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City looks to strengthen Praia ties

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Boston and Cabo Verde capital become sister cities

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Boston has a new municipal relative.

Last Friday, Mayor Martin Walsh signed a sister city agreement with Ulisses Correia e Silva, mayor of Praia, Cabo Verde’s capital. The agreement formalizes current trade and collaboration between the cities and, Walsh said, starts the conversation around expanding commercial ties.

“We will grow companies in both cities, create more jobs, strengthen business ties and enhance partnerships between schools and police departments,” said Walsh. “Working together will enhance the economics of both cities and help pave the way to a brighter future.”

“Today we sign a sister city agreement to build on and strengthen the existing economic,

cultural and educational relationships between the cities of Boston and Praia, while committing to explore new ties and creative ways of improving the quality of life for residents on both sides of the Atlantic,” said Correia e Silva.

Cape Verdeans have a significant presence in Boston: they have been immigrating since the 1800s and now number approximately 40,000 in Boston, according to the city’s estimates.

This is Boston’s first sisterhood with an African city.

Growing commerce

The mayors look to bolster existing trade to bring more jobs and business to both cities.

Already, trade between the cities is routine. Vargas Dasilveira, president of the Cape Verdean Business Association, said that a

See CABO VERDE, page 28

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Eli “Lady” Pabon of Boston-based Bomba Sankofa soloing to the barriles (Bomba drums) at the Plenazo y Bombazo in Dudley Square. This free outdoor event was organized by historian, educator and performer Jorge Arce of Humano Project with the support of Hibernian Hall & Madison Park CDC to celebrate the merging of cultures.

Study measures impact of recent US immigration Nation has become more diverse since laws changed in ’65

By CAITLIN YOSHIKO KANDIL

The influx of 59 million immigrants into the United States in the last 50 years has dramatically changed the nation’s demographics, and immigration in coming decades will continue to alter the racial and ethnic makeup of the U.S. population, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.

The 128-page report on the

impact of modern immigration was released on the anniversary of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, legislation signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson that abolished the old quota system and opened more opportunities to migrants from non-European countries.

Since then, the study shows, the foreign-born share of the U.S. population has increased from 5 to 14 percent, while immigrants and their children today make

up more than one-quarter of the entire U.S. population.

Hispanics have grown from 4 percent of the total U.S. population in 1965 to 18 percent today, and Asians from 1 percent to 6 percent today. Whites, meanwhile, have seen their share of the population drop, from 84 percent a half-century ago to 62 percent today.

The number of immigrants

See IMMIGRATION, page 27

City solicits transportation solutions

By SANDRA LARSON

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Mayor Martin Walsh and Praia mayor Ulisses Correia e Silva signed a sister city agreement at City Hall in which they pledged to further economic, social, cultural and faith-based relationships between the cities.

How will Bostonians get to work and move around the city in the future? Looking ahead to 2030, how might transportation improvements address challenges already evident today — a growing, diversifying and aging city population, increasing income inequality, congested

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The City of Boston has been pondering these questions, with the help of an advisory group and public input from thousands of Hub residents and workers, for much of 2015. Last week, its “Go Boston 2030” initiative reached an interim milestone as Mayor Martin Walsh and the Boston Transportation Department

released a report outlining a vision and goals.

The “Go Boston 2030 Vision Framework” report sketches out the state of jobs, income and commuting in Boston and lays out goals under several themes, including access, affordability, safety and reliability.

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Panelists say PARCC better fits needs of today’s students

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Too many Massachusetts students graduate high school unprepared for the workforce or college, emphasized educational experts at The Boston Foundation’s “Understanding Boston: PARCC Assessment & College Readiness” forum last week.

Overwhelmingly, panelists spoke in support of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers test.

On November 17, the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education will vote on whether to use PARCC to replace the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS. The vote follows on a pilot of PARCC in approximately half of Massachusetts school districts’ grades 3-8 last spring.

“The nation is watching Massachusetts and the board of Secondary and Elementary Education,” said Elizabeth Pauley, senior director of Education to Career at The Boston Foundation. “There are those who believe that so goes Massachusetts, so goes the PARCC test.”

On the panel were Robert V. Antonucci, president emeritus of Fitchburg State University; Paul Dakin, superintendent emeritus of Revere Public Schools; Richard M. Freeland, former commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education; Lindsay Sobel, executive director of Teach Plus Massachusetts; and William H. Swanson, retired chairman and CEO of Raytheon and

current chairman of Massachusetts Competitive Partnership.

Graduated and nowhere to go

Panel members said it was time to move beyond MCAS, which was designed to measure if a student is prepared to graduate high school, to a test that better informs teachers on what they need to do to get students ready for careers or higher education.

Although many students enroll in college, a 2008 study found that only about 25 percent of high school graduates receive bachelor’s or associate’s degrees within six years, said Paul Grogan, Boston Foundation president and CEO. Students entering college often are placed into remedial courses despite scoring well on the MCAS, said Sobel. This is problematic, said Freeland, because few remedial course students end up graduating.

“Only one in four students who take even one remediation course ever graduates from college,” Freeland said.

College completion is of increasing importance for meeting employers’ needs.

“Seventy-two percent of jobs in Massachusetts will require some college by 2020,” Pauley noted in her presentation. “We still see many students graduating from high school having met the graduation requirements, but not ready for college or the work force.”

“Despite the large number of unemployed in Massachusetts there are

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a large number of open jobs, because individuals in the workforce don’t have the skills employers need,” said Keith Mahoney, senior director of Public Affairs for The Boston Foundation, who moderated the panel.

The test’s advisory committee is working to have colleges accept PARCC scores for placement determination, allowing high scorers to test out of remedial courses, said Pauley.

Education goals

MCAS and PARCC assess different kinds of achievement skills, and therefore promoting different kinds of curriculums.

Panelists said that the MCAS emphasizes memorization skills, while PARCC is based on the Common Core curriculum and focuses on critical thinking and synthesis. Implementing PARCC would mean that the system would set new goals.

Antonucci served as state commissioner of education during MCAS’s development. He said the MCAS was an effective tool in ensuring that high schools graduate students with a common baseline of competency. Now that the test has served its purpose, he said, it is time for a test suited to current needs.

“We need either MCAS II or we need PARC,” Antonucci said. “If PARCC wasn’t developed at the national level we’d be developing a new MCAS at the state level.”

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environment, a commonly expressed fear is that teachers design their curriculum around drilling for good test scores, not what is best for students’ education.

In the case of PARCC, Sobel sought to dispel this, saying that teachers had to teach well to assure students perform well on PARCC. “What I hear over and over again from teachers is that with a really great test like PARCC, test prep is just better teaching and it’s inspiring them to be better teachers,” she said.

Dakin also emphasized that tests were feedback tools for teachers to assess how successful they are at reaching students and what areas need a new approach. Tests should not serve as mechanisms to assign blame, he said.

“What the tests do, if utilized properly, is give administrators in a building, teachers in a building, district administrators, an idea of how the implementation of those standards has metamorphosed itself in student learning,” he said. “What we often miss is that these tests are more for teachers than anyone.”

Accuplacer is the test currently used by state colleges to place students and determine college readiness. Freeland said PARCC is a better because it shows teachers areas in which students need improvement.

Practicality

Panelists said PARCC has pragmatic advantages.

Students can take the test by computer or on paper. The computerized and paper PARCC are $21 and $11 cheaper than MCAS, respectively, said Jeff Wulfson, chairman and deputy commissioner of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Dakin said in his experience,

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students spent 5 fewer hours on PARCC than MCAS.

Technology gap

Pauley said that in the spring 2015 pilot no major problems were reported with PARCC implementation, and 74 percent of students taking the English Language Arts test said they preferred using the computer.

Opponents to PARCC say poor test scores might reflect lack of computer skills, not lack of English or math ability, and that this may affect disadvantaged students particularly.

Sobel said that should such students score poorly on a computer test, this would be important information for educators to have. It would serve as an indicator to school officials that measures needed to be taken to better serve this population.

“What these assessments are doing is giving you a real honest assessment of how students are doing to be ready for that real high-stakes [adult] world,” she said. “Teachers I work with believe passionately in having that information and holding adults accountable to ensuring students get into that unforgiving, high-tech, high-stakes economy. ...

It’s backwards to blame the test for diagnosing something that is real.”

Panelists presented PARCC as an impetus for schools to teach 21st century tech skills.

Sobel said that many teachers who have been clamoring for modern technology may now receive it from schools eager to prepare students for tests.

“If a high-tech test is what we need to get kids the tech they need, then we should go for that. And I’ve heard from teachers that they are now getting that,” she said.

“Any new test should embrace technology so we can move students into the 21st century,” said Dakin.

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Parents discuss school assignment proposal

By YAWU MILLER

During the elementary school years, Valerie Davis’ son did well in the district school where he was assigned. But when it came time for her daughters to go to school, Davis says, none of their assignments were good enough.

“Of course they didn’t get into any of the schools I picked,” she said. “I didn’t like the school they were assigned to. I called my friends who were teachers and they said, ‘No, don’t put them there.’”

In the end, all three of her children ended up in charters and Catholic schools.

For Nicol Riley, a charter school worked well for her daughter, but for her son, who has learning disabilities, they weren’t an option.

“It hurt me so bad to see how they treated children with learning disabilities at my daughter’s charter school,” she said.

In the end, her son ended up in a district school that was able to cater to his learning style.

Davis, Riley and other parents shared their struggles and frustrations seeking school assignments as the Boston Public Schools are considering changes to the current school assignment policy that would allow parents to apply to charter and public schools with one form. The meeting, held last Thursday, was organized by the Boston Compact, an organization that facilitates cooperation between Boston Public Schools, charters and Catholic schools.

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Parents, school officials and advocates discuss ways to improve the city’s school assignment process. School officials are exploring the possibility of requiring parents to apply to district and charter schools using one application.

BPS officials, charter school representatives and education activists joined the parents for a discussion on their experiences with the current assignment system and what they would like to see in a revamped system.

Meeting participants were asked not to discuss proposals to lift the cap on the number of new charter schools.

Because many of the parents at the meeting secured placements for their children before the school department adopted its location-based school assignment policy, some of the

questions revolved around how that system works.

Until 2013, the city was divided into three zones. Parents in a zone were able to apply to any school within its borders. Charter schools and some district schools operated outside the zone system, allowing parents from anywhere in the city to apply. Admittance to all schools — charter and district — is determined by lottery.

Under the assignment policy that took effect in 2013, an algorithm that takes into account a student’s proximity to schools determines which schools students

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might attend. The algorithm currently in use factors in the closest tier-one schools — those in which a high proportion of students score proficient or higher on the state’s MCAS exam. As with the zone system, students are selected by lottery.

Under the proposed system, two tier-one charter schools would also be factored into the algorithm along with at least two tier-one district schools.

“The purpose of this was to not let the lines on a map dictate quality,” said Kim Rice, assistant superintendent of operations.

Parents and parent advocates pointed out that the current system does not factor in which schools are best equipped to handle English language learners and students with learning disabilities.

Rahn Dorsey, the city’s chief of education, suggested that BPS could factor in English Language Learners and students with disabilities.

“We hear that because we have students who are ELLs or SWBs, we can take shared responsibility to make sure their needs are met,” he said.

Dorsey said that ease, access and equity are the guiding principles for the proposed assignment policy.

Some of the parents at the meeting spoke about the difficulty of securing a seat in a high-performing school under the current policy. While the existing school selection algorithm takes into account access to tier 1 and tier 2 schools, it doesn’t guarantee access. Riley said some of the schools that appeared among her choices had very few or no vacancies.

“What if there’s no access at these tiers?” she asked.

Test scores and proximity aside, the most important factor in school selection is the school’s learning environment, said Adelsa Mendes, who spoke about the difficulty of determining which schools have the capacity to teach students whose primary language is Cape Verdean Creole.

“A quality school is a school that meets your needs,” she said.

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Established 1965

Distorting history in Texas For some time African Americans have accused whites of being in denial about slavery, segregation and racial discrimination. Descendants of immigrants who came to the country after 1865 deny any liability for slavery, which was outlawed then by the 13th Amendment.

And those who settled in the North or West insist that racial segregation was a practice of the South. A most extraordinary attempt at exoneration from involvement in racial abuse recently came from Texas, a Confederate slave state.

