The Cincinnati Post from Cincinnati, Ohio • 11

flu Cincinnati Post Friday Fab 14 1975 Work cut out for new Riverfront Advisory Council some residents from the area i flooded to higher ground and making the flood-prone area into a' green belt FRANK TAYLOR design officer in the Urban Development Department then presented his office's concept for Sawyer Park which will run about UOO feet to the east of the Coliseum and proposed condominiums have designed a park which is quite different from the proposed pork along the serpentine wall" Taylor said From a narrow strip of green Sawyer -Park will open up to a wide grassy field running from the river to Second Street Proposed for the 135-acre site are tennis and baseball fields and a field that could be used for football and soccer Spectators would sit on the low grassy hillsides forming natural bonds around the playing fields Bicycle and pedestrian paths would run from the quite area of the park west of die Bridge through the active portion of the paik TWO PLAZAS included in the design could be used for fountains or sculpture Taylor said There has been discussion of moving the sculpture and Society" now at Fountain Square to the park Charles Sawyer commissioned the sculpture for the city and gave SI mil- BYNANCYE MONCRIEF The Riverfront Advisory Council pent its first meeting yesterday lunching aboard a floating restaurant directly across from the only section of the city's redeveloped riverfront But looking to the east and the west die 19 members could see that they have their work cut out for them The council was charged by City Council resolution Wednesday to review and coordinate all prospective plans for the 22-mile river and to come up with ideas "We are equally interested in recreational and industrial uses of the chairman Lorrence Kellar said "We are a working committee so we'll work during lunch" MEMBERS WATCHED a slide what a number of cities have done along their from bikeways and formal in Strasbourg France to ter-homesakng slides showing Sedams-ville and Riverside to the west of the city whose 370 river-area residents raids eighth economically among the city's 44 neighborhoods and slides of California to the east whose floodplain residents rink 24th economically There has been some discussion of members (left to right) Lorrence Kellar chairman Jim Carroll Lyme Coward VMsgrapiitr: alex auaaowi and Simpkinsoo Bicentennial Subcommittee to' screen proposals for celebrating the country's 200th Morse John- A son chairman council member Lynne Coward and outside member Carl Strauss The next meeting is March'1 railroad tracks which run through the area into the center of the park A museum or fountain has been suggested for that area The water's edge would be altered as necessary to provide emergency docking space for the Delta Queen during high water and for docking show-boats and excursion party boats KELLAR APPOINTED two subcommittees to deal with specific items: Sawyer Park Subcomittee to deal with development and fund-raising proposals Ewart Simpkinson chairman council members Gavin Gray Robert Lavercombe and Robert Acomb outside members Bob Hollister and Dick Glaser BMHM Swallow disapproves of Hunger Hotline referrals Men's wool 7 -A- AND WOOL Riverfront panel linn for the development of a park along the river gift has been matched with a grant from the Ohio Bureau of Outdoor Recreation The northern portion of the perk would be used as a parking lot to accommodate the large number of people expected to use the park A pedestrian bridge would be carat ructed to move visitors across the Penn Central ment can legally get food stamps The county welfare department administers the food stamp gram but eligibility standards are set by the US Department of Agriculture which funds its operation Swallow said the Ohio Public Assistance Manual does not give the county department leeway in dealing with the work requirement He said on work-relief must work the required number of days depending on the size of their grants The February check skats were based on the recipients' December 1974 work record Nest checks will depend on clients' January work record Jane Jansak who directs the operation of Hunger Hotline at Wesley Chapel Church 72 East McMicken Avenue Over-the-Rhine said the agency was not particularly swamped with welfare department referrals at the first of me month heard about it in advance through our famous grapevine and started running interference" she said Mrs Jansak said the Free Store is already strained and short of resources run out of food every day We're not going to take on the Welfare Department's responsibilities We are just a fill-io-the-crack operation" COATS Values 29 9 Toi4S a SAH pAVS-StT-ixMW-l Limitbp Qua nt ties ON ALL SALBTEMS HOtUBM DONALD SWALLOW that he disapprove! and that any future referrals will not be sanctioned by the department caseworkers are compassionate people and they are genuinely concerned about their Mrs Mueller said Mrs Mueller said a supervisor suggested Hunger Hotline last month during discussions on how the department could help the 200 persons ineligible for February titirkm MARVIN TIBBETTS assistant welfare director said the department is still awaiting word on whether the people taken from the rolls because of the work require MEN'S wEssmw HAM BRAY -I 11I Wmo VBA ROOM S'U MEN sJF RFEC7W QUA STEEiSHIRTS BY KEN BUNTING Welfare officials are down on advice to caseworkers to refer recipients whose February checks were cut off because they did not work enough days to Hunger Hotline a private agency Acting Hamilton County Welfare Director Donald Swallow said yesterday he would not have approved of the referrals had he known about them and called the advice to caseworkers judg- A memorandum suggesting that welfare clients whose checks were npvWi be sent to Hunger Hotline a possible source of food" was sent to caseworkers and supervisors two weeks ago by Janet Mueller income maintenance chief The Post reported incorrectly yesterday that the memo had been initiated by Swallow ABOUT 2M of the 700 welfare clients on the work-relief program tfid not get February assistance checks because they failed to work die sis to 10 days per month required to qualify under the program Mrs Mueller said Mrs Mueller said all were given advance warning of the suspension in early January and were notified of their right to appeal the decision She said die could not guarantee that caseworkers will stop sending persons suspended to Hunger Hotline but Swallow said Kids give their hearts to others IOOD NEIGHBORS BY NADINE LOUTHAN Today is Valentine Day and people are showing where their hearts are The first grade students of Mrs Helen Moomaw at Howard School in Deer Park gave up their Valentine party today and instead donated their dimes nickels and pennies that would have gone for cookies and candy to the HeartFund Each child wrote a letter with sentiments similiar to this one: Heart Lady We think your work is good We want to hel I want to give something too Your friend Jamie Rosa" 1 The children raised S10 Mrs Moomaw said the students planned the project because are all very healthy and none of them has heart problems as many children ANOTHER GROUP with limited income passed up the valentines for the Heart Marquette Senior Gtizens They decorated their center at 1999 Sutter Avenue English Woods with a red lollipop tree and hoi homemade hearts giving valentines or gifts but to other Mrs Edna Skinner party chairman made a heart-shaped collection box and members dropped in donations for the HeartFund This group raised $15 MSLVIN GftlER EDNA SKINNER.