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Boston Olympic bid is scuttled

Calls for city to tackle real problems

By YAWU MILLER

For eight months, the Boston 2024 bid to host the Olympic games sparked spirited debate.

Then, on Monday, in the face of growing local opposition, the United States Olympic Committee withdrew Boston as its proposed city to host the games.

The USOC move came as Mayor Martin Walsh announced Monday that he would not sign a contract with the organization, citing lingering questions about potential costs to Massachusetts taxpayers.

“I cannot commit to putting the taxpayers at risk,” he told reporters. “If committing to signing a

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City Councilor Tito Jackson says Roxbury neighbors need to devise a neighborhood-wide plan before housing is built on its vacant lots.

No blueprint for vacant Rox. land

City poised to dispose of vacant parcels in advance of BRA’s citywide planning

By ELIZA DEWEY

With the administration of Mayor Martin Walsh planning to increase the city’s housing stock by 53,000 units over the next 15 years, real estate developers and abutters are eying the city’s store of vacant land.

For developers, the vacant parcels represent an opportunity to cash in on the city’s overheated housing market. For abutters, the prospect of new housing often presents challenges posed by increased traffic and density, decreased parking and competing visions of what kind of housing best fits each neighborhood.

With the lion’s share of

vacant land in the city, Roxbury is likely to see more conflict between developers and neighborhood residents than anywhere else in the city.

According to data provided by the Department of Neighborhood Development, there are currently 378 city-owned land plots in Roxbury, comprising a total of 1.57 million square feet. Of these, 180 land plots comprising 736,486 square feet are in some stage of disposition — meaning the city is actively working to release them for development.

Yet in Roxbury, there is no coordinated planning to determine the best mix of housing

See VACANT LAND, page 20

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guarantee today is what’s required to move forward, then Boston is no longer pursuing the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.”

As the dust settled on the Boston 2024 bid Monday afternoon, elected officials in Boston’s black community reacted with a mixture of relief and optimism.

“The mayor did the right thing,” said at-large City Councilor Ayanna Pressley. “He protected the taxpayers from an unreasonable risk. Now we can get back to work.”

State Rep. Byron Rushing said the failed Olympics bid underscored the need for city planning in Boston.

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Center connects young adults to opportunities Mayor cuts ribbon on Ruggles site

By SANDRA LARSON

Mayor Martin Walsh and the Boston Opportunity Youth Collaborative cut the ribbon this week on the Connection Center, a resource to assist Bostonians ages 20 to 24 who have a high school credential but are not engaged in employment, further education or job training.

At the new center, operated by Roxbury-based X-Cel Education, a staff of “success coaches” will assess the needs of disengaged young people and guide them to appropriate training, educational

ON THE WEB The Connection Center: http://bostonopportunityyouth.org/connection-center; Or call/ text: 617-637-8504 BOYC: http://bostonopportunityyouth.org X-Cel Education: www.x-celeducation.org Boston Private Industry Council:

www.bostonpic.org Boston Opportunity Agenda: www.tbf.org/

tbf/81/BOA opportunities and work.

Though the official launch event was July 27, the organization has been operating quietly since

See CONNECTION, page 21

City data shows Roxbury to have significantly more vacant land than other neighborhoods:

1.57 1.52 1.41 1.39 49,000 378

million: Square feet of vacant land in Roxbury million: Square feet of vacant land in Mattapan million: Square feet of vacant land in East Boston million: Square feet of vacant land in Dorchester Square feet of vacant land in South Boston

There are currently 378 cityowned land plots in Roxbury, comprising a total of 1.57 million square feet.

Of these, 180 land plots comprising 736,486 square feet are in some stage of disposition.

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Mayor Martin Walsh speaks at the official ribbon-cutting for the Connection Center.

Looking on are (l) Bob Gittens, Northeastern University vice president for public affairs and (r) Andy Pond, Justice Resource Institute president and CEO.

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ReadBoston Storymobile starts up summer program

By SANDRA LARSON

The bright green ReadBoston Storymobile van pulled up at Roxbury’s Marcella Park last Thursday at 1:15 p.m., as it will every Thursday through mid-August. Professional storyteller Ben Cunningham regaled a group

of youngsters with dramatic tales populated with monkeys, bears and a mysterious group of “ynnubs” all animated with physical movement and sound effects.

About 20 children seated on the grass listened, laughed and called out their guesses on what might happen next.

When Cunningham’s stories

came to an end, a representative of ReadBoston, the city of Boston’s early literacy initiative, brought out a variety of new books and invited all the children to choose one to take home.

Simone Miles Esteves came with her three-and-a-half-year-old son, Myles. Clutching a miniature basketball under one arm, Myles chose “Pete the Cat” to read at home.

The two have been coming to Storymobile events since Myles was a baby, said Esteves, who lives near the park in the Fort Hill neighborhood.

“He really enjoys reading, and listening to stories,” she said. “The sound effects are great for him.”

This was one of many sessions in ReadBoston’s opening week of summer programs. Over the coming weeks, more than 400 events will be held in 80 locations around the city, including neighborhood parks, community centers, summer camps and library branches.

The free summer program has been operating for 15 years, said ReadBoston Executive Director Theresa Lynn, and the storytelling is geared toward ages 3 to 8.

This year, some sessions will operate from a “Book Bike,” a bicycle with a built-in activity table, she said, and in addition to the six weeks of storytelling, a closing week from Aug. 17 to 21 includes special events at Spectacle Island, Jamaica Pond and the U.S.S. Constitution Museum.

Recent research shows that students in lower-income families tend to fall behind an average of two months in reading each summer, while their more affluent peers often gain skills. This disparity can have a cumulative affect over the years. Studies indicate that by ninth grade, years of academic “summer slide” may account for two-thirds of the reading achievement gap between students from low-income families and their more affluent peers.

Reading Is Fundamental, a nonprofit devoted to children’s literacy, offers tips to keep children engage in reading over the summer. Recommendations for

families include having books and magazines around the house, reading aloud, visiting the library regularly and combining books with other summer activities. For example, parents could encourage children to read a book about baseball before going to a game, or pack some books along with the buckets and shovels when heading to the beach. Simply talking to children — using words to describe the sights and sounds of an everyday bus trip or visit to the store — also helps build and maintain language skills.

ReadBos ton works with schools, daycare centers and after-school programs to strengthen literacy development during the school year, while the summer Storymobile helps curb summer learning loss.

“The academic slide is a very addressable problem,” said ReadBoston’s Lynn. “One of the best ways to address it is to give kids access to just six books a summer.

If they go to a [Storymobile] program just once a week, it’s pushing them in a good direction.”

ON THE WEB ReadBoston info & Storymobile calendar: • www.readboston.org • www.facebook.com/ReadBoston Research & tips on summer learning loss: • National Summer Learning Association: http://www.summerlearning. org/?page=know_the_facts • Reading is Fundamental: http://www.rif.org/us/literacy-resources/articles/keeping-kids-off-the-summer-slide.htm

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Storyteller Ben Cunningham poses with Myles Esteves, who received a new book at a ReadBoston event in Marcella Park in Roxbury

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Ben Cunningham entertains children at a ReadBoston event in Marcella Park in Roxbury.

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Turhan Dorsey, chief of education for the City of Boston, says high schools can better prepare students for the dynamic job market that awaits them.

Education chief envisions high schools of the future Turhan Dorsey shares insights on education innovation

By YAWU MILLER

The Boston School Department launched an ambitious plan earlier this year to redesign how students are educated in the city’s high schools. So far, parents, students, and education advocates have held 23 meetings around the city to share ideas on way to incorporate experiential learning, impart job readiness skills and offer curricula that are better matched to the evolving job market.

Turhan Dorsey, the city’s chief education officer, has led the process. The Banner sat down with Dorsey to discuss the ongoing efforts to revamp education.

Why do high schools need to be re-designed?

Turhan Dorsey: The skills that were needed in the workforce 30 years ago and the skills now are different. We’re not necessarily sure that traditional k-12 education produces those skills.

Respondents have said to us when we ask them, ‘What should

the future BPS graduate know and be able to do?’ They don’t talk about the common core standards. They don’t say the graduate should know calculus. They talk about something more integrated. They should know how to do financial planning. They should know how to navigate complex workplaces. They should know how to work in team-based settings. That doesn’t preclude standards-based education. But what they’re talking about is a set of skills that build on those standards. If you don’t build on them and get yourself ready in the right way, you won’t succeed in a lot of future workplaces.

What was the genesis of the idea to redesign high schools?

TD: It’s something that a lot of people have been talking about for a while. Certainly when Mayor Walsh was on the campaign trail, he talked about wanting to look at high schools both from a physical design standpoint as well as from a learning standpoint. Prior to that, the former Superintendent

for District High Schools, Mary Skipper, who is now superintendent of Somerville schools, was boldly and broadly thinking about what the learning experience should be, and I think we just reached the moment in time where there was an opportunity to put an initiative on the ground to publicly re-think this. A lot of work was being done to take things to scale.

How far along is the process?

TD: We’re just completing phase 2 of the initiative and about to go into phase 3. Phase 1 was pulling a small group of people together to think about how do you have a public conversation about high school redesign – not to generate the answers, but to help think about how, if we’re going to do this over several months, and get as many people commenting as possible, how do we do that. So in phase 2 we held our own set of forums — we were thinking four across the city when we began this.

But the innovation was to

create a design kit so the same tools we use when we do facilitation, we can give to community members so they can facilitate the conversation themselves.

What it’s resulted in is that in addition to our four forums, there have been a total of 19 additional forums that neither BPS nor the city led. It was student groups, parent groups, nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, others who were involved in education from a number of different perspectives asking these same questions about what the future learners need to know and be able to do upon graduation and what the future high school needs to look like to produce those sorts of outcomes. So since May, we’ve engaged 1,300 people.

Dr. Chang and I are going to be running some workshops with some of the people who hosted these events and other key stakeholders to start to centralize this information and create some themes that will form the basis of a strategic plan for high school redesign.

We are looking to issue a set of recommendations or a field guide for high school redesign.

We would like to issue that by the end of the calendar year. We’d like to begin in earnest on the work of putting ideas on the ground in high schools going into following school year.

Will principals be required to implement the plan in the field guide?

TD: I think it will be a set of options for the principals. We will give are high-level principles and guidance that we want to see adhered to in every high school in Boston. But the way that you get there, you’ll have a number of options. Even these will have policy and practice implications that we’ll need to think about more long-term with principals, with teachers, with students to figure out how you do some of the fundamental shifts beyond project-based experience or a single idea.

When we asked people what should students know how to do, they said ‘Students should be critical thinkers. They should be career-ready. They need to have real life experiences.’ They said schools need community partners so that learning can take place anywhere in the city. One of the themes that keeps coming up is that learning can’t just be school-bound.

That has a lot of implications around policy, practice and resources. How are we going to create systems so that students can easily navigate different

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spaces? If you spend half of your day at English High School and then the next portion of your day is at [Mission Hill-based youth organization] Sociedad Latina, how do we navigate that from a transportation standpoint? How do those organizations have to collaborate with one another to make sure the learning is seamless so that what you learn in an arts class at English, you’re getting some new dimensions and re-enforcement at Sociedad Latina?

