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Condos Planned for Infamous Savin Hill Ave Dorchester Reporter “The News and Values Around the Neighborhood” Volume 31 Issue 11 Thursday, March 13, 2014 50¢ ANCIENT SOUVENIRS Race heats up for Fifth Suffolk state rep’s seat Garrison lawsuit over ballot is tossed out By Gintautas Dumcius The Democrats who news eDitor seek to replace Hen- One special primary riquez are facing an election down, one more even shorter timeline to go. than Hunt and his fellow Dorchester voters have contenders, who knew in gone to the polls eight November that Walsh times in the last 12 would be taking the months, including last mayoral oath of office in week, when they picked January: The primary former State House aide election in the Fifth Suf- Dan Hunt as Marty folk is less than three Walsh’s successor in weeks away. a five-way Democratic The Democrats on the primary. primary ballot include The next one is set Evandro Carvalho, an for April 1, with five attorney with Cape Democrats competing to Verdean roots; Karen replace former state Rep. Charles-Peterson, chief Carlos Henriquez, who of staff at the state An outcropping of Roxbury Puddingstone on top of Savin Hill. Photo by James Hobin was ousted from his Fifth Department of Telecom- Suffolk seat in February munications; Jennifer by an overwhelming Johnson, a local activist Roxbury Puddingstone in Dorchester majority of his House who was involved with colleagues. (Continued on page 5) By James HoBin upon an outcropping of at the end of the last ice form along this radius. special to tHe reporter Roxbury Puddingstone, age. Beneath that, there The land at the outer Dorchester is ap- you will be looking at is anywhere from 1,500 edge of the radius was History in the making: proximately six square something that has been to 3,000 feet of Roxbury uplifted, while the land miles, and almost every in that spot for millions Puddingstone bedrock inside was lowered. This square inch of it has been of years. formed over 300 million lowering resulted in the Dorcena Forry to host scraped, blasted, planted, The ground on which years ago. Underneath formation of a declivity, slanted, hollowed out, we stand is built up in all of this is another or basin, which eventu- St. Patrick’s Day fete heaped upon, boarded layers, like a city set on layer of bedrock: igneous ally filled with water to over, wired, piped, poled, ancient ruins. The top granite. make a bay, ringed by By peter F. stevens in these parts how long and/or paved. Underfoot, layer is a thin veneer This article refers to elevations: Middlesex reporter staFF the breakfast has been a very little remains of of sidewalks and roads. events that occurred Fells to the north, the On Sun., March 16, tradition and how it has our natural environ- Next, there can be up to within an area of a Blue Hills to the south, the date of this year’s been run and by whom, ment – very little, that twelve feet of fill, which five-to-ten mile radius and Arlington Heights to traditional St. Patrick’s the answers might run is, except for Roxbury is common in urban of present-day Boston. the west. These boundar- Day Breakfast in South from “always” to “since Puddingstone. And if, areas. Beneath that is About 400 million years ies are still in place and Boston, state Sen. the first parade” (of- walking down the street, soil that was deposited ago, seismic pressure mark the perimeter of Linda Dorcena Forry will ficially in 1901). Many people would also as- you happen to come about 12,000 years ago, caused fault lines to (Continued on page 10) make history. Her first turn as the host of the sume that the event has much-ballyhooed event always been a “political will provide a political, roast.” The facts are Condos planned cultural, and gender murkier, and a case “hat trick” at a venue can be made that the for infamous in South Boston that breakfast started as a has always been where dinner or banquet. the Boston Irish “boyos” South Boston’s St. Savin Hill Ave. “hole” ruled the podium. As Patrick’s Day Breakfast owes a historical nod By Gintautas Dumcius proposal for 14 units of a Haitian American to the Charitable Irish news eDitor housing, which would be woman, a resident of Developers behind a located directly across Dorchester, and the Society. That venerable proposal to build condo- from the Savin Hill first non-Irish-American organization can lay miniums on top of the MBTA station. There host, Dorcena Forry will virtually undisputed Savin Bar & Kitchen would be space for retail turn three stereotypes of (Continued on page 19) and a long-vacant plot of on the first level. the breakfast on their Private developer An architect’s rendering depicts a proposed con- heads. land next door explained