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The RMV News Briefs after their expiration. Service Center. At this time, has introduced this initiative “The RMV is encouraging all customers will not need a feder- and fee waiver pursuant to by Sal Giarratani of our customers to stay safe, ally-compliant REAL ID for the Executive Order 39 issued by save time, and go online dur- purposes of boarding domestic ing the COVID-19 pandemic to fl ights prior to October 1, 2021 (Continued on Page 10) GOP Pushes Police Reform Bill Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill have introduced the JUSTICE Act to reform policing after the national North Washington Street Bridge unrest over the killing of George Floyd. The bill has been drafted by U.S. Senator Tim Scott, R-SC, and Replacement Update ... contains incentives for local departments to restrict the use of chokeholds, purchasing body cameras, The Massachusetts Depart- keeping information on use of force incidents, and no ment of Transportation invites knock raids. you to a virtual public infor- The bill would also make lynching a federal crime, mation meeting addressing something that should have been done long ago. Also upcoming work on the North the bill would add more funding to recruit more people Washington Street Bridge. To of color as police offi cers. provide ample opportunity for Scott is the only black Republican and stated at a the public to participate, three recent press conference that he understands the need meetings will be offered on for policing reforms. He added that he personally has June 30th, July 1st, and July 2nd. been stopped for “driving while black,” including earlier All meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. this year when he was pulled over for allegedly not The North Washington Street activating his turn signal early enough before switch- Bridge Project is entering a new ing lanes in traffi c. phase of work. In July, traf- It’s About Time fi c on the permanent bridge You’re free to move about the cabin but not without will begin shifting onto the a mask. Major U.S. airlines have fi nally gotten with the temporary bridge. The traf- old North Washington Street in real time. virus program. Airlines are now banning passengers fi c shift is currently slated Bridge begins. Following the To attend remotely, register from fl ying without facial coverings. 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Between Kenmore and Cleveland Circle from the Evening of July 5 th through August 1st With the goal of expediting installation of accessible ramps work during a fourteen-day HERMES and MERCURY safety and reliability improve- where needed; and shutdown of the Red Line from ments through core infrastruc- Perform additional customer Braintree to Quincy Center Hermes was the Greek showed his benevolence to all ture investments, the MBTA is improvements that include that began June 18th and is god of herds, commerce, men. Anything found on the announcing the acceleration of upgrades to system maps, currently taking place through travel, and messenger roads by travelers was consid- essential track and intersec- walkways, station brightening, July 1st. of other gods. Mercury ered to be a gift from this god. tion work on the entirety of and yellow tactile edging at C • Track and signal replace- was the name of his Mounds of stones were raised the Green Line C Branch as Branch Stations. ment work during two nine- Roman counterpart, in his honor at rural crossroads part of the MBTA’s $8 billion This nearly month-long clo- day shutdowns of the Green and both are consid- as every passerby added a Building a Better T program. sure is equivalent to about one Line D Branch from Kenmore ered to be one and stone. Square posts Accessible shuttle buses will full year of weekend and night to Riverside, which success- the same. Trickery, were set up in streets, replace Green Line C branch closures on the C Branch. fully took place from June 6th cunning, inventiveness, open spaces, before trolley service between Kenmore Though this work was previ- through June 14th, and again and versatility were his entrances, and as and Cleveland Circle Stations ously announced and planned began June 20th and is cur- major characteristics. milestones along beginning at approximately during the summer when rider- rently taking place through These became appar- certain roads. 8:45 p.m. on Sunday, July ship is historically lower, doing June 28th. ent from the moment These posts were 5th, through Saturday, August this work now also allows its • Infrastructure work in the of his birth. Stories made from wood or 1st, including both weekdays completion at a time when area known as the Beacon about his escapades stone, and the head and weekends. During this ridership on the Green Line is Junction during a nine-day sound incredible, but of the god was carved diversion in C Branch service, signifi cantly decreased due to shutdown of the C Branch then, that’s what leg- at the top. Some of crews will improve accessibility the pandemic. The MBTA rec- from Kenmore to St. Mary’s ends are all about. these posts were and the customer experience ognizes that riders do continue that began June 20th and is Before noon on the carved with proverbs through upgrades to grade to take essential trips as the currently taking place through day he was born, he or riddles, while others crossings and intersections, Commonwealth moves through June 28th. found a tortoise shell, contained the names of and improve reliability and its reopening plan. The MBTA’s In compliance with the made holes in the oppo- those who had fought and remove a longstanding speed shuttle plan includes measures Commonwealth’s Reopening site ends of it, and drew died for their country. This restriction through the replace- to promote social distancing Massachusetts Report, rid- cords of linen through them, concept was also used in ment of 2.5 miles of track. that protect MBTA riders and ers are also reminded that and thereby invented the Rome as a decorative feature “The C Branch work taking workers. The MBTA will care- face coverings are required lyre. Later that same day he in houses, villas, and for place during the month of July fully monitor ridership levels on while onboard shuttle buses. stole 50 head of cattle from garden rails. is the equivalent of about a shuttle buses, adjusting service Additionally, in an effort to his brother Apollo, and then As the father of Autolycus, year’s worth of weekend and levels if needed. promote social distancing and hid them in a cave before the prince of thieves, evening diversions in C Branch GREEN LINE C BRANCH protect the health and safety of bedding down for the night Mercury bestowed upon service,” said MBTA General SHUTTLE BUS INFORMATION: MBTA riders and bus operators, in his cradle. Later, this his son, the gift of chang- Manager Steve Poftak. “With Free, accessible shuttle buses ridership on shuttle buses is young god was ordered ing stolen goods so as safety as our first priority, will operate between Kenmore limited to twenty passengers. to return the cattle, to make them unrec- our shuttle plan continues to and Cleveland Circle Stations The MBTA is also operating however, he had so ognizable. By this gift, include measures that promote that meet or exceed current C more shuttle buses than origi- delighted his brother Autolycus became the physical distancing, and face Branch schedules. nally planned and will maintain by playing the lyre, that fi rst stolen goods “fence” coverings are required on shut- Full Shuttle Route during a robust fl eet of shuttle buses Apollo made him a in world history. tle buses and throughout the T July 6th - August 1st C Branch on standby to accommodate gift of the cattle. Mercury was rep- system. We know these shut- Diversion ridership demands as needed. Mercury was also resented in art by downs can be inconvenient, INFORMATION ON PREVIOUS Following track work, the made herald to the some of the world’s and appreciate our customers’ ACCELERATED WORK AND MBTA typically implements gods in addition greatest sculptors. understanding as we accom- MORE: speed restrictions as a safety to the guide of the Most famous, no plish this important work on a The MBTA continues to assess precaution, and customers dead in the lower doubt, is the form faster timeline that allows us whether other projects can be should expect these to last for world. which is similar to the FTD to deliver improvements more further accelerated. Previous several days while the T moni- This god was also worshipped fl orists’ emblem. The original quickly.” and current accelerated work tors the proper settlement and as the one who bestowed the statue, now in the Bargello of Customers and the public in 2020 includes: consolidation of new track and benevolence of fertility on the Florence, was done in bronze by should also note that the MBTA • Track work, harbor tunnel stone ballast. Speed restrictions herds and their pastures. Again, the Florentine sculptor named will hold a virtual public meet- repairs, and additional infra- are lifted once engineers have legend tells us that he spent a Giambologna. He showed ing to outline the details of this structure improvements suc- confirmed proper settlement considerable amount of time in Mercury as a slender youth upcoming Green Line C Branch cessfully accomplished during has occurred. those pastures, and an equal with calm features, winged hat, track and intersection work a fourteen-day shutdown of For more information, please amount of time with the wood and winged sandals. In one on June 29th from 6:00 p.m. the Blue Line from Bowdoin to visit mbta.com/GLCwork, nymphs, bestowing the bless- hand Mercury holds a purse, to 7:30 p.m. More information Airport in May 2020; www.mbta.com/GLT, www. ing of fertility on them also. He the symbol of the mischievous about this public meeting and • Tie replacement work, con- mbta.com/BBT2020, or con- became the father of many chil- little thief and the god of gain, how to join is at mbta.com/ crete repairs, Quincy Adams nect with the T on Twitter @ dren by these nymphs, Pan and while in the other hand he car- GLCmeeting. elevator work, track replace- MBTA, Facebook /TheMBTA, or Daphnis being the most widely ries the “caduceus,” emblem of MORE INFORMATION ment, and bridge inspection Instagram @theMBTA. known. Pan, as you may recall, his infl uence over the living and ABOUT THE WORK: became a god of the fi elds, for- the dead. This caduceus, the This suspension in Green ests, fl ocks, and shepherds. He winged staff with two serpents Line C Branch service during Leave the was usually represented with twined about it, is the symbol the month of July is part of the horns, ears, and legs of a goat. of the medical profession today. MBTA’s $8 billion Building a Daphnis became the Sicilian As the gods of sleep and sweet Better T program to quicken the DELIVERY shepherd that taught Pan to dreams, Mercury could open or pace of infrastructure projects play the fl ute. Daphnis was also close the eyes of mortals. This in 2020 as well as the MBTA’s to Us! considered to be the inventor of is the reason why the last liba- Green Line Transformation With a Gift Subscription to the bucolic (rustic or countrifi ed) tion of the day was offered to program. Completion of this poetry. him, and if forgotten, became a work will result in improved Post-Gazette, your generosity will be Hermes (Mercury) presided good excuse for just one more safety and reliability, fewer remembered every week of the year. over commerce, gymnastics, nightcap, salute! unplanned service disruptions, thievery, and everything else and improved travel times for that required skill and dexter- NEXT WEEK: We’ll send the recipient riders. During this extended an announcement of your ity. As the god of commerce Aphrodite, diversion C Branch service, gift. Their subscription will and guardian of the roads, he the Greek Goddess of Love crews will: • Allow for a more reliable trip begin with the current issue and the removal of longstanding and continue for one year. Photo Submission speed restrictions through the Fill out coupon below and mail with payment to: replacement of 2.5 miles (about Post-Gazette, PO Box 130135, Boston, MA 02113 Guidelines 13,200 feet) of track that, in some areas, is over thirty years I would like to send a one year Gift Subscription of the Boston Post-Gazette Photos submitted for publication should have old and has reached the end of to the following person(s). I have enclosed $35 per subscription. a minimum resolution of 150 dpi (or ppi), its service life; 300 dpi for best results. 