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Trump plays race card, wins support Appeals to white racial anxiety

By YAWU MILLER

One year after Ferguson, Missouri activists drew attention to the issue of police abuse of blacks, the fault lines between blacks’ and whites’ views of race and racism remain as stark as ever. Events over the last week have underscored a continuing deep divide.

Last Sunday, a demonstrator was beaten by a group of Donald Trump supporters after he yelled “Black lives matter” during a Birmingham, Alabama rally. The next day, the presidential candidate sided with his supporters, telling a reporter “…maybe he should have

been roughed up.”

The next day, five people demonstrating in protest of a Minneapolis Police Department shooting that killed an unarmed black man were themselves shot by masked assailants in what appears to be part of a wider backlash against the Black Lives Matter movement.

Of course, Trump is not the only Republican candidate using divisive rhetoric to appeal to a base of conservative and mostly-white voters. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush suggested that the United States should accept Syrian

See TRUMP, page 12

Baker admin’s new plans to keep, grow businesses Links education to employer needs

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Ten months after its founding, members of Governor Charlie Baker’s Workforce Skills Cabinet, announced the group’s first policy priorities. They aim to bring, keep and grow businesses in the state by better preparing the workforce with the skills employers need.

“The skills gap is leaving thousands of vacancies unfilled across the commonwealth,” said James Peyser, secretary of education.

The Cabinet represents a new cross-collaboration of educational,

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Its members have taken an employer’s-eye view and developed three initiatives: a one-stop resource for connecting businesses with assistance and services; expansion of career-focused education in manufacturing, trades and STEM; and state grants to support programs in

See WORKFORCE, page 9

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City Councilor Charles Yancey convened a hearing of the Post Audit and Oversight Committee, a legacy of his time in city government, sharing worries about Boston Police and Fire.

Yancey continues push for diversity

Highlights inequities in hiring, pay

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

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Governor Charlie Baker (left), Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development Ron Walker II and other members of the Workforce Skills Cabinet announced new approaches to support businesses and train state residents to fill their hiring needs.

With the end of his term approaching, City Councilor Charles Yancey convened on Monday a hearing of a committee that’s been part of city government almost as long as he has.

The Post Audit and Oversight Committee, founded in 1984 by Yancey one year after he entered office, reported that the Police and Fire Departments spent vastly above budget on employee overtime last fiscal year, while also failing to hire enough people of color.

“If the trend continues, the Fire Department will be less, not more, representative of the city of Boston,” said Yancey, who chairs the committee.

The city government as a whole also showed marked racial disparities in pay for FY20142015, especially among the top earners, Yancey announced.

Overruns in overtime

Both Fire and Police ran past their overtime budgets, to the tune of approximately $5 million and $25 million, respectively.

“That deficit is larger than

most city departments’ [budgets],” said Yancey, speaking of the BPD. For public safety jobs, some amount of overtime comes with the territory. But, Yancey said, this is far from the first year such expenses have come from the departments, and the extent and frequency of overspending in this area suggests need for re-examining schedules or hiring.

That is not the only reason to focus on hiring. Boston is nearly 47 percent white non-Latino,

See YANCEY, page 6

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Holiday promotions boost small businesses “The idea of buying local for the holiday season is a good one in theory,” Gaskin said. “It is consistent with self-empowerment, and leaders in the black community have promoted supporting black businesses not just during the holiday season, but all year long.”

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Get out and shop local is the message this holiday season: last Saturday was Small Business Saturday, when residents were encouraged to patronize their local businesses, while Mayor Martin Walsh continues the call with a twitter campaign and other promotions.

But small businesses face steep challenges to staying afloat, according to several executive directors of Main Streets districts. Nevertheless, they added, small businesses offer unique returns to the local community.

Speaking ahead of Small Business Saturday, Joyce Stanley, executive director of Dudley Square Main Streets, said she anticipated the day would draw needed attention to new businesses and a second look at revitalized older ones.

Recent construction and related traffic congestion in Dudley Square discouraged some customers from the area, Stanley said. Older businesses located there also struggle to make youth aware of their offerings, as many young people shop online, she added. Saturday, however, promised an influx of visitors and a chance for older stores to get discovered. A local hat store sported a new window display and web presence in time for the occasion.

Challenges to local

Small business owners face a variety of struggles.

Smaller store sizes mean that owners are not able to buy goods in bulk and reduce costs, and these businesses often have higher

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Haris and his father Danny Hardwig are welcoming new customers to the new Dudley Square location of Final Touch, a women’s clothing store that opened two weeks ago in the Bruce Bolling Municipal Building. The family-owned business has a location in Brockton. insurance costs, according to Ed Gaskin, executive director of Grove Hall Main Streets. This, he said, often means higher prices for customers.

It also can be hard to maintain a steady cash flow, Stanley said. Patronage levels can vary, creating difficulty for a business that needs to maintain merchandise when income dips or seems hard to predict.

Each location also has its own set of draws and hurdles.

In Dudley Square, challenges include lack of parking for employees and customers and the high cost of space, Stanley said. In many cases, proprietors will locate their stores in the same building, with one renting and subletting to the others.

Most enterprises in Grove Hall are beauty salons, convenience stores, bodegas and fast food or takeout restaurants, according to Gaskin.

With few businesses selling merchandise, it is more difficult to launch promotions for shopping local and holiday gift shopping.

And even when a business is able to keep running, it may not stick around.

“It’s unusual now for businesses to last to the second generation,” Stanley said. The reason: often there is no one to take over if the original owner retires.

This limited business life span restricts how large and established it can become.

But when small local businesses survive, they bring a variety of benefits.

Job creation

Statewide and nationally, many people re employed in small businesses.

“Small businesses created two out of three net new private sector jobs in America,” said Anne Hunt, deputy district director of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Nearly half of Massachusetts’ private workforce was employed by small businesses in 2012, according to the SBA. In the past 22 years, Stanley said she has seen 300 new businesses established in Dudley Square. Those that have survived the difficult first year have created 320 lasting jobs in the community.

Other districts report similarly strong small business presence. Most of the business in Hyde and Jackson Squares are local moms and pops, said Gerald Robbins, executive director of Hyde Jackson Square Main Street.

“Small businesses are the backbone of our local economy here in Hyde and Jackson Squares,” said Robbins.

Currency in the community

Small businesses that serve local customers and employ local residents keep the money circulating within the community.

“Out of every dollar spent in a local business district, 58 cents will be returned to that community, fueling our local economies and contributing to more vibrant neighborhoods,” Mayor Martin Walsh said.

The goal of keeping dollars circulating in the community is an important one, and still has not been fully realized, Gaskin said.

He pointed to a 2014 study that found a dollar spent in a black community goes on to be spent outside the community within six hours, as compared to a dollar spent in Asian communities, which circulates six times before leaving, or Jewish ones, where it circulates ten times.

Supporters of small businesses said they help make the fabric of the community. They are more likely to sponsor local little league teams and be the restaurants that reflect local culture, said Norm Eng, Economic Development Specialist and Public Information Officer of the SBA. “[Small businesses] provide services unique to a community, such as a restaurant that may remind you of home,” said Eng. Local stores also raise a district’s visibility, with the storeowners often playing a role in keeping communities safe, Robbins said.

“Retailers have a special place, bringing people to their stores, keeping our streets vibrant and alive, and helping us maintain a healthy neighborhood,” he said. “They are our eyes in the community, looking after our children, providing products to residents, and reporting any problems.”

More to come

Several Main Streets are building on momentum generated

by Small Business Saturday and going further.

Dudley Streets is planning a children’s book signing, a scavenger hunt and a night where men are encouraged to come out and shop for their significant others, Stanley said. On Thurdays in December, special deals will be offered at Hyde and Jackson Squares business under a Jueves in the Hood promotion. Gaskin said Grove Hall also is looking for long-term strategies to support existing businesses in the area and recruit a more diverse mix of outlets.

The city also has plans in the pipeline. Mayor Walsh issued a challenge for residents to patronize local Main Streets district stores five times during the holiday season and tweet the experience with the hashtag #5onMain. During this time, the city also is facilitating small acoustic performances at Main Street businesses by waiving entertainment license and performance fee requirements. Another sweetener: one-time use of two free hours of parking for visitors and residents.

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In future of MBTA, how public is public transit?

Facing debt and little state help, MBTA proposes fare hike that could burden many

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

The MBTA needs to scrounge up millions more to keep running, and billions more to be running well, so say MBTA officials. A fare hike proposed by the agency’s fiscal management control board might help fill the funding gap. If enacted, it would put more of the T’s financial support onto the individuals who choose to use it — or have no other option — rather than the state itself.

An estimated $7 billion is needed to repair equipment and $242 million to keep operating in fiscal year 2017, the MBTA’s chief administrator, Brian Shortsleeve, said last month. That assumes the repair cost is paid all at once — if payment is spread over 25 years, the amount, adjusted for inflation, would total $21 billion, according to transportation advocacy group Transportation for Massachusetts.

The state already invested $83 million preparing the T for winter. The Baker administration may be disinclined to direct more of its revenue into the system.

The fare increase, one of the revenue-raising measures being considered, would disproportionately burden those with lower incomes. Economists say it may not be the only way to make ends meet.

This could make revenue fall short of expectations.

As fares rise, those with other transportation options may decide they are not saving enough by using the T to make it desirable over driving or using rideshare services.

“People think, ‘Oh, if I’m paying that much, I might as well drive,’” said Rafael Mares, vice president and director of healthy communities and environmental justice at the Conservation Law Foundation.

On the other end of the spectrum, the hike may be too much for low-income earners’ wallets and force them off the T. When this happens, they may have few other options. “[With past increases,] we heard from young people who couldn’t afford to go to school on certain days or people who couldn’t make medical appointments or go to church,” Mares said.

In a letter to the MBTA’s control board, T4MA noted that when fares rose in 2007, ridership dropped by approximately 10 percent.

Potential relief

Two members of MBTA’s board, Monica Tibbits-Nutt and Brian Lang, also have voiced concerns about asking individuals who make under $20,000 to pay more.

The T is testing out providing need-based discounts for users of The Ride, its door-to-door paratransit system, and Youth Pass.

Funds from the state

Legally, the state could underwrite the T’s operating budget.

The Transportation Finance Act of 2013 was created to provide extra funding for transit needs — including road and bridge repair as well as the MBTA — without raising fares.

The money is generated through

tax increases on certain goods like cigarettes and gas.

If the governor and Legislature put in the full amount the act stipulates, the MBTA’s operating budget would be fully funded, although the repair funds would not. The $242 million budget gap was calculated on the assumption that none of the Transportation Act funds would be allocated. “[There is a] $242 million deficit. The pro forma for the 2013 Transportation Act said they should get $261 million in additional funding. We’d have an extra $19 million if they accepted that,” Mares said.

The issue is that the act only allows the state government to put this extra funding into transportation. It does not require it be done, he said.

Transportation, of course, is not the only need facing the state, but the choices the Legislature makes around where to direct limited dollars reflect priorities.

“The problem is that the state is committing funding pretty heavily to other things and probably spending more than revenues supports,” said Peter D. Enrich, professor of law at Northeastern University.

Shifting the burden

While raising fares would place greater drain on low-income earners, a proposed millionaires’ tax would pass the burden to those earning the most.

Raise Up Massachusetts, a coalition of organizations focused on economic and social causes, calls for state income tax to be raised by 4 percent on those making more than $1 million and directing the new revenues to transportation and education. In 2013 there were approximately 14,000 people earning $1 million or more, according to The Boston Globe. Raise Up Massachusetts anticipates the millionaires’ tax could generate more than $1.5 billion.

