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By Gintautas Dumcius a live video feed to MBTA News Editor police, was placed at the Fifty-two new security cam- station after complaints of eras will be installed around purse snatchings and stolen the JFK/UMass MBTA station cell phones. next year, the transit agency Superintendent-in-chief said this week. The company Joseph O’Connor said the started soliciting bids for a indecent assault was an “iso- contractor for the installation lated incident” and the only of the cameras at JFK/UMass such assault at the station in and other stations last week, 2012. “One, to us, is too many days after a woman reported but we will continue to work an indecent assault in the with the community to try to Sydney Street area. solve any issues that do arise,” The woman, a Univer- he said. sity of Massachusetts Boston The overall number of inci- Sandra Cotterell, CEO of the Codman Square Health Center, left and Meg Campbell, executive student, told police she was dents inside the station and director of the Codman Academy Charter Public School, outside the newly-opened William J. groped on her way to the around it is at ten, as of Oct. Walczak Education and Health Center on Epping Street. The $18 million expansion provides Sydney Street entrance. 2012, down from twenty in four floors of new space for both the school and the health center. Photo by Bill Forry After the report, the MBTA 2011, according to data avail- placed the “Sky Tower,” a able on the MBTA Transit platform that can reach 30 Police’s website. There were Walczak wing adds capacity, feet high, with a camera fifteen reported robberies in attached, at the station. Last 2011, and six in 2012. Four sex promise at Codman Center year, the tower, which sends (Continued on page 5) By Bill Forry the return to action of the facility and a shared triumph. Managing Editor only other living Bostonian The two lower floors are Timetable for school It’s a brand new four-story who gets his name on big new largely the preserve of the building with a strikingly buildings these days – Mayor Codman Academy Charter familiar name. Thomas Menino – but the Public School, a 145-student choice revamp put The William J. Walczak building itself has been in high school that was spawned Education and Health Center partial use since September by the health center 12 years — named for the founder of and is due to be fully up and ago. The top floors of the Wal- back to January the Codman Square Health running by year’s end. czak wing are now coming into By Gintautas Dumcius the end of the year, and before Center— is open for business The 34,000-square-foot ad- full use by the health center News Editor last week, the committee had – and classes. An official grand dition to the existing Codman itself, which is relocating exam Mayor Thomas Menino has been aiming for Dec. 14. opening is on hold pending Square campus is a shared (Continued on page 17) signed off on a schedule shift Coleman, the dean of Bos- for the group he has charged ton University’s School of with radically revamping Education, said experts from US banking honcho credits MAHA Boston’s student assign- Harvard University and the ment system. The 27-member Massachusetts Institute of Hails group group, known as the External Technology will work with Advisory Committee, will now school officials on more ad- on assists to have until January to come vanced analyses than they’ve up with a proposal to present been able to provide to date. homeowners to Superintendent Carol For example, Coleman said, Johnson. if the city goes to a six-zone By Gintautas Dumcius Hardin Coleman, the com- model, they will be able to News Editor mittee co-chair, said the simulate the consequences of Twenty-three years ago, schedule delay, which was such a model and its impact BayBank applied to the announced by the mayor last on students’ access to quality state to expand into Allston Thursday, will allow his group schools. “We’ll be able to see near the Boston University to make a “data-driven” deci- who is going where and why, campus. But the company sion. Originally, a proposal and make adjustments to the quickly ran into a problem with US Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry, left, with was expected to emerge before (Continued on page 11) regulators, who noted that former Sovereign Bank vice president Thomas Kennedy, the bank was not expanding Bonita M. Irving, district community affairs officer for the into low-to-moderate income Comptroller of the Currency, and Andrew Calamare, a former INSIDE communities like Dorchester state banking commissioner. Photo by Ed Forry and Mattapan. As a result, BayBank’s application was ally swallowed up by Bank of ship education group since Ideas about how to re- denied, under the Community America. 1987. “Roxbury, Dorchester use the former Matta- Reinvestment Act. “A lot of the Bank of America and Mattapan had been The move set a precedent branches you see are part of underserved and it was the pan Library building and forced BayBank to open that expansion” from 23 years first reversal of that trend.” on Hazelton Street five branches and 25 ATMs in ago, says Tom Callahan, who Callahan credits Thomas were laid out at the the neighborhoods, including is executive director of the Curry, then a deputy commis- the first one in Mattapan. Massachusetts Affordable sioner at the state Division of new library on Tues- It later merged with Fleet Housing Alliance and has Banks, as one of the regulators day night. Page 5. 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By Gintautas Dumcius the letter out on his iPad in between News Editor episodes of “Ellen” or, more likely, Was the 2012 election just a grind- several staffers attempting to channel ing interlude? Will Rogers, the intended recipient Gov. Deval Patrick, Mayor did not appear to be either Obama Thomas Menino and local politi- or Boehner. cians and policymakers turned their Along with the frequent press collective gaze this week to the releases, it was aimed at a public so-called “fiscal cliff” negotiations in that is reading near-daily write-ups Washington as next year’s budget of the mayor’s long hospital stay and lurked in the background. noticing his absence from community In D.C., familiar players dominated events, large and small, from the the headlines as President Obama local Christmas tree lightings in the neighborhoods to a postponed speech to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. But not all 2013 questions are related to whether there’ll be an open seat in City Hall: The budget for fiscal year 2014, which starts next year, is as worthy a topic as the possibility of that opening. The Boston Municipal Research Bureau, which watchdogs city govern- UMass Boston Chancellor J. Keith Motley held a dinner with the Dorchester ment, noted in its newsletter last community on November 26, as part of his initiative to reach out to neigh- week that early projections show a borhoods. Pictured are (from left to right) Andrew Wilbur, president of the $28.4 million shortfall, with Boston Dorchester Board of Trade; Dynell Andrews-Blake, executive director of Four Public Schools (BPS) and salary Corners Main Streets; Chancellor Motley; Evelyn Darling, executive director of raises as the main culprits behind Fields Corner Main Streets; and Andrew Davis, president of Carney Hospital. the possible deficit. BPS spending is Photo courtesy UMass Boston Mayoral patient offers advice. expected to increase by $63 million, WCVB/Channel 5 photo with a new busing contract likely to cost $18 million. All Saints Church choir to perform and House Speaker John Boehner “The mayor will submit a balanced offered and counter-offered. Massive budget to the City Council on April ‘Lessons & Carols’ on Sun., Dec. 16, at 4 p.m. spending cuts and tax increases in the 10, 2013, but this first look indicates The Parish of All Saints, Ashmont invites the public to its Service of Nine area of $500 billion are set to go into that next year will be more fiscally Lessons & Carol sung by the Choir of Men & Boys on Sun., Dec. 16 at 4 p.m. effect at the start of 2013 if lawmakers challenging than the prior two years,” Readings and carols for the season will be performed, including choral works don’t reach an agreement this month. the newsletter notes. by Cleobury, Darke, des Prez, Dove, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Sandström, Obama and Boehner are getting Meredith Weenick, the city’s chief Tavener, Whitacre, and Willan. The Parish of All Saints is located at 209 plenty of advice from inside and financial officer, said the projection Ashmont St. in Peabody Square. The Parish’s Choir of Men & Boys follows outside the Beltway, the latter ap- isn’t a surprise and it’s consistent the English cathedral choral tradition and is one of only 30 such choirs in the parently including a letter Menino’s with what city budget officials have United States. office sent over, a missive chock full been saying since April. of shots at the capital’s culture and Her shop is currently working on glimpses of life inside Spaulding revenue estimates and they plan to Thursday meeting on Morrissey dealership Rehabilitation Hospital. give out guidance to city departments The Boston Redevelopment Authority will convene a public meeting on Signed by Menino, the communica- in the next month or so, when they Thurs., Dec. 6 to discuss auto magnate Herb Chambers’ plan to convert the tion urges Obama and Boehner to start to get a better numerical whiff of old Channel 56 building on Morrissey Boulevard into a car dealership and speak plainly about “fiscal cliff” exactly what Gov. Patrick will propose repair center. Chambers intends to purchase and renovate the now-empty TV negotiations and asks them not to cut for local aid, which is the second studio at 75 Morrissey Blvd, which is valued at $4.5 million according to city health research funding, pointing to largest source of revenue for the city. records. The sale price of the property has not been disclosed. the hundreds of millions of dollars the There are also questions about the Chambers is a Dorchester native whose automotive empire now includes Bay State receives from the federal effect of potential cuts at the federal 50 dealerships and franchises throughout New England. He intends to sell government. level, which could impact the Depart- certified, pre-owned BMW cars on the site. The business will also service In the unusually informal letter, ment of Neighborhood Development vehicles that Chambers sells in Dorchester and at his existing BMW dealership dated Dec. 1, Menino talks about the and Boston Police Department, she on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. potential cuts through the lens of a big said. “I happen to love this location; it’s just terrific,” Chambers said in October. city mayor who has suffered “a lot of The “fiscal cliff” cuts that could go “It’s got great exposure to the Expressway. I think it’s going to be a very pain” over the last month. “So, yes, my into effect are also on Patrick’s mind. successful spot for us.” perspective on the big budget debate “By all accounts that uncertainty Next Thursday’s meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Cristo Rey Boston happening in Washington is unique,” and the resulting slowdown in eco- High School, 100 Savin Hill Ave. The project will be open to public comment Menino, a Democrat, wrote. “Politi- nomic growth is the direct cause of through Dec. 17. For more information on the BRA oversight of the proposal, cians are not used to taking orders. our budget challenges. Economists contact Lance Campbell at the BRA, 617-918-4311 or lance.campbell.bra@ But here, doctors tell me what to do. agree that the fiscal cliff is keeping cityofboston.gov. (Actually, it’s the amazing nurses.) a tremendous amount of capital on In Washington, ‘winning the 24-hour the sidelines,” Patrick told reporters news cycle’ is victory. You know what on Tuesday, according to the State victory is for patients down the hall House News Service. Interactive ‘Grinch’ at Lower Mills BPL from me? Walking.” Patrick is also looking to plug a The Citi Performing Arts Center’s Education Department will be visiting Menino, who spent most of No- $540 million hole that opened up the Lower Mills branch library for an “interactive reading” of the Dr.Seuss vember at Brigham and Women’s halfway through the current budget. children’s book “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” on Sat. Dec 15 at 1 p.m. Join Hospital before last week’s transfer to The governor said he plans to cut in the fun by dressing as your favorite Whoville character. 60 minutes. Free. Spaulding, also asked the pair to “tell from agency budgets, withdraw $200 the truth” on taxes. “Brian, my nurse, million from the state’s rainy day fund, doesn’t come to my room in the morn- and cut local aid by $9 million, if the ing to say, ‘Mayor, if you just sit here, Legislature signs off on his request. A Readers Guide to Today’s Dorchester Reporter unburdened by taxing exercises, free “I don’t think this is draconian,” he (USPS 009-687) from our rehab rules and regulations, said. “Obviously every city and town Published Weekly you will get stronger,’” Menino wrote. worries about an impact on their local Dorchester Reporter Periodical postage “He tells it like it is. You can, too.” aid, but, as I say, this is relatively December 6, 2012 paid at Boston, MA. Menino also took a shot at the modest. 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By Gintautas Dumcius must submit regular employ- minorities and women “have News Editor ment reports to compliance historically been systemati- A City Council hearing on officers at City Hall. cally excluded from the con- guidelines aimed at ensuring A Reporter analysis in struction trades and unions in Boston residents are hired March showed that most the City of Boston despite the for publicly funded building contractors do not reach that implementation of the Boston projects drew protests this threshold. In one case, a New Jobs Residency Policy.” week from activists who Hampshire-based contractor State Rep. Martin Walsh, claimed City Hall and unions working on the reconstruction a Democrat and secretary- aren’t doing enough to up the of Cronin-Wainwright Park treasurer of the Boston Build- numbers. saw its payments from the ing Trades Council, said the City councillors met Monday city suspended when it did hearing in Fields Corner was night at the Kit Clark Senior not adhere to the guidelines. not put together well and the Services in Fields Corner for “I’m trying to feed my building trades were unfairly a three-hour hearing that at family,” said Richardson, who and “unjustly” criticized. times had a tense atmosphere, until recently was a member Walsh said he supports Bos- according to several attendees. of a tile and bricklayers union ton jobs for Boston residents. Robert Richardson, 51, was and is now affiliated with the “We don’t control the owners there with his seven-year-old Boston Workers Alliance, a and the contractors,” Walsh son Rasheem, and he aired his community organizing group. said. “We represent people frustration with what he said “Why can’t the residents get who work on those projects. I was a lack of opportunity to the work? We should be able was listening. It turned into get work in the area, despite to get some work. I live in in some ways going after the being a Boston resident. “A Dorchester and I can’t even building trades more so than lot of these guys, they came get work.” anyone else.” from out of the city,” he said Inside the building, council- Walsh said he hopes Murphy of workers he sees at construc- lors and community activists will put together a plan in tion sites. “Some are from the were joined by union members, response to the hearing. He North Shore, some are from who came in for some criticism added that the community the South Shore.” from the activists. “It turned should be frustrated because Under city guidelines, city- into a bashing session,” with little was resolved at the hired contractors are asked most of the anger directed at hearing. Murphy was not to make sure that 50 percent elected officials and unions, immediately available for of workers on job sites are said state Rep. Carlos Hen- comment. Boston residents, 25 percent riquez (D-Dorchester). District 3 Councillor Frank are minorities, and 10 percent Some pointed to the wording Baker said he understood ac- are women. The guidelines in an Oct. 3 hearing order tivists’ frustration and added were set up through a city or- calling for the meeting and that the jobs policy needs to Yvonne Williams, left, and Priscilla Flint held signs outside of dinance known as the Boston put together by City Council be given better teeth and an the Kit Clark Senior Center on Monday evening. Residents Job Policy, and City President Stephen Murphy. increase in the compliance Photo by John P. Forry Councillors Ayanna Pressley Councillors have called for office’s budget. and Michael Ross have pushed better enforcement of the The numbers at the Fer- ter,” he said. “If we had legitimate trade to make the hiring data more guidelines and increased staff dinand building project in Baker, a longtime supporter schools with a pathway into readily available for public in the compliance office. The Dudley Square have improved, of unions, also said it was time the unions, you would see scrutiny. hearing order focused on the and the numbers at UMass for the city to have a “seri- those numbers [at job sites] Contractors and subcontrac- potential establishment of Boston, which is experiencing ous discussion” about trade drastically improve, my opin- tors who work on city projects a labor practices oversight a building boom, “weren’t schools and training Boston ion,” he said. committee and stated that great” but have “gotten bet- children.
