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Volume 38 Issue 8 Thursday, February 25, 2021 50¢ Vaccine sites open in Mattapan, Codman Sq. By Daniel Sheehan ical Center. Reporter Staff ‘Amazing’ sight – AG Healey “It’s amazing that this On Tuesday morning, rollout begins to pick up of Mattapan Community church in a span of ten local and state officials steam in Boston’s neigh- Health Center. days has been turned and healthcare leaders borhoods. Since last Thursday, into a vaccination site,” marked the opening of Attorney General Mau- the Blue Hill Avenue said Healey, noting the two Covid-19 vaccination ra Healey was on hand at church has been a “state- “perfect synergy” be- centers in Mattapan and both events to highlight wide access” site admin- tween the clergy and Dorchester, at Morning the expansion, stopping istering vaccines to eligi- physicians that resulted Star Baptist Church first at Morning Star ble residents through a in the site popping up Mattapan Community Health Center nurse Janet partnership with Matta- in Mattapan, a majority Adusei administered the Covid-19 vaccine to Turahn and Russell Auditorium where she was joined Dorsey, a Dorchester resident, on Tuesday morning respectively, as the Com- by Bishop John Borders pan Community Health Black and brown neigh- at Morning Star Baptist Church in Mattapan. monwealth’s vaccine and Guale Valdez, CEO Center and Boston Med- (Continued on page 13) Daniel Sheehan photo MOVING TO GREEN AT UMASS BOSTON Walsh awaits vote by the full Senate Special election petition on move in Legislature

By State House News Service In preparation for Mayor Walsh’s imminent departure from City Hall, the state House of Rep- resentatives on Monday passed a petition to cancel a special mayoral election that would be required under city rules if Walsh resigns before March 5 to become US Secretary of Labor. The US Senate Committee on Health, Educa- tion, Labor and Pensions voted, 18-4, on Feb. 11 to “report favorable” on Walsh’s nomination. But, as of Tuesday, a vote of the full Senate on the Walsh appointment had not yet been scheduled, according to a spokesperson for Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the Senate’s Majority Whip. (Continued on page 5) Santiago Demolition crews are making quick work this week knocking down and removing the old Science Center and substructure, above, on the UMass Boston campus as part of a $137-million project that will include additional open space, a complex of walking paths, and the creation of completely “green quad” including says he’s in a slope that will run up to a flat plaza. The renovation will also establish a new parking lot to replace campus parking from the Bayside Lot, which will enable the development there of the waterfront site for mayor now dubbed Dorchester Bay City. Story, more images, Page 10. Image courtesy UMass Boston By Maddie Kilgannon Reporter Correspondent State Rep. Jon Santi- Jon Santiago wants to $3.5m from CPA eyed for Dot, Mattapan ago, a 38-year-old phy- bring neighbors together sician who was born in By Katie Trojano voices of the residents in Puerto Rico, formally said Santiago, who rep- Reporter Staff our neighborhoods. Be- resents the 9th Suffolk In the latest round cause they are developed launched his candidacy for mayor of Boston on District, which includes of the city’s Commu- and created by Bosto- the South End, Fenway, nity Preservation Act nians, each project di- Tuesday morning, join- ing a field of candidates Back Bay and Roxbury, (CPA) funding, Mayor rectly serves each of our in a statement. Martin Walsh and the communities,” Walsh that includes three wom- The sign atop the Walter Baker administration en who sit on the Boston His campaign released Community Preservation building in Lower Mills would be refurbished and said in a statement. a two-minute video to Committee have itemized More than $3 million in City Council. illuminated for the first time in decades using $56,000 “Today, we set out to rally potential support- more than $25.5 million in CPA funding. Daniel Sheehan photo CPA funding would sup- bring neighbors together ers around his campaign in grants, including near- port nine historic pres- theme of elevating “Our ly $3.5 million set aside for projects in Dorchester ervation and six open space projects in Dorchester. to write the next chapter (Continued on page 4) and Mattapan. The historic grouping would account for $1,921,669 of our Boston story,” Walsh’s recommendations were approved by the to deal with the following: committee this month and will next be reviewed • $488,000 for rehabilitation and restoration re- All contents by the city council, which is expected to vote on the pairs to The Great Hall at Codman Square’s historic overall allocation in the coming weeks. 1904 building, originally a branch library and now © 2021 Projects supported with CPA funding com with the part of the Codman Square Health Center. Boston obligation to create or preserve affordable housing, • $378,969 to the 1941 Pleasant Hill Baptist historic sites, or open space and recreation. Church building on Humboldt Avenue for capital Neighborhood These projects “are a reflection of the needs and (Continued on page 16) News, Inc.

Upcoming Spring Inventory New To Market: 3 Families – Pierce Avenue and Faulkner Street – 3 BR Condo 4000 sq ft living space 92 Lawrence Ave. 2BR Condo – Upland Avenue – Melville Park location. New To Market This Weekend: 3 BR Condo – 92 Lawrence Avenue Page 2 THE REPORTER February 25, 2021 dotnews.com Police, Courts & Fire Man convicted for 2014 Dot murder gets new trial y lly armanning Keith Williams, because midst of an argument, B A J Dawnn Jaffier WBUR Reporter Colas pointed a weapon the defendant pointed a The state’s high- at the rival with the in- firearm at an opponent of innocent bystanders, est court ruled Mon- tent to kill and therefore is not enough to carry and it’s heartbreaking, day that one of two men participated in the gun the Commonwealth’s but convicting someone convicted of first-degree battle. Williams was also burden.” who is innocent of the murder in the killing of sentenced to life in prison Colas’s appellate at- charges doesn’t make an innocent bystander for first-degree murder. torney, Esther Horwich, it any better,” Horwich Sketch by The Architectural Team during a confrontation But the Supreme Ju- said there wasn’t enough said. “In fact, I think it in Dorchester should dicial Court ruled that evidence that Colas even makes it worse.” get a new trial. Wesson there is not enough had a gun that day. She The court ruled that New housing proposed Colas was convicted in evidence that Colas in- said those who testified Colas could be tried on the killing of 26-year-old tended to kill Williams. against Colas had con- second-degree murder. for Uphams Corner lot youth worker Dawnn There is no evidence flicting descriptions of The Suffolk County Dis- Jaffier, and the non-fatal that the gun Colas had the purported gun. She trict Attorney’s office, A Hingham developer existing units until that shooting of another wom- was even loaded, Justice said it was more likely which tried the case, hopes to put up a new res- building is finished, at an, near the J’ouvert Pa- Frank Gaziano wrote, or witnesses saw Colas’s did not immediately re- idential building behind which point they would rade, a street festival on that he took any steps to black and silver cell- spond to questions about Fox Hall on Columbia be offered studios there, Columbia Road, in 2014. fire it beyond pointing it phone in his hand. whether they intend to Road at Arion Street according to the letter Though Colas didn’t in Williams’ direction. The justices declined re-try him. that would include an from JLCD’s lawyer. fire a shot, prosecutors Gaziano called it a to weigh in on the evi- The shooter, Williams, upgrade for occupants The company would said he was equally re- “close call,” writing, dence. “This was an ab- is also appealing his of 15 single-room-occu- then renovate Fox Hall’s sponsible as the gunman, “the fact that, in the solutely tragic shooting conviction. pancy (SRO) units in the upper floors, while let- current building — their ting existing ground- own studio apartments. floor commercial tenants In a letter of intent stay in place. T’s commuter rail filed with the Boston All of the units in Planning and Develop- the new complex would plans target peak ment Agency (BPDA), be marketed to people Mike Rooney’s JLCD making between 30 and Development said the 100 percent of the Boston service schedules project would include area median income. The MBTA will re- times, which officials de- construction of a four- The new complex would shape its commuter rail scribed as a step toward to-six story building on have 24 parking spaces. schedule this spring, a “regional rail” model what is now a parking lot The letter signals that sanding down the morn- that many riders and behind Fox Hall, which JLCD expects to file more ing and evening peaks advocates have sought. dates to the late 1800s. detailed plans soon. and reallocating trains Most lines will run a Current SRO residents –REPORTER STAFF to run on more even in- train inbound or out- would get to stay in their tervals over the course bound roughly once per of the day, officials said hour over the course of on Monday. the day under the new February 25, 2021 While announcing that system, according to the next round of service MBTA Deputy General Boys & Girls Club News ...... 17 Dorchester Reporter (USPS 009-687) cuts affecting the T’s bus Manager Jeff Gonne- Opinion/Editorial/Letters...... 8 Published Weekly Periodical post- and subway lines will ville. Final schedules age paid at Boston, MA. take effect March 14, will be published in Business Directory...... 14 POSTMASTER: Send address chang- MBTA higher-ups un- March. Obituaries...... 18 es to: 150 Mt. Vernon St., Suite 120, veiled plans to “smooth Officials believe mov- Dorchester, MA 02125 Fire causes heavy damage to out” service on the 12 ing from a peak-heavy Days Remaining Until Mail subscription rates $50 per year, commuter rail lines in an approach to one with payable in advance. Make checks Fessenden St. three-decker attempt to support new more even amounts of Daylight Saving Time...... 17 and money orders payable to The A fire on Friday night at a house at 34 Fessenden travel patterns in the era service will both cut costs Dorchester Reporter and mail to: 150 St. in Dorchester turned into a two-alarm situation of Covid-19. and better fit rider de- St. Patrick’s Day...... 20 Mt. Vernon St., Suite 560, Dorchester, and caused an estimated $250,000 in damages. The commuter rail mand as travel patterns Passover...... 30 MA 02125 Firefighters were ordered out of the building after plan that takes effect evolve in response to the News Room: (617) 436-1222 one fireman fell through a porch. He was uninjured April 5 will deploy fewer pandemic. Easter...... 38 AdveRtising: (617) 436-1222 and continued to help battle the fire, the department trains during the tradi- – STATE HOUSE Fax Phone: (617) 825-5516 says. The fire started in the basement and got up to tional rush hours and NEWS SERVICE Quadricentennial of Dot.3,592 Subscriptions: (617) 436-1222 the second floor. BFD photo add frequency at other UPCOMING CIVIC MEETINGS AND COMMUNITY EVENTS hoods of Roxbury, Mattapan, Dorchester, at QuincyCollege.edu/Nurse or email went into effect on Sat., Jan. 23. Commuter Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park, and Roslindale. [email protected] or call 617- rail will only offer weekend service on the This funding round invites proposals in the 984-1715. Newburyport/Rockport, Framingham/ following funding categories: Education & The Melville Park Neighborhood Asso- Worcester, Fairmount, Providence, and Job Training Initiatives; Youth Recreation & ciation meets the third Thursday of each Middleborough lines. All other Commuter Social Development Initiatives; and Mental month at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom. The link is Rail lines will not have weekend service. Health Initiatives. A maximum of $10,000 posted on Nextdoor Melville along with The new Winter Service Schedule includes per organization will be distributed in this the agenda. additional trains on the Fairmount Line, funding round. The proposals will only Fuel assistance available — ABCD urg- which runs through Dorchester and be available for distribution to interested es low-income individuals and fam- Mattapan. “These added trains help to parties via electronic mail on Mon., March ilies who are struggling to get by to fill in service gaps that existed in the 1, between 8 a.m. and 6 pm. On March 1st apply for home heating assistance. previous schedule and help to offer more interested parties must submit an electron- To keep everyone safe during the pandemic, consistent train intervals, such as clockface ic mail request for a copy and identify the ABCD fuel assistance staff members are service which makes riding simpler for organization that is requesting the RFP. If taking most applications over the phone passengers,” according to an MBTA A virtual public meeting sponsored by the organization is not identified, the RFP by calling 617-357-6012. A fuel assistance statement. the Boston Planning and Development will not be distributed. The electronic mail staff member will take down application For instance, on the Fairmount Line, Agency (BPDA) will be held on Monday, request must be submitted to:bjohnson@ information and explain how to provide the new Winter Service Schedule offers March 8, 6 p.m. to discuss a proposal for bevcoassociates.comcastbiz.net. The Bos- needed documentation, including mailing clockface service every hour. From Read- 120-122 Hancock St., for which a Small ton State Community Trust reserves the it, leaving it in a drop-box at ABCD head- ville, a train will depart on weekdays every Project Review Application was filed with right to suspend, withdraw, or amend the quarters, photographing and sending from hour at 30 minutes past the hour between the BPDA on Oct.14th, 2020. A meeting aforementioned RFP without prior notice. their phones and other options. Applicants 6:30 AM and 10:30 PM. This consistent Boston Praise Radio hosts Covid-19 pro- was originally scheduled for Nov, 19, 2020 can go to bostonabcd.org for more info. interval is maintained for all stops on the gramming but was cancelled. For more information, — Boston Praise Radio and TV There is a wide range of eligibility based Fairmount Line, and during higher ridership visit bostonplans.org/projects/develop- will air informational broadcasts about on income and number of household times additional trains are available. The ment-projects/120-122-hancock-street. Or Covid-19 and the Black Community this members. Read the guidelines at mass- new schedules are available at mbta.com/ call Aisling Kerr at 617-918-4212 or aisling. month through March 30 on Mondays cap.org. ABCD pays the household’s fuel CommuterRail. [email protected]. from 7-8 p.m. and Tuesdays from 12-2 p.m. vendor directly. Right now the maximum SEND UPDATES TO The Boston State Community Trust, Inc. a Tune in on bostonpraiseradio.tv or on Roku, fuel assistance benefit is $875. Last year subsidiary of the Boston State Hospital Citi- Apple-TV and TuneIn Radio. the top benefit was $1,140. [email protected] Quincy College hosts virtual open house The MBTA’s new Winter schedule zens Advisory Committee, Inc. is requesting — aimed SEE NEW EVENTS DAILY grant proposals from community-based for its 7-10 week Nursing program on at aligning service with the lower ridership organizations located in the neighbor- Thurs., Feb. 25 from 4-5 p.m. Register levels experienced during the pandemic— AT DOTNEWS.COM dotnews.com February 25, 2021 THE REPORTER Page 3 Civil rights complaint on city contracts elicits upgraded ‘goals’ from Walsh team

