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By John Lynds

Since opening in July 2018, the Institute of Con-temporary Art (ICA) Wa-tershed on East Boston’s waterfront has hosted a res-ident artists and their work for the summer season.

While the ICA named artist and sculptor Firelei Baez as its resident artist for the Watershed’s 2020 sea-son back in October those plans have been scrapped.

Instead the ICA’s Water-shed will remain a food dis-tribution site through Sep-tember 3, 2020 in response to the ingoing COVID-19 pandemic. .

Jill Medvedow, the Ellen Matilda Poss Director of the Boston (ICA), made the an-nouncement last week and said the ICA will continue to use the Watershed as a In partnership with communi-

ty organizations in Eastie. With help from the ICA’s

caterer, The Catered Af-fair, over 2,000 boxes of much-needed fresh produce and dairy will be delivered to East Boston families by the end of the summer.

Báez’s art installation, which was to feature the artist’s largest sculpture to date, will be postponed un-til 2021.

“With the cooperation of Firelei Báez, our East Boston partners, ICA staff and generous donors, we are redirecting resources of the ICA and the Watershed in particular to address a direct need within the com-munity,” said Medvedow. “Art projects are included in each box of food to pro-vide families with new and creative activities to do at home during this challeng-ing time. While disappoint-

ing that we will not open the Watershed this summer as planned, this is the safest way for the museum to stay connected and serve our au-diences at this time.”

According to Medvedow the food donation initia-tive is a collaboration be-tween the ICA and several East Boston organizations: East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC); East Boston Social Cen-ters; Maverick Landing Community Services; East-ie Farm; Orient Heights Housing Development; and Crossroads Family Center.

The original intent of the food distribution site, which was launched in mid-March, was to feed Eastie residents for one month.

However, because Eastie has experienced one of the

By John Lynds

When the East Boston Neighborhood Health Cen-ter (EBNHC) received the greenlight from the state to reopen some in-person doctor visits at a limited ca-pacity, EBNHC CMO Dr. Jackie Fantes and President and CEO Manny Lopes said that the Health Center will look much different to patients during a recent Zoom town hall meeting.

EBNHC has already ramped up in-person vis-its but limited its capaci-ty to 25 percent of what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. To ensure safety and proper hygiene protocols outlined by the state the Health Center will

not be performing general checkups like physical ex-ams.

However, while EBNHC will be putting the safety of

By John Lynds

East Boston now of-ficially has the highest COVID-19 infection rate in the City of Boston accord-ing to new data released by the Boston Public Health Commission on Friday.

While the number of hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 continue to decline in the city and state, East Boston still re-mains a virus hotspot with-in the city limits and cases of the virus rose five per-cent in one week.

On Friday the BPHC released its weekly COVID-19 stats by neigh-borhood that tracks in-fection rates and COVID testing results in Boston neighborhoods.

In one week Eastie’s COVID-19 infection rate rose five percent from 295.6 cases per 10,000 resi-dents to an infection rate of 310.5 cases per 10,000 resi-dents as of Friday.

As of Friday there were 1,457 confirmed COVID-19 cases in East-ie, up from the 1,387 cases reported by the BPHC the previous week.

Last week, 4,601 Eastie residents were tested for COVID-19 and the data shows that 32.5 percent of those tested were COVID positive. Eastie still leads the city in the percentage of those testing positive for COVID-19 followed by parts of Dorchester, Matta-pan and Hyde Park.

Telehealth a lifesaver for EBNHC patients

ICA cancels usual summer programming, extends community food distribution through September

By John Lynds

Last week Governor Charlie Baker used the Maverick MBTA station as the backdrop to his daily Covid-19 press briefing and to highlight the accelerated infrastructure work on the Blue Line that wrapped up Sunday.

Baker was joined by Transportation Secretary and CEO Stephanie Pol-lack, General Manager Steve Poftak, and other of-ficials and toured the Blue Line work.

The project began on May 18 and the MBTA fully closed down the Blue Line from Airport to Bow-

doin stations for 14 days and ran shuttle busses in-stead of train service until Sunday.

The goal was to allow for accelerated track and infra-structure work to take place while ridership and traffic is at an all time low due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The work was originally going to be spread out over a lon-ger period of time and only on weekends.

“This Blue Line work is part of our administration’s plan to invest $8 billion in a safer and more reliable MBTA by replacing over 400 cars across the Red and Orange Lines, moderniz-ing stations, and upgrad-

ing track, signal, and other key infrastructure across the system,” said Governor Baker. “These infrastruc-ture upgrades on the Blue Line, including important flood resilience work with-in the harbor tunnel, will provide faster, more reli-able service for travelers and commuters.”

This Blue Line work was previously scheduled to be accomplished through a se-ries of weekend diversions later this year, and doing the work now allows its completion at a time when both transit ridership and traffic on the roadways that

Gov. Baker recently tours MBTA Blue Line completed work

Gov. Charlie Baker, joined by Sen. Joseph Boncore, City Councilor Lydia Edwards and Speaker Robert DeLeo, talks with MBTA workers. See MBTA Page6

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ICA Watershed scraps seasonal art installation in favor of continuing to be a community food distribution site.

See ICA Page 2

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hat a typical Telehealth vid-eo visit looks like. EBNHC is encouraging patients to continue to use the Tele-health technology as the Health Center reopened some in-person visits at a limited capacity.

By John Lynds

Last week, Mayor Mar-tin Walsh chose the East Boston Library on Bremen Street to kick off the year-long outreach campaign to ensure a fair and complete count in the 2020 U.S. Cen-sus.

At the time Walsh was joined by a group of non-profit leaders and ad-vocates at the library to start the decennial count that de-termines everything from representation in Congress, to federal funds for schools, affordable housing, infra-structure and health care programs.

Last week, Walsh re-

minded Boston residents to take the 2020 Census during this time of physical distancing.

“To date, only 49.8 per-cent of households have responded, which is lower than the statewide aver-age response rate of 64.4 percent,” said Walsh. “We need to increase the rate of response.”

Walsh said much of the funding that comes from the Census count helps the most vulnerable among us.

“It can provides health care, Medicare and Medic-aid, public education grants for special education and Boston Public Schools,

Walsh makes big push for accurate Boston census count

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The statistics released by the BPHC as part of its weekly COVID-19 report breaks down the number of cases and infection rates in each neighborhood. It also breaks down the number of cases by age, gender and race.

Eastie now leads Hyde Park as the neighborhood

with the highest infection rate in the city. Hyde Park’s infection rate rose only three percent and was 308.6 cases per 10,000 residents.

Eastie also still leads the city in the number of pos-itive infections with 400 more cases than Hyde Park.

Citywide there have been 12,784 positive

cases of coronavirus, up only two percent from the 12,511 cases reported last week. So far 7,009 of these 12,784 residents have fully recovered.

Deaths from COVID-19 rose only 3.8 percent from 618 deaths to the 642 deaths reported last week.

On Friday the BPHC released its weekly COVID-19 stats by neighborhood that tracks infec-tion rates and COVID testing results in Boston neighborhoods.

highest rates of COVID-19 in the city of Boston, the ICA decided to extend the program--seeing an contin-ued urgent need for fresh food.

“The ICA was alerted to the need for fresh produce and healthy food through conversations with its com-munity partners in East Boston,” said Medvedow. “The museum reached out to its caterer, The Catered Affair, who offered to do-nate their labor in creating fresh food boxes for distri-bution.”

As of the cancelled art

installation, Medvedow said Baez’s work, which re-imagines ancient ruins as though the sea had receded from the Watershed floor to reveal the archeology of human history in the Ca-ribbean, is planned for the 2021 season.

The Watershed opened to the public on July 4, 2018 inside a former copper pipe factory at Boston Shipyard and Marina on Marginal Street The 15,000-square-foot, raw, industrial space is unlike anything in Boston and has expanded the ICA’s artistic and educational pro-

gramming on both sides of the Boston Harbor.

The ICA’s Seaport loca-tion and the new Watershed in Eastie has connected the two historically isolat-ed neighborhoods through ferry services provided by Boston Harbor Cruises.The ferry service has allowed visitors to the both the ICA and Watershed travel six minutes via water between both museums during the summer. The ferry is free to ICA members, included with regular museum ad-mission, and free to visitors ages 17 and under.

its patients and staff first, the Health Center will rely more heavily on Telehealth technology to keep quali-ty healthcare going in this new virtual world.

Dr. Fantes said that EB-NHC introduced Telehealth over a year ago in limiti ca-pacities, but the COVID-19 pandemic has moved the relatively new healthcare technology to the forefront.

“We got ‘Zoomed’ quickly into Telehealth during this pandemic,” said Dr. Fantes. “It is something we’ve had on a radar for a while and now we are up and running with both voice and video Telehealth

calls. We are still trying to figure out the bits and piec-es of technology but we are getting better as each day goes by. It is a really good way to get in touch with your provider.”

Dr, Fantes said there’s a lot of pent up demand for healthcare out there during the pandemic and Telehealth is a good way to check in with EBNHC pro-viders while still practicing social distancing.

“I know folks are getting really good care through this technology and I en-courage folks to continue to do that,” she said.

Telehealth is the remote

delivery of health care ser-vices and clinical informa-tion using communications technology, including the internet, wireless, satellite and phone media.

So far the Health Center has had thousands of Tele-health visits while patients remain safe in their homes.

Telehealth has become of paramount importance to ensure the safety of patients and health care providers. It allows patients the opportu-nity to seamlessly continue their care while practicing social distancing, remain-ing in their home, and mini-mizing their exposure to the virus.

food and nutrition pro-grams like SNAP and free school breakfast/lunch pro-grams, affordable housing and Section 8 vouchers, and child care Head Start for low-income families.”

Walsh said the 2020 Census is a way to directly increase community power in Eastie.

“It will impact our daily lives for the next 10 years,” he said. “Many of Boston’s communities are at risk of an undercount. We need a complete and accurate count because all of Boston deserves to be seen, heard, and invested in.”

Walsh said the Census has never been more ac-cessible and residents can respond to the 2020 Census online at my2020census.gov, over the phone, or by mail. You can respond to

the 2020 Census online or over the phone in 13 differ-ent languages.

The 2010 census counted 617,000 people in the City of Boston. Since that time it is estimated the city is currently at 700,000 or over 700,000 residents. During the last three censuses the city has lost a Congressper-son all three times.

“We had 12 congressio-nal districts at one point, then 11 and then 10 and now we have nine,” said Walsh. “The point is we have fewer people repre-senting us in Congress. It’s so important to be counted. We need to make sure we are all counted because it determines our representa-tion in Congress and I can’t underscore that enough. We need accurate census counts to protect our voic-

es in Congress.” In Eastie the investments that were made from the 2010 census were free lunches at public schools, funds for afford-able housing, senior ser-vices, and job training for residents for the future.

The city has contributed $100,000 to support Bos-ton’s outreach efforts by providing grants to com-munity-based organizations and more support to City departments.

Walsh pointed out every person not counted in the upcoming census equals $2,400 in lost federal mon-ey every year for the next ten years.

“Think of it? If 100,000 people are not counted that translates into $2.4 billion that we will lose in federal aid over the next decade,” said Walsh.

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By Lauren Bennett

Governor Baker and Lt. Governor Karyn Polito an-nounced on May 29 guid-ance for restaurants and lodging, ahead of Phase Two of the reopening plan. Baker is expected to “make an announcement and deci-sion with respect to Phase Two” on June 6, he said.

“We are certainly see-ing positive momentum in a number of areas,” Baker said. “People are starting to get back to work. Outdoor and recreation activities are coming back. We’re mak-ing progress, thanks to ev-eryone doing their jobs now more than ever and we need to keep doing what works to kill and slow the virus.”

Lt. Governor Karyn Polito announced the new guidance for restaurants and lodging, adding that the workplace safety stan-dards that will be required for these businesses are “organized around four dis-tinct categories covering social distancing, hygiene protocols, staffing and op-erations, and cleaning and disinfecting.”

Polito said these guide-lines are being released ahead of Phase Two “to give lodging facilities and restaurants time to pre-pare their operations, to get ready, and to do that in adherence to the general workplace safety standards that we had previously is-sued.”

Outdoor dining at restau-rants will be allowed at the beginning of Phase Two, Polito said, and the State is working with legislators on accelerating the permitting process for outdoor dining.

Indoor dining will be allowed later on in Phase Two, “subject to the public health data,” she said.

The guidance for restau-rants and lodging which is posted on the Reopening Massachusetts website at mass.gov, includes proto-cols for social distancing and physical space, Polito said.

She announced that some of the highlights of the guidance for restaurants are: “tables must be posi-tioned six feet apart, the maximum party size will be six people, use of outdoor space is encouraged even when indoor seating is al-lowed, and seating at bars is not allowed, “but bar areas may be reconstituted for ta-ble seating,” she said.

Additionally, hygiene and leaning protocols will be required, like having sin-gle use utensils or menus, or “strict sanitization guide-lines” for these items.

Polito also said that “reservations or call ahead seating is recommended,”

and “contactless payment, mobile ordering, or text on arrival for seating will also be encouraged.”

Restaurants should also provide training in these health and safety protocols to all employees, she added, and establishments will be temporarily closed if a there is a case of COVID-19.

HOTELS, MOTELS, AND OTHER LODGING

BUSINESSESGuidance was also re-

leased for hotels, motels, and other lodging business-es, which will be allowed to resume operations in Phase Two.

“Safety standards apply to all forms of lodging: ho-tels, motels, inns, bed and breakfasts, and short term residential rentals, includ-ing those arranged through online hosting platforms such as Airbnb and Vrbo,” Polito said. She added that spaces like ballrooms and meeting rooms will still re-main closed.

