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BLOOD AND FIRE

THE SALVATION ARMY

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A TIME FOR CELEBRATION

The Salvation Army will break ground today for a new $2 million Manhattan Citadel Corps Community Center in the East Harlem Triangle urban renewal area at 125th Street and Third Avenue.  The ground-breaking culminates five years of planning by The Salvation Army and local leaders, the Housing and Development Administration, and the Community Association of the East Harlem Triangle for relocation of the Corps from its present location on 157 East 125th Street.

The new structure, which is expected to be completed next year, was designed by architect Edgar Tafel.  The OR-DI Construction Co. will erect the facility.  The two-story brick and limestone building will include a gymnasium that will also serve as an auditorium for community athletic programs and meetings, a kitchen, a chapel, and facilities for day care, expanded drug addiction counseling services, senior citizens and neighborhood tutorial programs, and character-building activities.

Brigadier Nisiewicz--widely known throughout the neighborhood as Brigadier Mary--has lived and served in East Harlem since 1964.  The Salvation Army has been serving the community for the past 88 years and the present center had been in the same building on 157 E. 125th St. for 66 years.

The Corps has an active ministry that includes Harlem Hospital visitation home visits, mother's meetings, children's summer camp and day camp programs, Boy Scout and Cub Scout units, Girl Guard and Sunbeam units, as well as a variety of church and religious instruction programs.  Nine years ago, The Salvation Army established a Corps Outreach Program.  Since then, some 19,000 addicts have been counseled and one-third of that number have been referred for treatment to detoxification and rehabilitation centers.

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Alice Kornegay
Director of East Harlem Triangle

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