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MASSART PROGRAM CREATES CULTURAL EXCHANGE WITH CUBAN ARTISTS pg 14

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Gov. Charlie Baker outlines his proposed state budget, with modest increases in Local Aid, Chapter 70 education funds and the MBTA budget.

Baker budget seeks to ‘right-size’ state gov’t.

By ELIZA DEWEY

Last week, Governor Baker released his budget for Fiscal Year 2016, a $38 billion plan that he said would “right-size” government and close an estimated $1.8 billion deficit. Although the proposal increases total spending by 3 percent, that rate is still significantly less than this year’s expected 8 percent growth. Baker said the reduced spending rate, combined with other measures, would help close the gap between projected spending and revenues for the fiscal year starting July 1.

His budget does not increase any

taxes or fees, although it does raise some revenue through a hodgepodge of initiatives, including a tax amnesty program for people who have failed to file taxes in the past and the sale of a courthouse.

At his press conference, Baker touted his cost-cutting measures while also emphasizing a number of increased investments that he called for in education, transportation and other areas.

Medicaid a major savings source The governor’s biggest source of proposed savings comes from $800 million in cuts to MassHealth (the state’s Medicaid

program). The governor emphasized, however, that the Medicaid savings were realized not by cutting benefits — except for one, chiropractic care – but rather wielding more technical changes.

Chief among them is an eligibility “redetermination” process that would cut out those who are improperly enrolled in the program to bring the state in compliance with federal law. The Boston Globe also reported that roughly 60 percent of MassHealth savings would come from the simple accounting trick of making certain Medicaid payments in early

See BUDGET, page 19

Aggressive minority participation goals for hotel construction project

By MARTIN DESMARAIS

The state’s massive transportation authority, Massport, may be best known for running Boston Logan International Airport and handling the local shipping ports, but that is not all it does. With well over 300 acres of real estate in addition to Logan, the agency has a big hand in some of the major development going on in Boston.

Now its leaders are making a historic diversity stand with a new project to build a headquarters hotel near the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

In his first media interview about the proposed $700 million Headquarters Hotel Project, which is slated for 30-acres of Massport-owned land near the convention center in South Boston, Massport CEO Thomas Glynn does not beat around the bush about what his agency is hoping to do on the diversity front.

They want to shatter the status quo and set a new standard for all future Boston development.

And he is serious.

While most large development projects, particularly any with state or federal ties, are going to have diversity and inclusion components — meaning targets to hit for the percentage of minority-owned or women-owned small businesses that are involved in the project — this number often hovers at only around 5 percent.

Glynn and Massport have firmly established 25 percent as the project’s diversity goal. This is more than just an improvement.

This is an unprecedented leap forward.

So why would Massport make such a move when reaching for even 10 percent diversity would be celebrated? Glynn and his leadership team at Massport say they are in a unique position to have

See MASSPORT, page 11

Tommy Chang selected to lead BPS

Community groups react to the possibility of new superintendent

By ELIZA DEWEY

Advocacy groups and community members reacted to last week’s selection of a new Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools, describing the appointment as an opportunity for the BPS to address what some decry as a sub-standard public

education system The selection of Dr. Chang comes at a time when the Boston Public Schools is facing a difficult financial situation, highlighted by outgoing Superintendent John McDonough’s recommendation to close five schools to reduce costs.

The school system currently faces a budget shortfall ranging somewhere between $42 and

$51 million, according to the preliminary proposal for Fiscal Year 2016 that McDonough submitted to the School Committee on February 4. The school closure announcement prompted a protest by some West Roxbury Academy students on March 3 near City Hall. The students held MASSPORT PHOTO

See CHANG, page 9

Massport board member L. Duane Jackson

MASSPORT PHOTO

Massport CEO Thomas Glynn

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McDonough: BPS budget falling short of rising costs

By YAWU MILLER

For the nearly two years that John McDonough has served as Interim Superintendent for the Boston Public Schools, the rising costs that have consistently outpaced revenues have kept him focused on two questions: How big will the budget gap become, and what has to get cut?

Last year, busing for 8th graders was cut and dozens of positions at the school department’s Court Street central office were cut to close a $100 million budget gap. This year, as he prepares to hand the reigns over to new School Superintendent Tommy Chang, McDonough has proposed closing five school buildings to close a budget gap estimated at $42 to $51 million. And a controversial proposal to cut school bus service for 7th graders that was pulled back after public outcry last year is back again in McDonough’s latest budget proposal that he released in February.

As in past years, students, parents and education advocates are pushing back on the proposed cuts. But McDonough says painful budget cuts will remain a part of the yearly budget cycle until city officials, parents and civic leaders are able to rethink how the city pays for public education.

At the root of the problem, McDonough says, is a structural imbalance that sees costs increasing faster than revenues.

“In its simplest formulaic

expression, it means the cost of doing business year-to-year increases at a rate that exceeds expectations for growth in revenue,” he said in a meeting with reporters last week. “That means that there are fundamental issues that need to be looked at in order to change that dynamic.”

McDonough points to four cost-drivers: salaries, which take up 80 percent of the budget; transportation, which uses an additional ten percent; food services; and what McDonough says is an excessive number of school buildings for the system.

“We continue to be a district that serves 57,000 students at 128 different physical locations,” he said.

“Until we are able to find a way to have a very thoughtful discussion about what that means, we will continue to spend our resources in maintaining and supporting students in spaces in a way that is much more costly, both in terms of facilities and in terms of the number of employees that are required to provide services.”

McDonough says BPS officials did an analysis of similarly-sized school districts across the country – districts with between 50,000 and 70,000 students – and found that on average, they have just 72 school buildings.

McDonough acknowledges that Boston has greater population density – and more traffic – than other cities with similar populations.

“We as a city like smallness,”

he said. “But in each one of those buildings, you have an administrative structure. You have a support structure. You have a facility-based cost – all of which contribute to the overall cost of doing business in this district.”

Declining state aid

On the revenue side, state Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz has held a series of meetings – the latest one on Monday – on the state’s Chapter 70 aid for school districts. While state aid made up nearly a third of Boston school budget in the 1990s, it has slipped down to just over 10 percent in the current year.

In 2002, the state channeled more than $9 billion (in 2014 dollars) in Chapter 70 aid for cities’ and towns’ K-12 education, according to an analysis by the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center. Last year, the state spent $7.5 billion on Chapter 70 aid.

“There is an extremely loud chorus saying that the Chapter 70 budget hasn’t kept up with the realities of the 21st century,” ChangDiaz told the Banner in a phone interview.

Last week, Governor Baker revealed his budget proposal, which included an increase of 2.4 percent in Chapter 70 aid over current funding levels. But this first step may not be enough to reverse what advocates say has been a long pattern of underfunding, especially as costs grow across the board. Chang-Diaz said school districts across the state

have been hit by the growing costs of employee health insurance, special education services, new education technologies and the costs of wraparound services for high-needs students.

McDonough adds to that list the financial hit that BPS has taken from the 31 charter schools in the city. Under state law, BPS must pay the charters $17,000 – the average per-pupil expenditure for the district – for every Boston student they enroll. While the state is required to reimburse the district for a portion of the funds the district pays to the charter schools, it has not consistently done so.

Mary Battenfeld, an activist with the Boston group Quality Education for Every Student, says the bigger issue is in the steady loss of Chapter 70 funds.

“Boston doesn’t get enough state aid,” she said. “But closing schools is not the solution.”

School closings

The closures McDonough is proposing this year include two alternative schools that have helped students in danger of dropping out to make it to graduation. But one school, Middle School Academy, educates just 28 students at a cost of $55,000 per pupil. And at Community Academy, per-pupil spending is $34,000 per student. McDonough said the students from those schools will receive similar instruction in other schools.

“We are not withdrawing our commitment to either the intensity or quality of support for those students,” he said. “Where we find ourselves at with both Middle School Academy and Community Academy is that the models we have built are not sustainable. This is not a conversation about withdrawing support

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Outgoing interim School Superintendent John McDonough says BPS cannot maintain its current level of services if revenues do not keep pace with rising expenses. for students. It’s about how to best support them in a way that we will be able to predictably support over time.”

Ultimately, the city officials, parents and education activists will have to make tough choices. McDonough, who hasn’t decided what he will do after he steps down as interim superintendent, may not be part of that conversation. But he says he wants to see it happen.

“These are long term, systemic issues,” he said.” And in order to be successful in addressing them, the new superintendent, all of us, need that space where we welcome people in to problem solve with us. Let’s not just provide to the community our best thinking about what solutions should be. Let’s engage them in a process where we can share information that frames the problem that we want to solve and engages them in a way where they are problem solving with us. You need more than an annual budget cycle in order to get that work done.”

SAVE W.R.A. The proposed closure of West Roxbury Academy is a mistake.

n A big mistake because it is reactive and not part of a master plan n A big mistake with little savings n A big mistake that will disrupt the school selection process citywide n Attend a Budget meeting and tell your story! n Write the Mayor, City Councilors, and School Committee!

March 19, 2015 Budget Hearing Starts at 6:00 pm English High School 144 McBride Street, Jamaica Plain, MA

March 25, 2015 Budget Vote Starts at 6:00 pm

School Committee Headquarters 26 Court Street, Boston, MA

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HUD program brings funds to Grove Hall social services

By ELIZA DEWEY

In the next few weeks the city’s Department of Neighborhood Development will begin accepting applications for federal funding for economic development projects in the Grove Hall area.

The process will begin when the DND releases its formal Request for Proposals (RFP), the letter the agency sends out to community groups as the first step in the development process to solicit applications for the projects. A total of $500,000 will be made available, with a maximum of $100,000 per project.

Money for the project comes from a federal funding stream known as the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, an offshoot of the HOPE VI federal funding program. HOPE VI was an initiative by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development started in the 1990s to revitalize failing public housing projects by converting them into mixed-income developments. It was the 1980s conversion of Dorchester’s Columbia Point Housing Projects into a mixed-income development — now called Harbor Point — that first inspired the national HOPE VI program.

Choice Neighborhoods provides funding not just for assisted housing,

but also the areas surrounding it.

Applications will be due 45 days from the date the RFP is issued.

Projects must also be completed

by August 2017. They must be based within the Quincy Corridor Target Area, which roughly covers the area just north of Four Corners over to Grove Hall and stretching up to Uphams Corner.

Ed Gaskin, Executive Director of Greater Grove Hall Main Streets, said that this would not be the first time the neighborhood received such funding. A string of store fronts along Blue Hill Avenue near the intersection with Warren Street — including a barber shop,

Boston Seventh Graders are Science Fair Winners

COURTESY OF NEWTON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

Martina Albin (middle) of Dorchester, Samantha Pierre-Lewis (right) of Hyde Park, and classmate Charlotte Barton (left) of Newton won Second Place at the Newton Country Day School 20th Annual Science Fair.

a Chinese food place and a pizza shop — have undergone storefront renovations thanks to the same kind of grant awarded to the building’s owner last summer.

This time, Gaskin said, he hopes for a “shared work space” to cultivate business innovation, similar to the spacious innovation hubs that Mayor Martin Walsh has touted in the city’s “Innovation District” in the Seaport District.

