Why Busing May Not Die

;Jl Community Newspaper Company ·· www.townonline.com/ allstonbrighton JANUARY 26 - FEBRUARY 1, 1999 Vol. 3, No. 41 • 80 Pages • Two Sections 50¢ City unveils library design Cofnmunity gets first look at Allston branch plan this week

By Debra Goldstein present design plans for the new Allston astic Menino. "When do you start?" TAB Staff Writer Branch Public Library at a community The due date for construction bids is set he Allston library is finally more meeting this Thursday, Jan. 28, at 7 p.m. for June. That would mean demolition than a dream and a promise. Architects presented the model and could begin as early as late spring, and the T Architects from Machado and floor plan to Mayor Thomas Menino for construction groundbreaking by late sum Silvetti Associates Inc. and members of the first time last week. mer or early fall. Architects wll unwJI the dalan f!l the new Allston Branch the Community Advisory Committee will "It's really nice stuff," said an enthusi- l..IJrsy ... 'llnndly. LIBRARY,page 21 Why bUsing may not die

Dai*e plus to build nve new 9Chools In Boston, students at public scboofi such as Brighton's W.imhip School may still be based across toW1L

By Linda Rosencrance While many agree that the mayor addressed two of Despite plans to build and Agnes Peil/et Boston's most pressing and related issues in his Jan. new schools, Boston TAB Staff Writers 11 speech - affordable housing and the need for ayor Thomas Menino's promise to build five neighborhood schools - they say the school proposal still has a long way to new neighborhood schools was merely one is long on ideas and short on specifics. go before neighborhood Mline in his annual State of the City address, Even though the mayor. wants to build five new but it has since taken on a life of its own - and it is a schools in Boston and said that he hopes to move the schooling can return line one city councilor believes may have even been a city closer to a return to neighborhood schools, his mistake on Menino's part. SCHOOI.S,page 30

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r COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER I COMPANY www.townonline.com www.townonline.com/allstonbrighton January 26 - February l, 1999 The Allston-Brighton TAB, page 3 Residents mull New Balance plan Office complex gamers community support, but questions linger abq.ut traffic

By Debra Goldstein TAB Staff Writer lans are moving forward to build two office buildings and a manufacturing P plant to house the world headquarters of New Balance in Brighton, as well as other businesses. If the project stays on schedule, the development could be operational by the end of the year 2000. ~' Since the company first announced its intent to build a modem office complex in Brighton last June, BV Development has reg ularly consulted with community members on the project's design. Residents at last week's Allston Civic Association meeting were supportive of the plan, but also pep pered the developers with questions about how the development will escalate traffic in

Members of the Conunonwealth Tenants ~tion have waited eight years for the city to reopen this playground. what is considered an already congested sec tion of Brighton. While past discussions have focused on the height and mass of the buildings proposed, both the developers' and residents' minds Eight years later, tenants still were on transportation and traffic last week. The 1,500 employees who would commute to and from the completed complex are expected to increase traffic in the area. waiting for new playground On a scale of A to F, the city of Boston gives the Market Street area an "F' for its department, to authorize a meet attention to it so it's being over that the playground be replaced. effectiveness at streamlining traffic through ing with residents to discuss looked" - adjacent to the There was not much of a its intersections. Vanasse Hangen Brustlin options for a new playground. Commonwealth Housing response, Glynn said. Inc., a traffic and environmental consulting "I think (the protest] made an Development on Fidelis Way in Playground committee orga firm, has proposed plans that would upgrade 11'1!11iti!ns at imprmion," said Wilyne Ofynn, Brighton. Play equipment, nizers "didn't feel [their appeal] the area to a "C" rating while taking into Commonwealth a community organizer with the including swings and slides, was was taken seriously," he said. account the increase in traffic generated by Commonwealth Tenants removed in 1991 when land But that could change, the new office building. That "C" rating Development Association, the organization that scaping was done by the Boston depending on the outcome of the would be considered very good for an urban represents residents of the Housing Authority. neighborhood meetings, the cost setting, according to company officials. By Katharine Dunn Commonwealth Housing Although there are two other of new play equipment and the "Our goal is to create a better traffic sys tem, a safer traffic system," said Robert Kaye TAB Correspondent Development. ''We proved we playgrounds within the housing amount of money th~ city can esidents at Brighton's can be difficult [and that we have development, they are deteriorat allocate to such a project. of VHB. After conducting a traffic~tudy on Commonwealth to] hold public offices account ing and have few pieces of A new place space would like adjoining streets, developers proposed R Housing Development, able, because the children are equipment, said Tmkney, a par ly cost between $4,000 and installing a new traffic signal at the comer of who have been waiting eight holding us accountable." ent and volunteer member of the $5,000, Glynn said. Guest and Market streets and synchronizing years for the city to make good Two days after the protest, playground committee at the McLaughlin said the capital the signals along the length of Market Street on its promise to replace their Brian McLaughlin, head of the Commonwealth Tenants budget for the Parks Department in Brighton. · playground, wiU get their chance planning division in the Parks Association. will be set by the end of the "Conditions along Market are going to be to meet with the Boston Parks Department, said he would orga Safety is anttther issue. month, determining - at least better as a result of this," Kaye said. Department to discuss a plan to nize a neighborhood meeting Overlook Paci< is ideal for a partially - the future of the While the proposal was received as a reinstall their missing swings with residents. playground, she said, because playground. promising concept, residents voiced concerns and slides. ''Instead of playing against "as parents, we can sit [there] If it is unable get the money NEW.BALANCE, page 6 Earlier this month, a dozen [the Boston Housing Authority and monitor our children." from the city, Glynn said the residents - anned with colorful and the Commonwealth Tenants Tinkney said this is not possible Commonwealth Tenants drawings of play equipment Association], we should be able in the other parks. Association would be willing to made by local children - to work together," he said. This reduction in play space take on fund-raising initiatives. The Allston-Brighton TAB's story protested outside the Parks McLaughlin made no promis worries members of the But ideally, residents hope the ''Lobbying in Mika's memory" [Jan. 19- Department to get the city to cre es about whether the plans to Commonwealth Tenants city will find the Brighton pad< 25] contained incorrect infonnation about ate a new playground at replace the play area will go Association, who say nearly half worthy' ot refurbishing . . the details surrounding the death of Mika, Overlook Parle. The playground ahead. of the 1,500 residents it repre "They said they're looking at a Brighton dog that was hit by a car on was taken down eight years ago The playground in question sents are children. proposals," said Isabel Lopez, a Jan. 8. The dog's owner, Danyl Hopkins: for landscaping. used to be housed in Overlook Last summer, Commonwealth Commonwealth resident and let the dog into the yard at 8:30 a.m. In According to organizers, the Paci< - so-called because, housing development residents community organizer with the addition, the name of the youngest child protest prompted Justine Liff, according to resident Regina sent a 300-signature petition to CTA. ''We're hoping they're in the Hopkins family is GabrieUe. commissioner of the parks Ttnkney, "people are not paying the Parks Department, asking saying the truth." 0

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a number of lamps, jewelry of all Nonprofit second kinds ($2 for earrings, $3 for most hand shop hopes to bracelets), a well-read copy of "Where the Wild Things Are," and lead Oak Sq. revival enough shoes to set Imelda Marcos' heart pounding. Most of By Jason Lefferts the shoes are black, but one can TAB Correspondent also spy fuzzy slippers amid the anet Cort has seen the busi sensible pumps. There are also ness future of Oak Square: some fashion eye-catchers. A J It's bright and booming, and snazzy tan, leather Ralph Lauren a thrift shop will lead the way. jacket is a buy at $25, although the Cort is the organizing force tassels may tum off some. behind the Community Thrift The back room, which Cort envi Shop, which opened in October sions as a "funky" costume room, and is run by the is currently a receiv United Methodist ing area that is filled Church in Brighton with everything Center. On the inside "We have plenty from more clothes to it seems like an aver of donations, but an electric keyboard. age thrift shop, but She wants to move Cort sees it as much we need people ;n~ receiving area to more. to make this a . the basement, but "Oak Square is needs help catalogu- pioneer land. You're destination, a mg. going to see in five lace to come However, as if to years, Oak Square P prove that Oak will be like Harvard by and shop." Square isn't quite as Avenue. The bars vibrant as it aspires kind of set the tone, to be, the store suf ~ but the shops came Janet Cort, lead organizer of fers an imbalance in the Community Thrift Shop supply and demand. ~ in right behind," Cort ..... said. "Rents are still Donations have a little less, and it's ~ come :\trearning into Co-manager Piper Court stands amidst her men:handise at the Community 11irift Shop in Oak Square. affordable for stu- the store, but there L dents. I feel it will be an up-and are few customers. And while Cort "It needs the commwtity's sup jumping~off point for an Oak shop's proceeds for social pro coming trend." is a natural saleswoman, quickly port. We need people to come and Square revival, it also has the grams in the area. The front room of the spouting platitudes about the shop," she said. "We have plenty of potential to become a benefactor of "We want to have the money used Community Thrift Shop is small shop's "vintage clothing from the donations, but we need people to community organizations. United for community programs for youth in and tightly packed with traditional '20s '30s and '40s" she knows make this a destination, a place to Methodist Church's pastor, the Brighton," Cort said. ''We would like thrift shop fare. There aie ceramic people ha~e to co~e in to buy the come by and shop." Rev. Abraham Waya, has come up to start things like an after-school ducks and plates with duck motifs, stuff. Not only is the store a potential with the idea of using the thrift THRIFT SHOP, page 5

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way by midsummer. Steven Frick. Officials to update vice president of construction for project at Main McCourt, is finalizing the project schedule with the Massachusetts Streets meeting Highway Department Brighton residents and busines.s By Ann Griffin owners will have the opportunity to Brighlon Main Streets Program learn more about the A-Line-Project Plug into Peoples Manager and related street improvements on he first few weeks of 1999 Wednesday, Jan. 27. Brighton Main have been filled with typical Streets is sponsoring a lunch discus- -wherever you are! T New England winter storms, sion, "Gocxl Bye Tracks, Hello New followed by milder temperatures, Streetscape!," to lake place at the then more rain. The unpredictable Green Briar at 304 Washington St k KING FOR THE ULTIMATE IN BANKING weather has caused some predictable Featured speakers will include delays in the A-Line track- • Margaret McNally and James convenience? Try @Home Banking from removal project Keeping Gavin of the Track Removal Peoples Federal Savings Bank. It o~ a "We lost some time last Task Force and ~ variety of convenient ways to acces's·your week and with the holi- track Commissioner Matthew accounts - even pay bills - anytime, anywhere. days," said Nick Freitas, Amorello of the general foreman for Massachusetts Highway Via Telephone McCourt ConsbUCtion. Department. Amorello was "But we will catch up. This appointed commissioner by Check balances, transfer funds, week, we will remove Governor Paul Cellucci earli- and access up-to-the-minute between 800 and 900 feet er this month. account information from any of track [on both ends com- Lunch wi Ube served at touch-tone phone. bined]." noon, and the program begins Freitas projected that A weekly update· at 12:30 p.m. Lunch is option- Via ScreenPhone work removing the track on the A-Line al and costs $7. For more and installing temporary removal project inf~nnation , call Brighton ·" Enhance your telephone banking pavement would be fin- Mam Streets at 779-9200. 0 with a simple upgrade of your ished by the beginning of April. Ann Griffin, project manager for existing phone. You'll add a visual "Well, you figure that there are Brighton Main Streets, writes a menu that will walk you through approximately 10, feel of road- weekly colwnn highlighting the each transaction, as well as bill work, and that we're moving around progress of Brighton's A-Line track 800 feet per week," he said. "We'll removal project. The project, which paying features. need about 12 weeks to finish the includes the removal of the former tearing-up process." tracks and reconstruction of Via Pel'sonal Computer Freita.<> also predicted that the per- Tremont, Washington and Log on and do all your banking manent road cover and start of the Cambridge streets, will be complet- from home - even schedule loan . WPllkl be well under ed later this year. and bill payments for future dates.

