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Mayor rolls out Brother’s Keeper effort City to pool resources with businesses and nonprofits

By YAWU MILLER

City officials are ready to marshal public, corporate and nonprofit resources in an unprecedented effort to improve outcomes for boys and young men of color in education, in the workforce and in criminal justice, as part of Boston’s version of the national My Brother’s Keeper effort.

Launched last year by President Obama, My Brother’s Keeper is a public-private partnership, funded by $80 million in donations, aimed at improving life outcomes for young men of color. Mayor Martin Walsh released the city’s action plan last week, announcing ways in which city departments will work with nonprofit and business partners to meet the goals outlined by the national program.

Saturday, hundreds filled the auditorium at the Mildred Avenue Community Center for the official launch of Boston’s My Brother’s Keeper effort. City officials, students and community activists took to the stage there to talk about their commitment to making the program a success in Boston.

“Now is the time for action,” Walsh told the gathering. “We’re not going to get equality unless we work for it.”

The effort is aimed at closing the gap between boys and young men of color and their white peers in areas ranging from graduation rates to unemployment.

“Blacks and Latinos are the highest percentage of what’s happening on the negative side of education, criminal justice and employment,” said Felix G. Arroyo, the city’s Chief of Health and Human Services, in an interview with the Banner. “We know we can’t pretend it’s not the situation.

We believe it’s entirely possible to change these outcomes. And we have found hundreds of people in the city who agree with us.”

Building on existing efforts

Much of the new plan relies on strengthening existing efforts, like the city’s summer jobs program.

Because of the increase in the state’s minimum wage, the city will allocate additional funding to the program. Other parts of the plan

See MBK, page 19

MAYOR’S OFFICE PHOTO BY ISABEL LEON

Mayor Martin J. Walsh last week kicked off a free, two-day interactive Visioning Lab as part of Imagine Boston 2030, the City of Boston’s initiative to plan for Boston’s future.

Forming Boston’s future fifteen years in advance Mayor seeks long-term city plan

By ELIZA DEWEY

Community leaders sounded a positive note this week in response to Mayor Martin Walsh’s launch of Boston’s first comprehensive, city-wide planning process in half a century.

The planning initiative, dubbed Imagine Boston 2030, was introduced at last week’s Innovative Design Alternatives Summit in Faneuil Hall. The last time Boston had such an all-encompassing blueprint for its growth was in 1965.

Brian Golden, the director of the Boston Redevelopment

Authority, recounted a challenge that Mayor Walsh issued everyone at his appointment to the city agency in December 2014.

“Boston is home to the world’s most innovative thinkers,” he recalled the Mayor saying. “Our city’s built environment should reflect this … We can balance the old and the new and we can do it with imagination.”

Holistic approach

The city’s new website for the planning program, located at www.imagine.boston. gov, says that “Imagine Boston 2030 will guide positive physical change while promoting shared

prosperity, coordinated public investments, and a healthy environment and population.” It notes that while Boston already has a wide range of planning activity currently underway in the areas of housing, transportation, climate preparedness, and the arts, this initiative would seek to ensure the plans all work in collaboration.

A video presentation at the Imagine Boston 2030 launch showcased Boston residents who were asked to name their priorities for the city for the next 15 years. The video ended with a clip of Mayor Walsh describing the process as inclusive and community-driven.

“We’re a city of working

See BOSTON 2030, page 9

Changes just in time for Chang Mayor launches convos to reimagine schools

By ELIZA DEWEY

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Students, city officials and activists packed into the auditorium at the Mildred Avenue Community Center for the mayor’s announcement of the My Brother’s Keeper effort.

What should the high schools of the future have?

That was the question posed at a meeting Monday night at the Boston Public Schools administrative headquarters in Dudley Square. The discussion, attended by a mix of educational professionals, parents, and a handful of students, brought forth a host of hopes for the future ranging from more hands-on learning to a serious fix for inequity issues

affecting key student groups.

Marsha Innis Mitchell, head of BPS Post-Secondary Partnerships and Initiatives, highlighted advances that the school system had made in the past few decades, including a rising high school graduation rate, rising participation in Advanced Placement classes and falling drop-out rate.

“Despite all these things, we’re still here today talking about the high school of the future,” she said. “The time is really ripe for this conversation.”

She said that school officials

were particularly concerned about addressing persistent gaps among English Language Learners, special education students, low-income students and students of color.

Dan French, executive director of the Center for Collaborative Education, helped to facilitate the event. He said that high schools needed to transition to a model that emphasizes different skills from the rote memorization and information absorption that often characterized 20th century schooling – skills such as

See SCHOOLS, page 8

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Immigrant youth summit forges new connections

By ELIZA DEWEY

When Mohamed Abdi, a high school junior from Dorchester, first came to the United States from Somalia two years ago, he had a rough introduction to his new homeland.

Not long after arriving in what was supposed to be a place of promise, his mother fell sick and was unable

to work. His family was homeless for three months, teaching him a difficult lesson about his newly adopted country.

“I went to a shelter in Marlborough,” Abdi says. “Back home, I never thought about what color I was. But when I went to Marlborough, I felt like I was a different person. People look at you. You can tell it’s on their mind.”

Mohammed was one of several youth leaders who helped plan an immigrant youth summit that took place on Saturday at the Margarita Muniz Academy in Jamaica Plain.

The second annual all-day affair brought together about 40 young people from across the city, representing the Latino, Asian, African and other immigrant populations of Boston.

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Sagal Mohamed of ACEDONE and Patricia Gonzalez and Lauris Baez of CSIO, three of the youth organizers who planned the second annual Youth Immigration Summit at Margarita Muniz Academy in Jamaica Plain

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Some of organizations behind the effort – the Roxbury-based African Community Economic Development of New England, the East Boston Ecumenical Community Council, and the Center to Support Immigrant Organizing – together form the Immigrant Youth Leadership Network, which meets regularly to help bring together diverse immigrant communities.

“The network’s plan is to eradicate poverty,” said youth leader Sagal Mohamed, a 10th grader from Roxbury who was one of the lead organizers for the event. “For this summit, we tackled youth leadership and things that affected us.

We wanted to build solid relationships across groups. We’re here for each other – even though we come from difference cultures.”

“We face the same problems,” added Patricia Gonzalez, an eleventh grader from Dorchester.

“We’re sparking the idea. We can do something together.”

Saturday’s events focused on a range of topics that immigrant youth said most closely affected them: youth violence, police brutality and displacement of immigrant communities as Boston spurs ever-new development projects.

A presentation from youth organizers with the Chinese Progressive Association highlighted the concerns that many have about the fate of their communities.

“The community is made up of mostly low-income immigrants,” said John Wang in a presentation on Chinatown. ”It’s rich in Chinese culture. When luxury development comes in, the immigrants get pushed out.”

“Chinatown is not just restaurants and a McDonald’s with Chinese characters on the outside,” added Kim Situ, a youth coordinator with CPA. “Chinatown is a community of real people … without that, it’s a façade.”

The CPA presenters said that one of their most recent successes was to secure a high number of jobs for local and minority residents at the new Whole Foods that straddles Chinatown and the South End. They said they loosely followed the model of Boston’s development policy, which has mandated requirements for the number of construction jobs that must be allocated to Boston residents, women, and people of color.

They also obtained the support of

Councilor Ayanna Pressley and Boston’s Office of Economic Development. The groups behind the CPA-led push announced in January that 64 percent of new hires at the store were residents of Boston and 75 percent were people of color, including 26 percent Asian American.

The program featured a musical performance and a workshop from local artist Toussaint the Liberator. He had praises for organizers from Chinatown who have been outspoken on the Black Lives Matter movement. The CPA has been vocal in their call for police reform and explicit about the need to address police violence against black civilians in particular.

“I know that people change [the phrase] and say ‘All Lives Matter,’” he said. “But I really appreciate the fact that you all kept ‘Black Lives Matter’ intact.”

The issue of immigration status, although not a major focus on Saturday, did come up as a tie-in to the larger concerns about young peoples’ long-term opportunities.

Representatives from an EBECC summer college prep program called Escalera told attendees not to cut themselves short based on false information about their options.

“Some people do not have documents, so they think they can’t go to college,” said Alfonso Ceciliano, one of the leaders of the Escalera program. “There are resources, and we’re here to help you.”

Programs like the one on Saturday have been an important resource in Mohammed’s life. He said it was by attending youth programs like Roxbury-based ACEDONE and Global Potential that he gained a sense of confidence in the face of the difficulties he faced as a new American.

“I like how they bring people together,” he said. “I saw someone like me facilitate a workshop, so that showed me I could do it too.”

The groups from Saturday’s summit are gearing up now for their youth summer leadership programs. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Kevin Whalen at the Center to Support Immigrant Organizing, 617-742-5165.

To apply for the Escalera program or participate in EBECC’s summer soccer league, call Alfonso Ceciliano at 617-567-2750.

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Treasurer pushes for board diversity, financial literacy

By YAWU MILLER

While Treasurer Deborah Goldberg was visiting Worcester on the campaign trail last year, she noticed the proliferation of tax preparation offices sprouting up in low-income communities in the months leading up to the April 15 filing deadline.

The firms don’t offer customers a good deal, often charging hundreds of dollars for 20 minutes of work and advances on refunds with sky-high interest rates. But a general lack of understanding of how interest works, and a ready supply of low-income tax filers desperate for fast cash, keep tax preparation firms in business.

It was that dynamic that prompted Goldberg this year to launch the Office of Economic Empowerment, an effort aimed at teaching financial literacy in Massachusetts schools.

“Kids can program an iPhone 6, but they know nothing about what a bank does,” Goldberg told the Banner. “They have no clue about debt, savings and planning and budgeting. I want to go back to basics. I want to work with people, taking into consideration the community that they come from, their traditions and their cultures and making it appropriate.”

She has wasted no time in getting an educational program up and running. Her Office of Economic Empowerment has held seminars in 10 Massachusetts

schools, training students on personal finance, economics, savings, college debt and budgeting.

When Goldberg sat in on a training session her office set up at Haverhill High School, she asked the students how the seminar affected them. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive, she said.

“For every single one of them, there was a critical takeaway that will change the way in which they approach their life around money and how it will affect them,” Goldberg commented.

At Worcester Technical High School, response was similarly positive, she said.

“They asked me why these programs hadn’t been started younger and why there aren’t more programs like this throughout the schools,” Goldberg said. “That’s high school kids telling me that.

One girl said, ‘my parents told me you just take college loans and pay them later. But I learned in this program that you should not look at it that way. You need to look at what kind of loans they are and what are they going to cost you.’”

It’s not uncommon for state treasurers to teach financial literacy. In fact, Goldberg serves on the National Association of State Treasurers Financial Literacy Task Force.

A former chairwoman of the Brookline Board of Selectmen, Goldberg was elected Treasurer in the Nov. 2014 election, succeeding Steve Grossman, who vacated the post to run for governor.

She has already begun amassing

a record of reform. In March, she outlined new guidelines for the Pension Reserves Investment Management Board’s custom proxy voting guidelines, setting standards for board diversity, wage equality, renewable energy, human rights and other issues.

Goldberg’s new policy instructs the PRIM board to vote against investments in any company that has a board with less than 25 percent minorities and/or women.