Other tax measures also could shift financing the T away from individual users and onto companies. One possibility, Enrich said, would be to remove business tax credits that have not proven sufficiently effective at bringing economic activity. “[The film tax credit] is not even close to being cost-effective and we’d do better to spend on other things,” he said.

T users, all users

Kristina Egan, T4MA’s director, argues that the MBTA is an asset to the entire public, not just those who use it and that it deserves state assistance of the full $261 million or more.

“The MBTA is a public good, and it benefits those who ride, while also benefiting those who do not ride by keeping cars off the streets, lowering emissions, and helping the economy,” according to group’s letter, signed

by Egan.

Snow removal equipment showcased by Public Works Department

Fare raise: promises and burdens

Some legislators, transportation officials and activists disagree over interpretations of the law restricting next year’s fare raise, with some saying fares are allowed to rise by 10 percent, others saying by only five percent.

In either case, it would need to be paired with other steps.

A five percent increase could generate $20-23 million more in funding, and a 10 percent increase $40-46 million, according to James Aloisi, former state transportation secretary.

Economists say the measure may push some users off the T.

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The hard consequences of equality Americans were astounded to learn recently that the death rate for middle-aged whites has been increasing more than the rate among citizens in other industrialized countries and that the growth rate is greater than that for African Americans and Latinos of the same age group. Angus Deaton and his wife, Anne Case, economists at Princeton University, made that discovery when analyzing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Their research found that from 1999 to 2014, whites with no more than a high school education and in the 45 to 54 age group had an increase in their mortality rate of 134 deaths per 100,000. While rates for blacks are customarily high they have actually declined during this same period.

What struck researchers as so unusual is that the increase among whites did not result from heart attacks or other illnesses, but was the consequence of suicides or alcohol or drug addictions. This indicates that middle-aged whites with limited education may be suffering from cultural ennui or psychological difficulties.

A recent poll by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found that 57 percent of whites are dissatisfied with the changes in the American way of life since the 1950s. According to the PRRI poll, 64 percent of Republicans and 68 percent of Tea Party members believe that discrimination against whites has become as large a problem as discrimination against blacks and other minorities.

Perhaps the underlying malaise is the decline of white privilege since the founding of the republic. In a U.S. Senate speech in August 1849, Sen. John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, a Yale University alumnus, lucidly expressed that privilege. He said, “with us the two great divisions of society are not the rich and the poor, but white and black; and

all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals, if honest and industrious; and hence have a position and pride of character of which neither poverty nor misfortune can deprive them.”

This position was judicially reinforced in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney asserted in his opinion that “the Negro has no rights which the white man is bound to respect.” Just 39 years later in Plessy v. Ferguson that court held that it did not violate equal rights under the 14th Amendment to enforce racial segregation in public facilities as long as the accommodations were “separate but equal.”

It was not until the 1950s that legal support for white privilege began to deteriorate.

In the Brown segregation case in 1954 the Supreme Court reversed the separate but equal ruling. In subsequent years Congress passed laws against racial discrimination in education, employment, places of public accommodation, voting and housing. White privilege still has survived privately but its legal basis is in shreds.

To make matters worse, hourly wages in the U.S. have stagnated or declined since 1979, despite the fact that there was a growth in economic productivity of 64 percent during this period. Poor whites must have a sense of having failed to live up to the American Dream. This has happened to them with a black man sitting in the White House.

Future researchers may one day identify to a scientific certainty the causes of rising mortality rates among middle-aged whites.

Until then, it is a good bet to assume that they are primarily victims of America’s intensely competitive economic system, and they could not thrive without being sustained by white privilege.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Wilson exposed In that Woodrow Wilson admired the Ku Klux Klan and hosted a showing of the super-racist film Birth of a Nation at the White House in March 1915, I wonder what his feelings were toward the mob that lynched Leo Frank, a Jewish man, in Marietta, Georgia in August of that year. If it were learned that he tac-

itly approved of the lynching or was indifferent toward it, would others reevaluate buildings named in his honor and maybe even examine his entire legacy?

Defenders of Woodrow Wilson who state that Washington, Jefferson, Madison and eight other presidents were slave holders and U. S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black and Sen-

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ator Robert C. Byrd were members of the Ku Klux Klan don’t exonerate Wilson, but unwittingly reinforce accusations of historic U. S. racism — from top to bottom! Perhaps those defenders should try to craft a more palatable argument for honoring Wilson — if such an argument exists.

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Trump got more than love from the black preachers

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By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON Front running GOP presidential contender Donald Trump got more than the “love” he said he saw in the room at his mid-Manhattan offices where he met with the pack of black ministers. He had banks of TV cameras and reporters recording his every move and word. He got the tongues wagging furiously among blacks who mostly lambasted the meeting. He defiantly claimed that he made no promises and made no concessions to the ministers in return for the meeting or their endorsement. He got the ultimate prize when a few black ministers publicly gushed over him. It was the ultimate photo-op.

Trump well knows that he has absolutely no chance of getting little more than a scant handful of black votes if he grabbed the GOP presidential nomination. And even the few black preachers that spoke glowingly of him once their congregation got wind of their betrayal of their interests would probably back pedal fast from their tout of him.

But Trump’s race baiting, anti-black, anti-immigrant history is so horrendous and despicable that what better way to show that he’s not a racist then to handpick a staged setting with a few blacks. He has to publicly establish for the campaign record that he is not a one-dimensional presidential candidate that’s stuck on racial vitriol and that he’s perfectly capable of addressing and dealing with minority issues and problems.

The meeting with the ministers doesn’t change the other brutal political reality about Trump, the GOP and the 2016 presidential campaign.

That is he doesn’t need or want black support in order to stay at the top of the GOP presidential nominee heap. The two tips to that have been Trump’s personal approach to the campaign and the GOP’s past fivedecade history of presidential politics.

Trump has not publicly sought any major endorsements from black GOP elected officials, or prominent black Republicans. The relatively large number of black Republicans that gained some attention in the 2012 mid-term elections because of their number will not be much help to Trump in drumming up black Republican votes. And to date he’s shown little interest in actively courting them.

Trump’s noticeably lily white retinue of aides, campaign staffers, advisors and bankrollers, not to mention endorsers and pitch persons is in stark contrast to that of GOP presidential candidates of past years.

GOP presidential candidate Richard Nixon in 1968 got well-publicized endorsements from black celebrities such as James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr. and Wilt Chamberlain. Former President George W. Bush went much further and managed to blunt the hard criticism that a GOP White House is almost always a virtually an exclusive white, rich, male, clubby preserve with his arguable breakthrough appointments of Colin Powell as secretary of state and Condoleezza Rice as national security advisor.

Trump and the GOP’s political calculus of what it takes to win or even be competitive in a presidential election virtually insures blacks will have little to no role in a GOP presidential campaign. GOP presidential candidates anchor their campaigns on getting a crushing number and percent of conservative whites, especially white males, in the South and the Heartland. They have consistently delivered more than one-third of the electoral votes needed to secure the White House. GOP presidents and aspiring presidents, Nixon, Reagan, Bush Sr. George W. Bush and John McCain and legions of GOP governors, senators and congresspersons would have no chance of maintaining the GOP’s regional and national political power, position and influence without them.

Blue collar white voters have shrunk from more than half of the nation’s voters to less than forty percent. The assumption based solely on this slide and the increased minority population numbers and regional demographic changes is that the GOP’s white vote strategy is doomed to fail. This ignores three political facts. Elections are usually won by candidates with a solid and impassioned core of bloc voters. White males, particularly older white males, vote consistently and faithfully. They vote in a far greater percentage than Hispanics and blacks.

Polls consistently show that Trump’s most rabid backers are middle-and lower-income blue collar white workers. They like his shootfrom-the-lip, tough talking, anti-Obama, anti-black, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim bashing. Given the loathing and disgust with business as usual mainstream politicians, they may well turn out in significant numbers to tip a close primary contest somewhere to Trump. They will not be there for him if there’s any hint that he will backslide on his racially front loaded rants.

He made it clear after the meeting with the preachers that he rejected the few tepid appeals allegedly from one or two black ministers that he tone down his inflammatory rhetoric. Trump wouldn’t be Trump if he did. The black ministers couldn’t even if they wanted to make him.

Trump got what he wanted by the meeting. That was a chance to act like he’s not a racist, without renouncing racism. The black ministers through their embarrassing presence there willingly insured that will remain the case. Or as Trump said “I saw Love in that room.”

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst.

I think it’s a human characteristic.

In its essence, it’s a natural thing for people to prefer those who are familiar to you over those who are remote.

I think it’s because of the mentality of white superiority — the work certain Europeans did to create the concept of race and black inferiority.

It still permeates today.

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People are racist basically because they don’t understand that all people are the same. People think their group is superior.

Because we still allow it. We’re not unified and fighting against it. We’re not doing anything collectively about it.

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DERRIC SMALL Derric Small joined Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s diversity office recently as advisor to the chief of diversity, Shaun Blugh.

The Mayor’s Office of Diversity leads the mayor’s diversity agenda, including the ongoing development and delivery of the city’s diversity goals and objectives in areas of hiring, leadership and career development, diversity training, strategic planning, recruitment and retention.

In this role, Small helps attract and retain people of color in city of Boston employment positions. Furthermore, Small assists Blugh in the recruitment and vetting of minority candidates for employment in IMB’s portfolio companies, working closely with large corporations to increase their diversity and engage a national pool of small diverse businesses eligible for state and city contract procurement.

A native Bostonian, Small previously worked as the director of zoning board and appeals for the city of Boston’s Inspectional Services Department, and assistant corporation counsel, specifically focusing on housing-related cases. He is a graduate of Suffolk Law School, Boston University, where he acquired his master’s in Urban Affairs and City Planning, and Connecticut College, where he earned his bachelors in political science.

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Yancey

continued from page 1 according to the 2010 federal census. Yet Yancey reported that 72 percent of Fire Department employees are white.

The Fire Department’s announcement last year that it would appoint a diversity officer implies it sees a need for change, but action has been slow to come. The department hired this year’s incoming class of firefighters before filling the diversity officer position, Yancey said. According to his data, the new class is more than 80 percent white.

Police and the public works department also have notable diversity disparities, he said.

Missing from the top

The percent of blacks in the city’s employ roughly corresponds to blacks’ proportion of Boston’s population, while these employment numbers fall short for Latinos and Asians. Whites are over-represented in city government, according to information gathered by Yancey. The city had nearly 8,000 people in its employ as of June 30.

When one considers the highest paid city employees, disparities become dramatic. Of the 525 top-earners, 83 percent are white, while 12 percent are black, 4 percent Latino and 1 percent Asian.

On average, white city employees makes $74,092. The salary drops by nearly ten thousand dollars for blacks, who make $64,391 and even further for Latinos, to $63,034.

The employment and pay figures do not include the School Department, which did not supply information.

Some of the gap may be attributed to the lack of diversity in the highest-salaried departments.

Boston’s Fire Department is among the best paying in the country, according to The Boston Globe.

“The average salaries in the city of Boston have great variations based on race, in part because of concentration of certain races in the higher-paying categories such as fire fighters,” Yancey said.

The disparity has existed for decades.

“After 32 years [on this committee], I confess to being a little frustrated,” Yancey said. “While we’ve made improvements, there are persistent disparities that would have a dramatic impact on basic income going into various communities in city of Boston.”

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Notably absent from the meeting were the representatives of Boston’s Fire, Police and Public Works departments, whose performances were the focus of the hearing. The audience consisted solely of several members of the media and, for part of the time, one supporter.

