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City Election 2019: Our endorsements

By The Times Staff Registered voters of Somerville will be heading to the polls next Tuesday, November 5, to cast their votes for several seats in the city's govern- mental body. In contention are candidates for mayor, four City Councilors At-Large, and two members of A very 60's the School Committee. Halloween Here are our picks for the candidates who we page 3 feel would best serve the city in their respective upcoming terms: Mayor In our opinion, current Mayor Joseph Cur- tatone is the clear choice for re-election to his ninth term in office. Since 2004, the mayor has The City Election in Somerville is taking place next Tuesday, November 5. All registered voters are encour- successfully led the city through various fiscal aged to get out and let their preferences be known by casting their votes for various city officials. crises, addressed unfair Continued on page 4 'Foolish' or not, Superchunk goes acoustic in Somerville

By Blake Maddux A masks and puppets block party As the cofounder of both the Chapel Hill pages 12–13 quartet Superchunk and the venerated record label Merge, each with Laura Ballance, Mac MacCaughan’s credentials as the embodiment of American indie rock and its DIY ethos are beyond reproach. 2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the band and the label, as well as the 25th anniversary of Superchunk’s fourth LP, Foolish. To honor the occasion, McCaughan and his bandmates recorded an acoustic version of the album – ti- tled AF (Acoustic Foolish) – and performed the whole of it on two nights at the Evanston, IL venue SPACE. “That was the test run, and it worked really well,” McCaughan said in an interview with The Chalk one up for Somerville Times that continues below. the home team So well that the band put together a four- city tour that includes a visit page 14 Acoustic Foolish Superchunk will be presenting a live acoustic show commemorating the 25th anniversary of the release of to Somerville Theatre on Continued on page 8 their album Foolish. — Photo by Lissa Gotwals 2••OCTOBER 30, 2019

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The views and opinions expressed in Newstalk do not necessarily reflect those of Fiona Davis-Walsh says: The Somerville Times, its publisher or staff. The column has many contributors. Mayor Curtatone’s letter made a compelling, climate-focused argument for lowering the voting Happy Halloween to everyone! We hope everyone out there is age in municipal elections to 16. careful driving tomorrow night when children will be out trick As a young person in my second year at Tufts, who comes from a town of 700 people in New or treating. Be safe! Hampshire’s beautiful White Mountains, I’m very aware of the threat posed by climate change. *********************** But coming to this city as a student, I’ve become increasingly aware of another threat that contin- On Tuesday, November 5, registered Somerville voters can ues to plague our communities: gun violence. cast their votes for Mayor, At-Large and Ward City Council- This is why I joined the Advocacy Corps, a group of twenty young people supported by the Friends ors, and School Committee Members. Polls will be open from Committee on National Legislation who are organizing for sensible reform to curb gun violence at 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. More information on voting, including the federal level. Here in Somerville, we’re lucky to have representatives who are already cospon- sample ballots, is available at www.somervillema.gov/elections. soring some crucial legislation. After I brought H.R. 1236 to their attention, Congresswoman You can find out where you vote by entering your address at Ayanna Pressley’s staff made sure she signed on as a cosponsor of this bill that will provide fund- www.somervillema.gov/mysomerville. If you have any ques- ing for legislation that allows for the temporary removal of firearms from someone who poses an tions, please contact 311 (617-666-3311 from outside of the immediate threat to their own or others’ safety.Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren are co- city), or email [email protected]. sponsors of S. 42, which would implement a system of universal background checks nationwide; *********************** now we need our representatives to make these bills a priority for Congress. Happy birthday this week to several locals: Happy birthday No matter how old you are, Rep. Pressley and Senators Warren and Markey work for you; with to a former alderman and great guy, Dennis Sullivan. A nice or without the vote, you have the power to call, email, and visit their offices and add your voice to guy who served Somerville for many years. We wish him a very the all the others calling for a safer city and a safer nation. happy birthday. Happy birthday to Eric Erb, from Somerville, who is celebrating this week. Happy birthday to another good Response to: Still leading the way guy who served Somerville years ago, Charles Chisholm. We hope he has a great birthday. Big happy birthday to our own Robert Spinney says: a great real estate agent here in Somerville, Clifton Verdieu, Jimmy, wonderful it’s still the people of Somerville that makes it great. who grew up in East Somerville. He works out of the Century 21 North East, Norton Group RE office. And finally, happy joseph sylva says: birthday to another great guy and writer, Timothy Gager. very nice article JIm A talented and great guy. We hope he has a great day. Hap- py birthday to everyone here and from the city celebrates this Bob Ross says: week. We wish every one of them a very happy birthday. Great article as usual, Jimmy. I saw what you did there dropping in the 02144 zip code. Given the *********************** recent reboot of Beverly Hills 90210, I think it’s high time for a reboot of “Somerville 02144” as Join Mayor Joe Curtatone, State Senator Pat Jehlen, State well, don’t you? Representative Mike Connolly, and Ward 1 City Councilor Matt McLaughlin for a community meeting about communi- current annoyance??? says: ty needs at Foss Park. Two meetings have been planned, but each will cover the same information. Meetings are scheduled great term for what i’m dealing with today. how is one supposed to access OUR library if you’re as follows: Wednesday, October 30, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m., Healey using a wheelchair and/or a walker? the only available ramp entrance is on the corner of Highland & Walnut. obviously no dream of parking anywhere near there. we have a full timer employee in School cafeteria, 5 Meacham St., and Continued on page 11 charge of this stuff, and we have a Commission supposed to be in charge of this stuff. so why does this stuff just keep happening? more than just an annoyance.

davis the square says: Nice article Jimmy. Current city council would do well to remember that we owe much of what is 699 Broadway, Somerville, MA 02144 great about this city today to the hard work of those who came before them. I know one elected official who isn’t going to leave anything to remember him by and that is Lance Davis the defini- [email protected] tion of an empty suit. It’s a sign of how much this community has been hollowed out that he does www.thesomervilletimes.com not have an opponent. 617-666-4010 • Fax: 617-628-0422 Response to: Income-restricted rental unit available: www.facebook.com/ 100 Fellsway West @somervilletimes thesomervilletimes LindaS says: Publisher – Somerset Valley Publishing Inc. Seriously? ONE? One apartment? Editor – Jim Clark It’s ridiculous that so many people who desperately need housing have to jump through endless Assignment Editor – Bobbie Toner hoops for ONE chance to obtain a place to live. They may as well hold a competition like American Ninja, where people have to go through an Advertising Director – Bobbie Toner obstacle course. They will hold the same chance of getting a home here. My advice? Go to another city where you may actually be able to afford a home. And I mean a Arts Editor – Doug Holder HOME, not an apartment. Writers: Jim Clark, Denise Keniston, Jackson Ellison, Michael LoPilato, Marshall Collins Response to: Early morning fire at Jackson St. multi-family Contributors: Jimmy Del Ponte, Dorothy Dimarzo, Blake Maddux, Bob Doherty, Ross Blouin home Photographer: Claudia Ferro Ritepride says: The Somerville Times is published every Wednesday God bless the Somerville fire fighters. Consider the close proximity of the homes so close together they did a great job in stopping the fire from spreading further. Yet the zoning allows for such A proud member of the following newspaper organizations: construction is mindboggling.

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte A 60’s Halloween worths, Grants and at Bradlees I’m in therapy! in later years. That’s if you were Remember if Halloween night lucky. Frugal families would was cold? The biggest bummer make their kids throw together was when your parents made their own original costumes. you wear your stupid coat over your costume. Yes, there were many pitfalls to trick or treating I remember trick or treating Hated treat list: back then. Those masks got hot back in the day. There was no fruit, loose hard and sweaty too. And if you chose such thing as “fun size” candy. to wear makeup it would always We got full size bars or “den- candy, loose pop- smudge and smear. tist’s delights.” At the height of The older kids would trick or our childhood Halloween fun, corn, any granola treat in packs of about 15-20. we’d have to go home to empty product, pencils, My dad would have to in- out our pillow cases and go to spect all the candy before we more houses for more candy. loose pennies, juice were allowed to dig in. A wise Remember looking at the lousy thing to do, especially nowa- treat the neighbor would drop boxes, or yogurt days. Of course, he didn’t know in your sack? The biggest rip- about the pound and a half of off would be the houses that The year I was Zorro will al- candy we’d eat before we got plopped an apple into your bag. ways be stuck in my mind. My home. He always snuck a cou- A true right of maturity was you got it. No one wanted a stupid apple parents pulled a Ralphie from ple of Nestles Crunch bars for when our parents stopped tak- A friend of mine had a funny for Halloween plus it would A Christmas Story on me. They himself while conducting his ing us trick or treating to our memory. One year his dad gave crush the good stuff! The only wouldn’t let me get a sword. inspection. grandparents, aunts and uncles’ him his mother’s beret to wear, thing worse than fruit was the They bought me a lame rubber Hated treat list: fruit, loose and neighbors houses and let us along with a ripped sweatshirt. nut who would put a handful of knife instead. That memory is hard candy, loose popcorn, any go with our friends. He then smudged cigar ashes on loose popcorn in there. right up there with the brown granola product, pencils, loose I can still smell that cheap and his face for a beard. He then said, Ben Cooper Halloween cos- shoes with my white holy com- pennies, juice boxes, or yogurt. flimsy plastic mask. The elastic “There you go! You’re a beatnik, tumes were purchased at Wool- munion suit fiasco. No wonder No bite me size candy! usually broke on the first day now get the hell out there!”

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By Jim Clark Promise her anything, but steal her a Rolex A Somerville Police officer visit- als standing at the Rolex case. tinely secure a license or iden- ter a brief struggle, was able to ville to commit fraud. After ed Kay Jewelers at Artisan Way These two customers appeared tification card to process large detain him. searching his person, credit last Saturday for a routine busi- to know each other, and were dollar amount transactions. The It was determined that the sus- cards and IDs belonging to var- ness contact. shopping together. officer could see the Texas driv- pect was attempting to purchase ious people were found to be in The business had been expe- The officer engaged one of the er's license on the counter, and it the Rolex valued at $7,000 with his possession. riencing a rash of individuals men at the Rolex case in con- appeared to him to be fake. a line of credit belonging to Decambra was placed under using fake IDs and stolen cred- versation, and learned he was Due to no radio service, the someone in Texas. This suspect arrest on charges of conspiracy, it card information to obtain attempting to purchase a Rolex officer needed to exit the store was later identified as Jamine credit card fraud over $1200, merchandise, specifically Rolex for his girlfriend. to radio the situation in to dis- Decambra of Brooklyn, NY. attempt to commit a crime, re- watches. He also informed the officer patch. When he re-entered the The second suspect was iden- sisting arrest, furnishing a false All of the thefts had been com- that he was from Texas and store, the suspect had got out of tified as Cameron Walters, of ID, utter false instrument, and mitted by a suspect using a fake was only visiting for a week. As his chair and walked across the The Bronx, NY. It was clear possession or use of false RMV out of state driver's license or the officer spoke with him, he store. As the officer approached, that Walters and Decambra, document. identification card. reportedly grew extremely ner- the suspect took off running to- and possibly a third individu- Walters was placed under ar- Upon entering the store, the vous and began to sweat. ward the front door. al, conspired to drive together rest on charges of conspiracy and officer observed two individu- Employees at Kay Jewelers rou- The officer gave chase and, af- from New York City to Somer- receiving a stolen credit card. SOMERVILLE POLICE CRIME LOG Arrests: by single scheme. rant charge of assault and bat- conspiracy and receiving a sto- of conspiracy, credit card fraud Harlan Dossantos, of 67 Kenneth Reed, of 74 Adams tery with a dangerous weapon. len credit card. over $1200, attempt to commit Hillsboro St., Quincy, Octo- St., Boston, October 26, 4:18 Cameron Walters, of 1898 Jamine Decambra, of 27 a crime, resisting arrest, fur- ber 23, 2:51 p.m., arrested at p.m., arrested at Artisan Way on Harrison Ave., The Bronx, NY, Crooke Ave., Brooklyn, NY, nishing a false ID, utter false Washington St. on a warrant a charge of fugitive from justice October 26, 7:57 p.m., arrested October 26, 7:57 p.m., arrest- instrument, and possession or charge of larceny under $1200 on court warrant, and on a war- at Artisan Way on charges of ed at Artisan Way on charges use of false RMV document.

