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VOTE on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 MAYOR COUNCILOR AT-LARGE VOL. 121 - NO. 44 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, NOVEMBER 3, 2017 $.35 A COPY Candidates for ELECTION — VOTE on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 MAYOR COUNCILOR AT-LARGE Annissa Michael Flaherty (I) Ayanna Pressley (I) Michelle Wu (I) Essaibi George (I) Mayor Marty Walsh (I) Tito Jackson News Briefs Domingos DaRosa Althea Garrison William King Pat Payaso CITY COUNCIL by Sal Giarratani Go Team, “Trump Perry” Down at Brooke High School in West Virginia, during a football game between the Brooke team and Perry High School, Brooke fans hung up a huge banner saying “Trump Perry” and since most Perry players are football players of color, the banner was immediately called racist and bullying. School administrators apologized after Perry fans criticized the banner and now Brooke high school football Lydia Edwards Stephen Passacantilli Edward Flynn Michael Kelley Rufus Faulk fans are mad that their action with the banner was District 1 District 1 District 2 District 2 District 7 perceived as racist when it was just a play on words. Now apparently, Brooke fans have decided to no longer hang any kind of banners at games in response to school offi cials rush to see racism everywhere; they have now sucked all the fun out of fans who wanted to show school spirit and nothing more. Tombstone for “Don Trump” Up in Gloucester, MA, students learned a lesson in hate from some school parents who thought it was okay to set up a game during a parent- Kim Janey Josh Zakim (I) Kristen Mobilia Mark Ciommo (I) Brandon Bowser teacher fundraiser that included a beanbag toss District 7 District 8 District 8 District 9 District 9 with homemade tombstones as targets. One of the tombstones showed the name “Don Trump” on it. UNOPPOSED Why any parent would think this was an appropriate District 3 Frank Baker • District 4 Andrea Joy Campbell • District 5 Timothy McCarthy • District 6 Matt O’Malley thing to do at a fundraiser is beyond this writer. School offi cials came down hard on this stupid action after much pressure from parents who thought Petition to Prevent the Demolition of East Boston Rowhouses it was very disrespectful to the president and had no business being part of a game. Politics should not Since January, the Boston Preservation Alliance • Enhancing neighborhood character and public be brought into a fundraiser. The school’s principal has been engaged with the East Boston com- space and school department issued apologies to those munity, local agencies, and developers about a • Preserving historic architecture and affi rming offended, but no apology to the president himself for proposed project at Maverick Square. Now, after neighborhood identity such disrespect. much discussion and behind the scenes advocacy, • Encouraging mixed-use housing Americans Going into Debt it’s time for all of us to speak up for Eastie. • Preparing for climate change More and More A demolition delay period at 9 Chelsea Street Sign this petition created by East Boston will expire on November 20th, clearing the way for residents asking Mayor Walsh to ensure that I just read somewhere that 50 percent of all a developer to raze historic buildings at a promi- demolition permits will not be issued for these Americans are suffering through personal debt and nent corner in East Boston’s Maverick Square. historic rowhouses at www.change.org/p/ that the average debt is $63,000 a person. Though the community overwhelmingly opposes mayor-walsh-is-ready-to-listen-stand-with- the proposed suburban-style retail construction, eastie-protect-our-history-from-demolition (Continued on Page 10) the developer has repeatedly dismissed neighbor- or send Mayor Walsh a letter in opposition to hood concerns and plans to not only demolish the demolition at 1 City Hall Square, Suite 500, the historic buildings but relocate a Landmarked Boston, MA 02201-2013 historic clock from the site. As insensitive new Let’s send the message that developers need development erodes East Boston’s historic char- to work with communities and balance new, POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE acter, the neighborhood asks for your help to save thoughtful design with the historic character that 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQUARE, EAST BOSTON what’s left. defi nes our communities. Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM Tell Mayor Walsh that the history of our unique Let’s keep working together to protect the neigh- communities matters; sacrifi cing a sense of place borhoods that make Boston, Boston. Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM for generic new construction is not in keeping with Call 617-227-8929 for more information the goals expressed in the Imagine Boston 2030 Greg Galer Plan. This includes: Executive Director of the Alliance PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 3, 2017 Revere City Councilor Anthony “Tony” Zambuto Fundraiser VOLCANO, FIRE AND PLAGUE Titus’ first year of reign in less honor than before. Titus was rocked by the eruption of continued to openly declare that Mt. Vesuvius, which devastated Domitian was his partner and Pompeii, Herculaneum, and successor. Stabiae. Early in the morning Titus became ill with a fever “of that fateful day, a severe while on the way to visit his earth tremor was followed by a ancestral home. He died in the heavy shower of ashes, which same farmhouse as his father, built up to about three feet. on September 13, 81 A.D., Those who understood the after a little more than two danger had time for escape, years of reign and at the age Revere City Councilor-at-Large Anthony “Tony” Zambuto with while others, probably terror- of almost forty-one. When his supporters at last Monday nights fundraiser at Damaino’s in stricken, sought shelter in death was made known, every- Revere. Many friends, family, supporters and Revere City their homes. This initial shower one mourned as they would Councillors in attendance. of ashes was followed by a for a loss in their own family. rain of red-hot pumice stones, The Senate paid him higher forming an additional depth honors than was ever done for of ten feet, while later a third any other man. He remained shower occurred and lasted The third great disaster dur- true to his promise to keep his Saint Paola Elisabetta Cerioli all day. Pompeii and Stabiae ing his time was a severe plague, hands unstained and neither by Bennett Molinari and Richard Molinari on the south side of Vesuvius which was probably unequalled caused, nor connived to cause, were completely buried, while in Roman history. During this the death of any man. He was her son Carlo died in 1854. Her Herculaneum on the west side time, there was no aid, human called the delight and darling husband died a few months was covered to a depth of about or divine, which he did not use. of the human race and had the later. A wealthy widow alone, sixty feet. In the case of this He sought and employed every good fortune to have won the she entered into a period of deep third city, the ashes were mixed kind of sacrifi ce and every kind affection of all men. The Arch mourning. She was able to fi nd with rain, and this caused all of of medicine. of Titus still stands in Rome guidance in God and the reli- the volcanic debris to eventu- The great evils of these today as a monument to his gious life. At the age of 38, Paola ally harden into a kind of tufa times were the informers and Palestinian victory, and the Col- began sharing her wealth with stone. The modern town of investigators. This ruthless and osseum or Flavian Amphithe- the poor and caring for orphans Resina was built over that site. heartless class of scum had ater also stands as a reminder and neglected children, often It is estimated that about two enjoyed a long-standing license of the Flavian emperors. Con- taking them into her home. thousand people lost their lives to practice their despicable pro- struction was started by Ves- It was then that Paola decided in Pompeii alone. fession. Titus ordered that they pasian but was completed and to devote the remainder of her A second great disaster dur- be extracted from society, led dedicated by Titus. life to charity and contempla- ing his reign was a great fi re, into the Forum, scourged and In retrospect, it can be said tive prayer. She took a vow of which lasted for three days. beaten with cudgels, and either that the death of Titus was a chastity on December 25, 1856, The recovered property of those sold as slaves or banished to the loss to mankind. During his which was soon followed by who perished without heirs was wildest of the islands. brief stay upon this earth and her vows of poverty and obedi- used to fi nance the rebuilding of His brother, Domitian, never in all of his actions, he honored Born to Italian nobility, Paola ence on February 8, 1857. In the burned-out areas, as were ceased plotting against him and himself, his family, his name, was the youngest of 16 chil- December 1867, she founded all of the ornaments and valu- almost openly stirred up the and his race. Good show, cousin dren of Francesco Cerioli and the Institute of the Sisters of ables from his villas. He chose armies to revolt. Titus, however, Titus. I think I’ll just have to Francesca Corniani. She was the Holy Family in Comonte di several men from the equestrian did not have the heart to put rate you a ten.
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