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I Community Newspaper Company • Vol. 2, No. 31 NOVEMBER 18-24, 1997 76 Pages • Two Sec~ns 50¢ Stopping scams against seniors DA creates special unit to protect elderly crime victims
By Melissa Da Ponte TAB Staff Writer a.'it week was a busy one for Boston Police Officer 'Thomas LShone. the olliccr a1;signcd to handle aimes again~t senior citi1.cns in AUston-Brighton through the District 14 police station. On Oct. 11, two men entered the Lake Snet 00me of an 88-ycar old wonm and her 36-year- froiTi grocery s ing. The teens ~&be woman al. I.he back door dherBWl'dl Street apartment ~and knocked her to the r...•blJ~ said. She refused to pmie. A"' she was being lddll1C11• .... IClallled fur belp, and a neighbor intemJpled the llllCk. lat week was not typical, but The dWrict attoney's ollke ba crealed a new unit to help protect elderly reddmls sud! as Brigbtoo resident Elma Cedrone. A&ton-Brigbloa's ~...,.. dlllta CRIME, page 30 populalion are prbne targds for scam ~ police say. · Anight on the town Cellular antennas become new fixture 2000 Commonwealth Ave., nine on 1925 Wrreless towers raise Commonwealth Ave. in Brighton, and 12 controv~rsy of them are on 159 Cambridge St, Allston. By Chris Szechenyi and Adrianne Appel "I'm really concerned about locating CNC Staff Writers them all in one area," Crystal said. "Who righton resident Sylvia Crystal does knows, maybe 20 years from now people n't want to stop progress, she just will find out there are health problems Bwants it move a little more slowly. associated with them. Some scientists are Although Crystal knows that by law she saying there may very well be problems can·t do anything to stop cellular phone with them." companies from locating wireless anten In 1995, Boston crafted zoning regula nas in her neighborhood, she said that she, tions for wireless communications equip like many people, is still concerned about ment in order to accommodate the the possible negative health effects of growth of the industry while protecting those communication devices because of the public against any adverse health their energy emissions. effects and maintaining the aesthetic According to City Councilor Brian integrity of the city. The city also requires Honan's office, there are 39 antennas in companies to design their antennas so Allston-Brighton. 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In August, the Landmarks Commission determined that the two lby llalianite house at 22 Nonantum SL was subject to a demolition Mly because it contained ''historical, architectural. and wban design •llian:e. " The building, which was built in the 1870s, was found •of the oldest houses on the street and one of the first five built in the area. But such protection is only good for 90 On Nov. 15, the delay expired. And despite neighbors' oppositi011' _, lhc plan to demolish one duplex in order to build another, the owners did not reverse their decision to tear it down. City officials say the landlords are within their legal rights to make Allston Village Main Streets has ~ned a study to look at parking and traffic problems in the All~ton Village bush~ district. The '-decision. study is expected to find ways to increase the amount of parking for customers who visit the district. The Landmarks Commission, a municipal unit that oversees the par.I Vllliorl of historically significant properties throughout Boston, ll¥iews all reqUe.$ts for the demolition of buildings more than 50 Jl9I old. Members then recommend whether owners should post A closer look at parking pme ICtion in order to explore altemative.5 to destruction and discuss p.. with neighbors. In this case, the owners were asked to do so. Allston businesses the situation. and residents. In light of the large Allhoogtl the dale of the demolition has not been set - as it will The preliminary report should be number of nightclubs in Allston, the need to be c:oordinaled with other construction plans - it will still work to make district available early next year. group is working to get the MBTA's ...... ICCCl'ding to Hany Ha1Deleftheriadis, representing his Jennifer Rose, program manager hours of operation extended until _..... 7Jsis, who is a partner in the development venture with Max more accessible for Main Streets, said that figuring local bars close. Public transportation ...... out where to park everyone's cars is service ends before 12:30 a.m., while "My view is lhal it's just a regular two-family building," said By Melissa Da Ponte only part of the problem. Those talc- many businesses stay open until 2 · · and Oak Square Pizza. '1t's TAB Staff Writer a.m. • lhe t the Sunset Grill & Tap in 'There's a mismatch there," said ...... ,... ~~tlJ~All--..awrasMlrc Rose. '1f the T ran later, people ~ the street." Kadish colJecls ..oonnnent wouldn't have to drive." But \he vinyl i. just a covering for an important - and structural cards" from customers after they have 'These people are Another way to alleviate the con ly IOOnd - pecc of history, according to Ellen Lipsey, executive eaten. Over and over, diners note the furious to see their cars gestion could be to increase the num dillaJr' cl the Boston Landmarb Commission same persistent problem with his busi ber of ~usinesses who share private g M ii reversible," she said. "And it's not about it being a n~: an infuriating shortage of park gone when they get parking lots. While some businesses IJil!laty c:onlesl. It's about it the importance of the building histori- ing. back, just because they with opposing peak hours - such as '1've had people teU me that was the Sports Depot and Able Rug on ... not Hllr.ieleftberi said he docs sec it that way. He p_lans to the most expensive dinner they've didn't see a sign. In Cambridge Street - already do that, HOUSE, page 15 ever had - once you add in the $100 merchants said more coordination was tow charge," said Kadish, who talces each case, that's a needed in other lots, particularly the part in the Allston Village Main customer we'll never industrial ones. Streets' initiative to alleviate some of But Kadish said many of the busi The city of Boston Licensing Board will the traffic and parking problems there. see again." ness owners who had been host a public hearing at I 0 am. "We've helped pay for towing or approached about sharing in the past W~y, Nov. 19, in Room 8()1)A of [refunded] the cost of dinner, but Marc Kadish, owner ofthe were resistant because of liability City Hall to discuss the following items: these people are furious to see their Sunset Grill &Tap issues and the fear that cars would be • an application by Hogan-Whalen Inc. cars gone when they get back, just left overnight. to extend the closing hour at the Lincoln because they didn't see a sign. ln each For now, group members are start Cafe, 8 Lincoln St, from I am. to 2 am. case, that's a~ustorner we'll never see ing with a study to detennine the spe • 111 application by Mimo's Corporation for a seven-day again." cific variables they will need to piece common vicutaler lice~ at 480 Washington St If approved, Though it is unlikely any new park ing part in the study would like to see together. A business survey has lie rataw"ant would be open from 11 am.-10 p.m. ing spots will be added to the busy bicycle racks installed in the village already been mailed to local mer commercial district, Kadish, like oth and are encouraging more employers chants. It includes questions about The city of Boston Licensing Board will host a public hearing ers, is hoping a collection of smaU to offer workers discounts on each store's number of employees and • IO a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26, in Room 8()1)A of City Hall to changes wiU add up to something Massachusetts Bay Transportation modes of transportation, average diam the following item: more manageable than what mer Authority passes. Kadish noted that number of customers visiting on typi • 111 application by Brazil Samba for a seven-day common chants there now have. for every employee parked on the cal weekdays and weekends, delivery at 181 Brighton Ave., Allston. If approved, the ~lice~ The Allston Village Main Streets street, there is one less spot open for times and expansion plans. t would be open from 8 a.m.-10 p.m. program has recently joined forces a customer. "It's going to take a lot of things, city of Boston Licensing Board will host a public hearing with the Boston Transportation Better use of MBTA service is of which, taken together, wiU hopefully 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, in Room 809 of City Hall to dis Department to develop a plan that concern for another reason. Patrons have an incremental effect on the traf the following item: they hope will subtly alter how people from late-night businesses frequently fic and parking issues here," said •an application by Neopolitan for a seven-day common vict travel in the district. The group has find parking only on side streets, Rose. "When we put in place the bike license at 172 Brighton Ave., Allston. If approved, the commissioned a study of how many which are reserved for residents - racks and lot sharing and T passes and want would be open from 9 a.m.-2 a.m. parking spaces are available in the resulting in tickets for customers and everything else, then it aU begins to area and what the alternati ves are to increased fri ction between merchants add up. That's really the goal." 0 Below is alist of key personnel and contad numbers: WE WANT YOUR NEWS! Managing editor..... David Trueblood (781) 433-8353 Welcome to the AIL,100-Brightoo TAB! We are eager to serve as a forum News editor ...... Peter Panepeoto (781) 433-8334 for the commumty. Please send us calendar Jl5tings. social news and any Reporter ...... Linda Rosencrance (781) 433-8358 ocher items of community .inlen."'>1- PlcMe mail lhe 1nfonnatioo to Pcler ...... Melissa Da Ponte (781) 433-8333 Pancpento, cdltor. AIJ!tton-Brighton TAB, P.O. Box 9 112, Needham. MA Sales manager ...•...... Paul Galven (781) 433.a259 02192. 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Page 4 11111 Allltll: -bii TAI, November 18 - 24, 1997 COMMUNITY PROFILE Neighborhood leader moves on to new role Burke heads to jail grams keep inmates active and occu pied, which makes tt.e place safer for to work with Suffolk other inmates and staff." The Suffolk County Jail holds County inmates inmates who are awaiting trial, usu By IAuren Kramer ally over a 30-day period. After TAB Correspondent im Burke is bracing himself for a total change of clien "He's an unsung hero T tele: from the friendly faces of studenLc;, residenLc; and small busi who did all the little ness owners in AJlston-Brighton, to things, that in the end the faces of Suffolk County Jail's inmates. add up to a great deal. Next month, Burke will leave a position he has held for three years He's a great guy and a<; director of the Boston College we're gonna miss him." Neighborhood Center and assume the somewhat daunting task of pro viding educational and rehabilitation M.i.cha•e•l•B•ou.rg__ _ progrruns to the county jail's inmates. I••• "It's going to be challenging," ~ Burke said. ~ trial, some walk free, others are Burke, a Brighton resident and i'ii sentenced to serve time in the native of South Boston, has focused ~ House of Corrections, and those on bringing the resources of Boston S guilty of severe crimes go to a College to Allston-Brighton through t; state-run facility. programs like mentoring, tutoring, Tim Burke will soon leave his position as director of the Boston College Neighborhood Center to coordinate prognum at the Suffolk Will Burke be missed in the luncheons for the elderly and Days County Jail. ... Allston-Brighton community? The of Service, when student volunteers was in college, that's not what I was But along with the educational and work a few years ago. answer from community leaders he work to clean up and beautify vari doing." recreational programs, he will jlso But it was~ Richard Rouse has worked witb is emphatically pos ous community sites. While the county jail is a far cry coordinate programs associated with and his faith in' the potentially correc itive. "It's been wonderful witnessing from the activities of the neighbor the darker side of jail life: rehabilita tive nature of program services that "Tun Burke is fabuJous," declared the students' commitment when they hood center, Burke will see some tion, alcohol and drug treatment and inspired Burke to take up the jail's Tun Garvin, executive director of the volunteer, the sincerity of their de.5ire overlap, like the•English-as-a suicide prevention. It's something newly created position. Allston-Brighton YMCA. ''He estab to serve others," he said, describing Second-Language insllUction, adult Burke became interested in during an "He told me he wants to see the lished Days of Service, where volun the 200-odd students who repeatedly literacy and volunteer programs that internship in recovery programs at rehabilitation programs strengthened teers worked at the YMCA, he got us . --~todemup BUlke will dRct in his poaition as the Middlesex Regional because he knows that they work," selected as one of the sites for the • ...-: •IDd dqJdy superintr:ndmt of (X08raITl Detoxification Center, while working Bwke said. "Jail can be a aowded BC Pulse Program. wbidl dais with IDWlld llil .-.'a~ in IOCial bo8dle enviromned, md thelc pro- BURICE,pagt 5 FEATURE HOME OF THE WEEK nt, le, ng, •••• is there an elderly person in your life who needs care, but wishes to remain independent? AlVNOLWCLVG OVR SECO.VD LOCATIO.V! ELDER SERVICE PLAN New Listing! 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He's an unsung hero "I'll miss the neighbors and friends BURKE, from page 4 said, adding 'Thank God he's still Allston-Brighton as a big brother, who did all the little things, that in I worlced with at the center, as well IDcial action, he helped coordinate living in Brighton." Tim had the college come in as a the end add up to a great deal. He's as the family-like atil'lOOphere at plearm in Action program and he Michael Bourg, executive diroctor partner," Bourg said. "Over three a great guy and we're gonna miss Boston College, where people are 'tlnlught us together with other like of the West End House Boys' and years his center has given us hi m." genuinely concerned for one-anoth nindcd agencies in the community. 