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Black radio veterans back on air

Honoring a fallen hero

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As fallen police officer Jose Maceira’s widow and children look on, Boston Police Lt. Detective Luis Cruz reads a City of Boston proclamation honoring the Vietnam War veteran who died as the result of a gunshot wound he received while on duty. The ceremony honoring Maceira took place at the Puerto Rican Veterans Monument in the South End.

Facilities plan seen as part of charter strategy Hub enrolled in plan for ‘school autonomy’

By YAWU MILLER

Back in January when members of the BPS parent group Quality Education for Every Student met with Mayor Martin Walsh, their allegation that the mayor said he planned to close more than 30 schools triggered controversy and a sharp denial.

But in the months that followed, budget cuts and a much-maligned independent

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study undertaken by McKinsey & Company alleging the city’s 57,000 students are being educated in school buildings that have a capacity of 93,000 have further strained relations between the mayor and BPS parents and students.

The calculation in that study has been widely discredited for reasons that include counting non-classroom space and ignoring student-teacher ratios. The report also contradicts a 2013 analysis

undertaken by BPS that found the city’s school buildings had the capacity to accommodate 61,338 students. Yet Walsh repeated the 93,000-seat estimate last Wednesday while live on WGBH’s Boston Public Radio.

“What we’re talking about is privatization of Boston’s schools,” said Najma Nzay’at, lead organizer at the Boston-area Youth Organizing Project, speaking

WILD alums broadcasting out of Warren Street studio

By YAWU MILLER

Like many blacks in Boston who came of age in the 1970s and ’80s, Stephen Gousby grew up with black radio as the soundtrack to life, the hit songs of funk and soul groups like Parliament and Slave providing a counterpoint to the crossover artists heard on mainstream stations like Kiss108.

After graduating from Emerson College, Gousby went to work for WILD, taking on roles that included program director and deejay.

But when the station was sold to Radio One in 2000, Gousby says the corporate influence began to drain the soul from Boston’s soul station, with pre-packaged playlists that better reflected record label priorities than black community preferences.

Gousby was done.

“When I left WILD, my attitude was I did not want to work for a corporation ever again,” he said. “I felt like radio and the entire music industry was going in a different

direction. I never thought I’d be back into radio.”

Yet five years after WILD flamed out, sold to China Radio International, Gousby is back, a few doors down from WILD’s former Warren Street office, running a new black radio station, WZBR. Earlier this year, the AM station — 1410 on the dial — began broadcasting the urban music format black radio stations favor earlier this year. And fellow WILD alum Frank Holder is seeking to purchase from owner Langer Broadcasting Group.

Holder admits his vision for the station is a gamble.

“You ask any kid who’s 20 years old about WILD and they don’t recall,” he said. “They don’t really have any idea what real radio is.”

But Holder says he’s confident he can reach a critical mass of listeners with a format that stands apart from the corporate-run stations.

Gousby said he was initially skeptical Holder could resurrect

See WZBR, page 9

See CHARTERS, page 8

Puerto Rico oversight sparks fears Federal board seen as too powerful

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Puerto Ricans have been calling upon Congress for months to step in and help alleviate the island’s debt crisis. Last week an initial answer emerged, when the House Natural Resources Committee passed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act. The PROMESA bill made it through the committee with a 29-10 vote,

while sparking fierce opposition from some Puerto Rican advocates.

Among the bills more contentious provisions is the creation of a seven-member federal control board, with members largely appointed by Congress (where Puerto Rico has no vote) and the power to overrule the Puerto Rican government in the course of promoting economic growth and reform.

While the bill provides for

debt restructuring — a major request from many Puerto Rican advocates — it does not grant the long-requested Chapter 9 bankruptcy powers.

Angelo Falcón, president of the National Institute for Latino Policy, said that while the legislation takes the important step of officially acknowledging Puerto Rico’s plight, it seems unlikely to resolve the long-term economic situation and has generation opposition to the control board.

“This bill is a positive step at

See PUERTO RICO, page 14

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On-air personalities Awet Teame and Shanda Browne consult with WZBR Program Manager Stephen Gousby in the Roxbury office of the AM radio station.

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Reclaim Roxbury reexamines leadership, structure

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Feelings among Reclaim Roxbury co-chairs speaking at a meeting at Roxbury Community College last week seemed to be that the cart had gotten before the horse at the prior public meeting, which sought to nominate candidates to repopulate the Roxbury Neighborhood Council board.

Speakers said the effort had been too ambitious and too soon, and that the meeting’s disorder revealed that more groundwork needs to be established for governance structure, rules and process.

Co-chairs called for refocusing, followed by guided discussion of what community members envision for their leaders. Ultimately, the chairs said, they hope this will lead to development of a community agreement on the standards and principles that all leaders in Roxbury should be held to, not just those of Reclaim and the Roxbury Neighborhood Council.

Reclaim co-chairs also reiterated their interest in merging Reclaim and the RNC, saying the two groups will work together where interests align, but assured attendees that deeper involvement between the groups is reliant on community interest.

Defining leadership

One audience member said that it seemed that some attendees at the previous meeting were there for the first time and were upset because they got the impression that decision were being made in their community without their involvement.

In order to facilitate the community coming together, Co-chair Mukaji Ambila said, there needs to be a clear process and public accountability that will give people faith in the collaborations.

“One of the reasons we don’t have structure is we don’t have trust,” Ambila said. “What happen in last weeks’ meeting, I can personally say, it’s a problem. Our lack of trust translates into crisis in our communities.”

To bring greater clarity and accountability and in light of intended RNC elections, the cochairs asked attendees to identify requirements for leadership.

Common qualities and standards that emerged included strong and transparent communication, demonstrated participation in the community and community ties. Some proposed

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Reclaim Roxbury co-chairs Regina McClay and Darnell Johnson spoke at last week’s meeting at Roxbury Community College. creating a process for removing leaders — before their term ends — in cases of misconduct, as well as establishing a review board to hold leaders accountable.

Armani White, one of the Reclaim co-chairs, said he hopes the discussion can ultimately lead to the creation of a community agreement about what qualifications and standards residents expect from anyone in a position of leadership for the neighborhood.

The meeting largely served to kick off ideas. Lingering questions included whether there would be requirements that RNC board members represent a mix of demographics or geographies and whether they must live in Roxbury — the latter was subject of debate in the previous meeting. Current RNC bylaws prohibit adding members who have not been Roxbury residents for at least six months, although two cochairs of Reclaim Roxbury live in Dorchester.

organization with the RNC, although they added that the merging would not happen without community approval.

The RNC currently has 12 unfilled seats. Armani White said that if the groups merge, Reclaim would bring the RNC new energy and membership, and joining the RNC would let Reclaim share the RNC’s legal authority and government recognition.

Alex Ponte-Capellan, a Reclaim co-chair, said that while Reclaim remain separate, presenting a unified voice on development would give the community more power.

“The Roxbury Neighborhood Council is a group that already exists in Roxbury and has history doing that. So we could make our own [group], but then City Hall is going to look at us like, ‘Alright there’s two voices, two groups, they’re disjointed’,” Ponte-Capellan said. “It’s not going to give us as much power as if we come together and collaborate.”

Reclaim and the RNC

New visions

Last week, Reclaim Roxbury and the RNC issued a press release, announcing their collaboration as well as intentions to co-facilitate a community-wide neighborhood council election in the fall. Reclaim and RNC leaders were clear in their support for taking this cooperation further.

Reclaim co-chairs made a case for officially joining their

Reclaim Roxbury also faces many structural decisions, among them whether to be a nonprofit, all-volunteer and/or governed by Robert’s Rules of Order, as well as whether to push for greater power.

Bob Terrell, RNC member, said the original RNC had been wary that accepting funding would make members feel obligated to their funding source,

thus limiting what they were free to say. However, choosing to be all-volunteer came with costs as well: People’s abilities to commit time can fluctuate when the work is all unpaid, and the RNC has been largely inactive in the past two years, he said.

Regina McClay, co-chair of Reclaim’s Governance and Decision-making Structure Committee, said they also will have to consider what obligations and risks would come with nonprofit status, and advised looking to other neighborhood associations as models.

Today’s RNC needs expanded authority, Terrell said. Thus far, its abilities have been limited to advising on issues such as zoning and developer selection, without power to push those views.

“Our role was only advisory. It was very, very clear to us that that no longer works,” Terrell said. “We need both serious legislative and regulatory reform to build the presence of neighborhood groups into the development process and give us real authority and standing in that process.”

Need to get it right, fast

Bridgette Wallace, the only person to be member of both the RNC and Reclaim, urged attendees to keep in mind the goal of securing meaningful community voice in development, and what is at risk if that cannot be done. “[Land use decisions] have a

ripple effect when you’re talking about gentrification,” Wallace said, noting that impact of these decisions ranges across wealth creation, equity, jobs and community.

Those who make land disposition decisions weigh in on what developers must provide as a community benefit, who receives the construction jobs and who draws regular wealth from the land use (for instance the owner of a business sited there), she said. The decisions also impact whether current residents are able to continue living in the neighborhood and whether the community’s culture and history are preserved, she said.

“The community that comes in here, they don’t have to preserve the culture. You simply wash it away by building on top of it,” Wallace said.

While co-chairs said they recognized the need to take a step back and more clearly establish structure and processes, City Councilor Tito Jackson also reminded attendees that powerful developer interest in Roxbury creates a time crunch.

“There is $14 billion of construction that is in the hopper right now [in Boston],” he said, adding that two-thirds of the city’s undeveloped land lies in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan.

“There is a plan for every single piece of land here. I would submit to you that it doesn’t include any of us sitting here.”

