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Tuesday, August 11, 2015 — Mayor MartinJ. Walsh today launched Boston 311, a plat-form to better enable residents of Boston toreport non-emergency issues to the City,such as graffiti and broken street lights, andaccess City services.

“I am thrilled to launch Boston 311 tobetter equip our residents with a direct lineof communication to City Hall while at thesame time improving our delivery of Cityservices,” said Mayor Walsh. “By streamlin-ing communication to City Hall, we arebuilding on our priorities to create a Citygovernment that is efficient and accessibleto all of Boston’s residents.”

Boston 311 can be accessed anywherewithin the City limits from both landlinesand cell phones, and should only beused for non-emergencies. 311 will be avail-able through several different platforms,including:

• Mobile: download the free BOS:311 appon iOS or Android (previously known asCitizens Connect)

• Online: Boston.gov/311• Social media: tweet @BOS311• Phone: dial 3-1-1 (previously the Mayor’s

24-hour hotline 617-635-4500. For thosewith VoIP and for calls from outsideBoston, callers should continue to dial617-635-4500.)

With the launch of Boston 311, MayorWalsh has taken another step to betterstreamline City services for Boston’s resi-dents. Each day, the City of Boston receives

Mayor Walsh Launches Boston 311hundreds of reports of graffiti, burnt outstreet lights and missed trash collectionover the phone, on social media and viamobile app. Starting Tuesday, Boston 311will make it easier for constituents toeport issues that help maintain andimprove the neighborhoods.

“Thanks to Mayor Walsh’s leadership weare very excited to launch Boston 311,”said Niall Murphy, Director of the Mayor’sHotline. “We lean on the residentsof Boston to be our eyes and ears in theneighborhoods, and we encourage them toutilize the services we provide to makeBoston the best city it can be. We nowprovide a more efficient service than everbefore by tracking additional data, stream-lining services, and creating accessibilityand predictability for constituents.

As part of the Boston 311 transition, theCity completed several technologicalupgrades that improve our ability to listento and respond to constituents. This newsystem will allow for the ability to managecalls, add additional reporting capabilities,eliminating redundancy as well as theability to easily add additional resources inan emergency. Upgrades were also added tothe City’s mobile app (previously calledCitizens Connect and now called BOS:311).Constituents now have access to anexpanded set of service requests, such asmissed trash pickup, in a more thoughtfully

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Is Biden Plan B?If Vice President Joe Biden dives into the 2016

presidential campaign, it only means that HillaryClinton is really in bigger trouble than she wouldever admit. The Democrats don’t want to lose in‘16 and Hillary thanks to her ongoing email is-sues may be D.O.A. for extending into Obama’s“third term” the way the first Bush extended theReagan presidency.

I heard Al Gore is also looking at the race. Yes,the man who won the popular vote in 2000 stillhas some fire in his belly but he isn’t that popu-lar today.

Summer Seems to be Fading“Nobody on the road, nobody on the beach. I feel

it in the air, the summer’s out of reach.”— Don Henley, “The Boys of Summer”

Did Ya Know?Fifty-seven percent of voters don’t think Hillary

Rotten is honest and trustworthy and 52 percentthink she doesn’t care about their needs andproblems, the latest Quinnipiac University pollfound.

Hillary’s team needs to give her a makeoverdesperately because she seems to see herself asa superstar of sorts and as someone to whom rulesdon’t apply.

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105th Annual Madonna del Soccorso-Fisherman’s Feast

Members of the Madonna del Soccorso Society.(Photo by Matt Conti, www.northendwaterfront.com)

The Fisherman’s Feast isthe North End’s oldest con-tinuously running Italianfestival and one of the larg-est with four days of festivi-ties on North, Lewis andFleet Streets. The traditiongoes back to the 16th cen-tury in Sciacca, Sicilybrought to Boston in 1910based on the devotion of thefishermen to the Madonnadel Soccorso (Our Lady ofHelp). Organizers and mostmembers are the descen-dants of the original Sicilianimmigrants.

Although this is my secondyear living in the North End,I experienced my first open-ing day procession of theFisherman’s Feast onThursday, August 13th.

It was the 105th Fisher-man’s Feast, featuring theGrand Procession of theMadonna del Soccorso diSciacca through the streetsof Boston’s North End onSunday, August 15, 2015.But I had been encouragedto go see the ceremony at

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Most readers recall thatmythology identifies thenether worlds, or land of thedead, in three distinct cat-egories. “Elysium” or the“Elysian Fields” (our heaven)was the place where chaste,moral, righteous, and virtu-ous people went after death,and where there was com-plete happiness, paradise,and ideal bliss. Vergil repre-sented it as a region blessedwith perpetual spring, beau-tiful flowers, pleasantlyshaded groves and never-failing fountains.