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I think in setting work on tobacco control Senate Ways & Means Committee - R some parts it is nonexistent and in some legislation, and his success in keeping parts it is pretty good. I will have a lot Watertown and Belmont in the 617 area of traveling tQ do." code, state Sen. Warren E. Tolman has "I had looked at playing He said the burden that his family - announced he will run for lieutenant wife Carolyn, son Andrew and daughter governor in 1998. on the larger stage at the Julia (with a third child due next spring) 1lte announcement comes just a few - will bear as he travels to the months after the plans of Tolman and Congressional level, Berkshires, Cape Cod and all points in many others to run for Joseph Kennedy and when that didn't between was also a factor in his deci m·s congressional seat were foiled sion. when Kennedy opted out of the 1998 work out ... This was "From a personal perspective, Carolyn race for governor in August. Tolman and I have been dating or married to represents part of Allston-Brighton in a natural." ~ each other for 20 years and we have a the state Senate. very strong, wonderful relationship," he "I had looked at playing on the larger Warren Tolman said. "Whether I am door-knocking in stage at the Congressional level, and Allston-Brighton or talking to the VFW when that didn't work out ... This was a in Tewksbury, I am still away from natural," Tolman said this week. home .... But anyone who knows me Tolman acknowledged last week that who is also seeking the Democratic nomination for governor. that my family is my priority, and I he would, indeed, be seeking the think that Carolyn knows that. As I said Democmtic nomination for the second Tolman's possible adversaries for the Democratic lieutenant governor nomina Friday night [at the Watertown-Belmont highest post in the commonwealth. He Chamber of Commerce dinner], she is said he would like to see the job of lieu tion include state Rep. Paul E. Caron my woman of the year, every year. tenant governor become a more activist (D-Springfield) and Dorothy Kelly Gay of Somerville, who serves on the "It is a lot of long hours, but I feel I and visible job than it has been in recent am ready for this," he continued. "I feel years. Governor's Councfl. like I have done some good things. I L "When I deal with the Weld-Cellucci ''Those are the only two people I have have been su~ful and fortunate, - and now the Cellucci - administra heard [may run]. I had heard the current mayor of Salem was going to run, but some of it is hard work and some of it is tion for my district, it is frustmting - good fortune. But it feels right to me." all the hoops I have to jump through," he just lost his race for re-election," he said. "Other than that, I don't know who Tolman, 38, is a resident of Stoneleigh Tolman said, indicating he would like to Circle. He is a graduate of Watertown State Sen. 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Rachel Kaprielian, ing weeks. serving Watertown in her second "[Warren Tolman's announcement] term in the House of Representatives, means I am strongly considering ~TERTOWN and Warren's brother Steven Tolman, [running]," Kaprielian said. ''I love who represents parts of Allston what I am doing, I love serving my Brighton and Brookline in the district and of course, this is some House, were noncommittal this week thing I have to think strongly about" when a University of M~usetts constituents from making the at Boslon. He worked for Amtrak for switch. 0 e;'iopa Bii18 , ~'\.'- t-e- . i , The Irish Butcher Shop ~~ hll Selection of Beef, lamb, Pork Also featuring: • lamb Cutlets WAS $7.99 lb. ~11A Washin~on ~., ~ak Sq. Batchelor's Beans and Peas NOW $S. 99 Lb. Bird's Custard Brighton Chefs Sauces • Center Cut Pork Chops WAS $4.SO Lb. for our HP Sauce NOW $2.99 Lb. Call daily specials (617) 782-9299 . Sisto Gravy • loin Pork Chops WAS $3.SO lb. Store hours: Irish Soda Bread NOW $1. 99 Lb. M- F 10-6 Fresh Vegetables Sat. 9-6 Pickled Onions • T-Bone Steak WAS $6.2S lb. Sun. 9-12 CJub Soda NOW $4. 99 Lb. Stot and enter to win a Come see oar large selection of by Lamb, Beef and Pork. • Sirloin Steak WAS $4.79 Lb. Than sgiving Gift Basket Our meats are natarally aged for quality NOW $2. 99 Lb. and tenderms. A $100 Value • Round Roast of Beef WAS $3.S9 Lb. Irish Stlle Pork Sausages NOW $2.7S Lb. Black White Pudding C No Purchase Necessary! ::::> Rashes !Frying Bacon) Boiling Bacon and Ham • Whole Chickens 3 - 3 t/2 lbs. Orders now being taken for Farm-reared Turkeys Boiling Ribs $~. 99 ea. and Irish style cured hams for Thanksgiving Stir fries Superintendent of Schools Thomas Pap.ant applauds at Wt Wednesday's dinner to celebrate the achievements of volunteers who helped put together a plan for an extended services school program at the Thomas Gardner School in Allston. The program recdved a $300,000 grant from~ DeWitt Wallace Readers Digest Fund Wt week. WE Gardner School CAN gets its grant Phillip Coltoff, who came to the dinner to talk Extended Service program about the virtues of a full-service school. PE set tq begin in Jan~ary "Obviously, we have a wonderful opportu nity to make connections," Payzant said. ''We By Peter Panepento need to make these connections with the TAB Staff Writer thought that all children come from families." f Wednesday night's dinner to celebrate The idea behind the Extended Service the work done by the volunteers responsi School is to make it a ~lination point for lOUR I ble for the Gardner Ex.tended Service students and their families. The concept is School grant application was like a Christmas modeled Eve family mmioo, 1bunday was O.illbw Oly, in wl#ll~after. •i-Ymk Dbfnng. DeWitt Wallace fund and Fordham Univmity After months of hard work and tense wait have worked with school officials to create ing, volunteers unwrapped a $300,000 present full-service schools in wban neighborhoods. from the DeWitt Wallace Readers Digest Officials from the Boston College schools Fund last Thursday - a grant that will help of education and social work introduced the CIRCLE 18 MONTH CD Allston's Thomas Gardner School become the idea to Allston earlier this year, when they state's first Extended Services School. learned about the possibility of getting a grant The grant, which follows months of work from DeWitt Wallace to create an extended by volunteers from organiz.ations as diverse as service school in Boston. The college chose to .%* the Gardner School, Boston College, the try to bring the program to the Gardner e APY Allston-Brighton Healthy Boston Coalition School, which has a progressive principal in 5 and the Allston-Brighton YMCA, will help Catalina Montes and a diverse, multilingual 90 the school extend its hours and offer new ser student P<>Pulation. vices to parents, students and community Since then, department heads from Boston members. In January, the Thomas Gardner College have been working with organiz.ations School will be open after the final school bell, such as the YMCA and the Allston-Brighton offering services such as health care, day care Healthy Boston Coalition to put together a and career advice. plan and apply for a grant The grant applica "Obviously, we're thrilled," said Allston tion was completed in July and, since then, Brighton YMCA executive director Ttm volunteers have been moving ahead with their Garvin. 'This project has brought so many plans while waiting to get a final word on organizations together, and we're looking for funding, Garvin said. ward to making this work." Now, the challenge is to raise more money The announcement of the grant award came and carry out the plan to make the project one day after the volunteers responsible for work, organizers say. drafting the school's grant application held a "If we fail in this undertaking, I don't think celebration dinner at Boston College. The that we are going to have another opportunity Call us today for more information event drew educational leaders such as like this for another 3040 years," Coltoff told Superintendent of Schools Thomas Payzant the audience at last Wednesday's dinner. at (617) 782-5570. and Children's Aid Society executive director "[But] it's going to work. And you are going and Extended Service School proponent to have a great time doing it." 0 IN BRIEi· Honan holds office hours If you live in a large building more than six units, and you would like to recycle, please City Councilor Brian Honan will hold office AC CITIZENS BANK Company have the building manager call 635-4959 for hours in the district at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 21, service. at the Jackson-Mann Community Center, 500 For more information about recycling and 414 Washington Stree~, Brighton • (617) 782-4820 Cambridge St., Union Square. composting, call 635-4959. Honan can also be reached at Boston City 157 Brighton Avenue, Allston • (617) 783-3479 Hall at 635-3113. Turkey shoot planned Branch offices in: Allston, Brighton and Jamaica Plain St. Anthony's will be hosting a Turkey Shoot Recycling program at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21. still going strong The event will feature rafiles for more than Member 240 prizes, with an additional rafile of 20 FDIC/DIF The Boston Public Works Department 0 11onu& CD rates ue available only with Circle and Circle Gold accounts. The Annual Recycling Program collects curbside recy turkeys. A cash bar with wine and beer, and Pm:cntlgt Yttlds (APYs) ilre as of l0/8197. Rate subject to change without notice. The other refreshments will be available, spon minimum CD balance to attilin the APY stated is $1,000; S500 for retirement accounts. A clables every week, on the regular trash days. penalty will be impolCd for early withdrawal. Other rates and terms are available. Personal Officials are asking residents to set aside recy sored by Star Market and DiGiomo Pizza. llll*lllbonly. --LENDEl clable materials and leave them in their proper Doors open at 6:30 p.m. containers. For more information, call 782-5857. • IN BRIEF law llHSSIMllls available Circle/Reservoir Community superintendent of highway mainte Association, wilJ hold a public nance, responsible for the street Preliminary ~ments of property meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 7 cleaning program and Frank values for Fiscal 1998 are available p.m. The meeting will be held at the O'Brien, liaison for neighborhoods, to property owners. The information Jewish Community Center, located will be the featured speakers. can be relrieved by telephone by at the comer of Englewood and Group members are planing to calling the Assessing Information Sutherland roads in Oeveland submit an application for funds Cater between 9 am. and 5 p.m. at Circle. Boston City Councilor Brian from the Intermodal Surface 635-4287, or by ~ing the City Honan is expected to attend. Transportation Efficiency Act for of Bomrl's Web site Topics to be discussed include the improvement of the pedestrian, (hap:/lwww.ci.boston.rna.us/cyber street cleaning and the Cleveland bicycle and vehicular modes of SHAWMUT PROPERTIES hall/a&'ltS.U/). Circle Master Plan. Members have transportation in the circle. They are 134 Tremont Street The~ are also available started a petition to institute a proposing improved pathways, a al the Allston-Brighton Library, at 40 Brighton, MA ; street-cleaning program for all public plaza and historic sculptures. Academy Hill Road. streets in the Aberdeen, Circle and Group members are welcome to ,... Discover the Difference ,... For dates and times of availability, Reservoir area, and they are seeking ideas. call 53<>-5400. signatures. The ARCA meetings are open to ..... Clllc Asmatlon John Magee, commissioner of all residents and merchants of ...... ,, transportation; Joseph Canvan, Oeveland Circle. (617) 787-2121 www.c2lshawmut.com The Allston Civic ~iation will meet oo Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. in a new location, in the third floor conference room of the Brighton Marine Ho&pilal, 77 Warren SL in Brighton. The guest speaker will be David McLachlan, chief financial officer for Oenzyme Corporalion. Steve Provi1.a' ct Radio Free Allston will .,be 00 band to~ the closing ct Radio Free Allston by the Federal Starting your Cmmmicalions Cornrnimi. l.cming and 1iceMing iMUeS on the ...include: •A MCpat for a 2 a.m. closing small business gave you dme bf Cookin' Cafe, 1006 Ave. ·" oplllleapir.za.- u n d e n i La b I e ..wlda a 1 un. closing on week that -4• 2 LID. cloaing time 00 endence. lllllllE 11•11111111111 'Die city wiD bolt a ptiic meeting With all the demands on your time, it's no wonder you • 7 p.m. Tluaday, Nov. 20, to dis- ems the design plan for plme two of feel a loss of freedom every now and again. Couldn't you die A-line track removal project The project. which will involve the use help regaining some of it? Consider Business Forus• mnoval of the fallow tracks ~ well •die rq>1ving of the roads and land Checking from BankBoston-part of a banking plan ...~ along Clmkidgc, W&'lhington and designed to help ,-ou manage your business at anytime, 1n.nom SIRJeCs, is scheduled to begin next spring. The Nov. 20 meet I Access account infonnation q will otTa- a look at the 75 percent from anywhere. You'll choose one of five checking design plan for the project-which 24 hours a day-over the phone or means lhal 75 percent of the design options, depending on your level of activity. And because at the ATM. for the project is complete. 2 Planners will present the updated a Business Focus BankBoston Card is available with Transfer funds instantly between plan and will solicit suggestions accounts with Telephone Banking. from cormmmity members. every account, you'll have instant account information 24 } The meeting will be held at the Make deposits anytime at Brighton FJks Lodge. hours a day over the phone and at over 1,500 BankBoston over 1,500 BankBoston ATMs. 4 ¥111111"1 lnltld to ATMs! It's all about helping you control your finances at Manage employee account access llllllc"lll In .... with Card options-from \axbs invited to sell their anytime, from anywhere. are Business Focus Checking full access to deposit only. pm at the St Anthony's~ FREE for six months• And about regaining the 5 Bazaar oo Saturday, Dec. 6. Tables Link your accounts to one Card me available for gifts, crafts and Olher ~items. Tables are freedom to run your business on your terms. After all, isn't for easy money management. $35each. 6 The event will feature gifts, crafts, that part of the reason you started it in the first Use your Card with X-Press Check"' ~a White Elephant Sale, a to pay for business purchases bake sale, raftles and more. Kids can place? To learn more, call 1-888-BKB-FOCUS. wherever MasterCard• is accepted. ~ve a photograph taken with Santa 7 0-. It's Amazing What You Can Do;' Or just get cash. For more information, call Kris Jo1n1on, vendor coordinator, at 254- S693. C11111• Clrcle .... www.bankboston.com Member FDIC •free checking offer applies to new Business Focus checking accounts opened before Dec. 31, 1997. Fee waiver refers to monthly maintenance ...... The Aberdeen & Reservoir Civic fees only. Other transaction charges may apply. 