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By YAWU MILLER

Who are your people?

It’s a question that dogged Juleanna Richardson ever since an elementary school teacher in Newark, Ohio asked her class to tell where their families had come from.

Richardson listened as her white classmates shared stories of their European origins, then offered a half-hearted answer that betrayed her own lack of knowledge of her family history.

But over the years, her curiosity blossomed into a passion for history. As a student at Brandeis, she researched the Harlem Renaissance, incorporating into her exploration trips to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, interviews with intellectuals, artists and an honors thesis on Langston Hughes.

Years later, in 1998, Richardson was at a crossroads. She had just graduated from Harvard law School and was headed to a career in the corporate sector.

But the interviews she conducted during her exploration of the Harlem Renaissance remained fresh in her mind.

“The stories were still with me,” she said.

That’s why in 1999 Richardson decided to pursue her dream, launching The History Makers, a project that has collected 7,000 interviews with African Americans — well-known and obscure

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Juleanna Richardson — in business, politics, academia the arts.

The History Project has amassed the largest collection of African American oral histories since the Works Progress Administration assembled the stories of ex-slaves in the 1930s. Richardson’s project began in Chicago and spread to cities throughout the U.S., including Boston, where interviewees include state Rep. Byron Rushing, construction company owner John B. Cruz, Sr., news reporter Sarah-Ann Shaw, UMass Professor Robert Johnson, Jr. and attorney Fletcher “Flash” Wiley, who has helped Richardson expand the project into Boston, Washington, D.C. and other cities.

“What makes this so interesting is that it’s an oral history, which they take and develop into a written product,” Wiley says. “It’s like

See HISTORY, page 7

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Bruce C. Bolling Jr. (7th from left) unveils his father’s plaque at dedication ceremonies of the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building, April 7, 2015, surrounded by Bolling family members and Boston mayor Martin J. Walsh (3rd from left).

Will video-recorded police shootings lead to reforms?

South Carolina officer seen shooting man in back

By CAITLIN YOSHIKO KANDIL

The video that emerged last week of a white police officer gunning down an unarmed African American man, Walter Scott, a 50-year-old father of four, is the latest in a horrific string of police killings caught on film. Within the past year, Americans have witnessed the deaths of Eric Garner

in Staten Island, Tamir Rice in Cleveland, and John Crawford, III in Dayton, Ohio.

These videos have led to mixed results in criminal punishment — Michael Slager, the officer who killed Scott, has been charged with murder and is being held in jail without bail. However, the officer shown performing an illegal chokehold on Garner was not indicted by a New York grand jury.

Those cases and others documented in cell phone videos have sparked a public debate around policing, race and the criminal justice system.

“The inherent flaw in our system is that if you are an officer, your version of the story carries more weight than the person who is deceased,” says Michael Curry,

See POLICE, page 10

Developer balks at minority hiring goals

By YAWU MILLER

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Two developers are bidding to redevelop 280-290 Warren Street, which has been covered in a mural.

The city’s Department of Neighborhood Development routinely asks developers seeking to build on city-owned land to outline their goals for hiring people of color and contracting with minority businesses.

While the DND minority participation goals are optional, the Roxbury residents who packed into a public meeting last week at

the Roxbury Boys and Girls Club to hear competing proposals for the sale of a row of Warren Street storefronts made it clear that hiring people of color would not be negotiable.

When pressed to make a commitment on minority hiring goals for his proposed redevelopment of 280-290 Warren Street, Dorchester-based developer Edward Ahern refused to give a percentage.

“We’re committed to it,” he said tersely.

“There are standards here,” abutter Kim Janey told Ahern. “I suggest you do your homework, then come here and speak to your commitment.”

“I don’t care about the color of someone’s skin,” Ahern responded.

“I care about your work ethic. A good work ethic is hard to come by.”

To say Ahern’s answers, or his refusal to give answers, angered community residents would be

See 280 WARREN, page 9

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Housing activists call for legislative fix for rising rents

By ELIZA DEWEY

A City Council hearing on residential displacement last week drew a wide collection of activists and residents who voiced their concerns about a rapidly changing city that they say threatens to push them out of neighborhoods they have long called home.

“If we don’t stop displacement now, soon Chinatown will only have a name,” said Henry Yee, one of the co-chairs of the Chinatown Residents Association, via translator. He has lived in the area for 49 years.

Most of the panelists proposed ideas that focused on increasing tenants’ legal rights or combatting rising rents through public tools funded through new tax initiatives. They proposed a wide range of policy considerations, including an update to the city’s Inclusionary Development Policy — which determines the percent of a new private development that has to be set aside for affordable housing — and ‘just cause’ eviction legislation, which requires a landlord to provide a specific reason as grounds for eviction.

However, testimony from a representative of the Small Property Owners Association followed by a discussion on implementation also highlighted the range of opinions on the matter and the limitations that even well-intentioned ideas may have.

IDP and ‘Just Cause’

Advocates called for a variety of updates to the IDP, including a new bar of 25 percent affordable housing for new developments (whether on- or off-site), a definition of ‘affordable’ that includes a larger share of people with low and moderate incomes, and a larger required ‘buy-out’ for developers who want to bypass the requirements by paying a fee.

Tenant groups also called for ‘just cause’ eviction legislation.

Current Massachusetts law allows landlords to pursue eviction in court for either ‘at-fault’ reasons like non-payment of rent or ‘nofault’ cases in which a specific reason is not given. Housing advocates say that ‘no-fault’ evictions help drive rapid rent increases because landlords will often empty out their property before selling, since tenant-free properties sell

higher on the market.

Affordable housing advocates point out that they want to target the new legislation at large landlords.

“Most small property owners would be exempt from Just Cause Eviction,” Lisa Owens-Pinto of City Life/Vida Urbana told the Banner by email. She specified that owner-occupants would be excluded, as well as those who owned less than a certain number of properties, although she said advocates are still working to determine that threshold number.

“The intention is to focus on corporate landlords who are buying up housing as a purely speculative investment,” she said.

By contrast, Skip Schloming of The Small Property Owners Association called for a general reduction of regulations on landlords.

He argued the private market “has the potential to supply a great deal of lower-rent housing if the costs of providing rental housing were not artificially pushed up by a host of government regulations.”

Other landlords have argued that ‘just cause’ legislation could prohibit them from selling their properties for the best price, especially after putting much time and money into their buildings.

Still others have claimed such proposals can backfire and increase housing discrimination by causing landlords to seek out only tenants with perfect credit and employment histories because they fear long and costly eviction processes if something goes wrong.

provide the capital to buy the land that might be for sale?”

As a partial answer to that question, housing advocates have called for a variety of revenue-raising schemes, including the local adoption of a Community Preservation Act that would allow Boston to add surcharges to property tax bills to help pay for affordable housing. The CPA is a statewide law, but it can only be enacted within a given municipality if it is adopted by voters in a ballot election. Walsh’s housing plan calls for an evaluation of the CPA to determine its feasibility and level of public support.

Other testimony on transit-oriented development shed light on the issue of unintended consequences. Gail Latimore of the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation described the work many had put into getting train stops on the Fairmount commuter line running through Dorchester, Roxbury and Hyde Park. Now, however, she said data shows that two areas right next to the stations are especially susceptible to residential

displacement in the next few years.

“How ironic that we fought to get affordable trains in our neighborhoods and now folks are being priced out,” Latimore said. She added later, however, “We’re at this point victims of our own success, but we’re not giving up.”

Advocacy groups in attendance did not suggest rent control. Darnell Johnson of Right to the City Boston told the Banner that advocates are “trying to gradually get back to rent control” but that such a policy change would require a longer and more detailed public discussion.

Positive response from officials

Officials from the mayor’s cabinet responded positively to many of the suggestions from advocates.

Barros said he thought the issue of rents affected not just residents, but also small businesses.

“Affordable housing is central to Boston’s economic future — Mayor Walsh has prioritized it,” he told the Banner before the hearing. “Businesses are impacted by the cost of living of their employees ... We’ve lost some businesses [and] a big part of that is the cost of living.”

The hearing brought special attention to Mayor Walsh’s housing plan, which he introduced in October 2014. Housing Chief Sheila Dillon spoke about the plan,

which calls for 53,000 new housing units by the year 2030. That total includes 6,500 new units of low-income housing and 20,000 new units of middle class housing (defined as household incomes between $50,000 and $125,000).

It calls for another 5,000 units geared toward seniors — through a mix of public and private initiatives — and another 4,000 to create a vacancy rate to help stabilize the recent spike in housing prices.

Dillon signified a willingness on the part of the city to further discuss and explore advocates’ proposals.

“It’s a bit fluid — I’m hopeful we can move on some of the advocates’ recommendations very, very soon,” Dillon said in reference to an updated IDP and a local CPA law. When asked about her stance on ‘just cause’ eviction, Dillon replied that while she couldn’t comment on the issue because she was still learning about it, she was “very intrigued by that [and] looking forward to sitting down with advocates in the very near future to understand how that might work in Boston.”

The hearing, which was called

by Councilor Tito Jackson, was a follow-up to an October hearing he convened on a similar issue. Councilors Yancey, Pressley, O’Malley, Zakim and Baker were in attendance.

Implementation challenges

Other testimony highlighted the difficulties in the implementation stage. Harry Smith of Dudley Neighbors Incorporated called for the wider user of Community Land Trusts to increase the stock of affordable housing. He told how DNI acquired vacant land through eminent domain powers granted by the Boston Redevelopment Authority and then leased those plots to private and nonprofit developers to build affordable housing.

Chief of Economic Development John Barros noted that while the Walsh administration is friendly to the idea of land trusts, there is a need to update the concept for the current times, as vacant lots in the city are fewer and more expensive. “In a hot market,” he said, “how are we going to

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City Life/Vida Urbana Executive Director Lisa Owens Pinto testifies during a hearing on rent protections at City Hall.

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Attorney running for District 4 City Council seat

By ELIZA DEWEY

When Boston native Andrea Campbell declared in December that she was running against longtime incumbent Charles Yancey for the District 4 City Council seat, her jump-start on public exposure and fund-raising signaled that she meant business.

Four months and $46,000 later, Campbell appears poised to give Yancey the strongest challenge he’s faced in a long time.

“I think she has the best chance of anyone I’ve seen in recent years,” political analyst Kelly Bates of WGBH told the Banner by phone, adding that she included within that list Ego Ezedi, Yancey’s last serious contender from 2003.

Campbell held her official campaign launch April 8 at the Montserrat Aspirers Community Center, attracting a room full of supporters, volunteers and a few former classmates from her alma maters, Boston Latin School and Princeton.

She will be one of at least three challengers, along with Mattapan attorney Jovan Lacet and Dorchester community activist Terrance Williams. Her campaign war chest — substantially more than the $10,500 Yancey currently has on hand — and the 100-or-so supporters at her kickoff indicate that Campbell is a serious contender.

She used her remarks last week to share her personal story, which she said would likely resonate with many in the 4th District.

Within the first decade of her life, Campbell had already lost her mother to a tragic car accident, spent time both in foster care and in the home of a grandmother struggling with alcoholism, and then readjusted to life with a father who was newly released from prison. As an adult, tragedy struck again when her brother who had scleroderma passed away in prison without having received proper medical care.

Through it all, Campbell managed to graduate from Princeton

organization run by former Mayor Thomas Menino. Yancey won handily, 3,679 votes to Ezedi’s 2,990.

she compared to Yancey, Campbell replied, “It’s not about the incumbent, and it’s not about me, it’s about the 4th District.”

First steps

“A sacred obligation”

In conversations with the In a brief phone conversation Banner before the event started, with the Banner, Councilor Yancey many who were there said they also declined to comment on his were especially concerned about opponents, but said he intended education and youth issues, as well “to continue to be one of Boston’s as a general desire for a fresh face strongest advocates for the resiin town. dents of Boston, in the areas of edAlong those lines, one of Camp- ucation, housing, economic develbell’s central themes that night opment and public safety.” was the need to improve educaWhen asked for policy specifics, tion and mentoring opportunities he said he would work on issues of for young people — something she police accountability, noting two described as a “foundation from bills he recently filed to create a ciwhich to thrive.” vilian review board and to require Campbell also called for a con- police to wear bullet proof vests certed effort to improve commu- and body cameras. He also mennication and engagement between tioned his years-long fight for a local government and residents. high school in Mattapan.

BANNER PHOTO “I need to listen and to show up “I’m very honored to have reAttorney Andrea Campbell announces her candidacy for the District 4 City Council seat. — not only at election time,” she ceived support from my constitusaid to audience applause. To that ents over the past 32 years,” Yancey University in 2004 and the UCLA the deciding factor would be more end, she pledged initiatives such as said. “I take it as a sacred obligaSchool of Law in 2009. She went what Campbell brings to the table. holding quarterly meetings with tion to continue to advocate for the on to work as a deputy legal coun“[Campbell] is a very compe- community stakeholders and com- people of District 4 and actually, sel in the administration of former tent, viable woman — voters might piling a centralized resource bank all of Boston.”

