Dorchester Reporter “The News and Values Around the Neighborhood” Volume 38 Issue 2 Thursday, January 14, 2021 50¢ Walsh exit leads to scramble at City Hall Biden picks Wu, Campbell ‘tough as nails’ lead parade of Walsh as his hopefuls for choice for Labor mayor’s chair By Katie Trojano By Katie Trojano Reporter Staff Reporter Staff Calling him a “good friend” and Mayor Walsh’s likely departure “stand-up guy,” President-elect Joe for Washington, D.C., could pull as Biden last week introduced Mayor many as five new candidates into a Walsh to the nation as his choice to race to succeed him this summer or lead the Department of Labor, a po- fall, depending on the timing of his sition that the 53-year-old Dorches- expected resignation, which would ter resident and past union leader follow his confirmation by the US enthusiastically accepted during a Senate. Two city councillors, Michelle ceremony in Wilmington, Delaware. Wu and Andrea Campbell, who “Marty was born and raised in were already waging spirited and Dorchester. I know him— tough as well-funded campaigns to compete nails,” Biden said. “He was diagnosed against Walsh will likely be joined with cancer and beat it at age 11, by at least two council colleagues joined Laborers Union 223 at age Mayor Martin J. Walsh and now-President-elect Joe Biden shared a thought or and other hopefuls from within city 21, worked in the state Legislature, two during Mayor Walsh’s second inauguration, held on Jan. 1, 2018 at Emerson and state government. became a union president and grad- College’s Cutler Majestic Theatre. Biden has nominated Walsh to serve as US When he steps down, Walsh’s va- uated from college at age 42.” Secretary of Labor. Chris Lovett photo cant seat will be filled immediately Biden also noted that Walsh is by City Council President Kim Janey the son of Irish immigrants. “Only on an interim basis. She would be downside, they’re not from Mayo, Janey stands ready to take the helm the first Black person — and the they’re from Galway,” he said in a By Bill Forry council. She was elected first woman— to serve as the city’s nod to their shared Irish roots. Editor last January to serve chief executive. Janey has not yet The president-elect praised the City Council President a two-year term as the said whether or not she will seek a mayor for his leadership as Boston’s Kim Janey, a Roxbury council president, a pre- full, four-year term, but preparations steward during the coronavirus pan- native whose family has siding role that will cat- have already begun for her transition demic, for supporting healthcare pro- deep roots in the neigh- apult her into the city’s into the mayor’s office. fessionals, public servants, essential borhood, will become chief executive chair as At-large Councillor Annissa Es- workers, and union laborers. the first Black, and first “acting” mayor. saibi-George, a Dorchester resident “They are literally what’s keeping female, mayor of Boston In his State of the City who has steadily built her citywide us going and they deserve a Secretary when Marty Walsh re- speech, delivered on Tues- profile and electoral performance of Labor who knows how to build their signs to become the US day evening, Walsh noted over her three terms in office, is power,” Biden said. “A future with Secretary of Labor. Janey’s imminent role as also seriously weighing a mayoral historic investments in infrastruc- City Council President The 55-year-old Janey chief executive. “I have Kim Janey campaign, according to sources ture, clean energy, manufacturing was elected to the city spoken with Councillor close to her. A former Boston Public and so much more that’s going to council in 2017 and rep- Janey, and we have begun response, will continue School teacher and the owner of the create millions of good-paying jobs. resents Roxbury and the transition,” he said. smoothly. And I want Stitch House on Dorchester Avenue, “Marty knows worker power means parts of the South End, “I am confident that the you to know, the work Essaibi-George has been a longtime not just protecting the right to union- Dorchester, and the Fen- operations of city govern- we have done together for ally of Walsh, whom she has known (Continued on page 4) way on the 13-member ment, including our Covid (Continued on page 5) (Continued on page 4)

Revisiting the insurrection Game plan: Use Says Markey: Lynch worried Gillette Stadium ‘We never saw about security for vaccine push it coming’ for inauguration Page 3 By Ed Forry By Bill Forry Reporter Staff Editor US Sen. Edward Markey was Congressman Stephen Lynch in the US Capitol complex last has “significant concerns” about Wednesday when thousands of security around the US Capitol pro-Trump rioters stormed the ahead of next week’s planned in- congressional grounds, and laid auguration, which is a potential siege to senators and represen- target of domestic terror groups tatives and their staff members threatening armed resistance over several hours. Sen. Edward Markey in Washington, D.C., and other Congressman Stephen Lynch All contents The Reporter’s Ed Forry spoke cities beginning this weekend. to Sen. Markey by phone this A. I was in my office writing Lynch was briefed on the secu- ation at the Capitol,” Lynch told © 2021 my speech to be delivered on the the Reporter on Tuesday. “There week about that experience. rity threats— and the planned Boston Q. Where were you when you floor of the Senate,to uphold the federal response—on Monday are significant concerns regard- started to hear the sounds of Electoral College. I was there night. ing what might take place.” Neighborhood the mob? (Continued on page 9) “I am concerned about the situ- (Continued on page 9) News, Inc.

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By Katie Trojano taining 8 market rate approvals were given in formerly homeless indi- Reporter Staff units, 4,172 square feet July 2019, and ground- viduals and families. The transformation of ground-floor commer- breaking followed that Specifically: Two units of a long-abandoned car cial space, including a December. will be reserved for res- dealership on Cummins 12,000-square-foot pub- The units will be avail- idents with incomes at Highway in Mattapan lic plaza, and 84 parking able to residents at a or below 50 percent of into a complex of build- spaces. range of incomes, in- AMI; 42 for residents ings with 76 units of “For the townhouses, cluding 12 for residents with incomes at or below with incomes at or below 60 percent of AMI; 12 for affordable housing is just we’ve finished installing Cote Village rendering Davis Square Architects about at the mid-point of the roofing, windows and 30 percent of the area residents with incomes at construction work. The HVAC [Heating, Venting median income (AMI) — or below 80 percent AMI; helped to finance the from the Neighborhood progress of Cote Village, & Air Conditioning], and people earning less than and 8 for residents with development through Housing Trust and $4.8 the new development we are just waiting to get $27,900 for a household incomes at or below 100 a combination of tax million from the Inclu- just steps from a new the siding materials and of three. Of these units, percent of AMI. credits and loans, as sionary Development commuter rail station on finish up inside,” said 8 will be set aside for The city and state well as a $750,000 award Policy fund. the Fairmount Line in Alexis, adding that the Mattapan, was discussed team expects the town- Monday during a virtual houses to be completed BPS agreement with teachers aimed at meeting of the Woodhav- by July or August of this en Culbert Regis Neigh- year. full re-opening of classrooms by April 1 borhood Association. “The big building, the Donald Alexis, pres- one at Cummins High- Boston Public Schools identified as the highest phasing back in students The previous agree- ident of the Caribbean way,” he said, “will be has reached an agree- priority, including some identified as high need ment stated that if the Integration Community completed at the latest in ment with the Boston students with disabili- since November. citywide positivity rate Development (CICD,) October to mid-Novem- Teachers Union to try ties, English language Under the agreement, went above 4 percent, the told about 30 people on ber. We’ve finished the to bring all students learners, students expe- if the city’s Covid-19 pos- district would go back to the call that although third floor and so there’s back to schools in-person riencing homelessness, itivity rate stays above 5 fully remote learning for the project was delayed just one more floor to be by April 1. The agree- and students who are percent for two consecu- students. A judge sided by pandemic shutdowns, added.” ment calls for phasing in the care of the state tive weeks, the city will with district officials in construction has kept The development is in groups of students Department of Children provide free weekly Covid a dispute that the Boston pace overall. a collaboration of the for hybrid learning, and Families. testing to union members Public Schools had violat- “In March, because Planning Office for - Ur starting with high needs The state has been lean- who consistently report ed that agreement and of Covid-19, we were ban Affairs, Inc. (POUA) students in February ing on districts like Boston to work. ignored the threshold. stopped for probably five and CICD. The non-profit and the youngest grades to bring more students If the positivity rate is According to the Bos- weeks. We started again agencies have worked in beginning in March. back into classrooms. The above 10 percent for two ton Public Health Com- in May and things have a unique partnership, Thirty-two schools are district had rolled back to weeks, the union can ask mission, the city’s sev- been moving along just with design services currently open for in-per- fully remote in October, to go back to the bargain- en-day positivity rate is at fine. We’ve finished about added by Davis Square son learning, serving citing rising coronavirus ing table with district 8.9 percent, as of Monday. 50 percent of the project,” Architects. students the district has cases, and has been officials. – WBUR Newsroom said Alexis. 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By Chris Lisinski Monday at more than 100 bigger numbers than ruary, then the vaccine more efficiently, citing residents 75 and older, State House local sites and individual that over time,” Baker becoming available to the challenges that come said he would consult a News Service departments. said. general public in April. with only having a few group of medical experts Gillette Stadium has The Worcester Senior Baker also announced Through Thursday, days of projections. who have advised the been home to a near-un- Center alone surpassed that his administration Massachusetts had ad- “We don’t have 20 or 30 state’s vaccination plan defeated football sea- its initial capacity and “in the coming days” ministered about 140,000 days’ worth of visibility on the potential new son, two outdoor hockey hosted 376 vaccinations will press forward into first doses of the vac- into what the distribu- guidance. games, a Major League on Monday, Baker said, the next step of vaccine cine and received about tion plan looks like, so Governors were sched- Soccer final, many -doz citing an “overwhelm- rollout, which will make 328,000. That data is it’s very hard for us to uled to speak with Vice ens of concerts, and next ingly positive response doses available in congre- published once a week. make predictions about President Mike Pence week, it will host another from first responders to gate care settings such as “I said back in Decem- where we’re going to in the afternoon Tues- landmark event: the first get vaccinated.” correctional facilities and ber that I expected that be a month from now,” day about the Covid mass vaccination site in When Baker unveiled shelters. He promised the early part of this he said. “If we’re only response. Asked about Massachusetts. a plan last week to vac- more information “later rollout would be bumpy, hearing what our next the prospect of pressing In six days, Gillette cinate the more than this week.” and it’s more than lived dose is going to look like Pence to trigger the 25th will open its doors to hun- 45,000 first responders That step would take up to my expectations two days from now, the Amendment and remove dreds of first responders in the state, he said mass