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By Linda Rosencrance TAB Staf!Writer fficials of an AFL-CIO-member union have filed a complaint with the federal 0government alleging that administrators of Action for Boston Community Development are engaging in anti-union activit u. in lie 01oney ·n V1o113ttcla.-L state and federal laws. Action for Bo ton Community Development, better known by its initials ABCD, i the city's large t anti-poverty organization. Officials of District 925 of the Service Employees International Union said more than 400 ABCD employees are trying to Walter (right) and a drinking buddy hare a drink in an alley off Harvard Avenue in Allston Village. organize to make ABCD a better place to work and better able to serve the Boston community. But they said ABCD administra tors are staging.an anti-union campaign to photographer Darren McCollester spent The story and photos offer insight into a sub- force employee to give up their right to form a union. m nth in All ton Village chroni- culture long a part of the lC?Cal .scene, In re ponse to inquiries from The TAB about the union issue, ABCD Vice President th lives of the homeless men and but out of step with the recent changes in a John Drew released a statement to the press and the ABCD community outlining the w men who gather along Harvard Avenue. commercial district on the rise. agency's position and calling on union orga nizers to "refrain from engaging in a cam paign of misinformation about ABCD." For example, Drew said the union's charge See story and photos on page 13 ABCD, page 27
vid BalfoUr 's defends his domain Harvard update Fell mere Pond in Malden. For $5.50 an recalling the packed Boston beach pho M tropolitan hour these 33 high school musicians tographs of bygone eras, before everyone · trict Commission make up the elite of the red shirts, the with an automobile started flocking to kid who get to play "Heard it Through a the Cape. hi f talks about Grapevine" on their trumpets in tead of The band is playing "Don't Cry For Me ·oriti , patronage picking up Kelly' Roast Beef bags on Argentina" at the newly renovated Revere B ach. Mother's Rest pavilion at Carson Beach. d public parks "In tead of having 'em leaning on a Everyone is happy, right? rnke, we have'em playing in a band," said Wrong. Interviews with observers, users The first ofa two-part eries on Metro Commi ioner Balfour. "What's wrong · and critics found that the MDC remains at Boston' parks. Next week: Sectetary of with that? It's a great program, it's fun , once one of the state's most prized and Environmental Affair. Trudy Coxe. it' entertainment" controversial agencies. It may be the only Welcome to the era of fun at the arm of state governm~nt that people actu By J.K. Dineen Metr politan Di trict Commi sion. It's a ally love, Yf?t it's seen uni.versally as under TAB Staff Writer urnmer of new sand and rebuilt bath funded and understaffed, sometimes negli hen David Balfour took v r houses. On the baseball diamonds, new gent and often misguided. It ought to be the MOC, one of his first infield mix covers the base paths; at the expanded. It ought to be blown up. It's the The TAB went to Cambridge to find out how Harvard rates W moves was to fonn an AU-Star parks, bigger American flags snap in the last bastion of political patronage. As the as a landlord. Also, ·1oca1 community leaders have slammed Marching Band to entertain city dwellers breeze; the city beache are cleaner and custcxlian of free recreation· for poor inner- Mayor Menino's plan for a new city task force. see page 3 from Pie ure Bay in South Bo ton to more crowded almost (but not quite) BALFOUR, page 26 THIS WEEK IN Arts& ENTERTAINMENT SECTION TWO
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A FIDELITY INVESTMENTS ! COMPANY June 24 - June 30, 1997 The Allston-Brlghto{I TAB, page 3 N ighborly advice from across the river can ay that they are unaware of Cambridge officials, our position. The zoning provides residents talk about some protection, but [Harvard has] ome regulatory authority, and life with Harvard that' what we're concerned about." By Melissa Da Ponte According to Charles Sullivan of TAB Staff Writer the Cambridge Historic o the re idents and offi Commission, there are a number of cials of All ton, some historical buildings on the site of leaders in Cambridge the planned construction, and T offer the following Harvard officials have already met advice on sharing space in their with his group to determine what · community with Harvard would need to stay. To demolish or University: I(, p up your guard. move any building that's over 50 "Our experience i that Harvard years old in Cambridge, as in i a high-maintenance kind of Boston, would trigger a demolition neighbor to have," aid John Pitkin, review. But as long as Harvard president of the Mid-Cambridge builds within the zoning permitted Neighborhood Association, who for the land, said officials, the uni has been meeting with university versity would not be required to official monthly for eight years build according to the communi now. "The way we've been able to ty's preference. Such an a eement get a handle on how campus would be needed only if Harvard's has grown i through constant dis plans required a variance or and ing very clear at the HARVARD, page 12 As Harvard expands its presence in Allston, ni.any residents have wondered how this will affect the community. about what we think is bil , Berkeley slams new board plan lint1iJ Rostncrance He added, ~,hope this isn't like 7AB Staff Writer the summer of 1996 and the BC ometimes less really is Task Force.n Berlceley was referring I'llOfC. .\ to the city~s plans to shelve a sitting S At~ when it comes to group- which met ~larly with dealing with Harvard University's Boston College officials over that deve~t plam,. said. Paul ~ ' development plam- and ~itwitbanew~ • t the Qty'
character of the re idential area and protect the block' hi torically ig nificant buildings. "We've communicated our con- clearly . 'bl to the university, and now we're just waiting to hear back," he aid. 1'11l'iu.11.-Brighton residents. ! f~ replaced the institutional tions on their future development "Over the summer, we'll be watch- And in the days foll.Qwing expansion board. , plans. a . very carefully so that no one
Petition aims to block CVS The City of Boston LiCensing Board will host a public hearing at I 0 a.m. on Wednesday, July 2 in By Linda Rosencrance off in Brighton Center, people still deterred the residents, who are Room 800 of City Hall to discuss the following TAB Staff Writer have to carry their groceries home angry at the way the whole situa items: oca1 re idents concerned and that's difficult for the elderly. tion WD handled. •A request by Chan Dynasty, 1 North Beacon about the lack of a upcr- Aanagan's used to deliver their '"The community is upset by the St, Allston, to transfer its beer and wine license to --- mark t in Brighton groceries for a minimal fee. Star way the transition came about Little Vietnam Restaurant Inc. at the same location. Center want CV to recon ider its charges $6." without consideration for the com •A request by Northeast Brewing Co., 13 l 4a lease to move into the empty Bossi said the group will also munity's needs," Bossj said. '"The Commonwealth Ave. in Allston, to change the classification of its liquor Flanagan's building on ubmit the petition to the com community feels it was aban- license from beer and wine to beer, wine and liqueurs. Wi . gton munity's elected officials. doned." - ''We're gathering signatures to In the past, however, those offi Bossi said people can sign peti petition CV to rethink its lease so cial have let residents kno that tions at the Brighton Laundry CORREC'TIC)N can get another upennarket to nothing can be done to prevent Center and Dry Oeaners, 432 · locate there," said Brighton resi CVS from moving its Market Washington St., Center House.of ' A page 3 artic;le in the June 17 edi In fact, he had been employed by dent Lorraine Bossi, who i h lp Street operation to the Washington Pizza, 344 Washington St., tion titled ''Pedro Rosario found the City Year Red Shirts program at ing to collect ignatures. "The Star Street site. People's Federal Savings Bank, guilty," incorrectly suggested that the time of that alleged rape, which Market uttle i good, but it's not The reason, they said, is 435 Market St., and the Veronica Pedro Rosario was employed by the was never prosecuted, and had no the same thing [as having a mar- because a retail use is allowed in B. Smith Senior Center, 20 West End House when he was · connection to the West End House t here]. The huttle drops people that location, but that still hasn't Chestnut Hill Ave. 0 accused of raping~ 16-year-old. at that time.
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"What this program sales but has taught English to conference ponsored by people from every country can give YMCA and the Franciscan really drove home for me was the immigrants in the past. ''This seems T the Healthy Boston something. They only need to find Children's Hospital, mnong others, fact that people often come [to the like a completely different approach Coalition on June 16 drew 85 people something that shows them how to also showed up to learn more about United States l under such duress. to things. And we always hear about h ping to gain a better und rstanding do that." the many communities that make up That's helpful for us to know. It con it when things go wrong in the area, of local cultural groups' efforts to Peggy Davis-Mullen, city coun Allston-Brighton. firms what we have been seeing." so it wa.;; great to ~me and hear ·~oin" All ton-Brighton. cilor at-large, was present, as were 'Tm very interested in keeping an Others who attended were simply about something going on that's so Presentations were offered by representatives from the offices of ear toward what the community curious about what wa.;; going on in uplifting." community leaders, most of them state Sen. Warren Tolman, City needs," said Dale Chadwick, CEO of the community. For more information about the immigrants, who have graduated Councilor Brian Honan and State the Allston-Brighton Mental Health "I just wanted to hear about what LlNCS program, call Janet Kaplan from the Leadership to Improve Rep. Steven Tolman (D-Brighton). Association. Her agency provides was happening in my neighbor- Bucciarelli at 782-3886. 0 Neighborhood Communication and Service program. LINCS is a nine m nth leadership training program that prepares area residents for com munity organizing. The conference, titled "Joining Allston-Brighton: Iner asing Participation through Intercultural Communication," was designed to bring local politicians, ervice providers and resident.;; together to explore challenges to getting the area's diverse popula- ti n t participate fully in the life of the c mmunity. For residents with limited ngli h kill and little und rstanding of how the local sy - tern w rks, they aid, connecting with the chool , banks, police and health and human setvice agencies oft n viewed as ul of reach. UN l d talked about their e limit changes for THE NAME ON THE DOOR op Warner football ntil recently, national administra MAY BE NEW, BUT THE FACES rs of P p Warner Football had set e maximum age limit for panicipa n at 13. 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Our new location is easy to find, we're right near the Harvard Ave. "T" stop. Soule Recreation, 652 Hammond , Ch tnut Hill - near the Questions? Stop by or call 1-800-2-BOSTON. ngwood Tennis Club - on June at 7:30 p.m. Coaches will be avail e to an wer question . hments will be served. e organizati n i looking for who may be interested in help- BankBoston in any cap ity, uch as coaching. First Community Bank ping ~ti tic or managing equip t. r further inti rrnation, contact It's !