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Boston schools debut new assignment plan Martin Desmarais

location. All families now have to use the DiscoverBPS website Last weekend, parents visited (www.discoverbps.org) to select public schools, talked to teachers from a list of school that are genand received information to help erated for them based on informathem decide what school is best tion they put in. for them as part of the Boston “The plan really provides opPublic School department’s new portunity for families to have opschool assignment policy. portunities much closer to home The citywide school showcase, than they used to,” Snyder said. “It new to BPS, was the first of five is a completely revamped school such events planned over the next choice system from previous years.” few months.

Snyder said the effort comes For almost 25 years, Boston from Mayor Thomas Menino’s schools have showcased their op- charge to BPS to reduce the distions at one tance many central event students have at which famto travel to ilies and stuschool. Acdents came to cording to BPS see informaestimates, the tion and talk to home-based administrators plan is exand teachers pected to cut from different the average schools — but distance studidn’t actually dents travel to visit the schools school by 40 themselves. percent. The Accordhope is also ing to Denise that it will give — Denise Snyder families access Snyder, BPS senior director to better inforin the Office of mation about Welcome Services, having fam- the schools they are interested in ilies and students visit schools and increase the chances of stuacross the city is more reflective of dents attending school at one of the improved school choice pro- their top choices. gram that is now in place for the The DiscoverBPS website has 2014-2015 school year. something called a “fit bar” that Since 1989, the school depart- is designed to improve the match ment has used a three-zone as- between students and schools, signment system for students to Snyder points out. “They can use enter new schools for kindergar- that tool to not just look at their ten, sixth grade and ninth grade. list but to also read about each Now, BPS has launched what it school,” she said. “They will be is calling a home-based program, able to look at the fit bar and see which eliminates the three-zones how much they are looking for is and focuses on customized lists at an individual school.”

Schools, continued to page 13 for families based on quality and

“Families should definitely call the school and say, ‘I am really interested in your school — how can I get in?’”

Kendra Lara says many Dominicans in Boston are outraged by the republic’s Constitutional Court ruling stripping citizenship from people of Haitian descent. (Yawu Miller photo)

Dominican high court ruling sparks international outrage Yawu Miller A controversial ruling by the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court to strip citizenship from people of Haitian descent born there has sent shockwaves through the Caribbean and in the Dominican and Haitian communities in the United States.

At the root of the court ruling, critics say, is a centuries-long effort by the Dominican ruling class to purge their country of its African history.

“This is an ugly legacy of the Dominican Republic,” says New Yorkbased Dominican historian Luis Alvarez. “The ruling class really believes they are a white people.”

The ruling, handed down Sept.

23, has sparked outrage among Dominicans in the United States and Latin Americans around the world.

Peruvian novelist and onetime presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa penned an op-ed titled, “The Pariahs of the Caribbean,” denouncing the ruling in the Spanish Newspaper El Pais.

Dominican novelist and MIT professor Junot Diaz co-authored a scathing op-ed in the Los Angeles Times describing the Constitutional Court’s ruling as “an absurdity” along with Dominican novelist Julia Alvarez, Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat and U.S. born author Mark Kurlanski.

“Isn’t it time that the world tells the Dominican government that stripping people of their rights based on their ethnic background, setting up part of the citizenry for abuse and establishing an apartheid state is unacceptable?” the op-ed reads.

Members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation joined other lawmakers representing constituencies of Caribbean descent in writing a letter to Dominican President Danilo Medina Sanchez urging him to “take all necessary steps to stay the tide of the denationalization campaign.”

Under the Dominican constitution, anyone born in the Dominican, continued to page 6

Entrepreneurs seek retail opportunities in Ferdinand building Sandra Larson

At a Nov. 6 workshop, BRA Director of Business Development Randi Lathrop (front, in blue) and other city officials talk with entrepreneurs interested in retail space in the new Dudley Square Municipal Building, slated to open in early 2015. (Sandra Larson photo)

The Dudley Municipal Center rising on the long-neglected Ferdinand site is already having a dramatic effect on the Dudley Square skyline. When the building opens in 2015 as the new Boston Public Schools headquarters, a new streetscape will also emerge, as retail and restaurant tenants set up shop in 18,500 square feet of first-floor retail space.

The Boston Redevelopment Authority is about to issue a Re-

quest for Proposals for six retail/ restaurant spaces in the new building. Anyone hoping to hang a shingle on one of the storefronts has until Feb. 3 to prepare a proposal laying out the business concept, preliminary design, proposed rent and financing plan.

Jeanette Boswell of Dorchester runs a cleaning business now, but hopes to open a bakery in the new building. Kristen Belton Willis, a Roxbury artist and art teacher, Ferdinand, continued to page 7

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Community Change celebrates 45 years of anti-racism work

identity was the main conduit for the growing divide between black and white. And the more he became aware of his privilege, the more he began to get involved in race issues. Instead of going into black communities and offering solutions to the issues, he listened, made himself of service by taking notes, made phone calls, marched on the sidelines, and through such humble service Community Change Inc. was established.

That was 45 years ago. Since

of the 54th Regiment to read the speech aloud and reflect on its significance.

This Friday, Community Change will reflect on its 45 yearold history with “Looking Back … Moving Forward,” which will honor anti-racist writer Tim Wise with the Drylongso Leadership Award for Challenging Structural Racism through his unsparing critiques of white American culture.

Kelley Bates, founding executive director of the Elma Lewis

Hundreds of people have benefitted from its workshops, which aim to address and challenge what it calls “The White Problem.”

During the annual communal reading of Frederick Douglass’ speech “What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?” on the Boston Common, hosted by Community Change, elected officials and spectators are encouraged to read a section of the historic speech.