For the ultimate in banking Thrifty treasures are waiting convenience, stop by Peoples and plug into @Home Banking today! 'lmDTSJIOP, from ... 4 merchandise to general organiza prog1mn. or a day-OUe center." tion. Cort said she is looking for While the church put up the student volunteers who need school funding for the thrift shop's rent credit, or others who would work Peot>le5 ·- and start-up, it hasn't been able to for some store credit. 0 federal Savings Bank help out with advertising, leaving Community Thrift Shop is located 229 Nonh Harvard SI.reel, Allston Cort with the task of raising the at 567 Washington St. It is open 435 Market Street, Brighton store's visibility. 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Block to obtain a zoning variance to All are welcome. The luncheon Traffic studies were only con install a trailer for administrative cost is $7 per person. ducted at intersections that would space at his 95 Everett St., Allston, To register for the luncheon, call directly affect employees at the auto body repair business. 254-07Q7. new complex. But residents had • Community members voted not concerns that streets outside the to support a request by Paul Foti Jr. Developfhent votes are study area, such as Sparhawk and to obtain a zoning variance to North Beacon streets, could be extend the living space at 16 Alcott scheduled affected too. St., Allston, into the basement and The Brighton Allston Improvement A parking garage will be avail erect an addition in the rear of the Association will hold its regular able free of charge for employees residential building. monthly meeting at 7 p.m. in the complex. In addition, there • Community members voted to Thursday, Feb. 4, at Brighton Elks will be another, smaller parking lot Lodge #2199. The lodge is located The office complex designed to be built at Brigbton 's Honeywell Bull site, as it will be support updated plans for a corpo available for shoppers at the New seen by motorists on the Massachusetts Turnpike. rate office building at 1380 Soldiers at 326 Washington St. in Brighton. Balance outlet Field Road for Cambridgeport All residents of Allston and have been concerned about the The main entrance to the com- New Balance plans to lease and Bank. Updates in the plans included Brighton m-e welcome to attend. The height of the buildings in the past plex lies between the two build- occupy 40 percent of the new com making the view of the building agenda will include: - the developers will require a ings, fronting on an open court- plex, moving its corporate head from Western Avenue more aesthet • City Councilor Brian Honan's zoning variance to build higher yard. The turnpike side of the quarters there from the company's ically pleasing by covering the comments on current activities· than three stories - residents made building is lined with faceted win- existing North Beacon Street entire facade of the building in • District 14 Police Captain William offices. The company's logo, which little mention of height at last dows in 10- foot sections that will Evans' report on police activities in week's hearing. give people the impression the brick, improving the Western would be mounted on a comer of Avenue stairwell and entrance and Allston and Brighton; the building, would be the only evi In an effort to scale down the building has a curved surface, said • A vote on the Cambridgeport building's visibility, architects Boley. constructing a roof-top tower simi dence of its presence visible from lar to that at the Soldier's Field Bank development proposal for focused their money and energy at Other features of the develop- the street. There are no plans yet Road entrance. In addition, in 1380 Soldiers Field Road; regarding how the company's exist the ground level, said B.K. Boley ment include sidewalks along • A vote on the BY Development from ADD Inc. architects. One of Market and Guest streets which response to suggestions by commu ing offices, which are owned by nity members, developers increased project for New Balance the techniques used, said Boley, will be more than doubled from New Balance, will be used. the amount of landscaping space at Corporation; and was to stagger the height of the 10- their current 6-foot width. A grove The other 60 percent of the BY the site. • Task force reports. story building so it is ooly three of trees integrated into the Jand- Development complex will be • Community members voted to leased to other businesses, said Bob stories tall along the Market Street scaping on the building'• west side ESL conversation groups edge. Boley added that small retail will help dissipate traffic noise. support updated plans by BY Eckstein from BY Development. Development to erect two office shops or sports facilities would be And architects will be integrating a meet at library The planned complex includes a buildings and a manufacturing facil ideal for those first-floor offices marker or sculpture into the devel- Adult library patrons for whom seven-story and I 0-story office ity at the former Honeywell Bull site because passersby would be able to opment to remind visitors of the English is a second language may building, as well as a manufactur along Life, Guest and Market see the acti>vity there. cattle industry that once occupied expand their English language skills ing facil ity. Although residents streets. New Balance plans to occu the site. by participating in ongoing conver py 25 percent of the site. The project's total cost is project sation groups that meets at the ed at $100 million, and about 150 Brighton Branch of the Boston jobs will be created during con A·line project is the topic Public Library at 40 Academy Hill struction. BY Development will be The general membership meeting of Road. encouraging local recruitment for Brighton Main Streets will be held The groups offered meet those positions, Eckstein said. Cl at noon Wednesday, Jan. 27, at the INBRIEF,~8 BRASCO ON REAL ESTATE Ifyou've been thinking about selling oc buying a home without the help of a real estate prot"e$ion Whi rlpools &. al, here are some th~ to keep in mind. Monday. Night Showers&. For-Sale-By-Owner (FSBO) sellers \\00 go it alone often fall prey to urocrupulous ''buyers" \\00 All you can eat bone in twice fried wings. Order a Sinks&. Mirrors&. large order of twice fried Buffalo wings and have may make outlandish demand5 a00 propose strange Cabinet Hardware &. • types of fmancing. Many people \\00 shop FSBO as many reorders as you wish Towel Bars &. ... houses are just looking foc a ~ 00use priced $6. 9S/person far below its ~ n13lket value by inexperienced Wbenyou wonder-Is tliere Everything o! ~~~e~ua'9 . 9s or less. someWngl Swordfish steak $14.9S on Tuesday $9.9S should know 1 lb. N.Y. Sirloin $13.9S on Tuesday $9.9S about this sale? Kate Wednesday - Brasco Two for one Fajitas sellers. Serious buyers prefer to 'MJlk with a real Choose chicken, sirloin or combo and get estate profe&5ional, so they can c00ose from a vari any two fajita dinners for $9. 9S ety of~ i1l.5tead of just a few. And not only do FSBO sellers have agood rea son to be wary of the people they try to sell to, but Thursday legitimate buyers are usually cautiou.5 of the sellers Boneless and Beer \\00 are going it alone. They 'MWxler whether the Get an order of boneless buffalo wings real reason FSBOs avoid profes.5ional help is and choose any of our 20 drafts, all 16 oz. and because theres a flaw in the 00use that an agent \\OOld have to disclose. Buyers even "MXrt about it will be included in the price. whedier the seller is seriou.5 about oomplering the $6.9S deal. Purcha.5irlg ahome is the biggest f mancial corn mitmeR most people C\Cf undertake--and serious buyers who are ready, willing, a00 able to buy pre fer to 'Mllk with real estate profe&5ional5 because Mini M11tfi111 Ch ive Spread Wh ipped Butter they're familiar with all the legal, fmaocial, a00 con The Boston Pollce Department Is recruiting men tractual matters relating to the sale of the ~ H11111 Frl11 lox Spread Fr11h Fru it and women to serve as Boston Police Officers! E991 B1111dict Crum Che11e Hand Sli ced Nova And buyers know that agents must adhere to legal aOO ethical standards that benefit both buyers aOO Scre111bl1d E991 Duse rt Tom.to & Onion EXAMINAUON DATE; DEADLINE FOB FILING APPLJCAUON: Noddle Pudd ing Saturday • May B, 1999 January 29, 1999 sellers. 01111l1tt1 Stetlon French Toast Kate Brosco is a Principal Realtor at B1l9l111 Wdf111 Strawberri11 S1usa9e and Bacon Appl/cations neighborhood Police Stations are ava//able at a// CENTURY 21 ShaKmut Properties in Brighton. If Fr11h M1d1 B191ls Blueberries Prime Rib or b y ca/ling (617)343-4667. you have a questWn on a Real Estate related Thomas M. M,,,,.6;'llillyof • Pllul F. Evans, Polic. Comml...... , mat/er or need assistance, call Kate at 787-2121.

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By Kelley Wagers TAB Staff Writer The city of Boston's Transportation Snow emergency arteries and Public Works Departments this month issued new snow emergency Arlington Street Harvard Avenue parking guidelines for the remainder Beacon Street Kelton Street of the winter. Brighton Avenue Lincoln Street The guidelines affect the parking Cambridge Stn:et Market Street rules along major roads in Allston Chesbtut Hill Avenue North Beacon Street Brighton during declared snow Commonwealth Avenue North Harvard Street You're a woman, and a little older than the typical college student. emergencies. The rules have been (from lbton University Parsons Street You want to go to college, but you have many priorities to.Jteep created to allow city crews to plow Bridge to Brighton Avenue. Sparhawk Street in balance. We understand. Our innovative Dix Scholars 'Program and sand roads during snowstorms. Main roadway, from Brighton Tremont Street is designed just for you. We offer a small, personal environment "One of the biggest problems Avenue to Lake Street) Warren Street where faculty and administrative staff know you by name and are Washington Street encountered during a weather emer Everett Street honestly committed to your education. Our full- and part-time Faneuil Street Western Avenue gency is parking," Boston Public programs, generous transfer credit options, and credit for life Works Commissioner Joseph experience offer you flexibility. And we're conveniently located Casaz.za said. "Plows and sander ty regulations. side. This information may be need in the heart of Boston's educational, medical, and cultural trucks must be able to clear the ...o•••o«, streets of snow so that the city stays • Do not park within 20 feet of an ed in the event that a vehicle has to communities. For information, call (617) 5:u-2502. ac~ible for fire engines, police intersection. It is dangerous and ille be moved. cars and ambulances. This is not gal year-round, but especially criti For more information about ., ~... ~J possible if illegally parked cars cre cal throughout the winter rr1'>nths snow emergency guidelines, call ate an obstacle for snow emergency when emergency vehicle twning the City of Boston Storm Center at SIMMONS vehicles." access may be blocked by the com 635-3050. 0 l> 0 K 0 I II t A I Y N l> t II I X S C 11 0 I A K ~ I' ll 0 1. ll ;\ \l The following guidelines must be bination of heavy snow and cars followed when parking in Boston parked too close to the comer. This during a Snow Emergency this win regulation will be strictly enforced. ter: The city has set aside three free • It is illegal to park on streets that parking lots in Allston-Brighton for are posted as snow emergency arter public use during snow emergen ies during a declared Snow cies. However, all resident vehicles Emergency. Cars must be moved to must be removed within three hours avoid being towed. after the emergency parking ban has • On all secondary streets, unless been lifted. .-. othetwise posted, parking is legal The lots are located at 115 only on the even side of the street Harvard Ave., Allston; 398 Market when a snow emergency is called. St., Brighton; and the Harvard • It is illegal to park more than one University Parking Facility, 219 foot from the curb, regardless of Western Ave., Brighton. snow conditions. Parking more Residents are requested to leave a than one foot from the curb essen slip of paper with their last name tially resulLc; in double parking and telephone number on the dash which is a violation of public-safe- board, clearly visible from the out-

Caladln picks director J08eph Macchiarulo of Brighton m:edly joined the Boston Brighton resident kHal Connier tm ~f=11eme111 Consortiwn a.c; ilS new been appoiJted head coach of women's City Management Practice director. tiekl hockey at Lasell CoUege. In this role, he is responsible for Cormier was previously the assis directing organizational and manage tant field hockey coach at Bentley ment development initiatives to effect College, where she guided her team enhanced performance within most to championship seasons in both the I of the 50 departments urxler Boston East Coast Athletic Conference and I Mayor Thomm Menino. the Northeast JO for 1997 and 1998. ANY 4 WHEEL AUGNMENT : According to Robert T. Markel, She is a graduate of Bentley College, executive dWctor for the consortium, ~ I where she was a Division II all C...lt~--OllrC:lll Ulllf1 '-C.-·•°""°"·~- Maa:hiarulo will play a critical role American field hockey player for two in the consortium's efforts to help the years, as well as Northeast l 0 Player SHOCKS • BRAKES • ALIGNMENTS • AND MORE city operate more efficiently and of the Year in 1997. Cormier is effectively. employed at Cran Barry Inc. of East (617) 232-4869 Macchiarulo, an organfaational Boston, a manufacture and distributor 144 Bcr,tlston St, on Rt 9 (Near Brookline Village) • Brookline development professional who spe of field hockey, lacros.se and cheer "MASSACHUSETTS' OLDEST TIRE DEALER" (SINCE 1910) Visit us on our website at Linertire.com cialil.ed in large-scale change imple leading unifonns and equipment. Find Us Fast In Bell Atlantic Yellow Pa es mentation, human relations skills PEOPLE, page 29 development, strategic planning, team-building and executive coach ing, comes to the consortium after serving m the president of .At Wingate at Brighton, medical expertise is at the foundation of spirited, Cambridge Consulting Associates, a .G women and men who will enter the Navy this WTN~ATE year from all over the country. She is MORE TtIAN A1:.-BR.i(ftroN a 1998 graduate of La Junta High MEDICAL EXPER"rlSE._ 100 NORTH BEACON STREET • BOSTON, MA 02134 School of La Junta, Colo. JCAHO ACCUOITIO IN BRIEF

FROMPAGE6 mer jobs and training. help with the citizenship applica Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, ·Tue five other schools hosting tion process," said Tyler Moran, from 10 to 11 :30 a.m., as well as City/Build are: Boston Latin the coalition's policy coordinator. Reflections Mondays, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. They Academy, Boston Latin School, The program will save the com are free of charge and open to the East Boston High School and the monwealth $4.2 million, according public. New members are always John D. O'Bryant School of Math to the coalition. The savings will welcome. Preregistration is not and Science. come because many of the people required. enrolled in citizenship programs English-speaking volunteers are Come review school yard will be eligible to receive federal also needed to serve as facilitators proposals food stamps and possibly other for the groups. · federal help when they become cit There will be a community meet For information, call the izens. The 1996 federal welfare ing to review design development Brighton Branch Library at (617) law bars noncitizens from eligibili proposals prepared by landscape 782-6032. ty for these programs. In 1997, architects John Copley and Lynn Massachusetts created a state food Fabulous February Wolff Associates for the new stamp program to protect people Jackson Mann school yard. ineligible for federal food stamps. Fiesta nears The meeting is scheduled for 7 Save this date: Thursday, Feb. J J. p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26, in the cafe Teen scientists: Wort at That's when the Allston-Brighton teria of the Jackson Mann School Harvard this summer Healthy Boston Coalition will pre at 500 Cambridge St. in Allston. sent The Winiker Orchestra at its The discussion will focus on Minority or disadvantaged high Fabulous February Fiesta Fund play yard and garden designs, school students from Boston and raiser. The orchestra played at the materials, cost estimates and priori- Cambridge are invited to apply for presidential inauguration in 1993. ties. ., · paid research positions at Harvard The event will take place in Support for the project comes Medical School this summer. Boston University's George from the city of Boston and the Students will be able to meet Sherman Ballroom at 775 Boston School Yard Initiative. other students from Boston public Commonwealth Ave., from 6 to 11 For more information, call Roger and private schools who share their p.m. For more information, call Erickson at the Allston Brighton scientific curiosity. 782-3886. Community Development Under the auspices of the Corporation at 787-3874. Minority Faculty Development School·to-wortt program Program, students who live in Immigrants get Boston or Cambridge (they may receives grant · attend school elsewhere) have the The City/Build program of Historic legislative help opportunity to spend eight weeks Neighborhoods has received a The Massachusetts lffiWigrant and this summer working closely with $10,000 grant from the Refugee Advocacy Coalition is a Harvard faculty member on cut- BankBoston Charitable applauding legislation Gov. Paul ting-edge research. • Foundation. The semester-long Cellucci signed Jan. 14. ''We need to nurture minority program serves more than 150 stu Bill S2332 included $775,000 to students who have a strong interest dents at five Boston public high allow citizenship assistance pro in science and provide them with The window of the Wocidwork Store in Brighton reOects a slow-paced day in schools, including Brighton High grams to s~y operational for the the opportunity to become our Oak.Square. School. next five months. Without the addi future doctors and researchers," City/Build is a school-to-work tional funding, roughly 60 pro said Dr. Joan Reede, associate dean cultural enrichment program with grams statewide would have closed for faculty development and diver only affect their own community Students will write a paper on classes in architecture, planning, down at the end of January. sity at Harvard Medical School and but also are national and interna their work and give a presentation engineering and construction. ''These programs give low director of Project Success. tional concerns. 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Stolen car is recovered D Police responded to a call Bank robbery about a stolen vehicle across the street from 500 Lincoln St. in Brighton at 4:54 p.m. Jan. 20. suspects plead not They found a white 1986 Oldsmobile that had been reported stolen on Dec. 31, 1998.There was damage to the steering column, guilty to charges trunk lock and driver's side door lock and front grill. The car was By Debra Goldstein handgun, Flaherty said. towed to a garage, and the owner Tab Staff Writer Perella allegedly took cash bills was informed it had been found. oseph Perella, 35, of totaling $9, 134 from the teller and Norwood, and Scott drove away in a white Cadillac Elderly man is crushed J O'Leary,33,ofSouth with O'Leary in the passenger by car Boston, pleaded not guilty at their seat. Flaherty said a witness fl On Jan. 13 at 7:38 p.m., police arraignment on armed robbery reported seeing two men in a car were called to 51 Franklin St. in charges last week. matching the CadilJac's descriir AHston to assist the Boston Fire The two men were arrested Dec. lion acting suspiciously minutes Department with a man who had 7 and charged with robbing before the robbery. been crushed by his own car. Century Bank at 300 Western Ave. Massachusetts Bay Officers noted in their report that in Brighton earlier that day. They Transportation Authority patrol when they arrived, Charles Green, were each charged with one count men stopped a white Cadill~ that 89, of 51 Franklin St., was lying on of anned robbery. was allegedly driving erratically the ground with his head stuck Parella, a baker, and O'Leary, a on Massachusetts Avenue in between the driver's side door and floorer, are being held in lieu of Roxbury at 5:10 p.m., according the door jam. The car was wedged $50,000 in bail and are scheduled to the statement of the district into the side of the back porch. to return to court Feb. 10 for a attorney's office. The driver, who Firefighters pushed the vehicle pretrial hearing. was later identified as Perella, from the house and freed Green, In a written statement released allegedly could not produce a dri who was pronounced dead at the by Suffolk County District ver's license for the officers. scene. cash and was forced to drive out of Drug arrest made Attorney Ralph Martin's office, More police arrived on the the secured garage. The suspect Assistant District Attorney Peter scene shortly after and determined • f then exited the car and fled in an after surveillance Flaherty said Perella allegedly that the description of the vehicle Garage IS scene 0 unknown direction. The man said II While conducting an ongoing walked into Century Bank at about linked to the bank robbery .11 knife-point robbery he waited 45 minutes before calling investigation on Jan. 15, police 3:50 p.m. Dec. 7 and handed the matched this car. IJ On Jan. 15 at 9:22 a.m., a man police because he feared the sus- observed a brown Honda Accord teller a note that read: "This is a O'Leary was released from reported he was robbed at knife • peel knew him and his family. He parked on Duval Street at 3:50 p.m. holdup. Have a gun. No dye prison in 1995 after serving 10 point in the parking garage at 2000 described the suspect as a slimly According to police reports, packs, no alarms. Large bills. Any years of a 14- 17-year sentence for Commonwealth Ave. The suspect built white male, 20-25 years old, approximately five minutes later, a dye and someone will be shot." manslaughter. Perella has a jumped from between two cars, about 5 feet 8 inches tall, and blue Crown Victoria pulled along The suspect had a coat draped lengthy criminal record. including pulled a knife and forced the man weighing 150-170 pounds. The side the Honda, facing the same over his hand, thereby giving the 25 convictions for a variety of into his car. After several minutes, garage security tape was taken as direction. The driver of the Crown appearance that he was holding a crimes, according to Flaherty. 0 the victim gave the suspect $100 in evidence. POLICE LOG, page 15