\mazing What You Can Do." n Bain at 739-3723, or Ron Nasif 69-928 1. Mt:mhcr FDIC • In cludt:s B.inkllosro11 ATM, in M t\ ,md , 11. Hank of Bo,ton Co1111 eL1illtt AT/\1_,_ .1ml Rl 1 lmpit.il ' l ru~t AJ'/vh. www.ba11kbmro11.co m Page 6 The Allston-Brighton TAB, June 24 - June 30, 1997 'One way' to safer streets and sidewalks Portsmouth Street some kind of consensus on the Casazza said. "I will take responsi cobblestone curbing and the bility for this commissioner to residents may get asphalt. That went to [Public bring your concerns to the [BTD] Works] Commissioner [Joseph] commissioner. But we might have improvements, but Casazza's office, and when they to have another meeting." with a hitch started working, people had some Some residents felt that any concerns." improvements on their street over Several residents of the narrow By Ki vin Kemp Ide what they've lived with over the residential street said they would TAB Correspondent years is better than nothing, espe rather have vertical granite curb fter meeting with city cially if it improves safety. stones installed with the sidewalks official in a neighbor "Parking on . ne side is fine if instead of sloped cobblestones. The hood p1ayground recent my neighbors want that," said resi A sloped cobblestone curbing, they ly, it appears that Portsmouth Street dent Tom Gorman. "But if we claim, will hinder pedestrian safety re idents and property owners will leave [the cobblestone curbing] this and encourage drivers to park cars way, we're guilty of encouraging get the long-awaited improvements on the sidewalks. Additionally, they to their street and sidewalks - but people to park on the sidewalk. If it said they preferred concrete instead has to be one way and parking on tho e improvement will come at a of asphalt sidewalks for aesthetic one side, so what? We're gaining in price, and may require their street Gaetano Pagnani of the Strada Construction Company puts another cobblestone in purposes, something several prop this community. We're making it a to accommodate only one-way traf place along the sidewalk of Portsmouth Street erty owners claimed was promised safer street." fic. to them free of charge by a Public install the sidewalks. Owners have of the street. Another option is to About dozen residents and Still, other Jiesidents are hopeful a Works official at a apeeting in the option of paying off the entire keep two-way traffic on the street property owners wi11 have to con their street w'Qn't be changed to a 1996. cost in full or pay off the principle while allowing no parking on the one-way, for fear of encouraging tribute betw n $63 and $370 each Public Works Commissioner in their quarterly tax bills. street. speeders on the heavy residential in bett rment fund to have the city Joseph Casazza told resident<; that Despite the miscommunication, "The curbing generates new street. install concrete in tead of asphalt promise never should have been property owners at the meeting problems in the neighborhood that idewalks, something those proper "All we want is our street to made, since it goes agai nst city said they were not bothered by the you'll have to get consensus on," have a regular sidewalk and keep it ty owner finally found consensus policy for sidewalk upgrades. imposition of the fees - making he told property owners and resi a two-way street," said Portsmouth on at the meeting. The city had "I answer to over 600,000 people their street safer was their chief dents. "I'm not here to cause grief Street resident John Camillia. air ady begun in talJing asphalt in thi s city," he said at the meeting. concern. between the neighbors - that's "We've lived here like this for idewalk and loped cobblestone "I'm holding to a standard that we Casazza told residents that the just the way it is. I want to spend years. If we make it a one-way, curbing earlier this month when hold everyone else to. Someone improvements might alter the traf your money on your street to make they'll really fly up this street. everal residents in the neighbor from my department may have said fic flow and parking on their 21- the most people happy. But you've We're not asking for grandiose hood cried foul at the design of the that. I haven't found out ~~o that foot wide street under Boston got to get a consensus in your com things ." impr vement . person is yet, but that was wrong." Transportation Department policy. munity." · t. Casazza said he intends to speak ''There were two meetings last Casazza said the betterment fees Because the street is narrow. large Residents, l;10wever, hope thal with the BTD about the issue and year regarding the recon traction were assessed to the property own emergency vehicles must be able to the city will allow the newly to come to a conclusion, hopefully and r building of this street," City ers based on the area of property drive down the street uninhibited improved street to remain as it before he directs city road contrac uncilor Brian Honan said. "The frontage they own abutting the by parked cars. The policy allows always has - a two-way street and tors Lo pour the concrete sidewalks r l m ting wa not well attended soon-to-be-upgr;ided sidewalks. 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June 24 - June 30, 1997 The Allston-Brighton TAB, page 7 IN BRIEF Chandler Pond Preservation Allston. Several state legislators are six years ago, he has accumulated expected to speak. 2,677 hours of service. Society meeting Information on a variety of top "Volunteers such as Mr. Nixon Th handler Pond Pre ervation ics, including getting subsidized or are vital to our success in providing Society will be held at 7:30 p.m. on public housing for elders and fami veterans health care. These people Thursday, June 26 at St. Margaret's lies, tenants' rights, money for are making a dynamic difference in Women' Health Center. (Use the home repairs and the end of rent our medical center and outpatient Warren Street entrance and ask for control will be provided. Free child clinics," said Dr. Elwood Headley, direction to c nfere nee room 4 on care and refreshments will be pro medical center director. th fifth floor.) vided. The event will held in The m ting agenda will include English and translated into Spanish Brighton Quilter norninati ns and election of new and Portuguese. Sign language chosen for Images '97 board members and officers; an interpretation will also be provided. update on Bay State Environmental's The ite is wheelchair accessible. "Visions" and "Blackbirds," two tudy fi r dredging; and a presenta- For more infonnation, call 787- quilts by Brighton resident Maxine ti n f th society's logo hats, sweat 3874. Farkas, have heen selected to be hirts and mugs fi r ale. shown at Images '97, a juried show 199 All m mbers and people inLerest Allston resident sponsored by the New England ed in saving handler Pond are wel recognized for Quilters Guild, Aug. 7-10 at the om and encouraged to attend. Royal Plaza Hotel and Trade Center. community service 181 Boston Post Road West, William Nixon, a resident of Marlboro . These quilts are among Community meeting Allston, recently received an award the more than 200 traditional and on insurance act from the Veterans Administration contemporary pieces made by New Medical Center in Bost for his England's finest quilters. volunteer work with veterans. Admission to the show and the Nixon, who served in the United merchants mall is $6 per day or$ I 0 States Marine Corps in World War for a multi -day ticket. Classes and 11 and the Korean War, volunteers workshops cost extra. The event is two days a week transporting veter handicapixd accessible. ans throughout the hospital to vari For more information, call (603) ou appointmenL'i. Since beginning 465-7822. SENIOR C'ALENDAR ·Pn ram and classes by the Veronica B. mith Multi-Ser11ice .Center; 20 Chestnut Ave .. for the w k of Jun 24-30. The senior cen ter is op n Monda -Friday from : 0 a.m.-4 p.m. Lun hi erved post cotd Monday-Thu" da at noon. ~~--~6:,.5'-6120. Tuesday, June 24 9 a.m. - xerci e la . 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If it hadn't vs.lJson II TAR Staff Writer been, we wouldn't be faced with this situation arlier this year the ci ty's licensing now." board commissioners granted Chan's Berkeley said this whole situation raises E Dynasty in Union Square a beer and suspicions that appj'_ing for the beer and wine wine license against the wishes of the com license was part of a plan on the part of Chan munity. Now that decision may have come to increase the value of her restaurant because back to haunt them. she knew she wanted to sell it. On July 2 Helen Chan, the owner of the "I can't prove it, but it really makes me You're gonna get North Beacon Street restaurant, will be back wonder," Berkeley said. "She only had a one in front of the board asked for approval to year history in our neighborhood. Bailing a your money's worth. transfer that license to another owner. business out of a bad situation is not statutori "This really aggravates me," said ly correct. When it is this can be the result." Guaranteed. Commissioner Daniel Pokaski, who voted in But last week Chan told The TAB she June 28/9Pm live Las Vegas favor of the license, along with Commissioner applied for the lic1flse to help her business, only on Cablevision's pay per view Joseph Mulligan. "The reason I voted for the but once she got it she realized it was too late license was because she had a track record in to keep the restaurant going. the community and she was well liked. Now _ ln the past Berkeley has said he believed she's turning around and selling it. You go out the decision to grant a beer and wine license on a limb for them and then they tum around to Chan's Dynasty was a bad precedent for and sell it. That really aggravates me." the licensing board to set. Pokaski said although the criteria for "This beer and wine license - granted in approving a transfer of an alcohol license February - was the first new license in the from one corporation to another is based pri community in three years," Berkeley said. marily on the fitness and character of the "Now that the city's licensing board has Order now. Here's how: Just call 1-800-597-4071 potential new owner, he said in this case he granted that license, every restaurant in and an automated voice will confirm your order was going to take a really close look at it, and Allston is going to line up right behind them tor the Evander Holyfield vs. ~Ike TJson II Special Event. if there was a problem he'd vote against a and request a beer and wine license. But there Enjoy the show! transfer. i. are too many licenses - full liquor and beer That's all we ll and good, ~aid Paul and wine - in Allston already. In a quarter www.cablevlsion-boston.com Berkeley, president of the Allston Civic mile area around Harvard and Brighton Restrictions apply. Addressable service re quired. Association, which opposed the beer and avenues, there are 24 licenses." Presented for private, non-commercial viewing on ly. wine license at Chan 's Dynasty. But it's too And his predictions seem to be coming Applicable fees and taxes extra; Per-round charge applies once th e round begins . little, too late, he said. true. This event is a promotion of Don King Productions. Inc . in association with the MGM Grand . ''There was no public need for another Jn May, for example, the licensing board Pay Per View distributed by KingV1sion and SET Pay Per View. Card su bject to change without notice. license to se ll liquor on that block ," Berkeley approved a new beer and wine license for said. "On one end is the Model Cafe and on AJlston Village Buffet, 90-92 Harvard Ave. the other O'Malley's. The board granted it, in - Allston residents have filed an appeal of part, to help Helen Chan's business, but under that license with the state's Alcoholic the statute economic hardship is not a reason Beverages Control Commission - and Pho to grant a license. It is supposed to be based Hoa, 48-50 Harvard Ave. Ducky Wok has (kality on public need. Now because they granted contacted city officials about the possibility the license to Helen, we have someone com that they, too, might apply for a beer and §' lla!ue ing in who we don 't know. This license wine license. Q BRIGllTO!'\ REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS continue to be ADDRESS BUYER SEUER DATE PRICE 26 Fairbanks St. Orlando Coutin Mercedes Conde 4/28/97 $190,000 Our Top Priorities. 93 Langle~ Road Ma~ A. Nelson Anthon~ N. Tortorella 4/28/97 $165,000 57-59 South Crescent Cir. Boris Fabrikant Christo~her M. Brosnan 4/28/97 $310,000 1872 Commonwealth Ave ., Unit 11 Cristina M. 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June 24 - June 30, 1997 The Allston-Brighton TAB, page 9 B USI NESS UNION MAQKET Peoples gives out first "Ale Sai I" this Friday night from 8 p.m.-midnight on Boston Harbor. 8TATION scholarship of many The evening cruise will feature a din Peopl Federal S vings Bank, with EARLY BIRD SPECIALS ner buffet and open bar featuring MONDAY - THURSDAY 4:30 - 6:30 branch locally at 435 Market St., NEBC beers. The event will cost $45 Brighton enter and 229 North SOUP DU JOUR or and includes all food, all beer, tip and FRESH GARDEN SALAD Harvard St., Allston, recently pre tax, commemorative T-shirt and live sented a $1,000 scholarship to entertainment courtesy of local musi PRIME RJB: Coleen Cunivan, a tudent at Mt. St. cians Chad LeMarsh and Jah Spirit. I /2 lb. Prime Rib, Served with Jo ph Academy in Brighton. Before the cruise, from 6:30 p.m.