Corporations seeking investment from PRIM are required to report on other issues, including energy efficiency and executive compensation, but will not be automatically excluded from investment.

Money power

As chairwoman of the PRIM board, Goldberg has oversight over the state’s investments of its $62 billion in pension funds, giving her leverage to press for social change in the corporate world.

While the PRIM board is just one of 50 state boards with investments in the corporate world, Goldberg says the investment policies can have far-reaching effects.

“This is a first step,” she said.

“People are standing up and taking notice. If a Massachusetts state treasurer with a $62 billion pension fund who has responsibility to so many retirees and so many employees is making that kind of statement, you can too.”

Goldberg is not alone in leveraging state investments for positive change. CalPERS, the California

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Treasurer Deborah B. Goldberg visits Chinatown as part of her statewide economic empowerment tour. Goldberg’s visit was geared toward raising awareness about the Commonwealth’s new Office of Economic Empowerment. state investment board with $300 billion in investments, has been screening companies it invests in for compliance with human rights, environmental and labor standards since 2000.

“There’s a whole change nationally,” Goldberg said. “We’re not only joining in, we’re also leading on certain issues.”

While investments and financial literacy typically fall under the purview of state treasurers, Goldberg says she wants to be active in other areas as well.

She launched a statewide advisory committee on wage equity in March, tapping Boston Mayor Martin Walsh to serve as honorary chairman. The effort, which has pulled together leaders from the government, nonprofit and business sectors, is aimed at developing tools to help employers review and revise their pay structures to ensure that women employees are compensated fairly.

“As long as women who are

wives, mothers and daughters are not receiving the kind of support and pay they should have, they are not becoming part of the middle class,” Goldberg said. “It’s a complete tie to the economic health of the country.”

It’s been a busy first five months for Goldberg. State treasurer is a post that sometimes has been seen as a stepping stone to higher office.

But Goldberg, who has said she has no higher electoral aspirations, has instead focused on a formidable reform agenda. Her economic empowerment tour is taking her to schools and community centers across the commonwealth. And she’s working on more initiatives, including a free tax preparation programs for low-income earners and a college savings program for children who qualify for free school lunches.

“I’m a real grassroots activist,” Goldberg told the Banner. “And now I have a platform to take grassroots activism and push it to the next level.”

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The erosion of public confidence in police Marilyn Mosby, the youthful state’s attorney for Baltimore City, Md., quelled the violence in the streets of Baltimore when she announced that her office had filed criminal charges against six police officers involved in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray. The people in the streets were elated, but many of those in law enforcement accused Mosby of being politically motivated.

She rebutted that assertion when Mosby revealed that she had conducted her own investigation into the death of the 25-year-old black citizen while in police custody, and had concluded that even Gray’s arrest was unlawful.

Gray was improperly charged by the police with having a switchblade knife, but Mosby asserts that the knife was legal. That remains an issue to be decided at the trial.

Regardless of the legality of the late Freddie Gray’s knife, the weapon he might have been packing was not the offending issue. The police were angry because Gray ran away when they tried to hassle him. Another black man, Walter Scott, was shot in the back on April 4 in North Charleston, S.C. for the same discourtesy to a police officer. That incident is indisputable because it was recorded on video.

The usual procedure is for the district attorney, or state’s attorney in Maryland, merely to express regrets to the family of the deceased and assure the crowd that there will be every effort to see that justice is done. However, the close relationship between the police and the DAs usually prevents that result.

In cities across the country the police and the district attorney are joined at the judicial hip. The police arrest those accused of a crime and gather the evidence against them while the district attorney prosecutes them in court. A conflict of interest arises when criminal charges are brought against the police. There is an expectation that the DA will be tolerant of criminal behavior by the police in performing their official duties. For this reason, observers did not expect much from Marilyn Mosby when she made her

major public announcement on May 1.

The lawyers for the police charged in the death of Freddie Gray have filed a motion to replace Mosby as the prosecutor because of an alleged conflict of interest. They assert that she cannot fairly and objectively prosecute the case because her husband, Nick Mosby, is a member of the city council. Nonetheless, the damage is done. The reputation of the EDITOR’S NOTE: nation’s urban About 50 Boston police forces has suffered another police officers blow and continearned $243,162 ues to deteriorate. in 2014, which is In Boston, and the salary of the undoubtedly elsewhere, the police highest-ranking have been able to U.S. military officer, use their political the Chairman of clout to enhance their earnings. the Joint Chiefs of The highest rankStaff. ing U.S. military commander is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who earns $243,162 per year. There are about 50 Boston police officers who earned more than that in 2014. The highest paid Boston police officer tallied $415,709 that year.

Because of ignorance and blind respect for law and order, citizens of Boston have concluded that a police captain should be paid $172,547 more than the nation’s highest military officer.

Some metropolitan police forces have begun to lose the stature that they have enjoyed for many years. Cell phone photos and videos by private citizens have revealed that the police are not always innocent as they claim of the violence against individuals. There is a growing repugnance against the police behavior and one wonders whether the people will continue to tolerate such an income inequality.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Star spangled racism?

Having just returned from a trip to Maryland with its many shrines and tributes to Francis Scott Key, who wrote the words to the Star Spangled Banner, my ambivalence with the historic context of those lyrics is heightened.

Francis Scott Key was a slaveholder and an ardent fighter against the abolition of slavery. Moreover, his sister Anne was married to Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Roger Brooke

Taney of the infamous Dred Scott Decision of 1857. In that decision Chief Justice Taney gave us the following assessment of African Americans: “… beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”

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the national anthem.

One wonders how Key’s slaves might have responded to the words “… land of the free and home of the brave.”

Some might have contemplated a similarly sounding rhyme like “… and I must flee from the home of the slave?”

This discussion will surely come to naught, but it might remind some Americans of the ambivalence with which African Americans have dealt throughout our country’s history.

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By WILLIAM E. SPRIGGS Each week, another candidate throws a hat into the ring for the 2016 presidential campaign - a constant reminder that President Barack Obama is near the end of his term. Currently, the president is engaged in a high-stakes battle, twisting the arms of the Democratic Party base and pressuring his close congressional allies, like the Congressional Black Caucus, in an attempt to hammer through a multination “trade” agreement with Pacific Ocean rim nations. That is simply very hard to understand.

The neo-liberal Washington consensus, from the International Monetary Fund to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, has concluded that the pressing challenge today is rising inequality in income and wealth. And, as all students of inequality understand, the United States - as the industrialized nation with the most extreme inequality - is at a point where inequality is retarding future growth. One reason is that inequality lowers educational attainment of too many people, and the skill of a nation’s workforce is the key to economic growth.

There appear to be additional reasons, such as the capture of the political apparatus by corporate and conservative powers like the Koch brothers with their nearly $1 billion campaign pledge, and the tilting of policies toward the haves at the top of the economic ladder to the detriment of national economic growth interests, including public investments needed for growth.

History will reflect that President Obama did steer the United States free of one of the globe’s lingering problems-stagnant economies and high unemployment in many industrialized nations. He pushed for a fiscal stimulus during his first year in office, which helped the United States rebound more successfully from this Great Recession than other nations, especially the Europeans, who stuck more closely to fiscal conservative notions that trapped them in austerity.

History will note that a key element of America’s access to health care has been greatly improved by the president’s Affordable Care Act. Yet, inequality has continued its destructive growth in the United States, despite our more robust recovery and the shrinking of the health insurance inequality gap. So, as President Obama is closing out his term, why would he spend so much political capital on a trade deal that replicates the worst elements of the post-North American Free Trade Agreement era, which have resulted in a dangerously growing U.S. trade deficit? Unfortunately, while the neo-liberal “smart Washington thinking” has had to rethink some of its policy prescriptions in light of the high costs of inequality, it still clings to its remaining plank of failed trade policy.

The president is risking a lot. In addition to trade, he also risks the ignominy of being the only Democratic president to fail to increase the federal minimum wage since its creation, joining Ronald Reagan as the only other elected president to fail to do so. Currently, House Democrats, under Rep. Bobby Scott (Va.), and Senate Democrats, under Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.), have introduced legislation to incrementally raise the minimum wage to $12 by 2020. Their legislation would restore the wage structure of the post-World War II era when wages and productivity rose together, and incomes of those at the top and bottom rose in step.

It will take heavy political lifting to avoid the historical humiliation of being the one Democrat to fail to stand in defense of one of the hallmarks of the New Deal, a bulwark of the era of America’s shared prosperity that it launched. An entrenched Republican-controlled Congress rooted in undoing the New Deal and advancing policies that have only proven to exacerbate inequality will battle to defeat a higher minimum wage.

Today, median household incomes for Americans remain below their levels in 2007, which, thanks to two terms of the Bush economy, had fallen from their peak level in 2000. Also, poverty levels for America’s families, which in 2000 were at historic lows, climbed during the Bush administration, and are even higher today. Consumption by the bottom fifth of Americans remains below their 2008 levels. With this much pain continuing in the lower half of America’s households, it is hard to understand how the president is spending so much time on something so unrelated to the issues at hand.

Finally, another component of inequality is the unresolved standing of millions of workers who lack the freedom of citizenship protections to bargain freely with their employers. The president campaigned on fixing America’s broken immigration system. Raising the wages of millions of Americans by fixing the fracture is causing inequality in our labor markets. The Executive Orders he issued to take some action on immigration will help. But, with so little time left to his term, the president must weigh more carefully what his longterm legacy will be. We don’t have time for him to waste on investment deals benefiting corporations and the 1 percent.

William E. Spriggs is a professor in the Department of Economics at Howard University

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What do you think are the greatest challenges facing black and Latino youths in Boston?

Poverty, racism and militarism. It’s important for us to start developing young leaders to fight these issues.

Leonard Lee

Division Director Dorchester

Schooling. Every time you look, another school is closing because of poor performance. You have to fight hard to get your child into a good school.

Ms. Rice Nanny Dorchester

Structural racism. It’s at the root of the low expectations that affect black and brown boys.

Liz Miranda

Program Director Roxbury

A lack of opportunity. You look at education, and they don’t have the resources that are afforded to students in more affluent areas

William Watkins Project Manager Roxbury

The lack of a positive self image and a value system.

Robert Lewis

Executive Director Mattapan

Getting out of themselves. They need to learn to do things in new ways.

Tonya David

Nonprofit Founder Roxbury

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IVÁN ESPINOZA-MADRIGAL The board of directors of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice announced the appointment of Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, a civil rights attorney, as its executive director. He will oversee litigation and advocacy work, and lead a distinguished team.

The Lawyers’ Committee is a nonprofit legal organization that safeguards the civil, social, and economic liberties of people in Greater Boston and throughout Massachusetts. The organization promotes and protects civil rights through major law reform cases, public policy advocacy, community education and community economic development initiatives.

Over the last decade, Espinoza-Madrigal has combined litigation, policy, communications and alliance-building strategies to promote social change and equality. He is seen as a bridge builder within the civil rights community and across social justice movements, particularly in connection with immigration and LGBT/HIV issues. His work has been featured in The New

York Times, The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Law Journal. He speaks nationally on civil rights issues; contributes to the Huffington Post; and provides legal commentary to CNN, Univision, and Telemundo.

