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Egleston Square resident Paco Sanchez (right) reads from a prepared statement during a BRA Plan: JP/Rox meeting at English High School last week.

Demonstrators disrupt BRA JP planning meeting Call for greater affordability, delay in planning By YAWU MILLER

BRA officials are in the home stretch of their Plan: JP/Rox process, culling community comments on future land uses and zoning for the corridor including Jackson Square, Egleston Square and Forest Hills. But not if affordable housing activists have their say. Last week, as community members gathered at English High School viewed BRA poster board displays showing ideas for

improvements to transportation, proposals for housing, jobs, economic development and open space, a contingent of more than 100 affordable housing activists marched into the room and read in unison a statement calling on the agency to suspend its planning process and increase the percentage of affordable units proposed for the area from 30 percent to 80 percent. “All of us have been negatively affected by the BRA in this community and in this city,” the

protesters said, reading in unison from a script. “We have tried talking at Plan JP/Rox meetings, but the BRA is not listening. That’s why we’re taking action tonight.” The activists further called for 50 percent of new units to be for families earning less than $35,000 per year and 20 percent for those making $35,000 to $70,000 per year. “That’s who lives here now,”

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

On Monday, a Suffolk Superior Court judge ordered Mayor Martin Walsh to comply with a more than two-year-old request from The Boston Globe that the mayor release public record information on the race and ethnicity of all individual city employees. The city already collects this information, as required by federal law, and it was common practice to release it under the previous mayoral administration. Last week, in advance of the judge’s ruling, Walsh administration officials unveiled a “diversity dashboard,” an online tool they said

would detail the gender and racial makeup of city employees. The website discloses employee demographics by percentage for departments or the city as a whole and salary averages, but no information on level or kind of positions held. The judge’s ruling and the dashboard illustrate City Hall’s checkered history of honoring the mayor’s campaign promise to run a more transparent administration. While Walsh administration officials tout their commitment to diversity, in two of the city’s largest departments the percentages of blacks and Latinos have been declining.

See DIVERSITY, page 21

Students protest budget

See PROTEST, page 10

State ELL reform bill advances Calls against one-size-fits-all education By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

State legislators moved to support of a bill that could force schools away from what they say is a too limited, one-size-fits-all approach to English-language instruction as well as pave the way to more multilingual education for all students. Currently, state law requires school districts to educate their English language learners with one-year of Sheltered English Immersion

instruction. These programs teach English in a specific way and on a specific timeline that may work for some, but not all, students, legislators say. But with the proposed “Act for Language Opportunity for Our Kids” — dubbed the LOOK bill — there no longer would be a default program for ELL instruction. The expectation is that school districts then would have greater flexibility to choose teaching methods to match the specific needs presented by their

particular ELL students. “The current one-size-fits-all model has proven a failure over the past decade plus,” state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz said in a press release. “[This bill] will empower parents, hold districts to clear standards for progress, and trust educators to make informed decisions about appropriate tactics for a six-year-old with some English exposure versus a 12-yearold coming from a worn-torn country who has received little formal schooling.” The proposal is making its

See LOOK BILL, page 8

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Student organizer Fania Joseph rallies students who turned out to City Hall Tuesday to demonstrate against the 2017 BPS budget. Students say this year’s budget will force cuts that will reduce course offerings and extracurricular activities.

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Forum links Malcolm X to modern social movements Although much has changed since Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965, he remains relevant because of the persistence of white supremacy, Toure says. “A lot of the conditions that helped create Malcolm have in some ways gotten worse,” he said, pointing to the recent growth of the U.S. prison population and the ugly rhetoric of the current presidential race. “If anything, it’s intensifying with the rise of Trump and the right wing,” he said. “People are concerned. People are feeling that we’re under serious assault by the right wing. When people are facing things like that, they often resurrect their heroes of the past.”

By YAWU MILLER

Vanessa Silva first encountered Malcolm X in book form, reading the autobiography that has become de rigueur in the political education of black Americans. “He understood the structural issues affecting black people,” she says. “One thing I love about Malcolm X is that you can see the transformation in his life from prison to where he ended up fighting oppression on all fronts.” Flash back 40 years. That’s when Askia Toure first heard a young Muslim minister named Malcolm X who was already drawing crowds in the thousands to his street-corner discourses. “It was such an experience to go up to 125th Street and 7th Avenue,” says Toure, who at the time was working as a feature writer for The Liberator, a progressive black magazine published out of Harlem. “His speeches would sometimes last four hours. He would run through all the aspects of our condition, key things about our history. How in order for us to have true success, that we would have to come together and struggle in a united front.”

Panel discussion

Thursday May 19th at the Codman Square Library, on Malcolm X’s birthday, Silva is bringing Toure to the Codman Square Library for a panel discussion of the fiery human rights advocate’s impact on social movements. That Malcolm X, who was

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UMass Boston Professor Tony Van Der Meer, poet Askia Toure and community activists Vanessa Silva are organizing a forum on Malcolm X’s birthday Thursday at the Codman Square Library. assassinated 50 years ago, still captures the imagination of generations of social activists of different backgrounds is remarkable. Silva, a Cape Verdean American, says the writings of Malcolm X helped her to understand how white supremacy plays out in the United States. “I saw how my own mind was colonized,” she said. “I understood that the master’s tools can’t dismantle the master’s house,” she added, borrowing a line from

feminist theorist Audre Lorde. While Martinique-born social theorist Frantz Fanon’s critiques of colonial structures of control inspired generations of anti-racist intellectuals, UMass Boston Professor of Africana Studies Tony Van Der Meer says Malcolm X’s anti-white supremacist rhetoric, spoken in the everyday language of 1950s and ’60s black America, reached a broader audience. “He’s relevant because he

addresses the nature of injustice,” he said. “He speaks in a language that people can understand.” His influence extended not just to black Americans, Van Der Meer said, but also to whites around the world. Van Der Meer points to Malcolm X’s 1965 address at Oxford University in England. “It was a room full of white students,” he said. “They were applauding. They were agreeing with him.”

Thursday’s panel discussion was organized by the Boston Coalition for Freedom, an ad-hoc committee of local activists. Speakers will include Muhammad Ahmad, Malcolm X’s former political assistant; Saladin Muhammad, a former member of SNCC and the African Peoples Party; Nino Brown, an activists with Mass Action Against Police Brutality and the ANSWER Coalition; Lanise Frazier of Black Lives Matter Boston; Michelle Santana of We Are The Ones and Services Employees International Union organizer Khalida Smalls. The forum will be the first public event of the Coalition for Freedom, according to Silva. “We’re in our early stages,” she said. “We’re still working out our mission and structure, but we want to spark dialogue. We want to link working people with movements.”

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State replaces cell with classroom in new effort to reduce recidivism NUMBERS School of Reentry opens in Roslindale, BY THEpercent of those sentenced in 74 Massachusetts had prior convictions offering skills & life training to 25 inmates percent of those had 11 prior By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Inmates are trading bars for books in a new program designed to ease their reentry into civilian life. The Baker-Polito administration’s newly-opened School of Reentry aims to address education gaps among its student and cultivate skills to help them land jobs and reconnect with their communities once they leave the correctional system. The school opened on March 28 at the Boston Pre-Release Center in Roslindale. It serves 25 live-in students. All are men from minimum security. They will spend 12-18 months in the program, studying in class for six hours a day as well as completing homework, toward the goal of graduating with six to nine college credit hours. The academic program is supplemented with substance abuse treatment and counseling, anger management training and personal development training. “Making the successful transition from incarceration back into society is fraught with challenges, not the least of which is bridging the skills gap,” Governor Charlie Baker said in a press release. Many say the program has the

potential to tackle the state’s high rates of recidivism, thus making communities safer by cutting down on crime and netting the state significant savings.

Burden of failed rehabilitation

Frequently and repeatedly, Massachusetts locks up the same people. In 2013, 74 percent of those sentenced in the state had prior convictions, according to a report presented in April by the Council of State Governments Justice Center. Of that group, 20 percent had 11 or more prior convictions. And the recidivism can be rapid: More than 40 percent of those sentenced to a house of corrections had received a prior house of corrections sentence within the past three years, according to the report. The costs are both social and financial. “When mom or dad goes away and goes to jail, the family suffers mightily. The savings [of reducing recidivism] both socially and fiscally are tremendous,” Steve Tompkins, sheriff of Suffolk County, told the Banner. He said a reduction in incarceration would be a significant benefit to taxpayers. Keeping one inmate at his facility cost $50,000 per year, he said, whereas the cost to keep someone in a

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convictions percent of those sentenced to a house of corrections had received a prior house of corrections sentence within the past three years

detox or mental health program is $17,000 to $20,000 and to educate a student in public school is $12,000 to $15,000.

Education approach

Education seems to be an effective measure at reducing likelihood of reincarcerations. In 2013, the RAND Corporation and Bureau of Justice Assistance released a meta-analysis of 50 studies involving correctional education and recidivism. According to their findings, prisoners participating in education programs were 43 percent less likely to be re-incarcerated than those who did not. “All the research tells us that education is one of the most effective practices we have to reduce recidivism,” Ben Forman, research director of MassINC, told the Banner. Massachusetts aims to reduce recidivism to 18 percent within three years, according to information provided by the state Executive Office of Public Safety and Security.

From prisoner to pupil

The School of Reentry is partnering with Bunker Hill Community College and Roxbury Community College. Courses will include remedial instruction, prep for High School Equivalency certification and as training toward attaining basic Microsoft certifications, according to information provided by the state Executive Office of Public Safety and Security. Program coordinators also seek to create volunteer internships at local nonprofits or in state government for any graduates who do not manage to land full-time jobs once paroled. According to an EOPSS info sheet: “We are developing the prison-to-school pipeline.” As most people recidivate within their first year, the program’s effectiveness could be measured by following graduates for one to three years, Forman said. Rachel Corey, executive director of the Criminal Justice Policy Coalition, suggested long-term success be measured by graduates’ ability to achieve housing and jobs that allow for self-sufficiency as well as give back: “Are the graduates of this program stable? Are they able to achieve living wage jobs, support themselves in a manner that doesn’t just have them living paycheck to paycheck but really contributing to society?” And if that is not the case, she said, the state needs to be flexible in reexamining the program to find more effective reentry methods.

Funding a second chance

In the early 1990s, at least seven Massachusetts higher

education institutions had programs for educating criminals, but by 2015, the number had shrunk to one: Boston University, according to CommonWealth Magazine. Part of the cause may be the U.S. Congress’ 1994 decision to make prisoners ineligible to receive Pell Grants, funding targeted for low-income college students. Now with the state’s inmate population declining, more money may be freed up to go towards such educational programs, Forman said. The School of Reentry’s Summer-Fall 2016 academic/vocational instructors were hired with $6,400 provided by the Jubilee Christian Church.

If it works

If the program is successful Corey said, the state should next explore if education programs can offered to more inmates and earlier in their sentences, while assuring programs are offered to more complicated cases: for instance, those who may need special accommodations due to experiences of trauma.

