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Gubernatorial candidate Juliette Kayyem makes a point while fellow contenders Steve Grossman, Martha Coakley and Don Berwick look on during a Democratic forum held at Roxbury Community College. (Banner photo)

Gubernatorial candidates court voters at RCC forum Yawu Miller Faced with questions about housing, criminal justice, economic development and other public policy areas, Democratic candidates for governor spoke about their accomplishments and their policy positions during a candidate forum sponsored by a collection of ward committees representing black, Latino and white liberal voting blocs in Boston.

The forum was held at Roxbury Community College and sponsored by the Democratic committees from wards 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 15, representing parts of Back Bay, the South End, Roxbury, Jamaica Plain and Dorchester.

Democratic activists estimated there were more than 100 delegates to the state convention in the audience, most of them people of color. The six gubernatorial candidates spoke following a forum with three candidates for lieutenant governor.

Asked what he would do to reduce the number of homeless Massachusetts families living in motels, doctor and former Obama administration official Don Berwick said he would restore funding for housing vouchers, which have been cut from $120 million in past years to just $60 million.

“I believe housing is a human right,” Berwick said. “We have to have more support than we have for housing vouchers.”

Joe Avellone, vice president at a biopharmaceutical research firm, advocated more funding for mental health and substance abuse, arguing mental illness and addictions are major drivers of homelessness.

Juliette Kayyem, a former U.S. Department of Homeland Security advisor, advocated changing zoning laws to create more housing as well as increasing funding for social services and job training Treasurer Steve Grossman took a similar tack, advocating construction of low and moderate income housing on surplus land currently owned by the MBTA, Massport and other state agencies. candidates, continued to page 21

able Housing Alliance. “We do not understand why the largest In a move that has frustrated bank in the state is not offering the housing officials across Massachu- most affordable and sustainable setts, Bank of America has pulled program for low- and moderateout of the state’s most affordable income first time homebuyers. mortgage lending programs.

“It is just not acceptable at this The bank will instead offer time,” she added. mortgages to the same customBank of America is mostly ers for as much as $500 more a mum on the move, saying only month — an increase that housing the decision to not take part in the experts say low- and moderate-in- ONE Mortgage program reflects come homebuyers cannot afford. corporate policy.

For the ONE Mortgage pro“As previously reported, offergram, which features low, fixed- ing one-off products on a staterate financing and state-backed by-state basis doesn’t align with loans that relieve first-time home- our efforts to simplify the combuyers from pany,” a Bank the cost of priof America vate mortgage “We do not understand spokesperson insurance, the said in a statel o s s i s e v e n why the largest bank in ment. “We’re greater. The the state is not offering above the inMassachusetts the most affordable and dustry average Housing Partfor lending to nership pro- sustainable program low- and modgram — and for low- and moderateerate-income its predecesborrowers in income first time sor — average the Boston 800 to 1,000 homebuyers. area, and loans a year — Esther Maycock- we certainly for a total of expect that Thorne trend to conapproximately $275 million, tinue. Bottom of which Bank line, we remain of America has averaged 300 loans committed to helping all qualified a year for about $75 million, ac- borrowers purchase homes.” cording to Tom Callahan, execuBut Maycock-Thorne is not tive director of the Massachusetts satisfied with that answer.

Affordable Housing Alliance.

“They come into our neighBank of America has — and the borhoods and they service conbanks it has acquired in a number sumers in more than one way — of mergers have — been respon- savings, credit, student loans,” said sible for over 40 percent of the Maycock-Thorne. “For them to loans offered in the affordable then turn around and say that one mortgage lending programs the size fits all and they are not caterstate has run, dating back over ing to one particular community two decades. or one particular state makes no “This is taking more than 300 sense. How can they say that?” loans out of the market,” said She also points out that Bank Esther Maycock-Thorne, presi- of America, which is one of the B of A, continued to page 8 dent of the Massachusetts Afford-

Haitian prime minister outlines recovery plans Yawu Miller Four years after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake nearly leveled Portau-Prince, Haiti is still digging its way out of the disaster, rebuilding housing, schools and critical infrastructure.

And if Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe is successful in his efforts to attract investment to the island nation, Haiti will become a competitor in the global economy.

“We hope for Haiti to be an emerging nation by 2030,” Lamothe

said, speaking during a conference of the Haiti Fund held at The Boston Foundation last week.

The conference brought together private foundations and donors to discuss challenges to rebuilding Haiti.

A U.S.-educated business man, Lamothe built a global telecommunications firm specializing in developing countries and was recognized in 2008 as an Entrepreneur of the Year by the accounting firm Ernst and Young.

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Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe is seeking investment in the island nation, which is rebuilding from the devastating 2010 earthquake that left much of the capital in rubble. (Boston Foundation photo by Tony Irving)

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Cambridge STEM students explore sci, tech and more Kassmin Williams Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School, a STEM school in Cambridge, reached beyond its science and technology core for its recent student expo.

The annual expo, held this week, became a “STEAMS” expo, integrating science, technology, engineering, art, math, and social studies for the first time.

“We wanted the students to be able to see the relevance of the areas that they’ve been learning in isolation when they are connected, and see how they can use their knowledge in the different subject areas to solve real world problems,” said Molander Etienne, chair of the Benjamin Banneker STEAMS expo.

The expo relied on community attendance to be successful,

according to the school’s Executive Director Sherley Bretous.

It also gave students the opportunity to apply their learning to real life, to share their knowledge with the public and to learn how to interact with adults, she added.

The expo was a school-wide effort including all grade levels, teachers and specialists.

The theme for this year’s expo was sustainability, and classes

from the school brought together their work to present.

Kindergarteners worked on a project with reusable material and learned about how to effectively recycle. First graders looked at natural and processed foods and led a presentation on selecting good groceries.

In a segment titled “Natural vs. Man-Made Materials,” the second grade classes showcased their efforts working with worm composts and presented on the worm-composting process.

The third grade classrooms developed eco-friendly cleaning products and the fourth graders created wind turbines.

Fifth graders worked with rain barrels and learned about water collection and the sixth grade classrooms studied insulation.

“We felt sustainability would be a very good theme to connect everybody around the subject areas because we want the students to be conscious and to be aware of the impact that we have on the envi-

ronment so they can get empowered to do all they can to take care of the environment,” Etienne said.

Bretous said the expo gave students a unique chance to look more closely into topics.

Digging deeper into real life issues like sustainability and connecting them across subjects has heightened engagement among the students, giving them a voice and empowering them, Bretous said.

Through subject integration, the second grade class, who worked on the composting project in the school’s technology lab, were able to name the 20-plus types of worms, discuss the job of the earthworm, create composting illustrations and write about earthworms and the composting process, Bretous said.

“The reality of it is there’s so much for our students to cover,” Bretous said. “Giving us the opportunity to really slow down and delve deeper into the content is really what we want so students are able to take in the knowledge.”

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Panel explores issues of race in ‘new economy’ Martin Desmarais The New Economy Coalition’s CommonBound conference this past weekend brought 500 activists, academics and change advocates to Boston for three days of speeches, workshops and talk of new economy strategies for the future. One of the most decisive panels was a discussion on eliminating race as a dividing factor in the economy and social movements.

Led by Tufts University Professor Penn Loh, who is director of the Tufts Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning’s Masters of Public Policy Program and Community Practice, the panel “What Color is the New Economy” attracted a packed audience to the campus of Northeastern University, which hosted CommonBound from June 6 to June 8.

The discussion explored the hurdles to building an inclusive new economy movement with strategies for establishing cross-racial solidarity and for addressing a highly racialized economy.

“Issues around race and racism, particularly here in the U.S. with our history, are very complex and deep and we can’t escape them even if we would like to,” Loh said.

“The question we are addressing is what is the color of the new economy and why does that matter? I am hoping that we can go a little bit deeper because I think we necessarily have to talk about what is the face

of the new economy.”

Included on the panel along with Loh, was the Fund for Democratic Communities’ Ed Whitfield, PolicyLink’s Chris Schildt and Brandeis University’s Jacklyn Gil. A network of more than 100 organizations and businesses, the New Economy Coalition advocates for change to economic and political systems. The term “new economy” has come to symbolize the efforts of groups, organizations and companies to experiment with new ways of doing business, practicing democracy and sharing common resources. Some of the groups supporting the coalition include the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, Demos, Climate Justice Alliance and Shareable.

