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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019 PUBLISHED EVERY OTHER THURSDAY TT HEHE NN OROR TT HH EE NN DD EMAIL: [email protected] WWW.NORTHENDREGIONALREVIEW.COM [email protected] RR EGIOEGIO NN AA LL RR EVIEWEVIEW Maria’s Pastry Shop NY FEAST OF THO AN closing ST. +7 S 6 PAGE its doors By Phil Orlandella Maria’s North End Pastry Shop on 46 Cross St. has decided to close up shop after 50 years of servicing the neighborhood and thousands of other shoppers. The Italian bakery, known for some of the City’s finest cannoli and other pastries will close the store on Sept. 15. Owner Maria Merola has worked at the shop since 1970, when it was still owned by Modern Pastry, and bought the business in 1982 and has operat- ed it since then. Maria after working for five decades and owning her own (MARIA’S PASTRY SHOP Pg. 4) Thousands attended the annual Feast of St. Anthony. The four-day Feast ran August 22-25. Friends of the North End NEWRA 47th reunion scheduled amends By Phil Orlandella Coppola’s challenge: What was the name of the plumbing com- policy on Friends of the North End are pany on Prince Street across from coordinating their 47th reunion Saint Leonard Church? scheduled for Saturday, Sept. Correct answers will be placed neighbor 21, featuring dinner by Spinelli’s in a hat and the winning name will Catering. be drawn and will be the winner of notification The extremely popular get the 2019 WOZ Award. together will be held at the Sons of For many years, the Friends Italy, 117 Swanson St., Winchester have made contributions to By Phil Orlandella starting at 2 p.m. with dinner North End organizations includ- served at 3:30 p.m. ing, North End Against Drugs An amended North End/ The menu includes: hors d’oeu- (NEAD), North End Athletic Waterfront Residents’ Association vres, antipasto, cavatelli marinara, Association (NEAA), North End (NEWRA) policy has been adopt- trite, sausage peppers and onions. Music and Performing Arts Center ed by the community’s non-profit (NEMPAC) helping to support organization. Cost of $60 will cover the meal Women in Jazz is shown above. and wine on each table. There will programs and events. The new policy allows residents be a cash bar. Deadline for submit- A 50-50 drawing will be held Friends of North End Library (especially abutters) affected by ting a check is Sept. 14, made out and parking is available in the proposed zoning, licensing or con- to Sam Viscione and send to 20 back of the building. For more struction ample time to review and Hill Crest Road, Burlington, MA details call 781-272-7674 or 781- sponsor Women in World Jazz the opportunity for input on things 01803. 835-8122. that directly pertain to the North By Phil Orlandella Street School on Saturday, Sept. 21, from 2-3 p.m. End/Waterfront neighborhood. The policy amended by Women in Jazz, an internation- Sponsored by the Friends of the NEWRA is not a City of Boston TH al ensemble that brings together North End Library, this education- 109 FISHERMAN’S FEAST regulation and/or policy; it pertains some of the finest world jazz musi- al concert celebrates the diversity cians, will be held at North Bennet COVERAGE ON PAGE 5 (WOMEN IN JAZZ Pg. 5) (NEWRA POLICY Pg. 3) 2 PAGE 2 REGIONAL REVIEW SEPTEMBER 5, 2019 ‘Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.’ BILL OF RIGHTS, Amendment I THE REAL AMERICANForum CARNAGE Whenever a mass shooting occurs -- which is to say, fairly regularly somewhere in America these days -- investigators scour for clues as to the “motive” of the gunman. Often, as was the case in El Paso two weeks ago, the shooter espouses some sort of political ideology, whether it be homegrown white nation- alism or foreign-based anti-Americanism. On occasion, individuals with mental illness are the perpetrators. But just as often, as was the case in the country music shooting in Las Vegas two years ago, there is no discernible motive, other than that the shooter simply is unhappy and frustrated with his lot in life. That appears to have been the situation with this past weekend’s shooting spree in Texas by a 36-year-old man who was fired from his job and who was described by his neighbor as a loner. In short, the shooter fit a certain profile -- a young, white male with no money, no wife or girlfriend, no children, and no prospects. However, each and every one of these shootings, regardless of the perpetrator’s motive, have two things in common: Innocent Americans are being shot while going about their daily lives and the shooter had military-style weaponry that allowed him to kill and maim dozens of Americans with a single pull of the trigger. About 13,000 innocent Americans are slaughtered by guns every year in this country. (There also are about 26,000 suicides by guns each year). To put that 13,000 figure into perspective, that is almost twice the number of American soldiers who have been killed in the entirety of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. GUEST OP-ED Cumulatively over the past 15 years, 7000 American soldiers lost their lives in our Mideast wars, while 200,000 innocent Americans have been killed by gunfire right here in America. In addition to those who died, An unlikely ally in fight to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions more than one million Americans have been shot and wounded in the past 15 years. 