Pe o p l e a r e q u e s t i o n i n g whether there should be a workbased requirement. Should there be a community service requirement. Of course things like performance assessments come up.

People are worried about the amount of testing, but also if we’re saying readiness looks different — readiness is about the experience and the skill you develop, how do we assess that? How do we look beyond the test to ascertain that a student has built soft skills?

What are the soft skills students need to learn to be competitive in the job market?

Broadly speaking, soft skills are interpersonal skills. Do you know how to communicate clearly? Are you prompt? Do you know how to work in teams? Are you collaborative? Increasingly, employers are telling us that’s what they’re concerned about.

The technical aspects of their work, they can teach you to do better than schools can. But there’s something about learning how to acquire knowledge, learning how to think in the interpersonal sphere, that you need to walk in the door with.

The question we’re asking is ‘What is the right mix of those kinds of opportunities that need to define high school of the future that we think will prepare every student to thrive beyond the k-12 system?’

What are some of the limitations with high school as it exists now?

Let me go back to some of the data. I want to give our schools and our school leaders credit.

We’ve reached a point where we have the highest high school graduation rate in BPS history, at about 67 percent. We’ve got the lowest ever BPS dropout rate. But on the graduation side, that’s still not acceptable. It’s certainly not where we want to be.

When you look under the numbers, you can see the disparities.

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Established 1965

Too much collateral damage in war on drugs President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs in 1971. Every year since then the federal cost of drug control has increased.

The budget request for 2016 is $27.6 billion dollars. Despite the substantial expenditure of funds, it is estimated that no more than 10 percent of the illicit drug traffic is interdicted. There is an ongoing debate about whether we have lost this war. The dramatic escape of a leading drug lord known as El Chapo from a supposedly secure Mexican prison provides substantial proof that the battle may be lost.

The 1971 award-winning film the French Connection provided some indication about the upper levels of the drug trade. The substantial resources they earn provide protection from prosecution. Joaquín Guzmán Loera (El Chapo) is reported to be a billionaire who is financially able to secure the expertise necessary for the construction of a sophisticated tunnel for his escape.

Rarely are those in the upper echelons of the drug traffic trade brought to justice.

News reports of drug arrests usually involve street dealers, many of whom are black or Latino and primarily work to finance their own drug habits. Enforcement of the drug laws has provided an opportunity to discriminate against African Americans.

According to an NAACP study, only 2.6 million African Americans compared to 14 million whites use illicit drugs. Nonetheless, even though the white use of drugs is more than 5 times greater than the black use, blacks are sent to prison at 10 times the rate of whites.

The disparate imprisonment of black men at a prime time of their lives has had a damaging effect on the black family. According to research by the New York Times, 1.5 million black men from 25-54 are missing

from major urban communities. A high rate of imprisonment removes about 600,000 of those men.

The loss of husbands, fathers and breadwinners has a negative economic impact on African Americans. Many are left destitute and have to rely on federal assistance programs. The absence of the family disciplinarian also makes it easier for young boys to become involved with gangs and a negative lifestyle.

One of the most unjust consequences is that young men who are innocent of a violent crime become branded as felons. This label shall follow them for the rest of their lives and limit future opportunities. In some jurisdictions they even lose the right to vote. Some upscale employers are reluctant to hire a felon.

Personal lives and families are ruined over a non-violent incident that is not even appreciably immoral. President Barack Obama recognized this injustice when he recently commuted the sentences for 46 non-violent drug offenders. In Massachusetts, authorities have begun to view drug addiction as a medical problem rather than a criminal offense.

There was a different attitude when blacks had a problem with drug addiction.

They were characterized as degenerate junkies. But now that heroin overdoses plague white suburbia, the press is more sympathetic. It is impossible for the media now to ignore the fact that heroin seems to be the drug of choice for suburbanites. Same drug, just racially different offenders.

El Chapo’s escape reveals the privilege of wealthy drug barons in avoiding law enforcement. The patent injustice of it forces the government to see that Nixon’s 44-year-old war on drugs is outmoded. A strategy that stimulates racial discrimination is clearly unacceptable.

“Well, that’s a twist. The whites do the crime, but blacks do the time.”

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The games never had a chance Good riddance to Boston 2024!

The idea of bringing the Olympic games to Boston seemed good from a distance, but the closer we got to the details, the fuzzier and more frightening it was. Given the potential for huge cost overruns that could put the city and the Commonwealth on the hook for hundreds of millions, it’s no wonder the mayor

balked. Add to that traffic, parking and disruptions like losing access to Franklin Park for the better part of a year, and the choice for the average Boston resident is a no-brainer.

The Olympic Games seem like they would be better suited to a city with more open space, good public transit and a population enthusiastic enough about the games that they’re willing to put up with several weeks of sports fans occupying

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their public spaces. There are cities where the population might actually welcome the prospect of hulking sports stadiums and other venues that sparkle in the international limelight during the Olympics, then slowly decay over the following years because there’s simply no other good use for them. But not Boston.

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The GOP “Ideology:” Cruelty as a political weapon

Do you think America can win the war on drugs?

By LEE A. DANIELS

Donald Trump, the blowhard mogul masquerading as presidential candidate, has once again discovered the problem with trying to be a demagogue in a democracy: It’s the risk of “going too far.”

Sometimes that means merely being made to look foolish — as when President Obama early in the 2012 presidential election season deftly punctured Trump’s efforts to play the conservatives’ racist “Birther” game.

More seriously, however, at other times it means being exposed as a vindictive bully whose fragile ego provokes a reflexive lashing out at any and all critics. That’s the muddy road Trump’s been splashing down since he punctuated the announcement of his candidacy last month with a vile slur against undocumented Mexican immigrants, Hispanic-Americans and citizens of Mexico alike, and followed it this month by attacking in personal terms two GOP veteran senators, John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both of whom had sharply criticized him.

Trump’s astonishing behavior — in declaring that McCain, who endured years of brutality in a North Vietnamese prison during the 1960s war in Southeast Asia, was “not a war hero,” and then days later publicly revealing Graham’s mobile phone number and urging his supporters to call him — wasn’t just “unpresidential.” It wasn’t even “adult.”

Nor was it smart politically — one reason being his juvenile antics revived questions about how he avoided military service during the Vietnam War years. (Graham is also a military veteran.)

Moreover, Republican officials couldn’t have been happy that numerous analysts quickly noted the strong whiff of hypocrisy pervading their outrage at Trump’s insulting McCain — given the concerted “not-a-warhero” “swift-boating” campaign the GOP launched against John Kerry during the Massachusetts Democrat’s 2004 presidential run.

But Trump’s bully-boy behavior also revealed something far more worrisome than just his boundless ego and inability to counter in sophisticated fashion the criticism any presidential contender gets. It perfectly reflects what’s become the foundation of Republican Party politics at the local, state and national levels: the use of cruelty as a political weapon.

Consider some of the landmarks of Republican Party politics during the Obama years: From shutdowns of the federal government that deprived government workers of wages and citizens of needed services; to the imposition of unnecessary and draconian rules on recipients of food stamps and other forms of government assistance; to a continuing pathological obsession with controlling women that’s only partially obscured by sanctimonious anti-abortion rhetoric; to their denigration of public – sector workers and their unions, the GOP’s domestic program has grounded itself on a cruelty-over-compassion attitude about government’s relationship toward those not included in its “tent” of “Real Americans.”

Of course, the use of cruelty as a political weapon has been the GOP’s stock-in-trade since the late 1960s when President Richard Nixon replaced the overtly racist lexicon of the defeated Southern segregationist Democrats with a “Southern Strategy” based on racially coded appeals to whites. In the 1980s, the Reagan political machine re-christened that approach as “wedge politics” and used it to largely erase over time any allegiance within the party to responsible bipartisan cooperation with Democrats. Instead, they stoked in the Republicans’ increasingly whites-only base the demand for a rigid adherence to reactionary politics, a strategy that Obama’s electoral and policy successes have intensified even more.

Ironically, the GOP’s surrender to extremist politics quickly provoked an ongoing internal power struggle between its establishment politicos and insurgents that has resulted in a string of primary challenges to several GOP senators and representatives who the radical right deemed not conservative — that is, cruel — enough. Those challenges, which taken together have no parallel within the Democratic Party, underscore the fierce authoritarian attitudes of the GOP base — its need to feel that it’s dominating others. No one currently better expresses that mentality than Trump.

One might be tempted just to enjoy the disruption Trump has brought to the GOP’s presidential primary doorstep for the second consecutive presidential election cycle, except that it underscores the continuation of a particularly egregious reality: Just when the economic and social viability of much of “the 99 percent” of ordinary Americans — from the very poor to a significant portion of those who earn middle-income wages — is threatened by the combination of numerous technological developments and global economic forces, one of the nation’s two major parties remains committed to the use of cruelty as a foundation for governing.

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

No. We’ve tried everything so far.

We’re out-financed. We’re outgunned. There’s too much corruption.

We haven’t put a dent in it.

I think the U.S. should declare the war over. I think they should say it’s a failure. It didn’t work.

I think the war is really on the people. The war on drugs is a false idea.

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No. Drugs are still here.

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No. It’s a farce. It’s an excuse to imprison young African American men.

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If the war is against the people, yes.

If it’s against drugs, no.

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aged NACA’s participation in the Ohio Means Jobs grant program to adhere to program guidelines and worked on compliance issues relating to other NACA grants.

Polk’s work in housing for nonprofits and their partners complements that involved with to labor relations. In addition to his legal skills, he possesses the basic knowledge of general principles, practices, and trends of employ-

er-employee relations, public administration, and business administration. He also has litigation experience and interned for the Massachusetts Appeals Court.

Polk is a summa cum laude graduate of Howard University who also attended Boston University School of Law, where he was active in the Black Law Students Association and competed in Moot Court.

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JUSTIN POLK The Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development has appointed Justin Polk the new Living Wage Administrator for the City of Boston. He will also be handling Wage Theft initiatives.

A resident of West Roxbury, Polk is a lawyer with previous experience in compliance and investigative work. Prior to his appointment, Polk served as labor compliance manager. His previous experience was at the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA), headquartered in Roxbury. His work there was funded by the National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling program and conducted throughout the country and by telephone as he investigated low-to-moderate income (LMI) mortgage medication scams.

As part of this program, he analyzed state and federal statutes and regulations in order to determine if violations existed and what remedies were available to the LMI homeowners. He also man-

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Future

continued from page 3 You can see that boys of color in the system are disproportionately affected. They’re only graduating at near 50 percent in four or five years. So we’re not doing well for everybody.

Part of what we’re asking is what is it going to take to improve that rate. Because we can get people out of the door, but the readiness is important. We want to make sure that they’re completing that post-secondary opportunity — it may be college, university, an apprenticeship, some form of training. We want to know that high school education prepared them for on-ramping to career.

