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On the market for $399,000, this Hutchings Street two-family fixer-upper is a steal in Roxbury’s real estate market. Rising real estate values in surrounding neighborhoods, a central location and an attractive housing stock are pushing up prices in the neighborhood. (Banner photo)

High-price sales pushing Rox. real estate market Yawu Miller Home buyers priced out of surrounding neighborhoods are pushing Roxbury home prices higher as the neighborhood’s real estate market continues its recovery from the great recession.

A single family on Elmore Street sold for $545,000, a two-family a block away on Munroe Street reportedly changed hands for more than $700,000 and a three-family on Fort Hill Avenue is listed for $1.3 million. If the Fort Hill seller gets anywhere near that, it could set a new high water mark for Roxbury.

“Buyers are pushing the envelope,” said Roxbury-based real estate broker Kobe Evans. “The demand is constant, and a high percentage of the new sales are

going to people from outside the neighborhood.”

Bryant says high sales prices in South Boston, Mission Hill, the South End and Jamaica Plain are making Roxbury more attractive to buyers who might have previously overlooked the neighborhood. While there have been some high-priced sales in Roxbury, there are still many deals.

One such deal, a 4,200 squarefoot two family at 43 Hutchings Street, brought dozens of prospective buyers out on a Sunday afternoon. Listed for $399,000, and needing well more than $100,000 in renovations to its bathrooms and kitchens, the two-family also drew out a few neighbors, who admired its porte cochere and large, two-story carriage house.

As real estate broker Naoual

Khermez herded groups of house hunters through the home’s labyrinth of servants’ stairways and rooms, neighbor Edith Alexander admired the detailing in the home.

“It’s just so gorgeous,” she enthused. “The woodwork, the stained glass windows. This is the old, historic Roxbury.”

A life-long Roxbury resident, Alexander has more than a passing interest in who buys the home.

Like many Roxbury residents, Alexander wants to see the new owners plant roots in the neighborhood.

“Hopefully, whoever purchases this property will do the right thing,” she said. “We have a lot of housing being purchased and turned into group care homes.”

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to the T police and will be meeting with them to explore the curSocial media is not the best rent processes and procedures in place to air out tasteless thoughts determining changes. This is the and opinions, especially if you’re first situation where I’ve experia public servant, or anyone else in enced this kind of behavior at the the public eye. state level.”

MBTA Transit Police Officer Jackson said that Rossi’s acJoe Rossi learned that the hard tions diminish the good events way when he posted “Farther’s and efforts in communities like Day (sic), the most confusing Roxbury. holiday in Roxbury,” on his Face“There are a lot of great things book page. happening in Roxbury,” he said.

According to MBTA offi- “People are often more apt to tell cials, Rossi has been stripped of negative stories about this neighhis role as a drill instructor at the borhood than the better stories.

MBTA police academy and will My focus is and has been more be re-trained on the posiin the signiftive achieveicance of re- “We would like to ments. My role specting memas a councilor b e r s o f t h e think that someone and as a truth community. teller is to talk in an authority Boston City about the great position would Councilor things. ComT i t o J a c k - have the cultural ments and acson called the awareness to know tions like this posting “unacdo not help how offensive that ceptable.” and detract “The post- is to communities of from realing from the color.” ity. This takes officer was ofaway from the — Michael Curry neighborhood fensive and in poor taste,” achievements Jackson said. and our resil“He is someone who not only is ient families.” a police officer, but was in the ca“We’re not shocked because pacity of a trainer, which to me, a lot of offensive, tasteless and is the most worrisome aspect. discriminatory comments end up Someone of public status should on social media. But we’re disapnever be posting offensive mate- pointed that it came from a law rial like that.” enforcement officer,” Michael Jackson said he and president Curry, Boston NAACP President of the Boston Branch NAACP, said. “We would like to think that Michael Curry, will meet with someone in an authority position the T to address this matter. would have the cultural aware“It is my expectation that the ness to know how offensive that MBTA works swiftly to use all of is to communities of color. It their powers to discipline of this shows a lack of sensitivity to the individual to the highest degree,” many boys and girls of color or Jackson said. white in a fatherless situation.

MBTA cop, continued to page 10 “We have already reached out

Chelsea officials meet about child immigrants Nate Homan Representatives from the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition and the Chelsea Collaborative held a roundtable meeting with the Chelsea school superintendent, local lawyers and other activist groups addressing the need for communities like Chelsea and other cities with large immigrant populations to prepare for the arrival of undocumented unaccompanied minors and separated family members while tending to the needs of those who are already

integrated in the community.

“We are trying to gather resources for legal aid in treating this issue as a humanitarian crisis,” said Gladys Vega, executive director of the Chelsea Collaborative. “We are hoping to put together a legal team and are trying to prevent ICE from separating families.”

Vega said that the Chelsea Collaborative handles about 15 new cases a week.

“We have no idea how to handle this issue outside of calling on you in the community for help.”

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Photo: Superintendent Dr. Mary Bourque, Cristina Aguilera, Organizing Director of MIRA Collation and Gladys Vega, executive director of the Chelsea Collaborative at the roundtable meeting. (Banner Photo)

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Transfer station sparks ire in Southie, Roxbury Nate Homan Residents, workers and legislators in the Newmarket Square at the corner of Roxbury, South Boston and the South End district are concerned about a proposed $10 million dollar transfer station called Celtic Recycling in the area at 100 Widett Circle.

Local groups are opposed to the proposed development due to the amount of unanswered questions

they have regarding the amount of daily truck traffic, health concerns with the proximity to food processing plants and the effects the facility may have on the residents.

Celtic Recycling are trying to build a state-of-the-art recycling plant where a cold storage warehouse currently sits. The facility would truck in and process 15,000 tons of construction and demolition material a day on sealed trucks according

to Sue Sullivan of the Newmarket Square Business Association.

Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson voiced opposition towards the potential project. “This is not the right place for a waste plant,” Jackson said. “When we look at the type of development we need to see in Roxbury and the South End, this does not fall in with what neighbors and members of the community need.”

Jackson echoed concerns over the

Mayor Martin Walsh and U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton join Soley Guerrero in the Pledge of Allegience during a U.S. Naturalization ceremony at Faneuil Hall. (City of Boston photo by Don Harney)

effect this plant would have on the local economy and health concerns.

“I think this project would be disruptive to business, particularly the food processing business in the area.

It would add to the issues relative to the extraordinary high rate of asthma in Roxbury, where we already have an asthma rate that’s six times higher than the rate in Massachusetts. These types of plants are not supposed to be opened unless there is no capacity in the area.”

Jackson said he has had contact with direct abutters and community members alike that “do not want to be dumped on.”

“The real issue is that there has been movement at the state level but nothing is moving forward right now locally. I don’t look forward to working on it on a local level. I’d love to hear from people who’re supporting this.”

“We have a ton of questions, none of which we can get answered,” Sue Sullivan, Executive Director of Newmarket Business Association said. “You’ve got a gateway to the city. Why would you put a trash facility there? No one is giving us a good reason why it should go there.”

The building would be within close proximity to the Greater Boston Food Bank.

“There’s 21 food processing businesses in the area with about 750 employees right near the site,” Sullivan said. “We want to know how this plant will be sanitary enough to run in such close proximity. Trash and food don’t mix.”

Local groups have questions about the health hazard that may present themselves as well as noise pollution and air quality issues.

“We already have a high rate of people with asthma in that area,” Sullivan said. “We’re worried about what a plant like this would do those numbers.”

Loraine Downey of the West Broadway Neighborhood Association echoed similar concerns about the proposal. Downey said that the proposal made it to the hands and desks of local politicians, but Celtic and the neighborhood organizations have had little to no contact. Bulletins for public comment meetings were placed in local papers like South Boston Today this time last year. Sixty

people attended a community meeting addressing this proposal on July 1, 2014 at Condon School in South Boston, but Downey said this was not satisfactory for locals.

“We don’t know if we’re for or against the project given the amount of missing or conflicting info,” Downey said. “We don’t know enough about the plan. I was upset that Celtic didn’t come to any of us to discuss this.”

The question of neighborhood traffic was a major concern, seeing how about 250 trucks would potentially be driving in and out of the facility every day.

“We have over 300 businesses here, most of them industrial,” Downey said. “There are about 30,000 employees, half of which live in the city. We’re all about job creation, but we’re constantly being barraged by people wanting to put things down here because no one wants them and they can’t have it both ways.

We’ve had three methadone clinics, a potential marijuana dispensary and other propositions for facilities no one else wants in their neighborhood.”

Another lingering question involves the potential of a land grab from the MBTA through eminent domain as part of the South Station expansion. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is trying to expand South Station and looked to Newmarket as a possible location for their layover facility. MBTA spokesperson Joe Pesaturo said that taking the land through eminent domain is not a part of the T’s current Environmental Impact Report for the South Station Expansion project.

