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City Council Candidate Richard Izzo (left) waves a copy of his 1987 campaign contributiOJ111. At right, incumbent City Councilor Brian McLaughlin holds letter of pralse from the Di.trict Attorney. Both displays occurred at Wednesday night's debate.
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By John Becker sonality issues. A note from the publisher Both candidates took aggressive stances on a The real issue in this year's District 9 City Coun number of issues, attacking one another's positions Due to the constraints of time; the Wednesday, cil race is not housirlg or police or parking, but the directly, even occasionally interrupting one another. October 21 debate between incumbent City Coun characters of the two men running for the seat for Izzo alternated a booming delivery with more cilor Brian McLaughlin and City Council Candidate the third time in as many elections. From the open reserved passages, while McLaughlin maintained a Richard Izzo was announced in last week's Citizen ing statements onward, Wednesday night's Dist. 9 steady, low-key style. There was no clear winner in Item and Boston Ledger without the confirmation debate, soonsored by the Citizen Item, was less the debate, which prompted some observers to of the participants. about how incumbent Councilor Brian McLaughlin predict a very close final result on Election Day. We regret any inconvenience caused to the can and challenger Richard Izzo differ on the issues Izzo and McLaughlin defended themselves didates and their campaign staffs because of the than about how they differ on character traits such against a number of charges, including McLaugh published announcement. We hope that both the as integrity, effectiveness and honesty. lin's role in the so-called "Harold Brown affair," in McLaughlin campaign and the Izzo campaign will A partisan crowd of more than 200 people at the which the Councilor took money from one of understand that our haste was due to our devout Oak Square VFW Post punctuated the proceedings Boston's biggest landlords and did not return it for wish and desire to give both candidates and their with jeers and cheers, while moderator Gary several months. McLaughlin then participated in a views as wide a community exposure as possible. LaPierre, of WBZ Radio, tried to maintain order. federal investigation that ultimately led to the con We thank both candidates for meeting in what Three journalists-Alan Cushner of the Tab, Bri viction of Brown on a felony charge. was one of the major public forums of campaign '87. an Leary of Channel 5, and John Becker of the McLaughlin said in his opening statement, "It is Again, we apologize for any inconvenience and the Citizen Item-probed the candidates with a varie a matter that I certainly could have handled bet- shortness of last week's notice. ty of questions on neighborhood, citywide and per- continued on page 20 Frederic N. Phinney Sun finally shines on parade,' festival
By Margaret Bums Square in Allston was poorly attend ed and this was discouraging to the The sky was clear and the sun was participants. Next year, he added, the warm on Sunday when the Allston parade will probably begin at Mount Brighton Parade and Ethnic Fesitval St. Joseph's in Allston, then take a gave the people of Allston and Bright left on Cambridge Street and continue on the perfect opportunity to up through Brighton Center and Oak celebrate their diversity and unity. Square. "It couldn't have been a better Joe Amorosino, master of ceremo day!" was the overwhelming cheer of nies from Boston University, said it the afternoon. is a tribute to Hogan that he was able Postponed for five weeks because of · to sustain the interest and organiza rain on Sept. 13, the parade and fes tion about the parade for so long. tival managed to keep peoples' in Hogan said this was the best crowd terest and drew a crowd of 10,000 to the parade and festival have ever had 20,000 which cheered on the bands, it the four years since the two events floats and politicians along the parade combined forces. One reason that route and enjoyed the crafts and per more peciple attended, added Hogan, formers at the Ethnic Festival, ac was that the students are back in the cording to Joe Hogan, president of the area. The parade is usually held after parade committee. Labor Day, but before the students Flashy color guards were only one of the many attractions at the Allston· Hogan said, however, that the route return. Brighton Parade Sunday that drew crowds of people from all over the from Packard's Comer to Union continued on page /5 neighborhood. •
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r------,I I I I I I I Grand Opening Special I 160 Brighton Ave., Allston I 10 Pieces of I Cajun Joe's Chicken 1 I (Spicy or Mild) I I For only $5.99 I 1· (~IJ· $9.50) I I Limit 1 coupon per CUBtomer. I I Not valid with any other offer. I L E1plre1: 12131/87 C.G.P.J ------~------~------Hano St. resident seized for intent to distribute wearing a leather jacket attempting . The Drug Unit Squad seized a taining marijuana on the seat of the to leave the scene and Chilin Can· large sum of cash, a quanity of co car near the suspect at 145 Harvard delance and Tengures J aiaca were caine and drug paraphernalia in a Ave. Upon further investigation search of a Hano St. apartment last another bag was found on the also found wearing blood-saturated Monday, Oct. 12. suspect. shirts. After obtaining a search warrant The suspect was advised of his All three men were arrested for assault and battery with a deadly 7b Benefit llomeless Animals for 54 Hano St., Allston, police rights and arrested for possession of peacefully entered the apartment of a class D substance at Station 14. weapon and taken to Station 14. The· Thursday, October 29, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. victim was taken to Brigham and Corner Arliagtoft le Tremont Sts. Boston Manuel Florentino, 24, at 10:30 p.m. Women's Hospital for treatment. Ctn Tables· B.1kod Goods · Shelter Tours and found a plastic bag of "white Demonstrattoruo by ~on l\'.Jhce Horses & Dogs 0 Aadqae ADc:tioa-12 Noon • Fne MmiRioa rock-like substance, beleived to be cocaine; one hand-made cigarette, Animal~ Leag11eofBoMoa~ Police discovered three men al 10 Chandler St. Boston 426-9170 ~ believed to be marijuana, one beep er; $10,770 in cash; one scale; keys; legedly preparing to consume co 0 caine in a car on Harvard Ave. last baggies; and papers," according to Thursday night and arrested them the police report. for possession of illegal drugs. Several other people were in the Philip 33 of Wellesley; A Gordon Street resident inter apartment at the time-including a Quinn, ·~ 0 ~. '.. rupted and scared away an Allston three-year old girl-but only Floren James Murphy, 25 of Wellesley; and -~~,~~. Robert Cotter, 24 of Natick were in man allegedly attempting to break tino was arrested for possession of Quinn's car in the rear parking lot into a van and steal the stereo a class B substance with intent to MARCO'S JEWELRY of 145 Harvard Ave. at 11 p.m. on equipment. distribute. Large Selection of Oct. 15 allegedly holding a flat sur· Last Thursday at midnight, a wit face with a white powder, believed to ness saw Sean Senn allegedly inside Diamonds &Wedding Bands be cocaine when Officers Fitzgerald the victim's Dodge van, but when 0 •Men's & Ladies' Rings and Hill found them. Upon further the witness approached, the suspect •Cladagh Ring Special! investigation, police found another fled the scene. The witness then in A night disc jockey at Gerlandos bag in the car, believed to contain co formed the owner of the car and the Watch Sale! Bar was arrested Friday for alleged caine. A bag of herbs, beleived to be two men searched the neighborhood possession of cocaine with intent to • Bulova/Caravelle •Seiko marijuana was also allegedly found until they found a man fitting the • Longines/Wittnauer distribute after police observed him witness's description. Also 14K Gold Geneve on Cotter. exchange small white packages for All three men were arrested and Entry was gained through the • cash. Jewelry & Watch Repair taken to Station 14 for booking. passenger-side fly window, said Done on Premises At 11 p.m. Officers Fitzgerald and police, and the stereo and speakers Hill were informed of a man alleged had been removed. The speakers . All Major Credit Cards Accepted ly selling cocaine on the premises at were found on the floor, but the Lay-Away 0 135 Brighton Ave. and upon inves stereo was not recovered. • tigation watched Donald Baia, 37 of 155 Harvard Ave. • Allston Yet another man was arrested for Senn was arrested for breaking South Boston, allegedly sell clear and entering a motor vehicle and 254-8290 plastic bags of white powder, be possession of drugs in the rear park· ing lot of 145 Harvard Ave. on taken to Station 14 for booking. lieved to be cocaine. After searching the suspect, the Saturday night during a routine officers found more white powder on police check of the area. him and a small film case full of the When police saw Lawrence Beck, 33 of Brighton, they observed a 0 by same white powder near to where bulge in his coat pocket and upon in Charles P. Kelly the suspect was standing. He was B.S.,R.PH. arrested and transported to Station vestigation discovered four units of 14 for booking. what they believed to be am Two other men were arrested for The manager of Gerlandos Bar phetamines. breaking and entering a motor vehi-. THE EXPIRATION DATE was cited for sales of drugs on the The suspect was advised of his cle after three people witnesses them rights and taken to Station 14 for The responsibility for determining the premises. smash a window of a car near expiration date for a medicine rests with booking. Boston College. the drug manufacturer. The manufacturer Friday night at 1:20 a.m., three conducts a series of standard tests that BC students allegedly saw two black Drug Busts on Harvard Ave. "l measure the rate of deterioration and Other Crimes men jump from behind a bush onto . changes that occur when the drug product A Waltham woman and a J amai· Comm. Ave. and as the witnesses is packaged and sitting on a shelf. Expira- , ca Plain man were arrested Saturday A West Roxbury man was walked on. they heard glass break· tion dates are reasonable estimates of ag night for alleged possession of co ing. When they turned around, they ing of the medicine. Pharmaceutical stabbed when he attempted to break caine when police found them sitting allegedly saw a black man standing manufacturers are required by the Food up a fight between some Hispanic in a car in a parking lot at Harvard and white men on Monday night on by a 1986 black Hyundai Excel with and Drug Administration to submit expi New Jersy plates. ration date information before the product Ave. Harvard Ave. Elizabeth Levey, 27, and George Three Hispanic and several white The witnesses notified BC Police· can be distributed to patients. Exposure of and went back to the scene to iden the drug to air, moisture, heat, and sunlight Haniblit, 35, were in Haniblit's car men were fighting at 23 Harvard can cause a medicine to degrade. This may at 7:15 p.m. allegedly in possession Ave. around 1 a.m. when the victim tify the suspects. Police found the · result in a decrease in the amount of the ac of a clear bag of white powder, be tried to stop it. According to the car with the right rear window tive drug in the medicine, or a chemical lieved to be cocaine, when Officers police report, an Hispanic man, smashed and a screwdriver on the change to toxicity. Fitzgerald and Hill found them at bleeding from the nose, then hit the wall nearby. 145 Harvard Ave. victim with a closed fist. When the Robert Smith, 19, and Tony Bar 10% SENIOR CITIZEN Both suspects were taken to Sta· victim attempted to leave the scene, bosa, 18, were arrested later and PRESCRIPTION DISCOUNT tion 14 and booked for possession of however, some of the Hispanic men charged with breaking and entering, a class B substance. allegedly began beating the rear win· according to the police report. KELLY'S PHARMACY dow of his 1984 Buick. 389 Washington St., Brighton 0 As he managed to drive away Call 782-2912 - 782-0781 from the scene, one of the Hispanic Check Our Low Prescription Prices A 17-year-old Brighton man was men-described as wearing a black Call for Fast Free Prescription Delivery arrested last Monday for alleged leather jacket about 5'5", 150 lbs., Officer's Communty Service Report: Hours: Mon. thru Fri. 9 am - 7 pm possession of marijuana when police with brown hair and eyes-allegedly Sat. 9 am - 6 pm were conducting a routine motor ve tried to cut the victim with an open Officer Joe Parker reports that 17 hicle check in a parking lot on Har blade through the window. AUer es houses and nine motor vehicles were We welcome Medicaid, Blue Cross, vard Ave. caping, he realized he was bleeding entered and had items taken and 19 Medex, Master Health Plus, P.C.S. At 7:30 OJ;\ Oct. 12, police observed from the lower right side of his back. people were arrested for drinking in Plans, Teamsters. VNA Medical a clear plastic bag believed to be con- Police found Adyn Gonzalez, public. Supplies. Octnber 23, 1987 •• Citizen Item PAGE 3 ···:--:-~------~=----=------=---,;:======~PFD unveils nrlxed-use plan for vacant for:rner school site
