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By Bill Forry years by the Molloy Editor Family trust based in An emerging plan Pembroke, which has to build a multi-story leased the buildings condominium complex on the parcels to an along a key stretch of organization that rents Washington Street in the living units out to Lower Mills is getting men recovering from re-vamped this week substance abuse. after civic and merchant Michael O’Malley, a leaders pushed back veteran building con- Day One against an initial pro- tractor, has partnered posal that they said was with an accountant, too tall and dense for the John Sambucci, to form of gas line neighborhood’s expand- City Point Development, ing business district. which plans to purchase A two-man devel- the parcels for an un- update in opment team has an disclosed price. Cumu- agreement to purchase latively, the combined Adams Village five parcels— includ- parcels have an assessed ing the former Molloy value of more than $1.4 funeral parlor and a million, according to the large, 22,000-square- City of Boston. However, foot lot that is zoned for the anticipated sale price is expected to be over Adams Corner Dig Underway- A National Grid gas line replacement project has begun along Adams commercial use behind Street near Adams Village. Construction crews from Feeney Brothers Excavation will be replacing old the now-defunct funeral $3 million, according to natural gas pipes with new infrastructure over the next four months. The work is presently concentrated home. The properties sources familiar with near Westmoreland Street and will work its way south along Adams Street towards Gallivan Boulevard, – which include three the deal. triggering lane restrictions. Photo by Ed Forry other structures – have O’Malley, a builder been controlled in recent (Continued on page 15) Adams Village merchants Polish Triangle weighs honor Charbonnier, Cifrino flurry of housing plans By Bill Forry of Supreme Realty Trust, a patrolman in Dorches- By Lauren Dezenski over the next 25 years, Editor were scheduled to re- ter’s Area C-11 for much Reporter Staff with over 50 percent of A Boston Police detec- ceive their honors at the of his career prior to his Dorchester’s Polish new housing production tive with deep roots association’s June meet- promotion to detective in Triangle is ground sited in urban communi- in Dorchester and a ing, held on Wednesday 2011, is valued as much zero for the housing ties such as Dorchester. businessman who is evening at the Adams for his philanthropy as development spilling “It’s the only place making a big investment Street Library. Mary he is for his service as into Boston’s largest to build,” said Douglas in the neighborhood’s Kelly, the president of a cop. In recent years, Det. Steve Charbonnier neighborhood. Case in George, a developer who future are being recog- the association, said Charbonnier, 44, has trooper who was killed in point: At last week’s lives in the Triangle nized this week by the that the honorees are been the key administra- the line of duty on Route meeting of the John neighborhood and has Adams Village Business seen as leaders in Adams tor of the memorial fund 3 in Kingston in 1994. W. McCormack Civic bought and built a Association. Detective Village, each in his own named for his brother, The late trooper’s Association, which over- number of properties, Steve Charbonnier and way. Mark S. Charbonnier, family, friends, and sees Dot’s northernmost including nine units at Tom Cifrino, president Charbonnier, who was a Massachusetts state (Continued on page 7) village commonly called 246 Boston St. the Polish Triangle, George went to last members entertained Wednesday’s meeting to ‘Fiddlehead’ ups the pace at the Strand four development pro- speak to the community posals accounting for (Continued on page 13) By Chris Harding year as the Fiddlehead of Boston’s continued ships, and offering free a total of 45 housing Special to the Reporter Theatre Company (FTC) partnership with FTC. educational outreach to units, the bulk of which “Ease on Down the presents three Broadway “Fiddlehead Theatre neighborhood youth, the is within a radius of a Road” … “I Don’t Know blockbusters as part Company is a valued company’s investment in block and a half. How to Love Him” … of its upcoming second partner and leader in the the community will have There’s no denying “Written in the Stars” season as the Resident revitalization work being long term and lasting the demand for housing. are just a few of the hit Theatre Company at the done in Uphams Corner,” effects.” This winter, the Metro- musical songs that will city-owned former movie said Walsh. “By staging Named after the fan- politan Area Planning be echoing through the palace. high-profile Broadway- tastical fiddlehead fern Council released a report mirrored halls of the Mayor Martin J. quality theater, forging found in fairy tales and saying that greater Bos- All contents copyright Strand over the next Wash affirmed the city neighborhood partner- (Continued on page 8) ton needs an additional © 2014 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. 305,000 housing units SAINT JOSEPH’S REHABILITATION AND NURSING CENTER

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Lounge ruled Thursday (26th) – The Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation invites free of blame all to their 33rd annual meeting and celebration at The Boston Licensing Codman Common Park, 6 p.m. Board has ruled that Macumba Latina lounge Friday (27th) – Senator was not responsible for Elizabeth Warren is the the aftermath of a fight keynote speaker at Friday’s that brought cops from noontime annual meeting for three Boston precincts the Codman Square Health and state police troopers Center. The health center to River Street in Mat- will convene the gathering tapan Square on April 28. in the Great Hall on Norfolk Police had cited the Street. The event is free— but club for “a large fight, reservations are required. patron on patron,” but RSVP with Lisa Hamblin, the board ruled “no [email protected] or violation.” The club said Senator Elizabeth Warren call 617-822-8329. much of the confusion that night was caused A Mass Audubon teacher naturalist will introduce by police showing up en children to the wonders of the natural world through masse at closing time movement, games, stories, and art at the Lower Mills and blocking narrow Library. This opportunity is open to age groups 3 River Street with their and up. Large groups must register. 27 Richmond cruisers just as patrons St. 617-298-7841. were leaving. Although club owners Saturday (28th) – Annual Pope’s Hill Lawn admitted one man was Party takes place on McKone Street from 12-6 p.m. punched in the face, in Vehicles must be moved from street by 11 a.m. Free, what they said was a includes food, music and games for kids. Email: Yooree Losordo, 34, far, Losordo says, “The small confrontation, they [email protected] right, of Adams Village response has been really said they had broken launched On the Dot overwhelming.” up the parties quickly. Boston Natural Areas Network offers a free Books (OTD) at Dorches- Losordo has chosen to Police acknowledged the workshop on How to Grow and Preserve Herbs ter’s Ashmont/ Peabody launch On The Dot Books only arrest was of a man from 10 a.m.- noon at its City Natives 30 Edgewater Farmers market on at the Ashmont/ Peabody who refused an officer’s Drive, Mattapan. Reservations required. Contact Friday, June 20. farmers market because order to turn right out 617-542-7696 or [email protected]. “The first day of the she is familiar with the of a parking lot across market went well. There clientele; having visited the street and instead Sunday (29th) – Mayor Martin Walsh and the City is so much harder work the market throughout started to make a left. of Boston host the Neighborhood Youth Challenge – than I expected but it was her years in Dorchester. ••• an international youth boxing competition – pitting worth it,” said Losordo. “I like that it’s right hopes to set up shop at Boston Police arrested a team of fighters from Connemara, Ireland against Losordo has been liv- at Ashmont Station,” more farmers markets two men on illegal gun a team of fighters from Boston on City Hall Plaza. ing in Dorchester with said Losordo. From the throughout the city, charges last week after Sponsored by Boston Police Athletic League (PAL), her husband and two combination of high establishing her name an investigation in the TNT Boxing, Peter Welsh’s Gym, Murphy’s Boxing children since November school students being let and business with city vicinity of Talbot Avenue and the Claddagh Fund. The first fight on City Hall 2010 and noticed a void in out and commuters re- residents. Losordo plans and Brent Street near Plaza is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. the local retail districts. turning home on Friday to be ready to open up the Peabody Square. Police In March she noticed evenings, the foot traffic On the Dot Books store recovered three illegal Monday (30th) – Mattapan Branch Library hosts a flyer for a Business surely will be great for sometime in the fall of guns from inside a car summer reading program kick-off at 2 p.m. with a Innovation Challenge: business. OTD will be 2015. Her ideal location parked in the driveway visit from Dr. Can-Do Science, 1350 Blue Hill Ave., Entrepreneur Training carrying food- related would be in the Ashmont of a Talbot Avenue home. Mattapan. and Contest offered by titles when in business Hill/Adams Village sec- Arrested were William the Center for Women at the farmers market. A tion of Dorchester, which M. Scott, 27, and Montrez Wednesday (2nd) – National Park Service ranger & Enterprise. She collection of 4 postcards, she is most familiar with. Al. Holman, 25, both of from Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic brainstormed ideas and Friendly Mistakes by “So far I am pleased Dorchester. Site conducts a two-hour guided walk of Franklin thought a bookstore Abbie Wanamaker are with the exposure the ••• Park, 6 p.m. Meets at the Resting Place picnic would be great, so she also available for sale. market has gotten us.” The BPD’s Police Acad- tables across from the Lemuel Shattauck Hospital, enrolled in the training In the future Losordo You may visit On The emy is accepting applica- a short distance inside Franklin Park’s Forest program. will be collaborating with Dot Books at onthedot- tions for its five-week Hills Entrance. Rain or shine. Free. No advance Last week, Losordo local artists, writers and books.com or follow them Citizens Police Academy, reservations are necessary. For more information took to social media writers of colors to bring on twitter @onthedot- which will be held in call 617-566-1689 ext. 216. and local organizations the community diverse books. mid-July. Community to get the word out. So titles. This summer she – Jeanette Origel members interested in Coming up: Thursday, July 10— The first in a learning more about how series of Thursday block parties at city community the Police Department centers begins with the Holland Community Center, goes about the business 85 Olney St. Dorchester, 5-7 p.m. The parties can of protecting, serving, include inflatable obstacle course, DJ, ice cream, and providing services an interactive arts activity, an animal petting zoo, to the citizens of Boston swimming, a cookout and more. Other stops locally are strongly encour- will include the Leahy-Holloran Community Center aged to apply. Classes on July 24 and Mildred Avenue Community Center will be held one day a on July 31. For more information contact Sandy week for five weeks. 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Photo courtesy Carla Murphy Tankle firearm at that address. June 26, 2014 The Reporter Page 3 Political Roundup Hard-to-reach Wyatt talks about his challenge to Sen. Chang-Diaz

By Lauren Dezenski According to campaign gives him a leg up in an interview with the Reporter Staff literature from the may- this year’s senate race. Reporter. The other The most elusive oral race, Wyatt grew “As a former city-wide candidate, Robert E. candidate in last year’s up in Roxbury and is a candidate last year, my Powers, Jr., is challeng- mayoral race is back graduate of Boston City name is known through ing incumbent state Sen. on the ballot, this time College with a master’s the city.” However, tech- Linda Dorcena Forry vying for state Sen. degree in education nical issues from the in the 1st Suffolk Senate Sonia Chang-Diaz’s from Boston State (now mayoral race still plague district. Dorcena Forry seat in the 2d Suffolk UMass Boston). He his campaign. Wyatt’s is married to Reporter David James Wyatt Photo by Chris Lovett district. David James worked as a teacher in website still refers to editor and publisher Wyatt collected enough the Boston public schools him a “serious candidate Bill Forry. Powers, an of Coakley’s visit to statewide media blitz on signatures in the spring before being fired in the for mayor.” He said he independent candidate Dorchester last week, Monday with a rollout of to make the Nov. 4 ‘90s in a case that was is working on the site, without a website, did where she kicked off a his first television com- ballot, but since then, he upheld on an appeal in adding, “This explains not answer repeated re- two-week tour promoting mercial of the campaign, has been tough to track court. why I’m reluctant to talk quests for comment. The an economy that gives set to air locally on Ch. 5, down, with no publicized Wyatt was quick to to anyone. There were state Office of Campaign everyone a “fair shot” at Boston’s ABC affiliate, campaign appearances, note that should a Re- technical difficulties last and Political Finance economic success. and on Ch. 3 in Spring- no office, no events, no publican be elected into year. We didn’t have a website lists Powers’s ••• field’s, a CBS affiliate. media presence save for the state’s corner office, workable website.” home address – on Pierce The United Indepen- Falchuk, who is fluent a website with a short, it would be important Wyatt declined to go Avenue – but offers dence Party’s Evan in Spanish, is also airing outdated message on a to have a Republican into detail when asked no information about Falchuk hit a huge a Spanish language ad single page. in Boston’s solidly blue how, specifically, he campaign filings, only milestone in his up- over Merrimack Valley When reached by voting bloc. Outspoken planned to reach out to that he is on the ballot. hill battle to become airwaves. phone last week, the about his firm pro-life voters in this race, with ••• Massachusetts’s next “My launch commercial Roxbury Republican stance, he turned to the website difficulties, an In local news from governor: He qualified is frank and straightfor- conceded that he faces issue he has stressed in empty campaign bank further up the ballot, for the ballot. Falchuk ward,” Falchuk said. “It a difficult battle against each of his campaigns: account as of May 15, and Attorney General and and lieutenant governor speaks to voters like the Chang-Diaz, who, he abortion. “The major con- no scheduled upcoming gubernatorial candidate candidate Angus Jen- adults they are, as it said, has a strong record cern for me, primarily, campaign events. Martha Coakley will nings secured 12,000 should, and deliberately on education issues. “I, is the concern about the Wyatt is one of three be on site later this week signatures, 2,000 more steers clear of the generic too, am interested in unborn children. Always non-Democratic can- as she opens a campaign than needed, six weeks ‘watch-me-just-shake- education issues. It’s the in my political career I didates running for office on Warren Street in before the deadline for hands’ feel so many best way to lower the tax have championed the office in Dorchester’s Grove Hall. The location independent candidates. campaign ads consist burden and lower crime,” pro-life cause. I am 100 legislative races this will “better serve resi- In an email to the media, of. As a voter, I’m not he said. “Trying to win percent pro-life. But fall. Another Republican, dents in North Dorches- Falchuk’s campaign not- interested in seeing how against her, I can offer beyond that, I’m going to Claudette N. Joseph, ter, Roxbury, Mattapan, ed that the team used no a candidate looks stand- my expertise and input take time to talk to the is running for the 5th and the surrounding paid signature-gathering ing by a picket fence. I’m in the area of education, people of the 2nd Suffolk Suffolk seat recently won neighborhoods,” accord- firms “as candidates interested in hearing so the Senate wouldn’t district.” by Rep. Evandro Car- ing to a campaign email often do.” what he or she actually see any deficit in our Wyatt said his run valho. Joseph declined blast. The announce- To celebrate, Falchuk stands for.” skills,” he added. for mayor last year numerous requests for ment comes on the heels launched a $360,000

