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VOL. 124 - NO. 49 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, DECEMBER 4, 2020 $.35 A COPY St. Joseph’s Society, Cooks and Distributes, REMEMBER • UNDERSTAND • HONOR 700 Thanksgiving Meals for Veterans and the Needy DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE DECEMBER 7, 1941 WE WILL NEVER FORGET Pictured, L-R: Chef Pino, Jimmy Martorano, Marnie Martorano, Victor Catricala, Mimi Geloso, and Donato Frattaroli, proprietor of Victory Point in Quincy. News Briefs (Photo by Tommy Colbert Photography) by Sal Giarratani If the people in the picture a project that took up a lot of Frattaroli’s Il Molo Restaurant above look a little tired, they energy and time for several days in Boston’s North End pitched should be. before Thanksgiving. This feat in as well. What’s Happened to Journalism 101? Members of the St. Joseph’s was coordinated and carried out Then came the task of deliv- Recently, NY’s Governor Andrew Cuomo came to the Society of Boston and Victory by Michelle Geloso and Marnie & ering the 700 meals. Eddie defense of President Trump calling the way the media Point Restaurant at Marina Bay Jim Martorano with much appre- Summers, President of the has treated Trump as nasty, unprofessional, and biased. in Quincy cooked and distrib- ciated help from John, Brian, St. Joseph’s Society, Vice Jim Accosta from CNN stated that President Trump uted 700 Thanksgiving meals Carolyn, Scott and Mathew. President Anthony Boyd, volun- “goes back to being another crackpot on the internet.” to the New England Center for The Thanksgiving project teers from St. Leonard’s parish Meanwhile, Lester Holt interviewed President-elect Joe Homeless Veterans, the Amy would not have been possible supervised by the pastor him- Biden on prime time and asked one silly question after Lowell House, the Beacon House without the capable touch of self, Fr. Michael Della Penna, another. Hard questions are obviously verboten. Just a and St. Joseph’s Parish, as well Donato Frattaroli and his mag- OFM, assisted in completing little chit-chat between fi shing buddies. It is going to be as to some of the neediest fami- nifi cent chef Pino of Quincy’s the deliveries. sickening to watch the media not do its job. Journalism lies in Boston’s North End. It was Victory Point Restaurant. Even All in all, a job well done. 101 is dead. Back the Blue PAC Supports Georgia Senate Candidates, Nazzaro Center Turkey Giveaway for Seniors David Perdue And Kelly Loeffl er The BCYF Nazzaro Center, The fate of our country comes down to Georgia. The along with Rep. Michlewitz coming months will result in unprecedented political and Sen. Boncore, held a spending and attention on the two U.S. Senate runoff th Turkey Giveaway for seniors elections on January 5 , 2021. on Monday, November 23rd. We all know what is in store if Joe Biden ultimately A huge thank you to all who takes the White House in January — we cannot participated and especially allow the Democrats to control the senate, too. The to Rep. Michelwitz’s offi ce for political implications will destroy our country as we donating the turkeys!!! know it! Here are few of the pics. The Democrats are already pumping millions of dol- lars into the campaigns of Republican opponets Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, while former candidate for Georgia governor, Stacey Abrams is actively calling for citizens to move to Georgia just to vote in the runoff elections! Pro-law and order House candidates have been elected all across the country in the last few weeks, and we need to continue to hold the majority of seats in the Senate. (Continued on Page 11) POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQ., EAST BOSTON Tues. 10:00 AM-3:00 PM; Thurs. 11:00 AM-2:00 PM Call 617-227-8929 for more information L-R: Senator Boncore, Rep. Michlewitz, and the Nazzaro Center’s Steven Siciliano prepare to distribute Thanksgiving groceries to seniors. (Photos courtesy of the Nazzaro Center) PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, DECEMBER 4, 2020 Stirpe by Prof. Edmund Turiello Nostra PARTS II & III A weekly column highlighting some of the more interesting aspects of our ancestry...our lineage...our roots. Fact vs. Fiction Diane J. Modica, Chairperson, Commission for Social Justice, THE APPLES OF THE HESPERIDES Massachusetts Order of the Sons and Daughters of Italy in America This week in a continuing effort to present more balanced information about Christopher Columbus, the Commission for Social Justice of the Massachusetts Order of the Sons and Daughters of Italy in America looks at Columbus: Fact vs. Fiction, a document prepared by the National Order Sons and Daughters of Italy. This is Parts II and III of that document. PART II: with Columbus. There was no of Panama, Honduras and What Columbus Accomplished written history about these vast Venezuela. continents before his arrival in • Columbus’ trans-Atlan- HISTORICAL 1492. tic route