By Katie Trojano contracts awarded in any pattern of discrimination to close the profound Reporter Staff fiscal year, 11 percent of against Black- and Lat- racial wealth gap and A study that docu- that for woman-owned inx-owned businesses eradicate inequities that mented the poor record businesses, and 6 per- by maintaining a public make Boston one of the of city-issued contracts cent for minority-owned procurement system most unequal cities in for Minority and Wom- businesses. that unlawfully excluded the country, and lead- en-owned Business En- “The recommenda- them from equal con- ership that will hold us terprises (MWBE) has tions that were set out tracting opportunities. accountable to meeting prompted a civil rights in the report are lower “The city needs to and exceeding our diver- complaint and new than what we signed into set a goal of 40 percent sity goals,” she said in a pledges for improvement order today. This is the MWBE, and 15 percent statement. from Mayor Walsh, just most structural reform needs to go to Black- “I will be the mayor days before his antici- city contracting has had owned businesses,” said that acts with urgency Según Idowu of the Black Economic Council of pated departure for a in over a generation,” Según Idowu, president and accountability to en- Massachusetts, one of the groups that has filed a cabinet position in the said Walsh. and CEO of BECMA. sure businesses owned federal complaint against the city of Boston for Biden-Harris adminis- “We knew going into “We have to stop being a by women and people discriminatory business practices. tration. the study that the re- city that is short-sighted of color have access not Photo courtesy The Boston Foundation The 700-page report, sults were not going to and only thinks about just to doing business to better, more equitable Idowu said that the conducted by BBC Re- be good because we’ve today.” with the city,” she wrote, results.” city’s disparity report search & Consulting for been talking about this Walsh’s order requires “but also the resources, The lawsuit could trig- “revealed what BECMA about $1 million, was for the last seven years,” tracking and reporting technical assistance, ger a federal inquiry into leaders and community commissioned by the city he added. “But the study at the departmental lev- coaching and entrepre- how Boston has awarded members have been tell- in 2018 to assess the de- gives us a detailed road- el as part of the annual neurial networks to grow contracts in past years, ing them for free for de- mographics of recipients map and a legal tool to budget process to ensure and thrive.” according to Erin Fowler, cades. … that a pattern of public contracts under attack those inequities that the city is advancing City Councillor Annis- an attorney with Law- of discrimination exists the Walsh administra- at the root.” procurement goals. It sa Essaibi George, also yers for Civil Rights. and that immediate cor- tion between 2014 and A day before Walsh also creates a Supplier a candidate for mayor, “From the federal gov- rective action is needed 2019. The authors sur- signed the executive or- Diversity Program with favors legislative action ernment, we want a and has been needed to veyed more than 47,000 der, lawyers, citing Title a $2 million commitment to make changes to the formal investigation of address these harmful contracts worth about VI of the Civil Rights Act, to ensure that city pol- city’s contracting pro- the city’s contracting policies.” $2.1 billion, and their filed a complaint against icies are aligned with cesses. practices and communi- According to the re- findings showed that the city with the US De- advancing the goals, “The executive order ty-centered process that port, Black-owned busi- only 1.2 percent of that partment of Justice and and that it will provide Mayor Walsh put forth would convene all of the nesses accounted for contract money went to the US Department of technical assistance, yesterday will improve complainants and ev- 3.5 percent of those Black and Latinx-owned Transportation, alleging business development, outcomes, but our work eryone in the MBE com- available to undertake businesses and that the racial disparities in pub- training, and mentoring cannot stop there,” she munity, and secure the prime contracts and 5.6 city spent less than half lic contracting. The suit for MWBE businesses. said. “More tools are city’s compliance of the percent of businesses a percent, or $9.4 mil- was filed on behalf of the City Councillor An- needed to change this federal civil rights law. ready for subcontracting lion, with Black-owned Black Economic Council drea Campbell, who is system that keeps lead- This can be voluntary opportunities. But those businesses. of Massachusetts (BEC- running for mayor, said ing to these disparities. and we fully expect it to businesses were award- Walsh signed an exec- MA), the Greater Boston Walsh’s action was not I believe that a home be collaborative,” Fowl- ed only 0.4 percent of utive order last Thurs- Latino Network (GBLN), strong enough. “Instead rule petition that can er said. “We expect the prime jobs and 1.6 per- day that set new goals and Amplify Latinx. of another executive make actual legislative Janey Administration to cent of subcontracting calling for at least 25 The complaint says order, we need transfor- changes to the procure- comply and voluntarily work. percent MWBE across all that the city engaged in a mative, systemic change ment process will lead work with us.” Lower Your Car Payment –

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Campbell, who is run- Ruffin, 50, lives in ning for mayor. Dorchester and runs the The four hopefuls who non-profit Ruffin Mobile emerged over the last Nikkia Jean-Charles William E. Dickerson II Trina Ruffin Trevour Smith Educational Services, week include William filing with the Office of Dickerson said. “I’m running on the message new precedents with this which brings tutoring Dickerson III, Nikkia Campaign and Political proud of my experience, “change is on the hori- campaign and envision services to the Mildred Jean-Charles, Trina Finance in November. and I am looking forward zon.” Most recently, she change on the horizon.” C Hailey Apartments, Ruffin, and Troy Smith. He is the son of Greater to sharing my story and has been active setting Smith, 56, is the pastor South Street Housing They join Jacob Urena, Love Tabernacle Pastor skills with residents of up the Mattapan Com- and founder of A New Development, and Ge- Josette Williams, Brian William E. Dickerson II, District 4 as we work munity Fridge project. Day Holiness Church neva Apartments. Worrell, Leonard M. and as a former city coun- together to improve our She also serves as a of God and Christ in The field will not be Lee, Sr., Joel Richards, cil aide, he’s no stranger neighborhoods and city. member of the Greater Dorchester Center. He set in stone until later and Trevour Smith, all to City Hall. I was born to serve and Mattapan Neighborhood says he’s running “to in the year. Candidates of whom have set up “Throughout my career lead and will be ready to Council. provide a link between must gather 200 certified accounts with the state’s in public service I have do so on day one.” “I plan on bringing my the community and City signatures this spring Office of Campaign and been focused on deliver- Jean-Charles, 18, who perspective and energy Hall.” Smith, a Dorches- in order to appear on Political Finance. ing necessary services to lives in Mattapan, said as a young Black woman ter resident, worked the preliminary election Dickerson, 42, released the residents of Boston, she was inspired by US to city hall,” she said in for Boston’s Center for ballot on Sept. 21. Two a sleek campaign video especially our young Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s a statement. “We have Youth and Families for finalists will face off in officially launching his people and our seniors,” 2018 campaign and is an opportunity to set 22 years. a general election on campaign last week after Nov. 2. State Rep. Santiago says he’s in running for mayor (Continued from page 1) Center, as a captain in our city back, stronger the video, Santiago says, III. He was an active While Santiago de- Boston Story.” the US Army Reserves than ever,” he said. “Like the ER, I don’t only campaigner for Kennedy clined to compare himself “We are living through and as a state represen- During the pandemic, see challenges in Boston. during his unsuccess- to the other three candi- an unprecedented crisis, tative. Santiago was appointed I see hope and courage ful run for US Senate dates in the race when the impact of which will “I see and hear it in the vice chair of the Legis- amidst the crisis.” against incumbent Sen. asked by State House last far beyond today. It’s voices of my neighbors, lature’s Joint Commit- His family moved to Edward Markey last News Service, he said he a turning point for our patients, and constitu- tee for Covid-19 and Boston when he was in year. would bring a “certain city, but in it I also see ents. I’ve spent my life in Emergency Prepared- elementary school, set- Santiago had $159,134 level of crisis leadership” great possibilities,” said service to others and now ness Management, which tling in Roxbury where, on hand in his most re- to the mayor’s office, as Santiago, who touted I’m running for mayor he praised for its work he said, he grew up in cent (Feb. 3) filing with well as a willingness to his life of service and to lead us through this during “one of the most subsidized housing and the Office of Campaign listen and an “incredible highlighted his work as moment and to a recov- productive and progres- attended Boston public and Political Finance. work ethic.” an emergency room phy- ery rooted in equity and sive legislative sessions schools. The family later His campaign said it He also declined to of- sician at Boston Medical opportunity. I will bring in the state’s history.” In moved to Texas, and San- planned a “significant” fer a detailed assessment tiago went to college at digital advertising buy of Walsh’s tenure as may- the University of Texas for an edited 30-second or. “I have tremendous at Austin, later earning a version of his launch respect for Mayor Walsh. master’s degree in global video to run over the He’s a friend and I think health at the University next week. he’s done a formidable of Washington and a He joins City Council- job in his response to the CODMAN medical degree from lors Michelle Wu, Andrea pandemic. But this race Yale. Campbell, and Annissa isn’t about relitigating PROVIDERS After college, he joined Essaibi George in the Mayor Walsh and his the Peace Corps, where, still-evolving field to re- performance. This is AGREE: in the Dominican Repub- place Mayor Walsh, who about who is going to lead lic, he met and became is likely to resign any day Boston,” Santiago said. friends with former Con- now to become US Labor He added that Boston gressman Joe Kennedy Secretary. needs to bring students THE COVID-19 back to school “as soon LEGAL NOTICES as possible” and support small businesses that COMMONWEALTH OF COMMONWEALTH OF VACCINE IS SAFE MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS have struggled through THE TRIAL COURT THE TRIAL COURT the pandemic. PROBATE & FAMILY COURT PROBATE & FAMILY COURT SUFFOLK PROBATE & FAMILY COURT SUFFOLK PROBATE & FAMILY COURT “I’ve come to learn 24 NEW CHARDON STREET 24 NEW CHARDON STREET BOSTON, MA 02114 BOSTON, MA 02114 that my patients are AND UP TO 95% CITATION GIVING NOTICE CITATION GIVING NOTICE a reflection of Boston. OF PETITION FOR OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN APPOINTMENT OF CONSERVATOR Their stories speak to FOR INCAPACITATED PERSON OR OTHER PROTECTIVE ORDER PURSUANT TO G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 PURSUANT TO G.L. c. 190B, our greatest challenges,” Docket No. SU21P0250GD §5-304 & §5-405 EFFECTIVE AT in the MATTER OF: Docket No. SU20P2216PM Santiago says in his cam- CHARLES RASH in the MATTER OF: paign video. “Disparities of DORCHESTER, MA KRISTINA PHAM RESPONDENT of DORCHESTER, MA in health and wealth; Alleged Incapacitated Person RESPONDENT To the named Respondent and all other (Person to be Protected/Minor) rising rents; struggling PREVENTING interested persons, a petition has been filed To the named Respondent and all other by Mass. Dept. of Mental Health of West- interested persons, a petition has been filed schools. I’ve spent my life borough, MA in the above captioned matter by Nhu T. Ho of Dorchester, MA in the above in service to tackle these alleging that Charles Rash is in need of a captioned matter alleging that Kristina Pham Guardian and requesting that (or some other is in need of a Conservator or other protective very issues.” suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to order and requesting that (or some other COVID-19. suitable person) be appointed as Conser- Santiago said he has serve Without Surety on the bond. The petition asks the Court to determine vator to serve Without Surety on the bond. supported, along with that the Respondent is incapacitated, that The petition asks the Court to determine the appointment of a Guardian is neces- that the Respondent is disabled, that a the rest of Boston’s leg- sary, and that the proposed Guardian is protective order or appointment of a Con- appropriate. The petition is on file with this servator is necessary, and that the proposed islative delegation, the I GOT MY COVID-19 VACCINE! court and may contain a request for certain Conservator is appropriate. The petition is specific authority. on file with this court. petition to cancel a spe- You have the right to object to this You have the right to object to this cial election if Walsh WHEN IT’S YOUR TURN, proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance your attorney must file a written appearance resigns before March at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 04/02/2021. This day is NOT return date of 03/18/2021. This day is NOT a 5. That bill passed the GET THE SHOT! a hearing date, but a deadline date by which hearing date, but a deadline date by which House on Monday and is you have to file the written appearance if you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file you object to the petition. If you fail to file the awaiting action from the the written appearance by the return date, written appearance by the return date, action STEPHENSON TOBIERRE, MD action may be taken in this matter without may be taken in this matter without further State Senate. URGENT CARE further notice to you. In addition to filing the notice to you. In addition to filing the written With respect to oth- written appearance, you or your attorney appearance, you or your attorney must file must file a written affidavit stating the specific a written affidavit stating the specific facts er potential candidates facts and grounds of your objection within and grounds of your objection within 30 days 30 days after the return date. after the return date. joining the four who IMPORTANT NOTICE IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit The outcome of this proceeding may have formally launched limit or completely take away the above- or completely take away the above-named named person’s right to make decisions campaigns, Walsh’s eco- person’s right to make decisions about about personal affairs or financial affairs nomic development chief, codman is working with bmc to vaccinate personal affairs or financial affairs or both. or both. 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Arroyo State House News Ser- Register of Probate Register of Probate Date: February 05, 2021 CODMAN SQUARE HEALTH CENTER, 637 WASHINGTON ST., DORCHESTER, MA 02124 | (617) 822-8271 | CODMAN.ORG Date: February 04, 2021 vice contributed to this Published: February 25, 2021 Published: February 25, 2021 report. dotnews.com February 25, 2021 THE REPORTER Page 5 with a PhD in Environ- Janey taps veteran Walsh and Menino mental Health from the Boston University School of Public Health where aide Osgood as her chief of staff her research focuses on As Mayor Walsh pre- and Lindsey Butler as was previously Janey’s the health impacts of pares to leave City Hall deputy chief of policy. chief of staff on the City climate change and en- for the labor secretary’s Churchill, of Roxbury, Council. A founder and vironmental pollutants. post in the Biden ad- was previously the asso- the former executive – STATE HOUSE ministration, Boston ciate dean for strategic director of South Boston NEWS SERVICE City Council President initiatives and com- en Accion (SBEA), he was Kim Janey has turned to munity engagement at also part of the Boston City Hall veteran Chris the newly established School Reform Project Osgood to help lead her Wheelock College of at Massachusetts Advo- team when she becomes Education and Human cates for Children where acting mayor. Development at Boston he focused on the rights In anticipation of that Chris Osgood University. She is also of English language move, Janey on Friday the Mayor’s Office of on the board of the learners. named Osgood, who pre- New Urban Mechanics Massachusetts Network Boukili most recently viously served as Walsh’s in 2010 and served as a of Women Leaders in served as incident com- chief of the streets, trans- policy advisor. Higher Education. mander for the city of portation and sanitation, Janey also named Garrett-Stearns, of Somerville’s Covid-19 as her chief of staff. Mary Churchill as chief West Roxbury, was pre- Emergency Response A graduate of City of policy and planning, viously vice president Team and has held oth- Year, Haverford Col- Stephanie Garrett-Stea- of communications and er senior leadership lege, and the Harvard rns and Samuel Hurtado fund development for positions in munici- Business School, Os- as senior advisors, Omar The Community Build- pal government in both good joined the Menino Boukili as senior advisor ers Inc., an organization Somerville and Revere. administration in 2006 on Covid-19 response she first joined in 2011. Butler is an environ- where he co-founded and strategic initiatives, Hurtado, of Roxbury, mental epidemiologist Councillor Wu with Teamsters Local 25 president Walsh awaits vote by the full Senate Sean O’Brien. Wu campaign photo (Continued from page 1) Boston City Council has adjourning with plans to ate consideration. On Teamsters Local 25 Meanwhile, Walsh’s unanimously approved a meet again on Thursday. Monday, Rhode Island former chief of staff at home rule petition to call The pace of confir- Senator Sheldon White- backs Wu for mayor off the special election, mations for Biden’s house said he had signed City Hall, Dan Koh, Teamsters Local 25 en- members during this un- was preparing to start but it needs approval cabinet nominees has a “cloture petition,” a by the Legislature and been sluggish, even by legislative maneuver dorsed Boston City Coun- precedented time when as chief of staff at the. cillor At-Large Michelle greedy corporations are Department of Labor on Gov. Baker. Capitol Hill standards. that would compel Re- The petition, filed by Also waiting for a vote publicans to end debate Wu for Mayor of Boston trying to expand profits Tuesday in anticipation on Tuesday, citing her at the expense of work- of Walsh’s confirmation. Rep. Chynah Tyler, is Rhode Island Gov. on her nomination and next moves to the state Gina Raimondo, Biden’s move for a speedy vote. refusal “to back down to ers. Teamsters Local If Walsh were to leave corporations and their 25 is proud to endorse office on March 5 or Senate where it must choice for Secretary of It is not yet clear if such also be approved before Commerce. Raimondo, a petition will be sought anti-worker rhetoric.” Michelle Wu as the next thereafter, that could Said Teamsters Local mayor of Boston.” trigger a special election getting to Baker, who like Walsh, has won in Walsh’s case. has said he will sign it. committee approval, Reporter editor Bill 25 President Sean M. Local 25 is the largest before the regularly O’Brien: “Michelle Wu Teamsters union in New scheduled mayoral con- The state Senate met but does not yet have a Forry contributed to this briefly Monday before date certain for full Sen- report. is a strong leader who England with more than test in November. The will stand up for our 12,000 members.