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Two earlier in- suspect is involved based robbed by two suspects week and warning the it’s one person right now. Another common de- cidents that may be the on physical descriptions on Crescent St./Sydney public after a flurry of We’ve had a few others nominator in each inci- work of the same suspect and asking victims ‘where Street at 6:30 a.m. on street robberies targeting on the district recently, dent, Sexton said, is that were reported in Savin is the train station’,” Nov. 29; and a pizza de- women that may be the but there’s definitely a the robber attempted to Hill between Nov. 30 and Captain Sexton said. “In livery driver was accosted work of a single, armed pattern going here along engaged the victims— all Dec. 1 on Carson Street this week’s incidents near at knifepoint by two men bandit. The incidents the Red Line.” of them female— in a and Maryland Street Ashmont and Shawmut, in a blue GMC Yukon on have all targeted women Sexton said that the brief conversation before respectively. In both the victims also stated Grampian Way at 3 a.m. who were walking home robber has accosted demanding money. instances, the victims that the suspect seemed on Dec. 1. The victim fled from Red Line stations, people between the hours The most recent inci- were accosted near their to be approaching them in his vehicle and was not including JFK-UMass, of 7 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. dent took place Tuesday homes and escaped inside with questions as he hurt. Sexton said that the Savin Hill, Shawmut and In a few instances, the night on Beaumont Street without injury or losing approached them. public should call in tips Ashmont. suspect — described near Ashmont station. property. Among the other inci- about the incidents to “We’re concerned about as a black male with a On Monday, a woman “The incidents on Car- dents reported on C-11 Crimestoppers at 1-800- it,” said Captain Richard thin build, age 20-30, was robbed at gunpoint son St. and Maryland St. in the last week, Capt. 494-TIPS. US banking honcho credits MAHA (Continued from page 1) said. borrowers from histori- Modifications were fur- who made that happen. About 70 people turned cally under-represented ther complicated by the On Monday night, out on Monday for populations, especially variety of players and Curry, who authored MAHA’s annual meeting those who were misled competing interests in the precedent-setting at his homeownership about the mortgage the mortgage lending, decision, was honored center on Dorchester obligations they were servicing, and securitiza- by Callahan for his work Avenue, including Hous- taking on.” tion chain. These are but while carrying a different ing and Community Curry said the housing a few of the challenges title: US Comptroller of Development Undersec- crisis was caused by we have encountered and the Currency. His office retary Aaron Gornstein “aggressive” mortgage are working to address oversees 2,000 national and Bob Sheridan, the brokers and originators in order to support con- banks and federal sav- former CEO of Savings who used underwrit- tinued housing market ings associations. That Bank Life Insurance of ing standards to their recovery. Our collective Massachusetts. advantage, and “made wisdom and insights night, Curry recalled the Thomas Curry, US Comptroller of the Currency, making of the BayBank “Homeownership has it possible for too many will be necessary as we spoke with Thomas Kennedy, a MAHA board mem- decision: A Boston Globe been a key element of people to buy overvalued work to help restore the ber and retired vice-president of Sovereign Bank survey of several com- the American dream houses on terms they mortgage and housing at Monday’s event. Photo by Ed Forry panies’ bank machines and it can be an impor- couldn’t afford to repay.” markets.” After his speech, Curry rates are at historic in February 1989 had tant asset-building tool, He added: “And when Curry credited MAHA said he was optimistic lows,” Curry said. “While found that there were particularly for minor- the housing bubble with helping to cre- about the economy, those trends are encour- “four times more ATM ity and lower-income burst, the mortgage ate homeownership despite “clouds like the aging, it’s clear that locations in white areas.” families,” Curry told the industry did not have opportunities with its fiscal cliff” – a reference we have a long ways BayBank was “creating gathering. “Indeed, one the operational capac- counseling programs and to the tense negotiations to go to ensure that a doughnut hole” in the of the greatest tragedies ity to implement viable providing regulators like in Washington over a aspiring homeowners, city with its expansion, of the financial crisis has loan modifications on a him with “on-the-ground combined $500 billion particularly in minority which affected “Dorches- been the disproportion- large scale or properly intelligence” about how in cuts and taxes – and and underserved com- ter in particular,” Curry ate harm inflicted on manage foreclosures. banks are interacting with communities and troubles in Europe. munities, have access to meeting their needs. “Mortgage interest financing.”
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By Tayla Holman or an adult day center. David with Empowerment Christian Special to the Reporter Haynes, who lives on Hazleton Church, also thought having The Mayor’s Office of Neigh- Street, thought it would be the building become a youth borhood Services and the a good idea to make into a center would be beneficial. Department of Neighborhood computer training center for “We hosted a teen café [at Development held a joint meet- adults. Chez Vous] for months without ing Tuesday to get community Joyce White, who has lived incident,” Fuller said. “The input for the possible re-usesof next to the library for 41 years, same thing can happen here, the former Mattapan Library also said she would to see the it just depends on who you building at 10 Hazleton Street. building turned into a senior have doing the programming.” The library closed in 2009, center. She said she wanted She also said that teens after serving the community something “calm and serene” often can’t afford the fees that for over 75 years, when a new to replace the library because are associated with certain branch was built at 1350 Blue she had had problems in the centers. Hill Avenue. past with teenagers hanging Another Hazleton Street Tuesday’s gathering was de- out in her yard thinking it was resident, Sandy Zamor- scribed as a first preliminary part of the library. Calixte, said she didn’t think meeting to discuss the disposi- “I had to have a fence built it made sense to open another tion process so residents would because they kept coming in,” teen center when there are know what steps have to be she said. already several, including the taken before a new tenant While some residents were Mildred Avenue Community The former Mattapan library branch on Hazelton Street is moves into the location. Since adamant about not wanting Center. shown in this photo from 2005. Reporter file photo the building is in a residential the building to house any “I would like to do some kind area, and has a very small sort of teen services, Karleen of outreach for what is already make it hard to accommodate He also said that once former driveway, residents said they Porcena, lead organizer of out there,” she said. “[If there apartments or rooms. proposals are made, the didn’t want something there Mattapan United, said ABCD is a youth center] who is going Project manager Chris person or organization with that would require people to currently has a lease on the to supervise these kids? It’s Rooney said the Department the highest rated proposal have to park. property and would like to just chaos.” of Neighborhood Development would present it in front of the Several residents believed continue the teen program- A few residents thought would go over the feedback community. He also reminded the building — which sits on a ming that it has been holding the building should be turned and then try to get back to residents that no projects 13,700 square foot lot— should at the library. into residences, but the layout the community about another would be accepted without the be turned into a senior center Naeemah Fuller, who is of the building would likely meeting after the holidays. community’s approval. T plans 52 new cameras for JFK/UMass station (Continued from page 1) cameras, and the alleged sneak up on potential include Andrew Station, early summer. O’Connor the US Department of offenses were reported at indecent assault. victims.” Baker said he Charles/MGH, Harvard added that the cameras Homeland Security. the station in 2011 and “Unfortunately it took was hopeful that the of- Square, Kendall, and that are already inside “We are a very large none in 2012. this incident for the ficials can come up with Porter. JFK/UMass have as- system and we are fo- “We firmly believe MBTA to respond, to ac- a proactive solution. “I MBTA spokesman sisted transit police in cusing initially on our that the station is safe tually make it happen,” think we have their ear Joe Pesaturo said the solving some incidents. critical infrastructure,” but we do understand he said of the cameras. and hopefully we can get installation will take The plans to install O’Connor said. “And the concerns of the com- District 3 Council- something done,” Baker place next year, and the additional cameras have we are moving to other munity,” O’Connor said. lor Frank Baker said said. agency will instruct the been in the “design locations as the process State Rep. Marty residents have long The other MBTA contractor to take on phase,” he said. moves along.” Walsh, who represents complained about the stations that will the JFK/UMass station The cameras program the area at the State Sydney Street side of the receive new cameras first, in the late spring or is funded largely by House and pushed for station. “The lighting’s the “Sky Tower” in terrible down there,” he 2011, said he and other said. “I think we need to lawmakers are meeting come up with an overall with MBTA next week to plan. It lends itself to discuss the station, the people being able to $2,750,000 $5,325,000 DORCHESTER SOUTH BOSTON Gift Certificates Available! QUINCY SHEA RINK Residential Apartment Building Condominium Construction Wed. 4 PM Start Dec. 9 Sun. 11 AM Start Dec. 12 SOUTH BOSTON MURPHY RINK Sun. 5 PM Start Dec. 9 $500,000 $160,000 BOSTON SOUTH END BREAKFAST WITH SANTA SATURDAY & SUNDAY Business Line of Credit Construction
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To apply or find out more, call 617.553.5488 up to $25 Million. or go to horizonschildren.org. Member FDIC I Member DIF Page 6 THE Reporter December 6, 2012 Coming Up at the Boston Public Library Adams Street Arts & Entertainment 690 Adams Street • 617- 436-6900 Codman Square 690 Washington Street • 617-436-8214 Holiday concerts put neighborhood Fields Corner 1520 Dorchester Avenue • 617-436-2155 Lower Mills voices in spotlight 27 Richmond Street • 617-298-7841 By Chris Harding on Sun., Dec. 9 at 3 Uphams Corner Special to the Reporter p.m. in Peabody Hall. 500 Columbia Road • 617-265-0139 From classical to Instrumentalists include Grove Hall Christmas to Kwanzaa, violinist Gabriela Diaz, 41 Geneva Avenue • 617-427-3337 Dorchester and its neigh- cellist Jan Müller- Mattapan Branch bors are finishing up the Szeraws, and Artistic 1350 Blue Hill Avenue, Mattapan • 617-298-9218 year with a wealth of Director and pianist concerts. Rachel Goodwin. Adams Street Branch Ashmont Hill Admission is free Thursday, December 6, 3:30 p.m. – Homework Chamber Music thanks to generous fund- Help. Ashmont Hill Cham- ing from Free for All Monday, December 10, 3:30 p.m. – Out-of-school ber Music (AHCM), led Concert Funds and the Time Homework Help; 4 p.m. – BTU Afterschool by Artistic Director and Massachusetts Cultural Homework Help. pianist Rachel Good- Council. Tuesday, December 11, 10:30 a.m. – Toddler win, opens their 27th Boston City Singers Storytime – Winter Session; 3:30 p.m. – Out-of-school season with a Winter The Ashmont-based Time Homework Help; 4 p.m. – Tuesday Tech Time. Concert that features Boston City Singers Wednesday, December 12, 3:30 p.m. – Homework Beethoven’s superb (BCS) founded in 1995 Help; 4 p.m. – BTU Afterschool Homework Help. classic for piano trio, by Jane Money, Artistic Thursday, December 13, 3:30 p.m. – Homework Op. 70 #1 “the Ghost” and Education Director, Help. as well as selections will give two perfor- Codman Square Branch by Erwin Schulhoff, mances on its home turf: Thursday, December 6, 3:30 p.m. – Homework Robert Schumann and a “Dorchester Winter Help; 4:30 p.m. – BTU Afterschool Homework Help. Jean Sibelius. As a Stars Concert,” Sun., Monday, December 10, 3:30 p.m. – Homework performer, teacher, and Dec. 16th at 3 p.m. at Help; 4:30 p.m. – BTU Afterschool Homework Help. resident of Ashmont Hill, Holy Family Parish, 24 Tuesday, December 11, 11 a.m. – Preschool Story Goodwin is committed Hartford St. in Uphams Time; 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help. to the neighborhood’s Corner, and “A Dorches- Wednesday, December 12, 3:30 p.m. – Homework Boston City Singers are shown performing in the Help. cultural growth and to ter Christmas” at 7 p.m. Dorchester Winter Stars Concert. giving all Dorchester on Sun., Dec. 18 at All Photo by Graham Waiting. Thursday, December 13, 3:30 p.m. – Homework residents the opportu- Saints together with the Help; 4:30 p.m. – BTU Afterschool Homework Help. nity to experience clas- church’s renowned Choir on Wednesdays children Hamilton. Fields Corner Branch sical music in Peabody of Men and Boys. will give the world pre- The concert will con- Thursday, December 6, 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help. Hall at Ashmont’s his- The repertoire will miere performance of clude with a few Jamai- Monday, December 10, 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help. toric All Saints Church. include seasonal spiritu- “My Sister Thinks She’s can carols with the World als, popular carols, and Santa Claus,” which Rhythm Ensemble and Tuesday, December 11, 3:30 p.m. –Homework The Winter Concert, Help; 4 p.m. – BTU Afterschool Homework Help; 6:30 other holiday tunes such was written during a a community carol sing- which will feature three p.m. – Hatha Yoga Mini Session instruments in differ- as the theme songs from “Meet the Composer” along. The event is free, visit in March by New but donations gladly Wednesday, December 12, 10:30 a.m. – Preschool ent combinations for “The Snowman” and Films and Fun; 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help. each work, takes place “Home Alone.” The Music Zealand composer David accepted. Over 50 percent of the Thursday, December 13, 3:30 p.m. – Homework hundreds of youngsters Help. that BCS has trained Grove Hall Branch live in Dorchester and Thursday, December 6, 4 p.m. – Hardware Jewelry ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, INC. Mattapan. Of her ex- Workshop; 6 p.m. – Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality perience, Dot resident Making Us Sick?; 6:30 p.m. – Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony After Party. Annika Neilsen, BCS Friday, December 7, 10:30 a.m. – Pre-school Story Class of 2011, who is and Craft; 10:30 a.m. – Pre-School Film; 3 p.m. – Crafty now at Harvard, says, Afternoon “BCS has given me the Wednesday, December 12, 4 p.m. – Teen Council. Winter confidence to get up on Lower Mills Branch stage and sing, regard- Thursday, December 6, 3:30 p.m. – Homework Emergency Campaign less of a thousand people Help; 4:30 p.m. – DIY Sticker Making; 6 p.m. – Read- or just on the periphery Boston Storyteller. The Winter Emergency Campaign provides heating of some holiday party.” Friday, December 7, 10:30 a.m. – Preschool Movies; 3 p.m. – Friday Family Films. help, food, warm winter clothing, and holiday toys “A Kwanzaa Song” Monday, December 10, 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help; to some of Boston’s neediest households, reaching From Sat., Dec. 29 – 4 p.m. – BTU Afterschool Homework Help. an additional 10,000 families at risk of serious Mon., Dec. 31, Hibernian Tuesday, December 11, 10:30 a.m. – Little Wigglers Hall and Mixed Magic Easonal Storytime; 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help. health problems or housing loss this winter. Theatre invite the pub- Wednesday, December 12, 3:30 p.m. Homework lic to the first Boston Help; 4 p.m. – Nerds, Geeks, and Gamers Club. YOU Can Make a Difference this Holiday Season! performance of the 14th Thursday, December 13, 3:30 p.m. – Homework annual production of “A Help; 6 p.m. – Nicola’s Ferdinand Family Puppet Show. We are accepting donations at all 14 of our Kwanzaa Song.” Mixed Mattapan Branch Neighborhood Service Centers! Magic Theatre, a Rhode Thursday, December 6, 3 p.m. – Drop-in Craft; Island theatre company, 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help; 4 p.m. – BTU Afterschool is the 2013 Ensemble in Homework Help; 6 p.m. – Laptop Classes. Give gifts of new winter clothing Residence at Hibernian Friday, December 7, 10:30 a.m. – Toddler Films; Hall. 2:30 p.m. – Teen Movie Night. (coats, boots, gloves, scarves, hats) “A Kwanzaa Song” Monday, December 10, 10:30 a.m. – Preschool is the story of Azu, a Story Time and Craft; 3:30 p.m. – Out-of-school Time young African Spirit, Homework Help; 4 p.m. – Teen Laptop Classes: Spotify. Donate new comforters and blankets who must make a choice Tuesday, December 11, 3 p.m. – Holiday Ornament between staying to help Craft; 3:30 p.m. – Out-of-School time Homework Help; and serve the people of 4 p.m. – BTU Afterschool Homework Help; 4 p.m. – Africa or accompany the Winter Puppet Show with Nicola McEldowney; 5:30 Drop-off new nonperishable foods and holiday toys continent’s stolen chil- p.m. – Family Movie Night; 6 p.m. – Laptop Classes. dren to the New World Wednesday, December 12, 10:30 a.m. – Fun With where they will be in Books; 3 p.m. – Fun with the Pierce House!; 3:30 Make a financial donation bondage. The production p.m. – Out-of-school Time Homework Help. , 2:30 p.m. – Design a combines storytelling Thursday, December 13 Video Game; Homework Help; 4 p.m. – BTU Afterschool with dance, movement, Homework Help; 6 p.m. – Laptop Classes. and 12 original songs Volunteer or host a holiday party on behalf of ABCD Friday, December 14, 10:30 a.m. – Toddler Films. that range in style from Uphams Corner Branch Afrocentric to gospel. Thursday, December 6, 3:30 p.m. – Homework Performances are at Help; 4:15 p.m. – BTU Afterschool Homework Help; 3p.m. at Hibernian Hall, 5:45 p.m. – How to Live Within Your Means. 184 Dudley St. in Rox- Monday, December 10, 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help. bury. Adult tickets are Tuesday, December 11, 10:30 a.m. – Reading Readi- $15, children under 12, ness; 3 p.m. – Robotics; 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help. $5. A First Night Button Wednesday, December 12, 3:30 p.m. – Homework gets anyone in for free. Help. Details at hibernianhall. Thursday, December 13, 3:30 p.m. – Homework org. hibernianhall.org. Help.; 4:15 p.m. – BTU Afterschool Homework Help. December 6, 2012 The Reporter Page 7 News about people Reporter’s in & around People our Neighborhoods