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I discovered school that had just awful ship, and qualified for she likes to say, she I had a really good arm pitching so I thought tournament play. was “born onto a team.” when I was a kid and I to myself, ‘Let me get “I remember going Which makes it appropri- loved being on a team.” up there and try it.’ I to [Vice Chancellor for ate that next week she George, who will turn thought, ‘Whatever you Sthletics] Charlie Titus’s will be inducted into 53 on Friday, attended gotta do to help the team office with a few team UMass Boston’s Athlet- Boston Latin Academy win, that’s what you’re members where we just ics Department Hall of in the midst of the city’s gonna do.’ And that is laughed about how we Fame in recognition of 1974 busing crisis. “I how I got into pitching. could go the whole way. her four years of effort played volleyball bas- We were getting slaugh- I really enjoyed that on the women’s volleyball ketball, bowling, softball, tered, somebody had to euphoric feeling of being and softball teams. and badminton,” she learn. I thought,‘If I have on a winning team and Now the director of said. “Being active on a skill, if I can learn to wondering how far we human resources at JOH, all those teams helped do it, and it is going to could go.” a regional food broker, me to stay focused and Laura George was inducted into the UMass Boston help the greater team George graduated out of trouble. When I Athletic Department’s Hall of Fame on Monday. She then I’ll do it.’” At UMass with a degree in Human and the mother of four graduated from the university in 1983. daughters, George read- moved on to college I Boston, George pitched Resources in 1983. Since ily talks about her child- thought playing sports and wanted to continue season (2.13) and career some 30 complete games then she has applied hood days and the games would continue to keep to play team sports.” (2.36) ERA in UMass and notched 164 career what she has learned she played. “When I was me focused on the task George still holds the Boston softball history. “I strikeouts. She has “very from team competition a kid we went outside and at hand. I love athletics record for the lowest always had a good arm so fond memories” of her at work and passed I often played shortstop time playing at UMass. on her love of sport to or in the outfield. It Some of her favorite her daughters. “Sports didn’t matter if I was experiences centered have made me who I am Adams Village merchants playing baseball with around the volleyball today,” she said. honor Charbonnier, Cifrino (Continued from page 1) and he would have kept Cifrino said he was colleagues have raised working if they had let humbled by the award, hundreds of thousands of him. Seeing him come in but emphasized that dollars in the last two de- every day from work, my the work he’s honchoed cades in Mark’s memory, friends and I respected to improve the parking much of it through an police officers. I wanted lot’s layout and security annual golf tournament to be a policeman.” is something that has that Detective Charbon- Charbonnier often been driven by the com- nier now organizes. The starts his day in Adams munity’s advocacy. “We event – normally held Corner. did the work because it in the early summer – is “I’m down there every needed to get done,” said scheduled for September day. In the mornings we Cifrino, who highlighted this year to coincide with have our coffe in Adams the installation of a grid the 20th anniversary of Corner and people don’t of security cameras, Mark’s passing. have to call 911 to get me. an investment of some Funds raised through They give me a buzz or $85,000 by Supreme the tournaments – and stop me on the street. I do Realty Company. The by an annual road race, take pride in that, having cameras will be opera- Charbo’s Run, that ended grown up on Bowdoin tional as soon as next after ten years – continue Street. It was a great week. to assist Dorchester fami- place to live. It’s nice to “It’s really something lies in ways large and see new people coming that the Cedar Grove small. in and raising families, Civic Association asked “The work that Detec- especially in and around for. There are 32 cameras tive Charbonnier does Adams Corner and St. out there now and all the through his brother’s Ann’s. There’s a tremen- cabling is underground. foundation has helped a dous amount of young It’s one of the good things lot of people in this neigh- police and firefighters we can do for the neigh- borhood— and a lot of it raising their families borhood.” goes under the radar,” here. I just love it; it’s The parking lot, which said Captain Richard home for me.” was dearly in need of Sexton, who commands Tom Cifrino is a re- rehabilitation, has been the C-11 police district. luctant recipient of the fully reconstructed over Scholarships are in award who has nonethe- the last year. It is now place in Charbonnier’s less been the key figure in striped and has a second name at Wentworth rebuilding the parking lot coat of asphalt. College, New England behind his family-owned “It’s completely fin- School of Law, Boston building at 540 Gallivan ished,” said Cifrino. College High School, Boulevard. The building, Cifrino will next turn Catholic Memorial, which also houses the his attention to renovat- St. Brendan’s school, specialty apparel busi- ing the Supreme Liquor There’s an alternative and Pope John Paul ness College Hype and stores that are owned and II Catholic Academy- Cifrino’s own Supreme managed by his company. Neponset. The fund Liquors, is now being Plans for the store on route to surgery. has also made scores renovated by Boston Gallivan Boulevard — of smaller donations to Sports Club, which is set which will include an What drives us at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton? First, saving you to open in September. expansion to a second Dorchester families hit the drive. Our new Center for Specialty Care brings nine leading surgeons by unforeseen trouble— “Tom Cifrino is being level— were first shown such a cancer and serious recognized for recent to members of the Cedar in seven surgical specialties together in one place right in your community. accidents. upgrades made to the Grove Civic Association And that means less hassle than getting into Boston. In addition, our highly parking lot and for secur- at its meeting earlier this Detective Charbon- skilled and respected surgeons — many of whom are members of Harvard nier, meanwhile, spends ing the Boston Sports month. The reception was much of his professional Club as a new tenant for very positive. Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — will time focused on policing the old Rite Aid building,” Cifrino says that Ad- give you confidence in knowing our expertise is second to none. Dorchester’s streets, said Mary Kelly. “The ams Corner is ready for investigating the gamut renovations to the park- such a change in the The next time you need to see a surgeon, remember you have a choice. of crimes that occur here. ing lot and the building market. “Central Square Our way. Or the expressway. The Center for Specialty Care. Visit He hails from a family will result in the biggest is a very similar neigh- bidmilton.org/specialtycare of public servants. His face-lift the Village has borhood, with people who dad was a Boston police seen in over 40 years. work for a living, but officer and his brothers The Business Association make a decent wage and Al and Bobby also serve is looking forward to want to have the options on the Boston force. Steve welcoming club employ- to go out two nights a joined the department ees and members who week for dinner, or to in 1999. will be introduced to buy a very nice bottle “My father started the all of the products and of wine. I think Adams Spine (Neurosurgery and Orthopaedic) • Colon and Rectal • Thoracic • Podiatry services offered by local Corner is the same kind ball rolling. He was a Hand and Wrist • Orthopaedic • Weight Loss Surgery policeman for 35 years businesses.” of neighborhood.” Page 8 THE Reporter June 26, 2014 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 3 mega-hits on tap for Strand, Fields Corner 1520 Dorchester Avenue • 617-436-2155 Lower Mills courtesy of Fiddlehead troupe 27 Richmond Street • 617-298-7841 (Continued from page 1) Uphams Corner symbolic of imagination, 500 Columbia Road • 617-265-0139 FTC is no stranger to Grove Hall Dorchester. Its first 41 Geneva Avenue • 617-427-3337 two productions at the Strand – “Ragtime” Mattapan Branch (2012) and “A Little 1350 Blue Hill Avenue, Mattapan • 617-298-9218 Princess” (2013) – were critical and public rela- All branches of the Boston Public Library tions successes, if not will be closed on Independence Day, July 4 quite what producers Adams Street Branch had hoped for at the box Tuesday, July 1, 2 p.m. – Story Times: Science office. Behind the Story. Tuesday, July 8, 2 p.m. – Story Originally, FTC had Times: Science Behind the Story. Wednesday, July announced Tim Rice and 9, 1 p.m. – Museum of Science – Rockets. Elton John’s “AIDA” for Codman Square Branch a spring 2014 run, which Friday, June 27, 10:30 a.m. – Preschool Story would have made it one Time; 11 a.m. – Preschool Films. of the first productions Fields Corner Branch to take advantage of Thursday, June 26, 4 p.m. – Scams and Frauds. the multi-million dollar Monday, June 30, 11 a.m. – Drop-in Computer technical infrastructure Help. Tuesday, July 1, 6:30 p.m. – Hatha Yoga. upgrade that had the Wednesday, July 2, 10:30 a.m. – Preschool Films Strand shuttered for and Fun. part of the winter. But Grove Hall Branch the multi-Tony Award- Selected Works: Susan Emmerson – through winning musical, which Monday, June 30, 2014. Struggle for Women’s updates the story from Equality through August 14, 2014. Verdi’s opera, has been Thursday, June 26, 2 p.m. – Franklin Park bumped to October 17-26 Gene Dante, left, as Radames and Ta’Nika Gibson as Aida will star in Fiddle- Zoo: Animal Senses. Friday, June 27, 10:30 of this year. Said FTC’s head Theatre Company’s production of Elton John & Tim Rice’s AIDA at the a.m. – Preschool Stories and Crafts; 2 p.m. – Boston Producing Director Meg Strand Theatre, coming in October. Nature Center; 3 p.m. – Gardening at the Library. Fofonoff to the Reporter: Photo Courtesy Fiddlehead Theatre Company/mattmckeephoto.com Monday, June 30, Imagine Your Future: Teen “We felt the fall would Summer Reading Begins!; 1 p.m. – Muggle Monday; just be much better as the pharaoh. Dot fire- “Jesus Christ Superstar” House Rock Live, Jr.” and 4 p.m. – Four Week Lego Engineering Workshop. timing for the show and fighter Dwayne Devonish (April 24-May 3, 2015). “Fame Jr.” with young Tuesday, July 1, 3 p.m. – Imagine Your Career. it was the perfect opener Day will again form Featuring professional Dot talent will continue Wednesday, July 2, 1 p.m. – T-shirt Design. for our first full season at part of the hard-working casts and live orchestras, forging new partner- Thursday, July 3, 4 p.m. – Mad Scientist Lab. the Strand.” ensemble. Fiddlehead’s upcom- ships with neighborhood Lower Mills Branch Patrons of FTC’s “AIDA,” a collaboration ing three-show season groups, including the Friday, June 27, 10:30 a.m. – Boston Nature “Princess” will recognize with Aids Action Com- will also include special Boys & Girls’ Clubs of Center; 12 p.m. – Social Media Basics; 1 p.m. – Classic familiar faces in the mittee, will be followed visits by Broadway Dorchester. Leading Ladies Film Series. Tuesday, July 1, 10:30 October show. Equity by two other Tony Award talent and talk-backs ••• a.m. – Fizz, Boom, Story time Presents Weather! actor Jared Troilo, who winners: “The Wiz” (Feb- by industry legends. Single adult tickets Wednesday, July 2, 10:30 a.m. – Nicola’s Puppets played Captain Crewe ruary 13-22, 2015) and Fiddlehead,which has al- for each 2014-2015 show Presents Just So Stories; 4 p.m. – Computer Basics. last season, will be back Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ready presented “School are $25-$45. Group Thursday, July 3, 6:30 p.m. – Romance & Mystery rate tickets are avail- Book Club. Mattapan Branch able. Special rates for Dorchester residents. Thursday, June 26, 3 p.m. – Drop-In Craft. Boston Water and Sewer Commission Free tickets for Boston Friday, June 27, 10:30 a.m. – Toddler Films; Public School Students 2:30 p.m. – Friday Films. Saturday, June 28, 6 (BWSC) (limited availability). p.m. – Summer Film – Frozen. Monday, June 980 Harrison Avenue To purchase tickets for 30, 10:30 a.m. –Preschool Story and Craft Time; 2 Boston, MA 02119 Fiddlehead’s 2014-2015 p.m. – Summer Reading Kick-Off Celebration; 3:30 season, or for more infor- p.m. – Teen Craft. Thursday, July 3, 3 p.m. – Mad WATER MAIN FLUSHING NOTICE mation about community Scientist Lab. partnerships and edu- Uphams Corner Branch Boston Water and Sewer Commission will begin Water Main cational programming, Thursday, June 26, 4 p.m. – Sizzling Summer Flushing in the Roslindale and Mattapan area starting: visit fiddleheadtheatre. Kick-Off Party. Friday, June 27, 2 p.m. – Fossil Dinosaurs. Saturday, June 28, 11 a.m. – Lego com, call 617-229-6494, or visit the Strand box Builders. Tuesday, July 1, 10:30 a.m. – Preschool June 24, 2014 through July 30, 2014 office. Story Time.