- Baked Potato, v egetable and Au Jus Currivan, a junior, rereived this 7:30 p.m., the party will kick off at ...... 8.95 money toward her tuition for senior Coogan's Bluff at 173 Milk St., in VEAL & EGGPLANT PARMESAN: year. Thi scholarship awarded by Boston's Financial District. For infor Served over f'reshly Peopl - the first to the Mt. St. mation and/or reservations, please Cooked Linguini ~ ph community - was awarded call NEBC at 566-6699...... 8':'95 t Currivan based on her integrity, BAKED SCHROD: and will be a yearly award to such catanesi promoted to senior With a Lemon Butter Crumb Topping, d ing tudents, said Barbara customer services manager Served with Potato & Vegetable Rufo of Peopl Federal Savings ...... 8.95 Bank. Th bank will be awarding Jacqueline Catanesi, a longtime employee at the fonner Greater CENTER CUT PORK CHOPS: th r local tudents scholarships in Grilled, Topped with Sautccd Onions, Boston Bank, now Citizens Bank, at th coming month , Rufo said. Coleen Cunivan receives the scholarship Peppers & Mushrooms, B pl , meanwhile, plans to open from Maurice H. Sullivan Jr., chairman of 414 Washington St., Brighton, h a~ Served with Potato & Vegetable recently been named senior cus i ~ t Roxbury branch th.is week, the board of Peoples Federal Savin~ Bank...... 3.95 tomer service manager. Rufo said. All the personnel in the STEAK MARSALA: ·~ Brighton and Allston branches, North East Brewing Citizens Bank bought Grove l /2 lb. Served with Bank, which had bought Greater th ugh, will remain at their locations. Company celebrates Potato & vegetable one year Boston Bank. The name will be for ...... 8.95 mally changed to Citizens Bank Choice of Pudding Du Jour or Assorted Pies Allston Board presents The North F.ast Brewing Company at next spring. Coffee or Tea chack to Gmlner School 1314 Commonwealth Ave., Allston, Catanesi has worked in the cus Come In for our Nightly Dinner Specials The All ton Board of Trade, at its celebrates its first anniversary this tomer services department at recent monthly meeting, presented a month and to celebrate, is holding an Greater Boston Bank for 21 years. 17 Nichols Ave., Watertown • 9'23-0480 check for $1,227 to Catalina Monte , principal of the Thomas Gardner Elementary School in Allston, to go to the school' general fund. This money was raised through the raffle at the Allston board' annual dinner held last m nth t WGBH studi . The Allston Board f Trade, mean while, continues its work with the school community. board' ·--··"A was held at the Brighton High School library with righton High Principal Juliette J hn n rving as pedal gu t. The board will be working with the high sc~l community as part f the sch I' efforts to create partnership Sign up today for the Home Equity Line of Credit with business people, acconling to All ton Board of Trade Presid nt that's at the head of its class. Jean W . Thi i especially important now,Woods said, because th high school i applying for a grant that requires the high school community to work with the busi- n c rnmunity, h said. After 6 Months Current Prime Rate Brighton Board to hold networking night, invites business community PRIME* 8~5Q t;a Th Bright n B ard fTrade will For Qualified Lines hold its m nthJy netw rking night Thursday, June 26, at the Greater Bo ton Bank at 414 Washington St., Brighton (now the Citizens Bank) starting at 6 p.m. These networking • One of the lowest introductory rates • No annual fee for one year!** nights allow bu iness people to min gle with others in the community in available! • May qualify you for a tax a relaxed setting. Executives from • Simply write a check, whenever you need deduction on the interest paid. Citizen Bank will be there to intro funds, for any reason you choose! Consult your tax advisor. duce themselves to the business community, said Rosie Hanlon, executive secretary of the Brighton Stop in or call a branch that's convenient to you! Board of Trade. Anunla's FIOWllS pmtlclpates In Arts In Bloom Amanda Rojas, owner of Amanda's GROVE BANK Fl wers in Brighton Center, recently participated in the annual Museum of ~Bank 35 Washington Street, Brighton • (617) 278-5800 Fine Art's "Arts in Bloom" event 429 Harvard Street, Brookline • (617) 73 1-39 11 414 Washington Street, Brighton Thi year was the 21 t year for the Branch offices in: Brighton , Brookl ine, Chestnut Hill , 157 Brighton Avenue, Allston event, which howcased floral Framingham, Newton, Newton Centre and Stoughton Branch offices in: All ston, Brighton and Jamaica Plain arrang ments from florists and gar den hop all through the museum in 1-800-34-GROVE (617) 782-5570 conjunction with mu um exhibits. Roj · created an arrangement con- *Prime Rate as of 6/'2197 ·was 8.50%. APR's may vary based on the Prime Rate as published in the Wall Street Journal on the second i ting of a tatue of a girl surround Tuesday of each month. After the first six months, the variable APR on a credit line with a minimum daily lin e balance of $25,000 ed by flowe . (Rojas' arrangement or more is eq ual to the Prime Rate , and the variable APR on a credit line with a minimum daily line balance of less than $25,000 w located in front of a textile equals the Prime Rate plus 1.5%. Other rates and terms apply Maximum APR is 18%. **The an nual fee is wa ived for the first year, thereafter it is $25 . 1- 4 family owner-occupied properties on ly. Not available for homes currently for sale or intended to be so ld exhibit focu ing on children's cloth- within six months of loan closing. Property insurance required . New lines only. Rates subject to change . Equal Housing Lender. Memb~~ FD.ICIDIF ing from th J7 .) ~------Page 10 The Allston-Brighton TAB, June 24 - June 30, 1997 OPINION As r"E ANNuAt... Plt..612.tMAGE 10 me MDC Commioner C!A~ .Af'Pr20Athe Boston Globe. I read the articles ARTS EDITOR - GREG REIBMAN, 433-8389 So at least Harvard has shown confidence in the SPEAK-OUT!, page 12 Allston area by buying commercial PuBLISHER - STEVE LEVINSKY, 433-6114 real estate in the Allston area. You EDITOR IN CHIEF - GEORGE DONNELLY, 433-8350 notice they are not in other parts of SALES DIRECTOR - CRIS WARREN, 433-8264 the city that are falling apart due to the behavior of some of the people CIRCULATION DIRECTOR - RYAN FARRELL, 433-6760 who live in those areas. But Harvard PRODUCTION MANAGER - RONALD DUCE, 433-8290 has shown confidence in Allston, and the mayor should be thankful for them for buying some of the run GENERAL TELEPHONE NUMBERS down real estate that was being oper ated on a shoestring by some people. Circulation Information - 433-8307 Sales Fax Number - 433-8201 Boston College tries to buy as Main Telephone Number - 433-8200 Editorial Fax Number - 433-8202 many houses as they can in their Classified Number - 1-800-624-7355 Arts/Calendar Fax Number - 433-8203 neighborhood, and there is nothing wrong with that. So I just want to Copyright 1997 Community Newspaper Co. ,. COMMUNITY Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction by say that I disagree with Mayor NEWSPAPER any means without permission is prohibited. Menino and these people that just I COMPANY want to knock Harvard University . ... June 24 - June 30, 1997 The Allston-Brighton TAB, page 11 Co:M:MENTARY That's the ticket Racial equality shouldn't am going to take my time writ Police Department - and affirmed ing this. by my less-than< onsoling mother I I'm usually in a hurry, and I during a whiny phone conversation wait for national dialogue paid for it this week. Literally. - "Haste makes waste." i The real kicker to the story is that My life a series of hasty exits By Arthur Wellington Conquest lII entered a federal prison on fraud ''Two Nations" by Andrew Hacker, from home to work, from work to the previous week, I chose the same TAB Columnist and conspiracy, as well as which was published on the heels route home on the day when I feel n 1984, the former McDougal's wife, Susan, who's of the Rodney King beating by the most iushed - Thursday. Acer Superintendent of the been jailed for the past nine months Lo~ tain police officer lurked in his cruis members of the Angles Police Brookline Public Schools, as a result of refusing to answer Department. Jr er at the roadside, and must have felt I Charles Slater, convened a group of the breeze my car created as it questions about Clinton and A year of talking - i.e., town teachers, administrators and parents Whitewater. In Arkansas, Bill hall discussions and special events By Unda Frank whizzed past him. Lights on, he pulled me over. I guess he was feel of black students enrolled in the on the topic of race and divisions ing sympathetic that day; maybe Brookline Schools - of which I - a year of possibly recording the he'd seen the puppy-dog eyes I gave was one - to address the issue of findings/data and Bill Clinton is "race" and "academic achieve history, leaving the problem right h m , from h m to picking up my him; maybe ''I'm sorry, officer, I'm ment." Initially, everyone was Too many black as he found it! What's needed is n at p h 1, from work to pick- late to pick up my kids at day care" immensely impressed and enthusi Leo ing up the kids at day care, so I don't did the Irick, because he issued me a action. 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Even if it docs take tennis courts for the community. If beginning on Tuesday, and it was place in a hundred years, the Gown Harvard could use some of the land HARVARD, from page 3 tend to displace those in the com obvious in every single article that may well have replaced the entire they just bought for recreational approval of the planning board Lo munity who are less affluent. the Globe was detennined to create Town. In the meantime, will these facilities until they start to build on do something not nom1ally pem1it Universities tend to eat up a lot of a problem. I spoke to some of the properties be properly maintained? the land, I think it would foster better tcd on the land. Even then, said land around the edges." people who were quoted in those Last winter, I was told , Western relationships. Pitkin, ensuring the intended out As a way to control institutional articles, and they said they were Avenue pavements were not shov come of an agreed-upon plan can expansion in Cambridge, residents misquoted and that the Globe article eled making it tough on the pedes- We still need a market be difficult. put forth a home-rule petition in eemed to try to make everyone in I live in Brighton and I am respond "Making binding agreements 1979 that allowed the city to regu the community sound angrier that ing to the "Flanagan's Wake" arti ahout expansion is not easy," he late such growth and prohibited the they were. I think the article in The cle. The recap in the June I 0 issue. I said. "You can't just put something conversion of housing to institu TAB was more balanced. We are slowly being wm1ted to say I think the Flanagan's down on paper and expect it to be tional uses. In 1991, the city of Also I think that it is good news swallowed up by should be used for another super resolved, because the university can Boston follo..ced their lead and that Harvard bought the property, market, perhaps another branch of take that and work with it, and approved new zoning regulations not bad news. universities. There Stop & Shop or a different super come up with something that meets for Allston-Brighton, allowing the should be a moratorium market. I hope it happens. it to the letter but which still might city to control how much an institu This is good news not work for the community. It's tion could expand into that commu on all these expansions difficult because they have rights I have been a longtime resident of Article was right on target nity. The regulations also called for that they don't give up easily." eattle Street, over 20 years now, and acquisitions. I'm calling in regard to Melissa the fonnation of task forces made Cambridge City Councilor and my contributing quote to this DaPonte's article "Eliminating the up of residents, officials from area Francis Duehay agrees that whole matter is, this is probably the fear," in the June 17 issue. The arti institutions and city officials, who Harvard's growth has put pressure best thing that has happened to us in cle