The 22,600 aquare feet of the vacant lot once occupied. by the Washington Allston School. DAILY WNCHEON SPECIALS MON.-FRI. Everyone needs a lunch break. That's why Ground Round now has different low-priced luncheon specials every day of Bejects elderly. housing·option the week. Like Monday's Charbroiled Steak Sandwich, just $3.99. And Tuesday's Golden Fried Shrimp & Fries, just $4.99. By John Becker 3,000-square-foot library was economically Or Friday's Clam Roll, just $3.49. feasible within the context of a mixed-use Delicious and inexpensive. A mixed-use commerciaJJretail develop commercial development at the site. The ment is likely to be built on the city-owned Library Department, when contacted about vacant Washington Allston School lot on the idea, said "they don't have the budget Cambridge Street, according to draft guid& to operate it," Berman said. ~9-99 lines released this week by the Public Fa· In apresentation at the meeting, Joseph At. Participating Ground Round Restaurants cilities ~partment (PFD). Ricciuti, who is secretary of the Boston OeYeland Circle A1ewite Brook~ 1120 Soldiel's f'ield RAI. PFD officials presented the guidelines, Deaf Club, suggested another potential Brighton Cambridge Allston which recommend commercial development non-profit use of the site: a new Boston of the site over a rival option to build af. Deaf Center. A number of Boston Deaf WNCH, MAKE n YOlJR fordable housing there, during a communi· Club members attended the meeting to ex· ty meeting Monday night at the press support for the proposal. Ricciuti Jackson/Mann Community School. The presented the PFD with 656-signature pe EARLY BIRD SPECIAL guideJinee are hued on input from a July tition in favor of a Deaf Center at the site. 27th community meeting, financja) feam1>il The Boston Deaf Club's present location, ity studies and the restrictions of the newly· on the second floor of 971 Commonwealth 9 A.M. to 11 A.M. approved Allston Brighton IPOD (Interim Ave., is inaccessible to many of the club's Massage by Women Planning Overlay District), said PFD de elderly members, who make up 70 percent velopment specialist Barry Berman. of the 175-person membership, Ricciuti "Everything that came up at the first remarked. SA VE $ 5 with this ad meeting we looked at," said Berman. One "We hope we can find a future home on 354-1800 of the options considered for the site but the first floor with easy access, comfort and tentatively rejected by PFD was afforda· happiness," Ricciuti said. OPEN 7 DAYS ble housing for the elderly, an option whose Crucial to the mixed-use concept, Berman 9 a.m. to 1 O p.m. proponents include City Councilors Brian stated, is the creation of ground-floor retail McLaughlin and Michael McCormack and space along the Cambridge Street edge of Need a job? I City Council Candidate Richard Izzo. the parcel. I Be a masseuse Berman said that building elderly hous· "This kind of development can bring peo ing on the site would be "financially un· ple back into the area," said Berman. feasible based on constraints on the land." Prohibited uses at the site, PFD sug· These constraints include the IPOD's gests, should be any activities that rely on @1\9YAL f./ 35-foot. three-story height restriction, Ber· heavy truck trafficking, or any automotive man said. uses, which would exacerbate what Berman A PFD financial analysis showed that an and the PFD's Brenda Lightner called an Sauna · elderly housing plan, with 50 percent of its environment that is "unfriendly" to pedes· 199 Alewife Brook Parkway, Cambridge units affordable, would have to be seven or trians. Light manufacturing would be per· eight stories high to make sense financial· mitted on a small scale, the guidelines ly. A building of that size on the otherwise recommend, but only in combination with low-profile Cambridge Street would be "un· commercial storefront space. usual, to say the least," according to PFD's Design guidelines recommended for the Ann Wilson. parcel include a "human scale" for any wow. I .NOW! Berman and others warned that a danger· building in the development, said Lightner, ous precedent might be set on Cambridge storefront windows along Cambridge Street Street by a tall building on the site, in com· and rear or side parking with a single drive bination with the large Union Square Con· way entrance from Cambridge Street. HERE and -NOWI dominiums building a few blocks away. The proposed guidelines angered many of "If you put up something eight or nine the proponents of elderly housing, who out· NO MINIMUM BALANCE required HERE on NOW Ac counts of SENIOR.CITIZENS . (62 years and older). stories, sure as hell the next guy is going numbered the guidelines supporters at ($100 MINIMUM BAlANCE on all other NOW to want the same [IPOD height] variance Monday's meeting. accounts). and the next guy and the next guy," Several people, including Allston resident predicted Ray Mellone, who is co-chairman John Roche, Councilor McLaughlin and of the PZAC (Planning and Zoning Adviso challenger Izzo, argued that elderly hous· THERE and NOW! ry Committee), which developed the IPOD. ing could be financially feasible. CHECK the r~uirements as to MINIMUM NOW AC· On the other hand, Berman said Monday, Some contended that the site was a case COUNT BALANCES at your local banks. You'D be told a mixed-use commercial development which where an exception to the IPOD's height $200, $300, $400. $500, $600 and NOW -even Sl,000. conformed to the IPOD, would still "give restriction was necessary. off a lot of cash." "That IPOD is a great thing, but there NOW! COME TO PEOPLE'S "Some of the money can be siphoned off must be exceptions," said Izzo. If you'w tried the rest into public benefits," he added. "You're trying to hide behind the IPOD," NOWI Save here at the Best. The proposed guidelines suggest that at charged Creighton, who accused PFD of least 10 percent of the developed space in not listening to what the neighborhood a commercial plan be set aside for non· wanted. • 254-0707 • 254-0715 profit use. This option would not be avail· PFD's argument that one variance for an 435 Market Street able within an elderly housing scheme, said elderly housing development would lead to Open Saturdays 9:00 a.m. Berman. others along the same street "doesn't show Among the non-profit proposals inves· a lot of confidence [in the IPOD)," said to 1:00 p.m. tigated by Berman and his colleagues was McLaughlin. APAC Executive Director Paul Creighton's In answer to the charges, Berman said The • Heart of suggestion for an Allston Library on the Tuesday that, "we're not hiding behind the Brighton Center parcel. Berman said Monday that a continued on page 11 ...... - ..:.. ------... PAGE4 Citizen Item October 23, 1987 EDITORIAL
two are so evenly-matched in so bes~ many respects that another cliff May the man win hanger outcome-just like in '85-is not hard to imagine. The Brian McLaughlin Brighton Citizen Item-sponsored There will be some tense tabulat Richard Izzo Wars bear close debate inside the Oak Square ing being done one week from resemblance to great previous VFW Hall, McLaughlin, the in next Tuesday. historical matchups in other are cumbent, and Izzo, the A winner Wednesday night? nas, real and imagined, foreign challenger, once again traded Even astute judges of political and domestic. Standing toe to barbs, accusations and rebuttals. character would have been hard toe for the third time since 1983 Sometimes tempers flared. Once pressed to score thie one. Izzo in this year's District 9 City in a while the dagger went deep. showed up early, pacing the Council race, the two men are Occasionally one exuded ar place like a tiger with a ravenous scarred from their earlier battles rogance or exasperation or anger. appetite, eager to get at his foe. and bloodied as a result of fierce Every so often one or the other McLaughlin walked in late and head-butting in their most-recent had to confront a vocal, slightly composure, gave a good account maintained an air of detached slugfest but-like Ali and unruly crowd. At times both, as of themselves and gave the au control until his skin was pricked Frazier, Rocky Balboa and Apol they were being grilled by a dience what they came to see-a by Izzo's needling jabs. Then lo Creed and King Kong and panel of journalists, waxed elo good show. they went at it fast and furious, Godzilla-they are determined to quent or were effusive or funny That's one reason why there much to the delight of onlookers. go the distance. or charming. Through it all, was a large, enthusiastic turnout The preliminary rounds are One can't help but admire their however- everything and why more than one person over and now it's on to the main resolve. considered-the combatants did has billed this duel as "the best event. May the best man win. At Wednesday night's Allston- a good job of maintaining their race in the city this year." These -R.L. LETTERS
Corey Hill Neighborhood Association. The cry for affordable housing in ago and I felt no need to change it for . CHNA appreciates It was a very productive meeting for Allston-Brighton is real. The fact that this election in order to placate Mr. Oct. 14 attendance which· we especially wish to thank our . big-money profits for "real estate in McLaughlin. guest,·Richard Iannella of the City's terests" go hand in hand with high To the Editor: Code Enforcement Department. rents and condo conversion is real. I resigned my position with the Big-money profits do not come with State Board of Retirement and en This is to thank all the people who Edna L. Krinsky, secretary affordable housing. attended the Oct. 14th meeting of the tered the race for District City Coun Corey Hill Neighborhood Assoc. In the last election, 1985, the Kulins cil because I was concerned for the from Boca Raton, Fla., contributed future of our community. Losing in - $2,500 to Mr. Izzo. This, Sept. 1987, the preliminary election does not came to a total of $2,000. That is a mean that I am less concerned. complete total of $4,500-with no Richard Izzo is a man I came to CtfiZE"N Those serving A-B strings attached! I forgot to mention know during the course of the elec some of the Kulins own the apartment tion. Richard Izzo cares for the peo P\BJIHER - PfElllDBIT NO. 43 qualified, dedicated. building at 1455 Commonwealth ple of Allston and Brighton. Richard VOL. 102 Fredefic N Phinney Avenue. GEHERAl MANAGER Izzo is concerned for the people of All Judllh F Phinney Real-estate interests have made for ston and Brighton who are being To the Editor: MANAOING EDITOR tunes on housing developments and deprived of the city services they Rodney R Lee conversions. Their tenacity, when it deserve. Richard Izzo is a man of in REPORTEJIS Honesty and integrity in comes to donations to put Izzo in tegrity. This is why I endorsed him. Kmberty A. Beck • John Becl
POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT TO THE VOTERS OF ALLSTON AND BRIGHTON You expressed your preference in the preliminary election as to who will represent you in the city council. You selected the challenger over the incumbent. In all politics . . . but especially in a municipal election . . . it's difficult to un seat an incumbent. But I've done that, and I ask your continuing support in the Nov. 3 final election. • For the last two decades, I have been one of the most active neighborhood advocates in Allston and Brighton . . . contributing many hours of my time to youth activities and neighborhood concerns. •When an incumbent loses an election, there is discontent in the district. In Allston and Brighton, thousands of units of rental housing have been converted to condominiums over the last four year. In areas where rental units remain, there is concern by residents that Allston and Brighton are serving as dormitories for BU and BC, and that the incumbent councilor has been ineffective in stopping creeping expansionism. · To remedy the housing crisis facing our community, I support a total and im mediate ban on condominium conversion in Allston and Brighton until the hous· ing market in this neighborhood comes back into balance. last week at the Parkman House, I told Mayor Flynn and his staff that I en· dorse the objectives of his housing policy, and if elected, I will support it in the city council. • Many voters have the distinct impression that there was something shady about the 1985 council elections in Allston and Brighton. They don't want to be fooled twice. The arrangeme~t that the incumbent made with the U.S. Attorney to delay Harold Brown's indictment until after the final election resulted in the manipula tion of the election. The U.S. Government, in its zeal to prosecute the landlord involved in cash trans· actions with Councilor Mclaughlin, exerted unfair influence of a municipal elec tion. It was as unfair to the voters of Allston-Brighton as it was to me. There is a lot at stake for our neighbor hood in the Nov. 3 election. Please take time to vote. The clout that Allston and Brighton can wield in municipal government requires ef fective leadership, which I pledge to provide, but it is also influenced by the number of people who go to the polls. The more votes, the more clout. Best Wishes, /(Jd~ft·~ - Richard Izzo
