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...Heilman Brewing Co. learned that the hard way when protests from the black community caused the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to revoke its approval of a potent malt liquor whose primary consumers were expected to be black males. Similar protests caused R.J. Reynolds to snuff out a new cigarette specifically designed to attract black smokers. Those companies are studies "on how not to market a product and how to ignore the community concerned," says Doug Alligood, vice president of special markets for BBDO New York. "Nobody bothered to find out that the black community is really concerned...
...wasn't a very interesting game. We were mostly excited about a fight that broke out in the bleachers early in the game," David Heilman said...
...care costs, transportation to and from work and medical insurance. Even if the minimum wage were raised to $5 an hour, or about $10,000 a year, families would still be struggling to survive. "To me, the support mechanisms are more important than the minimum wage," says Kenneth Heilman, a social worker in Armstrong County...
...Heilman, Father Thomas Haggerty, the pastor of St. Michael's, Bob Walsh, Joe Montalto--community leaders who work in different ways for Sunset Park --all agree that the center is the social engine of the neighborhood. They remember that in 1978, Sunset Park, though designated a poverty area in the 1960s, had not yet reached the point of deterioration of the South Bronx and the now destitute Bushwick section of Brooklyn. There was still a chance to pull the neighborhood back from disintegration. The center is credited for the beginnings of recovery. Mary Paul and Geraldine do not deny this...
...Center for Family Life is not the sole agency of help in Sunset Park. Lutheran Hospital offers high school equivalency classes to the community, as well as medical care. Doug Heilman, a Lutheran minister, established Discipleship House in 1981, a sort of Boys Town for teenagers in trouble. Heilman's work with street kids is praised everywhere in Sunset Park; wherever he walks he is greeted warmly by young men, many of whom are former gang members. The help he provides takes the form of moral encouragement or simple solace. Heilman corresponds with a young man from the neighborhood...