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Dorchester Reporter “The News and Values Around the Neighborhood” Dorchester Reporter “The News and Values Around the Neighborhood” Volume 32 Issue 4 Thursday, January 22, 2015 50¢ Dot legislators see ‘common sense’ as guide to bill filings By laurEn dEzEnski rEportEr staFF A gaggle of three- and four-year-olds fidgeted while sitting on the steps of the Grand Staircase at the State House late Tuesday morning. In front of them: a podium, with state Sen. Sonia Chang Diaz speaking to reporters. The Jamaica Plain legislator, whose district includes pieces of Dorchester and Mattapan, was rolling out one of the first major proposals of the year: a bill establishing universal pre-kindergarten state-wide. By the close of last Friday’s filing deadline, 200 senators and representatives had filed 5,333 bills, many of which will die or else be amended if they make it to Gov. Charlie Baker’s desk. Dorchester’s delegation – Reps. Evandro Carvalho, Dan Hunt, Clarita Stephens shaking hands with City of Boston Property and Construction Management Depart- Russell Holmes, and Dan Cullinane and Senators ment senior project manager, Tom Leahy (OFD); James Hobin, at left. Mark Millstein photo Linda Dorcena Forry and Chang-Diaz – accounted for 113 of the bills. Hunt led the pack with 26, followed by Dorcena Forry and Chang-Diaz at 25 each, Holmes and Cullinane at 13 apiece, and Carvalho at 11. A TriBuTe To SiMpliCiTy A major bill filed by Dorcena Forry would require By JamEs HoBin police officers to issue tickets when stopping indi- spEcial to tHE rEportEr Clarita Stephens’s mural gives Bolling Center viduals on the street, noting the reason, location, and Dorchester’s Clarita a human touch amidst a tower’s steel and glass time of the stop, all of which information will be used Stephens is about to to collect data statewide. “We need these cities and become one of the most Committee Room of the architectural firm president of the Boston towns to focus and look at their own communities talked-about artists in new municipal building Mecanoo to make it City Council, the late (Continued on page 3) the city. Last February, in Dudley Square. happen. Everyone will Bruce C. Bolling. On while a senior at the The mural is one of come together with Feb. 2, a plaque will Jeremiah E. Burke High the final touches in a Mayor Martin Walsh be unveiled with the Carney president School, Miss Stephens three-and-a-half year at a ribbon-cutting that councillor’s name affixed was selected as the project that is the biggest is being planned for to it. winner of a citywide art construction program March – another great The Bruce C. Bolling Davis stepping down competition organized by managed by the city day for Boston. Municipal Center is a six- By Bill Forry the Boston Art Commis- since City Hall Plaza The municipal cen- story complex of offices, was built 50 years ago. ter is being named in conference rooms, and Editor sion in partnership with Andy Davis, the president of Carney Hospital, the Boston Public School Boston architects and honor of a politician public spaces that will be construction outfits who was a champion of the new workplace for an is resigning from his post at Dorchester’s only Department to create hospital, the Reporter has learned. The move comes a design for the mural teamed up with the the neighborhoods and estimated 500 municipal chic Netherlands-based the first Afro-American (Continued on page 9) as Carney – which is owned by the Steward Health that decorates the School Care Network – prepares to absorb new patients and staff from Quincy Medical Center, which has been shut Vietnamese-American priest tapped down by Steward. Davis circulated an e-mail to hospital staff announcing the to lead St. Mark-St. Ambrose parishes decision on Tuesday afternoon. effort that links neigh- “After much consideration, I Two other Dot pastors boring parishes under have decided to step down as the umbrella leadership president of Carney Hospital. to remain at posts; one of one pastor. I have been considering this Andy Davis Last year, in anticipa- step for some time and I Taking his leave given two more churches tion of the reorganization, have been in discussions with all but one of the existing the Steward team so that the transition is least By Bill Forry Nguyen will be the first pastors at Dorchester’s disruptive,” Davis wrote. “As Carney welcomes the Editor Vietnamese-American Catholic parishes were Quincy community both of us feel the time is ideal for A 44-year-old native of man to lead a Dot parish. all asked to resign their (Continued on page 13) Vietnam who settled in The news is not unex- positions. (The exception Dorchester as a teenager pected. The archdiocese was St. Brendan and will become the new pas- of Boston has been In an effort to turn St. Ann, which was around failing Dorches- tor of St. Mark’s and St. planning to name new recently