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Box 130135, Boston, MA 02113 They Should Everywhere 617-227-8929 617-227-8928 FAX 617-227-5307 by Sal Giarratani e-mail: [email protected] Hundreds of folks showed up Website: www.BostonPostGazette.com at Holy Name Rotary in West Subscriptions in the United States $35.00 yearly Roxbury by the District-5 Police Station with dueling protests on Published weekly by Wednesday, June 17th. One side Post-Gazette, 5 Prince St., P.O. Box 130135, chanting “Black Lives Matter,” Boston, MA 02113 and even more showing up to USPS 1538 – Second-Class Postage paid at Boston, MA say “Back the Blue” and “Blue POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Lives Matter.” POST-GAZETTE - P.O. Box 130135, Boston, MA 02113 I was glad to see so many James V. Donnaruma Caesar L. Donnaruma Phyllis F. Donnaruma folks standing up for our law 1896 to 1953 1953 to 1971 1971 to 1990 enforcement. A Facebook group in West Roxbury organized the Vol. 124 - No. 26 Friday, June 26, 2020 rally to support the police, fi re- fi ghters, and EMTs. Organizers OUR POLICY: To help preserve the ideals and sacred traditions of the event stated “Let’s respect of this our adopted country the United States of America: each other while simply thank- To revere its laws and inspire others to respect and obey ing those who protect our great them: To strive unceasingly to quicken the public’s sense of neighborhoods.” civic duty: In all ways to aid in making this country greater However, counter-protesters and better than we found it. from Black Lives Matter said The rotary was booming with crazy separation and feeling this rally was created to amplify noise and exchanging chants the necessity to take sides isn’t the voices of police offi cers and and the evening went on with good. We need to come together. in turn silence that of Black vic- plenty of passion, but without If we don’t we could be screwed. tims. As many on one side yelled incident. One gentleman when As a retired police offi cer of “Black Lives Matter,” those on interviewed by a newspaper 28 years, I was disgusted with the other side replied “All Lives reporter stated the obvious the actions of those offi cers in Quite possibly the most graceful woman Matter.” that most of us agree with. This Minneapolis and Atlanta who in the world, passed away peacefully in her besmirched all police offi cers home, surrounded by her loving family, on with their actions that com- May 27, 2020 at 2:15 pm. Our tears were bined led to the deaths of two no match for the cheers in Heaven. men who should not have died Mabel Lillian (DiTullio) Lombardo was a after meeting up with offi cers special loving daughter, wife, mother, nana, of the law. sister, aunt, great-grandmother, and friend To lump all cops with the to so many lucky people. She was beauti ful, actions in both these two recent compassionate, and graceful throughout incidents is just as wrong as her enti re life. lumping peaceful protesters Mabel was married to Sal Lombardo, with those who looted, set fi res, who passed away in 2008. She was born on June 26, 1923, in Quincy where and hurt people. she lived almost all of her life and was to turn 97 in one month. A man driving a Chevy Mabel and Sal fell in love before WWII and were devoted to one another. Silverado circled the rotary Mabel saved all of his love lett ers and he signed each one “yours to love” with a large sign in the back or “love me as I love you.” They were forever romanti c. They were married reading “God Bless the U.S.A. in 1946, and lived in Sal’s parents’ house in Somerville before Sal built her and police. Shame on spineless dream house in Quincy where she would be closer to her family. politicians and corrupt media.” Mabel was a great cook! Her dinners were the stuff of legends. Where Most in the crowd cheered at do we begin? Stuff ed arti chokes? Roasted peppers? Sal would bring them that sentiment. home by the case and we have sweet memories of her at the kitchen counter, ti relessly preparing food with love. There was always a platt er of chicken cutlets in the fridge and pounds of gnocchi in Ziploc bags in the freezer. She liked to make them around 10 at night if she was bored. The highlight of our summer Cousins Weekends down the Cape would be her cooking lessons. The enti re family chipped in, making an organized mess, listening to Nana and watching carefully as she taught so many of her favorite recipes. For many years Mabel and Sal hosted a spectacular Christmas Eve party. There was always room for one more at the table, and Mabel always had a stash of presents so everyone got to sit on Santa’s lap. Was there ever a family that did not receive one of her famous apple pies? Cortland apples were her secret. Summerti me brought many pool parti es to Adams Street- so many pounds of pasta and sausages! Mabel had a sense of style that was unparalleled. She could put together fabulous outf its, always with an incredible pocketbook. Mabel was humble. She never knew how many young women she infl uenced. High schoolers to longti me friends were able to talk to her and she would listen without judgement. She knew how to say the right thing to help them along. She knew the right ti me for a hug. She was pati ent. Even in her busy life, she always made the ti me for you. Then there was the ti me Frank Sinatra kissed her left cheek. “I’ll never wash my cheek again!” she said. Certainly a highlight in her life and a favorite story to tell. Mabel loved Tom Brady and the Patriots. She had her favorite Arts & the City TB shirt and beads she wore to watch every game. Traveling was very important as was keeping in touch with her Italian Public Dialogue on The Emancipation Group family. There were many trips to Sicily and Filett o. Cruises around the Caribbean in a sailboat or an ocean liner. Hong Kong. Brazil. Skiing in The Boston Art Commission please make a request to bac@ Switzerland. And she was a daredevil! Parasailing at 50. White water raft ing is holding two special meetings boston.gov. on the Colorado. Mabel was always ready for an adventure! for public testimony on The You may also take an online Mabel leaves a legacy of a loving family. Paula Lombardo of Braintree Emancipation Group, a copy of survey at: www.boston.gov/ and her son Nicholas Colia. Daughter Alessandra Hashemi, her husband a statue in Washington D.C. by art-under-review intended to Paymon and Mabel’s fi rst great-grandchild, Giavana. Vincent Lombardo of Thomas Ball. invite public input on the range Canton and his fi ancée Natalie Flaherty and son Sal. His daughter Francesca The meetings are designed of possible actions and consid- Lombardo Carbotti and her husband Jordan. Dennis Lombardo and his dearly to gather public testimony to erations for The Emancipation departed wife Cindy. Their daughter Jessica Bigge and her husband Richie shape the Commission’s delib- Group. and great-granddaughter Hazel. Sons David and his fi ancée Julia Kacmarek erations about the work. The We seek public input in and Matt hew and his fi ancée Kate Gragnolati . Nina Barros, her husband first meeting will be held on assessing our monuments and David and their children Manny and Joe. Francelina Cruz is our angel June 25, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. memorials. Community conver- who took care of Mabel like she was her own mother for four years. We and the following meeting will sations about public artworks, love her very much and will never forget all she has done for us. Mabel also be held on June 30, 2020 at their history, and their mean- has many adoring nieces, nephews, and dear friends. 5:00 p.m. ing, will inform the Boston Art Due to COVID-19 the services will be private. We will plan a celebrati on of Written testimony may be Commission’s review of existing her life in the future. Donati ons can be made to The Sal and Mabel Lombardo sent to the Commission at: artworks as well as future public Scholarship Fund. Make checks out to East Boston K-Trust. EB Kiwanis [email protected] and will be art projects. Learn more about Club, P.O. Box 503, East Boston, MA 02128 ,or the Friendly Food Pantry, made a part of the record and via Zoom either in writing (by how the Boston Art Commission P.O. Box 802, Randolph, MA 02368 available to all Commissioners. using the chat function) or ver- is examining the City’s public Arrangements under the care of the Cartwright Funeral Home, Members of the public wish- bally (by requesting a time to art collection www.boston.gov/ Randolph, MA. To leave a sympathy message for the family, please visit ing to testify virtually may do speak via chat/raised hand). If departments/arts-and-culture/ www.cartwrightuneral.com. so during the special meetings you require closed captioning, public-art-under-review. PAGE 4 POST-GAZETTE, JUNE 26, 2020 L’Anno Bello: A Year in Italian Folklore Rejoicing in My Italian Identity by Ally Di Censo Symynkywicz THINKING OUT LOUD Note: L’Anno Bello is reprinting articles that were written before the Coronavirus pandemic. Obviously, advice on gatherings and reunions contained within are not applicable to this current time by Sal Giarratani when social distancing is the best practice. Please read these articles as a testament to the joy and love that imbues Italian celebrations — and as suggestions for ways to spend time in the future once Live Free or America Dies this pandemic is fi nally over. “We have a Republic, if we can keep it.” — Benjamin Franklin my grandmother never found a substitute for the inimitable “Freedom is never more than one generation away Neapolitan pizza of her child- from extinction.” hood — the thin, soft and bub- — Ronald Reagan bly crust, the fragrant simplicity I believe it is now clearer shirts trying to remake of San Marzano tomatoes — in than ever that America fi nds America by any means, I the United States, the number itself at a tipping point in its am reminded of the words of of pizza joints that advertise life as a democratic republic. Franklin and Reagan at the wood oven-baked pies demon- We have a Constitution and a beginning of this column. strates that Italians have set Bill of Rights that are under The Cancel Culture brigades an enviable standard. One day, attack. Our continued exis- are trying to rule the streets I was eating lunch at a chain tence as a free people has now in their quest to transform restaurant and discovered that been called into question. America into something I do they had orecchiette with broc- The Democrat Party today not recognize. It is a movement coli rabe on their menu, the would be unrecognizable that seeks to utterly transform same dish that once served to John Kennedy, Robert America into some new kind as a symbol of my otherness. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, of government where there Now, whenever I see the world or Hubert Humphrey. This is is only one correct thought. around me reveling in Italian not my father’s Democrats. It Abandon that thought at your Nature has hit the high of Christmas Day. When my culture, I realize how silly I is not the Democrat Party of own peril. Speaking unsanc- point of summer, baking in the friends gushed over Italian food, had acted before. Everyone my college days in the late ’60s tioned truth becomes a revo- warmth of a sun that stands they meant Americanized sta- else thought that old-world and early ’70s either. lutionary act to be punished. poised at its zenith during ples like spaghetti with meat- customs were special except for The pandemic caused by I think George Orwell wrote a the solstice. I walk around balls and lasagna filled with me. I am embarrassed about COVID-19, thanks to the great novel on this future we my neighborhood in humid runny red sauce. My mother my previous under appreciation secrecy of the Chinese state, are now in. eighty-plus degree weather, cooked odd things like orecchi- of my heritage, and constantly has pushed too many of our We are in a great divide desperate for a balmy breeze to ette with broccoli rabe, oregano- seek new ways to explore it political leaders in a direc- as a nation right now. Two ruffl e my blue fl owered dress. seasoned potato croquettes and today. tion that is taking us down sides opposing each other, I have also noticed the proud choux pastries with thick yellow I believe that my status as an the wrong path. We have too the middle ground has been trees of June all around me, egg cream. I hated the fact that Italian-American connects me many Blue State political lead- swallowed up by those who fi lled with robust green leaves my family spoke Italian and to a rich past of folklore, cus- ers who appear to be enjoying have forgotten what America and humming bumblebees, Spanish at gatherings instead of toms and traditions that have themselves gaining more and means and has meant since their roots fi rmly entrenched English. I hated the fact that the been passed down through the more power and control over July 4, 1776. in the ground. These trees have programs on the Italian channel many wise hands of history. It our lives. Benjamin Franklin and inspired me to examine my were so loud and goofy. Most of means being closer to the earth Even worse, we now have Ronald Reagan were right. own roots, which extend from all, I hated the fact that being as I craft recipes from seasonal political movements that We have a Republic if we Italy and South America to the Italian refl ected so poorly on my ingredients like strawberries, appear growing in power to can keep it and freedom is United States and which I long self-esteem. herbs and tomatoes. It means dangerous heights that are far always one generation away neglected in the early years Gradually, however, I began celebrating holidays not as com- less democratic, like Antifa. from extinction. How will of my life. Just like nature, I to realize that the problem lay mercialized days of consumer- Such groups seem to be quite things end for America in this too have come a long way in inside me, not in being Italian. ism but rather quaint remind- appealing to younger peo- current battle being played how I view my identity as an I used to be blind to the num- ers of agricultural societies ple today and many not so out? Can the gulf between Italian-American. ber of people who expressed past, whether it is by enjoying young who can’t see the forest both sides ever get bridged? When I was a little girl in interest and admiration in my a late-night dinner on a still because all those trees are in I hope so, but am not really elementary school, being Italian Italian heritage: the teachers Christmas Eve night or pinning the way. that sure anymore. If we just was a mark of shame, a stain who exclaimed how beautiful a paper fi sh to someone on April I recently found myself continue this cultural war- which forever labeled me as an my name was, the friends who Fools’ Day, known as pesce debating the concept of free fare, I fear we are headed into outsider — at least, that is how told me that they wished they d’aprile in Italian. It means speech