“We weighed in in the beginning steps,” Mark McGonagle, Chief of Staff of Boston City Councilor Bill Linehan said. “We supported the idea of a recycling facility and a green building, but have disagreed with everything since. As of now, we cannot go further because of stalled conversation with the MBTA over their decision to claim the land through eminent domain.”

“We’re committed to making a world class city and a giant waste facility is not the way to go for the southern gateway to the city,” Marianne Kaiser, head of Newmarket Food Association said.

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Veteran activists discuss history of school deseg.

Yawu Miller For many, Boston’s turbulent era of school desegregation began with black kids from Roxbury riding buses to South Boston and white kids from Southie being bused to schools in Roxbury.

But for many who were involved in the black community’s struggle for education equity, the saga began long before the first bus of black students crossed the city’s neighborhood and color lines.

“It was 1960 when Ruth Batson came to an NAACP meeting where we had our office at 451 Mass.

Ave.,” recalls Long Bay Management President Ken Guscott.

At issue was a pervasive pattern of discrimination.

And out of the hundreds of teachers in the system, only a handful were black. Blacks were effectively shut out of the school system’s jobs, unable to obtain even janitorial jobs in the system, which was tightly controlled by an all-white and notoriously racist school committee.

“I never had a black teacher during my years in the schools,” Guscott said.

When he graduated, and sought to pursue engineering at MIT, his teachers advised him to work in the post office. Although he was accepted at MIT, Guscott left to serve in World War II. Former Sen. Bill Owens recalls that corporal punishment in the schools was widespread and brutal. When a white teacher at

As the veterans described, a dedicated group of activists led by Batson worked doggedly behind the scenes to lay the groundwork for efforts to secure better educational opportunities for black students.

“We met every night at the Freedom House,” said Barbara Burke. “We worked hard for years for the safety of our children.”

Guscott recalls the meeting

where their organization, which later became the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, got its first commitment.

“It was on Ruthven Street on a Sunday afternoon,” he said. “The superintendent of Brookline was there and said we would send the first group of kids to his school.”

The efforts of the activists prevailed in part because of the cohesiveness of the black community in the 1960s and ‘70s, according to Cambridge College professor Lyda Peters, who is working on an oral history project on school desegregation.

“This was a small community,” said Peters, who was one of a handful of teachers in the Boston system in 1965. “People didn’t have to sit

down at the same table, but they understood that they were all fighting for the same thing: Better treatment for our kids.”

The school desegregation case that became the defining event of 1970s Boston was in many ways the culmination of the years of their work. The activists pursued the issue in court because the city’s school committee blocked any attempts to redistribute resources equitably, according to Guscott.

“This was a school system as segregated as any in the South,” he said. “The difference was in the South, they had Jim Crow laws. Here we had Jim Crow practices. You can’t your hands around Jim Crow practices without going to court.”

“We ended up in federal court.

They were beating our kids just because they were black.”

— Bill Owens

Guscott gathered with a half dozen other veterans of the era to discuss the history of the black community’s struggle for education resources.

“Ruth noticed that some of her white daughters were getting homework,” Guscott said. “Black children were not.”

The inequities Batson and other civil rights activists in the black community notices were real. The late Paul Parks found in a study that the average per pupil spending in predominantly black schools was just $250 a year while it was $500 in predominantly white schools.

Black students were taught in overcrowded schools. The textbooks assigned to black students were often more than 20 years old.

South Boston High School backhanded a young black girl, sending her falling down a flight of stairs, Owens and other black activists persuaded the student’s parents to file a lawsuit.

“We ended up in federal court,” he said, adding that the case, Murphy v. the Boston School Committee, led to the end of corporal punishment in the schools.

“They were beating our kids just because they were black.”

While many in the black community were working to gain access to Boston’s educational resources, those same activists pursued a dual track persuading school districts in surrounding white suburbs to take on students from the black community.

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Long Bay Management President Ken Guscott leads a discussion about the history of the black community’s efforts to obtain equal access to public school resources. Looking on are former state Sen. Bill Owens, former state Rep. Shirley Owens Hicks, education activist Barbara Burke and Cambridge College Professor Lyda Peters. (Banner photo)

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Steve Grossman for governor Voters must give considerable thought to who they want to succeed Deval Patrick as governor.

Sultry summer days do not induce great interest in the rigors of political campaigning, but there is an urgent and unavoidable truth. If the candidate you prefer does not win the primary election on Tuesday, Sept. 9, then your preference becomes irrelevant.

Thoughtful citizens have to be concerned about Gov. Patrick’s successor. Deval has raised the level of performance for the governor to such a high standard that no one wants to slide backward. Deval is a visionary with managerial skills to implement his ideas. During his administration, Massachusetts became a national leader in both public education as well as the development of life science projects.

Other achievements include the development of business and technology innovation, criminal justice reform and greater government efficiency. But most important of all, Deval’s administration maintained an open door for citizens who are often ignored and marginalized because of race or their country of origin. Everyone became part of the body politic.

Every candidate for governor will undoubtedly assert that he or she can perform in office as well as Deval. That is to be expected in a political campaign. But the resumé of only one candidate assures voters of the capacity to live up to the Gov. Patrick legacy. Only Steve Grossman’s record indicates that he has the ability and the innate interest to perform as governor at the exalted level established by Deval.

As state treasurer, Grossman turned a staid office into a hotbed of innovation. Customarily, the treasurer simply deposited all the Commonwealth’s funds in banks that were considered to be too big to fail. That supposedly eliminated risk but provided no benefit to state residents whose taxes had provided the funds. Grossman decided to utilize some of the funds to provide jobs.

Economists have determined that small businesses are an abundant source of employment.

Unfortunately, the difficulty in finding capital restricted business growth and an increased number of jobs. Grossman developed the Small Business Banking Partnership to help resolve the problem.

He deposited more than $350 million into 54 community banks that agreed to make loans to small businesses. As a result, the banks have made nearly 8,000 loans with a value of more than $1 billion, and there have been many more jobs.

Grossman promised that as soon as he took office, the staff of the Treasurer’s Office and the State Lottery would reflect the racial diversity of Massachusetts. He rejected the old excuse that it was difficult to hire competent employees with different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Of the 240 employees he has hired, 35 percent come from ethnically diverse backgrounds.

Grossman’s advocacy of opportunities for women was equally strong. As chairman of the Pension Reserves Investment Management board that manages $55 billion of the state’s pension funds, he saw to it that companies in which PRIM had invested would receive a negative proxy vote if they did not have a diversity policy for women and so-called minorities and if women and people of color were not on the boards of directors.

No group of voters is better informed about Grossman’s achievements than his colleagues in the Democratic Party. At their convention in June they voted him top pick for governor. Unfortunately all of the electorate is not sufficiently informed about Grossman’s merits to come decidedly to the same conclusion.

There are only seven weeks left before the primary election. Political activists should organize to inform the public of Grossman’s qualifications and mobilize a massive voter turnout.

Why should the community have to settle for second best?

Once again there is war in the Holy Land. The utter lopsidedness of the current conflict has dispelled any notion that what we’re seeing in the news is a “cycle of violence,” as it’s been characterized in the past in the American and Israeli media.

Three Israeli settlers were abducted and killed in the West Bank, presumably by Palestinians, although no one knows for sure. The Israeli military responded by killing seven Palestinians, then launched a war against the people of Gaza, killing nearly 200 there in what can only be characterized as a brutal act of collective punishment.

Foolishly, Hamas has been raining its ineffective missiles on Israeli towns.

Tellingly, they have killed no one, but did manage to maim two young Bedouin girls. The Bedouins’ whose homes are regularly demolished by the Israelis, can’t catch a break. But at least they have open space. The citizens of Gaza are living in what many characterize as an open penal colony, not unlike the Holot prison where the Israelis have incarcer-

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ated thousands of African refugees fleeing war in Sudan and other North African countries.

As Wikileaks revealed back in 2011, Israel told the United States its policy toward the population of Gaza is to restrict the flow of food, medicine and other needed goods to the territory, effectively condemning the population there to a near starvation diet, apparently as punishment for their having democratically elected the Hamas party to lead them.

The Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank are living an existence

most of us would find unimaginable.

They live daily with humiliation, intimidation, house demolitions, restrictions of movement and arbitrary punishment and death. In a cycle of violence, there would be at least some semblance of reciprocity from the Palestinians. But with Hamas missiles that do more damage to Palestinians than they do to Israelis, it’s clear Hamas hasn’t the capacity to harm a whisker on Netanyahu’s cheek.

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OPINION GOP Hypocrisy Rides High on Border Crisis Earl Ofari Hutchinson Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz was the most outrageous of all the GOP Obama basher on the border crisis. He called President Obama’s policies “lawlessness” and virtually accused him of hatching a diabolical plan to open up the borders to any and every one who wanted to come in. Cruz’s predictable over the top anti-Obama diatribe was crude and over the top. But other GOP leaders have been just as quick to pounce on him using only a slightly more delicate phrasing. They accused Obama of creating the border crisis.

