News Features – Kensington Voice – A platform for the community

Each month, Kensington Voice produces a story that explores a question asked or topic suggested by someone in the community. Have a story you’d like us to write about or a question you’d like us to explore? Send an email to editors@kensingtonvoice.com, message us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, or stop by one of our neighborhood events to talk to us in person. You can also submit questions through Curious Kensington, where readers submit and vote on questions they want us to answer.

Another Kensington garden is losing land to development
A developer recently purchased one of César Andreu Iglesias Community Garden's parcels for $2,500

When members of the Philly Socialists formed the César Andreu Iglesias Community Garden at Arlington and North Lawrence Streets in 2012, they did it to reclaim the vacant land for the community.…

Restoring Victor’s garden
One woman is seeking support from the community to help revitalize her husband’s neighborhood garden

Next to Hope Park on the 3000 block of A Street, a broken fence borders the remains of Victor Ortiz’s neighborhood garden. “The garden used to bring so much light into the…

Love at the libraries
For Kensington’s librarians, the relationships they build are what they love most about their jobs

For Judi Moore, Marcela Franco and Bryan Belknap, the relationships they build and things they learn are a big reason they love working at Kensington’s libraries. Moore, the children’s librarian at McPherson…

Wedding on East Monmouth: Kensington couple will marry outside Prevention Point to send message of hope
The ceremony will be held between Prevention Point’s shelter and social services center

Wilfredo Laboy and Cristina Pintor pose for photos in the upstairs sanctuary at Prevention Point. The couple met at Prevention Point during an overdose prevention training in 2017. (Photo by Jillian Bauer-Reese)…

Awilda Ocasio: “the Mother Teresa of Kensington”
Two years after her death, a neighborhood activist's legacy of love lives on

“Hello, my love!” — were the three words that sang from Awilda Ocasio’s lips when she entered a room. “She loved everyone… Everyone loved her,” said Judi Moore, the children’s librarian and…

Fifty years after their Kensington wedding, a couple’s love remains strong on Kensington Avenue
Every Tuesday, the Kelleys volunteer together on the same block where they first started dating in 1965

In April, Bea and David Kelley will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. The couple met as teenagers, growing up just a few blocks from each other — David on the 2800 block…

How hard is it to convert vacant buildings into safe, affordable homes for people in need?
You asked, and we explored some answers

Before Miguel Diaz purchased and renovated an abandoned house on Potter Street in Kensington, he worried he could never afford a comfortable home for himself and his daughter in the neighborhood where…

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