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By Daniel Sheehan there pushed me to do Reporter Staff extra things to stay on As a kid growing up in the level of my peers and Dorchester in the 1980s, realize my potential and Gloria Harrison’s life go on to be a first gener- changed when her par- ation college graduate... ents enrolled her in the It helped make me who METCO program in first I am today.” grade. Suddenly, she Harrison and Clifford found herself waking up are using their new plat- before dawn to be bused form to give back to cur- to an elementary school Carrie Clifford and Gloria Harrison in present rent METCO students. in the Metro-west town day, above, and as classmates in the early 1980s in Recently, Hard Candy of Wayland, where she Wayland, below. & Fruit Snacks was was one of the few Black awarded a Social Justice students in a virtually Grant from Brigham all-white town. & Women’s inclusion As she progressed initiative, The Office through the school sys- of IDEAS. This spring, tem there, she became they will launch The So- friends with a classmate cial Justice Scholarship from the town, Carrie Fund, through which Clifford. The pair later Clifford. “I was so in she said. they will raise money worked with each other my head about wanting “I definitely didn’t to help disadvantaged in Chicago before their to do the right thing, I want to talk about it in high school seniors from jobs sent them to oppo- felt I needed someone a public way...I told her Boston neighborhoods site coasts in New York to tell me what to do. no, and we went back and pay for college. and Los Angeles. I called Gloria and we forth for months before Scholarships will be Last spring, in the started having these eventually I agreed. But awarded to two Wayland wake of the high-profile discussions and it was I told her, we can’t talk laying all their cards on next door to borrow METCO seniors and two killings of Black people so eye- opening to me...I about my story unless we the table, they hoped to sugar. “I learned unity seniors from the Boston by police and growing thought, why don’t we do also talk about your own create a “brave space” in Dorchester,” she said. Public Schools. racial tensions, Clifford a podcast?” privileged upbringing.” for tough conversations “I remember seeing all For Harrison and Clif- reached out to Harrison At first, Harrison At the start of the first about race, inequality, walks of life at the Kite ford, the fund represents with a proposal to set wasn’t on board with the podcast episode, the two white guilt, and justice. Festival in Franklin that key step of turning up a podcast creating idea. “When she called of them established a “We decided that if we Park, I remember these their conversations into a space for discussion me, I had been lying on baseline of honesty and were not going to talk summer block parties action. And the feedback about race and the dis- my couch and crying. I transparency: Clifford about these things, what with everyone hanging they’ve received from lis- parate backgrounds that was seeing the George asked Harrison to call is it for?” said Clifford. out near the fire hydrant teners in recent months caused their paths to Floyd and Ahmaud Ar- her out on any short- “We wanted to take this and having a good time. indicates that the pod- cross. bery videos and emo- sighted or ignorant view- meaningful conversation “But, at the same time, cast is making an impact. “I think a lot of people tionally going through it, points, while Harrison and put it in action, and I could hear gunshots “One week, a former in that time were reflect- and I was dealing with promised not to judge or to have this space where not too far from where I METCO student called ing on racism in their it in my home with my hold back from express- a Black woman and a lived. I started thinking, me crying, and told me own lives,” explained own husband and kids,” ing her true feelings. In white woman can come ‘How do I get out? How ‘Thank you for what together and not judge do I make it out and not you are doing,’” said each other, and at the become a statistic?’” Harrison. “They iden- same time be individuals In retrospect, Clifford tified with some of the and not be representing sees her upbringing in traumatic memories I Black or white women as Wayland as sheltered. had discussed, and said a whole...but as adults Racism was something they were grateful for us looking back and reflect- she never learned about talking about moving on ing on our experiences or considered while grow- and healing...It’s striking and what we did or didn’t ing up, yet it existed – she nerves.” realize. Hopefully we can remembered someone For her part, Clifford inspire other people to burning a cross in her sees their conversations have that conversation town when she was a kid. sowing change in people’s at home, in their living “Looking back, I have worldviews. “Wayland room, or at work.” mixed feelings about people want to talk about In the podcast, the METCO,” she said. “We it more. Some of my par- two women reflect on talk a lot about how ents’ friends are listening memories from their time Gloria had to learn about and feeling shame, not together in Wayland and Wayland and fit in here, that I want them to feel what that experience but there was no recipro- shame, but I know that reveals about structural cating — we never went it can lead to healing...It inequities in the country to Dorchester. It was has been a safe way for at large, as “almost like a presented to us that you people to hear another counseling session with a are doing an amazing side of things.” friend. “Sometimes I just thing by letting these Added Harrison: “I want to cut white people ‘inner-city’ kids come think it shows we can be off,” Harrison admits, but to our school. It was a friends and still disagree she saw that Clifford’s desegregation program and have different polit- attempts to reconnect that I think now was ical or religious views. with her were genuine actually segregating in “It’s hard sometimes. at their core. “I want you some ways.” Some days Carrie says to know I care,” Clifford Harrison’s experience something from a priv- told her. in Wayland was not ileged place and I have “It’s a vulnerable space all rosy. She recalls an to take a breath and for us both,” said Harri- instance when she was count to ten...but those son. “I want to be a part called slurs by two boys tough moments are what of the healing process, in her class, and another makes life worth living. I want people to know when she was pulled over It’s important to care they can talk to me, that and racially profiled by enough to take extra it doesn’t always have to Wayland police. time in your life to have be an argument.” But she credits MET- a conversation to inspire Across over a dozen CO for fundamentally someone else.” episodes of the podcast changing the path of her “Hard Candy & Fruit – titled “Hard Candy & life. “My overall feeling is Snacks” is available for Fruit Snacks” after their I love the program. There streaming on Apple Pod- favorite childhood treats were nights and days casts and most digital – Harrison and Clifford where I would cry and streaming platforms. To delve into the different scream at my parents, make a donation to the So- worlds they grew up in. saying why do you make cial Justice Scholarship Reflecting on her child- me go there. Now I look Gofundme campaign, hood home on Park Street back and I say ‘thank visit https://charity. in Dorchester, Harrison you.’ gofundme.com/o/en/ recalled the neighbor- “I can code switch like campaign/social-jus- hood as “a community” nobody’s business. Plus, tice-scholarship. where she could “go the education that I got dotnews.com February 25, 2021 THE REPORTER Page 7 Reporter’s News about people People in and around our Neighborhoods Dot’s Daise joins board of City Kids Markese Daise, a Dorchester native and emerging leader in the real estate industry, has joined the board of City Kids, a nonprofit youth education support program created by City Realty Group. Daise will provide or- ganizational leadership City Kids donates 10 Chromebooks and a fresh vision for the Markese Daise future as a young profes- tremendously impactful sional who grew up in organization with a to students at St. Brendan School Boston and understands worthwhile mission that Representatives of the City Kids Managing Partners Fred Starikov identity and tradition. Pictured its neighborhoods. has never been more program visited Dorchester’s St. and Stephen Whalen to provide outside the school with the 6th Daise grew up in important,” said Da- Brendan School to donate 10 new Boston kids with unique experi- grade class are School Principal Ashmont and attended ise. “The pandemic has Chromebooks that will help stu- ences and powerful educational Maura Burke, Assistant Principal the Richard J. Murphy made it more difficult dents with remote learning and resources. Ashley Tringale, parent Thomas School and Woodrow for urban youth to learn at school. City Kids is a youth The parish school educates and Noto of Dorchester, and City Wilson Middle School and remain engaged at education nonprofit organization nurtures about 245 students in a Realty group vice president of in Dorchester. He went school. I am proud to founded by City Realty Group safe environment rich in Catholic operations James Caruso. on to study accounting serve on the City Kids at UMass Boston and board as we work to later completed Suffolk provide children in need Codman Sq. chef shares her University’s Real Es- with the educational tate Urban Planning & resources they need to soul food cooking skills online Development Program. thrive in school and move He is now based in on to a successful career.” By Daniel Sheehan “All these people were Neponset, specializes in For more information Reporter Staff coming up to me saying, top dollar multi-family about City Kids please Michelle White, the ‘We need you, we need investment sales. visit cityrealtyboston. chef-owner of Next Step soul food in this commu- “City Kids is a com/City-Kids. Soul Food Cafe on Wash- nity.’ And the fact that it ington Street in Codman was truly home cooking. Square, joined Commu- We brought all the pots nity Servings’ “Learning and pans in the restau- Kitchen Live” series on rant from home, which Facebook live last Thurs- we had used to cook for day afternoon to teach an the whole family, to the online audience how to restaurant. For me it was make one of her signa- kind of natural,” said ture dishes: fried shrimp White. and turnip greens. Michelle White, the chef-owner of Next Step Despite Next Step The online cooking Soul Food Cafe on Washington Street in Codman being temporarily closed class series is a re- Square, is shown (right) during a Facebook live for onsite dining by the cent initiative begun by last Thursday. pandemic, White has Community Servings, the secrets of soul food Years later, in 2017, af- continued to make food a Jamaica Plain-based from visiting her family ter retiring from decades for her family, friends, nonprofit that serves nu- in South Carolina in the of work in childcare and and neighbors, catering summers as a kid, where to events and making A topping-off ceremony was held on Tuesday tritionally tailored meals wanting to try something morning at the site of the new home of Boston and provides nutrition her grandmother would new, an opportunity to to-order dishes for take- Arts Academy on Ipswich Street next to Fenway education to thousands enlist her help in the open a restaurant in out and others for her Park. Mayor Walsh and City Council President of people per year across kitchen. Codman Square fell into church and for charity. Kim Janey joined city and state officials to raise Massachusetts who are “I remember seeing my White’s lap. She said she “I love feeding people,” the final steel beam atop the $125 million facility unable to shop or cook grandma in the garden saw the chance to open said White. “Feeding for Boston’s only public high school for the visual for themselves or their pulling up collard greens, a soul food joint with people is my love lan- and performing arts. turnips, and when we guage.” The school will continue to be housed on Charles families due to critical her mother in Boston, Street in Fields Corner neighborhood while the new illnesses. arrived, we’d go right where only a handful of Chef White’s Learning building is under construction. It is expected to be White, who grew up out there to help her. I such eateries exist, as a Kitchen Live video is completed by spring 2022, and open for students in Jamaica Plain, ex- loved it; that’s definitely venture that would both available to view on the by that fall. plained as she cooked where my cooking sense satisfy her love of cooking Community Servings The new school will accommodate more than 500 how she learned about first came from,” she said. and please her neighbors. Facebook page. students, an increase of nearly 15 percent from the current student body. Boston Arts Academy photo YESTERYEAR ARCHIVE Dorchester Historical Society Waiting for the Hour William Tolman Carlton 349-350: “Conditions of health frus- was a portrait and genre “William Tolman Carlton, trated an intention on his part painter who was active in of Boston, Massachusetts, to prepare for college, and he the Boston area from 1836 a Resident Member from directed his attention to an until after the Civil War. He 1871, was born in Boston on artist’s career. He spent sev- moved to Dorchester in the January 30, 1816, and died in eral years in Europe, mostly 1850s and lived a little west Dorchester, Massachusetts, in Italy, and returned to this of Four Corners. Perhaps June 28, 1888. He was the son country in 1840 to practice his most famous painting of William Leeds and Mary portrait painting and give is today’s illustration, the Jane (Millet) Carlton. instruction in drawing to one called “Watch Meeting “The greater part of his private classes. He resumed –Waiting for the Hour,” which childhood was passed in his his professional work in depicted a group of slaves father’s residence at the cor- Boston in 1850. On June 1, waiting for the Emancipation ner of Williams Court and 1864, he married Mary Eliz- to take effect on Jan. 1, 1863, the present Court Square, abeth Blanchard, of Portland, and is now part of the White where his father carried on a Maine. This was her name House Collection. West India goods store in the by adoption, Raynes having The following is an excerpt lower front of the building. been her ancestral name.” from “Memorial Biographies Later the family removed to The archive of these historical of the New England Historic Dorchester, where he was ed- posts can be viewed on the blog Genealogical Society,” Vol- ucated in the common school at dorchesterhistoricalsociety. ume VIII 1880-1889, pp. and the Dorchester Academy. org. Page 8 THE REPORTER February 25, 2021 dotnews.com Editorial The late Doris Bunte was one of a kind: Health centers key an adaptive, effective difference-maker to vaccine success By Bill Wright and Barry Lawton method that made her transition to the BHA smooth On Tuesday, two more Covid-19 vaccination sites, Doris Bunte, who died on Feb. 15 at age 87, was and natural. Her grace and empathy for others open to all eligible Boston residents, came on line in a wonderful woman, a magnificent mentor, and a defined her. Dorchester and Mattapan. The Russell Auditorium prodigious politician. The word that describes her She faced two momentous challenges as the leader and Morningstar Baptist Church joined a network of best is “Mother.” Doris was that, yes, and also a of the BHA. The first was compliance with a federal other options for those 65 and older— or with other mother, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother. court order to desegregate public housing in Bos- conditions identified by public health officials. The She was also a mother to many more than her bio- ton neighborhoods, particularly in South Boston, sites are being managed by community health cen- logical offspring. Charlestown, East Boston, and the North End. That ters, which will work in coordination with hospital As the first Afri- order resulted from a successful federal lawsuit filed partners and the state to offer the doses. We’re lucky can-American woman by the Boston chapter of The NAACP, a case led by to have such a robust and familiar team of health elected to the Massa- attorneys Dianne Wilkerson and Barbara Arnwine. centers in place in our backyard. chusetts Legislature, she Secondly, she had to respond to the desperate need The rollout comes as Gov. Baker and his team face was a political trailblazer to rehabilitate and re-develop thousands of public tough questions from lawmakers and other officials who was involved in pol- housing units city-wide – some of which had been about the state’s vaccination system, which suffered itics for all of the right boarded-up and unusable for years. She often stated an embarrassing mishap last Thursday when the reasons: She wanted to her belief that “poverty is not the result of a flaw web portal for making appointments crashed. use political action to in character.” “It was a bad user experience, which we own,” improve the lives and Major media covered the desegregation effort Baker acknowledged on Tuesday. “And we need to the living conditions of closely because many thought that it was destined do