November 20, 2020 Vol. 124 No. 47
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VOL. 124 - NO. 47 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, NOVEMBER 20, 2020 $.35 A COPY City of Boston COVID-19 Update An average of 2,340 new this virus, we have to follow the The Mayor announced that • We pulled back on in-person distributed close to $10 million Bostonians got tested each day, science and we have to follow the City will be publishing a learning in the Boston Public so far, and the Reopen Boston and the average number of daily the data. total of six key metrics relat- Schools. We were able to bring Fund is still available to pay for positive tests went up to 224. What that means, he ing to test results and hospital back 150 students with the safety materials and PPE. The result was a positive test explained, is that our public usage. The goal, he said, is to highest needs, who desperately We launched three new funds rate among unique individuals health experts collect com- give you the most current and need in-person services. The making a total of $6.3 million of 9.6% on our existing metric. prehensive testing data and comprehensive picture of the Mayor thanked the families available. These new funds Seven neighborhoods had hospital data. They analyze it virus as we can. “The more we and teachers for making that are targeted to the hardest-hit positive rates over 10%, with to understand how and where know, and the more you know, possible. businesses in the hardest-hit East Boston, Dorchester, and the virus is spreading, and the the better informed and pre- • We have kept our limits on industries and each provides Hyde Park experiencing the impact it is having. We shape pared we can all be.” gathering sizes low. Private, grants of up to $15,000. highest rates. our responses and our guidance Health and Human Services indoor gatherings are limited to • One is for help paying com- Our free mobile testing based on what the data indi- Chief Marty Martinez elaborated 10 people, and private outdoor mercial rent. sites remain this week in East cates. And, we share the data on the new metrics and the rea- gatherings to 25 people. For • One is for restaurants, to Boston, at Central Square with the public, so you can be soning behind them. events in public spaces, the help them commit to paying a Park; and Mattapan, at Jubilee armed with knowledge to help RESPONDING TO THE limit is 25 people indoors and living wage to their workers. It’s Christian Church. In all, we keep yourself, your family, and CONTINUED INCREASE IN 50 people outdoors. a partnership with some inno- have over 30 testing sites in your community safe. COVID-19 ACTIVITY: • We’ve worked with the state vative national nonprofi ts, as Boston. Information about all That’s a process of continual The Mayor emphasized that to limit restaurant hours and well as the City Council. the testing sites is at: boston. feedback and learning because, every metric right now is tell- retail hours, and put in place a • And another is for busi- gov/coronavirus, or you can just as this epidemic evolves ing us that we are in the midst Stay-at-home advisory for the nesses certified as minority, call 311. and its impact on our neighbor- of a signifi cant and concern- hours between 10:00 p.m. and women-owned, or veteran UPDATING AND EXPANDING hoods evolves, our knowledge ing increase in COVID activ- 5:00 a.m. But, the Mayor cau- owned enterprises. OUR COVID METRICS: about it must evolve as well. We ity in our city. The daily case tioned, if these case numbers We held webinars about how The Mayor reiterated the need to adapt and update our increases we are seeing are continue to go up, we’ll have to to apply, and those webinars City’s priority in this crisis: to understanding of COVID spread starting to look like numbers go further. are posted online. You can keep people safe and contain in the community. that we saw near our peak, in • He said he is mindful of the email: [email protected], or April and May. Hospital admis- impact that restrictions have on call 311 and ask for our Offi ce sions are not at that level, but our economy and small busi- of Small Business, to learn they have increased over time. nesses. But we must put the more. We all must be focused on turn- health of our community fi rst STRENGTHENING OUR News Briefs ing this trend around. because, in the end, there is PRECAUTIONS AGAINST by Sal Giarratani The Mayor said that the City no economic recovery without VIRAL TRANSMISSION: is looking closely at what steps public health. The Mayor said that the City we can take to further limit the EXPANDING SUPPORT is prepared to support our small Breaking News, This