Gaskin said the area would serve as an “incubator” to encourage collaboration among local entrepreneurs. He said such spaces cultivated “a community of people thinking the same way” and help to provide a role model for young people, showing them “what it would be like to be part of a start-up.”

When asked how he would ensure that a business lab would serve people of the community

rather than being usurped by outside start-up companies hoping to take advantage of the area’s low rent prices, Gaskin said that he thought the benefit of having people who are starting businesses and could serve as role models would outweigh any such concerns.

Gaskin also described the innovation center as cost-effective, since the space would not require “a lot of build-out.” He said people in the neighborhood have longed for rebuilding in the area for a long time but that because “the world has changed a lot in the past 40 years,” it was not practical to focus entirely on adding another retail store front.

The RFP’s release date is still being finalized, but it will be issued in the last week of March or first week of April. It will be posted online at http://dnd.cityofboston. gov/#page/rfps.

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Disrespect for nation’s president is un-American Rudy Giuliani’s criticism of President Barack Obama was so beyond the pale that it failed to provoke thoughtful comment. However, one could perceive in Giuliani’s attitude an impending social danger for the nation.

Over the years, Giuliani has compiled a distinguished professional reputation. A lawyer, Giuliani became U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York where he became well known for successfully prosecuting cases against the mafia. He was later twice elected mayor of New York. His tough performance as leader of the city following the 9-11 terrorist attack generated considerable interest for him as a candidate for president in 2008. Now his attack on Obama has jeopardized Giuliani’s professional status.

In a democratic society, people expect political opponents to be openly critical of one another, but there are limits. While the president is the leader of his political party, personal attacks against the president are unacceptable out of deference to the dignity of the office. However, with Obama in the White House some citizens believe it is appropriate to ignore such historic courtesies.

Giuliani assumed he would have the support of political conservatives when he complained that he does not believe Obama “loves America.”

In a bizarre reference to Obama’s family background, Giuliani continued, “He doesn’t love you. He doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up: to love this country.”

According to Linda Stasi of the New York Daily News, who grew up in Giuliani’s Italian American neighborhood, the former N.Y. mayor was unlikely to learn of love from his family. She stated that his father was a convicted felon who worked as an enforcer for an organized crime loan shark. In what way could such a background be more nurturing of love for country than Obama’s family?

During his tenure as the lord of Gracie Mansion from 1994 through 2001, New York experienced some of the most horrific cases of

police violence against blacks. On Aug. 9, 1997, the police tortured Abner Louima. On Feb. 4, 1999, the police shot and killed Amadou Diallo, who was unarmed. They fired 41 shots as he tried to enter his apartment house. And only a year later on March 1, 2000 the police gunned down another unarmed black man, Malcolm Ferguson, who lived in the same neighborhood as Diallo.

Such incidents could induce in a political leader great sensitivity to the racial conflict in America, or they could generate a sense of apathy or even hostility among whites about the emerging role of blacks in American society.

According to Census Bureau projections, in less than 30 years the majority population in the U.S. will no longer be white. The prospect of this demographic shift is disturbing to some whites.

Aware of their growing political clout, many blacks have also viewed with considerable concern the disrespect for President Barack Obama as well as the abuse of blacks by the police.

Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina interrupted the president during a speech to Congress in 2009 with the assertion “You lie!”

His punishment for such grievous disrespect was to be re-elected. Now the House has invited a foreign head of state, Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, to address Congress on an issue within the exclusive jurisdiction of the executive branch of government. And on Monday an open letter from GOP Senators to Iran’s leaders created a firestorm over diplomatic protocol.

An African American at the level of the president can be insulted while blacks with less status are still persecuted. Recent publication of the U.S. Department of Justice report on the police in Ferguson, Mo. established that ordinary black citizens are still subjugated in some parts of the country. Continued tolerance of such violent racial abuse by the police can lead to profound conflict with the growing demographic shift.

Thoughtful prominent Americans should be committed to solutions, but Giuliani and his ilk are part of the problem.

Now that this year’s historic snowfall is finally beginning to melt, and the city has cleared most (but not all) of its thoroughfares to the curb, it’s time Boston residents had a conversation about how we much we invest in snow clearing.

During the height of the winter storms, and let’s hope they’re over, many an angry Boston resident pointed to our neighbors in more snowy climes, like Buffalo and Montreal, and posted YouTube videos of their formidable snow-clearing machinery.

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Of course the time to buy, or consider buying, a snow blower is not in the middle of a snow storm. For the city of Boston, the time to do that is in the middle of, or just before, the budgeting process.

In many parts of the country, budgeting for snow removal equipment is optional. That’s why in Georgia, a half-inch of snow can bring traffic to a standstill. In Montreal, it’s not uncommon, but rather expected, that winter will bring several feet of snow. There, the kind of large-scale snow removal Boston was forced to do this winter is de rigueur.

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Boston lies somewhere in between. The last time our city was immobilized for more than a few hours by a snow storm was 1978.

Had we invested then in the equipment we would have needed for this winter, it would have been old and outmoded, like cars on the Red Line!

All this is to say, Mother Nature can deal some pretty wild hands.

Sometimes, all you can do is roll with the punches. And know that it will all be melted away by May.

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The right fight for education

By JOSEPH BISHOP, JANEL GEORGE & DWANNA NICOLE Across the nation, moviegoers have lined up for screenings of the film Selma. The movie recounts the courageous actions of thousands of ordinary, disenfranchised African-Americans in the South, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and now-Congressman John Lewis who took to the streets of Selma, Alabama, to secure the right to vote for all Americans.

For generations young and old, the movie offers a critical reminder of the long and difficult march for racial and economic justice. Audiences today may understand why the third Monday of January is a federal holiday and know Dr. King from his speeches, but Selma provides us with a glimpse of the many struggles of those whose sacrifices helped secure groundbreaking civil rights victories -- and reminds us of the work still left to be done.

A gulf remains today in our nation between the “haves” and “have-nots,” and there are few examples as glaring as the disparities that exist in our public schools.

Decades ago, civil rights leaders fought to desegregate our nation’s schools. Today, 60 years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision officially invalidated racial segregation in our nation’s public schools, students are facing a resurgence of de facto segregation by both race and socioeconomic status.

And, we continue to witness pervasive educational inequalities, especially in the inequitable distribution of school funding to low-income communities of color.

These disparities in school funding are just as destructive as the injustices of previous decades. And while much ado has accompanied recent discussions about annual testing in ESEA, too little has been done at the federal level to stimulate more equitable inputs for schools serving poor children and children of color.

States can change the historical inequalities that continue to undermine equal rights. California recently passed a new funding law that allocates all funding equitably, based on student needs. This year, Mississippi has a chance to become another model of progress.

The state’s voters will cast ballots in the coming year on a measure that will require the state legislature to fund all public schools at equal levels for the first time in history.

Meanwhile, 14 years after Congress renewed ESEA as ‘No Child Left Behind’ under President George W. Bush, Congressional leaders have pledged to “fast track” the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The bill could help expand education equity for all children. The question is whether our leaders take seriously the need for all children to receive the quality public education they deserve.

When President Lyndon Johnson, a former school teacher, first signed ESEA into law in 1965 on the heels of the Civil Rights Act, he and many others envisioned the law as a component of the ‘War of Poverty’ — convinced it would help to advance quality education as a lever out of poverty.

Unfortunately, ESEA has begun to focus more on narrow testing and sanctions, including closing schools in low-income communities, rather than on investing in and improving these schools. This is why, along with eight other civil rights organizations, we recently released recommendations on how our leaders can make the policy changes necessary to advance equal access to resources and quality instruction in our nation’s schools.

To move us forward as a nation, the newest version of ESEA must expand beyond a focus on testing, data transparency and interventions in struggling schools. Assessments, relevant data and remedies to improve schools must be accompanied by appropriate and equitable school investments, ensuring each student has access to key opportunities like small class sizes, up-to-date textbooks, science labs, art, music and well-supported and qualified educators. These targeted supports must be responsive to students’ unique needs; they must improve curriculum and teaching and end overly punitive and discriminatory discipline practices, like school-based arrests and out-of-school suspensions. Anything short of this guarantees that, for yet another generation of children, the American dream -and Dr. King’s dream -- will remain out of reach.

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States can change the historical inequalities that continue to undermine civil rights”

Joseph Bishop is the director of Policy with National Opportunity to Learn Campaign, an initiative of the Cambridge-based Schott Foundation for Public Education. Janel George is a Senior Education Policy Counsel at LDF, where she uses legislative and policy advocacy to promote racial justice and equal opportunity. Dwanna Nicole is a Senior Policy Advocate for Advancement Project where she coordinates work with national partners on school discipline issues.

How does the cost of housing in Boston affect you?

I was forced out of Fort Hill. I’m trying to stay in Roxbury. It’s difficult with high rents. It doesn’t seem like there’s anything for middle-income people anymore.

I’m single. I don’t receive any help.

Little by little, the cost of living is making it difficult to stay in the city.

Everything goes up but your pay.

Helen Showard

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Loan Collection Supervisor Roxbury

I’m in subsidized housing. But I know if there’s a cut to funding, I’d lose my apartment.

Jackie Evans

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Carmelot Beauvais

It’s not affordable at all. I can’t live in my own neighborhood anymore.

Cornelius Sanders Security Dorchester

It doesn’t affect me because I’m a homeowner. But a lot of people say they can’t afford to live in the city.

Inez Cooks State Worker Roxbury

I am a single woman who works for the city, so I have to live here. It’s hard for me to find housing. I don’t qualify for subsidies.

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NATASHA PEREZ Senate Majority Leader Stan Rosenberg has hired public relations expert Natasha Perez to serve as his chief of staff.

“Natasha brings a strong background of management, political and policy experience,” Rosenberg said in a press statement.

“Her skill and expertise will help the Senate be an effective, responsive legislative body to address challenges and opportunities for the people of the Commonwealth.”

Perez graduated from Amherst High School, earned a BA in Political Science from UMass Boston, and a MS in Project Management at Boston University. She worked as Political Director for AARP Northeast, Chief of Staff at Green Works in Cambridge, and Deputy Director for the Massachusetts Democratic Party, where she worked under former Director Phil Johnston for four years.

Most recently, Perez headed her own political communication and strategic planning consult-

ing firm where she worked with Citizens Energy, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and Jeff McCormick’s gubernatorial campaign. She worked as a campaign spokeswoman for Boston City Councilor John Connolly’s unsuccessful 2012 mayoral bid as well as Councilor Michael Flaherty’s 2009 attempt at the same office.

A Cuban-American, Perez was born in New York and grew up in Maine and Vermont.

Rosenberg, a Democrat whose Senate district includes Amherst,

Northampton and other progressive voting Pioneer Valley communities, assumed the Senate presidency in January. He is widely seen to be consolidating power on Beacon Hill, pledging in February to create new Senate committees that would enable the body to move legislation without going through House committees.

Rosenberg has also pledged to bring more transparency to the Senate, advancing a rule that would make agendas for Senate hearings public at least two days before the hearing is held.