(Photo courtesy of Community Change) Bridgit Brown In 1968, race riots were spreading throughout America like wildfire and President Lyndon B. Johnson, in an effort to get to the root cause of the issue, established The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. The commission, an 11-member committee that included the first African Ameri-

can elected U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, and Roy Wilkins of the national branch of the NAACP, published an unflinching examination of the problem in The Kerner Commission Report, which revealed that the cause of the rioting was structural and institutional racism.

Many disagreed with the report’s assertion that riotous behavior was linked to the bigger

social issues, like the lack of economic opportunities for blacks, but its conclusion, that “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal,” was evident to one person gravely considering back then what he could do to bridge the chasm.

Horace Seldon, white, privileged, and in his mid-40s at the time began noticing how his own

then Community Change has become an effective center of anti-racism activity in Boston through its education programs and organizing work around issues related to systematic racism and racial inequity. Hundreds of people have benefitted from its workshops, which aim to address and challenge what it calls “The White Problem,” or the structure that gives unearned credit to white people at the expense of people of color.

Community Change also organizes, among other things, the annual communal reading of Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?” For the past five years, just before Independence Day, scores of people gather on the Boston Common, near the statue

Center for Civic Engagement, Learning, and Research at Emerson College, and Keith Motley, chancellor of UMass Boston, will also receive the Drylongso Award, which is named after an old African American term meaning “same old” or “everyday.”

Horace Seldon, who celebrates his 90th birthday this week, is still very much the same as he was back in 1968, still active in the struggle. “Looking Back … Looking Forward,” will recognize Seldon for his lifetime’s work of active and effective community change.

“Looking Back … Looking Forward” will take place from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Nov. 22 at the Campus Center Ballroom, located at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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Local entrepreneurs discuss challenges, opportunities

Starbucks,” Cordon said. “We’re trying to take down Dunkin’ Donuts and we want to give the shops to the community. Corporations take money out of the community and don’t pay a living wage.”

The entrepreneurs on the panel shared their success stories and insights into the challenges of operating businesses in Boston.

Darryl Settles, a real estate developer and owner of Darryl’s Corner Bar & Kitchen, a South End restaurant, said black busi-

panies to sell their clothes on PLNDR at steep discounts.

“They say they’d rather burn their stuff than sell it a half price,” he said. “Although they’re saying ‘hell no,’ I hear them saying ‘later.’ You’re a little tougher than most folks. Embrace it. It’s good.”

Selkoe, whose organization hosted the panel discussion, has made it a crusade to change the business climate in Boston. He founded Future Boston Alliance, an advocacy group aimed at making Boston friendlier to

“We have fewer minority-owned businesses than we had 25 years ago.”

— Darryl Settles

Entrepreneurs (l-r) Brian Williams, Seven Cohen, Leandrew Robinson and Darryl Settlers speak on a panel discussion while Future Boston Alliance Executive Director Malia Lazu listens in. (Yawu Miller photo) Yawu Miller Boston has long had a reputation as a city unwelcoming to black professionals, but a new cadre of entrepreneurs is looking to change that. At a panel discussion in the Emerald Lounge in the Theatre District, seven business-owners shared their success stories with an audience of 60 people and painted a picture of a city full of opportunity.

Leandrew Robinson’s first business venture — a restaurant — was not a bricks-and-mortar establishment, but rather an imaginary business of the kind that an eight-year-old boy with free time on his hands would dream up.

“I’ve always wanted to run some type of business,” he said.

As Robinson grew older, his businesses became more real, and profitable as well. He still doesn’t have a bricks-and-mortar business, but in the age of the Internet, that hasn’t stopped him from grossing $50 million in sales with a start-up clothing retail site.

Robinson’s entre into business

began with a T-shirt company he founded while a student at University of California Berkley. His big break came when he met with Greg Selkoe, whose Karmaloop website specializes in the so-called streetwear segment of the clothing market. Selkoe offered him a job running PLNDR, a website that specializes in flash sales — limited-time offers where clothing goes on sale at steep discounts.

“By that time, I was so hungry, I gave it all I had,” Robinson said.

“We grew from a website to me and 35 people.”

Like others on the panel, Daniel Cordon showed entrepreneurial success early in life.

“I was that crazy kid who was subcontracting out my paper route at age eight,” he said.

But his life took an unfortunate turn when in 1995, he was incarcerated. When released, he went to work at Haley House, the Dudley Square restaurant and catering business. He quickly became the catering manager there, helping grow the business to a $350,000 a year operation.

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Now he’s co-owner of the Boston Brewin company, an organic coffee venture he hopes to grow into a regional chain that competes with corporate chains while paying a living wage and keeping profits in the communities they serve.

“We’re trying to take down

ness owners are now more isolated than when he first went into business in the late 1980s.

“We have fewer minority-owned businesses than we had 25 years ago,” he said. “You’re doing great stuff. We need to know you’re here.”

Robinson acknowledges the hindrances that racism puts on black entrepreneurs, but said the experience of creating a business in a hostile environment can hone entrepreneurial skills.

“Racism is an amazing teaching tool for an entrepreneur,” he said. “I’m used to hearing no and taking a different route. In entrepreneurship you’re constantly taking a different route.”

Robinson said he put his obstinance to use in recruiting com-

young adults and the creative class. He made waves last year with a video lampooning outgoing Mayor Thomas Menino for being resistant to change.

“It’s really an effort to bring Boston into the 21st century,” he said. “When I’ve had opportunities to recruit talented black men, a lot of them have said they won’t come to Boston.”

Settles said the changing of the guard in the mayor’s office presents a new opportunity for blacks in business to create a more welcoming atmosphere.

“We have an opportunity with the new mayor,” he said. “He is under a lot of pressure to change the environment. Now, within the next six months is the right time to make that ask.”