with someone born untested waters and I fear I perceived it. The problem lay spoke a foreign language, the partaking in a joie de vivre so while I was attending college for the future of our demo- not in the fact that I was Italian, many admirers of my moth- typical of the Italian people. who I thought knew better. He cratic republic. Where we but that I was too Italian, too er’s authentic Italian cuisine. I still think Italian television actually believes that everyone seem to be headed could old country. My classes teemed As I matured, my Italian life shows are loud and goofy, but I has a right to free speech, but be very dangerous. Things with plenty of other kids who became something to be proud now believe that is part of their sometimes it is better to keep haven’t been this bad since had Italian surnames, as typical of, something that made me charm. I enjoyed watching them your opinions to yourself. I the Civil War. I fear what lies in the Boston area. However, wonderfully unique. All of this with my father, who had done didn’t know how to respond to ahead. I’ve never thought like their ancestors had arrived coincided as all things ethnic more than any other person to this logic or his understand- this before. I never feared like in the United States decades became “trendy” again (thanks, introduce me to the wonders of ing of the First Amendment this before. or even centuries before and hipsters!). Coffee is not just Italian life. rights we enjoy. If you must I encourage everyone to take their fi rst names and customs coffee anymore; you order cap- keep your free speech locked LEGAL NOTICE remained decidedly American. puccino and espresso. You pride in their ethnicity and up inside your head, you no I was the only girl in the class would be hard-pressed to fi nd culture, whatever it may be. I longer have any free speech. Commonwealth of Massachusetts with an unpronounceable name a sandwich shop that does work in a very diverse school When we have entities out The Trial Court — Alessia — and I quickly grew not label their delicacies as district and I swell with pride Probate and Family Court there growing in strength on Middlesex Division frustrated and embarrassed panini. Gelato, the delectable when I see students who have our streets who talk about 208 Cambridge Street over how many times I had Italian version of ice cream, not forgotten the importance being anti-fascists but act Cambridge, MA 02141 to correct people about it. I has become immensely popu- of their heritage. My husband like Benito Mussolini’s brown (617) 768-5800 was the only girl, it seemed, lar with its creamy texture and is of French, Ukrainian and Docket No. MI20P0879EA whose family opened pres- unique fl avors like chocolate- American Southern descent Estate of ents on Christmas Eve instead hazelnut and tiramisu. While and I am always goading him CHRISTINA L. GRILL to search back into his roots Remember Date of Death: December 13, 2019 for ideas on holiday celebra- INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE tions and folk customs. Rather Your Richard Settipane than a badge of shame, I now To all persons interested in the above cap- tioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Robert view my Italian-ness as an Loved Ones F. Grill of Malvern, PA. Insurance Services integral part of my personal- Robert F. Grill of Malvern, PA has been Public Insurance Adjuster informally appointed as the Personal Repre- ity, a code encrypted in my sentative of the estate to serve without surety FOR ALL YOUR INSURANCE NEEDS DNA that makes Ally Di Censo on the bond. Symynkywicz who she is. Like The estate is being administered under Since 1969 informal procedure by the Personal Represen- the shady trees of summer, I tative under the Massachusetts Uniform Pro- AUTO • HOMEOWNERS • TENANTS know I comfortably rest with my bate Code without supervision by the Court. COMMERCIAL roots proudly on the ground but Inventory and accounts are not required to be my branches extending upward, fi led with the Court, but interested parties are Experience makes the difference entitled to notice regarding the administration ready for whatever change the from the Personal Representative and can future holds. petition the Court in any matter relating to the The Post-Gazette estate, including distribution of assets and We MOVED to expenses of administration. Interested parties Ally Di Censo Symynkywicz accepts memorials are entitled to petition the Court to institute 207A SQUIRE ROAD, REVERE, MA 02151 is a high school history teacher. throughout the year. formal proceedings and to obtain orders ter- minating or restricting the powers of Personal Near Market Basket She appreciates any comments Representatives appointed under informal pro- and suggestions about Italian Please call cedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, Tel. 781.284.1100 Fax 781.284.2200 holidays and folklore at 617-227-8929 can be obtained from the Petitioner. [email protected]. Run date: 06/26/2020 POST-GAZETTE, JUNE 26, 2020 PAGE 5

Introducing a new book by Bennett Molinari and Richard Molinari, lifelong residents of the North End, entitled: Four Women “Quattro Donne” subtitle, A North End Love Story In the next few weeks this column will feature excerpts from this book. Once Grandma acquired Grandma’s wish, she took a plot at the cemetery, she him to the grave of Luigi the entered a whole new world, shoemaker. Although she the world of cemetery soci- intended to tell Pietro the ety, and she adapted to it story of Luigi breaking the very quickly. At least once Madonna’s heart by not going a week during the summer, into the priesthood, she said Grandma, like so many of her nothing, feeling Pietro was friends and neighbors, would already too attached to Carla plan to spend the better part and Grandma’s suggestion of a Saturday afternoon sit- would have no effect. Mom ting on a lawn chair in front simply said he was a friend. of the family plot, visiting Pietro remained silent as they loved ones and tending her strolled through the cem- small tomato patch behind etery. It was on their return Grandpa’s stone. If you were to Grandpa’s grave when he rich enough to have a mau- began to speak. “Cousin, I soleum, you would open its know you are concerned. I doors as if you were about know there is talk about me. to do spring cleaning, sit I can’t help myself; I love at the entrance welcoming Carla.” Pietro’s confession neighbors and occasionally and earnestness caught Mom offering a visitor a cool drink by surprise. They continued and a cold cut sandwich. It was the cemetery, rosary in hand, to walk without exchanging a a somewhat macabre picnic stopping for a glass of wine or word. Finally, Mom stopped and that they treated as being quite cookie at one of the lawn par- turned to him. normal. To a stranger, this cem- ties, and then continuing on “Pietro, do you know your etery society might seem a bit their way. While Grandma was mind? You are so young, please peculiar, but it all made perfect socializing, we would be water- give the matter some time. You sense to the society members. ing the grass on Grandpa’s will be with us till September, it Grandma always packed grave, planting geraniums in the is only July, please go slowly and enough food for a day’s stay at pots that fl anked the stone, and think about what you are doing.” the cemetery. She fi lled a wicker scrubbing the statue to remove “Cousin, I love Carla. I know hamper with sandwiches, fruit the oak mold that had gath- I’m to go to seminary school in and wine, coke for the kids, ered on it during the preceding September. If I’ve changed my and we were off by subway to autumn and winter. Grandma’s mind, God understands. I must the cemetery in Roslindale. turn around the cemetery would follow what is in my heart.” It took two of us to carry the take about an hour and a half. Mom, for a moment was going basket. The weight of the bas- By the time she returned, we to bring Pietro back to Luigi’s ket gave a clue to the length had forgotten we were in a cem- grave to tell Grandma’s story, of time Grandma planned to etery; it had become a picnic but once again, thought bet- be at the cemetery, they were ground with holy statues, and ter of it. almost always three-hour bas- we were ready to eat. “Pietro, God wants only what kets. Grandma packed enough It was on the following is best for you. When you do for everyone who accompanied Monday that Mom took Pietro His Will, you are doing what is her with some left over for her to the cemetery, supposedly best for you, but is marrying guests. to visit Grandpa’s grave, but Carla, God’s Will? You must As the day progressed, she was really carrying out give this time. Please consider Grandma alternated from being Grandma’s suggestion of tak- what you’re saying. You have hostess to being a guest. All her ing him to the cemetery with your entire life ahead of you.” friends from church were doing the hope of cooling off his Pietro listened carefully to pretty much the same thing. infatuation with Carla. They Mom’s advice, then in a whis- The ladies would wander in stopped to visit Grandpa’s per, said reassuringly, “I will small groups down the paths of grave then slowly walked along go slowly, don’t worry cousin headstones, checking out who the aisles of headstones, stop- Carmela.” Tears of relief were in was recently buried and com- ping every so often at the grave Mom’s eyes as she kissed him menting on them. They talked of a friend or relative of the on the cheek, then both knelt at and gestured in Italian as they family, Mom felt might be of Grandpa’s grave before leaving slowly made their way around interest to Pietro. Carrying out for home.

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Make $20.00 check payable to: John Christoforo Beagsley Publishing, Box 342, Arlington, MA 02476 Your Ad Could Go Here For information about advertising in the Post-Gazette, call 617-227-8929 PAGE 6 POST-GAZETTE, JUNE 26, 2020 Saint Louis Marie The Kowloon Restaurant Grignion De Montfort To Unveil their New Drive-In by Bennett Molinari and Richard Molinari Louis founded the Mission- With the Steven Spielberg Film, E.T. aries of the Company of Mary, th for priests and brothers, and Grand Opening Slated for Tuesday, June 30 at 7:00 p.m. the Daughters of Wisdom, who cared especially for the sick. The Kowloon Restaurant, His book True Devotion to the owned and operated by the Blessed Virgin has become a Wong family is set to open classic explanation of Marian their new Drive-In with a family devotion. movie night, slated for Tuesday, Louis’ 16 years of priest- June 30th featuring the film hood include many months of E.T. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. solitude, perhaps as many as a and showtime is at 8:30 p.m. total of four years; at the cave Admission is $20 per parking of Mervent, amidst the beauty spot and $20 per table on the of the forest, at the hermitage of turf; guests can also bring their Saint Lazarus near the village of own blankets and beach chairs Louis was born in 1673, in Montfort, and at the hermitage for the turf area. the Breton Village of Montfort- of Saint Eloi in La Rochelle. The Kowloon Drive-In, in con- sur-Meu, the eldest surviving Worn out by hard work and junction with Xfi nity, features child of eighteen born to Jean- sickness, he arrived in April a giant 22-feet high by 40-feet Baptiste and Jeanne Robert 1716, at Saint-Laurent-sur- wide movie screen and space Grignion. After being edu- Sèvre to begin the mission which for cars. cated by the Jesuits and the was to be his last. During it, he Movies will continue to be Sulpicians, he was ordained fell ill and died on April 28th of featured on Mondays, Tuesdays a diocesan priest in 1700 and that year. He was 43 years old, and Wednesdays. A complete assigned to Nantes. Louis died in Saint-Laurent- movie line-up still in the who is stranded on earth. The signature Scorpion bowls, Mai Soon he began preaching par- sur-Sèvre, where a basilica has works and spanning the entire fi lm stars Dee Wallace, Peter Tais, beer, wine and cocktails, ish missions throughout west- been erected in his honor. He summer will be released soon. Coyote, and Henry Thomas, and will be available at the outdoor ern France. His years of minis- was canonized by Pope Pius XII For a complete schedule, please features special effects by Carlo dining, drive-in, turf and car- tering to the poor prompted him on July 20, 1947. The Feast Day call 781-233-0077 or go to Rambaldi and Dennis Muren. hop venue. to travel and live very simply. In of Saint Louis Marie Grignion the Kowloon’s website at: E.T. was released on June 11, The Kowloon Restaurant, Car his preaching, which attracted De Montfort is April 28th. www.kowloonrestaurant.com 1982, by Universal Pictures, Hop & Drive-In, 948 Broadway, thousands of people back to Louis’s life is inseparable E.T. or Extra-Terrestrial is and continues to be a family Route 1 North, Saugus the faith, Father Louis recom- from his efforts to promote the 1982 American science favorite. Open daily 11: 30 a.m. to mended frequent, even daily, genuine devotion to Mary, the fi ction fi lm directed by Steven A full Kowloon menu, fea- 11:00 p.m., seven days per Holy Communion — not the mother of Jesus and mother of Spielberg and written by Melissa turing Pu pu platters, Saugus week. For more information, custom then! — and imitation the Church. Totus tuus (“com- Mathison. It tells the story of Wings, sushi, egg rolls, Seafood please call 781-233-0077, or of the Virgin Mary’s ongoing pletely yours”) was Louis’s per- Elliott, a boy who befriends an Fantasy to Kowloon Steak, got to: www.kowloonrestaurant. acceptance of God’s will for sonal motto; Pope John Paul II extraterrestrial named E.T., along with soft drinks and com her life. chose it as his episcopal motto.

