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My Brother’s Keeper

Incumbents face challengers for 14th, 12th and 11th Suffolk seats in primary

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Candidates for legislative races are gearing up for the September 8 Democratic primaries in the fourteenth, twelfth, eleventh and seventh Suffolk districts. In many of the contests, incumbents are defending their seats against new challengers.

Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry, who formerly held the 12th Suffolk District House seat, said that in running an effective campaign, newcomers especially will need to focus on getting themselves known to voters, which means knocking on doors and attending community meetings. Incumbents need strong track records of helping their constituents and cannot assume votes are guaranteed — they ought to be sure to be present in the community as well.

Key campaign components, Forry said, include having a manager, coordinator, field director or other person who can shoulder the hefty work of campaign organization, as well as gathering volunteers and raising enough money to fund outreach efforts such as mailings. A successful organization can be costly.

“You should have a minimum of $30,000,” she told the Banner.

“There’s a way to work effectively with $30,000 — you just have to be strategic.”

Hyde Park race

In the 14th Suffolk District, 40-year incumbent Angelo Scaccia faces two contenders: West Roxbury and former-Hyde Park

and Roslindale resident Anthony Solimine, making his third consecutive bid for the seat, and Virak Uy, Hyde Park resident and BPS school teacher, embarking on his first run for office.

Scaccia, a Marine Corps veteran, serves as the vice chair of the state’s Joint Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse. He also is a member of two other joint committees — Ways and Means and Veterans and Federal Affairs — and two House committees: Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets, and Ways and Means. Scaccia held office from 1973 to 1979 and has served continuously since 1981.

Solimine worked as a lawyer — primarily as a public defender — for ten years and in 2002 sought the District 5 City Council seat. He told the Banner that, if elected, he hopes to shorten the use of West Roxbury’s quarry and stop the location of a pipeline nearby, reopen Hyde Park’s Tompkins Community Center and reinstate a “Say No to Drugs” program, as well as work to prevent recidivism.

Uy taught elementary grades in Roxbury and Dorchester district schools for the past eight years. Frustration with BPS budget cuts and school closings prompted him to run, Uy told the Banner. His key goals include improving public school funding, establishing small business grants and tax credits, enhancing veteran’s access to trauma care and creating more programs to

See ELECTION, page 12

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Conan Harris (center) was appointed director of My Brother’s Keeper Boston. Beside him: Mayor Martin Walsh (left) and Janine Azalota, director of Fair Housing and Equity (right).

More BPS budget cut fights likely next year

Walsh says changes needed before upping funding

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

This year’s fraught Boston Public School budget decisions — which spurred parent protests and a mass student walkout over anticipated cuts — are unlikely to become a thing of the past, Mayor Martin Walsh told the Banner.

“I think it’s going to happen again next year,” Walsh said in a sit-down interview at the Banner’s

new Dorchester office.

During the past budget cycle, Walsh spoke of a need to control rising costs in the school system, while students and parents said the resulting cuts to their schools were too severe. Opinions do not seem to have shifted for either side.

Before more funding can be allocated to BPS next year, changes must be made to ensure the money is well spent, Walsh said.

“We can continue to throw

money at [the school system] and have the status quo, but I’m not going to settle for the status quo,” Walsh said. “Our kids deserve better. … As we move forward here, we have to see that we spend every penny the right way.”

Others argue, however, that more money is needed not just next year, but now. And that the risk is inequity.

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A Cape Verdean-English dictionary Dorchester man captures evolving language

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Manuel Da Luz Gonçalves has compiled the first-ever Cape Verdean Creole to English dictionary, with 40,000 words.

Like many children who grew up in Cape Verde pre-independence, Manuel Da Luz Gonçalves was forbidden from speaking his native Creole language during school.

“Creole was not recognized as a language,” he says. “For us, to study Portuguese was mandatory. If you were caught speaking Creole on school grounds, you would be punished.”

After the island threw off the

shackles of Portuguese colonialism in 1975, Gonçalves worked with other Cape Verdeans in Boston to write the curriculum for the Boston Public Schools’ first Creole-English bilingual program. In the 1990s, he worked with other linguists on efforts to standardize spelling in Cape Verdean Creole — efforts that led to ALUPEC, the phonetic alphabet now recognized by the Cape Verdean government.

Now, after ten years of researching word usage on the archipelago’s ten islands, Gonçalves, who

lives in Dorchester, has completed the first-ever Creole-to-English dictionary. After wading through 220 books written in Creole and listening to innumerable recordings of Cape Verdean music, Gonçalves gathered more than 40,000 words for the dictionary, which was published in February.

Earlier efforts have yielded Creole-Portuguese and CreoleFrench dictionaries, Gonçalves’ dictionary is the first to open up the language to English-speakers.

“This is absolutely wonderful,” says state Sen. Vinny deMacedo, a

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City teachers try to make do with fewer staff, supplies

By SANDRA LARSON

With city pavement still baking under August sun, it may seem early to think of fall clothes, lunch boxes and school supplies. But Boston teachers have been out shopping, seeking to outfit their classrooms and gather everyday supplies that families can’t afford and school budgets don’t cover.

“Oh my gosh, I’ve been buying,” said Shauntell Dunbar, a first grade teacher at Young Achievers School of Science and Math in Mattapan.

“I’ve already spent more than $500 on just the basics: crayons, dry-erase markers and colored pencils — and I’m not even close to finishing.”

Unloading bags of supplies and surveying her classroom earlier this week, she voiced both enthusiasm and worry.

A Boston Public Schools alumna who grew up in Dorchester, Dunbar began teaching at BPS last year, entering the field with years of nonprofit experience and a master’s degree in early childhood education with special education certification.

She was featured in The Boston Globe twice in her initial year as the embodiment of a hopeful and promising first-year teacher.

Now, in some ways Dunbar has more reason to be nervous than in her first year. Last year she had a fulltime assistant in her classroom; this year, all three first grade rooms will share a single assistant, she said.

Last year, the Reading Recovery program brought a specialist who pulled students out for one-to-one help and guided parents in improving reading support at home; now, that help will be available to only half as many students.

“Not having an assistant means less support for kids who really need it,” she said. “Now I have to decide how many students I can reach each day. I have to choose when to support this student, and when that one.”

Scrimp and save

Sylvaine Lestrade, who teaches second grade at the William Monroe Trotter Innovation School, learned recently that her school will not be providing many of the supplies teachers usually get at the start of the school year.

“So we need to be looking at backto-school sales,” Lestrade said. “Tape, staples, colored pencils, crayons — the basic supplies. I believe I’m going to be asking the parents for things like tissue and hand sanitizer, but every other thing, like pencils, I’ll just

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First grade teacher Shauntell Dunbar surveys a table full of supplies she purchased for her classroom at Young Achievers School of Science and Math in Mattapan. Many BPS teachers are spending more of their own money on supplies this year as schools grapple with budget constraints. continue to buy.”

Her school will feel budget constraints more deeply this year, she said, and as always, the funding shortage hits vulnerable students hard. She ticked off a list of conditions faced by the Trotter community: “100 percent of our kids have free or reduced lunch eligibility.

Some live in motels. Parents are unemployed. Some of the kids suffer from ADHD and other disabilities that we have to focus on.”

After a tumultuous period of public discussions, hearings and parent- and student-led protests earlier this year, Mayor Martin Walsh’s proposed BPS budget was approved June 29 by the city council. The vote was nine to four, with Tito Jackson, Ayanna Pressley, Annissa Essaibi-George and Andrea Campbell in opposition.

While the budget raises BPS funding over last year, public school stakeholders argue it is not enough to meet the budget shortfall and the increasing needs of Boston students.

“This is unlike anything we’ve seen before,” said Sara Wolff, a learning specialist for first grade at Young Achievers who has been with BPS since 1993. Besides the reduction in Reading Recovery services this year, she noted the dispiriting distraction and time drain for teachers during last spring’s contentious budget discussions and hearings.

BPS student needs are only growing, teachers and advocates say.

They cite a rise in family homelessness, more students coming from countries in which they experienced trauma and a growing body of research indicating the need for conscious attention to social and emotional learning. They are concerned about the new budget’s $2,040 decrease in weighted per-pupil funding for autistic students and $1,200 to $3,200 per-pupil drop for elementary and secondary students with emotional impairments.

“It’s not like the students have changed, just the way they weighed them,” said Dunbar. Young Achievers

is an inclusion school, she said, and her incoming class of 22 will include eight students with individual education programs (IEPs) to accommodate various disabilities.

Meeting students’ needs

Neema Avashia, an eighth grade civics teacher at John W. McCormack Middle School in Dorchester, said, “If I have a student who’s struggling emotionally or needs to check in one-on-one with an adult, there are way fewer people to do that work. Fewer people in the building means there will be kids whose needs aren’t being met.”

Avashia, too, has been stocking up on supplies. Last week she bought 240 notebooks, 300 mechanical pencils and cleaning supplies to help keep her classroom clean and students from getting sick, she said.

She posted a picture on Facebook of her car’s trunk jammed with school supplies, along with a pointed message showing the

unease shared by many BPS teachers and parents about charter schools, which draw per-pupil state aid from district public schools.

“Aside from basic furniture,” she wrote, “everything in my room is something I buy. Adding more charter [schools] drains resources from already-strapped public schools, which means that families and teachers are covering the difference.”

Besides spending their own money and asking parents to chip in, some teachers are turning to online platforms like GoFundMe or DonorsChoose with hopes of crowdsourcing money for extra furniture, technology or basic supplies. At McCormack, teachers raised funds earlier this year to reopen the shuttered school library, now staffed by volunteers.

Avashia and others noted that this year’s pain comes on top of previous budget cuts, and voiced alarm about a “new normal” in which budget shortfalls year after year after year will chip away irreparably at the city’s public education capacity.

“Everyone is working really, really hard to do right by young people. But it often feels like policymakers’ understanding of the battle is very different from that of the teachers and students. Decisions get made in back rooms that have an effect on lots of people who are trying really hard,” said Avashia.

At Young Achievers, Dunbar is glad the school provides at least some basic supplies such as white paper and pencils; other schools can’t even do that much. She has been thinking all summer, she said, about how to organize her classroom to help train her first-graders to be as independent as possible.

Still, the path forward is worrisome.

“It’s never good to take money from students who need it most.

You’ll see a ripple effect. The budget cuts will have repercussions for some time to come,” she said. “I’m in at 7:30 and out at 6 p.m., and I’m really passionate about my work. I am a BPS graduate and my heart is there, but these cuts make it so much harder for us to stay in this field. Our students deserve better.”

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Constitutional violations by police should be a federal crime As anticipated, the recent U.S. Department of Justice report found that the Baltimore City Police Department (BPD) had grievously abused the city’s African American citizens and denied them their constitutional rights.

But most blacks already knew that. What they wanted was a criminal indictment to be filed against the offending officers. The reality is that police officers who oppress blacks have always had impunity from the criminal justice system.

The Baltimore City state’s attorney, Marilyn J. Mosby, rejected that tradition when she charged the six police officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray with a crime. Gray was arrested on April 12, 2015 when he ran away from the officers who were trying to interrogate him. After a chase he was arrested on the false charge that the knife in his pocket violated regulations. Gray died as result of injuries he suffered during the ride in the police van.

Riots erupted in Baltimore and across the country. On May 1, 2015 Mosby announced her determination that the police conduct was criminal. At that time she said “to the people of Baltimore and demonstrators across America: I heard your call for ‘no justice, no peace.’” Those who opposed Mosby’s decision asserted that she was playing to the crowd rather than relying on the rigors of the law.

The truth is that Mosby demonstrated the courage to confront a long-standing flaw in the nation’s criminal justice system. Under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the individual states have the exclusive right to prosecute crimes in their own jurisdictions in accordance with their local laws.

A police officer’s compliance with the general standards of performance of the police department is usually sufficient to exculpate the officer from criminal liability, even if the compliance is grossly negligent.

The Department of Justice investigation produced a number of violations of the

Constitution and federal law by the BPD. They include: n “ Unconstitutional stops, searches and arrests; nE nforcement strategies that produce severe and unjustified disparities in the rates of stops, searches and arrests of African Americans; n Use of excessive force; and nR etaliation against people engaging in constitutionally-protected expression.”

More than 300,000 pedestrian stops were recorded by the police in 5.5 years, and 44 percent were in an African American section of town that contains only 11 percent of Baltimore’s population. African Americans accounted for 82 percent of all BPD vehicle stops although they account for only 27 percent of the driving age population in the Baltimore metropolitan area.

Only 3.7 percent of black pedestrians stopped received a citation or were arrested.

This indicates that “stop and frisk” was primarily a harassment strategy. When citizens were detained, there were great racial disparities in the discretionary arrests: 91 percent for “failure to obey” or “trespass” and 84 percent for “disorderly conduct.” With the death of Freddie Gray, Baltimore was ready for a riot.

Four police officers were acquitted in 1992 for beating Rodney King after a police chase.