laid the foundation • Columbus proved that it NAVIGATIONAL for future navigation in the was possible to safely cross the • Columbus was the first region. His maps were used by Atlantic Ocean. European to realize the full Amerigo Vespucci (after whom • Columbus founded the fi rst importance of the Atlantic wind the American continent takes permanent European settlement pattern called the prevailing its name), whose maps were in the Western Hemisphere, Westerlies, which blew steadily used by later explorers of South Hispaniola (now Haiti and the west to east. This convinced America. Dominican Republic). him it was possible to sail west • The route across the Atlantic • Columbus was the fi rst to with the Trade Winds to the New Ocean that Columbus charted open relations between Europe World and return to Europe in the 15th century is still used and the Western Hemisphere. with the Westerlies. by sailors today. His voyages mark the begin- • During his four trans- • Columbus introduced the ning of more than 500 years of atlantic voyages, Columbus principle of compass variation cultural, economic, and political chartered the route for what (the variation at any point on relations between Europe and today are the islands of Cuba, the Earth’s surface between the the Americas. Haiti, the Dominican Republic, direction to magnetic and geo- • The recorded history of the Puerto Rico, Jamaica, the graphic north) and observed the Western Hemisphere begins Lesser Antilles and the coasts rotation of the Pole star. PART III: Columbus memorabilia, includ- law declaring the second Monday Why We Should Celebrate ing his desk, papers, and the in October Columbus Day. Prometheus Bound by Peter Paul Rubens, Circa 1611 to 1612, Columbus Day cross he used to claim the • Columbus Day also com- Philadelphia Museum of Art • Columbus Day recognizes New World for Spain. These memorates the arrival on the achievements of a great are in the Columbus Chapel in these shores of more than 5 The legend concerning the is also represented in a sculp- Renaissance explorer who Boalsburg, Pennsylvania. million Italians beginning in apples of the Hesperides starts tured wall plaque that is now founded the first permanent • In 1905, Colorado became 1880. Today, the children and with the marriage of Jupiter, in the National Museum at European settlement in the New the first state to declare grandchildren of these early chief of all Roman gods, to the Naples, Italy. Hercules shot and World. The arrival of Columbus Columbus Day a holiday. Italian Americans constitute goddess named Juno. The wed- killed the eagle; then he freed in 1492 marks the beginning • In 1971, Columbus Day the nation’s fi fth largest ethnic ding was attended by all other Prometheus from his bonds. of recorded history in America became a federal holiday in all group, according to the U.S. deities, who brought beautiful In gratitude, Prometheus and opened relations between 50 states after Congress passed a Census Bureau. gifts. The grandmother of the advised Hercules not to enter the Americas and the rest of bride brought a wedding gift the sacred garden of Juno, but the world. Columbus Day cele- of golden apples growing on to send Atlas, the father of the brates the beginning of cultural LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE live branches. As soon as the Hesperides, to fetch the apples exchange between America and ceremonies had ended, the for him. Europe. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court The Trial Court branches were planted in the Continuing his outward jour- • After Columbus, millions of Probate and Family Court Probate and Family Court sacred garden of Juno. The ney, Hercules fi nally came to European immigrants brought Middlesex Probate and Family Court Middlesex Probate and Family Court South Hesperides, three daughters the sacred garden of Juno. It their art, music, science, medi- 208 Cambridge Street 10-U Commerce Way of Atlas, and a goddess named was located near the spot where cine, philosophy and religious Cambridge, MA 02141 Woburn, MA 01801 (617) 768-5800 (781) 865-4000 Hesperis, were directed to cul- Atlas was holding the sky on principles to America. These Docket No. MI20P5280EA Docket No. MI20P5272EA tivate and watch over the grow- his shoulders. Remembering contributions have helped ing trees. The golden fruit soon the advice of Prometheus, Estate of Estate of shape the United States and SHARON E. RUSSELL DAVID L. NOCELLA became known as the apples of Hercules offered to relieve Atlas include Greek democracy, Date of Death: August 26, 2020 Date of Death: October 22, 2020 the Hesperides. The girls were of the weight temporarily if Roman law, Judeo-Christian CITATION ON PETITION FOR CITATION ON PETITION FOR negligent in their duties and he would gather the golden ethics and the belief that all FORMAL ADJUDICATION FORMAL ADJUDICATION frequently plucked off apples apples from the garden.

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