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COMMUNITY J . ? ' Board Rejects Motion to help Beautify Homes in Boston/Kimberly By DAVID L. DILLARD Chronicle Staff Writer Marthaniel Linton said improvements need to be made to houses near his Harrison Avenue home and he has mixed emotions about the board of alderman's 5-2 vote to re-study giving residents home beautification loans. j "I think they should give it full consideration," he said. "I'm a little confused that they didn't pass it. 1 think fixing (the homes) up will draw a better class of people to th^ ' neighborhood." ~ The aJdermen voted Monday night not to start a pilot program that would provide up to $7,500 to. homeowners to improve the exteri or of their homes and make site improvements. Aldermen Nelson Malloy and Joycelyn Johnson voted against sending the measure back to com mittees. Robert Nordlander was absent. Alderman Robert Northington said he would not sup port the bill because it was doesn't benefit the entire city. "I am not going to vote to give any tax money to plant flowers and shrubs," he said. "If it works, it will never be a citywide program because the money is only available to certain areas of the city that qual ify." The proposed plan would haVe provided $100,000 for improve merits to 45 houses in a six-block area between 1 4th and 20th streets. The money would be used for painting, window or door improve ments, vinyl siding as well as plant ing flowers, trees and shrubs. Under the current plan, the loan would be forgiven if homeowners properly maintained the property. Only half of the loan would be forgiven for realtors; they would have to repay the other half. North Ward Alderman Nelson Malloy said the houses are in the Boston/Thurmond area and will not be fit to live in if improvements are not made. "I think we're spending a mini mum amount of money to help keep houses from deteriorating," he said. "At this point, we can fix a4ot of them rather than allowing the neighborhood to get into a blighted condition'that's not fit for human beings." The item .was forwarded to the full board from both the finance committee and the housing/general government committee. Board members voted to send the item back to both committees for review before the full board takes action. Northeast Ward Alderman Vivian Burke said one of her major concerns was "absentee landlords" making money off the property and not investing in it. \ "The city has a responsibility to provide decent housing, but the absentee landlords are the cause," she said. "We need to look for land lords who have made money off the property and not doing anything with it." Linton agrees that absentee landlords contribute to the problem. "I'm primarily concerned about the absentee landlords who don't know who lives there and are mak ing money," he said. "They are the people who are really causing the area to deteriorate." Gateways To Hold Fund Raiser Gateways Music Festival 1994 presents the classical music perfor mance "From Gateways with Love," which opens next weekend. The Rev. John Mendez, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church, will serve as master of ceremony. The performance will feature Armenta Hunnings, pianist; Winifred Garrett, harpist; Sarah Johnson, vio linist, John Williams, baritone; and Nancy Wurtele, pianist. All perform ers are members of Gateways' board of directors. 1 t" The concert will fre held Friday, July 29, at 8 p.m. at the Brendik Recital Hall at Wake Forest University. According to Rudolph V. lBoone, chairman of the public rela tions committee, the performance is being held as a fund raiser to finance the upcoming Gateways Music Festival, which runs Oct. 5-11. "All ? ^ of the concerts are free to the public," he said. "We are trying to fmanpe it through programs such as this one to make it accessible to black youths." During the music festival, enti tled "Classical Music and the African-American Musician." mostly black classical musicians will per form to help spark an interest in clas sical music among black youths. Boone said the admission is free, but donations will be solicited. Guode to Have Book Signing Saturday ~ Philadelphia's first black mayor, W . Wilson Goode, said he learned of a plot by the city's police department to assassinate him at the site of the 1985 MOVE disaster. In his autobiography, In Goode Faith , Goode describes his rise from a sharecropper in Seaboard to become mayor and the MOVE confrontation ? the incident that defined his political career. "Some associates had told me they had learned of an assassina tion plot by police," he said by telephone from his Philadelphia office. "Of course, it was all denied." On May 13. 1985, the police bombed the headquarters of MOVE, a controversial, predomi nantly black political group, killing 1 1 people and burning down a two-block residential area. "Politically, I went on to win the election and beat the best the city had to offer," Goode said. "1 know I had nothing to do with , what happened. The police com missioner lost control on the scene that day and (police) were not working to protect my interest." Goode will be at Special Occasions Bookstore on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive on Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. promoting his book and signing autographs. He was mayor from 1984 1992 and currently works at the U.S. Department df Education. ? jeb ra U, Algebra III. Pre-Calculus). |u Students wh* have citizenship in the residence mftte and (he public is invited to te&CMbS'.^ ' &t *&. ' ?mialion call (910) 750-2150. iPl i*> '??* ' - ? ' . ' ' v>: no" OFF \ Present Thfc? 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