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    Earthly Treasures: State Senator Kenneth Parker, right, joined the local Bed-Stuy Lions Club, 500 Men Who Make a Difference, and the Magnolia Tree Earth Center of Bedford-Stuyvesant, chaired by Wayne Devonish, at the center’s annual fundraiser, Tuesday evening. Parker gave words of support … and dollars …$250,000 of them, to the pioneering ecology education org. “What (Hattie Carthan) did was never done before,” said Parker of the late Center’s visionary founder, who passed April 22, 1984. We must do what she did, he added, “especially in this moment with attacks coming from all angles: start from where we are and be the leaders we are looking for.” Photo: Althea Smith

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