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a van have a his pIrob- an n eze Couricr-ExpRESS letropolitan BUFFALO COURIER-EXPRESS, Monday, March 19, 1979 Hat Doesn't Hide Smiling Irish Eyes It was only the side not facing the St. Patrick's Parade that didn't smile on Sunday (top photo). Pamela Reidpath of Kenmore kept herself warm with this hat of some Irishman depressed at missing the | remnants of his homeland. Pamela herself (bottom photo) smiled all the way through as the bands played and the marchers marched in honor of the patron saint of Ireland. East High Writer Wins State Award Joycelyn Clark, 17, a senior at East High School, has been chosen winner of the \Seventh Annual Selected Ex- hibition of New York State Arts.\ Joycelyn, who wants to be a profes- sional writer, was honored recently in Albany for her achievements. Art Eve gave her an award for writing a short story entitled: \'Memories of the Times Overcome.\ NFTA Asks Advice On Rapid Transit A rapid transit \hotline\ before they've even started digging that huge hole under Main Street? \Yep according to John Winston, a PR man for the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority. With dirt to start flying anytime now, the NFTA wants to make sure citizen comments, complaints and sugges- tions about the work get through to the proper people. So John came up with a telephone hotline for the public's convenience. The number is 855-7379. Parade Enlivens St. Cyril's Day At long last, they finally had a pa- rade on the feast day of St. Cyril. Just about everybody knows March 17 is the feast day of St. Patrick, and March 19 is St. Joseph's Day. In between - March 18 - is the feast day of the little known St. Cyril. Ever hear of anybody observing St. Cyril's Day? Probably not. But this year it was different. The annual St. Patrick's Parade moved up Main Street on Sunday - St. Cyril's Day. Andres High dodi Battel SCOUT BIRTHDAY -- Five members of Kenmore 1 display a cardbeard birthday cake Sunday they made to celebrate the 6:¢ Neighborhood Assoriation No Buffalo's Hardiman Seeks State NAACP Presidency Dr. Winton J. Hardiman, a civil rights advocate here for more than 30 years, has launched his campaign for state pre- sident of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The election will be held in Syracuse in October. If Hardiman is successful, he will become the third Buffalonian to be elected to the top state NAACP position. Raphael DuBard and Donald R. Lee, Hardiman's campaign manager, were the other two local persons to hold the presidency. Hardiman said there is \a need for new leadership and sense of new direc- tions\ if the NAACP, the oldest and the most successful civil rights group in the nation, is going to continue to meet the needs of this nation's poor peo: ple. Served on Board Hardiman served on the board of di- rectors of the Buffalo Branch of the NAACP for 25 years. He also served as Western Region director of the NAACP state conference until earlier this year. He said he is seeking the presidency ''because there also is a need for leaders who are willing to share their expertise with the youths - the future leaders of this nation.\ Hardiman noted he was instrumental in establishing the college chapter of the NAACP at the University of Buffalo last fall. The chapter will receive its charter next month when the National Board of the NAACP is expected to approve the application at a meeting in South Caroli- na. Hardiman did not attack the leader- Dr. Winton J. Hardiman . . . Seeks state presidency ship abilities of Mrs. Hazel N. Dukes of New York City, the incumbent president who is expected to seek re-election. But he theorized that his more than 30 years as a civil rights leader and 28 years mo- nitoring programs to improve conditions for minorities, makes him more than 30 years as a civil rights leader and 28 years monitoring programs to improve conditions. for minorities, makes him more than qualified for the presidency. 'Not Afrald to Attack Issues® \I'm not afraid to attack the issues,\\ he said. \And that is the type of leader- ship the state NAACP conference needs if we are to overcome the biased condi- tions that have kept blacks and other minorities stranded in a poverty web.