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On July and the support of loved 15th, 2013, SPC Tommy ones, he has since made Kidman took his own life. it out the other side. “I am running to Anthony LaMonica and LaMont Jordan. Meling, 38, says he is honor and memorialize one of the lucky ones. Tommy. I don’t want to Murphy School 8th “I support the Home say goodbye to any more Base Program in their of my friends. I want to grader to represent mission to heal PTSD raise awareness and let and other invisible people know that it’s wounds of war. I believe okay if you are having Dorchester on Team USA in treatment and I’m issues. You’re not crazy, Thirteen-year-old An- one of two players from an advocate for getting there is help. Treatment thony LaMonica, of St. the City of Boston— to help. I know what living is out there and it’s okay Major Craig Meling will run in memory of his friend Brendan Rd., has accom- represent the state in a is supposed to feel like, to get it.” SPC Tommy Kidman in The Run to Home Base race on July 19. plished a lot throughout national football tourna- and I want that for all “My son and his broth- his middle school career, ment. Team Mass went Veterans. That’s part of ers and sisters in arms Meling gave himself a my son. We are honored setting a great example on to semi- finals in Ohio why I signed up for the gave so much. They fundraising goal of $750. to be part of this, and for his 6-year-old brother where the defending Run to Home Base,” he stepped up when duty He has so far raised over I really appreciate this Dante and 5-year-old champions, Maryland, explains. called. Now they need $2,000 and wants to keep whole program,” says sister Marianna. defeated them. That’s part of the us— and it’s time they going strong. Olson. LaMonica, who began Later this month, reason, but it’s not the get the support they “I want to raise as If you would like to playing football at the LaMonica will be rep- only reason. His other need,” says Kidman’s much money as possible donate to Meling or age of 8, will be spending resenting Dorchester motivator is his friend, mother, Jana Olson. so I can feel like I did any of the other men part of his summer as a once again. On June SPC Tommy Kidman, “Programs like this pro- right by Tommy.” and women participat- member of Team USA 30 he will be one of 130 a combat medic who vide resources to help Kidman’s family is ing in the 2014 Run to in Ohio. kids under the age of served in Afghanistan. not just servicemembers, flying in from Utah to Home Base presented “He always did well but 15 to represent Team “Tommy was smart, but their families, too. watch Meling cross home by New Balance, visit he started to excel about USA in Canton, Ohio. he was funny, and he And if other familes can plate. The run— on July RuntoHomeBase.org. three or four years ago,” Not only is LaMonica loved his family. He be spared what we went 19th— is just days after All proceeds go towards said his father, Tony an outstanding athlete, had two little girls and through, if their sons and the one year anniversary helping the Home Base LaMonica. he is also an honor roll loved them more than daughters can survive of his passing. Program heal the invis- He describes his son as student at the Murphy anything in the world. and function again, then “I’m grateful to Craig ible wounds of war. a “very fierce competitor, School. Off of the field He also was the type of I support it.” for running in memory of – Kristen Chadwick but also a great team- LaMonica is said to be mate. If anyone needs a really good, polite and help he will be the first respectful kid with great to help.” character, Mattapan non-profit seeks to aid Last summer LaMon- “I’ve never heard ica attended Football anyone say anything prisoners re-entering community University, an invite- bad about him,” said his A Mattapan-based Robert Lewis— helps prepared to positively only regional football father Tony. non-profit received former prisoners “to impact the returning camp with 280 New In the fall he will a $5,000 grant from achieve full economic prisoner and in help England athletes. There, be attending Bucking- the Massachusetts and political rights as reduce recidivism,” he was coached by for- ham Browne & Nichols Convention Center returning citizens” stated Lewis in a mer NFL running back (BB&N) in Cambridge, Authority (MCCA) with help from the press release. LaMont Jordan, who where he has already last month to assist Black Ministerial The MCCA grant then selected LaMonica begun interacting with its efforts towards Alliance. will be used for net- to be one of 35 athletes his future teammates, h e l p i n g f o r m e r “Our founding working and taking to participate in the na- taking part in a 7-on- prisoners re-enter principle of Pathway referrals for high risk tional youth showcase. 7 tournament with their neighborhoods. to Redemption is that youth and families, This winter, he was one BB&N’s varsity football Pathway to Redemp- the entire community according to Lewis. of 35 eighth graders in team. tion, Inc. – run by must be engaged and Massachusetts— and - Jeanette Origel Robert Lewis Bubbles’s Birthdays and Special Occasions By Barbara McDonough Tevnan, Mary Hurley, Chloe Carver, Benjamin The grocery bar code was introduced on June Bostrem, Bertha Glavin, Matthew Hunt (8 years 26, 1974, 40 years ago. The Lonsdale Street plane old), Father Peter Nolan (recently retired), Cheryl crash took place on June 26, 1987, 27 years ago. The Williams, Mike Hastings Jr., Judge Sydney Hanlon, St. Lawrence Seaway was dedicated by President and Ellen Concannon. Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth II on June 16, Also observing their birthdays are Theresa Gal- 1959. Celebrate the 165th birthday of the birthday vin, Mike Tofuney, Sister Bridget Haase, Richard song, “Happy Birthday to You,” on Friday, June 27. Mitchell, Christopher Cardinal, Mariluz Burgos, On that day in 1859, Mildred Hill composed the Mary Joyce, Norah Forry, Chris (Fortey) Joyce, melody and her sister Patty Smith Hill wrote the Kathy Coleman, Megan Brugman, Mary Ellen lyrics. Helen Keller was born in Alabama on June Bankowski, Jillian Mac Donald, Siobhan Mullen, 27, 1880. She was left deaf and blind at 18 months and Kevin McDonough. Special greetings are sent to by a disease. The first flight to Hawaii took place Cardinal Sean O’Malley, who will be 70 this week; on June 29, 1927. greetings are also sent to John Anderson, who will Margaret Mitchell published her epic novel, be 60 this week and to Bill Puddister, who has a “Gone With the Wind,” on June 30, 1936. The On June 16, 1987, a small plane crashed onto a house special birthday this week. 26th Amendment, lowering the voting age to 18, on Lonsdale Street. Those celebrating their anniversaries are Jim was passed on June 30, 1971. July is known as Ice The Corvette was introduced on June 30, 1953. Mea and Irene Barry (their 49th), Joe and Jerry Daly Cream Month. The Battle of Gettysburg began on Culpa: because of a typo, I had the wrong date last (their 49th), Bill and Mary Parsons, John and Linda July 1, 1863, and lasted for two additional days. week for the start of the Korean War. The war Spinner, Mike and Ann Marie DuBois, Jon and Lady Diana Spencer was born on July 1, 1961. The began on June 25, 1950. Nancy Kenney, Tom and Donna Finnegan (their US Postal Service issued the first postage stamps Celebrities having birthdays are: Kathy Bates, 30th), Chip and Betty Bruynell, Mike and Angela on July 1, 1847, and introduced the five-digit zip 66 on June 28; Mel Brooks, 86 on June 28; Fred Mansfield, Jim and Joan Pierce (their 35th), Tom code on July 1, 1963. The Philadelphia Zoological Grandy, 66 on June 29; Leslie Caron, 83 on July and Judy Burke, and Bill and Mary Bulger (their Society opened the first US zoo on July 1, 1874. 1; and Dan Aykroyd, 62 on July 1. 54th). Hugs and kisses are sent to the World’s “The Andy Williams Show” began on TV on July 2, Those celebrating their birthdays are Pat Greatest Husband, Vinnie McDonough, who has 1957; “The Lawrence Welk Show, on July 2, 1955. Tumilty, George Gilpin Jr., John Sweeney, Charlie put up with me for 54 years. Page 10 THE Reporter June 26, 2014 Editorial Attitudes in Dorchester were tied to Boston Haitians greet the desegregation crisis of the ’70s their new cardinal By Lew Finfer their kids. Special to the Reporter In 1974, I was for integration as I’d grown up and Forty years ago this month, US Judge W. Arthur admired the civil rights movement and had even just like a rock star Garrity ruled that the Boston School Committee participated in 1968 in organizing people to attend had “intentionally brought about and maintained the Poor People’s Campaign rally in Washington. racial segregation” in the city’s schools. He then This was Rev. Martin Luther King’s last campaign ordered an extensive remedy: the busing of students where he sought to broaden the civil rights cause to between and within most neighborhoods of Boston. take on economic justice issues for people of all races. Four decades later, the reverberations of this decision However, in listening to the white members of still resound profoundly in our race relations, and our community group and my neighbors, I grew to in our public schools. understand their anger, which was based on the The Garrity ruling was influenced by events in sense that they were victims of class discrimination. Dorchester. The School Department had received A federal judge from Wellesley was ordering them state funding to build the new Lee, Marshall, and to put their kids on buses to go to schools in other Holland schools with the implicit understanding that neighborhoods. The court order did not cover the when they opened they would be racially balanced. suburbs because of an earlier Supreme Court decision But when white kids who had been enrolled in the limiting remedies to within a single community. O’Hearn and Fifield schools were re-assigned to They felt lectured to by the Boston Globe, whose the newly built schools in adjoining, predominantly editor lived in Lincoln, and by politicians, including black neighborhoods, their parents organized against US Sen. Ted Kennedy, who didn’t live in Boston. the moves and the School Committee reversed the I was an organizer then with the Dorchester-based assignments. community improvement group called Dorchester This violation of the state’s racial imbalance law, Community Action Council that in late 1975 became with school district lines being drawn to prevent a founding chapter of the statewide community Cardinal Chibly Langlois with Marianne Mathurin integration, contributed to the court’s decision group Massachusetts Fair Share. For more than a Today’s “New Bostonians” – like the immigrant mandating desegregation. year, the Grover Cleveland School in Fields Corner communities that preceded them in settling this city The city’s African-American community, whose was the only neutral site where both white and – are experiencing their share of seminal moments, schools were over- crowded and lacking basic African-American members felt relatively safe. So a breakthrough or a milestone in their own collective educational quality, saw integrated schools as the every time we scheduled a meeting we had to balance Boston and American experience. One such moment way to better education for their children. White having it at the Grover Cleveland vs. having it in happened last week for our city’s Haitian-American parents felt that their children should be able to the neighborhood of Dorchester where the particular community, long seen as ascendant among the go to their neighborhood schools just as children issue we were meeting on was most in play. relatively new arrivals to our town, but, in truth, still in suburban schools did. When the federal judge I was proud that we had the largest integrated laboring daily for a firm foothold. weighed in with his controlling decision, the city’s community organization in Boston in those divisive Last Thursday, one of their Haitian cousins, who adult African Americans and white liberals called days. We worked on issues like abandoned houses, had visited Boston several times in the past in his it “desegregation” and the whites who lived in unfair home assessments (Dorchester homes had role as a simple country priest, returned to a hero’s Dorchester and other neighborhoods called it “bus- been assessed for city property taxes at higher rates welcome in his new role: that of cardinal of the Roman ing.” This difference in describing the court’s order than most other neighborhoods), crime prevention, Catholic Church, installed earlier this year by Pope put into stark relief the divisions already in place redlining by banks, and remedies for homeowners Francis. His elevation is a monumental achievement across the city. whose properties had not been inspected at the on many levels, not the least of which is that Chibly Terrible racial incidents occurred during the time of sale by the government when FHA-insured Langlois, a tall, youthful-looking 56 year old, is the months and years of the busing/desegregation mortgages were involved. first Haitian ever appointed to the College of Cardinals. era. Buses carrying black children were repeat- But we did not tackle the divisions over busing He is already a national figure of great import in edly stoned by white teenagers as they drove the and desegregation. At 24, I did not have enough Haiti, where the Catholic church remains a pivotal students through neighborhoods far from home. experience to help our members find ways to act on player in a country riven by class divisions, grave pov- And numerous fights broke out inside the schools. education issues. And with a federal judge making erty, and real or perceived exploitation from abroad. People were assaulted, in some cases apparently the decisions, we could not force him to attend a Given his youth and promise, Langlois is poised to due to racial rancor. Most infamously for Boston, meeting with us or organize pressure for any changes become a major regional voice for Latin America and Ted Landsmark, an African-American lawyer, was in his decisions the way we could if we were trying for the Caribbean disapora throughout the world. approaching City Hall one day in 1976 just as a to influence a politician. White Dorchester residents Boston – where Haitians have settled steadily since group of white South Boston High School students like Jane Margulis and Patricia Jones did help lead the 1960s – is a place where Langlois’opinions and were leaving a Boston City Council meeting with the Citywide Education Coalition, which worked to influence will be outsized. anti-busing city councillors. The students beat him keep peace in the schools and attempted to get parents Over a four-day visit that began last Thursday, the up and one of the assailants appeared to be trying to to work together in the schools across racial lines. cardinal electrified the Haitian-American communi- stab him with a staff holding an American flag. The The Boston school system certainly changed in the ties with a victory lap tour of private homes, TV and Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the event by 40 years after the Garrity decisions: In the early 1970s, radio studios, and, of course, parishes, culminating in the Boston Herald’s Stanley Forman went around the student racial ratio was roughly 60 percent white the celebration of a Mass on Sunday at the Mission the world in short order, further besmirching our and 40 percent black; today it is 13 percent white. Church on Mission Hill. More than 2,000 people city’s reputation. Whites fled the schools in opposition to the court packed the pews for the annual Mass that celebrates In Dorchester, white parents organized an anti- decision, over concerns about the quality of education the Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, an important busing group that often met at the First Parish in the city schools, and because of racial fears. day in the Haitian community. It always draws a large Church on Meetinghouse Hill. Rev. James Allen Because of the legacy of the court order, we still congregation, but Langlois’ rock-star turn made it a hosted the meetings, and residents like Olive Costello do not have neighborhood schools because parents spectacle unlike any seen in recent years with nearly led the group. I remember going to a meeting to see can apply to any school under the current parental everyone swarming around him for a photo. how they discussed the issue; people were fiercely choice system. It is a loss for our neighborhoods when On Sunday night, nearly 1,000 people, almost all determined to oppose the court’s mandate. This the schools are not the significant local community of them Haitian-born parishioners of Boston area group, and similar ones in other neighborhoods, were institutions that they were when kids got to know churches, packed McNeice Pavilion at BC High for relentless in organizing protests – at City Hall, the each other from attending the same school in their another landmark event. The Archdiocese of Boston’s State House, the US Capitol, and at Judge Garrity’s neighborhood for six or more years. It would be Office of Black Catholics organized a testimonial home in Wellesley. politically hard to return to those kinds of schools dinner with Cardinal Langlois as the keynote speaker. Meanwhile, at the headquarters of the social service when parents want, and have, the option to try to The $75-per-seat dinner raised funds to support the agency Freedom House in Dorchester’s Grove Hall, get their kids into whatever schools they think are Haitian Apostolate, which assists Haitian priests in parents gathered each night to discuss what had doing better. ministry both here and abroad. happened to their kids that day. They often met Race relations in Boston today are better than The crowd sat enraptured as Langlois addressed there with Mayor Kevin H. White and the police they were four decades ago. However, for some of us the audience for nearly 30 minutes. He has a quiet, commissioner and pressed them to better protect of a certain age, we see events of today through the but cheerful demeanor – one that seems to reflect the lens of history. That was the case for me when City finer qualities of the pontiff himself and he seems to Councillor Bill Linehan and state Rep. Nick Collins have embraced his sudden celebrity status with a initially tried to deny state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry simple grace. The Reporter the position of chairwoman of the St. Patrick’s Day On Friday, before the weekend’s whirlwind swirled “The News & Values Around the Neighborhood” Breakfast in South Boston. And more explicitly when to Obama-speed, he visited a Dorchester home City Councillors Steve Murphy, Linehan, and Sal that he had visited twice before on earlier, more A publication of Boston Neighborhood News Inc. 150 Mt. Vernon St., Suite 120, Dorchester, MA 02125 LaMattina objected to a resolution by Dorchester anonymous trips to the city. The home is that of my Councillors Ayana Pressley and Charles Yancey wife’s parents – Andrew and Annie Dorcena – who Worldwide at dotnews.com Mary Casey Forry, Publisher (1983-2004) recognizing the landmark 1954 Brown vs. Board are related to the cardinal through marriage. He of Education decision of the US Supreme Court on grew up in LaValle, a village far from the bustle of William P. Forry, Publisher/Editor school segregation. The opposing councillors felt Haiti’s overcrowded capital, and it was there that he Edward W. Forry, Associate Publisher Thomas F. Mulvoy, Jr., Associate Editor that it led in part to the desegregation/busing court befriended the Mathurin family, most of whom have Barbara Langis, Production Manager order in Boston in 1974. come to settle in Boston’s neighborhoods. Jack Conboy, Advertising Manager We need to know this history, but now we also have On this day, he reunited with them once again News Room Phone: 617-436-1222, ext. 17 to address the barriers to opportunity that race and and spent simple, special moments with the family’s Advertising: 617-436-2217 E-mail: [email protected] class bring to community issues and race relations. matriarch, 100-year-old Marianne Mathurin, who The Reporter is not liable for errors appearing in advertisements beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. We must work together across racial, class, neighbor- watched Chibly grow up as a close friend to her own The right is reserved by The Reporter to edit, reject, son, Claude, who passed away here in Boston in 2011. hood, and religious lines that threaten to divide us or cut any copy without notice. by hampering our chances to increase opportunities They prayed together in Kreyol for Claude and his Member: Dorchester Board of Trade, Mattapan Board of Trade mom— and for the many Haitians who came here to Next Issue: Thursday, July 3, 2014 for many more people. Boston, likely never dreaming that one of their own Next week’s Deadline: Monday, June 30, at 4 p.m. Lew Finfer is a Dorchester resident and Director would one day visit them wearing a cardinal’s red Published weekly on Thursday mornings of the Dorchester- based Massachusetts Communities vestments. – Bill Forry All contents © Copyright 2014 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. Action Network. June 26, 2014 The Reporter Page 11 Bowdoin Geneva’s Gorman has his focus: RSA By Lauren Dezenski of Mayor Walsh’s transi- Ahern recalled Gor- in academia also lends safe harbor over the last Reporter Staff tion team. man’s work with the itself to grant writing, a 10 months. Gene Gorman is focus- “I’m not a NIMBY Roger Clap Elementary huge aspect of the job. “It’s not sunshine ing on three letters: guy. I intend to address School when the Boston “There’s a huge potential and it’s not fun to talk RSA. the job,” Gorman said. Public Schools moved to for him for bringing in about ugliness in your The new executive “People deserve to live close its doors. Gorman, grant dollars to support past,” Gorman said. In director of Bowdoin where they have lived, whose son attended the work,” said Mark late 2012, the Bowdoin Geneva Main Streets where they are vested K-1 at the school at the Culliton, CEO of College Geneva Main Streets operates on acronyms, and feel at home. If time, and other parents Bound Dorchester. “But executive director was something the one-time you don’t feel safe at fought to re-open the he’s also not someone abruptly fired, and Reed professor says used to home, that needs to be Clap as an “innovation” who’s afraid of getting was left to pick up the drive his students nuts. addressed. We have a school. He played a part out there to work with pieces. “Katie Reed Gorman is anything crisis in that neighbor- in redeveloping the cur- business owners and has put us on firm but simply a former hood when it comes to riculum and persuaded residents.” footing. Now it’s just professor and his “RSA” crime,” he said. “We a former student of his Gorman acknowl- a matter of me coming acronym emphasizes have challenges with to help produce a video edged that his new in with my particular that. The letters stand economic development yearbook for the school. organization is at the strengths and building for Reporter, Sales- Gene Gorman and problems with his- “He’s someone that tail end of a transition, off of all she’s done,” said person, and Aide de torical preservation. easily engages in neigh- and he and others give Gorman. “My goal is to camps, all reminders haustion, and raising I have to meet these borhoods where they credit to Katie Reed, wake up refreshed and of the different roles he money. Obviously that’s challenges head on and need assistance,” Ahern the group’s interim confident and go to bed has to play as the head what the board was cultivate relationships said. executive director, for exhausted and a little of the Main Streets looking for,” said Gor- with people on every Gorman’s experience steering the group to scared.” organization. man. level.” They are all also jobs “When you run for Gorman’s first chal- that Gorman once held, office, there’s a tenacity lenge: Engage small which no doubt helped and hunger for that businesses, which when he applied for this engagement and that’s shouldn’t be tough for position. Most recently, right in line for what him, his supporters say. Gorman ran for the we’re looking for in the “We want Bowdoin state representative next couple of months,” Geneva to be a desti- seat vacated by Mayor said Yvonne Ruggles, a nation. Cesaria’s for Martin J. Walsh, a race Bowdoin Geneva Main dinner, Ashley’s for won by Rep. Dan Hunt Streets board member. breakfast, and I think he in a five-way primary Gorman was plucked can make that possible,” in March. from a pool of seven said Father Jack Ahern Despite the loss, the highly qualified can- of St. Peter’s parish who long days of knocking didates and stood out has known Gorman for on doors and soliciting because of his highly nearly a decade and donations required in diverse background, counts him and his wife campaigning helped Ruggles said. That back- and two children among to highlight Gorman’s ground includes jobs as his parishioners. “He’s strengths to the board a newspaper reporter, someone who is bright, charged with finding a professor of literature, energetic, and a con- new executive director. producer/director of sensus builder, which “Staying motivated, his own production in Bowdoin Geneva is fighting through ex- company, and member important.” Four generations of florists, proud to serve Dorchester and Adams Corner

