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City councilors take landlord to task Sandra Larson

evictions. He had appeared with protesters at a September rally in Boston city councilors on support of small businesses in an Monday grilled the owners of a Egleston Square building that City Brighton real estate company that Realty recently purchased . has purchased some 200 distressed “It’s our job to fight for those and foreclosed properties in the who don’t have a voice,” Jackson city over the past 10 years and said at the hearing. “We are here whose tenants report steep rent in- to hear the voices of folks who creases, evictions and disrespectful work hard every single day to pay treatment by the company. rent. We care about this issue and Representatives of City Realty we do not want poor folks to be Group appeared at a hearing called displaced.”

by District 7 City Councilor Tito Councilors Ayanna Pressley, Jackson to address issues of gen- Josh Zakim, Matt O’Malley and trification and the role of corpo- Frank Baker, who chaired the rate landlords meeting, also in rent escalaengaged with tion and tenant the panelists. displacement.

Councilors “You have “We are here to hear Michelle Wu, said you’re Charles Yancey b u i l d i n g u p the voices of folks who and Michael Roxbury, but work hard every single Flaherty atyou’re not tended briefly building the day to pay rent. We care and offered type of Rox- about this issue and we statements in bury I want to of the do not want poor folks to support see,” Jackson hearing and of said to the two be displaced.” neighborhood City Realty servation — Tito Jackson pinr ethe owners, Fred face of Starikov and gentrification.

Steve Whalen, The hearwho were acing started at 4 companied by an attorney and a p.m. and went on into the evening, property manager. “You bought with testimony from two panels of distressed units — and you have City Realty tenants and a panel of put a lot of residents in distress.” tenant advocates and data experts, Company representatives in addition to City Realty’s testitestified that City Realty owns mony. The scheduled panels were about 600 units in 200 properties followed by an opportunity for inin Boston, mostly triple-decker dividuals to step up to the microhomes. Many of them were pur- phone to speak their piece. chased after foreclosures.

While some said they had Jackson ordered the hearing never had a problem with City after receiving complaints from Realty as their landlord, the preresidential and commercial ten- vailing sentiment toward the ants in Roxbury, Jamaica Plain and company by residents and counother neighborhoods, and from the cilors was negative.

City Realty, continued to page 8 organizers helping tenants fight

Attorney General Martha Coakley rallies Democratic Party activists during a campaign stop in Brockton. Looking on are Democratic City Committee co-Chairman Ossie Jordan (far left), at-large Brockton City Councilor Moises Rodrigues and Gov. Deval Patrick.

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Coakley campaign revving up get-out-the-vote effort Yawu Miller Attorney General Martha Coakley spent much of the last few weeks rallying troops in the traditional Democratic strongholds: at Dorchester’s Strand Theatre with Michelle Obama, in Worcester with former President Bill Clinton and, last Friday, in Brockton with Gov. Deval Patrick and a host of Metro South and South Coast elected officials.

With just two weeks until the Nov. 4 election, Coakley and Democratic Party activists are pulling out the stops in a race where the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor have been locked in a dead heat.

Crowded into a Brockton strip

mall storefront packed with black, white, Cape Verdean and Haitian activists and elected officials, Coakley spoke with a sense of urgency.

“If you have my back for the next two-and-a-half weeks, I will have your back for the next four years,” she said.

Like many of Coakley’s events in communities of color, the Brockton appearance was part rally, part volunteer recruitment event. Attendees signed up for canvassing and phone banking as part of the campaign’s effort to mobilize tens of thousands of voters across the state, particularly in the cities.

Republican Charlie Baker can expect to draw votes from

the conservative-leaning towns in the South Shore and South Coast, from the North Shore and Worcester County — the traditional base of Republican votes in the state’s hinterlands. Coakley, on the other hand, will likely win in the state’s cities, the Metro Boston suburbs and in the Berkshires.

Both campaigns are channeling considerable resources into getout-the-vote efforts. For Coakley, the cities are a key battleground and black elected officials are a key component of that battle.

While Coakley has a lock on black and Latino elected officials in Massachusetts, Baker’s campaign has been making a play for voters in black and Latino communities, Coakley, continued to page 28

Baker releases ‘urban agenda,’ touts support Yawu Miller

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Republican Charlie Baker opened an office on Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester, unveiled an “urban agenda” with policies he said were informed by his discussions with people in black and Latino neighborhoods and touted support from blacks, Latinos and Asians.

Packed into the Blue Hill Avenue storefront, about 50 supporters, reporters and onlookers attended the event Wednesday morning last week, as Baker

unveiled his priorities in education, affordable housing, criminal justice reform, economic development and public safety.

Baker said the plans — outlined in broad strokes — were culled from meetings with supporters in the black and Latino communities.

“The conversations and the dialogues that came out of these meetings ... informed in a very significant way many of our economic development and education plans,” he said.

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State officials announce changes to Fairmount line Yawu Miller Gov. Deval Patrick and local elected officials gathered at the site of the planned Blue Hill Avenue stop on the Fairmount line in Mattapan to announce changes that will transform the commuter rail into a rapid transit system and shave as much as 40 minutes off of commute times for area residents.

The MBTA plans to purchase diesel multiple unit rail cars that will allow for more frequency than the large, locomotive-driven commuter rail trains currently running on the line. Fares along the line will be held at $2.10 each way, the same as other rapid transit lines, and commuters will be able to make free transfers to the Red Line or Silver Line once the trains reach South Station.

The line will have weekend service, and commuters will be able to use Charlie Cards on the line.

The changes, along with a new design for the Blue Hill Avenue station that locates a passenger platform between the inbound and outbound tracks, will transform commutes for Mattapan residents, according to state Rep. Russell Holmes.

“It means a one-seat ride that gets us downtown,” he said. “It will save each commuter between half an hour and 40 minutes each way. You’re giving folks back 10 days a year.”

Currently, Mattapan residents commuting to jobs downtown have to choose between boarding a trolley at Mattapan Station and then transferring to a Red Line train, or taking the 31 bus to Forest Hills and boarding the Orange Line.

“I grew up having to make that decision,” Holmes said.

In recent decades the Fairmount Line, which originates in Hyde Park, passed through Mattapan, Dorchester and Roxbury stopping only at Morton Street and Dudley Street.

Over the last seven years, officials at the MBTA have developed plans to turn the Fairmount Line into a rapid transit service, building new stops at Newmarket, Four Corners/Geneva Avenue and Talbot Avenue.

The MBTA has charged riders rapid transit fares on the line, but did not offer free transfers at South Station, and ran the trains at half-hour intervals that made the line less convenient for center city commuters.

With the diesel multiple units —smaller trains, each with its own diesel-electric engine—the MBTA will be able to run smaller trains on the line with greater frequency. The MBTA will buy 30 of the cars for the Fairmount Line and other commuter rail lines, at an estimated cost of $240 million.

MBTA officials expect delivery of the first cars in 2018.

The construction of the Mattapan station is expected to begin in 2015 and will be completed in 2017, according to MBTA officials. Earlier plans for the station, which called for platforms on either side of the tracks, met with stiff resistance from abutters who worried that construction of the platforms would necessitate blasting into the rock ledges beside the tracks and possibly compromise

the foundation of the homes sited next to the line.

By siting the platform between the inbound and outbound tracks, the MBTA will not have to significantly widen the right of way.

The construction of the new station is expected to spur new development in the area, including the site of the former Cody Ford dealership at the Cummings Highway side of the station. The project will also give Mattpan residents better access to jobs downtown, officials said.

“The Blue Hill Avenue Station will connect our community with downtown and to the rest of the city, increasing greater access to jobs, services and opportunities,” said state Sen. Linda Dorcena

Forry. “I want to thank the community for their hard work throughout this process. This project will allow Mattapan residents to compete for quality jobs.”

City Councilor Charles Yancey said new station is one of several major improvements to Mattapan, including the new Mattapan Branch Library, the Midred Avenue Community Center and the reconstruction of nearby Almont Park.

MBTA General Manager Beverly Scott said she was “humbled and gratified” to work on the Fairmount Line, a project that has gained national attention.

“I knew about the Fairmount Corridor before I even came here,” she said.

State Rep. Russell Holmes announces changes to the Fairmount Line. Looking on are City Councilor Timothy McCarthy, state Transportation Secretary Richard Davey, state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry, City Councilor Charles Yancey and Gov. Deval Patrick.

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Coalition pushes stronger Roxbury jobs standards Sandra Larson A coalition of labor, housing and economic justice activists is proposing that developers of sites in the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan area commit to new “good jobs standards” that would include higher wages and a higher proportion of full-time permanent jobs in addition to already-established hiring goals for local, minority and female construction workers.

Members of the Boston Jobs Coalition appeared in force at an early October meeting of the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan Oversight Committee to demand that the committee adopt a stronger set of employment standards for developers seeking committee approval for Roxbury projects.

The proposed standards include paying prevailing wage for all construction workers, whether union or non-union; ensuring that 75 percent of the permanent jobs created are full time and start at the city’s living wage of $13.89 per hour, increasing to $16.89 over three years; and adopting hiring goals of 51 percent local residents, 51 percent people of color, and 15 percent women on construction jobs.

The city already has a hiring goals ordinance in place — the Boston Resident Jobs Policy specifies that 50 percent of work hours are to go to Boston residents, 25 percent to minorities and 10 percent to women on city-funded projects — but the RSMPOC has long urged developers to aim for the higher 51-51-15 goals.

What’s different about the standards now being proposed is that they also address wages and that they take into account permanent jobs as well as construction jobs created by new development.

The new standards would not be laws, but rather goals that developers would agree to and be held to by the committee. RSMPOC members voted unanimously to endorse consideration of the proposal. A working subcommittee will review the ideas and draft formalized recommendations to present to the full committee in a future meeting.

“The issue here is, if these developments are going to create wealth, we need them to provide jobs at a fair living wage, and to be consistent across developments,” said RSMPOC co-chair Jorge Martinez in an interview.

“It was a spectacular meeting,” he added. “So many passionate people coming to the table asking for what they need.”

Part of what led the activists to call for new standards was the discovery by the Black Economic Justice Institute, co-directed by Priscilla Flint, that some workers on the new Tropical Foods store construction project near Dudley Square were being paid only $11 per hour.

Flint’s group picketed the site in protest over the summer and called on developers Madison Park Development Corporation and Tropical Foods to raise wages.

MPDC Chief Executive Officer Jeanne Pinado said in an interview that the Madison-Tropical developers were equally disturbed to learn of the $11 wage and that the average wage on the project is $35 per hour. They have since set a minimum wage of $15 an hour, Pinado said, and individuals who worked for $11 an hour have received back pay.

MPDC also sent a statement that indicated worker hours as of Oct. 14 included 41.7 percent resident, 57.1 percent minority, and 4.9 percent female, and that 35 percent of the total construction has been subcontracted to minority-owned firms.

Still, continued vigilance on both pay and local hiring is necessary, Flint said, or Roxbury residents will be left out of any economic prosperity that comes with the current spate of new construction.

“You have these developments going forth all over Roxbury, but if you’re only paying $11 to $15 an hour, we’re not going to be able to afford to live here, with prices going up,” she said. “There has to be some kind of accountability — not just for developers, but for the Oversight Committee, too.”

The Black Economic Justice Institute spearheaded the push for the proposed jobs standards at the Oct. 6 RSMPOC meeting. The jobs coalition also includes Roxbury/ Dorchester Campaign for Good Jobs, Action for Regional Equity, Black Economic Justice Institute, Boston Workers Alliance, City Life/ Vida Urbana and the Dorchester/ Roxbury Labor Committee.

The coalition’s effort was supported by City Councilor Tito Jackson, an ex-officio member of the RSMPOC, who made sure the group got on the agenda.

“The goals of the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan are economic

development and wealth building for people in Roxbury,” Jackson told the Banner. “So these [proposed standards] are at the core of what the plan actually says.”

He added, “I would note that these recommendations come at a time when community members have had to stand up to developers like Tropical Foods who have paid less than acceptable wages. $11 an hour is not acceptable. It is unacceptable to have organizations — businesses and institutions — receive public subsidies and not pay living wages.”

State Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz was present at the meeting and was impressed with the spirit and passion of the jobs movement.

“It was a robust conversation, really excellent community turnout to represent what I think is a deep and wide appetite in the community for good jobs,” she told the Banner.

“It’s not surprising to see that sentiment. A lot of the time we talk about housing policy, and that’s part of the puzzle, but we can’t address gentrification with a housing-only approach. Good jobs have to be part of that.

“The Oversight Committee has always been very dogged in asking about who’s getting hired for contracts and subcontracts,” she added, “[but] it did not occur to the Committee that wages would be as low

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as $11. So they’re saying maybe we need to ask this upfront and monitor for this.”

