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Rox. history preserved in Warren St. house Yawu Miller

State Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry joins South Boston politicians in song at the annual St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast. (l-r) At-large City Councilor Michael Flaherty, state Sen. Michael Rush (seated), Forry, state Rep. Nick Collins and U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch. (Don West photo)

Dorcena Forry breathes new life into St. Patrick’s breakfast Yawu Miller Linda Dorcena Forry’s bid last year for the 1st Suffolk Senate seat was certainly contentious enough, but once in office, she had to battle for control over one of the spoils of the seat — the right to host the annual St. Patrick’s Day breakfast.

Sunday, Dorcena Forry displayed the same mixture of tenacity, sharp elbows and wit that propelled her into office as she led the city and state’s most powerful politicians in the annual roast, which was held Sunday at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

Standing at the podium amid a sea of mostly white faces, it wasn’t Dorcena Forry’s kelly green dress

and blue blazer that made her fit in with the celt-ocracy of Irish pols, it was her biting wit, which she used to good effect.

“Do not adjust your television set,” she said, speaking to the NECN simulcast audience.

“There is nothing wrong with the picture on your TV. That is right, everyone. That’s right. I’m a woman!”

Not only is Dorcena Forry the first Haitian American and the first woman to lead the breakfast, she is also the first Dorchester resident as well. Her election to the seat represented a shift in the balance of power in Boston, where politics has long been dominated by the Irish and blacks have played a marginal role at best.

As the city’s Irish population rose in prominence in the 19th and 20th centuries, St. Patrick’s Day became one of the symbols of their political power. Using the day’s proximity to Evacuation Day, the date when Revolutionary War General Henry Knox assembled a battery of cannons on Dorchester Heights (now South Boston), forcing the British to evacuate and end their 11month siege of Boston, politicians in 1901 created a Suffolk County holiday that did not violate the separation of church and state.

In the ensuing century, the Irish dominated politics in Boston and in the Commonwealth, electing mayors, governors, House breakfast, continued to page 7

that the British were en route to Lexington for the first battle of For decades, the puddingstone the American Revolution. house at 130 Warren Street has Gen. Warren served on the beat the odds that laid waste to so front lines in the battle of Breeds many other homes from the early Hill, where he was killed during 1800s — the ravages of time, the the third assault on June 17, 1775. wrecking ball of Urban Renewal In the post-revolutionary era, and, most recently, a raging fire the Warren family remained in two weeks ago that reduced the Roxbury. Their apple orchard Second Empire Victorian next ran from the current location of door to a pile of charred wood. the Warren house to the Orchard Currently on the market, listed Gardens housing development, for $975,000, the Warren House, the original name of which comas the building has been known memorates the family’s property. since it was built in 1846, sur- It was Joseph Warren’s nephew, vived the fire with minor damage John Warren who built the 1846 to its slate house. roof, second Like his and third story uncle, John windows that Wa r r e n w a s were shattered also a doctor by the heat of and was one of the conflagrathe founders of tion and some Harvard Medmelted vinyl ical School. trim under its By the time he eaves. constructed the While pohome, Warren tential buyers Street had alare looking ready been — Thomas Plant n a m e d a f t e r at the building for office the family. space, knowlRoxbury edgeable Roxresidents conbury residents value the building tinued to memorialize the Warren for its history, with roots in the family up through the early 20th early days of the Massachusetts century. In 1902, a bronze statue colony. of Gen. Warren was installed at “For me, and I think for every- a traffic island at the intersection one, it’s a symbol of the Warren of Warren, Alpine and Moreland family,” says Roxbury Historical streets.

Commission member Thomas However when the traffic Plant. island was removed as part of a The house sits on the site of late ’60s urban renewal project, a 1720 house, built by colonist the statue was put in storage and Joseph Warren. His grandson, later claimed by the Roxbury also named Joseph Warren, was a Latin School, a private school in doctor and a general in the Revo- West Roxbury. lutionary War who gave orders to “It was never returned,” Plant Paul Revere and William Dawes notes.

Warren, continued to page 6 to warn the revolutionary militia

“For me, and I think for everyone, it’s a symbol of the Warren family.”

Gov. candidates air views in labor forum Martin Desmarais The five Democrats gunning for the governor’s office were in Dorchester on Saturday for a forum held by the Service Employees International Union at the organization’s headquarters and all candidates pledged to be labor friendly and offered different ways to pay for the state’s needs from increased taxes to boosts from growing the economy to savings from health care reform. The candidates also addressed the hot topic of im-

migration reform.

The candidates wasted little time as the forum kicked off and jumped right into one of the main issues facing any new governor and the one on the mind of many voters — taxes and the state’s revenue.

Gubernatorial candidate Steve Grossman, the current Massachusetts’ treasurer, said that the state’s revenue, which is tied to the taxes it brings in, can see a big boost with an emphasis on improving the economy. forum, continued to page 9

Democrats running for governor took part in a Service Employees International Union forum on Saturday. (l-r) Joe Avellone III, Don Berwick, Martha Coakley, Steve Grossman and Juliette Kayyem.

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Roxbury forum revisits 1960s anti-highway fight

This architectural rendering shows a plan for the highway interchange at the terminal end of the proposed extension of Interstate 95 through Jamaica Plain and Roxbury. Northbound traffic could head east or west on a proposed inner belt highway, the eastern portion of which was re-purposed as Melnea Cass Boulevard.

Sandra Larson A recent Roxbury Community College forum brought together a newly-minted Yale doctor in American studies and two elder statesmen of local activism to discuss the victorious 1960s grassroots action to block an eight-lane highway that would have torn through Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, the South End and Cambridge.

Karilyn Crockett, Ph.D., whose 2013 doctoral dissertation “People Before Highways” covers the historic struggle, gave a presentation tracing the community-led fight against the extension of I-95 through city neighborhoods.

“As a person born after the Civil Rights Movement, I didn’t live these stories, but I certainly benefit from them,” Crockett began. The Dorchester native may be best known locally as the founder and long-time director of MYTOWN, or Multicultural Youth Tour of What’s Now, a nonprofit organization that hired and trained public high school students

to research local and family histories and lead walking tours of their Boston neighborhoods. Over 15 years, MYTOWN created jobs for more than 300 teenagers. The organization was commended by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2003 as one of the 10 best youth humanities programs in the nation. Crockett is currently a visiting scholar in urban studies and planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

For her dissertation, Crockett spent several years researching the anti-highway movement and interviewing key players, asking what happened, how it became successful and who was involved.

“This story deserves to be told,” she said. “There was a lot at stake for people. It wasn’t just about stopping a highway. It was about making decision-making and governance really reflect the will of the people.”

Though the highway was never built, hundreds of businesses and homes had already been demolished in its proposed path, leaving a wide swath of destruction, espe-

cially in Roxbury.

Her slide presentation included maps and photos of the road’s planned route and the land clearance that displaced residents and businesses. She showed a January 1969 gathering of thousands of people at the State House to push then Governor Francis Sargent to stop the plans. Resistance had been bubbling up for some time toward the “monstrous, large-scale project,” but 1969 marked a turn toward greater media and public attention.

Crockett traced three intertwined elements of the era: an urban planning field in crisis that began to question the trend of bypassing urban centers for suburbs; a multitude of 1960s Civil Rights and protest movements; and ordinary residents demanding the right to participate in processes involving their own neighborhoods.

All of these elements played a role in the successful fight, and in 1970, Gov. Sargent finally admitted the plan was wrong. He placed a moratorium on new roads inside Route 128, and by 1972, the I-95 urban extension plans were dead.

A 1973 provision of the Federal-Aid Highway Act (originally called the “Boston Provision” because of its origins in this project) allowed cities to use federal highway funds for public transit and open space projects when new highway

plans were successfully opposed.

This provision is why we now have an extended MBTA Red Line, new Orange Line/commuter rail tracks and stations, and the Southwest Corridor Park’s gardens, playgrounds and walk/bikeway, she said, though she noted that numerous cleared lots remain vacant, their futures still up for grabs.

A plaque outside the Roxbury Crossing T station honors those who participated in the struggle to protect their city, and she urged audience members to locate and read the plaque.

Crockett’s presentation was followed by responses from Tunney Lee and former Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner, both longtime activists who were players in the anti-highway effort, and whom Crockett interviewed during her research.

Lee, professor emeritus of architecture and urban studies and planning at MIT and an expert in Chinatown history, was part of a group of Cambridge planners in the 1960s who became alarmed at the I-95 plans, questioned their necessity and urged officials to give neighborhoods more power and choice in urban plans.

Lee spoke of parallel stories of neighborhoods victimized by urban renewal efforts, from the hundreds of Roxbury homes and businesses destroyed in the highway’s path, to a Chinatown nearly “swallowed up by Tufts Medical Center” to a demolished West End. Those events also gave rise to some important community-driven successes, including Tent City, Villa Victoria and the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, he noted.

In 1968, Turner led the Boston Black United Front in demanding a halt to the highway and many other city governance changes. Stopping

the highway was an important step, he told the forum audience, but was not sufficient to attain the larger goal of creating a strong and thriving black community. He pointed out that recent development projects along the Southwest Corridor, made possible by the doomed highway plans, include disturbingly expensive apartments, with a market price rent of $1,700 for a one-bedroom unit.

“Political democracy without economic democracy is hypocrisy,” said Turner. “The fight goes on to make America a living economic democracy. It’s a fight that has to continue.”

The March 11 forum was sponsored by the RCC/MIT Associate Campus Partnership Program. In this partnership, international visiting scholars in MIT’s Special Program in Urban and Regional Studies visit RCC to learn about Roxbury history and grassroots organizing, and RCC students have opportunities to connect with urban experts from across the globe and attend lectures on the MIT campus. The forum audience included SPURS Fellows, students in RCC urban economics and social science classes, and Roxbury area community members.

Concluding the program, RCC Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Jose Alicea emphasized that his aim in organizing such events is to showcase victories. While the same community that fought I-95 decades ago still faces acute problems, from violence to unemployment to homelessness, he said, its members can draw on the strength from that success to combat them.

“When people have victories in the past, they can confront problems in the future,” Alicea said.

“If we can stop a federal highway through a poor community, we can get together and confront the problems of today.”

Karilyn Crockett, center, is flanked by longtime community activists Chuck Turner and Tunney Lee. The three participated in a March 11 forum at RCC on the 1960s fight to stop the extension of I-95 through city neighborhoods. (Sandra Larson photo)

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Boston Foundation earmarks $100K for Fairmont projects Martin Desmarais The Boston Foundation is gearing up for year two of its Collaborate Boston grant program and is looking to give a total of $100,000 to resident-led efforts to strengthen the Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester, Hyde Park, Mattapan and Roxbury.

Through the end of the month, the Boston Foundation is accepting proposals from collaborations between nonprofit organizations, businesses and the city or government that are tackling pressing needs in the community. In particular, the focus is on the Fairmont corridor and ensuring that local residents and businesses are positioned to take advantage of the growing economic opportunity brought by development along the MBTA line.

Collaborate Boston will award $25,000 grants to four proposals.

Last year, the program handed out $50,000 a piece to two proposals that addressed supporting boys and young men of color: the Codman Square Brotherhood Project and Black and Latino Boys at the STEM of Success. The foundation’s plan is to address different issues every year as it moves forward with the Collaborate Boston program.

“Community foundations have a unique opportunity to bring together groups large and small to solve local and regional problems,” said Paul S. Grogan, president and CEO of the Boston Foundation.

“We hope that Collaborate Boston will expand those cooperative efforts to new individuals, organizations and others who have innovative ideas to achieve a collective impact on the issues that matter most to them.”

According to Boston Foundation Senior Director Jennifer Aronson, a crucial factor to the grant program is that the proposals utilize the different sectors — nonprofit, private business and government — to tackle a community need. She said the Boston Foundation believes this is the best way to succeed.

“The idea behind Collaborate Boston is we can all agree on the challenges but philanthropy doesn’t have all the answers. We really need the community to work with us to provide answers and we will provide the capital,” Aronson said. “It is not so much about innovation, because there is already so much innovation going on in these communities — it is about collaboration to make these things happen.”

“We are looking for powerful ideas that are going to make a difference in the community,” she added.

Last year, Collaborate Boston had 70 proposals and the process reaffirmed the Boston Foundation’s belief that different sectors working together could have the most success in tackling the pressing needs the city’s neighborhoods face, according to Aronson.

“We found that the most powerful collaborations, though our experiences last year, were those

where there was really strong trust between the collaborating partners,” she said. “We want real collaborations — the partners know each other, they trust each other, they both want the same things.”

The proposals can be existing collaborations that need more funding to move forward or entirely new projects.

Collaborate Boston proposals will be judged by an external advisory panel and about a dozen finalists will be chosen. The finalists will then have the summer to develop the ideas further and submit them back again by the end of August.

The panel will examine the proposals again and interview the finalists in September. Four winners will be selected in early November.

For last year’s winners, Collaborate Boston has proven to be a strong boost to their efforts.

Black and Latino Boys at the STEM of Success — a collaboration of the Boston Public Schools Achievement Gap Office, Latino STEM Alliance, the Center for STEM Education at Northeastern University and Suffolk Construction — created and supported robotics teams of 10 boys at several elementary and middle schools in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan and help them compete in For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology competitions.