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USDA official working to promote healthy meal options

By VEKONDA LUANGAPHAY

Have you ever seen a “MyPlate” icon on a poster at your local school, church, community center, food bank, or library? This popular insignia is a part of a U.S. Department of Agriculture initiative designed to immerse American children in a healthy lifestyle that consists of a balanced and nourishing diet.

With the summer soon approaching, representatives at national and regional levels of the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service met with community members at John F. Kennedy Federal Building on March 10 to discuss the future and goals of the summer feeding programs in Massachusetts.

Food and Nutrition Service Administrator Audrey Rowe spoke with the Banner to talk about the Summer Feeding Programs for children of Massachusetts.

The following Q-and-A has been slightly edited for clarity.

What is the summer feeding program and why do we need it?

The summer feeding program was created back in 1968 with the recognition that food insecurity increases during the summer because children did not have access to free lunch that they had during the school year.

And many children lack access [to meals] because of a number of challenges: if they’re in rural areas, it’s transportation. There’s no bus transportation when school is out when you’re in a rural area. In

urban areas, parents may be concerned about crime and gang activity and so they don’t send their children to feeding sites.

So what we try and do during the summer now is to increase the number of sites and locations where children can go to have a nutritious lunch and breakfast.

How does Massachusetts design its summer feeding sites?

In Massachusetts you don’t have as much of a rural community as some other states. It’s more urban. So how do we get more sites into the urban area? …

There are HUD [U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development] sites and there are subsidized housing sites throughout Massachusetts, so those sites can provide summer meals. Last year they did some, and this year we’re hoping to expand. … Many of the faith-based institutions have vacation bible schools; those can be sites for summer feeding… [And] libraries came up last year. We look for and work with sponsors in the state — groups like Feeding America, Share Our Strength, and universities. In some states, universities have made available their cafeterias ... So there are a variety of ways a summer feeding site can be designed.

What are the challenges to implementing the Summer Feeding Program in Massachusetts for this summer?

The biggest difficulty is finding sites in different parts of the state.

One of the things that we will be looking at over the next few days

is where poverty is located, and … that’s where we want to see and aggressively identify potential locations.

Sodium is also a very challenging area for many schools and communities. There is an attempt being made to restrict and further reduce sodium content. … This summer we will be making sure again that the food that is being provided is lower in sodium than children are traditionally exposed to at home.

How many meals were served in 2013 and 2014?

The summer feeding programs have to report to the state on a daily basis how many meals they have served. And we’re able to add that up each month to see what the number of meals served during the previous month has been. By the end of the summer last year we had served 187 million meals to children from June to August across the United States. This year we’re aiming for 200 million nationwide. As for the number of meals served in Massachusetts – in 2013 they were in excess of 2.5 million, and in 2014 they were in excess of 2.7 million. So Massachusetts has had a growth in the number of meals served. The number of sites they had in 2013 was 922, and the number of sites they had in 2014 was 941 … Normally every year we ask for a ten percent increase.”

How long does it take to implement this new eating habit?

You’re changing behavior from the top down. Food Service directors, agencies, food service staff at

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Audrey Rowe the school level – you’re moving all these people from the types of food that they’ve prepared for students for years. They now have to prepare foods that are very different in terms of the fat content and the level of whole grains. Another part of the process is finding products that meet the palette that children are use to. All of these elements factor into the transition. The industry has to catch up. The myriad of company retailers that provide food for schools have to formulate what they are providing…in some places it’s just a matter of getting equipment. Many schools initially didn’t have equipment that they need, such as steamer tables. So you had several moving pieces to come together in order to have successful implementation, and we knew that it would take time for schools to adjust. Our biggest challenges are teens sometime, because they have already developed a taste for unhealthy food.

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The summer feeding program is just a place where we teach all of this nutrition health information to kids. They experience it everywhere they go. It becomes part of their lifestyle and it is my hope, as these programs evolve, that children begin to recognize the importance of a healthy lifestyle and balance, and that having everything in moderation will provide a better outcome for their health than some of the foods that they have been eating.

There will be a summer site locator that will be on the USDA website [http://www.fns.usda.gov/ summerfoodrocks]. By early June, parents can go on that website and put in their zip code and find out where the nearest summer feeding sites are to their home.

How can families access more affordable fruits and vegetables?

How did you become the Administrator of Food and Nutritional Services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture?

It’s not easy for many families who are low-income, who are recipients of SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, informally known as food stamps] and other subsidy programs to be able to provide all of the fresh fruits and vegetables that they would like to have for themselves … We encourage people to utilize coupons. We encourage them to buy in season. Sometimes families don’t realize that in season produce is a lot cheaper than when it is not in season, so that is an education piece that we address …

Food banks are starting to have more produce that’s available. The farmer markets are a great resource for families looking to buy fruits and vegetables that are affordable … We have recipes on our website called ‘What’s Cooking?’[http:// www.whatscooking.fns.usda.gov/] You can find instructions on how to cook a healthy, nutritious meals – just plug in the amount of money you have to spend, and it will give you what nutritious meal are for that dollar amount…. There is also a recipe tool and a menu builder,

I actually started very young as the Commissioner of Human Services in 1981 Washington, DC and I’ve been in Human Services ever since … I joined the Department of Agriculture in 2009 – I came with the Obama administration. I’m a political appointee … He is someone that I’ve known for many years from when he was in Chicago in the state senate.

I also worked in Chicago in communities with farmers markets and began to understand the lack of information that was available in my community on the south side of Chicago about how fruits and vegetables should factor into one’s diet.

When I was asked to consider a position within the Food and Nutrition Service, it just seemed to be a natural next step in the evolution of my own career.

I thought this was a great opportunity for me to do this work on a national scale, and to continue my same commitment and passion for children and families. I’m excited to move this agenda forward.

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Roughly 150 people gathered at Roxbury Community College last week to voice their concerns about a wide range of topics as part of a day-long “listening tour” conducted by a group of State Senators throughout the state. The evening panel, the last of several held that day, boasted a panel of 14 Senators and attracted an audience from neighborhoods across Metro Boston, including many affiliated with various advocacy groups and associations hoping to put their issues on legislators’ radars.

Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr billed the evening as a rare time when the audience would have “half of the Senate standing in front of you saying absolutely nothing,” giving constituents the opportunity

to speak on the issues of greatest concern to them.

Although the listening tour was described as the brainchild of Senate President Stan Rosenberg, the RCC event was co-moderated by Senators Sonia Chang-Diaz, who represents the district containing the college, and Linda Dorcena Forry.

Prior to the panel, attendees had signed up under lists that were split according to topic.

The Senators allowed ten minutes each for the three most popular topics – housing, education and transportation – and four minutes for the remaining topics, with each constituent allotted two minutes of speaking time.

Audience members raised a wide range of concerns throughout the evening, maintaining a subdued tone. Most people issued earnest pleas for their cause rather than direct reproaches of the elected

officials before them.

Range of concerns

Those who addressed housing issues focused almost exclusively on the issue of affordable housing.

Zakiya Alake of Uphams Corner shared her experience facing predatory lending, bankruptcy and foreclosure that she said cost her the home where she once lived with her sons, grandchildren and several other relatives.

Parents of school-age children used the opportunity to decry what they saw as the sub-par state of the BPS, all of them pointing to charter schools as a solution that should be utilized more. Some parents who had children at charter schools begged the Senators to lift the state cap on their number. One woman with one child in a charter school and another in a traditional BPS school said she did not see the

infrastructure projects.

“We don’t need [the Olympics] to do these things,” she said. “You’re our legislators and we want you to do these things for us.”

Transportation woes

Concerns about funding for the beleaguered MBTA were but one part of a cluster of questions on transportation. Others raised included support for a so-called “Safe Driving Bill” to ensure that undocumented immigrants could receive drivers’ licenses and an impassioned plea from a number of taxi drivers, many of them members of the Boston Taxi Driver’s Association, calling for a more equal playing field to compete against ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft.

When one man raised the issue of MBTA financing, Senator Forry broke the panel’s self-imposed silence to tell him they were very aware of the concerns, and had spent about thirty minutes on that topic alone at some of the earlier Senator panels held that day.

A few attendees also raised concerns about the proposed natural gas pipeline that would pass through West Roxbury. One man described the issue as a matter of funding priorities, saying, “a high school in Mattapan is a better investment than a pipeline in West Roxbury or anywhere else.”

Throughout the evening, the Senators mostly sat in silence and listened. A few could be seen whispering to each other from time to time, and it appeared that some jotted down notes. Chang-Diaz also tweeted several quotes and main points from audience members. The panel last for roughly two hours, until every person in the audience who had signed up to speak had their chance.

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two types of schools as necessarily at odds with each other.

“I would encourage you not only to lift the cap [on charters], but also to overhaul the Boston school system, so parents who feel like they don’t want to go to [charter or private schools] can have faith,” she told the Senators.

Another popular topic was criminal justice reform. A number of people, many affiliated with advocacy groups including the Massachusetts Communities Action Network and the Massachusetts Bail Fund, spoke about changes they felt were needed to fix a criminal justice system characterized by “mass incarceration” that targeted the poor and people of color.

Some advocated changes to a bail bonds system that they described as creating a “two-tier” divide between those who can afford pre-trial bail and those who cannot. Even a bail as low as $100, they said, could create significant employment and family interruptions for low-income people who wait in confinement for their day in court.

While attendees did raise three hot-button issues that have recently grabbed recent — the city’s Olympic bid, the woeful state of the MBTA following Boston’s snow troubles, and the recently federally-approved natural gas pipeline that would cross through West Roxbury — these topics did not dominate the conversation.

A few people arrived carrying signs from the organization No Boston Olympics, with two going before the mic to voice their concerns. One woman addressed the argument used by Olympic backers that organizing the games will help Boston to facilitate greater public and private investment in much-needed transportation and

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City Councilor Tito Jackson issued a congratulatory statement following Chang’s selection that also referenced school closings as one of many challenges currently facing the BPS. Although Mayor Martin Walsh publicly endorsed Chang prior to the School Committee vote, some groups made it clear they would have preferred a different man for the job. The Greater Boston Latino Network had previously issued a statement throwing their support behind Pedro Martinez, the superintendent in residence from Nevada.

Their statement cited both his track record as “someone who works for every child” to bring improved results, as well as the group’s desire to see a “strong Latino leader” in a school system that is approximately 40 percent Latino.

The GBLN has been vocal on issues of Latino representation in public offices, most recently in their December report on the absence of Latino leadership in city and state top offices and commissions.

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Alexandra Oliver-Davila, Executive Director of Sociedad Latina — a member organization of the GBLN – told the Banner that she still felt “very strongly Martinez was more qualified” for the position.

She added, however, that Chang had a lot of traits that the organization found desirable, including the fact that he was an immigrant, had once been an English Language Learner student, and could speak from a personal angle about being a “young man of color.”

Oliver-Davila said the GBLN members were especially looking for his leadership on closing the achievement gap, ensuring that Latino students were graduating high school and taking “post-secondary steps,” and increasing the number of Latino teachers and administrators in the system. She added that she hoped he would work to increase partnerships between the BPS and community partners, because local organizations have “strengths and assets that BPS does not have.”