ON THE WEB COUNCIL of State Governments Justice Center April 2016 Massachusetts Criminal Justice Review: https://csgjustice center.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ MASecondPresentation.pdf RAND AND BJA report, “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Education”: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/ RR266.html MASSINC: http://massinc.org/research/ criminal-justice/ CRIMINAL JUSTICE Policy Coalition: http://www.cjpc.org/

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Diversity run amok Since time immemorial, young men in human groups have organized special societies. Such organizations served to mark the attainment of maturity or the achievement of skills and responsibilities necessary for the success of adult males and the survival of the group. There was a recognition that the role and duties of the males would be different from those of the females, so such clubs were approved. However, the Harvard University administration has decided to penalize members of all-male final clubs. Modern society has now been able to reduce the number of roles that are determined solely by gender, but there is still a strong predilection for young men to form clubs. When the objectives of the male clubs are socially significant they are usually encouraged. However, the administration of Harvard University has decided to outlaw male clubs not because their conduct is especially delinquent, but only because they do not admit women as members. It is interesting to note that the administration was not so assertive when the so-called final clubs at Harvard would not admit black male students as members. The university has every right to refuse to sanction fraternities or other organizations that seek official Harvard status. That policy prudently protects against damage to the University’s reputation from misbehavior committed elsewhere. However, the extension of that authority to historically Harvard institutions violates the cherished principle of free association. Starting in the fall of 2017, Harvard will outlaw all single-sex student organizations. The offending list includes nine male final clubs, five women’s final clubs and nine sororities and fraternities. Two other formerly all-male clubs, Fox and Spee, have already voted to admit women. Defiance of the new Harvard rule would bar members from being captains of college sports teams and from obtaining the recommendation of deans for graduate school

or prestigious honors such as the Rhodes or Marshall scholarships. The male final clubs are a Harvard tradition, starting with the Porcellian Club in 1791. Each of the 11 historic all-male final clubs maintain their own clubhouse at private expense and develop by common consent their own rules of administration. The clubs select their members in the fall of students’ sophomore year primarily from among the promising graduates of the prestigious prep schools. As might be expected, most club members are from affluent and influential families. Most of the students at Harvard are unconcerned about the final clubs. Certainly the Greater Boston African American community has little interest in the issue. However, the new Harvard policy is a good example of diversity gone wrong. With the merger of Radcliffe and Harvard, the college became co-educational. Just like women at other co-ed schools, Harvard women organized single-sex clubs and sororities. These institutions apparently serve the students’ need because the women have vigorously opposed the new college policy. There has also been no reliable report that the male final clubs create a sexual hazard for co-eds, as has been suggested. The administration also has failed to present persuasive evidence that a student’s experience at Harvard would reasonably be ruined by being passed over for membership in final clubs, or that post-graduate success in business or the professions would be damaged. Consequently, there is little justification for Harvard to preempt the student’s right of free association. The new policy could well create a negative attitude toward racial and gender diversity among some Harvard alumni. African Americans still toiling for full equality throughout the nation should not be hampered by the negative implications of diversity that have been sown by Harvard’s ill-advised policy.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sotomayor’s common touch It was good to see Sonia Sotomayor taking time to visit with residents at Villa Victoria in the South End. For most people, elevation to the highest court of the land puts them in a rarified world of the well-educated and well-heeled, regardless of their humble origins. The fact that most of the justices there, Sotomayor included, have

Ivy League pedigrees demonstrates the skewed view many people in the upper reaches of our government have of the world. When people reach Congress, they often become ensconced in a world of six-figure salaries and astronomical speaking fees that numbs them to the everyday struggles most Americans face. I think Sotomayor’s visit to a housing project was more than a mere

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Trump’s supporters aren’t just old, racist white guys

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By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON The prototypical Trump backer is a poorly educated, slob of a blue collar white male worker or farmer in the backwoods of the Deep South or Midwest who alternately fears and loathes blacks, Latinos, gays, liberals of all stripes, Obama and big government. This is a dangerous and self-serving myth. Even before the first vote was cast in any primary or caucus, last December, Civic Analytics, a Democratic data firm, surveyed more than 10,000 Republican-leaning voters. It found that far from the ignorant bumpkin who is the butt of much caricature and ridicule to explain away the Trump phenomena, the Trump backers defied popular conceptions and stereotypes with the huge numbers of college-educated, suburbanite, business and professionals, young persons, and Latinos and women who said they’d vote for him. Let’s crunch the numbers. In the survey, Trump got backing from nearly 30 percent of those under age 29, nearly one fourth of Latinos, and a quarter of those who held bachelor’s degrees or higher. The demographic of Trump backers held up in the primaries. In the Northeast states and the Midwest, Trump scored just as big with wellto-do college educated voters in the suburbs as he did with blue collar voters everywhere else. The Trump vote pattern is really not new. The George Wallace campaigns of the 1960s blended the mix of blatantly racist appeals with thinly-disguised racial code words that hammered big government, corrupt Washington bureaucrats, and liberal social programs. Wallace drew lots of applause and bushels of votes from college educated, suburbanites, and women. GOP presidents Nixon, Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush picked up on the gold mine of votes that were there for the taking among the disenchanted, fearful, suburbanites, and some ethnics, at all educational levels and genders. They played hard on what millions of voters think, and that’s that government is too big, intrusive and costly and that the traditional family, conservative religious beliefs, patriotism, a strong military, and a sliced down government are still timetested and noble values that must be fought for and preserved. They are and will continue to push and prod the GOP not to cave in to liberals, Latinos and blacks and become a Democratic lite party. The foolhardy notion that it’s only ignorant rednecks who wave and shout, act a fool at Trump rallies, and occasionally beat up protesters, also gives smug comfort to many Trump loathers. They can point a finger at them as the predictable racist rabble, and have a field day lampooning, caricaturing, and ridiculing Trump as a racist, misogynist, homophobic uncouth boob. This makes it easy to just as smugly assure that Trump doesn’t have a prayer, and the election is practically in the bag for Hillary. There are a couple of more Trump oddities to reckon with. One is that at the first GOP presidential debate in August, 2015, in Cleveland, Ohio, there were 17 would be GOP presidential contenders on the stage. All of them, with one exception, had solid GOP party credentials. They were either current or former political governors, senators, congresspersons, were firmly committed to the GOP core conservative philosophy and had firm financial backers. All, that is except one. The one was, of course, Trump. He held no office. He was considered by straight line conservatives as not conservative enough since he had contributed money and support to Democrats, even some liberal Democrats. He was a businessman whose businesses took jobs out the country. He had a checkered and turbulent personal life. He said outrageous, bigoted, blatantly misogynist things about immigrants and women. He was viewed by much of the GOP establishment as an egodriven reality show con man and not a serious presidential candidate. He was endlessly mocked, ridiculed, laughed at, scorned, lampooned, and caricatured by many in the media and the general public. The pundits, the studied political analysts, officials in both parties, and the prognosticators were near universal in their smug prediction that his presidential tent would fold quickly and give way to the serious, and credible GOP candidates. Yet, in April, 2016, eight months after the first GOP debate in Cleveland, of the 17 would-be GOP candidates on the stage that night, Trump was the only one still standing. He had beaten all the predictions and the odds. The other is that the white males who have been the traditional bulwark of GOP support from the Reagan years on and are Trump’s core backers too, also range from the less-educated, blue collar worker to business and professional, university graduates. Many of them were onetime Democrats. Despite much talk about their virtual disappearance as a political force, the truth is anything but that. They still comprise one in three American voters. Trump got where he is with a lot of help. And a lot of that help didn’t come from just a bunch of poorly-educated white guys.

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The city should build more affordable housing.

James Watkins

I think the city should renovate some of the abandoned buildings and convert them to housing. There’s a lot of people who have nowhere to go.

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Help the homeless people first. They need the most help.

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I don’t know. They’re building more units, but we can’t afford them.

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Gwen Keith

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The city has to tell property owners that they can’t charge rents people can’t afford. It’s about greed. It’s time to put controls on rents.

Rayedon Nunnally Disabled Veteran Homeless

They have to fix the economy first. If people have better jobs, they can afford the rents.

Early Allen Unemployed Roxbury

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THELMA D. BURNS Thelma D. Burns, tireless community activist, advocate and volunteer, will be honored on May 20 at the dedication of ABCD’s Thelma D. Burns Building. The event, hosted by ABCD Board Chair John P. McGahan and ABCD President/CEO John J. Drew, is the grand opening of the centerpiece of the newly created ABCD Roxbury/ North Dorchester Campus at 565575 Warren Street, Roxbury. “ABCD is very pleased to have this opportunity to honor Thelma for her significant work for Boston’s people and neighborhoods,” said Drew. “There is no one with a bigger heart and stronger dedication and capability to getting things done.” Thelma Burns has served on the ABCD Board of Directors for more than 35 years including stints as Board Chair, Vice Chair and Committee Chair. A longtime Dorchester resident, she has headed the ABCD Dorchester Neighborhood Service Center board for more than 15 years. She also has chaired or served on

countless other community boards including Central Boston Elder Services, the Mayor’s Senior Advisory Council, Roxbury YMCA and more. For 28 years she served as METCO director for the Belmont Public Schools, retiring in 2008. Thelma received her Bachelor’s in Education from Boston University and her Master’s of Education in Administration from Harvard University. She also is a Registered Nurse. Always at the forefront of social justice initiatives, in 1968 she was a Robert F. Kennedy Fellow in Washington, DC. A two-time cancer survivor, Burns praises the work of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where she volunteers. She also is a member of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Faith-based Cancer Disparities Network. The Thelma D. Burns Building is the focal point of a three-building ABCD Roxbury-North Dorchester Campus in the Grove Hall neigh-

borhood where Roxbury and North Dorchester come together. Two other campus buildings house the ABCD Roxbury-North Dorchester Neighborhood Opportunity Center and ABCD Walnut Grove Head Start. An intergenerational community garden and quiet areas are planned for green space that connects the buildings.

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NEWSBRIEFS VISIT US ONLINE FOR MORE LOCAL NEWS: WWW.BAYSTATEBANNER.COM Governor Baker Announces Five Year $1.1 Billion Investment in Housing Production and Preservation for Working Families Upcoming capital budget includes 18 percent increase for housing opportunities for mixed incomes, homeless and middle-income families, individuals with disabilities, seniors Governor Charlie Baker announced this week that the Baker-Polito Administration’s upcoming five-year capital budget will devote $1.1 billion to affordable and workforce housing development and preservation. The funding will maintain support for existing programs for high-needs populations, increase support for local public housing communities and finance new initiatives to preserve at-risk affordable housing and boost mixed-income housing production across Massachusetts. Investments in public and affordable housing will be up 8 percent in Fiscal Year 2017 and 18 percent over the course of the plan. These investments support local housing authorities that serve over 80,000 residents, spur private construction of affordable and workforce housing, and initiate several new programs that will preserve or create approximately 5,000 affordable units over the course of the plan. “Advancing a strong, vibrant and inclusive Commonwealth requires addressing the housing

challenges facing working families and at-risk residents and engaging the private market to increase community development and housing production for all incomes,” Baker said. “Our capital plan undertakes a significant effort to preserve thousands of affordable housing units and boost the production of new affordable units that will provide housing security for our state’s most vulnerable residents, including homeless families.” Baker made the announcement at the Urban Land Institute’s Housing Opportunity 2016 Conference, a gathering of national housing development and preservation leaders. The Administration’s full five-year capital budget will be released later this month. “By strategically targeting resources through the Administration’s capital investment plan, we will be able to maintain and modernize existing housing and develop new affordable and workforce units,” said Secretary of the Executive Office for Administration and Finance, Kristen Lepore. “This is a great example of leveraging our resources to support low and middle income families across the Commonwealth.” Housing Investments in the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2017-2021 Capital Plan: n $50 million in new funding to preserve privately-owned affordable housing units with expiring affordability restrictions, to be matched with $50 million in new preservation funds from

MassHousing; n $25 million in new funding for the development of supportive housing for homeless families and individuals with disabilities; n $34 million in new funding to advance mixed-income housing development; n $25.5 million in new funding to accelerate the preservation and redevelopment of local public housing communities through public-private partnerships; n $14 million in new funding to local affordable housing funds, and advance small-scale affordable housing development in communities; n $12 million in additional capacity for capital projects at state-supported public housing communities. “This capital plan supports our ongoing work to advance housing production, and increase private investment in mixed-income housing development,” said Undersecretary of Housing and Community Development Chrystal Kornegay. “By steering new resources to public-private partnerships in housing production and affordable housing preservation, we will deepen income security, and harness housing production as a driver of community development.” The increased capital support for housing and community development is in addition to a new $100 million workforce housing development fund established at MassHousing, the state’s quasi-public housing finance agency. Governor Baker and MassHousing

Executive Director Tim Sullivan announced the $100 million workforce housing development fund in Lynn last week to support the creation of 1,000 new units of moderately-priced housing.