150,000 leak surveys at 78,000 and horizontal drilling has made When President Trump used the term, “American Carnage,” in his By David A. Ridenour production sites. Investigators America the world's top producer Inaugural Address, it was not entirely clear what he was referring to. Environmentalists have an found a leak rate of just 0.16 per- of natural gas. Yet even as produc- However, given that more Americans are shot, killed, and maimed by unlikely new ally in the fight to cent, significantly less than official tion hits record heights, methane guns every year on their home soil than anywhere else in the world, our reduce emissions: The oil and gas EPA estimates. And the majority emissions have plummeted, thanks American Carnage is indeed, very real. industry. of the leaks were repaired within to companies' investments in envi- Over the past few years, several 60 days. Fixing a leak could cut a ronmentally-friendly equipment WHEN WILL IT BE OUR TURN? major firms have spent millions production site's emissions by up and practices. Hurricane Dorian, the fifth Category 5 hurricane to hit the U.S. in of dollars on high-tech equipment to 40 percent. In the Appalachia basin stretch- the past four years, has captivated many of us for the past week as we designed to limit carbon emis- The partnership also moni- ing from Alabama to New York, watched the latest forecasts to see where it would strike the American sions. A new report from the tored wells. During natural gas production jumped nearly 400 mainland. Environmental Partnership, an extraction, a liquid mixture often percent, while methane emissions The increasing intensity of tropical storms has been predicted for association of top energy firms, builds up in wells and has to be plummeted 70 percent between decades by those who have studied the effects of climate change caused shows these efforts are bearing manually removed. Without prop- 2011 and 2017. In the Eagle Ford by the burning of fossil fuels that is heating up the planet. fruit. er care, the removal process can basin in Texas, production jumped Superstorm Sandy was an example of the catastrophic effects that can The report chronicles the part- release methane. To prevent this, 130 percent, while emissions fell occur when a huge storm strikes our heavily-populated urban areas in nership's first year of existence. It member companies monitored 65 percent. And in the Permian the northeast. The Boston area was largely spared from Sandy’s wrath launched in late 2017 with just 26 132,000 cases of liquid unload- basin, which runs through west- (though we did have extended power outages), but we have to face the members -- but has since grown ing to ensure firms maintained ern Texas and southeastern New reality that given the acceleration of the effects of climate change and to 65, including more than half of best practices and minimized emis- Mexico, production increased 100 rising sea levels, it will be our turn, sooner rather than later, for a cata- the top U.S. natural gas producers. sions. percent while emissions fell 39 strophic weather event to visit us with devastating force. The group concentrates on The partnership also upgrad- percent. reducing emissions of methane, ed "pneumatic controllers," the Energy firms have also helped a potent greenhouse gas that mechanical devices used to con- slash emissions by enabling power contributes to global warming. trol gas temperature and pressure plants to switch from dirty coal to R EGIONAL R E VIEW Without proper monitoring and during extraction. Member com- cheaper, cleaner-burning natural - FOUNDED IN 1967 - maintenance, the drills, pipelines, panies fixed or replaced 30,000 gas. Thanks to this transition, elec- PUBLISHER: Debra DiGregorio - [email protected] and other equipment used in ener- "high bleed" controllers, which tricity-related emissions recently gy operations can leak methane release relatively large amounts hit a 25-year low. EDITOR AT LARGE: PHIL ORLANDELLA into the atmosphere. of methane.

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