Tartarus (our Hell) was aplace beneath the earth, asfar below as Elysium wasabove. It was closed by irongates, and occupancy wasreserved for the dammed.These were the people whohad incurred the wrath ofthe gods and, in so doing,became subject to divinevengeance.

Lastly, of course, there was“Hades” (our Purgatory), inthe depths of the earth, withits wide open doors. This wasthe place where all deadsouls went while awaitingjudgment and commitmentto the upper or lower world.Hades was usually repre-sented as a place and also aperson. As a place, it was agrove of barren willows,veiled in darkness or cloudswhere the sun never shone.The ground was coveredwith asphodel, a dreary plantof the lily family that was of-ten planted on graves. Theentrance to this place called

HERCULES AND THE HELLHOUND

Hades was guarded by dognamed “Cerberus”, a terriblemonster with three heads, atail of three serpents, and abody bristling with vipers.He was friendly to all whoentered, but if anyone triedto escape, he would seizethat person and hold himfast.

As a person, Hades, god ofthis underworld, ruled a ser-vant named Charon. He wasthe mythological ferrymanfrom antiquity who con-ducted the souls of the deadin a boat across the riverAcheron. Ancient poets haverepresented Charon as astern and robust old man,with eyes glowing likeflame, white bushy hair,dingy clothes that werestained with the muck ofthe river, and holding a longpole which he used to propelthe boat.

Probably the most interest-ing portrayal of this subjectis in the lower right-handcorner of Michelangelo’s“Last Judgment” on the wallof the Sistine Chapel,Vatican City. This painting(fresco) is considered to bethe largest and most com-prehensive fresco in theworld. It shows that terrify-ing moment at the end of the

world when the remorsefulcondemned are being drawndown to the depths of thelower world by taloned de-mons. Then there is Charonthe boatman, forcing the re-luctant souls to disembark,while other demons are pull-ing them off the boat withgrappling irons. Finally,Hades, the ruler of this in-fernal region, is standing inthe extreme lower right-hand corner with a serpentcoiled around his waist.

The last task demanded ofHercules was to bring upCerberus from Hades, prob-ably the most difficult of allhis labors. Guided by Mer-cury and possibly Minerva,Hercules descended into theunderworld. After some mi-nor incidents involving theoccupants, Hercules con-fronted Hades and demandedthat he be permitted to carryoff Cerberus. One accountsays that Hades agreed, ifHercules could do so withoutharming the dog. Anotherreport tells how Herculeswounded Hades, forcing himto retreat to Mt. Olympusfor treatment. Nevertheless,Hercules dragged the hell-hound to daylight and pre-sented him to the king whowas the author of all theselabors. Hercules was told,from a safe distance, to takethe dog back to Hades, thuscompleting all of the laborsthat were imposed uponhim.

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The vote — 300 to 131 —in the U.S. House of Repre-sentatives back in June, torepeal a mandatory Countryof Origin Label (“COOL”) lawas it relates to certain meat,has generated much con-sternation and condemna-tion of Congress. The actionof the House may or may not,depending on your thinking,have been wrong-headed;but having some backgroundinformation on why our gov-ernment may be proceedingin this manner may impactyour opinion.

I support country of originlabeling (“COOL”) laws and Isupported this one in par-ticular. But I believe thatCongress was in a bind hereand repeal, unfortunately,may be the only way out.Canada filed a dispute withthe World Trade Organiza-tion (“WTO”) claiming thatthis COOL law unfairly dis-advantages Canadian beefand pork and is in violationof the U.S. commitments tothe WTO. Mexico joined inthe complaint (as did a fewother countries, but Canadaand Mexico are the ones thatmatter in this case).

The U.S. lost the dispute.We appealed. We eventweaked the U.S. regula-tions to try to get this COOLlaw into compliance with ourWTO commitments. But ear-lier this year we lost thefourth, and final, appeal tothe WTO. Now Canada andMexico are now allowed toimpose billions of dollars inadditional tariffs on U.S.products unless we repealthis COOL law. If the U.S.does not repeal this COOLlaw, the U.S. faces (1) theprospect of harming U.S. eco-nomic interests (both busi-ness and workers), (2) being

an “outlaw” nation asregards our commitments tothe WTO (we file complaintsall the time at the WTOagainst other countries be-cause of their practices and,when they lose, we expectthem to comply; so whenwe lose, we need to comply),and (3) a domestic meatindustry that not only didn’tsupport the law in its cur-rent form, but in some casesactively opposed it. Theredoesn’t seem to be anythingto be done but repeal it.

The good news is thatCOOL is not necessarily inconflict with our WTO com-mitments (the U.S. has manyCOOL laws that are not chal-lenged at the WTO), justthis particular COOL law.So rather than criticizeCongress for an unfortu-nate, but necessary repeal,we should lobby Congress fora new COOL for meat thatwill not run us afoul ofWTO regulations. The ques-tion here is not consumerprotection, but the U.S.making our laws subjectto scrutiny by an interna-tional tribunal. Whether theU.S. should enter into bind-ing international agreementssuch as the WTO is a ques-tion worthy of debate. But weare obligated to honor thecommitments we have.