\ Hardiman said he worked as senior employment consultant for the Equal Employment Division of the State De- partment of Labor for 20 years and eight years in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). He retired from the state position in 1970 and from the HUD position last year. When he left his HUD position, Hardiman said he was chief of the tech- nical support branch of HUD, responsi- ble for about $25 million annually in pro- grams designed to improve living condi- tions of poor persons. Obtains Scholarships Meanwhile, Hardiman said he has ob- tained scholarships for more than 100 students to colleges throughout the na- tion in the last 20 years. Further, he saic his wife, Mrs. Thelma Hardma Hardiman, the first black wom- an to be named a school principal in Buffalo, also has been part of the strug- gle in assisting disadvantaged students in meeting their financial and academic requirements needed to obtain college education. Hardiman, who received the state NAACP's Eugene T. Reid Award in 1976 - the highest award presented annually by the state civil rights group -- said members of the more than 80 NAACP chapters in the state \acknowledged my abilities when they gave me the award.\ Performing Arts to Be Brought To Heim Elementary Students The worlds of television, radio, and the arts come alive this week for students at Heim Elementary School in Williams- ville. \Performing Arts Week\\ begins today and continues through Friday with a full schedule of dance and drama presenta- tions, concerts, and appearances by Buffalo television and radio personali- ties. The Heim PTA is sponsoring the week under the chairmanship of Mrs. Sandra Schofield. 'To Get Children Involved® ''The main purpose of the week is to get the children more involved with what they see or hear on television or radio,\ Mrs. Schofield said. 'The other thing is to help them become good, appreciative audiences.\ During most of the presentations, students will be able to ask questions and will take part in clinics on makeup application Thursday and Friday. WGR-TV News Director Stewart Dan kicks off the week today in the school caleteria with a talk entitled \Anatomy of a Newscast.\ The days events include a slide show on broadcasting by WGR radio station manager Larry Andersoh and a makeup demonstration by Ms. Mary Swindler, costume mistress for the Studio Arena Theater. The Williamsville District High School band will perform in the school gym Tuesday. Later in the day, Thomas Halpin, a former concert violinist in San Francisco and Oakland, Calif,, will perform in the gym. Ballet, Mime Wednesday programs include: ballet and mime theater performances in the gym. Classical and jazz guitar performances will be held in classrooms on Thursday. One feature of the Thursday programs will be a film presentation by Dr. Joseph Wincenc, director of the Amherst Symphony Orchestra, showing rehearsal by an orchestra. Players from Williamsville North High School will do a production number from their spring musical, \My Fair Lady,\ in the gym on Friday. The week's activities will conclude with two performances by the Ballet Centre Ensemble of Artpark and a clown makeup workshop in the gym. Heim students will apply the skills they learn during their performance of \Cindy an adaption of the Cinderella story, in the gym/on April 2. Parents are invited to attend the free programs this week at Heim, 155 Heim Road, Williamsville. Canal, Once Source of Joy, Now Sorrow for Falls Family By BOB DEARING Courior-xprost Niagare Foils Bureou NIAGARA FALLS - Unable to hold them back any longer, Arthur Tracy wipes away the tears after posing for pictures in front of his house and reflect- ing on the course of the last 35 years. Those years have been spent living three blocks from the Love Canal, the once sparkling waterway that brought Joy to his eight children who once swam and fished in it. Cindy Koshman Jessica High cuprakes and refreshments for these gris and others n the crow1 of 350 who brought tays to be danared ta Children s Hosprai The party was at St Pauls Church De.aware Tracy, who resides at 542 102nd St. remembers moving into the neighbor- hood 35-year ago when peach and apple orchards lined the northern periphery of the canal and tracks of an old railway crossed the southern end. Now, he sees nothing but the ugly chain-link fence that looms around the canal area. Canal Changes The canal, of course, has also changed. - GIRL SCoUT: MORE N.Y Kellie Williams anmiversary of Girl Scouting There were plenty of and Victoma. Kenmore ~ of or $ith streets No longer a sparkling delight, it's been filled with tons of toxic chemicals and covered over. He still remembers that day back in the '40s when it all began, when he first saw those trucks, filled with drums, back up onto the canal property. \I went