Jackson previously secured a three-month moratorium on PLAN Dudley from the Boston Redevelopment Authority and is seeking that the moratorium period be extended until the end of 2016.

Terrell said the displacement that neighborhoods experience today is more sweeping than in previous decades. When the RNC first was operating, “gentrification” meant one wealthy individual moving into the neighborhood, which spurred a rise in rents along the street. Today stands in stark contrast, he said, with companies buying up entire rows of properties.

“The gentrification that we face is far more serious and ten times more aggressive than we’ve ever seen before,” Terrell said. “We embraced this collaboration [with Reclaim Roxbury] back in February, not only because of the conversation we had with Councilor Jackson but also because the crisis we face is so severe.”

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Head of Charlestown High’s alternative ed is nominee for $100K educator award

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

When Boston Public School students poured into the streets last March to protest against high school budget cuts, one item hanging in the balance was Diploma Plus, an alternative education program for struggling students. Many students praised the program for turning their educational careers around. Now, the Diploma Plus has secured funding for another year, and while catching the interest of a major New England grantmaker.

The Nellie Mae Foundation is considering Diploma Plus Director Sung-Joon “Sunny” Pai as one of six candidates for its Lawrence W. O’Toole award. The honor recognizes “an individual who has demonstrated great leadership in advancing student-centered learning throughout New England,” and comes with a $100,000 grant for advancing the recipient’s work.

The Charlestown High alternative education program serves students at risk of dropping out and helps bring them on track to graduate through individually-paced curriculum, small classes and a strong sense of community. It was at risk of being cut until Liberty Mutual, a long-time partner of Charlestown High, stepped forward to pickup where the BPS funds fell short.

Now the program has the approximately $500,000 needed for next year’s operations. While Diploma Plus does not need the grant to survive, it could open up a world of possibilities, Pai said. All awarded funds would go to support the program.

“There’re many things we dream about, but money is the obstacle,” Pai told the Banner. “The hard part is which thing we choose to spend it on. We have pretty good imaginations here. That [grant] would then remove the funding obstacle.”

Diploma Plus approach

Pai got his first teaching job in Boston at the Fenway High School and then served at the Boston Arts Academy during its founding year.

Joining Diploma Plus added another layer to his teaching philosophy, Pai said. He is quick to say that while the award may single him out for his work with Diploma Plus, the program is very much the work of a community.

“So much of our work is communal, and anything I’m being honored for is coming from other people,” Pai said.

Among the key lessons Pai says he has been learning from DP staff is how to provide “high expectations and high support” — how to present students with rigorous standards of excellence and give them the support

and caring community to help them rise to reach those expectations.

“It’s not about ‘no excuses’, it’s not about grit, “ he said “We’ve all been with people who hold us to a high standard, but they do it by breaking us down, being militaristic. This is a different way. It’s just as strict, it’s just a rigorous, but it’s about giving students the vision for what excellence looks like and then watching as they rise to it.”

Instead of a competitive “survival of the fittest” mindset, the program seeks to establish a community where people take care of each other and strive for mutual success, Pai said.

In addition to directing Diploma Plus, Pai teaches algebra and geometry and directs the English Language Learners programs at Charlestown High.

Unexpected educator

Pai never planned on being a teacher. The son of two doctors, he had assumed from a young age that that would be his natural course.

But when he entered PreMed at the University of Pennsylvania, he noted some of his classmates had an incredible passion for the subject, something that he just did not feel.

But when Pai tried teaching, something clicked.

“I enjoyed the puzzle about trying to figure out what the best way was

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Sunny Pai, director of Charlestown High’s Diploma Plus program, is among six candidates for the Lawrence W. O’Toole award to explain something so that people really understand it,” Pai said.

Pai’s introduction to teaching came during his senior year. He joined an internship program in which he was paired with a professor to help design curriculums and teach math and science in a Philadelphia public school. Every Saturday during his senior year, Pai got up early and took a trip downtown, where he worked with middle school students from 8 a.m. to noon.

“I only missed [class] once. I overslept once and that was it,” Pai said.

“After that experience, I thought, ‘Huh, if I’m a college kid willing to sacrifice 8-12 on a Saturday morning, there must something about this I really like.”

He went on to get a master’s in education from Harvard and has been in the Boston public schools for 17 years, working as a teacher

and principal and now as an administrator.

“Boston Public Schools congratulates Sunny Pai for being recognized by the Nellie Mae Educational Foundation for his work and dedication to the Charlestown High School’s Diploma Plus Program,” BPS said in a statement to the Banner. “This program promotes a culture of growth for students who have struggled with traditional academic models and helps ensure a path for success in college, career, and life.”

Cast your votes

The Lawrence W. O’Toole award is given to the nominee receiving the most public votes, with voting closing at noon on Friday June 3. You can vote on any of the six candidates once by text and once online. Check out the link for details: http://studentsat thecenterhub.org/award-nominees/

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Nothing less than betrayal Prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 there were few opportunities for blacks to achieve recognition for outstanding performance in America. Most occasions involved sports, music or entertainment. In fact, such opportunities were so rare that many people were often concerned about the price paid for success. During the slavery days, slave rebellions often were defeated because a fellow slave had found it in his best interest to divulge the plans to the plantation owner. The recent vote of Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Foster v. Chatman indicates that such concerns still exist for African Americans.

Years ago when blacks were relegated to subservient status in America, the mass media indicated overtly or subtly that this position was appropriate. Segregation and discrimination were presumed to be deserved primarily because of innate black inferiority. The psychological impact has been so powerful that many blacks have unfortunately come to believe the racial propaganda.

In past decades blacks have reveled in the success of black athletes. An athletic contest had winners or losers. There was limited opportunity for a successful athlete to be an agent for white interests. When Jesse Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the achievement was his performance on the field. When Joe Louis entered the boxing ring and vanquished his opponent, the result was obvious. And when Jackie Robinson became the first black major league baseball star, the quality of his hitting, fielding and base running was indisputable.

Achievement in the professions is not quite so transparent. A sound reputation is established over a period of time. Rarely will one event be sufficient, as is often the case in athletic contests. For example, the

late Thurgood Marshall, the first black to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, is still highly respected. An alumnus of Howard University, he spent his whole professional career in employing the law to achieve racial equality. He won the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954 that began the legal unraveling of racial discrimination in America.

Blacks and others still believe that Marshall stood for freedom, justice and equality. However, many blacks believe that Clarence Thomas is more like the quisling in the slave quarters whose function was to preserve the authority of white privilege.

Since there can be a legitimate difference of opinion on issues in our complex society, some people have been willing to give Thomas the benefit of the doubt. However, his position in the Foster case makes it much easier to classify him as the tool of white supremacy.

Timothy Foster, an African American, has been sitting on death row since 1987. He was convicted in Georgia of killing a white woman when he was 18. The prosecutor created an all-white jury by eliminating black prospective jurors in defiance of the rules established by the Supreme Court in the case of Batson v. Kentucky. The court had ruled that it was unconstitutional to discriminate in jury selection on the basis of race.

Lawyers for Foster uncovered prosecutors’ documents that clearly established race was the criterion for dismissing potential jurors. Reasons given were found to be simply non-racial subterfuges for the real intent. A 7-1 decision found in favor of Foster. Only Thomas dissented.

There is a downhome country expression: “All black ain’t coal.” With many well educated and talented blacks now emerging, African Americans must be rigorously insightful about those entitled to the support of the community.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Less is less In spite of what the mayor is saying, the students who had the temerity to stand up against budget cuts to the BPS schools had the right idea. No one knows better than the students do what will be the effect of the loss of advanced placement classes, SAT prep and

other programs they need to get into college in this ultra-competitive college admissions environment. Here are students who are fighting to secure their future and adults in Boston are casting aspersions at them, asserting that they’re being misled by adults and questioning their wisdom. The

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only ones doing the misleading are those who maintain that the schools should do more with less.

Let’s cut the mayor’s salary and lay off key staff members. See how well he does with that.

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Excavating higher education’s sins of the past

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By LEE A. DANIELS Amid the pomp and circumstance of these weeks’ college and university graduation ceremonies, it’s worth noting the “excavation projects” going on at some of them and in higher education generally.

What’s being dug up is more evidence of the depth and breadth of America’s betrayal of black Americans and its own ideals.

Specifically, during this past year, we’ve learn how some number of colleges and universities were complicit in maintaining slavery, and supporting white supremacist ideas well into the 20th century.

One particularly poignant example of that can be found in an April 16, New York Times article noting that in 1838 in order to save their badly-mismanaged institution, Georgetown University leaders, Jesuit priests, sold 272 African Americans held in bondage on the university’s Maryland plantations. The sale achieved its purpose.

Georgetown was saved; the enslaved black men, women and children, many of whom were being split from their families, were not.

“The university owes its existence to this history,” Adam Rothman, a Georgetown historian, told the Times.

That Georgetown was a slaveholding institution has been known for decades; university officials of that era kept meticulous records of who they were while the university “owned” them and of the sale that sent them to much harsher conditions on plantations in Louisiana.

Now, via a special university committee (headed by Professor Rothman) and an independent project established by a white Georgetown alumnus, Georgetown officials have already found numerous descendants of those men, women and children who were once “university property.”

And, prodded by student protests last fall, they’ve removed the names of the two college presidents who organized the sale from buildings on the Georgetown campus.

In recent years the “name-on-buildings” issue has been highly controversial on numerous campuses. The two most visible protests on the issue have occurred at Princeton University, where students and others demanded the university change the name of its world-famous Woodrow Wilson school of government, and at Yale, where protesters demanded officials change the name of its residential college now named after John C. Calhoun, the 19th-century South Carolina Senator and slave-owner who’s often described as the “Father” of the Confederacy.

