Dorchester Reporter “The News and Values Around the Neighborhood” Volume 36 Issue 49 Thursday, December 5, 2019 50¢ Codman Sq. residents hear what pot shop hopefuls have in mind Proponents talk of ‘educational programs’ for users By Katie Trojano councillor who represents building movements in our Reporter Staff them, and Derrick Small, community and throughout A proposed recreational a consultant and attorney, the state, the opportunity to be marijuana shop that would along with security consul- here and bring about economic open in in what is currently tant Daniel Linskey, a former empowerment.” a residential property on superintendent-in-chief of the Although the property at 533 Washington Street in Codman Boston Police Department. Washington St. is within an Square was the subject of a Christine Brandao from the area that is zoned as a neigh- public meeting held last Mon- Mayor’s Office of Neighbor- borhood shopping district, the day at the Great Hall. About 50 hood Services facilitated the house is on a plot of land that people, some of whom relayed city-mandated session. is zoned as residential. Grazin their concerns about how the Crawford, who owns 51 Group, which has a ten-year process was playing out, were percent of the business (Suida lease on the property, needs to in attendance to hear a pre- owns 49 percent), said that as a win a conditional use permit sentation by representatives long-time Dorchester resident, from the city’s Zoning Board of the Grazin Group, which is she hopes to improve the com- of Appeal (ZBA) to open a co-owned by Cheryl Crawford munity. “As I’ve grown up, I’ve dispensary. and Stephen Suida. supported this neighborhood, Ross, who noted that the They were joined by Mike and I still live in this neigh- team hopes to submit an ap- Ross, the former Boston city borhood. I do see, as we’re (Continued on page 15) Walsh signs on to City Council’s cannabis “SEIU 32BJ (Francisco),” a portrait by Savin Hill resident Zach Horn, depicts Francisco Gil, a member of the cleaning equity push crew at UMass Boston. Daniel Sheehan photo By Katie Trojano Reporter Staff ‘Dot Now’ exhibition Mayor Martin Walsh signed a city ordinance last Tuesday reflects artists’ keen that creates a Cannabis Equity Board meant to ensure that sense of community at least half of the potential licenses issued in Boston go to By Daniel Sheehan community between artists companies owned by people of Reporter Staff in the area and UMass Boston color. The legislation was ap- Mayor Walsh joins Councillor Kim Janey and other city and A new exhibition at UMass while celebrating their work proved by the City Council the Boston’s University Hall Gal- within the Greater Boston state elected officials for a signing ceremony of the ordinance. week before by a 12-1 margin, Katie Trojano photo lery titled “Dot Now” features Area. ‘Dot Now’ gathers a set with Councillor Kim Janey of work from a diverse group of intergenerational artists Roxbury its lead proponent. This has contributed to cycles percent of cannabis revenue. of a dozen artists based in who are working in a variety “This ordinance that I’m of poverty and pain over gen- Janey spoke about the Dorchester or with significant of media, connected through about to sign today helps erations. We have an oppor- importance of multi-faceted connections to the neighbor- their locale and shared so- right the wrongs of the past, tunity here in Boston to undo collaboration in aiming for hood. cial concerns, but distinc- certainly since the 1970’s and some of that damage.” economic equity in the city. “Inspired by requests from tive in their artistic prac- the American war on drugs The law allows for the cre- “This is an important step our visitors to highlight more tices and personal narratives.” which has been devastating ation of a Boston Cannabis when it comes to economic local artists, ‘Dot Now’ pres- Among the artists spotlighted to a lot of people,” said Walsh, Equity program, which will development. We have to do ents artworks made by artists in the collection is Joanna “but most importantly in com- include funds for technical everything that we can to dis- living and/or working in our Tam, who is based at Dorches- munities of color.” equipment and resources for mantle this pipeline to prison neighborhood of Dorchester,” ter Art Project in Fields Cor- He added: “Across the coun- applicants. The City Council that continues to criminalize reads a press release about ner. Her piece, ‘Make a Wish try people of color have been has set aside $500,000 for the black and brown people, par- the exhibit, which continues: for Dorchester,’ presents a disproportionately arrested program over the last year and ticularly our young people,” “The exhibition seeks to visual and auditory portrait for low-level drug crimes over Walsh said that amount will be she said. foster a stronger sense of (Continued on page 4) the past four or five decades. matched out of the first three (Continued on page 15) A homecoming at South Bay ramen shop By Daniel Sheehan Allston and Somerville — is used to be a giant Super 88 su- Reporter Staff Nghi Nguyen, a Dorchester permarket,” he said, gesturing Totto Ramen South Bay is native who grew up in the to the buildings around him. the latest eatery with a local St. Mark’s neighborhood and “And then when the landlord connection to open up at the owns the other two Boston- (Continued on page 16) shopping complex’s budding based shops as well. Town Center commercial Still, the 37-year-old Nguy- Totto Ramen’s signature district. en said in an interview at the chicken paitan ramen, a noo- eatery site, opening one near to dle dish made with chicken The owner of the noodle shop broth, is now being served up All contents © 2019 — a New York-based franchise where he was raised is special. at South Bay. Boston Neighborhood that already has locations in “Before all this came, this Daniel Sheehan photo News, Inc.

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She didn’t know what it was and live performance begins at 7 p.m. General local and federal officials as well as at first. “It was way up in the sky,” she admission tickets are $25 per person. A limited eyewitnesses. said. “It looked like a trash bag but it number of VIP tickets are available for $75 and The equipment landed in the front was falling. My husband and I said, include a reception featuring the different flavors yard of 310 Adams St. in Milton, and ‘Oh my God, what is that?’” and tastings of Dorchester, preferred seating at the plane, a Boeing 767-300, landed Delta Air Lines said in a statement the Strand Theatre and a meet & greet with Billy safely, officials said in noting on on Sunday that maintenance crews Hough. The VIP event begins at 5:30 p.m. Contact State Police released this Monday that an FAA investigation of were inspecting the plane. “Delta is [email protected]. image of what investiga- the incident was ongoing and that no investigating an inflatable over-wing tors believe is the car Friday (6th) – The Mayor of Boston’s Enchanted injuries or property damage had been slide that was retrieved following an involved in the hit-and- Trolley Tour will take place from Friday, December reported. aircraft’s landing into Boston’s Logan run on Day Boulevard. 6 to Sunday December 8 this year in several Boston The Boston Globe, quoting Milton Airport,” the statement said. “The neighborhoods. The event will include tree lightings, Public’s help sought Police Deputy Chief James O’Neil, re- flight landed without incident and holiday performances, and children can meet Santa. after hit-and-run on ported that “the homeowner had been taxied to the gate. It’s the 24th edition of the citywide event, and the Day Blvd. – State Po- outside speaking to a neighbor” when event will kick off at 5:30 p.m. in Mattapan Square lice are looking to the Friday night (Dec. 6). Dorchester will be the first public for help in iden- neighborhood the festivities hit Saturday (Dec. 7) at tifying the hit-and-run 1 p.m. in Codman Square, and the tour will end in driver who fled after Adams Village at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 8. The striking a pedestrian event is sponsored by Bank of America. in South Boston Mon- Saturday (7th) – Pearl Harbor Day. National day morning. According Parks of Boston will host a commemorative service to their investigation, and a wreath laying ceremony on the World War a 60-year-old woman II-era destroyer USS Cassin Young, from 10:30 a.m. was crossing Day Bou- to 12:30 p.m. to remember and honor those who levard in the area of K perished in the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval Street at about 7:15 a.m. base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The commemoration Monday when she was will be held in Charlestown Navy Yard. USS Cas- struck by a car travel- sin Young was named for U.S. Navy Commander ing toward L Street. Cassin Young who was awarded the Medal of Honor After the car hit the for his actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor. woman, knocking her • The Boston School of Music Arts Pro Department to the ground, the Singers will perform a holiday concert at 3 p.m. at driver continued to Gilman Chapel in Cedar Grove Cemetery. A mix of travel eastbound be- teenage and adult students in the school’s pro divi- fore turning left onto L sion, which offers professional voice coaching and Street and then taking stage performance mastery courses, will perform a Presidential candidate Deval Patrick stopped by the “Politics & Eggs” in an immediate right collection of traditional carols and holiday-themed New Hampshire on Nov. 25. The event was sponsored by the New England onto Columbia Road. tunes. The concert is part of a Gilman Chapel series Council and the Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College. Gov. Patrick is The victim was trans- brought about through a collaboration between the shown here with Dorchester’s Jim Brett, the president and CEO of the New ported by EMS to a England Council. school and Cedar Grove Cemetery. Gilman Chapel is Boston hospital with located at 920 Adams St. (across from Cedar Grove serious injuries and Gardens). Doors open at 2:30 p.m. Admission is free. Gigi, 30-year resident of zoo remained hospitalized Light refreshments will be served. as of Monday morning. Sunday (8th) – Join Boston Children’s Chorus at Franklin Park, is dead at 47 The hit-and-run vehicle for cherished tales paired with music celebrating is believed to be a mid- to light, joy, and peace in a concert at the Strand Gigi, a western low- Forest seeing Gigi on late-2000s Lincoln Town Theatre on Sunday, Dec. 8 at 3 p.m. Contact: info@ land gorilla who has exhibit and watching Car, possibly silver or bostonchildrenschorus.org. lived at the Franklin the movement in her light beige in color. The Monday (9th) – Higginson School Site Council Park Zoo since 1989, died face and chest signifying vehicle has dark tint meets from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at 160 Harrishof St., last week at age 47. 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Light refreshments will be available. hit Saturday (Dec. 7) at 1 p.m. in Codman Square, and the Citizens Club on Boston Street is hosting its annual Kids Translated materials and interpretation services will be tour will end in Adams Village at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Christmas Party on Sat., Dec. 7 from 1-4 p.m. Event is provided in Haitian Creole and Spanish. Contact: Muge Dec. 8. The event is sponsored by Bank of America. open to all children and families - you do not need to Undemir at [email protected]. Strand Theatre concert on Dec. 8 features Boston speak Polish to attend. There will be face painting, pizza, Halfway to Dot Day 5k on Dec. 14 – Dorchester Running Children’s Chorus – Join Boston Children’s Chorus for and Holiday treats. Santa Claus will be stopping by for a Club sponsors the fifth annual Halfway to Dot Day 5k and cherished tales paired with music celebrating light, joy, visit and parents should bring a wrapped gift with their Toy Drive on Sat., Dec. 14 at Pope John Paul II Park, Hallet and peace in a concert at the Strand Theatre on Sun., Dec. child’s first and last name written on it, for Santa to hand Street entrance in Neponset, 9 a.m. Followed by a toy 8 at 3 p.m. Contact: [email protected]. out. Admission is $5 per child. RSVP at polishclubboston. drive breakfast at Florian Hall, 9 a.m.