[By way of full disclosure,one of my clients is theAmerican Sheep IndustryAssociation, a strong advo-cate for COOL laws for meat.Lamb meat is covered by theCOOL law, but for lamb itoperates somewhat differ-ently from the way COOLoperates for beef and pork.The COOL law for lamb wasnot contested at the WTO andthere is no talk of repealingit.]

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As I read the Boston Herald news story (Councilorswant first-responders on needle disposal, August 11),I wondered why the need for a City Council-passedordinance requiring first-responders to dispose ofdiscarded needles found by city work crews. Aren’tfirst-responders already doing this?

As a private citizen and also while on the job as apolice officer, I have found discarded needles, onceon the grounds of an elementary school. I called 911because that is a common sense response to such afinding.

Where is the need for such an ordinance? To me itall sounds like another piece of pretend feel good stuff,making folks think the Boston City Council is look-ing out for their public safety. It also would appearthat the ordinance seems to be narrowly based andeffecting only the actions of city workers. What aboutmembers of the public who come upon discardedneedles? What are they to do, call a city work crew toimplement the ordinance?

As far as the need for emergency personnel to es-tablish rules and regulations for the safe disposal ofneedles, surely those are already in place at EMS,police and fire departments, right?

As for my 27 years as a police officer, I had to safelydispose of dirty needles found by the public.

Is there a good reason for the City Council to passan ordinance to do what is already in place? If aprivate citizen comes upon discarded needles, callthe police. If a city work crew finds these needles, dolikewise?

The Boston City Council Public Safety Committeemust have more important work to do than proposean ordinance that is not really needed.

Sincerely,Sal Giarratani

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It is that time of year,when the streets of EastCambridge will come alivefor the 89th Annual ItalianFeast of Saints Cosmas andDamian on September 12 &13. The feast will be cel-ebrated on Warren Street inEast Cambridge. As always,there will be a food festival,parades, amusement rides,meatball and cannoli eat-ing contests, Frozen and Mon-sters, Inc. movie characters,carnival games, antique fireengines, street performers,Red Sox World Series Tro-phies, and live entertain-ment throughout the week-end. There will also be a spe-cial healing service on Sep-tember 12th at 6:30 pm.

Feast headliners are awardwinners, “The Duprees,”singing their many hits in-cluding, “You Belong to Me”(Sunday night), and NBC’sThe Voice finalist, JamesMassone (Saturday night)!All Feast entertainment isfree! Show up early and bringyour chairs. This is madepossible through the gener-osity of Frank Privitera andthe Privitera Foundation.

In addition, this year’sentertainment schedule hassomething for everyone. Per-formers include local oldiesband “The Reminisants” anda show by internationalsinger Gian Faraone on Sat-urday. Fox TV’s X-Factor con-testant Kim Thomas andBoston’s own “SeaBreeze”featuring Stephen Saviowill round out Sunday’sperformances.

As always, the Feast hasfood options for every tasteas a “food festival” will be cre-

Annual Italian Feast of Saints Cosmasand Damian September 12th & 13th!

Join Us for this Great Event in East Cambridge!

ated on Warren Street. Foodvendors include: East SideGrille of East Cambridge,Square Deli of Everett,Captain’s Fried Calamari andCherry Stones, Alfredo’s Ital-ian Kitchen, The North EndDeli, The Cannoli Girl, StuffitBananas Dipped Fruits,Nestle Nesquik, Coca-ColaBeverages, Noonan’s IceCream and Concessions,Carpenito Concessions andtraditional feast fare suchas sausages, zeppoles, steaktips, chicken parmesan,meatballs, eggplant, pizza,calzones, lasagna, arancini,kabobs, barbeque chicken,cotton candy, fried dough,kettle popcorn, slush, steak& cheese, fries, and eve-ryone’s favorite — fried oreocookies!

Don’t forget to join usfor feast favorites — theAnnual Meatball and CannoliEating Contests. These twoevents are popular additionsto our feast! Come join inthe contest or cheer on yourfavorite competitor Satur-day and Sunday nights at7:30 pm. Both contests willbe hosted by Hank Morse of

105.7FM WROR.There will also be a Feast

Mass celebrated by BishopPeter Uglietto at St. Francisof Assisi Church at 325Cambridge Street at 9:30 amon Sunday. At 1:00 pm thatsame day, a feast highlight,the grand procession windsits way through the streetsof East Cambridge and EastSomerville with marchingbands, floats, trolleys and theSaints. The parade will ar-rive back on Warren Streetat 7:00 pm for a large cel-ebration and shower of con-fetti — don’t miss it! Therewill also be four radio sta-tions and family activitiesthroughout this fun-filledweekend. This is a greatevent for all ages. Play agame, watch a parade, trysome great food, listen tomusic, go on a ride and havea great time! Feast hoursare 2:00 pm to 11:00 pmon Saturday, September 12th

and 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm onSunday, September 13th.