They should be the last to finger point him.

In the last decade, the GOP has drum beat the issue of the U.S.’ supposedly out of control southern border with Mexico to scuttle any deal on immigration reform. And there certainly have been many attempts to put forth a deal on reform. In fact, the best moment to get a deal through on reform came nearly a decade ago when Democrats and a handful of Republicans backed a reform bill. Then-President George W. Bush publicly supported the bill and urged passage. But that was only so much show. Republican senators then went to work. They dumped crippling demands in the bill for tight amnesty, citizenship and iron tight border security. Leading Republican presidential contenders that year flatly opposed the bill with the charge that it was much too soft on amnesty and border enforcement.

The damaging consequence for the GOP is that the party’s hard line opposition to immigration reform undid the inroads that Bush made in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections when he scored gains with Latino voters. A big part of that was due to the perception that Bush would push hard for immigration reform. The GOP instead stayed true to form to its ingrained, nativist xenophobia on what American citizenship should be about.

The other centerpiece of that tunnel vision concept beyond the charade of border insecurity was the party’s opposition to a pathway to citizenship for the undocumented.

Two crushing presidential defeats, and the unrelenting hostility Despite the heartof Latino voters, did little to change the party’s thinking on immigration breaking pictures of reform. In subsequent efforts to hundreds of children craft a bill, the GOP congressional and young adults leaders continued to pile on amendpacked into border ment after amendment; always the deal breaker was border security. detention centers, in The GOP flatly said this was the the past few years non-negotiable condition for the illegal border crossings bill’s passage. GOP Senator Marco have plunged steadily.

Rubio, who has been propped up as the GOP’s shining white knight on immigration reform, said bluntly, “The only way we’re going to pass an immigration reform law out of the House and Senate so the president can sign it is if it has real border security measures within it.” Rubio and GOP leaders knew better than that since the bill did have exactly that but it still made little difference. Unsafe secure borders were just too convenient a ploy to whipsaw Obama and the Democrats with and kill this as all other reform bills.

This is where the GOP’s hypocrisy not to mention flat out deception has risen to the heights. The U.S. spends nearly $20 billion annually on border security measures and that figure was ramped up even higher this year. That’s more spent on border security than ever before, and far more than the government spends on all other federal law enforcement agencies combined. The massive spending has paid off. Nearly every inch of the border is patrolled, around the clock, by waves of more than 20,000 border patrol agents and at least six unmanned aircraft. Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security officials have publicly admitted that unarmed drones are used to patrol the Mexican and Canadian borders, as well as the Caribbean Sea, and in other law enforcement operations.

Despite the heart-breaking pictures of hundreds of children and young adults packed into border detention centers, in the past few years illegal border crossings have plunged steadily. This drop, combined with the surge in deportations which are at an all-time high, add up to an historic low in net illegal immigration into the country. The unstated downside is that with the hyper aggressiveness of border patrol and the immigration crackdown there has been a sharp rise in deaths since 2010 from the desperate efforts of undocumented immigrants to skirt the patrols, and the use of lethal force by patrol agents under dubious circumstances.

Contrary to the media and the GOP’s skilled play on and hysteria over a supposed leaky border and lax Obama administration immigration enforcement, the U.S. is not the only way stop for desperate people seeking refuge from gangs, violence, and poverty in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees notes that the numbers seeking asylum in other countries has also soared. The point is there would still be a refugee crisis with or without the alleged failings of the Obama administration on border security.

The GOP will continue to push the insecure border myth to batter Obama and the Democrats and to torpedo meaningful immigration reform. This virtually guarantees that the human tragedy of refugees at the U.S. border will continue unabated.

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Getting these young people jobs.

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Jobs, education and health care.

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More safety on the streets and more awareness of what’s going on on the streets.

More housing, more job training for young people of color, and making the police respect the communities they serve.

Slowing down gentrification. A lot of us have been here all our lives and have worked to fight crime and make our communities better. All of us who sacrificed are going to have to leave.

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Major (Gerard) Eric Hill Major (Gerard) Eric Hill, a Boston native and US Army Reserves Officer, was recently honored by the ambassador to Afghanistan and the Department of State for his dedication and service as the US Forces Garrison Liaison to the NATO Support Agency at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan. Hill deployed with the 207th Regional Support Group in July of 2013 to Kandahar Airfield. As the NATO Support Agency Liaison, Hill was responsible for coordinating, overseeing and representing all US interests with the NATO Support Agency in Afghanistan. This required Hill’s presence at multiple NATO Support Agency conferences in Capellan, Luxembourg. In addition, Hill was accountable for directing contract support for all US-supported nations.

In addition to his NATO Support Agency Liaison duties, Hill also served as the Deputy Director of Acquisition and Legal and the

Director of Human Resources while in Afghanistan, providing oversight of all U.S. contracts and contractors at Kandahar Airfield which totaled more than $170,586,590. Hill also oversaw a budget of more than $581,397,003. Hill successfully reduced US contracts and contractors in support of US Military Contingency Drawdown operations in Afghanistan. In his capacity as the

Director of Human Resources, Hill assisted in preparing the Afghanistan environment for a successful Presidential election.

Hill received his 2nd Bronze Star as well as the NATO Commendation Medal for his most recent tour. Hill was first awarded the Bronze Star in 2008 for combat mission in Iraq. Hill has two previous deployments to Iraq.

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Council takes on immigration, residency, minority hiring stats

Residency requirements for police, the detention of immigrants and data on the racial composition of the city’s workforce dominated the City Council meeting last week.

The council passed by voice vote Councilor Michael Flaherty’s ordinance that would require candidates for jobs in the police department to live for three years in Boston before being hired. Flaherty argues that with the current one-year residency requirement, job applicants from other cities and towns can move to Boston when they take the civil service exam, remain in the city in the year it takes them to receive their results and then compete with Boston residents for the jobs.

“Our hope is that we’ll give city kids a chance to compete for positions as well as create a more diverse workforce that reflects Boston’s diversity,” Flaherty said.

Governor Patrick makes an announcement relative to training workers in the Pioneer Valley for careers in the 21st century economy at the Smith & Wesson Center inside Springfield Technical Community College. (Governor’s Office photo by Eric Haynes)

While Boston’s population is 53 percent people of color, 80 percent of the state’s population identified as white in the 2010 Census. In the most recent graduating class of police recruits, just 17 percent were people of color. By limiting candidates to long-term Boston residents, Flaherty argues, the police would draw from a more diverse pool.

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Councilor Josh Zakim’s ordinance to bar police from detaining immigrants solely based on suspicions that they’ve violated immigration laws.

Currently, the Boston Police comply with the Obama Administration’s so-called Secure Communities Act, through which U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issues detainer orders — requests that the police hold suspects for their agents to pick them up.

While the program was ostensibly aimed at deporting undocumented immigrants with criminal records, 54 percent of those ICE agents have detained from Boston had no criminal record.

Zakim argued the detentions violated people’s rights.

“We should not be complicit in violating people’s due process,” he argued.

Mayor Martin Walsh recently signaled that the Boston Police would no longer comply with the detention orders, which some argue violate immigrants’ rights. Zakim’s ordinance would the city’s break with the policy official.

Other councilors said the detention policy deters undocumented immigrants from turning to the police when they’re the vic-

tims of violent crimes.

“We have a lot of undocumented residents in East Boston,” said Councilor Sal LaMattina. “The stories I hear are real horror stories — women being sexually assaulted, raped. And they won’t report it because they’re afraid of being deported.”

“It’s about time Boston takes a leadership role on this issue,” said Councilor Tito Jackson. “The police are here to protect and serve, and I would submit they have to protect and serve everyone — not just citizens.”

Racial makeup of city’s workforce For the last 30 years, the City of Boston has released quarterly reports on the racial makeup of its workforce. Last week the Council passed Councilor Charles Yancey’s resolution ordering the administration of Mayor Martin Walsh to resume the quarterly reports.

Walsh administration officials have not issued a report since the mayor took office.

“I think it’s important that the public has this information, and at the very least, that this legislative body has access to this information,” Yancey said.

Walsh told The Banner the city’s personnel department has been relying on a combination of self-reporting and visual assessments — department heads looking at their employees and guessing their racial background — to compile statistics for years.

“There was profiling going on, and I don’t agree with it,” Walsh said. “The latest request by Councilor Yancey will be released.”

Walsh also said his commitment to diversifying city government remains unchanged.

“We’re working every single day to bring diversity to city government, to the cabinet, to department heads and to the rank-and-file workers.”

Walsh seeks ideas for Roxbury Innovation Center Mayor Martin Walsh announced the City of Boston released a Request for Ideas for the 3,350 square foot Innovation Center planned for the redeveloped Ferdinand Building in Dudley Square. The call for ideas and proposals for innovation related programming, concepts, and business models for the site will assist the City in gauging interest and understanding the current state of the marketplace and the potential economic impact of the Roxbury Innovation Center on the surrounding community.