A McGraw-Hill textbook in public schools stated that Africans were brought to Texas from the 1500s through the 1800s as workers on

large plantations. There was no mention that the blacks were enslaved, although the book mentioned that many Europeans also came as indentured servants. It is reported that the book publisher will correct these references.

The sale of school books is a big business.

According to critics, the approval of textbooks by the Texas Board of Education has been politically driven for years. The slavery distortions were undoubtedly included by McGraw-Hill to make the book more attractive to state reviewers. The press must remain attentive to attempts to minimize the oppressive history of blacks living in the Confederacy, and thereafter.

A free market held hostage Opponents of the Affordable Care Act insist that health care is a personal matter and the government ought not be involved. They also object to using public funds raised by taxes to finance a health program. They insist that private enterprise and the free market will meet everyone’s needs. However, there has not been much of an objection from this group in opposition to the current price gouging by some pharmaceutical firms.

It appears that conservatives are not quick to protect the free and open market when financiers are able to demand unreasonably high prices for patented drugs. Economics 101 establishes that monopolies disrupt the open market.

When a patented drug is the only medication for a specific fatal illness, there is no competition.

In that case the patient pays the price or dies.

Supply and demand has not operated freely.

This monopolistic market disruption is permitted in order to allow drug companies to recover their investment in the development of a drug. Most major pharmaceutical companies spend 15-20 percent of their sales revenue on research. That process is very risky because the company might not find the cure they seek, or the Food and Drug Administration might not approve their product. Research for new drugs is

a long, expensive and risky process.

Some drug companies now avoid that risk by buying approved drugs and simply raising the price. For example, the drug Glumetza for diabetes formerly sold for $896 for 90 tablets.

Then the drug was acquired by Valeant Pharmaceuticals and the price for the same quantity of Glumetza rose to $10,020, an increase of 1,118 percent, according to reports.

A statement from Valeant stated that it “prices its treatments based on a range of factors, including clinical benefits and the value they bring to patients, physicians, payers and society.”

Nonetheless, Elijah Cummings, the leading Democratic member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is investigating the pricing practices of Valeant and other drug companies. Congress has jurisdiction because of the adverse effect of rising drug prices on health insurance expenses.

Conservatives opposed Obamacare that provides health insurance for the indigent on the basis of preserving economic “free market” theories. Now they are no longer interested in opposing monopolistic pricing that flouts those principles. One has to conclude that the conservatives have little interest in the welfare of those who are less affluent than they.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR No excuse for poor voter turnout Turnout in last month’s primary for Districts 4 and 7 was dismal.

There’s no excuse for 7 percent turnout in any election. For every person who voted, there were nearly 15 registered voters who stayed home.

That is inexcusable.

Some people, including voting rights activists, will blame the low turnout on the fact that there were

only two races on the ballot, the fact that it was the day after Labor Day, the first day of school and a hot day at that. In any year, circumstances like these would help drive down turnout. But not down to 7 percent.

People in Roxbury and Dorchester are selling themselves short by ignoring elections. Not only do we not get to choose who represents us, we also send our representatives to City Hall and the State House to

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office with vote totals far lower than their colleagues. That’s like sending your soldiers to war with no bullets in their guns. We can’t expect our officials to defend our interests effectively if we don’t back them up.

Let’s resolve to do a better job in the November 3rd election. Tell your neighbors to get out and vote!

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Jeb Bush’s Big Lie About “Free Stuff”

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By LEE A. DANIELS

Remember when the conventional wisdom was that Jeb Bush was “the smart one” of the Bush brothers? And that he, the anointed front-runner of the GOP presidential-contender field, would smoothly steamroller his competitors on the way to 2016?

Well, the political outsiders Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina have all crashed the GOP establishment’s big dance, turning those predictions into jokes and thus far pushing Bush down to the single digits in the polls.

Jeb may still get the brass ring; he does have a huge campaign war chest. But so far, in his stumbling about the campaign trail, he’s shown he’s got that singular Bush family trait: making the “gaffe” that reveals his true feelings.

The most recent was his astonishingly inept “stuff happens” response to the nation’s latest mass killing, the slaughter at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College.

One can acknowledge that, of course, Bush wasn’t ignoring the fact that lives were lost—and still condemn him for his clumsy rationalization for not supporting any sort of meaningful gun-control legislation.

Doing so even as these tragedies have become “routine” underscores how rotten that plank of conservative orthodoxy is.

The previous week, however, Bush fully deserved the condemnation he drew for a truly despicable remark that, in fact, revealed his — and his party’s — decades-long callousness toward black Americans.

Speaking at a South Carolina campaign event, Bush said in response to a question about his appealing to black voters: “Our message is one of hope and aspiration. It isn’t one of division and get in line and we’ll take care of you with free stuff. Our message is one that is uplifting — that says you can achieve earned success.”

In other words, Jeb Bush believes blacks vote Democratic not because they believe supporting the party both serves their own interests and promotes their view of what American society should be, but because they’re stupid, selfish and corrupt.

In repeating the charge the defeated Mitt Romney had made after he lost the 2012 election to President Obama, Bush demonstrated how important the notion that blacks want something for nothing is to people Republican Party politics.

But the importance of Bush’s remark — revealing an attitude that’s been a hallmark of white-racist belief since the Reconstruction era — goes even deeper because it’s the latest example of a powerful dynamic of American life: the continual dead-ending of black respectability politics.

Put simply, black respectability politics is just another name for the old cardinal command to all black Americans striving for achievement to behave as if they represent the entire mass of African Americans — because they do.

But, as Barack Obama’s tenure as the nation’s first black president has underscored, there’s a multi-layered trick to that white-racism-imposed burden that quickly limits the value of being “a credit to your race.” For one thing, racism in many individuals has always been impervious to facts and logic. Secondly, some whites have always practiced a “pragmatic racism” or situational race baiting for the financial, political, or social advantage they think they’ll gain from it.

Of course, one purpose of the conservative Big Lie Jeb Bush repeated is to obscure that getting “free stuff ” from the government has always been the foundation of the superior status whites have enjoyed in American society: Indeed, tax plans proposed by Bush and the other Republican candidates would continue the conservative orthodoxy of funneling “free stuff” in the form of outrageous tax cuts and tax deductions to the wealthiest—which means, of course, the whitest — bloc of Americans.

And a second purpose of that Bush/conservative view is to bury the record of “smart politics” black voters began to play with greater intensity following passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. One can draw a straight line from that landmark act to the massive black voter turnout that buoyed President Obama’s two election victories.

In other words, Jeb Bush’s Big Lie shows why black respectability politics periodically reaches a dead end. It’s because white respectability politics—that is, the force of white tolerance—periodically loses steam in its struggle against white bigotry. That’s really what the 2016 campaign is all about: Will the tradition of exclusion, alive and tawdry as ever in the Republican Party, succeed in stifling the claims of Americans of color, gays and lesbians and white women as well as blacks for the full measure of their citizenship rights?

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Big time. My job offers it, but it’s too expensive. You can’t live with it; you can’t live without it.

I’m insured by my job. I’m lucky. It comes out of my check, but I’m fully covered.

I’m fortunate because I have health care through my job. There are a lot of people who don’t. But in some countries it’s free.

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It’s not affecting me at this moment.

Before Obamacare, sometimes I didn’t have the money to pay for my prescriptions.

I’m on MassHealth. Obamacare was the best thing that happened in America. It helped a lot of people get health care.

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has the respect of her colleagues in the health care industry. We appreciate Nadow’s investment in the health center’s mission of providing quality, accessible care that helps to promote community health in Dorchester.”

Nadow’s professional career has been dedicated to serving vulnerable populations through positions in government, public health and health care. She spent 8 years working as a senior aide to a state representative in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Following her position at the State House, Nadow worked for 3 years at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health coordinating school health programs in collaboration with the Department of Education.

“I am honored to have been selected by the Governing Board as the next CEO,” said Nadow.

“Having been employed at DotHouse for over 10 years, it is a special privilege to work in the Dorchester community. I look

forward to continue working with our dedicated staff who emphasizes the delivery of high quality patient care and services.”

Nadow is originally from Great Barrington, Massachusetts, she resides in Chelsea with her husband and two children.

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MICHELLE NADOW Interim CEO Michelle Nadow has been appointed as the new president and CEO of DotHouse Health, a Joint Commission accredited health center andaffiliate of Boston Medical Center.

Nadow has been a part of the DotHouse Health team for over 10 years, first as the Director of Public Policy and Advocacy and then as Chief Administrative Officer. Most recently, Nadow has been also serving as the Interim CEO of the 128 year old Dorchester institution since May when former President and CEO Walter Ramos departed for Carney Hospital.

“Michelle has proven herself by her dedicated and effective leadership of DotHouse Health as Interim CEO over the last several months and the many years of leadership she has provided.” said Arthur Lavoie, Chairman of the Board of Directors for DotHouse Health.

“In addition to the support of the Board and staff, Nadow

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Latina women suffer worst from wage gap

Even women who rise high face disparities.

In 2013, full-time female financial managers, lawyers and computer programmers made paid 70 percent, 79 percent and 81 percent as of what their male counterparts did in their median weekly earnings, according to a report issued by the AAUW.

negotiate for themselves cannot fix everything. A major focus, she said, needs to be on forcing companies to eliminate unconscious bias expressed in whom they choose to hire and advance.

For example, she said, while president of ALPFA, she once asked a male member to create a list of Latinos who deserved awards. The man proposed several people: all men. When asked if any women were equally qualified, he named four.

Diaz pointed to the fact that the man instinctively only thought of men as an indication of bias.

“I said, ‘Why weren’t they on the list in the first place? If the first person you think of is a man, I need you to consider that there’s a bias there,’ ” Diaz recounted.

The man, Diaz said, had been surprised and upset. He told her he had a wife and daughter that he wanted the best for. Since being made aware of this, Diaz said, the man now makes sure to consider women for positions.

“The conversation goes like this,” said Diaz. “‘We’re not asking you to consider women that are not qualified, we’re saying there are women that are qualified and should be considered.’”

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Lifelong loss

Bookman said the effects stretch throughout a Latina’s lifespan. Caught in this system of reduced resources, many Latinas may never be able to retire, afford higher education or send their children to college. “[The wage disparity] not only affects their ability to support their children and family today but also affects three areas from early childhood and adolescence to late in life,” said Bookman.

Because Latina women make less, their Social Security earnings are less as well. The poverty rate for Latinas over 60 is 43.7 percent, 28.7 percent higher than that for white women, said Bookman.

Career ‘choice’

A common refrain is that women earn less because they choose lower paying jobs.

Seeming to support this: there are large showings of Latinas in traditionally low-wage occupations.

A third of Hispanic women are employed in service jobs compared to 20 percent among white non-Hispanic women, reports the U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau. In 2014, Massachusetts cashiers on average earned $20,180; sixty-five percent of these cashiers were women.

However, Bookman emphasizes, it is false to suggest that these poorly paying jobs are a choice. Frequently, she said, the choice is between taking low-earning jobs or not working at all, thus failing to support themselves or their families. ”Across the board women of color are more likely than white women to be shunted into lower-earning occupations,” she said. “A lot of Latina women and other women do not have as many jobs open to them that have this pay equity.”

One reason for the lack of opportunity: no college degree.

In 2014, more than half of all Hispanic women in the workforce had no more than a high school diploma (21.9 percent had not completed high school), according to the Women’s Bureau report. This lower-education level locks them out of many better paying jobs, yet many simply cannot afford the tuition or to take time away from work to attend.

“When you have so many Latina women with so little money, college is just not an opportunity,” Bookman said.

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Villa-Barry said women can learn skills to help them negotiate for a better salary.

For instance, she said, if possible, people should avoid revealing their current salary information during job interviews. Companies typically base salary offerings on an individual’s past job compensation, even though that is unlikely to indicate what is fair compensation at the new position.

“They [employers] will give you a percentage on your last job,” Villa-Barry said. “It will be irrelevant to whatever your colleagues are making within the same position.”

This practice can also punish women disproportionately, because with the existing gender wage gap, their past jobs are likely to pay less than compensation for male hires’.

Villa-Barry’s organization is partnering with Mayor Martin Walsh to provide salary negotiation workshops in Boston for women over the next five years. AAUW also will offer Work Smart workshops at colleges outside the city, she said.