Gov. Deval Patrick. say, ‘I like this fresh, new person,’” to make such information more “My story is our story, and this Bates said. accessible.

Additional hopefuls is why I think I was called to do In some ways, Campbell framed Bates and Tuitt both agreed Despite the general consensus this work,” she said of her tough that a deciding factor will be out- her call for greater connection be- that the race will mainly be belife experiences. reach. “It’s important to go to tween residents and government tween Yancey and Campbell, it voters. “They have to door knock. as a two-way street. As she pledged has piqued the interest of at least They can’t take the people of the her commitment to making herself two other candidates.

Yancey’s legacy available, she also made a broader Jo v a n L a c e t , a Ma t t a Campbell has her work cut out district for granted,” Tuitt said.

Campbell is not the first seri- appeal for engagement from com- pan-based lawyer, told the for her.

Mary-dith Tuitt, a former ous challenge Yancey has faced. munity members. “We need to Banner that he is “definitely runYancey staffer, underscored Yanc- In 2003, he beat back a challenge increase our level of civic engage- ning.” He said he wants to focus ey’s community ties in a phone from Egobudike Ezedi, a former ment,” she said. “What do I need to on “Boston jobs for Boston resiconversation with the Banner. She congressional staffer who was en- win this election? A few thousand dents,” including increasing the mentioned projects including the dorsed by several white city coun- votes. I’m not okay with that.”

AD-the Bay political State Banner 1-4 pg - asked run 4-2by - the 5.933x7.792 PRINT.pdf 1 3/30/15 3:58 PM When Banner -how backed- by library on Blue Hill Ave, the con- cilors andCCGN6078 See CAMPBELL, page 9 version of the old Mattapan library to a Boys & Girls Club, and the creation of an early education center on Babson Street among the successes Yancey has delivered for the district.

“These things are there because Councilor Yancey has been there in the background getting things done,” Tuitt says.

Kelly Bates added, however, that she did not predict the election would be a referendum on Yancey’s tenure. Rather, she said

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Uncovering white privilege In many multiracial societies, those in positions of power and affluence are disproportionately white. It has been asserted that whites get a free ride to the top but white privilege has been difficult to establish scientifically. There had been few if any adequate tests of that subconscious racial boost until two economics professors at the University of Queensland implemented a test in Brisbane, Australia.

Redzo Mujcic and Paul Frijters recruited and trained 29 testers who were male and female and black and white. They were instructed to board buses with the Brisbane equivalent of expired CharlieCards. When the alarm sounded to indicate their cards were void, the testers entreated the driver to permit them to ride for free to a destination about 1.2 miles away.

The results of 1500 tests were statistically significant. Drivers were twice as likely to let white testers ride for free — 72 percent versus

36 percent for blacks. Those wearing army uniforms generally got a free ride if they were white (97 percent), but only 77 percent if they were black.

Ian Ayres, a Yale Law School professor, asserts in a New York Times commentary, “It is easier to imagine decision makers, like the bus drivers, granting extra privileges and accommodations to nonminorities. Discriminatory gifts are more likely than discriminatory denials.”

But such preferential treatment for whites is not the most serious problem confronting the black community. Black drivers also favored white testers 83 percent to 68 percent for blacks. It appears that minorities have absorbed the psychological mandate that whites are entitled to a free pass.

Of course the test was in Australia which has a different racial history than the U.S. One would hope that African Americans have a more evolved concept of racial equality.

Forrest County: An early battle for voting rights Many Bostonians travelled to Selma, Ala. last month to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Black Sunday, the day those peacefully protesting for voting rights were attacked by the police. The brutality of the assault on the Edmund Pettus Bridge induced the U.S. Congress to vote shortly thereafter for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. However, little attention has been given to the role of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in exposing the egregious discrimination in the voting rights of blacks.

Gordon A. Martin, Jr., a retired Roxbury District Court judge, was a member of the DOJ legal team in Hattiesburg, Miss., in Forrest County in 1962, that waged the battle that was so significant in prohibiting racial discrimination at the polls. Fortunately, Martin recorded an account of the engagement in his book, Count Them One by One. In 2010, an African American judge, Carlton

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But not with cheap complaining.

The Franklin Park and Garrison Trotter groups need to start doing.

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W. Reeves, nominated by Barack Obama, was confirmed to the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Mississippi. He has written an afterword to the paperback edition of Count Them. Judge Reeves states in part: “I hope that when history looks back on my tenure, the record will show that all those who appeared before me were treated with dignity and respect … The work of Gordon Martin, the courage and dedication of the Freedom Riders and the many other citizen soldiers — those who were condemned as outside agitators as well as those native born — who understand that the Vote is Power and the Vote could and indeed would cause the transformation of Mississippi resulted in my ascension to the federal bench. I am the fruit of their labor.”

Martin’s book Count Them One by One enables future generations to have a clear record of a battle for voting rights that unfortunately is not yet quite over.

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Facing bad “Officer Friendly” while black

Do you think videos of police abuse will lead to change?

By LEE A. DANIELS

Without the video, North Charleston, South Carolina police officer Michael T. Slager would likely have gotten away with murder.

Without the video, we wouldn’t see Officer Michael T. Slager have the, shall we say, presence of mind, to quickly retrieve what appears to be his Taser and plant it beside the lifeless body of Walter Lamar Scott.

Without the video, Officer Michael T. Slager would no doubt have quickly been coached on the techniques of making himself appear in news media interviews the victim of the lethal encounter with the black man he killed, 50-year-old Walter Lamar Scott.

Without the video, the conservative punditocracy and talk-show jockeys would be raging that the dead man’s action again proved that black and brown civilians are “waging war” on police.

But we have the video — one of the technological innovations that increasingly have helped suggest what people of color face from an alarming number of white cops— and the first-degree murder indictment of officer Michael T. Slager.

And so we are faced with a long list of powerful questions.

Some of them are: Why did Slager pull over Walter Lamar Scott’s vehicle? Was it really for a broken taillight? Or was it because Slager, feeding off the power of his badge, wanted to show some black person — any black person — who’s boss? What, then, was going through Slager’s mind that led him to not give chase to the unarmed, slow-footed Scott when he ran, but quickly and calmly pull his gun and fire eight times at the fleeing man?

Some part of the answer to these and the many others questions that must be asked can be found in a recent police encounter with black teenagers that did not escalate to violence but was nonetheless revealing.

That incident occurred in Minneapolis March 18. Four black teens, of Somali descent, having just finished playing basketball at the YMCA, were driving home when they were pulled over by the police for making a U-turn. The police ordered the youths out of the car at gunpoint and handcuffed them, while they searched the car and ran background checks on the car to see if it was stolen and on the youths to see if any had criminal records. They found nothing. None of the youths had a criminal record, and they were subsequently not charged at all.

But at the beginning of this hour-long ordeal, a police-car camera captured this exchange between one of the police officers and one of the youths he was handcuffing: “Plain and simple,” the officer says, “if you [profanity] with me, I’m going to break your leg before you get the chance to run.”

The youth responds, “I never said I was going to run.”

The officer answers back, “I’m just giving you a heads up. Just trying to be officer friendly right now.”

“Can you tell me,” the youth persists, “why I’m being arrested?

The officer responds, “Because I feel like arresting you.”

Is that it: that some white cops need to show these ‘colored people’ a white man can control their freedom whenever he ‘feels like’ it? Is that attitude why Officer Michael T. Slager pulled over the vehicle driven

by Walter Lamar Scott? In the aftermath of Scott’s murder, some black North Charleston residents have said that police constantly racially profile black drivers there. Comedian Chris Rock’s recent social-media posting of his being repeatedly stopped by police while driving near his suburban New Jersey home suggests that, for black and brown drivers, that otherwise legitimate police duty remains laced with racist intent.

A final question: How often does a black or brown person’s chance of surviving an encounter with a white cop come down to whether that officer or those officers have decided to be or not be “Officer Friendly” at that moment?

To put that another way: how often does it come down to whether the police officer or officers have decided at that moment to be a public servant of integrity, or a criminal?

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Is that it: that some white cops need to show these ‘colored people’ a white man can control their freedom whenever he ‘feels like’ it?”

Lee A. Daniels’ essay, “Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Great Provocateur,” appears in Africa’s Peacemakers: Nobel Peace Laureates of African Descent (2014), published by Zed Books.

His new collection of columns, Race Forward: Facing America’s Racial Divide in 2014, is available at www.amazon.com

None of this has slowed down the rate of police shootings. There are a lot of sick police officers. Some real deranged dudes.

Craig Campbell Clinician Dorchester

With the last shooting, I think it will change things. They have footage.

If that doesn’t open people’s eyes, I don’t know what will.

Edmund Droussard Auto Mechanic Boston

Yes. Now we have proof of what actually is going down instead of he-said-she-said.

Kyara

Student Hyde Park

No. Not until people in government want police to change.

Tianna

Security South Boston

I hope they will. There are cameras everywhere. That’s a good thing.

Ronnie Manifold Retired Chef Roxbury

I think so. The video shows actual facts. People will know you can’t believe cops all the time.

Devon Brown Security Roxbury

IN THE NEWS

JUAN LEYTON Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative has hired long-time Boston resident Juan Leyton as its new executive director.

“We are excited to welcome Juan Leyton as the Executive Director of DSNI as we engage our community in the work of development without displacement and working for success for every child. We are fortunate to have him join us and he follows in the footsteps of some extraordinary leaders like Chris Jones, John Barros, Greg Watson, Ro Whittington, Gus Newport and Peter Medoff,” stated Glenn Knowles, DSNI Board President.

Leyton was selected after a rigorous search and will join DSNI in May, 2015. Juan has worked extensively in the field of community economic development and community building in Boston and in Massachusetts and holds master’s degrees in community economic development and public policy. Most recently, he worked as a consul-

tant with the Local Enterprise Assistance Fund and some of Boston’s leading nonprofits like Sociedad Latino, Family Independence Initiative and the Greater Boston Latino Network.

He has also previously served as Executive Director for CityLife/ Vida Urbana and Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts. Juan and his family live in Roslindale.

“I am so pleased to be joining the DSNI team and to be part of the rich history and work of community based decision-making in developing and strengthening the Dudley neighborhood,” Leyton said. “I look forward to the opportunity to continue the organizing and planning work when as a neighborhood and a city we have so much at stake.”

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NEWSBRIEFS Boston Delegation Elects New Chair The state Legislature’s Boston Delegation last week elected Representative Evandro Carvalho (D – Dorchester) as its Chairman for the upcoming legislative session. He succeeds Representative Nick Collins (D – South Boston) who was elected as chairman of the Boston Delegation in 2013. Rep. Collins was appointed as vice chairman of the Committee on Personnel and Administration earlier this year.

“It was an honor to serve as chairman of the Boston delegation,” said Collins. “Over the last few years, my colleagues and I have worked together on many budgetary and legislative issues that impacted citizens throughout the City of Boston and across legislative districts. I am grateful for the support of my colleagues who elected me Chairman last session and I look forward to working with Rep. Carvalho and his staff as he carries the torch through the next session.”

“Thank you to the members of the Boston Delegation for their support. I am excited to take on this new responsibility,” said Carvalho. “I am looking forward to working with my colleagues in the Boston Delegation to tackle the important issues facing the City of Boston.”

The Boston Delegation is composed of the 21 State Representatives and Senators whose districts include the city of Boston. The Boston Delegation holds informational briefings for members, as well as organizing members on behalf of policies and funding that supports the City of Boston.

Charlene’s Hair Salon to close its doors after 38 years Charlene’s Hair Salon will be closing its doors after 38 years of service.

From the opening of her first salon on April 4 of 1977 in the Mass Pike Towers on Tremont Street, to an enterprise that at one time included locations in Brockton, Cambridge and Boston, Charlene’s Hair Salon has been on the ‘cutting edge’ of stylish hair care in the Greater Boston Area.

Born in Roxbury, Charlene Carroll has earned a reputation as a respected and honored African-American business owner; throughout her career mentoring and educating many of today’s salon owners. Her customer list included sports stars, media personalities and high-powered corporate clients but she always took time to provide complimentary hair care services to women served

by The Home for Little Wanderers, Rosie’s Place and Goodwill Industries.

Over the years, her hair care knowledge was sought by many global hair companies including Soft Sheen, Dudley Products and Revlon where she contributed to product development. Once featured in Black Enterprise Magazine for the earning power of her business, her styling expertise has taken her around the world teaching and competing on the platform in Beijing, Frankfurt, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Paris, Milan and London.

Since 1999, Charlene’s has been located at 53 Humboldt Avenue in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston.

On closing her doors, Carroll stated, “It’s been an honor and a privilege to have met and served thousands of clients throughout the years. I will miss operating my business, but I am excited to start the next chapter of my life. Charlene’s Hair Salon has been a wonderful family-owned business giving me the unique opportunity to work side by side with my husband and children, and provide great opportunities for my extended family”.

Going forward, Carroll will be serving clients in Brighton, MA at Universal Hair Care at 369 Washington Street. Charlene’s Hair Salon on Humboldt Avenue will be closing its doors on Friday, May 1, 2015.

