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Dorchester Reporter “The News and Values Around the Neighborhood” All Contents Copyright © 2011 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc Dorchester Reporter “The News and Values Around the Neighborhood” All contents copyright © 2011 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. Volume 28 Issue 9 Thursday, March 3, 2011 50¢ School closings hurt black and Latino students, groups allege Feds launch investigation By MiChael norton state house news serviCe The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into complaints that the City of Boston’s school closing plans discriminate against black and Latino students and parents. In a Feb. 15 letter, Donna Russell, an attorney in the department’s Office of Civil Rights, confirmed that an investigation has been opened while cautioning that the investigation itself should not imply that the department agrees with the merits of the case. Russell said the office would act as a neutral fact-finder during the investigation, collect- ing and analyzing evidence from the complainants and the school district. Following the Boston School Committee’s Dec. 15 vote to approve school closing and merger plans, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights A preliminary plan by MWRA consultants calls for multiple street closures Under Law of the Boston Bar Association and in Lower Mills starting next month. Graphic by Black and Veatch/MWRA the Black Educators’ Alliance of Massachusetts filed a complaint with the department on Jan. 25 alleging the plan disproportionately burdens black Concerns flood Lower Mills and Latino students. The complaint says 46 percent of the students who will be affected are black and 44 percent are Latino, over MWRA pipeline rehab while only 5 percent are white, comparing those By Gintautas DuMCius concerned that they Merchants Association. numbers to the school district’s demographics: 36 news eDitor haven’t received enough “We thought we’d be a percent black, 41 percent Latino and 13 percent Fasten your seatbelts, information and that little more involved.” that is spearheading the white, respectively. Lower Mills residents. the road closures will Given the difficult rehab project, said they A disproportionate number of closings will impact Starting next month negatively impact their economy and a challeng- have been in contact with students from Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan, and running into Novem- businesses, potentially ing winter, the interrup- city officials and neighbor- as compared to schools serving higher percent- forcing some of them to tion in business due to hood organizations. ber, Washington Street, (Continued on page 4) Adams Street, and River shut their doors for good. the project could lead to The $14.5 million project Street are scheduled to “At this point we’re some businesses closing, has been planned for a be periodically closed totally in the dark and merchants said. “There while, she said, and details as part of a project of somewhat disappointed are some folks who have are emerging now about Party at Florian rehabbing and replacing by that so late in the been struggling,” Paciulli the work at Lower Mills a major pipeline that game,” said Anthony said. as the contractor starts distributes water to the Paciulli, president of Ria Convery, a spokes- to mobilize. Construction to aid 3 year old area. Meetinghouse Bank on woman for the Massachu- began on Adams St. in The news has left some Dorchester Ave. and setts Water Resources East Milton Square last Battles cancer local business owners head of the Lower Mills Authority, the agency (Continued on page 11) with a smile By JaCkie Gentile McBride trains hard for ‘last chance’ speCial to the reporter Aidan Collins is your average American opportunity to earn title fight bid three-year-old. With the sweetest By Corey Burns ing up for an April bout against Tomasz Adamek personality, Aidan speCial to the reporter charms everyone with You’ve likely seen him (43-1) of Poland. The winner may get a shot whom he comes in countless times on your contact. way to grab a coffee at at Vitali Klitscho for the Aidan Collins heavyweight belt. “K’bye, be safe,” he “Typical boy,” Mom says Greenhills Irish Bakery says to departing house or breakfast at Gerard’s “I’m looking forward to it, it’s a big fight,” Mc- guests — and they just love him, says his mother in Adams Corner. Lisa Blakely. Bride told the Reporter. He’s a giant of a man “He’s a typical boy,” she adds. “He plays rough, “It’s probably my last — aptly nicknamed “the plays hard with the kids, but has a heart of gold.” Clones Colossus” — and chance to get in the door for my dream fight, a But, since last November, Aidan’s life has though he’s a world- changed dramatically. He was diagnosed with renowned pugilist who