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ACROSS 1. Sacred song 6. Chowed down 9. Acoustic repetition Ɉ with 13. Capital of Vietnam Itali-Echo Viviana Dragani 14. 4 qts. 15. Teamsters’ group WNTN1550 AM RADIO 16. Affair, in Paris 17. Bit of binary code Streaming 18. Part of TNT 19. *Sleeping under the stars www.wntn1550am.com 21. *Horticulturist’s hangout 23. Articulate MONDAY-FRIDAY 24. Combustible pile 25. Joe Louis move 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM 28. Epiphany guests 30. Forgo 35. WWII side 37. *Bonfi re fodder SAVE THE DATE 39. Royal topper 40. Tiny river 41. Pond buildup 43. Miners’ passage North End Athletic Association 44. Best not mentioned 46. *What seekers do 47. Fairytale beginning ANNUAL 48. Same as “slow down” 50. Upper hand GOLF TOURNAMENT 52. Toni Morrison’s “____ Baby” 53. Threads TO BENEFIT 55. Pie ______mode 57. *a.k.a. shuttlecock THE NORTH END ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION 60. *Flying saucer 64. 2 halves of a diameter MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2020 65. Pilot’s deadline 7:30 a.m. (Shotgun start) 67. *Fire starter 68. Triangular road sign ANDOVER COUNTRY CLUB 69. ____ Luis Obispo 70. “Die Lorelei” poet 60 Canterbury Street, Andover, MA 71. Other than what is Over 144 golfers participate in this 72. One laid 73. Poker stakes 15. State of agitation 45. Beat the Joneses sold-oldPOSTPONED tournament annually. 20. African antelope 49. Interesting person, acronym It is importantUntil thatAugust you reserve 2, 2021 your space! DOWN 22. “Who ___ we kidding?” 51. Eli Manning’s fi rst name 1. First-rate, slangily 24. a.k.a toes 54. Ganders’ companions 2. Ditto 25. *Banned lawn darts 56. *Famous ski town GOLF, LUNCH AND RAFFLE PRIZES 3. Soon, to a bard 26. Type of rotation 57. Get-out-of-jail money The money raised from this tournament allows the 4. They are usually drunken 27. “The Hobbit” hobbit 58. ____ of March North End Athletic Association to purchase athletic, 5. Biblical prophetess 29. *Played with a driver 59. Make someone angry 6. Full of excitement 31. Bye in Palermo 60. Jack London’s “White ____” social, educational, and civic activities within the 7. *Sun kiss 32. Lacked, for short 61. *Fisherman’s supply community and the City of Boston. 8. Funereal lament 33. The oldest Goldberg sibling 62. Marine eagle 9. “National Velvet” author ____ Bagnold 34. *Skier’s turf 63. Augments For more information, please contact 10. Give a ticket 36. Snail-like 64. Pastrami partner 11. Sound warning 38. *Volleyball turf 66. *“You’re it!” game Louis Cavagnaro at 617-523-7410 12. Lennon’s wife 42. Painter Degas (Solution on Page 8) POST-GAZETTE, JUNE 26, 2020 PAGE 7

Mrs. Murphy . . . As I See It DIAMONDS Pics in the Parks Challenge ROLEX An accident is buried, will his burial put an ESTATE JEWELRY Now Online at a building end to the riots, lootings, and Bought & Sold construction burnings? And the motto of Are you looking for a creative way to explore the Jewelers Exch. Bldg. site on Ocean the story is if you do the crime great outdoors this summer? The Boston Parks Jim (617) 263-7766 Avenue in you could come to harm. So and Recreation Department invites you to partici- Revere sent three construc- the advice to teens and adults pate in Pics in the Parks, a series of virtual pho- tion workers to the hospi- is: Stay straight, attend school tography clinics for individuals of all ages and skill tal recently ... Director of the or get a job that keeps you out LEGAL NOTICE levels. Explore the features of your digital camera National Institute of Allergy of the courts and trouble … It’s or smartphone while learning the technical ele- Commonwealth of Massachusetts ments of photography. Weekly challenges will be and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) great to serve in Congress!!! The Trial Court Tony Fauci and the government Facts about Congress: Children Middlesex Probate and Family Court released every Tuesday throughout the summer. are threatening to close down of Congress members do not 208 Cambridge Street Open to amateurs and professionals alike, Pics again if virus numbers spike have to pay back their student Cambridge, MA 02141 in the Parks encourages participants to explore their local open (617) 768-5800 spaces while safely following social distancing guidelines. Visit your … Question! Do we pay our loans, nor do their staffers Docket No. MI20C0324CA favorite green space or expand your horizons by exploring a new one. politicians to represent us or family. Members of Congress In the Matter of play golf? ... Congress wants to have exempted themselves ARIANA FARNOOSH ZAHEDI Participants will learn techniques for taking impressive photo- replace police because of a few from many of the laws they CITATION ON graphs of Boston’s scenic parks and Urban Wilds with a focused bad cops. We say let’s replace have passed under which ordi- PETITION TO CHANGE NAME theme in each session. Select photos will be chosen on Monday Congress because of a lot of nary citizens must live by. A Petition to Change Name of Adult has of the following week and added to our Pics in the Parks online been filed by Ariana Farnoosh Zahedi of bad congressmen and women For example, they are exempt Weston, MA requesting that the court enter a gallery (by submitting photos, participants agree to allow future … What if instead of becoming from any fear of prosecution Decree changing their name to Ariana Zahedi use by the City of Boston). criminals, the rioters joined the for sexual harassment. That’s Aram. Check out our posts every week on Tuesdays through September IMPORTANT NOTICE 1st. Submit your photos from the week’s challenge to Steve. police academy and became just the tip of the iceberg folks, Any person may appear for purposes the change they want to see? anyone can get a copy of the of objecting to the petition by filing an [email protected] to be considered for our Pics in the ... 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FROM THE INBOX division about Aunt Jemima teachers will easily forget the SAUTET/SCHNEIDER – Davis (Travolta) toils at a Texas “Quaker Oats will change being emancipated “from her 2019-2020 school year. CESAR ET ROSALIE + oil refi nery, at night, he trades the name and image of its pancake and syrup servitude. CAN YOU BE FORCED LES CHOSES DE LA VIE his hard hat for a Stetson and syrup and pancake brand, All it took was 130 years.” TO WEAR A MASK? (Blu-ray) heads to Gilley’s, Houston’s Aunt Jemima. The company Uncle Ben is taking his bowl of I choose to wear a mask, not Film Movement most popular nightclub. There, acknowledged that the name cream of wheat and hitting the as a sign of submission but out This collection features two he meets a pretty two-stepper was based on a “racial stereo- road, too. of an abundance of caution over films from director Claude named Sissy (Debra Winger) type.” The Aunt Jemima brand However, Graham wasn’t COVID-19. Things are starting Sautet, starring Romy who thinks Bud is a “real cow- goes back to 1889. fi nished. What about KFC and to look better but there are still Schneider: César Et Rosalie boy.” But Bud’s got to prove it Sean T. Flaherty, Charlestown Colonel Sanders? This obvious some states where things are and Les Choses De La Vie. when a dangerous ex-con (Scott FEDERAL LAWSUIT plantation owner gotta go, too not that good. I know many Sometimes two and two makes Glenn) schemes to rob Gilley’s MOVING FORWARD along with the aunt and uncle people who see masks as an three. Rosalie and David ... and steal Sissy’s heart. Travolta How many Bay State res- couple. outward sign of weakness. I am Rosalie and César ... César and and Winger make an unfor- taurants have gone under or Colonel Sanders must be a not even so sure as to how effec- David ... 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Flaherty of Charles- folk in Oklahoma tried to get Frey), unexpectedly re-enters by Johnny Lee, “Stand by Me” in Phase 2, Part 2 of the reopen- town also wants to know if the state’s highest court to her life, the two men simulta- by Mickey Gilley, and “Look ing and could still be far off from Eskimo Pies need to be removed order folks attending the Tulsa neously vie for her affections. What You’ve Don to Me” by Boz Phase 3. from supermarkets; obviously, Trump rally to wear masks and One of Sautet’s most celebrated Skaggs and musical appear- DO WE REALLY HAVE this product must be racist, too. the court refused! Last time I fi lms, César Et Rosalie reunited ances by Bonnie Raitt and The FREEDOM Good question, but anything heard we were still a free people the director with his on-screen Charlie Daniels Band. TO CHOOSE ANYMORE? and everything is being labeled and the very idea that there are muse Romy Schneider. More SOUTH PARK: racist today. people out there that want the drama and romance in the THE COMPLETE 23RD SCHOOL’S OFFICIALLY government to demand we wear plot of Les Choses De La Vie, SEASON (2-Blu-ray) OFF FOR THE SUMMER masks tells me how the Bill of when Pierre (Michel Piccoli), a Paramount Home Ent. Rights is getting more and more middle-aged engineer, has his South Park returns for its endangered life fl ash before his eyes after amazing 23rd season. Join Stan, being involved in a horrifi c car Kyle, Cartman, Kenny and CLASSIC CAR accident. While falling in and Randy as they explore the CORNER out of consciousness, he refl ects wonders of the human biome, on the recent events that have tackle the consequences of Washington and our freedoms Two great classic cars over transpired between him and immigration, and get banned under attack. at Royal Auto Tops in West estranged wife, Catherine (Lea in China. This uncensored I recently passed by a billboard Roxbury. Massari), and his young lover, collector’s edition is all about for City of Boston Credit Union Hélène (Schneider). Based on “Tegridy Farms,” featuring the stating, “You have the freedom the acclaimed Paul Guimard 300th episode of the series along to choose us,” and right next to rd Parents lined their cars up novel Intersection, Les Choses with concept art. The 23 sea- this statement was a statue of picking up those backpacks De La Vie. (The Things of Life) son fi nished as the top-rated George Washington that we have one after the other. won the 1969 Louis Delluc Prize comedy on cable, a rank that all seen a million times in town and was the fi rst of fi ve fi lm col- South Park has held for seven at the Public Gardens. Last Friday, June 19th, the laborations between Schneider consecutive years. The season Today, all of our freedom parking lot at the Salesian Boys and director Sautet. includes fan-favorite charac- seems up for grab to the loud- & Girls Club was jamming with GLADIATOR (Blu-ray) ters Randy and Towelie, the est mob. Free speech is under action as teachers and various 1950 Paramount Home Ent. PC Babies, Scott Malkinson, attack, just ask Boston P.D. staff members were handing Chevrolet Deluxe sedan Celebrate the anniversary of and different theme songs for Commissioner William Gross. out backpacks to the students Best Picture Academy Award almost every episode, a fi rst to Our Bill of Rights after all was from the Brooke Charter School winner Gladiator, the stunning the series. South Park: Season written by a bunch of slave own- in East Boston. Parents drove in historical epic that follows 23 includes exclusive concept ers, right? As for the statue of to the lot, lining up to get Maxiumus Deciums Meridius, art, and the Blu-ray version Washington? How long before their students’ belongings that the brave general who was additionally includes #Social the next mob coming down the had been left in their class- forced into slavery, emerged Commentary with fun trivia street decides Washington gotta rooms since schools closed up as a gladiator and defied an and behind-the-scenes tidbits go, too? in March. Besides that, they empire. The exhilarating, trium- on each episode. THE EMANCIPATION received their homework over phant, and award-winning mas- DEDE (DVD) OF AUNT JEMIMA? the summer and free gifts from 1972 VW Bus terpiece from Paramount Home Corinth Films There she was again, Renee their teachers. th Entertainment marks its 20 Based on true events that Graham spreading more I am sure neither the kids nor (Photos by Sal Giarratani) Anniversary, originally released took place at the outset of the on May 5, 2000. A winner of Georgian Civil War, Dede takes fi ve Academy Awards, the fi lm place in the high mountainous LEGAL NOTICE is an unparalleled combination community of Svaneti, where of vivid action and extraor- live a people far removed from Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court dinary storytelling. Russell the modern world. A purely Probate and Family Court Crowe won the Oscar for Best patriarchal society that revolves Middlesex Division Actor in a Leading Role for his around forced marriages; pride 208 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02141 portrayal of a Roman general and tradition dictate the code (617) 768-5800 who is betrayed by a corrupt of daily life. Dina is a young Docket No. MI20P2503EA prince (Joaquin Phoenix) and woman promised by her dra- Estate of comes to Rome as a gladia- conian grandfather to David, COSTA PETER TINGOS tor to seek revenge. The 4K one of the soldiers returning Also Known As Steelbook includes access to from the war. Once a marriage COSTA P. TINGOS a digital copy of the fi lm and arrangement is brokered by Date of Death: May 28, 2020 both theatrical and extended two families, failure to follow INFORMAL PROBATE versions of the feature on 4K through on the commitment is PUBLICATION NOTICE Ultra HD, along with two sepa- unthinkable. Dina fi nds herself To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Holly rate commentaries. The two unable to love David, instead T. Freiner of Arlington, MA. Blu-ray Discs included in the falling for his handsome friend Holly T. Freiner of Arlington, MA has been set boast over four hours of Gegi who saved David’s life dur- informally appointed as the Personal Repre- sentative of the estate to serve without surety previously released bonus con- ing the war. Humiliated after on the bond. tent, including commentaries his fiancée reveals her true The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal Represen- on both versions of the fi lm, a feelings, David attempts to kill tative under the Massachusetts Uniform Pro- comprehensive documentary Gegi but fails, and takes his bate Code without supervision by the Court. about the making of the movie, own life rather than lose face. Inventory and accounts are not required to be fi led with the Court, but interested parties are featurettes, deleted scenes, and Dina is rattled, but relieved entitled to notice regarding the administration more. at the same time and marries from the Personal Representative and can URBAN COWBOY (Blu-ray) Gegi. The pair fl ees the village petition the Court in any matter relating to the Paramount Home Ent. an attempt to make a new life in estate, including distribution of assets and The opinions expressed by our columnists and contributors expenses of administration. Interested parties are not necessarily the same as those of The Post-Gazette, its John Travolta is the Urban a nearby community, but the ill are entitled to petition the Court to institute publisher or editor. Photo submissions are accepted by the Post- Cowboy, breakin’ hearts and sentiment harbored by David’s formal proceedings and to obtain orders ter- minating or restricting the powers of Personal Gazette provided they are clear, original photos. There is a $5 bustin’ mechanical bulls in family is not any quicker to Representatives appointed under informal pro- charge for each photo submitted. Photos can be submitted via one of his most electrifying subside than the harsh envi- cedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, e-mail: [email protected]. If you want your photos returned, fi lm roles, celebrating the fi lms ronmental conditions endured can be obtained from the Petitioner. include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. 40th anniversary. By day, Bud by the people of Svaneti. Run date: 06/26/2020 POST-GAZETTE, JUNE 26, 2020 PAGE 9

