'Say Something Nice About Camden,' Asks Former Moorestonian
Longtime Moorestown resident Jennifer Barton has launched a privately funded campaign to improve the impoverished city's image.
At a time when Camden is in the news for all the wrong reasons, former Moorestonian Jennifer Barton is trying to change the beleaguered city’s image. Everyone knows about Camden’s problems—its record-breaking number of murders this year (64 and counting), the controversy over its police force—but Barton wants to draw attention to the positives of the “City Invincible” with a privately funded campaign she launched this week, dubbed “Say Something Nice About Camden.” “I just got tired of hearing all the negativity about Camden,” said Barton, who lived in the city’s Fairview section for six years in the '90s. “There’s a lot of organizations doing great work in the city.” The campaign—which includes a website, a Facebook page, a Twitter handle…
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2:07 pm on Friday, December 7, 2012
I figured that billboard was some kind of joke..The Riversharks stadium has a great view because it's not of Camden..I'm just saying..I guess one positive is that you could design a real nice first person shooter game for XBox. Call it like 'Fairview Ave Frontin'. more ›