to City Hall and cried bitter tears, but they wouldn't listen to me,\ he said \I was just a little wheel talking to a bunch of big wheels, and no one took me seriously \ Tracy and his wife, Winona, raised eight children on 102nd Street, and Tra- cy claims that only two are relatively healthy The others, he said, suffer from a multitude of problems, including sleep- ing sickness, cancer, stunted growth and rheumatic fever He has 17 grandchildren now and for him, one of the worst repercussions of the Love Canal tragedy has been that the grandchildren don't want to come visit anymore A retired employee of Olin Chemical Co . Tracy said he knows what chemi- cals can do. The signs he said. were evi- dent from the very beginning. from those days he had watched the trucks come into the canal and slowly destroy it \'You could see the fish jump right out of the water when they dumped thase chemicals into the canal,\ he said Tracy said there s now no escaping the canal and its stigma \This is a seven-day-a week prohiem 24 hours a day,\ he said \We'll get up in the middle of the night and talk about i* We used' to play éards. but nur concen tration would always turn to the Lave Canal \We can't even turn on the music an our radio without hearing about :* There is no escape 7 Moving is out of the question «ince Tracy said there s no place to go and an money to go with © People say 1 should bnard up the n= dows and move aay. but where the he., am I supposed tn mave\\ he asks | ve got a home worth $30 000. but 1 san t se. it for 30 cents © The states refusal to pecranert'y evacuate any more than the 28 famiges already moved fram the nner mags of Tth and 9th stmeets dres® t maxe any cease tn Tracy whese heme irs right atap a susperted cuale The szajes or wet aneas ane sue perted undergzund rreex heds from the rana. and feared to be narry ng tome leachate far heyond the boundanes Mr. and Mrs. Brian McCarthy watch as St. Patrick's Day dokes \ the ... baby's togs bedecked with shamrock An Irishman Is Born On St. Patrick's Day It almost seems as though Brian Mi- chael McCarthy Jr. waited until St. Pa- trick's Day to be born. It was originally predicted the newest child of Mr. and Mrs. Brian M. McCarthy would be born in late Febru- ary. Mr. McCarthy said Saturday that his wife experienced some false alarms ear- lier this month but labor didn't actually begin until just after the stroke of mid- night, early St. Patrick's Day. Driving Crazy \When he was so late in coming he Home to Close Land Buy For 120-Bed Facility The Wheel Chair Home will close its purchase arrangements for property at 3333 Elmwood Ave., Kenmore, on Tues day. A $3.5 million, 120-bed health-related facility for the elderly will be built an the five-acre site the home is buying from St. John Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church Announcement of the Wheel Chair Mome's intention of building the new fa- cility was made in The Courler-Express in August, 1977 The home's board of directors will name a local general contractor for the project in April The home's present quarters, at Delaware and Kenmore, Kenmore, are being offered for sale for $350,000 Ex 23 FINISHING TOT CH Mts Carkie LoT ana cen from the I nee Remus swetshes hy Joe, Chandler Bret a Mam s Mo' ext ht aas & rerpastar cenam s honhy fa n out ® enged Sunday at enter Mare than 3 %¥. pecerms attanded the one~t started to drive. me crazy,\ Mrs. McCarthy confessed. \But now I am kind of glad he waited.\ Baby Brian who weighed in at 10 pounds and five ounces at Mercy Hospi- tal, has long Irish roots. - His grandfather, Patrick P. McCarthy of 200 Lockwood Ave., is an Irish Immi- grant and his great-grandfather, The- mas McCarthy, lives In Erie. The McCarthys,who live at Macamley St., have two other children, Kimberly, 11, and Paul Patrick, 2. Orchard Park Bus Vote Is Wednesday: Orchard Park School District voters will go to the polis Wednesday to deride whether or not the district should buy $80,000 worth of buses for handicapped students. The district wants to purchase eight passenger vehicles to transport the handicapped students. ' The district wants to buy three nine- passenger | school | buses, . three 16 passenger buses, one 30-passenger bus and a five-passenger bus. The smallest bus would be equipped with wheelchair lift Voting will be held from 7 a m to 9 p m Wednesday in the Middle School Foyer, S Lincoln Street, Orchard Park s or ou men ants empec of warks on the glaze of mome than NP depays at a tre Niagara Fals » bx u ea, ull n nor e ra ale
