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Elders feel effects of housing prices Some safe, others vulnerable as gentrification progresses

By SANDRA LARSON

Boston’s South End is cited nationwide as a textbook example of gentrification already out of the gate, and the city’s Chinatown neighborhood is struggling for its very Chinese-ness as luxury towers proliferate all around it. In other Boston neighborhoods, residents and policymakers grapple with various stages of transformation, harboring hope there’s still time to slow things down, or at least mitigate the displacement of lower-income workers, families and seniors.

For older residents in Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, experiences and feelings vary as housing prices rise and their neighborhoods change around them. Some are vulnerable to displacement, while others have found stable, affordable housing.

Longtime homeowners have the luxury of contemplating whether to sell, some happy for the significant financial opportunity but hesitant to push a neighborhood shift that often results in fewer people of color.

Million-dollar JP condos

Navigating Jamaica Plain’s Chestnut Avenue area with her walker, longtime affordable housing advocate Betsaida Gutierrez noted that nearby Forbes Street is where she lived with relatives when she arrived from Puerto Rico in 1972. This street and some other nearby streets were once mainly Latino families and still have some longtime Latino-owned homes, but closer

THE ELDER EXPERIENCE OF GENTRIFICATION Part 2 of a 2-part series Read Part 1 in the series at BayStateBanner.com

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All these years when nobody wanted to live in this neighborhood, the people who lived here were struggling.

Now everyone wants to live in the city, and the people who struggled to fix it up have to leave.”

— Diane Dujon

to Stony Brook T station, many have been converted to condos and sold to a whiter and more affluent population.

Gutierrez, in her 60s and recently disabled by illness, has been lucky to land in an accessible, affordable apartment in a JP Scattered Sites cooperative building built by Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation. It’s a happy ending to a harsh story, as her move was forced. She was given 30 days to leave another Jamaica Plain apartment in which she had lived 15 years, she explained, when her previous landlord wanted to use the unit.

See ELDERS, page 8

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State Rep. Evandro Carvalho, Ambassador Jose Luis Rocha, Consul General Pedro Carvalho and Cultural Attache Gunga Tavares cut a cake commemorating the 40th anniversary of Cape Verde’s independence.

Cape Verdeans mark 40 yrs of independence Legislators, diplomats attend State House fete

By YAWU MILLER

As the sunrise of Cape Verde’s first day of independence from Portuguese colonial rule approached, 16-year-old Gunga Tolentino, her mother and her sister were still awake, feverishly sewing the first Cape Vedean flag to fly over the capital city of Praia.

One of her brothers had been fighting for independence on

the African mainland in Guinee Bissau. Another brother, Luis Tolentino, had been shipped away to a Portuguese prison in Angola.

“They sent you there to either survive or die,” Gunga remembers.

Luis had designed the flag, with blocks of the red, green and yellow colors popular with African liberation movements in the ‘60s and ‘70s. While Tolentino family members were worried for the missing brothers, the excitement of the

country’s liberation at least temporarily eclipsed any feelings of fear.

“It was pure jubilation,” recalls the now married Gunga Tavares.

“It was out of this world. We were heavily involved in the movement for independence and against the abuses of the Portuguese.”

Last week, Tavares and more than 100 other Cape Verdeans gathered at the State House to

See CAPE VERDE, page 6

BPD institutes anti-profiling rule Cops now obliged to cite reason for stop

By YAWU MILLER

PHOTO: SANDRA LARSON

Jamaica Plain resident and housing activist Betsaida Gutierrez on her front porch.

Nine months after the release of a report detailing a pattern of bias in police stops of blacks in Boston, the Boston Police Department has instituted new guidelines for its officers that explicitly prohibit stops based solely on race, gender or physical characteristics.

The new guidelines also reaffirm the requirement that officers

give a specific reason for why drivers or pedestrians are stopped, questioned and/or patted down or searched. Last year’s police stops report found that officers most often used the vague explanation “investigate a person” as their reason for stopping individuals.

That study, released last October, found that blacks make up the majority of all police stops in the city, despite making up only 24 percent of the city’s population.

ON THE WEB Read the Black, Brown and Targeted report on the Boston Police Department online:

https://aclum.org/app/uploads/2015/06/ reports-black-brown-and-targeted.pdf While police officials said the disproportionate numbers of blacks being stopped correlated to higher crime and more gang activity in black neighborhoods, even when those factors are taken into account, blacks were stopped at a

See BPD, page 21

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Transit cost relief for Boston-area youth Youth Pass pilot program serves ages 12-21 in 4 cities

By SANDRA LARSON

Boston area youth transit activists joined city and state officials at Dudley Station July 1 to celebrate the much-anticipated launch of the MBTA Youth Pass. The oneyear pilot pass program will sharply reduce the cost of bus and subway travel for 1,500 young people ages 12 to 21 in Boston, Chelsea, Malden and Somerville.

The celebration began with a speaking program inside the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building and moved out to Dudley Station, where students boarded a No. 1 bus for a ceremonial “first tap” of their new cards.

“For youth riders, the MBTA is our lifeline,” said youth leader Kasey Shen of the Youth Affordabili(T) Coalition. “It’s our way to opportunity — to get to class, to work, to extracurricular activities, sports, appointments, health care.”

Shen introduced Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Stephanie Pollack.

“The Youth Pass program taps into the connection between transit and opportunity,” Pollack told the crowd. She commended the youth activists for their effort and persistence.

“I think it’s wonderful that young

people can get excited and organized enough to advocate for their own needs and force people to listen to them,” she said.

The new pass expands affordable T access beyond the current student pass available to high school students during the school year. The Youth Pass will be valid year-round.

The cost for access to both bus and subway will be $26 per month or $7 for a 7-day stretch. Anyone ages 12 to 18 who lives in the participating

cities is eligible, and 19-to-21-yearolds are eligible if they are currently enrolled in a school, GED or job training program and can demonstrate financial need.

Without the Youth Pass, even young teens must pay full fare in the summer months. Unsubsidized monthly T passes cost $50 for bus alone and $75 for bus and subway combined.

Shen, in her opening words, described an eight-year campaign

leading up to this “historic moment,” and the extraordinary collaborations that brought it to fruition.

As early as 2007, she said, it was clear that many Boston-area young people were missing out on important opportunities because they couldn’t afford public transportation.

“Thousands of young people across Boston and nearby cities came together and took part in various ways. We’ve testified in hearings, met with many officials, held marches, and published a research report with details about the affordability crisis,” said Shen. “We worked in a coalition with seniors and with transit groups and labor unions. We lobbied the State House for funding.

We led direct actions to hold our public officials accountable.”

And over the past year, Shen noted, the Youth Affordabili(T) Coalition worked closely with MassDOT

and municipal governments on pilot program details.

Summing up, Shen said, “We changed the story about who rides the T to also include youth riders.”

The Youth Pass pilot program application process began in April. According to MassDOT, 2,700 young people have applied for 1,500 passes, and each municipality is keeping a wait list. At the event, youth organizers strongly encouraged eligible young people to apply to be placed on a wait list in case passes become available.

Jonathan Tsang, 17, watching the program from the Bolling Building’s grand staircase, said he is looking forward to using his Youth Pass to get to his summer job, to visit relatives and go to church on Sundays.

Emmanuell DeBarros, 19, of Dorchester, is on a wait list. If he doesn’t get a pass, he’ll be walking to work and orthodontist appointments this summer, he said. That may not be as easy this fall and winter, though, as he starts classes at Bunker Hill Community College with the goal of transferring to UMass Boston.

Among the first in line for the ceremonial “first tap” was Mahlet Shiferaw, 17, of Roslindale. Displaying her Youth Pass to a circle of photographers and young people, she said the discounted T fare will be especially helpful this summer, as she is working for the first time.

“I’m very grateful,” she said.

ON THE WEB n MBTA Youth Pass information and application: mbta.com/youthpass n Twitter: @YouthWay SANDRA LARSON PHOTO

Mahlet Shiferaw of Roslindale displays her new Youth Pass after a celebratory launch event at Dudley Station on July 1.

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1852 Douglass speech still resonates

Annual public reading draws hundreds

By SANDRA LARSON

“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?” asked Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852 in a speech to the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society.

The former slave and wellknown abolitionist, writer and orator had been asked to commemorate Independence Day. But two years after the enactment of the Fugitive Slave Act, Douglass, who had escaped slavery himself, decided to deliver some searing words to his fellow Americans.

“The Fourth of July is yours, not mine,” he said. “You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak today?”

Douglass accused the U.S. people and government of the highest hypocrisy for denouncing the foreign slave trade while allowing internal slave trading to continue. Worse, the Fugitive Slave Act had made it a federal offense to harbor escaped slaves even in free states, forcing law enforcement officials everywhere to arrest anyone suspected of being a runaway slave.

“You invite to your shores

fugitives of oppression from abroad, honor them ... salute them, protect them, ... but the fugitives from your own land you advertise, hunt, arrest, shoot and kill,” Douglass said. “You glory in your refinement ... yet you maintain a system as barbarous and dreadful as ever stained the character of a nation.”