The goal was to build upon the four program goals of the 10-Boys Initiative, providing academic tutor-

ing and support, creating opportunities for social and emotional growth, providing leadership opportunities and engaging parents of BPS students that are within just a few points of MCAS proficiency.

The funding from Collaborate Boston made it possible to hire and train teachers, recruit volunteers, and to purchase equipment.

The Codman Square Brotherhood Project is a collaboration of the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation, Boston Project Ministries, Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts, the Dorchester Arts Collaborative and the Boston Police Department District B-3. The goal of that collaboration is to create a “brotherhood” of African American and Latino males, primarily ages 10 to 14, in the Codman Square/Four Corners neighborhood that grows out of the Millennium Ten community organizing initiative.

The funding was targeted for the launch of the first stage of a youth jobs hubs, created as a collaboration among community organizations, local business owners, and residents in Codman Square.

Aronson said last year’s winner are great examples of the types of projects the Boston Foundation wants to fund and that this year’s Collaborate Boston will back equally as important efforts.

“These ideas exist — great ideas exist. People know what would make the communities better and they might simply not have the time or the opportunity or the capital to make it happen,” she said.

Founded in 1915, the Boston Foundation is one of the largest community foundations in the nation, with net assets of close to $900 million. In 2013, the foundation and its donors made nearly $98 million in grants to nonprofit organizations and received gifts of $130 million.

The Boston Foundation celebrated the conclusion of the first Collaborate Boston program last year with a presentation of the grant-winning proposals at a showcase event attended by community members and potential investors.

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A questionable approach to confront campus bigotry In speaking about an alumnus of Harvard University it is sometimes said in jest, “you can always tell a Harvard man, but you can’t tell him much.”

This comment refers to the aura of self-confidence and assurance that seems to go along with the Harvard bachelor’s degree. This attitude, sometimes approaching hauteur, is fairly general and is not limited to graduates based on race or family wealth and status, and undoubtedly now includes female alumnae. Now “#ITooAmHarvard” plans to change attitudes at the institution.

Since students come to Harvard from all over the world and from different races and ethnic groups, it is expected that they will have an extensive variety of attitudes and opinions. It has never been the responsibility and objective of Harvard to create from this heterogeneous student body homologous graduates. What is hoped for are thoughtful and competent alumni who live purposeful lives in an increasingly more cosmopolitan world.

Harvard’s intellectually vibrant academic environment will undoubtedly stimulate differences of opinion and sometimes provoke conflicts. However, an individual’s personal views, even if wrong, are expected to be inviolable. They become subject to question only when they serve as the basis for inappropriate action in the public square.

Apparently unmindful of this reservation, a number of black students have launched a campaign entitled “#ITooAmHarvard” to oppose attitudes on campus that they perceive to be racially hostile. The campaign against racial stereotypes has gained quick attention in the social media. While they have cited a number of insulting comments, the gist of the unsavory remarks is that the black students have been admitted for the university to comply with affirmative action goals and they are otherwise not qualified.

By stepping forward, the students involved in the campaign have assumed the unenviable position of the “thought police.” They should know that the offending white students have no factual support for their comments. It is generally known that the students admitted to Harvard with the lowest qualifications are the so-called legacies — the children of alumni and generous donors. Also, the member of

the class of 2013 with the highest grades, equivalent to a valedictorian, was a black student.

The campaign seems to be an excessive reaction to the flippant remarks of some bigoted students.

Indeed, there are times when a major response is necessary to oppose an inappropriate action. In 1991, a Kirkland House student hung a Confederate flag in her window and refused to remove it.

The administration failed to take appropriate action because they viewed the student’s act as an expression of free speech. However, after a black student decided to respond by hanging a Nazi swastika in her window, the concept of free speech was quickly redefined. Both flags were soon removed.

There is a way, when necessary, to take remedial action at Harvard. More recently a Harvard professor asserted that the demands of minority students were responsible for grade inflation. When black students demanded that he provide supporting evidence he was unable to do so. That assertion has never resurfaced.

One proposal to remedy the problem is for Harvard to establish a multiracial center. That approach was tried without success in the 1970s.

Those students who most needed the intervention failed to participate. However, in 1981 the late Peter Gomes, the African American Pusey Minister of Harvard’s Memorial Church, helped to establish the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations.

Under the leadership of Professor S. Allen Counter, the Harvard Foundation has brought to Harvard prominent leaders of government, science and the arts from all around the world to visit with students. Guests of the Harvard Foundation have been so prominent that they have also attracted the attention of the Boston media.

Harvard students are already involved in the foundation. Multiracial members of student organizations serve as members of the Student Advisory Committee. The Harvard Foundation creates a strong presence for students of many races on campus. Those students with bigoted notions will have to be left to the process of maturation.

The editor is a Harvard alumnus.

I appreciate President Obama for taking such a bold move in helping our young African American men. I have three sons who have been victims of hatred, injustices, lack of opportunities, racial profiling, etc. The school system doesn’t have the answer and some faculty members simply don’t care.

I’ve had to be an advocate their entire lives.

The media shows what it wants to when it comes to our African American men. The problem with that is the media is controlled.

Therefore, what we see and hear isn’t always the truth. It’s easy for the haves to say what the poor minority people need to do. How do they know what we are or aren’t doing?

I went to a university and obtained a bachelor’s degree in nursing. I wanted to set a strong foundation for my sons. Also to show them if you are willing to sacrifice and

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OPINION Why America refuses to face up to its slave past

What’s the best way to respond to racist attitudes?

Earl Ofari Hutchinson This news item shocked some. Two unnamed Academy members said they picked “12 Years a Slave” as their choice for Best Picture, yet, candidly admitted that they did not see the film. They minced no words as to why. It was just too painful and disturbing to watch this kind of film. But this really shouldn’t be much of a shock. Facing the horror of slavery is a tough nut to crack not simply because it entails facing an inconvenient truth about past racial dehumanization, but because it entails facing the real truth that slavery still corrodes in big and little ways American life. This starts with the truth of why and how slavery became a respected and legitimate part of American life in the first place.

The U.S. government encoded slavery in the Constitution and protected and nourished it for a century. Traders, insurance companies, bankers, shippers and landowners made billions off of it. Their ill-gotten profits fueled America’s industrial and agricultural might. For decades after slavery’s end, white trade unions excluded blacks and confined them to the dirtiest, poorest paying jobs.

While it’s true that many whites and non-white immigrants came to America after the Civil War, they were not subjected to the decades of relentless racial terror and legal segregation as were blacks. Through the decades of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, African Americans were transformed into the poster group for racial deviancy. The image of blacks as lazy, crime- and violence-prone, irresponsible, and sexual predators has stoked white fears and hostility and served as the standard rationale for nearly 4,000 documented lynchings between 1882 and 1968, as well as the countless racial assaults and acts of hate crime violence.

Though some blacks earn more and live better than ever today and have gotten boosts from social and education programs, civil rights legislation, and affirmative action programs, the hideous legacy of slavery is still ever-present.

The National Urban League in its annual State of Black America reports consistently finds that young blacks are far likelier than whites to be imprisoned, serve longer terms, and are more likely to receive the death penalty even when their crimes are similar.

Blacks continue to have the high- The brutal truth is est rates of poverty, infant mortal- that a mainstay of ity, violence victimization rates, and America’s continuing health care disparities than any other racial divide is its group in America. They are still more likely to live in segregated neighbor- harsh and continuing hoods and be refused business and mistreatment of poor home loans. Their children are more blacks. likely to attend failed public schools than any other group, and more likely to be racially profiled on America’s urban streets.

The U.S. government admitted it was legally liable in 1997 to pay the black survivors and family members of the two-decade long syphilis experiment begun in the 1930s by the U.S. Public Health Service that turned black patients into human guinea pigs. The survivors got $10 million from the government and an apology from President Bill Clinton. They were the victims of a blatant medical atrocity conducted with the full knowledge and approval of the U.S. government.

The state legislature in Florida in 1994 agreed to make payments to the survivors and relatives of those who lost their lives and property when a white mob destroyed the all-black town of Rosewood in 1923. This was a specific act of mob carnage that was tacitly condoned by some public officials and law enforcement officers. Florida was liable for the violence and was duty bound to apologize and pay. The Oklahoma state legislature has agreed at least in principle that reparations and apology should be made to the survivors of the dozens of blacks killed, and the hundreds more that had their homes and businesses destroyed by white mobs with the complicity of law enforcement in the Tulsa massacre of 1921.

A bill by Michigan Congressman John Conyers that has been kicked around Congress since 1989 to establish a commission to study the impact of slavery and the feasibility of paying reparations to blacks has gone nowhere in Congress. Reparations is simply too risky, divisive, and distracting for Congress to seriously consider. President Obama, however, has spoken at times about the need to spend more on education, job and housing programs as the best way to deal with the ills of the black poor.

The brutal truth is that a mainstay of America’s continuing racial divide is its harsh and continuing mistreatment of poor blacks. This can be directly traced to the persistent and pernicious legacy of slavery. But from the comments and actions of at least some Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members even watching a movie about slavery that’s set a century and a half ago is too much to take. Think what it would take for them to connect the dots from then to now, and that tells why America still refuses to face its slave past.

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Sometimes I think it’s best to respond. Sometimes it’s best to ignore it. But any chance you have to rectify it, you should.

Make other people aware that the attitudes are still there. I see more racism now in the building trades then when I got in in ‘79.

We have to start with ourselves.

Stop calling each other the nword. I hate that word. It’s very insulting.

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There is no response to it. Just keep it moving. Don’t let it affect you.

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Flash and Bennie Wiley Flash and Bennie Wiley have been selected to receive the Adirenne Williams Spellman Diversity Award during the 65th Anniversary celebration of the Freedom House.

Flash Wiley spent more than two decades as a practicing attorney concentrating in corporate and commercial law, small business development, entertainment law and real estate. He was executive vice president and general counsel and a principal for PRWT Services Inc., a Philadelphia-based products and services company that he played a key role in building into one of the nation’s largest minority-owned businesses and Black Enterprise Magazine’s 2009 “Company of the Year.” He remains a principal in the company, and is the chairman of the PRWT Advisory Board.

He has served as a director of several for-profit business organizations, including three public companies, and has spent two decades as a director of The TJX Companies Inc. In 1984, he founded and for 10 years chaired the Governor’s Commission on Minority

Business Development. Wiley was later inducted into the GBCC’s “Academy of Distinguished Bostonians.” In 2012, President Obama appointed Wiley to the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Bennie Wiley is principal of The Wiley Group, a firm specializing in strategy, talent management, and leadership development. Prior to establishing her firm, she spent 15 years as the president and chief executive officer of

The Partnership Inc., an organization dedicated to strengthening Greater Boston’s capacity to attract, retain and develop talented professionals of color.

She is currently a director on boards of the Dreyfus Mutual Funds, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and CBIZ. Her civic activities include serving on the boards of The Boston Foundation, Howard University, Dress for Success Boston and the Efficacy Institute.

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Real estate broker Russell Hill, who is listing the property, says new owners will not likely be able to make any more significant changes to the interior.

“In terms of the layout, it’s been virtually unchanged because of structural issues,” he says. “It’s pretty much as it was.”

Its history aside, the house, which for the past three decades has served as office space, is as valuable

“You wouldn’t be able to say this 10 years ago, but the location is important.”

— Russell Hill

This home, built by John C. Warren in 1846, is currently on the market. For the past few decades it has served as office space. It was built on the site of the home where Revolutionary War Gen. Joseph Warren was born. (Banner photo)

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Now the only remaining vestiges of the Warren family in Roxbury are the house, the street

name and a few colonial-era headstones in the Roxbury Burying Ground in Dudley Square.

Plant says he hopes the new buyers respect the history of the Warren house.

“They have a responsibility to restore the exterior,” he said.

In recent years, the house has been home to several nonprofits, including the Roxbury Defenders, a public defense nonprofit that was later absorbed by the state’s Committee for Public Counsel Services. Its nonprofit tenants have given the interior a decidedly

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“You wouldn’t be able to say this 10 years ago, but the location is important,” he said. “It’s close to the center of the community. It’s close to public transportation. There are three bank branches and all that Dudley Square has to offer.”

Hill says one buyer has put an offer on the building and “several other parties are interested in acquisition.”

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speakers and Senate presidents.

And South Boston has been the traditional seat of Irish political power.

Even after former 2nd Suffolk District Sen. Dianne Wilkerson re-drew the lines of the 1st Suffolk District to make it majority minority, the Irish continued to dominate, with Jack Hart holding the seat.

Dorcena Forry’s ascent to the seat was with a razor-thin margin of victory over Collins, who was handicapped in the Democratic primary by South Boston businesswoman Maureen Dahill.

After winning the election, Dorcena Forry squared off against City Council President Bill Linehan, who tried unsuccessfully to assert his right to lead the breakfast, even though that has historically been the duty of the 1st Suffolk District senator.

In the end, other South Boston politicians prevailed upon Linehan to back down. Linehan later accepted an invitation to attend a St. Patrick’s Day celebration in Limerick, Ireland, where he spent the Monday holiday.

In her role as emcee, Dorcena Forry made light of it all, delicately maintaining a balanced mixture of sharp wit and respect for her former political foes.

“These Southie boys didn’t give this breakfast up without a fight,” Dorcena Forry said, adding that she and Collins had cut a deal.