Congress then gave the Justice Department the authority to conduct a federal investigation of police departments with a record of violating the constitutional rights of citizens. Since 2009, 21 police departments have come under investigation, including Ferguson, Mo.; Cleveland, Ohio; New Orleans, La.; as well as Baltimore, Md. Yet the violations continue.

It is time for citizens to have the right to file in federal court a criminal complaint against police officers who violate their constitutional rights.

“Everybody knows Baltimore cops are bad, but the judges are even worse.

They ruled it’s no crime for the cops to violate Freddie Gray’s constitutional rights and cause his death.”

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I find it perplexing that in 2016 relatives of city officials can profit off their family ties and still be in compliance with state ethics laws. The kind of favoritism we’ve seen in stories like the one in the Banner last week [Controversial project raises abutters’ ire] suggests that our city is still operating in a pay-to-play system.

Many modern cities in the United

States have adopted common sense ordinances that eliminate the appearance of impropriety. In many cities, businesses including real estate developers cannot donate money to the campaigns city officials if they are bidding on public land or public projects. Wouldn’t that make sense here too? Developers are the biggest single group of political contributors in Boston. Imagine how different our

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The fact that one developer employed a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals as his attorney, then turned to the son of the city’s Inspectional Services Department for architectural services speaks volumes. It shouldn’t go down like this in 2016.

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Donald Trump’s flight from reality

Why do you think police are not punished for killing unarmed blacks?

By LEE A. DANIELS Among his many sins, Donald Trump long ago turned the Republican Party’s quest to regain the presidency into farce. But for sheer absurdity, nothing has come close to the burlesque he and one of his top aides separately played early last week.

One involved Trump professing his “concern” for African Americans to an apparently all-white crowd at his rally in West Bend, Wisconsin, a 95-percent white suburb of Milwaukee. That came amid days of protests and violence in the city that followed the shooting death of a black male by a black police officer.

The other was a surreal television interview the next day between a longtime Trump aide, Michael Cohen, and a CNN anchor in which Cohen claimed all of the growing number of polls showing Trump’s overall support sharply eroding were wrong.

Both incidents were partly or wholly based on Trump’s virtually non-existent support among black voters — and both underscored the critical role deceit and self-deceit plays in maintaining racist views.

First, Trump’s West Bend speech (the complete text is readily available on the Internet) drew heavily from the “standard text,” if you will, of how-to-feign-concern-for-blacks-while-actually-declaring-supportfor-white-rule that’s been used for more than a century by racists in the South and the North.

Of course, it contained the ritual denunciation of the Democratic Party for “pandering” to blacks, and, implicitly, of blacks themselves for continuing to vote for Democrats instead of Republicans. But its key point was promising the restoration of “law and order” — the basic code words reflecting the credo of modern-day anti-black racism that the police are the front-line means of controlling African Americans.

The all-white West Bend crowd lapped it up — ignoring the reality that Trump has yet to campaign in any black community or other community of color, including Milwaukee, whose population is 40 percent black. Last month, for example, he refused invitations from the NAACP to speak to their conventions — actions that perfectly reflect the attitudes of the man who began his campaign for the presidency with a nakedly racist appeal.

In fact, the nation as a whole got a glimpse of the true, unvarnished “concern,” Trump and his mob have for blacks and other Americans of color via the video exposing the racist and sexist language commonplace at Trump rallies the New York Times posted on its website August 3. The vile ferocity on display in it is something even most Trump supporters prefer to pretend doesn’t represent them.

If anything, the next day Trump aide Michael Cohen proved himself even more resistant to acknowledging reality. When CNN anchor Brianna Keilar began asking a question about the campaign by noting that Trump was behind Hillary Clinton in most of the major national election polls, Cohen challenged her. “Says who?” he said.

Keilar, clearly stunned that Cohen was trying to refute a plain fact, replied: “Polls, most of them, all of them.” Cohen again said, “Says who?” They repeated that astonishing exchange once more before Cohen said, “I completely disagree with the polling information” — and asserted the polls have missed Trump’s substantial support among blacks.

“When they say that Donald Trump has a 1 percent favorability amongst the African-American community, I know from my own interactions that that number is absolutely and unequivocally inaccurate. I speak on a weekly basis to more than 100 African-American evangelical preachers who are all committed to ensuring Donald Trump becomes the next president of the United States. ... Unanimously, these African-American evangelical preachers all acknowledge that Donald Trump is colorblind when it comes to race and is only interested in ensuring that all Americans have the opportunity to thrive and achieve the American dream.”

Cohen’s brazenness, too, is an old lesson-plan from the code book of racism: The few blacks you talk to, who tell you they agree with you, outweigh studies, surveys and polls, demonstrations and all the other voluminous evidence of what the opinion of the mass of black Americans really is. In the decades before Jim Crow fell the Southern segregationists and their Northern fellow travelers played this dirty game all the time.

Of course, Donald Trump’s flight from the reality in this and every other aspect of bizarre campaign has been his standard operating procedure from the get-go. Fortunately, the polls that he and his aides are now so intent on dismissing indicate more and more voters recognize that particular reality, too.

Lee A. Daniels, a longtime journalist, is a keynote speaker and author. He is writing a book on the Obama years and the 2016 election. He can be reached at leedanielsjournalist@gmail.com.

The police officers take advantage of their badge. The criminal justice system allows them to get away with it. They’re not doing their jobs.

The criminal justice system doesn’t view black lives in the same manner as they view white lives.

The court system is part of the same system as the police. They’re not going to punish their own. We need a civilian review board, not a grand jury.

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There’s a culture of protection and entitlement for police. Their unions use political connections to protect them.

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People have a misunderstanding that the public is accountable to the police. We pay their salaries. They’re accountable to us.

Until black people start to value our lives, they’re not going to give us any value. We have to believe that black lives matter.

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The report maps the landscape of programs and organizations serving black and Latino boys and young men in the city and includes assessment of both strengths and opportunities for improvement.

One-hundred and forty-two nonprofits were surveyed.

Key findings from the report include that hundreds of organizations and programs collectively are serving approximately 40,000 black and Latino boys across Boston; there is a need and opportunity to strategically coordinate these programs to build off the assets that Boston has in place and that MBK Boston’s explicit focus on black and Latino young men is well-positioned to provide a central anchor point around its three target milestones. Those milestones are graduating from high school ready for college and career, successfully entering the workforce and reducing youth violence and providing a second chance.

Also bolstering MBK efforts:

A new $100,000 mini grant program, launched in partnership with The Boston Foundation. Grants are to be used for expanding opportunities for young men of color.

Over the past two years, Walsh established the MBK Boston Advisory Committee which led engagement within the community and developed a set of guiding recommendations to support milestones across education, employment, public safety and second chances.

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CONAN HARRIS Conan Harris, deputy director of Public Safety Initiatives in the city’s Office of Public Safety, takes on an addition role as director of My Brother’s Keeper Boston as the program completes its second year.

“I have tremendous confidence in Conan based on the fantastic work he has done in our Office of Public Safety,” Mayor Martin Walsh said. “His experience in strengthening ties across agencies and institutions to better serve and provide opportunities for our underserved youth make him a great fit for the role.”

As the director of MBK Boston, Harris will be responsible for working across city agencies and partners within the private and public sectors, as well as community-based organizations to support youth development.

Helping guide efforts will be a recently released “Mapping Momentum” report, created from collaboration by the city, Root Cause and James Jenning.

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who have to move out.” You’re two years into the implementation of your housing plan. How would you assess the prospects for middle class and working class homebuyers and renters?

Q&A

Mayor Walsh talks on housing, police hiring, body cams & schools Affordable housing funding growing, BPD diversity remains a challenge Bay State Banner reporters recently sat down with Mayor Martin Walsh to discuss diversity in policing, body cameras, affordable housing and next year’s Boston Public School budget outlook.

The inter view transcript below has been edited for space constraints.

With activists calling for police-worn body cameras, the pilot seems to be going slower and is a bit less than people have been asking for. Are you confident body cameras will be implemented citywide?

Martin Walsh: Some of the activists that are asking for stuff — I don’t know how they get their information on what’s right and what’s wrong. There’s not a lot of precedent around the country for what program works or doesn’t work. The ACLU was pleased that 75 percent of the recommendations that they made were accepted in this pilot.

A body camera program is expensive, but we’re not really sure what it means. … After six months, probably before, we’ll assess. We’ll be able to take a first look at the information that we gather with the pilot and see what

information is out there — how does it help policing, how does it help community relationships?

We’ll look at everything.

Boston’s been somewhat slower than other some cities and towns on getting body cameras and dash cams.

What’s contributed to that?

MW: There are many other cities and towns across America that don’t have them at all. I’m not going to compare us to other cities. We’re doing so much better on policing than so many other cities across America, so I look at the positive.

The Boston police department is becoming less diverse every day.

You have a large number of African American and Latino officers who are nearing retirement age, but class after class of new recruits is coming in almost entirely white. Do you think the department is doing all it can to maintain and expand diversity?

MW: The work has to be done, but we’re mandated by law. [With the most recent recruit class hiring], we have the state Civil Service beating us up and MAMLEO on the other side beating us up. You can’t win here.

There’s a law in place and we’ve got to follow.

We’re looking at the cadet program as one way of making sure we keep the police department diverse.

We’re going to lose a lot of officers over the course of the next couple of years. Not just black and Latino officers. At some point, 30-something years ago, there was a large influx of hiring. Those officers are coming of retirement age and … we have to think how to backfill and fill up our ranks. Part of that will be through testing and part of that’s through cadets.

Councilor Flaherty proposed legislation [in 2014] that would have changed the requirement to three-years residency before you can become a police officer.

He argued that would give people who live in Boston — whether from Southie or Roxbury — a better shot at getting in and prevent people from Maine from getting an address here and getting a job.

MW: That legislation needs to be changed at the state level.

He filed at state level. He said you pulled it and said you were going to re-file it. Where’s that at?

MW: I have no idea. I’ll have to look. …. I have no idea what he’s talking about as far as I pulled that one. I can’t pull a docket of councilor files.

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Is that a measure that you want to see happen? Do you think that it’s useful?

MW: I absolutely would be considered to be supportive.

We’ve got to check and see if we can get it passed legislatively and how affects civil service. [Although I support veteran’s preference, it’s one challenge]. It’s sixmonth residency [requirement in place] today – expanding that a little more would be beneficial.

The number of Latinos in the police department is about nine percent, while the number in the city is almost 20 percent. The city can request Spanish-speaking officers, Cape Verdean Creole-speaking officers, Haitian Creole-speaking officers. They can get past the civil service.

MW: It’s not that easy. It’s not on the city for the lack of diversity within the police department. It is a state law — and actually it was just strengthened again this legislative session — and it is a federal law. We cannot go around state and federal law, as much as we might want to.

On Monday [August 15] you said Boston is “becoming a city of people who can make it and people

MW: We’ve done a pretty decent job of creating more housing units. We’ve changed Inclusionary Development Program requirements from 13 percent to 18 percent. That’s going to get us some more money to be able to create more.

The Community Preservation Act is going to be big for us.

I had a meeting yesterday with some business leaders to try to encourage them to be supportive. I think it will pass in Boston.

That will give us another pot of money to create more affordable housing.

[Editor’s note: The Mayor explained that the way the law is written allows the state to match state and municipal CPA funds at a one-to-one ratio. Currently, the state matches 25 percent of municipal investment.]

I think it’s about $16.4 million a year that we’ll raise in taxes [with the CPA] and if we get the one-toone match, that’s $32.8 million that we’ll have for housing.

In 2015, we completed 1,222 units of low-income housing in the city. It was largest number in the history of the city. … We’re seeing a developer interest in moderate, low-income housing. Where we’re going to run into a problem is, communities don’t want the density in the neighborhood.

We’ll have money to do some great things with housing over the next two, three, four, five years, but the challenge will be to sell it to the different communities.

We created four “growth zones.” What it is, is having neighbors come in, residents come in and have a debate and conversation about what they would like to see in the

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neighborhood — what the density would be, what the mix of construction would be — before any development comes. [This is not pushing a particular development project]. We’re looking at what you would like to see in the future. We’re trying to do that as a way to build trust.

In the first place we did it was South Boston and Jamaica Plain.

In Southie … people agreed to heightened density in certain levels.

In Jamaica Plain, some activists asked for a moratorium on the growth zone plan. We’re not going to do that. But what I am going to do is continue to work with the community.

The next two growth zones are Dudley and Glovers’ Corner.

program — there are other ways to get money to businesses to help them with their stores.

BPS has had a dramatic budget year.

You’ve been talking about the need to rein in the costs and we’ve seen student protests, arguing the cuts are too much. Are we likely to see this cycle happen next budget year?

MW: I think it’s going to happen again next year. We have some work to do.

We have to look at Boston.

Boston has 128 schools. We have about 20 to 24 different models of schools. We have 22 different start times. When you try to operate a business like that, it runs out of business. Because it’s government, it doesn’t go out of business, we keep funding it.