Loh asked the panelists to highlight the challenges of creating a new economy related to race and racism.

Whitfield, who is co-founder and co-managing director of the Fund for Democratic Communities and a long-time social activist involved in labor, community organizing, and peace work since the 1960s, said that he finds the concept of essentialism at the heart of the matter.

According to Whitfield, it is destructive to try to move forward and create an inclusive economy based on models that have worked in white communities as the best option for communities of color.

“We have to approach matters of race and racial healing and inclusion from a point of humility, rec-

ognizing sometimes how little we know about who is in the room or who they are or what those actual set of experiences have been, and not from this kind of essentialist position of we kind of know what is white,” Whitfield said.

He also says it is harmful not to recognize the potential agency and creativity of communities of color to determine what is the best course of action and way forward.

He cautioned against what he called “well-meaning progressive folk” who are trying to do the “right thing” by trying to correct matters of race.

Schildt, who conducts research for PolicyLink on equitable economic growth strategies, including best practices for advancing equity in job creation, entrepreneurship and workforce development, said there are three things that need to be considered in developing a new economy in relation to race and racism.

The first is acknowledging that any discussion of a new economy cannot separate questions of race from questions of place and the geographic segregation of people of color, and communities of color from white communities, and oftentimes the way that opportunities are centralized in white spaces. She pointed to examples of this in housing policy, school systems and the establishment of social networks.

The second is thinking about the risk of participation in new economy models for people that have

been previously excluded and ensuring security for those who step out of current modes to help develop new ones.

Lastly, she said, it is important to understand that this country has had a hegemonic white culture and white narrative that has oftentimes silenced the struggles and the victories that communities of color have had, so that any development forward must fall out of this negative pattern.

“I think one of the main challenges is really creating culturally democratic spaces that don’t just include people of color, low-income people and even those labels, but actually center and create stories and spaces that acknowledge the unique power that these communities have,” Gil said.

The panel also discussed at length the notion of new economy and if the term “new” is truly applicable considering much of what the movement draws on is already out there and existing.

Schildt acknowledged that there are difficulties with the term, “new” and said at PolicyLink they often refer to it as “equitable” economy.

However, what she said is appropriate to use the term new for is that the U.S. will be a majority minority country by 2043, and many of the main cities already are, so this aspect is new. Therefore, the economy emerging out of this status would be unlike any that has come before.

“What this means for us is it poses this challenge of what will our future look like. What will 2043 look like? Is this going to be the tipping point that we acknowledge that we cannot say we are going to concentrate access to opportunity for certain groups, but leave out this growing majority? We hope that it is an opportunity to help bring along and

Ed Whitfield of the Fund for Democratic Communities — also particularly white people — to acknowledge that we are in this together. We cannot separate our future, our path, from the path of communities of color,” Schildt said.

Whitfield accepted the term “new” but pointed out the paradox it brings.

“We are talking about a new economic situation in which privileged and certain sections of the white community are dissipating, given the economic crisis that is so devastating to so many people,” he said.

Whitfield said he was very encouraged by what he has seen throughout the United States and the growing number of groups and organizations looking to a more inclusive future. The most promising are examining new people exercising new forms of power in new ways, new systems of ownership, and dissipating current concentrations of power.

“There are many alternatives, so I don’t even think there is one way,” he said. “I think there are many alternatives and the good thing about that is that new order, as it comes into being, if it is indeed ideologically diverse, will be more resilient than any of the single things we might figure out how to do.”

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Black male crisis calls for action, not opposition Thoughtful Americans have been concerned for some time about the challenging circumstances that confront black youth. The statistics are so severely adverse that President Barack Obama established a new remedial initiative, “My Brother’s Keeper,” to unite the government and the philanthropic community to develop strategies to secure opportunities for black boys and young men.

Obama’s first step was to appoint a task force to review the problems and publish a progress report in 90 days. That report was published on May 28, and it set forth problems that are unique to the young black male. One startling statistic is that their greatest life-threatening hazard is homicide, not accidents, disease or suicide. In 2011, black males accounted for 43 percent of all murder victims although they are only 6 percent of the population.

The homicide rate for black males, 10-24 years of age, was almost 18 times the rate for white males of the same age. While the homicide rate for young black girls and women is too high, the rate for black males is almost nine times higher.

Black men also do not fare well in encounters with the criminal justice system. They are six times more likely than white males to be imprisoned. According to a report of the Sentencing Project in Washington, D.C., one of every three black men is likely to be in jail or prison at some time in his life. This is true for one of every 18 black women.

All black children, both boys and girls, live under adverse social conditions. An estimated 25.8 percent of blacks live in poverty, compared to 11.6 percent of whites. And about two-thirds of blacks live with only one parent. Usually the father is missing. While these conditions affect both genders, the consequences seem to be more damaging for boys.

The task force reviewed and recommended a number of proposals to assure that boys: 1. Enter school ready to learn; 2. Read at grade level by third grade;

3. Graduate from high school ready for colleges and career; 4. Complete postsecondary education or training; 5. Successfully enter the workforce; and 6. Reduce violence and be open to a second chance, if necessary.

Seven university-based research centers have already endorsed the task force report, including: Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory, the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education (U. Penn.), the Minority Male Community College Collaborative (San Diego State U.), the Morehouse Research Institute (Morehouse College), the Texas Education Consortium for Male Students of Color (U. of Texas at Austin), the Todd Anthony Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male (Ohio State U.), and the UCLA Black Male Institute (UCLA, Los Angeles).

Surprisingly, a group of black men, including actor Danny Glover, have protested Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative because it does not include girls. How naïve. It makes no sense to vitiate the political strength of a program that has the potential of generating support from conservatives in Congress. It seems that some prominent blacks never learn from history.

In 1965, almost 50 years ago, Daniel P. Moynihan, who was then Assistant Secretary of Labor published “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.” The purpose of the well-researched report was to demonstrate how racial discrimination had weakened the black family.

The objective was to develop political support for programs to alleviate the economic disparities.

Unfortunately, black leaders attacked the report as defamatory because it asserted that the black illegitimacy rate, then only 23.6 percent, was eight times higher than the white rate. Political support for corrective government programs quickly dissolved. It seems that blacks are now about to repeat that historical strategic error.

In my neighborhood, I see too many people riding in wheelchairs or walking with canes as they try to negotiate these cracked brick sidewalks. I can’t help thinking that those sidewalks put these people in wheelchairs and crutches in the first place! I really hate to think how much money the City of Boston has had to spend on settlements, especially in the winter, when senior citizens such as myself might slip and fall and break a hip.

During the Mayoral campaign last year, I believe there was some talk of modernizing Boston’s sidewalks, making them rubber, etc., but now it seems that those campaign promises have crumbled like the brick and concrete we call sidewalks.

Thank you in advance for bringing this to your readers’ attention.

Thelma South End

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OPINION The GOP Hit on Bergdahl is yet another hit on President Obama Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The facts on President Obama’s Taliban prisoner exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl have by now been well worked over. But we’ll restate them one more time. President Bush freed hundreds of suspected terrorists from Guantanamo prison with no ironclad assurance that some, many, or most wouldn’t resume their alleged anti-American actions. Before Bush, President Reagan negotiated with Iranian backed militiamen in Lebanon to get the release of AP bureau chief Terry Anderson, held hostage by them. And the one GOP U.S. Senator who has screamed the loudest about Obama’s exchange is the one who should be the last to open utter a peep about it.

John McCain is in the Senate today because, as a POW captive of the North Vietnamese, he was one of the nearly 600 American POWs the Nixon Administration negotiated with the North Vietnamese for their release as part of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords. This was one of the big prices that the U.S. had to pay to close down its Vietnam War. It’s worth noting when listening to the shrill, silly and nakedly partisan GOP attacks on Obama that each of the presidents who garnered big headlines for the willingness to negotiate with avowed enemies of the U.S. or release prisoners that might put Americans back in harm’s way were GOP presidents.

There’s also the much noted fact that there is yet no conclusive proof that Bergdahl is a deserter, let alone the traitor, that the shrill Obama GOP hit squad team members claim he is. Military officials haven’t said one way or the other why he left his post for a good reason. They don’t know. That’s why you conduct a proper investigation, get the facts, not hearsay, and then make a factual determination. The only thing that is known is that Bergdahl walked away from his post several years earlier and there was an investigation. But no charge was made that he was hostile to the military.