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Solomon Northrup’s triumph over adversity The spirit of freedom and independence is common in America. The Declaration of Independence even sanctions revolution against the government in appropriate circumstances.

Yet Americans permitted the development of slavery in their new nation. Perhaps that was because the slaves were aliens and were racially different. Even today, many of the descendants of slavers or those who benefitted from the slave trade are not a bit embarrassed by the immoral conduct of their ancestors even though their misconduct was internationally publicized in the film “12 Years a Slave.”

In the past, the cinematic characterization of slavery often depicted it as merely a woeful inconvenience for the slave. Now, the film “12 Years a Slave” forces the audience to become aware of slavery’s horrid brutality. Those who would try to sanitize history encounter an imposing barrier. The story is based on the personal account of Solomon Northup, a black freeman from Saratoga, N.Y., who was shanghaied into slavery.

The idea of losing one’s freedom to slavery rather than being born into that condition has a great dramatic affect. Instead of slavery merely being incidental to another more important story being told, Northup’s experience of slavery is the primary story. The audience is forced to re-live the indignities and brutality imposed regularly upon other human beings.

In 1865, when slavery was outlawed by the 13th Amendment, sophisticated Americans knew full well that slavery was an economic policy, not a punishment assessed against Africans because they are black. There would have to be other strategies for plantations and factories to obtain the benefit of free or low cost labor. At this point many more people than the cruel plantation owners entered the process of abusing and oppressing blacks.

The sheriff and the judicial system had ma-

jor roles to play. Unemployed freed slaves were arrested for vagrancy then convicted and sentenced for substantial periods of time. Rather than the county paying for their confinement they were leased to plantations and factories at a modest rate. The labor of blacks serving unjust sentences provided a source of county revenue.

The bankers became involved in the strategy. They financed sharecroppers’ contracts that were designed to assure that the property owners thrived while sharecropping farmers struggled for survival. Poor whites also became ensnared in this system.

Although former slaves became citizens of the United States in 1868, there was a coherent effort throughout the Old Confederacy to deny blacks the right to vote and other benefits often afforded citizens. When blacks became too insistent, the problem was often solved with a lynching of the miscreant. While the number will vary with different researchers, it is estimated that between 1880 and 1930, 2,462 African Americans were lynched in the South.

Northup’s book was published in 1853. To young blacks this might seem like ancient history, but there is an important lesson to be learned. A critique of the film could easily focus on the savage brutality of the Euro-Americans.

However, man’s inhumanity to others is an old story. Northup’s tenacity and his extraordinary determination to regain his freedom is the important message.

Northup survived and some of his descendants attended the premier of the film 160 years after the publication of the book. They were proud of their ancestor’s struggle to regain his freedom. He endured such persecution that makes today’s racial discrimination pale by comparison. Today African Americans must never cease the effort to progress and thrive, no matter how many years it takes.

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I am a veteran as are many sisters and brothers that have been military attached and gave time to our country. We each went through our own struggles and internal demons while we gave of ourselves to our country.

Yet when we came home from the war there were no cheers. When we came home from Vietnam they threw trash at us and called us names. When we came home from Desert Storm they ignored our mental health and our trauma. And most recently Iraq Freedom and Enduring Freedom most of us came home to no work, no homes, and searching for mental stability. None of our family, friends, or our neighbors lined the streets to applaud us or shouted praises for our service to them and others November 11 and the month of November should mean more to everyone but it is up to us veterans to show

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OPINION JFK’s civil rights legacy: 50 years of myth and fact Earl Ofari Hutchinson There’s been as much myth as fact regarding John F. Kennedy’s civil rights legacy in the 50 years after his assassination on Nov. 22, 1963. In the days before he delivered his now famed presidential inaugural address on Jan. 20, 1961, two of his principal advisers Louis Martin and Harris Wofford battled hard to get Kennedy to add two words “at home” to a pivotal sentence in his speech that addressed human rights. Kennedy meant the human rights fight that the U.S. waged internationally against communism. The “at home” referred to the battle for civil rights in America. Kennedy reluctantly added the words. That reluctance typified the wariness that Kennedy had in making civil rights a centerpiece of his presidency.

The myth and fact about his civil rights legacy came jarringly together in the quip from his wife and widow Jackie Kennedy on his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, “He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights.” Jackie in the national trauma after his murder understood that Kennedy’s place in history would be even more firmly established if he was seen as the civil rights president, rather than a president who was forced under extreme duress to champion civil rights.

In the decade before he won the White House, Kennedy said almost nothing about civil rights. In 1957, as a senator he voted against the 1957 civil rights bill.

His opposition has been spun two ways; one cynical, one charitable. The cynical spin is he opposed it to appease Southern Democrats because he had an eye on a presidential run in 1960. The charitable spin is that he thought the bill was too weak and ineffectual. Three years later though he ignored the angry shouts from Southern Democrats and lobbied for a forceful civil rights plank in the Democratic Party’s 1960 platform.

During the presidential campaign he publicly pledged to end segregation in federally subsidized public housing “with the stroke of a pen.” Despite a mass campaign for him to keep his promise, he foot dragged for months in signing the order. This was not hypocrisy, or racial faint heartedness. There was a brutal political calculus at work. In 1961, Southern Democrats, all staunch segregationists, had an iron grip on the If Kennedy had lived House. They held 11 of 19 commit- would he have fought tee chairmanships and in the Senate hard for passage of two-thirds of its standing committees. the 1964 landmark Kennedy did not have anything near a civil rights bill, or governing mandate to prod, cajole and arm twist Southern racial obstruction- been stonewalled by ists in Congress following his nail bite, his party’s racists, squeaky 1960 presidential election win and forced to accept a over Richard Nixon. watered down bill?

