Dorchester Reporter Happy “The News and Values Around the Neighborhood” 4th! Volume 30 Issue 27 Thursday, July 4, 2013 50¢ The Force is strong in them Dorchester’s Under 12 travel team— the Dot Force— won the division one Massachu- setts Tournament of Champi- ons title on Sunday.The Force, coached by Dan Murray and Phil Keane, beat a Weymouth team 6-0 to win the trophy. Pictured (right) are players: Finn O’Brien, Soree Kaba, Se- bastian Suarez, Owen Smyth, Eric Barrios, Eben Butler, Clayton Rodrigues, Edmilson Fernandes, Owen Murray, Kysorrklay Gomes, Oliver Culliton, Andrew Wong, and Radley Theolien. Page 15. Photo courtesy Mark Culliton City huddles on ways Yancey’s double run to cut down violence lures three to focus By Gintautas Dumcius shootings – incidents where news eDitor a victim was hit with gunfire Law enforcement officials – were at 98 in 2013, up from on his Council seat and local lawmakers on Mon- 80 in 2012. Firearm-related By Gintautas Dumcius day outlined citywide efforts arrests have also increased, news eDitor to 202 from 158. to stem violence, citing “safe Voters in parts of Dorches- “We do have to avert a crisis street” teams to pushing for ter, Mattapan, and Roslindale this summer,” said District 7 more youth summer jobs. will likely be seeing double City Councillor Tito Jackson. The afternoon press confer- when they pull their bal- Dubbing it a “coordinated ence, held at the Shelburne lots at polling stations this response,” he was joined by Community Center in Roxbury fall: District 4 Councillor state Reps. Russell Holmes and aimed at showing a united Charles Yancey is mounting a and Carlos Henriquez, City front among elected and police campaign for reelection while Councillors Felix Arroyo and officials, comes as the city is also tossing his hat into the Charles Yancey as well as Edward Everett: Illustrious experiencing an uptick in gun multi-candidate race for the Boston Police Superintendent- career as statesman. violence. Between January 1 mayoral seat left open when in-Chief Daniel Linskey. The and June 26, there have been his longtime sparring part- array of officials also included 22 homicides with a firearm, ner, Mayor Thomas Menino, Boston Public Health Com- Recalling up from 12 during the same announced he wouldn’t be missioner Barbara Ferrer, period last year, according seeking a sixth term. Boston Centers for Youth and the ‘First’ to the Boston Police Depart- According to the Election ment’s website. Non-fatal Families chief Daphne Griffin, (Continued on page 16) Gettysburg Department, Yancey has picked up enough signatures City Councillor Charles to qualify for both offices. He Yancey: Running for mayor Address is allowed to run for the two and district council seat. Hubway poised to By Bill Forry positions simultaneously, Steven Godfrey, the ex- eDitor but if he wins both, he will be th ecutive director of a nonprofit expand in Dorchester This week marks the 150 restricted to serving in one or based in Lynn, jumped into the anniversary of the momentous the other. race in March, when Yancey Battle of Gettysburg— the But Yancey’s double bid By Brianna macGreGor with another close by at the was still deciding which office largest and costliest engage- – and the City Council’s re- special to the reporter South Bay Shopping Center. to run for. Godfrey’s city coun- About 20 new Hubway According to Freedman, the ment in our Civil War, a drawing of district boundaries cillor had been Rob Consalvo, bike-sharing stations will be new stations will help to conflict that cost more than across the city – has led three who represented District 5 and rolled out by the end of this establish a solid Hubway 600,000 lives north and south challengers to eye the District is giving up his seat to run for summer season, according base in Dorchester, paving and, ultimately, resulted in 4 seat Yancey has held since mayor this year. But a major- to Nicole Freedman, director the way for a more integrated the forcible expulsion of the 1983. And none of the three ity of city councillors – against of the Boston Bikes program bike-sharing system in the vile institution of slavery from is keen on Yancey running Yancey’s wishes – voted to and former Olympic cyclist. neighborhood. the Republic. for both. shift around voting precincts New stations are concentrated “The [Hubway] system The three-day battle in and A preliminary is set for Sept. last fall, and pushed Godfrey’s around the Pennsylvania 