Public reading

In Boston last week, two days before July 2, a public reading of the famous speech was held on the Boston Common. Readers lined up at a microphone set up near the State House and stepped up to read a paragraph each, 53 in all.

“Reading Frederick Douglass” events have occurred annually since 2009, the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency, said Pleun Bouricius, director of grants and programs at Mass Humanities. Her organization spearheaded the event along with Community Change, Inc. and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School.

On the Common last week, a crowd of 150 to 200 people milled about, many listening with somber attention to the entire hour-long event. House Speaker Robert DeLeo led off the reading, followed by a handful of other legislators, including Sen. Jamie Eldridge and Reps.

Jay Livingstone, Joe McGonagle and Paul Donato. Members of the

SANDRA LARSON PHOTO

Karilyn Crockett, the City of Boston’s director of economic policy and research, accompanied a young friend to the microphone during a public reading of Frederick Douglass’s Fourth of July speech on July 1.

54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment and special guest former state Rep. Marie St. Fleur followed, and then anyone who wanted to line up.

Volunteer readers spanned a range of old and young, black and white, speaking with foreign and local accents. Some spoke quietly, some forcefully.

One woman’s voice cracked with emotion as she read an especially painful passage describing the brutal practices of slave

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Charles Ogletree, Jr., founder of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, addressed the crowd before reading a paragraph of Douglass’s famous speech.

buyers and sellers, the sundering of families and the horrifying sights and sounds of humans being driven to the slave market.

Douglass’s eloquent condemnation of brutality and injustice is hard to contemplate without noting the speech’s continuing relevance.

“We stand here today in 2015, and many of those who share the heritage of Frederick Douglass are still not free in America,” said Barbara Lewis of the William Monroe Trotter Institute, who made introductory and closing remarks. “People being killed in the streets and in churches — that’s the hallmark of what happened in the time of slavery; those of African heritage could be killed without benefit of trial.”

Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree, Jr., founder of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, added a few words of his own before taking his turn as a reader.

“I want you to think about Charleston. I want you to think about Baltimore. I want you to think about all the people who have died in the last year-and-ahalf. It’s absolutely outrageous, and we need to stop it right now,” he said to applause.

Douglass himself was not devoid of hope in 1852. “I do not despair of this country,” he said near the end of the speech, allowing that “there are forces in operation, which must inevitably work the downfall of slavery.”

The text used in the Boston

reading is an abridged version, cut to a 5,370 words from Douglass’s original 10,387. Both the shortened version and the full original text are available on the Mass Humanities website at http://masshumanities.org/ programs/douglass/speech.

Co-sponsoring this year’s event were the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment Company A and Company C; Central Square Theater; Future Boston Alliance; Discover Roxbury; the Susan A. and Donald P. Babson Charitable Foundation; the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black History and Culture; the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights; Massachusetts Association of Human Rights Commissions; YWCA Cambridge; the Museum of African American History (Boston and Nantucket); the Medford Human Rights Commission; the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry; Boston African American National Historic Site; the New Democracy Coalition; Design Studio for Social Intervention; and I Dream Boston.

ON THE WEB For information on organizing a Reading Frederick Douglass event, visit: http://

masshumanities.org/programs/douglass/ douglass-resources/ See the full and abridged versions of Douglass’s speech here: http://masshu

manities.org/programs/douglass/speech/

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The Charleston massacre: A symbolic act of racial hatred Mass murders are so frequent in America that the details of such incidents are quickly forgotten unless the circumstances are unusual. People remember Columbine where two students shot to death 12 of their high school classmates as well as a teacher.

Equally memorable is the July 2012 shooting in a theatre in Aurora, Colo. in which the assailant killed 12 and wounded 70. Everyone also remembers the December 2012 killing of 20 first graders and six adults in Newtown, Conn. Now the recent assassination of nine congregants at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. joins the list of noteworthy mass murders.

Some conservatives have tried unsuccessfully to focus attention on the violation of the First Amendment right to the freedom of religion as more significant than assertions of racism in the Emanuel AME Church shooting. For centuries Christians have acknowledged the right of sanctuary in the church.

Those within the walls of the church were deemed to be secure from arrest or harm.

There is no doubt that the assailant violated the right of sanctuary, but that only intensifies the significance of the real reason for the massacre. It was a declaration of war by white radicals against blacks in America.

The lack of respect for the black church has been demonstrated by destructive fires in a number of black churches in the South since the shooting. There is little doubt from the words of the prime suspect, Dylann Storm Roof, that this was a racist attack.

Mass murders are not usually spontaneous events. The planning and preparation by the assailant provide insight into his intent. Roof

was not merely a deranged white man, but someone driven to affirm the power of white supremacy. Alabama State Sen. Hank Sanders, a black lawyer and alumnus of Harvard Law School, persuasively sets forth in his Senate newsletter the symbolic significance of Roof ’s assault.

First of all, Roof drove 120 miles from Columbia, S.C. to Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. Emanuel, the oldest AME church in the South, was the home church of Denmark Vesey, who led an unsuccessful slave revolt in 1822. The church was then burned down and 35 blacks were executed.

Emanuel AME was rebuilt, but in 1834 South Carolina outlawed all black churches.

The government recognized that black churches served as the rallying point for resistance to slavery. Regardless of the decrees by the state, the congregants continued to meet in secret until the end of slavery in 1865.

It was no accident, according to Sanders, that Roof drove 120 miles to launch his attack on June 17, exactly 193 years later to the day that Vesey’s revolt was crushed.

Before he pulled the trigger, Roof is reported to have said, “You rape our women and you’re taking over our country and you have to go.”

Roof left one person alive to tell the story.

The intention was to strike terror in the hearts of African Americans.

The issue most disturbing to African Americans is that educated and prominent whites might fail to recognize the seriousness of the racial conflict. It would be unwise to permit a high school dropout to deter the development of dynamic strategies to achieve racial equality in America.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Lauds elder stories Kudos to Sandra Larson for her excellent series on the effects of Boston’s housing market on elders. Rising rents, reverse mortgages – this city seems like a minefield of schemes and scams designed to separate minority families from the little bit of wealth they’ve managed to accumulate!

Although the series focuses on elders, the effects of this hit all of us. Setting aside the financial impact of gentrification and displacement, there’s also a scattering of cohesive community that hurts seniors as well.

So many people who were renting in Roxbury have in the last ten years just pulled up stakes and moved to Mattapan and Hyde Park. At the turn

of the 19th century, our people were up on Beacon Hill. I think in another 20 years, we’ll all be in Dedham. I can’t tell you how many people I know who’ve just become fed up with the high cost of living in Boston and moved to Brockton, Fall River, New Bedford or out of state. For what it costs to buy a one-bedroom condominium in the once-diverse South End, one could purchase a small estate in Georgia!

— Earl Thompson

White supremacy a global menace With black churches burning across the South, the Charleston church shooting and the forced expulsion of

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black Dominicans from the Dominican Republic, it feels like the hands on the clock are turning backward. It seems inconceivable that in 2015, we are facing ethnic cleansing in the Caribbean and a brewing race war in our own country, not to mention a steady stream of state-sponsored violence, caught on cellphone video by the citizen journalists of the 21st century.

It’s time for black folks, and our white allies, to wake up to the fact that there are many people in this country and in the world who do not like us simply because of the color of our skin. We need to re-double our efforts to fight for our rights to exist here and abroad.

— Steven P.

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Jacob Lawrence’s “Migration Series” at MoMA

What do you think it would take to end racial conflict in the United States?

By LEE A. DANIELS

I recently wrote that several extraordinary developments of June — the tragedy at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church and its aftermath, and the two U.S. Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage and Obamacare — marked it as one in which momentous history was being made.

In fact, even before those events unfolded, my mind was full of thoughts about moments of momentous history because I had just seen the current exhibit at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, otherwise known as MoMA, that presents the “picture book” the great artist Jacob Lawrence painted some sixty years ago of a seminal event in American history: the Black Migration.

There is something so mesmerizing in the 60 small, deceptively simple paintings that comprise Lawrence’s “Migration Series.” The sparseness of their landscapes and interiors, the anonymity of the human figures, and the understated yet vibrant uniform colors are arresting and poignant. They vividly convey the often harsh predicament many blacks endured in the South and were to face in the North and West. And yet, individually and as a Series, the paintings also unmistakably convey the black Americans’ profound internal strength and determination to move forward, no matter the odds.

For most of the more than six million blacks who left the South for the urban North and West between 1910 and 1970, the odds were formidable indeed. But their trek not only resulted in the making of modern Black America; it’s impossible to imagine the United States of America of the post-World War I twentieth century without it having occurred. Pushed by the decline of the South’s agricultural prosperity, suffocating racist laws and pathological violence and pulled by the industrial North’s voracious need for workers, blacks fled the South during these decades in ever increasing numbers. In 1900 only 8 percent of black Americans lived outside the South. By 1970 that figure had swelled to 47 percent.

Of course, it’s all too true that blacks quickly found a pervasive bigotry against them in those regions as well. But they also found a crucial modicum of support among a minority of whites, and, equally important, indifference among another small segment of whites—legacies of North’s having ultimately fought, however reluctantly, a war to end Negro Slavery.