“I want to bring the future economy to every Boston neighborhood, and the Roxbury Innovation Center will be the catalyst for Dudley Square,” said Mayor Walsh. “I’m looking to Boston’s vibrant innovation community for ideas on how to shape this opportunity, and to lay the groundwork for this exciting approach to economic development.”

Walsh announced plans for The Roxbury Innovation Center during his Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce speech in April 2014. The center will be located on the second floor of the Ferdinand Building, which is currently being redeveloped and will be the future headquarters of Boston Public Schools. The building is slated to open in the first quarter of 2015.

The RFI is not a formal procurement process to select an operator, but rather an informal solicitation to gauge interest and gather information. The RFI is available on the city’s website. Responses are due on or before September 1, 2014.

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William Galvin

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Culture Schools, he earned a degree in Political Science from Northwestern University and went on to receive a law degree from Vermont Law School. After moving to Massachusetts in the 1990’s, he became a public interest attorney. Today, he lives in Acton with his partner Nadia and their 16 year-old son, Mandela, where he is active on the Acton Commission on Disabilities.

As a Green-Rainbow Party candidate and lifelong activist, Factor plans improve upon economic, social, education and environment issues by enacting an economic bill of rights, ending foreclosures in Massachusetts, breaking up big banks, getting big money out of politics and enacting tuition free higher education.

William Galvin

William Galvin was born on September 17, 1950 in the Brighton section of Boston where he lives today with his wife, Eileen, and daughter, Bridget. He was educated in the Brighton parochial schools, and graduated cum laude from Boston College in 1972 and Suffolk University Law School in 1975. He began his political career in 1972 as an aide to the Governor’s Council while an undergraduate, and won a special election to the General Court as state representative from the Allston-Brighton district the same year he graduated from Law School.

If re-elected Galvin said he plans to advance the opportunity of commonwealth citizens by giving them the opportunity to speak out, to vote, to obtain justice, and to pursue health and happiness, to create strong communities brimming with hope for every citizen and our child.

David D’Arcangelo

D’Arcangelo, 43, lives in Malden with wife Lisa and his daughter. He is a 1996 graduate of Suffolk University, where he recently served as an adjunct faculty member in the Communications and Journalism Department. In his decades of experience with elections, he has worked volunteering for dozens of campaigns and serving the City of Boston as an election officer, warden, clerk and inspector.

His experience includes working in the administrations of three governors and in the state Legislature, as well as serving on the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind for two terms under both governors Mitt Romney and Deval Patrick. Outside of government, he’s founded and serves as managing director of Arc Angel Communications, a public relations and social media firm.

Danny Factor

Factor was raised by activist parents in New York City’s South Bronx. After attending the Ethical

Attorney General Warren Tolman

Tolman, 54, grew up in Watertown, MA, Attended Amherst College and Boston College Law School. He is a Massachusetts lawyer and former member of the Massachusetts General Court, serving in both of the Court’s houses. Married to fellow Watertown native Carolyn Tolman; they have three children Tolman said he sees the job as Attorney General as a way to build off of his long track record of standing up to entrenched interests. As a legislator, he took on big tobacco, leading the fight to make it harder to sell cigarettes to kids. He stood up to big polluters and led the fight for clean election laws. Has been committed to progressive values and progressive action. And is determined to ensure that every person in this Commonwealth has someone to speak for them in the Attorney General’s office.

Maura Healey

Healey was born and raised in Newburyport. After graduating from public high school she went on to attend Harvard College where she majored in government and captained the Harvard basketball team. After two years as a

Danny Factor

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Maura Healey

John Miller

Deborah Goldberg

Thomas Conroy

starting point guard for the UBBC Wustenrot Salzburg professional basketball team in Austria, Maura returned to Massachusetts to attend law school at Northeastern University School of Law. Today she resides in Charlestown with her partner.

Healey joined the Attorney General’s Office in 2007 after serving as a litigator in one of Boston’s most prominent law firms, WilmerHale, formerly Hale and Dorr, and as a special assistant district attorney in Middlesex County.

Treasurer

Barry Finegold

John Miller

Miller was born and raised in New Britain, CT. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970 where he earned degrees in Civil Engineering and Soil Mechanics. After college he attended Boston University School of Law, and graduated with a degree in Law and an advanced degree in Taxation. Miller worked as in-house patent counsel for a high-tech Massachusetts manufacturing firm until 1981, when he moved to Gadsby & Hannah to practice construction and government contracts law. A few years later, Miller returned to MIT to earn his doctorate in Infrastructure Systems. Mille resides in Winchester with his wife Dr. Joan Miller, where they raised their three children who are all graduates of Massachusetts universities.

Miller is running for attorney general hoping to use his experiences to help the commonwealth.

He believes it is the Attorney General’s duty to fight public corruption, protect consumers, combat crime and protect our society’s most vulnerable members.

Deborah Goldberg

Goldberg was raised in Brookline. Deb is a graduate of Boston University, Boston College Law School, and Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. She grew up in Brookline where she still lives with her husband, Michael Winter, their son and daughter, Evan and Meredith.

Goldberg served for six years on the Brookline Board of Selectmen, the last two as its Chair. She led initiatives to revitalize Brookline’s commercial areas, increase the availability of affordable housing, worked with the Retirement Board on pension funding, cost of living adjustments, and brought policy budgeting to the forefront.

Thomas Conroy

Tom received his MA in International Economics from Johns Hopkins in Washington DC, and an MBA in Finance from Boston University. He worked in the business sector with various consulting groups in the Greater Boston area, where he focused on helping state agencies manage their finances and guiding private firms to develop more efficient finance practices. He lives in Wayland with his wife, Sarah Sewall, and their four daughters.

Conroy is running for state Treasurer because he believes that the fundamental promise of Massachusetts — that we are a true commonwealth of equal opportunity — is at risk, and that his unique private and public sector experience makes him best qualified candidate to help lead the state forward toward a better and brighter future.

Barry Finegold, 43, was raised in Andover and Tewksbury. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College with a major in government and a business concentration. Barry lives in Andover with his wife, Amy, and three children, Ava, Ella and Max. Finegold was elected to the Andover Board of Selectmen at age 24. A year later, in 1996, he won election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a Democrat. He held this position for 11 years, representing the 17th Essex District, consisting of Andover, Tewksbury and Lawrence.

Mike Heffernan

Heffernan is a native of Southborough. He holds a BA in Economics from Georgetown University, and an MBA in Finance from New York University. After successfully launching Mobiquity, Mike returned to school full time, earning an MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Today he resides in Wellesley with his wife Peggy and their three teenage children.

Heffernan brings over 25 years of private sector experience from senior leadership roles in financial services, capital markets and entrepreneurship. He’s spent nearly two decades in increasingly senior roles at Citigroup’s Markets & Banking division, most recently overseeing Citi’s 7 U.S. Regional Distribution offices in institutional equities. As well, he has been active in a number of charitable organizations candidates, acontinued to page 13

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Roxbury Multi-Service marks 50th anniversary Nate Homan

The Roxbury Multi-Service Center Inc. is hosting their 50th anniversary on Thursday, July 24, 2014 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Columbia Point.

To mark the occasion, RMSC will honor Action for Boston Community Development, Inc., one of the nation’s leading and region’s largest human services agencies, which is responsible for writing the Ford Foundation demonstration grant that funded the creation of RMSC. Hubie

Jones, founding executive director of RMSC, will also be honored.

“We are very excited to celebrate our 50th Anniversary. With this also being the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Bill, the leadership provided by this year’s honorees enabled RMSC to provide critical comprehensive behavioral health services and educational programs to many of the city’s most challenged neighborhoods during a very turbulent time in American history,” Carole Montgomery, executive director of RMSC said in a press release.

“It speaks volumes to the level

of commitment from our staff, the support from the community, and the dedication of our volunteers that we have been serving the community for so long.”

RMSC opened their doors on Blue Hill Avenue on January 3, 1965, working as a branch of ABCD in an effort to serve the Roxbury and North Dorchester neighborhoods.

“Our longstanding relationship with RMSC has been very successful for the community,” ABCD President/CEO John J. Drew said in a press release. “Together we have helped thousands of Boston’s

most vulnerable residents by providing needed services, counseling and advocacy.”

The program began as a caseby-case operation emphasizing on serving families by providing casework, employment, housing, legal and mental health services. These programs ranged from summer camps, reading labs, counseling and housing for the homeless.

RMSC broadened their scope in the 1960’s, focusing on neighborhood improvement and education reform. RMSC fought for the passage of Chapter 766 which guarantees the right of young people with special needs to an educational program best suited to their needs as a founding member of the Task Force on Children Out of Schools, which is now Massachusetts Advocates for Children. The Task Force also had a direct hand in fighting for the first national bi-lingual edu-

MBTA cop You’d want people to have more compassion.”

“Ultimately, these truly tasteless jokes are just that. This generation seems to understand that, but it seems to rear its ugly head again,” Curry said. “But when it’s done by a person in power and authority, it is disturbing.”

