Allston's Harvest Supermarket to Close
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TIME TO VOTE! See ballot inside L] Community Newspaper Company • www.townonline.com/allstonbrighton APRIL 28 - MAY 4, 1998 Vol. 3, No. 2 • 72 Pages • Two Sections 50¢ Allston's Harvest supermarket to close Customers mourn closing of co-op store like we've been at a wake for the close its Cambridge Street store on pete with several area chain stores that past two weeks. You come in and April 30. Store Manager Irwin now offer organic foods and natural By Melissa Da Ponte she will be transferred to Harvest's do your job, but you can feel it. It's Segal said the organization is look health<are products, he said. Funds TAB Staff Writer main store in Cambridge to start up the end of an era." ing for a bigger site for the market. from the sale of the building will be o Rayne Hoke, the closing of a new florist shop. The Allston Harvest Co-op - But for now, the weekly losses are banked until a new site is found. Allston's Harvest Co-op But despite the new opportunity, which began in 1971 as a Boston making it impractical to wait it out. In the mid- l 970s, co-op members Tsupcnnarket represents a Hoke is carrying a heavy heart about University food co-op that allowed Limited parking and space con moved their operation from the BU new beginning. When the market the demise of the Allston store. members to donate their time as a straints on Cambridge Street have campus to what was to eventually closes it-; doors for good this week. "It's like a death," she said. "I feel way to buy food at cost - will made it financially impossible to com- HARVF.ST,page 19 Building a little Brazil :::!~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ----.....:...:... ~ Worshippers celebrate M~ at the Brazilian service at SL Anthony's Church in Allston. Brazilian immigrants are By Melissa Da Ponte training, health care, legal assistance, professional TAB Staff Writer support. 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Police Small talk investigate attacks on women One man charged with robbery, indecent assault By Melissa Da Ponte TAB Staff Writer n separate incidents, two women were robbed last week as they entered their Brighton apartments, according to police. I One man was charged in connection with one of the incidents. The other incident is still under investigation, police said. The first incident took place on April 18 just before 6 p.m., according to police. As a woman entered her Woodstock Avenue apartment build ing, a man followed her into the first-floor hall way, then pushed her down the hall. According to the report, the man showed a 4-inch buck knife and told the woman, "Scream and I'll stab you!" Allston-Brighton Food Pantry volunteer Jason Allen hangs out with Alshafea Mohammad, S, (center) and her sister Jahaira, 6, during the pantry's The man then took the woman's purse and took volunteer awards ceremony at Brighton Congregational Church last Tuesday. out $90 in cash. He continued to push her down the hall toward a rear stairway, according to the report. When the woman screamed, the man fled the building and ran down Woodstock Avenue toward Summit Avenue. He was described as a City offers more money for library black man about 25 years old, 6 feet, 2 inches tall with a slim build and a mustache. He was wear meeting in late May to discuss plans with Allston-Brighton City Councilor Brian ing a black hat, black pants and a green army Proposal would add the Allston community, Douglas said. Honan; Lillian Burgess, an Allston resident, jacket at the time of the incident. $3 million to Allston "We're meeting with Harvard in the mid who works at St. Anthony's School and Police from Boston and Brookline searched the dle of May to discuss the [configuration] of Parish; Paul Berkeley, president of the area, but the man was not found. project allocation the site," Douglas said. "If we're able to get Allston Civic Association; and Allston resi In the second incident, which occurred on April the $6.5 million we won't enlarge the build dent Ellin Murphy, a teacher at the Thomas 21 at l a.m., a woman was grabbed from behind By Linda Rosencrance ing, we'll improve it. What we've learned Gardner Elementary School. as she tried to enter the front door of her North TAB Staff Writer from visiting libraries in other communities "In the next few weeks \\'.e're going to J#llcan Street apartment. according to the police t hasn't been built yet, but the Allston visit several of our branch libraries, includ report. After the man told her to give him all her Branch of the Boston Public Library ing the Dudley branch in Roxbury, the CRIME, page 23 is about to get better. "We won't enlarge the Brighton branch and the branch in West I The mayor's recent capital budget Roxbury," Douglas said. proposal includes an additional $3 million building, we' ll improve it." Library officials say the new library The city of Boston allocation for the library, which brings the should include a children's section contain total appropriation for the project to $6.5 ing 50,000 books; an adult/young adult sec Board of Appeal will Worth Douglas hold a public hearing at million, City Councilor Brian Honan said tion with 32,500 books; 15 displayed news 11 :30 a.m. Tuesday, last week. The Boston City Council will papers with storage for back issues; 70 dis April 21 , in Room 801 debate and then vote on the capital budget played magazines with storage for back of City Hall to discuss during the next few months. is that the quality of the furnishings and issues; and shelves for 500 new books. the following item: "Allston has been waiting for almost 20 even the walls makes a big difference." In addition, the library would have a lec • an appeal by Vera years for a branch library and with this The project's architects, the Boston-based ture hall with 100 chairs and four 5-foot Impellizzeri to enlarge the porch at the side of additional money, we will have a first-class Michado & Silvetti Associates Inc., have long folding tables; a moveable raised plat her two-family home at 46 Leicester St. library at 308 North Harvard St. by the year drawn up several possible designs for the form, a moveable puppet theater, a built-in 2000," Honan said. building, Douglas said. projection screen and projection room; and The city of Boston Licensing Board will hold a Groundbreaking for the new 20,000- ''We talked about the building [being a mobile TVNCR. The lecture hall would public hearing at 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 29, square-foot building is scheduled for June wrapped] totally around a garden, or at least be wired for cable and the Internet.