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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021 BOOK YOUR POST IT Call Your Advertising Rep TTHEHE BBEEACONACON HHILLILL TTIMESIMES (781)485-0588 THERE ARE NO TIMES LIKE THESE TIMES Boncore will step down from State Senate seat By Cary Shuman Sen. Joseph Boncore, who has served in the First Middlesex and Suffolk District senate seat, that includes parts of Beacon Hill, since 2016, announced Wednesday that he will be resigning from his posi- tion. He will be submitting his offi- cial letter of resignation next week. Boncore is leaving the Senate to become the new chief executive officer at the Massachusetts Bio- technology Council (MassBio). “I’m excited to start this new chapter in my life, but I’m a little Sen. Joseph Boncore. sad to close the chapter of my life as an elected official,” said Bon- families across the Common- core. “I really loved serving the wealth, so it just seemed the right PHOTOS COURTESY OF ROBERT TORRES people of Winthrop, Revere, Cam- time for me to take my advocacy The Handel and Haydn Society preforming at the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade. See Page 5 for more photos. bridge, and Boston for the last 5 skills and move on to advocate ½ years in the State Senate. But for patients in Massachusetts and HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY PREMIERE NEW TEXT I’m excited to join MassBio and across the country” said Boncore. OF BEETHOVEN’S NINTH AT THE HATCH SHELL work in a thriving industry that’s Boncore won a special election had tremendous growth over the for the Senate seat in May, 2016. The Handel and Haydn Soci- DCR Hatch Memorial Shell on chusetts native Tracy K. Smith’s last decade. I really look forward He put together an impressive ety premiered a new text for the Charles River Esplanade. new version of “Ode to Joy.” to taking this organization to the record of accomplishments in Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9” Led by conductor Marin Smith was on hand for the pre- next level. the State while rising through the to a crowd of over 10,000 peo- Alsop, H+H performed former “As many people are aware, ranks to a leadership position as ple on Friday, Aug. 27, at the U.S. Poet Laureate and Massa- miere. I’ve had the experience with my the Senate Chair of the Joint Com- twin boys, who were born severely mittee on transportation. prematurely, to see firsthand the “I’ve had an incredible opportu- Pinckney Street resident Sally Reyering wins first impact that the life science industry nity to get a lot accomplished with can have on patients and patients’ prize for Shade Garden in Mayor’s Garden Contest (BONCORE Pg. 3) By Dan Murphy Pinckney Street took first place last els, she said, with the lower level week in the Shade Garden catego- comprising a brick pathway with Longtime Church of Advent music The only award winner from ry in the 25th annual Mayor’s Gar- two smaller, linear gardens on Beacon Hill, as well as a first- den Contest. either side - one abutting the foun- director, organist, Edith Ho, dies at 88 time contestant, Sally Reyering of Reyering’s garden has two lev- dation of the house and the other near a fence that surrounds her By Dan Murphy small backyard – while the upper Edith Ho, who served as the level consists of a deck with long Church of the Advent’s music planter boxes. director and organist for three Reyering said she makes her decades, died July 30 in hospice own compost from clippings from care in Worcester following a long leaves that have fallen down in her illness. She was 88. garden to create a “natural mulch” Born on Aug. 16, 1932, in she uses in her garden. Guangzhou, China, Ms. Ho was Also, Reyering, who is a mem- one of three children who grew ber of the Beacon Hill Garden up in Hong Kong and Singapore, Club, partakes in what she calls according to The Boston Globe, “guerrilla gardening” at an abut- and she emigrated to the U.S. as ting property by placing planters a teenager, giving piano recitals to around the premises. She also finance her trip. helped transform a holed-out tree Ms. Ho earned a bachelor’s stump into a “natural planter,” degree in piano from Columbia and when pots have been aban- Union College in Takoma Park, PHOTO COURTESY OF CHURCH OF THE PHOTO COURTESY OF CITY OF BOSTON doned on the property, Reyering Md., before going on to receive ADVENT Acting Mayor Kim Janey recognizing Sally Reyering, first-place win- usually plants flowers in them as another bachelor’s in organ, as Edith Ho, the Church of