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Boston Public Schools has mandated that students in all grades from kindergarten to eighth have recess. The city is working with organizations, including Playworks, that help make recess time effective and organized. Above: Students at The Manning School in Jamaica Plain have been working with Playworks to improve their recess. (Photos courtesy of Playworks)

Recess now mandatory for boston public schools Martin Desmarais The city’s school department is getting serious about playing, this year requiring that all Boston schools, kindergarten through eighth grade, have recess.

The move is the result of efforts in recent years to buck what had become a trend where schools were cutting back on recess time for students.

“For the last four or five years now Boston Public Schools has been focused on improving the health and wellness of the students,” said BPS Health and Wellness Director Jill Carter. “We are really trying to connect the importance of health and learning — healthy students are better learners.”

Last summer, BPS released a system-wide health and wellness policy that covered everything from recess to physical education to in-class activity to food to staff education on health and wellness.

Carter calls the policy “one of the most substantial in the country” and says that BPS has a district wellness council for different sections of the city, and that every school now has its own wellness council. The job of these councils is to create specific health and wellness plans for each school.

According to Carter, the move to require recess is a critical step toward increasing the health and wellness of students, but BPS is also working on improving the physical education component of

schools as well.

She said, as it stands, there are very few elementary schools that don’t have physical education.

“More than 90 percent have physical education,” she Carter said. “We do have a large number of elementary schools that don’t have gymnasiums, which makes it hard.”

The BPS recess requirement has no minimum time for recess, but there is a national education policy recommendation for physical activity that says students should get 60 minutes a day of physical activity, with at least 30 minutes in school. The target for physical education is 45 minutes, but the recommendation is for 80 minutes.

Recess, continued to page 6

At the end of a day of brainstorming, the ideas came down like snowflakes in a nor’ easter — more transparency in the school department, affordable housing on cityowned land, recycling in city parks, higher payments in lieu of taxes for universities and hospitals.

Would the Walsh administration deign to take control of the St. Patrick’s Day parade? How about removing the tax-free status the Boston Redevelopment Authority has granted to downtown multi-million dollar office towers?

The ideas shared at Mayor-elect Marty Walsh’s town hall meeting at Roxbury Community College on Tuesday ranged from practical to cosmic, giving his transition team members much to consider as they chart the course for the first new mayor the city has seen in 20 years.

Nearly 1,000 people turned out for the day-long event, during which attendees split into working groups to flesh out ideas for the new administration.

During the report-back, concerns about gentrification, displacement and the high cost of living in Boston played a prominent role.

“There are huge segments of the population that are not being served by the economy,” said Ed Glaeser, director of Harvard Unversity’s Rappaport Institute, which

helped facilitate the meeting.

Glaeser ran an economic development break-out session in which participants discussed mandating greater community representation on the Boston Redevelopment Authority, implementing universal child care in Boston and increasing the payment-in-lieuof-tax hospitals, universities and other large nonprofits voluntarily make to the city to partially offset the cost of providing them city services.

In the housing break-out session, Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations Executive Director Joe Kriesberg said the short supply of affordable housing options in Boston was an overarching theme, with many voicing concerns about gentrification and displacement.

“There was a tremendous amount of comment that as neighborhoods improve, people want to be able to stay,” he said.

Kriesberg said participants advocated mandating that one third of all housing built on public land in Boston be affordable to low-income people and another third to moderate-income people.

Community activist Shirley Kressel argued for the Walsh administration to investigate the Chapter 121A tax waivers the BRA grants to owners of large commercial developments in the downtown sections of Boston.

“We’re going to try and meet two or three times a year and keep the community engaged.”

— Marty Walsh

Town Hall, continued to page 13

Union boss at center of efforts to reform Mass. economy Yawu Miller Back in 1996, Veronica Turner was a rank-and-file member of the Service Employees International Union 285, working as a data coordinator at Boston City Hospital.

Then came word that the hospital was going to merge with the Boston University Medical Center. Suddenly jobs, benefits, seniority and pay rates were all on the line. Turner became a union delegate and found herself vocally

advocating for her fellow workers.

The union’s advocacy paid off.

“Mayor Menino was instrumental in making sure nobody lost their jobs,” Turner said. “Folks went into the merged entity with their seniority and benefits.”

In addition to keeping her job, Turner cemented her reputation as a tireless organizer, advocate and negotiator qualities that have helped her rise to the top of her union. As executive vice president Turner, continued to page 9

Veronica Turner is the executive vice president of SEIU 1199, a union with nearly 50,000 members statewide. (Banner photo)

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New Ford Foundation head committed to social justice Khalil Abdullah In September, Darren Walker became the second African American and tenth president of the Ford Foundation, America’s second largest philanthropy organization with $500 million in annual giving. After a stint in international law and banking, Walker served as the chief operating officer of a nonprofit agency in New York before moving to the foundation world, first arriving at the Rockefeller Foundation before being tapped to fill a vice president slot at Ford in 2010.

Here he speaks about his new role at Ford and the organization’s overall efforts.

What excites you most about taking on the presidency of the Ford Foundation?

I have a chance to make a difference by leading a remarkable institution committed to social justice when the very notion of social justice is being contested.

Our country’s policies and discourse sometimes feel retrograde, taking us back to when justice was more rationed ... particularly for low-income people and people of color. I have a huge opportunity to fortify those voices.

We made great progress ... in poverty reduction, employment for low income and low skill workers, in increased participa-

tion in higher education and high school graduate rates ... When I hear, “Oh, the War on Poverty was a waste of time,” I don’t accept that. You have a hard time convincing me that investments in human capacity and in the potential of people like me to advance in society have somehow been for naught.

How would you describe youth unemployment as a social justice issue?

This is not only a phenomenon in the United States, it’s a global phenomenon. If there are no job and career opportunities for young people, you’re going to have social unrest and instability.

This is part of the broader challenge around inequality because it reduces opportunities for many while accreting huge benefits to a few. So, there is a global struggle around justice. Faces may look different, but the social features in a given society are similar.

How do you explain Ford’s role to newcomers trying to learn how America works?

The nonprofit sector is a somewhat uniquely American phenomenon. It’s understandable for some immigrants to be unable to contextualize it when they arrive.

Immigrants experience the Ford Foundation through organizations and people who look like them ... If you are Hmong from

Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos, and you turn up in Minneapolis, you learn that Ford is supporting a local Hmong-run organization to help immigrants transition or with legal advocacy. We don’t say, “Hmong community, we’re the Ford Foundation; you need to know who we are.” Our job is to fund those organizations. They give us legitimacy.

