Faneuil Gardfns shooting ~PAGE3 Vol. 11, No. 40 • 44 Pages • 3 Sections 75¢ III Commu nity Newspaper Company • allstonbrightontab.com CITY COUNCIL RACE Nine vie for Jerry's job By Karen Elowlit STAFF WRlTER The candidates he mad rush to file official • Rosie Hanlon . mtent -to-run pape~ • Benjamin Bloomenthal ended on Tuesd[IY with a • Mark Ciommo T • James Joseph Jenner total of nine candidates offering themselves up as candidates for • Tim ScIiofield the District 9 City CounCil seat to • Paul Creighton be vacated by Jerry McDermott. • Alex Selvig As part of our electiOn cover­ • Greg Glennon age; which began last Week with • Mark Alford profiles of three of the cllndidates, here we profile fi ve mOfl!. entered the race for many reasons. Rosie HanlQIl '1 think I am the best candidate Rosie Hanlon, who i. perhaps because of my intense co,nunit­ best known as the director of ment to the community. TaXes are Brighton Main Streets, said she ELECTION , page 22 STAff PHOTO BY KATE FlOCK Francis was one of 390 atudents from 13 orea schools who created a Ioi IMng" version the US flag In front 01 BrlgJrton High School In celebration 01 BrlgJrton's bicentennial yea,'. Man hocks self, Livingflag u~(urled, histo rec~eated cau es . COmrpittee,expressed his admi­ outag~ in a speeCh before an audience of By Karen Elowltt ~t to see what the STAFF WRITER par"tlnts,teacbe~r community members and 'ving" flag looked like on inship School wore white shirts. Ml fficials , "You have worked very ~inAllston WSt. Joseph and Horace Mann wore Frida', ay 11, and 1 to mal. ~u ' hnppen:' he said. "It red ones. Brighton High School held the years ago? See page, 6. g~ By Karen Elowllt rival. the victim told offiClirs that stars .. On Friday, May II, more than 390 kids stayM remarkably still for the STAFF WRITER an explosion took place shortly kids from these schools, plus nine 0IheJs apl>/o:<irr,ateJy 45 minutes it took to set up, A man seriously il\ll1red bim- after he tried to pull the knife out around Allston and Brighton, combined to Pbotographe~ perched atop buildings photos and complete the cerem9ny. self and caused a minor power of the cable, causing burns to his crente a "living" version of the United across the street captured a bird's-eye view Bri:!ltitc)J1 High School Principal Toby outage in Allston on SUnday after head, arms and torso. Pask~-by States flag on the steps of Brighton High of the festivities, which included a rendi­ was plea);ed that the event went off attempting to remove ~ knife em- dialed 911 on his behalf after see­ School, in a joyous celebration of the tion of the "Star Spangled Banner" ~ ung by n>},~"plv smoothly. bedded in an electri cable on ing the victim stumble down the town's bicentennial. Roudnie Celestin, a student at Brighton all the bodies in the right plnces Dustin Street. street in obvious distress. "It was 390 of the nicest kids in the coun­ High School, and a ve~ion of "America Challenge," he joked. According to a police report, The subsequent outage affect- try," said Nancy O'Hara, who co-organized the Beautiful" performed by a chorus from the ceremony was over, students officers received a ca ll at 10:01 ed about 2,100 custome in the the event with Janet Tambascio-Fraher and the Roland Hayes School. LIVING FLAG , page 6 a.m. of a possible electric shock surrounding neighbOrbood. Dick Marques. Tun Scbofield, co-chairrnan of the Bi- situation near the comer of Dustin NSTAR spokesman Caroline and Cambridge streels. On ar- SHOCK, page 13 BC spokeslnan: Stud"1 .... t behavior is the problem i By K"ren Etowltt I '),ca~ti(lm .[[. 