Archives exhibit at State House marks Lincoln assassination Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin announced today that material from the Massachusetts Archives relating to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln will be on display at the State House on Wednesday, April 15, the 150th anniversary of that event.

The public is invited to Doric Hall in the State House to sign a book of remembrance in honor of the 15th President of the United States and to view the archival material displayed from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. near the portrait of President Lincoln.

Featured in the exhibit is a telegram sent from Washington on April 16, 1865 regarding the assassination, and an April 27 telegram to Gov. John A. Andrew from

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Secretary of War Edwin Stanton announcing the capture of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin. There is an April 17 telegram inviting Gov. Andrew to the funeral services in Washington, D.C. The exhibit includes the letter Gov. Andrew sent to Mrs. Lincoln, and both a handwritten text and published version of the Governor’s April 17 message regarding the assassination. There is a Senate resolution ordering that arm bands be worn in memory of the assassinated President.

Also on display will be the 1860 Electoral College results for Massachusetts and an 1861 document signed by Lincoln.

Olympics hearing scheduled for April 21st at 1:30 pm at Boston City Hall Boston City Council President Bill Linehan announced details last week on the next four hearings to be held by the Special Committee on the 2024 Olympics.

The hearings will focus on the following topics: n The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) 2020 Agenda n Facilities n Boston’s 2030 Effort n Financials The Special Committee on the 2024 Olympics held its first hearing, which lasted four plus hours, in March. Based on the first hearing, the committee feels that subsequent due requires additional hearings.

The Committee has scheduled the next hearing on Tuesday, April 21st at 1:30 pm in the Iannella Chamber at Boston City Hall. Dates for subsequent meetings have not yet been finalized.

The April 21st hearing will focus on the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) 2020 Agenda regarding Boston’s 2024 bid. The IOC implemented the 2020 agenda, which consists of 40 reforms that call for a more sustainable model for how the Games can be planned and executed. The 2020 agenda changes

the bidding process by inviting potential candidate cities to present a project that fits their sporting, economic, social and environmental long-term planning needs. The Special Committee on the 2024 Olympics will hold the hearing to review the 2020 agenda and ensure that the IOC’s agenda aligns with Boston’s position as an international city as well as Boston’s goals for the future.

If Boston’s 2024 bid is selected, then each neighborhood in the city will be affected differently.

The second 2024 Special Committee hearing will focus on facilities of the 2024 Games to address possible impacts on the specific neighborhoods of Boston. The hearing on facilities will explore the pros and cons of site selection and a process for development of venues if awarded the 2024 Games.

The third hearing will focus on ensuring the Boston 2024 bid coincides with the Boston 2030 effort, Boston’s long-term plan for the future of Boston, using Boston’s 400th birthday to build a framework for future growth and operations of the City while measuring our success and shortfalls. Ultimately, hosting the 2024 Olympics feasibility relies heavily on being aligned with Boston’s 2030 effort.

Lastly, the fourth hearing will take a closer look at finances, examining in depth the costs of the 2024 Games. How the games will be funded and the expected costs have been addressed in a general sense; however, as the bid moves forward, a more specific financial review is needed to ensure the 2024 Games are successful for the City of Boston.

By holding these four hearings, the Special Committee on 2024 Olympics intends to flush out key aspects of proposing a bid to compete for the 2024 Olympics. Boston is bidding for the 2024 Olympics to be the Boston Games. The Boston City Council believes these forums will be extremely valuable for Boston regardless of whether or not Boston hosts the games.

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Study: Your health could depend on where you live Even though the Affordable Care Act has helped millions of people get health insurance, quality health care is still out of reach for a large number of people of color, low-income families and those with language barriers. The high cost of insurance premiums and co-pays was the main reason cited for those who remain uninsured. The complexity of the enrollment process was also a deterrent.

Those were some of the findings in a report released Thursday by the Alliance for a Just Society that interviewed 1,200 low-income people in 10 states, including California.

The report indicated that people who were hurting the most were those living in states that had

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continued from page 1 building a treasure trove, one interview at a time. It gives you a greater appreciation, a greater visceral enjoyment of our people, the activities that we’ve been involved in, the burdens we’ve overcome. We’re an incredibly resilient people.

“The more you learn about people, the more you admire what they went through and had to do to exist and to thrive in this new land.”

This Friday, Wiley and Dorothy Terrell will host a reception for The History Makers at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston.

The History Makers dispatches trained crews to collect the stories. On average, the interviews last three hours. The interviewers gather audio, video and still images of their subjects, and then transcribe and digitize them. Last year, The History Makers donated its entire collection – now more than 5,000 interviews – to the Library of Congress, which will serve as the permanent repository for the work.

The growing collection has changed the way Richardson looks

not expanded Medicaid.

As the ACA was being rolled out, states were given the option of whether or not to expand their Medicaid program. Twenty-two states have chosen not to. The expansion allowed people whose income fell below 138 percent of the federal poverty level (about $16,000 for an individual and $33,000 for a family of four) — up from the earlier requirement of 133 percent — to enroll. It also removed the asset cap and the requirement that individuals had to have a child in order to qualify for Medicaid.

Nearly 60 percent of African Americans and 40 percent of Latinos live in states that have not expanded Medicaid.

A total of 2.2 million people at history, giving her a greater view of the interconnectedness of the black experience in the United States. She cites an interview with Lloyd Richards, the former head of the Yale School of Drama. In his interview he recounted how Harry Belafonte financed the first production of Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun in 1959.

Hansberry, Richards, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and Sidney Portier were all members of the Negro Ensemble Theatre in 1950s. Their collaborations carried on, giving birth to future generations of black actors and playwrights.

“There are a lot of instances where you don’t realize how people are connected,” Richardson says. “A lot of people wanted me to narrow the scope of the project to a single part of the country or a particular subject matter. But in taking a broad scope you see the intersections.”

Another moment of historical intersection came with Jesse Jackson’s 1988 bid for the presidency, a moment that Richardson says was particularly fruitful for black journalists.

“A lot of people came into their own during that election,” she said.

“It made their careers.”

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have been denied access to health care because nearly half the states have chosen not to expand Medicaid, noted Gary Delgado, the report’s author. Nearly half of the respondents said they live with a chronic health condition, while 16.5 percent of Latinos, 18.7 percent of African Americans, 20.9 percent of whites and 22.2 percent of people who identified as mixed race reported living with two or more chronic conditions.

In New Mexico, the second poorest state in the nation, Medicaid has not expanded, and many residents haven’t had health

insurance for 15 years, asserted panelist Adriann Barboa of Strong Families New Mexico. Many of them are frequently forced to decide whether to seek health care or put bread on the table.

In Mississippi, another state that refused to expand Medicaid, there is a high incidence of infant mortality and diabetes among immigrant workers, said panelist Antron McKay-West of Upgrade Mississippi. Not all homes have Internet access so they can’t enroll online.

At 33 percent, Latino respondents had the lowest percentage of email addresses, followed by African Americans at 50 percent.

During Open Enrollment time, many people in Mississippi were told to “go the library and use the Internet.”

“In the neighborhood where I grew up, the library is 15 miles

away,” McKay-West said.

A very small percentage (8.5 percent) of survey respondents said they had to travel about an hour to see their health care provider. But the percentage of Native American respondents (26.3 percent) was almost three times that of any other group.

Delgado, who is a visiting scholar at the Institute of Social Change at the University of California at Berkeley, said that for the ACA to be successful, the program needs to be retooled in such a way that it makes it easier for communities that have historically been left out of the American health care system to be included in it. The ACA has not addressed health care disparities — something it said it would do — making it a “valiant attempt to build a new house with old bricks,” he said.

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a bit of an understatement. Residents frequently drowned out Ahern’s answers with angry shouts during the community meeting, which was organized by DND officials to give Roxbury residents a chance to evaluate and weigh in on the two proposals.

The land in question, a row of storefronts opposite the Washington Park Mall, is currently owned by the City of Boston.

Vying for the rights to redevelop the land, Ahern is competing with the Cruz Development Corporation, a firm with decades of history in Boston’s black community. The differences between Cruz’s proposal, and the one Ahern advanced on behalf of the FPM LLC development firm couldn’t have been more stark.

Representing Cruz, Daniel Cruz presented an architect’s rendering of a four-story brick apartment building, with ground floor office space for Cruz Construction and Cruz Management’s 49 employees and one-, two- and three-bedroom units affordable to moderate-income renters on the upper three floors.

Cruz outlined his firm’s minority participation rates on past projects, showing 75 percent of the firm’s jobs on recent projects going to people of color and as much as 85 percent of all subcontracts going to minority-owned firms.

Representing FPM LLC, Ahern gave an architect’s drawing of the floor plan for renovated concrete single-story storefronts for the Warren Street property, promising to bring in between two and five retail tenants.

Sparks fly

While Cruz’s proposal sparked conversation about density, parking and urban redevelopment, Ahern’s presentation elicited angry responses from audience members, who accused the developer of coming unprepared to the meeting.

“With all due respect, that has to be the most unflattering presentation I’ve seen in this neighborhood,” said Rodney Singleton.

“Where are the renderings? You

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residency requirements for some city jobs to four or five years prior to employment. He is also passionate about his plan to create an insurance bond for Boston drivers, which he says is a matter of “dollar and cents” for drivers who are tired of paying high rates in low-income neighborhoods. Third, he hopes to bring back the school bus service for middle-schoolers that was recently cut. Lacet said he will file his papers in the coming weeks.

Another candidate, Terrance Williams, announced on Facebook in February that he planned to run, saying he hoped to “bring a fresh perspective and progressive solutions for positive transformation” to Boston.

He also ran against Yancey in 2013, nabbing roughly 31 percent of the vote.

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came unprepared.”

Last week’s meeting marks the second time Cruz and Ahern have offered competing proposals for the Warren Street site — a row of concrete storefronts between Clifford and Woodbine Streets, facing the Washington Park Mall. Back in 2011, both Cruz Construction and Ahern’s then-firm, Boston Property Development, presented their proposals at a poorly-attended community meeting that neighborhood residents said was not publicized.

The Department of Neighborhood Development scored Ahern’s proposal for a row of onestory storefronts higher than the Cruz proposal for office space and apartments. Cruz objected, citing apparent flaws in Boston Property Development’s bid, including questionable financing.

To demonstrate its capacity to finance the project, Cruz noted in a 2011 letter to DND Project Director Christopher Rooney that Boston Property Development produced a two-page computer printout showing the balances on 47 separate bank accounts with the names blacked out.

DND officials stopped the disposition process after neighborhood residents and abutters complained they were not given a chance to review the proposals.

Asked last week, DND officials did not respond by the Banner press deadline to a request for information on why they ended the disposition process in 2011.

During the 2011 bidding process, Ahern represented a firm called Boston Property Development. That year, he was listed as a manager on that firm’s corporate filing with Secretary of State’s office. This time around, Ahern is listed as the contact person for Boston Construction LLC with an address at 100 Hallet Street in Dorchester. No firm with that address is registered with the Secretary of State’s Corporations Division.

FPM LLC, short for Feeney Property Management, is run by Aiden and Bredan Feeney, according filings with the Secretary of State’s office. The developers have retained the services of Roche-Christopher Architects, a Campbell camps have vastly different coffers. Yancey’s campaign has just under $10,500, while Campbell’s has raised roughly $46,000 since mid-November, according to the latest records from the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance.

However, Yancey told the Banner that he had not begun fundraising yet, as he had been occupied with City Council matters and would not officially launch his campaign until the end of the month.

Katie Prisco-Buxbaum, Campbell’s campaign manager, said that Campbell does not yet have any official endorsements or donations from organizations, as the race still is in its early stages.

Campbell’s launch event did, however, include speeches from both Wilnelia Rivera, former director of external affairs for Governor Deval Patrick and Andrea Cabral, former Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety and Suffolk County Sheriff.

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Abutter Kim Janey poses a question during a community meeting on the city’s sale of 280-290 Warren Street. firm founded by William “Buddy” Christopher, a former Department of Neighborhood Development official whom Mayor Martin Walsh last year appointed commissioner of the city’s Inspectional Services Division.

Community questions

In the current go-around, several dozen Roxbury residents viewed the two proposals and questioned the developers extensively.

With Cruz, abutters focused many of their questions on whether the 39 parking spaces his firm is proposing for the $23 million project would be sufficient for the 51 units of housing and 49 employees his firm plans to house in the proposed building.

Danny Cruz said there is sufficient

on-street parking to absorb the building’s off-site parking needs.

In addition to their questions about minority hiring, meeting attendees questioned Ahern on the types of tenants in other commercial properties he has redeveloped and the merits of his proposed $999,000 project. Dollar stores, cell phone retailers and laundromats were depicted in a series of slides Ahern presented of other storefronts he says he has redeveloped on Dorchester Avenue, Blue Hill Avenue and River Street in Mattapan.

Daniel Cruz said his firm plans to share 10 percent of the profits generated by the development with The Freedom House, a Grove Hall-based nonprofit that provides educational and job training services. Cruz Construction

and Cruz Management, which are currently housed in different buildings, would occupy groundfloor office space in the building.