City Election 2019: Our endorsements CONT. FROM PG 1 immigration policies, fought for and has served as Law Clerk Councilor At-Large. would have liked to have given her position on the Somerville solutions to to overwhelming for a Judge of the United States Having previously served on a nod to incumbent Councilor School Committee. opioid crisis, and many other se- Court of Appeals for the Federal the Board of Aldermen as Ward At-Large Stephanie Hirsch, who For thirteen years she has been rious issues that has confronted Circuit. 6 Alderman for eleven terms has done a wonderful job on the active in the Somerville Public the city. Councilor White has proven – from 1984 to 2005 – Alder- Council. Inasmuch as it is likely Schools as a reading tutor, Spe- His many uniquely innovative himself to be a dedicated cham- man At-Large, one special elec- that she would not serve her full cial Education Parent Advisory initiatives for community de- pion for affordability, climate tion and five terms from 2007 term if re-elected, we felt that it Council member, PTA member, velopment are unparalleled and change, transparency in govern- to 2017, Jack Connolly has the would be best to offer our en- School Council member, class- demonstrate his inexhaustible ment, equity, and economic de- distinction of being the longest dorsement to another candidate. room volunteer, and enthusiastic capacity for thinking outside the velopment that is appropriate serving Alderman in Somerville We sincerely thank Councilor supporter of youth sports and box, while at the same time hold- for the community. history. Hirsch for her service to the city the performing arts. ing fast to the traditional values His unrivaled knowledge and During his recent absence and wish her the best in her fu- For the past six years, she has that all Somervilliens share. experience in all civic legislative from official public service, Con- ture endeavors. represented Ward 7 on the Considering his many years of matters make him a clear choice nolly has dedicated his time and Ward 3 School Committee Somerville School Committee. service to the city – fifteen years for re-election to office. We urge efforts to many civic minded ac- Our endorsement for the Ward She is proud of she has accom- as mayor and eight years as al- you to cast one of your At-Large tivities, including the restoration 3 seat on the School Committee plished so far, and is eager to derman prior to that – and his votes for Bill White. of the Davis Square area. goes to Mary Marshall. continue the district’s work on record of success in office, May- Mary Jo Rossetti is another We feel that his many years of For the last 15 years, she has equity, access, and innovation. or Curtatone is unquestionably hard working and imminently devoted service to the communi- been involved in the schools as Her mission is to create an in- the best qualified candidate on qualified sitting Councilor At- ty, along with his unequalled lev- a parent, volunteer, and PTA clusive and equitable learning the ticket. We encourage you to Large who deserves your vote. el of experience, specially quali- leader, listening to youth and community for all children cast your mayoral vote for him. Since taking office, Councilor fies him to be elected Councilor parents from all backgrounds across Somerville. Councilor At-Large Rossetti has actively served on At-Large. and advocating for underserved We strongly urge you to vote Our endorsements for Coun- various committees such as Fi- Our fourth choice for endorse- and at-risk students. for Carrie Normand for Ward 7 cilor At-Large include two well nance (Vice Chairman), Legis- ment for Councilor At-Large is Through her activism, she has School Committee member. deserving incumbents and two lative Matters, Licenses and Per- Kristen Strezo, who we feel will built many strong relationships. Be sure to get out and vote next equally qualified challengers. mits (Chairman), Rules (Special bring a fresh and vital energy to She has never taken a break Tuesday, no matter who you William A. White Jr. has Committee), Senior Services, the office. from listening to the concerns of prefer in each race. If you have served on the Board of Alder- and the Somerville High School Strezo has served as co-chair students, teachers, and parents, any questions concerning where men – later the City Council – Building Committee. of the Somerville Commis- and hopes to bring her fighting and when to vote, go online to in his capacity as an At-Large She has also focused on special sion for Women, and is known drive and enthusiasm to rep- https://www.somervillema. representative since 1998. issues that the city has faced such as a social justice activist and a resent Ward 3 on Somerville’s gov/departments/elections or During his tenure he also as rodent control and airplane well-respected journalist. School Committee. call the Election Department at served as President of the noise abatement. Her tireless ef- We think that Krisen Strezo We ask you to cast your vote (617) 625-6600 ext. 4200. Somerville Board of Alderman forts in these matters alone have will bring much welcome vitality for Mary Marshall for Ward 3 Our thanks and best wish- and ex-officio member of the earned her a rightful seat in the and enthusiasm to the City Coun- School Committee. es go out to all the candidates. Somerville School Committee City Council horseshoe. cil and we urge you to cast one of Ward 7 School Committee Whether winning or not, they Councilor White has been a Councilor Rossetti clearly your At-Large votes for her. In Ward 7, we endorse incum- are all giving their best to duti- practicing attorney for 35 years deserves one of your votes for We would like to note that we bent Carrie Normand to retain fully serve their community. OCTOBER 30, 2019••5 Call to Arts engages candidates around arts and culture issues Call to Arts, a newly formed Studios, Nave Gallery, New Al- cal businesses. Conservative es- grassroots effort to advocate for liance Gallery, Somerville Open timates of one such program run and advance the work of local Studios and Vernon Street Stu- by the Somerville Arts Council, artists, has launched a Create the dios. A questionnaire was sent to ArtsUnion, suggests a $3 mil- Vote campaign for Somerville’s candidates in contested races for lion economic impact over the 2019 municipal elections. Cre- Mayor and Councilor at Large, last 5 years. ate the Vote is a non-partisan, as well as for Ward Councilor, “We are excited to live and grassroots campaign to engage although all are running unop- work as artists in a place like voters and candidates for office posed in this election. Candidate Somerville, where arts and cul- on the vital role that arts, culture responses are available online at: ture is recognized as a driver of and creative expression play in https://calltoarts.org/create- our economy and key to creating Somerville such a desired place A Call to Arts is a coalition of improving our schools, strength- the-vote-2019/. a livable city. However, with in- to live,” says Call to Arts orga- Somerville, Cambridge and Bos- ening our economy, and building This year’s questionnaire ad- creasing pressures from develop- nizer, dance artist, and Ward 7 ton based artists begun in the neighborhoods where people dresses key issues of afford- ment and a crisis around avail- Somerville resident Jess Muise. summer of 2019. We believe that want to live, work, and play. ability, access to space, and city able space to create, rehearse, Call to Arts’ effort is inspired together we can create a stronger As part of the Create the Vote investment in arts infrastruc- and present all forms of art, we by MASSCreative’s Create the artistic community to the bene- campaign to engage candidates ture. Statistics shared at recent need our local officials to contin- Vote toolkit, which has been ef- fit of creators and patrons alike. for local office in Somerville, MA Somerville ResiStat meetings ue to make real investments in fective in other cities and towns The arts are an essential part of on arts and culture issues, Call to revealed that for every $1 invest- arts and culture infrastructure. in the Commonwealth. Since what makes our communities Arts joined with area arts groups ed in the arts, the city sees $4.40 Whether that’s a percent for 2013, Create the Vote cam- vibrant and why we choose to including Artisan’s Asylum, Art- in economic impacts. These art program, or partnering with paigns have resulted in increased make this our home. https:// ists for Equity + Space, Boston impacts include direct income artists in the creative reuse of investment in arts and culture, calltoarts.org/. Burners, Brickbottom Artists to the artists that sell, perform municipal properties, we know including establishing the arts Call to Arts is a hosted com- Association, the Center for the and teach at arts programs and there is more the city can do to commissioner position in the munity of CraftMass, a Somer- Arts at the Armory, CraftMass, events as well as the indirect im- retain support and attract the City of Boston, supporting ville based non-profit launched Joy Street Studios, Miller Street pact of attendees patronizing lo- creative class which has made matching cultural council funds to acknowledge and support in municipalities like Medford communities with a focus on CITY ELECTION and Medfield, and spearheading creation. Their mission is to pro- CITY OF SOMERVILLE a dedicated arts fund using reve- mote community participation nue from the city’s lodging tax in in artistic and fabrication activ- New Bedford. ities, support the formation of To stay updated on the cam- such communities, and provide paign, follow Call to Arts on education in the creation and Twitter, Instagram and Face- practices of creative communi- OFFICE OF BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS book @aCall2Arts. ties. https://craftmass.com/. Ordered: In City Council The Board of Elections Commissioners is hereby directed to cause notice to be given in the manner prescribed by law that meetings of the qualified voters of this city will be held in the several polling places which have been designated by said ESCS debate team gives impressive Council for or within the voting precincts in which they respectively are qualified to vote, said polling places are located as follows, namely for; performance at kickoff event WARD ONE Precinct 1. A room in the MICHAEL E CAPUANO SCHOOL, 150 Glen Street; East Somerville Community School de- Precinct 2. A room in the EAST SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL, Glen Street Entrance directly across from 68 Glen Street; baters had an impressive performance at Precinct 3. A room in the EAST SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL, Glen Street Entrance directly across from 68 Glen Street the Boston Debate League’s kickoff mid- WARD TWO Precinct 1. A room in the THE POLICE STATION, 220 Washington Street; dle school tournament held at Suffolk Precinct 2. A room in the ARGENZIANO SCHOOL at Lincoln Park, 290 Washington St; University earlier this month. Precinct 3. A room in the LOWELL STREET FIRE STATION, 651 Somerville Avenue; WARD THREE An estimated 170 new and returning students from more than Precinct 1. A room in PROPERZI MANOR, 13-25 Warren Avenue; 15 middle schools participated in the event including 19 ESCS Precinct 2. A room in THE CUMMINGS SCHOOL, 42 Prescott Street; Precinct 3. A room in the DANTE CLUB, 5 Dante Terrace; students, who competed in the novice division under the guid- WARD FOUR ance of team coaches Precinct 1. A room in the MYSTIC ACTIVITY CENTER, 530 Mystic Avenue; Precinct 2. A room in the WINTER HILL COMMUNITY SCHOOL, 115 Sycamore Street; Mr. Scott Weaver and Mrs. Valquiria Gouvea. ESCS students Precinct 3. A room in the WINTER HILL COMMUNITY SCHOOL, 115 Sycamore Street; Anna Mateo and Yarenis Valdivieso placed third in the novice WARD FIVE division, while Ethan Faria and Emil Tull placed tenth in the Precinct 1. A room in the DEPT OF PUBLIC WORKS GARAGE, 1 Franey Road; Precinct 2. A room in the BROWN SCHOOL, 201 Willow Ave - Kidder Ave Entrance; novice division. Precinct 3. A room in the ENGINE 7 FIRE STATION, 265 Highland Avenue; WARD SIX Faria also earned the tenth place speaker trophy. Next up for Precinct 1. A room in the JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL, Sartwell Avenue Entrance directly across from 19 Sartwell Avenue; the ESCS Debate team is a tournament at McCormack Mid- Precinct 2. A room in the SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH, 31 College Avenue; dle School on November 16. Precinct 3. A room in the HOLY BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH, 14 Chapel Street; WARD SEVEN Visit https://www.bostondebate.org/asdl/ to learn more Precinct 1. A room in the SENIOR CENTER, TAB BUILDING, 167 Holland Street; Precinct 2. A room in the WEST SOMERVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL, Raymond Avenue Entrance directly across from about the Boston Debate League’s flagship program and their 17 Raymond Avenue; monthly 2019-2020 tournament calendar. Precinct 3. A room in the VNA ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY, 405 Alewife Brook Parkway;

ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2019 A Mayor, Four Councilors-At-Large, and the said qualified voters of each of the seven wards of the city will also there and then give in their ballots for One Councilor who shall at the time of the Election be a qualified voter of the ward in which elected, and for One Member of the School Committee who shall be a qualified voter of the ward in which elected, all for the term of two years. Nicholas P. Salerno, Chairman Anthony J. Alibrandi Douglas M. Bosley Louise A. McCarthy BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS

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Beacon Hill Roll Call can also be viewed on our website at www.thesomervilletimes.com THE HOUSE AND SENATE: Beacon Hill Roll Call Rep. Denise Provost Didn't Vote examine elevated breast cancer rates on Cape Cod. They records the votes of local representatives and senators said the research is very important for Massachusetts from the week of October 21-25. $780 MILLION BUDGET (S 2378) residents who have elevated breast cancer risks because Senate 39-0, approved a $780 million fiscal 2020 sup- there are toxins in the environment. $1 BILLION PLUS FOR EDUCATION (H 4157) plemental budget to cover expenses and to fund vari- House 155-0, approved the Student Opportunity Act ous state programs and agencies that are running out “I have a long-standing policy of opposing [earmarks],” that invests $1.5 billion, mostly in the form of Chapter of money. The package also sets the state's next prima- said Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz (D-Boston) who opposed 70 Aid for local school districts, in the state's public K-12 ry election before Labor Day by making it on Sept. 1, the amendment. “While some earmarks benefit wonder- education system over the next seven years. The measure 2020 and allows for five days of early voting ahead of ful organizations, overall I believe earmarking hurts our implements the recommendations of the Foundation the primary; allows farmers to cultivate hemp on land ability to plan long-term fiscal policy and undermines Budget Review Commission which found the state was with agricultural preservation restrictions; and trans- opportunities for fair, transparent, rigorous allocation of underfunding schools by more than $1 billion annually. fers $356 million to the state’s stabilization fund that taxpayers’ dollars. I find other ways to go to bat for great would jump to $3.2 organizations and causes." “I am proud of the bill passed in the House as it is the result of countless hours of research, analysis and input The Senate version costs $50 million more than the one (A “Yes” vote is for the $200,000. A “No” vote is from all stakeholders in the education field," said Educa- recently approved by the House and unlike the House against it.) tion Committee chair Rep. Alice Peisch (D-Wellesley). bill, does not decouple the Bay State from the federal “This bill ensures that students across the common- tax code to allow corporate interest deductions. It also Sen. Patricia Jehlen Yes wealth have access to the tools necessary for academic does not include $5 million the governor sought to fight and post-secondary success. It is a massive step toward a fentanyl trafficking. DOUBLE DEPENDENT TAX CREDIT (S 2378) more equitable funding structure, which will provide the Senate 10-28, rejected an amendment that would double additional resources necessary to level the playing field.” “With today’s passage of this supplemental budget, the a dependent tax credit, from $1,000 per year to $2,000, Senate is responsibly closing the books on Fiscal Year for families with children and those who care for an el- “The new funding will mean smaller class sizes, more 2019,” said Sen. Mike Rodrigues (D-Westport), Chair derly or disabled relative. The break was first proposed enrichment programs and electives, an increase in guid- of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means. “While by Gov. Charlie Baker in his version of a supplemental ance services, more classroom aides, improved programs bolstering our Rainy Day Fund, we make a number of budget but was stripped from the House and Senate for English learners and special education students and meaningful investments to increase educational oppor- versions of the budget. greater ability for districts to foster caring, effective, in- tunity, improve our state’s aging infrastructure, confront novative schools,” said Mass Teachers’ Association Pres- worsening congestion, reduce our carbon footprint and Amendment supporters said the state has a more than ident Merrie Najimy. address public health issues relative to Eastern equine $1 billion surplus and can afford to help working fami- encephalitis.” lies with a reasonable tax cut. The Senate has approved a different version of the $1 billion plus package and a House-Senate conference A 6-member House-Senate conference committee will “A taxpayer with two children and a dependent elderly committee will eventually hammer out a compromise hammer out a compromise version of the budget that parent would be eligible for a $6,000 exemption under version that wIll be approved by both branches and sent will be approved by both branches and will go to Gov. this proposal, up from $3,000, with tax savings rising off to Gov. Baker. Baker’s desk. from $150 to $300,” said Baker when he filed the proposal back in September. “This change is expected to (A “Yes” vote is for the bill.) (A “Yes” vote is for the budget.) reduce tax collections by $87 million per year and I recommend reserving $175 million to cover approximately Rep. Christine Barber Yes Sen. Patricia Jehlen Yes two years at the higher exemption rate, which will give Rep. Mike Connolly Yes budget writers sufficient time to adjust to the revision Rep. Denise Provost Didn't Vote $250,000 FOR VISITOR INFORMATION CEN- in collections.’ TERS (S 2378) FREE FULL-DAY KINDERGARTEN (H 4157) Senate 9-30, rejected an amendment providing $250,000 Amendment opponents said it is not a good idea to im- House 7-147, rejected an amendment that would pro- for the 11 Massachusetts visitor information centers. plement a tax cut when the economy is flourishing. They vide grants to cities and towns to support the establish- argued when the state has excess revenues, the money ment of free full-day kindergarten programs in schools Amendment supporters said these centers are important should put it away in the Rainy Day Fund so it will be that do not offer it for free, and to support schools at a places where visitors and tourists go to get information there when the economy eventually tanks. financial risk of losing an existing free full-day kinder- while staying in the Bay State. They argued the centers garten program. facilitate commerce and generate revenue for the state. (A “Yes” vote is for the tax cut. A “No” vote is against it.)