“Iván has impressive experience and a powerful commitment to advancing civil rights,” said Inez H. Friedman-Boyce, Co-Chair of the Board of Directors, and a partner at Goodwin Procter LLP, a member firm. “He has a real passion and unique vision for justice,” said Lisa J. Pirozzolo, Co-Chair of the Board of Directors, and a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, another member firm.

Most recently, Espinoza-Madrigal was the legal director of the Center for HIV Law and Policy; Previously, he worked at Lambda Legal, where addressed the legal needs of LGBT and HIV-affected people of color and low-income people. He also handled MALDEF’s immigrants’ rights docket, including a challenge to Arizona’s immigration law, and

a landmark U.S. Supreme Court voting rights case. He was also an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson LLP, where he defended the first municipal identification card in the country against an attempt to dismantle the program.

He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania, and received a J.D. from NYU School of Law.

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With roots in Roxbury’s Latino community, Nuestra CDC has helped to lead the ongoing revitalization of Roxbury’s Dudley Square.

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The Dudley Square-based community development corporation Nuestra Comunidad received $2 million from the city’s Department of Neighborhood Development to construct 16 moderate-income homeownership units at Blue Hill Avenue and Edgewood Street, as part of Mayor Martin Walsh’s push to build more housing in Boston.

Nuestra Comunidad awarded $2 million to build 16 affordable for-sale homes in Roxbury Nuestra Comunidad has been awarded $2 million in funding from the Boston Department of Neighborhood Development to build 16 homeownership opportunities on a long-vacant lot on Edgewood Street, just off of Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury. The new homes will be affordable to moderate-income families.

“This award shows that Mayor Walsh is keeping his commitment to provide workforce homeownership opportunities,” said Nuestra Executive Director David Price.

Price says the homeownership development moves forward Nuestra Comunidad’s long-term efforts to bring new investment to the Blue Hill Avenue between Dudley and Quincy Streets. In 2010, Nuestra Comunidad completed its Atkins Apartments development at the corner of Blue Hill Avenue and Edgewood Street, adjacent to the new development. The organization had hoped to begin construction on the new homeownership opportunities then, but the effects of the Great Recession stalled city funding and forced the hoped-for project to languish until now.

The new homes are the first part of plans to build and sell over the next two years 38 homes that will be affordable to middle income Roxbury families. “We are excited to finally move forward with the largest new homeownership development in Roxbury in generations,”

said Price. These homes will enable moderate-income Roxbury families to make an investment in their neighborhood and avoid displacement due to gentrification.”

All 16 homes will have three bedrooms and have sales prices between $235,000 and $300,000.

Families of four with incomes between $59,616 and $98,500 will qualify to be part of a lottery to purchase the homes.

The homes were originally planned as part of a master site development of the former Kasanof Bakery factory site on Blue Hill

Avenue. A community committee worked for several years on a plan to build both rental and homeownership housing, with a design that fit into the fabric of the neighborhood. Members of the planning committee included representatives of Project Right, Quincy Geneva Housing Corporation, the Neighborhood Development Corporation of Grove Hall and individual neighbors.

One of Boston’s oldest and most successful community development organizations, Nuestra CDC has developed nearly 700 affordable

Project a result of the Mayor’s Youth Lead the Change Participatory Budget Initiative The City of Boston is undertaking an archaeological survey at the American Legion Highway Playground in historic Franklin Park to determine if proposed playground improvements will impact archaeological sites.

The American Legion Highway Playground is part of the Mayor’s “Youth Lead the Change” participatory budget initiative, a first of its kind $1 million capital budget project designed by the Mayor’s Department of Youth Engagement and Employment and chosen by Boston residents aged between 12 and 25.

City of Boston Archaeologist, Joseph Bagley, will lead his volunteer team in the dig, which began Monday. Crews will excavate approximately 30 small test units during a 1-2 week period. The entirety of the playground and surrounding park will remain open to the public during the project and all pathways and equipment will remain open.

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“This archaeological dig is a great opportunity for the young people who were involved in this project see their ideas become a reality,” said Mayor Martin Walsh.

Playground improvements include infrastructure improvements and pathway construction for children with disabilities, new exercise and play equipment, benches, and resurfacing of play areas.

As Franklin Park is a designated Boston Landmark, the Boston Parks Department submitted the Playground project for architectural, landscape, and archaeological review through the Environment Department’s Boston Landmarks Commission, where it was approved with positive comments from the Commissioners.

Deed and map research revealed that the Playground was once the location of an 18th century farmhouse, and the small hill within the playground was a potential location for Native American use. These known and potential historic resources made archaeological survey necessary prior to the commencement of construction.

“This is an ideal opportunity to explore Boston’s rural agricultural past and its deep Native history in one relatively small project,” said City Archaeologist Joe Bagley. “We are hoping that we will be able to identify archaeological deposits in the area and thoroughly document and recover important data before the Parks and Recreation Department begins their work on the new playground this summer.”

The archaeological dig will be open to the public throughout the survey, and the public may also follow the dig online through regular updates on the City Archaeology Program’s Facebook and Twitter page.

Franklin Park was created in 1884 by Frederick Law Olmsted from several private farms as part of a series of connected Boston parks called the “Emerald Necklace.”

The City Archaeology Program was established in 1983 to preserve, protect, and promote Boston’s archaeological heritage. With hundreds of known archaeological sites documented in Boston spanning nearly 10,000 years of human history, the City Archaeologist and a dedicated team of volunteers works to review development projects, excavate archaeological sites on public land, and manages over 1,000,000 artifacts excavated from dozens of archaeological surveys stored in the City Archaeology Laboratory repository.

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Taking on foreclosure in Four Corners Local coalition helps 10 families stay in homes

By ELIZA DEWEY

When Four Corners gained a stop on the Fairmount commuter rail, some wondered whether the change would bring greater transportation equity to a low-income neighborhood or unwelcomed residential displacement by attracting a wave of higher-earning transplants from outside the community.

One local group is working against the wave of gentrification hitting Boston neighborhoods by piloting a program in Four Corners to specifically target homes in foreclosure.

Two weeks ago, the Coalition for Occupied Homes in Foreclosure finalized the purchase of ten formerly foreclosed properties in the Four Corners neighborhood of Dorchester. The purchase is part of COHIF’s plan to acquire thirty occupied, foreclosed properties in the area to help families stay in their homes and prevent displacement.

Long term, the group hopes to establish a community land trust in the neighborhood as part of its Greater Four Corners Community Stabilization Pilot Project. CLTs are a land-ownership model in which nonprofit organizations own a piece of land with residential buildings on it, with the aim of bringing greater residential stability, local control of assets, and direct decision-making power to low-income communities.

Low-income neighborhoods, particularly in communities of color, were especially hard hit by the national foreclosure crisis that swept the nation in 2010.

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Maureen Flynn says the project is a good investment for those who have backed it, and that she is confident the next step in the project will prove the same.

“We’re offering a fair market return for whoever invests with us next,” she said in a conversation with the Banner. “We’re also offering the entity, whoever it is, to participate in this really cutting edge project. We think between the fact that this is a good investment opportunity and that they’ll be participating in this really cutting-edge community stabilization project, we’ ll be successful.”

Part of a bigger plan

The purchase of the ten units brings COHIF’s total holdings in the area to 14. The group plans to buy between 16 and 20 more units, all of which have been identified already. They are now in the process of securing additional financing for the next stage by tapping into a variety of sources including family trust funds, banks, and local Community Development Financial Institutions.

While the first phase took longer than expected – two years – the groups expects the next phase to move faster. Flynn says they hope to secure financing within the next 3 months and to purchase the properties by the end of 2015.

financing. The properties were originally purchased from a variety of entities, including Fannie Mae, Wells Fargo, a former homeowner via short sale, and a court-appointed receiver.

Flynn said that for banks, it can be in their favor to sell occupied, foreclosed properties to nonprofits like COHIF that can come up with the financing to purchase them.

“There is a value in quickly selling properties to an entity that wants to keep the current residents – they don’t have to go through a costly eviction process,” she said.

She added that such sales can also help banks earn a credit against their settlement liability in the historic 2012 settlement filed by 49 state attorneys general and the federal government against the country’s five largest mortgage servicers.

For quasi-public entities like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Flynn said, it is a tougher process. Fannie Mae (technically Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (technically Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) are government-backed companies that are two of the nation’s largest mortgage holders.

These agencies have internal

rules that limit their ability to sell properties below market rate to nonprofits, due to agreements with the US Treasury Department that partially govern the sale of properties they own.

Flynn says, however, that these restrictions conflict with other internal rules within Fannie and Freddie that encourage them to prioritize sales to nonprofit groups. COHIF is advocating a change to the rules in order to create greater consistency along these lines and make it easier for groups like COHIF to purchase foreclosed properties in the future.

A model for change

How replicable will the model be? On the one hand, the project relied on the good will of investors like Kaye and Equity Trust, a nonprofit organization that provided some financing for the project.

Both shared a personal interest in the social outcomes of their investments, rather than just the bottom line. Such partners are not necessarily the norm in the housing market.

On the other hand, says Rob Crowner of Equity Trust, that is sort of the point.

“This project is a response to the larger, profit-driven market, in which the basic needs of lower-wealth members of our society, including their homes, are reduced to inputs and outputs on a spreadsheet,” he says. “So while the project necessarily operates within the market, it’s really an alternative to the market.”

Crowner adds, however, that while the model serves as a challenge to business as usual, it can be successfully replicated nationwide.

“There are many community land trusts across the country, and there is already a history of community land trusts working with government and private benefactors to acquire, rehab and permanently protect existing housing,” he pointed out. “So yes, I do think what COHIF is doing can be done in other places.”

Indeed, COHIF drew much of its inspiration from the Dudley Neighbors, Incorporated CLT started by Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in the late 1980s. Today the 30-acre project holds 225 units of affordable housing, a greenhouse, an urban farm and other community amenities. It is widely recognized as a national leader in the CLT model.

Financing for the Four Corners project was provided by the Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation, the Institute for Community Economics, Equity Trust, and the City of Boston’s Department of Neighborhood Development.

Mayor Walsh sounded a supportive note in a statement.

“As part of Boston 2030, the City of Boston’s housing plan, we highlighted land trusts and the acquisition of property by our nonprofits as an important tool to help communities fight gentrification and displacement,” he said.

“We need to make sure that those citizens who have helped improve their communities are able to stay there, and we appreciate COHIF’s work on this important issue.”

COHIF was started in 2008 by organizations including the Boston Tenant Coalition, City Life/Vida Urbana, the Planning Office for Urban Affairs, Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, CHAPA, MACDC and the Center for Social Policy.

Taking back foreclosures

In order to acquire the ten properties, COHIF utilized the help of local private developer Jonathan Kaye, who agreed to purchase the buildings and hold them for two years while the coalition gathered the required

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“What does education look like to produce learners in all of those areas?” he asked of the audience.

“And to get everyone there – not just some of the kids.”

The meeting was the second in a four-part discussion series launched by Mayor Martin Walsh and currently involving both interim BPS Superintendent John McDonough and incoming Superintendent Tommy Chang. Presenters framed the discussion as part of a community feedback process that they hope will produce a report by the fall. The report would then form the framework for action.

The bulk of the evening consisted of attendees splitting into smaller discussion groups to brainstorm their ideas.