Above, 15 percent of the 51 apartments proposed would be market rate. The remaining 36 would be affordable to families earning between $42,000 and $57,000.

Two-bedroom apartments will be priced between $1,175 a month and $1,400, Cruz said.

Responding to questions from abutters, Cruz said his firm would conduct further study of parking in the area. He stressed the firm’s commitment to maintaining positive relations with neighbors.

“We’re going to be in there,” he said. “It’s not like we’re someone who puts this up and goes home.

We want to be good neighbors.”

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continued from page 1 president of the Boston branch of the NAACP. “With the introduction of body cams, citizen videos and cruiser cams, it now gives us an opportunity to get a narrative that’s closer to the truth.”

The shooting of Scott in South Carolina is a case in point, says Curry. Although Slager claimed that he feared for his life, and that Scott had reached for his Taser, the cell phone video shows otherwise: Slager fired eight bullets into Scott’s back as he slowly ran away, and planted his Taser next to Scott’s body after he died.

For African Americans, these videos of police violence confirm what they’ve known all along, says Curry.

“I think that many African Americans knew this was going on for generations,” he says. “It’s not news to us, but it’s conspiracy theory. So unless you have proof — like a video — it’s your gut against law enforcement.”

Seth Stoughton, assistant professor of law at the University of South Carolina, says that these videos are showing the broader American public — especially whites — what blacks have seen for decades.

“They’re forcing us to pay attention,” he says. “It’s also becoming impossible to deny that there’s a problem. They might still say that there’s no widespread problem, that there are some individual problems, but no one’s saying,

‘Yeah, that’s not happening.’ And the videos are the reason they can’t say that anymore.”

Even though it’s clear that recent videos of police violence have led to a ‘consciousness-raising,’ says Phillip Atiba Goff, cofounder and president of the Center for Policing Equity at the University of California, Los Angeles, it’s hard to quantify exactly how public opinion is shifting.

And this is part of the problem.

“Unlike everything else in this country, we don’t do public opinion attitudes towards law enforcement,” he says. “We have absolutely no national-level data on police behavior. We don’t know how many people are stopped by the police, how many people have force used against them, how many of them are sent to the hospital. We know what happens from arrest onwards, but the front-end of the criminal justice system is a massive black box.”

Because bystander videos have been instrumental in getting to the truth of many deadly police encounters with civilians, many groups such as the NAACP are calling for mandatory police body cameras. The Massachusetts legislature is considering such a bill this year.

Stoughton, who previously served as an officer with the Tallahassee Police Department in Florida, says that police body cameras can be helpful in clarifying whose version of events—the police officer’s or the suspect’s—is closer to the truth.

“It’s even more important in a lethal force situation,” Stoughton

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Celtics mascot “Lucky” the Leprechaun (left, in green) helped launch “Fit To Win,” the Celtics’ and Sun Life Financial’s rewards-based youth activity program on Wednesday, April 8 at the Roxbury YMCA. The Sun Life Fit To Win program harnesses Bostonian’s love for the green team, and provides children in grades 3-6 with a fun way to learn about maintaining a nutritious diet and healthy lifestyle. explains. “Body cameras are a critical way of getting more information out of a situation when you have only one person describing what happened.”

Stoughton cautions against an over-reliance on body cameras as a cure-all for police abuse.

“What worries me is that we’re going to put so much emphasis on them that we ignore the other important aspects of the solution,” he says, including changing police culture, training and accountability.

For instance, Stoughton says

that 98 police academies offer an average of 160 hours of force training — how to use weapons. Eighty eight percent of academies teach conflict resolution, but for an average of just eight hours.

“We need to teach de-escalation in the same way that we teach them to use a baton or pepper spray,” he comments. “It needs to be part of their weapons belt.”

Still, Curry says that videos are critical for enacting broader social change.

“When I talk to folks in the community, they often say, ‘We

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don’t even get justice when there is a video,’” he says. “Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, those cases didn’t have an outcome the community felt was just. What I say is that the video gives us public support, because if you want to change laws, hold systems and people accountable, you have to have a critical mass of public support.”

He adds: “In all these cases, although they may not provide justice for the individual and their family, they may result in a seismic shift in how we do criminal justice in this country.”

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Clockwise, from top left: Joyce Ferriabough-Bolling shares a happy moment with her son Bruce C. Bolling Jr, during dedication ceremonies of the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building; Royal Bolling Jr. addresses standing room crowd at the dedication of the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building; Liz Walker and Rev. Miniard Culpepper at the Bruce C. Bolling dedication; Joyce Ferriabough-Bolling (widow of Bruce Bolling (r)) is joined by (l-r) Deborah Bolling and widow of former Mayor Tom Menino, Angela Menino, at Bruce C. Bolling dedication.

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Those who support Boston’s entrepreneurial ecosystem have been working hard to develop a startup environment — particularly in the city’s neighborhoods — to attract young, bright and diverse minds to develop their own ventures.

Rashad Sanders is an example of how this approach might actually be working.

The South Carolina native now lives in Jamaica Plain and is drawing on the city’s various startup support organizations, including District Hall in the Innovation District, the Downtown-based Startup Institute and Smarter in the City in Dudley Square, to get his young company Loadlytics off the ground. Loadlytics is developing a web-based dispatch management system that allows trucking companies to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of operations.

A 2012 University of Tennessee graduate, with a degree in supply chain management and logistics, Sanders worked in North Carolina and then spent time at the New York office of the Startup Institute before coming to Boston in early 2014.

While Sanders said he had a good experience in New York, he also made some connections with the Boston startup scene — the Startup Institute has an office in Boston as well — and felt it would be a good place to launch new business ventures.

He took a marketing and sales job with Joust, a Boston-based (and now defunct) startup that made customer service software.

He then took a sales job with another Boston startup called NutraClick, which is developing health and wellness products.

But all the while, Sanders was formulating plans to launch his own business.

The startup gamble is a tough one. Sanders knows that, having seen Joust fail after less than a year with the company. But Loadlytics has a chance to find success evoking successful startups that bring new technology to a traditional bricks-and-mortar industry.

And it’s hard to get more traditional than trucking.

Sanders also has a self-professed, lifelong interest in trucks and trucking. His grandfather was a long-haul tractor trailer driver, so he was introduced to the work and the mechanics of trucks and trucking from an early age.

Immediately after college, Sanders also took a job as a driver manager at Celadon Trucking in North Carolina, where he worked for about a year.

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Rashad Sanders, Loadlytics founder What he saw was an industry that was reliant on the old way of doing things and had very little integration of technology to make job processes better and more efficient — especially the small trucking companies.

“When I looked closely at it and realized that the majority of trucking companies — about 96 percent — are small trucking companies, I began to see an industry that was very driven by small business that did not have access to the same level of technology and data that bigger trucking companies had access to,” Sanders said.

closely how much it should cost and just how to structure the payment details. He said the subscription is very likely to be per-truck.

The software system will be Web-based, including a mobile application, with the aim of making it as easy to use as possible for the trucking companies.

Not a tech guy, Sanders has

scored big by digging into Boston’s technology scene to connect with some developers and designers who are helping him create Loadlytics software.

His status as a first-time entrepreneur comes with challenges, but he said things are going well and that Boston startup support organizations have helped greatly.

Plus, there’s been lots of learning by trial and error on crucial business functions such as operations, managing a team and product marketing.

“I would say I learned more starting a business in these last few months than I learned all through college,” Sanders said. “There is just so much you don’t think about.”

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His goal is to make operational software that a small trucking company can afford and use to ship more stuff per truck to more locations. If it sounds simple, it’s because it is, yet that’s exactly what most trucking companies don’t have. With miniscule industry profit margins — the cost of gas being a major profit suck — most only make about four cents on the dollar, so any slight efficiency gain does impact an already meager bottom line.

“To start at that base level and try to teach them to be more efficient operationally would be a good place to start,” Sanders said. “Trucking companies have to find a more efficient way to squeeze money out of these loads, so if I can create some type of software that can help them be a little more proactive at looking at these different key metrics, then I think that will help them.”

He isn’t the only one who thinks so. Using his prior contacts in the trucking industry, Sanders has run what he is trying to do by some industry insiders and they are all very interested in what Loadlytics is developing, especially if the cost is affordable.

Loadlytics’ business model will be to sell the software as a service, which means users will pay an ongoing subscription fee for using the product. Sanders knows the price point for trucking companies will be crucial so he is examining very

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Haley House gets a home: Popular org. solidifies roots and looks to expand

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An update from the ever-changing Dudley Square: one long-time neighborhood institution is taking steps to ensure it can stay around for the long haul. Haley House signed a lease in February to purchase the property that the café and direct service organization has rented since 2006.

Bing Broderick, the executive director of Haley House, says the organization began exploring ownership as an option about five years ago when increased city and private investments in the area made it clear that the neighborhood would soon become pricier.

He says the organization’s decision in 1966 to buy the South End property where it runs its soup kitchen proved to be a similarly wise choice. “If we didn’t own in the South End, we probably wouldn’t be there now,” he says.

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The group is also branching out into the new Bolling Building, where it will open a gourmet pizza shop called Dudley Dough. The business will run on a profit-sharing model that is meant to provide greater returns to workers. Broderick says prices will be moderate in an effort to balance affordability for customers with a commitment to ensuring employees can earn a decent wage. Haley House is in the final stages of signing the lease for the pizza shop space with the city.

All in all, it’s an exciting time for the organization.

“We’re really excited about the expansion, the economic inclusion model [at the pizza shop] and the fact that we were able to buy,” says Broderick.

The organization has several events coming up in the near future as well. In celebration of its upcoming 50th anniversary, Haley House will soon run a fundraising campaign to help fund its recent purchase and other needed renovations.

Haley House will also host its third annual summer community luncheon on July 25. The event is a three-course, pay-what-you-can dinner that piggy-backs off a similar kind of event that the café hosts weekly on a smaller scale.

Of course, any changes in Dudley usually need to take the issue of parking into account — and this is no different. While the Haley House’s new purchase includes the land directly in front of it, the parcel of land next to it is currently owned by the city, which issued a request for proposals in October 2014.

RFPs are the formal way that the city requests developers to submit plans for a plot of land. The city plans to select a developer by April 29.

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Caring for the whole you MCHC springs into behavioral health care

By PARTNERS HEALTHCARE

Mattapan Community Health Center (MCHC) views spring as a time for new beginnings. It is an opportunity to improve in all aspects of life, including health. Behavioral health illness often goes untreated, because issues like depression, anxiety, or substance abuse are frequently ignored or undiagnosed. MCHC and its partners have recognized the importance of treating these issues in a patient-centered culturally-sensitive way. Dr. Azzie Young, President and CEO of Mattapan Community Health Center notes, “We are very excited to offer integrated mental health services in our community. All clients and patients are in good hands with our amazing primary care and behavioral health providers. The Health Center appreciates our partners and the leadership of our elected officials to make mental health services in Mattapan a reality.”

MCHC has created an innovative approach to behavioral health care by including this care directly with primary care. This effort was led in partnership with Boston Medical Center, Wheelock College, the Massachusetts Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment Training and Technical

Program Assistance, and three community partners. Patients can seek treatment of behavioral health illnesses just as they would for medical and dental illnesses.

Behavioral health illness may be viewed as a complex, oftentimes taboo, issue. Therefore, the Health Center educated its staff on the sensitivity of this topic, created new policies to better protect patient health information, and developed procedures to keep patients safe. These actions will ensure patients’ privacy.

A behavioral health team now works directly with primary care providers to improve the health of the Mattapan community and its surrounding areas. A full-time Social Worker and Case Manager work closely with patients and providers to ensure the highest quality care. MCHC also hired a psychiatric nurse practitioner, a psychiatrist, a substance abuse specialist, and a psychologist so that most patients’ health care needs can be addressed and treated onsite. This team-based process allows patients to avoid the long wait-times that often plague referrals to other resources.

MCHC’s Chief Medical Officer and Director of the Behavioral Health Program, Ramon Cancino, MD, MSc, states, “Integrating primary care and behavioral health

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care is the key to improving quality of care.” He goes on to say, “Patients with diabetes and depression have worse outcomes than patients who have only diabetes.

In these patients, health centers must partner with patients and address both diabetes and depression in order to save lives.”

The program also aims to increase outreach and education

about behavioral health illnesses for children, adolescents, and their parents. Social workers from Wheelock College will work with the team and the community. “Wheelock College is pleased to work with these outstanding partners who are committed to tackling the community challenge by adopting an innovative model which will reduce fragmentation and attend to the needs of the whole patient,” says Marta T. Rosa, Senior Executive Director of the Department of Government and External Affairs at Wheelock College. “Jointly we are improving recognition,

treatment, and management of psychosocial problems and coordination of care across primary care and specialty area teams at the Health Center.”

The integrated behavioral health care program started in December 2014 and has already seen more than 250 visits. Mattapan Community Health Center looks forward to seeing new medical, dental, and behavioral health patients in the Spring. Providers are accepting Existing and New Patients. If needed, the Health Center can also help individuals and families sign up for health insurance.