That gave blacks room to struggle for educational, economic, cultural and political opportunity. Over the course of the century, they transformed that space into a platform to rescue themselves, black Southerners, white Southerners and white America as a whole from the evil of white-supremacist ideology.

In effect, the Black Migration was America’s early twentieth-century freedom march, one whose various facets Lawrence presents in a stunning visual “history book” of sixty 18 by 12 inch paintings numbered sequentially 1 to 60.

Since their completion in 1941 the paintings have been in the permanent collections of MoMA and The Phillips Collection, of Washington, D.C. Each institution has 30, split between the even and odd numbers in order to properly maintain the integrity of the Series’ narrative south-to-north progression. Lawrence himself never considered the Series as “split” but rather being “in two places, two very prestigious collections: The Phillips Collection and the Museum of Modern Art.” The current exhibition, at MoMA until September 7, is one of the few times the Series has been shown in complete form since its inaugural gallery exhibition in late 1941 stunned the art world. Lawrence was just 23 at the time, but his work was a testament to both the precocious talent made evident as an adolescent a decade earlier and to his being grounded in the vibrant life of the Harlem community his family had migrated to in 1930 — a vibrancy that was the direct result of its being a primary destination of Southern blacks’ migratory stream.

A significant part of the factual history of the migration, of Lawrence’s disciplined approach to art and the political and cultural ferment of Harlem and New York City in the 1930s is evocatively captured in the essays and notes on the individual paintings in the book, “Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series” that complements the exhibition. Reading the book and, most of all, contemplating Lawrence’s serial masterpiece, left this viewer with one thought: a wish Lawrence were alive today to compose a “Migration Series” for our time.

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Cape Verde continued from page 1

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Above, State Sen. Vinny deMacedo, Gov. Charlie Baker and state Rep. Evandro Carvalho enjoy a moment during the celebration of the 40th anniversary of Cape Verde’s independence from Portuguese colonial rule. Below, Desiree Fernandes sings the Cape Verdean national anthem while state Rep. Evendro Carvalho listens.

mark the 40th anniversary of the July 5, 1975 independence day.

There, state Sen. Vinny deMacedo (R-Plymouth) and state Rep. Evendro Carvalho (D-Dorchester) led a program that featured speeches by Cape Verdean Ambassador to the U.S. Jose Luis Rocha, Consul General Pedro G. Carvalho and Gov. Charlie Baker.

Rocha focused his speech on the remarkable progress Cape Verde has made in the years since independence. Long neglected by the Portuguese, Cape Verde had just two high schools and a per capita gross national product of just $190 per year.

“The economy grew steadily and more diverse, mainly in the tourism sector, to allow a gross national product today estimated above 4,000 U.S. dollars,” said Rocha. “The human and social development gave way to a new Caboverdean man and woman with more opportunities and access to health, education, housing and culture.”

African independence movement

The Cape Verde islands were first settled by the Portuguese in the 15th century. During the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the islands served as a transshipment center for human cargo. In the post-slavery years, ships continued to use the islands to re-supply. With few natural resources and little investment from Portugal, the islands remained neglected with little infrastructure.

At the time of independence, the 10-island archipelago had just two health clinics and no major hospitals.

In the 1950s and ’60s as Africans began armed struggles against colonial rule, Cape Verdean nationalists joined forces with freedom fighters in the neighboring Portuguese colony of Guinee Bissau, forming the African Party for the Independence of Guinee and Cape Verde (PAIGCV). That party coordinated military strategy and shared resources with the liberation movements in Portuguese-held Angola and Mozambique.

Because Cape Verde has little tree cover and its population is spread over 10 islands, no significant armed struggle took place on Cape Verdean soil. Most Cape Verdean fighters, including

PAIGCV leader Amilcar Cabral, fought the Portuguese in Guinee.

Backed by support from Cuba, the Soviet Union and China, which supplied munitions, the African fighters declared independence in Guinee in 1974. In December of that year, Portugal agreed to turn over control of Cape Verde to a transitional government. In 1975, a newly-elected Cape Verdean national assembly declared independence on July 5.

While many of those assembled at the State House participated in the Cape Verdean struggle for independence, others, like Rep. Carvalho, were born in the post-independence era.

“I was born independent,” said Carvalho, who was born in 1981.

“It was wonderful to grow up in the time it did. I didn’t live through the oppression, but I grew up with the new freedom.”

The freedom those on the island won in 1975 came with significant challenges. With frequent droughts and an under-developed economy, the path to success for most Cape Verdeans had long been to leave the islands for the United States, Senegal or Europe. Emigration continued in the post-independence years.

The remittances sent by Cape Verdean immigrants to their families in the archipelago have given a significant boost to the economy there. Even more so, a thriving tourism industry has generated revenue to help the nation of 525,000 develop 50 new schools, two major hospitals and smaller clinics on each island. Literacy in Cape Verde has jumped from just 40 percent at independence to 97 percent today.

“The progress this small nation has made in the last 40 years is phenomenal,” said Sen. deMacedo.

As for progress in the United States, deMacedo’s election to the state Senate last year stands as one high water mark. And with the election of Carvalho, who joined the House last year in a special election, the Cape Verdean delegation on Beacon Hill has doubled its numbers, deMacedo pointed out.

“Now we have two.”

More significantly, other legislators and the governor turned out to the event, a sign of the growing clout Cape Verdeans enjoy on Beacon Hill.

“Whether you celebrate independence on July 4 or July 5, whether you’re 239 years old or 40 years old, it all feels pretty good, doesn’t it?” said Gov. Charlie Baker.

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Dudley Street developer agrees to affordability, diversity standards

By SANDRA LARSON

A for-profit developer planning to transform a former police station at 409 Dudley Street in Roxbury into nine residential units has agreed to a set of new voluntary guidelines for affordability, workforce diversity and neighborhood improvements.

Residential developments of fewer than 10 units are not required under the city’s inclusionary zoning laws to include affordable units or to meet particular hiring diversity standards, but

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They didn’t have to make any concessions, but they worked hard for our support.”

— Brian Keith

Isalia Property Group will abide by a framework that includes below-market rents for one-third of the units and construction workforce diversity targets of 50 percent minority, 10 percent female, and 20 percent local residents.

The agreement emerged from a careful year-long process of discussion and cooperation among Isalia,

a relatively new Boston-based developer, and neighborhood groups and city and elected officials.

The project, which will retain the historic exterior of the Victorian-era former police station, won approval easily at a June 23 Zoning Board of Appeal hearing. Stepping up to offer words of support were representatives from the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, Roxbury Path Forward, and the Mount Pleasant Ave, Vine and Forest Streets Neighborhood Association. Also speaking in favor were representatives from the offices of city councilors Tito Jackson, Stephen Murphy and Michael Flaherty, and Kaira Fox, Roxbury Coordinator for the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services. “[Visalia’s proposal] ended up being overwhelmingly approved because the developer took time to work with the neighborhood groups,” said Lorraine Wheeler, a Moreland Street resident and director of the Roxbury Path Forward neighborhood group.

Wheeler noted that over the last few decades, companies have tended to come into Roxbury without contributing to the neighborhood or getting to know who lives there.

“This developer, because they met several times with people who lived there, brought a completely different tone,” she said.

Brian Keith, president of the Mount Pleasant Ave, Vine and Forest Streets association also expressed satisfaction with the process of forging the framework.

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“They didn’t have to make any concessions, but they worked hard for our support,” Keith said. “For them, the biggest thing was putting in a rent cap for three of their units.

They were very willing to do it, but I’m sure it was financially difficult.”

Under the agreement, three of the nine units at 409 Dudley St. will be affordable at 70 percent of Area Median income. That means an eligible three-person

household would have income of $62,050 or less, and a two-bedroom unit would rent for no more than $1,424 per month.

While this is a one-time agreement with this one company, the neighborhood groups and the developer hope this can help future Roxbury developers start community relations off on the right foot.

“At the end of the day it makes it so much easier for everyone involved if developers know what to expect, and have a baseline to start with,” said Keith. “It starts the conversation around where we stand about affordability and market rate.”

Jennifer Lampa, an Isalia m a n a g e r, a g r e e d t h a t f o r

developers, knowing what a neighborhood wants and avoiding a drawn-out approval process are key goals. She said the new guidelines, while not hardand-fast rules, could serve as a “financially viable, streamlined roadmap” for future developers.

Lampa described the company, which recently relocated from Brookline to Roxbury, as a small, four-year-old firm that places a priority on building good relationships with its neighbors.

“For us, meeting with these groups was an investment,” she said. “We want them to be happy with our work. We’re not here to build and then flip the property.”

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continued from page 1 “We have worked real hard in this neighborhood to make it change, and all we are seeing is displacement,” said Gutierrez, who has worked for decades on behalf of JP’s Latino community.

She pointed out several starkly modern, slate-gray buildings that hold million-dollar condos. These luxury buildings are interspersed with older houses, some carefully refurbished and others visibly deteriorated. Showing a reporter the neighborhood on a June day, Gutierrez was surprised to find a new For Sale sign on a Latino-owned older single-family home, in addition to the condos for sale she notices every day.