Wilson, of course, was president of Princeton before being elected President of the U.S. in 1912. An arch-racist, he ordered the rigid segregation of the federal workforce in Washington and throughout the country, imposing far-reaching rules about hiring and promotion that devastated an entire cohort of black blue-and white-collar workers.

Both Princeton and Yale have refused the protesters demands, asserting that continuing to keep the names encourages a greater discussion of those men’s attitudes and actions and of broad social justice issues.

Most conservatives and some liberals have quickly condemned such demands as mere “political theater” and an effort by the protesters to “sanitize” History by holding these white men of the past to “standards of today.” Additionally, the critics claim such protests are a “distraction” from the real “problems” the protesters should be focusing on.

But it’s these criticisms that can’t stand the slightest scrutiny.

As a slave-owner Calhoun — at the least — supported the practice of kidnapping, murder, rape and brutal assaults that was central to the establishment and maintenance of slavery in America. Although he died before the Civil War began, he was chief architect of the crackpot principles the South adopted as a smokescreen for waging war against the United States and upheld slavery as a “positive good.” It’s precisely because over the past four decades his life and times have been closely examined that Yale students are right to question why his name should grace the building of an institution supposedly devoted to fostering not just learning but a commitment to ethical behavior.

And those criticisms are even more ludicrous regarding Woodrow Wilson, America’s president during what essentially was the moment the present world order was created. He, too, is in no way in danger of being “erased” from the study of American history.

Finally, it’s particularly revealing that critics resort to the “standards of today” argument — as if the idea of equality as an “unalienable” human right has not been held up as a bedrock principle of Christianity long before America was founded; as if it was not stated as the central principle of the U.S. Constitution itself; and as if African and African Americans had not begun asserting that principle in the 1620s as the foundation of their struggle against Slavery.

It makes one wonder just what “standards” do these critics live by.

Lee A. Daniels, a longtime journalist, is a keynote speaker and author whose books include “Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America.”

I think our biggest challenge is the cost of housing and the fact that the city isn’t taking a stand against high rents.

Students are taking over our housing.

Joao DePina

Small Business Owner Roxbury

Keeping the working class families in the city. Everything is dedicated to luxury or low-income. The working class is being forced out of the city.

Miguel Chavez

Small Business Owner Roxbury

Congestion and transportation. There are too many cars for a city this size.

Owen Toney

Community Activist Roxbury

Drugs. Things are getting worse in Boston.

Alison Bell Health Aide Mattapan

Employment opportunities. There aren’t enough livable wage jobs so that folks from the community can continue to live in the community.

Davo Jefferson Career Coach Hyde Park

Homelessness and folks coming out of prison. There’s not enough shelter beds in the city.

Fernando Bossa Family Advocate Dorchester

IN THE NEWS

DOMINIC BLUE Dominic Blue, senior vice president and deputy general counsel of MassMutual is being honored by The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice with its Founders’ Award, which commemorates the courage and public interest contribution of our founders in establishing an anti-discrimination organization. Blue is being recognized for his work helping MassMutual to become recognized as a leader in diversity.

Blue is responsible for leading the Corporate Law, Insurance Risk Management and Real Estate Services teams at MassMutual.

Prior to joining MassMutual in August 2011, Blue spent over six years with the international law firm of Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP (now Locke Lord Edwards LLP) where he focused on alternative investments, leverage buyouts, venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions and serving as outside general counsel to various growth companies. Prior to working

for Edwards Wildman, Blue was an associate in the corporate law group of Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP, a former Boston law firm, where he represented venture capital firms, government agencies and high-tech companies on various corporate transactions.

Currently, Blue serves on the board of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, where he was originally appointed in 2013 by former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and re-appointed in 2015 by Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker. He also serves on the board and finance and executive committees of the Greater Springfield YMCA. Blue is also a past president of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association and a former panel member of the Appeals Board of the Supplier Diversity Office of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which certified minority and women-owned business status for state vendors. He was selected as

one of the 2015 Most Influential Black Lawyers by Savoy Magazine, Massachusetts Rising Star by Super Lawyers in 2011 and is a member of the 2009 class of Greater Boston Chamber’s Future Leaders.

Blue received his B.A. in 1998 from the College of the Holy Cross, where he was a member of the varsity football team and a co-captain.

He earned his J.D. from Boston College Law School and his M.B.A. from the Carroll School of Management (Boston College) in 2002.

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New voting laws block little fraud — but many elders, women, minorities

By PAUL KLEYMAN, NEW AMERICA MEDIA

Much of the reporting about the voter-ID laws many states have passed in recent years has centered on how they often block access to the polls by lower-income minority and naturalized citizens. But a subtext has been the barring of many older people from their right to vote.

“Voter ID laws disadvantaging older persons place a burden on the voting rights of those most likely to participate in the electoral process,” said Daniel Kohrman, a senior attorney with the AARP Foundation Litigation office in Washington, D.C. That’s because older citizens vote at greater percentages than younger people.

A total of 33 states have laws requesting or requiring voters to show some form of identification

at the polls this year. (West Virginia’s new law goes into effect in 2018). Of those, 17 states will have restrictive voter-identification laws on the books for the first time in a presidential election, according to New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice.

“With voter IDs, you can imagine that especially for a lot of African American elders, who were born in segregated hospitals, their records may not exist any longer.

So you will see, definitely, disproportionate impact for them,” stated Judith Browne Dianis, co-director of the Advancement Project, [www.advancementproject.org] a racial-justice organization based in Washington.

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Dianis added, “Also, for women

elders who have to provide a marriage certificate that may be very old, or not exist any longer, to show the change in their name from their birth certificate, that may become a barrier.”

Other practical barriers to voting have emerged, such as Arizona’s decision to reduce polling sites in this year’s primary election from 200 to only 60, causing long lines and forcing many to travel long distances.

“In Florida in the 2012 election,” Dianis recalled, “a 93-yearold women had to stand in line for hours.” Speaking during a recent New America Media (NAM) media telebriefing, she stressed, “That is a little taxing, and seniors may decide it’s not worth it.”

According to the Brennan Center, difficulties in states like Arizona and North Carolina

primaries could provide “an early glimpse of problems in November — as voters face the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act, which was designed to prevent discrimination in voting.”

Both positive and negative changes

Since the U.S. Supreme Court nullified a key provision of the act in 2013, though, many states have actually strengthened their voter registration laws, such as initiating automatic voter registration for drivers and others interacting with government agencies.

The Brennan Center stresses that the trend this election year is toward greater access, including almost 425 bills pending in 41 states and the District of Columbia.

Meanwhile, though, at least 77 new bills — besides those passed in the 17 states — are being considered in 28 states, would restrict access to registration and voting.

Although voter ID advocates allege that the limitations can prevent voter fraud, which has never emerged as a significant problem, those supporting more open rules, cite indications that voting restraints can sway elections.

Speaking during the NAM media briefing, Anita Earls, executive director of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, in Durham, N.C., said that state’s past three gubernatorial elections “have been decided by less than 30,000 votes and that the voter-suppression laws that have been put in place have disenfranchised more than 30,000 people.”

In an e-mail interview, AARP’s Kohrman described the complicated effect voter ID laws can have on seniors. Minnesota’s Legislature placed a referendum on the ballot in 2012 that would have required a photo ID and eliminated the state’s same-day voter registration.

Joining an effort to block the measure, Kohrman said, AARP filed a brief with the Minnesota Supreme Court that included the story of Evelyn Collier, an African-American of 79. She said she had “voted in nearly every election” since moving to Minnesota in the 1980s.

At the time, Collier lived in a Minneapolis nursing facility, where she first encountered difficulty with photo-ID rules over her seemingly innocuous desire to join others on a field trip. Going on the ride required residents to show a photo ID. Kohrman explained, “She contacted state and local officials in Mississippi, where she was born, ‘on a farm by a midwife’” in the 1930s. The answer: “No record found.”

When the Minnesota court allowed the referendum on the ballot, Kohrman said, “Collier was faced not only with being unable to travel, also with being unable to vote.” On election day, though, the state voted down the restriction, he said, as did Montana voters of a similar referendum in 2014.

Kohrman emphasized that a significant percentage of older adults, “and an even larger share of older people of color, never were issued a birth certificate at all,” particularly African Americans and Latinos born in the 1940s and 1950s.

Other hurdles to voting

Various states have allowed exceptions. For instance, North Carolina’s law accepts an expired driver’s license, if it lapsed after the person turned 70, said Earls of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.

And the rules in both North and South Carolina include a “reasonable impediments provision” exempting those facing a formidable barrier, such as to obtaining a birth certificate, from having to get a new photo ID. “The problem is that it’s not always being administered correctly or fairly,” she said.

Earls also noted that some states have made it easier to vote absentee by mail — and avoid getting to a polling place on Election Day. Beside hurdles posed by the new ID laws, Earls stressed that older voters need to be aware of other kinds of obstacles to exercising their right to vote. Despite

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SEIU raises concerns, questions on Logan Terminal E expansion

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Boston is growing and the Massachusetts Port Authority, which operates Logan airport, wants its air services to grow with it. Among current plans: expanding Terminal E to pave the way for acquiring sizeable new planes.

To achieve this and other projects, Massport plans to issue bonds worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and members of the Service Employees International Union are asking who will shoulder the cost of paying back this debt.

To help finance the Terminal E expansion as well as improvements to Terminal B, Massport may issue up to $300 million in bonds, according to a public hearing notice. Among the concerns SEIU members voiced at the board meeting are that some planned enhancements primarily would serve first class and higher-paying customers, but the port authority may choose to raise revenue from of all customers to help repay the costs.