A common suggestion was a call for students to gain more applicable life skills like financial literacy, more hands-on learning like arts programming and internships, and more educational options tailored to their specific needs, regardless of the high school they attended.

“For students who don’t plan on going to four-year colleges and didn’t go to Madison Park [the city’s only vocational technical school], what tools can these schools give them?” one woman asked rhetorically.

However, even though the evening was framed as a brainstorming session in which attendees were encouraged to think outside the box, many in attendance raised concerns about more practical and

fundamental issues.

Some noted the obvious concern about funding.

“You don’t have gym or music anymore – we cut all those things,” noted one man. “We say we don’t have the money for them, but [now] we are redesigning the schools we want.”

French encouraged people to think about the money issue in a different light.

“A lot of times when new things come along, people see it as adding onto what you already have. I would invite people to think about, ‘how do you start with the resources you have and build up from the ground up?’”

Building assets

Others raised the issue of the need to address stark racial stratification across a school system that consists of 87 percent students of color and has been shown to produce different outcomes along racial lines.

As mentioned several times during the evening, a report commissioned by the Boston Public Schools that was released in November 2014 showed that students were generally placed into different educational “tracks” as early as third grade – a pattern that had significant impact on students’ educational opportunities all the way through high school.

“You’ve got to change the mindset of the people that are teaching, administrating, legislating and experimenting on our kids,” said Sharon Hinton, a Hyde Park resident who has a daughter in the 11th grade, during her small group discussion. “You have to change the paradigm so it’s asset-based and not a deficit model.”

She also noted the lack of

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Kalise Osula, a senior at Boston Community Leadership Academy and member of the Boston Student Advisory Council, raised the issue of the lack of students to presenters.

“What are you doing to ensure students know about these meetings?” she asked.

Shared engagement

French and Innis Mitchell stressed their willingness to engage students in the discussion, pointing to steps they had taken, such as contacting some student groups about the forums, speaking with the Mayor’s Youth Council and asking headmasters to hold their own meetings in their schools.

Osula noted there were almost 20,000 students enrolled in BPS

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high schools. “If you don’t have input from half of those people, do you think it’s appropriate to move forward?” she asked.

Heshan Berents-Weeramuni, a BPS parent and co-chair of the BPS Citywide Parent Council, added that while he knew many parents who would want to contribute to the conversation, the school system had to remain mindful of parents’ limitations.

“You’ve put the onus of responsibility on the stakeholders,” he said. “We’d love to partner with you, but we don’t have the time nor the building.”

The facilitators said they were eager to engage all members of the BPS community.

“If you’re interested, we’ll work with you,” said Innis Mitchell.

“We’ll help you plan out a forum, we’ll help you facilitate it if you want.”

“It’s good we’re pretty much at the beginning stage of the process,” added French, stressing that as the process unfolded they hoped to

engage more people.

Abdi Ali, a teacher at Mission Hill K-8 Pilot School for twenty years, said he thought the conversation formed a good point of departure for further discussions.

“There’s a sense of urgency,” he said. “I hope people say ‘we can’t do business as usual.’”

He added a hope for reform that would affect not just students, but the teachers who dedicate their days to teaching them: “Decisions are made very far away from the classroom … Hopefully this will create a much more porous environment between policy folks and people working at this level who are more connected to schools. The fragmented system we have allows young people to fall through.”

The next meeting will be held at East Boston High School on May 20 from 4 pm to 6 pm. To learn more, visit the city’s website for the initiative at http://highschoolredesign-boston.org/.

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families, young professionals and innovators,” he said. “Most importantly, we’re a city of neighbors.

Now is our chance to set the course for the next generation.”

In his remarks after the video, Mayor Walsh emphasized that he intended for the planning process to explicitly work in cooperation with – not against – the neighborhoods.

“This isn’t about looking at the negative, this is about looking at the positive,” he said. He described conversations he had had with city councilors including Charles Yancey and Frank Baker about the good things that could come out of such a coordinate planning effort – like more restaurants in Mattapan and the opportunity for more retail space in key neighborhoods.

“It’s about ‘How do you grow as a smart neighborhood?’” Walsh said. “How do you make [Boston] grow so it fits into the neighborhoods we have?”

Community response

For city planners, the challenge to champion such wide-ranging change may be difficult.

There are two other major planning conversations happening in Boston that already have elicited strong emotions from residents – the city’s bid for the 2024 Olympic games, and the BRA’s recent push to extend most of the current “urban renewal” districts for another ten years. The term “urban renewal” brings up bad memories for many residents who lived through the city’s earlier ill-fated experimentations with it.

However, community leaders who spoke with the Banner this week expressed optimism about Imagine Boston 2030, with the condition that the Mayor stay true to his promise of a robust community process.

Luis Cotto, the executive director of Egleston Square Main Streets, sounded a positive note.

“It’s a pretty cool opportunity to say ‘We are Boston,’” he said.

“How can we tie downtown to the Eglestons of the world, in terms of education, transportation and such?”

When asked whether he had any concerns about how the process would unfold, he said the main issue was ensuring that community outreach was placed first and foremost.

“How are you getting the word out?” he asked of Imagine Boston 2030 planners. “I’ll be looking forward to seeing how they do that. … They need to bring it to the next

level – it’s not just a building going up on your corner, it’s the entire city.”

He noted a particular need for community meetings to be facilitated in Spanish and other key languages spoken in the city so planners could hear all residents’ concerns. Still, Cotto said that overall, he remained excited.

“I’m pretty psyched about the potential. What do we want to be?

The most literate city in the U.S.?

Ok, cool – what are you going to do to get there?”

Imagine Boston 2030 has stressed that it will prioritize community feedback in part by moving beyond the emphasis on the traditional town hall meeting structure. It is encouraging residents to tweet about the topic using the #ImagineBoston hashtag. It also provides a wide range of options for providing feedback on its website under the “submit your preferences for engagement” link on the website’s Frequently Asked Questions page.

Other community leaders emphasized the need for greater reform.

Lydia Lowe, co-director of Chinese Progressive Association in Chinatown, said she thought the process might provide a welcome step in the right direction, compared to the current powers vested in the Boston Redevelopment Association.

“The BRA is focused on spurring economic development – there’s a tension between that and focusing on community needs and priorities,” she said. “I’m pleased they are thinking about doing a city plan – a comprehensive plan – and not just thinking about land use.”

Lowe said she was interested in learning more as Imagine Boston 2030 moved forward, and that she hoped the experiment would bring more fundamental changes to the city.

“Since at the same time [as Imagine Boston 2030], the BRA is calling for the renewal of urban renewal, it seems that is putting us in place for the same structures, where the BRA is in charge of both planning and development,” she said.

“I think it is important to reraise the question of an independent city planning department as a longer-term reform for the city,” she added.

Multiple plans

Community leaders also raised the question of how Imagine Boston 2030 would move beyond the plans that had already been created through other former community planning processes.

Lowe referred to the 2010

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Chinatown master plan created by local residents.

“Chinatown has its own community-led plan and is urging the City to adopt our master plan or at least use it as its baseline for planning,” she said.

In a similar vein, Gail Latimore of Codman Square NDC said she hoped to see what the city-wide conversation would add to the table.

“People in our neighborhoods are planned out in some sense,” she said. “We want to move into implementation.”

“There are a lot of plans that the community has already done, covering many different areas.

If there is going to be any kind of comprehensive planning – which I think is a good idea – it has to take into consideration that there are already tons of plans that already have been done. It should build on those neighborhood plans, not duplicate or ignore them.”

Codman Square, for instance, has the Millennium Ten Plan that was completed in 2012 and began implementation in 2013. The neighboring Talbot-Norfolk Triangle, where CSNDC also works, also has a newer Eco-Innovation District Initiative, which is in the early stages of launching home energy efficiency projects and a community-shared solar panel.

Still, Latimore said she was mostly interested in learning more about the initiative as it

unfolded, as long as one key concern remained central to the conversation.

“Boston is number one [in the nation] for gentrification,” she said. “So that’s why I would welcome a comprehensive planning process, if we could really look at how we plan for equity. … Equity needs to be number one. Not an afterthought.”

An Olympic twin?

Given the timing of the Imagine Boston 2030 announcement, some members of the public have questioned whether the planning was done in tandem with – or even to help boost — the city’s Olympic bid.

Mayor Walsh flatly rejected such suggestions last week, saying the Olympics has “zero impact on our plan.”

Melina Schuler, spokesperson for Mayor Walsh, told the Banner that the concrete planning for Imagine Boston 2030 went back to fall 2014, when the Mayor charged the BRA with laying the groundwork to launch the project. She noted, however, that the Mayor called for such a citywide process during his 2013 mayoral campaign.

Of course, the Olympic bid also goes back several years – although Beacon Hill, rather than City Hall, took the lead. A volunteer exploratory committee for the games led

by local prominent business leaders — including Dan O’Connell, John Fish, the Patriots’ Bob Kraft, and former governor Mitt Romney — was formed in early 2013. By the end of 2013, a feasibility committee was formed with the help of legislation from state Senator Eileen Donoghue.

Boston was chosen as the city for the United States Olympic bid in January 2015.

The two plans also have similar endpoints. The Imagine Boston 2030 plan aims for a final plan adoption by summer 2017, which is when the International Olympic Committee will elect the host city for the 2024 games.

Ted Landsmark, the former president of the Boston Architectural College and recent appointee to the BRA board, spoke with the Banner before the Faneuil Hall launch last week. He said he became involved with the planning “several months ago.”

When asked if there was any connection between the 2030 planning and the Olympics, he focused on the shared aspect of longterm visioning for the city’s future.

“Planning for Olympics and the legacy that the Olympics could bring [the city] are a part of this insofar as the larger process gives us the opportunity to think about what we need in terms of housing and economic development,” he said.

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Entrepreneur bottles family recipes Makomas draws on founder’s Ivory Coast heritage, makes headway with local retailers

By MARTIN DESMARAIS

Magbè Savané came to the United States from the Ivory Coast with dreams of being a doctor, but life intervened — she got married and felt the urge to start a family, so she did. However, her desire to pursue a career remained and she turned to a family juice-making tradition to start her own business.

Founded late last year, her company Makomas makes three traditional juice drinks that harken back to Savané’s youth in Africa: Ginger Drink, Baobab Drink and Hibiscus Tea. Her mother sold similar beverages in small plastic bags to neighbors and town folk. As a child Savané helped her mother hand-make the drinks using all-natural and simple ingredients. The 30-year-old recalls these days fondly and said juice-making immediately popped to mind when she was considering starting her own business.

Despite being an ocean away, Savané is insistent on replicating the simple, traditional juice products she made with her mother back home. Makomas’ drinks use organic West African fruits, flowers and roots. They are crafted in small batches by Savané herself, and you won’t be puzzled by any of the ingredients on the list.

Each drink has three ingredients or fewer, in addition to water.

Ginger Drink, for example, is

water, organic ginger, organic cane sugar and organic lemon. Hibiscus Tea has even less in it, just water, organic hibiscus tea and organic cane sugar.

In the U.S, as the clamor for organic and natural products continues to rise, Makomas has already struck a nerve with its simplicity.

Savané may just be following the old family recipe for her drinks — and not trying to capitalize on a consumer trend by going organic — but she will certainly take the benefits.