was very weU written. The sen meet regul31}Y lo discuss develop on nei ghbor hood~ to protect them thi area. trians. Will they ni?tk.e plantings to tence "When streets are littered, ment plans; beautify their properties? Will they vandalized and crowded with pan selves from encroachment. Elsewhere in the state, communi My concern is parking interact with the community and handlers, it isn't long before they are ''The university has an insatiable ties are not allowed to prohibit offer services to the community - abandoned by law-abiding citi- need to expand because their pro institutional uses through zoning I wanted to make sure that if things such as housing and business stud zens ... " still resonates in my head . grams are growing," he said. "Over ordi nances, according to Les are really built up around us that ies, demographics and economic I live next lo Cleveland Circle. the years, there have been great Barber, director of land use and something will be done way ahead feasibility studies? Brighton is very Every time I go to the Circle to buy changes in the fabric [of the city l zoning for Cambridge. The petition of time to protect the residents' park much in need of this type of thing. groceries or pizza, I am accosted by Representatives from the neighbor adopted by Cambridge in 1981was ing spaces, in other words that each We would like to see the universities two people, a man and a woman, hoods try to make things better, and accompanied by a companion set house would protect the spaces on work closer with the communities both able-bodied and not mentally Harvard says they do, too - but of of city ordinances that set strict the block in front of them. If the stu not just on scholarships but in actual impaired, asking me for change. course they keep at it. The situation guidelines. Overlay districts were dents are going to start to be around community needs. When they are not there, I see the is ongoing and not satisfactory." established - areas in which new here, they might start parking in the ... empty Budweiser cans they leave Duehay said that while the pres construction or conversions were residential area and make it impossi Recreation facilities behind. I used to run a convenience ence of thei.university contributes to prohibited because of existing high ble for u to park our own cars. I would be a help store in New York. It is no surprise the quality of life in Cambridge, it levels of institutional usage. think some sort of law should be set Harvard gobbling up so much land to me that people have been making also makes it a more expensive As a result, most land in up to make this residential parking. and taking it out of use is not posi a 90-degree tum upon seeing these place to live. And while it brings Cambridge is no longer available tive development in the community. people and taking their business lectures, performances, gallery for institutions that wish to grow, Not scholllShlps, but Children gro~ing up in the commu elsewhere. exhibitions and plays to the area, according to Duehay. He said he a role for the community nity now could use that land in better On the other hand, I often see the constant activity increases foot wondered if it that was what had According to historical data, Allston ways. One of the effects is that land Boston college students throw them and car traffic as well. driven Harvard south into Boston. is a po tal di trict and railroad sta prices are being pushed up drastical a buck or two because the majority 'The university generates a kind "The pressures against develop ti n in the town of Brighton which ly over the past few months, making of them have a buck or two in their of excitement for people who live ment in Cambridge may in part w established in 1807. We are it more difficult for new families to pockets because the majority of BC here and it draws people in," said have led them to develop a plan in slowly being swallowed up by uni move into the neighborhood. Worse students come from wealthy fami Duehay. "Businesses want to locate Allston," he said. "It would be hard versities. There should be a moratcr than that, it makes it almost impossi lies. What these kids obviously here and want to stay here. ft 's a to do that in Cambridge because rium on all these expansions and ble for families already there to find don 't know is that they are under no big magnet. But it also attracts peo there's not a lot of land zoned acquisitions. Tax bases, private space for recreational facilities. One obligation to put up with these free ple with a higher income, and those appropriately for it. I think they're housing and private enterprise are fac ility that does not exist al all is loaders. Please let this be known. people buy up houses too, and they running out of room here." 0 • Aero1'ice • Per6onal Training Russo1Inc. • Valet Parking • Squash • Childcare • Yoga • Fitness • Pilates • Basket1'all • Cafe • Pro Shop • Self Defense • Massage • Boxing • Spinning • Much Morel 15 Gorham Street Allston, MA 02134 (617) 731-4177 Extra Fa....,.- Peppers-: ~ . Fresh Extra · Zucchi Plum an Tomat ... 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Homelessness clashes with economic renewal in Allston Village By Darren McCollester, TAB Correspondent and Peter Panepento, TAB Staff Writer t the center of the Allston Village Main Streets district lies a man named Walter. Near the new coffee shops and trendy jazz bars that have opened in the past year or two along Harvard Avenue and the new trees planted along the Brighton Avenue median, Walter lies slumped in a comer of the BankBoston automated teller machine booth at the comer of Harvard and Commonwealth avenues, forcing customers to step over him as they stop for the day's cash or to make a deposit. The world around Walter is awash with change. The Main Streets program is bringing new businesses to the district, redesigning store- continued on next page Page 14 The Allston-Brtghton TAB, June 24 - June 30, 1997 continued from previous page fronts, creating a new sense of alliance among all the people who share a stake in the well being of th.is commercial disttict. Flowers are being planted, trash removed, graffiti scrubbed from buildings - part of a campaign to reclaim these treets in the name of civic order. Only Walter' world appears not to change. A working men and women bustl e by. Walter is sleeping off the effects of a bottle of vodka. For b tter or worse. Walter is a fami liar pan of the complex culture of All ston's Harvard Avenue. The center of the neighborhood busi ness disttict is known for drawing an eclectic mix of college kids looking for a fun night out, immigrant looking for a slice of hometown culture and bu ine people trying to make a living. It al o attracts a steady population of home less people who ay that all they are looking for is strong liquor and a place to sleep. Like many of hi friends, Walter spends most of his time cadging coins from people passing by to buy liquor. Today he carries everything he own - a rosary and a bottle - in his pocket. 'This is my situation ...~ · he says, sitting in the ATM booth during a cold, late-spring night. "My brother-in-law told me not to come around no more. He gave me a pack of ciga rettes when I asked him for money and says, 'I don't want t.p see you around here again.' Jesu , I already got cigarettes." Business owners and police say th.is group has inhabited All ton for decades and that the neighborhood has accepted it as part of the social mix, even if some residents and store owners would like them to go away. "I've never known them to cause any hann," said Boston Police Officer Dan Daley, who handles resident complaints for Disttict 14 in Allston-Brighton. "Alcoholism isn't a crime. But by virtue of hanging around, they scare people. I th.ink it's their appearance." Many of those who hang out on Harvard Avenue say they have had chances to choose a different life. In some cases, their lives started with promise. A woman named Lin saic\s he has a degree from Cornell U niver ity. Another, For Bobby, the day ends in oblivion on the pavement. June 24 - June 30, 1997 Tiie Allston-Brighton ru, page 15 ·. Mtchelle, said she has a degree from Boston University. Jack claims that he played profes sional baSeball for the Baltimore Orioles. But in every case, their promise has been washed away with alcohol. And most of them do not want to change the way they live. When asked if th~y want to work, they say no. ''For what?" Michelle ~ks. "Eight bucks an hour? I can make that right here. That don't buy s-t." Michelle spends much of her time huddled with her friends, drinking. Her boyfriend, Jack, joins her on the street for companionship. He said most of the people in their group do not want to go to shelters and do not want to take on the problems and the .responsibilities of working and paying rent. "You wanna know about the homeless? Why we're here?" Jack asks in response to a reporter's question. ''We're all good people. We're just f-d up. You got your concerns. Keep 'em. We got nothing." continued on next page \ ElJpa I Page 16 The Allston-Brighton TAB, June 24 - June 30, 1997 - ATAB SPECIAL REPORT: HOMELESS IN ALLSTON continued from previous page respond to residents' complaints about the Instead of working for money, many of homeless. In the summertime, there are calls those who call Allston's streets home spend to disperse them when they become too rau- I their time "stemming" - their term for pan- cous on the street. On colder nights, they handling - then using the money to buy often offer rides to the Pine Street Inn or - liquor or food. in some cases - to get medical help. Stemming is consi~ered by many to be Two members of the Allston's regular their biggest social sin. Business leaders say group have died in the past two years. One temming drives away potential business and died in a laundromat after overdosing on many passersby are intimidated by their pres- heroin. Another froze to death in the dump- ence. ster behind Marty's Liquors. Still, their role in the Allston business dis- Walter has cancer and is prone to seizures. trict i a fact of life for many of the mer- Often, resident-; or merchants see him chants, their customers and residents - a fact writhing on the sidewalk and call the ambu- that neither the homele. s nor their neighbors lance. He is taken to the hospital, where the appear anxious to change. As Allston Village doctors tell him to quit drinking, which they tries to redefine itself, local leaders say they ., say causes the seizures . can do little to redefine the roles of the dis- As he discusses his health, Walter pulls a trict's homeless tenants. crumpled medical prescription out of his "It has an impact on the district, for sure," pocket. The prescription would help him con- said AJlston Village Main Streets Manager trol his seizures, but it costs $80. On most Jennifer Rose. "I don't know how to change nights, Walter is lucky to stem for the 85 it. I think the merchants and the police are·all cent<; needed for the train ride to the Pine for finding a solution that is humane. People Street lnn. But he always is able to acquire a here are humane ." pint of vodka and a pack of cigarettes. But Ro e, and others, say that humane J .Jnlike most of his colleagues at the comer, '- olutions are difficult to find when many of Walter goes to the shelter when the weather is tho e who live on the streets do not want to really cold. One late, cold night while the oth- leave. As a result, many of the merchants ers were sitting in an ATM booth drinking have accepted their presence in the neighbor- vodka from a gallon jug, Walter shivered in a hood and try to help when they can. doorway. And police ay that there is little they can That same night, Jack sat talking with do to help out. Bobby D. Michelle slept beside them. During "Doyouha¥ a Jution to home Daley aid when asked about how the situa- Bobby D. if he's used AT&T lately. tion can change. "I wish I knew." "Used AT&T?" Bobby D asked. "Who At times, police do have to step in and have I got to call?" ~ Walter gathers bbmelf together in a village doorway, where he will probably spend the night. June 24 - June 30, 1997 The Allston-Brighton TAB, page 17-,. POLITICS BAD BREATH Egg Donor Sought may be a si@ of something more serious - like gum disease. Treating bad breath may be more difficult than simply usi ng breath mints. You Healthy yo ung whi te women (22-29) so ught for egg donation for an infertile couple. may have one of the early warning symptoms of gum disease. We offer an alterna tive to traditional periodontal surgery, by using phase-contrast microscopy, bacte Professionals or graduate student s sought for a hospital based program. ri al detection and natural products, which can make a difference. Compensation for time, effort and inconvenience. Life after Call for a courtesy con.