philly Spring Cleanup
East Falls River Front District Cleanup
Last year, Philadelphians contributed to the largest single day, city-wide cleanup in the USA. This year, East Falls joined other neighborhoods to help take part in the beautification of Philadelphia. This one day event took place on April 4th from 9am-2pm.
We worked on the Riverfront Business District here in East Falls.
For more information visit phillycleanup.com.
FREE Workshop: Beautify Your Home
Beautify Your House with a Container Garden
East Falls Goes Green! hosted a workshop on container gardens on Monday,
April 6th at 7 pm. Container gardens come in all shapes and sizes - they are window boxes, trellises, large containers or a grouping of smaller pots to create attractive Green space. Dan Benarcik, a horticulturist specializing in “couture” container gardens that require little maintenance, conducted the workshop. Dan Benarcik is from Chanticleer, a pleasure garden open to visitors in Wayne. He is
a dynamic speaker and has a no-nonsense, straightforward approach; along
with a great flair for design and a deep love and knowledge of plant material.
The workshop focused on the principles of planting, providing participants with the knowledge to create lasting container gardens with minimal maintenance. Mr. Benarcik demonstrated the principles by creating two container gardens, one needing little to no watering and a second designed to hold moisture in the soil for a longer period of time than the average container planting. These demonstration container gardens were given as prizes to two lucky workshop participants. This 2nd workshop in the East Falls Goes Green! series was held on at 7pm at Limelight Arts, a performing arts school in East Falls at 4002 Ridge Avenue (across from Dobson Mills). See you there!
Participation matters to have Projects on your street. East Falls Goes Green! involves workshops and work days. Everyone is invited to workshops, but workdays will only happen on Streets where people come out and participate in planning and workshops. A survey filled out by attendees of the initial Go Green! workshop on “Improving Home Values” rated container gardens and rain barrels as two projects that they most wanted to do. The East Falls Development Corporation then began planning workshops so that people can do these projects.
East Falls Goes Green! then held a workday planning meeting on March 11th. Residents agreed to take leadership in spreading the word and shared ideas on how to proceed with workdays for Go Green! actions in the Spring.
Beautify your block. This is a list of blocks with people who have expressed interest. The blocks in bold type have residents that went to the planning meeting on March 11 and agreed to take on a leadership role in spreading the word and getting involvement from people on their block.
We have had participation from these streets: 3300 block of Arnold (Noemi Armstrong), 3400 block of Crawford (Daniel Bauer, Jenna Musket & Betsy Wilkinson), 3400 block of W. Penn (Carolyn Sutton, Sandy Radich, Heidi Grunwald), 3500 & 3600 blocks of Indian Queen Lane (Frank Machos), 3400 block of Vaux (Linda Duttera & Kristen McNeill), 3500 block of New Queen (Pat Lattanzia & George Grigonis), 3300 & 3500 blocks of Conrad (Kelly Rourk), 3600 block of Midvale Avenue (Peggy Gertz), 3700 block of Stanton, 3500 block of Ainsley.
If you are interested in spreading the word about beautifying your block to your neighbors, contact Mimi or Gina at , info@eastfalls-pa.com or call (215) 848-8084,
Learn more about the East Falls Model Storm water Project under Plans & Projects.
Public Art under the Twin Bridges
A team of artists has been selected for the project to install new Public Art in East Falls. The Sports Murals under the Twin Bridges will be removed and replaced. The EFDC has partnered with the Mural Arts Project (MAP) to bring a different look to the area. The East Falls Community Council decided to proceed with this project and a volunteer committee of volunteers has been working together. The committee has selected the winning team from four finalists who submitted designs and models. The winning team proposed mosaics depicting waterfalls. The final project will be installed after it has been given approvals by the Art Commission and Fairmount Park Commission.
SEPTA Beautification Project
On Wednesday, October 1st, Philadelphia University students had a day of service to celebrate Dr. Spinelli's inauguration. The East Falls SEPTA station was improved. Kim Douglas, a landscape architect and professor in the Landscape Architecture Program, worked with students on this project. The student designs were presented to the neighborhood in the Spring and enthusiastically received. She refined the students' designs and worked with SEPTA to get approvals.
SEPTA has been an enthusiastic partner in agreeing to removing the fence along Midvale as well as one of the larger Mulberry trees and removing the hedge that runs down the walk path. The Philadelphia University students planted trees as well as a general clean-up of the SEPTA station. Many thank you's to: The Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corp. for donating 18 trees, Liberty maintenance and tree Co. for supplying landscaping tools, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society for providing tools, and local neighbor and volunteer Ken Kolodziej for providing valuable assistance and time. Local residents have also agreed to continue to water the planters and help take care of the planting beds. In the Spring, the perennial beds will be planted with flowers.