'd . [[ 20 meeting, feel that siting unde~ in STAFF WRITER P ropose d d orm ~I sa pltS resl ents vs. co ege Brighton will bring more noise and dis- Boston College is committed to in­ At the sta rt of the Boston College Task 100year In S~tutiOIlal Master Plan, which nary library, the 1950s-era gym lmd ruption to the area than if ther were creasing the number of students it houses Force meeting on May 15, university of­ will likely filed in June, is the propos- Williams Hall, is the most isolated from housed deep within the main campus. on campus over the next 10 years, but the ficials treated audience membe~ to a al to build or three undergraduate residential areas on Lake and Foster "J(jds will be streaming down lthe hill details of how many and where these walking tOIle of the Brighton property so dorms 60d beds on the streets, and is buffered by topographical on Friday and Saturday nights, irlto resi- dorm beds wi ll be located is still a source ceatures. dential neighborboods, looking for par- they could see firsthand the sites where former archdiocese prop- I' . of continued debate between the univer­ different structures are proposed. offici"ls claim ,that thi s hillside Some residents, many of whom ex- ties," said one resident. sity and local residents. TIle mos'l contentious element of the . bo ded b th . pressed the same concerns at the M n~ h BC argued that student behavior was IS un y e senu- '"' TASK FORCE'Jage 13 INSIDE Singing the pral~t::~ of Unsung Heroes again The awards return So busy, sh S By Karen 1.... w1tt. unsure she' STN'F WRITER When the H,:a\thy Boston retired Coalition folded last year, it By Kelly Carroll looked like it would be the end of CO RRESPONDENT the AlJston-Brighb>n Unsung He­ Brighton resident Louise. roes Awards that went with it Bonar makes sure to l/"rform However, Bill Margolin had one selfless act of service every other ideas. Not ready to let go of single day. The catch is, howev­ the cherished Ir3(tition that had er, that no one can ever know Not your been honoring re,~dents of All­ about it. ston-Brighton for 12-years, Mar­ "You should do a good deed pOp5POpS golin and nine others gol it back every day," she says. "And it up and running. ~S£EPAGE39 doesn't count unless it goes un­ In this week's TAB, starting known." with our cover 5tOl)l about Louise Bonar has been len . g her­ ~IS\\'EEK Bonar. we begin a three-week se­ self to commurtity se'Jice al­ ries highlighting this year's six most her entire life, wqether it Commentary 10 winners. On page: 8, read about PHOTO BY ZARA TZAHEV be through clearting parks and Linda Gregorio. a sign language louise Bonar tends to hA.1"al'den in preparation for the July AlIstorHlrlgJrton Hidden Garden tour. Bonar, gardens, actively participating Community Notes 4 interpreter and another one of the who Is atso acttve in society, the Brlghton-Allston Heritage Museum, Brlghton Main Streets, in urban education, or s' plyat- Frlends of Oak Square and the COC , will soon be honored by the AlIstorHlrigJrton Unsung Heroes Crime 12 HEROES, page 8 awards committee. 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In 1870, the 18-acre At the time of the Royal, Holman, Arnen and Haskell the Hill Memorial Baptist Church was week): Coolidge Road. Though this Coolidge farm was producing vegeta­ Coolidge Road, the streets. built in 1903 at the nearby corner of. - • circa 1920 view the North AUston bles for the Boston marl,e!. adjacent streets to This photograph was taken before North Harvard and Easton streets, and . street bears the name of a president of The property later came into the pos­ Frank P. and Georgiana Myrick Road was built, which now in- which was named in memory of . the United States, the street was in fact session of Stephen Hill (1820-1882), Hill's heirs. They the tersects Coolidge Road between the Stephen Hill, who had lived in a house ' , ! named for AUston's own Coolidge farmer, slaughterbouse proprietor, hor­ acreage in the 1890-92 second and third house on the left of that stood on North Harvard Street " family. The which had farmed the ticulturalist, devout Baptist and found­ dential development, out not the historic view. near its intersection with Coolidge '" acreage across which the street was ing member of Uruon Square's only Coolidge Road and *ok,~rStree t The heirs of Stephen Hill also, inci- Road. N ext week's contest Winners Hint: This 1917 graduation photo from a local Ellie Hollum Theresa Curran Roman Catholic school includes portions of three structures: to the left, the school from which the Phyllis Harrington Virginia Carnporesi students are graduating; bebind them, the church Bill Nixon Tommy Woods with which the school is affiliated; and at the ex­ treme right, another parish building then under Priscilla Falter construction.