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Many candidates, few dollars in 4, 7 Roxbury, Dorchester districts will be only ones with preliminary balloting

By YAWU MILLER

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Police Chief William Gross, Commissioner William Evans, at-large City Councilor Michael Flaherty and District 4 Councilor Charles Yancey discuss a proposed ordinance that would require Boston Police officers to be outfitted with body-worn cameras.

Council, cops debate body-worn cameras

Proponents say cameras would protect police, too

By YAWU MILLER

Police brass squared off against a coalition of community activists last week for a debate in the City Council’s Iannella Chamber over the implementation of body-worn cameras.

During the hearing, held by the Committee on Government Operations, councilors questioned police officials and members of the Boston Police Camera Action Team on an ordinance drafted by

the group and proposed by Councilor Charles Yancey.

Yancey and advocates of the cameras urged the council to implement the policy, saying they would bring a greater degree of transparency and accountability to the department. Noting that the city has paid out $41 million in lawsuits stemming from police abuse, Seguin Idowu said the cameras would be an important component in building trust.

“What we are presenting here today is not the solution, but it is

a solution – part of a larger set of measures that this council should consider in eradicating the continued bias and lack of trust that we experience in this city every day,” he said.

The proposed ordinance, which Idowu and other members of the Boston Police Camera Action Team passed out at the hearing, would require officers to activate the cameras when officers respond to a call for service or at the

With the date of the city’s preliminary election moved to Tuesday, Sept. 8 — the day after the Labor Day weekend — turnout is expected to be light in Roxbury’s District 7 and Dorchester’s District 4 races.

And while both races feature a range of candidates — four in District 4 and six in District 7 — the bounty of candidates will not necessarily translate into an electrified electorate.

In District 7, incumbent Tito Jackson faces off against five challengers: underground radio station operator Charles Clemons, community activist Haywood Fennell, state worker Althea Garrison, minister Roy Owens and Kevin Dwyer.

A look at candidate filings with the state’s Office of Campaign and Public Finance provides a window into the District 7 race. Jackson has raised more than $67,000 so far this year, and in the last two weeks of July raised more money — $9,910 — than all five of his opponents have raised this year.

As MassVOTE Executive Director Cheryl Crawford explains, fundraising is key to running a successful campaign.

“You have to print flyers and cover Election Day costs — renting space, transportation,” she said. “And you need a campaign manager and field director.”

BY THE NUMBERS Filings with the state’s Office of Campaign and Public Finance: DISTRICT 7

$67,000+ $1,002 $605

The amount raised so far this year by incumbent Tito Jackson The amount in the bank account of challenger Charles Clemons The amount in the bank account of challenger Haywood Fennell DISTRICT 4

$92,000

The amount raised by challenger Andrea Campbell since she opened a campaign account last November.

The amount raised by incumbent Charles Yancey The amount raised by attorney Jovan Lacet

$25,712 $3,441

While Clemons has a campaign manager — perennial candidate Douglas Bennett, whose ubiquitous hand-painted signs announced his failed bid for sheriff two years ago — his campaign has just $1,002 in the bank.

Clemons insists he’s running to win, and notes that in his unsuccessful 2013 campaign for mayor, he secured more votes in

See ELECTION, page 7

See BODY CAMS, page 6

Activists advancing millionaires’ tax Tax would only affect income over $1m

By CAITLIN YOSHIKO KANDIL

A proposal to raise taxes on millionaires in Massachusetts was submitted to Attorney General Maura Healey last week.

The “Fair Share Amendment,” put forth by the coalition Raise Up Massachusetts, would bump up the income tax rate by four percent for those who make more than $1 million per year, thus generating additional revenue for

state education and transportation systems.

“There’s a great need to invest more funding to improve our public schools and to make students able to afford to attend state colleges and universities,” said Lewis Finfer, director of the Massachusetts Communities Action Network, a partner in the coalition. “And with the transportation system, which was brought to a halt this winter, we have a number of dangerous bridges in the state,

and an issue with the MBTA and its affordability.”

“That led us to the question of how to generate significantly more funds for the education and transportation needs that are so acute in Boston and other cities,” Finfer said. “This is the only way to raise a significant amount of money.”

The Fair Share Amendment would generate an estimated $1.3 billion in additional revenue per year.

With these extra funds, the state could eliminate tuition and fees for

See FAIR SHARE, page 20

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District 4 City Council candidate Andrea Campbell chats with volunteer Nigel Simon outside her Fields Corner campaign office.

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Rox. neighbors call for halt to Radius auction

By SAPHIA SUAREZ

Roxbury residents are petitioning a judge to stop the planned auction of the former Radius Hospital and require an open and transparent bidding process.

The move comes in advance of the court-appointed receiver’s planned Aug. 13 auction of the five-acre site on Townsend Street.

“On his own, the receiver hasn’t made any effort to reach out to the community,” said Garrison Trotter Neighborhood Association Chairman Louis Elisa, who is circulating a petition to Roxbury residents that he then will turn over to the bankruptcy court judge in charge of the Radius auction. So far, Roxbury residents have only heard from one bidder, New Atlantic Development principal Peter Roth, who met with a sizeable group of community members at the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church last week. The bidding process outlined by the receiver — New York-based Keen Summit Capital Partners — called for prospective buyers to submit bids by Monday, Aug. 10. Keen Summit then would invite approved bidders to an auction scheduled for Thurs., Aug. 13.

Elisa said Garrison Trotter wants the auction rescheduled.

“We want to know who’s bidding,” he said. “We want them to know that we’re concerned.

They need to know we’re a part of the process.”

With 159,000 square feet of space and 4.96 acres of land, the Radius Hospital site triggers the

city’s Article 80 process, which mandates that developments of more than 150,000 square feet undergo a community review process. Elisa said letting developers know what the community’s concerns are beforehand will make the process run more smoothly.

“We don’t want to be behind the bus on this,” he said. “We’re being proactive.”

One developer presents

At the meeting last Thursday, organized by Townsend Street resident Jed Hresko, 41 Roxbury residents crowded into the basement meeting room at the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. Roth explained his plans for the site, should he win the bid.

He initially proposed a mixed-income housing development and said he would keep most of the existing structures, which “appear to be solid and of value.”

Roth said he was open to redoing some of the building facades.

Several residents suggested elderly housing.

“There’s a lot of building going on around in Roxbury, in Boston as it is, with a lot of housing for middle income or for whatever you want to call it,” one Townsend Street resident said.

“Very little of any of that building is for senior citizens. And they’re actually trying to push us out of those nice homes as it is, because people want to take over those places and turn them into condos, or whatever it is they want to do with them.”

Roth said he would be open to

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New Atlantic Properties President Peter Roth discusses his plans for the Radius Hospital site with Roxbury residents. elderly and assisted living housing on the site, and pointed out that his firm developed an assisted living facility at 25 Ruggles Street in the Dudley Square area.

Much of the discussion at the meeting revolved around residents’ plans to petition for a more open bidding process.

Meeting participants agreed to create a task force, which then met to draft a modification of the court order.

“All we’re asking for is

disclosure,” said Hresko. “We want to know what the process is, we’d like to know who the bidders are, we’d like to know what their criteria are.”

As for the court’s role, he continued, “The judge could say [our] standing comes in during

the Article 80 process. We have a permitting process and a BRA. …

I think they would argue that Article 80 of the BRA is [our] sort of lever. But we kept using the word disclosure. A judge could also say, ‘What’s the harm? It’s just disclosure.’”

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Rights groups take aim at anti-terror program Say Muslims unfairly targeted

By YAWU MILLER

Activists in Boston, Minneapolis and Los Angeles spoke out last week against the Obama administration’s Countering Violent Extremism program, calling for more transparency and denouncing what many see as an unwarranted focus on Muslims.

At the Boston press conference held at City Hall Plaza, activists expressed deep distrust in the CVE program, which federal officials say is aimed at identifying individuals at risk of committing acts of domestic terrorism.

Shannon Erwin, Executive Director of the Muslim Justice League — a Boston-based organization advocating against “war on terror” policies — and Board Member of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, stated that federal agencies’ shielding details of program operation from dissenters and the broader public obstructs meaningful discussion about CVE’s potential impacts. Erwin called upon mayors, city councils, police, and health and education professionals to “help us send a clear message that our cities cannot be testing grounds for dangerous and divisive profiling tactics.”

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Minneapolis — have continually raised objections to the White House, Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security. Yet federal agencies continue to convene closed discussions about CVE program development, exclude dissenting voices, and resist sharing information with the public about precisely how the programs will operate, including planned roles for education and health professionals.

“This is a program that is profiling all kinds of young people,” said Said Ahmed, who heads the Roxbury-based organization United Somali Youth. “This is a serious issue.”

Ahmed and other organizers of the press conferences are calling for greater transparency in the CVE program, complaining that meetings are held with select individuals from Muslim community organizations to plan the program’s implementation.

“They want to divide and conquer the Muslim community,” Ahmed said.

Others at the Boston press conference objected to what they said was the targeting of Muslims in the program’s pilot cities.

“There is no evidence to suggest that Muslims pose a greater threat of violence than any other community,” said Liza Behrendt, an organizer with Jewish Voices for Peace, Boston. “In fact, it is white Christian Americans who are statistically most likely to

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Jewish Voices for Peace organizer Liza Behrendt, Boston Workmen’s Circle board member Andrew Cohen, Muslim Justice League Executive Director Shannon Erwin and Said Ahmed of United Somali Youth denounced the Obama administration’s Countering Violent Extremism program last week. commit extremist crimes. The attempts to link terrorism to Islam are an alarming manifestation of bigotry against an entire religious community that must be condemned by people of all faiths. These attacks, often veiled by claims of fighting anti-Semitism, in fact promote the kind of stereotyping that Jews themselves have resisted for centuries.”

Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Marsha

Catron said the initiative is not solely targeting Muslims and stressed that the initiative is aimed at working with local organizations.

“As we have often said, CVE efforts are best pursued at the local level and we will continue to support efforts across the country toward this goal,” Catron told the Associated Press.

Cambridge City Councilor Nadeem Mazen said government officials have done little

to build confidence with local communities.

“The nature of this program is shrouded in secrecy,” he said.

“You don’t know what tax money is being spent. You don’t know what tactics are being deployed.”

Activists in Los Angeles filed public records request to federal, state and local authorities requesting information about the CVE program. Boston activists said they, too, plan on filing a similar request.

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Holding police to a higher standard Modern technology has revealed to Americans for the first time the brutal and violent treatment of black citizens by the police. Smartphone and dash cam videos as well as police body cameras provide real time evidence of police encounters that cannot be easily rebutted by official mendacity. Now the whole world is able to see that policemen across the country are quick to kill unarmed African Americans.

There often is a brief protest after each police killing, but there usually are no remedies. Occasionally the events are so outrageous that they attract national attention. Last August, the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. generated countrywide concern. He was shot by a police officer in an encounter over jaywalking.

Brown was an 18-year-old unarmed youth.

Even committed law and order advocates thought that execution was an excessive penalty for jaywalking. But recently a police officer in Cincinnati shocked the nation by imposing capital punishment for an even milder offense. Samuel DuBose, an unarmed black man, was gunned down for failing to have the front license plate attached on his car.

As outrageous as these incidents are, they could be ignored if they were anomalies. But according to The Counted, a project launched by The Guardian that tracks people killed by the police in the U.S., 54 unarmed black men have been killed this year as of August 9, 2015.

The outspoken protest of the “Black Lives Matter” campaign can hardly be criticized.

America is a violent place for everyone, and the frequency of police killings of

unarmed blacks indicates a lack of value for the lives of African Americans. In fact, the United States has the highest murder rate of any industrialized country. It is almost four times higher than Britain’s, and is almost 12 times higher than Japan’s murder rate.

While most whites are just discovering that unarmed blacks often are the victims of police brutality, blacks have known this from the days of slavery. The disrespect and hostility of whites that foment the police violence have undoubtedly had a psychological effect on African Americans for a considerable period of time. Blacks have been made to understand by the dominant culture that they are inferior and need not be respected.

When the denigration is complete and a young black male is made to feel worthless, it becomes relatively easy for him to shoot another individual who is believed to be of equally little value. Query whether the common use of the n-word by young blacks indicates their acceptance of a demeaned status.

The police have been storm troopers for the oppression of blacks. It is time for society to work aggressively to change the culture of the police all across the country.