Curry said that issues of racism and local law enforcement is not an uncommon issue, citing an instance from two years ago where racist graffiti was found in a secure part of a Boston Police station that officers and staff members only had access to.

“We like to believe that racism and bigotry is a thing of the past, but it doesn’t take much to determine it is not. It’s very common, but society clicks its heels three

times hoping to end up in a better place. The challenge for us is to understand that diversity training is as necessary as it was 10, 20, and 40 years ago. It has no expiration date. Just because we don’t have Jim Crow Laws doesn’t mean we don’t have Jim Crow attitudes toward communities of color.”

According to information from MBTA Police Chief Paul MacMillian’s office, the MBTA Transit Police employs 182 white people, 24 black, 22 Asian, 21 Hispanic men and women.

MBTA spokesperson Joe Pesaturo said that the T is investigating whether or not other officers or employees “liked” the status. He told The Banner that the T became aware of this situation through news media outlets and that no customers or staff members have issued any complaints to their office.

estimated value the Zillow real estate site estate site places on Richardson’s house surpasses the Glen Road condo’s value.

While most of the prospective homebuyers on Hutchings Street were black, Cape Verdean and Latino, Bryant says most of the high-priced sales in Roxbury have been non-black buyers. As older black families look to downsize, younger black buyers often can’t afford their asking prices.

“One of the quiet realities is that a high percentage of new sales are going to people from outside the community,” he said.

Demott noted that the number of white college students in Roxbury is on the rise, a trend that

could further push up rents and real estate values.

“There are more than 150,000 students coming into Boston every year looking for off-campus housing,” he said. “Students pay $3,000 for a three-bedroom apartment. It’s double what Section 8 pays.”

It may be the lower-priced fixer uppers, like 43 Hutchings Street, that provide the best chances for indigenous Roxbury buyers to remain in the neighborhood, according to Richardson.

“This is a beautiful neighborhood,” he said. “We need to start looking at Roxbury’s possibilities.

Otherwise everything is going to get snapped up.”

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A drill instructor at the MBTA Police Academy has been stripped of his role and must undergo training after he posted a racist comment on his Facebook page. (Banner photo)

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For decades, Roxbury was seen by many as one of the least desirable of the city’s neighborhoods.

When Dan and Marlena Richardson bought their sprawling Queen Anne Victorian on Humboldt Avenue 40 years ago for $16,000, it was not widely recognized as a sound investment.

“People told us we were crazy,” he said. “People said we were out of our damn minds.”

Like many in the neighborhood, the Richardsons stuck it out while capital flight continued to bleed Roxbury and other inner

city neighborhoods across the country. Now, as the neighborhood’s housing values continue to rise, others are seeing the wisdom in the Richardsons’ investment.

“It’s safe to say Roxbury is the next big thing in real estate,” said real estate broker Kensley Dimmott, surveying the houses on Hutchings Street. “Roxbury is now seen as safe. It happened in the South End, in Mission Hill and in Fort Hill. Now it’s happening in the rest of Roxbury.”

Up and down Hutchings Street, large oak trees and maples tower over the sprawling Victorian homes. Number 43, with its inelegantly hung aluminum siding, is flanked by the stately

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homes on either side. The wellkept housing stock makes the $399,000 fixer upper look like an even greater deal.

“If these houses were in Jamaica Plain or in Cambridge, they would be worth millions of dollars,” Richardson said.

He has a point. Just half a mile away from Hutchings Street on the Jamaica Plain side of Franklin Park, a three-bedroom condominium at 82 Glen Road is listed for $849,000. While square footage of the condo is not listed, its lot size – 2,800 square feet – is substantially smaller than the 13,000 square foot lot Richardson’s Victorian and turreted carriage house it sited on. At least the $861,000

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Roxbury Rocks Celebration of Music, Dance and Community at the Heart of “Roxbury Rocks Music Festival” Colette Greenstein New Edition, Donna Summer, Ed O.G., Roy Haynes, Guru, Tony Williams, Sonny Stitt, Irving Ashby, Patrice O’Neal, and Elma Lewis.

What do they all have in common?

They’re all noted musicians, singers, comedians, jazz performers, and cultural icons, who were all residents of Roxbury at one point in their lives.

Roxbury, which serves as the heart of black culture in Boston, is a neighborhood long-known for its rich cultural history, and will be feted this Saturday, July 19, with the first annual Roxbury Rocks Music Festival presented by Roxbury Community College.

The festival will take place from 1 to 6 p.m. on the campus of RCC, and is free and open to the public. It will include food trucks, musical and dance performances by local artists, free ice cream and face painting for the family, and an Awards Ceremony.

The idea for “Roxbury Rocks” came about “to celebrate the summer season and say thank you to the community for their support during the past year” according to Roxbury Community College President Valerie Roberson (who responded to questions via email).

Roberson, who has been a community college administrator for 28 years, and who assumed the role of

above, King-i; left, OrigiNation; right, Alexi Paraschos

President in July 2013 amidst much turmoil at the institution, hopes that the music festival will “strengthen our connections to prospective and current students as well as the larger community.”

She goes on to say, “we also want to highlight our role as a singular educational resource committed to serving the needs of Roxbury, surrounding communities and other diverse populations in the Commonwealth.”

The musical servings for Saturday include a menu of jazz, R&B, gospel and reggae from several Boston-based musicians and artists, performing from 1 to 3:30 p.m. The afternoon kicks off with the highly regarded and well-known jazz group, The Kordalewski Trio featuring pianist/arranger John Kordalewski.

For fans of R&B and gospel music, there’s acoustic soul singer Alexi Paraschos, and R&B/gospel singer Ron Murphy. The afternoon entertainment heats up with the powerful and soulful reggae band, King-i, along with local dance company, OrigiNation, known for their dynamic and highly energetic performances incorporating African dance and rhythms, as well as ballet, tap, jazz and hip hop.

Another highlight of the day is RCC’s First Annual You Rock Awards Ceremony held inside the Media Arts Center on the college

campus from 4 to 6 p.m. The College will recognize four community leaders who have championed RCC and the Roxbury community over the years.

The honorees include: Sonia L. Alleyne, MPA, vice president & New England regional manager of community reinvestment and the Santander Bank Foundation; Judge Leslie Harris, an associate justice of the Suffolk County Juvenile Court; Derek Lumpkins, executive director of Discover Roxbury; and Beverly Morgan Welch, executive director of the Museum of African American History.

Keeping the day running smoothly will be Bonnie Johnson, producer and host of the WICN 90.5 FM radio program Colors of Jazz.

With a host of activities spanning the afternoon, “students and the wider community can expect an ongoing series of academic, civic and cultural events here on the RCC campus” in the coming year, says Roberson.

When asked what she was most looking forward to on Saturday, Roberson said “a warm summer day celebrating our musical heritage, enjoying local talent, recognizing our supporters and connecting with our students, staff, faculty and the larger community.”

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Actor, arts activist Rosie Perez pens autobiography Kam Williams Rosie Maria Perez was born on September 6, 1964 in Bushwick, Brooklyn where she was raised in a Catholic orphanage after being abandoned by her mom and taken from her aunt. She made a most memorable screen debut as Spike Lee’s girlfriend, Tina, in “Do the Right Thing,” and later landed an Oscar-nomination for a nonpareil performance in “Fearless.” Her many other credits include “White Men Can’t Jump,” “Won’t Back Down” and “The Counselor.”

Rosie serves as the Artistic Chair of Urban Arts Partnership and sits on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. Here, she talks about her career and her autobiography, “Handbook for an Unpredictable Life.”

What inspired you to write your autobiography?

I didn’t really know at first. I kept asking myself, “why am I doing this?” because I’m such a private person. Then, one day, the head of programming at my charity, the Urban Arts Partnership, said she was excited that I was writing it, and she hoped I’d be giving copies to the students.

My first reaction was “no,” since

the subject-matter was really heavy, and because of some of the language I was using. But she then reminded me that I’d already shared my stories with them, and I almost burst into tears. I realized, “Oh my God! That’s why I’m writing it.” Those students had been the first people, outside of my inner circle, to hear my story. It happened when I participated in one of our programs called Life Stories, where we encourage the kids to open up and share so they can understand their lives. One day, I was challenged to share my story with them. That‘s where finding the inspiration and strength to write this book began.

I found it very moving, especially since I had no idea about any of it. I just thought of you as that bubbly, talented, attractive actress I’d seen in movies and on talk shows.

And I am that person, but I’m also this one. And the reason I decided to share with the students was because I saw them come into the Academy so burdened by life every day. When you are a low-income, poverty-stricken, Title 1 kid, you have so much to endure just waking up. So, you

may have a bad attitude or a chip on your shoulder before you even get to school. You may arrive so anxious, angry, hungry or apathetic that you may say to yourself, “why should I pay attention in class?” You might be beaten up on the way to school, because you live in a bad neighborhood.

