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i nrrrvTTrrri 1 ifesnv i i i i i-i i i aasES 11 i ii't 1 i I wi i I i vf I CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING IN THIS SECTION DAILY NEWS, Friday, March 18, 1988 Bx 1 Ualliing to glory rasufi ft Ddv7 Nobody ever had to ask walk." Reggie, a 19-year-old student at Lehman College, is the holder of three of the school's walking records, and is recognized by the Meropolitan Athletics Congress for his performance in race-walking events during the 1988 winter indoor track season. "It started as a joke," said the five-nine, 145-pound athlete. The Bronx International Track Club asked him to take part in the event when he was 17 years old, be cause they didn't have any that," he said, and it has been a "cake walk" ever since. This winter, Davenport broke the Lehman record for the race-walk He also holds two Lehman cross-country records: 15:38 minutes for the five-kilometer run, and 26.20 minutes for the five-mile run. Last summer, Davenport Canada and Cuba with the al Team.

He was the Number and under, in the race-walk. While Davenport currently is training for the U.S. Olympic trials in June, for that his realistic goal is for His aim, in the meantime, the qualifying time for the 20-kilometer race-walk. Lehman Coach Joe Sciarrone said, "Lehman's best time is six minutes slower than the qualifying time, but we feel that Reggie Davenport to "Take a other competitors. "I'll do with a time of 13.22 minutes.

toured the United States, United States Junior Nation One ranked junior, aged 19 the 1988 games, he admits 1992 Olympics. is to reach the next two months. a good walker, Davenport good rhythm. John Lewis airs played on the bagpipes by Michael Waters. Irish harpist Deirdre Danaher and violinist Teresa Geenty and a brass choir will perform traditional and contemporary music.

Make it legal The Congress of Racial Equality is opening a new immigration service office at 4027-D White Plains Road, at 227th St The office has been designated by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to assist immigrants who are applying for amnesty. The office is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Fridays, and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays.

Plants on the Hill The third annual Wave Hill Horticultural Lecture Series begins at 6:30 Wednesday evening at 249th St and Independence Ave. The first talk will be "The Art and Science of Pruning," by Peter Del Tredici. Other talks in the series are "Pictures in the Garden; The Art of Plant Association," March 31; and Elizabeth Hall, "Garden Writers and Garden Books," April 7. Sharpeville talk Fred Dube, a leading opponent of apartheid in South Africa, will deliver a key address at Free South Africa Week, 11.30 a.m. Monday at City College's North Academic Center, 138th St and Convent Ave.

marks the anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre March 21, when 69 blacks were killed. By J. SAUNDERS Daily News Staff Writer It's not the kind of neighborhood where you would think such a thing would happenthe senseless stabbing Tuesday evening of 19-year-old Kari Silloway, a sophomore from Maine majoring in architecture at the Parsons School of Design. Or maybe it is. Silloway was walking by the rear fence of St Mark's Church on 11th St close to Second Ave.

sometime between 8:30 and 9 on Tuesday evening, when a man dressed all in black plunged a knife into her stomach. "She probably will be in the hospital for several weeks," classmate and roommate Cari Emmert, also 19, said. "She is in a lot of pain. But she looks really good." St Mark's is the pivot of an area rich in history. Originally the farm of New York's last Dutch governor, Peter Stuy-vesant, "It's like the United Nations," said Robert, a homeless artist And the restaurants "There's the Ukrainian National Hall, Cooper Union, New York University, many historic buildings and restaurants; so many restaurants Polish, Indian, Jewish, Middle Eastern, Israeli, Siamese, Chinese, Japanese." "We got everything here," said Abe Lebewohl, owner of the Second Ave.

Deli on the southeastern corner of 10th St and Second Ave. "Yiddish theaters used to be all along Second Ave. I tell you, it is very safe. My wife, she's an actress. She walks home alone late at night" "Lot of young people," noted his friend Shalom Sabari, who operates Rectangles, an Israeli Middle-Eastern res- By MICHAEL MORAN States News Service WASHINGTON The U.S.

Postal Service has revived a controversial plan for a new mail sorting facility in Chelsea and hopes to begin construction in 1991, post office officials said yesterday. The facility, to be called the Morgan Annex, is planned br the vacant block on Ninth and Tenth Aves. between 28th and 29th Sts. It also has an option to build 268 public housing units above the three-story Post Office building. The facility would merge two of Manhattan's four mail processing centers and improve mail service, said, Vito.

Fortunaa spokesman Cor the he can cut his time within the Asked what it take to be said, A good pair of feet and Heights Bridge New York State Transportation Commissioner Franklin E. White yesterday announced that the State Department of Transportation had received an apparent low bid of $34.3 million for rehabilitation of the University Heights Bridge over the Harlem River and its approaching roadways. This swing-span drawbridge has been designated a historic landmark. The bridge, known locally as the West 207th St Bridge, carries local traffic on West 207th St from Manhattan across the Harlem River to W. Fordam Road in the Bronx.

Purse for nurse A nursing Open House and College Fair will be offered by Montefiore Medical Center from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1825 Eastchester Road. All interested in nursing careers are welcome. Among the topics to be discussed are: nursing opportunities, financial packages, and Registered Nurse programs.

Also included are tours of hospital units. Sound of the Sod The combined choirs of St Brendan Church are presenting a program of Gaelic church and classical music, beginning at 4:15 Sunday afternoon, at 333 E. 206th St The program starts on the church plaza with Irish It of HISTORIC ST. MARK'S Church taurant, across the street. "Lot of kids in the arts, theater live here now.

Oh, a very good neighborhood." "There's the drugs. What about them?" said a middle-age man who did not want his name used. "Over there, by the flowers on 10th St and Second crack, marijuana. They keep the stuff under the hood of their car." "Prostitutes on 11th where the girl got stabbed," said Paul Jo, who came here four years ago from France. "They're outsiders." "Too many robberies," said post office.

The new building would be located just north of the current Morgan Post Office Station and would be connected to the older building by a 580-foot long extension of the second and third floors, essentially creating a bridge over 29th St Charles Vidich, environmental coordinator of the Postal Service's regional headquarters in Connecticut, said: "There is a serious need to expand mail facilities in the city because of the growth of the financial and other service industries, which generate a lot of mail." But residents of the rounding, community are op- posed to the plan, and argue is focus of neighborhood. DAN aODFKCY DAILY NEWS the clerk at a liquor store that has bullet-proof plastic enclosing the counter and liquor. "A lot of derelicts." "Oh, it is such a lovely neighborhood," said Harriet a senior citizen, who likes to take walks with her friend, Mary. "I've lived here since I was a child." "No neighborhood is good here," Mary snapped back. "The whole world is on fire." "It's New York City," said music teacher Julia Cooke.

"Same problems as the rest of the city." that additional traffic and exhaust fumes will hurt their quality of life. Pollution concern Hilda Regier, chairwoman of the Chelsea Neighborhood Associations, said, "We hired an environmental consultant who found that the pollutants trapped under that bridge would be much more of a problem than the (Postal Service) originally estimated." On March 8, Postal Service officials officially began drafting a supplemental environmental impact statement that would include the impact of adding housing units and reflect changes in the design of the project made after the public hearing..