the ner in the Shade Garden category in the 25th annual Mayor’s Garden well. Advent’s longtime former music Contest, with Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, the city’s Chief of director and organist. Environment, Energy, and Open Space, on the right. (GARDEN Pg. 6) (HO Pg. 3) PAGE 2 THE BEACON HILL TIMES SEPTEMBER 2, 2021 editorial ENJOY A SAFE LABOR DAY GUEST OP-ED WEEKEND There’s a temptation for people to splurge at the end of things. We all are familiar with the idea, “If this is the last, let’s make it a blast!” Afghanistan will never go away We don’t have anything against that sentiment, but all too often that sort of mindset leads to risky behavior and tragic outcomes. Dr. Glenn Mollette cost Americans $2 trillion. Finan- will be given minimal cost of living If there is nothing else we have learned after being in the newspaper cially it will never be over for most increases. American young people business for more than 50 years, it is this: A person can do everything Afghanistan is an unending living Americans. will be buried by college debt. right and live by the book for their entire life, but all it takes is one mis- nightmare that will never go away. There are reports that the Unit- Further, reports indicate that we take of judgment that can change everything, both for themselves and We got Osama Bin Laden. We ed States has committed to pay $2 have handed over to the Taliban others. wanted to avenge the heinous trillion more in health care, dis- approximately 22,000 Humvees, Persons who otherwise might not have a drinking problem can indulge deaths of September 11, 2001. We ability, burial and other costs for 8000 large trucks, 42,000 pick- just a bit too much at an event such as an end-of-summer celebration and were all mad and we are still angry roughly 4 million Afghanistan and up trucks, 358,000 assault rifles, -- presto, in the snap of a finger -- they have killed or maimed themselves about what evil people did on that Iraq Veterans. America has a tough 64,000 machine guns and 126,000 or others in a driving, boating, or other accident. day. We will never forget. We could job caring for our own Veterans. pistols, plus 155 mine-proof vehi- And then there are the problem drinkers among us who look for any have covertly taken out Bin Laden For years we did a very poor job of cles. We have equipped them with excuse to “celebrate,” which means getting hammered at a Labor Day and many more terrorists without providing good care for Veterans billions of dollars of high-priced weekend gathering, instantly making them a threat to the safety of them- all that our political leaders have with physical and mental needs. items that we will pay on forever. selves and others. done over the last 20 years. The estimated interest costs of They will use American equipment However, the usual excessive partying is not the only danger we face Thousands of parents lost their these wars by 2050 is $6.5 trillion. to dominate a defenseless nation of children in Afghanistan. Thou- this Labor Day weekend. The Delta variant of COVID-19 is lurking There will never be an end to people that will now be left behind sands of spouses lost husbands and everywhere and no one -- not even the vaccinated -- are safe from infec- our 20-year nightmare war in to try to survive a revitalized Tal- wives. Children lost their parents. tion. Afghanistan. Families will suffer iban. These precious Americans will suf- every day from the grief of the loss We may be finally leaving As we are writing this, the forecast calls for a sunny Labor Day week- fer the rest of their lives over the of loved ones who sacrificed their Afghanistan, but Afghanistan, for end with pleasant temperatures in the 70s (a welcome respite after our loss of their loved ones. lives. Every year we all will pay our generation, will never go away. washouts of the Memorial Day and July 4 holiday weekends), which The long Afghanistan war on the trillions of dollars in debt Glenn Mollette is the publish- means that we will be able to engage in our Labor Day activities out- broke the hearts of Americans as created by the war. For the rest er of Newburgh Press, Liberty doors where we can socialize safely -- though from a distance. 6,294 Military and American con- of most American’s lives, we will Torch and various other publish- But if our festivities are not outside, all of us need to be wary of gath- tractors have been killed. Sixty-six pay on the trillions of dollars of ing imprints; a national columnist ering indoors unless everybody is masked.