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Som e 1,000 com m unity leaders and neighborhood activists attended Congressm em berStephen Solarz%u2019s fifth annual picnic. Local leaders who attended were District Leader JoanMillm an, and West Brooklyn Independent Democrat President Gene Krinsky, shown hereflanking Solarz. In addition to the local luminaries, Mark Green, candidate for U.S. Senate,was on hand to shake hands at the event, which was held at Kingsborough C om m unityCollege.Solarz Has a PicnicOver 1000 community leaders from nearly20 different neighborhoods in the 13th Congressional District were at West BrooklynCongressman Stephen J. Solarz%u2019s fifth annualpicnic at Kingsborough Community Collegeon Sept. 14. %u201cJugglers and clowns, a singerbelting out old standards, hot dogs and pizza,and a minimum of political oratory helpedthe overflow crowd enjoy the nearly perfectlate summer afternoon,%u201d says Stephanie L.Twin, the Congressman%u2019s District Manager.Those present included: Assemblymembers Eileen Dugan and Dan Feldman;State Senators Martin Solomon, DonaldHalperin and Tom Bartosiewicz; DemocraticDistrict Leaders Joan Millman (52nd A.D.),Steve Cohn (50th A.D.), Sheldon Plotnick(46th A.D.), and Herb Lupka and Mary Tobin(45th A.D.); 49th Assembly District candidate Peter Abbate and 23rd SenatorialDistrict Joe Montalto; and CommunityBoard District Managers Mary Sempepos(10) , Herb Eisenberg (13), and Howard Feuer(11) .In addition, Mark Green, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, helped Solarzgreet guests as they arrived and then brieflyaddressed the crowd. A highlight of the afternoon included Florida Congressman BillNelson%u2019s presentation to Solarz of a Mezzuzahflown in space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in January. The Columbia mission,whose team Nelson joined as a PayloadSpecialist, was the last successful one beforethe tragic explosion of the shuttle Challengerlater that month.Resolution on CourtsFt. Greene City Councilmember MaryPinkett has introduced a resolution callingfor immediate public hearings by appropriate committees in the State legislatureon the proposal to create an Office of CourtSecurity Services.%u201cA careful review of the Court Administration%u2019s proposal clearly shows that there aremany serious public policy questions thatneed to be addressed in a public forum, priorto the implementation of a new level of courtbureaucracy, says Pinkett.Specifically, the State Office of Court Administration proposals eliminate any testingrequirement or merit selection process as ameans of selecting individuals to fill the newly established positions. %u201cMerit selection isthe best protection we have against the abuseof patronage in hiring and promoting,%u201d saysPinkett. %u201cThis proposal is a very expensiveproposition for the taxpayer as well. Thecosts, in salaries alone, are $1,000,000.%u201dSlope Dems Set DinnerThe members of the Park Slope CentralBrooklyn Independent Democrats (51st AD)are making plans for their annual dinnerafter the Nov. 4 general election. The dinnerwill honor Elate Senator Velmanette Montgomery from 22nd Senate District on Nov. 7at the Imatra Hall in Sunset Park. Beinghonored along with Montgomery are Rev. A.Finley Shaef and Nancy Shaef of the ParkSlope United Methodist Church, David Cantrell, president of Gay Friends andNeighbors, and Heather Lewis, co-presidentof P.S. 107 P.T.A.Schumer is NamedThe National Committee to PreserveSocial Security and Medicare has namedsouth Brooklyn Rep. Chuck Schumer (10thCongressional District) a %u201cGolden Age Guardian%u201d for his record of votes on behalf ofsenior citizens. Of the issues that the committee ^allied to determine a Congressmember%u2019svoting record for senior citizens, Schumerhad a 100 percent rating, while the averageHouse member received only 73 percent.Says Election Law OKWhile most candidates are decrying theState election law technicalities becausechallengers and incumbents alike wereremoved from September%u2019s primary ballots, Republican Assembly candidateJoseph Voyticky in the Ft. Greene Downtown57th District says he disagrees.Voyticky says that Borough PresidentHoward Golden, Mayor Ed Koch andAssemblyman Roger Green are wrong whenthey argue that the State%u2019s election law requirements are outdated. %u201cWe must insurethat the public can sign a petition for one candidate and not a slate of candidates, some ofwhom they may not support,%u201d he says.Voyticky, a 20-year member of the YoungRepublican Club of Brooklyn, says he isbuilding his campaign platform on economic,education and social justice issues. He supports a death penalty, would like state andsales taxes decreased and would like to increase drug awareness programs for youngpeople.Opens Brooklyn HQU.S. Senator Alfonse M. D%u2019Amato has opened his Brooklyn campaign headquarters at468 Union Avenue in the GreenpointWilliamsburg area.