“Onsite restaurants, pools, gyms, spas, golf courses and other amenities at lodging sites may oper-ate only as these categories are authorized to operate in accordance with our phased reopening plan,” Polito said. She also said that lodging operators must tell guests traveling to Mas-sachusetts from out of state about the policy urging them to self-quarantine for 14 days.

The guidance for lodg-ing includes protocols for social distancing, hygiene, and keeping staff spread out during their shifts, Polito said. It also includes enhanced sanitization pro-tocols in between guests, including cleaning and san-itizing surfaces, washing linens and bedspreads, and considering leaving rooms vacant for 24 hours be-tween guests.

“In the event of a pos-itive case of COVID-19, the room used by that guest may onnly be returned to service after undergoing an enhanced sanitization pro-tocol in accordance with CDC guidelines,” Polito said.

“As we move forward in reopening our economy, we understand the importance of balancing public health and economic health and we need to do everything we can to support both,” she said. “Together with state and local governments we balance the shared goals of maintaining both public safety as well as getting our economy back up and running and as we navigate these next phases in our fight against COVID-19, we will continue to work with our industry partners to do what’s best for local

main streets and down-towns.

I’m confident that the restaurant and lodging owners, managers, servers, bartenders and staff, and the many others who make up these industries will get back to work, will reopen their doors and their plac-es to the residents across our Commonwealth and be able to offer the things from our places that people know and love so much in their communities and will do so as safely and as quickly as possible.”

OTHER UPDATESBaker also announced

on May 29 that the state is having “positive conversa-tions” with sports teams, which will be allowed to begin practicing at their re-spective facilities on June 6 “with health and safety rules that all of the leagues are developing.”

Baker said that these fa-cilities will continue to re-main closed to the public, and that “the leagues are obviously working hard to host games again.”

He said that “pro sports would be a great thing to see again,” and would be a “significant milestone for all of us as fans,” however, “the opening will be gradu-al and will require a lot of patience from everyone.”

On June 1, Baker issued an Executive Order that lists specific types of businesses and activities that fall into the remaining phases of the reopening plan.

“Effective immediately, the Executive Order per-mits Phase II businesses to reopen their physical work-places to workers only to conduct necessary prepa-rations prior to the start of Phase II. Preparations include but are not limited to completing a COVID-19 Control Plan, implementing sector-specific protocols, and complying with Man-datory Workplace Safety Standards,” according to the State.

“This lead time is im-portant for preparations,” Baker said on June 1.

Retail stores will be al-lowed to have “browsing and in-store transactions with restrictions” at the beginning of Phase Two as well. Guidance for child-care, recreational sum-mer camps, and organized sports programs was also released and is available in detail at mass.gov.

He also said that over the weekend, the COVID-19 Response Command Cen-ter also submitted details for an expanded COVID-19 testing proposal to the fed-eral government, which includes increasing testing capacity and access to test-ing.

Baker-Polito administration announces guidelines for restaurants, lodging businesses ahead of Phase Two

Wednesday, June 3, 2020 T H E E A S T B O S T O N T I M E S - F R E E P R E S S

By John Lynds

On the heels of a suc-cessful online Boston City Council hearing called by City Councilor Lydia Edwards regarding Ever-source’s plans to place a substation at the City Yards in West Eagle Square, local activists have filed a civ-il rights complaint against state energy agencies.

Edward’s hearing was an effort to bring transparency for Eastie residents about the project, many of whom feel their voices have not been heard due to a lack of language translation at nu-merous community meet-ings and hearings.

Edwards said Eversource has excluded our Spanish speaking neighbors from this process and hasn’t treated the Eastie commu-nity with respect.

Last year, Eversource filed a Notice of Project Change and sought ap-proval to move the pro-posed substation 190 feet to the western side of the City Yards lot. Eversource said the two 115-kV trans-mission lines that would connect to the substation would no longer be routed along Condor and East Ea-gle Streets if the substation is placed in the western portion of the parcel.

However, a little over a week after Edwards’s hear-ing, the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF), Green-Roots and Lawyers for Civ-il Rights (LCR) officially filed a Title VI civil rights complaint against Massa-chusetts energy agencies.

The complaint says state agencies like Energy Facil-ities Siting Board (EFSB), who in 2018 ruled in favor of placing the substation at the City Yards, failed to provide proper translation and interpretation services in proceedings regarding a proposed substation.

The group argues the electrical project would have catastrophic implica-tions for low-income com-munities of color in Eastie and Chelsea. State officials treated demands for inter-pretation as disruptive, ef-fectively shutting out par-ticipation from the area’s many Spanish-speaking residents.

“For me and my neigh-bors this project will impact where we live and where our children play, and yet none of us had any idea that this project was going on,” stated Noemy Rodriguez, a Community Organizer with local Environmental Justice organization GreenRoots. Continuing in her native Spanish the eight-year res-ident of East Boston add-ed, “Even when we did get engaged in the process, in-terpretation to a language we could understand was either poorly done or not done at all. It all seemed so

unimportant to them; they did not take us into consid-eration.”

Last year, local environ-mentalists from Eastie and Chelsea gathered at Boston City Hall to deliver 700 postcards to Boston May-or Martin Walsh asking for the mayor to meet with residents on both sides of the Chelsea Creek to dis-cuss alternatives to placing Eversource’s proposed sub-station along the creek.

For three years, local environmentalists on the Eastie and Chelsea sides of the Chelsea Creek have launched a visual, me-dia and talking campaign against Eversource’s plans to place the substation at the City Yards in Eagle Square.

However, the EFSB ap-proval came with some provisos. According to the state energy board the EFSB directed Eversource to enter into discussions with the City of Boston re-garding the possible reloca-tion of the new substation

on the Chelsea Creek site.“Preventing residents

from commenting on a project that will have enor-mous impacts on their community is not only shameful but a form of dis-crimination,” said Director of CLF’s Healthy Commu-nities and Environmental Justice program Amy Lau-ra Cahn. “East Boston and Chelsea already experience some of the worst air quali-ty and pollution in the state and adding yet another in-dustrial facility will only compound these injustices. State leaders need to be held accountable for silenc-ing community concerns to push this project through.”

The complaint requests that the Environmental Pro-tection Agency (EPA) in-vestigate the state’s EFSB and its parent agencies, the Department of Public Utilities and the Execu-tive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, for their failure to comply with federal laws ensuring equal access for limited English

proficient speakers. The complaint urges the

EPA to halt the review of the proposed substation, pending this investigation into the Board’s language access policies and prac-tices and until the present state of emergency has been lifted.

“The very state agen-cies responsible for envi-ronmental and community protection have for years ignored residents’ demands to be included in the plan-ning process, neglecting to translate vital documents or extend comment periods to allow non-English speak-ing residents to contrib-ute,” said Lauren Sampson, attorney and coordinator of LCR’s Race & Climate Justice Project. “We can-not exclude these commu-nities from environmental decision-making processes while asking them to bear these environmental and health burdens.”

The substation was ini-tially slated to be built on an Eversource-owned parcel on Bremen Street. However, under the for-mer late Mayor Thomas Menino, Boston executed a land swap with Eversource. Eversource handed over the Bremen Street parcel so the city could build the new East Boston Branch Li-brary in return for the city-owned parcel in East Eagle Square.

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Back in February Mayor Martin Walsh and the City’s Community Preservation Committee (CPC) recom-mended one project for in-clusion in the next round for the Community Preser-vation Act (CPA) funding.

The Eastie project was one of 40 across the city totalling more than $24 million that received unan-imous approval from the Boston City Council.

In Eastie $400,000 of CPA funding could be heading this way for the city to purchase the his-toric White Street home of the neighborhood’s premier 19th Century shipbuilder, Donald McKay.

“Projects that receive

funding from the Com-munity Preservation Act directly reflect our neigh-borhoods’ needs and prior-ities,” said Mayor Walsh. “With money going to proj-ects specifically for open space, preserving historic sites, and creating afford-able housing, the residents of the City of Boston will benefit directly. Thank you to everyone who submit-ted project proposals, and I look forward to seeing how the new CPA projects will help our city.”

The Donald McKay House is a privately owned historic house at 78–80 White Street in East Boston. It was the residence of Don-ald McKay, a master build-er of some of the world’s fastest clipper ships.

The CPA funds would be

used to purchase the home for $ 400,000 and preserve it as a community asset

The house was built in 1844 in the Greek Revival architectural style, which is distinguished by its pitched roof and front-facing ga-ble resembling a Greek pediment. McKay moved into the house in 1845, and during his residence there he designed and built some of the most successful clip-per ships in history. These ships include the Flying Cloud (1851), which made two 89-day passages from New York to San Francis-co; the Sovereign of the Seas (1852), which posted the fastest speed ever by a sailing ship (22 knots) in 1854; the Lightning (1854), which set multiple records, including sailing 436 miles

in a 24-hour period and sailing from Melbourne, Australia, to Liverpool, England, in 64 days; and the James Baines (1854), which logged a speed of 21 knots on June 18, 1856.

The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

After Boston adopt-ed the CPA in 2016, the City created a Community Preservation Fund to fund affordable housing, histor-ic preservation, and open space and public recreation projects. The Community Preservation Fund is cap-italized primarily by a one percent property tax-based surcharge on residential and business property tax bills that began in July 2017.

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The next Jeffries Point Neighborhood Association Zoom video conference is Monday, June 8, from 7-8:30 p.m.

Below please find the agenda for the Jeffries Point Neighborhood Asso-ciation scheduled monthly meeting for June, 2020. The meeting will be held via Zoom Video Confer-ence due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic.

AGENDA (subject to change):

Greetings & Announce-ments

Boston Police UpdateNew Meeting Setup –

Mary Cole & Andrew Pike explain how Zoom will be used in presentations and future voting meetings

Mayor Marty Walsh – Tentative

Massport Update – An-thony Guerrero will update us on the Tall Ship and Piers Park Phase 2 parking

Tree Eastie – Cindy Baxter

Questions will be han-dled via the Zoom chat fea-ture. Looking forward to “seeing” you all there!

Registration required. Please visit jeffriespoint.org to register for this meeting and for other 2020 meeting dates.

JPNA Zoom Video Conference monthly meeting set for June 8

Councilor Edwards holds online Eversource substation hearing

City Councilor Lydia Edwards along with Green Roots’s Roseann Bongiovani and John Walkey during the online City Council hearing regarding the Eversource substation. After the hearing the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF), GreenRoots and Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) officially filed a Title VI civil rights complaint against Massachusetts energy agencies.

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By Dr. Glenn Mollette

The death of George Floyd at the hands of po-lice should never have hap-pened. It was murder and a dark moment in America. The looting, terrorism and burning of American cit-ies by so called protestors is criminal and a dark mo-ment in America.

The Minneapolis police officers involved in Floyd’s death must be held account-able. The criminals in-volved in wrecking Amer-ican cities, robbing and burning businesses must be held accountable.

Americans have the right to free speech. Free speech does not mean de-stroying property, hurting police officers and criminal activities.

The question many Americans are asking to-day is who is funding these criminal, terroristic riots that have happened across

America? People are show-ing up from other cities and states to wreak havoc and chaos in American cities. Who is paying their trav-el? Who is providing their lodging? Who is paying them money? Are there really this many evil, bad people in America? Obvi-ously, there are because the acts of violence displayed on national television are not coming from peaceful protestors. We have seen and heard about many peaceful protestors. Thou-sands of people have made their protests in a peaceful, honorable way.

No one blames anyone for being upset and angry about what happened to George Floyd. It made me angry. I would be willing to march with anyone to cry out against such an act and event. Actually, I cried out against Floyd’s murder in last week’s column stat-ing my feelings about his murder by the hands of the

Minneapolis police offi-cers. This column goes to thousands of media outlets. It was horrific and wrong and the officers must be punished. The looters and criminals who have vandal-ized and saw Floyd’s death as an opportunity to pursue criminal activity also must be put in jail and punished.

America is in deep trouble. We are still in the middle of Covid-19 with the prospects of a Fall re-surgence. Unemployment soars. Businesses have closed and many are strug-gling to hold on. Econom-ically our nation is buried. The future of our older generation is at great risk and the younger generation has not grasped yet what is really in store for them financially. The economic plight of this nation has put the realization of the Amer-ican Dream at great risk for America’s children.

We desperately need a revival of “rightness” in

America. There was a day when people believed in strong morals, decency, re-spect and the Golden Rule. This “rightness or rule” must happen from all the politicians, to the police of-ficers, to the protestors and to every person in America. The preachers in America must get this message out. The politicians must get this message out. We must put this message into our daily living. Or, it’s over for America.

Here’s the rule again, “Treat others the way you want to be treated.”

Glenn Mollette is the publisher of Newburgh Press, Liberty Torch and various other publishing imprints; a national colum-nist – American Issues and Common Sense opinions, analysis, stories and fea-tures appear each week In over 500 newspapers, web-sites and blogs across the United States.

George Floyd, protestor violence - how to solve all this

By Councilor Michael Flaherty

On Monday morning Bostonians woke up to a City destroyed by the ac-tions of those who took over and desecrated an otherwise peaceful and meaningful protest with acts of violence and de-struction. Their actions are unacceptable, disgraceful, and served as a disservice to those who showed up to protest peacefully. I want to thank the Boston Police Department, Boston Fire

Department, Boston Emer-gency Medical Services, and other first responders who worked hard all night to protect our City and it’s residents. I pray for anyone injured last night protecting our City.

To the thousands who participated in the initial peaceful march honoring the legacy of Mr. George Floyd and calling for change that returned home after its completion, I thank you. I am sorry that those with ill-intentions usurped

the narrative of your event and put your lives and cause in danger.

