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Donate Day Camp GiftsSt. Saviour%u2019s Youth council has arrangedfor 20 local public school children, selected bytheir school guidance counselors, to attendtwo week sessions of St. Saviour%u2019s SummerDay Camp as a gift this year.The children, four each from P.S. 39 andP.S. 107 and six each from P.S. 321 and P.S.282 accompanied by the guidance counselorsSharon Wolchok, Jean Thomas, Marta Juantorena and Stephanie Young and some oftheir parents attended a welcomingceremony and orientation in May at St.Savior%u2019s Elementary School, home base forthe Day Camp.%u201cThe gift of these sessions to those publicschools whose children consistently participate in our programs will reachyoungsters who might not have had a daycamp experience otherwise,%u201d says Jeff Hechtof the council. %u201cIt is our way of saying we appreciate the support of the public schools forour programs, for recommending us, for networking with us to utilize their facilities forour programs,%u201d he says.Birthday for The SunTo mark its second anniversary, the June11 issue of The City Sun newspaper carrieda special supplement containing articlesabout the history and social problems stemming from South Africa%u2019s legally enforcedsystem of segregation, apartheid. The issuefocuses on the efforts of people and variousorganizations that have worked to dismantlethe government%u2019s policy.%u201cThe City Sun has struggled to bring information to its constituency that is neitherdistorted or watered down %u2014 and in goodmeasure we have managed to do Just that,%u201dsays Andrew W. Cooper, publisher of CitySun. %u201cWe have managed to do it for morethan two years, which makes this anniversary a landmark for us.%u201dThe special edition preceded a demonstration that was held June 14 protesting an end toapartheid. For event or subscription information, call 624-5959.Set Gay Pride F estivalGay Friends and Neighbors Ltd. (GFN) ofBrooklyn will hold its second annual GayPride Festival %u201986 on Saturday, June 28,beginning at the Prospect Park Picnic House,5th Street and Prospect Park West, behindthe Litchfield Manor.%u201cThis is Brooklyn%u2019s own celebration of GayPride,%u201d says Alan Fleishman, with the PicnicHouse decorated in a country fair setting.This year%u2019s free festival will include an entertainment revue, a performance by GFN%u2019sMrs. M atilda Cuomo, wife of the Governor of New York State is greeted by Bruce W ittmer, (left), president of the 153-year-old Brookwood Child Care Agency, during a recent tourof its facilities in Downtown Brooklyn. Looking on is Mrs. Betty Jones, executive director,and Charles Innis, (right), chairman of the recent Plaza Hotel dinner honoring Mrs.Cuomo.own chorus and an art and photo exhibit andbooths featuring Lesbian and Gay Community information. Box lunches, champagne anda cake sale of members baked goods will begoing on throughout the day.At 5pm, GFN will present its second annualGay Advocacy Awards to people or groupswho GFN feels have contributed somethingto help make gay life better for all of us. Thisyear%u2019s recipients are: Vito Russo, author ofthe book, %u201cThe Celluloid Closet%u201d ; BettyPowell, co-founder of the National Lesbianand Gay Task Force and publisher of thefeminist newspaper, %u201cThe Kitchen TablePress%u201d ; and Gay Men%u2019s Health Crisis%u2019 %u201cBuddy Program,%u201d which provides in home careto people with AIDS.There will also be a raffle drawing whichfeatures as a prize a trip for two to PuertoRico. For more information about BrooklynGay Pride Festival %u201986, call 802-9424 or789-2613.Friends Opens A CampBrooklyn Friends School in DowntownBrooklyn is opening its first summer campthis month, with activities running throughAugust 8.Under the direction of staff member JaneMorrisey, the camp will be staffed byBrooklyn Friends School teachers and highschool students, and will include studentsfrom kindergarten through 5th, meeting daily from 8-6pm. A variety of activities will beoffered, including swimming at the YWCA,computer, gym, arts and crafts, music, anddance. Trips in the school%u2019s new mini-bus tovarious museums, parks and zoos will bepart of the program.There is space available in the summercamp. For information, call Jane Morrissey,852-1029. Brooklyn Friends School is at 375Pearl Street.Park Revenues Are UpThe revenues for the Department of Parksand Recreation of New York City rose morethan one third this year over Fiscal Year1985, a total gain of $1.6 million.Parks and Recreation CommissionerHenry J. Stem says, %u201cOur third-quarter concessions report shows that revenues went up34 percent compared to the last fiscal year.Renegotiated contracts with some of our concessionaires represented part of the increase, but the most important factor wasour continued excellence in collections %u2014 wehad hardly any arrears.%u201dThe increase is based on the minimumamount paid by the concession each year.New Parade Grounds Tennis, Inc., at theParade Grounds near Prospect Park, pays$15,000 minimum; the newsstand at Grand Army Plaza pays $36,000; the food carts in Prospect Park, run by CDM distributors, pay$16,000; Cyclone Coasters at Coney Islandpay $85,000, the highest in the borough. Theminimum total for all 47 Brooklyn concessions is $489,749. %u2014 J.C.Historical Exhibit Gives a Look at Life and Times of Famed MinisterNext year will mark the 100th anniversaryof the death of one of Brooklyn%u2019s most famouscitizens, Henry Ward Beecher, and next weekthe Brooklyn Historical Society gives us anadvance look at the man and his tim es in anexhibit entitled %u201cThe Great Divine:Brooklyn%u2019s Henry Ward Beecher,%u201d openingJune 19.Though he was bom in Connecticut andspent the early years of his ministry in theWest, it was in Brooklyn that Henry WardBeecher carved out a lasting place inAmerican history, arriving in 1847 to becomepastor of the newly-formed Plymouth Congregational Church.Beecher believed it was part of thechurch%u2019s work to make a better life for menhere on earth, rather than simply to preparethem for the life to come, says John Hopkinsof the society.%u201cThis faith %u2014 still a novel proposition at thetime %u2014 led him to espouse a variety of socialcauses and reforms, from temperance towomen%u2019s suffrage,\which he became most prominently identified, however, was the anti-slavery m ovement, an issue which he pursued from thepulpit.When the war cam e, the Heights churchbecame a hive of Union activity. Companiesof volunteers came to hear Beecher preachbefore departing for the front. He himselfequipped an entire Brooklyn regiment at hisown expense. By war%u2019s end, Beecher was oneof the best-known men in America.At this height of his influence, however, hewas hauled into court on a charge of adulteryby a member of his congregation in a scandalthat filled the newspapers for months. In theend, the jury was unable to reach a decisionand Plymouth Church welcomed him back aspastor.%u201cThe Great Divine%u201d exhibit will featureCivil War period manuscripts, prints and artifacts as well as a wealth of m aterials whichwere donated to the society in 1983 byPlymouth Church of the Pilgrim s, includingBeecher%u2019s pulpit chair, walking stick andother memorabilia. The exhibit is sponsoredby the New York City Department of CulturalAffairs and will be on view through October10, Tuesdays through Saturdays, 12 to 5pm.The historical society is at 128 PierrepontStreet. For information call 6244)890.Church Tour June 25, 6pm:As part of the exhibition program, theBrooklyn Historical Society will present atour of the historic Plymouth Church of thePilgrim s, where Beecher served as rectorfrom 1847 to 1887. Walkers will see the sanctuary, the Church House and Hillis Arcade.To be part of it, meet at the church doorson Orange Street, between Henry andHicks. For more information, call 624-0890.Bookcase-of-the-year at affordable prices.Classic bookcases in your choice of oak, teak or white. There are 4 sizes and coordinating doors and extra shelves to rnix and match as you will. 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