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By John Becker:
Two out of five adults in Boston cannot read this sentence, according to a reoent study of functional illiter acy in America. Tackling widespread illiteracy in Boston is the chosen task of the new Family Learning Center, which re cently opened at 832 Commonwealth Avenue. For those adults with low reading skills, public transportation is a con fusing maze, a restaurant menu is gib berish and supermarket labels are meaningless. Taking a telephone mes sage can become an agonizing ex· perience. Many parents cannot help then young children with homework be cause they cannot read the directions. Boston University's Dr. Ruth Nick· se worked with school-failing children for many years, trying to find out why some children learn to read more eas ily than others. She found that the Family Learning Center tutora(from left) Jill Davis, JW Flaks and A1laa Glassman dlecuaalng a lesson plan. They home learning environment was ex· are three of the 16 Boston University work study students who teach at the Center. traordinarily influential in the eventu al school achievement of children. If School of Education undergraduate "creamy" varieties of peanut butter, learners to the skills of word process parents can't read, then their children Alisa Glassman, who is looking for· since the two words share their intial ing, data base management and have trouble in school. ward to continuing her tutoring ex· letters. spreadsheet manipulation. So Dr. Nickse stopped working with perience in the new Commonwealth As a result of the tutoring ex· "Most people like the computer," children and started to work with A venue facility, which can serve up to perience, "I look at the world totally says Wood, adding, "They are stimu adults. The key, she says, was to 150 people. differently," says Flaks, a BU under· lated to do things they wouldn't do "think about the family as a learning Glassman mentions her first ex graduate. with pencil and paper." unit." periences with a severely low-level Tutors-about half of whom are The tasks are simple, Wood says, With the help of a Department of learner, who picked up a card with a education students-undergo exten· but the program is not a watered· Education grant, Dr. Nickse began word on it and stared. sive training before they encounter · down version-it's the real thing. Collaborations For Learning, a free, The card, Glassman recalls, was up their first learner. One-to-one tutoring "We're using the same programs public program for educating adults usually requires about three hours a that other adults use in the real busi in the basics of reading, writing and side down. "I had to put a dot on the top of the week, in two sessions. Tutoring is ness world," Wood remarks. math. Tutors met with their pupils. or most useful for those with very low He cautioned though, that the com "learners," as they are called, in cards,'' she says, to let her learner know "which way was up." reading levels, while a small group puter training is "not job training per libraries and the basements of agen· classroom situation can accelerate the se" but could prepare participant.a for cies such as Allston Brighton's Area The experience was an extreme ex· education of more advanced learners, a business computer or word process Planning Action Council. ample, she notes, but it showed her says Dr. Nickse. ing course. This fall, the program has a home, that ''there are so many things we Teaching reading and other basic Wood, Nickse and Mikulecky be the Family Learning Center (FLC) on take for granted" as literate skills to adults requires high motiva· lieve that the added attraction of the Comm. Ave.-a spacious, newly· Americans. tion on the part of both tutor and computers will attract learners to par renovated learning space, staffed with Tutor Jill Flaks remembers spend· learner, said Mikulecky. The impetus ticipate in the Center's offerings of 16 enthusiastic work-study tutors and ing the first few tutoring sessions to learn, for many adults, is the desire small group classes and on&on-one to help school-age children, but can tutoring sessions. also be a wish for self-improvement, Other attraction include a book a better job, or preparation for getting lending arrangement with the Boston a high school diplonia, she says. Public Library and a play area for the The Center tries to cater to the in· children of learners while they are at terests of those who want to learn by the Center. drawing from life experiences in its The Boston Public Schools has sent reading and math curricula. flyers to parents of children who are In the "Language Experience" ap having difficulties in school, announc proach to teaching reading, the learn ing the program. er tells a story about his or her own Recruitment is a key issue-and a life, which the tutor then transcribes, challenge-at this stage of the according to Glassman. The result is Center's development, says a teaching tool that uses words with Mikulecky, who mentions the possi which the student is already familiar, bility of using radio and television if not yet in written form. messages to reach adults who might "They experience success," says benefit from the program. Those Glassman, through the use of "their adults targeted by the Center are words" and, as a result, their interest those who have low reading skills or is piqued. have not completed school. Word of In teaching basic math skills, the mouth will also be an important tool Center's approach is to focus on for getting the attention of the non "math as part of everyday life," ac· reader, Mikulecky adds. Newspaper cording to BU graduate student and articles are less useful, Nickse notes, FLC tutor Jill Davis. unless those who can read the article Measuring cups, rulers and calcula tell those who cannot. tors are all practical tools for learning Target areas for the recruitment math, Davis says. Applications may drive are Allston-Brighton, Jamaica include budgeting expenses or balanc· Plain and Roxbury. According to ing a bank account, in addition to a Nickse, targeting Allston-Brighton is Standing proudly In the new Family Lea.rnlna Center are Bea Mikulecky familiar parental request to learn natural, given Boston University's (left). the Center•• director, and Ruth Niobe. who founded the Collabo enough to help their children with "traditional commitment to Allston· ratlona for Learning project tour yea.re ago. homework, she notes. Brighton," the neighborhood which One of the innovative attractions of abuts the university. stocked with books, videotapes and with one of her pupils deciphering the the Center is a room filled with per· Since its inception, the Collabora· personal computers. labels on the two different bottles of sonal computers, on loan to the tions for Learning program has been The Center is in the process of medicine that the woman had to ad· Center in a collaboration with Playing a "feeder program" for more ad· recruiting students for its programs minister to her sick children. The to Win, a New York-based, non-profit vanced adult education courses, such and classes, with Allston Brighton as woman couldn't tell the difference be corporation dedicated to the use of as the high school diploma preparato one target area, according to the tween the two medicines. computers in adult education. ry classes at the Jackson/Mann Com· Center's director, Bea Mikulecky. The More advanced readers often con Arthur Wood, of Playing to Win, is munity School, says Nickse. The help goal of the programs, she says, is em fuse words that look siinilar, both tu· training the Center's tutors in the use offered by the Family Learning powering adults with the tools of tors note. For example, Glassman of a computer program that will help Center is preparation not only for language. says, many learners cannot dis to teach the basics of reading and specific courses, though, but also for "Reading is a power," says BU criminate between "crunchy" and writing, while introducing the adult surrival in a literate America. . ,. - -. - -- ...... PAGE,8 Citizen Item - October 23, 1987 Marty's changes plans; ACA is pleased By Margaret Burns came to discuss the progress at Smith is people who play-on the fields out of Park. Paul McCaffrey, regional direc· their time slots. Fire-displaced Marty's Liquors' an tor, and Larry Ayers, superintendent About the drinking problems in all nouncement to retract lts Atrium of parks mainentance, said that the Allston-Brighton parks, relocation and recent design plans for $317,000 has been spent on Smith McCaffrey said that Boston is trying a new Marty's that would require a Park in the past three months. "to take back all the parks" and the variance met with the approval of the The improvments include fixing the Parks Dep~ment hu made a lot of Allston Civic Association members ball fields and tot lot, improving the progress this summer. Tuesday night. fencing, walkways, benches, laying Capt. Edward O'Neil from Station Because the temporary relocation new sod and speading seed, said at the Atrium in Packard's Comer 14 also attended and listened to resi· McCaffrey. He added that the project dent complaints and comments about stirred up so much community op~ is now in the final stages. sition, said Marty's Attorney Bernard abandoned cars, illegal parking and Over the past seven or eight years, late-night noise in the North Allston Shawrdry, the owners decided to said McCaffrey, the Boston's parks withdraw the application for a liquor neighborhood. He took diligent notes have been declining, but in the three and said be would look Into each situ license with the Boston Licensing months since he has been with the Board. Further, the proposed 51-foot ation, but added that he does not have Parks Dept. they have been working enough officers to ta1 all the aban high building on the site of the form to maintain the parks and establish er Marty's at Commonwealth and doned and illegally parked cars in the more accountabiltiy. He added that area. Harvard that was to include a park· more money is being secured for the ing, retail, and two residential levels North Allston Parks through a bond Several ACA members also asked is being reconsidered because it would ing order now awaiting approval by when the 911 emergency number require a variance on the new Interim the city. would be able to serve the communi Planning Overlay District res Some members were concerned that ty more effectively. Some said it has trictions. there was no staff at Smith this sum taken more than a half hour before a Presently, Martin Seigel, owner of mer. McCaffrey said that Ringer and police or any other emergency vehicle Marty's, is looking for a more suita McKinney parks were two of 19 parks has responded to complaints about ble temporary location and has re staffed as an experiment this summer rowdy kids or even a medical problem. quested a new plan from his architect and that next summer more parks New plans for Marty'• Liquor, Capt. O'Neil apologized for the that would not require a variance. should be staffed. 8hown here In rubut the day after problems and said that it would be William Corringan, vice-president McCaffrey added that although the tire, will be reooll8ldered. another two years before the quircks and acting president of ACA, said some programs may be moving slow in the system will be worked out. He that Marty's will reconsider its plans ly, no preceived neglect is intentional added that presently there are not and inform the community as soon as in North Allston. teams get first priority, but when enough officers at Station 14 to possible. Other ACA members complained of other teams apply. they need to be respond to all the requests in the area, In other business discussed Tues the overuse of Smith Park by ball considered also. He added that there but new recruits are now in training day, two representatives from the teams from other areas. McCaffrey were only 12 permits issued for Smith and will be joining the Allston Parks and Recreation Department said that the local youth and school this year and that part of the problem Brighton force shortly.