We don’t give them legitimacy.

This is not about our brand.

How do you answer a community organization when its leaders say they want to go in a different direction from your topdown mandate?

I ran a community organization and have been on the receiving end of top-down dictates. When I worked in Harlem, people said, “Here’s what we think you need.” That experience has informed my posture more than anything.

You have to listen. Our programs have to be informed by those affected and whom we seek to empower.

The foundation world is enraptured by metrics.

How do you measure effectiveness?

Many great movements and societal transformations would not have been achieved if we started with “Can we measure it?”

Not all that needs to be done is

Darren Walker “metricable.” Putting everything through a standardized metrics approach would squelch innovation and new ideas.

But knowing what works is important and necessary. We’ve known situations where things that are not working still get funded and things that are working get underfunded. I’m sensitive to this issue of balance.

An example of how you address that balance?

There’s thinking that says, with respect to black men and boys, single-sex education is better. I would like to know if this works.

That takes a rigorously designed program to actually know. Here, I like metrics. If you tell me this is better, in terms of achievement and success, that’s where I want policy to be directed.

But who is to say that litigation and public interest law, which are having a hard time, should be defunded because a metric would tell us, oh, well, they’re not succeeding right now? That doesn’t mean we should stop funding public interest and legal work.

Where do arts and culture fit in the social justice agenda?

There are aspects of cultural programming, like arts education, where you can measure impact on student achievement, particularly for low-income students.

But there is a more profound idea of understanding the human condition that comes from exploring our culture and all its forms and vibrancy ... Engaging in ideas and self-examination is what great art does, whether it’s James Baldwin holding up the mirror to us about racism and homophobia, or Diego Rivera challenging our notions of economy and industry.

I know from my own experience that culture and the arts nurture the soul and allow us to have dignity. Inequality and poverty rob one, particularly children, of their dignity and aspirations. Culture encourages the imagination. My imagination saved my life — my ability to believe, beyond the experience I was having on any given day, in what the future could be.

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Tibet called ‘training ground’ for future Chinese expansion Brian Wright O’Connor The Tibetan human rights activist, speaking to an audience of Harvard students, denounces the incursion of Chinese mining companies, citing their corrosive influence on the economy, the environment and the rule of law. But most of all, on the people.

“They’re simply not benefiting from the extraction interests,” says Lhadon Tethong, director of the Tibet Action Institute. “They bring in Chinese workers, tear up the land and put local enterprises out of business because they can’t compete with cheap Chinese goods flooding into the market.”

When locals do get hired, “the wages are extremely low and the working conditions are horrible.

And when they complain, the local government does nothing.”

Tethong, a prominent spokeswoman for Tibetan rights, is talking about Chinese exploitation of massive zinc, copper and lead deposits in Tibet. But she could also be talking about Zambia, where Chinese-owned companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in copper and coal mines. Strikes by Zambian workers in the impoverished African nation have been met by brutal reprisals, forcing even the usually compliant Zambian government to take action.

According to a number of activists, China’s interests in other

developing countries follow a similar pattern, all modeled on China’s 50-year domination of its small and largely agrarian Buddhist neighbor.

“When you look at China’s presence in Zambia, Peru, the Congo and other nations, it comes down to one thing and one thing only – access to resources to feed the growing Chinese economy,” says Tethong, who lives in Somerville with her husband, who was also raised in the Tibetan exile community.

“Even when some of the companies are called into account, you see them continue to act with impunity. Just like in Tibet, there is no incentive for them to act better. The state-owned companies, with deep ties to Communist Party leaders in China, are interested only in making as much money as possible with little or no respect for environmental standards, working conditions or labor rights.”

Tibet, spread across a broad plateau tucked beneath the shoulders of the Himalayas, emerged as a unified empire in the seventh century and maintained a shaky autonomy for 1,300 years. Occupied at times by Mongol and Chinese overlords, Tibet’s independence ended in 1951, when a fullscale invasion by the People’s Republic of China crushed the government. Estimates of the number of Tibetans killed since Chinese

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About six million Tibetans live in China and the Tibetan Autonomous Region, which is roughly twice the size of Texas, but at an average elevation of 13,000 feet.

The provinces of the old Tibetan empire cover about one-third of China’s current land mass.

For most Americans, the be-

atific figure of the Dalai Lama captures the struggles of the Buddhist people for sovereignty. The 14th Dalai Lama has served as the nominal head of the government-in-exile since his escape from Lhasa’s fairyland Potala Palace in 1959.

The saffron-robed religious leader has repudiated the post-invasion government that accepted Tibet’s incorporation into China in exchange for limited autonomy. While actors and celebrities, most notably Richard Gere, have flocked to the side of the charismatic Dalai Lama, the grinding work at the grassroots level to build support for greater autonomy for Tibet has been carried

out by organizations like Tethong’s.

By broadcasting the impact of China’s economic policies in the Third World, groups like the Tibet Action Institute hope to build alliances to pressure China into expanding civil liberties and human rights in Tibet.

Raised in Canada, Tethong, 37, became a widely sought commentator in the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, as Chinese policies came under increased scrutiny. Passionate and well-informed arguments from the telegenic spokeswoman generated broad sympathy for Tibetans, but Tibet, continued to page 8

Lhadon Tethong, director of the Tibet Action Institute, is a prominent spokesperson for Tibetan rights and critic of Chinese exploitation of natural resources in other Tibet, as well as other countries including several in Africa. (Photo courtesy of Lhadon Tethong)

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Generosity — an innate aspect of a merry Christmas A major theme of Christmas is to exalt the spirit of human generosity. In Charles Dickens’ oft-told story “A Christmas Carol,” even the miserly pinchpenny Ebenezer Scrooge had to yield to that innate impulse. But it did not come easily. Scrooge had to be frightened by the ghost of his former partner, Jacob Marley. In a surprise pronouncement, Pope Francis declared that the generosity of the well-to-do is a human requirement, not just an act of noblesse oblige.

Scrooge resisted when it was suggested that as a Christmas gift he “should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time.” Scrooge’s first reaction was to be assured that the prisons and the workhouse were still operating to restrain those who might misbehave because of their poverty. Once assured of the soundness of the institutional security systems, Scrooge was ready to become more responsive to the spirit of the season.

Christmas has become considerably more flamboyant since Scrooge’s time in 1843, but concern for “the poor and destitute” is still woefully deficient. With the approval of Republicans, the budget for food stamps was cut by $39 billion as of Nov. 1. At the same time, farm subsidies primarily for large agribusiness corporations have been increased. Both programs are part of the same agriculture budget.