“Nick’s going to be heading up this year’s Haitian American Unity Parade,” she said, displaying a photoshopped image of Collins at the head of the Mattapan-based parade.

Dorcena Forry’s stewardship of the breakfast provided much of the comedic relief for the event.

Collins, Hart and U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch all participated with Dorcena Forry in a video depicting the trio attempting to induct her into the culture of South Boston.

In the video, Lynch instructed Dorcena Forry on the use of lawn chairs as parking space savers.

Hart took her to Irish step dancing classes. And Collins took her to Kelly’s, a South Boston fast food joint where Dorcena Forry ordered a tofu burger.

The warm, back-slapping humor took on a harder edge in the repartee between Collins and Mayor Martin Walsh, former political allies who parted ways after the state representative alleged Walsh covertly aided Dorcena Forry in her bid for the 1st Suffolk seat, despite his pledge to stay neutral in the race.

Joking about the increased diversity in the room, Collins quipped, “We’ve been serving Bud Light, Coors Light and, for Marty, O’Doul’s Light,” riffing off Walsh’s sobriety. Walsh reminded Collins that his predecessor, former Mayor Thomas Menino, was in office for 20 years.

Dorcena Forry saved her sharpest barbs for Counselor Linnehan.

“This year, he decided to take Evacuation Day literally,” she

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh chats with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny. (Photos courtesy of the Mayor’s Office) said, displaying an image of Linehan superimposed on the famous Gilbert Stuart painting of Washington standing on Dorchester Heights to the left of his horse’s rear-end.

“If you can’t see it clearly, that’s Linehan on the left,” she said.

The turnout in the room was more diverse than in years past, with Gov. Deval Patrick, Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins, state Sen. Sonia Chang Diaz, state Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez and city councilors Ayanna Pressley, Tito Jackson and Charles Yancey among those seated at the dais.

“I think it really rings in a new era for the city of Boston,” said former state Rep. Marie St. Fleur.

“We are a global city and the power structure is finally starting to reflect that.”

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny spoke at the breakfast, underscoring his nation’s commitment to helping Haiti rebuild after its 2010 earthquake, in a nod to Dorcena Forry’s Haitian roots.

Kenny also urged the elected officials present to work toward fixing the nation’s immigration policies.

“America would be the better for it,” he said.

Dorcena Forry elicited laughs with her own request for Kenney.

“There’s an American over in Limerick right now,” she said, alluding to Linehan. “Maybe you

can keep him. Because he’s quite the diplomat.”

Political insiders gave Dorcena Forry high marks for her performance in the event, which in past years has lost some of its comedic luster.

“She’s done a beautiful job just being herself and honoring the Irish culture,” said former gubernatorial candidate and political activist Grace Ross.

“It is rare when one experiences a moment where you are keenly aware that a historical shift is occurring, but that certainly did happen this morning,” said Counselor Pressley. “Symbolism does matter, and it was powerful today.”

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Report: few hospitals screen, provide services for PTSD Lois Beckett Undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder is having a major impact on injured civilians, particularly those with violent injuries.

One national study of patients with traumatic injuries found that more than 20 percent of them developed PTSD. But many hospitals still have no systematic approach to identifying

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ProPublica surveyed 21 toplevel trauma centers in cities with high rates of violence. The results show that trauma surgeons across the country see PTSD as a serious problem. But only one trauma center, at the Interim LSU Public Hospital in New Orleans, actually screens all acutely injured patients for PTSD. Why don’t hospitals do more to identify PTSD? Here is what surgeons and other trauma experts told ProPublica.

It’s too expensive

Paying for additional hospital staff to screen patients for PTSD and connect them with treatment might only cost $100,000 or $200,000 a year. But cash-strapped hospitals are often reluctant to incur any new expenses.

“As much as we’d like to [screen] — we’d really like to be able to do it — we as hospitals are simply trying to find a way to survive, to pay the bills,” said Dr. Carnell Cooper, a trauma surgeon at Baltimore’s Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, which doesn’t do routine PTSD screenings.

At Chicago’s Cook County Hospital, researchers found that 43 percent of the patients they surveyed had signs of PTSD. A trauma surgeon at the hospital proposed spending about $200,000 a year to add staff focused on PTSD. But the hospital administration suggested that she look for outside

funding. The taxpayer-subsidized hospital currently provides no institutional funding for systematic PTSD screening.

Doctors say they don’t screen for PTSD because they don’t know if their patients can get treatment

Another barrier to screening civilian patients for PTSD is a lack of mental health professionals in many communities.

“Right now, we’re not doing the PTSD screening for everybody because we can’t treat everyone,” said Carol Reese, the violence prevention coordinator at Cook County Hospital in Chicago.

Finding mental health treatment can be challenging even for patients with health insurance, said Cooper, the Baltimore trauma surgeon. And for the uninsured, finding treatment can be an “exercise in frustration,” ending with hospital staff “begging for favors from contacts and friends, to make sure the patient gets the care he or she needs.”

“If we knew that we could find people treatment,” Cooper said, “then we would find a way to screen them.”

Patients and their families often have little awareness of PTSD

One of the researchers who helped demonstrate the high rates of PTSD in civilian trauma patients is Dr. Gregory “Jerry” Jurkovich, who is now the chief of surgery and trauma services at Denver Health in Colorado.

If more patients knew how common PTSD is among civilians, “there might be a demand from the ground level up for something to be done about it” Jurkovich said. So far, he added,

“that hasn’t existed.”

Surgeons are just beginning to realize how many civilians get PTSD At Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, researchers recently found that 25 percent of patients screened positive for PTSD six months after their injuries.

Dr. Michael Foreman, the chief of the division of trauma surgery, said the study “dramatically” changed his perspective on PTSD. Previously, he said, he had assumed that only a small fraction of his patients developed post-traumatic stress. “I don’t know if my patients were trying to be nice to me and didn’t want to, quote, ‘bother’ me, or I just wasn’t asking the right questions,” he said.

“It was quite surprising and humbling to me to recognize that this was happening…to start hearing these disturbing stories, of people’s lives and how profoundly they had been affected, and to realize how I was unaware of it,” he said.

While the hospital is trying to improve patient awareness of PTSD, the trauma center is still not doing routine screening for all patients.

Dr. Martin Croce is the medical director of the Elvis Presley Memorial Trauma Center at the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn. A few years ago, Croce said, he was skeptical about whether PTSD was a serious issue in civilian patients. But the growing research has led him to do “a complete 180.”

Now, Croce said, “The only people that don’t think it’s real are people who have not been keeping up.”

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“The best way of course is to grow the economy,” Grossman said. “As you grow jobs and grow the economy you grow revenue and invest. So growing the economy is the best way to do it.”

He also suggested that the state rely more on public-private partnerships and the state’s business community to help fund some of the crucial priorities Massachusetts has, such as education and infrastructure, as well as looking for ways to save money in the current budget and repurpose the savings to pay for other areas.

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former administrator of the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs, said he would push for a progressive income tax.

“I favor a tax system in this Commonwealth in which people at lower levels of income have lower rates and people at higher levels of income have higher rates.

I will fight for that,” Berwick said. “It is simply fair. If we fail to invest in our schools, in our roads, in our energy economy, if we fail to offer entrepreneurs innovation funds so they can get going to create jobs in this state, if we leave people behind we will not have the Commonwealth, the community, that we want to create.”

“We are becoming two communities, two nations. One of people doing very well, and increasingly well now in a period of economic recovery, and a whole lot of others who are being left behind and that is not OK.” — Don Berwick However, he did not rule out raising taxes.

“I certainly will not take revenue off the table, but if we go the route of revenue, and there is a strong case that can be made for that, we have to make sure that low- and moderate-income families are protected from any increase,” Grossman said. “That means increasing exemptions or changing the circuit breaker for property taxes or increasing the earned income tax credit.”

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley agreed with Grossman that the economy is the main priority that would increase the state’s ability to fund its priorities and she also said taxes are a viable avenue for increasing state revenue.

“I think that this is a state where people are willing to pitch in and invest in things they care about,” Coakley said.

In her pitch to be the state’s new governor, she also acknowledged that some of the blame for current funding issues lies with the state’s political leaders and the inability to push through the necessary money for important priorities.

“When we haven’t got the funding to deal with things we care about, it is because we haven’t made a good case,” she said.

She pledged to work with legislators, nonprofit organizations and private business to ensure the funding for the state’s needs are met. “We will invest the money we need to and we will get everybody behind it,” she said.

Candidate Don Berwick, a

Berwick also finds fault with the current tax system and said a major way to increase state tax revenue would be to fix current loopholes and tax incentives that cost the state millions in lost revenue.

“Loopholes and exemptions should only be ones that add jobs and support the safety net. We need to stop the others,” he said.

He also pointed out that health-care reform could bring substantial savings to the state and be an immediate source of additional funding for other necessities.

“Real, serious health care reform has to become essential in this state so we can return money to the state treasurer and to your pockets as laborers so you can pay for what you want to for your families,” he said.

Joe Avellone III, a health-care professional and former Wellesley selectman running for governor, is targeting health-care reform as well.

“We think that health care is so sacrosanct that we can’t touch it.

That is not true. We can make it much more efficient,” he said. “It is 40 percent of the state budget.

If it is 39 percent, one point different in the state budget — that is $359 million per year that can be saved. That is a billion dollars over three years. This can be used for education, transportation and the things that we need.”

Avellone is not confident that raising taxes is an answer to the state’s funding issues.

“I don’t favor a broad-based tax, certainly not until we have

controlled health-care costs and taken the extraordinary opportunity that we can to create room in our budget,” he said. “This is no time for a broad-based tax. It will hit the middle class. And we have a great opportunity otherwise to lower health-care costs and create the opportunity for the investment that we need.”

Candidate Juliette Kayyem, a security advisor to Gov. Deval Patrick, took the strongest stand and said taxes are not the immediate answer.

“The issue of a more progressive tax rate is an important one, but I am going to be incredibly blunt with all of you — even if we want it and even if you could get the Legislature to do it — it won’t be done before 2018, just given the calendar,” Kayyem said.

She favored an examination of the current state budget and shifting allocated money away from some areas to others that are lacking. In particular, she targeted the money spent on the criminal justice system in the state and prison construction and said it should be reduced and that money should be used to fund education, green initiatives and infrastructure.

On the topic of immigration, all candidates agreed that the federal government needs to get over its gridlock on immigration reform and work together for a solution for the country, though all acknowledged this was not likely to happen soon.

At the state level for Massachu-

setts, the candidates’ immigration discussion focused on two issues: allowing undocumented immigrants to get a driver’s license and in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants. All candidates supported both measures, although Attorney General Coakley skirted supporting standard driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants saying it was important to think about if there should be a distinction in the licenses issued.

Grossman continued into the second week of his campaign to call Coakley out on her stance.

“I would like to invite the attorney general to join the rest of us and say, ‘I support driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants,’” he said. “Nobody should be driving in this Commonwealth without a driver’s license, without insurance. It is a public safety issue.”

Overall, support for immigration was strong among the Democratic candidate for governor.

“They need to be respected and I am absolutely committed to that. This is what made our country great — our diversity — the people among us who come from tremendously different backgrounds, who bring a wealth of their knowledge and their various forms of joy and commitment to their families and each other,” Berwick said. “And to turn our backs on people that are living with us is simply wrong.”

“We have to remember that that is where we all came from — that today the folks that are here,

whether they are undocumented or not, are just here as the first step in hopefully a long journey in our country and in our state,” Avellone added. “We need to treat our new arrivals as parts of the community that will be our future just like they always have been in the past.”

With SEIU being one of the strongest unions in the state with 95,000 members, the candidates also addressed labor issues and said they would all support workers’ in the fight to demand rights on the job, though Coakley objected to current legislation regarding how public defenders collectively bargain for worker wages and benefits. The candidates were also in support of efforts to raise minimum wage and legislative fights that address the growing income inequality in the country.

“I am very worried about growing inequality in our nation and our state. We are becoming two communities, two nations. One of people doing very well, and increasingly well now in a period of economic recovery, and a whole lot of others who are being left behind and that is not OK,” Berwick said. “The very idea that we would deny people at the low end of the income spectrum the ability to get together, to work together, to bargain together, to assert their rights — the very idea that we would tolerate a country in which people could work 40, 50, 60 hours a week and not be able to make ends meet — is not OK for our nation.”

(l-r) State Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez, Zori De La Rosa, Jose De La Rosa, Dona Betsaida Gutierrez, Felix G. Arroyo and Gloria Pascual at a ribbon cutting ceremony at the new location of Family Caregivers, an adult family care program, in Jamaica Plain.

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Your Twins, Ernest E. Washington, Jr. and Ernestine E. Washington, four Grandchildren, Carmela E. Washington, Taj Jahiz Washington, Ivanna Ernica Washington, and Christy Nokomo Marrs, and Great-granddaughter Teagan Bailey Washington; Daughter Donna L. Hill & family, Goddaughter Nancy Bouldin, InLaws Ethelina and Ida Mae Hall, and Lena Hunter, trusted nurse and companion.

Two wonderful daughters, Christy N. Marrs and Ivanna E. Washington siblings Brenda B. and Robert Baker, David M. and Rochelle Bullock, Judith R. Bullock, Debra D. Calloway of Raleigh, NC, and the family of Ernest Jr., Ernestine, Carmela, Taj, Ivanna, and Teagan Washington.