Company bias

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Across the board, women earn less.

In Massachusetts, women as a whole earn 81 cents for every dollar a man earns and African American women earn 61 cents, said Ann Bookman, PhD, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at the McCormack Graduate School, UMass Boston.

Latinas have it worst: on average in Massachusetts, they earn just half of what men do, said Bookman.

The ripple effects are felt not just by the women but by their entire families. Increasingly, Latinas represent a major source of income for their families. In 1975, 23.1 percent of Latinas were breadwinners, said Bookman, whereas today, the number of Latinas bringing in at least half of the family income has jumped to 40 percent, not counting single mothers.

The women often support not only children but parents as well,

said Yvette Villa-Barry, co-president of the North Shore Area branch of the AAUW. “Many of us — be it Latino or African American — many of us are the single breadwinner in our homes,” said state Rep. Russell Holmes. “When that is the case and we have this disparity between white and Latino, it is an issue that really drives down our communities.”

If the wage gap between Latinas and white, non-Hispanic men in the U.S. were eliminated, on average a Latina working full time would earn over 26 additional months of rent or more than 183 more weeks of food for her family per year, reports the National Partnership for Women & Families.

This is a significant issue for the state: Hispanics comprise ten percent of Massachusetts’ residents, according to a report issued by Bookman.

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Migdalia Diaz, chief operating officer of ALPFA (center), said companies often exhibit uncommon bias. Also presenting: Ann Bookman, director of the center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at the McCormack Graduate School (left) and Yvette Villa-Barry, co-president of AAUW’s North Shore Area branch.

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Among the major demographics experiencing gender and racial wage gaps, Latina women are the hardest hit in both Massachusetts and the nation. To earn the same amount as a white men did in 2014, Latinas as a whole would have to work approximately ten months more, only catching up by October 8, 2015, reports the American Association of University Women.

That was the day the Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators and the Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus convened a Latina Equal Pay Day briefing.

A variety of factors contribute to the wage gap, said speakers: circumstances push many Latinas into traditionally lower-wage jobs, many companies exhibit unconscious bias in hiring and promotion and Latina women frequently are the main — or sole — supporter of parents and children. With low wages going to support many other lives, Latina women are less able to save for college or retirement and face fewer opportunities for breaking the cycle of poverty.

This month California passed the Fair Pay Act to require employers to justify higher wages for male workers, protect employees who ask about others’ salaries and allow employees to sue if they perform largely equivalent work to someone with a different job title but receive less pay. Massachusetts is considering — but has yet to pass — similar legislation.

Holmes said a pending bill aims to narrow wages gaps. If passed, it would protect workers from retaliation for discussing salaries, forbid employers from requesting past pay history and clarify an existing law that states how employers must report pay.

Another element: job ads must post the minimum salary and meet or exceed it. If starting salaries were listed in ads, it would help protect employees from settling for lowballed salaries, said Villa-Barry.

Bookman called for action.

“Let’s not let the upcoming generation of Latina girls experience the disparities of their mothers and the missed opportunities,” she said.

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Income and those making 30-60 percent AMI, said Kriesberg.

This measure compares a family’s earnings to those of all Bostonians as a whole, not to earnings in their neighborhood.

“AMI remains constant across neighborhoods,” said Lisa Pollack, media and public relations director for the Department of Neighborhood Development.

As of June 2015, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development defines 30 percent AMI in Boston as a family of four earning $29,550 and 60 percent AMI as a family of four earning $59,100, according to information posted on the Department of Neighborhood Development’s website.

Financial binds

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At the Jackson Commons ribbon cutting, Richard Thal (left), executive director of JPNDC, Mayor Martin Walsh and State Representative Jeffrey Sánchez posed by an image of the area’s next project: 75 Amory Ave.

Affordable housing rolls out but demand stays high

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Families and individuals celebrated their new homes September 30 as the ribbon was cut on Jackson Commons apartments. The old Webb Building was rehabilitated into a LEED-certified, mixed-use, mixed-income residential facility with 37 affordable apartments.

But even as Jackson Commons opened the doors to families at the end of last April, hundreds of others wished they had the same luck.

Urban Edge, which developed the property, assigned the units through a lottery.

“We had 2,100 people request applications for 37 apartments,” said Shaina Korman-Houston, Urban Edge project manager. Of those, “there were more than 1,400 eligible applicants for the property.”

The apartments, located at 1542 Columbus Ave, Roxbury, are one- to three- bedroom affordable units, with eight set aside for individuals who were formerly homeless. The building boasts the same level of amenities as market-rate housing, said Korman-Houston, including on-site laundry, a bike

rack and a playground. It also has energy-efficient heating and cooling and is designed to maximize sunlight and fresh air flow.

“It was a little bit heart-breaking that 2,100 people needed that many units,” she said, referring the many who requested applications.

Mayor Martin Walsh’s Boston 2030 housing plan, released last October, predicted that as Boston’s population swells that demand for affordable housing will increase.

Surging need, limited options

City officials are well aware that there is a strong demand that is not sufficiently met.

They define housing as within a family’s reach if rent consumes no more than 35 percent of family income. When housing is not designated affordable, this percentage can skyrocket.

“In non-subsidized housing, thousands of families are paying 40-50 percent of their income on rent,” said Joe Kriesberg, president and CEO of Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations.

An estimated 35,000 renters in

Boston spend more than 50 percent of their income on rent, said Kadineyse Ramize Peña, program associate of Boston Tenants Coalition in a Right to the City press release. Ninety-two percent of these renter households, she said, were very low-income.

But when seeking more affordable housing, families’ options are limited.

In 2013, only 9 percent of rental housing listings were priced at 35 percent of household income for families making $50,000, according to the mayor’s Boston 2030 report. For very-low-income families making $25,000, the amount of attainable rental housing listings dropped to 1 percent.

Not only are many struggling to afford housing now, but more will in the next 15 years.

The Boston 2030 report predicted the number of extremely low-income households burdened by housing costs would increase by 11 percent from 2014 to 2030.

Defining affordable

Housing designated as affordable typically is targeted at families occupying two groups: those making up to 30 percent of the Area Median

Like many things, solving the housing problem comes down to money.

“We have two or three new projects that we could be starting next year if there were enough funding for them,” said Richard Thal, executive director of JPNDC. The NDC has started the next step of the Jamaica Plain Redevelopment Master Plan: building a 39-unit affordable housing development at 75 Amory Ave. In general, housing is expensive to build, and offering it at affordable rates makes it harder for developers to recoup costs.

“It’s a difficult time to develop any housing. Construction costs are very high, land costs are very high,” said Korman-Houston.

An affordable unit costs $350,000-$400,000 to build, said Kriesberg, Korman-Houston and Thal.

Private developers typically make money by charging high rent, a strategy that disappears when rent is capped at affordable levels. To cover the difference between the construction costs and the amount generated from lower rent, state, city and federal government step in with funding.

“The financial reality is developers can’t afford to offer for less without subsidies,” said Kreisberg. “In any given project it’s probably 80-90 percent state and federal subsidies and 10 percent from the city.”

However, government money is not always available. Between 2010-2105, the federal government’s HOME program budget was halved, losing $900 billion, reports TakePart Magazine.

It took over $21 million to build Jackson Commons. To do it, Urban Edge received more than $4 million from Boston and more than $2 million from the state Department of Housing and Development. The remaining funds

were cobbled together from multiple other sources.

“It’s got, I think, probably 15 different sources of funding in it.

It took a lot of support from the city, from the state, from private partners to put this together,” said Korman-Houston. “This was not an easy project from a financial perspective.”

Building enough new affordable rental housing to meet both current and anticipated demand would cost an estimated $12.6 billion in public resources, claims the mayor’s office in its Boston 2030 report. This is not a feasible number, the report says.

“Given the constraints of space, the high cost of land, declining federal funding, and a finite amount of city dollars available, we must acknowledge that the city cannot build its way out of this problem,” the report states.

Instead, the Walsh housing plan includes building 6,500 new units along with finding ways to keep construction costs down and seizing opportunities to make existing housing stock more affordable, perhaps skirting building costs all together.

Status check

These affordable housing plans appeared in the mayor’s Boston 2030 report released last October. Now a year in, the city declared itself well on the way to meeting these goals.

“New low-income non-elderly starts are currently running at 114 percent of the pace needed to create 6,500 new units by 2030,” states Boston 2030’s most recent quarterly report, released in July.

Permits have been approved on 1,204 affordable units, about 28 percent of which will be designated for those earning below 30 percent AMI. The Department of Neighborhood Development and the Neighborhood Housing Trust also gave funding awards to 18 projects that together will build 500 low-income units and are expected to carry construction costs of $275 million.

New homes and new life

For families like those who moved into Jackson Commons and those still waiting, such efforts to provide affordable housing can make a world of difference.

Plans for revitalizing Jackson Square have been in the works for two decades, said Thal. At last they are coming to fruition with developments like Jackson Commons.

“There’s new life, new people moving in, new businesses moving in,” he said. “It gives people a sense of hope that if you stay with something long enough, good things will come.”

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In recognition of its 50th Anniversary, the Bay State Banner is excited to celebrate the auspicious occasion at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute.

Over the past 50 years, the Bay State Banner has been engaging citizens in conversations around politics and community issues by reporting stories of critical importance to Boston’s urban community and beyond. As the Banner and Senator Kennedy’s legacy embody a commitment to educating and informing the public on significant issues of the day, we strongly believe that the EMK Institute is the perfect place to hold this anniversary celebration.

The celebration includes the screening of a documentary film about the Banner’s history — produced by award-winning filmmakers Tracy Heather Strain and Randy MacLowry, founders of The Film Posse — and the presentation of the 50th Anniversary Commemorative Magazine with a cover designed by award-winning artist Ekua Holmes.

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Times have changed, and for many workers, the dream of working from home is increasingly becoming a reality.

Modern technology has made it easier than ever to connect to companies and coworkers remotely and employers across the nation are recognizing the financial benefits of allowing their employees to work from home.

Many businesses remain concerned that if employees work from home, productivity may suffer. To help businesses and employees ensure that time spent working from home does not hamper productivity, follow these five tips. n Ensure you have the right tools to do the job. Encourage your business’s leaders to use modern technology to the fullest through a communications system that seamlessly integrates the office with employees’ homes. n Set projects aside for teleworking. Some projects cater more easily to telework than others. As you plan out your work week, deadlines obviously take center stage, but after that, look at your projects and determine which ones can be done at home.

Identifying those projects and capitalizing on the opportunity will make your telework time more productive. n Keep your team on the same page. By using cloud-based document storage solutions, collaboration among team members in different locations becomes much easier. n Answer the phone. Not answering your phone while teleworking makes you look bad because co-workers will speculate you’re not being productive. n Keep your surroundings to yourself. Good-natured grumbling will only remain good-natured for so long if you constantly remind your co-workers you’re working from the deck or next to the pool.

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The National Association of Asian American Professionals’ Northeast Leadership Conference drew hundreds to UMass Boston last week for workshops aimed at helping participants advance in their careers.

Asian professionals convene NAAAP conference highlights stories of success

By MARTIN DESMARAIS

About 200 of some of Boston’s up-and-coming Asian businessmen and businesswomen attended the National Association of Asian American Professionals 2015 Northeast Leadership Conference last Friday at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

In keeping with the NAAP mission, organizers designed the event to serve as a stepping stone for attendees to take better advantage of career opportunities.

The Northeast Leadership Conference pushed the professional development skills with a theme of “agility.” Speakers and workshops examined ways for individuals and organizations to anticipate and work with changes common in today’s business world in order to grow and succeed.

Some of the workshop topics included how to: define and adapt goals and outline plans to achieve them; develop brand and reputation to become a recognized thought leader; build an “agile” workforce by embracing diversity and inclusiveness, women and generational differences; and foster an organization that can quickly adapt to client and industry demands.

The keynote speakers were Liz Cheng, WGBH’s General Manager for Television; and Daniel Koh, chief of staff to Mayor Martin Walsh.

Other speakers included: Paul Francisco, managing director and head of diversity consulting and sourcing programs for State Street Corp.; Judy Shen-Filerman, president of Dreambridge Partners; Lauren Rikleen, president

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Left, Jesse Nandhavan, NAAAP Boston Chapter President. Right, keynote speaker Liz Cheng of WGBH.