- 12 p.m. Suggested Hancock Street Civic Association – The Hancock Street com/kidschristmas. donation: $20 and unwrapped toy for a child in need. Civic Association meets monthly on the first Tuesday at PLAN: Mattapan meeting on Dec. 17 – The Boston More info at DotRunners.org. Uphams Crossing, 530 Columbia Rd., Dorchester. Meeting Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) will host a Enchanted trolley tour makes stops Dec. 6-8 – The Mayor time is 7– 8:30p.m. Annual dues are $5; please contact community meeting for the PLAN: Mattapan initiative of Boston’s Enchanted Trolley Tour will take place from [email protected] with any questions you on Tues., Dec. 17 at 6 p.m. at the Mattapan BPL branch, Fri., Dec. 6 to Sun., Dec. 8 this year in several Boston may have. The next meeting is on Jan. 7. 1350 Blue Hill Ave. The meeting will build on last month’s neighborhoods. The event will include tree lightings, conversation about Topic Areas (Corridors, Residential holiday performances, and children can meet Santa. It’s SEND UPDATES TO Fabric, and Squares) and Focus Areas (specific places in the 24th edition of the citywide event, and the event will Mattapan). This meeting will continue the conversation kick off at 5:30 p.m. in Mattapan Square Friday night (Dec. [email protected] about how the BPDA led team will determine success for 6). Dorchester will be the first neighborhood the festivities SEE NEW EVENTS DAILY AT DOTNEWS.COM dotnews.com December 5, 2019 THE REPORTER Page 3 Columbia/Savin Hill civic wants to to leverage development boom By Katie Trojano The missive, which the state and city to be ber Bruce Shatswell more that this needs to they selling to private Reporter Staff was signed by Columbia- actively involved to start weighed in, saying, “A be codified in zoning.” developers?” A sub-committee of Savin Hill President this process,” he said. lot of people in this room Civic group vice-pres- Schwartzberg said the Columbia-Savin Hill Desmond Rohan, was Ted Schwartzberg, a and in this community ident Eileen Boyle said the “short answer” is Civic Association is lead- sent to City Councillor senior planner at the took part in the Colum- she wanted to know why that older buildings, ing a discussion about Frank Baker, state Sen. Boston Planning and bia Point Plan,” he said. the city is selling its like many of Boston’s how to structure and Nick Collins, and state Development Agency “One of the reasons that land to private develop- housing projects, even- seek out “community Reps. Dan Hunt and (BPDA, told the mem- the plan wasn’t enacted ers. “I don’t understand tually need to be re- benefits” from the de- David Biele. Represen- bership about ongoing was because it never be- why the city is basically built. “When public velopment projects that tatives from Collins’s planning efforts in Glov- came [incorporated] into selling the Mary Ellen housing gets replaced, are expected to be built and Baker’s’ offices and er’s Corner, Newmarket zoning. I just want you McCormack project to a it needs to be paid for in the neighborhoods in from the Mayor’s Office Square, and Columbia to take the message back private developer for 100 by the federal govern- the coming years. of Neighborhood Ser- Point. that these things need to years,” she said. “The ment,” he said. “The The question was dis- vices were in attendance “I just want to pull be spelled out and coded taxpayers have funded ideal way would be if cussed in depth at Mon- Monday night. back the curtain and let in law or regulations so those housing projects, Washington stepped day evening’s general The association as- everyone know that the that we know what we’re and now they’re going up to the plate and paid membership meeting at serts that the roughly planners are thinking getting up front. It’s a to be turned over with for what they have his- the Little House, which “10,000 new residential about this a lot,” he said. huge matter of trust mixed-use,” she added, torically been paying for, drew about 60 residents. units, and hundreds “We’re paying attention with the community.” asking: “Instead of the but they haven’t taken Don Walsh, a key of thousands of square and there are some big Responded Schwartz- city developing the proj- that responsibility.” member of the sub- feet of new retail and projects coming.” He berg: “I couldn’t agree ect themselves, why are committee, explained commercial space, will added that the BPDA that the concept is to impact an area already is trying to ensure that be pro-active and let densely populated, major findings from the developers know what strain public services, 2011 Columbia Point the civic group wants to and further overwhelm Master plan are sup- see prioritized. outmoded transporta- ported. “Rather than deal tion infrastructure.” “Since then, there piecemeal with the plan- Walsh invited the has been a lot of talk ning efforts, we need membership to attend about 75 Morrissey [the the community, city, the next sub-committee property adjacent to the and the state to come meeting on Wed., Dec. former Globe building] together. I can’t say this 18 at 7 p.m. in the base- and, of course, the Bay- enough— we will be see- ment of Savin Bar and side site,” Schwartzberg ing 10,000 new housing Kitchen, saying, “We’re said, “and we’re think- units. That’s unbeliev- going to talk about the ing about how to look able,” he said. next steps after issuing at all of these projects On Nov. 26, the as- this letter, and we’re collectively. The thought sociation sent letters to also going to talk about is that there will be one state and city elected issuing a survey.” single Impact Advisory officials requesting “co- Rohan told the gath- Group (IAG) for both operation and assistance ering that the sub-com- the Bayside site and the in the creation of a plan- mittee is particularly 75 Morrissey proposal, ning team to develop a focused on how to lever- seeking representation comprehensive response age private funds for from elected officials to the unprecedented public improvements to and all of the civic as- current proposals for transportation and in- sociations.” this area.” frastructure. “We need Longtime civic mem-

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650 Broadway 53 Commerce Way SM Everett Plymouth 781-905-1500 memberspluscu.org Page 4 THE REPORTER December 5, 2019 dotnews.com ‘Dot Now’ exhibition at UMass Boston reflects artists’ keen sense of community (Continued from page 1) as a functional, archi- as part of the third wave of a real gun as well as of the neighborhood in tectural object within of Vietnamese resettle- layered boxes of tape and Dorchester residents’ the urban environment ment.” peace symbols to form a own words. and within the gallery.” In much of his recent collage that illustrates “For this project, I “SEIU 32BJ (Francis- work, Dorchester-bred his anger about racial have done audio inter- co)” is a portrait by artist Marlon Forrester and gun violence across views with people who Zach Horn, a Savin has utilized elements America. live, work, or study in Hill resident who is an of basketball culture The way Thorne lay- Dorchester to share their artist and lecturer at to evoke ideals of tran- ers complex drawings personal stories about UMass Boston, that scendence and issues of and media on top of Dorchester and their depicts Francisco Gil, a race associated with the each other, then cuts thoughts about home, member of the cleaning game within American through them to reveal community and how to crew at UMass Boston. popular culture. different pieces under- make Dorchester a even The work is a selection In his piece “Ballup- neath relates, he says, better neighborhood,” from Horn’s ‘United face,” he uses ink and to “time and memory, said Tam. We Bargain’ exhibition collage to depict a black the complexity of societal “The audio material that spotlights work- figure wearing a “ball up issues, and the collision is played at the gal- ers who “normally are face” expression, a look of of personal and public lery,” she said. “I want considered numbers in intensity and prepared- narratives.” gallery visitors to learn the system of a corpora- ness to play in a game. Rixy Fernandez, a re- more about Dorchester tion, company, or in this According to Forrester, cent graduate of UMB’s and its people through case a state university.” his paintings, drawings, Art Department, used the voices of the people For the piece, Horn sculptures, and mul- her 2019 Ruth Butler who have connection to used asphaltum, a quick timedia works “reflect Travel Scholarship to Dorchester. It is impor- drying tar-like asphalt meditations on the ex- travel to Mexico City to tant to me that the voices paint, which he applied ploitation implicit in the explore the city’s graffiti of ordinary people to be to Tyvek, a synthetic simultaneous apotheosis and street art culture. Andrew Mowbray’s “Milkcrate Column” is one of his amplified at a prominent polyethylene fabric used and fear of the muscular She created her featured pieces made from materials he found and gathered in Dorchester. Daniel Sheehan photo institution like UMass to protect buildings dur- black figure in America.” piece during that trip. Boston, which is also in ing construction. The The artist and Sav- “Another Round,” said sity Hall gallery. Her with a pattern of colors Dorchester.” materials “allude to in Hill resident Cristi Fernandez, “is inspired untitled piece draws from and photos resembling In addition to the re- the labor of construc- Rinklin turns her ar- by fighting and aggres- elements of afrofuturism a patchwork quilt. Smith cording, ‘Make a Wish for tion and other service tistic lens on the issue sion in video games, and to depict a black woman said the memory of her Dorchester’ also includes workers that are often- of climate change in was a result of fury due to with an afro set against grandmother and the a section of wall on which times only recognized two pieces from her various situations. When a cosmic backdrop of historical significance Tam has written in by companies or cor- “HARBINGER” series, unbearable, my emotions stars and planets. A pink of the house, which she pencil some of the most porations as numbers inspired by the ongoing created the textures and brush stroke obscuring now owns, inspired her common responses and rather than individuals.” process by which ris- accents shown, asking the woman’s eyes, she to craft the sculpture: wishes from interview- Ngoc-Tran Vu, a visual ing temperatures are myself if I wanted to says, “could be seen as ees, as well as a book artist and activist who is melting the Siberian continue fighting during symbolizing the erasure “She built it and owned in which viewers are an active member of the tundra and releasing a ‘time-out.’ of vision and access to it until the day she died invited to write their own Dorchester community, methane gas into the “The series [that the sight, or enlightenment in August of 2001,” wrote wishes for Dorchester. contributed her photo- air. Rinklin’s painting work is from] collectively through the transcen- Smith. “Her home sits on Another artist whose graph “My Vietnamese depicts a thermokarst, expresses my various dence of art.” a parcel of cleared land work is displayed in Father” to the exhibition. a hole or depression emotions and their de- Fields Corner native that is located adjacent to the exhibition, Andrew The photo depicts her formed by thawing ice, tails that arose in each Aiden Nguyen and co- her sister Rosie Steele’s Mowbray, crafted two father holding a second, to create “an unsettling moment. Without con- collaborator Thanh Mai farm. This is of historical pieces out of milk crates older photograph of him- feeling of depth and im- straints, planning, or a created Vanguard, an significance because this and driftwood that he self from his time as a sol- pending danger.” second shot, it became underground art and land is located on the salvaged from the shores dier in the Vietnam War. Joe Wardwell, who therapy to release a feel- poetry zine, with the in- Selma to Montgomery of Dorchester. “I took this photograph lives in Jamaica Plain ing of a relationship onto tention of creating a safe National Historic Trail. The first work, titled in 2007, I believe,” wrote but works at Hum- paper; not only the one platform for the visibility “On March 22, 1965, “Raft,” is a group of six Vu. “It was a family phreys Street Studios in with myself, but one of a and individuality of self- this land served as block-shaped sculptures project I did when I was Dorchester, layered sten- new journey and