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Key Contributor South End Community Health Center Brings Familiarity and Trust to Vaccination Efforts THURSDAY, FEBruary 11, 2021 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SERVING BACK BAY - SOUTH END - FENWAY - KENMORE Key Contributor South End Community Health Center brings familiarity and trust to vaccination efforts By Seth Daniel then I began to think about it and now I think it’s a blessing As Beverly Rogers sat in the we have this vaccine,” she said. chair at the South End Com- “I remember when I was a kid munity Health Center (SECHC) and they came out with the polio on Monday preparing to get the vaccine. We went in there really Modera COVID-19 vaccination, scared, but it was good.” it wasn’t a snap decision that Rogers heard the opinions of brought her out, but rather a friends in her building, of her eye thoughtful journey about histo- doctor that got the vaccine, her ry, science, vaccines, family and sister, brother-in-law and a niece. community. She even did a little extensive Rogers, who is Cape Verdean, research on the awful medical said she wasn’t one that immedi- experiments done at Tuskegee ately jumped out of the chair and and learned it was blood work ran down to get vaccinated. For and not vaccines that were part her, like a lot of people of color, it of that awful chapter in medical took a journey to get to the exam history. room. The Chapel Street Footbridge, Riverway lit up green as part of the ‘Lights in the Necklace’ series. “I wasn’t so sure at first, but (SECHC , Pg. 5) “Lights in the Necklace” begins this An Historic Victory Saturday on select Emerald Necklace bridges Staff Report be awash with an emerald glow lace bridges, daily from dusk to Former pulse of the Black – thanks to battery-powered 9pm. The Emerald Necklace Con- LED lights. “Lights in the Neck- The Emerald Necklace’s 1,100 community making a comeback servancy offers visitors to the lace” will celebrate the power of acres are home to more than 30 Emerald Necklace parks anoth- Boston and Brookline’s urban bridges. Connecting neighbors By Seth Daniel in the South End, but would like er wonderful reason to visit this parks to bring visitors together, and bridging communities is to do preservation work on their winter with “Lights in the Neck- inspire and light the way in chal- what the Necklace was designed It has been a stop on the historic headquarters and make lace.” From February 13 through lenging times. Free and open to to do nearly 150 years ago by Underground Railroad, the it a hub for Black history – per- March 13, 2021, select bridges the public, enjoy the lighting on home of a quirky wood import- haps even a type of museum and in the Emerald Necklace will a series of iconic Emerald Neck- er, the hub of Boston’s Black function facility for the League. (EMERALD NECKLACE, Pg. 3) community and even the home “One thing we’ve been doing of Coretta Scott King when she in conjunction with the work to attended college. The grand League of Women (LEAGUE OF WOMEN, Pg. 6) City, elected officials respond to findings from study for Community Service building at 558 Mass Avenue has been that reportedly shows disparity in procurement practices many things, but what it hasn’t been lately is relevant and/or By Dan Murphy practices accordingly. release, reported on its findings occupied. Last week, The Boston Globe last week as well.) However, a group of new and While some elected officials reported on findings from the For the study - the first of old members of the League have are already sounding the alarm 703-page study that analyzed its kind in 18 years – the city breathed new life into the organi- over a soon-to-be-released study 47,801 city contracts for con- retained BBC Research & Con- zations, and they told the Chester that reportedly reveals a pat- struction, as well as professional sulting of Denver, Colo., to deter- Square Neighbors last week they tern of disparity in awarding goods and services, from 2014 to mine apparent underutilization plan to do what they can to reha- municipal contracts to women- 2019, and which determined that of qualified minority and wom- bilitate the historic property and and minority-owned businesses only 11 percent of these contracts en-owned enterprises (M/WBEs) put it back to a good, community during the first term of Mayor were awarded to minority- and as contractors and subcontrac- use. Martin Walsh’s Administration, women-owned businesses while tors across all of its depart- the city has responded that it’s Adrienne Benton and Jac- The front of the historic League only 1.2 percent went to Black- ments. The study also includes quelyn Arrington, both of the of Women for Community Service instead using the findings as a and Latinx-owned businesses. an analysis that reviewed the League, said they have been building at 558 Mass Avenue