Massachusetts into the with regard to that,” farthest I’m willing to go President Donald Trump per day who can receive vaccination sites would fourth population group Baker said on Tuesday. out is a few days. I think from office after last Covid-19 vaccinations, serve as a key pillar to of six included in the “But that’s partly be- it’s critically important week’s riot in the Cap- then continue to scale up support the effort and opening stage of the cause there was a lot of for us not to overpromise itol, Baker replied that capacity to serve more then expand to other vaccine rollout, leav- debate and discussion on this stuff.” he intended to focus on people as they become populations. ing only home-based about how long the man- The Trump admin- vaccine rollout. eligible, Gov. Baker an- Tuesday’s announce- health care workers and ufacturing process would istration is preparing “I’m pretty sure most of nounced Tuesday. ment puts a clear time- health care workers do- take to ramp up, how the new guidelines that will that dialogue is going to After touring the line on the start of that ing non-COVID-related distribution model would recommend expanding be about the vaccination Worcester Senior Cen- segment: On Thursday, care remaining on the work with respect to both vaccine eligibility to rollout program and a big ter that started vacci- staff who will administer Phase One list. the vaccines that would adults older than 65 and push on our part to get nating first responders the vaccinations will re- The original plan Bak- be delivered directly to distributing additional more visibility into this on Monday, Baker said ceive their own vaccines, er and his administra- providers.” doses as quickly as pos- so that we can plan on the stadium will become and then Gillette will tion outlined in De- Baker urged federal sible, according to an a more forward-looking the first of several loca- open to first responders cember anticipated the leaders to provide states Axios report on Tuesday. basis and put more shots tions to host large-scale next Monday. Those second phase, with four with clearer information Baker, who last week in people’s arms when immunization efforts in eligible can schedule targeted subgroups pri- about vaccine distribu- bumped up the priority vaccines become avail- the state. appointments at mass. oritized, starting in Feb- tion so they can plan level for Massachusetts able,” the governor said. “These vaccines are gov/covidvaccine. safe and effective, and CIC Health will op- millions of doctors, nurs- erate the site, while Dot man pleads guilty to child porn charges es, and health care work- Brigham and Women’s Eric Tran Thai, 36, Thai is now scheduled According to court doc- similar alleged activity at ers are getting vaccinat- Hospital will serve as pleaded guilty to two for sentencing on May 13 uments, Thai somehow Boston College in 2018, ed across our country,” medical director and counts of possession of on two counts of posses- managed to get into the investigators found 45 Baker said. “This is a Fallon Ambulance will child pornography on sion of child pornogra- school ten times between videos of male Boston huge step forward in our support clinical staff. Monday for incidents in phy. He had initially also February and Decem- Latin School students fight.” “Gillette plans to start which he sat in a stall been charged with sexual ber 2017 to make his in the restrooms and Massachusetts started out doing 300 vaccines in boys’ rooms at Boston exploitation of minors, videos via a camera in a arrested him in March making vaccines avail- per day, but is going to Latin School in 2017 and but that was dropped backpack he had placed 2019. He faces state able to police, firefight- build up to administering surreptitiously took vid- in a superseding set of on the floor near a stall charges in Middlesex ers, EMTs, and other 5,000 vaccines per day eos of students, the US charges prosecutors filed separator - or at urinals. Superior Court for the emergency personnel on and potentially much Attorney’s office reported. on Monday. Following his arrest for BC incidents.

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(Continued from page 1) and my friends about since childhood. She is this. … I love my city… one of several people there’s no way I would with ties to his political make that decision in organization and donors three days,” he added. who could mount a viable Also considering a candidacy. candidacy is Marty Mar- John Barros, the city’s tinez, who leads the chief of economic devel- city’s Health and Human opment, is also seen as Services department, a likely candidate. A its largest agency and a Dorchester resident who critical one in the context ran for mayor in 2013 of the still-unfolding and finished fourth in pandemic crisis. A native that year’s preliminary of Nebraska, Martinez Marty Martinez Aaron Michlewitz Jon Santiago Michelle Wu election, is now a sea- moved to Boston more soned City Hall veteran than 20 years ago and with her and to have her en’s Political Initiative; to resign before March Wednesday of this week. with strong connections settled in Dorchester support in this race,” Wu Dr. Atyia Martin, found- 5, his departure would When she was asked to the city’s business and last year. told the Reporter in a er and CEO of All Aces, automatically trigger about how the petition civic leaders. Of Cape At least three state phone call on Saturday. Inc. and former chief re- a special election— a could affect the race, Verdean descent, Barros lawmakers— House Campbell, who lives silience officer of the City preliminary followed Wu said “there are sev- was the longtime leader Ways and Means Chair- in Mattapan, has repre- of Boston; and Makeeba by a runoff between the eral different factors of the Dudley Street man Aaron Michlewitz of sented District 4 on the McCreary, former chief two highest vote get- that we still don’t have Neighborhood Initiative the North End, Sen. Nick council since unseating of staff at Boston Public ters— that would likely information on. One is before joining the Walsh Collins, who represents longtime incumbent Schools. be scheduled for early the timing of the confir- cabinet. South Boston, most of Charles Yancey in 2014. Campbell said last summer. mation process in D.C., William Gross, the Dorchester, and parts of She jumped into the race weekend that Walsh’s But District 5 Coun- and when we hear more city’s police commis- Mattapan, and Rep. Jon for mayor last Septem- departure and the ques- cillor Ricardo Arroyo on the proposal at this sioner, told reporters Santiago of the South ber, citing her policy tion about a special has filed a Home Rule week’s council meeting, this week that he is “90 End – are all considering work on the council and election in the summer Petition requesting the my colleagues will be percent” in as a candi- candidacies as well. her roots in the city. or a general campaign in Legislature to allow weighing all of the dif- date himself. Gross was Walsh’s nomination In the last two weeks, the fall “hasn’t changed Boston officials to over- ferent considerations,” promoted to the BPD’s by Biden triggered a her campaign says she anything” for her team. ride the special election she said, adding: top spot by Walsh in quick endorsement for has raised $160,000, “We launched this requirement in the event “This has been an 2018 and is a popular Michelle Wu from a bringing her total funds campaign in September of a vacancy in the of- extraordinary year and figure among officers and significant ally two days to more than $467,000 with the goal of running fice of the mayor before there have been a tre- their families. A native of later, on Saturday. US since announcing, more a grassroots movement March 5. He argues that mendous number of Dorchester, Gross lived Senator Elizabeth War- than any Black candi- and connecting with vot- the city should simply costs to trying to address in Milton in more recent ren, who noted that she date has ever raised total ers all across the city,” wait for the already all of the needs during years before moving has known the councillor for a mayoral campaign she told the Reporter. scheduled September the pandemic, and so back into the city— to since Wu attended her in Boston. According “I’ve been telling resi- and November munic- this is a moment where Roslindale— after his class as a Harvard Law to the Office of -Cam dents that if we want this ipal elections to choose we have to be thinking appointment to Walsh’s student. paign and Political Fi- city to work for everyone, Walsh’s successor. about how to keep people cabinet. “Michelle is not just a nance (OCPF), Campbell we’re going to have to do Arroyo took to Twitter safe first and foremost “I can’t give you an woman full of good ideas has $513,731 cash on the hard and sometimes last week to say that he and the best use of city answer 100 percent,” and a passionate heart, hand, behind Wu, who uncomfortable work of filed the petition because resources while ensur- Gross said on Monday she is a woman who gets has $535,589, according addressing our own he thinks a special elec- ing that we’re protecting when asked about his out and does the work to the most recent avail- history in respect to tion would further drain access to the ballot and candidacy. “But out of that needs to be done able report. racism. And if we do that the city budget; create democratic accountabil- respect, I’m going to give to make a difference in On Monday, Camp- together, we can indeed unsafe conditions with ity.” this deep consideration. people’s lives,” Warren bell’s team announced eradicate inequities in residents going to the Said Campbell, “We If there’s one thing that said in a statement. notable campaign en- housing, education, the ballot box during the have yet to receive our rings true, I would never “Sen. Warren has been dorsements from the environment, you name pandemic; create barri- formal council agenda, be as presumptuous as a friend, mentor, and following: 11th Suffolk it.” ers to accessibility; and so waiting to review it just to throw my hat in an incredibly effective District Rep. Liz Malia; The timing of picking hold an “unnecessary and specifically the lan- the ring when the mayor change-maker for Bos- Bill Walczak, co-founder an electorally perma- and redundant” election. guage before taking any was just announced. ton and for the whole of the Codman Square nent replacement for His petition is sched- next steps.” “I will have to talk to country, so I’m excited Health Center; Diana Walsh remains uncer- uled to go before the Reporter editor Bill my family, the mayor, to continue partnering Hwang, founder of the tain this week. By city City Council for review Forry contributed to this Asian American Wom- statute, if Walsh were at their meeting on report. dotnews.com January 14, 2021 THE REPORTER Page 5 Janey stands ready to take the helm (Continued from page 1) general election would tions — and potentially Councillor Tito Jackson. the past seven years has be sworn in immediately four different mayors — A longtime civic leader prepared Boston to build after the results are cer- over the next ten months in her neighborhood, back stronger than ever.” tified, likely within days would be disruptive and Janey was working as a Sources familiar with of the final. chaotic. He expects that senior project director at the transition planning But an effort to over- the measure will pass the education non-profit tell the Reporter that ride the special election muster with his col- Massachusetts Advo- Walsh and Janey met requirement is under- leagues, the mayor, and cates for Children prior in the mayor’s office on way. Last Friday, Coun- state lawmakers, too. to her election. Monday to begin laying cillor Ricardo Arroyo of Councillor Frank Bak- Arroyo, who is likely the groundwork for an Hyde Park filed a Home er, who represents a Janey’s closest ally on orderly transfer of lead- Rule petition that would large section of Dorches- the council, says his ership within the next eliminate the need for a ter as the District 3 colleague faces a daunt- month to six weeks. special election, no mat- councillor, said Monday ing task— particularly In a statement is- ter when Walsh resigns. that uncertainty about with revenue deficits sued last Friday, Janey That filing would need to when a successor for and Covid-19 infections said: “I want to start by be approved by the ma- Walsh will be chosen — that are