As a City, as a com-munity and as neighbors, we must choose how we move forward. The path forward may not be clear yet, but I do know that we need to walk it together. As an elected official, I am committed to bringing gov-ernment, community, law enforcement, and activists together to sit at the table and ensure these protests result in deeper understand-

ing and positive, measur-able results. I want to both ensure the thousands who participated in this event have their voices heard and their goals achieved, while also ensuring that those who perpetuated vi-olence and destruction are held fully accountable and that their actions are not repeated, glorified, or seen as acceptable in the City of Boston.

Michael Flaherty is a City Councilor at-Large in Boston.

MOST OF THE PROTESTERS ARE NOT LOOTERS

Congress shall make no law respecting an establish-

ment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. -- The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

The vast majority of Americans have been sickened by the horrific video of a white Minneapolis police officer slowly and agonizingly choking to death a 26 year-old Af-rican-American man, George Floyd.

Mr. Floyd had not committed any act of violence pri-or to being arrested and was lying prone on his stomach, with his hands handcuffed behind his back, as the officer applied pressure with his knee and the full force of his body weight to Mr. Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and 53 seconds.

The murder of Mr. Floyd while in police custody was the culmination of a series of high-profile, race-related incidents in recent weeks that have highlighted the rac-ism that is inherent in our society and that have spurred the protests for the past week in major cities across the country.

What has been striking about the protest movement is that the protesters in every city have been representa-tive of all races and nationalities, similar to the peaceful protest marches and the Freedom Rider movement in the 1960s that were led by Dr. Martin Luther King and other leaders of the Civil Rights movement at that time.

Unfortunately, there always are a few people who will seek to profit from any situation. Those who have been vandalizing property and who have been ransacking high-end retailers, as occurred Sunday night along Newbury St. and in downtown Boston, are professional criminals with lengthy records who have jumped on the protest bandwag-on, so to speak, solely in order to take advantage of the diversion of the police created by the peaceful and legiti-mate protesters.

However, the criminal behavior by a small minority of professional criminals amidst the protesters should not be a basis, either for average Americans or for our political leaders, to fail to acknowledge two important aspects of the current protest movement:

First, that every American has a right of free assembly and second, that our nation must address the rampant rac-ism that exists at every level of society.

Our government leaders who negatively are politiciz-ing the current situation are no different than the criminals who are ransacking the high-end stores. Both are seeking to hijack the legitimate methods and goals of the protest movement for their own ends.

However, we must not allow either the criminal ele-ment or unscrupulous politicians to distract us from at-taining the goal so eloquently expressed

by Dr. King in his “I Have a Dream” speech before 250,000 persons at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

Fifty seven years later, America still is a long way from realizing Dr. King’s dream of racial equality. Hopefully, the sad and tragic events of the past few weeks will rekin-dle in every American the need to achieve the goal of a just society for all Americans.

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$1.5 MILLION FOR NORTHERN STRAND COMMUNITY TRAIL

The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs has approved a $1.5 million grant regarding the development of the Northern Strand Community Trail led by a Revere on the Move part-ner organization, Bike to the Sea.

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By Sue Ellen Woodcock

For years the abutters of Route 1 have put up with the noise from millions of cars, and now some city councillors want to have Mayor Brian Ar-rigo contact the MassDOT to install barriers along Route 1 between Route 16 and Cope-land Circle.

Ward 5 Councillor Charles Patch, Ward 4 Councillor Patrick Keefe and Ward 1 Councillor Joanne McKen-na teamed up on a motion at last last week’s council meet-ing. Patch said he and the late

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“We should get more re-spect from the state and fed-eral government,” Patch said..

Keefe noted that more af-fluent communities are often granted sound barriers.

Ward 2 Councillor Ira No-voselsky pointed out that Sau-gus got barriers along Route 1 installed along a new ball field.

“It’s a quality-of-life is-sue,” he said.

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Every year a group of Re-vere residents and institution-al leaders meet together to select the awardees of mini-grants offered to the public through the community-led organizations, Revere on the Move and the Alcohol, Tobac-co, and Other Drugs (ATOD)

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This year over $20,000 was awarded to fund ideas to make Revere a healthier place to work, to play, and to raise a family. The Revere on the Move mini-grant program offered $10,605 in funding for permanent changes, pro-gram implementation, and youth-led projects that would help prevent or reduce obe-

sity in children and adults. The ATOD Task Force fund-ed projects totaling $9,500 to reduce youth substance use, improve their mental health, and increase opportunities for positive youth engagement.

In addition to the mini-grants already funded, Revere on the Move has extended their permanent change and program mini-grant appli-cations to Sunday, March 4. Up to $1,395 is available for ideas that make it easier to eat healthy and be active for all. The application is open

Revere's TNDreceives $50,000state grant for jobs

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Monday morning the Bak-er-Polito Administration awarded $500,000 to nine projects through the Urban Agenda Grant Program. The Revere arm of The Neigh-borhood Developers (TND) was one group given $50,000 in funding to help establish workforce development ser-vices in Revere to support lo-cal residents to acquire newly created jobs.

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito along with Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash came to Revere City Hall to present the check to the Neighborhood Developers.

“Our administration under-stands the importance of local leadership and its impact on the lives of residents,” said Lt. Governor Karyn Polito. “The Urban Agenda Grant Program relies on the strong partnerships between local government, non-profits and

the business community that are critical to fostering eco-nomic success and building stronger neighborhoods in ev-ery region in Massachusetts.”

Revere is rebuilding its economic and employment base by utilizing large-scale and high value assets includ-ing Suffolk Downs, Wonder-land, a soon-to-close NECCO plant, and the MassDevelop-ment TDI Waterfront District.

The program seeks to un-lock community-driven re-sponses to local obstacles, and promote economic devel-opment opportunities through partnership-building, problem solving, and shared account-ability in urban centers. The competitive awards offer flex-ible funding for local efforts that bring together commu-nity stakeholders to pursue economic development ini-tiatives. These awards will fund projects in Boston, Clin-

Real estate values continue to be strong in Revere

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Ann Houston of The Neighborhood Developers, State Rep. RoseLee Vincent, Bob O' Brien of Revere Economic Department, Mayor Brian Arrigo and Secretary of Housing and Ecomonic Development Jay Ash at the announcement of the Urban Agenda Grant Program on Monday morning in the Revere City Council Chambers.


The Revere real estate mar-ket in 2017 was definitely a good one with higher prices for homes than in 2016, but a drop in the number of new listings, making home-buying an adventure.

“These are the highest pric-es we’ve seen in the last eight years,” said Maureen Celata, owner/broker of MCelata Real Estate. “And 2018 is going to be another banner year. Inven-tory is low now, but everyone is looking to the spring.”

According to figures from the Massachusetts Associa-tion of Realtors, the median sales prices was $376,250, a 4.9 increase over prices in 2016.

Homes also were also on the market 41 days, a 26.8 percent increase over the 56

days on the market in 2016.The number of listings in

2017 also dropped to 265, 10.8 percent down from 297 in 2016. The good news for sellers is that the original list-ing price was matched 100 percent of the time.

The condominium mar-ket saw similar trends with the median sales price at $315,000, up 16.7 percent over 2016. Days on the mar-ket also dropped from 67 in 2016 to 47 days on the market

“Inventory is low now and everyone is looking toward the spring,” Celata said

The rental market is also strong with rents ranging from $1,200 to $3,000. Cleat noted that if someone is paying big rent they just might be capable of buying and taking advan-tage of first-time homebuyers programs.

“2017 was a fantastic year to be in real estate,” said Joe Mario of Century 21 Ma-rio Real Estate. “There’s a lot of confidence and equity in homes. For 35 years now it’s been positive. Now is the time to sell. Revere is getting the overflow from the Boston market and people are moving to Revere.

Mario said Revere is desir-able because of its proximity to Boston, and it’s a hidden gem with a beautiful beach.

Mario is looking forward to the spring market, drawing from Boston and surrounding communities. He added that the Revere School system is also a draw for buyers.

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Obituaries Pages 8 + 9

See NEWS BRIEFS, Page 2

$1.5 MILLION FOR NORTHERN STRAND COMMUNITY TRAIL

The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs has approved a $1.5 million grant regarding the development of the Northern Strand Community Trail led by a Revere on the Move part-ner organization, Bike to the Sea.

Revere has a one-mile stretch in North Revere. The Northern Strand Community Trail has been in development for over 20 years. The North Revere segment is a major part in the project that creates a continuous 7.5-mile rail trail running from West Everett, through Malden and Revere to the Saugus River and soon into Lynn. The North Revere segment allows users to en-joy spectacular views of the Rumney Marsh.

The funding, awarded through the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs’ (EEA) Gateway City Parks Program, enables the design of the trail, develop-ment of bid-ready construc-tion documents, and receipt of all necessary construction permits. When completed, the trail will span 10 miles and

See DeLEO Page 3

REVERE RECREATION HOSTS PAINT & SKATE NIGHT AT CRONIN RINK

Joseph Arrigo was all smiles at the Revere Recreation Paint & Skate Night on Feb. 10 at the Cronin Skating Rink in Revere. Please see more photos on Page 10.


For years the abutters of Route 1 have put up with the noise from millions of cars, and now some city councillors want to have Mayor Brian Ar-rigo contact the MassDOT to install barriers along Route 1 between Route 16 and Cope-land Circle.

Ward 5 Councillor Charles Patch, Ward 4 Councillor Patrick Keefe and Ward 1 Councillor Joanne McKen-na teamed up on a motion at last last week’s council meet-ing. Patch said he and the late

Councillor Robert Haas Jr. tried to get barriers installed in 2011 and received no re-sponse.

“We should get more re-spect from the state and fed-eral government,” Patch said..

Keefe noted that more af-fluent communities are often granted sound barriers.

Ward 2 Councillor Ira No-voselsky pointed out that Sau-gus got barriers along Route 1 installed along a new ball field.

“It’s a quality-of-life is-sue,” he said.

Barriers are easily seen Have you ever had an idea

for how you could make im-provements to the Revere community? So have the ap-plicants to the mini-grant pro-grams hosted by Revere on the Move and the Alcohol, To-bacco and Other Drugs Task Force; and this time, these ideas are going to become a reality.

Every year a group of Re-vere residents and institution-al leaders meet together to select the awardees of mini-grants offered to the public through the community-led organizations, Revere on the Move and the Alcohol, Tobac-co, and Other Drugs (ATOD)

Task Force. Both the ATOD Task Force and Revere on the Move are initiatives of the MGH Revere CARES Coa-lition. Revere on the Move is additionally co-led by the Healthy Community Initia-tives Office at the City of Re-vere.

This year over $20,000 was awarded to fund ideas to make Revere a healthier place to work, to play, and to raise a family. The Revere on the Move mini-grant program offered $10,605 in funding for permanent changes, pro-gram implementation, and youth-led projects that would help prevent or reduce obe-

sity in children and adults. The ATOD Task Force fund-ed projects totaling $9,500 to reduce youth substance use, improve their mental health, and increase opportunities for positive youth engagement.

In addition to the mini-grants already funded, Revere on the Move has extended their permanent change and program mini-grant appli-cations to Sunday, March 4. Up to $1,395 is available for ideas that make it easier to eat healthy and be active for all. The application is open

Revere's TNDreceives $50,000state grant for jobs

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Monday morning the Bak-er-Polito Administration awarded $500,000 to nine projects through the Urban Agenda Grant Program. The Revere arm of The Neigh-borhood Developers (TND) was one group given $50,000 in funding to help establish workforce development ser-vices in Revere to support lo-cal residents to acquire newly created jobs.

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito along with Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash came to Revere City Hall to present the check to the Neighborhood Developers.

“Our administration under-stands the importance of local leadership and its impact on the lives of residents,” said Lt. Governor Karyn Polito. “The Urban Agenda Grant Program relies on the strong partnerships between local government, non-profits and

the business community that are critical to fostering eco-nomic success and building stronger neighborhoods in ev-ery region in Massachusetts.”

Revere is rebuilding its economic and employment base by utilizing large-scale and high value assets includ-ing Suffolk Downs, Wonder-land, a soon-to-close NECCO plant, and the MassDevelop-ment TDI Waterfront District.

The program seeks to un-lock community-driven re-sponses to local obstacles, and promote economic devel-opment opportunities through partnership-building, problem solving, and shared account-ability in urban centers. The competitive awards offer flex-ible funding for local efforts that bring together commu-nity stakeholders to pursue economic development ini-tiatives. These awards will fund projects in Boston, Clin-

Real estate values continue to be strong in Revere

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Ann Houston of The Neighborhood Developers, State Rep. RoseLee Vincent, Bob O' Brien of Revere Economic Department, Mayor Brian Arrigo and Secretary of Housing and Ecomonic Development Jay Ash at the announcement of the Urban Agenda Grant Program on Monday morning in the Revere City Council Chambers.


The Revere real estate mar-ket in 2017 was definitely a good one with higher prices for homes than in 2016, but a drop in the number of new listings, making home-buying an adventure.

“These are the highest pric-es we’ve seen in the last eight years,” said Maureen Celata, owner/broker of MCelata Real Estate. “And 2018 is going to be another banner year. Inven-tory is low now, but everyone is looking to the spring.”

According to figures from the Massachusetts Associa-tion of Realtors, the median sales prices was $376,250, a 4.9 increase over prices in 2016.

Homes also were also on the market 41 days, a 26.8 percent increase over the 56

days on the market in 2016.The number of listings in

2017 also dropped to 265, 10.8 percent down from 297 in 2016. The good news for sellers is that the original list-ing price was matched 100 percent of the time.

The condominium mar-ket saw similar trends with the median sales price at $315,000, up 16.7 percent over 2016. Days on the mar-ket also dropped from 67 in 2016 to 47 days on the market

“Inventory is low now and everyone is looking toward the spring,” Celata said

The rental market is also strong with rents ranging from $1,200 to $3,000. Cleat noted that if someone is paying big rent they just might be capable of buying and taking advan-tage of first-time homebuyers programs.

