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HlGHLAND PARK - On
December 20, 1989, Mayor
Martha G. Scott presented ten
awards to businesses and block
clubs for pecific improvements
made to enhance the quality of
life in Highland Par .
The 1989 Bu iness Stai
Award w presented to Brown
Eatery Res au rant,
Circle K Food Store, Bill's
pon Ivanhoe Supermarket
and McDonald' Restaurant
Highland Park. The businesses
received awards for making im-
provements to their buildings
through exterior or interior
renovations, additions, etc.
Five Block Clubs were
recipients of the 1989 Neigh
borhood Beautifications
Award. Waverly #2 Block
Club, Brighton Street Block
Club, Florence Street Block
Club, Cortland Block Club and
Avalon Street Block Club
received the award.
Neighborhoods and bu i
nesses were encourage<t to con
tinue working in partnership to
move Highland Park forward.
The Mayor also selected four
winners (two Detroiters and
two Highland Parkers in the
1989 "Holiday Shop-in-High
land Park" Campaign.
ar h II Plan
Co tI uedfr 1
to educate, employ wen as
provide for other enormous
UDDl t needs.
However, under the ad
ministratio of uch presidents
Ro d Reagan, which Jacob
termed a "deficit military
pending spree," money has not
been allocated.
The government allow
bout S300 billion in military
pending hichis $150 billion in
surplus, J cob id, If 0 e half
. taken and used to UnlpjClDClllt
the Urban Marshall P the
military could still fUDction up
to par d U.S. urban areas also
win be ved, e $150 billio
win not ooly be used to imprOYe
America's iDfra-struaure ucb
its cities but will also be used .
to ow all Americus to com
pete . . for QI.1YeI11e
"America· in Deed of . -
creaiIiJ' IUl. numbers of people in
k force . . . *of h
resources," Jacob' d. ·Fir t
- we've got to get Afric n
America orking ... I want to
get money flowing in our com
munities now.
Reporters at the br ifing
challenged Jacob's ideology,
the 1990's decade should be
used to get African Americans
jobs no and eventual equal
education, skills and training.
Jacob responded the decade
will allow time for imprOYelDeDt
and the money' the key.
·1 think have the 1990&
a window of opportunity to
the "he said.
Charles Anderson, Detro'
Urban League president" said
he onderstands Jacob's point of
employment first, but fine
tuning must co soon after
ward because even with the
simplest job a little expertise is
needed. .
"There' a need for employ
ment and a need to velop the
(Alric n American) com
munity," Anderson s id
·People (working even �
jobs) who can't read can
thinp up.·
A coaJitioa wiD lobby policy
maI(ers and wiD requcat to take
part in the decsioa IDa •
pr iDYoNed ill Ill· lltitutil.
the D tional urban mar all
plan, report authors said.
Authors of the report in
clude: Juli Chambers, LeD
neal Header OD, David
Swinton, LaSalle Leffall Jr.,
Andre Billingsley, �1 Ben,
·E ther Jenkins, Phillip Clay,
Eugene Robinson, Matthew
Holden, Ramona Edelin and
Georgia McMurray. '
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Through th
years, talented men
and n have helped
chart the oou In their
vi . nan
reminded u
of the importan four
own hievernen.
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saJutingJame Baldwin and 11 oth r
out tandmg rit rs in th 1990
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