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Chang has made it clear that he hopes to transform the way learning takes place in the classroom by better incorporating technological tools into the curriculum, a goal that some education experts found exciting. Richard Stutman, the President of the Boston Teacher’s Union, told the Banner he though it “would be great if we could embark on something that’s ambitious, whether technology or other enhancements” to learning.

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Northeastern’s plans. Now with the master plan set and off and running — and with a community benefits agreement as part of it — Jackson approves of the plan.

“I am very pleased with the outcome of the community benefits agreement,” Jackson said. “It is now incumbent on us to make sure we hold to the agreement and monitor the agreement and make

sure all aspects of the community benefits agreement are enforced.

“I think this community benefits agreement is the best we have seen in the city of Boston to date,” he added.

Jackson praises the $2.5 million revolving loan fund set up to help small businesses and entrepreneurs start or grow businesses, with an eye toward working with

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He is also thrilled that Northeastern has committed to purchase locally the many goods and services the university needs. The university has committed to purchase 15 percent of what it needs from Boston-based, minority- and women-owned businesses.

In addition, Northeastern has said it will stick to strict guidelines as it builds and adds to the campus — over 50 percent of workers involved in these projects must be from Boston, 40 percent must be people of color and 10 percent women. Lastly, 30 percent of the subcontractors must be minority-owned businesses and 10 percent women-owned businesses.

Jackson sees jobs and economic benefit from all that Northeastern has committed to, which is a great thing for the surrounding neighborhoods. He also said that what Northeastern has agreed to should be required throughout Boston and he hopes other universities will take note. Boston’s colleges and universities need to act like they are part of the city and not just entities on their own.

“It is critical that these schools not only contribute from an education perspective but also use their significant purchasing power to help local small business grow,” said Jackson.

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Most colleges in Boston lay some claim to having an economic impact on the surrounding community.

Northeastern University is no different, but the college’s most recent plans have city officials praising the school for raising the bar.

Over the last couple of years, NU has worked to develop a new master plan for the school that includes close to a dozen development projects to enhance its academic facilities, improve campus housing and add public spaces. But with the campus abutting five Boston neighborhoods — Fenway, Roxbury, Back Bay, the South End and Mission Hill — there were a lot of wary eyes on just what the university proposed to do and, most importantly, how it would impact the neighbors.

NU officials publicly established the priority of balancing resident concerns with the university’s need for expansion and the continued ability to bring investment to Boston.

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Kathy Spiegelman, Northeastern’s vice president and chief of campus planning and development, said that the school always takes into consideration the surrounding neighborhood in its plans, but the meetings with the community for the most recent master plan really hammered home just how worried people are about issues such as unemployment. It also reinforced the widespread view that Northeastern should help.

And Spiegelman stressed Northeastern listened to the pleas for work and more jobs.

“We are committed to try and increase the amount of work we are doing with the local community and local small businesses,” she said.

Of course it is not as simple as

that, Spiegelman explained, because many small businesses are not ready to handle working with a giant institution like Northeastern.

So the school has set up workshops and events to help local businesses prepare to do business with the university.

“If you have a startup or you have had a business for a while, but haven’t been able to win a contract with Northeastern or other big institutions in Boston, we can teach you what you have to do to get this work,” said Spiegelman.

She is on the same page with Jackson in the belief that Boston’s big universities should be part of turning around the economic situations in the communities that border them. For her, an issue in the neighborhood around Northeastern is an issue for the university as well.

“We want people in the community around us to be part of the success of Northeastern and have it be their success as well,” she said.

John Tobin, Northeastern’s vice president for city and community affairs, believes that some people in surrounding neighborhoods feel this way, but it is important to keep up the dialogue between the school and surrounding institutions, businesses and leaders so more do.

“The biggest thing is the constant conversation that goes on and it is not just something that happens when we need something,” Tobin said.

At a school well known for its cooperative work program — which has students out working at businesses in their fields of interest as part of their education — Northeastern has great ambassadors in its students during their time spent in off-campus employment.

But according to Tobin there are numerous activities by both students and faculty that impact the surrounding neighborhoods.

Business students working with local restaurants help improve business operations and systems and law school students provide local small businesses with free legal services.

Northeastern’s influence spreads far and wide throughout the city and school officials appear committed to making sure the presence is welcome and not intrusive.

“We have built a team here where it is Boston first and our neighborhood first,” Tobin said.

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“We want to be a game changer on this issue. We want to send a signal that we are serious,” Glynn said. “The real issue is we are a public agency and we should be advancing the public agenda and the public agenda is to give everybody a chance to have a seat at the table.

“This is how we want to do business,” Glynn added. “So maybe as opposed to [Boston] being seen sometimes as a city that is a little bit slow, maybe now we will be seen as a city that is leading the pack on some of these kind of issues.”

The Headquarters Hotel Project is tied in with the proposed 1 million-square-foot expansion of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, which is designed to allow the center to host an additional 15-20 events every year and generate an estimated $184 million annual economic impact.

State legislation approved $1 billion in funding for the expansion last summer. Currently, the funding is on hold, but officials expect it will eventually be made available. Early projections were

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Massport is working with the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority on the project and the plan is to build a 1,000-room-plus hotel that can help handle the additional big events at the convention center, which could bring the need for as many as 1,000 additional rooms per night during big events. The project also includes a large parking garage and possibly another smaller hotel.

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the land for the proposed project on Summer Street, directly opposite the convention center within the South Boston Waterfront District, gives the agency the bargaining chip to make such high diversity demands.

Last fall, Massport began the process of soliciting bids for the project. In February, they received six different submissions — all demonstrating they could hit the 25 percent diversity bar.

Massport now begins the arduous task of sorting through the proposals to figure out who is the best developer and hotel brand to take on the project.

James Doolin, Massport’s chief development officer, predicts they

Massport board member L. Duane Jackson, a member of the real estate development and investment firm Alinea Capital Partners, is another driving force behind the diversity efforts on the Headquarters Hotel Project.

A veteran of large-scale development, Jackson knows that minority-owned and women-owned businesses often are on the outside looking in on such lucrative projects. He sees it as imperative that Massport does not continue this kind of business as usual.

Even beyond the significant call for 25 percent inclusion, Jackson says the effort to have diversity participation in all levels of the project — from development, financing and ownership to design and construction to hotel operations — is what really sets it apart.

He credits Massport’s leaders for working to get this done. It’s not a new idea, but he calls the opportunity for a state agency

like Massport to make it standard practice “revolutionary.”

“The issue now is that we are trying to institutionalize it. And we are trying to say this is the way we will do business in the state of Massachusetts, in the City of Boston. That has never been done before,” Jackson said.

“We have never been in this space where we have advocated for participation across the entire spectrum as a public agency — equity, professional services and workforce,” he added. “Secondly, this is the first time where we have placed diversity on equal footing.”

As to establishing a challenging 25 percent number, Massport’s leaders say it was put in from the start so everything done on the project from day one has had that number in mind.

Kenn Turner, director of diversity and inclusion at Massport, was involved from the beginning and he will function as the watchdog.

The MCCA will also work with Turner to monitor the diversity aspects of the project.

“It is about treating diversity as a business imperative, so every step of the way we have been engaged,” Turner said. “We have been included from the ground floor.

Nothing happens on this project that we are excluded from or not a part of — every step of the way.”

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Cuban artist and printmaker Janette Brossard working on one of several projects in the MassArt printmaking studio on Saturday, February 7, 2015.

Art opens a dialogue MassArt program creates cultural exchange with Cuban artists

By COLETTE GREENSTEIN

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rt is very important in daily life,” said Cuban artist and printmaker Norberto Marrero Pírez.

Pírez and wife Janette Brossard, who is an artist and printmaker in her own right, recently visited the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) as part of the 2015 Master Print Series Program.

For over 20 years, the annual series has offered its students an opportunity to collaborate with classmates, faculty and internationally renowned visiting artists where the students create professional-level editions and unique prints for the artist. Some of the works are then sold at the college’s annual auction with proceeds benefitting the printmaking program to fund the vising artist program, as well as student scholarships.

The husband and wife duo, who were in residence at MassArt, worked with students in the college’s 9,000-squarefoot printmaking studio from February 1-15. They created six different images and developed 30-40 print editions of each image including the forms of woodcut, etching, collagraph, and hand-painting with multiple layers.

The opportunity to collaborate with the Master Print Series Program came about when the artists met Phyllis Ewen (former head of the graduate program in art education at the college) on a printmaking trip to Cuba in 2003. Ewen maintained a close friendship with them and even collaborated on a series of installations that were shown in Havana in 2004.

She in turn introduced Pírez and Brossard to Astrid Martinez-Jones of Latin Art Space, who arranged for an exhibition of their artwork in the fall of 2013 at the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge. While attending the show, Ewen brought them to MassArt for two classes — one taught by Mass-Art Professor in 2D Fine Arts, Nancy Cusack and the other by Nona Hershey, professor and printmaking area coordinator. Hershey loved their artwork so invited them

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Cuban contemporary artists Janette Brossard and Norberto Marrero Pírez (standing) working with MassArt students (seated) in printmaking studio on Saturday, February 7, 2015. to participate in the Master Print Series.

Both Pírez and Brossard, who are Havana-born, have exhibited their works around the world including Australia, England, Mexico, Switzerland and the United States. When not showing their artwork across the globe, the internationally acclaimed artists reside in the seaside tourist town of Guanabo in Cuba, where they teach art and printmaking classes in their studio/

workshop.

According to Pírez, (who spoke through sophomore art student and unofficial translator Francisco Ormaza), it’s important for them to teach because “the relationship is very important. It keeps everything fresh and it’s also a learning experience for the teacher too.”

In addition to being an artist and

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Book probes shifting depictions of black masculinity in Hollywood

By KAM WILLIAMS

“Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black male masculinity in popular American film: the shaman and the scoundrel… [The book] identifies the origins of these roles in an America where black men were forced either to defer or to defy their white masters.

These figures recur in the stories America tells about its black men, from the fictional Jim Crow… to W.E.B. Du Bois. [The author] argues that these two extremes persist today in modern Hollywood, where actors… must cope with and work around such limited options… These men are rewarded for their portrayal of the stereotypes most needed to put America’s ongoing racial anxieties at ease.”

— Excerpted from the bookjacket In the antebellum era, when minstrel shows took the U.S. by storm as the country’s first popular form of entertainment, African-American males were portrayed by white men in blackface as being either servile or surly. Those polar opposite stereotypes, which served a critical function during slavery, remained the only type of roles available to actual black actors

Paul Robeson from the dawn of the film industry all the way into the 21st Century.

That is the contention of Roland Leander Williams, Jr. who teaches English at Temple University. In his groundbreaking book, Black Male Frames: African-Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003, Professor Williams sets out to show how black male movie characters have basically been either submissive or subversive to suit the fluctuating needs of the dominant culture.

He sets about proving his thesis by closely examining the careers of five African-American acting icons, starting with Sam Lucas (1839-1916), the first black film star. He was not only the first black to play Uncle Tom onscreen, but he was also the first to portray

the deferential character onstage.