Right now the learning experience probably does not give students the kind of exposure to work-based learning and real world learning experiences that it should. It’s probably not taking advantage of the kind of freedom young people have to move around the city and take advantage of things. It’s probably not taking advantage of their learning style.

They really want to roll up their sleeves and apply themselves to those sorts of things.

We don’t have a high school system where you’re given full learning choice, so that when you’re going into 9th grade, you’re saying, ‘I’m going to this school because they offer something that I really want to learn about. They offer an experience that is going to get me ready.’

The few choices that you know you’re making, you know you’re making a choice to go to an exam school because that’s where you want to go. You know that you’re making a choice to go to Madison Park because you want vocational and technical education. There are a few theme schools around college preparation and science, because you know they offer a particular thing you want, but in most of the portfolio, the choice you’re making is to go into 9th grade. And sometimes that’s a great choice, but sometimes it’s not the right school for you.

We want to make that choice clear and have a set of differentiated offerings that attract students.

Operation ABLE Medical Office and Health Care Training graduates

Graduates of Operation ABLE’s Medical Office & Health Care Training were among the 45 who completed the group’s skills training courses. Pictured are Tasha Sanders, Elizabeth Merz, Mark Murphy, Frida Bonaparte, Dana Darwich, Yvonne Williams, Latifa Smith and Whitney Halloran

Dearborn 6-12 Stem/Early College Academy

Design and Construction Update Meeting August 12, 2015 at 6:00 PM The Bruce C. Bolling Building 2300 Washington Street (Dudley Square) School Committee Chambers - Second Floor

The Dearborn 6-12 STEM/Early College Academy project is moving forward.

The City will be holding an informational meeting to 1.) present the building design, 2.) obtain feedback and 3.) describe how the City will proceed with the demolition of the existing building and the construction of the new one. City officials will provide an update. The project architect will present the current design and areas still to be determined. The construction managers will explain measures to mitigate traffic, noise, and control dust.

This is the first in a series of community public meetings.

All questions, comments and concerns are welcome.

Light refreshments will be served. Interpreters in Cape Verdean Creole and Spanish will be present. Child care services will be available on site.

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NEWSBRIEFS Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture to hold seventeen concurrent community conversations on Boston Creates Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced Tuesday that the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture will hold 17 concurrent community conversations on Saturday, August 1, 2015 to drive discussion on the cultural planning process. Sixteen of the Boston Creates Community Conversations will take place in different neighborhoods across the city and one additional conversation will be dedicated to youth participants. The public is invited to attend these meetings and share their opinions and ideas about cultural priorities for the city.

“The success of Boston Creates is dependent upon hearing the diverse ideas and opinions from every neighborhood and community in Boston,” said Mayor Walsh.

“We encourage everyone to attend a community conversation and add let us know what you want to see in your city.”

Boston Creates is the city’s cultural planning process, designed to create a blueprint for arts and culture in the City of Boston. The process will engage residents, visitors and stakeholders to identify Boston’s cultural needs, opportunities and resources. Boston Creates will create a plan to prioritize, coordinate and align public and private resources to strengthen cultural vitality and build creative capital in Boston over the long term.

The Boston Creates Concurrent Community Conversations

are continuing the community engagement phase of the cultural planning process. The full list of community conversations and locations can be found at www. bostoncreates.org/events. Those unable to attend the conversations are encouraged to fill out the Boston Creates Survey online at www.bostoncreates.org/survey.

Boston Creates is part of larger, overall vision for the city: Imagine Boston 2030. Led by the Mayor’s Office, Imagine Boston will define a vision for the future of the city leading up to its 400th birthday.

Under the leadership of Mayor Walsh, the entire city will work together to create the first citywide plan in 50 years. Imagine Boston 2030 will guide this approach to preserving, enhancing and growing the city’s neighborhoods in a way that promotes shared prosperity, sound public investment, and a healthy environment and population.

The Cultural Planning portion is expected to be complete in June 2016. For more information or to volunteer, visit www.bostoncreates.org. Social media users can engage with the process on Twitter using #BostonCreates or by following on Facebook at www.facebook. com/ArtsinBoston

Roslindale: 9 a.m. at the Roslindale Farmer’s Market, Adams’ Park.

Mattapan: 10 a.m. at the Mattapan Library, 1350 Blue Hill Avenue.

South End: 10 a.m. at the Plaza Theatres at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street.

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Youth Meeting: 11:00 a.m. at the Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street.

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Dorchester: 10 a.m. at the Codman Square Health Center, 637 Washington Street.

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In Cuba, ‘creeping capitalism’ arrives

been only encouraging.”

The nature of creeping capitalism, however, is different in Cuba.

Unlike Mexico, which, after the When the U.S. embassy reimplementation of NAFTA in opened in Havana on July 20 Capitalism arrives 1994, quickly became a nation obafter more than 54 years, it sigCapitalism is creeping in — and sessed with American franchises, naled what Cubans have now acthere is nothing that the commu- the lack of capital in Cuba makes cepted: creeping capitalism is the nist regime can do to prevent it. that possibility less likely. future.

Not that the government wants In Mexico, McDonald’s, Starto stop the changes. bucks, Wal-Mart and Costo seem “Our task is to provide assis- to be everywhere. tance to those who are working In Cuba, on the other hand, by to make things better,” Eusebio keeping multinationals out, there Leal, who runs Office of the City could be an opportunity for an Historian, said as he discussed organic, sustainable capitalism the restoration of Old Havana — that may be healthier for the local declared a World Heritage Site by economy.

UNESCO in 1982 and being reWithin the next years there will stored with funds provided by the be a dozen or so new coffee shops international community, primar- throughout Old Havana joining ily the European Union. Along the ones now open — making with Patricia Rodríguez, who is Starbucks unnecessary. in charge of the Master Plan for This possibility is not wishful the Integral Restoration of Old thinking, but very likely because Havana, officials have encouraged of the nature of U.S.-Cuba relaentrepreneurs to forge ahead. tions: While full diplomatic reThey are — ever since the De- lations have been reestablished, cember 2014 announcement by only the U.S. Congress can lift the the White House that it would embargo and currency controls normalize diplomatic relations — remain in place. And Republicans opening restaurants, gift stores, are vowing to keep the punitive tattoo parlors and spa centers. embargo in place.

Client: Bunker Hil “Right now there is a boom in That’s why neither McDonald’s the private initiative in the area nor Starbucks will be able to set File Name: BH_WJ11.3x5 [of Old Havana], and it is good up business in Havana in the near that it’s like this,” Rodríguez told future.

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The good news? The absence Size: 11.3x5 As of July, there are almost 100 of multinationals allows individindependent restaurants and bars ual entrepreneurs the opportuRun Date: 8/15/14 MAYOR’S OFFICE PHOTO BY DON HARNEY in Havana — and almost 2,000 nity to set up shop and flourish.

Mayor Martin Walsh joins residents of Mission Main on Smith Street in Mission Hill along with BHA officials and Winn Artist: bdw AC/AM: LM listings on AirBNB. Buenfil, who runs the Mexican Management representatives to dedicate the park at Mission Main to Adline Stallings. Stallings has been a resident at The excitement of the promise restaurant, laughs at the prospect Mission Main for over 30 years andProof: instrumental of the4c community.

1 in the redevelopment Color: of being in on the ground floor is that Taco Bell could be compesomething that is attracting for- tition any time soon. “I’m going Time: 15 min eigners as well, particularly Span- to spoil Cubans into knowing Sent: iards and Mexicans. what good Mexican food is, so if Andrés Buenfil, a Mexican Taco Bell ever shows up, the only living in Havana, opened the first ones interested in them would be Mexican restaurant — El Chile American tourists,” he said.

Habanero — in a district that If what is happening in Havana caters primarily to Cubans, not is a “softer, kinder” form of capitourists. talism, then it is in keeping with “We Mexicans are very at- current thinking. tached to our cuisine and, wherPope Francis, two years ago, ever we travel to in the world, we began to speak out against always try and seek out places “savage capitalism,” a message he that serve our favorite dishes,” he reinforced on his recent pilgrimtold Havana Times. age to South America where he College AFFIRMATIVE ACTION and EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Direct all inquiriesWhen concerning application asked the how it’s going,of these called for a new world order.

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A stroll through Old Havana is enough to convince anyone that the entrepreneurial spirit that is fast transforming this city into a nation of shopkeepers is in full swing. This isn’t to say that corporate America is about to descend on this island nation of 12 million people. Raúl Castro’s reforms place sharp restrictions on

capitalism: one can work for one’s self, but only the state can hire more than two employees.

For now, this is enough. Capitalism has arrived: Families are running small restaurants called paladares; people are renting out rooms in their homes to foreign tourists; artists are inviting buyers into their studios and

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“I think for people of color it was a huge distraction, and I think we need to take advantage of this to work on all the things that we noticed were missing during this bid,” he said. “If there are things we think needed to happen around public transportation, let’s keep talking about those things.”

As Rushing pointed out, the Olympics bid drew attention to underutilized and under-served areas of the city Olympic planners had hoped to use as venues for sporting events. In Franklin Park, where Olympics backers hoped to site equestrian events, abutters cited a lack of coordinated planning and maintenance. In Columbia Point, where backers planned to house athletes, city officials saw a potential for affordable housing.

And in Widett Circle, an area of Roxbury between the South End and South Boston where Olympics backers proposed building a temporary stadium, Walsh envisioned a brand-new midtown neighborhood.

“I think we should take them up on that,” said Rushing, whose district includes Widett Circle. “And the Roxbury neighborhood should be the primary neighborhood

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involved in the planning.”

Pressley echoed Rushing’s notion that the failed bid could serve as a springboard for further city planning.

“There was a citywide planning exercise that took place that really highlighted what people want and what the city needs,” she said. “It’s bigger than temporary stadiums and restricted travel lanes.”

Pressley pointed to affordable

housing, improvements to Boston schools and improvements to the city’s transportation infrastructure as key priorities Boston residents voiced during the Olympics bid.

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Olympics officials cited a need for upgrades to the MBTA to help shuttle tens of thousands of spectators to Olympic venues. Upgrades were proposed for the JFK/

UMass stop on the Red Line. The Fairmount Line, which MBTA officials say will receive new diesel multiple-unit train cars to allow more frequent service, was cited as a means to transport spectators to Franklin Park.

But the need for transportation upgrades — and the potential costs to the state — further stoked fears of Olympic-sized cost overruns that opponents said would have saddled the state with Olympic-sized debt. While Boston 2024 officials advocated for the business community in the Greater Boston area to pony up for MBTA upgrades, Pressley said that scenario was unlikely, citing failed efforts to have businesses underwrite the costs for late-night MBTA service.

“If they couldn’t do it for latenight T service, which has everything to do with late-shift workers,

why would we believe they could do it for the Olympics?” she said.

While the Boston Redevelopment Authority is launching a citywide planning process called Boston 2030, District 7 City Councilor Tito Jackson said the Boston 2024 process underscored the need for local residents to lead planning efforts.

