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Centers already operating here.More Centers For ElderlyDowntown area communities will get four of the ten new senior citizens centers planned to open in Brooklyn this summer, according to Borough President Sebastian Leone this week.The new centers and their sponsors are: Carroll Park Senior Citizens Center. 378-380 Court St., sponsored by Local 1814. I.L.A.; South Brooklyn Senior Citizens Center. 7th Ave. and 7th St..Campaign To CleanStreets Is AnnouncedMayor John V. Lindsay and Environmental Protection Administrator Herbert Elish today announced the start of the 1973 Cleaner Streets Campaign under which the Department of Sanitation will concentrate on 40 major retail shopping centers throughout the City, providing daily street cleaning, a sidewalk cleaning program involving area merchants, and vigorous enforcement of parking and sanitary regulations in the areas.Target areas locally include: Myrtle Ave. from Jay to Flatbush; Bridge and Lawrence Streets from Myrtle to Fulton; Livingston St., from Court to Flatbush; Fulton St. from Flatbush to Boerum Place; Fifth Avenue from Union to 22nd Street.EPA Administrator Elish said. %u201cWe are calling on merchants groups to cooperate fully by sweeping their sidewalks as often as necessary to keep them clean, by containerizing their refuse, and by joining us in the spirit of peopleinterested in making New York a better place in which to live. work, and shop.Daily street cleaning includes flushing and mechanical broom cleaning, plus manual sweepers who will patrol the areas during business hours. Sidewalk cleaning includes not only sweeping by merchants, but also proper containerization of refuse. The 8 - 9 am %u201cNo Parking\strictly enforced to encourage cars to move so that mechanical brooms will have access to the curbs. Also, the inspection force will lead community representatives on walking tours to identify Sanitary Code violations and will issue warnings to violators. In subsequent tours, summonses will be issued to persistent violators.Posters and written materials describing the Cleaner Streets Campaign are being distributed in the target areas. Neighborhood residents interested in p articipating in the Cleaner Streets Campaign should contact: Bill Bunche. 566-0278.LEONE GETS AWARD %u2014 The United Jewish Appeal humanitarian award will be presented to Brooklyn Borough President Sam Leone on April 29 at a breakfast arranged by local Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill residents. Leone has been cited for his %u201cwholehearted%u201d involvement in UJA causes. The ceremony will take place at 9:30 a m. at the Hotel Bossert, Montague and Hicks St.REFLECTED TO HEAD COUNCIL %u2014 Tony Giordano, president of the 72nd Precinct Council was re-elected to the office at the Council%u2019s April meeting. The other new officers include: first vice president, Carol Ann Wright; second vice president, Char es Sperazza, corresponding secretary, Virginia Quinones: recording secretary, Maria Boyett; treasurer, John Flanagan. Joe Spano was appointed to a community relations post.sponsored by South Brooklyn Community Corporation: Atlantic Avenue Older Adults Center, 460 Atlantic Ave.. sponsor, ColonySouth Brooklyn Houses; and Fort Greene Senior Citizens Council Center. 23 Flatbush Ave.. sponsored by the Fort Greene Senior Citizens Council.Leone said that at these centers, using Title XVI funds, senior citizens will %u201chave a place to pursue leisure time activities, obtain meals, job counseling, referral services of all kinds and advice on family, health and other matters.%u201dThe ten Brooklyn centers, approved by the N.Y.C. Human Resources Administration working with the Community Service Society and the various Borough Presidents, are among 30 to be opened throughout the City.N evins St. Canter o ffers lunch e v e ry day.Nevins Center Is ActiveA call has gone out from the Nevins Senior Citizens Center on Nevins St. and Atlantic Ave. in Boerum Hill for senior citizens interested in developing a center in the new facility located there from Richard Guarino, director of the new program.The center is equipped and staffed by the City%u2019s Department of Social Services, and offers a free program to those 60 years old and older, including a free hot lunchevery day served without charge between 11:30 and 12:30 p.m.Other activities include recreation and educational programs such as arts and crafts work, film showings, bingo, card aNd pool tournaments and field trips to places of interest selected by program participants.For information on activities and the program. Guarino may be reached at 237-6397.Volunteersf Rob CoupleBY LYNNE GRIFOLast Wednesday an elderly couple who lives in the Pierrepont Hotel fell victim to a cruel ruse%u2014two young women posing as workers from the Heights and Hill Community Council lunch program gained entrance to the couple%u2019s apartment and robbed themof, among other things, $300 which they had struggled to save.Tim Hughes^a community worker for Heights-Hill. said that the women told the couple that they were \the church,\suspecting elderly pair allowed them in. He explained that this was the way lunch program workersfrom First Presbyterian Church usually identified themselves.%u2018The Council wants to warn as many people as possible about what has happened so that they will take extra precautions,%u201d Hughes said. The story has an especially sad aspect because the stolen $300 was to be used to pay for aRELIGIOUS CEREMONY: During the first Hindu religious ceremony ever conducted in Brooklyn, held at The Methodist Hospital, Anuj Dua, 18 months old, has his hair cut off to celebrate the closing of the fontanels of the skull (soft area of the skull). Holding him is his father, Ravindeira Dua with Joseph Rigoma, a Brooklyn barber, doing the clipping. Dr. Surekha Dua mother of the child is a first year resident at the hospitalON DEAN%u2019S LIST %u2014 Eight local residents were recently named to the Kingsborough Community College Dean%u2019s List. They include: Maria Colon, Wyskoff St.; Tiziano Dossona, Henry St.; Linda M. Easton, Adelphi St.; Janet Ellwood, Second St.; Patrick Haramija, Huntington St.; Adrienne E. King, 12 St.; Priscilla Mickel, Navy Walk; and David E. Williams, Myrtle Ave.Court Order onRichmond PadAn injunction was filed on Tuesday in Federal Court that, if upheld, would remove the name of local City Councilman Fred Richmond from the primary election ballot on June 4. In effect the court action would make it impossible for him to be nominated for a full term representing the 29th Council District, which includes the Heights, Fort Greene, Boerum Hill-Gowanus, as well as Williamsburg and Greenpoint.The show-cause order, signed by Eastern District Federal Court Judge Edward Neaher, charges that Richmond and others named do not actually reside at the addresses show, on their party registration. His address on party enrollment forms is 43 Pierrepont Si. ill Drookiyn neignts. The suit alleges that he actually lives at 25 Sutton Place in Manhattan.Others challenged include: Assemblyman Harvey Strelzin <57th A.D.), whose registration is at 270 Jay St., but who it is charged resides at 15 Clark St. (outside his D istrict); N.Y.C. 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