myself. identifying lesbian, gay, Campsite #2 for march- made of “reassembled working in the darkroom cils to create his piece I surrounded myself with bisexual, transgender/ ers walking 50 miles from castaway driftwood cut heavily. I was photo- titled “What Causes all my tools and medi- trans, and queer (LG- Selma to Montgomery, offs” that anchors the graphing my family in the Room to Shutter.” ums, and allowed my BTQ) Vietnamese artists Alabama, fighting for center of the exhibition. the everyday when I The work combines a intuition to tell me what and writers. Several the right to vote. A sign The second work, “Milk- saw a photograph of my scene of a sunset with connects to the feeling. copies of the zine are on was erected on the site crate Column,” is a floor- dad when he was in the superimposed lyrics from Cardboard, glass, and display at the Dot Now by the National Park to-ceiling height tower of South Vietnamese mili- 1970s Boston punk band steel wanted to touch the exhibition as part of a Service to commemorate found and gathered milk tary and I asked him to The Girls’ song “Jeffrey purity of the page. Colors collection, which was this historic event. I see crates that Mowbray de- hold it up for me by the I Hear You” to create an and texture had dialogue, the subject of a Reporter Cara’s house as a bridge scribes as “a selected Tax- light. The context of the unsettling feeling. and they wanted to shape story on May 15 of this that links our family to onomy of modular forms photograph is of my dad Jamal Thorne, an- the composition a certain year. a remarkable past that from past to present.” while in his first year of other artist based out of way with a specific tool. Mount Bowdoin res- we must never forget.” “My work is often project military school training Dorchester Art Project, From start to end, it ident Suzie “Cookie” based,” said Mowbray in 1970. He later became uses an interpretation became a conversation Smith made “Cara’s “Dot Now” will be on dis- about his artistic vision. a lieutenant in the South of hip hop duo Run The where everything spoke, House,” a sculpture made play at UMass Boston’s “I look a lot at common Vietnamese army. Jewels’ album cover de- until it stopped – then of crimped cuttings of University Hall gallery ubiquitous objects and “Consequently, it was sign as the centerpiece of the diary entry itself aluminum cans, wood, through March 13, 2020. materials found in the because of my dad’s his work “Untitled #22.” stopped.” and collaged photos, Gallery hours are daily urban environment, and involvement in the war While the album cover Deandra Shannon with the aim of forming from noon to 6 p.m. This I think about how they that my family and I features a hand shaped Spence, a student at the a miniature model of her exhibition is made pos- are used and whom they were able to come to the in the likeness of a gun Helen Y. Davis Leader- grandmother’s home in sible with generous sup- serve...in this work, I US as political refugees and a closed fist grasping ship Academy in Fields Alabama. 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Contact Mary Long 617 288 9092 dotnews.com December 5, 2019 THE REPORTER Page 5 Page 6 THE REPORTER December 5, 2019 dotnews.com Coming Up at the Boston Public Library Report: Dorchester leads city Adams Street 690 Adams Street • 617- 436-6900 in homeless prevention funds Codman Square By Katie Trojano 690 Washington Street • 617-436-8214 Reporter Staff Fields Corner Dorchester, the city’s 1520 Dorchester Avenue • 617-436-2155 largest neighborhood Lower Mills in terms of geography 27 Richmond Street • 617-298-7841 and population, also has Uphams Corner more families in need of emergency housing as- 500 Columbia Road • 617-265-0139 sistance than any other Grove Hall community in Boston. 41 Geneva Avenue • 617-427-3337 In releasing its an- Mattapan Branch nual findings of housing 1350 Blue Hill Avenue, Mattapan • 617-298-9218 stability on Tuesday morning, Metro Hous- ADAMS STREET BRANCH ing Boston noted a key The Adams Street branch will be closed for finding: A total of 1,710 the construction of a new building until 2021. households citywide re- Panelists at Metro Housing Boston’s Forum on Preventing Homelessness & CODMAN SQUARE BRANCH ceived Residential As- Promoting Housing Stability (l-r): Thea James, MD, Vice President, Boston Thurs., Dec. 5 – 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help; 4 sistance for Families in Medical Center; Chris Norris, Executive Director of Metro Housing Boston; p.m. – BTU Homework Help; 4 p.m. – HISET/GED Eileen Murphy, RAFT recipient; Jillian Pinola, Regional Vice President, Transition (RAFT) funds Prep Class; 4:30 p.m. – LEGO Club. Fri., Dec. 6, 11 Beacon Communities; Molly Butman, Assistant Director, Housing Supports a.m. – Stories, Stories, Stories; 3:30 p.m. – Homework in FY 2019. Of those at Metro Housing; Amy Mullen, RAFT Manager at the Department of Housing households, 599 were in Help. Sat., Dec. 7, 9:30 a.m. – Citizenship Class; and Community Development (DHCD); Sheila Dillon, Chief of Housing and 10 a.m. – ESL Conversation Group; Friends of the Dorchester, receiving a Director of Neighborhood Development, City of Boston. Library Open House; 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help. total of $1.5 million, the Photo courtesy Jeff Landis/Metro Housing Boston Mon., Dec. 9, 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help; 4 p.m. – most of any neighbor- and originally it was income that’s below 50 tion, more jobs, and we’re BTU Homework Help; 5:30 p.m. – Community Game hood. developed as a tool to percent of the area medi- not creating enough Night. Tues., Dec. 10, 10 a.m. – Toddler Time; 10:30 RAFT is a homeless- keep people out of the an income. In the Boston housing. We have a hous- a.m. – Unleash the Amazing Quilter in You; 11 a.m. – ness prevention program emergency assistance region during fiscal year ing plan that requires Stories, Stories, Stories; 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help. for families with very low shelter system,” said 2019, this was $53,350 us to build 69,000 new Wed., Dec. 11, 1:30 p.m. – Knit/Crochet Circle; 3:30 incomes experiencing a Butman, who added: for a family of three. units— 15,000 of those p.m. – Homework Help. Thurs., Dec. 12, – 3:30 p.m. housing crisis. “Based on FY19, we Sheila Dillon, Boston’s will be deed-restricted. – Homework Help; 4 p.m. – BTU Homework Help; 4 The total value of looked at household com- Housing chief, offered When we add that to our p.m. – HISET/GED Prep Class; 4:30 p.m. – LEGO assistance to all Metro position and income and some context to where existing housing stock Club. Housing communities found that about half of Boston is in terms of we should have 70,000 FIELDS CORNER BRANCH , 10:30 a.m. – Films and Fun; 3 p.m. was put at $4.4 mil- the families that we as- eviction executions in affordable units in the Thurs., Dec. 5 – Tech Help; 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help. Fri., Dec. 6, lion, the average dollar sisted could potentially noting that the major- city.” amount of assistance 9:30 a.m. – Lapsit Story Time; 10:30 a.m. – Preschool have entered the shel- ity of citywide evictions At the session, Thea Storytime; 2 p.m. – Friday Afternoon Fun. Sat., Dec. per household at $2,599, ter system if we hadn’t happen in subsidized James, MD, vice-presi- and net savings to emer- 7, 10 a.m. – Bilingual Vietnamese Storytime. Tues., intervened with RAFT.” housing, because ten- dent of Boston Medical Dec. 10, 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help; Healthy Cook- gency assistance shelter The analysis also ants in low-income hous- Center, talked about systems at $33 million. ing with Kids; 4 p.m. – BTU Homework Help; 5:30 examined consecutive ing generally make less the impact of housing p.m. – Salary Negotiation Workshop. Wed., Dec. 11, Molly Butman, assis- repetition by families money. Dillon also said instability and health tant director at Metro 10 a.m. – Adult Stress Relief Coloring; 2 p.m. – US and individuals need- that in the private mar- care. “As a [doctor] you Census Job Fair; 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help. Housing, said that the ing RAFT assistance. ket, eviction rates have see human nature, the GROVE HALL BRANCH RAFT program assists Only six percent of par- been on the decline. human condition, and Thurs., Dec. 5, 3 p.m. – Zine Workshop; 3:30 p.m. people who are experi- ticipants from FY19 “The work isn’t done, all of what constitutes – Homework Help; 4 p.m. – BTU Homework Help; encing three common received RAFT in FY18. but our eviction rate life every single day. If – 4:30 p.m. – LEGO Club. Fri., Dec. 6, 10:30 a.m. types of housing crises: Data also found that 22 compared to other cities you bother to dig deeper – Short Preschool Movies; 2:30 p.m. – Teen Gaming. those facing the threat of percent of FY19 partici- is low. What we need to and go beyond treating Sat., Dec. 7, 11 a.m. – ESL Conversation Group; 1 eviction; people or fami- pants had used RAFT at do is build more hous- disease to understand p.m. – Girls Who Code; 1 p.m. – In Knots: Cultivating lies who are “doubled- least once in the past. ing. Part of our problem what’s driving it, you Peace with Macrame and Yoga; 2 p.m. – Teen Resume up,” living with friends Butman said that some is that we just don’t will understand the root Workshop. Mon., Dec. 9, – 11 a.m. – ESL Beginner or relatives in an insuf- regulations exist that have enough affordable cause,” said James. English Class; 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help. Tues., ficient amount of space; prohibit the consecutive housing across income “We’re screening for Dec. 10, 10:30 a.m. – Toddler Time; Preschool Story and those who have had use for some populations. bands,” said Dillon. determinants of health Time; 3 p.m. – Zine Workshop; 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help. Wed., Dec. 114, 10 a.m. – Creative Writing utilities turned off. To qualify for RAFT as- “The reason that our in all of our ambulatory “RAFT is the largest Workshop; 11 a.m. – Toddler Time Stories; 1:30 p.m. sistance, a family of any housing costs are high,” care clinic now,” she said, – Knit/Crochet Circle; 3:30 p.m. – Drop-In Homework homelessness preven- household composition she said, “is because we “and housing is one of the tion program in the city, Help. Thurs., Dec. 12, 3 p.m. – Zine Workshop; 3:30 must have a household have a growing popula- top things that people p.m. – Homework Help; 4 p.m. – BTU Homework screen positive for in Help; – 4:30 p.m. – LEGO Club. terms of where they have LOWER MILLS BRANCH gaps and what they need Thurs., Dec. 5, 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help; 4 p.m. help with.” – BTU Homework Help; 5 p.m. – LEGO Club. Fri., James said that rent- Dec. 6, 10:30 a.m. – Little Wigglers’ Lapsit. Mon., burdened patients often Dec. 9, 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help; 4 p.m. – BTU are forced to choose be- Homework Help;. Tues., Dec. 10, 3:30 p.m. – Home- NEIGHBORHOOD ARTS PRESENTS tween paying their rent work Help. Wed., Dec. 11, 10:30 a.m. – Preschool and utilities, or paying Storytime; 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help. Thurs., Dec. a copay for a medical 12, 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help; 4 p.m. – BTU Home- DORCHESTER STRINGFEST appointment. “It’s an work Help; 5 p.m. – LEGO Club. WITH VOCI ANGELICA AND easy decision for the pa- MATTAPAN BRANCH tients,” she noted. “Doc- Thurs., Dec. 5, 3 p.m. – BTU Homework Help; THE CONSERVATORY LAB 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help; 4 p.m. – Grub Street CHARTER SCHOOL tors are chasing unstable disease in patients that Presents; 4:30 p.m. – LEGO Club; 5:30 p.m. – Family 3:00 Saturday are chasing unstable life. Board Game Night; 6:30 p.m. – Yoga. Fri. Dec. 6, 10 PM December 14, 2019 They don’t align, and a.m. – ESL Beginner English Class; 10 a.m. – Baby & Toddler Lapsit; 10:30 a.m. – Hugs & Play; Smart Salvation Army Kroc Center it’s a perpetual cycle of From the Start Story Hour; 1 p.m. – WDts Mattapan; Dorchester instability.” 