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Kidney failure: A leading cause of death in African Americans

Diabetes and high blood pressure largely to blame

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Most people don’t give their kidneys a second thought — until they fail. That’s probably because kidneys are associated with the indelicate task of waste production.

But kidneys do much more than manufacture urine. They filter blood to ensure certain nutrients, such as proteins and sugar, remain available to the body while removing metabolic waste. They keep a healthy balance of minerals, such as potassium and sodium, which work together for muscle contraction and normal heartbeat. They produce hormones that make vitamin D for strong bones. They stimulate the formation of red blood cells and they play a key role in regulating blood pressure.

The problem is that kidney disease is initially silent. Damage progresses slowly and quietly through five stages. Stage 5 is considered end-stage kidney failure. At that point, only two procedures — dialysis or transplantation — can keep a person alive.

Kidney failure is one of the leading causes of death in African Americans in this country. African Americans are almost four times as

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That’s because diabetes and high blood pressure — both of which are prevalent in the black community — are the two largest contributors to kidney failure. These diseases alone account for almost 71 percent of all cases, as noted by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

Other contributors to kidney disease are lupus, prolonged use of NSAIDs (ibuprofen and naproxen), cardiovascular disease, obesity and family history of kidney disease, diabetes and high blood pressure.

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Making a physical exam your primary concern

By BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER

You got one when you were born.

You got one before you started school. You got one if you played sports in high school. But somewhere along the line, you bowed out.

Day-in and day-out you’re busy with activities for yourself or your family and somehow that physical exam keeps getting pushed back. You’re generally healthy, so you reschedule or don’t make an appointment at all. A physical exam never seems to make it on your list of priorities.

But, it should.

Here’s why: An annual physical exam is the easiest way to prevent an illness. During a routine exam, you will have your blood pressure and cholesterol checked and undergo routine screenings. Those tests may identify diseases or ailments that you weren’t aware of. For example, if a physician notices that your blood pressure or cholesterol is high, they might suggest that you change your diet or start exercising. Those type of preventative measures may lower one’s risk of developing a chronic disease in the future.

Scheduling an exam: Family Medicine vs.

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When you schedule an exam at

Boston Medical Center, there are two types of primary care physicians you can choose from: family medicine and general internal medicine.

Family medicine physicians focus on caring for the whole family, with training not just in general medicine for adults, but also in pediatrics and elder care, and sometimes in obstetrics and gynecology. Essentially, family medicine physicians are equipped to treat someone from birth to death. The American Academy of Family Practice (AAFP) describes the scope of family medicine as encompassing “all ages, both sexes, each organ system and every disease entity.”

General internal medicine physicians provide a broad spectrum of care for adults only. Their training includes diagnosing and treating chronic diseases for adults, like heart disease or diabetes. Both types of primary care physicians are equipped to conduct health screenings and physical exams, and if you need specialty care, both can help ensure you get it.

Getting the most out of your exam

There are several steps you can take ahead of your exam to make it quick and easy. First, take a look at your family. Has anyone been

diagnosed with a chronic disease like diabetes or cancer? If so, put that on a list of things you need to talk to your doctor about. Did you just get a new job or switch careers? Add that too. A change in lifestyle could affect your stress level. Open lines of communication with your primary care doctor mean fewer visits to their office and more time enjoying life.

“Ultimately it comes down to trust,” said Sheila Chapman, MD, an internal medicine physician at BMC. “Primary care physicians establish close bonds with their patients because they see them consistently. That relationship allows us to better understand and address our patient’s health needs.”

As much as we like to plan ahead, the reality is you can’t always predict if you’re going to wake up feeling under the weather. That’s why Boston Medical Center’s family medicine division recently introduced sameday scheduling, the first of its kind in Boston, for existing patients.

If your physician isn’t available, someone on their team with knowledge of your health history will be able to help you.

Why Primary Care?

Primary care physicians see you regularly and know your habits,

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Dr. Sheila Chapman. lifestyle choices, family history and previous health complications— making them better equipped to help steer you in the right direction for treatment.

According to the National Institute for Health Care Reform, one in five people visit the emergency room for care they could have received from a primary care physician. “Diagnosis and treatment of a disease is an intricate multi-step process that often is difficult or unsuccessful if the patient never sees the same provider more than once,” said Gabrielle Johnson,

MD, family medicine physician at Boston Medical Center. “It ultimately benefits the patient if they are established with a primary care physician so we can come up with a plan that addresses their concern while taking their lifestyle and risk factors into account.”

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Star and director discuss miniseries Book of Negroes brought historical novel to TV screen

By KAM WILLIAMS

Center stage 20 Feet From Stardom puts a spotlight on Darlene Love

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By COLETTE GREENSTEIN

ntroduced by Bette Midler and inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, Darlene Love has long been “the voice” heard in the background of some of music’s biggest artists from Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, The Righteous Brothers and Tom Jones to Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick and Cher, just to name a few.

Since the release of the documentary 20 Feet From Stardom in 2013, which also won the 2014 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, Love’s life and her music have finally hit center stage. Directed by Morgan Neville, the film puts a spotlight on the untold and true stories of backup singers Merry Clayton, Claudia Lennear, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill, Táta Vega, The

Waters and Love, who were the voices performing behind some of the biggest names in the music business.

Since appearing in the documentary, “wonderful doors have opened for me,” says Love by phone in a recent call with the Banner. In February of this year, the 70-something singer won a Grammy in the category of Best Music Film for 20 Feet From Stardom, which she shares with Merry Clayton, Lisa Fisher and Judith Hill.

See LOVE, page 19

Aunjanue Ellis starred as Aminata Diallo in The Book of Negroes, the hit TV-miniseries based on Lawrence Hill’s award-winning best seller of the same name. Here, she and the picture’s director, Clement Virgo, share their thoughts about the adaptation of the historical novel chronicling the life of an 11-year-old girl kidnapped in Africa and enslaved for decades in the U.S. until she manages to escape to Canada.

Kam Williams: What interested you in The Book of Negroes, Aunjanue?

Aunjanue Ellis: To be honest, the first thing that interested me was seeing that the CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation] and BET [Black Entertainment Television] were partnering on the project. In my mind, I couldn’t think of two more divergent networks. Then, I found out it was based on this wonderful historical novel about a woman’s story of survival. I love doing that kind of work.

See MINISERIES, page 19

ON THE WEB To see a trailer for The Book of Negroes,

visit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNHG_3-Zad8 To order a copy of The Book of Negroes on DVD, visit: www.amazon.com/exec/

obidos/ASIN/B00RUT3DWG/ref%3dnosim/ thslfofire-20

Darlene Love.

PHOTO COURTESY GURTMAN AND MURTHA ARTISTS

CANADIAN FILM CENTRE

Book of Negroes director Clement Virgo.

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Ambassadors of dance

Boston duo Wondertwins discuss their career

By COLETTE GREENSTEIN

Known for performing various forms of dance from hip hop, mime, popping, robotics and creative dance all over the world, identical twins Billy and Bobby McClain have been entertaining audiences since they were children.

Influenced by the dancers on

Soul Train, they would dance at family barbecues and receive quarters from family members for their performances. As children, they attended Boston’s annual Kite Festival and were so transfixed by the dance competitions that they vowed that they would one day enter the dance contest. And, it was at the age of ten that they made their dream happen. They entered the

contest and “we ended up winning” says Billy.

Soon after they were asked to be a part of Boston’s first professional street dance crew called The Funk Affects. They performed “a lot of extravagant shows at the Joseph Lee School,” says Bobby. At that time, they were already supporting acts behind rap artists Run DMC, KRS One, LL Cool J, EPMD and

Slick Rick. The twins were with The Funk Affects for seven years before going out on their own as The Wondertwins.

During their formative years growing up in Boston, it was all about basketball and dance for Billy and Bobby. They were allstar basketball players at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School and were being sought after by Division I schools. But the universe had other plans for the brothers. In 1989, they received a call from Bobby Brown asking them to go on his 1989 United Kingdom and U.S. Don’t Be Cruel tour.

It was a huge moment of decision in deciding their future, and so they chose dance. “It was really that call that pushed us” to dance professionally agreed both McClains.

Self-taught

PHOTO: SOPHIE BROWNE

The Wondertwins dance duo, Billy and Bobby McClain.

The six-time winners of the Apollo Theatre’s “Amateur Night” competition, Billy and Bobby never received any formal dance training. They were self-taught and they also learned from their Funk Affects teacher who wouldn’t tell them what style of dance they were performing at the time. So they soaked in various movements from ballet and jazz to hip hop.

“We love ballet and jazz,” says Billy of the dance styles they learned growing up.

The duo also has branched out to include tap and other forms of rhythm-based movement in their shows.

“Our show just keeps changing,” says Bobby. “We’re doing spiritual songs. So, when we’re doing a hip hop show they hear spiritual music and they wonder why it’s there. We see hip hop as something spiritual. We know the connection. It’s just trying to get people to see how it’s all connected.”

Studying dancers from the past has been important in their development. They’ve studied dancers such as The Nicholas Brothers, The Hines Brothers, Ben Vereen, Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. You’ll see elements from dancers of the past in their shows.

“It’s real important to pay homage to the past,” says Bobby.

“A lot of dancers don’t see that as important, especially in socalled hip hop. Their idea of old is somebody who is 30 years old. We really think that you’re

at your best as you age. We don’t think your best is at the age of 20.

You should be at your best at the age of 60, not 20.”

In addition to dancing professionally, the two believe in giving back to the community. They’ve been directors of Project RISE, a nonprofit organization located in Braintree, Mass., for almost 20 years. Their brother-in-law Robert Dixon founded the organization in 1993 because he wanted to give back, according to Bobby. Initially, it was an enrichment program for athletes, specifically for basketball players, but has since morphed into a summer enrichment and performing arts camp for inner city children and teens.

The two are busy year-round with dance and teaching. During the day they work in both the Josiah Quincy middle and upper schools in Boston. Bobby is a dance teacher and Billy works in the Operations and Discipline department. By night, they both work and divide duties booking and producing their shows as well as networking.

In 2014, The Wondertwins were invited to perform as headliners at Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, considered the “hub and mecca of dancing” by Time magazine. They were honored to be included at the prestigious festival and premiered a piece called “Broadway to Hip-Hop,” which is one third of their show “To Hip-Hop, With Love.” The show is made up of three separate pieces: “Broadway to HipHop,” “Sounds of Movement” and “L.O.V.E.,” and includes an eclectic soundtrack featuring rappers Busta Rhymes, KRS One and Sammy Davis, Jr. with poetry from Maya Angelou sprinkled in. This past February, they premiered the full show “To Hip-Hop, With Love” at the Oberon Theater in Cambridge. For the twins, they’ve long considered “hip-hop as an elegant dance.”

In the coming months, The Wondertwins will be traveling heavily. They’re preparing for performances in June at the Regent Theater in Arlington, Mass., at The Music Hall Loft in Portsmouth, N.H. in July and a Labor Day weekend show at the Detroit Jazz Festival. They’re also getting ready for an international tour to begin sometime this summer with the tour running through 2016.

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miniseries continued from page 17

KW: Did you read the book before accepting the role?

AE: Yes, I did.

KW: Clement, what inspired you to turn it into a mini-series?

Clement Virgo: The book was quite a phenomenon in Canada, where it won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and sold a million copies. I fell in love with Aminata Diallo and enjoyed reading about the period of history that she takes us through. I thought I knew about the American Revolutionary War and about my own and Canadian history. But I didn’t know about people migrating from New York to Nova Scotia, or appreciate that if you were African-American, you really had to choose sides during the Revolutionary War. And I saw Aminata as being a lot like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, where she was caught up in this twister of slavery, and all she wanted to do was get back home.

Her determination to survive was

Love

continued from page 17 Earlier this month, Love was one of the signature speakers at the 2015 Simmons Women’s Leadership Conference which was held on Thursday, April 2 at the Seaport World Trade Center. It was her first time speaking at the conference and she was thrilled to be invited.

“They want to hear about my life and they want to hear me speak,” says Love of the invitation to attend the conference.

The theme of this year’s conference was “Dare to Compete” and of its meaning to Love, she says “you have to recreate yourself.”

“To compete you have to be what they want you to be and still be yourself,” she said, adding that her love for music and performing “is about lifting up the audience.”

With a career spanning over 50 years, Love’s journey has included being a part of Phil Specter’s legendary “wall of sound” hit factory, a recurring role as Danny Glover’s wife in the Lethal Weapon movies, and roles on Broadway in Hairspray and Grease. Over the last 25 years, Love has appeared on The Late Show with David

so powerful, I felt like I had to tell the story.

KW: Given the facts brought out about the Revolutionary War by The Book of Negroes, do you think that the American colonies were on the wrong side of history? The film suggests that the British were lesser of two evils. Have blacks been mis-educated into siding with the Patriots over the British Loyalists in the same way Native Americans talk about being manipulated by movies as children into rooting for the Cowboys over the Indians?