“2017 was a fantastic year to be in real estate,” said Joe Mario of Century 21 Ma-rio Real Estate. “There’s a lot of confidence and equity in homes. For 35 years now it’s been positive. Now is the time to sell. Revere is getting the overflow from the Boston market and people are moving to Revere.

Mario said Revere is desir-able because of its proximity to Boston, and it’s a hidden gem with a beautiful beach.

Mario is looking forward to the spring market, drawing from Boston and surrounding communities. He added that the Revere School system is also a draw for buyers.

“It all adds to the future growth of Revere,” he said.

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At Monday night’s Jeffries Point Neighborhood Associa-tion (JPNA) meeting, former longtime JPNA Co-Chair Renee Scalfani was honored by Mayor Martin Walsh, City Councilor Lydia Edwards, Rep. Adrian Madaro and the JPNA board.

Walsh, along with JPNA Chair Mary Cole, presented Scalfani, one of the longest continuously serving mem-bers of any East Boston com-munity group board, with a golden gavel.

“I just want to honor Re-

nee (Scalfani) who served as co-chair of the JPNA for the past 10 years,” said Walsh. “It is with great appreciation that we honor someone with her heart and soul who was truly the “Mayor” of Jeffries Point.”

As the neighborhood’s no-table community groups like JPNA and Orient Heights have been taken over by new blood and newer community groups like Harbor View have emerged, Scalfani remained a fixture in Eastie’s community process for as long as anyone can remember.

Longtime JPNA Co-Chair Renee Scalfani (third from right) honored by Mayor Martin Walsh, the JPNA board and Eastie’s elected officials during Monday night’s meeting. From left, Steve Gringas from Rep. Madaro’s office, JPNA’s Cindy Baxter, JPNA’s Dan Bailey, City Councilor Lydia Edwards, Renee Scalfani and JPNA’s Mary Cole.

Former JPNA Co-Chair Renee Scalfani honored

By John Lynds

Environmentalists, activ-ists, residents and elected officials on both sides of the Chelsea Creek are standing in solidarity in firm opposition against Eversource’s plan to place a substation at the City Yards in East Boston along the Chelsea Creek.

Last week in Eastie, the state’s Energy Facility Siting Board (EFSB) held a pub-lic meeting to discuss Ever-source’s Notice of Project Change that moves the pro-posed substation from the

eastern corner of the City Yards in East Eagle Square to the western corner. The original location on the east-ern portion of the city-owned parcel was approved by the EFSB last year.

In its Notice of Project Change Eversource seeks ap-proval to move the Substation 190 feet to the western side of the City Yards lot. The scope of the upcoming meeting is limited to Eversource’s pro-posed relocation of the sub-station from its current site on the eastern side of the city parcel to its new proposed lo-cation.

Eversource said the two 115-kV transmission lines that would connect to the sub-station would no longer be routed along Condor and East Eagle streets if the substation is placed in the western por-tion of the parcel.

Local environmentalists from Eastie and Chelsea have called on the EFSB to explore alternatives to placing Ever-

source’s proposed substation along the Chelsea Creek.

For two years, local en-vironmentalists on the East-ie and Chelsea sides of the Creek have launched a visual, media and talking campaign against Eversource’s plans to place the substation at the City Yards in Eagle Square.

At the meeting, U.S. Con-gresswoman Ayanna Pressley, who represents both East Bos-ton and Chelsea, sent a video testimony from her office in Washington, D.C.

“I’m your sister in solidari-ty,” said Pressley. “This at its best is poor urban planning and at its worst an injustice. It is unconscionable that a com-munity already overburdened with environmental injustices would be put in harm’s way and have those existing health hazards exacerbated. The community should be a part of planning and I know when we organize we win and this

East Boston, Chelsea stand in solidarity over proposed Eversource Substation

(Top and left) Ac-tivists from Chelsea and East Boston stood in solidarity with one another Tuesday night to oppose the pro-posed Eversource Substation along the Chelsea Creek

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Community participation urged in Suffolk Downs public comment period

By John Lynds

Last week the owners of the Suffolk Downs site, HYM Investment Group, LLC, released its Planned Devel-opment Area Master Plan (PDA). This started that a 90-day public comment peri-od that City Councilor Lydia Edwards is urging East Bos-ton residents to submit their comments.

In its filing, HYM propos-es approximately 10.5 million square feet of development on the approximately 109 acres of the Suffolk Downs site in the City of Boston. The multi-phased proposal will include development of a new mixed-use neighborhood, a 40-acre publicly accessible open space system, and two retail squares at Suffolk Downs and Beachmont MBTA stations.

The initial project phase will include approximately 1.39 million square feet of de-velopment consisting 520,000 square feet of corporate use and amenity space, three residential buildings, and a portion of the townhomes proposed along Waldemar Av-enue totaling more than 800 housing units. Phase I also in-See SUFFOLK DOWNS Page 5

By John Lynds

Mayor Martin Walsh made a surprise visit to Monday night’s Jeffries Point Neigh-borhood Association (JPNA) meeting to update residents on some city issues and have an informal conversation with residents here.

“I was sitting in my office when I made the decision to get back out to civic associ-ations in the city and talk to people about the issues,” said Walsh. “By nature, admin-istrations go from outward looking to inward looking so I realized I wanted to get back out and hear from residents instead of relying solely on

neighborhood coordinators and other staff. I’m here to talk about whatever you want to talk about.”

Walsh said when he was campaigning for Mayor of Boston in 2013 he constantly heard that aside from a few waterfront development proj-ects, nothing much was going on to improve housing and the economy of the neighbor-hood.

“Now fast forward to today and now I hear there is too much development going on,” said Walsh. “East Boston has become one of those neigh-borhoods that people want to

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MARTINEZ GRADUATES FROM WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Alonso Martinez of East Boston has graduated from Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Mass.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the University celebrated its Spring 2020 Commencement on April 25 with a special virtual toast in honor of the gradu-ating students.

Founded in 1904, Went-worth Institute of Technol-ogy stresses project-based, hands-on learning, with an emphasis on coopera-tive education and careers, community enrichment, and contributing to the economic vitality of the Greater Boston region. The nationally ranked school is recognized as a leader in engineering, technology, design and science.

Wentworth has some 19 bachelor’s degree programs in areas such as architec-ture; construction manage-ment; mechanical, biomed-ical and civil engineering; and computer science. It offers master’s degrees in in applied

MUNG GRADUATES FROM BECKER COLLEGE

Becker College is pleased to announce that Fong Mung, of East Bos-ton, has graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Vet-erinary Science, Pre-Veter-inary Concentration. Mung was one of more than 430 students recognized at a virtual commencement cel-ebration.

To see Becker Col-lege’s Commencement page, including details on graduates, awards and

a video message from President Crimmin, go to https://www.becker.edu/student-life/commence-ment-2020/

Founded in 1784, Becker College is an undergradu-ate and graduate, career-fo-cused private college, pro-viding a supportive and inclusive learning commu-nity that prepares graduates for their first to last careers. Nearly 1,700 students from the United States and around the world attend Becker College, which has campuses both in Worces-ter and Leicester, Massa-chusetts. With nationally recognized programs in nursing, game design and animal studies, Becker has been consistently ranked as a “Best College” for under-graduate education by The Princeton Review.

LANDAVERDE RECEIVES DEGREE FROM GEORGIA TECH

Stephanie Landaverde of East Boston has earned a Master of Business Admin-istration from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Landaverde was among approximately 4,050 under-graduate and graduate stu-dents who earned degrees during the Spring 2020 semester. Students were celebrated during a virtual celebration held on May 1. They will also be hon-ored during in-person com-mencement ceremonies to be held on campus later this year.

One of the nation’s lead-ing research universities, the Georgia Institute of Technology is in the busi-ness of Creating the Next--the next idea, the next technology, and the next legion of agile minds well equipped to imagine and engineer our future. More

than 36,000 undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled, and Georgia Tech is ranked in the nation’s top five public universities by U.S. News & World Re-port. For more information visit www.gatech.edu.

O’GORMAN EARNS DEGREE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT

Austin O’Gorman of Eat Boston graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration during commencement cer-emonies on May 17.

The university conferred degrees this year on some 3,183 graduates, including 2,415 bachelor’s, 533 mas-ter’s, 114 doctoral and 121 medical degree recipients. The Class of 2020 includes graduates from 39 states and 30 countries.

The class’s academic achievement was saluted online with remarks from UVM President Suresh Garimella, Vermont Gover-nor Phil Scott, and universi-ty and state leaders.

About UVMSince 1791, the Univer-

sity of Vermont has worked to move humankind for-ward. Committed to both research and teaching, UVM professors -- world-class researchers, scholars, and artists -- bring their discoveries into the class-room and their students into the field. Located in Burlington, Vermont, one of the nation’s most vibrant small cities and top college towns, UVM is a Public Ivy and top 100 national research university educat-ing 10,700 undergraduate students, 1,627 graduate students, 776 certificate and non-degree students, and 478 M.D. students in the Larner College of Medi-cine.

Boston has landed near the top of the 2020 ParkS-core list compiled by The Trust for Public Land rank-ing how much access citi-zens have to parks and park amenities. The annual re-port uses mapping technol-ogy and demographic data to determine how well the largest cities in the United States are meeting the need for parks.

Boston’s ninth place score was higher than Chi-cago, New York City, St. Louis, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and San Di-ego on a list of 100 cities and moved up from 13th place in 2019. With the majority of Boston residents living within close proximity to a park, the city’s highest

score was in the category of access where Boston earned 100 out of 100. The city’s high percentage of city area dedicated to parks (17%) and strong playground ac-cess score also boosted the city’s ParkScore rating.

ParkScore ratings are based equally on three fac-tors: park access, which measures the percentage of residents living within a 10-minute walk of a park (approximately ½-mile); park size, which is based on a city’s median park size and the percentage of total city area dedicated to parks; and services and invest-ment, which combines the number of playgrounds per 10,000 city residents and per capita park spending.

ParkScore uses advanced GIS (geographic infor-mation system) computer mapping technology to cre-ate digital maps evaluating park accessibility, making it the most realistic assess-ment system available. In-stead of simply measuring distance to a local park, ParkScore’s GIS technol-ogy takes into account the location of park entranc-es and physical obstacles to access. In addition to the at-a-glance park bench summary rating, ParkScore features an in-depth web-site, parkscore.tpl.org, that local leaders can use as a roadmap to guide park im-provement efforts.

Boston parks score high again in trust for public land rankings

Mayor Martin J. Walsh has announced that the 24th annual Mayor’s Gar-den Contest will take place this year keeping within current social distancing guidelines. Boston’s green thumbs have until 11:59 p.m. on Friday, July 10, to register. The contest pro-vides the perfect opportu-nity to recognize those who have taken advantage of the “safer at home” guidelines to hone their gardening skills.

The contest recognizes gardeners who have land-scaped, planted flowers, trees, shrubs, and, in the process, helped beautify Boston’s neighborhoods. The safety of gardeners and contest judges is the top

priority of the Boston Parks and Recreation Depart-ment. Gardeners should follow all current adviso-ries from the Boston Public Health Commission and the City of Boston. Visit the City’s coronavirus website for the latest information and guidance.

Gardeners or those nomi-nating their favorite garden-ers may find printable and online nomination forms at www.boston.gov/may-ors-garden-contest. First place winners will receive the coveted “Golden Trow-el” award from Mayor Walsh while second and third place winners will be awarded certificates. The traditional awards ceremo-ny will be dependent on the

rules on public gatherings that apply in August.

Gardeners who have won three or more times in the last ten years will be au-tomatically entered into the Hall of Fame. These distin-guished Hall-of-Famers are not eligible to enter as con-testants but are welcome to return as judges.

The preferred method of entry for residents is to submit photos through the online application at www.boston.gov/mayors-gar-den-contest. Alternatively, they may request an ap-plication by emailing their name and address to [email protected]. For more information please call (617) 635-4505.

Mayor’s Garden Contest deadline July 10

Mystic Valley Elder Services (MVES) recent-ly received a Senior Corps RSVP grant of $82,397.00 from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the feder-al agency for volunteering and service.

The funds were award-ed as part of a Senior Corps RSVP grant competition to increase the impact of na-tional service in the Mystic Valley region. Established in 1971, RSVP programs engage older Americans in volunteer opportunities across the country. These volunteers have been a crit-ical resource for nationwide response efforts—in every-thing from hunger preven-tion to natural disasters.

“This funding provides much-needed support to our RSVP program, in which our volunteers share their time and expertise with a wide variety of com-

munity members, from el-ementary school children to those enrolling in Medi-care,” said Leah Mulrenan, Mystic Valley Elder Ser-vices’ RSVP Director and Volunteer Program Manag-er. Mulrenan oversees and supports over 400 volun-teers in the Mystic Valley region, many of whom are serving critical community functions, such as serving food at senior dining sites, assisting elders with bill paying tasks, or distributing goods at food pantries.

Established in 1971, RSVP programs engage Americans age 55 and older in citizen service that addresses the nation’s most-pressing challenges—everything from fighting the opioid epidemic, reduc-ing crime and reviving cit-ies, connecting veterans to jobs and benefits, preparing today’s students for tomor-row’s jobs, and ensuring

seniors age independently and with dignity.

While serving, Senior Corps volunteers also im-prove their own lives, staying active and healthy through service. A grow-ing body of research points to mental and physical health benefits associated with volunteering, includ-ing lower mortality rates, increased strength and energy, decreased rates of depression, and fewer physical limitations. Mys-tic Valley Elder Services offers a variety of volunteer opportunities, which range from commitments of just a few hours each month, to multiple days each week.

