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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.
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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. There will be where redcoat troops mandatory term for the Neighborhood Notables...... 12 POSTMASTER: Send address deroga during the Siege a number of activities for had been stationed since offense of second-degree changes to: 150 Mt. Vernon St., of Boston of 1776 this children, including face- 1768. The event is now Booth on Sports...... 17 Suite 120, Dorchester, MA 02125 murder. Saturday morning at painting and ranger- marked every year on Prosecutors proved Business Directory...... 16 Mail subscription rates $30.00 per year, payable in advance. 11 a.m. The cannon will led discussions on the March 17 in the City of that Jackson was angry Obituaries...... 20 Make checks and money or- remain on permanent site’s significance to the Boston as Evacuation that Gilmore did not ders payable to The Dorchester display, according to a American Revolution. Day. Saturday’s event is Days Remaining Until Reporter and mail to: 150 Mt. share his romantic feel- Vernon St., Suite 120, Dorchester, press release from the The covert seizure of free. Dorchester Heights ings when he fatally Dorchester Day...... 3 MA 02125 National Park Service. artillery from the British Monument is located at shot her as she sat in a Fathers Day...... 17 News Room: (617) 436-1222 Following the dedica- fort at Ticonderoga and Thomas Park in South car parked on Alabama Independence Day...... 52 Advertising: (617) 436-1222 tion ceremony, park the placement of those Boston. Street with her then- ax hone Labor Day...... 91 F P : (617) 825-5516 rangers will conduct a arms atop Dorchester -Griffin Connolly boyfriend on the night of Subscriptions: (617) 436-1222 Feb. 19, 2012.
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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. block party coffee hour series: Wed., June 22; Hemenway 11 at 9 a.m. ary Spring Swing on Sun., June 5 from 3-6 includes awards to neighborhood leaders. Playground, Dorchester. Garden Tour to benefit Dot Park – A Sum- p.m. Kathy Clunis D’Andrea, educator in Mattapan Bike Ride on June 12 – Mattapan SEND UPDATES TO mer Solstice Garden Tour of 10 local private Boston Public Schools and a BNC supporter, Community Bike Ride on Sun., June 12 at 1 [email protected] dotnews.com June 2, 2016 The Reporter Page 3 Project D.E.E.P. marks 20th year by honoring volunteers By Griffin Connolly running through prepara- Special to the Reporter tions for Mannion’s pending To cap its 20th year helping interview at Thayer Academy. Dorchester youth fulfill their “They’re great,” Connell academic potential, Project said of the Youngs. “They’re D.E.E.P— the Dorchester genuinely invested personally Educational Enrichment and would always stay after Program— held its annual to help.” Volunteer and Student Rec- Now, Mannion is finishing ognition Night on Friday, May up ninth grade at Thayer. He 13, at the Edward M. Kennedy returned to Project D.E.E.P. Institute for the United States this year as a tutor, one of on Columbia Point. a bevy of program alumni to In 1995, Dorchester native circle back in a volunteer role. Brendan McDonough founded Mayor Martin Walsh was the weekly one-on-one tutor- given the organization’s ing program, based out of the Founder’s Award. Leahy-Holloran Community Former New England Pa- Center, as an education-first triot and cancer survivor alternative to other neighbor- Joe Andruzzi delivered the hood after-school initiatives. keynote speech, imparting “Brendan thought there a message of perseverance were so many programs and grit. The nine-year NFL geared toward athletics,” Beth veteran was not selected in the Connell, Project D.E.E.P.’s 1997 draft, but worked his way executive director and a onto the Green Bay Packers’ Neponset resident, said, “but roster and later won three nothing for academics. He Super Bowls as a starting wanted to change that.” guard in New England. At the send-off evening last It was unclear which the month, three tutors were given Project D.E.E.P. students the Volunteer Recognition would remember better from Award. the recognition night: the One was Gregg Bailey, a Lat- speech or donning Andruzzi’s in tutor who has volunteered championship jewelry. his time and knowledge since “He was flooded immediately Project D.E.E.P.’s inception, after for autographs,” Connell prompting Connell to dub him Bob Scannell, president and said, “and he brought his rings the program’s “unsung hero.” CEO of the Boys and Girls Chris and Nancy Young, right, who volunteer as tutors for so the kids could all wear Joining Bailey were Chris Clubs of Dorchester, was pre- Project D.E.E.P., were honored at the organization’s annual them. They were thrilled.” and Nancy Young, who, ac- sented with a special award Volunteer and Student Recognition Night on May 13. 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" Page 4 THE Reporter June 2, 2016 dotnews.com The Dorchester House Tour is back; June 12 on the neighborhood calendar
By Jennifer Smith Reporter Staff A dozen historic homes and carriage barns will swing wide their doors and show off their classic detailing a week from Sunday (June 12) as the Dorchester House Tour returns to the neighborhood for the first time in a decade. The Dorchester Historical Society has resurrected the tour, which began featuring the housing gems sitting just off the beaten path in the old town back in the 1970s. Tourists will travel between houses on the self- guided tour, which begins at noon from All Saints Church. Many of Ashmont Hill’s homes – Queen Annes, Colonial Revivals, and Shingle Style – were built for wealthy owners between the early 1870s and 1900. The houses on the tour are privately owned; homeowners and volunteers will be stationed at the houses to chat with tour participants about what it takes to renovate and live in a grand historic home. “One of the features of historic preservation is making properties usable for people today,” said Earl Taylor, president of the Dorchester Historical Society. “So it’s very important that a property is rehabbed with a sensitivity to historic preservation, but also to the current use.” Committing to such a home sets a homeowner up for a long-term labor of love. “Some of the houses Detail from one of the distinctive homes that will be showcased in the Dorchester House Tour are as good as they’re gonna get,” said Vicki Rugo Lianne Ames photo of the historical society, “though their owners are constantly doing things to change them just because repairs at the Clapp properties on Boston Street. on the tour, although all addresses are being kept they enjoy doing it.” The No. 1 priority is exterior renovations on confidential until the morning of the tour for the In the beginning, tours were limited to homes on the William Clapp house and on the neighboring sake of the homeowners’ privacy. Ashmont Hill, said Rugo, but after about 10 years, Lemuel Clap house, Taylor said. “We did the Blake “It’s really just to kind of share what’s here, Melville Park was added to the route. “Those sort House several years ago; we’ve done the barn and increase an appreciation for the history of the of set a model for showing that people would come the carriage house, and now we really need to focus neighborhoods,” said Rugo. “Ashmont Hill has its to Dorchester neighborhoods to see what was here,” on these two houses. There’s been a lot of deferred own very distinctive history in terms of who owned she said, “and there were all these wonderful 19th maintenance over the last, perhaps, 50 years of the land, how it got developed, who lived here, how and early 20th century houses to be seen.” neglect, before we started the program, and so we’re has it evolved since then. But that’s true of every In 1996, the Codman Square House Tour was now on a real plan to get this done.” single neighborhood. There are neighborhoods all inaugurated, and it included houses in Melville Park, Ashmont Hill is home to a number of the historical over Dorchester where hopefully we’ll be able to do Shawmut, and Ashmont Hill while functioning as society’s board members. Interest in the unique and this same kind of thing.” a fundraiser for community health organizations often well-preserved homes on the hill inspired the Edens, Inc., the developers proposing the sprawl- based in Codman Square. historical society to give the tour another chance. “It ing mixed-use South Bay Town Center project, is Over the next decade, the tour included between 8 seemed like there was an opportunity,” said Rugo, the Dorchester House Tour’s lead sponsor. Trinity and 16 houses, and people were shuttled via trolley “because every time we do the yard sale, people Financial is a supporting sponsor and the Dorchester from neighborhood to neighborhood. The last tour go, ‘Oh, I love your house. Is there ever going to Reporter is the media sponsor, joined by a number was held in 2006. It “just kind of ran its course,” be another house tour? I remember being here 15 of other neighborhood supporters. said Rugo. years ago.’ ” The tour begins at lower hall of All Saints Church, Proceeds from this year’s tour will go to the “Someone said that to me this morning,” Rugo said with check-in starting at 11:30 a.m. Ticket holders historical society’s building restoration fund for its while seated in her kitchen on a toasty Thursday last can travel freely through the self-guided tour, which properties. Taylor anticipates the income will be month. “So it felt like there was kind of a pent-up will take place from noon to 5 p.m. To buy tickets in used primarily for much-needed renovations and demand.” advance, visit dorchesterhistoricalsociety.org. Her Ocean Street home will be among those open Snapshots OF ASHMONT’s GRANDEST The homes featured in the Dorchester House Tour furnishings, and art. Wood of various species—oak, will run the gamut of styles, with participants set cherry, fruitwood—is used in copious amounts in par- to see everything from turrets, ornate libraries, and quet floors, paneling, moldings, and mantelpieces. a hidden kitchenette styled like a vintage diner. Stained and artistic glass is everywhere. The tour booklet will count as a map, ticket, • This is one of the more stylish of the early-1870s and informational guide for those making the trek houses that helped set the tone for the new, upscale through Ashmont Hill on Sunday, June 12. House enclave -- a highly-ornamented manifestation of previews were provided to the Reporter, written by the Second Empire style, with a Mansard roof and Jeffrey Gonyeau, condensed below into snapshots of Classical detailing. Inside, the decoration of the some of the properties to look forward to, including primary rooms with historic colors and wallpapers homes on Alban, Ocean, Welles, Harley, and Roslin is striking and evocative. The comfortable burgundy Streets. Reminder: These homes are open only to library is graced with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, a ticketed house tour attendees, not for the general bright bay window, a magnificent marble fireplace public. mantel, and another wonderful ceiling medallion • This house is one of a group of Stick Style and light fixture. While the period decoration of this houses on a street where much of Ashmont Hill’s home’s main public rooms is formal and magnificent, development was concentrated in the 1880s. This is the building’s true elegance lies in its spacious one of many homes in the neighborhood that were proportions. modified over the years to bring in rental income. • A lifelong bachelor, Frank Eastman built this Happily, the owner has reversed these changes and home for himself and his mother a year before his restored the entry hall, including the staircase with brother George built the adjacent residence for his its interesting turned newel post. Simple, scribed own family. Frank’s architect, Henry J. Preston, detailing such as that on the newel is common to known for his commercial and institutional build- much of the woodwork in the house—see also the ings, also did residential work in various styles in staircase balusters, mantelpieces (don’t miss the Dorchester and beyond—including quintessential unusual owl and full moon tiles in the dining room!), Queen Anne-style houses like this one. A small and wood wainscot in the dining room. reception alcove is set off the entry hall. Double • This 1888 home is one of a cluster of five houses parlors are connected by pocket doors. (Note the designed by Harrison Henry Atwood, including picture molding in the front parlor; every room once his own remarkable home. Atwood was only in his had it.) The dining room benefits from light entering mid-20s when he began these projects. Appointed the slim side windows of its bay and connects to the City Architect of Boston in 1889, in this prestigious kitchen through a china pantry. These public rooms position he designed schools, firehouses, and other are unified beautifully by their pristine natural public buildings. The front porch, enclosed in the woodwork and by a selection of classic wallpapers 1920s with wonderful patterned glazing, provides a whose rich palette sets off the owners’ collection of foretaste of what is to come inside the main house, This distinctive stained glass pane sits in the Queen family antiques. which is a showcase of fine architectural detail, Anne-style Ashmont Hill home described in the last snapshot. Lianne Ames photo dotnews.com June 2, 2016 The Reporter Page 5
Nancy Anderson sits outside the carriage house on Ocean Street that she lovingly restored and converted into living space. Nancy and her late husband Vince Droser have been central to civic life in Dorchester in recent years. Anderson’s home is featured in the June 12 Dorchester House Tour sponsored by the Dorchester Historical Society. For a closer look at Anderson’s successful restoration project, you can watch a special video produced by The Reporter. It’s online at DotNews.com. Jennifer Smith photo History updated: New life for historic Ashmont carriage house
By Jennifer Smith A large paneled door once included Reporter Staff a wicket door, or a small hinged door, When Nancy Anderson bought the within the sliding door, through which dusty blue carriage house on Ocean people would usually enter. When Street on Ashmont Hill, her future Anderson looked at the house initially, living room was being used as a garage. she passed through the wicket door. “It Gouges left by horses’ hooves had was just a barn door,” she said, “and I scored the wooden floor. A gradient of said, ‘Well, I’m going to be living here, packed dirt rose to the edge of the wide this is going to be my living space. I barn door, and a bathroom walled with can’t have a barn door. It has to be 1970s-style paneling stood awkwardly insulated. What do I do?’ ” at the top of a perilously steep and In the end, she kept the design narrow staircase. of the door intact, but repaired and She had some work to do. closed the wicket door space. After the Anderson closed on the property installation of a thin layer of insulation in 2013, after leaving her beloved and an interior covering in leftover Barrington Road home in a downsize bead-board, Anderson has a barn door move. But she had sons and daughters, as snug as any wall. some still in college, who would want a On the first day of May, the carriage place to come back to for Thanksgiving. house was open as neighbors and “I was waiting for something cool family gathered there, barn door open and unusual that would fit the way Nancy Anderson re-purposed a barn door for use in her carriage house bath- to the patio and a landscape that An- we lived,” she said, sitting outside on room. Lianne Ames photo derson says is her next project. People a warm Sunday following the annual padded past her expansive wall unit, Ashmont Hill Yard Sale. “You know, garish purple.” under the second floor windows, you packed with books and knick-knacks, we do turkey fries, and we do events Anderson likes the wavy look of can see the barn door lines, you know, across the cleanly finished floorboards, all the time. And I saw this one online, classic glass – ask the owners of a the braces and so on that make up the and into the minimalist yet spacious walked over one morning, and said, historic home, and they will wax poetic features of an older carriage house. It kitchen. ‘Oh, that could be good.’ ” about the quality and character of old has been rehabbed on the inside,” he Anderson said that when she first Settled in amongst ornate and varied windows – and she has kept them in said, “for modern living.” walked into the somewhat dilapidated homes along the tree-lined street, the the majority of the house. She also likes Readying the space on the lower house she knew right away what she carriage house shows off its historically the bead-boarding that once lined the levels for habitation – the previous wanted: an open floor plan and a unique appropriate gray-taupe siding to the walls of the barn area, and the rolling owners had lived upstairs in what were collection of thrifted decorations and neighborhood. It used to be part of the barn doors that opened the house and once groomsmen quarters – took some found hardware. She consulted experts home next door. cordoned off any equine tenants. significant innovation. Anderson’s as needed, but what she could control Its classic details have been pre- “I just love old houses,” she said, daughter Katherine kept a running herself, and do by hand, she did, down served and updated to every extent so she repurposes and rehabilitates blog of the renovation’s progress. to building the front steps now sitting possible, and its condition merited them. Replacing some of the small side The prominent barn door and the in place of the packed dirt ramp. its inclusion in this year’s Dorchester windows on the carriage house was simple exterior moldings ensure the Structural integrity came first, House Tour. necessary for fire code reasons, but carriage house’s classical look. After Anderson said, then aesthetic choices In a neighborhood that takes its strong storm windows protect much removing the bead board from the and a repurposing of the original ele- historic homes seriously, Anderson of the original glass on the front of walls in what would be the living room ments of the house. “That was part of said, it helped to chat with her soon-to the house. and kitchen, Anderson stockpiled it my mindset going into this,” she said. be neighbors about her plans. “They The restoration “preserved things for later use. “Just make it so someone else isn’t trusted that I was going to make right like door openings, and window open- In what might well be a description of going to come tear it down because it’s decisions, and not throw vinyl windows ings, and trim work,” said Earl Taylor, her work on the entire house, Anderson falling apart. This house has been here in and, you know, paint it purple,” she president of the Dorchester Historical said of the front door: “It is original, for over a hundred years; it’s going to said with a laugh, adding, “I mean Society. “You can see the scrolling but we did modify it.” stay here for another hundred.” Page 6 THE Reporter June 2, 2016 dotnews.com An eclectic classic: Southern comfort in a Victorian house
By Jennifer Smith Reporter Staff After a full pass through their impeccably curated Ocean Street home, it would be hard to miss the owners’ fondness for dogs, westerns, and Southern styling. And the thousands of books packing every wall, hallway, and open surface almost hold the 1890 house in place. But the centerpiece of Kevin Holland and Michael Mason’s home is the straight shot from their open dining room, past reclaimed Bond Bread screen doors, through an art-lined hallway and chic rustic kitchen out to a screen-in porch surrounded by Japanese maples. That’s what sold them on the house initially. “Being southern and having a southern porch, and, you know, hundred-year-old maple trees,” Holland mused, “and it’s so quiet on this street. We’re eight minutes from the subway and you would just never know.” Mason and Holland, who both hail from the south, have stuffed the house to the gills with art and kitschy design. Each room is a carefully curated experience. The Queen Anne-style home was designed by Boston’s City Architect in the 1880s, Arthur H. Vinal, who also was also the creative mind behind three other homes on Ocean Street. It is included in the Dorchester House Tour as a stunning example of a lovingly restored home, with all floors open for attendees to admire. Though at one point the house was reconfigured The kitchen above features salvaged cabinets, counters, and hardware from the former Girls’ Latin School. Below, a vintage style kitchenette is styled as a classic diner. Jennifer Smith photos into a two-family home, the owner before them restored the three-story house to a cohesive and know, there’s lots of light, it’s kind of an odd shape, open single-family. so there was the perfect place for the chair that could “And that’s what we really liked,” Mason said, “the be nestled in there.” fact that it had been converted back to its original Stained glass elements speckle the house, from the state, and the flow of it is just really nice. Some of original door to a neatly patchworked piece in the the other houses that we looked at were all chopped house’s second-floor bathroom. A collection of about up or converted into two- or three-families, so we 10 retro radios are scattered across all three floors. wanted something that was really original. And it What was once the house’s original dining room just had a great feel,” he said. is now a bright and open library and sometimes The couple moved from their one-bedroom apart- window-seated dominion of their dog, Tucker. The ment in Jamaica Plain almost eight years ago. They walls filled with art, a portrait even hangs on the spent years methodically restoring and painting the front of one of the built-in bookcases, a few feet from interior, ending their efforts on a complete refinish a fez-bedecked bust of President William McKinley. of the formerly peach exterior. And hidden up a narrow set of stairs leading to “We’ve renovated basically everything,” Holland former au pair quarters is a delightful throwback said. kitchenette in the style of a classic diner. Cherry red The kitchen houses some remnants of Dorchester diner seats sit in a nook below a vintage Coca Cola history, salvaged by the home’s previous owner in sign, the surrounding room decorated with framed the 1980s from the Codman Square home of the Western paper-doll cutout sheets, comfortable worn former Girls’ Latin School. Oak cabinetry lines the chairs, and, of course, more books. room, centered around a wooden island once used The house is very much a reflection of what has as a chemistry workstation, Holland said. “It feels become a shared aesthetic over the years, Holland like a timeless kitchen,” he said, with even the slate and Mason say. They renovated their Victorian house counters and deep sink taken from the science room. with an eye toward the ornate details that made A turret anchors the rooms on the front right of homes of the era unique, balanced with modern and the home, housing a sleek black piano in one living classic decorative elements to make it their own. room and Mason’s office on the second floor. In it, “It’s very much warm, comfortable, southern sort a Union Jack-patterned stool sits before a sturdy, of feeling,” Holland said. “People say all the time it polished desk, watched by one of the many canine feels like a southern house. And then with outsider art pieces in the house and positioned below another. art and colorful stuff, but with traditional art, too. “When we bought the house, we scoped out the If we had all Victorian furniture, it would look like rooms, and I pegged that room as my study,” Mason Mary Todd Lincoln’s bedroom,” he said. said. “Because I loved the turret, the windows; you Carriage houses recall Ashmont’s history of horses By Jennifer Smith by secret ballot, garages, and grooms’ quarters occupied by family Reporter Staff called the Dorchester chauffeurs. The carriage houses of Ashmont Hill sit back from Gentlemen’s Riding Anderson’s 1898 carriage house was built slightly the street and peek from behind imposing neighbors. and Driving Club,” later than its imposing and ornate associated house, Of the fourteen that remain in the area, three are Tucci wrote. “In which a 1995 Boston Landmarks Commission survey featured in the Dorchester House Tour, remnants of later years, Mayor report called “the most opulently ornamented Queen a century more dependent on hooves for transport Fitzgerald was an Anne house in the area and, for that matter, in and sport alike. active member.” Dorchester.” One of the homes on the house tour is a completed Up through the Anderson’s house, and a few others in the Ashmont carriage house, belonging to Nancy Anderson, and 1890s, when Na- Hill area, demonstrate the randomness of success- two other carriage houses have had extensive work than Carruth was fully converting carriage barns into stand-alone done to stabilize and repair the properties enough designating a com- residences. If the carriage barn stands fully adjacent to make them usable. munity stable and to the main house, a usable and easily accessible Carriage houses are defined not so much by lawns rather than parcel can be drawn surrounding the house and form, though many share distinctive elements, but encourage landown- straight out to the street. As in the case of Anderson’s by function. They were built alongside larger and ers to keep their property, the two buildings came under separate often more ornate houses, intended to accommodate own stables, those ownership. carriages and the horses that drew them. on Ashmont Hill However, should the carriage house sit slightly Ashmont Hill’s relative wealth of carriage houses The doors of a refurbished were settled firmly behind or a hair too near to the original house, is reflective of a unique approach to equestrian carriage house on Ashmont in their support of the zoning laws limit the small barn’s use. Some owners pursuits. “Equestrian enthusiasm appears always Hill. Lianne Ames photo carriage and horse. choose to renovate the secondary structure into a to have been characteristic of Ashmont Hill life,” Even in the face of the rental unit, or an entertaining space. according to Douglas Shand Tucci’s 1974 history “All encroaching automobile, Tucci wrote, the neighbor- “So carriage houses are an endangered species,” Saints’ Ashmont, Dorchester, Boston: A centennial hood persisted in “apparently reactionary horsiness.” said Earl Taylor, president of the Dorchester Histori- history of the parish.” It was a fashionable neighborhood, and essentially cal Society, “because in most properties they can “So devoted to equestrian pleasures was Ashmont every other house had behind it a stable, or carriage only be used for storage, not for the original use of Hill that it was the heartland of a marvelous and house. This transitioned well with the onset of the housing a horse of a carriage, but usually not sturdy highly select organization of 250 members, elected automobile, Tucci noted, as the stables became enough now for even a car.” dotnews.com June 2, 2016 The Reporter Page 7 Once upon a time, Col. and Madame Swan lived quite grandly on their Dorchester estate
By James Hobin Reporter Staff Architectural gems have long enhanced the Dorchester landscape, one of them a splendid example ascribed by many to the great federalist-era architect, Charles Bulfinch. Built in 1796, The Swan House was located near the Roxbury line on what is now Dudley Street. One year earlier, as part of Fourth of July celebrations across the bay in Boston, the cornerstone had been laid for what is considered Bulfinch’s finest achievement, the Massachusetts State House. Bulfinch is said to have been a cousin of Hepzibah Clarke, a rich and well-connected heiress in Boston whose wealth had been greatly increased by her association with the Mount Vernon Proprietors, Boston’s original gaggle of developers who leveled Beacon Hill and made a fortune in speculative real estate. It is widely assumed that Hepzibah asked Bulfinch to draw up plans for her summer house in Dorchester on a Tory property that the state had confiscated after the Revolutionary War and sold to her husband, James Swan, who had emigrated to Boston from Built in 17896, the Swan House was set on a rocky promontory on what is now Dudley Street. Its circular Scotland at an early age parlor was originally surmounted by a dome at a height of 25 feet. and served an apprentice- Photograph published in Kimball, Fiske. Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies ship in a Boston mercantile establishment. and of the Early Republic. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922. The young Swan was given to causes. In 1773, at age 18, he wrote the controversial tract, “A the French judicial system. With lots of money dissuasion to Great Britain and the colonies, from and influential friends, Swan could have secured the slave trade to Africa, by James Swan, a friend his release from prison at any time, but he refused to the welfare of the continent,” to be published by to yield on principle. When the creditor returned subscription, one pistareen per book. once every year to renew the claim for payment, Swan was a firebrand who joined the Sons of Swan politely saluted his adversary and, turning Liberty and participated as one of the “Indians” to the jailer, said simply, “My friend, return me to in the Boston Tea Party. He also made a name my chamber.” for himself as a hero of the American Revolution, In July 1830, the tri-color flag of the Second French fighting alongside General Joseph Warren at the Revolution flew over the debtor’s prison from which Battle of Bunker Hill, where, legend has it, he was Swan was finally released. At one time one of the twice wounded. Swan was also present at Dorchester wealthiest men in Boston, he was now hopelessly Heights for the evacuation of Boston by the British. insolvent, his health broken, and most of his allies During the war, Swan formed close personal gone. As the end neared, Swan embraced his old friendships with George Washington, who depended friend Lafayette on the steps of the Hotel de Ville. on his judgment and abilities, and also Gen. Henry He died the next day, age 76 years. Knox and the. Marquis de Lafayette. Throughout While Swan was languishing in prison some 3,500 miles away, the beautiful and eccentric Madame Map shows the location of the Swan House (detail this period, Swan served the Massachusetts wartime from 1874 Hopkins atlas). After the house was de- government in a succession of appointments includ- Swan was luxuriating in Dorchester. The Swan House was designed in the French manner, with a molished in 1880, the land was never again upon ing adjutant general, the de facto commander of the again. The boundaries of the original estate are still state’s military forces. By the close of the war, he large circular parlor as its most prominent feature. The parlor was 32 feet in diameter and surmounted in place, encompassing the block that is now the attained the rank of colonel in the artillery. Mary Hannon Playground at Howard Avenue and In 1776, Col. Swan and Hepzibah Clarke were by a dome at the height of 25 feet. Along the portico, Dudley Street, across from the Kroc Corps Com- married. The match was hugely advantageous for windows that opened almost to the floor were glazed munity Center in Dorchester. Col. Swan, yet somehow he managed to overextend with mirrored glass as thin as eggshells. was a common bon mot of the time that “between himself financially. In 1787, laden with debt, he The house was once known as the Marie Antoi- Madame Guillotine, who took off their heads, and went to France hoping that a change of venue would nette House because it was said to have been with Swan, who took off their trunks, little was left of bring a change of luck. In Paris, he made many jam-packed with the magnificent furnishings and those unfortunate Frenchmen.” friends and became known as a brilliant financier. sumptuous decorative accoutrements that had once The contents of Swan’s salon in Dorchester were On the eve of the French Revolution, Madame Swan adorned a French palace. auctioned off in 1857. Many items of furniture departed Paris but the colonel stayed on, conduct- How did it all get there? After the French Revolu- that once graced the Swan house, and before that, ing business through the violent overthrow of the tion, there were rumors of Swan’s involvement in palatial French residences, are now in the care of Ancien Regime beginning in 1789, and continuing the “affair of the pinks,” a disconnected story about the Museum of Fine Arts on Huntington Avenue in right up until mob rule and the Reign of Terror in a plot in which Queen Marie Antoinette was to be Boston. The collection is about all that remains of 1793. Returning to Boston in 1794, Swan paid off rescued and delivered to the United States aboard the Swan house, which was demolished around 1880. his debts and entertained lavishly. It was at this a bark named Sally of Wicasset, a ship operating A portrait of Col. Swan painted by Gilbert Stuart is time that he and Hepzibah began building their under contract with the colonel. The plan called for on view at the MFA. I studied the portrait in trying country estate in Dorchester. the Sally to carry everything that a queen would to discern some clue to character in the countenance She remained in Boston when he went back to need to set up house in exile. rendered with such mastery by the artist. But the France in 1798 and set himself up as a contractor Did French aristocrats really store their valuables longer I stared into the subject’s eyes, the more I supplying the French army during the Napoleonic on the Sally for safekeeping, or was that a cover story had the uncanny sensation that I was the one being Wars. There is evidence that Swan had remarried for the fact that the Sally’s hold was full of booty appraised. The next time you are at the MFA, visit overseas and fathered several children. In 1808, a accumulated through shady dealings on the black the painting and become acquainted with Col. James business associate filed a claim against him, which he market? No one can say for sure, but we do know that Swan, one of the most colorful characters ever to stubbornly denied. Nonetheless, he was imprisoned the Sally sailed without Marie Antoinette aboard. walk the streets of Dorchester. for the next 22 years as the case dragged through The author Francis S. Drake has recorded that it Page 8 THE Reporter June 2, 2016 dotnews.com Coming Up at the Boston Public Library Adams Street Arts & Entertainment 690 Adams Street • 617- 436-6900 Codman Square 690 Washington Street • 617-436-8214 Fields Corner You can’t speak of Sinatra hereabouts 1520 Dorchester Avenue • 617-436-2155 Lower Mills without speaking of Ron Della Chiesa 27 Richmond Street • 617-298-7841 of the just plain folks Uphams Corner By Chris Harding 500 Columbia Road • 617-265-0139 Special to the Reporter in their neighborhood. 