AE: The British kept their slaves while wanting to get rid of America’s, so you can take from that what you will. It’s a lot more complicated than we’re led to believe.

mythology. The problem is that it’s been living a myth since its inception, starting with The Declaration of Independence. How can you say that all people are created equal, but mean only if they’re white and male? So, we, as its citizens, have continually had to die in the streets to force the country to live up to that promise and be more than a myth, and be a reality for all. That’s why it’s so genius that Clement has Aminata say to George Washington, “If this is what you’re claiming to be, then why do you have slaves?”

This picture does a great job of shattering the myths perpetuated in many schoolbooks.

COURTESY BET

Aunjanue Ellis.

KW: Do you think George Washington’s ex-slave, Henry Washington, should be more of a hero to African-Americans than his master, the first president of the United States? After all, he escaped from slavery and then gained his freedom by fighting with the British during the Revolutionary War. AE: America is steeped in Letterman during Christmas week, singing her holiday classic, Baby Please Come Home.

Other opportunities have come her way including singing with Bette Midler on her song, He’s Sure The Boy I Love off Midler’s latest album It’s the Girls!, singing at the White House and performing now throughout the year at festivals which she hadn’t done previously.

And, a movie about her life, based on her memoir My Name Is Love: The Darlene Love Story (which is being re-released by Harper Collins’ on June 4), is in the works under Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network. Love, who is an executive producer on the film, mentions they’re currently in production and looking for writers now. The hope is that “if 20 Feet From Stardom made people cry and laugh then the movie needs to make people feel the same way,” says Love of the upcoming project.

In the meantime, Love continues touring with concerts this month at the State Theatre in New Brunswick, N.J. and in June at B.B. King Blues Club in New York. With the success of the documentary, she’d like to do another television show, a situation comedy to “let people see the funny side of me,” she says.

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LEGAL MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. L809-C1, REHABILITATION OF TERMINAL A TAXILANE AND TAXIWAYS E (WEST) AND K (WEST), LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, MAY 06, 2015 immediately after which, in a designated room, the proposal will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE:

PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 9:00 AM LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015.

The work includes •

BITUMINOUS CONCRETE MILL AND INLAY OF TERMINAL A TAXILANE/ALLEYWAY, TAXIWAYS E (WEST) AND K (WEST) BETWEEN TERMINAL A AND TAXIWAY A.

•

CRACK REPAIR

•

PAVEMENT MARKINGS

•

SEMI-FLUSH LIGHT BASE ADJUSTMENTS

•

DUCTBANK AND HANDHOLE INSTALLATION

Bid documents will be made available beginning Wednesday, April 15, 2015.

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

The estimated contract cost is $11,900,000.00.

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

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

The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of $10,000,000. Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.

LEGAL East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2015 immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE:

The work includes DREDGING BY MECHANICAL METHOD OF SEDIMENT FROM PARTICULAR LOCATIONS, TRANSFER OF MATERIAL TO LAND, AND DEWATERING OF DREDGED MATERIAL. Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2015. Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form.

The estimated Base Bid cost is $500,000. The estimated sum of AddAlternates is $250,000.

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

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

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

This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and Affirmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246) The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000.

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

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

This contract is subject to a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than TEN AND ONE TENTH PERCENT (10.1%) of the Contract be performed by disadvantaged business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible.

This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in Article 84 of the General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246).

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

A Contractor having fifty (50) or more employees and his subcontractors having fifty (50) or more employees who may be awarded a subcontract of $50,000 or more will, within one hundred twenty (120) days from the contract commencement, be required to develop a written affirmative action compliance program for each of its establishments.

Compliance Reports - Within thirty (30) days of the award of this Contract the Contractor shall file a compliance report (Standard Form [SF 100]) if: (a)

The Contractor has not submitted a complete compliance report within twelve (12) months preceding the date of award, and

(b)

The Contractor is within the definition of “employer” in Paragraph 2c(3) of the instructions included in SF100.

The contractor shall require the subcontractor on any first tier subcontracts, irrespective of the dollar amount, to file SF 100 within thirty (30) days after the award of the subcontracts, if the above two conditions apply. SF 100 will be furnished upon request. SF 100 is normally furnished Contractors annually, based on a mailing list currently maintained by the Joint Reporting Committee. In the event a contractor has not received the form, he may obtain it by writing to the following address: Joint Reporting Committee 1800 G Street Washington, DC 20506 Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. M539-C1, BLACK FALCON CRUISE TERMINAL MAINTENANCE DREDGING, SOUTH BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive,

PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT BLACK FALCON CRUISE TERMINAL (1 BLACK FALCON AVENUE, SOUTH BOSTON MA 02127) AT 10:00 AM LOCAL TIME ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2015.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. M299-C2, SEAPORT BOULEVARD SIDEWALK RECONSTRUCTION, SOUTH BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2015 immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE:

PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 10:00 AM LOCAL TIME ON MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2015.

The work includes RECONSTRUCTION OF APPROXIMATELY 575 LINEAR FEET OF SIDEWALK, IN TWO DISCONTINUOUS AREAS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF SEAPORT BOULEVARD BETWEEN B STREET AND THE BOSTON FISH PIER IN SOUTH BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. WORK ITEMS TO BE COMPLETED INCLUDE: •

DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SITE FEATURES, CONCRETE SEAWALL CAP, PEDESTRIAN SAFETY RAILING, CONCRETE SIDEWALK AND PRECAST PAVERS, GRANITE POSTS, BENCHES AND STEPS;

•

REMOVING AND RESETTING EXISTING LIGHT POLES ON NEW FOUNDATIONS AND REPLACING EXISTING LUMINAIRES WITH LED LIGHT SOURCES;

•

FURNISHING AND INSTALLING LIGHTING FOUNDATIONS, UNDERGROUND CONDUIT AND WIRING SYSTEM, AND HANDHOLES;

•

RELOCATING AND RESETTING GRANITE CURB;

•

CONSTRUCTING GRAVEL BASE COURSE, CONCRETE SEAWALL CAP AND PUBLIC OVERLOOK, CEMENT CONCRETE SIDEWALK, DRIVEWAYS, AND PEDESTRIAN RAMPS, PRECAST CONCRETE AND GRANITE PAVERS, AND PEDESTRIAN SAFETY RAILING; AND

•

FURNISH AND INSTALL ALUMINUM AND STEEL MEMORIAL PLAQUE.

Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2015.

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

The estimated contract cost is $750,000.

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

LEGAL a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid.

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

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

This contract is subject to a Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than FIVE AND EIGHT TENTHS PERCENT (5.8%) of the Contract be performed by minority and women owned business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible.

This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in Article 84 of the General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246).

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

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

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NOTICE TO TRADE CONTRACTORS REQUEST FOR TRADE CONTRACTOR QUALIFICATIONS The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY is soliciting Statements of Qualifications from TRADE CONTRACTORS interested in performing work for L1346-C2 TERMINAL E RENOVATION ENHANCEMENTS, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. The Authority is seeking Qualification Statements from Trade Contractors who have a demonstrated experience in the construction and implementation of similar work in terms of scale and complexity as required for the Logan International Airport Terminal E. In accordance with Massachusetts construction manager at-risk requirements, MGL Chapter 149A, Section 8, Qualification Statements are being requested from trade contractors capable of performing the following classes of work: ELEVATORS. The contract includes the following scope of work: The Scope of Work will include the furnish and installation of nine (9) new three step escalators, furnish and installation of six (6) new elevators, decommissioning as per state regulations of six (6) existing escalators to be demolished and removed by others and the decommissioning as per state regulations of four (4) existing elevators to be demolished and removed by others.

The estimated cost of the trade contractors’ portion of this phase of the Project is approximately $4,600,000 and the construction duration for this phase is approximately twenty (20) months. The estimated value of work to be performed by trade contractors is as follows:

Elevators - $4,600,000

The Authority is implementing this project in accordance with MGL Chapter 149A, Sections 1 thru 13. This selection of trade contractors conforms to MGL Chapter 149A, Section 8, subsections (b) to (k) inclusive. This Request for Qualifications (RFQ) will be utilized to prequalify trade contractors capable and experienced in the construction of parking garages and terminal buildings. The Authority shall utilize a two-step process including the prequalification of trade contractors based on an evaluation of the Statement of Qualifications received in response to this solicitation, followed by an Invitation to Bidders that will only be issued to the prequalified trade contractors. A Prequalification Committee consisting of four representatives, one each from the Designer and the CM at Risk and two Massport staff.

This Prequalification Committee will be conducting a qualifications-based evaluation of submittals received from interested trade contractors in order to identify prequalified trade contractors who will be invited to respond to a written Invitation to Bidders. Please note that the Authority is not utilizing this process to prequalify subcontractors who are not trade contractors which shall be done separately in accordance with MGL C149A, Section 8, subsection (j).

Qualification Statements shall be evaluated in accordance with the following criteria; (1) Management Experience; (2) Project References including a Public Project Record and (3) Capacity to Complete including a demonstration that the contractor has the financial stability and long-term viability to successfully implement the Project. A Supplemental Information Package that discusses these Evaluation Criteria and the Prequalification Process in more detail as well as any other requirements for the Qualification Statements will be available to interested parties beginning April 16, 2015 by contacting Susan Brace at 617-568-5961 or via email at sbrace@massport.com A Project Briefing will be held on Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 9:30 AM in the Capital Programs Department, Logan Office Center, 2nd floor, 1 Harborside Drive, East Boston, MA. Attendance at the briefing is not mandatory, however, it is strongly encouraged in order to best familiarize your firm with the project details and the prequalification process.

Seven (7) copies of a bound document each limited to 20 sheets (40 pages), exclusive of covers and dividers and resumes which shall be limited to one page, shall be printed on both sides of the sheet (8 ½” x 11”) and shall be addressed to Mr. Houssam H. Sleiman, P.E., CCM, Director of Capital Programs and Environmental Affairs, and received no later than 12:00 Noon on Thursday, May 14, 2015, at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 02128-2909. Any submittal that exceeds the page limit set here or that is not received in the Capital Programs Department by the above deadline shall be rejected as non-responsive.

Questions regarding this RFQ shall be submitted in writing and directed to cpbidquestions@massport.com with the Project name and number included in the subject line of the email.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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BANNER CLASSIFIEDS

LEGAL NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CLASSIFIED LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

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

Sub-Bids at 12:00 Noon:

May 13, 2015

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

General Bids at 2:00 PM:

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Modernization of the Main Lobby and Common Areas on Two Floors at the Saltonstall Building at the Medford Housing Authority. 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 Construction Estimate cost is $200,000.00. The estimated Total Not to Exceed Fee (Basic Services) is $25,000.00.

RFP’s can be obtained from the Medford Housing Authority, 121 Riverside Avenue, Medford, MA, and may be picked up during normal business hours, or by downloading from www.medfordhousing.org after April 8, 2015. All addenda will be posted on this web site as well. A pre-bid conference will be held on Wed., 04/22/15, @ 10:00 a.m. at the above location. RFP’s will be due by 10:00 a.m. on 05/06/15.

INVITATION TO BID

General Building Construction

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following:

Mass. State Project No.

DCR1502 Contract No. DC1

BID NO.

DESCRIPTION

DATE

TIME

**OP-284

RFQ/P Prescription Eyewear Authority Wide

05/01/15

11:00 a.m

**OP-275

Fire Alarm System Service Metro Boston

05/07/15

2:00 p.m.

**6438

Cathodic Protection Testing and 05/07/15 Evaluation Program

**7431

Upgrades to Chelsea Screenhouse

05/14/15

2:00 p.m.

*WRA-4025

Purchase of Four (4) Flood Barrier Doors (per Specifications)

04/28/15

1:00 p.m.

*WRA-4021

Purchase of Composite Wastewater Sampler

04/29/15

11:00 a.m.

*WRA-4023

Purchase of Neutral Grounding Resistors

04/29/15

11:00 a.m.

*WRA-4024

Purchase of Power Quality Meters

04/29/15

11:00 a.m.

*WRA-4026

Purchase of Modular Mezzanine 04/29/15

This project is scheduled for 300 calendar days to substantial completion and in general includes: The project consists of a new Visitor Center Building for Walden Pond State Reservation. The new building is a one-story structure with partial full basement and crawl space. The pre-bid informational meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 @10:00 AM at 915 Walden St., Concord, MA. Minimum rates of wages to be paid on the project have been determined by the Commissioner of the Division of Occupational Safety under the provisions of Sections 26 and 27, Chapter 149 of the General Laws. Wage rates are listed in the contract form portion of specification book.

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

The bidding documents may be examined at the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance Bid Room, One Ashburton Place, 1st Floor, Room 107, Boston, MA 02108 Tel (617) 727-4003, bidroom.dcamm@state. ma.us. Copies may be obtained by depositing a company check, treasurer’s check, cashier’s check, bank check or money order in the sum of $100.00 payable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. No personal checks or cash will be accepted as deposits. Refunds will be made to those returning the documents in satisfactory condition on or before JUNE 10, 2015 (ten business days after the opening of General Bids) otherwise the deposit shall be the property of the Commonwealth.