Amendment supporters said a similar grant program Amendment opponents said the amendment is Sen. Patricia Jehlen No was in effect from 2000 to 2017 but was then eliminated well-intentioned but noted that the House must hold when state tax revenue went down $600 million. They the line on additional spending if it wants to put away ALSO UP ON BEACON HILL said that gutting the grants left 83 percent of districts money in the State’s Rainy Day Fund. They noted with free all-day kindergarten and 17 percent without that there are other boosts for tourism in the budget PRIMARY ENFORCEMENT OF THE SEAT it. They said the amendment is designed to ensure that including a $1.2 million increase in funding for re- BELT LAW (H 2126/S 1407) - The Public Safety every child in every school district has access to free all- gional tourism councils. Committee heard testimony on a bill that would allow day kindergarten. police officers to issue tickets for seat belt violations even (A “Yes” vote is for the $250,000. A “No” vote is if the driver is not stopped for another violation as re- Amendment opponents said the grant program was in- against it.) quired under current law. tended to be transitional, not permanent. They noted that 17 percent of districts that were not offering full- Sen. Patricia Jehlen No Other provisions prevent officers from searching the ve- day programs were doing it for reasons that were par- hicle or occupants solely because of the seat belt viola- ticular to their districts. They tended to be able to offer $200,000 FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN’S tion and prohibit a seat belt violation from resulting in a full-day programs but chose not to do so. HEALTH (S 2378) surcharge on motor vehicle insurance premiums. Senate 38-1, approved an amendment providing (A “Yes” vote is for the grant program. A “No” vote is $200,000 for the Silent Spring Institute for research on The fine for drivers and passengers over the age of 16 against it.) links between environmental chemicals and women and who violate the law would be increased from $25 to $50. children’s health. The current additional $25 fine on the driver for each Rep. Christine Barber No passenger between the ages of 12 and 16 who is not Rep. Mike Connolly Yes Amendment supporters said the Institute was created to wearing a seatbelt would also rise to $50. OCTOBER 30, 2019••7

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"Seat belts save lives,” said Sen. Paul Feeney (D-Foxbor- behalf of its author Cinzi Lavin, a composer from Hull. that he is joining our firm. His expertise in health care ough), the sponsor of the Senate version of the bill who She said the bill represents statewide recognition of the and state finance will be an invaluable asset to our exist- credits seat belts for saving his life and his wife’s life fol- value of music, which expresses the best and highest as- ing practice and significantly enhances our current ser- lowing an accident in 1999. “That's it, it's simple. They pirations of us all--uniting the political landscape--and vice offerings." — Rasky Partners CEO Larry Rasky on save lives, we know that. We know that in Massachusetts uplifts the sentiments of our shared humanity. hiring former House Ways and Means Chair Jeff Sanchez when people buckle up, the accidents that may occur, the as a lobbyist. fatalities, are less, that serious injuries are lessened be- “Famous musicians such as Marion Anderson and cause of seat belt use. We know it works." Woodie Guthrie not only touched the hearts of millions, “Incidents of hate or bias have no place in Massachu- but were formidable forces for positive social change,” setts, or anywhere in our country. Schools are meant to “Seat belts promote safety, save lives and save money,” continued Lavin. “Creating a Musician Laureate would be safe, supportive environments for our students and said Rep. Jeffrey Roy (D-Franklin), the House spon- honor Massachusetts' proud artistic heritage and is a staff, and this grant initiative will provide the resources sor of the proposal. “We could save 45 lives, prevent worthy means of honoring the talented artists in our school districts need to help prevent hate crimes and to 500 injuries, and save $525 million over five years with state.” encourage victims to come forward to report incidents.” a primary seat belt law in effect. According to a recent — Sen. Michael Moore (D-Millbury) on $400,000 in study in the New England Journal of Medicine, the sin- The committee’s hearing also included proposals to cre- funding for programs to help curb bias incidents and hate gle greatest opportunity to improve health and reduce ate the position of Poet Laureate (H 2945) and Archi- crimes in Massachusetts public schools. premature deaths lies in personal behavior, and seat belt tect Laureate (H 2947). use is yet another form of impaired driving that must HOW LONG WAS LAST WEEK'S SESSION? be addressed. Massachusetts ranks 46th in the nation BAN ELEPHANTS AND OTHER ANIMALS (H Beacon Hill Roll Call tracks the length of time that the in seat belt use, lagging the national rate by nearly 10 2934) -Also on the agenda of the Tourism, Arts and House and Senate were in session each week. Many leg- percent, reinforcing the need for this legislation.” Cultural Development Committee is legislation that islators say that legislative sessions are only one aspect of bans elephants, bears, lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars, the Legislature's job and that a lot of important work is “From 1984 through 1993 opposing mandatory seat cheetahs and some other animals from being used in done outside of the House and Senate chambers. They belt laws before the Public Safety Committee was an traveling circuses and other traveling shows in Massa- note that their jobs also involve committee work, re- annual rite of spring, despite our repealing the first law chusetts. Violators would be fined between $500 and search, constituent work and other matters that are im- resoundingly on the 1986 ballot,” said Chip Ford, Ex- $10,000. portant to their districts. Critics say that the Legislature ecutive Director of Citizens for Limited Taxation, and does not meet regularly or long enough to debate and twice chairman of The Committee to Repeal the Man- “Elephants, bears, big cats and primates are wild animals vote in public view on the thousands of pieces of legisla- datory Seat Belt Law ballot question committees. “Fi- whose lives should not be exploited for human amuse- tion that have been filed. They note that the infrequency nally, on a vague and confusing 1994 ballot, with nine ment and profit,” said Rep. Lori Ehrlich (D-Marble- and brief length of sessions are misguided and lead to questions, just titles and no summaries or explanations head), the sponsor of the measure. “They face a misera- irresponsible late-night sessions and a mad rush to act so as to make room for all nine, the majority cast a ‘yes’ ble life on the road hauled around in trucks and trailers on dozens of bills in the days immediately preceding the vote, many later acknowledging they thought a ‘yes’ vote and often subjected to violent and inhumane training end of an annual session. was to repeal the law, when in fact a ‘no’ vote was neces- methods. There is growing public pressure to cease their sary. As we warned in our two repeal campaigns over a exploitation leading to shows, such as Ringling Brothers, During the week of October 21-25, the House met for decade, ‘secondary enforcement’ was just to get a foot in to close down. The time has come for statewide action.” a total of 14 hours and 15 minutes while the Senate met the door. The camel has been squeezing itself inside the for a total of seven hours and 20 minutes. tent ever since, proving we were right – the nanny state Opponents say the abuse of any animal should never be is never satisfied.” tolerated but note that some of these animals are rarely Mon. Oct. 21 House 11:01 a.m. to 2:50 p.m. secure in their natural habitat. They argue the bill would Senate 11:06 a.m. to 1:09 p.m. DELAY IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW TAXES prohibit the exhibition of properly cared for and hu- (H 2520) – The Revenue Committee held a hearing manely trained animals and will not prevent abuse, but Tues. Oct. 22 No House session on legislation that would prohibit any new or increased rather unnecessarily restricts the ability of the public to No Senate session tax from being collected, assessed or payable until three view these animals at shows throughout the state. months after the passage of the tax. Wed. Oct. 23 House 11:02 a.m. to 9:21 p.m. QUOTABLE QUOTES No Senate session “There are more than 644,000 small businesses in Mas- sachusetts that, collectively, employ over 1.4 million “In Massachusetts, we have been incredibly fortunate to Thurs. Oct. 24 House 11:02 a.m. to 11:09 a.m. individuals,” said GOP Minority Leader Brad Jones have political leaders that do not buckle under pressure Senate 1:21 p.m. to 6:38 p.m. (R-North Reading), the sponsor of the measure. “These from the uniquely unregulated gun lobby, and are com- types of businesses are the lifeblood of our economy, but mitted to putting public safety before special interest Fri. Oct. 25 No House session it is extremely difficult for employers to make sound- fi politics and corporate profits. Massachusetts is a nation- No Senate session nancial planning decisions and prevent layoffs when new al model for effective gun violence prevention and can taxes can be introduced with little notice. By requiring a be proud of its record to balance sensible gun laws with Bob Katzen welcomes feedback at [email protected] three-month grace period, we can provide small business Second Amendment rights.” — John Rosenthal, found- owners with a sense of predictability so they will be bet- er of Stop Handgun Violence at an event celebrating the SUBSCRIBE TO MASSTERLIST – IT'S FREE! ter prepared to deal with any new tax-related expenses.” group’s 25th anniversary. Join more than 17,000 other people from movers and LAUREATES – The Tourism, Arts and Cultural De- “Every day, we are faced with the sobering and unfortu- shakers to political junkies and interested citizens velopment Committee held a hearing on a measure that nate reality that veterans are taking their own lives - and who start their morning with a copy of MASSter- would create the nonpaid position of Musician Laureate that troubling statistic has been rising,” said Thanks to List! MASSterList is a daily ensemble of news and of the Commonwealth (S 2026). The laureate, appoint- the support of a grateful nation and keen advocacy in commentary about the Legislature, Politics, Media ed by the governor biennially, would write and/or per- our Legislature, Home Base has become the most prom- and Judiciary of Massachusetts drawn from major form music to commemorate important events such as inent and largest trainer of private sector clinicians in news organizations as well as specialized publications ceremonial occasions, celebrations and state anniversa- Massachusetts in evidence-based care for PTSD and the selected by widely acclaimed and highly experienced ries; act as the governor’s adviser in musical matters and top veteran treatment program in the country.” — Home editor Jay Fitzgerald. Jay introduces each article in his represent the state’s musical legacy. The Senate approved Base Executive Director Jack Hammond at a ceremony in own clever and never-boring, inimitable way. Go to: the bill in 2018 and it was then given initial approval by the House honoring the group. www.massterlist.com/subscribe Type in your e-mail the House but died when the 2018 session ended. address and in 15 seconds you will be signed up for a "Jeffrey Sanchez is one of the most respected voices in free subscription. With no strings attached. Sen. Patrick O’Connor (R-Weymouth) filed the bill on public policy locally and nationally, and we are honored Be sure to visit us online at www.TheSomervilleTimes.com and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thesomervilletimes 8••OCTOBER 30, 2019

'Follish' or not, Superchunk goes acoustic in Somerville CONT. FROM PG 1

November 6. The onstage lineup and less commonly done than ophone that you hear on there. will comprise McCaughan, life- just acoustic versions of songs TST: Many bands either re- long members Jim Wilbur (guitar) from different records. That’s release an album or perform it and Jon Wurster (drums), touring why we decided to do that. live in its entirety to observe an bassist Jason Narducy, and Matt TST: Do you think that Fool- anniversary. Why did you decide Douglas, who appears on AF, on ish lends itself particularly well to do both? saxophone and keyboards. to an acoustic rendering? MM: I think it was just real- The Somerville Times: The MM: When we put out Fool- izing that it worked once we re- 25th anniversaries of No Pocky for ish in the first place, the reaction corded it and feeling like it would Kitty and On the Mouth have both was largely, “Whoa, this album be weird to spend the time mak- happened in the past five years. sounds so different. The guitars ing this thing that we really are Why is Foolish the first such occa- are clean and the songs are slow- happy with and just kinda drop sion that you are celebrating with er.” So part of the idea in doing it out there and not promote it a rerecording and a tour? the acoustic version of the whole any way. We’ve never done the Mac McCaughan: I guess part Foolish album was to record play-an-album-start-to-finish of this reason is we’ve had other something that sounded like thing, and I’ve always been am- new records out around the time people acted like Foolish sound- bivalent about that as a fan, really, of these other reissues. If it’s a ed. You know what I’m saying? because I like being surprised by 20th anniversary or something As though it were really as rad- what someone’s gonna play. But like that, it’s always a good time ical as people acted like it was I guess in this format the whole to do a reissue if something’s when we put it out back then. thing’s kinda surprising because been out of print. Foolish was When I listen to Foolish now, yes it’s all-acoustic arrangements of your mistakes. But that’s not In with an acoustic version of it? not out of print, but we were it starts with a slow song, Like A these songs that Superchunk fans really there when everything is MM: That’s a good idea. You trying to think of interesting Fool, which was unusual for us, know really well and then a lot of kinda quiet and delicate sound- know we recorded that record things to do for the Merge 30th and there are acoustic guitars songs that they probably haven’t ing. So getting over the stress of in Somerville at Fort Apache. anniversary. So we had a sub- on it and things. But to me, it’s heard since the record came out. that and just trying to settle into When we made Here’s Where scription series where people not really as different from our Some of the more deep cuts are just knowing that if you [exple- the Strings Come In, we record- could subscribe to get vinyl in first few records as people made interesting to hear this way and tive] up people are gonna hear it! ed an acoustic version of Detroit the mail all year of previously it out to be then. We kind of set maybe it will send people back to Also, if you’re used to going on Has a Skyline as a B-side for Hy- unreleased stuff from Merge art- out to do this recording that was the original record. stage and then kinda jumping per Enough. That was really the ists. They didn’t know what they like, what if it really sounded as TST: What are some of the around for an hour and a half, it’s first time that we had recorded were getting. And so we thought different as people thought it challenges that accompany an a different kind of energy and I and released an acoustic studio it made sense for one of those did? And it was really fun to do. acoustic show? think you kinda have to prepare recording. A lot of people really things to be by Superchunk, but A lot of these songs we not only MM: For me the challenge is for that in a way. To be sitting like that version of that song, in we couldn’t figure out wheth- have never played acoustically always singing and playing these down and trying to enjoy that fact. We haven’t done it with the er it should be a live album or but we’ve never even played live songs that were written on an part of it as opposed to enjoying rest of that album, but how do whether we should just record a ever since we made the record. A electric guitar and then figuring the kind of aerobic aspect, which you record an acoustic version bunch of our songs acoustically couple of those, In a Stage Whis- out how to play them on acoustic is what I’m normally enjoying. So of a song like Certain Stars? You or something. So we were just per and Saving My Ticket, ended guitar. We’ve kind of rearranged it is weird to finish a show and don’t know until you try. going through all these different up being some of my favorite re- them to make that part feasible. not just be completely soaked in ______concepts and we realized that it cordings on Acoustic Foolish just But when you’re playing a loud sweat and exhausted. It’s a differ- Superchunk with Torres, lined up with the 25th anniver- because they had a new life and electric show and jumping all ent kind of exhaustion. Wednesday, November 6, at sary of Foolish. In some ways, a different sound. They’re fun to around and there’s a lot of noise TST: Might you commemo- the Somerville Theatre, 55 Da- recording a whole album acous- play live now and I think they’re happening and loud drums and rate next year’s silver anniversary vis Square. Doors at 7:00 p.m., tically seemed more interesting enhanced by strings and the sax- stuff, there’s a lot to cover up of Here's Where the Strings Come show at 8:00 p.m.

