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Area Policy BoardC l o r t i A n eu i w i i v i i o n p p 1 v / u t i iBY IRENE VAN SLYKECandidates in 25 designated low-income communities in New York City are now on the ballot and running for the September 25th election to their Area Policy boards.The new Boards will be responsible for allocating more than $25 million in federal anti-poverty funds in their communities and replace the Anti-Poverty Community Corporations dumped earlier this year by Mayor Koch.Petitioning and campaigning for the elected positions have been low key possibly because district lines and eligibility rules are confusing and also because jurisdiction over anti-poverty funds is limited.Board members, in contrast to the anti-poverty corporations, do not have direct control over funds but rather accept proposals for funding and make recommendations to the Mayor. Contracts for services delivered will be between the funded agency and the Community Development Agency.Community District Two (Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill); District Six (Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook and Park Slope) and District Eight (Crown Heights) have all been designated %u201c Primary Neighborhood Development (NDA) areas.%u201d Within each NDA 16 representatives will be elected to a 33 member Area Policy Board. Each NDA is subdivided into six subunits and certain seats are restricted to youths between 18 and 24 years and senior citizens of sixty years and older. Non elected positions on the Board are reserved for public elected officals and School Board and Community District board members.In Community District Two,Subunit 1 with one seat available has no candidates. Subunit 2 with 4 seats has the following candidates: Raymond Rose, Raymond I. Bryan, Shafeqah Ali, Marjorie Ison Davis, Geraldine Garris, Michele Jiminez, Frank Lemons Jr. (Youth), Mamie Peace (Senior), Walter Long, Rose Marie Smith, Amanda Stewart, Selvin Watts (Youth). Subunit 3with 4 seats has Joy Hart (Youth), Rev. Pedro Lozada, Janet Matloff, and Fred Price as candidates. Subunit 4 with 3 seats: Carena Rojas Lopez, Anna Rieber, John Rivers (Youth) and Gregory Scott. Subunit 5 with 3 seats: Imogene Baldwin, Albert Berube, Elsa Blake, James Cole, Naomi Davis, Helen Edwards, Vanessa Gordon, Elizabeth Grant, Freddie Hamilton, Marco Mason, Leticia NievesA&S Workers Hold RallySupporting Union AttemptBY IRENE VAN SLYKEAfter an eight-month-long campaign to organize a union in the Fulton Street Abraham and Straus department store, employees and union and community supporters will hold a noontime parade and rally in front of the downtown store on Sept. 14.Alan Charney, a organizer for the Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union (RWDSU) reports that representatives of District Council 37, the Coalition of Labor Union Women and such political figures as Assemblymen Frank Barbaro, and Woodrow Lewis and Councilmember Robert Steingut are scheduled to speak at the rally.A & S is the largest unorganized department store chain in the New York Metropolitan area, Charney explained, with 12 stores and over 15,000 employees, of which the Brooklyn store employs some 4,000 people.Organizing a union according to Charney is a two step process, first, the union tries to have a %u201c show of interest%u2019%u2019 where 30 percent or more have signed a membership card, then the union asks the National Labor Relations (NLRB) for a secret ballot election to be represented bythe union. With several hundred Brooklyn A&S members signed up the RWDSU expects to petition the NLRB for an election by the end of the fall, he said.On September 7, some 30 people in a local union meeting place were busy preparing for the September 14 parade, printing slogans on placards such as %u201c Nobody%u2019s looking out for us but ourselves. Join the union,%u2019%u2019 or %u201c Why now A & S sees fit to give 3 days off?%u2019%u2019 and %u201c Gripe sessions or bribe sessions?%u201dPeople, who said they were A & S employees but declined to be identified because they were afraid of repercussions by the firm said that because of their union organizing activities, A & S. earlier this year gave all employees extra days off. In addition, they said, supervisors started to hold small meetings with employees to air complaints and tried to resolve problems. Employees, however, say that they are not satisfied and have a list of grievances only a union can take care of.Repeated calls over several days to A & S administrative offices seeking the store%u2019s position were not returned.School Board 15 Elects Officers,Ponders School Financing WoesAs local schools prepare to open their doors on a new year, so Community School Board 15 is gearing up to face its own new season. At the Board%u2019s last meeting on Aug. 29,it approved this year%u2019s tight budget and chose its new officers for the upcoming term.Reaffirming a decade-long tradition in local school politics, Philip Kaplan was chosen Board President for his tenth consecutive year, joining guidance counselor Mary Treacy in her tenth election as the Rnard%u2019s .Secretary. Assistant principal Emil Giordano and teacher Beatrice DeSapio, both active Board members over the past several years, were chosen for the respective posts of Vice Presisentand Treasurer.Following the elections, the Board okayed this year%u2019s budget schedulization, noting as it did so that no new teachers will probably be hired because of the paucity of available funds, and that some elementary school teachers may have to be excessed.The new principals of Carroll Gardens%u2019 PS 27, Stephen Rosenthal (formerly an Assistant Principal at Park Slope%u2019s IS 88) and Park Slope%u2019 PS 10, Howard Sheikowitz (previously an assistant at JHS 51 in the Slope) were also introduced to the Board, followed by an announcement that applications will soon be screened to fill a principal vacancy at Carroll Gardens' JHS 142.V.