BRA board approves over 1,100 units of new housing The board of directors for the Boston Redevelopment Authority approved eight new residential projects across the city and a community center in Roxbury during its monthly meeting last night. Three large mixed-use residential developments in Dorchester and Brighton accounted for 969 new units, while smaller projects in the Fenway, Mission Hill, South Boston, and West Roxbury will each add dozens of new units. In total, the board’s approval of these projects paves the way for 1,139 new units of housing to be built in Boston. The nine new projects approved represent a combined investment of $478.2 million and are expected to create 1,170 construction jobs. All together, 1.8 million square feet of development was permitted last night, one of the largest recent totals. The board also approved the hiring of Continuum, a Boston-based global innovation design consultancy, to work with the BRA and the public to re-envision the agency’s identity. The collaborative effort will look to create a clear and compelling organizational identity, mission, and set of values that communicate the BRA’s commitment to sound urban planning and economic development strategies in order to inspire greater trust and confidence in the agency. Work with Continuum will get underway next week, when the design firm holds a day-long kickoff session with BRA staff. Over the course of the 14-week contract, Continuum will engage with the BRA and the community of Boston to chart a path for the agency’s continued transformation. A team of consultants will immerse themselves in the BRA’s work to hear from employees, residents, and other stakeholders about improving the way the BRA interfaces with the public and communicates its values through its branding and workspace. Opportunities for public engagement will be woven throughout the process, with one of the first deliverables being a

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Police chief & protestor team up to reshape race relations community is involving community members in decision-making discussions, whether or not those individuals’ proposals are ultimately enacted. Officers must clearly explain to all involved the reasoning behind final decisions, what new guidelines will be followed and how people will be held accountable to them, they said. Such engagement does not necessitate compromising to please everyone, but rather greater transparency and opportunity for voices to be heard.

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A white Minnesotan police chief and black former gang-member and prominent protestor may seem an unlikely duo. And they know it. Paul Schnell, police chief of Maplewood, Minnesota and Jason Sole, now a criminal justice professor and chair of the Minneapolis NAACP’s criminal justice reform committee, gave a joint presentation at Northeastern University on what they have learned from working together to improve relations between police and communities of color. The talk, “Imagining Justice: Racial Equity and a True Justice System,” came as part of a two-day Summit on Race and Equity. The event was convened by the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE), a national network focused on partnering with government; the Center for Social Inclusion, one of GARE’s parent organizations; the city of Boston and GARE’s newly forming Boston branch and steering committee. The Summit was targeted primarily at government employees and people involved in nonprofit advocacy work, to provide them with strategy examples, common frameworks and networks of resources for approaching policy from a racial equity perspective. “This is just the beginning of the work we want to do in the city,” Becky Schuster, a member of the Boston Alliance for Racial Justice Steering Committee, told the Banner. “We need a foundation of common language, models and frameworks to inspire our work going forward.” The Summit on Race and Equity was the first such event held in the Northeast, said Nashira Baril, a consultant for the summit. The city made a notable presence with officials moderating panels with topics such as immigration, employing and contracting, housing and transportation. The “Imagining Justice” panel was moderated by Rahsaan Hall director of the ACLU of Massachusetts’s Racial Justice Program.

Clash of worldviews

Schnell and Sole used their personal backgrounds to highlight the different assumptions and biases that can skew police-community perceptions and relations. Sole says his view of the police was shaped in part by growing up in Chicago where police by default seemed to regard him as without

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Jason Sole, chair of the Minneapolis NAACP’s criminal justice reform committee, spoke of his work with Maplewood Minnesota’s police chief to improve relations between police and communities of color. value, and where he saw officers more as a danger than as a protection from it. “They looked at me as a subject of inferiority,” he said. “I looked at them with the image of them being the one who might end my life or hurt me.” Sole said, that for him, police represent a continuation a long history of whites applying the label of “criminal” to blacks to justify killing them. Such practices wind back to the Reconstruction era, where charges of minor incidents, such as stealing 75 cents, were used as excuses to lynch blacks, he said, and to the slave patrols that captured runaway slaves. “The roots of policing in America started from slave patrols,” Sole said. “When I see law enforcement officials killing blacks, I’m seeing it through a lens that says this is a further extension of the past.” Meanwhile, Schnell grew up in a 700-person town in Wisconsin, where police race relations were not in the forefront: he said he did not meet a black person until he was 18. As a child, Schnell viewed the police and fire department as his go-to in times of trouble. Schnell said that he, like many, joined the police to serve the community. But joining the police also often comes with strong pressure to be a part of its insular culture, which, along with high levels of stress on the job, and can lead to an us-versus-them mentality. “Very quickly this enculturation dynamic takes over,” Schnell said, “and taking care of that [police] culture and being part of that culture is overwhelming.” “Police culture — it doesn’t work for police either,” noted Abigail Ortiz of Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center and a community

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Lessons learned

Schnell said that his relationship with Sole as well as community protest have shifted his view of policing and helped motivate

the police department to change policies. Inspired by this, he now places an expectation on his officers that they build relationships in the community, too. Yet, even while he does this, Schnell acknowledged that not all officers are moved by hearing of people of color’s experiences of police. “The bottom line is that [sharing worldviews approach] hasn’t worked,” Schenll said. “When we talk about the reality of folks of color around policy, that has not had a big influence on policing.” As such, Sole and Schnell also put focus on changing rules and, through enforcing those rules, creating new norms. Among the reforms Schnell and Sole recommend for bringing greater equity to policies and for building trust between police and

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Larry K. Van Zandt Sr., a retired Boston police sergeant and former president of Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement, said during Q&A that the Boston Police Department needs to have its own conversation like this on race. Another step he recommended: educating officers on the criminal justice process that happens once a case leaves their hands. “They don’t teach us criminal justice,” Van Zandt said. “They teach us to answer a call and make arrests.” Officers often have leeway to decide whether an incident warrants an arrest or a lesser measure. If officers were more aware of the impact of an arrest, they might be less inclined to respond with it to minor encounters, such as a youth smoking a joint, Van Zandt told the Banner. He has noticed white officers more often than black ones elect to arrest when handling incidents in black communities, he said. Rahsaan Hall noted that no BPD officials attended the workshop.

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way through the legislature. If it is enacted, parents would be able to advise on current ELL offerings and on the planning and developing of new programs through to-be-established English learner parent advisory councils for each relevant district. Additionally, the bill would require greater tracking of EL students to evaluate how effective programs for them are. The LOOK bill also calls for measures to promote multilingualism as an asset, not a problem. It would establish a State Seal of Biliteracy, awarded to high school graduates on their diplomas or transcripts if they have “attained a high level of proficiency in speaking, reading, writing and listening in one or more languages in addition to English.” The LOOK bill was filed in both the House and the Senate. It passed unanimously in the Joint Committee on Education last week and moved to the committee on Senate and House Ways and Means.

Prominent ELL population

Students with languages other than English are a significant population in the state. During this school year, children with first languages other than English constitute 19 percent and English language learners 9 percent of students in the state’s district school and charter schools, according to DESE data. In Boston, the representation is higher. During this same school year, 46 percent of K-12 students in Boston Public Schools have a

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Jeffrey Sanchez first language other than English, according to BPS data. And 29 percent of all BPS students— approximately 15,500 — are classified as ELL or Limited English Proficient. In BPS, there are more than 75 different languages spoken by ELL students. The most prevalent are Spanish, Haitian Creole, Cape Verdean Creole, Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Portuguese, Somali and French.

SEI’s limitations

Massachusetts requires its schools to teach its ELL students in too uniform a way, and is failing many of them, supporters of the LOOK bill say. Current law states that districts must provide ELL students with SEI instruction for a period of time “not normally intended to exceed one school year.” In SEI classrooms, they receive English language acquisition instruction and learn their core subjects primarily in English. After that year, the children are expected to move into regular English-language classrooms.

For some, SEI is effective, but not for all, and the one-year timeline may be a particular problem. Moving children into English-only education too early “hurts their growth and perpetuates the growing gap in dropout rates,” said state Rep. Jeffrey Sánchez in testimony presented in May 2015. Sánchez filed the original LOOK bill in the House. According to a 2009 report from the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Sub-Committee on English Language Learners, only 20 percent of ELL students attain English proficiency. Of those students, many only achieve this level of fluency after five or more years in Massachusetts schools, the report states. Because immersion approaches require that core subject matters be taught primarily through English, this also has implications for education as a whole. According Sánchez’s testimony, ELL students had a dropout rate of 14.9 percent in 2014, which was nearly three times higher than the average for all students in the state. Even ELL students who stayed in school often failed to graduate. In Massachusetts, the graduation rate for the general student population was 86.1 percent in 2014;

for students whose first language is not English, the rates dropped to 63.9 percent. “We know for English Language Learners that the program that works best for them is dual language [instruction],” said Kim Janey, member of BPS’ ELL task force and senior project director of Massachusetts Advocates for Children. “Children are acquiring English faster and doing well on their academic work when they’re in a bilingual program.” Under the LOOK bill, school districts no longer would be obliged to focus on SEI programs, although they could still offer them. Currently students can only get access to non-SEI programs by securing a wavier or meeting other strict criteria. For instance, BPS students in grade 3 or higher who have interrupted educations can enroll in a Native Literacy Program, designed to catch them up with their peers in academic subjects through native language instruction as well as teach them English. Other programs administrators may choose to offer include transitional bilingual education, in which instruction initially is offered in the students’ native language and, then, increasingly replaced with English. This kind of ELL program is available currently at BPS, but access is limited: Students must first obtain a waiver to exclude themselves from English-only programming.

Bilingual future

The LOOK bill extends the emphasis on language acquisition to native English speakers as well. It calls for the creation of a state Seal of Biliteracy to acknowledge high school students who have

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Challenges ahead

Rep. Sánchez filed the original bill in 2003. He told the Banner that movement on the bill has faced strong barriers from its perceived association with immigration issues. “Anything that has to do with immigrant kids stops any real discussion,” Sánchez said. “A huge majority of these students are here, have status. And unfortunately the political environment hasn’t allowed us to have a real conversation about how do we make sure that we are preparing these students for an economy that essentially should value their varied backgrounds, given that we’re in a global economy.” The progress of the LOOK bills to the Ways and Means Committees is an encouraging step, but there is far to go to get it passed, he said. “Overall, I’m encouraged, but I’m not jumping up and down by any means,” he said.

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Dr. Jessie K. Garnett: The first black woman to practice dentistry in the Hub Pioneer dentist paved the way for blacks and women with career that spanned decades By ANTHONY W. NEAL

Dr. Jessie Katherine (Gideon) Garnett was the first black woman to graduate from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and also the first to practice dentistry in Boston. She was born April 20, 1897, in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Her mother, widowed seamstress Mary E. Gideon, brought her to Boston when she was eleven years old — along with her younger brother, John, and her two older sisters, Lillian and Annie. The Gideon family found their first home at 4 Smiths Avenue. In 1913, they moved to 683 Shawmut Avenue in Roxbury. Undoubtedly influenced by her two older sisters, who pursued occupations in the medical field as nurses, Jessie Gideon was intent on becoming a dentist. She graduated from Girls’ High School on June 22, 1916, and then attended Tufts College and

Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. She recalled that when she enrolled at the dental school, a dean insisted that there was a mistake. After acknowledging that Gideon had in fact been accepted, he warned her, “You’ll have to find your own patients, you know.” The strong-willed student replied, “That will be just fine with me.”

Garnett, born December 15, 1924. Robert Jr. became a draftsman and Ella found employment as a clerk in the General Land Jessie Garnett as a young woman. Office in Washington, D.C. Garnett opened her first Before disabling arthritis in her dental office at 795 Tremont hands forced her to retire in Street — at the intersection with 1969, she had practiced dentistry Camden Street in Lower Rox- for nearly 50 years. Garnett and six other colbury. During a 1973 interview with Globe reporter Carmen lege-educated black women — Fields, she told her that the first among them, Edna Robinson Brown, the first black woman to years of practice were not good. A first “Business was slow, and I’d practice dentistry in Cambridge — On June 21, 1920, Tufts University School of Dental Medi- putter around my office going in met at the Phillips Brooks House cine conferred upon Gideon the and out of the laboratory pretend- on the campus of Harvard Univerdegree of Doctor of Dental Med- ing to be busy,” she said. Eventu- sity in 1926, and in the spirit of sisicine, making her the first black ally, a man came in and asked if terhood, scholarship and service, woman graduate of the dental she thought she could pull his bad they became charter members of school. And of the 34 students tooth. Garnett answered, “Well, the Psi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Founded in who were awarded doctorate de- sit down and I’ll try.” 1922, she had moved her 1908 at Howard University, Alpha grees from the dental school that PartnersByHuman Research Committee day, she was the only woman. home and dental office around Kappa Alpha is the oldest preEffective Date dominately black national sorority the block to 612 Columbus That same year, she married APPROVAL where both remained in the United States. In 1976, the Robert Charles Garnett, a Boston Avenue, 8/11/2015 police officer connected to Sta- until 1929. She then relocated Psi Omega Chapter established tion 5. They had two children: with her family to 80 Munroe the Dr. Jessie Garnett-Dr. Mary Robert Charles Garnett Jr., born Street in Roxbury and built an Thompson Scholarship Award January 5, 1922, and Ella Isabelle office behind her residence. for black women students at Tufts

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continued from page 1 the protesters said. “That’s who should live here in the future.” The demonstration comes as the BRA is preparing a draft of its overall blueprint for the planning area, which is bounded on the west by the Southwest Corridor railway and on the east by Columbus Avenue and Washington Street. The planning process is happening in the midst of a wave of displacement pitting longtime working class residents against newer renters and homeowners who can afford the rapidly rising rents and condo prices in the area. “A friend of mine who lived up the street, my next door neighbor, they’re all being forced out,” said Paco Sanchez, a Fenway High School sophomore who has lived in the neighborhood for the last ten years. “You’re seeing a major shift in terms of race.” The current residents, largely Latino and African American, are being displaced by young white professionals and students drawn to the area by its easy access to public transit and proximity to the already-gentrified sections of Jamaica Plain. “If the community continues to change the way it’s changing, I’ll be gone, the people I know will be gone,” Sanchez said. “There will be no diversity in Jamaica Plain.” The Egleston Square neighborhood where Sanchez and many of the other protesters live remains one of the last affordable areas in Jamaica Plain. But with a tight rental market in Boston and property values rising virtually everywhere in the city, Egleston Square residents are feeling the pressure.

