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EditorialsPull Y our Lfivsrs%u00ae?In spite of delays-and postponements local community residents will be able to vote December 4th to elect the people who will be pivotal in the reorganization of the anti-poverty program in New York City.Since he was a candidate, Mayor Ed Koch pledged that he was going to see that the $25 million federal dollars a year coming into the city should go to actual programs rather than pay for salaries of numerous administrators of phantom organizations.We certainly support that effort and with fierce competition among some local candidates it behooves everyone living in thedesignated Neighborhood Development Areas to come out and make their voice heard.In this election no one should have an excuse to stay home: people who are eligible for the benefits of the programs will want to vote to make sure responsible people are elected: for'everyone, electing responsible candidates to serve is a way to make sure that tax dollars are spent wisely.On December 4th. the only thing needed is the commitment and responsibility to make that trip to the polling sites and pull those levers.C o m m u n i t y F o r u m View s From R eadersShedding Light On The Policy Board Election DoingsBY MIKE FRANCIS & CARLIN MEYERA group of community residents have begun to shine some light of their own on the upcoming Area Policy Board (APB) elections. Originally scheduled in South Brooklyn for September 25lh. these elections of persons to represent the views of the community%u2019s poor and working poor on the use of anti poverty funds had to be cancelled because of mismanagement of the election process. As late as the three days before the election polling sites had not yet been selected, much less publicized; few community residents knew anything about the election. The Community Development Agency (CDA), the City agency partly responsible for the elections, had scheduled community meetings to publicize the election but neglected to inform the candidates and for the most part the community.Die elections have now been rescheduled for December 4th. (The Mayor blamed a polling machine company for the earlier Fiasco). But still there is a virtual blackout on publicity about the election - still South Brooklyn remains in the dark.Is it a plot? A coalition of APB candidates from South Brooklyn aren%u2019t saying one way or the other - but one thing they are saying is that they think the election Fiasco reflects the lack of respectIn Community District Two, Subunit 1with one seat available has no candidates. subunit 2 with 4 seats has the following candidates: Raymond Rose, Shafcqah Ali, Marjorie Ison Davis, Geraldine Garris, Michele Jimincz, Frank Lemons Jr. (Youth), Mamie Peace (Senior), Walter Long, Rose Marie Smith, Amanda Stewart, Selvin Watts (Youth). Subunit 3 with 4 scats has Joy Hart (Youth), James Wisher, Rev. Pedro Lozada, Janet Matloff, and Fred Price as candidates./Subunit 4 with 3 seats; Carena Rojas Lopez, Anna Richer, John Rivers (Youth) and Gregory Scott. Subunit 5 with 3 scats: Imogcnc Baldwin, Albert Berube, James Cole, Naomi Davis, Helen Edwards, VAnessa Gordon, Elizabeth Grant, Freddie Hamilton, Marco Mason, and Harold Menefee. Subunit 6 with 3 seats: Lucretia Duncan, Frances Black, Lorraine Thomas, Ann King, Frances Boyd.Community Board Six, Subunit 1 has4 seats with the following candidates: B ernicc Nicholls, George Nicholls, Joseph Gagliardo (Youth), Brenda Cyrus, Luis Manzanet, Francis Lynch (Senior), Mary Luz Gonzalez, Carmen Lilly, Maria Rosario (Senior). Subunit 2has one scat with candidates Jack Bishop, Frances Cardona, Hermina Molinaro, Louisa Ryan and Jack Bishop. Subunit 3 with 3 scats: Rev. Louis DoGaetano, Linda DcJcsus, Deborah Smith, Isaac Gillison, Gloria Knight, Marion Thomas, Patrice Margin (Youth) and George Delgado. Subunit 4 with 4 scats: Casar Dc La Torre, Setphcn DiBrienza, Martha Hunlly, Michaelthe Koch Administration has for the poor and working people of South Brooklyn - and they%u2019ve decided to shed some light on the elections themselves. Jackie Aponte (South Slope), Bcrncttc Carway (Center Slope), Brenda Cyrus (Red Hook), Linda Dejesus (Boerum Hill), Jules Lobcl (Center Slope), Mimi Rosenberg (South Slope), and Herb Williams (Areawide from Fort Greene) have printed thousands of leaflets at their own expense, and with their community %u201c machine%u201d of white, black, brown, young and old, residents of Red Hook, Fort Greene, Park Slope and Boerum Hill, have combed the community soliciting ideas and sharing their views.Tuesday November 20th they held a community-wide meeting, where more than 100 people heard their pledge to stay in touch with the community, to respond to community views on how to distribute the miniscule $1 million that will flow to South Brooklyn to eradicate poverty, to ask if the $25 per month expense monies given Board members to put out a newsletter communicating issues and information to South Brooklyn residents, to assist efforts toward indigenous community organization, to seek to end the evergrowing displacement of South Brooklyn%u2019s poorer residents and more. The candidates invited more than 30 community organizaMiranda. Subunit 5 with 2 scats: Bedrnetic Carway, Judy Hoffmann, Jules Lobcl, Carole Nonncmachcr, Edwin O'Connor. Subunit 6 with 4 scats has Mimi Rosenberg, Leo Chaisson and Harry Tarzian.Community Board Eight, Subunit 1has 3 scats with