Some neighborhoods have

nice feeder patterns from K-12, or K-8. Other neighborhoods don’t. We have K-1s, K-2s, K-3s.

We have no K-4s. We have K-5s, K-6s, no K-7s. We have K-8s. Just that alone is a confusing system.

We have to think about how to deliver the services better.

As we move forward, we have to see how we spend every penny the right way.

We’re looking at wraparound services in our schools. We have kids with learning challenges, homeless challenges, family challenges, disability challenges, English language learner challenges and a high number of immigrant kids in our district. There’s a lot of challenges there and we need to deliver a better system for educating kids.

We can continue to throw

money at it and have the status quo, but I’m not going to settle for the status quo. Our kids deserve better.

I’m not supportive of Question 2 even though I am a charter supporter, because there’s no funding mechanism. If that passes, it’ll hurt us financially— we’ll have to pick up more of the slack for underfunded charter schools.

After we did our city budget, we got cut on the state level [funding for] 200 kindergarten seats and $2.6 million for charter school reimbursement. We the city have to pick that up just to keep continuing our rise in pre-K seats and continue our funding for charter schools.

What do you think of the situation at Boston Latin School?

MW: I just think it was sad how that played out. … We started looking at the number of kids who have been accepted to our exam schools and the number of kids of color accepted at exam schools. It’s 48 or 49 percent. The number of kids that chose Latin School this year was in the mid-20s. It doesn’t meant they didn’t get in to it, it means they didn’t choose Latin School.

We have to figure out, fundamentally, why aren’t kids choosing Latin School? Is it because of the education inside, the race issue inside, or the perception of the race issue inside?

Hopefully, we get a system that addresses all the issues. We can’t have any of our kids feel they don’t have a safe learning environment.

To be clear, the zoning would be changed to allow greater height and density?

MW: Whatever they decide. ...

In the South Boston one, we’re not talking skyscrapers.

Dudley Square MW: The Bolling Building was a great addition to Dudley Square, but I think it’s the next privately-funded building that is the one that will get activity happening. There’s some great stuff happening. … You’re starting to see a little activity on the streets, storefronts starting to fix up inside.

You’re going to see more business coming. That’s what Dudley needs.

I guess you’d need a change in the demographics around Dudley in order to have your market?

MW: I don’t think you need that. To preserve Dudley, you need businesses that the residents will use, but the residents also need opportunities. What’s lacking is real opportunities for employment. I’d be careful with trying to attract businesses that will change the demographic breakdown of Dudley.

Are there any strategies the city is considering to keep or make rents affordable for business?

MW: I don’t know if there’s way to do that [or] if there’s a problem with rents for businesses. I’d rather spend resources on trying to keep people in their homes. We have the Main Street program, the façade storefront

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After struggles, HiSET attainment and a brighter future College Bound Dorchester student Naomie Charles will enroll in fall semester at RCC

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With college enrollment lined up for the fall and plans to work toward a business degree, 28-year-old Naomie Charles considered the future. She weighed whether to turn her natural talent at hair styling into a hair salon and fashion boutique business or seek the challenge of a new field, such as nursing.

Charles’ prospects looked very different from two years ago, when she first entered College Bound Dorchester, a four-yearold nonprofit that helps low-income teens and young adults gain high school equivalencies and higher degrees. Charles had been homeless, recently released from incarceration and largely on her own. Failing to complete the program could have meant losing her kids, housing or still being required to wear a court-ordered GPS tracking monitor, she told the Banner.

On Tuesday, Charles and nearly 50 other CBD students ages 18 to 30 celebrated their entrance into college and other achievements at the nonprofit’s matriculation ceremony.

“I’m very happy to say that I made it,” Charles said. While her housing remains unstable, she is on track to get off probation in December 2017 and looks forward to entering Roxbury Community

College this fall.

“That [I graduated] surprised a lot of people,” she said. “A lot of people did not expect me to succeed.”

Challenging path

Like many CBD students, Charles comes from a low-income background. Her school struggles began in high school, when she made friends who frequently skipped class. Charles started missing days with them, but the lost classroom time made academics a challenge — ultimately she did not pass her grade 12 math MCAS, which prevented her from graduating. She tried for a GED but became discouraged when she did not pass, she said.

“I always wanted to finish school,” Charles said. “I have to accept responsibly for the mistakes I made, but things I hardly had control over hindered me. “ Charles has struggled with homelessness and although over the years, she tried three high school equivalency programs, none worked for her. She would either fail the equivalency test or drop out of the program, she said.

Then it was a struggle to summon up the energy to try again.

In 2014, she was arrested for involvement in a fight that turned violent.

Charles said that although her mother supported her throughout her court case, when she was

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At the time that she entered College Bound Dorchester, Charles did not have a permanent

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What made CBD different from the other HiSET programs she tried, Charles said, was it provided support not just for her education, but her whole life.

As part of its model, the organization pairs its students with college readiness advisors and helps connect students with resources for other life needs such as driver’s licenses, child care, court involvement support and housing, Charles said. Advisors create personalized plans for each student and continue to check up on them until they receive an associate’s or four-year degree.

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Charles’ son, now age one, has been in a CBD daycare program since he was four months old. Completing high school has brought her closer not just to her dreams, but has set her children on a better path as well, she said.

“For my children to be able to say that both their parents graduated high school is very important to me,” Charles said, “because I feel like based on statistics, that’ll mean both my children will be able Partners H to succeed as well.”

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5 signs your financial institution cares about you When choosing a financial institution, it’s important to think beyond credit cards and home loans. You want your bank or credit union to be there for you when you need them, wherever you need them, because that’s what peace of mind is all about. So seek out a trusted organization that really cares about you, and if you’re being taken care of, you can rest easy knowing that your bottom line — not just theirs — is also being taken care of.

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They’re “there” anytime, anywhere. When you need support, you need it. It doesn’t have to always be an emergency situation, but isn’t it nice to know even at 3 a.m. you could talk to someone about your credit card’s APR if you really needed to?

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Someone else says they care.

There’s nothing like third-party validation. It’s unbiased and can give you a sense for what a financial institution is actually known for. You wouldn’t trust a bank with your home loan just because it won an award for “Best Parking” now, would you? Hopefully not. So instead, look for awards from reputable organizations that highlight aspects of banking, such as best in banking or superior customer service or anything else that’s directly relatable to the services that are provided to you.

Service comes before selling.

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Above, Isabella Brandao. Right, models display outfits from Brandoa’s fashion line Alleb Asor.

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I had to ask myself, is this really what I want to put out?

I don’t want to put out sloppy work, I want to make quality garment pieces. … We want to keep it simple for our first launch and have a variety of pieces to see which one sells.

So if jackets are our top sellers, we’ll include more jackets in the next collection.”

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PHOTO: COURTESY ALLEB ASOR

— Isabella Brandao, Alleb Asor

Dorchester native designs the modern woman’s wardrobe

By KAREN MORALES

It was never Isabella Brandao’s idea to sign up for a summer course in fashion design at age 14.

“I kind of got forced into it by mom,” said Brandao. As it turned out, she was a natural at making garments and has continued designing on her own ever since.

At 22 years old, Brandao is launching her own fashion brand, Alleb Asor, Brandao’s name and mother Rosa’s name, spelled backwards. “My mom is a pusher, sometimes a little bit too much,” said Brandao with a smile. “But she encouraged me to go out there and do it.”

At the Bird Street Community Center in Dorchester where Brandao

was introduced to fashion entrepreneurship, students were instructed to make tunic tops but Brandao didn’t want to stop there. “I was trying to challenge myself so I made other pieces besides a tunic,” she said.

A year later, Brandao created her first design collection and displayed it at a fashion show at Boston GreenFest. She continued to showcase her creations at student fashion shows on college campuses throughout her high school career without any other technical sewing or design training.

“When I started participating in fashion shows and networking with different people, it was a chain reaction type of thing,” she said.

“Once I met someone, they put me on with somebody else, and so on.”

As a participant of the METCO (Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunities) program, Brandao attended school in Lexington from elementary to high school. College was an obvious path, but one that she felt was not right for her.

“I got into all my schools, but the money was the biggest factor in my decision,” she said.

She attended Centenary College for a week — until a “huge epiphany” struck.

“Before, I made decisions based on others’ needs and wants and that was the first time I made the decision for myself,” said Brandao of her decision to leave Centenary and put college on hold. “I’m open to getting a college degree but right

now, it’s not my priority,” she said.

From 2013 to 2015, Brandao was designing clothes for clients while working two part-time jobs. She took in 50 to 100 clients throughout those two years, most of them high school and college-aged girls who wanted an original dress to party in.

Brandao said that she gained clients through word of mouth.

“Boston is really small, so once you know somebody, other people will find out,” she said.

However, as a solo entrepreneur, the workload became overwhelming and Brandao’s artistic vision got lost.

“I had to ask myself, is this really what I want to put out?”

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she said. “I don’t want to put out sloppy work, I want to make quality garment pieces.” She stopped taking client orders and has been planning her re-launch over the past year with a different aesthetic and for a different target market.

Brandao says her clothes are for women in their late 20s up to late 30s. “Definitely the mature career-driven women, always on the go, who doesn’t have time to focus on shopping too much,” she said. “I want her to see Alleb Asor’s website and see the product that we have and automatically know what she wants because at the end of the day, she doesn’t have time to waste on shopping.”

The collection will offer sizes 0 to 18 and pieces will run from $100 to $200.

Brandao recently received a $3,000 Kiva loan to finance Alleb Asor’s launch. Kiva Microfunds is a nonprofit organization that allows people to lend money to low-income entrepreneurs and students at a zero percent interest rate.

“The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Local Initiatives Support Corporation Boston presented me with the information on Kiva and answered any of my questions,” said Brandao.

“I filled out the application, marketed myself, and made phone calls to get support.”

The loan will be used specifically

for Alleb Asor’s pre-development stage: Creating a blueprint for the garment designs, flat sketches and samples. “I need samples to give to a production company,” she said.

“The company takes the blueprint and the samples and they make replicas based off of that.” Samples are individual finalized garment pieces from the collection.

The designer’s current samples, which are used to give an idea of how the collection may look, are strong statement pieces with soothing, muted colors.

Ultimately, Alleb Asor will respond to consumer demands, she said.

“We want to keep it simple for our first launch and have a variety of pieces to see which one sells. So if jackets are our top sellers, we’ll include more jackets in the next collection.”

Creative impulse

Brandao also enlists the help of high school interns to analyze trends on social media and gauge consumer opinion on Alleb Asor samples.

Brandao hopes to one day showcase Alleb Asor at Boston Fashion Week, and has been attending previous years’ events to network and get a feel for Boston’s fashion scene. She did observe a lack of cohesiveness at BFW and the tendency to fall into niches.

Brandao said she couldn’t help but notice a divide in the fashion scene. As a Cape Verdean woman, Brandao said she is “very close with the ‘urban’ niche of the fashion

industry.” But she doesn’t want to be confined to this category.

“I’m definitely trying to break that barrier. I’m trying to dip and dab and meet a whole bunch of different people and have everybody collectively work together — hopefully,” she said.

Another challenge Brandao faces: lack of fashion production resources in Boston.

“It took me a long time to find a production company. Some were trying to charge me $10,000 for what I was asking,” said Brandao.

The production company she eventually found is called “Tribes

by Joseph,” run by designer Marcia Roseme in New York City.

“Fabric Stores are also disappearing. I had access to three or four last year and now there’s only one,” said Brandao.

The designer said that Alleb Asor is inspired by nearly everything around her, especially her Cape Verdean family and “the way the woman carries herself.” Brandao said the women in her family always dressed discreetly and modestly, and that she was taught to do the same. “I’m definitely an old soul. I’m 22, but I act like a 35-year-old sometimes,” she said.

Alleb Asor will launch in the fall, but in the meantime, Brandao will continue to market her skills and talent amidst the visual noise in today’s highly digital world.

“It’s hard to stand out sometimes,” she said. “I’m confident with the clothes I put out but it’s a matter of getting people to see that.”

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continued from page 10 banking app. In addition, look for a credit union or bank that promotes fraud prevention from an educational perspective.

You’d be surprised at the number of simple steps you can take to proactively prevent fraud and identity theft and improve security on all of your accounts.

It’s the little things. We’ve all heard it before — “it’s the little things that count.” So ask yourself, is your financial institution doing things right and doing the right things? When you walk through the doors of their branch, are you greeted by name? Do you feel like a welcomed member of the community? A positive experience means being treated like a real person with specific needs, rather than numbers in an account.

Another way to get a good sense is to check out their social media presence.

Check out their Facebook page, Twitter and Instagram accounts to see what they’re doing. Are they pushing products or financial advice? Are they responding to customer questions and concerns?

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Campaigning

Scaccia garnered a strong majority of votes in the past two elections. In the two-way 2012 primary, Scaccia took 77 percent of votes cast to Solimine’s 23 percent.

In 2014, Solimine ran again.

In that two-way primary, Scaccia took 73 percent of votes cast, while Solimine took 26 percent, according to city records, and spent about $16,900 compared to Solimine’s expenditures of about $5,600, according to the Office of Campaign and Political Finance.

