JEFF BOWEN 781-201-9488 SANDRA CASTILLO 617-780-6988 BOSTONJEFF.COM • [email protected] Boston Harbor Real Estate | 188 Sumner Street | East Boston BOOK YOUR POST IT Call Your Advertising Rep T IMES -F REE P RESS (781)485-0588 East BostonWednesday, October 2, 2019 Councilor Edwards calls Tackling Issues for ZBA reform New environmental justice group By John Lynds to hold event next Tuesday In the wake of the scan- By John Lynds advocacy group and Aero- dal that has rocked the dyne, the manufacturer of Boston Zoning Board of Last summer East Bos- the ARISense air quality Appeals in recent months, ton Olin College students, measuring technology. District 1 City Councilor Taylor Sheneman and The pilot program and Lydia Edwards is calling Christine Dimke, under the other environmental issues for an overhaul of the city’s direction of their professor sparked renewed interest in zoning board. Scott Hersey installed in- environmental justice for a The John Lynch bribery struments that have been group of Eastie mothers. scandal has trickled down measuring a wide array of Led by Sonja Ten- to the ZBA itself and now pollutants caused by fossil glad and Julia Burrell an Mayor Martin Walsh is Boston Centers for Youth & Families, and the City of Boston’s Public Facilities Department fuels emanating from high- East Boston chapter of calling for an investigation officials host a meeting last week regarding the planned Paris Street Pool rehab project. ways and Logan Interna- the national Mothers Out into the board. tional Airport. Front movement has been Lynch, the city’s Direc- The pilot program is a formed. Mothers Out Front tor of Real Estate, plead collaboration between Olin, encourages mothers across guilty in federal court to East Boston’s AIR Inc., accepting $50,000 from a Eastie’s airport mitigation See ISSUES Page 2 developer to sway mem- bers of the ZBA on a vote. Since his plea, ZBA Board Member Craig Gal- EBNHC honors Board vin has resigned and for- mer ISD Commissioner Chair Rita Sorrento Buddy Christopher, who Architectural drawings of what the pool will look like once completed are shown at last has been serving as an ad- week’s meeting. By John Lynds as as the EBNHC’s board visor to Walsh, also recent- president for 23 years, is ly left City Hall. Reports City hosts meeting on Paris Street Pool rehab The East Boston Neigh- a retired educator and for- then surfaced that Galvin’s borhood Health Center mer principal of the Dante real estate company al- By John Lynds the rehab and construction as a veranda so residents (EBNHC) last week hon- Alighieri School in East legedly may have benefited of the Paris Street Pool could enjoy a swim and ored its longtime Board Boston. Sorrento also The Boston Centers for across from the Paris Street then sit outside during the Chair Rita Sorrento by serves on the board of the See ZBA Page 4 Youth & Families, and the Gym. The Gym recently hot summer months. The dedicating its new Neigh- National Association of City of Boston’s Public Fa- underwent a $14 million pool underwent an over- borhood PACE facility in Community Health Centers Gov. Baker cilities Department hosted overhaul and the pool’s haul under then Mayor Revere in her name. a community meeting last rehab will compliment the Kevin White due to con- Sorrento, who has served See SORRENTO Page 12 calls for four Wednesday at the Paris new state-of-the-art gym stant vandalism of the glass Street Community Center and community center. roof and glass doors. The month ban on regarding the upcoming When the pool was first pool was encased in cement renovations to the Paris built, it featured a glass blocks and now looks more vaping products Street Pool. roof, sliding doors that like a bomb shelter than a Mayor Martin Walsh looked out onto the Paris See POOL Page 2 By John Lynds earmarked $8.9 million for Street playground, as well Neighborhood smoke shops like the Eastie Smoke Councilor Edwards establishes scholarship Shop sell dozens of e-ciga- rettes, vape devices, tobac- to honor famed Maverick Street Mothers co juices and vape-related products. Touted as a saf- By John Lynds ly publicized as women, ties. The annual scholarship er alternative to cigarette mostly mothers, formed a will be awarded to parents smoking vaping has become To honor the historic blockade using baby car- wanting to further their the fad for former smokers group of brave East Bos- riages to stop construc- education or are attending and those who never even ton woman that kick started tion and delivery trucks on Boston-area colleges. touched a cigarette for the a tradition of community Maverick Street. “To honor the Maverick past decade. activism in the neighbor- Now, the Edwards Em- Street mothers, we cele- Vaping has also became hood, City Councilor Lydia powerment Fund is seek- brate the legacy of leaders the preferred method for Edwards founded an an- ing applicants for the new whose shoulders we stand cannabis consumption in nual scholarship that will scholarship. The Edwards on and helped shape the the age of legalized mari- pay tribute to the Maverick Empowerment Fund is a history of East Boston,” juana in the state and both Street Mothers. registered non-profit es- said Edwards. “Scholarship medicinal and recreational The Maverick Street tablished by the District 1 recipients will be shining pot shop stock their shelves Mothers organized com- Councilor to uplift, ampli- examples of what it means with THC-infused vaping munity protests in the late fy, and empower residents to be involved and engaged by providing equitable members of the commu- East Boston Neighborhood Health Center Board Chair Rita oils. 1960s against Logan Air- Sorrento and EBNHC President and CEO Manny Lopes at access to educational and port expansion construc- last week’s dedication of the Health Center’s Neighbor- See SCHOLARSHIP Page 2 See VAPING Page 8 tion. The protest was wide- skill-building opportuni- hood PACE facility in Revere in Sorrento’s name. 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PM pollution is es- By John Lynds Mothers Out Front will contaminating Eastie, but timated to cause 22,000- partner with Olin College planes flying in and out of 52,000 deaths per year An East Boston man and AIR Inc. on Tuesday, Logan Airport are releasing in the United States and was arraigned on numerous Oct. 8, at 6:30 p.m. at the harmful air pollution, and 200,000 deaths per year in charges in East Boston Dis- East Boston YMCA Ashley it’s impacting surrounding Europe. trict Court following a stab- Street site (54 Ashley St.) communities. The effects of inhaling bing incident last Friday at to host a community edu- “Just behind us, you particulate matter that have the gas station across from cation event outlining Pro- know, a dozen feet, is a line been widely studied in hu- District A-7 Police Station. fessor Hersey and the Olin of houses. This is a massive mans and animals now in- Eric Vargas, 32, of East students’ findings. residential area,” Hersey clude asthma, lung cancer, Boston, was arranged this “The problems we face, told WGBH as he stood on cardiovascular issues, birth week on charges of Assault and what Mothers Out Bayswater Street in East- defects, and premature and Battery by Means of Front and AIR Inc are doing ie.