Four Generations of Florists 742 Adams Street Dorchester, MA 02122 617-265-8801 800-847-7888 Page 12 THE Reporter June 26, 2014 Reporter’s Neighborhood Notables civic associations • clubs • arts & entertainment • churches • upcoming events

Police District C-11 News Non-emergency line for seniors: 617-343-5649. The Party Line phone number, where you can report loud parties, is 617-343-5500, 24 hours/7 days per week. Police District B-3 News For info, call B-3’s Community Service Office at 617-343-4717. Ashmont-Adams Assoc. Meeting on the first Thursday of each month at the Plasterers’ Hall, 7 Fredericka St., at 7 p.m. Ashmont Hill Assoc. Meetings are generally held the last Thursday of the month. For info, see ashmonthill.org or call Message Line: 617-822-8178. Cedar Grove Civic Assoc. The monthly meeting, usually the second Tues. of the month, 7 p.m., in Fr. Lane Hall at St. Brendan’s Church. Info: [email protected] or 617-825-1402. Clam Point Civic Assoc. The meetings are usually held on the second Monday of the month (unless it’s a holiday) at WORK, Inc. Longtime Cedar Grove Baseball President Bill Clougher was honored at the league’s annual Collins Day on Saturday, 25 Beach St., at the corner of Freeport June 21. Clougher, who has served as a coach and a president of the league over the last two decades, remains a key St., across from the IBEW; on street advisor to current league president Charlie Maneikis and is a frequent presence at Dorchester youth baseball games. parking available; at 6:30 p.m.- Info: Bill is pictured above, center, with his wife Barbara who celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary on Saturday. clampoint.org. No summer meetings. The season-ending field day, which includes a cookout and all-star games, is named as a memorial to Bobby Collins Sr., a longtime Cedar Grove coach who died in 1980. Photo by Bill Forry Codman Square Neighborhood Council Meetings the first Mon. of each 6:30 p.m., for those living on and near Leedsville Watch The Codman Square Neighborhood month, 7 p.m., at the Little House, Cummins Highway. For info on dates, For info, call 617-288-0818. Council meets the first Wed. of each 275 East Cottage St. For info: colum- call 617-791-7359 or 617-202-1021. Lower Mills Civic Assoc. month, 7 to 8:30 p.m., in the Great biasavinhillcivic.org. Eastman-Elder Assoc. Lower Mills meeting, usually on a Hall of the Codman Sq. Health Center, Cummins Valley Assoc. The association meets the third Tues., 7 p.m., in St. Greg’s Auditorium. 6 Norfolk St. Info: call 617-265-4189. Cummins Valley Assoc., meeting at Thurs. of each month, 7 p.m., at the Please bring bottles/ cans and any Columbia-Savin Hill Civic the Mattahunt Community Center, Upham’s Corner Health Center, 636 used sports equipment to the meeting Assoc. 100 Hebron St., Mattapan, on Mondays Columbia Rd, across from the fire for Officer Ruiz. See the web page: station. dorchesterlowermills.org. Fields Corner McCormack Civic Assoc. Neighborhood Watch Meetings the third Tues. of the month For info, call 617-288-0818. at 7 p.m., in Blessed Mother Teresa Freeport-Adams Assoc. Parish Hall. UMass Boston Police will The meetings will be held the second now join the Boston and State Police Wed. of the month, 6:30 p.m., at the at each meeting. Please bring canned Fields Corner CDC office (the old Dist. goods to the regular meetings for a local 11 police station). food bank. Info: Call 617-710-3793 or Groom/Humphreys [email protected]. Neighborhood Assoc. Meetinghouse Hill Civic The GHNA meets on the third Wed. Assoc. of the month, 7 p.m., in the Kroc Salva- The meetings are held at 7 p.m., at tion Army Community Center, 650 First Parish Church. For info, contact Dudley St., Dor., 02125. For info, call Megan Sonderegger. New e-mail 857-891-1072 or [email protected]. address is: meetinghousehillcivic@ Hancock St. Civic Assoc. gmail.com. The next meetings, Thurs., July Melville Park Assoc. 17, and Aug. 21, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Clean-up of the MBTA Tunnel Cap at the Pilgrim Church, 540 Columbia (garden at Shawmut Station), the first Rd, across from the Strand Theatre. Sat. of the month, from 10 a.m. to noon. Info: [email protected] (new The meetings are held at 6 p.m., at the e-mail address.) Epiphany School, 154 Centre St., Dor. Hecla/Lyon/East Streets Dues of $10pp are now being collected Peabody Slope Assoc. Watch The Peabody Slope Neighborhood A new neighborhood watch, on Hecla, Assoc.’s meetings, the first Mon. of Lyon, and East Streets will meet at the month, at Dorchester Academy, Sussi Auto Body Shop 79 Freeport St., 18 Croftland Ave., 7 p.m. For info: corner of Linden St., on a date TBA. peabodyslope.org or 617-533-8123. All residents are invited to join. Linden/Ellsworth/ (Continued on page 16) June 26, 2014 The Reporter Page 13 Polish Triangle weighs flurry of housing plans (Continued from page 1) “I just don’t feel like about his joint proposal they’re listening to the with developer James abutters,” said Michelle Baker to demolish a ram- Mailloux, a neighbor of shackle property and the Washburn Street build 14 units between development, said in an Washburn and Rawson interview. “Our street is streets on a parcel ad- bad as it is, I can’t park at jacent to the Southeast all,” Mailloux said. “It’d Expressway. “This is be fine if people actually middle-market housing used the parking. But a that we’re talking about lot of people don’t use the and the only place we parking that’s provided.” can build it is in the The potential for neighborhoods,” George additional renters in said in an interview with the area would be a the Reporter. burden, but Mailloux Under their plan, acknowledged the trad- Baker and George will eoff for developing the divide up the proposed Washburn lot, which 14 condo units, with she said is trash-laden Baker taking the seven and rat-infested. “Right that front Washburn and now, it’s an abandoned George the seven that lot, and anything will be front along Rawson, a better,” she said. This building at 24 Rawson St. is to be razed along with abutting 27 Washburn St. in a joint project that dead-end street. This is Developers are vying will potentially create two seven-unit buildings with below-ground parking by developers James Baker a scaled-down version to build on other aban- and Douglas George. Photo by Bill Forry of their initial proposal doned or dilapidated for 15 units, a change lots in the neighborhood, units in what he called Across the street, de- parking spaces. zoning approval and will prompted by concerns including a proposal for an aggressive plan to veloper Owen Kiernan is Nevertheless, the plan be back on the table in in the community, they 18 units on the 14-acre respond to neighbors’ pushing to raze and build was approved, with the September. said. At the meeting, only site of a current unused concerns about density nine units on the site of condition that if the If the McCormack the Washburn property commercial garage off and parking. Still, some what some believe is the Landmark Commission meeting is any proof, it’s was up for a vote, which Boston Street fronting community members city’s oldest three-family grants the building his- clear the Polish Triangle was tabled until the next Clapp and Enterprise weren’t sold on the plan. house. The property at 68 torical status, Kiernan is the next frontier in meeting in September. streets. “Eighteen units for Willow Court is boarded will have to come back Dorchester for the grow- Community members The developer, James that site seems incred- up with smashed win- before the civic asso- ing pains that come with want to hear more specif- Paskell, received a non- ibly large to me,” one dows on a lot in need ciation to re-work the a booming demand for ics on the units’ rental binding majority vote person said in response of a weed-whacker. building’s design. housing and available vs. owner-occupancy from the community in to Paskell’s presentation Though many argue the Also discussed at the space for development. breakdown, parking, and an effort to gauge sup- at the meeting. Others dilapidated building is meeting was a proposal “Am I against the other details. port for the project expressed concern about an eyesore, neighbors to demolish a home at development? No,” From the meeting, before purchasing the noise from neighboring at the meeting called 50 St. Margaret St. Rooney said. “But to a it was clear that many land from the South businesses, including an the proposed Kiernan and replace it with a point, it needs to stop. members remain con- Boston-based developer auto body shop, a roofing development too dense building with four units I don’t want this to be cerned about parking William Strigler. The company, and a sand and for the area. They again of housing, down from as congested as South and density, a problem city’s assessing database gravel pit. voiced density concerns six in the original plan. Boston.” in the area made worse values the 8 Enterprise Paskell said the par- over the proposed 12 The proposal requires by an influx of new St. parcel at $665,000; it cel’s sales price was residents. The two lots is zoned for commercial forcing him to put more would share 26 parking use. The plan would put units in the location to spaces in below-ground in two sets of nine owner- which Millie Rooney, parking, keeping the occupied condos, as well a McCormack execu- street clear, Baker said. as updated sidewalks on tive board member, re- He and George vowed Clapp and Enterprise sponded that she wasn’t to continue talks with streets. sure if she believed the the community to come “This is a tremendous assertion. Rooney said up with a mutually beautification of that she’s still not 100 percent beneficial design. street and location as on board with the 18-unit “We’ve met with the well as a pedestrian proposal, but she sees the community three times walkway to the South benefit. and will continue to work Bay Mall,” Paskell told “If Paskell does get with the community to the association. Like the okay to do the units, come with a satisfactory George and Baker, he, there will be more life solution for all parties,” too, came down from his down there,” Rooney Baker told the Reporter. initial proposal for 21 said. “It won’t be as desolate at night.”