During the season to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the founder of the Catholic Church, it is appropriate for the pope to speak out on behalf of those who are financially less fortunate.

In the past there was a blessing for the poor and an admonition for those who are more affluent to be generous in their charity.

Now Pope Francis has intensified the message. His recent apostolic exhortation has attacked “unfettered capitalism” as “a new tyranny.” He criticized the “idolatry of money” and he beseeched politicians to guarantee all citizens “dignified work, education and health care.”

Pope Francis went on to declare that economic tyrants could be guilty of murder. He stated, “just as the commandment ‘thou shalt not kill’ sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say ‘thou shalt not’ to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills.”

As might be expected, some business leaders and financiers are upset by the pope’s remarks, which go well beyond the requirement to be honest in business affairs. Pope Francis is now holding businessmen responsible for the social consequences of their otherwise honest activities. Business leaders must assure that the benefits of the enterprise reach all those involved.

The pope has rebutted the angry accusations that he is advocating socialism. He points out the long-held views of the church that require concern for the wellbeing of the people. He clearly does not agree with the position of many American conservatives that those who fail to prosper are lazy and undisciplined.

The well-publicized statement of Pope Francis was a valuable Christmas gift for all humanity. According to the pope, the yuletide display of human generosity is more than the simple requirement of the well-to-do. It is, much more profoundly, a human entitlement of one to another as we share the common experience of life.

In that spirit, regardless of one’s religion, may we all enjoy a very, merry Christmas.

Yawu Miller’s Dec. 5report on the hard work of immigration reform supporters across Massachusetts is inspiring, but the story of their long, slow defeat at the hands of Republicans in Congress is frustrating. It seems clear that reformers in Massachusetts want to let every one of our neighbors get a fair shot at the American dream. Sounds familiar. That fight has many fronts, and a defeat on one front hurts us all, regardless of our own citizenship status.

Republican candidates lost the presidency, lost the Senate, and received 1 million fewer votes for Congress than Democrats, but control Congress anyway through unfair election rules. Still, they can and are using their power to stop progress for everyone, not just on immigration reform. Republicans have stopped bills for a new, higher national minimum wage, for new jobs through investments in our transportation system, for training and education for teens and young adults to build good careers in science, engineering, technology and mathematics, and for proven programs like Head Start for low-income children. Something is very, very wrong.

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No longer can the loudest voices in the immigration reform movement only come from the mouths of Latinos and Asians.

When immigrants can’t ever become citizens, when they can’t vote and can’t run for office, when their education and credentials go unrecognized, they can be treated unfairly by both corporations and politicians, and that reduces the power of everyone — of every race and creed — in the struggle for justice. An injustice to some of us is an injustice to all of us.

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vide Boston students with options of attending quality schools close to home.

Problem is, in 2013, we should consider diversity an essential feature of any school deemed “quality.” So, how can city and school officials promise quality “close to home” when the city’s very neighborhoods (i.e. “homes”) remain non-diverse?

The flawed logic suggested by the very utterance, “separate but equal,” has been long proven. Racial isolation has deleterious effects on student achievement.

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OPINION Four critical links toward Boston comprehensive economic development James Jennings

A comprehensive and effective approach for Boston’s overall economic development requires that discourse about this topic not be limited to the board rooms and meeting places of downtown corporations and elite institutions. Thus, it is impressive that Mayor-elect Marty Walsh has appointed members to his transition teams reflecting the demography — and democracy — of Boston.

The traditional thinking about local economic development is bounded by the notion that if we can help the bigger economic players first, then trickle down benefits are sure to follow. This is an outdated strategy. Through sobering social and economic consequences we know that this strategy has been an utter failure for many of our children and youth and neighborhoods.

There are at least four critical components for enhancing the quality and impact of economic development in ways which moves everyone forward: focused attention on the continuing crisis of poverty and its social and educational manifestations; support for small local businesses and micro-enterprises; support for community-based nonprofits — those organizations on the front lines of our societal safety-nets; and building and strengthening multi-layered linkages between public schools and local communities.

First, a serious and direct anti-poverty strategy is essential for the future well-being of Boston. Boston will never be a Great City — no matter how pretty or sleek the waterfront, or select neighborhoods, might look — if it does not tackle this challenge head on. The observation by Neil Peirce in a Washington Post column (Aug 15, 2008) is still most relevant: “Poverty places a huge drag on the economic output and productivity of states and communities…those who spend their first five years in poverty will face daunting odds — first lagging school performance and then as adults, 40 percent less income, 70 percent more poor health conditions … small wonder that by some estimates, childhood poverty is draining a massive $500 billion a year out of the U.S. economy.”

The latest American Community Survey census reports that close to one-fifth of all persons living in Boston are officially impoverished; for black and Latino persons and families the figure The latest American is much, much, higher.

A second key component for com- Community Survey prehensive and equitable economic census reports that development includes focus on the close to one-fifth of well-being of our smaller, local neighall persons living in borhood-based businesses.

It is interesting that in 2009 approx- Boston are officially imately 2,400 businesses were counted impoverished.

by InfoUSA in some of Boston’s poorest neighborhoods of Roxbury, Mattapan and Dorchester. More than half of these businesses — about 1,600 — employed between one and four workers; another 400 or so, employed between five and nine workers. While individually small in terms of employees, the workforce represented by this sector totals thousands of employees; local businesses in our neighborhoods also help to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in disposable income.

Furthermore, local businesses, including micro-enterprises, represent an integral part of a neighborhood’s social infrastructure. They tend to reflect the racial and ethnic, and linguistic, diversity of residents of the city to a far greater extent than the much bigger corporations and institutions.

A third key for effective local economic development is supporting and enhancing the capacity of community-based nonprofits. This sector is on the front lines of helping people and children. Many community-based nonprofits have been left to swim on their own under a “survival of the fittest” mentality that ignores the key contributions and role that this sector has played and can continue to play in some of the most vulnerable areas of the city. Not working with this sector to expand its capacity, especially in working-class, low-income and communities of color means, ultimately, that the problems they are trying to address will get worse.

A fourth component of comprehensive economic development should involve the deepening of partnerships among parents, students and schools, and community. Our economic future is directly linked to the quality of public education, of course. This is precisely why we need to move from being satisfied with “pockets of excellence” to community-wide academic achievement.