Mattie operated two Corner Barber Shops in the City of Boston and was widely known and respected as one of the first African American women to cut and style hair in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Menino being treated for advanced cancer

Former mayor Thomas Menino is being treated for advanced cancer, according to a Boston Globe story on March 16.

This city’s longest-serving mayor currently works at Boston University as a co-director of the Initiative on Cities. He and his wife live in the Hyde Park neighborhood.

The Globe story revealed that Menino began a course of chemotherapy at the beginning of March, and describes him as “determined” to successfully complete his treatment.

According to the American Cancer Society, advanced cancer is described as cancer that “cannot be cured.” However, advanced cancer does not mean untreatable and some patients “can live for many years with advanced cancer.”

Menino went to Wellesley on Monday to speak to the College Democrats there about involving women in politics.

School-to-prison pipeline beaten with pipeline to leadership Treat a student like a criminal, and you will get a criminal. But treat a student like a civic-minded, socially aware community activist,

and you will get a leader.

This philosophy is the basis for the Boston Branch NAACP Summer Job Pipeline to Leadership Program. The eight-week program is open to full-time students ages 14-20 in the Greater Boston area who are available to work at least six weeks this summer.

Participants, known as “pipeliners,” work 20-hours-a-week registering voters, attending community and government meetings, and participating in workshops and training programs.

Applications can be obtained at the Boston Branch NAACP office located in Roxbury. Completed applications and supporting documentation must be postmarked

by June 6, for consideration.

The Pipeline program, now in its third year, was founded by Boston Branch NAACP President Michael Curry. According to

the Museum of African American History, the Pipeline program has registered over 2,000 new voters in just two summer programs.

Pipeliners are easy to spot in their bright yellow T-shirts.

Minimum wage increase tied to corporate tax decrease The Massachusetts House of Representatives is able to move forward with minimum wage increases now that businesses have been given a tax break.

The Massachusetts House Speaker, Robert DeLeo, was widely quoted at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce meeting last week as making this minimum wage increase contingent upon a decrease in the amount the Commonwealth requires businesses to

pay for unemployment insurance.

The House is moving forward on legislation raising the state minimum wage. Unlike the bill approved by the state Senate last year describing an $11 hourly minimum wage by 2016, this bill proposes $10.50 hourly. Also, unlike the Senate bill, the current state House bill does not include annual inflation-indexed cost-ofliving wage increases after 2016.

Labor advocates continue to move forward on a ballot petition to have the voters decide next fall on the minimum wage issue. The petition calls for $10.50 hourly by 2016 and annual increases for inflation thereafter, and also seeks an increase in tipped wages from the current $2.63 per hour to $6.30 per hour by 2016. Speaker DeLeo proposes that tipped wages be $3.75 by 2016.

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Boston Public Schools offers high salaries, challenging careers for America’s best teachers District becomes more competitive by offering jobs to talented teachers earlier The Boston Public Schools is encouraging talented educators from across Boston, the state and the nation to explore more than a thousand teaching opportunities, which have been posted online for the first time this year. This means positions are open to internal candidates and teachers from outside the Boston Public Schools as well – including new teachers.

The decision to post positions online is part of the district’s effort to attract, retain and develop a diverse, highly qualified team of teachers to educate students in a public school system that educates more than 57,000 students from more than 100 countries who speak 85 different languages in all.

“I grew up in a large city, so I had a strong desire to work in a large urban area,” said Kimberly Frazier-Booth, an English teacher at the BPS Kennedy Academy for Health Careers. “In Boston, I have access to strong in-district professional development and a variety of enrichment activities.

I spent three weeks as part of an intensive summer residency at

Kathy Clunis D’Andrea has worked at the Mission Hill School for the last 15 years because of the multiple opportunities for teachers to be involved in shaping best practices for Boston Public School students.

Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in England. Each year my students work with a teaching artist from the Huntington Theater Com-

pany. I am excited to have a network of outstanding AP teachers across the city who share resources and ideas.”

BPS is in a strong position to attract top teaching talent by offering strong salaries, generous benefits and career development

opportunities that help good teachers become great. This year BPS teachers earn $88,000 every year on average, which is among the highest of any district in the United States. BPS also offers health and retirement benefits and a starting salary of $49,000 that jumps to $67,000 in just five years.

“The culturally diverse student body deserves the commitment and passion of the best teachers and leaders if we are going to change life trajectories,” said Naia Wilson, headmaster of New Mission High School in Hyde Park.

“As a teacher, I learned how to help my students reach their true potential using innovative teaching strategies. As a headmaster, I continue to learn the power of school autonomy in creating a place that empowers teachers to work collaboratively to challenge societal inequity. Working in the BPS makes me feel like I am part of the solution.”

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Partners HealthCare working to provide promising career paths for employees

Pictured here is Carmen Pena, Partners in Career and Workforce Development Program graduate, currently working at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital.

Education, economic opportunity, and professional development are essential not only for the life and vitality of an individual, but also for the life and vitality of a whole community.

Partners HealthCare understands the impact these things can have on Boston’s vitality, which is why it has committed to providing robust workforce development programs for young people,

community residents and current employees.

Research shows that more education can lead to a healthier, longer life. According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, college graduates can expect to live at least five years longer than individuals who have not finished high school. More educational and economic opportunities lead to higher incomes, and higher incomes lead to healthier lives.

Partners workforce development programs provide employees with opportunities to enhance their skills and to further their educations with job training, internships, college preparation and mentoring.

For example, the Partners in Career and Workforce Development Program, a collaboration between Partners Human Resources and Partners Community Health, is helping people to achieve their goals of building careers in health care. The rigorous job training and internship program equips participants with the skills necessary for professional success. Currently celebrating its fifteenth year, PCWD has en-

rolled more than 400 people and helped to set them on paths to fulfilling careers.

“Our employees are our greatest asset and we are committed to developing an exceptional workforce that ensures we provide patient-centered, high-quality care.” said Matt Fishman, Partners vice president for community health.

“We are investing in our employees in a number of ways and supporting their career and academic goals.”

Carmen Pena is one example of an employee who has taken part in several workforce development programs. She is currently working as an administrative assistant and surgical coordinator in the Breast Center at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital. Pena was unemployed when she first saw a flyer for the PCWD program. She enrolled soon after and has greatly benefitted from all it has to offer.

Pena participated in the PCWD training and employment program, which led her to the hospital and the opportunity to take advantage of additional programming. She enrolled in citizenship classes, the pre-college program, and the online college

preparation program. The citizenship classes are available to all eligible Partners employees and their families and help people with all of the steps to attaining citizenship — from interviews to the citizenship exam.

The pre-college program prepares employees to take college courses offering guidance in a variety of subjects including math, science, English and writing. The online college preparation program provides a learning experience consistent with most college online learning systems, making the transition to full-time college courses much smoother.

Along with a thriving career, Pena now has attained U.S. citizenship and will be enrolling in classes at Bunker Hill Community College — setting her on a path to an even brighter future for both herself and her three sons.

“PCWD was a life-changing event for me and my family,” says Pena. “I am setting an example for my children and proving that hard work can pay off. I want them to see what can happen when you set Partners, continued to page 15

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Roxbury Community College’s honors program enhances student scholarship Ted Thomas Say that you are a student at Roxbury Community College enrolled in one of the college’s excellent course offerings. You enjoy your knowledgeable professor, find the subject matter very engaging, and treasure the time you spend with your classmates discussing what you have learned. The classroom experience has whetted your academic appetite, and left you wanting to learn even more about the subject you are studying.

Where to turn? The answer is found in Roxbury Community College’s Honors Program.

Rhonda Gray is associate professor of English at Roxbury Community College and coordinator of the Honors Program. In a recent interview at her RCC office, she discussed the Honors Program.

“Primarily we offer students who are academically motivated the opportunity to deepen their engagement of the curriculum,” she explained, “by creating research-based projects where critical thinking, innovation, and hands-on application of the

Roxbury Community College Professor Rhonda Gray, front row and fourth from right, is joined by Honors Program faculty and students. (Phuong Tang photo) topics are explored and framed in various formats.”

The research, according to Gray, may “be presented within a formal academic paper, an art

portfolio, or laboratory report, just to name a few.” The benefits that students who are enrolled in the Honors Program include the opportunity to academically

“engage on a more profound level than students taking mainstream courses,” Gray noted.

“The student’s work furthers faculty scholarship as they have

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ture and research methodologies within a given discipline,” Gray said.

Also, the student’s work has staying power in the classroom as it may contribute to a revision of the faculty member’s curriculum.

Another wonderful opportunity for Honors Program students is to share their research process with a larger community of RCC faculty, students, and staff. The research-sharing part of the program occurs during Honors presentations, where a diverse audience listens as the student explains the student-faculty collaboration on the project, the nature of the research, and invites audience feedback.

Prior to the actual presentations, Honors Program students receive feedback on their research from members of the Honors Program Committee, made up of RCC faculty. Gray sees this as a crucial part of the students’ experience as they have a opportunity to get valuable feedback from RCC’s community of scholars.

“I think that it is important not only to the students, but to the instructors because it is a way for all of us to sit down and discuss ideas,” she said.

The scope of the Honors Projects covers of broad spectrum of topics. Below are three examples:

Free blacks in Liberia

The project is a painting series that reflects the experiences of freed slaves who migrated to Liberia in 1816 to seek a less racially oppressive environment.

Biomanufacturing and phospholipase D signaling The student performed a literature review to understand the biological and therapeutic potential of phospholipase D and proposed a protocol to examine the enzyme using Roxbury Community College’s bioreactor.

Mass incarceration and the caste system The project examines Roxbury Community College’s views on author Michelle Alexander’s

argument that mass incarceration constitutes a new form of a caste system implemented during the Jim Crow Era. Alexander is the author of the best-selling book “The New Jim Crow.”

As program coordinator, the Honors Program has provided Gray the golden opportunity to see first-hand what other professors in their respective disciplines are doing.

“It’s a way for me and all of us to get a broader picture of the fantastic talent and minds that are here at RCC,” she said.

There are two basic ways for RCC students to enter the Honors Program.

“They can either take one of the three standard required Honors courses, English Composition 1 Honors, English Composition 2 Honors, or a 200-level course called the Honors Colloquium,” Gray explained. She added that the colloquium “is really an opportunity for an instructor to design a course based on the instructor’s interest and expertise.”

The other way in which a student could enter the Honors Program is at the beginning of the semester when “most students in 100-level and 200-level courses could apply to do an Honors Project for that course.

Interested students work along with their instructor to complete an Honors Project application in which they propose a project.

The Honors Committee gathers the applications — which must be completed by a deadline date — and reviews them.

“We very rarely turn down an application,” Gray said. “Oftentimes we encourage the student and instructor to revise and strengthen their application.”

At the end of the semester students, in order to receive honors credit designated on their transcripts, must submit a formal written report of their projects and also present their work through a ten-minute Power Point presentation.

Gray beams when she describes the skills students in the Honors Program gain.

“I would say that students who thrive in the Honors Program are self-starters. They take the initiative to go after what they want … they really take full responsibility in terms of steering their projects.

They become leaders,” she said.

Pictured here is Darnell Kuykendall, PCWD graduate, giving a tour of the Massachusetts General Hospital MRI Suite.

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goals and seize opportunities — you can achieve anything.”

Darnell Kuykendall has also had a transformative experience at Partners with help from the PCWD program. Kuykendall applied to PCWD in 2011, after having held a series of routine but uninspiring jobs.

“I was unemployed, having been laid off from numerous jobs.

I saw what the program offered

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Boston’s children and families, the Boston Public Schools is asking you to consider joining the team.

Educators can visit www.teachboston.org to apply for positions and learn more about the advantages of a teaching career in BPS or they can send an email to recruitment@ bostonpublicschools.org.

BPS will make most of its hiring decisions in April and May for the next school year. The district has made a promise to the community to attract and recruit a talented, diverse team of educators. “That’s what our students deserve and Boston is the place to make it happen,” says interim Superintendent John McDonough.

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and decided to take a chance and apply. I was unhappy moving from job to job and wanted a career,” said Kuykendall.

After completing his eightweek training and internship, he found a job at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has worked his way up to his current position there, an operating room equipment technician in the hospital’s Operating Room MRI Suite. Not only is the MGH MRI Suite one of the most advanced imaging facilities in the country — it also provides Kuykendall with an op-

portunity for professional growth.

“My experience with PCWD has been a great one and it has given so much more meaning to my professional life,” said Kuykendall.

“PCWD helped me to broaden my understanding of myself and helped me to translate my personality traits into valuable workplace skills. I’m excited for what the future has in store for me.”

If you are interested in learning more about PCWD and other workforce development programs offered at Partners HealthCare, go to www.Partners.org.

of any city: One in five BPS students has a disability and nearly half speak a language other than English at home. Three out of every four BPS students live near or below the poverty line.

“I have found a job where I feel valued and important,” said Kathy Clunis D’Andrea, a teacher at the Mission Hill K-8 School.

“We have autonomies that help us make decisions that are right

for our community. We are able to create our own curriculum and assess the students’ progress in ways that help us best learn what the children need.”