Dorothy’s Corner BY DOROTHY DIMARZO Avenue Kitchen make it an an entree. If you plan on including a salad with your meal, I & Bar would recommend sharing the salad, Located in Ball Square this new- it’s that big! ly opened restaurant sits where the If you prefer something other former Pescatore’s restaurant used than a salad and pizza you’re in to be. This space has been renovated luck. You can choose steak frites, to feature a large U-shaped bar, add- miso salmon, crispy chicken rou- ing more seating in the heart of the lade and even a vegan option is restaurant. available and the menu options do On this trip, I opted for the Brus- change. Brunch is now available on sels, carrot and quinoa salad along Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 with a mushroom and rabe Detroit a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Style pizza. Both dishes exceeded my Check out their website listed below expectations! The salad was full of for additional information for tasting roasted vegetables on a crispy bed of menus, special oyster nights and wing hearty romaine lettuce tossed with a nights. Great food and friendly ser- light citrus dressing and topped with vice. In the warmer weather outdoor avenuesomerville.com sliced avocado and orange segments. seating is available. M-F 4:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. The pizza had a thick, crispy, yet Appetizers/Snacks $8 – $17 Sat. 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. light crust topped with broccoli rabe, Avenue Kitchen & Bar Salads $10 – $15 Sun. 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m. sautéd mushrooms, a blend of cheeses 158 Boston Ave. Pizza $12 – $23 ______and sausage. On a side note, a list of Somerville, MA 02144 Burgers $16 Visit Dorothy’s website at http://ddi- proteins can be added to any salad to (617)764-0879 Entrees $19 – $30 marzo2002.wix. OCTOBER 30, 2019••9

Six tips for accessing local affordable housing resources can call the SCES Aging Information In addition to the state and federal- By Kristin Bell Department from Monday to Friday, ly funded buildings, there are privately The cost of housing in Cambridge and 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to speak with an managed subsidized properties in both Somerville keeps going up, and Somer- Elder Care Advisor, who can go over communities. SCES maintains a list of ville-Cambridge Elder Services (SCES) these resources. If ongoing help is need- these properties. If you go this route, is increasingly hearing requests to help ed, an advisor can provide an in-person you’ll need to contact each to see if the older adults meet housing challenges. consultation. waitlist is open and accepting applica- Cost is a major factor. But demand for Consider State and Federal housing In tions. If so, the property will send you accessible housing is also on the rise: na- general, the two housing authorities are an application. Please note that with all tionwide, there are 10,000 people turning the best places to obtain applications for waitlists it is important to update the 65 every day. Fortunately, there are some federal and state-aided housing for older housing manager yearly, if you wish to steps you can take toward staying in the adults and people with disabilities. remain on the list. community of your choice as you age: In Cambridge, the Multi-Service Seek inclusionary housing Think ahead Center (located below the Cambridge Both cities have inclusionary hous- Affordable and accessible housing is Housing Authority) is a wonderful re- ing apartments, which are established Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services (SCES) limited, and there are usually waiting source that can provide assistance with as part of new development. Both cities Housing Specialist Kristin Bell. lists. It is a good idea to be proactive and signing up for all the affordable options have offices that help with the application submit applications before a critical need in the area. If someone wishes to live process. In Cambridge, it is the Commu- plies, the better the chances of finding an arises. With that plan of action, you will in Somerville, the Somerville Housing nity Development Department and in affordable and accessible apartment. ______be well ahead of the game. Authority is a great resource for get- Somerville, there is an Office of Strategic Call SCES ting on the waitlist in Somerville. Also, Planning and Development. It is worth Kristin Bell is a Housing Specialist at There are many different avenues for within the mayor’s office there is the noting that sometimes the income re- Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services pursuing affordable housing. SCES Office of Housing Stability, which is quirements are higher than other afford- (SCES), a private, non-profit agency that maintains lists of different programs a valuable addition to the City and its able programs. helps older adults maintain health and and agencies to utilize while looking constituents. One final takeaway well-being in the setting of their choice. For for housing. Join a waitlist for privately managed Get those applications out there early more information about SCES, visit elder- Anyone in Somerville or Cambridge housing and often is important. The more one ap- care.org or call 617-628-2601.

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On Saturday, October 26, Somerville's Deborah Mason Performing Arts Center hosted Scrooge's Tricks and Treats – A Halloween Boogie Benefit to raise money for the eleventh annual Cambridge Youth Dance Company's (CYDP) production of the holiday dance-theatre tradition What the Dickens! December 14. 15, 21, and 22 at John Hancock Hall. According to Deborah Mason Dudley, "We had a blast! I’d like to thank Nicole Jalbert Pirani and our CYDP family and friends plus everyone who came to dance and donate. The ongoing generosity focused on the aspiring young dancers of CYDP is evidence of the powerful positive impact we have in our community every day." For more information about CYDP or What The Dickens!, visit cydp.org. 10••OCTOBER 30, 2019

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The views and opinions expressed in the commentaries and letters to the Editor ofThe Somerville Times do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions ofThe Somerville Times, its publishers or staff. Data Download with Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone ministration has been working tentially put them in danger by over ten years. The gross do- before. You overcame that dif- to dismantle it. Some may lose forcing them back to countries mestic product would also lose ficult experience, started a new their status early in 2020. still experiencing instability. $4.5 billion over ten years if life, and established stability in all TPS holders were removed a new place. But now you are 12,000: In Massachusetts, there 273,000+: There are more than from the workforce. being told to go back to a place are more than 12,000 TPS hold- 273,000 U.S. born children who you no longer know, where you ers. Their futures and that of have at least one parent with $967 million: If TPS holders have no job or home, and where their families hang in the balance. TPS. The effects of ending TPS were removed from the work- violence, extreme poverty, and reaches far beyond the hundreds force, businesses would be faced instability await. Now consider 20 years: Honduras was des- of thousands of immigrants who with nearly $1 billion in turn- that you may have to leave your By Joseph A. Curtatone ignated for TPS in 1999 – 20 hold that status. Families with over costs to hire and train peo- child, sibling, or parent behind, Taking a closer look at notable city years ago – after Hurricane mixed immigration and citizen- ple to fill those vacant positions. because it’s safer for them to data – and interesting numbers. Mitch caused extensive damage. ship statuses are facing hard de- Some industries would be hit stay here. For most of us, this Similarly, El Salvador was des- cisions as they grapple with the harder than others. Last year the would be horrifying, and we 450,000: Across the U.S. about ignated for TPS after the 2001 possibility that some members Massachusetts Senior Care As- wouldn’t want to manufacture 450,000 residents have an im- earthquake, and it has been re- may have to leave the country. sociation raised concerns about this pain for others. America is migration status known as tem- newed ever since. After decades The extension recently grant- the effects ending TPS – espe- big enough, prosperous enough, porary protected status (TPS) of implied secure status, the ed to Salvadoran TPS holders, cially for Haitians – would affect and humane enough, not to put – and it’s under threat. In sim- Trump administration canceled and hopefully soon to other the healthcare industry. About people we’ve opened our hearts ple terms, TPS is one way our TPS for these countries and countries, offers some relief but 4,300 Haitians work in nursing and country to through this. nation offers refuge to people others including Haiti and Ne- doesn’t address the real issue. It’s facilities across the state and na- America needs to create a path fleeing extraordinary hardship pal. These TPS holders remain time to rewrite the rules and give tionally around 1 million immi- to citizenship once and for all for such as natural disasters, war, here thanks to a reprieve by the TPS holders options for staying grants work as certified nursing those with TPS. or extreme violence. TPS hold- courts (although Salvadorans in the country where they have assistants, personal care atten- ers can legally work in the U.S. were just granted work permits made their home and contribut- dants, and home health aides. Data-based decision making is at and have to renew their status for another year). Hondurans ed for so many years. the core of how the City of Somer- every 18 months. The status was and Salvadorans with TPS have 1 minute: I’d like to ask you to ville develops policy and sets prior- originally intended as temporary been living in the U.S. for years $6.9 billion: Along with the take one minute to imagine what ities. Every day we check the lat- relief for recipients from about and have built lives here. Immi- human cost, ending TPS would it would mean to you to know est 311 stats, and throughout the ten countries, but in practice the grants from other countries with be a hit to our economy. Because that at any moment someone week we meet for in-depth review federal government has contin- TPS may not have been in the TPS holders are authorized to could tell you that you have to of departmental data and city ued to extend TPS for years and, U.S. as long, but each time their work in the U.S., they pay into move far away. Think about how trends. The Data Download col- in some cases, decades due to the status is renewed they are fur- Social Security and Medicare. it would feel to have to leave umn shares some of the data we’ve continued dangerous conditions ther connected to their commu- More than 80% of TPS holders your job, school, friends, family, been reviewing recently, as well as in these countries. TPS does not nities. Ending TPS would split have jobs and removing them faith community, neighbors, and interesting updates. To see more include a path to citizenship or up families, send people back to from the workforce would re- your home. Now imagine that Somerville Data, visit the online permanent residency, and since countries they may not have a sult in a loss of $6.9 billion to you are a refugee from a crisis Somerville Data Farm at www. taking office, the Trump -ad connection to anymore, and po- Social Security and Medicare and you’ve already had to do this somervillema.gov/datafarm.

Learn to Talk Social Justice Series – 'Crossing the Line: In Search of Sanctuary' A Collaboration between Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church and the Nave Gallery Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, in collaboration with the Nave Gallery, announces their 5th annual Learn to Talk Social Justice Series. The theme of this series focuses their attention on the experiences of immigrants and refugees seeking sanctuary in a new place and coping with untold losses. What is our role as a nation, as a city, as communities of faith, and as individuals, in welcoming these strangers into our midst? Various events in this series will help us to reflect on this important public question. Proceeds from donations at these events will benefit The Welcome Project of Somerville. They are especially proud to announce this event in conjunction with the 100th Anniversary Celebration of the establishment of Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church in Somerville. A special celebration and remembrance time will be held on Sunday, November 3. The Co-Moderator of the national Presbyterian Church (USA), the Rev. Cindy Kohl- mann, will deliver the message for the event. Mayor Joseph Curtatone and City Council President Katjana Ballantyne will also present a citation from the city for our 100 years of service to this beloved community. All are welcome to attend the service and a meal afterwards, and to explore the two major art exhibits on hand for the Learn to Talk series.

Nave Gallery Exhibit: Opening Reception November 1 – Crossing the Line: In Search of Sanctuary The global refugee crisis today is the greatest since the end of World War II. There are nearly 68.5 million people who are forcefully displaced from their homes and cul- tures by war, repression, famine, and natural disaster. Comprised of work chosen through an open call, Crossing the Line: In Search of Sanctuary aims to share various artistic impressions on current immigration and refugee issues – personal, political and philosophical. Ranging from photographs of local first-generation communities to works on canvas created in Syrian refugee camps, the exhibition reminds us of the differences that bring us together. Juried by: Gabriel Sosa Location: Nave Gallery (Teele Square), 155 Powder House Blvd, Somerville, MA Exhibition dates: Friday, November 1, 2019 – Sunday, December 15, 2019 Gallery hours: Saturdays and Sundays 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. or by appointment Artists: Brandin Baron/ Joan L. Brown/ Robert Castagna / Paola de la Calle/ Ellen Dubreuil/ Shoshanna Ehrlich/ Susan Greer Emmerson/ Mia Fabrizio / Ali Jokha- dar/ Kristen Mallia/ Iartiza Menjivar/ Denise Orxata / Ponnapa Prakkamasul/ Rajiv Raman / Ricardo Zapata OCTOBER 30, 2019••11

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As the little ones look forward to cele- ward on each side of almost every issue. his or her duty to get out to the polls as the very important At-Large Council- brating Halloween, we are doubly tasked Politics as usual, really. and do the thing that makes life in this ors and a couple of School Committee with searching our souls for the right an- From the upcoming national race for land such a precious gift: help to decide members. swers to questions posed at the ballot box the leadership of our country next year the course that we are to follow in the These people will be instrumental in next week. right on down to the local leaders that immediate future, and play their parts setting the course for the city's near fu- For some of us the choices are blessed- touch our everyday lives right here at in writing the historical record for what ture and beyond. ly clear, while others may have difficulty home, every election day is an important is to follow. If you can't get there on your own, then culling the wheat from the chaff amidst election day. Every single vote does count, be assured seek out help to get you there. But just get all of the conflicting messages put for- Every eligible voter should consider it of that. We have a mayor to elect, as well there. Somebody needs your vote.

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Wednesday, November 13, 6:30 – 8:00 addition to Tufts’ Payments in Lieu of and sign up for future project updates at New fall Learn-To-Skate classes for p.m., East Somerville Community Taxes (aka “PILOT payments”), the Part- www.somervillema.gov/healeyschool- children, ages 4 to 18 will be happening School cafeteria, 50 Cross St. nership Agreement covers issues relat- yard. For more information, contact Arn at the local ice rink in Somerville. Class- *********************** ed to student housing, partnership with Franzen at AFranzen@somervillema. es are at the Founders Memorial Rink, In August, local artist and businesswom- Somerville schools, the university’s plan- gov.http://www.somervillema.gov/ 581 Somerville Avenue in Somerville, an Katherine Martin Widmer died, ning process, and other topics. More in- healeyschoolyard. starting November 3, at 2:00 p.m. Use just weeks before the 40th anniversary formation about that process is available *********************** hockey, recreational or figure skates. Be- of her School of Painting in Somerville. at www.somervillema.gov/TuftsPILOT. Theannual flu vaccine clinics offered by ginner, intermediate and advanced class- Over those years she taught painting to *********************** the City of Somerville Department of es are available. For information and to upwards of three thousand students of The Little Sisters of the Poor are hold- Health and Human Services (HHS) register, call Bay State Skating School all ages, some from childhood through ing their very last Bazaar on on Satur- are back. All clinics offer free flu vaccines at 781-890-8480 or visit online at www. adulthood. She participated in every day, November 9 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 for Somerville residents ages three and BayStateSkatingSchool.org. Celebrating year of Somerville Open Studios. On p.m. They hope to have a large showing older (children must be accompanied over 50 years. November 2 her family is hosting a me- in order to continue to support the res- by a parent or guardian). Clinics will be *********************** morial gala in celebration of her life and idents through this transition process held at various times and locations in the If you would like to subscribe to receive a work. It will be at the school location, 40 and in order to bring a lot of Christmas community until the city’s supply of vac- digital edition of our paper, go directly Quincy St. in Somerville, from 4:00 to cheer into the home. Please go out and cine is exhausted. Due to limited avail- online to our website – www.thesomer- 9:00 p.m. in the evening, with an exhibit, support this home. They always have ability, vaccines will be offered during villetimes.com – over to the right side food, and music. great raffles, food and much more. The official flu clinic hours only. While there and fill out your email address to receive *********************** Little Sisters of the Poor is located at is no charge for vaccinations, attendees a free, full PDF copy of the paper. If you Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and mem- 186 Highland Ave. are asked to bring an insurance card if scroll further down, a link to earlier edi- bers of the Tufts Partnership Negoti- *********************** available, including Medicaid cards. Res- tions of the paper are online as well. ating Committee invite residents to a Please join the Somerville Department idents requiring additional assistance or *********************** community meeting tonight, Wednes- of Public Space and Urban Forestry, other accommodations should contact Rep. Mike Connolly will be hosting day, October 30, for an update on the Ward 4 City Councilor Jesse Clingan, the Health and Human Services De- office hours onFriday, November 8 at current status of negotiations with and the Somerville Public Schools on partment at 617-625-6600 ext. 4320. 269 Washington Street, Somerville, Tufts University about a new Partner- Thursday evening, November ,7 from The city will add or adjust clinic sched- 8:00 – 11:00 a.m., with Somerville City ship Agreement between the city and 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. for a community up- ules as necessary, and the most up to Councilor JT Scott. Residents should the university. The meeting will begin date on the layout and features for the date information can always be found at come with questions, concerns, and pol- at 7:00 p.m. at the TAB Building, 167 new Healey Schoolyard. The meeting www.somervillema.gov or by calling 311 icy ideas. For more details and to RSVP Holland St. The previous Partnership will be held in the Healey School caf- (617-666-3311). for Office Hours, please visit www.Rep- Agreement expired on June 30, 2018. In eteria, 5 Meacham St. To see the plans *********************** MikeConnolly.org/events. 12••OCTOBER 30, 2019 OCTOBER 30, 2019••13 Puppet Palooza 2019

The Puppet Palooza 2019 series kicked off at the East Somerville Main Street Halloween Block Party at Chuckie Harris Park on Saturday, October 26. All the world is a stage, and the men and women merely players. The practice of using masks is as old civilization itself. From ceremony to ritual to performance, this culturally dynamic art-form infuses rich storytelling with fascinating characters. Throughout the world, masks are still used for their expressive power. Behind the Mask Theater brought this dramatic tradition to the East Somerville Halloween Block Party.