'Includes BankBoston ATMs in New Hampshire. Massachusetts, and Conneaicut and BankBoston Hospital Trust Association, formerly the ATMs in Rhode Island. Not all transaaions available at all BankBoston ATMs. O PINIO N Cell tower dispute needs middle ground Boston official has likened the issue of cellular telephone towers to adult entertainment zones. The analogy is right on the money. ATowns and cities around the commonwealth cannot legally keep the towers from being erected within their borders, much as they cannot keep an adult video or bookstore from opening in their town. ''You can't say no. Instead, you have to find a strategy that works," said the Boston official. It currently falls to each community to find a way to best coexist with the offending newcomer, be it a tower or a video store, without sacrific ing too much of the local character. That is a double~ged sword because with state guidelines that allow cities and towns more oversight of the placement of the cellular telephone towers, the industry is fighting back with local lawsuits against local objections. A~ state regulation would force all cellular companies to bold public hearings and get special pennits to erect towers. That legislation makes sense from the perspective of both local residents and the indus try. Through the process of a public hearing, the industry and the resi dents of each community can work together to see both have their needs met. The current strategy is patchwork, adversarial and expensive to all. As the cellular telephone industry continues to grow, the towers are a fact of life. But that does not mean neighbors should have no say over whether a tower is built next door. The building of towers cannot be stopped completely. But the industry cannot be allowed to erect towers with disregard for local feelings. Through those hearings, each town can find the best way to work with the industry and maintain its character: There is more of a chance for a solution that satisfies both sides in a public hearing before a tower is built than in a court room after the tower has gone up. ·• SP! .1 \K - Ol .. , ! • Enough food Social service so~ We have so many restaurants and so many supennar kets all over the place. I think we need a healthy envi ronment and no more food and clothing places, some thing more affordable that isn't food. We already have enough food places in Allston-Brighton. I 1111111...... , statlGll mgument that a well-rounded I have to say thank you doing something for the Raruo ID(ft succes.WI than targeted short-term solutions to the indi Free Free. I am very upset for what is going on to shut vidual problems of teen pregnancy, drugs and dropping out of school. down this program. I thought it was nice for some peo However, while it may make sense to address problems by preventing ple who are lonely and they are immigrants, for them from occurring in the first place, it is harder to show success than instance myself, I am Spanish but I read your paper. But when a program focuses on a specific problem. &sentially, an organiza for people who don't understand English, for example tion appears successful when it selects a problem such as teen pregnan Spanish or Haitians, felt comfortable having their own cy, develops a program to combat it and then demonstrates that the nunr programs in their own town. It was great I have already called the two radio stations who have something to do bers are dropping. But that is usually only a short-term success. The with this and I would really [like to] help out and see if Allston. Thank you for your Speak-Out! Line, and I value of the work of the Boys and Girls Oubs, for instance, is that they other Spanish people want to help out Radio Free are designed to prevent, in the first place, the increases in drug use and look forward to getting the newspaper sent to my house. teen pregnancies. The results may be han:ler to show, but the work is more successful in LLTTLRS the long run, and now, thanks to this study, easier to prove. flat voters with dignity and respect Allston community who states that the Allston communi On Nov. 4, I went to vote at the City Yard on Western ty knew little about this proposed use when she reported Avenue in Brighton. I was infuriated to think that I was on recent comments made by Provost Dennis Berkey per expected to vote in such deplorable conditions. The build taining to plans for a new athletic and recreational center. ing (outside and in) is filthy dirty. She also inaccurately reported that the university has not I was accompanying a handicapped person and was told to enter in the rear of the bui !ding, where there was 254 lecond Ave., P.O. Box 1112, NeedhM!, lllA 02112 617/254-7530 a ramp. That access was dirtier than the rest of the Tell• place. 111111 ..IM! We Wld l> bell' from :you. Leaers eed help trying lo quit inhales 1,000 milligrams of tar, Be sure to stop by the Health smoki ng?. which contains 4,000 chemicals Center on Nov. 20, National N Thursday, Nov. 20, is (43 of them are carcinogens) and Smokeout Day. The Health Center with 'ZOOm' die Glal American Smokeoul. On carbon monoxide. will be holding a raffle and provid dis day, millions of Americans will • Two million smokers will either ing the public with free infonna By Tom Witkowski dubby - the oh-so-sophisticated tty to quit smoking for at least a quit or die this year. tion, an educational display, "sur TAB Staff Writer public television v~ ion of pig • Each cigarette takes an estimat vival lcits," and information about o WGBH is holding audi Latin. As if, as a little kid in my ed six minutes off a smoker's life. the facts and dangers of smoking tions for a new version of navy blue pants, white shirt and • Secondhand smoke is a cause for both men and women. S ''Zoom." Maybe now I can navy blue clip-on tie (trust me, of disease in healthy nonsmokers. Here are some helpful hints for finally be the hip kid I always school uniforms are not the • For many people, secondhand the Great American Smokeout: wanted to be. If I show up at the answer), I was not insecure and smoke causes reddening, itching • Change your morning routine. studios in Allston, I might actually feeling like an outsider enough, and watering of the eyes. When you eat breakfast, don't sit in have a second chance at a cool here were these kids speaking their • Each year, exposure to second the same place at the kitchen table. childhood, as long as they don't own made-up language. And while hand smoke for children causes • Get rid of all your cigarettes. ask me to do that weird thing they I was sitting on my living room 150,000-300,000 lower respiratory Wet them down so you will not be all did with their arms. floor watching th~pld Magnavox tract infections. able to get them out of the garbage. Obviously it would be so much TV with my mother in the next • Secondhand smoke increases • Consider chewing on other easier to be an adolescent, knowing room, they were in a television stu the number of asthma attacks and things such as gum or hard candy. all that I know now. dio somewhere. the severity of asthma in about 20 • When you get the urge to I was always intrigued by Could I have been more of an percent of this country's 2.5 million smoke, do something else, such as ''Zoom." Intrigued and intimidated. outsider? asthmatic children. going for a walk, meeting a friend. Here was a group of kids creative For most of my young adult life According to the Office of Remember, trying to quit can be enough to put on their own televi - though I did not realize it at the Research and Health Statistics quite difficult. We recommend that sion show without the help of time, I was always trying to catch 1991-1993 report, heart disease is you attend a smoking cessation props like the 6-foot Muppets on up to those damn sophisticated listed a<; one of the leading causes program when you' re trying to "Sesame Street" or Mr. Music and "Zoom" kids. of d(ath in the Allston-Brighton quit. This can help you with some Miss Whatever-her-name-was and I went to the movies, listened to community. Most agencies and of the symptoms associated with her magic mirror on "Romper the music, wore the clothes, businesses are recognizing the withdrawal, such as dininess, Room." No TV tricks and gim pierced the ears (back when ear hann of smoking and sccondhaM hunger and fatigue. Also, quitting micks like 'The El~tric piercing was risque) and went to smoke. and are working hard to can be a joint effort. Ask a family Company." And most of all, no the clubs that set me apart from the keep a smoke free environment. member to help you and to suppoft adults. ' greater masses and made me a part Remember, smoking is the single your ctTorts so you can achieve Of course, it never occurred to of the lesser masses. But masses l1lOllt important preventable cause your goals. me that perhaps behind those cam JUst the same. It's hard to believe, of death m the United States. For more infom1ation about eras some adults were involved. but listening to the Smithland the this gram or help to kick the Those lcids were sophisticated. In Chameleom UK did not make us son's life. . Al oug At the Joseph M. Smith The Health Center, at 287 white television at that time, so But now, I could have my chance Community Health Center, through Western Ave., is open Monday they might have been actually to be authentically different. AU I the Tobacco Control Institutional through Friday from 8:30 a.m.-5.30 wearing clothes that were the same have to do is get on the new Casefinding Program. the coordina p.m. and evenings on Tuesday and nerdy navy blue as my Catholic ''Zoom." As the only 34-year-old in tor racbes many local businesses, Thursday until 9 p.m. (Infonnation school unifonn and pennanent the crow~ I really will be differeoL ...... talb wilb owners and displays in this article is provided by the press pants with the iron-on patch u~lt1ast. ~ ....lite body..... inlra -- brochura and Oyers for help on Mawachusetts Tobacco Control es on the knees. u~ of coum, die rest « my wDaaify. how to stop smoking. The Health Program, the U.S. Department of Resean:h tells me that they were ~ iftisfit wuaapn show up • Sating ltill IClnlllll for 30 Center participates in many activi Health and Hwnan Services, The actually wearing brightly colored for the same reason. In which ca, peant of all cancer deaths, and is ties throughout the year educating American Cancer Society, and striped shirts. That just goes to we can all go home, throw on an the principal cause of coronary people about the facts of nicotine MSCHC.) 0 show how sophisticated they were old Joy Division album, try to heat disease. addiction. The program has been . .. that I remember them dressed as speak our own language and do • Nearly 43S,OOO Americans die successful in educating parents Scott Fulford, M.D., MPH, is Beatniks rather than as Dr. Seuss' that silly thing with our anns while ewry year from smoking-related about the dangers of secondhand medical director of the Joseph Cat in the Hat. trying not to give ourselves black diales. smoke, and has been useful in M. Smith Community Health 'Ibey were also clever enough to eyes. •A two-pack-a-day smoker motivating people to quit. Center. have their own language - ubby- We're gonna zoom ... 0 • A tougher measure against sex offenders By Ralph Lopez makes it pos.5ible for the stale to number of individuals who it can be should include rape of a child under streets in the first place. n the wake of a nwnber of keep dangerous sexual offenders statistically determined will repeat 16 with force, rape and abuse of a That Senate No. 217 presently m:ent murders, including the committed after they have served their crimes or increase their severi child under 16, and the abduction languish~ in Senate Ways and I llDDhing, monstrous outrage out their time. Although constitu ty. Yet legislators have been too busy and attempted abduction of a child Means even as many legislators give embodied by the Jeffrey Curley tional questions have arisen, the either hollering for the death penalty by a non-relative, murder of a child up dearly held convictions on the nuder, the chmccs of having the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial or running for cover for their stand and murder with prior convictions of death penalty is a testament to the deldl penalty in Mmachusetts have Cowt has upheld the bill's constitu against it to push forward something domestic violence against the victim. absurdities in politics. Surely any gone first from a dislant rumble to a tionality In addition, a similar law, which might make a difference. Most of these classes of crimes legislator willing to vote in favor of dialinct possibility, then down again, the "Kansas Law," has been upheld already exist as distinct criminal the death penalty should be willing for now, in the House vote two as constitutional by the U.S. charges under stale law. Those that to vote for this bill, which could be weeks ago. Supreme Cowt when the same ques do not should be quickly enacted. undoubtedly tough but still not take Dadl penally proponents ooncede tiom were raised in that state. In The bill makes it The second flaw is that the bill only away life, that point al which society lhll Bllfa with the dcalh penalty are ~the U.S. Supreme Cowt allows the state to keep serious sexu cannot reverse a mistake. At the very DO llfa', in lams of munlcr rates, held in Kansas v. Hendricks that possible for the state to al offenders who are presently incar least, life in prison without possibili .... nm-dealh penalty sl*s, but oocontrollable mges in "sexually keep dangerous sexual cerated locked up; it does nothing to ty of parole should be the mandatory ~and wilh persuasive power violent predators" constitute a dan offendersconnnitted reach out and pull in those of this sentence for a particularly heinous fame die question nlhcr u a maaer gerous mental ~. and that the group who have been released. The class of crimes, which should focus ~~ punishrnlD forcer restraint of the dangerously mentally after they have served bill should allow the state to detec on crimes against woman and chil llin vicious aimr.s. The biggest ill has historically been a legitimate mine which among this group still dren. The ultimate sad irony is that lllFIY «the enbre episode, how function of society. As might be out their time. poses a danger to society and to pull the death penalty will do nothing to ewr, may finally be not lhal the expected, the case and decision them right back into the system. bring back the loved ones that fami dellb penalty bu or bu not been make for some sickening reading, This would essentially require an lies have lost to cold-blooded killers, illlib'Rdin Massachu8eas, depend but more importantly clears any overhaul of the sex offender registry but Senate No. 217 just might pre ing Cll one's poim--Of-view, but that foreseeable constitutional obstacles Senate No. 217 has some flaws to law, which has grown to list such vent the next Jaynes, Sicari and their ~which would fir more to the enactment of Senate No. 217. be sure, but these could be easily frivolous categories as consensual ilk from fulfilling their misbegotten lln8ibly conlribute to the public's Since the kind of criminal now rectified. The first is that it mandates gay sex and lewd behavior such as destinies. 0 ..,bas been overshadowed. under scrutiny frequently follows an a life sentence for persons convicted "mooning." The premise of the Ralph Lopez is a member ofthe Sining in the Senate Ways and all-too familiar pattern of sexual twice of certain serious sexual overhaul should be that a registry is coalition opposed to the death Means Committee al this moment is predator-sums-to-lciller, Senate No. crimes. For the most serious of these not a solution for the truly dangerous penalty and a former staJe senatorial I till called Senate No. 217. The bill 217 would keep off the streets a the bill should read "once." This - they should not be walking the candidate. Page 121'111 M t n .,....._TAI, November 18 - 24, 1997 BRASCO ON REAL ESTATE A recent rei>Ort by tbe Census Bureau say~ American households will be vastly different by tbe _year 20 I0. And that means Clyde's view by c1yc1e Whalen Russo1 our housing needs will change, too. The report, tbe first by tbe Bureau in ten years, projects that by the end of the cenlllry nearly tbiee out of five American families will mclude no children under the age of 18. About half the families in the U.S. have no children at home now. Our Changing Households Premium ~..