Just In risk of transmission. FOR SMALL BUSINESSES: businesses, our residents who House lawmakers up on Beacon Hill passed a $46 We have taken a cautious The Mayor pledged to sup- need food access or rent relief, billion budget during a late night session on November approach throughout this port small businesses through our communities that suffer 13th slipping in an amendment after all to expand pandemic, making safety our whatever measures are neces- access to abortion. Members voted in the budget in a priority. sary. He noted that we have (Continued on Page 2) 143-14 vote just before midnight. The House did adopt an amendment that, if approved by the Senate and signed by the Governor, would enshrine the right to North End VFW Post 144 abortion in state law. It also would no longer require females under 18 to get permission from a parent or Honors Veterans of the North End judge to get an abortion. Beacon Hill hot This Down by Matt Conti, NorthEndWaterfront.com Bang Bang The North End Veterans of State Representative Mindy Domb, D-Amherst, Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 144 wanted to add an amendment to the state budget for held their annual ceremonies to an eventual House vote that would require Governor honor and remember the U.S. Baker or any governor in the future, when fi lling a Military veterans of the North vacancy in the U.S. Senate to appoint an interim U.S. End. Prayers, a wreath laying, Senator from “the same political party as the person and remembrances took place vacating the offi ce” until a special election is held. It on the Paul Revere Mall (Prado). would tie a governor’s hands, especially if he were a Following the ceremonies, member from the other party. the veterans attended Mass Well, not to worry, that amendment got shot down big at St. Leonard Church with time. It was a silly idea and the Dems were against it. Fr. Michael Della Penna. The status quo works fi ne enough. Photographer Michele Morgan North End Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 144 Members. was on hand and shares this L-R: Bob Venuti, Joe Blazo, Christian Kulikoski, Paul Spera, Republicans Surprised photo gallery. Even Democrats in 2020 Anthony DiPrizio, Jim Coyle, Palma Cortese, Paul LaVecchia This election was supposed to be a Big Blue Wave, but if you go beyond the presidential race, Republicans did quite well. Most of the polling showing Republicans going down never materialized. Look at Susan Collins in Maine. The media said she was going down big time, but she ended up winning by a healthy margin and she wasn’t the only GOP success. (Continued on Page 10) POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQ., EAST BOSTON Tues. 10:00 AM-3:00 PM; Thurs. 11:00 AM-2:00 PM Call 617-227-8929 for more information (Additional photos on Page 5) PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 20, 2020 Stirpe by Prof. Edmund Turiello Res Publica Nostra by David Trumbull A weekly column highlighting some of the more interesting aspects of our ancestry...our lineage...our roots. Thanksgiving for Our Health In other years Pilgrims, colony, where a colonial char- such just and equal Laws, HISTORY’S FIRST PANTY RAID Plymouth Rock, Poultry, ter formed the basis for civil Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions All the famous “Labors of Pumpkin Pie, and large gather- society, the Mayfl ower passen- and Offi ces, from time to time, Hercules” were imposed upon ings of friends and family would gers found themselves, techni- as shall be thought most meet him as punishment for killing all be on the menu next week as cally, outside of the law. Their and convenient for the General his wife and children during we Americans of every origin re- response? They would remain good of the Colony; unto which a period of madness. We have enact and re-interpret the story loyal subjects of the king, but we promise all due submission discussed the fi rst eight of the of that first Thanksgiving in they would create their own and obedience.” And, thus, was celebrated “Labors of Hercules.” 1621. Somehow, in the story of local laws. Pilgrims, who made established the fi rst experiment Today’s labor is associated with those Englishmen and women the passage for religious rea- in limited self-government in the Amazons, a race of women of a strict Calvinist religion, we sons, and others who crossed North America. who were represented in Greek fi nd meanings to suit the needs the Atlantic for commercial This Thanksgiving may God legend as having lived in the of a multi-ethnic and multi- gain, agreed to live together in bless all the readers of the northeastern part of Asia Minor religious nation.