3 p.m. – Crafternoons. Sat., Dec. 7, 10 a.m. – Com- Tickets: Free The last panelist to puter Basics Class; STEAM Saturdays; 12 p.m. – speak was Eileen Mur- Flower Arrangements; 12:30 p.m. – Zumba with Car- phy, a RAFT program lina; 3 p.m. – Book Reading & Signing. Mon., Dec. participant. “I’ve been DEVIN FERREIRA 9, 10:30 a.m. – Hugs & Play; 3:30 p.m. – Homework a recipient of the RAFT Help. Tues., Dec. 10, 10 a.m. – Toddler Time; 3 p.m. COLLABORATIVE program a couple of – BTU Homework Help; 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help; CONCERT times over the last ten 4 p.m. – Tinker Time. Wed., Dec. 11, 10:30 a.m. – 6:00 Thursday years,” she said. “The Toddler Time; 12:30 p.m. – Tai Chi; 1:30 p.m. – Knit/ PM December 19, 2019 first time, I was homeless Crochet Circle; 3 p.m. – Full STEAM Ahead; 3:30 p.m. and in a shelter with my – Homework Help. Thurs., Dec. 12, 3 p.m. – BTU Mattapan Teen Center 14-month-old daughter. Homework Help; 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help; 4 p.m. Tickets: Free It helped stabilize me, it – Grub Street; 4:30 p.m. – LEGO Club; 5:30 p.m. – put me back on my feet. Family Board Game Night; 6 p.m. – Sleepy Story If I didn’t have it, I’d be Time; 6:30 p.m. – Yoga. homeless, or even worse. UPHAMS CORNER BRANCH I’d probably end up dead. Thurs., Dec. 5, 3:30 p.m. – Drop-In Homework I’m a recovering addict Help; 4 p.m. – BTU Homework Help. Mon., Dec. and the more stress you 9, 10:30 a.m. – Baby and Toddler Lapsit; 3:30 p.m. Homework Help; 4:30 p.m. – Make It Mondays. To learn more visit have the more likely you Tues., Dec. 10, 10:30 a.m. – Relax and Release Yoga; celebrityseries.org are to relapse, and that’s 3:30 p.m. – Homework Help. Wed., Dec. 11, 3:30 not an option for me.” p.m. – Homework Help. dotnews.com December 5, 2019 THE REPORTER Page 7 Reporter’s News about people People in and around our Neighborhoods Dot comedian Van Delft set to release debut album By Daniel Sheehan Van Delft, a Bronx-native who Arts & Features Editor moved to Boston as a child, is a Dorchester-based comedian regular performer and producer Bethany Van Delft, the host of the for the Boston Comedy Festival monthly Artisanal Comedy show and the Women in Comedy Festi- at Dorchester Brewing Company, val, where she created the series will release her debut comedy “38/7%.” Her storytelling show/ album, “I’m Not A Llama,” next podcast with co-producer Nick Friday (Dec. 13). Chambers, “Starstruck: Close Her “hip and grounded, laid- Encounters of the Awkward Kind,” back delivery” has earned her won Best Comedy Night in Boston experience went viral with 15 mil- the honor of performing at the from The Improper Bostonian, and lion views and is included in the prestigious Just for Laughs earlier this year, she was named Moth book “All These Wonders.” Festival in Montreal, as well “2019 Best Comic” by Boston “I’m Not A Llama,” which as SF Sketchfest in San Fran- Magazine. draws on her experience as a wife She is also a regular host and and mother, will be available on Barbara Belony, NP, (left) of Dorchester and cisco, the All Jane Comedy Fes- Michelle Sofi, served as committee members to tival in Portland, Oregon, and storyteller for The Moth, where streaming services beginning next organize the successful Heroes in Heath Care on the 2 Dope Queens Podcast. her telling of her first postpartum Friday. gala to support the Visiting Nurses Association last month. VNA Care, a nonprofit visiting nurse association with an office in Dorchester, honored three health care leaders while raising a record- breaking $340,000 at its sold-out gala held at the Mandarin Oriental, Boston.Tony Coles, MD, CEO and chairperson of Cerevel Therapeutics; Steven Strongwater, MD, president & CEO of Atrius Health; and Patricia Joyce, RN, community nurse with VNA Care, were the honorees. Roger Farrington photo

Dorchester’s Dara Del- aney has been named Vice President for Re- lationship Development at HarborOne Bank’s new office on Broad Street. The branch is the bank’s first office in Mayor Martin Walsh Boston. Prior to joining joined Cardinal Sean HarborOne, Delaney O’Malley at the Catho- served as Branch Man- lic Charities Yawkey ager at Century Bank. Center on Columbia She received her Bach- Road on Sat., Nov. 23 to elor’s Degree from the help distribute food for University of Massachu- Thanksgiving. setts- Boston. Photo by John Wilcox/ Mayor’s Office YESTERYEAR ARCHIVE Dorchester Historical Society The following has been weak, debilitated and infirm; Like her other cook- excerpted from a Dorchester to children and women. I books, “Choice Recipes” went Historical Society essay: have obtained excellent re- through many editions. In Promotional cookbooklets sults from it in many cases 1912, the publication was are well known today. They of chronic deseases of the called “Chocolate and Cocoa represent a special category of digestive organs.” Recipes by Miss Parloa “with cookbook publishing in which The first teacher at the a second section “Home Made a company distributes recipes Boston Cooking School, Maria Candy Recipes” by Mrs. that uses its own products. Parloa, wrote many of the Janet McKenzie Hill. Miss With a product code snipped recipes for Walter Baker & Parloa had died in 1909, from the package and a Co.’s 1899 pamphlet, “Choice and by 1925 the pamphlet nominal handling fee, Knox Recipes.” The “Appledore was entitled “Chocolate and Gelatine will send a pamphlet Cook Book,” her first, was Cocoa Recipes by Celebrated of recipes using its product, published in 1872. Though Cooks.” Durkee-Mower will send a little is known of her early In 1927, the Postum Cereal pamphlet with recipes using life, she attended the Maine Co. acquired Walter Baker & Marshmallow Fluff, and Cui- Central Institute when she Co., and in 1928 the company sinart will send recipes using was 28 years old. The Ap- issued two cookbooklets with its food processor. pledore book, published the no authors listed: “Famous Although this phenomenon next year, tells us that she had Recipes for Baker’s Choco- may be waning as compa- worked as a cook in private late and Breakfast Cocoa,” nies set up websites that families and had worked as and Perfect Chocolates of distribute the recipes more a pastry chef in several New Your Own Making. The Se- efficiently, the publishing The marketing of Walter Baker & Co. Hampshire hotels. crets of Dipping with Baker’s of promotional cookbooklets She went into teaching in DOT Chocolate. [Could DOT has been popular for nearly cooking. And many authors at the Boston Cooking School, Mandarin, Fla., where she mean Dorchester?] Many 200 years. In the early to endorsed the products of lo- wrote Worcester Recipes for gave her first lecture on cook- other pamphlets followed in mid- 19th century, almanacs cal companies and created the Worcester Salt Company. ing to raise money for the pur- the ensuing years. carried recipes, especially recipes for them. Mary Lin- The first known recipe chase of an organ for the local The archive of these histori- those published by the pat- coln, a principal teacher at pamphlet issued by Walter Sunday School. Encouraged cal posts can be viewed on the ent medicine companies. By the Boston Cooking School, Baker & Co. was entitled “An by her success, she opened blog at dorchesterhistorical- the second half of the cen- wrote the recipes for a pam- Account of the Manufacture a cooking school in 1877 on society.org. The Dorchester tury, the practice was in full phlet published by the White and Use of Cocoa and Choco- Tremont Street in Boston. In Historical Society’s historic swing. This period also saw Mountain Freezer company, late “and published in 1876. 1879 she agreed to teach at houses are open on differ- the proliferation of cookbook a New Hampshire manu- The next was “Chocolate Re- the Boston Cooking School, a ent dates. The Lemuel Clap authors as minor celebri- facturer of ice cream freez- ceipts,” which was published project of the Women’s Educa- House (1712 and remodeled ties. They opened schools of ers. Miss Farmer, another a few years later. In addition tion Association. 1765) at 199 Boston Street is cookery and began to lecture head of the Boston Cooking to publishing recipes, Baker Over the years she pub- open on the third Saturday for fundraising and for the School, wrote the recipes for extolled the nutritional value lished Miss Parloa’s “New of each month. The James promotion of efficiency and the Rumford Cook Book, a of chocolate and cited many Cook Book and Marketing Blake House, 735 Columbia scientific methods. publication of the Rumford experts. Christoph Wilhelm Guide” (1881) and “Practi- Road (1661) and the William Fannie Farmer, for ex- Chemical Works, a manu- Hufeland, a German physi- cal Cookery” (1884) as well Clap House, 195 Boston Street ample, is regularly cited facturer of baking powder in cian, is quoted: “I recommend as writing many articles for (1806) are open on the third for introducing the practice Rhode Island. Janet McKen- good chocolate to nervous, the Ladies’ Home Journal, of Sunday of each month. Open of level measurements in zie Hill, yet another principal excitable persons; also to the which she was a part owner. hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Page 8 THE REPORTER December 5, 2019 dotnews.com Editorial Decades of courageous organizing Census seeks you led way to the education equity law By Sonia Chang-Díaz on the commission held hearings across the state, for next year’s count Last week, I stood in a packed gymnasium at Eng- communities turned out – sharing stories of dam- lish High School right here in Boston and watched aging budget cuts year after year, and the double Preparations for the 2020 US Census are picking Governor Baker as he signed a nation-leading edu- bind faced by low-income kids who endure a more up steam locally. Two job fair events are planned cation funding equity bill into law. difficult road to start with and who receive even less in Dorchester next week to recruit men and women The bill corrects support along the way. to fill various part-time positions— mainly as “enu- our Commonwealth’s The next year, in October 2015, the commission merators,” the people who actually go door-to-door 26-year-old K-12 fund- issued our report with five clear recommendations to to count the population. ing formula, delivering update the formula and provide necessary support On Wed., Dec. $1.5 billion in state aid to close the achievement gap. 11, the Fields primarily to low-income Still, we all knew the work was far from over. Corner branch of students who have faced The recommendations had no force of law, they the BPL at 1520 drastic underfunding would make no true impact by themselves. So, these Dorchester Ave. for decades. These are stakeholders and advocates redoubled their efforts will host a recruit- the exact fixes that again — crafting legislation, organizing demonstra- ment day from families, educators, and tions, attending hearings, calling the State House, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. organizers across the meeting with offices again and again. And, more On Sat., Dec. 14, Commonwealth have than 40 years after Roburn Webby and her parents the Greater Four been fighting for. first led the charge for equity — these stakeholders Corners Action Sen. Sonia Chang-Díaz Seismic progress like filed another lawsuit. Coalition will do this doesn’t happen by itself and it doesn’t happen On a cold morning this past January, 13-year-old the same begin- overnight. It requires resilient advocacy and coura- Chelsea middle schooler José Cruz Jr. came to the ning at 9 a.m. at geous commitment from people all across the state. State House and echoed these calls for an equal its headquarters, This fight was no different, and it started long before chance in life. He told us about how he and his peers 690 Washington St., Dorchester. this legislative term began. deal with poverty, violence, homelessness, and few The Census Bureau says it plans to hire as many Forty-one years ago, in 1978 (the year I was born!), employment opportunities — and that he had no as 500,000 temp workers nationally. Depending on eight-year-old Roburn Webby from Brockton was one one at school to talk with about it. the position, they are good-paying jobs that offer paid of the first to call for reforming our state’s education “So, I ask you,” he said to us. “Do you sincerely training, weekly pay, and flexible hours, including funding system. She saw that she and her classmates expect us to succeed under these circumstances? Are daytime, evenings and weekends. The estimated did not have the same opportunities as their peers in you aware of these issues? Can you do something to pay rate in Boston (Suffolk County) is $20-$25 per other communities. Roburn and her parents joined help us? Will you help us?” hour, according to the site 