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PHOENIX, Page ThirteenTwo Programs For Senior CitizensNow Offered In Carroll GardensBY FRED PATTONWINE & LIQUOR50 CLINTON ST. (comer of Pierrepont)W E DELIVER Every evening Until 8 p.m.SfcJR 5-7426 %u201e TR 5-7427 s%u00a3L193 Joralern n StreetB %u2019klvn. N V 11201The South Brooklyn Mental Health Program is presently coordinating two senior citizens centers in Carroll Gardens. One on Friday afternoons at St. Mary, Star of the Sea Church; the other meets every Tuesday at the South Congregational Church. These groups are seen in the light of primary preventive, psychiatric care, providing a setting in which senior citizens can Interact and draw emotional support.These centers invite senior citizens out of their homes to meet new friends and engage in activities of interest to them. In such a setting, advocacy services can easily be provided, making the difficulties of growing old easier.The Carroll Gardens community is predominantly Italian with three generations living together or in close proximity. Although the families tend to be closely knit, a study of the area performed by the Congress of Italian-American Organization disclosed that little consideration or involvement in the family actually existed for the grandparents.Scanning this community, South Brooklyn Mental Health Program was able to get many positive responses from individuals and organizations, such as the Congress of Italian-American Organizations, local churches, and the Local Longshoreman%u2019s Union for Initiating a senior citizens group.The group at St. Mary, Star of the Sea Church, at Court and Luquer St., had been operating since August of 1972. The program has grown to over forty members who now plan and design their own activities with the help and 'erdership of the South BrnnklvnActivities range from lunch to sewing to a frien dly card game.Mental Health Program. Their activities have included day trips, a weekly business meeting, parties, games, arts & crafts, creative movement groups, movies, discussions and guest speakers.An elected advisory group meets every week to plan upcoming activities. They are presently planning more guest speakers, trips for the spring and summer, and a St. Paddy%u2019s Day party. This group will be constantly open to new members both male and female.The trroun at SouthPastor N e v ille N .. Sim m ons Sm ith w elcom es thesenior co m m u n ity.Girl Scouts Sell CookiesBrooklyn Girl Scouts areready, set, and smiling asthey prepare for the 1973Girl Scout Cookie Sale,March 3 - 19. They%u2019ll beselling five kinds of cookies,delicious reminders thatgirls and Girl Scouting are actively involved in Brooklyn. The cookies will be priced at $1 per box and will be personally delivered to the purchaser after the sale.Under the chairmanshipof Mrs. Charles Sawyer, Sr.And Cookie Committee ViceChairman, Mrs. FrancisBrickfield, the Brooklyn GirlScouts are trying to sellmore than 295,000 boxesfor the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York Individual Girl Scout troops in Brooklyn will retain a refund of sale proceeds for their own special projects.CRANLYN MEATSP rime meats & po u lih yF is h - S. a W Can Go o d sBa r - b -Q C hickenCongregational Church is a new group which started on February 13, 1973. Like the other group, seniors will be encouraged to develope and design their own programs. A lunch program is projected for the group which will meet every Tuesday at the Church, located at President and Court Streets, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Ping-pong and billiards will be available to this group in addition to the activities being held at St. Mary%u2019s group. Unlike the St. M ary%u2019s group, the South Congregational Senior Citizens Center is seen as time limited.The center will be moved to the permanent senior citizens center being sponsored by the international Longshoreman%u2019s Union directly across from Carroll Park on Court St. It is expected to open in about a year following renovations. However, the Church is attempting to offer what facilities and services are available to those seniors who will benefit from the permanent center. The South Brooklyn Mental Health Program is attempting to cooperate in whatever way possible in order to provide better and wider services to a population in our society whose neglect has only recently been realized.The Carroll-Gardens community through cooperation, has begun to offer to their senior citizens a life of their own as their families become more mobile and dispersed. It is at the community level that this mustSTOLENMerchandise isn't our bag, but we do sell records and tapes at a 75 per cent discount. Sound crazy? So are our location and business hours OPEN only Saturday 10 5 and Sunday 10 5. Closed Mon Friday. Located way out at 163 8th St. Corner 3 Ave. BrooklynRecord & ToneWarehouseWe have designs on you.We don%u2019t make sizes, we make fashions that fit. Bring in a pattern or idea with your fabric and let us sew for you. We do alterations, too: l-5pm Saturdays.The Sewing and Needlepoint Experts of Park SlopeW O M A N AT LARGEThe Sewing & Needlepoint Experts of Park Slope}81 7th Aye.betw. 1st St 2nd Sts.9 6 5 -2 9 3 8 Open Tues.-Fri. 11-6 Sat. 10-6r-notos by Dan E. Vazquezbe done so that seniors can remain in their communities and homes, rather than spending their final days in a nursing home surrounded by strangers and in a strange environment.For additional information on these two groups, please call Fred Patton at 522-0291.Fred Patton is a community therapist associated with the South Brooklyn Mental Health Center.Your Begoniasgoingbananas?Are yourHydrangeashung over?Are your littlegreen friendsstarting to singtheir swan song?Before you heartheir last hurrah,bring them in for alook see. No chargefor this service.If the problem istoo heavy to carry,we'll make a housecall.W e DeliverPh o n e M A 4 - 1 0 7 0 102 H icks S treet