For further information,call (617) 661-1164 or visitwww.cosmas-and-damian.org.See you at the Feast!

In all the world we shall not find, a heart so wonderful and so kind.So soft a voice, so sweet a smile, just knowing her was so worthwhile.

Her hands were soft and gentle, Her heart was tender and pure.No sorrow, life could bring us, could equal losing you.

Deep trust in God that all was right, her joy to make someone’s day so bright.If sick or suffering one she knew, some gentle act of love she’d do.

No thought of self but of the other, Her true self was a wife and mother.

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The Republican establishment is going crazy over thesuccess so far of Donald Trump in the upcoming presiden-tial election. Every time they think he hit the third rail ofpolitics, he gets up to battle again. His flub losing his coolon Megyn Kelly’s gotcha question should have messed uphis entire campaign, but that didn’t happen or come closeto happening.

This past week when Donald Trump showed up for juryduty in NYC, I watched CNN’s coverage of that story. At onepoint, a young potential juror who sat along with Trumpwas interviewed. The questions thrown at him were sobiased. They so wanted the young man to say how arrogantTrump was inside the jury pool area, but the kid didn’t takethe bait and just said Trump acted no different than any ofthe other jurors. He said he and they just chatted like any-one in a jury pool. You could see the disappointment on theanchor’s face. He seemed to so want to make Trump lookbad.

Also, you can tell that Fox News Chairman Roger Ailesseems to be going out of his way to demonize Trump. MegynKelly was just the tip of the iceberg. I used to like CharlesKrauthammer but lately, when it comes to Trump cover-age, he is sounding more like Juan Williams. Then there’sKarl Rove. Everyone on Fox seems to be bashing Trumpas hurting Republicans, but few seem to realize Trump’ssuccess.

Trump keeps pushing forward because most of Americais angry and frustrated with politics as usual. Trumpis not politics as usual. Most people seem to like that.He is neither liberal nor conservative. He is plainpopulism.

Look at Washington. They’re all useless down there.They are all insiders or, as Ted Cruz calls them, the“Washington Cartel.” Republican Rhinos run the GOP.Their ideology is simply power. Don’t upset the way thingsare. Go along. Period. The Democrats do the samething.

Many in the media miss something important.They say Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump areat the edges of the political spectrum. Not the case.The spectrum I learned back in my college days isn’t astraight line, it is a circle. Sanders and Trump are meet-ing up at the same place, a place that is good for a demo-cratic republic. The place gathers up those who no longerbelieve their government is working for them. We have agovernment that has grown too big and too distant from thepeople. This was a charge our founders made against GreatBritain in 1775.

There is a growing disenchantment with Washington thatcan be viewed as a far greater threat to self-governmentthan anything we have ever seen before.

The people are restless and are looking for real leaders,not politicians who live inside little boxes and say preciouslittle.

George Wallace said something great back in 1968,“There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between theDemocrats and Republicans.” That statement thenis what drives Trump, and Bernie Sanders today.

Why is Trumping Going So Strong?

This morning, as I satdown to watch the newsto start my day, a light-hearted story appeareddeclaring that Star-bucks will, in fact, startputting pumpkin intotheir pumpkin spicelattes. Pumpkin seasonis still fairly far-off, butthis served yet asanother reminder forme that autumn, myfavorite season, quicklyapproaches. Indeed, Ihave lately been payingattention to the signs ofthe changing season allaround me, from theprevalence of apples inthe supermarket to theever-so-slight hues ofred and orange appearing onsome leaves. When the daysget too humid and sticky —which I am fine with at thebeginning of summer, butfind unbearable when craft-ing lesson plans or settingup my classroom for the nextschool year — I think of theharvest decorations I con-tinually see in store, andshiver with excitement overthe crisp days of fall. Observ-ing the signs of the chang-ing seasons not only helpsme live in the moment byconcentrating on the natu-ral phenomena currently un-folding around me, but itlinks me in a powerful wayto the actions and lives of myancestors.

Tracking the seasons hasbeen a passion of mine longbefore I started this column.While clearing out a drawerin my old room, my motherfound an old notebook ofmine in which I had beencharting the natural signsof the changing seasons.For the shift from summerto autumn, I wrote aboutwitnessing my uncle andgrandmother planting thebulbs of a daisy, called amargherita in Italian, whichwould bloom in late Septem-ber. I mentioned a gnarled

tree whose leaves alwaysturned a kaleidoscope ofyellow and red a monthearly, and floated to theground well before the calen-dar turned to autumn. Bak-ing an apple desert, coolmornings, the color of theearly twilight — all of theseobservations made it intothat little notebook. Doing sohelped me become a betterobserver of nature and of theexcitement of life aroundme, and I hope to resumethis sort of project againsoon. Noticing and recordingthe shifting tide of the sea-sons actually has a scien-tific name. It is known asphenology, and naturalistsoften encourage people tosketch or write down theirobservations and then sub-mit them in order to helpscientists track climate data.So this hobby is both roman-tic and functional!