%u201cMy campaign for re-election is based onmy record, one of fighting for the people ofthe State of New York. I am pleased andhonored to be joined by many friends here inBrooklyn, not too far away from where myfamily lived, and I am excited by the broadbase of support my re-election effort isreceiving,%u201d he said in an appearance at theopening last week.Kings County Republican Chairman AlfredPantaleone, there for the occasion said, %u201cIthink the Senator%u2019s honorary state chairman,back to the city and its citizens in the form ofeducational, cultural, and other public use ofthe site is the one submitted by PPECtogether with its partners in the project.Friends of Fulton Ferry Landing, SouthStreet Seaport Museum, and Seaport Line.We believe that together we can run a ferryHne as well as anyone, but we know that oursis the only proposed plan that will return thesite to appropriate public use. %u2014 John C.Muir, Executive Director, Prospect Park Environmental Center.An Error, Once AgainThe September 25th issue carried an excellent article on cultural activities inbrownstone Brooklyn (Phoenix, Section Two,%u201cFall Arts Preview%u201d ). However, once again Imust call attention to error in The Phoenix.Deborah Pope%u2019s New Theatre of Brooklynis located in Prospect Heights, not BoerumHill. This is not to denigrate Boerum Hill butrather to extoll Prospect Heights, theneighborhood that Professor A. Fine of LongIsland University calls the cultural center ofGot a Nuclear HabitLet%u2019s face it. Since 1945, this country is addicted to a nuclear habit. The nuclear clubnow includes: Soviet Union, Great Britain,Louis J. Lefkowitz, said it best, %u2018A1 D%u2019Amatodoesn%u2019t let New York be pushed around inWashington%u2019 and we like that.%u201dSenator D%u2019Amato said %u201cNew York Statedeserves its fair share from Washington.That is why I have fought for Urban Development Action Grants, Community Development Block Grants, mass transit aid, andother programs to rebuild our cities. For toolong New Yorkers saw pitifully few realfruits from the tax dollars we had shipped toWashington. Money we sent down theremysteriously found its way to places likeAtlanta, Norfolk, Dallas and Charleston, anda hundred other cities where the Senatorsweren%u2019t too important to help their local communities.%u201dFind Bad Court FacilityThe Family Court building at 283 AdamsSt. is a deplorable facility for the pursuit ofjustice, according to a report of a citizenscourt monitoring group released Sept. 29.%u201cAn Inside Look at the Brooklyn FamilyCourt,%u201d was prepared by the Fund forModern Courts and is based on seven weeksof court sessions attended by members ofB%u2019Nai B%u2019Rith and B%u2019Nai B%u2019Rith Women ofBrooklyn Heights. The monitors criticizedthe temperature, ventilation, lighting, noiselevel, crowded waiting rooms and lack ofconference space.France, China, India, with more countrieseager to join.Currently, the Reagan Administration ispursuing a five-year strategy to prevail in aprotracted nuclear war. Congress providesthe funds. The people are paying for theirown destruction. We are hooked on nuclearpower and weapons.The Soviet Union has taken the first step tobreak the suicidal dependency by stoppingnuclear tests for thirteen months. What aboutus? %u2014 Marion Kronheim, Chairwoman, Flatbush SANE.It Isn%u2019t on FlatbushIn your issue of September 18, you published a photograph of Borough President%u201cSam%u201d Leone and BUG Co. President Lunteystanding beside a billboard on FlatbushAvenue. (Way Back When).I have lived within a stone%u2019s throw of Flatbush Avenue for 30 years but I am unable toidentify where on Flatbush Avenue thatbillboard stood. I am particularly puzzled bythe very tall buildings in the background. Ican only assume that I am not acquaintedwith Flatbush Avenue. %u2014 Curtis Dewees,Luso-Brazilian Books, Nevins Street.EDIIOR%u2019S NOTE: You%u2019re right, thereare no buildings that tall on Flatbush %u2014especially in 1976. The picture was snappedin Manhattan in an effort to get people tomove to Brooklyn.