~ultatwn . Herbert S. Yolin, D.D.S. For More Information 1842 B EACON STREET, BROOKLINE • (617)730-8989 the land Call 1-800-484-3153 Use security code: 5646 IF EVERYONE SWITCHED TO ENERGY·EFFICIENT LIGHTING, 1.3 MILLION TONS OF SULFER C'omplere/1· C'011jlden11a/ purchase DIOXIDE. 202 MILLION TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE AND 600,000 TONS OF NITROGEN OXIDES COULD BE ELIMINATED EVERY YEAR. YOUR EYES WON'T NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE. JUST olitical fallout from the YOUR LUNGS. FOR MORE WAYS TO HELP THE EARTH, CALL 1·800·488·8887 Harvard real estate purchase Pcontinue , but it's all so sur pri ingly mild. Even Mayor Tnomas Menino calmed down after a cold compress and a meeting with By Jeff Ousbome Harvard President Neil Rudenstine. Last week, City Councilor Brian Honan (Brighton) received only a few cal ls from residents. This week, State Rep. Steve Tolman (D Secure Horizons is pleased to announce our ever Brighton) made a similar report. growing list of quality contracting primary care And after measuring community physicians. Now you have more reasons than ever to reaction, he's taking a cautiously optimi tic view of the ituation. join the health plan just for people with Medicare "We've got to make this into a that gives you comprehensive coverage for no win-win situation," said Tolman. additional plan premium* and no deductibles. "Harvard has a ma ter plan and we [All ton-Brighton residents] have to Keeping Secure Horizons members healthy have one, too." (New physicians are listed in bold) That eem to mean a united, for ward-looking re pcm e from the community. Andrew Sussman, M.D. "Harvard's thinking 100 years Jeffrey Wu, M.D. ahead on this, and o should we," he said. ''We have to be unified on Robert Bonanno, M.D. Boston this. We can't have people making Richard Galgano, D.O. George Alliegro, M.D. id deals with Harvard." Emilie Hitron, M.D. Walter Baigelman, M.D. Being philosophical and dip1e matic i all well and fine. Richard Ng, M.D. Brian Cohen, M.D. Meanwhile, Harvard owns the Ralph Porter, M.D. Davoren Chick, M.D. Joe Smith Health Center and the land currently occupied by the Janice Powell, M.D. Donald Deraska, M.D. neighborhood Star Market. Tolman, Mark Rohrer, M.D. John Foster, M.D. of c urse, is aware of more imme Brookline (& Boston±) Christine Gelev, M.D. diate concern , like rent increases and the terrifying po ibility of t A. Cader Asmal, M.D. Patricia Gibbons, M.D. Alan Dershowitz teaching in a new Jeffrey Bass, M.D. Laura Goldman, M.D. Harvard Law School megaplex MEETING CALENDAR behind the Brighton Public Library. David Blom, M.D. .Thomas Hines, M.D. So Tolman, along with community Risa Burns, M.D. Michael Hodges, M.D. activi ts, hould badger and remind Friday, June 27, 10:30 a.m. Susan Frankl, M.D. Scott Joseph, M.D. Harvard that its increased owner ship bring increased respon ibili Holiday Inn William Goldberg, M.D. Winfred Kender, M.D. ties. University officials must begin Ronald Katz, M.D. Yun Lam, M.D. with pecific plans for improving the neighborhood as it is, not vague 1200 Beacon Street, Barbara Krause, M.D. Steven Levisohn, M.D. assurances about allowing "commu Brookline, MA Howard Lebowitz, M.D. Mary Manning, M.D. nity participation" in the future. Sharon Mahoney, M.D. Katherine McGowan, M.D. "We're going to ask for extra help with the YMCA, the parks and * Oper 200 Eyeglass Frames will be Bruce Pastor, M.D. Wing-Ar Moy, M.D. the playgrounds, senior programs, tAlexander Rabin, M.D. Robert Oldshue, M.D. restoring the Sears building [now on display from the Tower Collection owned by Harvard] which has been Martin Solomon, M.D. Christine Payne, M.D. abandoned for the la t nine years," Gabriele Southgate, M.D. Dominique Pham, M.D. said Tolman. "We need to say that In-Home Appointments Chestnut Hill Allan Pineda, M.D. we'll welcome you into the neigh borhood, but we must be equal part- Are Also Available. Daniel Bernstein, M.D. Judith Pinsker, M.D. ners." Patti Colevas, M.D. Diane Rich, M.D. It's certainly true thal Harvard is unlikely to ruin the area or let it Mark Gabuzda, M.D. Roger Snow, M.D. decline. As Tolman noted, "Would Robert Goldszer, M.D. Joseph Viola, M.D. we have preferred Bob Kraft to buy Christina Iacobo, M.D. David Weintraub, M.D. the land?" But equal partner don't mislead Mittie Kelleher-Doyle, M.D. Ira Wilson, M.D. one an ther, and the school 's breach Frannie Kronenberg, M.D. of tru ti causing resenlment, at Please call least for the time being. Just wait Milo Puldc, M.D. until univer ity representatives go 1-800-978-2222 before th Allston Civic Association with their (in all probabiliLy) per for a reservation or fectly reasonable and legal develop an information kit. SecureHorizons® ment propo. als. ltldeed, everything the universiLy has done so far is "I gal." But such an elite and cele TUFfS rn Health Plan for Seniors brated school should do far more *Sccu_re Hori z on ~ is a product of Tufts Associated Ilea.Ith Maintenance Organization , In c., a feuerall y quabfied Medi care contracting HMO. 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June 24 -June 30, 19'J7 lbe Allston-Brighton TAB, page 19 OBITUARIES ·~·: Au-BRIGHT REAL'IY · tl47 COMMONWEALTH AVE., AUSTONt MA OBITU~, from page 18 went with his nephew to John Reen at 12 Waverly St, and lived there vir at Lehman & Reen Funeral Home to tually his entire life, until one ye.ar put his own affairs in order, Mr. 617-783-91St Nicolaisen said. Mr. Anilonis told ago when he and his wife moved to a Studios-$600 & Up 1Beds-$700 & Up nearby apartment He attended Mr. Reen that he wanted "everything Boston Trade High School and exactly like Mona had." 2 Beds-$950 & Up 3+ Beds-$1200 & Up earned a certificate as a master car Mr. Anilonis enjoyed boating and penter. He ailisted in the U.S. Navy was a member of both the Newton We have the biggest and best selection during World War II and, among his and Cambridge Yacht Clubs. For in Allston, Brighton, Brookline. ~ he built 00,,itals. After the many years, he owned a 30-foot-long Over 23 years experience. war, he wodced for many years at power boat He also served as a the B.F. Goodrich, where he made shoe commodore at the Newton Yacht parts. After hi retirement, he worked Club for a time. Mr. Anilonis was a for a time as a carpenter at the Mt. memberofVFWPost#8818. Mr. Aubwn Hospital in Watertown. Anilonis and his wife enjoyed bowl Mr. Anilonis was remembered by ing and were on a bowling league family last week as a talented crafts together. man. Some of hi woodwork can be Mr. Anilonis was the husband of Now Purchasing Summer Mer:chondisel seen at the Stockyald restaurant in Anthony P. Allilolm and his wife, Monica T. the lat.e Monica T. (Akstin) Anilonis. He leaves his nephew, Paul Brighton, where he created carvings (Akstin) Anilonh, on a mdse in the 1960s , Nicolaisen of Chest.er, N.H.r and his on the bar and on the walls. doywear orid accessorie! lnQ jewelry) April 23,. 19 l•!•HWj~ MORTGAGE i'l•l•J ;1 FUTURE Next 'Weell the 'Worrying is over. It's a recurring. sentiment with just about every baby and mother who visit he Mortgage Line is coming to the Real Estate St. Elizabeth's Medical Center. It's easy to see why. At St. Elizabeth's, we have one Tsection · of your local paper the week of goal: to make childbirth as special as possible for you and your family. Jane 29th! You'll receive compassionate, one-on-one care from exceptional doctors and Readers will never again have to worry about getting day-old ~~~ . . mortgage rates. And advertisers will never again have to worry ro R · TH i: nurses in a state-of-the-art facility, complete with private birthing suites and about getting information out to highly motivated customers. WHOLE: WOMAN a Level III Certified Nursery, in case a problem occurs. Plus, we're skilled in The Mortgage Line will include ... • A chart highlighting variable and fixed rates - figures the care of women with high-risk pregnancies and.offer one of the area's best nurse representing precisely what you pay! midwifery programs. Call St. Elizabeth's Medical Center today at 1... 800-245-7837 for • Phone numbers allowing you to get in touch with service providers a tour or to schedule a doctor's appointment. You'll be glad you did. So will your baby. • A toll free number providing daily rate information by fax • An Internet address for daily rates So look soon for The Mortgage Line so you can get the best mortgage you can. 8f I' 1'\l I SE RE [[I VI rJ G YE STE R0 A y' S RA TE T0 0 A Y - ' . I LO\l\\lNITY Sl',lfllY [lllfS~J T HEIP YOU. l\IC\1,.r,,,F\\\l"\l'f!\ SENIOR LIVING 1\ measure of safety By Catherine Cushman "medical alert button." Although he chased the system before his fall, he Special to The TAB was very independent, they might have been able to ''push the ft.er his mother died fi~e explained, they would feel better if button" before he blacked out. years ago, Greg Garvan they knew he could summon help in The system Garvan's family was A of Newton worried about an emergency. discussing was a Personal his 83-year-old stepfather who lived Jones was receptive to the idea Emergency Response System. alone in Spartanburg, S.C. and he agreed that he should get Some people refer to it as personal Garvan' stepfather, Graves one. Unfortunately, three weeks response or medical alert. A frail Jones, was still phy ically active. He later he fell and seriously injured his elder, someone living alone, a med bad recently become a little forget head. A woman who came to the ically at-risk person or a physically but he was, for the mo t part, house a few times each week found challenged person can use this type doing fine. When Garvan and his him three hours later and called 911. of system to make sure that they can ·blings were with Jone thi past He died after six weeks in the hospi get help when they need it The February, they mentioned to him tal. Garvan said he feels bad range of services can vary from that they would like him to have a because if his stepfather had pur- emergency response to general reas suranc.e and support for people who live alone or who spend a portion of the day alone. There are various types of PERS services available. More than a dozen companies offer PERS ser vices nationwide. Locally, three companies - Lifeline, Pioneer - Medical Services and American SENIORS, page 21 ehind the stained glass windows a community of Seniors thrives in an enriched and supportive environment • Twenty.four hour comprehensive personal care • Case management ol residenf s healthcare by on-staff R.N. • Full program of enrichment activities • Superb dining tailored to individual diets • Thirty private, elegant sui~ located in the heart of Bo&on's cultural and shopping center • Respite stays are welcomed Now offering an INDEPENDENf UVING OPDON. VERNON HALL ffering top of the line care to or more infonnatioo or a tour, pl~ call Mary Walsh at 617 -262-3900. . Ofamilies in Cambridge for 44 years. Vernon Hall is a skilled nursing facility certified to care for: •Medicare •Medicaid • Third p~ insurance companies. · 83-Bed Nursing Facility ' . Medicaid/Medicare Certified PT/OT/SpT; Hospice Care; AIDS Care; Care of the Mentally Retarded; Life is about Choices .. ~ Therapy; Peritoneal Dialysis; Psychiatric IV At Heritage Assisted Living Communities~ we understand that each individual's needs and Care; Respite Care; Subacute Care desires are different. That is why we offer a variety of living options tQ choose from in and around Bostop.. Whether it's stretching and flexing at one of many e~ercise classes at Vernon -CrWe arc proud to announce that the Department of Public Health Court, enjoying elegant dining along the Charles River at The Falls, participating in a story surveyed Vernon Hall a deficiency free Nursing Facility. "k telling hour with the children at the JCC at Cleveland Circle, or attending a lecture series at Ownership/Affiliation: Adm: Michele P. Cronin (k>ddard House in Brookline- one of our commUnities will offer the location, design, ser Joseph G. Pallotta Med Dir: David Baron, MD vice and environment that's just right for you or your family member. Admission Contact: Director DoN: Susan Flanagan, RN of Nursing or Social Worker For more information on the Heritage