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along with intensive support to help change behaviors. With expected A Chelsea-based anti-violence failures, starts and stops and relapses, program that works to re-engage participants move toward sustained, young men who have been in the non-subsidized employment. juvenile or adult justice system and In all, the program includes two move them toward education and years of intensive programming and employment has opened a new site two years of follow-up to reinforce in Boston. and sustain the behavioral and life Roca, founded in 1988, describes changes. itself as an “outcomes-driven” orBesides its Boston site, which ganization with a mission to move opened last month on Albany Street disengaged young people out of vi- near the South Bay House of Corolence, poverty and incarceration rection, Roca has Boston-area sites and into a positive life trajectory. in Chelsea, Revere, Everett and East Spanish for “rock,” Roca targets the Boston, and one in Springfield, Mass.

17-24 year-old The expanmen who are sion of Roca’s most at risk for operation into re-incarceration Boston coinor violence and cides with its pursues them selection as the doggedly to “The goal should not be sole service probring them into successful organizations, vider for Masa four-year cogsachusetts’ first nitive-behav- but successful outcomes “pay-for-sucioral program. cess” contract, for the people they “Our model announced in serve.” is built off January, 2014. people who — Tito Jackson Under such a don’t want to contract, also deal with us at known as a social the start,” said impact bond, the J o h n Wa r d , state expends senior associate no funds for a for development and policy at Roca. social program until it meets specific “We have to go after them over benchmarks over an agreed-upon and over and over. We follow them span of time. Instead, funding is put around until they trust us.” up in advance by foundations and The program begins with out- private investors. A third-party evalreach on the streets by youth workers uator measures progress toward the and the slow process of forging rela- benchmarks, and the state pays the tionships. These early stages may in- investors back when the program is volve aiding the young men in small successful. and practical ways such as providing “It’s a win-win when it comes to needed clothing and supplies, as most investment,” Ward said. “Investors are unemployed with few supports, are putting money in, and if Roca and some homeless. The middle does its job, they’re getting their stage includes pre-vocational and life money back.” skills training, GED and ESL trainMost social impact bond Roca, continued to page 8 ing, and transitional employment

Boston residents and local and national officials paid last respects to Mayor Thomas Menino at Faneuil Hall on a cold, snowy Sunday. Menino was Boston’s longest-serving mayor. (Don West photo)

Boston residents mourn death of Mayor Menino Yawu Miller Well-wishers lined the streets of Boston on Monday as the motorcade carrying former Mayor Thomas Menino’s body made its way to Hyde Park, the home turf of the city’s longest-serving mayor.

Menino left an indelible mark on the city during his 20 years in office, bringing into fruition a vision of neighborhood redevelopment that touched every corner of the city, perhaps nowhere more than in Dudley Square, where his motorcade drew out scores of spectators, many holding greenand-white campaign-style signs that read, “Thank you Mayor Menino.”

The funeral procession made its way up Warren Street to Grove Hall, and then meandered through Bowdoin Street, Mattapan Square and Roslindale Square before ending at the Most Precious Blood Church in Hyde Park.

Civic leaders, elected officials past and present and scores of former city workers who cut their teeth under the Menino administration expressed sadness at the passing of the self-described urban mechanic, who obsessed over the details of city government like no mayor before.

“Boston has lost a political giant, and Diane and I have lost a friend,” said Gov. Deval Patrick in a statement to the media. “Our

hearts and prayers go out to Angela and the whole Menino family. And we thank God for the service and the life of Tom Menino.”

From the beginning of his mayoral administration, Menino’s political fortunes were inextricably linked with Boston’s black community. It was the late Anthony Crayton, former District 7 City Councilor, who in 1993 cast the swing vote that clinched the City Council presidency for Menino, paving the way for him to become acting mayor when then-Mayor Raymond Flynn left to become ambassador to the Vatican.

In Menino’s mayoral campaign that year, it was a combination of Menino, continued to page 6

Black Boston history captured in portraits Yawu Miller

Photographer Don West celebrates the publication of his book, “Portraits of Purpose,” documenting men and women who have had a lasting impact on Boston’s politics, social movements, business and arts scenes. (Michael Hailey photo)

The function room at the Boston Public Library was filled with a Who’s Who of black Boston — past and present elected officials, bankers, artists, community activists, writers, lawyers — spanning decades of the city’s history.

The atmosphere was like a family reunion, with people from all walks of life whose lives have intersected in civil rights struggles, mayoral administrations, artistic movements and now in photographer Don West’s book, “Portraits

of Purpose.”

Not all the subjects of his photos are African American, but all are people who have in one way or another made contributions great and small to the black community in Greater Boston.

“I see you as a visionary vanguard who picked up where the Civil Rights Movement left off,” West said, addressing the gathering. “You realized that despite the advances made, it was necessary to finish the unfinished business of achieving racial equity.”

West, continued to page 12

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Mutual Insurance’s Boston office featuring Boston Mayor Martin J. In 2010, the William Monroe Walsh presenting his first School Trotter School was labeled “un- on the Move Prize, and Thomas derperforming,” the worst desig- W. Payzant, for whom the award nation in the state. In the space is named. of three years, the administrators “I congratulate the William and teachers there were able to Monroe Trotter Innovation bring their standing up to Level School on being awarded this 1, the highest designation for year’s prestigious School on the schools in Massachusetts.

Move Prize,” said Walsh. “EdVesLast week, the school was re- tors and the sponsoring organiwarded for its progress, winning zations for the Prize are bringing a $100,000 much-needed T h o m a s W. recognition Payzant School to these and on the Move other Boston Prize awarded public schools by E d Ve s - “The Trotter School is a that are worktors, a busi- fundamentally different ing hard to ness-backed improve the g r o u p n o n - place now than it was educational profit that sup- five years ago.” experience ports school students.

— Mairead Nolan for improvement We all beneinitiatives. Edfit when our Vestors awards city is home the Prize, now to such innoin its ninth year, vative schools, in partnership businesses, orwith philanthropic sponsors, as ganizations, and education leadpart of the organization’s work ers and public and private sectors accelerating positive change in work together to improve our urban schools. public schools.”

Two runners-up — Orchard Named for the civil rights acGardens Pilot K-8 School of tivist and publisher of the Boston Roxbury and Joseph J. Hurley Guardian, William Monroe TrotK-8 School in the South End — ter, the school opened its doors each received $25,000 prizes. in 1969. By the time the school The awards were presented earned its “underperforming” during a ceremony at Liberty designation in 2010, just 13

percent of the students scored proficient in English and 12 percent in math.

“The Trotter School is a fundamentally different place now than it was five years ago. We have a committed faculty, all of whom desire to teach at the Trotter and who believe that our students can successfully engage in a demanding curriculum,” said

Mairead Nolan, principal of the school, now called the William Monroe Trotter Innovation School. “Winning this year’s School on the Move Prize is extremely important to us and will serve as a constant reminder for our staff that the efforts we make matter greatly to our students’ lives and academic success.”

Nolan and Walsh emphasized the importance of teamwork in turning schools around. At the Trotter, teachers meet weekly to discuss strategies for helping individual students.

“The teachers talk about the areas they’d like their colleagues’ help in to better meet the student’s needs,” she said. “It’s really

about the teachers working together to meet the student’s need.

And underlying that is a belief system in the student’s capacity to learn.”

The Thomas W. Payzant School on the Move Prize is made possible by sponsors including Liberty Mutual Insurance — which increased the prize amounts this year for the runners-up from $10,000 to $25,000 — The Barr Foundation, Cathy and Jim Stone, the Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation, Eastern Bank, Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation, Schawbel Corporation, Simon Brothers Family Foundation, State Street Bank and Santander Bank.

(l-r) Interim BPS Superintendent John McDonough; Wendell Knox, board chair, EdVestors; Jim Stone, CEO, Plymouth Rock Assurance, prize selection panel; Mayor Martin Walsh; Trotter School Principal Mairead Nolan; Romaine Mills-Teque, Trotter School; David Long, CEO, Liberty Mutual; Laura Perille, president and CEO, EdVestors; J Keith Motley, chancellor, UMass Boston, member of the prize selection panel. (Mayor’s Office photo by Isabel Leon)

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School police dept. weighs pepper spray for officers Yawu Miller The unarmed Boston Public School Police responsible for keeping students, teachers and staff safe in the city’s schools are asking city officials to arm them with pepper spray, saying they need the non-lethal agent to better do their jobs.

But students, parents and city councilors who turned out to meetings last week are cautioning that arming the officers with the chemical agents could cause more harm than good.

During a meeting at English High School last week, Boston School Police officials acknowledged that crime has declined in the schools. In the last year there were 152 school arrests, down from 464 in the 2007-2008 school year.

“If we are already able to keep the peace without pepper spray, why do we want to introduce it now?” questioned at-large City Councilor Ayanna Pressley.

In making the case for pepper spray, school police officials related a recent incident where an officer was beaten by two men who had entered the Jeremiah E. Burke High School.

“He was bruised up pretty bad,” said Boston School Police officer Kathleen Springer.

There are 75 school police officers responsible for maintaining safety in the city’s 46

high and middle schools, as well as at sporting events and other after school activities. The officers have arrest powers and carry handcuffs are radios that enable them to communicate with each other as well as with Boston Police Dept. officers.

While the number of arrests is down, Boston School Police Chief Bill Kelly said his officers stay busy.

“In a normal school year, we can have up to 400 incidents,” Kelly said. “It can be something as simple as a fire alarm. We have assaults, we have fights, we have drugs, we have weapons.”

The students in the auditorium at English High School questioned both the proposal to use pepper spray and the process by which the school department is soliciting opinions.

“The conversation is being framed as what should the policy look like, rather than whether we should have pepper spray,” one student complained.

Pepper spray is the common name for oleoresin capsicum, an agent that is usually sprayed in a person’s eyes, inducing tearing and temporary blindness. Police use pepper spray as a non-lethal means to subdue suspects.

But Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Attorney Matt Cregor noted that pepper spray can be fatal in some cases.

“We know pepper spray can be

lethal, especially with youth who have asthma,” he said. “African American youths are 24 percent more likely to have asthma than other youths. I am concerned that in a confined space, like a hallway, if you spray one kid, you’ve sprayed five.”

Sung-Joon Pai, a teacher at Charlestown High School, pointed to a 2006 incident where a 15-year-old was arrested at the Thomas A. Edison Middle

School in Brighton after he detonated a canister of pepper spray there, forcing the school to evacuate. While there were no serious injuries, a teacher and 41 students were sent to area hospitals for treatment as a result of the discharge.

“I don’t see incidents where having pepper spray would have protected an officer,” Pai said.

School department officials will hold at least two more public meetings on the matter, according to BPS spokesman Lee McGuire. One meeting will be Thursday, Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. at the Hyde Park Education Complex.

The next will be Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. at the West Roxbury Education Complex.

The Boston School

Committee was due to be briefed on the issue at this week’s meeting Wednesday. A working group of parents, teachers and safety experts will be convened to assess the pros and cons of the issue.

There is no timeline for a decision, according to McGuire.

“This is the beginning of a very long process,” he said.

Delight in your actions; enjoy your world.

Act with utter absorption of mind and body, and without expectation.

Consider all work to be the worship of the Lord; do it for His sake alone.

— Swami Muktananda

Charlestown High School teacher Sung-Joon Pai makes a point during a discussion of a proposal to arm school police with pepper spray. (Banner photo)

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Visionaries seeking affluence for the people The Old Testament warns that “where there is no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs, 29:18). At the celebration for his 65th birthday, Ambassador Charles Stith reminded everyone of that certainty.

Stith’s prior professional incarnation as a Methodist minister inspired him to rely on gospel.

When reaching the age of 65, most Americans are about to enjoy retirement. Not so with Charles Stith. Invitations for his celebration declare that “God ain’t finished with him yet!” And Ambassador Andrew Young, the guest preacher at the October 26 service at Union United Methodist Church, confirmed that declaration with the comment that Moses was not called to divine service until the age of 80.

Stith is now director of the African Presidential Center at Boston University. The noble objective of the center which Stith founded is to provide an opportunity for former presidents of Sub-Saharan African countries to continue their public service with a commitment to democratic principles. Stith is especially qualified for that role.

As the former U.S. ambassador to Tanzania, Stith developed an extraordinary diplomatic reputation when he represented the U.S. there after the terrorist bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam.