by Marianna Bisignano

It was June of 1960, and I had bargained for an extra $200.00 So, I spent the next two weeks graduated Boston State College and got it. I was young and got saying goodbye to my students Independence Day is a month before. There were a through the year getting up and the folks in Tewksbury. I not a holiday celebrated few things I had to do next: 1. at 5:30 a.m., and not return- was on my way to 43 years with in Italy. However, his- Get a job, and 2. Go to the draft ing home until around 5:00 the Boston School Department tory reveals that many board and get myself reclassi- in the afternoon. When I com- without knowing it. Italians made vast con- fi ed as 1A. I had been classifi ed plained to Babbononno, he When I arrived at Boston Tech tributions in gaining as 2S since fi rst receiving my would say, “Si chiama pagare to cover for the man going on America’s independence. draft card. The classifi cation le tue spese.” (It’s called paying sabbatical, I was given the tour Independence Day is indicated that I was a student your dues.) Dad would say the of the building by the head mas- most often celebrated in and not eligible to be drafted same thing without need for ter. In conversation, he asked this country with family until my education had been translation. So, I stuck it out me if I could teach a course and friends gathering completed. that fi rst year. in physical science as well as for Fourth of July cook- I wanted to teach shop in the In mid-June, I negotiated a drafting. I agreed to it and then outs, parades, and fi re- Boston schools and took the new contract for the following handed a schedule which I fell works. The menu often exams that would allow me to year: 1. No bus duty. 2. A free in love with. And then it dawned includes meats and veg- teach several disciplines, draft- period. 3. A $300.00 increase on me, I had to get to the draft etables from the grill, and ing, woodworking, printing, in salary. The principal and I board and get myself reclassi- various salads and side electricity, machine shop, and shook hands and I thought I fi ed as 2S no longer counted, I dishes. One of the most sheet metal. I really wanted to was all set. When I returned wasn’t a student. popular desserts served teach drafting, and if not, try in September, his short-term The draft board for East during this celebration has always been Strawberry Shortcake. my hand at printing or/and memory seemed to have faded Boston was on the lower level This beloved American creation is made from layering shortcake woodworking. Those were my into the sunset. I had nothing of the East Boston Library on or sponge with whipped cream and strawberries. In Italy, we have favorite areas. When the exam in writing, having thought the Meridian Street, and I headed similar desserts to this made with Pan di Spagna (sponge cake) fi nals came out I was happy to handshake at the end of our there to get myself reclassifi ed. soaked in fl avored syrups, then stacked with custards, creams and see my scores, I topped the list spring meeting was the con- When the woman in charge fresh fruit. As Italian Americans gather to celebrate Independence in each of the shop areas, but tract. So, I only received a raise called me in, she asked me Day, why not include some scrumptious dishes and desserts from there was a problem, preference of $200.00 to comply with the what I was doing and why I our own homeland on the menu! lists. Many students in the late state minimum for the position. was so late in reporting for Along with many other dishes and desserts, my Nonna always ’50s were vets who had gone Needless to say, I was ticked off, reclassifi cation. For not report- made a delicious torta (cake) for all of our summertime celebra- back to school before the GI Bill and mostly at myself, a street ing, I told her I didn’t have an tions. Using a pan di spagnaor genoiseas her base, she’d fl avor and ran out for Korean War vets. kid with an education who had excuse, I just forgot. And, then layer them with creams, custards, and fresh fruit. One of the most Vets taking the exams were been taken in by an old geezer. I mentioned that I was teaching delicious she made was her Strawberry Mascarpone Torta. Layers placed above us and disabled I assumed that the handshake at Boston Tech. She then asked of syrup soaked pan di spagna, whipped mascarpone cream, vets were placed above them. was our contract. As a musician me what I was teaching, and I and fresh macerated strawberries. This torta could defi nitely be I discovered how many jobs and a bandleader, a handshake mentioned the different drafting considered an Italian version of America’s Strawberry Shortcake, were open in Boston and how was often the contract I used courses and the physical sci- yet so much more delicious. I’m sharing this recipe today and many applicants were looking especially when dealing with ence. Her next comment fl oored though my Nonna made it as a beautiful torta, I am creating it in for work, and knew that I didn’t some of the nightclub owners me, “You are teaching scientifi c a trifl e bowl. “Strawberry Mascarpone Torta in a Bowl” is equally stand a chance as over half fell and restaurateurs … not this subjects and are excused from as delicious, easier to serve, and absolutely perfect for an Italian under the veteran’s status. time. Dad told me to suck it up the draft, now being classifi ed Fourth of July outdoor summer celebration! Babbononno was happy that and learn from the experience. as 2A. Since Sputnik, anyone I might find a job teaching Babbononno said, “Succhialo teaching a science is deferred STRAWBERRY MASCARPONE TORTA IN A BOWL woodworking. He had taught e impara dall’esperienza,” the from the military. We’re trying me everything there was to same thing in Italian, so I had to catch up to the Russians and Fragola Mascarpone Torta in una Ciotola know about using hand tools to get over it on my own. this gesture helps out.” So, I Pan di Spagna (Sponge Cake) to fashion wood into furniture. About two weeks into the ’61 was reclassifi ed and went back 5 eggs, at room temperature Pinch of salt He had learned the trade of season, I received a call from to the classroom with a new ¾ cups sugar 1 ¼ cups cake fl our furniture making before com- Boston. They had a job for me. military ID card in my wallet 1 teaspoon lemon zest or ing to America, but electric- If I accepted, I would cover a stating that I was 2A. vanilla extract ity and electric tools for him drafting teacher at Boston Tech I would spend that year were a generation away, and who was taking the rest of the at Boston Tech and in the Preheat the oven to 330°. Grease and fl our a 9-inch pan, set he taught me the way he had year off. After that point in time, fall of 1962, begin 20 years at aside. Place eggs, sugar, salt and lemon zest or vanilla in a large learned, with hand tools that I would be sent to Hyde Park Hyde Park High School. The mixing bowl. Beat together for about 20-25 minutes until mixture had been around since day one. High School and take over a only one disappointed was is fl uffy and pale in color. Sift the fl our, a small amount at a time, I never told my grandfather that drafting slot from a man about Babbononno. He wanted to on top of mixture and fold in gently with a spatula. Pour the batter I wanted to teach drafting and to retire. I accepted the position, know why I wasn’t teaching into the prepared pan and bake for 35-40 minutes (do not open design. I didn’t want to shatter headed to School Committee woodworking or furniture mak- the oven the fi rst 30 minutes) until golden brown and bamboo his dream. He had wanted at Headquarters, signed the ing. I gave him every excuse skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. least one of his sons to follow in necessary papers, but asked I could think of in English, Strawberry Simple Syrup his footsteps in terms of work- for a two-week delay before I Italian, and Engliano, but he ing with wood. All followed him started. I thought it only fair would just swear under his 1-pound strawberries, washed, 2 cups water in terms of his music, but none that I let the powers that be in breath and head in another hulled and sliced 1 cup sugar were interested in anything Tewksbury that I was leaving. direction. Little did he know Place water and strawberries in a medium saucepan, let come that could give you splinters. The new starting date was set, that, years later, I would take to a boil. Reduce heat and cook for 25 minutes. Strain liquid into So now, the burden was on me. and on the following morning, over the wood shop at Hyde a clean pan and discard strawberries. Add sugar to liquid and Tewksbury was looking for I headed into the principal’s Park High School and teach bring mixture to a boil. Reduce heat and cook for 10 minutes. a drafting teacher for their offi ce and resigned, giving him furniture making as well as the Cool and store refrigerated in a sealed glass container, unless high school and I was inter- a two-week notice. He hit the drafting and physical science. using immediately. viewed and hired. That first roof, until I asked him to pro- When I took over the Mascarpone Whipped Cream year allowed me to “pay my duce my contract for the year, wood shop, I walked inside, dues” as a novice teacher: bus he couldn’t. I even offered to smiled, looked up, and said, 2 8-ounce containers 2 ½ cups heavy whipping duty before and after school, no supply my own replacement, “Babbononno, this one’s for mascarpone cheese, at room cream free period, just 20 minutes for as I had spoken to a former fel- you.” He had passed on by temperature 1 teaspoon vanilla lunch, and close to the mini- low classmate who didn’t have the time I began teaching 1 ½ cups confectioner’s sugar mum state salary for the job. I a job, and he wanted to work. woodworking. In a chilled mixing bowl, whisk mascarpone and heavy cream After Loretta and I were mar- until soft peaks form. Add confectioners sugar, vanilla, and beat ried in 1977, I made most of the until stiff. Refrigerate until ready to use. furniture for our new house. I Macerated Strawberries guess the spirit of Babbononno Mattéo Gallo was there with me all the time. 2-3 pounds strawberries, ¼ to ½ cup sugar GOOD BLESS AMERICA washed, hulled and sliced In a large bowl, mix strawberries and sugar, cover and refriger- o Appraisals ate for at least 30 minutes to macerate. Sales & Rentals Assemble Small Ads Split sponge cake into two layers. Generously saturate both • layers with the strawberry syrup. Place one layer of cake in the Real Estate Get Big bottom of the trifl e bowl, cutting to fi t. Place a layer of whipped mascarpone on top, and then add a layer of macerated strawber- ries. Repeat with a layer of cake, then whipped mascarpone, and 376 North Street • Boston, MA 02113 Results For more information call fi nish/top with macerated strawberries. Refrigerate until serving. (617) 523-2100 • Fax (617) 523-3530 617-227-8929 Marianna Bisignano is a psychologist for the Boston Public Schools and can be reached at [email protected] PAGE 10 POST-GAZETTE, JUNE 26, 2020