BPS has lifted the graduation rate to the highest level ever recorded, but nearly one-third of the city’s teenagers still do not earn a high school diploma. Just this year BPS cut the drop-out rate to the lowest level since at least 1977.

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Gregory Porter’s jazz Grammy projects singer into national spotlight Kevin C. Peterson The release late last year of “Liquid Spirit” was met with muted reaction by national listenership. No matter. Gregory Porter’s latest album is a tribute to high artistic quality seldom experienced today in American music, especially among its vocalist performers.

Listening carefully to Porter reveals his intelligent understanding of the blues and also his sense of soul as he addresses the various particulars of the human experience — alienation, romance, renewal, endeavor and bitterness.

Yet, it is difficult to precisely put Porter into any category. For many he evokes Teddy Pendergast — sexually smoldering, a libido always unleashed. Still for others, Porter’s sound and perspective is in some way distinctly early Marvin Gaye, where simple stories of love reach complex epic tonal form and also budding political consciousness.

Porter’s home is in jazz. As such, his recent notoriety puts him in a tradition populated by greats like

Jimmy Rushing, Joe Williams, and, currently with Kevin Mahogany and Andy Bey. Just as we think that superlative, high-sounding male jazz singers had gone extinct, Porter proves that large, resounding talent can still find an eager and deeply appreciative audience.

In January, Porter was awarded a Grammy Award for “Best Vocal Jazz Album” for “Liquid Spirit,” which fitted for the beauty and imaginative power of the songs.

Like Romare Bearden in his water color period, Porter paints cool, contemplative, hazy images that are as reassuring as they are provocative — they are moving in a way that suggest world-weary, hard-earned wisdom.

The album’s title song “Liquid Spirit,” explores the religious impulsivity of black music with sophisticated syncopation and an upbeat hand-clapping verve that connotes kinetic joy and holy reverence. Porter’s sound in this song is true, referencing his deep religious background.

“No Love Dying,” is an overture to the persistence of amorous partners. With Porter’s emotional swagger the song is pure and propulsive, giving deep sentiment and celebrating the human spirit.

And then there is “Hey Laura,” which is about how men have, for as long as we know, tried to apologize to their lovers about wrongdoing. Here the pained lover rings the doorbell late at night with the “bothering” question of whether “the rivers of your love flow up to me?”

“Brown Grass” is pure blues in the American tradition — lament, but also budding optimism. Porter asks, who has not understood the regret of searching for the grass on the other side only to find deep regret and a certain melancholy?

Porter is a gifted song writer who has penned many praised lyrics in a career that has lifted only in the last five years with releases such as: “Water” in 2010, and “Be Good” in 2012.

What is so distinctive about Porter is his poetic tone which

plays to matching words for rhyming effects.

At 42, Porter has broken into the national scene as an emerging musical leader in jazz and is giving the genre a renewed, sub-

stantive tone.

His latest, award-winning album — and the ones recently before them — offer terrific listening and are worthy of careful attention.

Jazz singer Gregory Porter won a Grammy Award for “Best Vocal Jazz Album” for his release “Liquid Spirit.” (Peter Tea photo)

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Comedy veteran Guy Torry reflects on years in the biz Colette Greenstein A native of St. Louis, Mo., Guy Torry attended Southeast Missouri State University, and like his older brother, comedian and actor Joe Torry, before him, he left Missouri for Los Angeles to complete his degree in marketing. Once he arrived, however, he decided to pursue a career in comedy after being inspired by HBO show “Russell Simmons’ Def Comedy Jam” in 1992.

After almost two years of honing his craft, Torry made his national television debut on “Def Comedy Jam,” the show that first inspired him to pursue his love of comedy. From there, he performed on the national “Def Comedy Jam Tour” to sold-out theaters around the country.

Since then, the multi-talented Torry has appeared on BET’s “Comic View,” Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend,” and NBC’s “Showtime at the Apollo.” He’s also made the leap to the big screen with roles in the films “American History X,” “Don’t Say a Word” and “Runaway Jury,” but stand-up remains his single passion.

Torry will be in Boston performing stand-up at Laugh Boston

from March 20 to March 22.

In a recent interview with the Banner, the die-hard sports fan who “loves Boston’s comedy scene” talks about his upcoming projects and what inspired him to create “Phat Tuesdays,” a comedy show to showcase African American comedians to Hollywood executives.

In addition to stand-up what have you been doing?

I’m working on a comedy special (the working title is “No Filter”), a comedy cookbook called “Comedy Kitchen” and a documentary on stand-up. It’s about “Phat Tuesdays.”

It’s been over 10 years since you started “Phat Tuesdays.” Were you able to expose a lot of young, black comics to Hollywood?

In 1995, I started up “Phat Tuesdays” after the 1992 L.A. riots. I was still a young comic myself and I wanted to do a night to showcase my friends. Nick Cannon and Chris Tucker started there. It was right after my role in “American History X.” Writers and actors hooked up with directors at Phat Tuesdays. “Phat Tuesdays” gave black comedi-

ans a chance to perform in “A” rooms. I created a room to work out material and to showcase other comics. “Phat Tuesdays” spurred other rooms to do urban nights.

Were you taping Phat Tuesdays thinking that you might do the documentary one day? Do you have any footage?

I have some footage of the shows. Those were the days when Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Shaq, Denzel and Prince came through, as well as Chris Tucker and Katt [Williams] before they blew up.

You mentioned you’re working on a cookbook.

Is the cookbook filled with favorite recipes from comics?

Yes. We have Tony Rock, Loni Love, Sheryl Underwood, Gary Owen, Billy Gardell from “Mike and Molly,” Joe [Torry], Kym Whitley, Kim Coles. We want it to be a multicultural cookbook.

The appetizers are called “Opening Act”; the side dishes are the “Feature Act”; and the main course is the “Headliners.”

I know you’re out on the road performing all across the country. Is there a chance we might see both you and your brother, Joe, performing together?

We’ve tried that but not any time soon. We kind of cancel each other out. I like to play when I’m on stage and my show is an experience. There’s a preshow video presentation and there’s crowd interaction. It’s a very engaging show.

In the past year, we’ve seen a slate of black films come to the big screen.

Do you think that the trend will continue and hopefully where it won’t be considered a “trend” anymore?

Guy Torry

Why is this work important to you?

Of course. We hope that it becomes more than a trend. Hollywood is a money-making business. Hopefully black people will support the movies. We need to stop bootlegging movies and get our asses to the theater and see these movies.

Are you still involved in your brother’s “Give Back the Love” Foundation, which helps disadvantaged children with basic needs?

I’ll always be involved. I’ve been involved in feeding the homeless at My Friend’s House Foundation. We go buy food and go to Skid Row where we feed them and clothe them.

I believe that’s what we’re supposed to do. I don’t do it for recognition but I do want to raise awareness. It’s about being a servant.

Has it helped or hurt to have your brother in the business?

It has definitely helped 300 percent. He taught me about stand-up. He supported me. I was broke for the first three or four years and I kept a tab of what I owed him. I paid him back once I began making money.

What’s the best advice you’ve ever gotten?

Good question. Other than keep God first — be yourself.

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Startups lured to Oakland by low rents, skilled workers

Staff members of Oakland technology startup Mayvenn. The company is one of a growing number of new companies run by African Americans that are opening up shop in Oakland.

Barbara Grady Oakland-based Mindblown Labs put gaming into education and garnered the largest Kickstarter campaign for any mobile game ever.

E-commerce site Mayvenn found an unserved market and is growing 40 percent to 60 percent a month in revenues, and GroupFlix is already being described as another Netflix, prelaunch.

These tech startups are all in Oakland. And they were all started

by African Americans.

There’s a burgeoning tech industry in Oakland, with a host of startups joining a dozen midsize tech companies and Oakland’s two technology giants, Pandora and Ask. Oakland is becoming a place where tech happens, not on the scale of San Francisco or Silicon Valley, but enough to be a contender when startups figure out where to locate.

What’s more, and a potential game changer in technology, is that Oakland’s tech industry appears to be more diverse than the largely white male and Asian male tech industries across the bay and down the peninsula, based on the concentration of startups by people of color and women in the small tech eco-sphere here. SleekGeek was started by a Latina, XEO Designs by a woman, 2Locos by a team finding that their Latino lifestyle tastes are unanswered on e-commerce sites.

Also, startups in Oakland are often driven by a social mission.

Mindblown Labs aims to teach youth about financial literacy. GoldieBlox, started by women, hopes to inspire young girls to become engineers.

Qeyno Labs, started by another African American, is a career discovery game for underserved kids needing mentors. Solar Mosaic is making solar electricity affordable for regular people and nonprofits. Impact HUB Oakland is providing a collaboration and innovation workspace for multicultural tech endeavors.

SleekGeek hopes to get kids more engaged in learning science through mobile apps.

“You see a lot of education startups planting roots here and some other social impact oriented startups, so you have a differentiating number here,” said Jason Young, co-founder of Mindblown Labs as well as the Hidden Genius Project, which teaches coding to young African Americans. “It doesn’t hurt that we have Kapor Capital and

New Schools Venture Fund.” Both are venture capital firms interested in funding initiatives that widen opportunity.

It’s also no accident that his nonprofit the Hidden Genius Project is located in Oakland, or that Black Girls Code which teaches young girls to code, moved to Oakland. In fact, President Obama invited two Oakland tech entrepreneurs to his “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative launch, along with Oakland’s mayor.

At a time when the tech industry is sometimes vilified as elitist and indifferent to the housing needs and community ties of the average Bay Area worker, Oakland may be spearheading a more inclusive chapter in technology industry growth. The firms mentioned above are just a partial list of those started by people outside of the usual tech demographic.

But for Oakland’s tech industry to continue to grow, and do so in the quintessentially Oakland way as a diverse and social mission driven sector, will take intention, many experts say.

“Oakland is still iterating, the story is still largely being written,” Young said. “In terms of maintaining diversity and social impact, that definitely has to be nurtured,” he said. Otherwise, it could just be a San Francisco spill over.

Cedric Brown, managing partner of the Kapor Center for Social Impact, which moved here to pursue its mission of fostering diversity and opportunity in technology, agrees.

He sees Oakland’s “rich social justice culture, its Silicon Valley proximity, its racial and ethnic pluralism and its open ended sense of possibilities,” as its strengths. But they won’t drive business.

“The fact that this will become a hub for black and brown tech innovation will not be by accident,” he said. “This community is working deliberately to ensure that Oakland has — and keeps — the resources talent and vibe that empowers people of color in the innovation economy.

The Kapor Center certainly aims to play a catalyzing role in that vibrant community.”

Why Oakland?

Plain supply and demand economics of commercial tenants pursuing cheaper rents drove many Oakland tech companies to launch here.

“Rent is substantially cheaper here than in San Francisco which is where most startups are. People are

starting to choose here instead. I see more people moving to this side of the bay,” said Rockbot founder Ketu Petal, whose firm chose Oakland for its affordable rent. Rockbot sells an app that allows restaurants to offer customers the ability to choose ambient music from their iPhones.

“I am seeing techies move out here, in large part because it is cheaper to live here than in San Francisco and more convenient than living in the South Bay,” said Kurt Collins, founder of virtually-based Enole and another co-founder of the Hidden Genius Project.

“There are minority entrepreneurs moving to Oakland, so it is more diverse than, you know, San Francisco and more diverse than the Peninsula,” he said.

“The thing is, there‘s a difference between a startup industry and a successful startup industry,” that grows to a midsize industry Collins said.

The latter, he said, needs investors ready to help companies grow and networks of people with money to invest.

Need for investors, networks

What Oakland does not have yet is well developed networks of moneyed investors and experienced en-

trepreneurs, that is, a critical mass of people ready and able to invest in what they see going on around them.

Startup entrepreneurs in the Valley and San Francisco tend to rely on wealthy friends and family to fund their ideas in the early days to get their tiny startups off the ground, several people in the industry pointed out. Sometimes those moneyed friend’s are employees or former employees of tech companies that have gone public, creating a lot of wealthy employees.

“You have entire networks, like the PayPal mafia,” of PayPal employees who cashed out their stock options when PayPal went public and then put their money into friends startups, said Collins.

Then, if a startup idea proves minimally viable as a business, it can turn to angel investors as it grows, and on up the investment pipeline to venture financing and eventually to the public markets.

“There’s a Facebook mafia and a Twitter mafia,” Collins said. “YouTube wouldn’t have happened without the PayPal mafia,” that provided the startup cash, he said.

But to start, a company needs seed money from friends and family.

Relatively few African Americans and Latinos have wealthy family members and friends with extra money to invest in startups compared to their counterparts from white and Asian families.

“Those networks don’t exist in Oakland in any serious way,” he said. “So the mere fact that people

“Oakland is a less expensive real estate market so more startups are looking for space here. Once here, they might find tech talent that is African American or Latino more easily because they are a greater percent of the population,” Moore said.

As a result, “in Oakland you might see senior people who are black at tech companies here even if the founder is not. So as an entrepreneur you might be a little bit more excited.

That might be helpful,” he said, to diversify the industry. But he said it will be incidental.

He doesn’t expect any of that to drive decisions. It’s about what will grow to be profitable.

“My firm is investing in companies that we believe will be sold for $1 billion,” Moore said of BaseVC. That is the lens through which all investments are scrutinized, he said, and and “my responsibility to investors.”

