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Page Fourteen, PHOENIXWhat%u2019sIn Store:M o w e rPotHasMovedThe Flower Pot, located on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Heights is two-years-old this month. One of the neighborhood%u2019s most intriguing small shops, this charming store opened in February 1971 and enjoyed a modest success in selling a variety of tropical and native plants to people who love life and dwell in the apartments and gardens of Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill.The shop has recently completed its move to more spacious quarters at 93 Atlantic Ave. between Henry and Hicks.The success of The Flower Pot is due in no small measure to the horticultural talents of its proprietor, Jose Aliau-Franch. Mr.Parents Back 6For Dist. BoardAliau-Franch is a native of Taragona, Spain, home of that useful herb of the samename. His family for many generations has cultivated citrus and the grape. His %u201c green thumb%u201d is bona fide, and he is most generous in disclosing his plant growing secrets to his many customers and friends.Mr. Aliau-Franch also is a silversm ith; his artistic talent is evident from hisFrancois Oumaine Photosensitive handling of the decoration of the hundredyear-old landmark store where The Flower Pot now lives and graces Atlantic Avenue.A unique service offered by The Flower Pot is a personalized plant %u201c d e c o ra tio n %u201d service, whereby Mr. Aliau-Franch surveys a customer's home and makes recommendations of plants best %u25a0suited to the apartment or home.rJIITAXHINTS3yRon Dannenberg%u2022 If you received an increase in pay this year or received retroactive pay, you may qualify for Income Averaging even if you take the Standard Deduction.NOTE: Income averaging is based on TAXABLEINCOME (that%u2019s after your deductions and exemptions), not on your wages.* * * * * *$ Basically you can average if yo u r taxable income for 1972 is $3,000. more than 0.3 times the total taxable income for years 1968 thru 1971. 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Y. 11215 1212) 857-4300 |ii1IFREE Bottle of YAGO SANG RIA for Satisfied Customers who refer others to us.our1We are open all seven days,Mon. - Fri. 9:00 AM. - 9:00 PM.Sat., Sun. 9:00 AM. - 6:00 PM.Just Call Us At857-4300OR COME IN TO CONSULTWITH OUR EXPERTSNOAPPOINTMENTNECESSARYOPEN ALL YEARBY CORRINE COLEMANIn a move for parent power inselection of the district 15 Community School Board, thePresidents%u2019 Council, made up ofParent Association and ParentTeacher Association heads fromthroughout the District, agreedupon a six-person slate of candidates to be recommended toparents for the May 1 boardelections.After a two-hour session atBoard Headquarters on SmithStreet, Tuesday, with parentchoices from 17 of the 25 districtschools, tallied by the proportio alrepresentation method, the groupcame up with a full slate of nine,but decided to stop at the top six tooffer lee way for various neighborhood favorites.The candidates who will beBuildings HereIn DangerAn early 19th century publicschoolhouse, in Brooklyn Heightsnow owned by the Roman CatholicAssumption Parish of the BrooklynDiocese may be demolished if taxrelief is not granted by the Landmarks Preservation Commissionat hearings scheduled for April 19,2:30 p.m ., 305 Broadway,Manhattan.According to the 1965 preservation law, no building may be demolished in a landmarks area without permission of the LPC. If the owner of a landmark has a provable hardship, the law contains a number of provisions to preserve the building. The commission may try to find new uses or new users for the landmark. If all such efforts fail, however, the owner will be given permission to demolish his landm ark. This happened only once in LPC%u2019s eightyear history.Also to be considered April 19 by the LPC is an application for certificate of appropriateness hv owners of 199 Atlantic Ave., a three-storv brick building built in 1850-1860. The owners wish to build a new storefront on the previously altered building.PH O EN IX AdsGet ResultsOFFER5W eekends in Vegas at the \April 12-1511- $189.00April 15-19- $ 2 0 9 .0 0A p ril 2 2 -2 6- $ 2 0 9 .0 0INDIAN,MEXICAN.PAKISTANICLOTHING.Specializingin long Dresses & Skirtsmens embroidered shirtsSorry, No Tomato*??1promoted bv the Council includeincumbents Philip Kaplan, EmilGiordano and Mary Treacy, aswell as these new contenders:Ellen Michener, President of I.S.293 P.A. and head of the Ad HocCommittee for a High School on theGowanus; P.T.A. Leader BettyRalph of Red Hook; and H. Cruz ofSunset Park.The three runners-up include twomore members of the presentboard, Doris Cohen and WilliamDarcy, plus newcomer PeterDrago, community manager of theCarroll Park branch of theBrooklyn Public Library who isalso a proponent of the GowanusHigh School.The decision to push for unifiedparent action came as a result ofthe lack of District parent inputinto the first community schoolboard elections three years agoCouncil Leader Ann Moronna ofPark Slope says.With a plethora of candidateslike this year%u2019s 29 contenders for aboard of nine, individual selectionsand even choices of separate P.A.%u2019sare not apt to be effective arid, likelast time around, the board couldvery well end up hand-picked bythe Teacher%u2019s Federation or someother special interest group, manyof the members of the Council saidprivately.CPCtheContinued from Page 2approved for funding by Department.Re-mapping and replacement of parkland. Despite the fact that most of the plans shown to the community by the Hospital require the utilization of at least some parkland west of Hicks Street, which in turn requires an act of the State legislature, no effort to initiate any such legislation in this session has been taken.Parking. %u201c Despite wildly disparate estim ates of the Hospital%u2019s parking needs%u2014ranging ail the way from about 600 cars at one extreme to 2,370 at the other in (the Hospital architect%u2019s) first three designs%u2014the Hospital has yet to commission a traffic study or to refine that estimate in any way. Nor has it made any effort to determine how any paridng facility would be financed.%u201dThe CPC statement concludes:%u201cUntil as recently as the CPCmeeting of March 28th we not onlywithheld any public comment onthese matters; we have attemptedto interpret the deliberations ofthis committee in the most optimistic light%u2014as we did in ourprogress report at that meeting.We have brought to this committeethe very highest caliber architectural and engineering talent,and we have functioned not only ingood faith but with a clear sense ofurgency from the outset%u2014only tofind ourselves now being accusedby a great segment of theHospital%u2019s medical staff, serviceemployees and health consumersof %u2018delaying the construction oftheir new hospital.%u2019 Therefore, wehave no alternative but to declareour lack of confidence in theproceedings of this committee anddisassociate ourselves from anymore deliberations of this kind.%u201d*Plus$19.00Taxes-G ratuitiesP R I N ON THE RIGHT FOOT/. . . 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