Many community organizations across the Northeast have trouble developing new leaders. That struggle, a stubborn agenda item at civic, town watch and other neighborhood meetings, was on display Tuesday night at the Holmesburg Recreation Center.

In front of 10 residents, the four-person Holmesburg Civic Association‘s executive board was re-elected unopposed for the fourth consecutive one-year term.

“I still consider myself the interim president,” Fred Moore, a 10-year veteran of the board’s chief seat, told NEast Philly with a laugh.

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