Fears were not allayed at the bond meeting two days later, according to SEIU members who attended.

The public comment period ended at the close of Friday’s bond hearing, according to Frank Soults, senior communications associate of SEIU 32 BJ. SEIU members sought an extension until more information on financing and staffing

are released and the public has a chance to respond to them.

The governor will be asked to sign approval for the bond, and the Massport board will vote on whether to approve it at a meeting on June 23, SEIU members said.

Terminal E plans

Massport’s expects Logan to serve three Airbus A380s, the largest commercial aircraft available. Described as “superjumbo jets” in the port authority’s project environmental assessment, these double-decker planes can carry up to 853 passengers. They would increase capacity on international commercial flights to and from Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Also anticipated: one B747-8, the longest passenger aircraft in the world. This, too, features multiple levels for passengers, according to the environmental report.

The planes are so large that Massport will need to enhance Terminal E in order to allow them to be used safely and efficiently.

Improvements include jet-bridge connections for simultaneous boarding of passengers to the planes’ multiple levels, expanding and stabilizing runway and turning areas to accommodate the larger aircraft and expanding interior holding areas to seat the increased number of passengers.

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With the large planes able to carry more people, Massport’s

board intends to create three new seating rooms for waiting passengers. Separate airline clubs for premium passengers would be built above each, with their own gate access.

SEIU members highlighted that part of the plan, saying that if funding for this comes from raising prices on all customers, it will be an instance of the many paying for the rich few.

Massport does not receive support from state taxes and in the past has raised revenue in part through passenger facility charges levied on all tickets. “ They’d be under writing wealthy patrons,” Soults told the Banner after last Wednesday’s meeting.

Other ways Massport has raised revenue include terminal rents and landing fees.

By Wednesday, the agency had not released plans for how it would repay the $300 million bond for funding the projects, although the public comment period was scheduled to end last Friday.

In Friday’s public bond meeting, which lasted 15 minutes, Massport officials said that $165 million in bonds would be issued to support Terminal E projects and $25 million for Terminal B, and that the total bond package may be as much as $300 million, recounted Soults, who attended. It was not clear what the rest of the funds would go to underwrite. Massport officials said that revenue to repay the bonds

would be generated solely through raising airline rates and charges, Soults said.

Last Wednesday, Soults and SEIU 32BJ District 615 Leader Dan Nicolai said that SEIU does not necessarily oppose the project, but wants greater transparency on the plan.

“Logan is unquestionably crucial for the economic vitality of Boston,” Nicolai said at the meeting.

Massport was unable to answer questions by press deadlines on how bonds would be repaid, where the funds would go, and whether the agency would increase the benefits and minimum wage requirements for subcontractors providing staffing for the new facilities.

Employment conditions

The majority of airport workers — those who perform tasks such as cleaning planes, offering wheel chair service and acting as baggage attendants — are subcontracted, according to Soults. Those employed this way typically receive low pay and no benefits, and often rely on public services to survive, he said.

SEIU members are concerned that as Logan hires new workers to handle its added capacity, the number of low-quality jobs could expand as well. Not only would this reflect a missed opportunity to negotiate jobs that promise higher quality of life, but it also could burden taxpayers if means an increase in the number of people on public services, Soult and Nicolai said.

“If more people are employed here that’s good in some sense, but it’s going to create tremendous financial impact because of the public assistance that will be needed for people to live,” Nicolai

said at Wednesday’s meeting, adding that the majority of airport workers are use public health care and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Two workers spoke at the meeting, presenting two pictures of working conditions.

Gimiraldo Mendoza is part of a union and makes $17 per hour on the night shift at Terminal B. He receives pay for working overtime and holidays, which raised his annual wages last year from $31,000 to about $37,000, he said at the meeting. Mendoza said he sees friends doing similar work, but struggling without these protections.

Jonathan Cornier is one of those coworkers. He works as a care assistant for customers in wheelchairs and said he relies on food stamps, lives in public housing and pays for his own health care.

He has injured both his hands but cannot afford to lose work hours in recovery, he said. Airport service workers currently make a minimum of $11 per hour.

“I do not make enough to survive,” Cornier said, adding that the subcontractors he works for do not allow employees enough hours to be more than part-time.

Those who testified asked that Massport make providing higher pay and employee benefits a requirement for employers seeking to do business with them.

“You guys own the airport,” Cornier told board members.

“You guys can say, ‘Well you can’t work here, sorry [to the subcontractors].”

“Our view is this development should go hand-in-hand with higher standards for employees at the airport,” Nicolai stated.

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continued from page 1 during a community meeting on school funding at Madison Park High School last Thursday. Students at the meeting responded to Nazy’at’s remarks with chants of OTM, an acronym for “oneterm mayor.”

Fanning the flames of parent and student discontent are revelations that Boston is participating in an 18-month plan that seems aimed at closing the district’s school buildings and converting them to charter schools, a plan most of the city’s parents and students have never heard of.

During last week’s meeting at Madison Park QUEST member Megan Wolf detailed the city’s participation in the Center for the Reinvention of Public Education’s (CRPE) Portfolio School District program, which outlines the steps districts must take to close schools and transfer them to charter schools.

National movement

Boston is one of 45 participating districts, according to the website of CRPE, a Seattle-based think tank backed by pro-charter funders that include the Walton and Gates foundations.

Other districts include Chicago and New Orleans, both of which have undergone massive public school closures and rapid charter expansion.

CRPE’s website makes little reference to charter schools, describing its mission as a means to promote greater school autonomy.

“The portfolio strategy is a problem-solving framework

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But an earlier 2014 version of CRPE’s portfolio plan is peppered with suggestions to close district schools and transfer the buildings to charter schools. In month nine, districts are advised to “announce

which district-run schools are going to be chartered out.”

Viewed through the lens of CRPE’s portfolio plan, Walsh’s insistence that Boston’s schools are over capacity has stoked parents’ fears of a creeping charter takeover.

“Marty Walsh is on the hot seat now,” Wolf said.

The Walsh administration is considered to be well underway toward creating autonomous schools, with plans to switch to a unified enrollment system. Walsh appears to be using the McKinsey

report to justify the closing of district schools.

“We believe we’re following the same path that has led other districts to massive school closures,” Wolf said.

Push back

Beyond school closings, the CRPE playbook advises districts to adopt a menu of reforms, including uniform student and teacher evaluation metrics. As The Boston Globe reported Tuesday, the state’s push to adopt a teacher evaluation system that

relies on students’ test scores has met with stiff resistance from teachers unions, school superintendents and school committees. The state Senate last week amended state law so that teacher evaluations will no longer be contingent on the socalled student impact ratings.

While the plan CRPE outlines has specific benchmarks, the organization counsels districts to follow their own timelines. In the CRPE outline, in month eight of the CRPE outline, districts are advised to adopt a unified enrollment plan. Although BPS held several community meetings on unified enrollment last year, reaction from parents ranged from indifferent to hostile.

The quiet push to lay the groundwork for charter expansion in Boston has been eclipsed by this year’s battle over a statewide ballot referendum to lift the state’s cap on charter schools. Charter advocates, backed by the New York-based Families for Excellent Schools, have pledged to spend $18 million to secure passage of the measure. Teachers unions, led by the Massachusetts Teachers Association, have pledged to spend $12 million, making the campaign the most expensive ballot question in Massachusetts history.

Walsh, a former board member of the Neighborhood House Charter School, supports a gradual lifting of the cap on new charter schools, contingent on increased funding for district schools.

But Boston officials aren’t waiting for state funding as the inside effort to expand charters continues to unfold. The city joined the Portfolio program in 2011 – well before Walsh was in office.

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Since leaving WILD, Gousby founded a real estate brokerage.

But Holder persuaded him to come back to the radio business.

“The setup here reminded me so much of WILD,” he said. “That’s pretty much what drew me in.”

On a recent weekday morning, on-air personalities Awet Teame and Shonda Browne spun a mix of classic and neo-soul tracks while Gousby worked at a nearby desk.

Also in the Warren Street office

was sales manager and WILD alum Herb Jackson, who hosts the station’s weekly Sunday Morning Inspiration gospel music program.

While the station has not yet obtained an accurate count of its listenership, Gousby is confident it will tap into unmet demand for black radio among the 160,000 blacks in Boston and soul music-loving people of all races. The station reaches a 20-mile radius around its Dedham tower.

Gousby says the station provides an alternative to the bland offerings from its corporate competitors.

“Radio today does not have a variety of music,” he said. “Deejays do what they’re told. They’re given music by the record labels. There’s all this music out there you don’t hear.”

As a result, Gousby says, many

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stations play the same 30 or 40 songs in constant rotation. Gousby says WZBR has 10,000 classic and new songs in rotation. Artists playing on WZBR include D’Angelo, Jill Scott, Layla Hathaway and Erykah Badu.

On Sundays, a day of community programming, Gousby hosts a talk show on real estate issues. Listeners can call in with questions and song requests. Hosts keep the community appraised of upcoming events and news. It’s that two-way relationship that Holder says makes the station well-suited to compete in the current Boston radio market. And it’s what keeps him coming to work.

“I enjoy being in touch with the community,” he said. “I enjoy being able to communicate back and forth. We’re bringing that back.”

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most states having rules about who can assist you and under what circumstances, she said, “those are not always fairly applied.”

Usually, she said, people can bring a family member or request assistance in filling out a ballot if reading it is a challenge, “or any aspect of the voting process is going to be impacted by health or other issues associated with aging.”

Earls added federal language-translation requirements under Section 203 of the Voting Right Act. The law says that a

county or municipality must translate and make available ballot materials in languages spoken by “more than 10,000 or over 5 percent of the total voting age citizens … who are members of a single minority language group, have depressed literacy rates, and do not speak English very well.”

