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From Ulster to Brooklyn, With Hope:Irish Kids Come to Mix In Brooklyn%u2019s %u2018Salad Bowl%u2019BY JOAN BESTERLeon Uris wrote that Ireland has no future, only the past happening over and over again, but Rev. Kerry Waterstone, originator and director of the Ulster Project, an exchange program, believes that Ireland does have a future, and it is up to the Irish children of today to solve tomorrow%u2019s problems.Rev. W aterstone brought a group of 22 Catholic and Protestant teenagers from Northern Ireland to visit the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, on South Oxford Street in Brooklyn, to %u201c see people as people .m a normal, healthy, growing community of Brooklyn.\Rev. W aterstone, an Anglican priest from Tullamore in Southern Ireland, has devoted much of his energies to opening areas of communication between Irish youth. He hopes that the Ulster Exchange program will include Brooklyn next year because Brooklyn has a wonderful mix of people and cultures, epitomizing a muticultural, kaleidoscopic group of people. He spoke of Brooklyn in terms of a %u201c salad bowl,%u201d with its long Irish history as the dressing.The current group of kids stayed at Lake Charles, Louisiana for threeweeks, getting to know each other and their different religions. It is the first time that this group has ever been to the United States and they discovered that American teenagers have many more things to do with their time off. They noted that life is freer, and easier here, with less restrictions and responsibilities.The kids had an extensive social program planned for them, including such foreign activities as window shopping, baseball games, rodeos and movies. For the first time they had an opportunity to worship in each other%u2019s churches and to discuss their feelings freely with one another. Most of the Catholic teenagers have never even seen Protestant teenagers before, and vice versa. Rev. Waterstone thinks that Belfast has some of the same inner city problems as Brooklyn, and feels that Belfast should try some of Brooklyn%u2019s urban renewal programs, with emphasis on preserving city life, not destroying and deserting it. He believes that by having the exchange in Brooklyn it will open up the eyes of some of the teenagers, and make them realize that Belfast city life is not the only way thatA tew of the Irish visitors mingle In Fort Greens Parkbefore flying home to Belfast. [Photo by Ed Moran].cities function.The main problem that the Ulster program faces is trying to maintain the friendships they made in the United States, after they return home to Northern Ireland. Even the most innocent communication between Catholics and Irish teenagers in Ulster can lead to serious repercussions for the children. However, those children chosen for the project were picked because of their leadership abilities, and if anyone can overcome ihe barriers obstructing freer communication in Ireland, they can, commented Rev. Waterstone.Starting the project in Brooklyn calls for cooperation on both sides of the sea. The project has been sponsored by Deleware%u2019s Pacem in Terris, a task force of the Delmarva Ecumenical Society for the past four years. Host families are chosen by a board of parishoners ' and careful selections are made.' All expenses including air fare is ! borne by the project except room and board which is provided by the host. Final plans for Brooklyn participation have not been worked out yet, but if Irish charm and spirit have anything to do with it, it will surely come to pass.ocktails%u2022 Business Luncheons%u2022 Private Rooms forSmall PartiesRestaurant Charcuterie GaterinOpen 5:30am - 12pm7 days a week 515 Atlantic Ave.( 3rd Ave 1| (212) 625-0984 625-0883 Brooklyn, N. 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