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SouthBostonTODAYOnline • On Your Mobile • At Your Door September 6, 2018: Vol.6 Issue 33 SERVING SOUTH BOSTONIANS AROUND THE GLOBE David Biele WWW.SOUTHBOSTONTODAY.COM Go to our South Boston Today Elected page to view online content. 4th Suffolk Make sure you like & share District State t Bos on T h o Representative t d u a o n a “classic South Boston” neigh- y borhood election battle, David S IBiele (3075 votes) was victori- ous over Matt Rusteika (2282 votes), a margin of 57.5% to 42.5% in the @SBostonToday election to replace elected Senator Nick Collins. Biele claimed victory at 8:30pm. Shortly thereafter, in a classy move, Rusteika came by David’s head- Want to see your ad in South quarters to congratulate him and wish him well. Biele supporters greeted families of South Boston. Biele is an tion, development and the Edison plant Boston Today & SBT Online? Matt with warm applause. Then, after attorney and Rusteika is a public poli- were debated on social media and pro- first shaking Biele’s hand, he shook the cy professional focused on the energy moted in waves of literature dissemi- Office: 617.268.4032 or cell: hands of the Biele supporters. sector. The campaign became heated nated over the summer. 617.840.1355 or email at Both young men, Biele and Rusteika, in the two weeks approaching elec- Biele touted his direct involvement in [email protected] are in their 30s and hail from long time tion day, as issues around transporta- CONTINUED ON page 11 th l 19 Annua ttoonn SSStooruueetthhtFBBeoostssival Saturday, September 15th • 11am-4pm • East Broadway Live Entertainmenton 2Stages• Great Food • Children’s Activities Over 100 Local Businesses, Restaurants, Artists, & Organizations For details visit: SouthBostonStreetFestival.com /SouthBoston StreetFestival 2 SOUTHBOSTONTODAY • www.southbostontoday.com September 6, 2018 EDITORIALEDITORIAL 17 Years Since 9/11/2001- Never Forget the Lesson Learned t happened seventeen years ago, but us closer as a nation, at least for a san politics and ideology that they do still remains fresh in the minds of while, and united us in a common goal. national unity. And this is a recipe for Imillions of Americans. It was one of That goal then was to be determined disaster, as it could once again leave those events, much like the assassination to never again let our guard down and us vulnerable to future terrorist at- of JFK and the first landing on the moon, prepare ourselves as a people to defend tacks. It would serve all of America that has so many of our country men and against a hostile enemy committed to well to remember that if we let po- women marking the date by remember- our destruction. litical differences become so divisive ing where they were when we heard the But the passing of time very often that we consider our fellow country- news - September 11. causes such determination to fade. men and women the enemy rather The terrorist attack on our nation on Today, we are less united because of than those beyond our borders who September 11th by Islamic terrorists obstructionist politicians and activist live to do us harm, we will only be will forever live in infamy. It brought groups that place more value on parti- hurting ourselves. Never forget. “By all these lovely tokens, September days are here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” – Helen Hunt Jackson Charlestown Visits Southie special edition of will include Rev. Robert Casey, Charlestown & Beyond Pastor of Gate of Heaven and A will travel over to South St. Brigid parishes and St. Boston this week, as they get Augustine Cemetery Chapel, ready to celebrate the 200th Suffolk University Professor Anniversary of St. Augustine’s of History and Chair of the Cemetery. When Irish immi- South Boston Historical Society grants came to the shores of Robert Allison, and Ambassa- Boston they were not welcome, dor Ray Flynn, former Mayor even to the point of not being of Boston. allowed to be buried in public Charlestown & Beyond, on cemeteries. The Catholic Arch- Boston Cable’s BNN-TV, will diocese at the time answered appear on Thursday, September this need by opening this 6th at 6:30 pm on BNN channel cemetery at which many Irish 9, RCN channel 15 and Verizon Catholic natives are buried, channel 1961. The program including from Charlestown - is repeated on the same sta- thus another, of which there are tions on Thursday at 11:30 pm, many, connections between our Saturday at 9 am and Sunday SBT two neighborhoods. If you’re at 5 pm. It can also be seen Make sure you like & share South Boston Today with your friends! from Irish decent, an historian on Youtube at Charlestown or interested in checking your and Beyond and Facebook at Irish heritage, this show will be Charlestown & Beyond. Mark www.southbostontoday.com of great interest to you. Guests your calendar and tune in. PO Box 491 • South Boston, MA 02127 SouthBostonTODAYOnline • On Your Mobile • At Your Door South Boston Today is not liable for errors appearing in advertisements beyond the cost of Publisher Editor In Chief the space occupied by the error. All South Boston Today produced artwork, design, and layout John Ciccone Brian R. Mahoney remain the sole property of South Boston Today. 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SOUTH BOSTON TODAY John Ciccone Note: talk back to John Ciccone by email at [email protected] his new trend of and not admit it, but millions of citizens exploded, they actually nauts who put their courage and using funerals and Americans know exactly what’s defended their actions saying the their lives on the line to actually “T eulogies to deliver going on. event ‘transcended’ the efforts travel there. political messages is really quite At the Aretha Franklin funeral of one nation. It was the accom- The way I see it, if the Canadian disgusting. Sympathy from death it was some of the same. They plishment of all mankind. Ah, and American film industry types to sway public opinion is next just could not control them- no, it didn’t, and it wasn’t. It who made the movie don’t want to level corrupt. Everyone involved selves, as some of the speeches was the effort and the greatness give the credit to those who de- should be ashamed of them- and eulogies were more about of the United States of America. serve it, because they don’t want selves”. This is a quote from bashing Trump than praising the American taxpayers paid for it, to appear too ‘pro-American’ then a prominent African American legacy, life and times of Aretha American scientists and military hopefully, American movie goers Conservative woman, making Franklin. Is this what America personnel developed and created will choose not to see this bogus reference to what took place last has become in 2018? Thankfully the technology that made it hap- and very much incomplete story of week at both the funeral for John no. While there seems to be no pen and it was American astro- the first moon landing. 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