When introducing Andrew Young, the guest preacher, to the congregation, Stith indicated that America is blessed to have two groups of founding fathers. There is George Washington and the signers of the Declaration of Independence who articulated the concept of freedom, justice and equality. And there was another group, Martin Luther King, Andrew Young, and those who battled in the Civil Rights Movement to make that vision a reality.

Most African Americans remember Andy Young as the able and top confidant of Rev. Martin Luther King. That he was, but Young also has considerable other achievements as a prominent resident of Atlanta. He was the mayor of Atlanta

for two terms and was also elected to Congress.

During the administration of Jimmie Carter he was appointed the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. In that capacity he became involved with economic development in the Caribbean and Africa.

Both Stith and Young are U.S. ambassadors, titles which they will retain for life, but as ordained ministers, they are also as the program asserts, ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20). The vision they both sustain is the blessed assurance of the economic well-being of those in this country and Africa who are presently suffering from economic privation.

As a pastor in Boston, Stith founded the Organization for a New Equality (O.N.E.) to expand economic opportunities for minorities and women. He recognized the importance of access to banks for mortgages and commercial loans.

Stith astutely focused on requiring more cooperation from banks through requirements of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).

Stith worked with the then Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig to develop more effective regulations. The COC is the regulator for federal banks. Those regulations are still in force today and are periodically opposed by conservatives.

As mayor of Atlanta, Young attracted $70 billion in private investment and helped create one million new jobs. He is now concerned about the development of Africa, the remaining underdeveloped continent. He is concerned that progress should be environmentally sound. Young predicts that Africa will one day have the world’s largest middle class.

Now that major civil rights issues have become less challenging, it is important to note that the warriors of those conflicts have now directed their attention to other matters. Clearly, the new vision is for financial sophistication and economic success in the marketplace.

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Today the city of Boston mourns together.

To any who had come to know him, it is no surprise that more than half of Boston had a direct interaction with Tom Menino. No man possessed a greater love for our City, and his dedicated life in service to Boston and her people and changed the face of the City.

With sheer determination and unmatched work ethic, he took a city that is not as big in size as we are in stature and put us on the world stage as a national leader in health care, education, innovation and the nitty gritty of executing basic city services.

He was a leader on policy issues that shaped the Boston we know today: from the environment, to youth engagement, to innovation, to crime prevention. But more than anything, he was a man of the neighborhoods.

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OPINION Ferguson’s moment to lead the movement for healthier living and learning communities As protests and media coverage in Ferguson, Missouri have simmered down since the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer, the question remains: Will the tragic death of Michael Brown spark a movement?

There’s no question that police behavior and practices, everything from use of force to brutality to racial profiling, will undergo significant review in coming months.

But the shooting of Michael Brown raises broader questions about the systems in which too many people of color in Ferguson — and across the nation — confront on a daily basis. These ecosystems — at best unhealthy and at worst racist and fatal — do not fairly extend opportunity to all of its people.

If we are painfully honest, Brown’s death triggered a predictable response that unveiled a significant amount of racial tension, frustration and hostility. But Ferguson needs more than just protestors. Like too many other American cities, Ferguson needs components that will make it a healthy living and learning community for all of its citizens.

In others words, Ferguson needs more than a moment but a movement.

A movement goes beyond a single incident and identifies the systematic problems and develops systematic solutions. Admittedly, building and sustaining a long-term movement is difficult work and requires reviewing the systematic data, asking systematic questions and presenting systematic proposals — all with the goal of helping each resident, not just a few.

Whether Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot Brown, is charged or not charged does not in of itself change the highly punitive and oppressive power structure imbedded in Ferguson that leaves the majority of its residents feeling disempowered, disengaged and isolated. That is an ecosystem ripe for massive systematic failures and human capital waste.

Even before Brown was shot, it was clear that the system in Ferguson could not pass a healthy living test for all of its citizens. Poverty afflicts nearly one in four Ferguson residents. In the city of about 21,000, 67 percent are black but the local government is virtually all white, including the mayor, the school board and the police department. In the 2013 local elections, only 11.7 percent of registered voters cast ballots; that number was six percent for eligible black voters.

Though overlooked in all the debate on police behavior, public education is a vital component in empowering communities over the long haul.

For too long efforts to improve academic achievement across the nation have used the same basic strategy: strict standards and more testing. This approach, especially in low-income areas like Ferguson, is not responsive to local needs. It ignores the powerful evidence linking the need for socio-emotional supports to academic success.

Nearly two-thirds of children in the United States are exposed to violent crime and abuse each year. Students in high violence and low-income areas face special challenges and need more supports to stay on track academically, socially and emotionally. These supports include diverse learning models, tutors, mentors, extended learning time and summer school.

These are necessary “right now” issues because being able to access education, health, government and law enforcement systems in a positive way are all necessary components of healthy living and learning communities. The key point is that there will be audits and oversight to review the facts and local, state and national leaders must also bear the responsibility for improving the overall ecosystem.

In Ferguson, the graduation rate for all students was 69.8 percent in 2010-2011, the most recent school year in which statistics were available. For blacks that number was 67.6 percent. Michael Brown was one of them. Just eight days before his tragic death, he had completed an alternative education program from Normandy High. He was enrolled as a freshman at Vatterott College, a technical school where he wanted to learn about heating and cooling systems. He told some of his friends that one day he wanted to start his own business.

He didn’t get that chance. During Brown’s funeral service, the question was asked whether the tumultuous days after his death were part of a fit or a movement. “A fit is when you get mad and run out for a couple of nights,” the speaker explained. “But a movement means we’ve got to be here for the long haul, and turn …our demonstrations into legislation.”

A good first step toward a movement could be as simple as changing the dates of local elections. As it is now, city elections are held in April in odd-number years. But state and federal elections are held in November in even numbered years. Without the attraction of state and federal candidates, local turnout is low.

With that small step, the system in Ferguson can be changed — and a movement given life.

It’s up to the people in Ferguson — with the help of national leadership — to determine whether they will have a short-term fit or a long-term movement. It’s up to advocates across the nation to turn other American “Ferguson-like” ecosystems to more healthy living and learning climates.

John Jackson is CEO and President of the Schott Foundation for Public Education.

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What do you think was Mayor Thomas Menino’s legacy?

I think his greatest achievement was improving services in every single neighborhood. He was very inclusive. He made sure he helped the people.

Bringing the neighborhoods together and making sure that everyone was included, no matter what your difference was.

Development of the whole city of Boston, in particular, Dudley Square, Blue Hill Avenue and Grove Hall.

Project Director Roxbury

Jeff Ross

Ward 9 Chairman Roxbury

Tito Jackson

Being mayor for 20 years. That’s an achievement in and of itself. Obviously the voters spoke.

His lasting legacy was that he practiced the politics of inclusion more than any administration before. He involved all the neighborhoods in the city.

One of the greatest things he was able to do was to create decent housing for low income people.

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Rob Consalvo

Former Hyde Park City Councilor Rob Consalvo has been appointed Deputy Director for Homeownership Programs for the city’s Department of Neighborhood Development.

In this position, Consalvo will oversee the management and operations of the Boston Home Center, which plays a significant role in the execution of the City’s housing policy, helping Bostonians obtain, retain, and maintain their homes.

“I am very excited to return to city government to be of service to the people of Boston,” Consalvo said. “I look forward to working with Mayor Walsh, Chief Dillon and DND’s staff to increase the opportunities for homeownership in the City of Boston, and to help Mayor Walsh achieve his housing goals for our city.”

In his position, Consalvo will oversee a staff of 37 employees and manage a divisional budget of $11 million.

The Boston Home Center is charged with creating programs to

help Boston homebuyers buy a home in Boston, and assisting existing homeowners with home maintenance issues. These programs include first-time homebuyer education; down payment and closing cost assistance to first-time homebuyers; lead paint abatement for housing units in Boston; and home repair programs for senior citizens.

The Boston Home Center also oversees City programs that assist homeowners with avoiding foreclosure, and works to enhance the City’s relationships with banks, mortgage companies, and non-profits to promote City programs and coordinate homeownership opportunities.

Consalvo served as a Boston City

Councilor from 2002 – 2013, during which time he represented a district of 67,000 constituents. He chaired the City Council’s Committee on Housing, and served as a trustee of the City of Boston’s Neighborhood Housing Trust. The Trust is responsible for allocating funds for affordable housing in Boston as part of the City’s Linkage Program.

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black, Latino and liberal white voters in the center of the city that put him in office — not the traditional voter-rich strongholds of South Boston, West Roxbury and Charlestown. Menino had a sometimes rocky relationship with many of the city’s black elected officials serving in the City Council and State House, but he could consistently rely on super-high support from black voters every four years, often earning more than 80 percent of the black vote.

One way Menino earned that popularity was by simply showing up. He was ubiquitous at community events, held walk-throughs in neighborhood business districts and attended to the physical needs of each Boston neighborhood with an obsessive eye for detail. It was that focus on potholes, trash collection and snow removal that earned him the title, the Urban Mechanic.

Another way Menino gained popularity in the black community was his focus on urban redevelopment, including a campaign promise to rebuild Blue Hill Avenue between Dudley Street and Grove Hall, a promise that supporters say he kept.

He also trained his administration’s attention on Dudley Square, directing millions of dollars in federal funds to projects ranging from the redevelopment of the former Boys and Girls Club to the soon-to-open new Boston Public Schools headquarters in the long-vacant Ferdinand’s furniture store.

In City Hall, a generation of black, Latino and Asian public servants cut their teeth working in Menino’s administration.

“He created a whole cadre of politicians,” said State Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez, who served as Menino’s liaison to the Latino community before running for and winning election in the 15th Suffolk District House seat, which includes Mission Hill, parts of Jamaica Plain and a section of Brookline.

“He mentored me from day one and never stopped. He’d call me

up when he’d read about something I did. He’d give me a hard time because he thought I could have done something better or tell me he was happy with what I’d done. He’d always remind you that it was never about you. It’s about the people.”

Victoria Williams, a 37-year veteran of City Hall who headed the office of Fair Housing and Civil Rights under Menino said he was always supportive of her work.

“Tom Menino had a very strong belief that everyone should have access to opportunity and that people should not be discriminated against,” she said.

Like many, Williams said Menino was always there for her during trying times. When her mother passed away ten years ago, Menino came to the wake.

“I was surprised the next day when he came to the funeral,” she recalled. “When Reverend Borders called him up, [Menino] said, ‘Vicky not only works for me. She’s my friend. I know what it’s like to lose your mother. I lost mine.’ He spoke from the heart.”

Menino’s relationship with blacks wasn’t always easy. Neighborhood activists often clashed with the mayor over development projects that were seen as impositions on the community rather than the product of community-based planning. And his endorsements of candidates for office rarely matched the political aspirations blacks expressed at the ballot box.

But among the voters, elected officials and community activists there was always a deep respect for the mayor whose unrelenting attention to the minute details of city government indicated a profound love for the city of Boston and its people.

“Mayor Menino left Boston a better place after more than twenty years of dedicated service to the city he loved so much,” said state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry in a statement. “Through his passion, work ethic and huge heart, Mayor Menino exemplified what it means to be from Boston.

Thank you Mayor Menino. Rest in Peace, my friend.”

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Menino cuts the ribbon at the Davenport Commons development, which includes affordable housing units and housing for Northeastern University students. (Craig Bailey photo)

Menino left lasting legacy of neighborhood revitalization Yawu Miller When he was on the campaign trail back in 1993, then-acting Mayor Thomas Menino made a promise that caught the attention of many in the black community. Menino said he would focus city resources on rebuilding Blue Hill Avenue, then a major thoroughfare strewn with vacant lots and abandoned buildings.

That promise may have been a major factor in Menino’s lock on the black vote in that 1993 election.

And his steady progress on the corridor from Grove Hall to Dudley Street won him many supporters in the following years. It also served as a blueprint for the Menino administration’s focus on neighborhood development.

The mayoral administrations that preceded Menino’s — Ray Flynn, Kevin White, John Collins — focused on downtown development, while outlying areas like Roxbury suffered through Urban Renewal land clearances followed by decades of neglect.

On the section of Blue Hill Avenue between Grove Hall and Dudley Street, the years of disinvestment were showing. Once elected, Menino rolled up his sleeves and got to work.

“He kept his word,” said Project RIGHT Executive Director Jorge Martinez. “We still have a lot of work

to do, but he brought in a whole lot of city resources.”

The Grove Hall Mecca Mall, a new library and an early education center sprang up on Blue Hill Avenue, along with new housing units and commercial spaces.