There are a lot of good ideas for improving our public schools. But simply calling for more charter schools as panacea, or highlighting how this one school or two schools passed the high stakes testing screens, or blaming teachers, all miss the boat of the future. The discourse on education reform and how to improve the quality of public schools has been silo-ed with piecemeal reforms that can be disconnected from a bigger picture, including what might be in the best economic development interests for Boston.

An overall economic development strategy which does not pay adequate attention to some of these missing links in traditional economic development — the challenge of poverty; the significance of small and neighborhood businesses; the critical role of our community-based nonprofits and utilizing public schools as venue for partnering with neighborhoods — does not reflect smart economic development for the future of Boston.

James Jennings, Ph.D., is professor of urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts University.

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What do you think should be the Walsh administration’s top priority?

Diversity in the administration. It’s one of his campaign promises. I’d also like to see all the information Walsh has been getting, how the ideas are being implemented in his administration.

He needs to do something about the homeless who are sleeping on the street in the cold. I could go on about jobs and other issues, but we need to do something about homelessness now.

First of all, he’s got to clean house in the Human Services department. He needs a more diverse school department and to re-open community centers that were closed.

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More community engagement and a community voice in economic development. People living in this city need to be involved in the dialogue.

He needs to work on improving the schools.

I would like to see him work on economic issues — creating jobs and providing things for youth to keep them on a path to a better life.

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Ralph C. Martin II Ralph C. Martin II has been named chairman of The Partnership Inc.’s board, returning to a role he previously held nine years ago. Martin is currently senior vice president and general counsel for Northeastern University.

Founded 26 years ago, The Partnership is an organization dedicated to leadership development and talent management solutions for professionals of color. Nearly 3,000 professionals of color and 250 leading corporations have engaged The Partnership’s services.

“Ralph’s role in the Boston business community has spanned decades,” said Carol Fulp, president and chief executive officer of The Partnership. “Through these experiences, he has gained an invaluable understanding of the global marketplace and the important role people of color play in shaping the future. Perhaps most importantly, he is dedicated to giving back to his community and understands the importance of helping others succeed.”

“By selecting Ralph as the next Chairman of the Board, The Partnership is demonstrating its commitment to equip our future leaders with the tools they need to be successful,” said Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. “Ralph is continuing to strengthen his legacy of serving the people of Massachusetts, through education, mentorship and fellowship.”

Before joining Northeastern, Martin was the Managing Partner of

Bingham McCutchen, a 1,100-lawyer international law firm. He is also the former Suffolk County District Attorney, having served as the elected prosecutor for Boston, Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop from 1992 to 2002. During his nearly 10 years in office, he was credited with helping to oversee substantial changes in the way law enforcement collaborated with other agencies to make dramatic improvements in crime prevention and prosecution.

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Carter points out that for most K-8 schools recess has always been part of the student experience, but having the BPS requirement now ensures the students will get the benefits of recess going forward — of which there are many.

“We absolutely know that it is important to the health of the kids long term to have them move, but it is also important for them to get out every school day and have them socialize,” Carter said. “We wanted to have quality recess, which really means kids

being physically active and positively engaging with students and staff that are out there on the playground.”

For BPS, however, it is not as simple as just turning kids loose outside and letting them run around. Though a recess requirement is now in place, with recess often around 20 minutes, it is important to make sure the time is being used effectively by the students.

There are organizations that help schools run effective recess and train teachers to do so. One such organization is the Oakland, Calif.-based Playworks, which is a national nonprofit that supports

learning and physical health by providing safe and efficient play environments in urban schools.

Playworks has a Boston office and has already been working with BPS in 30 schools, through a previous grant.

Carter says the hope with BPS’s new efforts this year is to build on what Playworks has been doing.

Max Fripp, executive director for Playworks in Massachusetts, explains that what Playworks does is provide fulltime coaches who work in schools to ensure effective recess.

The first thing that Playworks looks at is the organization of recess and makes sure that the stu-

dents have clear and defined activities. Playworks coaches establish a number of “game stations” that make it clear where and what game is happening and have any equipment for the game already set up, according to Fripp.

Games range from the traditional school yard activities such as four square, wall ball and kick ball to restructured games that take established sports and make them more effective for a playground environment, such as three line soccer.

Playworks coaches will also use class time to introduce new games in what the organization calls a “game of the week.” Fripp explains that, in this way, the students know the rules of the game and know how it is played and will be ready to go when recess starts.

“We are always able to have new games to keep recess fresh and the kids are not getting

them how to resolve conflicts and positively support other students through tactics such as using rock-paper-scissors to decide outcomes and emphasize giving high-fives and using terms such as “good job” and “nice try.”

The energy expanded at recess also helps students get back to work in the classroom more quickly and be more attentive to teachers. “Young people and adults need to get energy out and recess is a great way to do that, it is built into the day, and let’s make it awesome for kids,” Fripp said.

“If you can create a recess experience where kids feel safe where they feel included where they can play wherever they want that has an impact on what it feels like in the building and how the school functions.”

BPS’s recent recess initiative has received the backing of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foun-

“We use the playground as an unconventional classroom where we are teaching social skills and leadership skills and teamwork.”

— Max Fripp

Hubie Jones, joined by his wife Cathy, celebrated his 80th birthday with family, friends and colleagues at the Wang Theater in Boston. Over 100 people were in attendance with tributes from Mel King, Charlie Rose, Mayor-elect Marty Walsh, Charlotte Golar-Richie and a special letter read from President Obama. The Boston Children’s Choir founded by Jones sang. (Don West photo)

bored,” Fripp said.

Making a routine of recess with established games and rules is critical to organized and effective physical activity for all students, he added.

While few would argue against the benefit of students being active for even small portions of the school day — with the child obesity rate around the United States being labeled a crisis in many places — according to Fripp the benefits of good recess going far beyond that.

“We use the playground as an unconventional classroom where we are teaching social skills and leadership skills and teamwork, what some people call soft skills, but we know is important for building future leaders,” Fripp said.

He said effective recess has proven to reduce bullying, improve social skills and actually help teachers recover hours of instructional time on a weekly basis.

Playworks helps accomplish these things by not just focusing on how the kids play but also teaching

dation, which gave a grant of $84,000 to improve recess in 15 schools in a program called “Let’s Move in BPS Recess.” The name reflects off the national program, “Let’s Move!” started by First Lady Michelle Obama to combat childhood obesity.

The funding will allow BPS to bring in recess coaches at these additional schools, which include Russell Elementary School in Dorchester and Hale Elementary in Roxbury.

BPS’ Carter acknowledges that the funding is a crucial part of improving recess for the city’s students and, along with what is already being done at the 30 other schools with Playworks, wants to use the money to establish a model for the whole city.