in “tool” to help reverse the trend, (WGBH, which also received operating out of 18 Holyoke St. more glorious years. and to reform its procurement portions of the study prior to its (DISPARITY, Pg. 3) PAGE 2 THE BOSTON SUN FEBRUARY 11, 2021 editorial WINTRY BLAST IS NOT SO HARD TO TAKE The polar vortex once again has spun out of control, as it has done often in recent years. Instead of remaining in a tightly-wrapped circular motion around the Arctic, the vortex has been weakened by record-high temperatures in the Arctic in recent years because of climate change, thereby loosening the vortex’s centrifugal force and allowing waves of cold air to drift from the Arctic to the continental United States. We have to admit however, that the cold air has been refreshing. We’re not suggesting that we want the sort of cold that is gripping the midwest with below-zero temperatures and -50 wind chills, but what is winter without a little spell of cold weather? We think all would agree that Sunday’s snowstorm, with those huge flakes of snow floating down upon us, was wondrous. Catching them in your mouth (as we did while out for a run before the Super Bowl) was something to be appreciated by all of the senses. Sure, milder winters are easy on our heating bills and we don’t have to worry about freezing pipes, slippery roads, and all of the other difficulties that come with winter weather. But it is precisely the harshness of winter that makes us appreciate summer all the more. It won’t be long before the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer are here and these days of sub-freezing weather will barely be a memory. YW Boston Building could provide housing for Back TB SETTLED THE GOAT QUESTION Yes Pats’ fans, it was bittersweet to watch the duo of Tom Brady Bay’s homeless, pending extensive background check and Rob Gronkowski lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a Super By Dan Murphy it performing arts center; the citizenship status and a past Bowl championship. Snowden International School; pattern of behavior that could On the other hand, no Pats’ fan should be deluded into thinking With the proposed redevelop- and YW Boston itself, would adversely impact other tenants that if the Pats’ management had kept #12, New England fans would ment of the building now owned remain as part of the redevelop- could also be grounds for refusal be celebrating with a victory parade this week. by YW Boston (formerly YWCA ment plan, while the Pine Street of housing. Tampa Bay started the season with far more talent on its offense Boston) at the corner of Clar- Inn and on-site management Furthermore, Phillips said, than the Patriots and then went out and added Rob Gronkowski, endon and Stuart streets, some would also have offices in the “The BHA takes a hardline on Leonard Fournette, and Antonio Brown -- all of whom not so coinci- people living on the streets of building. No exterior changes are drug offenses and previous evic- dentally scored the Tampa Bay touchdowns. Back Bay today could likely end planned for the historic 13-story tions.” But analysis aside, the game captured the imagination of fans -- and up in one of 111 units intended building, and construction on the Homeless individuals referred even non-fans --across the country because of the matchup between specifically for people now expe- project is expected to commence by the Pine Street Inn would the greatest QB of all time, now at the age of 43, vs. the up-and-com- this August, and to take around riencing homelessness, but first, occupy the fourth through er, 25 year-old Patrick Mahomes, from Kansas City. 20 months to complete. according to members of the eight-floors of the redeveloped In addition, en route to the big game, Brady had vanquished two All prospective tenants would project’s development team, they other GOAT wannabes, Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers, while be referred to management by the building, which would provide would have to pass an extensive another GOAT pretender, Ben Roethlisberger over in the AFC, had Boston Housing Authority, said them with immediate access fizzled out. background check. Ben Phillips of Beacon Commu- to their on-site case managers, The Brady-Mahomes matchup was a classic, made-for-TV, duel- “Our hope is that people who nities, and undergo an extensive said Darcy Jameson, vice pres- for-the-ages. are homeless living in Back Bay background checks by both the ident of Beacon Communities, But in the end, it was #12 who stood tall and confident in the now will be candidates to move BHA and management, which while the upper floors would be pocket, firing lasers to his receivers, while Mahomes was scrambling into this building,” said Jan Grif- would automatically exclude home to “conventional apart- around haphazardly and making costly mistakes.
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