But if he had would he? The answer is probably a qualified no. His expertise, passion, and focus then were on foreign policy, more particularly, trying to contain, if not best, the Soviet Union on everything from the nuclear arms race to influence in emerging Third World nations.

The bloody desegregation clashes at the University of Mississippi and the bloody assaults on freedom riders in Alabama, however, could not be ignored. But even here there was a hard political calculus that struggled side by side with the moral calculus. African-American voters made a major difference in his narrow election win over Nixon, aided in large part by a massive black voter shift to him in direct response to his famed phone call to Dr. Martin Luther King’s family following King’s jailing in Georgia for contempt of court stemming from a civil rights protest. Kennedy had a keen eye on the black vote and its potential to be a crucial factor in future national elections. That included his almost certain reelection bid in 1964.

The tipping point was the spectacle of women and children beaten, hosed, and gassed by brutal white cops in Birmingham in 1963. The barbarous scenes were beamed globally, that and the eloquent heart wrenching letter and appeal by Dr. King from his Birmingham jail cell propelled Kennedy to do what he had long been urged to do and deliver the definitive statement on civil rights. He did on June 11, 1963. He piggybacked on the words and sentiments King expressed in his letter about rights, justice, inequality, and the moral and political shame and disgrace to the nation of racial bigotry. King and civil rights leaders applauded Kennedy’s words. But King also saw more political pragmatism than moral outrage in it. He quipped that he was “battling for the minds and the hearts of men in Asia and Africa.” This was probably true. Yet the equal truth was that it didn’t much matter whether Kennedy was motivated by pragmatism or idealism, crisis or conscience, he had spoken, and this marked the major turning point for the nation on civil rights.

If Kennedy had lived would he have fought hard for passage of the 1964 landmark civil rights bill, or been stonewalled by his party’s racists, and forced to accept a watered down bill? An assassin’s bullet insured that that question will remain forever unanswered. Fifty years after that horrific November day in Dallas, Kennedy’s civil rights legacy is an enduring and deserved fact, despite the many myths surrounding it.

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To what extent do you think the history of slavery still affects African Americans?

It’s probably cultural. Our family structures aren’t what they should be. And financially, we don’t have as much as other groups do.

I don’t think it affects us at all.

The institutionalized way we are in poverty with poor schools and subsidized housing that affects us.

It affects everything we do. It’s part of the history of our people. People act like our history started with slavery, like we didn’t exist before.

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Kareem Emenike

It affects us in many ways. It’s very broad — our lifestyle choices, jobs, our health, the food we eat – it’s all the effects of slavery.

I don’t think there’s an effect. Slavery was abolished. There is a class divide in our society.

Black people are being moved out of our community. Things never change. It’s still like it was during slavery.

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Dr. S. Allen Counter On Oct. 26, noted Harvard neurology professor and director of the Harvard Foundation, Dr. S. Allen Counter was presented with the 2013 Lowell Thomas Award from the Explorers Club of New York at a ceremony in the National Geographic Auditorium in Washington, D.C. Dr. Counter, who was elected to membership in the Explorers Club in 1989, was honored for his extraordinary scientific exploration among mercury-exposed Saraguro Indian gold miners in the caves of the Andes Mountains of Ecuador; his discovery of, and subsequent medical science research on severely lead-poisoned Andean children in the Ecuadorian Mountains; and most notably, his discovery in Northwest Greenland of the abandoned Inuit sons of North Pole explorers Admiral Robert Peary and Matthew Henson in 1986, and his subsequent re-interment of Henson among other American heroes in Arlington National Cemetery in 1988.

Dr. Counter has served Harvard University with distinction as an extensively published neuroscience professor, international emissary, and as director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations for over 30 years, where he has sustained harmonious relations among Harvard’s students

and faculty of different cultural and religions backgrounds. He currently serves as adjunct professor of neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and as Consul General of Sweden in Boston and New England. In 2012, he was knighted by Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden.

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Dominican continued from page 1

Dominican Republic is automatically a citizen. The Constitutional Court’s ruling would revoke citizenship to anyone born after 1929 to Haitian parents. The ruling — which could

render as many as 250,000 people stateless — is the latest development in the Dominican Republic’s longstanding campaign against people of Haitian descent, a history many trace back to Haiti’s 1822 annexation of the country.

Over the last two centuries, Haitians have travelled back and

fourth across the border with the Dominican Republic in search of labor on Dominican plantations.

In 1937, in what was widely seen as the most violent display of anti-Haitian racism in the country’s history, Dominican dictator Raphael Trujillo ordered the massacre of Haitian migrant workers, giving orders that resulted in the

(l-r) Anuradha Koirala Founder and executive director of Maiti Nepal makes a point in conversation with Jackie Jenkins-Scott president of Wheelock College and Gerald Chertavian founder and CEO of Year Up at the conclusion of Wheelock’s 4th Annual Passion for Action Leadership Award Dinner held at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. Koirala and Chertavian received the 2013 Passion for Action Leadership Award for their work in stopping sex trafficking and for closing the opportunity divide for thousands of young adults across the United States. (Don West photo)

slaughter of an estimated 20,000 people.

Trujillo’s successor, Joachin Balaguer promoted his own brand of “antihaitianismo,” railing against not only Haitians, but all people of discernible African descent, famously arguing against interracial marriage in one of his many books.

In the late ‘90s, the Dominican Republic seemed poised to enter a more enlightened era of race relations. After Balaguer stepped down under pressure from the international community in 1996, President Leonel Fernandez and his Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (Dominican Liberation Party) brought the country into the 21st century.

But while that party began as a socialist party, it has morphed into a more conservative party that is now advancing the interests of the racist ruling class, according to Luis Alvarez.

“They’ve become more conservative and more corrupt,” he says. “And they’ve tried to use race as some kind of nationalist campaign.”

