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Boston May Be Stepping Outside The SouthBostonTODAYOnline • On Your Mobile • At Your Door March 8, 2018: Vol.6 Issue 10 SERVING SOUTH BOSTONIANS AROUND THE GLOBE Boston May Be WWW.SOUTHBOSTONTODAY.COM Stepping Outside Go to our South Boston Today page to view online content. The Box Make sure you like & share s reported in Boston Curbed, private A developers and public officials are still considering a 1-mile-long aerial gondola system between South Station and the Seaport District that could carry the passenger equivalent of 40 city buses per hour. A recent route alteration shows the idea’s continued viability, at least as an idea. Millennium Partners and Cargo Ventures, which are developing a 12-acre project at Boston’s Marine Want to see your ad in South Industrial Park that would include Boston Today & SBT Online? the gondola’s Seaport terminus, have agreed to alter the route Office: 617.268.4032 or cell: so that cable cars wouldn’t pass 617.840.1355 or email at directly in front of rooms at the [email protected] CONTINUED ON page 2 2 SOUTHBOSTONTODAY • www.southbostontoday.com March 8, 2018 EDITORIALEDITORIAL Celebrate and Enjoy! Something for Everyone outh Boston is a place ing the crowds turn out to enjoy There are all of these and more where March becomes a it all. We have the banquets, the going on for the next two weeks. Smonth-long celebration breakfasts, the youth sporting The hard working members of with something for just about ev- events like the Boxing Show, the South Boston Citizens As- eryone to enjoy. St. Patrick’s Day Miss Ice O Rama, the Bowl O sociation and the South Boston is paired with Evacuation Day Rama, the Free Throw Compe- Allied War Veterans Council and and our community is fortunate tition and many other athletic our other veterans posts, and of enough to have some truly dedi- activities for the kids. There is course our elected officials, give cated volunteers, who put a lot the Senior Salute, The big Road it their all with the collective of time, effort and creativity into Race and the Religious Ceremo- goal of making South Boston’s setting up an impressive schedule nies such as the Memorial Mass. St. Patrick’s Day/Evacuation of events sure to bring smiles to The Patriotic Memorial Exercis- Day celebration an epic event people of every age group. es are always a hit and of course for all, whether you are long- But what brings smiles to the big parade itself, the second time residents, new arrivals or those who do all the work put- largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade visitors. These great volunteers ting everything together is see- in the world. deserve very special praise. “Can you imagine if every school was as protected as was the OSCAR event?” – Michelle Malkin Stepping Outside The Box...continued from front page Letter to the Editor planned 1,054-key Omni hotel across from the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. To the Editor: a difference in people’s At the same time, Millennium has been talking to Yes, it is still winter, but lives. When you donate to city and state officials about the gondola. And South at Morgan Memorial Good- Goodwill, you create jobs. Boston’s Congressman, Stephen Lynch, has apparently will Industries, we would Program participants get on- become intrigued by the idea. He told the Globe’s Jon like you to think spring the-job training in our retail Chesto that the gondola could ferry “the equivalent of – spring cleaning, that is! enterprise, graduates from 40 buses per hour, while reducing vehicular traffic and That’s because this time of our training programs get ac- eliminating carbon emissions.” year is our lowest for dona- cess to interview attire free Millennium is also willing to pay the approximately tions and we are asking for of charge, and local residents near you. For information $100 million in construction costs for the South Station- your help. In 2017, South get jobs in The Goodwill about Goodwill as well as the to-Seaport system—and to consider helping extend it to Boston residents donated Stores. Your donations help locations and hours of The residential areas of Southie near L Street, if that has any more than 760,000 pounds us advance our mission of Goodwill Stores and donation merit and support. As it stands now, the gondola would of goods to Goodwill and helping people with barriers centers, please visit www. run 30 to 50 feet above Summer Street. But things are we are very thankful. Now, to self-sufficiency to achieve goodwillmass.org<http:// still tentative regarding the requisite official approvals. we are hoping you will independence and dignity www.goodwillmass.org>. The route alteration for the Omni hotel, though, means get a jump start on spring through work. Thank you for donating the best idea of 2017 is still alive and well in 2018. cleaning