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Invest a dollar in the future alAllston/ Brighton Here's y our chance to do something about Allston/Brighton's I future. Give Joe Tierney your Joe Tierney will lace l vote and a dollar. In return, Joe the issues. Ray Flynn's will give Allston and Brighton proposed "cancer,causing" the tough, effective leadership it incinerator. Rampant crime. deserves. He has the experience! Nightmare traffic. Deteriorating (He's the only person elected public services. Poor schools. City Council President five Skyrocketing housing costs. times in the entire 160 year Abandoned cars ... Issues which history of City Council.) the current mayor has ignored! ..The Buck Starts Here:••••••• ..
I JOE TIERNEY 4~~~YFORMAYOR 3 Fairmont Avenue I I Hyde Park, MA 02136 ~Tu~~~N~ I l dollar and my vote ADDRESS: ______I on November 3rd: CITY: ZIP I TELEPHONE: ______1 A n1ayor who willlace the issues,, 1 1 not theca111eras. 1 DO YOU REMEMBER? y~;;····n·fi.AooN··clTY·-.. ;;~-~~·~ .: CHINESE RESTAURANT Decades have a way OPEN KITCHEN/ • : See our chefs lndlvldua/ly prepare each dish. • : : Grand Opening Offer! · itlf. ~ of creeping past us : 20010 Off ~,,-~, : : (Redffm coupon, l9Celw 2.,,. ~LEGAL NOTICES •LEGAL NOTICES COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETl'S THE TRIAL COURT LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT THE PROBATE AND FAMILY COURT ''.The annual reports for I.he years 1985 and 1986 of the SUFFOLK DIVISION DOCKET NO. 87P·2565 Bnghthelmstone Club Scholarship Fund are available at Estate of ANNE. KELLEY, a/kla ANN ESTHER ~e address noted below, for inspection during regular bus mess hours, by any citizen who so requests, within 180 COFFEY KELLEY a/kla ANNE KELLEY days after the publication of this notice of its availability." late of BOSTON In the County of SUFFOLK Brighthelmstone Club Scholarship Fund Brighton High School, 25 Warren St. NOTICE Brighton, MA 02135 A petition has been presented in the above-«Jllloned File: legalnotice 10123 matter praying that the will be proved a.nd allowud a.nd that Richard J. Kelley called in the will Richard K~llay of BOSTON in the County of SUFFOLK be appoin~ ue cutor without sureties on his bond. If you desire to object to the allowance of said Jilllltion, you or your attorney must file a written appearanCt> In said Court at Boston on or before 10:00 in the fore"oon on November 5, 1987. In addition you should file a written statement of ob jections to the petition, giving the specific grountl• I here fore. within thirty (301 days after the return dav frn •uch other time as the Court. on motion with notice to lha peti· tioner. may al.lowl in accordance with Probate Hula 16. Witness, Mary C. Fitzpatrick, Esquire. First Juauce of said Court at Boston. the thirteenth day of Octob<>•, m the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundi,..l and eighty·seven . ~HURTING. James Michael l'u1molly Sa"m-ll"·o '°"'n ~ vtn· C'lCpf'f\"'•"'C' The consofourd1s 0 PlnK h File: Kelley 10123 October 23, 1987 PAGE10 Citizen Item []he Beaujolais-Village Jadot $4.99 1986 750-ml Congeeted trattlo t. a oliy-wid.e. problem, but HJgbgate St. baa become a shortcut and trattio t. muoh wone now. i---,~~ Budweiser $10.00 As our readers are aware the Communi· We have been informed by Councilor Long Neck Bottles + dep ty Beautification Council recently asked McLaughlin's office that $609,000 from the t)lem to pick out the worst traffic spot in city's capital improvement budget has been Allston-Brighton. One CBC member has allocated to McKinney Play~d over the voted that Highgate St. behind Harvard next four years for improvements such as: Ave. is the worst. You may not know the Renovating the ballfields name of the street but you have probably Renovating the basketball courts cut down it at some point to avoid Harvard Improving drainage A venue traffic. Highgate runs behind the A new fence Allston fire station-turned-office building. Security gates This CBC.member supports her nomination A new tot lot through hard data obtained by personal We thank Councilor McLaughlin, Com· survey. missioner Coughlin and those responsible Before we &et started we should note that for this important allocation. there are only about 10 houses on Highgate St. along with two small apartment build· • • • ings. It is one lane wide and one block long. We found the traffic figures staggering. Another CBC reader wrote to thank us Our reader counted cars for a half hour for helping to clean up the lot at Lake and a day on the followings days and counted Washington Streets. This reader did not as follows: feel that water pollution due to toxic sub July 8 • 265 cars stances was likely. We hope he is right. July 16• • 381 cars •45 minutes However, we would still like to see the city Nowthere'san Upper Crust Aug. 10 · 210 cars ' and state take control of it as our piping is Sept. 30 • 241 cars old and in some places decaying. _ right around the Comer Incredible? We agree! We thank our read· er for providing some hard data concerning • • • in Newton. this heavily trafficked area. Is this a new problem? Nol The problem has been with A CBC reader commented that the gas ~------~·(~~------us for years. The CBC has made sugges· station across from the YMCA, Eli Nas· tions to prior administrations but have sifs, could use some sprucing up. We agree. The elegant Upper Crust restaurant that has earned received no response. The solution is a sim· rave reviews at Tara Hotels in Framingham, Braintree ple one. • • • and other locations has come to Newton Comer. Extend the island to Harvard A ve.1 Yes, Now you can enjoy the same delicious, fresh native it is really that simple. This will stop all The CBC met recently with the YMCA seafood and distinctive New England ruisine that have traffic turning left onto Highgate from to discuss its proposal for a new gym which would extend slightly into Rogers Park. made people return again and again to the Upper Cambridge St. We urge the Flynn adminis· Crust. Featuring entrees such as blackened tenderloin, tration to do something about this immedi· More on this later. ately. Residents of the area have lived with ~roiled filet of Atlantic salmon, warm duck salad, this long enough. It is now time to put an • • • JlOasted loin of lamb or nm..cini Pancetta, to name a end to this. One public works crew could few. Plus an intriguing selection of appetiz.ers that are a take care of this in one morning. Our thanks The CBC is pleased to announce the ap meal all by themselves. to the CBC reader for bringing this issue pointment of Dave Graham to the Harvard But don't just read our great reviews, taste our great to a head. University Task Force as CBC represen· food. Join us for lunch or dinner this week. tative. You'll find the service warm and attentive, the aano • • • Brian Gibbons, President . sphere inviting and the price quite reasonable. And you can't beat the location. developed as a mixed-use commercial de velopment." He noted, though, that the Lot Commission takes public comment into ac· ~~ continued from page 3 count in making its decision. The Commis· Gateway Plaza at Newton Corner IPOD; we're just dealing with the con· sion, which consists of John Fischer, 320 Washington Street straints on the land." Raymond Dooley and J oseph Delgardo, will Exitl7 over the Mass. Turnpike "We're not suggesting a use that is not vote on the guidelines and issue a request popular," he stated. · for proposals (RFP) in the next few weeks, Resuvations: Two hour validated Berman noted that the mixed-use com· he added. 527-8272 parking. mercial idea had numerous supporters in Members of the community have two the neighborhood, but that many of those weeks from Monday's meeting to submit supporters either did not attend or did not written comments in favor of or opposed to speak up at Monday's meeting. the draft guidelines before the Public Fa· He said that, based on the first meeting, cilities Commission vote, said Ann Wilson. he was not surprised at some neighbors' Comments should be sent to: Public Facili· dissent to PFD's recommendations. ties Department, 26 Court Street, Boston, "There wasn't a consensus t hen; I don't MA, 02108, attn. Lisa Chapnick. expect there to be a consensus now," said After a RFP is issued, proposals will be Berman. accepted. At a third community meeting, "The consensus is let's not have a vacant those proposals which meet the criteria of lot [at t he site)," he concluded. the final RFP guidelines will be presented Berman said Tuesday that his depart· in detail for another round of public com· ment is "still recommending [to the Public mentary, after which PFD will choose a de Facilities Commission] that the parcel be veloper for the site. -.tea eSAF· PAGE12 Citizen Item October 23, 1987 1- IS Sill J~Il IE .. ·~ :.;. ~ :.:. Patriot Bank has re~ently joined Bank of New England. And as a part of the Bank of New England, we can offer · But that doesn't mea1l we're changing the way we do busi- your business even more. Because now you'll have all ness. We're still committed to hands-on service. We'll the added services, financial expertise, and business still handle all your dt1y to day banking transactions. And experience of a major regional and international bank. we'll still make lending, leasing, and financing We may have added a new financial partner, decisions right here. So you can maintain the but we're still doing business the way your busi relationships you've built with us over the years. ness wants it. And we're doing it better than ever. BANK OF NEW ENGLAND Now that we've joined the Bank of New England, you can bank at all of the following locations: Boston: 950 American Legion Highway• One Beacon Street • 6 Beacon Street • 30 Birmingham Parkway• 215 Border Street 513 Boylston Street• 89 Broad Street • 150 Causeway Street • 1905 Centre Street • 486 Commonwealth Avenue • 1610 Commonwealth Avenue 270 Congress Street • Onr Court Street • 230 Dorchester Avenue • 6 Francis Street • 57 Franklin Street • 100 Franklin Street • 780 Gallivan Boulevard Prudential Center• 437 Rutherford Avenue• i28 State Street Brookline: 1341 Beacon Street • 1627 Beacon Street • 1228 Boylston Street 1330 Boylston Street • 1 Harvard Street • 294 Harvard Street Chelsea: 100 Everett Avenue Dedham: 567 High Street • 300 VFW Parkway Framingham: 161 Worcester Road Natick: 1 Apple Hill Revere: 25 American Legion Highway Wellesley: 277 Linden Street Telephone: 742-1000 . : B&L AT THE B&D Salerno the genuine article an.right By Martin S. Goldman have had in mind when he put the Salemo tells me that the Lt. Gover· words "moral," "wise," "decent" and nor has been "more than wonderful" If human energy could be convert· "holy" in his dictionary. Anyone who with her support. Which, perhaps, ed into nuclear power, little Rosaria knows Father Bullock will