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Mayor Walsh's First Trolley Tour in the North VOL. 118 - NO. 50 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, DECEMBER 12, 2014 $.35 A COPY Mayor Walsh’s First Trolley Tour JOSEPH “DOM” CAMPOCHIARO The Man and the Coach in the North End June 21, 1938 – December 8, 2014 by Matt Conti An Irreplaceable Part of the Community — Forever Lost (Photo by Matt Conti) In his first neighborhood trolley tour, Mayor Walsh con- tinued the tradition with a stop in the North End on Friday night, November 5th. Kids of all ages came out to see Santa and the lighting of the Prado tree on the Paul Revere Mall. Eliot School kids were out with banners and welcoming “Honey I’m Home!” That’s the greeting we Dom always deflected praise from himself, signs while NEMPAC carolers were on hand with festive would hear whenever Dom entered the evidenced when at the N.E.A.A. Tee-Ball songs. Joining the Mayor were local elected officials, City Post-Gazette office, which was almost every Christmas party, he presented Sal with a Councilor Sal LaMattina and State Representative Aaron day. With a mischievous smile on his face, plaque for his help on Saturday. “I felt that Michlewitz. Dom would brighten up what was at times a my role was minor and that he deserved the stressful room. biggest plaque out there for all his work over Dom was the North End. A community is the generations.” more than brick and mortar, more than For all his contributions, the field at Langone buildings and parks, it strives through figures Park on Commercial Street was renamed in News Briefs that become the glue of what the community his honor. He served as N.E.A.A. president, by Sal Giarratani is. Dom was this for the North End. He was was a member of the Knights of Columbus, affectionately-known by generations of North 4th Degree #1513 and Order Sons of Italy in End children simply as “Coach Dom” due to America (OSIA) Boston Lodge 208. So What, his affinity of Red Sox great Dom DiMaggio. As Dom liked to say, “Always remember We Already Know He’s an Airhead Anyone who played organized baseball God, Family and Country” and he personified Well, this week, Jonathan Gruber testified through the North End Athletic Association this as a devoted member of the St. Mark before a congressional committee on his recent (N.E.A.A.) experienced Dom’s loving Society, while also having served his country aired comments about how the Affordable Health guidance. proudly in the U.S. Army. Care Act was presented to the American people. Sal Giarratani, Post-Gazette columnist said Husband of Marie (Habebe) Campochiaro He did apologize several times at the hearing of Dom, “He understood that no one should and loving father to Dominic and Christopher regarding his comments about all the stupid just reside in a neighborhood; they should live of Boston, Massachusetts. Brother of people out there he and others were trying to fool. in it and for it.” Annmarie Amoroso of Saugus, Massachusetts. Of course over on MSNBC, Rev. Al Sharpton was Sal fondly remembered assisting Coach Also survived by his granddaughter, Brianna pooh-poohing the whole Gruber thing by saying Dom with his Saturday morning T-ball clinic and his nieces, Danielle and Lisa. regardless of his words, Obamacare is really in the summer of 2009. “Helping Dominic with Relatives and friends are invited to pay their working for Americans. Denial is not a river in all those little ones who were beginning their final respects to Dom at Sacred Heart Church, Egypt, but it is the playbook for MSNBC and all baseball careers — hitting a small ball off a 12 North Square in Boston’s North End. Visiting those moonbats out there drinking their Kool- tee, I realized it takes a lot of patience and hours Thursday, December 11, 2014 from 4:00 Aid in their Dixie cups For the record, Obamacare is working out fine that was one thing Dominic had in spades.” to 7:00 pm. for all those getting it for nothing in things like He dedicated himself to not only teaching Funeral mass on Friday, December 12, expanded Medicaid. They’re even getting free baseball but most importantly life. He loved 2014 at 9:45 am. Burial at Holy Cross dental care too. Good country America, if you are his and believed in creating foundations with Cemetery, Malden, Massachusetts. one of the takers. a bat and ball, and that this foundation would Right now, Domenic is at peace in heaven, Bottom line, though, what good was tearing carry children through life in whatever was probably organizing a baseball clinic. He has Gruber apart if Obamacare survives all this lack laid before them. It looks and sounds so earned his heavenly reward and he has earned of transparency? simple, but it wasn’t at all and he knew that our love. He will never be forgotten. Rest in (Continued on Page 13) quite well. peace, our special friend. See you in Butte, Montana! 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, DECEMBER 12, 2014 Res Publica by David Trumbull KNOW YOUR RIGHTS! The governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting apart HADES, THE PLACE December 15th as Bill of Rights Day, in respect for the first 10 Amendments to the United States Constitution, and recommend- Last week we neglect of burying ing that the day be observed in an appropriate manner by the learned that ancient one’s relatives was people. mythology believed frequently mentioned — Mass. Gen. Law, Hades to be the name by orators as a grave Part 1, Title 11, Chapter 6, Section 15AAAAA of a god, and also the charge against the name of a place. We moral character of Set forth below, slightly abridged, is the text of each of then examined the any man. those first 10 Amendments. legend surrounding Charon was the Amendment I. Freedom of religion, speech, and the press. Hades, the god. He name of the boatman Freedom to assemble and to petition the Government for a was the brother to who conducted the redress of grievances. Zeus, ruler over the souls of the dead Amendment II. The right of the people to keep and bear infernal regions, and across the river to the Arms. over the ghosts of the infernal regions. The Amendment III. No Soldier shall, in time of peace, be dead. fare that was charged quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, Today, our atten- for this service was nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. tion is directed to Hades the trance to Hades was on the one obolus (a coin of low Amendment IV. The right of the people to be secure in place; that mythological far side of a wide river named value), and in order that the their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unrea- world of the dead. According Oceanus or Acheron (both ghost might meet this de- sonable and unwarranted searches and seizures. to the belief of the ancients, names have been used). mand, the ancients placed Amendment V. No person shall be held to answer for a this world of the dead and The burial of the dead was that coin under the tongue capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a present- the abode of the god Hades a most solemn duty among of the deceased person. To ment or indictment of a Grand Jury, nor shall any person be was located in the depths of the ancient Romans. It was this day we are told of the subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of the earth. It was considered incumbent upon anyone countless members of skel- life or limb, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to to be a place where all dead who found an unburied body, etons that have been found be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, souls went while they at least to cast earth upon it with coins that had been or property, without due process of law; nor shall private prop- awaited their judgment and three times. If no funeral placed in their mouths. erty be taken for public use without just compensation. final commitment. It com- rites had been performed, The entrance to the king- Amendment VI. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused pared with the place, we now the soul of the dead person dom of Hades was guarded by shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an assume to be Purgatory, rep- could not be received in a dog named “Cerberus,”, a impartial jury, and to be informed of the nature and cause resented as a grove of bar- Hades, but wandered home- terrible monster with three of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses ren willows veiled in dark- less upon the earth for one heads, a tail of three ser- against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining ness or clouds, and where hundred years. Other an- pents, and a body bristling witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of coun- the sun never shone. The cients believed that children with vipers.
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