The emerging bipartisan effort to improve the quality of justice in the nation’s law enforcement and court systems will fail without holding police officers to the highest standards. They are Americans’ first contact with the criminal justice system.

Insulting, hostile and violent police supported by oppressive criminal justice systems have had a devastating impact on urban black communities. It is no wonder that the slogan “Black Lives Matter” has gained such acceptance and support.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Urges caution on body cameras The Boston City Council is currently debating the idea of purchasing BodyCams for its police officers while on duty.

Several large cities across the nation are having the same debate. Critics across the country believe these cameras are necessary to catch rogue law-breaking cops. Their criticism stems from a number of controversial police stops in New York, Baltimore, etc.

A number of police officers feel such cameras might actually interfere during police stops as cops would start second guessing every move they make. Others in law enforcement think these cameras will show that the overwhelming majority of cops are actually doing a good job of policing across America’s cities.

I watched the August 5 City Council

hearing on the question of body cameras and both sides of this argument have valid concerns needed to be addressed.

City Councilors Charles Yancey and Tito Jackson are both strong supporters of this new policing tool, but no one should think that cameras are a crime prevention tool. Cameras won’t stop crimes.

I am concerned about the high cost of implementing this camera idea.

Do we purchase and outfit the entire Boston Police Department officers?

How much will that cost taxpayers? Is it cost-effective? One witness added that the cost isn’t as important as saving one life. However, isn’t that an assumption that cameras will be finding plenty of bad cops out there on the street?

The idea of body cameras must be

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debated. There are two sides in this debate. Many in the community think it is a great idea but many in the police department are not as sure.

The last thing the citizens of Boston need are politicians telling the police how to do their job. We must not play politics with public safety.

Building trust between the community and the police has been working effectively in Boston. Will arming police officers with body cameras hurt the trust that has been building over recent years? Are we in the business of building safer communities or are we into knee-jerk feel-good action that accomplishes what?

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The GOP debate and the other elephant in the room

By LEE A. DANIELS

The August 6th Fox News-sponsored, two-tiered debate of the GOP presidential primary candidates has shown anew that the Republican Party’s continuing to explore different ways a political party can self-destruct.

Two developments last week underscored the GOP’s raging intraparty war and identity crisis as more serious than ever.

First, Donald Trump’s remarkably bad performance at the so-called top-ten debate in Cleveland — and his outrageous insults hurled at Fox News’ Megyn Kelly afterward — immediately and justifiably alarmed the Party’s professional operatives even more than his initial entry into the race.

For one thing, despite all his television experience, that Trump couldn’t bob and weave his way through such a low-pressure question-and-answer reality show means he shouldn’t have been there at all. His egoism is simultaneously so powerful and yet so fragile that he immediately became flustered and defensive when asked probing questions.

He was there, however, because his great wealth shields him from having to seek the GOP’s “permission” to run. And, ironically, because his indifference to Republican ideology has enabled him to champion more openly and harshly the Party’s doctrine of tough-guy posturing, of cruelty and exclusion that is an addiction with the GOP base.

In other words, Trump’s candidacy personifies how the Republican Party’s organizational integrity is being erased by both its wealthy class of supporters and those who make up its rank and file. Jon Stewart, the satirist and former host of The Daily Show, got it exactly right in late July when he said, “People like Trump are supposed to buy the candidates — not be them.”

But Trump has shown that billionaire outsiders like him can run for the presidency because the U.S. Supreme Court’s egregious Citizens United ruling of 2010 struck down limitations on political spending. The GOP lobbied for that decision because they thought it would enable them to defeat President Obama in 2012 and, backed by the dollars of the business sector and wealthy individuals, forever destroy the Democratic Party’s national political prospects.

What GOP leaders didn’t understand was that by erasing limits on political spending, Citizens United also destroyed political parties’ organizational ability to significantly control how wealthy donors’ money got spent. It produced an explosion of fund-raising vehicles — super PACs — completely independent of the parties’ control. And it undermined the ability of the parties to keep an unwanted rich outsider from injecting himself or herself into the presidential sweepstakes.

Last week’s second important development was the invitation-only conference for the uber-wealthy right-wing billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch staged at a luxurious California resort. Amid extraordinary secrecy, the Kochs invited just five of the announced GOP candidates to pitch the 450 attendees for support.

The conference is just one part of the Kochs’ multifaceted campaign, using a web of nonprofit political organizations they’ve created to put a Republican in the White House in 2016 — an effort on which they’re prepared to spend $889 million.

An article in the Washington Post last week noted that the Kochs and their allies “have built a quasi-political party outside the traditional infrastructure [of the GOP], one made up of nonprofit groups financed with secret donations free of campaign finance limits.” It went on to say the new entity is “both a valuable ally and a rival power center to the Republican National Committee” and that recent tensions over their separate data-mining efforts led the RNC’s chief of staff to warn it was “very dangerous and wrong to allow a group of very strong, well-financed individuals who have no accountability to anyone to have control over who gets access to the data when, why and how.”

The power struggle was subsequently papered over by a joint agreement to share data throughout the current election cycle. But isn’t the tension between the traditional GOP bureaucracy and the new independent “quasi-political party” of uber-wealthy conservatives evidence that there’s now another elephant taking up space in the Republican Party’s tent?

Of those two elephants, which one is growing larger and stronger every day, and which is fading to ghost status right before our eyes?

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ATYIA MARTIN Mayor Mar tin J. Walsh announced the appointment of Dr. Atyia Martin as the City of Boston’s first chief resilience officer (CRO), a new position created to lead city-wide resilience building efforts to help Boston prepare for, withstand and bounce back from the ‘shocks’ — catastrophic events like floods, infrastructure failure and acts of terrorism — and ‘stresses’ — slow-moving disasters like persistent racial and economic inequality, lack of affordable housing and unemployment, which are increasingly part of 21st century life. As Chief Resilience Officer, Martin will report to Mayor Walsh and the Mayor’s Chief of Policy, and will oversee the development and implementation of a comprehensive Resilience Strategy for the city.

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community and suggested bodyworn cameras could better maintain police-community relations.

“The toughest thing about trust is that it’s very difficult to build and very easy to lose,” he said. “Every city in the country is one incident away.”

“I agree,” Evans said.

“This technology is not only there to protect people who are being policed, but it’s also there to protect the police.”

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initiation of law enforcement or investigative encounters. Officers would be required to notify subjects that they are being recorded and would be required to seek consent to record if they are entering a private residence without a warrant or are interacting with a crime victim or witness.

The proposed ordinance would bar police from using body cameras to record activities that are not related to a response to a call for service or an investigative encounter.

The department would be required to store the footage for six months after it has been recorded, and for three years if the footage records incidents involving use of force, events leading up to arrest for felony-level offences and encounters that have led to complaints.

The proposed ordinance, on which activists worked for several months, culled best practices from the many cities across the country that have implemented body-worn cameras, activists said.

“Among the 24 largest cities in America, only four — Jacksonville, Columbus, Nashville and Boston — have yet to implement, pilot, or announce plans to try body cameras,” said ACLU of Massachusetts Executive Director Carol Rose.

“It’s time for Boston to join this nationwide effort.”

Police Commissioner William Evans said he was open to bodyworn cameras, but expressed reservations, citing concerns over cost, possible privacy violations and what he said would be an erosion of the trust officers have built

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Boston Police Camera Action Team member Seguin Idowu speaks to reporters following his testimony before the City Council. in the community.

“I think clearly costs are a big issue for us, but more than anything, I think the country is looking at this body camera as … the solution to everything,” he said.

“Putting a device on someone’s lapel is not going to solve the historical bad relationship between the African American community and the police. What we’re doing is working on the ground level with a lot of great programs.”

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Evans and Police Chief William Gross cited work the department does in schools, summer camps, YMCA, youth-police dialogues and other outreach.

Evans said he would be open to a commission to study body-worn cameras, but expressed doubt that they would have a positive impact.

“Unless you get at the root of

the problem, just putting technology out there is not going to solve it,” he testified.

Asked how much the technology would cost, Evans estimated with would take at least $2 million to outfit the more than 2,000 officers with the cameras and an additional $2.5 to $3 million a year to maintain the data and process requests for footage.

Councilors Yancey, Pressley and Jackson all expressed support for the ordinance.

Jackson spoke about his own experience of being stopped multiple times by police as a teenager in violation of his constitutional rights.

“I don’t want other young people to go through what I went through,” he said.

Jackson acknowledged that the Boston Police Department has worked to build relations with the

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Jackson said the cameras would also help protect Boston taxpayers against the costly lawsuits filed against police officers, noting that the department has paid out $38 million over the last ten years.

“That would pay for approximately 13 years of the program,” he said.

Jackson and Rose also noted that the Obama administration has made millions in federal funding available for police departments to implement body-worn cameras.

Speaking to Evans’ admonishment about moving too fast to implement the cameras policy, Yancey said the council has been deliberating the matter for months.

“We’re not rushing into this. I proposed this in January. It went into committee in February of this year. It is now August. We’ve had plenty of time to study this.”

Yancey also noted that the police themselves have used video camera footage to demonstrate officers were justified in using deadly force.

“Can you name an incident, Councilor?” Evans asked.

“No, you named them for me,” Yancey replied.

“I thought you meant in our city.”

“I’m talking about Humboldt Avenue and Roslindale, where we had video evidence of an interaction between citizens and police that resulted in deadly force, and it was you, sir, who relied on the video evidence to exonerate those officers, and you made my point.”

Rose acknowledged the prevalence of commercial security cameras in Boston, but said they are not adequate to monitor police activity.

“We can’t rely on Burger King videos to do that work for us,” she said. “We have the information. We have the evidence to act.

We don’t have to wait for another killing to do the right thing. We should be the leader on this. We are the hub of innovation. We are Boston strong. We should take the lead in not only adopting a policy of body-worn cameras, but implementing the privacy protections

that have been drafted along with community groups … that would provide not only accountability for citizens vis a vis the police, but protections for the police.”

Other city councilors echoed Evans’ points.

Councilor Michael Flaherty, who is chairman of the Committee on Government relations, said he was concerned cameras would have a “chilling effect” on eyewitness testimony.

“Eyewitness testimony is really paramount to solving crime. What I think we really have a problem with in Boston is not community policing,” he said. “We don’t have enough people coming forward to give a name or a description or a license plate or a color of clothing. … One of my concerns is having body cameras would deter people coming forward to give testimony or to give evidence.”

Protection, privacy

Councilor Josh Zakim praised the police for doing a “phenomenal job” with community relations and questioned whether bodyworn cameras would be too cumbersome for police and invasive for civilians.

“I think it’s something, and I appreciate the commissioner saying this, we need to … do in a deliberative way,” he said. “I’m someone who, whether it’s cameras on a street pole or cameras on a police officer — that makes me a little queasy.”

Other councilors raised similar concerns.

“I don’t think the body cameras are the silver bullet,” said Councilor Tim McCarthy. “They may help, but there are so many questions we haven’t answered. When do they turn on? When do they turn off? There are so many questions — storage. How long can they be stored?

Following the councilors’ testimony, Idowu said it was clear many of the councilors had not read the six-page ordinance he and others had made available to them prior to the hearing and passed out during the hearing.

“It’s frustrating,” he said. “It seemed to me as if they had not reviewed the ordinance. The ordinance addressed so many of the questions they asked.”

On the council floor, Rose expressed a similar sentiment.

“I don’t know which version of the ordinance you all are looking at, but there have been a number of discussions with privacy experts from the ACLU and around the country,” Rose said, citing the privacy protections in the ordinance.

“I’m not sure it’s in front of you, but it has been proposed.”

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continued from page 1 District 7 than any of the 11 other candidates in the race.

“I’ve been door-knocking since April,” he said. “I’ve been taking note of all the issues and concerns of the residents.”

Fennell, who has $605 in the bank, says he and campaign manager Tyree Brown are aiming to get the 2,500 votes he thinks he’ll need to win.

“We’re going to the places that are key to getting the vote out,” he said. “Mission Hill, the South End. We’re doing high-profile show-ups.”

After Fennell, the campaign finance reports for District 7 candidates falls sharply to zero, for Garrison, Owens and Dwyer.

Ward 12 Democratic Committee co-Chairwoman Victoria Williams, who plans to interview candidates next Monday for possible endorsement, says the abundance of candidates will not necessarily translate into an energized electorate if the candidates cannot run viable campaigns.

“At some point, you have to see if you can collect what’s needed to win,” she said. “You have to raise money.

You have to be able to sway the voters.