This pastime is apparentlyquite timeless as well.Our ancestors have beendiscerning the seasonalchanges since time imme-morial — not because theywere eager for pumpkinspice lattes or photographingfalling leaves, but ratherbecause they operated in aprimarily agricultural soci-

ety where determiningthe right time to plantor harvest crops wasinvaluable to the sur-vival of the community.In Italy, August func-tions as the month ofthe grain and hay har-vest, and tightly rolledbundles of hay bakingunder the sun serve asone of the surest signsthat autumn will soondescend upon the lovelyItalian countryside. Ital-ian farmers also exam-ine their grapes duringthis month, ensuringthey are getting theright amount of sun-shine, water and shadeto make them perfect

for the vendemmia, or har-vest, in September. After all,grapes stand as an impor-tant cultural symbol in Italy,for the grapes gathered inSeptember will be processedinto wine in November,ready to serve as the stead-fast staple of Italian hospi-tality during the holidaysand beyond. Finally, Italianfarmers of yore frequentlyused saints’ days as mile-stones for seasonal changes,a trait which is reflected inthe proverbs still ubiquitousin Italian society to this day.August 24th is St. Bartholo-mew’s Day, and the Italiansrepeat a proverb whichdeclares: “A San Bartolomeomontagna mia bella tiabbandono.” Translated,this dictum says that oneshould abandon the beauti-ful mountains after the Feastof St. Bartholomew, perhapsa reference to the coolerweather and the end of thevacation period. When wenotice even the simplesttransitions from one seasonto another, therefore, we areactually repeating the ac-tions our forebears per-formed in order to carve outa living from the Earth.

As the bright days of sum-mer give way to the coolnights of fall, I encourageeveryone to keep track ofthe unfolding seasonalchanges. These transitionsdo not have to be major,as even the tiniest

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Jeanne Brady of the North End (right) enjoys thesights and sounds on City Hall Plaza with friend LeslieCaulfield and sister Arlene Cassis as R&B and discolegends Tavares get ready to perform.

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White days. Of late, Tavaresseems to be the biggest Bos-ton summer act at the Dor-othy Curran Concert Series.They never disappoint.

On Wednesday night,August 12th, I boogied myway over to City Hall Plazawhere I joined severalother Tavares fans for agreat “Boogie Night” ofmusic with those guys fromNew Bedford. The showopener was Steven (Virgil)Virgilio and his Vinyl Grooveshow-stoppers. They werefantastic playing all thosegreat tunes from the ’60sand ’70s.

I’ve heard Virgil’s bandmany times before. Thistime on stage I heard hisnewest addition, singerSimone Alyse, who carries apowerful voice in such aslender frame. She defi-nitely brought the housedown and will be a valuablepart of Vinyl Groove into thefuture.

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Bye-Bye Quinzani’s Bakeryby Sal Giarratani

The Boston Globe recentlydid a pretty good story onthe closing of a South Endinstitution by the nameof Quinzani’s Bakery onHarrison Avenue, in whatonce was a gritty part of theSouth End. The reporterstated that the bakery wassold to an unnamed buyer.

As someone from theSouth End back in its grittydays, I remember the firstredevelopment of the areathat now is anchored byInk Block. The old New YorkStreet Neighborhood oncehoused a large Lebanese andSyrian community withmany small bakeries alongHarrison Avenue. The yearwas in 1958, and over thenext few years that neigh-borhood was razed andreplaced by new industriessuch as the then new BostonHerald Traveler building,Massachusetts Envelope andGraybar. The width of Har-rison Avenue doubled.

Quinzani Bakery had beenaround since 1918, over inwhat was called the CombatZone, in cramped quartersnot far from Chinatown.Later Quinzani’s moved into

a new site down from theBoston Herald Traveler close toDover Street. Over the pastcouple of years, I have pur-chased breads from themand got to know many of thelongtime workers who madeQuinzani’s such a greatbakery.

I was shocked to hear of itsrecent closing. Another partof South End history nowfades to black like so manyother places in the South Endof the ’50s and ’60s.

Hopefully, the displacedworkers ended up with newemployment quickly. I wastold that many made thetransition easily to newbakery jobs with the help ofQuinzani owners.

Quinzani’s will be missedand surely the area is nowprimed for residential use,as the new South End/SouthBoston area connected byJimmy Kelly’s bridge contin-ues to grow and prosper.

However, it is still a sadtime when a piece of localhistory dies.

Thank you to everyone!

Fresh-baked quality since1918.

Thirty-one year employeeRafael Melendez loved hisjob and keeps his smile on.

Calendar marks ending.

