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Letters to the Editor

May 1, 1970

TO THE EDITOR:

I would like to respond to the article in last month’s paper on the Day Care Center project, and clarify several statements where my name was mentioned.

The article listed me as Washington University Community Developer for the project. I am not. There are plans for employing a community developer in the summer if the summer project is funded.

In the same paragraph, the article stated that I “believe that a day care center is one of the top priority needs of the community.” I think there is a need in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area, for a child care center, and I would like to see one started. But to keep things in focus, let me say that I think there might be some other needs in this community that are more important and immediate.

The article listed people taking part in the project. The people mentioned make up only a partial list of neighborhood people who have shown interest in the project and who have already been helping in the planning. Many more neighborhood people are needed in this project if it is to be run by and for the residents of the Skinker-DeBaliviere area.

— Charlene Brischetto

Originally published in The Paper, May 1970.

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Neighborhood issues, such as clean up campaigns, beautification, even the lingering Jack-in-the-Box problems, took a back seat to the panel discussion on real estate practices in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area at the joint meeting of the Rosedale-Skinker and Washington Heights Neighborhood Associations, April 14 in the St. Roch’s Assembly Hall.
Virgil Wright, area resident and co-chairman of the Neighborhood Citizens Committee, asks Mr. Henry Lewis, a local pro-owner, “Who put them there,” referring to the number of tenants crowded into small apartments. The occasion was a panel discussion on neighborhood real estate problems. (See page 8 for story on the meeting’;)
May 1, 1970

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