Community of your choice call family owned & operated business far over 44- years. Newton Comer• 965-9400 ~ Newton Lower Falls• 928-0007 For more information contact: OeveJandCircle ~ • 566-1700 ~ Goddard House in Brookline• 731-85~ TEL 617-864-4267 • FAX 617-547-6962 VERNON HALL HER]TAGE 8 Dana Street ASSISTED LIVING COMMUNITIES Cambridge, MA 02138-5499 1-1 ER I I \ (, L \ I V l R :\ 0 '\. C <. H IU • 111 RI I Hal \ I T 111 f \ I I '°'I June 24 - June 30, 1997 Tiie Allston-Brighton TAB, page 21 SENIOR LIVING ltmrn' SENIORS, from page 20 Medical Respon - dominate the market. Most people rent the system on a monthly basis. (Beware of rental hardware; the quality of the hard ware and monitoring equipment may not be as good as the rental PERS services.) In all cases, the client is provided with a help button (which is worn) and a communica tor. The communicator may be a small box that acts as a two-way radio. It may also be a special tele phone, with large numbers and a ~ Sherrill Ho~se our caring extends far beyond our high-volume speaketphone. (One walls. We not only offer high-quality skilled nursing and extra fearure is "VoiceAssist," where rehabilitative care but - through Creative Alliances, a voice clarifies, insbUCts and our unique geriatric consultation service - we link older assures clients as they use the persons with services which enable them to live more phone. Another feature allows comfortably and safely within their own homes. clients to push the help button they For information about Sherrill House please call wear, which then ignals the phone Beth Gamburg at (617) 731-2400 ext. 30J;i. to be picked up and automatically Or, for Creative Alliances please call (61.7) 731-1414. starts the speaker phone. The client where a key can 'found. care," which provides benefits to doesn't have to get up to an wer the Since its beginning in 1974, the keep people at home, such as PERS, phone. This diminishes the chance PERS industry has grown consider wheelchair ramps -and grab bars in of a fall when someone is ru bing to ably, and it will continue to grow as the shower. ·· get to a ringing phone.) the population ages. Today, people Gordon Johnson, ·63, of Needham When a client initially igns up, receive increased care in the com is thrilled with his PERS system. He he gives the company a list of munity because of changes in lives alone, walks with a cane and responders; neighbors or nearby Medicare, Medicaid reimbursement has cardiac and vascular problems. family members that can be reached and health maintenance organization His system is paid for by in an emergency. If a person needs payment methods, and because MassHealth, and is from the PERS help, the monitoring tation will try many people want to stay in their program at Mount Auburn Hospital to reach a responder in order to community. In Massachusetts, about in Canibridge, which has a contract Youville Lifecare check out the situation and open the 14 percent of the popula~n is over with Lifeline. door if needed. no responders are H age 65, and the fastest growing sec A little white box (the communi available, the monitor will call an tor of the population is people over cator) is installed next to bis bed; ambuhux:e and/or the police to the age of 85. Many children of and he wears a "call button" around "M ;~ ' · in entering the home. . y .wz es c~re elders, as well as the elders them his neck at all times. Four days after company maintains a client 1 selve , are interested in making sure the system was installed, he fell in · ¥Stem that help is available and a PERS system the bathroom and pushed the button. appears when a call is received. The can solve this problem. A Lifeline monitor responded, an file contains important information The average monthly cost of ambulance was called and took him the client' medical condi PERS is approximately $35. A one to the hospital approximately seven Was so good that .· tiom, allergies and medications; the time installation fee of $50 to $90 is minutes later. He called Lifeline responder names, telephone number charged. Enhanced services, such as only one other time, during a big · · to the client; phy i- ._._.... .-· m; . to Lifeline's Communicall, are avail snowstorm, just to tell them he was able for an additional charge. OK. c wants to be tnuis- MassHealth (Medicaid), a program With a broad smile on his face, I became a poded; the lut time the client for low-income residents, covers Johnson said, ''Because of my called; and even, in some instances, this service for eligible beneficiaries. Lifeline button, I can live safely." Q The 27 nonprofit state-funded Home Catherine Cushman worked at the Care Corporations, which includes Massachusetts Division of . '' about 34,CXX> people, pay for a range Insurance for more than eight years. patient · too~ · of services, including PERS, if the She wrote the current long-term need is documented and the income care regulation. She is president of eligibility guidelines are met Some Senior Insurance Solutions, a con of the 24 insurance companies offer sulting company in Newton that ing long-term care insurance in helps consumers, corporations and Massachusetts cover PERS as a part other professionals with senior . of the basic policy or as a part of a ' insurance issues. For more infonna benefit called "alternate plan of tion, call her at (617) 969-0352. Let Us Help With Your "When my wife needed hip replacement surgery; the first Decision on place we thought of for rehabilitative care was Youville Assisted Living Lifecare in Cambridge. With the latest equipment and ~·•n•• facilities and some of the most qualified caregivers around, ./ ' they helped her recover both physically and emotionally. ! .Ill i \ l • Rental, with No Entrance Fee We w~re so impressed with the staff that I started receiving ..,,...... • Conveniently located to physical therapy for my back and knees. The staff was LongW-ood Hospitals & Boston If an elder you know responsive, intelligent and sensitive. I'm planning to play • Superb Dining, Housekeeping, has increased Transportation & Daily Activities golf for the first time in years! It's nice to kno~ that there's care needs, • Personal Assistance with Bathing, someone out there who really cares.,, plea e call 524-3660 Dressing & Medication Monitoring • Intimate & Friendly Atmosphere Youville Lifecare: a tradition of looking ahead A member of Covenant Health Systems Elder Service Plan .(617) 349·5900 th£ Jamaicaway 555 Amory Street ;fjfj)~~2 ,.,_ Yt RtYille Litccirc Jamaica Plain, MA Boston 617-524-7228 ! I I 1 \ I PORTS -Up, up and ·away Brighton-based ner in the closing seconds. Sir Speedy (0-J) was led by Williams Pro-Am hoop league College Division ill All-American Mike Nogelo's 29 points. English League pro starts second season and former Massachusetts Player of the Year Casey Arena added 16 for Sir By Chad Konecky Speedy, which sorely missed 6-feet, 10- TAB Corre '{JOndent inch Florida State star Randall Jackson h Staple ' B antown Pro (who has not yet joined the team). Am Basketball League hit Reebok, led by former Harvard head the hardwood la t week with coach Pete Roby, also won the league T mid-winter inten ity. For the opener one night earlier thanks to 28 second year in a row, local college and points from Celtics' guard David Wesley. professional tars began to showcase Mack poured in 24 and BC's Mickey their talent thi ummer in Brighton at Curley chipf,ed in 19 during a 107-93 Boston ol1ege's Conte Forum. rout of Sullivan Insurance. English "We're back with an additional team League pro Joe Hooks scored 26 and and even more talent," SBBL Director Tungi Awojobi, the center of Boston Adam Pritchard said. University's National "Any basketball fan Collegiate Athletic would be crazy not to "'' 1 , b k ·th Association tourna- get to . ome of the n e re ac Wl an ment team, added 21 in games." additional team and a losing cause. Th addition of a "We're excited team , pon. ored by the even more talent. beyond belief about Reebok Company ha Any basketball fan the talent level we created a five-t am have in the league this league. Ea h squad would be crazy not . year," said Harvard boasts ome of New to get to some of coach Kevin O'Brien, ngland' best coUege who was instrumental age talent, and will these games." in founding the SBBL. complete a 15-game "I think people are regular-season sched SBBL Director Adam Pritchard beginning to realize ule culminating with what they have avail- playoffs at the end of able to come watch July. right here in the Play opened 1 t w k on the road at Allston-Brighton area." 1··-IH t•• . . ' Briggs Athletic Scherneker Property Services (0-1) took Center. it to OC Lawman (1-0) 111-94 in other ''1be Pro-Am league is a tremendous action. DC Lawman, coached by former opportunity to see great profe ionals Cambridge Rindge and Latin head man play with the future tars of basketball," Al Coccoluto, rolled behind 24 points said recently-retired Medford High from Celtics' guard Dana Barros and 25 coach Tom Ryser. ''These guys are from BC forward Antonio Granger. Irish supremely talented and, obviously, UCigue 'pro Corey Jackson scored 20 to exceptionally motivated. They're fun to help quell a Schemeker (SPS) rally. SPS watch." got 29 from recently graduated BC stand In I t week's action, Ryser's Sir out Bevan Thomas. 'fyrone Mack, Speedy (827 Boyl ton Ave. branch) Northeastem's leading scorer last season, team was edged by Reebok (2-0), 95-92. added 25 in the loss. a Former South Boston star Monty Mack, a:~ 0 u. who helped eliminate Medford High u. w from the state association postseason Bost.on University's Mike Costello snatches a ~ schol tic tournament in 1995 and '96, jump shot away from Chmtian Stephem of g scored 25 points and hit the game-win- Harvard ~ defense is led by a fierce junior line a game dwing her junior season to backer with a gmgeous gridiron get within the l, Richard lannela • ·. (T)6124 Register of Probale Bonded Transmissions For Your 384 Waverly St. Framingham ASE Certified 508-871-1119 Repair Shop (EST. 1905) to Appear Here Please call Aimee • MONUMENTS • MARKERS at • EXPERT CEMETERY LETTERING I Family Owned & Operated (OPPOSITE ARSENAL MALL PARKING GARAGE) since 1961 617-433-8256 ~62 ARSENAL ST., • WATERTOWN. 92A866 . Page 24 '1111 1111111 lrlgllloa TAI, June 24 - June 30, 1997 POLICE LOG arrested on drug charges· (Brighton High School); possession of a hypodermic needle and syringe; posses Two police officers conducting surveil sion of a dangerous weapon while want lance for drug transactions in the area of ed; and resisting arrest. Warren Street and Commonwealth Avenue arrested a man on drug charges after a foot chase on June 13, according to police reports. Potential car theft Boston Police Officers Kenneth Fong and tolled by police imothy O'Sullivan, investigating an area fl After receiving a tip about a man known to police for heavy drug trafficking, looking into a car on Wallingford Road reportedly saw Gerard Smith, 39, of70 Dustin on June 11, Boston Police Officers Javier Sl in Brighton, peak briefly to another man Perez and Patrick Malone arrested a man before walking through an alley to the rear of they believe was trying to steal a car, 116 Warren St. Police reported that they saw according to police reports. Smith reach into hi pocket and remove a At about 2:22 a.m., the report said, clear plastic sandwich bag containing a white police approached Hector Padilla, 17, of powder-like ubstance. According to the 138 Regent Ave., Providence, R.I., as he report, Smith then poke with the second man was putting a key into a 1995 Toyota. again, held the bag up to his mouth and According to the report, Padilla walked placed it back in his pocket Police reportedly away from the car when he saw police. approached Smith and discovered a folding The officers then asked Padilla to start the lockblade knife in hi pocket; a hypodennic car using the key, which did not work. syringe; a metal spoon; and the sandwich bag, Police asked him to show a registration which contained 43 individual packets of form for the car, but he did not have one. white powder believed to be heroin. They also ticed that the inside of the Police reported that while they and Smith ignition was damaged, according to the were talking, Smith ran toward report. Commonwealth Avenue; after a foot chase, he A check of the registration showed that as stopped near the intersection of Warren the car belonged to a resident of New Street and Camelot Court. Police reported that York state. Police notified the owner after Smith