better.” Black people in Boston’s to become a chaotic and violent clash, like the But there is encouraging news, too. Baker’s ad- neighborhoods whose busing years. But Mayor Flynn and Administrator ministration can point to new statistics that show needs were, sometimes, Bunte worked hard with public housing residents, Doris Bunte the Commonwealth now ranks No. 1 for first doses overwhelming. She want- city, state, and federal political leaders, the Boston administered per capita among peer states with at ed to give Black and Brown people a voice, and a Police Department, and the media to ensure that least 5 million people, according to State House News seat, at the tables where political decisions were there were no major incidents. Service. The same tracker shows that Massachusetts made at the local, state and federal levels – it was In the redevelopment effort, Doris lobbied vigor- is now ranked second among comparable states for a voice that had rarely been heard in those settings. ously with the US Department of Housing and Urban the vaccination rate for Black residents. When newly elected Boston Mayor Raymond L. Development (HUD) and with the Commonwealth’s To keep pace and improve, we will need to count Flynn appointed her to serve as administrator of Executive Office of Communities and Development not only on manufacturers and the supply chain at The Boston Housing Authority (BHA) in 1984, she (EOCD) for funding to re-develop and re-design pub- the national level, but also on the competency of our became the first former resident of public housing lic housing developments that would give residents own indigenous health network. Increasingly, that to head a major public housing agency in the United more attractive places to live and a greater sense of is going to mean our neighborhood health centers, States. The BHA, at that time, was the fourth-largest “ownership” in their neighborhoods. which have deployed staff to administer the shots provider of public housing in the nation. During her tenure as BHA Administrator, Doris and observe patients before and after. She had gained local prominence after her success- Bunte directed more than $300 million for infra- On Tuesday at the Russell Auditorium, Codman ful public dispute with then-Mayor Kevin H. White, structure improvements in BHA housing. Square Health Center CEO Sandra Cotterell led which helped launch her first successful campaign She was an inspirational member of the National Attorney General Maura Healey on a tour of the for the Legislature, representing Roxbury and parts Association of Housing and Redevelopment Organi- facility, which Cotterell describes as a streamlined of Dorchester. Doris won six more elections, serving zations (NAHRO) and a founder of the Alliance of “one-stop shop.” The function hall on Talbot Avenue for a total of 14 years. While on Beacon Hill, she Black Directors of Public Housing Agencies nation- was already being used as a satellite location to test was a founding member and chair of the Legisla- ally. The housing development for elderly residents for Covid, but it has been transitioned to be exclu- tive Black Caucus, working in concert with State in the Egleston Square area bears her name. sively a vaccination site, supported with staff from Representatives Mel King, Saundra Graham, Royal Doris always took the time to encourage, teach, both Codman and Boston Medical Center. Bolling Jr., Raymond Jordan, Mary Goode, Robert and serve as a nurturer to individuals from all back- The convenient location— right across the street Fortes, and Thomas Lopes, and State Senators Royal grounds, ethnicities, and races. A native New Yorker from Franklin Field— is attractive to many of us. Bolling Sr., and Bill Owens. who grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, But, there’s another element: Many of the staff As a Black state representative, Doris soon found she possessed intelligence, toughness, persistence, who will greet and administer the vaccine shots are that Black and Brown citizens from all neighbor- determination, and a fearlessness that made her one familiar faces— neighbors who are nurses and who hoods of Boston and other cities and towns within of the most effective political leaders that Boston can vouch for the efficacy and safety of the Moder- the Commonwealth would reach out to her and the and the Commonwealth have ever seen. Her legacy na vaccine, which is the one that’s on offer at the other Black politicians on Beacon Hill, even though will serve as an inspiration for generations to come, Russell. Cotterell says that has been a dynamic she they didn’t live in her legislative district. She and and we will not see her likes again. has observed among the men and women walking the Caucus worked closely with Governors Frank Bill Wright is the former director of communi- into the function hall in the last few days. Sargent and Michael Dukakis to address the basic cations for the Boston Housing Authority. Barry The building itself has been a party spot and needs and the political aspirations of Black people Lawton of Dorchester served in several positions in gathering place for families in Dorchester, Roxbury, in Massachusetts. state government from 1978 to 2004. and Mattapan for generations. And for anyone still Hers was an adaptive and effective leadership anxious at the last moment, there are large posters throughout the space featuring images of health care providers and staff members of color who live Markey, Pressley cite ‘vaccine redlining’ in the community. They read: “I’ve taken mine. You take yours.” By Quincy Walters can take six hours out of a day to try to get an ap- So far, Cotterell says, it’s been working. WBUR Reporter pointment,” he said. He thinks the state could use “The first cohort in the 75-plus range were showing After about a full year of the coronavirus crisis, more churches as vaccination sites. up early and on time for their appointments and they data have gradually revealed what many predicted Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley said she, Sen. were very excited to get it. They’ve been isolated and would happen: People of color, as well as people who Markey and US Sen. Elizabeth Warren have been afraid to go out and see their grandkids,” she said. are medically or financially vulnerable, are experi- pushing Gov. Baker to better collect anonymized Here’s more good news: In addition to the main of encing more loss and fewer gains than white people data on racial demographics of people who have supply of vaccines, which are coming through the enduring the pandemic. been vaccinated. state, community health centers like Codman are Several Massachusetts political powerhouses and “He indicated about 20 percent of the data that now getting their own deliveries of doses directly community leaders held a Facebook Live panel last they have is unknown,” Pressley said. “[Accurately from the federal supply chain. Saturday to discuss how marginalized people have capturing data] would support efforts to realize “There’s been advocacy and a noticeable shift to fared almost a year into the deadly pandemic — equity to guard against what I’m characterizing as really get vaccines into the hands of the community specifically their access to and education about the vaccine redlining . . . the [Baker] administration is health centers,” says Cotterell. “They understand vaccine, and what they’re championing at the State really failing those most impacted.” that we’re boots on the ground and we have access House, White House, and Congress to address the Pressley said she has asked the governor to ramp to those patients in underserved communities.” issues. up vaccination efforts for people of color. But even - Bill Forry Communities of color “were the first to get the if anonymized race data becomes more accurate or virus, the first to stay on the job, the first to die but if doses become more available, Pressley believes last to get the relief and the care they need during the deepest challenge is overcoming people of color’s The Reporter this crisis,” said US Sen. Ed Markey. well-warranted skepticism of medicine because of “The News & Values Around the Neighborhood” During the discussion, several commenters wrote its history of experimenting on marginalized people. A publication of Boston Neighborhood News Inc. that vaccine distribution should be equal, therefore “It is incumbent on the medical community to re- 150 Mt. Vernon St., Dorchester, MA 02125 race shouldn’t factor into that. But early distribution gain the trust,” she said. “It’s the medical community Worldwide at dotnews.com data show that Black and Latinx people are being that violated the trust of Black Americans and other Mary Casey Forry, Publisher (1983-2004) vaccinated at a lower rate than white people. marginalized communities because of the practice William P. Forry, Publisher/Editor Access to the vaccine is one of the biggest hurdles. of medical apartheid.” Edward W. Forry, Associate Publisher Another major hurdle is an earned distrust of med- Pressley said people who are unhoused, who Thomas F. Mulvoy, Jr., Associate Editor had first access to the vaccine, told her they were Barbara Langis, Production Manager icine that stems from well-documented experimen- Jack Conboy, Advertising Manager tation on marginalized people and people of color. suspicious because they’ve never been first for Maureen Forry-Sorrell, Advertising Sales When Massachusetts’ two vaccine websites de- anything. 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By Lew Finfer Americans, but only in West Dorchester along Blue Recruitment Special to the Reporter Hill Avenue from Grove Hall to Franklin Field to Center by Viet- “A People’s Guide to Greater Boston,” published Wellington Hill in Mattapan. This led to 10 realtors nam Veterans last July, is a very readable book that details the opening offices there and using vicious blockbust- Against the history of all the neighborhoods of Boston and some ing scare tactics to get the predominantly Jewish War, part of the surrounding communities. It begins with a focus homeowners to sell their homes. national “Op- on how Native Americans were mistreated in the Two older teens appeared on June 27, 1969 at eration Peace 17th century, the anti-slavery activism of the 19th the nearby Glen Hill Avenue home of the temple’s on Earth.” century, the labor union movements of the 20th rabbi, Gerald Zerlemyer, and threw acid in his face. The book century, and actions of community groups over The shock of this led to the temple announcing that also touches on the past 50 years. September that it was closing and moving to West two shootings Joe Nevins, who grew up in Fields Corner and Roxbury, which was exactly what the blockbusting targeting the currently is professor of geography at Vassar realtors wanted. I maintain they had to have paid Boston Globe’s College in New York, is the co-author along with the two people who attacked the rabbi. headquarters Suren Moddliar and Eleni Macrakis. And there’s more. They cover the activism on on Morrissey In the Dorchester section of the publication, they Columbia Point that was sparked when a dump Boulevard, cover some very important events. They take up the truck heading for the landfill struck and killed which mob life of William Monroe Trotter, an important civil six-year-old Laura Ewing, a resident of the public boss and murderer James “Whitey” Bulger ordered rights leader and journalist who lived at 97 Sawyer housing complex. Residents had long warned it to retaliate against the newspaper’s support for Ave. on Jones Hill. In 1901, he founded the Afri- could happen, as trucks daily brought garbage desegregation of the Boston schools. can-American newspaper called the Boston Guard- to the dump next to the development. Residents That’s only the Dorchester part of the book, and ian. He also helped form the Niagara Movement organized and blocked the street to stop the trucks see how much you learned? Thanks to Dorchester’s with W.E. DuBois that led to the founding of the and got the city to close the dump. Joe Nevins and his colleagues for enabling people NAACP. It took a community campaign in 1969 to Not long after, the nation’s first community health to learn so much about the rich history that took get the Boston School Committee, which was then center —now called the Geiger-Gibson Community place where we live. not well-disposed to civil rights, to the Trotter School Health Center — opened on Mt. Vernon Street. Lew Finfer is a Dorchester resident. on Humboldt Avenue in Roxbury is named after There are other Dorchester cameos, such as him and it took a community campaign in 1969 to the 1971 sit-in staged at the Fields Corner Army get the Boston School Committee. The authors also cover the death of Rev. James Reeb, a civil rights leader who lived in Uphams Corner and was killed by the Ku Klux Klan in Selma, Alabama, in March 1965. He had answered Wishing you the best, Marty! the call from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King for clergy from around the country to come after the infamous attacks on marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. On March 14, 1965, some 30,000 people gathered COMMUNITY COVID - 19 on Boston Common to remember him and support voting rights. Another 200 people from the Student TESTING AT DOTHOUSE Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) staged a sit-in on the same day at the JFK Federal Building downtown to protest the federal gov- • Monday / Tuesday • Wednesday ernment not doing enough for civil rights. Reeb’s Thursday / Friday death and the fallout were important factors in the 1pm - 8pm passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 9am - 4pm They also dive into a 1965 controversy at the Gibson School — at the corner of Bowdoin Ave- • First come, first serve basis. nue and Morse Streets in Dorchester— involving teacher Jonathan Kozol, who was fired for reading to his students Langston Hughes’s poem “Ballad • Please arrive 30 minutes before the start of of the Landlord.” Parents and supporters protested Kozol’s firing our testing hours to receive your time slot slip. and demanded curriculum reform, actually winning some steps on that from the recalcitrant School • Once time slots are filled for the day, Department. 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By Daniel Sheehan some structural con- Reporter Staff struction using different Substantial demoli- types of materials. We’ll tion efforts are ongoing be crushing the brick and at UMass Boston’s cam- concrete and filling it in pus this week as part of the hole as part of the a project that will see the buildup.” university’s old Science There will be no new Center and pool house buildings on the site, make way for green Kearns said. Instead, space at the Columbia a complex of walking Point campus. paths will be created The so-called “SDQD” on a completely “green project – short for Sub- quad,” including a slope structure, Science Cen- that will run up to a flat ter, Pool Building, and plaza. Plaza Demolition and “It’s part of our efforts Quadrangle Develop- to create more informal ment – is intended to gathering spaces and move the campus away recreational spaces for from its original in- students,” Kearns said. ward-facing layout and The office and class- create a welcoming envi- room spaces once housed ronment with buildings in the Science building well-connected to the were replaced by a more landscape, the water- A UMass Boston map, modern facility, the In- front, and the surround- above, illustrates what tegrated Sciences Com- ing communities. will result from the plex, which rendered UMass officials consid- current “SDQD” project its predecessor obsolete er the project to be the – short for Substructure, when it opened in 2015. “signature component” Science Center, Pool The project will also of a physical transforma- Building, and Plaza establish a new parking Demolition and Quad- lot to replace campus tion laid out in the uni- rangle Development. versity’s 25-year Cam- A rendering shows an parking from the Bay- pus Master Plan. On the early view of how the side Lot, which will then UMass Boston website, UMass Boston campus enable the development the project’s estimated may look like after the of the Bayside site. cost is put at $137 mil- current demolition proj- Kearns added that lion. ect to remove an old efforts are being made Science Center and sub- to accelerate demoli- Mike Kearns, associ- structure is finished. ate vice chancellor for The target date for the tion and construction Facilities Management, job’s completion is the while the student body told the Reporter that the fall of 2022. UMass Bos- remains remote. “Covid university is about “20 ton images has been a horrible thing percent into the project,” for everybody, but in a which is scheduled to be “In the demolition more minor sense it has completed in the fall of stage,” Kearns explained, pool building, the old structure parking levels catwalk system between enabled construction, 2022. “we’ve demolished the concrete quad, the sub- underneath the quad, the buildings. given us more room and and we’re in the process “Once we tear every- time to work with, and of demolishing the old thing down and get it off made it less disruptive science center and have site, we’ll start building for the students,” he said. partially demolished the back up the quad with