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Tenants' concerns NEWS :rrE~ ', ~!.T~ ~AMe.b Wott~ r should not be overlookOO C.trt Fol. 8& Kt Q,\1)1rJ(..,. ight years ago, the city of Boston took down the playground ~uipment at Overlook Park during a landscaping project. At Ethe time, the city promised to replace the equipment. Eight years later, the neighborhood that uses Overlook Park - the Commonwealth Housing Development on Fidelis Way - is still fighting for the equipment. After getting 300 neighbors to sign a petition last year and orga nizing a march on City Hall earlier this month, the Commonwealth Tenants Association, which represents the resi dents at the development, is finally seeing progress. Parks Department officials have agreed to meet with the residents to talk about the possibility of restoring the playground. But the depart ment is making no promises to provide the fPStimated $4,000- $5,000 necessary to bring new playground equipment to the park. This case should be a no-brainer. About 700 children live at the Commonwealth Housing Development, which is a public housing complex for low-income families. The CTA is willing to begin a fundraising effort to pay for the new equipment if the city is unable to deliver on its promise. But the association should not St>t ·:,\K- ()L ' T! have to dip into the pockets of some of this community's poorest residents to scrape together a few thousand dollars for what most Out of the pool car ["Lobbying in Mik.a's memo allows the dog or any other animal ry," Jan. 19-25]. I was wondering to swim in it. I'd think that's agree is a needed playground. ·" I'm calling regarding the article - because it mentions it in the against health codes. That should about the dog that w;s killed by the Millions of dollars are being poured into rebuilding and creating article - why the MDC pool n't be allowed. parks along the fabled "Emerald Necklace." The effort is impor tant and worth the money. But so is Overlook Park, which one Lt-:TTLRS resident says - tongue-in-cheek - received its name because Press legislators for clean elections The existing laws will be changed because of you. "it's being overlooked." You did not die in vain my friend, Residents in the Commonwealth Development are tired of being Last November, an overwhelming majority of the Both of us knowing I'll take this to the end. electorate voted a ballot initiative which became the overlooked. They have been watching their children grow up with Clean Election Law. Further action is required by the I' lJ make sure that they all hear our story, substandard playground equipment for eight years. For a relatively Legislature. And I'm quite sure that they'll be outraged at the gory Meaningful implementation of the law - which Sordid detaiJs of how I was infonned; small amount of city money, they can have a better quality of life bans soft money - requires prompt disclosure of how Of which I wasn't. We didn't matter. and have the security of being able to better monitor the activities one's campaign is financed and, most importantly, of their children. provides a mechanism (through public financing) for They have stripped me of anything I feel, reasonable limits on contributions and spending. The There is hope that the Parks Department will have enough They discarded you as if you weren't real. law goes a long way to assure the voter that "bought" money in its upcoming capital budget to pay for a new play They had no intentions of logic - how smart elections, either actual or perceived, will be eliminat To place a name on your body from the start, ed. ground. And it appears that the tenants have an ally in former Which in tum bas broken myheart. Brighton city councilor Brian McLaughlin, who heads the Parks We have spoken but cannot be sure we have been heard or will be taken seriously. Unless the Legislature Department's planning division. Life is so funny it seems acts promptly and enthusiastically to what we, the To allow you to love and be seen. With this in mind, we can only hope that the city can see the people, have so ardently sought, government of the Just to be picked up like trash and thrown out, logic in setting aside some money for Overlook Park and can keep people, by the people and for the people becomes a Obviously, assuming no one loved you, no doubt. travesty. a long-held promise to its neighbors. The Legislature will only do so if constantly pres But I loved you, ole girl, I think you know, sured by the electorate and the press. Enthusiastic And believe me, I'll find you, that's so. reception of change - especially campaign finance Before this weekend is through, refonn - is never well received by elected officials. I will search and we will search for you, Some oppose, some give lukewann support and some, And make sure that you are laid down to rest properly. not nearly enough, honestly and vigorously support refonn. But, it seems all that I have left of you now, It is up to us and to you, as a molder of public opin Is this new name tag just received in the mail. ion, to constantly press the Legislature, especially its I feel sick, my heart hurts - "Carol don't lose it," 214 lecond A"., P.O. Box 9112, Needlam, MA OMH 117/254-7530 leaders, to continue in a meaningful way what the Knowing time has forbidden me to use it. public has voted for. The time is now. EDITOR - PETER PA NEPENTO, (781) 433-8334 Sumner Z. Kaplan, former Brooklihe selectmen [email protected] So, if anything comes out of this, that's good and state representative, Jamaica Plain Because you were so loved, it should. N EWS EDITOR - DEBRA GOLDSTEIN, (781) 433-8302 If I could bold you right now, l would, ...... [email protected] ...... Remembering Mika I'll never forget you, my Mika, I never could ...... SENIOR REPORT...... ER...... - LINDA ROSENCRANCE,...... (78 1) 433-8358...... Editors note: The following was written by Brighton And now I will say my goodbye, SALF.S R EPRF.SENTA TlVE - ED SIEGAL, (78 1) 433-8253 resident Carol Hopkins after her dog, Mika,, was hit by This is hard, this sucks, but I'll try. a car on Washington Street. Instead of returning ARTS EDITOR - TAMARA WtEDER, (781) 433-8362 Instead of my tears, I will smile, Mikas remains to the Hopkins family, the city threw And cherish my memories for awhile. PUBLISHER - CAROLE B RENNAN, (781) 433-83 13 the dogs body in a trash container and transported it to a New Hampshire Landfill...... A CTI NC EDITOR...... IN CHIEF...... - TOMMY...... PETERSON, (781) 433-8367 I love you, Boo Carol V. Hopkins, Brighton SAl, F.S DIRECTOR - CRIS WARREN, (781) 433-8264 So, I must say goodbye to you now, C IRCULATION DIRECTOR - R YAN FARRELL, (781) 433-6760 I'm not ready for this, no how. You have been my friend from beginning to end, GENERAL TELEPHONE NUMBERS Just knowing life, 1 knew in time I would eventual Tel ....,. tlllnld Circulation lnformation -(78 l) 433-8307 Sales Fax Number - (781) 433-8201 ly mend. We want to hear from you. Letters or Main Telephone Number - Editorial Fax Number -(781) 433-8202 guest columm should be typewriuen (6 17) ~54-7530 Arts/Calendar Fax Number - As I sit here it sti ll doesn't seem plausible and signed; a daytime phone nwilber Classified Number -1-8()().624-7355 (781 ) 433-8203 That a friend like you could be gone. is requimd for verification. Or call our I'm still sitting in the chair from 12 hours before, reader call-in line at 433-8329. By mail: !!!i'!!O!Wi\&Ml!i!2 Copyright 1999 Community Newspaper Co. Knowing what I feel is impossible. The TAB Comrmmity Newspapers. Letters ~~~~~~NY Q ft:. Inc. All rights res01Ved. Reproduction by to the F.ditor. P.O. Box 9112. Neechm. MA 02492. By COMP"'NY MO!!ur memories and experiences hood. Speak-Out! line at (781) 433- surrounding Radio Free Allston did Chairman Bill Kennard at: FCC, The are worth noting and recording. To augment the extensive 8329. n't think I was Archie Bunker, either. Portals, 445 12th St. SW, Your life and participation in our research necessary for the prepara Take your place in history by We learn to tolerate that which we Washington, DC 20554 - and do it neighborhood have contributed to tion of a National Register nomi sharing your memories of and know. Intolerance is usually about right now. the building and changing of our nation, Allston Village Main experiences in Allston Village. fear of the unknown, right? Sal J. Giarratani, a police officer community. Streets and the Brighton-Allston Beth Shepard is a member of I work as a police officer for the for the state Department of Mental As a result, as Allston Village Historical Society are jointly Allston Village Main Streets and state Department of Mental Health, Health, was a weekly talk-show host Main Streets and the Brighton launching an oral history initiative. the Brighton Allston Historical and I always felt funny about broad- on Radio Free Allston. Allston Historical Society begin The information gathered through Society. Activist community needs no umbrella

t appears that it is raining hard dictionary: "Umbrella: 2. Anything of Boston by Commonwealth Licensing and zoning areas. All but industry in the Allston business dis in the activist community in that covers or protects, especially a Avenue or along Storrow·Drive. one of these groups are based in trict. Newspaper articles written I Allston and Brighton. military air cover." We are surrounded by Brookline, Brighton. about liquor licensing in the 1970s Lately, we seem to have neigh Well, I don't know that martial Newton, Watertown and The oldest - and only - could be printed today with little borhood civic groups either claim law has been declared, but the Cambridge. So why are we two Allston group is the Allston Civic notice taken of the passing of time. ing to be the "umbrella" group for issue of which group represents places? The fact is, we aren't if you Association. The ACA was fonned But lately, the ACA has had great whom for what purpose seems to go by city charter, but.in reality, in 1963 by Allston's Joe Smith and success in slowing the creation of be getting muddier than the river we've been cons ide~ two places his neighbors. One of the first new liquor licenses, while allowing roads. for more than 100 ycrars. issues the ACA became involved in for changes to take place in exist To many, these di stinctions are as There are some i~ues where the at that time was the "planned" ing licenses. These changes have difficult to understand as the separation between Allston and extension of the Massachusetts resulted in overall improvements in By ,..., Berkeley boundary between Allston and Brighton doesn't really matter, and Turnpike through Allston and the quality of several establish Brighton. We have different names, some where it certainly does. Brighton. The extension forever ments, as well as the social and but often are considered one com One area where it does matter is changed our landscape, and left us business climate of the district. munity. The distinction really in the arena of civic activism. with a host of problems and con The key to our success has been all others, or acting like it. After depends on what the issue is, and AJ!ston and Brighton have at least cerns to deal with. a set of values fortified by a consis reading the TAB recently where how it affects us. Geographically, five resident groups that participate The ACA also took on the issue tent voice, undeterred by politics or one group made the umbrella Allston and Brighton are together in the decisioll6 l)lat affect their of liquor licensing, basically favoritism. It's hard to say "no" to claim, I looked the word up in the on an island connected to the city quality of li fe, esPectally in the because of the rapid growth of that BERKELEY, page 13 Page 12 Tiie Al...... lbin TAB, January 26 - February I, 1999 www.townonline.com/allstonbrighton POLITICS Fielding off ice politics at the State House

te Sen. Steven Tolman (D as Democrats in Ward 21, as of Dec. Thursday, Feb. 4, from 5-6:30 p.m., O'Brien served in the House from righton) has been named chair 31, are encouraged to attend and par - at lhe Boston Public Library, 40 1987 to 1992 and in the Senate from an of the Senate Local Affairs ticipate either as a candidate or voter. Academy Hill Road, Brighton. A 1993 to 1994. She left the Senate to Committee. Being a rookie senalor, Ward 21, one of two Allston member of Toi man's staff will be run unsuccessfully against outgoing he had relatively little say in choos Brighton wards, encompasses all of available lo meet with constiluents. Treasurer Joseph Malone in the ing the assignment. Still, he'll be Commonwealth Avenue and most 1994 election. She lost, but ran suc intersecting and adjacent streets from Honan opens his door, too cessfully this year against Kenmore Square to the Newton line. City Councilor Brian Honan will =r challenger Robert To participate in the Caucus, indi hold office hours on Friday, Feb. 5, viduals musl arrive by 7:45 p.m., beginning at 10 a.m. at the Veronica when the registration of voters will Smith Senior Center, 20 Chestnut Testing the teachers close. By Jeff Ousbome Hill Ave., Brighton. The public is All Massachusetts public school invited to come and speak with the teachers would have to pass a basic Capuano sponsors councilor. Honan can also be reached literacy test, along with another legislation al Boston City Hall, 635-3113. measuring their knowledge of the working on legislation aimed at spe Congressman Mike Capuano subject they teach, under terms of a cific localities, zoning boards, and Eighth district Congressman The Violence Against Women Act bill filed last week by Gov. Paul home rule petitions - such as Michael E. Capuano ([). New treasurer takes over of 1999 will reauthorize and expand CeUucd. Boston's attempt, last year, to give Somerville) last week filed his first Shannon O'Brien, the first woman provisions in the 1994 Violence The'bill requires teachers certified benefits to the domestic partners of pieces of legitlation on Capitol Hill. ever elected state treasurer, last Againsl Women Act. It will creale a after the Fall of 1994 to pass exams city employees (It was ultimately The bills inClude the Fair Minimum week promised to use her office to number of significant new protec by this June. Teachers certified prior vetoed by Mayor 1boma4i Menino). Wage Act of 1999, the Patients' Bill encourage banks to minimize the tions. It will provide judges with the lo October 1994 must pass the tests Assigning committees is easy for of Rights of 1999, the Violence fees they charge consumers, to authority to consider domestic vio by different dates. For instance, high Senate President 1boma4i Against Women Act of 1999 and the review the stale's borrowing prac lence when granting child custody, school teachers must pass by June Binningham (D-Chelsea). The Low Income Housing Tax Credit tices and to help parents and kids establish a national resource center on 1999, middle school instructors by harder job is doling out office space. Legislation. Capuano will also be the save for college. sexual assault, increase funding for June 2000 and elementary school Tolman is working out of his brother first freshman member of the House Delivering her inaugural address educational programs and provide a teachers by June 2001. The bill is Warren's roomy, fonner office - a of Representatives to sign on as an to a raucous audience in a crowded number of additional services. The now headed for consideration in the suite meant to hold a large staff - original sponsor of the Employment House chamber where she once Nondiscrimination Act of 1999, legislation earmarks $1 billion over full Legislature. but it's only a temporary home. the next 5 years for battered women's served, O'Brien, 39, said she wants Office assignments are a mysterious which wiJI be filed in the weeks the treasurer's office to play a larger Competency tests are already shelters, law enforcement agencies required for entry-level teachers mix of senior prerogative and the ahead. Capuano is al90 working with role in the day-to-day lives of citi and advocacy groups to address the under terms of the 1993 Education personal whims of the President other congressmen to draft a hate zens. Too many voters believe the issue of domestic violert:e. Reform Act The bill expanding test (Birmingham's predecesoor, William crimes bill designed to protect the treasurer is only a ''number crunch requirements to existing teachers Bulger, leaned toward the latter). rights of all Americans. er" who manages pension funds and will likely make its first stop at the Tolman should be worried if he ends The Fair Minimum Wage Act calls Tolman posts office hours selJs bonds. House and Senate Education up assigned to a furnace-room cubi for amending the Fair Labor Senator Steven A. Tolman ([). The treasurer manages the state's Committee, which panned the idea cle in the State House basement Standards Act of 1938 to increase the Brighton) will hold office hours on $24 billion pension fund, oversees last year. federal minimum wage to $5.65 per the state Lottery and sells bonds that 'We believe veteran teachers hour oa Sept I, 1999 and to $6.15 finance capital projects all over the Get out to vote should not be exempt," Cellucci per hour on Sept. I, 2CXX>. state. The Ward 21 Democratic Committee said. ''Teachers who do not pass will The Patients' Bill of Rights is "As treasurer, I will manage these will hold its caucus to elect delegates designed to protect consumers in billions of dollars efficiently and not teach in our schools. They must to the Massachusetts Democratic managed care health plans as well as responsibly," said O'Brien, adding have basic literacy and knowledge Convention on Monday, Feb. 8, at other types of health coverage. The that she's happy to be back in public of the subjects they teach." 7:30 p.m., in the auditorium of the Massachusetts Teachers Bill of Rights is designed includes a service. "I will use that financial Jackson-Mann Community Center, Association President Stephen host of provisions such as access to clout in new ways to derive added 500 Cambridge St., Union Square, health care, quality assurance and benefits for the people of the state." Gorrie opposes Cellucci's proposal. Allston. "I think veteran teachers will find patient information. One of the benefits O'Brien envi The Caucus will elect 15 delegates it insulting," said Gorrie. 'They too The Low Income Housing Tax sions is lower bank fees. The state and four alternates to the 1999 want good teachers, but not a sim Credit was established in 1986 to off deposits billions of dollars in banks, Democratic State Issues Convention plistic test that will have people's set decreasing appropriations for fed and O'Brien wants to use that clout to be held at the Springfield Civic careers depend on a test regardless erally assisted housing as well as the to force state banks to limit charg~ Center, Saturday, May 15. elimination of other tax incentives and surcharges they levy on cus- · of other factors." All individuals registered to vote for rental housing. State Sen. Steven Tolman tomers and ATM users. JeffOusbome is a freelance writer who contributes a weeldy column on Allston-Brighton politics for The www. town on Ii ne.com/ comm unit yea rd Allston-Brighton TAB.