In his book “Race and Politics in the Dominican Republic,” University of Colorado Ethnic Studies Professor Ernesto Salas argues that antihaitianismo serves the interests of the nation’s wealthy elite.

“From its origins as Hispanic racism, to its transformation into anti-Haitian nationalism, to its culmination as Trujillo’s state ideology, antihaitianismo has had one objective: the protection of powerful elite interests through the subjugation of the lower (and darker) sectors of the Dominican population,” he writes. “Antihaitianismo serves elite interests well

and has even been accepted by the great majority of the Dominican people as part of their political culture, thereby institutionalizing and giving it the moral legitimacy that it lacks.”

Jean Ford Figaro, a health education coordinator at Boston Medical Center, attended medical school and practiced medicine in the Dominican Republic from 1998 through 2006 and says he encountered racism at all levels of Dominican society.

“You would find it in people who had money and in people

“Most of them think the court ruling is not good for the country.”

— Jean Ford Figaro who hadn’t even gone to school who think they are better than you,” he said. “I was a doctor, and still I feel as rejected. Now the level of hostility is even greater than when I was there.”

Figaro, who works with many in the Haitian and Dominican community in Boston, says that same racism is largely absent from the local community.

“Most of them think the court ruling is not good for the country,” he said.

On social media, Dominicans in the United States have been highly critical of the Constitutional Court, viewing the ruling as an embarrassment, says Kendra Lara, a Dorchester resident who lived in the Dominican Republic until she was 12.

“Naturally your politics are going to change when you’re the marginalized demographic,” she says. “When you come here, you’re a person of color. You’re part of the same marginalized group as everyone else in your community.”

While Lara comes from what she describes as an Afro-Dominican family, some of her lightskinned second cousins in the Dominican Republic opined in favor of the court ruling on Facebook, arguing that Haitians are taking Dominicans’ jobs.

“It’s the same rhetoric you hear about immigration in the U.S.,” Lara says.

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would like to run some carts or kiosks in or around the building to sell the multicultural rag dolls she makes.

Both were at a recent cityhosted workshop held Nov. 6 at the Area B-2 Police Station in Dudley Square to educate interested people about the Request for Proposal process and potential sources of business assistance and financing.

Hair stylist Kyra Hunter met virgin hair company owner Rená Graham at the city’s earlier workshop in October, and the two are now considering a subdivided space for their compatible businesses. They returned on Nov. 6 to soak up more information.

Some 80 people from Boston neighborhoods and beyond attended the two retail workshops.

Project consultant Chris

in start-up expenses of building out, decorating and furnishing their space.

Since the massive public project was announced in 2011, city officials and residents have expressed hope the building would bring added economic activity to Dudley Square and create a lively atmosphere extending into the evening hours. A 2012 retail survey of 1,300 respondents confirmed that local residents want social gathering places, from a sit-down restaurant to sports bar, bowling alley, ice cream shop or cafe with seating and Internet access. Other desired businesses included dry cleaner, clothing outlet store, bookstore and gym or yoga studio.

The city isn’t ruling out national chain stores, Gordon said, but officials have been “very clear” that they do not want the building to be “full of chain stores.”

On the other hand, those are the businesses most likely to be able

“We’d love to see some key tenants that are local businesses, minority businesses — that would be great.”

— Chris Gordon Gordon presented information on the available space and the RFP process.

A large “anchor” space lies in the iconic point of the old Ferdinand Building, with windows facing Warren and Washington Streets. “It’s a big space, it’s got great visibility,” Gordon said. At 7,800 square feet, officials said a sit-down restaurant could hold 200–250 people.

Smaller spaces range from 1,800 to 2,300 square feet and could possibly be combined or subdivided. Some will connect to the building’s interior lobby area as well as to the street. Gordon mentioned as example uses bakery, newsstand, hair salon, dry cleaner, or another cafe or restaurant.

Submitted proposals must indicate the amount of rent the applicant is willing to pay, Gordon said, though the selection committee will not automatically favor the highest bidders; other factors will be taken into account.

Besides some evidence of a viable financial plan, selection criteria include whether the business fits the mix the community has asked for, is likely to succeed, and is not incompatible with a public building (for instance, no strip joints or liquor stores). Submitted proposals should also include prior business experience and track record.

“Don’t be worried if you’ve never done this before,” said Gordon. “Just tell us what experience you do bring to the table and why you think you can do this.”

No one can say yet exactly what the going rent will be. As a rule of thumb, Gordon said recent market rent estimates indicate $20 per square foot annually, which amounts to a monthly rent of $3,000 for an 1,800-squarefoot store. He reminded business hopefuls that they need to factor

to survive the start-up process and succeed.

“We’d love to see some key tenants that are local businesses, minority businesses — that would be great — and maybe there will be some nationals sprinkled in,” he said. “What it won’t be is 100 percent nationals that push the locals out.”

The Request for Proposal (RFP) should be available on Dec. 3 for pickup at the city’s Property and Construction Management office at 26 Court Street.

Randi Lathrop, the BRA’s director of business development, said a bidders conference Dec. 12 will provide an opportunity for people to ask questions after they’ve looked at the RFP. Tours will be offered, giving those who hope to operate a business in the heart of Dudley Square a glimpse of the new space from the inside.

For more information on location and time for RFP pickup and bidders conference, check for updates on the project website, www. dudleyvision.org. For more information on small business and loan assistance, contact the Department of Neighborhood Development’s Office of Business Development at 617-635-0293 or view a list of resources at www.cityofboston.gov/dnd/obd.

A number of small business advisory and loan assistance organizations were on hand at the workshops to talk with attendees about preparing a strong proposal and securing the necessary capital.

On her way out Jeanette Boswell, the would-be bakery owner, said the workshop made her more hopeful about her prospects. “I had no idea there would be all these people to help with loans,” she said, clutching an armload of brochures and business cards.