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Thurs., June 16, 10:30 a.m. – Babysing; front of the Sugar Bowl, fair with radio began as a 3:30 p.m. – LEGOs Builders Club. serenading them with a kid listening to the Lone Codman Square Branch medley of his greatest Ranger, Jack Benny, Fri., June 3, 10:30 a.m. – Preschool Story Time; hits. Dorchester’s Fred Allen, 2 p.m. – Baby Story Time. Tues., June 7, 10:30 The reincarnation and other legends from a.m. – Illustrator E.B. Lewis; 11 a.m. – Preschool of “Ol’ Blue Eyes” was radio’s Golden Age. I Story Time. Wed., June 8, 10:30 .m. – More Senior actually professional also enjoyed the live Arts and Smarts: Making Mexican Paintings with Sinatra tribute artist broadcasts of the Metro- Ron Della Chiesa: a long “love affair” with radio. Yam. Fri., June 10, 10:30 a.m. – Preschool Story Mike Dutra. The man politan Opera, the NBC Time; 2 p.m. – Baby Story Time. Tues., June 14, who helped arrange the Symphony Orchestra segment for WCRB at the Rat Pack; and from 11 11 a.m. – Preschool Story Time. Wed., June 15, apparition was radio conducted by Toscanini, the WGBH studios in p.m. to 2 a.m., he segues 10:30 a.m. – More Senior Arts and Smarts: Mak- icon Ron Della Chiesa, The Voice of Firestone, Allston. Next up for him into his “Music America” ing Mexican Paintings with Yam. Fri., June 17, bringing together his and The Bell Telephone is a Boston Pops Concert on which he plays show 10:30 a.m. – Preschool Story Time. passion for music with Hour. After graduating featuring Broadway su- tunes, film scores, jazz Fields Corner Branch his boosterism for life from Boston University’s perstar Sutton Foster and standards. (BTW, Thurs., June 2, 10:30 a.m. – Computers for in the Polish Triangle School of Communica- (airs June 4 and repeats he notes that “WLPM Older Adults. Fri., June 3, 10:30 a.m. – Lap to which he and his wife tions, I landed my first on June 13.) is worldwide on the Sit Story Time. Tues., June 7, 6 p.m. – Family moved from the South radio gig at WBOS as However, for his Internet.”) Planning Workshop. Wed., June 8, 10:30 a.m. – End in 1999. the host of a variety of “Strictly Sinatra” show, Della Chiesa is in Preschool Films and Fun. Thurs., June 9, 10:30 Della Chiesa has ethnic shows, including broadcast on WLPM-FM demand as a narrator a.m. – Computers for Older Adults. Fri., June a warm, mellifluous The Irish Hour, Music (Easy 99.1), he records and commentator for 10, 10:30 a.m. – Lap Sit Story Time; Preschool voice that is instantly of the Near East, The in Dorchester on his New England orches- Concert. Sat., June 11, 10:30 a.m. – Duplo Days. recognizable to all local Italian Melody Hour, and laptop, usually down tras, including the BSO’s Wed., June 15, 10:30 a.m. – Preschool Films and classical and pop music The Boston Greek Hour.” in his basement studio. Tanglewood concerts. He Fun. lovers. He and his chef These days, Della He’s on Saturday nights also occasionally hosts Grove Hall Branch de cuisine spouse Joyce Chiesa is best known from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. opera learning tours. Thru June 27 – Wisdom Weavers Storytelling party in the highest for two radio hosting The first three hours In the past he lectured Project is sponsored by the MSPCC and is created Hub art (and foodie!) jobs. He is the voice of are, as the name says, on cruise ships, most by Jennifer Coplon MSW/PhD. It is a way to high- social circles. But the the Boston Symphony, “Strictly Sinatra”; then notably, the QE2, but light the enormous contributions KINnections Della Chiesas are just and he displays his there’s an hour of “Frank more often these days families are making to their children and our city. as interested in the lives vast knowledge of clas- and Friends” like Ella he discourses at libraries Telling their stories allows the families to see for sical music as he tapes Fitzgerald and the rest of and retirement resi- themselves and show others their resiliency, com- dences, including those mitment and love. This intergenerational project on the Cape. also gives kinship families across the city an op- For decades Della portunity to preserve their family histories and to Chiesa has had a very create a lasting photographic legacy. Through the Get A Bigger BANG For Your Buck! different regular Sunday pairing of these stories and photographs, our city gig as a lector at the will learn more about the true courage, strength, EBSB Money Market Special! Cathedral of the Holy and beauty of these families.. Thurs., June 2, Cross in the South End 3:30 p.m. – US Citizenship and Immigration Info where he and Joyce were Session; 5:30 p.m. – Family Night. Fri., June 3, married. 10:30 a.m. – Preschool Movie Hour. Sat., June 4, True, as his auto-bio 1 p.m. – Baby Diaper Bank. Mon., June 6, 10:15 blurb says, he has in- a.m. – HiSet Prep Class; 4:15 p.m. – Gardening. 1.08% terviewed everyone from Tues., June 7, 10:30 a.m. – Tuesday Tales; 4:15 * “opera greats Luciano p.m. – Art in the Afternoon. Wed., June 8, 10:15 APY Pavarotti and Placido a.m. – HiSet Prep Class; 10:30 a.m. – Illustrator Balances $10,000 to less than $2 million Domingo, to jazz artists E.B. Lewis; 3 p.m. – A Hitchhiker’s (Beginner’s) Dizzy Gillespie and Dave Guide to the Raspberry Pi Universe; 3:30 p.m. – McKenna, beloved song Teen Afternoons. Fri., June 10, 10:30 a.m. – Pre- 0.25% legends Rosemary Cloo- school Movie Hour; 3:30 p.m. – Gardening. * ney and Bobby Short, Lower Mills Branch APY composers David Raksin Fri., June 3, 10:30 a.m. – Preschool Films; 1 Balances $10 to less than $10,000 and Andre Previn, the p.m. – Rita Hayworth Movie Series.. Tues., June brilliant raconteur Jean 7, 10:30 a.m. – Yoga Story Time for Kids; 4 p.m. Shepherd, to his close – Computer Basics. Wed., June 8, 10:30 a.m. friend, musical legend – Story Time with Ms. Sherry; 2 p.m. – Build- $2,500 minimum Tony Bennett.” But he’s ing Pathways. Thurs., June 9, 6:30 p.m. – Lost deposit to open. also sincerely interested Boston Author Talk. Fri., June 10, 10:30 a.m. – in the stories of his less Preschool Films; 1 p.m. – Rita Hayworth Movie renowned neighbors as Series. well. In the back room Mattapan Branch of his favorite hangout Thurs., June 2, 3 p.m. – Vinyl Thursday; 6:30 the Sugar Boot, he was p.m. – Adult Yoga. Fri., June 3, 2:30 p.m. – Mov- filmed in conversation ie Friday. Sat., June 4, 10 a.m. – Laptop Class. with everyone from Mon., June 6, 3:30 p.m. – CommuniQuilt. Wed., former Mayor Flynn to June 8, 10:30 a.m. – Toddler Time; 4 p.m. – Illus- a Dot Ave meter maid. trator E. B. Lewis. Thurs., June 9, 3 p.m. – Vinyl If you missed Dutra Thursday. Fri., June 10, 2:30 p.m. – Movie Fri- as the Chairman of the day. Sat., June 11, 10 a.m. – Laptop Class. Board on Dot Avenue last Uphams Corner Branch June, you can catch him Sat., June 4, City of Boston Poet Laureate: and the Strictly Sinatra Branch Visit – Danielle Legros Georges was ap- band at Della Chiesa’s pointed Boston’s Poet Laureate in December 2014 *Annual Percentage Yield (APY) as of 05/21/16. No interest will be paid on balances less than $10.00 and .58% APY on annual “Summer Wind” If you are a poet seeking feedback on you creative balances greater than $2 million. Rate subject to change without notice. $2,500 minimum to open account. Dance Party at Raffael’s efforts, please bring your poems and drop by to Personal accounts only. New money only. Offer may be withdrawn without notice at anytime. at South Shore Country meet and discuss your work with her. Tues., June Member FDIC Member DIF Club in Hingham. (Tix: 7, 10:30 a.m. – Preschool Story Time. Tues., June 617-633-5100.) 14, 10:30 a.m. – Preschool Story Time. dotnews.com June 2, 2016 The Reporter Page 9 Reporter’s News about people People in & around our Neighborhoods
Rodney Dailey II Henry R. Ennen Isaiah Kelson Miranda
Jack Christopher Martyn Brendan Paul McCarthy John C. Silveira Jim Brett, President and CEO of the New England Council, and Senator Eliza- beth Warren were presented with honorary Doctor of Public Service Degrees at Bridgewater State University. Senator Warren was the commencement speaker. In the photo: Jim Brett, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Fred Clark, President of Bridgewater State University. Photo courtesy New England Council
Bach-An Nguyen Samuel Jordan Andrew John Schmitz
Tyler James Urso Daniel Luke Rogers Ashaley S. Catalano Ashley President William Kemeza and the Dorchester residents: Rodney Dailey Board of Trustees presented diplomas II, Henry R Ennen, Jack Christopher to 304 members of the class of 2016 at Martyn, Brendan Paul McCarthy, Boston College High School’s 152nd Isaiah Kelson Miranda, Bach-An Commencement on May 22. General Nguyen, Daniel Luke Rogers, Andrew Chill on Park held its Children’s Story Hour on May 26. McCall Ambulance Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. a 1973 graduate John Schmitz and Tyler James Urso. Services brought an ambulance and kids climbed inside to learn about EMS of BC High, who is the chairman of From Mattapan: Ashaley Stephen work. Afterwards, Cindy, the children’s librarian at the Fields Corner branch the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave the Catalano Ashley, Samuel Jordan and of BPL, read “Ouch” themed stories. Chill on Park’s story hours are always address. Among the graduates were John C. Silveira. free and open to the entire community. Bubbles’ Birthdays and Special Occasions BY BARBARA MCDONOUGH June 7: Liam Neeson, 64; Tom Jones, 76; and Ken Baseball great Lou Gehrig died of amyotrophic Osmond, 73. Prince would have been 58 on June 7. lateral sclerosis (ALS) on June 2, 1941. On June Those having birthdays are Eileen Norton, 2, 1901, New York police began arresting men for Stephen Collette, Greg Kenney, Martin Egan, playing golf on a Sunday. The witch trials began Cathy Sweeney (of The Village Touch), Patricia in the village of Salem on June 2, 1692. 150 people Austin, Jim English, Eileen Walsh, Ryan William were accused of witchcraft; 19 of the accused were Norris, Barbara Cheney, Andrea Kelly, Patty hanged on Gallows Hill; one wizard was pressed to Mitchell, Paul Bankowski, and George Brooks. death. Today (June 2) the British are celebrating Also observing their birthdays are Angelica the 63rd anniversary of the coronation of Queen Coleman, Carolyn Bankowski, Brenna McCarthy, Elizabeth II in 1953. Tony Curtis was born in Alan Duffy, Andrea Coleman, Carol Delehanty, the Bronx on June 3, 1925. His real name was Maire White, Cora Flood, Paul Roche, and Keri Bernard Schwartz. The Duke of Windsor married MacNaught. Belated best wishes are sent to Sarah Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson on June 3, 1937, in Allied forces landed in Normandy on D-Day, June Ashe on her special birthday. Belated best wishes Montes, France. Six months earlier, on Dec. 11, 6, 1944. The Germans didn’t expect the invasion are also sent to Kevin Doherty, Sarah’s son-in-law, 1936, as King Edward VIII, he had abdicated the because of poor weather conditions that day. who spent his 50th birthday, on April 6, with his British throne to marry her. death by Sirhan Sirhan inside the Ambassador US and Irish families, in Clonmany, Co. Donegal. The first installment of the 40-week serial called Hotel in Los Angeles shortly after midnight (West Those celebrating their anniversaries are Bill “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe Coast time) on June 5, 1968; he died 26 hours later. and state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry, Mark and was published on June 5, 1851. It was released The first drive-in theater opened in Camden, NJ, Mary Neiderberger, Mike and Winnie Horniak, in book form in March 1852. Rome was liberated on June 6, 1933. A bank holiday will be in place Joe and Anne O’Hara (their 57th!), Jim and Robin by the US Fifth Army, commanded by Gen. Mark in the Republic of Ireland this coming Monday, Hunt (their 18th), and Joe and Karen Sammartino Clark, on June 4, 1944. Henry Ford drove his June 6, as it is on the first Monday of June each (their 47th). first car on June 4, 1896. Gold was discovered in year. The Sony Corporation released its first VCR, Thanks are sent to Eileen Collins and Tom Mac- Indian Creek, Alaska, on June 4, 1921. the Betamax, on June 7, 1975, at a cost of $995. Cormaic for giving 17 senior citizens a wonderful The Centers for Disease Control announced a new George Orwell released his book “1984” on June five days at the Irish Village in SouthY armouth. disease, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or 8, 1949. It was published in England by Secker I understand the group had great fun singing with AIDS, on June 5, 1981. The Montgolfier brothers, and Warburg. the McTeggarts, Jim Byrne and his brother Tom, Joseph and Jacques, launched a 33-foot hot air Celebrities having birthdays: June 2: Dana who was filling in for Jim’s partner Mike O’Brien, balloon on June 5, 1783. It reached a height of Carvey, 61; Jerry Mathers, 68; Sally Kellerman, who was out with a family illness. 