Unfolding chronologically, the opus’ entry about Lucas is followed by a chapter devoted to Paul Robeson (1898-1976) entitled “Renaissance Man.” There, we learn that, in sharp contrast to Lucas, Robeson became typecast in a way which strengthened the “impression of blacks as primitives” gaining popularity in the late Twenties.

That image was reversed a generation later, as personified by Sidney Poitier in his Oscar-winning performance in Lilies of the Field.

Then, in response to the Black Power Movement came the return of the relatively-assertive rebel as played by Denzel Washington, who won his first Academy Award for Glory in 1990. Meanwhile, waiting in the wings was Morgan Freeman, who languished in the shadows “until the age of multiculturalism arrived, when he took a role (in Driving Miss Daisy) that once again raised the ghost of Uncle Tom.” As far as the future, the author concludes that only time will tell whether Hollywood will finally stop marginalizing black males as either servants or malcontents and welcome them into the movie mainstream by casting them in a full range of roles without regard to skin color.

If not, Professor Williams expresses a sincere concern that history might simply continue to repeat itself.

One of the projects being worked on by Cuban artist and printmaker Janette Brossard in the MassArt printmaking studio on Saturday, February 7, 2015.

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continued from page 14 printmaker, Pírez is also a book artist, poet and philosopher who began first as a writer, and then later studied to become an artist. His education involved three years of preliminary studies prior to college, and then five years of college. During that period “you’re studying art. It’s a part of daily life and there’s a heavy practice also,” described the printmaker.

Brossard reaffirmed this sentiment, adding that Cuba is known for hosting international festivals from the visual arts to ballet and jazz.

“We have a lot of things and the people go there for very low price. It’s very cheap. Art is a part of everyday life. We have four channels or five [on television] and all the programs are very deep in the idea of art.”

She describes her work as somewhat like social research because she observes the everyday life of the Cuban people. Brossard,

who speaks English said, “It’s more like my experience of life and it’s very important to me to show how the people in Cuba try to fix the economic problems, to solve the problems with very good imagination and very nice humor.”

When asked about the biggest misconception that people have about Cuba that she would like to change through her art, Brossard said, “I think our work is just talking about our experience.

We’re not trying to change anything. We are just showing things and the way to change things is [through] more things like this.

You know, to go out with your work and to exchange your experience with the other artists and the students — that kind of exchange between people are the real things that could change the relation.”

During her short stay in Boston, it hasn’t all been about working with her hands and using materials like copper that Brossard has learned from the students. She was impressed with the students’ knowledge and technical abilities and found that she also “learned more from the talks.”

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Clarence Page: The ‘Culture Worrier’ interview appropriate time for me to publish a collection of columns, this would be it. So, I went back and reread my pieces, and I began to notice the strong trend toward social commentary interwoven with politics played in most of them, and the phrase “Culture Worrier” just jumped out at me.

By KAM WILLIAMS

Clarence Page is a nationally-syndicated columnist and member of the Chicago Tribune editorial board. Besides those duties, the Pulitzer Prize-winner makes frequent TV appearances, including on The McLaughlin Group as a regular member of the show’s panel of political pundits.

Page makes his home in the Washington, DC area with his wife, Lisa, and their son, Grady.

Here, he talks about his life, career and his best-selling collection of essays, Culture Worrier.

KW: How do you enjoy appearing on the McLaughlin Group with John, Eleanor Clift, Mort Zuckerman and Pat Buchanan?

CP: I’ve been doing the show since about 1988. McLaughlin’s been a remarkable talent scout over the years when you think about how people like Chris Matthews, Lawrence O’Donnell and Jay Carney used to be regulars on the show.

Kam Williams: How much of a connection do you still have to Chicago? You write for the Tribune, but live in DC. Clarence Page: That’s right.

I work out of our Washington bureau. My column is syndicated nationally, anyway. I have more of a Washington perspective than the other Tribune columnists, but I still love the place and try to get back as often as I can. And I occasionally do a locally-oriented blog item which is only printed in the Tribune.

KW: I think of you as the black Mike Royko. How would describe your style?

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Clarence Page, author of Culture Worrier: Selected Columns 1984-2014 CP: I think every Chicago columnist considers himself to be a Mike Royko. His office was next door to mine at the Tribune Tower for a number of years. I always admired his strong voice … a very ordinary Chicagoan sitting at the bar after work going backand-forth with his buddies about politics and this or that from a working-class point of view. I really appreciated his ability to do that so flawlessly, and in such

a strong voice. So, I always tried to cultivate a voice assessing what was good for the average members of the public, and sometimes I succeeded.

KW: You always do a great job. Tell me a little about why you decided to publish a collection of essays?

CP: It occurred to me that after doing this for 30 years, from the Reagan Era to the Age of Obama, that if there was ever an

KW: What was the most interesting and the most challenging aspects of being an army journalist back in 1969?

CP: Oh, that’s an interesting question! I will say that the difference was that when you’re an Army journalist, as opposed to a civilian correspondent covering the military, you’re very often either a public relations agent or expected to perform that role, with a few exceptions, such as reporters for Stars and Stripes.

I would say that one of the most

unexpected benefits of that job was being taught to never try to cover anything up, but rather to get any bad information out right away, so that there would be nothing more to come out later.

This was a wonderful lesson to be taught because often the effort to cover up a story becomes a bigger story than the original one.

KW: You suffered from ADD, but it obviously didn’t prevent you from having a very successful career as a journalist. How did you overcome this difficulty or turn it into a strength?

CP: I didn’t know I had ADD, because it hadn’t been invented back then. For what it’s worth, like a lot of others with ADD, I’ve been able to succeed simply by trying harder.

KW: What did winning a Pulitzer mean to you?

CP: One thing about winning a Pulitzer, it means you know what the first three words of your obituary will be: Pulitzer Prize-winner.

[Chuckles] After winning the Pulitzer, I couldn’t help but notice how people suddenly looked at me with a newfound respect, and would say, “He’s an expert.” On the negative side, I developed a terrible case of writer’s block for awhile, because I felt like readers would expect every one of my columns

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KW: What, in your view, is substantially culturally different in the U.S. today versus say March 3, 1991, Rodney King Day? And what do you believe is the single greatest piece of evidence that progress is being made toward a society that provides equality of opportunity and treatment under the law, regardless of race, ethnicity or gender?

CP: Good question. First of all, I would say that our cultural divides are less racial and more tribal. We’re trying to reduce racial barriers to opportunity while at the same time not creating artificial quotas in regards to race. Today’s tribal politics is more attitudes and values-based than back in the olden days when it was something we strictly associated with ethnicity.

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KW: When you think about your legacy how would you like to be remembered?

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Diago, Artista Apalencadeo/A Maroon Artist (2013) — Ca. 28 minutes long with English subtitles. Direction and production by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook. Presentation of a prominent multimedia artist, Juan Roberto Diago (1972), who employs discarded materials. Diago understands the creative possibilities of recycling and bricolage and enriches his images by juxtaposing graffiti with racially contesting intent. He has labeled himself a “maroon artist” and his art work results in “cultural resistance.” In this documentary, Diago openly discusses issues of race and poverty in contemporary Cuba, as well as their representation in his paintings and installations. Choco (2014) — Ca. 29 minutes long with English subtitles. Direction and production by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook. Presentation of Eduardo “Choco” Roca Salazar, an artist who embodies the cultural success of the Cuban Revolution in its promotion of the arts. Born in a working class family in a small town in the Oriente province, Choco graduated from Cuba’s National Superior School of Art and became a world famous print-maker. Documentary shows Choco at work in his Old Havana workshop, as well as visiting his former art school and a vast collection of his art work from the start of his career. Film is enriched by readings

by Nancy Morejón and Pablo Milanés, as well as the music created specially for this film by Miguelito Núñez. The Spring 2015 Cuban Cinema Series at the Cooper Gallery will be held Thursdays at Noon, March 12 through May 14. Presented in conjunction with Our Spring Exhibition: Drapetomanía: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba. Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Media Room, 102 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge.

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SATURDAY A ROAD MAP TOWARDS JUSTICE: HOW TO END MASS INCARCERATION IN MASSACHUSETTS Saturday, March 14, 1-4:30pm at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist of Arlington, 630 Mass. Ave. in Arlington. Come learn about the bills related to mass incarceration and prison reform that might become law in the next two years, and how you can help make our state’s criminal justice system more fair and effective. Speakers at this interactive workshop include two state representatives, the legal counsel to a state senator, and four citizen activists.

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TUESDAY WOMEN AND WEAVING AT SIMMONS COLLEGE Simmons College presents Skirting Identity: Women and Weaving in Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, an exhibition curated by Simmons Professor Margaret Hanni, Ph.D. from March 17 - April 17, at the Trustman Art Gallery, located on the fourth floor, Main College Building, 300 the Fenway in Boston. A reception from 5-7pm. will be held on Wednesday, March 18. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. Skirting Identity: Women and Weaving in Laos, Thailand and Myanmar is the fruit of two sabbaticals Professor Hanni spent visiting Southeast Asia. This exhibit is a scholarly and visually rich examination of how traditional textiles create a narrative of gender roles, status and wealth. Trustman Gallery hours are 10am - 4:30pm, Monday through Friday. The gallery is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.

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Two blocks from Orange Line Jackson Square T-Stop. Families Creating Together offers these FREE multi-generational workshops for children ages 6-12 with and without disabilities and their families. Children explore their life stories through sign language interpretation, movement and visual arts. Spanish and ASL interpreters.

Led by a creative team of teaching artists.

Wheelchair accessible. Register for two, three or all five workshops; pick the dates best for you. FCT is a program of Community Service Care/Tree of Life Coalition.

To register and for more information call 617-522-4832 or email mfcabrera53@

SATURDAY, MARCH 14

SPRING PLANTING 2015

The Green Neighbors Education Committee, Inc. presents: Spring Planting 2015 Learn to grow food at your own home, in your yard, on your porch, inside your house. Free event to help people learn how to grow your own fresh, healthy nutritious foods.

Information tables, displays and demonstrations. www.otoney.wix.com/gnec. March 14, 12-4pm, Thomas Menino Community Center, 125 Brookway Rd., Roslindale, otoney@comcast.net, 617-427-6293. FREE. SUDOKU

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6 9 7 3 5 2 8 1 4 Pics in the Parks photography sessions 8 3 1 9 4 6 5 2 7 taking place on select Sundays 2in March 4 5 7and8 April 1 3from92-3pm.

6 7Individuals 2 3 of1all ages 9 and 5 skill 4 levels 6 8 9are welcome 6 8 2to bring 3 their 4 cameras 1 7 5and 1participate 5 4 in 6these 7 informal 8 9 sessions 3 2 led by a photography instructor. Participants SUDOKU 3 8 6 4 1 7 2 5 Easy 9 will learn techniques for taking impressive 14 47 59 25 62 83 36 78 91 photographs of Boston’s scenic parks as 85well61as be 72 given 98 a36theme 49 to17focus 24 on53each 9Sunday.