She suggested that voters of any age encountering trouble on Election Day can get legal advice for their state by calling 866-OURVOTE (866-687-8683). This hotline connects voters with a volunteer network of attorneys able to help, such as when a voter has been turned away from the polls.

Often, she said, Latino citizens

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People can also call the hotline for basic information, she said, such as on where to find their polling place, or what material they will need to be able to vote.

Other services are also available, she said, such as the nonpartisan website,www.nonprofitvote.org. It provides every state’s rules, including how to register to vote, whether there’s an ID requirement, and what’s the rule for people with felony convictions.

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The takeout business at Salamander’s Café in Hyde Park has been going strong, especially for breakfast, since it opened in January.

Serving Colombian flavor Entrepreneur finds success with Hyde Park clientele

By MARTIN DESMARAIS

Hyde Park business bigwigs wanted a breakfast café in the neighborhood and Maria “Mercedes” Pica was more than happy to oblige with her Salamander’s Café, which opened in late January of this year on River St. But four months into her business she is already looking to build on the strong breakfast rush by expanding to offer Colombian food as well.

Pica, a native of Bogotá, Colombia, said expanding the menu is just a matter of meeting demand. While the need for a breakfast café in Hyde Park has proven true and Salamander’s is packed every morning serving up coffee and breakfast sandwiches, Pica has fielded a constant stream of questions about serving Colombian food. Once people find out where she is from it always come up. The repeated exchange made her take a look at the ethnic diversity of Hyde Park and she noticed the prominence of a Latino community, as well as a big Colombian community in nearby Roslindale.

She also asked some of the area’s Colombian residents about where they go to get authentic food from their native land and turns out they all travel to East Boston as the closest option. Any savvy entrepreneur would see that as an opportunity — Pica certainly did.

“I just saw the market needs

Maria “Mercedes” Pica, owner of Salamander’s Café in Hyde Park, serves a customer. The café, which opened four months ago, already has a business breakfast crowd and recently expanded its menu. that too. Colombian food is the best that I can do — it is my food.

That is why I decided to do it,” Pica said.

Currently, Salamander’s is only open for breakfast and lunch through the late afternoon, but Pica hopes the expansion into Colombian food will lead to serving dinner as well.

Testing the waters

For the past month, Salamander’s has experimented with Colombian food specials on the

weekends to test the waters. The response has been great.

“I think that it is going to work really good,” said Pica. Long-term she envisions the Colombian connection providing her an opportunity to tie in with the culture with night events including music or similar themed Sunday brunches.

Salamander’s new menu with the Colombian additions launched this week.

The breakfast crowd can still get the standard breakfast fare,

but Colombian flavor encroaches with dishes that include corn tortillas, plantains and cheese bread.

The lunch menu adds the type of dishes that will eventually spill over into dinner service down the road.

A highlight is Bandeja Paisa, a take on one of the most popular Colombian dishes that features grilled steak, pork strips, a fried egg, beans, rice, sweet plantains and corn tortilla.

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In addition one of Pica’s goals in adding Colombian fare to the menu was to encompass food styles from all the different regions in the country. As such the menu has Changua Bogotana, from Bogotá, Tamal Tolimense from Tolima and Pandebono Valluno con Huevos from Cali.

Standard lunch fare such as sandwiches, wraps and salads are also available.

Career pivot

From the start, Salamander’s has offered a catering business, especially targeting local businesses. The hope is that the Colombian menu will also grow the catering business for cultural events.

The café has a permit for 22 seats, which Pica is looking to expand to about 30. She is also working on the challenging process of getting a liquor license, something she believes will be crucial to success offering dinner.

Currently, Pica has a staff of four with a main chef to head up the kitchen work.

Pica oversees the business and draws on her background in marketing to spread the word about Salamander’s.

She came to the United States 10 years ago to work in marketing at State Street Global Advisors. In 2012, she was laid off from the financial company and, while

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Colombian food is the best that I can do — it is my food. … That is why I decided to do it, I was tired of being an employee. I wanted to do something for myself and be my own boss. This is my baby.

I am here the whole time. You will find me here at nights and you will find me here in the morning too — you will find me here every day. This is like my house.”

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trying to find other work, considered opening an office for her own marketing consulting business. One of the office buildings she checked out for this in East Boston was looking to add a coffee shop to serve building tenants.

Though she had no background in the coffee business the thought sparked the entrepreneur in her and she did some research on it.

Ultimately, she decided she could open the coffee shop.

In 2013, she did just that and ran the business — also called Salamander’s Café — for a little less than a year.

High hopes

Though things went well, the café was in a small space, and Pica’s vision for the future was constrained by the location. She worked with the City of Boston’s Office of Business Development to find a bigger and better location in

an area that needed her business.

This led her to Hyde Park.

She couldn’t be more thrilled about how things have turned out and has high hopes for her business venture.

“I am very happy because people are very supportive here in the area. I have been selling from the very first day,” said Pica.

And even though she spent almost three decades working in corporate marketing, she says she has no plans to return to that sector and has found new life in the restaurant business with Salamander’s.

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a certain level. At least it shows some recognition of the problem,” Falcón told the Banner in a phone interview. “[However] there’s a big pushback on the whole control board idea. A lot of people are putting out positions in the Puerto Rican community totally opposing that aspect of it.”

Debt-restructuring

The legislation provides for debt-restructuring, a move many consider crucial if Puerto Rico is to emerge from its current financial crisis.

Deepak Lamba-Nieves is the research director of the San Juanbased Center for a New Economy, which has been analyzing Congress’ efforts around Puerto Rico’s debt and, since 1998, has been studying the territory’s economy.

While Lamba-Nieves told the Banner that the bill fails overall to resolve the problem, one valuable step it did make, he said, was to apply restructuring to the entirety of the island’s debt, including general obligation bonds.

Legislators chose to create a

new form of territory-specific debt restructuring — as opposed to extending Chapter 9 powers to the island — in order to prevent setting a precedent for insolvent states, according to the bill’s legislative summary. Some legislators, including Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), previously expressed concerns that granting Puerto Rico the power to declare bankruptcy would cause investors to assume that states may take a similar course, prompting them to consider state bonds as more risky.

In the bill, legislators appeared to alleviate bondholders’ fears that allowing Puerto Rico to restructure its debt would harm their interests.

The legislative summary states that “any proposed plan for [debt] adjustment by the board must be in the ‘best interest of the creditors.’”

Control board

The PROMESA bill establishes a seven-member federal control board with sweeping authority over the island. With its mission of promoting balanced budgets and government reform, it has the ability to override territorial laws and regulations related to its financial plan as well as compel Puerto Rico’s government to sell assets,

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consolidate agencies and reduce workforces. The board also may prevent the government from carrying out legislation, contracts or rule in order to “promote financial stability and economic growth,” according to its legislative summary.

Its members would be appointed by the president and Congress.

Lamba-Nieves said that although the Puerto Rican government’s attempts to handle the island’ finances have been troubled, it is still the entity democratically elected by residents. Instituting a non-elected board with ability to reject decisions by the government goes too far, he said.

“The Puerto Rican government for years has not had the best behavior in managing the fiscal aspects of the economy but that doesn’t mean the solution lies in imposing a board that would render them almost legally useless. The cost is too high for what we are being given in return, which is the possibility of debt restructuring,“ Lamba-Nieves said. “It gives it widespread power and domain of execution that is unjust and overstepping its bounds. It basically does away with the democratically-elected institutions of Puerto Rico.”

He said the board essentially represents a Congressional takeover the island’s main management, something that feels far too much like a reversion of Puerto Rico to colonial status.

“If that’s not a colony, then I don’t know what you would call a colony these days,” he said.

The control board will use its influence over Puerto Rico’s budget to acquire funds to support itself, according to the legislation’s text.

Worker’s pay

Estimates peg Puerto Rico’s pension system as underfunded by more than $40 billion, and fears have circled that pensions may be cut. The PROMESA bill

acknowledges that pensions are a significant matter for consideration. However, Lamba-Nieves said this does not necessarily mean that pensions receive protections: The board is authorized to examine the situation and may determine to raise or lower payments.

Other bill provisions could mean that workers are paid less than those on the mainland. One piece exempts Puerto Rico from the recent federal expansion of overtime coverage. Eligibility for overtime pay would continue to apply to those who earn up to $23,600, instead of expanding to cover those who earn up to $47,476.

Another provision provides the Puerto Rico’s governor with the ability to expand exemption from the federal minimum wage. Currently, Puerto Rico employers can pay workers under age 20 a lower-than-minimum wage of $4.25 per hour during their first 90 days in the job, according to The Wall Street Journal’s Real Time Economics blog. In comparison, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. The PROMESA bill authorizes Puerto Rico’s governor to, if he chooses, extend the $4.25 sub-minimum wage to new hires age 20 to 25 for up to four years.

Lamba-Nieves said while the intention behind this provision seems to be to make it easier for employers to hire younger workers, if enacted, it is likely to prompt workers to leave for the U.S. mainland and its higher wages. Puerto Rico already is experiencing mass population exodus, and as youth are less likely to have children or own homes, they are an especially mobile demographic.

Long-term

The bill also calls for the creation of a Congressional Task Force to report on any barriers to economic growth caused by federal laws and

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Even with this task force, Falcón and Lamba-Nieves said the bill is unlikely to bring long-term improvements. The task force’s study period is too brief, with the report due by Dec. 31 this year, Lamba-Nieves said. Additionally, the task force faces two other limitations: It will not necessarily consult with non-governmental entities, labor unions and civil society groups — and thus may get too narrow a view of the situation — and has no assigned funding, he said.