“What came out of this is a very real need for Roxbury residents to have a plan that looks at housing, economic development and transportation,” he said. “Roxbury residents need their own plan, Dorchester needs its own plan. The people who live in the neighborhoods need to be able to determine what happens in their neighborhoods. I think the conversation about the Olympics should have been based on the community’s needs. I think it was a missed opportunity.”

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Dot couple brings ice cream to Field’s Corner

Chill on Park carves out cool gathering spot

By MATT ROBINSON

As the third generation of his family to live and/or work in the neighborhood, Alan Issokson knows Fields Corner.

“My family has been here since 1923,” he says, recalling his great-grandfather’s clothing store and the H. Levenbaum Insurance Agency that he now runs and his grandfather founded. “We made our business out of being here.”

Having sold pants and policies to generations of neighbors, Issokson has a strong sense of community and of what his community needs. So when the barber shop on the ground floor of his family’s office building moved out, Issokson and his wife Wendy decided to make a move of their own.

“We had a vision of a young and fresh, but homey and classy place,” Alan explains. “Like a renovated Victorian home in the neighborhood.”

The result is Chill on Park (Twitter handle: @ChillonPark), a new ice cream store and community gathering spot at 142 Park Street, just steps from the Fields Corner T stop and the heart of the neighborhood.

“Our mission is to have a really comfortable place in the neighborhood where people can come hang

out, meet friends and treat themselves” says Wendy.

With its combination of reclaimed woods and chalkboard walls, Chill offers just enough old school to appeal to long-time residents and just enough flair to attract younger customers. As the shop is near many schools, a senior center and the MBTA, it attracts a wide range of customers, many of whom just drop by or make a special trip to taste another of the 32 homemade flavors.

“We want to be part of the fabric of the community,” Alan adds. “We want people to feel that this is their place.”

In addition to giving their neighbors a place to meet, eat, and — as the name suggests — chill, the Issoksons also hope to give their community support in other ways. While they have plans to sponsor sports teams (as they have for years through the insurance agency), one of the most profound examples of their community commitment is the fact that all of their staff are from the neighborhood, including many from the local Boys and Girls Club and the Louis Brown Peace Institute.

“For many of the kids, this is their first job,” Alan notes. “You cannot minimize the impact of having a first successful job.”

Jenn Nesmith is a 21-year-old

neighbor who now serves as an assistant manager at Chill.

“Many people are happy to have an ice cream shop in the neighborhood,” Nesmith observes. “It’s nice to see customers becoming regulars.”

The ability to support area youth is especially gratifying for Wendy, who has a background in sociology and criminal justice and who was looking for a new positive way to support teens and others after years of working in halfway houses and prisons.

“It has given her a chance to mentor these kids in unexpected ways,” Alan says of his wife, “and to set the foundation for future employment and hopefully college.”

While youth are certainly being served at Chill, the shop is also a great place for older neighbors and has already hosted a number of business meetings and other community events. This summer, Chill on Park has been expanding an enticing invitation to families through a series of “Family Night Tuesdays” in July and August, at which guests can enjoy specially-priced ice cream and toppings, as well as balloons and gifts, and a pair of special “Ice Cream Socials.”

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In addition to supporting the customers and their community, the Issoksons are also working to support other food purveyors in the area.

“Our Coffee comes from Sudbury, our tea from Watertown, ice cream from Roslindale and bakery items from Roxbury,” Alan explains, noting that customer requests have encouraged new offerings ranging from chocolate chips as a topping to vegan muffins. “We will do our best to make our customers happy!”

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Senator grills Red Cross over Haiti donations, spending

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The American Red Cross met a deadline this week to answer congressional questions about how it spent nearly half a billion dollars donated after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, but the group says details can’t yet be released publicly.

And the senator who posed the questions is not satisfied.

“I still have a lot more questions for the Red Cross,” said Sen. Charles Grassley in a statement.

“I have other questions about the spending numbers and how they add up and the overhead costs for both the Red Cross and the grantee organizations. Also, I’d like to see more details of the results achieved from each of the partner organizations.”

After taking out a slice for overhead, the Red Cross passed on much of the donated money to nearly 50 other aid groups to do the actual work in Haiti. The Red Cross gave details to Grassley about that money, but it asked the senator not to release the information.

The group told the Iowa Republican that its contracts with other groups do “not permit us to disclose the information to the media or donors.”

Grassley questioned that arrangement.

“It’s unclear why the Red Cross enters into contracts with other organizations stipulating that details of grants can’t be disclosed to the media or donors,” said Grassley in his statement. “Who’s driving the lack of disclosure, the Red Cross or the grant recipients? What’s the rationale for it? It’s hard to see how disclosing the dollar amounts given from the Red Cross to the individual organizations and how those organizations spent the money would harm anyone. I look forward to an explanation.”

The Red Cross did not immediately respond to requests for comment. It’s not clear when or if the other groups will give permission for the information to be released.

The senator’s office did release

12 of the 72 pages the Red Cross provided in response to Grassley’s questions. The responses released so far contain few new details about the Haiti program.

Among the responses: n Asked how many permanent homes the Red Cross built, the group did not provide a number.

Propublica reported the Red Cross built a total of six homes.

“Your question asks how many permanent homes have been ‘built,’ but providing permanent homes can be achieved in a number of ways including repair, retrofitting, rental subsidy, and transitional shelters,” the Red Cross said in its response to Grassley.

It’s not clear why the group considers a “transitional shelter” to be providing a permanent home.

The group did provide Grassley with a topline breakdown of its shelter spending. n Asked what CEO McGovern meant when she floated in an email a “wonderful helicopter idea” for spending Haiti money, the Red Cross said: “We do not recall what was meant when that was written.” n The group gave a bit more explanation on how the Red Cross counts “beneficiaries” of its work in Haiti. The Red Cross letter states that beneficiaries could be anyone from people who received a handout of soap to those who got construction training. It also states that the Red Cross is “conservative and reliable in reporting even if it means under-reporting our impact.”

But as we have previously reported, internal Red Cross assessments have concluded that the group sometimes over counts how many people it helps. One internal report on a health project called the beneficiary count “fairly meaningless.” n The Red Cross said that when it gave money to other groups to do projects, it kept close track of how money was spent. “After grant awards are made, American Red Cross requires, per our agreements, careful reviews of financial

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That is at odds with internal assessments of some of the group’s projects that found “no correct process for monitoring project spending.” In the case of $10 million for cholera projects, one of the assessments found that oversight was so poor that “at least one

partner mismanaged their funds unbeknownst to ARC [American Red Cross].” It also found that “None of the cholera program partner’s work has been evaluated

by ARC and ARC doesn’t know for sure if the objectives were achieved.” n The Red Cross did not answer a question about how much the

group spent on managing projects that it outsourced to other groups. n The Red Cross said it still has not spent some of the money raised for Haiti. Of the $488 million raised, it has spent around $400 million.

Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern has also requested a personal meeting with Grassley.

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Boston startup Gique (the name signifies a cross between “geek” and “chic”) is bringing its unique blend of technology, engineering, math and art to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester on Aug. 6, giving local kids exposure to the passion project that MIT grad Danielle Olson hopes will help pave the future for a generation of tech-savvy and creative minds from Boston’s neighborhoods.

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Although traditional Science, Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) education programs spread the gospel of tech disciplines to a broader audience of girls, minorities and communities that are typically underrepresented in engineering and tech, Olson’s approach involves more experiential learning that she says both expands the reach to and increases the participation of young students. It also adds an “A” to the equation, for “Art” — which is why Gique uses the motto #ChangeTheWorld with Art + STEM, or STEAM. Next month’s Boys & Girls Club workshop, held in conjunction with Mbadika — another Boston-based support organization for young entrepreneurs — will give kids direct experience building solar USB chargers.

“We really want people to do hands-on learning. We feel that hands-on learning is so much impactful than what people find typically when learning inside the classroom,” said Olson.

In the same vein, Gique will hold another event later in August at the Reggie Lewis Athletic Center in Roxbury on science and dance. Gique kicked off its efforts last fall with a workshop on science and topography at the Cambridge Science Festival.

Tech for kids

Gique has a longterm vision to provide people of all ages throughout Boston with applied learning opportunities at the intersection between technology and creativity. One goal that supports this vision: hold a summer camp for kids, as well as a week-long program during the school year for students.

“I am really passionate about using science and technology to disrupt education,” Olson said.

“This is the way I keep myself creative and excited about that space.”

Olson, whose mom is from Cameroon, discovered her love of technology, math and science while growing up in Chantilly, Virginia.

But she also had a keen interest in creative outlets such as writing. She

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MbadikaWorld?_rdr=p took these enthusiasms with her to technology’s ultimate breeding ground at MIT, expecting to find her creative side dulled as she often felt it was by remedial science and math education. However, what she found was pretty much the opposite. MIT opened up a world full of students looking to blend all kinds of artistic disciplines with technology and engineering.

“People at MIT were so creative,” she said about her undergraduate experience, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering, served as a researcher at the MIT Media Lab and was the first student ambassador to the MIT Office of Minority Education.

Much of this was the foundation on which Gique was built when it launched in Olson’s MIT dormroom in late 2013, during her senior year. Olson, who serves as Gique’s president, founded the nonprofit with Phil Getzen, who

serves as vice president. She met Getzen, a 2013 computer science graduate of Michigan State University, while interning at Microsoft. Both currently work there as program managers at the Microsoft New England Research & Development Center in Kendall Square.

The pair has bootstrapped Gique’s initial phase, but they hope is to fund future efforts through partnerships and grants.

“My dream is to get it to the point where I can do it as a fulltime job,” said Olson.

Fellow MIT grad Ashli Davis-Polanco is another believer in Gique’s mission. She volunteers with Gique, as well as holding down a fulltime job as a process development associate at Broad

Technology Labs at the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. “As the events and outreach director for Gique, I have been able to pursue a longtime passion of mine, which is providing and participating in STEM educational outreach programs across Boston and Cambridge,” Davis-Polanco said. “This was something extremely important to me as I wished there was more encouragement for youth to pursue studies in difficult subjects, or be passionate about their education because it’s been deemed ‘uncool’ to be smart in grade school.

Gique’s mission is to tear down those labels and stereotypes that stifle us from learning and promote the idea that knowledge is power.”

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the pay of 200,000 fast food workers across the state.

“We need $15 not just in New York, but also in Boston,” said Darius Cephas, who has worked in the fast food industry for two years, but makes only $9.25 an hour and has to rely on food stamps to eat. “And we’re going to get it just like the workers in New York got their $15 — by joining together and speaking out.”

The rally in Boston was one of dozens held across the country on Thursday. Fast food, childcare, and homecare workers from coast to coast gathered to call on Gov. Cuomo to adopt the Wage Board’s recommendation and to make it clear that workers everywhere need $15.

“Just last month, 35,000 PCAs in Massachusetts fought for and won $15/hour,” said Petaree Blair, a Massachusetts Personal Care Attendant. “Now we are standing with fast food workers across America who started this fight. We know that when workers stick together, we can win life-changing victories!”