RMV ANNOUNCES RELOCATION OF SERVICESTO HAYMARKET RMV LOCATION

The MassDOT Registry of Motor Vehiclestoday announced that the agency’s Medi-cal Affairs Bureau and the Ignition Inter-lock Department will be relocating from theRMV’s Administrative Offices in Quincy tothe Haymarket Branch at 136 BlackstoneStreet in Boston. These departments willopen for business in the new Boston loca-tion on Monday, August 24, 2015.

Medical Affairs Bureau and Ignition InterlockOpen in New Location August 24th

Medical Affairs customers should bereferred to the third floor of the HaymarketBranch for service. Both departmentsare open 9am-5:00pm Monday to Friday.Please note that the branch opens to cus-tomers at 10:00 am on Thursdays. The ma-jority of Interlock business is by appoint-ment only.

Visit www.MassRMV.com for more info.

East Boston Main Streets and Countdownto Kindergarten along with the East BostonSocial Centers, EBYMCA, Little Folks, HeadStart, the Boston Police, and the MBTA willhost the 15th Annual Countdown to Kinder-garten Parade. With the help of many groupsand individuals and the generosity oflocal merchants every child in East Bostonwho is entering kindergarten will receiveschool supplies, a brand new backpack, andenjoy a festive day designed to provide a posi-tive experience as they begin their formaleducation.

This year’s Parade is scheduled for Thurs-day, September 3rd, at 10:30 am. Anywherefrom 300 to 500 kindergarten-age childrenwill gather at Central Square in EastBoston with their parents, guardians, andvolunteers from the various local early-education centers.

Before the children step off the curb, EastBoston Main Streets will announce a $5,000

college scholarship in the form of a 529 col-lege savings bond generously provided byAirMall Boston. This scholarship will be tiedto impeccable class attendance during theschool year and will be awarded to one EastBoston kindergartener at the end of the2015/16 academic year.

During the Parade, the children will wearyellow shirts saying “I’m Going to Kinder-garten” provided by the City of Boston. Alongthe walk, the children will stop at over 25participating businesses in the neighbor-hood to receive small gifts. At the end of theparade, the children will return to the parkfor pizza donated by a local restaurant.

For further information, please contactSonia Gomez-Banrey at 617-635-6816 orthe East Boston Main Street office at617-561-1044. Also, please visit theCountdown to Kindergarten website atwww.countdowntokindergarten.org or visitthem on Facebook.

EAST BOSTON MAIN STREETS (EBMS) ANNOUNCES

15th Annual Countdown to Kindergarten Parade

Katiusca Melo, a longtimecustomer, is sad to seethe closing of her favoritebread place.

The Boston Foundation’sMy Summer in the City Grant ProgramSenator Anthony Petruccelli, Representative Aaron

Michlewitz, City Councilor Salvatore LaMattina,Mayor Martin Walsh, Congressman Stephen Lynch,

Regional Review Newspaper, North End AthleticAssociation, Post-Gazette Newspaper,

Knights of Columbus Ausonia Council #1513,North End Waterfront.Com, George Hovey Fund,

Boston Harborside Home of JS Waterman & Son -Waring Langone, Webster First Credit Union,

Al Natale, LaFamiglia Giorgio Restaurant,Bob & Nancy McGann, Angelo Piccardi, Janine Coppola,

North End Music and Performing Arts Center,North End Waterfront Health Center, Halftime Restaurant,

Boston Host Lions Club, O’Saraceno Ristorante,Joe Pace & Son, Nazzaro Center,

Boston Pushcarts - Joe Bono, Boston Harbor Cruises -Nolan Family, Locale, Century Bank, Carl Ameno,

Mike Giannasoli, Boston Police Area A-1,“A Taste of the North End,” The Coca-Cola Company,

Public Action for Arts and Education

SPONSORSAntonio’s Cucina, Terramia Ristorante, Antico Forno,

St. Stephen’s Church, Giacomo’s Restaurant, St. Joseph’s Society, Fiorelli Realty Associates,

Dan Toscano Attorney at Law, La Cappella Suites,Camdele Construction, Virgilio Laundry,Lucca Restaurant, Jane Kadlubriewicz,

Salumeria Italiana, Becca Griffin, Mangia Mangia,Regina’s Pizzeria, Filippo’s Restaurant

DONORSCorner Cafe, Bella Vista Ristorante,

Polcari’s Coffee, Boston Food Tours,Cobblestone Cafe, Lewis Wharf Dental,

The Living Room, Improv Asylum,Urban Adventours, Salon Mirabella,

Pellino’s Restaurant, Mohegan Sun Casino,North End Yoga, Hood Ice Cream,

Waterfront Cafe, Beacon Hill Athletic Club,Lifted Fitness, Sarah Heart, Billy Tse Restaurant,

Piccolo Nido Restaurant, Pastene Companies,In-Jeanius, Exhale Spa - Battery Wharf,