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

Carol W. Gladstone COMMISSIONER INVITATION FOR BIDS MEDFORD HOUSING AUTHORITY The Medford Housing Authority (the awarding authority) invites sealed bids for a Cleaning Contract in Vacant Units. Sealed bids will be received by the MHA, 121 Riverside Avenue, Medford, MA, by Wed., May 6, 2015 @ 2:00 p.m. and publicly opened forthwith. Deliver bids in two envelopes, an outer mailing envelope, and an inner envelope clearly marked “Bids for Annual Cleaning Contract in Vacant Units.”

Bids are subject to M.G.L.c30B, Sec. 39M, c. 149, 24 CFR 85.36 and the provisions of Instructions to Bidders shall be strictly adhered to.

This one-year contract, with a renewable option for two additional years, for the cleaning of vacant units will include an estimated minimum of 60 units per year.

Estimated cost: $20,000.00.

2:00 p.m.

11:00 a.m.

*To access and bid on Events please go to the MWRA Supplier Portal at www.mwra.com. **To obtain Contract Documents send request to the MWRA’s Document Distribution Office at MWRADocumentDistribution@mwra.com.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Suffolk Probate and Family Court 24 New Chardon Street Boston, MA 02114 (617) 788-8300 SUFFOLK Division

Medford Housing Authority Request for Proposal (RFP) The Medford Housing Authority (MHA) is requesting proposals for the

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 05/07/2015. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

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

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

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

Date: April 03, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

A petition has been filed by Claudy Merlain-Moffatt of Wellington, FL 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 Claudy Merlain-Moffatt of Wellington, FL 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 05/07/2015. 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.

Suffolk Probate and Family Court 24 New Chardon Street Boston, MA 02114 (617) 788-8300 SUFFOLK Division

DOCKET NO. SU15P0576PM

In the matter of: Arthur Curtis Talley Respondent (Person to be Protected/Minor) Of: Mattapan, MA CITATION GIVING NOTICE OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF CONSERVATOR OR OTHER PROTECTIVE ORDER PURSUANT TO G.L c. 190B, §5-304 & §5-405

To all interested persons:

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

AA/EOE

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.

Estate of Marie Marthe Merlain Date of Death: 07/01/2014

A walk-thru will be held Thurs., 04/23/15 @ 10:00 a.m. at the above location.

Direct questions to Bernie Kirstein at bkirstein@medfordhousing.org or telephone: 781-396-7200, x140 until April 30, 2015.

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 Cynthia Garrett 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.

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication

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

Date: April 03, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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.

Docket No. SU15P0759GD

In the matter of Cynthia Garrett Of Roxbury, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person

Docket No. SU15P0749EA

Specifications, will be available Wed., 04/18/15 at the MHA website www. medfordhousing.org, under the “CONTRACTOR” tab, (as will any addenda) or in hard copy from the Medford Housing Authority. There is no charge for bid documents and no filed-sub-bids. All Addenda will be posted on the site.

There are currently 2 addenda including a new bid form in Addendum #2.

The bid proposal must be accompanied by a bid surety in an amount not less than 5% of the total bid (Year 1 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. Personal checks will not be acceptable. 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.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304

The Category of Work is:

E.C.C: $4,807,359

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

Date: March 19, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

SUFFOLK Division

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

And the following Filed Sub-Bids: Miscellaneous & Ornamental Iron; Waterproofing, Dampproofing & Caulking; Roofing & Flashing; Lathing & Plastering; Tile; Painting, Fire Protection Sprinkler System; Plumbing; HVAC; Electrical.

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.

The work performed under this contract is subject to the requirements of Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968.

May 27, 2015

Walden Pond Visitor Center Replacement Concord, MA

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.

To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Edith H. Talley of Mattapan, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Arthur C. Talley is in need of a Conservator or other protective order and requesting that Edith H. Talley of Mattapan, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Conservator to serve Without Surety on the bond.

The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is disabled, that a protective order or appointment of a Conservator is necessary, and that the proposed conservator is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court.

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 04/23/2015. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

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

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

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

Date: March 19, 2015

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

REAL ESTATE

Docket No. SU15P0586EA

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Augustin Saintil Date of Death: 01/10/2014 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Micheline Saintil of Mattapan, 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 Micheline Saintil of Mattapan, 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 04/23/2015. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this

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BANNER CLASSIFIEDS INVITATION TO BID

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following:

DATE REAL ESTATE

BID NO.

DESCRIPTION

WRA-2432

Furnish Two (2) Chesterton Mechanical Split Seals or Equal with Two (2) Enviro Spiral Trac Seals for North Main Pump Station, Deer Island Treatment Plant

3/14/05

TIME 11:00 a.m.

Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utilities Service, Waste and Water Grants and Loan program. Special attention should be paid with respect to the (U.S.D.A.) requirements for Bids.

REAL ESTATE

All bids for this project are subject to applicable bidding laws of Massachusetts, including General Laws Chapter 30, Section 39M as amended. Attention of bidders is particularly called to the requirements as to conditions of employment to be observed and minimum wage rates to be paid For Rent under the contract as determined by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development under the provisions of the Massachusetts General ROXBURY, 2 bedroom, 3rd Laws Chapter 149, Section 26-27D, inclusive, as amended.

AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING Floor, Heat and hot water includHarrison Tower The Bidder agrees that this bid shall be good and may not$1,175 be withdrawn for ed. On bus line. a month.

Sealed bids will be received at the offices of the Massachusetts Water a period of thirty (30) working days, Saturdays, andAvailable legal holidays 1st and Sundays last month.

860 Harrison Avenue, Boston MA 02118 Resources Authority, Charlestown Navy Yard, Document Distribution Office, excluded after the opening of bids.

May 1. Call (617) 461 6904

100 First Avenue, First Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02129, up to the time and date listed above at may whichbetime theyupwill be Trinity publicly opened andduring read.the following The Owner reserves the right to waive any informality in bids or to reject any Applications picked from Management dates and times: or all bids if deemed in the best interest of the Town of Blackstone.

Reasonable accommodations made SECTION 00020 Harrison Tower Management Office INVITATION TO BIDAvenue, 1st Floor, Boston, MA 02118 860 Harrison

Weekdays 5/4/15– 5/29/15 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

OFFICE SPACE

TOWN OF BLACKSTONE, MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

Sealed Bids for the construction of the Elm Street Sewer Improvements for BSC Group, Inc. Saturday 5/9/15 10 a.m.

– be 1 p.m. and Wednesday, 5/20/15 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. the Town of Blackstone, Massachusetts, will received by the Department Boston, Massachusetts of Public Works at the office of the Department of Public Works, 15 St. Paul Street, Blackstone, Massachusetts until for 10:30 a.m. prevailing DORCHESTER/ MILTON Deadline completed applicationstime, to be on in lottery: March 29, 2005Inand at which time andTower placeManagement said bids will be address publiclyby 6/19/15 at 4:00 p.m.

BOSTON WATER AND SEWER COMMISSION person at the Harrison Office 1st Class Office Space opened and read aloud.

INVITATION FOR BIDS

or by mail, postmarked by 6/19/15.

Corner of Gallivan Blvd The scope of work includes furnishing and installing approximately 3,065 linThe Boston Water and Sewer Commission by its Executive Director invites and Washington St ear feet of 8-inch gravity sanitary sewer mainSELECTION with all appurtenances;

BY LOTTERY fur- sealed bids for CONTRACT # 04-308-001, WATER MAIN RELAY AND ample parking. nishing and installing approximately 8,135 linear feet of 10-inch gravity sanSEWER/DRAIN REHABILITATION IN ALLSTON/BRIGHTON, CITY PROPER, Use and Occupancy Restrictions Apply

itary sewer main with all appurtenances; furnishing and installing approxiHYDE PARK AND JAMAICA PLAIN. Bids must be accompanied by a bid $650/mo. *Preference for homeless households in accordance with the tenant selection plan. mately 4,100 linear feet of 6-inch PVC gravity sanitary sewer service condeposit, certified check, treasurer’s or cashier’s check, or in the form of a **Seven units have furnishing a preference disabledapproximately households requiring nections and all appurtenances, andforinstalling 315 wheelchair bid bond inaccessibility. the amount of 5% OF BID payable to and to become the proper$695/mo. linear feet of 4-inch and 3,475 linear feet of 6-inchHolders sanitarywelcome sewer force ty of the Commission if the bid, after acceptance, is not carried out. The bid Voucher $1500/mo. main with all appurtenances, furnishing and installing fully functional sanideposit is to be returned only when all stated conditions of the Contract doctary sewer pump stations located at the Corrosion Control Facility (CCF), ument are carried out. In addition, a performance bond and also a labor and heated For more information or an application to be sent by mail or alternate means, call Trinity Management, LLC Quickstream crossing, Fire Station, and Mill River crossing with all appurtematerials payment bond, each of a surety company qualified to do business Phone # 617-398-2610 nances, standby generator housed within a prefabricated building at the under the laws of the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Executive OWNER Quickstream and Mill River pump stations; furnishing and installing bitumiDirector, and each in the sum of 100 % OF THE CONTRACT PRICE, must be nous concrete trench pavement system reconstruction within the time Informational Sessions (permanent); will be held atwater the Management Office located atsubmitted 860 Harrison Avenue on: specified in the Contract document. Bids must be (Add Alternate 1); miscellaneous drainage Alternate submitted on the forms obtained from the Purchasing Manager, Boston Tuesday, May 5, 2015improvements at 2:00 PM and(Add Saturday, May3); 9, 2015 at 11:00 AM furnishing and installing associated manholes, paving, project wide mainteWater and Sewer Commission, 980 Harrison Avenue, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA nance of traffic and other appurtenances required to complete the Work as 02119, and must be submitted in sealed envelopes to the Purchasing specified in the Contract Documents.

Work must be substantially complete Manager clearlyRent marked BIDS FOR CONTRACT # 04-308-001, WATER MAIN # of Units Type Income within 1153 days of the Notice to Proceed. The estimated cost of the projRELAY AND SEWER/DRAIN REHABILITATION IN ALLSTON/BRIGHTON, CITY 6 studio 30% AMI ect is $4,500,000.00.

PROPER, HYDE $517 PARK AND JAMAICA PLAIN. Bids will be publicly opened and read at the office of the Purchasing Manager on THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 36form of a BID BOND, CASHIER’S, studio AMI Bid Security in the TREASURER’S, 60% OR CER2005 AT 10:00$1035 A.M. There will be a non-refundable charge of $25.00 for TIFIED CHECK issued by a responsible bank or trust company is required in each set of contract documents taken out. If the bidder neglects to bid on 12 studio 70% AMI $1068 the amount of five percent of the bid price payable to the Town of each and every item, it may lead to the rejection of the bid. The rate of Blackstone. wages paid to mechanics, teamsters, chauffeurs, and laborers in the work to 3 1-bedroom 30% AMI $554 be performed under the contract shall not be less than the rate of wages in Contract Documents may be examined at the following locations: the schedule determined by the Commission of Labor and Industries of the 14 1-bedroom 60% AMI $1108 Commonwealth, a copy of which schedule is annexed to the form of contract BSC Group, Massachusetts 01608 referred to herein.

Copies of said schedule may be obtained, without cost, 5 33 Waldo Street, Worcester, 1-bedroom 70% AMI $1246 F.W. Dodge Division, McGraw-Hill Information Services Co., Boston, upon application therefore at the office of the Executive Director. Before 2 2- bedroom 30% AMI $665 Massachusetts commencing performance on this contract, the contractor shall provide by Town of Blackstone, Department of Public Works, 15 St. Paul Street insurance for the payment of compensation and the furnishing of all other 19 2bedroom 60% AMI $1330 Blackstone, Massachusetts benefits under Chapter 152 of the General Laws (The Workmen’s Compensation Law, so called) to all persons to be employed under this con5 2bedroom 70% AMI Contract Documents may be obtained at the office of the BSC Group locattract and shall $1424 continue such insurance in full force and effect during the ed at 33 Waldo Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01608, from 9 a.m. to 12 term of this contract. Attention is called to Chapter 370 of the Acts of 1963, noon and 1 to 4 p.m., upon payment of a deposit of $100.00 in the form of which must be strictly complied with. No bid for the award of this project will Maximum Limit bybidder Median a check payable to the Town of Blackstone.

AnyIncome unsuccessful or Income nonbe considered acceptable unless the Contractor agrees to comply fully with bidder, upon returning such set within the time specified in the Instructions the requirement of the Minority Employee Utilization Requirement as set 2614600 and x 7799 to Bidders and good condition, will 30% be refunded Contract of the Utilization of Minority Women HHinSize AMI his payment.60% AMI forth in Article BRAVIII 70% AMIContract and the(617) Documents will be mailed via USPS to prospective bidders upon request and Owned Business Enterprises as set forth in Article X of the Contract. Included ads@bannerpub.com receipt of a separate payable to BSC Group, Inc. in the with the Contract documents are copies of the Bidder’s Certification 1 non-refundable check $20,700 $41,400 $48,250 amount of $25.00 to cover handling and mailing fees.