Nowhere was the Menino administration’s focus on neighborhood redevelopment more evident than in Dudley Square, where the redevelopment of the Ferdinand Building as the new headquarters for the school department redefined the Roxbury skyline. That project preserved the limestone and brick facades of the Ferdinand and several adjacent buildings while a new brick and granite-faced structure was built linking the historic buildings.

The ground floor commercial spaces and the influx of hundreds of city workers are expected to add new vitality to Roxbury’s commercial hub when the building opens in 2015.

Other large buildings, including the former Roxbury Boys Club, Palladio Hall and the Dartmouth Hotel were redeveloped with significant public investment.

Menino’s development plans for Roxbury weren’t always met with enthusiasm. Things got off to a rocky start in the mid-1990s when several development projects in Lower Roxbury were greenlighted by City Hall with little or no community review, including the Harry Miller

Menino was ubiquitous at community events.

manufacturing plant on Melnea Cass Boulevard.

Things came to a head in 1998, when the Menino administration backed the proposed construction of a Northeastern University student housing building on Tremont Street in Lower Roxbury over the vociferous opposition of community groups and local black elected officials. The

project was to be built on publicly-owned land the city acquired and cleared in the early ’70s with funding from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

A coalition of Roxbury elected officials, abutters and activists demanded that Northeastern include affordable housing for neighborhood residents in the development.

Northeastern officials refused to negotiate and the Menino administration sided with the university.

Ultimately, local activists and elected officials turned to HUD, filing a complaint that the Menino administration did not afford Roxbury residents the same level of public review of development projects it gave white communities.

When HUD officials threatened to cut off the city’s federal funding, Menino agreed to incorporate affordable housing units in the Northeastern project and follow strict guidelines for neighborhood review of the sale of publicly-owned land.

“It was a big turning point,” said state Rep. Byron Rushing, who filed the HUD complaint. “I think at that point, Menino decided he was listening to the wrong people about neighborhood development.”

Menino’s relations with black elected officials, including former state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, former City Councilor Chuck Turner and state Rep. Gloria Fox, warmed after that point. The Boston Redevelopment Authority began undertaking the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan process, involving elected official and neighborhood residents in a community-driven blueprint for the development of publicly-owned land in the area.

“There was nothing like the Northeastern project again,” Rushing noted.

Of course Menino’s focus on neighborhood development was not limited to Roxbury. Across the city, new libraries were built, schools were built and renovated and parks were refurbished. In Mattapan, a long-neglected corner of the city, the Mildred Avenue School and community center were built and a new library opened its doors on Blue Hill Avenue.

“He was always into community development and empowerment,” Rep. Fox said. “He worked with elected officials and community groups to make sure things happened. I’m not saying there weren’t disagreements at times. But we were able to work things out.”

Menino did not neglect Downtown Boston. He vigorously advocated for the redevelopment of the former Filene’s building and his administration presided over the building boom on the South Boston waterfront. Menino also cut deals with developers of luxury condos in Downtown Crossing and Chinatown, much to the chagrin of the predominantly low-income residents there who are being squeezed out by sky-high real estate values.

As much as his administration left its imprint on Downtown Boston, Menino may well be remembered most for his investments in the neighborhoods. Especially Roxbury.

“There’s been no mayor who’s spent more time in Roxbury,” Rushing said. “He wasn’t just shaking hands. He was shoveling dirt.

He wanted ribbon cuttings and groundbreakings.”

Top: Menino reviews a model of sculptor Fern Cunningham’s Harriet Tubman monument, soon to be installed in the South End. (Banner file photo) Bottom: Menino cuts the ribbon at the renovated Emerson School yard on Dudley Street. Among those looking on are then-DSNI Executive Director John Barros (left) and then-Department of Neighborhood Development Director Charlotte Golar Richie (right). (Banner photo)

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programs have goals that can be measured in terms of government money saved. In this case, Roca promises that its work will result in fewer jail-bed nights. Roca projects that in five years, its work with some 900 high-risk teens and men in Massachusetts will prevent 248 incarcerations, a 45 percent reduction compared to what would happen without Roca’s intervention.

A host of funders have contributed $18 million in private financing for the project: $9 million from the Goldman Sachs Social Impact Fund; $1.5 million from The Kresge Foundation; $1.5 million from Living Cities, and $6 million total in grants from Laura and John Arnold Foundation, New Profit, and The Boston

Foundation. Starting in year three, the Commonwealth will release funds to pay back investors if various benchmarks are met, primarily non-incarceration of a Roca high-

The evaluation will be led by Dr. Lisa Sanbonmatsu, a Cambridge policy researcher. Her organization Sibalytics will track the outcomes of men in Roca’s program compared to

“Our model is built off people who don’t want to deal with us at the start. We have to go after them over and over and over. We follow them around until they trust us.”

— John Ward risk client for two full years.

If the pilot phase is ultimately proven successful, the U.S. Dept. of Labor will throw in an additional $11.7 million for an extension of the project.

a control group of other high-risk men. Cambridge-based Third Sector Capital functions as the intermediary for this initiative and several others around the nation.

According to a case study

prepared by Third Sector, Roca had helped more than 17,000 young people transform their lives over two decades and had worked to refine and measure its intervention model.

In the years leading up to its selection for the pay-for-success project, Roca “engaged in a systemic cycle of research, design, action, tracking data, and use of data for continuous improvement,” defined its target population clearly and showed an ability to scale up and replicate its programs beyond the initial Chelsea site.

The initiative will allow Roca to serve an additional 927 individuals in Massachusetts — including about 300 in its Boston site — and is projected to reduce the number of incarcerations among that group to 180 from 540 that would be expected. Third Sector estimates a net savings to the state government of at least $9.4 million after reimbursing

the pay-for-service investors.

In Roca’s Chelsea-area work, about 70 percent of participants are Latino, Ward estimated, while the Boston site will serve roughly a 50-50 mix of African American and Latino men.

Roca joins a host of other organizations already working in Boston to keep or move teens away from violence and toward success.

District 7 City Councilor Tito Jackson said he sees Roca as having an additive effect rather than diminishing any existing effort.

“The work is immense. Truly engaging young men and putting them on a path to success is a critical goal of Roca and a lot of other organizations,” he said. “The goal should not be successful organizations, but successful outcomes for the people they serve.”

Jackson recently spearheaded the creation of a multi-agency city commission on the status of black and Latino boys and men in Boston.

He noted that 60 percent of Boston’s males under age 19 are black and Latino, and that most are not in gangs. True success, in his view, is not about getting out of gangs, but getting a positive start.

“It’s about success from cradle to career, thinking about education and career tracks and also health and wellness and the ability to take care of a family,” Jackson said. “We know the achievement gap starts at age 1. It is critical that children are in safe and stable homes and getting early education and mentorship and support.”

Roca staff said they have met with Boston nonprofits, religious leaders and local elected officials when planning for the Boston site opening, both to learn about resources other organizations offer and learn about the Boston landscape.

“When you go into a new location, people are concerned with being able to maintain the services they’ve been providing,” Ward said.

“But we’ve been really pleased with the reception we’ve gotten.”

Roca Boston Assistant Director Tha Thai said these conversations also helped Roca staff learn about the community, including what locations were “neutral territory” for city youth from different neighborhoods and housing developments.

Travis McCready, vice president of programs at The Boston Foundation, said that while TBF’s funding of the Roca pilot, $300,000 over three years, is not to the exclusion of other anti-violence initiatives, Roca’s model is a very important one, as is StreetSafe Boston, TBF’s own anti-violence program.

“There are a lot of organizations in this [anti-violence] space,” McCready said. “What makes Roca and StreetSafe very different is they are not attempting to intervene in violence generally — they look to identify the young men at greatest risk.

Very few organizations are trained or have the desire to work with this group.

“Roca is the premiere not-forprofit organization operating in this space,” he added. “They have a very robust data-driven, time-tested and stress-tested intervention for helping our young men not return to prison and obtain gainful employment.

They are known across the nation for their intervention.”

The Roca initiative is the state’s first foray into the pay-for-success model, and plans are in the works for at least one more, focusing on chronic homelessness.

McCready, for one, is eager to see the pay-for-success model expand.

“It’s an interesting model for doing what we in philanthropy attempt to do, but simply don’t have the capital to do — to scale up those organizations that are working,” he said.

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Ensuring that young people have a meaningful first professional work experience is important. Through these first experiences, a new workforce is shaped. Partners HealthCare understands the importance of developing the workforce of the next generation, which is why they have collaborated with the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers to support the health center-based Community HealthCorps program.

Through the Community HealthCorps program high school or high school equivalent students and recent college graduates, along with veterans who recently joined the program, are given the opportunity to work in community health centers throughout the area for one year. During this year, members work with health center staff on a variety of projects.

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Janice plays an essential role in the HealthCorps program acting as the program director, working tirelessly to ensure that all HealthCorps members are getting the most out of their experience. Janice not only supports members in their work at community health centers, but also carves out additional

time for members to get together and connect over both their shared and different experiences. Through these meetings, members have the opportunity to expand their knowledge about life in community health centers and grow in their understanding of how each health center is unique.

“Many of the members are in their first year out of college and it is amazing to watch them transform over the course of their first year-long professional experience.

There is so much growth and learning being done by everyone,” says Janice.

Many members enter the program with a desire to pursue some sort of health care career. But many come away from the year with new and better ideas about what direction to go in the health care field.

Within the community health centers, members get to work with doctors, nurses, social workers, educators and many more that all play an equally essential role in the provision of patient care.

“The Community HealthCorps

program is not only about giving young people meaningful work experiences, but also helps to instill the importance of expanding one’s horizons when considering career paths,” says James W. Hunt, Jr., President and CEO of the League.

A real exposure to what different kinds of work look and feel like can help an individual make an educated decision that can help set them on the right path.

Katherine Torres, a recent graduate of the HealthCorps program spent a year at Union Street Health Center in Somerville and calls the experience eye-opening.

“When I started my work as a member I was sure I wanted to pursue public health,” says Katherine. “Now that I have worked in a community health center, I’ve reconsidered how I can contribute to the health care field because there are so many ways to do so. I finished my HealthCorps chapter and am now pursuing a degree in nursing.”

The need for a strong health care workforce only continues to grow, which reinforces the value of programs like HealthCorps. By 2018, total employment in health care in the nation is projected to be 19.8 million.

“There is a great need for health care workers in our area, particularly in local community health centers,” says Matt Fishman, Vice President of Partners Community Health. “The Community HealthCorps members are providing much needed support to these health centers, while also doing important learning about their own career paths. We are excited about the contributions they are making to the health care workforce and look forward to watching for their future contributions as well.”

The Community HealthCorps program is a part of Corporation for National and Community Service AmeriCorps programs.

The 2014-2015 class of Community HealthCorps members along with director Janice Brathwaite, pictured here at the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers.

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Hearing to address lax bank regulation A U.S. Senate subcommittee will hold a hearing Nov. 21 on issues of regulatory capture following stories by ProPublica and This American Life about secret recordings made by an examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who chairs the panel’s Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection subcommittee, announced the hearing in October.

Witnesses have not been named. In a statement, Johnson said the ProPublica and This American Life reports “are troubling because they raise new questions about regulators being captured by the financial institutions they regulate.”

The examiner, Carmen Segarra, secretly recorded approximately 46 hours of meetings with colleagues at the New York Fed and executives from Goldman Sachs as she examined Goldman’s policies, particularly those relating to conflicts of interest. She was fired after seven months on the job.

The recordings show regulators’ reluctance to push Goldman too hard for information and the New York Fed’s struggles to beef up its supervision of some of the nation’s biggest banks.

Segarra was dismissed after resisting pressure from higher-ups to change her conclusion that Goldman’s policies were insufficient.

Since the financial crisis of 2008, the New York Fed has received new responsibility for supervising Wall Street’s biggest and riskiest financial institutions.

That is despite an internal confidential report in 2009 that concluded that the New York Fed was too deferential to the institutions it oversaw and had a culture in which examiners feared speaking out.

The New York Fed has said Segarra was fired for performance reasons alone and issued a statement defending its record of bank oversight.

Brown, whose subcommittee will hold the hearings, told ProPublica in an interview earlier this month that while he believes the New York Fed and other financial regulators have taken some steps to improve their supervision of Wall Street, Segarra’s recordings make clear that more oversight is needed.

“It kind of emphasizes what we have thought all along, that the regulators are too cozy toward the industry they are meant to police,” said Brown.

(ProPublica)

A CONVERSATION WITH

DR. ALVEDA KING Niece of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Date: Saturday, November 8, 2014 Time: 1:00 p.m.