a member of “The Model of Leadersip” class at the World AIDS Day festivities take flight in school which started a school-wide two-week Uphams Corner; changing landscape noted food and money drive in early November. On Over 200 people turned November 19 the young out to the Upham’s Cor- men held a collection ner Health Center’s ceremony in the BC High World AIDS Day event gym where all the money last Thursday. Attendees and food were gathered included UCHC patients, from the various home- community residents rooms. Imoisi with the and HIV/AIDS activists. Models of Leadership Minister Christopher class then went to the Leslie led the gathering Boston Housing Author- in a moment of silence for Ernest Imoisi ity and helped sort the loved ones lost to AIDS. Ernest Imoisi of food and learned about Erena Rodrigues, a Dorchester, a senior the BHA and section former Upham’s Corner at Boston College 8 housing. The BHA Health Center HIV/ High School, helped employees and the 17 BC AIDS Peer Advocate, Boston Housing Au- High students were the gave the keynote ad- thority employees feed sole providers in feeding dress. Mrs. Rodrigues poor families this past more than 300 families. spoke of the changing Thanksgiving. Imoisi is nature of the HIV/AIDS landscape from when friends, placed inside Dorchester resident she was first diagnosed balloons, and set free John D. Mulattieri in 1988. outside the Upham’s has been appointed to The peer group, Casa, Corner Health Center. the Board of Trustees was founded because Red balloons symbolized for the Rhode Island people were, “Always at the HIV/AIDS Aware- Chapter of the National her house, eating, laugh- ness efforts, and pink Multiple Sclerosis Soci- ing, crying, and singing. balloons reminded both ety. Mulattieri served It didn’t matter if you staff and patients of a as chair of the Board of were gay or straight.” recently departed friend Trustees last year. He Her son told her that and UCHC colleague, will serve a one-year he’d stopped crying for Dr. Kathleen Bennett, term. He also cycles in her after she kept going who passed from breast the Chapter’s popular strong and healthy the cancer just days before Whitney Montes gets a pin at the Upham’s Corner 150-mile bike ride, Bike first five years since her the event. Health Center’s World AIDS Day event last Thursday MS: Ride the Rhode, and John D. Mulattieri HIV diagnosis. That was The World AIDS Day Above, the names of local resident who have died in 1993. Today, she offers event was sponsored from the epidemic were placed inside balloons and he is a familiar presence events. sent airborne outside the Upham’s Corner Health at numerous Chapter support to volunteers by the Upham’s Corner and others in her com- HIV/AIDS Services and Center. Photos courtesy UCHC munity. Upham’s Corner Visiting services can be found by information about this Bubbles’s Birthdays Solemn and reverent, Nurses’ Programs. visiting their website, World AIDS Day event, the names of those who Information about uphamscornerhealthctr. call 617-287-0684 exten- And Special Occasions passed away were writ- Upham’s Corner Health com, or by calling 617- sion 31. By Barbara McDonough ten on slips of papers by Center’s events and 287-8000. For more Today, December 6, is the anniversary (in 1917) of the blast that destroyed Halifax (Nova Scotia) Harbor. A Norwegian ship hit a French munitions ship, killing 1,650 people and wound- ing more than 1,000. (The resulting tidal wave washed away much of the city.) Because the City of Boston was one of the first to send help, Nova Scotia still sends a large fir tree to Boston for Christmas each year to thank Boston. Today is the feast day of St. Nicholas. On Dec. 7, 1941, 1,177 men remained aboard the USS Arizona when she was bombed by the Japanese and sank at Pearl Harbor. Instant Replay was first used on TV on Dec. 7, 1963. Saturday, Dec. 8, is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a holy day of obligation. (Masses at Catholic churches are on the vigil, Fri., Dec. 7, and on Sat. morning, Dec. 8. See their bulletins.) Mark David Chapman shot and killed Beatle John Lennon on Dec. 8, 1980. Fields Corner Main Street organized a holiday window Sun., Dec. 9, is the beginning of the eight-day display contest this week. More than two dozen busi- Jewish celebration of Chanukah, the Festival nesses participated in the contest, which helped the of Lights. Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill was born in entire district get into the spirit of the season. A group of Cambridge on Dec. 9, 100 years ago. WBZ talk judges walked the business district on Monday evening host David Brudnoy passed away on Dec. 9, 1994; to critique the windows. They included, above l-r, Bill Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, on Dec. 9, 1979. The first Forry of the Dorchester Reporter, City Councillor Frank radio broadcast of the “Grand Ole Opry” program Baker, FCMS director Evelyn Darling (who coordinated occurred on Dec. 10, 1927. King Edward VIII the event, but did not serve as a judge), Robert Hamilton and Kristen Hughes. One judge not shown above was abdicated the throne of England “for the woman Lynette Frasier, chief of staff for City Councillor Charles I love” on Dec. 11, 1936. “Magnum, P I” began Yancey. The winners were: A Sweet Place (first), Karlene telecasting on CBS on Dec. 11, 1980. Wednesday A. Valente Insurance Agency (second) and A. Dalliance is 12/12/12. William Lloyd Garrison was born in Lingerie (third). Photos by John P. Forry Newburyport on Dec. 12, 1805. Celebrities having birthdays are: Larry Bird, 56 spend her April vacation worked with the Jesuit campo. They even spent on Dec. 7; Ellen “Same Time, Next Year” Burstyn, introducing BC High stu- Refugee Service. a day at a Benedictine 80 on Dec, 7; flautist Sir James Galway, 73 on Dec. dents to the Dominican The young men then monastery. 8; Dame Judi Dench, 78 on Dec. 9; Kirk Douglas, Republic. went on a tour through “This year’s trip was 96 on Dec. 9; Donny Osmond, 55 on Dec. 9; Rita Bonina, assisted by the market spanning wonderful”, said Bonina, Moreno, 81 on Dec. 11; Connie Francis, 74 on Dec. Jeffrey Devlin, a BC High the bridge between the “like those in years past, 12; and Dionne Warwick, 71 on Dec. 12. Guidance counselor, led DR and Haiti, next we focused on solidarity Those celebrating their birthdays are Julie the same trip last year they visited a garbage and kinship with our Flynn, Kay Levine, Jennifer Connell, Hilda with Creighton Univer- dump where 300,000 Dominican brothers and Henry, Kevin Nolan, Susan Wheeler, Fred Kelley sity’s Institute for Latin people live and work, a sisters.” (from Fahnestock), Sandy Stone, twins John and American Concern. They place called Cienfuegos. This coming spring Stephanie Lavin, and Jason Smith. brought 13 students They tried their hand at BC High will sponsor Also observing their birthdays are Nicholas Kaileen Sanner Bonina to visit the children at farming, planting coffee Service & Justice Im- Larkin, Martha Murray, Mike Cote, Rita Nutley, the Ángeles de Conani crops and terracing crops mersion trips to El Sal- Pat Gaudet, John McDonald, Doris Holmes, Tom Kaileen Sanner Orphanage, spend time in a greenhouse. They vador, The Dominican Doherty, Dan Roche Jr., and Audrey O’Connor. Bonina of Dorchester, with seniors at the home dug latrines and laid Republic, Wheeling West Those celebrating their anniversaries are Joe and a Modern Language for the elderly, and go flooring at a school. At Virginia and Camden, Laureen Browning and Charles and Mary Burke. teacher at Boston Col- to Dajabón on the Hai- night they lived with New Jersey. lege High School, will tian border where they the host families in the Page 8 THE Reporter December 6, 2012 Editorial Right now, says Coakley, MAHA presence re-election is her goal brings benefits By Colleen Quinn thought I could be a good senator, but the voters What are the responsibilities of a home mortgage State House News Service said otherwise,” Coakley answered when asked by lender to the community where it does business? Attorney General Martha Coakley said last week she newspaper publishers about her political intentions. That is the fundamental question behind the does not plan to run for governor or a Senate seat; she will Coakley said she has committed herself to the AG spot Community Reinvestment Act (CRA,) a 35-year-old instead run for re-election as the state’s top prosecutor. and feels there is still a lot of work left to do. She has law designed to promote home ownership among Coakley, speaking to a group of newspaper publishers, spent the last two years rebuilding her reputation, tak- moderate income families while encouraging civic was asked if she was ruling out a potential run for ing aggressive postures on several issues, including involvement by the lenders. both seats. “Right now, today, at this microphone, efforts to reform state foreclosure laws, make human The law was enacted in the 1970s when it emerged yes. We don’t even know if there is a Senate seat.” trafficking illegal in Massachusetts, and take on cam- that some banks were drawing enormous deposits Coakley, whose name has been tossed around as paign finance and ethics violations by public officials. from certain neighborhoods, then lending those funds a potential 2014 gubernatorial candidate, said she In her speech to the publishers, Coakley lamented that to more affluent areas. Activists complained that the loves the job she has and intends to keep doing it. elected officials too often focus on the next campaign banks were making money off the savings of depositors “If you are a lawyer, this is a great job,” she said. rather than doing the jobs they’re elected to do. in places like Dorchester, Mattapan, and Roxbury, but With Gov. Deval Patrick planning to move on after “Moreso than ever, people focus on the next taking no affirmative steps to ensure that residents the end of his second term, state Treasurer Steven campaign. Not the job,” Coakley said. “We know in those neighborhoods would have access to home Grossman and Lt. Gov. Tim Murray are considering the damage that gets done when people are always loans to buy their own homes. whether to run for governor as Democrats in 2014. running for reelection or the next thing.” There were some notable examples: Longtime If Coakley runs again, it would be her third run This is not the first time Coakley has publicly community banks, among them the late, lamented 1st for attorney general. Speculation has swirled since stated her intentions to run for reelection as attorney American Bank (formerly Dorchester Savings Bank), President Barack Obama’s re-election last month general. In April, she said she would seek a third term. pioneered community outreach and neighborhood that Sen. John Kerry will be appointed to a senior Coakley, the first woman elected attorney general involvement by developing a model of community post in Obama’s administration, which would put in Massachusetts, has won four races and lost two, banking and investment that lives on today in lo- his seat up for grabs in 2013. including her bid for Senate and a race for state cal institutions like Meetinghouse Bank and Mt. “Races are expensive. They are tough. They are representative in 1997 won by Rep. Martin Walsh Washington Bank. hard. That is a personal decision I will make. Right of Dorchester. But it literally took an act of Congress – the Com- now I am really happy with what I am doing,” The constant election cycle creates a barrier munity Reinvestment Act – to spur many of the large Coakley told the crowd gathered at Anthony’s Pier 4. to elected officials governing, Coakley said. She state-chartered and national banks to act responsibly. Later, when speaking to reporters, Coakley did not remarked about how expensive, long, and bitter A host of community activist groups, with names entirely rule out a race for governor, saying right some battles get, pointing out the Brown and Warren like MURAG, Dorchester Tenants Action Council, now she is focused on her current job. “I want to campaigns spent more money than the Bush-Gore Mass Fair Share and MAHA, gathered data to show stay focused on that,” she said, adding the governor’s presidential race in 2000, and the Obama-Romney that banks were purposely promoting a disparity race is two years away. “It is a long way away from race cost more than $2 billion. between depositors and access to mortgage loans. today.” Coakley also said that each race is different Coakley admitted she was not immune from A landmark 1989 report by state and federal bank and dynamics change. campaign pitfalls, acknowledging that in her race regulators quantified the disparities, with the result A former Middlesex County district attorney, against Brown both sides spent “enormous” amounts that government agencies since than have issued Coakley has two more years left on her second four- of money in a very short period of time for the special annual public reports on the performance of banks year term as attorney general. In 2009, she emerged election. “It is nothing new. It is part of what we all in meeting credit needs in their communities. as the frontrunner to win the seat long held by Sen. love to watch. We all get engaged in those adversarial At the forefront of these initiatives has been Edward Kennedy, but lost the January 2010 special races. The problem is the seeming inability for the the Dorchester-based Massachusetts Affordable election to Sen. Scott Brown. Brown, in turn, lost that parties to come back to do what they have been elected Housing Alliance (MAHA), an innovative, non-profit seat last month when Democrat Elizabeth Warren to do and that is to govern.” agency that has helped to educate and graduate to defeated him. “How many cliffs, fiscal or otherwise, do we have to homeownership some 16,000 homebuyers since 1985. The battle with Brown left Coakley bruised with manage before we start building bridges?” she added. The secret to the agency’s success is a fundamental many wondering if she had a political future. “I one: right from the beginning, MAHA reached out to lenders and formed a partnership between the Patrick backs top health official banks and the community activists, and it has been a successful relationship over more than two decades. By Matt Murphy Peterson (R-Grafton), Rep. Brad Hill (R-Ipswich), Those positive joint efforts were in evidence again State House News Service Rep. Elizabeth Poirier (R-North Attleborough) and this week, as MAHA executive director Tom Callahan Disappointed with the tone and substance of Rep. Fred “Jay” Barrows (R-Mansfield). Barrows’s hosted a group of bankers and local homeowners at her testimony at two oversight hearings, House name was not on the letter, while Rep. Viriato the agency’s annual meeting. The guest list included Republican leadership last weeks demanded that deMacedo signed the letter to Patrick but did not many current and retired