Any formalized standards would be submitted to the Boston Redevelopment Authority for approval.

Martinez emphasized that while this process is unfolding, a longstanding volunteer committee will continue its monitoring of hiring numbers on Roxbury development projects.

A group of community members and labor advocates has been meeting bi-weekly for several years to scrutinize the hiring numbers on Roxbury construction projects and bring attention to the contractors, developers and the RSMPOC when commitments are not being met.

Dorothea Jones, a longtime Roxbury resident and activist and a leader on the monitoring committee, said the monitoring committee seeks to hold developers accountable. Her goal is to do so in a way that furthers cooperation.

“It’s a community process. We’re not trying to tear the developers apart,” Jones said. “We’re only trying to build a great working relationship with them that will enhance the wealth generation and the good jobs, construction and permanent, provided because of the projects. We just want people to get fair wages for their work.”

Jones said that often the main general contractor works hard to hire local workers, people of color and women, but its subcontractors may fall short. With Tropical Foods, it appears a subcontractor was paying the very low wages that had to be raised.

Shawmut Construction, the general contractors for the new Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building

on the Ferdinand site, has shown very good hiring numbers over the course of the project, with recent figures showing 80 percent residents, 51 percent minority, and 16 percent women, Jones said.

“Some of the subcontractors may not have had the numbers we would have liked, but Shawmut was a true partner with us,” she said.

“These are the kinds of numbers we feel are meeting the goal of wealth generation in the community.”

Flint, ever watchful, takes a less conciliatory tone than Jones.

“We still have a long way to go in this city,” she said. “We don’t want to keep having to protest these sites.

We want developers and contractors to be held accountable. And this goes for permanent jobs, too; Who gets those cleaning contracts?

Who works in those buildings?

“So much is happening in Roxbury, so much development.

They’re talking about luxury apartments, luxury homes — but who’s the luxury for?”

Jackson echoed Flint’s concern about local residents losing out on economic benefits as neighborhoods experience rapid development.

“My office continues to work aggressively on pushing for fair wages, fair housing, and equitable opportunities,” Jackson said. “We work with a great sense of urgency, because the changes are occurring very quickly and displacing a lot of community members.

“It is critical that as opportunity and development occurs in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan, the people currently there have the first opportunity to benefit from these really good economic times.”

Mayor Walsh joins local officials and community members for the ribbon cutting of the new Mary Draper community pool in West Roxbury. (Mayor’s Office photo by Jeremiah Robinson)

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Established 1965

Ballot questions let voters legislate Massachusetts residents elect members to the Legislature with the expectation that they will do the right thing. If the people are dissatisfied with their representatives’ performance, they can act on their own. The state constitution permits the voters to place a proposed law on the ballot with an initiative petition. When a plurality of the votes is cast in support of the proposal the initiative petition becomes law.

This is understandably a complex process and is not frequently used. The Legislature will have an opportunity to consider a measure before it goes on the ballot. This year a minimum of 68,911 signatures were necessary for the measure to attain legislative review. Also, there are some matters beyond the scope of an initiative petition. One obvious limitation is that voters are not permitted to appropriate the expenditure of funds from the Commonwealth’s treasury.

Four questions will appear on the November ballot. They are to: Enable employees to earn sick time A no vote would maintain the current law.

A yes vote would enable employees to earn and use sick time in accordance with certain limitations.

Banner opinion — vote yes. Employees should not be fired because they get sick. Every employer must enable workers to accrue sick days. Larger, more affluent employers should provide paid sick days.

beverages covered by the bottle bill and increase associated handling fees.

Banner opinion — vote yes. Carelessly discarded liquid containers are a common sight. A deposit fee would encourage those collecting discarded bottles to add them to their inventory for return. The fee will increase recycling.

Expand prohibition on gaming The law would prevent the Massachusetts Gaming Commission from licensing a casino or slots gaming establishment and essentially cancel any such license that may have already been issued. It would also prohibit betting on simulcast greyhound races.

A no vote would maintain the current law.

A yes vote would prohibit casinos and some other forms of gaming.

Banner opinion — vote no. The state lottery already sanctions gambling. There is no moral reason for Massachusetts not to compete with casinos in adjacent states.

Eliminate gas tax indexing

The gas tax in Massachusetts is presently $.24 per gallon. Every year it is automatically adjusted in accordance with the change in the Consumer Price Index. The adjusted price can never be less than 21.5 cents per gallon.

A no vote would maintain the current law.

A yes vote would eliminate the automatic adjustment and require the legislators to vote Expand the bottle bill for a tax change.

Banner opinion — vote no. The gas tax Consumers would have to pay a deposit on non-alcoholic, non-carbonated beverages in funds are used to repair roads and bridges. cans and bottles as they do now for soda and There is a great backlog of work to be done.

The legislative stagnation in Washington has beer.

A no vote would maintain the current law taught Americans that it is not a good idea to A yes vote would expand the scope of depend on political action.

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commitment to increase the supply of market rate housing affordable to the middle class people who now make up the majority of in Boston.

We have a long way to go. I can’t tell you how many of my neighbors tell me, “I couldn’t afford to buy my house today.” When the average sales prices are beyond the means of the average city residents, you know the city is about to lose its middle class.

That would be a great loss.

Ultimately, the affordability problems we’re facing in Boston are

rooted in the growing economic inequality in the United States.

While it will be helpful to build more housing for middle class people, it would be much better if middle class and working class people’s salaries could keep pace with the doctors, lawyers, investment bankers and high tech workers who are buying up the homes the rest of us can no longer afford.

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OPINION Republican ploy to blame Ebola on Obama bac fires Earl Ofari Hutchinson The instant the Ebola crisis hit American shores, the inevitable happened. The GOP blamed President Obama for it. First, it was the lame brained borderline racist charge that Obama either deliberately or through sheer incompetence did nothing to seal the borders to keep the virus at bay.

The only slightly more intelligible attack was that Obama did nothing to command the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to take panic measures to insure no incidence of the disease would turn up in the country.

Then the GOP campaign strategists stepped in and had some of its top candidates suddenly parroting the kooky line that Obama was to blame for a supposedly porous and negligent CDC and border security lapse. Obama’s appointment of an “Ebola Czar” provided even more grist for the GOP hit mill on Obama. It was variously blown off as too little, too late or ridiculed as a desperate appointment of a supposedly medically unqualified political crony.

This is political gamesmanship of the lowest order, playing on media and public fears over a legitimate and terrifying health crisis, to again belittle Obama. And with the stakes sky high in the 2014 midterm elections, the dirty political pool by the GOP was totally predictable.

But the twist in the Ebola saga is that the dirty hit job has backfired.

The attack opened the GOP wide open to media and public scrutiny of the galling fact that the GOP has systematically whittled away vital funding for dozens of health programs since 2010. The CDC, much the whipping agency for the supposed Obama health dereliction, was stripped of nearly $600 million; millions that could have gone to ramp up monitoring, screening, and education programs, as well as research on vaccines to deal with infectious and communicable diseases. The names of the more than two dozen Republicans who poleaxed the CDC budget have been published.

And to no surprise the bulk of them are either directly affiliated with or have been in part bankrolled by tea party factions. In September, there were initial reports that House This is political Republicans would cut almost half of the nearly $100 million that the gamesmanship of the White House wanted earmarked lowest order, playing on to fight Ebola. It didn’t happen not media and public fears because of any sudden epiphany by the GOP House members to pro- over a legitimate and vide all the funding that the White terrifying health crisis, House asked for the program, but to again belittle Obama. because word had quickly leaked out about the defunding possibility, and that would have been a PR nightmare that even the most rabid anti-Obama House Republicans knew was fraught with deep peril.

GOP leaders have hit back hard on the charge that they are somehow to blame for any laxity in the fight against Ebola by claiming that Obama and the Democrats have also made cuts in the NIH budget and that those cuts are the reason for any shortfall in the CDC’s funding for programs.

That’s true as far as it goes. But what the GOP conveniently omits is that the cuts to the NIH budget and indeed all other health and education and domestic spending program cuts were agreed to by Obama with the GOP jamming a virtual political gun to his head demanding he sign off on cuts as the draconian price for ending gridlock over the deficit war.

Now in the backdrop of a potential catastrophic health nightmare, the cuts have suddenly become as big a political campaign tug of war as the blame game about Ebola. But it’s one that the GOP can’t win. Because it, not Obama and the Democrats, have been firmly identified in the public eye as the ones that have consistently sledge hammered the Obama administration and Congress to cut, cut, and cut some more spending. No matter how much the right wing gnashes its teeth, shouts and moans and attempts to turn the table and finger-point Obama for the funding fall off in the Ebola fight, it won’t change that naked reality. The hit ads that Democrats took out lambasting the GOP for the funding cuts are believable not because of any numbers accuracy or inaccuracy but in part because of public belief that when it comes to pound saving, the GOP will go to any length to save a dollar at the expense of vital programs.

The ads are believable in greater part because the GOP has left no stone unturned in its ruthless and relentless drive to use any and every crisis real or manufactured to paint Obama as a weak, ineffectual and failed president and presidency. It has banked on, and stoked, the frozen political divide in the country knowing that a wide segment of the public has open, unabashed contempt for his policies and his administration. The GOP banks that it can swivel this divisiveness into sustained opposition to those policies, and that it can further boost its numbers in the House and especially the Senate in the 2014 midterm elections. The ultimate aim is to translate the incessant hit attacks on Obama into a White House win in 2016.

The Ebola scare gave the GOP another seemingly readymade opportunity to blame Obama for yet another crisis. But this time the signs are good that the ploy has backfired.

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What do you think should be the top priority of the next governor of Massachusetts?

Housing. There are more homeless people than there used to be. It’s more of an issue than crime.

Getting the homeless off the street and creating more jobs for the youths.

Darryl

Eric Johnson

Jobs. Especially for minorities, because they’re the ones doing nothing. Coakley needs to come to the community like Elizabeth Warren did.

Fair housing and low-income housing. It’s tough for people to find a place to live.

Retired Roxbury

Truck Driver Roxbury

Unemployed Roxbury

Sheila Emerson

Security Dorchester

Shirley Jay McGee

Health care and education. I think it’s very important for people to have health care and to be able to have an education the enables people to be the best they can be.

Lascene Nappier Teacher Roxbury

I think raising the minimum wage and lowering rents. Rents in Boston are ridiculous, and people’s income don’t match the rents .

Vivian Foy

Medical Billing Coordinator Attleboro

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Danny Glover

Danny Glover, celebrated actor and social justice advocate, will deliver the keynote address at the ABCD Annual Gala on Nov. 7 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place.

The event draws an audience of several hundred movers and shakers from the business, entertainment, philanthropic and human services communities.

The ROOTS of “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” fame and fourtime Grammy award winning hiphop/soul band will provide musical entertainment. The entire ABCD community is excited about the upcoming Gala and its potential to aid Boston’s most vulnerable residents. “This is a major fundraiser to benefit the ABCD Winter Emergency Campaign and other key ABCD programs,” said President/CEO John Drew.

“Every ticket bought, every sponsorship, every auction bid will help us provide low-income seniors and working families with heat, warm clothing, and other items

that enable them to survive the bitter New England winter and move forward with their lives.”

Emceed by Boston’s dynamic TV personality Bianca de la Garza, the Gala will feature a live auction. In addition, guests will enjoy cuisine prepared by three of Boston’s celebrity chefs, including Liquid Art House’s Rachel Klein, the blue-haired house kitchen chef from Abbey Lane, Jason Santo, and rising star chef Justin Winters of Cinquecento restaurant.

ABCD serves more than 100,000 low-income Boston-area

residents annually through its central offices and a decentralized network of Neighborhood Service Centers, Head Start centers, Family Planning sites and Foster Grandparent sites.

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Homeland Security announces aitian amily Reunification program

On Oct. 17, the Department of Homeland Security announced the implementation of the Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program, scheduled to begin in early 2015.

According to the DHS website, the HFRP Program will expedite family reunification for certain eligible Haitian family members of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents of the U.S. One of the stated goals of the program is “to promote safe, legal and orderly migration from Haiti to the United States.”

Massachusetts state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry said, “This program will expedite reunifications for Haitian families, many of whom have been separated for years, even though their petitions for entry visas to the U.S. have been approved.

This need for this program became particularly acute in the aftermath of the Jan. 10, 2010 earthquake that devastated the country and left so many families displaced and in dire need of the kind of support that only families, ultimately, can provide to their loved ones.”

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it will offer certain eligible Haitian beneficiaries of already-approved family-based immigrant visa petitions who are currently in Haiti an opportunity to come to the United States up to approximately two years before their immigrant visa priority dates become current.