Namely, in January of this year, after just a few months of making juice, she was able to get products into Whole Foods Market stores around Boston. She is in over half a dozen Whole Foods and working to get in more.

The store is a perfect fit for her juices.

“They like the product. They like the story behind it. And they wanted the product in their store,” Savané said.

She has also hit the streets to get the product in other independent stores such as Cambridge Naturals in Cambridge, Mennab Gift Shop in Roxbury, Living Earth in Worcester and even as far away as River Valley Market in Northampton.

An educated start

A 2010 graduate of Colby Sawyer College, Savané focused her education on the sciences to

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Makomas founder Magbè Savané promotes her juice drinks. prepare for medical school. When she began to think about starting a business she took advantage of programs in the Boston area that help entrepreneurs. In particular, she said she benefited from taking some classes at the Center for Women & Enterprise to help hone her business skills.

Because she runs a one-woman operation, Savané’s business training has been very helpful, offering critical insight into sales, marketing and back-end-operations.

The juice production education was provided by her mother, but Savané runs Makomas out of her Revere home and she travels

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to a production facility in Greenfield to make batches of her juices and bottle them. Savané rents out facility space and pays some temp workers to help her put together the product.

Right now, she makes the trip every other month and produces a batch of about 400 bottles of each juice. It takes her about a day to make a batch for each of the three different juices.

As the business grows, Savané expects to have to make more trips to the production facility, but she said she can expand there and even has a backup facility lined up if she needs it.

She brings the bottled products back to her home office and packs them for orders herself, but this is also something that can be ramped up, if needed, by hiring a shipping manager to handle more product.

Makomas also sells its juices online through the company website.

A personal passion

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While the potential for the business seems great, Savané seems to revel in her ability to be involved in something she has a passion for and also be around her family. The name Makomas, often mistakenly thought of as African, is actually just a combination of her name, her husband’s name, Kolo, and her son’s name, Malick.

She also likes offering a taste of the Ivory Coast here.

“The United States is supposed to be a melting pot and I wanted to be part of it, to bring something from my home country,” Savané said. “I thought, why not bring something exotic and delicious to the customer?”

This is also the reason why, though Makomas has three juice flavors — ginger, baobab and hibiscus — baobab is the drink Savané is the most passionate about.

The drink is made from the fruit of the African baobab tree, which are iconic on the African savannah.

The baobab fruit is about the size of a coconut with a velvety shell and a powdery white interior. To make it into a drink, the dry fruit pulp is mixed with water and natural sweeteners. It is part of the “superfruit” category with many claimed health benefits and six-times more vitamin C than oranges, six-times more antioxidants than blueberries, six-times more potassium than bananas and six-times more calcium than a glass of milk. The Makomas Baobab Drink has a sweet and tangy sherbet-like flavor.

Savané admits that you have to win people over to trying the baobab flavor, but the reaction is usually great.

“Once they try it they really, really like it,” she said. “It is not like anything you are expecting.”

Winning over the customers is really the main hurdle Savané sees in growing her business. Though she has found success convincing stores to stock her drink, if people don’t buy it Makomas will be yanked from the shelves quick.

“Refrigerator space is really tight at most stores and it is really hard to get space,” she said. “Now, I have to fight to keep the space.”

The immediate future of the business is very much tied to Whole Foods. The hope is to expand at the store chain throughout New England. If Makomas can get regional status with Whole Foods it would open the door to national locations, which could be a massive boost for sales and distribution.

But Savané knows it all comes back to customers liking the drink.

“My goal right now is to be able to get people addicted to my product and to be in more stores and do more marketing so people know I exist,” she said.

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eke Palmer is a multi-talented actress, singer, songwriter and talk show host who made her screen debut at the age of 10 in Barbershop 2 before landing a breakout role a couple of years later as the title character in Akeelah and the Bee. The emerging ingenue has since embarked on an enviable showbiz career in film, on TV and in music while also finding time to give back to the community.

By contrast, Oscar-nominee Queen Latifah (for the musical Chicago) started out as a hip-hop artist before adding acting to her repertoire.

She’s also proved to be a popular spokesperson for everything from Jenny Craig to Pizza Hut to CoverGirl cosmetics.

Here, the two talk about Brotherly Love, a hip-hop-driven drama starring Keke which was produced by Latifah.

Kam Williams: Queen, with all that you’ve accomplished, was it still difficult for you to get this project greenlit?

Queen Latifah: Well, it wasn’t hard to get it greenlit, because we greenlit it.

[Laughs] It’s easy when you’re the greenlighter. Really, it was more about lining up the financing. It always comes back to the dollars and cents, and finding the money to be able to fund the project and make it happen. That’s what we went on immediately, and I’m fortunate to work with a tiger who doesn’t rest until it all happens.

So, we all put it together, collectively, and made it happen.

KW: Keke, did you feel a lot of pressure having to grow from a child star into a woman under

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Keke Palmer: I definitely, at times, felt the pressures of life similar to the pressures anyone would feel growing up. The only difference was that maybe more people were aware of mine. But, if anything, I changed the pressure from negative to positive. So, instead of thinking everybody wanted to see me fail, I decided everybody wanted to see me win, since I wanted to see myself win. I’m glad and

See BROTHERLY LOVE, page 15

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Drone warfare takes toll on pilot in Afghan War saga

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Tom Egan (Ethan Hawke) is a U.S. fighter pilot who was grudgingly grounded to fight the War on Terrorism via drone technology. The good news was that the reassignment meant his life would no longer be in jeopardy, since he’d now be stationed in New Mexico on a base located in the desert where he’d engage the enemy 7,000 miles away from the theater of conflict. He was also guaranteed to see his wife, Molly (January Jones), and daughter, Jessie (Sachie Capitani), every day after work; and they no longer needed to worry about his safety.

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damage. Because he’s developed the proverbial 1,000-yard stare of a soldier who’s seen too much combat, Molly started accusing him of being emotionally distant.

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Kravitz). She’s just as disillusioned about the grisly business of dropping warheads on foreheads.

By comparison, their relatively-cavalier colleague, Danny (Michael Sheets) claims to be “Living the dream!” He’s the gung-ho type who doesn’t lose any sleep following orders from their immediate superior (Bruce Greenwood), despite the periodic presence of non-combatants in the kill zone.

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Brotherly Love continued from page 12

appreciate having people on my team who are watching and looking out for me. Let me continue to make them proud and continue to give away the gift that was given to me.

KW: Keke, how did you prepare to play Jackie?

KP: I thought it was really awesome that I got a chance to be in a movie being made right in Philadelphia. Being around a lot of kids, walking around the streets of Overbrook and actually getting to know the neighborhood helped give me an idea of what their reality was like. It was nice to discover that it wasn’t that much different from where I grew up. And then I also got to spend time with the rest of the cast, because this was an independent film. That meant we had so much more creative control and creative liberties, as well as a lot of time to spend with one another while we were trying to get everything going. I think the chemistry among the cast is what really makes the film feel so good to me. We got to work with each

other long enough to get a feel for each other and that really made the characters come to life.

KW: What message do you want people to take away Brotherly Love?

KP: I want them to get whatever they honestly get from it.

I don’t want to tell them what they should be receiving from it, ’cause that would kill the experience. But what I took away from the film was the importance of choices. Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn’t the best, you don’t realize that you have any choices. Often, kids don’t appreciate the choices available, as if it’s either the street or nothing. I want them to understand that reality is what’s relative to you, and that you can make choices that allow you to create a new reality for yourself.

KW: I can’t wait to see your upcoming new biopic about the iconic blues singer Bessie Smith. Do you have another biopic planned?

QL: Thanks. There are actually a couple floating around, but the scripts aren’t quite where they need to be for me to pull the trigger on them yet. And I’m

working on three scripts that are really close to me featuring three completely different characters from totally different time periods. So, I’m going to have a lot of fun once I decide which one’s going to go first. And I can’t wait!

[Chuckles]

KW: Keke, I am impressed with your career achievements at a young age, and I’m additionally impressed with your philanthropic work, for example, with the Boys & Girls Club, Urban Farming, Saving Our Daughters, including anti-bullying, et cetera.

What motivated you to be so involved with charitable activities?

KP: Something that was

instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service.

Over the course of my career, I’ve been fortunate to always encounter others who share that philosophy, like Queen Latifah, people who understand that when you’ve been blessed, you have to share your gifts, and you also have to help others give their gifts away.

Being of service is something that really makes me happy. Being able to tell young kids about something they might never have known without meeting someone with my experiences is what really what I feel it’s all about. I feel that’s the only way that you get

fulfillment out of life.

KW: What advice do you have to offer young girls hoping to emulate your success?

KP: To be true to your heart, and if you’re passionate about your dream, work towards it but don’t allow your idea of how you think it should manifest prevent what’s actually unfolding from happening. You know what I mean? Be present in the moment and allow yourself to be guided by God. Allow Him to guide you and just embrace every situation, good or bad, since you’re experiencing it because you’re meant to go through it.

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7 8 4 7 5 The Public Open Night at the Observatory 7 8 4 9 5 1 2 3 9 1 is a chance for people to observe the 5 8 9 2 1 4 3 6 7 night sky through telescopes and binocu- 3 4 1lars2and7see5things 3 they 6 otherwise 8 4 9might 1 6 3not4get 6to see, 9 and 7 learn 8 some 2 5 astronomy 1 8 2 SUDOKU Easy 7as well.

5 3Wednesday 8 2 9 4nights 1 from 6 2 3 488:30-9:30pm, 89 31 16 weather 24 73 permitting, 55 67 92Coit 5 9 Observatory at Boston University, located SUMMER SATURDAYS 9 Summer 3 5 is 1a six-week 6 2 program 7 8 for 4 high 72 56 64 37 45 91 89 13 28 at 725 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, right 6 7 AT PAUL REVERE HOUSE 6 school 7 8youth 4 (9th-12th 9 5 grade).

1 2 This 3 9 1 2 8 5 6 3 4 7 above the Astronomy Department. The 4 1 2 3 8 7 6 9 5 is FREE at no cost and youth Special events on Saturday after- 5 program 8 9 2 1 4 3 6 7 3 stairwell 4 7 to 2the 1 fifth 9 Observatory 36 5 18 6 29 7 is 85on 4 the can gain community service hours, learn 6 7 8 4 9 5 1 2 3 noons (1:00-3:00) in May will 1 about 2 leadership, 7 5 3 public 6 speaking, 8 4 9meet 1 floor 6 right 5 next 4 5 to 8Info: 89 9room 23 1 520.

42 3 More 67 7 feature craft demonstrations, historical 1 2 7 5 3 6 8 4 9 Call (617) 353-2630 for any questions.

PAINTING EXHIBITION new friends, and work on community 3 4 6 9 7 8 2 5 1 8 2 9 5 7 1 4 3 6 3 4 6 9 7 8 2 5 1 talks, live music, and more in the Paul 7 5 3 8 2 9 4 1 6 Simmons College Trustman Art Gallery projects.