I’m not sure there’s sufficient momentum to sway the voters.”

Preliminary balloting in Boston elections are normally held on the third Tuesday in September, which this year would be Sept. 22. But this year that date marks the beginning of the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur.

In a normal election year, campaigns kick into high gear in the week after Labor Day in a push to turn out the electoral base. This

year, candidates will have to start their push early. The rushed schedule and anticipated lower turnout may likely favor incumbents and well-financed campaigns that are able to make voter contacts early.

Jackson says his campaign manager Ron Bell will be opening their Grove Hall office this week.

“It’s wonderful to continue to connect with the community and talk about my record of accomplishments over the last four years,” he said.

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District 4

With two well-financed campaigns, the race for Dorchester’s District 4 seat may have a higher potential for a decent turnout.

Challenger Andrea Campbell says she has already knocked on more than 5,000 doors and made contact with 2,500 voters.

“I prefer to be on doors,” she said. “You have to balance that with community meetings and running a campaign.”

Working out of a Field’s Corner storefront with campaign manager Katie Prisco-Buxbaum, Campbell says her campaign aims to reach all of the more than 30,000 registered voters in District 4. The campaign relies on between 30 and 40 volunteers a week to door-knock and drop campaign literature.

Literature and two paid staffers cost money. Campbell, a former Patrick administration staffer, has raised more than $92,000 since she opened a campaign account last November. Not bad for a firsttime candidate.

Attorney Jovan Lacet, another first-time candidate, has raised $3,441, far below Campbell’s total and incumbent Charles Yancey’s total for the year of $25,712.

Lacet, who is working full

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Berklee College of Music Professor of Ensemble Lawrence (Larry) Watson thrills the audience at Lawn on D, D Street, Boston with his student group Workforce at a packed public event sponsored by Porch Fest, a Jamaica Plain-based initiative to bring eclectic music to the community.

time as an attorney, acknowledged that he is struggling to get his message out.

“It’s a slow election,” he said. “A lot of folks don’t really know about it.”

Former Boston Water and Sewer Commission employee Terrance Williams shows a balance of zero in reports filed with the state’s

Office of Campaign and Public Finance.

Yancey, who was elected in 1983, says he had not yet begun campaigning in earnest.

“I’m focused on my job as a city councilor more than anything else right now,” he said. “I’m sure my opponents are focused on getting

their names out there.”

Yancey’s campaign manager, Dan Janey, is managing a group of volunteers Yancey estimates to be at about 100.

“We’re still gearing up,” he said.

“We still have a lot of work to do to connect and re-connect with folks.”

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HEALTH&WELLNESS

Special Section

Partners HealthCare and Project Bread work together to fight hunger during the summer months Sponsored by PARTNERS HEALTHCARE

Good nutrition is a cornerstone of good health, especially for growing children. A healthy diet is essential for healthy development. Kids that eat healthy, nutritious meals are more likely to succeed in school. Kindergarten age children with insufficient nutrition are at risk for impaired academic performance in reading and math, and at risk for a potential decline in social skills.

Some children experience hunger far too often. According to Project Bread’s 2014 Status Report on Hunger, more than 375,000 households in Massachusetts cannot confidently predict where their next meal is coming from. To help address this problem, Partners HealthCare supports Project Bread and the Summer Food Service Program to ensure that all children have access to the meals that they need throughout the summer months.

In Massachusetts, more than 400,000 low-income children qualify for free or reduced cost breakfast and lunch during the school year and many count on those meals throughout the year.

During the summer months, these children may not have access to the same meals. The support

of Project Bread and Partners HealthCare is essential for filling the meal gap many children are at risk of experiencing during the summer months. The Summer Food Service Program provides free meals to children ages 18 and under at various sites throughout the state all summer long. Sites can be found in various places including: community centers, schools, parks, pools, day camps, YMCAs and more. Having a variety of sites helps to ensure greater access to meals across all communities and also makes use of community resources, as much of the meals and snacks are often sourced from local vendors.

“Our goal with the Summer Food Service Program is to make sure that kids do not need to worry about where their next meal is coming from — they can just be kids,” says Ashley Krebs, Director of the Child Nutrition Outreach Program. “The support from Partners HealthCare is a large part of what makes this possible. Partners’ support allows us to provide thousands of meals to kids in need throughout the state.” This past summer, Partners sponsored sites included: Boston, Dorchester, East Boston, Jamaica Plain, Revere, Salem, Lynn, Waltham and more.

Providing free, nutritious

meals throughout the summer not only keeps kids well-fed, it also helps ensure that they return to school ready to learn. Maintaining healthy and nutritious habits throughout the whole year is a key to students’ success.

“Addressing hunger and nutrition is a key component to addressing a family’s health and wellness,” says Matt Fishman, Vice President for Community Health, Partners HealthCare. “We are pleased to work with Project Bread and the Summer Food Service Program to support the positive impact they have on the lives of families throughout Massachusetts.”

The Summer Food Service Program sites generally run from July until mid-August. All children ages 1 through 18 are eligible to receive free meals. This past summer, more than 60,000 children enjoyed a healthy and nutritious breakfast, lunch, snack or dinner at one or more of the 900 Summer Food Service sites throughout the state.

Each meal served helps to ensure that no child is left hungry during the summer and is able to return to school well-prepared for success.

ON THE WEB For the list of the next summer’s Summer Food Service Program sites, please visit:

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Arianah Torres of Jamaica Plain enjoys her hot dog at the Anna M. Cole Community Center where lunch is served daily as part of the Summer Food Service Program.

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For Rhonda, the program has led to a role in the Ultrasound and Radiology department at BWH — a position that’s inspired her to go back to school and prepare for a career in Occupational Therapy. It’s an important step for Rhonda’s future, and it’s one more example of how we’re investing in tomorrow’s workforce today.

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What school? There’s still time to enjoy safe summer fun Sponsored by BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER

School vacations are almost over, but there is still time to enjoy some summer fun with your family. Weekend getaways, days at the beach, and long lazy days by a pool can be entertaining for the kids, and hopefully relaxing for mom and dad. But such laid-back summer activities aren’t without their risks, so parents and others must be vigilant about keeping young children safe.

“Summer is spent enjoying the outdoors and spending time with family,” said Lisa Allee, injury prevention coordinator at Boston Medical Center (BMC). “But we frequently see a rise in preventable injuries because people too often let their guard down when they need to be thinking about safety first.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), children and young teens account for almost 60 percent of all bicycle-related injuries seen in U.S. emergency departments; 55 percent of those crashes happen as a child is riding out of their own driveway. “In Massachusetts, the law requires any person age 16 or younger to wear a helmet, but we encourage older teens and adults to wear helmets as well to set an example for young children,” said Allee. “And at BMC, we are committed to ensuring the protection of every child in

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the Commonwealth by teaming up with the Boston Public Health Commission and the Play Safe Campaign to provide low-cost bicycle helmets to Boston residents”.

For those preparing for a fall race or teens who may be gearing up

for a high school team’s preseason, running in summertime heat is unavoidable, but you can be prepared.

“It’s important to listen to your body,” said Lauren Nentwich, MD, emergency medicine physician at BMC. “When your body is telling

you it’s had enough, take a break in the shade and drink some water.”

Nentwich says every runner and athlete should know the warning signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. “Those experiencing heat exhaustion have a body temperature around 101 to 103 degrees. They are often dehydrated and feel like they can’t run, but their mind is clear.

Heat stroke is much more severe.

People often have a body temperature higher than 103 degrees and are very confused and may even stop sweating. This is when it becomes a true emergency, and you have to get the person cooled down as soon as possible.”

Nentwich suggests taking a cold bottle of water with you on every outdoor adventure. If you begin experiencing symptoms of heat exhaustion, try soaking in a cold bath as soon as you get home. If you’re symptoms persist or your fever spikes, call your doctor immediately.

A dip in the pool is also a great way to cool down, but even a pool can be dangerous for small children. Be sure to buy swim aids, arm floats or life jackets that are U.S. Coast Guard approved. Adults should always accompany children in the pool, and when not in use, pools should be properly secured with a locked gate and pool cover.

If you’re heading to the ocean or bay, check the local beach forecast for rip current warnings before you leave the house. According to

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“If you do get caught in a rip current you want to swim parallel to the shore until you are no longer in it. At that point, you can turn towards the shore and swim in,” said Allee. “And remember to only swim at beaches that have a lifeguard on duty.”

Skin protection also is a must.

“You want to buy a sunscreen that has SPF 30 or above and has the term ‘broad spectrum’ on its label meaning it protects against UVA and UVB rays,” said Debjani Sahni, MD, director of BMC’s skin cancer program. “Sunscreen should be used generously and reapplied every couple of hours.

Also, there is no such thing as a fully-waterproof sunscreen, so you should use ones that say ‘water-resistant’ which protect for a specific amount of time as indicated on the bottle, and reapply every time you get out of the water.”

As a community, it is everyone’s responsibility to look out for one another during periods of extreme heat. Be sure to check on your elderly neighbors who may be home-bound and share these tips with your loved ones.

ON THE WEB For more information, visit: www.bmc.org or visit the CDC’s website, www.cdc.gov.

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What I saw in Watts 50 years ago and what I see in America’s Watts today

By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON

A couple of friends and I stood transfixed with hundreds of others on the corner several blocks from my house in South L.A. watching what seemed like a horrid page out of Dante’s Inferno. But this wasn’t the classic writer’s epic poem. This was real life. Liquor stores, a laundromat and two cleaners blazed away.

There was an ear-splitting din from the crowd’s shouts, curses and jeers at the police cars that sped by crammed with cops in full battle gear, shotguns flailing out of their windows. There was an almost carnival air of euphoria among the roving throngs as packs of young and not so young persons darted into the stores snatching and grabbing anything that wasn’t nailed down. Their arms bulged with liquor bottles and cigarette cartons.

I was 18, and there was almost a kid’s mix of awe and fascination watching this. For a brief moment there was even the temptation to make my own dash into one of the burning stores. But that quickly passed.

One of my friends kept repeating with his face contorted with anger: “Maybe now they’ll see how rotten they treat us.” By the “they” he meant “the white man.”

My friend’s words were angry and bitter. The words were bitter and in that bitter moment he said what countless other blacks felt as the flames and the smoke swirled around me.

The events of those days and his words still remain burned in my memory on the 50th anniversary of the Watts riots this August.

I still think of the streets that we were shooed down by the police and the National Guard during those hellish days. They’re impossible to forget for another reason.

A half century later some of those streets look as if time has stood still. They are dotted with the same fast food restaurants, beauty shops, liquor stores, and mom-and-pop grocery stores.

The main street near the block I lived on then is just as unkempt, pothole-ridden and trash littered. All the homes and stores in the area are all hermetically sealed with iron bars, security gates and burglar alarms.

In taking a hard look at what

has changed in America’s Watts in the half century since the Watts riots, the name of Marquette Frye, the then-20-year old motorist whose arrest sparked the riots, has been replaced by these: Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Ezell Ford and Sandra Bland.

They have one thing in common with Frye. They were young, black, and like Frye, became the national poster names for police victimization of blacks. The clock on this chronic national plague has seemingly stood still. However, this is only one benchmark of how much or how little progress has been made since the Watts riots on confronting racial ills and poverty in America.

Certainly many blacks have long since escaped from the corner in South L.A. such as the one I stood on amidst the flames and chaos a half century ago.

Their flight was made possible by the avalanche of civil rights and voting rights laws, state and local bars against discrimination and affirmative action programs that for many blacks crumbled the nation’s historic racial barriers. The parade of top black appointed and elected officials, including one president, the legions of black mega-millionaire CEOs, athletes, entertainers, and the household names of blacks from Oprah to Bob Johnson is unarguable further proof of that.

However, there’s the other hard reality that more blacks still languish on corners like the one I stood on in August, 1965. For them there has been no escape. A comparative look at conditions in Black America in 1965 and today tells their tale. *In 1965 black adult joblessness stood at 10.98 percent, for teens it was 29 percent; in 2015 for black adults it stands at 12.6 percent, for teens 41 percent. *In 1965, 76 percent of black students attended segregated schools; in 2015 the figure is 74 percent. In 1965, 20 percent of blacks were in single parent households; in 2015 the figure is 70 percent. *In 1965, the wealth gap between black and white was a shade under $20,000; in 2015 it has leaped to more than $27,000.

The black-white gap in homeownership has nearly doubled between 1965 and 2015. Today,

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*In 1965, an estimated 35,000 blacks were in America’s state and federal jails; in 2015, the number has soared to more than half a million.