Once considered a long shot, $15 is now a reality in cities like Seattle, SeaTac, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and is the minimum pay at leading companies like Facebook and Aetna. Noting how striking fast food workers have changed the politics of the country, the New York Times declared that “$15 could become the new, de facto $7.25,” and

the Washington Post said $15 has “gone from almost absurdly ambitious to mainstream in the span of a few years.”

ParkARTS children’s workshops continue in August The Boston Parks and Recreation Department’s annual ParkARTS program, sponsored

by Holly and David Bruce, is pleased to announce the remaining dates for its series of children’s arts workshops giving kids the opportunity to express their creativity while working on fun projects with local artists.

Children ages three to ten can enjoy watercolor painting, mask and jewelry making, treasure creations, and more at the Artists in Residence Workshops held from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Participation is free and all materials are provided, but young children must be accompanied by an adult. Groups of six or more must make prior arrangements by calling the Boston Parks Department at (617) 635-4505. Now in its 19th year, ParkARTS brings a wide range of cultural offerings to city parks.

In addition, the Marionette Puppet Show series will be held at 11 a.m. at various children’s workshop locations. Experience the unique charm of Rosalita’s Puppets featuring marionettes made by professional actor-puppeteer Charlotte Anne Dore.

Children are also able to cool off this summer at Splash Dance Parties at parks across Boston.

Youngsters can play in the park’s water spray features while listening to festive music, playing games, and trying tasty treats provided for all families to enjoy.

Remaining Artists in Residence Workshops dates and locations are as follows: Tuesdays August 4, 11 Ronan Park, Dorchester Rogers Park, Allston/ Brighton Wednesdays August 5, 12 Healey Playground, Roslindale Mozart Street Playground, Jamaica Plain

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Roxbury Community College hosts 2nd annual Roxbury Rocks Music Festival and “You Rock” awards On Saturday, July 18th, Roxbury Community College hosted the 2nd annual Roxbury Rocks Music Festival. The outdoor festival ran from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm, where entertainment was provided by Albino Mbie, OrigiNation, Joseph Mosby, Tony Chambers and King-I. The outdoor festival also featured free ice cream, popcorn, cotton candy, face-painting, balloon animals and two activities provided by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

The indoor concert and awards ceremony featured a performance by headliner Wannetta Jackson and the “You Rock” awards ceremony, where Melvin Miller (founder and publisher of the Bay State Banner), Kathe McKenna (founder for Haley House) and Dr. Jane Cloutterbuck (founder for RCC’s Nursing Program) were honored.

Top row: Balloon artist Vladimir Smith and his associate take a break from putting together balloon animals to pose for photo; Wannetta Jackson performing at the 2015 Roxbury Rocks Music Festival. Second row: Melvin Miller, founder and publisher of the Bay State Banner, delivers his acceptance speech after receiving his “You Rock” award; Bonnie Johnson, WICN host and the emcee for the outdoor Roxbury Rocks festival, poses with Callie Crossley, host of “Under the Radar” and the emcee for the indoor concert and “You Rock” awards ceremony; Albino Mbie, guitarist, vocalist, composer, producer and engineer. Third row: The Isabella Steward Gardner Museum had a table where children could make mini-accordion books, or put together a larger-than-life puzzle painting; Kathe McKenna, founder of Haley House, delivers her acceptance speech, after receiving her “You Rock” award; From left to right: Lorita Williams, vice president of advancement and community engagement at Roxbury Community College, Wanetta Jackson, Roxbury Rocks headliner, and Callie Crossley, host of “Under the Radar” and the emcee for the indoor concert and “You Rock” awards ceremony. Fourth Row: Bonnie Johnson of WICN and Dr. Valerie Roberson, President of Roxbury Community College, kick-off the outdoor festivities; Dr. Jane Cloutterbuck, founder of RCC’s Nursing Program, accepts her “You Rock” award from RCC President Valerie Roberson. Fifth Row: From left to right: Melvin Miller, founder and publisher of the Bay State Banner, Kathe McKenna, founder of Haley House, Dr. Valerie Roberson, president of Roxbury Community College, and Dr. Jane Cloutterbuck, founder of RCC’s Nursing Program; A shot of the crowd at the outdoor portion of Roxbury Rocks 2015.

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Laurence Pierce creates conversation through art

Laugh Boston presents Sasheer Zamata on Sunday, August 9 at 8 pm.

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Drawings on display at Strand Theatre through Friday, July 31

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SASHEER ZAMATA TALKS ABOUT HER

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A lifelong artist and director of the AfricanWinter Gallery in Dorchester, Laurence Pierce has more time to devote to his art these days. A former teacher and art specialist at the Head Start Program at Dimock Community Health Center in Roxbury, Pierce considers himself a professional artist now that he’s retired.

Pierce is one of several artists whose drawings currently are on display at the Strand Theatre through Friday, July 31. The theme of the exhibition is to express emotions or feelings. Pierce does so with a drawing titled After the Fall, which he says depicts “a sense of madness that the world has experienced since 9/11.”

Speaking with the Banner by phone, Pierce discusses his art and his latest project.

What inspires you to create the images that you do?

Laurence Pierce: That’s a big question. I sculpt. I paint. I draw.

The pencil is actually my basic medium. When I get a little frustrated, artist’s block [like writer’s block], I always go back to pencil.

How long does it take you to create a painting or a sculpture for an exhibit like this?

LP: It’s funny. That’s such an

EXPERIENCE

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omedian Sasheer Zamata came to national prominence in January 2014 when she made her debut on NBC’s long-running sketch/variety series Saturday Night Live.

But long before SNL came knocking on her door, she was preparing for a career in comedy.

After graduating from the University of Virginia in 2008 with a drama degree, Zamata headed to New York in 2009 where she performed with the improv group Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. In March of 2010, Zamata, Nicole Byers and Keisha formed the allblack, female improv group Doppelganger.

That same year, producers from Saturday Night Live began looking at Zamata as a potential cast member. After submitting audition tapes of her characters and performing in showcases for a couple of years, SNL called her in for a screen test in January 2014. Later that month she appeared as a featured player.

Zamata, who returns to SNL

for her second season this September, will be performing stand-up comedy at Laugh Boston on Sunday, August 9. She recently spoke to the Banner about SNL’s 40th Anniversary celebration, meeting Beyoncé and how she went from improv to stand-up.

You’ve mentioned that you’ve been able to say ‘Live from New York!’ three times since you’ve been on SNL. When you first said it, was it kind of like an out-of-body experience?

Sasheer Zamata: Oh, definitely. It’s so crazy. It’s such a rush and the audience is so into it, and then the band starts. It’s an awesome moment to be a part of. It’s a historical thing. Not everyone gets to say, ‘Live from New York!’ and have it be live. It’s crazy.

I imagine you were at the SNL 40th Anniversary celebration. Was it also kind of an out-of-body experience seeing so many former cast members, hosts and musicians, and this great history that the show has?

Laurence Pierce’s next show is in

September/October at BNN under the banner of United Artists of Color.

African Winter Gallery is by appointment only. Please call 617.905.1864 or visit his website at www.AfricanWinterGallery.com.

SZ: It was bananas. Just like watching people rehearse in their costumes. It would be like Molly Shannon in her Superstar outfit, like Steve Martin in King Tut. It was just so crazy to see all these people that I looked up to and all these characters that I’ve loved, all together, just talking and hanging out. I think everyone felt that. Everyone I talked to was like, so impressed. I was sitting next to Michael Bolton for most of the show and he was impressed. He was like, ‘Can PHOTO COURTESY OF LAURENCE PIERCE

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From BET to billionaire — and beyond!

The Urban Movie Channel interview with Robert L. Johnson (REIT), went public in 2011.

In 2001, Johnson sold BET to Viacom for approximately $3 billion while remaining the Chief Robert L. “Bob” Johnson is Executive Officer through 2006. the Founder and Chairman of The following year, he was named The RLJ Companies, an innovaone of “The 25 Most Influential tive business network that owns Business Leaders of the Past 25 or holds interests in businesses Years” by USA Today. operating in hotel real estate, priIn 2014, three of Johnson’s vate equity, consumer financial holding companies were featured services, asset management, auon the Black Enterprise 100s list: tomobile dealerships, sports and RML Automotive, LLC ranked entertainment, and video lottery 1st in a category of 60 in the auto terminal (VLT) gaming. dealership rankings; and RLJ Prior to forming The RLJ Equity Partners, LLC and RLJ Companies, Johnson was founder Credit Management, LLC ranked and chairman of Black Entertain12th and 14th respectively on the ment Television (BET), the naprivate equity firms list. tion’s first and leading television Johnson holds a Master’s network providing quality entertainment, music, news, sports and degree in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public public affairs programming for and International Affairs at Princthe African American audience. eton University and a Bachelor Johnson continues to attract of Arts in Social Studies from the and manage capital and create University of Illinois. Here, he value for investors, and in 2012 talks about his recent launch of announced the successful creation the Urban Movie Channel (UMC), of RLJ Entertainment, Inc., one of the largest independent global dis- a premium subscription-based video streaming service exclusive tributors of digital and video content. RLJ is the third company he’s to RLJ Entertainment.

UMC is the first urban-focused taken public. In 1991, BET became digital streaming channel devoted the first African American comto the acquisition of feature films, pany to be traded on the New York comedy specials, stage plays, docStock Exchange. And RLJ Lodgumentaries, music and entertaining Trust, a $2 billion market cap 7.23.15_Baystate_NeighborhoodNights.pdf 1 7/23/2015 11:56:13 AM ment for the African American hotel real estate investment trust

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How do you see the Urban Movie Channel being used in the new world of multiple screens experiences? Will you be bringing your content to all of the computer and other available functionality, such as social media and interactive technology?

Robert L. Johnson

Robert L. Johnson: UMC is an over-the-top, digital streaming channel that is subscription-based, meaning that the consumer pays to get the service. It is targeted to the urban/African American audience, but we believe good entertainment is colorblind, so it is available to everybody, essentially, who wants to go to the site. If you have a web browser, you can get UMC. Our goal with UMC is to bring the creative talent in the African American community, which in many ways is underemployed, to the consumers who desire to see the content that projects their images and tells their stories.

And it is designed to create an economic model where members of the creative community can monetize their talent and where the consumers will have a choice to purchase product and content

that they can see on any device, whether it’s their flat screen TV, their mobile phone, iPad or any other device that can receive digital streaming content. We believe that, given the choice, these consumers will see UMC as a service they’d like to have along with Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime or HBO Go in order to get content not available elsewhere, and at the price they want.

What can the average person do to help improve diversity in entertainment media?

RLJ: Well, the most important thing that the average consumer can do is to take advantage of the opening of the marketplace where you the consumer controls what content you watch or gain access to. Because of the availability of all sorts of platforms, you’re no longer tied to cable, the networks or the satellites. You can be your own programmer. And that’s the beauty of UMC. For the first time,

urban content can flow directly to the consumers without any gatekeepers. So you’re not controlled by what advertisers are willing to sponsor, by what studio heads decide to produce, or by the cable operators who will force you to pay for content that you don’t want to see through their bundled channels. You are your own curator; you are your own programmer. So, to me, the smartest thing any consumer can do is subscribe to whatever it is you want to see.