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COME and HEAR

Dr. King discuss the pro-life movement both from her personal experience and as the Director of African American outreach for the Gospel of Life Ministries.

At Massachusetts Advocates for Children’s event “Let’s Celebrate,” Dr. Katherine Butler Jones (center) received the organization’s 2014 award from Executive Director Jerry Mogul (left) and Kim Janey (right), Mass Advocates’ senior project director for Boston School Reform. (Randy H. Goodman photo)

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The product of more than 30 years of portraiture, West’s book is as much about Boston’s black community as it is about the individuals appearing in the blackand-white photographs that populate its pages. In some portraits, the subjects are posed. In most, they’re caught in candid moments.

In all, the subjects are presented in the environment in which they function — amid the protests, celebrations and news events that defined their roles in Boston’s history in the last 30 years.

“It’s a family book, in a sense, because this is a family,” said Roxbury artist Napoleon Jones-Henderson. “Don’s somebody who has a relationship with everybody who’s in the book. He’s always been about the business of capturing people.”

as official photographer during his 1990 visit to Boston, smiles broadly as if savoring the victory achieved through decades of struggle.

Nation of Islam Minister Don Muhammad, caught in midspeech, jabs his fingers at the camera, a portrait of the sect’s founder, Elijah Muhammad, looming in the background. The late artist Jim Reed strikes a pensive pose while resting his cheek on a hand clutching a collection of brushes. Like West, Reed captured decades of black Boston history great and small in his portraits, one of which is just out of focus in the background of West’s photo.

Photographer Hakim Raquib, who printed many of the photographs for West, said he sees an evolution of West’s style in the collection.

“His vision became more introspective,” Raquib said. “He waits for the moment when you get the

“My approach, fundamentally, in anything that I do, is trying to capture the essence or the truth of a person or a situation. I try to capture some central value or emotion.”

— Don West

(top) Journalist Kenneth Cooper and photographer Don West sign copies of “Portraits of Purpose.” (Michael Hailey photo) (bottom) Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree speaks during Don West’s book signing event. (Randy Goodman photo)

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The roots of West’s photographic style extend to his days as a press photographer, initially for United Press International.

“When we would go out on assignments we would have to come back with at least one picture that would capture the whole story,” West said. “That taught me how to assess a situation with an eye toward how to put a picture together.”

As a staff photographer for the Banner in the 1980s, West documented the movements, struggles and successes of the black community. Many of the photographs in Portraits of Purpose were culled from West’s work in that era.

The depictions of his subjects are informed by his journalistic sensibilities.

“My approach, fundamentally, in anything that I do, is trying to capture the essence or the truth of a person or a situation,” West told the Banner. “I try to capture some central value or emotion.”

That approach, according to Jones-Henderson, give’s West’s work a unique style.

“His work is distinctive,” he said. “You take him, [photographers] Lou Jones, Hakim Raquib — each of them, when you see their work, you know it. Don has made a career documenting the people of the community.”

African National Congress activist Themba Vilakazi, who helped coordinate local efforts to divest city investments in companies doing business in South Africa, is featured in a pre-1990 photo, wearing a “Free South Africa” T-shirt, a telephone receiver pressed to his ear. Former South African President Nelson Mandela, for whom West served

story that’s in the subject’s eyes.

There’s a lot to that. What’s he’s done is amazing. This is something he’s worked on for a long time. To see it come to fruition is beautiful.”

West first displayed the collection of portraits at the Museum of African American History in 1998. He collaborated with his wife, Libbie Shufro, who helped him select the photos from his extensive collection. After the exhibit, the idea of a book began to germinate.

Last year, West collaborated with Eastern Bank to produce the book. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Kenneth Cooper worked with West to write the text for the images. Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree provided the forward.

Last week, dozens of Bostonians were present to celebrate the completion of a major milestone in West’s career, and what many saw as a major event in the black community’s artistic, cultural and political life.

“Sometimes you work on something for what seems like a lifetime,” said Edmund Barry Gaither, director and curator of the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists.

“Tonight is a celebration of getting somebody to the finish of something you can hold up and share back. And it feels great.”

West said he was gratified by the outpouring of support last week.

“I’ve known all these people for so long,” he said. “To see all these people there in the same room at the same time — it was a joyous experience. I appreciated that they were there to support this project.”

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Patrick highlights state’s clean energy innovation

Furthering his administration’s commitment to supporting the clean energy industry in Massachusetts, Governor Deval Patrick last week announced $2.5 million in funding opportunities for clean energy companies across the Commonwealth and highlighted a new partnership agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Project Agency – Energy (ARPA-E).The agreement will increase support for the research,

development, demonstration and deployment of clean energy technologies in the Commonwealth.

“The challenges of climate change, energy sourcing and cost containment are ripe for the solutions our innovative culture can deliver,” Patrick said. “We have shown that we can build a clean energy future and simultaneously grow jobs and prosperity for the people of the Commonwealth.”

Patrick made these announcements at Forum 20/20, an event

New England Patriots’ wide receiver Danny Amendola visited Taylor Elementary School last week to promote children’s literacy development through his Catches for Kids Foundation initiatives. As part of the “Big Cheese Reads” program, a sponsorship initiative of Boston Partners in Education, Amendola read a short passage from Let’s Go to the Videotape by Dan Gutman to the fifth-grade class.

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During the conference, MassCEC signed the partnership agreement with the Advanced Research Project Agency to increase research and expand commercialization of clean energy technologies. Of the total funding opportunities announced, $900,000 will be available for AmplifyMass, a new matching grant program for early-stage clean technology research projects that receive federal funding.

“This partnership is an exciting step forward between our organizations to foster the growth of advanced energy technologies across the United States,” said ARPA-E Acting Director Dr. Cheryl Martin. “In joining together, ARPA-E and MassCEC will further push the boundaries of innovation by collaborating in the research and development of groundbreaking energy technologies.”

Additionally, MassCEC’s InnovateMass program is making $1.4 million available for the support of demonstration projects featuring promising technologies and products that can have a significant impact on meeting the Commonwealth’s energy and environmental challenges.

“Meeting the Commonwealth’s ambitious climate and energy goals will require innovative solutions,” said Energy and Environmental Secretary Maeve Vallely Bartlett, who chairs MassCEC’s Board of Directors.

“These programs allow innovative entrepreneurs to research and demonstrate the commercial viability of their promising technologies and help to foster the Massachusetts innovation ecosystem.”

Patrick also announced that the Catalyst program, funded

by MassCEC and administered by the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC), is providing $200,000 in support of Massachusetts entrepreneurs and researchers to advance clean technology innovation.

“By working together with the federal ARPA-E program, we can help ensure the most promising technologies coming out of the Commonwealth’s startups and research institutions can continue along the path towards commercialization,” said MassCEC CEO Alicia Barton.

“The funding provided through MassCEC’s Catalyst program really helps entrepreneurs at very early stage companies and researchers at Massachusetts universities show the commercial viability of their technologies” said MTTC Director Abi Barrow. “We’re pleased to partner with MassCEC to distribute these important grant awards to

move these very early projects forward.”

Since 2010, MassCEC has provided $2 million in matching funds to seven Massachusetts-based ARPA-E awardees, companies that have gone on to raise more than $200 million in additional funding and hire more than 280 employees.

Walsh launches regional climate preparedness effort Last week, on the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the City of Boston will be convening a regional summit to better prepare Greater Boston for the impacts of climate change.

The announcement also marked the kickoff of an international design competition focused on climate preparedness, as well as an update of the City of Boston’s ongoing climate efforts.

“There is no issue more urgent than climate action. When we work together, the steps we take do more than protect us: they can bring us closer together, they can create good jobs, they can improve our health, our public space, and our civic life,” Walsh said. “I look forward to working closely with the MAPC, the Metro Mayor’s Coalition, and the Commonwealth on this critical issue.”

The half-day summit, which will be held at the University of Massachusetts Boston next spring, is a first-of-its-kind convening on regional climate preparedness and will establish a mechanism for coordination of regional, cross-government action going forward. It will include regional and state agencies such as MassPort, MassDOT, and the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, as well as Mayors from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council’s Metro Mayor’s Coalition. The Metro Mayor’s Coalition includes Boston, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Melrose, Medford, Quincy, Revere, Somerville, Brookline, Winthrop, and Braintree.

“Our cities share infrastructure, our residents cross borders every day between work and home, and our natural resources — rivers, wildlife, coastlines—intersect our region. We are one region and neither the Atlantic Ocean nor the weather will respect municipal boundaries,” said Somerville Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone. “We will be more resilient when we share common principles and work toward shared goals. This summit news briefs, continued to page 17

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BusinessNews NAACP’s Lean In series inspires young professionals

Women’s Empowerment Series leadership team: Shirma Pierre, Women In NAACP Committee chair; Roxanne Longoria, NAACP Young Adult Committee chair; Denise Kaigler, senior vice president of corporate affairs and communications at Boston Scientific; and Alison Brown, NAACP Young Adult Committee community and civic engagement coordinator. (Photo courtesy of Boston NAACP)

Martin Desmarais Ask any successful businessmen or businesswomen about their achievements and they will often give credit to some mentor or inspirational role model they met when they were young professionals. Volunteers with the NAACP Boston Branch hoped

to jump-start such inspiration recently with its Lean In series.

By all accounts, they hit the nail right on the head — the response has already caused them to expand the effort.

“We have received so much positive feedback and it is just obvious the need is there,” said NAACP Young Adult Committee

Chair Roxanne Longoria. “So far we have followed up with four other events based on what was supposed to be a three-part series.”

The Lean In series started last May and is aimed at providing young professional women of color with information and insight to help them with their

careers, maintain work-life balance and avoid the personal and professional pitfalls often faced by women.

Organizers figured they had a shoo-in way to do so in bringing successful women of color to speak to groups of young professionals. The move gives them a leg-up on finding that inspiration that is so highly recalled by veteran businesspeople.

The series began with a talk

by Denise Kaigler, senior vice president of corporate affairs and communication at Boston Scientific, on May 20 about navigating your professional career. Juliette Mayers, Blue Cross Blue Shield marketing executive and author of “A Black Woman’s Guide to Networking,” spoke about personal branding and networking on June 24. Teri Williams, president and chief operating officer of OneUnited Bank, spoke on Aug. 20 about financial literacy and entrepreneurship.

The next event in the series is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Nov. 13 at VLora Bar & Restaurant on Boylston Street in Boston. Dr. Myechia Minter-Jordan, president and CEO of the Dimock Center, will discuss health-related topics and examine health disparities in communities of color.

Minter-Jordan’s talk extends the series even further and will set the stage for future talks based on feedback from attendees. Over 250 people have attended the events so far.

The first sign of success came after the initial event with Boston Scientific’s Kaigler when those who listened to her talk asked if she could do some additional appearances. Kaigler agreed and

the NAACP set up a Professional Guidance Workshop series that held three more events in June focusing on networking, seeking professional advice and climbing the corporate ladder.

The NAACP has a long and storied history of prompting movements among communities of color throughout the country and in Boston, however, Young Adult Committee members admit the need to more effectively engage a younger generation.

If engaging young professionals of color through the Lean In series” — and through their desire to succeed in the business world — attracts them to the organization, all the better.

Attendees at the Lean in series have ranged from about 21 to 40 years old, which is exactly the age group that the NAACP hopes will fuel the future of the organization.

Alison Brown, community and civic engagement coordinator for the NAACP Young Adult Committee, emphasized the importance of continuing to build a strong young adult movement in Boston — to encourage them to engage and to be active in the city.

Doing this is a critical way the NAACP can increase its ranks of volunteers that fight the poverty, youth violence and unemployment threatening communities of color in Boston.

“We want to engage young adults, to reinvigorate young adults into the movement. Get them invested in their community and have them reinvest back into the community,” Brown said.

“We want to create a pathway of Lean In, continued to page 16

Boston officials dispute “brain drain” phenomenon Martin Desmarais In the last decade, reports have shown that half of the students that graduate from college in Boston leave after graduation, which has caused an outcry that the so-called “brain drain” effect is damaging the local economy. But Boston officials don’t buy it, and last week they came out and said so.

“There is no brain drain in Boston and you cannot retain all the students that come here because there is no relation between all the students that come here and the job market,” said Alvaro Lima, director of research at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and author of the report “Retaining

Recent College Graduates in Boston: Is There a Brain Drain?”