The gap between the two black Americas was brutally underscored in August, 1965, when at the height of the Watts riots, Martin Luther King Jr. came to

nearly half of black children live in neighborhoods with concentrated poverty. Overall, nearly one-third of blacks live in poverty; that’s a figure nearly triple that of non-Hispanic whites.

Then there‘s the issue that still remains the major flash point in racial relations in America. That’s the criminal justice system.

Watts. He was jeered by a few blacks when he tried to calm the situation. But King did not just deliver a message of peace and non-violence; he also deplored police abuse and the poverty in Watts. Fifty years later, he would almost certainly have the same message if he came to South L.A. or any of the other Watts’s of America.

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The one security improvement businesses must make by October Follow the news and it’s easy to see that payment fraud has become the largest theft-related threat facing business and consumers in the United States, as well as around the world. The cost of payment card fraud grew by 19 percent globally in 2013, hitting $14 billion, according to research from BI Intelligence. The threat is higher in the United States, where payment card fraud grew 29 percent to $7.1 billion.

So why is payment card fraud more likely here at home than around the world?

One of the largest reasons is because the country has fallen behind in combating payment card fraud through technology. About a quarter of the world’s payment card transactions are done in the U.S., but more than half of payment card fraud happens here because the United States is the only developed country that does not yet have widespread use of EMV chip technology.

EMV stands for Europay, MasterCard and Visa, and EMV cards use a computer chip embedded in the card itself to create a unique transaction code for every purchase. This makes counterfeiting attempts much more difficult.

Many U.S. businesses have been reluctant to implement EMV technology because of the added expense and time required to transition. However, this transition should not be put off any longer.

Effective in October, liability for all payment card fraud will shift to the party who did the least to prevent the fraud, putting the burden on the businesses themselves.

If your business is looking to improve its security and implement EMV technology before October, follow these tips to make the process as smooth as possible: n Find the time that works for you.

You’ve heard the saying “timing is everything,” and this applies to your acceptance of EMV chip technology as well. Adopt EMV too soon and you could face additional costs as PIN debit networks add EMV standards.

Adopting it too late, however, could cause you to face liability shift expenses. n Make your updates all-inclusive.

Making the transition to accepting EMV technology is a great time to ensure you can accept emerging forms of payment as well. So when you add EMV, don’t forget to consider upgrades such as tokenization and contactless payments. Chase provides a point of sale terminal called Future Proof that accepts EMV chip cards, as well as mobile Near Field Communication (NFC) and other forms of contactless payment all in one streamlined device. n Be ready for other threats.

Research shows that businesses that accept EMV technology saw a reduction in counterfeit fraud (fraud that results when fraudsters steal card data at point of sale to create and use counterfeit plastics) while cases of electronic fraud (fraud that results when fraudsters steal data and use it for online purchases) increased. As you shore up your brick and mortar protection, make sure your website’s fraud detection technology is updated and ready for increased threats. n Don’t forget about this... Making payments with chip readers is slightly different from conventional readers, and not all chip readers look alike. Customers need to insert their card in the reader and keep it there until the transaction is complete. Make sure your front line employees can help customers through the transition. It’ll make the transaction See BIZ BITS, page 15

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(l-r) Iman McFarland and Ray McFarland at the Tuck and Google Digital Excellence Program for Minority Entrepreneurs, which was held in June at Google’s Kendall Square offices in Cambridge.

The importance of the web Digital presence is key for minority businesses ON THE WEB

By MARTIN DESMARAIS

Maintaining a digital presence is crucial to all business in today’s Internet-driven and increasingly mobile-dominated market. For small businesses, digital knowhow can mark the difference between closing shop quickly and growing into a thriving company.

And for minority businesses, argues Dartmouth professor Alva Taylor, digital excellence is even more essential.

“It is very important for entrepreneurs to have digital knowledge and digital excellence in their business. That is important for growth,” said Taylor, Faculty Director of the Tuck School of Business’ Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies.

Digital strategies such as content marketing can level the playing field for minority businesses and open doors in ways that existed before, he added.

Whether folks want to admit it or not, minority businesses still face barriers and biases that they are not as good as other non-minority companies, Taylor said.

The use of digital media helps eliminate preconceptions by keeping the focus on the products and services, not on who is offering them.

“You don’t have the bias and the filters you often have,” Taylor said.

Biases often prompt minority business owners to rely on a small network of professional colleagues, which may be fine for support but does not help expand

Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Business Strategies: http://digitalstrategies.tuck.

dartmouth.edu/ Twitter: @CenterDigital, https://twitter.com/ centerdigital YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/ TheCDSatTuck Facebook: www.facebook.com/CenterDigital Digital Excellence Program for Minority Entrepreneurs: http://exec.tuck.dartmouth.

edu/programs/minority-programs/digital-excellence-program-for-minority-entrepreneurs Google’s Small Business Supplier Diversity Program: www.google.com/diversity/suppliers/

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Dartmouth Prof. Alva Taylor, faculty director of the Tuck School of Business’ Center for Digital Strategies, speaks to participants in the Digital Excellence Program for Minority Entrepreneurs. business opportunities.

By using social media, they can expand their access to support, capital, hiring and what Taylor calls “decision makers.”

Typically, a decision maker is a high-level executive at a big company that can make the call on what smaller companies with which it will do business and make investments. Getting one of these executives on the phone is all but impossible, but digital access is more readily secured.

“In the digital world those barriers are still there, but they are much less, and you can have direct access to customers,” said Taylor.

“The ability to connect is so much easier.”

Moreover, big companies expect a certain level of digital knowledge

and competence. If small businesses don’t have it, they’ll have no shot at working with the big ones.

Digital excellence

These are some of the reasons that Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business has teamed up with Google. Tuck has a longstanding commitment to growing minority entrepreneurship — its minority executive education program is 35 years old — and Google has ramped up its efforts to collaborate with small businesses, particularly through its Small Business Supplier Diversity Program.

Google was the sponsor of the three-day Digital Excellence Program, which ran June 9-11 at Google’s Kendall Square offices.

The agenda featured sessions

on constructing a digital strategy, marketing businesses online, managing digital communities, and learning how to use digital analytics. Taylor was a lead instructor, along with Google experts who offered insights into website design, search engine optimization and successful digital business models.

These are things that today’s small business leaders need to know, but not all of them do. By the end of the program, participants were ready to make changes that would impact their business, Taylor said.

He emphasized the importance of top-level engagement, and sharply cautioned those small business leaders who think that pawning off digital strategy to some low-level employee is enough.

“We told them that the perfect mix is two people from the

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continued from page 14 company working on this — the CEO and whoever handles the online digital assets,” Taylor said.

“The CEO must understand strategically how to do [social media] and its impact.”

He also scolds small businesses that don’t keep an up-to-date “About Us” page on their company’s website, emphasizing that 80 percent of the time that’s where potential business partners go before they make their decision.

“That is the first point of contact,” he said. “Have an informative page, not a throw-away page. This is important digital behavior. You have to know it.”

The program also challenged skeptics of social media and its importance.

“People say, ‘I hate social media.

Do I even have to be on social media?’ But ‘hate’ doesn’t matter.

What matters is knowing whether it helps or hurts you,” Taylor said.

“If it doesn’t help, you shouldn’t spend time on social media. But if it does help, you have to spend time on it.”

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continued from page 14 smoother and ensure that customers get the great customer service you’re known for.

Transitioning to EMV technology may seem confusing at first, but with liability for all fraudulent transactions shifting in October, your business simply cannot afford

The plan is to offer the program several times a year in different parts of the country. Taylor expects it to return to Boston next year.

For him it is all part of helping minority companies be more competitive.

“It is exactly what minority executives need to know and I am happy we are doing the program.

I don’t care where they get it. I just care that they get it,” Taylor said.

“You have to be digitally excellent going forward and there is probably no way around it.”

Tech forward

One participant, Ray McFarland, founder and CEO of 21st Century Expo Group, a trade show general services contractor base in National Harbor, Md., certainly got the message.

“What I discovered going through this program is, there is a world of opportunity for those business and companies that are able to execute a digital strategy that incorporates social media, as well as the latest tools that technology has to offer,” McFarland said.

Having started his business in 1991, the 61-year-old McFarland admitted that he has mostly kept

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to the same business approaches he used back before the digital revolution. He knows he hasn’t kept pace with the changes in the marketplace, but he also had no clue how to start to address this, which is why he was interested in the program.

During one session, the 21st Century Expo Group’s website was put to the test and found lacking, something the company already is addressing.

McFarland also has started using social media to broaden his network. He’s created a role in the company for someone responsible for carrying out digital strategies.

In this case, it’s his daughter Iman McFarland, who also attended the Tuck / Google exec ed program.

As for monitoring impact, McFarland intends to use Google’s analytical tools to track digital performance, along with development of a Google AdWords campaign.

“The whole thing has brought technology to the top of the mind now for us,” McFarland said.

“Whenever we look at a new customers or relationships we first ask the question of where it fits into the digital strategy and how do we address the needs digitally.”

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Steven L. Antonakes joins Eastern Bank as Chief Compliance Officer Eastern Bank, a full-service commercial bank headquartered in Boston, today announced the appointment of Steven L. Antonakes as Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer. He will report directly to Barbara Heinemann, Executive Vice President of Eastern Bank’s Enterprise Risk Management division.

Antonakes, who most recently served as Deputy Director and the Associate Director for Supervision, Enforcement, and Fair Lending at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), brings 25 years of compliance, risk management and financial services experience to Eastern Bank.

While at the CFPB, Antonakes served as its second highest ranking official and was responsible for the supervision of all banks and non-banks under the Bureau’s jurisdiction and the enforcement of federal consumer protection and fair lending laws.

Antonakes was appointed by successive governors to serve as the Massachusetts Commissioner of Banks from December 2003 to November 2010. Previously, he served in

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Antonakes, a graduate of Lynn Public Schools, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Penn State University, an MBA from Salem State University, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Law and Public Policy from Northeastern University.

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ing Rhames was born and raised in Harlem, New York. His career as a thespian began at the New York High School of Performing Arts, followed by training at the prestigious Julliard School of Drama.

Soon thereafter the talented actor landed his first role on Broadway in The Winter Boys.

In 1985, he made his first TV appearance in Go Tell It On the Mountain.

Rhames subsequently segued to feature films, and was eventually cast as a merciless drug dealer opposite Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. That performance helped him land the role of Luther Stickell in Mission: Impossible opposite Tom Cruise.

Rhames has since starred in many other blockbusters, such as Rosewood and Con Air. In 1998, he won a Golden Globe for his powerful portrayal of Don King in Don King: Only in America.

From there, he went on to star in Out of Sight with George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez,

Entrapment with Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Bringing Out The Dead with Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette and Tom Sizemore.

Other films on his impressive resume include Baby Boy, Undisputed, Dark Blue and Dawn Of The Dead. He ventured behind the camera in 2005 as a producer for the USA series Kojak. His producer credits also include: Back In The Day, Animal and Shooting Gallery.

Here, Rhames talks about reprising his role as Luther in Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation.

Since you play weapons expert Luther Stickell on the IMF team, do you try to keep up with what is going on with military hardware in the real world?

Ving Rhames: Quite honestly,

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watch?v=gOW_azQbOjw I play a computer expert, not a weapons expert. Luther’s a computer geek, so I don’t know where Kevin got that misperception. But I don’t really keep up with developments in quote “hand-to-hand” combat type weapons or other military technology, except drones. However, I do gang intervention in California, and there are a lot of those military weapons in the ‘hood with the Crips and the Bloods.

I hate to say it, but you can find almost anything there in terms of military weaponry, even grenade launchers.

How did you enjoy reuniting with Tom Cruise to make Rogue Nation?

VR: We did the first one 18 years ago, so I feel very blessed and very privileged. And outside of Tom Cruise, I’m the only person who’s been in all five films. And I think that I might have made history for an African American. I don’t know whether any black actor has been in an original and four sequels. You

know what I’m saying? So, I really have to thank Tom, and I’m glad to be a part of this process.

Why do you think the Mission: Impossible franchise has been so successful?

VR: I really think it’s because of Tom Cruise’s passion and energy, and the fact that he deals with every facet of production.

He’s involved with the writers ... he has a certain vision ... and I think he knows what his audience wants, which I think is a by-product of his being in the business for over thirty years, since he started young as an actor. He really has a grasp of what both American and foreign audiences want to see. So, I give 95 percent of the credit to Tom Cruise.