Boston Redevelopment Authority d/b/a Boston Planning & Development Agency Call for Artists -Mattapan Mural Project Contract Information Kenya Beaman: [email protected] The Boston Redevelopment Authority d/b/a Boston Planning & Devel- opment Agency (“BPDA”) looks to commission a temporary artwork mural in the Mattapan neighborhood. The BPDA will coordinate and collaborate with the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture (“MOAC”) during the Call for Artists Process and selection of the design for installation after the artist or team of artist selection. This Call for Artists is open to all artists, national and international, with a strong preference for artists with a connection to Mattapan. BPDA budgeted Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000) for the creation and installation of the mural. The mural must be completed by the end of the summer of 2021.

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The BPDA reserves the right to reject any or all submitted proposals and to waive any minor informalities. The award of the resulting contract is contingent on availability of funds. Brian Connolly Director of Finance/Chief Procurement Officer dotnews.com February 25, 2021 THE REPORTER Page 11 New housing pitched for Avenue Auto’s Savin Hill site

By Katie Trojano team confirmed that addition of a restaurant Reporter Staff they would be sticking on the first floor. A proposal by a South to the percentage that “I thought it was im- Boston-based develop- is required of them by portant to have parking er to build 24 housing the city. available for the build- units and ground-floor “We’re bringing in ing,” Arcari said. “There restaurant space split dwelling units on a space are 21 units proposed, between two parcels at that is underutilized, and usually there’s going what is now Avenue Auto as well as ground floor to be at least 60-70 per- Wholesalers Inc. at 1121 space that will serve local cent that have a car, but Dorchester Ave. was residents,” said George at the same time there’s aired last week during Morancy, an attorney the Savin Hill T stop and a virtual meeting hosted representing Arcari. bus route straight along by the Boston Planning “Currently the city’s Dot Ave. and Development Agen- IDP (Inclusionary Devel- “Hopefully the parking cy (BPDA.) opment Policy) requires won’t be a large demand, Joey Arcari, president 13 percent. There’s been but we would be digging and CFO of restau- a lot going on since this down and using the rants and development project was filed around basement to add some for Broadway Hospi- additional affordability. parking,” he said. tality Group, owns the Right now, nothing ad- One attendee asked parcel and is heading A rendering shows how a developer intends to transform what is now the site ditional is required. The why there were not the development team. of an auto repair business at 1121 Dorchester Ave. RODE Architects image intention here is that more 3- and 4-bedroom we will certainly meet affordable units included The 12,000-square-foot Avenue Auto Whole- He noted that Arcari’s the site, Robinson said. the city requirements in the proposal to appeal project would include salers Inc., which has experience will allow him “We want to create whatever they may be to families in the area a four-story building been on the site for 58 to bring a restaurant in a building that will be in terms of affordable looking for housing. fronting Dorchester Ave. years, will remain in “on day one” if the project timeless. The design units.” “This project is not that would contain 21 business until the devel- were approved and built, includes large windows One attendee asked going to accommodate rental units, 19 under- opers project is approved saying that it would be in with masonry and brick about the proposed all needs in the city or ground and 1 surface through the Small Proj- line with similarly scaled and wood elements,” said buildings’ energy effi- area,” replied Morancy. area parking spaces, and ect Review process. development projects Robinson, “The project ciency and Robinson “With this project, the a three-story building at Eric Robinson, princi- in the area that have will also include outdoor replied that the team developers are aiming 31 Savin Hill Ave. that pal at RODE Architects, brought in new restau- decks on the back side of is considering several to create workforce hous- would include three con- which is designing the rants and amenities. the buildings.” different options. ing for people who are dominium units. project, called it a “very Robinson also pointed The proposal received “We are building a very not ready to purchase The team would demol- exciting” prospect for the to the proximity of the a mix of support and efficient building out of but still want to live in ish a two-story home at neighborhood. property to the Savin push-back from people the gate, but we have the city. No project can 31 Savin Hill Ave. “As a 20-year resident Hill Red Line Station who joined the virtual been talking about going fulfill every need. There The breakdown of rent- in the Savin Hill area, and connections to sev- session, with several fully electric and are are other projects that al units for the parcel it’s exciting to see what eral bus routes along applauding the likely considering potentially would be able to meet on Dot. Ave. would in- I believe are productive Dot. Ave, along with an addition of a new restau- being solar ready on the the needs of Section 8 clude 18 one-bedrooms; projects along Dorches- alignment with criteria rant, while some others building,” he said. requirements and larger 3 two-bedrooms; and 3 ter Ave. that are creat- outlined in the BPDA’s worried about afford- While some attendees family requirements.” three-bedrooms. Park- ing some much-needed PLAN: Glover’s Corner ability, unit sizes, and said that they would The comment period ing for the development housing and bringing in initiative. parking. support the project with for the development would be in the building’s opportunity for new ame- The team plans to cre- When asked about the zero parking units, oth- team’s Small Project Re- underground garage nities to the community. ate wider sidewalks and level of affordability the ers weren’t sure that 19 view Application closed accessed via a shared That’s what this project enhance activity in the project would support, spaces would be suffi- on Feb. 22. easement off Savin Hill offers,” said Robinson. immediate area around members of the project Avenue. cient, especially with the THIS SPACE COULD BE YOURS!