Four of the five developments pictured were touched upon at this month’s McCormack Civic Association meeting. The other, a nine-unit Boston Street housing development by Douglas George, brings the current count for slated incoming housing units in the Polish Triangle to 54. Page 14 THE Reporter June 26, 2014 Barbara iew rom ope s McDonough’s V F P ’ Hill

I must say that I enjoy fireworks. When I was we decided once again to stop at the Friendly’s a little kid in Jamaica Plain, we had an outdoor Restaurant in Hanover. clothesline area. We would put pinwheel fireworks Back on the road we went. I cannot journey down on the thick wooden supports for the lines and light “Look out into the July night, and see to the Cape without looking for the shrine to Trooper them. Pinwheels were my positive favorites. As we Mark Charbonnier in Kingston. There were no grew older, my friends and I would go up to Jamaica the broad belt of silver flame which flashes problems crossing the Sagamore Bridge and within Pond where there was a fireworks show each 4th. up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as minutes we were in Hyannis. We were going to stop I loved seeing the colors of the fireworks reflecting at Kmart but we needed to rest before the evening’s in the pond’s water. Now Hubby and I get into our the bonfires of the meadow-flies.” entertainment. Check-in at the Irish Village went chairs and watch the Boston Pops’ concert, with the smoothly and we were soon in our room. We hung up wonderful fireworks following. We especially love By Ralph Waldo Emerson our clothes and plopped onto the bed. Hubby thought the 1812 Overture. he had better go out to find one of our group of 23 *** vacationers to check on the time we had to be in the Last Friday Hubby and I were out in the yard dining hall for entertainment. Here are the names and we were so proud. Hubby had planted his little Juliano talked about manning the grill. The plans of those who joined us: Eileen Collins organized tomato plants behind the grapevine. I had planted for the Block Party are almost complete. our trip. Then we also had Marilyn Ferrara, Marie the two whiskey barrels. I had found lavender I could hear Phil’s kids upstairs. Then they came Schallmo, Evelyn Dunne, Phyllis Harford, Gregory geraniums and put them in the middle of the larger down the stairs, trying to corral the Carvers’ new dog, and Sarah Ashe, Mary Keeley, Barbara Sullivan, barrel. I put white impatiens all around the edge of “Lola.” (I love the name!) Her long tongue licked my Michael McNally, Joe and Barbara Scarborough, the barrel. It looks beautiful. I put red geraniums in hands as she came near me under the dining-room Irene Duff, Ann Marshall, Ann Provost, Kay Griffin, the center of the smaller whiskey barrel. All around table. She is a Valley Bulldog, quite big and strong. Mary O’Toole, Walter and Carol Belmont, Ray and the edge of that barrel, I alternated red and white (I had never heard of that breed.) I would not like Mary Fronk, plus Hubby and me. We had the same impatiens. That one looks almost patriotic, even to walk her. Actually, she’d be walking me. Her two tables to sit at all times, thanks to Tom Mc- without a blue flower. While we were out in the yard, personality is great. I googled Valley Bulldogs and Cormack, who supervises the dining area. (He keeps gathering weeds, we saw an oddly decorated plane discovered that they are a rare breed, originally from things moving beautifully.) We were entertained in the sky, heading for Logan. Earlier in the week I Canada, and are considered a “low maintenance” the first evening by Derrick Keane from Inchicore. had heard Bob Weiss, on WBZ Radio, mention that dog. She is a sweetie. (Inchicore is a district in London.) Jeannie Clark Hainan Airlines would begin its flights from Beijing While I was at the E Board meeting, pal Mike also sang . We enjoyed the music and, about 10:30 to Boston this week. I said to Hubby, “Wouldn’t that Juliano told me about the 50th anniversary party p.m., we made our way back to our room. be funny if we saw the first flight of the Chinese held for his mother and father, Dottie and Mike Eileen, our group leader, had told us to be at airline?” In Saturday morning’s newspapers, we Juliano, at the Weymouth Elks on May 31. (Their breakfast at about 8 a.m. I didn’t even have to look saw photos of the new plane. We had, indeed, seen actual anniversary is June 13.) The party was hosted at the menu. I knew what I wanted., the corned beef the Chinese airplane. by their children: Debbie and Mike Scapicchio, hash breakfast. (The hash at the Irish Village is nice *** Teresa and Richard Wisnes, and Mike and Anne and dry, not greasy at all.) Of course, the breakfast Last Tuesday evening, I was at the home of our Juliano. Also present were their eight grandchildren: included eggs (scrambled) and home fries. After I Pope’s Hill Neighborhood Association president, Phil Michaela, Nicholas, Anthony, Alex, Michael, Sophia, finished the hash, I could only eat a few potatoes. I Carver. Jamie Kaszanek and Brian Waldman, two Domenic, and Angela. Some of their guests came barely touched the eggs but the hash was worth it. new E Board members, were already there. Mike from out of state. Dottie’s brother and sister-in-law It was a solid, stick-to my-ribs breakfast. Juliano then came in as did PHNA Treasurer Judy Jim and Claire Spinelli were there from New Jersey. We would go toward Dennisport that morning. Burke and Recording Secretary Chris Whitemore. Mike’s niece Janet Mclean came from Arizona. Daughter Sue had asked us to get a new litter box Phil’s wife Pam was still at work. When I arrived, Dottie’s Cousin Veronica Gambill came all the way for her indoor cat “Tia.” We drove to the Agway I asked if anyone knew what was happening at from Florida. Mike’s cousin, Camille Rigney and Store on Route 134 in Dennisport. Last year, we had St. Ann’s Church that evening. There were cars her husband Ray, were there from Rhode Island. found a much larger litter box there, which we use everywhere and we saw mobs of people entering the Finally, Mike’s nephew, Fr. Benedict Grant, joined as a drip pan on the front porch for our first floor air church. Phil said that there was a prayer vigil for the party from Connecticut. The guests particularly conditioner. I resisted looking through the Agway young Tommy Kelly, the son of Eddie and Katherine enjoyed a musical slide show presentation prepared plants and flowers this year. I can still remember Kelly, who is ill. (Our prayers are with him.) by Richard King that highlighted Mike and Dottie’s from last year the most beautiful pink rose I have Pam came in from work and told us that she was lives together and with the family. I send my best ever seen. It was placed on the corner of one of the going to go to church for Tommy’s prayer vigil. Before wishes to Mike and Dottie on their 50th! walkways. It called to me. I looked at it several she left, however, we kidded her about her name *** times but decided not to buy it. I have been kicking appearing on the front page of The Boston Globe that Monday, June 2, had finally arrived. Hubby was myself ever since. It would have been magnificent morning. Pam’s boss, Mayor Marty Walsh, had said thrilled. It was the day we were to drive to Cape in our yard. We have such good luck with roses. that Pam, his scheduler, probably has more power Cod to enjoy five days at the Irish Village in South Then it was off to the Job Lot Store and the Dollar than anyone in his office as the article discussed the Yarmouth. We had spent most of Sunday packing. Tree Store in Dennisport. I love the Dennisport number of women among the mayor’s appointees. We had to make sure we had our swimsuits. (Hubby Post Office; the staff there is so nice. I had to buy The main focus of the E Board meeting was to loves the hot tub for his back.) We heard that the some stamps. We stopped at Benny’s, which has discuss what preparations were made for the Pope’s weather forecast for the week was not the best, so interesting items to buy. By now, it was lunch time Hill Block Party, which will be held on McKone we probably would not get in the outdoor pool. We so we went to the Burger King Restaurant at the Street on Sat., June 28, from noon to 6 p.m. The had extra clothing in case our clothes got soaked Patriot Plaza on Route 134. The place was hopping. Person of the Year and the Business of the Year with the predicted rain. Hubby was gone so long I thought he had to find a were discussed and then voted upon. Quite a few We started out about 1 p.m. Because we would not cow to get the beef. attractions for the kids were discussed, and Mike be eligible for the dinner that evening at the Village, After lunch we had to go to the little Christmas Tree Shop in West Dennis. When we first went down the Cape, our friends the Keans and then the Kenneys would let us use their cottage. We had such fun there. The kids were close to the beach. We could go to Cuffy’s in West Dennis, which in those years had tables outside with tees shirts for sale. It was just down the street from the Sundae School Ice Cream Stand. I loved sitting outside the cottage, reading the newspaper. I would be serenaded by the lovely sounding mourning doves. *** By the way, while we were out in the yard on Friday, we heard a mourning dove for the first time. It sounded like it was coming from the Murphy School area. We also have a mocking bird. He has so many calls, imitating other birds. I have heard him even during the middle of the night. I love hearing the birds. There will be more about our vacation at the Irish Village next week. *** Here is “A Thought to Remember”: “Giving makes a healthy heart!” NEPONSET PRESCHOOL $38/day - 7:30-5:30 281A Neponset Avenue, Dorchester www.neponsetpreschool.com Lic. #291031 617-265-2665 June 26, 2014 The Reporter Page 15 In Lower Mills, re-vamp planned What’s the Buzz: for condominium complex bid Food Forest, Bees, and the (Continued from page 1) Boston Nature Center who emigrated to the United States from Ireland, has convened meetings with abutters at the former funeral home on three occasions in the last two months. O’Malley said that he has been willing to meet with abutters and community leaders first before final- izing design plans for the building. Several civic and merchant leaders interviewed this week by the Reporter say that’s been a good thing, since they were not pleased with O’Malley’s initial Boston—Do you like to eat? Do you like plan: to erect a six-story, The Molly Funeral Home property, foreground, along Washington Street fresh-picked produce—lettuce, tomatoes, 50-plus unit residential would be replaced with a new mixed-use development built by a new owner Photo by Bill Forry squash, and apples? Soon you will be development on the larg- under a plan that is emerging this summer in Lower Mills. est of the five parcels in able to find these close to home at Mass was the first indication that makes it attractive.” either meeting. In fact, Audubon’s Boston Nature Center (BNC), play: the 22,000- square- that O’Malley and his In addition to the six-story it was unanimous that foot parcel that abuts the partners were open to height, earlier objections the abutters thought the which is developing a “food forest” with Ester restaurant and changing their design to O’Malley’s proposed things relayed to us [by the Boston Food Forest Coalition to provide Lower Mills Library in plans. building were centered on O’Malley] were not a good produce for the community. the rear. “I thought that a few its location on the large lot thing for the neighbor- Objections to the height of our concerns were that sits behind the funeral hood,” said Paciulli. and layout of the condo recognized last night,” home, closest to the existing In light of Monday’s Come discover complex came from key said O’Mara on Tuesday. business district that fronts meeting, however, Paci- what a food forest leaders like Anthony “He’s reconsidering his along Dorchester Avenue. ulli says that neighbors Paciulli, president of is and how it is setbacks and so on. I’m Critics said that the six-story are willing to see what being created at Meetinghouse Bank, who hopeful that the next structure would be in such changes O’Malley makes also leads the Lower presentation will include close proximity – as close as to the building plans the Work Day Mills Merchants As- him addressing some of nine feet to the property lines before passing final judg- on July 13, 1-4 sociation; Mike Skillin, the things we’ve raised, of its neighbors to the rear— ment. longtime president of pm and July 26, such as light in abutters that it would effectively wall “If he’s looking at a from 9 am to the Dorchester Lower properties, strengthen- them off. The initial plan three-story building Mills Civic Association; ing the streetscape and included a first- level parking that uses all the parcels noon. Check and Richard O’Mara, not destroying it, and deck with housing laid out and includes a mix of out the Boston also a longtime civic and incorporating a mixed- in the five floors above commercial space and merchant leader who has Food Forest Coalition at use design. and no ground-level retail residential, you are get- www.facebook.com/BostonFoodForest. played a key advisory “We all left the meeting elements. In earlier meetings, ting in the ball park role in designing a zoning feeling a little more O’Malley had refused to of something the com- code for the Lower Mills hopeful that we’d made explain what he would do munity could possibly Bees form one essential component of the district over the last three our point,” said O’Mara. with the lots that have their support,” said Paciulli. decades. food forest. They pollinate fruit, nuts, and “We have a reputation frontage along Washington “All of us are concerned vegetables. Without them, we would have After initially balking of working with develop- Street— frustrating O’Mara about getting a project at pushback from the ers. We want to work and others who want the that fits the neighbor- no or very poor produce. This summer, civic leaders, O’Malley together, for him to make village streetscape to remain hood and answers the BNC is hosting two workshops with the met with the group for an honest dollar and for intact. abutters’ concerns about a third time on Monday Boston Beekeepers on observation hives. us to keep the aspects “It was not received the height and the traf- The first one, June 28, 9 am to noon, will evening at the funeral of our community intact favorably by anyone at fic.” home. According to explain what observation hives are, and a those present, including LEGAL NOTICES hive will be constructed under the tutelage O’Malley, he has agreed to change his plans for COMMONWEALTH OF COMMONWEALTH OF COMMONWEALTH OF of Jeff Murray, founder of Classroom Hives. MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS the building’s height and THE TRIAL COURT THE TRIAL COURT THE TRIAL COURT PROBATE & FAMILY COURT PROBATE & FAMILY COURT scope to accommodate PROBATE & FAMILY COURT SUFFOLK DIVISION SUFFOLK DIVISION The second input from the neighbor- SUFFOLK DIVISION 24 NEW CHARDON STREET 24 NEW CHARDON STREET 24 NEW CHARDON STREET BOSTON, MA 02114 BOSTON, MA 02114 w o r k s h o p hood. PO BOX 9667, BOSTON, MA 02114 Docket No. SU14D1140DR Docket No. SU12D0512DR “We’re going to re- 617-788-8300 DIVORCE SUMMONS DIVORCE SUMMONS July 12, 9 Docket No. SU14C0185CA BY PUBLICATION and MAILING BY PUBLICATION and MAILING am to noon, design the building and in the MATTER of MIGUEL TORRES BONITA LEWIS get back to the com- JEFFREY SAYDEE TROH vs. vs. will explain NANCY TORRES NOTICE OF PETITION KENNETH LEWIS munity in the next two To the Defendant: To the Defendant: techniques weeks,” O’Malley told FOR CHANGE OF NAME The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for To all persons interested in Divorce requesting that the Court grant a Divorce requesting that the Court grant a f o r the Reporter on Tuesday. petition described: divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the “You will have a fabulous A petition has been presented marriage pursuant to G.L. c. 208, Sec. marriage pursuant to G.L. c. 208, Sec. managing 1B. The Complaint is on file at the Court. area to live with shops in by Jeffrey Saydee Troh request- 1B. The Complaint is on file at the Court. ing that Jeffrey Saydee Troh be An Automatic Restraining Order has An Automatic Restraining Order has hives in all seasons, and the front and we won’t been entered in this matter preventing been entered in this matter preventing allowed to change his name as you from taking any action which would you from taking any action which would honey bees will be installed in the already- overbuild it. I will stay follows: negatively impact the current financial negatively impact the current financial involved even after we JEFFREY JOE SEIDI status of either party. SEE Supplemental status of either party. SEE Supplemental completed observation hives. Adults are If you desire to object Probate Court Rule 411. Probate Court Rule 411. welcome at either or both workshops. sell the condos,” O’Malley thereto, you or your at- You are hereby summoned and You are hereby summoned and re- said, adding that he torney must file a writ- required to serve upon: Miguel Torres, quired to serve upon: Bonita Lewis, 152 ten appearance in said 10 Sumner St., Revere, MA 02151 your River Street, Mattapan, MA 02126 your plans to keep ownership answer, if any, on or before 08/14/2014. Court at Boston on or answer, if any, on or before 07/31/2014. A workshop for children and teenagers will of any commercial space If you fail to do so, the court will proceed If you fail to do so, the court will proceed before ten o’clock in the to the hearing and adjudication of this to the hearing and adjudication of this take place Aug. 3, 2-4 pm. This workshop designed in the new MORNING (10:00 AM) on July action. You are also required to file a action. You are also required to file a plans. 17, 2014. copy of your answer, if any, in the office copy of your answer, if any, in the office will focus on observing the honey bee Witness, HON. JOAN P. of the Register of this Court. of the Register of this Court. O’Mara, who had ARMSTRONG, First Justice of Witness, HON. JOAN P. ARM- Witness, HON. JOAN P. ARM- colony. Children age 7 and older are s t r o n g l y o p p o s e d this Court. STRONG, First Justice of this Court. STRONG, First Justice of this Court. welcome to participate along with their June 17, 2014 Date: June 2, 2014 Date: May 16, 2014 O’Malley’s initial plan, Ann Marie Passanise Ann Marie Passanise Ann Marie Passanise parents. Protective veils will be provided, said that the meeting Register of Probate Register of Probate Register of Probate and long pants and shirts and gardening gloves are recommended. Pre-registration 617-288-2680 617-288-2681 EDAR ROVE is required for all bee workshops; see www. C G massaudubon.org/boston for program options. WILLIAM LEE, D.D.S. GARDENS Unique Florals & Gifts FAMILY ENTISTRY D www.cedargrovegardens.com