bankers, among them former Gov. Deval Patrick remove his top health official as attend the press conference. State Banking Commissioner Andrew Calamare and the Department of Public Health strives to rebound “With all due respect to the secretary, I feel that it the current United States Comptroller, Thomas Curry, from two serious health and safety crises. is imperative that she reflect on what has happened himself a former state banking commissioner who now The administration has been dealing for months over the last months and year, quite frankly, and do oversees more than 2,000 national banks and federal with the fallout from a state chemist who admitted the right thing to step down to give that position to savings associations and about 50 federal branches to tampering with evidence, jeopardizing thousands someone who can step in with fresh eyes to right the and agencies of foreign banks in the United States. of convictions and leading to the release so far of wrongs that have been done,” Poirier said. There was both good news and some bad news on 195 prisoners. More recently, the New England Patrick has already asked all of his Cabinet the agenda at the meeting on Dorchester Avenue Compounding Center in Framingham, linked secretaries to consider whether they want to remain on Monday night: The good news is that MAHA to tainted steroids that caused a deadly fungal in the administration through the end of his term announced a “redesign” of the successful “SoftSecond meningitis outbreak, was determined to be operating in 2014, and Bigby has not committed yet. Loan Program.” A more streamlined product, “ONE outside its state pharmacy license. In the letter to Patrick, the Republican lawmakers Mortgage,” fusing two mortgages into one, is expected House Minority leader Brad Jones, joined by took particular exception to Bigby’s testimony before to be available in April 2013. several of his colleagues at a State House press three House committees investigating the Hinton But MAHA board member Thadine Brown raised conference, said the Executive Office of Health and drug lab fiasco. a new and troubling matter: “Lending has changed, Human Services was “desperately in need of new While acknowledging “serious lapses in oversight,” and CRA now covers a much smaller percentage of leadership” and added that now was the time for Bigby told lawmakers that even the most stringent mortgage lending than it used to. This is because Secretary JudyAnn Bigby to resign or be removed quality controls might not always be able to prevent banks have community reinvestment responsibilities by Patrick. someone like indicted chemist Annie Dookhan from only where they have branches that take deposits. The North Reading Republican also said Bigby acting inappropriately. Bigby had planned to tell Curry said his agency is aware of the issue, and might have been “distracted” by the intensive efforts lawmakers that, “There are no good answers,” to the that a study is under way in an effort to address the of the Patrick administration to pass a major health questions of what happened and how one chemist concerns. – Ed Forry care payment reform and cost control bill last year, could cause so much damage, but dropped the line and was slow to react to the drug lab crisis after first from her prepared remarks. learning of problems last January. “That response is simply unacceptable. 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By Peter F. Stevens clean just by going to confession.” BIR Staff Kennedy’s seething ambition in business and poli- For readers who view Joseph P. Kennedy as a tics comes to vivid, engrossing life in “The Patriarch,” bootlegging, womanizing, election-stealing, Nazi- but so, too, does his utter devotion to his children. loving villain, “The Patriarch” is not their book. Of course, his legion of detractors will point immedi- For readers who see Kennedy as a man whose good ately to his decision to have his daughter Rosemary outweighed the considerable bad, the book is a mixed lobotomized and then seemingly cut her out of his bag. However, in understanding what made Ken- life and thoughts. Nasaw does not whitewash this, nedy tick in public and private, “The Patriarch,” in but simply presents the unvarnished facts. this reviewer’s opinion, is the finest biography thus He similarly takes on Kennedy’s legendary Wall far of the ambassador and one of the best books Street dealings – many of which would have been about the entire family. grossly illegal today but were not in the 1920s – his One of America’s foremost historians, David Nasaw anti-Semitism (even though a number of influential is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Professor of His- Jewish jurists and businessmen were his friends), tory at the Graduate Center of the City University his isolationist views, and all the other controversial of New York. His biographies of Andrew Carnegie aspects of his life and career. and William Randolph Hearst deservedly earned Nasaw examines whether Kennedy was an ap- critical praise and a host of prestigious awards. peaser “and Nazi sympathizer, a stock swindler, a “The Patriarch” is no less splendid in scholarship, bootlegger, and a colleague of mobsters.” He scruti- scope, and style. Nasaw’s narrative flows smoothly nizes whether Kennedy forced his second son – JFK and skillfully for scholars and general readers alike. -- into the political fray and then rigged election Setting “The Patriarch” light years apart from victories – including the presidential campaign. previous works on Joseph Kennedy is the unprec- Nasaw bores deeply into Ambassador Kennedy’s edented access to source material that Nasaw was tortuous relationship with FDR, and his condem- granted by the Kennedy family – on his terms. Nasaw nation of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall notes: “When Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith The most compelling Plan. He was against America getting involved in and Senator Edward Kennedy…asked me to write a Vietnam, one case in which many might view his biography of their father, I agreed to do so, but only and balanced look yet isolationism as valid. if I was granted full cooperation, unfettered access to While this reviewer is tempted to present Nasaw’s Joseph P. Kennedy’s papers…including those closed at “The Ambassador” – balanced, nuanced, and candid takes on all of these to researchers, and unrestricted permission to cite and more, it would be a disservice to both the author any document I came across. The family accepted Joseph P. Kennedy and the reader. For anyone with even a passing my conditions. No attempts were made to withhold interest in the Kennedys and in American history, information or to censor this book in any way.” was a man who made his fortune in bootlegging, “The Patriarch” is a book not to be missed. What The proof of that is in the book. Nasaw does not Nasaw convincingly contends that there is no hard emerges from its pages is a word picture of a com- shrink from either the myths that many Kennedy- shred of evidence to support the charge – other than plex and towering man who was not the total rogue haters accept as gospel or an unsparing examina- Kennedy’s providing alcohol for his tenth Harvard or villain that so many people have simplistically tion of his vices and virtues. Yes, while many won’t reunion. branded him. What emerges is a picture of a man want to acknowledge it, there were virtues in this Nasaw does not sugarcoat his subject’s woman- who in many ways was all too human. ambitious, powerful, charismatic, and often ruthless izing: “He enjoyed the company of other women, (“The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbu- man whose life and that of his family constitute a hundreds of them over his lifetime…” Despite that, lent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy,” by David Nasaw. Boston Irish, Irish American, and American saga Kennedy viewed himself as a staunch Catholic, who, Hardcover, The Penguin Press, NY, 868 pages, b&w that is Shakespearean in triumph, tragedy, and according to his onetime paramour, the actress photos, $40) pathos. When it comes to the bromide that Kennedy Gloria Swanson, thought he could “wipe the slate SALE! SALE!! SALE!!! WANTED Information or photographs of the former SUNBEAM Bread Building located at 60 Tenean Street, Boston.
HOLIDAY SALE!! Holiday Please call Kathleen at 617-474- Do your shopping at Ashmont Cycles! 0500 x342 or email kdenis@sully- Prices on all bikes and accessories are Sale mac.com. reduced from December 8 - 22. WE RENT BIKES! (includes helmet/lock) Call us for details. WINTER HOURS: Mon: Closed Tues: Noon - 6 Wed: Noon - 6 Thurs: Noon - 6:30 Dorchester Historical Society • 195 Boston Street, Dorchester, MA 02125 Fri: Noon - 6 www.dorchesterhistoricalsociety.org Sat: 10 - 5 Sun: Closed ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY We have GIFT CARDS. Can’t make it to the shop? Sunday, December 9, 2 p.m. We can mail a gift card to you. Give us a call to process payment over the phone. Enjoy food and refreshments, as well as holiday music to put you in the holiday spirit. Buy holiday gifts in the shop. www.ashmontcycles.com at the William Clapp House Tel. 617-282-6562, 561 A Talbot Avenue, Dorchester, MA 02124 195 Boston Street, Dorchester, MA 02125 Page 10 THE Reporter December 6, 2012 Reporter’s Neighborhood Notables civic associations • clubs • arts & entertainment • churches • upcoming events
Cathedral High Panthers won the Division 4A championship on Sat., Dec. 1 at Gillette Stadium. The Panthers defeated Madison Park by a score of 22-20. It is the school’s first-ever Super Bowl championship. Head Coach Duane Sigsbury was named New England Patriots Coach of the Week following the game. Dorchester High, which had gone undefeated this season, lost its Super Bowl match-up on Saturday to Upper Cape in a game played at Curry College. Photo by Patrick O’Connor Macy’s Enchanted Trolley Tour Mattapan Patriots/Mattahunt of the month. For info, see ashmonthill.org or call On Saturday, December 7: at 6:45 p.m., in Mat- Winter Sports Program Message Line: 617-822-8178. tapan Square; at 7:15 p.m., in Codman Square; and The Mattapan Patriots will be offering a winter Cedar Grove Civic Assn. at 7:45 p.m., in Adams Corner. sports programs at the Mattahunt Wheelock Com- The monthly meeting, usually the second Tues. Police District C-11 News munity Center for children who want to develop of each month, 7 p.m., in Fr. Lane Hall at St. Non-emergency line for seniors: 617-343-5649. athletically, skillfully and personally. The program Brendan’s Church.. Info: cedargrovecivic@gmail. Police District B-3 News will run from Dec. 7 to March 29. The program is com or 617-825-1402. For info, call B-3’s Community Service Office at $40 for non-members and $35 for members. The cost Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Assn. 617-343-4717. includes team shirts, awards, and end of program Meetings the first Mon. of each month, 7 p.m., Volunteers sought to lead Mather appreciation. For more information, contact Gary at the Little House, 275 East Cottage St. For info: School Girl Scouts Cole from the Mattapan Patriots at colegice@ columbiasavinhillcivic.org. gmail.com, Jessica Withers from the Mattahunt at Clam Point Civic Assn. The second and third grade girls at the Mather [email protected], or call the Mattahunt at School in Dorchester are looking for at least two, The meetings are usually held on the second (617) 635-5159. Location: Mattahunt Wheelock Monday of each month (unless it’s a holiday) at fun, enthusiastic volunteers to run a Girl Scout Community Center, 100 Hebron St., Mattapan. Brownie troop after school on Fridays beginning WORK, Inc. 25 Beach St., at the corner of Freeport in January. All the necessary training will be Ashmont-Adams Assn. (new meeting place), across from the IBEW; on provided, free of charge from Girl Scouts of Eastern Meeting on the first Thursday of each month at street parking available; at 6:30 p.m. The upcoming Massachusetts. Interested candidates should contact the Plasterers’ Hall, 7 Fredericka St., at 7 p.m. meeting will be Mon., Dec. 10. Info: clampoint.org. Kim at [email protected]. Ashmont Hill Assn. Codman Square Neighborhood Meetings are generally held the last Thursday Council The Codman Square Neighborhood Council meets the first Wed. of each month, 7 to 8:30 p.m., in the Great Hall of the Codman Sq. Health Center, 6 Norfolk St. Info: call 617-265-4189. Cummins Valley Assn. Geiger Gibson Community Health Center Cummins Valley Assn, meeting at the Mattahunt a division of Harbor Health Services, Inc. Community Center, 100 Hebron St., Mattapan, on 250 Mount Vernon Street, Dorchester, MA 02125 Mondays 6:30 p.m., for those living on and near Cummins Highway. For info on dates, call 617-791- 7359 or 617-202-1021. Eastman-Elder Assn. The association meets the third Thurs. of each month, 7 p.m., at the Upham’s Corner Health Center, FOR THE TIMES WHEN YOUR HEALTH CANNOT WAIT… 636 Columbia Rd, across from the fire station. The CONVENIENT & FAST MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS FOR meeting date is (all on Saturdays): Dec. 15. COMMON ILLNESSES & MINOR INJURIES Hancock St. Civic Assn The next meetings are Dec. 20, and Jan. 17, Same Day Access available at Geiger Gibson Community Health Center 2013 in the Upham’s Corner Branch Library, 500 *)9)5?8'30(6<1473164-2/)<),)%(%',)1-+5%-2)6)%5-2*)'7-326%00)5+-)6%2( Columbia Rd., (this month), from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Info: %00)5+-'5)%'7-3266731%',%',)685-2%5<75%'7-2*)'7-326%67,1%);%')5&%7-3245)+2%2'< [email protected] (new e-mail address.) The 7)67-2+645%-26675%-261-2350%')5%7-326&%'/4%-2/2)) .3-274%-21-235'876&58-6)6 next meetings are Feb. 21, Mar. 24, and Apr. 18. Quality Health Care! Freeport-Adams Assn. 3%5()57->)(%1-0< ,<6-'-%26%2( 856) 5%'7-7-32)5675)%7-2+',-0(5)2%2(%(8076 The meetings will be held the second Wed. of the Save Money and Hassle! month, 6:30 p.m., at the Fields Corner CDC office "-+2->'%270<03:)5'34%<6%2(6,357)5:%-7-2+7-1)67,%2!9-6-76 (the old Dist. 11 police station), 1 Acadia St. Conveniently Located! Groom/Humphreys Neighborhood "7)46%:%<*531 $ ""#67%7-32%2($ %66367325))326-7)4%5/-2+ Assn. Walk-‐in’sW elcome! The GHNA meets on the third Wed. of each month, 3%443-271)272))()(<385 5-1%5<%5) 539-()5 67%<67,)6%1) 7 p.m., in the Kroc Salvation Army Community Extended Hours of Operation! Center, 650 Dudley St., Dor., 02125. For info, call 32#,8 %1 415- %1 41"%7 %1 41 857-891-1072 or [email protected]. Lower Mills Civic Assn. We accept MassHealth and most major insurance plans. The monthly meetings are held the third Tuesday %00 731%/)%2%443-271)2735.867:%0/-2 of the month in St. Gregory’s Auditorium, 7 p.m. :::,,6-86 There will be no Nov. and Dec. meetings. Please *%')&33/'31 %5&35)%07,")59-')62' bring bottles/ cans and any used sports equipment to the meeting for Officer Ruiz. See the web page: dorchesterlowermills.org. (Continued on page 16) December 6, 2012 The Reporter Page 11 US to borrowers: Look at mortgage-review program By Gintautas Dumcius “borrowers must send in under the order include owner. Munoz said ev- cording to Munoz. “There application has been News Editor their requests for review Bank of America, Chase, erything will be handled are still thousands of extended several times Dorchester residents by the end of the year.” Citibank, Countrywide, on a case-by-case basis. people who could benefit due to the low response whose primary home was “It’s a unique opportu- Metlife Bank, Sovereign The national response from this,” she added. rate and now stands at in a foreclosure process nity for homeowners to Bank, SunTrust Mort- rate for the foreclosure Munoz said her orga- Dec. 31. Curry said it between 2009 and 2010 request a review if they gage, Washington Mu- review program has nization has conducted was “premature” to say may be eligible for a free feel they were financially tual, and Wells Fargo, remained low – at about workshops with counsel- whether there would be independent review. harmed because of errors among others. 