If, in this go round, it’s found that Bergdahl did desert — and, worse, gave the Taliban fodder by recording anti-American blasts — then he will, and should be, severely punished.

That’s the way the justice system is Obama has said that he supposed to work.

However, justice, desertion, makes no apologies for anti-Americanism, the notion of the deal. He shouldn’t. aiding and abetting terrorists has There’s nothing to nothing to do with the GOP ham- apologize for. He followed mering of Obama. Just add Berg- the basic rule that no dahl to the names Eric Holder, military commander Chuck Hagel, Susan Rice, and a leaves troops on the field lengthy string of other Obama ju- in enemy’s hands if they dicial nominees or administration can help it. appointees the GOP has used to rip Obama. Then toss in a crucial mid-term election year. Next, toss in the GOP’s earlier blast of Obama for paring down the number of troops in Afghanistan along with a firm timetable for final withdrawal. And finally, toss in the absolute failure of the GOP to get any political traction for its drum beat pound of Obama and Hillary Clinton for their alleged Benghazi gaffes, and the Bergdahl farce makes perverse sense.

The aim yet again is to weaken, besmirch, and taint Obama. Obama was well aware that the swap would draw heat not because of any of the reasons that GOP senators and GOP attackers claim they’re concerned about but because it’s, as he put it, their latest “political football” to toss out there and hope that it flies far enough to create enough of a furor that the taint on him sticks.

Obama has said that he makes no apologies for the deal. He shouldn’t.

There’s nothing to apologize for. He followed the basic rule that no military commander leaves troops on the field in enemy’s hands if they can help it. And that he’s done nothing that other GOP presidents haven’t done when it comes to freeing military captives or U.S. citizens held hostage. But this won’t stop the GOP attack hounds from continuing to lambaste Obama as an appeaser and putting Americans at risk. Already, the GOP has scored one coup when city officials in Bergdahl’s hometown of Hailey, Idaho cancelled a scheduled welcome home celebration for him after being flooded with what they called “hateful” phone calls. Idaho is a rock solid Red State. And almost certainly right wing bloggers will play up every dig they can at Bergdahl for being a deserter.

The Bergdahl drama has all the GOP’s favored anti-Obama ingredients: a president who supposedly disregards national security concerns, thumbs his nose at Congress, and is anti-military. As with every other faux and imaginary bogeyman the GOP has created to knuckle Obama, the feigned outrage is not about Bergdahl; it’s about Obama.

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What do you think black boys need to succeed in the United States?

They need role models, teachers who are willing to do a little extra and parents who pay more attention.

They need education. They need some kind of trade. And they need a lot of male figures in their lives so they can see how to become a man.

An education and a good family structure — a father and a mother.

Most black men today don’t have a father, so their mothers have to be a father and a mother.

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Education, so they can have a better life.

Sciences. So many of our young men are low in the sciences. Education is important.

They need a good education, some strong guidance. Everybody needs a mentor. And lastly, they need love.

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Prior to joining BPHC, Martin worked as a Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff and Press Assistant under the Menino administration.

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Community health center steps in to YWCA Boston relieve veterans celebrates 20 years of women achievers Mayor’s Garden Contest encourages beautification of Boston munity partnerships and MassHealth or other forms of private health insurance account for the majority of healthcare services for veterans in the Commonwealth.

Recent reports of VA hospitals’ substandard treatment of patients have prompted demands across the country for anyone to step in to help the veterans. Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center hopes to go above and beyond its call of duty with its proposed Veterans Outreach Center on Blue Hill Avenue in Boston.

“As a veteran myself, I have been deeply disturbed by the recent revelations of shortcomings at the VA hospitals,” said Charles Murphy, retired Marine captain and president and CEO of Harvard Street. “While I fully believe the VA is doing its best to correct these problems, our veterans need care today, and Harvard Street wants to be as helpful as possible.”

This fiscal year, Harvard Street has a stated goal of increasing by 40 percent the number of veterans participating in its behavioral health program, which offers treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), among other concerns.

Massachusetts veterans are more likely to receive adequate health care than are veterans in other states. According to a WBUR interview last week with Massachusetts Secretary of Veterans’ Services Coleman Nee, com-

YWCA Boston will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its Academy of Women Achievers on Wednesday, June 18, and they will induct five new members into the Academy.

“Over the last 20 years, YW Boston has continually evolved to confront systematic barriers to racial, gender, and social equity,” said Sylvia Ferrell-Jones, president and CEO of YW Boston. “Much has changed in our city over two decades, and the need for changemakers who are equipped with this cultural understanding necessary to lead in our diverse economy has only intensified. YW Boston is honored to recognize the outstanding Class of 2014 and their fellow Academy of Women Achievers for their tireless commitment to the civic life of Boston.”

This year’s Academy of Women Achievers inductees include Stephanie Lovell, senior vice president and general counsel of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts; Smaiyra Million, CEO of Millennium Partners Sports Club Management; Dianne Phillips, partner of Holland

& Knight, LLP; Marcy Reed, president of National Grid, Mass.; and Helene Solomon, CEO of Solomon McCown.

Each day since May 29, YW Boston has highlighted a different member from among its alumnae of 169 women. For example, day three featured Dr. Susan Windham-Bannister, the first President and CEO of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center; day 12 highlighted Mary Bonauto, Esq., the “legal architect of the DOMA repeal.”

Registration for the 18th annual Boston Mayor’s Garden Contest is less than a month away, so if you take pride in your garden or have a favorite garden that you pass by, the mayor and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department encourage you to visit their website by July 11 to enter the contest.

According to Parks and Recreation Department Spokesman Ryan Woods, “the contest recognizes gardeners who have landscaped, planted flowers, trees and shrubs, and, in the process, helped beautify Boston’s neighborhoods.”

Categories for gardens include: off-ground gardens, such as porch or

window box; shade gardens; under 250 square foot yard gardens; 250 – 500 square foot gardens; greater than 500 square foot gardens; community gardens; vegetable or herb gardens; storefront, organization or Main Street District gardens; and senior citizen gardens, for gardeners aged 65 or older.

First, second and third place winners will be selected from each of the nine categories at a prize ceremony in August in the City’s biggest garden — the Boston Public Garden. The first place winners in each category will receive the Golden Trowel award, which is a gilded shovel mounted to a plaque.

The names of all 27 winners will be placed in a random drawing for two round-trip tickets to any JetBlue Airlines destination.

If you have won the garden contest three times or more in the past ten years, then you’re not just disqualified: you’re a Hall-of-Famer who will be recognized by the Mayor, and you are welcomed to judge this year’s entrants.

Frog Pond Freddie to attend reopening of his pond The Boston Common Frog Pond will begin its summer season on June 28 with an event-

filled day beginning at 11 a.m.

Afterward, until Labor Day, the Frog Pond spray pool will be open daily for wading between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

“The Frog Pond is the place to be where youngsters can cool off [from] the summer heat and meet new playmates,” said Mayor Walsh is a press release announcing the Frog Pond’s summer season. “With the carousel and Swan Boats nearby, Boston Common is the perfect destination for a family outing.”

The July 28 celebration will feature prizes, games, informational literature, giveaways, activities, and a visit from the official Boston Common Frog Pond mascot, Frog Pond Freddie.

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Codman Sq NDC recognized with ‘Greenovate’ award Rominda deBarros For more than a year, the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation (NDC) has been working towards creating Boston’s first Eco-Innovation District, an area where resources are directed at environmentally-friendly development and reduction of carbon emissions. After being recognized this past weekend at the annual Greenovate Boston Community Summit, the NDC continues to actively work towards achieving sustainability goals within the Codman Square and Talbot Norfolk Triangle areas.

“The long term goal of our project is to ensure that our residents have a better and healthier quality of life,” said Codman Square NDC Eco-Innovation Fellow David Qweeley. “We are working on a neighborhood-scale plan that also ensures that our residents can save money on utility bills and afford to live in the neighborhood.”

The Greenovate awards, included in the annual summit, focus on several areas of interest, including energy conservation, waste reduction, green building and education, sustainable food systems and community leadership. Codman Square NDC, seen as one of the emerging leaders within their collaborative project, received an award in the Community Organization category in recognition of their holistic approach towards

maintaining sustainability.

Among the program awardees were nonprofit institutions, businesses, residents and community organizations currently working towards energy goals that will reduce carbon emissions. These goals align with the Greenovate mission to reduce greenhouse gases by 25 percent by the year 2015 and to implement community preparedness around the Boston area.