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SPORTS Home team collects second win It was not easy for the High- By Adam Parise landers though in the 4th quar- The Somerville High School ter as they scored 0 points and Highlanders won last week's the Mustangs were trying to football conference game vs. the comeback. Medford scored all Medford Mustangs with a final 16 of their points in the 4th score of 21-16. The game was quarter, which included two played last Friday, October 25 at touchdowns and two successful Hormel Stadium. two point conversions, but they Somerville picked up their sec- fell short in the final minutes of ond win of the season while Med- the game. ford adds another number to the Somerville improves to 2-6 on L column and remains winless the season while Medford drops on the season. The Highlanders to 0-7. The next game for the scored seven points in each of the Highlanders is a playoff match first three quarters of the game, at Pentucket Regional High which includes one touchdown School in West Newbury, MA. and one successful extra point in The game will be played on Sat- each of those three quarters. urday, November 2 at 1:00 p.m.

Ms. Cam’s The SHS Highlanders improved to 2–6 with a victory over the Medford Mustangs last Friday night. — Photos by Adam Parise

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1. What type of phobia is #703 Samhainophobia? 7. Where does the Village Halloween Parade take 2. Which actor played place? Dr. Frank-n-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture 8. What do you all a Show? group of witches?

3. Who wrote the novel 9. Michael Myers appears Frankenstein? in all except which of the Halloween films? 4. Which country celebrates the Day of the 10. What was the original Dead starting at midnight name of candy corn? on October 31? 11. If you see a spider on 5. What was the first Halloween night what do individually wrapped and some believe it means? sold penny candy in the United States? 12. How did the candy Charleston Chew get it 6. What escape artist name? died on Halloween? Answers on page 16

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Notice of Self Storage Sale Please take notice Prime Storage - Somerville located at 39R Med- ford St., Somerville, MA 02143 intends to hold an auction to sell the goods stored by the following tenants at the storage facility. The sale will occur as an online auction via www.storagetreasures.com on 11/11/2019 at 12:00 PM. Unless stated otherwise the description of the contents are household goods and furnishings. Hanwei Zhu unit CITY OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS #2413; Judith Nunes/Vinfen Corp. unit #307B; East End House OFFICE OF STRATEGIC PLANNING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT unit #3383. All property is being stored at the above self-storage fa- JOSEPH A. CURTATONE cility. This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Certain MAYOR terms and conditions apply. See manager for details. GEORGE J. PROAKIS 10/23/19, 10/30/19 The Somerville Times EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

PLANNING DIVISION Legal Notices can be downloaded from our website: www.TheSomervilleTimes.com LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING A public hearing for all interested parties will be held by the Zoning Board of Appeals on Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. at the Visiting Nurse Association, 3rd Floor Community Room, 259 Lowell Street, Somerville, MA to discuss the following in addition to any other items previ- From on page 14 ously advertised and listed on the ZBA agenda. Please check the city website 48 hours prior to the start of the ZBA meeting to view the hearing status of pending projects. 8 Sycamore Street (ZBA 2019-61): Applicant, Creative Property Solutions, LLC, and Owner, Eight Sycamore Trust, seek Special Permits under §4.4.1 Ms. Cam’s of the SZO to alter a non-conforming property including increasing the GFA by more than 25% and under §7.11 to change from 3 to 5 residential units. Parking relief under Article 9 for number of spaces and providing compact spaces. RC zone. Ward 4. 103 Washington (ZBA 2019-xxx): Applicant & Owner, Clover Leaf Capital Holdings, LLC, seek an Extension to their Special Permit under §5.3.10 of the SZO to exercise their previous approval for a mixed-use building with one commercial unit and 6 residential units. RC zone. Ward 1. 121-123 Washington Street (ZBA 2019-111): Applicant & Owner, Wooden Teeth, LLC, seek Special Permits under §4.4.1 of the SZO to alter a non-conforming property to build a mixed-use building. A Special Permit under §7.11.1 to establish 5 residential units and a Special Permit with Design Review for a café in a commercial space. Parking relief under Article 9. RC zone. Ward 1. Answers 110-112 Yorktown Street (ZBA 2019-106): Applicant, Sean Anderson, and Owners, Basam, Kim, Rahman, and Bashar Nabulsi, seek a special permit 1. Fear of Halloween 8. Coven under SZO §4.4.1 to alter a nonconforming structure by constructing a dormer within the left side yard setback. RB Zone. Ward 7. 17-25 Murdock Street and 227-229 Cedar Street (ZBA 2016-129-R2-10/19): Applicant and Owner, Cedar Murdock Partners, LLC, seeks a revision to 2. Tim Curry 9. Halloween III: Sea- their previously approved special permit with site plan review under SZO §5.3.8 in order to change the height of the foundation for building 5 due son of the Witch to ground water levels. RB zone. Ward 5. 3. Mary Shelley 41 Myrtle Street (ZBA 2018-65-R1-10/19): Applicant, JC Mercer Development, and Owner, 41 Myrtle Street Realty Trust, seek a revision under SZO 10. Chicken Feed §5.3.8 to revise a previously approved special permit by altering the site plan. A special permit under SZO §9.13 is also required to modify parking design standards. RB Zone. Ward 1. 4. Mexico ******* 11. The spirit of a Submittals may be viewed in-person in the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development, located on the third floor of City Hall, 93 5. Tootsie Roll dead loved one is Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA, Mon-Wed, 8:30 am-4:30 pm; Thurs, 8:30 am-7:30pm www.somervillema.gov/planningandzoning. watching over you As cases may be continued to later dates, please check the agenda on the City’s website or call before attending a meeting. Continued cases will 6. Harry Houdini not be re-advertised. Interested persons may provide comments to the Zoning Board of Appeals at the hearing or by submitting written comments 12. It was named af- by mail to OSPCD, Planning Division, 93 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA 02143; by fax to 617-625-0722; or by email to [email protected]. 7. New York City ter the popular dance Attest: Sarah Lewis, Planning Director the Charleston As published in The Somerville Times on 10/23/19 & 10/30/19 10/23/19, 10/30/19 The Somerville Times OCTOBER 30, 2019••17 Scrapheap Showdown: Ship to Shore!

that was able to raise the most, By Erica Dakin Voolich Euleroids, lifted a total of 16 On October 27, 18 high school pounds, 2 ounces. students on six teams gathered Teams were ranked in each in “The Cage” in Cousens Gym event, one thru six, with 1 get- at Tufts University to compete ting 1 point, etc. So the winning in the Somerville Mathematics team had the lowest final score. Fund’s 15th annual Scrapheap The team with the lowest overall Showdown. Along with the usu- score, was “Euleroids” (Charlie Na- al interesting “junk” in the center deau, Iskandar Nazhar, Myles Ri- of the room when the students vera). The second place team was walked in, there were also piles the “Crimson Quackateers” (Nora of foam core and paper. The stu- Chiu, Owen Chiu, Caden Yarber- dents were given their challenge: ry). The third place team was √-1 to design and build a crane on a 2^3 ∑ π (i eight sum pi) (Lau- base of MDF board. The teams ra Clervil, Harmanpreet Kaur, worked intensely, designing, Nasreen Kaur). The fourth place building, testing, reinforcing, team was i i on the π π (i’s on the and adjusting their cranes. pi’s) (Brian Jian Chan, Luca Du- Time was called after 3 3/4 clos-Orsello, Timothy Labounko). hours. Now was the time for The teams could choose their the two competitions. The first prize in the order they finished. challenge was a precision test to The prizes donated were: three retrieve objects from the “ship” $100 Target gift cards (donated “Euleroids” won first place in Somerville Math Fund’s Scrapheap Showdown. by Anne Button), three $100 on the floor and place these to This event was for both fund- amazon gift cards (donated by various places on the tables (dif- raising and an intellectual Jay & Jasper) four 2019 Red Sox ferent locations were worth dif- challenge--all funds raised go tickets (donated by Sam Vool- ferent points). They had 3 min- towards a Somerville Mathe- ich), four $50 RedBones BBQ utes for this first challenge. The matics Fund scholarship for an gift cards, one $50 gift card for second challenge was unloading outstanding Somerville mathe- FlatBread and Sacco Bowl and bulk cargo: a strength and speed matics student. $60 cash. All competitors and test. They had to upload various To see many more photos volunteers went home with Sc- objects (weights, marbles, coins) from the event, including all of rapheap Showdown teeshirts and the total was weighed after 2 the teams, go to our blog post donated by Gerald and Debra minutes. They had to be careful https://somervillemathemat- Bickoff of Commercial Cleaning to not overload their bucket and ics.blogspot.com/2019/10/sc- Service. break the crane arm. The team rapheap-showdown-2019-ship- to-shore.html Designers and refiners of the challenge were: Sanford Bogage, “Crimson Quackateers” won second place. Anne Button, Chase Duclos-Or- Winter Hill Bank, RedBones volunteer Scott Carlson. sello, Zachary Faubion, Adam BBQ, Commercial Cleaning The Somerville Mathematics Foster, Monica Fernandes, Rich- Service, Jack Connolly of Wedg- Fund was chartered in 2000 to ard Graf, Jay Landers, Zbigniew wood-Crane & Connolly, Mide celebrate and encourage math- Nitecki, Erica Voolich. Stanhope Corporation, Rudy’s Restau- ematics achievement in Somer- Framers donated the foam core; rant, Jay & Jasper, Anne Button, ville. In January, they will be Magnificent Muffin & Bagel anonymous, and our most won- looking for teacher grant appli- donated egg crates and Patricia derful host, Tufts University. cations; and in April, they will Murphy-Sheehy, with the math Suffolk University Catering pro- be looking for scholarship ap- teachers at Somerville High vided the refreshments for the plications. For more informa- School, recruited student teams. teams and volunteers. Various tion or to volunteer or to make Amy Weiss designed the T-shirts members of the Board worked a donation, call 617-666-0666, and edited the poster advertising on all aspects of organizing the e-mail [email protected], the event at the high school. event and worked to make it a or go to www.somervillemathe- “i 8 sum pi” won third place. Sponsors of the event included success along with community maticsfund.org.

SHS graduate volunteers for over a decade in CTE Automotive Technology program

A proud 2010 graduate of Somerville High School’s Center for Career and Technical Education (CTE), Tony Dasilva has been volunteering for over a decade with CTE’s Automotive shop. Tony organizes and stocks supplies, helps with engine assembly and repair, cleans equipment and spaces, and hangs with staff and students. Tony’s smile and energy fill the room when he talks about his work with Automotive staff and helping out. Tony’s mom Joan says “We tried another program (outside of SPS) but Tony didn’t feel comfortable there. He knows and trusts staff here, and they truly make him one of the family.

Since 2010 CTE Automotive instructor Bob Puopolo has been Tony’s primary connection to his volunteer work. Their special bond is evident as they share stories, inside jokes and bring up hilarious things they’ve done in the shop over the years and during field trips. “It’s been great having Tony here,” Bob shares. “He’s always positive and livens us all up. When Tony started volunteering, I never thought we’d be working with Tony ten years later. He’s a great guy. It’s good for staff and students, and it’s just what we do here.” Learn more about volunteering opportunities at Somerville Public Schools: www.somerville.k12.ma.us/volunteer. Learn more about the Automotive Technology program at Somerville High School at www.somerville.k12.ma.us/automotive.