< :w {A)x(i >**'<*>>%u00bb t %u2022:%u2022:%u2022>*Last Sunday%u2019s sparkling sunshine tolled a tremendous turnout to Park Slope's FifthAnnual Fabulous Fifth Avenue Fair, held along the commercial strip from Garfield Place to 16thStreet and co-ordinated by the Fifth Avenue Committee. While the final counts aren%u2019t in,organizers were enthusiastic about the crowd; %u201c we had many more people than last year,%u201denthused Committeemember Pat Conway. Above, participants dance the day away in a discodancing contest, which was won by William Marrero of 12th St. and Mary Cabrera of 23rd St.(Van Slyke Photo)and Harold Menefee.Subunit 6 with 3 seats: Lucretia Duncan, Frances Black, Lorraine Thomas, Ann King, Frances Boyd.Community Board Six, Subunit 1has 4 seats with the following candidates: Bernice Nicholls, George Nicholls, Joseph Gagliardo (Youth), Brenda Cyrus, Luis Manzanet, Francis Lynch (Senior), Mary Luz Gonzalez, Carmen Lilly, Maria Rosario (Senior). Subunit 2 has one seat with candidates Jack Bishop, Frances Cardona, Hermina Molinaro, Louisa Ryan, Subunit 3 with 3 seats: Rev. Louis DcGactano, Isaac Gillison, Gloria Knight, Linda DeJesus, Deborah Smith, Marion Thomas, Patrice Margin (Youth) and George Delgado. Subunit 4 with 4 seats: Casar De La Torre, Stephen DiBrienza, Martha Huntly, Michael Miranda. Subunit5 with 2 seats: Bernette Carway, Judy Hoffmann, Jules Lobel, Carole Nonnenmacher, Edwin O%u2019Connor and Harry Tarzian. Subunit 6 with 4 seats has Mimi Rosenberg and Leo Chasen.Community Board Eight,Subunit 1 has 3 seats withChinamenSee MuseumA delegation from the People%u2019s Republic of China visited The Brooklyn Museum on September 8. The ten member delegation are the first representatives of the Chinese People%u2019s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (Youxie) and has been touring the United States for the past two weeks as guests of the U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Association.The latter association sponsored The Brooklyn Museum exhibition of %u201c Peasant Paintings from Hushien County%u201d of the People%u2019s Republic of China.Museum Board Chairman Robert Levinson and Director Michael Botwinick gave the delegation a special tour through the Museum and hosted a luncheon at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation afterward.The delegation leader was Wan Bignan, President of Youxie who in the 1950%u2019s served as head of the People%u2019s Republic%u2019s delegation at ihe Warsaw talks with U.S. representatives. Other delegation members included the Vice President of Quinghua University and a leader of the National Women%u2019s Federation and several Youxie staff members.The Brooklyn Museum is planning to send a delegation to the People's Republic in the fall.candidates Frank Marotto, Glenn Roeback, Carolyn Pitts, Mark Lewis. Subunit 2 has 3 seats: Aisha Amin, Abdullah Amin, Deloris Thomas, Lancaster Williams, Ana Bousted, Gerard Previl, Gary Williams (Senior), Fanny Doyle (Senior). Subunit 3 has 4 seats: Richard Anderson, Lewis Greene (Senior), Arene Antoine, Jean Anderson, Clara Gibson, Theodore Butler (Senior), Alexander Grant KSenior;, Agnes Darby, Ayodele Jenkins, Virginia Sims, Betty Jenkins, Haldy James, CuthbertTempro (Senior). Subunit 4 with 3 seats: Jerome Saniford, Denise Powell and Jeffrey Harris (Youth), Milton Edwards, James Aaron, Joyce Bolden, Jessie Herbert, Elsie Lord Gill, Louis Germain, Joseph Sewall, Janet Wright (Youth), Alberta Harris, Miriam Stucker, Ricardo Muir. Subunit 5 with 3 seats: Richard Capers, Elaise Bowers, Yasmin Harris and Evelyn Moss (Youth), Dorothy Johnston, Nathan Rogers. Wixxie Rivers. Subunit 6 with 3 seats: AnglinGreaves, Evelyn Williams.Workers for the Department of Transportation (DOT) arestill digging away in the roadbed trench of the BrooklynQueens Expressway (BQE), making headway on replacingcracked segments of a broken sewer main that had beenwashing out the foundations of the highway. Sometime inthe next week or so, the DOT w ill open its trench excavationsinto the third and currently functioning southbound land(extreme right), channeling that traffic into a converted laneon (he northbound side. While southbound traffic has beendetoured through Hicks St. West and neighboring streetssince early May, this will be the first time that traffic in bothdirections will have; been hindered by the construction.(Occhiogrosso Photo)September 13,1979, The PHOENIX. Page 5