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Activists outlined demands during a BRA planning meeting during which city officials solicited input from community residents on future development in the Jackson Square, Egleston Square and Forest Hills sections of Jamaica Plain. Investors are planning or have begun half a dozen development projects there in the year, including the 76-unit, six story 3200 Washington Street project, which last year drew protests from the same group of demonstrators. While the Boston Redevelopment Authority plan calls for 30 percent of new units developed in Jamaica Plain to be affordable, the demonstrators at last week’s event say the agency’s definition of affordable is often at odds with what most people living in Boston can pay. The demonstrators say that the BRA’s definition of

affordability — 60 to 70 percent of the HUD-defined area median income — would be affordable to families making up to $69,000 for a family of four. But with half of all families in Boston earning less than $35,000, few would be able to afford rents or home prices. Under the current plan, market-rate developments in the planning area would be required to set aside 12 percent of their units as affordable. BRA Senior Planner Marie Mercurio said the agency is considering allowing developers to exceed height requirements — building, say, a six-story structure

in an area zoned for four stories — if developers agree to increase the share of affordable units from 13 percent to 17 percent. To arrive at its planned 30 percent, the BRA could set aside a portion of the vacant, city- or stateowned land in the area for developers of affordable housing. But along Washington Street in the Egleston Square area, such parcels are few. BRA spokesman Nick Martin said the agency wouldn’t likely pause the planning process or halt development projects already underway.

“I think we’ve made it clear that a moratorium wouldn’t be feasible,” Martin said. The protesters’ demand for 70 percent affordability is unreasonable, Martin added, given the lack of state and federal resources for affordable housing development. “At a certain point, you have to consider what’s financially feasible,” he said. “Not all projects can dip into subsidies for affordability.” The administration of Mayor Martin Walsh has committed to the creation of 53,000 new units of housing in Boston by 2030, greenlighting numerous projects over the last three years. While in recent years housing development has been concentrated mainly in downtown and high-rent neighborhoods, the push for new units has reached deeper into the city’s working class neighborhoods, including Dorchester and the Egleston Square area. Walsh administration officials say the creation of new housing units will reduce pressure on the city’s overheated rental market and bring rents down. But Kathy Brown, executive director of the Boston Tenant Coalition and a longtime Jamaica Plain resident, said the rate of displacement in the Egleston Square is alarming and that shiny new developments would likely increase displacement. “People have a lot of concerns about who this development is for,” she said. “Given the rate of displacement in this city, this is a good time to step back.” Mercurio said the agency will continue to solicit feedback from community members until it completes its plan for the corridor in July or August.

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Grads Shine at Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology’s 108th Commencement Approximately 180 graduates stepped into a brighter at the108th commencement at Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology. Held in the college’s historic auditorium, the Class of 2016 left BFIT with degrees and valuable job skills in technical fields experiencing strong job growth.

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Roxbury Community College holds 41st Annual Commencement Ceremony On Friday, May 13, 2016, Roxbury Community College held its 41st Annual Commencement Ceremony at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center. Commencement Speaker Robert Lewis, Jr. delivered a powerful address to RCC’s grads, and co-valedictorians Sheldon Sadik Hall and Jane Ogola Mbayi shared words of wisdom with their peers. Over 200 of the 366 members of the Class of 2016 proudly received their degrees and celebrated their accomplishments with their peers, families, and RCC’s faculty and staff.

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Teaching for today’s entrepreneurial business culture Every year, Christine Rainwater asks her Washington, D.C.-based undergraduate business students the same question on their first day of class: are any of you interested in starting a business? “Ten years ago, I would only get two or three students to raise their hands,” said Rainwater, a DeVry University professor. “Now, the majority of my students do — and some share ideas even before class begins. It really represents a new mindset as students take a more entrepreneurial approach to learning. I think they’re surrounded by fast-growing startups like Uber and GrubHub, and they feel inspired to quickly bring their own business ideas to life.” Business enterprise shows like “Shark Tank,” “Beyond the Tank” and “How I Made My Millions” are indicative of a bigger business trend: renewed growth in small business and startup ventures. According to the 2015 Kauffman Index of Startup Activity and National Trends, the Startup Activity Index rose in 2015 — reversing a downward trend that began in 2010 — allowing the largest year-overyear increase in the past 20 years. “Students see new, successful companies run by young creatives whose passion propelled them to success faster than climbing the traditional corporate ladder,” said Rainwater. “Not only is this inspiring more people to do the same, but it’s encouraging a whole new type of student to head back to school looking for resume-building experience that can jump-start job prospects right out of the program.” n Shaping a new culture of entrepreneurs. Today’s college student is different than past generations. Several non-traditional students need colleges that can fit into their busy schedules of work and family responsibilities. Moreover, many are coming back to school because they want to advance their current career or move to a new field quickly. Nontraditional students want their degree to speak for itself, demonstrating their capabilities and value. That’s why Rainwater puts hands-on learning at the center of her curriculum. “In my senior projects course, I challenge my students to explore their own neighborhoods, develop business plans for local companies and even kick-start businesses of their own,” she said. “It’s always rewarding to see their eyes light up when they first come up with a viable idea, or see the impact they’ve made in their communities.” The approach has given students reallife experience and has encouraged collaboration with local organizations. Online grocery store Relay Foods enlisted the help of Rainwater’s students to revamp their salsa canning and distribution plan. As a result, the students were able to help the grocer increase brand awareness and customer appeal for their signature salsa. Another student turned her passion for making premium homemade soap into a business, eventually turning the side job into an online boutique. n The benefits of breakthrough for rising innovators. Outside the classroom, Rainwater is the president of the Small Business Advisory Firm, a network focused on meeting the educational, networking and program-specific requirements to See BIZ BITS, page 13

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(l-r) Gilad Rosenzweig, founder and executive director of Smarter in the City, works alongside director of entrepreneurial development, Kofi Callender, at the business accelerator’s Dudley Square headquarters.

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Phil Ellison, co-founder of ULink, a company developing a web-based platform to help students in community colleges transfer to four-year universities, credits Dudley Square-based business accelerator Smarter in the City with helping him turn his business from a dream into reality. “Smarter in the City was really the opportunity to get recognized for an idea and to work on it and try it out,” said Ellison, a Tufts University student finishing up an undergraduate degree in African studies with a minor in entrepreneurship. “Smarter in the City was the first step for getting recognition and resources.” ULink and Ellison, along with fellow Tufts student co-founders Parisa Esmaili and Jubril Lawal, are part of Smarter in the City’s recently finished third cohort of startup companies. Along with entrepreneurs from four other companies, ULink’s founders spent five months at Smarter in the City beginning last September. Smarter in the City provides the entrepreneurs with free office space, shared business amenities — printers, copy machines, kitchens, meeting rooms — as well as access to mentors and a program of business development education that is designed to help develop the startups into viable ventures. The companies are also provided a stipend during

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The ideal success would be a company coming out of Smarter in the City and hiring some tech talent, marketing and sales support, and opening up their office right here in Dudley Square,” Rosenzweig said. “And I think we will have that hopefully with a couple of the companies here now.” — Gilad Rosenzweig

the five-month stay at Smarter in the City to allow the entrepreneurs to devote their time and effort to developing their startups.

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Smarter in the City was started in 2014 and has run three cohorts of startups supporting more than a dozen local companies so far. The accelerator has been praised for its efforts to boost the startup economy in Boston’s neighborhoods. Admission to a cohort comes through an application process — now open for the fourth cohort to start in September 2016 — but special attention is paid to entrepreneurs from Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan and other city locales. While traditional Boston innovation hubs such as Kendall Square or the Seaport District always seem to garner the most attention, Smarter in the City was singled out in its first year as one of just 50 business incubators in the

country to receive $50,000 from the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Growth Accelerator Fund. Importantly, for Gilad Rosenzweig, founder and executive director of Smarter in the City, what the business accelerator is doing is helping build a network of local entrepreneurs that want to grow and stay in the neighborhoods they were born out of. “The ideal success would be a company coming out of Smarter in the City and hiring some tech talent, marketing and sales support, and opening up their office right here in Dudley Square,” Rosenzweig said. “And I think we will have that hopefully with a couple of the companies here now.” Even though the cohort time runs for five months, it is not like Smarter in the City just drops the companies. Some continue to work in the space and others continue to take advantage of the mentoring and support as they move out on their own.

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www.f6s.com/smarterinthecity/apply Just last Thursday night, for example, Smarter in the City held a Roxbury Founders Night at the Roxbury Innovation Center as a way to continue the networking opportunities for all its former startups and also showcase the businesses to the business community at large.

Moving forward

As companies leave a business accelerator like Smarter in the City they may not all be ready to launch their own offices, but the hope is they are closer to that point. “It doesn’t mean that after six months that business is going to be ready, but we have to make sure they are on the right track,” Rosenzweig said. Another great development is that time at Smarter in the City prepares a startup to move on to another accelerator or to win business plan competitions and the resulting funding that sometimes accompanies this. Several Smarter in the City grads have moved on to fellow Boston accelerator MassChallenge, for example. Just finished cohort member ULink is an example of this. Ellison and his co-founders recently won the Tufts New Ventures

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continued from page 12 Competition, which puts their company in the next MassChallenge class. ULink does hope to fulfill Rosenzweig’s vision and eventually be headquartered in Roxbury. Ellison has high praise for the experience. “Smarter in the City has been a great foundation for us,” Ellison said. “It has been a win for us.” In addition to ULink, Smarter in the City’s third cohort of startups included: BeautyLynk, founded by Rica Elysee; Beldwell, started by Jamila Smith; Haute House University, launched by Taneshia Camillo-Sheffey; and Our Space Our Place, founded by Cheryl Cummings. BeautyLynk’s Elysee found the collaborative environment at Smarter in the City very helpful for her growth as an entrepreneur. “The most valuable part of being part of Smarter in the City has been working with other entrepreneurs in the community during our ‘work parties’ where we spend time brainstorming about each of our companies,” Elysee said. Elysee started BeautyLynk, a marketplace platform that provides at-home, on-demand hair and makeup services, in November 2014. The company has a Cambridge office already and the next step is expansion to additional cities.

According to Elysee, her goal in taking part in Smarter in the City’s cohort was to learn more about efficiently running a company. She is happy with her experience as well. “I would recommend Smarter in the City to any entrepreneur that needs additional support developing the idea and the plan to be able to launch successfully in the tech space,” she added.