Roughly 100,000 Haitians already approved to come to the U.S. are currently awaiting visas, according to Associated Press reports.

“I want to thank President Barack Obama and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson for their decision to make the Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program a reality,” added Dorcena Forry. “Although conditions in Haiti have slowly improved since the devastating earthquake of January 2010, there is still much work to do in stabilizing the country. Bringing these displaced families back together is the right thing to do, not only for the mutual benefit of both countries, but for the children, parents and siblings who depend upon and love each other.”

The Immigration and Nationality Act provides legal authority for the HFRP program, which in turn, authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security “to parole into the United States certain individuals, on a case-by-case basis, for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant

public benefit.”

This is the same legal authority used to establish the Cuban Family Reunification Parole program in 2007.

Celebrity guests headline 65th birthday celebration for Charles Stith On Saturday, Oct. 26, former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young along with other distinguished luminaries, friends, and special guests will host the first of a two-day 65th birthday celebration honoring Ambassador Charles Stith for his more than 40 years of activism and public service. The two-day affair will culminate with a prayer service on Sunday morning, Oct. 27 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Charles Richard Stith worked in the trenches as an activist minister in the 1980s, and was a pastor of Union United Methodist Church in Boston’s South End for 15 years. While at Union United, Stith focused on voter empowerment and economic parity for African Americans and other people of color. He organized and led voter registration efforts that helped lay foundational support for the historic elections of John D. O’Bryant and Jean McGuire to the Boston School Committee, and later aided Bruce Bolling’s citywide election to the Boston City Council.

He was a lead negotiator for a $500 million community reinvestment initiative that resulted in the relocation of banks back into inner-city neighborhoods, which revitalized business districts in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan.

Expanding upon the work he did in Boston, he founded and led the Organization For A New Equality, a vehicle he utilized nationally to spur economic development and whose work became the basis for the Clinton Administration’s revision of the Community Reinvestment Act regulations.

In 1998, Stith was appointed by President Bill Clinton as Ambassador to Tanzania. During his term, he advised the Tanzanian government on qualifying for debt relief and negotiated the first Open Skies Agreement on the continent between Tanzania and the United States.

Returning home from Tanzania, Ambassador Stith created the African Presidential Center at Boston University, a first-of-its-kind institution hosting former African Presidents and policy conferences in London, Berlin, Johannesburg and Dar Es Salaam. The Center is widely recognized as one of the foremost think tanks in the world

on African issues.

In lieu of gifts, the Stith family is asking that contributions be made to the Stith Hope Fund, administered

by The Boston Foundation, with proceeds used to support future public service initiatives.

Donations can be made at www. tbf.org/giving/make-a-gift/stithhope-fund. For more information, email aparcadm@bu.edu.

Patrick administration unveils consumer healthcare transparency campaign On October 14, officials from the Patrick Administration announced a healthcare transparency campaign aimed at educating consumers about new health insurance cost-estimator tools that allow them to shop around and compare prices of medical procedures.

“Access to affordable care gives peace of mind and economic security to working people and families; increases productivity for large and small employers alike; creates jobs and contributes to the strength of the Massachusetts economy,” said Governor Deval Patrick.

The “Get the Deal on Care” advertising campaign raises awareness of new health insurance cost-estimators, which allow Massachusetts consumers to compare the price of medical procedures before obtaining those services. The online tools are required as part of a transparency provision in the state’s 2012 landmark healthcare cost

containment law.

“Price transparency has always been a cornerstone of a healthy marketplace,” said Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Greg Bialecki. “The Patrick Administration has been committed to changing the dynamic of how consumers and businesses purchase health care.

Now more than ever, we as consumers are in the driver’s seat and can make better value decisions.”

The campaign website, GetTheDealOnCare.org, was developed in partnership with 13 Massachusetts health insurance companies and many Massachusetts’ employers, providers and consumer groups.

The website includes information about the law’s requirements, and provides a link to each participating insurer’s online cost-estimator.

“Empowering consumers with pricing information is a necessary first step toward a patient-centered culture that will result in the more efficient delivery of lower-cost, higher quality healthcare services,” said Undersecretary of Consumer Affairs Barbara Anthony. “Armed with the missing piece of the puzzle — price — consumers can continue to consider quality, location, and other factors when selecting healthcare services.”

The law requires that, starting Oct. 1, 2014, health insurers provide an online cost-estimator that shows real-time information tailored to a member’s specific plan, taking into account information such as copay, deductible, and co-insurance.

This way, a member searching for

a common procedure, such as an MRI, or the cost of a visit to a dermatologist will be able to compare prices charged by different providers and make the best decision before the service is obtained.

“We are proud of what we have accomplished so far with 97 percent of our residents insured,” said Secretary for Administration and Finance Glen Shor. “By increasing transparency, consumers will be able to make informed decisions about their healthcare costs while accessing the best care.”

“This innovative project empowers patients to make the best decision about their health and holds the promise of driving down costs and improving the overall health of our populations,” Senate President Therese Murray said. “While this tool is still in the beginning phases, I am confident that its potential is far greater than we realize and I want to urge residents throughout the Commonwealth to use this information to take charge of their health.”

Cost-estimator tools are available online now from all insurers writing health insurance policies in Massachusetts. Consumers can find their tool by visiting their insurer’s website or at www.GetTheDealOnCare.org The “Get the Deal on Care” campaign is also launching a social media campaign to further engage consumers. Follow the campaign on Facebook and Twitter, @TheDealOnCare, and join the conversation using #empowerHC.

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One by one, residential and commercial tenants spoke of problems they’ve faced with City Realty: rapidly escalating rent after the company purchased their buildings, pressure to move out, eviction notices, multiple court dates, company representatives showing a unit without advance notice, a bedbug infestation ignored. A condo owner of 20 years said City Realty bought the other two units in her building and then tried to impose a new $500 monthly condo association fee, which she fought down to $269 with the help of legal aid lawyers.

City Realty co-owner Whalen defended his 10-year-old company, saying it is filling an important need for affordable and mid-priced apartments and that it is refurbishing and improving the city’s housing stock by deleading hundreds of units, replacing oil heat with gas, installing smoke detectors where none had existed and other work.

In an e-mail before the hearing, Whalen told the Banner, “We have purchased hundreds of properties that were distressed and often vacant. For every property we have purchased, we have spent a great deal of time, money and effort to renovate the homes to make safer habitable conditions. Sometimes we have had to raise rents because we have invested a large amount of money to keep these homes safe.”

At the hearing, Whalen flatly denied City Realty has ever doubled a tenant’s rent. He informed the council that long-term leases have now been signed by all six businesses remaining at 3152-3160 Washington St., the site of the recent protest. (One of the original businesses has moved out.)

Whalen also said the company has been listening to the complaints and is making changes, such as hiring a community liaison and reviewing rent increases.

Pressley told Whalen she had no reason to believe his statement that the company wants to be a true community partner, dismissing his testimony as “smug and duplicitous.”

Baker strongly urged the company to make a better effort to engage with the communities in which they own property.

Unrelated to City Realty, several people decried the growing number of luxury buildings being built and planned in Chinatown and East Boston, threatening to change the fabric of those communities.

“It creates an imbalance. It’s unfair,” said Henry Yee, a 48-year resident of Chinatown. “We need to look at what they’re doing to the neighborhoods.”

Monday’s hearing was intended as a forum to air concerns and ask questions about corporate landlords and about gentrification and displacement in Boston. Another hearing will be scheduled to discuss solutions, Jackson said.

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(top) City councilors Frank Baker and Tito Jackson listen to testimony during a hearing on City Realty Monday. (Banner photo) (bottom) Chinatown Resident Association Chairman Henry Yee addresses the council. (Banner photo)

Article 85 Community Meeting When: Thursday October 30, 2014 Time: 6:00– 7:45 PM Where: The Wheatley School, 20 Kearsarge Avenue, Roxbury, MA 02119

Project Details

Project Proponent: City of Boston / Property & Construction Management Project Address: 35 Greenville Street, Roxbury, MA Project Description: demolition of the Henry Dearborn Middle School This community meeting is being held as part of an Article 85 Demolition Delay application to demolish the Henry Dearborn Middle School located at 35 Greenville Street in Roxbury. The purpose of the meeting is to inform the community about the proposed demolition and to present alternatives to the demolition. All interested parties are welcome to attend and will have the opportunity to comment and ask questions.

This community meeting DOES NOT take the place of the Boston Landmarks Commission (BLC) public hearing which is scheduled for Monday, November 10, 2014 in the BRA Board Room, Room 900, at Boston City Hall, 9th floor.

All interested parties are encouraged to attend the BLC public hearing to express their views on the proposed demolition or to submit written comments to the BLC if they are unable to attend. Please submit written comments by the hearing date to: Boston Landmarks Commission, Boston City Hall, Room 709, 1 City Hall Square, Boston, MA 02201, or fax to 617-635-3435, or email a PDF with signature to elizabeth.stifel@ cityofboston.gov. If you have any questions regarding the Article 85 process or the BLC public hearing, please contact Elizabeth Stifel at 617-635-3850 or refer to the BLC website at http://www.cityofboston.gov/landmarks/article85/ If you have any questions regarding the October 30, 2014 community meeting, please contact Bill Hughes at 617-6350549 or bill.hughes@boston.gov or Kaira Fox Coordinator, Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services at 617-635-3296.

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Walsh announces financial empowerment initiative Sandra Larson

Mayor Martin Walsh has announced the opening of the Roxbury Center for Financial Empowerment in Dudley Square as part of a new initiative to address income inequality and poverty in Boston.

The city-operated Roxbury center and a second financial opportunity center run by Jewish Vocational Services will provide not only job search and tax preparation assistance, but financial coaching to help individuals and families improve credit scores, accumulate savings and build wealth. The expanded and integrated services are meant to promote long-term financial stability.

“Too many Bostonians have not been able to build security,” Walsh said, addressing a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd last week inside the new center, formerly the Roxbury Resource Center, at 2201 Washington Street.

“It’s not enough to count on economic growth to lift all boats,” he continued. “We have a lot of work coming into Boston, and things are great in some cases — but it’s not great for everyone. We have to create an infrastructure of opportunity.”

The mayor cited figures from a new Family Assets Count report showing that 46 percent of Boston households do not have sufficient savings on hand to live for three months if they suffer a disruption to income.

“Forty-six percent. That means

that for every two people on the street, one of us doesn’t have the means to get through a bad time, like losing our job,” Walsh said. “And the numbers get worse for black households, at 69 percent. And 75 percent for Latino households. That’s too many people living close to the edge.”

The anti-poverty initiative includes the formation of a new Office of Financial Empowerment to be overseen by the city’s Office of Jobs and Community Services. Partners collaborating with the city include Local Initiatives Support Corporation and United Way of Massachusetts and Merrimack Valley, both of which are contributing substantial funding to support the new opportunity centers.

Bob Van Meter, executive director of Boston LISC, said that LISC has implemented an integrated service model in 30 cities around the U.S., and locally has partnered in Resilient Communities/Resilient Families initiatives in Roxbury, Mattapan and Codman Square.

“We view our funding of this center as part of a comprehensive neighborhood strategy that we have been supporting in Boston,” Van Meter said. “The Financial Empowerment Center is not only part of a financial empowerment strategy, but a neighborhood improvement strategy.”

The transformation of the Roxbury Resource Center into the Roxbury Center for Financial Empowerment was announced by Alan Gentle,

director of both the former and the new center. He emphasized the integrated nature of the services the new center will provide.

National studies show that people receiving bundled services are three to four times more likely to achieve key economic outcomes than those receiving a single service, Gentle said.

He also described LISC data showing that clients who receive job placement and financial coaching services together are more likely to retain

their jobs than those who receive job placement help alone.

Speaking to the Banner after the program, Gentle said his center previously focused mainly on workforce development, but now will take more of a “case management approach” that includes financial coaching and connection to available income supports.

The data from Family Assets Count, a project of the Corporation for Enterprise Development in collaboration with Citi Community Development and the Midas Collaborative, show that 17 percent of Boston residents officially live in poverty, but far more are “financially vulnerable.”

According to the data profile for Boston, 16 percent of Boston residents have no bank account at all, and

nearly one-quarter have a bank account but still rely on “pay day loans” and check cashing centers, suggesting they are paying unnecessary fees to access their money.

“The data make clear that many Boston families, especially low-income and families of color, are living on the brink of financial catastrophe,” the report states.

Information on Family Assets Count, including the Boston data profile, is available at familyassetscount.org.

For more information about the Financial Empowerment initiative or the Roxbury Center for Financial Empowerment, e-mail FinancialEmpowerment@boston.gov or call Mimi Turchinetz, living wage administrator at the Office of Jobs and Community Services, 617-918-5259.

