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<br />Neighborhood service Facilities L; enter
<br />ties program.
<br />The cost of operating the cen -
<br />Iter is expected to "amount to
<br />very little," according to Parent.
<br />"Organizations and volunteers
<br />Will be providing most of the,
<br />needed services,,with NSF offer -'
<br />ing any direction and help it
<br />can," he said.
<br />Clark Juday, NSF co- ordinator
<br />Of senior citizen ro
<br />p grams, will �
<br />take charge of all administrative
<br />;work, according to Parent.
<br />Juday who in the two months
<br />he has been with the NSF pro-
<br />gram has organized two senior
<br />citizen councils, one at the!
<br />Southeast Side Center and one at.
<br />Clay Twp, Center, said his first
<br />move at St. Stephen's would be
<br />to get a council
<br />organized ... "so the people
<br />the center is for will have a say'
<br />in the operation."
<br />Activities Planned
<br />Activites at the Southeast and'
<br />Clay Centers were initiated last
<br />Friday for senior citizens with
<br />"Open house" observances in the
<br />neighborhood center's,' according
<br />to Juday.
<br />He said he hoped the St.
<br />Stephen's center would lead to
<br />what REAL officials said was aj
<br />"need" for five such centers
<br />throughout the community."
<br />Listing some of the activities'
<br />uid services planned for the cen -I
<br />er, Parent said it is hoped the I
<br />Aeration will be able to provide
<br />parttime resident nurse, one
<br />eighborhood aid, social worker,
<br />°ansportation to get the resi-
<br />ents out of the neighborhood
<br />nd into the community, as well
<br />s involving the senior citizens'
<br />t their own volunteer activities
<br />td discussion groups.
<br />Arrangements . already have
<br />`en made for Mrs. Robert Fish -'
<br />of the REAL staff to provide
<br />unselling services, and for the
<br />. Joseph County Extension
<br />rvice to organize extension ac.
<br />!ties under the direction of t
<br />s. Charles Menyhart, pres. t
<br />!nt of the Extension Service
<br />memakers.
<br />Thanksgiving baskets for nee -
<br />dy families and a contribution to
<br />United, Fund were announced to.
<br />day by the Black Press, anew
<br />organization of young Negro
<br />men whose goal is "black pride
<br />and dignity through unity."
<br />The United Fund c/hdance, n,
<br />representing a porthe
<br />proceeds from the org's
<br />latest project — a 3,
<br />at the Hansel Center — was pre
<br />sented to Tracy B. Madole, ,gen.
<br />era) chairman of this year's
<br />United Fund campign.
<br />"Our contribution to United
<br />Fund is small, but it is a begin -
<br />ning, said Curtis Owen, chair.
<br />man of the Black Press.
<br />"We're giving the Thanksgiv -I
<br />ing baskets because, as a black
<br />organization, we feel we must be'
<br />Involved directly 'in makingi
<br />black people's lives easier to
<br />live," he added.
<br />Co- Operation Is Promised
<br />The organization, according to
<br />Owen, will work in co- operation
<br />with the Office of Economic Op -!
<br />portunity funded neighborhood;
<br />centers, as well as Hansel Cen
<br />ter —which is funded by United'
<br />Community Services — to distri -1
<br />bute the holiday baskets.
<br />In addition to its Thanksgiving)
<br />project, the Black Press ,organ
<br />-
<br />ized under the direction of
<br />Alfred P. Williams III, Hansel
<br />Center director, also is prepar-
<br />ing for a Black Arts Festival
<br />now scheduled for next year
<br />The group also hopes to extend
<br />its fund - raising projects and cul-
<br />tural programs in the effort tot
<br />inspire the "pride, dignity' and
<br />unity" it has established as a
<br />goal, according to Owen.