Statement and Weekly Utilization Report. Each Contractor must complete, his bid the Bidder’s Certification Statement. Failure to do 2 $23,650 $47,280 sign and file with $55,150 The selected contractor shall furnish a performance bond and payment bond so will result in rejection of the bid. The Weekly Utilization Reports shall be www.baystatebanner.com 3 equal to one hundred $26,600 $53,220 $62,050 with section 8.2 (ii) and (iii) of the Contract. Failure in amount at least percent (100%) of the contract price submitted in accordance /advertise as stipulated in Section 00700 GENERAL CONDITIONS of these specificato comply with the Minority Employee Utilization Requirement may result in 4 funding for this project $29,550 $59,100 $68,950 tions. Anticipated will be from the Unite States imposition of the sanctions set forth in section 8.2 (f) and (g) of the Contract.

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LEGALS The Executive Director reserves the right to reject any and all bids, or any item or items of the bid, and to waive technical defects which are not of a substantive nature if the Commissioners should determine that it is in the best interest of the Commission to do so.

REAL ESTATE

By: John F. Flynn Purchasing Manager

LEGAL NOTICE Langham Court Apartments CITY OF SOMERVILLE Now OFFICE OF HOUSING ANDLeasing COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC NOTICE Wall–to–Wall Carpet Some utilities The City of Somerville is requestingpaid comments on the City’s One-Year Action Individual & ac Plan for the period of April 1,zone 2005control to Marchheating 31, 2006 for the Community Development Block Grant Program, the Emergency Garage parking availableShelter Grant Program and the HOME Program, which are funded Kitchen pantryby the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This document will be available for On-site laundry public review and comment from Friday, February 11, 2005 to Monday, Control-access entry Planning & Community March 14, 2005 at the Mayor’s Office of Strategic

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Notice is hereby given by the Braintree Housing Authority that on March 15 and March 16, 2005 applications will be available for its one (1), two (2) & three (3) bedroom State-aided MRVP project-based housing program and three (3) bedroom Chapter 705 Family Housing Program. Placement on the waiting list will be assigned by random order (lottery).

Affordable Rental Housing Opportunity / Selection by Lottery - 1 , 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts.

MRVP Eligibility Income Limits 705 Family Housing Eligible Income Limits Number of Household Members Number of Household Members One (1) $18,620 One (1) $46,300 Two (2) $24,980 Two Rents*: (2) $52,950 # of $59,550Program Three (3) $31,340 Three (3) Type Apts. $66,150 Rents Type Four (4) $37,700 Four (4) Brookline, MA 02446 Five (5) $44,060 Five (5) 1BR $1,020 60% 2 $71,450 Applications from Brookline Six (6)1BR Six (6) pick-up $50,420 $845 50% 2 $76,750

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50% AMI $34,500 $39,400 $44,350 $49,250 $53,200 $57,150

60% AMI $41,400 $47,280 $53,220 $59,100 $63,840 $68,580

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Application willSt. beoravailable from 9:00am – 4:00 pm on March 15 and March Washington Brookline Housing 2BRat 25 $1,225 60% 6 Roosevelt 16. Interested persons may apply in person Street, Authority, 90 Longwood Ave. or 2BR (781) $1,005 50% 8 848-1484.

Braintree or obtain an application online by mail by calling Faxes PeabodyProperties.com; or by phone 2BR or 8postmarked ** 30%later will not be accepted. Applications must be received no than APRIL 19, 2005. The BHA will not accept 781.794.1000 3BR applications 60% 4 $1,400 including (Emergency Applications) that are hand delivered or postmarked after April Hot2005 WaterinIncluded 19, 2005.

The lottery will be held at 10 am on Heat April&27, the comInfo Session: 5/6/15 -4& 6PM munity building at 25- Roosevelt Street, Braintree.

Housing **Sec.8The units Braintree administered through Lottery Drawing 6/30/15 - 2PM Authority will close the MRVP family project based waiting list forAuthority one, two & Brookline Housing Both events held at three bedrooms and the 705 three (3) bedroom Family Housing Program Brookline Housing Authority wait list on March 16, 2005 at 4pm. EHO Income Limits (as of 3/6/15)*:

90 Longwood Ave., Brookline

#HH Mail completed application to: Peabody 1 2 Properties, c/o 86 Dummer Lottery, 536 Granite St., Braintree, MA 02184; or email to 3 4 86dummer@peabodyproperties.com; 5 or fax: 781.794.1001 6 Deadline: Postmarked by 6/15/15 *RentsRent: & income limits based on HUD For guidelines & subject to change. Please inquire

in advance for reasonable accommodation. Info ONEherein BEDROOM contained subject to change w/o notice.

APARTMENT

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Available in quiet Working fireplace, 2 Northfield Commons in Andover Roxbury neighborhood. baths.

All GE appliBuildingAffordable is well main- Housing ances.Lottery Master bath tained with only www.s-e-b.com three has marble tile floor apartments. Renter and whirlpool bath. responsible for heat, hot Building opposite 3BR Duplex Units & 3BR Single-Family Homes for $199,800 water and electricity. beautiful quiet park.

Your Total Monthly Housing Costs* are only $1,450 (approx.)!!!

Please contact: Please contact: Sharif Khallaq, Sharif Khallaq, *Total Monthly Housing Costs are the estimated sum of a your SAAK mortgageRealty payment (30 year, fixed rate), your monthly real-estate SAAK Realty taxes,Washington and insurance. HOA 2821 St. fees are $90/mo.

2821 Washington St. Roxbury, MA Roxbury, MA This is a lottery for the 14 affordable Homes being built at North617.427.1327 617.427.1327

field Commons. These 14 homes will be sold at affordable prices to households with incomes at or below 80% of the area median income. The first affordable homes will be ready in early 2015. All affordable homes are at least 1,900 sqft and have 3 bedrooms, two bathrooms. Homes have 9’ ceilings, and a first floor that features a kitchen with generous cabinet space and a center island with breakfast bar, a formal dining room flows to an expansive living room with large windows & first-floor laundry. The second floor features two bedrooms, a second bathroom, and a spacious loft area.

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

Rudy Crichlow, CRS 617-524-3500

For more information on the Development, the Units or the Lottery and Application Process or for reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, please visit: www.s-e-b.com/lottery or call 617.782.6900.

Buying • Selling • Relocation

Applications and Required Income Documentation must be re• 1st time home buyer assistance cieved, not postmarked, by 2 pm on May 26th, 2015

• Free home value estimate

A Public Info Session will be held on to Aprilhelp 22nd,you” 2015 at 6:00 pm at “I’m here the Activity Room in Andover’s Memorial Hall Library (2 North Main St). The lottery will be on June 9th at 6 pm the same location. www.rudycrichlow.com

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Would You Like to Own a Home in Belmont?

The Town of Belmont is offering grants to assist three First-Time Home Buyers in the acquisition of a home in Belmont. Any home is eligible, but it must meet certain housing quality standards and have a maximum price of $289,300 for a 1-BR unit or $341,000 for a 2-BR, or $362,600 for a 3-BR unit. Applicants must be at or below the following income limits: Income Limits: 1-person: $48,800 2-persons: $55,800 3-persons: $62,750 4-persons: $69,700 5-persons: $75,300 6-persons: $80,900 General Info. Sessions: Thursday April 30th at 7:00 pm and Saturday June 6th at 10 am both at the Belmont Public Library. Call for details. Applications are DUE June 15, 2015. A Lottery will be held on June 23, 2015.

For an application and additional information, contact Jennifer at Metro West CD 617-923-3505 x 4 or visit this website: http://metrowestcd.org/ housing-services/information-for-home-buyers-owners/

Promotion Coordinator (Full-time) Country 102.5 is looking for our next great Promotion Coordinator.

The ideal candidate is creative, organized, a great multitasker and has at least 2 years of promotional radio experience.

Must be able to work independently, meet deadlines and be proficient in Microsoft Office and Photoshop as well as excel in using digital platforms (Face Book, Twitter, Instagram and others). Experience coordinating and staffing outside station events and appearances is essential.

Position is full time and includes benefits. Qualified applicants can send a cover letter and resume to: hr@greatermediaboston.com ~ No phone calls, please ~ Greater Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Morning Show Co-Host (Full-time) AFFORDABLE RENTAL OPPORTUNITY One newly renovated two-bedroom apartment 297 Main Street #1, South Medford 02155 Refrigerator, electric stove, garbage disposal, dishwasher, microwave, one parking space, coin operated laundry on premises, 699 square feet living area, $1,250 per month not including utilities except water and sewer.

Access to public transportation.

Tenant will be selected by lottery.

In order to qualify, total household income cannot exceed the following maximum income limits per household size: One person household: $39,540 Two person household: $45,180 Three person household: $50,820 Four person household: $56,460 Voucher holders are welcome.

To request an application and information packet, please contact: Housing Resource Group, LLC at 781-820-8797 or hrgllc.alwan@yahoo.com or visit the Medford Public Library, 111 High Street Monday – Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 9 p.m.

Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Saturday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Tenant will be selected by lottery on Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. at the Medford Public Library.

Completed applications must be returned to the Housing Resource Group, LLC Four Raymond Street, Lexington, MA 02421 postmarked by May 5, 2015.

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Greater Media Boston has an extremely rare opening for a Morning Show Co-Host at MAGIC 106.7.

Our ideal candidate is a skilled announcer with the ability to juggle news, traffic, weather and information, in addition to interacting with the current Morning Show Co-Host. Topical events, social media skills, and a passion for radio are must haves.

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Morning Show Executive Producer (Full-time) HOT 96.9 (WBQT) is searching for an Executive Producer for our morning show! This is a rare opportunity for the right individual to guide one of Boston radio’s premier morning shows.

Ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of our audience and lifestyle, strong leadership and organization skills, prior radio experience, an outgoing personality, research skills for local and national lifestyle stories, and expertise at social networking.

If you’re ready to become part of a winning team, and think you have what it takes to impress, email your resume to: smorello@ hot969boston.com -or by mail to: Greater Media Boston Attn: Scott Morello (WBQT-FM) 55 Morrissey Blvd.

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Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R), a nonprofit based in Boston’s Back Bay and dedicated to advancing the highest ethical standards in the conduct of research, is recruiting for a full-time Operations Assistant. The Operations Assistant supports PRIM&R’s core activities by providing topnotch customer service and by coordinating event registrations, membership applications, and internal operations. The position requires an intelligent and responsible individual with attention to detail and exemplary customer service. Additional qualifications include: a BA/BS and 1 to 2 years of relevant work experience. Dedication, enthusiasm, and a committed work ethic are also a must. Experience with Microsoft Office is required. Experience with CRM databases and/or accounting packages preferred. The salary range is in the low $30Ks, commensurate with experience, and includes a robust benefits package. Interested applicants should send their resume and a writing sample to jobs@primr.org. No phone calls, please.

Deputy Director, Administration and Finance

The Deputy Director, Administration and Finance at the Massachusetts Port Authority directs the development and monitoring of Authority revenues, operating expenses and the five year capital budget. Oversees the income statement of the Authority. Provides overall financial direction and oversight of the Authority’s business operations and activities.

Will assist the Director as needed and will oversee the department in the absence of the Director.

EDUCATION LEVEL: A Bachelor’s Degree in finance, business administration, public administration or equivalent professional experience in financial policy development and implementation required. Master’s Degree preferred.

EXPERIENCE IN RELATED FIELD: A minimum of 10 years’ government, public sector management experience in an operationally diverse environment serving multiple constituencies or in the private sector business with experience managing a staff. Aviation, Real Estate, or Port properties financial experience is preferred.

Executive Legal Assistant

The Massachusetts Port Authority’s Executive Legal Assistant provides administrative and project management support to the Chief Legal Counsel, and other attorneys and staff as assigned to facilitate the functioning of the Legal Department.

EDUCATION LEVEL: An Associate’s Degree, secretarial school certificate or equivalent work experience required.

EXPERIENCE IN RELATED FIELD: 2 - 5 years’ office administration experience required. Experience working in a law office is preferred.

The Massachusetts Port Authority’s Legal Department, which provides legal services for the Members of the Authority, the Chief Executive Officer, and all of the Authority’s operating and support departments, is currently seeking two attorneys as set forth below:

LEGAL COUNSEL/Real Estate:

Provides in-house legal support to the administrative and operating departments in compliance with Massport’s policies and procedures with an emphasis on real estate, environmental, construction and contract law; with a required minimum 3-5 years of relevant or transferable experience in a public agency, corporate or law firm setting.

LEGAL COUNSEL/Governance: Provides in-house legal support to the administrative and operating departments in compliance with Massport’s policies and procedures and applicable law with an emphasis on corporate governance, compliance, employment and procurement; with a required minimum 2-4 years of relevant or transferable experience in a public agency, corporate or law firm setting.

The ideal candidates will have excellent writing and communication skills, be detail oriented, a team player, and have a desire to work in several legal practice areas. Requirements include: J.D., with knowledge and skill in legal analysis and document drafting and must be admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. For information visit www.massport.com.

Please apply online at: http://agency.governmentjobs.com/massport/default.cfm

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