What was your favorite scene to shoot in Rogue Nation?

VR: The scene where the four of us, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, myself and Tom, are sitting in a bar. It almost looks like just four guys hanging out. But it was really four friends. The simplicity of that scene, which

See RHAMES, page 18

“It never ceases to amaze me that this is my job,” Jordan Carlos says about writing for Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. Carlos, who kept slipping in subtle and funny one-liners during a recent chat with the Banner, is thrilled to be working on the network’s latenight show.

Aside from the catered lunches, the writer and comedian recalls the perks of being on the show, one of which was Jon Stewart coming over to visit the set. “It’s always amazing. We’re right around the corner from his office,” Carlos says. “I think the best thing is taking the thing that I care deeply about, or that I’m passionate about, and wiggling them and rolling them into jokes.

Jokes sometimes get accepted and sometimes don’t.”

He describes how he recently read an article about comics in Myanmar and what they have to go through in order to do stand-up. “They’re being thrown into jail by an autocratic government just for making jokes in Burmese against the government. So, they have to make jokes in English and in a private space,” Carlos says. He took that story and wrote a joke about it, which got a big laugh on The Nightly Show. “I read that in the paper in the morning, and later it’s beaming out to the world.”

Pathways

Jordan Carlos began his comedy career after graduating from Brown University in 2001.

By day, he worked full-time as a copywriter in a New York advertising firm. At night he performed stand-up. Eventually he decided to leave his day job and pursue comedy full-time.

For the past few years, he’s played President Obama on the online site CollegeHumor. com, along with serving as a cast member of Guy Code, Guy Court and Girl Code on MTV. He also played Stephen Colbert’s black friend Alan on The Colbert Report.

Earlier this year, he was on the HBO series Girls and hits the big

See CARLOS, page 18

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The Funtastic 3!

Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell talk about ‘Fantastic Four’

By KAM WILLIAMS

Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell co-star along with Miles Teller as the Fantastic Four.

Michael plays Johnny Storm, Kate plays his adopted sister, Sue, and Jamie plays Ben Grimm, aka The Thing.

Here, the talented trio talk about the reboot of the beloved Marvel Comics film franchise.

Did you get any advice from the actors who previously played your roles?

Kate: I had not met Jessica Alba until recently, actually. We were on an airplane together.

Jamie: Weirdly, Michael Chiklis was also on a plane I was on.

But I was too scared to talk to him. Michael, did you speak to Chris [Evans]?

Michael: I talked to Chris when I met him at a Vanity Fair party right before we started shooting.

We laughed about it and thought it was cool. He said, “Go do a great job.” That was it.

Kate: Do a good job. That’s good advice Chris has.

Jamie: Exactly!

What’s it like to be called — and to have to be — fantastic?

Jamie: I wish Miles [Teller] were here. Miles would say, “It’s easy.” [All three laugh] Michael: Seriously, it’s pretty cool.

Jamie: It’s an honor.

Kate: Yeah.

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

Jamie: I don’t know.

Michael: Repo Men. Kate: I’d like to remake Gypsy, and play the stripper. [Everybody laughs] PHOTO: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION

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Kate Mara, left, as Sue Storm and Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm face off against a powerful enemy in “Fantastic Four.”

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How did you prepare to play your roles?

Michael: I think it was already programmed into me from reading the comic books and being so familiar with Johnny growing up.

So, there wasn’t really too much preparation for it, since I already knew his characteristics.

Kate: A lot of the preparation was just in talking to our director about our characters and about what the journey was going to be like for them.

Carlos

continued from page 16 screen this fall with a supporting role in the movie About Ray, starring Naomi Watts, Elle Fanning and Susan Sarandon.

‘It was magic’

A member of the Comedy Central family, Carlos attended the final episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last week. “It was magic,” he said.

“It was really great to be there.

There were so many great moments. Colbert’s [tribute on behalf of all the correspondents] was really touching. I really liked the way Jon Stewart went out. It was funny, poignant and classy, and on top

of that — when Bruce Springsteen played — it was like ridiculous.”

Carlos’ material often consists of “preppy black stuff ” such as skiing, playing chess and going out to brunch. He still talks about race but he also includes sex and topical issues, particularly the presidential election. He’s looking forward to performing at Laugh Boston this weekend. “When I come up to Boston I’ll definitely speak about the election,” he says. “I’ll definitely speak about Trump.

There’s no avoiding him. You can only hope to contain him as much as possible. I’d love to talk about how he’s already affecting the election. He’s fun to make fun of. He’s like a cartoon come alive.”

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If you could have a “superhuman” power in real-life, what would you choose?

Michael: The ability to teleport.

Jamie: Oh, yeah, teleportation!

Kate: I think I’d like to be able to fly. That would be a cool superpower.

Michael, Which was tougher: Climbing the Hollywood showbiz ladder or growing up in Newark?

community really pushed me forward. So, I had an easier route than most. I’ve certainly been blessed. The Hollywood industry is pretty rough for anybody, regardless of background, as Jamie, Kate or anybody else enjoying longevity and true success can attest to.

Jamie, you found fame very early in life when you played the title character in Billy Elliot. How did you avoid all the pitfalls that plagued so many child stars?

Kate: That aspect of the film was one of the things that really

Kate: [Exclaims] Ooooooh!

[Then chuckles] Michael: That’s pretty good.

That’s a good question. I’ll say, growing up in Newark wasn’t easy by any means, but having a solid family foundation and the

Jamie: I don’t know. I can’t say that I avoided all the pitfalls. I’ve been lucky to have a lot of people close to me who keep me very sane and normal.

Kate: Jamie’s just an amazing person, and no amount of success would ever change the way he is.

Jamie: Thanks, Kate!

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concerned. But train, go to school and train. Become a craftsman.

the best. I think that tends to undermine the purpose of art.

Giving your Golden Globe award in 1998 to Jack Lemmon was an amazing demonstration of generosity and respect for another actor.

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

PHOTO COURTESY OF JORDAN CARLOS

Jordan Carlos, left, on the set of Comedy Central’s “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.”

excited me, when I read the script.

Learning about these characters before they become superheroes.

I really enjoyed how much attention the picture paid to the characters’ formative years.

continued from page 16 is surrounded by so much action, makes it special to me, especially given the good chemistry among the four of us.

An African-American actor once told me that it is extremely difficult for black males with deep voices and a strong presence to get work. So, how did you manage to succeed in spite of that?

VR: First of all, I don’t agree with that assumption. But here’s how I feel about it. I attended the High School of Performing Arts, and I graduated from the Juilliard School. So, I believe in being trained, just like you have to do with any profession. I find that a lot of aspiring actors never really train, and yet think they can just act. Being a black man with a deep voice is actually more of a plus. I do voiceovers for Arbys, ADT, and other companies. So, I make a lot of money by basically using not only my voice, but also my size, as far as the camera is

VR: That was some years ago, but I always tell people: God laid it on my heart. Besides, awards don’t validate me, positively or negatively. It’s like reviews. You can get ten different opinions about the same performance, ranging from great to not so good.

So, I don’t really listen to people’s opinions. Instead, I just set a standard for myself. And what I was trying to do with the award was to show my appreciation of Jack Lemmon and, like I said, God laid it on my heart. To me, there’s really no such thing as a best actor, just as there’s no such thing as a best artist. Rembrandt...

Van Gogh... Picasso... Who’s the best? You can’t really say. They each have a different style, and you might prefer one to another.

But that doesn’t mean any one is the best. So, I don’t ascribe to the whole idea of voting one artist as

VR: Yes, a very old film Sidney Poitier I caught one night. It didn’t do well. It was barely seen.

He plays a Christ-like character who returns to the small town where he was raised. You have to check it out.

Will do. How would you describe your work ethic today?

VR: I’m learning to work now, and I’ll use the analogy of working out in the gym. When I was 25 or 30, I worked out one way. Now, at 56, I work out another way. What I think I’ve learned to do is use my energy more wisely. I’m a better actor now in terms of conveying the dramatic arc of a character and my overall intention. Because I’m more seasoned, I know my instrument better. And often, less is more.

That’s the major lesson I’ve learned.

A lot of young actors expend energy unnecessarily on things that don’t need that much energy.

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Creative ideas for school lunches When it comes to packing a school lunch, you know the drill: Lay out two slices of bread. Spread one with peanut butter, the other with jelly. Press together, slice diagonally and place in sandwich bag.

Repeat. And repeat. And repeat.

For creative sandwich substitutes, think outside the bread box: n Create a bento-box-style, snackable lunch combo: include cheese and crackers, fresh grapes from California, and a small handful of nuts. n Make a sandwich rollup, using flatbread or flour tortillas as the base, or stuff pita pockets with filling, as a fun replacement for sliced bread. n Tuck whole-grain tortilla chips and salsa, a side of black bean and corn salad, plus cheese and grapes for a Mexican spin on lunch. n Tuck in a cluster of fresh grapes from California for an easy finger food that’s juicy and hydrating too. n Looking for a gluten-free alternative? Try a cheese stick rolled with a slice of ham, with grapes on the side. n Shapeshift familiar lunch items to add interest: offer cheese cubes, apple rings, carrot coins, and tortilla pinwheels.

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Grape smoothie n 1 cup lowfat vanilla yogurt n 2 cups red California seedless grapes n ¼ teaspoon vanilla n 1⁄8 to ¼ teaspoon cinnamon n ½ banana (optional) Place all ingredients in blender. Cover and blend until smooth. Pour and serve.

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To prepare salsa, place all ingredients in a medium bowl. Stir to combine.

Preheat oven broiler. Spread tortilla chips in a 13-by-9-inch baking pan.

Sprinkle half the cheese over chips.

Arrange shrimp over cheese and sprinkle remaining cheese over shrimp. Broil about 6 inches from heat source until cheese is melted and bubbly, 3 to 5 minutes.

Remove from oven and drop spoonfuls of salsa over nachos. Sprinkle green onions and fresh cilantro all over. Serve immediately. Serves 8.

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all current in-state students at all campus types ($653 million per year), provide universal early education ($606 million per year), or repair and replace the more than 450 structurally deficient bridges throughout Massachusetts ($800 million per year), according to MCAN. Noah Berger, president of the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, agrees that this new cash flow could have a big impact on the state. “Most economists feel that the foundations for state economic strength are having a well-educated work force and transportation and other infrastructure that supports business activity,” he says. “Generating over a billion dollars a year to invest in education and transportation could significantly improve the long-term prospects of the state.”

He adds: “$1.3 billion won’t solve all the problems our state faces, but it is enough to allow some fairly significant improvements in areas like making higher education more affordable, expanding access to early education and improving our transportation systems.”

Prosperity lanes

Calvin Feliciano, deputy political director of SEIU 509, another partner in the coalition, says these investments would have a real day-to-day impact on communities of color. “Large pockets of where communities of color are across the state, you can’t move around if you don’t have a car,” he says. “It becomes so much harder to find a job, and even if you found a job, how do you get there? How do you get from there to your kids’ school, or your kids’

school to home? We have to be able to know that if you send your kids to school, they can get there, and they’ll get a good education when they’re there.”

In this way, transportation and education are the “lanes” for families to get out of poverty and move towards prosperity, says Feliciano.

Although Raise Up Massachusetts enjoys political clout as a result of its recent victories ensuring earned sick time for all workers and raising the minimum wage to $11 per hour, it faces a difficult battle in the passage of the Fair Share Amendment.

The state constitution mandates a single tax rate for all residents, which currently stands at 5.15 percent. Any change requires a constitutional amendment. To do so, Raise Up Massachusetts needs to collect 65,000 signatures from registered voters, and the plan must be approved by the legislature twice before it can appear on the ballot in 2018.

Increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit

Folks fed up

Amendments to the state’s flat tax system have been attempted five times before, and in each case have failed.

But Finfer said this time is different. Past campaigns were too vague, he explained, so people feared they would lead to broad tax increases without understanding where the money would go. The Fair Share Amendment, however, has clear targets for the extra revenue, and a precise cutoff for who has to pay more.

“There are only about 14,000 millionaires in a state of 6.7 million people,” he said. “No one who earns less than a million dollars would get any tax increase — that means if you earn $30,000

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or $999,000.”

Feliciano also sees an advantage to pursing a constitutional amendment versus a tax increase through the legislature—this way the people get to decide.

