Dorchester Reporter “The News and Values Around the Neighborhood” Volume 34 Issue 22 Thursday, June 2, 2016 50¢ DOT DAY ’16 The Dorchester Day Parade hits the street this Sunday, June 5 at 1 p.m. The parade follows a route along Dorchester Avenue from Lower Mills to Columbia Road. Above, the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band is always a hit at the annual parade, which has roots in the first Dorchester Days in 1904-05. See editorial, page 12. A full roster of this year’s parade is published in a special Dot Day supplement, page B2. Chris Lovett photo Ashmont Hill A chat with the Mayor is focus of June of Dorchester House Tour Deirdre Dorchester has long been noted for its Habershaw distinctive homes. Now, thanks to the Dorchester Historical Society, some of the neighborhood’s finest homes Page 13B and carriage houses— along with the beautifully restored All Saints Church — will swing open their doors for a one-day house tour on June 12. The ticketed event will benefit the Histori- cal Society. A special report begins on page 4. At right, one of the featured homes on Ocean Street, a beautifully reha- bilitated Queen Anne. The library at All contents copyright right was the home’s orginal dining © 2016 Boston room, which still includes the ornate Neighborhood News, Inc. wainscotting. Big bank services without big bank fees. Mobile Banking Remote Deposit Online Banking eStatements Bill Pay Full range of deposit and lending products 2250 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, MA 02124 · 617-298-2250 4238 Washington Street, Roslindale, MA 02131 · 617-942-8500 Member FDIC Mortgage Line 617-322-3100 · meetinghousebank.com Member SIF MB Bank Services Ad 10x2 4c.indd 1 2/23/15 2:59 PM Page 2 THE REPORTER June 2, 2016 dotnews.com DOT BY THE DAY June 2 - 5, 2016 A snapshot look at key upcoming events in and around the neighborhood for your weekly planner. Thursday (2nd) – Uphams Corner Health Center Holistic Fair, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., 415 Columbia Rd. Open to the public. Contact Tonita Watson at 617-287-8000 ext. 8343. • BPS hosts public meeting to discuss water access in city schools at 5:30 p.m. at Kenny Elementary School in Dorchester. Friday (3rd) – Dorchester Day Parade Chief Marshal’s dinner at Florian Hall, 6p.m. The Tickets Dermot and Cindy Quinn of Greenhills Irish Bakery in Adams Village continued their 25th anniversary celebration in May by donating $1,000 to the Irish Pastoral Centre. Pictured, l-r, are Dermot and Cindy are $40 and are still available. Contact kellywalsh@ Quinn, Fr. Dan Finn, IPC Chaplain and Executive Director, Audrey Larkin, IPC Staff Administrator, Rob- dotdayparade.com for more information. ert Lynch, IPC Treasurer and member Board of Trustees, and Doc Walsh IPC Events Committee member. Photo courtesy of Greenhills Bakery Saturday (4th) – Wild about wine? Franklin Park Zoo’s third annual wine tasting event, Uncorked, at 5 p.m. Stroll among the animals in the zoo’s signature Police, Courts Tropical Forest Pavilion. Please note: This event is & Fire 21+. Contact 617-541-5466. • Pierce House on Oakton Avenue will be open Man shot to death for free tours by Historic Boston Inc. today 10-3 on Devon Street p.m. with the last tour beginning at 2 p.m. One of The Boston Police De- the last surviving examples of seventeenth-century partment reports a man architecture in Boston. 