%u00a7 o u n d Q f f r m r n o K m o m n e A o m sContinued from Page 26Brooklyn. %u2014 Richard C. Lazarus, ProspectPlaceThe report praised the eight judges andother court personnel encountered during themonitoring project. Most of the monitorswere in court during the early spring and thereport said that %u201cworking there or attendingcourt sessions in the summer must beunbearable.%u201dWomen in Fire Dept.Brenda Berkman, President of the UnitedWomen Fire Fighters Association, will speakon %u201cThe Integration of Women into the NYCFire Department: Successes and Failures,%u201dat a meeting of the Brooklyn Women%u2019sPolitical Caucus, Thurs., Oct. 9, at 7:30pm, atthe YWCA, Third and Atlantic Avenues.Also speaking at the event will be YvonneLewis, who recently won the DemocraticNomination for Civil Court Judge inBrooklyn%u2019s Second District. For more information on the meeting or the group, call SallyBermanzohn, 965-9108.Re-Elect a Dem LeaderBrooklyn Borough President HowardGolden was elected to his second full term asChairman of the Executive Committee of theKings County Democratic Committee by theborough%u2019s Democratic District Leaders attheir bi-annual meeting on Sept. 22.Golden was re-elected with no oppositionand no abstentions by 35 of the 38 DistrictLeaders. Three leaders had excusedabsences.%u201cThis vote demonstrates the growing cohesion and willingness to work together of allthe political forces in Brooklyn,%u201d saidGolden. %u201cIn unity, there is strength.%u201dAt the same meeting, East New York CityCouncilmember Priscilla Wooten was electedto her second full term as Vice-Chairman.Call fo r Joint FightW'ith 1,377 new cases of lead poisoningdiagnosed last year, City Comptroller Harrison Goldin and Central Brooklyn Congressman Major Owens have called for ajoint Federal-City campaign to eliminatelead poisoning.%u201cLead poisoning is second only to poornutrition as a threat to poor, urban Blackchildren,%u201d said Owens in a statement released Sept. 3.According to a 42-page report prepared byGoldin, some 237,000 children under the ageof six live in high-risk areas of New York City,primarily Brooklyn%u2019s %u201clead belt%u201d of BedfordStuyvesant, Brownsville, Bushwick and FortGreene. Lead poisoning typically affectsyoungsters under age six, who ingest and inhale lead from peeling paint chips and dust,car exhaust fumes and food stored in canssoldered with lead. Severe lead poisoning cancause brain damage and death and minorpoisoning can cause learning diabilities.%u201cLead poisoning is a silent epidemic,maiming and retarding our youth,%u201d saysGoldin. *1Goldin and Owens charged that neither theCity nor Washington are doing enough tocombat the epidemic of lead poisoning. TheCity%u2019s program testing children%u2019s bloodlevels, although one of the country%u2019s largest,reaches less than half the children at risk.The Reagan Administration has slashedFederal funding to combat the poisoning inNew York City by 25 percent. %u201cIt is obscenethat we have it within our power to save ourchildren but say it costs too much,\Owens.Invitation to StudentsAs part of the celebration marking thebicentennial of the signing of the U.S. Constitution, Brooklyn high school students willbe able to participate in a re-enactment of theConstitutional Convention, Feb. 3 to 7, 1987 inWashington, D.C. Park Slope CongressmanChuck Schumer (10th District) is encouraging every local high school to send at leastone student.Convention II, as the program is called,will include students from around the country. The principals are free to select thestudents they wish. There are no scholasticrequirements, but placement will be based ona first-come, first-served basis. Students willbe responsible for their own transportation,food and lodging. Call Schumer%u2019s office at965-5400 for more information.O cto b e r 2,1986, THE P H O EN IX, Page 27