5 percent despite 4.5 mil- ing organizations and another extension, that The Federal Reserve, made by the servicer,” An independent con- lion people having been community organizers, regulators have to see the Office of the Comp- Ana Patricia Munoz, a sultant will determine identified as possible and also put together a how effective the current troller of Currency, and senior policy analyst at if a homeowner was candidates. In Suffolk YouTube video in Eng- outreach effort is. federal bank regulators Federal Reserve Bank of harmed, and can poten- County, 5,450 people are lish and Spanish. “It does More information is who are overseeing the Boston told the Reporter. tially provide compensa- likely to be eligible, as of sound too good to be true available at Indepen- independent review According to the Fed- tion ranging from $5,000 September. About 341 but it is true,” she said. “It dentForeclosureReview. are seeking to promote eral Reserve, the follow- to $125,000 plus equity, people, or 6 percent, have is a unique opportunity.” com. the program as a Dec. ing meet the definition of or return the house to the requested a review, ac- The deadline for the 31 deadline looms for causing financial harm: potential applicants. The The mortgage balance at program is part of an the time of the foreclosure Non-profits brace for spending cuts order issued by financial action was more than the Non-profit organiza- hikes and spending cuts programs will put more mately 90,000 people a regulators to 14 banks amount actually owed; tions that help people - could make the problem pressure on the system, week through a network that requires them to the borrower met the find housing or provide worse for residents and D’Amato said. of pantries, shelters and improve loan modifica- modification agreement food and fuel assistance the charities that help One in 11 Massachu- soup kitchens. tion and foreclosure requirements, but was are bracing for a tough them survive, according setts residents, approxi- “It is no secret that services. foreclosed on anyway; the winter, expecting more to Catherine D’Amato of mately 800,000 people, here in Massachusetts U S C o m p t r o l l e r borrower was foreclosed people to need help at a the Greater Boston Food are “food insecure,” over the past decade or Thomas Curry, who while under bankruptcy time when federal sub- Bank. meaning they visit a so we have had a serious was in Dorchester on protection; the borrower sidies could be reduced. Expected federal cuts food pantry, soup kitchen issue around the supply Monday for the Mas- submitted modification Federal emergency un- to food programs, par- or shelter, according to of housing,” Finn said. sachusetts Affordable documents on time and employment insurance ticularly commodities D’Amato. Nationally, 1 “This is a problem that Housing Alliance’s an- was waiting for a decision benefits are scheduled to and USDA foods, will in 8 Americans visit a impacts all of our lives. nual meeting, asked when the foreclosure run out on Dec. 31. strain food banks. In food pantry, soup kitchen If you are poorer, it for the homeownership sale occurred; and the The fiscal cliff that Con- addition, the possibil- or shelter to eat. The becomes a far greater education group’s help borrower was incorrectly gress is wrangling over ity of fewer resources Greater Boston Food crisis, often developing in raising awareness charged with fees or – a series of scheduled tax for federal entitlement Bank serves approxi- into homelessness.” of the problem. “Time mortgage payments. is short,” he said, and Mortgage servicers Timetable for school choice revamp We’ve been caring for seniors pushed back in your neighborhood since 2004 (Continued from page 1) committee to deliver a model,” he said after the final proposal is now Primary Care Physician SWH Nurse Care Manager group met at City Hall mid-January. But the last Thursday night. task remains daunting, The current system he said. “Every time we divides the city into three look at it, it gets more large zones. School de- complex.” partment officials have The school depart- proposed several maps, ment is also providing a ranging from a model seemingly never-ending with 23 zones to one with stream of data to the no zones. A separate pro- panel. “Every time we get posal from an MIT PhD some, it begs for more,” student has also drawn Walczak said. the EAC’s interest, as The committee’s next has a no-zone proposal meeting is set for tonight from City Councillor (Dec. 6 )at City Hall. An- At-Large John Connolly other meeting is planned and several elected of- for next Thursday (Dec. ficials. The Connolly plan 13), with a holiday break also includes a network before the advisory group Your Family SWH Pharmacist of citywide “magnet” meets again. schools and would al- “Together we are build- With a combined healthcare team of nearly 7,000 primary low parents to enter ing something new that the school as a group, will serve our families care physicians and specialists, Senior Whole Health (SWH) a practice known as for many years to come,” “compacting.” Menino said in a state- has been providing integrated care to seniors in your School department ment. “This close to a neighborhood since 2004. officials are planning to successful outcome, I implement a new map want to ensure the EAC Our members receive home assessments to evaluate their individual in the 2014 school year. has the time it needs to Bill Walczak, a com- get it right.” needs. The SWH Personal Care Team then coordinates every aspect mittee member and co- More information is of their care, every step of the way, to meet their individual needs. founder of the Codman available at boston- Square Health Center, schoolchoice.org. Members get all their MassHealth Standard bene ts, plus more services: said the target for the 8 $0 co-pays for ALL covered services Mobile city hall 8 Free transportation to and from medical office rolled out appointments (limitations apply) Call now for more information on additional bene ts A former Boston Police the truck will be able to SWAT truck has been pay or dispute parking SWH provides, or to enroll today. converted into a mobile tickets, request birth, city services office that death or marriage certifi- will begin its work this cates, and pay property week, according to the and excise taxes, among 1-888-566-3526 (Toll-free) • 711 (TTY) Mayor’s Office. The ‘City other services,” a state- www.seniorwholehealth.com Hall To Go’ van will ment from City Hall make stops along with read. The truck will We are open from 8 A.M. to 8 P.M., seven (7) days a week. the holiday tree lighting be fully deployed in the
trolley tour on Friday in spring at “special events, Mattapan, Codman Sq. block parties and street and Adams Corner. festivals,” Menino’s office Senior Whole Health Senior Care Options (SCO) Program is a health plan with a Commonwealth of Massachusetts /EOHHS contract. “Residents visiting said. Enrollment is voluntary. MA SCO_2013_105 MassHealth Approved 11/29/2012
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All is well in Nepon- came over and mixed niece’s husband Jared worked at the Reporter set. The red and green the two containers of was on line from his office for a time.) We also Christmas lights are now sour cream with the temporary home in send sympathy to his adorning the Rainbow soup mix the evening “The holly’s up; Switzerland. Carolyn brothers and sisters, Rita Gas Tank. We always before Thanksgiving. hooked up with him and Smyth, Ronald, William, love seeing them on the Hubby had already left a The house is all bright; we were able to Skype and Elizabeth O’Hara. Saturday after Thanks- bag-full of Thanksgiving each other. Carolyn’s Thank goodness we still giving. Lambert’s has supplies at Carolyn’s The tree is ready; niece Laura then came on have Paul’s columns to hundreds of Christmas home. It had several the computer with their reread, causing us to trees for sale. We are still packages of various sizes The candles alight; boys, Elliot and Calvin. laugh out loud even now. trying to find a radio sta- of pretty paper plates Rejoice and be glad, all children tonight.” Although Switzerland *** tion that has Christmas and napkins, with bright does not observe Thanks- I was also sorry to read music 24 hours a day. red apples on them. We giving, their family did. of the death of Dorothy Some radio stations play even got the paper cups The Holly and the Ivy, We all talked to Laura for “Dot” Philbrick on Nov. Christmas music just to match. We bought a German Christmas carol a few minutes. We had to 30, at the amazing age of at the top of the hour. a box of Keurig decaf remember that there is a 102 years. I first met Dot While watching TV, we coffee cups and a bottle by P. Cornelius (1824 to 1870) five or six hour difference through her daughter often switch to Ch. 533 on of Welch’s Sparkling in Switzerland’s time. It Loretta many years ago. Boston’s Comcast Cable Red Grape Juice, plus had to have been at least Loretta and I held the to hear the full-time several bottles of Diet 10 p.m., local time (Zulu same positions in our Christmas music. How Coke. On Wednesday, we time – a term I learned civic groups, Loretta, for I love to hear the voices bought one half gallon of from TV) in Switzerland. the Cedar Grove Civic of Perry Como and Nat Garelick Egg Nog. I watched the proceed- could not get home for The boys should have Association and I, for the King Cole. Outside our On Thanksgiving, we ings, I fell in love with Thanksgiving so he came been in bed. As Hubby, Pope’s Hill Neighborhood home, we still marvel packed the car with the all the little dogs whose to visit with us. When Sue, and I drove home, we Association. I visited that we have yellow, remaining supplies. Sue faces looked so appealing we found out that Emilio spoke about the wonder- Dot and Loretta’s home red, and peach-colored held her chocolate-pud- on that big screen. I could was from Texas, someone ful time we had had at many times through the roses that have not yet ding pie, with whipped have adopted at least five asked him if he had ever Carolyn and Rock’s home years. Often, they would succumbed to the cold. cream on top, on her of these champion dogs. ridden a horse. He had. that day. be cooking and baking They are hardy souls. lap. She had a CD with They were so cute. Then Daughter-in-law Alex *** for some event or for a *** “Alice’s Restaurant” on I came back to reality spent Thanksgiving with I heard a feel-good holiday. Dot was still Once again, Cousins it so we listened to all 18 and realized the rest of her Mom and their family story that is just perfect cooking into her 90s. Carolyn and Rock had and one-half minutes of it the day would be de- so she wasn’t able to for this time of year. My Even though she had very kindly invited all our and laughed most of the voted to football games, join us. friend Helen was dining little sight, she once told family to their home for way to Norwell. When including our Patriots We were amazed at at Gerard’s the night me that, “I can turn the Thanksgiving. A few we came in the house, after dinner. Daughter the number of foods that before Thanksgiving. On oven on and know exactly weeks before, I started Carolyn was stirring Jeanne, son-in-law Da- Carolyn and Rock placed Thanksgiving morning, where 350 degrees is on buying Lay’s Low-Salt the gravy. Rock was vid, granddaughter Erin, on the dining room table. she noticed that the stone the dial.” (She did turn Potato Chips, plus sev- watching all the veggies. and grandson Brendan Of course, there was a from her favorite ring the dial correctly!) Hubby eral bags of Knorr’s Leek Their daughter Katie came in later after visit- picture-perfect turkey was missing. She checked and I loved attending her Soup Mix. (It seems less was already cleaning ing David’s mother Ann that Hubby captured out her bedclothes, think- 100th birthday celebra- salty than regular onion some of the pots and and his brother Leo. on his camera. There ing that the stone must tion two years ago and soup mix.) We have also pans. Brendan, home from were two types of stuff- have come out during the open house for her used the Golden Onion There was a dog show college for the week, ing, one cooked in the the night. She checked 102nd birthday a little soup mix. Daughter Sue on their gorgeous TV. As brought one of his room- bird, the other outside the bedclothes a second over three months ago. I mates with him. Emilio the bird. There were time. Still nothing! When still have the candy bar serving dishes heaped the family members came wrapper with a photo with squash, mashed in on Thanksgiving Day, of Dot when she was a potatoes, corn, carrots each of them checked young girl on one end (especially for me), and around the house. They of the wrapper and a cranberry sauce. There found nothing. One fam- present day photo of Dot was even a green-bean ily member suggested at the other end. I will When you NEED casserole. (I ate a little that she call Gerard’s treasure it. All our family of the topping because I and let the staff know. A sends our sympathy to should avoid most green maintenance worker had her daughters, Dorothy care, just walk veggies while on Couma- to vacuum the restaurant and Loretta, and to her din.) The gravy was nice after a busy Thanksgiv- granddaughter Susan, right in. and hot. In addition to ing. He dumped the dirt who visited often from Sue’s chocolate-pudding out and began to sift her home in Colorado. We pie, Rock had made a through it with his fin- also send our sympathy to FREE “half-mile-high” apple gers. Eureka! He found her other grandchildren, pie. I sampled some of the stone and delivered it Richard and John Can- Blood Pressure Hubby’s piece of pie that to Helen’s home himself. niff and Carol Menier. he took home. Rock even She gave him a reward. Dot was a wonderful screenings in made lemon squares, Helen’s favorite ring is lady! By the way, she was with a tart lemon flavor, now at the jeweler’s being last of 11 children. Urgent Care from his Mom’s treasured repaired. What a kind *** recipe. Daughter Jeanne man to go to so much When Hubby and I Sundays from had brought a whole box trouble! God bless him moved to our present of scrumptious-looking for doing that. street 50 years ago, I 9:30 – 12 noon cookies. With the egg *** learned that an “elderly” nog, Sparkling Red I was so sorry to read man on Houghton Street, Grape Juice, Diet Coke, of the death of retired Robert Bowes, was a and decaf coffee, we Boston Police Officer retired Boston Police had more than enough Paul Johnson on Nov. 24 officer and was very Our Urgent Care is open to drink to go with the at age 69. Paul was one of well thought of in the delicious food. There for you 7 days a week … the Community Service neighborhood. This past was so much food that officers at District C-11 in Saturday, I read that a During regular hours: Carolyn and Rock almost Fields Corner. For years Robert J. Bowes Jr. had begged us to take some he wrote “The Beat Goes passed away. He had Mon - Thur 8am - 9pm of it home. She made On” police column for the proudly boasted that he Friday 8am - 5pm sure that Hubby took Dorchester Reporter. The was a third generation High quality, friendly health home the deviled eggs Saturday 9am - 1pm minute Paul came in our Boston Police officer. I that she had made just office, we would start to think that Robert was care in your neighborhood. for him. There were so AND, weekend hours: smile. He would read, to probably the son of our many eggs that Hubby us staff members, the Mr. Bowes on Houghton Saturday until 3pm made egg salad with most humorous parts of Street. (Sadly, there are Sunday 9am - 1pm them and we had egg his weekly column. We no elderly neighbors left salad sandwiches for would roar with laugh- to ask.) I send my sym- You have a right to several days after that. ter. Our readers loved pathy to all of Robert’s By the way, Rock checked his writings. When he family. good health! online and found out that retired at the end of 2003, *** the best dinner rolls were For non-urgent care he said that he would Here is an apropos In Fields Corner made by Alexia. Carolyn be fixing up his home, thought by Alexander appointments, call chose that company’s 1353 Dorchester Avenue something he loved to do. Smith, with the Christ- French rolls. They were I send my sympathy to his mas holiday fast ap- 617-288-3230. 