“When a house gets sold, it usually turns into condos,” she said.

“Gentrification is here, and I don’t know when it’s going to change.”

Opportunity kicks down the door in Roxbury

In Roxbury, change has lagged behind other neighborhoods, but residents and advocates now are feeling the pressure of sharply rising prices, a shift from a majority-black community to one that has growing proportions of both white and Latino residents, and growing encroachment by college student tenants.

“It’s unbelievable how quickly prices have started to rise. It’s almost perpendicular,” said Roxbury-based real estate broker Sharif Abdal-Khallaq. He noted that a single-family home recently sold for more than $600,000, a price unheard of in the area just a few years ago.

“Now you’re beginning to see

— Sharif Abdal-Khallaq respect me, I’m fine with whoever it is. But how will I be treated as I age myself?” he asked.

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“For Sale” signs for single-family houses and condominiums proliferate in Betsaida Gutierrez’s gentrifying Jamaica Plain neighborhood, not far from the Stony Brook MBTA Orange Line station. many, many more white people here,” he said. “[But] gentrification doesn’t mean race — it’s just the vast contrast in incomes. It can look like race, but it’s actually more about income and salary, and the wherewithal to afford the property.”

For elders, said Abdal-Khallaq, who describes himself as of a “seasoned” age, home ownership became difficult over time with rising taxes and repair costs. He understands the desire to cash out their hard-won investment.

“It’s very expensive [to stay]. I think this is the time for them to

take advantage of the situation, if they’re suffering and struggling to hang onto a property without getting help from their kids,” he said.

“For me, it just makes sense to let it go and enjoy your elder years.”

Abdal-Khallaq, personally invested in Roxbury as a longtime resident, owner of a family business, a landlord and a broker, takes a philosophical but pragmatic view of the changes he sees and feels.

“We brought a lot of good people into this neighborhood and made a good place for our children and grandchildren.

But now the second and third

generation is not following suit.

And people from other neighborhoods are leaving theirs and coming here,” he said. “It’s almost a natural progression.”

Still, he has concerns. In his own past, he said, he considered a more suburban location but chose a city neighborhood where he wouldn’t have to “deal with the indignations that people of color face.”

Now, as Roxbury changes, he wants to make sure an influx of newcomers doesn’t make it less welcoming for old-timers.

“As long as the people who come

Diane Dujon, 68, remembers when no one wanted to live in Roxbury’s Dudley Triangle.

“I was living in Mattapan, and I’d go visit my friend in this area, and it was terrible — a lot of abandoned houses, open land,” she said.

Now she can scarcely believe current Roxbury apartment prices.

“When I go down the street, and I see how much they’re charging, I think, Who can afford it? So people who live here are being forced to leave.”

Dujon feels blessed that 17 years ago she had an opportunity through a lottery to buy a home in Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative’s community land trust.

Now, her housing is secure as she watches the area change.

Diversity endures in the land trust, she observed, even as it fades away in other parts of the city.

“Directly across the street from me, people are Haitian; next to them Asian; next to them Cape

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continued from page 8 Verdean,” said Dujon, who is African American, speaking by phone from her front porch. “I love it. Because DSNI has kept it affordable, people from different backgrounds can live here. Every day I thank God for this place.”

Her situation is secure, but she is concerned about other residents.

“All these years when nobody wanted to live in this neighborhood, the people who lived here were struggling,” she said. “Now everyone wants to live in the city, and the people who struggled to fix it up have to leave.”

“I think I’m safe for a while”

About a half-mile away from Dujon’s house, 65-year-old retiree Ms. Bessie rents a Roxbury apartment from a private landlord. Her rent has gone up a few times in her 20-plus years there, but it’s been more or less stable, though she has no lease, just a month-to-month tenant-at-will agreement.

“I think I’m safe for a while. My landlord, he’s a good guy,” she said.

But she knows things could change.

“Right now it’s affordable. But if he sells, then I’m sure that it won’t be. It’ll go sky high,” she said.

Across the street, she noted, an apartment is priced at $2,700.

“All the streets around here are changing. It’s like an overnight thing. And it’s all about money,” she said.

Ms. Bessie doesn’t know what she’ll do if she has to leave her apartment.

“I have no idea. I’m going to stay put until something happens.”

She has applied for a Section 8

voucher, but expects a long wait for it.

“But what are you going to do?” she asked rhetorically. “I don’t want to move to Randolph or Brockton. I’ve been here in Roxbury most of my life.”

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Mayor Martin Walsh’s administration is well aware of Boston’s pressing need for affordable and senior-targeted housing.

“The market is producing high end units all around us, but the communities were built by seniors, low-income residents and middle-class workforce people,” Walsh said at last October’s unveiling of his sweeping new housing plan.

“We have to make sure that as we grow, we protect and enhance the diversity that makes Boston a great city.”

Seniors are Boston’s fastest-growing demographic segment. Walsh’s housing plan calls for 5,000 new units of senior housing by 2030, with 1,500 of them designated affordable, and discusses possible approaches to mitigating displacement in gentrifying neighborhoods.

So far this year, no new senior units have been completed, though 284 have been permitted, according to a quarterly housing plan update the city issued in May. The city’s actions on senior housing will be watched closely by advocates like Davida Andelman, a 69-year-old retired public health professional and Dorchester native who has been working to increase senior housing in the Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood.

Wait lists are long for senior-designated public housing and other subsidized options, Andelman

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said, and much of the housing developers or officials may deem affordable is not really so.

“They say ‘middle income,’ but middle income folks around here can’t pay $2,300 or $2,500 rents, or buy $450,000 condos,” she said in a phone interview.

Among area seniors, she said, she sees a lot of doubling and tripling up to remain housed.

“We need to think about people aging in place in an area they are comfortable, an area they chose

to live,” she said. “The bottom line is that the older folks get, their incomes more often than not go down. They ought to be taken care of, and respected for their contributions to society.”

Andelman and noted that while people are living longer, crucial federal funding for senior housing has dried up, and state funding is down as well. The need for creative solutions is increasingly urgent.

“Public policy needs to catch up with the times,” said Andelman.

“We need to think these things out.

Time is moving on, and we’re not getting younger.”

Sandra Larson wrote this article through a Journalists in Aging Fellowship, a collaboration of New America Media and the Gerontological Society of America, with support from AARP. This story is part of a series on housing challenges for low-income seniors. Previous segments covered the challenges for elder homeowners of keeping up with repairs, and elder vulnerability to predatory lending schemes.

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NEWSBRIEFS Hub housing starts surpass $1.5 billion mark Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced Tuesday that as of the end of June, the City has reached $1.65 billion in housing starts for calendar year 2015. This pace is 138 percent higher than the $692 million in housing starts at the same time last year.

As of June 26, 2015, there were 2,461 units permitted, compared to 1,759 units permitted as of June 30, 2014 — a 40 percent increase over last year. This also marks a 184 percent improvement over production rates in 2013, when only 1,333 units of housing were permitted by June 26 of that year.

“I am extremely pleased

by the efforts that have taken place across City agencies to ensure that we are able to meet our housing goals,” said Mayor Walsh. “The only way that we will be able to sustain the growth of our city, and our workforce, is by staying focused on our goals and streamlining our processes.”

“This level of investment in Boston’s housing market is extraordinary,” said Chief of Housing Sheila Dillon. “As we work to make sure that Boston stays affordable, bringing new units on line at a variety of income levels is critical. Last quarter, nearly half of Boston’s housing starts were at the middle income level, and nearly a quarter of this year’s housing starts are affordable

to lower-income households.

Mayor Walsh has made housing a priority of his Administration, and these numbers are an indication that this focus is paying off.”

The City’s Inspectional Services Department (ISD) has supported this rapid development by streamlining their permitting processes, reducing bottlenecks and paving the way for the rapid housing development the City will require to meet its goals of producing 53,000 new units of housing by 2030.

ISD has implemented several new departmental policies and permitting procedures, which have enabled the department to process permits at twice the speed. In 2014, ISD formed a partnership

with the City of Boston’s Department of Innovation Technology (DoIt) to significantly upgrade the permitting process. This collaborative effort has helped modernize and streamline the building and zoning application process.

In addition, ISD has developed a Zoning Advisory Sub-Committee, which is responsible for expediting the appeals process involving one and two family owner-occupied dwellings and small businesses applying for limited zoning relief. Other departmental upgrades have included extending the hearing hours of the Zoning Board of Appeal and the installation of digital kiosks for processing Board of Appeal applications, all of

which contributed to building permits being issued on time and at a much faster rate than ever before.

Of the units currently permitted, 451 — 18 percent of all new units — are deed-restricted affordable housing, up 25 percent from 2014 (360 units) and 80 percent above the 2013 pace (251 units).

South Boston and the Seaport District saw the highest number of units produced: 915 total and 124 affordable; followed by East Boston, with 374 units, 13 of which are affordable; and Dorchester, with 337 total units and 51 affordable units permitted.