2020census.gov. with 15 other families and stakeholder groups from The law we won last week will finally answer these The census will begin its official count in Alaska across the state to sue for every child’s right to a calls. It includes all five of the Foundation Budget next month. Here in Boston, we should expect to quality education. Review Commission’s recommendations, with the see mail solicitations via the mail in March. Actual The case took 15 years to wend its way through the full investment prescribed to close opportunity and door-to-door interviews— which will target “non- system — so long that Roburn aged out of the Brock- achievement gaps at scale. responsive” households that don’t participate via ton school system and was succeeded by 13-year-old These provisions weren’t politically easy, and get- mail, phone, or online— will begin next summer. Jami McDuffy as the lead plaintiff. But at the end of ting here was never certain. But we always knew “We need people to apply now so they can be con- the day, their work led to one of the most important this was the right goal — and a diverse coalition of sidered for part-time census taker positions next changes to K-12 education in Massachusetts history. Democrats, Republicans, teachers’ unions, charter spring,” said Timothy Olson, the Census Bureau’s In 1993, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled school advocates, parent groups, student organizers, associate director for field operations, in a statement that every child had a constitutional right to quality civil rights advocates, business leaders, and local released this week. “Recent high school graduates, education. The Legislature’s subsequent Education officials all agreed. veterans, retirees, military spouses, seasonal work- Reform Act that year set a national standard for Generations of Bay Staters tirelessly and pas- ers, and applicants who are bilingual are highly K-12 funding. sionately kept this cause alive, never giving up, encouraged to apply. It’s important we hire people Yet, even as the Massachusetts education system even when political insiders believed the issue was in every community in order to have a complete and climbed the national rankings, achievement and op- dead. And now, future generations of Bay Staters accurate census.” portunity gaps persisted — and in some cases grew. will taste the fruit of their efforts: a public education To qualify for a 2020 Census job, you must be at So, these same communities continued to champion to create the society we want to live in and support least 18 years old with a valid Social Security num- educational justice, calling for increased investment every child as they reach for their dreams. ber; be a US citizen with a valid email address; be to make good on our constitutional responsibility. We failed Roburn Webby 40 years ago, and we registered with Selective Service (if you’re a male); In 2010, these communities were joined by others missed the mark on doing right by Jami McDuffy and pass a criminal background check, including across the state who were facing growing year over 26 years ago. But today, finally, this law is getting fingerprinting. year budget cuts. it right for José Cruz and the decades of Bay Staters What’s at stake? Plenty. It’s a critical measurement They got down to work, making their voices heard who will come after him. for how federal dollars are allocated. It’s also used in calls, meetings, and long trips back and forth to the This is what generational progress for educational for allocating Congressional seats and will be the State House. Their grit and persistence achieved the equity and economic justice looks like. This is what tool by which local political districts are re-drawn rebirth of the Foundation Budget Review Commis- refusing to give up looks like. in the next couple of years. sion, which I co-chaired in 2015 — whose mandate I’m profoundly grateful to have had the chance to Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin has was to recommend updates to the state’s decades’ stand alongside so many of you in this fight. Never said that estimates show our state currently has old formula for K-12 education aid, also known as doubt that when we organize, we win. roughly 6.9 million people. “That’s clearly enough the “Foundation Budget.” State Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz represents parts of people to justify the nine seats in Congress that Still, parents, students, and advocates knew the Dorchester and Mattapan in the Massachusetts State we now have,” he told WCVB-TV. “But if the count work was far from over. For the next year, as we Senate’s Second Suffolk district. is badly flawed and we come in at a substantially lower number than that, then it presents a problem.” Next week’s job fairs here in Dorchester won’t Letter to the Editor guarantee employment. But it’s essential that quali- fied job seekers apply now to enter the pool. The selection process for census taker positions starts It’s crucial to keep up momentum next month, with paid training set for March and April. Workers will start going door-to-door to “non- on Education funding responding households” in May through early July. For more information, you can call 1-855-JOB-2020 To the Editor: public schools by the state. We have long known and select Option 3. Applicants may also contact the Last week, the Student Opportunity Act was what our students and families need, and now we Federal Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339. Or visit signed into law, securing $1.5 billion in new funding are significantly closer to accessing the resources 2020census.gov/jobs. – Bill Forry for K-12 public education in Massachusetts. This is and support that all of our students deserve. a historic victory for the students, parents, union Now that the bill has been signed into law, it is educators, and allies across the state who for years crucial that we stay engaged and keep the momentum have fought tirelessly to get here. from this victory going. Statewide, we continue to The Reporter We mailed thousands of advocate for social workers and counselors in every “The News & Values Around the Neighborhood” postcards to our represen- school, adequate staffing for ELL students, and in- A publication of Boston Neighborhood News Inc. tatives, knocked on doors, creased support for families who are experiencing 150 Mt. Vernon St., Dorchester, MA 02125 made phone calls, and met housing insecurity. 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Low-income students, English Language Jessica Tang Published weekly on Thursday mornings Learners, students of color, and special needs stu- President, Boston Teachers Union All contents © Copyright 2019 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. dents have historically been denied equitably funded dotnews.com December 5, 2019 THE REPORTER Page 9 Book tells the story of William Monroe Trotter and ‘The Guardian’ By Tiziana Dearing and Zoe Mitchell funding for Tuskegee Institute from very wealthy WBUR Radio Boston white donors; number two, create an organization William Monroe Trotter was the co-founder and and an educational institution in the South at a time editor of the Boston-based black weekly newspaper when there’s lynching, racial violence and backlash “The Guardian,” a powerful force in black journalism against emancipation. And three, Washington did in the first half of the 20th century. Through vocal that at a time when he’s having his own family. He’s advocacy for anti-lynching laws and enforcement of currying favor with white donors often whom we’re not the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, Trotter built very into black civil rights in terms of desegregation. a reputation as an uncompromising fighter, working “And so, Trotter’s issue with Washington was that to prevent the rollback of Reconstruction. He also he felt that Washington compromised the race for was a rival to another significant black leader of the his own personal gain. And he was somebody also time: Booker T. Washington. who realized and pointed out the damaging way that Kerri Greenidge, director of Tufts University’s Washington’s rhetoric propagated and participated in American Studies Program, is the author of “Black the deterioration of rights since the end of Reconstruc- Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trot- tion. Trotter’s criticism was that Washington was not ter.” She was a guest on WBUR’s Radio Boston last fit to be seen as a leader of African-Americans and week. The following are excerpts from the interview. that he had basically — he calls him an imported On why Trotter’s life is relevant to our time: boss — that he was basically somebody who was “His last biography was written in the 1970s by a seen as a leader by white Americans and that black wonderful author named Stephen Fox, and he was Americans were [underserved by that.]” coming from the turmoil of the 1960s; he was limited On re-writing Boston’s black history: “I re- by the historical records that he had at the time. And member when I started working on the book and I since 1970, the field of African American history in would tell other historians what I was doing, a lot of particular — and American history generally — has them reacted with the rhetoric that we know about evolved, as we all know, and the access we now have Boston. You know, Boston was a place where there to certain records that were not available in the 1960s was abolition before the Civil War, and then we kind are available for this book. of learn a little bit that Martin Luther King, Jr. went “The other thing, I think, is that Trotter’s life really to school here, and then we learned about busing. illustrates life at a time when there was a promise of “And really, the black community in Boston is one the end of the Civil War and the promise of radical of the oldest African American, African-descended Reconstruction. And then that promise was betrayed communities in the Americas. And despite the small with the fall of Reconstruction and the rise of the political message across. Of course, this was before numbers compared to cities like New York or cities late 19th century-early 20th century shift. And so, I TV or anything like that. like Philadelphia, the black community has always think his life is relevant to our time because many “And so, Trotter was big on saying that The Guard- had an impact on the region’s politics and has always people feel we’re in the same moment of sort of all ian was not going to be bought, that he would fund it had an impact on the way the region reacts and enacts this promise happening in the ‘60s, ‘70s and into the himself ... He wouldn’t accept advertisements from racial policy and racial thought. ‘80s, and then there’s this moment where people feel skin bleaching [or] hair straightening companies. “And so, I really want to examine what does black as though the political times are in flux.” And so, his paper really became this institution that civil rights look like in a city like Boston, where many On the role of The Guardian in the black emerged at a time when many other newspapers, to people don’t consider that that history is long and is press: “It’s founded at a time when there’s an ex- survive, were doing that. He was fortunate enough as significant as it is. Trotter is somebody who was plosion of black newspapers across the country, so to have his own fortune that went into the newspa- as much a part of the city of Boston as Boston was a The Guardian emerges amongst other known high per to support it without having to be dictated by part of him. And it’s not to say that he’s exceptional circulating newspapers. His paper was different in political whim.” or the city is exceptional; it’s to say what happens that he did not accept support from sponsors. So On his criticism of Booker T. Washington: when we look at African American history through what would typically happen — and this was true “Trotter’s main criticism was that, in the words of the lens of a city or region or a space that we don’t for the black press as well as the white press — was [W.E.B.] Dubois, Washington was a leader of two traditionally think of looking at it.” that political actors would support a newspaper, and races, not one. That Washington was called in this very WBUR and The Reporter share content through a support that newspaper as a way to help get their particular position of having to, number one, solicit media partnership.

