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SouthBostonTODAYOnline • On Your Mobile • At Your Door February 21, 2019: Vol.7 Issue 7 SERVING SOUTH BOSTONIANS AROUND THE GLOBE WWW.SOUTHBOSTONTODAY.COM Go to our South Boston Today page to view online content. Make sure you like & share t Bos on T h o t d u a o y S @SBostonToday Bayside Expo Center To Become A Mixed Use Life Sciences-Based Development Want to see your ad in South he University of Massachusetts the selection of Accordia Partners as the include commercial space and hous- Boston Today & SBT Online? System has approved a $235 first major step toward redeveloping ing. Proceeds from the deal will go to million deal to lease Bayside the 20-acre waterfront site that sits next UMass-Boston, which has faced seri- Office: 617.268.4032 or cell: T 617.840.1355 or email at Expo Center, the 20-acre waterfront to the UMass-Boston campus. ous financial issues in recent years. [email protected] site that sits next to the Boston campus. 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Federally insured EQUAL HOUSING by NCUA OPPORTUNITY 2 SOUTHBOSTONTODAY • www.southbostontoday.com February 21, 2019 EDITORIALEDITORIAL The visits we are getting by Invasion of the Critters coyotes are increasing in iving in the city, par- South Shore, it’s no surprise number and who can forget ticularly here in South to see many other types of the deer that swam in from LBoston, we’ve long critters roaming wild and one of the harbor islands ago become accustomed to free. In recent years, South causing hundreds of locals having squirrels and the oc- Bostonians have noticed to follow it around tak- casional chipmunk hanging growing numbers of rac- ing photos and videos until out in our back yards, seeing coons and possums, turkeys the Environmental Police them run across the tops of and geese taking up resi- caught it and relocated it fences and often squawking dence here and being part to the Berkshires. Now the at us from tree tops and pow- of the neighborhood. We’ve rabbits are turning up all er lines demanding we toss a learned to accept them as over the neighborhood and although most are not too their company. As one of few treats in their direction. part of the population. the best word to describe thrilled about the skunks. our readers stated “It’s turn- But if you happen to be tour- Now the hawks are com- them is ‘adorable’. And the Most of we city dwellers ing into a wild kingdom of ing the Green Mountains of ing in and filling the gap of consensus seems to be that are showing a willingness sorts around here and I kind Vermont, the White Moun- the dwindling pigeon popu- most locals are enjoying the to ‘coexist’ with our new of like it. But I just hope the tains of New Hampshire of lation; dwindling we’re growing numbers of wildlife winged and furry neighbors bears aren’t the next species even the Blue Hills of the told by the influx of hawks. sharing the town with us, and in many cases enjoy to arrive”. Good point. “A country without borders will no longer be a country” - President Ronald Reagan weight and experience and Boxing Show Tryouts must report to Peter Welch’s gym with mouth guard, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Peter Welch’s Gym sneakers and shorts. ryouts for the An- ing Show will be Saturday The annual Boxing Show nual St. Patrick’s March 9th at Peter Welch’s is one of the big highlights Day Evacuation Day Gym at 371 Dorchester Ave among all the great activities Make sure you like & share South BoxingT Show began on in South Boston as will the and shows during the St. Pat- Boston Today with your friends! February 14th and will be tryouts as well. rick’s Day/Evacuation Day ongoing each Tuesday and All tryouts and training are holiday season. The action is Thursday starting at 7:30pm free to every young man or fast and the talent on display and on Saturday 1pm and on young lady participating in is always a crowd pleaser Sundays at Noon until March this year’s show. 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[email protected] • [email protected] South Boston Today is a Series of the Today Publications Series LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Deadlines 917 East Broadway • 617.268.4032 • Office hours: Mon-Fri 10:00am - 2:00pm Press Copy - Monday at 6:00pm • Advertisements Space Reservations - Friday at 6:00pm • Ad Material - Monday at 4:00pm • Camera Ready Ads - Tuesday at 6:00pm February 21, 2019 SOUTHBOSTONTODAY • www.southbostontoday.com 3 InformationThe Center More on the Wall/ ISIS Come Home?/Jussie Mollett SOUTH BOSTON TODAY John Ciccone Note: talk back to John Ciccone by email at [email protected] sually, in the dead of winter, of freedom to Socialism modeled after dential candidates along with Pelosi we’ve seen happen in the past when with the exception of news Venezuela’s where the inflation is over jumped in with both feet condemning things turn out not how they wanted Uabout storms and severe cold a thousand percent, the people are now Trump supporters and bigotry as they them to be? Another question to ask is, waves and maybe the occasional flare- starving and in many cases forced to eat stood in solidarity with Smollett. But will all those Hollywood types, those up in the Middle East, things are pret- their dogs (sorry about mentioning that police, after investigating the incident, in the media and those left-wing politi- ty calm, as Americans are trying hard last one. But it’s that bad). now say they believe this was no attack cians apologize for their rush to judg- to keep warm, but not so this season. What would John F. Kennedy say if at all. It was a staged hoax by Smollett, ment and willingness to condemn and We’re not even through the second he were to come back and see what the who it’s now believed hired people to aim blame at a whole group of people month of the New Year and nearly ev- leaders of his former party have done to attack him and paid them thousands of they dislike, because they wanted so ery group and organization seem to be it? It’s a good guess he’d be shocked by dollars for the job. Busted! If it turns badly for the story to be true? This is in shrieking melt down mode. the freak show they are turning it in to. out he did fake the incident, will he doubtful. Because being famous and The border wall is high on the list of Said another reader, who wrote in re- get jail time? Or will this sham be al- liberal means never having to apolo- topics that have folks in frenzy. In last garding the current crop of announced lowed to quietly fade from memory, as gize, no matter how wrong you are or week’s column, I made my position candidates: “I have this image of all of the media quickly buries the story like how foolish you look. pretty clear. I’m in favor of building it them pulling up to the site of the first very tall and building it quickly. And debate together, all 20 or 30 of them pil- as one reader wrote in who said that, at ing out of the same tiny clown car, like first, she didn’t know how she felt about it’s done at the circus. Then while up on Let Our Family Help Your Family it, when she realized who is against stage, screaming at each other in an em- building the wall, she made up her mind barrassing display, jockeying to claim that she was definitely for it. She put it the title of “Most Insane”. I guess this is CASPER this way – “As I read the list, I made my what happens when you let the children Funeral & Cremations Services choice. Among those against finishing sit at the grownup’s table.