Mayor Martin Walsh announces the initiation of an Economic Opportunity Agenda for Boston. The focus will be increasing the number of uality jobs impro ing access to such jobs through education and wor force de elopment and expanding financial empowerment strategies for building assets and stemming the cycle of po erty. (Mayor’s Office photo by sabel eon)

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Community colleges change approach to remedial courses Kenneth J. Cooper Every year, a new crop of adults apply to community colleges. But first they have to take tests of their English and math skills. Nationwide, 60 percent fail at least one of the tests.

Traditionally, those applicants have been required to take — and pay for — remedial or development courses to shore up their basic skills before they are allowed into college-level classes.

Many never make it that far.

Such remedial education is a major contributor to lowering how many students stay enrolled. Less than 10 percent of remedial students graduate from a community college within three years, according to a 2012 report

by Complete College America. It called traditional remedial education a “bridge to nowhere.”

“Frankly, the way we’ve been doing it isn’t very successful,” said J. Noah Brown, president and CEO of the Association of Community College Trustees. “Worst case, it actually discourages and creates barriers to students and can be, honestly, downright demoralizing.”

Many students arrive with higher expectations of themselves.

“Often students may not even be really aware of their own academic deficits,” Brown explained.

“A lot of these students have high school diplomas, so as far as they’re concerned, they’re ready.

But then they take these math and English assessments and they’re found wanting.”

With the national focus on increasing how many students complete academic programs in higher education, community colleges have been rethinking remedial education and trying new approaches.

“There are all kinds of new ways developmental education is being presented to students across the country,” said Evelyn Waiwaiole, director of the Center for Community College Student Engagement at the University of Texas Austin.

One approach scraps tradition by allowing students to enroll in a developmental math or English course at the same time they take a first-year college course in that subject. While they are catching up, those students build college credit.

Another innovation requires failing students to acquire only the particular math or English skills they lack in self-paced, modular or competency-based courses. Students can spend less than a full semester getting up to speed and skip lessons on skills they have already mastered.

A third approach abandons the insistence on algebra as the gateway math course for all community colleges. Some are allowed to take statistics, a course more closely related to an intended field of study in, for example, the social sciences.

“We’re getting some more insight into the (different) models,” Brown said. “Obviously, there’ll be a need to do a lot of follow-up study and validation, but at least anecdotally or preliminarily, there seems to be a lot of cause of hope.”

One of the best-known models

is the Accelerated Learning Program, which the Community College of Baltimore County launched in 2007 after detecting only a third of remedial English students completed English 101 in four years.

The accelerated program has grown to include all entering students who place into the top developmental course, according to Donna McKusick, the program’s director. They take that course and English 101 concurrently, with the same instructor. The developmental class has 10 students,

the regular one 20, including 10 who placed into English 101.

McKusick said 81 percent of the program’s developmental students earned college credits within a year, while 68 percent of other developmental students did. Moreover, 44 percent of the accelerated students enrolled in English 102 in 2012, compared with 13 percent of other developmental students.

The Education Commission of the States observed that the model requires, as do other new approaches to remedial courses,

a community college to invest in training instructors to teach them.

At least 90 institutions of higher education have adapted the Baltimore County model, according to the commission.

In math, colleges around the country have tried a modular approach, some with computer technology from Pearson, the educational company.

Middlesex Community College, which has campuses in Lowell and Bedford, has used Pearson’s MyMathLab program to increase student retention in the first year of enrollment. Sixty percent of students in the special developmental course in the fall were still enrolled in the spring, compared with 51 percent who took the traditional catch-up course.

Another approach to math, which allows some developmental students to skip algebra and instead take basic statistics, has generated debate among community college leaders, Brown acknowledged.

Throughout higher education, algebra has traditionally been a prerequisite. Critics have resisted abandoning that gateway.

Two trademarked programs developed by the Carnegie Endowment for the Advancement of Teaching on statistics and mathematical reasoning, Brown said, have been “catching fire” at community colleges.

“For a lot of students, who don’t end up majoring in math or hard sciences, what they really need are these other kind of mathematical skills,” Brown said. remedial, continued to page 27

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HealthNews Primary care physician: The CEO of your health Of all the health care choices, one of the most essential is choosing a primary care provider. That’s no easy task.

Karen Miller Primary care — considered the portal of entry to the health care system — encompasses the greatest number of patients and provides the widest array of services. People flock to their doctors for colds,

aches and pains, immunizations, screening tests and medication.

Coughs that don’t abate, rashes that persevere, even broken bones all wind up in a doctor’s office or clinic.

In turn PCPs have their hands full. They diagnose everything from high blood pressure to diabetes to cardiovascular diseases and make referrals to other providers.

In a sense, PCPs are CEOs, having the overall responsibility of managing their patients’ total care.

The problem is choosing a PCP

Primary care physicians diagnose health problems and, when necessary, make referrals to specialists.

that fits your personal needs and personality.

Not only is it difficult to find a PCP that is accepting new patients, what to look for in a doctor can be equally daunting. Personal preferences prevail. Gender and age can be a factor. People might have a higher comfort with a doctor of the same sex. Some might prefer a younger doctor more likely to be up-to-date with newer treatments while others may relish the attention of a more experienced doctor.

Hospital affiliation, location and access are also important. Even race or ethnicity often plays a role.

People are sometimes more comfortable with someone who looks like them.

Further complicating a choice in PCP is that there’s more than one type.

An internist is a doctor of adult medicine, while a pediatrician tends to the needs of children. Geriatricians confine their care to the elderly. Family practitioners, on the other hand, provide comprehensive medical and surgical care for the individual and family regardless of age. In some organizations the gynecologist is considered the PCP for females.

Non-physician providers, such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, round out the PCP players.

All doctors must be licensed to practice in their state. State medical licensure sets the minimum competency requirements to diagnose and treat patients, but it is not specialty specific. Board certification, on the other hand, is an indicator of a doctor’s expertise in a particular specialty or subspecialty.

To become board certified a doctor must pass a written and sometimes an oral examination administered by the member board in his or her specialty, such as family practice and pediatrics.

Several sources are available to help choose a PCP. Word of mouth and recommendations from family and friends are often reliable. Other sources are one’s health plan and local medical societies. In Massachusetts, consumers can contact the Massachusetts Board of Registration at (800) 377-0550 or go online (http://profiles.ehs.state.ma.us/ Profiles/Pages/FindAPhysician. aspx ) to examine a physician’s profile. Another source is the Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, a collation that helps consumers take an active role in making informed decisions about their health care.

The Partners recently launched a new user-friendly website (http://

healthcarecompassma.org) that enables patients to search and compare over 400 primary care doctors’ offices across the state.

Step number one is to identify a provider. It’s the second step that gets tricky and often cannot be completed until the first visit.

Ask questions. The answers will let you know if this relationship will work.

Sample questions to ask

• How long have you been in practice?

• Are you board-certified? If so, in what field of medicine?

• Do you have particular clinical interests, such as diabetes or nutrition?

• What hospital(s) are you affiliated with?

• What insurance plans do you accept?

• Do you have evening or weekend hours?

• Are you available by e-mail or text?

• Is there someone to cover for you when you are not available?

• Is the office accessible (parking, elevators or ramps)?

• Is it possible to get an appointment for urgent care?

• How long a wait is it to get an appointment?

• Can I be involved in decisions regarding my care?

There are several types of primary care providers, including doctors and nurses working under the supervision of a doctor.

Types of primary care providers • Internist – treats adults of all ages • Geriatrician – treats elderly people with complex and mul• Pediatrician – treats children tiple diseases from birth to age 18 • Family practitioner – treats the • Nurse practitioner and physician assistant – provide prientire family regardless of age mary care under the supervi• Gynecologist – treats females sion of a doctor usually of child-bearing age

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Healthy whole grain snack: Whole-wheat fruit bars Karen Miller A “healthy snack” sounds like an oxymoron. The two words seem to be on opposite ends. But that does not have to be the case. In this recipe from the American Institute for Cancer Research, whole grains are combined with dried fruit and juice for a healthy treat.

Grains are either whole or refined. Whole grains contain the entire grain seed, which is rich in fiber, vitamins, minerals and healthy oils. In refined grains, most of these healthy nutrients have been removed. This process gives the grain a finer texture and improves their shelf life, but does little — if anything — to improve or maintain one’s health.

Studies have shown that consumption of whole grains reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, high cholesterol and diabetes and improves digestive health.

Examples are brown rice, whole wheat bread or cereal, quinoa and oatmeal.

The amount of whole grains one should eat each day depends on age, gender and physical activity, and generally averages four to six servings. Visit ChooseMyPlate. gov, a website of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to determine your recommended number of servings.

Ingredients: • • • • • • • • • •

Canola oil cooking spray 1 cup quick-cooking rolled oats 1 cup whole-wheat flour 1/3 cup packed brown sugar ½ tsp. cinnamon ¼ tsp. salt ¼ tsp. baking soda 1/3 cup canola oil 5 Tbsp. apple juice, divided ½ cup apricot jam or cherry jam (use all-fruit preserves, if possible) • 1 package (7 oz.) dried apricots or dried tart cherries, chopped

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Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F 2. Spray 9 X 9-inch baking pan with cooking spray.

3. In large bowl, mix together oats, flour, sugar, cinnamon, salt and baking soda until well combined.

4. In small bowl, whisk oil and 3 tablespoons juice together and pour over oat mixture,

5.

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blending well until moist and crumbly. Reserve 3/4 cup of mixture for topping.

Press the remainder evenly into prepared pan.

In small bowl, blend jam with remaining 2 tablespoons apple juice.

Stir in dried fruit.

Spread evenly over crust.

Sprinkle reserved crumb

mixture over apricots, lightly pressing down with fingers.

9. Bake 35 minutes or until golden.

10. Cool in pan on wire rack.

11. Cut into bars. Store in air-tight container or plastic bag.

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Makes 16 bars.

Per serving (1 bar): Calories: 162 Total fat: 5 g Saturated fat: less than 1 g saturated fat Carbohydrate: 28 g Protein: 2 g protein Dietary fiber: 2 g Sodium: 63 mg

Recipe from the American Institute for Cancer Research

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BusinessNews Business group recognizes inner city entrepreneurs

Business owners from the 2014 Inner City 100 list gather at the Inner City 100 Symposium and Awards, which was held on Oct. 15–16 at the Seaport World Trade Center in South Boston. (Photo by Lauren Clines) Martin Desmarais Every year Fortune Magazine publishes a list of the nation’s 500 largest publicly owned corporations. Now, through the efforts of Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, better known as ICIC, Fortune also publishes an annual list of small businesses called the Inner City 100. Representatives from more than 300 such businesses gathered last week at Boston’s Seaport World Trade Center to celebrate and learn which companies made the list.

ICIC was founded in 1994 by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter who realized that the development of small businesses is essential for the healthy growth of the nation’s inner cities. In keeping with this principle, ICIC headquarters are located in Roxbury, a primarily black and Latino section of Boston.

The Inner City 100 list includes the fastest growing businesses as determined by revenue growth over a five-year period.

Traditionally, the awards have honored the 100 fastest-growing businesses in inner cities, regardless of industry or sector. However, ICIC changed the format this year so that the list is comprised of the 10 fastest-growing inner city businesses in 10 distinct industry sectors. The hope is to give winners further recognition among their industry peers by ranking them within specific industries.

The 10 industries highlighted are Construction; Manufacturing; Professional Services; Food and Beverage; Retail; Media and Communications; Software and Information Technology; Transportation and Logistics; Healthcare and Biotechnology; and Arts, Entertainment, Recreation and Tourism.

Business owners and other entrepreneurs attending the event came from across the country and were well representative of the Inner City 100 list, which includes winners from 23 states.

“We are in the cities and that is where we serve.

We hire the people within our community, so I think that is what makes the difference,” — Herby Duverné, Taino Consulting Group

Massachusetts was represented by Pinck & Co., a Boston-based construction firm that ranked 83 overall on the list and No. 9 in the Construction industry. The firm is headed by CEO Jennifer Pinck and had a fiveyear growth rate of 99 percent with 2013 revenue of $2.8 million.

Harvard business guru sees promise in small businesses Martin Desmarais Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter had a strong message for business owners and entrepreneurs attending the Inner City 100 Symposium last week — the business environment in the United States is showing some disturbing trends, and small businesses may be the best hope to reverse them.

Honoring 100 of the fastest-growing businesses in U.S. inner cities, Porter stressed that the Inner City 100, which is organized by the Roxbury-based Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, is a perfect example of the kinds of small businesses that can continue

to power the U.S. economy.

“Only business actually creates wealth in society,” Porter said.