The Eco-Innovation District focuses on creating a new model for green and equitable development on a district scale for the Dorchester neighborhood. With a grant from the Barr Foundation as well as support from partners such as the Talbot Norfolk Triangle Neighbors United, Natural Resources Defense Council, Boston Local Innovation Support Corporation and Enterprise Community Partners, Codman Square is moving to advance feasible sustainability goals on a neighborhood-wide basis through engagement with the community.

Codman Square NDC so far has made great strides in its district, including the development of new green spaces and two transit-oriented housing developments built next to Fairmount Line MBTA stations.

Queeley said the NDC is steadily working towards several important objectives including those in the sectors of energy retrofits, renewables, green infrastruc-

ture, efficient mixed use transit oriented projects and equity.

“The individual developments within our sustainability project are in different stages currently,” he said. “We are on track to our goal of reaching energy retrofits for 15 percent or more of the existing housing by the summer and have been working extensively to-

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wards our [transit oriented development] projects, including the building of a new station located in Whittier Place.”

In the sector of energy generation, the NDC is working to ensure that the low-income neighborhoods are given access to the tools necessary to make their energy goals possible. They are working toward a community shared solar project that will provide residents with district solar energy coming from one designated region within the neighborhood.

Among the challenges for the Eco-Innovation District have been harnessing the interest that national, state, and local partners have shown

in their innovative sustainability goals, collaborating with residents and investors to realize those goals, and translating the process and results into a template that other neighborhoods can follow, according to a press release provided by the Codman Square NDC. Codman Square staff members say the opportunity to create new ways to accomplishing sustainability on a neighborhood scale in Boston has just begun. Now supported by the Clinton Global Initiative, the Codman Square NDC will be able to work towards its neighborhood vision of a better, greener, and more sustainable quality of life for its citizens.

LaCresha Edgerly (2nd from l) graduated from the Partnerships to Opportunities for Women in Re-entry program. With her are Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins, POWR Director Beth Carter and Project Place Executive Director Suzanne Kenney.

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most prominently featured bank branches through Boston’s neighborhoods, does upwards of $50 billion in deposits in these branches.

“It is Bank of America’s responsibility to give back to the

communities they are in — that they are taking from,” she added.

Callahan likened Bank of America’s plans for offering mortgages to predatory lending practices that first triggered the foreclosure crisis that shook the nation in the last decade. He said that the bank is marketing the more expensive Federal Housing

Administration loans to homebuyers who are eligible for the ONE Mortgage program.

The Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance and the Homeownership Action Network recently released a report detailing the impact of Bank of America’s defection from the state lending program.

According to the report, homebuyers purchasing a single-family home for $220,000 will pay a minimum of $276 per month more at Bank of America than they would pay at a ONE Program lender. The extra monthly cost rises to $438 for a typical two-family home, and reaches $564 for a three-family house.

The report estimated that this would cost 300 low- and moderate-income Massachusetts households over $1.25 million in higher payments to Bank of America this year.

The ONE Mortgage program was originally launched as the SoftSecond program in 1990 in response to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston finding evidence of racial disparities in mortgage

lending in the city’s neighborhoods. SoftSecond was targeted to be affordable and accessible to low- and moderate-income households, with specific emphasis on meeting the needs of black and Latino homebuyers.

At the time, the state’s three largest banks — Shawmut, BayBank and Bank of Boston — agreed to take part. Fleet Bank entered the program in 1991 and then bought Shawmut and then the combined BayBank and Bank of Boston in 1996. In 2003, Bank of America bought Fleet and thus took control of the main banks that had first powered the SoftSecond program.

The Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance and the Homeownership Action Network report details that Bank of America officials initially balked at the SoftSecond program, but were convinced by state officials and politicians to back it. The bank responded by making a 10year, 3,000 loan commitment and was widely credited as being the leading lender in the program and the go-to lender for communities of color.

In June 2013, Gov. Deval Patrick and state housing organizations worked to transition the SoftSecond program to the ONE Mortgage Program in an effort to adjust to current mortgage lending practices.

Six banks — Citizens Bank, Santander, Eastern Bank, Enterprise Bank, Rockland Trust, and Blue Hills Bank — signed on immediately and 18 others have also inked support of the program.

But Bank of America remains noticeably missing.

Bank of America and the Boston-based banks it acquired have been responsible for 7,039 of the 17,380 loans offered in SoftSecond program.

Callahan said the ONE Mortgage program will move forward without Bank of America and he credits the 21 other banks for their willingness to step up. The other two big lenders are Citizens Bank and Santander, both of which are committed to about 240 loans a year for approximately $50 million per bank.

Still, he called Bank of America’s decision to leave the program a “big loss.”

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Koch bros. donate $25M to United Negro College Fund Frederick H. Lowe The ultraconservative Koch Brothers announced that they have donated $25 million to the United Negro College Fund, whose members include 37 Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

The donation from the Koch Industries Inc. and the Charles Koch Foundation will provide

tribute to the well-being of individuals, communities and society. The funds also will be used to provide an annual summit, mentorship opportunities and school programs; • $6.5 million is provided for general support to HBCUs and the UNCF, with $4 million set aside for the 37 UNCF member schools, HBCUs and

cans of color,” the report said. “But instead of making college more accessible to low-income, minority students, the U.S. Department of Education has erected barriers with unnecessarily restrictive eligibility criteria.” Because of the restrictions, HBCUs lost $156 million in PLUS loan funds, a 35 percent reduction, during the 2012-2013 aca-

demic year, the report stated.

Charles Koch, chairman of CEO of Koch Industries, said, “Increasing well-being by helping people improve their lives has long been our focus. Our partnership with UNCF will provide promising students with new educational opportunities that will help them reach their full potential.”

Michael Lomax, chairman and CEO of the United Negro College Fund, said hopefully the new commitment from Koch Industries and the Charles Koch Foundation will spur others to donate to the UNCF. So what does this all mean? The Koch Brothers, who are billion-

aires, are riding to the rescue of the UNCF, whose member colleges have been suffering under misdirected guidelines put together by the U.S. Department of Education under President Barack Obama.

At the same time, the Koch Brothers have spent millions of dollars supporting groups like Americans for Prosperity that have worked to suppress African-American voter turnout.

Koch Industries is based in Wichita, Kan., and the Charles Koch Foundation supports college, universities and other non-profit organizations.

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“Increasing well-being by helping people improve their lives has long been our focus. Our partnership with UNCF will provide promising students with new educational opportunities that will help them reach their full potential.”

—Charles Koch nearly 3,000 merit-based awards to African-American undergraduate, graduate and post-doctorate students.

Key elements of the donation include: • $18.5 million is directed to the UNCF/Koch Scholars Program and its administration. Funds will be provided for exemplary students with demonstrated financial need and an interest in the study of entrepreneurship, economics and innovative ways to con-

their students to provide financial relief related to the Parent PLUS loan crisis.

The UNCF has published a 20-page report titled “The Parent Plus Loan Crisis: An Urgent Crisis Facing Students at the Nation’s HBCUs,” which stated that restrictive U.S. Department of Education guidelines have made it difficult, if not impossible, for needy students to attend HBCUs. “America faces an ever-increasing need for college-educated African Americans and other Ameri-

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Raymond H. Boone, publisher, advocate, and BU alum

Raymond Harold Boone Banner staff Founding editor/publisher of the Richmond Free Press Ray-

mond Harold Boone died last week at age 76 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Noted for his brash opposition to the Jim Crow laws of the South, where he lived and worked for more than 60 years in journalism, Boone championed democratic values in his writing and activism. His wife of 47 years, Jean Patterson Boone, will continue publication of the Richmond Free Press.

Boone built the Free Press into one of the largest weekly newspapers in Virginia and used the paper to crusade for varied causes, including opening the doors of state and local government to black- and minority-owned businesses.

Boone’s advocacy prompted Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones to set a 40 percent goal for

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Boone’s advocacy extended to national issues as well. Last year, he announced the Free Press would no longer use the name Washington Redskins for the Washington NFL franchise, because the name is offensive to Native Americans.

He also allowed members of the Occupy Richmond movement to camp out on his front lawn after the mayor forced them out of a public park. The mayor was Boone’s next door neighbor.

Boone was educated in a segregated school system in Suffolk, Va., and credited this education with spurring his success in life.