For more information about volunteer opportu-nities at Mystic Valley El-der Services, and to find the one that’s best for you, please call 781-388-2375 or visit mves.org/volunteer.

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“This core infrastructure Blue Line work is part of the Baker-Polito Adminis-tration’s $8 billion plan to repair, upgrade, and mod-ernize the MBTA system, to ensure safe and reliable service,” said Secretary Pollack. “While we con-tinue to urge the public to only make essential trips during the pandemic, the T is moving ahead with capi-tal projects and continuing to plan for more opportuni-ties to get work done faster in 2020.”

In compliance with the Commonwealth’s Reopen-ing Massachusetts Report, riders are also reminded that face coverings are re-quired while onboard shut-tle buses. Additionally, in an effort to promote social distancing and protect the

health and safety of MBTA riders and bus operators, ridership on shuttle buses is limited to twenty passen-gers.

“The suspension of Blue Line service has allowed us to make incredible prog-ress as workers maximize the benefits of having un-encumbered access to sta-tions, track, and tunnel ar-eas,” said MBTA General Manager Poftak. “Our pri-mary focus, as always, is on safety, especially during the pandemic and the start of Phase 1 of the Common-wealth’s Reopening Plan. We continue to promote social distancing and re-quire face coverings. This expedited critical track and tunnel infrastructure work leads to the upgrades our riders deserve – faster trains, shorter travel times, and more reliable service.”

Work included the in-stallation of a new truck

pad near Airport Sta-tion; replacing 2,200 feet of track along the Blue Line that will remove a long-standing speed re-striction between Maverick and Aquarium--effectively reducing trip times by up to fifty-one seconds be-tween Airport and Maver-ick); crews worked to fix the harbor tunnel leak with drainage work between Maverick and Aquarium that will reduce water-/leak-related service delays, improving reliability; as well as fire standpipe relo-cation between Maverick and Aquarium.

“I had the unique oppor-tunity to tour the Blue Line tunnel in East Boston and see the work being done,” said Rep. Adrian Madaro. “From repairing a tunnel first built in the early 1900’s to replacing over 2200 feet of track, this critical infra-structure project will allow

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Last week at Maverick MBTA station Gov. Charlie Baker highlighted the accelerated infra-structure work on the Blue Line that wrapped up Sunday.

Gov. Charlie Baker during the tour of the Blue Line project at Maverick Station.

Rep. Adrian Madaro during the tour of the accelerated infrastructure work on the Blue Line.

for increased train speeds, shorter travel times, and a more reliable schedule. I

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tour and all the workers for their incredible efforts.”

By John Lynds

Last week District 1 City Councilor Lydia Edwards announced she has hired Jeffries Point resident Jesse Purvis as her new Director of Policy and Communica-tions.

Purvis joins Edwards’s office after successfully graduating from UMass Law where he served as a Public Interest Law Fellow and founder of the school’s local chapter of the Nation-al Lawyers Guild.

“I’m thrilled to have Jes-se join the team as our new

Director of Policy,” said Councilor Edwards. “His legal aid background and commitment to bettering the community will help me better serve the residents of District One.”

Purvis also received the Thurgood Marshall Award for Social Justice for his work on and off campus.

“I’m excited to give back to the community that has given me so much,” said Purvis. “Public service under Lydia Edwards, as her Director of Policy, is a dream job come true.”

Purvis added that he is

Eastie’s Jesse Purvis named to serve as Councilor Edwards’s new Director of Policy

Jesse Purvis, Councilor Edwards’s new Director of Policy.

thankful for his Eastie com-munity who have helped him put down roots as he navigates life as a new par-ent

Purvis grew up in south-ern California after immi-grating to the United States from Australia at a young age. After attending Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he decided not to leave and has since made Eastie his home.

Purvis has worked in pri-mary schools as a parapro-fessional teacher in math and science, and in out-of-school time as a program director for pre-teen youth services. His interests in-clude environmental jus-tice, table tennis, hiking, technology and bicycles.

He currently lives in East Boston with his part-ner, Tanya Hahnel, their young daughter Ida Jean, and senior greyhound, Cary Grant.

Purvis can be reached by calling Councilor Edwards’ office at 617-635-3200 or by email at [email protected].


By John Lynds

When City Councilor Lydia Edwards first viewed the cellphone footage of a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on George Floyd’s neck until he died she had to stop the video several times.

“I had to stop it sever-al times,” said Edwards, who was elected as District 1’s first African American City Councilor. “I couldn’t watch it to completion. I cried and then got so an-gry. I just remember think-ing the policeman looks so calm. There was no real concern, no sense of urgen-cy. Usually, when I think of police brutality I think it happens in the heat of the moment. There is a sense of urgency and quick thoughts and faster movements. But this officer wasn’t scared, wasn’t moving fast. He just didn’t care.”

After the anger, Edwards said she remembers feeling immense depression and sorrow.

“I even wished my 5 ½ month old nephew wasn’t a boy,” she said. “I feel so guilty and I question hav-ing children and I certainly don’t want to have a boy. I feel immense pressure to do all that I can to make sure something like that doesn’t happen here. I have lost sleep and my appetite over the stress. I feel so much is

expected of me as a politi-cian who is black. I won-der how “black” I can be? I wonder what will be the straw that breaks my purple district’s back. Maybe I am not giving my district a fair chance.”

But while cities burn and racial tension is at an all time high, how do we move forward with a positive di-alogue among citizens, po-lice and politicians to gain not only understanding of Floyd’s death but to spark real change.

“The pain that people are feeling has to be acknowl-edged first,” said Edwards. “We need to know our his-tory. We can’t make poli-cy in a vacuum. We need to confront our own biases and know that if we each have a part to play. We need to stop confusing police ac-countability with being anti police. It’s literally my job to ask tough questions but too many people think that means I don’t trust or like the police.”

Edwards has always maintained a great work-ing relationship with the Boston Police, especially the men and women serv-ing at Eastie District A-7. With the majority of offi-cers here just as sad, angry and frustrated by not only the actions of Officer Chau-vin but the actions of other officers in other cases, Ed-wards has the tough job of

balancing her relationship with the police with calls for real reform locally and nationally.

“I encourage any of the police officers to stand with advocates and denounce police brutality,” said Ed-wards. “If we’re trying to really solve systemic rac-ism and police brutality, reform needs to happen at an institutional level. We also need to hold bad ac-tors within them account-able. I have great respect for the community police officers in East Boston. They’ve been shoulder to shoulder with residents on a multitude of issues. These moments of pain and grief allow us to take a step back and assess how we can do better as a society. We have an opportunity to restruc-ture an entire system. We can work with the police to help define what equita-ble, compassionate policing looks like. We just ask for full recognition that what we have now isn’t work-ing and listen to our calls for true reform. . There are calls for several reforms including a citizens review board for police officers that are bad actors. I think that is worth exploring.”

With the majority of protesters participating in peaceful demonstrations throughout Boston in mem-ory of George Floyd, Sun-day night’s rioting, looting and violence was sparked

by a small element within a protest that had remained peaceful for several hours.

Watching the news cov-erage Sunday night, Ed-wards said she could not speak about the intentions of individuals who decid-ed to turn their actions on the police or if they were even a part of the peaceful demonstration earlier in the day.

However, she said, “I can tell you that the crowd that assembled from Nu-bian Square to Downtown was beautifully diverse and represented the best parts of Boston. These were residents who took to the streets to call out what hap-pened against George Floyd and other people of color for what it is: acts of police brutality and racism. They assembled to call for action and tangible change against systems of oppression and they did so peacefully. . There were many people from other cities that came to cause havoc and I resent them for co-opting the mo-ment.”

It’s been 52 years since Martin Luther King was assassinated fighting for ra-cial justice. Announcing his death to a crowd in India-napolis Robert F. Kennedy said, “the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live to-gether, want to improve the quality of our life, and want

justice for all human beings who abide in our land.”

However, in those 52 years some are still not sure we have had an honest con-versation with ourselves as a nation when it comes to race relations.

“There are still people that believe the Civil War was about state’s rights and not slavery,” said Edwards. “We have people that won’t acknowledge the pain of people like my colleague City Council President Kim Janey who was bussed into Charlestown. We don’t need to look that far back to know we haven’t had an honest conversation in Boston about our school system, our housing and neighborhood segregation. Not talking about race and racism to our children, to our co-workers and to our politicians. After 52 years we are still dealing with this. What can we do? Lis-ten to the pain of the African American community and other marginalized groups. Instead, too many people will call me and others a “snowflake” to dismiss my pain. Legitimize the trau-ma and pain felt by the African American commu-nity in particular after each death at the hands of the police. Acknowledge that we got here through a sys-tem of laws and intentional systemic racism. There-fore, we must be intention-al and use our laws to heal

our community. Personally, everyone should identify structural inequities and analyze how to restructure one’s own behaviors to fix it. Learn the full history and perpetuation of racism in this country and how it has set us up for inequal-ity. Most importantly, put words into action. I joined the Black and Latino Cau-cus of Legislators on Tues-day to release a 10-point plan of federal, state, and municipal actions. I’m over the hashtags - we need pre-scriptive policies to heal this country.”

Edwards said she will continue to help her con-stituents who need to voice their frustrations over this senseless death.

“In times like these ev-eryone is going to process things differently,” she said. “I will support my constituents’ right to protest and demand change from me and other elected offi-cials. I promise to listen to their frustrations and pain as I think about my role in implementing policy that will lead to change. I don’t deny or question their pain. I ask how I can help them heal. This is an opportunity to reassess how we do busi-ness. We have been handed a baton and the question is what we are going to do to make this a better world for our children. What are we going to pass onto them?”


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Pazza on Porter, which opened last fall, to rave re-views from Eastie residents has been doing its share to help out frontline health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pazza owners Mivan Spencer and Raffaele Scalzi of the Boston Amici Group recently teamed up with Tenure England Vod-ka to feed exhausted and hungry staff at East Boston Neighborhood Health Cen-ter (EBNHC).

Tenure England Vodka, which is served at Paz-za and a key ingredient in the restaurant’s signature mixed drinks, sponsored a Pazza lunch at the Health Center.

EBNHC nurses were also presented with T-shirts

that said “Essential Nurse” during the lunch.

Located in the same spot as Sablone’s, and later Ecco, Pazza on Porter com-memorates old Eastie with their private dining room that features the Sablone’s signature wall--something Ecco owners preserved when they took over the restaurant. Notable sig-natures on the wall range from Ted Williams and Bobby Orr to Diana Ross and Steven Tyler.

As for the food, Paz-za’s menu was created by Executive Chef Stephen Ennamorati, previously of Citizens Public House & Oyster Bar. Ennamorati said he takes Italian-Amer-ican style cuisine to another level in a creative and de-licious way. Pazza’s menu includes classic dishes such

as meatballs, calamari, bur-rata and more. A variety of homemade pastas is also incorporated into dishes like the Amatrciana, Car-bonara, and Alla Pazza.

Pazza on Porter gives back to EBNHC with help from Tenure England Vodka

The team from Pazza on Porter and Tenure England Vodka delivered food recently to the staff at EBNHC.

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Councilor Lydia Edwards reacts to George Floyd’s murder and protests


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first week of June.

of each student on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Staff and School Com-mittee members places signs over both days that celebrated the students and their upcoming graduation.

There will be video messages through May and June, a virtual Senior Awards and Scholarship Night on July 9, and the vir-tual graduation on July 12.

ONE STEP CLOSER TO BAN ON NIPS

CHELSEA - The state Alcoholic Beverages Con-trol Commission (ABCC) finally ruled on the appeal by several liquor stores in Chelsea regarding the 2018 ban on nip liquor bottles – with the ABCC saying it has no jurisdiction to hear or rule on the case and, thus, sending it to state Su-perior Court if the matter is appealed further.

Officially, in the ruling on May 26, the ABCC al-lowed the City of Chelsea’s motion to dismiss the ap-peal by eight liquor stores in the city – all of which said they were harmed by the decision to outlaw the 100mL bottles that City leaders argued contributed to litter issues and public drinking.

“The appropriate forum for the licensees to chal-lenge the local licensing authority’s ban on 100 ml bottles is with the Superior Court, likely in a declara-tory judgment action pur-suant to (state law),” read the decision. “In any event, the Commission is not the appropriate forum for this challenge.”

City officials had hoped that the ABCC would rule to dismiss the appeal, and believe they have a better chance to survive the chal-lenge in court – as the rules are more strict and judg-ments aren’t as arbitrary as at the quasi-judicial ABCC.

Many communities in Greater Boston have been waiting and watching for this decision, and will con-tinue to watch the Superi-

or Court proceedings. Most municipalities had

hoped they could follow Chelsea’s lead in banning the nip bottles, as they are widely considered a nui-sance in urban areas.

Councilor Roy Avellane-da, a former License Board member, said he was glad to hear the decision went the City’s way. He had championed the idea for several years, noting that he has lived with seeing pub-lic drinking since he was a kid growing up in Chelsea and seeing people drink the nip bottles in Bellingham Square.

“I’m very happy that the ABCC decided in favor of Chelsea’s License Board and City’s position that the ABCC had no jurisdiction on deciding if NIPS can be sold in the city,” he said. “I’m sure the Plaintiffs will consider and file an appeal to the Massachusetts Su-perior Court to overturn the ban. My position has not changed since I have advocated for the ban and more so I now have actual data to support my reason for the ban. In the two years we have had the NIP ban in place, Chelsea is a clean-er place without the litter of NIP bottles all over and more importantly and pri-mary reason for my advo-cacy is that our streets are safer and healthier.”