“What we would ideally do after we work with these 15 schools is to then move on to another 15 schools and provide that support, but that would take additional funding,” Carter said.

“When you get an opportunity like this it is really important to do it well.”

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the media coverage resulted in little more than symbolic challenges to the powerful People’s Republic.

Linking Tibet’s struggle to Chinese expansion in Africa has also yielded limited results. China’s appetite for raw materials to feed the world’s fastest-growing economy is vast and Africa’s reception generally welcome, especially when accompanied by generous aid packages, no strings-attached loans and overbidding for equity positions in African companies.

As a result, China now receives as much as 30 percent of its oil imports from Africa, with Angola overtaking Saudi Arabia as China’s biggest supplier. China’s relations with oppressive regimes in Zimbabwe and Sudan — supplying the Harare and Khartoum governments with military hardware while striking oil and mineral deals — have drawn criticism for helping to prop up socalled pariah states.

Chinese officials insist their interests are value-neutral, deny any violation of local laws and point to the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs and new economic activity where their companies op-

Tibetan Action Institute Director Lhadon Tethong frequently participates in demonstrations in Harvard Square with other Tibetan activists. She likens China’s actions in Tibet to its increasing expansion and harvesting of natural resources in Africa. (Photo courtesy of Lhadon Tethong)

erate. As for Tibet, China cites an historic claim to the territory dating back at least to the Qing Dynasty, when the 17th century Manchu rulers of China established a protectorate over Tibet.

Tethong, a regular visitor to college campuses and a frequent participant in weekly demonstrations in Harvard Square by Tibetan activists, dismisses such claims, pointing to unique aspects of Tibetan language and culture that clearly set them apart as a separate polity with a legitimate right to at least greater autonomy if not independence.

The rising incidence of self-immolation by nomadic Tibetans, co-

erced to trade the open skies and yak herds of their traditional existence for life in cement apartment blocks, symbolizes the cultural genocide now occurring in her homeland, she says.

“Over the last three years, there have been at least 122 of these acts.

The story of self-immolation is the story of Chinese oppression,” says Tethong. Nomadic Tibetans, along with members of the middle class and monks, are setting themselves afire in marketplaces and at monastery gates as acts of protest, “to give their lives for a higher purpose.”

In one note left at the scene of an immolation, an impoverished

herder wrote, “I am poor. I am uneducated. All I have to offer is my body.”

The resettlement activities make it easier for Chinese companies to go after some $600 billion in extractable copper discovered in the high Tibetan plain and to control the waters that rise in the Himalayas and feed the largest rivers in China and Southeast Asia, says Tethong.

“At a minimum, we need to keep the spotlight on Tibet,” she says. “This is a fight for resources that goes far beyond Tibet. If we remain vigilant, the tide will change. It’s just like South Africa.

It’s a freedom struggle.”

Roxbury residents gather for the lighting of a Christmas tree on the Dudley Town Common. The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative organized the event with the City of Boston, Pine Street Inn, Project HOPE, Dudley Children Thrive, Boston Center for Youth and Families and the United Way. (Travis Watson photo)

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Zoo gives kids a chance to ‘Be a Veterinarian’ Kassmin Williams In an effort to create a unique zoo experience for children, Franklin Park Zoo is inviting children of all ages to its “Be a Veterinarian” event being held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. each Saturday in January in the zoo’s tropical forest building.

“We thought it would be a really fun interactive activity for kids, as well as an education opportunity to teach kids about the importance of good veterinary care and how our vets and zookeepers care for all of the animals at the zoo,” said Brooke Wardrop, Zoo New England director of marketing and communications.

The zoo asks the children to bring in their favorite stuffed animal. The children will dress in white lab coats, receive small medical kits and learn about the importance of veterinary care while com-

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of SEIU 1199 Massachusetts, as her local is now called, she represents nearly 50,000 workers in hospitals, nursing homes and home care across the state.

She is the first and only African American woman to head a major labor union in Massachusetts history.

Born in Memphis, Tenn., Turner was raised by her grandmother. When her grandmother became ill, Turner, then a young teen, served as a personal care attendant. During her high school years in the 1980s, Turner moved to Dorchester. She graduated from Madison Park High School, attended Roxbury Community College and finished at UMass Boston.

Elected in 2010, Turner took the reins of 1199 at a time when the disparities between the wealthy and the poor in the United States are at an all-time high. And Turner has been at the center of a state-wide movement to combat the declining incomes and working conditions of low-wage workers in Massachusetts.

A union-funded community coalition, Mass Uniting, is housed in 1199’s Dorchester offices. The group’s approach — using using union resources to support the initiatives of community-based organizations — reflects an increased emphasis on unions’ engagement with the predominantly black, Latino and Asian communities where many of their members live.

“It just makes sense,” Turner says. “it shouldn’t have taken us this long to realize we need each other.”

While 1199 is not the only union investing in the group, it is the largest. Turner’s investment in and belief in Mass Uniting has been a major factor in its success, according to Mimi Ramos, executive di-

pleting a check-up on their stuffed animal.

At the end of the check-up, the zoo will give the children a certificate of good health for their stuffed animals and will hold a story time where the children will learn about animal health.

The story time will cover a different topic each week, Brooke said.

Topics include behavior, diet, activity and procedures like preventative and acute care. Children will also learn about the care involved with a newly born or hatched animal.

The tropical forest building where the activities will take place also offers a unique experience, according to Wardrop.

“It really is like visiting the tropics without leaving Boston,” Wardrop said. “The temperature is 72 degrees, It’s balmy. There’s a very, lush greenery. There’s a waterfall.”

Animals in the tropical forest include western lowland gorillas, ring tailed lemurs, a pygmy hippopotamus and a giant anteater.

Children will also get the opportunity to meet with one of the zoo’s veterinarians and some of the zoo’s education staff who will go over various biology facts, including some of the zoo animal’s diets.

The children will also get the opportunity to complete an activity with the education staff where they make observations about various zoo animals.

Wardrop called the event a “wonderful” way to educate children about some of the animal care that takes place behind the scenes at the zoo and the importance of veterinary care for their own pets.

“It’s really an opportunity to deepen that zoo experience in a really fun and meaningful way,” Wardrop said. “Hopefully they also learn why this is so important.”

Franklin Park Zoo is opening its gates to children for its “Be A Veterinarian” program every Saturday in January. The program teaches kids about taking care of animals and allows them to practice treatment on stuffed animals they bring to the zoo. (Photo courtesy of Zoo New England)

rector of New England United for Justice, a Dorchester-based social justice organization that has worked on campaigns with Mass Uniting.