vigorously re i ted being handcuffed arresting Padilla and charging him with and that during the hllggle, Smith truck his breaking and entering a motor vehicle. head on the sidewalk, cau ing a mall cut. During the booking search of Padilla, O'Sullivan' hand was reportedly cut during police reportedly found two keys; a the sbllggle. remote car alann transmitter; a Toyota Smith was handcuffed and taken to the ta type key and a Nissan-type key. Padilla lion for booking. Police reportedly seized also had busines ~ with him for auto $464 from him, believed to be proceeds from body shops and radio shops, according to ~ a drug trade. It was reportedly discovered that reports. knife on June 14, according to poijce reports. a knife in his hand, according to the report. mith was also wanted on a Brighton District The victim said that while she was work The victim told police that the man demand court warrant for not having an inspection Cleltl reports robbery ing alone in the store at about 5:45 p.m., ed all the money in the register and said ticker. He was charged with possession of a with no customers present, a man came into "Give me the money or I'll kill you." The cl A ubstance with intent to distribute; by knife-wielder the building and laid himself across the victim gave approximately $200 to the man, possession of a cl A substance with intent II A clerk at a business on Franklin Street counter, inches from the cash register. She according to police, after which he fled on to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school zone said she was robbed by a man wielding a said that as she approached the man, she saw foot down Franklin Street toward Western Now Serving Sunday Brunch at Avenue. struck his left leg with the front end · Terrace following a noise com FROMPAGE17 In a written statement, Tolman Police are looking for a slim, of the car before fleeing down plaint. The officers reported that standard of accountability. applauded newly appointed co - white man 25-27 years old who is Spofford Road, in reverse, to they were met at the front door by The Allston Civic Association is missioner Gerald J. Morrisey Jr., about 5 feet, 11 inche taJI with Glenville Avenue. The meter Jason Grieves, 22, of that address. hosting a meeting at 7 tomorrow and suggested that the report was brown hair. He w wearing a red checker was treated at St. According to the report, police told night at St. Anthony's School at "not issued or intended as a retribu hirt, black jean shorts and no Elizabeth's Medical Center. Grieves to turn off the music, then 57 Holton St. Officials from tory or accusatory document." But shoe at the time of the robbery, The driver was described as a began to accompany him to his Harvard University are expected to the sheer weight of the findings according to the report. white man about 25 years old, apartment. Police reported that attend. cannot but indict past practices f approximately 5 feet, 8 inches tall, Grieves shoved officer Sheets the DMR. And when reached for Meter checker struck with a thin build. He was wearing against the hallway wall, for which • • • comment, the representative added square glasses, a black T-shirt and he was placed under arrest. As a member of the House Post a partisan dig at the state's all-but bJ Ucketed vehicle black pants at the time of the inci The officers reported that they Audit and Oversight Committee, vanished governor. 11 A mal meter checker who dent. entered Grieves' apartment with Tolman was also involved in a "With the new commissioner, I i ued a parking ticket to a car at Police have tracked the name of him to tell three other people who recent investigation of the hope it will be good days for the the intersection of Commonwealth the owner of the car through the did not live there to leave. Department of Mental Retardation. DMR," said Tolman. "Because Avenue and Spofford Road was registration number. The incident is According to the report, police The review was, in part, a response under Weld, things were certairil struck by that car after the driver under investigation. noticed a small plastic sandwich to high-profile alleged abuse by bad." yelled ob cenities at him, according bag containing a green, leafy sub two Raynham residents of two to police reports. Loud music complaint stance believed to be marijuana on mentally retarded individuals in • • • Shortly before 4 p.m. on June 13, a coffee table in the living room, their care. One of the caretakers Clarification: In last week's edition, the meter checker is ued a ticket to leads to charges of along with a legal-sized envelope was a former employee of the it was reported that Sen. Warren a 1987 Ford with North Carolina assault, drug possession containing the same substance; a DMR. Tolman and Reps. Kevin Honan lie nse plate . Minute later, II A police response to a com small ceramic pipe containing The report documented a long and Steven Tolman are hosting·a according to the report, a he was plaint of loud music resulted in the residue of a burnt material; a water list of abuse, oversight and negli public hearing tonight, Tuesday, writing out a ticket for another car, arre 'l of a resident on charges of pipe; and a package of E-Z Wider gence in every area investigated, June 24,/to talk about a MBTA fea he was approached by the driver of assault and ba ry on a police offi rolling papers. including the DMR's failure to sibility study on a commuter rail the Ford, who complained about cer and drug po ession on June Grieves was taken to the police check into client deaths, oversee stop in Allston-Brighton. hi ticket and u ed obscenities to 11, according to police reports. station for booking, where he was disability income and communicate What the item omitted was the refer to him. 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Indeed in 1991 Weld called for the abolition of the MDC, a scenario which he has backed away from in recent years. "No question Bill Weld has a love of the nvironment," said Dukaki , in interview last week. ''I'm not ure he uses hi authority and influence to mov [th MOC] foiward and make it a source of pride. That · my beef." The MDC was created in I 93 to ov rsee the metropolitan park system designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and Charl liot. Today it has a $50 million budg t to c ntrol 22,CXX> acres of land. Th capital improvement budget is $14 million. It ncompasses 780 employ plu 500 more in the summer - ven woodland reservation , 27 ath- letic field facilities, 14 bandstands, three reservoirs, 53 playgrounds, 17 i ues that obsessed his predecessor Hamptons - they shared a love of we've spent too much money clean affirmative action problem with a lot wimming pools, 20 . kating rinks Ilyas Bhatti, a Dukakis ap(X>intee the beach. ing up Boston Harbor," said Li. of state government and we were pnd 750 miles of parkway. who served through Weld's first Aynn and Weld agreed that with Balfour has also pushed hard for a highlighted because of [Dyett],'' said It even boasl~ tw zoo . Th MOC term. the federally mandated cleanup of $7 .5 million skating rink renovation Balfour. "And that wam't racially the that the Stone Zoo and "People accuse me of using it as Boston Harbor, the state and city program, which amounts to basically motivated." franklin Zoo are on, although my personal playground and they are · should launch a campaign to bring stabilizing the 20 rinks, most of Many of those hired at the MDC t>oth institution are run by private absolutely right. I think everyone city residents back to the beach. Paul which are 35 years old. Passing are direct referrals from state law ~· houJd use it as their personal play DiPietro, environmental engineer in Connery Rink in Lynn, Balfour said, makers, mostly those who represent ''We'd like to get out of the zoo ground," said Balfour. '1 use the water resources for the MOC, said "These rinks are scholarship factories. the urban neighborhoods like Revere business altogether," Balfour said, facilities every day. I skate in the that Boston's beaches are ~ted Massachusetts feeds colleges around and South Boston where the MOC bile wheeling his Chevy Tahoe past rinks, I play the golf courses. I walk almost every day, and that they were · the counny with hockey players, and has a strong presence. the Stone Zoo. on the esplanade two or three days a safe for swimmfug all days except most of them come out of MOC · "We have political referrals. The first thing you n lice about week. I know the regulars and the four last year. While swimming is not rinks." Obviously the referrals are way David Balfour i hi . ize - 300 regulars know me". suggested where there are fecal col While the hockey program 'may beyond what we can fill. [But] we pounds on a 6-foot frdme which ''I'm not an engineer. I'm not an iform levels over 200, the average help put working-class kids through rely heavily on the referrals," he said. n 't . m to impede hi rigorou environmentalist. I'm the John Doe last year was 24 at Carson Beach - school, MDC's reputation for patron 'There's no question there's patron hedule of ice hockey golf and out getting ome exercise." cleaner than MOC beaches in age and its affirmative action record age." walking. He has a deep voice, a Driving along the path at the Nahant, where the average was 29, have only deteriorated under Balfour has also been criticiz.e.d for gravelly chuckle, a huge round pink Esplanade, Balfour points to the con and in Revere, which had an average Balfour's stewardship. In May, the having his brother on the payroll, but face and parkly blue eye . He e ion tand which has recently of 5'1. agency's hiring was frozen pending argued that his brother had been defi nds hi exchange of a Crown added cafe tables so customers can DiPietro said that while most of the an outside review of affirmative working for the MDC for more than Victoria with 160,000 mil n it for eat in the shade of the trees. MOC has suffered with budget cuts, action perfonnance. Only 9 percent 20 years. a roomy Chevy Tahoe Jeep by say 'This concession tand was mak the beach program is one bright spot. of MDC workers represent ethnic "My brother has been working ing he couldn't fit in the Crown ing $9,CXX>. We put it out to bid, and Much remains to be done, however. minorities. here since 1974," said Balfour. ''Now Victoria. In two day spent with a last year it made $100,CXXl," said ''It's going to be long nrocess," he Fonner Commissioner Bhatti, who he coordinates the inmates crews TAB reporter recently, Balfour Balfour. said. 'The.beaches degraded.over 30 is from India, said that as someone from the Department of Correction." showed off MOC facilitie by navi What's good here, Balfour is· years; it will take more than a few who came up through the MDC Balfour also made the decision to gating hi J p along th peel trian asked. tons of sand to get them back." ranks, he also felt that the agency was rent one of 20 MDC-owned houses path. and across field~ of MDC 'The chicken salad i good," he Vivian Li, director of the Boston unfriendly to minorities. to a childhood friend of his. Eddie property, greeting both workers and shoots back. 'The hot dogs are . Harbor Association, described '1 CaIIlt! out of ranks of the MOC Stack, who grew up with Balfour in pw sersby by nam , a benevolent lord good." Balfour as "extremely detail-orient and was aware of issues I faced being Melrose, now lives at 1 Eliot Circle making . ure hi. . ubj ts are having Balfour's legacy will likely be the ed." She recalled a day when the somelxxly of a different color," said in Revere for $317 a month, a house ''Back to the Beache " program MOC and Harbor Association were Bhatti. "I made a point to promote once provided to an MDC district which was tarted while Bhatti was planning a dedication of a park at women and minorities.'' captain. . commi ioner, but which Balfour has Pleasure Bay to a firefighter who had Balfour acknowledged that the ''I rented it to a friend - who else continued with gu to. ''Back to the died in the line of work. She said that affirmative action record at the MDC am I going to rent it to?" Balfour n Beaches" i a $30 million program the commissioner was concerned that is poor, but said-that the-agency was said. "He does worlc around the a maverick commi ·i n r - ' a tretched over seven years. It ''the flag would be big enough," and highlighted because he fired house. There's certain duties that go rogue who [Secretary f includes the renovation and new con wanted to know how long the band Thomasina Dyett, the director of with living here." Balfour al.so hired Environmental Affairs J Trudy Coxe struction of bathhouse , paths, parks would play, and where they should training and the only minority another friend, former Boston Bruin 't c ntrol," in the words of one and pavilion from Revere to South stand. She said the attention to detail woman among 62 managers. Gary Doak, as the MDC's director of MDC critic. Bo ton; the re-sanding of all the has made a difference. 