July 6 August 14, Revere House courtyard, weather THROUGH BARBED WIRE PRES7 5 3 8 2 9 4 1 6 2 3 1 6 8 98 1 65 4 37 5 79 2 4 presents Verdant, an exhibit of paintings 12-5pm, BCNC Quincy (Boston China2 6 4PLAYGROUPS 7 5 1 9 3 8 permitting. Included with admission 1-39 YEAR OLD ENTS 4TH FRIDAY READING OF 8 9 1 6 4 3 5 7 2 4 7 1 2 6 8 3

by Elizabeth Awalt, Ken Beck and Aaron town Neighborhood Center Quincy), 275 5 With to the museum: adults $3.50, seniors free play, circle time, and parent Fink, and prints by Catherine Kernan PRISONERS’ WRITINGS 6 4 St.,7 Suite 5 200, 1 Quincy 9 3 (Across 8 6 7 8 9 3 4 1 2 5 and college students $3, children ages 2 Hancock discussion, Playgroups are a wonderful through May 29. The artists get 7-8:30pm, monthly prose/poetry parfrom North Quincy High School — next SUDOKU Moderate SUDOKU 5–17 $1. Members and North End resplace for you4and your toddler to con2 3 8 7 6 9 5 8 3 1 2 7 5 6 9 lush with nature themes at the Trustman ticipatory event focused on prisoners’ to McDonalds49 in13 North Quincy). RSVP: idents admitted free at all times. The 3 nect 1 with 5 each 87 5other 26 3 6and 9 4 7 5 1 6 2 7 8 4 4 9 8 1 2 9 7 with other Art Gallery, located on the fourth floor, 6 7 Tang 8 4 at 9 catalina.tang@ 5 1 2 3 writings as mentoring & literacy tools to 9 1 2 8 5 6 3 4 7 E-mail Catalina Revere House is open daily 9:30am 9 2 8 3 1 5 8 9 2 1 4 3 6 7 families.

Your 3 child 4 47 will 2 76 develop 8 59 5 61 social 4 3 of the Main College Building, 300 The impact youth in the community towards bcnc.net or call 5:15pm. 19 North Square, Boston.

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7 5 3 6 8 4 9 1 6 5 4 9 3 2 7 8 and emotional skills, early literacy, gross Fenway in Boston.

Free and open to the 4 6 7 5 9 1 8 2 3 3 4 6 9 7 8 2 5 1 8 2 9 5 7 1 4 3 6 making positive decisions. Audience par2 5 7 5 3 8 2 9 4 1 6 2 3 1 6 8 5 7 9 4 and5fine4motor skills, and2experience ticipation encouraged, light refreshments, public. Verdant is a salute to uncontrolled 1 6 3 9 7 8 8 9 1 6 4 3 5 7 2 5 9 4 7 1 2 6 8 3 3 2 IN PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE: SPRING TOURS AT FREDERICK 2 6 4 7 5 1 9 3 8 art and sensory nature, fecund, beautiful, rank and alive.

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8 9 3 4 1This 2 5 group is bring friends. MBTA Fields Corner #17 2 3 9 4 7 8 6 1 5 6 1 THE WEST END HOUSE LAW OLMSTED NATIONAL for parents and their children ages 1-3 bus to Quincy-Bowdoin or Ruggles #15 to It also honors art collector Sinclair Hitch8 7 6 1 5 2 3 9 4 Through August 22, The West 5 8 ings and his long commitment to Boston years. Thursdays 9:30-11:30am, Kane Sq. Created/directed by Arnie King.

HISTORIC SITESUDOKU SUDOKU SUDOKU Easy Easy SUDOKU Easy Easy End Museum will host a new exhibit in artists, who are all part of Hitchings’ Art SUDOKU Moderate SUDOKU Moderate May 22, First Parish Dorchester, 10 5 8 8 3 2 1 7 2Homes 6 7 4Community 9 7 9 Frederick Law Olmsted 16 Main 29 Exhibit 35 8 Hall.

7 4In6Pursuit 5 1Excel5 1 6 3 9 Room, 4 1National 2 3 His8 47 its 8 9 3 of 2 47 Georgetowne 5 6 9 in Boston project. Although the show is Parish St., Dorchester on Meetinghouse 96400A 74 Georgetowne 11 89 28 Dr., 43 Hyde 57 3Park.

62More 1 4 toric Site (Olmsted NHS), located at 99 3 1 5 8 2 6 9 4 7 5 37 58 The14West 6 End 2 7House 7 5 8features 9 3 5 1 6 92 lence: 6 4 3 4 79 58 61 32 4 9 8 1 2 visually rooted in the natural world, it Hill. www.arnoldking.org or through Warren Street in Brookline is offering 9 2 8 3 4 7 5 6 1 47Info: 3 Visit 6 http://familynurturing.org/drop9 5 1 7 2 86 8 6 artifacts, photographs, oral history is also a metaphorical statement about 13 9 24 3 87 2 5 1 6 5 3 4 4 8For 7 more 7 8Olmsted 4 9 65 71 82 43 9 5 9 1 1 2 2 3 8 video 5 96 ins/1-3-year-old-playgroup-1; barbedwire@yahoo.com; tel: 857-492regular tours of the6historic 4 6 7 5 9 1 8 2 3 2 5 8 7 6 3 4 9 1 and memorabilia representing over 100 the luxuriant art scene in Boston.

The 4858. Free/Donation. design office and Olmsted-designed 49 75and21locations, 5 8 9 2 1 54 83 96 27 1 4 3 3 4 6 7 7 2 6 38 times 36 1 58 8 visit 29 6 http://familynur 95 4 71 Gallery is closed for the Simmons College grounds on Fridays and Satur1 years.

5 Among 4 6 the 3 club’s 9 most 2 7distin8 3 turing.org/programs/parent-child-play2 9 1 9 28 8 35 4 76 5 64 1 7 59 3 are 6 Leonard 1 2 7 5 3 16 28 74 alumni 1 8 6 4 Nimoy 5 9 4 and 9 13 62 57 48 49 6 73 5 92 1 87 2 38 Commencement, May 15, and Memorial days at 10:00, 11:00, 1;00, 2:00, and 2 guished 3 9 4 7 8 6 1 5 WALKING TOUR: HISTORY AND 6 1 4 2 1 53 4 67 3 98 2 75 8 9 42 65 Buddy 91 7 Clark.

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24 93 56 27 3 91 4 74 8 63 1 56 3 4 6 9 7 38 crooner Day, May 25. Trustman Gallery hours are 3:00 through June 21.

The tours 8 7 6 1 5 2 3 9 4 5 8 7 6 8 74 6 19 5 22 3 91 4 3 LANDSCAPE OF THE FENS 10am - 4:30pm, Monday through Friday. reception are free and open to the public.

7 5 and 3 admis8 2 79 54 31 86 2 9 2 4 3 1 1 6 6 8 25 37 19 64 58 8 25 7 67 4 19 3 94 take roughly 45 minutes, From foul muddy flats to the parkland 5 The8 West 2 End 7 Museum 6 4 is1dedicated 3 9 to The gallery is free, open to the public 7 SHELBURNE 9 2 4 6 4COMMUNITY 1 1 96 8 33 7 58 2 5 sion is free. In addition, visitors 8 9 1 6are 4 83 95 17 62 4 3 5 5 9 7 4 2 7 1 52 96 48 73 71 9 32 2 16 5 48 8 63 of today, the Fens has undergone many and wheelchair accessible. For more the collection, preservation and interpre6 4 1 9 8 3 7 5 2 1 CENTER 4 5 TEEN 3 7 PROGRAM: 8 9 6 2 welcome to view self-guided exhibits transformations in the last 125+ years.

69 43of the 78 history 5 1 6and 9 7culture 3 8 8of9the3 64 71 82 95 3 4 1 2 5 2 6 4 7 5 21 tation information, contact Marcia Lomedico at on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 7 9 3 2 1 5 4 8 6 “FREE” for teens ages 8 6 3 5 9 2 131to 17 7 years 4 Join Emerald Necklace docents as they SUDOKU 617-521-2268, or visit the Trustman Art SUDOKU SUDOKU SUDOKU Easy West End Easy neighborhood.

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Homework 4 8 3Assistant, 1 2 7 5 Computer 6 9 4 8 3 1 2 7 5 6 9 talk and walk this historic landscape.

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Classes, Rock Wall Climbing, Field Trips, Includes stops at the Kelleher Rose 6 79 82 48 93 54 17 25 36 1 6 7 8 4 9 5highlights 1 2 3 9 14 23 86 59 65 31 47 72 8 1 2 8 5 6 3 4 7 trustman. the immigrant history of39the information on Frederick Law Olmsted 9 3 5 1 2 7 8 4 7 5 6 4 9 8 1 2 5 7 5 8 9 2 1 4 3 6 7 8 9 5 6 3 4 1 7 2 5 8 69 29 1 43 3 65 7 4 6 7 5 9 1 8 2 3 3 4 7 2 6 8 9 5 1 3 4 7 2 6 8 9 5 1 2 5 8 7 6 3 4 9 1 1 6 2 7 8 4 7 Sports 5 6 and 3 Recreation 4 9 8and 1much 2 more.

Garden with its 1,500 roses and recently 1 21 through 75 54 36 63 its 89 decimation 42 97 8 1 2 7 5 3 6neighborhood 8 4 9 1 63 52 49 91 38 25 76 84 7 1 6 5 4 9 3 2 7 8 National Historic Site, on-site tours, 6 7 8 43 4 96 9657 8under 34 2 3246Monday 8 9 56 2112 5 3 88 2 59 59 3 878 726 591-1Thursday 1 54 672 913 347 838 2:30-7pm, restored fountain and statuary, and a 11 712 582Urban 433 42Renewal 963 99 574987in 12811959; 465 49 7 5 two addi- 67 6 Hours: STILL RUNNING: and other programs, please visit 7www.

7 58 37 86 21 95 42 13 69 4 5 3 8 2 9 4 1 6 2 35 18 67 86 54 79 92 41 3 2 3 1 6 8 5 7 9 4 stroll along the paths of the oldest conFridays 2:30-9pm.

For more information 5 8 9 28 9 11 6544 3tional 3 6 7 3 4 7 2 6 8 9 5 1 3 5 8 9 1 6 4 3 5 7 2 2 5 7 9 4 8 3 6 1 5 7 2 galleries feature rotating exhibits.

5 8 2 7 6 4 1 3 9 5 9 4 7 1 2 6 8 3 8 9 2 1 4 3 6 7 5 9 4 73 1 24 6 87 3 2 7 69 2 84 1 96 3 58 5 1 nps.gov/frla or call 617-566-1689 AFRO-CUBAN ART 2 66 44 71 59 18 93 37 85 2 2 6 4 7 5 1 9 3 8 6 71 Lambright 84 95 33 47 18 or 29 Tomeka 56 2 6 7 8 9 3 contact: 4 1 2 5 Ricky tinuously operating WWII Victory Gardens Hall The Museum is located near North Sta1 2 The 7 site 5 is 3 16 28 74 59 7 39 3 621 1 856 4 485 6 9 4 9 13 9 62 8 57 4 48 18 96 63 35 39 22 51 77 24 8 7 1 8 Monday through Saturday.