“Now I have to get busy.”

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Construction on the Ferdinand building, which will house the city’s school department, is slated to be completed in 2014. Entrepreneurs seeking to lease retail space on the building’s street level have until February 2 to submit bids. (Sandra Larson photo)

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Immigration policies raise Latino prison population Julianne Hing Deportation is clearly not punishment enough for the Obama administration. Not only has President Obama deported more people in his tenure than in any of his predecessors, his administration is responsible for the most aggressive spike in

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Where once people who were caught trying to enter the country without papers were allowed to opt for voluntary removal and kicked back across the border, today the federal government is choosing to file charges against people and incarcerate people before deporting them. It’s a profound enough change in policy that it’s changing the demographics of incarceration rates.

In the first nine months of the year Latinos were 50.3 percent of all those who were sentenced to federal prison for felony convictions.

Blacks made up 19.7 percent and whites 26.4 percent. Latinos are just 16 percent of the general population though, according to the Census.

This is the first year that Latinos have become the majority of those sent to prison for federal felonies.

The aggressive prosecutions are driven by a failed political strategy, immigration experts say. The Obama administration has stepped up its enforcement efforts with the hopes of encouraging a recalcitrant Congress to take up comprehensive immigration reform.

“They seem to be trying to look tougher and tougher on enforcement as a down payment on immi-

gration reform in the future,” said Walter Ewing, senior researcher at the Immigration Policy Center.

“It’s a losing strategy because it’s never going to be enough for them,” Ewing said, referring to members of Congress who demand that the border be “secured” before the country consider a legalization program for the estimated 11 million undocumented people already in the country.

The Department of Justice did not respond to calls for comment.

Today illegal reentry, that is, the crime of entering the country after having already been barred, is the number one lead charge that federal prosecutors bring, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. For the first six months of the 2011 fiscal year, the federal government pursued 18,552 new prosecutions for illegal reentry, a rate that’s 3.5 percent higher than the last fiscal year.

Already between 2002 and 2008, prosecutions for first-time illegal entry in district courts that line the border increased 330 percent, due in large part to Operation Streamline, a Bush-era program that mandated that anyone caught crossing the border illegally be prosecuted in federal court, and incarcerated.

The upward trend continues even though the number of people who are being caught at the border is on the decline, Ewing said. “The numbers of prosecutions keeps going up because fewer and fewer of the people who are caught are allowed to voluntarily return.”

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These prosecutions have had a real impact on immigrant communities.

Jay Stansell, an assistant federal public defender in Seattle, said many of his clients and those who are being prosecuted for illegal reentry are only trying to provide for their families and be good parents.

Stansell laid out a common scenario where a father, for instance, was initially deported when he lost his job and turned to some quick cash that resulted in a drug conviction, but returned to the country because his wife couldn’t raise their kids on her own.

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But the romantic romp revolving around a sophisticated set of college grads was actually entertaining enough to stand on its own, and was even well-enough received to land a trio of NAACP Image Awards, including Best Picture.

Set 15 years later, “The Best Man Holiday” is an eagerly-anticipated sequel reuniting the principal ensemble for a mix of reminiscing, rivalry and sobering reality unfolding during a very eventful Christmas season. Written and directed by Malcolm Lee (“Undercover Brother”) the film features Morris Chestnut, Nia Long, Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Taye Diggs, Harold Perrineau, Regina Hall, Melissa De Sousa and Monica Calhoun reprising the roles they played in the first film.

At the start of the film, we find the gang gathering at the sprawling mansion of Lance Sullivan (Chestnut), an NFL running back on the brink of retirement after a recording-breaking career

with the New York Giants. The God-fearing family man is relishing the prospect of spending more quality time with his wife, Mia (Calhoun), and their children.

Author Harper Stewart (Diggs), the best man at their wedding, had stirred-up considerable controversy in the original by writing a thinly-veiled account of his buddies’ sexual exploits. This time around, he lands back in trouble when plans to publish a biography of host Lance come to light.

Furthermore, despite the fact that his wife, Robin (Lathan), is 9-months pregnant, Harper feels pangs of passion at first sight of his gorgeous ex-girlfriend, Jordan (Long). So, when her handsome beau (Eddie Cibrian) excuses himself to spend Christmas with his parents, it’s just a matter of time before flirting leaves Harper in the dog house with Robin, too.

Meanwhile, nerdy Julian (Perrineau), who tied the knot with the stripper (Hall) he fell for way back at Lance’s bachelor party, is currently worried that an old Youtube video of his scantily-clad spouse might surface, now that he’s made an honest woman of her. Hard to ignore is Julian’s flamboyant ex-girlfriend, Shelby (De Sousa), a drama-loving reality-TV star.

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ish Quentin (Howard), a one-man Greek chorus again supplying intermittent comic relief.

The multi-plotted storyline proves thoroughly absorbing for the duration, feverishly alternating between fond reflections and fresh crises.

By viewing’s end, all the loose ends are satisfactorily resolved, allowing for a memorable, if bittersweet sendoff, as well as a transparent setup of the franchise’s next installment. Let’s just hope it doesn’t take Malcolm Lee 15 years to shoot another sequel!

“The Best Man Holiday” reunites the cast of the popular movie “The Best Man” for a sequel set 15 years later. The current cast includes: Regina Hall, Harold Perrineau, Sanaa Lathan, Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Terrence Howard, Melissa De Sousa, Monica Calhoun and Morris Chestnut. (Photos courtesy of Universal Pictures)

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Wayne Shorter has been a force in jazz for over 50 years playing with legends such as Miles Davis and launching the influential fusion band Weather Report. He will play in Boston at Boston Symphony Hall on Nov. 24. (Photo courtesy of Wayne Shorter) Kevin C. Peterson Wayne Shorter has being playing jazz for a long time.