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Taneshia Camillo-Sheffey used this past cohort to work on the launch of Haute House University, a subsidiary to her already successful Boston-based The Haute House Design Studio, which she started in 2012. While her existing business is a design studio, Haute House University is online training and consulting service to help fashion industry designers launch their own businesses. As a fashion veteran, Camillo-Sheffey said she didn’t have the experience and knowledge needed to launch Haute House University as a technology-based service. But Smarter in the City was able to help her do so. She spoke most highly of the one-on-one mentoring she received. “There were so many mentors that came into to speak with us which was really amazing,” she said. “It was a very valuable experience.” Our Space Our Place founder Cheryl Cummings has been working on her non-profit program to

provide after school and summer technology-backed programming for visually impaired students since 2006, but used Smarter in the City to start a transition to focusing on it full-time. She values the exposure to other entrepreneurs. “Smarter in the City has made such a huge difference by providing a place, an actual space, where I can go and work and not be isolated and be part of a group of people who are all sort of moving toward the same thing. We all have different businesses and ideas we are working on, but everybody gets that you are trying to get something up and running and wants to help,” Cummings said. “That has been very exciting.” Kofi Callender, Smarter in the City’s director of entrepreneurial development, points out that Smarter in the City wants to build excitement for entrepreneurial activity not just with its cohort but with its presence in Dudley Square and its working with organizations such as the Boston Impact Initiative that can connect entrepreneurs to the accelerator even if they are not part of a cohort. “We strive to be like a hub for companies here,” Callender said. “We really would love to create that atmosphere at Smarter in the City where companies come here to work. This is the energetic place where you come and get a lot of feedback from each other and work with each other and build an entrepreneurial community here in Roxbury.”

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continued from page 12 compete in the federal and private-sector contracting environment. “In the past, people had to go through an extensive process to start their own businesses,” said Rainwater. “Today, technology has removed many of the barriers that used to stand between big thinkers and entrepreneurship.” Rainwater considers immersive learning an imperative tool for business students’ professional development. She believes that it not only fosters creative thinking and entrepreneurial spirit, but also creates a safe environment for students to build tangible skills that can be immediately implemented in the workplace — across a variety of roles and practices. To help today’s students learn more about starting a new business, DeVry University offers a small business management and entrepreneurship degree specialization within its College of Business & Management. At the graduate level, its Keller Graduate School of Management offers an entrepreneurship concentration within its MBA program. “Right now, U.S. startup activity is rising for the first time in five years, showing entrepreneurs are the most hopeful they have been in several years,” said Rainwater. “And the beauty of these entrepreneurship programs is they not only teach students how to grow businesses, but they arm them with skills to succeed when they hit obstacles along the way - setting them up for long-term success.” — Brandpoint

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including recreational space for the neighborhood. n Gateway housing and retail project on Western Avenue Total Project Cost: $51,000,000 Total SF: 128,403 Construction Jobs: 95 A 132-unit residential building with 5,600 square feet of retail space to accommodate three commercial tenants was approved by the BRA board for 530 Western Avenue. The project, developed by The Mount Vernon Company and designed by Prellwitz Chilinski Associates, will serve as a new gateway to Brighton at the corner of Western Avenue and Leo M. Birmingham Parkway. The building

will contain studios, one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments, 17 of which will be deed-restricted affordable units. To encourage the use of alternative modes of transportation, the developer will provide a series of amenities, such as storage for 160 bicycles, a bike workshop with tools and repair parts, a digital screen in the lobby to display local transit options and schedules, and a Hubway bike share station. People that pre-lease an apartment will receive a free bicycle. The project site is within walking distance of the Boston Landing commuter rail station, which is currently under construction.

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Boston holds its own version of Broadway’s Tony Awards on Monday, May 23 at 7 p.m., when the Boston Theater Critics Association hosts its annual celebration of Boston’s live theater scene. Held at Boston’s Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre, the 34th Annual Elliot Norton Awards will present the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence to Steven Maler, founding artistic director if Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, which for 19 summers has transformed the Boston Common into a free public arena for memorable Shakespeare productions. Both the event and its award are named in honor of eminent Boston theater critic Elliot Norton, who remained a vigorous advocate of theater until his death in 2003 at age 100. Tony and Drama Desk Awardwinning actress Mary Louise Wilson will be Guest of Honor at the event, which honors the individuals and teams whose talents have animated the stages of Greater Boston throughout the year. Just as the annual Tony Awards celebration presents excerpts from Broadway shows, each year’s Norton Awards night features live performances by the casts of selected shows, offering audiences a showcase of the depth and variety of these talents. Nominees are selected and prizes awarded in 26 categories, including Outstanding Visiting Production; Outstanding Productions by Large, Midsize, Small, and Fringe Theaters; and Outstanding Musical Production by both large and smaller theaters. Other awards recognize set designers, actors and actresses, directors, playwrights and ensembles. Nominees include “Violet,” a production of the SpeakEasy Stage Company; actor Will Lyman, who played the title role in “King Lear” in last summer’s Commonwealth Shakespeare Company production on Boston Common; and actress Anita Gillette, in “A Confederacy of Dunces,” at Huntington Theatre Company. All three productions were reviewed favorably in this newspaper.

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ing at The Arsenal Center for the Arts irector Jim Petosa pulls off the impossible in “Freud’s Last Session,” playing at the New Repertory Theatre in Watertown through in Watertown, MA until May 22. May 22. With wit and humor, the play takes two of the 20th century’s greatest academic minds, Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis, and In light of the historical context, much of the debate makes both the men and their philosophies accessible. The 75-minute is centered on the meaning show features a debate between the two against the backdrop of the of death. Freud argues that Nazi invasion of England. there is no afterlife, and that Freud, played by Joe Colodner, has invited C.S. Lewis (Shelley Bolman) to his home in an attempt to understand, and perhaps undermine, his Christian beliefs. Both characters are given humanity in brief bits of backstory, Lewis for his PTSD from serving in WWI and Freud from the mouth cancer that is slowly killing him. The minimalist plotline doesn’t hinder the production. In fact, as Freud says, “Things are simple only when you

choose not to examine them.” Bolman produces an excellent Lewis, a lively, idealistic foil to Freud’s logical cynicism. But it’s Colodner who makes the show with a Freud that is at once fiercely proud, stubborn, and intellectual, and also wounded, guarded, and ultimately, afraid. Mark St. Germain’s witty dialogue keeps both actors on their toes, with Lewis giving his share of analysis on Freud, and sharp

one-liners coming from both sides. Their relationship progresses throughout the show from intellectual enemies to unlikely friends. The only flaw of the performance, and it is perhaps unavoidable given the subject matter, is the exclusionary quality of it. It’s a portrait of upper class, white intelligentsia. The characters only reference white male authors such as Milton, Tolkien and Chesterton. Despite this, the questions they grapple with — is there a God? What happens after death? Is there such thing as innate morality? — apply to all walks of life. To his credit, Freud does bring a dose of contemporary liberalism to the piece when he advocates for bisexuality and personal freedom.

the choice to die belongs to each individual, not to a higher power. Conversely, Lewis believes only God can take life and that heaven or hell awaits humanity afterwards. These philosophies are underscored by the events of the characters’ lives. Lewis uses a higher power to justify watching his friends die in the war. Freud wants to have control of his life, despite the disease that dictates his death. Near the end of the play, Freud is reduced to lying on the couch in horrendous pain from the cancer in his mouth. Lewis stands by, helping as he can. Throughout the show the couch is used as a weapon of power. Whoever sits on it is being analyzed, while the analyzer, elsewhere, has all the control. In the end the power symbol, and the debate, is neutralized. The couch has become the bed of a dying man and the two enemies are equalized by their mortality — no matter the reason for it.

Shelley Bolman and Joel Colodner portray C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud in “Freud’s Last Session,” playing at the New Rep Theatre in Watertown. PHOTO: ANDREW BRILLIANT

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Jazzing up Friday night The Makanda Project brings local composer’s work to the stage By CELINA COLBY

On a drizzly, unwelcoming Friday night, the Dudley branch of the Boston Public Library bursts with energy. Four times a year, the Makanda Project hosts free jazz concerts at the library, and the community can’t get enough. The room is packed with well over a hundred guests. It’s a diverse group in both age and background. A toddler in pink pants and double buns runs up to an unused keyboard and taps out a melody while her mother chats with their neighbors. A teen brings his elderly relative a cookie from the bake sale tables in the back. Everyone is an old friend. At 7 the musicians break off from the crowd and take their places at the front of the room. Without pretension, the concert has begun. John Kordalewski, a student of the jazz composer Makanda Ken McIntyre, assembled the Makanda Project in 2005 in memory of the artist. McIntyre had some 350 unpublished songs at the time of his death, and the group performs them around the

city to keep his passion alive. “Makanda was many things,” says Kordalewski. “He was uniquely powerful, educated, and tremendous on his instruments. There’s something intriguing about his writing.”

Lyrical language

In 2008 the band began their regular concerts at the library. The music appeals to jazz enthusiasts and music lovers alike. “It’s stretching the boundaries of what jazz does, but it’s still rooted in the fundamentals,” says Kordalewski. It’s that blend of new and familiar that keeps people coming back.” Once a year renowned jazz musician Oliver Lake joins the group for a concert. McIntyre had released an album with Lake’s label, which sparked Lake’s interest in his music. “The fact that his music was so ahead of its time makes the work very interesting and very challenging,” says Lake. The set list takes advantage of the variety of jazz music but creating a kind of narrative. A low, moody piece leads into a

tight, suspenseful number, and is wrapped up with a lively, saxophone-heavy resolution. It was important to Kordalewski to stage these concerts in areas like Roxbury, not only because McIntyre lived there, but because of the jazz history that was made on those streets. Roxbury resident Leonard Brown was attending his first Makanda Project concert on Friday, May 13. “It’s good to have the music in these communities where the music lives,” says Brown. He reminisces with a friend about the earlier days when jazz was performed outside and clubs weren’t as hard to find. Community is the heart of the Makanda Project concerts. It’s not just an evening of impeccably executed jazz, it’s an opportunity to socialize with friends and neighbors. The free, centrally located events give residents the chance to experience art on their own turf, without having to venture to the self-proclaimed culture centers of the city. Brown puts it best as he gesture out to the rows of friends before him. “There’s all kinds of people here, all ages, all sexes, it’s a cross section of what we hope the community will be.” The next Makanda Project concert is June 11, at 1 p.m., at the Bromley heath Amphitheater in Jamaica Plain.

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The reed section of the Makanda Project performs at the Dudley Library.

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‘Oklahoma!’ on stage in Providence through June 5 as on stage, bringing the audience close to the action. Illustrations on a giant backdrop stand in for sets such as a dress shop or barroom. Props are few but impressive, such as the handsome leather saddle Curly brings out as he bids against Jud in an auction for Laurey’s boxed lunch. Cowhands pass around an innocent-looking kaleidoscope that shows different scenes of burlesque-clad women. Ensemble members on the platforms take the poses, so the audience sees the same views.

By SUSAN SACCOCCIA

Like a wind sweeping down a plain, an exuberant production of the great Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Oklahoma!” surges through the main stage of Trinity Reportory Company in Providence through June 5, lifting both the cast and audience aloft in its high spirits. Reviving one of the great American musicals, director Richard Jenkins, a noted stage and movie actor, and his wife, accomplished choreographer Sharon Jenkins, have turned the theater into a setting of ensemble grandeur and duo intimacy. They orchestrate masterful staging and lighting by set designer Eugene Lee, a crack live orchestra led by keyboardist and musical director Michael Rice, classic costumes by Toni Spadafora, and an able cast that includes, on opening night, some scene-stealers who rival the romantic leads in magnetism. The first collaboration between composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895– 1960), whose subsequent Broadway hits would include other masterworks such as “Carousel” and “South Pacific,” this quintessential American musical is based on a 1930 play by Oklahoma native and part Cherokee Rollie Lynn Riggs (1899 - 1954). Hammerstein expanded its story and crafted the lyrics to melodies by Rodgers, who created such irresistible songs as “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’,” “The Surrey with the Fringe on Top,” “I Cain’t Say No,” “People Will Say We’re in Love,” and “Oklahoma!” Their production makes the music integral to the plot — a first for a Broadway musical — and when it debuted on Broadway in 1943 it ran for five years. The show spawned many touring productions and in 1955 became an Academy Award-winning movie. Trinity’s production is faithful to the original and its abiding power to stir hearts and spirits. About two hours long with one intermission, the Jenkins production turns the entire theater into a performance space that shifts between scenes of intimacy and a sense of wide, open space as well as the story’s moments of sunshine and darkness.