“From our reading, this task force is a minute effort compared to what we really need,” Lamba-Nieves said. “It fails to even try to create an environment where a broad consultation of Puerto Ricans are included in a process that will ultimately attempt to define economic development prospects for the future.”

Falcón similarly regarded the legislation’s potential as shortterm. Any plan for economic development requires resources to be invested in the territory, something not promised in this legislation, Falcón said.

“A lot of people are clear that it doesn’t mean any clear solution to the long-term economic situation,” Falcón said. “Even if Puerto Rico may not pay all of the debts back, the money’s going to have to come out of Puerto Rico and into the hands of these vulture funds and bondholders.”

“The bill falls very short of being a plausible solution to Puerto Rico,” Lamba-Nieves said.

The bill is expected to be voted on by the full House in early June.

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NORTH THE PAINTINGS OF LAWREN HARRIS ARE ON DISPLAY THROUGH JUNE 12 AT MFA

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T

he allure of landscape paintings

by Canadian artist Lawren Harris is their power to draw the viewer into the scene. Rendered in oil, his works bring viewers into a contemplative state, as if they were in the sublime setting that inspired the painting. Harris does this not by illustrating a place but instead, by distilling its essence.

Harris (1885-1970) sought out pareddown subjects, mainly in the Canadian north, a region coated in ice and snow and shorn of vegetation, but full of light and shadow, shapes and textures and dramatic interplays of sky, water and earth. With their immediacy and spare intensity, Harris’s landscapes of the Canadian north cast a spell.

Among those who are captivated by Harris’s paintings is comedian, actor, author and art collector Steve Martin, guest curator of “The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris,” a riveting exhibition on view through June 12 in the Art of the Americas Wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA).

Organized in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the show presents 30 works by Harris from public and private collections. The exhibition debuted at the Hammer Museum in October 2015 and will open in July at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and remain on view during Canada’s 150th anniversary celebration in 2017.

Although Harris is renowned within Canada for works that exalt his country’s

wilderness as core to its character, this show is the first major solo exhibition of Harris’s art in the U.S. The exhibition focuses on Harris’s works from the ’20s and ’30s, when he focused on distilling the essence of Canada as well as the essence of a moment in nature. In a 1926 article, “Revelation of Art in Canada,” Harris wrote, “It seems that the top of this continent is a source of spiritual flow… and we Canadians being closest to this source seem destined to produce an art somewhat different from our southern fellows - an art more spacious, of a greater living quiet…”

Well-off and educated as an artist in Europe, Harris was a founding member of the Group of Seven, a Toronto-based

See NORTH, page 18

Darlene Love: Oh my goodness! It’s been wonderful, plus it has gotten me more work which is always nice. I was becoming known as the “Christmas Queen” because of the David Letterman show. Instead of only having work in December, I am now having it spread out the entire year. It has truly been an amazing time in my career.

When you first worked with Phil Spector back in the ’60s, he didn’t want people to know you were black.

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DL: We couldn’t disagree with him because we didn’t know. He never said anything to us, because the sound was not black, so he didn’t have to tell us.

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continued from page 15 collective of painters who shared his desire to develop a new artistic movement within their country.

This new-world impulse to distill the sublime in nature and develop an original vein of art independent of old-world Europe was shared by Harris’s kindred spirits to the south, such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley and Charles Sheeler.

Capitalizing on its rich holdings in early U.S. modernism, the MFA accompanies the Harris

exhibition with two adjacent galleries of works by Harris’s U.S. contemporaries. In their semi-abstract explorations of form in nature and industry, they share common ground.

In addition to organizing the Harris exhibition, Martin also curated one of these galleries, selecting about 20 works, many from the MFA’s Lane Collection, a treasure trove of 20th-century American art. Particularly striking is Harris’s visible kinship with New Yorker Arthur Dove (1880-1946), who, like Harris, started as a commercial illustrator and then turned to painting that was responsive

to nature. Dove went further into abstraction than Harris but nature is always a palpable presence in his paintings, which seem like jazz improvisations in response to the play of light and sea in Long Island Sound.

The MFA’s Taylor L. Poulin curated the second gallery of American modernists, which features Italian-American immigrant Joseph Stella’s magnificent “Old Brooklyn Bridge” (1941), a rhapsody of curves and lines celebrating the new world’s verve. Nearby, are explorations of form in industry by Charles Sheeler, who, like his peers, crossed the line between

abstraction and illustration.

Juxtaposed with works by the Americans are two by Harris. In his oil painting “Ice House, Coldwell, Lake Superior” (1923), the contours of the shacks and dock blaze in the fire of an unseen sunset. A pen-and-ink drawing “Miners’ houses, Glacier Bay” (1926) captures a cascade of row houses marching in raked light.

In counterpoint to this geometric order, in one window, a curtain furls in the breeze.

The main gallery of Harris landscapes groups the paintings by the three regions of Canada that inspired them: Lake

Superior, the Arctic, and the Rocky Mountains. In 1921, at age 36, Harris made the first of several trips to the north shore of Lake Superior. Three years later, he took his first sketching trip to the Canadian Rockies and returned for five consecutive summers. In 1930, Harris traveled through the Arctic for two months on a government supply ship.

Compelling even when small (12” by 15”) in size, the first set of images shows scenes from the northernmost reaches of Lake Superior. Among them is the intense

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La Alma de la Communidad Local theater re-claims Boston’s Latin Quarter

By CELINA COLBY

Well over a hundred people assembled on the steps of the Blessed Sacrament church in Jamaica Plain on Sunday. In partnership with the Hyde Square Task Force, Double Edge Theatre transformed the small square into a bustling Latin American marketplace. Small groups sat at café tables strewn with dominoes while children eagerly licked helado samples distributed by actors dressed as street vendors.

A guitarist in a formal bullfighter uniform strummed to the croons of his female counterpart. Carlos Uriona, co-artistic director at Double Edge, stands in the center of the scene, his smooth Argentinean accent bringing Boston’s Latin Quarter back in time.

“Before this was Jamaica Plain, it was Shawmut,” he said. “Before this was Boston, it was our barrio.”

“A Latin American Spectacle” was not so much a linear, narrative performance, as a wild, passionate celebration of cultural heritage. Inside Blessed Sacrament, aerialists twirled on colorful swings, singing joyfully up to the decaying ceilings of the abandoned church. The nave was transformed into a neighborhood street in pre-colonial South America. The audience walked through the church, amongst the actors, an essential component of the experience. Uriona, wheeled around on a raised staircase, provided loose thoughts about the passage of time and the strength of community to supplement the song and dance of the performers.

Community wasn’t just the message of the performance, but the process. Double Edge Theatre worked with high school students in the area to foster participation in the arts as well as neighborhood pride. In a phone conversation, Uriona stressed the importance of this kind of collaboration for students in underserved areas.

“That’s how we start changing the narrative,” he said.

Much of “A Latin American Spectacle” was taken from Uriona’s own experience in dictator-run Buenos Aires. He altered the content to specifically reference the development of condos and luxury housing, which has had a considerable effect on cultural communities in the Boston area.

In “Spectacle,” conflict came when a colonizer swung from the rafters, yelling for his workers to keep building, assuaging the locals that the industrial development would be better for everyone. But his cries were drowned out by the barrio, as the actors and guests paraded out of the church and down Centre Street. The performance became a physical take-back of the neighborhood as actors played music, danced, and waved flags down the street. Shopkeepers came out of empanada restaurants and cigar stores to watch the parade. By this point in the spectacle it was no longer performance, it was a community coming together to celebrate their heritage.

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Above, actors portray social movements during the Double Edge Theatre performance in the Blessed Sacrament Church building in Hyde Square. Right, a dancer performs in Hyde Square.

Jamaica Plain has been coping with steady gentrification for the past several years. In 2014 when the Whole Foods was built on Centre Street, replacing the Latin American-themed Hi Lo grocery store, local bodega owners felt the chill of corporate competition. Seeing these same business owners lining the street, clapping their hands to the music as the parade of performers walked through the neighborhood, was a reminder that the Latin culture

North

continued from page 18 “Pic Island” (1924), an uncrowded haiku of textures and shapes.

Crossing its eggplant colored terrain are horizontal bands of gold and blue sky that magnify a sense of space. Another miniature, “The Old Stump, Lake Superior” (1926), a closeup of a lone tree stripped by wildfire, is infused by radiant light that evokes a sacred scene in an Italian Renaissance painting.

Harris spoke of striving for paintings that “stood for all mountains.” In a series of journeys to the Canadian north, he made hundreds of pencil drawings that he later refined into paintings — a process that Cynthia Burlingham of the Hammer Museum describes in a fine essay in the show’s catalog.

is still very much alive in JP, and that the locals are willing to fight for it.

The performance was the kickoff of the Hyde Square Task Force’s ¡Viva! program, celebrating the rich cultural history of Boston’s Latin Quarter — the name the nonprofit has assigned to the Hyde Jackson Square area that has long served as a commercial hub for the city’s Latino community. The summer-long schedule of events includes Spanish

Harris records and heightens the surreal extremes he observes in nature in such paintings as “North Shore Baffin Island” (1930), with its sharply tipped peaks; and in “Mt. Thule, Bylot Island” (1930), which shows the mirror-like reflections of crags in the water.

The artist creates intimacy on a grand scale too. Displayed side-by-side, a trio of large mountain scenes seem to lean, tilt and ascend together: “Mt. Lefroy” (1930), “Mountains in Snow: Rock Mountain Painting VII” (1929), and, its peak rising like an exultant dancer springing skyward, “Mountain Forms” (1926).

The wonder of these paintings is how Harris renders a sense of timeless stillness and mystery within the continuous mutations of earth, sky and water.