-1~~" bite Cauliflo1ur-=•~...... :~ ..... 98¢ head Kate Brasco Crisp Fresh UX The change in family size will take place Red and because baby boomers the large popu ration bubble born at tbe end of Worfd War II, are Creative parking on Lincoln Street reaching age 50, and that means fewer Leaf Lettu•. ~ ...... ~~- .. families of Child-bearing age . Right now, there are 6.1 million P.OOple Large Swee between the ages of 45 and 64 who are livmg alone, but by 2010 the number will rise to I ~Fl TlcRS Bose Pe'lll•~aitsw~ 105 million. Many single parents will find themselves Living alone because their FROM PAGE 10 Oct 7 article on our new master plan, Bartlett children have grown up and left horn~. The PAC was comprised of 21 in which she wrote that "the universi- Demographers say that our matunng pop Farm SwCalj~lll~~~;. ulation will bring_ abOut an increase in retire organizations, all of which were part ty also hopes to create recreational ment communities, more condominiums, of the Boston University Community facilities al the Annory." Mccoun ~~- more one-story homes, and homes maY. ~lso Task Force. The purpose of this PAC Boston University's top priority is be more luxunous and have more amemtJes. was to disseminate infonnation with- construction of the first phase of And the move to smaller homes won't lessen the demand for large homes. Most in the represented community organi- housing al the Annory site, which really large homes bought now are owned by zations. Allston was represented by will provide 726 beds. Any additional affluent empty nest couples who have taken eight different groups (35 percent of development on the Annory site will ~uity from their old llouses to purchase PAC representation) and 13 different be subject to further review, as cited bigger, better homes. representatives during the 4 l/2-year in the new master plan. Kate Brosco is a Principal Realtor at process. These groups were Allston We were disappointed by the inac- CENTURY 21 Shawmut Properties in Board olTrade, Allston Brighton curacies and bias in Rosencrance's Major C ted Brighton. Ifyo u have a quettion on a Real APAC, Allston Brighton Community article. The piece is sure to cause Estate related matter or need assistance, 560 Pleasant Street• Wa,tertown • 923-1502 call Kate at 787-2121. Beautification Council, Allston unnecessary confusion in the com- Store Houn: Monday-5anuday 811m-6pm, Sunday 8am-2pm Brighton IPOD-PZAC, Allston Civic munity, and it reflects poorly on your Association, Brighton-Allston publication. The university hopes that Improvement Association, Jackson future reporting on lhe Am10fY site Mann Community School Council will be fair and accurate. and lhe South Allston Neighbodiood···EdwanJ·•M.I...... Hee. with an PAC members, answering questions and providing infonnation Sbnllngup both within and outside of formal against lanmnines PAC meetings. Allston representa On Dec. 3, representatives from over tives attended most of the 31 PAC l 00 nations will meet in Ottawa to meetings, as well as the 12 Task sign a treaty banning the production, Force meetings. PAC members also use, and export of anti-personnel next car loan into attended the legislative hearings and landmines. Support for the ban on met with their legislative representa landmines has come from many tives. PAC members had accepted places and many people. the responsibility to report back to Elizabeth Dole, president of the their organizations. In addition, om American Red Cross, Nelson a subcompact. Director of Community Relations has the Mandela, and late Princess of regularly attended meetings of a Wales, Diana, have all supported the number of Allston groups for over 11 ban. In October, Jody Williams and years. The International Campaign to Ban The PAC approved the Annory Landmines were awarded the Nobel How do you make a great car loan even plans in a January l 990 meeting by a Peace Prize for their work to ban 10-2 vote. The Allston-Brighton landmines. In the U.S., a bipartisan % better? By taking a 1 discount. At Planned Z.Oning Advisory Committee majority of Senators favor the ban. Peoples, its simple. Just arrange to have (PZAC) also voted on the Annory However, President Clinton, taking your payments automatically deducted plans at its January, 1990, meeting, his cue from the Pentagon, has not approving of the plans by a 14-2 from a Peoples" checking account and we'll supported the ban. During negotia vote. tions, he has conditioned his support take 1% off the rate. Its our way of saying In writing that ''the ink on the BU for the ban on the inclusion of excep "thanks" for ~ter plan wasn't even dry yet tions which would undercut the consolidating your when Provost Berkey announced last treaty. His exceptions include: (l) the week that the school would be build use of anti-personnel mines in the de banking with us. To apply ing'' a new athletic and recreational militarized zone in Korea; (2) the use for your Peoples car loan, facility, Ms. Rosencrance took of mines to protect anti-tank mines; stop by today or call us Provost Berkey's continent complete (3) permitting nations to withdraw APR ly out of context and has made much from the treaty during anned conflict; at (617) 254-0707. more aut of it than is accurate. The Includes l % loan and (4) delaying for nine years the • dlSCOUnt story also infers that the university is treaty's effective date. somehow acting inappropriately. This Landmines kill or maim 26,0X> couldn't be further from the truth people each year - more than 80 As Ms. Rosencrance herself report percent of these victims are civili~. ed in the article, the Boston While removing all the landmines in Redevelopment Authority (BRA) the world has been estimated as cost approved the university's plans for ing $33 billion and taking nearly Peoples the Aonory site in April, 1990. The l,OX> years (if work~ at the university's new five-year master present rate), any delays in stopping Federal Savings Bank plan, approved by the Boston the proliferation of landmines only University Community Task Force add to these numbers. 229 North Harvard Street, Allston on June 24, 1997, by a 10-3-2 vote The International Campaign to Ban 435 Market Street, Brighton and approved unanimously by the Landmines is touring the country in a 1905 Centre Street, West Roxbury BRA board on Oct 23, reiterates the "Ban Bus," urging the U.S. to sign M~FDIC 254-0707 university's interest in an athletic and the treaty. Let's let President Ointon recreational facility. Indeed, Ms. know we'd like him to join us on the Rosencrance demonstrated familiari bus! ty with the university's plans in her Jennifer Honig, A November 18- 24, 1997 Tbe Allslan-8rtghtol TAB, page 13 IN BRIEF Commonwealth Ave. the owners of the Lincoln Street Mimo Corporation at 480 executive director of Boston's • deferred action on a request to Cafe to change the closing time Washington St The BAIA voted not Gibson House Museum, will give a meeting on Nov. 6, -..nblY change the occupancy of 36-46 from 1 am. to 2 a.m. to support that request talk about "Brighton during the Late ofthe Brighton Allston Brooks St to include a take-out • voted not to support a request Victorian Era: 1870-1900," on •anemAssociation took restaurant from the owner of 18 Brainerd Road Thursday, Nov. 20, at the Brighton die following ilems: cm • deferred action on a request by to construct eight additional units on Historical presentation Branch of the Boston Public IKlt '>support proposal a Arbuckle's Restaurant at 1249 the building. planned at library Library, 40 Academy Hill Road. 'llilld m IKHmit apartment buil~ Commonwealth Ave. to change •In addition, The TAB incorrectly Historian .Edward Gordon, president The program begins at 6:45 p.m. Commonwealth Ave. • 1700 ownership. reported last week that the BAIA of the New England chapter of the For more information, call 782- • look oo position on a request by • voted not to support a request by deferred action on a request by Victorian Society of America and ()()32. die owners of 2 Appian Way to iMlll a ~foot fence on the property. • took no position on a request by the owner of 61-fl) Beacon SL to change occupancy from retail and dcdrical manufacturing to retail and aulD body repair. • voted to support a variance to How much do you legalize occupancy in the bac;ement of 7 F.ric Road, to be used as a recre alional area by the ~idents' chil dren. • ddaml action on a proposal by know about your Murray Outdoor Advertising to imtall signs at 1610-1622 Medicare benefits? S1 "-1<>!-.: ('\11"-1)\h'. 1. The hospital deductible for PrognuN and classes by the Medicare coverage is Veronica B. Smith Multi-Service $76o per year. True False Center, 20 Chestnut Ave., for the 2. After you meet your $100 week of Nov. 18-24. The senior cen ter is open Monday-Friday from deductible, Medicare will pay 8:30 am.-4 p.m. Lunch is served 80% of your billi Monday-Thursday at noon. for doctor visits. True False Telephone: 635-6120. • 3. In order to join a Medicare TIHlllf, In. 18 managed care plan, you have to give up your Medicare benefits. True False 4. You can get into a Medicare managed care plan without passing a physical. True False (Answers below) llllll••lllJ~llov. 19 IIf Jll · Ill t Ill_)' lJ II l'.\Ii o II S tii ti )'fJll !!, ('/ r i )!. /JI! Meeting Calendar 9a.m.-Artchm. ,..30 a.m. -Alterations and Sewing.. All four? Three? Two or less? If you're surprised Noma - Lunch. Suggested dona at how little you really know about your benefits tion. s1.50 . under traditional Medicare, you're not alone. Friday, November 21, 11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m. - F.nglish as a Second Lquagechm. That's why we've created an informative booklet Veronica Smith Senior Center 1 p.m. - Oak Square Seniors called Health Care Options for People with 1·2 p.m.-Senior Swim at the YMCA, 470 W&Wngton SL, Medicare -The Plain and Simple Facts. And 20 Chestnut Hill Avenue BriP>n· it's absolutely FREE and without any obligation on your part. This booklet explains - in plain Brighton, MA 'llllldQ, ... 211 English - just how Medicare really works. What 'a.m. - Exercise. your options are when it comes to 10 a.m. - Blood ~ure. supplementary Medicare insurance. What a 1•.30 a.m. - Clloral. •~Home Appointments Noma - Lunch. Suggested dona Medicare contracting managed care plan like tion, SI.SO Secure Horizons• can offer you. And more. Are Also Available. 1-3 p.m.- ~·Bingo. 1-4 p.m. - Bridge. You're invited to hear more about Secure Horizons at one of our informational meetings Fttd.,1111121 listed and receive a free copy of Health Care 9".30 a.m. - F.nglish as a Second optimu for People with Medicare -The Language chm. 10 a.m. - Walking. Plain and Simple Facts. You may also call our 11 a.m. - Secure Horizom turkey toll-free number to receive your free Plain and kmcheoo. Simple Facts booklet and a no-obligation 1-2 p.m. - Senior Swim at the information kit about Secure Horizons. YMCA, 470 W&Wngton SL, November 24th is the last day to Brighton. apply for January 1 membership. 1-3 p.m. - Birthday party. 1-800-978-2222 ....., ... 24 10 a.m. - Walking. 10 a.m. - au Gung 11, "Energy SecureHorizons· Giies." 11 a.m. - OU Gung I 1UFrS mHealthPlan for Seniors Noma - Lunch. Sugpled dona lion. st .50. l2:lO p.m. - F.nglish as a Second Quiz Answers: (1) False, (2) False, (3) False, (4) True. Lquagechm...... -Line Dancing. *Secure Horizons is a federally qualified HMO with a Medicare contract. Secure Horizons members must continue to pay Medicare 1·2 p.m. - Senior Swim at the premiums and use plan providers. Minimal copayments will apply. Most beneficiaries are eligible including those under age 65 YMCA, 470 W&Wngton SL, entitled to Medicare on the basis of Social Security Disability Benefits. lriablon- Page 14 1111 AIMlc:: lrlgMal TAI, November l 8 - 24, 1997 POLITICS Honan not cowed by milk agreement tate Rep. Kevin Honan (D program go through nine cases of Brighton) last Thursday milk a week. By next September, Sanswered to one of the fiercest. the Compact will add nearly $2 mil most demanding audiences an elect lion in expenses to the statewide ed official can face: preschoolers. school meals program. Honan was at St Gabriel's in Honan remains optimistic. "We can put a lot of pressure on the Compact Dairy Commission," he said. "Jay Healy, the commis sioner of agriculture, knows this is having an impact on citi~ . He even sponsored an amendment to exempt Head Start programs and school lunch programs, but it failed (to get approved by the commission). Brighton to protest the New England Doug Peterson, a legislator on the Dairy Compact pricing agreement National Resources Commission, is -one that's increased milk coots by supporting us. He knows this is a z 17 cents per gallon. The Compact's bad deal for M~husetts." ~ aim is admirable: to subsidiz.e and If nothing else, Honan's appear- protect smaller, independent New ance at St Gabriel's introduced ~ England dairy farmers. The problem some children to the concept of a " is that Massachm;etts residents pro "media event" Afterwards, they - ~ vide ahnost half of the tax revenue along with the representative - ~ while dairies outside the state shared milk, oatmeal cooki~. and, receive 83 percent of the benefits. presumably, some salty anecdo~ Indeed, fewer than one-tenth of all about Boston politics. State Rep. Kevin Honan shares a snack with children in the Brighton Head Start program ~week. Honan is speaking out against a New Fngland dairy farmers reside in new milk tax. Tolman also joined Mo Mowtam, Tolman-watchers may remember sort of. ~=~are honorable," Musical TOIRBIS? Northern Ireland's ~~of st'.lte, that last month, Sen. Tolman and his In between the third and fourth Honan said. "But the effect of price With State Senator W~ Tolman at Brighton's Stockyard Inn last Amherst college friend, the Prince quarters, Honan represented the increues in cities, on the womng (D-Watertown) running for Thursday. Tolman met Mowlam of Monaco, also visited the Allston-Brighton YMCA in a chari poor, on the elderly, on children is Lieutenant Governor in 19 396 Market St. Brighton, MA Visit our Open House and learn bow Simmona Cndu.ate f'rorranu in Education can help JOU mal '• R \ i> I \ f , :· k t ) 1, ~ \ \I ' I \, I 1.) l r \ ; • (1 \ • November 18-24, 19971'111H1I • ""'211!1TA1.page 15 Oak Square house to be demolished HOUSE, from page 3 Your time. build a second duplex on the site as well, and in order to meet setback requirements between the two hous You're never more than 30 minutes away es, the owners have only two options: either cut off part of the from the start of a new pay per view existing house or tear it down to build anolher in a different location. movie hit. Th keep the old house would require a serious invesbnent in restoration, which the owners fear they might not recoup if they diminished the si7.e of the building. Call for special savings on connection. '1t makes the whole site more fea sible if the existing site is taken down," he said. The owners met with neighbors