Madonna Delle Grazie 2013 Procession to Be Dedicated July 29Th by Matt Conti
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VOL. 117 - NO. 29 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JULY 19, 2013 $.30 A COPY BCYF Menino Community Center Madonna Delle Grazie 2013 Procession to Be Dedicated July 29th by Matt Conti BCYF Archdale Community Center in Roslindale will be renamed the BCYF Thomas M. Menino Community Center. Mark your calendar! The City’s Capital Plan to reopen BCYF Archdale Community the Archdale Community Center in Roslindale will be Center in 1991 after it had renamed the BCYF Thomas been closed for 16 years. M. Menino Community Cen- This event will also cel- ter on Monday, July 29th. The ebrate the official re-open- Mayor will be on hand at ing of the center which 6:30 p.m. for the speaking has been under renovation Madonna delle Grazie procession with the Northeast Italian Band. program but an Open House since December of 2012. (Photo by Matt Conti) with refreshments, activi- Nearly $1 million dollars has The statue of Madonna Delle Grazie was at St. Leonard’s Church at the corner of ties, summer information, gone into the renovation presented on Sunday afternoon at the Hanover & Prince Streets and made its games and more will begin which included a new gym annual procession in Boston’s North End. way through the neighborhood with many at 5:00 pm. floor, painting throughout, The society was founded in Boston in stops along the way. Madonna delle Grazie As a City Councilor, Mayor new roof, HVAC upgrades, in- 1903 from San Sossio Baronia Avellino. (Our Lady of Graces) is a devotion to the Menino was instrumental in stallation of a rock wall and Featuring Saint Alfio’s Band and the North- Virgin Mary in the Roman Catholic pushing for funding in the more. east Italian Band, the procession started Church. (Additional Photos on Page 8) News Briefs New ‘One Care’ Health Plan to Serve by Sal Giarratani Dual Eligible Individuals in Massachusetts Cruz-in’ for a Bruisin’? Contracts Signed with Three Health Organizations to Provide Integrated Care U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, you know the Latino that former New Mexico Governor Bill Options to Individuals Eligible for Both Medicaid and Medicare Richardson said wasn’t a real Latino, is making The Patrick Administra- jointly administer the pro- integrated care model,” said the liberal agenda-ists all bent out of shape. Chris tion today announced three gram. HHS estimates that HHS Secretary John Polano- Matthews from MSNBC called him names saying health plans have signed approximately 90,000 indi- wicz. “I look forward to work- that Cruz had the “unsmiling, contemptuous face contracts to participate in viduals will be eligible to ing with them to strengthen of the wild, nasty hard right.” NY Times colum- One Care, a new, integrated enroll in One Care beginning outcomes for this popula- nist Dave Brooks who I actually like sometimes health care pilot that will in October 2013. tion, while also reducing said “Cruz has a face that looks a little like Joe better serve adults with dis- “With the support of the health care costs.” McCarthy.” According to the NY Post Cher once abilities, ages 21-64 who Obama Administration and One Care was developed by referred to Cruz saying “the smell of sulfur fol- receive both MassHealth and our participating health the Patrick Administration lows him wherever he goes.” Medicare benefits. The pro- plans, Massachusetts is to improve care and contain Ted Cruz does have an interesting face, it could gram builds on the Patrick leading the way on reform- cost for persons with disabili- be the face of a Republican resurgence across Administration’s health care ing the way we provide care ties who are dual eligible America. I did have high hopes for U.S. Senator cost containment efforts, by to our most vulnerable,” said for Medicaid and Medicare. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, but that was before he providing better coordination Governor Deval Patrick. Massachusetts was the first signed on as a cheerleader for amnesty disguised of care for this population “One Care will help resi- state in the nation to re- as a comprehensive immigration bill. He signed through global payments and dents with complex needs ceive approval from the on with the Republican establishment and folks personalized services. get access to the high qual- Obama Administration to like Lindsay Graham and John McCain and let Participating health plans ity, integrated care they move forward with the pro- the liberals in Capitol Hill have a field day gut- in One Care include Com- deserve, while removing gram, which is