'There has been a longstanding BALFOUR, P_age 27 He is not an environmentali. t, and beaches, the removal of sea grass and "Had it been a different commis contra.lits hi ' ·tyl with ox . the con truction of new fishing piers. sioner we wouldn't have got a quarter "She's an environrnentali t,' aid Th program emerged from con of what we have got done on the MDC Information four. "A lot of my thing are m re versation between fonner Mayor Ray beaches," said Li. ''Bhatti could never rec\ lion. I've learned a I t from her Flynn and Gov. Bill Weld, who one move the bureaucracy the way David or more infonnation about the programs and facilities in the MDC and sh 's I amcd a 1ot from m ." day tarted talking while they were moves it." , FCharles District (which includes Boston, Cambridge and Somerville) He openly care. mo about h k walking on Carson Beach during a Li said that Balfour's obsession call 727-4708i to learn about the Mystic District (which includes Lynn, y rinks, bca hes, ball fielru wi m pre conference. Despite the dissimi with rest rooms makes practical · Revere, Saugus, Nahant and Melrose), call 662-8370; for infonnation ing pools marchin r bandC\, bath- lar beache of their youths - Flynn sense. about the Harbor District (Dorchester. Hull, South Boston and Quincy) 1ses and cone ssion standli than learned to swim in urban Southie and 'The last thing you want [your call 727-8865; for information about the Southwest Conidor Park, call about more complex watershed Weld in Long Island's ritzy kids] to do is go in the water because · n1-oos1. a June 24 - June 30, 1997 The Allston·Brighton TAB, page 27 FRO~ PAGE ONE ABCD accused of union busting ABCD, from page 1 can agree to an immediate election city contributes $5 million. Again, "It was frightening to me that represent them. that ABCD mi used government and employer neutrality without a much of that comes from the federal [ABCD] management would hold a The delegation also urged ABCD funds is absolutely false and under public battle." and state governments and is dis captive audience meeting [during to remain completely neutral as mines the organization's reputation Nathan said that has not yet hap tributed to ABCD programs. work hours] because they could lose employees decide how to cast then for high-quality service to low pened. According to Gallatin, ABCD has state grants." Mains said. ''I asked votes. The legislators reminded Coard income families and children. F.arlier this month Gallatin made held "captive audience meetings" them not to hold the meetings that it is illegal to use federal Head "I am disappointed to think that a formal reque t to a federal agency, - mandatory staff meetings, lasting because the last thing I want to do is Start money as well as state funds to Local 925 organizers have resorted the Administration for Children and up to three hours, during which jeopardize state or federal funding, tum employees against a union. to using these tactic , which m Families, to launch an investigation upper-level management makes an but [management] took offense and In their letter tseoard, members of aimed at jeopardizing the funding into the alleged anti-union activities anti-union presentation - at a num said they were not anti-union meet the delegation said, ''This would that serves poor children," Drew conducted by ABCD, particularly at ber of locations, including the ings." include allowing union organizers said. "ABCD has a long history of area Head Start centers, which if Allston-Brighton Head Start center Gallatin provided The TAB with a access to work sites to provide infor-.... working shoulder-to- hookier with true would violate the federal Head on Washington Street in Brighton copy of a letter from Robert Coard, mation to employees. The interfer local and national union for social Start Act. The act states that Head and the ABCD Health Services writing as. president of the anti ence of an anti-union consultant can and economic justice and institu Start funds shall not be used to deter Department on Chauncy S~t in poverty organization and sent both only lead to a bitter, public battle tional change. In fact, I believe, union organizing. downtown Boston. to employees at home and distrib which does not serve the organization ABCD i the only nonprofit agency Louise Eldridge, executive officer ABCD denies holding such meet uted in their workplaces along with well." in Boston w~ charter mandates a for the Administration for Children ings. their paychecks, which stated, ''I Allston-Brigl\fpn state Rep. Kevin seat for a labor union representative and Families; said, "We have Some ABCD employees, includ have met recently with many mem Honan said the !etter from the federal on its board of directors." received the letter an~are having ing Rita Ennis, who works at the bers of the ABCD community to Congressional aelegation was very One question ABCD officials discussion with ABCD about Allston-Brighton Head Start center discuss issues about the union orga powerful because most of ABCD's would like amwered is why Local what's in the letter." in Brighton, and Shelley Mains, who nizing and I plan to continue to funding comes from the federal gov 925 doesn't just go ahead and hold Gallatin said the union was also works in ABCD's Health Services ·· meet with you ... " · ernment for the Head Start and the a community-run election if the req planning to ask the state to investi Department, rejected that claim. In the letter Coard said, " ... We do fuel assistance programs. uisite number of employees have gate what it said amounts to union "My opinion is that a meeting not think that a union is in the best 'Those are the guys who fight in · a petition requesting a union. busting on the part of ABCD. held at the [Head Start center on interests of our employees." And he Washington to protect ABCD's fund That is precisely what the union is ABCD employs approximately Washington Street] and other loca said, "A variety of untruths, half ing," Honan said 'This really puts trying to do, said spokeswoman 750 workers. Its programs include tions was inappropriate and anti truths and distortions are being dis the p~sure on the organi7.at:ion." Sarah Nathan. Head Start, fuel assistance, health union," Ennis said "Management tributed in union literature." Honan added that he, like his fed On June 5, Di nict 925 Regional outreach and education, youth and told us that ABCD could make bet Recently, members of the eral counterparts, supported a com · Usa Gallatin wrote to adult education and training, day ter decisions than the union could. Massachusetts Congressional delega munity-run election. ident and CEO of care and housing services fof."the There were also negative implica tion, includi.\}g U.S. Representatives On Monday, June 23, AFL-CIQ ABCD, requesting a meeting to set homeless. For the fiscal year ending tions about the union. It was my Joseph P. Kennedy Il, Barney Frank, members were scheduled to hold a a fair lection process for union eli Aug. 31, 1996,ABCD, which is a feeling that ABCD was using my J. Joseph Moakl~y and John Olver, rally outside ABCD's headquarters gible employees. In the letter private, nonprofit organization, had salary for anti-union activity by who sits on the House Appropriations on Tremont Street. Members also Gallatin ked that AB D agree to a total budget of $60 million. Of making me attend the meeting. I Committee, as well as U.S. Senators planned to lead a delegation of local · · community-run elec- that, $17 million comes directly requested in the meeting that the Edward M. Kennedy and John F. community activists into the build ~ utral from the federal government, $33 meeting not be held [during work Keny, sent a letter to Coard request ing and demand an immediate meet , the Catholic Labor million comes from the state. Much hours] but they did not feel it was ing an immediate community-run ing with Coard to tell him to stop Guild, to be held in June or July, at of that sum, in turn, comes from the an anti-union meeting and said it election to determine whether violating the law by taking taxpay also said, "It i our federal government to the state to be would proceed." employees of the city's largest anti ers' dollars while at the same time that ABCD and Di trict 925 distributed to ABCD programs. The Mains shared Ennis' feelings. poverty agency want the union to staging an anti-union campaign. 0 MDC disputes MDC reservations LYNN BALFOUR, from 26 pie work at the Esplanade, only two SWAMPSCOTT mmmm. full-time employees are positioned But Bhatti said that when he was at Breakheart Reservation, a 700- Nahant Beach commissioner, he made the decision acre forest in Saugus that attracts Reservation LINCOLN that the MDC "dream hou " should walkers, joggers and people who NAHANT be used as community centers rather want to pend the day fishing on the than ~ idences. man-made pond there stocked with Revere Beach - Reservation wrhere w a report that MDC ti h. dream hou were being given to "We get complaints about Belle Isle Marsh friends and cronies," said Bhatti. Magazine Beach," said Balfour. Reservation "We decided that nobody would "You can't be all things to all peo move in and we'd make them into ple. When you concentrate on one f conference facilities for the commu area, another area is going to suffer. • nity." You try to keep as many balls in the Both upporters of Balfour and air as po sible. Winthrop says, 'You Boston .... detractors agree that there isn't do all thi for Revere Beach, why Harbor • gh money flowing into th not for us.' Wollaston Beach say , MOC these day . There are capital "You do all this for Castle Island, projects that are badly needed, why not for us?' Magazine Beach including the $60 million needed to thinks it .hould look like the repair the Longfellow Bridge. Esplanade. It isn't the Esplanade." Rep. Paul Demaki (D-Back That sense of priorities is reflect Bay) said that the legi lature i limit ed back in comments from local res ed by a $900 million cap on bonding idents. capital projects, and half of that So while Boston City Councilor DOVER rooney is for ~on projects. Thomas Keane said he's very happy remaining $450 million is divid with the new playgrounds built at HINGHAM among priSOM, courthouses, high- the Esplanade, Cambridge City MEDA ELD education faciliti , seaport and rail Councilor Kathy Born complained technology and open pace. that Magazine Beach is treated as . Dukaki said that the Longfellow second-class. SOURCE: METROPOUTAN DISffl/CT COMMISSION MAP BY SAM CAl.OMC),fl Bridge won't be renovated until it's "My main concern is that MDC made a priority. properties appear to be unkempt - ''The f; t of the matter i at ome the ball fields, the plantings, the care less," added Cambridge resi comes a point where you got to black topping for iilline hockey, bas point you decide you've got to do building are me sy," aid Born. dent Joanne Turnbull. have some people who can do what ketball and even bocce. another bridg and you do it," said "Over and over and over I get this Dukakis defended the MDC's has to be done." ''We can put the bocce courts over Dukakis. bit about not mistaking Magazine delivery of service, noting that it has This summer the MDC All-Star here - some of the old-timers -· Broken down, the MOC has Beach for the Esplanade," said had its budget decimated. band will perform at Revere Beach been after us for bocce courts big 2;1.72 to spend per acre, although Born. "If they feel they can't care "'They have a very important mis for an inline hockey tournament co time," said Balfour. "I guess it's a ystem's jewels like the for Magazine Beach, they should sion to manage to and preserve what · sponsored by the MDC and the growing sport." 1anade and South Boston's tum it over to city of Cambridge." is probably the finest metro park NHL. It will take place on a several • "It's amazing what you can get up hes are the focus of more funds "I think·they are both under the system in country," said Dukakis. acre fonner "dust lot" across from in the morning and do for free," he and attention. 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