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East Boston JEFF BOWEN: 781-201-9488 SANDRA CASTILLO: 617-780-6988 BOSTONJEFF.COM | JEFF@BOSTONJEFF.COM List3 LUXURY your Multi-family,CONDOS FOR SingleSALE AT Family 89 CENTRAL or condo AVE. CHELSEAwith us, MA 2 andBEDS, we 2 will BATH sell GARAGE it at your PARKING. pace. There are too many buyer’s and not enough seller’s. WOLLASTON PushCLOSE our button TO SILVER and let’s LINE go! $519,000-$550,000 text/call/email today. REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS 188 Sumner St. East Boston JEFF BOWEN: 781-201-9488 SANDRA CASTILLO: 617-780-6988 BOSTONJEFF.COM | [email protected] BOOK YOUR POST IT Call Your Advertising Rep (781)485-0588 Wednesday, July 8, 2020 Gov. Baker Angela Atenco Lopez, and DESE releases school longtime restaurateur, reopening passes away at 76 guidelines By John Lynds twenty, realizing her dream to create an authentic expe- for the fall Angela Atenco Lopez, rience of home-made dishes whose recipes from her na- that followed in the foot- By John Lynds tive Puebla, Mexico wowed steps of her mother. residents, food critics and After almost 50 years of Last week Governor celebrity chefs far and professional cooking, Mrs. Charles Baker’s office and wide, has died. Lopez moved to Boston the Department of Elemen- Mrs. Lopez, the name- and joined her two sons, tary and Secondary Educa- sake of Angela’s Cafe’s two Luis and Joel, and opened tion (DESE) released their locations in East Boston, Angela’s Cafe’s first loca- initial guidance about re- had been bravely battling tion on the corner of Brooks opening schools this fall. cancer for several months and Lexington Streets in the According to Baker’s according to her son Luis. mid-2000s. office and DESE, current She finally succumbed to The restaurant was an in- medical research supports the disease on Monday at stant success and received a safe in-person return to Volunteers stock donated food the age of 76 years old. widespread critical acclaim school - with preventive (above) for delivery to families in Mrs. Lopez was born in from Boston food critics. measures in place - as infec- need inside the East Boston Com- the State of Puebla, Mexi- Mrs. Lopez’s Mole Po- tion and transmission rates munity Soup Kitchen’s Our Saviour’s co and learned how to cook blano, tacos and other tra- are lower for children than Lutheran Church location on Paris at a young age watching ditional Puebla recipes adults. Street. The Soup Kitchen will close her mother make tradi- consistently made “Best of The new guidelines in- temporarily for cleaning and reopen tional Puebla recipes from Boston” lists in numerous clude preventive measures for take out service at the end of the scratch. magazines and her tradi- month. like masks/face coverings, After years of guidance tional guacamole received physical distancing, hand- from her mother, Mrs. Lo- numerous awards over the Right, Since the pandemic began pez fell in love with the tra- years. washing, and cleaning fre- volunteers at the East Boston Com- ditional culinary traditions In 2013, Mrs. Lopez and quently touched surfaces munity Soup Kitchen’s Our Saviour’s her recipes gained national Masks/face coverings Lutheran Church location on Paris of the Puebla region and will be required for all stu- Street have been passing out grocery perfected dishes like Mole fame when the Food Net- dents in Grade 2 and above, gift cards as well as food pick up by Poblano, Pepian Rojo and work’s popular show, Din- and for all adults. They are appointment. Chilaquiles. ers, Drive Ins and Dives also recommended for stu- Mrs. Lopez opened her dents in Grade 1 and below first restaurant at the age of See LOPEZ Page 3 but not required Based upon current med- ical research, and in con- junction with other preven- Community Soup Kitchen tive measures, a minimum physical distance of three feet has been established adjusts to phased reopening See SCHOOLS Page 3 By John Lynds also given lunch meals and it will be the last time EBC- bags with groceries that SK will be giving out the Since the start of the some of our local organiza- gift cards. Edwards calls COVID-19 pandemic, the tions have shared with us.” “The soup kitchen will East Boston Community Nijjar said behind the temporarily close to clean for the council Soup Kitchen (EBCSK) scenes the soup kitchen’s up and disinfect and prepare was forced to stop serv- leadership team has been the kitchen for hot meals to have more ing hot meals on Tuesdays hard at work monitoring service starting towards from the basement of the COVID19 developments the end of the month,” said budgetary Our Saviour’s Lutheran and cautiously planning its Nijjar. Church on Paris Street. In- next phase of service as the Dates that the EBCSK Angela’s Cafe’s namesake Angela Atenco Lopez holding up a bowl of her famous Mole Poblano sauce. Mrs. Lopez died stead, staff handed out gro- state enters Phase III of the will be closed are July 16, powers on Monday following a brief battle with cancer. cery gift cards to residents reopening. 