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Home-town pride produces a civic-mindedness that borders on the obsessive. In the Potrero Hill neighborhood, a builder wants to put up some stores on a pizza shop's back lot. A petition drive and local media brouhaha have deterred...
...must continue their efforts to urge citizens and government officials to accept their recommendations. These range from requiring parents of high school students to sign a statement saying they have read the course selection pamphlet and discussed their children's selections with them to urging the city and local civic organizations to give awards for beautification and improvement to property owners...
Added Leib, a member of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), "Now we can deal with education more than politics...
Arena rock mavens will find the going tough, since most bands wishing to make a profit refuse the prohibitive cut demanded by the Boston Garden. Bands, if they touch base here at all, will do it either at the Worcester Centrum or the Providence Civic Center, or both. You can reach both by bus, or drive for an hour through scenic high wayland. During the summer, bands like the Talking Heads and Elvis Costello braved the stifling heat to go where Bostonians are in July and August--namely Cape Cod. But the gruesome Colineum in north Yarmouth...
...sports arena and an expanded convention center, decorate the skyline. A street paved with red bricks winds around venerable Monument Circle, lending new stateliness to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument with its slender 284-ft. limestone shaft. Indianapolis is feeling major league, and its residents have ample reason for civic pride. "The excitement here reminds me of Atlanta in the early '70s," says Charles Blair, 36, a senior program officer for the Lilly Endowment, which gives about $20 million annually for city improvement. Says he: "Things are happening quickly, and this is the place to be. People smell...