Still, I had to inform them, especially the seniors, that they didn’t have the luxury of bringing all that baggage into the world which they would be stepping into as adults. I’d say, “you need to come to terms with it, or let it go. One or the other. And if you can do both, then you’re golden.”

If you are unable to get past that baggage, the opportunities that should be yours will not be yours.

Well, I applaud you for overcoming so many obstacles. After all, the odds of making it in Hollywood are long enough for someone coming from a privileged background.

I hear you, since the odds were supposedly great. But you know what? I knew I was going to be successful from day one. From day one. That’s why it throws me whenever someone says it was such a fluke that I was successful.

Rosie Perez

What key quality do you believe all successful people share?

I would say tenacity and perseverance. You have to be like a dog with a bone. You can’t just let it go. And number one is belief.

You have to believe in yourself.

You need to have the audacity to be great.

With so many classic films being redone, is there a remake you’d like to star in?

Wow! No one’s ever asked me that question. I wouldn’t try it, but the only one that popped into

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JULY 24 REAL TALK: Past, Present & Future

What was it like to skyrocket to fame?

It was both difficult and wonderful. It was quite difficult for me because, being raised in a home, I’d come to hate being pointed at whenever we went out in public in a group. It’s still uncomfortable for me to be stared at, although I’ve learned to deal with it better.

It makes me self-conscious.

What’s the biggest difference between who you are at home as opposed to the person we see on the red carpet?

I’m more guarded and shy on the carpet. At home, I’m the silliest cornball who talks way too much and wants to be quiet and left alone at the same time. And I love to entertain, but in a small, intimate way. But I feel like I can be myself on Craig Ferguson’s show. I have so much fun on his couch, because he’s an idiot. That man cracks me up. I think there’s a kinship in our silliness. I dance like he does in my living room all the time.

How did your first big heartbreak impact who you are as a person?

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my head is “A Woman Under the Influence,” the John Cassavetes film starring his wife Gena Rowlands. Her depiction of mental illness frightened me. Her performance shocked me, because it was so simple.

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You might think it was being abandoned by mother. But no, it was being taken away from my aunt at the age of 3, because I was self-aware by then and I knew what was going on. That was my biggest heartbreak, and it informed a lot. I didn’t want it to be my whole story as an adult.

So, I’ve learned to heal that heartbreak and move on.

The Tavis Smiley question: How do you want to be remembered?

As someone that gave back, because the people I remember the most in my life are the ones that gave.

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You will be uplifted and will not fall.

The Lord of the universe will do all your work.

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The meeting came as immigration issues are at the forefront of a national debate that has Republican lawmakers blaming the Obama administration for what many see as a crisis at the nation’s borders. Tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Honduras and El Salvador are being held in detention facilities in the U.S. At the same time, hundreds of undocumented immigrants have been flown from overcrowded Texas detention facilities to jails in Massachusetts, including a facility at the Suffolk County House of Correction.

Two women, who organizers asked remain nameless, recounted the horrors they fled from their home countries.

Speaking through an interpreter, one woman told the group that she wanted to stay in her home city in Guatemala but gangs extorted residents, demanding a war tax. Refusing to pay the tax results in threats

towards family members and households.

She wept as she described how the gangs murdered her father when she was 11 over the war tax. Her brother was killed not long after when he refused to join the gang. She said that the gangs are free to commit murder and other crimes out in the open without fear of legal retribution or community retaliation, enough so that locals are not fazed or appalled by the sight of a body in the streets.

“We’re not here to take away resources,” she said. “We’re here because we want to survive.”

The second woman told the roundtable her family had to flee because her children were reaching the age where gangs would target them.

She said gang members try to recruit teenage boys and harm the ones who refuse, and target teenage girls, who are frequently raped and sexually assaulted. Her cousin was killed in a different community and the family had to approach the gang members in order to beg for permission to bury him in a cemetery in his hometown.

The day before she left her home,

she witnessed the gangs drag a person into a cemetery and beat him to death with a baseball bat, then leave his broken body on display for all to see.

She said that in the face of this, she and her family were willing to comply with every law in the United States in order to avoid returning to the hostilities of her hometown.

The woman is currently in an ICE program, and is required to wear an ankle bracelet that tracks her location, similar to the ones required for people on house arrest. She is required to check in with ICE agents in Burlington each week. These bracelets are for adults only and are not put on children.

“From the school department’s lenses, we’ve had a steady stream for about 3 years of immigrants coming from these particular countries into the schools,” Mary Bourque, superintendent of the Chelsea Public Schools said. “It has evolved from a stream to a current from about January to the end of the school year.”

“Our students need vaccinations.

We need to make sure that we are aligned with Beth Israel and MGH in

making sure our students have initial physicals and vaccinations, which are on a three-wave cycle.

“For us in the school department, there are obviously the wrap-around services and social services. We have increased the number of social workers and we need to continue to increase those numbers. The acclimation to a new country is a difficult process, but there’s also the trauma of the journey.”

Bourque said that another issue is the academic gap and the fact that while these students may be teenagers, some have not been in a classroom for many years. In response, the Chelsea schools have hired two new teachers, one at the high school, one at the middle school, for shelter immersion. These age demographics are the most common among new arrivals.

“We also have to remember that a second grade education in Honduras is not the same as a second grade education in Massachusetts.”

“What we need right now is people and we need resources,” Cristina Aguilera, organizing director

of the MIRA Coalition said. “We need skills that people can provide, if they are an attorney or a member of a church or any organization. The issue is much larger than just the children, but right now we want to focus on them. We want to support them as best we can in this situation.”

While the onset of community-wide preparation is in the preliminary stage, each group at the roundtable stressed the need to strip the issue of its’ political climate and address the situation on a human level.

“The message that we’re saying to all families is this: The schools are not a political entity. It is nonnegotiable. Do not bring the politics into our schools. Our job is to welcome every student that crosses over our threshold and move them along towards that trajectory of success,” Bourque said.

“This needs to stop being a political debate,” Aguilera said. “These are children. This is about their suffering in their native countries and we need to make sure that the mainstream understands the compelling and difficult situations they are in.”

Barry Finegold

Mike Heffernan

Ian Jackson

Suzanne Bump

Patricia Saint Aubin

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servance Committee of Arlington, Tech Park Toastmasters and the First Baptist Church of Arlington.

As a Green-Rainbow party candidate, Jackson plans to narrow the economic gap and provide opportunity to everyone regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, class, ethnicity and ability. He plans to make MA sustainable in the use of its resources by making future investments in clean water, solid education, employment growth and a sustainable banking system.

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in as State Auditor of Massachusetts on January 19, 2011. Shortly after taking office, Auditor Bump held sweeping reforms following an independent review of the auditing office she took over. Under Bump’s tenure, the state Auditor’s office has released hard-hitting reports on government agencies and departments failing to conduct simple checks with their data.

Stang High School. She went on to earn her Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from Providence College in 1980. She later returned to her alma mater at Providence College, earning her Masters in American History in 2009, and is now pursuing a double major Masters in European History there. Today she resides in Norfolk with her husband.

Saint Aubin is also a 17-year member of the Norfolk Republican Town Committee, and serves as the current vice-chair.

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Ian Jackson

As a resident of Arlington, MA, Jackson attended Baylor University, graduating with a BA in computer science and business minor.

He then went on to graduate from Northeastern University with a MS in computer science. He’s served as chair for various organizations including the MLK Ob-

Suzanne Bump

Bump, 58, grew up in the South Shore town of Whitman.

She attended Cardinal Spellman High School, received her A.B. from Boston College, and received her J.D. from Suffolk University Law School. Resides in Great Barrington with husband Paul McDevitt.

She won the primary and the general election and was sworn

Patricia Saint Aubin

Patricia was raised in South Dartmouth and attended Bishop

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REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) FOR TRADE CONTRACTOR SERVICES Codman Academy Charter Public School Lithgow Building Renovation Codman Academy Foundation, Inc. Codman Academy Foundation, Inc., requests that qualified and experienced DCAMM Certified Trade Contractors submit Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) for the Codman Academy Charter Public School Lithgow Building Renovation Project. The project is a renovation of approximately 27,036 GSF, three stories and partial basement. Interested Trade Contractors are sought for the following categories of work: • • • • • •

Masonry Misc. Metals Waterproofing Roofing Glass & Glazing Acoustical Ceiling Tile

• • • • • •

Resilient Flooring Painting Fire Protection Plumbing HVAC Electrical (Including Tel/Data & Security)

Project Information: Owner’s Project Manager: VVA Sweett Designer: Miller Dyer Spears, Inc. Construction Manager: Shawmut Design and Construction Estimated Construction Cost: $6,760,000.00 Estimated Construction Duration: 10 months Scheduled Occupancy: July 2015 SOQs must conform to the requirements set forth in RFQ. The complete RFQ including directions will be available for download via email request to mprentiss@vvasweett.com as of Wednesday, July 16, 2014.