Scaccia ended 2014 with approximately $20,850, according to the OCPF. He was unavailable for comment.

Solimine told the Banner that he has raised $2,200 to $2,500 for his campaign and is saving costs by reusing some materials from previous runs. He has four to six volunteers and no campaign manager or paid staff. His outreach methods include distributing literature at doors of registered voters, in public locations and through mailings, and he hopes to build on his previous voter base.

Uy raised $4,000 thus far and has a second fundraising event in the planning, he told the Banner.

His campaign comprises about 40 volunteers, organized by his neighbor and campaign manager, Jean Venditti, who previously has volunteered on political campaigns.

The campaign is using signs and door-knocking — hitting about

Stephen Bedell

Charles Clemons

Dan Cullinane

Jovan Lacet

Liz Malia

Virak Uy

100 per day — to raise its profile.

Uy said he can bring a more robust and visible campaign than Scaccia has confronted in the past, and that votes going to challengers in the past two primaries show that constituents desire change.

Cullinane has held the seat since 2013, which he won in a special election. He told the Banner that his key achievements in office include helping to organize a Mattapan youth summer job fair, secure seed funding for mental health services provision in Mattapan and advocating for community engagement in development plans for the Mattapan Square MBTA parking lot. If re-elected, his plans include working on development of the Mattapan MBTA lot and Cote Ford properties and advocating for maintenance and

improvement of the Mattapan High Speed Trolley Line. He also will seek to expand local education, training and job opportunities and to increase minimum wage and employment standards in certain service jobs.

Lacet’s platform includes increasing funding to public schools, providing tax credits for small businesses, CORI reform and combating displacement, he told the Banner. Lacet ran for the District 4 city council seat last year before withdrawing his candidacy.

Williams told the Dorchester Reporter she would focus on areas including economic development without displacement, affordable housing stock increases, substance abuse, domestic violence and small businesses.

In the 2013 special election primary, Cullinane won approximately 60 percent of votes cast, competing against three contenders, including one write-in, according to city records. In the 2014 four-way primary, he took approximately 66 percent of votes cast.

Cullinane is managing his own campaign, which comprises approximately 350 volunteers, many from his previous four campaigns.

Activities include phone banks, door knocking and placing signs.

This year, he has raised approximately $39,000, some of which will be allocated toward campaign efforts and sponsorship of community organizations and events, he told the Banner.

Lacet has raised approximately $3,800. His campaign manager, Jeff Durham, has participated as a volunteer in various campaigns. Lacet said he has an all-volunteer campaign but he did not have an exact headcount. He said he relies on individual constituent conversations to build enough support to win.

The Banner was unable to reach Williams by press time.

A Dorchester, Mattapan and Milton race

In the 12th Suffolk District, incumbent Dan Cullinane is running against Mattapan resident and attorney Jovan Lacet and Hyde Park resident and health care worker Carlotta Williams.

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In the eleventh Suffolk, 18-year incumbent Liz Malia serves as chair of the Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse. She told the Banner that if re-elected she will continue her work around expanding access to substance abuse and mental health treatment — which has included requiring insurance companies to cover detox and stepdown services —as well as efforts toward criminal justice reform,

public safety and regulation of sober homes. Malia also highlighted legislation that repealed the automatic suspension of driver’s licenses for nonviolent drug offenses.

Challenging here are Charles Clemons Jr., former Boston police officer and co-owner of TOUCH 106.1FM, and Stephen Charles Bedell, former attorney and current manager of a Cambridge restaurant.

Clemons told the Banner that, if elected, he would focus on increasing public school funding and affordable housing, raising pay to living wage standards and improving police-community relations, including advocating for body cameras and officers from the community. He made an unsuccessful bid for the District 7 City Council seat in 2015 (he took 32 percent of the vote according to Ballotpedia) and in 2013, ran for mayor.

Stephen Bedell, a political newcomer, is running on a progressive independent platform that includes better funding public schools and transit. He aims to raise the revenue through taxing wealthy nonprofits and making municipal fines and income taxes progressive, he told the Banner.

Other items: improving bicycling infrastructure and advocating for body cameras and third-party oversight of police complaints.

Campaign in 11th Suffolk

Malia was unopposed in the 2014 primary. In January, her campaign had $9,200, according to filings with the OCPF. While she has since fundraised, she said she was unsure of the amount raised.

Some of her funds also go to sponsoring community events, she said.

Her partner, Rita, is helping to coordinate and has been involved in Malia’s past campaigns. Her current campaign has 10 to 15 volunteers and no paid staff.

Her outreach includes knocking on voters’ doors and engaging with traditional supporters as well as distributing signs and palm cards.

Clemons’ campaign comprises 50 volunteers and has raised $5,000 thus far, he told the Banner. Bill Wright is the campaign manager. Clemons and Bedell both said they believe Malia has poor name recognition among constituents, indicating a disconnect with voters. Clemons said he knocks on 100 to 300 doors a day.

Bedell has taken the position that he will not accept campaign contributions. Thus far, he has spent $1,200 to create a campaign website and print pamphlets, and said he can only afford one more print run.

He has six to seven volunteers and no paid staff. His friend David Maes is handling campaign reporting and filing.

Bedell’s outreach efforts include door-knocking. He said he has distributed 4,000 pamphlets in three months. He faces additional visibility challenges by being a third-party candidate, but said he believes there is a significant progressive population in Roxbury, JP and Roslindale that could be tapped. He anticipates needing 8,000 to 9,000 votes.

Three-way in Seventh Suffolk

In the Seventh Suffolk district, incumbent Gloria Fox is stepping down. Vying to replace her are Chynah Tyler, former aide to Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz; Marydith Tuitt, chief of staff to Fox; and Monica Cannon, community liaison for the youth services organization Roca. The three were profiled by the Bann earlier this month in which they shared their personal perspectives and policy positions.

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A solution in savings?

Walsh said the current system struggles with the absence of a cohesive model. There are too many schools with different grade levels offerings, making it difficult to find a clear transition path from kindergarten to grade 12, and there are too many varied school start times.

BPS’ 128 schools have 20 to 24 different models and 22 different start times, Walsh said “When you try to operate a business like that, it goes out of business. Because it’s government, it doesn’t go out of business, we keep funding it,” Walsh said.

Some costs are fixed, or outside of BPS’ control. For one, BPS is required to fund transportation to charter schools and parochial schools, and does not have control over their start times.

With planning, enough savings can be achieved in transportation, use of facilities and handling of unassigned teachers that would save enough to make a budget increase unnecessary, said City Councilor Annissa Essaibi-George, vice chair of the Committee on Education.

“We just need to be more thoughtful ahead of time on planning and make sure we’re really serving all of our students,” she told the Banner. “If we can make strides in those three areas and we can realize some significant costs savings, we don’t need to increase the budget.”

Currently, there is a pool of teachers who are retained on the payroll but not assigned to classrooms. There are approximately 102 such teachers this year, costing approximately $8 million in salaries and benefits, according to The Boston Globe. That figure accounts for seven hundredths of a percent of the $1.013 billion BPS budget.

Essaibi-George also said that, while not desirable, school closures and consolidations should remain on the table and creative uses of building space be examined. Among the potentials: permitting other activities — such as welcome centers — to keep school buildings with surplus space open.

City Councilor Tito Jackson,

chair of the Committee on Education, agreed that there are some areas for savings, including through deploying unassigned teachers, reducing food waste and ensuring BPS’ consultants are not duplicating work already handled by the department.

Economics of equity

Discussions of cost savings need to include monitoring the potential for unequal impact, said Mary Battenfeld, member of the Citywide Parent Council and the parent group Quality Education for Every Student, noting that budget shortfalls fell disproportionately on children with certain types of special needs.

“To start there [with efficiencies] rather than start with advocating for adequate and equitable funding I think is wrong-headed and won’t get us there,” Battenfeld told the Banner. “The mayor’s route is a path toward school closures and implementing the McKinsey [& Company] report recommendations.”

That controversial report

recommended saving money by closing and selling underutilized school buildings. It was criticized for failing to account for limits to student-teacher ratios and for counting non-classroom space in making its assessment that schools could serve more students.

Battenfeld said that while smaller schools are more expensive to run, decisions around closure or consolidation must take into account whether it will affect some students more severely. For instance, it could mean children have to travel further to school (and not all children have the option of being driven or safe areas to walk in) or that some children no longer have the choice of a smaller environment to which they may be better suited.

Some of BPS’s funding requests are driven by the cost of serving a significant number of children with high levels of needs, Battenfeld added. In his conversation with the Banner, Walsh acknowledged the challenges of serving students with a diverse array of needs, including English language

learners, homeless students and children with special educational conditions.

Jackson is among those who argue that the money is there in the city’s budget, and it is a matter of political will to allocate it to schools.

“This year, young people enter school buildings with fewer resources than they did last year,” said Jackson in a phone interview. “Four schools will have no librarians. Autistic students will enter classrooms that will have more students than they did last year.”

If this funding pattern continues, students may suffer, Jackson said.

“If funding does not increase [next year], we will be moving backwards in our commitment to closing the opportunity and achievement gap.”

A dual approach

In the view of Kim Janey, senior project director and leader of the Boston School Reform Project at Massachusetts Advocates for Children, fully supporting schools will

take both budget increases and cost controls.

“We need for revenue to rise and for costs to go down,” she told the Banner. “The school district should be more efficient, that’s absolutely true. That being said, all the efficiency in the world is not going to get at the resources that are needed to adequately fund and educate students in Boston.”

Ballot question 2

Many on both sides of the budgeting issue agreed that the passage of Question 2 — one of the ballot items up for consideration this November, which would raise the cap on charter schools — would exacerbate the budget strain.

Already the state has failed to fund charter school reimbursements, putting an increasing burden on the city, Walsh said.

Passing Question 2 will only heighten that problem.

“If Question 2 passes, we will be in even deeper trouble than we currently are,” Janey said. “It will be devastation.”

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The highlight of the show was The Price Brothers, an a cappella group of five who sing four-part harmony. The group hails from North Carolina and comprises brothers Robert, 17; Jason, 16; Erick, 15; Derrick, 15; and Christopher, 13.

While attendees were serenaded by the artist on stage, their taste buds were spoiled with treats such as cupcakes and cookies from Dollbaby’s Cookies & Creations. Taken together, the entertainment, atmosphere and music made for a unique experience. For more information on BENT events follow them on Instagram, @b.ent_; Twitter, @BallotEnt3; and Facebook, Bent Bent.

Cool weekend afternoons and live poetry shows can be just the thing you need to set the mood for the weekend. What’s better than going to a show and being unapologetic about how you express yourself? On August 6, Project Poetry hosted its second annual “Unapologetic: Audience Discretion is ADVISED!” event, which I emceed at the Dorchester Art Project, 1486 Dorchester Avenue.

Project Poetry is a nonprofit organization that nurtures, develops and promotes experienced and upcoming poets, while showcasing their talent in the Boston area. The Second Annual Unapologetic event was eye-opening and powerful, featuring some of Boston’s best spoken-word artists. Featured at the show were Oby; Morency; Schnieder Predestin; J.Fox; Evan Jymall Cutts; Al’Amin Cissi; and Sev. “I want the audience to feel safe to express themselves as well as knowledgeable about what’s going on in the world [as conveyed] through the poets’ pieces,” said Jessica Moliere, president of Project Poetry.

One of the show’s highlights: Al’Amin Cissi, who describes himself as “the child of the only college dropout out who kept all the books she took out of the library and bought for classes.” A graduate of Wheelock College, Al‘Amin uses poetry as a tool to share his ideas and has come to the conclusion that his role is a social disrupter. He believes that the essential quality of a leader is the ability to combat social norms and cultural narratives. But the best part of the show was at the end, when the artists collaborated on a piece that paid tribute to victims of police brutality.

When some of the pieces became hard for the audience to digest, there was a separate room available for them to take a break. The room featured beautiful portraits and a live painter.

For show updates and inquiries about how to join Project Poetry, follow them on Twitter, @projectpoetry1; Instagram, @ProjectPoetry; and Facebook, under ProjectPoetryBoston.

BENT Friday: Spoken Word Edition + after party — 8/12/16 Poetry Shows and all-white parties are an important addition to a great summer experience in Boston. Nothing can compare to relaxing alongside some live poetry and turning up with your squad right after. Ballot Entertainment (BENT) hosted “BENT Friday: Spoken Word Edition + after party” on August 12 at Wonder Bar in Allston. BENT is a New England company that specializes in event planning and is known throughout Boston for hosting their Friday parties at Wonder Bar. The Spoken Word show was the first event of its kind that BENT organized and enjoyed a great turnout. Chris Andrews, BENT co-founder, said, “Ballot Entertainment has decided to shake up the city of Boston in a positive way.” The event showcased some of Boston’s most talented poets as well as some musical performances by local artists. Among the spoken word artists and musicians featured were Cassidie JB; Young Vokal; Jamila; Chris Fame; Samantha Casseus; Trevor; Mr. Yellow; Kenzy Clerdonna; Caleb; Marlene; Jared; Alyssa; The Price Brothers; Andy; Amber; and Theresa.