Earlier this year, Walsh released his Administration’s first progress report on achieving the housing production goals laid out in his ambitious housing plan, “Housing a Changing City: Boston 2030.” The plan, released in October 2014, called for increased transparency into housing policy, including quarterly releases of data and an end of year Annual Report.

Baker-Polito Administration Announces Extended Hours at Select City Parks & Pools Several DCR Facilities to Extend Operating Hours to Provide Greater Youth Access The Baker-Polito administration today announced the Department of Conservation and Recreation will extend hours for select pools and athletic complexes throughout the state this summer. The extended hours, which are aimed at offering youth greater access to positive recreational activities over the course of the summer, will enable 16 facilities within the cities of Boston, Chicopee, Everett, Malden, and Worcester to remain open longer while kids are out of school this summer.

“With the start of summer vacation for school children across the Commonwealth, I am pleased that we are able to offer more positive recreational opportunities that encourage and promote a healthy, fun lifestyle and safe summer,” said Governor Charlie Baker. “The extended hours will provide students and families increased access to some of the state’s most popular facilities in the Commonwealth’s cities.”

“I’m thrilled that Boston residents will be able to access parks and pools later this summer,” said Boston Mayor Marty Walsh.

“I thank the Baker administration for offering Boston additional opportunities for young people this summer.”

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Evaluate your employees. Midyear is a great time to sit down with your employees, one-by-one, to discuss how things are going. Update their personnel files, medical records and personal information. This is also a great time to decide on a few goals for the remainder of the year.

Clean up your office. Did you miss your spring-cleaning opportunity? No worries, you still have time. Get rid of those old files. Replace your ancient office chairs.

Wipe down those windows, clean out those closets, dispose of unused supplies and vacuum, mop and sweep. You and your employees will enjoy coming to work when the office is cleaner and brighter.

Revisit safety. When was the last time your fire extinguishers were replaced? Are your first-aid kits up to standards? Do you even have a first-aid kit? Do your employees know what to do in case of an emergency? Make a checklist of all the things you’ll need to do to make your company as safe as it can be.

Go green. You want to be more environmentally conscious, but you’ve always been too busy to do so. Now’s your chance, because summer is a perfect time to go green. Recycle your old technology.

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Purchase environmentally friendly cleaning products and make a list of green products you’ll be buying going forward. Finally, make sure to tell the world what you’re doing. It’ll encourage others and reflect positively on your business.

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According to the most recent Thumbtack Small Business Friendliness Survey, Boston small business owners continue to have a more positive view of the current economic situation compared to the last few years, but that positive outlook is beginning to level off.

Hub businesses wary of future Amid boom, confidence wanes among Hub’s small businesses

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While small business gurus continue to sing the praises about how U.S.’s small companies are leading the way to economic prosperity, a new monthly report — finds that confidence is waning.

That’s a cause for worry.

“Waning confidence” is a far cry from the panic that reigned at the start of the decade, but the report suggest that many business owners are starting to wonder if the post-recession peak already has occurred. This presents a different picture on the street than most small business data suggest.

It also highlights the strength of the Thumbtack Small Business Friendliness Survey. With 90 percent of the small business in the U.S. having less than five employees, Thumbtack’s focus differs from many other small business reports that often target smalland medium-sized businesses — that is, firms with anywhere from 50 to several hundred employees.

By focusing on the 90 percent of those with a handful of employees, Thumbtack can better lay claim the nation’s economic pulse.

Thumbtack is a digital enterprise founded in 2009 for finding and hiring local professionals. It has conducted small business surveys since 2012. Thumbtack has raised $150 million in venture capital from giants such as Sequoia Capital and Google, which has enabled it to issue its small business reports on a monthly basis.

Early findings reveal the paradox of what is really going on with American small business. One the one hand, things have improved since the recession, and most numbers continued to rise. On the other, the future is a cause of concern, suggesting that growth may be on the verge of flatlining.

“Generally, across all the businesses we have looked at, there has

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Generally, across all the businesses we have looked at, there has been a nice recovery over the last few years. But this year there was an overall slowdown around the country. … They may feel happy about the current situation but as for the future — they are feeling a little more pessimistic.”

big businesses overseas, poor sales numbers, access to credit and consumer confidence.

Nationally, the Northeast attitudes about the future seem to be more at odds than those held in other regions.

Thumbtack found that southern small businesses generally are more positive about economic conditions than their counterparts.

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percent: In June, Thumbtack’s national survey revealed that 70 percent of small businesses reported no hires in the last three months; percent: In Boston, 72 percent reported no hires during that same period.

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Jon Lieber, chief economist at Thumbtack been a nice recovery over the last few years,” said Jon Lieber, chief economist at Thumbtack. “But this year there was an overall slowdown around the country.”

Survey responses

Thumbtack’s methodology for assessing economic sentiment involves querying small business owners about revenue, profitability and business conditions.

The survey responses — Thumbtack has collected over 2,000 in Boston — then are used to create a weighted index that demonstrates economic sentiment on a scale from 0 to 100, with anything above 50 being positive and anything below 46 being negative.

Boston has jumped around a bit in how it ranks on economic sentiment compared to the rest of the

country, but notably it continues to hover in the bottom half of the cities surveyed.

In March, Boston ranked 51 out of 55 cities; in April it jumped to 38; in May it was 40; and in June it moved up to 27.

However, according to Lieber, the chief concern expressed by Boston small business owners is uncertain economic conditions, more so than what their national counterparts say.

Lieber acknowledges that Boston survey results over the next few months will be telling.

“They may feel happy about the current situation but as for the future — they are feeling a little more pessimistic,” he said.

In addition to uncertain economic conditions, other things that worry Boston small business owners include competition from

The most recent national survey, out last week and covering June, found that, in general, U.S. small businesses are less optimistic about the economy — the third month in a row for such a sentiment. Nationally, in addition to ranking uncertain economic conditions as the main concern, small business owners had some of the same business worries as those in Boston, including poor sales, competition from big businesses overseas and consumer confidences.

However, access to credit is a bigger concern of small business owners in other parts of the country than it is in Boston. This likely is a reflection of Massachusetts’ status as the top state for low-dollar small business loans.

One intriguing finding of the recent Thumbtack survey involves hiring data, which appears to contradict U.S. Department of Labor statistics and continual assertions from the U.S. Small Business Administration that small businesses continue to drive new job growth.

In June, Thumbtack’s national survey revealed that 70 percent of small businesses reported no hires in the last three months; in Boston, 72 percent reported no hires during that same period.

As for accuracy, Lieber believes the more granular the surveys, the more accurate the picture. “Quarterly data can be tough for trends,” he said. “With monthly data you get a more frequent read on the economy, which will be helpful.”

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How states are fighting to keep towns from offering their own broadband North Carolina and Tennessee are the latest states to side with telecoms, which have long lobbied against allowing cities to become Internet providers

By LETICIA MIRANDA PROPUBLICA

Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission voted to ease the way for cities to become Internet service providers. So-called municipal broadband is already a reality in a few towns, often providing Internet access and faster service to rural communities that cable companies don’t serve.

The cable and telecommunications industry have long lobbied against city-run broadband, arguing that taxpayer money should not fund potential competitors to private companies.

The telecom companies have what may seem like an unlikely ally: states. Roughly 20 states have restrictions against municipal broadband.

And the attorneys general in North Carolina and Tennessee have recently filed lawsuits in an attempt to overrule the FCC and block towns in these states from expanding publicly funded Internet service.

North Carolina’s attorney general argued in a suit filed last month that the “FCC unlawfully inserted itself between the State and the State’s political subdivisions.” Tennessee’s attorney general filed a similar suit in March.

Tennessee has hired one of the country’s largest telecom lobbying and law firms, Wiley Rein, to represent the state in its suit. The

firm, founded by a former FCC chairman, has represented AT&T, Verizon and Qwest, among others.

James Tierney, director of the National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia Law School, said it is not unusual for attorneys general to seek outside counsel for specialized cases that they view as a priority.

Asked about the suit, the Tennessee attorney general’s office told ProPublica, “This is a question of the state’s sovereign ability to define the role of its local governmental units.” North Carolina Attorney General’s office said in a statement that the “legal defense of state laws by the Attorney General’s office is a statutory requirement.”

As the New York Times detailed last year, state attorneys general

have become a major target of corporate lobbyists and contributors including AT&T, Comcast and T-Mobile.

North Carolina is no exception.

The state’s Attorney General Roy Cooper received roughly $35,000 from the telecommunications industry in his 2012 run for office.

Only the state’s retail industry gave more.

The donations are just a small part of contributions the industry has made in the states. In North Carolina’s 2014 elections, the telecommunications industry gave a combined $870,000 to candidates in both parties, which made it one of the top industries to contribute that year. Candidates in Tennessee received nearly $921,000 from AT&T and other industry players in 2014.

The FCC’s decision came after

two towns — City of Wilson in North Carolina and Chattanooga in Tennessee — appealed to the agency to be able to expand their networks.

The vote has rattled some companies. In a government filing earlier this year, Comcast cited the FCC’s decision as a risk to the company’s business: “Any changes to the regulatory framework applicable to any of our services or businesses could have a negative impact on our businesses and results of operations.”

