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Page Ten, PHOENIXChildren SeeThings FromNew PerspectiveBY CARROLL SUGGOnce a week for the past six months, pupils of St. Charles Borromeo School and their art teacher, Elaine Longtemp, prepared for the third annual exhibition of their artistic creations.Called %u201cLittle Views,%u201d the show was held April 7-8 at the St. Charles gym on Sidney PI. %u201cAs we worked,%u201d the art teacher said, %u201cthe children%u2019s enthusiasm rose and fell. The Sisters and I found that the kids see things differently. I learned a lot from them.%u201d Ms. Longtemp teaches on Fridays; other days she works as a free lance artist.The theme of the show ran along contemporary lines and dealt with what the children thought and felt about today%u2019s issues. It included a stimulating variety of mediums displayed with taste and meticulation.In one corner of the gym, a little theatre was arranged for viewing a hand movie. Like ancient oriental religious scrolls done before Western culture and its issues existed, the movie (a colorful box with screen and paper film) was based on a short children%u2019s story, called Exactly Alike, and told of the identity crisis of a young girl with brothers and sisters who look exactly like her. The illustrations were drawn by fourth graders and included in the presentation a dialogue between the winder and the re-winder.In another corner, a diorama done by eight graders. When 1 saw this, I, too, became aware of how strikingly the children hadShare your good news with your neighbors %u2014 send us details and pictures. No charge, of course.BICYCLE SHOP7 9 2 U N K )l< S F /g frO O y5ALE5%u00b0REPAIR5%u00b0 rentalsdepicted what they see and hear and are told. Dioramas are boxes lacking one side through which one peers in at little scenes. The comer wall was covered with an array of these fantastic environments within boxes. The animation of the %u201cOlympics Basketball,%u201d done by Tighe Casey and Michael Morin, was especially endearing, especially when one thinks back to what happened in Munich. The players were all suspended in odd postures far above the bare floor perhaps jumping for the ball which lay caught in the net.Large felt banners of peace and love were hung about the walls. Missionary dolls made of nobs and jump rope handles, spools and toothpicks parade as African savages, Chinese and Indian natives with fancy feather headdresses up and down the table.I Another table holds bizarre visions in reed, ice cream stick and styrofoam forms.Drooping mobiles, done by third graders, of paper and wire and cups were hung in clusters from the lights. An entire gymnasium wall was covered with life-size self portraits. Cut out of paper in the form of the body; the child then drew, or painted himself, none sad.Again more visions in sculpture and constructions, but these were of a distinctly technological motif. Made of all shaped cans, bulbs, wire screening and sockets, coated with silver or copper pamt. Good junk turned into neat houses, tanks and immersable boats. Nearby were distinguished red and white leaf prints and a grandstand of silent stuffed sock puppets.Beside cakes, perhaps a major attraction, if not a successful treat, was the overhead projection of %u201cThe Shrinking Of Treehorn.%u201d The illustrations, drawn by seventh graders on a roll of thin sheet plastic with brilliantly colorful felt markers and projected on a large screen, tell the wonderful story of a boy who shrinks and shrinks and shrinks, exclaims of his condition and realizes no one notices..,JD is%u2022 - wm* %u25bcArt At St. Charles BorromeoPerhaps at that point he begins to grow. Ultimately, Treehorn no sooner gets back to regular size than he turns to shocking green. The voices of the characters in the story, done sensitively by the children were playedsimultaneously on tape.Prices for the delightful pieces ranged from a small $1 to a larger $2. In the one and a half days it ran, the exhibition made $248 which will go toward supplies for next year.Pesce CriticizesV acancy DecontrolAssemblyman Michael L. Pesce has characterized vacancy decontrol as a %u201ccontinuation of the landlord%u2019s loophole protected by the Republicans%u201d and sharply criticized the Upstate and City Republicans for %u201cturning their backs on tenants in New York City at a time when strong rent control measures are most needed.%u201d Pesce said efforts by Democrats to repeal the vacancy decontrol law were beaten back %u201c by lesislators who have demonstrated their contempt for New York City and their ignorance of what it%u2019s like to be gouged and harassed by unethical landlords.