“I have a handful of companies that happen to be led by African Americans,” he said, underscoring happenstance.

Moore, who is African American and heralded by Business Insider magazine as one of the top-25 African Americans in tech, has invested in a range of companies in their early stage iteration, including Zappos, which went on to go public and reap millions. His current investments include some started by minority entrepreneurs like SocialCam and Pigeon.ly.

SleekGeek co-founder Francisco Nieto said attracting the interest of

“The fact that this will become a hub for black and brown tech innovation will not be by accident.”

— Cedric Brown

are moving here doesn’t mean success,” he said, “The other thing to look for is whether investors are moving here.”

Erik Moore, an Oakland resident and founder of Base VC venture capital firm in Berkeley, also applauded that more tech companies are launching in Oakland. But he too said that access to investors will be key to their staying power. Funding is what feeds the ability to grow. And getting funding, like getting hired, is easier if you are in the same network as the funders.

investors, particularly venture capitalists, is where things get tough for entrepreneurs and where Latino entrepreneurs have not made much headway. ”There’re lots of efforts and organizations to promote diversity in tech,” he said, “but from what I’ve seen, VCs do not share the same aspirations. They show interest but I’ve yet to see a lot of positive actions,” in real funding.

Jose Corona, chief executive of Inner City Advisors, said that Oakstartups, continued to page 20

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land needs an ecosystem of networks of funders and people with experience willing to mentor others. He mentioned the Hidden Genius Project, Impact HUB Oakland and the Kapor Center as helping in that they focus on mentoring and widening the demographic circle of coders and tech entrepreneurs and tech workers.

“It’s a huge responsibility,” he said.

The future face of tech “When you think about it, over the next 20 years or so the majority of the population is going to be people of color, so tech companies should be looking at this population for either workers or customers. If I have a more diverse tech employee base, it will definitely be an edge,” Corona said.

Oaklanders are not the only ones with consciousness of this reality.

Code2040 in San Francisco is a nonprofit that works to create opportunities for engineers of color and chose its name based on the fact that demographers estimate that in the year 2040, the U.S. population will be more non-white than white.

African American and Latino computer and software entrepreneurs are emerging from universities, as Young, Collins, Kalimah Priforce of Qeyno Labs, James Norman of GroupFlix and Diishan Imira of Mayvenn prove. But only about 9 percent of engineering and science degrees conferred by U.S. universities in 2009 were to African Americans and Latinos, said the Kapor Center based on National Science Foundation studies.

The ranks thin out as a companies grow and their need for capital grows, according to University of California at Davis Professor Martin Kenney.

Among founders of venture capital-backed technology companies, fewer than 1 percent are African American and fewer than 1 percent are Latino, according to a National Venture Capital Association report of 2011. By the time companies are large enough to do initial public offerings of stock, their ranks thin out even more, Kenney said.

Data collected by Kenney and his colleague Don Patton on all U.S. emerging growth firms that had IPOs between 1990 and 2010 found, among many other data points, that only 3 percent of IPO firms had women founders. The numbers for ethnic minorities, though not part of Securities and Exchange Commission filings data, appear to be worse.

“African Americans and Latinos are massively under-represented in tech,” said Kenney.

“It’s a question and challenge for the whole tech industry to push for diversity,” Corona said.

cans entrepreneurs on how to pitch ideas to venture capitalists, and she was one of the organizers of Startup Weekend/Black Male Achievement in February.

People in Oakland are mindful of the challenges of society. “We have all these big challenges, mentioned on a national scale, when you talk about crime or education or poverty, but we are also right in the epicenter of technology and we have a direct relationship with all these great companies that are changing the world.

We need to partner this expertise,” she said.

At Startup Weekend/ Black Male Achievement, Selassie and co-organizer Kalimah Priforce, founder of Qeyno Labs and an educator at the Hidden Genius Project, said their objective was to teach young people,

particularly African American and Latino young people, to be “full participants in this. To be trail blazers,” leading their friends and families to participate as makers in the tech innovation society. “We are taking the Silicon Valley model directly to communities, to the most undeveloped communities we know and [helping them apply] it to education, housing,” Priforce said.

Selassie credited Salesforce.com with supplying boot camp training, employees, free software and training to the effort. Google, Pandora, Ask and others did as well.

Monique Woodard, co-founder of Black Founders, spent a weekend in Oakland this month to participate in Startup Weekend Oakland/ Black Male Achievement at Impact HUB Oakland.

“What I notice in the Oakland startup community is a natural leaning toward using technology for social impact. Oakland has always had a thriving social justice and nonprofit community and some of that lends itself to being more inclusive for minority entrepreneurs,” she said. The natural diversity in Oakland helps, she said, making it more welcoming for entrepreneurs of color.

She is hopeful that “Oakland could become the model for what other cities need to do to attract and retain more minority tech employees, more minority tech entrepreneurs, more diverse companies, and ultimately — more profitable companies.”

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A possible edge for Oakland Ayori Selassie, a product manager and engineer for Salesforce.com in San Francisco, lives in Oakland and spends her spare time mentoring engineers and entrepreneurs here. She says Oakland will be the place that changes the status quo.

“Oakland has a unique opportunity. It has an opportunity that no other region has anywhere in the world, so if Oakland can’t do it no one else can,” Selassie said.

“Oakland has direct access to all these tech companies because they are right in our backyard. We also are facing the issues that society must solve. If we can’t leverage technology to be something that is very impactful for the communities and the corporations, then no one else can do it,” she said.

She started Pitch Mixer, to mentor budding African Ameri-

LEGAL NOTICE REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Authority) is soliciting consulting services for MPA CONTRACT NO. A315-D1, FY14-16 ARCHITECTURAL CONSULTING EXCELLENCE SERVICES. The Authority is seeking a qualified multi-discipline architectural consulting firm which emphasizes and demonstrates design excellence, to provide professional services to evaluate and to guide the design quality for selected projects on an on-call, as needed basis. The requested services are expected to be provided at any Massport owned or operated aviation and maritime facility including Boston-Logan Airport, L.G. Hanscom Field, Worcester Regional Airport, Conley Terminal, and Cruiseport Boston. The Consultant must be able to work closely with the Authority, its designated design consultants and other interested parties in order to provide such services in a timely and effective manner. The projects for review may range from small and simple to relatively large and complex.

The Consultant shall demonstrate a history of design excellence in its own portfolio as well as experience in the critique of all aspects of architectural design including but not limited to architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, interior design, art, sustainability, and workplace design. It is the goal of the Authority to achieve design excellence in its projects to achieve more innovative, creative, and accessible environments. The intent is to deliver projects that others want to emulate. Projects must incorporate the best qualities of contemporary design thought and superior building performance while adhering to constructability concerns and long term operating issues. The selected consultant might be asked to facilitate and manage design charrette, provide a forum for ideas to be developed and tested, design to be augmented and improved. The Consultant might be asked to perform independent design reviews of projects, attend design review sessions and evaluate design development, facilitate critical design discussions and recommend design and graphic solutions. The Consultant shall demonstrate its ability to understand the design, cost and constructability issues for each project reviewed in order to effectively evaluate and promote the design quality that meets the Authority’s goal.

The Consultant may be required to provide limited conceptual design services to develop and/or advance the design quality and to work with the designated design consultant to provide as needed design-assist services to enhance the project. The development of concept plans and elevation sketches, evaluation of project definition documents, limited preliminary design services and ongoing design review through construction may be required.

The Authority expects to select one (1) consultant. However, the Authority reserves the right to select a different number if it is deemed in its best interest to do so. The Consultant shall be issued a contract in an amount not to exceed TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($250,000). The services shall be authorized on a work order basis.

Each submission shall include a Statement of Qualifications that provides detailed information in response to the evaluation criteria set forth below and include Architect/Engineer & Related Services questionnaires SF 330 (www. gsa.gov/portal/forms/download/116486) with the appropriate number of Part IIs. M/W/DBE Certification of the prime and subconsultants shall be current at the time of submittal and the Consultant shall provide a copy of the M/W/DBE certification letter from the Supplier Diversity Office, formerly known as State Office of Minority and Women Business Assistance (SOMWBA) within its submittal. The Consultant shall also provide an original and fourteen copies of litigation and legal proceedings information, signed under

Governor Deval Patrick discusses the YouthWorks Summer Jobs Program with youth and community members from towns north of Boston at the Malden YMCA. (Governor’s Office photo by Eric Haynes)

the pains and penalties of perjury, in a separate sealed envelope entitled “Litigation and Legal Proceedings”. See http://www.massport.com/business-with-massport/capital-improvements/resource-center for more details on litigation and legal proceedings history submittal requirements.

As this scope will not cover Construction Documents and Specification writing services, the Authority has opted to waive Provision 44, Chapter 7C of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts requirements.

The submission shall be evaluated on basis of: (1)

current level of experience and knowledge of the team in performing the requested services,

(2)

demonstrated ability to respond in a timely manner,

(3)

geographic location and availability of the Project Manager and other key personnel to be assigned to the project,

(4) experience and knowledge in utilizing BIM to develop conceptual design options, (5) experience is using various visualizations techniques, including animations, to evaluate graphic and design alternatives, (5) M/W/DBE and affirmative action efforts, please indicate the proposed % of M/W/DBE participation, (6) current level of work with the Authority, & past performance for the Authority, if any, and (7)

experience with sustainability and resiliency.

The selection shall involve a two-step process including the shortlisting of a minimum of three firms based on an evaluation of the Statements of Qualifications received in response to this solicitation, followed immediately by a final selection of the consultant(s) by the Authority.

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.

including a 2 page (max.) cover letter, SDO certification letters, covers, dividers, and other required information.

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 May 01 , 2014 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.

The procurement process for these services will proceed according to the following anticipated schedule: EVENT

DATE/TIME

Solicitation: Release Date

March 19, 2014

Deadline for submission of written questions

April 4, 2014 - 4 PM

Official answers published (Estimated)

April 11, 2014 – 4 PM

Solicitation: Close Date / Submission Deadline

May 1, 2014 – 12 PM (Noon)

Times are Eastern Standard Time (US).

Questions may be sent via email to CPBidQuestions@massport.com subject to the deadline for receipt stated in the timetable above. In the subject lines of your email, please reference the MPA Project Name and Number.

Questions and their responses will be posted on 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 Comm-PASS (www.comm-pass.com) in the listings for this project.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Submissions shall be printed on both sides of the sheet (8 1/2” x 11”), no acetate covers. Fifteen (15) copies of a bound document and one PDF version on a disc each limited to:

INVITATION TO BID

(1) an SF 330 including the appropriate number of Part IIs,

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

(2) resumes of key individuals only each limited to one (1) page under SF 330, Section E,

BID NO.

DESCRIPTION

DATE

TIME

WRA-3825

Purchase of Six 12” Eccentric Plug Valves; Egger-Gorman Rupp-Patterson (or Equal)

04/02/14

10:00 a.m.

OP-241

Quabbin Reservoir Spillway Fencing Rehabilitation

04/03/14

2:30 p.m.

(3) no more than ten (10) projects each limited to one (1) page under SF 330, Section F, (4) no more than 3 sheets (6 pages) of information contained under SF 330 Section H addressing the evaluation items (except for the litigation and legal proceedings history), and (5) no more than 2 sheets (4 pages) of other relevant material not

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

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LEGAL NOTICE REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Authority) is soliciting consulting services for MPA CONTRACT NO. L1191-D1, PARKING GARAGES – 2,050 SPACE CONSOLIDATIONS, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. The Authority is seeking a qualified multidiscipline consulting firm or team, with proven experience to provide professional services including planning, architectural and engineering design, and construction related services, including resident inspection relative to THE CONSTRUCTION OF UP TO 2,050 PARKING SPACES AT THE WEST AND TERMINAL B GARAGES. The Consultant must be able to work closely with the Authority and other interested parties in order to provide such services in a timely and effective manner.

The consultant shall demonstrate experience in several disciplines and including but not limited to Architectural, Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Fire Protection, Security, Signage, Vertical Transportation, Parking Circulation, Geotechnical, Landscape Architecture, Code Compliance, Cost Estimating, Construction Phasing, and Scheduling. The consultant shall also have demonstrated experience with Construction Management at Risk, MGL Chapter 149A. The scope of work shall include, but not be limited to the following: (1) Collecting existing information and performing site investigations for two identified locations where the construction is planned.

(2) Performing architectural engineering studies relating to pedestrian pathways and circulation.

(3) Geographic location and availability of the Project Manager, resident inspectors and other key personnel to be assigned to the project, (4) Experience and expertise of subconsultants, including prior working relationships, (5) Demonstrated ability in using BIM for programming, design and construction of all architectural and engineering disciplines. The BIM Manager must have demonstrated experience in developing BIM Execution Plans, and have managed, directed and implemented BIM in projects during the pre-construction and construction phases.

(6) Demonstrated experience in Lean Construction or long-term experience working collaboratively with CMs selected early in the design phase.

(7) Demonstrated ability to perform work with minimal disruption to airport operations,

(9) Demonstrated projects within which high quality exterior finishes have been developed and constructed, (10) Familiarity with MGL Chapter 149A, including filed sub-bid experience, (11) Cost management and scheduling capabilities, (12) M/WBE and affirmative action efforts, please indicate the proposed percentage of M/WBE participation,

(4) Providing architectural engineering studies for modification of existing and new features that allow seamless integration of the new structures into the existing garages, walkways, and adjacent terminals.