Pioneer spirits

The production opens with the four characters who are also at the center of the Riggs story: Curly, a cowboy courting farm girl Laurey, who pretends to shrug off his attentions; her Aunt Eller, a ranch owner; and, spoken of but not yet seen, Jud, a hardworking farmhand but brooding loner who longs to escort Laurey to the upcoming square dance. Around these four swirl townsfolk and friends, including big-spirited, solid Will, engaged to Ado Annie, a sweet and boy-crazy girl whose anthem features the refrain, “I’m jist a girl who cain’t say no.” “Oklahoma!” is about sharing the land, getting along and coming together. While following the progress of the two courting couples, its plot touches on the

Talented team

PHOTO: MARK TUREK

Joe Wilson, Jr. as Jud and Charlie Thurston as Curly in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” directed and choreographed by Richard and Sharon Jenkins at Trinity Rep. Set and lighting design by Eugene Lee and costume design by Toni Spadafora. friction between farmers and cowboys over water rights and fencing as well as the tragic outsider, Jud, whose only memory of human tenderness is Laurey’s visit to his cabin to bring him tea when he was in bed with fever. All of this is brought to life with stage magic and actors who can act, sing and dance in numbers that vary from a square dance to a brawl. Rendering the original choreography by Agnes de Mille (1905-1993), these scenes include a rendering of the subconscious — a dream ballet in which Laurey imagines Jud and

Curly as rival suitors. Jenkins and Lee expanded the stage vertically as well as horizontally to create the production’s sense of space. They hacked seats out of the theater’s first floor to lengthen the stage and then inserted four small platforms, each a performance space, in the semicircular upper tiers of audience seating. Makeshift fencing surrounds the audience like a corral. Perched on a fifth platform, the seven-member orchestra is visible to all. Actors scale the sets and perform from these platforms as well

A cast of 15 actors performs a total of 20 roles. They include two indispensible ensembles. The female trio comprises Shura Baryshnikov, Hannah Spacone, and Royer Bockus, who also plays Gertie, a flirty girl with a highpitched laugh. Equally superb is the male ensemble: Jon Cooper, Taavon Gamble, Stephen Ursprung, and Kevin Patrick Martin. The show’s central foursome is paralleled by a comic quartet in Will, Ado Annie and Ali Hakim, a Persian peddler who has seduced Ado Annie but now wants to escape her. Stephen Thorne is great fun to watch as Ali, and Tom Gleadow is convincing as Ado Annie’s sober father, who will award her to the suitor with the most cash. In the opening scene, when Charlie Thurston’s Curly lets out with “Oh, What a Beautiful

Mornin’,” the dream that is this musical begins to unfold on stage. Thurston and Rachael Warren, as Laurey, both have strong voices but, on opening night, there was little palpable chemistry between them. Warren’s Laurey was a bit too convincing in her toughness as she fended off Curly’s entreaties. Aunt Eller, as performed with warmth, wit, humor and wisdom by Janice Duclos, is the heart of the show. Early in the first of two acts, Jude Sandy is a scenestealer as his Will Parker, Ado Annie’s cowboy suitor, lets loose with a stirring delivery of “Kansas City,” conveying his character’s optimism and solid strength. As his eagerly amorous fiancée Ado Annie, Rebecca Gibel is just right with her character’s sweet and ditzy flirtatiousness, and she revels in an added touch of slapstick as she pounces on a man in the front row while singing that she just can’t say no. Another showstopper is Joe Wilson, Jr., who injects restrained dignity into the role of the damaged Jud. After Curly confronts Jud in his cabin, on a platform in an otherwise darkened theater, Wilson deliver’s Jud’s aria, “Lonely Room,” with poignant power. The Trinity production handily shifts from close encounters to large-scale spectacle. In a near-finale, as all but Jud line up on stage and sing “Oklahoma,” the surging harmony of their chorus sweeps through the theater like a wind rolling on the plains.

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TALA MADANI: FIRST LIGHT & VILLA DESIGN GROUP: THE TRAGEDY MACHINE

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The MIT List Visual Arts Center invites you to celebrate the opening of our spring exhibitions. Thursday, May 19 from 6-8pm, Reception with the artists. List Projects: Narrative Color will also be open during the reception. To learn more about Tala Madani (https://listart.mit. edu/exhibitions/tala-madani-first-light) and Villa Design Group (https://listart.mit. edu/exhibitions/villa-design-group-trag edy-machine). RSVP at https://www. eventbrite.com/e/tala-madani-and-villa-de sign-group-opening-tickets-22073078171. Free.

WAITING FOR CHANGE Through June 24 the Multicultural Arts Center will host local artist Barbara Trachtenberg as she tells her stories of Cuba. Daily Havana tumbles life onto the streets where bikes, wagons and hawkers of handmade brooms fill streets too narrow for the painted cars of the 1950s. People wait by day in thought and shadow for something unexpressed. Cubans are patient and used to disappointment and overripe fruit. Tourists bring nostalgia for a simpler life — neighbors looking out for each other and time to just be. The idea of Disconnect reflects both a time warp and Cuba’s ration on virtual constant contact. Patterns repeat themselves in metal and metaphor—grids, a scrapped bedspring by an ornamental grille, lacework at a window, neighborhood networks — the web of woven patterns that record history and keep people inside and out. The past and the future resound. These are the snippets of live in Cuba you can expect to visit in Trachtenberg’s work. Waiting for Change reception will take place Thursday, May 19 from 6-8pm. Step into Havana and see what daily life is like for those living, visiting, working, and playing. Cuba is waiting for change, and so are we. Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St., East Cambridge. Galleries and reception are FREE and open to the public. Regular Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10:30am - 6pm.

BELONGING: A RETROSPECTION Through June 24 the Multicultural Arts Center will host “Belonging: A Retrospection” in the Upper Gallery. This show brings to life the incredible fiber work of Boisali Biswas. A studio artist working in mixed-media fibers, Biswas is originally from India with her formative years spent at Visva-Bharti International University. Her pieces display underlying influences of the captivating traditional patterns and techniques and usage of stunningly rich array of colors in Indian art. The subject matter itself, soul-searching. A reception will take place Thursday, May 19 from 6-8pm. Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St., East Cambridge. Galleries and reception are FREE and open to the public. Regular Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10:30am - 6pm.

Practice gentle yet energizing standing & seated (chair yoga) poses and movements to maintain strength & agility as you age. Learn deep breathing & meditation techniques to increase memory & focus and achieve emotional balance. Connect with other older adults age 50+ to cultivate a community of elders inspired to enhance their health, wellness & wisdom with yoga. These classes are free and open to the public. Saturdays, 10-11am, May 21 and 28. Parker Hill Branch Library, 1497 Tremont St., Roxbury (Boston’s Mission Hill); take the MBTA to Roxbury Crossing, Ruggles or Brighams Circle stations, or bus routes #39 or 66. Some on-street parking is available. To RSVP, call head librarian Katrina Morse at 617-4273820, email earthseedyogi@gmail.com, or visit earthseedyoga.com.

BLUE HILLS RESERVATION Moderate walk, hilly terrain, 2.5 miles. Walk Wolcott Path to Hemenway Hill Path. Return via Breakneck Ledge. Meet at the Trailside Museum north parking lot at 1904 Canton Ave. in Milton. Saturday, May 21 at 1pm. The Southeastern Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00 for recreational walks. This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join. Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers are encouraged to participate. The terrain can vary: EASY (mostly level terrain), MODERATE (hilly terrain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep). Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. Occasionally, the Walking Club meets at other DCR sites. Some DCR sites charge a parking fee. The rangers recommend wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes.

SUNDAY REHOBOTH STATE PARK Easy walk, 1.5 miles. Check out the new Healthy Heart Trail at Rehoboth State Forest. Travel along a boardwalk, view an Atlantic White Cedar Swamp, and many cellar holes, stone foundations, and other stone formations. Meet at the main dirt parking lot 90 Peck Street in Rehoboth. No restrooms on site. Sunday, May 22 at 1pm. The Southeastern Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00 for recreational walks. This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join. Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers are encouraged to participate. The terrain can vary: EASY (mostly level terrain), MODERATE (hilly terrain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep). Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. Occasionally, the Walking Club meets at other DCR sites. Some DCR sites charge a parking fee. The rangers recommend wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes.

THURSDAY, MAY 19

MARVIN GILMORE: CRUSADER FOR FREEDOM Marvin Gilmore — a decorated war hero, Cambridge music club impresario, community developer, and civil-rights activist — and award-winning journalist Paul Katzeff will speak at the Museum of African-American History at 46 Joy St. on Boston’s Beacon Hill on Thursday, May 19, at 6:30pm. The public is invited. Noted WCVB broadcast journalist Karen Holmes Ward will be moderator of the event. She will interview Katzeff and Gilmore about Gilmore’s life — his battles against racial discrimination, his campaigns to boost employment for Boston African-Americans, his multiple business enterprises, and his role in helping Boston heal its racial wounds. For tickets and more information, visit www.eventbrite.com/e/marvin-gilm ore-crusader-for-freedom-tickets-25127068739.

WEDNESDAY REMNANTS Simmons College presents Remnants, a site-specific installation of sculpture by Hannah Verlin, through May 25 at the Trustman Art Gallery, located on the fourth floor, Main College Building, 300 The Fenway in Boston. Closed May 20. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. Hannah Verlin’s Remnants, using spare materials, references New England’s connection to the sea. Using the height and light of the Trustman Art Gallery, her site-specific installation carries the weight of history via delicate form and obsessive markmaking. Verlin’s work and graceful installation only emphasizes how much interpolation we must do to identify with the past. Trustman Gallery hours are 10am 4:30pm, Monday through Friday. The gallery is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible. For more information, contact Marcia Lomedico at 617-521-2268, or visit the Trustman Art Gallery website at www.simmons. edu/trustman.

UPCOMING IDELLE: LATIN/PUERTO RICAN SINGER-SONGWRITER An event for all ages! In collaboration with Berklee College of Music, enjoy Idelle’s fresh, new way of sharing folk songs from her home of Puerto Rico. Thursday, May 26, 6pm, Uphams Corner Branch of the Boston Public Library, 500 Columbia Rd., 617-2650139. www.bpl.org.

THROUGH BARBED WIRE PRESENTS 4TH FRIDAY SERIES 7-8:30pm: Monthly prose/poetry participatory event focused on the voices of prisoners, through their writings, speaking to family, friends, youth and allies in the community about prison reality and their lives in it. Audience participation encouraged. Light refreshments. Created and directed by Arnie King. Friday, May 27, The City School, 614 Columbia Rd. (use the rear entrance on Ramsey St.), Dorchester MA 02125. For more info: through barbedwire@yahoo.com or visit www. arnoldking.org; tel. 857-492-4858. Cost: Donation.

and improving balance through the regular practice of Tai Chi. Participants will learn 8 single forms all of which are derived from the traditional 24-form Yang Style Tai Chi. The forms are tailored to older adults who wish to improve balance and mobility. Workshop runs for 12 weeks on Mondays and Wednesdays, from 1-2pm beginning June 1. Location: Twelfth Baptist Church, 160 Warren St. in Roxbury. Space is limited and pre-registration required. For more information or to register, contact Ann at 617-477-6616 or aglora@ethocare.org.

ONGOING SCHOOL DAYS IN THE WEST END EXHIBIT The West End Museum is set to host a new exhibit honoring the neighborhood’s rich history of education. School Days in the West End runs through July 9, in the Museum’s Main Exhibit Hall. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. Between 1800 and 1975, no fewer than 20 schools called Boston’s West End home. Following urban renewal, the last school in the community — the Peter Faneuil School — closed, and there has not been another public school in the West End or Beacon Hill since. Still, the neighborhood boasts a robust history of education, with several scholastic firsts. School Days in the West End recounts that exceptional past through graphic story panels, artifacts, photographs, report cards, textbooks and more. In 1821, one of the first public high schools in America, English High School, opened in The West End. The Abiel Smith School was the first building in the country raised to be a public school for African Americans. The Phillips School became one of the

first integrated schools in Boston in 1855. And the kindergarten program started in 1870 at the Somerset School predates the claim of Susan Blow’s St. Louis kindergarten as the first in the US in 1873. School Days in the West End is free and open to the public during regular Museum hours. The Museum is located near North Station at 150 Staniford St., Suite 7. Hours: Tuesday Friday 12-5pm; Saturday 11-4pm.

STAR GAZING AT THE OBSERVATORY The Public Open Night at the Observatory is a chance for people to observe the night sky through telescopes and binoculars and see things they otherwise might not get to see, and learn some astronomy as well. Wednesday nights from 8:30-9:30pm, weather permitting, Coit Observatory at Boston University, located at 725 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, right above the Astronomy Department. The stairwell to the Observatory is on the fifth floor right next to room 520. More Info: Call (617) 353-2630 for any questions.