back me to tells us a little something about the Salemo would be an atomic bomb. the hilt on that call. Tums out it was political growth of Evelyn Murphy. The former Benedictine sister is this Bob Bullock who brought Rosaria You see, it is no secret that Rosaria season's political darling in this old Salemo to Boston from Chicago to Salerno supported Gerry D' Amico for town. A political newcomer, she has work in the Campus Ministry. Her in· Lieutenant Governor against Evelyn taken Boston by political storm and itial assignment was the Fenway area Murphy. For most polt that would hardly anyone who plays the serious and among her schools was the the mean grudge time and the big kiss-off. game of inside politics has failed to ever-expanding megaversity North· Instead, Murphy has gone all out for notice her rising star. Salerno placed eastern. According to Father Bullock, Salerno appearing with her at rallies third in the tough City Council Salemo went right up against the and campaign stops. Give Murphy primary field last month surprising forces of the university (talk about some points on that count. most political observers in the city biting the hand that feeds you!) and If there is a problem for Salemo, it and, she says, surprising herseli. it was the beginning of the coura· is the fact that she has allowed the Salemo had invited some family geous social activism that will un· media to paint her into the dumb members up to Boston to be with her doubtedly culminate in her election as "progressive" comer in this town's for primary night and they had a candidate-at-large to the City crazy quilt politics. My eense is that repaired, appropriately enough, to Energetic Rotlarla Salerno. Council. the label isn't really what Salerno is The Last Hurrah at the Parker Salemo gets edgy and begins to eat all about. But that means that a lot House. "All of a sudden," Salemo the cream cheese off her bagel when of folks will be thinking that a vote for recalls, "they started to call me and The other pols watched Ray Flynn I predict that she will win a seat on Salemo is a vote for Mel King or tell me that I was topping the field in and when it was crystal clear that the the Council. She turns the interview David Scondras and the narrow spe one precinct after another. And then ever-astute mayor had made his around and asks me why I'm so sure. cial interests they represent (no, I'm the media wanted to get to me. Gosh, move, they all started tripping over "Because," I tell her, "Boston polit· not anti-gay or ant-black. I am anti· it was so exciting, I couldn't believe one another as they bunny-hopped ics is more often than not an inside Stupid). it. None of us could." onto the passing Salemo political game and in this political year the one I raise the issue and Salerno admits Neither could the local players. bandwagon. candidate who has all the insiders it could be a problem. Not that she How the hell could an ex-nun-this lit Salerno greeted me here at the B&D sewn up is Rosaria Salerno. Hey lady, disavows anyone's support. "Why do tle gray-haired ball of energy this morning and surprise of the word is out on the street. This is people have to use labels?" Salemo threaten the likes of old veteran pols surprises-I knew her from another gonna be your year." She smiles ner· asks rhetorically. "Can't you just Mike McCormack, "Dapper" O'Neil life. Funny, what a really small town vously and continues munching at the print that I'm a person who cares or Freddie Langone? The first to un· this Boston is. In the mid·1970's, cream cheese. about people-all people-and let it go derstand the fact that a new political when I was Director of Education for Take a look at Salerno's endorse at that. Just because I believe in the wind was blowing over his fair city the Anti-Defamation League in New ment list. It is, as the kids say, "Awe fact that everybody has certain was Mayor Raymond Flynn who cut England, I met Father Robert Bul· some." Everybody is there but the rights, why do I have to be short his own victory time to hotfoot lock who at that time headed up the Duke of Earl. The politicians in this pigeonholed?" it over to Salerno's headquarters to Campus Ministry of the Archdiocese old town smell winners the way OK. Fair enough. I believe that offer up what was obviously his tacit of Boston. sharks smell blood. There is Mark everybody has rights too. Except my endorsement to her candidacy. In Father Bullock is one of the few peo Roosevelt, George Bachrach, Lois everybody means everybody and not Salemo, Flynn will have the ally he ple who have made a real difference in Pines, Tom Vallely, Marjorie just the group that screams the has long been seeking to solidify his the last twelve years of my hectic life. Claprood, Jim Shannon, Joe DeNuc· loudest. political base in this city where a sin· The word "love" is not strong enough ci, Mel King, Barney Frank. Ray But I'm not gonna pigeonhole gle misstep could result in attack of to describe how I feel about Bob Bul· Flynn, Bob Rufo-gee, Salerno's even Rosaria Salemo. She tells me all the the deadly killer politics. lock. I can only tell you that Father got Gerry D' Amico and Evelyn Mur· Robert Bullock is what Webster must phy. Did she miss anyone? continued on page 15 Pay• Per* View Special Event 'l,llf))IL\S ,J(J1'1~ You ,_.,r know what will land on your carpet, so you need the revolutionary stain resistance of STANMASTER. 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F87-414 TURBO SEDAN Standard Trane, 240 SEDAN D.L 15 exposure disc '3" print roll developed '5" Auto , White blue. one owner Auto., Beige E ll .Joe Hogan, chief marshall of the parade, stands with .Judy Bracken of the An exotic dancer dazzlea the tired parade marchers and watchers at the Mit.yor's Office of Neighborhood Service. who was chief of staff for Sun ABCDC Ethnic Festival in Oak Square after the parade. day's parade. child care, and quality of life for senior Is any politician really genuine? Her gospel truth. He knows, he says, that Salerno citizens. I take the packet. excitement certainly seems real. Her she is my kind of people. Bob says continued from page 13 Very slick. All of it. For a lady who decency seems to shine through in the that Rosaria Salerno is the genuine ar is running for political office for the conversation. There is only one way ticle. One hundred percent. first time, Salemo carries a beeper, a for me to really find out. We say our terrific things she can do for the city neatly put-together packet of materi goodbyes and I hustle back to the office. Well, that's it. Father Bullock is if you folks elect her to the City Coun als and, unlike other candidates for never wrong folks. The hell with Don cil. I listen, sip my coffee and nod. She the Council, she travels with an I tell the switchboard to put a call Feder. If Salemo is 50 percent as ter tells me that she wants to slug it out aide-not even Joe Tierney, who is through to Father Robert Bullock at rific as her literature says she is, she'll with the likes of the the Dap and the running for mayor, has it all down so Our Lady of Sorrows in Sharon. Bob be the greatest thing to hit Boston rest of the boys. I still sip my coffee pat. Gee, I haven't received one sin Bullock, I know, will be straight with lince the Tea Party. See, and you told and nod. She tells me that she has all gle piece of paper with Joe Tierney's me. Bob laue-.:~n I tell him that ~ friends that I'm a rigbt kinds of plans for Boston and hands name on it since the day M an I just had t with Salemo. winger-an ideological neanderthal. me a full packet of material chocked nounced. Is he still in t.3wJl?.-·· Small world. ..., says that every Fooled you. I'd vote for Rosaria Saler full with proposals for trash, garbage, Can this little woman be gamine? thing Salemo 8'YJJ about herself is the no. So should you. • PAGE 16 Citizen Item October 23, 1987 t' Don't let low / THE BEST unemployment Play readings I WESTERN HOTELS (East & TLC) still on Oct. 24 WALTHAM Rte 128-Exit 27 A at the library are offering elegant The Brighton Branch Library, 40 Acade- 1 Wedding Packages my Hill Road, Brighton, offers the follow· ing programs: 95 "New England Playwrights," a series of starting. from $16 • staged play readings, co-sponsored by per prnon plus service charge & tax Playwrights' Platform continues. On Satur· • 4 Course Deluxe Dinner • Bartendtt Service day, October 24, at 2:00 p.m. Sketches on • Wine Toast foy all your wedding guests • Champagne for bridal party Modem American Life by Clayt Westland • Ovtt nite accommodations for the bride and • Photography area for your formal pictures will be presented. For more information, groom • Wedding consultant and hostess for your wedding ' call the Library at 782-6032. • Private function room day spook,ou! The Parents Discussion Group will meet • Special room rates for your wedding guests • Choice of colottd napkins to complement your Run )'OW' help wanted on Tuesday, October 27, at 10:30 a.m. Stella • Fresh floral centerpieces wedding attire • lntttnational cheese tray display ad in this eec Millet of the Animal Rescue League will Monday-Saturday 9 a.mr9 p.m. tion and reach 224,000 give a talk on "Choosing a Pet for Chil· For more information readers throughout dren." All interested parents are invited to on Private Parties or Weddings CALL 890-7828 I greater Boston. attend. Call232-7000x36or46 Next Tuesday, October 27, the Story and Film Program for Young Children will show two favorite films for children. The As· tronoughts tells of a group of children who are firmly convinced that they have land· ed on a neighboring planet. Petronella is the story of a feisty princess who searches for a prince while becoming entangled with a clever magician. The program runs from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. ARMSTRONG CEILING SALE School age children are invited to join in the fun at the Thursday afternoon Film and Story Program. Next Thursday at 3:30 p.m. our feature film will be The Monster of Hygate Pond. This is a hilarious portrayal of a (not too) scary monster who has a remarkable effect on a whole neighborhood. All children are very welcome. The five-week National Endowment for the Humanities lecture series, "Women in American Film/' concludes on October 29, at 7:30 p.m. Robert Goulet, Professor of En· glish, at Stonehill College, will use film clips to address the topic "Woman as Affirma· tion. •• He will examine such films as Casab lanca, It's a WoriderfulLife and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The Brighton Branch Library will host a special Halloween Program for children of all ages on Halloween, Saturday, October 31, at 2:00 p.m. "Bewitched but not Bewil· dered" will feature storytelling, Halloween riddles, records, and a surprise film. All chil dren and their families are very welcome. The Evening Book Discussion Group will meet on November 5, at 7:00 p.m. to dis· cuss The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyl· er. Copies of the book are available at the Library. 