Released last week and based on work of the BRA and the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute, the report refutes the arguments of critics who use prior research — including a 2003 analysis

by Boston Consulting Group and a 2013 study by Northeastern University — to contend that Boston fails to keep a majority of local college graduates in the city, and that policymakers should do more to make it happen.

Brain drain is typically thought of as the large-scale departure of skilled, college-educated workers due to the lack of jobs. Many countries around the world complain

of this as skilled workers flock to other nations for better job markets. Other cities in the U.S. also have similar worries.

While conventional wisdom suggests that the data doesn’t lie, Lima says it really does in Boston’s case.

Approximately 150,000 students graduate with bachelor’s degrees from Boston-area colleges each year, meaning that if prior research is correct, as many as 75,000 leave. But Boston only has about 71,000 total job openings each year, with only about 20,000 to 27,000 of these jobs being ones that a recent college graduate is qualified for.

In other words, there are way

Alvaro Lima, director of research at the Boston Redevelopment Authority. (Photo courtesy of the BRA) more graduates than job openings, even in a healthy economy.

Lima believes that Boston is in a great position when it comes to

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Edward Hegeman, NAACP Young Adult Committee network and social coordinator, said the Lean In Series and similar young professional-targeted events also casts a line out to those who come to Boston for education and stay for jobs, but struggle to find a place in local communities of color.

“We need to connect them to the community,” he said.

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The most recent event in the series — the August talk with OneUnited Bank’s Williams — topped out at 70 in attendance.

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Daniel Hodge, director of economic and public policy research at the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute. (Photo courtesy of UMass)

of new college graduates and then the rest can go elsewhere.

All signs point to a great situation for Boston and its economy.

“A low employment rate and high job growth — these conditions do not go together with concerns about brain drain,” Lima said. “It is not something that is killing Boston.”

And what if the brain drain critics actually got what they wanted and kept most of the college students who graduate each year?

Adding 150,000 people a year would double Boston’s population every 10 years, numbers that no city could handle.

“There is no example in history of this happening,” Lima pointed out.

BRA and UMass researchers are not suggesting that businesses and policy makers ignore the rates of

Juliette Mayers, Blue Cross Blue Shield marketing executive and author of “A Black Woman’s Guide to Networking,” spoke about personal branding and networking on June 24. (Photo courtesy of Boston NAACP)

local college graduates that remain in Boston to work because they do believe it is critical to continue to add a skilled workforce to the local economy. But they suggest the smarter move is to track how many jobs are being filled and make sure Boston companies are attracting young, highly skilled labor, no matter where they are from.

“It is probably more important focusing on who is here,” said Daniel Hodge, director of economic and public policy research at the UMass Donahue Institute.

The data shows that Boston has a large population of young professionals to continue to fill its workforce into the future. Between 2000 and 2010, the city’s population of 20- to 34-year-olds grew 11 percent, faster than the statewide average for population growth.

Overall, this age group makes up 35 percent of Boston’s population, which is the highest percentage in any major American city. By comparison, only Seattle, Washington,

D.C., Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, have more than 30 percent of their population within this age range.

Hodge is also encouraged by Boston schools such as UMass Boston and Northeastern University that have a higher percentage of graduates that stick around and work in the city after they graduate, likely because both schools have a higher percentage of local students.

All numbers aside, educating local students and providing them jobs to stay home after they graduate can only be seen as a good thing.

Forget Boston. Regions like Western Massachusetts should be the real focus of any brain drain talk, according to Hodge. Colleges there have almost no chance of keeping their graduates.

“The Boston area is more appealing,” Hodge said. “There is an uphill that other places face much more directly than Boston does.”

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is an opportunity to ask how we can use a shared understanding of climate science to make smart decisions about our shared infrastructure, to engage our common stakeholders, and challenge ourselves to take a broad look at our climate threats and not adapt but mitigate our impact on climate change.”

“It is essential that communities in the Boston metropolitan area work together on climate change,” said Richard C. Rossi, Cambridge City Manager.

“Climate change is creating new stresses on our communities, and while we are individually doing a lot within our borders, what is missing is a regional strategy.”

“Climate change is a threat that municipalities throughout our region are already confronting. Chelsea, a coastal city, knows this is not a challenge we can face alone, and we are excited to work with our partners in the Metro Mayors Coalition to find common solutions,” said Chelsea City Manager Jay Ash. “The effort we’re launching today will ensure that all communities are aware of the effects that climate change will likely bring to the region, and will empower us with the tools we need to be prepared.”

“The impacts of climate change do not respect municipal boundaries,” said Marc Draisen, Executive Director of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council.

“It’s incredibly important that all of the cities and towns in Greater Boston work together to address issues like sea level rise, coastal flooding, and rising temperatures.

Cooperation and planning are the keys to success.”

The announcement was made at the Architecture Boston Expo 2014, hosted by the Boston Society of Architects, and coincided with the kickoff of the international design competition “Boston Living with Water.” The competition is being led by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the Mayor’s Office of Environment, Energy and Open Space, the BSA, and the Boston Harbor Association.

The competition invites multi-disciplinary teams to submit design solutions to sea-level rise for three sites in the city that will help better prepare the site and the surrounding community for climate change. The three sites are located in the North End, Fort Point Channel, and Morrissey Boulevard. The competition will conclude in the spring, with a first place prize of $20,000. It is funded through a grant from the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, and the Barr Foundation. Details about the design competition can be found at www. bostonlivingwithwater.org.

These announcements build on the City of Boston’s ongoing climate preparedness efforts. A year ago, the City released the report, Climate Ready Boston: Municipal Vulnerability to Climate Change, which was a cross-departmental effort led by the Mayor’s Office of Environment, Energy, and Open Space.

“Last year’s vulnerability assessment was a critical step to making Boston’s municipal operations more prepared for the impacts of climate change,” said Brian Swett, Chief of

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Environment, Energy and Open Space. “We continue to build on this study and take action across all departments to ensure we are prepared for the future climate.”

The report identified the city’s vulnerabilities to climate change in order to help departments take action to prepare. In the past year, the city has made significant progress on reducing these vulnerabilities, especially in the areas of emergency response, extreme heat preparedness, flood and stormwater management, capital planning, and community engagement. Efforts include: Backup power at emergency shelters: As a result of $1.32 million in grant funding from the Commonwealth, four emergency

shelters will be getting solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays to provide at least three days of backup power during an emergency. In addition, the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and Boston Centers for Youth and Families (BCYF) are conducting an Emergency Generator Study to outfit four BCYF Community Centers with emergency generators.

Facility improvements to address extreme heat: BCYF has purchased tents and water access (sprinklers) to help handle extreme heat at outdoor programming sites during the summer.

In addition, the BCYF Paris Street Community Center capital project includes installation of an emergency generator and

air conditioning throughout the building, allowing the facility to serve as a cooling center.

Increased food resilience: With funding from the Kendall Foundation and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network, the Mayor’s Office of Food Initiatives has recently commissioned a team to complete a city-wide food resilience study. The Department of Neighborhood Development also continues its efforts to transform vacant lots into urban agriculture.

Flooding and stormwater management: A number of green infrastructure projects that help mitigate flooding have recently been completed or are underway.

Increased education and

awareness: Greenovate Boston, Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC), and OEM have teamed up to deliver concerted messaging during National Preparedness Month. This included the launch of a new webpage with daily tips, as well as a community preparedness event that attracted over 200 residents.

These efforts, along with future actions to better prepare the community, will be part of the 2014 Climate Action Plan Update, which will be released the second week of November for public comment. Interested parties may view and comment on the draft strategies and actions currently posted at Engage.GreenovateBoston.org

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BOSTON scenes Steppin’ Out Boston Mayor Walsh, Governor Patrick, Charlie Baker attend the Dimock Center’s 27th Annual Steppin’ Out gala featuring R&B icons The O’Jays and Original Dream Girl, Jennifer Holliday One of Boston’s most anticipated events of the year, the 27th annual Steppin’ Out for the Dimock Center gala on Saturday night November 1st, kept the standing room only audience at the Westin Copley Place on their feet all night long.

The evening was headlined by the Grammy winning, R&B icons The O’Jays who rocked the house and helped raise over $950,000 for The Dimock Center. Located in the heart of Roxbury’s Egleston Square, The Dimock Center provides thousands of Boston residents with comprehensive health and human services.

The night began with a very special tribute to the late Mayor Tom Menino, by Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Governor Patrick and Dimock President and CEO, Dr. Myechia Minter-Jordan. Dr. Jordan cited Mayor Menino’s tireless support of the Dimock Center and those they serve.

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so captivated by Ellington and his music, that he fashioned his own trumpet out of “Hearing Clark is hearing his life. And the raw materials that were available to him he is a master,” says Herbie Hancock about at the time. trumpeter Clark Terry in the documentary A mentor to Miles Davis and a teacher Keep On Keepin’ On. to Quincy Jones, Terry is among the Shot over five years by first time di- rare performers ever to have played in rector Al Hicks, Keep On Keepin’ On both Count Basie’s and Duke Ellingis a wonderful film, and ton’s bands. Terry got his loving tribute to a mentor, first big break when he a teacher, a friend and a rewas hired by Count Basie markable man, 93-year-old in 1947. He later joined jazz legend, Clark Terry, Duke Ellington’s band and who friends refer to as in 1960, he left Ellington’s “C.T.”. band to join Quincy Jones’ A drummer by trade, orchestra in Paris. Three Hicks had been a student of years later, Terry became Clark Terry at William Pathe first black staff musiterson University in New cian on NBC’s The ToJersey whom he met in night Show.

2002. They became friends A supremely talented and Hicks began studying musician, Terry is also a with him and eventually Al Hicks (Photo courtesy of naturally gifted teacher. joined one of his bands. “I RADiUS-TWC) When Terry was younger, had looked up to him for he sought advice on how to years and years before this. play the trumpet and was Once I knew him personally, my wiser self lied to. From that experience, he vowed said, ‘the world needs to know about this that if asked, he would always take the time guy,’” said Hicks. “He would be telling sto- to instruct a musician on the correct way to ries about Quincy Jones and Miles Davis play jazz or an instrument. and Wynton Marsalis, and all this stuff. It Hicks said that he was always bafwas amazing. It’s always been a desire for fled as to why Terry believed in him as me to tell Clark’s story.” a musician and as a person. “Once I got Terry was born in St. Louis, Missouri done with the film and was interviewing in 1920 as one of eleven children. He was people, they would say the same thing. seven years old when his mother passed They were baffled why this great man beaway and ten years old when he first heard lieved in them. I soon found out that was the Duke Ellington band perform. He was Clark’s way of teaching. If Clark believes

in you, you have to rise to the occasion.

For me this whole process has been a way to thank my teacher.”

In addition to featuring Terry’s life and his loving relationship with wife Gwen, the documentary highlights the friendship between Justin Kauflin, a 23-year-old piano prodigy and Terry. Kauflin lost his vision in the sixth grade due to a rare eye condition and naturally gravitated towards the piano.

Terry met Kauflin when the younger musician attended William Paterson University, and just as he did with Hicks, Terry took Kauflin under his wing.

Through this five-year journey and homage to Clark Terry, we see the tenderness and the love between Terry and his wife, but we also see Terry’s love for music and for teaching and the mutual affection the two musicians have for one another.

After the stimulating experience of shooting the documentary, Al Hicks would love to do another film.

“I was so focused on my music career and all of a sudden I took a left turn and became a filmmaker. I loved the creative process of making films. It’s so similar to playing music and there’s so much improvising happening and creating happening.

There’s a lot of studying as well as honing your skills. That’s exciting to me.”

When asked about the one lesson that he learned from Terry, Hicks said “persistence is the key to it all. Not giving up. It sounds like a cliché but that’s totally how it works.”

Keep On Keepin’ On opens in Boston this Friday, Nov. 7.

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Latin jazz giant Palmieri heading to Rockport Susan Saccoccia Warming late autumn with musical heat, Rockport Music is presenting ten-time Grammy Award winner Eddie Palmieri & his Latin Jazz Band on Saturday at Rockport’s Shalin Liu Performance Center, a concert hall overlooking the sea.

World-renowned bandleader and pianist Palmieri, 77, is as ardent talking about his music as he is when playing it. And that’s saying a lot, because in his hands a

began piano studies at an early age, as did his older brother, celebrated pianist Charlie Palmieri.

Leading one of the most actively touring Latin Jazz orchestras for more than 50 years, Palmieri has pioneered a boundary-crossing, irresistible amalgam of jazz and Afro-Cuban musical traditions that is engineered to thrill audiences and propel them across a dance floor.