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Halfway to Dot Day 5k on Dec. 14 Dorchester Running Club sponsors the fifth annual Halfway to Dot Day 5k and Toy Drive on Sat., Dec. 14 at Pope John Paul II Park, Hallet Street entrance in Neponset, 9 a.m. Followed by a toy drive breakfast at Florian Hall, 9 a.m.- 12 p.m. Suggested donation: $20 and unwrapped toy for a child in need. More info at DotRunners.org. Enchanted trolley tour makes stops Dec. 6-8 The Mayor of Boston’s Enchanted Trolley Tour will take place from Fri., December 6 to Sun., Dec. 8 this year in several Boston neighborhoods. The event will include tree lightings, holiday performances, and children can meet Santa. It’s the 24th edition of the citywide event, and the event will kick off at 5:30 p.m. in Mattapan Square Friday night (Dec. 6). Dorchester will be the first neighborhood the festivities hit Sat. (Dec. 7) at 1 p.m. in Codman Square, and the tour will end in Adams Village at 6:30 p.m. on Sun., Dec. 8. The event is sponsored by Bank of America. Strand Theatre concert on Dec. 8 features Boston Children’s Chorus Join Boston Children’s Chorus for cherished tales Family members of the late Vince Droser gathered in front of a newly-dedicated sign outside of Ashmont paired with music celebrating light, joy, and peace station on Sat., Nov. 30. The plaza was re-named for Droser, who died in 2011, but was a key advocate in the reconstruction of Ashmont station, Peabody Square and the creation of the Carruth Building. in a concert at the Strand Theatre on Sun., Dec. 8 Droser’s widow, Nancy Anderson, thanked a large crowd of more than 250 neighbors who turned out at 3 p.m. Contact: [email protected]. last Saturday for the plaza’s dedication. Bill Forry photo Kids Christmas Party at Polish Club The Polish American Citizens Club on Boston Street Areas (Corridors, Residential Fabric, and Squares) tickets are available for $75 and include a reception is hosting its annual Kids Christmas Party on Sat., and Focus Areas (specific places in Mattapan). This featuring the different flavors and tastings of Dorches- Dec. 7 from 1-4 p.m. Event is open to all children and meeting will continue the conversation about how the ter, preferred seating at the Strand Theatre and a meet families - you do not need to speak Polish to attend. BPDA led team will determine success for the plan- & greet with Billy Hough. Well-known Provincetown There will be face painting, pizza, and Holiday treats. ning process. Light refreshments will be available. musician Billy Hough will perform an original score Santa Claus will be stopping by for a visit and parents Translated materials and interpretation services will for the silent film with the collaboration of a vocal should bring a wrapped gift with their child’s first be provided in Haitian Creole and Spanish. Contact: ensemble including Grammy-winning tenor Jason and last name written on it, for Santa to hand out. Muge Undemir at [email protected]. McStoots. Following the film, there will be a panel Admission is $5 per child. RSVP at polishclubboston. Strand Theatre screening of discussion about the historic significance of the film com/kidschristmas. which will include noted Harvard University Profes- pioneering LGBTQ film sor of the Practice in Media and Activism in Studies PLAN: Mattapan meeting on Dec. 17 The Provincetown Film Society presents a special of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Michael Bronski. The Boston Planning and Development Agency screening of the recently restored “Different from the The evening will conclude with an additional music (BPDA) will host a community meeting for the PLAN: Others” on Thurs., Dec. 5 at the Strand Theatre, 543 performance by Billy Hough and Jason McStoots. Mattapan initiative on Tues., Dec. 17 at 6 p.m. at the Columbia Rd., Dorchester. The film screening and The VIP event begins at 5:30 p.m. Contact Philip. Mattapan BPL branch, 1350 Blue Hill Ave. The meet- live performance begins at 7 p.m. General admission [email protected]. ing will build on last month’s conversation about Topic tickets are $25 per person. A limited number of VIP (Continued on page 14)

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Young timated that another present, 838 of them -- or medical services in the climb about 50 percent deaths. Between 2016 State House 332 to 407 deaths will 93 percent -- tested posi- first half of 2019, DPH from the 1,351 deaths and 2018, total overdose News Service eventually be confirmed tive for the presence of said. Men account for in 2014 to the 2,033 in deaths dropped by an The rate of deaths as opioid overdoses. fentanyl, which is deadly 74 percent of all fatal 2018 despite having estimated 3 percent, and due to opioid overdoses For the second time in in small doses. Last year, opioid-related overdoses “doubled spending to the rate of deaths per is slowing in Massachu- two quarterly opioid data the fentanyl was found in Massachusetts. address the opioid crisis” 100,000 people fell by setts, but still nearly releases, DPH officials in 89 percent of opioid “Behind these quar- and having “increased 4 percent in that same 1,500 people died of an said that the prevalence overdose deaths and was terly data are real people capacity by more than time period, DPH has overdose in Massachu- of the powerful synthetic present in just 18 percent and families in commu- 1,200 treatment beds.” said. setts through the first opioid fentanyl has risen of opioid overdose deaths nities across the state In terms of deaths, the “The release of this nine months of the year, to “an all-time high” and in the third quarter of whose lives are impacted epidemic peaked in 2016 latest data indicates the state announced on is now present in almost 2014, DPH said. by addiction,” Lt. Gov. when 2,095 people died of that our public health- Nov. 25. every overdose death Over the last five years, Karyn Polito said. “We opioid-related overdoses. centered approach to The 1,460 confirmed that’s screened for drugs. while fentanyl has been remain invested in prov- The current state bud- the opioid epidemic is or suspected opioid-re- “Today’s report affirms on the rise in Massachu- en strategies across the get directs $246 million working,” Public Health lated overdose deaths in that our multi-pronged setts, the rate of heroin spectrum of prevention, -- or roughly 0.6 percent Commissioner Monica Massachusetts between approach to the opioid or likely heroin found intervention, treatment, of the total state ap- Bharel said. “As we January and September epidemic is making a present in opioid-related and recovery to help indi- propriation -- towards move forward, we will represent a decrease of difference,” Gov. Charlie overdoses has declined viduals struggling with addressing substance build on this success by about 6 percent from the Baker said in a state- steadily, DPH said, and addiction and support misuse prevention and continuing to focus on the first three quarters of ment. “Although we’ve it was found in 24 percent local community efforts.” treatment. widespread availability 2018, the equivalent of made progress, we must of overdose deaths that The Baker admin- Despite the surge in of naloxone, behavioral 99 fewer people dying of continue to focus our law had a toxicology screen istration has focused the presence of fentanyl, and medication treat- an overdose, the Depart- enforcement efforts on in the second quarter of on the opioid epidemic public health officials ments, and sustained ment of Public Health getting fentanyl off of this year. since the governor took have touted declines in recovery services.” said. 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The Petitioner requests that: Orquidania Lipus of Raynham, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration. IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceed- The Dorchester Historical Society announces new ing. To do so, you or your attorney must file Gov. Charlie Baker picked up the pages of Massachusetts’ new vaping and a written appearance and objection at this items for the gift shop. Priced at $10 each these Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day wooden ornaments capture iconic Dorchester views flavored tobacco law, seconds after signing the legislation last Wednesday of 01/08/2020. in the State Library. It was Baker’s third day in a row of major bill signings This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline of a three decker and of the gas tank. by which you must file a written appearance after lawmakers shipped him a bundle of bills last week before breaking for and objection if you object to this proceeding. a holiday recess. Sam Doran/SHNS photo If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the Young adults who had The new law also seeks Executive Director Amy return day, action may be taken without further notice to you. been in the custody of to improve the accuracy Rosenthal said main- Unsupervised Administration the state will maintain of health insurance pro- taining health coverage Under The Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code (MUPC) health insurance cov- vider directories. is particularly challeng- A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration erage until their 26th Supporters of the law ing for young adults for- is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested birthday under a new say out-of-date and inac- merly involved with the in the estate are entitled to notice regarding Massachusetts law. curate directories make Department of Children the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court MassHealth, the state’s it difficult for people — and Families. in any matter relating to the estate, including the distribution of assets and expenses of William Clapp House, 195 Boston Street Medicaid program, will especially individuals The new law is also administration. provide the coverage for with behavioral health Witness, HON. BRIAN J. DUNN, First Lemuel Clap House, 199 Boston Street designed to help families Justice of this Court. the former foster youth. conditions _ to find time- with children facing com- Date: November 26, 2019 James Blake House, 735 Columbia Road Felix D. Arroyo Republican Gov. Charlie ly care. plex medical challenges. 