PHOTO: CELINA COLBY

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Darlene Love continued from page 15

At one point in your career, you left the music industry. What inspired to return?

DL: I left because Phil Spector was a jackass. I decided to return because one day I while I was cleaning a lady’s bathroom one of my songs came on the radio and I thought I am supposed to be sharing the gift that the good Lord gave me.

PHOTOCELINA COLBY

Left, Allen Chamberland, with one of his paper silhouettes, painstakingly cut and assembled from photographs. Right, Lori Anne Fay (above, right) uses cell phone cases to illustrate the inequality in Boston’s housing market.

We shall overcome

MFA showcases disabled artists

By CELINA COLBY

Artist Allen Chamberland has been talking for hours, but the enthusiasm in his eyes is as strong as ever. He’s one of 67 artists working with ArtLifting, an organization that helps homeless and disabled creators sell their work online. He’s also one of four artists spending Memorial Day at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, showcasing some of his work in a popup exhibition.

“Being able to exhibit here is beyond my wildest dreams,” says Chamberland.

Next to him are three of his pieces, paper silhouettes that he

photographs and then painstakingly traces with an X-Acto knife.

It can take him up to 100 hours to finish one work.

Despite being confined to a motorized wheelchair, Chamberland’s artistic career is flourishing. He’s just been commissioned by the Harvard Business School to create six portraits of the campus’s most renowned buildings.

Architecture is a favorite subject, and many of Chamberland’s works show Boston landmarks such as the Christian Science Center, Fenway Park, and the Prudential Center. Such detailed work is laborious, but it’s a labor of love. “I wouldn’t want to be doing anything else,” he says.

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For artist Lori Anne Fay, her artwork is as much a creative outlet as a social megaphone.

Her featured work at the MFA is a multi media composition about the instability of the housing market. Using recycled and found materials, Fay illustrates how the upper class is secure in their ability to afford the rising cost of living. This is represented by discarded phone cases that are glued to the top of the piece. The middle of the artwork shows the phone cases more loosely secured, battered, and dented. This is the middle class that struggles to hold on to the disappearing supply of affordable housing. The bottom of the piece is a disintegrated mash of plastic, a visual representation of a broken system where working class workers are often left homeless.

This choice of subject is no

accident.

“My housing is gone as of tomorrow,” says Fay, who lives in Roslindale Village, next-up on the gentrification list. In addition to having no place to live, Fay has undergone a slew of medical problems including multiple severe car accidents and a degenerative eye disease that required a cornea replacement.

Despite her circumstances, Fay is unendingly positive. Her art allows her to express her creativity and heal the wounds of a harsh life. Her primary medium is photography and she’s drawn to shapes and textures in the natural world. She stands before a crowd of visitors at the MFA, strong, smiling, and grateful.

Fingering the edge of her multimedia piece, she says, “I can see much better through the lens of my camera than any of the eight pairs of glasses I wear.

You will be performing for Gospel night with the Boston Pops. Do you have a favorite gospel song to perform and what does gospel music mean to you?

DL: There are a few that I absolutely love. I was raised in gospel music, so it definitely holds a special place in my heart. Gospel music is inspirational and has a beautiful message in its lyrics that are so uplifting and it can refresh anyone’s soul. Most of the time, before I perform, I listen to gospel music because it helps clear my heart and mind. I’m extremely excited to be performing with the Pops and to be able to perform in Symphony Hall is an amazing opportunity.

Can you tell us about any new projects do you have in the works?

DL: I do have lots going on.

Right now, it’s like having a lots of sticks in the flames and waiting for one to catch on fire. Currently, I’m still out promoting my newest album “Introducing Darlene Love” and working with music producer Steve Van Zandt on a few new ideas. Stay tuned, there are some exciting things in the works.

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n 2 cups (1-inch) diagonally sliced asparagus n 1 ¾ cups 2-percent reduced-fat milk, divided n 1 T plus 2 t all-purpose flour n ½ t salt n 1⁄8 t coarsely ground black pepper n Pinch of ground nutmeg n 2 T unsalted butter, at room temperature n ½ cup (2 ounces) grated ParmigianoReggiano cheese n 8 ounces uncooked fettuccine

Asian Apple Butter Grilling Sauce n ½ cup Musselman’s Apple Butter n ¼ cup Musselman’s Apple Cider Vinegar n ¼ cup water n 2 T honey n 3 cloves garlic, minced n 1 t ground ginger n ¼ t salt n 1⁄8 t pepper Mix all ingredients in medium bowl. Lightly brush or mop sauce over pork during entire grilling time, so sauce slowly cooks into pork.

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1. Steam asparagus in steamer basket over boiling water 3 minutes or until tender. Set aside.

2. Whisk ¾ cup of the milk, flour, salt, pepper and nutmeg in a medium saucepan until flour dissolves. Whisk in remaining 1 cup milk. Cook, whisking constantly, over medium-high heat until mixture comes to a boil. Reduce heat, and let simmer, whisking constantly, 2 minutes. Add butter and cheese. Whisk to combine.

3. Meanwhile, cook fettuccine according to package directions. If asparagus needs reheating, place it in colander and drain hot pasta over the top.

4. Toss pasta, asparagus and cheese sauce in a large bowl. Serves 4.

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t’s not every day the throes of pregnancy inspire a new recipe. But when Alfredo di Lelio’s pregnant wife needed something to soothe her unsettled stomach, her husband, owner of a Roman restaurant, made her plain pasta with butter and Parmesan.

Since its creation more than 100 years ago, Fettuccine Alfredo has gotten richer and creamier.

Preparing it tableside at fancy restaurants has become something of a production. At really swank places, it’s tossed with golden forks and spoons.

With only a few ingredients, Fettuccine Alfredo is simple to make and lends itself to lower-fat tweaking. Here, the sauce is made with less butter and cheese and reduced-fat milk is substituted for cream.

Timing is important. The sauce can wait for the pasta, but never the other way around. To reheat the asparagus, place it in colander and drain the hot pasta over the top. The sauce can be covered and kept warm over low heat.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. LP1703-C1, TANKS COATING UPGRADE, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S - Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 2:00 P.M. LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2016.

The work includes FURNISHING ALL LABOR, MATERIALS, TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT NECESSARY TO COMPLETE THE SURFACE PREPARATION, AND PAINTING OF TWO (2) FORTY FOOT (40’) HIGH WATER TANKS, STRUCTURAL FRAME, HATCHES AND LADDERS. WORK ALSO INCLUDES INSTALLING AND DISMANTLING THE NECESSARY STAGING SYSTEM AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 2016.

Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form.

The estimated contract cost is TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS (275,000.00).

A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid.

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and / or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater.

The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of ONE MILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000.00). Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.

This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and Affirmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246).

The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000.

Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals.

PUBLIC NOTICE PROPOSED SIXTY (60) DAY EXTENSION TO SOUTH END URBAN RENEWAL PLAN, PROJECT NO. MASS. R-56 Public Notice is hereby given that the Boston Redevelopment Authority (“BRA”) will consider at its scheduled meeting on Thursday, June 9, 2016, at 3:30 P.M. in the BRA Board Room – Room 900, 9th Floor, Boston City Hall, a proposed short-term, sixty (60) day extension of fourteen (14) active urban renewal plans, including the South End Urban Renewal Plan, to August 28, 2016. This Public Notice is being provided in accordance with a certain “Conciliation Agreement” by and among the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the BRA and others, dated as of January 16, 2001.

Teresa Polhemus Secretary, Boston Redevelopment Authority BOSTON REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY PUBLIC NOTICE PROPOSED MODIFICATION TO SOUTH END URBAN RENEWAL PLAN, PROJECT NO. MASS. R-56 FOR PARCEL 48B Public Notice is hereby given that the Boston Redevelopment Authority (‘BRA”) will consider at its scheduled meeting on Thursday, June 9, 2016, starting at 3:30 P.M. in the BRA Board Room – Room 900, 9th Floor, Boston City Hall, a proposed modification to the South End Urban Renewal Plan (the “Plan”) regarding Parcel 48B. Said modification will change the Permitted Land Uses of Parcel 48B to residential, commercial and accessory parking.

Parcel 48B is located at 540 Albany Street in the South End and is commonly known as “The Boston Flower Exchange.”

This Public Notice is being provided in accordance with a certain “Conciliation Agreement” be and among the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the BRA and others, dated as of January 16, 2001.

Teresa Polhemus Secretary, Boston Redevelopment Authority

Docket No. SU16P1061GD

SUFFOLK Division

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

Docket No. SU16P0884GD

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304

In the matter of Alexander Green Of Roxbury, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person

In the matter of Serge Saintillien Of Mattapan, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person

To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by DMH c/o Office of General Counsel of Westborough, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Alexander Green is in need of a Guardian and requesting that DMH c/o Office of General Counsel of Westborough, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.

To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Brigham & Women’s Hospital of Boston, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Serge Saintillien is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Marie Saintillien of Medford, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.

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 06/30/2016. 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.

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.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

IMPORTANT NOTICE 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: May 18, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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 27, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU16D0178DR

SUFFOLK Division

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Lopez, Argmiro

vs.

Gil, Ruth

To the Defendant: 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: George N. Lemelman, Esq., Attorney at Law, 24 Daniel Street, Falmouth, MA 02540 your answer, if any, on or before 07/21/2016. 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: May 5, 2016

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BOSTON REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

LEGAL

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU16P0967GD

SUFFOLK Division

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Janice Littlefield Of Mattapan, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Dept. of Developmental Services of Boston, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Janice Littlefield is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Beaverbrook Step Inc. of Watertown, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve Without Surety on the bond.

