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Show WESTERN AMERICAS' salt lake volume two free not for sale number fourteen november 30, 1972 Block Leader Supervisor Hired at Peoples Freeway The People's Freeway area extends from 13th South to South Temple and from the west side of State Street to the east side of the Freeway. Our most urgent need now is for volunteers to assist in the program, Mark explained. Such volunteers should be willing to survey the area and would be paid $20.00 per month for expenses in return for 10 hours of work a Mark Elliott, a young man clearly dedicated to his job, has been hired as the new block leader supervisor for the People's week. Anyone interested "Every resident People's Freeway area volunteering should cell after 328-364- in Mark 5:00 p.m. at Office furniture, particularly file cabinets, are also desperately needed by the block leader program. Once the space is refurbished, the office will be located in the upstairs area of the People's Freeway Center at 568 South 200 West. Mark Elliott Freeway Neighborhood Council. "I see my job as one of challenge but its a very acceptable kind of challenge,'' Mark said, with a shy smile. The success of the program The block leader program, will funded by Model Cities, provides for contacts in an area. As supervisor, Mark has one and five part-timblock door-to-doo- r full-tim- e leaders e hired to carry out this program. in the will eventually be contacted by a block leader,'' Mark said. The primary purpose of reaching each resident is to determine major problems in the area and to make available services known to everyone in the neighborhood, he said. depend largley on the efforts of the block leaders, which include Ellen Holmes as the full-timstaff member and part-timerMary Archuleta, Lizzee Padilla, ArLeah Pippy, e s Lorella Smith and Phillis Longton. "Please emphasize how badly we need volunteers,'' Mark concluded. ''For anyone interested in people, this would be a great way to get involved in the community." Give Mark a call at 328-364for more information or to volunteer for the program. 3 Director Dislikes Sitting Behind a Desk by Laura Briggs "I'm not the kind of administrator who can sit behind a desk," declared Quinton N. Garcia, newly appointed director of the Central City Community Center, 615 South 3rd East. "I have to be out with the people, soliciting jobs for them, working with the different groups on funding projects for the center, and learning about the individual problems as well as about the common problems of our area." "I've always felt at home anywhere go. personnaly felt the equal of any man," revealed Garcia. "Life is learning to open your heart to all kinds of people in any walk of life. If a man doesn't want to be my friend at first, just try to drown him with compassion until he trusts me." Garcia, who classifies himself as a Navajo Indian, rows of many skid on the grew up reservations and many, many cities throughout the Western United States. He wandered from I I I full-bloode- d place to place during the depression years, working with Indian, Japanese, Filipino and Mexican migrants, picking fruit, working on farms and breaking advantage of the G. I. Bill and attended Weber State College, the University of Utah and the horses, even working as University of Washington a fisherman off the coast of Alaska. Then, Quinton Garcia discovered a new world, professional boxing. "I noticed that all the boxers were getting quick money and all the pretty girlfriends they could handle, "recalls Garcia, "and that hit me just right." He boxed in thefeatherweight and lightweight divisions for fifteen years until World War and the Korean War requested his services. "I didn't take part in sporting programs in school because we weren't allowed in the gymnasiums," remembers Garcia. was kicked out of "Besides school in the ninth grade because 1 1 I I couldn't speak English." Today, Garcia speaks several languages, in addition to possessing an enviable command of the English vocabulary. Deciding to add to the lessons he learned in the school of hard knocks, Garcia took in Seattle as well as the University of Nevada in Reno. He served for six and years as a social worker in the Salt Lake public one-hal- f school system. He is a field representative for the Division of the State of Utah, a member of the All Indian Committee on Alcoholism, a member of the National Congress of American Indians and he also has worked for commercial businesses in the fields of public relations and in aerial surveys and map making. "My wife, Antonia Romo Garcia, has made a remarkable adjustment to the Indian culture," states Garcia. The Garcias have five children and Mrs. Garcia is active in several Quinton Garcia is forced to spend some time as a "deskbound" administrator but prefers to be "out with the people." Shan McSpadden, Headstart Day Care Center discusses plans for Center with Mr. Garcia. the Central City community. Poverty, inadequate housing, lack of meaningful jobs, drop-outone parent families, narcotics, s, crime, social and academic retardation are prevalent problems community, in the Central City he said. De facto prbgrams designed to help the American Indian with his special discrimination, problems. unjust effort to get the Center and the poor people out of the area." Quinton Garcia is deeply concerned with the problems of according to Garcia, is employed in a "morally "The most desperate need of the Central City Community Center is funds," stated Quinton Garcia. "Senior citizens and the youth try to finance their own program and participate in money making projects to maintain the activities, but certain areas, such as the shop and the Arts and Crafts are going to waste, because the kids can't afford to purchase materials." |