at emergency congratulating Mayor jority of the council and and whether a special thresholds. Walsh on his nomination Walsh before going to election will or won’t “She is coming in at for US Secretary of La- the Legislature and the happen— is worrisome. a unique time for the bor. His deep love for the governor for approval. “For the city of Boston, history of the city and city, and his dedication Janey says she sup- I feel concerned for us she’s going to do it with to working people and “While many people Biden’s cabinet believe ports Arroyo’s petition with the uncertainty, the shortest transition good jobs, have left a have reached out to talk that Walsh would most idea “because special and cities need surety in history. I hope that remarkable impact, and about my running for likely be confirmed by elections historically more than anything,” folks are able to set aside his legacy will show that mayor, my focus now is the Democrat-controlled disenfranchise commu- Baker said. “It concerns whatever other concerns dedication.” on ensuring a smooth Senate by mid-February. nities of color and low-in- me that in a difficult they may have for the “Should Mayor Walsh transition for the peo- Maureen Feeney, the come communities. time all of the cards get betterment of the city,” be confirmed by the ple of Boston during clerk of the city and a “We are in a state of thrown up in the air. I am he said. “We’re going Senate, I am ready to these challenging times,” former city councillor emergency due to the very happy for [Mayor to have to pull together take the reins and lead Janey said in a message from Dorchester, told ongoing pandemic, and Walsh] and I’m going from all directions to our city through these sent through a spokes- the Reporter that the city multiple elections for to hope for the best for help. difficult times,” Janey person on Tuesday. charter calls for a special the same office jeopar- the city.” He added: “She was said. “I look forward to The precise date on election to be scheduled dize the health of our As for who Baker elected the leader of working with the Walsh which Janey will take to fill the vacancy left by residents,” Janey told might support for may- council because she does administration and my charge is not yet known— Walsh if he resigns be- the Reporter on Tuesday. or, he said, “The field have the ability to lead colleagues on the Coun- and the full duration of fore March 5— which is “Additionally, I’m con- still isn’t set. I’d like to and she’s shown that, cil to ensure a smooth her interim role will de- the most likely scenario cerned about the cost of see what the field is and whether it was with transition as we address pend on decisions made at this point. If he were to the special election to the whether we’ll have a Covid, racial equity, the unprecedented chal- by the council, Walsh, resign on or after March city when we are looking special election.” cannabis equity. She’s lenges facing our city.” the Legislature, Gov. 5, the election to replace at revenue deficits.” Janey, who hails from capable of leading. My On Tuesday, Janey Baker. It may also be him would be held as Arroyo, who joined a large family with deep hope is that everyone told the Reporter that impacted by events in scheduled, with a pre- the council in 2019 rep- roots in Roxbury and gives her the support she has not made a deci- Washington. liminary in September resenting Roslindale, the South End, took to do the most that she sion on whether to mount Sources familiar with and a run-off between Readville, parts of Mat- office in January 2018, can and really meet the a campaign this year for the likely sequence of two finalists in Novem- tapan, and his native after winning an open moment.” a full, four-year term. confirmation hearings for ber. The winner in the Hyde Park, has argued seat in District 7 that that having four elec- was vacated by former

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Domingos DaRosa Alex Gray Dave Halbert Joel Richards Leon Rivera Nick Vance His third campaign City Hall analyst Early endorsement Seven years teaching Eyes Janey seat Neighborhood focus

By Katie Trojan o All of which could leave particularly for me, ly sits on the boards of Domingos DaRosa, years teaching in Boston Rep orter Staff more than two openings people with disabilities the Greater Mattapan who ran unsuccessfully Public Schools, has also A number of hopefuls on the 13-member body that I think really need Neighborhood Coun- for a citywide seat in the launched a campaign for have announced bids for potential newcomers to be at the table as we cil, East Boston Main last two election cycles, the District 4 seat. to run for a seat on the to the scene. start to chart the course Streets, and the East told the Reporter on “For the past five City Council next year, Following is a look at forward.” Boston Project Advisory Monday that his goal years, I have organized a tantalizing target fol- candidates or individ- David Halbert, who Committee (PierPAC). with a third campaign locally and supported lowing Mayor Walsh’s uals to keep an eye on: ran citywide in the 2019 “We need to have lead- is “bringing voices of my community in the nomination to serve as Alex Gray, currently election and finished ership that speaks to the unheard, and the areas of small-business Joe Biden’s Secretary of a policy analyst at City in eighth place in the representation and the folks who are not po- sustainability, equi- Labor and the decisions Hall who previously November final after ability to understand litically savvy into the table education, and by two sitting council- served as an adviser making the preliminary how policies are created conversation. National accessible housing. I lors— At-large Coun- to former Gov. Deval cut, has launched his and affect our communi- politics have gotten a lot believe that we all de- cillor Michelle Wu and Patrick, announced his second bid for a council ties in different ways,” of attention but locally serve better in District District 4 Councillor bid for a citywide seat seat. he said. “I think that we need to do more and 4,” Richards wrote on Andrea Campbell— to last November. The “I have a great team I personally can speak make sure that folk who his campaign website. run for mayor this year. 36-year-old Democrat that’s being formed to that as a Black man, come from a background “As a city councillor A third councillor, An- from Jamaica Plain, around me and I’m just and as someone who has similar to mine have representing District nissa Essaibi-George, is who is legally blind, re- really excited about this worked in government an interest in politics, 4, I will listen to your also weighing a mayoral ported raising $39,206 race,” said Halbert, who for almost the entirety and are represented by needs and be your ad- campaign. through Dec. 31. lives in Dorchester. “The of my career.” someone who under- vocate. Together we will If confirmed, Walsh “I’m feeling incredibly reason I got into it in He notched an early stands where they are build a stronger commu- will leave a vacancy humbled and grateful the first place is because endorsement on Tues- coming from.” nity where our families, in the mayor’s office to have the support of Boston is an incredible day morning from Ale- DaRosa’s family friends, and neighbors that will, by statute, so many. I think that city and there are so jandra St. Guillen, who moved to Boston from have the resources to be filled on an interim shows an unprecedent- many opportunities, ran in the 2019 cycle and Cape Verde Island when succeed.” basis by City Council ed amount of support but there’s also a lot finished fifth, missing he was an infant, and District 7 President Kim Janey for a first-time council of inequality,” Halbert out by one vote after a he grew up in Roxbury, Leon Rivera, born of Roxbury, making her candidate and I couldn’t told the Reporter last dramatic recount won Dorchester, and Hyde and raised in Dorches- the first Black person to be more grateful,” Gray weekend. by Mejia. Park. He is a graduate ter and a graduate of serve as the city’s chief said in a phone call with He had $31,446 in “I have known David of Madison Park High West Roxbury High executive. the Reporter last week. his campaign account for nearly 13 years and School and holds a School, said he plans to Other at-large incum- “I think 2021 is the reports as of Dec. 31, in that time, I have degree from the Benja- run for Janey’s seat in bents – longtime coun- time that we can start according to the state’s witnessed his deep com- min Franklin Institute District 7. Rivera told cillor Michael Flaherty to have those conversa- Office of Campaign mitment to community of Technology. He has the Reporter that he got and first-termer Julia tions and bring in those and Political Finance and family,” St. Guillen $3,595.56 cash on hand, involved in politics at a Mejia, who was elected people that might have (OCPF). said in a statement. according to OCPF re- young age when he met in 2019 with a margin of felt left out – communi- Halbert, who also “He has served across ports. the late former District one vote— are expected ties of color, frontline worked for former Gov. government sectors and District Four 7 City Councillor Chuck to seek re-election. workers, seniors, and, Deval Patrick, current- has always done so with Fields are also form- Turner. a sense of greater pur- ing for a few district “He gave me the idea pose and devotion to our seats, including Camp- that if things are not humanity - he sees the bell’s seat in District 4, going right in our neigh- best in all of us. He is the which she will vacate borhoods, you can do Celebrity leader we need in this to run for mayor. Three something about it. Celebrity Series of Boston moment and to prepare men— Jacob Ureña, Seeing the effects of Series at Home us for the uncertainty Joel Richards, and Wil- the opioid epidemic in Neighborhood ahead.” liam Dickerson— have my neighborhood, and ATH ME Another contender formed committees. after conversing with Arts Streaming is Nick Vance, a Hyde Said Ureña, a Matta- so many elected officials Park resident who pan resident and Cristo and seeing the lack of Concerts grew up in Dorchester Rey Boston graduate, response when it comes and Mattapan. He has “At this point we are to quality of life issues in served as the political attempting to continue the city, I was inspired Quartet Kalos: action co-chair for the the momentum that to run,” Rivera said. “The Songs We Make” Boston NAACP and we started when we District 3 Feb. 25, 2021, 7:30pm is a former member of announced in the fall. Frank Baker, who has the Mayor’s Millennial My intention is to shift represented Dorchester Hub New Music: “Listening Local” Council (SPARK). the dynamic on the as the District 3 coun- OCPF records show council and get resi- cillor since 2010, told March 11, 2021, 7:30pm that Vance had about dents involved in local the Reporter on Monday $3,000 in the bank at politics,” he told the that he will be running Stringfest with Castle of our Charles Overton and Julian Loida: year’s end. He told the Reporter. for re-election. Skins and Youth Musicians Harp and Vibraphone duo Reporter last week that “One of the challeng- “As we’re going Jan. 18, 2021, 7:30pm March 25, 2021, 7:30pm “no matter how the race es that we’re facing is through this period of shakes out, it’s going being able to connect transition my intention Fabiola Méndez Trio: An Evening of Musical Tales to be history-making and fundraise with the right now is to run for Music from Puerto Rico with Guy Mendilow for the mayor and the community during a District 3,” he said in a Jan. 21, 2021 at 7:30pm April 8, 2021, 7:30pm council. pandemic. The financial phone call. “Our campaign is go- component is difficult So far, one potential Castle of our Skins: Women of the World: ing strong and I’m excit- because of how involved District 3 challeng- “Remember King” “Global Voices United” ed to be a part of this up- the community can be er — Ashawn Dab- Feb. 4, 2021, 7:30pm April 15, 2021, 7:30pm coming election year as when they are strug- ney-Small— has regis- a candidate for Boston gling with financial tered a committee. It’s Alyssa Wang, violinist: Verónica Robles Cinco de Mayo City Council at-large. I instability. So we’re try- unclear if the 18 year old “Memories” Celebration: All-female mariachi band am laser focused on the ing to find that perfect is still planning to run. Feb. 11, 2021, 7:30pm