“We’re bringing it to the people, bringing it to the communities,” he said. “The highest income bracket — the people who have been winning for years and

doing well in the economy — pay the smallest share of state and local taxes.”

Despite the flat state income tax, after accounting for property and sales tax and federal tax deductions, the top one percent pays a smaller portion of their income than the remaining 99 percent.

According to the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, a

person making $860,000 or more per year will pay 6.4 percent of their income in taxes, while someone who makes less than $22,000 will pay 10.4 percent.

Feliciano said that’s not lost on folks: “When you say that to 99.9 percent of the people in Massachusetts, they think it’s ridiculous and they’re ready to do something about it.”

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MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. L1437-C1 TERMINAL B PIER A INTERIOR RENOVATION, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S - Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2015, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

Sealed filed sub bids for the same contract will be received at the same office until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015, immediately after which, in a designated room, the filed sub bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE:

PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 2:00PM LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2015.

The work includes REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT OF CARPET, ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION ASSOCIATED WITH FURNITURE INSTALLATION, PAINTING, SPRINKLER HEAD REPLACEMENT. Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2015.

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

In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract General Bidders must submit with their bid a current Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. The estimated contract cost is ONE MILLION, ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS ($ 1,133,700.00).

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In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract, filed Subbidders must submit with their bid a current Sub-bidder Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance and a Sub-bidder Update Statement. The filed Sub-bidder must be certified in the sub-bid category of work for which the Sub-bidder is submitting a bid proposal.

Provisions for complete details.

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

The Authority reserves the right to reject any sub bid of any sub trade where permitted by Section 44E of the above referenced General Laws. The right is also reserved to waive any informality in or to reject any or all proposals and General Bids.

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

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

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

Filed sub bids will be required and taken on the following classes of work: PAINTING ELECTRICAL

$ 41,750.00 $ 305,000.00

This contract is subject to a Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than FIVE PERCENT (5%) of the Contract be performed by minority and women owned business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible.

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

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

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

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Authority) is soliciting consulting services for MPA CONTRACT NO. L1440, TERMINAL B, GATES 37-38 CONNECTOR, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. The Authority is seeking a qualified multidisciplinary consulting firm or team, with proven experience, to provide professional services including planning, programming, design, resident engineering and construction related services for a post security concourse between the Terminal B, Pier A food court and Gates B37 and B38. The Consultant must be able to work closely with the Authority and other interested parties in order to provide such services in a timely and effective manner.

To all persons interested in the estate of Lydia E. Daniel late of Boston, in said County, deceased testate.

The contract will be work order based, and Consultant’s fee for each work order shall be negotiated; however, the total fee for the contract shall not exceed $2,000,000.

Witness, Joan P. Armstrong, Esquire, First Judge of said Court, this 23rd day of July, 2015.

A petition has been presented to said Court for license to sell - private sale - private - certain real estate of deceased - and that the petitioner may become the purchaser of said real estate.

If you desire to object thereto you or your attorney should file a written appearance in said Court at Boston before ten o’clock in the forenoon on the 27th day of August, 2015, the return day of this citation.

Felix D. Arroyo, Register.

A Supplemental Information Package will be available, on Wednesday, August 12, 2015, on the Capital Bid Opportunities webpage of Massport http:// www.massport.com/doing-business/_layouts/CapitalPrograms/default.aspx as an attachment to the original Legal Notice, and on COMMBUYS (www. commbuys.com) in the listings for this project. If you have problems finding it, please contact Susan Brace at Capital Programs SBrace@massport.com The Supplemental Information Package will provide detailed information about Scope Of Work, Selection Criteria and Submission Requirements.

In recognition of the unique nature of the project and the services required to support it, the Authority has scheduled a Consultant Briefing to be held at 10:00 AM on Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at the Capital Programs Department, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128. At this session, an overview of the project will be provided, the services requested by the Authority will be described, and questions will be answered.

By responding to this solicitation, consultants agree to accept the terms and conditions of Massport’s standard work order agreement, a copy of the Authority’s standard agreement can be found on the Authority’s web page at www.massport.com. The Consultant shall specify in its cover letter that it has the ability to obtain requisite insurance coverage.

This submission, including the litigation and legal proceedings history in a separate sealed envelope as required shall be addressed to Houssam H. Sleiman, PE, CCM, Director of Capital Programs and Environmental Affairs and received no later than 12:00 Noon on Thursday, September 24, 2015 at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 021282909. Any submission which is not received in a timely manner shall be rejected by the Authority as non-responsive. Any information provided to the Authority in any Proposal or other written or oral communication between the Proposer and the Authority will not be, or deemed to have been, proprietary or confidential, although the Authority will use reasonable efforts not to disclose such information to persons who are not employees or consultants retained by the Authority except as may be required by M.G.L. c.66.

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Digested Sludge Pump Replacement Phase 2

2:00 p.m.

**To obtain Contract Documents send request to the MWRA’s Document Distribution Office at MWRADocumentDistribution@mwra.com.

MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY 100 SUMMER ST., SUITE 1200 BOSTON, MA 02110 NOTICE TO BIDDERS Electronic proposals for the following project will be received through the internet using Bid Express until the date and time stated below, and will be posted on www.bidx.com forthwith after the bid submission deadline. No paper copies of bids will be accepted. Bidders must have a valid digital ID issued by the Authority in order to bid on projects. Bidders need to apply for a digital ID with Bid Express at least 14 days prior to a scheduled bid opening date.

Electronic bids for MBTA Contract No. R18CN01, EVERETT BUS MAINTENANCE FACILITY - CELLULAR CONCRETE FILL PROJECT, EVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS, CLASS – 7, BUILDINGS AND PROJECT VALUE $8,599,790.00 can be submitted at www.bidx.com until two o’clock (2:00 p.m.) on September 3, 2015. Immediately thereafter, in a designated room, the Bids will be opened and read publicly.

The work at the MBTA Everett Bus Facility will consist of a permanent environmental remediation barrier, installation of lightweight cellular concrete in the crawl space, installation of settlement monitoring instrumentations, installation of access hatches with ladder, accessibility upgrades to the facility, utility work on the exterior of the building, removal and disposal of pavement, soils, and trash, new pavement, adjustment of utility frames, grates, cover to grade, electrical, mechanical, and plumbing work.

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication

Bidders’ attention is directed to Appendix 1, Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action to Insure Equal Employment Opportunity; and to Appendix 2, Supplemental Equal Employment Opportunity, Anti-Discrimination, and Affirmative Action Program in the specifications. In addition, pursuant to the requirements of Appendix 3, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Participation Provision, Bidders must submit an assurance with their Bids that they will make sufficient and reasonable efforts to meet the stated DBE goal of 12 percent.

Additional information and instructions on how to submit a bid are available at http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/cur rent_solicitations/ On behalf of the MBTA, thank you for your time and interest in responding to this Notice to Bidders

August 10, 2015

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

Date: July 30, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Ftamily Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU15C0321CA In the matter of Teori Renee Shaw of Mattapan, MA

Estate of Gloria E. Greene Date of Death: 05/30/2015

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME

To all interested persons: A petition for Formal Adjudication of Intestacy has been filed by Holland Wood of Kailua Kona, HI requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The petitioner requests that Holland Wood of Kailua Kona, HI be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve With Corporate Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration.

To all persons interested in a petition described:

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 08/27/2015. 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.

IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 09/03/2015.

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 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: July 22, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

A petition has been presented by Teori R. Shaw requesting that Teori Renee Shaw be allowed to change her name as follows: Teori Renee Shaw-Boyce

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

Date: August 3, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Aidene Faye Carter Date of Death: 11/10/2014 To all interested persons: A petition for Formal Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed

by Joanne B. Carter of Mattapan, MA and Maurice Carter of Hyde Park, 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 Joanne B. Carter of Mattapan, MA and Maurice Carter of Hyde Park, 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 09/03/2015. 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 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: August 03, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

This Contract is subject to a financial assistance Contract between the MBTA and the Federal Transit Administration of U.S. Department of Transportation.

FTA Participation – 80 percent.

Francis A. DePaola, P.E. Interim General Manager of the MBTA

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.

Docket No. SU15P1779EA

SUFFOLK Division

*To access and bid on this Event, please go to the MWRA Supplier Portal at www.mwra.com.

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

IMPORTANT NOTICE

TIME

**OP-293

09/10/15

A.M. on the return date of 10/01/2015. 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.

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU15P1839GD

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Daniel Rosario Of Roxbury, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by DMH c/o Office of General Council of Westborough, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Daniel Rosario is in need of a Guardian and requesting that DMH c/o Office of General Council of Westborough, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.

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

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00

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4 Beautifully designed attached condominiums 55+ households to be sold by Lottery 4 Beautifully designed attached condominiums Sale Price $169,200 with 1543 sq. ft.

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by Lottery 1/2 Baths 2toCar Garage 55+Price households to be sold by sq.

Lottery Sale $169,200 with 1543 ft.

4 Beautifully designed attached condominiums Sale $169,200 with 1543 ft.

2households 1/2Eligibility Baths 2toCar Garage 55+Price be sold by sq.

Lottery Criteria 2 1/2 $169,200 Baths 2 Car Garage ft. old.

1. At Sale leastPrice one household with buyer1543 is 55sq. years Criteria 2 1/2Eligibility Bathslimit 2 Car 2. Asset/equity upGarage to $275,000 Eligibility 1. At least one Household householdCriteria buyer is Limits: 55 years old.

3. Gross Income 1. At least one Eligibility household buyer 55 years old.

2. Asset/equity limit up to is $275,000 Criteria 2.

Asset/equity limit up to $275,000 3. Gross Income 1. At least one Household buyer is Limits: 55 years old.

1household person: $46,100 3.

Gross Household Income Limits: 2. Asset/equity limit up to $275,000 2 person: $52,650 1 3. Gross Household Income Limits: 3 person: person: $46,100 $59,250 1 person: $46,100 2 4 person: person: $52,650 $65,800 2 person: $52,650 3 person: $46,100 $59,250 1 3 4 person: $65,800 2 person: $59,250 $52,650 Deed Restricted/Income and Asset Eligibility 4 person: $65,800 3 person: Public Information Meeting: 6:30$59,250 p.m., Monday, August 3, 2015 Deed Restricted/Income andHall, Asset Eligibility person:Town $65,800 at4Dracut Deed Restricted/Income and Asset Eligibility Information Meeting: 6:30 p.m., Monday, AugustDeadline: 3, 2015 62Public Arlington Street—Selectmen’s Chambers Application Public Information Meeting: 6:30 p.m., Monday, August 3, 2015 at Dracut Town Hall, Deed Restricted/Income and Asset Eligibility September 3, 2015 at Dracut Town Hall, 62Public Arlington Street—Selectmen’s Chambers Application Information Meeting: 6:30 p.m., Monday, AugustDeadline: 3, 2015 62 Arlington Street—Selectmen’s Chambers 3, 2015 atSeptember Dracut Hall, Application Deadline: Open Town House September 3, 2015 Application Deadline: 62 Arlington Street—Selectmen’s Chambers Sunday, August 23, 2015 Open House September 3, 2015 12:00 p.m.—2:00p.m.

Open House Sunday, August 23, 2015 780 Nashua Road, Unit 12 Sunday, August 23, 2015 p.m.—2:00p.m.

Open House Directions: From Route12:00 3, take Exit 2 in New Hampshire. Turn right 12:00 p.m.—2:00p.m.

780 Nashua Road, Unit 12 Road which becomes Sunday, August 23, 2015 off exit. At third set of lights bear Left on Dracut 780 Nashua Road, 12 Directions: From Route 3, take Exit 2 inUnit New Hampshire.

Turn right 12:00 p.m.—2:00p.m.

Nashua Road.

Drive 3 miles and Mascuppic Village is on the right OR Directions: From 3, take Exit 2on in Dracut New12 Hampshire. Turn right off exit. At third setRoute of780 lights bear Left Nashua Road, From Lowell MAUnit take Road which becomes off exit. At third setRoute of3 lights bear Left2on Dracut Road which becomes Nashua Road.

Drive miles and Mascuppic Village is on the right Directions: From 3, take Exit in New Hampshire.

Turn right Mammoth RD to Nashua RD is on the right OR Nashua Road.