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• • • • VILLENS ON THE TOWN • • • • 7 p.m.|Café|191 Highland Ave "Let's Do Lunch" with Hannah Jay, The Burren Arts at the Armory CHILDREN AND YOUTH Mike Sim, Ciderdown, Bix Mac- Front Room: Bur-Run|6:45 Holiday Sip & Shop Thursday|October 31 Wednesday|October 30 maghan|4 p.m. p.m., Run, Helena Delaney & 6 p.m.|Performance Hall East Branch Library Sally O’Brien’s Hackensaw Boys, Gillian Boucher & Friends|9:30 p.m. Wiretap Wednesday Preschool Storytime for Little Pump- BT/ALC Big Band Halloween Extrava- Bob McNeill|7 p.m. Back Room:Stump Trivia|8:30 p.m. 7 p.m.|Cafe|191 Highland Ave ganza! - $10 cover kins Swipe Right|10 p.m. 247 Elm Street|617-776-6896 The Rockwell 8 p.m.|335 Somerville Ave|617-666- 11 a.m.-11:30 a.m.|115 Broadway 247 Elm Street|617-776-6896 Bull McCabe’s Pub Ash Spitter: Autumn Auction (Of The 3589 Central Library Orleans Restaurant and Bar Jimmy James Trivia|8:30 p.m. Silent Variety) Homeschool Reading Group The Burren Karaoke 366A Somerville Ave|617-440-6045 7 p.m.|255 Elm St Front Room:Americana Session with 10:15 a.m.-12 p.m. 65 Holland St Thunder Road Somerville Theatre Matt Borrello, Mike Verge & Compa- Somerville High School Anime Club Bull McCabe’s 379 Somerville Ave. Superchunk Plays Foolish: A 25th ny |7 p.m. 2:45 p.m.-4:30 p.m.|79 Highland Ave 366A Somerville Ave|617-440-6045 Anniversary Acoustic Performance 247 Elm Street|617-776-6896 Once Somerville Thursday|October 31 Casey’s Sammi Lanzetta w/ Leopard Print 8 p.m.|55 Davis Sq Orleans Restaurant and Bar Entertainment every Saturday Taser Central Library 65 Holland St|617-591-2100 CLASSES AND GROUPS Preschool Storytime for 3 to 5-year- 173 Broadway|617- 625-5195 7 p.m.,|156 Highland Ave Bull McCabe’s Wednesday|October 30 olds Thunder Road Aeronaut Brewing Co. Krush Faktory(Dub Down) 10:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m. Afterlife Goth Night with DJ Outsider Board Game Bonanza Central Library 10 p.m.|366A Somerville Ave|617- Comic Book Drawing Workshop for 8 p.m.|379 Somerville Ave 6:30 p.m.|14 Tyler Street Drop in Knitting and Needlecraft 440-6045 Kid 12 p.m.-2 p.m. Once Somerville Arts at the Armory 3 p.m.- 4 p.m.|79 Highland Ave Thunder Road Let's Watch Beetlejuice!: Hey Siri, Meyhem Lauren`s Vegetarian Cook- Queer Tango Halloween Freak Out – A Scary Good How Do I Make New Friends After out w/ Cliff Notez 6:30 p.m.|Café|191 Highland Ave Friday|November 1 Time with Fiesta Melon, CHACO the College? 7 p.m.|156 Highland Ave Central Library band, and The T! 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King, Anthony Troy, p.m. 6 p.m.- 8 p.m.|27 College Avenue 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.|79 Highland Shit-faced Shakespeare®: Macbeth Athena Desai|7 p.m. Smoke & Shadows: Burlesque & First Church Somerville Ave 7 p.m.|255 Elm St 247 Elm Street|617-776-6896 Variety|9 p.m. Debtors Anonymous- a 12 Step Bull McCabe’s Pub Tuesday|November 5 Arts at the Armory 255 Elm St program for people with problems Ghetto People Band Central Library Lay Low Moon with Matt Minigell with money and debt. 7 p.m.-8:30 Sunday|November 3 10 p.m.|366A Somerville Ave|617- Girls Who Code club and Jessye DeSilva p.m.|89 College Ave (Upstairs Parlor). 440-6045 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.|79 Highland 7:30 p.m.|Café|191 Highland Ave Sally O’Brien’s Bar For more info call: 781-762-6629 The Natural Wonders|4:30 p.m. Highland Kitchen Ave Friday|November 1 African Night, SambaLolo and First Tuesday of the Month|Spelling Saturday|November 2 Wednesday|November 6 Sally O’Brien’s guests|10 p.m. Bee Night Central Library East Branch Library Hashtag Hoedown|6 p.m. 335 Somerville Ave|617-666-3589 hosted by Victor and Nicole of Citizenship Class HearNowLive! 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Getting Cozy@ The Library 3589 256 Elm St. |617-623-9910 65 Holland St|617-591-2100 8 p.m.|335 Somerville Ave|617-666- 2 p.m.- 4 p.m.|79 Highland Ave 3589 The Burren Casey’s Thunder Road Fourth Step to Freedom Al-Anon Front Room:Americana Session with: Entertainment every Friday Humbug with special guests Reilly The Burren Family Groups Grain Thief|9 p.m. 173 Broadway|617- 625-5195 Somach & The Frozen Ponies, Back- Front Room:Americana Session with: 7:00 P.M. | 6 William Street ground Orcs, and Ceramic Grain Thief|9 p.m. Unity Church of God Backroom: Winifred Horan|7:30 p.m. Thunder Road 7 p.m.|379 Somerville Ave Backroom: Jamie Laval returns..|7:30 Enter upstairs, meeting is in basement Comedy Night with Janet Mc- Hear Now Live’s Annual Halloween p.m. Namara|10 p.m. Hangover featuring Buddha-TY, Myth Once Somerville Comedy Night with Janet Mc- Monday|November 4 247 Elm Street|617-776-6896 is King, The IV, and Dudley Ponders Sabbath Sunday: Black Sabbath Metal Namara|10 p.m. Central Library Orleans Restaurant and Bar 8 p.m.|379 Somerville Ave Yoga with Black Widow Yoga|11 a.m. 247 Elm Street|617-776-6896 Creative Drama Workshop with Lau- Hirie, RDGLDGRN, Kash`d Out in 65 Holland St|617-591-2100 Aeronaut Brewing Co. rie! 4 p.m.- 5 p.m. association with Ingenius Concepts Orleans Restaurant and Bar Bull McCabe’s Pub The Motivated Sequence Chess Night 7 p.m.-8:45 p.m.|79 7 p.m.|156 Highland Ave 65 Holland St|617-591-2100 The Nephrok Allstar 8 p.m.|14 Tyler Street Highland Ave Arts at the Armory Bull McCabe’s Pub 10 p.m.|366A Somerville Ave|617- The Rockwell East Branch Library Show +Tell: A [sort of] Open Mic The A-Beez 440-6045 Shit-faced Shakespeare®: Macbeth Learn English at the Library! 12:30 p.m.|Café 10 p.m.|366A Somerville Ave|617- Thunder Road 7 p.m.|255 Elm St 6 p.m.- 8 p.m.|115 Broadway 440-6045 Bearly Dead – A Tribute To The Grate- Two Truths and a Lie Saturday|November 2 Tuesday|November 5 ful Dead 7 p.m.|Cafe|191 Highland Ave Thunder Road 8 p.m.|379 Somerville Ave Sally O’Brien’s Aeronaut Brewing Co. Bearly Dead – A Tribute To The Grate- East Branch Library Stan Martin Band|6 p.m. ful Dead Learn English at the Library! Once Somerville Sick Sad & Lonesome|2 p.m. Chelsea Curve, Cold Expectations 8 p.m.|379 Somerville Ave 6 p.m.- 8 p.m.|115 Broadway Chilluminati pindrop sessions 18: from afar the record release, Gene Dante & The 7 p.m.|156 Highland Ave sweet light / blue heron with mayor Once Somerville Wednesday|November 6 Future Starlets - $10|9 p.m. joe curtatone Great Grandpa, Dump Him, Really Highland Kitchen Central Library 335 Somerville Ave|617-666-3589 7 p.m.||14 Tyler Street From 150 Highland Ave|617-625-1131 Drop in Knitting and Needlecraft 8 p.m.|156 Highland Ave The Burren Monday|November 4 Aeronaut Brewing Co. 12 p.m.-2 p.m. Front Room:Bluegrass Session|2 p.m. Highland Kitchen Last Wednesday Residency: Grant Sally O’Brien’s Bar November Poetry Reading Hunter Americana|5 p.m.|Irish Ses- 150 Highland Ave|617-625-1131 Comedy Night! The Up n Coming 7 p.m.-8 p.m.|79 Highland Ave Bloom Duo sion|2 p.m. Open Mic|7 p.m. Aeronaut Brewing Co. 8 p.m.|14 Tyler Street Back Room: "Let's Do Lunch" with Davis Square Farmers Market Marley Monday with The Duppy Open Mic with Mike Morrissey Arts at the Armory Lindsay Foote, Jeff Butcher, Haley 12 p.m.-6 p.m.|Day & Herbert Streets Conquerors reggae|10 p.m. 8 p.m.|14 Tyler Street George DeVein Book Reading Sabella, Wyn Doran|12 p.m. 335 Somerville Ave|617-666-3589 PLACES TO GO, THINGS TO DO! OCTOBER 30, 2019••19

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CENTER LOCATIONS, TIMES & SCHEDULES information or to sign up please call Connie at 617- require additional information please call 617-625- Holland Street Senior Center: located at 167 Holland 625-6600, ext. 2300. 6600 ext. 2300. Street (between Davis Square and Teele Square) Watercolor Painting with Linda Cohen – Wednesday Caregiver Support Group – Meets the third Tuesday Monday through Wednesday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. & Thursday, November 13 & 14 at our Holland Street of each month from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Our Social Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Center from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Class size is Worker, Ashley Speliotis, facilitates this group. Are you Fridays: 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. limited. All supplies will be provided. Please call Josie at caring for a parent, relative, spouse or close friend? 617-625-6600, ext. 2300 617-625-6600, ext. 2300. Feeling isolated or overwhelmed? You are not alone! Cross Street Center: located at 165 Broadway (East MGM Springfield Casino – Monday, November 18 - Come share your experience and practical support. Somerville) $45 per person includes transportation, $10 food credit, Open to all and new members are always welcome. Mondays & Tuesdays – 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. $20 slot play and dinner at the Golden Corral Buffet & If you are interested in joining, have any questions or Thursdays – 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Grill. Check in times are 6:45 a.m. at the Holland Street require additional information please call Ashley at Fridays – 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Center and 7:15 a.m. at the Ralph & Jenny Center with 617-625-6600 ext. 2318. 617-625-6600, ext. 2335 an approximate return time of 8:00 p.m. Please contact Conversations of the Heart – Meets bi-monthly on Fax: 617-625-1414 Connie at 617-625-6600, ext. 2300. Mondays from 1:00 to 2:00 P.M. at our Holland Street Ralph and Jenny Center: located at 9 New Washington Dollar Days at the Movies – Tuesday, November 19 - Center. Social Worker, Natasha Naim, facilitates this Street (behind the Holiday Inn) movie starts at 12:00 p.m. door open at 11:30 a.m. This group. If you are interested in joining, have any ques- Tuesday & Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. month’s movie is A Dog’s Journey. $1 per person for the tions or require additional information please call Nata- 617- 666-5223 movie paid to the theatre. They will have the refreshment sha at 617-625-6600 ext. 2317. Main Office: located at 167 Holland Street (between stand open to make purchases on your own. For more Cribbage Club – Meets every Monday from 10:30 a.m. Davis Square and Teele Square.) info or to RSVP call Josie at 617-625-6600, ext. 2300. to 11:30 a.m. This group is facilitated by volunteer Nort- Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wright’s Chicken Farm Restaurant & LaSalette Shrine bert DeAmato. If you are interested in joining, have any Thursday: 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. – Thursday, December 5 - $69 per person includes questions or require additional information please call Friday: 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. luxury coach transportation, lunch, Christmas Choral Josie at 617-625-6600, ext. 2300. 617-625-6600, ext. 2300 Concert with Father Pat and a spectacular display of Current Events Group – Meets every Thursday at Fax: 617-625-0688 over 400,000 lights. Check in is 9:30 a.m. at Ralph & 9:30 a.m. Our Social Worker, Natasha Naim, facili- TTY: 866-808-4851 Jenny with an approximate return time of 7:00 p.m. tates this group. Join a group of your peers to discuss UPCOMING EVENTS Please RSVP to Connie at 617-625-6600, ext. 2300. current events. If you are interested in joining, have any Volunteers needed for the Engage for Brain Health Ugly Sweater Bingo & Lunch – Tuesday, December 10 questions or require additional information please call Study. Are you starting to have problems with your at our Holland Street Center starting at 10:00 a.m. $5 Natasha at 617-625-6600 ext. 2317. memory or have trouble climbing stairs? Engage B per person due at time of reservation. Limited seating. De-cluttering support group – If you have concerns might be right for you! 24 week study for people 60 to For more info please call 617-625-6600, ext. 2300. around your clutter, this group may be for you. This 89 years of age. Call Chris at 617-625-6600, ext. 2315 Christmas Luncheon & Dance – Monday, December 16 closed group meets both in the spring and fall for 6-8 or email him at [email protected] for ques- at the Dilboy Post located at 351 Summer Street from weeks. This group is co-facilitated by Natasha Naim and tions and additional information. 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. $12 per person due at time Marina Colonas. If you are interested in joining, have Fit-4-Life Nutrition Classes – Thursday afternoons from of reservation. Limited seating and transportation. For any questions or require additional information please 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. with our Nutritionist Caitlin more info, call Connie at 617-625-6600, ext. 2300. call Natasha at 617-625-6600 ext. 2317. McAfee. Learn about our new and upcoming nutrition Holiday Movie & Pizza – Thursday, December 19 at Gardening Club – Meets the second Monday of each programs including, Cooking with Caitlin, Fit-4-Life our Ralph & Jenny Center located at 9 New Washington month starting at 9:00 a.m. Vilma Sullivan facilitates Nutrition Class, Meal in a Mug and more. For more Street starting at 10:30 a.m. First come first serve. $3 this group. There is a different topic each month information call Caitlin at 617-625-6600, ext. 2316. per person due at time of reservation. Movie is A Christ- ranging from gardening tips & secrets to inexpensive Healthy Steps – Thursdays – Holland Street from 12:30 mas Story. For more information please call 617-625- greenhouses. Group runs for approximately an hour. p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Healthy Steps is a therapeutic, gentle, 6600, ext. 2300. If you are interested in joining, have any questions or movement class for anyone who needs to get moving, LGBTQ EVENTS require additional information please call 617-625- 6600 ext. 2300. particularly anyone recovering from surgery, frail elders LBT Women Fit-4-Life at Holland Street Center 167 or those living with chronic fatigue or arthritis. Class is Holland Street - Fitness class is Thursday evenings start- Low Vision Support Group – Meets the second Tues- free. For additional information or questions to call 617- ing at 6:00 P.M. $10 a month fee - scholarships available day of each month from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Our 625-6600, ext. 2300 & it just might be covered under your insurance. We Social Worker, Ashley Speliotis, facilitates this group. Do Country Western Line Dancing – The 1st & 3rd Thurs- have available slots and would love to have you. If have you know someone who has trouble seeing? Do you day of each month- Holland Street Center . – class is any questions or require additional information, please have low vision? Join our Low Vision Support Group for free. No experience needed. For additional information contact our Health & Wellness Coordinator, Chris Kow- educational and informative information and peer sup- or questions call at 617-625-6600, ext. 2300. aleski at 617-625-6600 Ext. 2315. port in a confidential environment. Lunch and transportation may be available on request. If you are interested Somerville Mobile Farmer’s Market – Running until WEEKLY EXERCISE AND NUTRITION CLASS SCHED- in joining, have any questions or require additional info Saturday, October 19. Fridays: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ULE (PLEASE CUT OUT AND SAVE) please call Ashley at 617-625-6600 ext. 2318. at the Council on Aging Holland Street Center. 2:30 Monday: CROSS STREET GROUP INFORMATION p.m. to 4:30 p.m. East Somerville Community School. Keep Moving Walking Club - 9:00 a.m. (H) Saturdays: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. North Street Hous- Tai Chi – 11:30 a.m. (H) Lunch is served every Monday, Tuesday & Thursday ing Development and 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Fit-4-Life – 11:00 a.m. (C) please call Maureen at 617-625-6600, ext. 2335 for Mystic Housing Development.. The Somerville Mobile Fit-4-Life Group C - 1:00 p.m. (H) sign up. Farmer’s Market sells fresh, affordable produce. 50% off Tuesday: Coffee & Conversation – Meets every Monday, Tuesday for residents of Mystic or North Street Housing, or for Strengthening - 9:00 a.m. - $3 per class (H) & Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Maureen showing your SNAP, MassHealth, WIC or Senior Cou- Fit-4-Life - 11:00 a.m. (C) Bastardi, Program Coordinator and Sandy Francis, Cross pons. Info: 617-625-6600, ext. 4321. Bike Club – 12:15 p.m. (H) Street Center Volunteer, work together to facilitate this group. Come meet people from all over the world and Bowling – 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at Sacco’s Bowl Wednesdays: join in the discussion of a different topic every day. Con- Haven at Flatbread Pizza located in Davis Square. Fit-4-Life Group A (exercise) – 8:45 a.m. (H) versation is followed by the Fit-4-Life exercise program There is a $3 weekly fee which covers shoe rental, Fit-4-Life Group B (exercise) - 10:00 a.m. (H) and then lunch. If you are interested in joining, have any three strings candlepin bowling and due for a bowl- Fit-4-Life Group C (exercise) - 1:00 p.m. (H) ing banquet. For more information and to sign up questions or require additional information please call Thursdays: please contact Debby Higgins, Outreach Coordinator Maureen at 617-625-6600, ext. 2335. Yoga - 9:00 a.m. (H) at 617-625-6600, ext. 2321. Game Hour – Every Tuesday from noon to 1:00 p.m. Fit-4-Life - 11:00 a.m. (C) at our Cross Street Center. Join us for lunch and activi- Caregivers Support Series – at our Holland Street Healthy Steps – 12:30 p.m. (H) ties. Immediately following lunch we will have a “Game Center from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Oct. 31 – Self Care, Nutrition Class – 3:00 p.m. (H) Hour.” Yahtzee, Sorry, Jenga, Cards, Scrabble, Check- homecare resources and when is it unsafe to remain at LBT Fit-4-Life, 6:00 p.m. (H) home, Nov. 7 – Activities you can do together, Nov. 14 ers, Clue, Qwirkle, Dominoes, Uno & Connect 4 are Fridays: – Attend a Memory Café and Nov. 21 – Coping with the available to play. Community Cooks provides us with a Fit-4-Life Group A – 8:45 a.m. (H) holidays and having honest discussions with family and family style lunch on the 1st & 3rd Tuesdays and Food Fit-4-Life Group B - 10:00 a.m. (H) friends. To reserve your spot please call Ashley at 617- Services provides us with lunch on the off days. If you 625-6600, ext. 2318. Adventure Group – Please call for details are interested in joining, please call Maureen at 617- Paint Day – Monday, November 4 – 10:00 a.m. at *All Fit-4-Life classes are $10 per month and require 625-6600, ext. 2335. our Holland Street Center. $15 per person Seats are pre-registration* Gardening Club – Meets the second Monday of each very limited. Payment due a time of reservation. HOLLAND STREET GROUP INFORMATION month starting at 9:00 a.m. Vilma Sullivan, facilitates Please call Connie at 617-625-6600 ext. 2319 to Book Club – Meets the third Friday of each month this group. There is a different topic each month make your reservation. from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. This group self-facili- ranging from gardening tips & secrets to inexpensive Wrentham Outlets – Sunday, November 10 – check tates. Group members choose both fiction and non-fic- greenhouses. Group runs for approximately an hour. in at 10:00 a.m. at Holland with an approximate tion titles on a quarterly basis. Books are available on If you are interested in joining, have any questions or return time of 5:00 p.m. $10 per person for transpor- reserve at the Central Branch of the Somerville Library. require additional information please call 617-625-6600 tation to the outlets; lunch is on your own. For more If you are interested in joining, have any questions or ext. 2300. 20••OCTOBER 30, 2019