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Copyrighted material previously published in Banker & Tradesman, a weekly trade newspaper. It is reprinted with permission from the publisher, The Warrren Group, thewarrengroup.com Page 12 THE REPORTER February 25, 2021 dotnews.com dotnews.com February 25, 2021 THE REPORTER Page 13 New vaccine sites open on Blue Hill, Talbot avenues (Continued from page 1) borhood that is among those in Boston to be hit hardest by the corona- virus. Bishop Borders, senior pastor at Morning Star, cited how the church, which is situated on a major throughway and bus line, serves as a natural and famil- iar gathering spot for parishioners and the community at large. “I saw on the news this morning a pastor in Bal- timore beseeching the state to make his church a vaccination site,” Bor- ders said. “Here in Mat- tapan where there are higher rates of pre-exist- ing conditions, imagine what it means to me to have the attorney gener- al come to my church and see the lifesaving work Bishop John Borders spoke inside Morning Star Baptist Church on Tuesday. being done here.” He is flanked by Guale Valdez, CEO of Mattapan Community Health Center, Turahn Dorsey, a right, and Attorney General Maura Healey, left. Daniel Sheehan photo Dorchester resident who received his first shot by the health center to ics” in Dorchester, noting ty-based sites are critical test patients for Covid-19 that eligible patients at because they have es- Codman Square Health Center CEO and president Tuesday morning, laud- Sandra Cotterell spoke inside Russell Auditorium ed the accessibility of the and will now be used to Codman Square, Dot tablished relationships on Tuesday. Also shown: AG Healey Daniel Shee- vaccine close to home. administer vaccines as House, Harbor Health, with members of the han photo “I think the state is well. and Harvard Street community, they are increasingly catching “It’s fitting to be here Health Centers can all trusted, and they speak up to figuring out how at Russell Auditorium, a sign up for vaccination the languages of the com- site in Foxborough,” she long rooted in systemic it best deploys vaccina- place that normally hosts appointments at the Rus- munity. It’s a direct line pointed out. “We have racism. tion sites,” he said. “I weddings, baby showers, sell Auditorium location. to the residents.” to account for those “We have vaccines, but certainly understand the and other types of gath- “Here it’s a one-stop Healey said she met barriers.” this fight is not over,” he mass vaccination sites, erings. Vaccines are our shop, it’s less chaotic in two sisters, ages 91 and Rep. Holmes, touting said. “We need to com- but if we want to get to way to get that life back,” general than the health 82, who were waiting in the importance of view- bat hesitancy, we need vulnerable populations James told reporters. center, and there’s ample the observation area af- ing all matters through to continue to increase and folks who might not The Talbot Avenue parking,” said Cotterell, ter receiving the vaccine. an “equity lens,” urged accessibility. This is not easily be able to access facility has been a test- explaining why they “They’re not able to sign vigilance and called for the time to let up on the those sites, you’ve got ing site since November chose a centralized loca- up online or drive out further measures to re- gas.” to do some neighbor- through a collaboration tion rather than at CSHC to a mass vaccination verse health disparities hood-based vaccination among BMC, Codman itself. “This location is like this.” Square Health Center, dedicated exclusively to Later that morning, a and the George Wash- vaccinations; it’s laid out short drive away, Healey ington Carver Grand in a streamlined way, joined Sandra Cotterell, Lodge. It is currently and it’s just overall much CEO of Codman Square vaccinating around 100 more efficient.” Health Center, Dr. Thea people per day, with Healey hailed the James of BMC, and state plans to ramp up to 250 teamwork of local lead- Rep. Russell Holmes at next week and eventual- ers and organizations the Russell Auditorium ly reach capacity of 1,000 to get the site up and on Talbot Avenue near per day. running and “make sure Franklin Field. The func- Cotterell described the those closest to the pain tion hall has been used ongoing development of a get the vaccines they ESCAPE FOR A “network of vaccine clin- need. These communi- LITTLE WHILE. We’ll take care of Celebrity the rest. Celebrity Series of Boston Series at Home Neighborhood OPEN ANY NEW CHECKING ACCOUNT ATH ME Arts Streaming AND YOU’LL RECEIVE FREE: → Instant issue ATM/VISA® check card with Concerts access to Allpoint® ATM network → Online Banking, Bill Pay and e-Statements Quartet Kalos: “The Songs We Make” → Mobile Banking, People Pay and Mobile Feb. 25, 2021, 7:30pm Check Deposit → Plus, get your FREE GIFT when you open Hub New Music: “Listening Local” any new checking account! March 11, 2021, 7:30pm

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February vacation and Family Skate Night at Boys & Girls Club of welcomed back its cel- Devine Rink on Mor- Dorchester serves over ebrated Marr-lin swim rissey Boulevard, as well 4,000 children between team for practice for as annual “Family Paint the ages of 2 months the first time in nearly Night” and weekly fam- and 18 years each year. a year. ily meditation events. Members have access to “The young people are This year BGCD also more than 200 activities the ones who breathe life welcomed Spartan Elite, for $5 a year. During into our buildings. We a program that offered the school year, BGCD are so excited to be able members professional serves about 250 meals to have more youngsters Members of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester enjoyed an open skate instruction during base- every weekday. For more back in our in-person night at Devine Rink in Neponset last week. BGCD photo ball and softball clinics. information, visit bgc- programs safely,” said hard to develop Covid- and have all the club kids dance, STEM activities, On Tues., Wed. and dorchester.org. Brendan McDonald, vice safe but fun programs here in person.” and games. Body + Fuel, Thurs. evenings during president of program- and cannot wait for the Daily programming ming at BGCD. days where we are back during school break “Our staff has worked to 100 percent capacity included music lessons, HELP WANTED

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Monday, March 8 Zoom Link: bit.ly/HancockMarch8th Applications will be accepted from March 1 to March 31st. They will be available on our website, www.insulators6.org beginning March 1st. Print 6:00 PM Toll Free: (833) 568 - 8864 and complete an application. Mail the application to the address listed in Meeting ID: 160 628 8780 the instructions. To apply you must meet the following requirements: Be 18 years of age or older by June 1, 2021. Project Description: Be a high school graduate. Possess a current, valid driver’s license. Article 80 Virtual Public Meeting in connection with the Proposed Reside within the jurisdiction of Local 6. Project at 120 - 122 Hancock Street in Dorchester, for which a Small Own a reliable vehicle. Project Review Application was filed with the BPDA on October 14th, 2020. A Virtual Public Meeting was originally scheduled for Copies of the following documents must be submitted with your application: November 19th, 2020 but was cancelled. Valid, current driver’s license (No photo ID’s) High school diploma, GED certificate or a certified, sealed transcript For more information, please visit: showing your graduation date. www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/120-122- You must also submit a non-refundable aptitude testing fee of $25.00. hancock-street Only checks or money orders accepted, made payable to “ Local 6, J.A.C.”

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The Dorchester Historical Society welcomes HELP WANTED Historian Kerri Greenidge author of Principal Software Engineer is needed by Eze Castle Software LLC in Boston, Black Radical: The Life and Times of MA to design and implement underly- William Monroe Trotter ing data models for applications and Sunday, February 21, 2pm via Zoom* services to be scalable and maintain- able (Relational and Document Based William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934, in Dorchester 1899- Databases). Apply at www.ssctech. 1909) published the Guardian, a weekly Boston newspaper, com/about-us/careers, select SS&C for more than 30 years, bringing his vision of Black EZE Software Careers, open position liberation to readers across the nation. Learn about this in the U.S. and sort by Job Title and little-known but seminal figure in American history, whose apply, or email resume and cover letter life offers a link between the post-Reconstruction work of to: Aylin Kentkur, Senior HR Special- Frederick Douglass and Black activism in the modern era. ist - Immigration, aykentkur@ezesoft. com with reference job # R0003732 in *Go to dorchesterhistoricalsociety.org to register for the event. cover letter. Page 16 THE REPORTER February 25, 2021 dotnews.com