1,500 feet and stayed aloft for 10 minutes. Having 79. June 3: Anderson Cooper, 49. June 4: Angelina Our outdoor cat “Louie” has taken up residence just won California’s Democratic presidential Jolie, 41; Michelle Phillips, 72. June 5: Mark in a flower basket on our porch with the hot primary, US Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot to Wahlberg, 45; Patriots’ owner Bob Kraft, 75. temperatures; he likes to sleep on the cool dirt. Page 10 THE Reporter June 2, 2016 dotnews.com Editorial The story of a betrayal at 33 Hancock Calling up echoes The corner of Hancock Street and Payson Avenue has a dismal history that stretches back many years. District C-11 regularly reported that 33 Hancock of the first Dot Days St. was the site of more 911 calls than any other Sunday’s Dorchester Day Parade will be our com- address in the district. munity’s 53rd scheduled parade since 1963, when a Whether it was called the Hancock Café, the committee of veterans and civic leaders revived the Rendezvous Lounge, or Ka-Carlos, the site has been traditional march, which had been allowed lapsed in a source of violence and disruption for this neighbor- the aftermath of the Second World War. hood, the result of a string of broken promises that Dorchester Day was originally conceived in June ended tragically with the murder of two people in 1904 by the leaders of the Dorchester Historical Society 2009. The building was subsequently foreclosed and to mark the 274th anniversary of the settlement of the the liquor license sold to a restaurant on the South town of Dorchester by English immigrants in 1630. Boston waterfront. Dorchester was an independent town until it was Finally, the neighborhood was able to breathe. annexed to Boston in 1870 following a referendum Gone were the late night fights, the after-hours grant a restaurant license to CGC. held the year before and the first Dot Day’s founders gambling, and the loud music. Gone were the people We received no response and the board voted on wanted to remind contemporary residents of the town’s shooting up behind the bar, the broken glass all over May 12 to grant a restaurant license to CGC. CGC history and note its distinctive identity within the city Payson Avenue and the cars blocking residents’ is currently renovating the building and anticipates of Boston. They succeeded in both respects. driveways. a June opening. There is no memorandum of agree- The 1904 event was heavy with speeches and politi- In 2010, Stephen Bingham purchased the building ment and the city has initiated no further discussion cians, including one of Dorchester newest residents, and announced that he wanted to open “a family to develop one. an Irish-American named John Francis Fitzgerald, restaurant.” He told this neighborhood that he had CGC’s plan for serving alcohol continued to a former congressman who would soon be elected no plans to serve hard liquor but might serve beer expand. On May 16, Gabriel Livramento sent an Boston’s mayor. About 200 strong, they gathered in and wine. There would be soft jazz, valet parking, email to the Jones Hill and Hancock Street Civic a tent within sight of “Rock Hill,” where, in 1630, the an early closing hour. Associations, stating that CGC intends to apply for sea-worn settlers set up camp and fortified themselves Yet Bingham’s license application – for an all- an all alcoholic beverage license “now since they’ll from the Native Americans, who had, in fact, settled alcoholic beverage license, a 2 a.m. closing hour, no longer be available afterwards.” Dorchester and its environs centuries before the live entertainment, and patron dancing – told a very It seems clear to the members of the 33 Hancock Puritans’ lonely vessel, the Mary and John, slid into different story and when his all-alcoholic beverage Street Task Force and to the many neighbors we have the safe harbor of what we now call Savin Hill Cove. license was denied, he used the building to cook for his spoken to that CGC has intended from the beginning So well-received was that first Dorchester Day that daycare centers. It never re-opened as a restaurant. to obtain a full liquor license and to operate a bar on the next year brought an innovation: A parade that This April, the neighborhood learned that 33 the corner of Hancock Street and Payson Avenue. was led by veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, Hancock St. had been leased to Capital Green Perhaps the first clue is in the name – KriolaBar & men who had survived the crucible of Civil War to Corporation (CGC), dba Kriola Bar and Restaurant. Restaurant. In a conversation one task force member return to what was then an agrarian community on The city hosted an abutters’ meeting on April 5 to had with CGC partner Carlos Depina, he stated, the outskirts of the state capital. discuss CGC’s proposal to open “a family restaurant,” “This place is going to be a gold mine.” According to an account by Dot Day founder James Neighbors who were present said that they did not We have been here many times before. A “family H. Stark, units in the first parade included “Dorchester want to see a full liquor license at 33 Hancock and restaurant,” “valet parking,” “‘soft music only” – it’s Gentlemen’s Driving Club” and “guests in carriages,” CGC stated that they would only be serving beer and all blue smoke and mirrors. who followed a procession from the old Blake House wine. When asked how the neighborhood could be CGC partners have said that one of them would be at Edward Everett Square to Meetinghouse Hill for sure that they would not turn around in six months on site during all hours of operation managing the a “historical address” in front of the memorial to the and request an all-alcoholic beverage license, CGC business. They have also stated that they all have men lost in the Great War of Rebellion. The parade partner Carla Texeira stated, “We will not change it full-time professional jobs. When it was pointed out then re-formed and headed to “the crest of Savin Hill” in six months, in a year, in two years – this is what that they would each have to be at Kriola more than via Hancock and Pleasant streets for more speeches, we are going to do.” 58 hours a week to be on-site managers during all including one by Rev. John Eells, whose ancestor Neighbors still had concerns about food service, hours of operation, Gabriel Livramento responded was among the first settlers from the Mary and John. management, hours of operation, and parking, to that they all have wives, cousins, etc. they could call By year three, Dorchester Day was getting to be name just a few. Flavio Daveiga, the city of Boston’s on to do the job. Restaurant management cannot be a spectacle. Two Navy cruisers— the Cleveland and mid-Dorchester coordinator, assured those present the responsibility of whichever relative happens to the Tacoma— were ordered to Dorchester Bay and that a memorandum of agreement with the neighbor- be available at the moment. opened up the parade at noon by booming their cannon. hood would be negotiated before CGC could open. Maya Angelou once said, “When someone shows The 1906 parade roster was significantly larger and It took exactly 16 days for CGC to renege on its you who they are, believe them the first time.” In more martial in nature. Its route was different, too, promise to serve only beer and wine. On April 21, the discrepancies between the facts and what the stepping off from Talbot and Welles avenues and CGC partner Gabriel Livramento announced at the group has told the neighborhood, CGC has shown winding its way through Ashmont Hill and Four Hancock Street Civic Association meeting that CGC us who they are – and it just doesn’t add up. Corners to Savin Hill. had learned that there were only 15 neighborhood We are homeowners and renters. Some of us have Dot Day, it was clear, had arrived, and was here designated all-alcoholic beverage licenses remaining lived here for many years; others are newer arrivals. to stay. and that these licenses will become available in We come from Haiti, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad, Boston Mayor Josiah Quincy delivered the main August. CGC’s new plan was to open in May 2016 Cape Verde, the American South, and the Boston oration at Dot Day 1906, uttering words that ring as without alcohol, begin serving beer and wine in area. We all share a deep commitment to making true today as they did that mild day in June more the fall, and then, since, as he stated “expansion is this neighborhood a safe and peaceful place to live. than a century ago: a goal of any business”, “Kriola Bar & Restaurant We do not need or want what CGC has shown us “The changes symbolized by your growth in will determine if an expansion to an all alcoholic they intend to do at 33 Hancock Street. population and by the increase in property values beverages establishment is warrant” (sic). Signed, The 33 Hancock Street Task Force: are indeed great, yet they have not destroyed the A group of neighbors met on April 27 and formed Gracieth Amado / Nicolle Amado/ Antonia Baptista essential character of the district. Dorchester, always the 33 Hancock Street Task Force. Neighbors pres- / Arminda Baptista / Ben Cain / Sarah Cain Monica the home of well-to-do middle class people, is still the ent were unanimous that they do not want to see Coleman/ Eddie Escobar/ Veronica Floyd / Marti most favorable situated residential section of Boston. a restaurant opened on that site. People felt that Glynn / Brenda Harley / Thomas Harley / Gail Hen- The ocean to the east, with its dreamy prospect, its even beer and wine were likely to cause a return to nessey / Shirley Jones / Stan Jones / Joy Sequeira invigorating winds, the river and mountains on the the many problems we fought so long and hard to / Jackie Joseph / Kearney Kirby / Greg Maxwell / south, the superb country park and boulevard on the eliminate. Based on this meeting, we sent a letter Judy Maxwell / Barbara Mayo / Bill Mayo / Eliza Mc- west, the teeming city within an easy half hour’s ride to the Licensing Board on May 4, expressing the Croskey / Bob Mickiewicz / Michael Mulyk/ Michael to the north, offer a variety of advantages which no neighborhood’s opposition and asking them not to Pratt/ Teresa Reed / Etienne Regis / Ivy Smith. other section can dispute with you. Nature framed one part of Boston in ideal surroundings for a district of comfortable homes and for once man has wrought in From the mayor: Dot pride shows harmony with her promptings.” Happy Dorchester Day! – Bill Forry in making ‘Boston Shines’ a success By Martin J. Walsh quality of life for residents throughout Boston. We’re entering into one of the most beautiful times Thank you to each and every one of you who helped The Reporter of the year: early summer, when Boston’s citizens make this project a success. Thank you as well to the “The News & Values Around the Neighborhood” congregate outside to enjoy the warming weather Boston Public Works department, which delivered A publication of Boston Neighborhood News Inc. and celebrate the start of the summer season. That’s tools, mulch, and trash pickup to the locations. The 150 Mt. Vernon St., Dorchester, MA 02125 why last month Boston’s community came together Boston Parks Department also pitched in throughout Worldwide at dotnews.com to clean the streets of Boston through the city’s the events, as did the Boston Redevelopment Mary Casey Forry, Publisher (1983-2004) Boston Shines program. Authority and Boston’s Environment, Energy and William P. Forry, Publisher/Editor I want to thank everyone who joined this effort to Open Space team. Edward W. Forry, Associate Publisher beautify Dorchester’s streets and get us ready for a In addition, our business partners provided Thomas F. Mulvoy, Jr., Associate Editor great assistance to Boston Shines, showing their Barbara Langis, Production Manager safe, fun summer. Jack Conboy, Advertising Manager Thousands of volunteers, including business, com- commitment to a beautiful Boston for all. Thank Maureen Forry, Advertising Sales munity groups, and residents, took to their streets you in particular to the H. Levenbaum Insurance News Room Phone: 617-436-1222, ext. 17 to lend a hand in making Boston shine. Across the Agency, the city of Advertising: 617-436-2217 E-mail: [email protected] city, over 4,600 Bostonians helped in the cleanup in a Boston Credit Union, New Boston Ventures, Home The Reporter is not liable for errors appearing in total of 156 projects over the span of three weekends. Depot and Delta Dental. advertisements beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Boston Shines represents the great things that The right is reserved by The Reporter to edit, reject, The pride that the people of Dorchester take in their or cut any copy without notice. neighborhood is evident in the amount of work you we can accomplish when we work together as a Member: Dorchester Board of Trade, Mattapan Board of Trade put into your neighborhood cleanup. community. I thank all the volunteers again for their Next Issue: Thursday, June 9, 2016 In Dorchester, more than 1,200 volunteers help in working to clean our streets. I enjoyed doing Next week’s Deadline: Monday, June 6 at 4 p.m. completed 31 projects. The impressive result was my part to make sure Boston shines. Published weekly on Thursday mornings All contents © Copyright 2016 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. more than cleaner streets; it showed that through Martin J. Walsh is mayor of Boston. civic pride and participation, we can improve the dotnews.com June 2, 2016 The Reporter Page 11 Senate budget funds programs in Dot, Mattapan By Jennifer Smith services, was allotted Reporter Staff $50,000. The state Senate unan- St. Mary’s Center for “Unearth imously passed a $39.558 Women and Children in billion budget for fiscal Uphams Corner Dorches- year 2017 last Thursday, ter was allocated $50,000 capping three days of that was put forward in debate that resulted in the House bill by Rep. a bill slightly above the Daniel Hunt. Dorcena your potential” $39.508 billion House Forry secured $150,000 budget that passed on in the Senate for St. April 27. Several items Mary’s “Women at Work” involving Dorchester and program, which offers Mattapan are included women with multiple in the Senate version, barriers to employment including public safety access to curricula and improvements and work jobs intended to lead to assistance for women. permanent work. State Sen. Linda In a statement, Sen. Dorcena Forry’s office Forry said that she an- highlighted a number ticipates coordinating of local investments that with the members of the are in the Senate budget local House delegation as well as housing initia- “to preserve funding for tives she championed as these crucial programs Senate Chair of the Joint and organizations that Committee on Housing: help to enhance the The Boston Police quality of life for all Department’s Area B-3 residents of the First would receive $100,000 Suffolk District.” to install security cam- A conference commit- eras for neighborhood tee will now convene to gathering places like hash out the differences Almont Park and Rob- between the budgets. erts Playground. And The final bill is due on Mattapan’s Integrative Gov. Charlie Baker’s Care Partnership, which desk for his signature provides access to mental before July 1. and behavioral health A Forry run for mayor? ‘What? No,’ she says, adding, Feeney Brothers Utility Services Walsh ‘is doing a good job’ The Northeast’s Utility Contractor Cross Sen. Linda city’s top tourism official Dorcena Forry off your on a federal extortion list of potential 2017 Bos- charge. Locations in MA & CT ton mayoral candidates. Forry and Walsh “ Wha t ? No,” t he served together as House Dorchester Democrat members from neighbor- Gas – Electric – Utility Contractor said when asked whether ing Dorchester districts she had given any consid- until 1913 when Dorcena eration to running for the Forry vaulted into the Begin your career as a Gas Utility Foreman office. “We’re doing great Senate. A few months here in the Senate. I am later, Walsh won the focusing, trying to get mayoral election. or an experienced Backhoe Operator money for the district and “I think Mayor Walsh is for housing initiatives.” doing a good job in terms Boston Mayor Marty of really trying to bring Walsh plans to run for issues forward,” Forry re-election next year. In said when asked if a may- his first years in office, oral run was completely he has retooled City Hall off the table. Crediting www.feeneybrothers.com to make use of cutting- Walsh for bringing new edge technology while attention to diversity and also seeing his plans for providing opportunities [email protected] bringing the Summer “for everyone,” Forry Olympics and a Grand said, “I think he’s doing Prix to Boston go down a good job as mayor.” in flames. More recently, – Andy Metzger Walsh has been dealing State House with the indictment of the News Service BPS to host meetings 617-287-1004 – 203-900-7268 on water safety levels 2012-2014 ollowing multiple re- and triple-verified the ports of unsafe levels of results. Of the 126 BPS Deficiency Free Survey lead in the water of some facilities, only 38 have Boston public school working water fountains. 123 BED – SUB-ACUTE REHAB CENTER drinking fountains, the The Boston School BPS announced Tuesday Committee is scheduled Religious Services Chapel that it would hold nine to vote on the BPS Water community meetings to Access Policy on June 8. Vietnamese Programming (Menu, Activities & Staff) address water access in The meeting schedule school facilities. in Dorchester: Kenny Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy According to a BPS Elementary School, Short-Term Rehabilitation After Hospitalization statement, both the Thurs., June 2, 5:30 Boston Water and Sewer p.m.; Murphy School, Long-Term Care with Dedicated Nursing Commission and a third- Mon., June 6, 6:30 p.m.; party contractor have Lee School, june 9, 5 p.m. Compassionate End of Life Care now tested the water in All meetings are open to the BPS facilities with the public. 321 Centre Street, Dorchester, MA 02122 617-825-6320 www.stjosephrehab.com working water fountains Page 12 THE Reporter June 2, 2016 dotnews.com Reporter’s Neighborhood Notables civic associations • clubs • arts & entertainment • churches • upcoming events