on Oct 30 to discuss what they plan to do with the building. One attendee, Pat Walsh, said she was upset by what she saw as the younger • HalZieleftheriadis' lack of concern for the historical value of the house. She acknowledged that the house was mned f ~ •--11,(•...... Dtbedle building), fine, he said. "But what they are asking to do is to~ sorndhing that ; l"t ••• feel is hiSlllrical. The Wll built lib fNfSY bouae in Wll buill alang lime ago. ~~~--built ffltDeleftheria said that ld>uild ..also makrs it pos&ble, spaoowise, to pmm ~a bqe. oopper beech tree - is 00 the pan:eL The tree is believecJ to be the oldest tree in BriglD1. san, ~have been raised about whether the new consbuction will actually weaken the root struc ue of the tree. Co-owner Max ffalziliadrs has agreed to work with local arborist Roger Erickson at the Allston-Brighton Cormnunity Development Corporation on how to best ensure the tree's survival. In the meantime, all four town houses that will be carved out of the property 787-8888 have hit the market. Each three-bedroom unit is selling for $239,900. www.cablevision-boston.com "It makes the whole site look better if we take the house down," Hatzieleftheriadis said. "I'm not going to beat around the bush - it makes better busi~ sense to do it this way." Hatzieleftheriadis said that while the vom of the opponents to the •• project have been the l~l, he has also heard from neighbors who are in favor of seeing a new house on the block. But Oak Square neighbor Wtlma Wcttamom said she is not one of Offer applies to standard aerial connection on one TV set in Cablevislon's wired franchise areas which them are available for service. Programming subject to change. Other restrictions may apply. "One of the great things about Boston is its history and historic an:hitecture," she said. "I find it very sad that a developer can come in and talce away our past - only to replace it with something that's so bland, that A NEW GENERATION OF CABLE could be located in any city at all." 0 Page 16'1111M kn ~TAI , November 18-24, 1997 ·" • l ' Brian Kelly of Brighton Oles through the sky oo lib bicyde while riding along a recreation area near Soldiers Field Road. fore the stonn News of the impending first snow storm of the winter sent Allston Brighton residents scunying to get outside and take care of unfin ished business last Thursday. While snow and sleet blanketed the landscape during a Friday storm, everyone from bicyclists to bar bers were taking advantage of one of the last days of autumn. ~ Photos by Glen Cooper A rower glides ~ the tranquil Charles River in Brighton. Cold "C•tthcr wa., not cnoui,:h tu stop thi' roller bladcr from i,:clling oul~idc one la.~ time. George Bayld~ 78, gets his monthly haircut at Freddie Battaglia's barber shop in 0-.ik Square. Bayides has been gelling Im hair cut at Battaglia's shop for the last 32 years. .. November 18 - 24, 19971'111 A•t 1 .._.....TM, page 17 POLITICS Underage drinking bill held in committee BOSTON - The state must be Senate Chairman Michael The committee recommended result of residents driving to New fines and allow imprisonment for tougher on underage drinkers and Morrissey (D-Quiocy) said he was passage of another alcohol-related Hampshire, buying beer cheaply beer house operators. the adults who serve them, legisla troubled by some of the vagaries in bill, filed by Rep. Eugene and in huge quantities, and then The committee also reported ..I tors agreed last week. the bill, but hopes to report favor O'Aaherty (D-Chelsea), increasing opening up their homes to minors favorably on eight sections of the At a morning hearing of the ably on an altered version. The bill the punishment for operating ''beer who are willing to pay wildly inflat governor's child support enforce Government Regulations was held in committee last week, houses." ed prices for alcohol. ment bill. Committee, Rep. Frank H~ (D and members will ask for more time O'Aaherty said Chelsea is The bill, supported by a Chelsea Marshfield) spoke on behalf of a to work on it plagued by illegal bars, usually the p<>lice captain, would increase the - S~ House News Service bill incl'e$ing the legal re.5ponsibili ty of hosts who serve alcohol in their~- While committee members agreed with the spirit of the bill, several worried that the leg islalive language was too vague, and could restrict the ability of adults to drink in their own homes. Hynes was accompanied by the parenl'i of 18-year-old Gregory "Society must change its ideals, as well as the laws." Donald Smith Smidl mMarshfield, who died lut yar after driving home drunk from a grdJalion party thrown by the parenlB of one of his high school cllssmates. The party was attended by youdlS bodi over arxl under age 21, and the hosts said the ak:ohol was intended for guests of legal drinking age. The hosts were not bald lilble becal8e there was no ~Ibey dinlctly ..~alcohol Under existing law, H~ said, a court "could only coovict if they llld evidence lhal the hosts were giving boOlJc llO kids." His bill would require party hosts to take some "affinnalive action" to prevent underage drinking, such as announcing to guests that the ~ bol being served WU for the adults only, or having a "plekccper'' Sland ntar the liquor. But several committee members thought the requirements in H~' bill were too vague. House Chairman Daniel Bosley (D-North Admm) was conccmed that the law would extend into nmhigenerabonal family gatherings, like Thanksgiving. asked he would Bosley whether It's a recurring sentiment with just about every baby and mother who visits St. Elizabeth's ha~ to fonnally announce to his ~ nieces and nephews that the Medical Center. It's easy to see why. At St. Elizabeth's, we have one goal - to make childbirth wine being served to adults was not for them. H~ said the law as special as possible for you and J;OUr family. You'll receive compassionate, one-on-one already exempts hosts from respon sibility for minors whose parents are care from exceptional doctors and nurses in a s'tate-of-the-art facility, complete with also present CARING Both H~ and Gregory Smith's ro~ mi: private birthing suites and a Level III Certified Nursery, in case a problem occurs. parents acknowledged that their pri WHOLE: mary goal was to change the atti WOMAN Plus, along with being a teaching affiliate of Tufts University School of Medicine, tudes of parents who shrug off Wlderage drinking as harmless and where many of our obstetricians hold faculty appointments,_ we're skilled in the care of women inevitable. with high-risk pregnancies and offer one of the area's best nurse-midwifery programs. Call "Society must change its ideals, as well as the laws," said Donald St. Elizabeth's Medical Center today at 1-800-245-7837 to arrange a tour or to schedule an Smith, Gregory's father, who spoke movingly about his son's short life appointment with one of our doctors. You'll be glad you did. So will your baby. and early death. A representative of Attorney General Scott Harshbargcr's office also spoke in favor of the bill. Women's Health Pavilion at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston 736 Cambridge Street. Brighton. MA 02135 Bradnoy Onl)' minute~ from Don·ntown Boston and the M~1ss P1hr I h tt p :, www. s.em c .org at the Caritas Christi Health Care System Movies (f)o (d • Page 181'111 M I 111.. TAI, November 18 - 24, 1997 SCHOOL NEWS After-school programs threatened Enrollment could force W10Ship, Baldwin to discontinue services By Judy Wassennan TAB Correspondent he future of at least two after-school programs in T Allston-Brighton is uncer tain because of WlCxpected low enrollment, school officials said last week. Winship Elementary School Principal Antonio Barbosa said he is "really disappointed" that only 19 Winship students have enrolled in the school's after-school program, which can accommodate 40 stu dents. At Baldwin Elementary School, Principal SU1.aillle Lee was equally disappointed, reporting that there were 18 students enroJJed in a similar program, also with a 40-stu dent capacity. Because they are running "at a high deficit," Extraordinary Leaming Inc., which operates pro grams at Winship and Baldwin, may• have to close its operation at Winship by Nov. 30. Winship's deficit was $2,CXX> in October, and its expected deficit for November will run close to $2,700, Barbosa said. Karen Bryner, director of BlltnOldimry Leaming al WlllShip, ' . ing can be fiJUrKI; lhe Wmship pro gram will most likely be moved to ~ the Baldwin in December. Baldwin FJementary School Principal Smanne Lee says she B d&ppointed about She said low enrollment is proba dwindling enrollment at Baldwin's after«ilool program. Allston bly due to three factors: asked those students' parents to try Car Wash • parents who think they can't to arrange transportation for their afford the program; children so they can use the after Principal • parents who signed their chil school program. Ille C.r Wash lhat cares! dren up at another center before In addition to cost, both principals questions Winship began; said transportation is hurting enroll • concerns about transportation ment Lee said many of Baldwin's home. students don't live near the school, priodties "[Wmship] has been a wonderful and so after-school care is easier if it As some Allston-Brighton public school to,.work in; eveI"?'one has is close to home. Barbosa agreed schools face difficuJt decism been very accommodatmg," Bryner that transportation was "a big fac about their after-school pro said. 'The teachers are even work tor," and that despite the value of the grams, Baldwin School Principal .911 ing on ideas to keep the program." Extraordinary Leaming Program, Suzanne Lee seemed to be sound .. ~ But she added that the program parents want their children in after ing a warning...... will most likely be transferred. school programs closer to home. "The big question is," she -W'ltll.... 111 To try to offset the deficits and If the Winship program can't be said, "can we be all things to all --:r~ keep the program going, Barbosa saved, Barbosa said he hopes his people?" ---r- sent letters to local businesses last Parents and residents are asking -·-r=-";:,,,..,~ students can attend Baldwin's pro - .,,.. • ...:::a.. week, asking their help to fund gram. An alternate bus route from the schools to provide a wide --·~ scholarships so more students can · Winship to Baldwin would be range of services, she said, attend the program. In fact, the requested. · including health and child care. It majority of enrolled students are on In addition to cost and transporta seems, she said: that "schools are · scholarship. The program costs $3 tion issues, Lee said she believes no longer just for teaching." an hour, and runs from 2:20-5:45 Baldwin's low enrollment is She continued, "We can't focus p.m. because most of the older students just on teaching and learning Barbosa said he is hoping Allston prefer to attend programs at agen anymore; our energy is being Brighton businesses will step for cies such as the West End House divided." ward to help fund the program, and the Allston-Brighton YMCA. At Noting that "it is not as easy a 88 88 which he considers "a true commu those sites, they meet other students task as the public thinks," Lee 14 nity service." their age and participate in activities said, "We must raise the question: rn 8 Lee, meanwhile, expressed frus suitable to their age. 'where are our priorities?"' tration that while her school is try John Molloy, principal of the She said the main focus must ...... ~.-...... - ing to respond to community needs, Hamilton Elementary School on remain teaching and learning. but ....__ UL_..-.ot the service is not being used. "we're willing to provide other _.... _...... Strathmore Road, said last week _ ::J4.....00 .. __ "Here it is, our school door is that, in fact, he recommends that services, if you give us lhe tools ------a...... °""'*-onlofl to do it" ----~ open," Lee said. "We're trying to Hamilton students who need after provide services and ... meet the school care use the already es~ - Judy Mbssennan needs, and when we do, no one uses lished programs at the YMCA and ~~~MQDELHARDWARE them." the Jackson Mann Community students. This program runs from 22 Harvard Avenue, AUston To offset low after-school enroll Center. Those programs, he said, 8: 15-9: 15 a.m., just before the 782-5131 ment at Baldwin, Lee has targeted a "work weJJ." school's 9:20 am. opening. It was "Open Sunday 10-4* number of students who need tutor The Hamilton does not offer an established in response to a parent ing which could be provided by ===-----~..... -=::-..=::....-:.-::.::..-:::..--..-.::.=:=-.:- after-school program, but does pro survey, said MoJJoy. Extraordinary Leaming. She has vide before-school care for about 15 PROGRAMS, page 19 November 18 - 24, 1997 The Allstoll ~TAB , page 19 SCHOOL NEWS r----0--0------.-a--0••·1 ~ :$ • off Bread & Circus : I 1with this c.,..on 8ncl • WHOLE FOODS MARKET ..., $10.00 IMl":hli- Brlghtonlllrooldlne I I Exjilreil 11/30/97. One coupon per purchase. 15 Washington Street, I ..> Annnenberg I Redeemable at~~ !;::r Brighton only. Brighton, MA 617-738-8187 I schools ready to go ~------~ Grant program Russo emphasized that the Annenberg grant "is not a grab bag." · 1 pav~wayfor Schools can't spend the funds care comprehensive refonn lessly; they must focus on improving student achievement through better I By Judy Wassmnan teacher preparation and curriculum. TAB Correspondent As part of Whole School Change, ivc of Allston-Brighton's Brighton High School is focusing on literacy. public schools are recipients Now, the best health care for your family is right F of Annenberg Challenge ''We're trying to be conscious of it Grant money earnlal'ked for imple in all that we do" in all areas of cur in your neighborhood. Dr. Alberto Yu Wong has rnenling the city's comprehensive riculum, and with teachers and par school reform. ents, Brighton High Headmaster joined Dr. Rezene Berhane at the newly opened The Baldwin and Garfield elemen Juliette Johnson said Caritas Medical Group office, formerly Seton .¥edical tary schools were named "21st cen Establishing "smaller learning tury schools" last year and are thus communities" within the high school Group, at 121 Harvard Avenue. Both speciali:te in is another way to achie~ change entitled to Annenberg funds. primary care, and Dr. Yu Wong is fluent in Spanish. Brighton High School, Gardner and improvement, Johnson said. For Elementary and Horace Mann example, the ninth-grade cluster has So you get expert, compassionate care for you and School for the Deaf were named been successful, and helps ''personal Alberto Yu Wong, MD your family that's close to home. And, because Caritas Aluienberg Ol8llenge schools this ize teaching and learning." She said year, and are focusing on ways to BHS is also exploring block schedul Medical Group is affiliated with St. Elizabeth's implement the~ Whole School ing and ways to increase parent par CllllllgC plan. ticipation. Medical Center: you have instant access to some of Patrice DiNatale, principal of Annenberg OlaUenge schools are the best and most comprehensive health care resources expeded to concentrate on Whole Horace Mann, said last week that her School ClJange, which reflecls the school is working toward Whole anywhere. c..Jl 617-562-0133 today for more informa School Change by focusing on pro city's c::oqirehensive school reform. tion, or to fChedule an appointment. Most major The goals of the 0'8llenge are "at fessional development and literaey. the beat of what schools should be The staff is also looking at student insurance plans accepted. doing." said Mary Russo, interim work and how it measures up to city dinar of the Boston Annenberg wide~. a.Denae. Under terms of the Annenberg grant, the city will raise $20 million "Mb Whole Scbool Qqe, Silt- ...... widl 11B's accomplished through height ened teacher self-educalion, avail distributed to Boston public schools ...Nl'lk,,..vaied teaching over a four-year period. To date, © training for principals and schools are receiving Annenberg ~focus on inslructional funds. tools. Under the Annenberg Challenge, • ' Rimo llid die OldieJd School is each school appoints an instructional an example of a school moving to leadership team, with the principal as Law Offices of ~E CONSQP"ATION. Whole School Change. Principal the manager, and a coach who assists No FEE UNL.