This was not the first time Yancey found himself speaking to a near empty room on behalf of the Post Audit and Oversight Committee. The issue of attendance evoked high tension earlier this year, when Yancey accused the Walsh administration of “boycotting” the hearings. Administration officials shot back that the schedule — which included 30 meetings last year and has reached ten so far this year — was unreasonable.

Monday would have been the first time this year that Fire, Police and Public Works met with the committee to discuss and answer

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questions on its findings. Yancey called the department heads’ failures to appear or send staff members “inexcusable.” Departments cited the Thanksgiving holiday and inadequate notice, Yancey said. Invitations went out a week in advance.

December 15 is the last time a makeup meeting could be scheduled.

Legacy of diversity

Over the years, the Post Audit and Oversight Committee has

fought to increase diversity in city government and hold departments responsible for their spending.

There have been some dramatic moments in the past decades.

During Raymond Flynn’s administration, the committee discovered that one individual was on two payrolls.

But its main achievement has been ensuring department heads know they will be held accountable to explain their diversity levels, Yancey said.

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Jackson convening Roxbury planning meetings Says city, developers putting projects ahead of process and residential projects planned for Dudley Square.

Mayor Martin Walsh’s housing plan, which calls for adding 53,000 units of housing by 2030, is almost certain to spur more development in Roxbury, which has more vacant parcels of land than any other neighborhood in the city. Yet there has been no comprehensive planning to determine the effects of the new development on traffic and parking in Roxbury.

“What’s happened in the past is that there has been a developer-led process,” Jackson says. “The development process has to start with the community.”

Because the Roxbury Neighborhood Council has long been defunct, there has been no formal way to gauge neighborhood support for development projects in Roxbury.

Relying on the Boston Redevelopment Authority and other city agencies to solicit public opinion doesn’t always work well.

“The relationship you have with the city is almost like the relationship you have with developers,” said Highland Park resident Rodney Singleton. “A lot of times the community and developers are at odds with each other.”

In Highland Park, Singleton and other activists called for a moratorium on the disposition of more than 100 city-owned parcels while residents there develop guidelines on new development.

The Boston 2030 planning process — the city’s first in 50 years — is expected to weave smaller planning processes, like the one Jackson is calling for in Roxbury, into a

By YAWU MILLER

While the Boston Redevelopment Authority is moving forward with its Imagine Boston 2030 initiative aimed at creating a masterplan for Boston’s future, City Councilor Tito Jackson wants Roxbury residents to plan for their own future.

With more than one million square feet, and a mayor who has prioritized housing production, Jackson says he wants his Roxbury neighbors to have greater say in what’s going up in their community.

“We have a broken planning process,” he said. “There’s no consistent process for disposing of vacant land.”

While the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan Oversight Committee meets regularly to discuss major development projects in the neighborhood, they only have project review power for nine parcels of land. Currently there are 350 vacant parcels of land of all sizes in Roxbury. Without a master planning process for the neighborhood, Jackson says, key considerations like parking and traffic are often ignored when developers present their plans for smaller parcels of land.

“The current system is based on individual parcels of land, not the larger context of how the community is being developed,” Jackson said.

Roxbury is undergoing a new wave of development, with new housing being built and planned in the Highland Park and Garrison Trotter sections, housing and retail development continuing in Jackson Square and a number of office

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In the Roxbury planning process, Jackson is working with Cesar McDowell, a professor with MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and a group of McDowell’s students. The first meeting

convened by Jackson targeted community activists and representatives of community-based organizations and local government.

Thursday’s meeting is open to the public.

“It’s urgent that our community come together and develop a strategy because of the fast changes happening in the real estate market in Boston,” Jackson said.

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More than half of the governors across the country — all but one Republican — have vowed to block the resettlement of Syrian refugees within their borders, arguing that the risk of terrorism is too high to provide safe haven to those displaced by Syria’s civil war.

In a letter to President Obama, Texas Governor Greg Abbot said, “I write to inform you that the State of Texas will not accept any refugees from Syria in the wake of the deadly terrorist attack in Paris.”

“Neither you nor any federal official can guarantee that Syrian refugees will not be part of any terroristic activity,” he continued. “As such, opening our door to them irresponsibly exposes our fellow Americans to unacceptable peril.”

Twenty-seven Republican governors also signed a joint letter calling on the White House to halt its plans to resettle Syrian refugees.

As governors rush to close their doors to Syrian refugees, many experts are now pointing out the problems with this kind of posturing.

“They have no authority to

actually make that decision,” said Sarang Sekhavat, federal policy director for the Massachusetts Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Coalition. “The whole process is federal.”

As he explained, funding for refugee resettlement comes from the federal government, and is funneled through the state’s Office for Refugees and Immigrants.

While governors have no say in where refugees relocate, Sekhavat said that they do have the power to “make life quite difficult for the new folks” by denying funding to other agencies that provide services, such as English classes.

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker initially joined in this chorus of opposition, saying, “No, I’m not interested in accepting refugees from Syria,” but later walked back his comments and refused to sign on to the GOP letter to President Obama. “Massachusetts has a role in welcoming refugees into the commonwealth,” he said through a spokeswoman.

In the past four years, only 1,500 Syrian refugees have been accepted into the United States, but the Obama administration announced in September that 10,000 Syrians would be permitted entry next year.

Sekhavat also points out that the screening process for refugees coming to the United States is far more robust than the opponents of Syrian refugee resettlement are making it out to be.

According to the White House, refugee applicants are first interviewed by an international agency such as the UN High Commission on Refugees, which collects their biodata and biometrics — including iris scans for populations from the Middle East.

Those who pass this initial test — less than one percent of the global refugee population — move on to enhanced interagency security checks performed by the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, State Department and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

The applicant’s fingerprints are then run through USCIS, FBI, DHS and DOD databases.

If an applicant makes it through all of these security checks, plus a medical test and cultural orientation classes, then he or she may enter the country after additional screenings by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Transportation Security Administration.

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The entire process, according to Sekhavat, takes about two years.

Massachusetts has resettled 1,759 refugees so far this year, only 85 of which were from Syria, according to the Office for Refugees and Immigrants.

“I don’t know how much you could really strengthen it,” Sekhavat said of the screening process.

“You could expand it and make it a lot harder on these people, and keep them in refugee camps longer, keep them suffering

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longer. But to say that we’re going to add valid layers of security on top of this would be getting to the point where it’s just repetitive.”

“One of the advantages in the United States is that we get to handpick who we want as refugees,” he went on. “Even if there’s the slightest suspicion that someone might be a terrorist, we’re not going to take them. There are plenty of folks who we can show have no terrorist ties that we would be able to take in.”

Still, House Republicans passed a bill in November establishing new barriers to entry for Syrian and Iraqi refugees, including requirements that heads of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security and the director of National Intelligence personally sign off on each refugee entering the country.

This backlash against Syrian refugees has created a dangerous climate of fear, said Cristina Aguilera, organizing director for the MIRA Coalition.

“When a governor of a state comes out saying we don’t want any refugees around here, it

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Nadia Alawa, founder and president of the New Hampshire-based aid organization NuDay Syria, agreed. “The issue of refugees has become an easy political scapegoat for both getting easy attention and for failed international politics,” she said. “Refugees are escaping the very terrorists that are behind the horrible attacks in Paris and other places.”

“Historically there is no proof that any refugee has carried out terror attacks,” she went on, “and it is cheap rhetoric to claim otherwise or to throw out hateful accusations that not only are affecting thousands and thousands of refugees directly, but also millions of American Muslim citizens.”

While Aguilera said she hasn’t heard of any local backlash against Syrian refugees, Sekhavat pointed out that the impact of anti-refugee rhetoric goes much deeper.

“Even if there’s not any noticeable backlash, it’s important to keep in mind that these are people who have been the victims of persecution already,” he said. “For them to hear this kind of language attacking them, after they’ve already been victimized, has a profound impact on their psyche and where they feel their place is in the receiving community.”

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each region that develop skills to match business needs.

Created in February, the Workforce Skills Cabinet has been meeting with business and education professionals across the state to develop its plans. Presenting the initiatives along with Baker were Cabinet members Ronald L. Walker II, secretary of labor and workforce development; Pesyer; and Jay Ash, secretary of housing and economic development.

“We want to do a better job of aligning our educational institutions and workforce development activity with what’s going on out there in the economy generally, so we can be more of a demand-driven and customer-centric supporter for businesses and industries looking to grow in the commonwealth,” Baker said.

Cabinet members pointed to Amazon, whose Kendall Square office was the site of the announcement, as an example of successful collaboration between state and private company to keep jobs in Massachusetts. Since opening the office in Kendall Square, Amazon has expanded and hired locals in other cities and towns, including its robotics facility in North Reading and a new fulfillment center that will open at Fall River.

“The career center worked hand and hand with Amazon to help them create and fill 200 jobs,” said Walker.

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In the past, there has been lack of coordination and unification in the state’s approach to business, Baker said.

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“People said historically about Massachusetts that there’s a lot of bifurcation and fragmentation in how we do business,” Baker said.

“BizWorks will make it possible for us to tailor all of the various elements of the Commonwealth’s capacity to support businesses that are looking to grow here, to locate here, into a single enterprise.”

Employer-driven education

Discussions with employers on their needs guided the Cabinet members’ educational and training recommendations, Peyser said.

“One of our central goals is to respond quickly to the training needs of employers looking to move into Massachusetts or grow here,” he said. “Of equal

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One form this takes is expanding the capacity of vocational and technology programs at high schools and community colleges.

Four thousand students are on waiting lists statewide for such schools, said Pesyer, adding that he expects the true number is larger, but that lack of awareness or proximity to such schools prevents other students adding their names to the lists.

Baker noted growing shortages of plumbers, machinists, electricians and other trade jobs as

people currently in those careers age and are succeeded by a declining pool of replacements.

“There are firms that literally cannot expand because they cannot find enough people with the skills to meet the demands that they have with their existing customer base,” he said.

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region. The Cabinet members said they recognize different parts of the state have different strengths and skill needs and that business, education and workforce development plans must be area-specific.

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And retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson said he was opposed to allowing a Muslim American to serve as President.

But Trump stands out with his remarks aimed at the group he has referred to as “the blacks.” He followed his remarks on the beaten Black Lives Matter movement protester with a tweet alleging that blacks are responsible for killing 81 percent of all white homicide victims. In reality, 82 percent of white homicide victims in 2014 were killed by other whites.

The Trump campaign’s attacks against blacks, immigrants, Muslims and refugees prompted both Republican and Democratic commentators to charge that the GOP front runner has fascist tendencies.

“He’s articulating a strain of white racial anxiety and paranoia that’s more popular than most people are willing to accept,” said Maurice Mitchell, an organizer with Black Bird, which provides support to Black Lives Matter and other groups connected to the national Movement for Black Lives.

“Because he doesn’t adhere to traditional norms of political decorum, he’s able to say things that other people wouldn’t have.”

Recent research supports Mitchell’s theory of white racial anxiety.

In a poll released Nov. 17 by the Public Religion Research Institute titled “Anxiety, Nostalgia and Mistrust,” 60 percent of white working class respondents told researchers that discrimination against whites is as big a problem as discrimination against blacks. This is despite

the fact that whites as a group are doing better than blacks and Latinos in education, housing, health care and almost every other major indicator of well-being.

For many of those respondents, Trump may be articulating deeply-held beliefs.

“I sense this kind of collective sigh of relief that someone is bold enough to say the things they’ve been thinking all along,” said Rahsaan Hall, director of the Racial Justice Program at the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. “I think it’s shocking to many people because in the last few presidential campaigns the racial rhetoric has been more subdued.”