Tour the Historic Pierce House on Saturday Historic New England’s Pierce House, 24 Oakton Ave., Dorchester is open for tours on June 4 from 10-3 p.m. (Last tour starts at 2 p.m.) Free admission. For more information, please visit historicnewengland. org/historic-properties/homes/pierce-house. Spring Swing at Boston Nature Center Boston Nature Center and Wildlife Sanctuary Spring Swing on Sun., June 5 from 3-6 p.m. Kathy Clunis D’Andrea, educator in Boston Public Schools and a BNC supporter, to be honored. The festive, garden-party themed fundraiser features fine food, beer and wine, a live auction featuring fabulous trips, and a creative auction highlighting the nature- inspired work of 40 talented area artists. Tickets are $35 each. Please visit massaudubon.org for further information. BPS meetings on Water in Schools Boston Public Schools will host 9 community meetings on Water Access in city facilities, including Thurs., June 2, 5:30 p.m., Kenny Elementary School; Mon., June 6, 6:30 p.m., Murphy K-8 School; Wed., June 8, 5 p.m., Boston Latin Academy; Thurs., June 9, 5 p.m., Lee K-8 School. For more information, visit: bostonpublicschools.org/water. Postpartum Depression Forum at Harvard Street The Boston Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. invites you to participate in an interactive Postpartum Depression discussion led St. Ambrose Parish welcomed back Fr. Vincent Von Euw on Sunday, May 22 for a special Mass in honor by Nyia Noel MD, MPH on Tues., June 14 at 5:30 of the 50th anniversary of his ordination. After Communion, his twin sister, Eleanor delivered a tribute p.m. at Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center, to him as Fr. Vincent looked on and his family gathered together for a group photo at the end of the Dorchester. Seating is limited therefore registration Mass. A luncheon followed in the parish hall. Fr. Von Euw was pastor of St. Ambrose from 1991 to 2008. is required by submission of your name and contact After suffering a stroke in 2007, he became a resident at Marian Manor in South Boston. information to [email protected] or by calling Patrick O’Connor photo 617-548-3642. NAACP meeting on ‘Black in BPS’ Coming up on Sat., June 11: The annual Pope’s information visit dotpark.org. The Boston chapter of the NAACP hosts a Black Hill/McKone St. block party includes awards to Kids can learn to golf at Franklin Park in BPS Town Hall action meeting at Greater Love neighborhood leaders. First Tee Golf Program returns to Boston with free Tabernacle Church, Dorchester on June 11 at 9 a.m. Garden Tour to benefit Dot Park essons for kids 12-17 by PGA professionals starting Pope’s Hill Neighborhood Assoc. A Summer Solstice Garden Tour of 10 local private July 11 through August 22; 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at PHNA meetings, usually the fourth Wed. of the gardens will be held on Sun., June 19 from 11 a.m.-3 the William Devine Golf Course in Franklin Park. month at the Leahy/Holloran Community Center at p.m. Tickets available at Cedar Grove Gardens. Non-Boston residents are welcome to enroll for a fee 7 p.m. All are the fourth Wednesday of the month. Proceeds to benefit Dorchester Park. For more of $75. To register go to thefirstteemass.org. (Continued on page 16)
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BOSTON REDEVELOPMENT PUBLIC AUTHORITY MEETING 1943 DORCHESTER AVENUE
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8 209 ASHMONT STREET 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM All Saints Church Dorchester, MA 02124 PROJECT PROPONENT: Peregrine Urban Initiative
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Meeting for developer Peregrine Urban Initiative to show the Ashmont/ Peabody Square neighborhood of Dorchester the design revisions including site security for the proposed project located at 1943 Dorchester Avenue. The mixed-use project at the former Odwin Learning Center site consists of 64 rental units, a commercial/retail space and 24 garage, parking spaces.
MAIL TO: JOHN CAMPBELL Boston Redevelopment Authority One City Hall Square, 9th Floor CLOSE OF COMMENT PERIOD: Boston, MA 02201 Friday, June 17, 2016 PHONE: 617.918.4282 EMAIL: [email protected]
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Teresa Polhemus, Executive Director/Secretary Page 14 THE Reporter June 2, 2016 dotnews.com He let himself down once, but Dot’s Ryan didn’t quit; lacrosse is still his game
By Griffin Connolly Reporter Correspondent On the field, Liam Ryan wasn’t a late bloomer – it just took people a little while to notice he’d already blossomed. T h e 2 0 - y e a r - o l d Neponset native and la- crosse standout at Rivier University in Nashua, NH, scored 35 goals and racked up 55 points in 17 games in his sophomore Liam Ryan season for the Raiders to Neponset resident and earn Greater Northeast the soccer coach at BC Athletic Conference all- High. “He hit a bump in league honors, voted on the road academically by the conference’s nine after football season, head coaches. Along the but he recalculated his way, he captured con- career path and rededi- secutive GNAC player cated himself to being of the week awards in a top student-athlete. April for scoring 12 goals That work ethic carried and tallying 10 assists in into college. He contin- four games. ues to be a hard worker, More staggering than and that’s, I think, what Ryan’s 2016 statistics, separates him.” though, are their improb- Ryan’s coach at BC ability. He didn’t start a High, Tim Kelly, agreed. single game at BC High “I just talked to him the in 2013, when he was a other day,” Kelly, who is junior midfielder, and he now at Roxbury Latin, didn’t play a single game said. “We talked about the following season due his senior year, and to academic ineligibility. he was very gracious After his senior season in about it. It was probably football, a sport for which a good thing for him, he was being recruited allowed him to re-orient by Bridgewater State himself academically. as a strong safety, Ryan That makes it even more plunged into a cycle of impressive that he stuck time mismanagement, with it and continued and his grades suffered on into college to do the accordingly. things he’s doing.” He was barred from By all accounts, Ryan’s practicing with the all-conference perfor- team, but that didn’t mance on the field is deter him from working commensurate with his on his game. “I still accomplishments in the played, even if it was classroom, where he by myself,” Ryan said in studies criminal justice. an interview. “You can After graduation, he always practice on your hopes to return to his own – lots of wall ball, hometown and use his conditioning, working degree to become a police out. I kept at it.” officer or firefighter. Two years later, those “I’ve lived in Dorches- close to Ryan frame the ter my whole life and suspension as a positive want to give back to the learning experience. community where I was “It could have been the raised,” he said, and “be best thing for Liam,” said someone who can watch his father Billy, a lifelong over it.”
The Newest Addition to the Neighborhood is LEGAL NOTICES
COMMONWEALTH OF COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS NOW LEASING! THE TRIAL COURT THE TRIAL COURT PROBATE & FAMILY COURT PROBATE & FAMILY COURT SUFFOLK DIVISION SUFFOLK DIVISION 24 NEW CHARDON STREET 24 NEW CHARDON STREET BOSTON, MA 02114 BOSTON, MA 02114 Docket No. SU16D0441DR Docket No. SU16D0765DR DIVORCE SUMMONS DIVORCE SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION and MAILING BY PUBLICATION and MAILING JENIFER NEAL LORNA WHITE vs. vs. MUHAMMED SILLAH HUNTLEY WHITE To the Defendant: To the Defendant: The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown OF THE MARRIAGE. breakdown. The Complaint is on file The Complaint is on file at the Court. at the Court. An Automatic Restraining An Automatic Restraining Order has Order has been entered in this matter been entered in this matter preventing preventing you from taking any action you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial which would negatively impact the cur- status of either party. SEE Supplemental rent financial status of either party. SEE Probate Court Rule 411. Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411. You are hereby summoned and You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Jenifer Neal, required to serve upon: Lorna White, 15 Mora St., Dorchester, MA 02124 your 90 B Ward St., Boston,MA 02120 your answer, if any, on or before 06/23/2016. answer, if any, on or before 07/07/2016. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court. of the Register of this Court. Witness, HON. JOAN P. ARM- Witness, HON. JOAN P. ARM- STRONG, First Justice of this Court. STRONG, First Justice of this Court. Date: April 11, 2016 Date: April 26, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Felix D. Arroyo Www.Hub25Boston.com 877-884-8225 Register of Probate Register of Probate Published: June 2, 2016 Published: June 2, 2016 dotnews.com June 2, 2016 The Reporter Page 15 Community Health News Five to be honored at Laboure’s Massachusetts Care Awards By Elana Aurise Hospital Oncology Nurse, Hospital where she has will fund the Pay It Reporter Staff and Tarma Johnson, worked for over 40 years Forward Scholarship This year’s Massachu- FNP-BC, Mattapan Com- on both the ante-partum initiative for Labouré setts Care Award winners munity Health Center Di- and mother and baby College students of all are nurse practitioners rector of Clinical Health floors. Munroe also volun- ages who are pursuing a and healthcare profes- Services and a Nurse teers at DOVE in Quincy, career in healthcare, but sionals who are inspiring, Practitioner at Mattapan a domestic violence shel- have difficult financial trustworthy and active Community Health Cen- ter for women. situations. community members ter. Johnson specializes The evening event will To learn more about who work tirelessly to Tarma Johnson Richard Berrio in adult primary care. include cocktails and the awards and to reserve fulfill the needs of others Lenny Clarke and KISS that they do and will do Other honorees include heavy hors d’oeuvres your tickets to the event, day-to-day. 108 morning hosts Billy with their patients. Stephanie Montgomery, with the main event please visit: laboure. Nominated by former Costa and Lisa Donovan This year’s winners RN, of Lifeworks, a Can- starting at 6:30 p.m. edu/massachusetts-care- patients, co-workers will be at the ceremony. include Richard Berrio, ton group home where Proceeds from this event award. and family members, The Massachusetts a Dorchester resident she works with adults this year’s winners will with developmental dis- Care Awards seeks to sup- who is celebrating his 617-288-2680 617-288-2681 be honored at Labouré port current and future 15th year with Boston abilities; and Catherine College on Thurs., June healthcare professionals EMS; Sara Hunter, a Munroe, a registered 9 at 5:30 p.m. Comedian for the life-changing work Massachusetts General nurse at St. Elizabeth’s WILLIAM LEE, D.D.S. Free summer memberships for teens at YMCA FAMILY DENTISTRY The YMCA of Greater valid state or student ID cluding use of gyms, YMCA.Last year 15,000 Boston is offering free or with a parent present. pools, group exercise teens took advantage of summer memberships to Y memberships will be classes, teen center free Get Summer mem- Office Hours teens ages 13 to 18 (19, unrestricted from June activities and special berships, a 28 percent By Appointment 383 NEPONSET AVE. if still in high school) at 24 through September teen programs per the increase from 2015. evening Hours Available DORCHESTER, MA 02122 all of its 13 branches, 5, allowing teens total schedule of their local including the Dorchester member privileges in- Y. Teens can visit any YMCA of Greater Boston branch to enroll with a JOHN C. LEGAL NOTICES GALLAGHER COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Insurance Agency PROBATE COURT SUFFOLK, ss. Docket No. SU14P2652 To any and all interested parties with AUTO regard to Brandon Cheath A petition has been presented to the Probate and Family court of INSURANCE Suffolk County, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by Kim Socheath Specializing in Auto- Neth of Lowell, Ma who was ordered to pay child support in the amount mobile Insurance for of $70.00 per week by order of said court dated on 1/15/16. Since that over a half century date, the Petitioner had retired, and of reliable service to receives $643.00 per month through Social Security. Therefore, Petitioner the Dorchester com- seeks an order that reduces child support obligation to $80.00 per munity. month and any other such relief as this Honorable Court may deem just and proper for the reasons more fully New Accounts described in the Petition. If you desire to object thereto you Welcome or your attorney should file a written appearance in said Court at Boston 1471 Dorchester Ave. before ten o’clock in the forenoon on June 30, 2016, the return day of at Fields Corner MBTA this citation. Witness, JOAN P. ARMSTRONG, Esquire, First Judge of said Court, Phone: this 31st day of March, 2016. Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate 617-265-8600 Published: June 2, 2016 “We Get Your Plates” COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS THE TRIAL COURT PROBATE AND FAMILY COURT Suffolk Probate & Family Court 24 New Chardon Street Boston 02114 (617) 788-8300 CITATION ON PETITION FOR FORMAL ADJUDICATION Docket No. SU16P0954EA ESTATE OF: JORGE A. CASTRO DATE OF DEATH: 01/19/2015 To all interested persons: A petition for Formal Adjudication of Intestacy and Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by Jeanette M. Merren of Dorchester, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that: Jeanette M. Merren of Dorchester, MA be ap- pointed as Personal Representative of said estate to serve With Corporate Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration. You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 06/16/2016. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you. Unsupervised Administration Under The Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administra- tion is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may peti- tion the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including the distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Witness, HON. JOAN P. ARMSTRONG First Justice of this Court. Date: May 4, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Published: June 2, 2016 Page 16 THE Reporter June 2, 2016 dotnews.com Neighborhood Notables
(Continued from page 12) Sat., June 11 at 1 p.m. at the Boston Playground, Mattapan. Boston on Sat., June 18 from 6-10 Mattapan Moving for Life event Nature Center…Fitness Summer Mattapan Bike Ride on June 12 p.m. For more information, please visit on June 11 Series Wednesdays starting July 6 Mattapan Community Bike Ride on empoweringwomentoaction.org. Mattapan Moving for Life is set for at 6:30 p.m. at the George H. Walker Sun., June 12 at 1 p.m. at the George Police District C-11 H. Walker Playground, Mattapan. Led Non-emergency line for seniors: by Jessica Mink, bikers will be able to 617-343-5649. The Party Line phone see local urban wilds and walk through number, where you can report loud some woods. For more information, con- parties, is 617-343-5500, 24 hours/7 tact Shavel’le @ mattapanonwheels@ days per week. gmail.com or call 617-433-7050 Police District B-3 News Mattapan Farmers Market For info, call B-3’s Community Service opens July 9 Office (Officer Souza) at 617-343-4711. 10th Grand Opening of the Mattapan Mattapan Food and Fitness Square Farmers’ Market on Sat., July Coalition 9 at 10 a.m. in the Church of the Holy Join Mattapan Food and Fitness Spirit Parking Lot, Mattapan. Coalition every second Tuesday of the DotBike Ride Series on July 9 month at the Mildred Ave Community Join DotBike for the third installment Center. Next meeting will be: Tues., of the Inter-neighborhood Ride Series June 14 from 6:45-8:15 p.m. on July 9 at 11 a.m. at Ashmont Cycles, Hancock Street Civic Meets Dorchester. For more information, June 16 please visit dotbike.org. Hancock Street Civic Association Mattapan Bike-a-Thon on July 23 monthly meeting will be held on the 6th Annual Mattapan On Wheels third Thursday of each month from Bike-a-thon on Sat., July 23 at 8 a.m. 6:30-8 p.m. at Pilgrim Church, 540 Enter the Mayor’s Garden Columbia Rd., Dorchester. Upcoming Contest meetings: June 16. E-mail address is: Deadline to enter Mayor’s Garden [email protected] Contest on July 8. To enter the contest, Ashmont-Adams Association apply online at cityofboston.gov/parks/ Meeting on the first Thursday of gardencontest or pick up entry forms at each month at the Plasterers’ Hall, 7 Boston City Hall, Boston Community Fredericka St., at 7 p.m. Centers, and Boston Public Library Ashmont Hill Assoc. branches. For more information, please Meetings are generally held the last call 617-961-3051. Thursday of the month. For info, see Mayor visits Hemenway Park ashmonthill.org or call Message Line: for Coffee Hour 617-822-8178. 2016 Coffee Hour Series give resi- Ashmont Valley Neighborhood dents a unique opportunity to speak Assoc. directly with Mayor Walsh and Meetings are usually the 2nd Monday other city officials about needs in their or Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at neighborhoods. All coffee hour series 776 Washington St., Dorchester. will begin at 9:30 a.m. Upcoming coffee Cedar Grove Civic Assoc. hour series: Wed., June 22; Hemenway The monthly meetings are held in Playground, Dorchester. Fr. Lane Hall at St. Brendan’s Church. Registration Now Open for Info: [email protected] or BNBL Season 617-825-1402. Registration now open for the 47th an- Clam Point Civic Assoc. nual Boston Neighborhood Basketball The meetings are usually held on the League kicking off on Tues., July 5. For second Monday of the month (unless it’s more information, please email Michael a holiday) at WORK, Inc. 25 Beach St., Mitchell at mike.mitchell@boston. at the corner of Freeport St., across from gov or call 617-961-3083. To register the IBEW; on-street parking available. online for BNBL or BNBL Pee Wee go Columbia-Savin Hill Civic to leagues.bluesombrero.com/bprd. Meetings the first Mon. of each month, Mothers of Courage and 7 p.m., at the Little House, 275 East Conviction Gala Cottage St. For info: columbiasavin- 4th Annual Mothers of Courage hillcivic.org. and Conviction Gala on the Spirit of (Continued on page 22)