• RMV (Continued from Page 1) • News Briefs (Continued from Page 1) Governor Baker on June 12, online will have to wait until at have been extended until Since 2017, police have fanned profi lers according to its own 2020, and in light of the COVID- least February 2021 to make November 2020. out across the country to collect state media. 19 public health emergency to an appointment for a REAL ID • Driver’s licenses and ID samples to build a huge DNA encourage ‘social-distancing’ and have their $25 upgrade / cards that will expire in August database. LEGAL NOTICE and limit unnecessary travel amendment fee waived. Anyone have been extended until This database would enhance by reducing the need for many who holds a valid U.S. passport December 2020. China’s already sophisticated Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court customers to visit a Service or other federally-compliant All RMV customers are surveillance operation, which Middlesex Probate and Family Court Center, and allowing for the pri- form of identifi cation may never encouraged to visit www.Mass. includes cameras, facial recog- 208 Cambridge Street oritization of essential in-person need a RMV-issued REAL ID. Gov/RMV to renew their license nition, and artifi cial intelligence Cambridge, MA 02141 needs by appointment-only. • As a service to its members, or ID card, and complete one to clamp down on anti-govern- (617) 768-5800 Customers should take the AAA continues to issue REAL ID of over 40 other transactions ment activity. Docket No. MI20P2366EA following steps to determine credentials for their members available online, by mail, or by China already has the world’s Estate of SLEIMAN NAJIB AOUDE their online renewal eligibility only and members should make phone. largest collection of genetic Date of Death: February 27, 2020 and to qualify for this offer: an appointment before visiting For details on these and material totaling 80 million CITATION ON PETITION FOR • Visit Mass.Gov/RMV, login an AAA location. other credential expiration FORMAL ADJUDICATION to your “myRMV” account, and While the RMV has previously date extensions and additional LEGAL NOTICE To all interested persons: fi nd out if they are permitted to announced the below automatic information on RMV service A Petition for Formal Adjudication of renew online. extensions to certain expir- offerings during the COVID-19 Commonwealth of Massachusetts Intestacy and Appointment of Personal th The Trial Court Representative has been fi led by John Audi • Renew online by August 12 ing licenses and ID cards, all pandemic, please visit www. Probate and Family Court of Natick, MA requesting that the Court enter – your new standard license or eligible customers are encour- mass.gov/rmv or https:// Middlesex Division a formal Decree and Order and for such other ID card will be sent to you via aged to take advantage of this www.mass.gov/info-details/ 208 Cambridge Street relief as requested in the Petition. Cambridge, MA 02141 The Petitioner requests that John Audi of U.S. Mail. offer by renewing online prior to rmv-covid-19-information. (617) 768-5800 Natick, MA be appointed as Personal Rep- th resentative(s) of said estate to serve With- • The cost for renewing a August 12 . Docket No. MI20P2241EA driver’s license is $50. The • Driver’s licenses and ID out Surety on the bond in an unsupervised Estate of administration. cost for renewing an ID card is cards that expired or will expire NANCY LORRAINE MacDONALD IMPORTANT NOTICE $25. These costs are the same in March, April, and May 2020 LEGAL NOTICE Also Known As You have the right to obtain a copy of the NANCY L. MacDONALD Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. for both a standard or REAL will now expire in September Commonwealth of Massachusetts Date of Death: February 06, 2020 You have a right to object to this proceeding. ID license or ID card. The cost 2020. The Trial Court To do so, you or your attorney must fi le a for upgrading or amending a • Driver’s licenses and ID Middlesex Probate and Family Court INFORMAL PROBATE written appearance and objection at this license or ID card outside of cards that will expire in June 208 Cambridge Street PUBLICATION NOTICE Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of Cambridge, MA 02141 To all persons interested in the above cap- July 10, 2020. your renewal cycle is $25, which have been extended until (617) 768-5800 tioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Susan This is NOT a hearing date, but a dead- will be waived for participating, October 2020. P. Warren of North Reading, MA, a Will has line by which you must fi le a written ap- Docket No. MI20D1215DR eligible RMV customers. • Driver’s licenses and ID been admitted to informal probate. pearance and objection if you object to this DIVORCE SUMMONS BY Susan P. Warren of North Reading, MA proceeding. If you fail to fi le a timely written • Customers who renew cards that will expire in July PUBLICATION AND MAILING has been informally appointed as the Personal appearance and objection followed by an BANDANA KHADKA Representative of the estate to serve without affi davit of objections within thirty (30) days vs. surety on the bond. of the return day, action may be taken with- • North Washington Street Bridge (Continued from Page 1) DEEPU THAPA The estate is being administered under out further notice to you. To the Defendant: informal procedure by the Personal Represen- UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION The Plaintiff has fi led a Complaint for Divorce tative under the Massachusetts Uniform Pro- UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM • Thursday, July 2, 2020 at NOTE: This meeting is acces- requesting that the Court grant a divorce for bate Code without supervision by the Court. PROBATE CODE (MUPC) 6:30 p.m. - virtualmeeting.link/ sible to people with disabilities. Cruel and Abusive Treatment. Inventory and accounts are not required to be A Personal Representative appointed NWSB-Public-3 MassDOT provides reasonable The Complaint is on fi le at the Court. fi led with the Court, but interested parties are under the MUPC in an unsupervised admin- An Automatic Restraining Order has been entitled to notice regarding the administration istration is not required to fi le an inventory https:// accommodations and/or lan- entered in this matter preventing you from tak- from the Personal Representative and can or annual accounts with the Court. Persons register.gotowebinar.com/ guage assistance free of charge ing any action which would negatively impact petition the Court in any matter relating to the interested in the estate are entitled to notice register/367153728406316047 upon request (e.g. interpreters the current fi nancial status of either party. SEE estate, including distribution of assets and regarding the administration directly from Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411. expenses of administration. Interested parties the Personal Representative and may peti- Registration is free. in American Sign Language You are hereby summoned and required to are entitled to petition the Court to institute tion the Court in any matter relating to the Registration requires sharing and languages other than serve upon Jose Joaquim Macedo, Esq., Law formal proceedings and to obtain orders ter- estate, including the distribution of assets Offi ce of Jose J. Macedo, 392 Cambridge St., minating or restricting the powers of Personal and expenses of administration. of a fi rst name, last name, and English, live captioning, vid- Representatives appointed under informal pro- Cambridge, MA 02141, your answer, if any, on Witness, HON. MAUREEN H. MONKS, email address. This data is eos, assistive listening devices or before July 28, 2020. If you fail to do so, the cedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner. First Justice of this Court. only gathered to allow sending and alternate material formats), court will proceed to the hearing and adjudica- Date: June 12, 2020 of a confi rmation email and is as available. For accommoda- tion of this action. You are also required to fi le a Run date: 06/26/2020 copy of your answer, if any, in the offi ce of the Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of Probate only shared with MassDOT. tion or language assistance, Run date: 06/26/2020 Register of this Court. LEGAL NOTICE Registered attendees will be please contact MassDOT’s Chief Witness, HON. MAUREEN H. MONKS, entered into the project’s email Diversity & Civil Rights Offi cer First Justice of this Court. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Date: June 17, 2020 database to receive construc- by phone at 857-368-8580, The Trial Court LEGAL NOTICE tion updates. All three meetings TTD/TTY at 857-266-0603, Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of Probate Probate and Family Court will provide the same content fax 857-368-0602 or by email Run date: 06/26/2020 Middlesex Probate and Family Court Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court and are offered to ensure the to MASSDOT.CivilRights@dot. 208 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02141 Middlesex Probate and Family Court public flexibility in terms of state.ma.us. Requests should (617) 768-5800 208 Cambridge Street attending and learning about be made as soon as possible Cambridge, MA 02141 LEGAL NOTICE Docket No. MI20P2417PM (617) 768-5800 the upcoming changes given prior to the meeting, and for CITATION GIVING NOTICE OF PETITION Docket No. MI19P4127EA existing health conditions. more diffi cult to arrange ser- NOTICE OF SALE FOR APPOINTMENT OF CONSERVATOR Estate of Please share this informa- vices including sign language, Notice is hereby given by TODISCO OR OTHER PROTECTIVE ORDER TOWING OF 94 CONDOR STREET, PURSUANT TO HARRIET A. MacLEAN tion with your friends, neigh- CART or language translation or EAST BOSTON, MA, pursuant to G. L. c. 190B, § 5-304 & § 5-405 Also Known As bors, co-workers; anyone you interpretation, requests should the provisions of Mass G.L. c. 255, HARRIET A. SUSAN - MacLEAN In the matter of think would benefi t from the be made at least ten business Section 39A that they will sell the Date of Death: May 10, 2017 following vehicles. MAX E. HERMANN information. days before the meeting. of Weston, MA CITATION ON PETITION FOR Vehicles are being sold to satisfy FORMAL ADJUDICATION their garage keeper’s lien for towing, RESPONDENT storage and notices of sale: (Person to be Protected/Minor) To all interested persons: LEGAL NOTICE To the named Respondent and all other A Petition for S/A - Formal Probate of Will LEGAL NOTICE 2019 KIA OPTIMA interested persons, a petition has been fi led by with Appointment of Personal Representa- Commonwealth of Massachusetts Vin #5XXGT4L32KG279052 Elizabeth W. Hermann of Weston, MA in the tive has been fi led by Charles M. MacLean STATE OF WISCONSIN The Trial Court 2008 MERCEDES-BENZ GL450 4 MATIC above captioned matter alleging that Max E. of Framingham, MA requesting that the Court CIRCUIT COURT Probate and Family Court VIN #4JGBF71E48A408058 Hermann is in need of a Conservator or other enter a formal Decree and Order and for such SMALL CLAIMS COURT BRANCH Middlesex Division other relief as requested in the Petition. 2003 VOLKSWAGON JETTA protective order and requesting that Elizabeth DANE COUNTY 208 Cambridge Street Whitney Hermann of Weston, MA (or some other The Petitioner requests that Charles M. VIN #3VWSA69M64MO32272 PUBLISHED SUMMONS Cambridge, MA 02141 suitable person) be appointed as Conservator to MacLean of Framingham, MA be appointed Case No. 20-SC-2820 (617) 768-5800 2009 KIA OPTIMA serve Without Surety on the bond. as Personal Representative(s) of said estate Case Code: 31001 Vin # KNAGE228X95349534 The petition asks the court to determine to serve Without Surety on the bond in an Docket No. MI20P2138EA unsupervised administration. 117 SOUTH HAMILTON LLC, 2007 AUDI A4 that the Respondent is disabled, that a protec- Estate of tive order or appointment of a Conservator is IMPORTANT NOTICE Plaintiff, GERALD D. WALL Vin # WAUEF78E27A242612 You have the right to obtain a copy of the vs. necessary, and that the proposed conservator Also Known As 2000 FORD FOCUS is appropriate. The petition is on fi le with this Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. ANDREW PACKER GERALD DEWEY WALL Vin # 1FAFP34P6YW250047 court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. 350 Harrison Avenue #207 You have the right to object to this pro- To do so, you or your attorney must fi le a Boston, MA 02118 Date of Death: April 12, 2020 2007 NISSAN ALTIMA written appearance and objection at this Vin # 1N4AL21E97C166176 ceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your Defendant INFORMAL PROBATE attorney must fi le a written appearance at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of TO: Andrew Packer PUBLICATION NOTICE 2002 BMW 530i court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date July 10, 2020. You are hereby notified that the plaintiff To all persons interested in the above cap- Vin # WBAST63412CH87665 of July 15, 2020. This day is NOT a hearing This is NOT a hearing date, but a dead- referenced above has fi led a lawsuit or other tioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Marisa 2003 ACURA 3.2 TL date, but a deadline date by which you have line by which you must fi le a written ap- legal action against you. If you wish to dispute Wall of Salem, MA, Petitioner Galen Wall of Vin # 19UUA56713A054939 to fi le the written appearance if you object to pearance and objection if you object to this this matter, you must fi le a written answer on or Waltham, MA, a Will has been admitted to the petition. If you fail to fi le the written appear- proceeding. If you fail to fi le a timely written before the 20th day of July, 2020, at 9:00 AM. informal probate. 2018 HONDA CIVIC ance by the return date, action may be taken appearance and objection followed by an The answer should be mailed or delivered to the Marisa Wall of Salem, MA, Galen Wall of Vin # 19XFC1F33JE201389 in this matter without further notice to you. In affi davit of objections within thirty (30) days Dane County Small Claims Court, Room 1000, Waltham, MA has been informally appointed 2011 TOYOTA RAV-4 addition to fi ling the written appearance, you or of the return day, action may be taken with- Dane County Courthouse, 215 South Hamilton as the Personal Representative of the estate to Vin # 2T3BF4DV8BW119093 your attorney must fi le a written affi davit stating out further notice to you. Street, Madison, WI 53703, with a copy to the serve without surety on the bond. 2012 NISSAN VERSA the specifi c facts and grounds of your objection UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION undersigned. If you do not fi le a written answer The estate is being administered under Vin # 3N1BC1CP9CK203452 within 30 days after the return date. UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM prior to the court date, a judgment may be given informal procedure by the Personal Represen- IMPORTANT NOTICE PROBATE CODE (MUPC) to the plaintiff herein. A copy of the Summons tative under the Massachusetts Uniform Pro- 2008 MERCEDES-BENZ CLS-CLASS The outcome of this proceeding may A Personal Representative appointed and Complaint has been previously mailed to bate Code without supervision by the Court. Vin # WDDDJ72X18A116370 limit or completely take away the above- under the MUPC in an unsupervised admin- you at the address above. We are required by Inventory and accounts are not required to be 2008 TOYOTA YARIS named person’s right to make decisions istration is not required to fi le an inventory law to inform you that this letter is an attempt to fi led with the Court, but interested parties are Vin # JTDBT923984018660 about personal affairs or fi nancial affairs or annual accounts with the Court. Persons collect a debt, and that any information obtained entitled to notice regarding the administration or both. The above-named person has the interested in the estate are entitled to notice 2017 TOYOTA CAMRY will be used for that purpose. from the Personal Representative and can right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make regarding the administration directly from Vin # 4T1BF1FK5HU354604 Dated this 22nd day of June 2020. petition the Court in any matter relating to the this request on behalf of the above-named the Personal Representative and may peti- estate, including distribution of assets and The above vehicles will be sold person. If the above-named person cannot tion the Court in any matter relating to the /s/Jay D. Koritzinsky expenses of administration. Interested parties estate, including the distribution of assets Attorney for Plaintiff at public auction at afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at are entitled to petition the Court to institute State expense. and expenses of administration. State Bar No. 01005928 formal proceedings and to obtain orders ter- TODISCO TOWING Witness, HON. MAUREEN H. MONKS, Koritzinsky & Karls, LLC minating or restricting the powers of Personal Witness, HON. MAUREEN H. MONKS, 94 Condor Street, E. Boston First Justice of this Court. 414 D’Onofrio Drive, Suite 300 Representatives appointed under informal pro- First Justice of this Court. JULY 11, 2020 Date: June 12, 2020 Madison, WI 53719 cedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, Date: June 17, 2020 608-833-7799 can be obtained from the Petitioner. at 9:00 AM Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of Probate Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of Probate Run Date: 06/26/2020 Run date: 06/26/2020 Run dates: 06/26, 07/03, 07/10, 2020 Run date: 06/26/2020 Run date: 06/26/2020 POST-GAZETTE, JUNE 26, 2020 PAGE 11

LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE EXTRA Innings Commonwealth of Massachusetts NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE The Trial Court Notice is hereby given by D & G Towing and by Sal Giarratani Middlesex Probate and Family Court Auto Repair Services, Inc., 2 Emery Road, 208 Cambridge Street Allston, MA, pursuant to the provisions of Cambridge, MA 02141 (617) 768-5800 Mass General Laws, Chapter 255, Section MLB Returns with A played on the 2018 Boston Red Cora is Like a Bad Penny, 39A, that they will sell the following vehicles on Docket No. MI20P2389EA or after June 27, 2020 beginning at 10:00 am Shortened Regular Season Sox in 37 games and started He Just Won’t Go Away Estate of by public or private sale to satisfy their garage Commissioner Rob Manfred seven of the 14 playoff games Alex Cora was back in the JUNE F. EBNER keepers lien for towing, storage, and notices announced this past Tuesday that season and earned his news again when he agreed to Also Known As of sale: that baseball anticipates begin- fi rst World Series ring in the be interviewed by the Boston JUNE FLORENCE EBNER 2006 HONDA CIVIC ning the 2020 regular season Date of Death: April 21, 2020 process. The Sox got him from Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy for VIN 1HGFA16266L025581 either on July 23rd or July 24th. the Angels on July 30th. He is a 15 minutes. Cora is home in CITATION ON PETITION FOR 2017 NISSAN SENTRA The announcement follows great defensive second baseman Puerto Rico serving out his one- FORMAL ADJUDICATION VIN 3N1AB7APXHY354714 confi rmation that MLB Players and a good clutch hitter too. year suspension. He continues To all interested persons: 1999 HONDA CRV A Petition for Formal Probate of Will with Association has agreed to the VIN JHLRD2841XC002446 I Can Do Without to apparently like the idea of Appointment of Personal Representative health and safety protocols. Being Reminded Of throwing everybody involved has been fi led by Karl F. Ebner of Waltham, 2017 BMW X1 MA and Merrill R. Ebner of Bath, ME request- VIN WBXHT3C35H5F78343 Spring training most likely McGwire and Sosa in the alleged 2017 Houston ing that the Court enter a formal Decree and st Vehicles are being stored at D & G Towing will begin on July 1 as long Don’t know about you but Astros barrel-banging legacy Order and for such other relief as requested in as the players agree to report ESPN seems to be going crazy under the bus. the Petition. and Auto Repair Services, Inc., and may be The Petitioner requests that Karl F. Ebner viewed by appointment only. to camp. Pitchers will not be without any kind of sports being Cora needs to take a look at of Waltham, MA and Merrill R. Ebner of Signed allowed to lick their lips on the played out there anywhere. Carlos Beltran. He just van- Bath, ME be appointed as Personal Repre- Gabriela Estrada, Owner mound but can use a wet rag. The sports network started ished into thin air and is talk- sentative(s) of said estate to serve With- out Surety on the bond in an unsupervised Run dates: 06/12, 06/19, 06/26, 2020 To which the Brewers’ Brent something called 30-for-30 ing to no one about anything. administration. Anderson tweeted, “Wet rag is documentaries. The fi rst one The more Coral blabs, the less IMPORTANT NOTICE laughable.” July 24th should be You have the right to obtain a copy of the was on Michael Jordan, then likely he will ever don a baseball Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. opening day most likely. it was Bruce Lee. That one I uniform in any capacity. You have a right to object to this proceeding. LEGAL NOTICE The season will be 60 games actually liked. The latest one to Best Baseball Dynasty To do so, you or your attorney must fi le a down from the previous 114 and written appearance and objection at this Commonwealth of Massachusetts air was “Long Gone Summer” In My Lifetime Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of The Trial Court 82 games seasons thrown about about the Summer of ’98 when I was too young to know about July 13, 2020. Middlesex Probate and Family Court previously. The playoffs will end Mark McGwire and Sammy it but in the 1949-53 season the This is NOT a hearing date, but a dead- 208 Cambridge Street line by which you must fi le a written ap- Cambridge, MA 02141 inside October. Only 10 teams Sosa were whacking home runs NY Yankees won fi ve straight pearance and objection if you object to this (617) 768-5800 will make it to the playoffs. left and right over and over World Series titles. In 1948, the proceeding. If you fail to fi le a timely written Docket No. MI20C0321CA Finally, no minor leagues sea- and over again. McGwire hit year of my birth, the Yankees appearance and objection followed by an affi davit of objections within thirty (30) days In the Matter of son this year. No reason given. 70 homers and Sosa hit 66. It fi nished in third place with the of the return day, action may be taken with- EVAN ANTHONY WHITCOMB BASHA It seems also in the end, the was the era of Steroids where Red Sox winning the AL pen- out further notice to you. CITATION ON only people who win are the bil- ballplayers all seem to enlarge nant that season. They went out PETITION TO CHANGE NAME UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION lionaire owners and the multi- themselves into The Incredible and hired Casey Stengel who UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM A Petition to Change Name of Adult has PROBATE CODE (MUPC) been fi led by Evan Anthony Whitcomb Basha millionaire players. Fans fi nish Hulk minus the green complex- had a losing record for both the A Personal Representative appointed of Medford, MA requesting that the court enter in last place. ion. It was the 90s going into the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston under the MUPC in an unsupervised admin- a Decree changing their name to Evan Anthony No fans in the stands, no con- new millennium. McGwire HR Braves. Combined 534-682 w-l istration is not required to fi le an inventory Carmichael. or annual accounts with the Court. Persons IMPORTANT NOTICE cessions inside parks and any record only lasted until Barry record. interested in the estate are entitled to notice Any person may appear for purposes cottage industry food trucks Bonds, another hulk of a guy, Stengel’s luck changed very regarding the administration directly from of objecting to the petition by filing an and carts outside parks. How came along in 2001, and hit 73 quickly over the next fi ve seasons the Personal Representative and may peti- appearance at: Middlesex Probate and tion the Court in any matter relating to the Family Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return fans will take this news we will home runs. Then, as quickly with the likes of Joe DiMaggio, estate, including the distribution of assets day of July 14, 2020. This is NOT a hearing fi nd out. As for me I can’t get as it started, the home runs Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and expenses of administration. date, but a deadline by which you must fi le too excited over a 60 game sea- all dropped back into normal Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Vic a written appearance if you object to this Witness, HON. MAUREEN H. MONKS, proceeding. son. Sounds foolish to me but I range. The steroid issue made Raschi, Jerry Coleman, Allied First Justice of this Court. Date: June 15, 2020 Witness, HON. MAUREEN H. MONKS, guess business is business and page one. Reynolds and Gil McDougald. First Justice of this Court Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of Probate baseball is business. Why would I want to relive Personally, I remember how Date: June 16, 2020 Run date: 06/26/2020 Happy Birthday To ... that period that almost killed great the 1961 NY Yankees Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of Probate Happy birthday to Ian Kinsler baseball? were when the won the pen- Run Date: 06/26/2020 who just turned 38 years old. He nant and World Series and hitting a then record 240 home LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE runs as a team. Of course, we LEGAL NOTICE had the M & M Boys (Mickey Commonwealth of Massachusetts Commonwealth of Massachusetts LEGAL NOTICE Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Mantle and Roger Maris chas- The Trial Court Middlesex Probate and Family Court ing Babe Ruth’s season home Probate and Family Court Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court The Trial Court Middlesex Probate and Family Court 208 Cambridge Street run record helped) Maris broke Suffolk Probate and Family Court Cambridge, MA 02141 24 New Chardon Street Middlesex Probate and Family Court 208 Cambridge Street Ruth’s record hitting 61 and 208 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02141 (617) 768-5800 Boston, MA 02114 Mantle ended with 54 himself. (617) 788-8300 Cambridge, MA 02141 (617) 768-5800 Docket No. MI20P2410EA (617) 768-5800 Maris got screwed by the way. Docket No. SU20P0676EA Docket No. MI20P2308EA Estate of Docket No. MI20P1766EA Estate of PAUL ALBERT LUND After getting 61 to Babe Ruth’s Estate of ELEANOR BALLENTINE Estate of LORRAINE M. SCIONTI Also Known As 60, MLB decided to give Maris PETER D. GRAHAM Date of Death: February 25, 2020 PAUL A. LUND an asterisk since that season Date of Death: January 21, 2020 Date of Death: December 11, 2019 CITATION ON PETITION FOR Date of Death: April 29, 2020 baseball added 8 more games CITATION ON PETITION FOR CITATION ON PETITION FOR FORMAL ADJUDICATION CITATION ON PETITION FOR FORMAL ADJUDICATION than Ruth’s 154 game season. FORMAL ADJUDICATION To all interested persons: FORMAL ADJUDICATION To all interested persons: To all interested persons: A Petition for Formal Probate of Will with To all interested persons: A Petition for Formal Probate of Will with A Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intes- Appointment of Personal Representa- A Petition for Formal Probate of Will with Appointment of Personal Representative tacy and Appointment of Personal Repre- tive has been fi led by Deborah S. Russo of Appointment of Personal Representative has LEGAL NOTICE has been fi led by Christopher Mark Gilmore sentative has been fi led by John J. Preston Cambridge, MA requesting that the Court been fi led by Paul Arthur Lund of Billerica, of Sharon, MA requesting that the Court enter of Nashua, NH requesting that the Court enter enter a formal Decree and Order and for such MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Commonwealth of Massachusetts a formal Decree and Order and for such other a formal Decree and Order and for such other other relief as requested in the Petition. Decree and Order and for such other relief as The Trial Court relief as requested in the Petition. relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that Deborah requested in the Petition. Probate and Family Court The Petitioner requests that Christopher The Petitioner requests that John J. Preston S. Russo of Cambridge, MA and Patricia The Petitioner requests that Paul Arthur Middlesex Division Mark Gilmore of Sharon, MA be appointed of Nashua, NH be appointed as Personal Kilgore of Reading, MA be appointed as Per- Lund of Billerica, MA be appointed as Personal 208 Cambridge Street as Personal Representative(s) of said estate Representative(s) of said estate to serve With- sonal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Representative(s) of said estate to serve With- Cambridge, MA 02141 to serve Without Surety on the bond in an out Surety on the bond in an unsupervised Without Surety on the bond in an unsuper- out Surety on the bond in an unsupervised (617) 768-5800 unsupervised administration. administration. vised administration. administration. Docket No. MI20P0206EA IMPORTANT NOTICE IMPORTANT NOTICE IMPORTANT NOTICE IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the You have the right to obtain a copy of the You have the right to obtain a copy of the You have the right to obtain a copy of the Estate of Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. WALTER RUSSELL JENNINGS, JR. You have a right to object to this proceeding. You have a right to object to this proceeding. You have a right to object to this proceeding. You have a right to object to this proceeding. Also Known As To do so, you or your attorney must fi le a To do so, you or your attorney must fi le a To do so, you or your attorney must fi le a To do so, you or your attorney must fi le a WALTER JENNINGS written appearance and objection at this written appearance and objection at this written appearance and objection at this written appearance and objection at this WALTER R. JENNINGS Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of Date of Death: November 09, 2019 of July 16, 2020. July 08, 2020. July 08, 2020. July 15, 2020. INFORMAL PROBATE This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline This is NOT a hearing date, but a dead- This is NOT a hearing date, but a dead- This is NOT a hearing date, but a dead- by which you must fi le a written appearance line by which you must fi le a written ap- line by which you must fi le a written ap- line by which you must fi le a written ap- PUBLICATION NOTICE and objection if you object to this proceed- pearance and objection if you object to this pearance and objection if you object to this pearance and objection if you object to this To all persons interested in the above cap- ing. If you fail to fi le a timely written appear- proceeding. If you fail to fi le a timely written proceeding. If you fail to fi le a timely written proceeding. If you fail to fi le a timely written tioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Phillip ance and objection followed by an affi davit appearance and objection followed by an appearance and objection followed by an appearance and objection followed by an D. Jennings of Randolph, MA. of objections within thirty (30) days of the affi davit of objections within thirty (30) days affi davit of objections within thirty (30) days affi davit of objections within thirty (30) days Phillip D. Jennings of Randolph, MA has return day, action may be taken without of the return day, action may be taken with- of the return day, action may be taken with- of the return day, action may be taken with- been informally appointed as the Personal further notice to you. out further notice to you. out further notice to you. out further notice to you. Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond. UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION The estate is being administered under UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM informal procedure by the Personal Represen- UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) PROBATE CODE (MUPC) PROBATE CODE (MUPC) PROBATE CODE (MUPC) tative under the Massachusetts Uniform Pro- A Personal Representative appointed A Personal Representative appointed A Personal Representative appointed A Personal Representative appointed bate Code without supervision by the Court. under the MUPC in an unsupervised admin- under the MUPC in an unsupervised admin- under the MUPC in an unsupervised admin- under the MUPC in an unsupervised admin- Inventory and accounts are not required to be istration is not required to fi le an inventory istration is not required to fi le an inventory istration is not required to fi le an inventory istration is not required to fi le an inventory fi led with the Court, but interested parties are or annual accounts with the Court. Persons or annual accounts with the Court. Persons or annual accounts with the Court. Persons or annual accounts with the Court. Persons entitled to notice regarding the administration interested in the estate are entitled to notice interested in the estate are entitled to notice interested in the estate are entitled to notice interested in the estate are entitled to notice from the Personal Representative and can regarding the administration directly from regarding the administration directly from regarding the administration directly from regarding the administration directly from petition the Court in any matter relating to the the Personal Representative and may peti- the Personal Representative and may peti- the Personal Representative and may peti- the Personal Representative and may peti- estate, including distribution of assets and tion the Court in any matter relating to the tion the Court in any matter relating to the tion the Court in any matter relating to the tion the Court in any matter relating to the expenses of administration. Interested parties estate, including the distribution of assets estate, including the distribution of assets estate, including the distribution of assets estate, including the distribution of assets are entitled to petition the Court to institute and expenses of administration. and expenses of administration. and expenses of administration. and expenses of administration. formal proceedings and to obtain orders ter- WITNESS, HON. BRIAN J. DUNN, Witness, HON. MAUREEN H. MONKS, Witness, HON. MAUREEN H. MONKS, Witness, HON. MAUREEN H. MONKS, minating or restricting the powers of Personal First Justice of this Court. First Justice of this Court. First Justice of this Court. First Justice of this Court. Representatives appointed under informal pro- Date: June 08, 2020 Date: June 17, 2020 Date: June 10, 2020 Date: June 17, 2020 cedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, Felix D. Arroyo, Register of Probate Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of Probate Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of Probate Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of Probate can be obtained from the Petitioner. Run date: 06/26/2020 Run date: 06/26/2020 Run date: 06/26/2020 Run date: 06/26/2020 Run date: 06/26/2020 PAGE 12 BOSTON POST-GAZETTE, JUNE 26, 2020

Boxing Ringside HOOPS and HOCKEY in the HUB by Richard Preiss WITH BOBBY FRANKLIN

It was a spring of transition, Although people within Celtics In Joe Louis’s Day is what it was — the spring Nation were stunned that the June Used to Bust of 1997 — one that would C’s did not win the lottery, they become memorable for the really should not have been. Noses All Over Boston Celtics for a number of Even though the Celtics had reasons. the best chance (36 percent), There are a lot of reasons to look forward to Initially, there was embar- the field of other teams that June. It’s the month when kids graduate from rassment as the Celtics fin- did not make the 1997 playoffs, school, people get married, the nice weather fi nal ished the regular season with taken aggregately, had a better arrives with regularity, and summer offi cially an abysmal 15-67 record, the than 60 percent chance of win- begins. Back in the 1930s and 1940s it was worst in the history of the his- ning. In short, the single best also a time when Joe Louis would defend the toric franchise. Years later, in a chance was still signifi cantly title against a top contender. These fi ghts took moment of candor, Celtics patri- outweighed when the chances place in one of the major baseball parks and arch Red Auerbach declined for all the other teams were were always a front page event. In fact, the idea to call the 1996-1997 edition combined. of a big fi ght outdoors was imbedded in people’s of the Green a meaningful Everyone knew that Duncan minds so much that it was even used in a line NBA squad. It was, he said “a was the real deal — a 6-11 big from On the Waterfront. CBA (Continental Basketball man who could not only dunk In the famous cab ride scene where Terry Association) team,” thus equat- and rebound but could score Malloy, played by Marlon Brando, and his ing those who had played upon with accuracy from the outside. brother Charlie, the role taken on by Rod Steiger, the parquet that particular year In his senior year in college he Malloy tells his brother “Wilson gets a title fi ght with a minor league operation. shot .606 from the fi eld. in the ballpark and I get a one way ticket to Louis vs. Galento But ahead there lay hope. Born in the U.S. Virgin Palookaville.” The movie came out in 1955, when The fi rst order of business was Islands, he was developing as ballpark fi ghts were still occurring. Schmeling in the fi rst round. Joe’s defense of the to hire a big-name coach who a swimmer before a hurricane title against Conn in 1941, was one of the greatest would immediately legitimize destroyed the local municipal heavyweight title fi ghts of all time. what was to come. It wouldn’t be pool. He switched to basketball His opponents in his remaining June fi ghts easy. There was lots of rebuild- and went on to play all four years were Tony Galento, Arturo Godoy, the 1946 ing to do in the Hub — and and graduate from Wake Forest rematch with Billy Conn, and his second fi ght anyone coming to Boston would where he attained national with Jersey Joe Walcott. Joe would have one be leaving a situation where he Player of the Year honors. Pitino fi nal June fi ght when he made his comeback had accumulated an impressive attempted to engineer a trade for after giving up the title. This was the only time he record of success. the right to pick the prize athlete fought an indoor fi ght in June when he kayoed A language that many people who would go on to become one Lee Savold in 1951. successful in the college and of the greatest players in NBA professional coaching ranks history — but to no avail. understand — money — became Come the night of the 1997 a signifi cant part of the equa- NBA Draft on June 25, 1997 tion. And thus it was that one the Spurs dutifully selected Richard Pitino, whose University Duncan — who did not disap- of Kentucky team had just won point. He was selected as the the NCAA Division 1 National NBA Rookie of the Year for the Championship in April, was 1997-1998 season. Fellow NBA offered a contract which he top draft pick (1987) and team- signed, sealed and delivered to mate David Robinson offered the Celtics front offi ce. his assessment of Duncan’s Coming to Causeway Street fi rst year: “He the real thing. I’m would prove to be the latest proud of his attitude and effort. of numerous stops for Pitino, He gives all the extra effort and who had played his college work and wants to become a Louis vs. Braddock Louis vs. Schmeling ball at UMass-Amherst. His better player.” Nobody defi ned the excitement of the big fi ght All told, Louis fought nine times in June over first head coaching job had Back in Boston, the Celtics held in a stadium in June more than Joe Louis. the course of his career. His only loss in those been across town at Boston opted to select Chauncey Joe won the title from James J. Braddock on nine fi ghts was to Schmeling. And with the excep- University (1978-1983) He then Billups as the third overall June 22, 1937, in Comiskey Park, Chicago. Every tion of the Savold fi ght, all were major draws that moved on to similar positions selection in the 1997 draft plus year after that with the exception of the time he drew huge gates. with Providence College (1985- Ron Mercer, who had played for served his country during WWII, Louis made a It is hard in this age of pay per view where 1987), the New York Knicks Pitino at Kentucky, as the sixth June defense of the title outdoors. In fact, even people sit at home with friends and watch (1987-1989) and Kentucky overall choice. before he won the title he had two major fi ghts fi ghts from their living rooms or man caves to (1989-1997). Pitino was also active over in June. imagine the excitement of being in a ballpark Of course, it was for more the summer, acquiring Walter In his pre-championship period, he stopped with over 70,000 people to watch the undisputed than a tidy, little sum — it was McCarty from the New York Primo Carnera on June 25, 1935, in a bout held Heavyweight Champion of the World putting his for the astronomical amount of Knicks plus signing free agents at Yankee Stadium, and on June 19, 1936, he title on the line. It had to be electric. $70 million if he coached the full Travis Knight, Andrew DeClercq suffered defeat at the hands of Max Schmeling It’s a time that will never return and in many 10 years, dropping off by a few and Bruce Bowen. The team’s also at Yankee Stadium. Joe would avenge ways Terry Malloy spoke for all of us who are million if he elected to join the best player was second year that loss on a June evening in 1938 when he now deprived of that title shot in the ballpark, front offi ce on a fulltime basis man Antoine Walker, who had destroyed the German in the fi rst round, again as we have all been given a one way ticket to before the full 10 years were up. played for Pitino at Kentucky. at Yankee Stadium. Palookaville. Oh, and he wasn’t satisfi ed Kenny Anderson came aboard Just close your eyes for a moment and imag- with just the money — he took at midseason in a deal that sent ine you are sitting in Yankee Stadium on a Red’s title as Celtics President Billups to Toronto. warm June night. You hear the announcer say as well. And thus it was that Even though he missed on “And in this corner, from Detroit, the Heavy- Richard Andrew Pitino was for- Duncan, Pitino looked like he weight Champion of the World, Joe Louis.” mally introduced to the media at was worth the money when Less than an hour later you will hear him say a large gathering at the Garden he delivered a stunning upset “The winner and still Heavyweight Champion on May 8, 1997 — an event that victory over the fi ve-time and of the World, Joe Louis.” It always ended that would come to be labeled the current NBA champion Chicago way. “coronation” press conference. Bulls on the opening night of Before the fi ght starts, would you grab me a Another part of the lure was the 1997-1998 season at the hot dog and a beer. that the Celtics were about to Garden. be winners — or so everyone Although the Celtics did not thought. You see, that horrible make the playoffs, they did go fi nish had a silver lining. The on to log a 36-46 record, which Celtics had the best chance represented a 21-win improve- of winning the upcoming NBA ment over the previous season. Draft Lottery, since they had Walker was the team leader with two picks on the day in May that a 22.4 scoring average and 10.2 the lottery was held. rebounding norm. But lo and behold, San All in all, not a bad fi rst sea- Louis vs. Conn 1 Antonio, which actually had son for the famous coach now the third best chance, won the in charge of a storied franchise. Joe’s other June title defenses were all held at lottery. Everyone knew what Another great player would Yankee Stadium with the exception of his fi rst that would mean — they had arrive but still dark clouds fi ght against Billy Conn which was staged at the just won the right to select would gather on the horizon — Polo Grounds in New York. Tim Duncan with the fi rst over- a portent to a less than positive All of these fi ghts were memorable with some all pick in the upcoming NBA conclusion for Pitino’s time in being truly historic such as the time he defeated Yankee Stadium in 1946 Draft. the Hub. More next week.