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Public School Students. The students participating in the exhibition range from grades K-12 and reflect a multitude of backgrounds. The show is a true example of the creativity and imagination from the NEW YEAR, NEW YOU: Cambridge Public School Students and the immense young talent that we have in our YOUR CAREER Easy a backyard. In both galleries you will see Employment expert Hakim Cunningham of SUDOKU variety of different mediums used including 6 9 7 3 5 2 8 1 4 Cunningham Consulting Services shows graphite drawings, collage, watercolors, you how to take your career to the next 8 3 1 9 4 6 5 2 7 (just to name a few). FREE level by exploring area employers, training 2and4ink 5washes 7 8 1 3 9 6 and open to the public. Regular Gallery opportunities, what to do if you have a 7hours: 2 Monday-Friday, 3 1 9 510:30am 4 6- 6pm.

8 CORI, and more. Saturday, March 21, Location: we are located at 41 Second 9 6 8 2 3 4 1 7 5 St., 2pm and 3pm. Session 1 takes place at 2pm and Session 2 begins at 3pm Each 1Cambridge, 5 4 one 6 block 7 8from9Green 3 Line 2 Lechmere station and walking distance session covers the same information.

3from8 Red6 Line 4 Kendall/MIT 1 7 2station.

5 Parking: 9 Registration is required. RSVP for your 4 7 9 5 2 3 6 8 1 on-street or available at the Spring Street preferred session by phone (617-298Garage one block away.

Multicultural 9218), email (jidakaar@bpl.org), or online 5 1 2 8 6 9 7 4 3 Arts Center is Handicap accessible. www.multi registration form (http://bit.ly/newyear 6 9 7 3 5 2 8 1 4 culturalartscenter.org. yourcareer). Refreshments will be served.

8 3 1 9 4 6 5 2 7 Mattapan Branch of the Boston Public 2 4 5 7 8 1 3 9 6 7 2 3 1 9 5 4 6 8 Library, 1350 Blue Hill Ave. www.bpl.org.

YOGA FOR OLDER ADULTS gmail.com Additional information at www. familiescreatingtogether.org.

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1Public 9 Garden, 7 48 4 6Charles 27 9 63 St., 5 3 8For 4 1 2 5 9 2 3 7 1 5 6 4 8 more information please visit the Boston 4 8 6 92 3 31 8 59 6 24 5 17 7 9 6 8 2 3 4 1 7 5 4 9 6 5 Department 7 2 8 1 3 at www.

Parks and Recreation 2 3 5 77 5 88 1 14 3 49 6 92 6 1 5 4 6 7 8 9 3 2 AT BPL PARKER facebook.com/bostonparksdepartment or 3 8 6 HILL 4 1 7 2 5 9 6 7 9 3 5 1 2 8 4 MEET PHILLIS WHEATLEY: 6 1 23 1 72 4 38 7 85 Participants 4 7 9 5 2 3 6 8 1 9 56 The Parker Hill4 Branch of the Boston Public 9www.cityofboston.gov/parks.

5 1 2 8 6 9 7 4 3 5 8 4 6 2 9 7 3 1 HER STORY Library and Earthseed Yoga invite adults 8must4 bring 2 their 1 own 5 equipment 9 6 7and3can 55 and older to learn practice gentle chair The Shirley-Eustis House, 33 Shirley St., 7register 5 via 3 email 6 4by contacting 8 9 2mavrick.

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2 7 7 Learn 8 3 first-person 1 9 4 86 six-week 9 3 84 61 72 95 3 4 1 2 5 4how8 yoga 6 can 9 increase 3 5 strength 2 1 and7 based performance of the life of Phillis 76KING’S 87 39CHAPEL 65 11 TUESDAY 44 93 28 52 2 4 5 7 8 21 43 59 76 8 1 9 3 2 9 3 6 7 1 95 26 34 78 1 5 6 4 8 Wheatley. “Meet Phillis Wheatley: HER 2balance, 3 5improve 7 8memory 1 4and 9focus, 6 and 9NOON 2 4HOUR 5 RECITAL 8 3 7 6 1 24 manage 36 18 stress, 9 5 energy 6 1 emotions.

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Former MBTA General Maneducation, transportation and his community colleges. However, a group called the Public Higher Ed- ager Beverly Scott, who so-called “Urban Agenda” items.

2 resigned 4 5 in He also said he hopes to double ucation Network of Massachusetts February following public outcry continued from page 1 the Earned Income Tax Credit, a tax protested briefly outside the gover- over the MBTA’s7poor2 perfor3 Fiscal Year 2017 instead of late credit that helps low-income wage nor’s press conference before being mance during Boston’s record-setting snowfall, was 9 unavailable earners. He would pay for the in- escorted away by court officers.

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6 8for Felipe Carvalho, a junior at comment. Scott argued during Dominick Ianno, Communica- creased EITC by eliminating a film tions Director for the state’s Ad- tax credit that some have credited UMass Amherst, told the Banner her final press conference 1 5that4the ministration and Finance office, with brining recent filming proj- that the proposed 3 percent in- issues ailing the MBTA and consaid the governor did not have ects – including The Heat, filmed in crease for higher education would tributing to substandard 3 8 service 6 not be enough to stave off higher sprouted from a longer term patan exact number for how many 2013 in Dudley Square – to Boston. tern of underfunding.

However, some advocacy groups tuition and student fees. people were improperly enrolled 4 Baker 7 9re“He’s not doing anything for us ferred to the winter weather trouin MassHealth, but repeated the are challenging his claim that it acgovernor’s estimate that there tually includes the robust kinds in a significant way,” Carvalho said. bles at his budget press 5 conference 1 2 taught us a were $200 million in state savings of investments that he implied. “We believe education should be a by noting, “this winter GHNS #2440 to be gained through redetermina- The Massachusetts Budget and right. We believe, at a minimum, few things – Don’t underfund the tion, something that has not been Policy Center (MassBudget), a lib- we should have a freeze on tuition.” snow budget.”

SUDOKU SUDOKU Easy Tom Gosnell, President of the However, some transportation eral-leaning think tank, released done since 2013.

Another proposed Medicaid a statement on Friday saying that 6American 9 7Federation 3 5of Teachers 2 8 advocacy 1 4 groups claimed 1 4that the 5 change includes limiting opioid while the doubled EITC “would sig- Massachusetts also weighed in, governor was extolling an increase prescriptions to 14 days (from the nificantly help lower-wage working 8saying 3 while 1 he9was4“glad6to see 5 that 2 was 7 only nominal 8 in6nature.

7 typical 30 or 60-day prescriptions) people,” the other kinds of invest- small increases” for education in Rafael Mares, a senior attorney to reduce money wasted on subsi- ments were not large enough to 2the proposal, 4 5 they 7 were 8 “a1 drop 3 with 9 the 6 Conservation 9 Law 2 Foun3 in the bucket compared to the 40 dation, told the Banner that Baker’s dizing unnecessary amounts of “make a meaningful difference.” medication. Ianno also told the 7percent 2 reduction 3 1 in local 9 aid 5 that4 proposed 6 8 $187 million 2 in3 MBTA 1 has occurred over the past decade.” funding remained $15 million less Banner that limiting the amount Education of painkiller prescriptions to what Baker’s budget calls for a $105.3 9Gosnell 6 concluded 8 2 that 3 the4gover1 than 7 the 5 $202 million 4 9that the 6 a patient actually needed after a million spending increase for Chap- nor’s budget would “continue un- MBTA was slated to receive per the medical procedure would help ad- ter 70, the major state aid program 1derinvestment 5 4 in6 our 7children.”

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8 SUDOKU When the Banner asked about dress a “potential abuse problem.” to public school districts. It also state’s The Boston Public Health Com- restores $1.2 million in METCO 3Transportation 8 6 4 1 7 2 Mares’ 5 9claims, Ianno, 6 the 97 com79 mission responded to a Banner in- funding, bringing the total allotted The Governor’s budget calls for Administration &1Finance director, quiry about the public health ram- for that program up to $19.1 mil- 4a total 7 increase 9 5to transportation 2 3 6 munications 8 1 3 countered 81 specif62 did not ifications of this proposal with a lion. Governor Baker cut the fund- funding by 20 percent, including a that the 2013 law 4 a dollar amount, statement praising the governor for ing for the program by $943,000 5$65 1 million 2 increase 8 in 6 the9opera-7 ically 4 mandate 3 4 25million 38 5was and that the $202 his “commitment to addressing the in January, following former Gov-GHNS tional budget for the MBTA. It also #2440 GHNS #2441 epidemic of opioid addiction in the ernor Patrick’s $287,000 METCO includes a snow and ice budget of only included in a “draft schedule” 9 disagree 6 with 1 later. “We Commonwealth.” The city currently cut in November. $72 million.

6 9 7 3 5 2 8 1published 4 anyone that calls it a cut,” Ianno is reviewing the proposal to deterHowever, MassBudget points Baker emphasized that the in8 3 1 9 4 6 5 2 7 8 4 2 mine its public health impacts. to several other cuts within the crease in money 2allocated 4 5 7 for 8 the 1 3 9said, 6 calling the amount allotted Beyond MassHealth savings, education budget, including the troubled transit 7system 2 3 1was 9 not 5 4 6in 8the governor’s budget “appro7 5 3 given the Commonwealth’s the governor also sought to cut proposed elimination of a pro- meant to be a substitute 9 6 8 2for3 lon4 1 7priate” 5 current financial situation. spending through a variety of gram designed to increase the ger-term reform. “Let me be clear,” 1 5 4 6 7 8 9 3 2 5 1 8 changes such as a new early re- number of districts offering full- he said, “this is not 3 a8 blank 6 4 check, 1 7 2 5 9In an email to the Banner, responded by stating that tirement program and an increase day kindergarten. it is a placeholder.”4 7 9 5 2 3 6 8Mares 1 3 2 cor4 Ianno was technically of health insurance premiums for The governor’s proposed inJoe Pesaturo, spokesman 5 1 2 8 for 6 the 9 7 4while 3 #2440 some state workers. creases in certain areas struck MBTA, issued aGHNS statement to the rect – “a legislature cannot bind a 6 it7comes9 to some observers as too modest Banner saying that the MBTA “wel- future legsilature when GHNS $202 million Multiple social investments to have much impact. The gov- comes Governor Baker’s continued authorizations” – the#2442 SUDOKU SUDOKU Easy SUDOKU SUDOKU Easy amount was laid out in a budget an average 3 per- support of public transportation andEasyEasy While emphasizing the need ernor calls for law, which prehis budget accompanying for budget cuts, Governor Baker cent increase to higher educationSUDOKU SUDOKU 6 9 he9 said 1 4 4 appreciates 2 6the6increase 9 Moderatewouldthehave 6 what 7 7were 3 3import5 5 2 2campuses, 8 8 1 1including 4 4 the 1UMass 5 5 2 provides 8for8much 3 3needed 7 7 9 sumably shaped the proposal touted 9 and7service 4 improvements.”

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20 • Thursday, March 12, 2015 • BAY STATE BANNER 20 • Thursday, March 12, 2015 • BAY STATE BANNER

BANNER CLASSIFIEDS Civil rights, community activist LEGAL

LEGAL

LEGAL

Jeanne Quarles Tibbs dies at 83 Jeanne Quarles Tibbs died peacefully last week, leaving a long legacy of community and civil rights activism.