Somerville ShortStop graduate What's new on Somerville giving back to kids in Guatemala Neighborhood News

Rolando Rojas, 24, is fulfilling the motto “Lift as You Climb” by returning to Guatemala for the first time in six years to deliver school supplies to children What do folks think of the “pot shops” coming to your neighborhood? who lack the basics like shoes and books. By Stephanie Wittenbach, Somerville Neighborhood News Rojas learned the motto while at Year Up, an educational nonprofit in Bos- As the city’s Licensing Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals prepare to ton that helps young adults move from minimum wage jobs to professional consider and possibly approve three recreational marijuana outlets for Somer- careers in one year. Rojas graduated with honors from Year Up and is now ville, neighbors and passersby across the city chimed in with their views. using an $800 grant from the organization to lift up his community. “Basi- cally, it stands for don’t forget where you came from and bring all your team- “I think it’s a good idea, I don’t partake myself. But it’s legal if people want to do mates with you,” he said. that, then that’s a good thing,” said Josh Myers on Highland Avenue, where New England Select Harvest hopes to set up shop. Rojas will travel to Guatemala for the first time in six years in December and hopes to have 80 backpacks filled with supplies and small toys. In addition to receiving the $800 grant, Rojas is raising money to defray the cost of shipping. He’s set up a GoFundMe page called Every Pencil Counts and has raised $195 so far. Like many, he came to the U.S. to get an education and help his family. He was homeless for two years and lived at Wayside Youth & Family’s ShortStop community-based program in Somerville. ShortStop provides homeless young adults age 18-22 with transitional support. “It was transition to independence, basically,” he said. “That’s what they do, they give coaching like how to do your taxes for the first time, make sure you have MBTA pass every month and how to set up your first bank account. Real life stuff.” But near 71 Union Square, where Union Leaf plans to open its doors, some were more skeptical. Alexander Rich-Shea, who said he likes marijuana, is nervous ShortStop was his last stop in a long list of programs, shelters, and foster care. about those who drive under the influence. “I think everyone is driving high these Rojas is in his second year of college and just completed an internship at BNY days and I don’t think there is any way to really detect it,” he noted. Still, he’s Mellon in Boston. “For the past six years living in the U.S., I’ve volunteered happy Union Leaf might be opening up. at several non-profits and tried to help the homeless, veterans, in one way or another,” he said. “My long-desired goal, however, is to help children in poor Here more from your neighbors in the SNN news video and read the story on- communities, back home, in Guatemala.” line at somervillemedia/org/snn. For more information or to donate, visit https://www.gofundme.com/f/ev- erypencilcounts. — Michelle Hillman Somerville Parks & Recreation

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Wednesday, October 30 1:30pm The Somerville Line 7:00am Effort Pour Christ Monday, November 4 12:00am Free Speech TV 3:00pm Democracy Now! (Free Speech TV) 8:00am Democracy Now! (Free Speech TV) 12:00am Heavy Leather Topless Dance Party 6:00am NASA TV 4:00pm VOX POP: Somerville Connects 9:00am SMC Youth Media 5:00am Free Speech TV 7:00am Community Bulletin Board 4:30pm The Struggle 9:30am Science 360 6:00am NASA TV 7:30am DW In Good Shape 5:00pm Somerville Neighborhood News 10:00am Dead Air Live 7:00am Somerville Storytellers 8:00am Democracy Now! (Free Speech TV) 6:00pm #AFAD 11:00am TeleGalaxie 7:30am Going Postal 9:00am DW Global 3000 6:30pm #AFAD 12:00pm Somerville Storytellers 8:00am Democracy Now! (Free Speech TV) 9:30am Both Sides of the Bars 7:00pm Community Lens: SHC 5K Race 1:00pm Tele Magazine 9:00am Science 360 10:00am Poet to Poet, Writer to Writer 8:00pm LIVE - Our View 2:00pm Reeling Review 10:00am Somerville Neighborhood News 10:30am Somerville Neighborhood News 9:00pm PABFONE Closing Day Ceremony 3:00pm MA House of Representatives Formal Session 11:00am Our View 11:00am SNN Neighborhood Update 10:00pm Community Bulletin Board 4:00pm Tele Kreyol 12:00pm The Thom Hartman Show 11:30am From My Heart to Yours 10:30pm The World Fusion Show 5:00pm Henry Parker Presents 1:00pm SOM ARTS 12:00pm The Thom Hartman Show 11:00pm VOX POP Comedy Night 5:30pm Henry Parker Presents 1:30pm Somerville Storytellers 1:00pm Somerville Neighborhood News Friday, November 1 6:00pm Somerville Pundits 2:00pm NASA TV 1:30pm Somerville Neighborhood News 12:00am Heavy Leather Topless Dance Party 6:30pm The Somerville Labor Show 3:00pm Democracy Now! (Free Speech TV) 2:00pm Colores Latinos 1:00am SCATV Secret Stash 7:00pm BLOWW Show a Go Go 4:00pm African Television Network 3:00pm Democracy Now! (Free Speech TV) 1:30am SCATV Secret Stash 7:30pm Somerville Neighborhood News 5:00pm Community Lens: SHC 5K Race 4:00pm DW Conflict Zone 2:00am Free Speech TV 8:00pm #AFAD 6:00pm LIVE from VOX POP 4:30pm Autumn Reads with Somerville Public Library 6:00am NASA TV 9:00pm Nossa Gente e Costumes 6:30pm Fur, Fins and Feathers 5:00pm Hello Neighbor 7:00am The Bill Press Show (Free Speech TV) 10:00pm Heavy Leather Music Video Show 7:00pm Tele Galaxie 5:30pm From My Heart to Yours 8:00am Democracy Now! (Free Speech TV) 11:00pm SCATV Secret Stash 8:00pm LIVE -Somerville Overcoming Addiction 6:00pm Somerville Neighborhood News 9:00am DW Euromaxx 11:30pm Queer Cats 9:00pm Dedilhando au Saudade 6:30pm VOX POP: Somerville Connects 9:30am Strata Sunday, November 3 10:00pm Colores Latinos 7:00pm "The Cask of Amontillado" at VOX POP 10:00am NASA TV 12:00am Flotilla 11:00pm Heavy Leather Topless Dance Party 7:30pm Sidewalks Entertainment 11:00am SOM ARTS 1:00am NASA TV Tuesday, November 5 8:00pm LIVE - Somerville Pundits 11:30am Cambridge Calendar 1:30am NASA TV 12:00am Public Safety and Homeland Security Hearing 8:30pm DW Euromaxx 12:00pm The Thom Hartman Show 2:00am NASA TV 6:00am NASA TV 9:00pm Revolution Awakening at VOX POP 1:00pm Community Benefits Agreement 3:00am Free Speech TV 7:00am NASA TV 10:00pm LIVE - Heavy Leather Topless Dance Party 2:00pm Somerville Pundits 6:00am Bate Papo com Shirley 8:00am Democracy Now! 11:00pm Flotilla 2:30pm Autumn Reads with Somerville Public Library 7:00am Nossa Gentes e Costumes 9:00am The Chef’s Table Series Thursday, October 31 3:00pm Democracy Now! (Free Speech TV) 8:00am Effort Pour Christ 10:00am Strata 12:00am SCATV Secret Stash 4:00pm Gay USA 9:00am NASA TV 11:00am Joanna Bremis HMS Clinicals 12:30am SCATV Secret Stash 5:00pm DW Global 3000 10:00am Tele Kreyol 12:00pm The Thom Hartman Show 1:00am Free Speech TV 5:30pm What’s New Massachusetts? 11:00am MA House of Representatives Formal Session 1:00pm Revolution Awakening at VOX POP 1:30am Free Speech TV 6:00pm Grandstanders 12:00pm Sidewalks Entertainment 2:00pm Somerville Overcoming Addiction 2:00am Free Speech TV 7:00pm Emergency Preparedness 1:00pm SOM ARTS 3:00pm Democracy Now! 3:00am Free Speech TV 7:30pm The Somerville Labor Show 1:30pm SNN Neighborhood Update 4:00pm SMC Youth Media 6:00am Bate Papo com Shirley 8:00pm LIVE - Greater Somerville 2:00pm Chico and B-Man 4:30pm Going Postal 7:00am DW Conflict Zone 8:30pm Greater Somerville 3:00pm African Television Network 5:00pm LIVE - Poet to Poet, Writer to Writer 7:30am DW Euromaxx 9:00pm Fur, Fins and Feathers 4:00pm Dedilhando a Saudade 5:30pm What’s New Massachusetts? 8:00am Democracy Now! (Free Speech TV) 10:00pm Heavy Leather Topless Dance Party 5:00pm Gay USA 6:00pm Somerville Neighborhood News 9:00am DW Tomorrow Today 11:00pm Heavy Leather Music Video Show 6:00pm VOX POP: Somerville Connects 6:30pm From My Heart to Yours 9:30am Hello Neighbor Saturday, November 2 6:30pm DW Tomorrow Today 7:00pm The Somerville Labor Show 10:00am The Chef's Table Series 12:00am VOX POP Comedy Night 7:00pm Emergency Preparedness 7:30pm LIVE - Greater Somerville 10:30am The Chef's Table Series 1:00am Free Speech TV 8:00pm Dead Air Live 8:00pm LIVE - Dead Air Live 11:00am Joanna Bremis HMS Clinicals 2:00am Free Speech TV 9:00pm Tele Magazine 9:00pm The World Fusion Show 11:30am Joanna Bremis HMS Clinicals 3:00am Free Speech TV 10:00pm Community Lens: Somerville 5K Detour 10:00pm Totally Working Out 12:00pm The Thom Hartman Show 5:00am Free Speech TV 11:00pm TUTV 11:00pm Box House Productions Presents 1:00pm The Somerville Line 6:00am DW Focus on Europe 11:30pm SCATV Secret Stash 11:30pm SCATV Secret Stash CITY TV 22 (Comcast) | 13 (RCN) Schedule