And the more people subscribe to urban content, the more of it will be produced for your enjoyment.

Do you think there is any possibility whatsoever that African-Americans will organize their consumption power in such a way that it can be leveraged?

RLJ: African Americans already organize their consumption power. They just don’t leverage it.

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continued from page 16 For example, African Americans as a whole watch more television than any other population group in the country in terms of total hours spent in front of the TV. African Americans are heavy consumers of pay TV and cable TV. African Americans are early adopters of new technology, whether it’s Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.

The key is that we have to make sure that choices are available to us, so that our purchasing power will yield content that we want to see. For example, there are two million African American cable subscribers who also take HBO and Showtime at a cost of about $40 a month. That’s a billion dollars of buying power. We’d like to see some of that billion dollars of buying power go to UMC. We promise you that that money will flow to the creative talent, both in front of and behind the camera, to deliver programming that specifically appeals to your viewing interest. So, this new technology, allowing you to leverage your dollars, will change the way African Americans access content and

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continued from page 15 you believe that we’re all here together?’ It was really cool.

Was there anyone that you wanted to meet that you actually got a chance to talk to or say, ‘Hi’ to at the celebration?

SZ: I talked to Beyoncé. That’s the only person that I care about.

It was so funny. She came to the after-party and there were so many celebrities there, but

also change the way that content is produced to appeal to African Americans.

Do you think it would be possible for another black-owned media conglomerate, like BET, to emerge in today’s environment?

RLJ: It’s definitely possible, but it would be very difficult to do in this environment. It was difficult when I started BET. Today, the internet makes it possible for a lot of African American content to flow freely to the consumers since there are no gatekeepers, and it is global in terms of its accessibility. We at RLJ Entertainment are laying the foundation to be sort of a BET in the Digital Age by creating the distribution platform of the Urban Movie Channel, by licensing content from independent producers of urban content, by helping them produce that content, and by promoting the awareness of it. We believe that as a first mover in this space, RLJ Entertainment has the potential to become a success story like BET and, obviously, I have a lot of experience in making that happen.

How is your focus today different from at the inception of your media empire? everyone was drawn to Beyoncé.

Everyone wanted to talk to her.

I chatted with her for a bit and I think I stayed very composed. I didn’t make a fool of myself. She was lovely. She was absolutely lovely.

You started doing sketch comedy after graduating from college. How did you transition from doing sketch comedy to stand-up?

SZ: I was taking improv classes and there were other people in my class who wanted to try stand-up.

The idea scared them and that

RLJ: I think the difference is more the technology than the focus. When I started BET, its carriage was totally dependent on the development of cable television in the urban market. Its programming was totally dependent upon getting programming primarily from the networks. Its programming was dependent upon advertising support and cable carriage.

And the ability to market it was limited to either buying black radio or going into urban oriented magazines like Ebony, Jet or Essence. Today, there are no gatekeepers in the digital space. I don’t need to talk to a cable operator.

I don’t have to go to Ford Motor Company or Procter & Gamble for advertising support. I don’t need to approach the networks for programming. There’s tremendous talent out there producing programming. And I don’t have to spend a lot of money on radio to reach the local markets. I can promote on Facebook and stream information on Youtube while the artists talk about their films on Twitter. The avenues for getting the word out have expanded vastly since when I started BET thanks to the technology revolution of the internet and the Digital Age. excited me, because I like trying scary things, trying new things.

And, I was like, ‘I’ll try stand-up’.

I was intrigued by the idea and wrote some jokes. I went to an open mic by myself. I didn’t tell anyone I was going. I wanted to try it and did okay. No one knew it was my first time doing stand-up, and that excited me. I kind of got the bug and really wanted to figure out how to do this well and write jokes that I love that other people could understand — and like having other people in my brain and sharing the experience on stage.

Pierce

continued from page 15 open question. I did a painting Going to Chicago, which depicts the migration of blacks from the south to the north. I had a studio on Norfolk Avenue about three, four years ago. That painting stood in the middle of my studio for about a year because I couldn’t resolve it. The people were standing in line going to buy tickets, just to leave the south. I finally walked into my studio one day and it just dawned on me that I needed a final figure in the painting. So, I added an African woman looking out at you. That’s how I resolved the painting. It doesn’t always happen that way but it can be crazy enough to happen that way sometimes.

As an artist are you hoping to create conversation through your work?

LP: That’s absolutely true.

Whatever inspires me. I don’t always try to convey messages. It’s just that this drawing left me so traumatized I couldn’t respond.

I’m from New York. I was born in the Bronx. It was so personal. It took me a couple of years to even express what I felt about that. Not everything I do is message oriented. A lot of times it’s just whimsical. I found these old-fashioned telephones that used to hang up on your wall in the kitchen. I turned them into a face.

What are you working on now?

LP: I’m working on a tribute to jazz pianist Art Tatum, who was considered one of the finest jazz pianists of all time. I created a sculpture in Marquette about five years ago with the intention of getting funding to have this fabricated and made into an 11foot sculpture. It consists mainly of piano keys.

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ur Corn Chowder is just the thing for summer, when corn is at its best.

In this version, we sautéed the sweet kernels from Peaches-andCream corn and some chopped potatoes in bacon drippings.

Thickened with a bit of flour, the mixture then got a healthy douse of milk, then simmered about 30 minutes. We added a handful of feta and topped the soup with a smattering of velvety roasted tomatoes (a little like gilding the lily, we know). Add a bit of basil, and you’re done.

Fresh Corn Chowder with Feta and Roasted Tomatoes The silky roasted tomatoes and salty feta play off the sweet corn in this creamy soup.

Sun-dried tomatoes packed in oil make a fine substitute for the roasted tomatoes. n 3 ounces bacon, diced n 1 shallot, diced n 1 small onion, chopped n 2 Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and chopped n Fresh sweet corn cut from 4 ears (about 3 cups) n 2 tablespoons flour n 6 cups 2 percent reduced-fat milk n 2 ounces feta cheese n Roasted tomatoes

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Place bacon, shallot and onion in a large saucepan or Dutch oven. Cook over medium heat 10 minutes or until bacon is crispy.

Add potatoes and corn; stir. Add flour and stir well. Cook 5 minutes. Add milk. Turn heat to low and simmer 20 to 30 minutes, until potatoes are tender. To finish, add feta, salt and pepper to taste and dollop with roasted tomatoes. Serves 6.

Coming to the CoffeeHouse: THU July 30 - Youth Again Mass Incarceration (YAMI) Presentation and discussion regarding solutions to Mass Incarceration THU Aug 6 - Game Night - Chess, Yahtzee, Scrabble, Spades, Whist THU Aug 13 - TEP Talks - Members of the Transitional Employment Program share their stories THU Aug 20 - Lifted: theater featuring Obehi Janice and Justin Springer Program starts at 7pm - Come Early for Dinner!

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Mango Ginger Smoothie n ½ cup quick-cooking oats n 1 cup lowfat milk n 1 cup mango cubes (peeled, if fresh) n 1 (11-ounce) can mandarin orange segments, drained n 2 tablespoons almond butter n 1 tablespoon honey n 1 tablespoon lime juice n ½ teaspoon ground ginger In a blender grind the oats until fine.

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THURSDAY TITO PUENTE LATIN MUSIC SERIES The six-concert Tito Puente Latin Music Series returns to Boston parks on Thursdays in July and August with a soundscape of salsa, bolero, danzón, Afro-Latin, Caribbean, jazz, funk, R&B, and more. Performers include Berklee College of Music faculty, students, alumni, and world-renowned artists from Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Venezuela. Presented by the Boston Parks and Recreation Department in partnership with Berklee College of Music and IBA — Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción.

Performances will take place on July 30 at O’Day Playground in the South End. The series will also feature a performance at the East Boston Greenway on August 6. All concerts are at 7pm. Audiences should bring their dancing shoes for free salsa lessons from the MetaMovements Latin Dance Company. All locations are wheelchair accessible. In the event of inclement weather, the O’Day Playground concerts will move inside the Villa Victoria Center for the Arts and the East Boston concert will move inside Zumix, which is nearby. All others will be canceled with no rain dates.

GET HIP BOSTON Mass Incarceration is a public health crisis! Join the participants of Get HIP Boston for a public screening of our PSA regarding the public health impacts of the prison industrial complex on men of color in Boston. There will be free food and beverages provided and a panel of local activists and advocates following the screening. Come through! !! *child care provided*!! In the summer of 2014 the Get Hip team developed an hour-long interactive workshop highlighting the health impacts of mass incarceration, and reached over 150 youth and adult allies, as well as over 25 different health care providers. With the help of a local videographer, we have developed a hard-hitting video on their research. The video has yet to be released publicly. On July 30 from 7-9pm at the First Baptist Church, 633 Centre St, Jamaica Plain, we are screening our PSA for the first time and holding a short panel with a number of people doing powerful work to elleviate the effects of mass incarceration.

Come learn how to get involved to make a better, more just Boston!

SATURDAY YOGA-IN-THE-PARK During the month of August, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site (Olmsted NHS) is offering Yoga-inthe-Park Saturday mornings at various locations along the Olmsted-designed Emerald Necklace. Beginning Saturday morning, August 1 at the Arnold Arboretum, by the Hunnewell Visitor Center, National Park Service staff is offering a 30-minute guided walk of the landscape at 9am, followed by a one-hour outdoor yoga class at 10am.

The public is invited to join either or both activities, which are free. No

advance reservations are required.

The Hunnewell Visitor Center is inside the Arboretum’s Main Gate, located at 125 Arborway, Route 203, Boston. In subsequent weeks, Yoga-in-the-Park is taking place at Jamaica Pond’s Pinebank (August 8), the Back Bay Fens (August 15), Marine Park in South Boston (August 22), and the Riverway (August 29). For further information on these offerings and the exact meeting places, please visit www.nps.gov/frla or call 617-5661689. This series is cosponsored by the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, www.emeraldnecklace.org.

DANCE JP Celebrate summer with Dance JP! All are welcome at this community-centered, socially conscious dance. Enjoy the warm, summer breeze, feel the cool grass under your feet, and get lost in the music in a safer, fun, and friendly space. Wheelchair accessible.

August 1, 4-6pm, on the lawn at First Baptist Church JP, 633 Centre St. $3-10. More info: http://tinyurl.com/ DanceJP, or email: dancejpdance@ gmail.com.

ECHO From August 1-4, the Multicultural Arts Center will be hosting free showings of ECHO, choreographed by Bridgette Dunn Korpella of B. Dunn Movement Dance & Theatre Company!

ECHO is an interdisciplinary multi-dimensional dance performance that examines issues of race, identity, and the value of black life on a global level.

This performance explores the displacement of African Diaspora bodies during the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the effects of displacement through generations until current contemporary times. To reserve your ticket, visit www. multiculturalartscenter.org (until one hour before the performance) or the box office at the Multicultural Arts Center.