Avellaneda said the vol-ume of responses for alco-hol-related calls by police, fire and ambulance is down almost 75 percent. He ar-gues the decision might come down to a public health argument, and said eliminating the nip bottles has taken pressure off of first responders, and also made the downtown more family-friendly.

In the argument against accepting the appeal, the ABCC said the license hadn’t been modified, but a regulation had been estab-lished for every licensee.

“Here, none of the licens-ees’ licenses were ‘mod-ified,’” read the decision. “Instead, the local licensing authority, pursuant to its au-thority to promulgate ‘rea-sonable requirements’ for the way all licensees con-

duct their business, banned the sale of 100 ml bottles of alcohol, not as a sanction for violating a law, but on

considerations of public health and safety.

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NEWS FROM AROUND THE REGION

CHS GRADUATION ON JULY 12

CHELSEA - After hear-ing from senior students and their families, Chelsea Public Schools announced that they will offer a vir-tual graduation, and also a walk-in graduation where students will get to cross the stage individually at the Stadium and families will be able to take photos of the moment – even if a bit solitary.

Two weeks ago, Prin-cipal Mark Martineau and Supt. Almi Abeyta went ahead with scheduling a virtual graduation that will take place on July 12 and will be a full-scale produc-tion.

That upset a lot of se-niors and their families, and sparked several online Town Halls to talk about alternatives. It also allowed for the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to come out with graduation regula-tions late last week. Now, administrators announced there will be a walk-in graduation in early August.

“After having listened to you via the town halls and student surveys and learning of the latest rec-ommendations from DESE, we have made the deci-sion to have an Individu-al Walk-In Graduation,” wrote Abeyta in a letter to seniors. “We recognize the importance of crossing the stage, and our desire is to honor this special moment; we have worked on a way to do this safely for all in-volved. Please hold August 4 -7, 2020 on your calendar because you will be given a time and date to meet at the Chelsea High School Field to cross the stage (in-clement weather date to be determined) and be handed your diploma.”

More details will follow and they will be working

out many of the details so the event will be safe.

Abeyta and Martineau have said they understand that students were upset about the decision to sched-ule a virtual graduation without consulting stu-dents. Time, however, was of the essence and a quick decision had to be made to secure GradCasters to per-form the ceremony.

“This decision was made with the information and knowledge that we had at the time and based solely on the safety and well-be-ing for each of you, your families, and our staff,” wrote Abeyta. “The virtual graduation will still pro-ceed as planned on July 12, 2020. Our goal with the vir-tual graduation was to en-sure that you were celebrat-ed despite the health risk of the current pandemic.”

The virtual graduation will feature each student who will be called in to give an interview individu-ally in their cap and gown. She said all of that will be collected and organized into a cohesive and profes-sional production that will be shown and distributed on July 12.

Overall, Abeyta said the idea is to celebrate the class in the best way possible, and she and the staff are looking forward to plan-ning the walk-in ceremony as well as the virtual one.

“We are also cognizant that this has been a difficult time with many mixed emo-tions, and we want to honor you,” she wrote. “Our goal is to celebrate the Class of 2020 and to ensure that you are recognized for your per-severance and hard work as you end one chapter in your life to begin a new one.”

•SENIOR LAWN SIGNS, ETC.

Already, the celebration for seniors has started with the placement of lawn and window signs at the homes

DISPLAY OF PATRIOTISM

PHOTOS BY SETH DANIEL

Volunteers and City officials gathered late on Friday after-noon, May 22, to decorate Chelsea Square with hundreds of individual flags to commemorate Memorial Day. The effort has been ongoing for about four years, said Council-or Roy Avellaneda – who put together Friday’s volunteer effort. By the end of the day, Chelsea Square was adorned with hundreds of flags in a great display of patriotism de-spite the pandemic situation most find themselves in. Here Fidel Maltez of the DPW places one of the small flags into the ground.


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DefendantORDER FOR SERVICE BYPUBLICATIONWHEREAS, a civil action has been brought against Adil Dhouhi seeking judgment on counts of Money Had and Received, Unjust Enrichment, Breach of Fiduciary Duty and Breach of Loyalty, Conversion, Fraud, and Breach of the Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing.WHEREAS it appears to the Court from the Affidavit of Tom E. Zoller filed in this action that after the exercise of reasonable due diligence that on one can find Adil Dhouhi and that no personal service of the Complaint may be made upon Adil Dhouhi, it is ORDERED, pursuant to Mass.R.Civ.P. 4(d)(1), that notice of this suit be given to Adil Dhouhi

by publishing this Order, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, the last publication to be at least twenty (20) days before said return day, in the Boston Globe and each of three newspapers of general circulation distributed within three miles of 15 Murray Court, East Boston, MA 02128; 16 Franklin Street, Apt. 1, Somerville, MA 02145; and 7 Lowman Circle, Peabody, MA 01960.WE COMMAND YOU, ADIL DHOUHI, if you intend to make any defense, that on or by June 30, 2020, or within such further time as the law allows you, do cause your written responsive pleading (or other response as appropriate) to be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court, Norfolk Superior Court, 650 High Street, Dedham, MA 02026 in said Commonwealth, with a copy to be served upon the Plaintiff’s attorney, James G. Grillo, Esq., Davagian Grillo & Semple LLP, 365 Boston Post Road, Ste. 200, Sudbury, MA 01776, and further that you defend against said suit according to law if you intent any

defense, and that you do and receive what the Court shall order and adjudge therein. If you fail to meet the above requirements, judgment by default may be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. Unless otherwise provided by Rule 13(e),your answer must state as a counterclaim any claim which you may have against the Plaintiff which arises out of the transaction or occurrence that is the subject matter of the Plaintiff’s claim or you will be barred from making any such claim in any other action.SO ORDERED Dated this 13th day of April 2020.Robert C. CosgroveJUSTICE OF THE SUPERIOR COURTWITNESS, Judith Fabricant, at Dedham, Massachusetts the 13th day of April in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty.Walter F. Timilty,Clerk

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“While the local li-censing authority has the statutory authority to pass reasonable requirements regarding the conduct of a licensed business, even if the Commission believed a local licensing authority’s requirement to be unrea-sonable on a statutorily ap-propriate appeal, it only has the power to not enforce the requirement on any appeal before it,” continued the de-cision.

It was not readily appar-ent if the eight plaintiffs would appeal by filing suit in the Superior Court.

REVERE SCHOOLS NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN STATE’S SCHOOL CHOICE

REVERE - At the last Revere Public School Com-mittee meeting, committee member Stacey Rizzo made a motion to have Revere Public Schools not partic-ipate in the state’s School Choice program.

The school choice pro-gram allows parents to send their children to schools in communities other than the city or town in which they reside.

Each year the Revere School Committee must vote on whether or not they want to enter the program.

“I move that we the Re-vere School Committee vote to not accept non-Re-vere students into the revere public school system,” Riz-zo said while making the motion.

The motion was second-ed and unanimously reject-ed by the School Commit-tee, which also includes Mayor Brian Arrigo.

Prior to the motion, Re-vere Public School Super-intendent Dr. Dianne Kelly, advocating for the district, said she did not support the idea.

“I am asking not to vote in favor of School Choice for Revere Public School, which allows other students from cities and towns into our public schools,” said Kelly. “You are all aware of the state we are in right now. All of our schools are overcrowded. We need to hold a yearly lottery lottery for our middle schools to ensure even distribution of students. There are over 2,000 students at Revere High School and the school is nearly bursting at the seams and our elementa-ry schools are not in much better shape.”

The Inter-District School Choice law was passed into law by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1991.

The laws two main goals were to provide education options to Massachusetts parents and children, and to spur competition among districts.

School choice allows school districts to enroll non-resident pupils from other districts at a tuition (chapter 70 funding) cost that starts at $5,000 but averages more than $6,000 when special education ex-penses are added in. The tu-ition is paid entirely by the students’ home districts, at no cost to the parents.

More than 16,000 of the Commonwealth’s 950,000 students were enrolled as choice pupils. Nearly 60 percent of the state’s 322 school districts accepted students through the pro-gram.

School committees vote each year whether to accept new non-resident choice pupils. Their motivation to do so is usually to fill empty seats and bring in additional revenue.

However, as Dr. Kelly pointed out, Revere Public School don’t seem to need any help in filling seats for the foreseeable future.

FIREWORKS CANCELLED IN LYNN

LYNN - In light of the unprecedented times we are experiencing with the COVID-19 pandemic, Lynn Mayor Thomas Mc-Gee and Swampscott Town Manager Sean Fitzgerald have jointly made the dif-ficult decision to cancel the traditional 3rd of July Fire-works and parade. “Given the unparalleled times we are living in and the uncer-tainty we face, our only op-tion was to cancel the 3rd of July fireworks to ensure our residents remain healthy,” said Mayor Thomas Mc-Gee. “The safety of our residents has been and will continue to be my top concern during this public health emergency.” “We all will be a bit disappointed that we will not be able to celebrate with our friends, neighbors, and the commu-nity at large this year. Yet, we all know that the safety and well-being of our com-munities and loved ones is the most important treasure we have,” said Swampscott Town Administrator Sean Fitzgerald. The decision is tough for everyone as this event has become one of the most notable cele-brations in the Common-wealth but is critical to help prevent the spread of this deadly virus. We would like to thank the Fireworks Ven-dor Atlas Pyrovision En-tertainment Group for their understanding and coopera-tion with the cancellation of this year’s show. We are all looking forward to another great event in 2021.

“Our communities are deeply rooted in history and patriotism and we will continue to celebrate this in years to come. I would like to thank the Fireworks Committee for their tireless

work and our residents for their understanding as we work to limit the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak.” said Mayor Thomas Mc-Gee.

“There is no doubt that the citizens of Lynn and Swampscott love our coun-try and our communities and our traditions so this great event will not go away,” Fitzgerald said. “As a Nation, as a Common-wealth, as a City, and as a Town— just know we are looking forward to a time we can all celebrate togeth-er as a community.”

LOOKING AT CREATING PLANNING DEPT.

WINTHROP - At its most recent meeting on May 19, the Winthrop Town Coun-cil heard a presentation by Tufts University students on the benefits of creating a planning department for the Town of Winthrop.

Patrick Higgins, Ali-sha Patel, Ethan Pepin and Adrian Tanner presented a slideshow entitled Four Centuries Young: The Case for a Planning Department in Winthrop.

Planning was defined by the team as “the process of working with residents and elected officials to accom-plish community goals.” The team conducted a lit-erature review, interviewed planning professionals and analyzed budget statements to discover what benefits a professional planning de-partment could bring to Winthrop.

The students explained that a town planner’s key role is to establish commu-nication with foundations and to secure grant funding. They cited two projects—Win2030 and the $1.3 mil-lion sewer upgrade—that could be budgeted more

effectively with the help of a planner.

The presentation also showed how a planning de-partment could increase the Town’s professionalism—giving support to planning boards, provide consisten-cy around the development process, and tailoring new developments to communi-ty values.

The report claimed that a town planner could help fight climate change by engaging in coastal part-nerships, seeking out cli-mate-specific grants, and altering the Master Plan to be more environmentally conscious.

The Tufts team identi-fied potential obstacles for a newly hired town planner, especially if he or she is from out of town. It empha-sized that a planner should get to know residents and to patronize small business-es in an effort to learn the community’s values and earn its trust.

The mission of the Win-throp Planning and Eco-nomic Management De-partment, as it would be called, would be to serve the town “by providing techni-cal and professional sup-port to the community as it determines and pursues its short- and long-term goals for community preserva-tion, economic growth, and environmental protection.”

In order to determine the budget for the department, the researchers studied 16 municipal budgets and consulted online resourc-es. They found that towns similar in size to Winthrop spent between $165,000 and $170,000 annually to fund the department. De-partment heads are paid approximately $80,000 per year, and a town plan-ner is paid approximately $61,000.

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Pepin highlighted the importance of hiring in-dividuals with experience with both the Massachu-setts and federal grant-writ-ing processes, especially as the community reels from the economic fallout of COVID-19.

Councilors thanked the students for their hard work in assembling the presenta-tion.

“I’m looking forward to acting on your recommen-dations,” said Councilor Tracy Honan.

“I think that adding a planner would bring much benefit to the town,” said

Councilor Barbara Flock-hart.

“We’re looking forward to finally having a planner in town to move us forward and do some things we’ve long wanted to have done,” said Councilor Rich Ferri-no. “We’ll be looking for a planner soon so spruce up your résumé.”

One caller, Karen Cha-vis, said she was unsure how a planning department would be funded given the current budget restrictions.

“These people at Tufts did a wonderful job,” she said, “but I caution the council to think about other things before we [consider] a planner.”

Town Manager Austin Faison said that his recent budget presentation already accounted for the planning department by dissolving existing positions.

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Of the over forty thousand

residents who call East Boston

home, over half are from Lat-

in American countries. Of that

half a majority hail from El Sal-

vador, and arrived here during

their country's civil war during

the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Then, another wave arrived to

this country and to this neigh-

borhood following a series of

devastating earthquakes that

rocked El Salvador and killed

scores of people in 2001 while

others fled the lawless gang vi-

olence in their homeland.

Since the Bush Administra-

tion over 200,000 Salvadorians

have lived in the U.S. as part

of the humanitarian program

known as Temporary Protect-

ed Status. Those Salvadorians

have been able to live and work

here legally, raise families, start

businesses, buy homes, attend

schools, pay taxes and, more

importantly, become an im-

portant part of the fabric of this

community.