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Dining with royalty at the Queen’s Dinner — 8/18/16 Nothing beats an empowering dinner with like-minded women who also are on a mission to better themselves. Sometimes you need to get with a couple of your girlfriends over delicious food and cocktails to be reminded of the queen that you are. On the evening of Thursday, Aug. 18, Queens Co. hosted the Queen’s dinner at Savvor Restaurant and Lounge in downtown Boston. The Queens Co. is a network of ambitious women who seek to advance in their personal lives and careers.

One method for doing so involves hosting a quarterly dinner where members and newcomers come together and talk about their current projects and future aspirations. The Queen’s dinner was created to provide women of color with a support group as they work towards their personal and professional goals. For example, the Queens were asked to share their “super powers” and discuss their ideal profession. Throughout the dinner, organizers facilitated activities that helped attendees build trust and foster a sense of community, while affirming themselves and motivating each other in the process.

A house rule that made the ladies feel empowered was wearing a crown when it was their turn to speak. Having that crown placed on your head while speaking your truth generates a sense of freedom and empowerment. It can be extremely therapeutic to have other women support and encourage you as you go along your journey of becoming the Queen you were meant to be. This Boston organization strives to create a community that inspires women to be their best selves, while providing necessary resources and holding each other accountable, whether the goal is entrepreneurship or personal growth.

“I hope that this network continues to grow to provide women of color in the greater Boston area a reliable support system and the necessary resources for them to be successful,” said Jessicah Pierre, the founder of the organization. For more on joining Queens Co., send an email to thequeensco2016@gmail.com or get nominated by a current member.

Meet Stephanie Millions — our new In the Mix reporter. Millions is passionate about media and works on many platforms. She anchors a morning motivational talk show called “Elevation with Stephanie Millions” on the Gag Order Network, and also hosts “The Secret Spot” every Monday night from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. on WERS 88.9 FM. For more information, please visit www.stephaniemillions.com or email stephanie.millions@gmail.com to have her cover your event. Follow Stephanie on Twitter @StephMillions

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Clockwise from top left: Oby, one of the poets at the event; Jessica Moliere, President of Project Poetry; Morency, poet; Al’Amin Cissi, poet; and the crowd at the Second Annual Unapologetic.

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From left, Jessicah Pierre, founder/CEO of Queen’s Co.; Cynthia Brown, Treasurer; and a group shot with Jacki Stichel, event planner (far right).

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Each Friday, Epicenter features a special “where to be” post on their blog to make sure every day of the week has some sort of cultural event to check out. We hope that you all can come out into the community, learn, and commemorate some influential people and events around Boston! Have something coming up that you’d like to see here? Tweet us @epicentercom #WhereToBe FRIDAY 8.26.16 Fresh Friday!

Hosted by: Dorchester Community Food Co-op It’s the 6th Annual Fresh Fridays celebration with activities, food and music! Pay as you are able — $10 suggested donation.

ALL ARE WELCOME! About Dorchester Community Food Co-op: The Dorchester Community Food Co-op is an initiative to build a community & worker-owned cooperative market that provides economic opportunity and healthy affordable food.

When: 6 p.m.

Where: 191 Bowdoin St., Dorchester, MA 02122-1818 SATURDAY 8.27. 16 Pop Latina!

Hosted by: www.facebook.com/ poplatinajp/ Daydream about a Saturday night of pop, cumbia, bachata, electro tropical and salsa you can dance to all night long?

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Introducing Pop Latina with DJ ChiChi Flada & DJ Stella (La Boum) Pop. Latina. Musica. Always a

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Where: Bella Luna Restaurant and Milky Way Lounge, 284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/ events/907422199367759/ SUNDAY 8.28. 16 The Vibe: Gospel Showcase Brunch Hosted by: Carlyle Musick Entertainment Firm Carlyle Musick presents The Vibe: Gospel Showcase Brunch on August 28 at Dudley Cafe in the heart of Dudley Square.

Bringing the vibes with a Gospel theme. Special features Gospel artist Tolieth Marks and spoken-word artist Ashley Wonder.

Live music, open mic, spoken word and great food. FREE cover charge. All ages welcome.

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the-cocktail-locally-crafted.html TUESDAY 8.30.16 Greater Ashmont Summer Coffee Hour Hosted by: Greater Ashmont Main Street & Ashmont/ Peabody Square Farmer’s Market Join us for coffee and conversation on the MBTA plaza once a week in July and August, when we bring out our lawn furniture and do some special placemaking in our Main Street District. While we catch up with our neighbors. Contributions of treats to share warmly welcome but absolutely not required.

In case of rain, the event will be canceled.

When: 10 a.m.

Where: Ashmont Station — MBTA Red Line, Dorchester Center, MA 02124 For more information, please visit: www.facebook.com/ events/1605998353044972/ WEDNESDAY 8.31.16 Fendika at MFA Boston Hosted by: Museum of Fine Arts Boston Traditional Ethiopian dance and music troupe Fendika closes out the Concerts in the Courtyard series with a mesmerizing performance of resonant vocal chants, vibrant stringed instruments, spirited drum rhythms, and spectacular dancing.

Opening the evening will be a performance from Wax & Gold featuring Kaethe Hostetter.

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of Fine Arts, Boston’s Calderwood Courtyard, Concerts in the Courtyard is a season-long series showcasing lively acts ranging from art-inspired indie rock to Irish folk.

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THURSDAY 9.1.16 Jazz By Any Means Necessary Hosted by: Roxbury Cultural Network & Haley House Bakery Cafe Fulani Haynes and The Jazz collaborative tickles the human senses with live JAZZ performances, delicious dine-in dinner provided by The HALEY HOUSE Chefs and an artist workspace for all ages.

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erforming a career-spanning set of hits with power and joy at Blue Hills Bank Pavilion in Boston Friday night, Aretha Franklin held her audience in thrall.

Accompanied by the 23member Aretha Franklin Orchestra and a quartet of fine backup singers — one man and three women — the Queen of Soul was regal without pomp and wore her mastery with ease.

Despite the occasional heavy-handed staging — two jumbo screens flanking the stage showed family photos, her visit with President Obama at the White House to receive the 2005 Presidential Medal of Freedom and movie clips intended to suit the songs — Franklin and her audience bonded from the start of the 90-minute show. Overpowering any distraction was Franklin and her soaring voice.

As the audience awaited her appearance, her first-rate orchestra performed an overture of sorts, vamping familiar melodies from her hits. After this instrumental prelude, Franklin’s master of ceremonies introduced her, announcing, “She holds 19 Grammys; the first female vocalist in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; Rolling Stone magazine proclaimed her the greatest singer of all time.”

Out strode Franklin, wearing a gold-sequined dress and, rather than her usual fur pelt, a light grey jacket suited to the balmy evening. Smiling and relaxed, her hair short, she looked great.

Presiding with an expansive spirit, Franklin, 74, injected the feeling of a family affair

into the concert, connecting generations of fans and drawing on her six-decade career with hits from the ’70s as well as covers of songs popularized by younger vocalists such as Whitney Houston and Adele.

Solid backing

Franklin alternated between ballads and songs with an irresistible dancing groove that pulled the audience out of their seats.

She enjoyed showcasing her backup singers and her orchestra’s deft musicians, who constituted a brass section of 10 local musicians, two percussionists, two drummers, a Fender Rhodes keyboard and Hammond B3 organ, a piano, and bass and electric guitars.

Introducing one song, Franklin recalled a phone call from Stevie Wonder, who told her, “Have I got a song for you!” It was “Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do).” While singing its lilting lyrics, Franklin gestured with her hands to mimic a persistent lover who is tapping on a windowpane and knocking on a door.

A few couples near the front danced slowly while Franklin sang “Ain’t No Way,” which she injected with gospel music fervor and authority.

As she launched “Chain of Fools,” a trio of young

Aretha Franklin performed Friday at the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion in Boston’s Seaport.

dancers sprang onto the stage. Wearing sleek red outfits, the girls appeared to be having the time of their lives as they performed a routine that echoed the great synchronized dancing tradition of ’60s R&B bands.

After about a half hour, Franklin took a brief break.

Her orchestra performed a musical interlude, delivering virtuoso solos in a jazz vein.

A few minutes later, Franklin returned, now without her jacket. She asked the audience the same question they would have asked her, “How do you feel?” With a roar of applause, she resumed with an Adele cover (“Rolling in the Deep”) and then, singing “Ain’t No Mountain

High Enough,” thrust her microphone toward the audience and invited all to join her on its chorus.

As Franklin sang “Call Me,” her three dancers returned in slinky red gowns to accompany her. Franklin exhorted the audience to “watch their every move — I taught them all they know.”

On the keys

Changing the tempo, Franklin rendered “Something He Can Feel,” taking her time with it and along the way, introducing soloists in the orchestra. She then took over at the piano and accompanied herself to “Inseparable,” a

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Weapons exhibit informs and unsettles

By CELINA COLBY

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting,” said Chinese General Sun Tzu. Unfortunately, much of the world has yet to master this technique, and war remains a pervasive part of life. Stranger still than the impulse to fight is the impulse to make art from the weapons of choice. Dr. Steven LeBlanc, archeologist and former Director of Collections at the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, explores this phenomenon in the exhibit “Arts of War: Artistry in Weapons Across Cultures,” on view through October 18, 2017.

For many early cultures, the decorations on their weapons serve to inform. A wooden shield from Maasai, Kenya is divided into two halves, one half to designate the owner’s tribal subgroup, the other to document battle successes. In other instances, the decoration actively participates in the battle.

Aboriginal shields of Australia had grooved designs and tassels made of horsehair that, when shaken, were meant to dazzle and confuse the enemy.

Grisly display

The exhibit is organized by type of weapon or armor, and features over 150 pieces from a variety of locations and time periods. The breastplate of a Spanish suit of armor is juxtaposed next to a Yi protective covering. The Spanish piece is a smooth piece of metal with intricate designs carved into the surface. It curves out and fits in at the waist. Conversely, the Yi piece has a boxy, wooden frame and woven leather decorations.

Seeing the pieces together gives insight into the cultures that wore them and the kinds of battles they were fighting.

Visiting the exhibit is an anthropological study in itself.

Seeing children eagerly running up to daggers that once drew blood is an unsettling sight.

Teens take pictures of themselves making funny faces next to artfully carved maces that have seen the inside of skulls.

Having these weapons behind glass and curatorial statements removes them from us, and

PHOTO: COURTESY ARETHA FRANKLIN

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Walk in our shoes African American History Trail sheds light on past depiction of the scene, and his highest priority was depicting the African American soldiers accurately and without caricature.

The result is a stunning portrait of a groundbreaking group of soldiers who caused a turning point in the North’s fight for emancipation. Gaudens incorporated a number of symbolic features into the piece, including a pinecone on the bottom left corner that references the pinecone on the State House across the street. A floating figure above the soldiers represents a peaceful, sleeplike death, a nod to those who died in the battle, and the laurels she wears signify the ultimate victory of the war.

to free slaves in the South.

The home of Lewis Hayden, the fourth stop on the tour, housed a number of famous Every Saturday, an intiescapees. After Hayden won mate group of tourists and his freedom he worked to locals gathers at the Robert help others making the tranGould Shaw monument for sition, legally and otherwise. the start of the African AmeriTour guide Claire Schüler can History Trail tour. Guided noted the irony of the presby rangers from the National ent day NRA sticker on the Park Service Boston African home’s window. Hayden was American National Historic famous for placing his guns Site (BOAF), the tour winds in the windows to show he through Beacon Hill, stopping meant business. at spots of historical signifDr. Saundra Wall Williams icance in the fight for racial took the tour while visiting equality. The tours run three Boston from North Carotimes per day for 90 minutes lina. Williams found the tour apiece and are free and open highly informative, and a nice to the public. tie-in with the rich holdings of The Shaw memorial is an the Museum of African Amerimportant starting point. The ican History, particularly “Picbronze, deep relief sculpture turing Frederick Douglass,”

by Augustus Saint-Gaudens which she and her husband depicts the 54th regiment Railway stops had come expressly to see. For fighting for the North in the From the Shaw memorial locals, the tour is a reminder Civil War. The 54th was an Af- the tour travels to the African of the history that lives around rican American regiment that American Meeting House on bravely served despite being Joy Street, stopping at several the city. The 90-minute presentation goes surprisingly mistreated and underpaid. significant landmarks along quickly, and features quintesGaudens was famous for his the way. The North Slope of sential Boston views like the equestrian memorials, but this Beacon Hill was a hotbed of homes of Louisburg Square project was a different underUnderground Railroad stops and the Boston Garden. Tours taking from his usual work. and abolitionist meetings. leave at 10 a.m., 12 p.m. and 2 He collaborated with General Many of its inhabitants were p.m.

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from the wars they’ve waged.