and look in your In Cambridge, you can and supporting Goodwill! closet to find items to help donate clothing and house- Joanne K. Hilferty, Presi- Make sure you like & share South Boston Goodwill today. hold goods at The Goodwill dent and CEO Today with your friends! Donating makes you Store at 470 West Broadway Morgan Memorial Good- www.southbostontoday.com feel good. It also makes or at another donation center will Industries PO Box 491 • South Boston, MA 02127 SouthBostonTODAYOnline • On Your Mobile • At Your Door South Boston Today is not liable for errors appearing in advertisements beyond the cost of Publisher Editor In Chief the space occupied by the error. All South Boston Today produced artwork, design, and layout John Ciccone Brian R. Mahoney remain the sole property of South Boston Today. Reproduction in whole or part is strictly forbidden. South Boston Today reserves the right to cut, edit or reject any copy without notice. [email protected] • [email protected] South Boston Today is a Series of the Today Publications Series LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Deadlines 396 West Broadway • 617.268.4032 • Office hours: Mon-Fri 10:00am - 2:00pm Press Copy - Monday at 6:00pm • Advertisements Space Reservations - Friday at 6:00pm • Ad Material - Monday at 4:00pm • Camera Ready Ads - Tuesday at 6:00pm March 8, 2018 SOUTHBOSTONTODAY • www.southbostontoday.com 3 InformationThe Center The Oscars: Yawns, Eye Rolls and a Continuing Free Fall SOUTH BOSTON TODAY John Ciccone Note: talk back to John Ciccone by email at [email protected] t’s interesting what makes some private American citizens for the protec- that was thrown out from the pampered So, here’s the final question for this people happy and brings satisfaction tion of their families? Apparently, the malcontents on stage, the reception week: They sit and fume in the audience Ito them. For myself, I’m pretty easy celebs think their lives are much more Gary Oldman got for what he said was if anyone gives praise to America. They to please, but I have to say, watching the important than ours because, at their quite different. When the humbled ac- make it obvious that they lack American free fall in ratings for the glitzy awards insistence, last Sunday’s event was sur- tor praised this country and told of how pride. But as much as so many of them shows brings a big wide smile. And writ- rounded by 500 armed Los Angeles po- grateful he was for all the gifts and op- have threatened to leave the country and ing columns about it as I often do, espe- lice officers in addition to the ‘stars’ own portunities America had blessed himself move to Canada or Europe, they just cially after the latest ratings disaster just personal armed security. Wouldn’t it be and his family with, he received a stony, won’t go. Why? They sit and scowl and adds frosting to a tasty cake. And so, after nice if America’s school children were cold silence from the crowd. They clear- trash our nation at every opportunity but the numbers that came out from Sunday’s as protected as the celebrities at the Os- ly didn’t want to hear anything good know damn well that their bad attitudes Oscars found that, as bad as the decline cars? Do we see an inconsistency here? said about the United States of America. wouldn’t be tolerated any place else. in viewership has been the past few years, As they took turns condemning gun vio- this year saw the event even lose an as- lence in America, the money and roy- tounding 20% more fans. At this rate in alties THEY collect from movies they another year or so, the Oscars will be on a make and star in glorifying massacres Public Meeting podcast shown at 3am, if at all. and mayhem just rolls in. A good guess Preferring to watch the paint dry on would be that if you put it to these ac- a bedroom ceiling, no one in the fam- tors and actresses to promise never to be ily watched the show. But, we did catch in another movie where people get shot, some of the so called ‘highlights’ the next they’d flatly refuse. Hey, they wore their MASSPORT MARINE day. And yup, ever predictable, it was an- orange lapel pins and ribbons on stage, other preach and scold session where the so they’ve done their part. TERMINAL PARCEL 6 ‘celebrities’ lectured the diminished au- Many have asked since last Sunday’s dience about their brand of politics. And show if the push from the stage for gun THURSDAY, MARCH 22 22 DRYDOCK AVENUE while those groupies and wannabes in control wasn’t in part to create a dis- 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM 3rd floor the live audience, much like trained seals traction, so they wouldn’t have to talk Boston, MA 02210 waiting for a fish, clapped on cue at ev- too much about the sexual abuse scan- ery leftwing rant uttered from the stage, dals that run wild through Hollywood.
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