24. The top two votegetters will in the South Boston area, is one that needs density,” (Continued on page 16) Jamaica Plain, and Roxbury. she said, explaining that crossroads hamlet of Get- face off on Nov. 5. Two are set to be built in Hubway stations work best tyburg stymied a Confederate Dorchester: one in Uphams when they are about a quarter invasion of the north, marking INSIDE Corner and another near the mile, or a two minute walk, the “high-water mark” of intersection of Mass Ave. apart. Installation of the new Rebel ambitions for a victory Fr. Sean and Columbia. The precise stations is slated to begin in in their war of secession. The Connor: pitched combat cost both sides locations of these stations are September, and should take On the still being determined, said only a few weeks. dearly— resulting in some Freedman. According to the City of 50,000 casualties, including mend, Dorchester currently has Boston website, Boston bike 8,000 dead. On November 19, 1863, ready for two Hubway stations at the ridership has doubled since All contents copyright President Abraham Lincoln JFK/UMass MBTA stop and Mayor Menino launched the farewell— © 2013 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. the UMass Boston campus, (Continued on page 17) (Continued on page 9) Page 8 Now open in Your bank is headed in a new direction. Roslindale Maybe it’s time you headed for the exits. 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Walsh meet namesake By Gintautas Dumcius with the teachers’ union, called the news eDitor labor movement “crucial” to the It took less than 10 minutes: After middle class in Boston while Char- ten mayoral hopefuls stepped off the lotte Golar Richie, a former state stage and left a Dorchester union representative from Dorchester, said hall last Thursday night, the Greater she had compiled a “near 90 percent” Boston Labor Council quickly voted to pro-labor voting record during her throw its support to state Rep. Marty time in the House. Bill Walczak, co- Walsh. founder of the Codman Square Health Walsh, who has represented Dorches- Center, said he met his wife during ter in the Legislature since 1997, is a an iceberg lettuce boycott, based on former laborer and top union official. the treatment of farm workers. “Our Earlier this year, after announcing dates were handing out those fliers,” his run for mayor, he stepped down he said. from the job of secretary-treasurer of District 8 Councillor Michael Ross, the Boston Building Trades Council. who has been endorsed by the city’s A few hundred delegates to the emergency services union, pointed Greater Boston Labor Council (GBLC), to his efforts to rework a firefighters’ which represents 90,000 union union contract that he considered members in the area, were in the unaffordable to the city. District 4 room for the voice vote. The council Councillor Charles Yancey cited includes utility workers, machinists, his 30 years on the 13-member panel and the building trades, among others. and said he has long supported union Walsh also picked up the backing of issues. “I have stood with you on many Mayor Menino met last month with Boston Public School students who have the New England Regional Council picket lines,” Yancey said. David been awarded with full scholarships to Boston University. The scholarship James Wyatt, a Roxbury Republican recipients have been renamed as the Menino Scholars. This year 25 BPS of Carpenters last week, and in May, students will receive full tuition for four years. Some of the students will the Massachusetts Nurses Association and a long-shot candidate for mayor, also be recognized for winning the Community Service Award Scholarship. endorsed him. gave a rambling speech, saying he was Photo courtesy Mayor’s Office/Isabel Leon But several unions have not yet “100 percent” opposed to abortion. He backed a candidate. For example, stated that he has worked as a Boston members of the Boston Teachers Union schoolteacher and he once spent two House-breaks trigger warning from BPD were inside the union hall on Thursday weeks as a Teamster working for UPS. The Boston Police Department’s Neighborhood Crime Watch department and did not vote. Earlier in the day, The preliminary, which will winnow issued a “community alert” last Friday in the wake of a series of residential BTU president Richard Stutman the field to two candidates, is slated break-ins that occurred in late June in Dorchester Area C-11 police district.