On Monday, President Don-

ald Trump announced that he

is ending Temporary Protected

Status for those 200,000 Sal-

vadorians here, and across the

U.S. After the announcement, a

furious Rep. Adrian Madaro

blasted the Trump adminis-

tration for its latest reversal in

immigration policies that many

are calling perhaps the most

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continued attacks on legal res-

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Madaro. "This announcement

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El Salvador confirms this ad-

ministration’s intentions to end

humanitarian aid for thousands

of our neighbors in East Bos-

ton. For many of these folks,

East Boston has been home for

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East Bostonians can take

the snow, wind, frigid cold and

space savers, but a new ele-

ment has been added into the

wintery mix that may be some-

thing residents here might have

to get used to as the sea level

rises. Thursday’s ‘Bomb Cyclone’

that brought heavy snow and

wind to the Northeast also

brought flooding to Eastie’s

waterfront. Portside at Pier I, the Ship-

yard and Marina, Clippership

Wharf and Liberty Plaza all

experienced a good amount of

flooding as the Boston Harbor

spilled over into the neighbor-

hood, and made waterfront de-

velopments like Portside look

like a floating cruise ship.

For the very first time in

Boston since record-keeping

began in 1921, the water lev-

el reached 15.16 feet on Jan 4,

2018. This is above flood stage,

the level at which flooding oc-

curred, and caused significant

tidal flooding in many water-

front parts of Boston-including

Eastie. “I waded into more than 18

inches of cold Atlantic water

(on the street) near Portside

at East Pier and about a foot

of water at the marina,” said

Kennan Thiruvengadam, who

has been working with East

Boston’s Neighborhood of Af-

fordable Housing on climate

change issues and strategies.

“There was also more than a

foot of water at the intersection

of Marginal and South Bremen

streets.”Thiruvengadam said an as-

tronomical high tide, storm

surge, and sea level rise to-

gether caused the water levels

to be so high. Of these factors,

explained Thiruvengadam, the

high tides had nothing to do

with climate change. However,

with sea level rise due to cli-

mate change it is expected to

go up 8”-9” by 2030.

“Storms have happened be-

fore climate change, but cli-

mate change is increasing both

the intensity and the frequency

of storms on a global level,” he

said. So as storm intensity in-

creases as does the frequency

of storm surges like the one ex-

perienced in Eastie last Thurs-

day. That coupled with an ex-

pected increase in sea level in

the next 15 years could spell

trouble for Eastie’s waterfront.

But could the flooding have

been worse? Thiruvengadam

says yes. “Winds picked up after the

high tide,” he said. “It was a

quick storm. It did not last over

multiple tide cycles, which

would have compounded the

effect. The blizzard-force

‘Bomb Cyclone’ floods parts of Eastie

PHOTOS COURTESY OF KANNAN THIRUVENGADAM

The end of Portside at Pier I looking towards Clippership Wharf. The Roseland Portside at Pier I under water. A man stands on a retaining wall at the corner of Marginal and South

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By John Lynds

East Boston native and Sav-

io Prep graduate Michael Triant

was named the new Executive

Director of the Salesian Boys

& Girls Club at the board's De-

cember meeting. Triant, who

worked for the past 17 years

for the Boston Center for Youth

and Families as an administra-

tor, started Monday at the Club,

taking over the reigns from Fa-

ther John Nazzaro who is now

the Club's Director of Mission.

"Once I heard of this oppor-

tunity, as a kid who grew up

in East Boston, as a kid who

graduated Savio, as a kid that

went to the Boys & Girls Club,

I wondered if it could become

a reality," said Triant, a hus-

band and father of three who

now lives in Winthrop with his

family. "Once the ball started

rolling and it became more and

more of a possibility it wasn't

even a choice at that point I had

to do it."Triant, 38, who grew up on

Faywood Avenue was raised

like many other kids of his gen-

eration in Eastie.

"I was played basketball at

the Marty Pino Center every

afternoon, I got involved in the

house leagues through John-

ny Forbes at the Boys & Girls

Club where I made friends that

are still my friends today," said

Triant. What always impressed Tri-

ant about the Salesians was the

level of commitment the staff

had to the kids.

"You had guys like (the late)

Wally Bowe that were so influ-

ential on the lives of kids I grew

up with and kids that were old-

er than me," said Triant. "I was

fortunate that I grew up in a

stable home with two parents,

but there were so many kids at

the Salesians whot didn't have

that."Triant said he remembers

getting jealous as a youth be-

cause he didn't understand why

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Stephen Cuzzi, born and raised in East Boston, passed away suddenly on May 10. at the age of 27.

Stephen worked as a Server at Tavern in the Square in Boston.

He leaves behind his loving mother, Lynn Cuzzi, his father, Joseph Lauren-za, grandparents, Anne and Richard Cuzzi of Revere, uncle, Stephen Cuzzi of Rhode Island, great grand-mother, Albina Indorato and Godmother ,Jennifer Noftle. He was the great grandson of Isabella and Luigi Cuzzi of East Boston and Joe Indorato. He is also survived by many loving great aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.

Stephen’s service was held at Boston Cremation in Malden on Tuesday, May 26. Due to COVID-19, viewing was held by im-mediate family and close friends in a private service. A celebration of Stephen’s life will be held at a later date.

Atty. Michael A. Laurano, III Well known Boston and North Shore Attorney

A t t o r n e y Michael A. Laurano, III, 77, was born on January 30, 1943 at

Norfolk, Virginia where his Dad was assigned to the U.S. Navy Base.

He spent the early years of his life as a resident of Orient Heights, East Bos-ton until making the move to Newbury, Massachusetts in 1993.

He attended St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Grammar School, East Boston grad-uating in 1957. He was a graduate of Sacred Heart High School, East Boston, Class of 1961 and an alum-nus of Boston College, Class of 1965 and then went on to graduate from Boston University School of Law in 1968.

As a young man, he de-veloped a keen interest in politics, which drove him into a successful campaign for the Democratic Ward Committee.

He began his law career with the late Attorney Jo-seph Oteri in Downtown Boston. However, soon he set his shingle out at 71-73 Meridian St., East Boston, the home of the Michael A. Laurano Insurance Agency. The agency was founded by his paternal grandfa-ther in 1923, maintained and carried on by Michael A. Laurano, Jr. (Attorney Laurano’s father) and sub-sequently carried on by Attorney Laurano until 2011. Michael continued his practice of law until his failing health made it im-possible to fulfill his duties in 2018.

Michael’s interests were vast and most interesting. He was a student of ev-erything and anything and would have the ability to teach the subject with thor-ough knowledge and deliv-erance. He held an uncanny appreciation for his Italian heritage, particularly for the history and language of his forefathers.

Michael was fluent in English, Italian and Span-ish. He was an excellent chef, baker, gardener and teacher. From a very early age, his love for antiques and antiquities was un-matched. However, above and beyond, was his ded-ication and love of family and extended family.

He carried a wealth of precise information regard-ing art and the sciences. As an avid reader, he would begin and complete reading a book in the same evening. He was a remarkable self-taught musician, mostly and especially in piano, or-gan and the mandolin.

Michael played organ for the 4 p.m., Saturday, Week-ly Mass at St. Pius Chapel in the Don Orione Nursing Center in East Boston for 10 years. He was fascinated with the old “roller pianos” of which one was always in the finished playroom at 719 Bennington St.

The Laurano home was always the go-to place for a party, gathering, fun and music. Yes, always music, and of course, after all, Michael’s mother was the founder and Senior Teacher of the Lillian Arden Chi-

ampa Laurano School of Dance & Performing Arts, which made its home over the family insurance agen-cy for over 65 years.

Attorney Michael A. Laurano, III was a frequent traveler to Europe and es-pecially to Italy and the small real to life villages in Avellino, from whence his ancestors came. Aside from the sights that most travel to, Michael made it manda-tory to locate and visit with the Chiampa and Laurano cousins.

Michael’s memberships included The Boston Ath-enaeum, The Justinian So-ciety, the Dante Aligheri Society. He was a Founder and member of the East Boston Historical Society from the late 1960s until the time of his passing. He was also a member of Riv-erfront Marina of Newbury, MA and a member of Fitton Council, K of C 84 of East Boston.

The precious son of the late Boston Deputy Fire Chief Michael A. Laura-no, Jr. and Lillian Arden Chiampa Laurano, he was the treasured brother of Jeannine A. Lesburt and her husband, Henry of Pompano Beach, FL and Karyn A. Laurano of Pea-body; cherished uncle of Eric M. and Erin E. Trigil-io, Attorneys Marc E. and Leigh R. Trigilio, Peter M. Vadala, David L. and Erin Vadala. “Uncle Michael” will be unforgettable to his grandnieces: Liliana, Carli-na, Amalia, Aria and Mia. He was the beloved friend and companion of Ellen C. Hynes. He deeply loved his faithful Welsh Terrier, Reg-gie Barney, III. He was also the valued cousin of the late George E. McGee, Jr. and many other loving Laurano and Chiampa cousins.

A Private Funeral Mass was celebrated on Tues-day, June 2 at St. Adelaide Church of Peabody, fol-lowed by a Private Com-mittal Service at Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden in accordance with the man-dates and regulations is-sued by the Comm. of MA and the Boston Archdio-cese regarding the ongoing pandemic. In lieu of flow-ers, remembrances may be made in support of the Mass General Center for Lymphoma in honor of Dr. Ronald Takvorian. Checks may be mailed to Massa-chusetts General Develop-ment Office, Attn: Tyrone Latin, 125 Nashua St., Ste. 540, Boston, MA 02114. Checks should be made payable to “MGH Center for Lymphoma.”

To send online condo-lences, please visit www.vertucciosndsmith.com. Funeral Arrangements un-der the care and direction of the Vertuccio & Smith, Home for Funerals, Revere.

Aaron SouzaOf East Boston

Aaron M. “Sway” Sou-za, 42, of East Boston, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, May 30.

He was the cherished son of Dorothy Kelly and the late Michael Souza, be-loved husband of Kristen Connelly, loving father of Aaron Souza Jr., Trenton Souza and Gianna Sou-za, caring brother of Rene Souza and adored uncle of

Tyler Therrien and Isabel-la Hammond. Aaron was predeceased by his grand-parents, Diana and Joseph Souza.

Due to the Covid-19 pan-demic, services are private. At the family’s request, please OMIT flowers. Do-nations may be made in Aaron’s memory to the Alzheimer’s Association by visiting www.alz.org

Albina IndoratoOf Stoughton, formerly of East Boston

Albina (Ferullo) Indo-rato of Stoughton, former-ly of East Boston, passed away peacefully on Sun-day, May 31.

The beloved wife of the late Joseph Indorato, she was the loving mother of Anne Cuzzi and her hus-band, Richard of Revere, Salvatore and his late wife, Marilyn of Florida, Jo-seph and his wife, Sherrill of Winthrop and Donna and her husband, Richard of Stoughton. Albina was one of eleven children and is survived by her only living sibling, Eleanor Bitto of Saugus. She was the cherished nana of six grandchildren, eight great grandchildren and the late Stephen Cuzzi, two great great grandchildren and by many nieces and nephews.

Due to the Covid -19

Pandemic, services will be private. In lieu of flow-ers, donations in Albina’s memory can be made to the Alzheimer’s Associa-tion 309 Waverly Oak Rd., Waltham, MA 02452. Mes-sages of condolence to the family can be placed on our memory wall. Interment will be in Woodlawn Cem-etery in Everett. www.vaz-zafunerals.com

Kimberly FisherFormer proprietor of Golden Images in East

Boston and Seaside Salon in Winthrop

Funeral Services were held privately for Kimber-ly L. Fisher, who died un-expectedly in her home in East Boston on May 22. She was 53 years old.

Kim was born and raised in the Jeffries Point section of East Boston and was a graduate of Boston Pre-paratory School, Class of 1984. Immediately follow-ing graduation, she enrolled in beauty school and be-came a licensed hairdresser and makeup artist.

Kim was an extremely hard-working woman and her talent and drive led her to become a top tier hair-dresser. She immediately had a large following due to her craft and purely her personality. She was witty, feisty, warm and kind and that allowed her to have many successes in busi-ness. People simply loved her and she loved them.

She also worked for the Commonwealth of Mas-sachusetts in the Auditor’s Division as an administra-tive assistant. She left her position in the Auditor’s di-vision to broaden her hori-zons by purchasing “Gold-en Images” in East Boston, a Tanning and Nail Salon and Clothing Boutique. Her vision brought the salon to a new level and always had the latest women’s swim-wear, women’s clothing line and accessories. She enjoyed what she was do-ing and had a natural knack for business. While operat-ing her business, she still was working as a hairdress-er next door on Bennington St. at Hair 2001. She would later sell Golden Images and open another hair and nail salon in Winthrop, Sea-side Salon.

The birth of her son, Nicholas, was without a doubt the happiest day of her life. She loved being a mother and it meant so much to her. She eventu-ally worked several days a week as a hairdresser at various salons, but due to her declining health, she was forced to stop working completely.

Kim had many talents and passions in life. She was a phenomenal cook and everything she made was delicious. She was also a gracious host for the hol-idays, birthdays and cook-

outs. She liked to travel and visit new places. Anyone who knew Kim would al-ways see her looking stun-ning and in a new outfit. She loved fashion and was a very savvy shopper. Last-ly, Kim was a fond lover of all sorts of animals, but es-pecially dogs.

Kim will always be re-membered as a person with a gentle face, a beautiful smile and a loving heart. She is now safely home in heaven, she will be missed, her memory will be shared and she will always be loved.

She was the beloved daughter of Edith (Petrillo) Fisher and the late Rob-ert L. Fisher; the loving mother of Nicholas J. Bitto of Revere; cherished sis-ter of Robert L. Fisher and his late wife, Audrey M. of Winthrop, David A. Fisher of Revere and Danny Smith and his wife, Patricia K. of Melrose; dear aunt of Rob-ert L. Fisher, Alexandria Fisher and Zachary S. Fish-er, all of Winthrop, David A. Fisher of Revere, Jus-tin S. Smith and Matthew J. Smith of Melrose. She is also lovingly survived by her two Maltese com-panions, Sissy and MoJo and by many other loving friends, family and extend-ed family.