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(Continued from page 12) Family membership is $5; individuals, $3; seniors, each Monday, following the noon Mass. Please Pope’s Hill Neighborhood Assoc. $1; businesses, $10; and lifetime, $50. continue to say healing prayers for Fr. Dan Finn The annual PHNA Lawn Party will take place on Codman Square Neighborhood and Sr. Damian of St. Ambrose Parish. The parish Sat., June 28, on McKone St. Neighborhood E-Mail Council will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding Alert system; sign up at philip.carver@popeshill. Codman Square Neighborhood Council meets the on Sun., October 5. Bishop Hennessey will celebrate com giving your name, address, and e-mail address. first Wed. of each month, 7 to 8:30 p.m., in the Great Mass. The celebration will continue at the I.B.E.W. PHNA meetings, usually the fourth Wed. of the Hall of the Codman Sq. Health Center, 6 Norfolk Hall. month at the Leahy/Holloran Community Center St. Info: call 617-265-4189. St. Ann Church at 7 p.m., except during the summer months. Codman Square Neighborhood St. Ann/St. Brendan women’s bowling league, Port Norfolk Civic Assoc. Tuesdays, 7 p.m. at Boston Bowl. New members Developrment welcomed. Voice, piano, guitar, violin, and viola Meetings the third Thurs. of the month at the The Codman Sq. Neighborhood Development Port Norfolk Yacht Club, 7 p.m. Info: 617-825-5225. lessons are now available. See the flyers at the rear Corp. invites all to the 33rd annual meeting and door of the church. The 9 a.m. Mass from Thursday St. Mark’s Area Civic Assoc. celebration at Codman Commons Park, on Thurs., to Saturday will be celebrated at St. Ann Church. Meetings held the last Tues. of the month in the June 26, 6 p.m (The 9 a.m. Mass from Mon. through Wed. at St. lower hall of St. Mark’s Church, at 7 p.m. Info: Bowdoin St. Health Center Brendan.) St. Ann’s will hold Eucharistic Adoration stmarkscivic.com. Peace Circle, where those affected by violence may each Sat., following the 9 a.m. Mass until 3 p.m., Dorchester Board of Trade speak honestly, the second Tues. of each month, 6 with Benediction and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. RSVP to akaszanek@dorchesterboardoftradeMA. to 8 p.m., sponsored by Beth Israel Deaconess Med. Confessions: Saturdays from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. or com or Adrienne at 617-398-3268. The DBOT Ctr, the BSHC, and the Louis Brown Peace Institute. from 3 to 3:30 p.m. Deacon Richard Brennan has been welcomes new members; e-mail the DBOT or call Call Janet at 617-296-2075 for info. assigned to the St. Ann/St. Brendan collaborative. 617-398-DBOT. Visit the website for info: www. Irish Pastoral Centre Fr. Tom Macdonald is being assigned to the St. dorchesterboardoftrade.com. The mailing address The IPC, located in St. Brendan Rectory, 15 Rita Ann/St. Brendan Collaborative on July1st. Fr. Tom is DBOT, PO Box 020452, Dor. 02122. Road, welcomes seniors to a coffee hour every Wed. was ordained in May 2013. He finished his studies Leaf and Yard Waste Collection morning, from 10 a.m. to noon. There will be a speaker in Rome. He is originally from Westford, MA. Both There will be four additional summer weeks for each week. Call 617-265-5300 for info. The Music for St. Ann and St. Brendan Parishes welcome him. yard waste collections (the weeks of July 14, Aug. 11, Memory group meets on the second Wednesday of St. Brendan Church and Sept. 15.) The autumn collection of yard waste the month, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. “Singing can unlock Men’s clothing is still needed for the Long Island and leaves will run from Oct. 13 to Nov. 28. Place in the brain.” Suggested donation: $3 to $5 per session, Shelter for the Homeless: shirts, pants, sweatshirts, large paper leaf bags or in open barrels and place on with refreshments served, Contact Maureen at: sweaters, coats, jackets, rainwear, footwear, belts, the curb by 7 a.m. on regular trash collection day. [email protected] for info. hats, and white sox. The Food Pantry is in great Tie branches (3 ft. long or less) with string. Do not Irish Social Club need of non-perishable food. Please be generous. put branches in barrels. No plastic bags! The club is located at 119 Park St., West Roxbury. The 9 a.m. Mass Monday through Wednesday will Baseball at Garvey Park Donation, usually $10. Fri.. June 27, Pub Night with be celebrated at St. Brendan Church; (Thursday For boys and girls 5 to 8 years old: learn the basics Curragh’s Fancy; and Sun., June 29, Andy Healy. through Saturday at St. Ann Church.) The Play of baseball. Bring glove, hat, water, sunblock, and Milton-Quincy Congregation Group will return in Sept. Deacon Richard Brennan a smile; on Fri., Sat., and Sun., June 27 to 29, 9 to (Temple Shalom) has been assigned to the St. Brendan/St. Ann Parish 10:30 a.m.; supported by St. Ann Youth Ministry. The new name of the temple is Congregation collaborative. Carney Hospital’s Programs Beth Shalom of the Blue Hills. Worship services, St. Christopher Parish A Breast-Cancer Support Group, the second in the Great Hall, 495 Canton Ave., Milton. The Small faith groups have resumed on Thursdays, Wednesday (only) of each month, 6:30 to 8 p.m. phone number is: 617-698-3394 or e-mail: office@ from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Contact Celia or call Louise at The Carney’s adult/child/infant CPR and First Aid: TempleShalomOnline.org for info. 617-834-9127. Rosary (in Spanish), each Thurs., instructions every week for only $30. Call 617-296- Pilgrim Church from 6 to 8 p.m. Call Jose at 617-541-3402. 4012, X2093 for schedule. Diabetes support group The Worship Service each Sunday at 11 a.m.; St. Gregory Parish (free), third Thurs. of every month, from 10:30 to all are welcome. Bible Study, each Wed. in the If you knit and/or crochet, help start a “Prayer 11:30 a.m., Info: 617-506-4921. Additional support Conference Room, from 1 to 2:30 p.m.; the public Shawl Ministry; shawls for ill members and groups at Carney: Family Support, Breast Cancer is invited. Browse the gift shop, which is open newly-baptized babies. Call Julie at the rectory. The Support, Al-Anon, AA, and Overeaters Anonymous. weekdays and Saturdays. Call 617-807-0540 for time for Confessions has been changed from 9:30 Dorchester Historical Society details. Community lunch is served free every Sat. to 10:30 a.m. on Saturday mornings in the upper The Clapp House, the society’s headquarters, is from noon to 1:30 p.m.; the public is welcome. Pilgrim church. St. Gregory’s Prayer Group will now meet located at 195 Boston St. Christian Endeavor Society meeting, second Tues. each Saturday, following the 9 a.m. Mass, instead Adams St. Library of each month at 6:30 p.m. Pilgrim Church is a of Wednesday evenings. A trip to Spectacle Island is planned for Thurs, July Congregational Christian Church, associated with St. Mark Parish 10. See more info at the library. Become a member the United Church of Christ, and is located at 540 Mass changes: on Saturdays, 4 p.m.-no change; on by sending dues to Friends of the Adams St. Library, Columbia Rd, in Uphams Corner. Sundays, 7:30 a.m.-no change, then, on Sundays, 9 c/o M. Cahill, 67 Oakton Ave., Dorchester, 02122. Divine Mercy Celebration a.m. in Eng.; 10:30 a.m. in Span.; and noon, in Eng. Divine Mercy Observance is held the third Friday A small Food Pantry has been set up by the St. Business Directory of each month. For further info: call the Sisters at Vincent de Paul Society; come to the rectory on the third Monday of each month from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (617) 436-8828 DAYS 617-288-1202, ext. 114. First Parish Church to receive a bag of groceries. Items needed are toilet (617) 282-3469 The church welcomes donations of food and tissue, paper towels, cleaners (Ajax, SOS, etc.) and clothing for the needy each Sunday. Pot-Luck- shampoos, soaps, etc. A Holy Hour, each Monday, Family-Fun-Night, the first Fri. of each month, 6 from 6 to 7 p.m., in honor of Our Lady of Fatima, in the Steinbach’s Service p.m., in the parish hall. The church is located at 10 church. Mother and Toddler Playgroup, each Wed., Parish St., Meetinghouse Hill. from 10 a.m. to noon in St. Mark’s Lower Church. Station Inc. St. Matthew Parish COMPLETE AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE St. Ambrose Church The parish is welcoming Fr. 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It says tion emerges above all. transplants. Superb de- Coast where it could and the obscene contracts a lot about the state of the Where have the “Beasts fensively with middle-of- should have prospered, of worn-down Cliff Lee AL East that Boston is of the American League the- lineup power, Matt if only local government (now on the disabled but a hot streak removed East” gone? Wieters faces Tommy hadn’t been so backward list) and aging Chase from contention, though We’re accustomed to John surgery, which is and bush league. Utley (just off it) at the if they have one they’d being among the class rather bizarre given that On the eve of mid- further price of their very be well advised not to acts in the high-rent he’s not a pitcher but a season, the Rays had few decent prospects. follow it with another district. It had become catcher. baseball’s lousiest re- Such nuttiness might meltdown, as has been essentially now consti- axiomatic that the East Can the O’s win with- cord; worse than the keep them remotely in their bent. Strange team, tuted they don’t win, too was where the real ac- out meaningful contribu- bloody Cubs, worse contention another three but even as they were many characters who tion was, and all the tions from two of their than the preposterous months. romping a year ago they surprisingly excelled last best entertainment, too. three most complete Padres, worse than the George might have were hard to figure. year having reverted to To dominate the AL players? Unlikely! But abominable Astros. The done that, but Hal is a dif- There are caveats! form. If Farrell’s cheeky East was to be featured they’ll remain the team situation has the look of ferent Steinbrenner. It’s Have they been over- prophecy is to be realized, weekly on the networks, you don’t want to play something terminal. more likely they’ll choose rating their allegedly they need another bat fawned over lavishly by when all the chips are New York: Hardest to muddle along while vaunted farm system? and another arm and the pundits, feared the on the table. of the bunch to figure as continuing to fall apart You might call it the they might further notice most by other teams, and Tampa Bay: One they, along with the Ori- physically. Whereupon “Jackie Bradley Junior that Uber-Closer Uehara favored invariably in the can imagine the Rays oles, cling precariously they can devote them- syndrome,” the inclina- suddenly no longer looks post-season. stunningly turning it to second place while selves fully to the endless tion to nominate their invincible. But no more! Much around with the highly more often looking like Derek Jeter victory lap child prodigies for Coo- Clearly, management of the East’s zest has estimable Joe Maddon a candidate for the cel- soon to arrive smash- perstown enshrinement is reluctant to take on dissipated and it’s little – favorite skipper of the lar. When this year’s ingly at your local ball- before they’ve survived more salary, although noted that the sitting savants – working his Yankees’ edition is good, park. Methinks Derek their first road trip. Lat- they don’t appear anx- champs still happen to familiar legerdemain which mainly means would have preferred it est nominee is a certain ious to talk about that. reside there. No titanic with greater brilliance when Maestro Tanaka is otherwise. Mookie Betts. Never They may have no choice. five-team race is about to than ever. on the mound, they can Boston: Even as his thought they’d ever coun- Last year’s laurels no thrill us to our collective But then you take a be very, very good, and kiddies were getting tenance a player named longer sustain. Moves core this year nor are closer look at that lineup when they aren’t (and their clocks cleaned Mookie. Interestingly, like trading for a Herrera any of the five deemed with those once-mighty he isn’t) they are horrid. in Oakland, Manager such newbies as Brock or signing a Mujica won’t “the team to beat,” once prospects, Messrs Jen- These days they Farrell was brashly as- Holt and Rubby De La suffice. annually the case. It just nings and Longoria, regularly feature up serting confidently that Rosa, products of other So, that’s the state of ain’t the same, Pal. swatting anemic .248 to five very expensive his team – essentially as systems, seem every bit things as we see it while Here’s how it looks as and .261 respectively, characters in the middle now constituted – will yet the equal of the Bradleys, the teams limp into the we arrive at the season’s Red Sox reject James of their lineup hitting in prevail. Give the bloke Bogaerts, Dubronts, season’s second half. mid-point: Loney as their principal the .220s, sans power. credit; he hardly lacks for Middlebrooks, et al. Out of this morass, there Toronto: Threatened source of power, erstwhile We are not accustomed to moxie. And he may even Some of their precious emerges one question to run away with it mega-rookie Wil Myers this from the once-upon- be right; at least partly. youth needs to be peddled above all: Can anyone for about five minutes. facing banishment to a-time Bronx Bombers. As bad as they’ve been for veteran reinforce- win this division? A notoriously erratic the minors once he gets When you combine this (third worst AL mark ments in the forthcoming This much is clear: franchise the last two off the disability list, and calamity with the fact as of the writing) these mid-summer trading Beasts no longer roam decades, the Jays had their much-touted pitch- that three-fifths of their Red Sox may have fewer festival. The manager the American League a splendid May but are ing in an injury-ravaged pitching rotation has problems and sturdier is not entirely right. As East. clearly reverting to form shambles. Reluctantly, been wiped out, it boggles as June gets serious. you concede the Rays the mind to consider Their tailspin quickens are cooked. some people actually as injuries mount. They It’s a shame, actu- think Joe Girardi is not do feature fine offense; ally. They were an at- a good manager. no small consideration tractive and popular Brian Cashman has with offensive might underdog, although that only one trick in his in Baseball in rarely schtick was getting old. GM repertoire: when in short supply. But their Maddon, among others doubt, spend. Even in lineup is green, lack- down there, probably their current extended ing in pennant-race deserved better. Sadly, mood of austerity, the experience. Pitching is it’s a bitter turn of events Yankees will manage mediocre, unproven, not deep. So is the manager. The Jays can survive only if the rest of the The Dorchester division’s rampant me- diocrity persists. It’s a Historical Society hard bunch to believe in, even when they’re offers mashing the ball and staying healthy. But, Dorchester’s Collections, hey, stranger things have happened. Baltimore: Maybe the a new book candidate with the best chance to break loose. about its buildings Bring in this ad for Manager is a huge plus. off Front office will take and artifacts in exchange full grooming package. chances. Wacky owner 10% has at long last shut up. Lineup is stacked with for a $25 donation significant power equal to Toronto’s. Pitching 916 Dorchester Ave has the potential to be adequate although shakiness in the once- Dorchester, MA 02125 formidable bullpen has been evident. Did Nelson Cruz make a pact with the Baseball Devil? (617) 288-DOGS (3647) Maybe this is meant to be Baltimore’s year. But a pair of crushing blows may have doomed them. A brilliant prospect Follow us on Facebook only a year ago, Manny Machado, at age 21, is struggling to stay in the lineup, let alone regain his form, having been Tuesday - Saturday seriously sidetracked www.dorchesterhistoricalsociety.org 9 a.m. -6 p.m. nine months ago by Page 18 THE Reporter June 26, 2014 Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester 1135 Dorchester Avenue • (617) 288-7120