There’s something perverse about the glorification of weapons. The exhibit is fascinating on an artistic level, but there’s a dark tint about the subject matter.

The space contains a small section titled, “Arts of Peace,” which features examples of gifts given to cement alliances in peacetime. Ironically, most of the gifts are weapons. The Peabody, tucked into a back

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continued from page 16 tribute to both Natalie Cole and Prince. Continuing at the keyboard, Franklin segued into Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge over Troubled Water,” testifying along the way with vocal cries

corner of the Harvard campus, permeates important territory in “Arts of War.” It forces visitors to confront uncomfortable questions like, Why do we glorify violence? And what would compel a warrior to beautify his mode of destruction? It also gives us the opportunity to reflect on our personal relationships to war.

At the museum, panes of glass separate us from the violence, but we may not always be able to afford that luxury.

“Arts of War” is on view at the Peabody Museum through October 2017. interwoven with a wild organ solo. After concluding the song, the sublime high of the evening, Franklin paused and wept.

She then led the audience into clapping backup of “Freeway of Love” while sashaying across the stage. Franklin closed with one of her most enduring anthems, “Respect.”

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Markees Christmas stars as Morris Gentry in “Morris in America.”

African American teen adjusts to Germany in bittersweet coming-of-age dramedy

By KAM WILLIAMS

In “Morris from America,” it’s hard being Morris Gentry (Markees Christmas). The lonely 13-year-old is not only mourning the loss of his late mother, but is having a difficult time adjusting to life in Germany. He had to leave his hometown of Richmond and pals behind when his father (Craig Robinson) landed a job in Heidelberg as a professional soccer coach.

Now, the troubled youngster finds himself in the awkward position of being the only black kid in a school where classmates have stereotypical expectations of him as an African American. For instance, they are surprised that he isn’t any good at basketball or dancing.

At least he does consider himself an aspiring gangsta rapper, although the only person he can impress is his father, since he only performs in English. But even his

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translated words would probably sound out of place so far removed from the ghetto.

Despite getting daily German lessons from a tutor (Carla Juri), Morris fails to make new friends, and stoically asserts that he doesn’t need any in the same macho manner that he spits out his rhymes. Yet under that tough facade is a sensitive kid who wants to fit in and even has a crush on a girl a couple years older.

Katrin (Lina Keller) can’t help but notice and, flattered by the attention, she invites Morris to hang

with her crowd, a rebellious lot that dabbles in drugs and alcohol.

He accepts the overture, though he initially doesn’t know that the object of his affection already has a boyfriend. That means she’s more likely to remain a frustrating fantasy than a conquest he could boast about in his next song.

Written and directed by Chad Hartigan (“This Is Martin Bonner”), “Morris from America” is a bittersweet bildungsroman which never hits a false note.

The character-driven dramedy revolves mostly around the very convincing father-son relationship, featuring the talented Markees Christmas’ big screen debut opposite funnyman Craig Robinson in his first serious lead role.

The support cast also acquits itself quite admirably, the upshot amounting to a poignant comingof-age tale that resonates as realistic from its heartbreaking beginning clear through to a satisfying resolution.

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BERRY NICE An American take on English Summer Pudding

Organic diet not for everyone A little less than half — 45 percent — of Americans actively try and include organic foods in their diet, but 15 percent go out of their way to avoid them, according to a new Gallup poll.

The remaining 38 percent indicated they “don’t think either way.”

Active interest in an organic diet is highest in the West, where 54 percent of respondents placed an importance on their inclusion. The East had the lowest interest, where only 39 percent actively try and include organic foods, while 18 percent intentionally avoid them.

Younger respondents are more likely to seek organics, with 53 percent of those aged 18-29 indicating they are of active importance. Older respondents are only slightly more likely to go out of their way to avoid organics, but are much more likely not to give the matter much thought at all.

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erries combined with sugar and bread may seem peculiar to Americans. But English Summer Pudding is nothing short of brilliant. Fresh summer berries are warmed with sugar and water until they give up their glorious juice, then placed into a bread-lined bowl. When left to chill in the fridge overnight, the bread transforms into a crimson-stained “cake” that oozes a cornucopia of juicy goodness when sliced open.

While the pudding is traditionally made with stale white bread, raspberries and red currants, we’ve jazzed up the recipe by using brioche, a rich yeast bread made with eggs, butter and sugar available in most supermarket bakeries. And instead of red currants, we used blueberries, strawberries and blackberries.

Really, any combination of berries will work. We don’t fuss too much. We even decided not to worry over the bread crusts and left them on. American ingenuity.

English Summer Pudding n ¾ cup sugar n 8 cups assorted fresh berries n 1 T vanilla extract (blueberries, strawberries, n 1 (18-ounce) brioche loaf raspberries, blackberries), divided n Whipped cream n 1 cup water Mix 6 cups of berries with the water and sugar in a large saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring gently, until berries start to soften and sugar dissolves, about 15 minutes. Remove from heat.

Stir in remaining berries. Strain berry mixture, reserving all the juice and berries. Stir vanilla into juice. Line a 2-quart serving bowl with plastic wrap.

Cut a slice of brioche to fit the bottom of the bowl. Dip into juice and place in bottom of bowl. Cut the remaining brioche into wedges and dip each piece, one at a time, into juice.

Place three-fourths of the juice-soaked brioche wedges against the sides of bowl pressing to remove any gaps. Spoon berries into center. Top with remaining brioche wedges.

Cover with plastic wrap. Press down with your hands until juices rise to the top.

Place a plate on top, and set weights on the plate (2 or 3 cans of soup work well).

Refrigerate at least 8 hours.

To serve, remove weights, plate and top plastic wrap. Place a serving plate on top of bowl and quickly turn both over together, shaking gently, so that the pudding releases from the bowl. Remove plastic wrap. Cut into wedges and serve with whipped cream.

Serves 8.

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The percentage of Americangrown lemons that come from California, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service.

EASY RECIPE

Quick and easy preserved lemons n 6 small lemons, scrubbed n 2⁄3 cup kosher salt n 1 cup fresh lemon juice (from about 5 large lemons) 1. Wash the lemons, place them in a saucepan, and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes, or until the rinds have begun to soften.

2. Drain and dry the lemons well and cut each into 8 wedges. In a bowl, toss the wedges with the salt and transfer to a large glass jar. Add the lemon juice and cover with a tight-fitting glass lid or plastic-coated lid.

3. Let the lemons stand at room temperature 5 days, shaking the jar each day to redistribute the salt and juice. Store the lemons, covered, in the refrigerator for up to six months.

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THURSDAY MAYOR MARTIN J. WALSH’S MOVIE NIGHTS Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s Movie Nights, part of the Boston Parks and Recreation Department’s ParkARTS program, will give residents and visitors the opportunity to enjoy popular films under the night skies in city parks in August and September.

All shows begin at dusk (approximately 7:45pm) and are sponsored by the Boston Parks and Recreation Department and Northeastern University in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Tourism, Sports, and Entertainment with media support by the Boston Herald and HOT 96.9. Additional support is provided by Verizon Fios. Free popcorn will be provided by AMC Loews Theatres. Dates, locations, and movies are as follows: Thursday, August 25 — Ramsay Park, Roxbury “Zootopia.”

Monday, August 29 — Harambee Park, Dorchester “Monsters University.”

Thursday, September 1 — Draper Playground, West Roxbury “The Lego Movie.” Movies on the Common: Friday, September 9 — Frog Pond, Boston Common “Minions.” Friday, September 16 — Frog Pond, Boston Common “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Friday, September 23 — Frog Pond, Boston Common “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”

For more information please call 617-6354505 or visit the Boston Parks and Recreation Department online on Facebook or at www.boston.gov/parks.

FRIDAY FRIDAY NIGHT TRAFFIC JAM Friday Night Traffic Jam — Free concerts for the community 7-9pm at Cleary Square, Hyde Park (next to the Post Office): August 26 — Katani Sumner & The Krew (Soul).

THROUGH BARBED WIRE PRESENTS 4TH FRIDAY SERIES Friday, August 26, 7-8:30pm: Monthly participatory event focused on the voices of prisoners, speaking to family, friends, youth and allies about prison reality and their lives in it. Special documentary film: “Beyond the Wall” by Jenny Phillips: about several prisoners in re-entry. Ms. Phillips will be there for Q&A. Light refreshments. Created and directed by Arnie King. The City School, 614 Columbia Rd. (Uphams Corner — enter at rear of building on Ramsey St.), Dorchester MA 02125. Wheelchair accessible. For more info: throughbarbedwire@ yahoo.com or visit www.arnoldking.org; tel. 857-492-4858. Cost: Donation.

SATURDAY YOGA FOR OLDER ADULTS AT BPL PARKER HILL Feel your soul shine as we practice poses, breathwork and mindfulness techniques to improve and increase strength, balance, flexibility, focus, confidence and inner peace. Bask in the warmth of a welcoming community of older adults ages 50+ learning to use yoga to enhance health and wellness. These classes are

free and open to the public thanks to our partnership with the Friends of the Parker Hill Branch Library and a grant from the Mission Hill Fenway Neighborhood Trust.

10-11am, August 27. Parker Hill Branch Library, 1497 Tremont St., Roxbury (Boston’s Mission Hill); MBTA: Orange Line to Roxbury Crossing, Green Line to Brigham Circle, bus routes #39 or 66.

Some free, on-street parking is available.

To RSVP, call head librarian Katrina Morse at 617-427-3820, email earthseedyogi@ gmail.com, or visit earthseedyoga.com.

MONDAY VerBaLizAtiOn PROUDLY PRESENTS MiChAeLizAtiOn Boston’s longest-running open mic gathering brings you an exclusive special event in celebrating the 58th B-Day of music’s biggest icon in history — the King of Pop himself MICHAEL JACKSON. Monday, August 29 at 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm) @ Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley St., Roxbury. Free will donation. Light refreshments. All MJ, Jackson Five and Jacksons music will be played throughout the entire evening. There will also be prize giveaways as well. The open mic will be happening, as we request everyone who signs up to recite a MJ song in a poetic style or possibly a poem dedicated to the superstar. 4 more info contact VCR at 617-480-7663 or bloodskinland@yahoo.com.

TUESDAY FAMILY FLICKS AT DCR MARTINI SHELL IN HYDE PARK Meet at 1015 Truman Parkway in Hyde Park. Call 617-698-1802 for weather updates. Bring along a blanket and some snacks and enjoy a family movie under the stars. Don’t forget bug spray too! Movies begin at sunset, weather permitting. August 30: Ant-man. All programs are free and open to the public. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Rain may cancel. For weather updates call 617-698-1802, ext. 3.

Reasonable accommodations available upon request. For additional information, please call DCR Maggi Brown at 617-698-1802, ext 217 in advance.

UPCOMING COUNTERPOSE Celebrate another successful season of Yoga for Older Adults at our first yoga and storytelling workshop this Labor Day weekend!

On Saturday, September 3, Earthseed Yoga and Friends of the Parker Hill Branch Library will host Counterpose, a interactive learning environment for both seniors and youth. Invite an older adult (ages 50+) or young person (ages 5+) you care about to join us to talk about and explore yoga practices and principles to keep us healthy as we grow and age. This free workshop takes place from 10am to 1pm at BPL Parker Hill, 1497 Tremont St., Roxbury/Mission Hill and will include conversation, yoga poses, writing, deep breathing, listening, meditation and a light meal. RSVP by phone at 617427-3820, by email at earthseedyogi@ gmail.com, or online at earthseedyoga.com.

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THE SHIRLEY-EUSTIS HOUSE SUMMER STAFF SERIES The Shirley-Eustis House, a National Historic Landmark house museum and carriage house in Boston, Massachusetts is pleased to announce their 2016 August Summer Staff Series Event Schedule at Shirley Place, 33 Shirley St., Boston. Thursday, August 25 at 6:30pm — “Revolutionary Medicine: Surgeons and Butchers” with Docent Mary Kate Lang. Mary Kate will discuss common surgical methods performed by 18th-century doctors and surgeons with a focus on our own Governor and Doctor William Eustis. $10 per person. Refreshments will be served. Friday, August 26 at 1pm — “Archival Discoveries” with Curatorial Interns Jessica Muttitt and Claire Spatola will reveal items from our collections rarely seen by the public. Various documents and 1st-edition books will be highlighted. $7 Adults; $5 Students/Seniors. Includes house tour. Admission pricing is as indicated and members are half-priced for any demonstration. For more information about Shirley Place, its architecture, residents, gardens and collections, go to www.shirleyeustishouse.org, call 617-442-2275, email us at governorshirley@gmail.com or visit us on Facebook.

The Shirley-Eustis House, built by Massachusetts Royal Governor William Shirley in 1747 and later the home of Democratic-Republican Governor William Eustis in 1819 is located on 33 Shirley Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Regular house tour admission is $7 for the general public and free for House members.