He decided to pursue journalism after one of his teachers praised his writing. At East Suffolk High School, he founded a student newspaper and yearbook.

He began his journalism career covering sports at black high schools in the Suffolk

News-Herald. His stories there made it out of the “colored pages” onto the front page of the sports section, the first for a black writer in that region.

He wrote for the paper until he transferred from Norfolk State University to Boston University. In Boston, he continued his writing, working as city editor for the Boston Chronicle and as a reporter for the Quincy Patriot-Ledger.

Shortly after graduation, Boone went to work for the Baltimore Afro-American and became the White House reporter at what was then one of the largest Black-owned papers in the country.

In 1965, he was relocated to Richmond and became the editor of the Afro-American’s Richmond edition. He became active in voter rights issues and helped elect the first black to Virginia’s General Assembly since Reconstruction.

Boone also participated in efforts to train blacks for careers in journalism.

He became vice president of the Afro-American chain, supervising the reporter and Roxbury native William Worthy, whom he sent to Iran to cover the revolution after the overthrow of the Shah.

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Along with his wife and daughter, survivors include his son, Raymond H. Boone Jr., Free Press director of account resolution and new business development; his grandson, Raymond H. Boone III; a sister-in-law, Phyllis Riley; seven aunts; two uncles; a half-brother, Thurman Boone of Suffolk; four half-sisters, Geneva B. Boone, of Hopewell, Geraldine Boone Clark of Richmond, and Ira Boone and Lolethia Boone, both of Suffolk, and many other cousins, nieces and nephews.

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He served as a special adviser to Haitian President Michel Martelly, became a member of the Interim Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti in the wake of the 2010 earthquake, and was designated Prime Minister in 2012.

Following the earthquake, international aid flowed into Haiti — food, emergency shelter and aid workers. While the international community pledged more than $1.5 billion in aid, much of that went into refugee camps, where 1.5 million Haitians were housed.

In the years following the quake, the Haitian government has been working to rebuild infrastructure.

“Many people are helping

to permanent housing, schools remain an issue.

“We have a deficit of 4,000 schools,” he said, noting that his government is rebuilding its ministry of education, adding new staff and new teachers. “We need schools, but we also need the ministry to allocate the funds for the schools.”

Before the earthquake, Haiti’s problems ran deep. Access to public schools there has been limited to just 10 percent of the population.

And with private school fees averaging $200 a year, few could afford to send their children there. The per capita Gross Domestic Product in Haiti is $750 a year, and the average Haitian family has four children.

The Haitian government has also begun to provide assistance to

build Haiti’s economy are immense.

Although more than $1 billion in aid has been spent on earthquake recovery, most of that funding was spent on food supplies not grown or produced in Haiti, and medicines, shelters and other emergency supplies that come from other countries. Very few aid dollars circulated in Haiti’s devastated economy. Very little aid went to Haiti’s government, which Lamothe says he is still trying to rebuild.

“Haiti’s government was weak to begin with,” says Riche Zamor, ex-

ecutive director of Healing Hands for Haiti. “The earthquake hit and it killed the government. The government is now rebuilding, but the resources are minimal.”

Although Haiti threw off its colonial shackles in 1804, the nation’s economy never moved far beyond the colonial resource extraction model it operated under during French rule. Throughout the island’s history, a small class of lightskinned Haitians has dominated the economics and politics there.

Lamothe said the island is

plagued by a brain drain, the process where better-educated citizens move abroad, seeking better opportunities. He said Haiti is seeking investment from its large diaspora, much of which resides in the United States.

“We need to mobilize the diaspora not only to send money to their families, but also to contribute to the future of Haiti,” he said.

Lamothe encouraged the audience at the funders conference to invest in Haiti, to vacation there and build vacation homes and businesses there.

“We need to mobilize the diaspora not only to send money to their families, but also to contribute to the future of Haiti.”

— Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe

Haiti, but we’re not going to succeed until we help ourselves,” he said, citing improvements in governance, increased private investment and increased collection of tax revenues as benchmarks for progress.

Lamothe says that while 90 percent of the refugees from the earthquake have been relocated

people who live in extreme poverty there, including a large population of physically disabled Haitians with a social service assistance program.

More than two million people have benefitted from the program, called Help the People, Lamothe said.

The challenges Lamothe’s government faces in attempting to

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Themes of love and identity explored in the 16th Annual Roxbury International Film Festival Colette Greenstein From an international jewel thief to a high powered political figure to black boys in crisis and young love, the 16th annual Roxbury International Film Festival explores the themes of love, loss, identity and hope in a range of documentaries, narratives and shorts. The festival spans four days beginning Wednesday, June 25 through Sunday, June 29 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Produced by The Color of Film Collaborative, the film festival will screen approximately 30 films, shorts and documentaries hailing from China, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, and the United States.

This year marks the first time that the festival will screen entirely at the Museum of Fine Arts.

“The MFA has been a great supporter of the festival and it provides an incredible opportunity for filmmakers to screen their work at a world class cultural institution” said Lisa Simmons, festival director.

The annual festival opens on June 25th with the documentary “The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne” based on the incredible real-life story of one of the world’s most notorious jewel thieves, who managed to jet-set her way into any Cartier or Tiffany’s from Monte Carlo to Japan, and walk out with small fortunes.

The directors Kirk Marcolin and Matthew Pond set out to uncover and tell the story of the now 83 year-old Doris Payne, and the $2 million plus in jewels she’s

stolen over a career spanning 60 years. Not just a crime caper, “The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne” taps into the themes of race, identity and gender; and what it meant to be a young girl of color born during segregated America who believed the only way out of poverty was a life of crime.

The directors became interested in the real-life crime caper when Matthew Pond read about her story in a newspaper article in 2010 which eventually led to meeting with her in an Orange County jail in California.

“This initial meeting got the ball rolling for the film” says Pond. According to both directors, it was important to bring this story to light because “we felt Doris’ story is a unique version of the Great American Dream, we found her moral ambiguity fascinating and thought she would make a wonderfully complex subject for a documentary.”

Complex subject matters and characters abound in several other documentaries including ANITA: Speaking Truth To Power” (Friday, June 27 at 6 p.m.) and “American Promise” (Saturday, June 28 at 1:30 p.m.). Directed by award-winning filmmaker Freida Mock, “ANITA” reveals the intimate story of a woman whose testimony in the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearing brought up issues of sex, politics, and race. Hill speaks openly and intimately for the first time about her experiences that led her to testify before the Senate and the obstacles she faced.

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The documentary “The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne” follows the 60-year crime spree of a jet-setting black jewel thief. mentary, “American Promise” the Gina Rey, who reflects upon her presents “Dinner and a movie” at issue of Black boys in crisis in Amer- experience as a teacher in the docu- The Haley House Bakery Café at ica, specifically academically, is at mentary says, “For me it was deci- 6:30 pm, featuring Noam Osband’s the heart of this film. “American sive in my ability to evaluate myself. documentary, “Adelante”. This Promise” holds a magnifying glass To know what I was capable of. After specialty night (which includes a to a son and his best friend to really the campaign, I realized I could aim special dinner), has been part of the explore the unique factors that they higher in life. I didn’t have to settle festival for the last several years. The face as middle-class black boys for the future my mom planned for documentary depicts the change in coming of age at home, at school me. I could aspire to more.” one American church where imand in their community.

Young love is explored in Gabri- migrants revitalized a dying, hisThe brother-sister duo of Noah ela Lozada Pozo’s story, “La Marea” torically Irish-Catholic parish in Christofer and Miranda Craigwell (“Tide” in English), against the Norristown, Penn. (Tickets can be also feature teen African American backdrop of a small fishing village in purchased for both dinner and the boys in their web series, “The Halls,” Ecuador where the town is naturally movie at http://www.brownpaperwhich tells the stories of three young flooded twice a day, as the young tickets.com/event/684074) men in Boston, and their struggles couple struggle in their own broken And closing out the festival as sifting through relationships, trauma, dreams and aspirations. part of a “throwback” retrospecmasculinity and their own identities.

Director/Producer Chun Kit tive on Sunday, June 29 at 2:30 The web series came about when Mak brings us into the heart of one p.m. is the offbeat drama, “Lift” the siblings learned “that the Health of the largest maximum security from Boston filmmakers Khari Commission was taking bids from prisons in the Philippines, in “The Streeter and DeMane Davis, in production companies to produce a World’s Most Fashionable Prison” which ‘Neicy’ (played by Kerry web series that engages young men where award-winner fashion de- Washington in one of her first film and boys.”