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 06/30/2016. 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 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: May 19, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Docket No. SU16P1030GD

SUFFOLK Division

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

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 06/23/2016. 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 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: May 12, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU16D0856DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Brandao-Lemus, Nely

vs.

Lemus, William E.

To the Defendant: 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: Nely Brandao-Lemus, PO Box 255179, Dorchester, MA 02125 your answer, if any, on or before 07/21/2016. 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: May 9, 2016

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT Children’s Investment Fund

The Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC) seeks an Associate Director of Planning and Development to join our Children’s Investment Fund staff. The scope of the Fund’s work includes technical assistance, training, grant and loan programs, and advocacy and outreach on improving facilities for community-based programs serving low income children.

The Associate Director of Planning and Development works as a member of a small team with a focus on facilities development for early childhood education and out-of-school time programs in Massachusetts. S/he participates in planning and strategy development for the Fund. Manages the evaluation project that tracks outcomes and impact of facility projects on program leadership, teaching staff, and children served, undertaken by external evaluation consultant. Develops and implements fundraising plans for the Fund’s programs. Assumes advocacy, outreach, and visibility responsibilities related to specific groups whose work is related to the Fund’s mission.

Submit a letter of interest and resume by June 9th to dramirez@cedac.org.

For more information, see www.cedac.org. CEDAC is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.

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SATURDAY CONCEPT TO CATWALK STUDENT FASHION SHOW For the past few months, the girls in the Concept to Catwalk program at the Dudley Branch Library have been working hard on creating original pieces. We invite the public to come see what they have created and celebrate their completion! The Concept to Catwalk Student Fashion Show will be held on Saturday, June 4 from 1-3pm at the Dudley Branch of the Boston Public Library (65 Warren Street in Roxbury). For more information contact fellowestrust@yahoo. com or 617-620-5557. This program was funded by the Fellowes Athenaeum Trust Fund of the Boston Public Library.

HUBBUB: CREATIVE COMMOTION FOR KIDS Organizers of the Boston Book Festival announce that the second annual festival entitled Hubbub: Creative Commotion for Kids will be held all day Saturday, June 4 in Boston’s Copley Square. The event is entirely free and open to the public, and offers programming for kids and families ages zero to twelve, featuring readings, performances, workshops, and more. The 2016 festival will be led by a presentation by children’s author Rosemary Wells, performances by New York and Los Angeles-based theater company Story Pirates, and a full day of puppet shows and exhibits curated by Brookline’s Puppet Showplace Theater, including two special touring productions Help Save the Monkey! by the Brave Bucket Company and Anne Cubberly’s Giant Monkey Puppets. For more information and a schedule visit http://hubbubfest.org.

SUNDAY PARKARTS WATERCOLOR PAINTING WORKSHOPS Budding artists ages nine and up are invited to join the Boston Parks and Recreation Department for its popular summer series of ParkARTS Watercolor Painting Workshops during the month of June at seven Boston locations. The series of free workshops is just one of the many offerings of the 20th annual ParkARTS program sponsored by Holly and David Bruce. The workshops welcome artists of all skill levels to create their own greenspace-inspired masterpieces with instruction and materials provided.

This summer’s featured instructor is Juleen Jones. Ms. Jones has a BFA in Fine Art from Montserrat College of Art as well as a custom painting business called The Artist Touch where she transforms rooms with faux and specialty painting, murals, hand painted furniture, refinishing, and more. All classes are held from 12-2pm weather permitting. Dates and locations for the workshops are as follows: Sunday, June 5 at Nira Rock Urban Wild, 22 Nira Ave., Jamaica Plain; Saturday, June 11 at Medal of Honor Park, 775 East First St., South Boston; Sunday, June 12 at Jamaica Pond, 507 Jamaicaway, Jamaica Plain; Saturday, June 18 at American Legion Playground, 25 Glendon St., East Boston; Sunday, June 19 at James P. Kelleher Rose Garden, 70 Park Dr., Back Bay Fens;

Saturday, June 25 at Mayor Thomas M. Menino Park, 98 16th St., Charlestown; and Sunday, June 26 at Adams Park, 4225 Washington St., Roslindale. For further information on the workshops and other ParkARTS programs, please call 617-6354505 or visit the Parks Department online at www.facebook.com/bostonparksdepart ment or www.cityofboston/parks.

TUESDAY

FRIDAY, JUNE 3

OPENING RECEPTION: EMERGING LATINO ARTISTS 2016

Latino artists from all over the Boston area have submitted their work for a chance to be featured in our gallery during our annual Emerging Latino Artists Exhibit. This exhibition has served as a launch pad for many successful artists in the city and this year we are giving the opportunity to seven more talented individuals.

Come experience their work and meet the artists. See the remarkable impact Latinos are having on the local arts scene. Reception: Friday, June 3, 6-8pm, La Galería at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, 85 W. Newton St., Boston. Exhibition displayed through July 1. Refreshments will be served. Gallery Hours: Thursdays and Fridays 1-5pm and by appointment.

A NIGHT OF FADO A Night of FADO with Tania Da Silva and Jeremias Macedo with musicians Jose Silva and Veriato Ferreira Tuesday, June 7 at 7pm, 3rd floor meeting room of the Main Library, 613 Pleasant St., New Bedford. Join us for an evening of Fado, a world wide known symbol of Portugal and referred to as the expression of the Portuguese soul.

The songs they will perform are traditional and contemporary expressions of Portuguese Fado. With stories of heartache, joy and longing, the singers will conjure images of Portugal’s centuries-old history. This musical evening will offer you an opportunity to learn more about this unique cultural symbol.

FREE ADMISSION. Sponsored by the Friends of the New Bedford Public Library, 613 Pleasant St., New Bedford, MA, 508-991-6275.

FROM STAGECOACH TO SUBWAY: THE WEST END STREET RAILWAY Public transportation has shaped life in Boston and its neighborhoods since the first English settlers arrived in the early 17th century. Its evolution over the course of more than 200 years is a fascinating tale of continuously rising demand, financial and logistical challenges, and technological advancements. A new exhibit at The West End Museum recounts the phases of development since the 18th century through graphic panels and artifacts like trolley tickets, stock certificates, conductor buttons, tokens, photos and original articles. From Stagecoach to Subway: The West End Street Railway runs through September 17 in the Museum’s Members Gallery. The show reception takes place on Tuesday, June 7 from 6:30-8pm, when attendees can tour the exhibit and enjoy light refreshments. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. The West End Museum is dedicated to the collection, preservation and interpretation of the history and culture of the West End neighborhood. The Museum’s permanent exhibit, “The Last Tenement,” highlights the immigrant history of the neighborhood through its decimation under Urban Renewal in 1959; two additional galleries feature rotating exhibits. The Museum is located near North Station at 150 Staniford St., Suite 7. Hours: Tuesday - Friday 12-5pm; Saturday 11am - 4pm. Admission is free.

UPCOMING BLUE HILLS RESERVATION Moderate walk, hilly terrain, 3+ miles.

Loop around the base of Great Blue

Hill. Meet at the Trailside Museum north parking lot at 1904 Canton Ave. in Milton on Saturday, June 11 at 1pm. The Southeast Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00, unless otherwise listed, 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 DCR staff or a Walking Club volunteer leader. Occasionally, the Walking Club meets at other DCR sites and a parking fee might apply. DCR recommends wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes.

A SHORT WALK ON A LONG DAY On Sunday, June 19 at 6pm Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site celebrates Father’s Day, the summer solstice, and the National Park Service Centennial with its annual program, “A Short Walk on a Long Day.” This roughly two-hour evening tour, led by a National Park Service ranger, is free and open to the public.

“A Short Walk on a Long Day” rotates between various local Olmsted-connected landscapes. This year the walk takes place at Franklin Park, with a focus on the “Country Park” section that landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted designed as a restorative landscape of rural scenery within the City of Boston. The meeting place is the Shattuck Picnic Grove, also known as the “Resting Place,” located inside the park’s Forest Hills Entrance off Route 203, the Arborway. To reach the meeting place by public transportation, take the MBTA’s Orange Line to Forest Hills Station and then walk or take bus numbers 16 and 36 to the Circuit Drive/ Shattuck Hospital stop. Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site (Olmsted NHS), sponsor of this walk, was the home and office of America’s premier park-maker and the designer of the Emerald Necklace park system. It is now administered by the National Park Service as one of its 410 sites around the United States. Please visit www.nps.gov/frla or call 617-566-1689 weekdays to learn more about site programs and tours.

Jamaica Plain (Near Jackson Square Orange Line MBTA Station). Free PreFestival Plena Music and Bomba Dance Lessons: Hyde Square Task Force, 209 Green St, Jamaica Plain — Saturdays June 11, 18, 25 from 2-5pm.

Monday, June 27 Rehearsal at Mozart Park from 6-8pm. Supported by the New England Foundation For the Arts Creative City Program with funding by the Barr Foundation. Plus additional support by the Boston Parks and Recreation Department, Hyde Square Main Street, Hyde Square Task Force, Community Arts Advocates. Contact: Jorge Arce, Director, Humano Multicultural Project at info@ JorgeArce.org, Tel: 617-708-1611, www.

JorgeArce.org.

ONGOING 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.

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. 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.

TAI CHI: MOVING FOR BETTER BALANCE This free 12-week, evidence-based workshop focuses on preventing falls 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. 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.

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¡PLENAZO BOMBAZO! Traditional Puerto Rican Music and Dance with Jorge Arce and Raiz de Plena. Special Guests: Bombazo Boricua with Roberto Cepeda. Thursday, June 30, 6-8pm, free admission. Mozart Park, Hyde Square, Mozart and Centre Streets,

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