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Outgoing DA Dan Conley Endorses Greg Henning AUGUST 30, 2018 TTHEHE BBEEACONACON HHILLILL TTIMESIMES THERE ARE NO TIMES LIKE THESE TIMES North Washington Street/Charlestown Bridge replacement receives Notice to Proceed By Dan Murphy physically separated bike-lanes; wide side- walks and an enhanced Freedom Trail; J.F. White Contracting Co. – the seating and lighting; and “hearty local Framingham-based general contrac- landscaping,” - another first on a New tor for the Massachusetts Department England bridge. of Transportation’s replacement of the Its main span over the navigation chan- North Washington Street/Charlestown nel will stretch across a width of 200 feet, Bridge - has received a Notice to Proceed offering unobstructed sight-lines of the (NTF) for the project. waterfront and harbor, as well as incor- According to MassDOT officials, the porating an expanded, curved overlook project is expected to get underway later with seating and views of landmarks this summer or this fall, and to continue like Old North Church, the Bunker Hill through at least 2022. The scope of the Monument and the Leonard P. Zakim $177 million project includes restored Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge. The new vehicle lanes; a dedicated bus lane, which is the first on a bridge in the Boston area; (BRIDGE Pg. 7) Liz Vizza, Friends of the Public Garden executive director; John Winthrop, Friends board member; and Leslie Adam, chair of the Friends board, are seen at the Boston Common’s Cyan Founders Memorial. Founders Memorial on Common gets Magenta facelift, thanks to FOPG board member Yellow Yellow By Dan Murphy 1930 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Boston’s founding and created by John When Friends of the Public Garden board Francis Paramino, a North Bennett Street Black member John Winthrop donated $13,000 for School graduate who also designed monu- the restoration of the Founders Memorial on ments on the Common to Commodore John the Boston Common, he was not only helping Barry and the Marquis de La Fayette. to preserve an iconic piece of public art, but The memorial portrays the city's first also honoring his own familial heritage, since English resident, William Blackstone, wel- the memorial depicts an image of the first coming the colonial governor and his com- governor of Massachusetts, also named John pany to the Shawmut peninsula, and its rear Winthrop, who is his 11th-generation direct side facing Beacon Street is inscribed with an ancestor. extract from John Winthrop's lay sermon on Located on the north entrance to the "Christian Charity," as well as a quotation Courtesy of Rosales Partners park on Beacon Street near Spruce Street, (FOPG Pg. 7) An artist’s rendering of the proposed, new North Washington Street/Charlestown the bas-relief sculpture was commissioned in Bridge. Beacon Hill Civic Association Community Corner City’s effort to house chronic homeless “Sacred Spaces as Civic Spaces” decision to restore or renovate, and how compounded by hundreds of new arrivals The BHCA and the Museum of to prioritize what is required and what is By Seth Daniel Chronically homeless persons are African American History once again feasible in that restoration. described as those who have spent more collaborated for the Historic Preservation The Vilna Shul is currently complet- More than 800 new homeless arrivals than 365 days in a shelter. Roundtable, held last Wednesday eve- ing the first phase of a capital campaign into Boston have complicated the effort ning at the MAAH. to allow the restoration of this historic to try to house all chronically homeless (HOMELESS Pg. 5) The distinguished panel of the fifth building beginning this fall. The issue people in the City by the end of this year. HPR included Barnet Kessel, Executive of accessibility for all is a key feature of The City’s innovative effort to catalog Director of the Vilna Shul, Marita Rivero, this restoration, as is has been for the and house the hundreds of chronically A NOTE TO OUR Executive Director of the MAAH, and MAAH and the Park Street Church, a homeless in Boston took root in 2016, Architect Don Mills of Mills Whittaker restoration project of Architect Mills. and made tremendous success initially, ADVERTISERS & READERS Architects. The MAAH is a fully rounded and but has been confounded lately by hun- OUR OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED The discussion, moderated by Mark accessible historic treasure, and one that dreds and hundreds of chronically home- Kiefer, past President and Chairman invites travelers and neighbors alike to less people who have come into the City MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD IN of the BHCA and past member of the enjoy the quiet areas within and the liv- and were not planned for. OBSERVANCE OF LABOR DAY Beacon Hill Architectural Commission, ing history held there. That “inflow” of people has complicat- Advertising Deadlines for the week of focused on the idea of houses of wor- Our next