(13) Current level of work with the Authority,

(6)

Preparation of preliminary layout plans and cost estimates to assist in development of a program budget.

(7) Development of a BIM Model and management of a BIM xP (BIM Execution Plan) in support of Design and Construction.

(8) Demonstrated experience in Lean Construction or long-term experience working collaboratively with CMs selected early in the design phase.

(9) Preparation of contract drawings in a phased approach to allow for early construction packages as design is developed.

(10) Preparation of final architectural and engineering design plans, specifications, and cost estimates for up to 3 design reviews for each design package.

(11) Preparation of design which have high quality exterior finishes.

(12) Evaluation of electrical, security, and mechanical systems to be incorporated into the design.

(14) Past performance for the Authority, if any, (15) Experience with sustainable and resiliency design concepts, and (16) Project understanding and technical approach to this project.

The selection shall involve a two-step process including the shortlisting of a minimum of three firms based on an evaluation of the Statements of Qualifications received in response to this solicitation, followed immediately by a final selection of the consultant by the Authority. The Authority reserves the right to interview the firms prior to final selection, if deemed appropriate.

A Supplemental Information Package will be available to interested parties beginning Thursday, March 27, 2014, by contacting Susan Brace at 617568-5961 or sbrace@massport.com.

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 exception to this standard agreement is the insurance requirement of $1,000,000 of commercial general liability. The Consultant shall specify in its cover letter that it has the ability to obtain requisite insurance coverage.

Submissions shall be printed on both sides of the sheet (8 1/2” x 11”), no acetate covers. Fifteen (15) copies of a bound document and one PDF version on a disc each limited to:

(13) Preparation of high quality presentation graphics.

(1) an SF 330 including the appropriate number of Part IIs,

(14) Assist in the procurement of a Construction Manager at Risk as per MGL Chapter 149A.

(2) resumes of key individuals only each limited to one (1) page under SF 330, Section E,

(15) Preparation of bid documents for subcontractor and trade work.

(3) no more than ten (10) projects each limited to one (1) page under SF 330, Section F,

(16) Provide support services, field inspection, project controls, and resident engineering during the construction phase.

(17) Manage construction closeout, including commissioning of systems, as-built drawing preparation, and O&M submission review.

(18) Asset management database development.

The project is expected to be studied, designed and implemented using Building Information Model (BIM) software. It is understood that the selected firm will develop a model as part of the scope. All subsidiary models are expected to be interoperable with Autodesk Revit or support robust exchange with Autodesk Revit. The designer will be expected to utilize the BIM in all phases of work and in presentations and reviews. The Consultant will be required to have a BIM/Visual Design and Construction (VDC) Manager for each of the following disciplines: Architectural, MEP, Structural and Civil Engineers as part of the team. Resumes for each manager shall be included in the submission package.

The contract will be work order based, and Consultant’s fee for each work order shall be negotiated; however, the total fee for the contract shall not exceed $7,000,000.

In recognition of the unique nature of the project and the services required to support it, the Authority has scheduled a Consultant Briefing to be held at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 27, 2014 at the Capital Programs Department, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128. At this session, an overview of the project will be provided, the services requested by the Authority will be described, and questions will be answered.

Each submission shall include a Statement of Qualifications that provides detailed information in response to the evaluation criteria set forth below and include Architect/Engineer & Related Services questionnaires SF 330 (www.gsa.gov/portal/forms/download/116486) with the appropriate number of Part IIs. M/WBE Certification of the prime and subconsultants shall be current at the time of submittal and the Consultant shall provide a copy of the M/WBE certification letter from the Supplier Diversity Office, formerly known as State Office of Minority and Women Business Assistance (SOMWBA) within its submittal. The Consultant shall also provide an original and fourteen copies of litigation and legal proceedings information, signed under the pains and penalties of perjury, in a separate sealed envelope entitled “Litigation and Legal Proceedings.” Please follow this link to the Massport Website at: http://www.massport.com/business-with-massport/capital-improvements/ resource-center/ for more information.

In order to be eligible for selection, all aspects of Chapter 7C, Section 44 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall be satisfied including the majority of the firm’s Board of Directors or ownership shall be registered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in accordance with the applicable provisions of the statute. Consultants shall furnish professional registration status of the firm’s board of directors or ownership. All individuals responsible for technical disciplines shall, upon commencement of the project, be registered Architects or Engineers, in that discipline, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The Authority may reject any application if any of the required information is not provided: Cover Letter, Insurance Requirements, Litigation and Legal proceedings, and Registration of the Board of Directors as defined in MGL Chapter 7C Section 44, SF330 Part IIs for the Prime and every sub-consultant.

The submission shall be evaluated on basis of: (1) The background, credentials, management capabilities, and communication skills of the Project manager, (2) Current level of experience and knowledge of the team for similar projects, particularly the Architectural Project Manager,

This bid may be subject to a best and final offer process.

To obtain a copy of the Invitation to Bid and become a registered proposer go to www.transitrealty.com or contact:

Transit Realty Associates, LLC 77 Franklin St. 9th Floor Boston, MA 02110 Attn: Francis DeCoste

Telephone 617-502-1416, Fax 617-482-0210 Email: fdecoste@transitrealty.com

For information on this and other MBTA opportunities visit www.transitrealty.com.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY

(8) Demonstrated ability to produce clear and effective design documents within tight time frames,

(3) Providing high quality architectural renderings of proposed interior and exterior finishes for presentation to the various stakeholders.

(5) Performing field investigations of utilities and existing soils for the purpose of identifying conflicts, and determining foundation types and locations.

Written questions or comments are due:

March 28, 2014 by 5:00 pm

(4) no more than 4 sheets (8 pages) of information contained under SF 330 Section H addressing the evaluation items (except for the litigation and legal proceedings history), and (5) no more than 2 sheets (4 pages) of other relevant material not including a 2 page (max.) cover letter, SDO certification letters, covers, dividers, and other required information.

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, April 24, 2014 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.

The procurement process for these services will proceed according to the following anticipated schedule: EVENT DATE/TIME Solicitation: Release Date

March 20, 2014

Consultant Briefing/ Supplemental Info. Available

March 27, 2014

Deadline for submission of written questions

April 3, 2014

Official answers published (Estimated)

April 11, 2014

Solicitation: Close Date / Submission Deadline

April 24, 2014

Times are Eastern Standard Time (US).

Questions may be sent via email to CPBidQuestions@massport.com subject to the deadline for receipt stated in the timetable above. In the subject lines of your email, please reference the MPA Project Name and Number.

Questions and their responses will be posted on 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 Comm-PASS (www.comm-pass.com) in the listings for this project.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Legal Notice – Invitation to Bid: Sale of MBTA Property, Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, MA Sale of approx. 11.6 acres (land and water) in the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy Minimum Bid Price: None established Bid Due Date: April 16, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.

Pre Bid Meeting: April 3, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at the TRA offices

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. H240-C1, SHAWSHEEN RIVER SECURITY FENCE, L.G. HANSCOM FIELD, BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY APRIL 9, 2014 immediately after which, in a designated room, the proposal will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD IN THE THIRD FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM AT THE CIVIL AIR TERMINAL AT L.G. HANSCOM FIELD IN BEDFORD, MA AT 11:00 AM LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2014.

The work includes INSTALLATION OF APPROXIMATELY 1,500 LINEAR FEET OF 10 FOOT HIGH SECURITY FENCE WITH 5 FOOT BURIED SKIRT. INSTALLATION OF FENCE WILL REQUIRE APPROXIMATELY 0.2 ACRES OF CLEARING AND GRUBBING OF EXISTING VEGETATION. ALL WORK SHALL INCLUDE CAREFUL AND COMPLETE COMPLIANCE WITH ORDERS OF CONDITION FOR THE PROJECT BY THE CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE TOWN OF BEDFORD. Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2014.

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 HUNDRED FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($140,000).

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

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

The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of $5,000,000. Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.

This contract is subject to a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than 0% of the Contract be performed by disadvantaged business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible.

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

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

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

Compliance Reports - Within thirty (30) days of the award of this Contract the Contractor shall file a compliance report (Standard Form [SF 100]) if: (a) The Contractor has not submitted a complete compliance report within twelve (12) months preceding the date of award, and (b) The Contractor is within the definition of “employer” in Paragraph 2c(3) of the instructions included in SF100.

The contractor shall require the subcontractor on any first tier subcontracts, irrespective of the dollar amount, to file SF 100 within thirty (30) days after the award of the subcontracts, if the above two conditions apply. SF 100 will be furnished upon request. SF 100 is normally furnished Contractors annually, based on a mailing list currently maintained by the Joint Reporting Committee. In the event a contractor has not received the form, he may obtain it by writing to the following address:

Joint Reporting Committee 1800 G Street Washington, DC 20506

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

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

22 • Thursday, March 20, 2014 • BAY STATE BANNER Thursday, February 17, 2005 • BAY STATE BANNER • 27

LEGALS

LEGALS

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY

INVITATION TO BID NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS The Massachusetts Resources Authority seeking bids for theTERMINAL following: Sealed General BidsWater for MPA CONTRACT NO. isM414-C1, CONLEY CRANES 5 & 6 REHABILITATION, PAUL W. CONLEY TERMINAL, SOUTH BID NO. MASSACHUSETTS, DESCRIPTION will be received DATE TIME BOSTON, by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S - Logan WRA-2432 Two (2) Chesterton 3/14/05 11:00 a.m.

Office Center, Furnish One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128Mechanical Split Seals 2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on or WEDNESDAY APRIL 9, 2014 immediEqual with Two (2) Enviro ately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read Spiral Trac Seals for North publicly.

Main Pump Station, Deer Treatment Plant NOTE: PRE BIDIsland CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CONLEY TERMINAL (940

E 1ST STREET, SOUTH BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS) ADMINISTRATION SealedBUILDING, bids will be at the offices ROOM of the AT Massachusetts Water 2NDreceived FLOOR CONFERENCE 10:30 A.M. LOCAL Resources Charlestown Yard, Document Distribution Office, TIMEAuthority, ON TUESDAY, MARCH Navy 25, 2014 100 First Avenue, First Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02129, up to the time and date above at which time they will be publiclyHYDRAULIC opened andPOWER read.

The work listed includes DRIVE SYSTEM REHABILITATION,

SYSTEM REHABILITATION, ELECTRICAL HOUSE AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM REHABILITATION, BOOM HOLD-DOWN SECTIONROLLER 00020 SYSTEM REHABILITATION, MAIN TROLLEY CLEAN-UP, INVITATION NEW CRANE STAIRWAY, WALKWAY, TO ACCESS BID HANDRAIL AND LADDER REPAIR, PAINT REPAIR, GANTRY EQUALIZER BEAM BOOM ENERGY TRAY CRACK Sealed CRACK Bids for REPAIR, the construction of the ElmCHAIN Street SUPPORT Sewer Improvements for REPAIR, LIMIT SWITCH ADDITION, HOIST by DRUM COUPLING the TownBRAKE of Blackstone, Massachusetts, will MAIN be received the Department REPLACEMENT, LUBRICATION PIPING REHABILITATION, and TROLLEY of Public Works at the office of the Department of Public Works, 15 St. Paul SHEAVE PART REPLACEMENT. Street, Blackstone, Massachusetts until 10:30 a.m. prevailing time, on March 29, 2005 and at which time and place said bids will be publicly Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY MARCH 19, opened and read aloud.

2014 The scope of work includes furnishing and installing approximately 3,065 linBid in electronic formatsewer may be obtained of charge at furthe ear Documents feet of 8-inch gravity sanitary main with allfree appurtenances; Authority’s Programs Department with any addenda nishing andCapital installing approximately 8,135Office, linear together feet of 10-inch gravity sanor amendments, theappurtenances; Authority may furnishing issue and and a printed copy of the itary sewer main which with all installing approxiProposal form.linear feet of 6-inch PVC gravity sanitary sewer service conmately 4,100 nections and all appurtenances, furnishing and installing approximately 315 The estimated project and cost3,475 for thelinear Base feet Bid only is $4,540,000.

The project linear feet of 4-inch of 6-inch sanitary sewer force includes three (3) Add Alternates with an and estimated value of $219,000. main with all appurtenances, furnishing installing fully functional sanitary sewer pump stations located at the Corrosion Control Facility (CCF), AQuickstream proposal guaranty shall submitted each crossing General Bid of crossing, FirebeStation, and with Mill River withconsisting all appurteanances, bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids standby generator housed within a prefabricated building at are the required, eachand must beRiver accompanied by a deposit equaland to five (5) percent of Quickstream Mill pump stations; furnishing installing bitumithe sub bid amount, in pavement the form of(permanent); a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, nous concrete trench water system reconstruction or a treasurer’s or miscellaneous a cashier’s check issuedimprovements by a responsible or trust (Add Alternate 1); drainage (Addbank Alternate 3); company, to the associated Massachusetts Port Authority the name which furnishing payable and installing manholes, paving, in project wide of maintethe Contract for the work is to be executed.

The bid deposit shall be (a) in nance of traffic and other appurtenances required to complete the Work as aspecified form satisfactory to theDocuments.