Public Media Release Boston Collegiate Charter School $3.5m from CPA eyed for Dot, Boston Collegiate Charter School will be participating in the SSO program. As part of this program, Boston Collegiate Charter School will offer healthy meals every school day at NO Mattapan COST to the studentsPublic Media Release Boston Collegiate Charter School due to the implementation of special assistance for school year 2020- 2021.Boston Collegiate Charter School Students will be ablewill be participating in to participate inthe these SSO program meal. As part of this program, programs without Boston Collegiate having to pay a (Continued from page 1) feeCharter School or submitwill offer healthy meals every school day at NO COST to the students a household application. due to the implementation of improvements and re- special assistance for school year 2020-2021. Students will be able to participate in these meal programs without pairs to the steeple and having to pay a fee or submit a household application. Qualifications for children to receive free or reduced price meals include: belonging to a entrance stairs, char- household whose income is at or below the Federal Income Eligibility Guidelines, belonging acter-defining exterior toQualifications for children to receive free or reduced p a household that receives public assistance,rice meals include: belonging to a household whose income is at or if the child is homeless, migrant, runaway, or below the Federal Income Eligibility Guidelines, belonging to a household that receives public assistance, or if the architectural features, foster,child is homeless, migrant, runaway, foster, or participates in a Head S or participates in a Head Start or Even Start pre-Ktart or Even Start pre program. -K program. Household size and income criteria are used to determine eligibility for free and reduced-price and fencing. benefitsHousehold if size the and household income criteria does are not used receive to determine assistance eligibility or for the free children and reduced are-price not benefits in the if other the • $321,500 to the 922 household does not receive assistance or the children are not in the other categories mentioned above. Children can Greater Love Taberna- categoriesget free or reduced mentioned-price meals if the household’s gross income falls at or below the limits on the Federal Income above. Children can get free or reduced-price meals if the household’s grossEligibility Guideline chart. income falls at or below the limits on the Federal Income Eligibility Guideline chart. cle Church building on Nightingale Street for Federal Eligibility Income Chart for School Year 2020-2021 FREE REDUCED-PRICE capital improvements Household Size Yearly Monthly Weekly Yearly Monthly Weekly and repairs, including Income Income Income Income Income Income design and reconstruc- 1 tion of the entrance $16,588 $1,383 $319 $23,606 $1,968 $454 stairs and fixing mason- 2 ry on the chimney and 22,412 1,868 431 31,894 2,658 614 The Great Hall in Codman Square. 3 parapet. 28,236 2,353 543 40,182 3,349 773 • $250,000 to the houses, stabilization of sculptural seating, gran- 4 1910 Pierce Building 34,060 2,839 655 48,470 4,040 933 the William Clapp House ite blocks, and grading in Uphams Corner for 5 chimney, repairs to the for lawn mounds to 39,884 3,324 767 56,758 4,730 1,092 capital and accessibil- collections storage struc- rehabilitate active recre- 6 ity improvements to ture, and restoration and ational space at Codman 45,708 3,809 879 65,046 5,421 1,251 the building’s exterior 7 repair of exterior trim Square Park. envelope. 51,532 4,295 991 73,334 6,112 1,411 and fencing. • $100,000 for water 8 • $250,000 to the 806 Earl Taylor, president and utility installation, 57,356 4,780 1,103 81,622 6,802 1,570 Second Church in Cod- of Dorchester Historical site improvements, and Each additional man Square for repairs person: +5,824 +486 +112 +8,288 +691 +160 Society, said the group is furnishings to trans- to character-defining “thrilled to have made it form vacant land into elements of the steeple. To Toapply for free or reduced apply for free or reduced-price-price meals, house meals,holds can fill out the application and return it to the school unless house¬holds can fill out the application and return onto the proposed list for an urban food forest at • $100,000 to the it the household has already received notification that their children are approved for free meals this yearto the school unless the household has already received notification that their children. are funding. Olmec 2 - Aspinwall Food Application forms were distributed to all households with a letter informing households of the availability of free 1889 Global Ministries approved for free meals this year. Application forms were distributed to all households with “The work is important Forest. and reduced-price meals for their children and what is required to complete on the application. Applications also Christian Church on a are availletter able informingat either Main Office: The Lower School Campu households of the availabilitys at 215 Sydney Street in Dorchester and also at The of free and reduced-price meals for their to the preservation of • $50,000 for the Washington Street near childrenUpper School Campus at 11 Mayhew Street in Dorchester. and what is required to complete on the application. Applications also are available our historical buildings removal of unhealthy Ashmont Hill for critical atOnly one application is required for all children in the household and the information provided on the appli either Main Office: The Lower School Campus at 215 Sydney Street in Dorchestercation at 195 Boston Street, trees and planting of will be used for the purpose of determining eligibility and verification of data. Applications may be verified at any repairs to exterior ele- and also at The Upper School Campus at 11 Mayhew Street in Dorchester. and the Society does new trees in Cedar Grove time during the school year by the school or other program officials. An application for free or reducedOnly one application is required for all children in the household and the information-price provided ments, including dam- benefits cannot be approved unless it contains complete eligibility information as indicated on the application and not have the funds to do Cemetery. on the appli¬ca¬tion will be used for the purpose of determining eligibility and verification of aged trim, sheathing, instructions. In the operation of child feeding programs, no child will be discriminated against because of race, sex, this work without the • $25,000 to resurface data. Applications may be verified at any time during the school year by the school or other and roofing. color, national origin, age, or disability. funding,” Taylor told an actively used play- program officials. An application for free or reduced-price benefits cannot be approved unless • $56,000 in Lower the Reporter. “We feel ground to provide qual- it contains complete eligibility information as indicated on the application and instructions. Mills for the rehabili- that this is important ity and healthy outdoor In the operation of child feeding programs, no child will be discriminated against because of tation and restoration for the continued exis- space at Dudley Village. race, sex, color, national origin, age, or disability. of the “Walter Baker” Families can apply for benefits at any time. If a household member becomes unemployed tence of these historic In Mattapan, $400,000 illuminated sign on the or if the household size increases, the household should contact the school. Such changes houses, which showcase was allocated for one his- 1919 Administration may make the children of the household eligible for benefits if the household’s income falls Dorchester’s past.” toric preservation and Building— also called at or below the Federal Guidelines. Contact Kim Misci at [email protected] A total of $1,175,000 two open space projects. Baker Lofts. at any time to request an application. has been earmarked $200,000 to the 1928 Walsh and the CPA Under the provisions of the free and reduced-price policy, Kim Misci and Amanda Kay for Open Space & Rec- Berea Seventh-day Ad- committee also ear- Loring will review applications and determine eligibility. Parents or guardians dissatisfied reation in Dorchester, ventist Academy build- with the ruling of the official may wish to discuss the decision with the determining official on marked $77,200 to pre- including: ing for roof repairs and an informal basis. Parents wishing to make a formal appeal for a hearing on the decision may serve the 1720 Lemuel • $700,000 for site stabilization of urgent make a request either orally or in writing to Shannah Varon, 215 Sydney Street Dorchester Clap and 1806 William improvements to an un- water infiltration loca- MA 02125, (617) 282-6710 X1126. Clapp Houses that are der-maintained 31,000 tions at the exterior. When known to Boston Collegiate Charter School households will be notified of their owned by the Dorchester square foot parcel to • $100,000 to fund the children’s eligibility for free meals if they are members of households receiving assistance Historical Society. The from the: preserve land and cre- site work to redesign, funds would be used to • Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); ate an urban forest for expand, and rehabili- make capital improve- • Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR); or active recreational use tate the multi-purpose ments to the property, • Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), if the State program meets Federal at the Washington Street recreational space be- including masonry and standards. Urban Forest. hind the Brooke Charter related repairs of dam- An application is not required for free meal benefits for Assistance Program participants • $150,000 for the de- School and Lena Park aged foundations at both and all of the children in the household are eligible for free meal benefits. If any children sign and construction of Community Center for were not listed on the notice of eligibility, or if a household does not receive a notice of LEGAL NOTICE eligibility, the household should contact the school to have free meal benefits extended to a distressed lot to create active use. them. Participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and COMMONWEALTH OF a commercial commu- $100,000 for water MASSACHUSETTS nity farm at Westville and utility installation, Children (WIC) may be eligible for free or reduced-price meals, but they will need to turn in THE TRIAL COURT an application including household size and total income. PROBATE AND FAMILY COURT Urban Farm. site improvements, and When known to Boston Collegiate Charter School households will also be notified of any Suffolk Probate & Family Court • $150,000 to fund the furnishings to transform 24 New Chardon Street child’s eligibility for free meals if the individual child is considered “Other Source Categorically Boston, MA 02114 design and construction a vacant land into an Eligible”, because the child is categorized, as defined by law as: (617) 788-8300 of a new performance urban food forest at Ol- CITATION ON PETITION FOR • Foster FORMAL ADJUDICATION stage for communi- mec 1 - Morton St. Food • Homeless, Docket No. SU86P2595 ESTATE OF: ty events, permanent Forest. • Migrant, KLIAUDAS V. SAKENIS The largest commit- • Runaway, DATE OF DEATH: 08/28/1986 LEGAL NOTICE ment of CPA funding • Enrolled in an eligible Head Start, or A Petition S/A - Formal Appointment of Personal Representative has been would subsidize afford- • Enrolled in an eligible pre-kindergarten class. filed by Birute V. Sakenis of Boston, MA State of Connecticut Superior Court able housing projects If any children were not listed on the notice of eligibility, the household should contact the requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief Juvenile Matters school about their eligibility through the list above, or should submit an income application. Order of Notice citywide. A $5 million as requested in the Petition. Notice to Damon Fletcher formerly Households notified of their children’s eligibility must contact the school if the household IMPORTANT NOTICE of 67 Whiting St. Apt 1, Roxbury, MA allotment would fund the You have the right to obtain a copy of 02119 and presently of parts unknown. ONE+Boston First-Time chooses to decline the free meal benefits. the Petition from the Petitioner or at the A petition has been filed seeking: For more information, you may call Kim Misci at 617-265-1172 X7700 or e-mail at kmis- Court. You have a right to object to this Commitment of minor child(ren) of Homebuyer Program, proceeding. To do so, you or your attor- the above named or vesting custody [email protected]. ney must file a written appearance and and care of said child(ren) of the helping income-eligible objection at this Court before: 10:00 a.m. above named in a lawful, private or prospective home buy- In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights on the return day of 03/12/2021. public agency or a suitable and worthy person. ers get down payment regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written The petition, whereby the court’s assistance and payment in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national appearance and objection if you object to decision can affect your parent rights, origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely if any, regarding minor child(ren) will reduction in the interest be heard on 3/30/21 at 2:30pm at conducted or funded by USDA. written appearance and objection followed SCJM, 978 Hartford Tpke, Waterford, rate for a 30-year fixed- Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g. by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty CT 06385. rate mortgage. Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.), should contact the Agency (State or local) (30) days of the return day, action may Therefore, ORDERED, that notice be taken without further notice to you. of the hearing of this petition be given A matching commit- where they applied for benefits. Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or have speech disabilities may Unsupervised Administration by publishing this Order of Notice contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Additionally, program information Under The Massachusetts Uniform once, immediately up receipt, in the: ment of $5 million would may be made available in languages other than English. Probate Code (MUPC) The Dorchester Reporter, 150 Mt. go to the Acquisition To file a program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint A Personal Representative appointed Vernon St., Suite 560, Dorchester, MA 02125. A newspaper having Opportunity Program Form, (AD-3027) found online at: https://www.usda.gov/oascr/how-to-file-a-program-discrimination-com- under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an a circulation in the town/city of (AOP), an anti-displace- plaint, and at any USDA office, or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the inventory or annual accounts with the Dorchester, MA. information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit Court. Persons interested in the estate Name of Judge: ment program by provid- are entitled to notice regarding the ad- Hon. Barbara A. Hoffman your completed form or letter to USDA by: Deputy Chief Clerk: ing funding to responsi- ministration directly from the Personal Lisa Rinato Representative and may petition the (1) mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture Date: 2/19/2021 ble developers to acquire Court in any matter relating to the estate, Right to Counsel: Upon proof of occupied market-rate Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights including the distribution of assets and inability to pay for a lawyer, the court 1400 Independence Avenue, SW expenses of administration. will make sure that an attorney is rental units and convert Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; Witness, HON. BRIAN J. DUNN, First provided to you by the Chief Public Justice of this Court. Defender. Request for an attorney them to deed-restricted (2) fax: (202) 690-7442; or Date: January 29, 2021 should be made immediately in housing for low-and (3) email: [email protected]. Felix D. Arroyo person, by mail, or by fax at the court office where your hearing is to be held. moderate-income Bos- This institution is an equal opportunity provider. Register of Probate Published: February 25, 2021 Published: February 25, 2021 tonians. dotnews.com February 25, 2021 THE REPORTER Page 17

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Spartan Elite Baseball & Softball Partners with BGCD for February BGCD Arts Programming Holds Another Successful Virtual Family Vacation Clinic: See details below. Paint Night for February Vacation Week: See details below. CONNECT THE DOT: FIND OUT WHAT’S INSIDE: DID YOU KNOW: Spartan Elite Baseball & Softball BGCD Arts Programming Holds Partners at Elevate Youth and BGCD UPCOMING EVENTS Partners with BGCD for February Another Successful Virtual Family Members Have Fun Orienteering Vacation Clinic: As an exciting part Paint Night for February Vacation During February Vacation: We closed Elevate Youth E.A.T Initiative of our February School Vacation week, Week: To help kick-off the February out the February Vacation Week with a February 25 Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester School Vacation Week, Boys & Girls Hiking Club outing in partnership with partnered with Spartan Elite Baseball Clubs of Dorchester’s Arts Director, Elevate Youth. The group utilized local Let’s Get Ready SAT Prep & Softball to host a softball clinic for Katy Farrar Sullivan hosted another fun parks in collaboration with Navigation February 23 - April 29 our members. and engaging Family Paint Night event. Games to do some Orienteering, which About 35 of our families took part in is a group of activities that require College Fellows Two sessions were offered during the the most recent program, which was navigational skills using a map and March 2 week, allowing members to work on held via Zoom. Families registered in compass to navigate from point to their fundamentals until outdoor play advance and were able to pick up all point in diverse and unfamiliar terrain Career Exploration Series can resume after the winter season. the materials needed to take part in whilst moving at a fast speed. We March 3 A huge thank you to our friends at the comfort of their homes. love to introduce our members to Spartan Elite Baseball & Softball for life skills and activities that will help *Please note these events are either virtual hosting this fun and educational Clinic Please make sure to sign up for the them discover new and fun learning or will be following all COVID-19 safety for our members. next Family Paint Night that will take opportunities. Thanks to our friends restrictions while meeting. place on Friday, March 12th with a St. and program partner Elevate Youth For more information on BGCD’s Patrick’s Day theme. who have continued to provide the Fitness programming, please contact Hiking Club program since September. Vice President of Programming, To register or for more information on For more information on the Hiking Brendan McDonald at bmcdonald@ the BGCD Fine Arts program please Club, please contact Vice President of bgcdorchester.org. contact Katy Farrar Sullivan at kfarrar@ Programming, Brendan McDonald at bgcdorchester.org. [email protected].