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We’ve got to believe in ourselves. We’ve got to have confidence in our abilities. We cannot be perfect. No one can be perfect. If you don’t experience disappointment, if you don’t go for it and make mistakes and fail big time you will miss out on life’s most important lessons.”

— Liz Cheng of Rikleen Institute for Strategic Leadership; Maura Rudolph, vice president of New England market for Accenture; and Thomas Sullivan, lead for leadership development at Hult International Business School. Jesse Nandhavan, NAAAP Boston Chapter President, also spoke.

Jim Fong, chairman of the NAAAP Boston Chapter board of directors, spoke to the Banner about the importance of developing leaders amongst young Asian American professionals. It is a task NAAAP Boston has fully embraced. The Boston chapter, which

was started in 1986, is one of the oldest and biggest of the 33-yearold association, with about 450 members. The chapter hosted the first Northeast Leadership Conference in 2014 and handled the event again this year.

“This is right at the core of what we do since our moto is ‘We Build Leaders.’ We believe in helping people do leadership, so all the people organizing the event have to think about how they can help their colleagues advance and what kind of information can be useful.

So this is perfect for us,” Fong said.

He also said it was important

to show examples of Asian Americans who have been successful in what they do to provide role models for a younger generation.

“It is great to bridge that experience gap where a lot of people ahead of them feel that they had to learn things on their own on the fly and they didn’t have somebody to ask or talk with, so we want to be more accessible and available to people earlier in their careers.”

Keynote speaker Liz Cheng of WGBH seemed to resonate with the conference attendees with her

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continued from page 11 story about how she forged a successful career in a sector not traditionally associated with Asians and also one which was not immediately acceptable to those closest to her.

As the daughter of Chinese immigrants to the United States, to many, Cheng’s story was a familiar one as she recalled the push to build a career in engineering or medicine — the fields more culturally acceptable to work in. Her

battle to follow her passion for storytelling and go into media, shedding cultural stereotypes and finding a foothold, elicited a warm response.

Four years into her WGBH rola as general manager for television, she is responsible for some of the station’s top content and programing. She joined WGBH from Boston’s ABC affiliate WCVB-TV, where she was vice president as well as director of programming. She was executive in charge of production for the well-known newsmagazine “Chronicle” and executive produced 10 years of “Pops Goes the Fourth!”

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“If I had listened to my parents I would have become a surgeon, a lawyer or a stay-at-home mom.

I would never have chosen television,” Cheng said.

She joked that even after years of high-level jobs in the industry her father still questions her and wonders what she does all day, even suggesting other career options just in case things don’t work out in TV.

Career advice

Cheng shared several maxims she believes helped her in her career success and can help others.

The first was “Honor thy parents, but do not obey them,” which she related to her efforts to move beyond the professions her parents had laid out for her.

The second, “Assess your abilities, find your passion, be good at it,” she related to her early efforts in the media and the realization that she wanted to tell stories about things she cared about and about things that impact the community and her efforts to find a role in television that would allow her to do so. One big move: transitioning from trying to be an onscreen reporter when she realized she was better suited to work in production behind the scenes.

Cheng encouraged conference attendees to act on their passions with her third statement: “The reason why so little is done is generally because so little is attempted.”

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“We’ve got to believe in ourselves. We’ve got to have confidence in our abilities. We cannot be perfect. No one can be perfect,” Cheng said. “If you don’t experience disappointment, if you don’t go for it and make mistakes and fail big time you will miss out on life’s most important lessons.”

Similarly, she called for risk-taking with her fourth insight: “Be adaptable — pitch ideas, experiment, volunteer to do new things.”

“It is too easy for us Asian Americans to put our heads down, work really hard and hope for the best, hope the boss will notice, but why not lift your heads up to

examine the many opportunities all around you,” she said. “Proceed outside your comfort zone. If you volunteer for something new, what is the downside? You will learn a lot, you might discover a new skill or find a whole new direction in life.”

Cheng also called for giving back with her statement: “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” In this regard, she cautioned conference attendees about thinking it is too early in their careers to start giving back. She said it is never too early to start giving back to the community so they should start doing so now.

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From classroom to college or to cell

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Saying he wanted to turn the school-to-prison pipeline into a cradle-to-career pipeline, Steven Tompkins, Suffolk County sheriff, convened a panel of education experts at Roxbury Community College last week. “The State of Education: A Conversation About Academics in The Commonwealth” forum speakers aired views on education improvements that could help keep youth on the right path. “ The education system is really going to be a roadblock to the incarceration system,” said Tompkins.

Prison problem

The high rate of incarceration damages inmates and their families and is costly to tax payers.

If new and stronger educational efforts can prevent individuals from entering the criminal justice system, the sheriff ’s department predicts the commonwealth would save tens of thousands of dollars.

It costs $50,000 per year to incarcerate an individual, Tompkins said. By comparison it costs approximately $14,000 to educate a child in Massachusetts, and about $17,500 in Boston, said Peter Van Delft, sheriff department spokesperson.

“Something is grossly wrong with the way we are prioritizing our dollars,” Tompkins said. “Do

we continue to warehouse people or do we correct situations?”

Dropped out and locked up

Education, especially college level, was cited as a major crime deterrent.

“We know if you stay in the system, you go to college, you don’t go to jail,” said Mark Culliton, CEO of College Bound Dorchester. CBD helps high school dropouts, including many gang-involved youths, get on the path to college. Those who wind up at the sheriff ’s department frequently are dropouts, Culliton said.

Preventing dropouts

Panelists shared ideas on what drives students from the education system.

Culliton said the major reason youths quit school is that they are unchallenged and adults expect too little from them. “ The number one reason people give for dropping out is not that it’s too challenging, it’s that it’s not challenging enough.

They’re bored,” he said. “Yet we have this notion that all these kids out gang-banging are not ready for college, are only for low-wage jobs.”

Several panelists debated whether strict discipline rates contribute to dropout counts.

City Councilor Tito Jackson argued that suspensions deny students needed education as well as community and support services

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Will Austin, CEO at the Boston School Fund and one-time math teacher at Roxbury Prep Charter School, said strict discipline was not always harmful. He said an examination of a disciplinary structure’s benefits and detriments must go beyond suspension statistics to look at the school as a whole. In the case of Roxbury Prep, Austin said, the suspension rate was high but the school

boasted a low attrition rate, no felonies and a good attendance record.

Early intervention

Both Makeeba McCeary, chief of staff for Boston Public Schools Superintendent Tommy Chang, and Jackson pointed to pre-K as a way to curtail achievement gaps early in a child’s life.

“When you start school early, it closes the equity gap around achievement and ensures you have access to high-quality education throughout your career,” said McCeary.

Jackson said that those who did

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not learn to read well in kindergarten or first grade would struggle afterwards, as later grades rely heavily on literacy to learn new information. The achievement gap, he said, is already evident when children enter kindergarten.

“By the time you come into kindergarten, if you’re poor, you’ve been read to about 25 hours. Other kids: 1,700 hours. That’s an average of 1 hour a day,” he said.

Jackson said 4,000 children are waiting for pre-K spots, but BPS buildings do not have enough seats. He proposed housing pre-K

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education continued from page 15

classes in daycares and other buildings outside the system.

Retaining and gaining teachers

Teachers were upheld both as role models to students and as deeply influential factors.

James Peyser, state Secretary of Education, said getting enough skilled educators is key to strengthening education, but challenging to achieve.

“We need a human capital pipeline of great educators and school leaders who will engage with children in a way that leads to great education outcomes,” he said. “It is very difficult for us to build and maintain that pipeline.”

Few teachers these days stay for 30 or 40 years, said Richard Stutman, president of Boston Teachers Union.

Peyser said one reason for this was that the bureaucracy of school systems disempowers teachers. Stutman said relentless testing reduced the joy of an already demanding job.

“It is a round-the-clock work year for modest pay,” Stutman said.

Many teachers have masters degrees and make $45,000 their starting year, he said. Their work year extends six to eight weeks into summer.

Speakers also said more diverse teachers needed to be hired. Latinos and black men are especially underrepresented.

“Young people in city of Boston need to see people who actually look like them in their classrooms,” said Jackson.

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Further fixes

of student count.

Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz said that she had just come from a meeting in which the senate failed again to put this reimbursement into the budget.

“We’re on track to not fulfill it [the reimbursement promise] in the fiscal year right now,” she said.

“That’s to the tune of several million dollars just in Boston.”

Making it happen However, not all shortage is due Speakers said that in order to to revenue shift between charters improve education — and thus and district schools. reduce incarceration rates — two The education system as a things were needed: funding and whole, said Jackson, needs more policy. funding. He suggested money be re-allocated from the Department of Correction’s budget to the education budget.

“We get the money from you [Sheriff Tompkins], from the Department of Corrections,” said Jackson. “The DOC budget this year is higher than the early education budget in the state of Massachusetts, and that’s a problem.”

In addition — or instead — of redistributing budget, a greater funding platform can be developed through taxes.

Stutman said the city’s policy of granting property tax exemptions to universities greatly harms revenue. Nonprofits, such as hospitals or universities, are exempt from property tax. The city requests nonprofits with over $15 million in property to donate. This year, over two-thirds of such colleges paid less than requested, with Northeastern University paying only 13 percent, theCommittee Boston Partners Humanreported Research Globe.

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Sheriff Steven Tompkins, discussion moderator, said to reduce incarceration rates, Chang-Diaz said a reluctance to more resources needed to be directed to the education system. “Education is the expand or raise taxes means that key to a lot of things that can make folks’ lives a lot better,” he said.

Boston loses out on major sources of funds for projects like school improvements.

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Proposed educational improvements included expanding the school day and/or year, further specializing teaching approaches to suit different students, promoting greater parental involvement and offering a larger amount of fun electives.

Schools are traditionally cashstrapped and Stutman said it was not uncommon for schools to be without toilet paper, hot water and soap. Extending school years would require more resources.

Some of the funding shortage district schools feel is due to failure to enact policy. For several years, the state has reneged on promises to reimburse BPS for funds that follow students to charters.

This measure is meant to compensate for school overhead costs like heating and teacher salaries, which remain the same regardless

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Go Boston

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http://goboston2030.org Ideas on the Street schedule: http://goboston2030.org/ideas-on-the-street-schedule A Better City: www.abettercity.org

includes a “seamless, convenient, and easy to navigate” system in which “quality jobs, educational opportunities, healthy food, and cultural facilities will be accessible from every community.” An “aspirational target” is that by 2030, every Boston home will be within a 10-minute walk of a rail or key bus route, Hubway station and carshare. Today, that combination of amenities exists for less than half of the city’s households.

Early action projects include new connections between the city’s green spaces, traffic calming measures to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety and “intelligent” parking meters that accept multiple forms of payment and collect data to inform parking policies.

A call to be visionary

The Go Boston 2030 initiative’s Mayoral Advisory Committee was co-chaired by state Rep. Russell Holmes, whose district includes parts of Dorchester, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan and Roslindale, and Rick Dimino, president and CEO of A Better City, a Greater Boston independent business and institutional membership organization focused on transportation, land development and environmental policies.

“We had a long discussion, thinking about what’s practical versus setting the stage to be aspirational,” said Dimino, who formerly served as Boston’s transportation commissioner and is on the Metropolitan Area Planning Council’s executive committee.

“We knew that, in being aspirational, we might raise some eyebrows. But I’d rather think big and long, and the mayor thought that was important, too. Nearterm actions should be in the context of a larger idea.”

Holmes said the committee’s work involved addressing the needs of every stakeholder, from commuters to walkers, bikers and people with disabilities.

“The walkers would point out that walking is free, but then the

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A Go Boston 2030 representative discusses transportation ideas with Codman Square neighborhood resident Daisy Ramos at an “Ideas on the Street” pop-up cart in front of the Codman Square Library. disabled folks would say, ‘but that’s not so easy for us,’” he said.

But the biggest challenge, Holmes noted, is that the city of Boston does not have control over every piece of the transportation puzzle.

“The city does not manage the T or the commuter rail,” he said.

“So when we create a report that involves state and federal agencies, how do we as a city force that to happen? This is a vision we have for the city, and we need all these players to be involved.”

Neighborhood participation

The visioning process started in January. Through a Question Truck, social media outreach and

an interactive website, the city collected some 5,000 questions from workers and residents. The questions were sorted and organized into major themes and priorities.