<br />'Relevant to Needs'
<br />He said that the contribution
<br />to United Fund was a demon -I
<br />stration of United Fund's efforts
<br />to be "relevant to the needs of
<br />our people." S r3 -r
<br />"We'd like to see efforts of the
<br />ype represented at Hansel Cen. i
<br />er continued and expanded,"
<br />said Owen. I
<br />He noted further that the
<br />Black Press has reasoned that
<br />"black people must begin to sup-
<br />port those things which are in
<br />their best interest .... and., as
<br />long as the United Fund is mak-
<br />ing efforts to meet the needs of
<br />our people, we will actively en-
<br />courage support of it." j
<br />The Hansel Center neighbor-
<br />hood program was initiated last
<br />April with a $130,040 grant ap-
<br />proved by the board of directors
<br />of United Community, �erviceS.
<br />'Getfied i"H p
<br />In announcing the decision of
<br />the UCS board, Richard-Rosen.
<br />thal, president, said the Hansel
<br />program would be one "geared
<br />to helping people help them-
<br />selves."
<br />The grant also was approved
<br />as a means of UCS providing
<br />"bold and innovative programs
<br />.attacking the root causes of
<br />problems — not merely the
<br />symptoms."
<br />It came, too, with the promise
<br />of Rosenthal and the UCS board)
<br />that ... "this program will go
<br />on as long as it is needed.
<br />The initial grant covered nine
<br />months of operation of the Han-
<br />Bel Center program,
<br />Open house next Sunday at old
<br />No. 7 Fire Station, 803 N. Notre
<br />Dame Ave., will launch officially
<br />the operation of an anti - poverty
<br />service facilities center on South
<br />Bend's northeast side.
<br />The station last September
<br />was turned over to the city by
<br />the University of Notre Dame
<br />for use as a neighborhood cen
<br />ter.
<br />The open house, scheduled for
<br />1:30 to 5:30 p.m., also will end a
<br />three -year struggle to establish
<br />a center on the northeast side,
<br />as well as serving to fulfill a
<br />commitment made two years
<br />ago by ACTION, Ind'., the local
<br />anti - poverty agency to open four
<br />centers with the initial Q,ai twin
<br />grant awarded. in 1967 by the Of -'
<br />fice of Economic Opportunity.
<br />ACTION in October was the
<br />recipient of $157,003 from the
<br />OEO for the second year opera-
<br />tion of its neighborhood centers
<br />Program,
<br />Station Abandoned
<br />The gift of old No. 7 by Notre
<br />Dame came in the wake of the
<br />reorganization of the
<br />war on
<br />poverty in St. Joseph County.
<br />Announcement that the old fire
<br />station would house a neighbor-
<br />hood center was made jointly by
<br />South Bend Mayor Lloyd M. Al-
<br />len and Rev. Charles McCar-
<br />ragher, C.S.C., vice - president
<br />for student affairs at the univer. I
<br />sity.
<br />The station was abandoned
<br />April 16, 1.968, as a fire house un -,
<br />der a fire station reorganization
<br />plan.
<br />The land on which it stands
<br />was deeded to the city by Notre
<br />Dame in 1903 for construction of
<br />a fire station, with the provision
<br />that it would revert to university)
<br />ownership if it ever was aban-
<br />doned for fire station use.
<br />4 Centers Proposed
<br />In accepting the station for use
<br />as a neighborhood center, Mayor
<br />Allen predicted that important
<br />social services would be provid-
<br />ed nearby residents.
<br />When ACTION submitted its
<br />proposal seeking federal funds to
<br />establish centers, the proposal
<br />called for four centers — one on
<br />the northeast side, one in
<br />Clay TWp., one in LaSalle Park
<br />and one on the southeast side.
<br />The Southeast Center, 416
<br />Wenger St., was the first to open
<br />— in a building turned over to
<br />United Community Services by
<br />the Cook Coffee Co., and leased
<br />to ACTION for $1 a year. Then
<br />followed the opening of centers
<br />in Clay Twp, and LaSalle Park.
<br />Efforts, however, to provide a
<br />northeast side center ran into
<br />snags.
<br />Plan Defeated
<br />As early as the summer of 1966,
<br />the Northeast Side Neighborh(Q,
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