&$ SUCCESSFUL. VJCtoria Megias-Batista and her teachers to evaluate student work, instructional leadership team have available resources and their own Gilbert R. Hoy, Jr. implemented programs that reflect instructional practices. Coach candi 850 Boylston Street, Suite 3 16A AVAILABLE ON EVENINGS Annenberg goals. They include dates were provided by the Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 AND WEEKENDS. opening and closing ceremonies Annenberg staff, and each school's every day for the whole school; the instructional team interviewed and Concentrating in All Aspects of HOME APPOINTMENTS. Garfield Way, which outlines expect selected its coach. PERSONAL INJURY LAW ed behavior throughout the school; Russo said the Annenberg schools and the Garfield Compact, an agree in Allston-Brighton have appointed (617) 277-6767 "A Lawyer Dedicated to Results ment between school and home to their instructional teams and coaches and Client Service." and "are ready to go." 0 enhance each student's education. • Programs threatened r------~------PROGRAMS, from page 18 gram created by Garfield teacher At the Mary Lyon School on Louise Kuhlman. Designed in Beechcroft Street, the after-school response to school-wide goals of program is free, and is considered improving literacy, the reading pro "an integral part of the daily class gram provides tutors for students room work," said Principal Mary who are recommended by teachers Nash. It enrolls just under 50 stu for enrichment or skill improvement dents who are chosen for their Kuhlman said last week that a SAVE ·- responsibility and maturity. major goal is to eventually "set up In addition to homework and each child with a tutor on a one-on 10°/b tutoring, the Lyon program includes one basis." She also hopes it will at Sears on your Oub Day, when students can partic "develop a love of reading." choice of these ipate in activities like chess, cooking The program, which runs a little Kenmore elecbic and dance movement; and Spe>rts over one hour on Tuesdays and water heaters the Wednesdays, includes phonics Day, when students visit either See rebate coupon YMCA or the West End House. lessons, reading chapter books, read ~~ Kenmore In store for details. Garfield Elementary School on ing aloud and writing journals. Beechcroft Street does not provide a Students from Boston College and Edison general after-school program, but several local high schools, including ~Boston does offer two programs geared to Brighton High and Mount St. Here'• an exampfe: special needs and interests. Joseph Academy, tutor the 30 Kenmore 30-gal. Citizen Schools meets at Garfield enrolled students. The program is Power Ml-r 10 electrlc water heater oo Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and funded through a $2,500 Boston Reg. price $269.99 rr-1 offers a variety of activities for stu College Neighborhood Grant ~~%~nt -$27.00 L....J dents from Garfield and several Details about after-school pro ~9t1~~eEdison -$90.00 • mher Allston-Brighton schools. grams at the Gardner and Jackson YOUR FINAL PRICE The second program, in its first Mann elementaries were not avail 11111111R5770743%101111 1 )'al', is a reading enrichment pro- able at press time. 0 L-~~~~~---~~~-•------Page 20 The Al~ TAB, November 18 - 24, 1997 RELIGION 5th Annual Boston PET £ . EXPO 'w!!gs> November 22 & 23 .Bayside Expo Center Nanette Stanford (left) and Debra McCall sand pews outside or Boston's United Pentecostal Church as part or the church's Saturday 10AM·7PM. Sunday 10AM·6PM n:storation project. Vo?unteers are i~g new pews and carpet at the church, which will remain open throughout the projecL United Pentecostal possible in part by the ordination this Grodin is a professor and director lift fall of former deacon Michael Con, of the law, medicine and ethics pro- gets face- now The Rev. Michael Con. gram at Boston University School of New pews and new carpet are being Metropolitan Pangratios of Medicine. He will discuss physician- ·"' installed at Boston's United Queens, N. Y., came to the church assisted suicide and similar issues in Pentecostal Church, 73 Brooks S~ . to ordain Con, who had studied at a the context of Judaic law. Brighton, according to pastor California monastery and through The lecture is free. For details, call Denver Stanford Jr. the archdiocese, in addition to his 630-0226. Members are donating much of work as deaco~ and altar server at Parishes host Thanksgiving the labor and funds to do the renova- Holy Resurreclton over many lions. years, according to the Rev. Patric Day services Tischel. St. Luke's and St Mrugaret's Parish, St. Anthony's plans 5 St Luke's Ave., Allston, will cele •nual turkey Shoot Advent Prayer group starts brate a Thanksgiving Day Eucharist St. Anthony's School will hold its St. Luke's and St Margaret's Parish al 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 27. All are armual Turkey Shoot on Friday, Nov. will begin a weekly Advent prayer welcome. For more information, call 21, al the school hall, 43 Holton St, group on Wednesday evenings as in 782-2029. Allston. Raffles begin at 7 p.m., preparation for Christmas. Community United Methodist doors open at 6 p.m. For more information, call 782- Church, 519 Washington SL, Pet Products I Services• Edue1Uon1I 1nd Awareness Groups • Ple11el No Personal Pels For more information, call 782- 2029. Brighton, will celebrate a 0775. Thanksgiving Eve service at 7:30 Our lady of the p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26. All are St. Columbkille music Presentation hosts welcome. For more information, call director perfonns at concert annual tour 787-1868. St. Columbkille Parish music direc Our Lady of the Presentation Church Healing services planned tor Raymond Ackerman and the is hosting its annual tour for children Majestic Brass will perform Friday, St. Luke's and St. Margaret's Parish, preparing for first holy communion 5 St Luke's Ave., Allston, will hold MEET SAM Nov. 21, 7 :30 p.m., at St. on the Feast of Our Lady of the Columbkille Church, 321 Market its monthly service of anointing and Presentation, Sunday, Nov. 21 , at 3 laying-on-of-hands for healing on SAM THOUGHT HE'D KEEP HIS St., Btighton. p.m. in the upper church. CAREER OPTIONS OPEN. Sunday, Nov. 30 at its t 1 am. regu New priest, new services Each child will receive a special lar service. Another healing service HE APPLIED TO A BLIND AD. guide to the church to take home. is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 3 at Holy Resurrection The tour gives children from all .. at 7:30 p.m. lbs BOSS CAME OUT WITH The Church of the Holy schools the chance to meet as they For more information, call 782- ms IWUME. Resurrection F.astem Orthodox begin their preparation for receiving 2029. Community/Christian Community the sacraments for the first time. of Boston, 64 Harvard St., Allston, Notl1 Sll1ll bas "'°" """ Medical ethics and Halacha St. Anthony's holds lo Idfar. job. recently started a midweek liturgy. The weekly services start on Dr. Michael.Grodin will speak on Chrisb1i3S bazaar wwa1lniDonllne.eom/._.. Tuesday night with Vespers and "Jewish Medical Ethics: St. Anthony's Church, 43 Holton St, Matins at 7 p.m., and resume on Contemporary Halachic Dilemmas" Allston, will hold its Christmas --~~IW1"1C18 Wednesday morning at about 6: 15 on Saturday, Nov. 23, 7:30 p.m., at Bazaar Saturday, Dec. 6 from I 0 •..,11.fllcl• .._..,,..,.,_rumi.nora •IS• I oalne!,,..._,.a a.m. so that those heading for work Congregation Agudas Achim Anshei a.m.-6 p.m. White elephants tables -...-.1!! ...... ,.. ... can be finished by 7:30 am. Sfard (the Adams Street Synagogue), and more will be offered. For more ...... R8dl.~ The additional service is made 168 Adams St, Nonantum . information, call 782..()775. ... I ...... JW ft ...... far, llld Glr I/! 5 '-.il ..... llDlfJJWtllmlll*'• a ...... ~mll!lle! Ow ...... Ill ADAMANT ..,..,. ._ ...... MOVERS lllllJl Cl I JJf:JMI lflll. 11111.1 ANY TIME l'w/ld/w Ila l'w/ld/w,... - GUARANTEED LOWEST FUEL RATES ANYWHERE, ONLY ...... z- 1/2 HR. MINIMUM! al I *"'34 nu. 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We, now lwo years from God ha-; done for us in the past will By Jim Walker his death are slill asking why. We we have the courage to go into the TAB Staff Writer must remember that this man fell future." Azeilul, the Jewish period of down while trying to reach peace." As Rabin wa.-. a lover of poetry, it mourning, lasts one year and is Representalives from the diplo wac; appropriate that the ceremony meanl lo give those lefi behind the matic corps of other nations wa.c; clo~c "We do not feel TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES PRESENTS whole and in everything we seem K A T H A R I N E to find adversaries." Rabbi William Hamilton not jusl the Jewish communily, but the enlirc world, insisl that there is still much healing to be done. "It ha.'\ been two years since we gatli.."l'Cc.I in this mom and much has IO our ~iple since that • Riiltilli ~Hlmilfm &'I he looked ow:r the crowd at a memorial service for the fallen lsraeli leader held last Thursday evcnin al his temple, A,w.~ ,ek-long solute to Congregation Kehillath Israel, on Harvard Slreel. in Brookline. "Our "Kate the Great" - proct.-,., of healing is intended to pro vide us with a sense of closure and a NOVEMBER 17·23 feeling of wholeness. Yet as we come together tonight, we do not feel whole Beginning at 8pm(ET) and in everything we seem to find adversaries. each night. Only on "Yit.zhak's death sluck our world like a clap of thunder and now it Turner Classic Movies. threatens to shaller our peace. We musl now honor what he lived for, not whal he died for." Rabin, who had served as a com mander in the lsraeli Army before becoming prime minister of the country ftrSt in the 1970s and then again al the lime of his death, was awarded the Nobel Peace Pri1e in 1994. The award was shared by Rabin and Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, for their efforts to creale peace in the Middle East. Their work has been continuously eroded in the two years since Rabin's death as attacks in the region have intensified. Throughout the solemn hour-long memorial ceremony - organized by the office of the Consulate General of Israel to New England and the Jewish Communily Relations Council of Greater Boston MOVIES - the words of both Jews and gen tiles were aimed al bringing peace back to the Jewish state of Israel and the Diaspora. Personal remem brances of from people who knew Rabin in life highlighted the evening and brought this message home. ltzhak Levanon, Consulate General of Israel to New England, recalled his friend and fellow soldier channel 831. and politician. He likened him to the Available on DJptimUlrilV albatross in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, "The Rime of the Ancienl Mariner, thal was shot from Call 787·8888 and ask about our special connection offer. the sky in a senseless act of violence. "He [Rabin] too flew high in the .. Plge 221111 Mllll a'-'111 Tll, November 18 - 24, 19 AS WELL AS.•• In Depth Neighborhood Analysis• Market Updates• Mortgage Rate Information •And More ... ACCUS BOSTON HOMES... Online: www.townonllne.com/bostonhomes For information regarding subscriptions, advertising, and to receive open house listings by fax call: 888•828•1515 Call TODAY for a FREE 3 month subscription Aak .,_ broker for • complimentary copy ~ I YES! 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Family Owned & Operated since 1961 617-433-8243 D On Nov. 12 at 7 p.m., Boston =police responded to 210 Everett St • for a report of an assault and battery POLICE LOG, page 24 • November 18 - 24, 1997 Tiie AllllH ~TAI, page 23 POLICE NEWS Inside Schroeder Plaza What $70 million include a playground. conditions when blood was spilled, • A fitness center overlooking the and a DNA lab. bought for the Boston slides and jungle gyms that will • An electron microscope. house treadmills, bikes, free • The largest fume-hood in the Police Department weights and machines. country, where something as large By Ross Doman • A restaurant that has the poten as the front end of the car can be TAB Staff Writer tial to open into a cafe in the brought in for precise fingerprint hanksgiving week, Boston spring, with a manicured lawn out analysis. police will complete the back. Food service will be on the • A latent print and photography T move from the Berkeley ground floor and the public is invit lab that is electronically tethered lo Street headquarters, where they ed to come by. the FBI and other crime labs in the have been planted since 1925, and •A media room with the infra country. into Schroeder Plaza - 200,000 structure for a link between the • Ballistics lab with a shooting square feet of blue glass and gran room and a box outside that allows tank and a computerized system ite on the comer of Ruggles and the stations to pull vehicles up and where they share infonnation Tremont Street. plug into a box to eliminate the • A full graphic arts department The building is huge and full of need to drape cable. for wanted posters that includes a the most technically advanced • What the police describe as a $500,000 copy machine. crime-fighting equipment. series of "nodes" on ea~ floor for •A 147-foot telecommunications Here's some of what Boston resi the public lo relax and which will tower that supports radio communi dents got for their $70 million eventually contain parts of a police cation for the police and the EMS. investment in the facility: museum; part of a three year, $3 It will be the new operations center. million plan, built on employee All of the 911 calls in the city will • A public service counter on the donations. The police would like to come into this location with com first floor, surrounded by terrazzo exhibit a collection of materials puter-aided dispatch ability. flooring, granite paneling and pol they have collected over time that • Three backup generator sys ished wood trim. which the police have to do with the history of the tems. First system is a redundant depmtrncnt's Margo Hill said was department, including the Roll of electrical. There are two oil-driven to "enc::ouragc use by the public Honor, for officers who have died generators on site, with additional and give the police department a in the line of duty. capability to pull a portable genera more humane and accommodating • An elaborate video surveilldnce tor. Also, a massive battery system face." 