Dayco Services

VOLUNTEERSLuigi & Anna Arienello, Justin Hadaya,

Caesar Hadaya, Chris Romano, John N. Romano, LisaAdams, Linda Lopriore, Patricia Romano,

Nazzaro Center Camp Kids,

To All Who Made OurFour Day Family Fun Festival

A Huge Success

From

NORTH END AGANIST DRUGS,THE NAZZARO CENTER

& EVERSOURCE

THANK YOU

FromNORTH END

AGAINST DRUGSBOARD OF DIRECTORS

John Romano — PresidentRosina Fabbo — Vice President

Karen D’Amico — TreasurerMaria Puopolo — Clerk

Alfredo Vilar, George Hadaya, Michael Giannasoli,Laurie D’Elia, Carl Ameno,

Olivia Scimeca, Kathy Carangelo,Stephen Passacantili, Teddy Boyle, Mary Wright

A SPECIAL THANK YOU to all theagencies and groups who participated

in or performed at our events, as well asthe Mayor’s Office of Tourism,

Sports and Entertainment,Boston Parks Department and

Nazzaro Center Teen Workers!!!!


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Sabo, a resident of Boston,sits as Director of Programson the ISES New EnglandBoard of Directors.

Renee Sabo, Senior EventProducer at SD Events in Bos-ton, was awarded a scholar-ship from the SEARCH Foun-dation to attend ISES Livenext week in New Orleans.

SEARCH, a charitable or-ganization based in Arizona,offered 20 scholarshipsto event professionals na-tionwide to attend ISES Live,the international eventconference. The applicationprocess included a 300+ wordessay on what attendingISES Live will mean to Saboand her career in the eventsindustry. Sabo was awardeda scholarship, valued at over$900, on June 30, 2015,and will be attending theconference next week inNew Orleans.

Produced by the Interna-tional Special Events Soci-ety (ISES), ISES Live is aninternational conferencecreated to deliver an experi-ence of stimulating ideasand knowledge sharing withother creative professionalsfrom around the world.

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Your dog is a social animal.That’s what makes himsuch a fabulous, one-of-a-kind companion. He willinglyincorporates you and yourfamily into his social circle.Being a leader in your dog’ssocial circle is a great wayto build your relationshipand to live a happy, healthylife together. Your dog willlook to you to provide himwith effective leadership.Being a good leader meansproviding your dog withstructure and guidance. Youmay think that routine isboring, but it helps your dogunderstand his world, becalm and stay out of trouble!Here are some simple waysto help put you and your fam-ily in “leader” position:

When interacting withyour dog, be kind and con-sistent. Have him “sit” or “laydown” before you give himanything he wants, from pet-ting to tossing a toy. Whenhe responds to you beforeyou respond to him, he willstart to look to you to set therules, while at the sametime getting in a daily train-ing practice. Gently handleyour dog’s ears, mouth andpaws, so he learns to acceptthis. Start when he is veryyoung and for brief periods of

time. Remain playful duringthese exercises, making agame out of them. Praisehim and reward him withtreats. These exercises areeasy with most puppies, butif your puppy really strugglesor gets upset, consult yourveterinarian or seek assis-tance from a qualified dogtrainer as soon as possible.

Use different tones of voiceto communicate differentmessages. A higher thannormal pitch is exciting,playful and perfect for praise.A normal tone, direct andconfident, is your commandtone. A lowered voice, yourdog hears as a warning likea growl. With practice, yourpuppy can learn to under-stand your mood throughyour tone of voice.

Exercise him daily. Re-member that dogs learnthrough practice and repeti-tion. Be patient! If you dothese things consistently,your dog will become afriendly, well-balanced andwell-mannered canine. Re-member, never hit or yell atyour dog. Focus on prevent-ing or distracting your dogfrom problem behaviors, noton correcting them. Replaceunwanted behaviors withsomething appropriate. If

your dog chews, give him afood dispensing toy to workon or a good chew toy. Thatway you both win: he gets tochew and you get peace inyour house.

Dogs willingly and lovinglylet us into their social circle.With a little practice and lotsof love, you and your dog canbe on your way to a long,happy, healthy life together.Time, patience and lovewill go a long way with yourpet. Loving them is so impor-tant because they become agreat part of your life

I would like to shareLaughter is the Best Medicine!Cat and Mouse in HeavenA cat and a mouse died

and went to Heaven on thesame day. Shortly after ar-riving, God met the mouseand asked, “How do you likeit here so far? “It’s wonder-ful,” replied the mouse, “butit would be even better if Icould have a pair of rollerskates. “Sure,” God said, andHe gave the mouse a pair ofroller skates.

The next day, God met thecat and asked, “How doyou like it here so far? “It’sreally great,” replied the cat,“I never knew you had mealson wheels up here”!