“Veronica believes in grassroots leadership development,” says Ramos. “This is the first time we’ve had conversations about how do we develop leaders and mobilize people around the Massachusetts economy.”

The union-based group was instrumental in collecting the 275,000 signatures submitted to secure a ballot question to raise the minimum wage to $10.50 and mandate earned sick time.

Mass Uniting volunteers are also increasingly influential in the campaigns of successful candidates to office, including Mayor-elect Marty Walsh and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

While the community-based organizations in Mass Uniting give the unions a broader reach, there are few unions or organizations in the state that have the raw numbers 1199 has. The union’s multitudinous base commands respect in the State House and City Hall.

But Turner says she works hardest to keep the respect of the rank-and-file members of her union, frequently visiting the hospitals and nursing homes where they work.

“I walk the floors at their facilities,” she says. “I like to bargain, to be in the negotiating process between the employers and our members, negotiating wages, working conditions, terms of employment.”

When she does make an appearance in the marble halls of the State House, she is likely to be accompanied by scores of union volunteers, attired in SEIU’s signature purple T-shirts. The union advocates not just for hospital and nursing home workers, but also for increased funding for the institutions where their members work and better working conditions.

“If our institutions are doing well, our members are doing well,” Turner says.

For many advocates, meeting with governors, Senate presidents and House speakers may be intimidating, but the ubiquity of SEIU members in Massachusetts has an advantage.

“When I go to meet with them, I make sure I bring members from their district,” Turner says. “They’re negotiating from positions of power, but I believe we are too. We’re part

of the electoral process.”

For Turner, being part of the electoral process means putting boots on the ground, door-knocking, covering polls, manning phone banks and turning out voters.

Turner says she enjoys going doorto-door with union members.

“There’s no better way to stay informed than being right in the middle of it,” she said. “I like that much better than going to the State House.”

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the pulse of the communities where her union members lives keeps her grounded. While her union has experienced growth in recent years, many 1199 members are at the lower end of the state’s economic strata, working in jobs with long hours and modest pay, one pay check away from an economic crisis.

“I get a call at least once a week from a member getting laid off, losing hours and they have no idea how they’re going to provide for their family,” Turner says.

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‘BLACK NATIVITY’ four-decade run is a holiday treasure

Kevin C. Peterson “Black Nativity,” Langston Hughes’ 1961 musical and theatrical treatment about the birth of Jesus Christ, is an American masterpiece.

Under the able direction of Emerson A. Kington, the gospel song play is currently being performed at the highest level possible with every big and bit role executed with all the precision and effort that Elma Lewis — a long-timed doyenne of this city’s cultural front, who brought this work to Boston — would have demanded and expected.

“Black Nativity” has become a holiday staple in Boston.

This year marks its 43rd season, which concludes its run this weekend at Northeastern’s Blackman Auditorium, where tickets remain available for matinee and evening performances.

“It is the longest running version of the play in the country. Its unique

mix of song arrangements and theatrical performances makes the Boston version different and better than other versions performed in other cities,” said Kington.

Hughes, one of the giants of American poetry and a bright light of the Harlem Renaissance literary movement of the 1920s, intended to give the story of Advent a decidedly African-American focus.

His telling of the coming of Jesus is wrapped in the songs, rhythmic styling and the tonal characteristics created largely by American blacks during the post-slavery era.

“Black Nativity” uses the blues, vaudeville melodies, the use of calland-response and the sound of the mid-20th century northern black church to infuse the heralding of Christ with cultural richness and celebration. The play was composed as much for its religious significance as for its profile of certain nuanced aspects of the Afri-

can-American musical tradition.

The 90-minute concert opens with a moving rendition of “Go Tell It on the Mountain,” a negro spiritual composed by John Wesley Work in the 1860s. As the ensemble progresses into the darkened auditorium with lit candles, the audience is affected with an evoked sense of solemnity and reverence, the first of many emotional stagings that gives this performance its accomplished and substantive feel.

“My Way is Cloudy,” “No Room” and “O Come All Ye Faithful,” make up the 20 songs performed by the 45-member choir — all from the local area, including former Roxbury District Court Chief Justice Milton Wright whose lead in “A Mighty Day,” is a show of his charisma and finely nurtured baritone voice.

Mary and Joseph, the parents of Jesus, are serenely performed

by McKersin Previlus and Desiree

Springer. The music is coordinated flawlessly and performed with sustained and moving emotion by brothers Stephan Hunter Sr. and David Hunter on the organ and piano respectively.

Individual solos in the play are heartily delivered and performed with enormous dexterity and melodic confidence — giving proof to the generous rewards that can come from years of crafting raw talent into refined artistic skill.

Among the singers who are especially luminous in this production is Ashley Villard, whose ease, clear voice and stage poise makes her delivery in “Rise Up Shepard and Follow,” precociously knowing and brimming.

Jermaine Tullock in “What Child is This?” and “A Mighty Day,” displays his nous for lyrical interpretation and his gifted abilities to sing along an impressive range of the musical scale — from bass to tenor

to a lilting falsetto soprano.

Kington, a protégé of Lewis’ dating back to the 1980s, relies on simple — almost bare staging, using light and projected images as his way of controlling mood and making dramatic statements.

“Black Nativity” was first performed by the National Center of Afro-America Artists in 1969, a year after Hughes’ death. Lewis, who founded the NCAAA, directed the play for more than 30 years until her death in 2004, followed later by John A. Ross and Voncille Ross.

Kington and his magnificent cast tell this story with extraordinary warmth and genuine uplift. They are testament to the fine work that continues at the NCAAA, expertly led by Edmund Barry Gaither.

The Boston performance of the play matches the stunning work of Hughes and pays homage to Lewis, the visionary woman who brought this treasure to town.

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Annual art exhibit unites South End neighborhood

South End resident and artist Marilyn Jan Casey recreated this painting of Harriet Tubman from an African American history book. Casey gravitates towards bold colors and often depicts black history and culture in her work.

Boston artist Jeremiah Stevenson created a street scene of the corner of Tremont Street and Massachusetts Avenue for the United South End Settelements’ annual Community Colors exhibit. The painting was inspired by Allan Crite’s piece “Tire Jumping in Front of My Window,” which shows children playing outside on the corner of Dilworth and Northampton streets.

Kassmin Williams United South End Settlements aims to bring together South End artists, reflect diversity and increase access to art in the neighborhood with its fifth annual Community Colors exhibit.