dominium project above and next to Savin Bar & some details of the plan David Higgins, who The breakfast will be Kitchen on Savin Hill Avenue. telecast by New England on Tuesday night. In has co-owned the prop- Image courtesy RODE Architects Inc. an appearance before erty for almost over a Cable News beginning at the Columbia Savin decade, is partnering popular breakfast nook, I-93, would be cantile- 10 a.m. Hill Civic Association’s up with Ken Osherow and Savin Scoop, the ice vered over the restau- Historically speaking, planning committee, and Driscoll Docanto, cream store on the same rant, but the beams there are urban myths about the breakfast that the developers and their who own Savin Bar block. would be hidden behind All contents copyright architects discussed and Kitchen. Osherow The proposed units, a façade. “At the end of aren’t completely ac- © 2013 Boston the transit-orientated also owns McKenna’s, a which would overlook (Continued on page 6) curate. If you ask many Neighborhood News, Inc. Page 2 THE REPoRTER March 13, 2014 Reporter’s Notebook On The Record Gov hopeful Berwick: Catholic clergy, cops Voters ready for discuss gun violence a ‘new progressivism’ By Gintautas Dumcius “When you think about how we’re news eDitor going to reform corrections, or fight Don Berwick stays away from substance abuse in the commonwealth, caffeine. or really get education to a universal “Decaf, please,” he reminds a platform of excellence, those agendas waitress at McKenna’s in Savin Hill, require strong leadership for innova- as she goes to refill his cup. tion and improvement,” Berwick says. He got off caffeine just before he “That’s in my wheelhouse. That’s what moved to Washington, D.C. He had I’ve done in my whole career. And a headache for three or four months. other candidates can claim leadership And then, it “changed my life.” experience but not at that level.” “I didn’t like the stimulation all the Berwick founded the nonprofit time,” he says. Institute for Healthcare Improvement in the 1980s. He started with two employees, ended up with 125 em- ployees and 300 associates and faculty members around the world. “That’s enough for a substantial bureaucracy to always be a threat,” he says. “The goal of leadership is to tear down walls, it’s to create the sense of a single team and to give the workforce the support they need to act like a team.” He worked in a style similar to Catholic clergy and law enforcement leaders convened for a meeting to discuss gun violence in the city. The meeting was held on Feb. 28 at St. Peter’s Teen Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire Center on Bowdoin Street. Among those in attendance were Commissioner mayor of New York, surrounded by William Evans, left, and Cardinal Seán O’Malley. Also on hand were District his employees instead of being stuck Attorney Dan Conley and about 40 priests from city parishes. inside a plush corner office. Ideas and Photo courtesy Terrence Donilon/Archdiocese of Boston conflicts were processed “in real time,” Berwick says. “You didn’t wait. You didn’t bake the cake and then hand Don Berwick it to someone, you cooked together.” JFK Library to host Congressional reform forum But much of the conflict on Beacon Josh Bolten and Andy Card, who each served as chief of staff to President On the campaign trail, stimulation Hill happens between branches of George W. Bush, are scheduled to join Mack McLarty, who held that post can seem like a necessity. The days government: It’s been the one constant, under President Bill Clinton, at a town hall meeting on Congressional reform are long, a never-ending schedule of as governors and lawmakers come and March 26 at the JFK Library in Dorchester. According to The Bipartisan greeting voters and phoning donors. go. The Democratic supermajorities in Policy Center, the event is being held in partnership with USA Today and the No wonder campaigns run on the House and Senate have their own Edward Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate and will also feature Dunkin’, or a reasonable facsimile. executives to answer to: The House institute co-founder Victoria Kennedy, former Senate Majority Leader Trent But Berwick does not. speaker and the Senate president. Lott, and former Sen. Olympia Snowe, co-chair of the center’s Commission on “Part of it is adrenaline,” he says, Berwick says he would have an Political Reform. The center announced its plans for the forum on Monday. when asked about his alternative to “open door policy” with lawmakers, – M. Norton/SHNS caffeine. “The best part of it to me is and work, legislator by legislator, to when you’re in a room with people.” put together a coalition of progressives.
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