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(Continued from page 10) Thursday from 3:30 -5:30 p.m. is open to students in Ashmont Hill Assoc. Boston Common Tree Lighting grades K-8; no registration required. Boston Teacher’s Meetings are generally held the last Thursday of on Dec. 5 Union tutors are also available during select weekdays the month. For info, see ashmonthill.org or call Mes- Mayor Martin J. Walsh and guests from the Prov- from 4-6 p.m. for students in grades K-12. Visit bpl. sage Line: 617-822-8178. ince of Nova Scotia will celebrate the 78th annual Tree org/homework. Ashmont Hill Book Group Lighting on Boston Common on Thurs., Dec. 5, from Police District C-11 Everyone is welcome to Book Group, whether you’ve 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The holiday lights throughout both Non-emergency line for seniors: 617-343-5649. The read the book or not. For further info, please contact parks will light up in sequence shortly before 8 p.m. Party Line phone number, where you can report loud Lil Konowitz at [email protected]. when Mayor Walsh is joined onstage by members of parties, is 617-343-5500, 24 hours/7 days per week. Ashmont Valley Neighborhood the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Santa Claus, Police District B-3 News Assoc. Rudolph, and Frosty. The show will close with a For info, call B-3’s Community Service Office at Meetings are usually the 2nd Monday or Tuesday pyrotechnic display by Atlas PyroVision. WCVB 617-343-4711. of the month at 6:30 p.m. at 776 Washington St., Channel 5’s Anthony Everett and Shayna Seymour Hancock Street Civic Assoc. Dorchester. will once again host Channel 5’s live broadcast of the The Hancock Street Civic Association meets Cedar Grove Civic Assoc. event beginning at 7 p.m. featuring multi-platinum monthly on the first Tuesday at Uphams -Cross singer-songwriter and Lexington native Matt Na- Cedar Grove Civic Association meets at 7 p.m. at ing, 530 Columbia Rd., Dorchester. Meeting time Fr. Lane Hall, St. Brendan Church, 15 Rita Rd. The thanson, award-winning Nova Scotian alt-pop stars is 7– 8:30p.m. Annual dues are $5; please contact Neon Dreams, Nova Scotian R&B singer-songwriter civic group meets on the Info: cedargrovecivic@gmail. [email protected] with any questions com or 617-825-1402. Zamani, performances by cast members from the new you may have. The next meeting is on Jan. 7. musical “Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Clam Point Civic Assoc. Carol” and “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas: The Wellington Hill Neighborhood The meetings are usually held on the second Monday Musical,” as well as Dorchester’s Holy Tabernacle Council of the month (unless it’s a holiday) at WORK, Inc. 25 Church Choir.This is the 48th year that Nova Scotia The Wellington Hill Neighborhood Council will meet Beach St., at the corner of Freeport St., across from has given a tree to the people of Boston as thanks for on Tues., Nov. 12 from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Mattapan the IBEW; on-street parking available. relief efforts following the December 6, 1917, explo- branch of the Boston Public Library. Next meeting is Codman Square Neighborhood sion of a munitions ship in Halifax Harbor. Within Dec. 10. Updates can be found on Facebook page: @ 24 hours of the disaster a train loaded with supplies wellingtonhillneighbors. Or Google Group: welling- Council The Codman Square Neighborhood Council meets and emergency personnel was making its way from [email protected] the first Wed. of each month, 7 to 8:30 p.m., in the Boston to Nova Scotia. For more information please River Street Civic Assoc. Great Hall of the Codman Sq. Health Center, 6 Nor- call 617-635-4505 or go to boston.gov/parks. The River Street Civic Association meets on the folk St. Info: call 617-265-4189. Doherty-Gibson playground second Thursday of each month from 6-8 p.m. at the Foley Senior Residences, 249 River St., Mattapan. Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Assoc. community meeting on Jan. 7 Columbia-Savin Hill Civic meets the first Monday The Parks Department will host a community Apple Grove Assoc. of each month, 7 p.m., at the Little House, 275 East meeting on Tues., Jan. 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the Fields The Apple Grove Association meets on the second Cottage St. For info: columbiasavinhillcivic.org. The Corner BPL, 1520 Dorchester Ave. for the first in Tuesday of every month from 6-8 p.m. at 1135 Morton next meeting is Mon., Sept. 7. series of meetings on improvements to the Doherty- St., Mattapan. The contact is Ms. Myrtle Huggins at Gibson Playground. For more information call Annie 617-429-8531. Dorchester North Blair at 617-961-3028 or [email protected]. Ashmont-Adams Neighborhood Neighborhood Assoc. The Dorchester North Neighborhood Association Boston Public Library’s Assoc. (formerly the Annapolis Street Neighborhood As- Homework Help Meetings are typically held on the first Thursday sociation) generally meets on the third Tuesday of Boston Public Library’s free Homework Help pro- of each month at the Plasterer’s Hall, 7 Fredericka each month at 7 p.m. in the meeting room of 8 An- gram is underway offering free afterschool help and St., at 7 p.m. Contact Pat O’Neill at pattiashmont@ napolis Street. 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Roughly argued that the busi- 3,500 square feet of the ness would benefit the building’s 6,000 square community by making feet would be carved the product safer and out for adult retail use, investing back into the which would be confined neighborhood. “We’re to the basement level, able to control the sub- with entrances in the stance, and provide a rear of the building and product that people can security surrounding the actually know what’s property, he said. The in it,” said Suida. “And property also includes this is a multi-million on-site parking for five dollar business in the cars, and is located along State Rep. Russell Holmes addresses residents during the community meeting for a cannibis dispensary sense that it gives back a heavily traveled bus proposal in Codman Square. Katie Trojano photo to the community. We route, and a few blocks can spend money in the away from the MBTA’s neighborhood is going cannabis might be a way back, arguing that mari- you prevent violence and community.” Shawmut station. to have two or three ... to relieve some people’s juana is a gateway drug muggings? I feel the pain For his part, state Rep. The Grazin team said The idea is that people suffering,” he said. that will bring more vio- of not wanting this in our Russell Holmes urged there would be opportu- won’t have to drive out He explained that se- lence to the community. neighborhood. How do residents to consider the nities to consider “edu- of their neighborhood to curity measures at the Some asked, “Why this we safeguard the resi- basics of the proposal, cational programs” on fill their prescriptions. dispensary will be tight, neighborhood?” dents here?” she asked. instead of spending their the first floor to teach That’s eventually what’s and customers who don’t Marilyn Forman, a Other residents ar- time arguing back and customers about mari- going to happen with the follow the rules will Dorchester resident, gued that cannabis is forth over the morality juana use. industry.” He added that be flagged and denied said that although she already illegally sold of recreational cannabis The proposed hours of the owners intend to hire service. understands that can- all over the city, and use. operation would be 10 locally. “We’re going to make nabis has already been that legalization of the “My point to you all,” a.m. to 10 p.m., seven “There are six-figure sure that anything we’re legalized, she still wor- drug creates a pathway he said, “is whether days a week, with 15-30 jobs in this industry, to doing inside doesn’t cre- ries about safety. “I just for safer access and op- or not you are pro or customers expected per be sure,” Ross said. The ate issues in the com- want to share that when portunities to give back against, to please not hour. Ross said that the business would create munity,” Linskey said. the subject of legalizing to communities that let these opportunities facility would be acces- 15-25 positions. The Some community marijuana came up, I were disproportionately arise without getting sible to individuals with company would also be members at the meeting voted against it. But harmed by the recent to the basics of the pro- disabilities, and include required to honor a com- expressed the sentiment the power of the people criminalization of the posal. Let’s try our best ample room for queuing munity agreement, pay that Grazin had “already is what made the differ- drug. to question these folks, inside. Delivery trucks 23 percent in taxes to the set up shop,” and that ence; people voted for it. “A lot of people ask, because there are going would be expected at the city, and make charitable the group didn’t actu- When this came up they ‘Why this neighborhood?’ to be more proposals like store about two to three contributions. ally care about an agree- came out because they said Jaison Chavez, a this coming forward in times weekly. “This is a very high- ments and approval from wanted it,” she said while Dorchester resident. the neighborhood. Going Since recreational can- netting business,” he the community. noting: “I’m concerned “This neighborhood, forward we need to make nabis use was legalized said. “There’s a good “I apologize, the real- about the safety aspect among other neighbor- a very good assessment in 2016, only two mari- opportunity to be good ity is that it’s not done. of it. If someone comes hoods, is the epicenter of who’s the right person juana dispensaries have corporate citizens in this We do need a post- in to purchase, how will where people die over to pick.” opened in Boston. The industry.” community agreement. team from Grazin said Linskey said his out- We’ve had a number of that this will change very look on the legalization of community meetings,” soon, as many vendors recreational marijuana said Ross. Added Craw- are proposing shops use changed after he saw ford: “It looks this way Community Meeting all around the city and how the drug benefitted a because this [proposal] state. neighbor of his who was and process is what’s “As these start to fill suffering from cancer. “I required by the state out, Boston is supposed saw that there are bet- in order to apply for a PLAN: Mattapan to have 52 total,” said ter ways to treat people license.” Ross. “Ideally, every than opioids, and that Many residents pushed Focus Area Deep Dive: Walsh signs on to City Council’s cannabis equity initiative Implementing the Vision (Continued from page 1) are about to pass is can, Hispanic, Latino, or Tuesday, December 17 Mattapan Branch of the “Together the mayor landmark when it comes Asian descent; someone 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Boston Public Library and the council are tak- to the cannabis industry whose annual household 1350 Blue Hill Avenue ing a very important step in the country,” he said. income is at or below forward,” she added. “I “We’re going to create a 100 percent of the area Mattapan, MA, 02126 have to thank the many Boston Cannabis Board median income, or some- Event Description advocates, activists, and that will evaluate and one who is certified by entrepreneurs who are vote on license applica- the Cannabis Control Our December 17 meeting will build on last month’s conversation all in this space. They tions publicly using a Commission as an Eco- about Topic Areas (Corridors, Residential Fabric, and Squares) gave time and attention criteria.” nomic Empowerment to this.” The bill creates a new Applicant. and Focus Areas (specific places in Mattapan). We will present the Janey said Massachu- category of municipal The Walsh adminis- places we plan on studying further, the methods for selecting these setts is taking a national “equity applicants,” tration has approved 14 focus areas, the goals of each focus area, and how they achieve the lead in mandating that which will include com- host community agree- PLAN: Mattapan Vision Statement. This meeting will continue the equity be factored into panies with 51 percent ments with marijuana the burgeoning mari- or more of an ownership businesses seeking to conversation about how we determine success for the planning juana industry. “While stake from three or more open in the city, which process. we all know that Mas- of the following criteria: includes three state- sachusetts was not the A person who has certified empowerment first state to legalize [rec- resided in an area of candidates. Light refreshments will be available. Translated materials and reational marijuana,] disproportionate im- Janey said that she’s interpretation services will be provided in Haitian Creole and it was the first state to pact for at least 7 of the looking forward to con- Spanish. PLAN: Mattapan