'Herald' in error The Boston Herald incorrectly quoted Citizen Group Publisher Frederic Phinney, reporting on Thursday that the Citizen Item endorsed incumbent Councilor,Brian McLaughlin in McLaughlin's 1985 reelec· tion bid. In fact, the paper endorsed Can· TURN ON TO A GREAT OFFER didate Richard Izzo in the 1985 election. No *Purchase 192 square feet or more of selected Armstrong endorsements have yet been made in this year's race, which once again features Izzo Ceilings to qualify for FREE Skil Twist Cordless Screwdriver. and McLaughlin. Ask for details! Offer available now through 11/21/87 ·.... ~ . \ .. 931 Iran•• THE ALLSTON DEPOT • Fire-retardant proudly presents • Acoustical • Deep-textured live entertainment • 3·0 look Wed.-Sat. Nights • D1menslOllally stable 9:00 p.m.-12:30 a.m. 12"x 12" 2' x 2' tile panel 311 NO COVER 10' x 12' 10' x 12' Oct. 23 & 24 room 9410 room 5925 Ma.son•e Apron SKU PRU 01111 SKU PRU 0099 Oct 28th - 31st Clad h PU#Tr OF PAlltl#C! Kitchen Open 400 PLEASANT ST.,WATERTOWN Until Midnight 924-4498 • .• _$ ~ THE ALLSTON DEPOT FREE PARKING~ 363 Cambridge Street. End ol Bamrd Ave. OPEN MON.·FRI. 7AM-8PM, 783-2300. Ample free parking. SAT. 7AM-6PM. CLOSED SUNDAY • )ctober 23, 1987 Citizen Item PAGE 17 Everyone loves a parade -or do they? · By Clyde Whalen server. "I guess the whole incident is simply being allowed to die a natural Brighton's annual parade managed death from lack of interest," said our to survive an awkward rain date that informant, who seemed to conclude put it in competition with the 23rd an· that nothing will be done to change nual Head of the Charles Regatta. the roadblock despite. negative reac The parade drew, according to tions from Boston neighbors. reports, respectable bulges of watch· ers from its inception point below • • • Packard Square, to the Police Station Reviewing Stand, at Brighton Center Anna Edmonston of 50 Quint and at Oak Square. A venue, Allston ran a house party for What it lacked in numbers, the Kitty Bowman last Tuesday evening. crowd more than made up for in in· A nice crowd of people attended. Is· difference. It was as though they were sues were discussed and refreshments watching the passing bands and served. Hostess Edmonston said, clowns and antique cars and floats on "Kitty's strongest suit is her interest a television screen rather than in in the children of Boston Public person. Schools." Dapper O'Neill marched with the Parade marshals John Roche and Alice Galloway in old touring car in the Oak Square VFWs, all dressed up in Allston-Brighton parade OD Sunday. • • • his soldier suit (it still fits!). John Roche and Alice Galloway, marshals, • • • If every non-conformist in the city Gotta pass this on. What do Joe gave the big wave. David Scondras gave the government one-half the Kennedy, George Bachrach, Tom Gal picked up an empty can and deposit· Would you believe that in a book· trouble and cost that Big Bill has, we lagher, and Mel King all have in com· ed it in a barrel (some people will do let by AAA titled Car Theft Preven· wouldn't have to wait around for the mon? They think Michael Kane will be anything for a vote}. Sheriff Bob Rufo tion Guide the very first action noted stock market to indicate a recession. a great City Councilor. walked with wife Annette and son is, "Lock your car and take your We'd be in it, up to here. Then it goes on to tell about how Peter. keys." Would you believe they've got to great Kane would be in office-it was Among outstanding floats were It goes on to state that 80% of all get another court order to throw him handed out at the Brighton parade those offered by St. Elizabeth's and cars stolen have been left unlocked out from where he is now, despite the last Sunday. the APAC. and 40% had the keys in the ignition. previous court order that's being It finishes off... paid for by the Com· Boston College and Boston Univer· challenged (at cost to you, the taxpay· mittee to Elect Michael Kane. Domin· sity bands anchored other musical • • • erl at Superior Court on November 3. ic Bozzotto, 115 Brandywine Drive, marching units to keep the parade East Boston. route lively. A professor of physics from Ireland, Ethnic Circle at parade's end was Edmond Hogan, now living in Arling· • • • • • • the usual big draw. ton, is looking for a room in Bright· on. He wants it known that he can act The meeting at Jackson-Mann con· as handy man for an estate if such an cerning the disposition of the opening is available. Washington-Allston School lot went Landlords or landowners may call about as expected with the city lean· at 643·6252. ing heavily on the side of commerce and the community favoring housing. • • • When asked why Public Facilities was presenting practically the same Unlike some of the offices of city format which had been rejected by the goverment now up for the election community in former years the an· process, the school committee posi swer was "because it's allowed." tion open to Bill Donlan and Kitty Which means, simply, that the Bowman has no negative aspect. same package will be again offered It's really too bad we can't have and the people of the neighborhood, both of them because they're both unable to present a united front, will dedicated and qualified people for the be forced to accept a decision that few job. of them agree with. Frank Moy and St. Elizabeth'• Maybe some of you are wondering, float in Sunday's parade. Is it the • • • as has Anne Flaherty, why, with the Nina, the Pinta or the Santa proper money having been appropri· Maria? State Sen. Michael Barrett (D· ated, nothing's been done to fix up the Allston-Brighton) who held his first Evergreen Cemetery Caretaker's "Open Air Office Hours" last July cottage? Public drinking turns to vandalism 30th from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in front of the Star Market at 400 • • • Along with 26 arrests for public Westem Avenue in Allston, may have drinking over the weekend have come to move indoors soon if the weather Apartment dwellers and home own reports of increased public vandalism. continues toward winter conditions. ers note: refuse containers shall not be Roaming gangs of rowdy youths placed out before 5:00 p.m. of the overturning cars and smashing win· • • • evening BEFORE the day of sched dows have been reported from uled collection. Containers must be Champney Street and Chiswick Road, Well he's at it again. The clown returned to their normal place of Chestnut Hill A venue, Lake Shore prince of clutter, Falstaff of filth, Ora· storage as soon as possible, and no Road, Englewood A venue, Scottfield cle of ordure, has crossed his self· later than 12 hours after collection. and Commonwealth. made Rubicon to challenge the forces Boeton's finest watch over the pa The new wave of vandalism which, of law and order. I mean that Bill (Na • • • rade route. according to a Sutherland Road ture Boyl Britt has moved back, gar· neighbor has "never been so bad," in· bage and all, to his no-man's land Another meeting concerning Brook· eludes "dropping a building block on between the fences that separate city line's infamous "wall" came to Alice Galloway is running a big the roof of a car parked in the rear of from state up at Evergreen Cemetery. naught, according to a talented ob- Halloween party for the seniors at J.J. 1695 Commonwealth," broken wind· Carroll on the 31st. Be there! That's shields and scratched hoods, turning an order! over trash barrels and US mailboxes, breaking antennas, hoods and break· Editorial ing into and destroying interiors of parked cars. Elections are coming up so don't be terroriz.ed by "alarmist" mail warning Bits and pieces you of skyrocketing rents and condo conversions forcing you out onto the Rosaria Salemo denied she was a street unless you vote for "our" can "rubber stamp for Ray Flynn." "I dis didate who will protect "tenant" in· agree with him on burning trash and terests and not the "other" candidate I told him so," she said, when ap· who is bought and paid for by real es proached at the VFW in Oak Square tate interests. following last week's parade. The truth is that it takes a whole She also denied having any special bunch of people to make thin~ hap interest in the recent Boston Common pen and that no one person m do gathering to raise money for a march anything without the co-oper ion of on Washington. the majority. "If I am elected to represent the So, if you're a senior citiz i and people of the City of Boston," she told worried about the future of h sing, me, "I plan to represent all of them remember, if you get mail of t .l:l , na equally. It is not my wish to favor ture, put it where it belongs-right some over others." Clean-up crew at Hooker Park. into the wastebasket. October 23, 1987 PAGE18 Citizen Item WHAT·'S GOING ON I ARTS I Brighton Branch Library 40 Academy Hill Rd. Brighton. 782-6032. "Wom en in American Film" is the title of a five-week Na tional Endowment for the Humanities lecture series to be held at the Library every Thursday evening in October. Robert Goulet, Professor of English at Stonehill College continues on Oct. 29 and is enti tled "Woman as Affirmation."7:30 p.m. with a talk on "Woman as Spectacle." Film clips will accom pany each lecture. All programs are free. Call the library for more information. Faneuil Branch Library 419 Faneuil St. at Oak Square in Brighton. Join us for a bewitching Haloween Story Hour OD Oct. 13 at 3:30. A story hour for pre-schoolers ages 3-5 is held on Wednesdays at 10:15. After school films for children are shown every Thursday at 3:15.For more information, call 782-6705. Puppet Showplace Theater 32 Station St., Brookline Village, 731-6400. Ad mission is $4.00, group rates available. -Oct. 24,25: Adventures of Ring-around-his-Tail Racoonby Paul Vincent-Davis. Allaton-Brlghton State Rep. Kevin Honan weloomee A-B reeldentll Eileen Daley, Eileen Geaney and .Jennifer and Kathleen Geaney to the State Ho\Ule. IGENERAL INTEREST I Haunted House At The Jackson/Mann Community The Allston-Brighton YMCA presents their sixth School Annual "Screams in the Night" Haunted House on The City Roots Alternative High School Program Banquet Oct. 31from5-9. Children under 7 are asked to at is offering a program for persons 16-21 years old, There will be a banquet honoring Rabbi Abr&ham tend between 5 and 7pm, oler than 7 years are wel who are interested in obtaining their GED of High I. Halbfinger of Congregation Kadimalr Toras comed from 7-9 pm. Admission is $2. 