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Dorothy his wife Donna of Nor- her husband Chris of Eddy (58); both originally from New York State; Isles-Smith and Cheryl well, Susan Ahern and South Carolina, Stephen Mother of Sandra Lea Eddy (65) of MA and Andrew Allen of Randolph, MA., her husband Michael Mandeville and his wife Lee Eddy (50) ME earned her wings on February sisters in law Mercy of Plymouth, Christine Cait of Bridgewater, and 6, 2021 at 5:10 am. Marie was a kind, gentle, McLaughlin of Turners Bowers andher hus- the late Kerri Mylett, and compassionate woman who loved everyone, Fall, MA., Lana Mc- band Michael of West Kristen Kelman, and especially children and animals. She was cultured Laughlin of Dorchester, Roxbury, and Daniel Ashley Mylett. Broth- in many ways, but music and language were her and Joselyn West Isles McDonald and his wife er of James Mylett of passions. She worked hard all her life and did not of Mattapan, , brother Patricia of Hingham. Bridgewater, Michael retire until she was 85. She earned her Associates be made to: Parkin- in law Mark McLaugh- Also survived by many Mylett and his wife Mau- Degree as a Physician’s Assistant while working at son’s Foundation, 1359 lin Sr. of St. Petersburg loving nieces, nephews, reen of Dorchester, Jack- Carney Hospital for 25 years at Labouré College Broadway, Suite 1509, Florida , mother in law one grandniece, grand- ie Mylett of Braintree, and went on to work as a volunteer for the elder- New York, NY 10018, ly through Kit Clark and Ethos at Farnsworth and father in law Made- nephews and friends. and the late Paul Mylett Boston Children’s Hos- line and Wilson Mc- Donations in memory and his surviving wife House in Jamaica Plain. A memorial service will pital Trust, 401 Park be held later in the spring at First Parish Church, Laughlin of Boston MA., of Scott may be made Claire of Dorchester. Dr., Suite 602, Boston, God son Darius Thoney the Special Olympics of Also survived by many 10 Parish Street, Dorchester, MA 02122. Please MA 02215. check the church Facebook page or the church’s Johnson, God daughter Massachusetts. loving grandchildren, bulletin for the announcement. Felicia Bourne-Grant, nieces, and nephews. Aunt Dora Honey Des- Donations in memory mond of Scott, Louisi- of Mark may be made to De PASS, Irvin A., gel Dunn & granddaugh- ana, many nieces and The Friendship Home, 91, due to complica- ter Janine King. Irvin nephews and a host of 458 Main St., Norwell, tions from Covid-19. is survived by his sons family and friends. MA 02061. He was predeceased by Errol, Neville, Neil and Keenan, Lillian his parents Harold De Orlando De Pass, and S., of Dorchester. Born Pass and Clementine daughter Barbara, step- in Boston and raised Hay, wife Yourland E. children Randall Dunn in Dorchester, Lillian De Pass, brother John and Deborah Street, was a graduate of Saint Hay, daughter Claudia and many grand and Gregory’s High School De Pass, stepdaughters great-grandchildren, and worked for Blue Yvonne Anglin and Jen- nieces and nephews. The Cross Blue Shield for nifer Dunn, stepson Ni- family request donations many years. Daughter Isles, Joseph of the late Frank M. and McDowall , Teck- Mark, 60, born in Bos- Julia E. (St. Germaine) la Staton, of Dorchester, ton, he was the oldest Keenan. Sister of the late formerly of Trinidad, 60. child of the late Cath- Mary F. Keenan. Lillian Wife of Calvin McDowall NIGHTINGALE, erine Theresa (Mason) is survived by several of Dorchester. Mother Anne of Dorchester. Isles and Irving Isles, Sr. cousins and friends. of Ausha Staton of Hol- Daughter of the late He grew up in Roxbury Donations may be made brook. Sister of Althea John and Rita Night- and Dorchester and was in Lillian’s memory to Greenidge, Helen Jack- ingale. Sister of John a graduate of The Bos- Saint Gregory Church, son, Mervyn Greenidge, “Jack” of Cotuit, Paul ton Latin School, class 2215 Dorchester Ave- Allister Greenidge, An- and his wife Joanne of of 1978. Joseph was nue, Dorchester, MA thony Greenidge-La- FL. Jean Murphy and preceded by his parents, 02124. Roque and the late Dex- her husband Gerard sister Paula Isles and ter Greenidge. She was of FL, Susan M. and brother Irving “Butch” a United States Army Janet, both of Randolph Isles, Jr. He leaves Veteran. and the late Mary. Aunt Cedar Grove Cemetery his wife Georgeanna of Lizabeth Loud and McLaughlin Isles of great-aunt of Eaghan COVID-19 restrictions will be in place Kissimmee, Florida, both of Randolph. Long- son Joseph Isles Jr. and time faithful companion A quiet place on the banks of the Neponset River daughter Constance of Charles Manuel of Chapel available for: Weddings, memorial services, and cel- Isles of Dorchester, sis- Dorchester. Lifelong ebratory masses. Indoor Services available for winter burials. ters Stacey Isles-Brako best friend of Nancy Greenhouse on premises for fresh flowers. Columbarium for (husband Frank Bra- LeBlanc and Louise cremated remains. Plant a tree program. ko, Jr.) of Dorchester, Manna, both of Dorches- Cheryl Isles Alford (hus- ter and Ruthie Jacobson 920 Adams St., Dorchester, MA 02124 • 617-825-1360 band Clinton Alford) of Consecrated in 1868. Non-Sectarian. of Hull. Donations in Lawrenceville, GA. and Anne’s memory may be Jean Isles of Cambridge, McDonald, Scott made to the Beth Isra- grandchildren Dasan T. of Roslindale, for- MYLETT, Mark E. el Deaconess Feldberg Culbreath-Isles, Shawn merly of Dorchester. Sr. “Moose” Of Hol- Building Oncology Unit. Culbreath-Isles, There- Son of the late Mildred brook, formerly of Perkins, Alice TEVNAN TEVNAN sa Culbreath-Isles and and Arthur McDon- Dorchester. Husband of Louise, 80, of Matta- Joseph Isles III, cousins 100 City Hall Plaza 415 Neponset Avenue Barbara “Barbie” (Er- pan, originally from Boston, MA 02108 Dorchester, MA 02124 skine) Mylett. Father Radcliff, (now South 617-423-4100 617-265-4100 “Caring for your life’s journey...” of Mark E. Mylett, Jr. Hill) Virginia. She was and his wife Jennifer of the daughter of the late Orleans, Danielle Ma- Annie Lea and James Attorneys at Law loney and her husband G. Davis. She was the www.tevnan.com LEGAL NOTICES

COMMONWEALTH OF COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS NEW CALVARY CEMETERY THE TRIAL COURT THE TRIAL COURT Serving the Boston Community since 1899 - Non Sectarian PROBATE AND FAMILY COURT PROBATE & FAMILY COURT INFORMAL PROBATE SUFFOLK DIVISION Reasonable pricing and many options to choose from. PUBLICATION NOTICE 24 NEW CHARDON STREET Docket No. SU19P0586EA BOSTON, MA 02114 Grave pricing starting at $1,200 ESTATE OF: Docket No. SU20D0358DR CONSTANCE SULLIVAN DIVORCE SUMMONS Package pricing from $3,800 (includes grave purchase, first DATE OF DEATH: December 1, 2018 BY PUBLICATION and MAILING SUFFOLK DIVISION opening & liner for a weekday service). Cremation Niches To all persons interested in the above ELISANGLEA F. B. RAVENSCROFT starting at $1,400 (Includes Niche Purchase, First Opening captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner vs. CHARLES KENNETH RAVENSCROFT & Inscription) Margaret T. Sullivan of Quincy, MA, a Will has been admitted to informal probate. To the Defendant: The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for 617-296-2339 Margaret T. Sullivan of Quincy, MA has Divorce requesting that the Court grant been informally appointed as the Personal a divorce for irretrievable breakdown. 12 Month No Interest on Grave Purchases, Representative of the estate to serve The Complaint is on file at the Court. without surety on the bond. An Automatic Restraining Order has Pre Need Opening Arrangements The estate is being administered been entered in this matter preventing Lots with multiple graves and oversized graves available.  under informal procedure by the Personal you from taking any action which would Funerals Representative under the Massachusetts negatively impact the current financial Package price only available for an ‘at need’ service. Uniform Probate Code without supervision status of either party. SEE Supplemental  Cremations by the Court. Inventory and accounts are Probate Court Rule 411. Overtime Fees apply to Saturday and Holiday Interments not required to be filed with the Court, but You are hereby summoned and  interested parties are entitled to notice required to serve upon: Elisanglea F. Other options available at Mt. Benedict Cemetery Pre-Arrangements regarding the administration from the B. Ravenscroft, 116 Homestead St., in West Roxbury Personal Representative and can petition Boston, MA 02121 your answer, if any, 1140 WASHINGTON STREET 460 GRANITE AVENUE the Court in any matter relating to the on or before 05/06/2021. If you fail to estate, including distribution of assets do so, the court will proceed to the The B.C.C.A. Family of Cemeteries DORCHESTER, MA 02124 MILTON, MA 02186 and expenses of administration. Interested hearing and adjudication of this action. Main Office located at: parties are entitled to petition the Court to You are also required to file a copy of 617~298~8011 617~698~6264 institute formal proceedings and to obtain your answer, if any, in the office of the 366 Cummins Highway, Roslindale, MA 02131 orders terminating or restricting the powers Register of this Court. of Personal Representatives appointed Witness, HON. BRIAN J. DUNN, First Pricing information and maps available online at: under informal procedure. A copy of the Justice of this Court. Service times and directions at: Date: February 16, 2021 www.BostonCemetery.org Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained Felix D. Arroyo from the Petitioner. Register of Probate www.dolanfuneral.com Published: February 25, 2021 617-325-6830 [email protected] Published: February 25, 2021 dotnews.com February 25, 2021 THE REPORTER Page 19

dren; 8 Great-Grand- Globe for over 20 years. children and a host He leaves extended fam- of other relative and ily and dear friends. WE CAN HELP PAY YOUR friends. STATES, Mary M. HEATING BILLS! “Mama,” 94, of Mat- tapan. Wife of the late Melvin J. States. Mother of Juanita (Rainbow) Seecharan and stepson Timmy Jackson. Grand- You may qualify for ABCD’s Fuel Assistance mother of Leith and Lohn States and step-grand- Program and be eligible for as much as $875 daughter Toni McCann eldest of ten children. and her 4 children and a towards your heating costs (oil, gas, or electric). She was preceded in precious great-grandson, death by three sisters, Cairo. Mary is also sur- Clara May, Delores, vived by 3 sisters, Janet, and Barbara Ann and Helen and Geraldine. Watts, Emily Mil- Maximum benefit is $875 two brothers, Robert She is also survived by a lard (Hogan), 105, of Sterling and Matthew loving host of other rela- Mattapan, was born in Household of 1 = $39,105 Lewis. She was also pre- tives and dear friends. It Red Tank, Panama, to ceded in death by her is Mary’s wish that there John and Gladys Ho- daughter-in-law, Ther- would be no Services. gan She leaves her hus- Household of 2 = $51,137 Cold days are coming. esia, and granddaugh- band Clarence Watts ABCD’s got you covered. ter, Triaunna. Alice and daughter Marsha. Household of 3 = $63,169 leaves her husband She was a volunteer at Ezekiel Perkins Sr.; a housing center for the Household of 4 = $75,201 her children: Ezekiel elderly in Roslindale af- Perkins Jr., Karen Per- ter her retirement from kins-Holmes (Ronald), Raytheon in Waltham. Sharon Perkins-Al- Emily was also a mem- len (Kenneth), Antho- ber of the Church of APPLY TODAY! ny Perkins (Syreena), Holy Spirit. The oldest Last day to apply is April 30, 2021 and Jarrell Perkins– of ten, she leaves be- grandson she raised hind her youngest sis- (Monica); two brothers: ter, Norma Gray; her Arthur Davis (Daisy) daughter, Marsha Net- Residents of Boston, Brookline, and Newton: and James Davis; two ter; grandsons Andre sisters: Avonne (Earl) WALKER, William (Patricia) and Shaun 178 Tremont Street, Boston, MA — 617.357.6012 Perry and Yvonne Sal- of Dorchester. Father of Netter; great-grandchil- lie; five sisters-in-law: Delores White, Speaciaal dren Melanie Gonzalez Ruth Davis, Grace Dar- Jones, Willunda Jones (Ricardo), Tiffany Stew- Residents of Malden, Medford, Everett, get (Ulysses), Mary Per- and Renee (Kenneth) art (Ryan), Christopher, kins, Aurelia Mencey Jackson. Grandfather Ariana and Amin Net- Melrose, Stoneham, Winchester and Woburn: and Joyce Green-Jack- of Jamal Jones, Travis ter and a great-great- 18 Dartmouth Street, Malden, MA — 781.322.6284 son; two brothers-in- White, Treasure Jones, grandson Noah Stew- law: Thomas Perkins Isaiah Walker, Jaheim art along with a host Sr. (Floreda) and Henry Roberts, Blessin Mat- of nieces, nephews and Perkins (Mary); one un- thews, Sonvonn Jones, extended family and cle: Atkin Mayo (Pau- Empress Lamay and Eli- friends scattered all line); one aunt: Lorraine jah Jackson. A dedicated over the world. Williams; 16 Grandchil- employee for Boston Page 20 THE REPORTER February 25, 2021 dotnews.com

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