is a planning initiative facilitated by the mandate equity,” she past 10 years; a Boston tinuing her work with Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA), in collaboration said. “And it is so im- resident who has a past advocates and entre- with other City departments. portant to make sure arrest or conviction for preneurs to “create a that communities that possession, sale, manu- pathway for all of us to Contact: facturing or cultivation win.” For Walsh, “this have been locked up are Muge Undemir not locked out of this of marijuana between ordinance is one of many Boston Planning & Development Agency economic opportunity to 1971-2016 and who has steps taken to make our build wealth and break been a resident of Bos- economic economy more One City Hall Square, 9th Floor Boston, MA 02201 cycles of generational ton for the past 5 years; inclusive. We’re work- 617-635-4488 | [email protected] poverty.” someone who has resided ing to create pathways Walsh said he will in Boston for at least the into the middle class, bostonplans.org @bostonplans work with the Council last 5 years. especially for women and in moving the legisla- Also, someone who is people of color.” Teresa Polhemus, Executive Director/Secretary tion along. “What we of black, African Ameri- Page 16 THE REPORTER December 5, 2019 dotnews.com A sort of homecoming for South Bay ramen franchise (Continued from page 1) Many restaurateurs to Singapore, Nguyen approached me about are food service veterans realized it was time for coming back here, I saw who fulfill a life-long a change. that the area’s pretty dream when they open “I was miserable,” much getting gentrified up an establishment. he said. “I was doing and that Dorchester’s Nguyen’s path to becom- contract law, so I was sort of evolving. ing an owner has been a reading like hundred- “To be able to be a bit more circuitous: After page contracts, sitting part of that growth, and graduating from Suffolk behind a desk all day. It to bring a different type Law and moving to New wasn’t me.” of cuisine to the com- York with his wife, he be- On a whim, he sent an munity was a big deal came a regular customer email to Bobby Muneka- for me. And, you know, at the famous Totto Ra- ta, founder of Totto Ra- everybody wants to go men in Hell’s Kitchen, men, asking if he had home in some way. So, often waiting over an considered expanding coming back here, liter- hour in line for a bowl his franchise to Boston. ally at a place where I of the Japanese noodle Munekata told Nguyen went grocery shopping at dish. A short time later, no “for two years” be- as a kid, it’s pretty cool.” after work brought him fore finally relenting. In 2014, Nguyen opened Totto Ramen’s first Bos- GET YOUR BEAUTY ON! ton location in Allston. Above, bar stool seating “I kind of just happened at Totto Ramen South Bay. 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ALOISI, James youngest of the seven four years after he re- in both the Atlantic and on candlepin leagues at University, she later “Jim”, 93. Jim grew children of Agrippino turned from naval ser- Pacific theaters, nota- Lucky Strike. Mary was earned her Law Degree up in Medford, the and Antonetta (Speran- vice in the second World bly guarding ships on the wife of 64 years of from Suffolk University za) Aloisi. His sisters War. They were born the perilous Murman- Martin X. Ford of Quin- School of Law, working LEGAL NOTICES Mary, Rose, Josie, and two weeks apart in the sk Run. Jim and Rose cy, and the mother of for many years for BYN COMMONWEALTH OF his brothers Joseph, same month of the same were married in 1949, Anne Brait and her hus- Mellon Bank. Donations MASSACHUSETTS Mike, Sam and Frank year, and they died two settled in East Boston, band Joseph of Mash- in Jeanne’s name may THE TRIAL COURT PROBATE AND FAMILY COURT predeceased him. Jim months apart. He was had two children, and pee, Martin X. Ford, Jr. be made to the Propa- Suffolk Probate & Family Court married Rose Costa, a part of that “Greatest lived through 70 years and his wife MaryLou of gation of the Faith, 66 24 New Chardon Street Boston, MA 02114 an East Boston native, Generation,” Jim served of marriage. In later Pembroke, Mary Nelson Brooks Dr., Braintree, (617) 788-8300 years, he worked for the and her husband John 02184. CITATION ON PETITION FOR FORMAL ADJUDICATION Massachusetts Depart- of Quincy, and the late NORTON, Atty. Docket No. SU19P2348EA ment of Public Utilities, Dennis Ford and Kath- Mary F. of Jamai- ESTATE OF: JAMES W. DUMAS heading the rate set- leen Reynoso. She was ca Plain, formerly of DATE OF DEATH: 10/08/2014 ting division. His son, the sister of Barbara Dorchester. Daughter To all interested persons: A petition for Late and Limited Formal Testacy James, Jr. and daugh- Smith of Hingham, and of the late Michael J. and/or Appointment has been filed by Alcora ter, Carol Ann, would the late Patricia Oakes, and Anna M. (McCar- Dumas of Boston, MA and Kevin Dumas of Boston, MA requesting that the Court enter like to acknowledge the Anna Wilds, Isabelle thy) Norton. Mother a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The support and care of the Lazzaro, and James of Jessica E. Fardy of Petitioner requests that: Alcora Dumas of Care Dimensions Hos- Oakes. Grandmother of Lynnfield. Sister of Boston, MA and Kevin Dumas of Boston, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) pice team, and the home 11 grandchildren and 1 Atty. John J. Norton of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration. care support provided great-grandchild. Also of Dorchester, Paul J. IMPORTANT NOTICE by truly wonderful survived by many niec- Norton of Dorchester, You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. people who seamlessly es and nephews. Ex- Michael W. and his wife You have a right to object to this proceed- ing. To do so, you or your attorney must file worked with the fam- pressions of sympathy Patricia Norton of West a written appearance and objection at this ily to make a challeng- may be made in Mary’s Roxbury, William G. Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 12/19/2019. ing time manageable. memory to Hancock and his wife Virginia This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance Cedar Grove Cemetery Donations be made to Park Adult Day Health Norton of Weymouth, and objection if you object to this proceeding. either St. Jude Chil- Center, 164 Parking- Brenda A. Norton of If you fail to file a timely written appearance A quiet place on the banks of the Neponset River and objection followed by an Affidavit of dren’s Research Hospi- way, Quincy, MA 02169 Dorchester, and the Objections within thirty (30) days of the Chapel available for: Weddings, memorial services, return day, action may be taken without tal, 501 St. Jude Place, or Hospice of the South late Robert M. Norton further notice to you. and celebratory masses. Indoor Services available for Memphis, TN 38105, Shore, 30 Reservoir and Edward T. Norton. Unsupervised Administration Under The Massachusetts Uniform winter burials. Greenhouse on premises for fresh flow- or to Care Dimensions, Park Drive, Rockland, Sister-in-law of Anne Probate Code (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under ers. Columbarium for cremated remains. Plant a tree 75 Sylvan Street, Suite MA 02370. Norton of Dedham. the MUPC in an unsupervised administration program. B-102, Danvers, MA HESSION, Jeanne Mary was survived by is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested 01923. M. of Braintree, 89. 11 nieces and nephews, 920 Adams St., Dorchester, MA 02124 • 617-825-1360 in the estate are entitled to notice regarding FORD, Mary J. Daughter of the late and 22 great-nieces and the administration directly from the Personal Consecrated in 1868. Non-Sectarian. Representative and may petition the Court (Oakes), 88 of Quincy- Thomas P. and Eliza- nephews. She is a re- in any matter relating to the estate, including the distribution of assets and expenses of Born in Boston, she was beth M. (Rhilinger) tired employee of the administration. Witness, HON. BRIAN J. DUNN, First a daughter of the late Hession. Sister of the MBTA and a retired Justice of this Court. Ralph and Anna (Ford) late Mary “Kate” Boyd public defender at Rox- Date: November 15, 2019 Felix D. Arroyo Oakes. Mary was raised and her husband John bury and South Boston Register of Probate in Dorchester, and was a and the late Margue- District Courts. Dona- Published: December 5, 2019 TEVNAN TEVNAN graduate of St. Patrick’s rite E. Hession. Aunt tions in Mary’s memory High School in Rox- to Jean Molendyke and may be made to Mission COMMONWEALTH OF 15 Broad Street 415 Neponset Avenue MASSACHUSETTS bury. She worked for her daughter Molly Church, 1545 Tremont THE TRIAL COURT Boston, MA 02109 Dorchester, MA 02124 PROBATE AND FAMILY COURT many years for the New Molendyke, both of NJ. St., Boston, MA 02120, Suffolk Probate & Family Court 617-423-4100 617-265-4100 England Telephone Co. A 42 year resident of or the Carmelite Mon- 24 New Chardon Street Boston, MA 02114 Mary was a member of Braintree, Jeanne was astery, 61 Mt. Pleas- (617) 788-8300 Attorneys at Law the Castle Island As- raised in Dorchester. ant Ave., Roxbury, MA CITATION ON PETITION FOR sociation, and bowled A graduate of Boston 02119. FORMAL ADJUDICATION www.tevnan.com Docket No. SU19P2600EA ESTATE OF: LESLIE DENISE RAMSAY DATE OF DEATH: 05/26/2019 To all interested persons: A petition for Formal Probate of Will with Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by Akia I Obas of Dorchester, MA and Saran Ramsay of Boston, MA request- ing that the Court enter a formal Decree and NEW CALVARY CEMETERY Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that: Serving the Boston Community since 1899 - Non Sectarian Akia I. Obas of Dorchester, MA and Saran Ramsay of Boston, MA be appointed as Reasonable pricing and many options to choose from. Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an Grave pricing starting at $1,200 unsupervised administration. IMPORTANT NOTICE Package pricing from $3,700 (includes grave purchase, first You have the right to obtain a copy of the opening & liner for a weekday service). Cremation Niches Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceed- starting at $1,400 (Includes Niche Purchase, First Opening ing. To do so, you or your attorney must file & Inscription) a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 01/07/2020. 617-296-2339 This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance 12 Month No Interest on Grave Purchases, and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance Pre Need Opening Arrangements and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the Lots with multiple graves and oversized graves available. return day, action may be taken without further notice to you. Package price only available for an ‘at need’ service. Unsupervised Administration Under The Massachusetts Uniform Overtime Fees apply to Saturday and Holiday Interments Probate Code (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration Other options available at Mt. Benedict Cemetery is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in West Roxbury in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court The B.C.C.A. Family of Cemeteries in any matter relating to the estate, including Main Office located at: the distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Witness, HON. BRIAN J. DUNN, First 366 Cummins Highway, Roslindale, MA 02131 Justice of this Court. Date: November 26, 2019 Pricing information and maps available online at: Felix D. 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