Historic Preservation ed the original goal of ending homeless- Sept. 5th & 6th will be ship and their modern use as centers of ness by 2018, and has shown the need for civic activity, and what is involved in the (BHCA Pg. 6) FRIDAY, AUGUST 31ST AT 4PM the effort to continue, officials said. All Real Estate • Retail • Classified Advertising 2 PAGE 2 THE BEACON HILL TIMES AUGUST 30, 2018 editorial GET OUT AND VOTE GUEST OP-ED This Tuesday, the day after Labor Day, is primary election day across the state for both national and state offices. Don’t gamble the planet’s future on unproven technology Although primary elections in Massachusetts generally are of little or By Hugh J. Sealy bon-capture storage,” or BECCS. filter to trap carbon and store it no consequence because of the overwhelming Democratic voting enroll- The strategy envisions a future underground. Climeworks, a Swiss ment and because most Democrats run unopposed, this year's primary A group of senators recent- wherein humanity burns grass- company, has constructed a direct election is different. ly introduced a bill that aims to es, trees, and other vegetation at air capture facility. The firm esti- Thanks to the chaos that reigns throughout the country because of the combat climate change by funding power plants -- then sequesters mates that 250,000 such plants situation in the White House, every election this year -- both primary and research into “negative emission the emissions underground, where would be needed to remove just final -- has taken on more significance than in any non-presidential year technologies,” which take green- they’d stay trapped in mineral for- 1 percent of annual global carbon election in our nation's history. house gases out of the atmosphere mations. dioxide emissions. The elections of 1860 (prior to the start of the Civil War) and 1932 and store them underground. An analysis conducted by Devoting time, money, and ener- (when we were in the midst of the Great Depression) arguably were the But these technologies aren’t Stanford scientists found that gy to speculative technologies is most important Presidential-year elections, but the current election cycle very effective -- and probably never expecting BECCS to meet the goals not just wasteful. It provides a false of 2018 may be even more significant than either of those. will be. Investing in them would of the Paris Agreement is wishful sense of security -- that we have The pundits talk much these days about the existential threat to our divert resources from proven emis- thinking. Growing the plants need- time to wait for technologies to democracy and institutions because of the situation in the White House. sion-reduction initiatives. By the ed would require an area double make up for the emissions of the Unfortunately, a good argument can be made either way and only time time we realize our gamble has the size of India. present. will tell. failed, it will be too late to pre- Another analysis revealed Climate change is causing harm However, what undeniably is true is that our democracy certainly will vent the worst consequenc-es of that ecological factors could ren- worldwide. Undoing the damage come to an end if we fail to exercise the most important right we have climate change. der BECCS impractical. BECCS will require cutting carbon emis- as Americans -- the right to vote. There is no greater threat to America American lawmakers aren’t the require huge amounts of fresh sions immediately. than our own apathy. only ones betting on negative emis- water. More than 1.2 billion peo- Island nations are especially We urge all of our readers to get and vote this Tuesday. A strong voter sion technologies. The 2015 Paris ple currently live in water-stressed vulnerable to the volatile storms turnout not only will be determinative of the candidates who move on to Agreement is banking on tech to areas. Growing that biofuel would caused by climate change. Last the November final election, but it also will send a message to those who prevent global temperatures from rob communities of their limited year, the Caribbean faced three of seek to destroy our nation (and that is not an overstatement) that we will Black rising more than 2 degrees Celsius water supplies. the most expensive hurricanes ever exercise our right to vote to thwart them. above pre-industrial levels. Another negative emission tech- recorded. This year’s hurricane sea- These technologies are large- nology, “direct air capture,” is son will be just as vicious. ly theoretical. One of the most more pie-in-the-sky. The technolo- Warmer global temperatures SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN prominent is “bioenergy with car- gy involves pumping air through a have produced more severe wild- fire seasons. They have fueled the In an era when cynicism and a lack of faith in our political leaders spread of animal-borne illnesses and institutions is at an all-time high -- the roots of which can be traced like the West Nile and Zika viruses.
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