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To ensure that everyone is heard, any meeting would confirm that this is tak the ACA conducts its business out in the ing place. open, and it allows voting among all resi Beyond that, my job has been to present the AWARDS dents of our community. We stand alone in "right" argument to the appropriate authority. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• that regard, as we do as Allston's only civic That argument can be diluted however, when organization. the umbrella people con Before we define our- fuse officials who judge selves as naysayers these arguments by stating though, we should men "There are some an opinion that is not rep tion that we still support resentati ve of the people the majority of proposals issues where most affected by whatever brought to us for review. is being proposed. The difference is that we the separation Territorial disputes have are often willing to nego between Allston been around since the tiate specifics, conditions beginning of time, but it and provisos with and Brighton doesn't has been quite clear since prospective developers. 1963 that the ACA has 1998 Recipient of the Boston The intention is not to really matter, and tprovided this forum to the Person of the Year Award·,~ just support or oppose some where it people of Allston and Agatha Tong • something, but rather to . North Brighton. We have question the impacts certainly does." not relinquished that associated with a propos responsibility, nor will we al and whether the ever. impacts be mitigated. We In the past four years, there has been no net gain in the number of look to see if it is possible to negotiate a n February 9 & 11, the win-win for the developer and the communi licenses for serving alcohol in Allston. In Weekly TAB wiJl ~ >:~-=i ~·jl .. ty. 1997, two were granted, however we were recognize indi- VJ ll J.Ju//'n" successful in getting those decisions over 0 Sti II, there are always proposals that just viduals in the TAB ~IJ::-(/ can't make it. You can't have construction turned on appeal to the State's Alcohol circulation area for ~ yards next to school yards, tow lots next to Beverage Control Co~ion . Last year, tot lots, or bars next to day care faci lities. the Zoning Board of Appeal agreed with our their outstanding ""?f~ ·./ L' ® " contributiens to v Each should have its own place, but not nec recommendations on zoning variance the community in requests 100 percent of the time. ~ essarily next to each other. our 3rd Annual ~ ~ When I was elected president of the ACA, There's no need for umbrellas. The civic People of the Year 'JiJ ~ I was told about the "umbrella people" and weather in Allston is just fine. Awards issue. This ~ ~ given some sound advice: don't waste your special issue has __.. ~ time trying to fend them off. Instead, make Paul Berkeley is the president of the Allston become one of the sure your neighbors have a forum in which Civic Association. year's most popu lar as it celebrates the unsung heroes living and working among us. It's our way of recognizing people who strengthen the fabric BLETZER & BLETZER, P.C. of your community. This is also an opportunity for readers to weigh in on who they think deserves recognition. Send us your nomination of who has made a difference in your town -that individual who strives to make your community a ATTORNEYS AT LAW better place to live. • Nominations must be received by Spm on Friday, January 29th. Winners will be chosen by a specially-appointed editorial panel at the TAB.

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wt can help you with all ofyour legal matttrs. (Please complete additional comments on separate sheet of paper) Conrad J. Bletzer, Jr. Curt F. Bletzer Don 't forget! Christopher A. Cahill Your Name 300 Marlcet Street Brighton, Massachusetts 02135 Address Td: (617) 254-8900 •Fax: (617) 254-5522 ~------~ Da~imephone ~------••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ,. Page 14 1he Al~n TAB, January 26 - February I, 1999 www.IOwnonline.com/allstonbrigbton At 95, should Senator Strom Thrumond serve? trom Thunnond gives me hours against a civil rights bill. with social failure. deprive the rising generations of problems. These problems GROWING To get the views of an age peer of ''To the psychotherapist," Jung their opportunities to seIVe? 0 S came to a head earlier this OLDER Thunnond, I consulted a 95-year-old adds, "an old man who cannot bid Richard Griffin shares his unique month as the senior senator from resident of Newton named Herbert farewell to life appears as feeble and perspectives with readers in his South Carolina took on a highly visi Trubek who reads this column. sickly as a young man who is unable "Growing Older" column. His past ble national role. SeIVing as By Richard Griffin Asked ifThunnond should step to embrace it." columns can be read at the award. President pro Tempore of the United down because of his age, Trubek There is also the question of readi winning Web site at www.townon States Senate, he opened the pro responded: "I wouldn't say that - it ness to hand over power to younger line.com 1b offer column ideas, e ceeR I \R Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the ask if it contributes to the common I also conferred with Jean Evans, (~ . \I . ~I) Supreme Court, I was prepared to good if a politician clings to office a Cambridge resident who grew up Programs and classes by the 14 p.m. - Bridge see him falter. People with knowl until he reaches his I ()()th year, as in South Carolina. Her comments Veronica B. Smith Multi-Seivice edge of the Washington political Thunnond intends to do. about Thurmond were sharp and Center, 20 Chestnut Ave., for the scene had told me that the senator In some jobs, the employer has the forthright. "He got stuck in time 50 Friday, Jan. 29 week of Jan. 26-Feb. I. The senior has failed notably in both physical right to ask the employee to undergo years ago," she told me, "and with 9:30 a.m. - English as a Second center is open Monday-Friday from abilities and mental sharpness. an assessment of physical and mental ideas like that, he's too out-of-date to Language classes 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Lunch is served Yet he seemed to have carried it health to determine fitness to seive. be representing anybody." 9:30 a.m. - Art instruction with Monday-Thursday at noon. off quite well. "Pleased to welcome Jane Horton, now a Bostonian, Dawn Scaltreto Telephone: 635-6120. you," he told Rehnquist as the latter also grew up in South Carolina. 10 8.llli>-Walking approached the dais and prepared to "If his,politics were Though she disapproves of 1-2 p.m. - Senior Swim at the take the oath. The soon-to-be longest Thunnond's political views, she Tuesday, Jan. 26 YMCA, 470 Washington St., seiving senator in history looked on like those of my respects his determination. Asked if 9 a.m. - Exercise Class. No cost Brighton. the swface to be a remarkably fit 95- representative, Barney the senator's age bothers her, she 9:30 a.m. - Crochet year-old man. replies, "On some level, yes, but as I 10 a.m. - Bowling Monday, Feb. 1 Still, his continuing presence in Frank, I wouldn't care." get older I say 'go for it, kid.'" Lunch. Suggested dona Noon - 9 a.m. - English as a Second the Senate troubles me. Seeing him For me, another issue has impor tion, $1.50 Language classes there creates an uncomfortable tance here. Aside from the question 1 p.m. - English as a Second Herbert Trubek 10 a.m. - Walking philosophical dilemma for me. of the common welfare, is it good Language classes 11 a.m. - Chi Gung I & II Thunnond forces me into an appar for the person himself to remain in a 1 p.m. - Bingo Noon - Lunch. Suggested dona ent contradiction between my roles demanding job into advanced old tion, $1.50 as an elder advocate and as a person This holds true of police, firefighters age? \Nednesday,Jan.27 Noon - Valentines for veterans concerned to find the common good. and airline pilots - ll{!long others. Many would say that late life is a 9 a.m. - Painting with Mary Ross 1 p.m. - Line Dance On the one hand, I believe that No such check cari'be made of time to shift into a different mode, a 10 a.m.L- Weight Watchers 1-2 p.m. - Senior Swim at the age should not limit one's right to elected representatives, however. If style of living more col'Mucive to Noon ___! Lunch. Suggested dona YMCA, 470 Washington St., work. Why should not older people reflection. One thinks of the classical chosen by the people, they can con tion, $1.50 Brighton. have the same access to gainful tinue to hold office even when they Hindu approach to the stages of life 12:30 p.m. - English as a Second employment as anyone else? The can no longer function well. whereby, after a busy career and Language classes Jaws abolishing compulsory retire Of course, for me, Senator · long tenure as a householder, a per \Neight loss program 1-2 p.m. - Senior Swim at the ment in this country brought a social Thunnond is a special case because son was expected to leave home and YMCA, 470 Washington St., offered change which l welcomed. go live in the forest and there focus of his politics. Many reasons other Brighton. Are you interested in losing that And yet there is another side. Just than age incline me to wish that he on prayer and contemplation. extra weight you gained over the because the law allows someone to were not holding public office. The words of the Swiss psycholo holidays? This is a great chance to remain in a job for an indefinitely Decades ago, he had already com gist Jung ring in my ears. "Whoever Thursday,Jan.28 get those pounds off before the long time, that does not mean that piled a long record as a confirmed carries over into the afternoon the 9 a.m. - Exercise spring and make some new friends it's good to stay. segregationist. As far back as 1954, law of the morning ... must pay for it 10 a.m. - Fix-it-Shop in the community. In some kinds of work, perhaps he set a record by filibustering 24 with damage to his soul, just as sure 10:30 a.m. - Choral The Veronica B. Smith Multi ly as a growing youth who tries to Noon - Lunch. Suggested dona SeIVice Senior Center is currently carry over his childish egoism into tion, $1.50 accepting new participants for the adult life must pay for this mistake 1-3 p.m. - Venus' Bingo next 10-week session of the weight loss program, One, 1\vo, Three Two new reasons Success. 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By Judy Wasserman TAB Correspondent his is the first year the Mary Lyon School on Beechcroft T Street has had a sixth grade, and, as Principal Mary Nash tells it, "It's going very well." The 10 sixth-graders fit in well, and are even setting a good example for the rest of the students, said Nash. "There is wonderful student inter action, for example, with the sixth graders sciving as junior counselors, in our after-school program," she said. "We've made sure the sixth graders are aware of the influence they have on the younger students, and that as the oldest they have cer tain responsibilities." 1n addition to helping out after school and during recess, the sixth graders have also taken responsibili ty for themselves, meeting every Friday morning as a cl~ to set goals, share ideas and make group decisions. An example of their sense of group responsibility is a cl~ pro ject of a coloiful patchwork quilt Mary Lyon S<;f1001 sixth-grade math and science teacher Herve Anon bel~ Wtlliam Bortolin with an equation. they designed and sewed and which hangs on a bulletin board outside to continue to provide for its special and Anoh co-teach literature. When Nash said. of time for core subjects," she their cl~room. They will donate it needs students beyond fifth grade, seventh grade is added in the fall, Nash is also working on the pos said. 0 to Children's Hospital in Boston, and also be an option for another teacher and paraprofessional sibility of extending the school day where it will be given to a baby with Allston-Brighton parents who want will be hired. When the eighth grade for middle school students. Mary Mary Lyon School has slots open AIDS. to keep their children in one school is added, a lead teacher may be hired Lyon's hours are now 9:20 a.m. to for sixth- and seventh-graders for Nash said she and her staff have through middle school. to oversee all of the middle school 3:20 p.m. Nash would like to see September. The school can accom tried to make sure the new students While it has taken a little time to grades. That person would deal with middle schoolers arrive one hour modaJe up to 15 students in each ''feel different," that they really are get used to having sixth-graders in curriculum and behavior issues and earlier, at 8:20 a.m. grade. For more information, call middle school students. For exam the school, Nash said it is definitely "stay focused on the larger picture," 'That would increase the amount Principal Mary Nash at 635-7945. ple, the school adopted a student a positive step. She said she looks planning book similar to those used forward to adding a seventh grade at Allston and Brighton's middle next September and an eighth grade Sci 1001. BRILl ·S schools, Edison and Taft. Mary Lyon in the year 2000. sixth-graders also take French, and "I love the older kids, because you Catholic Schools Week dents in Grades 1-8 will mark Nash said the new science curricu are learning test-taking strategies can really talk to them and reason "Student Appreciation Day." They .. lum had not been fully implemented which Nash said will teach them to with them. They are capable of com celebrated are allowed to wear "anything they at the time, as was the case in many persevere on a test even if the mater plex thinking," she said. ln conjunction with Catholic wish, within reason." They will schools, and so students had not ial seems difficult Nash said she is When the middle school structure Schools Week, Jan. 25 to 29, St. also enjoy an ice skating party at learned some of the test material. also considering adding a communi is completed in 2000, Nash hopes _. Columbkille's School has sched the MDC rink in Cleveland Circle. However, Nash said the science ty seivice component to the seventh there will be four teachers and four uled several special events. There is no school Jan. 29 so that curriculum is now fully implement and eighth-grade curricula paraprofessionals. On Monday, students and teach teachers can participate in a profes ed and students will be prepared The Boston School Committee The sixth grade has two teachers ers participated in a prayer seivice sional day. for the MCAS science test She approved Mary Lyon's proposal last - Obain Attouoman, who teaches and the Home ana School On Jan. 30, students and staff expects a similar situation will spring to add middle school grades French and social studies; and Heive Association hosted a free lunch for will enjoy a spaghetti dinner at the develop this year with the addition to the school beginning in Anoh, who teaches math and sci students and staff. school. For more information, call of a social studies MCAS test, right September 1998. Nash had told the ence. A paraprofessional, Kristin Jan. 26 is "Favorite Pajama the school at (6 17) 254-3 110. on the heels of the implementation committee that Mary Lyon wanted Fraser, is also on staff. Attouoman Day." Students and teachers may of a new social studies curriculum. wear their favori te pajamas and Last May, for the first time, stu slippers to school. Principal Mary Proud of their test scores dents in grades four, eight and l 0 Register now for Brattles said the day is designed to Mary Lyon School Principal Mary statewide took the MCAS, new show that Catholic school can be Nash says she is proud of how her illl dily/extcnded day programs standardized tests designed to fun and relaxing. Brattles said other students performed on last year's reflect more comprehensive cur schools have held successful paja Massachusetts Comprehensive riculum in three academic areas: ma days, so St. Columbkille's Assessment tests. EnglisManguage arts, math, and S Westgate Christian Academy decided to host one too. 1n English/Language Arts, five of science and technology. Most stu On Wednesday, Jan. 27, the the nine fourth-graders who took the dents were not expected to score school will celebrate ''Teacher MCAS 'test scored at or above the • Pre-K through Grade 6 100 Wmter Street very well on the tests, and, in fact, Appreciation Day" and "Spirit citywide level and three scored • Academic excellence in a Christian setting Weston, MA they didn't. Education officials cau Day." Battles said students and above the state level. 1n math, all • Hands-on curriculum, small classes (781) 239-1766 tioned the public not to overreact teachers have been encouraged to but one of the nine students scored because this first round of tests wear the school colors of green and above the citywide level, with two served as a baseline or beginning white. scoring very high. The students' sci measurement of student achieve And, on Thursday, Jan. 28, stu- ence scores were not as high, but ment Officials have said that over the next few years student achieve ment should improve, and that will ~~ Metropolitan Fuel Corporation be reflected in MCAS scores. This year's fourth-, eighth- and tenth T.O.M.A.? Weil McLain 3-Section Boiler $2650. graders will take the tests in May. 275 Gallon oil tank installed $795. Aschool recovers Concord warm air furnace i.uF SOA841950" $1895. t Gary Phillips, a seventh-grade ~SUBJECT TO CHANGE teacher at SL Anthony's School in 1-617-Jl4-8006 or 1-800-696-8006 SCHOOL BRIEFS, page 17