Speaking of the Afro-Cuban underpinnings of his distinctive sound, Palmieri says, “To put it in

At the root of Afro-Cuban rhythms is the five-beat clave pattern, which originated in sub-Saharan African music.

When Palmieri was coming up,

the best Cuban and Puerto Rican players were performing at the Palladium Ballroom, on Broadway at 53rd Street. Jazz luminaries such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Max Roach and McCoy Tyner dropped by between sets at Birdland, a block away, and absorbed the Afro-Cuban beat.

Drawing dancers who were as renowned as the bands, the Palladium hosted such iconic ensembles as the Machito Orchestra, the Tito Puente Orchestra, and Tito

Rodríguez Orchestra. Eddie and Charlie Palmieri soon joined the bands whose music had poured out of neighborhood windows when they were boys playing stickball.

“We were playing in the greatest dance ballroom in the world,” says Palmieri. “In the ’50s, the word ‘mambo’ took over the whole planet. All over the world, people were dancing the mambo, cha-chacha and other rhythmic patterns that came out of Cuba.

“I’m a frustrated percussionist, so I take it out on the piano.”

— Eddie Palmieri

piano keyboard becomes a driving percussive force.

“I’m a frustrated percussionist, so I take it out on the piano,” says Palmieri, on the phone from New York.

Born in Harlem into an extended family from Puerto Rico and raised in the Bronx, Palmieri

a nutshell, these are the most exciting and most complicated rhythmic patterns in the world. African captives arrived in the Caribbean.

Taken from their own country and turned into slaves, they suffered; but mingling African and Spanish musical traditions, they put the world to dance with their drums.”

Pianist Eddie Palmieri will perform at the Rockport Shalin Liu Performance Center Sunday.

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Comics Come Home event celebrates 20th anniversary Colette Greenstein Billed as “the longest running comedy benefit in America,” Comics Come Home has been raising money through laughter for The Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care for 20 years.

Denis Leary, who has hosted the annual fundraiser since its inception in 1994, returns as host on

Saturday at the TD Garden, with an all-star comedy line-up featuring Jimmy Fallon, Bill Burr, Lenny Clarke, Jim Gaffigan, Craig Ferguson, Robert Kelly, Marc Maron, Tony V. and Joe Yannetty.

The annual fundraiser will benefit The Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care, with a portion of this year’s proceeds going towards the $1.5 million renovation of The

Marlene Neely Endoscopy Suite at Tufts Medical Center. Since its first year, Comics Come Home has grossed approximately $6 million to help cancer patients and their families during treatments.

Cam Neely, a former player with the Boston Bruins and the current president of the team, founded The Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care in 1995 in memory of his parents Marlene and Michael Neely, who passed away from cancer. The Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care was created to provide temporary shelter, along with comfort and support, to help cancer patients and their families during treatments.

The Foundation has raised more than $27 million to sustain The Neely House since its inception.

In a recent e-mail interview with the Banner, Neely touched upon the goals of the Foundation, what he hopes to pass on to his children, and Comics Come Home.

In 1995, you began the Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer in memory of your parents. What did you hope to accomplish when you established the Foundation?

Cam Neely: I was looking to provide comfort, support and hope to cancer patients and their

families in the way of a “house” while their loved one was undergoing treatment and needed a place to stay in Boston. Then the foundation grew from there.

How have your goals for the Foundation evolved over the years?

CN: The goals of the Foundation have not really changed over the years. We are about helping cancer patients and their families

CN: As the foundation continued to raise money I wanted to do something that could help people with the types of cancer my parents had. The first project was The Michael Neely Center for Brain Tumor Care and Research.

Once we were able to raise the funds for this space the next logical project was the Marlene Neely Endoscopy Suite at Tufts Medical Center.

Jimmy Fallon performing at a previous Comics Comic Home (Courtesy of Blue Sky Sports & Entertainment) today, meaning all the spaces or programs we have completed are for the benefit of what help they can use today to either improve their day to day lives or help with treatment.

You recently created the Marlene Neely Endoscopy Suite at Tufts Medical Center. How did that come about and what is next for the Foundation?

What do you hope to pass on to your children about this work that you’re committed to?

CN: I hope to pass on to them the values of giving back. It is important to both me and my wife, Paulina that we give back. As they say, “the best gift is giving.” I have always said whether it is a dime or your time giving helps those in need.

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When you began Comics Come Home did you envision that you would make it to year 20?

CN: No chance could I say 20 years later we would be still doing the show. It says a great deal about Denis’ commitment to doing the show as well as how good the show has been for people to continue to come and watch and support my foundation.

How did Denis Leary become involved and why do you think comics like Jimmy Fallon, Bill Burr, Jim Gaffigan, keep returning year after year?

CN: I have always been a big fan of comedy and in my early years in Boston went to a lot of comedy shows. I saw Lenny Clarke a ton and was introduced to Denis and eventually asked if he would do a comedy show to benefit my foundation, and he turned it into Comics Come Home. We are very fortunate to have had all these great comedians over the years and, like you said, most have been returning year after year. I can’t speak for them, but I think most people have been touched by cancer in one way, shape or form, and they appreciate what we are doing to help cancer patients and families as well as being able to do their stand up in front of great crowds that appreciate live comedy.

We started out at The Orpheum, demand led us to The Agganis, now we are at TD Garden. So my guess is they love doing their craft in front of large audiences.

Any surprises for this year’s Comics Come Home?

CN: There always is.

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Actor Jeannette Bayardelle returns to A.R.T. in Shida Colette Greenstein The multi-talented actress, singer, and composer Jeannette Bayardelle returns to the American Repertory Theater (this Wednesday through Friday), in her one-woman show titled Shida.

Last seen at the A.R.T. in the 2009-2010 holiday musical Best

of Both Worlds, Bayardelle is no stranger to the rigors and challenges of playing multiple roles.

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Bayardelle said she learned valuable lessons about herself playing the role of Celie.

“I learned patience, knowing what battles to fight, what battles not to fight; and how to fit into a cast that has already been set,” she said. “It was a good experience.”

Set to a score of rock, jazz, R&B and gospel musical, Shida is based on the life of Bayardelle’s childhood friend, Rashida, whose aspirations of becoming a writer were almost derailed by her struggles with substance abuse.

The idea for the show came about while Bayardelle was performing on Broadway in the revival of Hair (coincidentally directed by A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus). At the time, Bayardelle told her agent that she wanted to do more, that she didn’t just want to perform in shows. She wanted to create them. Bayardelle thought of her childhood friend Rashida and about her life story and the inspiration for the one-woman show came to her. “I decided to contact her,” said Bayardelle. She told Rashida that she wanted to create a musical about her life. “We met two days later and I got her permission and the rest is history,” said Bayardelle in a recent interview with the Banner.

Traveling the world the past 10 years performing, Bayardelle loves to play women overcoming adversity because it gives her another platform.

“Honestly I love those roles,” she said. “There’s such a reward at the end, for me as well as the audience. You take the audience on this journey filled with pain and they see you triumph at the end.”

freedom to tell the story. She let me do what I felt like doing creatively,” said Bayardelle.

Growing up in the Bronx, Bayardelle never thought about being on Broadway. She knew she would perform, probably sing R&B, but never imagined Broadway.

“I wasn’t interested in the whole Broadway thing until I was

Jeannette Bayardelle Shida, which also includes a book, music and lyrics by Bayardelle, is about second chances, redemption, and ultimately about having faith in oneself. Rashida did see the show “and absolutely loved it,” said Bayardelle. “She cried through most of it the first time she saw it. After we were done, she said, ‘Thank you for making my story, thank you for not making me ashamed of what I’ve been through.’” According to Bayardelle, Rashida is happy and excited to see her life on stage.

“She’s the one who gave me the

in high school,” she said.

She attended the High School of the Performing Arts, LaGuardia in Manhattan. There, she said, “My eyes were open to the world of Broadway, hanging out backstage, going on auditions.”

Bayardelle was hooked, but the path to Broadway wasn’t always an easy one. In a field that’s more often filled with rejection than acceptance, Bayardelle’s philosophy is to continue to “push past the no’s.” She believes that once you’re past a no, “there’s a yes lurking around.” She’s kept a positive attitude but has also worked very hard and has studied her craft to get to where she is today.

Most people assume or think that performing is easy.

“They think it’s like a hobby,” said Bayardelle.

She adds that often the public doesn’t realize the work that goes into it: “Rehearsing eight hours a day, understudying 11 different parts — it’s like you’re in school all over again. You’re constantly studying, constantly learning, constantly trying to do better, trying to pick up on who you are or aren’t as an actress.

There’s a lot that goes into being a performer.”

The one piece of advice that Bayardelle would offer to young girls of color who are interested in performing and being on Broadway is, “I would tell them to make sure you hone your skills, make sure that you’re at your best, never let a ‘no’ stop you, and be good at what you do.”

Bayardelle certainly follows her own advice. “I realized that God gave me a gift. I can sing.

[She laughs joyously]. I can’t even hide it. This is what I do. These are things that I do best and it would be a shame to let a ‘no’ stop other people from benefitting from the gift that God gave me.

That’s what keeps me going. I’m not going to let a ‘no’ stop me. I can do these things very well. So, I know I was meant to do this.”

The American Repertory Theater presents the musical Shida at the Oberon November 5, 6, and 7 at 7:30 p.m. The Oberon is located at 2 Arrow Street in Cambridge.

Tickets: $25 General Admission.

To purchase call 617.547.8300 or go online at: americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/ shida-new-musical-development.

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“Mambo shows on Wednesdays drew people like Marlon Brando and Kim Novak. It started with an amateur couple and then you had the professional dancers too like Augie and Margo — a tremendous dance team, the Mambo Aces, the Mambo Taps, it just went on and on.”

At the Palladium, Palmieri performed with percussionist Manny Oquendo and trombonist Barry Rogers, both powerhouses steeped in Cuban musical traditions. “Manny Oquendo showed me world of dance music coming out of Cuba,” says Palmieri. “I’ve studied it all my life. First, I learned it intuitively and then as a science.”

Rogers broadened Palmieri’s exposure to musicians of the African-American diaspora, including Otis Redding, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Thelonius Monk.

In 1961, Palmieri formed Conjunto La Perfecta with Oquendo and Rogers. He modeled the band on a Cuban charanga dance ensemble, but replaced strings, a traditional component, with trombones, for added excitement.

“We stylized and modernized Cuban structures with the harmonic structures of jazz,” says Palmieri. “You put them together, and it’s going to be something quite exciting and quite unique.”

The Afro-Cuban and jazz concoction inspired dancers to improvisational highs that matched the soaring feats of the musicians.

Yet both dancers and musicians were always grounded in the clave groove, its five-beat pattern sustaining the swinging momentum.

“At the Palladium, if you weren’t appreciated by the dancers, you never came back again,” says Palmieri. “We played there for three years, until it closed.”

Singer and guitarist Bob Bianco introduced Palmieri to

the Schillinger System of Musical Composition, invented by Ukrainian-American musician and mathematician Joseph Schillinger to liberate composers from the confines of tradition. In 1945, after Schillinger’s death, pianist and MIT graduate Lawrence Berk founded the Schillinger House of Music to teach the system. It later became Berklee College of Music.

Bianco also stirred Palmieri’s interest in philosophy. Recalling a few of Bianco’s precepts, Palmieri says, “My teacher would tell me, he who knows not and thinks he knows is a muddle head. He who knows and knows that he knows has wisdom.”

Speaking of his wife, Iraida Palmieri, who died in May, Palmieri says, “She was a super,

brilliant and beautiful woman and I miss her dearly.”

Palmieri is recording an album dedicated to her, entitled “Sabiduria” (“Wisdom”).

“If there’s one iota of wisdom that I have,” says Palmieri, “it’s that if I don’t excite you with my music, I know it. To put people to dance — that is the essence of my life.”

Clara Ramona is joined by her two sons Nino (l) and Isaac at the conclusion of their performance at the Tribute to Ramon de los Reyes held in the Dance Complex in Cambridge. Ramon’s son Nino organized the event bringing his brother Isaac and many well known flamenco dancers, singers and guitarist to perform to a sold out audience. (Photo by Don West)

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Community Calendar Friday

November 7 SOUL HIT Friday brings us SOUL HIT, 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.