In April, residents, community stakeholders and passersby provided feedback in a two-day “visioning lab” at the China Trade Building.

The Vision Framework report caps Go Boston 2030’s first phase; the next phase will be formulating an action plan.

Public dialogue sessions for phase two include this fall’s “Ideas on the Street” program, in which the Boston Transportation Department stations a bicycle-drawn cart at neighborhood sites. Passersby

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Outside Codman Square Branch Library on Oct. 7, hexagonal sheets of colored paper held suggestions and questions handwritten in several languages by adults, teens and a few grade school children who stopped by on their way into the library with their teacher.

For the most part, people’s comments expressed day-to-day concerns of public transit riders: “Give announcements in Spanish.”

“Trolley too crowded — Make trolleys larger to lessen crowds.”

“Fairmount Commuter Rail

should run more often.”

“Make buses come more often!

So if I miss one bus, I won’t automatically be late for work.”

Victor Rodriguez, 71, chair of the Friends of Codman Square Library group and a board member of the Codman Square Neighborhood Council, lingered for a good while as area residents stopped by the cart, staffed by consultants working with the city on the vision initiative.

“We have serious issues with transportation, especially in wintertime,” Rodriguez told the Banner. “Transportation for seniors — it’s a disaster.”

The main issue in improving things, Rodriguez said, is communication. For elders in his community, he said, transit-related information should be communicated by radio, newspaper and flyers in multiple languages, as well as by e-mail or websites.

The Ideas on the Street pop-up sessions will continue (weather permitting) through Oct. 17, with the cart appearing Oct. 14 at Roxbury Crossing T Station; Oct. 15 in Mission Hill and Jamaica Plain; Oct. 16 in Dorchester and Roxbury; and Oct. 17 in Hyde Park. For details, see http://goboston2030.org/ ideas-on-the-street-schedule.

Additional public engagement through the fall and winter is expected to culminate in a consolidated Vision Framework and Action Plan in Spring 2016.

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Baker, testifying on behalf of his bill, H.D. 4191, “An Act to Improve and Expand Education Opportunities,” called for an state approval for 12 new charter schools a year in the bottom 25 percent of the state’s lowest-performing school districts.

Walsh said the increase should come at the rate of a half a percent a year in the state’s lowest performing districts.

“Raising the cap on public charter schools is something I believe in and have advocated for a long time,” Walsh testified. “But the goal of lifting the cap is not to fuel a rapid seat

expansion. It’s to build thoughtfully on success, and achieve the right mix of high-quality school options for our students.”

Baker, who did not call for a phased increase, also called for new charters to be created in low-performing school districts.

“Most of the highest performing schools in the Commonwealth are charter schools that serve students located in some of the state’s lowest performing school districts,” Baker said. “But today, despite all this positive progress, the difference in overall student achievement in underperforming school districts and the rest of the Commonwealth, remains too high while some 37,000 children sit on waiting lists trying to get into the Commonwealth’s very successful charter school network.”

In addition to increasing the number of charters, Walsh called on

the state to fully fund the reimbursements it is required by law to make to districts in which charters operate. For every student sent to charter schools, the sending district is obligated, under state law, to pay the charter school an amount equivalent to the district’s average per-pupil expenditure. The state is required to provide a partial refund to the sending district over a four year period, but has never fully paid those refunds. In his testimony, Walsh called on the state to refund sending districts for 100 percent of the first year students attend charters, 50 percent of the second and 25 percent of the third year.

Walsh said Baker’s plan, and a similar plan outlined in a 2016 ballot petition, would leave cities and towns on the hook for increased financial obligations.

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to our challenges,” he said of Baker’s bill and the ballot question. “They call on cities and towns to increase their commitments to public charter schools, while the state’s own commitment to the system is wavering.

Neither measure would move us toward a sustainable system.”

Under Walsh’s proposal, cities and towns would continue to be responsible for 100 percent of the cost of pre-existing charter seats, as well as the cost of all new seats from the fourth year on.

State aid for Boston’s district schools, which stood at nearly a third of the budget in the 1990s, now accounts for less than 10 percent of the school budget.

Walsh said state funding is continuing to decline.

“In Boston, our total education costs this year, combining both Boston Public School and public charter spending, will grow by 5 percent, or more than $55 million,” he testified. “Yet our state aid for education, combining Chapter 70 and reimbursements, will increase by only 2 percent, or about $5 million.”

Baker said his proposal will give charter schools better flexibility to educate English language learners and students with disabilities, but did not offer specific policy recommendations in his statement.

“This is Massachusetts. We are the home of public education, and our charter schools for many kids have lowered the educational opportunity playing field for thousands of children,” he said. “We should celebrate their success and build on it.”

Hundreds march to the State House in support of $15/hr wage legislation Hundreds of low-wage workers and supporters of the growing Fight for $15 movement marched today towards the Massachusetts State House in support of a legislative package that could raise the minimum wage to $15/hr wage for fast-food, home care, and large retail store employees, as well as codify fair scheduling practices and raise the wages of tipped workers.

“New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Wage Board heard the voices of the fast-food workers and now it’s time for Massachusetts to raise the wage for low-wage workers,” said Erica Betancourt, Dunkin Donuts worker. “Earning $9.00 an hour, trying to take care of my family just is not making it. Today’s hearing is the first step to winning $15 an hour in Massachusetts and we won’t stop until it happens.”

Ignited by the decision of the fastfood Wage Board in New York to raise the hourly wage for 200,000 cooks and cashiers across the state, workers from across Massachusetts convened at the State House to listen to fast-food, retail, airport, and tipped workers testify before the Committee on Economic and Work Force Development in support of the $15 minimum wage package.

Among those supporting the bills was Kheila Cox, who works at Logan Airport as a baggage handler. For a 38-year-old mom, a living wage is critical: “I have a daughter that’s going to Lesley University and I almost passed out when she told me what it costs. It’s good news and bad news. I’m just trying to do this for my kids and it’s not easy.”

Once considered a long shot, $15 is now a reality in cities like Seattle, SeaTac, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Fast-food workers in New York recently won $15, and it is the minimum pay at leading companies like Facebook and Aetna. Noting how the Fight for $15 has changed the politics of the country, The New York Times declared that “$15 could become the new, de facto $7.25,” and The Washington Post said $15 has “gone from almost absurdly ambitious to mainstream in the span of a few years.”

According to a recent report from the National Employment Law Project, wages have stagnated for America’s workers across the board, but those in lower-paying jobs are being hit the hardest and low-wage occupations saw the biggest drop in real wages during the recovery. Among the 10-largest occupations in the bottom fifth, declines were most pronounced for occupations in the restaurant sector: food preparation workers and cooks saw wage declines of 7.7 percent and 8.9 percent.

Janitors and cleaners, personal care aides, home health aides, and maids and housekeeping cleaners also experienced steep declines.

“It’s unconscionable when caregivers, airport workers, fast food workers, or janitors are working full time but still having to choose between paying rent and buying groceries due to low wages,” said Veronica Turner, Executive Vice President for 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. “We’re proud that our 35,000 personal care attendants secured a path to $15/hour, but there are thousands of caregivers working for homecare agencies who can’t afford basic needs because of poverty wages. Wage inequality is a public health crisis and we will fight for all workers to be able to earn enough money to take care of themselves and their families.”

Community Meetings on Unified Enrollment

Discussions on Mayor Walsh’s School Enrollment Proposal The Boston Compact invites you to participate in a series of public, citywide meetings to help shape an improved enrollment system that better meets the needs of Boston families and schools with one application and one deadline for district and charter schools. Childcare and refreshments will be provided. n Oct. 8: 5:30-8pm Kroc Center 650 Dudley St, Boston n Oct. 20: 5:30-8pm East Boston Public Library 365 Bremen St, Boston n Oct. 21: 5:30-8pm Mattapan Public Library 1350 Blue Hill Ave, Mattapan n Nov. 5: 5:30-8pm Grove Hall Community Center 51 Geneva Ave, Boston n Nov. 12: 6:30-9pm First Church of Jamaica Plain Corner of Elliot and South, JP n Nov. 17: 5:30-8pm West End Boys and Girls Club 105 Allston St, Allston

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(l-r): “50/50” co-host Samantha Brown, contestants Alexandra Obe and David Sprague, and 50/50 co-host Chris Grundy in front of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.

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Production runs through Oct. 18 at Emerson College

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DIY NETWORK’S CHRIS GRUNDY CO-HOSTS NEW TRAVEL CHANNEL SERIES

‘50/50’

By COLETTE GREENSTEIN

Television personality, tool expert and avid do-it-yourselfer Chris Grundy, who hosted the first-ever interactive home-building television series “Giveaway Blog Cabin” for the DIY Network from 2012 through 2015, has been tapped to co-host the new travel series “50/50” with world traveler Samantha Brown. The series premiered on the Travel Channel on Sunday, Oct. 4.

The premise of the new show is that Grundy and Brown travel across the country ambushing unsuspecting people and offering them the trip of a lifetime — an unforgettable two-day vacation worth $50,000 that they have to spend in 50 hours. The catch is, in order to accept the trip, they have to drop

everything and leave right away.

Grundy, who with Brown accompanies the contestants on the epic adventures, was filled with excitement and bursting with energy when he spoke to the Banner recently about his new co-hosting gig and all the fun he is having.

The premiere episode was in Abu Dhabi. Is Abu Dhabi everything we’ve seen and heard about?

Chris Grundy: It’s luxurious beyond belief, and it’s all true.

There’s camels, there’s this and there’s that, but the heat is unbelievable. It was 118 degrees when we landed. It’s like a wet, hot sock that punches you in the face as soon as you get there.

What’s your favorite part about doing the show?

CG: My favorite part is the people we take, and seeing them let go of their lives for a little bit. Some of the people, they’re on break from lunch when we find them, or they’ve got four kids at home, or whatever their situation is. In the beginning they’re still holding on to it, but if we can have a great time and have them let go, the fun part is seeing them screaming and yelling. They get into a glider plane that they never thought they would do in their entire lives, but somehow, by the luck of the draw, they’re doing it. I love that.

What other cities are you traveling to or have traveled to for the show?

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CG: Abu Dhabi as you said.

Jackson Hole, Wyoming ... We’ve been to Alaska, Australia, and the Adirondacks. We’re trying to spread out. We’re doing domestic and international, and we just have a ball wherever we go.

What has been the initial reaction of the contestants?

CG: You’ll probably hear them saying, ‘This isn’t real. This can’t be real. You’re not going to spend $50,000 on me.’ It really helps to have Samantha Brown on board.

She is very recognizable. And sometimes if they don’t know either one of us, we’ll say, ‘Google Samantha Brown and see what comes up.’ And that closes the books on it. It helps that we have cameras around, but definitely they’re skeptics. They think they’re getting punked. They think some of their friends have set them up.

Different things go through their minds. But in the end they get in the limo, they get on the plane, and then they start believing in us.

Are you still doing any other projects on DIY or are you focused solely on this Travel Channel show?

CG: I’m still building houses and still doing Blog Cabin on DIY. I just looked at a house a week ago to see if we wanted to use it for Blog Cabin. I’m doing both. I love both. There’s obviously different parts of each that I love. It’s such a great opportunity for me personally, so I can just go have fun, a ton of fun.

“It’s more about changing lives,” says actress Tangela Large of “Mr. Joy,” the one-woman play written by playwright and ArtsEmerson Artist-in-Residence Daniel Beaty and starring Large.

“And I truly believe that art can change lives.”

Bringing nine different characters to life — including the bubbly 11-year-old Clarissa; Peter, Clarissa’s 12-year-old boyfriend; Becky, a Caucasian socialite who’s “down with the cause,” as Large says; and Clifford, a black, Republican real estate mogul who just happens to be Becky’s boyfriend — Large’s portrayal of the characters is extraordinary.

She moves seamlessly from one character to another as each reveals how an attack on Mr. Joy — a Chinese cobbler who’s been repairing shoes in the Harlem community he’s called home for 25 years — has impacted them and their lives.

In character

Large embodies each character so fully, you forget it’s her on stage. As Large describes it, it’s almost “a sense of schizophrenia” as she transforms into each person. The actress believes that part of the answer to the challenge of such transformation lies in naming the problem.

“So, just committing to the choice,” she says, “the choice that I’m changing. I’m really simple when it comes to my process. I get a script; I read the words, and that’s what I rely on. It’s the power of the change in the words.