If the court upholds the FCC’s authority to preempt restrictions in North Carolina and Tennessee, it may embolden other cities to file petitions with the agency, according to lawyer Jim Baller, who represents Wilson and the Chattanooga Electric Power Board. “A

victory by the FCC would be a very welcome result for many communities across America,” said Baller.

For some residents in and outside of Chattanooga, clearing the way to city-run broadband would mean the sort of faster Internet access that others might take for granted.

For 12 years, Eva VanHook, 39, of Georgetown, Tennessee, lived with a satellite broadband connection so slow that she’d read a book while waiting for a web page to load. In order for her son to access online materials for his school assignments, she’d drive him 12 miles to their church parking lot, where he could access faster WiFi. Charter, the local Internet service provider, declined several requests by her husband to build lines out to her home. Only last month did Charter connect her home to the Internet. “Even the possibility to jump on [the local utility’s] gigabit network would blow our minds right now,” VanHook said. “There is nothing faster than Chattanooga. Just through meeting them and hearing them speak and having them understand what’s going on, that’s the kind of place I want to do business.”

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“Not only does keeping our parks and pools open provide safer opportunities for our children and families, it gives our communities a chance to come together and enjoy each other this summer,” said Robert Lewis, Jr., founder and President of the BASE, a Boston-based youth advocacy organization. “I’m excited that Governor Baker and Lt. Governor Polito are opening doors for our neighborhoods and thank them for their continuing commitment to building stronger communities in Boston and throughout the Commonwealth.”

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rom jazz and blues to pop and hip-hop and everything in between, last week’s 36th annual Montréal Jazz Festival offered a wide range of music for jazz aficionados, music lovers and festival-goers alike. With more than 35 shows a day, a plethora of music was on tap throughout downtown Montréal.

On Friday July 3 a potpourri of people swayed to the music of renowned Montréal singer and pianist Florence K as she performed under the stars at Scène TD. With a pair of acclaimed albums to her name (Bossa Blue and La Historia De Lola), Florence K sang in French, English and Spanish before the crowd of thousands who attended the free evening concert.

See MONTREAL, page 18

Born in Taiwan but raised in Australia, Grace Huang grew up to be fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin. The emerging ingenue made her feature film debut in the 2010 thriller Overheard alongside Louis Koo and Daniel Wu. She subsequently exhibited her versatility showcased her acting talents in the romantic comedy Love in Space playing the dreadlocked, nose-ringed waitress, Bunny. More recently, Huang appeared in rapper-turned-director RZA’s martial arts epic, The Man With the Iron Fists.

Her small but pivotal role in a key action sequence caught the attention of Quentin Tarantino who remarked, “She’s so fierce in the scene that I felt intimidated!”

Here, she talks about her latest outing opposite Sean Faris in Lost for Words where they co-star as a ballerina and a former U.S. Marine who fall in love in Hong Kong.

Kam Williams: What interested you in Lost for Words?

Grace Huang: I was attracted to the script by its simplicity in its celebration of love. I really enjoyed the way it follows Anna and Michael and shows how the love develops between these two very different people. Not many films do that these days, it’s usually just “Bam!” and they’re in a relationship. Lost for Words gets in there and shows you all the quirks and turns in the decision-making process in a couple

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Here’s why Miguel’s ‘Wildheart’ should be the soundtrack to your summer

By SAMEER RAO, COLORLINES

The concept of the “summer banger” — the juggernaut pop radio single with the catchy hook uniting everybody under one umbrella of dance and ecstasy — has always been pretty dumb to me.

As questions of artistic responsibility and cultural appropriation only grow in importance, the latest summer smashes — 2013’s “Blurred Lines” and 2014’s “Fancy” — have proven that we aren’t so unified in our love of the singles that somehow make it to the top of the charts every hot, sticky summer after summer.

But, from time to time, summer does offer pop music that is so refreshingly good, that is unrepentant in its lyrical or instrumental complexity, that doesn’t sacrifice depth for catchiness. “Wildheart,” the third full-length from R&B-meets-everything sensation Miguel, is that kind of music.

Driving on the strength of “Wildheart’s” single “Coffee”, the versatile singer songwriter takes listeners on a rose-filtered journey through the carnal frenzy and anxious isolation of his hometown, Los Angeles.

Miguel, a half-black, half-Mexican Angeleno who distinguishes his ethereal R&B from the likes

of Drake and The Weeknd with distorted guitars and rock-star theatrics, is the perfect tour guide for this creative journey. He represents L.A.’s multiracial tapestry and defies easy categorization.

“Wildheart” gives voice to those who want nuance and complexity in their summer jams instead of thoughtless party-anthem nonsense. Its 12 tracks will be identifiable to anybody who can’t find comfort because of their differences from the world.

Now, a lot has already been said about the importance of Miguel’s ethnic background to this album’s general M.O. The lyrics of “what’s normal anyway,” a slow-burning mid-album track with warm-toned guitars, sum up the thesis of the album: “Too proper for the black kids, too black for the Mexicans, too square to be a hood ... What’s normal anyway?/ I’m in a crowd and I feel alone/Don’t let them change you” Throughout “Wildheart” Miguel explores that alienation in more subtle ways. On “NWA,” he coos about a lover who wants an “NWA” — a hypersexual black brute — to fulfill her idealized notion of a black man instead of someone more complex. Filled with understated drawn out guitar-strumming and a sinister guest verse from ex-Death

Row v.p. Kurupt, the song is both sultry and angry about that marginalization.

Machismo

Of course, “Wildheart” isn’t without its problems. For one, look at that album cover. The singer, poised behind a naked, headless, faceless woman’s torso, hearkens back to a 1960s-style psychedelic ideal where brazen sexuality mimics defiance. And on some songs, Miguel is macho almost to the point of absurdity. Take the “the valley,” where he catalogues a woman’s sexual anatomy over an 808 beat and a synth seemingly sampled from a mid-aughts porn film. It would just be irresponsible to excuse Miguel’s machismo or pretend that some of the songs don’t render women two-dimensional. The album’s highlights don’t obscure that reductive move.

That said, it’d do his artistry wrong to reduce “Wildheart” to the content of its most lyrically problematic songs. Miguel isn’t glorifying machismo as much as he’s just portraying it in the context of a young Angeleno who lives a wild life but still feels boxed in.

On “destinado a morir,” he uses a dark synth that Kanye would cry over to paint nihilistic abandon in the face of constraint and lyrics that mix English and Spanish to convey yearning beyond that constraint:

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Miguel Destinado a morir baby, but we’re all right, yeah, The night is young and the moon is calling, so we’re all right, yeah/ All right, We’re destined to die baby, but we’re all right, yeah/ Dejame amarte, baby it’s all right, yeah/Hit the lights All in all, Miguel is in a unique position. He’s a mixed-race entertainer throwing hard-edged rock music into R&B in a way that hasn’t been successful for any musician of color since Lenny Kravitz, who appears on the glorious “face the sun.” Miguel shifts how we understand pop music in an era where cynical appropriation seems to be the norm. This

is the kind of music to play on long drives across L.A., Detroit, Atlanta or Chicago; on crosstown subway rides in New York City or D.C.; and along with all manner of sunset-splayed moments.

Miguel makes a grand creative statement by showing just how much a multiracial artist can pull on a variety of influences to architect tales of love, desire, dread and anger that are instantaneously relatable. “Wildheart” is resonant for those of us who don’t feel like we can fit in one box, yet go through the world and party and screw anyway. For that reason alone, it is worth significant attention.

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of very complicated lives, and the issues they have to deal with to be together. I found their courtship really sweet. Their struggles are very real and I wanted to be in Anna’s shoes through that journey.

KW: How would you describe the film

in 25 words or less?

GH: Lost for Words is a classic look at how a cross-cultural relationship develops. These two people fall in love and you experience their struggles and internal conflicts.

KW: How did you prepare to play Anna, a ballet dancer. Had you studied ballet as a child?

GH: I love dance and studied Jazz ballet when I was growing

up in Sydney, Australia. It’s not exactly the same, nothing “en pointe,” but it still gave me the basic dance principles, tempos and movements. It was actually quite fun training for the dance scenes, albeit grueling. And it was good to revisit and wake up my classic-dancing muscles.

KW: What message do you think people will take away from Lost for Words?

GH: I think they will be reminded of how sweet, but also how confusing, falling in love can be.

KW: What project is up next for you?

GH: I have a few things in the pipeline that I’m really excited about. One project I just shot is Independence Day: Resurgence, the sequel to the first blockbuster from 20 years ago. It was amazing to work with Roland Emmerich.

He is such an amazing director and a total Energizer bunny. I worked with Liam Hemsworth on that, which makes him the second Hemsworth I’ve worked with. I worked with Luke Hemsworth on the sci-fi thriller Infini. Chris is next!

KW: What keeps you up at night?

GH: The one thing I love and hate about life. The uncertainty of the future is so scary but also so exciting! There are endless possibilities and each day and whenever I get anxious, I just focus on channeling that energy into positive thoughts and also positive action.