“What is so exciting about this group and this day and what we are trying to do is we are really trying to see if we can invigorate that process of wealth creation in America, which traditionally has been driven fundamentally by smaller- and medium-sized businesses.”

Porter, who founded ICIC in 1994, gave a keynote presentation titled “Enhancing U.S. Competitiveness” during the second day of the Inner City 100 two-day event at the Seaport World Trade Center on Oct. 15-16.

Speaking about work he and his colleagues have done at Harvard in

The top company on the list is Fruition Partners from Chicago, which had a 2,700 percent growth rate over the last five years and $29.6 million in revenue for 2013.

The cloud-services company is tops in the Professional Services industry and is headed by CEO Marc Talluto, who also founded the firm.

Angela Tsay, CEO of Oaklandish, an apparel and accessories company based in Oakland, said this was her first time attending the Inner City 100 event. What she most enjoyed was interacting with other entrepreneurs and learning about how they got their businesses off the ground and found their market niches, she said.

Oaklandish was No. 33 overall on the Inner City 100 list — No. 1 in the retail industry — with a 337 percent growth rate over the last five years and $1.7 million in revenue in 2013.

Luis Gutierrez, president of Dream Management Inc. of Baltimore, said he relished the education and management seminars offered earlier at the two-day event and the chance to network with other inner city firms and urban entrepreneurs.

“We talk in general about business and how business is conducted in different cities and different areas,” said Gutierrez, who is originally from Nicaragua.

“This is a great opportunity for us.”

Dream Management, a transportation services company,

examining U.S. businesses, Porter highlighted his efforts to understand and improve the competitiveness of small businesses in the United States and examine how they can compete successfully in the global economy while supporting high and rising living standards for Americans.

“The bottom line is that what you are doing is probably more important to America today than it has ever been in the history of America,” Porter said. “What we have discovered about the U.S. economy just reiterates that the fundamental thing that is going to make us work or not work is what you are doing — building these businesses.”

ranked No. 39 on the list and No. 3 in the Transportation and Logistics sector, had just over 300 percent for a five-year growth rate and $5.4 million in revenue last year.

Herby Duverné, managing partner of the Boston-based Taino Porter and his fellow Harvard academics have examined U.S. competitiveness through three main questions. Does America really have a competitiveness problem? How did America get here? What should leaders do to restore U.S. competitiveness?

According to Porter, the competitiveness question is so important because when U.S. businesses are able to compete and be successful in business, particularly internationally, they are able to deliver high and rising standards of living and income to the average citizen.

“If we have businesses doing well and workers are doing poorly and are seeing their wages under fire or cannot find adequate employment we are not competitive,” Porter said. “If workers are doing really, really well, but businesses can’t compete in international markets, we are not competitive. Competitiveness in a sustainable way only occurs when you can do those things together.

Consulting Group, which specializes in security risk management, attended the event even though his company was not part of the Inner City 100 list.

“Everybody keeps saying small business is an important part of the economy, so as a small business owner I feel that it was a great event. It is about the inner city and small business, and I feel very good that we can share ideas and I can meet some colleagues that are doing the same thing,” Duverné said. “The country needs us more now than ever and, in America, once we know there is a problem we are going to solve it, so that is why I am here.”

Duverné also acknowledged the different challenges of running a business in the inner city. “The country is becoming more urban. More and more people are moving into the urban areas, so we live in the community — we are part of the community. We are not some corporate organization that is far away from where they are serving the people. We are in the cities and that is where we serve. We hire the people within our community, so I think that is what makes the difference,” he added.

The management education offerings and symposium events featured professors from Harvard Business School and executives from well-known and successful companies. The symposium focused on four major topic areas this year: Mergers and Acquisitions, Sustained Growth, Leadership and Innovation.

Some of the most popular speakers and presenters at the event included: Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter, Honest Tea President and CEO Seth Goldman and Viacom Media Networks Senior Vice President Anne Hubert.

ICIC’s Inner City 100 program has highlighted companies that have created about 76,000 new jobs. Other programs, such as its Inner City Capital Connections program, have helped lenders find investment in companies in 134 different inner cities. These companies have gone on to raise more than $1 billion in capital and create about 5,000 jobs.

When businesses can prosper and when workers can prosper — together.”

Looking back to the 1960s, Harvard has uncovered a series of trends related to business growth and the economy — most of which began around the turn of the century — that Porter repeatedly called disturbing.

These include: a substantial drop in the creation of jobs; a growth in businesses serving local U.S. markets, but no growth in businesses serving international markets; no growth in income distribution to 99 percent of the workforce; a decrease in percentage of the U.S. population participating in the workforce; a drop in the number of businesses created and a rise in the number of businesses closed; and an increasing trend in which large businesses and high-level executives are doing well, while small businesses and the average American workers are not doing as well.

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The last trend, more than any other, really concerns Porter. The Harvard report emphasizes that the U.S. economy is only doing half its job.

and disgruntled voters providing less support for pro-business policy.

He said that while the debate rages on issues such as the minimum wage or tax inversions, real business policies that could impact the growth and success of U.S. businesses are ignored.

“If we have businesses doing well and workers are doing poorly and are seeing their wages under fire or cannot find adequate employment, we are not competitive.”

— Michael Porter “We are doing the part about allowing substantial American companies to do okay in the international market, even well, but we are completely failing at retaining and improving the standard of living for the average citizen,” Porter said.

Porter cautions against thinking that government stimulus efforts or the performance of the stock market are places to look to figure out what is causing these trends.

Harvard has highlighted several factors that have fueled downward trends: the shortage of productive workers, weak consumer demand

Policy that could simplify the complexity of U.S. tax codes, streamline regulatory processes, improve logistical infrastructure, open doors to needed skilled labor from other countries and lower health-care costs for small businesses, would all have a bigger impact on the U.S. economy and the business environment than the minimum wage or tax break questions, according to Porter.

“There is a lot of simple stuff where we have just let it slide, and you know what other countries are doing? They are getting

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Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter gives a keynote talk about enhancing U.S. competitiveness during the Inner City 100 Symposium on Oct. 16. (Photo by Lauren Clines) better and better and better. If you go to China and look at the roads, look at all the infrastructure, look at the business environment, look at all the stuff that we have ignored, they are working on it. They are working on it every day,” Porter said. “I have worked with many of these countries. They have a national

strategy to improve their business environment. They work on regulations. They work on their logistical systems. They work on this stuff. They get better. What do we do? Nothing.

“Ultimately America can still be the greatest economy on the face of the earth, but unless we start moving on some of these

things then it is not going to get better,” he said. “I think many of you in this room, given who you are and what you are doing and what communities you are doing it in, you can be very influential in starting to shift and change the dialogue and the narrative about what we need to do in this country.”

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Photos from the recent Inner City 100 Awards Dinner Current and past winners

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Number one in Transportation and Logistics, Mill City Environmental from Lowell, Massachusetts, accepting its Inner City 100 Award from ICIC Founder and Chairman Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter; and ICIC President, Matthew Camp.

Imajine That from Lawrence, MA were the winner in the Arts, Entertainment and Recreation industry category.

New Haven-based Square 9 accepting the industry leader award in Software and Information Technology at the Inner City 100 Awards.

Premier Logitech CEO, Darryl Smith, accepting the Chevron Dorothy A. Terrell Community Impact Award for outstanding community impact at the 2014 Inner City 100 Awards celebration.

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BOSTON scenes AIDA Fiddlehead Theatre Company, the Resident Theatre Company of the historic Strand Theatre, celebrated the opening night performance of their rock-n-roll musical AIDA on Friday, October 17th (the show runs through October 26th). Over 100 guests attended the pre-show celebration including a large group of theater-lovers from the Massachusetts State House lead by State Representative Russell Holmes. The Strand was packed as AIDA’s superb multi-cultural cast and love story for the ages brought opening night audiences to their feet. Event photos Courtesy Fiddlehead Theatre Company/Matt McKee Photography.

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Meg Fofonoff, Producing Artistic Director of Fiddlehead Theatre Company and State Representative Paul McMurtry.

State Representative Russell Holmes and his wife Sheree.

State Representative Evandro C. Carvalho and Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson.

Meg Fofonoff, Producing Artistic Director of Fiddle head Theatre Company, State Representative Gloria L. Fox and Costume Designer Sta cy Stephens.

Fiddlehead Theatre Company’s production of AIDA - featuring Ta’Nika Gibson in the title role as “Aida”, Gene Dante as “Radames” and Christiana Rodi as “Amneris”- lit up the Strand this past weekend as audiences were transported back to ancient Egypt. AIDA is the first of three Tony-Award winning rock musicals on tap for Fiddlehead’s 2014-2015 season!

Don’t miss upcoming productions of The Wiz (February 13-22, 2015) and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar (April 24-May 3, 2015). All three shows fulfill Fiddlehead’s mission of bringing Broadway-quality theater to the Uphams Corner neighborhood. Photos Courtesy Fiddlehead Theatre Company/Matt McKee Photography

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Colette Greenstein “Dear White People, the minimum requirement of black friends to not seem racist has just been raised to two. Sorry, but your weed man Tyrone does not count,” is just one of the many funny and sly statements said by campus radio host Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) as she addresses the issue of race on campus and in her own life in the clever film, Dear White People.

Reminiscent of Spike Lee’s School Daze about black college life, Dear White People is a provocative satire on the black experience in a “post-racial” society during the age of Obama. Written, directed and produced by Justin Simien, the film follows a group of African American students (starring a cast of relatively unknown actors) as they navigate campus life at the fictional and predominately white Winchester University, while grappling with race, stereotypes and identity.

for Breakthrough Talent, Simien earned a spot on Variety’s annual “10 Directors to Watch” for his feature film debut. Prior to directing the film, Simien worked as a publicist and marketing specialist for Paramount Pictures, Focus Features and Sony Television.

Promoting the film on a nationwide college tour recently, Justin Simien was in town and spoke to the Banner about the making of Dear White People and the black experience.

What was the inspiration for Dear White People?

Justin Simien: Just my life. In particular my senior year in college having gone from the culture shock of leaving Houston, Texas for Orange County where I went to college. I was having these conversations with my other black friends about toggling, and how different we answer the phone depending on who’s calling. And, are we hanging out with this group of friends because we’re black? Are

Dear White eople satiri es on the blac experience in a post racial society. talking about this? This is all of my friends’ black experience but particularly in 2005 and 2006, the

‘DEAR WHITE PEOPLE’ CONVEYS COMPLEXITY OF RACE RELATIONS These issues are quickly pushed to the forefront when a riot breaks out on campus over an annual Halloween party’s creation of the theme “unleash your inner Negro.”

Winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Award

we hanging out with that group of friends…? Why are we keeping them separate? We were just having these really funny conversations and I was wondering, ‘Why aren’t these out there in the culture?’ Why aren’t more people

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Joseph Marcell as King Lear (Ellie Kurttz photo)

latest black TV shows and black movies didn’t really reflect us and what our generation was going through. That’s really where the beginning of it came from and also I just really loved that there was a black art house in the late ‘80s that

had reached the mainstream and it had completely evaporated by the time I was in college. I wanted to do something in that vein and that’s really where it came from.

he film is definitely reminiscent of chool Da e ’m onna it ou uc a and ollywood huf e because they were able to comment on society with humor and they were really cle er.

JS: It’s nonexistent in film that you have a black comedy that strives to be satire that strives to be social commentary. We’ll do parodies every once in a while.

You’ll have this sort of rom-com

thing but something that really strives for the art house sensibility and the art houses — that’s a weird word nowadays — but strives for that sensibility. This is a movie that intended to say something, to leave you with something to talk about in the lobby. It’s very rare to find that about black people, about black characters.

t’s easy to find that with the recent mo ie for example his s Where ea e ou which has a great cast and is a great mo ie. Why aren’t there more films li e that that represent a more rounded blac experience

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rts merson’s ing ear’ an engaging production Before Joseph Marcell became Geoffrey the butler in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, he was an actor in the Royal Shakespeare Company, of England.

Now, Marcell is playing the lead role in King Lear with a touring troupe of another revered company, Shakespeare’s Globe, of London. Presented by ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage, the production is at the Emerson/Paramount Mainstage in Boston through October 23.

Marcell keeps his Lear at a high pitch from the start in this engaging if uneven production of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy, an exploration of the human capacity for truth, loyalty and love as well as blindness, betrayal and cool, calculated destruction.

The play opens with one of the saddest scenes in English-speaking theater. Lear summons his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, and charges them to declare their love for him, promising to size their shares of his kingdom according to the magnitude of their devotion. While her older sisters secure their prizes with outsized claims, Cordelia refuses to take part. She simply affirms that hers is the love a daughter owes a father, no more and no less.