joined under Ambrose parishes this pastors this year as ter Academy, Boston one administrator, Fr. Public Schools and June — while two other part of a system-wide Rev. Linh Nguyen Jason Makos, who began To Dot from Randolph Action for Boston Com- veteran priests will stay consolidation effort his ministry at the dual aimed at streamlining munity Development in Dorchester— under a parish last year.) Each “tri-parish” of Blessed (ABCD) are mulling a the way parishes are ad- managerial shuffle an- pastor could elect to Mother Teresa, St. Pe- partnership that, if ap- ministered. Dorchester nounced last weekend. re-apply for the position ter, and Holy Family, proved by the state this The shift marks a serves as a model for the as pastor of one of the has been chosen to stay spring, will transform pastoral reorganization milestone in the neigh- new collective parishes. on as the pastor. Fr. the Fields Corner school All contents copyright borhood’s Catholic plan, dubbed Disciples in Fr. Jack Ahern, who Vincent Daily, currently beginning in September. © 2015 Boston community: Rev. Linh Mission, a nine-year-old has led the so-called Neighborhood News, Inc. (Continued on page 17) Page 4 SAINT JOSEPH REHABILITATION AND NURSING CARE CENTER 2012-2014 Deficiency-Free Surveys CMS 5 STAR Rating Religious Services Chapel 6 days a week Vietnamese Program/Unit Dementia / Alzheimer’s Program /Unit Multilingual Staff (Vietnamese, Cape Verdean, Tagalog, Spanish, Creole) 3 21 CENTRE STREET, DORCHESTER AVE MA 02122 : Main Tel: 617-825-6320 Make a referral at Page 2 THE REPORTER January 22, 2015 dotnews.com DoT By THe DAy Fiandaca named police, Courts Jan. 22 - 29, 2015 Boston Transportation & Fire A snapshot look at key upcoming events in and Commissioner DA Conley: Officers around the neighborhood for your weekly planner. On the heels of Gov. implementation of the made right call in Charlie Baker’s naming city’s web-based parking fatal ’13 shooting in Thursday (22nd) – Senator Linda Dorcena of Stephanie Pollack ticket payment system Bowdoin-Geneva Forry hosts a special meeting with United States as state transporta- and working on the Custom & Immigration Services (USCIS) and the tion secretary, Boston recent effort to launch Suffolk County District Mayor’s Office of New Bostonians from 6- 8 p.m. Mayor Martin Walsh the ParkBoston mobile Attorney Daniel Conley at St. Angela’s Parish Hall, 1554 Blue Hill Ave., on Sunday announced phone app. She is a says officers acted prop- Mattapan. Topics include federal programs such Gina Fiandaca will member o the National erly when they fatally as Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program serve as the city’s trans- Parking Association and shot Darryl Dookhran on (HFRPP), Deferred Action for Parental Account- portation commissioner. president of the New Dec. 7, 2013. ability (DAPA) and Deferred Action for Childhood Fiandaca has worked in England Parking Coun- In a letter sent on Darryl Dookhran Arrivals (DACA) and their impact on the Haitian the Boston Transporta- cil. Fiandaca has been Tuesday to BPD Com- community. Senator Forry encourages everyone tion Department since interim commissioner missioner William Evans, Conley says Dookhran who may have friends or family affected by these 1990, including eight since May 2014. had opened fire on the officers - hitting one of them programs to attend. Parking provided by Jubilee years as parking clerk, – Michael Norton/ in the arm: Christian Church at 1500 Blue Hill Ave. Call and the mayor’s office STATE HOUSE “The investigation revealed that Boston Police Teddy Chery, Director of Constituent Services for credits her with leading NEWS SERVICE Officer Ryan Lenane and Sergeant Thomas Teahan Sen. Forry: [email protected] or 617- fired their service weapons in the proper exercise 722-1150. of self-defense and the defense of others. Sergeant Saturday (24th) – The Mattapan Patriots longtime Dot activist Teahan and Officer Lehane fired on Mr. Dookhran Annual Banquet will be held from 3 - 6 p.m. at only after he shote Officer Lenane in the left arm. the Mattahunt Community Center, 100 Hebron Foley tapped to lead city’s Mr. Dookhran then engaged Sergeant Teahan and St., Mattapan. The banquet closes out the season. Officers Lehane and William Traft (who did not fire Dinner is served, trophies are handed out, and its landmarks Commission his weapon) in an excahnge of gunfire in a thickly an early evening of fun for our Mattapan Patriots settled residential and commerical neighborhood. family. The price for adults (parents, board mem- A longtime Dorchester Under the circumstances, Sergeant Teahan and bers, other guests) is $10, payable at the door. All civic activist has been Officer Lenane acted reasonably and lawfully when coaches, football players and cheerleaders attend tapped to lead the city they discharged their service weapons.” at no cost.
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