I January 26 - February 1, 19991111 Albtl I 11111*1 TU, page 17 SCHOOL NEWS Preschool finds success Fanciful comedy at Wmship elementary mixes with reality That will change in September. He added that including special Modem "Midsummer New program offers The Boston School Committee and regular education students in the continuity for adopted a new policy last month in same class, which combines stu Night's Dream" which, once a child is accepted in a dents of various abilities and back performance offers students, parents school for kindergarten, he or she grounds, is educationally wise. ~ will be guaranteed a seat in that ele Enrollment in Winship's pre interesting surprises By Ashley Johnson By Judy Wassennan mentary school through fifth grade, kindergarten classes is at capacity, TAB Correspondent BPS spokesperson Gretchen O'Neill but openings are available for As part ofa collaborative effort with ith presch.ool ~hild care said. September 1999. the Wang Center'.S' Young at Arts at a premium m The class for 3-year-olds, which program, a team oflocal high Puck is around. Toward the end, it W Allston-Brighton, a enrolls eight regular and seven spe school students has been chosen to feels like the characters knew all new prekindergarten program for cial education students (with minor serve as arts critics for Community the secrets of our world, but we 3- and 4-year-old children is creat "The goal is to get disabilities), meets in the morning. Newspaper Company. This is the knew none of theirs. ing some much-needed stability for them here as 3-year The session, taught by a teacher and second in a series of reviews written The actors were always com local families. a paraprofessional, includes break by our Paul A. Kaplan Critics' pletely in charatter. Hermia The program, which opened in olds, anclthen fast. Circle. (Meredith Zinner) is childlike and September and integrates regular families can stay with The 4-year-olds' class, also immediately likable. Sarah Rafferty with special education students, was enrolling eight regular and seven Ashley Johnson portrays Helena as believably,.and designed to guarantee students us for all eight years special education students and CNC Arts Correspondent appropriately, miserable. All the enrolled in the program a seat at [pre-kindergarten taught by a teacher and a parapro hakespeare's "A Midsummer young fairies are adorable. Puck Winship through fifth grade, accord through grade 5]." fessional, meets in the afternoon. Night's Dream" is a tale of (Doug Hara) has the best lines in ing to Principal Antonio Barbosa. This session includes lunch. S fairies and love potions and "'lbe goal is to get them here as To be eligible for the Winship dreams within dreams. It's a perfect 3-year-olds, and then families can Antonio Barbosa program next year, a student must escapist play, especially since it is stay with us for all eight years [pre be 3 or 4 years old by Sept. l, 1999. about mixing reality and fantasy. "The players use kindergarten through grade 5]," said Families can sign up their children The current Huntington Theatre extreme · Barbosa. during the BPS annual school regis Company production does the job Being at Winship for all eight Previously, there was not always tration process, which began Jan. 7. well, with director Mary characterizations, years "is good for the students, the sufficient space in a school for all its The first-round deadline is Feb. 4. Zimmerman introducing elements and at times it seems parents and the teachers," said kindergartners to continue into first According to BPS officials, stu~ents of today's culture into the play. Barbosa, who added that it provides grade, because BPS' racial guide who apply by that date have the best Zimmerman draws in the audi like the audience is continuity in teaching and learning lines governing grades 1-12 affected chance of being assigned to their ence from the moment the Duke of watching a hilarious and helps build a strong relationship enrollment. Kindergarten was not school of choice. Athens (John Wojda) speaks the between school and home. affected, because it was part-time. For more infonnation about play's first lines. Every element of 'Jerry Springer' show Under the current BPS school Barbosa and his teachers say school assignments, call the North the production combines to form a assignment plan, students choose changing schools can be detrimental l.one Parent Center (which covers new world under a bright moon. with Elizabethan-era schools for kindergarten, first, sixth to educational progress. He said it is Allston-Brighton), at 635-9010. For The minimalist set seems appropri guests." and ninth grades, but often kinder unwise for students to have to infonnation about Winship '.S' pre ate for Zimmerman's take. A few gartners can't stay in their chosen "bounce from school to school" and kindergarten program, call arches serve as a castle, and a green school for first grade because there make adjustments to new schools Principal Antonio Barbosa at 635- satin backdrop is a whole forest. isn't enough room. and teachers. 8399. The scenes change to fanciful the show, and he delivers them with music, specially composed for the sly enthusiasm. S < . I I < >< >I B I-! 11 .I s production by Michael Bodeen, and The players use extreme charac Mara Blumenfeld's costumes are terizations, and at times it seems like FROMPAGE16 Good times all week long school's Home and School beautiful - particularly those worn the audience is watching a hilarious Association will host an open by the fairies. "Jerry Springer" show with Allston, has been named the Students and teachers at Our Lady house and spaghetti dinner for It would be easy for the audience Elizabethan-era guests. It's all in school's principal. He succeeds the of the Presentation School in Oak to believe that this fantasy world good fun, though, and the audience late Paul Nagle, who died suddenly prospective families. Current par Square are also busy celebrating ents and teachers will be on hand to was completely alien and exceed enjoys every minute of the action. Jan. 3. Catholic Schools Week. talk with families and give tours of ingly better than our reality. Stirely Shakespeare would agree ...... Phillips, who will continue to Principal Sister Mary Duke said the school. However, the directbr brings in that in comajy, it's anything for a teach several classes, said last week Monday was "Community Day," There will be two supper seat charming takes on the characters' laugh. 0 that "things are slowly getting back when Our Lady recognized Oak reality. Here, things·from our world Ashley Johnson is a resident of i~s, one at 5 p.m. and one at 6:30 to normal" at St. Anthony's. He Square businesses for the support have a habit of showing up in Brighton and a junior at Newman said the Catholic Schools office has p.m. In the morning, when parents they provide the school. drop off their children, they will be theirs, especially when the trickster Preparatory School. been instrumental in helping the St. Student Appreciation Day is served complimentary coffee and Anthony's community deal with Tuesday. Students don't have to the situation. refreshments. wear uniforms or do homework. For students, Thursday will be "I am very impressed with how They will also enjoy a free lunch of "Spirit Day." They don't have to things were handled," he said. hot dogs. Retired teacher and current wear uniforms, but should dress in Wednesday is Teacher the school colors, blue and gold. school librarian Ann Flaherty, who Appreciation Day, and students will stepped in to help run the school For more information, call the Perk up your personal life! have ano pportunity to make cards school at (617) 782-8670. immediately after Nagle's death, and notes for their teachers. -Judy Wassennan will continue to assist Phillips dur On Thursday, Jan. 28, the ing the transition. One of Phillips' first duties as principal has been to oversee plan BR would later help write the New In 1810, however, Worcesterrelo Hampshire stale eoffititution. cated in the more southerly town of At the outbreak of the American Salisbwy, N.H., to assist his brother, Revolution, the 16-year-old The Rev. Thomas Worcester, who Won:ester marched off with his had been incapacitated by illness. flllher's company of New Hampshire There, he wrote his first book, Bible g militiamen to join the patriot anny News of the FaJhef, Son, and Holy ~ then mas&ng at Cambridge. A few Ghost, which was a vigorous defense ~ weeks laler Won:ester fought at the of the central tenets of the Unitarian ~ Baille of Bunker Hill, where he bare creed This led to an "earnest contro- ~ ly escaped deadl. He also fought in versy" with the Congregationalist ~ the bloody t m Batt.le of Hopkington Association, of which he i Bamington. Of the latter episode he had long been a member, which con- ~ wwld write that ''he felt much worse demoed him as an apootate. Having ~ in going over the ground the next alienated the religious right of his day than dwing engagement" itself. day, however, the New Hampshire The carnage he witnessed 00 both of minister immediately became the these Revolutionary War battlefieJds darling of the religious left. helped tmkl the pocifist convictions Worcester's spirited and closely to which he would later give eJo.. reasoned defense of Unitarianism Noah Worcester helped found the American peace movement while living in Brighton Center. quent expres.gon in A Solemn Review had attracted the attention of a group to defend their point of view, called of Boston proper in Brighton, which Review ofthe Custom o/War, there

HISTORY, from page 18 simple, partly, I have no doubt, from many years, remembered Worcester Funeral services were held at brated pacifist, whereupon hi , but mild-mannered. Worcester tood taste and partly from necessity; for I for his gentleness of spirit and great Brighton's First Church, of which remains were moved to Mt. Auburn more than six feet in height and was have always understood that his intellectual curiosity: "On leaving he had been a member since 1813, in Cambridge. 0 large-framed, Blagden recalled, and means were quite limited .... I seem to [the Worcester] house and turning and he was laid to rest in the Market William P. Marchione, Curator ofthe wore his hair long, under a broad see him and hear him now - an my face towards the city, I have said Street Burying Ground. Jn 1838, Brighton-Allston Historical Society, brimmed hat. He canicd a staff, and unusually kind and meek and modest how much richer is this poor man however, the organizers of the is an Associate Professor of History usually dressed in a roomy black but courageous and conscientious old than the richest who dwell yonder." newly-established Mt. Auburn at the Art Institute ofB oston, and the gown. man." Worcester died in his Washington Cemetery furnished a free 70- author of several books on Boston "His habits of living were very Channing, a close associate for Street home on Oct. 31, 1837. square-foot burial plot for the cele- area history.