History of race-baiting

Back in the 1976 campaign between Republican Ronald Reagan and Democrat Jimmy Carter, Reagan conjured the enduring pop culture image of the “welfare queen,” a woman from the South Side of Chicago who was said to have gamed the system for more than $150,000 using aliases and multiple Social Security numbers.

The story put a black female slant on public benefits programs that helped persuade working class whites to support the GOP vision of cutting public spending to bring about smaller government.

Twelve years later, the campaign of George H.W. Bush used images of Willie Horton, a felon who committed a rape after he left a Massachusetts prison on furlough and failed to return. The black-and-white mug shot of the scowling black rapist played to white fear and helped bury the campaign of Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.

Hall says Trump is using the same strategy to solidify support

among white working class voters.

“Trump isn’t doing anything particularly new or unique,” he said.

While Trump plays into white fears of immigration, refugees and blacks, black fears may also play into this election cycle, with videos of police shootings circulating on social media.

In one of the more recent videos to surface, dash camera footage showed a Chicago police officer pumping 16 slugs into 17-year-old Laquan McDonald as he walked away from the officers. The release of the video, which contradicted the cops’ claims that McDonald “lunged” at them, prompted demonstrators to block traffic and shut down a tony Chicago shopping district on Black Friday.

In recent days, Trump’s relations with the Movement for Black Lives took a turn for the worse, with the candidate blaming the group for dissuading a group of influential ministers from meeting with him. Trump offered no proof the movement was behind the pastors’ withdrawal from the meeting, and many pastors cited Trump’s plans to hold a press conference announcing their endorsement as the reason for their withdrawal.

Given the long history of race-baiting in GOP campaigns, it’s not likely that Trump’s relationship with Movement for Black Lives will improve anytime soon. Mitchell says he expects racist rhetoric to intensify as the Movement for Black Lives continues to grow.

“The more we’re effective, the more people like Trump and Fox News will use our organizing to mobilize this group of people,” he said, referring to fearful white voters.

“It’s not a marginalized group.

It’s more widespread than many people would have imagined.”

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Yooree Losordo, owner of On the Dot Books in Dorchester. Below, a sampling of books available at the book store.

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Entrepreneur Yooree Losordo sets up shop in Dot2Dot Café

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Yooree Losordo, owner and operator of Dorchester-based On the Dot Books, is using some innovative ways to be successful in a traditional industry with her independent bookstore business. At the same time, she also is hoping to be part of what she sees as a growing revival of the local-owned, independent bookstore.

While many think that independent bookstores are disappearing in the face of competition from big-name bookstore chains, online giants such as Amazon and the proliferation of e-books, the local bookstore actually is making a comeback. Data from the American Booksellers Association shows that for the last five years the number of independent bookstores has increased annually. For entrepreneurs such as Losordo, the new local bookstore is an evolution from the past and provides a new experience that more and more readers are craving, as well as an ever-important connection to the community.

“I think people are waking up to the fact that local merchants do a lot more for their communities than online and big-box retailers,” Losordo said. “Indie businesses have three times the economic benefit to communities.”

She also shrugs off the concern about e-books. She believes that after riding out the initial wave of e-book mania, tastes are changing and hard-copy books are in fashion again.

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I think people are waking up to the fact that local merchants do a lot more for their communities than online and big-box retailers.”

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“I think people are coming back and realizing it is a better experience reading a book,” she said.

But the real point is that today’s modern local booksellers are not just fighting all the trends. They are incorporating them into the business model and making it part of the appeal.

Losordo won a pitch contest for her local bookstore idea through a business planning class at the Dorchester Arts Collaborative in June 2014. And even though the $5,000 prize was a great boost to her business, it was not enough to open a stand-alone bookstore.

So she got creative and opened a book stall at the Ashmont/Peabody Square Farmers Market that same summer. The thought was to capitalize on the food traffic with a different offering and also test out her ability to sell books.

It wasn’t the easiest experience, she admits — especially having to move her book stall setup constantly — but it allowed her to see the benefit of connecting with an existing consumer base.

This base, along with considering the trends of coffee shops selling books or bookstores selling coffee, led her to the Dot2Dot

Café in Dorchester. Losordo sold Dot2Dot Café owner Karen Henry-Garrett on the idea of opening up a permanent On the Dot Books location in the Dorchester Avenue café. She launched there last September; the café is open six days a week, from Tuesday to Sunday, selling books from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

“It is becoming a trend where you see food and retail in one location,” she said. “At least in urban areas where the cost of business is going up, up and up, I think we are going to see more businesses that are sharing locations just because that will be the only way to make things work. It is also a way to create more of an experience for our customers. That is a way to differentiate ourselves and compete.”

Losordo is very happy with how things are going so far — and so is Henry-Garrett, who says she is a big supporter of bookstores.

“It is beneficial to have here. I like it. People definitely like having a bookstore in here. The kids love it,” Henry-Garrett said. “I think it is definitely something that makes us stand out from others. We are certainly unique along the avenue.”

On the Dot Books’ corner in Dot2Dot Café is filled with shelves of fiction, nonfiction, cookbooks, children’s books, as well as toys and other gifts. But the business doesn’t end there.

On the Dot Books also organizes author dinners, works with Boston Public Schools to bring authors to schools and has a strong online presence.

See ON THE DOT, page 15

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Through onthedotbooks.com, the company offers online book retail, e-books and a custom gift service that helps consumers select, buy, wrap and deliver books as gifts.

With a strong social media presence as well, Losordo is leaving no page unturned to connect with the book-loving Dorchester public.

She also is looking for her own location to open a larger bookstore, but however that works out she will have a plan that is beyond just books, whether it is coffee and a café or a liquor license or even music and events.

Eventually she would like to open an 800-to-1,200-square-foot location in Dorchester.

Losordo grew up in Queens, N.Y., where she got an early taste for books as her mother is a longtime worker at the Queens Public Library. However, her path to the book industry wasn’t a straight one. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 with a bachelor’s degree in English. She then taught English in Finland for six months before returning home.

Looking for a way to jumpstart her professional career she used her English academic background to get a job working in corporate communications in the healthcare industry, which quickly became a specialty for her and she

had several jobs in the sector.

In 2005, she moved to Boston to take a job with Pri-Med, a medical education company.

In 2008, she spun her communications skills into a job with marketing company Ark Media, focusing on the company’s pharmaceutical clients. But the job would only last a year because, like many during the downswing that hit the economy around 2008, she was laid off.

With jobs prospects looking slim, she decided to start a family with her husband Ben. Two young daughters later, Losordo began to think about the next step for her professionally.

Having moved several times since arriving in Boston — from Quincy to Canton to Dorchester in 2010 — she said she really started to think of ways she could do something that could be connected to the community.

This led her to the Dorchester Arts Collaborative and the business planning class that would spawn the idea for On the Dot Books.

“I had always thought we could use more local businesses in Dorchester because when I was staying home with my kids I realized there were not a lot of places for us to go during the day.

We were always leaving Dorchester to do things,” Losordo said.

“I thought a bookstore would be great because that is the No. 1 business I would like to see in Dorchester, so I said I want to open a bookstore.”

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DUNCES

By SUSAN SACCOCCIA

In the sensational opening scene of the Huntington Theatre Company production “A Confederacy of Dunces,” an adaptation of John Kennedy Toole’s novel of the same name, actor Nick Offerman (Ron Swanson in NBC’s “Parks and Recreation”) undergoes a metamorphosis.

Offerman steps on stage in long johns. A small posse of cast members surrounds him and packs him into a fat suit. Before our eyes, he becomes the novel’s elephantine antihero, Ignatius J. Reilly, from his green hunting cap and plaid flannel shirt to his vast trousers and worn desert boots.

As Ignatius stands before us, the cast of characters with whom he will interact crosses the stage in a slow procession.

The frank acknowledgement of theatrical illusion sets the stage for another metamorphosis, the transformation of Toole’s teeming novel into a two-hour play.

On stage at the Boston University Theatre through December 20, the world premier production aims to distill rather than recreate the novel. The production uses no props and hardly any sets — just a few sliding panels to conjure swiftly changing settings.

Its spare staging pays tribute to its source, allowing viewers, like readers, to use their imagination to fill in the details.

Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, whose script incorporates plenty of dialogue from the novel, and directed by David Esbjornson, the production focuses on the characters and atmosphere conjured

by Toole’s novel, set in the author’s hometown, New Orleans.

The production evokes the carnival-like world of the novel, which holds up a funhouse mirror to life, starting with the hugely magnified figure of Ignatius.

The streamlined staging integrates scenic design by Ricardo Hernandez, pastel-toned costumes by Michael Krass, warm lighting by Scott Zielinski, sound design by Charles Coes and Mark Bennett, and projections by Sven Ortel that show atmospheric New Orleans landmarks such as the Café du Monde as well as images that stand in for props.

The sound of a beer mug scraping a tabletop comes from a sound projection, not an actual mug. When Ignatius whips workers into staging an uprising, the actors hold up their arms as

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PHOTO: T. CHARLES ERICKSON

Nick Offerman,(left) as Ignatius J. Reilly and Phillip James Brannon as Burma Jones in “A Confederacy of Dunces” at the Huntington Theatre Company. if brandishing hoes and shovels.

Projected on a backdrop behind the ensemble, silhouettes of these objects appear to fill their hands.

The show’s tasty music includes compositions by Bennett and wafts of such classics as Fats Domino’s “Walking to New Orleans” and “When the Saints Go Marching In.” Performing onstage are trombonist David L. Harris and pianist Wayne Barker, music director, who also plays a bartender.

Laid-back radical

Ignatius J. Reilly is a scholarly slob who lives with his mother in 1960s New Orleans. When not watching movies and eating, he writes manifestos and hatches revolutionary schemes to better the world. But when his mother backs her car into a building, he has to get a job to help her pay the damages.

As he takes to the streets, Ignatius encounters a host of oddballs, fellow denizens of the Crescent City.

Outrageous in appearance and behavior, Ignatius creates a trail of chaos. Yet he and the characters he encounters end up better off.

Toole was a popular college professor, and he infused his novel with learning as well as the oddities and charm of his hometown.

He drew its title from an essay by 18th century satirist Jonathan Swift, who wrote, “When a true

genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.”

Ignatius quotes from “The Consolation of Philosophy,” a sixth century meditation on good and evil and the fickle turns of fortune.

Embracing the stoic worldview of its author Boethius, Ignatius declares that “it is the fate of man to be at the mercy of a blind goddess named Fortuna upon whose wheel he is crushed endlessly.”

Yet in both the novel and play, humor and imagination leaven a cruel world.

Toole gave Ignatius a kinder fate than his own. A troubled soul whose inability to find a publisher for his novel added to his distress, Toole committed suicide in 1969, at age 32. A decade later, Southern novelist Walker Percy read the manuscript at the behest of Toole’s mother, pronounced it a masterpiece, and got it into print. In 1981, a year after its publication, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize and since then has sold more than 3.5 million copies in 24 languages.

The superb 15-member ensemble, including Offerman and the two musicians, play a total of 21 characters. They keep the humanity of their roles intact and at the same time, pull off slapstick scenes that include tumbles, toppling

bodies and a skirmish with a strip tease dancer’s pet cockatoo.

Good chemistry

But despite its fine cast and artful, spare staging, the production wears cartoon-thin in a few scenes, when an overload of characters and activity clutters the stage. The production is at its best when the magnetic Offerman interacts with one character at a time. In such scenes, Offerman and his fellow actors conjure an on-stage chemistry that matches the novel in pleasure.