May 5, 2021, 7:30pm ET health and recovery of balance.” He did not respond to Boston’s neighborhoods Joel Richards, a the Reporter’s requests as we come out of this Dorchester resident for comment this week. RSVP CELEBRITYSERIES.ORG/ATHOME pandemic.” who has spent seven dotnews.com January 14, 2021 THE REPORTER Page 7 Reporter’s News about people People in and around our Neighborhoods Optometrist joins Harvard Street Health Center Dr. Angela Abraham her specialized eye care has joined Harvard in ocular diseases to Street Neighborhood our patients,” continued Health Center as its new McLaren. “With her Director of Optometry. passion for reducing The expansion of Har- racial disparities in vi- vard Street’s services sion healthcare, social to include a full-service justice, treatment of optometry department glaucoma and overall is important to build- public health challenges ing its comprehensive that plague communities patient-focused medical of color, Dr. Abraham has facility, according to become a stellar addition president and CEO Stan to our team.” McLaren. Her career accomplish- ments include being the first optometrist to com- plete the Nick Littlefield Fellowship in Health Last week US Women’s Soccer World Cup gold medalist and professional women’s soccer player Sa- Policy for Network for mantha Mewis partnered with Boys and Girls Club of Dorchester and her sponsor Nike to donate more Excellence in Health than 200 pairs of sneakers to club members who are shown above with their new sneakers in the Marr Innovation, (NEHI), Bos- Clubhouse gym. Photo courtesy BGCD ton, MA which included coursework Hain mi- Young adults from Dorchester and Mattapan nority health policy and social justice at the Har- vard T.H. Chan School of begin their year’s work on 2021 SPARK Council Public Health. She was Last week, Mayor ing with the incoming ture can be.” 30-minute monthly Face- also the first optome- Walsh announced the Council to ensure that SPARK Boston, which book Live interview show trist to attend Academy members of the incom- our young Bostonians is housed in the May- with local civic leaders; Dr. Angela Abraham Health’s Health Policy ing 2021 SPARK Boston voices are heard.” or’s Civic Engagement and social media cam- Orientation class in Council, a group of 41 The new council mem- Cabinet, is responsible paigns promoting proper “Patients are now able Washington, DC young adults — including bers live in 21 of the 24 for advising the mayor mask usage, flu vaccines, to complete their medical “I am very excited for eleven from Dorchester Boston neighborhoods, on issues affecting the voting, census participa- appointments and go the opportunity to build and Mattapan — that and include people born millennial and Gen Z pop- tion, and more. directly to our optome- an optometry practice at will work virtually over and raised as far away ulations, and for working The 2021 Council mem- try department for eye Harvard Street Neigh- the next 12 months to as Pakistan and China. with city departments bers from Dorchester exams. They can also borhood Health Cen- open up new lines of More than 65 percent and community stake- include: Kathleen Car- order their glasses, for ter, said Dr. Abraham. communication between of them are people of holders to improve the roll, Nyambura Barrow, complete one stop shop- “Throughout my career, young adults and leaders color and approximately lives of young people in Anthony Nguyen, Den- ping,” McLaren said. I’ve actively worked in city government. 40 percent are native Boston. nisse Rorie, Romy St. Dr. Abraham previ- to develop healthcare Originally launched as Bostonians, while others The Council holds Hilaire, Alia Thompson, ously served as the Di- policies for reducing OnEin3 in 2004, SPARK are from Texas, Ohio, monthly meetings and Genevieve Bien-Aime, rector of Eye and Vision disparities and barriers Boston is celebrating 16 Florida, New York, and puts on programs focused Antonio Centeio, and Ste- Services at The Dimock to quality care. This role years of civic engagement California. on connecting millen- phen McBride. Members Center, a New England will allow me to ensure with more than 400 Bos- “I am so excited to nials with the city and from Mattapan include College of Optometry that the patients in this ton residents aged 20-35 engage this council vir- one another. Historical- Monee Vance and Daph- (NECO) affiliated clinic. broadly diverse health having served on the tually,” said SPARK Di- ly, programs included ney Pacouloute. While there, she was center and community, council over the years. rector Audrey Seraphin many events, among The program received also an assistant clinical receive the best eye care “The Council has of her new colleagues. them neighborhood meet- 95 applications for the professor that trained possible.” worked with my admin- “They have completed ups, voter registration 2021Council, evidence future optometry stu- In addition to her istration to highlight the entire application pop-ups, salary negoti- of a continued interest dents. Prior to that, Dr. role at Harvard Street, and advocate for their and interview process ation workshops, and in community engage- Abraham was in private Dr. Abraham will con- shared values - voter through the technologies Chief Chats, an event ment, despite the new practice in South Caro- tinue her work as the participation and acti- that have allowed us to series that allows citizens virtual format. New coun- lina. inaugural Diversity and vation, a more equitable connect throughout the to hear directly from cil members, including “At Harvard Street, Inclusion Liaison for the and affordable child-care pandemic, and I look Walsh’s cabinet members academic counselors, Dr. Abraham will con- New England College of system, comprehensive forward to seeing this on a variety of issues. students, non-profit tinue her work as an Optometry. climate change policies, cohort’s creativity and Programming has workers, entrepreneurs, optometrist, bringing resiliency in our immi- passion in action. We moved online due to the community leaders, med- grant communities, and have an incredibly talent- pandemic, and expanded ical professionals, and much more,” said Walsh. ed group that highlights to include virtual town consultants, began their Psychiatrist signs on “I look forward to work- how bright Boston’s fu- halls; #CiviCoffees, a work on Jan. 4. with Steward Group YESTERYEAR ARCHIVE Carney Hospital and Steward Medical Group Dorchester Historical Society have welcomed Richard The Dorchester Yacht Club Marcus, MD, MS to the Dorchester communi- Est. 1870 ty. Dr. Marcus joins A Boston Herald editor wrote this caption un- the hospital’s growing der the paper’s May 1956 photograph that is this psychiatry team and week’s illustration: will support psychiatric needs of the hospital’s “BLAME IT ON THE TIDE – This is the way the inpatients. Dorchester Yacht Club building looked at high tide Board certificated yesterday when it was found that the new founda- in child and adolescent tion was 14 inches too high for the building. The psychiatry, Dr. Mar- Dr. Richard Marcus contractors had to float the barge and clubhouse cus earned his medical Dr. Marcus join our back to deeper water and start jacking the building degree at Wayne State care team at Steward up higher. They will make a new attempt today. University of Medicine Medical Group,” said The building is being moved across Savin Hill Bay and completed his res- Michael Callum, MD, from its old site to make room for the new South- idency at University of president of Steward east Expressway.” California, Irvine. He Medical Group. “Our The yacht club was formerly located on Freeport has over 44 years of ex- patients will benefit Street next to the Power House of the Boston Ele- was located before it was moved northeast to a perience in the medical from Dr. Marcus’s skills vated Railway Company, a brick building that now location close to Savin Hill Beach where it can be field and has a special and expertise, as well is home to Yale Electric Company. An on-ramp seen by Expressway traffic. interest in mood and as his commitment to to the Southeast Expressway, opposite the end of The archive of these historical posts can be viewed thought disorders. providing care in the Mill Street, occupies the property where the club on the blog at dorchesterhistoricalsociety.org. “We are proud to have community. Page 8 THE REPORTER January 14, 2021 dotnews.com Editorial Commentary Boston sends In the wake of the Trumpian seditionists, its best to D.C. our region can lead the nation by example Tuesday night’s address by the mayor wasn’t just a State of the City speech, it was a farewell, of sorts. By Bill Walczak sedition an incitement to armed insurrection that Marty Walsh is rooted here in this neighborhood Reporter Columnist led to death and destruction in the Capitol building. and that’s not going to change. Yes, once confirmed I’m guessing that I’m not the only person who had The election of Biden and Harris was an effort on by the US Senate — probably next month— he’ll be to look up what “sedition” means last Wednesday the part of 81 million Americans to correct a mistake in Washington, D.C., a lot. But he’s not pulling up following the first invasion of the US Capitol building made in electing Trump in 2016, but I don’t see the stakes and leaving town. He’s based here ‘til the end. since the War of 1812. Sedition is one of those words election result as curing the deepest national divide Still, this was his final State of the City speech as you may study in a course on government, though since the Civil War. Barack Obama tried to be a mayor and it was a tough one for him to give. The we haven’t heard it recently except with regard to uniter, but our country seems to be past that. It typical SOTC — in front of a thousand admirers at incidents involving obscure terrorists and revolu- elected a divider to succeed him, and that division Symphony Hall— is peppered with natural breaks tionaries. But following last week’s insurrection, has only grown wider over the past four years. afforded by applause lines, a chance to catch one’s sedition was the term used regarding the president Biden is in a tough spot. Democrats see him as breath. In coronavirus times, it’s just the mayor, a of the United States. a centrist, and Republicans call him a socialist. If teleprompter, a camera, and a glass of water to power Much has been already written about the actions he stays in the center, he risks losing left-of-center him through 3,100 words crafted with speechwriter of President Trump and about what happened in Democrats while still being called a radical socialist by Republicans. If he moves left, he risks losing Eoin Cannon, another Dorchester resident with Washington last week, but what haunts me, and has centrist Democrats and former mainstream Repub- roots in the Emerald Isle. haunted me since the election, is how imperiled our licans who effectively left their party when it was But the emotions of the moment on Tuesday night republic is. Especially bothersome are the pundits taken over by the Trump personality cult. were a bigger hurdle. As he came close to the end, and politicians who keep insisting that “this isn’t It’s very possible that November’s election was our mayor labored to get through lines that clearly America.” In fact, it is. Those who said “this is not what America is supposed to be like” are the ones the last to be held before additional political fissures touched him deeply. telling the truth. create other parties, perhaps a conservative party “I believe in Boston,” he said. “This is the city that What I fear is that because we as a nation have made up of former mainstream Republicans and welcomed my immigrant parents. This is the city chosen to elect people who are more interested in centrist Democrats. We could start to become like that picked me up when I needed a second chance.” ensuring their own power to protect plutocratic inter- Great Britain, with three or more major parties. But Throughout this year of plague and protest, ests than in tending and nurturing our democracy, we don’t have a Parliament, which is the way the Walsh’s genuine empathy for others has been a we are heading downhill as a country. Without a British create a majority coalition to elect their prime constant and a balm for people facing frightening dramatic shift in the makeup of our current milieu, minister. If the United States had