Enraged, Lear disowns her, and her suitor, the Duke of Burgundy, withdraws his offer of marriage. But the King of France, standing by, is moved by Cordelia’s honesty and asks her to become his queen.

The Earl of Kent also sees things as they are and defends Cordelia, earning Lear’s banishment. Kent then disguises himself to serve his king, who, after his older daughters turn him out, becomes homeless and goes mad in a wild storm. Meanwhile, a parallel betrayal unfolds as Edmund, the bastard son of the Earl of Gloucester, tricks his father into believing that Edgar, the earl’s legitimate heir, intends to kill him for his inheritance. At the same time, Edmund seduces Goneril, who scorns her husband, the Duke of Albany, for his conscience. Edmund also arouses Regan, while her husband, the Duke of Cornwall, joins his scheme to take over the kingdom.

Along with a fast-moving plot, intense characters and gorgeous language, Shakespeare’s tragedy, mirroring life, also has humor, including a wily Fool who taunts Lear for his follies.

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‘St. Vincent’ director finds perfect cast for first film Colette Greenstein What began as a school assignment for director Ted Melfi’s daughter eventually morphed into the story for his first feature film, titled St. Vincent. Melfi’s daughter was assigned the topic of finding a Catholic saint that

inspired her to find someone in her life that shared the same attributes. She picked St. William of Rochester, who is the Patron Saint of adopted children, and selected Melfi as the real-life version.

Led by the dream cast of Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy,

St Vincent stars Bill Murray and newcomer Jaeden Lieberher.

Naomi Watts, and newcomer Jaeden Lieberher, St. Vincent is a heartfelt, tender and at times funny story about a 12-year old boy named Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher), who develops a very unlikely and unusual friendship with his surly next door neighbor, Vincent (Murray), who has a

penchant for drinking, gambling, and a pregnant Russian prostitute named Daka (Watts).

Ted Melfi, who wrote, directed and produced the film was in town recently and spoke to the Banner about his feature debut.

Melfi always knew that he wanted Bill Murray in the role of Vincent, and was finally able to connect with the elusive actor after placing more than a dozen of calls to him on a 1-800 telephone number. According to Melfi, Murray took the role because he felt that the characters sounded like real people. Murray said to Melfi, “I can see a part of myself in this script. Anytime I can look at something and see a part of myself or feel the honesty of the script I know there’s something good in it.”

Maggie (McCarthy), who is going through an acrimonious custody battle, moves with Oliver into a new home in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn and is forced to work long hours at her new job.

She realizes early on that her only option for afterschool care for Oliver is to have Vincent look after him. Unbeknown to Maggie, Vincent brings Oliver along on his daily stops at the race track, a strip club, and the local dive bar.

In the sweet coming-of-age story, Vincent becomes a surrogate father figure and helps Oliver slowly navigate his new world, and in turn, Oliver begins to see that underneath Vincent’s gruff exterior, he’s a misunderstood man with a good heart.

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who captures your heart right from the beginning, was cast for the role after Melfi saw him in a TV commercial. After auditioning 1,600 kids across the country, Australia, the U.K., and Canada, the film was four weeks out from shooting and “we were petrified” said Melfi.

“We were like, how the hell do we start without Oliver?” After seeing Lieberher in a Hyundai commercial during Superbowl weekend, he knew he had to have him for the role of Oliver. Melfi’s instincts were correct because the young actor proved to be “just so solid, stoic, confident and assured,” says the director.

“And, I thought if anyone can stand up to Bill Murray it’s this kid,” Melfi added.

Rounding out the superb cast is the very funny Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids) as Oliver’s Catholic school teacher and priest; Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow) as a local thug who is owed money by Vincent; Scott Adsit (30 Rock) as Maggie’s ex-husband; Dario Barosso (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) as Oliver’s grade school nemesis; and Greta Lee (HBO’S Girls) as an unsympathetic bank teller.

Prior to directing St. Vincent, Melfi had directed a hundred television commercials, most notably the Budweiser “Oh My God” ad, and the infamous MTV spot “Pizza Guy,” starring porn legend Ron Jeremy. In 2004, Melfi was nominated for the Best Young Director Award at the Cannes Lions international advertising festival, and he was also honored for his work at the Clio Awards as one of SHOOT Magazine’s Top 15 New Directing Talents.

Of working with Bill Murray on his first feature, Melfi said that Murray taught him how to relax.

“He has a philosophy that just oozes from him that everything is going to work out,” Melfi said.

“Everything is going to work out in its perfect timing. It’s almost like biblical and it’s coming from him.”

Murray told Ted “you have to learn how to relax and you have to learn how to take your time.”

Melfi feels a great sense of accomplishment, having made St. Vincent.

“I’m proud of everything,” he said. “I’m proud of the work.

The actors are proud of the work. We’re proud of it. I don’t think there are many experiences where you leave and go ‘I’m so proud of that.’”

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Family and creativity fuel Marlon Wayans’ success Colette Greenstein

Following the advice of his brother, Keenen, to not sit around and wait for Hollywood, Marlon Wayans has firmly established his own identity as an actor, writer, producer, director and stand-up comedian. He’s taken the advice to heart.

“I’m always creating my own point of view,” said the actor recently by telephone.

Known for his role as ‘Marcus Copeland’ in the 2004 hit comedy White Chicks, which co-starred his brother Shawn, Marlon has a history of collaborating on projects.

He and Shawn starred as siblings in the television series The Wayans Bros., which ran from 1995-1999 on the former WB network. In 2000 and 2001, Marlon not only starred in and wrote but also produced the first two films of the Scary Movie franchise with Shawn as his co-star and Keenen as director. Their on-screen

collaboration began in 1996 when they wrote and starred in Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, a parody of black coming-of-age films like Boyz n the Hood, Menace II Society and Higher Learning.

Earlier this year, Wayans produced and starred in the parody sequel A Haunted House 2 and created and starred in the comedy competition Funniest Wins, which had an eight-episode run this past summer on TBS. The show came about as he was looking at the landscape and thought “How do I create the perfect star?” said Wayans.

“Some shows showcase just stand-up,” he said. “I wanted to work on the skill set that would diversify comedians. I was looking at the YouTube and Vine generation and I thought it would be interesting to put the old school and new school generations together.”

During the show’s run, Marlon and his brothers

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Keenen, Damon and Shawn were on a national comedy tour together for the first time.

“It was the most awesome experience ever,” Marlon said.

“I love touring with them and laughed a lot. We argued from time to time but always made up. To watch the audience have such a good time with us was awesome.”

Ever on the quest to create his own projects, Marlon recently launched his first online venture, whatthefunny.com with Randy Adams co-founder of the comedy website, FunnyOrDie.com. The site serves up comedy programming with an urban sensibility with established and emerging comedians, writers and actors.

The father of two said his son and daughter seem to be following in the family business.

“My son does impressions of people that are spot-on and my daughter is a brilliant writer,” Marlon said. “She studies Nickelodeon, watches old episodes

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and is a student of comedy.”

Next up for the multi-talented performer is more touring, building his social media, Instagram and online presence.

“I’m on them every day,” said the avid social media fan. “I never want to be broke again. I have a lot of projects and want to meet them all.”

Marlon Wayans’ stand-up tour includes performances at The Comedy Connection in East Providence, Rhode Island on Thursday, Oct. 23 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $35; www.ricomedyconnection.com; and at The Wilbur on Friday, Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Tickets: $35; www.ticketmaster.com.

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culture sort of suggests things to black people about their identities that I think are harmful.

JS: I’ve said this before, that those kinds of movies are meant to speak to the human condition. It’s unfortunate that in the marketplace movies that speak to the human condition so rarely have black characters in them or black actors or anybody black in the world. That has a subtle way of suggesting that our experiences aren’t as important and that when it comes to matters of the human condition our experiences and stories are irrelevant to that conversation. Those are the kind of more covert ways that I think

What does it mean to you when you hear about the black experience and identity?

JS: For me it’s been constantly sort of bobbing and weaving other peoples’ presumptions of me because I was never the right kind of black person. My family was Creole and so my understanding just the skin tones of blackness was already very different from what was kind of out there in the culture. My concept of blackness was just not ever the same as mainstream blackness. My mom was really into education and we

listened to pop music and then I listened to alternative music. I never was able to properly emulate. When I grew up, the sort of gangsta culture was in vogue. You had kids from really good neighborhoods walking around with a limp. I never did it right. I found I was always sort of “blacking it up and blacking it down” amongst black people and white people.

That’s just the way I came up and out in the world. So I think that’s definitely had an influence. our film seems li e it might ha e led the way for the new TV show Blackish, which talks about the same issues of what it means to be black, the black experience. Do you thin the timing of where we are right now politically is right for this con ersation JS: I think it’s in the Zeitgeist now. I started in 2005. I don’t know when the creators of Blackish started and I don’t necessarily think one has to do with the other. It’s funny how people start to think about things and it takes so long to develop these projects and it’s impossible to say. It happens in Hollywood all the time.

I feel fortunate about it. I think TV has always been a little ahead

ing ear continued from page 19 Directed by Bill Buckhurst and acted by an appealing eight-member ensemble performing 17 parts, the production meets its true aim, to draw the audience into the pleasures of live performance. The house lights remain on, the actors tell us at the outset, to replicate the daylight of Shakespeare’s open-air theater. They play vintage musical instruments and sing snatches of old folk tunes as they begin and end each act. Adding to the feeling of a traveling troupe visiting town is the versatile, rustic staging — a two-level scaffold of wood planks and billowing red curtain with a prominent patch.

Aided by sound effects, drums, and quick-change costumes in muted colors, the actors conjure their host of characters and an array of scenes that vary from castles and wild moors to a battlefield.

These costumes include the foppish hat and smock donned by Alex Mugnaioni as the Duke of Burgundy. Lean and handsome, he also plays a sly Duke of Cornwall. In one of his few missteps, the director adds a needless comic turn with his treatment of Edgar,

of the curve too, particularly on this issue, starting with the Dave Chappelle show, the Boondocks, and Key & Peele. Black satire has found a place in television. But film is sorely behind. It’s great that we had a year of black films but Meryl Streep can get an Oscar for playing anything. She doesn’t have to play a tragic role where she dies at the end or is striving at the end. I can’t wait for the time when black actors and black directors and black writers are getting awarded for important movies that have nothing to do with the tragedy of the black experience.

That’s when I think things will change a bit.

What do you hope people take away from watching this film JS: I love after-movie conversations in the lobbies. I know race will be on people’s lips. The thing that I want people to take away is, you know, ‘Who am I?’ ‘What are the ways in which I have shortchanged who I really am to get ahead in life or to meet the demands of other people?’ or ‘What are the ways that culture has sort of brainwashed me?’ That’s what I want people to talk about. ‘Isn’t it Gloucester’s loyal son. At first, Mugnaioni’s Edgar is a buffoonish scholar who trips over his books and cannot handle a sword. Only later does he gain the prowess and dignity Shakespeare wrote into the character.

Hats are also handy, as Daniel Pirrie, irresistible as the treacherous Edmund, dons a plain cap to signal his transformation into Oswald, Goneril’s amoral servant.

Pirrie is also convincing as two of the play’s good characters, the King of France, and a servant who loses his life trying to stop Cornwall and Regan from gouging out Gloucester’s eyes.

In her dual roles as Cordelia and the smart-mouthed Fool, Bethan Cullinane excels at speaking truth to power. Also strong in their parts as Cordelia’s siblings are Gwendolen Chatfield, whose Goneril is a hard-faced beauty, and Shanaya Rafaat, a saccharine but lethal Regan.

True to their classical British training, these actors bring great physical agility to their roles. Directed by Kevin McCurdy, the production’s terrific fight scenes deliver the few moments of moral vindication that Shakespeare has built into the play. It is satisfying to watch Edgar trounce Edmund,

interesting I saw myself (whether you’re black, white or whatever), in a movie that featured people of color, and I felt something about the human condition in a movie that featured people of color.’

And, ‘Maybe movies with black and brown people in them and women as the leads, maybe they do have a spot at the table.’ Those are the kinds of things that I ultimately want them to take away. a e you started thin ing about your next project?

JS: I am in Dear White People land a bit. The book is really important to me. I want people to pick it up and tell me what they think. I think the characters belong on the small screen ultimately. I’d love to continue their adventures in a different medium.

And beyond that, I’ve been writing for some time now so I have a few screenplays, and I’m writing a new one, and I’m attached to some other things. I want to keep telling people stories that leave people feeling a certain kind of way.

Dear White People opens nationwide in theaters Friday, October 24. deftly using a pole to ward off his brother’s sword.