Arnie Burton is a marvel in his two roles: the hapless, benign factory manager Mr. Gonzales, scrambling to keep chaos at bay after hiring Ignatius; and the gay dandy Dorian Greene, who matches wits and attitude in a faceoff with Ignatius, who is attired in a billowing pirate outfit, the better to merchandise hot dogs.

Paul Melendy is a natural as the benevolent and beleaguered Patrolman Mancuso, whose array of undercover disguises is worthy of a Mardi Gras parade — from a nun’s habit to the dour garb of an Amish farmer. Philip James Brannon is outstanding as Burma Jones, a jive-spouting black man determined to outwit

Nick Cannon is a multi-faceted entertainer who wears many hats: comedian, executive producer and host for television, film star, director, entrepreneur, philanthropist and author of children’s books.

Cited by People magazine as one of the “Top 10 Most Successful Young People in Hollywood,” Cannon is proof positive that focus and hard work can pay off. Cannon made his first appearance on the big screen alongside Will Smith in “Men in Black II,” and was later seen in “Drumline” and “Bobby.”

More recently he wrote, directed and produced his first studio film, “School Dance,” and produced the sequel, “Drumline: A New Beat.” And he currently is in production on the reboot of the TV series “Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous.”

The San Diego native began performing at the age of 8 after his grandfather left him several instruments as a gift. Shortly thereafter, he took to the stage to perform his music along with stand-up comedy.

Cannon headed for Hollywood at the age of 15 and landed gigs at world-renowned comedy venues including The Improv, The Laugh Factory and The Comedy Store before landing his first television gig as a series regular and writer

See CANNON, page 18

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See “DUNCES,” page 17

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Theater couple Kira Cowan, Jared Troilo take center stage in Fiddlehead’s ‘The Little Mermaid’

By COLETTE GREENSTEIN

Shrewsbury High School was the setting where Kira Cowan and Jared Troilo first met, and musical theater was where they became partners both on and off the stage. The couple, who recently celebrated their first wedding anniversary, collaborate for the first time as husband and wife in Fiddlehead Theater Company’s musical adaptation of the Disney classic “The Little Mermaid.”

Cowan, the show’s choreographer, fell in love with musical theater in high school. The former gymnast, who joined the choir at Shrewsbury High, recalled how her choir teacher told her that she had perfect pitch. Cowan didn’t know that at the time but then her teacher began giving her solos.

Slowly she found herself performing in musicals. She soon realized that she loved to sing and with her gymnast background the dancing “fell into place easily,” says Cowan by phone recently.

Cowan began choreographing musical theater productions and dance concerts while attending Emerson College, where she earned her bachelor of fine arts in musical theater. For eight years she was the resident choreographer at Shrewbury High School, and she’s also choreographed the Weston Drama Workshop, Broadway Break Thru and The Regatta Players Theater Group. Since 2010, Cowan has been the resident choreographer for Blue Spruce Theatre in Watertown, Mass.

In addition to dancing, Cowan also is an actress and tries to balance both professional loves equally, often struggling to decide on whether to audition for a role or go after choreographing a production.

“It’s kind of a test for me,” she says. “I take a look at my year and think how do I get a good balance between choreographing and performing? I don’t want to do too much of one.”

However, with “The Little Mermaid” she knew right from the start that she wanted to choreograph Fiddlehead’s latest production. Not only is “The Little Mermaid” one of Cowan’s favorite movies and one of her favorite musicals, but as she says “there were so many dance numbers in it,” including French and calypso. She already could see all

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continued from page 16 his oppressive boss and get a job that pays a living wage.

In a bravura turn, Anita Gillette endows Irene Reilly, the mother of Ignatius, with the daffy high spirits to attract a suitor and the anguish to face the toll that her son has taken on her life.

Stephanie DiMaggio excels as both Lana Lee, the mean proprietor of a barroom, and Myrna Minkoff, the girlfriend of Ignatius who has decamped to New York City. Both

IF YOU GO Fiddlehead Theatre Company’s production of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid”

runs Thursday, December 3 through Sunday, December 6 at the Strand Theatre, located at 543 Columbia Road in Dorchester. Tickets: $45, $40 and $37 for adults; $25 for students and seniors. To purchase or for information about group and student discounts visit www.fiddleheadtheatre.com or call (617) 514-6497. the opportunities for dance in her head. “I know that’s a show I’d love to choreograph because the gears are already kind of turning for that show,” describes Cowan.

With every production that she’s choreographing, Cowan “sees what came before, how she can give a nod to the original, and how she can make it her own.”

Troilo, who also is a Shrewsbury native, stars as Prince Eric, Ariel’s romantic interest. Troilo began doing theater at the age of 10, went on to perform in high school musicals and later earned a BFA in musical theater at The Boston Conservatory.

Performing in both off-Broadway productions and regional theater (as Jesus in “Godspell,” Danny Zuko in “Grease” and Tony in “West Side Story”), Troilo often looks “for pretty interesting characters and good music” when searching for a character to portray. Of his role as Prince Eric in “The Little Mermaid,” he says, “this character is so fascinating because he’s on the verge of becoming king. It’s the last thing on earth that he wants. He wants to be free of that and just sail and be a normal sailor.”

Often cast as the “young heroic leading man tenor,” Troilo had the opportunity to play a more complex character with the role of Frank Whitaker in the regional production of “Far From Heaven.”

It was based on the 2002 movie starring Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid as a 1950s married couple facing a crisis.

“It was kind of a chance to almost create an original character even though there was a movie. It was a very unique musical because it wasn’t a big production show like ‘The Little Mermaid’ or ‘Miss Saigon.’ It was a character-driven drama. It was a chance to stretch myself. This character was conflicted and dark and abusive and I never got to do that before. And, it was really exciting,” says Troilo.

Myrna and Ignatius aspire to be revolutionaries. But after their various campaigns to save the world fail, they finally find a bit of success in saving one another.

Improbable but fun to watch, deliverance arrives through a collision of coincidences as dizzy as the plot of a Marx Brothers comedy.

In the concluding scene of both the book and the play, Ignatius shows a hint of something new: a grace note of gratitude. Contented at last, he brings the tip of Myrna’s long brown braid to his lips and breathes it in as if he were inhaling a fine cigar.

PHOTO: COURTESY OF FIDDLEHEAD THEATRE COMPANY

Theater couple Kira Cowan Troilo and Jarod Troilo.

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on Nickelodeon’s long-running hit series “All That.” This trajectory culminated in the creation of “The Nick Cannon Show,” which he starred in, directed and executive-produced.

Cannon currently hosts NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” which kicked off its 10th season last May. While his professional endeavors keep him extremely busy, Cannon always has made the time to use his resources and voice as a philanthropist to giveback to the community and those in need, working with such charitable organizations as Feeding America, Boys and Girls Clubs, Do Something, Toys for Tots, Stomp Out Bullying, the Lupus Foundation of America and the National Kidney Foundation, to name a few. He also is an active member on the Board of Directors of New York’s St. Mary’s Children’s Hospital and runs the Nicholas Scott Cannon Foundation.

Here, Cannon talks about playing the title character in Spike Lee’s new film “Chi-Raq,” a modernized adaptation of Aristophanes’ classic Greek comedy, “Lysistrata.”

What interested you in “Chi-Raq”?

Nick Cannon: Even before I read a script, Spike Lee came to me and said, ‘I want to save lives in Chicago, on the South Side.’

And I was like, ‘I’m in! I don’t know what that is, but I’m in.’

Then, when I saw how he made the brave artistic choice to take Aristophanes’ 2,500 year-old play, ‘Lysistrata,’ and set it in modern times, I thought that was brilliant and I felt honored to be able to be a part of the project.

Were you aware of “Lysistrata” before making this movie?

NC: Yeah, I was definitely familiar with ‘Lysistrata’ and other works of Aristophanes, and had heard the play’s plot referenced in various ways over the years.

What did you think about all the rhyme in the dialogue?

NC: I thought it was outstanding that this film was in verse. I love how Spike remained faithful to that original format while mixing in spoken word and hiphop and conveying an emotional message.

To what extent do you think we blacks are responsible for the violence in our communities?

An inspired visual chronicle and historic narrative about people seeking justice in these times (Boston, 1980-2013)

NC: I say we’re responsible for everything in our community. We have to take responsibility for us, and for our own. Right now, I feel like it’s about reconditioning the community. We let this generation down, so we have to step back

in and do whatever we can be the real pillars and real leaders. Ultimately, these young people are hurt. They’re in pain. And instead of pointing a finger at them, we need to get involved and do something about the situation.

How did you prepare to play “Chi-Raq”?

NC: I really got to be a part of the community through Spike and [longtime Chicago political activist] Father Michael Pfleger who introduced me to some young peacekeepers, some reformed gang members turned leaders in the South side of Chicago. I lived with them. They came to my hotel and said, ‘Yo, let’s go! Let’s rock!

We going! We have to show you every aspect of who we are and what we do.’ I was able to jump in in a big way, and that’s what it was all about.

That’s quite a cast Spike assembled for “Chi-Raq.” NC: Yeah, that just shows the power of Spike. People love him, and will come out for him to be a part of one of his projects. He always puts together a phenomenal cast, especially when the film is designed to deliver such an important, positive message.

That made everybody jump in wholeheartedly.

How would you describe that message?

NC: We want people to appreciate the value of life. A life is a life, and, like Spike says, ‘If we save one life with this film, then we’ve done our job.’

What was the biggest professional challenge you faced in your career and how did you overcome it?

NC: You know what? There are challenges every day when it comes to this industry. But I never like it when someone tries to put me in a box. As soon as they think they have me figured out, I turn left. In that sense, it’s all about blazing your own trail and doing something no one’s ever done before. You have to give them something new, just when they they think they know what to expect from you. Part of that comes from my not being able to sit still, but mostly it comes from a need to push boundaries as an artist. If someone says, ‘You can’t do that,’ that just ignites me. I have to show them that I can do it, and that I can do it well.

Did you feel any heavy burden playing the title character in a Spike Lee film?

NC: I didn’t see it as a burden.

I welcomed it as a challenge. I also saw it as an honor for Spike to choose me for the role and to afford me a opportunity not only to display my skills as an actor but to be a part of a movement which really cares about people.

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‘Friendsgiving’ a new tradition Thanksgiving family customs may run strong, but for those who like to have fun in the kitchen and celebrate the season with pals, Friendsgiving is becoming a popular yearly ritual.

Friendsgiving is a time to get together with friends and eat a delicious and creative meal. Sushi? Sure! Pizza? Please!

Other Friendsgivings may be made up of Thanksgiving staples with the volume turned up.

A holiday classic in their own right, California Ripe Olives are the perfect ingredient to give your Friendsgiving dishes a little twist. From the relish tray to the mashed potatoes, there’s always a place on the table for the ripe olive.

For a new take on a traditional stuffing, try combining sourdough bread, butternut squash, cranberries, bacon and olives. The sweet squash and cranberries, crunchy bacon and ripe olives combine for a flavor and texture punch that will leave your guests wanting seconds — maybe even thirds.

For more tasty recipes featuring California Ripe Olives, visit www.CalOlive.org.

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Hazelnut Chocolate Energy Bars n 1 cup dates n ¼ cup cocoa powder n ¼ teaspoon salt n 1⁄3 cup hazelnut butter n ¼ cup honey n 1 cup hazelnuts, toasted n 1 ½ cups rolled oats n ½ cup semisweet chocolate chips Use a food processor to chop dates until small bits remain and form a ball.

Add cocoa powder and salt and process.