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KW: If you could have one wish

instantly granted, what would that be for?

GH: I would wish that there would be equal parts women and men in positions of power in politics and every industry. I think that equality would make a big difference in the way the world is run and that change would make a big positive.

KW: Was there a meaningful spiritual component to your childhood?

GH: I was born in a country town in Taiwan and spent my first 6 years growing up there. My days would involve playing in our backyard which had a creek, and there would be tadpoles, free-range

chicken running around, and night time fireflies. I count myself very lucky to have had such a carefree and unaffected beginning to my childhood, being so in touch with what nature had to offer. It has allowed me to have a different perspective on life, fully appreciating how advanced we’ve come as humans but never forgetting and losing touch of where we came from. I’m never oblivious to the fact that we are destroying the Earth by our often wasteful and harmful practices as humans who consume at such alarming rates. I am an avid recycler and do as much as I can to minimize my impact on our fragile environment.

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Later that evening, jazz vocalist Miss Mellow serenaded diners at Balmoral restaurant, y as part of Musique au Balmoral. The Québécoise singer performed the popular French song C’est si bon (It’s so good), the gospel spiritual Wade In The Water and Dolly Parton’s 1973 hit song Jolene, much to patrons’ delight.

On Saturday night, the incomparable Ron Carter performed at the theater Salle Luder-Durvernay, Monument National. Carter’s career has spanned more than 50 years, with more than 2,000 albums to his credit, including a collaboration with Q-Tip and A Tribe Called Quest on the song Verses from the Abstract. Carter and his quartet, which includes pianist Renee Rosnes, drummer Payton Crossley and percussionist Rolando Morales-Matos, hit the Montréal stage with a 20-minute musical odyssey that had the audience bobbing their heads to the beat of the bass. It was so quiet in the theater you could hear the proverbial pin drop. After inspiring the audience with his music, Carter then made them chuckle when he said being a bandleader yields two great benefits. One is that he “gets all the chicks” and the second is that he “gets to have any song played on a whim.” The latter included one of his favorites, the beautiful and romantic My Funny Valentine, led by Renee Rosnes.

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Renowned Montreal musician Florence K performed a free concert at Scène TD, place des Festivals on Friday, July 3 before an audience of several thousand people.

One of the best shows of the weekend was by Londoner ALA. NI, who made her debut this year at L’Astral, Maison du festival Rio Tinto Alcan on Friday night. A former back-up singer for Mary J. Blige, she quickly and easily won over the crowd with her emotive and pure singing, which matched her warm and engaging personality. On stage with only her guitarist, the chanteuse, whose singing style recalls the late great Billie Holliday, performed all of the songs from her spring and summer EPs You & I. That included the somber Roses and Wine, in which the mistress tells her lover to go back

to his wife even though she loves him. ALA.NI began her set with the light Cherry Blossom, after which she transitioned to what she called the “bitter stuff ” with Darkness At Noon.

Performing for more than an hour, ALA.NI also included a cover from The Cure and Todd Rundgren’s Can We Still Be Friends? With a voice straight out of the Roaring Twenties, she stunned the crowd with an angelic a cappella version of Judy Garland’s Over the Rainbow. It’s moments like this that make the Montréal Jazz Festival so special — you discover an artist on the verge of greatness.

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Celebrate ice cream during July After splashing in the pool, rooting on your favorite team or playing in the backyard, nothing beats the end of a long summer day like a cool, classic treat. So grab the kids, some bowls, spoons and the trusty old ice cream scoop and dig in.

July is National Ice Cream Month, and aficionados agree that when it comes to the best tasting ice cream, “fresh” is the musthave ingredient. For nearly 80 years, Blue Bunny has been making premium ice cream using only the best, locally-sourced milk from within 75 miles and turning it into out-of-thisworld ice cream in less than 24 hours.

Dial up your summer fun with the freshness of ice cream and fruit with the recipe below from Blue Bunny.

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“Gratin” or “au gratin” refers to a dish that has been sprinkled with bread crumbs or grated cheese and browned. In this casserole, a layer of sliced tomatoes is arranged over the top before it’s sprinkled with mild Muenster cheese. As the gratin bakes, the cheese melts into the tomatoes and turns a rich golden brown. When the plate comes out of the oven, the filling will be juicy, but after a few minutes the rice absorbs some of the liquid. The rest can be spooned over each portion. To complete the menu, serve leafy greens tossed in a tangy Dijon vinaigrette and a loaf of crusty whole-grain bread.

Brown Rice, Broccoli and Spinach Gratin

EASY RECIPE

Cherry Vanilla Crumble Squares n 1 cup old-fashioned oats n ½ cup whole-wheat flour n ¹⁄3 cup firmly packed light brown sugar n¼ cup butter, melted n 1 package (12 ounces) frozen dark sweet cherries, thawed and well drained n ¹ ⁄3 cup all fruit black cherry fruit spread n 4 cups Blue Bunny Sweet Freedom Cherry Vanilla Ice Cream, softened In medium bowl, combine oats, flour, brown sugar and butter; mix thoroughly.

Remove ½ cup and set aside; pour remaining crumb mixture in an 8-by-8-inch baking dish.

Coarsely chop cherries and transfer to medium bowl. Add fruit spread, stirring to blend. Pour over crust, gently spreading evenly in bottom. Spoon ice cream over top, gently spreading evenly. Sprinkle with reserved crumb mixture.

Cover and freeze at least 8 hours. Cut into squares to serve.

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n 3 cups bite-size broccoli florets n 2 cups cooked brown rice n 1 (10-ounce) package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and water squeezed out n 3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese n ¾ teaspoon dried crushed rosemary n ½ teaspoon salt n ¹⁄8 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper n 1 cup tomato juice n ½ cup water n 2 (about 4-ounce) tomatoes, thinly sliced n 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded Muenster cheese Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Coat a 10-inch pie plate with cooking spray.

Steam broccoli in steamer rack over boiling water until bright green and just tender, about 4 minutes.

In large bowl, combine rice, broccoli, spinach, Parmesan, rosemary, salt and pepper. Spoon into pie plate. Pour tomato juice and water over top. Arrange tomatoes over top. Sprinkle with Muenster.

Bake 25 minutes or until golden brown. Let stand a few minutes before serving. Serves 4 to 6.

— Recipe by Jean Kressy, a food writer in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. Photo by Teresa Blackburn.

FOOD QUIZ Which state produces the most ice cream?

A. Pennsylvania B. California C. Vermont D. Wisconsin Answer at bottom of rail.

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WORD TO THE WISE Stock: Stock is the strained liquid that you get once you’ve cooked various meat, poultry, fish or seafood, vegetables, herbs and seasonings in water. Brown stock is made by browning bones and vegetables first in oil before adding water and/or wine to the pot. Stock is the basis for many a soup, stew and features in many sauces, often reduced.

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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 16 and 30 at O’Day Playground in the South End. The series will also feature performances at Mission Hill Playground in Jamaica Plain on July 9, Mozart Street Playground in Jamaica Plain on July 23, and 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.

rain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep). Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. Occasionally, the Walking Club meets at other DCR sites.

Some DCR sites charge a parking fee. The rangers recommend wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes.

TUESDAY FAMILY ART WORKSHOPS Our Neighborhoods & Stories: FREE Family Art Workshops! July 14, 21, 28 from 5:30-7:30pm with free light supper at 5:30. Jamaica Plain Community Center (Curtis Hall), 20 South St., Jamaica Plain.

Families Creating Together offers four FREE multi-generational workshops for children ages 6-12 with and without disabilities and their families. Children create favorite neighborhood places using cardboard constructions, collage, painting, clay and recycled materials… and share stories of places and neighborhoods.

Presented in English & Spanish with ASL interpreters (if requested). Led by creative teaching artist team. Wheelchair accessible. Register for two, three or four workshops. FCT is a program of Community Service Care/Tree of Life Coalition. To register and for more information call 617522-4832 or email mfcabrera53@gmail. com. Additional information at: www.familiescreatingtogether.org.

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The Dorothy Curran Wednesday Night Concert Series returns from July 15 through August 12 for another great season of outdoor music with R&B, funk, and soul music legends Tavares, the sounds of Ireland with the City of Belfast Youth Orchestra, a dance night with Stardust, and the smooth stylings of Strictly Sinatra to entertain music fans of all ages on City Hall Plaza. All shows begin at 7pm. The series kicks off July 15 with the City of Belfast Youth Orchestra conducted by Paul McBride. City Hall Plaza favorite Stardust returns on July 29 for Dance Night featuring classic dance floor and pop hits. The music of Frank Sinatra will come alive as celebrated entertainer Michael Dutra brings his “Strictly Sinatra” tribute to the series on August 5. The Dorothy Curran Wednesday Night Concert Series closes August 12 with AARP Night featuring New Bedford’s own Tavares, one of the most memoSUDOKU rable soul groups of the 70s and 80s. The series is presented by Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the Mayor’s Office of Tourism, Sports, andEasy 4 1 Eastern 3 7Bank.