candidates FrankSee NewsStory Page 5Morotto, Glenn Roeback, Carolyn Pitts, Mark Lewis. Subunit 2 has 3 scats: Norccn Fraser, Aisha Amin, Ana Boustcd, Fanny Doyle (Senior). Subunit3 has 4 scats: Richard Anderson, Lewis Greene (Senior), Arcnc Antoine, Jean Anderson, Clara Gibson, Alexander Grant (Senior), Agnes Darby, Ayodele Jenkins, Virginia Sims, Betty Jenkins, Haldy James, Cuthbcrt Tempro(Senior). Subunit 4 with 3 seats: JeromeSaniford, Denise Power, Milton Edw'ards. James Aaron, Joyce Bolden, Jessie Herbert, Elsie Lord Gill, Louis Germain, Joseph Scwall, Janet Wright (Youth), Albert Harris, Miriam Stuckcr, Ricardo Muir. Subunit 5 with 3 scats: Richard Capers, Elaisc Bowers, Yasmin Harris and Evelyn Moss (Youth), Dorothy Johnston, Nathan Rogers, Wixxie Rivers. Subunit 6 with 3 scats: Yasmin Harris, Roiiin J. Dar%u2019uouzc, Anglin Greaves, Evelyn Williams, Alberta Harris, Rcnaldo Barbcro.Community Action Board Candidates (for one seat) representing Community Boards Two and Six arc: Herbert A. Williams and Charles Robinson.lions to describe their work in an effort to begin the process of information sharing in the community.Recently, when 40 candidates in Brooklyn were summarily removed from election ballots for supposed failure to prove adequate petition signatures, these South Brooklyn Coalition candidates as part of the citywidc Coalition of Citizens for proper and secret Community elections demonstrated their commitment to power-sharing in the community by going to bat for the other candidates. They went to Federal Court to challenge the City%u2019s failure to follow the A.P.B. election regulations, as well as its failure to afford any appeal process to the candidates who were dropped. A partial settlement of the suit has already resulted in the restoration of many candidates to the ballot, and the institution of an appeal for the others.And this Saturday, December 1. the Coalition of Candidates and their supporters calling themselves the Ad HocBY ELANE FELDMANIn reading the press pieces on the proposed new Brooklyn Heights hotel (Phoenix, Nov. 15, %u201c Developers Sought As Hotel Study is Rcaleased%u201d ), it strikes me this would be a terrific time to ask %u201c what ever happened to the B-51 bus to Manhattan\(You all remember that one folks%u2014last summer on the day it was to have started, there stood Borough Proxy Golden and assorted interested parties, and there they were left standing watching all the cars go by. The TA in their usual wisdom cancelled the bus, sans notice and left one and all standing with egg on their collective faces. Anyway, backtothepoint%u2014while it%u2019s along while %u2018tween proposal and realization of hotel guests arriving and seeking comfortable transportation into mid-town, it might sweeten the pie for these yet to be seen visitors. It would sure as heck make our lives pleasanter!Has anyone notices the romantic newElane Feldman lives in the NorthHeights and is considering rollerskating to work.Coalition Against Poverty and for Peoples%u2019 Power, will be marching through Red Hook, Boerum Hill and Park Slope to publicize the elections and demand an end to poverty. The march will begin at 10:30 a.m. in Red Hook, 120 Richards St. Marching through Red Hook and Boerum Hill, it will pick up Park Slope folks at Carroll Street and 7th Avenue at 1:30 p.m. As one candidate summed it up: %u201c We arc fighting not simply for a community voice, but for community power. We arc not going to sit back and simply divide a small and shrink ing pic among the many programs and groups that deserve a piece of it%u2014we%u2019re going to ask why that pic is so small in the first place, and demand that the City, State and Federal governments enlarge it.\Mike Francis and Carlin Meyer aremembers of the Ad Hoc CoalitionAgainst Poverty and for Peoples%u2019Power.lighting we%u2019ve had visited on us at the St. George Arcade entrance to the subway. Gee, it%u2019s really quaint! But the stygian gloom coupled with the fragrant aromas%u2014 we now have a take-out food stand, abutting an exterminating service across from an %u201c intimate%u201d snack bar%u2014might deter less hardy visitor-types. And, come to think of it, we%u2019ve yet to hear any decent explanation why the mythic B-51 hasn%u2019t ever materialized. (That all-encompassing %u201c bogey-person%u201d of budget-cuts was bandied about for a while. But one would hope that some local politicians would be decent enough to come forth with some explanation. If the TA refuses to accommodate the stated wishes of the thousands who were awaiting this service, then maybe a private bus company should be approached by local individuals.But, I suspect like the oft-promised ferrv to Manhattan, clean-up of the Arcade, ad nauseum, the B-51 will be the %u201c Flying Dutchman\(Somebody ought, therefore, to tell the folks at the St. George Towers apartment rental office to pull the constant mentions to the %u201c express bus to Manhattan\ment. Kinda%u2019 embarassing, ain%u2019t it?Sound Off Feedback from ReadersLetters ToThe PredatorI felt the picture on page 10 of the November 15 Phoenix needed editing. Being Jewish the thought of eating a pig%u2019s head on a holiday is revolting, although I%u2019m not kosher. Eating rabbit is also revolting. I%u2019m also an animal lover.%u2014SalomonKreitzer, Hicks StreetThe Runners In The Policy Board RaceThe MTA%u2019s flying DutchmanNovember 29, 1979. The PHOENIX, Page 7