a multi-party realities about our own well-being. In his near-daily it is likely that, to quote soon-to-be-former Senate political system, a plurality, not a majority, would briefings at the height of the crisis, he conveyed Majority leader Mitch McConnell, “our democracy elect the president. The office is too powerful a po- information and guidance, but also hope and com- would enter a death spiral.” sition to be filled regularly by a plurality of voters. fort— all while juggling the great burden of making It’s not that our government has been faultless up Meanwhile, we continue to neglect expiating our countless life-and-death decisions. to now. The death last week of Neil Sheehan, the original sin of racism. We tolerate mass shootings, His was a steady hand and his caring, earnest New York Times reporter who was responsible for insane responses to the coronavirus, endless wars, tone — contrasted as it was with the ravings of the publication of the Pentagon Papers, reminded and a growing income divide that is starting to the nation’s narcissist in chief— was a blessing for me that the US government continuously lied about resemble the Gilded Age of the robber barons of a Bostonians that so many of our fellow Americans an unwinnable Vietnam War while 58,000 American century and more ago. It’s essential for the country were denied. soldiers and millions of Vietnamese died. Some 35 that these issues be taken on, but they are also part So even the less-enamored among us would have years later, President George W. Bush fabricated of the reason we’re so divided. to check their pulse to not feel a gulp of their own the notion that Saddam Hussein had “weapons of So what do we do? Rather than be despondent emerge as Mayor Walsh composed himself and mass destruction,” an assertion that has resulted in about the entire nation, let’s focus on making our plunged forward with a farewell. endless Mideast wars and the wasting of trillions of region the best it can be. Economies are regional. “The truth is, I’m not going to Washington alone. dollars that could have been used for domestic and We need regional planning and cooperation, and we I’m bringing Boston with me. This city is not just foreign humanitarian purposes. need to elect those who will make that a reality. my hometown, it’s my heart.” Today’s situation is different. We have a presi- While our country tries to figure out how to be the He continued: “Seven years ago, at my first in- dent and a majority of Republicans in the US House united United States of America, we need to ensure auguration, I said ‘I will listen, I will learn, I will claiming without evidence that our recent election that our city and state and region are strong, so that lead. We are sworn in together and we are in this was fraudulent and trying to overturn it to prevent we can lead the nation in equity and innovation, en- together – all of us. I meant it.” the new president from taking office. Some 74 mil- suring that every resident has access to outstanding Back when he took office at City Hall, the Re- lion Americans voted for this president, and a large schools, jobs, health, and opportunity. porter — which has chronicled Walsh’s political number of them still believe that the election was career since his first days as a candidate for state rigged. And so last week, our president committed representative in 1997— observed that there’s a quality in Marty Walsh that eludes lesser leaders: People want him to succeed. How Codman Academy teachers helped “For folks from Dorchester,” we wrote in this space, “he is now the vessel of their own aspira- tions: the kid from the three-decker on Taft Street students process the Capitol insurrection who has beaten cancer, a drive-by bullet blast, and By Carrie Jung by the barricades. “the disease” to grasp his city’s ultimate brass ring. WBUR Reporter It didn’t take long for her stu- Marty has become living, breathing proof that we Just after sunrise last Thurs- dents to bring up race. can tame our own demons and even harness them day, the four high school hu- “I asked them, ‘What do you for the purposes of a greater good… [We] also want manities teachers at Codman notice in the picture?’ And they him to get better— to achieve more than even [we] Academy in Dorchester logged said, ‘Well, I noticed that the police thought he could. We still do. Like every one of us, into Zoom. They were develop- are not treating them the same he’s a work in progress. And that has been the case ing a game plan for how to guide way that they treated Black Lives with him since Day One of his move into politics.” high school students through a Matter protesters,’” said Chaffee. In terms of stepping up to the job at hand, we conversation about the Jan. 6 “’If these people had been Black, concluded: “It says here that Walsh has it in him.” riot in Washington, D.C. they would not have gotten in.’” We were right. And these same qualities will now Even in this virtual space, the Her students were actively serve him, us, and the entire nation. At a time of energy was high and the mood was engaged through the whole class. great gravity for our shaken Republic, Boston is urgent. They were trying to work Within a few minutes, they were sending our best. through many questions. What readily volunteering to share - Bill Forry words should they use to describe their feelings, Chaffee recalled, the people who entered the Capi- adding that even students who tol? Is it okay to show the picture are typically shy in class took the of the man holding the Confeder- chance to speak. The Reporter ate flag as he walked inside the “One girl came off of mute, which “The News & Values Around the Neighborhood” Sydney Chaffee Capitol? Does it do more harm to Many questions to decide she doesn’t do very often, and A publication of Boston Neighborhood News Inc. show them this violent image of said, ‘This shows white supremacy 150 Mt. Vernon St., Dorchester, MA 02125 this flag in class? Do they need That’s a big reason why Chaffee because they wouldn’t have been Worldwide at dotnews.com Mary Casey Forry, Publisher (1983-2004) to see that image to understand began her class with some context: treated that way if they were William P. Forry, Publisher/Editor this event? What was supposed to happen Black,’” recalled Chaffee. Edward W. Forry, Associate Publisher The group decided not to use yesterday? What role did those Even though the students were Thomas F. 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This article was published on Published weekly on Thursday mornings widely varied information. Some She also showed the kids some Jan. 7 by WBUR 90.9FM. The All contents © Copyright 2021 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. had no idea there had been a riot at photos of armed law enforcement Reporter and WBUR share content the Capitol building. Others had officers clashing with protesters in through a media partnership. spent hours watching newsfeeds. the Capitol building and outside dotnews.com January 14, 2021 THE REPORTER Page 9 Said Sen. Markey: ‘We never saw it coming’ (Continued from page 1) That’s what inspections of planes and ships and our when over the intercom in my office came a voice borders are all about. But we have to be aware of saying, “The Capitol is under attack. Block all doors this Trump-created insurgency, which raised its ugly immediately, all the blinds, immediately; the capi- head on Wednesday, because it’s not going away. tol is under attack.” They repeated that message a They’re unrepentant. They’re proud of what they couple of times. It was, you know, a moment that I did on Wednesday. And we have to recognize and never imagined could occur – Americans attacking accept that as a permanent part of the political future their own Capitol building where we, after we had in the United States. That’s a sad commentary on fought so hard during the American Revolution to the legacy of Donald Trump, but it’s very real, it’s construct that very building, that’s what the revo- very dangerous. These people are willing to resort lution was all about. to violence in order stop the operation of democratic Q. Leading up to that moment, were you aware institutions in our country. that there was a mob coming… to confront the people Q. Some of the Capitol Police personnel showed in the Capitol? great bravery in responding to the mob, estimated A. No, I didn’t know that. The networks were now at about 8,000 people. I understand many of not extensively covering those speeches that were them are students working part time to provide being given by Donald Trump and his family and security to the buildings. Years ago, when he was Rudy Giuliani over by the White House. So, we were A pro-Trump mob was pushed from the US Capitol a college student in Washington D.C., Dorchester’s after they mounted a violent and deadly attack on own Jim Brett worked as a Capitol police officer. not aware at that time of the incitement that the the Congress last Wednesday. AP photo president, his family, and Giuliani had engaged in A. Jimmy Brett, Chris Matthews, Harry Reid. in the hour before we were beginning to deliberate. was a terrible affront to democracy, and the other Their entry into politics all came through that job. So, it was obviously a shock that these rioters, these was the re-affirmation of democracy. And I was There was a police officer who committed suicide looters, were able to penetrate the security of the able to be there speaking on the floor of the Senate yesterday. He had been on duty on Wednesday. And Capitol in such vast numbers. We never saw it com- for Massachusetts and about the values that we another one was killed, I guess it was a fire extin- ing. It came as a complete shock to the members of believe in. So, it was about as memorable day as I guisher that killed him. I feel badly for the police; the Senate and the House that our security could will ever have. they were left undermanned, and the intelligence was ignored. be penetrated. And it resulted in a lot of very quick Q. What is your best read on what’s going to hap- action to protect the security of all the members of pen for the rest of this week? We’re going to have to have a 911 Commision-like the House and Senate and the staff. A. I believe that Donald Trump is going to be investigation about what happened. How did this I give the security personnel credit for that, but we’re impeached in the House of Representatives, and I unfold? There’s no two ways. They were outnumbered going to have to re-examine the security that is around believe that it is absolutely historically necessary 100 to one, or 200 to one, each of them, you know, the Capitol complex, especially on Inauguration Day. that he be impeached. We have to ensure that his- as the crowd surged. Q. Were you and your staff locked down in your tory knows that we added an additional indelible Q. There’s a video of an officer who was chased up office in the Dirksen Office building? Scarlet Letter of Impeachment to Donald Trump for several flights of stairs. He turned right and went A. I had two staffers with me; all the rest have all of history to see. down a hallway and it has been reported that had he turned left, it would lead to a door that enters worked remotely since last March, so there were only Q. Do you think they actually will go through with two. We locked each and every door and we pulled a full outdoor ceremony next Wednesday, Jan. 20? into the Senate chamber. And he’s being treated as down the blinds because we face right out onto the Will it be safe to do that? a hero for having the forethought to go to the right rather than to the left. He became the magnet that Capitol from my office. We didn’t know what would A. Well, we will definitely have the inaugura- happen. In fact, they did find a pipe bomb in front tion, but again, there are going to be coronavirus drew the mob away from the chamber. It was an of the Democratic National Committee office and restrictions that were going to limit what was going extraordinary scene. a pipe bomb in front of the Republican National to transpire. To begin with, the inauguration is a A. It’s a miracle that it wasn’t far more catastrophic Committee office…. Thank goodness the security national special security event, like the Super Bowl in terms of human life and limb. If it had happened people found those other bombs. and a few other events in the course of the year. like five, six minutes earlier, you