The superb Bill Nash is a grave and sturdy Earl of Kent. In one of the play’s few scenes of cathartic comedy, the steadfast earl attacks Goneril’s amoral servant Oswald with a spectacular string of insults.

After this verbal lashing, Kent also gives Oswald a good thrashing, punishing him for disrespecting the king.

John Stahl also brings gravitas to his roles as Goneril’s justice-minded husband, the Duke of Albany, and as the Earl of Gloucester. In one of this production’s most riveting scenes, Stahl’s Gloucester and Marcell’s Lear meet on a moor in wild a storm. Two fathers who have spurned their loving children, they are mad with grief. As they cling to each another, Gloucester weeps and Lear laughs, and their voices blend into a single cry of anguish.

Here and in the devastating last scene, when Lear steps out bearing the dead Cordelia in his arms, Marcell does justice to Lear’s titanic grief.

The Shakespeare’s Globe production of “King Lear” at the Emerson/ Paramount Mainstage runs through October 23

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COMMUNITY Calendar Thursday October 23 Racism and Violence on Communities of Color In light of the events in Ferguson, MO. this summer, the Dudley, Grove Hall, and Mattapan Library Branches will be hosting a series of programs that aim to engage the community on current issues of racism and violence on communities of color through art, music, film, literature. Discussions will be led by community activists and organizations addressing these issues. Join us for this relevant and pressing discussion. 6pm, Mattapan Branch, 1350 Blue Hill Ave., Film: Fruitvale Station screening and community discussion.

Saturday October 25 Halloween Activity Festival Halloween Activity Festival for children of all ages at Roxbury’s Marcella Park (corner of Marcella and Highland Street) features pumpkin decorating, face painting, mask making, bulb planting, games, contests, and refreshments. 3-5pm. 50 cent hand stamp for all activities. Contact Hawthorne Youth and Community Center at 617-427-0613 or hyccroxbury@hotmail.com for directions and windy/rainy day location.

Sunday October 26 F. Gilbert Hills State Forest Walk Moderate walk, some hilly and rocky terrain, about 4.5 miles.

Hike to the park’s High Rock area. Meet at F. Gilbert Hills State Forest at Headquarters parking lot at 45 Mill Street in Foxboro at 1pm. The Southeast Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00 for recreational walks. This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older and there is no fee to join.

Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers are encouraged to participate. The terrain can vary: EASY (mostly level terrain), MODERATE (hilly terrain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep). Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. Occasionally, the Walking Club meets at other DCR sites or car pools to sites within the Blue Hills Reservation.

The rangers recommend wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes.

Night Song Cristi Catt directs the Night Song women’s schola, Viriditas, and guest fiddler Abigale Reisman in a program of Medieval Spanish cantigas and polyphony paired with Ladino and Hebrew songs at 7pm. The featured work in this program, “Quena Virgen ben servirà,” is the tale of a monk entranced by a bird’s song for 300 years. “Bird lover that I am,” says Catt, “this is a piece I have always wanted to do.” The verses of the story are woven among selections

from the Las Huelgas Codex, the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, traditional Sephardic songs and a Hebrew prayer for peace. Viriditas returns to the work of composer Patricia Van Ness as well, performing “Nada te turbe” (let nothing disturb you), from the writings of St Teresa of Avila. Night Song takes place at First Church Congregational, 11 Garden St., Harvard Square, Cambridge.

Donations are welcomed. Each week features a unique fusion of contemplative modal instrumental improvisations by jazz musicians blended with ancient and modern chant, punctuated by glorious polyphonic choral music from the Renaissance. Monastic in nature, Night Song is purposefully intended to be an experience that differs dramatically from daily life. Night Song offers an hour of contemplative music, providing a setting for meditation, for comfort and strength, and for moments of clarity, in the complex world we live in. Simply sit still and let beauty enfold you. Or use the experience to express your hopes and concerns for others in your life and in our sometimes troubled world. Then leave in peace.

Admission: donations welcomed.

Monday October 27 Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Oct. 27-Dec. 15: Free 8 Week Course Mondays, 5-7:30pm @ Dudley Literacy Center of the Boston Public Library (65 Warren St. Tel: 617-442-6186) Mindfulness is being aware of the present moment on purpose and without judgment. Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction is the course that over 20,000 people have taken, developed 35 years ago at the UMASS Center for Mindfulness, to manage chronic pain, anxiety, stress and depression. Participants in the 8 Week MBSR Course (adults 18 and over) will learn several forms of meditation including sitting, body scan, awareness of breathing, do gentle movement and yoga, and learn ways to take care of their health during the class and at home practicing with CDs. To register or for more information: Call Bonita Jones, MBSR Instructor, CMT at 617-445-8946 or email bbjbosma@aol.com. Funded by the Fellowes Trust Fund.

Tuesday October 28 Frankin W. Knight Lectures Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Harvard University. Nathan I. Huggins Lecture Series: Frankin W. Knight, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, The Revolutions behind the Creation of the Atlantic World — A lecture in 3 parts. Tuesday, October 28: The Caribbean and the European Encounter. Wednesday, October 29: Pathways of Exchanges.

Thursday, October 30: Legacies of Christopher Columbus. 4pm, Thompson Room, Barker Center,

12 Quincy Street, Cambridge.

Free and open to the public. A Q+A and reception will follow each talk.

Upcoming Aardvark Jazz Orchestra Election Special Aardvark continues its historic 42nd season with an election-year special at MIT’s Killian Hall. The band takes the pulse of politics and culture with selections like DeEvolution Blues, Through the Looking Glass Blues, and Keepin’ On, from the band’s latest CD Impressions (Leo Records). The social consciousness thread in jazz runs from Ellington through Mingus and on to Charlie Haden and Archie Shepp, and Aardvark has mined this important tradition for many years. Saturday, November 1 at 8pm, MIT Killian Hall, 160 Memorial Dr., Cambridge. Free admission. Information: 617 452-3205.

Blue Hills Reservation Walk Moderate walk, some hilly terrain, 4 miles. St. Moritz green dot loop. November 2. Meet at Shea Rink parking lot at 651 Willard St. in Quincy at 1pm. The Southeast Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00 for recreational walks. This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older and there is no fee to join. Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers are encouraged to participate. The terrain can vary: EASY (mostly level terrain), MODERATE (hilly terrain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep).

Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. Occasionally, the Walking Club meets at other DCR sites or car pools to sites within the Blue Hills Reservation. The rangers recommend wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes.

SOUL HIT Friday, November 7 brings us SOUL HIT is an event featuring the best live soul, jazz and funk to Cape Cod’s live music fans. SOUL HIT will take place at the International Inn & Suites, 662 Main St., Hyannis, MA. Admission is $10 and doors open at 9:30pm. SOUL HIT is for the 25+ crowd looking for more sophisticated evening out with live music by a fantastic band, The Groovalottos. Created by the Lore Music Group, a live event production collective that has been presenting live music and spoken-word event throughout Southeastern, MA since 2008.

Blue Hills Reservation Walk Moderate/difficult walk, some hills, 3 + miles. Bugbee Path to Buck Hill. Return on Doe Hollow Path. November 8. Meet at the Houghton’s Pond main parking lot at 840 Hillside St. in Milton at 1pm. The Southeast Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00 for recreational walks. This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older and there is no fee to join.

Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers are encouraged to partic-

ipate. The terrain can vary: EASY (mostly level terrain), MODERATE (hilly terrain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep). Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. Occasionally, the Walking Club meets at other DCR sites or car pools to sites within the Blue Hills Reservation.

The rangers recommend wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes.

Dog Sled Fun Run Blue Hills Reservation special event meet at Houghton’s Pond main parking lot at 840 Hillside St. in the Blue Hills Reservation in Milton. Saturday, November 22, 1-3pm. Meet a furry sled dog up close and personal! The Yankee Siberian Husky Club and the Boston Snow Dogs will host an educational presentation on dog sledding in New England.

See these canine athletes in training before the busy winter season. Demonstrations with wheeled rigs, if weather permits.

Bring cameras for a great photo opportunity. Please note: This is a demonstration only. No rides given. Please do not bring your dog to this event … it distracts the sled dogs. Thank you! This is a free program sponsored by the DCR, Blue Hills Reservation.

Department of Conservation and Recreation, Massachusetts State Parks. Call 617-698-1802 for more info.

The Magic Dreidel Performance: The Magic Dreidel: A Chanukah Celebration with The Grumbling Gryphons, Sunday, December 14, at 2pm.

The renowned traveling children’s theater group The Grumbling Gryphons with an engaging musical performance for all ages. the Yiddish Book Center, at 1021 West St., Amherst, Mass. For more information or to purchase tickets ($3-8), call 413-256-4900 or visit www.yiddishbookcenter.org/ events.

Ongoing A Misunderstanding Through November 26, The Multicultural Arts Center will be hosting an exhibition curated

by Latin Art Space presenting 11 Cuban artists in an exhibition entitled A Misunderstanding.

Each artist participating brings their own unique style to speak about one common topic, misunderstandings and perceptions of “the other” and how we can break down those barriers. The exhi-

bition opens with this piece by Ibrahim Miranda, Dumbo And The Candies, A Misunderstanding. It speaks of the perceived misunderstandings that routinely occur in our everyday lives. Choco (Eduardo Roca), considered one of Cuba’s greatest printmakers, will be one of the featured artists in A Misunderstanding. Among other techniques used to represent the idea of “a misunderstanding” are metal work, wood work, screen prints, engravings, and a plethora of mixed media. An eclectic and informative collection of pieces, this exhibition not only presents a beautiful display of work, but also a chance to open our minds to concept that is both foreign and close to home for everyone. FREE and open to the public. Regular Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10:30am-6pm. At Multicultural Arts Center, Upper Gallery 41 2nd St., Cambridge, www.multicultur alartscenter.org/galleries.

Alex Gerasev’s Short Stories Through December 2, The Multicultural Arts Center will be hosting Alex Gerasev’s exhibition Short Stories. Gerasev grew up and received his art education in Russia and is now living in Boston. The inspiration for Gerasev’s imagery comes from everyday life, watching real people in the real world, despite the whimsy they portray at first glance. It is as though you step into a fantastical world that somehow seems familiar enough to nod your head in agreement. Aside from printmaking, Gerasev also works in painting and graphic design. FREE and open to the public. Regular Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10:30am-6pm. At Multicultural Arts Center, Upper Gallery 41 2nd St., Cambridge, www.multicultur alartscenter.org/galleries.

West African Drum class Master Senegalese drummer Mamadou Lynx Ndjaye teaches all level of Djembe drumming.

T h u r s d a y s from 7:30-9pm.

English High School, 144 McBride St., Jamaica Plain. Contact: 617359-1552 Toddler Drum Circle Toddler Drum Circle series with Cornell Coley will run every Saturday during the school year. 9:30-10:30am. Songs, stories, puppets, drumming and cultural info! Ages 1–4 yrs old!

Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth St., Jamaica Plain.

Contact: Cornell Coley www.afro latin.net 617-298-1790 cc@afrola tin.net. Cost: $8, $5 for sibling.

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Some of Baker’s ideas were specific, like lifting the cap on charter schools — a move the state Senate flatly rejected last year. Others, like unleashing “the power of career and technical schools and explore the possibility of their granting associate degrees and training for careers, not jobs,” a bit less so.

Baker’s rhetoric touched on themes of inclusion and shared prosperity — not the typical fare of GOP candidates in other U.S. states.

“This is a great state,” Baker told the gathering. “It’s filled with great people from one end to the other. But there are too many folks in Massachusetts and too many places in Massachusetts that don’t feel the same vibe that exists in many of our communities. We will not be a truly great state until everybody who wants to work can, until every child when they get sent out the door in the morning gets to go to a school where they get the kind of education on which they can build a life, and where everybody lives in a community where they really do believe tomorrow’s going to be better than today.”

Conspicuously absent from his urban agenda was any mention of welfare reform — an issue that Baker has pushed aggressively in his campaign stops in white communities across the commonwealth.

Questioned by a reporter as to why he’s emphasizing a set of welfare reforms which have already been passed by the state Legislature, Baker said he wants

voters to know he will implement the reforms.

“I think it’s important to inform people that I’m going to be an enthusiastic proponent of implementing the reforms,” he said. “Look, when you’re a candidate, you make proposals on a lot of things. But it’s actually kind of exciting when a series of proposals you made actually get translated and turned into law over the course of that campaign.”

Baker’s campaigning in cities marks a departure from the traditional Republican strategy of working the party’s base in suburbs, the South Shore, the North Shore and Worcester County.

Those present at the Dorchester office opening were a mixture of black and Latino Republicans, like businessman Richard Taylor and activist Regla Gonzalez, and Democrats like political operative Clifton Braithwaite and developer Kirk Sykes.