Heat hazelnut butter and honey until warm. Pour into food processor along with remaining ingredients. Pulse until well mixed.

Transfer to lightly greased and foillined 9-by-9-inch pan. Using spatula, pack mixture into tight square. Freeze for 15 minutes. Remove and cut into 15 bars. Store in airtight container or bag in fridge to keep fresh, or in freezer for longer term storage.

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FOOD QUIZ

BLACK MAGIC Banana Black Walnut Cake can’t be beat

BY THE EDITORS OF

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utumn means dark stained fingers for foragers in search of the elusive black walnut. From Iowa to Virginia, folks gather the bumpy brownish-green orbs, first asking permission from homeowners, who are often more than happy to have the pesky nuts removed from their lawns.

Once they’re gathered, there’s more work to do. Removing the husks is messy work, as their dye stains everything it touches.

The inside nutshells are equally messy to crack, as they’re impossibly hard.

Fortunately, most of us can purchase a bag of shelled black walnuts from the grocery store. With their bold, wild flavor, they’re not a popular snacking nut, but they’re perfect for baking. Their assertive unique flavor permeates cookies, cakes and breads and becomes stronger over time.

Banana Black Walnut Cake Cake ingredients: n 2 cups all-purpose flour n 1 ¼ teaspoons baking soda n 1 teaspoon coarse salt n 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature n 1 ½ cups sugar n 2 eggs n 1 ripe banana, mashed n 1 teaspoon vanilla extract n 1 1⁄3 cups buttermilk n 2⁄3 cup finely chopped black walnuts

Chocolate glaze ingredients: n 1 ½ cups powdered sugar n 8 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder n 3 tablespoons milk or water n 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Which country is the biggest importer of tea?

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Coming to Art is Life itself!

Dec 3 - Fulani Haynes Jazz Collaborative + VCR the Community Poet + Open Mic Dec 10 - Actress Obehi Janice + Singer Songwriter Shea Rose + Garrick Thames, Author + Open Mic

WORD TO THE WISE Rooibos tea: (pronounced “ROYbos”) Also known as “red tea” or “red bush tea,” it is an herbal infusion made from a South African red bush. It is caffeine-free, and normally taken with milk and sugar although on its own the tea has a sweet, nutty taste.

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Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Generously butter and flour a 10-inch tube pan or Bundt pan.

To prepare cake, combine flour, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl.

Combine butter and sugar; beat with an electric mixer about 4 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in banana and vanilla. Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately, beginning and ending with flour mixture and mixing until just combined. Fold in walnuts.

Pour batter into prepared pan and smooth top.

Bake 45 to 50 minutes. Let cool in pan on wire rack 10 minutes. Remove from pan. Let cool completely.

To prepare glaze, whisk together powdered sugar and cocoa powder. Slowly stir in milk and vanilla. Whisk until smooth. Add a bit more milk to thin glaze, if needed. Spread over cake. Serves 12.

— Recipe by by Serena Ball, M.S., R.D., a food writer in Chicago.

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2730 WASHINGTON ST Community Room Roxbury, MA 02119

PROJECT PROPONENT: Bartlett Place Land, Inc.

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BARTLETT PLACE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9

2730 WASHINGTON ST

6:00 PM - 7:25 PM

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The proponent proposes to construct 16 condominium units with on-grade parking for 16 vehicles.

Community Room Roxbury, MA 02119

PROJECT PROPONENT: Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This Master Plan describes five projects to be located on the PDA Area, each to be developed in one or more sub-phrase(s) and consisting of the following: two mixed-use buildings, including residential, health/fitness club, office, resturant, retail and other uses, each with accessory parking and loading, along with a public plaza and internal roadway; a new school building for the Conservatory Lab Charter School, with accessory parking and loading, an apartment building containing approximately 16 dwelling units, with accessory parking; an apartment and retail building containing approximately 42 dwelling units, with accessory parking; and apartment buildings and/or town homes containing approximately 163 dwelling units, with accessory parking.

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THURSDAY CREATING ART AT HOME December 3, 10 from 9:30-11:30 at Jamaica Plain Head Start, 315 Centre St., JP. Enter through Stop & Shop parking lot, bear left. Two blocks from Orange Line Jackson Square T-Stop.

FREE workshops where parents and grandparents learn ways to use recycled and simple art materials in imaginative ways. Presented in English, Spanish and American Sign Language (upon request).

Create magical environments, sculptures and puppets (perfect for holiday gifts) with clay and recycled materials.

Take home a bag of recycled materials and art supplies after each workshop.

Led by creative teaching artist team.

Register for one or both workshops.

Wheelchair accessible. Child care provided. FCT is a program of Community Service Care/Tree of Life Coalition. To register and for more information call 617-522-4832 or email mfcabrera53@ gmail.com. Additional information at www.familiescreatingtogether.org.

GENERATIONS OF STRUGGLE Panel discussion — Generations of Struggle: St. Louis From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter. Panelists: Percy Green, CORE/ACTION; Robin D. G. Kelley, University of California at Los Angeles; George Lipsitz, University of California at Santa Barbara; Tef Poe, Hands Up United; Jamala Rogers, Organization for Black Struggle. Moderated by Elizabeth Hinton, Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies. Introduction by Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History and of African and African American Studies; Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.

Presented by the Charles Warren Center with support from the Hiphop Archive & Research Institute. Thursday,

December 3, 4pm, CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room (S-020), 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge. Free and open to the public.

SUNDAY FAMILY HANUKKAH CELEBRATION Families are invited to a free Hanukkah celebration on Sunday, December 6, from 10am to 4pm at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. At 11am, visitors can learn Yiddish holiday songs at a sing-along workshop led by Asya Vaisman Schulman, director of the Center’s Yiddish Language Institute, accompanied by musician Brian Bender.

At 1pm, families can hear readings of holiday-themed books and work on holiday crafts in our kinder vinkl (children’s corner). Throughout the day, young detektivn (detectives) can take part in scavenger hunts throughout the Yiddish Book Center. Guided public tours of the Center will be offered at 11am and 1pm.

More information can be found at yiddishbookcenter.org/events.

MONDAY HOLIDAY TRADITIONS December 7, 14 from 5:30-7:30 with light supper at 5:30 at Jamaica Plain Community Center (Curtis Hall), 20 South Street, Jamaica Plain. FREE family workshops engaging children, parents, grandparents and friends in creating original print and collage greeting cards, wrapping paper, clay beads and baked cookies and bread. Register for one or both workshops. Wheelchair accessible.

FCT is a program of Community Service Care/Tree of Life Coalition. To register and for more information call 617-522-4832 or email mfcabrera53@gmail.com. Additional information at www.familiescreatingtogether.org.

THROUGH DECEMBER 11

BLACK CHRONICLES II

The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art presents the U.S. premiere of Black Chronicles II, an exhibition curated by London-based arts agency Autograph ABP that explores the presence of black subjects in 19th and early 20th-century British photography. The stunning mix of rare and mostly never-seen images depicts both ordinary and prominent citizens — artists, dignitaries, servicemen, missionaries, students, businessmen, and international royalty — captured in portraits by professional photographers. Through December 11, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Hutchins Center, 102 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge. Gallery open 10-5, Tuesday-Saturday, Closed Sunday, Monday, and on official Harvard University holidays. Free and open to the public.

UPCOMING SHIRLEY-EUSTIS HOUSE OPEN HOUSE HOLIDAY GATHERING The Shirley-Eustis House, a National Historic Landmark house museum and carriage house in Boston, Massachusetts is pleased to announce its annual open house holiday gathering on Sunday, December 13, 1-4pm. Gary Poholek, graduate of the Boston Conservatory and accomplished local actor will perform his own one-man adaptation of Dickens’ classic, “A Christmas Carol.”

The spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future come to life in this special presentation. The setting is simple — an antique desk, fireplace, chair, stool, and coat rack. The audience’s imagination will take over as ‘Mr. Dickens,’ dressed in Victorian attire and adopting a variety of voices, expressions and mannerisms, portrays close to 40 different characters, bringing the classic story to life in this fully-staged and very unique adaptation of Dickens’ original manuscript. Alternating between humor and poignancy, this heartwarming presentation is sure to entertain you! The Shirley-Eustis House will be decorated with beautiful greenery and Victorian ornaments will adorn the tree. Gently performed holiday classical melodies will be provided by cellist Nathaniel Kirby, a student at Rockport Middle School. You will be treated to

traditional Victorian refreshments such as Wassail Punch, Figgy Pudding and Sugar Plums. We may also enjoy a rousing traditional carol sing-a-long as well! Stay fashionably late and we will escort you on a short tour of our historic mansion after the Dickens presentation that will acquaint you with our newly restored Lafayette Bed Chamber. This event is free but we encourage everyone to donate $10 per person that will continue to support our public programming. Please RSVP to Patti Violette at 617-442-2275 or email at gover norshirley@gmail.com.

MARITIME HISTORY OF THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS The Maritime History of the Cape Verde Islands, 1498-1904. Michael P. Dyer is a Senior Maritime Historian of the New Bedford Whaling Museum. In this talk, he explores how the islands of the Atlantic figured prominently in the American maritime industries, with a particular focus on the last days of the industry when Cape Verdean and Azorean mariners assumed a much more significant profile in the ownership and management of New Bedford whalers. Their stories are synonymous with the last days of the industry. Thursday, December 17, 5:30pm. A Q&A session will follow the talk. www.bpl.org.

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ONGOING DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN/THE HOUSING ACT OF 1949 With the modern-day 24-hour news cycle, it’s hard to believe that we once relied on daily newspapers to deliver word of current events. But so it was in 1948, when one of the most infamous — and totally inaccurate — headlines of the day broke. A new exhibit at The West End Museum highlights that headline, the post-WWII national housing crisis and the onset of the federal urban renewal program. Dewey Defeats Truman/The Housing Act of 1949 runs through January 9, 2016 in the Museum’s Main Exhibit Hall. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

The West End Museum is dedicated to the collection, preservation and interpretation of the history and culture of the West End neighborhood. The Museum’s permanent exhibit, “The Last Tenement,” highlights the immigrant history of the neighborhood through its decimation under Urban Renewal in 1959; two additional galleries feature rotating exhibits. The Museum is located near North Station at 150 Staniford St., Suite 7. Hours: Tuesday-Friday 12-5pm; Saturday 11am - 4pm. Admission is free.

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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CLASSIFIED LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE DIVISION OF CAPITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT & MAINTENANCE Sealed proposals submitted on a form furnished by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance (DCAMM) and clearly identified as a bid, endorsed with the name and address of the bidder, the project and contract number, will be received at the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance, One Ashburton Place, 1st Floor, Room 107, Boston, MA 02108, no later than the date and time specified and will forthwith be publicly opened and read aloud.

Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

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

Date: November 16, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Sub-Bids at 12:00 Noon: DECEMBER 30, 2015

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Estate of Lydia E. Daniel Date of Death: 09/06/2010 To all interested persons:

Every General Bidder must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance for the category of work and for no less than the bid price plus all add alternates of this project, if applicable.

A petition has been filed by Bernice Philip of Roxbury, MA requesting that an Order of Complete Settlement of the estate issue including to approve an accounting and other such relief as may be requested in the Petition. For the First and Final Account.

The Filed Sub-Bids are Elevators, HVAC & Electrical.

E.C.C: $1,852,402.21 This project is scheduled for 315 calendar days to substantial completion and includes the replacement of seven (7) elevators and all associated mechanical and electrical systems.

A Pre-bid/Site Visit will be held on December 16, 2015 @ 10:00 am at Roxbury Community College. Meet in Lobby of Administration Building, Building #2. Contact Jason Penney, 857-204-1543.