Drive miles and Mascuppic Village OR Frombear Lowell take off exit. At third set of3 lights LeftMA on Dracut Road which becomes From Lowell MA take program information: Nashua Road. DriveMammoth 3For miles andRD Mascuppic Village to Nashua RD is on the right OR Mammoth RD O’Hagan toMA Nashua From Lowell take RD Maureen ForCall: program Mammoth RD information: to Nashua RD (978) 456-8388 For Maureen program information: O’Hagan Email: lotteryinfo@mcohousingservices.com Maureen O’Hagan ForCall: program information: (978)Hall, 456-8388 Pick Up: Dracut Town Town Clerk Office, Call: (978)O’Hagan 456-8388 Maureen Email: lotteryinfo@mcohousingservices.com Public Library and Senior Center or Email: lotteryinfo@mcohousingservices.com Call: (978) 456-8388 Pickon Up: Dracut Town Hall, Town Clerk Office, Web: www.mcohousingservices.com Pick Up: Dracut Town Hall, Town ClerkorOffice, Email: lotteryinfo@mcohousingservices.com Public Library and Senior Center Public Library and Senior Center Pickon Up: Dracut Town Hall, Town ClerkorOffice, Web: www.mcohousingservices.com onPublic Web: Library www.mcohousingservices.com and Senior Center or on Web: www.mcohousingservices.com

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Buyers will be selected by lottery.

In order to qualify, total household income cannot exceed the following maximum income limits per household size: One person household: $48,800 Four person household: $69,700 Two person household: $55,800 Five person household: $75,300 Three person household $62,75 Six person household: $80,900 Household Asset Limit of $75,000 To request an application and information packet, please contact: Housing Resource Group, LLC at 781.820.8797 or hrgllc.alwan@yahoo.com or visit the Medford Public Library, 111High Street Completed applications must be returned to the Housing Resource Group, LLC Four Raymond Street, Lexington, MA 02421 postmarked by October 2, 2015.

An information meting will be held in the community room at the Medford Fire Station 5, 0 Medford Street, Medford on Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.

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Household Income Limits 1 person $68,950 2 persons $78,800 3 persons $88,650 4 persons $98,500

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Income and asset restrictions apply.

$280,000 All sessions held at: DNI * 504 Dudley Street, Roxbury MA 02119 Informational Session Thursday, August 13th @ 6PM Informational Session Thursday, August 20th @ 6PM Application Period:August 5th-September 9th, 2015 Applications to be submitted or postmarked by September 9th, 2015 Lottery to be held on Friday, September 18th at 6PM Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities at all sessions For more information and an application please email or call: -Christine Banister/YouthBuild Boston at cbanister@ybboston.org -Tony Hernandez/Dudley Neighbors Inc. at (617) 442-9670 ext. 170 LIMITED EQUITY HOMEOWNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY This property is part of a neighborhood land trust and includes a ground lease. In order to ensure that applicants fully understand this different type of ownership, the buyer must complete a DNI ground lease training before purchasing the home.

MARSHFIELD HOUSING OPPORTUNITY PURCHASE PROGRAM ROUND 10 The Marshfield Housing Partnership is accepting additional applications from qualified applicants for grants to assist them in purchasing an existing market rate home or condominium in Marshfield. A deed restriction will be recorded on each unit purchased with a grant to secure affordability in perpetuity.

MAXIMUM GRANT AMOUNTS 1 Bedroom

2 Bedroom

3, 4, and 5 Bedrooms

$80,000

$100,000

$120,000

PUBLIC NOTICE WINCHESTER HOUSING AUTHORITY (WHA) OPENING OF STATE-AIDED FAMILY HOUSING WAITING LIST

MAXIMUM HOUSE/CONDOMINIUM AMOUNTS Bedrooms

Sale Price

Maximum Grant

Affordable Price After Grant

1 BR Condo

$243,200

$80,000

$163,200

1 BR House

$253,500

$80,000

$173,500

2 BR Condo

$274,400

$100,000

$174,400

2 BR House

$295,000

$100,000

$195,000

3 BR Condo

$305,500

$120,000

$185,500

3 BR House

$336,700

$120,000

$216,700

4 BR House

$354,000

$120,000

$234,000

5 BR House

$371,500

$120,000

$251,500

TWO AND THREE BEDROOM

MAXIMUM ANNUAL HOUSEHOLD INCOME 1 Person

2 Person

3 Person

4 Person

5 Person

6 Person

7 Person

8 Person

9 or more

$48,800

$55,800

$62,750

$69,700

$75,300

$80,900

$86,450

$92,050

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Subject to periodic change by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Net family assets may not exceed $75,000.

Households interested in applying should attend one of the two informational sessions being provided. Informational sessions will be held at the following locations: Thursday, September 10, 2015, 7:00 PM: Hearing Room # 2, Marshfield Town Hall, 870 Moraine Street, Marshfield Saturday, September 12, 2015, 10:00 AM: Hearing Room # 2, Marshfield Town Hall, 870 Moraine Street, Marshfield A lottery will be held on Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 7:00 PM at the Marshfield Town Hall, Hearing Room # 3, to select grant recipients. Successful grant recipients are required to have at least one family member attend and complete a Homebuyer Education Workshop.

For additional information or to receive an application please contact either the Marshfield Housing Authority (781-834-4333) or the Marshfield Housing Coordinator: (781-834-1051). Applications are also available outside the Town Clerk’s Office, Marshfield Town Hall.

All applications must be received and date stamped by the Marshfield Housing Authority no later than 12:00 PM (Noon) on Friday, September 25, 2015.

Marshfield Housing Authority 12 Tea Rock Gardens Marshfield, MA 02050 The Marshfield Housing Partnership has an obligation to provide reasonable accommodations to applicants if they or any family member has a disability. If needed, language assistance is provided at no cost to the applicant.

MHOPP Funding was made possible by the Town’s adoption of the Community Preservation Act

Subscribe to the Banner call: 617-261-4600

STARTING ON AUGUST 14, 2015 WINCHESTER HOUSING AUTHORITY WILL BE REOPENING THE STATE-AIDED FAMILY HOUSING TWO AND THREE BEDROOM WAITING LISTS. All COMPLETED APPLICATIONS IN WHA’S POSSESSION BY 12:00 PM ON SEPTEMBER 14, 2015 WILL BE PLACED ON THE APPROPRIATE WAITING LIST BY LOTTERY AND NOT IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THE APPLICATIONS ARE RECEIVED. ALL APPLICATIONS WILL BE GIVEN EQUAL CONSIDERATION IN THE THIS LOTTERY METHOD. PRIORITIES AND PREFERENCES WILL BE APPLIED ACCORDING TO REGULATIONS AND THE LAW TO DETERMINE THE ORDER IN WHICH OFFERS ARE MADE. AFTER SEPTEMBER 14, 2015 THE WAITING LISTS WILL REMAIN OPEN AND APPLICATONS WILL BE PROCESSED IN THE ORDER THEY ARE RECEIVED. THE LOTTERY WILL BE HELD AT THE WHA OFFICE AT 13 WESTLEY STREET, WINCHESTER, MA, ON SEPTEMBER 15, 2015 AT 10:00 AM. A WRITTEN DESCRIPTION OF THE LOTTERY PROCEDURE IS AVAILABLE AT THE WHA OFFICE. INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL BE RETURNED AND WILL NOT BE PROCESSED. PRIORITIES AND PREFERENCES WILL BE APPLIED ACCORDING TO REGULATIONS AND THE LAW BEFORE OFFERS ARE MADE. PLEASE BE ADVISED THIS PROCESS IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING THE MASTER LEDGER AND STATE WIDE WAITING LISTS. AT THIS POINT IN TIME THERE ARE NO OPEN UNITS AND THE WAITING LIST TIME FOR 2 & 3 BEDROOM UNITS AT WHA IS SEVERAL YEARS LONG. THE CHAPTER 705 FAMILY PUBLIC HOUSING NET INCOME LIMITS ARE: 2 PERSON $54,200 3 PERSONS $61,000 4 PERSONS 67,750 5 PERSONS 73,200 6 PERSONS 78,600 THE UNIVERSAL STANDARD AND THE UNIVERSAL EMERGENCY APPLICATIONS CAN BE PICKED UP AT THE WHA OFFICE AT 13 WESTLEY STREET, WINCHESTER, MA OR DOWNLOADED FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WEBSITE AT WWW.MASS. GOV/DHCD OR THE WHA WEBSITE AT WWW.WINCHESTERHA.ORG. APPLICANTS WHO SUBMIT AN EMERGENCY APPLICATION MUST ALSO SUBMIT A STANDARD APPLICATION.

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This is a lottery for the 16 affordable Homes being built at Beaver Pond Commons. These 16 homes will be sold at affordable prices to households with incomes at or below 80% of the area median income. The first affordable homes will be ready in autumn/winter of 2015.

Beaver Pond Commons is Milford’s newest development and features easy access to 495. All affordable homes will all offer an attached garage, central air, open floor plan and large spacious bedrooms, hardwood floors in entry kitchen and family room, carpeted bedrooms, tiled baths, and first floor laundry room. Homes also include a self-cleaning range, microwave, dishwasher and refrigerator.

Single family homes will have a 1st floor master suite and a vaulted family room and will be approx. 2,000 sqft!

The Maximum Income Limits for Households are as follows: $46,100 (1 person), $52,650 (2 people), $59,250 (3 people), $65,800 (4 people), $71,100 (5 people), $76,350 (6 people) Households cannot have more than $75,000 in assets.

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Real Estate Project Manager at Codman Square NDC The Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corp.

(CSNDC) seeks an experienced and energetic Real Estate Project Manager to oversee development and construction of two or more multi-family projects, as well as pre-development activities for future pipeline residential and commercial projects.

Qualifications include: At least 3 years’ experience in real estate development or related fields; management, organizational, technical and teamwork skills; relevant bachelors or masters degree. Spanish or Haitian Creole language skills a plus.

Competitive salary, plus benefits, depending on qualifications.

Please send cover letter and CV, before August 21,2015 to: Tiffany K. White, CSNDC, 587 Washington St., Dorchester MA 02124, or email: tiffany@csndc.com.

CSNDC, a long-established community development corporation in the heart of Dorchester, is an equal opportunity employer.

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Hoyle, Tanner & Associates, Inc. is seeking a highly motivated, highly organized individual with a background in municipal infrastructure projects to join our asset management team.

Projects include: Asset management planning assessments, Gap analysis, Implementation planning, Workflow Development, Levels of service, Asset management policy development, Organizational optimizations evaluations, Asset Risk Management, Consequence of failure and data evaluations, Capital Planning evaluation, prioritization and validation, and Development of lifecycle planning and cost/risk optimization for municipal assets.

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Steps to Success Administrative Assistant Steps to Success (STS) works to enhance educational outcomes for students from low-income families in order to defeat the cycle of poverty. For more information on Steps to Success, please visit stepstosuccessbrookline.org.

Job Duties: Provide administrative support under the direction of the Executive Director, while working closely with the bookkeeper, grant writer and volunteers.

• Maintain community outreach & social media • Maintain master schedule/calendar of events • Assist with special projects • Assist with fundraising events • Assist with annual grant applications Qualifications: • Highly proficient in MS Office Programs, social media and web-based project management/collaboration technologies.

• Excellent organization, written and verbal communication skills Hours & Compensation: • This is a 2/3rd time position, about 25-30 hours per week.

• This is not a salary position, compensation will be at an hourly rate.

How to Apply: Submit cover letter and resume by Thursday, September 3rd at 4:00 p.m., by e.mail to: jobs@brookline-housing.org.

No phone calls or hard copies, please.

For full job description and qualifications visit: http://stepstosuccessbrookline.org/administrativeassistant/ Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

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WEATHERIZATION AUDITOR

Energy Department

Responsible for conducting energy audits, quality control, and post-inspections of weatherization and heating system work performed in residences of low-income clients. Schedule appointments with eligible clients for pre- and post- inspections of weatherization units, and coordinate intake for outreach to handicapped, elderly, or hard-to-reach clients.

Conduct energy audits and surveys to determine the kind of conservation improvements needed. Coordinate inspections in conjunction with utility programs and multifamily projects to ensure compliance with installation guidelines. Monitor work in progress by subcontractors to determine that work performed and materials used meet required standards. Provide energy conservation trainings through demonstrations and written materials to clients as required by program and state guidelines. Perform other related duties as required.

Minimum of a high school diploma/GED, with at least one year of experience in conducting energy audits required.

Knowledge and experience with the Department of Energy (DOE) Weatherization Program highly desired. Must have knowledge of Massachusetts building codes and demonstrated ability to interpret state and federal conservation program guidelines. Good mathematical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to record audit findings accurately required. Bilingual in Spanish preferred. Valid driver’s license required. Must be able to work sensitively and effectively with individuals of diverse educational, socio-economic and cultural backgrounds.