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,. Page 20 The Allston..arlghton TAB, January 26 - February I, 1999 www.townonline.com/allstonbrighton B USIN E SS N EWS Commission reaches higher to hire or the past 60 years, the only work with consumers looking room clerk, nurse practitioner, com in the neighborhoods. Monitoring those options. Massachusetts Rehabilitation to be placed, but also with the puter programmer, health-care ana student behavior is a strong com "We need to place brackets on FCo mmission has been com employers doing the hiring," said lyst, artist, janitor, photographer, mitment of Boston College to the the poles to hang whatever type of mitted to developing working rela the commission's Karen Beth Mael. sales clerk, radio, librarian, secre community," he added. decoration we put up," said Bletzer. tionships with people and business 'There is somewhat of an educating tary and data entry clerk. Mills can be reached at 552-8661 "Brackets are expensive, so we es. Its goal is twofold: to help dis- process that goes on. For more information on the for comments or concerns about cannot temporarily put them up "Companies who have never uti Massachusetts Rehabilitation Boston College and its community. and then have to replace them all lized MRC need to know that they Center, cal I Karen Beth Mael at again. They are nermanent fix- are getting qualified workers who . 739-9080. New light shed on tures." Ii" are not only motivated to work, but holiday decorations The Board of. Trade is aware that are well trained and monitored by BC appoints community many community residents were our staff here at MRC. In some affairs associate The holiday decorations that the unhappy with the holiday lights, but ly Rosie Hanlon instances a company requires addi Brighton Board of Trade has placed "after taking a general consensus, tional training for the employee, Bill Mills, a Boston College throughout Brighton for the past people wanted to put what we had and in that case MRC will pay half employee since July 1988, has been several years were taken down up rather than to have no decora the employee's wages for a maxi appointed associate director of gov recently - hopefully for the last tions at all," said Bletzer. abled people return to work; and to mum of six months. ernment and community affairs at time. A.K. Media of Stoneham, a help local businesses find qualified 'The benefits are many in hiring the college. Board of Trade members met last member of the brighton Board of employees. someone from MRC, such as get In his new post, Mills is responsi Wednesday to discuss the poor con Trade, vo l unt~.~ its staff and The commission provides com ting a qualified depe~dable employ ble for monitoring student behavior dition of the decorations and the equipment to hang and remove the prehensive employment services to ee, no-cost placement services, throughout the community by possibility of replacing them with decorations for the third year in a assist people with disabilities in on-the-job training, assistance with working with local organizations. new ones. row. the company's diversity needs, as · His new.position will enable him to "We received several calls from well as a federal tax credit consulta sustain these community ties. residents in the community who On track with the Web tion." "I enjoy being out there with the were upset by the condition of the The Brighton Board of Trade's Web "My job as placement Established to encourage employ community," said Mills. "A lot of decorations," said board President site contains a weekly update on the ers to hire people with disabilities, great things happen in Allston Curt Bletzer. "Some candles did not specialist is quite progress of the A-Line track the Americans with Disabilities Act Brighton because of the many peo light because the connections to the removal project. This includes a unique in the fact that was one of the first attempts to ple committed to making it a better utility poles were so old and did not map charting the progress, as well encourage such people to become place. I like that, and am pleased to work." I not only work with as tips for local businesses affected reasonably independent, bo~ physi represent Boston College and be a The board is considering other by the removal. consumers looking to cally and financially. However, part of it. decorating options, including year "Brighton On Track" may be recent statistics indicate that only . "I also feel that a very impo'1fillt round banners.~However, the be placed, bu.t also accessed at http://www.brighton 30 percent of people with disabili part of my job is to work with the upcoming replacement of the utility bot.com. with the employers ties are working in this country. students living among the residents poles on Washington Street limits doing the hiring." ''Even though we say and do all the politically correct things, we ALLS Hl\ RL.\I EST \Tl TR \\S \(" 1"10'\S still have not come as far as we Karen Beth Mael should," said Jim Bowers, unit ADDRESS PRICE DATE SELLER BUYER supervisor of tl)e Brookline area 36 Glenville Ave. Unit 10 44,000 12/04/98 Sabrina J Mc Creary Mr. Steve Sapontzis office of the Americans with finding jobs. With commission Disabilities Act. ''I think businesses assistance, these motivated individ still do not understand that by hir BRl(iHT<>\ R1:. \L EsT\"11· TR \'\S \C 110'\s uals have taken positive steps to ing through MRC you are getting ADDRESS PRICE DATE SELLER BUYER minimize the effects of their limita prequalified people - qualified La Lucema Condo Unit 1 95,000 12/04/98 Ma~o Rea~T r Mr. Pompeo Salvucci tions on their job petfonnance . Last being the key word - as well as year the commission's Brookline job-ready and motivated. 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LIBRARY from page 1 windows with views into the facili- indoor halls. City Councilor Brian McLaughlin; based in the South End - has ArchHects, local representatives ty's courtyard and gardens. ·" "We have integrated the library Nancy Grilk, formerly of City designed and built in Boston, and city officials encouraged com The exterior of the building will very carefully into the neighbor Councilor Brian Hanan's Office although it is internationally {,... munity members to attend this be covered with slate shingles. hood," added Love. The building'; and now employed· by the renowned for its work. The compa Thursday's public meeting, view design is scaled to mix with the Department of Neighborhood ny is also designing a building at the building models and ask ques varied housing styles in the neigh Development; Lillian Burgess of the Boston Center for the Arts and tions. The meeting will be held at "Sincerely, I've borhood, and will have approxi St. Anthony's School and Parish; a master plan for Dewey Square. St. Anthony's Church, 43 Holton mately 25 parking spaces behind it. Eflin Murphy of the Gardner Some of the firm's projects in St., Allston. never worked with The faci lity is also designed to be School; and Paul Berkeley, presi progress outside of the Boston area During a rash of budget cuts in a community group completely handicapped accessible. dent of the Allston Civic include a center of antiquities for the 1980s, Allston's former library Love praised the community, and Association. the J. Paul Getty Museum in was shut down. Since then, the so dedicated to the particularly the Community This is the fi rst building that Malibu, Calif., and a 267-bed dor nei hborhood has remained with- design process." Advisory Committee, for its dedi Machado and Silvetti Associates - mitory and master plan for ~...... ~ 1~3 cation lo the project. The commit a planning and architecture firm Princeton University. 0 promise by then-acting Mayor tee members, along with the archi Menino that the city would build Tim love, Project Architect tects, spent months touring other Allston a new state-of-the-art city libraries to determine what facility. they did and did not like. The library plans were kick-start "We chose to use materials that "Sincerely, I've never worked ed again last Man;h, after years of actually weather well," explained with a community group so dedi community advocacy, when Project Architect Tim Love. cated to the design process," Love Menino unveiled plans to begin ''They will develop a nice quality sitid. Your Wireless Communications Warehouse const111ction of the library branch with age." Wood floors line the The committee included former 1641 Beacon Street• BROOKLINE (Washington Square) in the spring of 1999. The building PHONE: ·. will be located at 308 North Harvard St., the site of the former 617·734-7900 McNamara Cement Plant, in a pri ~"'R & /)~ marily residential neighborhood. "It's a full-service public Bring in this ad and get a library," said Boston Public Library ti~"~ President Bernard Margolis. Along 8 0 S T 0 N GET TWICE THE with plenty of computers and thou (617) 782-4500 FREE PAGER* sands of books, the library will 417 CAMIRIDGI STREET, AWTON AIR TIME FOR have spaces designed for every WWW.CPI!. COM THE FIRST and 30°/o off a phone card thing from children's storytelling to • 612 WASHINGTON st, NEWTON THREE MONTHS~~~ adult programming and public (617) 965-6800 receptions. llliillllll.... 11111, ...,Cf,IYlldll. When architects surveyed the site, they found a rare European [;>[loo~ FREE ~~ @00 ~IJ'o copper beach tree thriving. It had AT&T Coller IDAT&T PCS Voice MoilAT&T Text Messoging grown tall, sandwiched between a house and the old cement company. The architects preserved the tree and incorporated it Into the library's design. When the building U#UMITED MIGHTS is complete, patrons will see the & WEEKENDS tree through reading room win dows. There are two public reading , The new 11000.• rooms, and both are fl anked by NEXTEL: AUTHOftlZCD ltfftlt£SEH TA1'VI! YOU ' Wl litl ffl USID A PHOlll! Liil nus I U OIL.. NQ.1d pa.iooe. ll'C nwnuf..:tund by MOi C lllOJA ••a-...•.---... .,.._.,._..,..,.111111c.i.n'llll,..11111"""1io""..., ·----·---llc. li:IQUl(.. 1111 ·•·--,...i-dll:!Qllc.

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~· OMNIPOINT - 00 09•01 0 .., 1..... 1...... EXT~ , ...... !~ ,. Page 22 "'8 Allstoa lrlghtOI TAB, January 26 - February I, 1999 www.townonline.com/allstonbrighton -- HEALTH CLUB ROUND-UP Get pumped, get healthy, get fit for-a-day, Fitness Director John Jay · Local fitness clubs Woolridge, took my health history, flex their muscles then did a series of embarrassing but important body-fat tests. Then to help you along came the real tests: How fit am I? What's my body composition and ~Linda Frank circumference; resting heart rate and Assistant Lifestyles &iitor blood pressure; my muscle old it - before you grab strength? that c1icker and sink into The news is pretty good: I'm rela H your sectional, wake up tively fit, and only 5 percent over and smell the sauna. Your health the nonn for percent body fat. On to club is not only open; it's waiting to my exercise "prescription." The tailor your personal fitness plan. challenge: motivation, discipline This is the new wave in fitness. and time. For those who can't sum It's no longer an exercise free-for mon the first tw.o~ i)ersonal training all. Instead of going to a gym or is recommended. health club and doing whatever My reward for two hours of lift everyone else is doing, the c1ient is ing, curling, pressing and stepping: first evaluated: What is your current a wann, dreamy soak in the physical condition? What are your whirlpool. fitness goals? Interests? Are you Besides the typical fitness fare, reducing, toning, sculpting? The CRFC members enjoy squash - instructor then guides the c1ient no, not the butternut variety - rac toward a personaUred combination quetball and walleyball. But it's not Instructor Gina Tzia~ takes a group on a choreographed ''ride'' in a Reebok studio cycling~ offered each day at Cambridge of equipment, training, nutrition just for health. Squash is not only a Racquet & Fitness Oub. Music and imagination help the cyclists create the ride. counseling etc. The options in great cardiovascular workout, says ager Sun Kim. Aerobics, while 'health-and-fitness faci1ities now are Sou], but the longer ralli~ afford falling off in popularity elsewhere, greater than ever before, because the the racqueteer a game of finesse and is still a main draw at FCVI', says focus on fitness is ever-increasing. attrition. Kim. Also popular is yoga, power "Fitness continues to grow," says Most of those interviewed said pacing and muscle conditioning in Eddie Soul, owner and manager of that their clubs enjoyed an increase, addition to more speciaUzed mind Cambridge Racquet & Fitness Club if not a surge, in membership during conditioning classes. Free weights near Kendall Square, "because it's 1998. Soul has observed a 5 percent and cardiovascular conditioning your only shot for the fountain of increase since 1997. With many equipment are also available. youth. People see folks getting older health maintenance organizations "Women are looking for a person and need to get healthy now." And and employers offering to pick up alired, comfortable atmosphere," they mean now. Many of Soul's part of the tab for working out, it which brings women of all ages to clients are Lotus employees and doesn't make sense not to join a her club, says Kim. "It's a family other professionals, who have to facility. atmosphere with one-on-one con squeere in their workouts between Although most clubs are for men tact It's a smaJl club where no one's meetings. and women, some, such as The a stranger." Soul, however, says no one at his Fitness Club for Women in At Gold's Gym in Boston, next to club is allowed to overdo it, espe Wellesley, specialize in women's Fenway Park, a mix of students and cially when beginning a new pro unique fitness and personal needs, professionals from ages 18 to 65 gram. Strength training and nutri including qualified child care. A don their Speedos and Champions tional education are top priority at Wellesley fixture for the past 15 to run, spin, ride, step or kick-box CRFC, and each member is years, the club offers a "clean facili their way to fitness. Jessie Albert, .c.ssessed individually. My trainer- ty with great equipment," says man- club manager and certified personal trainer, says people who come to H!\Vf_ YOU RECEN JtY BEEN Dl!\CNOSED her club are bored with aerobics. "In '82, a step[-aerobics] class Wll H HICH-CR!\DE CERVICAL DYSPLASIA? • would be packed," says Albert, who If you answered yes, you may be eligible to participate in a Brigham and Women's has a degree in exercise physiology Hospital approved investiBat1onal drug trial. lf found to work1 tllis drug may replace the rieed for surgery fOf high-grade cervical dysplasia in the ruture. from Boston University and who As a participant in the study you will still und~rgo th~ standard treatm~t _for took a three-hour personal training high.grade dysplasia. BefOfe treatment, you w11f receive the new medication 3 to certification course. Members opt 6 times on an evef)'·three-week basis and will be followed with colpc:>SCOPY to monitor treatment re5ponse. This will re5ult in 5 to 7 visi~ to the Brigham and instead for what she says is the lat Women's Hospital pnOf to treatment and one follow-up v1s1t four months later. 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By Chad Konecky TAB Correspondent hen Boston Red Sox legend Ted Wtlliams talks W about the chal lenges of hitting, he can make it sound almost respectable to go O-for- 4 against a major league pitcher. That's sort of how life is for the Brighton High boys basketball team in the Boston City League. The Bengals fell to 0-8 last week, but they haven't looked all that bad dur ing a wi~ start in one of eastern MaMaehusetts' mo.st talented leagues. "God, this league is unbelievable," Brighlon High second-year head com:ll Wahler Mitchell said. "We've aot llOllle good young men who play hml. bat cbey lack the hank:orc 1- bcblll till Ibey need co win consis IL'lllly in dml leegue." Illness and injwy haven't helped. Brighrm was wilhout senior play mam and Brighlm reskm 0mroy AdiU blbe &11 llinl «lbe ~ ....fl ...... wrist Tine am. wse hampeud by. the flu inllndJ (Ian. ~. Athill led the way with l l points agaimt the Bluestars as Brighton led by u many as eight before fading !ale. Jqhrorl resident and senior pcint sun Bllndaa s... finilhed with nine, while senior cenler' Jam Guy added eight The Bengals' 57 points w~ a team season-best. Earlier this month, Brighton fell 62-52 against Latin Academy on Jan. Nafer.sba Moore scond nine pomls In Brfal*m Hlah Scbool'a 36-35 win owr Wiil 14 despite 11 points from junior cen Roxbury last week. The win moved the Benpls to >I In lfagae play. ter Randolph Abraham of Brighton. Mitchell also singled out the steady lo 5-3 this winter after last week's Brighton (3-1 Boston City play for the squad's best fMo.4brow production of senior swingman frustrating 50-29 non-league loss at Lea8Ue) got a heroic effort from shooter, freshman guard JJ Morris. Corey English. Seekonk (Jan. 20) - a physical senior point guard Rachel The play worked to perfection, The Bengals are scheduled to visit game in which visiting Brighton Henderson, who followed consecu Morris drew the foul, hit l-of-2 free Cbarlcstown (Jan. 26, 3:45 p.m.) only shot six free throws. But the tive steals with driving lay-ups in throws and Henderson picked off before traveling to face South Boston Bengals proved they can win the the closing seconds to tie the game the Raiders' desperate, full-court (Jan. 28, 3:45 p.m.) this week. ones that count by stunning league al 35-35. heave to seal the win. rival West Roxbury 36-35 after With less than 15 seconds to go, Henderson led the way with 12 Girls still In hunt trailing by four with 40 seconds to the Bengals got a defensive stop via points in the win, while Morris and The Brighton High girls team fell play. a turnover and set up a designed senior center Nafeesha Moore - St. Joseph's hoop team continues to rebound · surprise. Earlier this month, the pro column as the Eagles seized a 25-20 Brookline's Maimonides School. St younger players how to play hard," Eagles bounce back gram, which won five straight divi lead at the break and opened up the Joe's used a relentless press in the Kidder said. from rough start sion titles from 1992-97, was in a 6- second half with a 15-0 spurt that first half to harass the M-Cats into St. Joe's only setback of mid 20 skid since the beginning of last turned the game into a 40-20 laugher. multiple unforced errors. Sophomore January was a 71-55 loss to West By Chad Konecky season. Sophomore center Samine Du small forward Erin Moran scored a Roxbury on Jan. 11. Truth be told, TAB ComspondenJ "We're coming along pretty nice Jour scored a team-high eight points game-high 16 and added to her the squad considered the 16-point he Mount St. Joseph's High ly," said St Joe's coach Matt Kidder. along with freshman point guard team-leading points-per-game aver loss a moral victory. The Raiders

School girls basketball "We're hoping to get back to .500 Suzanne Devoe. Senior two guard age of 12.0. Moran, at 5-feet, 8 inch walloped St Joe's, 71-16, a year !l T team bounced back from a and the girls are still thinking about Priscilla Sanchez added seven points es, is also leading the Eagles with ago. IDUgh start to the season to win making the [state association post in the rout 12.5 boards per game. 1\vo Brighton natives playing a lhrec of four this month and set the season] tournament" "It was a solid team effort defen Senior forward Katherine Moran, supporting role for this year's F.agles lllgc for an interesting second half Earlier this month, the F.agles (4-6, sively, and the kids really responded Erin's older sister, added six points, are junior guard Katie Nelson and of the season. 2-3 CCSD) avenged a 60-58 over to the week off for practice during while sophomore center Katie Sonia junior forward Noelle Quinn. St Joe's opened this winter's cam time loss to St Oare High the holiday break," Kidder said "It also scored six to help put the M The Eagles were scheduled to face pign al~3 and slid to 1-5 before (Roslindale) in their season opener was the first game all year we put Cats away. Monsignor Ryan Academy for the lbe recent surge. The Eagles' with a convincing 51-39 road win on two so~yes together." ''Upperclassmen like Katherine second time this season last week impoved pJay, though not totally Jan. 13. All l l players on the St The Eagles"rrulde it two in a row have done a tremendous job of pro (after press time). St Joe's thumped ~docs come~ a mild Joe's roster checked into~ .qiilap. 11l\'itha4~ ••• .viqing !emrship and reaching our MRA. 50-9, earlier this season. a ' ) ~ __ _,____ ------www.townonline.com/allstonbrighton SPORTS Brighton's best Adog's day strengt4en Snowden