Minimum rates of wages to be paid on the project have been determined by the Commissioner of the Division of Occupational Safety under the provisions of Sections 26 and 27, Chapter 149 of the General Laws. Wage rates are listed in the contract form portion of specification book.

Each general bid and sub-bid proposal must be secured by an accompanying deposit of 5% of the total bid amount, including all alternates, in the form of a bid bond, in cash, a certified, treasurer’s, or cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company made payable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The bidding documents may be examined at the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance Bid Room, One Ashburton Place, 1st Floor, Room 107, Boston, MA 02108, Tel (617) 727-4003, bidroom.dcamm@ state.ma.us. Paper copies may be obtained by depositing a company check, treasurer’s check, cashier’s check, bank check or money order in the sum of $100.00 payable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. No personal checks or cash will be accepted as deposits. Refunds will be made to those returning the documents in satisfactory condition on or before JANUARY 29, 2016 (ten business days after the opening of General Bids) otherwise the deposit shall be the property of the Commonwealth.

CDs available at no cost.

WE DO NOT MAIL PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS. Messenger and other types of pick-up and delivery services are the agents of the bidder and the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance assumes no responsibility for delivery or receipt of the documents. Bidders are encouraged to take advantage of a rotating credit plans and specifications deposit program initiated by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance to encourage the easy accessibility of documents to contractors.

You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 12/17/2015. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

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

Date: November 13, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU15D2276DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Helena Robalo Fernandes

PUBLIC NOTICE PROPOSED EXTENSION TO SOUTH END URBAN RENEWAL PLAN, PROJECT NO. MASS. R-56 Public Notice is hereby given that the Boston Redevelopment Authority (‘BRA”) will hold a public hearing on Thursday, December 10th, 2015, at 2:20 P.M. in the BRA Board Room – Room 900, 9th Floor, Boston City Hall, to consider a proposed ten (10) year extension of fourteen (14) active urban renewal plans, including the South End Urban Renewal Plan.

This Public Notice is being provided in accordance with a certain “Conciliation Agreement” be and among the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the BRA and others, dated as of January 16, 2001.

Teresa Polhemus Secretary, Boston Redevelopment Authority

The Complaint is on file at the Court.

An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing

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Affordable Housing Franklin Heights Estates Off Lincoln Street in Franklin, MA

Garden Style, 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath, Gas Heat, Central Air Conditioning, Basement Maximum Income Guidelines: 1 Person Household: $48,800 2 Person Household: $55,800 3 Person Household: $62,750 4 Person Household: $69,700 Maximum Household Asset Limit is $75,000.

You Must Be a 1st Time Home Buyer. Contact Maxine at 508-520-4949 or mkinhart@franklin.ma.us

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Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Rachel Mitchell Date of Death: 09/19/2005

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To all interested persons: A Petition for Formal Probate of Will with Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by Darryl Parker of Boston, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that Darryl Parker of Boston, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration.

IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 12/17/2015. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you.

UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the

Felisberto D. Fernandes

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.

$173,700

BOSTON REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

vs.

To the Defendant:

24 Shayne Road, Unit 113

Carol W. Gladstone COMMISSIONER

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

Date: November 10, 2015

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Docket No. SU11P2106EA

General Bids at 2:00 PM: JANUARY 14, 2016

Mass. State Project No. RCC1503 Contract No. FC1 Elevator Modernization, Roxbury Community College, Roxbury, MA

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Helena Robalo Fernandes, 87 Dakota St., 1st Fl., Dorchester, MA 02124 your answer, if any, on or before 01/14/2016. 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.

Citation on Petition for Order of Complete Settlement of Estate

Every Filed Sub-Bidder must submit a valid Sub-Bidder Certificate of Eligibility with its bid and must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance in the category of sub-bid work for which they bid.

The Category of Work is General Building Construction.

you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.

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SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU15P2701GD

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

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

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 12/10/2015. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

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

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

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

Date: November 05, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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of a Judgment and Order of the Suffolk Superior Court (Docket ByNo.virtue REAL ESTATE 06-2487) in favor of Melvin B. Miller and John E. Miller, Trustees of the Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust against John Patterson establishing a lien pursuant to GLM 183A:6 on the real estate known as Unit 111-1, Unit 111-2, Unit 111-3 of the Townsend Terrace Condominium for the purpose of satisfying such lien, the real estate will be sold at Public Auction at 11 o’clock AM on the 28th day of January, A.D. 2016 at the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department-Civil Process Division located at 132 Portland Street, Boston, MA 02114. The premises are to be sold are more particularly described as follows:

111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium, a Condominium, hereinafter called the “Condominium” established by Master Deed dated June 5, 1990, and recorded on August 9, 1990, in the Suffolk County Registry of District of the Land Court as document number 467822 hereinafter called the “Master Deed.”

The post office address of the Condominium is 111 Townsend Street, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts 02108. The land is described in said Master Deed. This Deed, and the Subject Condominium Unit, and the Condominium, are subject to the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 183A, (“Condominiums”)

Description: the Condominium Unit known as Condominium Unit Number 111-1, hereinafter called the “Subject Unit”, in the Condominium, known as the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium, a Condominium, hereinafter called the “Condominium “ established by Master Deed dated June 5, 1990, and recorded on August 9, 1990, in the Suffolk County Registry of District of the Land Court as document number 467822 hereinafter called the “Master Deed.”

The post office address of the Condominium is 111 Townsend Street, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts 02108. The land is described in said Master Deed. This Deed, and the Subject Condominium Unit, and the Condominium, are subject to the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 183A, (“Condominiums”) The Subject Unit is shown on the Master Plans of the Condominium filed simultaneously with the Master Deed in Suffolk County Registry of Deeds, and the verified statement of a registered architect in the form required by Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 183A, Section 8 and 9, is affixed to said Master Plans.

The Subject Unit is hereby conveyed together with: 1. an undivided 10% percent interest in the common areas and facilities of the Condominium described in the Master Deed appertaining to the Subject Unit; and 2. an easement for the continuance of all encroachments by the Subject Unit, on the adjoining units or on the common areas and facilities existing as a result of construction of the Building, or which may come into existence hereafter as a result of: (1) setting of the building, or (2) condemnation or eminent domain proceedings, or (3) alteration or repair of the common areas and facilities or any part thereof done pursuant to the provisions of the Master Deed as the same may be from time to time amended, or the provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium as the same may be from time to time amended, or (4) repair or restoration of the Building or any Unit therein after damage by fire or other casualty; and 3. an easement to use all pipes, wires, flues, ducts, conduits, plumbing lines and other portions of the common areas and facilities located in the other units and serving the Subject Unit.

The Subject Unit is shown on the Master Plans of the Condominium filed simultaneously with the Master Deed in Suffolk County Registry of Deeds, and the verified statement of a registered architect in the form required by Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 183A, Section 8 and 9, is affixed to said Master Plans.

The Subject Unit is hereby conveyed together with: 1. an undivided 13% percent interest in the common areas and facilities of the Condominium described in the Master Deed appertaining to the Subject Unit; and 2. an easement for the continuance of all encroachments by the Subject Unit on the adjoining units or on the common areas and facilities existing as a result of construction of the Building, or which may come into existence hereinafter as a result of: (1) setting of the building, or (2) condemnation or eminent domain proceedings, or (3) alteration or repair of the common areas and facilities or any part thereof done pursuant to the provisions of the Master Deed as the same may be from time to time amended, or the provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium as the same may be from time to time amended, or (4) repair or restoration of the Building or any Unit therein after damage by fire or other casualty; and 3. an easement to use all pipes, wires, flues, ducts, conduits, plumbing lines and other portions of the common areas and facilities located in the other units and serving the Subject Unit.

The Subject Unit is hereby conveyed subject to: 1. Easement in favor of the adjoining units and in favor of the common areas and facilities for the continuance of all encroachments of the adjoining units or common areas and facilities on the Subject Unit, existing as a result of construction of the Building; or which may come into existence hereafter as a result of: (1) setting of the building, or (2) condemnation or eminent domain proceedings, or (3) alteration or repair of the common areas pursuant to the provisions of the Master Deed as the same may be from time to time amended, or the provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust as the same may be from time to time amended, or (4) repair or restoration of the Building or any Unit therein after damage by fire or other casualty; and

The Subject Unit is hereby conveyed subject to: 1. Easements in favor of the adjoining units and in favor of the common areas and facilities for the continuance of all encroachments of the adjoining units or common areas and facilities on the Subject Unit, existing as a result of construction of the Building; or which may come into existence hereafter as a result of: (1) setting of the building, or (2) condemnation or eminent domain proceedings, or (3) alteration or repair of the common areas pursuant to the provisions of the Master Deed as the same may be from time to time amended, or the provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust as the same may be from time to time amended, or (4) repair or restoration of the Building or any Unit therein after damage by fire or other casualty; and 2. an easement in favor of the Owners of other units to use all pipes, wires, flues, ducts, conduits, plumbing lines and other portions of the common areas and facilities located in the Subject Unit and serving the other units; and 3. the provisions of the Master Deed and Master Plans of the Condominium recorded simultaneously with and as part of the Master Deed; and the provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the 111-113, Townsend Terrace Trust and, the By-Laws and Rules and Regulations thereto (which Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust, By-Laws and Rules and Regulations, dated June 5, 1990, are filed in the Suffolk County Registry District of the Land Court as Document 467823, as the same may be amended from time to time by instruments recorded with said Deeds, which provisions, together with any amendments thereto, shall constitute covenants running with the land and shall bind any person having at any time interest or estate in the Subject Unit, his family, tenants, servants, visitors and occupants, as though such provisions were recited and stipulated at length herein; and 4. easements, rights, obligations, provisions, agreements, restrictions, building line limitation, zoning regulations, public utility and telephone easements, easements in favor of the Declarant of the Master Deed, and all other matters set forth or referred to in the Master Deed; and 5. the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 183A (“Condominiums”).

2. an easement in favor of the Owners of other units to use all pipes, wires, flues, ducts, conduits, plumbing lines and other portions of the common areas and facilities located in the Subject Unit and serving the other units; and 3. the provisions of the Master Deed and Master Plans of the Condominium recorded simultaneously with and as part of the Master Deed, and the provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Trust and the By-Laws and Rules and Regulations thereto (which Declaration of Trust of the 111-1 13 Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust, By-Laws and Rules and Regulations, dated June 5, 1990, are filed in the Suffolk County Registry District of the Land Court as Document 467823, as the same may be amended from time to time by instruments recorded with said Deeds, which provisions, together with any amendments thereto, shall constitute covenants running with the land and shall bind any person having at any time interest or estate in the Subject Unit, his family, tenants, servants, visitors and occupants, as though such provisions were recited and stipulated at length herein; and 4. easements, rights, obligations; provisions, agreements, restrictions, building line limitation, zoning regulations, public utility and telephone easements, easements in favor of the Declarant of the Master Deed, and all other matters set forth or referred to in the Master Deed; and 5. the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 183A (“Condominiums”).

For title reference, see Certificate of Title #C272-2.

The Subject Unit shall not be used or maintained in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of the Master Deed, or of this Unit Deed, or the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust and the By-Laws and rules and regulations thereto, as the same may from time to time be amended. the Condominium Unit known as Condominium Unit Number 111-3, hereinafter called the “Subject Unit”, in the Condominium, known as the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium, a Condominium, hereinafter called the “Condominium” established by Master Deed dated June 5, 1990, and recorded on August 9, 1990, in the Suffolk County Registry of District of the Land Court as document number 467822 hereinafter called, the “Master Deed.”