41 Second St., Cambridge.

SUNDAY JAZZ AT THE FORT Berklee College of Music and the City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department present the Bill Pierce Collective at the annual, free Jazz at the Fort concert, Sunday, August 2, 5pm, at Roxbury’s Highland Park. After the Berklee City Music All-Stars open the concert, the Bill Pierce Collective will perform a jazz set built around saxophone and organ. Entryways to Highland Park are on Fort Avenue or Beech Glen Street in Roxbury. The park is wheelchair-accessible. Parking is available at Columbus Avenue and Cedar Street in the Roxbury Community College lot. The park is also a short walk from the MBTA Roxbury Crossing Station. In the event of rain, the concert will move to Roxbury Community College’s Media Arts Center, 1234 Columbus Ave. Jazz at the Fort is part of Berklee’s Summer in the City series, made possible by presenting sponsor Natixis Global Asset Management, with musical performances by Berklee musicians in neighborhoods throughout Boston. For more infor-

THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2015

PARKARTS CITYWIDE NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT SERIES

The Boston Parks and Recreation Department is proud to announce the 2015 ParkARTS Citywide Neighborhood Concert Series presented in partnership with Hot 96.9, Metro PCS, and Berklee College of Music from through August 2 in parks citywide. ParkARTS neighborhood performances are outdoor summer concerts presented free of charge in local City of Boston parks. Soul City Band at McConnell Park, 30 Denny St., Dorchester; 7pm on Thursday, July 30, with Zili Misik at Adams Park, 4225 Washington St., Roslindale; and 5pm on Sunday, August 2, with Jazz at the Fort featuring the Bill Pierce Collective at Highland Park, 58 Beech Glen St., Roxbury. All ParkARTS neighborhood performances are free of charge. For more informaEasy tion or a full schedule of events, please call please call 617-635-4505 orSUDOKU visit the Parks Department online at 6 8 3 7 1 5 4 2 9 www.cityofboston/parks or www.facebook.com/bostonparksdepartment.

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and open space, or determine how new development will affect traffic and parking.

For Garrison Trotter Neighborhood Association Chairman Louis Elisa, the coming development boom represents somewhat of a challenge.

“There is no vision,” he said.

“There has not been a unified planning process for all of the vacant lots in Roxbury.”

Plans in the making

This year the Boston Redevelopment Authority will launch a comprehensive city-wide planning effort. But at the current pace, housing production is way ahead of neighborhood planning.

The Department of Neighborhood Development’s quarterly report on the housing plan issued in April showed that 21,100 of the 53,000 units have already been permitted or approved — meaning about half of the planned developments have already found a spot in the city.

“It’s been the priority of the mayor to put back into economic use the properties [we have],” Sheila Dillon, director of the DND, said in a phone call with the Banner. She noted that land plots that are shed from the city’s inventory can then build the city’s tax base as developers put them to use. Dillon said the city does not have a specific date by which they are aiming to finish the disposition process, but that the process is “continual.” When one land plot is disposed of, another is put up for grabs. She said she hopes the city can empty its holdings of usable land in two to three years.

City Councilor Tito Jackson acknowledges the city’s need to develop more housing.

“One of the reasons housing prices are going up is because there’s not enough supply,” Jackson said. He advocates a mix that is one-third affordable housing, one-third so-called ‘workforce’ or moderate income housing, and one-third market-rate housing to create stability in Roxbury. But absent a neighborhood-wide planning process, there is no agreement on what mix of affordability should go into new units in the neighborhood.

“A completed planning effort would unlock our housing potential, our workforce and economic development potential, and our transportation potential,” he said.

“The only way this works is to look

at Roxbury as a whole, rather than a parcel-by-parcel basis.”

Neighborhood of opportunity

City data shows Roxbury to have significantly more vacant land — 1.57 million square feet — than other neighborhoods. Mattapan, East Boston and Dorchester have the next largest amounts of available city-owned land, at 1.52 million, 1.41 million and 1.39 million square feet, respectively.

A comparable neighborhood in terms of urbanity — South Boston — has only 49,000 square feet available.

Taking only developable land into account, Roxbury remains at the top of the list, with Mattapan, Dorchester and East Boston not far behind.

Meanwhile, construction continues apace. Dudley Square is being redeveloped with new housing and office space. In Jackson Square, developers are in the midst of building out residential, retail and office space projects.

Housing projects large and small are in various stages of planning and development.

And yet, there has been no comprehensive planning on traffic or parking for Roxbury.

In the past, Roxbury residents, city officials and representatives of institutions in Roxbury collaborated on a Roxbury Strategic Master Plan, which was released in 2004. Councilor Jackson says the master plan was too limited in scope to provide guidelines for neighborhood-wide development.

“The Roxbury Strategic Master Plan’s purview is really in Dudley Square and Melnea Cass Boulevard,” he said. “We need something that will go from Grove Hall, to Dudley, to lower Roxbury.”

Nick Martin, spokesperson for the Boston Redevelopment Authority, acknowledged that there were some limitations to current planning processes, but said there still was a good foundation in place on which to improve.

“While it’s true that the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan applies only to parcels where the BRA has an ownership stake, I wouldn’t want to diminish the value of that plan,” he said via email to the Banner. “It has led to a vision for the redevelopment of many crucial parcels in the neighborhood, several of which are underway at the moment.”

Martin pointed as examples to the new Tropical Foods building, redevelopment at Bartlett Yards and a recent federal grant for the Whittier Street housing development.

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Above, city officials count more than 300 vacant parcels of land in Roxbury, including this plot at 280 Warren Street. Below, the city has 21,000 units of housing in the development pipeline. Much of Boston’s recent housing development has been in luxury towers, like the Millennium Tower being constructed on the former Filene’s site in Downtown Crossing.

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A completed planning effort would unlock our housing potential, our workforce and economic development potential, and our transportation potential. The only way this works is to look at Roxbury as a whole, rather than a parcel-byparcel basis.”

— City Councilor Tito Jackson

But Martin acknowledged that the Strategic Master Plan only covers a portion of the neighborhood. “[The] point about the lack of a single community-wide plan is a good one, and it speaks to Mayor Walsh’s desire to do more comprehensive planning in general,” Martin said. “The issue isn’t

unique to Roxbury, and that’s what makes the ongoing citywide planning effort (i.e. Imagine Boston 2030) so important.”

Parcel-by-parcel approach

Currently, the Department of Neighborhood Development decides which of its plots to put up for bidding based on local

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interest and whether the current real estate market would support privately-financed development.

The DND then puts out a Request for Proposals (RFP), and developers submit their project proposals. Qualified proposals go on to receive community feedback.

The process generally ensures that community residents have the opportunity to weigh in on projects before they’re built. But absent a neighborhood-wide plan, development in Roxbury tends to piecemeal, with developers executing radically different ideas, often without regard for the impacts on traffic and density.

In the Highland Park section of Roxbury, residents demanded the city put a moratorium on disposition of city-owned land while residents come up with a master plan for the neighborhood.

“There are roughly seven acres of land in a very small neighborhood,” said neighborhood resident Rodney Singleton in a conversation with the Banner. “We need a master plan for these remaining parcels.”

Singleton said that because there is no active Roxbury Neighborhood Council to do the kind of desired community-led planning, the smaller neighborhood groups and project review committees lack resources and information.

“They’re kind of on their own,” he said of the smaller civic groups.

“When they take a vote on a project, they don’t have a standard way to articulate their views to the city.”

Yawu Miller contributed to this article.

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February in its location within the Ruggles MBTA Station near the entrance to the Northeastern University campus.

With Connection Center assistance, Jandira Oliveira of Dorchester landed a spot in a 15-week Careers in Banking and Finance course at the Asian American Civic Association.

Oliveira, 24, who came to the U.S. from Cape Verde at 18 and recently completed her GED, said Connection Center staff member Kelly Folsom accompanied her to AACA for the initial interview and English, math and writing tests.

She was one of 10 applicants selected from a pool of about 100, she said, and started her training last week.

“So far, it’s really good,” she said. In addition to the all-day training, Oliveira is working parttime, caring for a baby daughter and aiding an ill grandmother.

She is looking forward to working as a bank teller or personal banker after completing the AACA program.

Folsom said that when young people come to the Connection Center, staff members refer them to local organizations such as AACA, Year Up and College Bound Dorchester, and in the process become “stakeholders” SUDOKU forSUDOKU them.

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Network approach 4 7 2 6 3 9 5 8 1 “But today it’s tougher The Boston Opportunity Youth 7 1 4 for 9 young 5 2 8 3 6 8 4 9 3 72 517 86 376 64 951 48 232 19 5 Collaborative was convened in people,” he said. “A 8 high 5 9 school 1 6 di3 7 4 2 2013 by the Private Industry ploma is not the same 2 3 today 6 4 on 7 the 8 9 1 5 5 6 2 7 1 5 36 438 97 843 12 216 79 PHOTO: 4 9 is Council and the Boston Oppor- job market, and 1college 4 5 3 8more 6 2 9 7 8 5SANDRA LARSON Oliveira of Dorchester is pursuing a tunity Agenda with funding sup- expensive.”

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INVITATION TO BID The Medford Housing Authority (MHA), the Awarding Authority, invites sealed bids for the following project: Building Envelope Repairs for the Saltonstall Building, 121 Riverside Avenue & Weldon Gardens, 35 Bradlee Road for the Medford Housing Authority (MHA), 121 Riverside Avenue, Medford, MA, 02155.

Nature and scope of work: This is a federally funded project and Federal laws and regulations shall apply in addition to the laws and requirements of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Saltonstall Building - work includes concrete spandrel repairs and coating, brick masonry repairs, steel lintel replacement, installation of new flashings, sealant replacement and water repellant waterproofing.

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Weldon Gardens - brick masonry repairs, installation of new flashings, sealant replacement, water repellant waterproofing, removal and replacement of curtain wall window systems, including glass and glazing.

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

The estimated project value is: $ 450,000.

Plans and specifications will be available on 7/30/15 and can be obtained electronically through BidDocs ONLINE, Inc. at biddocsonline.com .

A Pre-bid Meeting will be held on August 4, 2015, at 9:00 am at 121 Riverside Avenue, Medford, MA. Filed Sub-Bidders’ written questions will be received until 3:00 pm, 8/10/15.

All questions and requests for interpretation must be submitted in writing to the Architect via facsimile at (617) 464-2971 or via email at askalski@ cbiconsultinginc.com. No oral interpretations will be given. Questions will be answered via addendum as determined by the Architect.

Sealed Filed Sub-Bids will be received at the MHA’s Main Administrative Offices as noted above until 3:00 pm on August 13, 2015 at which time bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. The Filed Sub-Bid categories of work are: Metal Windows, Waterproofing and Caulking, and Glass and Glazing.

General Bidder’s written questions will be received until 3:00 pm on 8/17/15. All questions and requests for interpretation must be submitted in writing to the Architect via facsimile at (617) 464-2971 or via email at askalski@cbiconsultinginc.com. No oral interpretations will be given.

Questions will be answered via addendum as determined by the Architect.