617-288-3230 delicious! wife Michelle and to his proaching: “Christmas is I must mention that children Adam, Timothy, the day that holds time For more information, visit us at www.dorchesterhouse.org later in the afternoon, and Aimee. (Aimee even together.” Carolyn saw that her December 6, 2012 The Reporter Page 13 Community Health News Please check your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors Mattapan Community Every year in the should be tested at least The Consumer Prod- soning are similar to Properly working car- Health Center United States, about once a month to make uct Safety Commission flu-like illnesses and in- bon monoxide detectors As we start the winter 3,000 people lose their sure they operate prop- recommends that con- clude dizziness, fatigue, can provide an early of 2012-2013, Mattapan lives in residential fires. erly. If a smoke alarm sumers purchase and headaches, nausea, and warning to consumers Community Health Most fire victims die is battery-operated, install carbon monoxide irregular breathing. Car- before the deadly gas Center hastens to offer from inhalation of smoke replace the batteries at detectors with labels bon monoxide can leak builds up to a dangerous information to our com- and toxic gases, not as a least once a year to make showing that they meet from faulty furnaces or level. Exposure to a munity on keeping safe result of burns, and most sure the alarm will work the requirements of fuel-fired heaters or can low concentration over during the cold winter deaths and injuries occur when it is needed. It’s a the new Underwriters be trapped inside by a several hours can be as months. in fires that happen at good practice to make Laboratories, Inc. (UL) blocked chimney or flue. dangerous as exposure You can prevent trag- night while the victims replacement of batteries voluntary standard. The Burning charcoal inside to high carbon monoxide edies simply by testing are asleep. a seasonal routine, such UL standard requires the house or running an levels for a few minutes and maintaining your Properly installed as when resetting your detectors to sound an automobile engine in an – the new detectors will smoke alarms and prac- and maintained smoke clocks in the fall or spring alarm when exposure to attached garage can also detect both conditions. ticing a fire escape plan. alarms in the home are or during the December carbon monoxide reaches produce carbon monoxide Most of the devices range All smoke alarms in considered one of the holidays. Always fol- potentially hazardous in the home. from $25-$100. Each your house or apartment best and least expen- low the manufacturer’s levels over a period of The first line of defense home should have at should be tested once a sive means of providing instructions for test- time. Detectors that against carbon monoxide least one carbon mon- month and their batter- an early warning of ing smoke alarms and meet these requirements is to make sure that all oxide detector in the ies replaced annually a potentially deadly replacing the batteries. provide a greater safety fuel-burning appliances area outside individual and every family should fire. Smoke alarms save If your battery- margin than previously- operate properly. Con- bedrooms. Experts agree develop a fire escape plan lives, prevent injuries, powered smoke alarm manufactured detectors sumers should have their that carbon monoxide de- and practice it at least and minimize property begins to emit a low- About 200 people die home heating systems, tectors are as important twice a year. damage by enabling resi- power warning, usually each year from carbon including chimneys, to home safety as smoke The US Consumer dents to detect fires early a chirping sound, replace monoxide poisoning as- inspected each year detectors because they Product Safety Com- in their development. the battery immediately sociated with home fuel- for proper operations provide early warnings mission recommends The risk of dying from with a new one. This will burning heating equip- and leakage. Inspectors when a fire starts or these measures because fires in homes without ensure that your smoke ment. Carbon monoxide should check all heating when carbon monoxide working smoke alarms smoke alarms is twice as alarm will continue to is a colorless, odorless gas appliances and their elec- is present. and a fire escape plan will high as the risk in homes provide protection for that is produced when trical and mechanical For more information increase your protection that have working smoke you and your family. any fuel is not completely components, thermostat please call the Mattapan and chances for survival alarms. Carbon monoxide burned. Symptoms of controls, and automatic Community Health Cen- in the event of a fire. All smoke alarms detectors save lives carbon monoxide poi- safety devices. ter at 617-296-0061. Meningitis outbreak could have been prevented, official says By Matt Murphy DeVita and counsel governing Massachu- tors who have agreed to cerns about the amount cease-and-desist order, State House Heather Engman alone setts-based pharmacies file legislation regarding of time allowed before but Miller said that could News Service were on hand to collect are already strong, ac- the registration of out- a pharmacy shut down be very detrimental As the state’s phar- public comment on the cording to Brown and of-state pharmacies in by the board can have a to both the business macy board considers regulations adopted at Miller, both said they had Massachusetts, though hearing. The emergency and patients looking to final regulations to the direction of Gov. concerns that there was he declined to name regulations specify that get their prescriptions improve oversight of Deval Patrick in early no registration process lawmakers with whom a pharmacy is entitled filled. He recommended retail and compounding November. The state at for out-of-state pharma- he has been working. to a hearing within holding a hearing within pharmacies, some in the that time also perma- cies doing business in Miller also raised con- 21 days of receiving a five days. industry believe it was nently revoked NECC’s Massachusetts. Georgia the lack of enforcement pharmacy license and and Pennsylvania are of existing rules that Patrick established a the only other two states led to a deadly fungal special commission to re- that don’t require out-of- meningitis outbreak. port back before the end state registration. “In retrospect, we feel of the year on legislative “It is a concern to us this situation could have steps the state could take whenever we see a board been prevented if either to improve its oversight that doesn’t have the the FDA or the Board of and pharmacy licensing same type of protections Pharmacy enforced the laws and regulations. for citizens of pharma- regulations already on The board also began cies and compounding the books,” Todd Brown, periodic, unannounced pharmacies outside its executive director of the inspections of compound- borders,” Miller said. Massachusetts Inde- ing labs in the state. Brown said he has been pendent Pharmacists While the regulations in contact with legisla- Association, told the News Service Tuesday 617-288-2680 after testifying before 617-288-2681 the board. Brown and David Mill- er, of the International WILLIAM LEE, D.D.S. Academy of Compound- ing Pharmacists, offered FAMILY DENTISTRY feedback Tuesday to the Board of Registration in Pharmacy on emergency Office Hours regulations put in place By Appointment 383 NEPONSET AVE. Nov. 1 following the link- evening Hours Available DORCHESTER, MA 02122 age of the meningitis out- break to tainted steroids produced by the New England Compounding Center in Framingham. Only three people testified on the regula- tions that apply to an $50OFF industry that has come Single Complete under scrutiny in Mas- pair of glasses sachusetts and at the federal level in the wake of the outbreak. Brown called it “ironic” Eye & Eye optics that a Massachusetts Downtown is now Uptown at Eye & Eye Optics. pharmacy would be responsible given the SINGLE VISION PAIR OF EYEGLASSES $99 relatively strict regula- FROM SPECIAL SELECTION tions already in place, Ask for Rx detail. and he called NECC an Located at Lower Mills 2271 Dorchester Avenue “outlier” that flaunted Bobin Nicholson, Lic. Dispensing Optician the state’s regulations 617-296-0066 Fax 617-296-0086 and yet their violations went undetected. www. eyeandeyeoptics.com Board president James eye exams by appointment Page 14 THE Reporter December 6, 2012 Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester 1135 Dorchester Avenue • (617) 288-7120
The Fall session of the Beginner Gymnastics program at the Boys and Girls Members of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester really enjoy activities in Clubs of Dorchester concluded this past week with a recital for family and the Gamesroom. The Social recreation program offers small group games, friends. The Winter session will begin in January. tournaments, group clubs, field trips and holiday parties. Teen Center Grand Opening - We Roos ([email protected]). held on 12/9 at the Tewksbury Country development program, will be hosting will hold a special Grand Opening/Pool Mark Wahlberg Youth Founda- Club and will include a hot breakfast, a Bake Sale for Hurricane Sandy Party for teens on 12/7 to open our new tion Christmas Party - Congratula- Radio Disney and gifts for all. For in- victims (12/6), volunteering at a Food Teen Center space. The festivities will tions to the 40 members who will formation please contact Zack Solomon Pantry with the Greater Boston Food begin at 7:00 p.m. and all teens are represent our Club at the Annual ([email protected]). Bank (12/12), attending a Dale Carn- welcome to attend. For more informa- Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation Registration for “Learn To” egie Training on Stress Management tion on this event please contact Nate Christmas Party. The event will be Classes - Our “Learn To” classes for (12/15) and assisting at Christmas in ages 3-5 will be taking registrations the City (12/15) this month. Contact for the first session of Winter classes Mike Joyce (mjoyce@bgcdorchester. the week of 12/17. Classes will include org) for more information. swim, athletics, music, education and the arts. Each class will have a $35 fee. For more information on the Upcoming Special Event: A smarter way registration contact Kevin Vo (kvo@ Forum for Teen Girls bgcdorchester.org). Kids Cafe Christmas Dinner - On Teen Girls are invited to attend the 12/19 members and their parents are to target first in a series of Forums to hear invited to join us for the Annual Family and interact with successful profes- Christmas Dinner in the Gamesroom. sional women from the community. The Dinner will run from 5:00-6:30 p.m. This first Forum will focus on careers For information on this event please prostate cancer. in Law. Dinner will be provided. contact Maureen Cooper (mcooper@ bgcdorchester.org). Keystone Club - The teen members Tuesday, December 11th MEET ARTEMIS. of the Keystone Club, our leadership 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
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Close of Comment Period: Monday December 17th, 2012 REPRESENTING SERIOUSLY INJURED INDIVIDUALS LANCE CAMPBELL auto/motorcycle accidents, construction accidents, BOSTON REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ONE CITY HALL SQUARE, 9TH FLOOR workplace injuries, slip and fall accidents, defective products, BOSTON, MA 02201 medical malpractice, head and burn injuries, FAX: 617-742-4464 PHONE: 617-918-4311 liquor liability and premises liability EMAIL: [email protected] Brian P. Golden Telephone (617) 265-3900 • Telefax (617) 265-3627 Executive Director/Secretary December 6, 2012 The Reporter Page 15 Baseball’s shame: Miller and the Hall of Fame Not even death and it can get rather weak. taxes rank a surer bet Sports/Clark Booth You suspect all this than the certainty that would have amused roughly a year from vering him – no longer On the other hand, Marvin, who had little about this very hour the listening to him. Like all there was a fair number time for farce, although late Marvin Miller, who living icons he had been of opponents – mainly that’s not to dare suggest revolutionized baseball rendered moot, which, owners and executives, it didn’t matter to him. by making millionaires richly urbane fellow that but not entirely – more By all accounts, the last of its players, will at last he was to the last did not than willing to declare needlessly curt rejection be elected to its Hall of offend him. unequivocally that they two years ago, when he Fame. This fear thing is nei- couldn’t stand him. “Con- lost by a single lousy Clark Booth That’s when, under ther new nor confined troversial” was Marvin’s vote, stung deeply. Talk the most recently to Marvin Miller. The middle name and to him of your unkindest cut! moment few will be in the revised process that policy of placing contro- a badge of honor to be But he was above all mood for the elevating of rotates ballots every versial candidates on worn with utmost pride very smart, profoundly another owner. One can three years, Marvin hold until after they’ve and distinction. wise to the world, and also live with O’Day. will next be eligible to cleared the mortal veil Moreover, the enshrin- a true pro. Marvin fully But both Bill Dahlen, be considered by the has been long held and ing of non-combatants He was above all very understood his measure. the raspy turn-of-the- special veterans panel firmly established by has been accepted pro- smart, profoundly wise He needed no one else to century shortstop, and that has the jurisdiction. the keepers of the Coo- cedure at Cooperstown to the world, and a true affirm it, least of all some Wes Ferrell, the iron- He was not eligible this perstown flame. It’s all from nearly Day One. pro. He fully understood veterans committee. man pitcher of the ‘30’s year, but had he been he about nullifying, or at In the Hall’s second his measure. He needed As it happens, in its and a six-time 20-game no one else to affirm it. would have been elected least minimizing, con- year (1937), league latest incarnation the winner, would have been troversy, you see, which presidents Ban Johnson mere hours after his where that’s been done veterans panel has just much better picks. As for the moguls loathe, for it and Morgan Buckeley death, and wouldn’t that dozens of times in the given us three new “im- the selection of the de- tends to draw attention were picked. Chosen the have been even more quarter century since mortals.” Announced at servedly long-forgotten to their own inadequa- next year were pioneers ludicrous. he stepped down as the the start of the winter White, it should be seen cies. It’s a policy that Alexander Cartwright But then they’ve long iron-fisted boss, brilliant meetings was the anoint- as simply silly, a case usually works. and Henry Chadwick, been waiting for him bargaining agent, and ing of three worthy an- of the committee over- Once Bill Veeck be- and in the third, Al to die, knowing he de- devoutly guiding spirit cients selected from a list reaching. But that’s came harmless, they Spalding. Seven decades served to be honored of the players association of 10 nominees which (we what committees tend could even tolerate his later, dozens of owners, but determined not to he essentially founded in repeat) did not include to do. ascension, although the executives, commission- let it happen while he the mid-’60’s. He’s had the ineligible (this year) We should despair baseball establishment ers, power-brokers, and could still enjoy it. It supporters of his cause Marvin Miller. about the Hall of Fame never had a more impla- pathfinders have a berth was, however, more than in the national media all The winners: 19th process ever becoming cable foe. In comparison, plus there are all those the mere pettiness of along but until recently it century bare-handed perfect. It is much too Tom Yawkey and Walter broadcasters and writers revenge that motivated had been a small group. catcher Deacon White, tricky, too elusive, too O’Malley were loyal in their own special niche them. You only wish all those bombastic umpire Hank subjective. A further lodge brothers but too as winners of the Ford Dead men tell no tales, leading opinion-makers O’Day, who has been dead illustration will be of- hot to handle while still Frick and J.G Taylor as they used to say in and shakers who’ve come 77 years, and the quaint fered next month when around. When they were Spink awards. the old cowboy movies. out of the closet these immigrant beer brewer the baseball writers safely in their graves, Those who worry about They also don’t give last few days showering Jake Ruppert, who had again engage the Gord- there was little interest in such nonsense should brilliantly soaring and his memory with lavish the good fortune to own ian Knot of steroid abuse debating Yawkey’s racial fear not. There’s plenty compelling acceptance tribute had paid more the Yankees when they as they do their annual hang-ups or O’Malley’s of both precedent and speeches laced with attention when he was were fully the glory of thing. But disagreement greed when they finally room for the adding of a irony and humor and annually getting rooked, their times. is usually reasonably. got elected. A similar labor leader of historical just enough disdain dissed, and outrageously It was a slice of base- Only rarely, as in cynical “discretion” was stature to the pantheon’s bordering on derision bypassed. Suddenly, ball at its best; wallow- such cases as Marvin’s, even applied to the curi- honor roll. The true to make every major everyone agrees his ing sentimentally in its does it actually get nasty. ous case of Bowie Kuhn, measure is “impact.” And league baseball mogul exclusion from the Hall distant past and never Think of it this way: the very epitome of the how many had more of it – dead or alive – squirm is a joke and the means happier than when it In the end, we have Jake establishment. than Marvin? mightily, and that’s by which it was done a is so doing; the more Ruppert, Hank O’Day, Of course, some ar- One finds the immense precisely what Marvin scandal. But if more had distant, the better. Alas, and Deacon White waltz- gue that Cooperstown interest death has stirred would have delivered protested when it was the committee, although ing into Cooperstown ought to be only about in his cause both hardly at Cooperstown had happening, it may not composed of 16 outstand- while Marvin Miller those who played the surprising and vaguely he been elected while have happened. ing and seemingly highly remains an outcast. game, and that those aggravating. There’s no he was still with us. It Is this sorrow at work qualified savants, got it There is only one word mainly connected with need to further expound would have been the in all the hagiography wrong. As usual! for that: its business, law, regula- on Marvin’s merits, cer- most smashing valedic- now the rage, or is it Ruppert was a reason- “Ridiculous!” tion, myth, finances, tainly not in this space tory in baseball history. guilt? Whatever the case, able pick although at the Everyone knew it. But or promotion have no TSF | 6.75 X 6 | SEPTEMBER 2012 not everyone wanted to place there. But it’s an hear it. argument you hear only So, it was the fear when those looking for an of Marvin that denied excuse find it convenient. him in the end and it’s It was favored by many
