Mission Hill Gazette • Boston’S Drinking Water Complies with State and Federal Standards According to MWRA Report
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WHAT’S HAPPENING ON MAIN STREETS, PAGE 4 FREE 20 PAGES Mission Hill BOOK YOUR VOLUME 29 • NUMBER 6 POST IT Call Your Advertising Rep Printed on (617)524-7662 recycled paper GAZETTE Serving Mission Hill and the Longwood Medical and Academic Area 617-524-2626 • www.MissionHillGazette.com JULY 2, 2021 — AUGUST 5, 2021 Long-time Mission Beloved Mission FIRST MISSION HILL ARTS FESTIVAL Hill champion for Main advocate KICKS OFF JAZZ-INSPIRED SUMMER all, Theresa Parks, Adline Stallings has passes at her home passed away BY SETH DANIEL BY LAUREN BENNETT Theresa Parks, a Mission Hill Mission Hill resident Adline legend, never locked the door to Stallings was known for her self- her hard-fought homestead in lessness and her constant fight Mission Park. for the betterment of others, In fact, anyone could simply passed away on June 1 at the knock and walk in. age of 76, but she leaves behind One might think that to be a legacy of caring for others and a little dangerous for someone standing up for what she be- living in the middle of the city on lieved in, especially through her busy Huntington Avenue with so work on the Task Force at the much hustle and bustle and po- Mission Main development. Continued on page 6 Continued on page 3 The 1st annual Mission Hill Arts Festival kicked off on Saturday, June 26, with Anibal Cruz MBTA calls for 24/7 work in and the Blue Island Project in The Yard at the Tobin. More concert and art show dates will take place in July and August. Read about it on Page 7. Mission Hill through August STAFF REPORT pact areas from South Hunting- ton Street to Brigham Circle. CAMH votes on Flann O’Brien site The MBTA announced an ac- The T announced on Wednes- celerated construction schedule day that from Monday, August BY LAURA PLUMMER 1441 Tremont Street security, such as a vault, metal on Mission Hill’s E Line train 2, through Sunday, August 29, Jody Mendoza and Richie walls and ceiling, 24/7 surveil- system that includes night work crews will work around the clock The Community Alliance of Pena appeared before CAMH to lance, and an interior obscured through July, and 24/7 work to replace outdated track includ- Mission Hill (CAMH) met virtu- pitch their idea for Team Green from the street. Industry leader throughout all of August – an ing ties, ballast, and rail as well ally on June 16, where it viewed Mission Hill, a cannabis dispen- Sira Natural is currently mento- ambitious schedule that will im- a presentation about a new can- sary at 1441 Tremont St. ring the team. Continued on page 5 nabis dispensary and voted on Mendoza and Pena touted Team Green would create the old Flann O’Brien’s property. their Boston roots. Their pro- around twenty new jobs that pay Around 26 members of the public posed dispensary would be about a living wage. Eighty-five percent attended. 1,000 square feet, and would include industry standards for Continued on page 2 CAMH vota en sitio de Flann O’Brien, escucha nueva propuesta BY LAURA PLUMMER Asistieron alrededor de 26 miem- Mendoza y Peña promociona- bros del público. ron sus raíces en Boston. Su La Alianza Comunitaria dispensario tendría aproxima- de Mission Hill (CAMH) se re- 1441 Tremont St. damente mil pies cuadrados e unió virtualmente el 16 de ju- Jody Mendoza y Richie Peña incluiría estándares de seguri- nio, donde vio una presentación presentaron su propuesta para dad de la industria, como una sobre un nuevo dispensario de Team Green Mission Hill, un bóveda, paredes y techo de metal, cannabis y votaron en la anti- dispensario de cannabis en 1441 gua propiedad de Flann O’Brien. Tremont St. Continued on page 2 2 2 JULY 2, 2021 • Mission Hill GAZETTE • Boston’s drinking water complies with state and federal standards according to MWRA report BY JOHN LYNDS from the Massachusetts Depart- “In our Spring 2021 sampling, ment of Environmental Protec- our lead results of 6.8 ppb were The Massachusetts Water Re- tion (MassDEP) acknowledging back below the 15 ppb Action sources Authority (MWRA) has BWSC’s consistent performance Level,” said BWSC in the report. begun mailing its Annual Water in the public drinking water sys- BWSC offers a Lead Replace- Quality Report to every house- tem. ment Incentive Program to qual- hold in its service area. With the Flint water crisis ified homeowners to remove pri- In the report published online bringing more awareness of lead vate lead pipes. You can find more the MWRA includes statistics on in tap water, the water provided information in this report and on State Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz pictured at her campaign the quality of Boston’s drinking by BWSC and the MWRA is lead- www.bwsc.org. announcement. water, which the Boston Water free when it leaves the reservoirs. “This report brings you the re- and Sewer Commission (BWSC) “However, lead present in wa- sults of our annual water quality State Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz says meets state and federal ter may come from the service testing. While 2020 was a year standards. line feeding your building, pri- filled with uncertainty, one thing announces candidacy for governor “This report contains an vate plumbing, lead solder or old remained constant: the quality BY LAUREN BENNETT “Beacon Hill insiders drag their annual update on the quality plumbing fixtures,” the statement of your drinking water was ex- feet every step of the way, say- of drinking water supplied in continues. “We care about lead cellent,” said MWRA’s Executive Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz ing ‘think smaller.’ Instead, we partnership with the Massachu- because infants and children who Director Fred Laskey. “MWRA announced on June 23 that she fought unapologetically for the setts Water Resources Authority drink water containing lead in takes hundreds of thousands of is joining the race for governor of things working families actually (MWRA),” said the BWSC in a excess of the action level could ex- tests each year and, for 2020, we Massachusetts. Chang-Diaz cur- need.” statement. “The water delivered perience delays in their physical again meet every federal and rently serves as the state senator Chang-Diaz is a Jamaica is of high quality and complies or mental development. Children state drinking water standard.” for the Second Suffolk District, Plain resident, along with her with federal and state quality could show slight deficits in atten- Laskey said the MWRA also which includes parts of Jamaica husband and two children. standards. While the world is tion span and learning abilities. wants its customers to know that Plain. “Our state is at a turning engaged in a battle with corona- Adults who drink this water over their water was again named The Boston Globe and other point now, and we face a choice,” virus, BWSC and MWRA want to many years could develop kidney ‘Best of the Best’ at a national outlets report that Ben Downing she said in the video. “Do we go assure that the water delivered problems or high blood pressure.” taste test conducted by the Amer- and Danielle Allen, both Demo- back to business as usual, or do is safe from the virus. BWSC According to the report the ican Water Works Association. crats, have also announced their we run toward problems with has been continuing to maintain BWSC’s 2020 lead sampling of “In just a few years, our water candidacies, and incumbent Gov. the urgency and determination excellent drinking water through higher risk homes, lead results treatment has been upgraded Charlie Baker has not made an to solve them. That’s the kind of the investment of millions of dol- were 25.2 parts per billion (ppb), from chlorine with its taste and announcement regarding run- fire we need in government.” lars to upgrade its infrastruc- with 5 samples over the lead Ac- odor issues, to ozone and ultra- ning for a third term. She tweeted on the 23rd, ture.” tion Level of 15 ppb while copper violet light, which resulted in “I’ve spent my life listening to along with a group of photos of The report says BWSC has results of 137 ppb were well be- better tasting, safer water,” said powerful people tell me to slow her supporters holding signs, “I once again received a citation low the Action Level of 1300 ppb. Laskey. down, to think smaller, to wait,” was proud to kick off our cam- Chang-Diaz said in a video pub- paign today alongside so many lished on her YouTube channel organizers, community leaders, CAMH fications from the City’s Equity ed on a proposal by MH Tremont on Wednesday. & residents working on the front Program and the State’s Econom- LLC to convert the former bar Continued from page 1 “Voters didn’t send me to the lines for justice -- and who are ic Empowerment program. Flann O’Brien’s into a restau- State Senate to wait. I’m Sonia hungry for change. We are the Team Green’s closest compe- rant with indoor and outdoor would be Boston residents, with Chang-Diaz, and Beacon Hill has ones we’ve been waiting for. We tition would be Raices on the seating. The company would also a focus on minorities and those Hill at 123 Terrace St., a mere learned three things about me: I can build the Commonwealth we manage rental properties above impacted by cannabis criminal- speak up, I organize, and I win.” know is possible.” five-minute walk away. But the ization.