VOL. 118 - NO. 17 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, APRIL 25, 2014 $.35 A COPY Mayor Walsh Expands PAUL REVERE RIDES AGAIN INTO HISTORY Residents’ Leaf and Yard by Sal Giarratani Waste Collection Program Residents Can Now Compost Their Yard Waste Year Round New in 2014, the City of Boston’s Department of Public Works (DPW) is adding four summer collections of leaf and yard waste to its spring and fall yard waste collection pro- gram. DPW will collect residents’ yard waste curbside and it will be composted. Spring collection runs for four weeks from April 28th to May 23rd. Summer collection will be during the weeks of June 16th, July 14th, August 11th, and September 15th. Fall collection runs for seven weeks, from October 13th to November 28th. Yard waste collection instructions: • Place leaves and yard debris in large paper leaf bags or open barrels labeled “yard waste” (no plastic bags). Yard waste stickers for barrels are available by calling 617-635- 4500, or by request online at: http://www.cityofboston.gov/ mayor/24?topic=yardwastesticker. • Tie branches with string: 3' maximum length, 1" maxi- mum diameter. Do not put branches in barrels. • Barrels, bags and branches should be placed on curb by 7:00 am on recycling day during the 4-week spring collec- th rd tion, April 28 through May 23 . Capt. Tom Coots and Paul Lane from the Charlestown Militia with Paul Revere (center) Leaf and yard waste collection information is avail- at City Square Park. (Photo by Sal Giarratani) able online at: http://www.cityofboston.gov/publicworks/ wastereduction/yardwaste.asp. Residents can find Once again like clockwork, Paul Revere This year City Square was jammed packed their trash and recycling pick-up information online at: rides to warn the country folk that “The with young families all waiting for Revere http://www.cityofboston.gov/myneighborhood/. British are coming! The British are com- to arrive in Charlestown. He was escorted ing!” This year I caught up with Paul right once again by the National Lancers. Once after he crossed over the High Bridge into in City Square, he first warned members of City Square, Charlestown where he stopped the Charlestown Militia about the British for folks to take his photo. Back in 1775, he landing in Boston Harbor. Then, it was off took a boat over to Charlestown and this was on horseback to Lexington and Concord News Briefs officially his historic Ride. where the shooting would begin. by Sal Giarratani Democrats War on Women? WE ARE BOSTON!! Up in New Hampshire, State Rep. Marilinda Garcia, R-Salem, decided several months ago to run for the U.S. House seat now occupied by Annie Custer, D-NH, and the Democrats right off the bat started the battle against her. She’s been called homophobic, tea bagger and a Koch brothers supporter. However, she isn’t any of that. She is a Harvard graduate. She is half-Italian/half-Latina. Her paternal family has been here since before the Pilgrims landed and she isn’t a moon-bat. The Republicans need to get behind her candi- dacy and restore some sanity to New Hampshire WE ARE politics. Democrats like talking out of both sides of their STRONG!! mouth when it comes to who is warring on women. Remember, 2012 when the Massachusetts Demo- cratic leadership elbowed Marisa DeFranco out of WE ARE the convention giving Elizabeth Warren a free ride against then U.S. Senator Scott Brown that year? PROUD!! I am rooting for both Garcia up north and DeFranco, who this time around is running against John Tierney in the Democratic primary for his U.S. House seat up in the North Shore. They Did it to King too Back following Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s August 28, 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Meb Keflezighi, 38, is first American male to win the Boston Marathon since 1983 (Continued on Page 11) crossing the finish line Monday with an official time of 2:08:37, according to the Boston Marathon’s Facebook page. The Boston Marathon has become a national symbol of strength and determination. THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON This office is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PMPM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information Page 2 POST-GAZETTE, APRIL 25, 2014 Stirpe by Prof. Edmund Res Publica Turiello Nostra by David Trumbull A weekly column highlighting some of the more interesting aspects of our ancestry...our lineage...our roots. Apparel Executive Who Sent American Jobs to Mexico HORACE Now Running for U.S. Senate and enjoyed the friendship “I don’t envy anybody running for