The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 127

News Boundary board wants to improve Madison Jr High to attract white students Parents at attendance boundary meeting complained that now that time for their children to take advantage of the program they are being diverted to Madison at 3400 NW 87th St Geraldine Massey president of Areola PTA said of the Mann computer program which is 70 percent white 30 percent black the white kids who are getting all the benefit and my tax dollars and it's my area school" said Veronica Chester whose fifth-grade son goes to Areola Lake 1037 NW 81st St and who normally would attend Horace Mann The committee voted 8-6 to recommend to the School Board to leave the present boundaries untouched for a year until improvements are made at Madison It adopted the recommendation that the district upgrade Madison Junior's cafeteria library science music main office areas Please turn to SCHOOLS 9 By CANDACE TURTLE Herald Staff Writer Make Madison Junior High School as attractive as Horace Mann Middle School the preliminary recommendation of the school Attendance Boundary Committee which is studying ways to decrease enrollment at overcrowded North Area elementary schools and to increase enrollment at Madison Junior The committee voted to delay for a year a proposal to move sixth-graders from Areola Lake and Miami Park elementary schools to Madison Junior High School after some black parents said they send their children to Madison unless it was improved Normally those children would attend Horace Mann 8950 NW Second Ave But Mann is overcrowded and will need portable classrooms to handle students next year Mann a predominantly black school received thousands of dollars in renovations and an extensive computer program last year Shores goes knocking for downtown funds MABEL CASTENEDA Miami Herald Annie Ackerman left and Mollye Lovinger Fox have been friends since 1969 when they united to fight phosphate pollution Annie back and still fighting By STEPHEN SMITH Herald Staff Writer First came the March of Dimes with shiny canisters for collecting coins And then there were the Girls Scouts selling their thin mint cookies Now comes the Downtown Revitalization Board in Miami Shores going door-to-door seeking money for its cause sprucing up the Northeast Second Avenue business corridor a cause with an almost apocryphal name: D-Day As in Downtown Day someone wants to give us 50 cents or a buck I guess take it" said Linda Van Natta manager of the revitalization project "But looking more in the 25- or 50-dolIar do their looking Saturday on the streets of the Shores And looking for helpers who can pound the pavement and press the doorbells meet at 9 am in Village Hall 10050 NE Second Ave Two politicians and one real estate man doubt find what looking for is the way you get dimes quarters and an occasional Shores Council-woman Marty Stofik said "I think the kind of money talking about for downtown needs a much more studied consideration from the donor" And talking about a lot of money Van Natta would like to raise $18000 by Feb 10 when the jf village has to mail its application for a state grant program The S' money would help keep the revi- talization project alive and donors can specify where they want their money to go maybe for 5 awnings maybe to repair cracked sidewalks maybe just to keep the0 phones turned on in the office Getting that much money Van 00 Natta said will prove to the state that people In the Shores believe the Northeast Second Avenue business strip can be reborn It needs the help Last year a men's clothing store and an old-H world deli among others closed And nobody has filled those empty stores you have to drive to the mall 5 to do your shopping imperson- -al and plastic and you have to in drive a ways" Van Natta said if you can stop downtown? people know your face and They know Pat face His real estate office is on Second Avenue and already made his Please turn to SHORES 4 Today Ackerman is fighting for her health recovering from a paralyzing stroke last June that many feared she would not survive Instead after 12 weeks in the hospital and months of grueling physical and speech therapy she is back at Point East and civic meetings attending a controversial state transportation hearing two weeks ago in her wheelchair Her presence alone draws attention and throngs of people and politicians crowd near to hear her speak It was never anything less Recalling their first meeting Fox said went over and introduced myself and showed her the article I told her I much of a speaker but if she would speak for me I would Annie and Irving Ackerman were newcomers to Point East themselves After 35 years of marriage in Chicago where Annie Ackerman worked under the tutelage of Mayor Richard Daley Ackerman and her husband a retired By KATHY MCCARTHY Herald Slat) Writer It began in 1969 when Mollye Lovinger Fox read about algae polluting South Florida's lakes and rivers A newcomer from New York who chose warm breezes and clean air Fox cut the story out of the newspaper and tucked it into a dresser drawer Two months went by before she stumbled upon it again She decided to do something That night for the first time since she moved to Point East in Northeast Dade Fox went to the Wednesday flight discussion group at the fledgling condominium full of transplanted Northerners like herself Something extraordinary happened Mollye Fox met Annie Ackerman It became a rare friendship that would transcend illness success and defeat and change the lives and future of thousands of Northeast Dade retirees who became a powerful body led by voice Please turn to ACKERMAN 2i.