The exhibit is being displayed at the Harriet Tubman House on Columbus Avenue until Jan. 3.

According to Chelsea Revelle, USES’s director of arts and culture, the exhibit features about 40 pieces from a diverse group of artists ranging from the children in the organization’s early childhood program to more experienced artists.

“We have some artists who have worked in the Museum of Fine Arts and then we have 2-yearolds doing mosaics, so it’s really a diverse range of ability and material and medium, and then it’s in a space that’s very community oriented, so all sorts of people who walk through our building can appreciate it,” Revelle said.

USES is a community organization that offers a variety of services to the South End including early childhood education, after school programs, summer programs, art programs, workforce readiness programs and senior services.

Displaying the work in the Harriet Tubman House allows individuals who would not typically visit an art gallery to have exposure to art, Revelle said.

One of the pieces in the gallery is a painting by Marilyn Jan Casey that shows Harriet Tubman and six slaves whom she helped to become free.

Casey recreated and enlarged the image, which originally appeared in an African American history book.

The opportunity to have that particular piece displayed in the Harriet Tubman House meant a great deal to Casey, who called Tubman her mentor.

“I think it’s an honor to have my Harriet Tubman at the Harriet Tubman House because of the name of it and because I think they’re doing really good with the local artists around the commu-

nity,” Casey said.

Another piece being featured shows an image that many Boston residents are familiar with.

USES’s MFA liaison, Jeremiah Stevenson, took a photo of the intersection at Tremont Street and

Massachusetts Avenue and recreated it as a larger painting.

Stevenson, who has been working with more abstract pieces, said creating the street scene allowed him a break from his routine.

As Stevenson created the piece,

he connected with a artwork displayed at the MFA called “Tire Jumping in Front of My Window,”

by Allan Crite in 1947.

“I love the architecture of the buildings and the color of the buildings,” Stevenson said. “The different shapes in the South End are just beautiful I believe.”

Stevenson said he appreciates the opportunity to participate in a community-oriented exhibit.

“I’m happy that I’m able to be a part of it and participate,” Stevenson said. “It has different meaning for me because I work with USES, so it’s great that I can contribute to an art show like this, and it’s something that I need to do more of.”

USES President Kevin Hepner

started the Community Colors exhibit as a way to allow its staff members and participants to display some of their work and reconnect with South End residents who were impacted by USES in their past.

Hepner said one of the most exciting parts of this particular exhibit is that it allows him to get to know a different side of some of the people he works with and interacts with daily.

“It’s just really exciting to see staff that you don’t think of as artists, because they do things very different, to suddenly show up with a piece of artwork,” Hepner said. “One year, we had art that was contributed from one of our maintenance workers, and that was just very wonderful to see.”

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An Evening of Giving …

Boston Women in Media & Entertainment held their annual holiday party at the Sara Campbell boutique in Wellesley. The event featured items to be purchased as holiday gifts such as the colorful gloves, shown above. (Photo courtesy of Sara Campbell)

Boston Women in Media & Entertainment recently held their holiday soiree at the fabulous boutique Sara Campbell in Linden Square in Wellesley. Bringing an unwrapped toy (to benefit the Home For Little Wanderers Big Wishes Campaign), gave one full access to attend the event and, as a thank you, guests received 25 percent off any item in the store. There was a lovely assortment of items to purchase, which would make for fabulous holiday gifts — including bold and bright statement earrings and necklaces, colorful gloves and cashmere scarves, stretch velvet peplum tops, chemise dresses and beautiful Jacquard coats.

If you’re still looking for that perfect holiday gift, now is the time to shop at Sara Campbell, and if Wellesley seems a bit too far, stop by her newly opened location on Route 9 in Chestnut Hill. You won’t be disappointed!

Fashionably Late …

A night of fashion and music took over two floors of The Liberty Hotel with a runway show by The Haute House Design Studio. The lobby was buzzing with laughter and the clinking of glasses as the beautiful 20- to 30-something crowd

mingled, chatted and drank divine cocktails. Of course, the runway show began “fashionably late” as the Hollywood lights crisscrossed the hotel to gain everyone’s attention. The models sashayed across the first and second circular levels in fun party-going mini dresses, short, short skirts and gowns of vibrant red and black all to the beat of the house DJ spinning techno and club music.

One of the most entertaining viewings of the night were four young pre-teen girls on a holiday spree with their moms, who created their own impromptu fashion show with spotlights shining ever so brightly on them as they struck poses in their holiday finest.

Everything’s Coming Up Roses …

If you’re interested in learning more about the history and changing meanings of the color pink in fashion and in society, take a stroll through the Museum of Fine Arts “Think Pink” exhibit. The exhibit gives a historical perspective on how the color pink has shaped fashion in American culture from the 18th century to the present day. I’m sure you’ll be “tickled pink” viewing everything from children’s and doll’s clothing to hats, lingerie and even a pair of hot pink suede Christian Louboutin shoes. Topping off the

The Haute House Design Studio took over the Liberty Hotel for a night of fashion and music, including a runway show featuring the studio’s designs. (Photo courtesy of Haute House)

exhibit is a mini runway of dresses including gowns from the collections of renowned Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli and fashion and beauty mogul Estee Lauder, along with an encased blushing pink suit with lavender shirt designed specifically for Hamish Bowles, Vogue magazine’s European editor-at-large. Très chic!

Coming Up …

The House of Blues, in association with Ingenious Concepts, presents rapper/actor Common on Thursday, Dec. 26 at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $36.00 general admission standing and $49.50 for VIP seating. For tickets visit www.live nation.com.

2014 First Night Boston is back on Tuesday Dec. 31, offering live music, stand-up comedy, film screenings, ice sculptures, a puppet festival and more! For a schedule of events, please visit www.firstnightboston. org.

Celebrate New Year’s Eve at King’s Lane, Lounge & Billiards on, Dec. 31 beginning at 9 p.m. There’ll be entertainment featuring two DJs on two dance floors, along with complimentary gourmet food and access to complimentary bowling, pool tables, and skeeball all night long! To purchase tickets go to newyearseveboston2014.eventbrite.com.

If you’re in the mood for dressing up for New Year’s Eve, then you must attend “Timeless: A Bond Evening” by Synergy Events. It’s an evening of “Old Hollywood” combined with a James Bond theme, red carpet, music, signature cocktails and live entertainment. For more information and tickets go to http://www.

BostonNewYearsEveParty.com.

Comedian Pablo Francisco takes The Wilbur stage on Saturday, Jan. 11 at 7 p.m. Tickets: $22-$32 and can be purchased at www.ticket master.com.