supported by ting border security in favor of opening the flood- monwealth Care Alliance, obstacles to access.” funding in the Affordable gates for 11, 15 or maybe over 20 million illegals Fallon Total Care and Net- “The organizations partici- Care Act. into this nation. We have seen this strategy be- work Health. Massachusetts pating in One Care have One Care is designed to fore back in 1986 when amnesty was supposed Health and Human Services shown a high degree of col- improve coordination of (Continued on Page 14) (HHS) and the federal Cen- laboration, innovation and services provided to these ters for Medicare and Med- commitment to serving our icaid Services (CMS), will members under this new (Continued on Page 15) THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON This office is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PMPM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information Page 2 POST-GAZETTE, JULY 19, 2013 Stirpe by Prof. Edmund Res Publica Turiello Nostra by David Trumbull A weekly column highlighting some of the more interesting aspects of our ancestry...our lineage...our roots. Italian Luxury Good Manufacturer Sold to French Luxury Brands Company ULYSSES S. GRANT I usually try to use this Italian style and quality fab- they had chosen to sell space to address local issues rics are still made here in a majority stake in their or at least the local aspects the U.S.A. Under the leader- family business to the of a national issue. This ship of Pigi and Sergio, Loro LVMH Group, a French week I’m going to look at an Piana has become the multinational luxury goods Italian success story with a world’s leading artisan in conglomerate, headquar- New England, although not cashmere and the rarest tered in Paris. The company Boston, Italian-American wools and has developed a was formed by the 1987 angle. worldwide network of more merger of fashion house It goes back to the begin- than 130 exclusive bou- Louis Vuitton with Moët ning of the 19th century, well tiques — including one on Hennessy, a company before Italian unification, Boston’s fashionable formed after the 1971 when the Loro Piana family Newbury Street. merger of the champagne began trading wool and fine Loro Piana is more than producer Moët & Chandon textiles. The family business just a renowned label, it and Hennessy, the cognac DATE OF BIRTH: April 27, 1822 thrived and, in April 1924, embodies a family’s passion manufacturer. PLACE OF BIRTH: Point Pleasant, OH Pietro Loro Piana estab- for the highest standards of LVMH will acquire 80 per- DATE OF DEATH: July 23, 1885 lished the current business craftsmanship and quality. cent of the stock of Loro PLACE OF DEATH: Wilton, NY in Qarona Sesia, Italy. His With knowledge and experi- Piana for 2 billion Euros SPOUSE: Julia Dent work is continued today by ence gained over six genera- (about $2.6 million). The PRESIDENT: March 4, 1869 - March 4, 1877 Sergio and Pier Luigi Loro tions, Loro Piana creates Loro Piana family will retain Piana. It was Pier Luigi, exceptional products and fab- the other 20 percent and Our next C.E.O., was Ulysses S. Grant, known to his friends and rics, especially in cashmere Pigi and Sergio will continue As a West Point student he projected a new slant; business associates as where Loro Piana is the lead- to run the business. From He was academically lazy and careless in dress, “Pigi,” who expanded Loro ing specialist in the world. those simple beginnings 200 And when in the Army he drank to excess. Piana’s manufacturing of It is also one of the iconic years ago, one Italian fam- During the Mexican War he served with distinction, fine cashmere and wool names in Italian textiles, ily-owned business has Those who did not surrender were faced with extinction; fabrics to American, when, and it is in the process of grown to be part of one of the A few years later he became C.E.O. eighteen, in 1988 he bought the being sold to the French. best known and respected A strict disciplinarian but at no time was he mean. Stafford of Warren woolen A few days ago the Loro international brands of Refused to ride with Johnson in the inaugural parade; mill in Connecticut, where Piana family announced luxury goods. A projection of friendship is what made him afraid; Political plumbs went to all his old cronies, But in a very short time they turned out to be phonies. th Grant’s second term was dominated by scandals, Bike to the Middle of Boston Harbor July 28 His closest appointees associated with vandals; He improved foreign relations for non-traveling gents, Join Boston Natural Areas ton Greenway Caboose (the the middle of Boston Harbor And was considered to be one of our worst presidents.