FRANKLIN PARK FROM “A” TO “Z” On Sunday morning, September 4 at 8am, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site is offering a guided walk entitled Franklin Park from “A” to “Z.” A National Park Service ranger will lead a 90-minute exploration of the area of Franklin Park that designer Olmsted originally called the Ante-Park (“A”). It later became an area defined in significant part by the Franklin Park Zoo (“Z”). This walking tour will be held rain or shine and is FREE and open to the public. No advance registration is required.

The meeting place is at the rear “Giraffe” entrance to the Franklin Park Zoo. Parking is available near the Giraffe Entrance along Pierpont Road. For further information, please call Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site at 617-566-1689 x 216 or visit www. nps.gov/frla. The Franklin Park from “A” to “Z” tour includes stops at the Valley Gates, the Playstead Overlook, White Stadium, the Long Crouch Woods, and the old Bear Dens.

This “Ante Park” section of Franklin Park was envisioned by Olmsted for more active forms of recreation and larger gatherings, whereas the “Country Park,” where the present day’s Golf Course, Schoolmaster Hill, and Wilderness are located, was intended for more passive forms of recreation.

LEO VILLAREAL’S LIGHT MATRIX The MIT List Visual Arts Center invites you to an artist talk, dedication ceremony, and reception for MIT’s newest installation of public art on campus.

Leo Villareal’s Light Matrix (MIT), 6pm, Tuesday, September 13. Join us for a talk given by Leo Villareal in Bartos theatre followed by a reception in the lobby of the building E52. 6pm — Talk

by Leo Villareal in Bartos Theatre, Building E15. 7pm — Dedication of Light Matrix (MIT) and reception in lobby of Building E52. The talk is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served. Reserved seating is available for members of our Director’s Circle. RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/leo-vil lareal-artist-talk-and-dedicationtickets-27004499184.

ONGOING SUMMER FITNESS SERIES MONDAYS: Yoga @ Dorchester Park, 2180 Dorchester Ave., Dorchester, 6pm. All levels are welcome at this free yoga class in the park. Bring your

own mat or towel and water. TUESDAYS: Lunchtime Groove @ Elmhurst Park, 27-35 Elmhurst St., Dorchester, 12:15pm. Full body stretching followed by basic cardio-inducing dance and callisthenic movements to upbeat urban tunes. Wind-down with breathing & stretches to calm and center. All fitness levels welcome. Zumba @ Gertrude Howes, 72 Moreland St., Roxbury, 6pm.

Free Zumba in the park with the Z Spot Boston. Bring water and come ready to dance! WEDNESDAYS: Family Fitness @ Walker Playground (Norfolk Park), 550 Norfolk St., Mattapan, 6:30pm.

Join your neighbors for Zumba and fitness fun at the park. All levels and ages are welcome! Line Dancing @ Franklin Park, 1 Circuit Dr., Dorchester, 6pm.

Join the Boston Rhythm Riders for free line dancing instruction and practice. All levels are welcome to come move their feet. Class meets at Refractory Hill up the hill from the Franklin Park Clubhouse.

THURSDAYS: Gentle Yoga @ Almont Park, 40 Almont St., Mattapan, 10am. All levels are welcome at this free yoga class in the park. Bring your own mat or towel and water. Evening Groove @ Elmhurst Park, 27-35 Elmhurst St., Dorchester, 6:30pm. After a full-body warm up, enjoy fun, HIIT-paced dance exercise followed by rhythmic movement recovery periods to induce an efficient balance of cardio and fat burning movements to motivating familiar beats. Cool down breath & stretching. All fitness levels welcome.

FRIDAYS: Yoga @ Clifford Park, 160 Norfolk Ave., Roxbury, 1pm. All levels are welcome at this free yoga class in the park. Bring your own mat or towel and water. SATURDAYS: Yoga @ Franklin Park, 1 Circuit Dr., Dorchester, 9:15am. All levels are welcome at this free yoga class in the park. Bring your own mat or towel and water. www.bphc.org/summerfitness for full schedule. Classes run until the end of August.

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 logis-

tical 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 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.

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

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

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Plymouth Republican who grew up speaking Creole at home, but never learned to read in the language.

“I’m incredibly grateful for his persistence. I know I’m not the only one who will benefit from this.”

Slave history

The Cape Verde islands were uninhabited when they were settled by the Portuguese in the 15th century.

The Portuguese used the islands as a transfer station in the trans-Atlantic slave trade until its decline in the 19th century. Many West Africans remained on the islands. Those Africans, many of whom mixed with the Portuguese, created the Cape Verdean Creole that is spoken today.

The language has a primarily Portuguese lexicon, with many African and some English words. While Creole is the universally-spoken language in the ten-island archipelago, most schools there still give instruction in Portuguese.

Because the language was effectively banned by the Portuguese, there is little that has been written in Creole before independence. Gonçalves says he leaned heavily on Cape Verdean folklore and music to glean words and shades of meaning. In those stories, many of which Gonçalves heard growing up, he gained not only a deeper understanding of his native tongue, but also a greater appreciation

for Cape Verdean culture.

“You always listened to these stories in the evenings,” he said. “They were never written down. Hearing them was like traveling back into time.”

While there are 525,000 people living in Cape Verde, there are an estimated 265,000 people of Cape Verdean descent living in the United States, primarily in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Gonçalves says his dictionary will be useful to people taking Cape Verdean Creole classes at Bridgewater State College and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, as well as U.S. citizens serving in the Peace Corps in Cape Verde.

He has gotten orders for his book from many local Cape Verdeans, as well as from people as far away as Norway, Finland, Austria and South Africa.

“I think there’s interest from a lot of people who work in linguistics and cultural anthropology,” he said.

Prior to the dictionary, Gonçalves published a Cape Verdean Creole grammar book called “Pa Nu Papia Kriolu” (“for us to speak Creole”). He moved to Boston in 1974, after he was conscripted into the Portuguese military. Gonçalves received a master’s degree in guidance and counseling and taught in Madison Park High School’s bilingual program.

Copies of Gonçalves’ dictionary can be purchased on his website: http:// mili-mila.com. On Thursday, Sept. 1, the Consul General of Cape Verde will host a reception for Gonçalves at their local consulate at 300 Congress Street in Quincy at 6 p.m.

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LEGAL 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 Menotomy Weatherization Program is accepting sealed proposals from contractors for heating system efficiency modifications including repairs, cleaning, tuning and burner/system replacements for the HeartWap (HWAP) Program as well as accepting proposals from asbestos abatement contractors. The service area is Arlington, Cambridge, Lexington, Belmont, Somerville, Watertown and Waltham. The accepted proposals will be for the HeartWap Program years: October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2018. Requests for information for the HeartWap Program may be made to Michael DiNicola at 781-316-3434. Or mdinicola@town.arlington.ma.us. All proposals must be in our office — The Menotomy Weatherization office at 20 Academy Street, Suite 202, Arlington MA 02476 — no later than Friday September 30 2016

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.

All proposals are subject to price negotiation. The Menotomy Weatherization Program reserves the right to reject any and all proposals deemed best for the Program. Small and minority firms are encouraged to apply. This advertisement is subject in all respects to the terms and conditions of the invitation to bid.

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 $1,000,000. 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.

An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. AP1222-C3, FY17-18 MISCELLANEOUS BRIDGE AND TUNNEL REPAIRS – TERM CONTRACT, 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 021282909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 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 11:00 am LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2016.

THE WORK PROVIDES FOR VARIOUS BRIDGE REPAIRS AT LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND IN SOUTH BOSTON FOR A TWO YEAR TERM WHICH INCLUDES: REPAIRS TO ROADWAY GRATES, UTILITY COVERS AND EXPANSION JOINT PLATES; REPLACEMENT OF STRIP SEALS, EVAZOTE SEALS AND ASPHALTIC PLUG JOINTS; REPAIR OF BITUMINOUS PAVEMENT; REPAIRS TO CRACKS IN BITUMINOUS PAVEMENT; CLEANING AND PAINTING MISCELLANEOUS STEEL; INSTALLING ACCESS HATCHES; CONCRETE REMOVALS AND/OR REPAIRS; CLEANING AND PAINTING CONCRETE, INSTALLING UTILITY HANGERS; AND MISCELLANEOUS REPAIRS AS DIRECTED BY THE ENGINEER. Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 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 Eight Hundred and Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars ($875,000).

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 NonSegregated 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.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Project No. L1508-C1, NARROW GAUGE BIKEWAY SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS, 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, SEPTEMBER 14, 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 12:30 PM LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016.

The work includes SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS AT THE NARROW GAUGE BIKEWAY BETWEEN WOOD ISLAND MBTA STOP AND CONSTITUTION BEACH INCLUDING PATHWAY LIGHTING, CAMERAS, CALL BOXES AND ALL

LEGAL ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND INFRASTRUCTURE. Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 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 project cost is FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($520,000).

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, Auto Liability Insurance, and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of $1,000,000. 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 subject to a Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than THREE POINT TWO PERCENT (3.2%) of the Contract be performed by minority and women owned business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible.

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.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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ZONING HEARING The Zoning Commission of the City of Boston hereby gives notice, in accordance with Chapter 665 of the Acts of 1956, as amended, that a public hearing will be held on September 7, 2016, at 9:00 AM, in Room 900, Boston City Hall, in connection with Map Amendment Application No. 688 and a petition for the approval of the Northeastern University Institutional Master Plan Amendment (“IMP Amendment”), filed by the Boston Redevelopment Authority.

Said map amendment would amend “Map 6A/6B/6C, Roxbury Neighborhood District,” by adding the designation “IMP,” indicating an Institutional Master Plan (“IMP”) overlay district to approximately 23,424 square feet of land general bounded by Burke Street to the east, Columbus Avenue to the north, Coventry Street to the west, and an existing building to the south. Said IMP Amendment would allow for the construction of the Columbus Avenue Housing Project with a maximum building height of 230 feet and approximately 320,000 gross square feet, and will accommodate approximately 812 beds.

The public comment period will begin on Monday, August 29th, 2016 and will end on Wednesday, September 28th, 2016. All interested parties, representatives from the Consortium’s member communities, and nonprofit providers whose clients are impacted by the need for affordable housing are urged to review these documents and to respond with comments.

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

Written comments are also encouraged, and may be addressed, on or before September 28th, to: The Department of Community Development City Hall, 24 Lowell Street Peabody, Massachusetts 01960 FAX (978) 538-5987 e-mail addresses: lisa.greene@peabody-ma.gov or stacey.bernson@peabody-ma.gov Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Aaron S. Bray requesting that Aaron Shawn Bray be allowed to change his name as follows: Aaron Ace Alabar IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 09/15/2016.

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: August 10, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Docket No. SU16P1752EA

SUFFOLK Division

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication ADVERTISEMENT

The North Attleborough Housing Authority, the Awarding Authority, invites sealed bids from Contractors for the Door Hardware Replacement Project at 667-2 Elm Terrace & 667-3 South Washington Street Development for the North Attleborough Housing Authority in North Attleborough Massachusetts, in accordance with the documents prepared by Antonio Gomes Architect.

The Project consists of: Base bid to remove and replace 50 existing door locks. Alternate 01 to install new automatic door hardware at two entrance doors. Alternate 02 to remove and replace one existing door lock.

The work is estimated to cost $ $ 35,146 including all alternates.

Bids are subject to M.G.L. c.149 §44A-J & to minimum wage rates as required by M.G.L. c.l49 §§26 to 27H inclusive.

General Bids will be received until 2:00 p.m., Thursday, September 8, and publicly opened online, forthwith.

All bids shall be submitted electronically online at www.Projectdog.com no later than the date and time specified above. Hard copy bids will not be accepted by the Awarding Authority. Tutorials, instructions and videos on how to complete the electronic bid documents are available online as well as in the Instructions to Bidders. For assistance, call Projectdog, Inc at 978-4999014 (M - F 8:30AM - 5PM).

General bids shall be accompanied by a bid deposit that is not less than five (5%) of the greatest possible bid amount (considering all alternates), and made payable to the North Attleborough Housing Authority.

Bid forms and contract documents will be available at www.Projectdog.com or for pick-up at: Projectdog, Inc, 18 Graf Road, Suite 8 Newburyport, MA 978-499-9014 (M - F 8:30AM - 5PM).

Go to www.Projectdog.com and click Sign Up for free, or login with your existing account. Enter Project Code 814821 in the project locator box.

Select “Acquire Documents” to download documents, review a hard copy at Projectdog’s physical location, or request a free project CD.

Estate of Harvey Franklin Sanford Also known as: Harvey F. Sanford, Harvey Sanford Date of Death: 05/24/2016

Refundable deposits must be a certified or cashier’s check. This deposit will be refunded for up to two sets for general bidders upon return of the sets in good condition within ten (10) days of receipt of general bids. Otherwise the deposit shall be the property of Projectdog, Inc. Bidders requesting Contract Documents to be mailed to them shall include a separate check for $25.00 per set, payable to Projectdog, Inc., to cover mail handling costs.

The job site and/or existing building will be available for inspection at 10 A.M. on August 31.

For an appointment call Dan Ouellette at 508-695-5142.

IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 09/22/2016. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you.

UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: August 11, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

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

DESCRIPTION

DATE

TIME

*WRA-4277

Purchase of Replacement Shoring Panels for Kring System (or Equal)

09/07/16

10:00 a.m.

**6739

RFQ/P Wastewater Metering System Replacement Evaluation, Planning, Design CA/REI Services

09/23/16

11:00 a.m.

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing

email

vs.

Olga Maytte Tovar Carrasquillo

To the Defendant: The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for IRRETRIEVABLE BREAKDOWN OF THE MARRIAGE. The Complaint is on file at the Court.

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Luis Enrique Carrasquillo, 25 Nazing Street #301, Boston, MA 02121 your answer, if any, on or before 09/15/2016. 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: June 29, 2016

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

*To access and bid on Event(s) please go to the MWRA Supplier Portal at www.mwra.com. please

Docket No. SU16D1265DR

SUFFOLK Division

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.

INVITATION TO BID

**To obtain the complete RFQ/P MWRADocumentDistribution@mwra.com.

In the matter of Shawn Enright Marshall of Roxbury, MA

A Petition for Formal Probate of Will with Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by Judith L Sanford-Harris of Milton, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that Judith L Sanford-Harris of Milton, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration.

Luis Enrique Carrasquillo

request

to:

Notice of Public Comment Period and Public Meeting The City of Peabody and the North Shore HOME Consortium, an organization comprised of thirty cities and towns in the Merrimack Valley and the North Shore, are seeking public comment on their respective Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Reports (CAPERs) for the 2015 Program Year.

These written documents are intended to 1.) Report on the use of HOME funds for the development of affordable housing in this region over the past year, and 2.) Report on the use of CDBG funds in the City of Peabody over the past year, to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and to the general public. The City of Peabody and the Consortium will make these documents available to the general public and will encourage comments from all interested parties.

The member communities of the Consortium include: Amesbury, Andover, Beverly, Boxford, Danvers, Essex, Georgetown, Gloucester, Hamilton, Haverhill, Ipswich, Lynnfield, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Marblehead, Merrimac, Methuen, Middleton, Newburyport, North Andover, North Reading, Peabody, Rockport, Rowley, Salem, Salisbury, Swampscott, Topsfield, Wenham, West Newbury and Wilmington. A draft of Consortium’s CAPER will be forwarded to each member community at their respective City or Town Hall, and will be forwarded to a number of nonprofit organizations. A copy of both draft CAPERS will also be available at the Community Development & Planning Department of the City of Peabody, City Hall, 24 Lowell Street, Peabody during normal business hours.

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU16D1523DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Cecil Kelly

Docket No. SU16C0312CA

SUFFOLK Division

To all interested persons:

There is a plan deposit of $25.00 per set (maximum of 2 sets) payable to Projectdog, Inc.

Docket No. SU15C0082CA In the matter of Aaron Shawn Bray of Dorchester, MA

A Public Meeting will also be held on Thursday, September 15th, 2016 in the Community Development Conference Room, Peabody City Hall, 24 Lowell Street, Peabody at 5:00 p.m. to provide the public with an opportunity to offer comment.

A copy of the petition, a map of the area involved and the IMP Amendment may be viewed at the office of the Zoning Commission, Room 916, Boston City Hall, between 9 AM and 5 PM any day except Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays.

For the Commission, Kathleen R. Pedersen Executive Secretary

LEGAL

vs.

Denise Kelly

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: Cecil Kelly, 419 Walnut St. #409, Roxbury, MA 02119-1176 your answer, if any, on or before 10/13/2016. 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: August 1, 2016

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Shawn E. Marshall requesting that Shawn Enright Marshall be allowed to change his name as follows: Yahushan Enright Marshall Yasharal IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 09/01/2016.

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: July 28, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

REAL ESTATE

Share an apartment 1000 per month Includes: n Heat and electricity n Private bathroom n Off-street parking n Close to commuter rail and Red Line n Cable ready n Share kitchen and living room

Parker Hill Apartments Brand New Renovated Apartment Homes Stainless Steel Appliances New Kitchen Cabinets Hardwood Floors Updated Bathroom Custom Accent Wall Painting Free Parking Free Wi-Fi in lobby Modern Laundry Facilities

Mascuppic Village Dracut, MA

Serious inquiries only No couples

Two Bedrooms Starting at $2200

Contact Darrell Ramsey (617) 903-2000

888-842-7945

Mascuppic Village Dracut, MA 5 Beautifully designed attached condominiums 55+ households to be sold by Lottery Sale Price $169,200 with 1543 sq. ft.

2 1/2 Baths 2 Car Garage Eligibility Criteria 1. At least one household buyer is 55 years old.

2. Asset/equity limit up to $275,000 3. Gross Household Income Limits: 1 person: $46,000 2 person: $52,600 3 person: $59,150condominiums 5 Beautifully designed attached 4 person:to$65,700 55+ households be sold by Lottery Sale Price $169,200 with 1543 sq. ft.

Deed Restricted/Income andGarage Asset Eligibility 2 1/2 Baths 2 Car Public Information Meeting: 6:00 p.m., Monday, September 6, 2016 at Dracut Town Hall, Eligibility Criteria Chambers 1.62AtArlington least one Street—Selectmen’s household buyer is 55 years old.

Application Deadline: 30, 2016 2. Asset/equity limitSeptember up to $275,000 3. Gross Household Income Limits: Open House Sunday, September 18, 2016 1 person: $46,000 12:00 p.m.—2:00p.m.

2 person: $52,600 780 Nashua Road, Unit 15 3 person: $59,150 Directions: From Route 3, take Exit 2 in New Hampshire. Turn 4 person: $65,700 right off exit. At third set of lights bear Left on Dracut Road which becomes Road. Driveand 3 miles and Mascuppic Village DeedNashua Restricted/Income Asset Eligibility isPublic on theInformation right OR From Lowell MAp.m., take Meeting: 6:00 Mammoth6,RD to Nashua RDTown Hall, Monday, September 2016 at Dracut 62 Arlington Street—Selectmen’s Chambers For information: For program program Application Deadline:information: September 30, 2016 Maureen Maureen O’Hagan O’Hagan Call: (978) 456-8388 Call:Open (978)House 456-8388 Email: Email: lotteryinfo@mcohousingservices.com lotteryinfo@mcohousingservices.com Sunday, September 18, 2016 Pick Town Hall, Pick Up: Up: Dracut Dracut Town Hall, Town Town Clerk Clerk Office, Office, 12:00 p.m.—2:00p.m.

Public and Senior Center Public Library and Senior Center or 780Library Nashua Road, Unit 15 or Web: www.mcohousingservices.com Directions: on From Route 3, take Exit 2 in New Hampshire. Turn on Web: www.mcohousingservices.com right off exit. At third set of lights bear Left on Dracut Road which becomes Nashua Road. Drive 3 miles and Mascuppic Village is on the right OR From Lowell MA take Mammoth RD to Nashua RD

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HELP WANTED New Jobs In Fast-Growing

UPCOMING LOTTERY: $490,000 NEWLY REHABBED 2 FAMILY 139 STOUGHTON STREET, DORCHESTER

HEALTH INSURANCE FIELD! Companies Now Hiring

MEMBER SERVICE CALL CENTER REPS

Neighborhood Homes

Completely renovated! Energy Efficient/Central Air Offstreet Parking for two cars Upper Level Unit: • Bi-level living, 3 Bedrooms, (Master suite!), 2 Full Baths, Dining Room & Eat-in Kitchen, Hardwood, Laundry Room & Deck!

Interested? To qualify for inclusion in the 139 Stoughton Street Lottery, you must: First Floor Unit: • 2 Bedrooms, Dining Room & Eat-in Kitchen, Hardwood Floors, Laundry Room, Pantry

Rapid career growth potential

Are you a “people person?” Do you like to help others?

Full-time, 12-week training plus internship.

Job placement assistance provided.

FREE TRAINING FOR THOSE WHO QUALIFY! HS diploma or GED required.

Free YMCA membership for you and your family while enrolled in YMCA Training, Inc. Call 617-542-1800 and refer to Health Insurance Training when you call

1. Be a 1st time homebuyer & complete an approved homebuyer education class; 2. Have a minimum household size of one (1) person per bedroom; 3. Meet income and asset requirements.

MAXIMUM HOUSEHOLD INCOME: 2 person: $78,500 3 person: $88,300 4 person: $98,100 5 person: $105,950 6 person: $113,800 Mortgage, deed, owner-occupancy, and other restrictions apply. There is a preference for households of three or more persons for 139 Stoughton Street.

Requirements are subject to change.

Buyer selected by lottery: applications due September 16, 2016 Applications are available in person at the Boston Home Center, 26 Court Street, Boston; on-line at www.bostonhomecenter.com; or by calling 617-635-4663.

Department of Neighborhood Development

City of Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh

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Senior Living At It’s Best

A senior/disabled/ handicapped community 0 BR units = $1,027/mo 1 BR units = $1,101/mo All utilities included.

Call Sandy Miller, Property Manager

#888-691-4301

Steps to Success, Executive Director.

Greater Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer

STS works in partnership with Brookline Public Schools and provides extended learning programs including summer opportunities and the College Success Initiative. Requires an entrepreneurial self-starter with fundraising and program management experience. Experience in school partnerships or out-of-school time is a plus. Please send cover letter and resume to Susan Egmont, Egmont Associates, segmont@egmontassociates.com.

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First units available in Nov/Dec 2016!

Six 1BRs @ $1,335*, Thirteen 2BRs @ $1,594* *Rents subject to change in 2017. Tenants will pay own Electricity (cooking is electric).

Webster Village is a 76 unit rental apartment community located in Hanover on 295 Webster Street. 19 of these apartments will be made available through this application process and rented to households with incomes at or below 80% of the Area Median Income. Units feature modern floorplans, granite counters, ceramic and luxury vinyl tile floors, side-by-side washer and dryer and all stainless steel appliances. The development features two story buildings serviced by elevators, huge workout room with lockers, game room and fully furnished function room with full kitchen.

MAXIMUM Household Income Limits: $51,150 (1 person), $58,450 (2 people), $65,750 (3 people), $73,050 (4 people) A Public Info Session will be held on Sept 12th, 2016 at 6:00 pm in the John Curtis Free Library (534 Hanover St, Hanover MA) Completed Applications and Required Income Documentation must be received, not postmarked, by

2 pm on Oct 18th, 2016

The Lottery for eligible households will be held on Nov 1st, 2016 at 6 pm.

For Lottery Information and Applications, or for reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, go to www.s-e-b.com/lottery or call (617) 782-6900 and leave a message.

For TTY Services dial 711. Free translation available.

Applications also available at John Curtis Free Library (Hanover Public Library) in Hanover on 534 Hanover Street (Library hours: M 10-8, Tu 1-8, W 10-8, Th 10-5, Fri 10-5, closed Sa & Su)

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a community-based school success and college awareness program in Brookline, seeks a collaborative, experienced

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Project Hope, in partnership with Partners HealthCare is currently accepting applications for a FREE entry level healthcare employment training program.

Program eligibility includes: • • • • •

Have a high school diploma or equivalent Have a verifiable reference of 1 year from a former employer Pass assessments in reading, language, and computer skills Have CORI clearance Be legally authorized to work in the United States

For more information and to register for the next Open House please visit our website at www.prohope.org/openhouse.htm or call 617-442-1880 ext. 218.

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TOWN OF EASTON DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

WATER SYSTEM TECHNICIAN WATER DIVISION

The Town of Easton is accepting applications for a qualified individual to fill the position of full time Water System Technician for the Water Division.

Applicants must possess a Massachusetts Grade 3 Distribution and a Grade 1 Treatment Drinking Water License; Massachusetts Class B CDL Drivers License, and a Massachusetts 1B Hoisting Engineer License; High school education plus 1-2 years of progressively responsible related experience, or any equivalent combination of education and experience.

This is a union position - 40 hour work week. Compensation is $29.32 per hour and excellent benefits.

Required applications can be downloaded at www.easton.ma.us under the “Residents” tab and then “Employment Opportunities”. Interested applicants shall submit a cover letter, resume and required job application to Town Administrator David Colton, 136 Elm Street, Easton, MA 02356 no later than September 6, 2016.

The Town of Easton is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER – PORTSMOUTH, NH Hoyle, Tanner is currently seeking a Mid-Level Structural Engineer with 4 to 8 years of project management and/or construction related experience. Our team in Portsmouth provides services to architects, builders, and municipalities on commercial, municipal, educational, recreational, industrial, and medical facilities projects throughout the Northeast, Florida, and USVI. Successful candidate will be responsible for full design and constant client contact. Must have strong Revit and AutoCAD skills with the ability to manage projects independently or with very limited supervision. BSCE and New Hampshire PE preferred.

Please send resume citing career code WRD10816 to jhann@hoyletanner.com or mail to HOYLE, TANNER & ASSOCIATES, INC., 150 Dow Street, Manchester, NH 03101.

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