470 School Diploma and are not presently enrolled in Moshe on Oct. 25 at 5:30 at The ~estin Hotel at Washington St., Brighton. For more info., call School. Call 783-0928 for more information. Copley Place. Rabbi Walter S. Wurtzburger of 782-3535. The JIM is currently participating in a fund rais Lawrence, N.Y. will be the guest speaker. For reser ing drive. We are collecting the UPC codes from par vations, call 254-1333. Community Dinners ticipating "Prince" and "Goodman's" products. On Wednesday evenings, the Boston University -Labels can be dropped off in the front office of the Blanket Drive for the Homeless League sponsors a community dinner at the Bright school. Drive continues until the end of February. There will be a blanket drive for the homeless on on Congregational Church, 404 W ashingtoo St. in Dog Licensing is held Mon.-Fri. from 9:00 Oct. 24 and 25 from 10-2 downstairs and in back of Brighton Center. These meals are open to the pub a.m.-8:00 p.m. at the office. Cost ia '4 if male or the VFW post in Oak Square. Please donate your lic and free of charge. Dinner is served weekly at spayed female, $15 if unspayed female. Document old clean blankets. For more info., call 782-1951 or 6:00. ed proof of spaying and rabies shots are necessary. 254-9750. Teenagers: Help organize shows, trips, dances, etc St. Columbkille C.C.D. Program with TEENS UNLIMITED. For more info., call Country Store St. Columbkille's Elementary C.C.D. Program 783-0928. T~ns Unlimiteed meets every Tuesday There will be a country store on Oct. 28 at 7pm in will be held in the Elementary School on Sunday at 4 pm in the Jackson-Mann Community School. the Elles Hall on Washington St. in Brighton center. mornings. Children attend the 9:30 a.m. Mass, class White Elephant tables, refres~ents, . etc. Spon es are from 10:45-11:45. Confirmation is a two-year Sunday Brunch at the Elks Lodge. program. Children must attend the 7th and 8th sored by Brighton Lodge P.G. D1savo1a. The Brighton Emblem Club will be holding a Sun grade C.C.D. classes to be confirmed. For informa tion call Mrs. Marques at 254-4392 after 6:30 p.m. day brunch on Oct. 18 at the Brighton Elles Lodge, Fall Fair 26 Washington St., Brighton, from 11-2:30.Tiekets There will be a Fall Fair from 10-4 on Oct. 24 at St. are $8. Proceeds go to charity. Luke and Margaret's Church in Allston. Food, St. Columbkille's class of 1977 crafts, clowns, etc. There will also be a dance from St. Columbkille's class of 1977 is celebrating their Brighton Emblem Club Christmas 8-11 featuring music of the 1960's. For more info., 10th year reunion on Nov 28 at the Brighton K.of Bazaar call 782-2029. C. There will be a cash bar, buffet, and DJ, from 8pm-lam. Tickets can be purchased from Richard Come and get your Christmans shopping done on Nov.7 from 10-4 at the Brighton Elles Lodge. 26 Bill Donlan fundraiser MacDonald at 782·6450. Washington St. Brighton. There will be a re-election fundraiser on Oct. 30 from 8-12 at VFW Post 2022 in Oak Square. Music by Brighton High Class of 1938 Mount Alvernia Academy's Diamond The Kerry Blues. Admission is $10. The Class of 1938 is in the process of planning its Jubilee 50th Reunion. Please call 489-1564 or 1-366-4603 for Mount Alvernia Academy will celebrate its dia more information. mond jubilee withe a Mass of Thanksgiving Dorchester High Class of '38 celebrated by Bernard Cardinal Law at St. Ignatius Church in Chestnut Hill on Oct. 17. at 4pm. For On May l, 1988, the Class of 1938 of Dorchester more information, call 527·7540. High School for Girls is planning its 50th reunion with a luncheon at the Marriott Hotel in Newton. To be sure to be included, call 332·3109 or 341-0518. Hill Memorial Baptist Church's Fall Fair The Hill Memorial Baptist church will hold its an Boston Latin Class of '82 Reunion nual fall Fair on Oct. 24 from 10-3. There will be The B.L.S. Class of 1982 is holding its 5th year plants, homemade food, gift items and more. For reunion on Friday evening, Nov. 27. If you have not more info., call 782-4524. 279 North Harvard St. yet received an invitation, please call 325-0720 by Allston. Nov. I. Haloween Dance Twenty-fifth Reunion of Brighton High Come and boogie with ghosts and goblins at the School Haloween dance sponsored by the Good Witches of Brighton High school class of 1962 will hold its The Brighton Emblem Club. Dance to the Sounds twenty-fifth reunion on Nov.27 at Lombardo's in of Music.Buffet dinner, deserts and coffee. Randolph. For more info, Caa Jim Gannon at Costumes are optional. Prizes will be awarded to 742-6912, Mary Tocci Regan at 787-3386, or Bar best costumes. Oct. 30, 8-12 at the Brighton Elles bara Cedrone Horan at 7883-3015. Lodge, 326 Washington St. Tickets $8.50. For info. and tickets, call 787-9527, 855-2278, or 848-6349. Pantry Needs Food The Food Pantry at the Congregational Church, St. Elizabeth's Hospital Rabbi Walter S. Wurtzbur&er of Lawrence, 404 Washington St., needs to be stocked year-round. St. Elizabeth's Hospital is offering free Flu shots N.Y ., wW be guest speaker at the testimonial This pantry is an all-year program which provides on Oct.28 : 1-3. St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Mother banquet honoring Rabbi Abraham I. Halb food for the needy. Canned goods, frozen foods, and Mary Rose Clinic, 2nd fl. Washington St. Bright finger, spiritual leader of Congregation dry goods are very welcome. For more information on, and Nov 2 from 10-11:30am at the Allston Kadlmah-Toraa Moehe of Brighton. For reaer call 254-4046. vatloll8, call 254-1333. October 23, 1987 Citizen Item PAGE19 WHAT'S GOING ON Brighton Senior Center 20 Chestnut Hill Ave., Worship Service, 10:45; fellowship hour with coffee, able seven days a week from 8:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m. To Brighton. Flu shots are not recommended for those juice and snacks, noon. Special choral arrangements arrange for a visit, call 783-5108. allergic to eggs, chicken or chicken feathers. For every Sunday. For more details call Pastor Paul more info., call 789-2430. Traverse at 782-4524. Senior Activities at the Jackson-Mann Natural Family Planning classes will begin at St. Community School Elizabeth's Hospital on Nov 9 from 7:30-9:30pm. To St. Anthony's Church • Join the School at 500 Cambridge St., Allston, for register, call 789-2430. Holten St., All are welcome. If you are interest Senior Crafts and Ceramics. For further information ed in singing or helping in other ways, call 782-5857. call 783-2770. ALSO: The Senior Lunch Program Allston Depot offers a chance for seniors to come down to the Jack Come Hear live Irish music every Wed.-Sat. from St. Columbkille' s Church son Mann and have a free lunch. Donations are ac 9-1. Oct. 21-4:.Mason's Apron.Oct. 28-31 Claddagh. 321 Market St., Brighton. A contemporary Mass cepted. Mon.-Fri. at noon in the Senior Lunch Room. Nov. 4-7: Celtic Clan. is celebrated on Sundays at 9:30 a.m., followed by Coffee and Donuts. The community is welcome. Ev Veronica B. Smith Senior Center Open House at St. Sebastian's ery Evenig, Sunday-Thursday (Oct. 25-29): Mission The Veronica B. Smith Multi-Service Senior Impossible at 7 :30 pm, and mornings after the 9 am Center located at 20 Chestnut Hill Ave., Brighton St. Sebastions's Country Day School in Needham Mass with Sister Anne D'Arcy is open every Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 will hold its annual fall Open House for prospective p.m. Lunch is served Monday-Friday at 12:15. Call new students and their parents Sunday, Oct. 25, St. Luke's and Margaret's Church 254-6100 to make a reservation for lunch. The Senior from 1:30-3:30. For moro info., call 449-5200. The Rev. Mary Glasspool, Rector Brighton Ave. Center sponsors a free Blood Pressure Screening ev Singles Club and St. Luke's Rd., 782-2029. On Sundays, Holy Eu ery Monday from 2-4:30. Call for more information. charist is at 11:00 a.m. The Single Life, a newly organized singles club will hold its first meeting on OcL. 26 at the VFW Hall in Oak Square at 8 pm. for more info., call 969-1587. Octoberfest at Mt. St. Joseph's Academy IHEALTH 'N FITNESS I On Oct. 23, from 6-9 pm and Oct. 24, from 9am-2pm Mt. St. Joseph's Academy, 617 Cam bridge, Brighton will hold its Octoberfest. Food, Lose Weight/Stop smoking CHURCH Crafts, Children's Area, etc. All are welcome St. Elizabeth's Hospital will sponsor a "Waist- A I I Way weight control workshop be.ginning Nov. 9 and Allston Congregational Church Allston/Brighton YMCA continuing through Dec. 14 from 7:30-8:30 pm. Call Registration for the Late Fall Program Session be 789-2430 for more info. A Smoking Cessation Pro 41 Quint Ave., Allston. JWv. Deidre Scott. Sun gins Oct. 26-Nov. 1. Classes for children are offered gram will be offered beginning Nov. 3. For more in day worship service is held aL I 0:45 a.m. Coffee hour in Swimming, Gymnastics, youth basketball, formation on how to participate in this follows. Karate and Woodworking. Classes for adults are seven-session program, call 789-243 offered in Karate/self-defense, and Swing Dance. For Brighton Ave. Baptist Church more info., call 782-3535 or stop by at 470 Washing- Brighton Allston Mental Health Clinic 30 Gordon St., Allston. 78~ · 8120. Rev. Charlotte ton St.. Brighton. For people who are unhappy with their relation M. Davis, Pastor. Sunday Worship Service is at ships at home, at work or with friends. Brighton All 11:00 a.m. followed by Coffoo and Fellowship Hour. ston Mental Health Clinic has group openings for Sunday School is at 9:45 a.m. All in the communi men and women ages 20-45. For more information, ty are wel~~ SENIORS call 787-1902. Brighton Evangelical Congregational At Saint Elizabeth's Church Oak Square Seniors The St. E.'s Hospital Blood Donor program is in 404 Washington St., Brighton Center. Rev. Paul Oak Square Seniors have st&rted their meetings need of donations to meet current needs. The Blood G. Pitman, Pastor. Worship services are at 10:30 on the first and third Wednesday of every month. Donor Room in the Mother Mary Rose Clinic, a.m., followed by coffee hour. Sunday School is at For more information, call 254-3638. A trip to At Washington St., is open Mon.-Fri., 8:00 a.m.-8:00 9:15. Thrift Shop Thurs.