“I think people are looking for solutions,” said Taylor, who served as state Transportation Secretary in the administration of former Gov. Bill Weld. “Have you seen another urban agenda by other candidates? Here’s a guy who’s thinking about this, who’s taken the time to ask the questions, developed an agenda and published it. We have something to hold him accountable to.”

Others in the room included Leonard Lee, Jean-Claude Sanon, Robert Lewis Jr., former state Sen. Bill Owens, former judge Joyce London Alexander Ford, David Eastmond and Darnell Williams.

Not all in the room were Baker endorsers. When Baker spoke, fewer than half those in attendance stood behind him to

Gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker chats with campaign operative Reynolds Graves and former state Transportation Secretary Richard aylor during the opening of a er’s lue ill enue office. ( anner photo)

indicate support.

Like many in the room, Williams, who heads the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts, has attended events for both Baker and Democratic gubernatorial contender Martha Coakley.

“This is about an urban agenda,” he said. “My job in the Urban League is to find solutions to urban problems.”

Republican candidates for statewide office typically garner between 3 and 5 percent of the vote in Boston’s black community.

While Baker has drawn considerable attention to his campaign making several stops in black and Latino communities in Boston, the turnout at his events was a fraction of those hosted by the Coakley campaign.

Coakley has made campaign stops in Boston and elsewhere accompanied by Gov. Deval Patrick, First Lady Michelle Obama and numerous black and Latino elected officials.

Elected officials, including state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry and Sheriff Steve Tompkins, are using their campaign offices and volunteers to support Coakley and other Democrats running for constitutional offices as part of the party’s coordinated campaign.

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and Latino communities. But the campaign is also planning to mount a ground game on Election Day, according to Hodari Cail, a political director for the Baker campaign.

“We’re in a good place,” Cail said. “People are coming out because they feel Charlie’s passion for the community. I’m excited Have no fear.

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The Lord of the universe will do all your work.

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Another debate about who teaches remedial courses — fulltime or part-time faculty, also called adjuncts — is simmering and has big budget implications.

Asked which type of instructors tend to teach the courses, Waiwaiole replied: “There’s a tremendous amount of adjuncts, but there are full-time faculty as well.”

Waiwaiole said her center’s report on part-time faculty disputed that full-time faculty, who spend more time on campus, are more engaged with students.

“We didn’t find that to be true,” Waiwaiole said. “They’re not there for the dollars. They’re very engaged in their work.”

For his part, Brown firmly argues community college trustees should insist full-time faculty teach remedial courses — even if they do not want to and costs go up.

“Students who need help in developmental math or English, we need to give them our best and brightest teaching professionals,” Brown said. “I think it makes a huge difference.”

The Community College of Baltimore County, whose Advanced Learning Program is a national model, has not resolved the debate. A mix of full-time and part-time faculty teach those remedial English courses, McKusick said.

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seeking to expand the 3-5 percent of the vote GOP candidates traditionally garner from those communities.

Baker opened an office on Blue Hill Ave. in Dorchester and held an endorsement event last week, drawing a crowd of about 50 black, Latino and Asian supporters. Coakley has made high-profile appearances in the cities, where the state’s communities of color are concentrated, but she has had to work harder for votes in the hinterlands, notes 1st Suffolk District Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry.

“She’s not going to go to a block party and dance like Baker,” Ribeiro said. “But she’s done a lot of good in the community. Baker will do more harm than good.”

The issues Coakley and her supporters in communities of color stress the importance of her campaign’s emphasis on families and children.

“We’re still working to make sure we have kids who get early education,” she said. “We have 17,000 kids in Massachusetts who are waiting for a chance for early education. We still have people in Massachusetts who have no earned sick time. We still have kids in Massachusetts who can’t afford to go to college and get the

“If you have my back for the next two-and-ahalf weeks, I will have your back for the next four years.”

— Martha Coakley

“She’s been in our communities,” Dorcena Forry said of Coakley. “But there are 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts, and she has to be in those cities as well.

That’s why a lot of the elected officials are behind Martha and are speaking on her behalf. The other candidate, he may already have part of the state locked, so now he can focus on our urban communities.”

New Bedford City Councilor Dana Ribeiro, Communities of Color Director for the Massachusetts Democratic Party, said Coakley has a more low-key approach to campaigning than Baker.

education that would allow them to get a good job. So, that’s work we can continue to do. I know how to do it. I’m excited to get started. That’s why I’m asking for everybody’s vote on Nov. 4.”

Gov. Deval Patrick says black voters should examine the issues both candidates are pushing in their campaigns before making a decision.

“I don’t accept that the black community anywhere is monolithic,” he told the Banner.

“There’s a range of views in the black community as is the case anywhere else. But I think what should be clear is that the issues in

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The premises are conveyed subject to all easements, restrictions, building and zoning laws, agreements, rights of way, and encumbrances of record to the extent in force and applicable, including without limitation a certain Notice of Activity and Use Limitation dated March 29, 2005 and recorded with the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds in Book 36794, Page 170. The premises are also conveyed subject to and with the benefit of terms and con-

Attorney General Martha Coakley speaks during a rally of Democratic Party activists in Brockton. (Banner photo) this community — issues around affordable housing, transportation, community investment — the Democrats are overwhelmingly on the right side of that, historically and today. We have a candidate who is talking about investing in universal early education, not tax cuts for businesses that don’t need them.”

Baker, who has made welfare reform a cornerstone of his campaigning in white communities, released an urban agenda at last week’s office opening in Dorchester. While that agenda made no mention of welfare reform, Baker said his administration would focus on initiatives to build more affordable housing, to lift the cap on charter schools, and provide alternatives to prison sentences for drug offenders.

Also last week, the Baker campaign blasted Coakley for

a lawsuit her office filed against Fannie Mae for the mortgage giant’s refusal to comply with a state law barring discrimination against former owners seeking to buy back homes lost to foreclosure.

While Fannie Mae refuses to sell foreclosed homes back to former owners, a Roxbury-based nonprofit headed by a Coakley campaign donor helps homeowners buy their homes back after foreclosures, which Baker campaign officials said raised questions of a conflict of interest.

In Brockton, Democratic activists spoke in support of Coakley’s lawsuit.

“When the banks got bailed out, they told us to get out, but Martha Coakley changed the dynamic,” said Bishop Henry W. Seemore, pastor of the House of Prayer #5 in Brockton.

In the end, Coakley supporters

ditions of (a) the Master Deed, (b) the Condominium Documents (as defined below), and (c) Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 183A. The Unit is shown on the Master Floor Plans of the Condominium recorded with the Master Deed and on the Unit Plan of the Unit (the “Plan”), which is attached to the Quitclaim Deed recorded with the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds in Book 43642, Page 54, and which contains a verified statement of a registered architect in the form required by the Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 183A, Sections 8 and 9.

The premises are conveyed together with (a) an undivided 2.824 percentage interest in both the common areas and facilities of the Condominium and the organization of unit owners through which the Condominium is managed and regulated, and (b) such other rights and easements appurtenant to the Unit as may be set forth in any document governing the operation of the Condominium, including, without limitation, the Master Deed, the Declaration of Trust dated as of April 1, 2005, and recorded with the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds on April 4, 2005, in Book 36794, Page 314, and any administrative rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto (all of which are hereinafter referred to as the “Condominium Documents”).

The Unit is further conveyed with the exclusive right and easement to use Parking Space No. 39 as described in the Master Deed and as shown on the Site Plan of the Condominium recorded with the Master Deed.

The Unit shall be used for residential purposes only.

Terms of sale: A deposit of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) by certified or bank check will be required to be paid by the purchaser at the time and place of sale. The balance is to be paid by certified or bank check at the office of Schofield Law Group, LLC, 29 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 700, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 within thirty (30) days from the date of sale.

Deed will be provided to purchaser for recording upon receipt in full of the purchase price. In the event of an error in this publication, the description of the premises contained in the Quitclaim Deed recorded with the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds in Book 43642, Page 54 shall control.

said, the outcome of the race hinges largely on the Democratic Party’s ability to turn out its base, including communities of color.

Brockton at-large City Councilor Moises Rodrigues says the party is ready to turn out Coakley supporters.

“It’s going to be door-to-door, one call after another,” he said.

“We’re working for the future of our state. We don’t want all the progress of the Patrick administration to be tossed aside.”

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A pre-bid meeting will be held at 485 Columbus Ave. on Wednesday, October 29 at 1:00 pm. Bids shall be evaluated on the basis of price, previous experience with similar types of construction projects, ability to perform the work in a timely manner, and reference. All bids must be delivered to the architect’s office at the above address prior to Friday, November 14, 2014, to be eligible for consideration and all of the grant-funded work must be completed by June 30, 2015.

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

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Other terms to be announced at the sale.

Notice is hereby given that the Mayor’s Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing has received the following application:

The Trustees of the Village at Cleary Square Trust, Lienholder, by their attorneys: Schofield Law Group, LLC, 29 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 700, Boston, Massachusetts 02116, (617) 557-4545.

To extend the hour of entertainment from 1:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m.

2014 Invitation to Bid Union United Methodist Church (unionboston.org), Boston, Massachusetts, the Awarding Authority, requests bids for masonry restoration and cleaning, entry door replacement, and window restoration of a portion of the church building located 485 Columbus Avenue, which is listed in the State and National Registers of Historic Places.

The project is being partially funded with a grant from the Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund through the Massachusetts Historical Commission.

All work must be performed in accordance with the documents prepared by McGinley Kalsow & Associates, Inc., Architect, 324 Broadway, Somerville, MA 02145 (Telephone: 617-625-8901) and meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. State law prohibits discrimination. Awarding this contract is subject to Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity guidelines. A copy of the bidding documents may be obtained by writing or telephoning the architect at the above address.

at: 323 Washington Street, Dorchester, MA 02121 known as: Levi’s Restaurant & Lounge the applicant is: George’s Restaurant & Lounge, Inc. manager of record is: Levi George A public hearing on this application will be held at Boston City Hall, Room 801, on Monday, November 3, 2014, at 10:00 a.m.

Anyone wishing to speak on this matter is invited to attend the hearing. Sign language interpreters are available upon reuqest. Interpretaion Services in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Haitian Creole, Cape Verdean Creole and American Sign Language may be available upon request if the request is made two weeks prior to the public hearing. Call 617-635-4165 to request an interpreter. Written comments may be made prior to the hearing by writing to: Patricia A. Malone, Esq., Director Mayor’s Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing Room 817, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA 02201 Telephone (617) 635-4165 Fax (617) 635-4174

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

Docket No. SU14C0380CA In the matter of Analis Monsanto of Mattapan, MA

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Jasmin Mendez requesting that Analis Monsanto be allowed to change her name as follows: Analis Ines Mendez

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.

The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

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

Date: October 02, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

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 12/18/2014.

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

Date: October 9, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14P2339EA

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Rosetta Williams Date of Death: 12/17/2013 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by T.C. Nebsbitt, Jr. of Powder Springs, GA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that T.C. Nebsbitt, Jr. of Powder Springs, GA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

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 11/06/2014. 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.

The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

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

Date: October 02, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14P2334EA

SUFFOLK Division

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Patsy Chapman Of Roxbury, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Alfredo Martija of Quincy, MA, Paula Zwicker of Bridgewater, MA and David Zwicker of Bridgewater, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Patsy Chapman is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Alfredo Martija of Quincy, MA, Paula Zwicker of Bridgewater, MA and David Zwicker of Bridgewater, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.

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

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 10/30/2014. 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.

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

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

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

Docket No. SU14P1247GD

Estate of Kenneth J Cronin Also known as: Kenneth Cronin Date of Death: 11/01/2013

In the matter of Charles M Singleton Of Mattapan, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person

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 11/06/2014. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this

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: October 02, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Portia P Wooten of Mattapan, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Charles M Singleton is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Portia P Wooten of Mattapan, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve Without Surety on the bond.

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

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 11/06/2014. This day is NOT a hearing date, but

Docket No. SU14P2455EA

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Janet Frazier Date of Death: 05/30/2014 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Margaret Frazier of Roxbury, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Margaret Frazier of Roxbury, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

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 11/13/2014. 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.

The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

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

Date: October 14, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

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

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

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication

A petition has been filed by Neil F Cronin of Dedham, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Neil F Cronin of Dedham, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Docket No. SU14P2326GD

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

To all interested persons:

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.

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

Docket No. SU14P2383EA Estate of Lewis I. Nixon Also Known As L. Isaac Nixon Date of Death August 2, 2014

INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Silas E. Brown of Randolph, MA a will has been admitted to informal probate. Silas E. Brown of Randolph, MA has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond.

The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but interested parties are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner.

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