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HOtMtown Health & Wellness Center Guarantees Your ed her from behind. dent of 210 Everett St came to her &dl6foctJon JOOH and Ships Across Town or Across the Country in progress. There, they found a 77-year-old She said one man grabbed her aid, and the men fled on foot with 175 Harvard Avenue woman who said she had been the purse and knocked her to the out the bag. Allston, MA 02134 victim of an attempted unarmed ground as they tried to wrestle it The woman was treated on the (617) 782-7202 B?/'fflt4 robbery, according to police away. She said she managed to hold scene for contusions and could only MC, Visa & Discover Welcome Pharmacy reports. The woman said she was on the purse, although the suspects give a limited description of the returning home from Star Market kicked her on the ground. She told suspects. November 18-24, 1997 Tbe Allston-Briglltoll TAB, page 25 PORTS Running down to the wire Newton North senior center Jules .. Brighton reaches Johnson (24 points) was at the heart community hoop of a Tigers (3-4) rally that cut a 50-37 halftime deficit to eight But big free league finals throws by Lagoa and Don Bosco junior forward Mark O'Keefe, also By Chad Konecky from Brighton, clinched a berth in the TAB Correspondent title game. ,1 he Jackson-Mann The JMCC league, which opened Community Center its third season in September, is an (JMCC) Preseason High eight-team exhibition league is divid School Invitational ed into two divisions. The league's T East Division consisted of two-time League championship game was guaranteed to include the JMCC defending champion Boston English, ,, house team after two Brighton natives a Hyde Park Amateur Athletics Union sparked the transition game and led squad, Catholic Memorial and the the squad past Newton North in the JMCC house team. The West was playoff semifinals. home to Brookline High, Brighton The Hyde Park Amateur Athletics High, Newton North and Trinity Union entry upset two-time defending Catholic. champion Boston English to earn a ln the second semifinal, Hyde Park shot at revenge agai.Qst the unbeaten AAU dethroned defending champion JMCC house team. . Boston English, 82-79, despite a Brighton native Charlie Lagoa, a league record 38 points from Blue junior point guard at North Cambridge senior power forward Marvin Russell. Catholic High, and Boston High junior Hyde Park overcame a 37-29 halftime Joe Nigro, also a Brighton resident, deficit thanks to 14 second-half points combined for 28 points in the JMCC from junior center Frankie Whall. ~~~NewtooNorth Charlestown High senior center ...... ) f I I cw.-ICOll!d 16 poim. JMCC (7-0) needed big help from and J.E. Burke High senior point Latin Academy seniors Corey Brown gdard1:b'rtal Smith led the team and (17 points) and Danny Bunker (19 the OO'meback with 20 points. points) to stay unbeaten. Brighton's ~gave Hyde ParkAAU an Jason F1int, a 15-year-old sophomore OIJP,?~ty to avenge its only loss of guard at Boston High, and Brighton's the~ - a 63-60 double-over Josh Rankin (six points), a sophomore time setback against a suffocating at Charlestown High, had a healthy JMQ;.press. hand in the victory. ™Championship game (which JMCC went up big and then with was played after press time on Nov. stood the rally by making their foul 15) was preceded by a dunk-a-thon, a Jmllll FW (left) aml a.rle Lagoa (right) helped the Jadaion Mann Community Center house team reach the ftnU of the shots down the stretch, said league three-point shooting contest and an .. Dll ....etbd league. organizer Dan Cuddy. exhi~ition interleague game. 0 The traveling point guard "He's the classic playmaker," JMCC Here-and-there Charlie Preseason High School Invitational League Lagoa walks tall on the organizer Dan Cuddy said. ''Great court vision, and he can kill you when he gets hot" local hardwood And Lagoa is a truly local product He played his firsforganized games in Brighton's By Chad Konecky Kevin Honan League. He learned to be TAB Correspondent unselfish. He has learned to be a team player. righton's Charlie Lagoa is used to They are qualities that make him all the more moving around a lot For a variety of dangerous. B family and formative reasons, he has ''Charlie has been like a son to me since be bounced around between high schools. was little," JMCC head coach Al Smith said. Catholic Memorial. Milton. North Cambridge "He's had his ups and downs on and off the Catholic. court, but he has a great attitude. He has grown Lagoa, only a junior, has even had to be a bit up to do everything that's asked of him." of a nomad about where he lays his head --he Lagoa credits Smith with a great deal of his presently lives with his grandmother, Rose. Yet development - as a person and a player. all the while, there has been one unflagging, ''Coach Smith allows me to play my game, unfailing constant Basketball but still tells me exactly what to do and what "My wx:le (Boston Police Officer Alan not to do," said Lagoa, who was an honor roll Kelley of Brighton) first took my down to the student this seniester. ''It's made a big differ- courts at the Jackson-Mann Community Center ence." (JMCC) when I was about 5 years old," Lagoa, Lagoa is hoping to be the big difference for 16, said ''It only took me a couple years to his team this winter as North Cambridge realize I was going to be a point guard" Catholic pursues a Division 3 title. The Alan Kelley must have seen something no Panthers reached the state association postsea Jackson Mann C.C. team player Charlie Lagoa uses some fancy dribbling skills on a newton defender during a semi-final game during the Jack.son Mann C.C. final four. one else saw in the diminutive Lagoa, who to son townament North Sectional finals two sea this day ~ only 5 feet, 7 inches tall. Of sons back and, with Lagoa at the helm, they are amounts to his home building) over the last Lagoa was a member of the 15-and-under course, these days most people draw attention poised to make another run. two years - none bigger than the 23-point, Boston Neighborhood Basketball Leagues 15-0 to Lagoa's height only because they can't fig Meanwhile, Lagoa has been tuning up his eight-assist, 10-steal effort in a recent upset of Mission Hill title team in 19%. ure out how such a little kid could be torching game in the JMCC invitational league. He's two-time defending champion Boston Fnglish. "Wmning a championship was a great feel them so badly. had a number of big preseason games (in what But nothing has matched his hoop high point ing," Lagoa said. ''I want that feeling again." 0 Page 261111 AIDI lrlglllll TAI, November 18- 24, tm SPORTS Film industry Youth hockey keeps maintans hot streak Boston a prime do when the project was done,'' he _its head above water said. ''Now I do not take on a pro destination for ject un1e.55, as a producer, I know I can get this on a screen. That's the Mites, Squirts 11te game featured two firsts for Cummings. "It was very exciting to low-budget movie difference." A-B youth hockey: First-year goalie see them out there." Donadio is doing post-production Brian Coen recorded his first-ever Unfortunately, there wasn't as stumble, regroup makers of "Somehow Sc~te," a feature one-goal game in net, and the Mite much excitement in the Mite-A during break that filmed in Boston and Scituate A all-female forward line skated team's 7-0 loss to Parkway of West By Ross Doman together for the first time. Roxbury last weekend. The defeat TAB Staff Writer By Chad Konecky dropped the squad's record to 3-3 oston is on a roll. TAB Correspondent including Mayors Cup play. So say members of the ''The local film llston-Brighton forward The shutout was only the first of B state film office who keep George Mendoza scored ''The girls did a two ineffective outings for A-B on track of these things. Recent success industry is growing A his first goal of the 1'R7 terrific job. It was the day. The Squirt travel team was with homegrown independent film up. These days you season with two seconds remaining beaten 18-0 and fell to 0-4. projects, including ''The Darien in the first period to spark the Mite very exciting to see "It's very difficult for us to com Gap,'' which filmed in Boston and can compl1(te an entire A travel team's recent 5-l rout of them out there." pete with programs like that," said screened along with Cape Cod's Dorchester. Cummings. 'They have a regional "Joe & Joe" at the 1996 Sundance project~ without Medoza, who couldn't even skate draw of talent and big participation Film Festival, has apparently boost leaving Boston, but two seasons ago, powered up the A-8 Mite head coach Joe numbers. But our kids go out there ed the industry. Since January, about slot on a rush and popped home the Cummings and do their best. They never quit." 15 legitimate independent films more important than game's first goal just before the The Squirt team is led by stand have been produced in the state. that, local filmmakers horn. outs Matt Peach, Danny Gomez, Legitimate being the operative Mite center Nicholas Cummings Kenny Luke, Kate Walsh and word in the current projects, said are paying attention to climbed among the Greater Boston Jennifer O'Brien, Kerry (Kerry's older brother) Patrick Somerville producer and director League scoring leaders with two Fitzgerald and center Je.55ica Joyce Fitzgerald. The Squirt travel team Mark Donadio. He said it was not the business side." more goals against Dorchester for a skated a shift as a trio for the first goaltender is Aarey Perez. only geography, but the way the season total of 16 (including the time all season. The group skated A-B Youth Hockey will try to take local projects are now being done. Mark Donadio preseason Mayors Cup dead even with the all-male advantage of an early-season bye 'The local film industry is grow Tournament). Wmg Drew Bowman Dorchester line that opposed ~m . week and attempt to bounce back ing up," said the 38-year-old film chipped in with a pair of goals as 'The girls did a terrific job,'r said when game action starts up again the veteran. ''These dAys you can com well to his total to 11. raise season A-B Mite head coach Joe weekend after Thanksgiving. 0 • plete an entire project without leav over the summer. ing Boston, but more important than Producer Catherine Bums, who that, local filmmakers are paying graduated from Boston University attention to the busine.55 side. in 1991, worked on three films last "It used to be everybody did all year that ranged in budget from they couJd just it make the movie - $50,000 to about a million dollars. no one had any thought of what to "Everyone now knows you can make a movie for cheap,.. she said, then added that although indepen dent films are booming all over the If &press lunm Buffet Luncheon Special country, credited the Massachusetts HOUSECENT~R Film Office for making the Boston lilfl liWd) lobster s7 95 20 Items and M.ore Big Bulkie Roll b :Pizzi! area a hot locale. Monday thru Friday The film office, which is an I agency under the state's Department Served All Day of &onornic Development, supports Dinner Lobster Buff et film in Massachusetts by providing Bulkie Roll w/Fries a hotline to match film crews with locludes: Japanese Sushl Tepanyaki, Chicken, FISh, ON~v11,65 and Can of Pepsi Mussels, Clams, Crabs, Appetizers, Cold Dishes and Jots more. Sat. &Sun. All Day Dinner projects and by scouting and sug Your Choice of Ham, Turkey gestiJ)g locations for shoots through or Tuna out th·e state. (617) 562·8888 • Free Delivery 5pm • closing Maria Burton, who, with her four sisters and their company is in post 90-92 Harvard Ave., Allston production on the Boston movie Store Hours: Mon.-Thurs.11:30-10:30, Fri-Sat 11:30-11, Sun 12-10 ''Temps" - which was featured in a front-page Boston TAB story on the film industry last fall - said the other wonderful thing about Boston ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• is the people here are really excited • ICE SKATING CLASSES • about filming. • • "We got to film on the 'T' with • M.D.C. Rinks • no hassles and in different movie • • theaters in the city," she said • • "People opened up their homes for us. With Boston, there is such a regional feel. That's what we love. When we filmed last fall, there were five features going on in New England." Burton added that ''the cool thing is there are very skilled people here and you do not have to ship them in FoR YouR LITTLE PRINCE OR from L.A. or New York to work." PRINCESS, ACCEPT NOTHING LESS ''In Boston right now, there is a film community," she said. "And THAN A PALACE. unlike those other places, you can make your own connections" After School Care Both Donadio and Bums said that Saturday Programs crews in Massachusetts have gotten Toddler Care more talented because the smaller budgets of independent projects Infant Care mean green workers can get valu Kid'o Palace Daycare ourreotly hao opace availnble fo r your child a&<..J 15 rno ntho lo 1 2 yeaB o ld. able experience - a situation that Our opecially dcoi11ned curriculum ennblco your c hild l o pays off in the end, Bums said. oociallze with clul.lren in hio o r hor ago group. "I did a feature four years ago Stop by or call fo r a (....., br..,.,hure, and cl iocovcr the magic of 1'be Palace". and I cannot afford members of 10Z ROl'Wlly &h'eet that crew any more," she said. Kid:i Pnlnce Dnycnrc;:: Bo:ston. ln1't OZ115 01'1-3"1~95 "You start with someone who is FILM, page 27 • November 18 - 24, 1997 Tiie Allston-Brlghtml TAB, page 27 CO:M:MUNITY BULLETIN BOARD HEALTH ABCDC, 617-787-3874. .... HARVEST CO-OPERATIVE SUPER· _ unwanted cars and vehicles wanted. .... SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR .... USE DRAMA TO UNDERSTAND MARKET. 449 Cambridge St., Allston . Proceeds benefit Boys & Girls Clubs . SERVICES, INC. Seeking volunteers to ..... ALLIANCE FOR THE MENTALLY IU. RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES. Allston Ongoing: Book discussion groups. All Call: 1-800-246-0493. visit and help frail, isolated elders. Time Elizabeth's Medical Center, 736 St. Congregational Church offers this work are welcome, especially new members. .... CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SER commttment of two-four hours per C3mbridge St., Cam. Brighton. shop which includes an introduction to Call: Hannah, 617-248-2430 or 617-876- VICES. Through 10/11: Volunteers need month. Call: Grace, 617-522-6700, EducationaVadministrative meetings are acting, improvisation and theater games. 3657. Thursdays: Free movies in the ed to assist elderly residents with money ext.323. held on the 2nd Monday of each month No acting experience required. Free. Call: · Allston community room. Ongoing: Free management. A collaborative project of .... THE YWCA BOSTON. Volunteer posi from 6-7:30 p.m. Family support groups David Rozewski, 617-325-5531 . herbal class education wtth Mary Pat Boston Senior Home Care, Central tions available in child care, teen pro are held on the 3rd Monday of each Palmer in the Native American tradition. Boston Elder Services and Ethos. Call: grams and special events. Call: Eileen month from 6-7:30 p.m., led by Barbara .... LEARN TO SKATE AT MDC RINKS. 