SOQs must be submitted at or before 2:00 PM on Thursday, July 31, 2014, at the following location: VVA Sweett, Attention: Mallory Prentiss, 2 Oliver Street Suite 606, Boston, MA, 02109. Please direct any questions by email only to mprentiss@vvasweett.com before Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 5:00 PM. Prospective Respondents shall not communicate with any person or entity participating on the Prequalification Committee at any time during the RFQ process except through written questions submitted in accordance with the process outlined in the RFQ. This RFQ is the first phase of a two-phase procurement process as set forth in MGL Chapter 149A. Codman Academy Foundation, Inc., through its Trade Contractor Prequalification Committee will prequalify firms interested in providing public Trade Contractor services on this Public Construction Manager at Risk (“CM at Risk”) Project. The required SOQ is different from DCAMM Certification. All Trade Contractors must be prequalified for this project, even if the firm is DCAMM Certified. Based on the SOQs received, the Prequalification Committee will prequalify respondents it deems to be qualified in accordance with the criteria set forth in the RFQ. Only prequalified firms will be permitted to submit bids for the category of work in which they were prequalified.

Codman Academy Foundation, Inc., and its Trade Contractor Prequalification Committee, reserves the right to reject any and all responses in full or in part, to waive minor informalities, and to award the contract in the best interest of Codman Academy Foundation, Inc., and Codman Academy Charter Public School.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. M534-C1, CONLEY TERMINAL BERTH 12 MAINTENANCE DREDGING, SOUTH BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2014 immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT CONLEY TERMINAL (940 EAST 1st ST, SOUTH BOSTON MA 02127) AT 10:00 AM LOCAL TIME ON TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2014.

The work includes DREDGING OF ROUGHLY 6,500 CY OF SEDIMENT MATERIAL, BY MECHANICAL METHOD, USING A CLOSED ENVIRONMENTAL BUCKET, AND DISPOSAL OF DREDGED MATERIAL BY DUMP SCOW TO THE CONFINED AQUATIC DISPOSAL (CAD) LOCATION IN CONFORMANCE WITH US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS (USACE) REQUIREMENTS. Bid documents will be made available beginning FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014.

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

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SOLICITATION FOR CONSULTANT SERVICES MBTA CONTRACT NO. K78PS02 The M BTA is soliciting professional engineering services for Owner’s Representative Services for the South Coast Rail Improvements Project.

The primary goal of this procurement is to assist the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to comply with Chapter 30: Section 39M ½ of the General Laws of Massachusetts.

This solicitation calls for submittals that present a comprehensive scope of work to satisfy the Section 39M ½ requirements. Interested firms will outline an approach for the Owner’s Representative for the South Coast Rail Improvements Project. The Authority requests that the Owner’s Representative team will possess the expertise in key disciplines anticipated for the project. Services include but are not limited to monthly project reports, annual project reports, one peer review of engineering elements, one value engineering study during design and a cost recovery study, if applicable.

This contract will be state funded. While there is no DBE goal associated with this contract, the Authority strongly encourages the use of Minority, Women and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises as prime consultants, subconsultants, and suppliers in all of its contracting opportunities.

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

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

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

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

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

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 7/24/2014. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

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

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

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

Date: June 24, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

The complete request for qualifications can be found on the MBTA website.

Please use the following link: http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/current_ solicitations/ This is not a request for proposal. The M BTA reserves the right to cancel this procurement or to reject any or all Statements of Qualifications.

Beverly A. Scott, Ph.D. Richard A. Davey Mass DOT General Manager and Rail & Transit Secretary & CEO Administrator REQUEST FOR RESPONSES AUCTIONEER SERVICES DCP1504-AD1 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION OF CAPITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OFFICE OF REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT The Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (“DCAMM”) is the state agency responsible for major public building construction and real estate services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The agency’s responsibilities include planning, design, construction, capital budgeting, and real property acquisition, disposition and leasing on behalf of the Commonwealth’s facilities, colleges and universities, hospitals, courthouses, prisons, police stations, recreation centers and other specialized projects.

DCAMM manages approximately $400 million annually in new construction and renovation projects, and has completed approximately $70 million in real estate transactions over the past ten years.

DCAMM is soliciting proposals from qualified auctioneers to conduct auctions to sell real estate throughout Massachusetts on an as-needed basis. DCAMM has been authorized to conduct State public auctions for surplus state-owned property. The properties sold may range from 1 to 12 at a single auction. A series of auctions may be conducted. Receipts from auctions may vary from $10,000 to over $10,000,000.

Prospective respondents will find the RFR document at: http://www.commbuys.com Complete instructions for the submission of proposals are set forth in the RFR. Proposals must be received at the address specified in the RFR no later than 2:00 PM on Thursday, July 31, 2014. DCAMM reserves the right to reject any or all proposals it may receive.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

The estimated contract cost is Five Hundred Eighty Five Thousand Dollars ($585,000).

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

The 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.

Docket No. SU14D1281DR

SUFFOLK Division

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Samuel L Parker

vs.

Dorothy Parker

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

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

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Samuel L Parker, 74 Walford Way #591, Charlestown, MA 02129 your answer, if any, on or before 09/04/2014. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

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

Date: June 27, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

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Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Henry Trusty Of Dorchester, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Ethos of Jamaica Plain, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Henry Trusty is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Lorna Sanders of Dorchester, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.

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within 1153 days of the Notice to Proceed. The estimated cost of the project is $4,500,000.00.

Bid Security in the form of a BID BOND, CASHIER’S, TREASURER’S, OR CERTIFIED CHECK issued by a responsible bank or trust company is required in the amount of five percent of the bid price payable to the Town of Blackstone.

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RELAY AND SEWER/DRAIN REHABILITATION IN ALLSTON/BRIGHTON, CITY PROPER, HYDE PARK AND JAMAICA PLAIN. Bids will be publicly opened and read at the office of the Purchasing Manager on THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2005 AT 10:00 A.M. There will be a non-refundable charge of $25.00 for each set of contract documents taken out. If the bidder neglects to bid on BAY STATE • 15 each and Thursday, every item, itJuly may17, lead2014 to the•rejection of the BANNER bid. The rate of wages paid to mechanics, teamsters, chauffeurs, and laborers in the work to be performed under the contract shall not be less than the rate of wages in the schedule determined by the Commission of Labor and Industries of the Commonwealth, a copy of which schedule is annexed to the form of contract referred to herein. Copies of said schedule may be obtained, without cost, upon application therefore at the office of the Executive Director. Before commencing performance on this contract, the contractor shall provide by insurance for the payment of compensation and the furnishing of all other benefits under Chapter 152 of the General Laws (The Workmen’s Compensation Law, so called) to all persons to be employed under this contract and shall continue such insurance in full force and effect during the term of this contract. Attention is called to Chapter 370 of the Acts of 1963, which must be complied with.

No bid for the award of this Westrictly are currently accepting applications at: project will be considered acceptable unless the Contractor agrees to comply fully with Prence Grant ❖ Marshfield, MA ❖ 1&2 Requirement bedrooms as set the requirement of the Minority Employee Utilization forth in Article VIII of the Contract and the MA Utilization of Minority and Women Meadowbrook ❖ Carver, ❖ 1 bedrooms Owned Business Enterprises as set forth in Article X of the Contract. Included The Woodlands ❖ Plympton, MA ❖1 bedrooms with the Contract documents are copies of the Bidder’s Certification Statement and Weekly Utilization Report. Each Contractor must complete, Applications will be accepted upon a sign and file with his bid the Bidder’s Certification Statement. Failure to do continuing for Weekly all apartments. so will result in rejection of thebasis bid. The Utilization Reports shall be submitted in accordance with section 8.2 (ii) and (iii) of the Contract. Failure to comply with the Minority Employee Utilization Requirement may result in imposition of the sanctions set forth in section 8.2 (f) and (g) of the Contract.

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REFERRAL COORDINATOR Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association (VLP) seeks an energetic, organized person to coordinate case referrals to volunteer attorneys, support the Senior Partners for Justice Project, and assist with case management.

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Community Calendar Thursday July 17

ParkARTS Neighborhood Concert Series The Boston Parks and Recreation Department is proud to announce the 2014 ParkARTS Citywide Neighborhood Concert Series presented by title sponsor Eastern Bank in parks citywide.

ParkARTS neighborhood performances are outdoor summer concerts presented free of charge in local City of Boston parks.

Catch Jack Columbo + Friends sponsored in part by Brighton Main Streets at 7pm on Thursday, July 17, at Brighton Common, 30 Chestnut Hill Ave., Brighton Center. The ParkARTS Citywide Neighborhood Concerts continue at 7pm on Thursday, July 31, with the Soul City Band sponsored in part by the Dorchester Park Association at Dorchester Park, 2180 Dorchester Ave., Dorchester; at 5pm on Sunday, August 3, with Jazz at the Fort featuring the Jaleel Shaw Quartet sponsored in part by Berklee College of Music at Highland Park, 58 Beech Glen St., Roxbury; and at 7pm on Tuesday, August 19, with the Sugar Babies Band sponsored in part by Roslindale Village Main Streets at Fallon Field, 910 South St., Roslindale. All ParkARTS neighborhood performances are free of charge. For more information or a full schedule of events, please call please call 617-6354505 or visit the Parks Department online at www.cityofboston/ parks or www.facebook.com/ bostonparksdepartment.