2 Additional 5 8 support 6 9 Entertainment, and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department in partnership with title sponsor is provided by media sponsor the Boston Herald and night sponsors AARP, Mass Retirees Association, 2 5 8 and3the 6Michael 9 Francis 1 4 Cahill 7 Fund/City of Boston. For more information, please call the Boston Parks and Recreation Department 6 7 at 9 617-635-4505, 4 8 1 2visit 3 5 www.facebook.com/bostonparksdepartment, or go to www.cityofboston.gov/parks.

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City Councilor Tito Jackson Under U.S. law, police officers can said he was pleased that the police only forcibly stop a civilian if they department is instituting reforms. have a reasonable suspicion that “I think that when a report is the civilian has committed a crime done and you see data that shows or is about to do so.

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BANNER CLASSIFIEDS

LEGAL

LEGAL

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY

order to provide such services in a timely and effective manner. The projects may range from small and simple to relatively large and complex.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

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

The Authority expects to select three (3) consultants. However, the Authority reserves the right to select a different number if it is deemed in its best interest to do so. Each consultant shall be issued a contract in an amount not to exceed One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000). The services shall be authorized on a work order basis.

Sealed General Bids MPA CONTRACT NO. L1323-C1, HARBORSIDE DRIVE ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS & ARRIVALS TUNNEL ROADWAY PAVEMENT REPAIRS, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2015 immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE:

LEGAL

A Supplemental Information Package will be available, on Wednesday, July 8, 2015, on the Capital Bid Opportunities webpage of Massport http:// www.massport.com/doing-business/_layouts/CapitalPrograms/default.aspx as an attachment to the original Legal Notice, and on COMMBUYS (www. commbuys.com) in the listings for this project. If you have problems finding it, please contact Susan Brace at Capital Programs SBrace@massport.com

PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT, SUITE 209S, LOGAN OFFICE CENTER, ONE HARBORSIDE DRIVE, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS AT 11:00 A.M. LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2015.

The work includes: MILL AND INLAY OF EXISTING ASPHALT ROADWAY PAVEMENT, CEMENT CONCRETE SIDEWALKS AND WHEELCHAIR RAMPS, ADJUST UTILITY CASTINGS IN ROADWAY, NEW COMMUNICATION DUCTBANKS, RE-INSTALL TRAFFIC LOOP DETECTORS, PAVEMENT MARKINGS, UNDERDRAIN SYSTEM IN ARRIVALS TUNNEL FLOOR SLAB WITH ASSOCIATED ASPHALT PAVING AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT.

Carol W. Gladstone COMMISSIONER INVITATION TO BID

The Supplemental Information Package will provide detailed information about Scope Of Work, Selection Criteria and Submission Requirements.

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

DESCRIPTION

DATE

TIME

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

*WRA-4067

Purchase of One Sewer Cleaning Bucket Machine

7/21/15

2:00 p.m.

*To access and bid please go to the MWRA supplier Portal at www.mwra. com.

This submission, including the litigation and legal proceedings history in a separate sealed envelope as required shall be addressed to Houssam H. Sleiman, PE, CCM, Director of Capital Programs and Environmental Affairs and received no later than 12:00 Noon on Thursday, August 27, 2015 at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 02128-2909. Any submission which is not received in a timely manner shall be rejected by the Authority as non-responsive. Any information provided to the Authority in any Proposal or other written or oral communication between the Proposer and the Authority will not be, or deemed to have been, proprietary or confidential, although the Authority will use reasonable efforts not to disclose such information to persons who are not employees or consultants retained by the Authority except as may be required by M.G.L. c.66.

Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015.

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

The estimated contract cost is ONE MILLION, SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,600,000.00).

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

INVITATION FOR BIDS MEDFORD HOUSING AUTHORITY The Medford Housing Authority, the awarding authority, invites sealed bids from General Contractors for the re-Roofing of Nine (9) Buildings, including attic insulation, baffle vents and associated work, at the LaPrise Village Family Development, Medford, MA, in accordance with the documents prepared by Garofalo Design Associates, Inc. dated June 15, 2015.

The work is estimated to cost $300,000.

Bids are subject to M.G.L. c.149 §44A-J & to minimum wage rates as required by M.G.L. c.l49 §§26 to 27H inclusive.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

General bidders (pre-qualified) must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM) in the following category of work -- ROOFING and must submit a current DCAMM Certificate of Eligibility and signed DCAMM Prime Update Statement (Form CQ 3).

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CLASSIFIED LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

General Bids will be received until 7/23/15 @ 2:00PM and publicly opened, forthwith online.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE DIVISION OF CAPITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT & MAINTENANCE (DCAMM)

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

All Bids must be submitted electronically online at www.biddocsonline.com and received no later than the date and time specified above. Please see the instructions in the bid documents on how to register as an electronic bidder.

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

Sub-Bids at 12:00 Noon:

General bids and sub-bids shall be accompanied by a bid deposit that is not less than five (5%) of the greatest possible bid amount (considering all alternates), and made payable to the MEDFORD HOUSING AUTHORITY. Bid Forms and Contract Documents will be available for pick-up at www.biddocsonline.com (may be viewed electronically and hardcopy requested) or at Nashoba Blue, Inc. at 433 Main Street, Hudson, MA 01749 (978-568-1167).

JULY 28, 2015

There is a plan deposit of $50.00 per set (maximum of 2 sets) payable to BidDocs Online Inc.

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

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

General Bids at 2:00 PM:

Deposits must be paid electronically or by check only. This deposit will be refunded for up to two sets for general bidders and for one set for sub-bidders upon return of the sets in good condition within thirty days of receipt of general bids. Otherwise the deposit shall be the property of the Awarding Authority. Additional sets may be purchased for $50.00.

AUGUST 11, 2015

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

This contract is subject to a Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than TWELVE AND SEVENTENTHS PERCENT (12.7%) of the Contract be performed by minority and women owned business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible.

The Category of Work is:

ELECTRICAL

Mass. State Project No.

MCA1402 Contract No. HC1

Bidders requesting Contract Documents be mailed to them shall include a separate check for $40.00 per set for UPS Ground (or $65.00 per set for UPS overnight), payable to BidDocs ONLINE, Inc., to cover mail handling costs.

The Pre-Bid Conference and site visit will be on 7/16/15 @ 10:00AM at 35 Rockwell Ave.

Fire Alarm System Replacement – Massachusetts College of Art and Design Boston, MA

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

The Contract Documents may be seen, but not removed at: Nashoba Blue, Inc., 433 Main Street, Hudson, MA, 01749. 978-568-1167.

And the following Filed Sub-Bids: Painting; Elevators; and HVAC.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

E.C.C: $2,068,786.00 This project is scheduled for 210 calendar days to substantial completion and in general includes:

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

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

Citation on Petition for Order of Complete Settlement of Estate Estate of Raymond F. Whittaker, Sr. Date of Death: 01/09/2011

A Pre-Bid meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 10:00 am at the MassArt Tower Building, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA (meet in front).

To all interested persons:

Minimum rates of wages to be paid on the project have been determined by the Commissioner of the Division of Occupational Safety under the provisions of Sections 26 and 27, Chapter 149 of the General Laws. Wage rates are listed in the contract form portion of specification book.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

A petition has been filed by John D. Whittaker of North Reading, MA requesting that an Order of Complete Settlement of the estate issue including to approve an accounting and other such relief as may be requested in the Petition. For the First and Final Account.

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

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Authority) is soliciting consulting services for MPA CONTRACT NO. A363-D1, FY16-18 TERM ARCHITECTURE/ ENGINEERING SERVICES, BOSTON, BEDFORD, AND WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS. The Authority is seeking qualified multidiscipline consulting firm or team, with an emphasis on engineering, with proven experience to provide professional services including planning, design, and construction related services including resident inspection on an on-call, as needed basis.

These services are expected to be provided at any Massport owned or operated aviation and maritime facilities including Boston-Logan International Airport, L.G. Hanscom Field, Worcester Regional Airport, Conley Terminal, Cruiseport Boston, and South Boston waterfront properties. The Consultant must be able to work closely with the Authority and other interested parties in

Docket No. SU14P2653EA

SUFFOLK Division

Replacing the existing fire alarm system in the 14-story Tower Building at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

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 07/23/2015. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

The bidding documents may be examined at the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance Bid Room, One Ashburton Place, 1st Floor, Room 107, Boston, MA 02108 Tel (617) 727-4003. Copies may be obtained by depositing a company check, treasurer’s check, cashier’s check, bank check or money order in the sum of $100.00 payable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. No personal checks or cash will be accepted as deposits. Refunds will be made to those returning the documents in satisfactory condition on or before AUGUST 25, 2015 (ten business days after the opening of General Bids) otherwise the deposit shall be the property of the Commonwealth.

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

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

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

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

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Wellfleet Apartments, developed and operated by the Community Development Partnership is a 12-unit rental community consisting of one, two and three bedroom apartments designed for family households.

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU15P1363GD

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of James E. Grant Of Roxbury, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Marilyn P. Grant of Roxbury, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that James E. Grant is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Marilyn P. Grant of Roxbury, 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 07/16/2015. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

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

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