world title fight.” “I have been training Wilms tumor, a common childhood cancer, and has competed on the has started both radiation and chemotherapy at world’s biggest stage — as hard as I was when I trained for Mike Tyson. Children’s Hospital hat drain him of energy and Kevin McBride likes to appetite, leaving him tired, rundown and sick. keep things simple. I’m a bit heavier and a bit older but I have more The illness has been compounded by more bad Best known to the news for Blakely and her husband Jarrod: the general public for his experience,” McBride said. “I have an equalizer couple were both laid off from their jobs around 2005 TKO victory over the time of little Aidan’s diagnosis. “Iron” Mike Tyson, the Heavyweight boxer Kevin McBride training for his and that’s what I intend April bout against Tomasz Adamek. to do.” Family, friends, and many others with whom 37 year-old is back in Photo by Guillermo Garcia training these days, gear- (Continued on page 15) (Continued on page 9) KEEP UP WITH The Butcher Shop now open Tracing three-decker Commentary ............................ 8 lineage in Savin Hill Neighborhood Notables ......... 10 THE NEWS AT for breakfast, lunch View from Pope’s Hill.... ......... 12 Page 8 DOTNEWS.COM Page 3 Obituaries .............................. 18 Page 2 THE REPoRTER March 3, 2011 Reporter’s Notebook On The Record Rep. Moran on redistricting: He’ll focus on Eighth’s Rising star meets Venus majority-minority numbers By Gintautas DuMCius asked about a rumor that Secretary news eDitor of State William Galvin has his own The Massachusetts House’s redis- map. Moran said he hadn’t seen any tricting chief is keeping a keen eye such thing. “The secretary and I may on the Eighth Congressional District. not see eye to eye on some things,” he State Rep. Michael Moran, a said with a smile. Brighton Democrat who is helping lead the effort to redraw the state’s political Congressman Lynch remarks fault lines, dropped in announced at on ‘beatable’ Brown, a Saturday ‘bionic’ Menino meeting of Congressman Lynch can’t get away the Mas- from the Scott Brown question. The sachusetts South Boston Democrat was asked Black Em- again – on Channel 5’s Sunday chat powerment show, “On the Record,” – if he will Coalition be among the candidates running to For Redis- replace Brown, who is up for re-election tricting in in 2012 after winning a special election D o r c h e s - to replace the late Edward Kennedy ter. in 2010. M o r a n Lynch told the show’s hosts Ed pledged to Harding and Janet Wu that he isn’t them that yet focused on 2012. “I think that’s just he would too far away at this point,” he said. b e “ p a r - Asked if Brown is unbeatable, as t i c u l a r l y Mayor Menino once described the Wrentham Republican, Lynch said, “I Rep. Michael Moran focused” in his efforts think anybody’s beatable. You know, I on main- think it depends on what is happening taining majority-minority power when voters go to pull that lever or slide that sheet in to vote in November in the Eighth, a district currently Rueben Bailey of Dorchester, right, met tennis star Venus Williams at the represented by Congressman Michael of 2012. Which is a long way off, so a Sun Life Rising Star Awards national summit in Miami last weekend. Bailey, Capuano (D-Somerville) that includes lot of things can happen between now who was nominated for the trip by City Year Boston, was joined by Brighton’s parts of Dorchester and Mattapan. and then.” Mattaya Fitts, left, and 19 other outstanding students from across the country Massachusetts is due to lose one of Lynch acknowledged that he ex- to meet with an all-star line-up of professional athletes, front-line nonprofit its ten Congressional seats, with the pected a “roomful” of Democrats to organizations serving at-risk youth, corporate leaders and nationally recog- 2010 Census showing that populations run for the seat. nized educators at Sun Life Stadium. They discussed education issues affecting in other states are growing faster than According to Gov. Deval Patrick, high school students. Photo courtesy Sun Life Financial the Bay State’s. Instead of ten districts at least four are potentially in. Patrick of about 635,000 residents, Moran and told the National Journal’s Jim his state Senate counterpart, Stanley o’Sullivan that he has talked with Summer job applicants must apply by Friday Rosenberg (D-Amherst), will have Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll, City Year Boston families and teens who want to register for job opportunities through to draw up nine districts of about founder and former Senate candidate the Mayor’s Hopeline must do so by Friday, March 4. The Hopeline has already 727,514 each. Alan Khazei, unsuccessful lieutenant received 6,259 applications since registration opened on February 1.
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