Artists in Residence Craft Workshops The Boston Parks and Recreation Department’s annual ParkARTS program, sponsored

by Holly and David Bruce. From East Boston to West Roxbury, children ages three to ten can enjoy watercolor painting, mask and jewelry making, treasure bottle creations, and more at the Artists in Residence Craft Workshops. The workshops are from 9am-12 noon in parks across the city. Participation is free and all materials are provided, but young

c h i l d re n m u s t b e accomp anied by an adult. July 22: Town Field, Dorchester and Christopher Columbus Park, North End. July 29, August 5, 12: Ronan Park, Dorchester and Walker Playground, Mattapan. July 23: Mt. Pleasant Street Park and Roxbury and Hynes Playground, West Roxbury. July 30, August 6, 13: Marcella Park, Roxbury and Mozart Park, Jamaica Plain.

July 17, 24: Peters Park, South End and Rogers Park, Allston/ Brighton. July 31, August 7, 14: Ringgold Playground, South End and Shubow Park, Allston/ Brighton. July 18, 25: Amatucci Playground, Hyde Park and Doherty Playground, Charlestown. August 1, 8, 15: Dorothy Curran Playground, Moakley Park, South Boston and East Boston Stadium, East Boston.

Groups of six or more should make prior arrangements by calling the Boston Parks Department at 617-635-4505. For information on this and other ParkARTS programs, please call the Boston Parks and Recreation Department at 617-635-4505, visit www.face book.com/bostonparksdepart ment or www.cityofboston.gov/ parks or follow @BostonParksDept.

Saturday July 19

Second Annual Boston Urban Art Festival Save Our Streets, Inc. (SOS) is hosting the Second Annual Boston Urban Art Festival at Martini Shell Memorial Park, 1015 Truman Parkway, Hyde Park. The Urban Arts Festival is a FREE event to display and encourage the arts within the Boston community and promote positive creative outlets among its youth to prevent violence, all while supporting local Boston artists.

From 12-6pm there will be family-friendly events including children’s games and activities like sack races, dodge ball, painting and more. The Boston police and fire departments have been invited as well to speak and run activities for the children. From 1-6pm there will be live per-

formances from Boston locals including some bands, spoken word, dancers and more. Visual artists will also be in attendance, creating canvases and various other art mediums on site. The purpose of hosting Boston’s first Urban Arts Festival is to create more opportunities for local residents to become involved in their community. This will help to position Boston’s youth toward something positive and constructive.

For more information, please visit www.sos617.org.

Garden and the historic Victory Gardens in the Back Bay Fens. A perfect antidote to the workday!

6-7pm. Tours start and end at the Shattuck Visitor Center, 125 The Fenway, Boston, unless noted otherwise. All tours are free and led by Emerald Necklace Conservancy docents. For detailed descriptions of the tours, please visit www.emeraldnecklace.org.

Tours are cancelled for extreme weather. Updates will be posted on the homepage of our website.

Roxbury Rocks Music Festival After an after noon of free music on the plaza from 1-4pm featuring amazing local talent, The Ron Murphy Group will continue the musical conversation as the finale, for the first annual Roxbury Rocks music festival in the Theater of the Media Arts Building of Roxbury Community College.

We will also recognize and honor four outstanding community members. Media Arts Building at Roxbury Community College, 1234 Columbus Ave., Roxbury.

Free and open to the public general seating. Wheelchair accessible. Info: Call 617-541-5380.

July 23

History & Gardens of the Back Bay Fens Take a guided walk through a historic landscape. Saturday, July 19, and Sunday, July 27: 11:00 am-12:30 pm. Tours start and end at the Shattuck Visitor Center, 125 The Fenway, Boston, unless noted otherwise. All tours are free and led by Emerald Necklace Conservancy docents. For detailed descriptions of the tours, please visit www.emeraldneck lace.org. Tours are cancelled for extreme weather. Updates will be posted on the homepage of our website.

Tuesday July 22

Tuesday Evening Garden Stroll Last stroll of the season! This leisurely one-hour walk guides you through the Kelleher Rose

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Wednesday Splash Dance Parties Wednesday, July 23 at Mt. Pleasant Street Park, Roxbury; Wednesday, July 30 at Mozart Park, Jamaica Plain; and Friday, August 8 at Dorothy Curran Playground at Moakley Park, South Boston. Bring the children to the park to cool off in the spray features and try some tasty treats.

Listen to music while playing games and dancing in the parks.

12-1pm. City of Boston ~ Mayor Martin J. Walsh ~ Boston Parks & Recreation Department. Free of charge. Boston celebrates the 18th anniversary of ParkARTS. Events and event dates and times are subject to change. 617-6354505, www.cityofboston.gov/ parks, www.facebook.com/Bos tonParksDepartment, @Boston ParksDept and @SummerBoston.

Wednesday Night Concert Series The Dorothy Curran Wednesday Night Concert Series on City Hall Plaza continues July 23 with Beatlejuice, August 6 with Stardust and the Decades of Dance Party, and closes August 20 with Charlie Thomas’ Drifters. For more info call the Boston Parks and Recreation Department at 617-6354505, visit www.facebook.com/ bostonparksdepartment, or go to www.cityofboston.gov/parks.

Magical Environments “Magical Environments” Family Art Workshops — FREE! July 23, 30, August 6, 13. 5:45-7:30pm.

Jamaica Plain Community Center (Curtis Hall), 20 South St. Families Creating Together offers FREE multi-generational workshops for children ages 6-12 with and without disabilities and their families.

Explore magical environments through visual arts, storytelling, book-making. Spanish translators. Wheelchair accessible.

Register for two, three or all five workshops; pick the dates best for you! FCT is a program of Community Service Care/Tree of Life Coalition. For more information call 617-522-4832 or email edwardpazzanese@gmail.com.

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Special Talks at Faneuil Hall Boston African American NHS presents Special Talks at Faneuil Hall. Trails to Freedom, Monday, July 28 at 1pm: This talk traces how the issue of slavery transformed the country after the American Revolution and led to a “second revolution.” Faces of

Freedom, Monday, August 11 at 1pm: Join us as we discuss key figures in the fight of freedom and equality for all and their connections to Faneuil Hall. The Middle Passage, Monday, August 25 at 1pm: This talk looks at the Middle Passage and Boston’s role in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Please Note: These talks will be presented from 1pm to 2pm in the Great Hall of Faneuil Hall. In case of scheduling conflicts, the talks will be held on the fourth floor of Faneuil Hall, in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts Museum.

Vento Chiaro performs One Hen Fascinated by Katie Smith Milway’s inspiring book, “One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference,” Vento Chiaro, with funding from The Free for All Concert Fund, commissioned Justin Casinghino to set the tale to music. One Hen tells the true story of Kojo, a boy from Ghana who, with one small loan, a great idea, and hard work, brings work and hope to his village. Join Vento Chiaro for this special performance with composer Justin Casinghino narrating. Vento Chiaro: Ona Jonaityte, flute; AnaSofía Campesino, oboe; Juliet Lai, clarinet; Sam Childers, bassoon; Anne Howarth, horn. July 30 at 2pm, Somerville Public Library, 79 Highland Ave., Somerville. Free admission. Ventochiaro.org.

Free Fun Fridays Danforth Art Danforth Art is participating in the 5th annual Free Fun Fridays program sponsored by the Highland Street Foundation. On Friday, July 25, Danforth Art will open its doors, from 10am-5pm, at no cost to visitors and offer a wide variety of free art activities for children and adults. Free Fun Fridays is a program that includes 60 museums and cultural venues across Massachusetts. Each Friday this summer, there will be six venues open for free. For the full program schedule and to learn more about Free Fun Fridays, please visit: www.highlandstreet.org.

FIGMENT Boston For one weekend every summer, FIGMENT Boston transforms the Rose Kennedy Greenway into a large scale collaborative arts experience — and then it’s gone! Free, family-friendly, and open to all, FIGMENT is an explosion of creative energy, a celebration of participatory art and a culture where everything is possible. In addition to the daytime festivities during the weekend, FIGMENT After Dark returns to Dewey Square for a second year! Everyone is invited to enjoy a free dance party with live DJs and fire spinners — the perfect centerpiece to the weekend’s interactive fun. Saturday July 26, 11am-11pm and Sunday July 27, 11am-6pm, FIGMENT After Dark: Saturday July 26, 6-11pm. The Rose Kennedy Greenway is a mile-and-a-half of contemporary parks in the heart of Boston. www.rosekennedygre enway.org. More info: FIGMENT Boston website: boston.figment project.org.

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