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Max They just feel kind of an epic clash against the Cubs, with the Scherzer whiffed 20 in one evening. fluky. I don’t understand NL’s best record, and all the sporting A lifetime .213 hitter, Jackie Bradley, why the public has such a world would be their stage. The demand won’t surpass either of the DiMaggio’s fixation with an arbitrary for these two chronic sobsisters to settle hitting streaks or finish in the .340s. sequencing of hits. Case a largely imaginary score at some But Xander Bogaerts should. The last in point: Ted Williams new and fanciful Armageddon is this to match Daniel Murphy’s .395 first actually had a higher seasons’ seething sub-plot. quarter were Georgie Brett and Tony batting average during Ultimate disappointment is guar- Gwynn. There, the comparison ends. Joe DiMaggio’s record 56- anteed. But rounding 2016’s first A remarkable moment beckons with game hitting streak than pole, with more than a quarter of the Ichiro Suzuki drilling his 3,000th MLB DiMaggio did. Yet we still Jackie Bradley Jr. schedule come and gone, that prospect hit to go with roughly 1,600 he smote put DiMaggio’s feat on a looks as likely as any. That is unless you in Japan. Talk of your history! pedestal, and the general this mean for Bradley’s being an “all glove-no embrace the possibility the Mariners Apart from all the runs, hits and public reveres this feat future? And was the bat” type. will ever win anything in your lifetime errors stuff, however, it’s emerging more than Williams’s streak a product of luck, In the minors, he was a or you can somehow stomach the Mets. as a season of “issues.” New rules, .406 batting average that or a legitimate breakout? solid hitter, thanks in the Three other teams in each league new attitudes, new thinking about same season. Well, it was probably main to his discerning have piqued special interest over the old rules and customs, affecting mood While DiMaggio’s both in his case. batting eye – plenty of first quarter of the long haul. In the and tempo. It’s all about “change,” a 56-game run may be Not everyone who walks and not too many AL, there are the Orioles, who can hack highly loaded and instinctively suspect the more “unbreakable puts together a lengthy strikeouts. Because of with anyone but who lack pitching, the notion in this most traditional and record” of the two ac- hitting streak proves to this approach, I’ve al- White Sox, who’ll go as far as Chris steadfast of American games, where complishments – it will be a successful major ways been hopeful about Sale can carry them, and the Indians, the way it was played a century ago take an absurd amount league hitter, but a good his offensive potential. In playing fairly brilliantly for old friend is remembered fondly and not lightly of luck to equal that run seems to bode well. a nutshell, transitioning Terry Francona, considering their subject to question. mark – Williams’s .406 Since 2010, 84 percent of this approach from the offense is strictly Punch and Judy A new commissioner treads lightly, season-run average (the players who have posted minors to the majors while their allegedly strong pitching seemingly disposed to attempt subtle last time anyone has hit a hitting streak of 20 or is what has keyed his has been spotty. course corrections but worried about .400 or better) seems more games have career breakthrough. And Otherwise, the AL has been more raising ire. At the end of the season, to me unquestionably averages of .270 or better. it’s not just a sudden about teams failing to measure loom new Collective Bargaining Agree- the more impressive Given Bradley’s minor transformation; it’s a up. What’s wrong with the Royals? ment (CBA) parleys. The scene may be accomplishment. league track record and steady improvement. His Probably nothing save for a touch of as serene as it’s been in a half century, So why do we love late-season production walks to strikes ratio has post-championship ennui likely to but that doesn’t mean it’s blissful. hitting streaks? Was in 2015, many were improved each season burn off as the temperatures rise in There are those new curbs on sliding, it just that DiMaggio optimistic about his of- in the big leagues, gains the heartland. The Astros, on the other popular only with pugnacious middle- was universally beloved, fensive potential. But that are cementing the hand, are another matter. They look infielders. Confusion reigns on the while Williams had a who could’ve seen this foundation for his suc- lost. So, too, do the pitching-ravaged base paths. The Utley fiasco in last prickly relationship with coming? cess. This success looks Angels where the party may be over for year’s NL playoff provoked a much too the media? Maybe. On So far this year, Brad- real, and he’s only 26. Mike Scioscia in Anaheim. Could that drastic reaction from the MLB Suits. two occasions, Williams ley’s name has been Of course, he’ll regress be ditto for Joe Girardi in the Bronx The precious little contact that exists won the Triple Crown splashed across a slew of from these numbers. I where the Yankees might post their in baseball needs to be preserved, not and yet didn’t capture AL batting leaderboards don’t expect his slugging lousiest record since their infamous banned. The flap over second-base MVP honors. How does as he has maintained a percentage to continue 1966 season? Probably not, but Brian take-outs embarrasses the game and that happen if the voting spot in the Top 10 with resembling Mike Trout’s Cashman may be another matter. Tor- compounds mistakes made with the members of the media his average consistently or Miguel Cabrera’s. rid Toronto may be taking off but they’ll flap over home-plate collisions. aren’t biased? While in the .333 range. His on I don’t think you can crash again in the post-season. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” That it may be difficult to base percentage entering reasonably expect him As for the NL., Dusty Baker has immutable axiom ought be kept in explain, it’s undeniable this week’s Baltimore to keep up this pace, or calmed down Washington’s Nationals. mind when they’re tempted to mess that hitting streaks have series was .409 and his contend for the MVP. But It’s now or never for the Pirates. Can with basics, the latest example being always captured the slugging percentage was I do expect Jackie Brad- the Dodgers, with a hideous payroll the misguided alterations being imagination. .592, both numbers were ley Jr. to be a starting veering on $300 million, continue proposed to make the strike-zone a So this brings us to in the league’s Top 5. And outfielder in the All-Star to fail? One lives in hope. At the touch “higher.” Better they order more the latest big leaguer get a load of this: the Game. He has turned other extreme, there are the Giants. umpires to respect the strike zone to make us sit up and average OPS (on base the corner. So, don’t fret As is their custom, they’re rising in essentially defined and understood for take notice of a hitting plus slugging) for AL about his dashed pursuit another even-numbered year under about a century and a half. streak: Jackie Bradley center fielders in 2015 of a lousy hitting streak the brilliant Sabean-Bochy leadership. Back off, boys! There needs to be a Jr. Like everyone else was .735. Bradley’s OPS record that’s overrated If the Cubs are to be denied – and the time-out on all this idle tinkering. Yes, over the last 75 years, so far in 2016 is 1.001. anyway. What’s impor- weight of history surely still tugs in that the games do drag. Pace is a problem. he fell short, this time at The kid is raking. Looks tant is that the Red Sox direction – it’ll be the Giants who serve But more technological intrusions are 29 games. So what does like we’ll have to dismiss have found their center as saboteurs. Far at the other extreme, not the answer. We don’t need minute- the old notion of Bradley fielder for years to come. you have the Braves projecting to lose long reviews of every pick-off play. a record-busting 120 times. Ole! After a modest drop a year ago, the Records of rather greater distinction average length of games is up another are up for grabs. Inevitable are the mo- seven minutes. Obviously, whatever ments coming soon when David Ortiz you’re gimmicking ain’t working. So Byrne & passes Ted Williams on the homer rolls try, try to do less! Anderson, L.L.P.
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This past week Operation Progress presented 4- $10,000 College Scholarships to members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester. Tom Fitzgerald (R) of Operation Progress joined Santu Dewa Ayu, Education Dir. (L) in present- ing the awards. Upcoming Special Event: Summer Program Orientation Members of the Keystone Club at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester pictured 6/6 or 6/7 – 6:15 p.m. – McLaughlin Center handing out medals to the 13,000+ runners who took part in the Annual Run to For those members registered for the 2016 Summer Program, a par- Remember. There were also 5 members who took part in the 5K run that day. ent must attend one of the two mandatory orientations being held on 6/6 or 6/7. The orientations will take place in the 4th floor of the Safe Summer Streets consecutive Safe Sum- tended hours for our teen McLauglin Center. Program - Boys & Girls mer Streets program for members from 3:00 p.m. Clubs of Dorchester teens beginning on 7/5. - 11:00 p.m. weeknights will be hosting the 27th The program offers ex- during the summer. Activities this Summer will include the Safe Summer Streets Bas- ketball League, NFTE (Network for Teach- ing Entrepreneurship) Academies, Summer Swim Team, Career Prep program, College Alumni Night Cruise, Volleyball League, Career Fair, Arts Programming, Kids Cafe Dinner program, Field Trips, CrossFit, and more. Teens with an active membership are eligible for the drop-in program. Please note some programs require pre-registration. For more information on the Safe Summer Streets XXVII Program contact Mike Joyce (mjoyce@ bgcdorchester.org).
Diplomas to De- grees - The Education program will be hosting 11 teen members at the Annual Diplomas to De- grees Conference taking place at Southern New Hampshire University this weekend. The 3-day Conference will include guest speakers, small group workshops and social events for the 200+ attendees. The goal of the Conference is to help prepare participants for the College application and transition process. For information on our Education program please contact Santi Dewa Ayu (sayu@bgc- dorchester.org). Community Care Day Events - Special thanks to LPL Financial, who teamed with City Year to perform a day of service at the Club last week. Volunteers painted throughout the building and created 200 education kits. Later in the week Windhaven In- vestments, a division of Morgan Stanley brought 15 volunteers to help us run our World Record Day event. Thanks to both groups for spending their day with us at the Club. dotnews.com June 2, 2016 The Reporter Page 19 Libertarian Weld takes leave from lobbying to run for vice president
By Andy Metzger State House News Service William Weld, the former Republican governor YOU WERE BORN AND of Massachusetts and newly minted Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee, went on unpaid leave from his lobbying job in Boston on Monday, according to the firm’s president. RAISED HERE. NOW, Stephen Tocco, the president and CEO of ML Strategies where Weld is a principal, told the News YOU CAN AFFORD Service Weld’s nomina- tion on Sundaywas “the triggering event” and began his period of unpaid TO STAY HERE. leave. At the Libertarian Party convention in Florida, Weld described himself as an “impact player” and renounced the Republican BETTER HOME LOANS ARE HERE TO STAY Party he has been aligned Living in and around Boston is expensive. But that shouldn’t stop you from calling it home. CBCU is always with through his political here to help with low-rate mortgages, home equity loans, first-time buyer programs and more. And because we’re member-owned, we treat each like we want to be treated. Like people, not credit scores. Former Gov. William career. For rates, call 617-635-4545 or visit cityofbostoncu.com. Weld attended the Gov. “Frankly it’s a relief not Charlie Baker’s State of to have to carry the Repub- Membership open to anyone in Suffolk or Norfolk counties. the Commonwealth ad- lican Party’s anti-choice, *All loans subject to credit approval dress in January. Baker anti-marriage-equality was a member of Weld’s and anti-social-freedom cabinet. [File Photo: positions around on my NMLS #403469 Sam Doran/SHNS] back as I’ve had to do for the last 30 years,” Weld said, exulting, “This is how we should all feel - free, free at last!” “I pledge to you that I will stay with the Libertarian Party for life,” Weld told delegates, including many who were not swayed by the newcomer to their party. Elected twice in the 1990s as governor in Mas- sachusetts, Weld was the losing candidate in a 1996 race against former U.S. Sen. John Kerry. After he was stymied by Republican Sen. Jesse Helms in his bid for an ambassadorship to Mexico, Weld moved to New York and briefly ran for the Republican nomination for governor of the Empire State, telling the New York Times in 2005 he hoped to be the first two-state governor since Sam Houston, of Tennessee and Texas. Weld endorsed Democrat President Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential race and Republican Mitt Romney, the former Mas- sachusetts governor, in the 2012 presidential race. As a lobbyist, Weld has been working recently with Michael Dukakis, another former Massachusetts governor and the 1988 Democratic nominee for president, to push for a tunneling project beneath downtown Boston to connect two major train stations. Democrats appear on a path toward nominating former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a polarizing figure for many voters, while the bombastic commentary of Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has inspired ire in and out of the GOP. Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nomi- nee, gave a speech this year excoriating Trump and encouraging Republicans to vote for his opponents in state primaries. At the Orlando, Florida convention, Weld described Democrats and Republicans as “calcified, ossified parties, locked in a duopoly, kind of a death-spiral embrace where they seem to be obsessed about out-slandering each other more than doing the people’s business.” Weld joins the ticket with former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, another former Republican. Prior to Weld’s selection by delegates, Johnson told delegates that if they chose Weld, “at a minimum I think we’re in the presidential debates.” Johnson said, “If it’s not Bill Weld I don’t think that that happens.” Johnson speculated about a “real possibility that we can achieve major party status in this country.” From polling that showed a Johnson-Weld ticket at 10 percent, Johnson extrapolated that the Libertar- ian ticket was connecting with 18 million voters. In addition to touting Weld’s fundraising abilities, Johnson said Weld has made 25 national media ap- pearances since emerging as a Libertarian candidate, contrasting that with Jim Gray, his 2012 running mate, who Johnson said did not make any national media appearances. Tocco, who served in Weld’s administration, declined to comment on Weld’s vice presidential campaign. As a candidate, Weld will continue “poking in and out” of his ML Strategies office space, and the campaign will be billed for the time, Tocco said. Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican who held top cabinet posts in Weld’s administration, has said of the presidential field, he’s “not going to vote for any of these people,” and critiqued the Libertarian platform.