Wednesday, October 30 8:30pm Connecting Communities - Fire Safety 11:14am SPD Ride Along 8:00pm PHCS Groundbreaking 7:00am Celling Your Soul 9:00pm Celling Your Soul 11:30am SFD Recruitment 2019 8:09pm SPD Ride Along 8:52am ESCS Field Ribbon Cutting 10:52pm Flood & Stormwater PSA en Espanol 11:42am SFD Recruitment 2019 8:24pm Flood & Stormwater PSA 9:00am PHCS Groundbreaking 10:55pm Flood & Stormwater PSA 11:52am Flood & Stormwater PSA em Portugues 8:26pm Flood & Stormwater PSA en Espanol 9:10am SFD Recruitment 2019 11:00pm SomerStreets: Monster Mashed Up 11:56am Flood & Stormwater PSA en Espanol 8:30pm CC - Land Use Meeting - 10.29.19 9:22am SFD Recruitment 2019 11:30pm Overdose Awareness Vigil 12:00pm SomerViva an Kreyòl Ayisyen - Miral Atis Monday, November 4 9:32am SFD Recruitment 2019 Friday, November 1 12:11pm SFD Recruitment 2019 12:00am Senior Circuit "Cooking with Caitlin II" 10:30am Letters of World War II at Council on Aging 12:00am SomerStreets: Monster Mashed Up 12:30pm SomerStreets 12:30am SomerStreets: Monster Mashed Up 12:00pm CC - Land Use Meeting - 10.29.19 12:30am Dance for Dignity 1:00pm City Council Meeting - 10.24.19 1:00am Healey School Playground Community Mtg. 4:00pm SomerViva an Kreyòl Ayisyen - Oct. 2019 1:00am CC - Land Use Meeting - 10.29.19 6:00pm Honk! Parade 2019 2:10am SPD Ride Along 6:30pm SomerStreets: Monster Mashed Up 7:30am The Firstamerican Flag 6:30pm What the Fluff Fest? 2:30am What the Fluff Fest? 7:00pm Conservation Preservation Meeting 8:46am Flood & Stormwater PSA 7:00pm Evolution of Hip Hop 3:00am Letters of World War II at Council on Aging 8:00pm Dance for Dignity 8:48am Flood & Stormwater PSA en Espanol 7:30pm SomerStreets: Monster Mashed Up 7:00am Celling Your Soul: Raising Kids in a Digital Age 8:30pm SFD Recruitment 2019 9:00am Dance for Dignity 8:00pm Conservation Preservation Meeting - 10.23.19 8:52am Flood & Stormwater PSA 8:39pm SFD Recruitment 2019 11:00am PHCS Groundbreaking 9:00pm Honk! Parade 2019 9:00am Dance for Dignity 8:49pm SFD Recruitment 2019 11:09am SPD Ride Along 9:30pm Celling Your Soul 9:30am Conservation Preservation Meeting - 10.23.19 9:01pm SomerViva en Español - 9.19.19 11:30am Connecting Communities - Fire Safety 11:22pm Flood & Stormwater PSA em Portugues 11:30am Honk! Parade 2019 9:25pm Flood & Stormwater PSA 12:00pm SFD Recruitment 2019 11:25pm Flood & Stormwater PSA en Espanol 12:00pm Dance for Dignity 9:30pm SomerStreets: Monster Mashed Up 12:12pm SFD Recruitment 2019 12:30pm PHCS Groundbreaking 11:30pm SPD Ride Along 10:00pm Honk! Parade 2019 12:22pm SFD Recruitment 2019 12:39pm SFD Recruitment 2019 10:30pm Conservation Preservation Meeting 12:33pm SomerViva en Español - 9.19.19 Sunday, November 3 12:50pm SFD Recruitment 2019 11:30pm SPD Ride Along 1:00pm What the Fluff Fest? 12:00am School Committee Meeting - 10.21.19 1:00pm CC - Land Use Meeting - 10.29.19 Thursday, October 31 1:30pm SomerStreets: Strike Up the Bands 1:32am Raising Families "Special Needs Education" 7:00pm School Committee Meeting LIVE - 11.4.19 12:00am Raising Families "Special Needs Education" 1:45pm SPD Ride Along 2:00am PHCS Groundbreaking 11:00pm SomerViva em Português - 10/19 12:30am Healey School Playground Community Mtg. 2:00pm Letters of World War II at Council on Aging 2:10am Talking Business "Bow Market" Tuesday, November 5 3:13pm Haiti in the 'Ville 1:40am SPD Ride Along 2:30am Licensing Commission Meeting - 10.21.19 12:00am Dance for Dignity 6:00pm Raising Families "Special Needs Education" 2:00am Honk! Parade 2019 7:30am SomerStreets: Monster Mashed Up 12:30am Ball Sq. Walking Tour 6:30pm Evolution of Hip Hop 2:30am Domestic Violence Vigil 10.2.19 8:00am Fit-4-Life #5 2:00am Return to Italy 7:00pm Letters of World War II at Council on Aging 8:00am Raising Families "Youth Vaping & Smoking" 8:20am SomerViva an Kreyòl Ayisyen - Miral Atis 3:00am Honk! Parade 2019 8:13pm SFD Recruitment 2019 8:26am Flood & Stormwater PSA 8:31am Connecting Communities - Fire Safety 7:30am Middlesex County Update w/Marian Ryan 8:25pm Flood & Stormwater PSA en Espanol 8:30am Honk! Parade 2019 9:00am What the Fluff Fest? 8:00am Connecting Communities - Fire Safety 8:30pm CC - Land Use Meeting - 10.29.19 8:55am ESCS Field Ribbon Cutting 9:30am Letters of World War II at Council on Aging 8:30am What the Fluff Fest? 9:00am Healey School Playground Community Mtg. Saturday, November 2 11:30am 9/11 Vigil - 2019 9:00am 75 Years After 10:11am Flood & Stormwater PSA en Espanol 12:00am Dance for Dignity 12:00pm Senior Circuit "Cooking with Caitlin II" 11:30am Connecting Communities - Fire Safety 11:30am SomerStreets: Monster Mashed Up 12:30am Honk! Parade 2019 12:23pm Push Ups for Veterans 12:00pm Senior Circuit "Cooking with Caitlin II" 12:00pm Senior Circuit "Cooking with Caitlin II" 1:00am SFD Recruitment 2019 12:30pm Somerville Veterans' Memorial Parade 2018 12:23pm SFD Recruitment 2019: Ser Bombero de 12:30pm SomerViva an Kreyòl Ayisyen - Oct. 2019 1:12am SFD Recruitment 2019 1:30pm SFD Recruitment 2019 Somerville 12:48pm SomerViva an Kreyòl Ayisyen - Miral Atis 1:22am SFD Recruitment 2019 1:41pm SFD Recruitment 2019 12:35pm PHCS Groundbreaking 1:00pm Dance for Dignity 1:33am Talking Business "Bow Market" 12:45pm SPD Ride Along 1:51pm SFD Recruitment 2019 1:30pm Conservation Preservation Meeting 2:00am SomerStreets: Monster Mashed Up 1:00pm City Council Meeting - 10.24.19 2:04pm SPD Ride Along 2:30pm SomerViva em Português - 10/19 2:30am Healey School Playground Community Mtg. 6:00pm Domestic Violence Vigil 10.2.19 3:00pm SFD Recruitment 2019 7:30am What the Fluff Fest? 2:30pm Dance for Dignity 6:21pm Flood & Stormwater PSA em Portugues 6:00pm Dance for Dignity 8:00am Letters of World War II at Council on Aging 3:00pm SomerViva em Português - 10/19 6:24pm Flood & Stormwater PSA 6:30pm Healey School Playground Community Mtg. 9:13am SPD Ride Along 6:30pm Raising Families "Youth Vaping & Smoking" 6:30pm Connecting Communities - Fire Safety 7:40pm SPD Ride Along 9:30am Return to Italy 7:00pm Senior Circuit "Cooking with Caitlin II" 7:00pm 75 Years After 7:55pm Flood & Stormwater PSA 10:19am Push Ups for Veterans 7:23pm Flood & Stormwater PSA 8:30pm School Committee Meeting - 11.4.19 8:00pm SomerStreets: Monster Mashed Up 10:30am Veterans' Day Remembrance Ceremony 7:30pm Dance for Dignity 11:30pm Honk! Parade 2019 Educational TV 15 Schedule Wednesday, October 30 5:30pm Our Schools, Our City - Equity 4:00pm Our Schools, Our City - Equity 11:00am SHS Girls Soccer vs Waltham 9:00am SHS Boys Soccer vs Chelsea 6:00pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Waltham 4:30pm Connecting Communities - Fire Safety 1:00pm SHS Boys Soccer vs Everett 11:00am Healey Schoolyard Community Mtg. 8:00pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Malden 5:00pm SHS Boys Soccer vs Chelsea 2:30pm SHS Boys Soccer vs Boston Int'l 12:30pm Our Schools, Our City - Equity 10:00pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Revere 7:00pm SHS Boys Soccer vs Dracut 4:00pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Malden 1:00pm SHS Boys Soccer vs Dracut 11:30pm Healey Schoolyard Community Mtg. 9:00pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Waltham 5:30pm Our Schools, Our City - Equity 2:30pm Connecting Communities - Fire Safety Friday, November 1 11:00pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Haverhill 6:00pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Haverhill 3:00pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Waltham 1:00am SHS Girls Soccer vs Haverhill Sunday, November 3 8:00pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Waltham 5:00pm SHS Boys Soccer vs Chelsea 9:00am SHS Football vs Ipswich 12:00am SHS Boys Soccer vs Chelsea 10:00pm SHS Boys Soccer vs Everett 7:00pm Healey Schoolyard Community Mtg. 11:00am SHS Football vs Malden 1:30am SHS Boys Soccer vs Dracut 11:30pm SHS Boys Soccer vs Boston Int'l 8:30pm Our Schools, Our City - Equity 1:30pm Our Schools, Our City - Equity 9:00am SHS Football vs Falmouth 9.14.19 Tuesday, November 5 9:00pm SHS Boys Soccer vs Dracut 2:00pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Haverhill 11:30am SHS Football vs Malden 10:30pm Connecting Communities - Fire Safety 4:00pm SHS Boys Soccer vs Chelsea 2:00pm SHS Boys Soccer vs Everett 1:00am SHS Girls Soccer vs Malden 11:00pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Waltham 6:00pm SHS Football vs Ipswich 3:30pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Waltham 9:00am SHS Football vs Ipswich 11:00am SHS Girls Soccer vs Haverhill Thursday, October 31 8:00pm SHS Football vs Malden 5:00pm Our Schools, Our City - Equity 10:30pm Our Schools, Our City - Equity 5:30pm Connecting Communities - Fire Safety 1:00pm SHS Boys Soccer vs Chelsea 12:30am SHS Boys Soccer vs Everett 3:00pm SHS Boys Soccer vs Dracut 2:00am Public Domain Theater [10.19] 11:00pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Haverhill 6:00pm SHS Football vs Falmouth 9.14.19 8:30pm SHS Football vs Malden 5:00pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Waltham 9:00am SHS Girls Soccer vs Waltham Saturday, November 2 7:00pm SHS Football vs Ipswich 10:30am Our Schools, Our City - Equity 1:00am SHS Boys Soccer vs Chelsea 11:00pm SHS Boys Soccer vs Everett 9:00pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Haverhill 11:00am SHS Girls Soccer vs Malden 9:00am SHS Boys Soccer vs Chelsea Monday, November 4 1:00pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Revere 11:00am SHS Boys Soccer vs Dracut 12:30am SHS Girls Soccer vs Waltham 11:00pm SHS Boys Soccer vs Chelsea 2:30pm Healey Schoolyard Community Mtg. 1:00pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Waltham 2:00am SHS Football vs Ipswich 1:00am SHS Boys Soccer vs Dracut 4:00pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Haverhill 3:00pm SHS Girls Soccer vs Haverhill 9:00am SHS Girls Soccer vs Haverhill 3:00am SHS Girls Soccer vs Waltham

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OFF THE SHELF by Doug Holder From the Bloc 11 Cafe: Interview with magician Evan Northrup

I met Evan Northrup at my unofficial office at the back of the Bloc 11 Cafe in Union Square, Somer- ville. Northrup certainly has a stage presence. He speaks in an upbeat cadence and flashes a winning smile. I have never interviewed a magician before, but from my childhood I remember some darkly attired men, pulling an unfortunate bunny out a top hat, or of the enigmatic smile of an attractive woman about to be in cut in half, and miraculously SOMERVILLE brought back to her whole state. Northup portrays magic as a mixture of sleight of edited by Doug Holder hand and practical psychology. His mission state- yrical ment is to bring the magic of life to his patrons. LI am glad The Somerville Times is alive and Northrup has volunteered at the Ar tisan's Asy- healthy, but this is not true for many news- lum outside of Union Square for a number of papers. It is harder and harder to find a years. He finds inspiration for his work from many community newspaper, as they have been of the creative types who work there. As he goes closing at a rapid pace across the country. from work space to work space, he picks up ideas Lawrence Kessenich addresses this in his from this high tech buffet off-the-grid inventors, poem Obituary. This poem first appeared artists, and artisans. in his book Age of Wonders, published by Big Table Publishing Northrup used to live in Somerville. Like many reacts when it is exposed to magic.” So Northrup Company. To order go to: lawrence-writer.com. artists I have interviewed he has left our city to live infuses many different sources in his work. on Beacon Hill in Boston. It is ironic of course, but Northrup said in the past he did his act for OBITUARY he and his wife found a better deal there. children, but now he likes to do it for adults. He Northrup is not only a magician, but he provides reflected, “I like to get adults off guard. I want to The last newspaper landed on our sidewalk stage craft and illusion services to such theaters challenge their assumptions." today, skinny as an anorexic teenager, in Boston as the Lyric Stage, and the Huntington Northrup performs in many venues – weddings, Theatre. He told me, “I once developed a metal il- private parties – but he seeks more corporate work front page announcing its demise, bullied lusion for a production of Beauty and the Beast. It to make the daily nut. He is working on an idea us- into submission by electronic Furies. was basically a framed wood enclosure that including magic to explore the dining experience. He en- ed metal to ensure stability for the Beast.” visions diners choosing what they want to eat, and Northrup, who is a graduate of Brown University, then have it materialize on their plates. Also, an Though its newsprint is fresh and crisp, it shows recalls some of the very first projects he provided appointment of floating candles could be thrown its age – no links, no videos, no searching magical design and special effects for. He reflects, in the mix. “My very first production was at the Glouces- Northrup is a student of the “Spanish School of for words, except with those archaic ter Stage. They were putting on a performance Magic.” In this school of thought there is an em- technologies, the eyes and the mind. I recall of Carnival." At Huntington Theatre in Boston, phasis on magic theory. Northrup said, “American Northrup was involved in the p roduction of I Was magic is more procedural. The Spanish School has Most Alive with You, a production performed by more contextual content with magic, rather than its heyday, when, fat as a politician members of the deaf community. simply tricks." on the take, it surprised us every morning Northrup is not your dad's magician. He sees Northrup performed a few tricks for me at our magic through many different lenses. He told me, table. One that I took interest in was when he with news we hadn’t already heard a dozen "Respected scientists now study magic's effect on changed one dollar bills into twenties. Boy, would ways: RUSSIA INVADES HUNGARY, GLENN ORBITS the brain. MRIs are employed to see how the brain I like to know that guy's secret!

THE EARTH, BOBBY KENNEDY SHOT. Bulked up Nominate properties for 2019 Preservation Awards with want ads and two-page department store The Somerville Historic Preservation Commission (SHPC) is now accepting nominations for the spreads, it had the presence to support those 2020 Preservation Awards Program. During its annual celebration in honor of Historic Preser- vation Month in May 2020, the Commission will honor Somerville owners who performed sig- weighty headlines, a thick tome of world events nificant restoration or maintenance efforts on designated historic buildings, or on non-designated buildings erected before 1968. The nomination period is open through Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019. dropped on our doorstep as if delivered Eligible property owners must have completed restoration and preservation work between Janu- ary 2017 and December 2019. Owners may nominate their own property, or may be nominated by God, celebrated with ritual cups by others in the community. Eligible projects include, but are not limited to, removal of inappro- of coffee, read with the close attention priate siding materials, repair or restoration of damaged or missing architectural details, removal of enclosed porches or inappropriate windows, repainting with historic colors, and additions that given biblical texts and argued over are “historically sympathetic.” In addition to the formal award certificates from the City of Somerville and the Massachusetts as vehemently, while we washed the sacred State House, Somerville High School students will present winners with an original piece of artwork representing their property. The awards ceremony will be during the City’s celebration of printers ink from our hands and watched national Historic Preservation Month, in May 2020. it spiral down the drain. Nomination forms are available on the City Website at https://www.somervillema.gov/preser- vationawards the first floor lobby of City Hall, or the Preservation Commission’s Office on the — Lawrence Kessenich second floor of City Hall. For additional information, contact Brandon Wilson, Kristi Chase, Preservation Planner, or Morgan Griffiths, Preservation Planning Intern at 617-625-6600, ext. 2500 or via e-mail ([email protected], [email protected] or mgriffiths@ To have your work considered for the Lyrical send it to: somervillema.gov). Doug Holder, 25 School St.; Somerville, MA 02143. [email protected] 24••OCTOBER 30, 2019