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617-282-2100 Source for city data: Getting to the Finish Line, Northeastern University, Center for Labor Market Studies, 2008 carrolladvertising.com Page 16 THE Reporter December 6, 2012 Neighborhood Notables (Continued from page 10) Carney Hospital’s Programs Temple Shalom McCormack Civic Assn. A Breast-Cancer Support Group, the second The worship services are held at the Great Hall Meetings, the third Tues. of each month, at 7 p.m., Wednesday (only) of each month, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Sanctuary in the First Congregational Church, 495 in Blessed Mother Teresa Parish Hall. Please bring The Carney’s adult/child/infant CPR and First Aid: Canton Ave. The temple has relocated; the office, canned goods to the meeting for a local food bank. instructions every week for only $30. Call 617-296- 38 Truro Lane, Milton; the mailing address, P.O. Info: [email protected] or 617-710-3793. 4012, X2093 for schedule. Diabetes support group Box 870275, Milton, MA 02187; and the sanctuary, Meetinghouse Hill Civic Assn. (free), third Thurs. of every month, from 10:30 to The Great Hall, 495 Canton Ave., Milton. The phone The meetings are held at 7 p.m., at First Parish 11:30 a.m., Info: 617-506-4921. Additional support number remains the same: 617-698-3394 or e-mail: Church. Info contact, call 617-265-0749 or e-mail: groups at Carney: Family Support, Breast Cancer [email protected] for info. civic@first parish.com.Info: 617-265-0749 or civic@ Support, Al-Anon, AA, and Overeaters Anonymous. Divine Mercy Celebration firstparish.com. Adams St. Library The Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy celebrate the Melville Park Assn. Become a member by sending dues to Friends of Eucharist in honor of Divine Mercy on the third Clean-up of the MBTA Tunnel Cap (garden at the Adams St. Library, c/o M. Cahill, 67 Oakton Friday of each month (Dec. 21), at St. Ann’s in Shawmut Station), the first Sat. of each month, Ave., Dorchester, 02122. Family membership is $5; Dorchester, with Exposition at 6 p.m., Chaplet of from 10 a.m. to noon. The meetings are held at 6:30 individuals, $3; seniors, $1; businesses, $10; and Mercy at 6:30 p.m., and Mass at 7 p.m. For further p.m., at the Epiphany School, 154 Centre St., Dor. lifetime, $50. info: call the Sisters at 617-288-1202, ext. 114. Peabody Slope Assn. Codman Square Neighborhood First Parish Church The Peabody Slope Neighborhood Assn’s next Council The church welcomes donations of food and meeting, the first Mon. of each month, at Dorchester Codman Square Neighborhood Council meets the clothing for the needy each Sunday. Pot-Luck- Academy, 18 Croftland Ave., 7 p.m. For info: first Wed. of each month, 7 to 8:30 p.m., in the Great Family-Fun-Night, the first Fri. of each month, 6 peabodyslope.org or 617-533-8123. Hall of the Codman Sq. Health Center, 6 Norfolk p.m., in the parish hall. The church is located at 10 Pope’s Hill Neighborhood Assn. St. Info: call 617-265-4189. Parish St., Meetinghouse Hill. Neighborhood E-Mail Alert system; sign up at Upham’s Corner Neighborhood St, Agatha Parish [email protected] giving your name, Meeting The Milton parish will have a 4:30 p.m. Mass on address, and e-mail address. PHNA meetings, Boston’s DPW will discuss reconstruction of the Vigil of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception usually the fourth Wed. of each month at the Leahy/ roadways in Upham’s Corner. The meeting will be on Fri., Dec. 7, and at 7 and 9 a.m. on the holy day, Holloran Community Center at 7 p.m. The next held on Tues., Dec. 11, 6 p.m., at the Cape Verdean Dec. 8. meeting will be Jan. 23. Babysitting for members Adult Center, 34 Hancock St. All are invited. St. Ambrose Church will now be provided during the meetings, thanks Irish Pastoral Centre Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception to Adrienne Kaszanek. The IPC, now located in St. Brendan Rectory, 15 holy day will be at 12 noon on Sat., Dec. 8.Feast Port Norfolk Civic Assn. Rita Road, welcomes seniors to a coffee hour each of St. Ambrose on Sun., Dec.9, a trilingual Mass at Meetings the third Thurs. of every month at the Wed. morning, from 10 a.m. to noon. There will be 10:30 a.m., with no 10 a.m. or 11:30 a.m. Masses Port Norfolk Yacht Club, 7 p.m. Info: 617-825-5225. a speaker each week. Call 617-265-5300 for info. that day. Fr. Paul Clougherty is now in residence St. Mark’s Area Civic Assn. The Music for Memory group meets on the second at Marian Manor in South Boston. Sovereign Bank is allowing parishioners attending Sunday Mass to Meetings held the last Tues. of each month in Wednesday of the month, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. “Singing park in their parking lot while at Mass. the lower hall of St. Mark’s Church, at 7 p.m. Info: can unlock the brain.” Suggested donation: $3 to stmarkscivic.com. $5 per session, with refreshments served, Contact St. Ann Church Dorchester Historical Society Maureen at: [email protected] for info. The Mass for the Immaculate Conception holy day will be at 9 a.m. on Sat., Dec. 8; no vigil Mass. The Holiday Party will be held on Sun., Dec. 9, Irish Social Club Lucky Thousand Drawing, the second Monday of 2 p.m., at the William Clapp House, 195 Boston The December schedule includes: Sun., Dec. 9, each month in the school cafeteria, at 7 p.m. Voice, St. Enjoy food, refreshments and holiday music. Fintan Stanley; Sat., Dec. 15, dance by the BPD’s piano, guitar, violin, and viola lessons are now Buy holiday gifts in the gift shop. All are welcome. Gaelic Column Pipes and Drums to benefit nine available. See the flyers at the rear door of the The headquarters of the DHS is the William Clapp NYPD families who lost their homes to Hurricane church. The parish youth choir meets each Tues., House, 195 Boston St., 02125, near Edward Everett Sandy; Sun., Dec. 16, Erin’s Melody; Sun., Dec. 23, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Square. The DHS seeks volunteers and donations Andy Healy Band; Sun., Dec. 30, closed; and Mon., to help preserve the society’s artifacts. Dec. 31, New Year’s Eve Party with Andy Healy St. Brendan Church Dorchester Board of Trade (admission for this evening only, $20). Music begins Holy day Masses for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception will be at 7 p.m. on Fri., Dec. 7, and at Annual Holiday Party/Toy Drive, Thurs., 12/13. at 8 p.m.; donation, $10 pp. The club is located at 9 a.m. on Sat., Dec. 8. The fundraising January 5:30 p.m., at Phillips Banquet Facility, 780 Morr. 119 Park St., West Roxbury. Calendars are for sale at $10. Cash prizes are drawn Blvd; bring a toy or monetary gift. The DBOT Cedar Grove Christmas Mass each day. They are sold after all Masses for the next is seeking monetary donations for the Holiday Christmas Mass, in memory of the deceased, at two weeks. Men’s clothing is still needed for the Party/Toy Drive. If you wish to place a box at your Cedar Grove Cemetery will be held on Sun., Dec. Long Island Shelter for the Homeless: shirts, pants, business to collect toys, contact us. RSVP to all 16, beginning with a holiday concert in the Gilman sweatshirts, sweaters, coats, jackets, rainwear, events: [email protected]. The Chapel at 10:45 a.m. Mass is at 11 a.m. Refresh- footwear, belts, hats, and white sox. The Food Pantry DBOT welcomes new members; e-mail the DBOT ments will be served in the office following the Mass. is in great need of non-perishable food. Please be or call 617-398-DBOT. Visit the website for info: Flowers and plants should be delivered to the office generous. Wreath Night, Thurs., Dec. 6, 6 to 10 p.m.; dorchesterboardoftrade.com. Toys will be given to on Sat., Dec. 15. All are invited. $35 per wreath, will all decorations provided. Annual Dot children only. Santa Brunch, Sun., Dec. 9, at 11 a.m., following the 10 a.m. Mass; $5 per person or $20 (max) per family. The Giving Tree Project must be completed by Dec. 9. Take the ornament and purchase the gifts ARRON in needed. Attach the ornament on the gift securely. B c. Kit Clark Senior Services DUFFY Plumbing • Heating • Gas Fitting ROOFING CO., INC. 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The Great Hall, which black box theater, a “This allows us to be has been a key part of dining area, and outdoor the state-of-the-art high the Codman Academy garden space. school that we wanted campus, will continue The brick-and-stone to be. It’s a seamless, to be used by both the building— designed by open campus,” said Meg health center and school, HRT architects— re- Campbell, the school’s as well as for outside places two houses and founder and executive community events. one commercial building director, who expects Members of the Cod- at the corner of Norfolk that the already high man Square community, and Epping streets and is The William J. Walczak Education and Health is a 34,000-square-foot addition demand for seats at the including Bill Walczak, to the existing Codman Square campus. It replaces three structures that were the first non-residential charter school will grow the center’s namesake, demolished at the corner of Epping Street and Norfolk Street. development of its size even higher as a result got their first in-depth Photo courtesy Scotland Huber/Codman Square Health Center on Norfolk Street since of the upgrade. Seats at tour of the new facility the 1960s, according to the school are awarded during an open house Cotterell. “He was very the federal dollars for think of anyone more city planners. by lottery each spring. on Sat., Nov. 17. instrumental in getting this project. So, I cannot deserving of that.” The $18 million build- The school had some Walczak departed as out, anchored with 650 applicants last year, CEO of the health center some $7.9 million in before moving into its in 2010 and was suc- federal stimulus funds new digs. ceeded by Cotterell, who awarded in 2010, adds Codman Academy is had previously served as 22 exam rooms to the awaiting word from chief operating officer for “A Dreamy Treat” health center, includ- state officials on an ap- the center. Walczak, who ing expanded space to plication to expand their remains active on the – e Boston Globe convene a burgeoning charter to include grades board of the foundation “group visit” demand K-1 through 12. The and is now employed at within the facility. The lower grades, Campbell Shawmut Construction, new footprint will also said, would be housed at was stunned to see his allow the health center another facility that has name on the building’s to re-configure other not yet been determined, façade, a tribute his space inside its older but would be in close successor says is well building, parts of which proximity to the Cod- deserved. were renovated in the man Square campus. If “Bill was the founder project. accepted, the expanded of the health center Sandra Cotterell, the charter would allow and the vision behind CEO of the Codman Codman Academy to the whole health and Square Health Center, phase in as many as 200 education concept,” says says that the newly new students to meet combined space makes what Campbell says is a Codman the second- high demand for quality, biggest health center lower-grade seats in JOHN C. in the city, after East this section of the city. Boston, and gives it the The decision from state GALLAGHER potential to host as many education officials is Insurance Agency as 130,000 clinical visits expected next February per year in the coming and Aademy leaders are 3-5 years. She hopes to preparing to launch the HOME grow the center’s patient new grades — K-1 and & base from 25,000 to K-2, grade 1 and grade 30,000 in that same time 6— next fall. AUTO frame. “That’s what this INSURANCE Cotterell notes that community wants and Specializing in Hom- the wing was designed needs,” said Campbell. eowners and Automobile to have larger spaces to One of the building’s Insurance for over a half accommodate a growing more novel features is century of reliable service sector of the center’s care the first-floor black-box to the Dorchester com- model: Group visits, in theater, which will be munity. which multiple patients used alternately by the gather with one provider school and the health for meetings aimed at center for special events. New Accounts wellness, diabetes man- The space, which can DEC 22-24 agement, and pre-natal accommodate up to 160 Welcome The Strand Theatre care. people, will also be avail- 1471 Dorchester Ave. 543 Columbia Road “This allows us to able for rent to outside at Fields Corner MBTA Dorchester, MA move forward with more groups by arrangement. room for group visits The Dorchester Artists and making that a big- Collaborative hosted Phone: For Tickets: Sponsored by the ger part of our model the first such event in 617-265-8600 Massachusetts (617) 354-7467 www.BalletTheatre.org Cultural Council. of care. By adding 22 the theater last month “We Get Your Plates” exam rooms, it gives us during its Dorchester Photo credit: Gary Sloan improved capacity and Open Studios weekend. space to serve existing Students and teachers primary care and the will undoubtedly be new members we expect the principal users of EXCEPTIONAL CARE CLOSE TO HOME to add,” Cotterell said. the black box. Codman “It’s just beautiful space Academy, since its incep- and we’ve really im- tion, has incorporated a A 123 bed sub‐acute rehabilitation proved the entire health vigorous arts curriculum center by renovating the into its four-year pro- center located in Dorchester existing building. For gram, with an emphasis the staff, they have this on spoken-word perfor- In‐house Physical, Occupational incredible feeling just mances. The school has walking into it. You feel a longstanding partner- and Speech therapy great just being there.” ship with the Hunting- Certified Wound Nurses For Codman Academy, ton Theatre, which helps the space means a whole train students in theatre Consulting Orthopedic Physician new learning environ- arts and poetry. All On‐site Nurse Practitioners ment. The school opened graduating seniors at in a 2,500-square-foot Codman Academy must IV & Pain Management corner of the health cen- complete a “Socratic Multilingual Staff ter in 2000. The students Apologia,” or a defense and faculty can now of his or her life, in front (Vietnamese, Creole, Spanish) luxuriate in a footprint of of a live audience. more than 11,000 square “We are not a theatre feet that comprises school, but to be engaged 617‐825‐6320