FUFU & OREOS In FUFU & OREOS, Boston-based actress/writer Obehi Janice will talk about the complexities of being Nigerian, American, and BLACK all while dealing with the realities of her own mental health. This one-woman show is a blend of standup comedy, storytelling, and a little bit of song and dance. Fridays November 7 & 14 @ 11pm: FUFU & OREOS. ImprovBoston, 40 Prospect St., Cambridge. TICKETS: $10, https://www.eventbrite. com/e/fufu-and-oreos-tick ets-13189613489.

Saturday November 8 The Joyful Sound Bethlehem A Cappella Choir presents “The Joyful Sound” choir concert. Featuring special guest choir Kuumba Singers of Harvard College. An evening of joy and melodies at First Church of Roxbury, 10 Putnam St., Roxbury at 7pm. $10 ticket. Ticket info or questions contact roulhack@yahoo.com.

Blue Hills Reservation Walk Moderate/difficult walk, some hills, 3 + miles. Bugbee Path to Buck Hill. Return on Doe Hollow Path. 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 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.

Wednesday November 12 The Image of the Black in Western Art: New Directions W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fall Colloquium: David Bindman, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, University College London — The Image of the Black in Western Art: New Directions.

12pm, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge.

Free and open to the public. Please feel free to bring a lunch.

Upcoming Grooversity Festival 2014 Saturday, November 15, 1-6:30pm. Free and open to all.

Master groover Marcus Santos spearheads this festival, which this year features performances

by Ben Paulding & master Ashanti drummer Emmanuel Attah Poku, Bloco AfroBrazil, Sheboom, and World Percussion Ensembles from the Somerville Public Schools.

The afternoon will also be offering workshops given by master drummers Bas Janssen, Gino Figliola, Marcus Santos, Saturday With Sticks: Fabrizio Cavallaro, and Sergio Bellotti. East Somerville Community School, 50 Cross St., Somerville. For information: 917719-0127, www.grooversity.com/ festival.

Tracing the African American Experience through Music and Poetry “The Literary Movement America Forgot” is what the Huffington Post recently wrote about Voices Beyond Bondage: An Anthology of Verse by African Americans of the 19th Century. This was the period when freeborn, self-liberated, and African descendants began writing and publishing in the years after

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Emancipation in response to the call for authored works from the nation’s first black-owned periodicals. The book’s editors, Erika DeSimone and Fidel Louis, offer a fresh perspective on American life through poetry, while the New England Conservatory’s African-American Experience Through Music Ensemble connects historical and contemporary songs of freedom. NEC faculty, doctoral student, and vocal stylist Nedelka Prescod leads the ensemble and traces the history of black music from its origins in Africa across the seas and into American culture through a blend of voices and instruments performing spirituals, jazz, blues, ragtime, R&B, soul, and gospel. Sunday, November 16, 4pm. Reservations: rsvp@maah. org or call 617-725-0022 x22. Visit maah.org for more information and directions to the discounted parking garage. Museum of African American History: Boston Campus, 46 Joy St., Beacon Hill, Boston. Free.

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.

Massasoit State Park Easy walk, about 4 miles. Walk along a cranberry bog, through the woods, along the ‘Beach To Nowhere,’ and around Middle Pond at Massasoit State Park.

Meet at the main parking lot at 1361 Middleboro Ave in East Taunton. Saturday, November 29, 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.

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 ($38), call 413-256-4900 or visit www. yiddishbookcenter.org/events.

Ongoing Family Gym Family Gym is a free drop-in play program for families with children ages 3-8 to get up, out, and moving together. No pre-registration is necessary, and families can stop by any Saturday that it is in session. Adult participation is required and adults must remain in the gym with their children at all times. Every Saturday through November 22, 10-11:30am, 3 locations: BCYF Holland Community Center in Dorchester, BCYF Recreation Center at Madison Park in Roxbury, and BCYF Blackstone Community Center in the South End. More Info: Call 617-373-7615 or visit www.north eastern.edu/healthykids/wp-con tent/uploads/Family-Gym-Fall2014-Flyer.pdf.

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 exhibition 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.

Soldiers and Chocolate: Memories of the Occupation This November, the French Cultural Center is delighted to bring to its gallery Soldiers and Chocolate: Memories of the Occupation, a collection of abstract paintings

by Marguerite Waldron. As a small child in France during World War II, Marguerite Waldron endured the anxiety and turmoil of Nazi troops occupying her small French town.

In her paintings, she transforms her early memories into abstract works that explore her ongoing

quest to understand the perplexities and chaos of her childhood, the giant tanks rumbling down the streets, the armed soldiers standing guard, the fear and anger of the citizens, and finally the joyful liberation. Upon immigrating to the USA time went by but those fears were still with her. Soldiers and Chocolate: Memories of the Occupation is a series of thought-provoking works which began to slowly surface and evolve over two decades and helped to allay the artist’s feelings. Through December 1.

This gallery and opening are free and open to the public. For more information, please visit www. frenchculturalcenter.org, or call us at 617-912-0400. Gallery Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 9am - 9pm; Fri. by appointment; Sat. 9am - 5pm. *Please note that the Gallery will be closed on Tuesday, November 11 as well as Wednesday, November 26 beginning at 12pm — Saturday, November 29.

Star Gazing at the Observatory The Public Open Night at the Observatory is a chance for people to observe the night sky through telescopes and binoculars and see things they otherwise might not get to see, and learn some astronomy as well. Wednesday nights from 8:30-9:30pm, weather permitting, Coit Observatory at Boston University, located at 725 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, right above the Astronomy Department. The stairwell to the Observatory is on the fifth floor right next to room 520. More Info: Call (617) 3532630 for any questions.

1-3 Year Old Playgroups With free play, circle time, and parent discussion, Playgroups are a wonderful place for you and your toddler to connect with each other and with other families. Your child will develop social and emotional skills, early literacy, gross and fine motor skills, and experience art and sensory materials.

This group is for parents and their children ages 1-3 years. Thursdays 9:30-11:30am, Georgetowne Homes Community Room, 400A Georgetowne Dr., Hyde Park. More Info: Visit http://fami lynurturing.org/dropins/1-3-yearold-playgroup-1; For more times and locations, visit http://fam ilynurturing.org/programs/par ent-child-playgroups.

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.

FREE Adult Computer Classes Times: Monday & Wednesday - 12:30-2:30pm and 6-8pm, Tuesday & Thursday - 12:302:30pm and 6:30-8:30pm. For more information contact: Owen Corbin at 617-635-5213. The John Shelburne Community Center is located at: 2730 Washington St., Roxbury.

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OBITUARY

Former Freedom House pres. Cecile Gordon, 88 Cecile Helena Gordon (Hemsley) passed away peacefully at her home in Oak Bluffs, Mass. on Monday, Oct. 27, 2014 at the age of 88.

Cecile was born Oct. 19, 1926 to Marion and Christopher Hemsley in Boston. She was educated in the Boston Public Schools and was a graduate of Roxbury Memorial High School for Girls. She was a longstanding member of the Berea Seventh Day Adventist Church in Roxbury.

In the early 1940s, Cecile met and shortly thereafter married H. Lynn Gordon II, and from that union were born a son, H. Lynn III, and a daughter, Gayle Helena.

Cecile had a long career as a manager of community affairs at the New England Telephone Company. In 1990, she attended classes in urban affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., where she earned a master’s degree.

Very active in the Boston community, Cecile served as president of the Freedom House in Roxbury; served on the Draft Board in the early 1960s; was the past Matron of the Celestial Chapter #6 Order of the Eastern Star, Prince Hall Grand Chapter, Grove Hall. Cecile served on the board of United Way; was president of the Corporate Volunteer Council of Greater Boston; and was an active member of the Circle-Lets, Inc. In 1987, she received the Outstanding Contributor Award from the Board of Hope and the Hispanic

Leadership Development Project.

In 1990, she was the proud recipient of the 61st Annual Brotherhood/Sisterhood Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews.

In 2005, Cecile moved to Martha’s Vineyard as a year-round resident, where she resided until her death.

She leaves her children, H. Lynn Gordon III, Oak Bluffs; Gayle Gordon Rogers, Oak Bluffs and Eastham, Mass.; sisters Yvonne Wrenn (Curtis), Glendale, Calif. and Elayne Billups (Bill), Bronxville, N.Y.; her cousin, Emily Robertson, Oak Bluffs; granddaughters Kimberly Rogers and Courtney Rogers Werner (Bryan), both of Las Vegas; five great-grandchildren, two nieces and a host of relatives, friends and colleagues.

Cecile will be fondly remembered for her sense of style, gardening, interior decorating and her zest for reading and travel.

In lieu of flowers, donations made in Cecile’s name to the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, P.O. Box 6012, Albert Lea, MN 56007-9805, would be greatly appreciated.

A spring memorial service is being planned.

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ISIS and the cost of war Imara Jones The United States is just five weeks into the latest phase of its effort in Iraq against ISIS — the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria militant group — but already there are calls for it to escalate.

On CNN, Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) advocated for a greater number of U.S. ground troops to get directly involved in fighting the group. ISIS is “winning, we’re not,” McCain complained. McCain is not alone. His sentiments have been echoed by others in Congress and among

key American allies around the world such as the United Kingdom and Turkey.

The problem is that the unfinished business in Iraq and Afghanistan shows us that scaling up the military campaign against ISIS will create severe costs that won’t be shouldered equally by all Americans. Sadly, this fact is lost on many involved in the debate.

Before launching headlong into a third Iraq War it’s important to step back and review the costs of the past 13 years of combat.

Not surprisingly, the sacrifice of war, monetary and otherwise

are disproportionately borne by people of color and the young.

According to The Costs of War project at Brown University, the total costs for the second Iraq War and the ongoing one in Afghanistan is $4.4 trillion. Cost-wise, these two conflicts should be considered as one because it has long been established that the war in Iraq prolonged the one in Afghanistan by drawing away resources from it and causing it to drag on.

Everyone in the country could go to college for nearly a decade free of charge with $4.4 trillion.

What’s astounding is that this

State Rep. Russell Holmes, Court Administrator Harry Spence and Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins joined other officials at the Edward W. Brooke Courthouse to celebrate the Massachusetts Trial Courts’ new Court Service Centers. The service centers offer numerous resources free of charge to the general public and attorneys, including individual assistance with preparing pleadings, court forms and documents, access to public computers and workstations, and interpreter services.

eye-popping price tag could very well be the tip of the iceberg. As Costs of War points out “each additional month and year of war adds to that toll. In fact, total costs could stretch as high as $6 trillion in the coming years as veterans benefits and the like tally up.

Beyond the monetary issues there are others that are beyond measure.

Nearly 7,000 Americans have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. But these numbers exclude military contractors, the private paramilitary outfits hired by the government to supplement the work of the armed forces. Folding them into official casualty figures nearly doubles the number of U.S. deaths.

Fifty thousand American men and women were wounded in action, with another 330,000 having suffered some variation of post-traumatic stress disorder caused by their time at war. Added to these dramatic impacts is the grim fact that nearly 200,000 Afghani, Iraqi and Pakistani civilians have been killed in these conflicts since 2001.

Although the deaths and injuries cause unconscionable pain, the ramifications of these casualties are not spread evenly throughout society.

Nearly half of all those who’ve died in the war are under the age of 25. When it comes to race, close to two out of five of those serving in the U.S. armed forces is black or brown. And once they return from the battlefield, according to the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, black veterans are more likely than their white counterparts to be unemployed.

The war has also impacted historically marginalized communities in other ways. Iraq and Afghanistan diverted the nation’s attention and financial resources from investments necessary to ensure that the working poor have an economic shot. For instance, additional capital promised to schools identified as struggling by No Child Left Behind wasn’t delivered as planned. In fact, during some of the Iraq War’s most active years, No Child Left Behind

school assistance was half of what the law pledged. Schools serving the nation’s poorest children were hung out to dry for low test scores but were not provided the help needed to turn them around.

The two wars have done more economic damage than underfunding. The sky-is-the-limit approach to military spending since 2001 created the massive debt that’s been used to justify the rolling back of economic opportunity programs that helped build the middle class. The entire cost of Iraq and Afghanistan were not paid for directly, rather they were charged to the nation’s credit card.

Concern over this mounting debt is what fueled the Tea Party. Once in office, conservative members of Congress went about slashing everything from food assistance, to housing help to pre-school education under the banner of getting the nation’s fiscal house in order.

As I have written before, their arguments don’t hold up to scrutiny. The nation is nowhere near broke, but that was never the point. A wing of the Republican Party has always sought to run up the nation’s debt and then use it as an excuse to shrink the government programs they oppose. This even has an unfortunate name: “starve the beast.” Yet the money being shoveled out the door for the two wars was the sort of justification for which they’d worked for so long. They’ve spent most of President Obama’s time in office using it to advance their aims.