In lieu of flowers, re-membrances may be made to the MSPCA – Angell Office of Development, 350 South Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02130 or msp-ca.org. To send online con-dolences, please visit www.vertucciosndsmith.com. Funeral Arrangements un-der the care and direction of the Vertuccio & Smith, Home for Funerals, Revere.

Stephen CuzziServer at Tavern in the Square, Boston

Eleanor D. (Andreotto-la) Mancini, 96, a lifelong resident of Revere died on May 17.

Born on December 3, 1923 to Francesco and Mary (Tempesta), she was the beloved wife of the late Victor J., devoted mother of Victor F. and his wife, Car-ol of Salem, Mary Buonfi-glio and her husband, Paul of Revere, Corrine Hadden and her husband, Greg-ory of Maine; cherished grandmother of Monique Sullivan and her husband, Kevin, Christopher Manci-ni and his wife, Stacie, Paul Buonfiglio and his wife, Stacey, Jennifer Buonfi-glio-Purrington, Victor Buonfiglio and his wife, Carrie, Gregory Hadden and his wife, Rachel, David Hadden and Jessica Stokes and her husband, Colin. She was the dear sister of the late Nicholas Andreot-tola and his wife, Frances, Frances Murphy and her husband, Fran and Antho-ny “Strum” Andreottola and his wife, Claire. She is also survived by 15 loving great-grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren and by many nieces and nephews whom she cher-

ished, including her sister Frances’ daughters, Patricia Kyle, Maureen Tuttavilla and the late Mary Lyn Col-annino and their children who were like daughters and grandchildren.

Eleanor truly enjoyed spending time with fami-ly and friends, especially during Sunday dinners, Christmas Eve and the annual family 4th of July celebration, which was the highlight of her summer.

In accordance with the CDC’s current restrictions on social gatherings due to Covid – 19 all services will be private. In lieu of flowers donations, may be made to the Jimmy Fund at danafarber.jimmyfund.org . Family and friends are encouraged to leave a message or share a memory in the online guestbook at www.Buonfiglio.com.

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He was a proud Beach-mont native and a graduate of St. Dominic Savio High School, Class of 1994. Co-rey married his high school sweetheart, Kristin (Paril-lo) Abrams in 1996. The couple began their family in Revere, later residing in Reading.

Corey worked as a land-scaper and real estate agent with Century 21 Mario Real Estate. He started his landscaping business at the age of 12 and success-fully grew the business for over 30 years. Corey also worked as a property man-ager of a forty-unit residen-tial development. A tireless worker and creative entre-preneur, Corey invested in real estate and maintained a seasonal Christmas Tree business in Winthrop.

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the kids, growing vegeta-bles in his prized garden. Corey loved music and will be remembered for his fa-mous dance moves to his favorite singers.

Corey had a great sense of humor. He could light up a room and always knew just what to say to make you smile. He had an infec-tious laugh like no other.

Corey was an amazing husband, father, son, broth-er, uncle and friend to so many lucky people. He was kind and compassionate. He was so full of life and love. To know him was to love him.

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Mark IngersollA kind, loving, generous and decent man

Mark Ingersoll of Lynn formerly of East Boston, passed away suddenly on May 21at the age of 46.

Mark was a kind, loving, generous and decent man. I have not known anyone who gave so much of him-self. He truly cared, maybe too much for our society. He gave to his friends, fam-ily and his job even though he was constantly battling with his own life challeng-es. He never seemed to find the right path even though he tried so many things to find peace. Mark truly loved his beautiful daugh-ter, Molli, she was the light of his life and he would do anything to make her life good. Molli came to stay with her dad on Tuesdays and some weekends, they lived in an apartment in my house. Bob and I got to have a wonderful bonus having Mark and Molli around us. It was hard for Mark to make and stick to rules with Molli. So he cre-ated many interesting ways to make things happen. One of my favorites was when Molli told me she and her Dad where having a folding party and did I want to see it, so I went downstairs and she had made a sign to go into her room to a party. In her room was a blanket laid out on the floor with all the laundry for her and Dad to fold. I wish I had taken a picture to save - the party it was priceless.

Although Mark became a practicing Buddhist and believed in the afterlife and that we choose who we become after death, he respected my faith. He told me a few weeks ago when he began to suffer from de-pression that he went to the Catholic Church which was closed and put the church music on loud in front of the church and just sat in the car. He said people passing by just smiled and

gave him the thumbs up. That was Mark when he could be himself.

When the pandemic, began Mark went out and bought a ton of food not for himself but to share with neighbors and people in need. He mostly ordered takeout food for himself and Molli.

I loved him so very much and I am not sure how I will survive without Mark. But a great friend once told me when I had a crisis - to take one day at a time and just put one foot in front of the other and I will find my way. I could go on forever but I want to end by saying thank you to all of you who wish Mark a safe journey in his afterlife.

He was the loving fa-ther of Molli Bijou Inger-soll and her mother, Susan Hickey; cherished son of Rita (McDonough) and the late Charles Ingersoll Jr.; dear brother of Church In-gersoll II and his partner, Tish Smith, David Inger-soll and his wife, Selina; adored uncle of Courtney and Keagan and is also survived by many loving aunts, uncles, family and friends. In accordance with the rules and regulations on congregations and gather-ings due to COVID-19, all services will be held for the immediate family privately. A celebration of Mark’s life will be held at a later date.

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• Disinfect machines be-fore proceeding to empty them.

Customers are encour-aged to check the operating status of redemption loca-tions before bringing emp-ty beverage containers for redemption and should fol-low store guidelines related to redemption services and standard safety precautions to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, such as wearing a mask and social distancing.

Customers visiting re-tailer redemption locations may be limited to redeem-ing no more than 120 de-posit containers at a time. Customers seeking to re-deem more than 120 con-tainers are encouraged to utilize a redemption center with the capacity to manage large volumes efficiently and effectively. Custom-ers must also ensure that all beverage containers are free of product, rinsed and not commingled with other materials. Redemption lo-cations may not accept con-tainers with contaminants.

MassDEP’s Bottle Bill Hotline is available at 617-556-1054 for questions and information requests.

MassDEP is responsible for ensuring clean air and water, safe management and recycling of solid and hazardous wastes, timely cleanup of hazardous waste sites and spills and the pres-ervation of wetlands and coastal resources.

Plan to resume retailer bottle and can redemption enforcement announced


By Penny & Ed Cherubino

All of us, including our dogs, will make some re-adjustments as we ease into the new normal – whatever that turns out to be. For our Westie Poppy, it will mean relearning to stay at home alone, and facing outside

noises from delivery trucks and construction projects as they return to our neighbor-hood.

Plan to Lessen Separa-tion Anxiety

We began working on the possibility of separation anxiety in May by going

back to Poppy’s once fa-miliar routine for staying alone. We turn on a playlist of calming classical mu-sic and present her with a goat-cheese-filled kong. (She knows that she only gets this when she’s in her crate.)

Poppy settles down with her special treat. We tell her to wait for us and then both leave quietly and calmly. Back then it was only for a quick walk or to a nearby restaurant for takeout. We’ll extend the time we are gone as there are places we can safely visit for longer times.

If you adopted a new dog during the pandemic and that dog has no expe-rience staying behind when you leave, you can start by merely going outside your door for a few min-utes. Extend that by going out for your mail or to pick up a delivery. Next, go get some takeout, or to a gro-cery store. A new dog needs to learn to trust that you’ll come back. Take your time and build that trust.

Reactive DogsIf your dog reacts badly

to off-leash and out-of-con-trol dogs running up to you, the pandemic has meant more peaceful walks. In April and May, we did see a few dogs off-leash and more dogs practicing social distancing 8-10 feet from their guardians on retract-able leashes.

However, we saw far fewer people with reactive dogs trying to keep uncon-trolled dogs away. Your dog may be friendly. She may only want to say hello. However, you can practice

some of the goodwill and kindness displayed in the past months by remember-ing that not all dogs are friendly and some may not tolerate another dog in their face or coming towards them.

Those with reactive dogs are entering a dual retrain-ing program. You have to work on your own dog’s training. You and your dog can work on commands like “Pay attention to me.” “Leave it!” and a firm, “Heel!” with a shortened leash to keep your dog safe-ly close to your side. You have to go back to scan-

ning the area around you for careless dog people and loose dogs. You have to be ready to make a quick u-turn to stay away from a canine that could be a dan-ger to your dog.

At the same time, you have to work on gently re-minding people that your dog is safer if left alone. You have to practice your hand-up stop sign when someone releases control of their dog to let it come to meet yours. And, you have to remember how to say, “Please control your dog! Mine is not as friendly.”

Walk with CareFinally, as pedestrians,

we all have to go back to expecting the unexpected from vehicles in motion, bikes, and parked cars. Months of living in a most-ly car-free zone may make us careless. Remember to always keep your dog be-side you when crossing the street. Drivers may see you but not see the dog ahead or behind you.

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The U.S. Small Busi-ness Administration, in consultation with the U.S. Treasury Department, an-nounced that it is setting aside $10 billion of Round 2 funding for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to be lent exclusively by Community Development Financial Institutions (CD-FIs).

CDFIs work to expand economic opportunity in low-income communities

by providing access to fi-nancial products and ser-vices for local residents and businesses. These ded-icated funds will further ensure that the PPP reaches all communities in need of relief during the COVID-19 pandemic – a key priority for President Trump.

“The forgivable loan pro-gram, PPP, is dedicated to providing emergency cap-ital to sustain our nation’s small businesses, the driv-

ers of our economy, and re-tain their employees,” said SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza. “CDFIs provide critically important capital and technical assistance to small businesses from rural, minority and other under-served communities, espe-cially during this economi-cally challenging time.”

“The PPP has helped over 50 million American workers stay connected to their jobs and over 4 mil-

lion small businesses get much-needed relief,” said Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin. “We have re-ceived bipartisan support for dedicating these funds for CDFIs to ensure that traditionally underserved communities have every opportunity to emerge from the pandemic stronger than before.”

As of May 23, 2020, CDFIs have approved more than $7 billion ($3.2 billion

in Round 2) in PPP loans. The additional $6.8 billion will ensure that entrepre-neurs and small business owners in all communities have easy access to the fi-nancial system, and that they receive much-needed capital to maintain their workforces.

The Paycheck Protection Program was created by the Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) and provides

forgivable loans to small businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic to keep their employees on the payroll. To date, more than 4.4 million loans have been approved for over $510 bil-lion for small businesses across America.

The SBA and the Trea-sury Department remain committed to ensuring eli-gible small businesses have the resources they need to get through this time.

Massachusetts support-ers of legislation that would authorize medical aid in dying as an end-of-life care option urged state lawmak-ers to pass the bill after the Joint Committee on Public Health approved it late Fri-day afternoon for the first time since it was originally introduced by Rep. Lou-is L. Kafka in 2011. The committee approved the legislation by a vote of11 to 6. More than seven out of 10 Massachusetts vot-ers (71%) support medical aid in dying, according to the most recent poll on the issue in 2013 by Purple In-

sights. The bill, the Massachu-

setts End of Life Options Act (H.1926/S.1208), would give mentally capa-ble, terminally ill individu-als with a prognosis of six months or less to live the option to request, obtain and self-ingest medication to die peacefully in their sleep if their suffering becomes unbearable. The legislation is sponsored by Rep. Lou-is L. Kafka and Senator William N. Brownsberger and has 69 total sponsors, including Joint Committee on Public Health co-chair, Senator Joanne M. Comer-

ford. “COVID-19 has shined a

spotlight on the importance of a compassionate death, and we thank the public health committee for pri-oritizing this legislation at a time when only a hand-ful of bills are advancing through the legislature,” said Compassion & Choic-es president and CEO Kim Callinan, who testified be-fore the Joint Committee on Public Health in support of the bill at a hearing last June. “We urge legislative leaders to hold floor votes on the bill ASAP so that more Massachusetts resi-

dents will have the option of a peaceful end should their suffering become in-tolerable.”

The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) also testified at the hearing last June before the Joint Committee of Public Health on the bill, detailing its poli-cy of “neutral engagement” on the practice of medical aid in dying: “The MMS will support its members regarding clinical, ethical, and legal considerations of medical aid-in-dying, through education, advoca-cy, and/or the provision of other resources...”

A 2017 internal survey of Massachusetts Medical Society members showed they backed the End of Life Options Act by a 2-1 margin, 62% support vs. 28% opposed (see page 9 chart at www.massmed.org/Advocacy/State-Advoca-cy/MAID-Survey-2017/). Other bill supporters in-clude the ACLU of Mas-sachusetts, Amherst Town Meeting, Boston Ethical Society, Cambridge City Council, Falmouth Board of Selectmen, Fenway Health/AIDS Action, Greater Bos-ton Humanists, Lexington Board of Selectmen, Na-

tional Association of Social Workers (NASW) Massa-chusetts, and Northampton City Council, and Provinc-etown Board of Selectmen.

Medical aid in dying is authorized in 10 U.S. juris-dictions representing more than one-fifth (22%) of the nation’s population, includ-ing nine states: Oregon, Washington, Montana (via a state Supreme Court rul-ing), Vermont, California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Jersey, Maine, as well as Washington, D.C. (2017).

Mass. Health Committee makes history by approves end of life options bill for first time since 2011 introduction

SBA and Treasury Department announce $10 billion for CDFIs to participate in paycheck protection program

City Paws

Retraining for the new normal

Little Spike is reactive to some big dogs. During the era of social distancing, there were fewer times when his guardian had to ask others to give him a bit more space.

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