All applications and inquiries should be directed to the Human Resources Department, 178 Tremont St. Boston, MA 02111, Fax: (617) 423-7693, or email banner@bostonabcd.org Please visit our website at www.bostonabcd.org for additional employment listings.

ABCD Inc. is an equal opportunity employer actively seeking applications under its affirmative action program.

Project Hope Adult Education Advocate In collaboration with the director, teachers and in-house and community resources, the ABE (Adult Basic Education) Advocate supports the retention of learners by providing individual case management to women seeking to obtain their high school equivalency. S/he is responsible for coordinating and managing recruitment, screening and intake, orientation and advising of potential students. The ABE Advocate reports to the Coordinator of Adult Educational Services.

Qualifications: n 3 years of case management or related social service experience n Demonstrated ability and dedication to advocate effectively on behalf of participants to help them access benefits and services n Experience in academic advising for higher education or in workforce development desired n Superior communication skills including listening, oral, written, and organizational skills n Demonstrated cultural competence and experience working with racially and socio-economically diverse colleagues and participants n Proficiency in MS Office and Internet applications and ability to develop proficiency in the Efforts to Outcomes database n Ability to work well with internal and external service providers to promote coordinated service delivery n Knowledge of local educational resources, networks and key contacts n Thorough understanding of healthy professional boundaries n Language skills: English and Spanish and/or Cape Verdean Creole preferred n Experience working with low-income families preferred Education: n Bachelors degree in Social Work, Human Services, Counselling or related field Interested candidates should send cover letters and resumes to: jgrogan@prohope.org

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THURSDAY

TUESDAY

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF SHIRLEY PLACE

BOSTON CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL

Thursday, August 13 at 5:30pm — “The Archaeology of Shirley Place” with Museum staffer Mary Concannon.

Mary will demonstrate and discuss various archaeological finds that were uncovered during the long restoration of the Shirley-Eustis House. $10 per person and includes twilight House tour.

The Shirley-Eustis House, 33 Shirley St., Roxbury. All events will be held in our Carriage House Learning Center. More details at www.shirleyeustishouse.org.

FREE FAMILY FLICK DCR Melnea Cass Recreation Complex Free Family Flick — Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Thursday, August 13, 7:30pm. Meet at Melnea Cass Recreation Complex at 120 Martin Luther King Boulevard in Roxbury.

Stay cool and join us for a FREE movie featuring the classic Indian Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull inside DCR’s Melena Cass Arena. Movie begins at 7:30pm. For more information please call our information line at 617-6261450.

SATURDAY YOGA-IN-THE-PARK During the month of August, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site (Olmsted NHS) is offering Yoga-in-the-Park Saturday mornings at various locations along the Olmsted-designed Emerald Necklace. National Park Service staff is offering a 30-minute guided walk of the landscape at 9am, followed by a one-hour outdoor yoga class at 10am.

The public is invited to join either or both activities, which are free. No advance reservations are required. Yoga-in-thePark is taking place at the Back Bay Fens (August 15), Marine Park in South Boston (August 22), and the Riverway (August 29). For further information on these offerings and the exact meeting places, please visit www. nps.gov/frla or call 617-566-1689. This series is cosponsored by the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, www.emerald necklace.org.

BLUE HILLS RESERVATION Moderate walk, hilly terrain, 3 miles.

Headquarters Path to Doe Hollow Path and return via Bugbee Path. Meet at the Houghton’s Pond main parking lot at 840 Hillside St. in Milton. Saturday, August 15, 1pm. The Southeastern Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00 for recreational walks.

This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join.

Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers are encouraged to participate. The terrain can vary: EASY (mostly level terrain), MODERATE (hilly terrain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep). Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. Occasionally, the Walking Club meets at other DCR sites. Some DCR sites charge a parking fee. The rangers recommend wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes.

Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department are proud to present the 2015 ParkARTS Boston Children’s Festival on Tuesday, August 18, at Franklin Park in Dorchester from 10am -1pm, with a rain date on August 19. ParkARTS is made possible through the generosity of Holly and David Bruce. Children and families from throughout Boston have the opportunity to participate in a variety of free activities including exploring a Boston Fire Department fire truck, Science on the Street, a show by Rosalita’s Puppets, Mass Audubon’s Boston Nature Center, the Bubble Guy, Brain Teasers with Boston Children’s Hospital, dance performances, and more. The August 18 event will also include book giveaways from ReadBoston, identification kits from the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department, a visit from the Boston Park Rangers Mounted Unit, face painting, and free treats from HP Hood LLC, Cabot Cheese, and Polar Beverages. The location of the festival is on Pierpont Road off Circuit Drive, near the back entrance of the Franklin Park Zoo. By MBTA, take the Orange Line to Forest Hills and the #16 bus to the Zoo. By car, the park can be reached from Blue Hill Avenue, Seaver Street, or Circuit Drive. There is ample free parking and the park is fully handicapped accessible. For further information, call 617-635-4505 or visit www. facebook.com/bostonparksdepartment or www.cityofboston.gov/parks.

ELMA LEWIS PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK Elma Lewis Playhouse in the Park — Tuesday, August 18. Local favorite Athene Wilson with Sympli Whitney and …. Close out the summer season with what’s sure to be an amazing show.

Bring lawn chairs and all your friends!

You’ll find the Playhouse midway along the main park road, next to the Playstead ballfields, between White Stadium and the rear “Giraffe” entrance to the Zoo. #16 bus (Pierpont Rd stop) or #22, 29 (Seaver St & Elm Hill Ave stop). Parking in the gravel lot on the main road near the Pierpont Rd fork. For more info: 617-4424141 or www.franklinparkcoalition.org.

UPCOMING 18TH-CENTURY TOWN MEETING Sunday, August 23 at 2pm — “18th-Century Town Meeting — Talk of the Town” with Executive Director Patti Violette. Become a participant in the re-creation of an 18th-century Town Meeting. A fun and engaging experience for all ages. $10 per person and includes House tour. The Shirley-Eustis House, 33 Shirley St., Roxbury.

All events will be held in our Carriage House Learning Center. More details at www.shirleyeustishouse.org.

ONGOING NASKETUCKET BAY STATE RESERVATION Moderate Walk, 2.5 - 3 miles Walk along abandoned farm fields, along the

THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2015

MAYOR MARTIN J. WALSH’S MOVIE NIGHTS

Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s Movie Nights, part of the Boston Parks and Recreation Department’s ParkARTS program, will give residents and visitors the opportunity to enjoy popular films under the night skies in city parks in August and September. All shows begin at dusk (approximately 7:45pm) and are sponsored by Northeastern University with media support by the Boston Herald and HOT 96.9, and presented in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Tourism, Sports, and Entertainment. Free popcorn will be provided by AMC Loews Theatres. Thursday, August 13 — Edwards Playground, 10 Eden St., Charlestown — “Miracle.” Monday, August 17 — Ramsay Park, 1917 Washington St., South End/Roxbury — “Big Hero 6.” Tuesday, August 18 — Ohrenberger Woodland Park, 175 West Boundary Rd., West Roxbury —“Paddington.” For more information please call 617-635-4505 or visit the Boston Parks and Recreation Department online on Facebook or at www.boston.gov/parks.

rocky coast of pristine Nasketucket Bay, and through a holly/oak/beech forest.

Trails can be muddy if recent rain.

Meet at the main parking lot on Brandt Beach Road in Mattapoisett. Sunday, August 23, 1 pm. The Southeastern Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00 for recreational walks.

This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join. Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers are encouraged to participate.

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

Some DCR sites charge a parking fee.

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

CONCERTS IN THE COURTYARD This summer, one of Boston’s most beautiful spaces will be filled with music in a free concert series Wednesdays at 6pm & Fridays at 12:30pm through August 28. The courtyard at the Central Library in Copley Square will spotlight musicians who represent a variety of genres, including jazz, classical, world and folk. The month of June features Wednesday performances by Berklee College of Music students and alumni and Friday performances by independent artists from the Boston area. The 2015 Concerts in the Courtyard series is generously sponsored by Deloitte and the Boston Public Library Foundation. The complete schedule is available at bpl.org/ concerts.

BOSTON PARKS SUMMER FITNESS SERIES Free fitness classes in your neighborhood parks presented by Blue Cross Blue Shield in partnership with the Boston Parks and Recreation Department and the Boston Public Health Commission.

Classes run through August.

MONDAYS: High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) workout at Madison Park, Boston; Zumba at Christopher Columbus, North End; Salsa in the Park at Blackstone Park, South End. TUESDAYS: Tai Chi at Symphony Community Park, Boston; Yoga at Jamaica Pond Pinebank Promontory, Jamaica Plain; Zumba at Gertrude Howes, Roxbury. WEDNESDAYS: Yoga at Harambee Park, Dorchester; Line Dancing @ Franklin Park, Dorchester.

THURSDAYS: Yoga at Symphony Community Park. Boston; Yoga at The Frog Pond, Boston. FRIDAYS: Bootcamp @

Christopher Columbus Park, North End; Yoga at Clifford Park, Roxbury. For a full schedule of Boston Park Summer Fitness Series classes go to www.cityofboston. gov/parks or www.bphc.org. For updates, follow: @HealthyBoston, @BostonParks Dept, and #BostonMoves on Twitter.

TIDE POWER IN COLONIAL BOSTON To fuel mills for producing flour, fabric, lumber and even chocolate, innovators in colonial Boston turned to the power of the tides. Through September 19, a new exhibit in the Members’ Gallery of The West End Museum — Tide Power in Colonial Boston — tells the story of the development and use of tide mills in the city. The exhibit is free and open to the public. The Museum is located near North Station at 150 Staniford St., Suite 7. Hours: Tuesday - Friday 12-5pm; Saturday 11am - 4pm. Admission is free.

FRANKLIN PARK LINE DANCING Wednesdays 6:30-7:30pm through Labor Day. Get fit with Mz. Rhythm & the Boston Rhythm Riders and get ready to show off at your family barbecues or wherever there’s dancing this summer. Novices, experts, and all ages welcome, you’ll be taught the steps to all the latest dances. Take bus #14, 16, 25, 28, 29 or park at the William Devine Golf Clubhouse and walk up the hill across from the building to the best dance spot ever — looking over Blue Hill Ave. For more info and help with directions, contact the Franklin Park Coalition: www.franklinparkcoalition.org or call 617-442-4141. Free.

SUNDAY PARKLAND GAMES Each summer since 2009, the Charles River Conservancy (CRC), in partnership with the MA Department of Conservation and Recreation, has offered free Sunday games on the banks of the Charles River along Memorial Drive by the Weeks Footbridge in Cambridge. The games are scheduled in the late afternoon, through September. The Conservancy strives to provide recreational and play activities where community members can enjoy the river and the parklands in healthy, active, and innovative ways. CRC partners with Knucklebones, a local athletic and events company, to implement the program. They provide equipment and instruction for a variety of games — from bocce to beanbag toss, from basketball to badminton. There are hula-hoops and jump ropes, and from 5-6pm, Cambridge-based Karma Yoga Studio conducts a one-hour yoga class.

The game equipment is sized for children as young as 3 up to adults. In 2014, we were joined by Olympia Fencing Center, who provided demonstrations with six of their fencing members. CRC’s Sunday Parkland Games actively engage community members of all ages to enjoy the Charles River and the parklands.

All activities are free of charge and the program does not require registration — anyone can attend, and all are welcome to participate. For more information and updates, email crc@thecharles.org, or call 617-608-1410.

BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL Organizers of Boston Book Festival announce headlining presenting authors for the seventh annual Boston Book Festival, which will take place at various indoor and outdoor locations throughout Boston’s Copley Square on Friday and Saturday, October 23 and 24. All Boston Book Festival events are free and open to the public, except Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman interviewing Amanda Palmer, for which tickets are $10. Tickets may be purchased next week by visiting www.bostonbookfest. org/attend/ticketed-events/.

STAR GAZING AT THE OBSERVATORY The Public Open Night at the Observatory is a chance for people to observe the night sky through telescopes and binoculars and see things they otherwise might not get to see, and learn some astronomy as well. Wednesday nights from 8:30-9:30pm, weather permitting, Coit Observatory at Boston University, located at 725 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, right above the Astronomy Department. The stairwell to the Observatory is on the fifth floor right next to room 520. More Info: Call (617) 353-2630 for any questions.

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

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

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