So, the gestures became easy because the language is so different for each character. It’s so contrasting. So with those words, a gesture will come.”

Large, who grew up in East Point, Georgia, always dreamed

See LARGE, page 24

IF YOU GO Mr. Joy, the second production in playwright Beaty’s three-season artist residency at Emerson College, runs through Sunday,

Oct. 18 at the Emerson/Jackie Liebergott Black Box located in the Emerson/Paramount Center, 559 Washington St. in Boston’s historic theatre district. Tickets are $25 and may be purchased by calling 617.824.8400 or online at www.artsemerson.org.

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FILM REVIEW: ‘THE MARTIAN’

Astronaut stranded on Mars survives by wits in space adventure

By KAM WILLIAMS

Matt Damon stars in “The Martian.”

“MacGyver” was a TV series that revolved around a title character famous for relying on his vast body of scientific knowledge while using everyday household items to save the day in a variety of life-and-death situations. “The Martian” is an outer space adventure in which a stranded astronaut with an uncanny knack for improvisation takes a similar approach to surviving on Mars.

The picture stars Matt Damon as Mark Watney, a wounded botanist inaccurately presumed dead and left behind by fellow crew members in the wake of a dangerous dust storm on the red planet.

However, he is actually very much alive, but without the oxygen, water, food, equipment and other resources needed to last the four years it would take for NASA to mount a rescue mission.

So, resourceful Mark proceeds to do everything from perform surgery on himself to growing potatoes in a makeshift garden, fertilizing the plants with his own poop. And, like an intergalactic variation of the island-bound protagonist played by Tom Hanks in “Cast Away,” Matt Damon appears alone on screen for the bulk of the sci-fi saga.

The great news is that Damon proves captivating, and the 141 minutes running time flies by in a flash. Besides amusing us with his ingenious inventions, Damon repeatedly makes us laugh via myriad humorous asides.

Directed by three-time Oscar-nominee Ridley Scott (for “Thelma and Louise,” “Gladiator” and “Black Hawk Down”), “The Martian” has all the tension of “Gravity,” plus it manages to keep you on the edge of your seat for an hour longer. Furthermore, its visual effects are the equal of “Interstellar,” and it features Damon for the duration instead o f merely for a cameo.

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Large

continued from page 22 of acting. She was a fan of playwrights Suzan-Lori Parks and playwright Anna Deveare Smith.

She recalls reading her first play

by Parks at 13. At 17, she read Smith’s “Fires in the Mirror.”

“I was that kid obsessed with her in high school,” she says.

Fast-forward some 10 years later, and the 2014 Brown University graduate with her MFA in acting couldn’t be more excited that she’s living out her dream.

After graduating from Brown, she was able to land an agent “coming

right out of the gate,” as she describes it.

“I was lucky,” she says.” I was really lucky to get representation and to get someone who believed in my talent.”

So she packed her bags and moved to New York. Three months later, her agent sent her the sides (typically a reading that involves at least two characters) for “Mr. Joy.” Large remembers that she received six pages and six different speeches that she had to prepare in three days.

“I think I got Clarissa, Bessie, John Lee, Rebecca, and James the homeless man. I assumed it was from six different plays,”

Dudley Branch of the Boston Public Library Fellowes Athenaeum Trust Fund 2015-2016 Program Grants The Fellowes Athenaeum Trust Fund was established on February 1, 1974, by a vote of the Library Trustees. The income is to be used for “literary instructive purposes at its Dudley Branch Library.”

The Fellowes Trust Advisory Committee is pleased to announce that the following grants have been awarded for FY 2016.

All programs are free and will take place at the Dudley Branch of the Boston Public Library in Roxbury at 65 Warren Street.

(Please note that exact dates and times for all programs are not yet scheduled and that listed dates/times may change.)

For more info: check the Dudley library’s calendar: bpl.org/calendar, the Dudley Branch’s Facebook page, or email: fellowestrust@yahoo.com.

Community Yoga Program for families (C. John) Saturdays, Oct. – June (11:30-12:30)

Monologue Acting Class for youth 14-20 (Lyric Stage Company) Thursdays, March-April 2016

Concept to Catwalk – Beginning Sewing Classes for Teens (S. Thames) Mondays, Oct. 19-Dec. 14 (5:30-7:30)

Mother & Father Wit: Life Lessons – Elder Storytelling & Art Project (V. Stephens & E. Holmes) Thursday, Oct. 15- Nov. 19 (2-4)

Creative Non-Fiction/Memoir Writing Workshop for Adults (N. Lomba-Gomes) Spring 2016 Dance, Music and Performance Workshop for Juniors, Teens and Adults (Art of Black Dance & Music) Saturdays, Oct. 3-Nov. 28 (12:302:30) Enriched Language Arts & Math Program (W.A.I.T.T. House) Registration, Oct. 16th – 10:30am, program runs Fridays, Oct. – June, (11-1) Facing Slavery Workshop (J. Mackall) Oct. 8 & 15, (5:30)

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she recalls.

But once she read the dialogue, she was blown away. “… I read Clarissa and I was like ‘Oh, my god,’” she says. “I’m always so queenly, so stoic, and so grounded in my type. Deep down inside I’m a big goofy kid.

And, I got excited. I walked into the audition and I was like, ‘You know, I have to have it.’ And I had fun.”

Large landed the role, and it has been life-changing. “I feel more womanly. I feel like an adult and I feel strong,” she explains. “The life of an artist is so beautiful, but sometimes it can be incredibly lonely. You have to kind of admit that. There’s a lot of traveling. I don’t have children.

I’m a single woman and I’m from Atlanta, Georgia, so I’m far from home. I’ve been very far from home for about five years now, trying to pursue the gift that God has given me.”

She continues, “I appreciate this play because it’s reminded me that there’s always something bigger than myself, which keeps you out of your head sometimes. It’s natural for actors to be self-absorbed, because we always have to deal with ourselves in that way. That’s why actors crave relationships, and family around, because it reminds you that there’s something way bigger than yourself. And, I think that’s how this piece has kind of changed my life. It reminds me that I’m doing something far greater, much more than what I ever suspected.”

PHOTO: PAUL MAROTTA

Actress Tangela Large in the one-woman play “Mr. Joy” written by Daniel Beaty and directed by David Dower. Mr. Joy can be seen at at Emerson/Jackie Liebergott Black Box at the Emerson/Paramount Center in Boston now through Sunday, October 18, 2015.

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“When building a menu item, I make sure to have a variety of flavors and textures — salty, sweet, acidic, creamy and crunchy,” she said. But she cautions that all of that flavor need not be complicated. n Go for crunch. There’s something simply satisfying about crunching your way through a delicious dish, says Chef Sarah Simmons of Birds & Bubbles in New York. “I think it’s important to have crunch in a snack,” she said.

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Rice and Zucchini Pie is a perfect fall dinner option

Rice and Zucchini Pie n 2 eggs, lightly beaten n 1 cup milk n 2 ¼ cups cooked long-grain brown rice, room temperature n 1 ½ cups grated zucchini, water squeezed out n 3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley n ¾ teaspoon dried dill weed n ½ teaspoon salt n 1⁄8 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper n 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded sharp cheddar cheese, divided

EASY RECIPE

Grape Salsa n 2 cups California seedless grapes, coarsely chopped n ½ cup each chopped green onions and diced fresh or canned Anaheim chilies n 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro n 2 tablespoons vinegar n 1 clove garlic, minced n ½ teaspoon salt n 1⁄8 teaspoon bottled hot pepper seasoning Combine all ingredients in medium bowl; mix well. Let stand at least 1 hour before serving. Drain off excess liquid before serving.

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Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Coat a 9-inch pie plate with cooking spray.

In a large bowl whisk eggs and milk. Stir in rice, zucchini, parsley, dill, salt, pepper and ½ cup cheese. Pour into pie plate.

Sprinkle with remaining ½ cup cheese.

Bake 30 minutes or until knife inserted in middle comes out clean. Let stand 10 minutes before serving. Serves 4.

— Recipe by Jean Kressy; photo by Teresa Blackburn.

FOOD QUIZ The Scottish food haggis is traditionally encased in what?

A. pig intestines B. a bull’s heart C. a sheep’s stomach D. a chicken’s beak Answer at bottom of column.

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10/15 Acclaimed Actress, Poet & Vocalist Alexandria King + + Social Enterprise Institute Student Association at Northeastern University (T) Rise Up October: Stop Police Terror Resistance Movement + Open Mic 10/22 Spoken Word Artist & Co-Host of “If You Can Speak It” D. Ruff + Open Mic Program Starts at 7pm - Come early for dinner

WORD TO THE WISE Ajowan: Or ajwain seeds, they are a spice related to cumin and caraway that originates from the Middle East and is now mostly found in southern India. The seeds look like purplish-red celery seeds and taste like astringent thyme. Also called carom or bishop’s weed, ajowan is available in seed or ground form.

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QUIZ ANSWER C. a sheep’s stomach, although now commercially prepared in an artificial casing.

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his brown rice and grated zucchini pie, like a quiche without a crust, is a terrific dish to serve for brunch, lunch or supper. The large holes of a hand-held box grater work well for grating the zucchini. Cook the rice ahead so it’s at room temperature when you add it to the other ingredients, and allow the pie about 10 minutes between the time it comes out of the oven and serving. The extra cooling time makes it easier to cut neat wedges. Serve the pie with a side of sliced tomatoes or fresh fruit and whole-grain bread. Leftovers, heated in the microwave, make someone a delicious breakfast.

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THURSDAY LINE ACTS: STACEY CUSHNER AND ALEXANDRA ROZENMAN Simmons College presents Line Acts, drawings by Stacey Cushner and Alexendra Rozenman, through November 5 at the Trustman Art Gallery, located on the fourth floor, Main College Building, 300 the Fenway in Boston. A reception from 5-7pm will be held on Thursday, October 15. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. Drawing is a way of thinking about, seeing, and recording an artist’s impressions.

In Line Acts Stacey Cushner and Alexandra Rozenman demonstrate the wide latitude of the practice. Although each primarily uses line, the outlook of each artist is focused on in Cushner’s case on the observable world and in Rozenman’s on the interior psychological landscape. The Gallery continues its Lunchtime Lecture Series on Tuesday, October 20 from 12:30-1:30 with a presentation

by Associate Professor of Art Colleen Kiely, who will discuss The Vision Thing: Seeing through Drawing, followed by questions and conversation. Trustman Gallery hours are 10am- 4:30pm, Monday through Friday.

The gallery is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible. For more information, contact Marcia Lomedico at 617-521-2268, or visit the Trustman Art Gallery website at www.simmons.edu/trustman.

SATURDAY COLONIAL WEAVING DEMONSTRATION October 17, 1-3pm. Talented craftsman Fred Lawson demonstrates the art of creating cloth by hand and simple machines.

Practice weaving on the small looms provided. Paul Revere will be “at home” on Thursdays in October, make plans to visit with him if you can! Saturday Happenings & Visit with Paul Revere are free with admission to the museum: adults $3.50 seniors and college students $3.00, children ages 5-17 $1. Members and North End residents are admitted free at all times. Through October 31 the Revere House is open daily 9:30-5:15. Beginning on November 1, the museum is open daily 9:30-4:15.

MAYOR’S FALL PUMPKIN FEST Mayor Martin J. Walsh has announced the Fall Pumpkin Festival coming to the Boston Common Frog Pond on Saturday, October 17, from 5:30-7:30pm. Hundreds of illuminated jack-o’-lanterns will float on the water and festive family activities will be offered. Attendees are asked to bring 8-inch or smaller carved pumpkins that will be lit and then floated on the Frog Pond for a picturesque early evening display. In addition, attendees are invited to judge creatively carved and decorated jack-o’-lanterns from various local sports teams and organizations.

Adults and children are encouraged to wear Halloween costumes and participate in a spooky parade around the Frog Pond.

Children will be able to decorate luminary bags which will be displayed and illuminated along the edge of the Frog Pond. This event is presented by the Boston Parks and Recreation Department in partnership with the Skating Club of Boston with additional support provided by Mass Farmers Markets, Boston Cares, Magic 106.7, and media partner the Boston Herald. A monster mash

of science activities presented by the Parks Department’s ParkSCIENCE program will include Science on the Street, Mass Audubon Society, and Halloween giveaways. All pumpkins will be donated to Boston Natural Areas Network after the event for composting.