know, these ter- Q. What will you remember about that day? So, there are going to be thousands of troops there rorists might have had 200 House members, all A. I’ll remember two things: One that the presi- to protect against the repetition of what happened surrounded on the floor, and others in the Senate. It dent of the United States, Donald Trump, incited last Wednesday. But, again, like the counting of was just very, very fortunate how quickly people got an insurgency against the government of the United the Electoral College votes, we cannot allow the evacuated, because there was absolutely no notice. States of America that was ultimately unsuccessful. terrorists to stop our constitutional obligations from “It was a day like, you know, if you remember on I will also remember at eight o’clock that same day, being fulfilled. So, we have to have the inauguration the day of Kent State, when … Nixon had absolutely sitting at my desk in the Senate once again consid- and we have to do it in a way that says to the rest created this divided country. ‘America love it or leave ering the challenge to the Electoral College votes of the world: We are not going to be intimidated by it. And that’s what Trump has done, the same exact of Arizona and Pennsylvania and other states. The terrorists. thing. He has built an ‘Us Against Them’ mentality across the whole country and it’s just nitro meets Senate successfully rebuffed the efforts of Ted Cruz Q. This is being described as domestic terrorism. and Josh Hawley and other senators and we were Has that become a more dangerous problem than glycerin; it’s going to result in an explosive situation. able to certify that Joe Biden had been constitu- foreign terrorism? “That’s what we had on Wednesday: A day like Pearl Harbor that will live in infamy in our country’s tionally elected as the next president of the United A. We have to protect against both. We clearly States of America. need to ensure that terrorists cannot penetrate the history, if you will.” So, two things happened on the same day: One security of the United States from external locations. Rep. Lynch is “concerned about security for inauguration”

(Continued from page 1) ing, but not yet violent. That changed after Donald Lynch said. “There’ll be a vote tonight [Tuesday] on Analysts who briefed Lynch told him that “four Trump’s incendiary speech near the White House. the Raskin resolution that directs Vice President extremist groups were calling for an armed presence “When Trump made his remarks, he incited the [Mike Pence] to exercise the 25th amendment,” at the Capitol beginning on Jan. 16 surrounding the crowd to go up and confront the House and Senate. which would mean ousting Trump via a vote by Capitol, and the White House as well, to prevent That’s when it really hit the fan,” said Lynch. “I Pence and a majority of the cabinet. Trump from being removed, and then surrounding was blocked by the crowd that was between myself “The vice president hasn’t been very communi- the Supreme Court to prevent the justices from tak- at Russell building and I was advised by Capitol cative with us,” Lynch said. “He was not returning ing any legal action that might be necessary.” One Police to shelter at my apartment and I sort of phone calls, but through his staff we were able to of the groups named, he said, is called “Come and hunkered down.” ascertain that he did not welcome the idea of using Take It,” an affiliate of the Proud Boys, a violent, Lynch, who lives just a block-and-a-half from the the 25th Amendment. His opinion can always change white supremacist organization. Russell building, watched in disbelief as the protest and he can have time to think more deeply about In addition to a large contingent of Capitol Po- turned into a riot, with rabid Trump supporters what happened. I hope he has a change of heart lice, Lynch said, he has been told by the Sergeant assaulting police officers. and mind and will live up to his oath that he took at Arms that there are about 850 National Guard “The Capitol police have us on a warning system to support and defend the Constitution. troops— heavily armed— now protecting the Cap- and were texting us repeatedly throughout about “If that doesn’t come to pass, we have articles of itol complex where President-elect Joe Biden and the building. There was a breach in the Cannon impeachment against the president for supporting Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn Building. Pipe bombs were found. We had a rolling an insurrection against the country,” said Lynch. in next Wednesday at noon. awareness of the danger to everyone and, then, of “It also cites the president for trying to compel the “They think they’ll have 4,000 security [person- course the shelter-in-place alert came.” Secretary of State of Georgia to try and change the nel] on ground in total, so I think we would be able Lynch says he was one of first to arrive back in vote. to conduct [the inauguration]. It will be limited the Capitol after it was cleared. “There were a cou- “I think we have the votes and the Senate is going seating. We are not allowed guests and there is ple of hundred FBI and ATF officers, some heavily to have to decide whether they think it’s important assigned seating.” armed and with combat gear in the Capitol on the enough for them to consider it,” he said. “Majority When he was last in Washington last Friday, Lynch second floor near Statuary Hall. They found me Leader McConnell said that it didn’t work with the saw workers erecting “global fencing”— 8-foot-high a safe spot to operate from. I was prevented from Senate calendar. We reminded him that the attacks sections topped by razor wire— in a wide perimeter entering the Speaker’s Lobby. It was a crime scene; on our Capitol didn’t work with our calendar, either.” around the Capitol. that’s where the woman [later identified as Ashli Lynch told the Reporter that the FBI office in Bos- Lynch said that he and his staff were unharmed Babbitt, a rioter] was shot.” ton and the State Police know of no specific threat and relatively safe throughout the course of last “You could still taste the pepper spray,” said to the State House in Boston despite a national Wednesday’s assault on the Capitol complex. He Lynch. “The insurrectionists had tramped through bulletin issued Monday by the FBI that warned of was not in the House Chamber when rioters poured the Capitol and it had been ransacked, basically. A planned armed protests in 50 states. into the building around 2 p.m. He had begun his lot of broken windows, damaged furniture.” On Monday evening, a Massachusetts State day doing a television interview in the Russell Office After the Electoral College votes were certified Police spokesman issued a statement that said, in Building, which houses US Senators, and was cut later the next morning, Lynch joined his colleagues part: “To date, we are aware of no specific threat to off from reaching the House side of the complex by in the state delegation, who have unanimously called government venues or to public safety generally in mounting waves of protestors spreading out around for the removal of the president by enforcement of Massachusetts. We are in contact with the FBI and the edges of Capitol Hill. Article 25, impeachment, or resignation. continue to share information through our Fusion At first, he said, they were boisterous and menac- “We certainly have the votes for impeachment,” Center with federal, state, and local partners.” Page 10 THE REPORTER January 14, 2021 dotnews.com Vacant lot on Blue Hill Ave. eyed for four-story condo building By Katie Trojano “If they’ve owned the during the abutters Reporter Staff lot since 2017, why ha- meeting. A development team ven’t they at least kept David Venter, a near- led by four brothers who up with the upkeep?” by resident, said that run a Mattapan car wash she asked the team. the parking provided aired their proposal to “Because that area is in the current proposal construct a four-story, quite dirty. It’s often lit- “is not enough. If you’re mixed-use building on a tered with trash and the building housing, you’re vacant lot at 1471 Blue plants are overgrown. talking 2-3 cars per unit. Hill Ave. during a virtual Where was the care of I can see the impact meeting of the Woodhav- the neighborhood then?” that would happen on en Culbert Regis Neigh- Replied May: “As far as the street I grew up borhood Association on the cleanup goes, I think on. I’ve seen the com- Monday. the thrust of the effort plete over-building of my The proposal includes has been in trying to have neighborhood,” he said, 34 residential rental the property assessed, adding: units, four of which but cleanup and main- “I want to ask you what would be income-re- tenance is something we you mean by affordabili- stricted in compliance can look into.” ty and some feedback on with the city’s Inclusion- Several residents were the safety component. ary Development Policy frustrated with what This neighborhood is (IDP,) 28 off-street and they thought was a lack safe. Culver Street is a 3 commercial parking of notification from the gateway to a park. I’m spaces. A rendering of wha the condo complex at 1471 Blue Hill Ave. would look like. project team about their kind of offended when The half-acre project Courtesy Theodore Touloukian, Inc. proposal and upcoming you’re selling you’re site is currently owned in the area since I was The topography of this parcel that is neglected is meetings, although May talking about safety.” by members of the Fer- about 15 or 16 and I’ve lot is quite diverse; it to look to activate it and said that the team did Touloukian said the nandez family— Daniel, seen the area change goes from about 0 feet at bring responsible hous- knock on doors and post team would “look at a Jose, Caña, and Juan with a lot of new busi- the corner to about 25 to ing and retail space,” fliers. She added that traffic study if that is a Carlos Fernandez— and nesses.” 30 feet. Another thing to he said. the proposal process has request of the commu- a partner, Jim Brennan. The team hosted a note is that it’s a vacant Neighbors voiced a been ongoing for more nity” to assess parking “The Fernandez family virtual abutters meeting lot heavily overgrown variety of concerns with than a year, but was and traffic impacts of the has been involved on last week, but has not with trees and debris.” the proposal, including delayed by Covid-related project. Blue Hill Avenue and yet filed plans with the Touloukian said the affordability, parking, shutdowns in 2020. “The issue on safety in the Mattapan com- Boston Planning & De- team will look for com- traffic, and the over- “Clearly, the residents was not a comment on munity for quite some velopment Agency. munity input in the all height and density. of Culver Street felt that the neighborhood, but time,” said Sheila May, Ted Touloukian, ar- eventual process of de- Several neighbors said they were not given ad- just the lot itself. You who spoke for the project chitect at Theodore Tou- ciding what types of they felt the project equate notice, and so I have a half-acre site that team. “They are employ- loukian Inc., introduced retail would be the most was out of step with the don’t think we need to is vacant, so it’s always a ers of about 75 people in the project and reviewed beneficial in the neigh- surrounding area and go through all of that concern,” he added. the area and they are in- specifics. borhood for the ground would displace Matta- again,” said Barbara The conversation volved in the community “The site is across the floor retail space. pan residents. Fields, president of the wrapped up after about as much as they are in street from a very busy “Some of the comments Ingrid Trench said she Woodhaven Culbert Re- an hour of discussion. their businesses.” area of Blue Hill Avenue. we’ve heard throughout was frustrated that the gis Neighborhood As- “Clearly we haven’t fin- Said Jean Carlos There are a lot of apart- our process has been owners of the lot haven’t sociation, adding that ished the dialogue, and Fernandez, manager of ments of different sizes, around neighborhood kept up with mainte- concerns over lack of so we look forward to Fernandez Xpress Car churches, and the new safety and one of the best nance over the last few notification had been having further discus- Wash: “I’ve been working Blue Hill Avenue station. things you can do on a years. thoroughly hashed out sions,” said Fields.