Of the project, Miranda says she hopes that “youth are inspired when they see a representation of themselves up on screen. I also hope that they feel limitless in terms of what they can accomplish, as The Halls was created

by Boston Youth, starred Boston Youth, and was made for Boston Youth.

I would love for every young person who sees The Halls to leave the theatre with a sense of ownership.”

The festival also includes several international shorts such as the empowering Cuban “The Halls,” a web-lanched series produced by the Boston Public Health Commission, follows the documentary, “Maes- stories of three young men negotiating complex relationship issues in Boston. tra,” (which translates to ‘teacher’ in English), was written and directed by Catherine signer Puei Quinones conducts roles), is a thief who plans one last Murphy. The documentary tells some of the weirdest fashion work- heist, though hardly for the typical the story of eight women who, as shops you’ve ever seen. Among the reasons. young girls, taught on the Cuban 12,000 prisoners convicted for the Tickets for the film festival can Literacy Campaign of 1961. The most vicious crimes, Puei has found be purchased at http://www.mfa. volunteer teachers lived with the the best artisans to create extrava- org/programs/series/roxbury-infamilies they taught, worked along- gant and flashy red carpet gowns, ternational-film-festival; and for side them in the fields during the staging a spectacular fashion show more information on the festival, go day and taught classes (often by ker- in the heart of the prison. to www.roxburyinternationalfilm osene lantern) at night.

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Conductor Charles Floyd explores gospel’s deep roots Kevin C. Peterson Gospel music arrived in the world on a wing and a prayer and great suffering as black Americans slowly surfaced from slavery and then out of the horrors of Jim Crow.

Produced from the secular sounds of post-emancipation blues and the Godly music derived from slave songs, gospel embraces the sacred, the lofty realm of religious concerns — calling ever the wayward to Jesus for the saving of their souls.

Among the few original American art forms, gospel stands out for its lyrical dynamism; its resonating reach upward; its preoccupation with the power of prayer; and its ability to lift the listener to the high ranges and pitches of ethereal awareness.

It springs — enigmatically — from what W.E.B. DuBois said were the “weird old songs in which the soul of the black slave spoke to men.”

“Gospel itself has always been on the edge of something in terms of having the ability include people...It says ‘Whosoever will, let him come,’” says Boston Symphony Orchestra Guest Conductor Charles Floyd.

On Saturday, June 14, at 6 pm, Floyd — a master at producing exquisite sound from world-class artists, and whose career thus far ranks him among the best among his peers and competitors — will explore the

rich terrain of the spiritual canon as he leads the Boston Pops in its annual Gospel Night at Symphony Hall.

The genre, he says, begins with Thomas A. Dorsey, a once griefstricken bluesman who, after confronted “by tragedy after tragedy,” found the resolve to write “Precious Lord, Take My Hand” a deeply emotive elegy later made famous by Mahalia Jackson during the 1950s.

Dorsey, who was then known as “Georgia Tom,” was the first to put black sacred song — its many metaphors, symbols, similes and tropes — to a decidedly juke joint beat.

Dorsey wrote over 3,000 gospel songs and was the centerpiece of “Say Amen, Somebody,” the excellent 1982 documentary explaining the long trajectory of the gospel music tradition — its inception and apogee.

“Gospel was very controversial when it started, and it remains so,” continued Floyd in an interview with the Banner this week. “The people who invented it were not necessarily religious. They were musically gifted people who came to explore religious music and made something...new of it. The music then captured the ear of the people who were used to hearing blues and jazz.”

Chicago-born, Floyd was “raised in the Baptist church” where his extraordinary talent for classical European music was often “in juxtapo-

sition and in contrast” to the sacred music of the Northern black church familiar to him.

It is now Floyd’s 20th year directing the Gospel Night — which leads him to reflect on the upcoming performance.

“Gospel forced its own path from simple hymns and the [negro] spirituals...and it is primarily the genre of music from spirituals and jazz. It is a blend.”

If its earliest pioneer was Dorsey, the Moses of that music, then gospel had other developers, major and minor prophets — including songsters Della Reese and Clara Ward, black women suffering before and during the Great Depression — who helped popularize the music.

White composer Albert E. Brumley added well-known standard songs like “I’ll Fly Away,” “Turn Your Radio On” and “He Set Me Free.”

In the decades since, gospel has found the importance of change — continually stealing from the modern musical conventions of the generation: At one time gospel took the form of blues stylings, and then, successively, rhythm and blues, soul, rock and roll, and now rap.

Just go to YouTube and listen to Kanye West’s “Jesus Walks,” for yet another solid version of how gospel is so protean.

Floyd says Kirk Franklin brought

Charles Floyd will lead the Boston Pops Gospel Night at Symphony Hall, June 14. gospel music to the Hip Hop generation — reflecting his times as much as other gospel trailblazers, including James Cleveland, Andre Crouch, Richard Smallwood and Walter and Edwin Hawkins.

“Kirk Franklin...has been successful at it...and has gotten [more] kids off the streets than any other gospel music,” he says.

At this year’s Gospel Night, Floyd will sample other sacred classical Europeans works, including Mendelssohn’s “War March of the Priest,” and Camille Saint-Saëns’ bacchanal “Samson and Goliath.”

The concert will include the a cappella group Take 6 and also features the world premiere of Floyd’s own work, “Song of Solomon,” a story taken from the Bible’s Old Testament. Solomon, an ancient

Hebrew King, was considered the world’s wisest man who was said to possess 700 hundred wives and 300 concubines.

Floyd says the score, which will be accompanied by tenor vocalist Samuel Moscosco, reflects an evolved personal artistic creation “with bits and pieces of it that I‘ve been working on my whole life.

“It has its daring moments, yet I know it is something people will ultimately be comfortable with,” he added.

A musical prodigy who began learning piano at age four, Floyd performed his first staged solo recital before turning ten. He describes gospel music as restorative.

“The music gives you the sense to survive, …a sense of pride and self-esteem.”

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Ravishing production of “Eugene Onegin” at Cutler Majestic Susan Saccoccia The ravishing production of “Eugene Onegin,” at Boston’s Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theatre last weekend translated the poetry of Alexander Pushkin’s classic Russian novel to the stage.

Performed in Russian with English subtitles, the three-anda-half hour production combined acting, music, dance and stagecraft to render Pushkin’s tale of anguish with its tenderness, rueful wisdom, grandeur, and earthy humor intact.

Pushkin wrote his novel in verse, and even for an English-speaking audience, his gorgeous words reigned supreme in this production. Scenes in the novel unfolded slowly on stage as a soundscape that alternated between the music of actors’ voices and a recorded score. English supertitles of lines from Pushkin’s text, translated by Masha Zonina into vibrant rhyming couplets, were displayed above the proscenium.

While the novel takes its name from the male protagonist, Onegin, the more moving story in this production is that of Tatyana.

A bookish and shy girl, she falls for cynical young Onegin and confesses her love in a letter, only to

be rebuffed by him. At the same time, Onegin destroys his friend, the naïve poet Lensky, the fiancé of Tatyana’s fun-loving sister, Olga. Onegin’s careless flirtation with Olga leads to a duel, and he shoots Lensky.

Faithful to Pushkin’s novel, the production followed an older Onegin as he remorsefully relived his memories while Tatyana grows into a graceful and resilient woman.

Presented by ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage and New York’s Cherry Orchard Festival, the adaptation was conceived and directed by Rimas Tuminas, artistic director of the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre of Russia, which staged and performed the production.

Transfixing sets by Adomas Yatsovskis, lighting by Maya Shavdatuashvili, costumes by Maria Danilova, and make-up by Olga Kalyavina conjured the old-world lifestyle of Russian gentry in country estates. The music, by Faustas Latenas, included a recorded score with passages from Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich as well as Russian and French folk songs.

Because most of this play’s scenes are narrated, the production’s 45 actors communicated more often with their faces and

bodies than through speech. They frequently performed in a ballet-inflected pantomime choreographed by Angelica Kholina.

A black reflective backdrop, framed by tall white pillars, mirrored the activity on stage, evoking the mirroring power of memories.

In the opening scene, the main narrator, a Retired Hussar (Vladimir Simonov), says of the Mature Onegin (Aleksei Guskov), “He’s gnawed by the serpent recollection and by repentence.”

