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Show Teach the World to Sing." And, they did make you want to sing! The NAACP Sisters pf Soul Drill Team closed the program 'Page 3 from your editor . . . with two heel clicking precision numbers which everyone loved 'The Drill Team is talented, pretty young black girls, many of whom previously attended Jackson. areas of enlightened local leadership will poverty programs and experimental programs like Model Cities be continued. We can only hope that with masses of new money available, local politicians will not turn to spending it for streets and sewers and new office buildings. The flowering of concern for those who live in the ghettos and central cities was in the 1960s. That age is .dying. Will we let it other all year long. These operations. We hope that agencies funded in the next action year, probably the last for the Mocel Cities program, will Model Cities helped make their program possible. Mrs. Wynetha President. Bridgewater, PTA youngsters are black everyday of the year, not for just one week. That's why we included other children in this year's program. So they could be a part of the planning and work together with their black classmates." Right on, Jackson School! Let Model Cities be remembered as a monument to those who did care. And let it be remembered as a haunting reminder to those who did not, that the poor are never far away. Let us all remember Camelot. Black History Week need news from all areas of the Model Neighborhood. We Five part-timBlock Leaders for People's Free Way, Inc. Pay - $20 stipend per month. Applications are available e Call 467-801- 4 and we'll send a reporter and photographer to Satelite Center, 568 South 300 West. Must be residents of the People's Free Way area. Call 328-474for information. in cover your meetings and programs! 9 celebrated in some of Salt Lake's schools from February 11 through February 18, 1973. A particularly moving observance of this annual event was held at Jackson Elementary School on Friday, February 16. Mrs. Mary Christy, a teacher's aide and outreach worker chaired the program and Mrs. Wynetha Bridgewater, PTA president and teacher aide, arranged for food for the luncheon and decorated the bulletin boards. Students and teachers had obviously worked hard preparing to present special songs, skits and poems, all created by black Americans. Fifteen acts were presented to the enthusiastic crowd of parents and friends. Some particularly memorable segments were two young ladies and a handsome young man, all deaf, doing a dance routine to the popular song, ''The Candy Man" and a class of special education youngsters singing "I'd Like to salt lake mode! neighborhood news Foster Observed at Jackson Parents Black History Week was Leaders Needed - Community School program at Jackson, summed up the feelings of the children and their parents who were present when she said, "We should learn to live with each y Block NEEDED Lucy Otero, with the Cities money, operated projects and then many took the credit for Model Cities accomplishments. Most of the work of Model Cities is done under contract by other agencies. Those agencies seldom mentioned Model Cities in their remind everyone that lunch of "soul food" prepared by black mothers was served to the adults attending the program. die in Salt Lake City? During the past action years, agencies of the local government and other groups took Model day-to-da- g, composed of sixteen very A The tide is running against Model Cities and similar programs to help the poor. From the national level through many state levels of government, the trend is away from spending money to see what can be done to hel p the poor and the oppressed. With revenue sharing, federal aid has taken a new turn and it is a turn of the back on the poor. Only in a few cities and a few hand-slappin- Youngsters "teach the world to sing." W"... T Are Needed NEEDED: FOSTER PARENTS. For information, call State of Utah Division of FamiLy Dick Bruno, Social Worker. Welfare pays about $90.00 a month for a teenage child's expenses. Dental and medical are taken care of through a special card. School Services, 486-1811- , fees are taken care of. New guide lines allow single persons to accomodate foster children. new series of Also, self-evaluatio- n The Model Neighborhood Neighborhood News is a publication of the Salt Lake Model Cities Agency under the supervision of the Joint Board grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Publication of the newspaper is weekly with a distribution of possible through of City and County Commissioners with editorial offices located at 383 East 1700 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. Publication of the Model News is made a designed classes have been to allow the foster parent to prospective decide for or to register a information request or complaint on delivery himself if he would like to take in a foster child. Each child should be provided with his own bed, but he does not have to have his own room. Love, understanding and family unity are needed more of the newspaper, call than luxurious, spacious 20,000 copies. For further , orientation a 467-801- 4. Produced by the Communications Service Center, Inc. Marlene Marie Young, Editor and Community Information Specialist Distribution by Reliable Courier Tim Funk, Staff Reporter Joint Board of Commissioners Ralph Y. McClure, Chairman Pete Kutulas Stephen Harmsen CoTWad Harrison Jennings Phillips William E. Dunn surroundings. Some of these children had these exterior things in their real homes. Foster boys and girls want and need jobs. They must learn how to work and be responsible. Many need to learn to manage time and money. They need the feeling of meaningful success in the working world. It is true, special understanding is needed about their special problems. Call the Model Neighborhood News if you can offer work for these youngsters of if you would like to be a foster ,w4. parent, at 467-80- 1 - |