This free family-friendly event will include a magician and children’s crafts. For more information, please call the Boston Parks and Recreation Department at 617-635-4505, visit www.facebook.com/bostonparksde partment or www.boston.gov/parks.

SUNDAY BLUE HILLS RESERVATION Moderate walk some hills. Walk a 3.5 mile green dot loop around Great Blue Hill. Meet at the Trailside Museum north parking lot at 1904 Canton Ave. in Milton. Sunday, October 18, 1pm. The Southeastern Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00 for recreational walks. This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join. Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers are encouraged to participate. The terrain can vary: EASY (mostly level terrain), MODERATE (hilly terrain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep). Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. Occasionally, the Walking Club meets at other DCR sites. Some DCR sites charge a parking fee. The rangers recommend wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes.

TUESDAY NEPONSET GREAT PUMPKIN FLOAT EVENT One of the most unique and popular Halloween-related events — the DCR and Trustees Neponset Great Pumpkin Float — will take place this year on Tuesday evening, October 20 at Pope John Paul II Park in Dorchester. This is the 14th year of a Dorchester tradition when hundreds of costumed children and their families, as well as enthusiastic individuals will participate in the floating parade of illuminated jack-o-lanterns down Davenport Creek to the Neponset River. Beginning at 5:30pm, participants can bring a 6-8 inch hollow pumpkin (that has already been carved at home) to the Hallet Street entrance to the park to be mounted on a special individual float. Each jack-olantern will have a candle inserted and lit before being launched en mass in the water at 6pm. Floats and candles will be provided.

The result will be a beautiful water parade of spooky pumpkins. Free hot cocoa and candy treats will also be provided. The event is free and no registration is required. Pumpkins will be collected for composting and floats are recycled for next year’s event making this a green tradition. If inclement weather, please call DCR at 617-333-7404 for updates. The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation is pleased to sponsor this popular event with the Neponset River Greenway Council and The Trustees, the state’s largest conservation and preservation organization, and the nation’s first land trust.

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CREATIVE WRITING & VISUAL ART WORKSHOP

Voices of Sisterhood, a seminar on using the arts and creative writing as tools (Presented by Humanistic Communications, Inc.). Women ages 13 and over. Creative writing & visual art workshop. Saturday, October 17, Dudley Square Library, 65 Warren St., Roxbury, Conference Room A, 12-3:30pm. The seminar is an introductory workshop series for women of color on the importance of Sisterhood & Community using Arts and Creative Writing. Through The Eyes and Ears of Our Sisters. Humanistic Communications, Inc, P.O. SUDOKU Box 190004, Roxbury, Tel 857-492-2150. Contact: D. Elaine Hall-Corbin-Email: voicesofsisterhood@yahoo.

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and their children will continue to rise in coming decades. According to the report, by 2065, the United States will be home to 78 million immigrants, accounting for 88 percent of the country’s population growth.

“In 50 years, assuming current trends continue, we’ll see a nation that will have no single racial or ethnic majority,” said Mark Hugo Lopez, director of Hispanic research for the Pew Research Center and the lead author of the report. “It will be one in which whites will be the largest group, Hispanics will make up one-quarter of the nation’s population, Asians, 16 percent of the nation’s population, and African Americans, 12 percent.”

Although nearly half of immigrants living in the United States today are Hispanic, Pew finds that migration from Latin America has slowed as a result of the economic recession and declining fertility rates in Mexico.

“When the downturn in the housing market started in 2006, 2007, we started to see a downturn in Mexican immigration, because many Mexican immigrants were employed in the construction sector,” said Lopez. “Mexico, in the 1970s, had a total fertility rate of seven or more children per woman. Today, it’s more like two.

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cargo ship runs between Praia and Boston at least once a month.

John Barros, chief of Economic Development, pointed to two examples of existing exchange: Starbucks now buys beans from the Cabo Verde and Boston contractors are building housing in the island nation to meet high demand.

“We’ve already initiated many things,” said Dasilveira. “Many businesses here are involved with other Cape Verdean businesses.

This partnership opens the door to be able to do more.”

The mayor’s press office said the partnership particularly aims to increase the number of small and mid-sized enterprises between the cities as well as increase imports and exports. Promoting tourism also is in the plans.

One possibility for encouraging tourism, Walsh said, is to increase connecting flights between the cities.

Cabo Verde Airlines once ran out of Logan, but moved to Providence this year, reports Business Wire.

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Correia e Silva said he hopes for continued sharing of urban security expertise. Also on his schedule: co-hosting a forum on crime at the BPD station in Dudley Square the next day.

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The partnership also is a way to fight ills in both cities. Correia e Silva and Walsh collaborated in the past on public safety discussions, and Correia e Silva said he looks forward to continuing this work.

University partnerships

Several universities already have relationships with Cabo Verde.

This April, Berklee College of Music launched a “Berklee in Cape Verde” program to provide scholarship and performance opportunities for members of the island nation.

April also saw the signing of an agreement between Bridgewater State University’s President and Cabo Verde’s Minister of Culture.

The parties will work together to promote greater awareness of Cape Verdean history and culture.

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Chief of Economic Development John Barros, Mayor Martin Walsh, Praia Mayor Ulisses Correia e Silva and Cabo Verde Consul General Pedro Graciano Gomes De Carvalho gathered at the signing.

The mayor’s office reports that Boston and Cabo Verde have struggled with some of the same criminals. Over the past two decades, many Cape Verdeans without U.S. citizenship were deported for committing serious — level one and two — crimes and continued

criminal activity upon return to the islands, the office said.

In 2014, the two mayors made plans to discuss ways to reduce and prevent crime and youth violence in Praia and Boston. Two years ago, two Boston officers of Cape Verdean descent attended an

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urban security forum in Praia, said Correia e Silva.

Cape Verdean presence in the Boston force has been growing in the past decades, and the Cape Verdean Police Officer Association completes its first year this month.

Walsh praised the officers for their

The cities’ partnership plans are in the early stages, said the mayor. Groups such as the Cape Verdean Association of Boston, Cape Verdean Police Officers Association, Bridgewater State University and Berklee College of Music have participated in the planning, Barros said.

Next up: two senators and two representatives will travel to Praia and other Cabo Verde sites this November, said Barros.

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In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract General Bidders must submit with their bid a current Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of ELEVATORS. The estimated contract cost is TEN MILLION DOLLARS ($10,000,000.00).

Bidding procedures and award of the contract and sub contracts shall be in accordance with the provisions of Sections 44A through 44J inclusive, Chapter 149 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of

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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.

Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2015.

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 $10,000,000.00. 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.

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.

No filed sub bids will be required for this contract.

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 MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. AP1602-C1, FY 16-18 INSULATION TERM CONTRACT, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2015, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT ONE HARBORSIDE DRIVE, EAST BOSTON, MA AT 10:00 A.M. LOCAL TIME ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2015.

The work includes PROVISION OF LABOR, MATERIALS, TOOLS, EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES TO REMOVE AND INSTALL INSULATION ON PIPE, DUCTWORK AND EQUIPMENT AT ALL MASSPORT PROPERTIES AT LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS ON AN AS-NEEDED BASIS OVER A TWO-YEAR PERIOD.

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

The estimated contract cost is NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($90,000.00).

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 $1,000,000.00. 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

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Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. A288-C6 FY 16-18 EXTERIOR AND ROADWAY SIGNAGE, TERM CONTRACT, ALL MASSPORT FACILITIES, BOSTON, BEDFORD, AND WORCESTER, 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, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2015, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

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WORK TO BE INSTALLED ON EXISTING SUPPORTS (WALLS, COLUMNS, OVERHEAD, POSTS, ETC.) OR ON NEW POST SUPPORTS WHERE SPECIFIED.

Francis A. DePaola, P.E. General Manager of the MBTA October 6, 2015

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

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

The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of $1,000,000.00 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 AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY 100 SUMMER ST., SUITE 1200 BOSTON, MA 02110 NOTICE TO BIDDERS Electronic proposals for the following project will be received through the internet using Bid Express until the date and time stated below, and will be posted on www.bidx.com forthwith after the bid submission deadline. No paper copies of bids will be accepted. Bidders must have a valid digital ID issued by the Authority in order to bid on projects. Bidders need to apply for a digital ID with Bid Express at least 14 days prior to a scheduled bid opening date.

Electronic bids for MBTA Contract No A90CN06, DOWNTOWN CROSSING (DTX) VERTICAL TRANSPORTATION AND STATION IMPROVEMENTS, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS (CLASS I - GENERAL TRANSIT CONSTRUCTION AND CLASS 7 - BUILDINGS, PROJECT VALUE -$12,660,000), can be submitted at www.bidx.com until two o’clock (2:00 p.m.) on November 12, 2015. Immediately thereafter, in a designated room, the Bids will be opened and read publicly.

The Work includes but is not limited to the construction of two new elevators to connect the Orange and Red Line levels, a combined hoistway shaft and elevator pit, associated mechanical rooms and machinery, fire alarm upgrades and related measures to bring the existing station toward egress compliances.

Bidders’ attention is directed to Appendix 1, Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action to Insure Equal Employment Opportunity; and to Appendix 2, Supplemental Equal Employment Opportunity, Anti- Discrimination, and Affirmative Action Program in the specifications. In addition, pursuant to the requirements of Appendix 3, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Participation Provision, Bidders must submit an assurance with their Bids that they will make sufficient and reasonable efforts to meet the stated DBE goal of Eight (8) percent.

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

Date: September 15, 2015

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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

DESCRIPTION

*WRA-4116

Purchase of RSL Pump Parts for 10/28/15 Fairbanks Morse Pump No. KC1061977 (or Equal)

10:00 a.m.

*6875

Winthrop Terminal VFD and 11/05/15 Synch Motor Replacement Deer Island Treatment Plant

2:00 p.m.

**6853

RFQ/P Deer Island Hypochlorite 11/13/15 and Bisulphite Tank Farm Rehabilitation Preliminary Design, Final Design, Construction Administration and Resident Engineering Services

11:00 a.m.

11/13/15 Request for Letters of Interest from Potential Providers in Supplying Barge-Transported Pre-Processed Source-Separated Organics to the MWRA Deer Island Treatment Plant

2:00 p.m.

Supply and Delivery of Emulsion 01/08/16 Polymer for Sludge Thickening at the Deer Island Treatment Plant

2:00 p.m.

**RFI 2015-1

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.

In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this Contract, General Bidders must be pre-qualified by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT), and submit with their bid a copy of the current pre-qualification certificate issued by MassDOT. General Bidders must be certified in the classification of SIGNING – STRUCTURAL.

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

INVITATION TO BID

Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2015.

The estimated contract cost is FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($ 400,000.).

The Complaint is on file at the Court.

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Zipporah C. Meyers, 70 Senator Bolling Circle, Dorchester, MA 02124 your answer, if any, on or before 11/19/2015. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 9:00 A.M. LOCAL TIME ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2015.

The work includes: TERM CONTRACT FOR EXTERIOR AND ROADWAY SIGNAGE AT ALL MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY FACILITIES LOCATED AT BOSTON, BEDFORD, AND WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ON AN “ON CALL, WORK ORDER” BASIS OVER A TWO-YEAR PERIOD. WORK INCLUDES REMOVAL OF EXISTING SIGNAGE; FABRICATION AND INSTALLATION OF NEW SIGN PANELS, BOXES, FRAMES, FOUNDATIONS, AND SUPPORTS; REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING SIGN PANELS; AND MODIFICATION (IN PLACE) OF EXISTING SIGN PANEL MESSAGING.

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*WRA-4115

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Estate of Huntley E. Nicholas Also Known As Huntley Elisha Nicholas, Huntley Nicholas Date of Death November 18, 2014

To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Huntley Nicholas of Arakawa-Ku Tokyo, Japan a Will has been admitted to informal probate.

request

to:

Huntley Nicholas of Arakawa-Ku Tokyo, Japan has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond.