Sealed general bids will be received at the MHA Main Office until 3:00 p.m. on August 20, 2015, at which time all general bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

All general bids shall be accompanied by a bid deposit in the form of a certified, cashier’s or treasurer’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company made payable to the Medford Housing Authority or a bid bond, in an amount not less than five percent (5%) of the value of the total bid.

The successful general bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Labor and Material (Payment) Bond each in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract sum. Bonds shall be obtained from a surety licensed to do business in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the form shall be satisfactory to the MHA. The successful contractors shall comply with all Federal and State “flow through” (and any other relevant) reporting requirements in a timely manner.

No less than the minimum Federal/State wage rates as set forth in the schedule contained in the Contract Documents must be paid on this project.

Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 (12 U.S.C. 1701u) (Section 3) Part 135 - Economic Opportunities for Low- and Very Low-Income Persons shall apply to this project.

Copies of the above are bound in the bid documents and are fully integral portions of the conditions of the contract with which each general contractor and sub-contractor must comply.

The MHA reserves the right to reject any or all general bids if it is in the public interest to do so.

INVITATION TO BID The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following: BID NO.

DESCRIPTION

DATE

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Digester Sludge Pump Replacement Phase 2

8/27/2015

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Flu Shot Clinics

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Estate of Fred Holmes, Jr. Date of Death: 10/24/2014 To all interested persons: A petition for Formal Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by Zilpha Holmes of Mattapan, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The petitioner requests that Zilpha Holmes of Mattapan, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration.

IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 08/13/2015. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you.

UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

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

Date: July 14, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

SUFFOLK Division

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Hector J. Cartagena Of Roxbury Crossing, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Hector Cartagena of Roxbury Crossing, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Hector J. Cartagena is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Hector Cartagena of Roxbury Crossing, 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 08/07/2015. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written

Beaver Pond Commons in Milford Affordable Housing Lottery www.s-e-b.com 2BR Duplex Homes for $158,200 & $161,700 2BR Single-Family Homes for $154,600 3BR Single-Family Homes for $174,800 This is a lottery for the 16 affordable Homes being built at Beaver Pond Commons. These 16 homes will be sold at affordable prices to households with incomes at or below 80% of the area median income. The first affordable homes will be ready in autumn/winter of 2015.

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

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

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

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

Applications and Required Income Documentation must be recieved, not postmarked, by 2 pm on September 24th, 2015 A Public Info Session will be held on August 18th, 2015 at 6:00 pm Milford Town Hall (52 Main St). The lottery will be on October 13th at 6 pm at the same location.

Applications and Information also available at the Milford Town Library on 80 Spruce St (Hours M-Th 9-9, Fri 9-6, Sat 9-5 closed all Sundays and Saturdays during the summer)

Mascuppic Village Dracut, MA

Docket No. SU13D2177DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Jessica Booker-Warner

vs.

Jamaine Booker-Warner

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

208, Section 1 B. The Complaint is on file at the Court.

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

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Jessica BookerWarner, Impounded, your answer, if any, on or before 09/03/2015. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

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

Date: July 24, 2015

to

Docket No. SU15P1560GD

REAL ESTATE

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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

Docket No. SU15P1020EA

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication

Bidding procedures shall be in accordance with M.G.L. c. 149, SS44A-44J, as most recently amended, and all other applicable laws.

All Masonry General Bids must include a copy of the Contractor’s Certificate of Eligibility and a signed Update Statement, both in the work category of: General Building Construction.

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

2 1/2 Baths 2 Car Garage Eligibility Criteria 1. At least one household buyer is 55 years old.

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

780 Nashua Road, Unit 12 Directions: From Route 3, take Exit 2 in New Hampshire. Turn right off exit. At third set of lights bear Left on Dracut Road which becomes Nashua Road. Drive 3 miles and Mascuppic Village is on the right OR From Lowell MA take Mammoth RD to Nashua RD For program information: Maureen O’Hagan Call: (978) 456-8388 Email: lotteryinfo@mcohousingservices.com Pick Up: Dracut Town Hall, Town Clerk Office, Public Library and Senior Center or on Web: www.mcohousingservices.com

91 Clay Street Quincy, MA 02170

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REAL ESTATE Axis at Lakeshore Phase 2 Bridgewater, MA 1BRs @ $1,153*, 2BRs @ $1,382*, 3BRs @ $1,589* No Utilities included except water and sewer *Rents subject to change with the HUD’s release of the 2016 Area Median Incomes

To apply for one of the 48 affordable units in Phase 1 that are currently available, please call the Leasing Office now at (508-279-2947). You do not have to go through this lottery process for a unit that is part of Phase 1. The second phase of Axis at Lakeshore adds one five-story elevator building with 97 units, 25 of which will be rented to households with annual incomes not exceeding 80% of Area Median Income (AMI) adjusted for family size as determined by HUD. The community includes a state of the art clubhouse outfitted with a fitness center, meeting space, swimming pool, theater room, and Wi-Fi Café. Units feature spacious floor plans with 9’ ceilings, in-unit laundry, and central air. The units will also be accented with designer kitchens featuring granite counters and Clean Steel appliances. The first units in phase 2 will be ready in December 2015.

The 80% AMI Income Limits are as follows: $46,100* (1 person), $52,650* (2 people), $59,250* (3 people), $65,800* (4 people), $71,100* (5 people), $76,350* (6 people) *Income Limits subject to change with the HUD’s release of the 2015/2016 Area Median Incomes A Public Information Session will be held at 6 pm on August 4th in the Little Meeting Room at Bridgewater Public Library (15 South St) Completed Applications may be mailed, faxed, emailed, or delivered in person. Completed Applications and Required Income Documentation must be received by 2:00 PM on Sept 14th, 2015.

The Lottery will be held on September 30th, 2015 at 6 PM in same location as the info session above.

For Applications and Details on the Lottery or for reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, call 617.782.6900 or go to www.s-e-b.com/lottery. For TTY Services dial 711. Free translation available.

Applications and Info Packets also available in the Bridgewater Public Library (15 South St.) Hours: M-W 9-8, Th 10-5, F-Sa 10-2

HELP WANTED Seeking

Accounts Payable Bookkeeper Part Time (25 hours) The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC) is a community development corporation based in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. The Accounts Payable Bookkeeper provides support to the organization’s Human Resources Accountant in processing accounting transactions such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll and maintaining records and files. For more information go to www.jpndc.org. Send resume to: Frances Gratz, Bookkeeper, JPNDC, 31 Germania Street, Bldg. A, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 or email: fgratz@jpndc.org by August 7, 2015. AA/EOE

The Roxbury Innovation Center is seeking Program Associates. The Program Associate performs a variety of operations and marketing tasks needed for the smooth functioning of programs and events that assist the Center’s community of innovators and entrepreneurs.

Please see the full job description at www.roxburyinnovationcenter.org/about/jobs.

Resumes should be sent to hiring@vencaf.org.

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Hoyle, Tanner & Associates, Inc. is a mid-size national consulting engineering firm headquartered in Manchester, NH. We are currently seeking a Resident Project Representative for observation of roadway, bridge, and utility construction. A minimum of 10 years of construction engineering experience in these fields is required. BSCE (MSCE preferred), P.E. (VT license preferred) and familiarity with material specifications and testing requirements (VTrans preferred). Survey experience a plus.

Primary assignment for this position through June 2017 will be as QAM on Brattleboro, VT I-91 Bridges 8 & 9 Replacement. This nationally acclaimed project is an exciting and unique opportunity to be a part of a design-build team and the completion of this signature structure. For more information on the project visit www.i91brattleborobridge.com.

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FULL-TIME PEER ADVOCATE

Advocates will be responsible for working directly with women, providing peer support and assisting them in developing their own exit plans.

PUBLIC NOTICE FALMOUTH HOUSING AUTHORITY REOPENING OF WAITING LIST FOR STATE AIDED FAMILY HOUSING

Net Income Limit

QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER

The EVA Center, designed to assist women in exiting out of commercial sexual exploitation (prostitution, trafficking), is looking for survivors with knowledge and experience in advocacy to become part of our growing team and further our mission of ending sexual exploitation. Since 2006 we have worked with hundreds of women, offering comprehensive, holistic services, information and resources. We are a growing program in the process of merging with Casa Myrna Vazquez, an organization working to end domestic violence. Survivor advocates are a vital component of our program and essential in developing needed policies combating trafficking and all forms of exploitation.

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Join the team at Boston’s premier youth writing center! 826 Boston seeks a highly organized relationship builder for a full-time Volunteer Manager and a skilled writing instructor for a full-time In-School Programs Manager. Visit 826boston.org for further details and to apply online. Application deadline: August 15, 2015. Questions?

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The Falmouth Housing Authority will be accepting applications for its state aided 705 2, 3 and 4 bedroom family housing (Chapter 705).

Eligible applicants will be placed on an existing waiting list by lottery, not by the order in which the completed application is received.

There are no units available at this time.

Applications will be accepted beginning Monday, July 27, 2015 at 9:00 am and ending Monday, August 10, 2015 at 4:30 pm (the “lottery period”). The waiting list will remain open after the lottery period and applications will be processed in order of receipt from that point forward. Please note that office hours for the Housing Authority are: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 9:00 am to 4:30 pm and Wednesday 9:00 am to Noon.

Interested persons may apply in person at the Authority’s office located at 115 Scranton Avenue, Falmouth, MA, 02540 by mail by contacting us at 508-548-1977 or by downloading the application on line at www.falmouthhousing.org and delivering the completed application to our office in accordance with the timeframes listed above.

Please note: Applications will not be sent or received by fax or e-mail.

All applicants must be determined eligible in accordance with the Department of Housing and Community Development’s regulations.

Be sure all requested information is included. Applicants must meet the family size requirements for a designated bedroom size unit and the income of all family members may not exceed the Net Income Limits listed below. Residents of state-aided family housing pay no more than 27% of their monthly income for rent.

HELP WANTED

This position is based out of the Family Justice Center of Boston but will require local travel and some evenings and weekends.

Qualified candidates should have an understanding of women’s issues within a human rights based and social justice framework.

To apply please send a resume and a cover letter explaining your interest in being part of this project to: cherie@evacenter.org

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Brookline Housing Authority (BHA)

Applications Manager

Responsibilities: n Explain BHA affordable housing programs and procedures to applicants/clients. n Assist in all aspects of Public Housing and Sec. 8 program waiting lists, including: intake, updates, lotteries, applicant screening/referrals and re-certifications. n Cover BHA reception desk 1-2 shifts per week. n Coordinate with staff in other departments, and other duties as required.

Qualifications: n Previous experience in the affordable housing or similar field. n High school graduate or GED; Degree, with a concentration in, social work or related field a plus. n Ability to interact courteously with a diverse range of people. n Ability to produce timely and accurate work products. n Strong administrative skills and proficiency in office software a must. n Bilingual a plus.

Salary & Benefits: Depending on qualifications and in accordance with Collective Bargaining Agreement.

How to Apply: Submit cover letter and resume by 5:00 pm, August 20, 2015, by e.mail to: jobs@brooklinehousing.org.

Position is open until filled. Applications by e.mail only.

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