Untitled-1 1 5/16/16 1:59 PM Page 20 THE Reporter June 2, 2016 dotnews.com RECENT OBITUARIES CASEY, Walter E., bury, Nancy J. Celona MAHONEY, Mar- memory may be made to mother of John P. III, BC football. He also be- Jr. 91 of Boston. Hus- and her husband, James guerite M. “Maggie” the Creutzfeldt-Jakob James V. Sheehy, Bran- came a “snow bird” with band of the late Mary E. of Derry, N.H., and Rob- of Dorchester. Sister of Disease Foundation, don J. and Sean Datar. his wife and spent many Casey. Father of Fred- ert F. Loftus and his Maureen Devine and 341 West 38th Street, Sister of William and quality winters in Lake erick D. Casey of Bos- wife Nancy of Marsh- her late husband Joe Suite 501, New York, his wife Loretta Proc- Worth, Florida. He will ton, Denelda Shaw of field; caring grandfather of Roslindale. Aunt of NY 10018 or www.cjd- tor of Dorchester and be missed dearly by both MD, Cynthia E. Casey, of Jason, Daniel, Marc, Mary Devine and John foundation.org. the late Robert, Thomas his family and friends Edwin Casey, Kevin Christine, Peter, Kel- Devine and his wife O’LEARY, David D. and Frederick Proctor forever. God Bless “Bill”, Casey and Carla Casey, lie, Kimberly, and Amie; Katie all of Roslindale. suddenly, in Dorchester, and Patricia “Patsy” “Dad”, and “Papa”. Bill all of Boston. He leaves and great-grandfather Great aunt of Jack Savin Hill. Husband of Doherty. Sister-in-law is survived by his wife 27 grandchildren and of Lucas, Layla, and Ja- Devine. Maggie gradu- Mary Louise (Healey) of Owen Doherty and of 61 years Eileen C. 69 great-grandchildren. cob. Graduate of Boston ated from Girls’ High O’Leary. Father of Pa- Joseph Sheehy. Also “Maloney” of Nepon- He is also survived by a College High School and School in 1951. She mela O’Leary and her survived by many niec- set. Also his nine chil- host of other loving rela- Boston College (Class worked at Boston City significant other Hugh es and nephews. dren William H. Walsh tives and friends. of ‘51) with a major in Hospital for 40 years Small, and Christine WALSH, William Jr. and his wife Janet LOFTUS, John T. chemistry. Korean War prior to her retirement. L. O’Leary and her sig- “Bill” age 91, forever of of Weymouth, Helen Jr. (“Jack” or “Lefty”) Army veteran. Worked She was an avid read- nificant other Gerard Dorchester most recent- Dunn and her husband 86, of Milton, formerly of as an industrial chemist er, traveller, and loved Douglas, all of Dorches- ly from Weymouth and Brian of Plymouth, Ei- Dorchester. Husband of first in textile manufac- walking at Castle Island ter. Gramps of Shannon Lake Worth, Florida. leen Walsh of Alameda, the late Collette (Ryan), turing and later in the in South Boston. She re- O’Leary-Small. Brother Bill was a very proud California, Maryann father of Diane M. Lof- formulation of adhe- sided at the Rogerson of Elaine “Bonnie” Bar- member of that “Great- Mattes of Abington, tus of Milton, Thomas sives. He also had a very House in Jamaica Plain ry of South Yarmouth, est generation that Paul Walsh and his J. Loftus of Sandown, successful part-time up- for the past 3 years prior Paul O’Leary of South ever lived”and proudly wife Linda of Pembroke, N.H., John T. Loftus III holstery business and to her passing. Dona- Boston, and the late served during WWII in Shawn Walsh of South and his wife Sandra of worked on various do-it- tions may be made in Edna Dunderdale and the United States Navy Boston, Coleen McNeill Stoneham, Elizabeth A. yourself home improve- Maggie’s memory to Al- Robert O’Leary. Sur- as a radioman in the and her husband Jack Zachmann and her hus- ment projects with Col- zheimer’s Association at vived by several nieces South Pacific. He is a of Plymouth, Thomas band William F. of Dux- lette. alz.org. and nephews. Late re- life member of the Vet- Walsh of Hyde Park, McINTYRE, Mary- tired employee of The erans of Foreign Wars and Kelly Hally and ann “Marty” (Rogers) Boston Globe for over 35 (VFW) Post 8699 of Riv- her husband Joseph of “Caring for your life’s journey...” in Dorchester. Wife of years and former busi- er Street in Mattapan Weymouth. He is also Peter McIntyre. Moth- ness manager of St. Wil- as well as a member survived by seventeen er of Lindsey R. and liam’s Parish for over of the McKeon post of grandchildren and eight her husband Richard 10 years. Donations in Dorchester. Upon serv- great grandchildren Grabowski of South Bos- David’s memory may ing his time in WWII he who loved “Papa” im- ton, Philip McIntyre and be made to Boston Chil- returned to Dorchester mensely. Also survived his companion Pamela dren’s Hospital Trust, and worked 44 years for by his brother, Dr. Jack DaSilva of Brockton, 401 Park Drive, Suite the New England Tele- Walsh of Wakefield, Kelsey R. and her hus- 602, Boston, MA 02215. phone and Telegraph RI, and three sisters band Antonio DeMelo of SANFORD, Harvey Company. Bill worked Celia Johnson of West Quincy, and Thomas R. F. 89, of Boston. Hus- many side jobs also to Hartford, Connecticut, McIntyre and his com- band for 65 years to Al- support his wife and 9 Mary Stella of Foxboro, panion Heather Sturges ice E. (Taylor) Sanford. children. Upon retiring Theresa Meekin of Fal- of Dorchester. Daughter Devoted father of Judith he found much joy in mouth as well as the of Bernice E. (Kirk) Rog- Sanford-Harris and son- spending time with his late Helen Hunsicker ers of Dorchester and in-law Joseph of Milton. family and friends on of Pennsylvania, and the late John S. Rogers. Grandfather of Stacey Burke’s Beach in Green Thomas Walsh of Mat- Sister of John S. Rogers and Stephanie Harris Harbor which is where tapan as well as many III of NH, Kirk M. Rog- both of Milton. He is he originally met his nieces and nephews. If ers of ME, and the late also survived by a loving wife, Eileen. He was an desired contributions Susan Nadeau. Grand- host of cousins, extend- avid collector of coins in Bill’s memory may Funerals mother of Charlotte H. ed family and friends and until recently an be sent to the Jimmy DeMelo and Peter H. from Boston, MA and active member of the Fund, P.O. Box 849168, Cremations Grabowski. Survived Annapolis, MD. “Dorchester Day Pa- Boston, MA 02284 or Pre-Arrangements by many sisters and SHEEHY, Joan L. rade Committee”. He www.jimmyfund.org/ brothers-in-law, nieces, (Proctor) of Dorches- loved the Red Sox and gift. 1140 WASHINGTON STREET 460 GRANITE AVENUE and nephews. Late EMT ter. Wife of John P. DORCHESTER, MA 02124 MILTON, MA 02186 for Brewster Ambulance Sheehy. Mother of John Company for several P. Jr. and his wife Val- 617~298~8011 617~698~6264 years and member of erie Sheehy of Brain- Neighborhood Notables the IABBO Board 27 tree, Teresa and her (Continued from page 16) Service times and directions at: and the South Shore husband Nijan Datar of Umpires Association. Acton, Steven Sheehy of Codman Square Neighborhood Council www.dolanfuneral.com Donations in Maryann’s Fairbanks, AK. Grand- The Codman Square Neighborhood Council meets the first Wed. of each month, 7 to 8:30 p.m., in the LEGAL NOTICE Great Hall of the Codman Sq. Health Center, 6 Norfolk St. Info: call 617-265-4189. COMMONWEALTH OF COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS Cummins Valley Assoc. THE TRIAL COURT THE TRIAL COURT Cummins Valley Assoc., meeting at the Mattahunt PROBATE & FAMILY COURT PROBATE & FAMILY COURT TEVNAN TEVNAN SUFFOLK PROBATE & FAMILY COURT SUFFOLK PROBATE & FAMILY COURT Community Center, 100 Hebron St., Mattapan, on 24 NEW CHARDON STREET 24 NEW CHARDON STREET Mondays 6:30 p.m., for those living on and near Cum- 100 City Hall Plaza 415 Neponset Avenue PO BOX 9667, BOSTON, MA 02114 PO BOX 9667, BOSTON, MA 02114 CITATION GIVING NOTICE CITATION GIVING NOTICE mins Highway. For info on dates, call 617-791-7359 Boston, MA 02108 Dorchester, MA 02124 OF PETITION FOR OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN or 617-202-1021. 617-423-4100 617-265-4100 FOR INCAPACITATED PERSON FOR INCAPACITATED PERSON PURSUANT TO G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 PURSUANT TO G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 Eastman-Elder Assoc. Docket No. SU16P1060GD Docket No. SU16P1045GD The association meets the third Thurs. of each in the MATTER OF: in the MATTER OF: Attorneys at Law CHERYL POTTINGER TRUONG THANH HUYNH month, 7 p.m., at the Upham’s Corner Health Center, of DORCHESTER, MA of DORCHESTER, MA www.tevnan.com RESPONDENT RESPONDENT 636 Columbia Rd, across from the fire station. Alleged Incapacitated Person Alleged Incapacitated Person Fields Corner Civic Assoc. To the named Respondent and all other To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed interested persons, a petition has been filed The FCCA meets the first Tues., of each month in by DMH, c/o Office of General Counsel of by Phung D. Huynh of Dorchester, MA in Westborough, MA in the above captioned the above captioned matter alleging that the basement hall of St. Ambrose Church at 7 p.m. matter alleging that Cheryl Pottinger is in Truong Thanh Huynh is in need of a Guard- New members are welcome. Upcoming meeting: June need of a Guardian and requesting that ian and requesting that Phung D. Huynh “Close to Home” DMH, c/o Office of General Counsel of of Dorchester, MA (or some other suitable 7, Special guest speaker will be from the Department Westborough, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve person) be appointed as Guardian to serve Without Surety on the bond. of Public Works. on the bond. The petition asks the Court to determine Freeport-Adams Assoc. The petition asks the Court to determine that the Respondent is incapacitated, that that the Respondent is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is neces- The meetings will be held the second Wed. of the the appointment of a Guardian is neces- sary, and that the proposed Guardian is sary, and that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this month, 6:30 p.m., at the Fields Corner CDC office appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain (the old Dist. 11 police station). court and may contain a request for certain specific authority. specific authority. You have the right to object to this Groom/Humphreys Neighborhood Assoc. You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance The GHNA meets on the third Wed. of the month, your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 06/23/2016. This day is NOT 7 p.m., in the Kroc Salvation Army Community return date of 06/30/2016. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which Center, 650 Dudley St., Dor., 02125. For info, call a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the 857-891-1072 or [email protected]. Cedar Grove Cemetery object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further Hecla/Lyon/East Streets Watch CONSECRATED IN 1868 may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written A new neighborhood watch, on Hecla, Lyon, and notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts East Streets will meet at Susi Auto Body Shop 79 On the banks of the Neponset a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days and grounds of your objection within 30 days Freeport St., corner of Linden St., on a date TBA. Excellent “Pre-Need” Plan Available after the return date. after the return date. Inquiries on gravesites and above-ground IMPORTANT NOTICE IMPORTANT NOTICE All residents are invited to join. The outcome of this proceeding may limit The outcome of this proceeding may limit garden crypts are invited. Non-Sectarian. or completely take away the above-named or completely take away the above-named Linden/Ellsworth/Leedsville Watch person’s right to make decisions about person’s right to make decisions about For info, call 617-288-0818. personal affairs or financial affairs or both. personal affairs or financial affairs or both. Greenhouse Now Open The above-named person has the right to ask The above-named person has the right to ask Lower Mills Civic Assoc. for your home gardening and cemetery needs for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. If the on behalf of the above-named person. If the Meetings: 7 p.m., in St. Gregory’s Auditorium. Due above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, ($7) are now due. See the web page: dorchesterlow- Cemetery Office open daily at one may be appointed at State expense. one may be appointed at State expense. Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First ermills.org 920 Adams St. Justice of this Court. Justice of this Court. Dorchester, MA 02124 Felix D. Arroyo Felix D. Arroyo McCormack Civic Assoc. Register of Probate Register of Probate Telephone: 617-825-1360 Date: May 18, 2016 Date: May 16, 2016 For more information, please e-mail McCormack- Published: June 2, 2016 Published: June 2, 2016 [email protected]. dotnews.com June 2, 2016 The Reporter Page 21 Reporter’s Calendar Thursday, June 2 trips, and a creative ments of MFFC. Register a.m. for ticket sales and • Upham’s Corner auction highlighting the at mml2016.eventbrite. advance-purchase check- Health Center Holistic nature-inspired work of com or call 617-696-2900. in. Tickets are $30 in Fair, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., 40 talented area artists. • Boston chapter of advance, at dorchester- 415 Columbia Rd. Open Funds raised support NAACP convenes meet- historicalsociety.org, and to the public. There will engaging and inspir- ing on Black in BPS, 9 $35 the day of the tour. be free healthy food and ing youth education a.m. at Greater Love Proceeds will benefit the snacks, an accupunctur- programs and Boston Tabernacle Church, DHS building restoration ist, WIC and Health Nature Center’s Schol- 101 Nightingale St., fund for the maintenance Center nutritionists, arship Fund. Tickets Dorchester. For more of its historic properties. massage and music $35 each: Please visit information, visit boston- • The first Matta- therapists and a yoga massaudubon.org to buy naacp.org pan Girlz Roll of 2016! instructor who will be tickets. Contact Kelly Sunday, June 12 This ride will be led by doing free demos. Learn Gallagher at 617-983- • Dorchester His- Jessica Mink. Bikers about alternative treat- 8500 ext. 6922 or kgal- torical Society presents will be able to see local ment options that may lagher@massaudubon. the new Dorchester urban wilds and walk be an option for you to org. House Tour from noon through some woods. 