Accompanying these old souls is the Mature Lensky (Oleg Makarov), in a long, elegant coat, who lives in Onegin’s memory although he died as a young man.

Strumming a mandolin, Ekaterina Kramzina, as a feral girl with a wild mane of hair, brings Onegin the pieces of Tatyana’s torn letter, which he frames and mounts on a wall like a religious icon.

The black and white palette of the set extended to the costumes, including the long, pale robes worn by a line of young women who slowly crossed the stage. The scene became a ballet studio led by the Dance Master, a riveting Ludmila Maksakova, who issued her commands with hauteur in a black Onegin, continued to page 17

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“Eugene Onegin” was performed by the Vakhtangov State Academic Theater of Moscow this month (Valeriy Myasnikov photo)

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dress. No supertitles accompanied her lengthy, energetic speech, but her expressiveness conveyed the authority and tradition of her role. When her character slumps, yielding to age, she is tenderly lifted by her tutor, Pavel Tekheda Cardenas.

Reserving supertitles for pivotal moments, Tuminas often had the actors express character and personality with signature gestures, such as the rubber-band agility and gleeful leaps of the tutor and the spirited jig danced by housekeeper Anna Antonova.

Magical lighting illuminated details like Tatyana’s torn letter and spellbinding scenes such as snow falling on a candle-lit carriage and a cluster of women in white dresses suspended on silver swings. It also highlighted the faces of the actors, who seldom speak but instead communicate with their bodies, even through their eyes. Such subtlety creates intimacy, drawing the audience in.

As Mr. and Mrs. Larin, the parents of Tatyana and Olga, Elena Melnikova and Aleksei Kuznetsov did little more than sit side-by-side. Yet they exuded the dignity and gentleness of a couple whose well-ordered life nurtures the lively individuality of their daughters.

Another touching coupling is the first encounter of Tatyana with Prince Gremin (Yuriy Shlykov), who will become her handsome, much older husband. After observing her from a distance, Gremin slowly walks toward Tatyana and joins her on a bench, where she is spooning mouthfuls of a delicacy out of a jar. Gradually, they begin to feed each other and conclude by holding hands. The brief scene captures the decorum and tenderness of their courtship.

The young Onegin (Viktor Dobronravov) was sleek and handsome with smooth black hair and a black suit. A jaded newcomer from St. Petersburg, he attends the Larins’ house party with Lensky.

Drawn to Tatyana for her beauty and depth, he asks Lensky why he chose Olga, dismissing her as an

airhead with a moon-shaped face.

In one of many comical touches, later Lensky pauses while kissing Olga to trace her face with his hands, frowns, and then shrugs, renewing their happy embrace.

Mariya Volkova’s exuberant Olga, an accordion strapped to her bosom, sparked the playful ebullience of the innocent poet Young Lensky (Vasiliy Simonov).

As Tatyana, Eugeniya Kregzhde rendered her character’s tenderness and hidden fire.

Portraying Tatyana first as a shy girl who is then so overcome by love that she tosses furniture in her excitement, she later shows her growth into a woman of quiet dignity.

Conversations in Russian dominated pre-show and intermission buzz. The audience, a stylish mix of generations, became one with the cast onstage during the curtain call. They fell into rhythmic clapping, as if to a silent but shared anthem.

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to deliver keynote address at Whittier Street Health Center’s 2014 Men’s Health Summit The Summit will also honor the following Men’s Health Champions with the Whittier Health Champion Award: • The Honorable Mayor Martin J. Walsh, City of Boston Mayor

The Men’s Health Champions will be part of a panel discussion addressing timely men’s health issues, following the speech by Billy Blanks, Jr. at noon. Other panelists include Joseph Trautwein, co-founder of Fresh Truck, and Joseph Bostic Jr., president

“An integral part of our annual Men’s Health Summit is to provide men and boys with a general understanding of the importance of regular annual checkups and getting tested for diseases for which they may be at risk.”

—Frederica Williams

America’s First Family of Fitness: Billy Blanks Jr. and Sharon Catherine Blanks Fitness expert and choreographer Billy Blanks Jr. will be the keynote speaker for Whittier Street Health Center’s annual, free Men’s Health Summit taking place on Saturday, June 28, 2014, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at 1290 Tremont St. in Roxbury. This year’s theme is “Celebrating the Great Things our Boys and Men Bring

to our Lives.”

Blanks Jr., described as the face for the new generation of fitness, went from being homeless to being a global fitness celebrity. He will share his challenging journey and his insight into how men can be motivated to care about their health for themselves and their families.

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and founder of Retention Frontiers, Inc. The health summit is free and open to the public. In addition to the formal program with Blanks’ keynote, the health panel, and the awards ceremony for Men’s Health Champions, there will also be a health fair, free health screenings (including rapid HIV testing, high blood pressure, glaucoma, and prostate cancer), an Xbox tournament for youth and complimentary lunch.

The Summit will conclude with Blanks and his wife, Sharon Catherine, conducting a one-hour, moderate level fitness workshop.

“An integral part of our annual Men’s Health Summit is to provide men and boys with a general understanding of the importance of regular annual checkups and getting tested for diseases for which they may be at risk,” said Frederica Williams, president and CEO of Whittier Street Health Center. “The key to reducing and treating these diseases effectively and economically is to detect them in the early stages through routine screenings, which will be offered free during the Summit. Our hope is that together, the Blanks [family], our honorees, and panelists will help us continue to raise the awareness of how important it is for men to seek preventative health care.”

According to the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, men are far less likely than women to look after their health or to see physicians.

They’re 25 percent less likely than women to have visited a health care provider in the past year (although they go when urged by women), and almost 40 percent more likely to have skipped recommended cholesterol screenings. As stereotypes would have it, nagging from women is the main reason men never get their health checked out.

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Partners in Preventing Violence Violence is a public health issue that impacts all members of the community—both directly and indirectly.

Studies show that exposure to any form of violence can have a negative impact on health, which is why, in addition to meeting the immediate, short, and long term needs of victims of violence, Partners HealthCare and its hospitals are committed to violence prevention in all of the communities they serve.

Standing up against violence is a positive, healthy choice that helps individuals, families, and communities to thrive. One initiative at Massachusetts General Hospital, called Men Against Abuse, is embracing this

commitment by raising awareness of the role that men have in preventing violence.

Men Against Abuse was founded

by MGH’s Domestic Violence Working Group. Participants involved in Men Against Abuse take a pledge to never commit, condone, or remain silent about men’s violence against women. They commit to respecting, listening to, and sharing power with the women in their lives.

While the group started out relatively small, it has grown considerably.

Each member of the group is responsible for getting two of his coworkers to commit to the cause.

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Jim Heffernan, CFO, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, addresses the audience at the Domestic Violence Forum held at the State House in May.

Officer of Massachusetts General Physician’s Organization, was one of the founding members of the Men Against Abuse group and has successfully recruited many of its current members. Jim grew up in a home where his parents were always shouting. To Jim, regular arguments were just part of marriage.

When Jim got married, he kept waiting for the fighting to start but it never did. His own experience of this other, peaceful version of marriage has inspired him to raise awareness around the issues of domestic and sexual violence.

“Family background, culture, and traditions can establish expectations that can enable unhealthy behavior,” said Heffernan. “The work we do with Men Against Abuse raises awareness about what a healthy relationship looks like and also how to prevent unhealthy relationships.

Making the positive, healthy choice to stand up against violence against women is good for both the MGH community and the larger community.”

Jim recently spoke about his personal experience and Men Against Abuse at a State House forum about domestic and sexual violence hosted

by Partners HealthCare.

Beyond the hospital, Men against Abuse contributes to other prevention efforts in this area including the work of Jane Doe Inc. For a number of years now, Men Against Abuse has

Attendees of Jane Doe Inc.’s White Ribbon Day join together at the Massachusetts State House and take the pledge to stand up against violence against women. worked with Jane Doe Inc. on their annual Massachusetts White Ribbon Day Campaign. The campaign serves as an opportunity for men of all ages to stand up against violence toward women.

“Violence against women—domestic or sexual—is an issue everyone must work together to stop,” says Craig Norberg-Bohm, Coordinator of the Men’s Initiative for Jane Doe Inc. “Working with Jim and the Men Against Abuse group has allowed our White Ribbon Day efforts to have an even wider reach, which is essential to our efforts to prevent violence.”