Through May 29, The Multicultural in the country. Saturday, May 23, at 617-635-5213. The John Shelburne tion at 150 Staniford St., Suite 7. Hours: a 15-minute walk from the 6Brookline 3 4 9 7 8 2 5 1 Arts Center will be hosting a multi-artist 8 2 9 5 7 1 4 3 6 9 2 3 1 6 2 7 5 9 8 4 3 Tuesday 4 6 -9Friday 7 12-5pm; 8 2 Saturday 5 1 8 Community 2 9 5 Center 7 1is located 4 3 at:62730 11am - 12:30pm and Sunday, May 31, Hills Green Line MBTA station and also SUDOKU exhibition curated by Latin Art Space SUDOKU Hard SUDOKU 1-2:30pm. For more information: www.

7 5 3 8 2 SUDOKU 1 6 Hard 6 8 SUDOKU 2 6 2 64 3St., 8 5 7 7 4 9Moderate 149 79 11am 54 31-Moderate 86 Admission 2 SUDOKU 9 2 4 3is free.

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4pm. entitled Still Running. The artists showing walkable from the MBTA’s #60 bus emeraldnecklace.org/calendar/events/ 38 19 51 86 24 3863 4 1995 7 5147 1 8672 8 24 5 63 952 95 796 47 149 72 873 21 9542 67 7956 43 1438 28 8763 54 21 89 42 11 56 72 38 95 63 36 4 3 work in this exciting exhibition have work that runs between Kenmore Station may-is-historic-preservation-month/.

5 7 3 6 9 2 8 4 1 9 2 8 3 4 7 5 6 1 9 2 8 3 4 7 5 6 1 8 9 5 6 3 4 1 7 2 2 6 parking 4 7 is5 21 69 43 78 5 1 46 9 37 3 68 8 99 53 4614 1 3771 4 6822 9 9985 5 53 2 14 6 71 7 22 3 85 8 and Chestnut Hill. Limited 7 1 ranging from paintings to metal etching SUDOKU ANSWERS FROM PG 18 available on-site for4 those 6 coming 7 5 by 9 41 6 68 2 72 3 53 7 9 1 1 29 8 58 2 84 3 75 6 23 8 54 9 89 1 71 3 6 4 3 7 4 2 9 5 1 6 all touching on the close relationship JOAN GATTURNA AS 4 1 2 3 8 7 6 9 5 4 8 3 1 2 7 5 6 9 4 1 2 3 8 7 6 9 5 4 84 37 11 28 75 52 66 99 3 National between Cuba, Africa, and the Caribbean. car. Frederick Law 1Olmsted 5 4 6 9 33 5 119 62 252 75 847 47 6899 33 54 19 638 22 723 87 496 8 117 58 6 335 43 926 85 194 27 1774 588 696 355 468 936 849 114 271 27 2 Historic Site was the Brookline, MassaRACHEL REVERE 6 7 8 4 9 5 1 2 3 9 1 2 8 5 6 3 4 7 The exhibition is a homage to a forgotten 6 7 8 4 9 5 1 2 3 9 16 22 83 57 61 39 48 74 5 3 of9 America’s 4 5 87 9 228 19 436 38 691 74 4551 87 96 28 163 46 315 61 742 5 273 43 7 267 61 818 98 545 14 2932 423 755 277 699 848 983 535 166 19 7 chusetts home and2office Hear a remarkable story of the Boston visual arts and cultural movement that 1 2 7 5 3 6 8 4 9 1 6 5 4 9 3 2 7 8 1 2 7 5 3 6 8 4 9 1 69 58 44 91 36 23 75 82 7 1 3 45 6 982 73 873 21 569 16 1432 45 67 92 755 83 289 59 178 4 648 24 9 559 79 182 42 371 66 6381 234 917 569 723 172 454 391 688 43 5 premier parkmaker8and7 the6designer Tea Party, the Midnight Ride, and the thrived briefly between 1978 and 1983, 7 5 3 8 2 9 4 1 6 2 3 1 6 8 5 7 9 4 7 5 3 8 2 9 4 1 6 2 35 16 62 83 58 77 94 41 9 of the Emerald Necklace siege of Boston from the woman who Grupo Antillano. This group articulated 5 8 park 2 system.

7 8 96 1 654 45 381 56 723 22 7983 96 18 64 477 31 594 73 221 9 495 91 4 776 12 293 66 828 39 4558 971 433 786 145 293 611 828 357 65 4 2 Park 6 4 7 5 1 9 3 8 6 7 8 9 3 4 1 2 5 Now administered by the National 2 6 4 7 5 1 9 3 8 rode through life with Paul Revere. While 6 71 84 99 35 42 16 27 53 8 a Cuban culture that promoted the 6 4 1 9 8 63 7 47 3 15 8 92 4 8 9 3 1 7 42 5 5 2 36 7 18 4 49 3 56 8 32 7 7 1 8 6 9 5 6 2 2 9 Service as one of its 407 sites around her husband fanned the flames of rebelimportance of Africa and Afro-Caribbean 7 61 1 37 5 54 9 9 2 2 4 1 6 7 3 4 8 7 9 3NHS2was1 75 1 94 4 38 9 26 5 1 2 5 86 4 67 8 3 6 58 9 82SUDOKU the United States, Olmsted lion, Rachel Revere kept the home fires influences in the formation of the Cuban Diabolical SUDOKU Moderate for nearly a century the headquarters SUDOKU SUDOKU Moderate Moderate burning. Ideal for elementary school aged nation. They viewed Africa and the SUDOKU Moderate 4 3 14 57 81 28 65 92 46 79 3 3 1 5 8 2 6 9 4 7 9 7 1 8 2 1 4 5 7 3 6 6 9 576 14 282 25 848 51 937 69 33 of the first full-scale children through adults. This program surrounding Caribbean not as a dead 3 professional 1 5 89 land64 7195 6541 879 28 289 35 646973 954761 4171 2 7 84 3 26 9 945 1 757 2 138 864 35 267 93 456 19 572 28 384 1 6 2 28 33 3 9 5 4 1 6 8 2 7 4 66 72 53 97 11 89 28 34 5 4 6 7 5 9 1 8 2 3 2 58 89 71 63 34 47 92 15 6 2 5 8 7 6 3 4 9 1 scape architecture 9office is part of the Boston Public Library’s We cultural heritage, but as a vibrant, ongo2 in8the 3United 73 9252 7868 311 52 445 67 739494 528373 6866 1 1 93 2 59 1 418 5 376 4 627 983 23 595 17 184 56 768 49 271 2 8 1 5 44 69 5 States. The site maintains the Olmsted Are One: Mapping America’s Road from 2 39 98 44 71 86 63 15 52 7 ing and vital influence that continued to 2 3 9 4 7 8 6 1 5 6 1 4 2 3 2 7 8 8 5 9 4 6 311 48 724 32 975 89 653 96 17 4 of6the7Olmsted 58 7 96 1415 2683 9724 538 73 961 16 152227 835599 2488 4 3 75 8 67 6 234 9 542 1 893 715 89 672 66 341 97 423 14 938 5 1 Archives, a collection define what it means to be Cuban. Still Revolution to Independence initiative.

7 1 2 6 8 5 4 9 3 5 85 26 72 63 48 17 34 91 9 5 8 2 7 6 4 1 3 9 7 92 26 49 18 63 35 81 57 4 7 9 2 4 1 6 3 8 5 1 7 6 5 2 1 5photographs, 4 66 4 31 9198 3527 5472 686 47 313 98 984339 271252 7259 6 8 11 4 85 3 357 8 269 6 942 171 44 853 38 577 81 696 65 422 9 7 firm’s plans, drawings, Running offers an additional collection The character of Rachel Revere was 3 9 5 4 1 1 7 91 34 29 15 52 46 87 63 8 7 9 3 2 1 5 4 8 6 8 6 3 5 9 6 2 1 3 7 4 8 8 267 31 955 99 422 14 776 43 58 and other work product for thousands of works by some of the artists that developed with the assistance of the 2 8 4 3 7 2 3 9 4 7 28 36 91 45 7 8 6 6 1 1 4 5 2 3 67 18 45 29 3 7 8 5 9 7 1 2 6 8 4 5 9 1 3 7 2 6 8 of landscapes around the continent. formed part of Grupo Antillano (Leonel staff of the Paul Revere House in Boston.

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7 5 3 8 2 9 4 1 6 On October 8th of last year, I New overnight drop-ins and dayhad to make a painful but neces- time warming centers opened. In a 8 9 1 6 4 3 5 7 2 sary decision. The Long Island winter that went down in history as Bridge, after years of neglect, had the harshest on record, I’m deeply 2 6 4 7 5 1 9 3 8 to be shut down. The decaying grateful that—unlike most years— GHNS #2503 63-year-old structure posed immi- we did not lose a single homeless 4 1 2 3 8 7 6 9 5 nent danger to the clients and staff person on our streets.

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By January, we opened a new of the shelter, transition, detox, and treatment programs housed shelter on Southampton Street, 4 1 2 3 8 7 6 9 5 4 8 3 16 7 28 4 79 5 51 2 63 9 5 8 9 2 1 4 3 6 7 in a City-owned building close to on Long Island in Boston Harbor.

That decision hit me hard, be- Boston Medical Center and var- 9 3 5 1 6 2 7 8 4 7 5 6 31 2 47 5 93 6 88 4 19 2 3 4 6 9 7 8 2 5 1 cause I knew at a very personal ious service providers. Currently level the impact it would have. You offering 250 beds, by July it will re- 6 7 8 4 9 5 1 2 3 9 1 2 87 5 53 8 62 9 34 1 46 7 8 9 1 6 4 3 5 7 2 see, Long Island played an import- place the more than 400 that were 2 6 4 7 5 1 9 3 8 ant role in my own recovery from lost on Long Island. In addition, 5 8 9 2 1 4 3 6 7 3 4 7 GHNS 2 #25036 8 9 5 1 alcoholism. For years I drove out we are creating space in that facilthere, every other week, to share a ity for housing services, case man- 1 2 7 5 3 6 8 4 9 1 6 5 4 9 3 2 7 8 message of hope. For years in the agement, healthcare, and mental State Legislature, I fought to pro- health and addiction counseling. 3 4 6 9 7 8 2 5 1 8 2 9 5 7 1 4 3Moderate 6 SUDOKU tect those programs against wave The support services at SouthMAYOR’S OFFICE PHOTO BY DON HARNEY after wave of budget cuts. The cli- ampton Street will be more abun- 7 5 Foods 3 8owner 2Ron Gary 9 Jr.,4Gov. Charlie 1 6Baker, Mayor3Martin 2 13Walsh51and City 86 Councilor 28 65Tito Jackson 97 49joined 74the Tropical ents and providers are not just sta- dant and better integrated than in festivities during the ribbon cutting for the supermarket’s new Dudley Square location. tistics to me. I know many of them, our Long Island shelter.

8 9 1 6 4 3 5 7 2 95 29 84 37 41 72 56 68 13 In addition, the Boston Public and I’ve shared some of their experiences. I have worked, in every Health Commission’s four transi- 2 6 4 7 5 1 9 3 8 6 7 78 59of Boston, 1 committed 93 14we 8are 22 35 to residential recovery programs, addiction services.4It has6 allowed tional housing programs are beingGHNS two way I know how, to help them. #2503 GHNS #2504 I haven’t been alone. Dedicated preserved at full capacity in new Hello House and Rebound, will be us, with our community and pro- sheltering everyone, every night: 1 5 4 6no4 matter 3 9 2 72 they 7 9 8 from, public servants, nonprofit providers, locations. The Wyman Commu- re-opening in newly 4 1renovated 2 3 8 7fa-6 9vider 5 partners, to begin building 8 3 1where 5 6 arrive no matter what issues bring, better, more permanent solutions.