Tibbs was born in Boston on March, 26, 1931, the youngest child of Henry E. Quarles, Sr., Esq. and Theresa (Thomas) Quarles. T he Quarles and Thomas families had a special bond that began at the turn of the 20th century in the South End, and this bond would continue for generations.

Tibbs attended high school in Boston, and as a teenager worked at various jobs with cousins and aunts at Wilbur’s Restaurant and at Raytheon Company. At the Boston Common Garage, she was the first person of color to hold a job taking care of customers. Later, she became Director of Youth Services at the YWCA in Boston.

She was a researcher for the NBC News white paper

documentary, “1968”, and was a public relations director and fundraiser for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and involved with the Freedom Riders.

In her last job before retirement, Tibbs was the Area Director of the North Shore office of the American Cancer Society.

She was the first African-American woman in this role on the North Shore, and loved this job, raising funds and planning events, which so suited her outgoing personality.

She married James A. Tibbs, a retired Air Force major, and the couple lived in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood. Her daughter Theresa “Kris” Anderson was raised in a loving family that included many friends and family who were drawn to Tibbs’s hospitality and generosity.

Tibbs received numerous civic awards for her contributions and leadership in many organizations

during her lifetime, including the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts, the NAACP and Boston Archdiocese.

During her teenage years and into her twenties, Tibbs was a member of the Archbishop Cushing Cadets and the St. Richards Drama group. The drama group was part of the only church for African American Catholics at the time. Many of the plays were directed by Tibbs’s beloved Aunt Sis. For many years Tibbs was active in the 464 Community Workshop, the Woman’s Service Group and the Boston NAACP, where she held several offices and played an important role in many of the NAACP’s national conferences.

As a resident of the Fenway area for several decades, Tibbs was a member of a number of neighborhood associations and later became a board member of the Fenway Community Development Corporation. In her later years, Tibbs was a driving

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Jeanne Quarles Tibbs force in the Over the Hill Gang, a group that brought together, once each year, people who had lived in Roxbury in the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s.

Tibbs is survived by her d a u g h t e r, K r i s , a n d h e r

son-in-law, David Roberts. She was the loving sister of the late Margaret Quarles Furey and the late Henry E. Quarles Jr., Esq. She leaves behind many cousins, nephews, nieces and friends, who will miss the light in their lives.

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BANNER CLASSIFIEDS LEGAL INVITATION FOR BIDS The Brookline Housing Authority, the Awarding Authority, invites sealed bids for Corridor Flooring at O’Shea House, in Brookline, Massachusetts. The project includes removal and replacement of VCT flooring in common area corridors of occupied housing for seniors. Project costs are estimated to be $60,000.

General Bids will be received until 1:00 PM, on Thursday, March 26, 2015, and publicly opened forthwith.

All Bids should be delivered to Brookline Housing Authority, 90 Longwood Avenue, Brookline, MA 02446 and received no later than the date and time specified above.

All Bids shall be accompanied by a bid deposit that is not less than five percent (5%) of the greatest possible bid amount (considering all alternates) and made payable to the Brookline Housing Authority.

Bid Forms and Contract Documents are available by email, free of charge, by sending a request to ccorrenti@brooklinehousing.org. Alternatively, a hardcopy, limited to one set per bidder, will be made available for pick-up by calling 617-731-9551.

The successful general bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and also a Payment Bond; each bond for 50% or more of the contract price.

Bids and the Contract are subject to the following requirements: M.G.L. Chapter 149, Sections 44A through J, Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Equal Opportunity provisions of Executive Order 11246, NonDiscrimination provision of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Labor Standards provisions of the Davis-Bacon Act and related acts and Contract Work Hours Standards Act, and prevailing wage determinations as issued by the U.S. Secretary of Labor.

The job site will be available for inspection at 61 Park Street, Brookline, MA at 10:00 AM on Thursday, March 19, 2015. Attendance is strongly recommended but not required.

For information contact Carolyn Correnti at ccorrenti@brooklinehousing.org or 617-731-9551.

Brookline Housing Authority March 12, 2015

Authority. The Project consists of: asphalt surface preparation, installing asphalt topcoat to slope and basketball court coating and lettering, basketball pole, hoop, and “noiseless” backboard, 10 foot chain-link fencing, and landscaping.

Construction Estimate: $27,000 Quotes are subject to M.G.L. c.149 §44A(2)(B) and to prevailing wage rates as required by M.G.L. c.l49 §§26 to 27H inclusive.

LEGAL PUBLIC NOTIFICATION FOR WRITTEN QUOTES The Medford Housing Authority (the Awarding Authority) invites written quotes from contractors for the Construction of Playground Site and Erection of Playground Equipment (Furnished by Owner) in accordance with the documents prepared by the Medford Housing Authority. The Project consists of: leveling site, installation of asphalt walkway, fencing, benches, timber borders, rubber mats and wood chips. Erection of Big Toys “Achiever” Model No. MBT-2610, playground equipment.

Plans will be available on 3/4/2015, at 121 Riverside Ave, or can be downloaded from our website, www.medfordhousing.org under “CONTRACTORS”.

All Addenda will be posted on this site, and must be acknowledged by bidders.

Construction Estimate: $23,000

Written quotes will be received until 3:00 p.m. Wed. 03/24/15. Quotes may be hand delivered or mailed, faxed or e-mailed as identified below. A 5% Bid Bond will be required. Mailed or hand delivered quotes should be sent to 121 Riverside Medford, MA, 01255 and received no later than the date and time specified above.

Plans will become available on 3/4/2015, at 121 Riverside Ave, or can be downloaded from our website www.medfordhousing.org under “CONTRACTORS”. All Addenda will be posted on this site, and must be acknowledged by bidders.

The Project site will be available for inspection between 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. on Wed., 03/17/15, or by appointment by calling Bernie Kirstein @ 781-396-7200 x140, bkirstein@medfordhousing.org.

Bidders must meet the requirements of the Section 3 Program in hiring qualified MHA tenants for work positions that become available as the result of this RFP.

Quotes are subject to M.G.L. c.149 §44A(2)(B) and to prevailing wage rates as required by M.G.L. c.l49 §§26 to 27H inclusive.

Written quotes will be received until 2:00 p.m. Wed., 03/24/15. Quotes may be hand delivered or mailed as identified below. A 5% Bid Bond will be required. Mailed or hand delivered quotes should be sent to 121 Riverside Medford, MA, 01255 and received no later than the date and time specified above. z The Project site will be available for inspection between 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. on Wed., 03/17/15, or by appointment by calling Bernie Kirstein at 781-396-7200 x140, bkirstein@medfordhousing.org.

Bidders must meet the requirements of the Section 3 Program in hiring qualified MHA tenants for work positions that become available as the result of this RFP.

INVITATION FOR BIDS MEDFORD HOUSING AUTHORITY The Medford Housing Authority (the awarding authority) invites sealed bids for the Painting of Vacant Apartment (MHA) Units.

Bids are subject to M.G.L.c30B, Sec. 39M, c. 149, 24 CFR 85.36. Sealed bids will be received by the MHA by 2:00 p.m. on Thurs., 04/02/15 and publicly opened forthwith.

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SOLICITATION FOR CONSULTANT SERVICES FEDERALLY-FUNDED PROJECT

Estimated cost: $25,000.00. Painting will augment that of current MHA staff painters.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL Medford Housing Authority The Medford Housing Authority (MHA) is Requesting Proposals, (RFP’s) for A &E services for the Re-roofing of Ten (10) Buildings at the LaPrise Village Development. Qualifying firms must provide full basic services including investigation and initial design through preparation of contract documents, bidding and construction contract administration. The person charged with this project, including project management, must be an Architect or Engineer registered in Massachusetts.

The Estimated Construction cost is:

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$250,000.00

The Estimated Total Not to Exceed Fee (Basic Services + Reimbursables + Consultants) is $30,000.00 RFP’s can be obtained from the Medford Housing Authority,121 Riverside Avenue, Medford, MA, 02155. Copies may be picked up at regular business hours or by download from www.medfordhousing.org after 03/18/15. All addenda will be posted on this website. A pre-bid conference will be held on March 25, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. starting at 121 Riverside Ave, Medford, MA 02155. RFP’s will be due by April 2, 2015 @ 2:00 p.m.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION FOR WRITTEN QUOTES The Medford Housing Authority (the Awarding Authority) invites written quotes from contractors for the Construction of Half-Court Basketball Court in accordance with the documents prepared by the Medford Housing

Specifications, will be available Wed., 03/18/15 at the MHA website www. medfordhousing.org, under the “CONTRACTOR” tab, (as will any addenda) or in hard copy from the Medford Housing Authority, 121 Riverside Ave., Medford, MA, 02155. There is no charge for bid documents. There are no filed-sub-bids.

A walk-thru will be held Wed., 03/25/15 @ 10:00 a.m. Attendees will meet at 121 Riverside Avenue, Medford, MA. The bid proposal must be accompanied by a bid surety in an amount not less than 5% of the total bid (Year One Total). Bid surety must be in the form of a certified check or bank draft, or a bid bond made out to the Medford Housing Authority. Bid Surety of all but the three (3) lowest bidders will be returned within one week of the bid opening. Bid surety of the three low bidders will be returned upon execution of a final approved contract.

The Medford Housing Authority Board of Commissioners will award the Contract and the MHA reserves the right to reject any and all bids, or parts thereof.

Direct questions to Bernie Kirstein at bkirstein@medfordhousing.org or telephone: 781-396-7200, x140.

MBTA Contract X92PS02 The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is soliciting services for the Plan for Accessible Transit Infrastructure (“PATI”) Project.

Services will include but not be limited to consulting services in support of the MBTA’s Plan for Accessible Transit Infrastructure Project (“PATI”), Phases II and III. Specifically, the MBTA seeks firms or consulting teams with (1) accessibility expertise, together with expertise in: (2) engineering, architecture or surveying; (3) project management; (4) public participation and community engagement; and (5) information technology.

This project will be Federally Funded. The DBE Participation Goal for this contract will be 16%.

The complete request for qualifications and proposals can be found on the MBTA website. Please use the following link: http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/current_solic itations/ This is a Request for Qualifications and Proposals. The MBTA reserves the right to cancel this procurement or to reject any or all Statements of Qualifications/Proposals.

Stephanie Pollack Mass DOT Secretary & CEO

Francis A. DePaola, P.E. Interim General Manager

Thursday, March 12, 2015 • BAY STATE BANNER • 21

BANNER CLASSIFIEDS

LEGAL

LEGAL

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS PROBATE COURT CASE NO. SU14P2653EA

SUFFOLK ss.

To all persons interested in the estate of Raymond F. Whittaker, Sr. late of St. Petersberg, FL, and died owning real estate in Boston, in said County, deceased intestate.

A petition has been presented to said Court for license to sell - private sale - private - certain real estate of deceased. - and tat 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 26th day of March, 2015, the return day of this citation.