%u201d Assemblyman Pesce was dismayed at the lack of interest and inaction by the Republican Assemblymen from New York City, while on the other hand, every Democratic Assemblyman from New York City favored repeal of vacancy decontrol.According to Pesce, %u201call the evidence points to one conclusionvacancy decontrol causes rents toFeaturing Selection ofFine Jamaican Products%u2605Jamaica Cane Juice %u2605Jamaica Fruit Syrups%u2605 Jamaica Hot Pepper %u2605Trinidad Curry%u2605 Organic - Edible Red Palm OilST. MARTIN%u2019S VARIETY STORE27 Third Ave. (across from YMCA) 768 9207skyrocket, makes life intolerable for tenants and does nothing it set out to do.%u201d The Assemblyman said he agreed with Nathan Leventhal, Commissioner of the City%u2019s Department of Rent and Housing Maintenance, that vacancy decontrol has been %u201ca disaster.%u201dMr. Pesce said he would join other New York City Democratic legislators in trying to re-introduce amendments which would repeal the decontrol measures and urged bipartisan support %u201cin returning the City to its people.%u201dAssemblyman Pesce predicted that landlords will refuse lease renewals in record numbers this summer and that %u201c with the housing situation as tight as it is, there will be a lot of people put out in the streets for no other reason than that a bunch of Upstate and New York City Republicans couldn%u2019t care less.%u201dCommunity CenterOpen To GirlsThe Community Center at John Jay High School, traditionally a male stronghold, has opened its pool and gym facilities to womenGirls 15 to 18 will be able to use facilities in the gym on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 7 to 9:30 p.m. The pool will be available for swimming at 9-9:30 on Monday, Tuesdays and Thursdays and at 8:30-9 on Fridays.For fifteen cents admission charge all young girls of the community are eligible to participate in these activities.Subscribe TodayReturn This Couponf\132 C lin to n S t ., B ro o k ly n 11201rinfer My Sxbiciptiw .IN A M E .ILA O O ftE S S .r ttv -- ,Z IP .II!I9II3 n o v ^ .Cordon %Bleu CDXooiDLUCEONE YEAR-ONLY $4.5pc. place setting$8 5%u00b02 (honey color only) O^ Imported from FranceC/D m - Hand Signed ujBellamyViews%u201cRestoring clean and healthy air to New York City by reducing the level of noxious pollutants from motor vehicles is not a need but an imperative,%u201d State Senator Carol Bellamy said recently before hearings on the N.Y.C. Metropolitan Area Air Quality Implementation Plan.Ranking minority member on the New York State Senate%u2019s Transportation Committee, she went on to say that, while she heartily endorses the intent of the plan, she takes issue with its stated priorities. %u201c I am somewhat disheartened to find that the plan deals first with preventive m easures,%u201d she said, listing stoppage of the sales of leaded gasoline, enforcement of traffic regulations and vehicle pollution inspections among the top priorities of the plan.%u201cThese are proposals worthy of endorsement, to be sure,%u201d the Senator stated, %u201cbut proposals that will be inadequate to the task of discouraging the private driver unless with equal ardor and conviction this plan articulates a strategy of positive action to improve the city%u2019s public transit facilities and to reduce transit fares.%u201dSenator Bellamy said that she believes that the city will never be able to discourage private transportation unless it offers passenger and commercial service via subway, bus and rail that is %u201cfaster, cleaner, safer and, more importantly, more accessible%u201d to residents of all five boroughs as well as the suburbs.As it stands now, the plan may offer strategies that will discourage cars and trucks from Manhattan only to leave the other boroughs as %u201cparking lots%u201d for commuters who will drive to the edge of Manhattan and then take mass transit,%u201d she continued.RodriquezAt AnnualLuncheonThe Annual Spring Luncheon of the Brooklyn Heights Youth Center will be held at the Nevins Day Care Center, 460 Atlantic Ave., May 5. at 12:30.The Youth Center which was one of the first %u201c Store Front%u201d operations in the City has been active in Downtown Brooklyn for the last twenty years.Coming from Boston to be the main speaker at the program following the gourmet buffet luncheon will be Alexander Rodriguez, a former member of the Center. Rodriguez was responsible for writing the legislation which makes bilingual education mandatory in the Elementary School in Massachusetts.An original Musical Skit has been written for the occcasion by Barbara Moncure and will be performed by teenage members of the Youth Center,Reservation should be made by calling TR 5-4202 or TR 5-4408. Contribution %u2014 $5.00.%u00bbATA 522-7330roO p '00%u2019 * ^ .to I c q c - O 0 7 ^\/ W Y V\\ TAsiica%u00ae tmem.~ ~ CHIT CMOS HONOHDA lttfC O AHNOO M AI I A AiSNCIO17} C O V*M T*Htn y. itta