1-3 YEAR OLD PLAYGROUPS With free play, circle time, and parent discussion, Playgroups are a wonderful place for you and your toddler to connect with each other and with other families. Your child will develop social and emotional skills, early literacy, gross and fine motor skills, and experience art and sensory materials. This group is for parents and their children ages 1-3 years. Thursdays 9:30-11:30am, Georgetowne Homes Community Room, 400A Georgetowne Dr., Hyde Park. More Info: Visit http:// familynurturing.org/dropins/1-3-yearold-playgroup-1; For more times and locations, visit http://familynurturing. org/programs/parent-child-playgroups.

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SPRING GREENS Hearty greens, root vegetables are a seasonal gift

Farro Salad with Veggies in Basil-Grapefruit Dressing Serving size: 1 cup Servings per recipe: 6 n 1 cup/6 ounces farro n 2 cups/8 ounces asparagus, cut into 1-inch lengths n 4 ounces ruby red grapefruit juice n 1 teaspoon grated garlic n 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard n 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil n ½ cup/½ ounce basil, sliced or very roughly chopped n 2 cups/8 ounces cherry tomatoes, halved n 2 cups/2 ounces arugula, roughly chopped Place farro in a large pot with plenty of salted water. Bring to a boil and cook until al dente, about 40 minutes. One minute (depending on the size of the asparagus) before the farro is done, add the asparagus to the pot. Drain. While the farro is cooking, make the dressing. Whisk together the grapefruit juice, garlic, mustard and olive oil. Stir in the basil. When the farro is done and while it’s still hot, toss half the dressing with the farro. Taste and season with salt and pepper. Let sit for 10 minutes to allow the flavors of the dressing to absorb. Stir in the cherry tomatoes and arugula along with the remaining dressing. Taste once more and serve. — Brandpoint

THE DISH ON ... “Fries!: An Illustrated Guide to the World’s Favorite Food” by Blake Lingle Who better to write the consummate cultural history and user’s guide of the fry than Blake Lingle, whose fries were recently voted the best in America by U.S. News & World Report? In this lighthearted ode, Lingle offers a 360-degree look at fries, from their roots in antiquity, to the long-standing debate as to whether the Belgians or the French created the first true frites, to their current status as a gourmet treat. — Princeton Architectural Press

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percent: According to the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association, more than 80 percent of U.S. households own a grill or smoker.

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pring greens make a cook’s heart race—asparagus, sugar snaps, sweet peas, arugula, spinach, Swiss chard, watercress, artichokes, fava beans, bok choy, garlic scapes, green onion, leeks and more. After the hearty greens and root vegetables of winter, spring’s sweet and tender offerings are a gift. So, stash the stockpot and grab a sauté pan. As this simple but splendid recipe shows, spring greens barely need cooking at all.

Baked Halibut with Spinach and Leeks A creamy tangle of young spinach and sweet leeks makes a luscious bed for baked fish. n 2 tablespoons, plus 1 teaspoon, unsalted butter, divided n 10 ounces baby spinach n 2 medium leeks (white and light-green parts only), cut into halves lengthwise, rinsed and thinly sliced (about 1 cup) n 2 large garlic cloves, minced n ¼ cup dry white wine n 1⁄3 cup heavy cream n ½ teaspoon coarse salt, divided n ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper n 1 pinch nutmeg n 2 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan cheese n 4 (5- to 6-ounce) skinless halibut (or cod) fillets n 2 teaspoons olive oil 1. Preheat oven to 400F. 2. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat and add 1 teaspoon butter. Add spinach in two batches, and cook, tossing, until just wilted, about 2 minutes per batch. Transfer to a colander, let cool, then squeeze to release excess liquid. 3. Pour off any liquid in skillet. Reduce heat to medium. Add remaining 2 tablespoons butter and leeks. Cook until softened but not browned, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring, 1 minute more. Add wine, increase heat to medium high, and cook until wine is almost evaporated, about 2 minutes. Add cream and simmer until just slightly thickened, about 2 minutes. Add 1/4 teaspoon salt, pepper and nutmeg. Stir in Parmesan, and gently fold in spinach. Keep warm. 4. Arrange halibut on a parchment-lined baking sheet, brush with oil, and sprinkle with remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt. Bake 10 minutes, or until just cooked through. Divide spinach mixture among serving plates and top with halibut. Serves 4. — Recipe by Laraine Perri MARK BOUGHTON PHOTO/STYLING BY TERESA BLACKBURN

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Alonzo Bodden at Laugh Boston By LISA SIMMONS

Introduced to America on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,” Alonzo Bodden was runner up on season two and came back to win it all on “Last Comic Standing” season three “The Best of the Best.” He is a regular on NPR’s “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” and last year he was a featured guest on Comedy Central’s “Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.” Known for his social commentary, comedian Alonzo Bodden starred in his second stand-up comedy special titled “Historically Incorrect,” which premiered on Showtime in February 2016. Bodden returns to Laugh Boston for three nights beginning Thursday, May 19th thru Saturday, May 21st. Bodden spoke to the Banner prior to his Boston show. At a time when some find it hard to laugh at anything, Bodden takes that angst and frustration many are feeling and repackages into a comedic set that makes one think and most important, that makes one laugh. Now who doesn’t need that?

I love the show “Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!” How is it to be a comedian on that show? Alonzo Bodden: It’s a show you can’t really prepare for, well at least I don’t. It always makes me laugh and I just say whatever comes to my mind. The thing about that show is that you really need to see it live because they edit out a lot of conversations and jokes that wouldn’t be allowed on radio.

You do television, radio, films, and stand-up. What is your dream space to do comedy? My dream would be a topical comedy show on TV like ‘The Daily Show.’ I do topical comedy live but TV pays better. It’s hard now. I would love to be hosting a show but selling a comedy show to networks, they are looking for edgy, younger acts and I’m not young. I still get work and love being able to be on shows but networks and studios aren’t making deals like they used to and they aren’t willing to take a chance unless you show up with 200,000 to 330,000 followers.

You do jokes about giving your brother a kidney, but really, that’s no laughing matter. It’s pretty amazing. AB: I tell everyone that he owed me money, but really my brother is my best friend. He’s my best critic and will tell me like it is and when I’m not getting it right. I remember there was this time when he saw a set on ‘Last Comic Standing’ and said, “You’re thinking about the money.” I changed gears and thought about the comedy.

Where do you get your sense of humor? AB: From my mother. She is hilarious.

It’s no secret that you love motorcycles and not just any motorcycles, you have a Ducati! Why, such a passion? The speed, the risk, like comedy can be? AB: It’s my escape and it actually puts me in this meditative state.

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(Hmm...maybe he shouldn’t be riding). I first started riding when I was seven on my grandmother’s farm in South Carolina. I remember it feeling like I was flying. I mean, I guess there is a risk but the reward is much greater.

said that when Barack Obama got elected things were supposed to get better but they’re not. Racism is just more public. The problem is the news media is not the news media anymore. They are not concerned with telling the truth, so comics (political, topical) are the last ones doing that, telling the truth. Lewis Black is great at that.

What message do you think your comedy conveys?

How are Boston audiences different than other places you do shows?

AB: Comedy is different things to different people. It’s about the creativity, that’s my favorite thing, and the rhythm. I work with a lot of jazz artists and host jazz festivals and they always say to me ,“Man you’re a jazz musician; you just go where your comedy takes you.” Early in my career it was tough gaining acceptance from black audiences. I came out during “Def Comedy Jam” and black crowds took a while to warm to me, but Cedric The Entertainer encouraged me to keep going, be who I was, and they came along. In the world of comedy the court jester was the only guy who could speak truth to power but if he wasn’t funny they chopped off his head. A kind of risk/reward and not unlike dying in front of an audience. I do topical situational comedy, so it conveys and relates to what is going on right now.

AB: Back in the day, Boston was a comedy city and they have always been a tough audience. They know comedy. I always wanted to come here because the audiences here push us. They don’t laugh at everything and that’s good. It makes us work harder.

You make fun of things you call “Historically Incorrect” like black hockey players. AB: Black hockey players. What I’m saying is that black hockey players are something we don’t see. I use to joke about not liking hockey because the only

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Alonzo Bodden thing black was the puck but I was doing a fundraiser in Winnipeg and joking about black hockey players, and Ryan Reaves who is from Winnipeg is black and plays pro hockey. And he came up to me after the show and said, ‘I’m a black hockey player’ and he taught me about the game. They say we’re not supposed to be in those places but guess what, we are. That’s “Historically Incorrect.”

You have a line in your bio that says “The stupid out there is wearing the man down.” How does your comedy change with different political environments like this one? AB: It’s difficult to come up with jokes, to be as funny as Trump, because no one can outtrump Trump. The problem though is he’s not joking, he’s serious. I like more personal driven comedy. People say I am a lot like George Carlin who is one of my favorite comedians. That is a compliment. I remember when people

Where are you most comfortable? AB: On the stage. It’s my home and I am more comfortable there than anywhere else.

What do you want people to say about you after they leave your show? AB: Besides the laughter? I made them think. Alonzo Bodden is performing at Laugh Boston May 19-21. Tickets go fast so be sure to get them soon.

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According to information provided by the department, the BPD has a force of 2,103 sworn officers of which 475 are black (22.6 percent) and 184 Latino (8.7 percent). Meanwhile, the city’s population is 24 percent black and 17.5 percent Latino, according to the 2010 census. The fire department has 1,489 officers, with blacks numbering 310 (20.8 percent) and Latinos 111 (7.45 percent), according to Steve MacDonald, spokesperson for the Boston Fire Department. “There’s no diversity in the Boston Police Department,” said Larry Ellison, president of the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers. “A lot of the gains that have been made have been eroded. There seems to be a concerted effort to do nothing about it from people in power.”

Fire Department preferences

The fire department’s current class of recruits comprises 25 people, two of whom are black and none of whom are Latino or Asian, according to MacDonald. And among those already serving, blacks and Latinos are primarily represented in the firefighter rank, as opposed to higher in command. MacDonald and Danielson Tavares, Boston’s’ chief diversity officer, said a law giving hiring preference to veterans is primarily responsible for this lack of diversity. With thousands applying on a given civil service exam, typically only veterans or those with other preferences make it into the pool to considered, Tavares said. “We tell people, the path to getting hired to be a firefighter is to serve in the military and then use your veteran status to go in front of those who are not veterans,” MacDonald told the Banner. The current recruit class is comprised entirely veterans, as have been the last two classes, he said.

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In 2014, City Councilor Michael Flaherty sponsored an ordinance

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Veteran status, far more than test scores, determines who gets hired by the Fire Department, according to city officials. that would have boosted the chances of Boston resident applicants. Currently, candidates for police and fire are given preference if they have lived in the city for one year; under the ordinance, that residency requirement would expand to three years. At the time, Mayor Martin Walsh vetoed the ordinance, expressing intention instead pass it as a more formal Home Rule Petition, according to Flaherty’s website. Since then, Walsh has not re-filed the ordinance. Tavares said that residency requirements remain contentious and it is uncertain if the city will pursue the expansion. “We haven’t made that determination,” he said. “Residency requirements are one of those points that is heavily contested and debated. It’s a conversation that we’re really having to figure out how do we have more not just diversity but native Boston folks on both departments.”

Considering steps

This month, the city took the

step of hiring Juan Sanchez as the fire department’s diversity officer. One of Sanchez’s tasks will be to make plans to recruit more minority veterans to take the entrance test, MacDonald said. Tavares said that during a conversation with Sanchez and the fire commissioner, further plans emerged. These include community outreach to publicize dates of upcoming civil service exams and alternatives to the exam fee for those unable to pay. Plans also include outreach to school children “targeting them at a young age … letting them know steps they’re going to take to get a real shot at [a career in Fire,]” Tavares said. “A lot of neighborhood kids don’t realize the role that the veteran preference plays. They believe scoring high enough on the exam will get you in. Unfortunately that’s not true,” Tavares said. Sanchez is a Dorchester resident who has worked with diversity recruitment, hiring, spending and workforce development via

a previous position as the Access and Opportunity Coordinator for the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority. Tavares was unaware of any diversity benchmark goals Sanchez is expected to meet during his first few months.