The United States is not fully into a third Iraq War, but its important to remember that there students on the verge of entering high school who’ve never known a time when the United States is not a war. Hopefully as decision-makers and the national security establishment will consider what’s next in the Middle East they will recall the staggering economic, political and social costs that continue to reverberate across the nation from the last set of wars in the region.

(This article originally appeared on the Colorlines website. Reprinted with permission of Colorlines.)

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

DESCRIPTION

DATE

TIME

WRA-2942

Furnish and Deliver One (1) 60” Cage Drive Unit

11/19/14

10:00 a.m.

Sealed bids will be received at the office of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, Charlestown Navy Yard, Document Distribution Office, 100 First Avenue, First Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02129, up to the time and date listed above at which time they will be publicly opened and read.

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

Docket No. SU14D2216DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Marie Louissol

vs.

A.M. on the return date of 11/13/2014. 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.

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 08, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Michael E. Balletto, Esq., Dane Shulman Associates, LLC, 1629 Blue Hill Avenue, Mattapan, MA 02126 your answer, if any, on or before 01/02/2015. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

SUFFOLK. ss

Docket No. SU14E0115QP

To: The Keeper of Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages of Boston in the County of Suffolk, To Melody Sholunas Of Parts Unknown and is the mother of said minor child in the matter of Catrina Hope Sholunas of Boston in the County of Suffolk, born on November 5, 2011, a minor child.

A petition has been presented to said Court by Kim S. A. Mack of Boston in the County of Suffolk is the guardian and the paternal aunt of said minor child and is asking the Court to correct her niece’s birth certificate, #228928 to correct her name from Catrina Hope Sholunas and to correct it to Katrina Hope Sholunas Mack and any other relief as this Honorable Court may deem just and proper for the reasons more fully described in the petition.

If you desire to object thereto you or your attorney should file a written appearance in said Court at Boston before ten o’clock in the forenoon on the 11th day of December, 2014, the return day of the citation.

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

Date: October 21, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

WITNESS, Joan P Armstrong, Esquire, First Judge of said Court, this 6th day of October, 2014.

Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14P2411GD

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Ricardo Hernandez Of Roxbury, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Brigham and Women’s Hospital of Boston, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Ricardo Hernandez is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Linnette Y Hernandez of Roxbury, 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

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SUFFOLK Division

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU13P0830EA

Citation on Petition for Order of Complete Settlement of Estate Estate of Rosa Mae Gladden Date of Death: 02/22/2013 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Stanley Cargill of Worcester, MA requesting that an Order of Complete Settlement of the estate issue including to approve an accounting and other such relief as may be requested in the Petition. For the First and Final Account.

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.

Docket No. SU14P2501GD In the interests of Giorgio Pra Flores of Mattapan, MA Minor

NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor 1.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Probate Court

To the Defendant:

The Complaint is on file at the Court.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Paul Louissol

The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage pursuant to G.L. c. 208, Section 1 B.

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

Date: October 08, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 10/17/2014 by Mildred Rentas of Mattapan, MA will be held 12/12/2014 10:30 AM Guardianship of Minor Hearing Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor Boston, MA 02114 ~ Family Service Office.

2.

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

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

3.

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

4.

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

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

Date: October 17, 2014

Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

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Alvah Kittredge House Now Accepting Completed Applications on a first-come first-served basis for an Affordable Housing Opportunity at Alvah Kittredge House 10 Linwood Street Roxbury, MA 02119

One unit available for immediate occupancy* » » » »

$1361/month + Utilities 2 Bedroom/1 bathroom Newly Renovated On-Site Laundry

* Income, asset, use and occupancy restrictions apply.

Applications Available at:

1195 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02446 617-738-6606 x208 support@propertymanage.com

Maximum Income Limit for Affordable Unit Household Size 1 person . . . .

2 persons . . .

3 persons . . .

4 persons . . .

5 persons . . .

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70% of median income $46,100 $52,700 $59,300 $65,850 $71,150

Preference for households with a child(ren) under age 6

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Ink Block

300 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA Affordable Housing Lottery www.s-e-b.com/lottery

41 New Affordable Apartments For Rent # of Units 14

Type Studio

Rent* $1,020

Approx Av. Sqft 570 sqft

Income Limit Up to 70%

20 6 1

1BR 2BR 3BR

$1,190 $1,361 $1,531

720 sqft 1,050 sqft 1,440 sqft

Up to 70% Up to 70% Up to 70%

*Rent is subject to change when the BRA publishes the annual rents.

The Maximum Income Limits for Households is 70% AMI which is as follows: 1 Person – $46,100*; 2 Person – $52,700*; 3 Person – $59,300*; 4 Person – $65,850*; 5 Person – $71,150*; 6 Person – $76,400*

*Income Limits subject to change when the BRA publishes the annual Income Limits.

From Nov 17th thru Nov 25th applications can be requested by phone (617.782.6900) or email (seb.housing@gmail.com). Applications may also be picked up at the South End Branch of the Boston Public Library (685 Tremont St, Boston) on Tuesday Nov 18th (4 pm to 8 pm) and Thursday Nov 20th (1 pm to 6 pm) and Saturday Nov 22nd (10 am to 2 pm).

Complete applications can be dropped off to the SEB Office between 10 am and 4 pm on Dec 1st and Dec 2nd. The deadline for completed application drop off at the SEB Office is 4 pm on Dec 2nd, 2014. Completed applications can also be mailed to the SEB Office but must be postmarked by Dec 2nd, 2014. The SEB Office is on 165 Chestnut Hill Ave #2, Brighton, MA 02135.

Selection by lottery.

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Asset, Use & Occupancy Restrictions apply.

Disabled households have preference for 8 accessible units.

Preference for Boston Residents.

Preference for Households with at least one person per bedroom.

Ink Block is a smoke free community.

For more information or reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, call 617.782.6900.

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Affordable Rental Opportunity

Needham, MA

Needham Place – 50 Dedham Avenue, #22 2 Bedroom Unit $1,283 per month Information Session: Monday 11/17/14, 7:00 pm Needham Public Library, 1 139 Highland Ave, Needham Applications accepted through Friday 12/19/14, 1:00 pm Lottery 1/13/15 at 7:00 pm, Needham Town Hall

AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Application and Lottery Information: Housing@Sudbury.Ma.US

Trinity Terrace

12 Trinity Terrace, Dorchester, MA 02121 Phone (617) 825-0080 TDD: 1-800-545-1833 ext. 945

278 Old Sudbury Road, Sudbury, MA 01776 978-639-3373

Trinity Terrace is currently accepting applications for placement on the 1, 2, & 3 bedroom waitlist.

All applications will be considered on a nondiscriminatory basis and in accordance with Low Income Housing Tax Credit guidelines as follows:

Income Limits at 80% AMI for Boston Region

Affordable Housing Lottery 244 Washington Place

Affordable Housing Values 1 Bedroom $1044.00 2 Bedroom $1244.00 3 Bedroom $1431.00

HEAT AND HOT WATER INCLUDED Maximum Income Limits by Household Size Household Maximum Income Allowed Size under LIHTC program 1 $41,100.00 2 $46,980.00 3 $52,860.00 4 $58,680.00 5 $63,420.00 6 $68,100.00

Easton, MA

Four 1BRs @ $995, Six 2BRs @ $1,106 Utilities not included

The Village at 244 Washington Place is a 38 unit apartment complex. 10 of the units will be rented to households with annual incomes not exceeding 80% of AMI adjusted for family size as determined by HUD. The Floor Plans have been designed to create a relaxed and easy-living lifestyle. The state of the art clubhouse, complete with a fully equipped kitchen, fitness center, business center, and entertainment room add to the Washington Street experience. The large patio and barbeque area will also allow residents to enjoy many leisurely afternoons without leaving their home.

Household Size 1 2 3 4

Minimum Incomes Required for Non-Subsidized Applicants

Voucher Holders welcome — Rents at Payment Standard Household Restrictions Apply

Applications may be picked up Monday – Thursday between the hours of 10:00 am – 4:00 pm.

Trinity Terrace adheres to the principle of equal housing opportunity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, national origin, or familial status in the rental of dwellings.

Equal Housing Opportunity

80% AMI (Area Median Income)

$44,750 $51,150 $57,550 $63,900

A Public Information Session will be held at 6 pm on Dec 8th, 2014 in the Queset House First Floor Meeting Room (51 Main St, Easton).

Completed Applications and Required Income Documentation must be delivered, not postmarked, by 2:00 PM on December 30th, 2014.

The Lottery will be held on Jan 13th, 2015 at 6 PM in same location as the info session above.

VIVIENDA de ALQUILER ASEQUIBLE Trinity Terrace

12 Trinity Terrace, Dorchester, MA 02121 Phone (617) 825-0080 TDD: 1-800-545-1833 ext. 945 Trinity Terrace esta aceptando aplicaciones de vivienda, para poner en la lista de espera de 1, 2 y 3 habitaciones. Todos los aplicantes seran considerados de una forma no descriminatoria, y de acuerdo con las regulaciones del programa Low Income Housing Tax Credit como se especifica a continuacion:

For Details on Applications, the Lottery, and the Apartments or for reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, call 617.782.6900 (x1 for rental then x8 for 244 Washington) or go to: www.s-e-b.com/lottery Applications and Info also available at the Ames Free Library on 53 Main Street, North Easton (Hours: M-Th 10-8, F-Sa 10-5).

Costo de las viviendas asequibles 1 habitacion $1044.00 2 habitaciones $1244.00 3 habitaciones $1431.00

CALEFACION Y AGUA CALIENTE INCLUIDA Limites de ingreso maximo por el numero de inquilinos Numero de miembros lngreso maximo por en el hogar el programa LIHTC 1 $41,100.00 2 $46,980.00 3 $52,860.00 4 $58,680.00 5 $63,420.00 6 $68,100.00

Se require ingreso minimo para los aplicantes sin subsidio de renta

Se aceptan vouchers — Pagos standards de renta Restricciones de miembros del hogar aplican

Recoger las aplicaciones de Lunes a Jueves, entre las 10:00 am a 4:00 pm. Trinity Terrace se agrega a los pricipios de igualdad de oportunidad de vivienda y no descrimina en base a la raza, color, religion, sexo, descapacidad. origen nacional o estatus familiar, en el alquiler de sus viviendas.

Equal Housing Opportunity

EMPLOYMENT COORDINATOR

Collaborative Shelter Referral Program Project Hope

Project Hope works in partnership with families so they can move up and out of poverty. We seek an Employment Coordinator to work in tandem with the Shelter Referral Case Manager to provide employment coaching, counseling, and job search support to participants in the Program. The Coordinator will provide the full range of individualized employment coaching services, establish and maintain relationships with employers, teach classes, maintain participant data and generate reports, monitor trends and collaborate with other stakeholders.

Qualifications: • BA degree in Human Services or related field + 3 years of experience providing career development/coaching.

• Demonstrated knowledge of job search strategies and support.

• Experience working with low income community members and/or homeless families.

• Experience with workshop facilitation.

• Excellent communication and organizational skills.

• Proficiency in MS Office and internet applications; ability to develop proficiency in participant database.

Interested candidates should send cover letters and resumes to: jgrogan@prohope.org

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Carpenters

Boston based Non-union General Contractor is seeking Boston resident carpenters for work on an active Construction Project located in Brighton, MA. Must have 2–5 years experience with rough wood framing, hold an OSHA 10 hour card, have hand tools ( hammer, measuring tape, square), and Hardhat & Workboots. Power tools will be supplied. Hourly rate $20 – $25.

Email resume to careers@metriccorp.com.

Immediate placement available for qualified applicants.

Are you interested in a

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

Program eligibility includes: • • • • •

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

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

Administrative assistant MADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION Madison Park Development Corporation seeks an administrative assistant to provide administrative and secretarial support to various departments. Duties will include: front desk coverage, coordinating office functions such as supplies & machines, scheduling appointments and meetings, assisting with preparation of proposals, reports, document production, and correspondence, and making weekly bank deposits.

Qualifications:

• Two years of advanced education, or equivalent experience • 1–3 years of administrative experience, with an understanding of community, housing, and/or real estate • Outstanding organization skills and high attention to detail • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint • Working knowledge of Salesforce • Strong work ethic and ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment • Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to deal with a diverse public.

Candidates should:

send cover letters and resumes to: jgrogan@madison-park.org

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