Page 18 THE Reporter December 6, 2012 RECENT OBITUARIES DONOVAN, Rob- of Shirley Millard of Carney Hospital School Loving grandmother of surviving sibling of Remembrances may be ert T. in Dorchester. CT and Francis Dyer of Nursing in Boston. seven grandchildren, a Charles (Coke) Driscoll, made to St. Brendan’s Son of the late Henry of North Adams. Also Frances was the beloved great grandchild and Arthur Driscoll, Marga- Church or the MA Com- J. and Alice (Grant) survived by many loving wife of the late Francis many nieces and neph- ret (Gladys) Thomas, mission for the Blind. Donovan. Survived nieces and nephews. J. Morris. Together, ews. Frances was pre- James (Ted) Driscoll, WILLIAMS, Mary by many cousins and Barbara was a beloved they raised their family deceased by her sister, Lillian (Honey) Mc- E. “Sis” (Roche) Age friends. Late retired member of the Red Hat in St Gregory’s Parish in Sr. Mildred Maus and Gowan, Jack Driscoll, 98, passed away at employee of Recording Society. Dorchester. For the past her three brothers, John Ruth Hubbard, Evelyn Hancock Park, Quincy. and Statistical Corp. for MALONEY, Helen thirty years, Frances Maus, William Maus Rowe, and Thomas Formerly of Dorchester over 39 years and Quad P. (Roche) of Dorches- has been a communicant and Charles Maus. Driscoll. Grandmother and Weymouth. Wife of Graphics, Leominster, ter. Wife of the late Den- of St. Brendan’s Church. For those who wish, of Susan Stanley of the late Alexander. Sis- for over 20 years. nis L. “Bunny” Maloney. Devoted mother of Mar- donations in memory of Boulder, CO, Richard ter of Helen Maloney of KINSELLA, Bar- Mother of Paul Maloney garet A. Callahan and Frances may be made to Canniff of Port Ritchie, Dorchester and the late bara J. (Dyer) of of Milton, Eileen Mento her husband Richard Catholic Television, PO FL, John Canniff of Anna Sullivan, James, Dorchester. Wife of of Medfield, Marie E. of Norwell, Kathleen M. Box 9196, Watertown, Weymouth, and Carol Daniel and Catherine John R. Kinsella. Sister Betts of CA and John Morris of Dorchester, MA 02471. Nemier of Ellington, Roche. Also survived by E. Maloney of Mil- John T. Morris and his PHILBRICK, Doro- CT. Also survived by 5 many nieces, nephews, Prayer To ton. Grandmother of wife Mary of Braintree, thy G. “Dot” (Driscoll) great grandchildren and grand nieces and grand The Blessed Virgin Maryellen, Elizabeth, Francis M. Morris of age 102, of Dorchester. 1 great great grandson. nephews. Remem- (Never Known To Fail) Christine, Lauren, Braintree, Edward J. Wife of the late Gardner Member of the K Club of brances may be made (Say this prayer for 3 days in Catherine and Daniel. Morris and his wife W. (Phil) Philbrick. Dorchester, St. Brendan in memory of Mary to a row and your prayers will be Great grandmother of Donna of Avon, and Mother of Dorothy Seniors, and the Amigos. Catholic Television, 34 answered.) Annie, Will, Sally and two deceased children, Canniff of Weymouth Retired switchboard Chestnut St, P.O. Box O, Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel, fruitful vine, splendor of Caroline. Sister of the Robert J. Morris and and Loretta Philbrick operator for a promi- 9196, Watertown, MA Heaven. Blessed Mother of the late Mary Williams, Elizabeth A. Morris. of Dorchester. Last nent Boston law firm. 02471. Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in this necessity. O Star Anna Sullivan, James, of the Sea, help me and show Daniel and Catherine me herein you are my mother. O Roche. Remembrances Neighborhood Notables Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I humbly may be made to Steward (Continued from page 16) St. Christopher Church beseech thee from the bottom of Homecare & Hospice, 30 The Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate Concep- my heart to succor me in this my Perwal St., Westwood, St. Gregory Parish necessity. (Make request). There tion holyday is at 6:30 p.m. on Fri., Dec. 7. The MA. 02090. The only Mass for the holy day of obligation, the are none that can withstand your Feast of the Immaculate Conception, will be said Rosary, each Wed., in Spanish, at 6 p.m. power. O show here you are my MORRIS, Frances mother. O Mary conceived without E. (Maus) of Dorches- at 9 a.m., on Sat., Dec. 8. The Prayer Group meets Knights of Columbus sin, pray for us who have recourse each Wed., 7:30 p.m.; enter by the side door across to thee (3 times). Holy Mary, I place ter. Frances was born Redberry Council #107, Columbus Council #116, this cause in your hands (3 times). in South Boston, raised from the rectory garages. Mass. Legion of Mary, each and Lower Mills Council #180 merged into a new Thank you for your mercy to me Sunday following the 9 a.m. Mass. The Sacrament Dorchester Council #107, with meetings held the and mine. Amen. in St. Peter’s Parish in The must be re-published so Dorchester and became of Holy Anointing, on the first Sat. of each month, second Wed. of each month at the V.F.W. Post, that the prayers of others might a registered nurse after following the 4 p.m. Mass. Those wishing to receive Neponset Ave., at 7 p.m. (earlier starting time). be answered. the sacrament should sit in one of the front pews. -A.M. graduating from the Info: contact Mike Flynn at 617-288-7663. Adults are invited to join the choir, with rehearsals St. Gregory’s Boy Scouts after the 10:30 a.m. Meetings each Tues., 7 p.m., in the white building LEGAL NOTICE Mass on Sundays. in the rear of the Grammar School, for boys ages 7 COMMONWEALTH OF St. Mark Parish to 14. This is the scouts’ 58th year in the parish! TEVNAN TEVNAN MASSACHUSETTS The Mass for the Adams Village Business Assn. THE TRIAL COURT Feast of the Immacu- 415 Neponset Avenue PROBATE AND FAMILY COURT For info on the AVBA, call Mary at 617-697-3019. 100 City Hall Plaza Suffolk Probate & Family Court late Conception will be Boston, MA 02108 Dorchester, MA 02124 24 New Chardon St., PO Box 9667 at 9 a,m. on Sat., Dec. Play to Learn Playgroups Boston 02114 Play to Learn Playgroup, at the Kenny School, with 617-423-4100 617-265-4100 (617) 788-8300 8, with no Mass on the CITATION ON PETITION FOR a weekly two-hour playgroup, introducing families Vigil. A small Food FORMAL ADJUDICATION to the Boston Public Schools. Call 617-635-9288 for Docket No. SU12P2288EA Pantry has been set Attorneys at Law IN THE ESTATE OF more info. www.tevnan.com ERIC MARBLE up by the St. Vincent DATE OF DEATH: 08/24/2012 St Gregory’s 60 & Over Club To all interested persons: de Paul Society; come A petition has been filed by: Carmella to the rectory on the The club meets on Tuesdays (Dec. 18), at 12:15 L. Marble of Boston, MA requesting p.m. for refreshments and 1 p.m. for Bingo, in St. that the Court enter a formal Decree third Monday of each and Order of testacy and for such other month from 10 a.m. Gregory’s Auditorium. “Close to Home” relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that: Carmella L. Marble to 2 p.m. to receive a Dot House Senior Guys & Gals of Boston, MA be appointed as Personal bag of groceries. Items Bingo each Tuesday, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., at the Representative of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond. needed are toilet tissue, Dorchester House, 1353 Dorchester Ave.; also offer- You have the right to obtain a copy of paper towels, cleaners ing many trips. All are welcome. Info: 617-288-3230. the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to (Ajax, SOS, etc.,) and Blessed Mother Teresa Seniors this proceeding. To do so, you or your shampoos, soaps, etc. attorney must file a written appearance Lunch each Wed. at noon, followed by Bingo, and objection at this Court before 10:00 A Holy Hour, each dominoes, and cards, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. All are a.m. on 01/03/2012. Monday, from 6 to 7 This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline welcome. by which you must file a written appear- p.m., in honor of Our ance and objection if you object to this Boys and Girls Club News proceeding. If you fail to file a timely writ- Lady of Fatima, in the Dorchester Boys and Girls Club need tutors for ten appearance and objection followed church. Cedar Grove Cemetery by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty those in grades K to 12 (30) days of the return date, action may LEGAL NOTICE who need homework CONSECRATED IN 1868 be taken without further notice to you. The estate is being administered under assistance after school formal procedure by the Personal one to 2 hours per week. On the banks of the Neponset Representative under the Massachu- Depatman Enèji ak Zafè Anviwonnmantal nan setts Uniform Probate Code without Komonnwèlt Massachusetts Volunteers need not supervision by the Court. Inventory and be teachers or experts Inquiries on gravesites are invited. accounts are not required to be filed with MEPA Office (Biwo MEPA) the Court, but recipients are entitled to 100 Cambridge St., Suite 900 on the subject. High Non-Sectarian. notice regarding the administration from school students can the Personal Representative and can Boston, MA 02114 Telefòn 617-626-1020 Cemetery Office open daily at petition the Court in any matter relating Anons ki ekri pi ba la a dwe siyen, epi remèt bay yon jounal lokal fulfill their community- to the estate, including distribution of service hours. Call Em- 920 Adams St. assets and expenses of administration. pou pibliye l: Witness, HON. JOAN P. ARM- ANONS PIBLIK SOU EVALYASYON ANVIWONNMAN ily at 617-288-7120, to Dorchester, MA 02124 STRONG First Justice of this Court. NON PWOJÈ A: Pwojè Casey Arborway volunteer. Date: November 28, 2012 NAN KI KOTE: Telephone: 617-825-1360 Sandra Giovannucci Koridò Wout 203, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Register of Probate Massachusetts K Club KOTE KI FÈ PWOPOZISYON AN: MassDOT Highway Division The Christmas Party (Divizyon Gran Wout MassDOT) will be held on Dec. 10, Mwen, ki siyen papye sa a, remèt Sekretè Enèji ak Zafè at Florian Hall, 12:30 Anviwonnmantal la yon Fòmilè Anons sou Anviwonnman (ki rele tou “ENF”) anvan dat 15 novanm 2012 la pase. p.m. Sa pral pèmèt koumanse yon evalyasyon sou pwojè ki nonmen Upham’s Corner pi wo la a, dapre Lwa sou Règleman sou Zafè Anviwonnmantal Main Street Massachusetts la (“MEPA”, M.G.L. c. 30, s.s. 61-62I). Yo ka jwenn kopi ENF la nan adrès sa a: All committee meet- Michael Trepanier, MassDOT 10 Park Plaza, Room 4260, Boston, ings are held at the MA 02116, (857) 368-8828 UCMS office, 594 Y ap voye kopi ENF la tou bay Komisyon Konsèvasyon ak Columbia Rd., #302, Konsèy Planifikasyon an, kote yo ka analize yo. buzzer #6, Dor., and Sekretè Enèji ak Zafè Anviwonnmantal la pral pibliye anons sou ENF la nan Environmental Monitor; l ap aksepte kòmantè piblik are open to the public. la sou pwojè a pandan 48 jou, epi apre sa l ap pran yon desizyon Info: 617-265-0363 or anvan 10 jou pase, si gen lòt evalyasyon MEPA ki nesesè. Gen yon uphamscorner.org. vizit nan sit la ak yon seyans konsiltasyon ki pwograme tou wou Field’s Corner pwojè a nan kòmansman mwa Desanm lan. Si yon moun vle fè kòmantè sou pwojè a, oubyen resewa anons sou vizit nan sit la ak sou Main Street seyans konsiltasyon, li dwe ekri nan adrès sa a: Secretary of Energy The Board meets the & Environmental Affairs, 100 Cambridge St., Suite 900, Boston, first Wed. of the month, Massachusetts, Attention: MEPA Office, epi li dwe mete yon referans at 1452 Dot. Ave., 6:30 sou pwojè a. p.m. Info or to apply: Mèsi anpil:______617-474-1432. Michael Trepanier, MassDOT December 6, 2012 The Reporter Page 19 Reporter’s Calendar
Thursday, December 6 • The Boston Redevelopment Authority will convene a public meeting to discuss auto magnate Herb Chambers’ plan to convert the old Channel 56 building on Morrissey Boulevard into a car dealer- ship and repair center. 6:30 p.m. at the Cristo Rey Boston High School, 100 Savin Hill Ave. For more information on the BRA oversight of the proposal, contact Lance Campbell at the BRA, 617-918-4311 or [email protected]
Friday, December 7 • The Macy’s Enchanted Trolley Tour will make stops on Friday, Dec. 7 in Mattapan Square (6:45 p.m.), Codman Sq. (7:15 p.m.) and Adams Corner at 7:45 p.m.
Sunday, December 9 • JFK Library Forum: Celebrating the Life of Tip O’Neill, 4 p.m. On the centennial of the birth of former House Speaker Tip O’Neill, journalists Mike Barnicle, Marty Nolan, Al Hunt, Cokie Roberts and Steve Roberts will share their memories of the Speaker with former ABC World News host Charlie Gibson. Register at jfklibrary.org.
• Ashmont Hill Chamber Music Winter Concert, 3 p.m. at Peabody Hall at Parish of All Saints, Dorchester. Performing Beethoven, Schulhoff, Sibelius, and Schumann led by Artistic Director José Mateo Ballet Theatre’s 25th anniversary production of The Nutcracker will come to The Strand Theater in Dorchester for five shows — including a Christmas Eve matinee— from December 22-24. With and pianist Rachel Goodwin. Free with generous support from Mayor Menino and the Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events, and The Boston funding from Free for All Concert Funds. More at Globe Santa, JMBT is working with 45 local social service agencies to provide 1,000 free Nutcracker ashmonthillchambermusic.org. tickets to children and families most in need. Call 617-354-7467 or go to BalletTheatre.org to purchase tickets ranging from $15-$50. Photo courtesy JMBT Tuesday, December 11 • JFK Library Forum: A Discussion with Attorney Monday, December 17 tion of The Nutcracker, 1 p.m. Strand Theatre, 543 General Eric Holder Jr., 6-7 p.m. As the nation • The Boston Home Center will present “How Columbia Road, Dorchester. Tickets: $50, $38, $29 marks the 50th anniversary of numerous civil rights to Buy a Foreclosed Property” at the Lower Mills & $15. Call 617-354-7467 or BalletTheatre.org. milestones during the Kennedy presidency, Attorney branch library, 27 Richmond St., from 5:45– 7:45pm. General Eric Holder will reflect on this history, the Contact Boston Home Center 617-635-4663 Or go to Thursday, December 27 progress that has been made, and the challenges our website bostonhomecenter.com • JFK Library’s Celebrate series presents facing our nation today. Register at jfklibrary.org. Tanglewood Marionettes: An Arabian Adventure , Saturday, December 22 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Free, intended for kids ages • Uphams Corner Neighborhood meeting on city • The first of five performances by Jose Mateo 8 and up in the Stephen Smith Center. Children are of Boston Public Works projects- including upgraded Ballet Theatre’s 26th annual production of The seated on a carpeted floor with their caretakers. traffic signals, tree plantings and sidewalk repairs, Nutcracker, 2 p.m., Strand Theatre, 543 Columbia You must reserve space: visit the Celebrate! page starts at 6 p.m. at the Cape Verdean Adult Center, Road, Dorchester. Also a 6 p.m. performance today. online at jfklibrary.org or call 617-514-1644 and 34 Hancock St., Dorchester. Call Zach Wassmouth Tickets: $50, $38, $29 & $15. Call 617-354-7467 or leave your full name, the number in your party, at 617-635-4968 for more information. BalletTheatre.org and your contact information. No admittance to the program will be allowed after 10:45 a.m. on day of Wednesday, December 12 Sunday, December 23 performance. • JFK Library Forum: The Life of Joseph P. Ken- • Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre’s 26th annual produc- nedy, 6 p.m. Biographer David Nasaw will discuss tion of The Nutcracker, 1:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., Saturday, January 5 his new book, The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life Strand Theatre, 543 Columbia Road, Dorchester. • Haitian-Americans United, Inc. (H.A.U.) host and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, with Tickets: $50, $38, $29 & $15. Call 617-354-7467 or 12th Annual Haitian Independence Day Gala, 7 veteran journalist and radio host, Christopher BalletTheatre.org. p.m. at Lombardo’s, 6 Billings Street, Randolph. Lydon. Register at jfklibrary.org. Admission: $65 per person/$120 per couple. For more Monday, December 24 information, please contact H.A.U. at 617-298-2976 Friday, December 14 • Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre’s 26th annual produc- or by e-mail: [email protected]. • The Boston Dance Company will stage “Nut- cracker” ballet at the Strand Theater at 10 am. This is the 20th season of the Boston Dance Company’s annual production. The large cast includes ap- FINNEGAN ASSOCIATES REALTORS proximately 20 professional dancers, 10 company apprentices, and 50 local children. Tickets are $25 for adults and $18 for seniors and children, and can be purchased in advance at bostondancecompany. 793 Adams Street, Adams Corner, Dorchester, MA net or at the door. For further information, contact Ilyse Levine-Kanji at [email protected] (617) 282-8189 www.finneganrealtors.com or 508-870-9826. Rarely Available LEGAL NOTICES COMMONWEALTH OF COMMONWEALTH OF South Boston MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS THE TRIAL COURT PROBATE AND FAMILY COURT THE TRIAL COURT INFORMAL PROBATE PROBATE & FAMILY COURT PUBLICATION NOTICE Suffolk Probate & Family Court Docket No. SU12P2240EA 24 New Chardon St., PO Box 9667 IN THE ESTATE OF Boston 02114 • (617) 788-8300 RUSSELL JOSEPH HALEY Docket No. SU12C0421CA a/k/a RUSSELL J. HALEY in the MATTER of DATE OF DEATH: October 02, 2012 SUFFOLK DIVISION MONG THU THI NGUYEN 24 New Chardon Street, Boston, MA 02114 of DORCHESTER, MA 617-788-8300 In the County of SUFFOLK To all persons interested in above captioned NOTICE OF PETITION estate, by Petition of Petitioner Michael F. FOR CHANGE OF NAME O’Connor of Dorchester, MA, a Will has been admitted to informal probate. Michael A petition has been presented F. O’Connor of Dorchester, MA has been by Mong T. Nguyen requesting informally appointed as the Personal Rep- that Mong Thu Thi Nguyen be resentative of the estate to serve without allowed to change her name surety on the bond. as follows: The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal PHUOC THI TRAN Representative under the Massachusetts If you desire to object Uniform Probate Code without supervision thereto, YOU OR YOUR by the Court. Inventory and accounts are ATTORNEY MUST FILE A not required to be filed with the Court, but WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN interested parties are entitled to notice said Court at Boston on regarding the administration from Personal Rarely available, South Boston. Busy Location, Commercial/Industrial use. 4546 sq ft lot. Representative and can petition the Court or before ten o’clock in in any matter relating to the estate, includ- the MORNING (10:00 AM) on ing distribution of assets and expenses of January 03, 2013. Wonderful Location on Dorchester Ave junction of Old Colony Ave. administration. Interested parties are entitled Witness, HON. JOAN P. to petition the Court to institute formal ARMSTRONG, First Justice of proceedings and to obtain orders terminat- Please call office for more details ing or restricting the powers of Personal this Court. Representatives appointed under informal November 28, 2012 procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, Sandra Giovannucci Offered @$850,000.00 if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner. Register of Probate Page 20 THE Reporter December 6, 2012
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