Police problems

There are strong concerns that the police force will become less diverse, with many officers of color due to retire. Currently, there are 53 recruits, six of whom are black and eight Latino. BPD hiring relies on the civil service exam. Tavares said that while city officials could petition the state to change that requirement, the city would first need to devise an alternate method it could propose. “First we need to figure out, legislatively and as a body, which portions of civil service we need to address,” he said. Promotions also are governed by civil exams, and MAMLEO’s

the test used in 2008 to determine promotions to lieutenant was biased against blacks and Latinos and failed to predict success in the position. The test is the same as that used to determine promotion to sergeant in 2008. Tavares said that there is some internal discussion of the promotions process. “There’s been conversation about, Is there opportunity to change the way promotions are done? Is there an opportunity to work within the civil service rules, or are there changes to be made there? Those are conversation we’re having internally, with the fire chief, with the police chief,” he said. When asked about diversity prospects for hiring bilingual or multilingual officers, Tavares said the city is having discussions on matters such as this. “Those conversations are being had. We haven’t made a final determination of how to proceed with it,” he said. “It’d be nice to have a police force that not only resembles the city of Boston but also can interact with all different groups, and part of that’s being able to communicate with them.”

Cadet program

Currently, the BPD seems to be focusing on the reinstated cadet program to bolster diversity numbers. McCarthy previously told the Banner that approximately 375 people applied to take the cadet exam. Out of all who pass — and Tavares expected nearly all would — 42 will be admitted into the cadet program. When creating its police recruit class, the BPD may give onethird of those slots to cadets. Tavares said that while no specific diversity goals are set, neighborhood of residency and racial diversity will be considered when admitting applicants to the cadet program. With more than 70 percent of exam takers are people of color, the final selections are likely to be diverse, he said.

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LEGAL The Gate Connector project is comprised of two major components. The first critical component of the project is to provide a post security connection from gates 37-38 to the existing foodcourt. This includes new offices for tenant airlines, a new concourse connecting the gate holdrooms to the foodcourt, and new airside toilet rooms dedicated to the new expanded holdroom space. Construction of the new gate connector space will require careful phasing to ensure that airline operations remain uninterrupted. The second component of the project is the replacement of ceilings and duct distribution systems in the departures level public concourse and in the new gate connector space. A Supplemental Information Package which will provide more details on the scope of the Project as well as the selection process and evaluation criteria shall be available as of Wednesday, May 18, 2016 on Massport website http://www.massport.com/doing-business/_layouts/CapitalPrograms/ default.aspx as an attachment to the original Legal Notice, on CommBuys (www.commbuys.com) in the listings for this project or by contacting Susan Brace by email at sbrace@massport.com. In addition, a Project Briefing shall be held in the Capital Programs

LEGAL Department, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA on Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 3:30 PM. The briefing is not mandatory. Responses shall be addressed to Houssam Sleiman, P.E., CCM, Director of Capital Programs and Environmental Affairs and received in the Capital Programs Department no later than 12:00 noon on Thursday, June 16, 2016 at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Capital Programs Department, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 02128-2909. All questions relative to your submission shall be directed to CPBidQuestions@ massport.com. In the subject lines of your email, please reference the MPA Project Name and Number. It is strictly prohibited for any proponent to contact anyone else from Massport about this project from the time of this solicitation until award of the project to the successful proponent. MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY Thomas P. Glynn CEO and Executive Director

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INVITATION TO BID The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following: BID NO.

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DATE

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Supply and Delivery of Sodium 06/01/16 Hypochlorite to the John J. Carroll Water Treatment Plant and the William A. Brutsch Water Treatment Plant

TIME 2:00 p.m.

To access and bid on Event(s) please go to the MWRA Supplier Portal at www.mwra.com. MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY 100 SUMMER ST., SUITE 1200 BOSTON, MA 02110 NOTICE TO BIDDERS Electronic proposals for the following project will be received through the internet using Bid Express until the date and time stated below, and will be posted on www.bidx.com forthwith after the bid submission deadline. No paper copies of bids will be accepted. Bidders must have a valid digital ID issued by the Authority in order to bid on projects. Bidders need to apply for a digital ID with Bid Express at least 14 days prior to a scheduled bid opening date. Electronic bids for MBTA Contract No. U90CN01, SYSTEMWIDE TANK REPLACEMENT PROGRAM, (CLASS 10 - MECHANICAL, PROJECT VALUE $3,252,070.00), can be submitted at www.bidx.com until two o’clock (2:00 p.m.) on June 21, 2016. Immediately thereafter, in a designated room, the Bids will be opened and read publicly. Work consists of various scopes of work related to underground and above-ground storage tanks and fuel dispensing facilities throughout the MBTA System. The work includes, but is not limited to, tank removals, tank upgrades, renovation of existing fuel dispensing, construction of new fuel dispensing facility and other associated upgrades to support the tank program. Bidders’ attention is directed to Appendix 1, Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action to Insure Equal Employment Opportunity; and to Appendix 2, Supplemental Equal Employment Opportunity, Anti- Discrimination, and Affirmative Action Program in the specifications. In addition, pursuant to the requirements of Appendix 3, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Participation Provision. Additional information and instructions on how to submit a bid are available at http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/cur rent_solicitations/ On behalf of the MBTA, thank you for your time and interest in responding to this Notice to Bidders Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

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June 21, 2016

Every General Bidder must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance for the category of work and for no less than the bid price plus all add alternates of this project, if applicable. The Category of Work is:

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April 13, 2016 PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SOLICITATION FOR CONSULTANT SERVICES

The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense. WITNESS, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: April 28, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Elevator and Escalator Maintenance Services for Certain Buildings Boston, Cambridge, Chelsea, Lawrence, Middleton, MA

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Removal of a Guardian of a Minor

This project is a service contract for a term of 35 months and in general includes: a comprehensive, full-coverage fire alarm and fire protection service contract. There will be a Pre-bid Conference on May 25, 2016 @ 10:00 am-2:00 pm at One Ashburton Place, Room 107 C/R. Site/Building Tours will be scheduled for May 25-June 8, 2016 @ 9:00 am-4:00 pm. Tours must be scheduled 24 hours in advance by contacting Liam Slein at 617-727-4100 X 24132, Liam.J.Slein@MassMail.State.MA. Minimum rates of wages to be paid on the project have been determined by the Commissioner of the Division of Occupational Safety under the provisions of Sections 26 and 27, Chapter 149 of the General Laws. Wage rates are listed in the contract form portion of specification book. Each general bid and sub-bid proposal must be secured by an accompanying deposit of 5% of the total bid amount, including all alternates, in the form of a bid bond, in cash, a certified, treasurer’s, or cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company made payable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The bidding documents may be examined at the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance Bid Room, One Ashburton Place, 1st Floor, Room 107, Boston, MA 02108 Tel (617) 727-4003, bidroom.dcamm@state. ma.us. Paper copies may be obtained by depositing a company check, treasurer’s check, cashier’s check, bank check or money order in the sum of $50.00 payable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. No personal checks or cash will be accepted as deposits. Refunds will be made to those returning the documents in satisfactory condition on or JULY 6, 2016 (ten business days after the opening of General Bids) otherwise the deposit shall be the property of the Commonwealth. CD available at no cost. Specs may be downloaded from DCAMM’s E-Bid Room on or after Wednesday, May 18, 2016.

Messenger and other types of pick-up and delivery services are the agents of the bidder and the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance assumes no responsibility for delivery or receipt of the documents. Bidders are encouraged to take advantage of a rotating credit plans and specifications deposit program initiated by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance to encourage the easy accessibility of documents to contractors. Carol W. Gladstone COMMISSIONER

In the Interests of Natalee Baker Of Boston, MA RESPONDENT A MINOR CHILD To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Alanna S. Wagner of West Roxbury, MA, Melvin Baker of West Roxbury, MA, Karen L. Miller of Boston, MA in the above captioned matter requesting that the court: Remove the Guardian of the Respondent The petition asks the court to make a determination that the Guardian and/ or Conservator should be allowed to resign; or should be removed for good cause; or that the Guardianship and/or Conservatorship is no longer necessary and therefore should be terminated. The original petition is on file with the court. You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 06/02/2016. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date. IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the avoenamed person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on bhlaf of the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: April 26, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

This contract will be state funded. While there is no DBE goal associated with this contract, the Authority strongly encourages the use of Minority, Women and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises as prime consultants, subconsultants, and suppliers in all of its contracting opportunities. The complete request for qualifications/proposals can be found on the MBTA website. Please use the following link: http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/current_solic itations/ The MBTA reserves the right to cancel this procurement or to reject any or all Statements of Qualifications and Proposals. Stephanie Pollack MassDOT Secretary and CEO

Francis A. DePaola, P.E. MBTA General Manager

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SOLICITATION FOR CONSULTANT SERVICES

Docket No. SU16D0223DR

SUFFOLK Division

MBTA CONTRACT NO. R32PS02 The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (“MBTA”) hereby solicits Letters of Interest from firms or teams interested in submitting a Statement of Qualifications/Proposal to provide design & engineering services for the MBTA Wellington Yard Rebuild Project (MBTA Project No. R32PS02). The design & engineering services will include 15-100% replacement in kind of all track, traction power and signal infrastructure in Wellington Yard.

Docket No. SU09P1537GD

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E.C.C: $1,149,000

WE DO NOT MAIL PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS.

Francis A. DePaola, P.E. General Manager of the MBTA

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU413955

Citation on Petition for Allowance of Account In the matter of Charles T. Russell To all interested persons: A Petition has been filed by Bank of America of Providence, RI requesting allowance of the 7th through the 11th (being the 50th through the 54th) account(s) as Trustee and any other relief as requested in the Petition. You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 06/16/2016. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

Quezada-Mercedes, Maria D.

The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for IRRETRIEVABLE BREAKDOWN. The Complaint is on file at the Court. An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411. You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Maria D. QuezadaMercedes, 101 School St. #2, Roxbury, MA 02119-1176 your answer, if any, on or before 06/30/2016. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court. Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: April 15, 2016

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: May 04, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Francis A. DePaola, P.E. MBTA General Manager

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CLASSIFIED LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE DIVISION OF CAPITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT & MAINTENANCE Sealed proposals submitted on a form furnished by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance (DCAMM) and clearly identified as a bid,

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU16P0909GD

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Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Elba Arquidamia Tejada-Colon Of Mattapan, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Indhira Altagracia Kelly of Dorchester, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Elba Arquidamia Tejada-Colon is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Indhira Altagracia Kelly of Dorchester, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve Without Surety on the bond.

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The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondant is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority. You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 06/09/2016. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

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MBTA CONTRACT NO. R44PS02 The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (“MBTA”) hereby solicits Letters of Interest from firms or teams interested in submitting a Statement of Qualifications/Proposal to provide design & engineering services for the MBTA Cabot Yard Rebuild Project (MBTA Project No. R44PS02). The design & engineering services will include 15-100% replacement in kind of all track, traction power and signal infrastructure in Cabot Yard.

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Part-Time Farmer Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation seeks an enthusiastic individual with experience in urban agriculture and community building for our OASIS on Ballou urban farm. The ideal individual will have formal training and past experience in urban agriculture techniques, including, developing growing and harvesting plans, soil and site preparation, seedling starts, planting, pesticide-free pest management, cultivation, and harvesting. The farmer will also be responsible for organizing a series of community education events for neighbors and supporters focused on urban agriculture and healthy eating practices. This position is currently part-time and seasonal, with possibilities for expansion as the farm expands. For a full job description, please email or send resume to marcos@csndc.com. 617-773-9542

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XFINITY® delivers the fastest Internet in America according to Speedtest.net Pixilation, frozen screens, that eternal loading bar…slow Internet is maddening. Get the speed you need with XFINITY Internet, plus get the fastest, most reliable in-home WiFi for all rooms, all devices all the time. And with millions of WiFi hotspots nationwide, you’ll be able to stream video, instant message and connect with family and friends while on the go. Don’t get stuck in the buﬀer zone with other Internet providers. Stream uninterrupted with XFINITY Internet.

Restrictions apply. Not available in all areas. America’s fastest Internet based on download speeds reported at Speedtest.net/awards/us. Actual speeds vary and are not guaranteed. XFINITY WiFi hotspots included with Performance Internet or above only. Available in select areas. Requires WiFi-enabled device. Speedtest is a trademark of Ookla, LLC. Used under license. © 2016 Comcast. All rights reserved.