For title reference, see Certificate of Title #C272-1.

The Subject Unit shall not be used or maintained in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of the Master Deed, or of this Unit Deed, or the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust and the By-Laws and rules and regulations thereto, as the same may from time to time be amended. the Condominium Unit known as Condominium Unit Number 111-2, hereinafter called the “Subject Unit”, in the Condominium, known as the

The post office address of the Condominium is 111 Townsend Street, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts 02108. The land is described in said Master Deed. This Deed, and the Subject Condominium Unit, and the Condominium, are subject to the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 183A, (“Condominiums”) The Subject Unit is shown on the Master Plans of the Condominium filed simultaneously with the Master Deed in Suffolk County Registry of Deeds, and the verified statement of a registered architect in the form

required by Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 183A, Section 8 and 9, is affixed to said Master Plans.

The Subject Unit is hereby conveyed together with: 1. an undivided 27% percent interest in the common areas and facilities of the Condominium described in the Master Deed appertaining to the Subject Unit; and 2. an easement for the continuance of all encroachments by the Subject Unit on the adjoining units or on the common areas and facilities existing as a result of construction of the Building, or which may come into existence hereafter as a result of: (1) setting of the building, or (2) condemnation or eminent domain proceedings, or (3) alteration or repair of the common areas and facilities or any part thereof done pursuant to the provisions of the Master Deed as the same may be from time to time amended, or the provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium as the same may be from time to time amended, or (4) repair or restoration of the Building or any Unit therein after damage by fire or other casualty; and 3. an easement to use all pipes, wires, flues, ducts, conduits, plumbing lines and other portions of the common areas and facilities located in the other units and serving the Subject Unit.

The Subject Unit is hereby conveyed subject to: 1. Easements in favor of the adjoining units and in favor of the common areas and facilities for the continuance of all encroachments of the adjoining units or common areas and facilities on the Subject Unit, existing as a result of construction of the Building; or which may come , into existence hereafter as a result of: (1) setting of the building, or (2) condemnation or eminent domain proceedings, or (3) alteration or repair of the common areas pursuant to the provisions of the Master Deed as the same may be from time to time amended, or the provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust as the same may be from time to time amended, or (4) repair or restoration of the Building or any Unit therein after damage by fire or other casualty; and 2. an easement in favor of the Owners of other units to use all pipes, wires, flues, ducts, conduits, plumbing lines and other portions of the common areas and facilities located in the Subject Unit and serving the other units; and 3. the provisions of the Master Deed and Master Plans of the Condominium recorded simultaneously with and as part of the Master Deed, and the provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Trust and the By-Laws and Rules and Regulations thereto (which Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust, By-Laws and Rules and Regulations, dated June 5, 1990, are filed in the Suffolk County Registry District of the Land Court as Document 467823, as the same may be amended from time to time by Instruments recorded with said Deeds, which provisions, together with any amendments thereto, shall constitute covenants running with the land and shall bind any person having at any time Interest or estate in the Subject Unit, his family, tenants, servants, visitors and occupants, as though such provisions ware recited and stipulated at length herein; and 4. easements, rights, obligations, provisions, agreements, restrictions, building line limitation, zoning regulations, public utility and telephone easements, easements in favor of the Declarant of the Master Deed, and all other matters set forth or referred to in the Master Deed; and 5. the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 183A (“Condominium “).

For title reference, see Certificate of Title #C272-3.

The Subject Unit shall not be used or maintained in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of the Master Deed, or of this Unit Deed, or the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust and the By-Laws and rules and regulations thereto, as the same may from time to time be amended.

TERMS OF SALE: Bidders must have positive identification and a $600.00 deposit in the form of a bank check (treasurer’s, cashier’s, or certified) to qualify to bid. No personal or business checks will be accepted. The check should be made payable to the Suffolk County Sheriffs Department - Civil Process OR Bidder’s Name (this meaning that both the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department and the bidder’s name should appear on the check, connected by the word OR). Bidder shall have seventy-two (72) hours or the next business day from the time of sale to complete the transaction.

Units will be sold as a single package, not individually. Other terms to be announced at the sale.

Melvin B. Miller and John E. Miller, Trustees of the Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust: Lienholder(s) 2015 Michelle Renchkovsky Deputy Sheriff NOTICE REGARDING ON-SITE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS You are hereby notified that Massachusetts Regulations (Title 5 Regulations) require an inspection of onsite sewage disposal systems when there is a transfer of title to real estate. Any purchaser or transferee of real estate served by an on-site sewage disposal system is obligated to inspect, and if necessary, to upgrade a system in accordance with the provisions of Code of Massachusetts Regulations (CMR). You are hereby referred to 310 CMR 15.300-15.305 for time periods to do so and other requirements.

The office of the Deputy Sheriff has no information about whether the real estate in question is served by an on-site sewage disposal system.

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Info Session – Grafton Middle School, Cafeteria 22 Providence Rd. 12/15 6PM-8PM Open House – 97 High Point Dr., Model Home 12/20 Noon-2PM

Approx. Average Size Range***

Rent*

Income Limit

14

Studio

417 to 481 sqft

$1,068

Up to 70%

13

1BR

607 to 694 sqft

$1,246

Up to 70%

14

2BR

794 to 1015 sqft

$1,424

Up to 70%

1*

3BR**

1118 sqft

$1,602

Up to 70%

From Dec 15th to Dec 22nd applications can be requested by phone (617.782.6900) or email (seb.housing@gmail.com).

Applications may also be picked up at the Honan-Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library (300 North Harvard Street, Allston) Tuesday Dec 15th (1 pm to 6 pm) and Wednesday Dec 16th (4 pm to 8 pm) and Saturday Dec 19th (10 AM to 2 PM)

(2) 3 Bed/2.5 Bath- $187,400 2000 sf. Apprx.

(4) 4 Bed/2.5 Bath $205,100 2000 sf. Apprx.

Other Restrictions Apply

Type

The Maximum Income Limits for Households for the Moderate Income Units (70% AMI) is as follows: 1 Person-$48,250*; 2 Person-$55,150*; 3 Person-$62,050*; 4 Person-$68,950*; 5 Person-$74,450; 6 Person-$80,000 *Income Limits subject to change when the BRA publishes the annual Income Limits

6 AFFORDABLE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES High Point Estates, 70 Adams Rd, (North) Grafton TO BE SOLD BY LOTTERY

5 Persons – $71,100 6 Persons - $76,350 7 Persons - $81,600 8 Persons - $86,900

# of Units

*Rent is subject to change when the BRA publishes the annual rents. **Please note that the only 3BR unit is a Disabled-Accessible Unit *** Square footages are subject to change during construction

Home Ownership Opportunity

1 Person - $46,100 2 Persons - $52,650 3 Persons – $59,250 4 Persons - $65,800

Completed Applications can be dropped off to the SEB Office between 10 AM and 4 PM on Jan 5th and Jan 6th, 2016.

The deadline for application drop off at the SEB Office is 4 pm on Jan 6th, 2016.

Completed applications can also be mailed to the SEB Office but must be postmarked by Jan 6th, 2016.

The SEB Office is on 165 Chestnut Hill Ave #2, Brighton, MA 02135.

Selection by lottery.

Asset, Use & Occupancy Restrictions apply.

Minimum income limits apply.

Disabled households have preference for 5 accessible units (two 1BR, two 2BR, one 3BR).

Preference for Boston Residents.

Preference for Households with at least one person per bedroom.

Continuum is a smoke free community

Applications at: Grafton Library, 35 Grafton Common Grafton Town Hall, Selectmens’ Office, 30 Providence Rd. Or Write To: JTE Realty Associates, P. O. Box 955, No Andover, Ma. 01845 Or e-mail: hpoint@jterealtyassociates.com MAILING ADDRESS MUST BE PROVIDED 978-258-3492 Deadline Rec’d by: 12/30/2015

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Type

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Rent*

Income Limit

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Studio

428 to 488 sqft

$1,068

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7

1 BR

695 to 738 sqft

$1,246

Up to 70%

2

2 BR

1,000 sqft

$1,424

Up to 70%

*Rent is subject to change when the BRA publishes the annual rents. ** Square footages are subject to change during construction The Maximum Income Limits for Households for the Moderate Income Units (70% AMI) is as follows: 1 Person-$48,250*; 2 Person-$55,150*; 3 Person-$62,050*; 4 Person-$68,950* *Income Limits subject to change when the BRA publishes the annual Income Limits From Dec 15th to Dec 22nd applications can be requested by phone (617.782.6900) or email (seb.housing@gmail.com).

Applications may also be picked up at the Honan-Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library (300 North Harvard Street, Allston) Tuesday Dec 15th (1 pm to 6 pm) and Wednesday Dec 16th (4 pm to 8 pm) and Saturday Dec 19th (10 AM to 2 PM) Completed Applications can be dropped off to the SEB Office between 10 AM and 4 PM on Jan 5th and Jan 6th, 2016.

The deadline for application drop off at the SEB Office is 4 pm on Jan 6th, 2016.

Completed applications can also be mailed to the SEB Office but must be postmarked by Jan 6th, 2016.

The SEB Office is on 165 Chestnut Hill Ave #2, Brighton, MA 02135.

Selection by lottery.

Asset, Use & Occupancy Restrictions apply.

Minimum income limits apply.

Disabled households have preference for 1 accessible unit (1BR).

Preference for Boston Residents.

Preference for Households with at least one person per bedroom.

Van Ness is a smoke free community

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Property Manager Location/Site Description: This position will be located at Theroch Apartments in Boston, MA. Position Summary: We currently have a great opportunity available for an experienced full-time Property Manager for a large apartment community located in the Greater Boston Area. As the Property Manager, you are responsible for effectively managing the physical apartment community, marketing brand recognition and maintaining an excellent relationship with its residents and staff. Also, the ability to work and negotiate with community partners within the property. The individual in this position must have a strong leadership, customer service, problem solving, decision making, multitasking, communication and organizational skills, as well as open to feedback and new ideas.

Essential Functions: n Prepares and presents the property’s annual budget. n Oversees timely collection and deposit of all rental and other payments due from residents. n Reviews incoming rent schedules, scheduled rent increases, and renewals. n Prepares and submits the monthly budget variance report. n Provides required financial reporting. n Makes recommendations to senior property management to address financial issues. n Maintains budgeted occupancy goals. n Required to submit incident reports, per company policy. n Ensure the property’s move in, move out, and renewal processes are timely and accurate. n Assists in the negotiation of contracts with outside vendors. n Works with maintenance team to implement maintenance programs and controls. n Ensures that interior and exterior of the site and facilities are maintained. n Engages in all marketing initiatives, including but not limited to, adhering to marketing policies, submitting marketing reports, maintaining comparability studies, and implementing site resident retention program. n Ensures quality of rental advertising and print material. n Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of the competition, market and product knowledge. n Approves rental applications in adherence to property standards, and all appropriate agency standards. n Ensures the property is in compliance with all outside agency requirements. n Responsible for compliance with Affirmative Fair Housing regulations and Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action policies, including federal, state, and local governing agency requirements. n Maintain protocol with security personnel regarding all property matter/incidents. n Where applicable, ensure the property’s re-certifications are completed timely and accurately.

Job Requirements: High School Diploma/GED Equivalent; some college a plus A minimum of 3-5 years related experience CAM/CPM, or other industry-related certification is a plus Microsoft Office Suite Ability to read, writes, and speak English Knowledge of Yardi software & Landlord/Tenant Laws Please e-mail your resume to vcaraballo@winnco.com

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