At 80, the seasoned saxophonist and prolific composer is as active as ever, currently working his way through an exhaustive world tour that celebrates his life and the re-

markable contributions he has made in bending the genre into different variations of itself — spanning from hard bop and free jazz to fusion, funk, rock and modal improvisation.

Shorter’s tour stops in Boston on Nov. 24 at 5 p.m. for a single performance as part of Boston

Symphony Hall’s Celebrity Series where he will be joined in concert by renown jazz luminaries Joe Lavano, Geri Allen, Terri Lyne Carrington and Berklee’s Esperanza Spalding.

To say that Shorter’s influence on jazz over the last 54 years has been significant is an understatement.

Over decades, the Newark, N.J., native has been credited for infusing vitalizing influences into how the music is performed and determining its composition, always stretching the boundaries of traditional jazz form with new musical ideas and dynamic arrangements that often shocked his audiences, but propelled them toward previously undiscovered tonal horizons.

A committed iconoclast, Shorter, the winner of 12 Grammy Awards, persistently embraces innovation as a means of defining the outer perimeters of a music that has, from its inception, been a uniquely American idiom.

Unlike master improvisers and composers before him — including Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Dexter Gordon — Shorter’s body of work features a routine reach beyond the safe and cloistered barriers of the status quo toward unexplored musical territory. For him, jazz is a narrative upon which the artist is demanded to ever build upon, giving it more expansive depth and meaning.

Shorter’s love of jazz began during his mid-teen years, after he had been given a saxophone by his father. During high school he played with The Jazz Informers at local parties, graduations and community events. After earning a degree in music at New York University, he was welcomed in to the Manhattan jazz community. After a stint in the U.S. Army, he joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, serving as that band’s musical director, composing many of the standards in the band’s music book.

In 1965 he joined the Miles

Davis Quintet, replacing John Coltrane, and joining future legends, drummer Tony Williams, pianist Herbie Hancock and bassist Ron Carter.

As Davis’ principle tenor saxophonist and music director, Shorter produced groundbreaking arrangements and scored compositions that shifted the jazz sound from the pedestrian precincts of formal blues-based tonal signatures to new rhythmic choices and improvisation that traveled beyond known musical boarders. From these ripe years with Davis rose such classics as “Footprints,” “Nefferti” and “Santurary,” all reflecting Shorter’s irreverent style and future-oriented aesthetic flavor.

Upon his departure from the Davis band, Shorter was pushing the quintet toward fusion, funk and rock — sensibilities he had a heavy hand in creating.

Shorter soon founded the iconic band, Weather Report, where he continued blurring the traditional jazz identity by combing the particulars of free jazz, modern European classical music and hard bop. The emblematic “Non-Stop Home,” typifies this sound, establishing funk jazz fusion in the 1970s as a distinct style of its own and furthering the chasm between the traditional modern jazz genre created after World War II and during the civil rights movement.

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India.Arie living her truth with new music Back in the public eye after a four-year, self-imposed hiatus, India.Arie — known for the empowering songs “Brown Skin,” “Video” and “I Am Not My Hair” — has given us a glimpse into her journey of self-discovery through her latest project “SongVersation.”

The album, released this past June on her label imprint Soulbird, reunites Arie with longtime writing partner/co-producer Shannon Sanders. The themes of hope, love, faith and empowerment are woven into the upbeat songs “Just Do You” and “Nothing That I Love More” to the midtempo tracks “Moved by You” and “Cocoa Butter” to the gentle and heartfelt “Broken Shell.”

The past four years were a period of reflection, healing and personal growth for the multiGrammy Award-winner, who had all but retired from the music industry in 2009. It was only after escaping to Hawaii for refuge that India.Arie began the journey to figure out what she truly wanted for her life and career.

During that period of self-reflection, she began working on the album “Open Door” but after three years, the project ended up being shelved. Arie says, “I was confronted by the same questions: Who are you? How are you shaping the big picture of your life?”

Exhausted from writing and recording “Open Door,” the singer and songwriter didn’t feel like doing another album. However, instead of waiting another three years, she took a day to pray and three days

later began working on “SongVersation.” Seven months after that the album was completed.

The album which was produced

by Arie has garnered good reviews among critics but most importantly, it is her fans that have opened their arms and embraced her and her songs back onto the music scene.

Her tour, the “Soulbird Presents: A SongVersation with India.Arie,” kicked off in Seattle on Sept. 21 and wraps up in Boston on Nov. 24 at The Wilbur Theatre.

Recently, she spoke to the Banner about her album and living her truth.

You’ve been very open about your struggles in the music industry and wanting to speak your truth and being your authentic self. What have you learned during your hiatus the last four years?

The most important lesson is speaking my truth, actually living my truth. In the way that I didn’t before, it made me physically ill.

When I was touring, I was ill. Touring was always the hardest part.

Now, I ask for what I want and I get it. And, it’s really, really fun.

How has that change manifested itself in your new album “SongVersation?”

It’s in the music itself and in the product itself.

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India.Arie continued from page 11

In your interview with Oprah on “SuperSoul Sunday” you talked about your journey to Hawaii and the volcano that you climbed there, and that you felt a sense of calmness. You also said

“that you were planted with a seed of trust.” What does that mean to you?

I have never found the words to capture how profound I felt on that day. I knew it was going to be okay. I never fear that I’m going to get stuck somewhere. Like going to Hawaii and crying over there. I trust that everything is going to be okay. I left knowing that moment was different, that something was

planted in me.

Your music often brings light on self-love and selfacceptance. Why is that so important to you?

All the songs are about myself and they are the truth. I’m always in the process of figuring that out, that there’s always something there. My first biggest song “Video” was about self-acceptance.

I had no idea that the song would resonate with people so much.

