Giving Thanks! Each year, at this time, the Board of EPX through the generosity of our membership and area businesses, works to complete our annual charitable giving campaign!  EPX is a 501(c)(3) and as such is expected to donate 5% of it’s income to charity. However, if you are a member, be proud knowing EPX donates almost 10% of it’s annual budget to charity! Much of our fund-raising goes to support this campaign.

EPX donations started with a $200.00 gift to St. John’s Baptist Church at 13th & Tasker Streets for their food pantry. The Philadelphia Access Center (PAC) at 11th & Mifflin Streets supplies turkeys to over a dozen neighbors in our area and EPX provides the rest of their Thanksgiving dinner.  Everything from salad to cranberry sauce, stuffing to green beans, mashed potatoes to gravy…and more.  The hard work of gathering donations, shopping and delivering these items falls to our Treasurer Millie Ruffino, our Recording Secretary Jo Cardillo and Member at-Large Pat Pitt.  Let’s give these ladies a great big round of applause!!!

The remainder of the Winter Holidays sees EPX donating to as many as six households, in our boundaries, a full array of Season’s Greetings; toys, home-goods, clothing and food. These items, in the form of gift cards, are given to needy families helping to make their holidays brighter! It’s not to late to join in on the giving. If you wish to make a tax-deductible donation to aid EPX in our charitable efforts feel free to bring new, unused goods or monetary donations to our December General Membership meeting on Monday 12/7 or use the Paypal link on this web page.

So whether you celebrate, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Yule, or something else, your friends and neighbors at EPX  wish you all the blessings of the Season and the hope for a peaceful and prosperous 2010, excelsior!

The board of EPX, through our Clean & Green and Grants/Finance committees, has secured tens of thousands in funding to green our neighborhood.

Please join the EPX Clean + Green Committee on Saturday, Nov. 21 in planting 32 street trees in our neighborhood.

We will meet at 8:30 am at the South Phila High School parking lot (on South Broad Street) where we will organize into teams and then disperse to tree planting locations.  The planting should take approximately 3-4 hours.

We will provide a light breakfast and all the tools required (including tree specialists) to get these trees in the ground.

As we still need another 20 volunteers, please join us for EPX’s first community tree planting event.

This planting will be organized in coordination with four other adjacent civic associations, who are combining resources to plant a total of 160 trees throughout South Philly.

For more information, please feel free to contact Tim at 215-806-6586.

A Department of Commerce and Economic Development (DCED) grant for $20,000 was awarded for the project at Ss. Neumann-Goretti High School.  Work on the Neumann-Goretti plan began on October 20th and volunteers from EPX and the school’s “Green Team” began major planting the weekend of November 7-8!  A “pocket park” with initial limited public access will be created on 10th street at Moore and over 25 trees, street & yard, will be planted in the next year. Future ideas include a butterfly garden, water permeating blacktop and a small area for community gardening are on the wish-list!

Plus another $25,000 grant from the Philadelphia Commerce Department for a number of planters, bike rakes, and other benefits for Passyunk Avenue from Broad to Federal Streets.

The November EPX Board of Directors meeting will be held on Monday, November 9th, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

This meeting will take place at the EPX Office at 1940 S. 13th Street.

The October EPX Clean and Green Committee meeting will be held on Monday, November 16th, from 7:00 pm to 8:00 PM.

Everyone is welcome.

The meeting will be held at the EPX Office at 1940 S. 13th Street.

Have any questions or want to get involved? Email us at beautification @ epcrossing.org .

The November EPX Public Safety and Town Watch Committee meeting will be held on Monday, November 16th, at 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM.

Everyone is welcome.

This meeting will take place at the EPX Office at 1940 S. 13th Street.

Have any questions or want to get involved? Email us at townwatch @ epcrossing.org .

The October EPX Marketing and Events Committee meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 18st, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Everyone is welcome.

The meeting will be held at the EPX Office at 1940 S. 13th Street.

Have any questions or want to get involved? Email us at contact @ epcrossing.org

The October EPX Zoning/Planning Committee meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 18th from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Everyone is welcome.

The meeting will be held in the Neumann Room of St. Agnes Continuing Care Facility.

Have any questions or want to get involved? Email us at contact @ epcrossing.org