Shawn Carter, better known as Jay Z, brings his “Magna Carter World Tour” to the TD Garden on Saturday, Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. For tickets, go to www.ticketmaster.com.

If you would like me to cover or write about your event, email me at inthemixwithcolette@gmail.com.

The Museum of Fine Arts currently has a “Think Pink” exhibit on display that gives a historical perspective on how the color pink has shaped fashion and American culture. On display are items including dresses, above, hats, lingerie and shoes. (Photo courtesy of the Musuem of Fine Arts)

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Originally designed as a program to help affordable housing developers build on blighted parcels of land, the program has been extended to dozens of buildings with class A office space in areas that haven’t seen blight since the 1960s, when the program was established.

“There’s never been an audit to see how much the cost is,” Kressel said of the program.

Answering Kressel in a question-and-answer session, Walsh reiterated his campaign promise to separate out the planning function of the BRA from its development function, and said Chapter 121A would be part of a review process.

“As we begin to restructure the BRA, that’s one of the things we’re going to be looking at,”

said Walsh.

Walsh, who stayed on to answer questions after the forum ended at 5 p.m., said he would encourage neighborhood activists to have a voice in city government by continuing to hold community seminars like the one held at RCC throughout his administration.

“We’re going to try and meet two or three times a year and keep the community engaged,” he said.

“We have a plan for that.”

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affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person.

If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

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

Date: November 20, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU13P2709GD

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Ahmed Joe Cook Of Roxbury, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Joe Cook, Jr. of Roxbury, MA, Angela P. Cook of Roxbury, MA MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Ahmed J Cook is in need of a

Guardian and requesting that Joe Cook, Jr. of Roxbury, MA, Angela P. Cook of Roxbury, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.

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

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 12/26/2013. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person.

If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

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

Date: November 20, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

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

Docket No. SU13D2033DR

NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Resignation or Petition for Removal of Guardianship of a Minor NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition to Resign as Guardian of a Minor or Petition for Removal of Guardian of a minor filed by Latoya Watson of Worcester, MA on 11/20/2013 will be held 12/27/2013 09:00 AM Guardianship of Minor Hearing Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114 - Family Service Office.

The work includes INSTALLATION OF NEW HYDRAULICALLY CALCULATED AUTOMATIC FIRE PROTECTION SPRINKLER SYSTEM AND FIRE ALARM SYSTEM IN CARGO BUILDING NO. 57. REMOVAL OF EXISTING SPRINKLER SYSTEM AND FIRE ALARM DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED CEILING WORK. Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2013.

2.

Response to Petition: You may respond by filing a written response to the Petition or by appearing in person at the hearing. If you choose to file a written response, you need to:

File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days before the hearing.

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.

3.

Counsel for the Minor: The minor (or an adult on behalf of the minor) has the right to request that counsel be appointed for the minor.

4.

Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minor over age 14 has the right to be present at any hearing, unless the Court finds that it is not in the minor’s best interests.

1.

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Albert Theophilous Barrett

vs.

Euvine Buetelle Barrett

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

The Complaint is on file at the Court.

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

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Sandra Dionis Long, Esq., O’Neil & Hauser, 71 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02110 your answer, if any, on or before 01/30/2014. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

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

Date: November 19, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

THIS IS A LEGAL NOTICE: An important court proceeding that may affect your rights has been scheduled. If you do not understand this notice or other court papers, please contact an attorney for legal advice.

Date: November 21, 2013

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

Docket No. SU13P2916EA Estate of Gabriel D. Hayes Also Known As Gabriel Dale Hayes Date of Death October 22, 2013

Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

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

Docket No. SU13C0376CA

In the matter of Kaydeana Alicia Jean-Merisier of Mattapan, MA

INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME

To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Mary R. Hayes of Roseville MN. Mary R. Hayes of Roseville MN has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond.

To all persons interested in a petition described:

The estate is being administered under informal 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 interested parties 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. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner.

Kaydeana Alicia Merisier

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 10:00 AM LOCAL TIME ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2013.

A petition has been presented by Kaythlenn Merisier requesting that Kaydeana Alicia Jean-Merisier be allowed to change her name as follows:

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 12/26/2013.

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

Date: November 21, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS PROBATE COURT CASE NO. SU13P1151PM

In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract General Bidders must submit with their bid a current Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of FIRE PROTECTION SPRINKLER SYSTEMS. The estimated contract cost is TWO MILLION SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($2,600,000.00).

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

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

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

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

The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of TEN MILLION DOLLARS ($10,000,000.00). Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.

Filed sub bids will be required and taken on the following classes of work:

To all persons interested in the estate of Dollie Flakes of Boston, in said County, a person under conversatorship.

ACOUSTICAL TILE $255,000 ELECTRICAL $358,000

To the Defendant:

A petition has been presented to said Court for license to sell a private sale - public auction - certain real estate of said Dollie Flakes for her maintanance, and praying that the petitioner may become the purchaser of said real estate.

The Authority reserves the right to reject any sub bid of any sub trade where permitted by Section 44E of the above referenced General Laws. The right is also reserved to waive any informality in or to reject any or all proposals and General Bids.

The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage pursuant to G.L. c. 208, Section 1 B.

If you desire to object thereto you or your attorney should file a written appearance in said Court at Boston before ten o’clock in the forenoon on the 2nd day of January, 2014, the return day of this citation.

The Complaint is on file at the Court.

Witness, Joan P. Armstrong, Esquire, First Judge of said Court, this 3rd day of December, 2013.

This contract is subject to a Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than THREE PERCENT (3%) of the Contract be performed by minority and women owned business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible.

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU13D2508DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Antonio M Camp

vs.

Lorina Camp

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

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Antonio M Camp, 206 Warren Street #3, Roxbury, MA 02119 your answer, if any, on or before 02/13/2014. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

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

Date: November 22, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU13D2318DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Velma C Dunbar

vs.

Patricia M. Campatelli, Register.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA CONTRACT NO. L1185-C1, CARGO BUILDING 57 FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEM MODIFICATIONS AND FIRE ALARM SYSTEM REPLACEMENT, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S - Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2014 immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

Sealed filed sub bids for the same contract will be received at the same office until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2014, immediately after which, in a designated room, the filed sub bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS

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

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

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

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Frank L Dunbar

To the Defendant: The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage under MGL c.

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

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

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Velma C Dunbar, 111 Flaherty Way, South Boston, MA, 02127-0003 your answer, if any, on or before 01/16/2014. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

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

Date: December 13, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

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