1 pursue. Contact Tonita Monday, June 6 to 5 p.m. includes the p.m. George H. Walker Watson at 617-287-8000 • The Boston Public newly-restored Parish Playground, 528 Norfolk ext. 8343. Schools will host public of All Saints church, St. For more information • The Boston Public Pappas named Prosecutor of the Year – Suffolk meetings to discuss 209 Ashmont St., which contact Shavel’le @ mat- Schools will host public County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s chief water access in city will be starting point tapanonwheels@gmail. meetings to discuss trial counsel was recognized with a prestigious schools, including one for the self-guided tour. com or call 617-433-7050. water access in city statewide honor at the Massachusetts Prosecutors this evening at 6:30 p.m. Doors open at 11:45 schools, including one Conference on May 12. Assistant District Attorney at Murphy K-8 School. this evening at 5:30 p.m. John P. Pappas was presented with the William C. Tuesday, June 7 Adams Village-Best area. Excellent at Kenny Elementary O’Malley Prosecutor of the Year award, named for • Fields Corner Civic School in Dorchester. the longtime Plymouth County district attorney who Association meets at St. 1 1/2 bedroom condo/first floor/3 family.N ew Friday, June 3 served as chairman of the board of the American Ambrose Church, 240 stove, new dishwasher, new oak cabinets & • Dorchester Day Prosecutors Research Institute and president of the Adams St., Dorchester counter top, gleaming hardwood floors, washer Massachusetts District Attorneys Association and Parade Chief Marshal’s National District Attorneys Association. at 7 p.m. Special guest dryer hookup in unit, vinyl tilt in windows, front dinner at Florian Hall, speaker will be from the & back porches, large eat in kitchen with pantry, 6p.m. The Tickets are $40 conservation initiatives. and other organizations, Department of Public open to living room, great closet space. On the and are still available. Please note: This event 10:30 a.m. For race infor- Works. Email questions bus line, walk to shops, library, restaurants, T Contact kellywalsh@ is 21+. Contact 617-541- mation, contact Project to Debbie Sousa at deb- dotdayparade.com for 5466. D.E.E.P. at 617-635-5027 [email protected]. station, minutes to the highway. Thomas 617- more information. • Pierce House on Oak- or visit projectdeep.org. Thursday, June 9 825-1210. $264,500. Saturday, June 4 ton Avenue will be open • Dorchester Day • The Boston Public • Wild about wine? for free tours by Historic Parade begins at 1 p.m. Schools will host public Franklin Park Zoo’s third Boston Inc. today 10-3 on Dorchester Avenue in meetings to discuss wa- annual wine tasting p.m. with the last tour Lower Mills and ends at ter access in city schools, HELP WANTED event, Uncorked, at 5 beginning at 2 p.m. One Columbia Road. including one today at 5 p.m. Guests will not only of the last surviving • Boston Nature Cen- p.m. at Lee K-8 School have the opportunity to examples of seventeenth- ter’s Spring Swing honors on Talbot Avenue. Commercial General Contractor needs skilled sample delicious offer- century architecture in Kathy Clunis D’Andrea, Saturday, June 11 experienced carpenters and construction laborers ings, but they will also Boston. 24 Oakton Ave., an outstanding and • Mattapan Food and for positions available immediately. be able to stroll among Dorchester. committed educator in Fitness Coalition 10th Applicants must be residents of Boston, have a the animals in the zoo’s Sunday, June 5 Boston Public Schools anniversary Mattapan minimum of 5 years experience in commercial con- signature Tropical For- • Blarney Stone/Proj- and a BNC supporter. Moving for Life event, struction, and own hand tools. OSHA 10 is required. est Pavilion. Proceeds ect DEEP 5K Road Race The festive, garden-party 500 Walk Hill St., Matta- Must be reliable, trustworthy and willing to work from Uncorked will sup- from Fields Corner to themed fundraiser at 500 pan starts at 1 p.m. Enjoy hard. Please submit your resume to Project Manager Lower Mills and back. Walk Hill St., Mattapan, port the operation and delicious food, music, a Barry Markham at continued growth of Sponsored by the Blar- features fine food, beer walk through our beauti- Franklin Park Zoo, its ney Stone and proceeds and wine, a live auc- ful nature sanctuary, and [email protected] education programs and to benefit Project DEEP tion featuring fabulous celebrate the achieve- Positions for masonry work are also available.
RECENTLY SOLD PROPERTY IN DORCHESTER Dorchester BUYERS SELLERS ADDRESS PRICE DATE Patrick O’Brien Matthew Candy 619 Adams St U-3 $329,000 5/13/16 Ronan Mannion Alan Kirwan Jennifer Kirwan 10 Chelmsford St $697,900 5/13/16 Michael Dellefave Leslie- Ann Dellefave isabel Moeda 135 Cushing Ave $450,000 5/13/16 Leah Snowdale Anthony Snowdale Reem Property LLC 74 Dix St U-3 $299,000 5/13/16 Mozir Uddin Mumin Parvaz Richard Mead 97 Draper St $455,000 5/13/16 Lawley St LLC Jokam LLC 1 Ericsson St $120,000 5/13/16 Michael Jones David Gormley 275 Gallivan Blvd U-4 $316,000 5/12/16 Kevin Doherty Karen Doherty Grubessi Casimira Est diana Boudreau 31 Hallet Davis St $330,000 5/1/16 Vanessa Garcia Claudia Garcia ERJ Properties LLC 8 Harvard Pk $539,000 5/9/16 Dylan Schultz Brain McDermott 116 King St U-2 $415,000 5/12/16 Erez Almog Marc Canner Jordan Properties llc 25 Longfellow St $610,000 5/12/16 Elma Kurtagic Spencer Irvine Margaret Hagerty 31 Mount Vernon St U-3 $610,000 5/12/16 Skybridge Properties LLC E earl Fitzhugh 151-153A Norfolk St $390,000 5/9/16 Skybridge Properties LLC E earl Fitzhugh 155-159 Norfolk St $390,000 5/9/16 Naveen Reddy Neetu Reddy McGregor 1 LLC 233-235 Norwell St $580,000 5/13/16 Donna Scaffidi Michael Skolnick 368 Park St U-3 $264,000 5/10/16 Rahul Dhanda Michelle Dhanda Anthony Paciulli Tr 69 Richmond St Rt 69 Richmond St $645,000 5/10/16 Zenaida Desiderio Helen Shea 32 Saint Marks Rd U-2 $293,000 5/12/16 Joel Michel Julie Southwell Ngoc Le Kevin Lai 61 Savin Hill Ave $460,000 5/11/16 Jon Zweig Michael Dellefave Leaslie- Ann Dellefave 302-304 Savin Hill Ave U-1 $520,000 5/13/16 Natalio Xavier Patricia McLaughlin 64 Shepton St $390,000 5/10/16 Nariman Rahimian Alyssa Dion 30 Tuttle St U-2 $453,670 5/9/16 9 Upham Ave LLC Nazeeh Mohammad 9 Upham Ave $530,000 5/10/16 Fiona Chndra David Delaney 42 Van Winkle U-1 $296,000 5/12/16 SB Rentals LLC Massall Inc 80 Wilow Ct $425,000 5/13/16 SB Rentals LLC Massall Inc 84 Willow Ct $425,000 5/13/16 28 Winter St LLC Michael Rota 28 Winter St $580,000 5/10/16
MATTAPAN Marlena Afonso 15 Holiday St LLC 64-66 Old Morton St $375,000 5/9/16 Page 22 THE Reporter June 2, 2016 dotnews.com Summer Solstice Garden Tour set for June 19 The Dorchester Park dens, all in the Melville will follow at one of the up for the tour.” designed park. The last Tickets will also Association and Cedar Avenue area. homes in the tour. Tickets are $50. garden tour was held be available at the Grove Gardens have Cedar Grove Gardens “These gardens are Funds raised will sup- two years ago and raised Shawmut T station organized a Summer will set up a kiosk at really spectacular,” said port Dorchester Park $5,000, said Ahern. The kiosk the day of the Solstice Garden Tour the Shawmut T station Cedar Grove Gardens events like the Easter tour is on June 19 from tour from 10 a.m. to 2 on June 19 to benefit where attendees can merchandising manager egg hunt, classic car 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets p.m. Contact Lisa at Dorchester Park. The pick up a map, and then and floral designer Lisa show, and Family Fun can be purchased at 617-825-8582 with any walking tour will fea- explore the gardens at Ahern. “And Dorchester Day. It will also be used Cedar Grove Gardens questions. ture ten Dorchester their own pace. A wine residents have very to plant new trees in and can also be reserved residents’ private gar- and cheese reception graciously opened them the Olmsted Brothers- online or over the phone. Uber targets the neighborhoods for additional drivers By Jennifer Smith Hyde Park, Jamaica can drop his daughter for fingerprint checks “I feel very safe, be- tion, an open forum, and Reporter Staff Plain, and Roslindale, off at school, then drive, that advocates have cause when you do your assistance with signing Uber, with more than according to Chris run errands, and in the been dedmanding. The job professionally, you up as a driver. 20,000 drivers in Boston Taylor, Uber’s general process rack up 40 to 50 rider-sharing companies will be safe, and I am One in 50 Dorchester after four years in the manager. hours paid time behind say such checks are an always safe,” Pereira residents already drive city, is in the early “We looked for areas the wheel per week. unnecessary additional said, adding, “you cannot for Uber, Taylor said in stages of a campaign to where we could find “Driving Our Neigh- step that would deter control everything in hu- early May. “We see that bring in more drivers community partners and borhoods” began in potential drivers. man beings, but there is as a great opportunity from the neighborhoods. where there is a need for Boston in the midst Speaking from the a way you can be trained for us, because there are The company hopes to economic development,” of debates over safety driver’s side, Pereira to solve the problems.” people who already like attract 5,000 through a he said. for both drivers and said it took two or three The company is con- the platform to drive , shared initiative with Fields Corner resident passengers and the lack weeks for his paperwork tinuing to host infor- and so we’re focusing the Roxbury-based non- Nataniel Pereira, 52, of a built-in tipping and background check to mational meetings in on making sure that profit Urban League of has been an Uber driver mechanism. The state be processed. He was also different neighborhoods everybody knows that Eastern Massachusetts. since 2015. Though the Senate is considering trained on appropriate and plans to keep doing opportunity is available The “Driving Our company maintains that a bill passed by the behavior when operating so throughout the year. to them.” Neighborhoods” pro- about half of its drivers House that includes as a Uber driver. They include a presenta- gram that was launched are using the platform new regulations for ride by Uber in April targets for less than 10 hours a sharing companies like Dorchester, Mattapan, week, for Pereira it’s a Uber and Lyft. Left out Roxbury, West Roxbury, flexible full-time job. He of the bill is a mandate
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GREENHILLS IRISH BAKERY 25 years in business!
Greenhills celebrates by giving back!
To commemorate our 25 years, we will donate
$1000 on the 25th of each month to a
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Here’s to 25 more years in Dorchester/Boston
780 Adams St., Dorchester, MA • 617-825-8187 www.greenhillsirishbakery.com Mon.-Sat. 5 a.m. - 6 p.m. • Sun. 6 a.m. - 2 p.m. Page 24 THE Reporter June 2, 2016 dotnews.com Dorchester House Tour Sunday, June 12, 2016 12 noon – 5 p.m. m e s This year featuring the A L i a n e 2 0 1 6
Ashmont Hill Neighborhood © h s : a p h o t g r P Presented by the Dorchester Historical Society Visit a dozen delightful homes and carriage houses on Ashmont Hill, this year’s featured neighborhood. Talk with their owners about the ways they have preserved, restored, and transformed their 19th century homes for 21st century living Also tour the historic 1892 Parish of All Saints, Ashmont to see the award-winning restoration of this landmark church. t i c k e t s $30 advance purchase at www.dorchesterhistoricalsociety.org $35 at the door w h e r e ? Self-guided tour begins at the Parish of All Saints, Ashmont, 209 Ashmont Street. Doors open at 11:30 a.m for ticket sales and advance-purchase check-in. Houses are open 12:00 noon to 5 p.m. By car: Park at All Saints Church for tickets and tour of the church, then drive to nearby Ashmont Hill. Houses are within an easy walk of each other. By public transit: Take the MBTA Red Line or bus to Ashmont Station, follows signs to All Saints Church. Ashmont Hill is a short walk from the church. Go to www.dorchesterhistoricalsociety.org for more information or call (617) 293-3052. Proceeds benefit the DHS Building Restoration Fund. t h a n k s t o o u r s p o n s o r s !
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