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Copyrighted material previously published in Banker & Tradesman, a weekly trade newspaper. It is reprinted with permission from the publisher, The Warrren Group, thewarrengroup.com Page 12 THE REPORTER January 14, 2021 dotnews.com because while those mod- what’s going to be needed Plumbing the marvels of ‘mRNA’ ified chemical letters al- to make this actually low the molecule to sneak work.” mRNA vaccines past cellular defenses, can be made lightning in creating vaccines, therapeutics the compound still looks fast. All that’s needed By Angus Chen Before Rossi co-found- another company that working, and now Rossi somewhat suspicious. “It to create a new one is WBUR Reporter ed Moderna, he was a has developed a Covid knew how to control doesn’t completely sneak rewrite the genetic code One of Moderna biologist at Harvard vaccine, was trying to one of the three most by,” he said, “there’s in the vaccine. The Covid co-founder Derrick Ros- tinkering with mRNA. do the same thing that fundamental keys to life. a little bit of interest. vaccine took only days to si’s favorite things to say DNA is often described Rossi was – and com- He took the new data to Maybe the eyebrows design once researchers is that there are three as the building block ing up empty, too. But Springer, also an accom- of the immune system had the novel coronavi- keys to life on Earth: of life, but DNA is es- a colleague of Karikó plished entrepreneur, perk up.” rus’s genome. This could “DNA makes mRNA sentially a database of at UPenn, Dr. Drew and asked him to help The mRNA in a vaccine also be an advantage if makes protein makes information cells need Weissman suggested start a company based carries the code for a the coronavirus mutates life.” to create proteins. RNA that Karikó try using on the new technology. pathogen protein – like in a way that makes the The experimental tech- is the molecule that ac- modified chemical letters Springer jumped on the spike protein from current vaccines less nology behind Moderna tually does the work of in her mRNA code. board, becoming the the coronavirus. When effective. and Pfizer’s coronavirus creating those proteins. “By modifying the company’s first investor. the cell begins executing “The technology pro- vaccines harnesses the For years, Rossi and RNA, it cloaks the RNA. They called it Moderna the code from the vaccine vides a nimble platform power of one of those other scientists tried de- It’s like giving it a fake – short for modified and and manufacturing that that you can switch keys – messenger RNA, signing strands of mRNA passport,” said Timothy RNA. Both still own protein, the already wary things up quickly,” Wu or mRNA. They are the that would force cells to Springer, an immunolo- stock in the company. immune system flares said. first medical products to make specific proteins. gist at Boston Children’s “The possibilities were into action and produc- Now that the Covid use mRNA in this way, But long before this tech- Hospital and Harvard unlimited,” Springer es a particularly strong vaccine is being produced but they certainly won’t nique created the world’s Medical School. “And it said. “You know, the immune response. That on a massive scale, Wu be the last. A Covid-19 highest profile vaccines, worked brilliantly.” RNA can encode for might be one reason why said, that might also vaccine is just one of they failed. The modified chemical anything. They could be the coronavirus vaccines help drive down some the near-infinite possi- “It totally didn’t work,” letters disguised the encoding secreted pro- from Moderna and Pfizer costs for the technology, bilities the technology Rossi said. “What it mRNA, making it appear tein or an enzyme in the have been so effective so as manufacturers find offers, Rossi said. looked like to the cell was more or less innocent to cell or a vaccine unit, you far in clinical trials, more efficient ways of Being able to control that the mRNA was a the cell. When Rossi read know, to protect against Springer said. making the mRNA. The mRNA would allow sci- virus. And the cell, like a about Karikó and Weiss- SARS-CoV-2.” That property, along last step remaining for entists to manipulate good soldier, would elicit man’s work, he immedi- Over the last decade, with others, makes mod- cancer vaccines is to be life in astonishing new a very robust antiviral ately started incorporat- Moderna and other ified mRNA an attractive tested in large clinical ways. It could open the response.” ing their technique into companies like BioN- option for cancer vac- studies. door to new treatments Every time Rossi tried his own research. In one Tech have been study- cines, said Dr. Cathy Wu, That’s true of other for diseases like cystic to insert the mRNA, the experiment, he directed ing modified mRNA an oncologist at the Dana applications for modified fibrosis, cancer, and cell would either destroy cells to create proteins technology as a way to Farber Cancer Institute. mRNA, too. Wu pointed HIV. Now, bolstered by the molecule or kill it- called Yamanaka factors develop treatments for a These vaccines train the out that with two mRNA the apparent success of self – not at all what he that converted mature wide variety of diseases immune system to attack COVID-19 vaccines now the Covid vaccine, Rossi wanted. He felt like he’d cells into stem cells. In including heart failure tumors, but creating in use, billions of dollars said, those other applica- hit a wall. The solution another, he injected mice and chikungunya virus. them takes a long time are going into the new tions may soon come to came from another part with mRNA encoded for Other researchers have and it’s expensive. That’s technology. Other ther- fruition. of the cell – and two sci- the protein that makes found ways to use modi- a problem for cancer apeutics aren’t likely to “Within 10 years’ time, entists at the University fireflies light up. fied mRNA to make ad- patients. be too far behind. we’ll see probably dozens of Pennsylvania discov- “And then you know, vances in anti-aging “If someone has ad- This article was pub- of mRNA therapeutics. ered it. an hour later, we put the research. vanced cancer, you can’t lished by WBUR 90.9FM In maybe 15 years’ time, Katalin Karikó, then a mice into this machine, And modified mRNA really wait that long,” on Jan. 11. WBUR and we’ll see maybe 50 or 60 junior scientist at UPenn and we could see this is particularly suited she said. “Being able to the Reporter share con- mRNAAoU-NE_W820473_BWH-MGH-BMC_Dorchester therapeutics,” and now aNewspaper senior Ad_5w vice x 8h_Color_WCROP_Print_V4_072820_HF.pdfglowing spot,” Rossi said. to 1 creating 7/28/20 3:44vaccines, PM build vaccines in a time- tent through a media he said. president at BioNTech, The experiments were Springer said. That’s ly fashion is probably partnership.