Cove Human and people of faith have been work- nity Reentry and Transitions sta- cilities very soon. Bay 9 3 5 1 6 2 7 8 4 5 6 3 4 9 8 1 they 2 2 3 9 4no79 matter 7 8 6 1 5 what.

But people in ing day and night to keep homeless bilization programs are already Services is close to 6 securing 7 8 4 a9 new 5 1 2 3This isn’t just a city issue. It’s a 1 2 8 5 6 3 4 7 regional crisis. Boston trouble men and women safe, and find new up and running at our River Street home for its Andrew 5 8House/Bridge 9 2 1 4 3 6worsening 7 3 4 7 need 2 6more 8 9than 5 1a safe bed.

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continued from page 1 are new, like a mentoring program that will recruit people from the city’s business community to help teens with employment readiness.

“It’s a mix of existing and new,” John Barros, the city’s chief of economic development, told the Banner.

“With the existing programs, we’re looking at whether we’ve had the impact we want to have on this population. How do we collectively think about something that’s driven by these three goals, really focused with a dashboard that’s measuring outcomes, so that we can make sure we’re having the impact we want to have on this population.

“It’s looking at a number of programs,” Barros continued, “and saying here’s a campaign with a clear vision, a clear set of goals and measuring them to see whether we’re having the kinds or programmatic outcomes we want to see. What are the best practices?

What are we learning? It’s a real strategic plan.”

The initiatives spurred by Boston’s My Brother’s Keeper effort will benefit girls and boys alike, Arroyo and Barros said. Youth employment programs, increased resources for vocational and technological programs, mentoring programs, the expansion of the city’s universal pre-kindergarten efforts – are all aimed at boys and girls alike.

“It’s not at the exclusion of black and Latina girls,” Arroyo said.

“This is something that will benefit all young people in Boston.”

As an example, Arroyo pointed to curb cuts, which were originally designed to comply with laws mandating accessibility for wheel

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Lauren Jones, policy director for the Office of Health and Human Services meets with John Barros, chief of Economic Development and Felix G. Arroyo, chief of Health and Human Services. chairs, but end up being used for everything from strollers to dollies laden with deliveries.

“It turns out that when you do work and create opportunities for those who are most in need and under-served, you’re creating opportunities for everyone,” he said.

Race matters

At the Mildred Avenue Center Saturday, Walsh said he was inspired to join the My Brother’s Keeper effort in part because of an interaction he had while campaigning for mayor.

In a Jamaica Plain forum, a woman asked him what he thought about race relations in Boston.

“I said I thought there were tensions, but it wasn’t as bad as it’s been,” Walsh recalled.

The question, and his answer,

stayed on Walsh’s mind.

“It bothered me,” he said. “It got under my skin. It made me think about my answer. I thought about young men of color, young women of color. It had a big impact on my campaign.”

Walsh said his campaign pledges to have a cabinet that reflected numerically the majority-people of color racial makeup of the city and to have a majority people of color command staff at the Boston Police Department were informed by his discussions about race on the job.

And the My Brother’s Keeper plan released last week is a step further in addressing issues of racial disparities, Walsh added.

“This document goes beyond saying things,” he said. “It talks

about action. We need to make sure we have opportunities for all people. Not just in my cabinet or on the Boston Police command staff. I mean in the whole city.”

Walsh said that as the plan is implemented, he will be monitoring its progress. Key indicators will be updated daily, he said.

“I’ll be looking on the wall every day to make sure we’re doing what we need to be doing.”

Reaction

In the audience were youth workers, clergy, representatives of nonprofit organizations, and city officials, including interim School Superintendent John McDonough. Notably absent was City Councilor Tito Jackson, whose plan for a commission on Black

and Latino boys and men the mayor nixed, citing a conflict with the My Brother’s Keeper effort.

Among those who attended, reaction was positive.

“It’s a step in the right direction,” said the Rev. William Dickerson. “If all the parts come together, we’ll have enough in place to move to the next level as a people.”

“I was very impressed with the way they’re putting youth at the forefront of the initiative,” said Jelani Haynes, director of community outreach at Sportsman’s Tennis and Enrichment Center in Dorchester.

“I look forward to seeing the progress on it, and getting updates on how the MBK initiative is impacting black lives in the city.”

Reporter Sandra Larson contributed to this story.

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Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. CONTRACT NO. H260-C1, FIELD MAINTENANCE BUILDING EXPANSION, L.G. HANSCOM AIR FIELD, BEDFORD 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, JUNE 10, 2015 immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

Sealed filed sub bids for the same contract will be received at the same office until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2015, immediately after which, in a designated room, the filed sub bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE:

PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE MASSPORT OFFICE, CIVIL AIR TERMINAL, L.G. HANSCOM AIRFIELD, BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, AT 11:00 A.M. LOCAL TIME ON MONDAY, MAY 18, 2015.

The work includes CONSTRUCTION OF AN ADDITIONAL VEHICLE BAY TO THE EXISTING BUILDING. WORK INCLUDES CONCRETE FOUNDATION; CMU WALLS; ROOFING; MECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL, PLUMBING, FIRE PROTECTION AND FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS; SITE UTILITIES; AND INCIDENTAL WORK. Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 2015.

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

In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract General Bidders must submit with their bid a current Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. The estimated contract cost is ONE MILLION, NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,900,000.00).

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

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

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 FIVE MILLION DOLLARS ($5,000,000). 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.

Filed sub bids will be required and taken on the following classes of work: HVAC $138,000 MASONRY $81,740 WATERPROOFING $35,020 ROOFING

$69,600 PAINTING $27,650 FIRE PROTECTION $101,140 PLUMBING $70,570 ELECTRICAL $217,290 The Authority reserves the right to reject any sub bid of any sub trade where permitted by Section 44E of the above referenced General Laws. The right is also reserved to waive any informality in or to reject any or all proposals and General Bids.

This contract is subject to a Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than 5.7% of the Contract be performed by minority and women owned business enterprise contractors.

With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible.

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

The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non

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

To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Florence C. Taylor of Mattapan, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Doevony L. Taylor is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Florence C. Taylor of Mattapan, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.

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

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 06/04/2015. 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.

MBTA CONTRACT NOS. P90PS02-03 The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is soliciting consulting services for the Environmental Management Department. The amount of $1,500,000 has been budgeted for this project, with $750,000 available for each of the two consultants selected.

Services will include advice to and consultation with the Authority’s Environmental Management Department, through two (2) task order contracts, matters will consist of engineering and planning services for all aspects of MBTA Operations and Design and Construction projects on an as-needed basis. Services may include, but are not limited to: development, review and updating of energy conservation and energy efficiency plans, multidiscipline engineering services (i.e. mechanical, electrical, energy, civil, etc.) to design and implement upgrades to MBTA energy management systems, energy audits, development and design of renewable energy systems, energy metering and data tracking systems, as well as energy management programs such as demand side management, demand response, enterprise systems and other emerging energy management approaches.

This contract will be state and federally funded. The DBE Participation Goal for this contract will be 7%.

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 29, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication

The complete request for qualifications can be found on the MBTA website.

Please use the following link: http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/current_solic itations/ This is not a request for proposal. The MBTA reserves the right to cancel this procurement or to reject any or all Statements of Qualifications.

Stephanie Pollack Mass DOT Secretary & CEO

Frank DePaola Interim General Manager

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

Docket No. SU15P0836GD

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

Estate of Antonia Caban Date of Death: 12/13/2014 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Marta Coriano of Dorchester, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Marta Coriano of Dorchester, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 06/04/2015. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

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

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

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

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

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 06/04/2015. 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 30, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU15P0964GD

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Doevony L. Taylor Of Mattapan, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person

Docket No. SU15P0979EA

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU15P0957EA

SUFFOLK Division

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of William J. DeLory Also known as: William J. DeLory, Jr. Date of Death: 03/12/2015 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Barbara Marlatt of Creswell, OR 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 Mary Kate Connolly of Norwell, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve With Personal 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 05/28/2015. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

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

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

Date: May 06, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 05/28/2015.

Docket No. SU15C0172CA

In the matter of Alexandra Rose Bazile Brown of Mattapan, MA

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

Date: April 28, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Rose M. Brown requesting that Alexandra Rose Bazile Brown be allowed to change her name as follows:

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14D2554DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Dwayne Johnson

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The Lottery will be held on July 22nd 2015 at 6 PM in same location as the info session above.

For Details on Applications, the Lottery, and the Apartments or for reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, call 617.782.6900x1 or go to: www.s-e-b.com/lottery. Applications and Information also available at the Melrose Public Library on 69 West Emerson Street (Hours: M-Th 10-9, F-Sa 10-5, Su 2-5).

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Tuesday, May 19 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

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

Date: March 19, 2015

The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court

Units distributed by lottery Assets to $75,000

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Telecommunications Supervisor The Telecommunications Supervisor at the Massachusetts Port Authority supervises and coordinates activities of the Consultants working as Telecommunications staff. This position manages the daily maintenance and operation of the Authority’s voice infrastructure. It also manages the installation, maintenance and allocation of all copper and fiber cabling throughout the Authority’s various sites. It also responds to all pages on Massport response kit, including 24-hour emergency response.

EDUCATION LEVEL: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in the telecommunications/networking industry required.

EXPERIENCE IN RELATED FIELD: 3 - 5 years of information systems and/ or voice infrastructure experience required. 5 - 7 years’ experience in multi-location telecommunications network administration required.

Quinsigamond Community College has an immediate need for an:

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The front desk reception area is the primary information center of the school, providing a warm welcome to all constituencies, fielding questions and serving as an important point of contact for children coming and going from school. This position reports to the Assistant to the Head of School.

Specific Responsibilities: • Serve as a welcoming presence to children, parents, faculty, staff and visitors • Answer the switchboard, sort mail, maintain copy machine and postage meter, coordinate mailings, create class lists, order supplies and update phone listings • Record student attendance and maintain accurate family, faculty and staff information in the administrative database • Coordinate daily school bus ridership lists • Be willing to take required training in order to be able to administer medication in the absence of the school nurse • Provide clerical and administrative support to the Assistant Head of School and the Director of Inclusion and Multicultural Practice Qualifications: • Bachelor’s Degree preferred • Experience with administrative applications (Word, Excel, etc.)

• Ability to embrace school culture and serve as a model of caring, helpfulness and kindness to all constituencies • Ability to multitask, prioritize and work independently in a busy, dynamic office • Prior administrative experience in a school or non-profit setting preferred • Proven experience as a team player • Strong communicator with the ability to be discreet with confidential information • Prior experience with administrative databases helpful • Willingness to obtain First Aid and CPR certification The position is being advertised as a job share. One position (A) will cover from 7:45am to 12:15pm and the other (B) from 12:15pm to 4:45pm Monday through Friday during the academic year. Each incumbent will be expected to cover for the other during sick and vacation days. The summer schedule will be 8am to 4pm and may be split between the two individuals sharing the job, or may be covered by one. Please indicate which position, A or B, you are applying for in your cover letter.

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