Witness, Joan P. Armstrong, Esquire, First Judge of said Court, this 20th day of February, 2015.

Felix D. Arroyo, Register.

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

relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Kyle L. Pam of Dorchester, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

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 04/02/2015. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

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

Date: February 25, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Docket No. SU15D0263DR

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Blossom Bingham

vs.

Audley Bingham

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

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU13C0253CA In the matter of Luis Rafael Negron of Roxbury Crossing, MA

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME

The Complaint is on file at the Court.

To all persons interested in a petition described:

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

A petition has been presented by Luis R Negron requesting that Luis Rafael Negron be allowed to change his name as follows:

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Blossom Bingham, 47 Como Rd. Hyde Park, MA 02136, your answer, if any, on or before 05/07/2015. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

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

Date: February 23, 2015

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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

Docket No. SU15D0163DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing To the Defendant:

Ivane Bazile

vs.

Freyel Odivl

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

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

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Ivane Bazile, 9 Caton St. Mattapan, MA 02126, your answer, if any, on or before 05/07/2015. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

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

Date: February 23, 2015

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU15P0369EA

SUFFOLK Division

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Virginia A. Williams Date of Death: 03/06/1988 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Kyle L. Pam of Dorchester, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Kyle L. Pam of Dorchester, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

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 04/02/2015. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

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

Date: February 25, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU15P0371EA

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Virginia A. Williams Date of Death: 12/12/1986 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Kyle L. Pam of Dorchester, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other

Kymorha Lee Hanson 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 04/02/2015.

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

Date: March 3, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU15P0394GD

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Roshell Johnson 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 Counsel of Westborough, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Roshell Johnson is in need of a Guardian and requesting that DMH c/o Office of General Counsel 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 A.M. on the return date of 04/09/2015. 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.

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

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

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

Date: March 02, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Wollaston Manor

Parker Hill Apartments

Docket No. SU15P0124EA

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Mary M. Williams Date of Death: 11/10/2014 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Alfreda Love of Roxbury, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Alfreda Love of Roxbury, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

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 03/26/2015. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

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

Date: February 23, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Tues, March 3,2015 at 6:30pm Town Hall 355 E Central St Council Chambers

MAX INCOME 1—$47,450 2— $54,200 3—$61,000 4—$67,750 Persons per household

Tues April 7, 2015 6:30pm (same Loc) Application deadline April 1, 2015

Assets to $275,000

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Briggs Mill Apartments—20 Cedar Street Public Information Meeting 6:00, Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Briggs Mill Club Room—20 Cedar Street Application Deadline April 27, 2015

MAX INCOME 1—$47,450 2—$54,200 3—$61,000 4—$67,750

OPEN HOUSE—Saturday, April 18, 2015 10:00 a.m.—12:00 p.m.

For Info and Application: Pick Up: Amesbury City Hall, Comm Dev, Public Lib., Residences @ Riverwalk, 1 River Ct Phone: (978) 456-8388 Email: lotteryinfo@mcohousingservices.com

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Modera Natick Center Affordable Housing Lottery

66 Hudson Street, Boston, MA 02111 Chinatown Maximum Income per Household size

95 Units

# of Units

Type

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14

1 Bed

$550

30%

12

2 Bed

$660

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3 Bed

$763

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Applications Available: March 30, 2015 through April 24, 2015 Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10am-2pm Tuesday 4pm-8pm & Saturday 10am-2pm Via telephone: 617-209-5407 | US Relay 711 Online at: www.onegreenwayaffordable.com In person at: Oak Terrace Apartments 888 Washington Street Boston, MA

If you or any family member has a disability, or limited English proficiency, and as a result need assistance completing the application and/or any assistance during the application process, we will be happy to provide assistance upon request.

Household Size

30% of median income

60% of median income

1 person 2 persons 3 persons 4 persons 5 persons 6 persons 7 persons 8 persons

19,800 22,600 25,450 28,250 30,550 32,800 35,050 37,300

39,540 45,180 50,820 56,460 61,020 65,520 70,020 74,580

Occupancy selection by lottery on May 6, 2015 Preferences for: 5 units for households requiring a wheelchair accessible unit.

Households with at least one person per bedroom (subject to reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities).

Homeless households for 10 units.

Disabled households needing services, including four units for CBH-eligible households, and four units for FCF-eligible clients.

Occupancy beginning July 2015.

Application deadline if returned in person is 5PM on April 27, 2015 or if by mail postmarked by April 27, 2015 to: Oak Terrace Apartments 888 Washington Street Boston, MA 02111 Maloney Properties Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of any protected status, including disability, in the admission of or access to, or treatment or employment in, its programs and activities. Kathy Broderick coordinates Maloney Properties’ compliance with all nondiscrimination requirements, including Section 504. She can be reached at (781) 943-0200 x255, US Relay 711 or at Maloney Properties, Inc, 27 Mica Lane, Wellesley, MA 02481.

82 North Main Street, Natick, MA Eleven 1BRs @ $1,203*, Seventeen 2BRs @ $1,323* *Rents subject to change in 2015. Utilities not included. Tenants will pay own Gas Heat, Gas Hot Water, Gas Cooking, Electricity, Water and Sewer Modera Natick Center is a 138 unit rental apartment community. 28 of these apartments will be made available through this application process and rented to households with incomes at or below 80% of the Area Median Income. Unit features include spacious floorplans with fully-applianced gourmet kitchens with 42” custom cabinetry, stainless steel appliances, breakfast islands/bars, wood-style plank flooring in kitchen and living areas, 9 ft. ceilings, full-size washer and dryers, and walk-in closets. The community features a clubhouse with state-ofthe-art fitness center, yoga/group fit studio, clubroom lounge, conference room, outdoor grilling and fireplace area with seating, and outdoor resort-style swimming pool with sundeck.

MAXIMUM Household Income Limits:

$47,450 (1 person), $54,200 (2 people), $61,000 (3 people), $67,750 (4 people) A Public Info Session will be held on March 11th, 2015 at 6:00 pm at the Selectman’s Room in Natick Town Hall (2nd Floor, 13 East Central Street).

Completed Applications and Required Income Documentation must be received, not postmarked, by 2 pm on April 23rd, 2015.

The Lottery for eligible households will be held on May 5th at 6 pm in the same location as the Info Session.

For Lottery Information and Applications, or for reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, go to www.s-e-b.com/lottery or call (617) 782-6900 and leave a message.

Applications and Information also available at the Morse Institute Library (Natick’s Community Library) on14 East Central Street in Natick (Library hours: M-Th 10-9, Fri-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5).

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Operations Supervisor Operations Supervisor: The Operations Supervisor at the Massachusetts Port Authority is responsible for the day-today operations of the Conley Marine Terminal cargo activities, including the supervision of ILA personnel. Effectively coordinates all interactions between vessel and yard operations.

EDUCATION LEVEL: Bachelor’s Degree in Marine Transportation or related field or equivalent maritime professional experience required.

EXPERIENCE IN RELATED FIELD: Minimum of 5 years’ experience in container handling required. Labor relations experience with ILA or ILWU preferred.

MASSPORT IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER COMMITTED TO WORKFORCE DIVERSITY You can now apply online by clicking on the job title you are interested in and clicking on the “Apply” link! http://agency. governmentjobs.com/massport/default.cfm

Port Officer Trainee The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) is currently accepting bids/applications for the position of Port Officer Trainee (Bargaining Unit, Local Union No. 170) in the Maritime department. The Port Officer Trainee performs security work in connection with all assigned MPA operated facilities. Patrols assigned area to prevent crime and ensure safety of Massport facilities and works at assigned Massport facilities.

EDUCATION LEVEL: High School Diploma or equivalent required. Bachelor’s degree preferred.

EXPERIENCE IN FIELD/RELATED FIELD: Must have 1-3 year’s security experience required.

Salary: $1,161.00 - $1,207.00 Weekly MASSPORT IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER COMMITTED TO WORKFORCE DIVERSITY

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Market Research Analyst Bostonwise LLC is looking for a candidate who will be responsible for providing strategic and tactical analyses to the company.

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Part-time Cleaner (possible full-time) Daily cleaning for interior common areas for apartment complex located in Lunenburg, MA Painting skills a plus Driver’s license required Pay rate based on experience Send Resume to: Stewart Property Management PO Box 10540 Bedford, MA 03110

Please note: this position is temporary through September 30, 2017.

Continued employment is contingent upon receipt of additional funding.

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.

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Minimum of a high school diploma/GED, with one to three years of relevant experience required. Knowledge of substance use/abuse/ dependence issues and their effect on youth required. Must have strong organizational and verbal communication skills. Ability to organize and experience in facilitating group and education workshops a must. Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel required. Bilingual/ bicultural background strongly preferred. Must be able to work sensitively and effectively with individuals of diverse educational, socio-economic and cultural backgrounds.

The project Manager at the Massachusetts Port Authority manages assigned capital improvement projects to ensure that they are well planned, coordinated, scoped, budgeted and designed; constructed safely, on schedule, within budget, with good quality, with minimal operational impacts and with positive effects on overall security.

EDUCATION LEVEL: Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in Architecture or Engineering.

EXPERIENCE IN RELATED FIELD: 8- 10 years of diversified professional architectural or engineering experience of which no less than 4 years have been in managing large complex capital projects. Experience in construction management and management of public agency projects is desirable.

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TOWN OF EASTON POLICE DEPARTMENT COMMUNICATIONS DISPATCHER The Town of Easton is accepting applications for a qualified individual to fill the position of Communications Dispatcher, 32 hours per week. Minimum Qualifications: High School graduation or equivalent plus one year of experience in a general clerical position involving working with the public; or any equivalent combination of education and experience. Certification of C.J.I.S system user and certification in Enhanced 911 systems through the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is required. Previous experience as a Public Safety Dispatcher is preferred.

The Greater Boston School Human Resources Network proudly sponsors its first annual

Diversity Job Fair for Educators Saturday, March 21, 2015 from 10am - 1pm, held at the Broadmeadow Elementary School 120 Broad Meadow Road, Needham

MEMBER DISTRICTS:

Acton-Boxborough Belmont Brookline Concord Concord-Carlisle Lexington Lincoln-Sudbury Needham Newton Sudbury Wayland Wellesley Weston Winchester

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our teaching staff. If you want to join a system committed to excellence, we want to talk to you. The needs are real. The opportunity is great. Be part of it.

To register, please go to www.greaterbostonschoolhrn.com Bring 13 resumes to the Job Fair.

Duties include but are not limited to receiving 911 emergency phone calls, business phone calls, radio dispatching for Police, Fire and EMS, operating the IMC dispatch computer system, record keeping and other related tasks. Position requires candidate to work any one of three shifts, including holidays, nights, weekends and overtime as needed. This is a union positon and compensation is $19.23 per hour with an excellent benefits as well as shift differentials.

Required applications can be downloaded at www.easton.ma.us under the “Residents” tab and then “Employment Opportunities”. Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, resume and job application to Town Administrator David Colton, 136 Elm Street, Easton, MA 02356 no later than March 16, 2015.

Member Districts are Equal Opportunity Employers

The Town of Easton is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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