This project is a partnership between SEPTA, Philadelphia University, the ‘friends’ of the Station, and the EFDC. The East Falls Community Council awarded a grant to support improvements to the Station. The Schuylkill Project is also contributing funds that will go towards plantings. Councilman Curtis Jones has also awarded funds for this project.
A New Philadelphia Landmark is on! (updated 1/13/07)
On January 12 the Falls Bridge’s new Lighting was officially turned on by Governor Edward G. Rendell, Mayor Michael A. Nutter, State Senator Vincent Hughes, State Representatives Kathy Manderino and Jewell Williams, and City Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. They were joined by about 1000 people who came to the party to celebrate the new look in East Falls.
Cookies, hot cocoa and coffee were waiting for the guests at Kelly Drive and Midvale Avenue. The ceremony began with opening remarks from East Falls Development Corporation’s President Carolyn Sutton. She and EFDC Director Gina Snyder were presented with an official citation celebrating the lighting from Councilman Jones. Rep. Manderino then introduced Mayor Nutter, who was then welcomed East Falls resident Gov. Rendell. They were later joined by Senator Arlen Specter, another East Falls neighbor.
The nighttime look is a new landmark for Philadelphia. The bridge highlights Philadelphia’s identity as a “New River City” and announces the community with a strong visual marker.
Grenald Waldron and Associates (GWA) did the beautiful lighting design. The electrical contractor, Carr and Duff, did the work with Urban Engineers as the inspectors. .As an added benefit, there is now a permanent signed and marked pedestrian crossing on the Martin Luther King Drive side of the Bridge.
This project was many years in the planning. The idea was instigated during East Falls’ 100 year anniversary celebration of the bridge in 1995. The current project was led by the East Falls Development Corporation a Because of financial limitations, only the down river side of the bridge is lit.
GWA’s designer Sandra Stashik, was guided by the Falls Bridge Lighting Committee, that included East Falls residents, Sandra Radich, an architect with Cope Linder; Julie Camburn, President of the East Falls Business Association; Carolyn Sutton, President of the EFDC; and, Ellen Sheehan, President of the East Falls Historical Society. The committee also included Stephanie Craighead, Deputy Director of the Fairmount Park Commission, and Lane Fike and Joe Doyle from the Streets Department’s Bridge and Lighting Divisions, respectively. This committee worked with Grenald Waldron to present the design to the East Falls Community Council where it was enthusiastically endorsed.
Coordinating the project also took extra efforts from Joseph Certaine in the Governor’s Office, Southeast Region, Jim Donaghy from the Managing Director’s Office, and Streets Commissioner Clarena Tolson.
Lighting the Falls Bridge was funded through a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Dept. of Community and Economic Development. The project and January 12th lighting event would not have been possible without the encouraging support of Governor Rendell and significant contributions from Mark Sherman of Sherman Properties, FX Duffy & Co. Accountants, Urban Engineers, East River Bank and Independence Blue Cross. Funding was also provided by Cope Linder Architects, Robert Brasler, Sunoco Inc., PECO, and the East Falls Community Council and Riverfront District Partners. Contributors included Dorothy Storm of Prudential Fox & Roach, Elfant Wissahickon Realtors, Gypsy Lane Franco’s Trattoria, Gilbert Rowe, Connie Gillespie of Elfant Wissahickon Realtors, and the East Falls Business Association. Tom and Arlen Leschak of Conrad Catering and Alma Catering kindly donated the cookies and hot cocoa.
Dotting the “i”s and crossing all the “t”s was a team of party-planning volunteers from the EFDC.. They included Greg O’Loughlin, Heidi Grunwald, Steve Ohm, Gilbert Rowe, Sandra Radich, Ed Delisle, and Lorina Marshall-Blake. East River Bank was especially supportive, through President Chris McGill, Branch Manager Nancy Karahuta, and Vice President Rose Siegel: The Redevelopment Authority, Executive Director Michael Koonce, and Robert LaBrum are especially appreciated for allowing the use of the Rivage lot for event parking.
Bridge Images Available
Local Architect Ian Smith has studied the Falls Bridge and created images of the structure. The EFDC has Ian's book and a number of his images, framed, unframed, and matted.
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