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We’re still deter- frontline jobs, health the capital budget. to replenish the MB- Key details about the mining what the game care appointments, gro- MBTA General Man- TA’s capital budget, federal package and its plan is in terms of as we cery stores, and other ager Steve Poftak said he said, after officials impacts remain uncer- plan service and as we destinations that people on Monday that the T transferred out about tain. Poftak said the control headcount.” must visit in the midst expects to get some- $460 million to help cope T is waiting for addi- The T Board previous- of this pandemic, as where between $250 with a massive projected tional guidance from ly approved its service well as increased risk million and $300 million deficit inflicted by the federal agencies that cut plans on a 3-2 vote. of dangerous crowding in additional support, pandemic. will dictate exactly how Baker administration on those trips.” up to $17 million of That money will most- much funding it gets officials have been hes- The first cuts aimed which will go toward ly be allocated in the this round, and officials itant to keep service at ferries and commuter bumping service back spring, and Poftak said have not yet determined running on full sched- rail, including elimina- up on high-ridership bus officials have already which bus lines will get ules while ridership is a tion of weekend service MBTA General Manager routes and maintaining decided to revive work additional service as a fraction of pre-pandemic on seven commuter Steve Poftak on the Winchester Cen- result. levels, and have said rail lines, will hit later evening commuter rail week and outlined the ter Station, which had Officials have also they would aim to keep this month. Changes service. ferry plans on Monday. been designed but was offered little informa- additional federal aid as impacting buses and Despite calls from Under the new sched- paused in the cost-cut- tion about workforce a reserve to help boost rapid transit are slated activists and lawmakers ule that takes effect ting efforts. impacts despite saying service once greater to start in March, just to change course with Jan. 23, the MBTA will Any stimulus money for months that layoffs demand emerges. before state government the federal aid — and a shutter the Charlestown are on the table. 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We would hawk don Adelson, a cab driv- phoma, according to a He spent a lot of it influ- pers on the street as newspapers,” he said. er’s son who grew up in statement from Las Ve- encing what happened a youth and attended While still in his teens, Dorchester and later a gas Sands, the company politically, socially, and Roxbury Memorial High he got into the vending became a very generous he founded. culturally around the School. “When I was machine business where booster of conservative Adelson made his for- world. 12, I bought my first he earned enough mon- politicians and the na- tune — a net worth of In a court filing 12 business,” he said, “You ey to start up a tour tion of Israel, died Mon- around $35 billion, ac- years ago. Mr. Adelson know, you hold the news- business, move into in- day night at the age of cording to an estimate talked a bit about his paper in your hand and vesting, trade shows, 87 due to complications by Forbes — in the youth in Dorchester, say, ‘Hey, get your Daily and, finally, casinos, the Record.’ We would yell engines of his fortune. Sheldon Adelson Baker agrees to create commission to plumb changes to state seal By Michael P. Norton the panel, after study, State House to recommend a new or News Service revised seal or motto by our shared heritage and A commission will be Oct. 1 of this year “to en- our debt to indigenous created to recommend sure that they faithfully communities.” a new seal and motto reflect and embody the Mahtowin Munro after Gov. Baker signed historic and contempo- from United American a resolve on Monday rary commitments of Indians of New En- that had emerged for the commonwealth to gland said the resolve votes last week as the peace, justice, liberty, represents a “first step two-year session was and equality and to toward repairing the winding down. spreading the opportu- harm done to Indig- The resolve calls for nities and advantages enous people.” Last of education.” week, he identified other The current seal de- bills addressing Native picts a Native American American issues. COMMUNITY COVID - 19 standing beneath a dis- “As the new session embodied arm wielding opens, we will be back a sword and the Latin at the State House to TESTING AT DOTHOUSE motto, “By the sword present bills to ban we seek peace, but peace Native American sports only under liberty.” team mascots, to cele- • Monday / Tuesday • Wednesday Elizabeth Solomon of brate Indigenous Peo- Thursday / Friday 1pm - 8pm the Massachusett Tribe ples Day statewide, to at Ponkapoag has said protect Native heritage, 9am - 4pm the imagery “promotes a to ensure improved ed- history of conquest, ap- ucational outcomes for • First come, first serve basis. propriation, and geno- Native students, and to cide.” include curriculum on Rep. Nika Elugardo of Indigenous history and • Please arrive 30 minutes before the start of Boston last week cred- cultures in MA public ited former Rep. Byron schools,” he wrote. our testing hours to receive your time slot slip. 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She was of Dorchester and Mor- deceased by his broth- McLaughlin and her ber of Florida, Michael 60 years old. rill, Maine. He leaves ers John and Ricky. Un- late husband Frank of Driscoll of Boston, De- Goldson joined his wife Maryann Lin- cle of thirty-one nieces Avon, Edward Curley nise Driscoll-Hall and ABCD in 1992 as nell Baker. Father of and nephews. Retired and his wife Judith of her late husband Jo- manager of educa- Michael Baker of Las member of Local 103 Dorchester, William seph Hall of Braintree, tion and training Vegas, Nevada, Erin International Brother- Curley and his wife Ok- and Karen Marsden and rose through and her husband David hood of Electrical Work- sana of Plymouth, Erin and her husband Todd the years to become Scalli of Morrill, Maine, ers. Donations in his Cotto of Dorchester, of Brockton. Grandfa- Deputy Director of Irene Baker of Morrill, memory may be made Dori Moussalli and her ther of 2. Brother of the Health Ser- Maine, Rachel Bak- to an organization that husband Anthony of Thomas Driscoll and his vices department. er and Joseph Baker, is close to your heart. Marshfield, and the late wife Jackie, and James She was applauded both of Dorchester, and CURLEY, Eliza- Katherine Ivan and Jo- Driscoll and his late throughout Boston and beyond for her tireless the late Brooke Baker. beth B. of Dorchester. seph Curley, and their wife Doris. Also sur- advocacy and creative programming that reduced “Guppa” of 3. Son of the Sister of Michael Cur- surviving spouses Stan vived by many nieces, teen pregnancies, gave young women in disenfran- late John V. Baker and ley and his wife Tere- Ivan and Janice Curley. nephews, and friends. chised neighborhoods control over their bodies, Elizabeth is also sur- US Marine Corps vet- employed cutting-edge social media to dissemi- vived by many cousins, eran. He was a long- nate health information, fought HIV/AIDS with nieces, nephews, and time employee of MDC- unflagging outreach and practical interventions good friends. She was a MWRA and a member and never ceased in her successful efforts to serve proud longtime member of the Old Dorchester as advocate, educator and friend. The concepts of the Telephone Work- Post #65. Donations in that guided her work and life were: health access, ers Union IBEW #2222. memory of Frank may health equity, and empowerment. Donations in memory of be made to Celtic An- ABCD President/CEO John J. Drew expressed Elizabeth may be made gels or to Old Colony his condolences and those of the entire ABCD to the American Lung Hospice. community to Irvienne’s family. Association. “ABCD has lost a powerhouse in its work with youth and neighborhood residents who need health and reproductive information to move their lives forward,” he said. “Irvienne was a trailblazer. Giv- ing up was not in her vocabulary. She understood what people in our neighborhoods needed and she Cedar Grove Cemetery brought it to them via workshops, conferences, COVID-19 restrictions will be in place one-on-one meetings – whatever it took. She was ablaze always with love and understanding so A quiet place on the banks of the Neponset River people listened to her. She made a difference. She was the best of us and we will miss her.” Chapel available for: Weddings, memorial services, and cel- A Virtual memorial for Irvienne will be held ebratory masses. Indoor Services available for winter burials. on her 61st birthday— Thursday, Jan. 14 from Greenhouse on premises for fresh flowers. Columbarium for DONOVAN, Helen 6:30 – 8:30 pm. To attend, go to ZOOM ID: 830 cremated remains. Plant a tree program. M., 76, of Dorchester. FITZGERALD, Wal- 1125 2499. PASSCODE: 852884 920 Adams St., Dorchester, MA 02124 • 617-825-1360 Daughter of the late ter D. III, 65, due to Memorial Fund established Consecrated in 1868. Non-Sectarian. Timothy J. and Helen COVID-19. He is deep- Working with other community organizations, A. (Molis) Donovan. Sis- ly mourned by his chil- ABCD is establishing a fund in Irvienne’s memory ter of Ann Marie Dono- dren Liam and Fiona to honor her legacy and commemorate her tireless van of Dorchester and Fitzgerald and his two advocacy and extraordinary work at ABCD and Margaret Sienkiewicz sisters Joan Fitzgerald throughout the community. He applauded her and her husband Wal- and Elaine Greene. He as a champion of health equity and access and TEVNAN TEVNAN ter of Shorewood, IL. was predeceased by par- a creative and inspirational leader who made a Helen was a longtime 100 City Hall Plaza 415 Neponset Avenue ents Ann Martin Fitz- difference for girls, women and men in need of Quincy School Educa- health resources and pathways to a better life. Boston, MA 02108 Dorchester, MA 02124 gerald and Walter D. tor. Donations may be Please go to bostonabcd.org/donate to give to the 617-423-4100 617-265-4100 Fitzgerald, Jr. Retired made in her memory to Boston Public Schools Irvienne Goldson Memorial Fund. Quincy Community Ac- teacher and referee of Attorneys at Law tion Food Pantry, One high school football, www.tevnan.com Copeland St., Quincy, hockey, lacrosse, soft- MA 02169. ball and college hockey. DRISCOLL, Fran- Donations can be made cis W. “Frank” of in his name to the Holy “Caring for your life’s journey...” Dorchester. Husband Cross Retreat House at of Patricia A. (Molloy) 490 Washington St. in Driscoll. Father of Ed- N. Easton, MA 02356. ward Driscoll and his KEOUGH, James wife Deborah of Brain- A., longtime resident tree, Paul Driscoll and of Marshfield, 80.

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Son of Beverley Lum- ton, and the late Grace was a member of Car- Vannelli. He leaves be- ley of Brockton. Broth- and her husband John penters Union Local hind 5 grandchildren. er of Tondaleya Lum- Vaughan, and Mary 327 Boston. Mario was He served in the US ley. Nephew of Leslie “Mae” and her hus- a long-time union mem- Army. He was be a 26- Lumley, Carole Lum- band Paul Healy. Sur- ber, first with the - Car year veteran of the Bos- vived by many nieces, penter’s Union, Local ton Police Department nephews, grandnieces, 40 and then with SEIU and a 20-year associate and grandnephews. Local 888.He served as with the Boston Police She worked as an Ex- Chapter President and Patrolman’s Associa- ecutive Assistant for Chief steward for SEIU tion where he recently the Vice-President of Local 888’s DCAMM retired. Son of the late Nursing at the Carney Chapter and as a mem- Rita and Michael Van- Hospital in Dorchester ber of the contract nego- nelli andbrother of the for over 20 years. Do- tiating team for the Al- and his children; Laurie late Audrey DiFronzo. Llewellyn, Bar- nations in Catherine’s liance – AFSCME/SEIU Vannelli Coscia and her Donations be made in ry G.Barry was born memory may be made Local 888. husband Michael of Sci- memory of Joe’s spe- and raised in St. Cath- to the American Cancer VANELLI, Joseph tuate, Joseph M. Van- cial daughter, Jean erine Jamaica. He Society at cancer.org. M., 88, of Dorchester. nelli Jr. and his wife Marie Vannelli, to the was one of six children He leaves behind his Patricia of Braintree, Arc of the South Shore, born to the late Owen wife Jean (Greene) Paul Vannelli and his 371 River Street, Wey- and Aileen Llewellyn ley, James Lumley and Vannelli of Braintree, wife Diana of Braintree, mouth, MA 02191. and was the husband Carla Lumley. He is of Verna Llewellyn for survived by his fiancée over 37 years. Broth- Gwen Johnson, and a er of Linton, Cliven, host of extended family Lorna and Maureen. and friends. 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