Members of the Music Clubhouse Band at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorches- Members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester at the Boston Harbor Alli- ter performed at the end of the School Year BBQ. The Music program will ance 5K Road Race. The Club will be partnering with the Harbor Alliance on offer a limited lesson program over the course of the summer for members a special Islands Exploration Week program for ages 9-12 the week of 6/30. ages 10-18.

Safe Summer Streets Program handle pressure within their lives, Classes, a Summer Swim Team, offer Beatmaking, D’Jaying, Drum- to Begin on 7/7 - On 7/7 we will their community or their family Music Lessons, Community Service line, Music Videos, Songwriting, kick-off the 25th Anniversary of situation. The presentation will be events, Art Classes, Girls Group/ and Ensemble classes. These class- the Safe Summer Streets program followed with Roller Skating in the Boys Group, a Volleyball League, es will begin the week of 7/7. For for our teen members. To begin the gym, a Pool Party, and a BBQ for all Field Trips, and more. Special events more information, contact Ayeisha night we will have a very special ap- to enjoy. The Safe Summer Streets include: a Music Clubhouse Concert Mathis ([email protected]) pearance with, Chris Herren of the program will provide programming (7/11), the Admissions 101 Workshop Herren Project. The Herren Project for our teen members from 3:00 p.m. at U-Mass Boston (7/14), Juvenile educates youth and at-risk popula- to 11:00 p.m. weeknights. Activities Justice Jeopardy (7/16), a trip to Laz- Special Event: tions on the importance of a healthy this summer include: a Basketball er Quest (7/18), a Pool Party (7/25), Safe Summer Streets lifestyle and provide techniques to League (3 divisions of play), Film the Annual Career Fair (7/30), Col- 25th Anniversary Event lege Alumni Night Cruise of Boston Harbor (8/6), Summer Swim Team Fi- Monday, July 7th nal Meet against the Malden YMCA at 6:30 p.m. (8/7), Summer Arts Bash (8/8), the Special Guest Speaker Semi-Formal Dance (8/12), and the Chris Herren “MassHousing changed my life. Basketball League Championships (8/13). For more information contact We will kick-off the 25th Anni- I would not have been able to buy Nate Roos ([email protected]) versary of Safe Summer Streets Summer Music Lessons - This for teen members with an ap- Summer, our Music program will of- pearance by standout speaker, my home without them.” - Karen fer a limited Music Lesson program Chris Herren, followed by Roll- for members ages 10-18. Lessons er Skating, a Pool Party, and a will take place weekday afternoons. BBQ. In addition to Lessons we will also

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Kerry Dowlin Cystal Berte Don Benoit Lee Robinson David DeMarco Tim Deihl & Paul Dardano Eric Gould Kim Pengelly Amy Butterworth Dorchester’s Real Estate Leaders Page 22 THE Reporter June 26, 2014 RECENT OBITUARIES Benham, Edward Quinn Scholarship Diane of Norwell, Joanne Peabody, Joan Vaughan is survived by his wife, and wife Nicole (CA); J. “Eddie” age 79, of fund, P.O. Box 290216, Sawyer of Maynard, of Melrose, William Jack Mildred (Gaynor). Sons Justin (Boston), Shawn Naples, FL, Milton, MA., Charlestown, MA. Diane Dargon of N.H., Dargon of Milton, and Gifford and wife Diane Drew (Stoughton). born in Dorchester, MA. DARGON, James W. Timothy and his wife the late Rita Vaughn and (CA), Astor Garfield and Great-grandchildren: Son of the late Wil- of Quincy, formerly of Christine of AZ, and the Gertrude Longval. wife Jackie (Brookline), Jocelin and Dempsey liam and Anna (Burke) Dorchester and Roxbury. late Thomas Dargon Lawson, Astor S. Shawn and wife San- (CA). Brother of Cuth- Benham. Husband and He was born in Boston. and Margaret Donovan. passed away peacefully dra (Douglas), Claver bert Lawson and Mildred best friend of 42 years Jim was a U.S Army Brother of Francis V. of in his sleep on June 11. (Dorchester). Grandchil- (England) and Lauris to Paula (Tomkewicz) Veteran 11th Airborne Newton, Claire Caton of Born June 28th, 1925. He dren Astor Alexander Goldson (Jamaica). Benham. Father of Division and a member Edward Benham Jr. of of the Local 35 Paint- Weymouth, MA, Brenda ers Allied Trade and Benham of Lake Worth Custodians Union. He Neighborhood Notables FL. Twin brother of was the devoted husband Joan Benham of Quincy, of the late Marianne (Continued from page 16) Boys and Girls Club News MA., Maureen Mattie of (Giannini). Father of Adams Village Business Assoc. Dorchester Boys and Girls Club needs tutors for Braintree, MA. Also sur- Stephanie Luce and her For info on the AVBA, call Mary at 617-697-3019. those in grades K to 12 who need homework assis- vived by many nieces and husband Gregory of Wis- Knights of Columbus tance after school one to 2 hours per week. Volunteers nephews. Eddie was a consin, James F. and his Redberry Council #107, Columbus Council #116, need not be teachers or experts on the subject. High teacher in the Braintree wife Ann of Wareham, and Lower Mills Council #180 merged into a new school students can fulfill their community-service School system for over 30 Michael and his wife Dorchester Council #107, with meetings held the hours. Call Emily at 617-288-7120, to volunteer. years, also a graduate of Hoa of Marlborough, second Wed. of each month at the V.F.W. Post, Upham’s Corner Main Street Suffolk University. Late Paul and his wife Marie Neponset Ave., at 7 p.m. (earlier starting time). All committee meetings are held at the UCMS veteran of Korean War, of Quincy, Matthew of Info: contact Mike Flynn at 617-288-7663. office, 594 Columbia Rd., #302, buzzer #6, Dor., Air Force. Memorials Dorchester, Mark and Kit Clark Senior Services and are open to the public. Info: 617-265-0363 or in Eddie’s name may his wife Eileen of Quincy, Kit Clark Senior Services for those over 60: uphamscorner.org. be made to the Michael Richard and his wife health care, socialization, adult day health, memory Field’s Corner Main Street respite, homemakers, personal care attendants, The Board meets the first Wed. of the month, at mental health and substance abuse counseling, 1452 Dot. Ave., 6:30 p.m. Info or to apply: 617-474- and transportation. The Kit Clark’s Senior Home 1432. Improvement Program for eligible homeowners with Four Corners Main Street TEVNAN TEVNAN home rehabilitation and low-cost home repairs. Info: Four Corners Main Street, located at 420 Wash- 617-825-5000. ington St., Dorchester, 02121; mailing address: 100 City Hall Plaza 415 Neponset Avenue St. Gregory’s Boy Scouts Boston, MA 02108 Dorchester, MA 02124 P.O. Box 240877, 02124; phone: 617-287-1651; fax Meetings each Wed., 7 p.m., in the white building 617-423-4100 617-265-4100 number, 617-265-2761. in the rear of the Grammar School, for boys ages Dorchester Park 7 to 14. This is the scouts’ 59th year in the parish! Meetings held the third Wed. of each month, 6:30 Attorneys at Law www.tevnan.com St. Gregory’s 60 & Over Club to 7:30 p.m., in the Board Room on the second floor, The club usually meets on Tuesdays, at 12:15 Carney Hospital. See: dotpark.org. p.m. for refreshments and 1p.m. in St. Gregory’s Roxbury Resource Center Auditorium. There will be no meetings till the fall.. Year Up, for men and women 18-24, offers training, Dot House Senior Guys & Gals college credits, and internship after the four months “Close to Home” Bingo each Tuesday, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., of attending the program, Come on Thurs., July 10, at the Dorchester House, 1353 Dorchester Ave.; at 10 a.m. sharp. Call 617-989-9100. X161 or 160. also offering many trips. All are welcome. Info: Job –training program, Thurs., July 17, 10 a.m. 617-288-3230. Requirements: h.s. diploma/GED, At least 18 years LEGAL NOTICES Blessed Mother old, cash-handling experience, eligible to work in the COMMONWEALTH OF US, and able to attend classes on Tues. thru Fri., 9 Teresa Seniors a.m. to 4 p.m. Call above phone numbers. MASSACHUSETTS Lunch each Wed. at THE TRIAL COURT College Bound Dorchester PROBATE & FAMILY COURT noon, followed by Bingo, SUFFOLK DIVISION dominoes, and cards, College Bound Dorchester (formerly Federated 24 NEW CHARDON STREET Dorchester Neighborhood Houses) offers a range Cedar Grove Cemetery PO BOX 9667, BOSTON, MA 02114 from 12:30 to 2 p.m. All 617-788-8300 are welcome. of educational programs at multiple locations in Docket No. SU14C0211CA CONSECRATED IN 1868 Dorchester including early education for infants to in the MATTER of K Club six-year-olds, out of school time programs for six On the banks of the Neponset NAH MAY Meetings, every other to13-year-olds, adolescent development programs, Excellent “Pre-Need” Plan Available NOTICE OF PETITION Monday (July 7 (Fourth FOR CHANGE OF NAME and alternative and adult education. The site loca- Inquiries on gravesites and above-ground To all persons interested in of July luncheon) and tions include the Little House, Log School, Ruth garden crypts are invited. Non-Sectarian. petition described: 28, Aug. 11 and 25), at Darling, and Dorchester Place. A petition has been presented Florian Hall, 12:30 p.m. Greenhouse Now Open by Nah May requesting that Nah for your home gardening and cemetery needs May be allowed to change her name as follows: LEGAL NOTICES Cemetery Office open daily at May Mina Bumar 920 Adams St. If you desire to object COMMONWEALTH OF COMMONWEALTH OF COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS Dorchester, MA 02124 thereto, you or your THE TRIAL COURT THE TRIAL COURT THE TRIAL COURT attorney must file a PROBATE & FAMILY COURT PROBATE & FAMILY COURT PROBATE & FAMILY COURT Telephone: 617-825-1360 written appearance in SUFFOLK PROBATE & FAMILY COURT SUFFOLK PROBATE & FAMILY COURT SUFFOLK PROBATE & FAMILY COURT said Court at Boston on 24 NEW CHARDON STREET 24 NEW CHARDON STREET 24 NEW CHARDON STREET BOSTON, MA 02114 BOSTON, MA 02114 BOSTON, MA 02114 or before ten o’clock in Docket No. SU14P1393GD Docket No. SU14P1423GD Docket No. SU98P2912 the MORNING (10:00 AM) on in the MATTER OF in the MATTER OF in the INTERESTS OF “Caring for your life’s journey...” AGNES GRABOWSKI JIMMY PHAN BARRY GREEN July 10, 2014. of DORCHESTER, MA of DORCHESTER, MA of DORCHESTER, MA Witness, HON. JOAN P. CITATION GIVING NOTICE CITATION GIVING NOTICE CITATION GIVING NOTICE ARMSTRONG, First Justice of OF PETITION FOR OF PETITION FOR OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN RESIGNATION OF A GUARDIAN OF this Court. FOR INCAPACITATED PERSON FOR INCAPACITATED PERSON AN INCAPACITATED PERSON June 5, 2014 PURSUANT TO G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 PURSUANT TO G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 RESPONDENT RESPONDENT RESPONDENT Incapacitated Person/Protected Person Ann Marie Passanisi Alleged Incapacitated Person Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all Register of Probate To the named Respondent and all To the named Respondent and all other other interested persons, a petition has other interested persons, a petition has interested persons, a petition has been been filed by Edward Kaplan of West COMMONWEALTH OF been filed by DMH of Westborough, MA, filed by Massachusetts General Hospital Newton, MA in the above captioned MASSACHUSETTS in the above captioned matter alleging that of Boston, MA, in the above captioned matter requesting that the court: Accept Agnes Grabowski is in need of a Guardian matter alleging that Jimmy Phan is in the Resignation of the Guardian. SUFFOLK, ss. and requesting that DMH of Westborough, need of a Guardian and requesting that THE TRIAL COURT The petition asks the Court to make MA (or some other suitable person) be ap- Peter Phan of Revere, MA (or some other a determination that the Guardian and/ PROBATE AND FAMILY COURT pointed as Guardian to serve on the bond. suitable person) be appointed as Guardian NOTICE AND ORDER: The petition asks the Court to determine to serve on the bond. or Conservator should be allowed to PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT that the Respondent is incapacitated, that The petition asks the Court to determine resign; or should be removed for good OF GUARDIAN OF A MINOR the appointment of a Guardian is neces- that the Respondent is incapacitated, that cause; or that the Guardianshhip and/or Docket No. SU14P0462GD sary, and that the proposed Guardian is the appointment of a Guardian is neces- Conservatorship is no longer necessary IN THE INTERESTS OF appropriate. The petition is on file with this sary, and that the proposed Guardian is and therefore should be terminated. The ZAHREA DELORIS GAY court and may contain a request for certain appropriate. The petition is on file with this original petition is on file with the court. OF DORCHESTER, MA specific authority. court and may contain a request for certain You have the right to object to this MINOR You have the right to object to this specific authority. proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or Notice to all Interested Parties proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or You have the right to object to this your attorney must file a written appear- 1. Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a your attorney must file a written appearance proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or ance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the your attorney must file a written appearance on the return date of 07/17/2014. This day MInor filed on02/26/2014 by Maggie L. White return date of 07/17/2014. This day is NOT at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline of Dorchester, MA will be held 07/09/2014 a hearing date, but a deadline date by which return date of 07/17/2014. This day is NOT date by which you have to file the written 09:00 AM Guardianship of Minor Hearing. you have to file the written appearance if a hearing date, but a deadline date by which appearance if you object to the petition. Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd Floor, you object to the petition. If you fail to file you have to file the written appearance if If you fail to file the written appearance Boston, MA 02114 – Family Service Office. the written appearance by the return date, you object to the petition. If you fail to file by the return date, action may be taken 2. Response to Petition: You may re- action may be taken in this matter without the written appearance by the return date, in this matter without further notice to  spond by filing a written response to the Petition further notice to you. In addition to filing the action may be taken in this matter without you. In addition to filing the written ap- Funerals or by appearing in person at the hearing. If you written appearance, you or your attorney further notice to you. In addition to filing the must file a written affidavit stating the written appearance, you or your attorney pearance, you or your attorney must file choose to file a written response, you need to: a written affidavit stating the specific facts File the original with the Court; and specific facts and grounds of your objec- must file a written affidavit stating the  tion within 30 days after the return date. specific facts and grounds of your objec- and grounds of your objection within 30 Cremations Mail a copy to all interested parties at least days after the return date. five (5) business days before the hearing. IMPORTANT NOTICE tion within 30 days after the return date. The outcome of this proceeding may IMPORTANT NOTICE IMPORTANT NOTICE  Pre-Arrangements 3. Counsel for the Minor: the Minor (or limit or completely take away the above- The outcome of this proceeding may The outcome of this proceeding may an adult on behalf of the minor) has the right to named person’s right to make decisions limit or completely take away the above- limit or completely take away the above- request that counsel be appointed for the minor. about personal affairs or financial affairs named person’s right to make decisions named person’s right to make decisions 1140 WASHINGTON STREET 460 GRANITE AVENUE 4. Presence of the Minor at hearing: A or both. The above-named person has the about personal affairs or financial affairs about personal affairs or financial affairs minor over age 14 has the right to be present right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make or both. The above-named person has the or both. The above-named person has DORCHESTER, MA 02124 MILTON, MA 02186 at any hearing, unless the Court finds that it this request on behalf of the above-named right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may is not in the minor’s best interests. person. If the above-named person cannot this request on behalf of the above-named make this request on behalf of the above- THIS IS A LEGAL NOTICE: An important afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at person. If the above-named person cannot named person. If the above-named 617~298~8011 617~698~6264 court proceeding that may affect your rights has State expense. afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at person cannot afford a lawyer, one may been scheduled. If you do not understand this Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First State expense. be appointed at State expense. notice or other court papers, please contact Justice of this Court. Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First an attorney for legal advice. Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, Ann Marie Passanisi Justice of this Court. First Justice of this Court. Service times and directions at: April 9, 2014 Register of Probate Ann Marie Passanisi Patricia M. Campatelli Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate Register of Probate Register of Probate Date: June 11, 2014 www.dolanfuneral.com Date: June 11, 2014 Date: June 11, 2014 June 26, 2014 The Reporter Page 23 Reporter’s Calendar