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

CITY OF BOSTON

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

MAYOR’S OFFICE OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT (A division of the BRA/EDIC) PUBLIC NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) for Job Training Services funded by NEIGHBORHOOD JOBS TRUST (NJT) On Wednesday, October 21, 2015, on behalf of Mayor Walsh and the City of Boston Neighborhood Jobs Trust, the Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development (OWD) will issue an open and competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) for services under the Neighborhood Jobs Trust (NJT). The RFP solicits proposals for job training services. Programs funded through the RFP will provide low and moderate income Boston residents with training that leads to employment. You can download the RFP online at owd.boston.org. A bidders conference will be held on Tuesday, October 27th at 10:30am in the 9th floor Boardroom located at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, One City Hall Square, Boston, MA 02201. Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to attend; accommodations for persons with disabilities available upon request. A Letter of Intent to Bid (provided in the RFP) must be submitted

by Wednesday, November 4th; Proposals will be due Friday, November 20, 2015 by 5pm.

The NJT RFP is to identify programs for funding for fiscal year 2016, from February 1, 2016-January 31, 2017. For further information, please contact Todd Lee, Sr. Workforce & Policy Analyst, at todd.lee@boston.gov.

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

Docket No. SU15D1434DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Zipporah C. Meyers

vs.

Atenel Meyers

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.

Docket No. SU15P1950EA

INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE

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

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

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In the interests of Gerald Chad Ellison, Jr. Formerly of Jamaica Plain, MA and Now of Mattapan, MA Minor NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Resignation or Petition for Removal of Guardianship of a Minor 1.

NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition to Resign as Guardian of a Minor or Petition for Removal of Guardian of a Minor filed by Dorothy Ann White of Mattapan, MA on 09/24/2015 will be held 11/09/2015 09:00 AM Guardianship of Minor Hearing Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114 ~ Probation Department.

2.

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

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

3.

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

4.

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

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

Date: September 30, 2015

REAL ESTATE

Wollaston Manor 91 Clay Street Quincy, MA 02170

Senior Living At It’s Best

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

Call Sandy Miller, Property Manager

#888-691-4301

Program Restrictions Apply.

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Docket No. SU12P2006GD

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

REAL ESTATE

Oxford Ping On 10 Oxford Street Boston, MA 02111

Affordable Housing Opportunity in Chinatown (48) Studios & (15) One-Bedroom & (3) Two-Bedroom Apts.

Maximum household income limit 30% & 60% of HUD Boston Median Income HH Size 30% 60% HH Size

30%

60%

1

20,700

41,400

2

23,650

47,280

3

26,600

53,220

4

29,550

59,100

Applications available 11/11-12/10 by mail, e-mail or fax upon request at (617)566-1026 or at CEDC rental office M-W-F 10-4, T-TH 10-7 & Sat 10-2 (except 11/26-27-28) at 65 Harrison Avenue, 7th floor, Boston, MA 02111 (T, bus & wheelchair accessible) Deadline: Completed applications must be received by 4:00 PM, Wednesday, December 16, 2015.* *Selection by lottery, if needed Informational meetings: Tuesday, October 27- at 6:30pm Josiah Quincy School 885 Washington St. Boston, MA 02111 Thursday, October 29- at 4pm at Roxbury Multi Service Center 434 Warren St, Roxbury, MA 02121

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REAL ESTATE Parker Hill Apartments

OFFICE SPACE

Attractive and Affordable

Brand New Renovated Apartment Homes

DORCHESTER/ MILTON

This beautiful privately owned apartment complex with subsidized units for elderly and disabled individuals is just minutes from downtown Melrose.

Stainless Steel Appliances New Kitchen Cabinets Hardwood Floors Updated Bathroom Custom Accent Wall Painting Free Parking Free Wi-Fi in lobby Modern Laundry Facilities

1st Class Office Space Corner of Gallivan Blvd and Washington St ample parking.

Close to Public Transportation • Elevator Access to All Floors • On Site Laundry Facilities Heat Included • 24 Hour Closed Circuit Television • On Site Parking Excellent Closet and Storage Space • 24 Hour Maintenance Availability On site Management Office • Monthly Newsletter • Weekly Videos on Big Screen T.V. Resident Computer Room • Bus Trips • Resident Garden Plots

Call for current income guidelines Joseph T. Cefalo Memorial Complex

$1500/mo.

all utilities included

OWNER

Two Bedrooms Starting at $2200

617-835-6373 Brokers Welcome

888-842-7945

Affordable Condo in Watertown!

One-Bedroom condominium is now available at Repton Place in Watertown for $164,000.

Income Limits: 1-person: $48,800 2-persons: $55,800 3-persons: $62,750

245 West Wyoming Avenue, Melrose, MA 02176 Call our Office at (781) 662-0223 or TDD: (800) 545-1833, ext. 131 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday for an application

Unit will be sold through a Lottery. Applications must be received

by October 30, 2015. Email Nathan@metrowestcd.org for additional information and open house times.

Want to Live in Weston, Watertown, Stoughton and other Metro West CD Communities?

Join Metro West CD’s Ready Renter Program to stay up-to-date about affordable housing opportunities in these, and other Metro West CD communities.

Lofts at Lower Mills, Dorchester, MA Middle-Moderate Income Affordable Housing Oppt.

Five One and Two Bedroom Units 100% and 120% of income Household Size

Price

1 2*

Up to 100% Up to 100%

$203,600 $235,350

2 1 2

Income Limits 100%

120%

1 HHS—$68,950 2 HHS—$78,800 3 HHS—$88,650 4 HHS—$98,500

Applications available from October 25-November 2, 2015 On Site Pick Up at 1245 Adams St. #103, Dorchester Tuesday, October 27, 2015— 3:00 p.m.—7:00 p.m.

Sunday, November 1, 2015 — 10:00 a.m.—2:00 p.m.

Call or email for Application

$39,650

$48,800

$54,900

$68,950

2-Person

$43,350

$55,800

$62,800

$78,800

3-Person

$51,000

$62,750

$70,600

$88,650

4- Person

$56,650

$69,700

$78,400

$98,500

5-Person

$61,200

$75,300

$84,700

$106,380

6-Person

$65,750

$80,900

$91,000

$114,260

65% AMI

80% AMI

90% AMI

100% AMI

$1,275

$1,569

$1,764

$2,216

SMALL ADS BRING

BIG RESULTS!

1 HHS—$82,750 2 HHS—$94,550 3 HHS—$106,400 4 HHS—$118,200

___________ Return by mail to: MCO Housing Services P.O. Box 372 Harvard, MA 01451

Use and Occupancy Restrictions Apply.

Maximum Income and Asset Limits Apply.

For more information or reasonable accommodation contact: MCO Housing Services: (978) 456-8388

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1-Person

Call 617-261-4600 x 7799 or visit www.baystatebanner.com now to place your ad.

Application Postmark Deadline November 10, 2015

(978) 456-8388 lotteryinfo@mcohousingservices.com www.mcohousingservices.com

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100% AMI

Applicants will be notified of available units as they come up for lease.

Studio, 1, 2 and 3-bedroom units are available in existing developments and/or projects currently under construction.

General Info. Session: November 4, 2015 at 7:00 pm. Call Robyn for details. For an application and additional information contact Robyn at Metro West CD 617-923-3505 x 5 or visit: www.metrowestcd.org

Up to 120% $294,200 Up to 120% $256,300 Up to 120% $294,200 * Wheelchair Accessible Unit

Boston Resident Household Size minimum 1 per BR 1st Time Homebuyer Disabled Household (Accessible Unit Only)

90% AMI

*Including utilities or utility allowance; actual rents will vary

Preferences

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80% AMI

Sample rent for two-bedroom apartment*

Located at 1245 Adams St. All units are available by lottery. # of Bedrooms

65% AMI

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HELP WANTED

Executive Director Opportunity

Youth and Family Enrichment Services, based in Hyde Park, serves children from Haitian and other cultures with After-School Programs, Music Education & Performance, Summer Enrichment and Health Education programs.

Seeking an enthusiastic leader with well-rounded, non-profit management experience.

Details: www.YOFES.org/executivedirector Please email resume and cover letter to: LLucien@YOFES.org by October 30, 2015.

YOFES is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively seeks a diverse pool of candidates.

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Leapfrog Systems, Inc., located in Boston, MA has an opening for a Software Quality Assurance Engineer (#214855E) Please see www.leapfrogsystems.com for job duties and requirements.

Please reference job # when mailing resumes to HR, Leapfrog Systems, Inc., 1 International Place, 41st FL, Boston, MA 02110.

Maintenance Technician:

Full time. Experienced in two or more phases of building maintenance repairs including boilers, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, carpentry, plastering, locks; must be dependable and self-motivated with excellent customer service skills. Will be required to provide scheduled nights and weekends coverage. Bilingual is a plus - transportation is a must. Forward resumes to Human Resources Department, United Housing Management LLC, 530 Warren Street, Dorchester, Ma 02121- Fax: 617-442-7231 no later than October 16, 2015 United Housing Management LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED

Non-Profit Partnership of 30 plus Organizations Seeks Executive Director

Are you seeking flexible part time hours?

Community Works (www.communityworks.com) seeks a dynamic leader with a deep connection and dedication to social justice; the skills to strategically expand & diversify our fundraising; is a self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit & the ability to facilitate the participation of activists from diverse settings and causes.

Qualifications: *Demonstrated commitment to social and economic justice, experience in community organizations. *At least five years of experience in organizational & fiscal management, preferably in the non-profit sector. *Experience supervising staff, contractors & consultants. *Experience with organizational planning and development. *Experience with grant writing; fundraising from corporations, individuals and foundations. *Inclusive and facilitative leadership approach. *Ability to work with diverse groups, identify shared interests & common goals. *Strong written and oral communications skills & public speaking experience.

To apply, send cover letter and resume by Fri., October 16th to: edsearch@communityworks.com or Community Works Executive Director Hiring Committee, 25 West St. 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02111 (see website for cover letter guidance)

Do you love working with children?

Do you want a career that changes lives?

Join Massachusetts’ leading ABA provider! We are seeking passionate and energetic candidates to work one-on-one with children to help improve social communication and play skills. High School Diploma. One year of experience working with children, preferred. Must have personal vehicle to travel to clients. We offer competitive rates, an excellent benefit package and 401K with company contribution.

Apply online at www.beaconservices.org Beacon ABA Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Clinical Community Advocate On The Rise, Inc. is a Cambridge, MA-based non-profit that supports the initiative and strength of women living in crisis or homelessness. In a physically and psychologically safe environment, we build the relationships and provide the tools that each woman needs to rise to her potential.

We are looking for a Clinical Community Advocate to complete the 6-member team that operates our Safe Haven program. Clinical Community Advocates work directly with women who use the programs, helping provide for basic human needs and giving long-term, broad-based support, such as assistance accessing other programs, accompaniment and advocacy.

Candidates will share a commitment to On The Rise’s mission, and will have three years’ experience with homelessness, trauma, substance abuse, mental illness, or related issues. Licensure and a graduate degree in psychology, social work, or related field are REQUIRED. How to Apply: www.ontherise.org contains a more complete job description. Please apply on-line by submitting your résumé and cover letter as attachments to: july.merizier@ontherise.org with “Clinical Community Advocate” in the subject line.

MARKETING PROPOSAL COORDINATOR Hoyle, Tanner & Associates, Inc. is a mid-size, employee owned, national consulting engineering firm headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire with offices in the Northeast, and Florida. We are looking for a Proposal Coordinator to join our team in Manchester, NH. The successful candidate is highly organized with demonstrated communication skills to support the firm’s proposal pursuits. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills are required with three or more years of relevant professional services industry proposal and presentation coordination experience preferred. Must be able to support multiple managers and meet deadlines in a fast paced environment with minimum supervision.

Requirements: A Bachelor’s degree, preferably in English, Marketing, Public Relations, Communications, Business.

Knowledge of a wide range of software and customer relationship management (CRM) programs, Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel and Word and Corel Graphics Suite.

To apply for this exciting opportunity please send your cover letter and resume, citing Career Code JEP11015 to: HOYLE, TANNER & ASSOCIATES, INC., 150 Dow Street, Manchester, 385701:Layout 1 Attention: 10/7/15Human 12:37 PM Page 1 NH 03101 Resources or e-mail jhann@ hoyletanner.com. Visit www.hoyletanner.com for more.

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SENIOR OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE SOUGHT Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation (Dorchester Bay EDC) seeks a Senior Operations Associate to join our Finance and Administration team. The Senior Operations Associate will play an important role in the day-to-day administration of our community development corporation.

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