"We're not that deep, so the guys Top hockey players get tired and I see more shots. That for Back Bay school only gets me going. It motivates me." are former Bengals Snowden scored one of its biggest wins of the season on Jan. By Chad Konecky 14, emerging in a 9-8 thriller TAB Correspondent against West Roxbury. McWhinnie ven with the best Brighton capped a four-point night when he has to offer, Snowden scored the game winner on a E International School's ice rebound of a Hart drive with just '"hockey team has struggled through 3:30 remaining. The Cougars had out the first half of this season. trailed 7-6 as they entered the third Seven players from the now period, but rallied with the help of defunct Brighton High hockey pnr DaVila's 32 saves. gram stock the Cougars' 14-player Another key Brighton contributor roster, but that hasn't allowed the for Snowden this ~on is left Back Bay school to avoid a 2-6 wing Angus Campbell, a junior record this winter. who drew pointed praise from Despite back-to-back promising Moloney. seasoM, including a 1996 campaign "I didn't expect that much from Peter Cafrerey takes a winter romp in the Ringer Park baseball field with his dog, Lenox, and his friend's dog, Bella (Ill the that produced two of the top 10 him this year," Moloney said. "But foreground). scorers in eastern Massachusetts, he's shown me a lot." the Brighton High hockey program Some of the Cougars' close loss has been absorbed by Snowden. es this winter include a 10-4 lo~ to Nonetheless, Brighton talent con powerful Charlestown in what was SC "ll<><> I , Mt ·. Nl l S tinues to shine. Sophomore center a 6-4 game after two periods. Sean Glynn leads the team in scor Snowden was within striking range Boston Public Schools menu, Jan. potato wedges, salad w/dressing, baked potato w/Mexican meat taco ing with 14 points (eight goals, six of talented O'Bryant Hig~after two 26-Jan. 29 orange, milk. sauce or salad w/turkey salad. Pizza asmsts), while senior defenseman periods as well, trailing oiily 6-3. L Combo: Pizza by the slice. Sub John McWhinnie is tied for second A trio of less experienced for Friday, 29: French bread Jan. Combo: Steak and cheese sub or on the squad with eight points (3-5) wards came over from Brighton to Elementary schools • pizza, vegetable soup, mixed veg pepper and egg sub. along with senior lefty defenseman ~ist Snowden at the start of this Tuesday, Jan. 26: Chicken w/roll, etables, grape juice, milk. and John Hart (4-4). Both Glynn season, including freshman John sliced potatoes, diced pears, milk. Thursday, Jan. 28: Special: Taco and Hart also live in Brighton. Anderson, sop,homore Ryan Wednesday, Jan. 27: Manager's High schools mac salad, manager's special or Meanwhile, senior goalie Danny Admorane and junior Patrick special, com, apple, milk. Tuesday, Jan. 26: Special: Turkey hamburger/cheeseburger w/roll. Da Vila has started every game and Rampino. vegetable stir fry w/rice and egg Super Sack: Turkey sandwich, veg is averaging more than 30 saves fry Madison Park and Hyde Park Thursday, Jan. 28: Turkey stir roll, manager's special or hamburg gie sticks. Salad/Pasta/Potato Bar: every three periods. Snowden head have also been forced to fonn mar w/egg roll and rice, potato wedges, er/cheeseburger w/roll. Super Sack: Lasagna, baked potato w/spinach salad w/dressing, orange, milk. coach Michael Moloney noted that riages of athletic convenience: Bologna and cheese sandwich and ham cheese sauce, salad it's common for Da Vila, who took Cardinals refugees are al O'Bryant, Friday, Jan. 29: French bread w/lettuce and tomato, veggie sticks. w/cheese. Pizza Combo: Pizza by while the Bluestars have been gob up hockey as a rugh school fresh pizza or tuna sub, vegetable soup, Salad/Pasta/Potato Bar: Macaroni the slice. Sub Combo: Hot turkey man, to tum beck over 40 shots a bled up by West Roxbury High. mixed vegetables, grape juice, milk. and cheese, baked potato w/chili or patty parmesan sub or Italian sub game. With the disbandment of three chef's salad. Pizza Combo: Pizza w/ham, bologna, salami and mor "He's just been unbelievable," teams, just seven scholastic ice Middle schools by the slice. Sub Combo: Pastrami tadella. Moloney said. "His minutes are up hockey programs remain in the city and cheese sub or ham and cheese Friday, Jan. 29: Special: Fiesta and he's really answered the call." of Boston. Snowden joins F.ast Tuesday, Jan. 26: Chicken w/roll sub. Da Vila became accustomed to Boston, South Boston, Latin or peanut butter and jelly on wheat style fish fillet w/roll, manager's fending off a deluge of black rubber Academy, Charlestown, O'Bryant bread, sliced potatoes, diced pears, Wednesday, Jan. 27: Special: special or hamburger/cheeseburger in his junior season with the and West Roxbury as the only milk. Crucken w/mashed potatoes, roll; w/roll. Salad/Pasta/Potato Bar: Bengals. The Cougars' new net viable programs. 0 manager's special or Baked potato w/nacho cheese Wednesday, Jan. 27: Manager's minder has taken it all in stride. hamburger/cheeseburger on a roll. ·. sauce, American chop suey or special or turkey ham and cheese Super Sack: Harn and cheese sand pasta salad w/cold cuts and cheese. "Lots of practice and teamwork Snowden is scheduled to face sandwich, com, apple, milk. has been the key to my play this West Roxbury al Northeastern s wich w/lettuce and tomato, veggie Pizza Combo: Pizza by the slice. season," said DaVLla, an 18-year Manhews Arena al 2:30 p.m Thursday, Jan. 28: Turkey stir fry sticks. Salad/Pasta/Potato Bar: Cold Sub Combo: Fish and cheese fiJlet old North Beacon Street resident Thursday, Ja11. 28. w/egg roll and rice; or hot dog, tri-color rotini w/salmon salad, sub, turkey salad sub or turkey sub.

( '.'; BI-! II I LI(; \I '\011< FS ------~- After-school offerings se set COX V. PERKINS DELEON LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE Children 6 and older are invited to COMMONWEALTH COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS OF MASSACHUSETTS take part in after-school programs on THE TRIAL COURT PROBATE COURT. LASELL Wednesday afternoons in February PROBATE AND FAMILY SUFFOLK, SS. at the Faneuil Branch Library at 419 COURT DEPARTMENT 98P-2002 COLLEGE SUFFOLK DIVISION Faneuil St in Brighton. DOCKET NO. 980-2420 To the Keeper of Birth's, Death's and The weekly programs, which run SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION Marriage's and all persons interested in from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., with the the matter of Edilma Rosalba Merida DE exception of the Feb. 17 program, Linda A. Cox, Plaintiff Leon, of Boston, in the County of Suffolk v. Lasell Institute for Learning in Retirement include activities in the arts, science o.vtd A. Perkins, Defendent A petition has been presented to said and nature. They are as follows: Court b)' Edilma Rosalba Merida DE Contirlling ePY of ary 1999, the return day of this citation. We • master storyteller Derek Burrows. your answer in the office of the Register doyweor ond OCC8$!0ries (no jewelry) ot this Court at Boston. Witness, ELAINE M. MORIARTY, Es· (No 3:30 p.m. session on this day.) quire, First Judge of said court, this 13th, in contemporary fashion. We pay • Feb. 24: "Happy Birthday Witness, Elaine M. Moriarty, Esquire, day of January 1999. 40% c

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Designer Children's Clothing There were no roll calls in the Republicans are in the minority, at the end of the 1998 session: ing marriages from $45 to $75 for House or Senate last week. Lees does not appoint committee ceremonies in their home town, BLOWOUT SALE! Democratic Senate President chairs but simply assigns School bus and from $60 to $100 for out-of This Friday 4 to 8, Sat & Sun 1 O to 5 Thomas Binningham ( D-Chelsea) Republican members to various inspections mandated town ceremonies. A pocket veto January 29, 30 & 31 3 DAVS ONLY and Republican Minority Leader committees. occurs when the governor does not EVERY ITEM AT OR BELOW COST! Brian Lees (R-East Longmeadow) The committee and/or other On Jan. 14, the governor signed sign a bill and the legislature has into law a bill requiring all school 343 Medford St, 3rd floor, Somerville have now completed making their assignments of local senators are already ended its annual session At the corner of Peart St leadership appointments and com- provided below. This list indicates bus drivers to perfonn post-trip and cannot override the veto. 617-623-0444 mittee assignments. whether the senator is a chair; vice inspections of the inside of their Birmingham mcule several major chair or assistant vice chair ofa school buses. The law is aimed at changes, including appointing committee. When only the commit- preventing young students from Linda Melconian ( D-Springfield) tee is listed without indicating one being accidentally left on the bus as the first woman ever to be ofthe above positions, it means the and imposes a $50 fine on drivers We get Senate Majority Leader; senator is simply a member of that who do not perfonn the inspection. Birmingham s second-in-command. committee. around Rounding out Birmingham s lead- (Note: A comma separates the Child support ership team are Stan Rosenberg names ofthe committees; a semi- avoidance penalized (D-Amherst) as Assistant Majority colon separates these from other On Jan. 15, the governor signed a www.townonllne.com/arts Leader; and Robert Travaglini ( D- leadership positions. All uses of the bill imposing up to a $5,000 fine East Boston) as Majority Whip. word "and" are within the name of and/or two-year jail sentence on Replacing Rosenberg as head of the committee - for example, anyone who receives or conceals the Ways and Means Committee is "Human Services and Elderly the assets of a person in order to Summer Programs at Park School Mark Montigny (D-New Bedford). Affairs" is the name ofone com- help the person avoid child support In a controversial move, mittee.) payments. • Creative Arts at Park, ages 8-15 Birmingham appointed Dianne • Adventures in Science, coed ages 9-12 Wilkerson (D-Boston) as chair of Sen. Thomas BinningbWJP. sen- the State Administration ate president; chair of Rules, Out·of-state cantor • Park Enrichment Program (PEP), coed ages 5-8 Committee. Wilkerson was removed Administration, Steering and pennit repealed • Community Service Program, coed ages 11-15 by the Senate as Insurance Policy committees. On Jan. 15, the governor signed • Wilderness Exploration, coed ages 11-15 Committee chairwoman last year into law a measure allowing out-of- • SummerSoccer Camp, coed ages 5-17 following her conviction offailure Sen. Stephen Lynch: chair, state Jewish cantors to perfonn • Basketball Camp, boys' and girls' weeks, ages 8-15 to file tax returns. There was spec- Commerce and Labor, Ways and marriage ceremonies in • Lacrosse Camp, coed ages 8-17 ulation that she would not be Means, Ethics, Counties, Massachusetts. Current law allows appointed to chair a committee this Education, Public Service com- many nonresident clergy, including Transportation, Lunch, and Extended Day ere optional for all programs. year. Birmingham also made sever- mittees. rabbis and priests, to do so, but al other changes in committee Contact: Dana Brown requires out-of-state cantors to Director of External Programs chairs and committee assignments. Sen. Steven Tolman: chair, Local request a special permit for each The Park School On the Republican side, Lees Affairs, Science and Technology;" ceremony. 171 Goddard Ave. appointed his leadership team, Banks and Banking, Federal • Brookline, MA 92445 which consists of Richard Tisei (R- Financial Assistance, State Justice of the peace (617) 277-2456 •xt. 302 Wakefield) as Assistant Minority Administration committees. PLEASE CALL FOR A TOUR OF 1llE SCHOOL'S FAClLITIES Leader; Michael Knapik (R- fee hike pocket-vetoed • Westfield) as Minority Whip, and The governor pocket-vetoed a bill Parl< Is a coeducational school and does not discriminata on the basis of race, Bruce Ta" (R-Gloucester) as Gov. Paul Cellucci recently took raising the maximum fee justices of religion, national origin, disabilities. or family composition in its admissions, financial aid, or in the administration of its educational policies. Assistant Minority Whip. Since the action on several bills sent to him the peace may charge for perfonn-

~~Je'~j...... ~-.""~WAND schoo •• a ,. Be aplayer on the Boston College d!r~ctory :•~~ :1 All-Star Art Team! ------'· • And see your name in Light at a BC Basketball game. .._~~

The Weekly TAB and the Boston College Men's & Women's Basketball Programs, are looking for a few good players on our youth All-Star Art Team. If you're in grades one through eight, Sports•Activities•Swimming•Arts & Cra~s you're eligible to enter the AH-star Art Contest. Monday, June 28 -Friday, August 20 8~m·M5pm Winners will receive three tickets to an upcoming BC Men's or Women's basketball game, • Hot or cold lunches included have their names announced at half-time, see their art displayed at the arena AND be published in ·Transportation availa171e from certain areas their local community newspaper.* • Extended days availa171e • 1\ 11, .. 1 1t \ C.ltllfi Day Camp Office: (617) 969·83M 1i Use your itnaginationl * JI ,\ri Mount Ida CollC9e Draw your favorite sports star, a scene from your favorite sport, a picture of you winning the Boston Marathon! ' I I • ~ '' I ( I m Dedham Street, Newton Centre, MA 02459 BASKETBAil. * You must put I] your full name, 2] school, 3] grade and 1] home phone number on the back of your artWOric so we can contact you if you are a winner and properly label your work in the newspaper. Entries without complete information CAMP included will be disqualified. • Regis College r~~~ of Weston * A panel of Community Newspaper Company editors and Boston College Athletic Department staff will select one July 26-30 winner for each grade level (grades one through eight) for each newspaper. Judges will base winners on overall August 2-6 I a ~ August 16-20 creativity - and lots of color helps! Deadline for entries is Friday, Feb. 12 at Spm. &,1 ad Girls Of" 9· 15 Meadowbrook * If you are a winner, we will contact you no later than February I 7th. School of Weston twttktc-p~ June 21·25 • August 23·27 STARTING 7/26/99 * Winners and their parents will be invited to the February 23rd or 24th BC Basketball game at Conte Forum. .,, - Girls .,u 6· 10 Your name will be announced during half-time. ( .ill \1 i< h.1<'1 at !liX llil OX6.) Join Vl<lne Japaneee 5tut.lentel