17, 22, and 23 and will re- and families in need. “We are eager to once open on Tuesday, July 28 By John Lynds “It’s hard to believe it again offer weekly meals for takeout only, said Nijjar. has been more than three in a safe and welcoming As EBCSK begins to Historically Boston has months since we’ve gath- environment for guests and cautiously get back to some followed a ‘Strong-Mayor’ ered together for Tuesday volunteers,” said Nijjar. sense of normalcy Nijjar Making it Official form of government as op- meal services,” said EBC- “As a first step, we plan to said the soup kitchen is posed to a “Weak Mayor” SK Founder and Director transition to a ‘take-out’ looking for the community SECHC officially becomes part of system practiced by small Sandra Nijjar. “Our work model, where guests can to support its efforts. East Boston Neighborhood Health Center or mid-sized cities and has looked very different pick up a hot, nutritious Nijjar said there are a towns across the country. during this time, as we’ve mid-day meal to-go, along few ways to help EBCSK By Seth Daniel and staff will become EB- In the Strong Mayor sys- focused our efforts on with supplemental grocer- and interested residents can NHC employees, thus uni- tem Mayor Martin Walsh is safely distributing grocery ies and personal care items. donate cleaning/sanitation Calling it a great merg- fying the two health centers given almost total adminis- gift cards to our neighbors There is much to do to pre- supplies--including hand er of two historic and val- in providing comprehen- trative authority and a clear, in need. For the past three pare for this new service. soap, hand sanitizer, disin- ue-aligned organizations, sive healthcare services to wide range of political in- months we have been see- This coordinated effort will fectant sprays and wipes, Manny Lopes, President diverse Boston-area com- dependence, with the pow- ing our soup kitchen guests largely rely on the generosi- paper towels, and gloves. and CEO of the East Boston munities. SECHC patients er to appoint and dismiss by appointment to give a ty of donors and volunteers, “Residents can also Neighborhood Health Cen- will continue to see the department heads without Shaw’s Supermarket gift and everyone’s partnership make a monetary donation ter (EBNHC), announced same, nationally recognized council approval and little card to those who don’t in maintaining COVID-19 so we can purchase need- the official merger of his team of providers and the or no public input. have a mailing address, and health and safety stan- ed supplies, including face organization with the near- name of the SECHC will Under this system Walsh, to those who have a home dards.” coverings, directly,” said by South End Community not change. like Boston mayor’s before we sent it by mail. We have Nijjar said July 8 and 9 Nijjae. “Every donation, of Health Center (SECHC) in “The SECHC has such a him, prepares and admin- also given a meal voucher will be the last days that the every amount, makes a dif- Boston on July 1. great history and has done to those who don’t have a soup kitchen will be seeing SECHC sites will oper- See BUDGET Page 3 home to cook in. We have clients by appointment and See KITCHEN Page 3 ate as locations of EBNHC See EBNHC Page 2 Ruggiero Family Memorial Home “Proud to welcome to our staff Mark Tauro, former owner and director of Rapino, Kirby-Rapino Funeral Homes” • Ample Off Street Parking • Complimentary Valet Parking • Nonsectarian Transportation To & From Visiting Hours For Family & Friends • Se Habla Espanol 971 Saratoga St., Orient Heights East Boston 617-569-0990 • Visit us at our website: www.RuggieroMH.com For the latest news in East Boston that you need to know, check eastietimes.com Page 2 THE EAST BOSTON TIMES-FREE PRESS Wednesday, July 8, 2020 Eagle Hill Civic Association meets virtually since the start of pandemic By John Lynds ing and the disruption that The next project at 141 current tenants may experi- Falcon St. was pitched by At the end of June the Ea- ence during construction. Lynds and called for reno- gle Hill Civic Association Drago said the next proj- vating the existing home in (EHCA) board held its first ect at 226-228 Princeton order to maintain and pre- ‘virtual’ meeting on ZOOM St. calls for renovating the serve the existing structure in order to once again begin existing 5 unit residential while changing the occupan- informing the community of home and adding three units cy from two to three residen- development projects and with five parking spaces.
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