Authority, (b) withmust a surety company qualified to in the Contract Work be substantially complete do business the of Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) within 1153 in days the Notice to Proceed.

The estimated cost of the projconditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements ect is $4,500,000.00. contained in the bid.

Bid Security in the form of a BID BOND, CASHIER’S, TREASURER’S, OR CERThe successful Bidderby will be required bank to furnish a performance bond and TIFIED CHECK issued a responsible or trust company is required in athe labor and materials paymentof bond, in an amount to 100% of amount of five percent the each bid price payable equal to the Town of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satBlackstone. isfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paidDocuments on the work as be determined provisions of Chapter 149, Contract may examinedunder at thethe following locations: Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will berequired to pay minimum wages in accordance with the BSC Group, 33 Waldo Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01608 schedules in Division Special Provisions of the Specifications, which F.W.listed Dodge Division,II,McGraw-Hill Information Services Co., Boston, wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and/ Massachusetts or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever Town of Blackstone, Department of Public Works, 15 St. Paul Street is greater.Blackstone, Massachusetts The successful Biddermay will be Bodily locatInjury Contract Documents be required obtainedtoatpurchase the officeand of maintain the BSC Group Liability AutoWorcester, Liability Insurance, and Property Damage Liability ed at 33Insurance, Waldo Street, Massachusetts, 01608, from 9 a.m. to 12 Insurance limitofofa $1,000,000.

Said policy noon and 1for to a4 combined p.m., uponsingle payment deposit of $100.00 in the shall form be of on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional a check payable to the Town of Blackstone. Any unsuccessful bidder or nonInsured.

See returning the insurance of the Division General Requirements and bidder, upon suchsections set within time I,specified in the Instructions Division II, Special for complete to Bidders and in Provisions good condition, will be details. refunded his payment. Contract

Documents will be mailed via USPS to prospective bidders upon request and This contract is subject to a Minority/Women Owned Business receipt of a separate non-refundable check payable to BSC Group,Enterprise Inc. in the participation provision requiring that and not less thanfees.

4.8% of the Contract be amount of $25.00 to cover handling mailing performed by minority and women owned business enterprise contractors.

With respect contractor to this provision, bidders are urged tobond familiarize themselves The selected shall furnish a performance and payment bond thoroughly with theequal Bidding Documents.

Strict compliance withcontract the pertinent in amount at least to one hundred percent (100%) of the price procedures required forGENERAL a bidder CONDITIONS to be deemed responsive and as stipulatedwill in be Section 00700 of these specificaeligible. tions. Anticipated funding for this project will be from the Unite States

This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and Department of Agriculture Utilities Service, Waste and Water Affirmative Action article of (USDA) DivisionRural I, General Requirements and Covenants, Grants andSecretary Loan program.

Special attention for should be paidAction with respect to and to the of Labor’s Requirement Affirmative to Ensure the (U.S.D.A.) requirements for Bids. Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Equal Opportunity and the Standard

Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246).

All bids for this project are subject to applicable bidding laws of Massachusetts, including General Laws Chapter 30, aSection 39M as amendThe General Contractor is required to submit Certification of Non ed.

AttentionFacilities of bidders is particularly to the requirements to conSegregated prior to award ofcalled the Contract, and to notifyasprospecditions of employment to be observed and minimum wage rates to be tive subcontractors of the requirement for such certification wherepaid the under the contract as determined by the Department of Labor and subcontract exceeds $10,000.

Workforce Development under the provisions of the Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 149, Section 26-27D, inclusive, as amended.

Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained

from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port The Bidder The agrees this bid shall be good may notinbe Authority. rightthat is reserved to waive any and informality orwithdrawn reject anyfor or a of thirty (30) working days, Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays allperiod proposals. excluded after the opening of bids.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY The Owner reserves the rightTHOMAS to waive any informality in bids or to reject any P. GLYNN or all bids if deemed in CEO the best interest ofDIRECTOR the Town of Blackstone. & EXECUTIVE

TOWN OF BLACKSTONE, MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department BSC Group, Inc. Boston, Massachusetts SUFFOLK Division Docket No. SU13P0793EA BOSTON WATER AND SEWER COMMISSION Citation onINVITATION Petition forFOR Formal Adjudication BIDS Sharon Louise The Boston Water andEstate SewerofCommission

by Billings its Executive Director invites known as #Sharon L. Billings-Addington sealed bids for Also CONTRACT 04-308-001, WATER MAIN RELAY AND Date of Death: 09/21/2012 SEWER/DRAIN REHABILITATION IN ALLSTON/BRIGHTON, CITY PROPER, HYDE PARK AND JAMAICA PLAIN. Bids must be accompanied by a bid To all interested deposit, certifiedpersons: check, treasurer’s or cashier’s check, or in the form of a bid bond in the amount of 5% OF BID payable to and to become the properA petition has been filed

by Estate Recovery Unit ofisWorcester, MAout. requesting ty of the Commission if the bid, after acceptance, not carried The bid that the is Court a formal Order of testacy for such other deposit to beenter returned only Decree when alland stated conditions of and the Contract docrelief as requested in the Petition.

And also requesting that Algeria Eastman ument are carried out. In addition, a performance bond and also a labor and of Saint Petersburg, FL be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said materials payment bond, each of a surety company qualified to do business estate to on the bond. under theserve lawsWithout of the Surety Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Executive Director, and each in the sum of 100 % OF THE CONTRACT PRICE, must be You have the right obtain a copyinofthe theContract Petition document. from the Petitioner orbe at submitted within thetotime specified Bids must the Court. You haveforms a rightobtained to object from to thisthe proceeding.

To do so, you or your submitted on the Purchasing Manager, Boston attorney fileCommission, a written appearance and Avenue, objection at Floor, this Court before Water andmust Sewer 980 Harrison 3rd Boston, MA 10:00 a.m.

04/10/2014.

This is a hearing date,tobut by 02119, andonmust be submitted in NOT sealed envelopes thea deadline Purchasing which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this Manager clearly marked BIDS FOR CONTRACT # 04-308-001, WATER MAIN proceeding.

If you fail to fileREHABILITATION a timely written IN appearance and objectionCITY folRELAY AND SEWER/DRAIN ALLSTON/BRIGHTON, lowed by an Affidavit Objections thirty of the opened return date, PROPER, HYDE PARK of AND JAMAICAwithin PLAIN. Bids(30) will days be publicly and actionatmay taken further notice to you. read the be office of without the Purchasing Manager on THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2005 AT 10:00 A.M. There will be a non-refundable charge of $25.00 for The estate being administered underout. formal by the to Personal each set of is contract documents taken If theprocedure bidder neglects bid on Representative Massachusetts Uniform of Probate without each and every under item, itthe may lead to the rejection the bid.Code The rate of supervision bymechanics, the Court. Inventory and accounts and are not required to work be filed wages paid to teamsters, chauffeurs, laborers in the to withperformed the Court,under but recipients areshall entitled to notice regarding adminisbe the contract not be less than the ratethe of wages in tration from the Personal by Representative andofcan petition the Court of in any the schedule determined the Commission Labor and Industries the matter relating to the estate, including distribution andofexpenses Commonwealth, a copy of which schedule is annexedoftoassets the form contract of administration. referred to herein. Copies of said schedule may be obtained, without cost, upon application therefore at the office of the Executive Director. Before WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. commencing performance on this contract, the contractor shall provide by Date: March insurance for10, the2014 payment of compensation and the furnishing of all other Patricia Campatelli benefits under Chapter 152 of the General Laws (TheM.Workmen’s Register Probate Compensation Law, so called) to all persons to be employed underofthis contract and shall continue such insurance in full force and effect during the term of this contract. Attention is called to Chapter 370 of the Acts of 1963, of Massachusetts which must be strictlyCommonwealth complied with. No bid for the award of this project will Thethe Trial Court be considered acceptable unless Contractor agrees to comply fully with and Family Court Utilization Department the requirement ofProbate the Minority Employee Requirement as set forth in Article VIII of the Contract and the Utilization of Minority and Women SU14P0515GD SUFFOLK Division Owned Business Enterprises as set forth in Article Docket X of the No. Contract.

Included with the Contract documents are copies of the Bidder’s Certification Citation Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Statement andGiving Weekly Utilization Report.

Each Contractor must complete, Incapacitated Pursuant to G.L. c. Statement.

190B, §5-304 sign and file with his bidPerson the Bidder’s Certification Failure to do

so will result in rejection of the bid. The Weekly Utilization Reports shall be thesection matter8.2 of Joy Daniel submitted in accordance In with (ii) and (iii) of the Contract. Failure Of Roxbury, MA to comply with the Minority Employee Utilization Requirement may result in RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person imposition of the sanctions set forth in section 8.2 (f) and (g) of the Contract.

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LEGALS To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by DMH c/o Office of General Counsel of Westborough, MA in the The Executive Director the right to reject and bids, or any above captioned matter reserves alleging that Joy Daniel is inany need of all a Guardian and item or items the bid, and toperson waive technical which are not ofbe a requesting thatofsome suitable (or some defects other suitable person) substantiveasnature if the should determine that it is in the appointed Guardian to Commissioners serve on the bond. best interest of the Commission to do so.

The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondant is incapaciBy: John F. Flynn tated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, that the proposed Manager Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with thisPurchasing court and may contain a request for certain specific authority.

LEGAL NOTICE You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written at this court on or before 10:00 CITY appearance OF SOMERVILLE A.M. on theOFFICE return OF date of 04/10/2014.

This day isDEVELOPMENT NOT a hearing date, but HOUSING AND COMMUNITY 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, PUBLIC NOTICE action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to written appearance, or your on attorney must file a written Thefiling City the of Somerville is requestingyou comments the City’s One-Year Action affidavit the of specific and of 2006 your objection within 30 Plan for stating the period April 1,facts 2005 to grounds March 31, for the Community days after the Block returnGrant date. Program, the Emergency Shelter Grant Program Development and the HOME Program, which are funded by the U.S. Department of IMPORTANT Housing and Urban Development (HUD). NOTICE This document will be available for public review and comment from Friday, February 11, 2005 to Monday, The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely away the March 14, 2005 at the Mayor’s Office of Strategic Planningtake & Community above-named person’s3rd right to Somerville make decisions about personal or Development (SPCD), Floor, City Hall during normalaffairs business financial affairs or front both. desk The above-named person has theSomerville right to askPublic for a hours and at the of the Main Branch of the lawyer.

Library.Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person.

If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State wishing expense.to submit public comment should send their written comAnyone ments to Meredith Smith, Director of Finance, SPCD by fax 617-625-0722 WITNESS, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, FirstbyJustice of this or email msmith@ci.somerville.ma.us 4:30 p.m. onCourt.

Monday, March 14, Date: 07, 2014 general questions regarding the proposed 2005 One 2005.March Anyone having Patricia M. Campatelli Year Action Plan should contact SPCD at 617-625-6600 x2500.

Register of Probate Joseph A. Curtatone Mayor Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court REOPENING OF Court WAITING LIST Probate and Family Department

Notice is hereby thatSU13P2949EA on March 15 SUFFOLK Division given by the Braintree Housing Authority Docket No. and March 16, 2005 applications will be available for its one (1), two (2) & three (3) bedroom State-aided MRVP housing program and Citation on Petition for project-based Formal Adjudication three (3) bedroom Chapter 705 Family Housing Program. Placement on the waiting list will be assigned by random order (lottery).

Estate of William Semper Date of Death: 09/26/2012 MRVP Eligibility Income Limits 705 Family Housing Eligible Income Limits To all interested persons: Number of Household Members Number of Household Members One (1) $18,620 One (1) $46,300 A petition has been filed by Barry P Wilensky of Needham, MA requesting TwoCourt (2) enter $24,980 Two (2) $52,950 that the a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other Three (3) $31,340 Three (3) $59,550 relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Barry P Wilensky Four (4) $37,700 Four (4) $66,150 of Needham, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate FiveWith (5) Corporate $44,060 Five (5) $71,450 to serve Surety on the bond.

Six (6) $50,420 Six (6) $76,750

You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at Application willhave be available 9:00am 4:00 pm on March 15 you and or March the Court. You a right tofrom object to this– proceeding.

To do so, your 16. Interested persons may apply in and person at 25atRoosevelt attorney must file a written appearance objection this Court Street, before Braintree oron obtain an application mail abyhearing calling (781) 848-1484.

Faxes 10:00 a.m.

04/17/2014.

This by is NOT date, but a deadline by will notyou be must accepted. must beand received or postmarked notolater which file a Applications written appearance objection if you object this than APRIL If19, willwritten not accept applications including proceeding. you2005. fail to The file aBHA timely appearance and objection fol(Emergency Applications) that are hand ordays postmarked after date, April lowed by an Affidavit of Objections withindelivered thirty (30) of the return 19, 2005. lotterywithout will befurther held atnotice 10 amtoon April 27, 2005 in the comaction may The be taken you. munity building at 25 Roosevelt Street, Braintree. The Braintree Housing Authority MRVP family project based waiting list one, two & The estatewill is close beingthe administered under formal procedure byfor the Personal three bedroomsunder and the three (3) bedroom Family Housing Representative the705 Massachusetts Uniform Probate CodeProgram without wait list on March 2005 at 4pm.

EHO supervision by the 16, Court.

Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

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

Date: March 12, 2014 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

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