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I 'Faith at Work' series offered at school offers a wann social environment days, births, sickness and deaths. It also FROMPAGE7 with a strong developmentally appropriate offers perpetual, five-year, annual and indi St. Luke's and St. Margaret's Judaically integrated curriculum. Specialists vidual Masses. Brightonian featured St. Luke's and St. Margaret's Episcopal in dance and music join the program weekly. The center, which is the home of the on health program Church this month began a new schedule for Parents are welcome to visit the class Augustinians of the Assumption, is associat Brighton resident Lioudmila Bednarzh, field Sunday mornings. The service of worship rooms. For infonnation or to schedule a ed with Assumption College in Worcester. It begins now at 10:30 a.m. instead of 11 a.m. supervisor, Jewish Family & Children's Service school visit, call Carol Killian, director, at is open Monday-Wednesday from 8 a.m. to (JF&CS) Home Health and Homecare, is one of This change is to allow time from noon until (617) 731-9006. Kehillath Israel Nursery 4p.m. 12:45 p.m. for adult education. three health-care professionals featured on an School is at 384 Harvard St., Brookline. For more infonnation, call 783-0495. episode of MediaOne's local program, "Aging The current education focus, "Faith at Well in Massachusetts," to be aired throughout Work," meet<; for two more sessions: Feb. 7; Food pantry is open twice a month January in Greater Boston. and Feb. 14. "Faith at Work" centers on the Bible study and prayer group The episode, "Homecare: There's No Care challenges to Christian faith in the work day An evening adult Bible study and prayer Hill Memorial Baptist Church's food pantry Like Homecare," focuses on services available world. Call the Rev. Karen Bettacchi at 782- group meets every Monday from 7: 15-9 is open every second and last Saturday, from in Massachusetts that can help remain in 2029 for more infonnation. p.m. al the Brighton Evangelical 10 a.m. until noon. The pantry, located in the eld~ Congregational Church. The group reflects church at 279 North Harvard St. in their homes for as long as possible. The audi St. Anthony's prepares on the scriptures as they pertain to the par Brighton, serves Allston and Brighton resi ence can call to· find out if they, their family, ticipants' lives and news of the day. The ses dents. friends or neighbors have a need for or are eligi far Mlatrel Show sion continues with a time of prayer. All are Contributions of food or cash are wel ble for the services described. Rehearsals are under way for the annual St welcome. come. Anthony's Parish Minstrel Show, and all The church is located at 404 Washington For more infonnation, call the church at Carroll Center appoints Daou community members are welcome to join. St. in Brighton. Call for more (617) 782-4524. 254-4046 Rahib Daou of Brighton is the new vice presi St. Anthony's has held a parish minstrel infonnation. show every year since at least 1902. The 'Contemporary Liturgy' dent in charge of rehabilitation services at the annual show begins with an old-time min Carroll Center for the Blind. •1 strel performance and ends with a Broadway Children's choU' group open to all Daou has been with the Carroll ·Center since revue. This year's perfonnances will be held welcomes members St. Columbkille Church at 321 Market St. in 1993 and is responsible for directing and coor during the last weekend of March. St. Columbkille Church invites children in Brighton invites the community to partici dinating the center's rehabilitation and training Rehearsals are being held Friday nights at grades 2-8 to participate in its children's pate in its "Contemporary Liturgy programs at the center's Newton campus. 7 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. As the perfor choir. Rehearsals are held Thursdays from Community" at 9:30 a.m. each Sunday. The Daou was a student of the center's rehabilita mances get closer, an additional rehearsal 2: 15 to 3 p.m. or from 3:30 to 4: 15 p.m. group gathers after Mass for coffee and tion program in 1983 shortly after losing his may be scheduled for during the week. For more information, call the church at doughnuts. vision and his left hand from a land mine explo For additional infonnation, call 782-0775. 782-5774. sion. Ten years later he was hired by the Carroll Send your religion announcements to TAB Center as a Teacher of Braille and other com~ news editor Debra Goldstein. The mailing munications skills. His success as a teacher and 11111111111 llrael offers day care Assumption Center offers Masses address is Allston-Brighton TAB, P.O. Box his demonstrated leadership skills resulted in his Kehillath Israel Nursery School offers three The Assumption Center, 330 Market St., 9JJ'Z: Needham, MA. 02192-9112. Our fax promotion to director of the Residential programs for young children: toddler, Brighton, has Mass enroll!\lents for many number is (781) 433-8202. The e-mail Rehabilitation Program and soon after to his preschool and transitional kindergarten. The occasions: weddings, anniversaries, birth- address is [email protected]. L current role as vice president. •

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~~Subtracting schools Observers: school plan lacks clarity~~

SCHOOLS, from page 1 from having enough;eats to accommodate the speech - and his subsequent statements - demand. have done little to talk about how five new Mattapan, Roxbury and parts of Dorchester schools can undo 25 years of school closings, are most lacking when it comes to neighbor complicated assignment strategies and that hood schools. According to a Boston Public many of the city's neighborhoods have far School Department analysis of 1997 enroll more students than available seats. ments in first through fifth grades, Mattapan There are no details regarding where the needs more than 700 seats to meet the local new schools - which would cost $60 million demand and Roxbury a little more than 500 - will be built and whether they will be ele seats. Dorchester needs an additionaJ 1,300 mentary, middle or high schools. There has seats in four of its ~hools, but has an excess been no mention of whether the city's school of more than 850 in two others. assignment plan will be changed and whether other schools will be closed or reconfigured. And the promise does not address the fact "It's not clear where these that, even though some neighborhoods are short on schools, the system as a whole has schools are going to be located 1,500 more seats than students to fill those or what level they will be." seats in grades 1-5. After a fortnight of hype portending the death of busing, some officiaJs are now call Samuel Tyler, president of Boston ing for a reality check. Municipal Research Bureau Although Menino's statements signaJ his first public support for a neighborhood school · system, observers say the coijelusion that five On the other hand, outlying neighborhoods new 8Chools will allow the city to create an such as Brighton, West Roxbury and Jamaica equitable school-assignment system is, at best, Plain have more seats than students, according half-baked. to the anaJysis. With these factors in mind, it Schools currently open Back Bay City Councilor Thomas Keane is likely that it will be a long time before the said the statement may be "a mistake," which city will be able to send all of its students to .....Brltllton Dorchester Matta pan took on a life of its own, especiaJly in the schools in the students' home neighborhoods. 1 ••lllmlng center 1 early learning center 1 early Education Genter press. And because of that many in the city "You can'tjust build new schools alone," a e1e1n11•schoo1s 21 elementary schools 3 elementary schools are under the impression that ~oston is going said Samuel Tyler, president of the Boston 2 middll SChools 4 middle schools 1 middle school to do away with busing by building five - or Municipal Research Bureau, a city fiscal 1 high school 2 high schools O high schools even I0 - new schools. watchdog agency. "It has to be done in con 11 ..... 21 total 5 total 'This may have been a mistake on text with an overall master plan that addresses Menino's part," said Keane. "Everyone how many need to be built, how many remod thought he was going to focus on housing. He eled and how many closed. The school depart 1111111111 R•lllllllle ... may not have intended this to be a major poli ment was also looking at options for changing elllrllnlllyschooll 1 early education center 6 elementary schools cy announcement." the school assignment plan. What's happened 1 mlddle school 8 elementary schools 1 middle school But John Dorsey, the mayor's spokesman, to that? The mayor's discussion on policy 7 high schools 1 middle schools O high schools denies that Menino had made a ''mistake." In began before they finished planning. We need 1111111 1 high schools 7 total fact, Menino's aides say he wants to make to build schools in Boston, but we need them 11 total good on the promise, assuming he can get the in certain areas - like Roxbury and South Roxbury support of the City Council. Dorchester - and we need more than five. 3 elementary schools Hyde Park 1 early education center 'The mayor fully intends to do this, but the It's n(!t clear where these schools are going to 0 middle schools 4 elementary schools 13 elementary schools council has to approve it," said Menino's be located or what level they will be." I high schools 1 middle school 4 middle schools spokeswoman, Jacque Goddard. "He's going The School Department is working on a • 11111 1 high school 4 high schools to put it in his capital budget, which will be master plan to determine the projected student I total 22 total ready in the next month or two, and submit it enrollment in each neighborhood, said spokes • to the council." woman Tracey Lynch. When the plan is ready, 2 elementary schools Jamaica Plaln South Boston the department will suggest neighborhoods Inside the numbers 1 middle school 1 early learning center 4 elementary schools where schools are most needed. The goal of Mistake or not, observers say it will likely the plan, said Lynch, is to provide neighbor 1 high school 6 elementary schools 1 middle school be a long time before students in aJJ of hoods with a more equal access to school 4 ..... O middle schools 1 high school Boston's neighborhoods can be guaranteed a buildings and at the same time to continue to 1 high school I total spot at a school in their home neighborhood. offe r choice to parents. I bllal Fmding the space to build the new schools 'The mayor's proposal for new schools and West Roxbury promises to be a major obstacle. In addition, the school assignment plan are two separate, 4 elementary schools even.though there is growing support for a but related issues," said Elizabeth Reilinger, 1 middle school neighborhood school system, the mayor still the chairwoman of the School Committee. 1 high school has a Jot of work to do before he can unite the 'The decision on where to locate the new 6 total city behind an idea that has traditionally divid schools is put on hold until the 'master capital ed it over issues of segregation. plan is completed, in January or February." And Goddard said the mayor wants to make Schools closed since June 1973 But even if the city is able to site five new schools, it appears unlikely that it will have sure the process surrounding the location of enough school buildings in ~ appropriate the new schools is a very public one. Rt1llnd11t •t1 I lrllMH neighborhoods, according to a review of city But even with a master plan, city watchdogs I llll'llMtlly schooll 1 elementary school documents. still have questions. Tyler wonders what role 1 high school Between 1973 and 1989, the Boston Public the state will play in the mayor's timetable for Duaesw""" Schools system lost 89 buildings, according to building the schools. 9 elllnMlllry IChooll Roxllary city records. Two schools have since been "The state reimburses the city for 90 per 16 elementary school relocated to other buildings and two others cent of the cost for new school construction," .....aP1a11 1 high school have been reopened. That means Boston has Tyler said. "Is the state going to be Willing to 6 elementary schools about 85 fewer school buildings than it did 25 reimburse the city for five schools at once? It 1 high school South Boston years ago, when Boston last had a neighbor all depends on where the city falls in the list 5 elementary schools hood school system (see accompanying of other cities waiting for reimbursement. And .,.,..,.., Mattapan 2 junior high schools maps) . will the state even have a big enough pool of 15 elementary schools 5 elementary schools As a result, five new neighborhood schools money to do it? I don't think he wants to build 1 high school West Roxbury will not be enough to serve aJI Boston stu the schools and wait several years to get reim 4 elementary schools dents, most agree. According to a five-year bursed." old Blue Ribbon Commission report, the city Reilinger and Goddard say the mayor is making a commitment to build the five 'Kerlmol9, Soulh End. ~ ,.., ~y. Not1f1 End. Chinatown needs to build I0 , not five, new schools to CHART BY SAM CAL.OMO Jfli • serve its school-aged population. schools whether or not it gets reimbursed by In addition, several neighborhoods are far SCHOOLS, page 31 www.townonline.com/allstonbrighton January 26- February 1, 1999 Tiie AllstoltBrlg11bM TAB, page 31 FROM PAGE ONE Why busing may not die ~

~~Km Greenwood acorts Brillll Wakb, an F.arly Oilldhood student at the Wimhip School.~~

SCHOOLS, from page 30 Menino's proposal, with its implication of assign students to schools regardless of race. If vene a panel to look at changing the assign the state under the School Building Assistance an end to busing, comes at a time when the this option were implemented, the racial make ment plan. Tuey did, and the panel floated Fund. Boston student assignment plan is being chal up at many city schools would not change some options about nine months ago, but since lenged by Boston Latin School candidates as much because the student population - 63, then [Superintendent Thomas] Payi.ant has Political bickering unconstitutional. Although BPS is »O longer -is 85 percent minority and 15 percent white. pulled back from this and it's incurring the Assuming the city is able to address the under a busing court order, the School Another option the school department was wrath of the council and the council passed a i~ of school placement and funding, a Committee has continued the student assign looking at was dividing the city into IO ele resolution that the mayor put [this on the front move to neighborhood schools still would ment plan, which is based on race, since the mentary geographical clusters and six middle burner again]. We are happy that he responded need to clear several political and practical court ended forced busing in 1990. Under the school clusters and allowing parents to chose by saying that he was going to build new roadblocks. current plan, parents pick at least three schools from I 0 schools in the appropriate cluster. The schools, but of COW"Se, you have lo build them The issue of neighborhood schools has been for their children and a computer places them third option would allow parents to select where they are needed." hotly debated since busing started in Boston 25 in schools based on the availability of seats; from the 10 schools closest to their homes. Keane also said that building new schools years ago, when Boston schools were declared where their other children go to school; dis Some high-profile critics, including long wasn't the only answer, and the schools segregated and therefore unconstitutional. After tance from schools; and racial guidelines. time City Councilor Charles Yancey of would still have to address the current student the 1974 desegregation order, students were Menino's plan also runs parallel to School Dorchester, want the city to improve the con assignment plan. assigned to schools across the city with the Superintendent Thomas Payzant's plan to ditions of the existing schools·-particularly 'We need to give parents more choice in goal of creating racially balanced schools with change the existing school assignment plan, in poorer neighborhoods - before it moves where their kids go to school," he said. equally distributed funding. Rather than moth which was unveiled last fall. At that time back to a neighborhood school system. City Councilor Maura Hennigan said· her balling unused buildings, the city destroyed or Payzant was looking at three options for assign "I'm hung up on quality education, not constituents are largely in favor of a move sold most of its unused properties. ing children to schools: the first proposal would neighborhood education," Yancey said follow from a bus-based school system to one based ing the mayor's address. 'The jury may not on neighborhood schools. even be out anymore - we've done a poor "I think it is very exciting. Our community job educating our children. We shouldn't be has been waiting for this for an awful long What they said patting ourselves on the back." time," said Hennigan. "I will be curious to see '1bia year, in my capital budget, I will put pledged to build five neighborhood schools, Still, there is considerable support for a when and what kind of changes are going to Balton on the palh to start five new schools. an announcement that could signal the move back to neighborhood schools. be implemented for next year because parents The new schools will give us flexibility with beginning of the end of two decades of stu Keane, as well as City Councilor at-Large are going to apply for schools soon." [die) Mlignment plan. But the key thing is to dent busing in Boston." Peggy Davis-Mullen, a longtime advocate of Boston ~hoot Committee Vice give pmnts the choice where to send their Boston Globe, Tuesday, Jan. 12 neighborhood schools, said they think the Chairperson Alfreda Harris -said she too wel daild10 ICbool. Parents should make that mayor is responding to pressure the City comed the mayor's proposal. decision. Not the politicians." "Menino plan sees 'walk to· schools for all" Council recently placed on the school depart "I think it is a beginning. It's been a long Mayor T1tomas M. Menino, State of the City Boston Globe, Wednesday, Jan. J3 ment to change the city's school assignment time since we built new schools. We are on atklress, Jan. 11 plan, as promised last year. the road to upgrading and being able to pro "Time to move beyond busing" "[1\vo) years ago there was a referendum by vide new schools for the city as a whole. It is "Mayor pledges five neighborhood schools. Boston Globe, T11ursday, Jan.. 14 citizens to return to neighborhood 5chools." great because the population has changed." \bw may mark busing reversal" Keane said. "These people tried to get the said Hanis. Boston Globe, Tuesday, Ja11. 12. Page One "Mayor: New Schools would dismantle question of changing the school assignment The challenge, then, lies with creating a sys busing in Boston" plan on the ballot, but [didn't succeed]. [City tem that can accommodate a student population "Mayor Thomas M. Menino la<;t night Boston Herald, Thursday, Jatt 14 Councilor] Steve Murphy and I headed it off that has changed considerably over the last quar on the council floor if the schools would con- t.er of a century. And that could take a while. 0 Page321'11Altlt I li...... TM,January26 - February l, 1999

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