Friday, June 27 ages 3 to 6 are invited Mills Library on at 2:30 Thursday, July 31 • Senator Elizabeth at 4 p.m. to listen and p.m. to celebrate the • Boston Centers for Warren will give the test the strength of the 60th anniversary of Youth & Family (BCYF) HELP WANTED keynote address at Cod- materials used by the Batman! Children are Neighborhood Block man Square Health pigs. 27 Richmond St. invited to come make DC Party at Mildred Avenue Center’s annual Public For more information and Marvel superhero Community Center, 5 Meeting at 12 p.m. at contact the Lower Mills emblems using felt and Mildred Ave., Mattapan the Great Hall, 6 Norfolk Library at 617-298-7841. tacky glue. This event is from 5 to 7 p.m. St., Dorchester. Event for age groups 6 and up. is open to the public but Wednesday, July 9 For more information Sunday, August 10 Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corp. space is very limited. • The ReadBoston contact the Lower Mills JFK Library Forum: Grant Writer and Major Donor Cultivator RSVP to Lisa Hmblin Storymobile will visit Library at 617-298-7841. On the 40th anniversary JOB AD July 2014 at 617-822-8329 or lisa. Lower Mills Library once of President Nixon’s res- This position manages fund raising research and implementation of our [email protected]. a week for six weeks on Thursday, July 24 ignation, Rick Perlstein Community Investment Tax Credit (CITC) campaign through support of major Wednesdays at 11:15 • Boston Centers for discusses his new book, donor identification, communication and cultivation. Plan, document and follow • Boston Neighbor- a.m. from July 9 to Youth & Family (BCYF) The Invisible Bridge: up on CITC Campaign Committee meetings and actions. Conduct research to identify potential funding sources and major donors (individual, nonprofit hood Basketball League August 13. Large groups Neighborhood Block The Fall of Nixon and and corporate) and maintain databases tracking contacts with same. Plan (BNBL) registration must register. For more Party at Leahy-Holloran the Rise of Reagan. Free. funder/major donor events. Undertake all aspects of grant (proposal) writing, deadline is today for information contact Community Center, 1 4:30 p.m.To register development/production, review and editing, working closely with all levels of teams to compete in Lower Mills Library at Worrell St., Dorchester visit jfklibrary.org or call staff on a program, departmental, agency-wide and/or special initiative basis. Packages and timely deliver proposals to funders. Develop collateral materials the 45th annual sum- 617-298-7841. from 5 to 7 p.m. 617-514-1643. such as agency annual reports, newsletters, etc., in support of communication mer season. Volunteer and donor identification and cultivation. Coordinate information flow with web coaches are also wel- Tuesday, July 15 Monday, July 28 Sat., September 27 and social media site developers. Also responsible for developing grant report come and needed. The • Historic New Eng- • Astronaut Chris Please join the class tracking protocols and reporting on grants. Bachelor’s degree in related field (e.g., business/public administration/ season officially begins land will visit Lower Cassidy shares his of 1974 of Dorchester management); supplemented with two (2) years of solid grant writing and/or on July 7. Registration Mills Library, 27 Rich- experiences living High as they celebrate related major donor cultivation work experience. Excellent organizational skills, forms for team registra- mond St. at 10:30 a.m., on the International a 40th Reunion to be with the ability to manage multiple details and activities along with excellent tion and individual “wait to help children explore Space Station during held at the Quincy verbal and written communication skills required with solid knowledge of Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, Access). Prior relevant experience list” registration can toys and games from the a JFK Library forum, Marriott. Please email in managing major donor identification/cultivation campaigns, developing be downloaded on-line past, discover how they 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.He [email protected] automated systems, protocols and procedures around grant writing and donor at cityofboston.gov/bcyf/ work, and make one to has served on two space for more information. campaigns a plus. Demonstrated ability to raise funds through traditional grant writing and major donor campaigns a plus. Experience in a multi-cultural work recreation.asp. keep. For kids ages 6 and flights, spending a total Ticket prices have not setting and in working effectively to achieve impact in inner-city neighborhoods up. To register and call of 181 days and 23 hours been set yet - visit our sought. Demonstrated experience and ability to multi-task and stay on point • A Mass Audubon 617-298-7841. in space. Free. To regis- FB page “Dorchester and meet frequent deadlines a must. teacher naturalist will ter visit jfklibrary.org or High Class of ‘74 - 40th Send resumes to Executive Director, Codman Square NDC, 587 Washington St, Dorchester, MA 02124 or to [email protected] introduce children to the Wednesday, July 23 call 617-514-1643. Reunion” to get frequent by July 7, 2014. No phone calls please. wonders of the natural • Come to the Lower updates. world through move- ment, games, stories, and art at the Lower Mills Library. This op- portunity is open to age groups 3 and up. Large groups must register. 27 Richmond St. 617- 298-7841

Wednesday, July 2 National Park Service ranger from Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site conducts a two-hour guided walk of Franklin Park, 6 p.m. Meets at the Rest- ing Place picnic tables across from the Lemuel Shattauck Hospital, a short distance inside Franklin Park’s Forest Hills Entrance. Rain or Laura and Irene offer over 50 years of combined shine. Free. No advance reservations are neces- Real Estate Sales experience. Laura, OFD, has been sary. For more informa- servicing the Milton and Dorchester communities tion call 617-566-1689 for over 30 years with a lifetime sales volume of extension 216. over $250 million. Irene is a 3rd generation lifelong resident of Dorchester with roots dating back to Monday, July 7 the 1800’s. Irene brings her background in sales • The Science Behind management, finance and tax consulting to her the Story: The Three clients. Laura and Irene have consistently been Little Pigs at the Lower an award winning, top producing team. Mills Library. Children WELCOME TO BROCKTON Ready for a home of your own? This 7 room colonial has been well cared for and has many upgrades and updates throughout. New windows, gas heating system, updated electric for all your “power” needs. Oversized 2 gar garage with heat and ac with walk up loft for storage. Enjoy your deck and above ground pool this summer. Spend time with family and friends. Schedule 793 Adams Street your viewing today. Dorchester, MA 02124 Offered @ $264,900. Page 24 THE Reporter June 26, 2014 St. Peter’s Teen Center hosts exhibit on Cape Verdean whalers

A panel from a Benjamin Russell painting depicting a whaling voyage to the Azores and Cape Verde is part of the exhibition now on display at the Catholic Charities’ Teen Center at St. Peter’s. Image courtesy New Bedford Whaling Museum

By Dave Eisenstadter chief curator at the Verdean as well as other Verdean music in the inspirational, showing Following its debut in Special to the Reporter Whaling Museum, said Portuguese-speaking background,” Connett the possibilities of the Dorchester, the exhibi- A s t h e y s t a l k e d much of Dorchester’s people who migrated to said. American Dream, De tion will travel to New the migration paths vibrant Cape Verdean the United States. Paulo De Barros, direc- Barros said. Bedford for the home- of the whales they community likely came There are about 3 tor and founder of the The Teen Center has coming of the Charles hunted, Azoreans, Cape through New Bedford and million such people in Teen Center said the worked to send between W. Morgan, the last Verdeans, and Brazilians through the profession of the country, according center has been work- 25 and 30 children to of America’s whaling formed migratory paths whaling. She called New to recent census figures, ing with the Whaling college each year, and ships from the 1800s, of their own, some of Bedford the “Portuguese nearly 1 percent of the Museum for a couple of works with students to from Mystic Seaport in which led directly to Ellis Island.” entire population. years and is a destination improve grades and to Connecticut. The Exhibi- Dorchester. “It was quite fitting we Connett said she was for field trips. provide alternatives to tion will then travel to The New Bedford were asked by the Teen thrilled with the opening De Barros said he was teen violence. the Attleboro Public Whaling Museum opened Center to participate Saturday, which fea- pleased with the exhibit Connett said one of Library in July and to the its traveling exhibition there; it ties the two cities tured Pedro de Carvalho as well. the centerpieces of the San Francisco Maritime on Lusophone – that’s together very nicely,” and Gunga Tavares of the “It shows that Cape exhibition is a Benjamin National Historic Park Portuguese speaking – Connett said. Cape Verde Consulate in Verdeans have been Russell painting from from August through the people at the Catholic The exhibition, titled Boston as well as State involved in contributions the mid 19th century remainder of the year. Charities’ Teen Center “Yankee Baleeiros!”, con- Rep. Evandro Carvalho, to the country for many depicting the results of For more information at St. Peter’s Church sists of more than a dozen and more than 100 other years,” said De Barros, a four-year whaling voy- on the exhibit, visit at 278 Bowdoin St. in eight-foot-by-10-foot fab- attendees. adding that it was im- age. whalingmuseum.org. Dorchester on Saturday, ric panels mounted onto “Lots of kids and a portant for young people Within the painting For more information on June 21. It runs through freestanding walls. On lot of families came in, of Cape Verdean descent are scenes from the the Catholic Charities’ Thursday. each is information about and there was Cape to know that. Azores and Cape Verde, Teen Center in Dorches- Christina Connett, the heritage of Cape Verdean food and Cape The exhibit also is Connett said. ter, visit ccab.org. The Collaborative of Saint Ann Parish and Saint Brendan Parish welcomes you. Please join us! Reverend Jason M. Makos, Pastor

Saint Ann Parish Saint Brendan Parish 243 Neponset Avenue 15 Rita Road Dorchester, MA 02122 Dorchester, MA 02124 617-825-6180 617-436-0310 www.saintannneponset.com www.saintbrendanparish.org