high Perdue is one of seven Republicans of other poets like Evergil, office who sent jobs overseas,” is what I said running in the primary election to be held Tibullus, and Varius. to the reporter from MSNBC when he asked May 20th, If no candidate wins a majority Horace died at the age of me about David Perdue, a Republican can- of the vote there will be a run-off election 58, in the year 8 BC, only a didate for United States Senator from Geor- between the top two candidates on July 22nd. few weeks after the death of gia. According to the news story, which is Perdue leads in the polls, but not by enough his patron. During his fruit- available online at http://www.msnbc.com/ to suggest that he can avoid having to ful years he preferred the msnbc/david-perdue-georgia-outsourcing-past, face a Republican in the run-off. On the country life to urban living, “When Perdue arrived at Haggar Clothing Co., Democratic side, Michelle Nunn, daughter and this is reflected in his in 1994, the historic menswear company of Sam Nunn, a conservative Democratic greatest poetry, the themes was struggling.” That year, 1994, was also former senator from Georgia, looks in good of which are drawn from when the North American Free Trade Agree- shape to win her party’s nomination in the rural life. ment (“NAFTA”) entered into force to give May 20th primary. The works of Horace are Mexico duty-free access to the U.S. market The seat is currently held by Saxby divided into four distinct cat- for apparel. Mr. Perdue seized the opportu- Chambliss, a Republican, and it is widely egories: 1. Odes (a poem nity and moved about 1,700 jobs from Texas considered to be one of the very few oppor- written to be sung); 2. Epodes to Mexico. It was what was going on at the tunities Democrats have in 2014 to cap- (a lyric poem in which a time. He was certainly not alone. ture a senate seat current held by a short line often follows a long While NAFTA, overall, failed to live up to Republican. line); 3. Satires (ridicule and the claims of supporters and the fears of As you read this column, I am in Cape Town, sarcasm); and 4. Epistles detractors, it certainly was true, in the first South Africa, attending the International Wool (letters). few years of the agreement, that in the cloth- Textile Organization Congress as a member of In his Odes, the theme ing sector, the flow of jobs from the U.S. to the America delegation. There will be no Res dwells on change or fickle- Mexico validated 1992 Presidential candidate Publicacolumn in the May 2nd Post-Gazette. I’ll ness, the pleasures of rural Ross Perot’s prediction of a “giant sucking be back in print when I return from Cape Town Horace, as imagined by life, friendship, and the his- sound” of jobs flowing south of the border. the following week. Anton von Werner tory of Rome. These are famous for their rhythm and This week we continue were often imitated by later with our coverage of the day poets. In his Epodes he scholars in the Augustan became quite emotional, East Boston Main Streets to Hold Forum period of the Golden Age of often to the point of ridicul- Latin literati, and Quintus ing other men of his time. with City Councilor Michelle Wu Horatius Flaccus is our The Satires show a high On Friday, April 25th, City owners as she works to that could serve as an ex- celebrity. His popular name degree of perfection in Councilor Michelle Wu will improve the system. At the ample for other processes? was Horace and he was born “Hexameter” while at the hold a forum at the East Bos- forum, business owners will These personal stories are about 65 BC on a farm in a same time expresses an ton YMCA’s Community have an opportunity to talk an essential starting point rural area of Italy called equally high degree of ridi- Venusia. At the age of 11 or cule. His Epistles were writ- Room, 215 Bremen Street, about what worked and what for identifying commonali- 12, he was taken to Rome ten late in his career and from 8:30 am-10:00 am with didn’t work throughout the ties, both positive and nega- where he was educated were also in hexameter. In local business owners to dis- process of opening. Was tive in the permitting and under a celebrated teacher, these letters he attempted to cuss their experiences navi- there a specific step that licensing process. and later at the age of 17 he become a social and literary gating the permitting and was most frustrating and For further details or was sent to Athens in order critic with respect to Roman licensing process with the took the most time? Were questions, please call Max to further his education life at that time.