On the poignant song “Break the Shell” you sing “Child, it’s time to break the shell/Life’s gonna hurt but it’s meant to be felt/ You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself/You cannot fly until you break the shell.”

What were you thinking of when you wrote this song?

I wrote the song after a con-

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What’s good is watching how the music is a part of people’s life — the manifestation of seeing them singing all the words to all of my songs. It’s such a palpable feeling.

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For several decades Boston Public Schools has showcased its schools at a central event each year for parents and students in grades that will be picking a new school for the following year. This year, BPS is holding events at individual schools so families can visit the actual schools they are interested in. (Photo courtesy of Boston Public Schools)

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While school officials have high hopes for the redesigned website and the requirement that all students register through it, Snyder emphasized the most important thing is for parents to visit schools.

“Families have the opportunity to get to know a little bit about schools from the website and they should take that list and go out and

visit. We really, really need families to visit schools,” Snyder said. “You can’t [get to know a school] by sitting at home reading your computer or a piece of paper.”

The school showcase event this past weekend focused on K-8 schools. Because all high schools are still citywide options for students, BPS will continue to have a showcase for all the high schools at one location on one day. This year, that event will be at Madison Park High School on Dec. 5 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. As in past years,

principals, teachers and other staff members will be in attendance at this event to answer questions and discuss what the different high schools offer.

However, there will also be four school preview days for all grades K-12 that will allow families to visit a BPS school and meet school teachers and staff. These will be on Dec. 3 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Dec. 11 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.; Dec. 19 from 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and Jan. 7 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

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MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. AP1402-C1, FY 2014-16 NONAIRSIDE PAVEMENT REPAIRS - TERM CONTRACT, MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY FACILITIES, BOSTON AND BEDFORD, MA, 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, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2013 immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

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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 NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($900,000.00).

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to the Internet may fall behind in the school choice process or that others may not be able to keep up with all that is involved.

“It is an awful lot of information to digest, especially for families that are hearing this for the first time,” Janey said.

She also said BPS needs to do a better job of letting families know just how important it is to register their students in January and not wait till later in the year.

BPS first opens registration for those grades picking new schools in January and does the school assignment in a lottery process through several rounds all the way through the start of the next school year in August and September.

“When the assignments are made and if you don’t get into that first round it is going to be very difficult to get that school of your choice,” Janey said.

Snyder agrees and says they tell all those interested in BPS schools, even if they are looking at other options, to register early in January for transition grades kindergarten, sixth and ninth and then in February for all other grades.

“Generally we will see half to two-thirds of the people registering for schools during that time,” she said. “The reality is only the seats that are left over are available for families.

“It is very, very hard for families that come in May or August or September,” she added. “We hope that BPS is one of the viable options they are considering for their children’s education but even if they think of us as a backup they should still register for us in January.”

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And if families can’t make these events, Snyder says they can always arrange to visit a school on their own.

“Families should definitely call the school and say, ‘I am really interested in your school — how can I get in?’” She added.

“Schools will make opportunities for families.”

Kim Janey, senior director at Massachusetts Advocate for Children, supports BPS efforts to improve the school assignment process. She said that the process has historically been very confusing for families and that the new school choice program may not entirely fix that but certainly shows BPS is working hard to improve the process and get more information out to parents so they can make informed decisions for their children’s schooling.

“I think the school preview day is a good change,” Janey said. “It is very important for families to be in the school and get a feel for it.”

Janey also highly recommends visiting the school at another time — as BPS’ Snyder suggested as well — when the school is in action and students and teachers are present.

While the new school choice program promises to reduce the distance students have to travel to school, which Janey believes is a good thing, she also pointed out that focusing on school proximity could be a challenge for students that have special needs for education and might not find a school that can serve them without looking citywide.

She also worries that families who don’t have easy access

To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Michael Lopez requesting that Michael Lopez be allowed to change his name as follows: Micahel Arias IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 12/05/2013.

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

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To all interested persons:

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A petition has been filed by John A. Hill of Brockton, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that John A. Hill of Brockton, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

A petition has been filed by Robin Milton of Stoughton MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Robin Milton of Stoughton MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

A petition has been filed by Jacqueline Ivey of Roxbury MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Jacqueline Ivey of Roxbury MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 12/05/2013. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 11/29/2013. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 12/05/2013. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

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

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

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

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Date: November 01, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

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

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Date: November 05, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

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AN INFORMATION SESSION WILL BE HELD AT 464 TREMONT STREET BOSTON MA (Castle Square Apartments Community Room) ON: WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2013 6PM-8PM Applications will be available by mail November 18, 2013-November 29, 2013 (during the above hours) Application Deadline: To be included in lottery all completed applications must be received In person by Friday, December 6, 2013 at 4PM OR Postmarked by Friday, December 6, 2013.

SELECTION BY LOTTERY Three units have a preference for disabled households requiring wheelchair accessibility.

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Wingate Senior Living at Needham 235 Gould St, Needham, MA 1BRs @ $1,178 (for 1 person households) 1BRs @ $1,347 (for 2 person households) Rent shown includes all utilities and all on-site parking.

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Wingate Senior Living at Needham is a 91 unit senior living facility. Two of the independent living units will be made available through this application process and rented to households with incomes at or below 80% of the Area Median Income.

The maximum allowable income limits are: $47,150 (1 person household) $53,900 (2 person household) Pets welcome, subject to applicable rules and regulations, breed restrictions apply.

Completed Applications and Required Income Documentation must be delivered, not postmarked, by 2 pm on January 2, 2014.

The Needham Public Library Community Room, 1139 Highland Avenue, Needham, MA, will be the location for a public Info Session on December 9, 2013 at 6 pm and Needham Town Hall will be the location for the Lottery on January 17, 2014.

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