24 Oakton Ave., Dorchester. was fatally shot around 10:20 p.m. on Saturday Sunday (5th) – Blarney Stone/Project DEEP 5K night at 131 Devon St., Road Race from Fields Corner to Lower Mills and near Columbia Road. Po- back. Sponsored by the Blarney Stone and proceeds lice found the unidentfied to benefit Project DEEP and other organizations, man, shot in the chest, at 10:30 a.m. For race information, contact Project 152 Stanwood St., which D.E.E.P. at 617-635-5027 or visit projectdeep.org. backs up against the property at 131 Devon. ••• • Dorchester Day Parade begins at 1 p.m. on Man sentenced Dorchester Avenue in Lower Mills and ends at for ’12 murder of Columbia Road. former friend Family members and • Boston Nature Center’s Spring Swing garden- A replica 1760 British cannon will be on permanent display atop Dorchester friends of 25-year-old party themed fundraiser, 500 Walk Hill St., Mat- Heights after its unveiling this Saturday at 11 a.m. Keosha Gilmore recalled tapan, 3-6 p.m.features fine food, beer and wine, a the pain of losing “an live auction featuring fabulous trips, and a creative Replica cannon installed angel” as the childhood auction highlighting the nature-inspired work of friend who murdered 40 talented area artists. Tickets $35 each: Go to her was sentenced to massaudubon.org to buy tickets. atop Dorchester Heights life in prison. Christo- pher Jackson, 30, was The National Parks hands-on archaeology Heights in March of convicted last week of of Boston will unveil program to simulate the 1776 is widely credited second-degree murder June 2, 2016 and dedicate a replica work done in the 1990s, by historians for oust- and gun charges in her Boys & Girls Club News ........ 18 Dorchester Reporter cannon like the ones when a 200-foot wide, ing the British from death. He is eligible (USPS 009-687) brought to Dorchester star-shaped trench was their position in Boston, for parole after 15 - the Opinion/Editorial/Letters ........ 10 Published Weekly Periodical postage paid at Boston, MA. Heights from Fort Ticon- uncovered. 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UPCOMING CIVIC ASSOCIATION MEETINGS • FULL LISTINGS ON PAGE 12 BPS meetings on Water in Schools – Boston gardens will be held on Sun., June 19 from 11 to be honored. The festive, garden-party p.m. at the George H. Walker Playground, Public Schools will host 9 community a.m.-3 p.m. Tickets available at Cedar Grove themed fundraiser features fine food, beer Mattapan. Led by Jessica Mink, bikers will meetings on Water Access in city facilities, Gardens. Proceeds to benefit Dorchester and wine, a live auction featuring fabulous be able to see local urban wilds and walk including Thurs., June 2, 5:30 p.m., Kenny Park. For more information visit dotpark.org. trips, and a creative auction highlighting through some woods. For more information, Elementary School; Mon., June 6, 6:30 p.m., Tour the Historic Pierce House on Saturday the nature-inspired work of 40 talented area contact Shavel’le @ mattapanonwheels@ Murphy K-8 School; Wed., June 8, 5 p.m., – Historic New England’s Pierce House, 24 artists. Tickets are $35 each. Please visit gmail.com or call 617-433-7050 Boston Latin Academy; Thurs., June 9, 5 p.m., Oakton Ave., Dorchester is open for tours on massaudubon.org for further information. Mayor visits Hemenway Park for Coffee Lee K-8 School. For more information, visit: June 4 from 10-3 p.m. (Last tour starts at 2 Pope’s Hill Neighborhood Association – Hour – 2016 Coffee Hour Series give residents bostonpublicschools.org/water. p.m.) Free admission. For more information, PHNA meetings, usually the fourth Wed. of a unique opportunity to speak directly with NAACP meeting on ‘Black in BPS’ – The please visit historicnewengland.org/historic- the month at the Leahy/Holloran Community Mayor Walsh and other city officials about Boston chapter of the NAACP hosts a Black properties/homes/pierce-house. Center at 7 p.m. All are the fourth Wednesday needs in their neighborhoods. All coffee in BPS Town Hall action meeting at Greater Spring Swing at Boston Nature Center of the month. Coming up on Sat., June 11: The hour series will begin at 9:30 a.m. Upcoming Love Tabernacle Church, Dorchester on June – Boston Nature Center and Wildlife Sanctu- annual Pope’s Hill/McKone St.