-Sat. 10-2:00. A mid-week lantic City is set for Oct. 26-28. A trip to Florida p.m. Call 789-2624 for an appointment or walk in. service is held at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesdays. Com is scheduled for Feb. 12-26. Looking forward to see St. Elizabeth's is offering health and fitness class munity Suppers are every Wednesday at 6:00. ing club members. For further information on the es this fall in stress management, aerobics, CPR, trips, call 254-3638. relaxation and stress management class, smoking Community United Methodist Church cessation, waist-a-way, and natural family planning 519 Washington St., Brighton. Sunday school for Home Health Program classes. For more information, call the hospital at all ages, 9:30 a.m.; Fellowship Break, 10:30-11:00; The Joseph M. Smith Community Health Center 789-2430. Sunday Worship Service, 11 00-noon. Contact Rev. offers a Home Health Program which provides com Steven Griffith at 787-1868 for information. prehensive primary health care for the elderly, Food Supplement Program homebound members of your family. The Program W.I.C. will be offering extra food, nutrition edu Hill Memorial Baptist Church is coordinated by a nurse practitioner and a physi cation at no cost for pregnant and breastfeeding Sunday hours at the Church, at 279 North Har cian, along with a team of social workers, physical women, infants and children under 5. Apply at St. vard St., Allston, are: Sundny School, 9:30 a.m.; therapists and home health aides. Services are avail- Elizabeth's Hospital or call 1-800·WIC-1007. OBITUARIES CAICO, Virginia (Gianetti)--Of All the sister of the late Alan, Dr. Samuel leaves with seven grandchildren and Mrs. Lillan Kittridge and Mrs. Elsie ston, on Oct. 18. She was the wife of and Dr. Max Sandberg. Remember seven great-grandchildren. Donations Sanford. She leaves nine grandchil the late Gaetano, and the mother of ances may be made the the Friends of in her memory to Good Samaritans dren and six great-grandchildren. Connie Cummings, Gerald, Mary, the Boston Floating Hospital. Hospice in Brighton would be ap Paula, Anthony, Joseph, and John. preciated. UNI, William-Of Brighton, on Oct. She was the daughter of the late Paul 16. He was the husband of Ethel (Sal and Maria Giannetti. She was the sis HARTLING, Walter H.- Of All lop), and the father of Brenda Stine ter of Albert, Rudolph, Peter, Susan PEREZ, Blanca A. (Foyo)-Of All ston, on Oct 14. He was the husband ston, on Oct. 13. She was the wife of man and Martin. The was the brother Stanton, Connie Meloni, Rose of the late Stella (Zbinski), the father of Miriam Karp, Betty Paul, and the LaFrenier, Yolanda, Delores, and the Francisco, and the sister of Pedro and of Stella McCormack, Walter, Bar Guillermino Foyo, and Estella Eche late Rosed Dubin. He was the grand late Freddie, George, and Anthony, bara, and Arthur. He leaves five gather of Craig and Alyssa Uni, and Frank, Romeo, Orlando, and Anna nique. The Mass was held in St. Mary grandchildren and two great of the Assumption Church. Erica, Darren, and Keith Stineman. Giardano. She leaves 14 grandchil grandchildren. Expressions of sympathy in his dren and three great grandchildren. memory may be donated to the The Mass was held at St. Anthony's SIRAGUSA. Maria (Fissolo)--Of Shriners Burns Institute in Boston. Church. LEWIS, Donald R.-Of Brighton, Brighton, on Oct. 12 She was the wife on Oct. 14. He was the husband of the of the late Peter, and the mother of late Angela (Cenci) Lewis, the father Francis, Michelina, Peter, and Mary .... 1 ,-SERVINQ THE BOSTON AREA SINCE 1"3'\ CASDALE, Giacinta (Pennacola) of Catherine, Mrs. Carol Fairbanks, ' Blackburn. She was the aunt of Dr. Of Brighton, on Oct. 16. She was the and Mrs. Ellen Murray. He was the James Siragausa, and Rita and Mario wife of the late Costanzo Casale, the brother of Ribeer, George, and Fissolo. She leaves 13 grandchildren mother of Anthony, Mario, Dr. Lewis, Richard, Mrs. Mary Cocuzzo and the and six great-grandchildren. The ~etri~ and Mrs. Mary Klotz. She is left with late Howard. He is left with three Mass was held in St. Ignatius Church 13 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. The Mass was held in in Chestnut Hill. In lieu of flowers, do QL~apels grandchildren. The Mass was held in St. Columbkille's Church in Brighton. nations to St. Igantius Church would Brookline e 2n-8300 St. Columbkille's Church in Brighton. In lieu of flowers, donations to Good be appreciated. Samaritan Hospice in Brighton. Personal and before-need counHhng. Single and multi-payment plans. COHEN, Rebecca (Sandberg)-Of TUCKER, Anna (Hendrickson) P8ul R Levine • MOt"ril W 8razni1k Brighton, On Oct. 19. She was the PARSONS, Elizabeth M.- Of Formerly of Allston, on Oct. 14. She Barbare A Levine • David M 8razni•k wife of the late Abraham, and the Brighton, on Oct. 15. She was the wife was the wife of the late John, and the mother of Mrs. Linda Toelle and Mrs. ,,_ ..,.... lf-adlwaeftl, call mother of Marvin 'and Irma, and of the late Ralph, and the mother of "",~.,.,.. Sanna MacRae. She was the sister of ... Judith and Edsel Davidson. She was Mrs. Shirley Hilton, and George. She . \.. ,__ ttw.,...nout .... _try ~ PAGE 20 Citizen Item October 23, 1987 Debate continued from page 1 ter. I sincerely regret not going to the federal authorities before I did." In a long, rambling explanation for his action, the councilor said that he had "tried to give the money back" and that his hesitation was a result of con· cem for his family. In response, Izzo remarked that " all the tenants . . . take very very little satisfaction, for their champion is afraid of the biggest residential landlord in Allston·Brighton." Izzo charged McLaughlin with an "overt act of election manipulation" in the timing of the release of information about the Brown affair. Izzo referred The debate panel (from left): Alan Cuehner of the Tab, John Becker of the Citizen Item, Brian Leary • to "the arrangement that the incumbent made with of Channel 6, moderator Gary LaPierre of WBZ Radio, City Council Candidate Blchard Izzo and the Attorney General's office to delay the [Brown] incumbent City CounCllor Brian McLaughlin. indictment until after the election." "I bitterly regret my opponent's assertion that Allston·Brighton area." Izzo calling for more police citywide, but especially I manipulated the 1985 election," replied McLaughlin charged that Izzo's moratorium idea in Allston-Brighton. McLaughlin called for more. McLaughlin. would be "an ineffective way of dealing with [con· police, but said that the problem was less severe "To think that a district city councilor could tell do conversions]." that Izzo depicted it, and that more efficient officer a United States attorney what to do is preposter· McLaughlin, who has been endorsed by the deployment was part of the solution. Izzo has been ous," McLaughlin snapped. Boston Tenants Campaign Organization, boasted endorsed by the Boston Patrolmen's Union. Izzo, who began the campaign vowing to deal with that he had "the strongest vote on the City Coun In his opening statement Izzo boasted of his "issues" and not "personality flaws'', defended his cil against condominium conversion." He also criti 97-vote advantage over McLaughlin in the Sept. 22 use of material in his campaign literature that cized the present "vacancy decontrol" system of preliminary win. directly attacks McLaughlin on, among other rent control, calling for "the strongest controls "When an incumbent loses an election, especial· things, the Brown issue. possible.'' ly a municipal city election, there is something "Mr. McLaughlin made an issue out of something. Izzo reiterated his belief that "rent should be and wrong-there is dissatisfaction," he said. I had to respond," said Izzo. must be a function of income.'' He also charged that One of Izzo's major campaign promises is that be "In the first debate we had at the Jackson/Mann both condominium conversions and rents have in· "can and shall do a better job" than his opponent School it wasn't Richard Izzo that mentioned creased during McLaughlin's two terms on the as city councilor. Asked why he would be more ef· Harold Brown, it was Brian McLaughlin," he added. Council. fective than the incumbent, Izzo said he "can get McLaughlin lamented the negative campaigning things done just because I want to get things done that has occurred in the race, saying that his cam· Izzo also defended his use of former Kevin White and [because of] the force of my personality." paign has "continued to be on the positive side." press secretary George Regan, of Regan Commu· In reply, McLaughlin said, "I disagree strongly "I hope that in the next remaining weeks that Mr. nications, to help his campaign, noting that he took with my opponent that personality has anything to Izzo will not continue to drag the campaign down," out a personal loan to pay for Regan's services. do with delivering city services." the councilor said. When asked why the Boston Teachers Union en· McLaughlin argued that the institution of district Also under scrutiny during the debate was Izzo's dorsed McLaughlin, even though Izzo is a science representation and Mayor Flynn's success at position on tens:nt issues. Izzo has endorsed Mayor teacher at Boston Latin, Izzo said, "I don't know balancing the city's budget have allowed for a num· Flynn's condo permit bill and has called for a why." her of neighborhood improvements, including resi· moratorium on condo conversion in Allston· dent parking, street cleaning, parks cleanups, Brighton, while defending himself against charges Earlier in the debate, McLaughlin had said: "The courthouse renovations and the reopening of the that his campaign is receiving substantial financial Boston Teachers Union filed a grievance against my District Police Station. In addition, McLaughlin backing from "real estate interests." opponent, and won, on his acquisition of his posi· noted, library improvements and new traffic signals McLaughlin charged that out of $26,000 Izzo tion at Boston Latin . I'd like to bear him respond are planned for the future. received in 1985 campaign funds, 96 percent of the to that." Izzo did not respond to the charge, choos Izzo. however. charged that many constituent money came from o·itside this neighborhood. ing instead to criticize McLaughlin's handling of services had not been effectively delivered. Izzo countered the charge, saying "there has been this summer's home rule petition for the School "Something's always going to be done, Mr. a furious desperation move on my opponent's part Committee. McLaughlin, but very lit.tie 88'8 done," he to depict me in a way that just isn't true." remarked. Waving a copy of his 1987 campaign funds, Izzo Izzo explained two other "non-endorsements" - At the debate, McLaughlin asked for the oppor· claimed that "96 percent of all the people who con· by Suffolk County Sheriff Robert Rufo and the tunity to continue to work on his agenda of "parks tributed to my campaign live in the area." Ward 22 Democratic Committee. Rufo, who says he improvement, housing protection, police station re Working hard to dispel the notion that he is an is not endorsing anyone, appeared with Izzo in a opening, and public school reform" during another anti-tenant candidate, Izzo said, "my vote on the campaign ad with a favorable quote. Izzo said that term in the City Council. City Council will be in favor of Mayor Flynn's [con· he bad never "publicly or privately said that Bob· Izzo, in turn, asked to be sent to the Council to do permit] housing proposal." by Rufo endorsed my campaign." "do a better job" than the incumbent. 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