617-522-6700, ext. 320. Smart, 617-351-7642. Courtney. Consumer support groups for Cleveland Circle and Brighton/Newton individuals living wtth a brain illness are MDC Rinks. Ongoing: Group lessons for SEND US YOUR .... MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Help by tutor .... VICTORY PROGRAMS, INC. Seeking held on the 4th Monday of each month children and adults, all levels, use figure CALENDAR ITEMS! ing/mentoring immigrants and refugees volunteers to be a Buddy to someone liv from 6-7:30 p.m., led by Jane Kwalick. or hockey skates. Afternoon, evening . The Allston-Brighton TAB wet~ in the Boston area to improve their ing with HIV/AIDS aftd in recovery from Call: Ben Adams, 617-783-1722. and weekend classes. 7-week series comes your calendar Items and English skills and prepare them for work. addiction to drugs and alcohol. Call: 617- $75/child. Call: 781-890-8480. Call One With One for training sessions 357-8182. MAMMOGRAMS. Joseph press releases. Please send your ..... FREE M. and information meetings. Call: 617-254- Smith Community Ctr., 287 Western .... FREE COMPUTER AND OFFICE material to editor Lisa Reardon, .... VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR 1691 . Ave., Allston. 11/24, 9 a.m.·1 p.m. For SKILLS TRAINING. 119 Beach St., The Allston-Brighton TAB, P.O. INFANTS AND TODDLERS. Perkins women age 40 and older who have no Brighton. Ongoing: Operation A.B.L.E. . Box 9112l Needham, MA .... MASSACHUsms ASSOCIATION School for the Blind needs volunteers health insurance, catastrophic insurance (Ability Based on Long Experience) Q2192. You may fax the infor FOR THE BLIND. Volunteers needed to interested in working with infants and or insurance with a high deductible. Call: offers training to mature workers 55 mation to (617) 433-8203. read or shop wtth a visually impaired toddlers who are blind, visually handi Victoria, 617-783-0500, ext. 249. years or older who meet certain guide neighbor. No more than two or three capped, deaf-blind or multi-handicapped. lines. Open houses on Friday. Call: 617- hours a week are needed, and times are Tuesdays from 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ~ FREE HEALTH PROGRAMS FOR Call: 617-524-5377. Ongoing: Yoga 542-4180. very flexible. Call: Donna, 617-732-0244. Call: Mike, 617-97~7224 . TIE aDERLY are offered by the Ctty of classes taught by veteran instructor Boston's Commission on Affairs of the .... STUDY, MEDITATION.. VIDEOS Loretta Levitz. Call: 617-787-1416. WITH ADI DA SAMRAJ. Foster St., Elderly, including free screenings and f .... VENDORS INVITED TO ST. ANTHO Brighton. Every 3rd Thursday education programs for residents age 60 Ongoing: NY'S CHRISTMAS BAZAAR. St. from 7:30-9:30 p.m. Call: 617-254-8271 . Film industry remains hot and older. Call: 617-635-4366. Anthony's School, 57 Holton St., Allston . .... SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES. Allston To be held 12/6: Tables are available to FILM, from page 26 CLASSES Congregational Church, 41 Quint Ave., sell gift items, crafts and other Christmas relatively inexperienced and four Allston. Ongoing: The Church offers items at this popular annual event. pictures later, you're getting some "I have a good friend ~ PARENTS' COOPERATIVE CHILD Sunday school for children ages 3·10. Tables are $35 each. Call: Kris Johnson, body pretty good and it's producing in L.A. who is a l:ARE AND PLAYGROUP. Allston Call: 617-254-2920. Vendor Coordinator, 617-254-5693. a growing talent pool. I think the Congregational Church, 41 Quint St., .... FREE ESL CLASSES offered at community is growing together." makeup artist to the Allston. This child-care group (where Boston College Neighborhood Center, v· 0 L U NT -E E R S Donadio said the result is where stars, and she is parents take turns caring for children) is 425 Washington St., Brighton. Morning, in the past Boston had pockets of looking for new participants for our afternoon, evening and weekend cJesses .... MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR people worki~g in film, suddenly begging me to bring groups on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Half available. Gall: 552-0445. INFIRMARY seeks volunteers to assist people are talkin~ to each other and her back to Boston to the parents stay from 9:30-12:30, the patient family members in the waitinr working together~ other half from 1:30-5:30. Drop-ins and EVENTS room and to work in the gift shop. Must 'That's probably natural any do a project." vouchers for babysitting exchanges also be at least 16 years of age. Meal vouch where," he said. "But this is where available. Call: Ruth, 617-497-5660. .... ART CONTEST FOR ALLSTON· ers and validated parking available. Call: I know people, and I have a very ~ ALLSTON/BRIGHTON FAMILY YMCA BRIGHTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The Ruth Doyle, 617-573-3163. good team to work with." Mark Donadio, ~-.01111a1•11i11•~~~in aerobics, Allston-Brighton Healthy Boston .... AMERICAN CANCER SOCIID. 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People with disabilities she prefers the Vocational TAB Correspondent are usually referred to the VAC by Adjustment Center to the communi- , he first thing you notice the Department of Mental ty workshop where she worked when you walk into Retardation or the Massachusetts before, because there is more work T Brighton's Vocational Rehabilitation Commission. Then atthe VAC. Adjustment Center is that everyone they undergo a comprehensive ini '"The trainees at the center really there looks happy. tial evaluation, taking anywhere want to work," said j{hyno~ "and A cheerful disposition is charac from six weeks to six months, in on the rare occasions that there's no teristic of the trainees who seek the order to identify their areas of inter work for them to do, they yell at VAC' seivices, according to the est, strengths and possible limita me." center's executive director, Robert tion . After that, they are matched To meet its goal of finding new Whynol up to an employer, either in an inde employers, the center is working to 'People with disabilities want to pendent setting or in an environ create Service Solutions, a facility work, and they take tremendous ment where they may receive addi aimed at guiding and advising pride in what they do," he said. tional support and assistance in the potential employers of people with At a time when the city' job mar- workplace. disabilities on how best to accom i booming and unemployment The Vocational Adjustment modate them. The ocational · reaching historic low. , people Center assists up to 150 p e with Adjustment Center.? board of direc with di bilities still struggle to find disabiliti at any one time, helping tors is hoping that the necessary jobs in the mainstream workplace. them to participate in community funding to establi h Service t, while many career- ri activities and thereby enhancing Solutions as an independent organi nci have little to do, the their quality of life. Half of the cen zation will become a reality in 1998. \b::aticmal Adjustment Center is still ter's trainees have been placed in An ongoing challenge for the WOlbilR hard to find irable, well- , uch companies as Nynex, the VAC is insufficient funding from r-.1 ·-••--- fi its clien . YMCA, Tufts University Dining the state and federal government, · in mind, the center i. Services and the Fireman's Fund, according to William Luzier, past WQ111W'»ia ~of where their work can involve cleri president of the center's board of sub-oon- cal and mail services, bussing tables directors. and custodial duties. '"There are always people here The other 75-odd individuals .-.. who are unfunded and the direct work in the center's warehouse care workers are significantly doing sub-contract work for firms underpaid," Luzier said. such Houghton-Mifflin, Putnam In order to bolster its revenue, the Inv and Polaroid. such as center holds its own ftQl-raising PICll-.mia. correlating and mailing. events - like its · aby raftJe - events Luzier said will increase the 1336 Beacon St. • Cooli~e Comer. Brookline • (617) 232-0480 STAN'sQ/V~ aEl - Hrs. Mon, 'rues, Fri 10-6, Weds, Thurs, Sat, 10-8, Sun Noon-5 COMPLETE NAIL CARE For Ladies & Gentlemen Full Set - $2 Off Fill-Ins • $2 Off Manicure & Pedicure • $2 Off ExAcr DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION Co. LTD. 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Rockoff, MD, Medical Director • ·11Urnoer: 617-732-4285. 1400.CENTRE ST• NEWTON CENTRE• (617) 928-1900 ,.,, 2374 POST ST• WARWICK, RI • (401) 732-8880 Page 30 '1111 lllllP lrltlDP TAI, November 18 - 24, 1997 FROrvi PAGE ONE Cracking down on critne against seniors CRIME, from page 1 businesses that serve the elderly. to them. And sometimes elderly peo officials say crime against seniors is In addition, the unit will maintain ple are embarrassed once they know serious problem. And as Boston's a database, which is expected to be they've been had," which prevents elderly population continues to rise, completed in about a month. It will them from informing the police. police and legislators are trying to help officials keep track of victims, As a result of underreporting, it is make it harder for criminals to get criminals and types of crimes against difficult to know exactly how many away with it the elderly - of particular impor local residents fall prey to traveling District Attorney Ralph Martin tance since Martin's office handles a con artists. But Shone said the most recently created a new team that caseload of about 50,000 per year. common problem in Allston will be known as the Elder Abuse Brighton is con artists impersonat Prosecution Unit. designed to com ing utility workers. bat aimes against seniors in Suffolk "As soon as About three months ago, Allston County. Brighton was hit with about four ''The criminals that target elderly we catch on to one scams within five weeks. Each time, victims are very crafty," Martin at least two men gained access to said. "They know their victims' [scam], there's a seniors' homes by claiming to be habits. We have to keep one step new one created." agents of the Boston Water & Sewer ahead of them." Department. Each resident was told 1be new unit, which will be • there was a leak in his or her house Mark Ciommo, beaded by Assistant District and was asked to lead one of the Attorney Michael Uhlarik, and executive director of the Veronica men to the buildings' pipes. In the which will have its own victim/wit- Smith Senior Center meantime, the others would ransack advocate, will be responsible the house, gathering up all the cash, silver and other valuables they or investigating and prosecuting ,.. usaults, robberies, fraud, embez could find ..... zlement and other crimes against "In this way, we'll be able to detect "The thing is, it can be done very quickly," Shone said. "They can be in ...... The perpetrators try to gain all residents 60 years of age and patterns of crime to see if [criminals] enbimce to the victim's home by older. The team will also work with are worldng in any one geographic and out within two to three minutes." elder advocacy groups to educate area," said James Borghesani, a During the seminars he offers at posing u empk>yees of a utility on how to reduce their spokesman for Martin's office. ''We'll the Veronica Smith Senior Center company. Once inside, die oon chances of becoming victims, and have a centralized base of knoWtedge and at other places, Shone tells resi artists may inform the victim of an it will collaborate with banks, about this." dents they should always ask for retailers, grocery stores and other In Allston-Brighton, those who identification when someone cld:ns work with seniors say crimes against to be from a utility company. But he the elderly here are typically linked says identification alone is not (eally to "seatnS" or "confidence games." enough, since it might be phony. As Whether drastically overcharging for a result, he advises seniors to ask the bogus home re~ or stealing visitors to wait outside while a call is mme to the 00111pa11y. in order to ~- has not requested utility service. he visits several "It doesn't take much to check," senior homes throughout the year to said Shone. "If the worker is legiti spread the wonl about scams, mate, he'll wait five minutes for you Shone said many seniors live alone to make sure." and never suspect that the people In the spring, traveling con artists who show up at their doors might usually target people by offering to have been staking out seniors for paint houses or apply sealants to at the Veronica Smith Senior Center, But Ciommo said he also believes years. Con artists have a keen blacktop driveways at low rates - said there may be two good reasons the nature of Allston-Brighton understanding of what makes then change the quoted price when for that The first is that elders have neighborhoods contributes to ward seniors easy targets - that they are the work has been begun, usually in been made more aware of the tactics ing off some criminals. more likely than others to keep a substandard way, Shone said. employed by con artists, and thus :'I think people tend to target is TOWERS, from page 1 last ye.ar, Scaccia reacted swiftly to proteet what he views as his politi cal preserve. "Someone called me and said, 'Hey Angelo, why did you let that tower go up here?' And I said, 'What tower?' " It turned out that a cellular tele phone tower was ri ing just a few hundred yards from Scaccia' house. There had been no public hearing or discussion before the structure was put in the midst of the community. "We didn't have any say," Scaccia said. "We dido 't have any forum." Bo ton only tarted to require hearings on cell tower permits three months ago. As a result of the urprise that day and "ton of other calls from my constituents," Scaccia said he intro ducecl House Bill 1894, which would require a cellular communi cation company to get a special per- mit and hold a public hearing in the town where a tower is planned before it could insta11 a tower in Massachusetts. The bill i awaiting House action. "What I've done is pu h it to a point to let them know I mean busi ," said Scaccia, referring to the communications companies. "And I'll push it through the House." nm building at 2000 Commonwealth AYe. is the home to 15 in'Visible wire)~ communications antenna& Scaccia sees the ne.ed for state leg- .on now more than ever before, even though many communities As part of their strategy, the com- high places for Be11 AtJantic Mobile pered their attempt to build towers While the case is pending, Bud are passing their own panies have engaged a squadron of and several of Delaney's other cus in Massachusetts. Bell Atlantic Noel is still searching the New to ~ate cell towers. powerful lobbyists to shoot the bill tomers. Mobile "is experiencing significant England countryside for towns will ~~-:!~!llP!fl · l'l"lhellli-r.1Jdo.. wn. For example, W. Delaney & Cellular One is also lobbying delays and uncertainty regarding the ing to put up Nextel's towers. By ~ 1 . -~ against Scaccia's bill. 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