Gary Gottlieb, MD, president

and CEO of Partners HealthCare, spoke at this year’s White Ribbon Day event and noted that Men Against Abuse is representative of the commitment Partners has as a health care system to violence prevention.

We are all partners in preventing violence. Groups like Jane Doe Inc. and Men Against Abuse ensure that men are at the center of these conversations. By increasing awareness around this issue and making the healthy choice to stand up against domestic and sexual violence, Men Against Abuse contributes to community-wide efforts to violence prevention.

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Also, according to a 2012 report from the Centers for Disease Control, men’s life expectancy has risen from 70 years to 76 years, while women’s has increased from 77 years to 81 years from 1980 on. The average life expectancy of black men is 71 years. Black men also have higher death rates from heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. The key to eliminating these health disparities is early testing so treatment can begin promptly.

With more than 300 people expected to attend the summit, the goal is to raise awareness among men that physical, mental and spiritual health are interconnected and, that by taking charge of their own health, they can build a stronger family and community.

Blanks Jr. is a fitness expert known for designing programs that make fitness fun and inclusive for families and people of all fitness levels. Blanks, along with his wife Sharon Catherine, have gone from being homeless to entrepreneurs through hard work, determination, and a dream. He and Sharon Catherine appeared on “Shark Tank” and landed a deal with Daymond John and Mark Cuban for their program, “Dance with Me,” the only actual fitness-based dance certification course. They are also in the process of launching their own

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For more information about the Men’s Health Summit, please call 617-989-3071, email Valerie. stephens@wshc.org, or visit www. wshc.org or @whittier_boston.

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Attorney General Martha Coakley used the opportunity to talk about her office’s lawsuit filed last week against mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, alleging that the lenders are blocking nonprofits from buying foreclosed homes and re-selling them to their previous owners.

Grossman expressed a willingness to raise taxes on wealthier Massachusetts residents while keeping tax rates low for moderate and low-income people to raise more funding for public schools.

Berwick said he would rein in health care costs, noting that health care costs now account for 42 percent of the state budget.

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MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY MATERIALS MANAGEMENT DIRECTORATE NOTICE TO OFFERORS The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority requests prospective Offerors to submit sealed proposals on a Competitive Negotiated basis for RFP No. CAP6-13 — the Design/Build of Two (2) 26 Meter Subchapter “T” Passenger Only High Speed Ferries to service commuter routes in Boston Harbor and adjacent waters. Shipyard services shall also include Capital Spares, Manuals and Drawings, Operator Training and Maintenance Training in accordance with Authority Specification No. VE-12-040.

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This project will be federally funded. The Contractor will be required to comply with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity Laws and Regulations, DBE Laws and Regulations, U.S. Domestic Content and other regulations as required. All Offerors will be required to certify that they are not on the Comptroller General’s List of Ineligible Contractors.

This project will be subject to the terms and conditions of any grant agreement(s) made possible by the Department of Transportation/Federal Transit Administration to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. All participants will be required to comply with those terms and conditions for the duration of the project.

Proposal documents, technical specifications, and other pertinent information may be obtained from the Authority’s Materials Procurement Advertisement System located at www.mbta.com.

This system gives all vendors the opportunity to receive automated email alerts and download an electronic copy of the Request for Proposals and any addenda as soon as they become available. Interested firms are invited to register at https:// www.mbta.com/BCRegister. A pre-bid conference is planned for Tuesday, June 24, 2014 onboard an MBTA vessel at Long Wharf (North), located on Atlantic Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts. A round-trip ride to/from the MBTA’s Hingham commuter boat facility will immediately follow. Please refer to the Authority’s website and the proposal documents for more information.

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Immediately thereafter, in a designated room, the Bids will be opened and read publicly.

The work consists of spall repairs within the Boston and Cambridge Tunnels of the Red Line and underpinning the existing column immediately south of the Andrew Station.

The DBE Goal is 13%. This Contract is subject to a financial assistance Contract between the MBTA and the Federal Transit Administration of U.S. Department of Transportation. FTA Participation 80 percent.

Additional information and instructions on how to submit a bid are available at http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/ current_solicitations/ On behalf of the MBTA, thank you for your time and interest in responding to this Notice to Bidders Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Richard A. Davey MassDOT Secretary and CEO June 6, 2014 Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14P0377GD

In the interests of Zamiya S. Daily-Sequeira of Dorchester, MA Minor NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor 1.

2.

NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 02/18/2014 by Willona D. Gaines of Dorchester, MA will be held 06/27/2014 09:00 AM Guardianship of Minor Hearing Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114 ~ Family Service Office.

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.

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

Date: May 29, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

The Complaint is on file at the Court.

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Diana V JosephAugustin, 19 Esmond St #2, Dorchester, MA 02121 your answer, if any, on or before 07/24/2014. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: May 13, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Docket No. SU12P1704EA Citation on Petition for Removal Estate of Mack William Caffey, Jr. Date of Death: 07/27/2012

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14D0050DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Peggy Diane Dieyi

To all interested persons:

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 07/03/2014. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

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

Date: May 29, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU14P1156GD

SUFFOLK Division

In the matter of Vance M Gilbert Of Mattapan, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Jade I Callender of Mattapan, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Vance M Gilbert is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Jade I Callender of Mattapan, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.

The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondant is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

vs.

Chukwudi Dieyi

To the Defendant: The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage pursuant to G.L. c. 208, Section 1 B. 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: Alfred B. Taylor, Esq., Law Office of Alfred B. Taylor, 875 Massachusetts Avenue, #31, Cambridge, MA 02139 your answer, if any, on or before 07/24/2014. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: May 09, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

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

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

Docket No. SU14D1038DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Love N Nunez

vs.

Neil Nunez

To the Defendant: The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage pursuant to G.L. c. 208, Section 1 B. 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: Love N Nunez, 102 Intervale St, Dorchester, MA 02121 your answer, if any, on or before 07/31/2014. 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.

The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person.

If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: May 19, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

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

Date: May 15, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

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

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU14C0108CA

SUFFOLK Division

In the matter of Darwin Esquivel Pena of Roxbury, MA NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME

File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days before the hearing.

To all persons interested in a petition described:

3.

Counsel for the Minor: The minor (or an adult on behalf of the minor) has the right to request that counsel be appointed for the minor.

A petition has been presented by Darwin Esquivel Pena requesting that Darwin Esquivel Pena be allowed to change his name as follows:

4.

Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minor over age 14 has the right to be present at any hearing, unless the Court finds that it is not in the minor’s best interests.

Darwin Pena

Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

Andre R Augustin

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 07/03/2014. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

Date: April 11, 2014

vs.

The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for Abandonment.

Response to Petition: You may respond by filing a written response to the Petition or by appearing in person at the hearing. If you choose to file a written response, you need to:

THIS IS A LEGAL NOTICE: An important court proceeding that may affect your rights has been scheduled. If you do not understand this notice or other court papers, please contact an attorney for legal advice.

Diana V Joseph-Augustin

A petition has been filed by Carla M. Hands of Lynn, MA and Christina J. Hands of Brockton, MA and Tijwana M. Hands of Dorchester, MA requesting that Renee V. Sandefer of Mattapan, MA be removed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate.

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 06/19/2014. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

Beverly A. Scott, Ph.D. MBTA General Manager and Rail and Transit Administrator

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing

To the Defendant:

A petition has been filed by Tashara C Hairston-Caffey of Dorchester, MA requesting that Elisabeth Stokes of Dorchester, MA be removed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate.

MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY 100 SUMMER ST., SUITE 1200 BOSTON, MA 02110 NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Docket No. SU14D1015DR

SUFFOLK Division

To all interested persons:

The Authority reserves the right to reject any or all proposal(s), to waive minor irregularities, or to advertise for new offers, as deemed in the best interest of the Authority.

Richard A. Davey Secretary and Chief Executive Officer, MassDOT

Docket No. SU96P1302

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Docket No. SU14P1051PO Citation on General Probate Petition In the Matter of Maria Bloom

To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Maria Bloom of Roxbury, MA requesting to amend her daughter’s birth certificate #61247 born on May 13, 2013 for Aviva Lissitsyna Bloom lists the mother as Maria Lissitsyna Bloom and to remove the middle name should be corrected to Maria Bloom.

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 07/03/2014.

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 07/03/2014. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

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

Date: May 29, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

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

Date: May 06, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi

Register of Probate

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