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Happy Birthday

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the harbor, so Thursdayevening I wandered down tothe corner of Lewis and Northstreets around 6:45 pm.There I was fortunate torun into a group of long-time North Enders BarbaraSumma, Pam Donnaruma,Marie Simboli and anaccompanying gentlemen,Luciano Graffeo who’sgrandfather was one of thefounding fathers of the Ma-donna del Soccorso Society,(who could not keep up withthese ladies!)

They welcomed me intotheir merry band and pro-vided both an escort and touras they led me on a shortcutto the harbor where we couldwatch the arriving proces-sion and secure a good spotto see the ceremony from.On the way, we stopped bythe statue of ChristopherColumbus to see the namesof the North Enders whowere instrumental in therenaming of WaterfrontPark, including Pam’s par-ents, Caesar and Phyllis.

The ceremony was framedby a gorgeous summerevening sky full of pinkclouds, reminding me of thatold saying, “Red sky at night,sailor’s delight …” So appro-priate. On stage with the of-

ficers of the Fisherman’sSociety were Father Claudeof St. Leonard’s (whose in-spiring sermons I wasstrongly encouraged to gohear some morning), the“Flying Angel” and her “SideAngels” (adorable!), andAngela Menino (there to tossout the first flowers inmemory of her husband,Mayor Tom, whom we sadlylost earlier this year.)

I couldn’t help but noticeAngela and my friends ex-changing a smile and awave. In fact, there wasquite a bit of that going on! Icontinue to be impressed bythe closeness of the Italiancommunity and their will-ingness to accept all new-comers. I wanted to live nearthe water, but I can’t imag-ine feeling more welcome inCharlestown or Southiethan in the North End.

After all the flowers werestrewn on the water and thespeeches and benedictionsconcluded, the processionpulled itself back into forma-tion and headed back toLewis Street, a happy throng(of which I was honored to bea part) in its wake. Along theway, we continued to meetand greet our neighbors.Definitely my favorite Feast

experience to date (and Ihave marched in a few!)Already looking forward tonext year, when I will besure to take in the GrandProcession on Sunday aswell. Here’s what I missed!

At the end of Sunday’sGrand Procession, thestatue of the Madonna re-turned home to North, Fleetand Lewis Streets wherethousands had gathered forthe famous “Flight of theAngel.” The angels recitedthe devotion in Italian fol-lowed by the entrance of theflying angel from a thirdstory window coming downto the street to meet theMadonna Del Soccorso diSciacca. At the end, confettirained on the scene in anastounding street celebra-tion. The 2015 Flying Angelwas Haley Graffeo Dufresne

with Side Angels AngelinaPalazzolo and Ava TravatoBonivita.

Devotions, music and con-fetti were all part of the Sun-day Procession at the 104th

Fisherman’s Feast, in honorof the Madonna del Soccorsodi Sciacca. Enjoy scrollingdown through this photo gal-lery in roughly reverse timeorder.


(Photos byRosario Scabin,

Ross Photography)


The time has come, the walrus said,

TO TALK OF MANY THINGSof shoes and ships and sealing wax of cabbages and kings

by Sal Giarratani

BARELY LETHAL(Blu-ray)

Lionsgate Home Ent.A teenage special-ops

agent (Hailee Steinfeld)yearning for a “normal” ado-lescence fakes her owndeath and enrolls as a stu-dent in a typical Americanhigh school. She quicklylearns that surviving thetreacherous waters of beinga teenager can be moredifficult than internationalespionage. Cast includesJessica Alba, Sophie Turnerand Dove Cameron.

PEPPA PIG: SCHOOLBUS TRIP (DVD)

Entertainment OnePeppa and her school

friends take a trip to themountains, where she andher classmates have funhearing echoes, having apicnic, and singing their fa-vorite tune on the bus ridehome — the “Bing BongSong.” Back at school, Peppaattends gym class, acts inthe school play, participatesin sports day, and muchmore! Hilarious adventuresfilled with lots of snorts,laughter, sunshine and, ofcourse, jumping in muddypuddles.STRIKE BACK: CINEMAX

SEASON 3 (DVD)HBO Home Ent.

Strike Back is a high-oc-tane, globe-spanning thrillerthat focuses on two mem-bers of Section 20, a secretBritish anti-terrorist orga-nization. Michael Stone-bridge (Philip Winchester), aconsummate British soldierstill struggling to overcometragedy in his life, andDamien Scott (Sullivan Sta-pleton), a former U.S. DeltaForce operative who hasfound redemption withS-20, are the two members.Season 3 of the series has atrue global canvas, openingin Colombia, Russia andGermany, following a trail ofdrug money that is fundingterrorists in the Middle East.Authentic and mystifyingseries!

CHILD 44(Blu-ray)

Lionsgate Home Ent.After a friend’s son is found

dead, Soviet secret-police of-ficer Leo Demidov (TomHardy) suspects his superi-ors are covering up thetruth. When Leo dares toraise questions, he is de-moted and exiled to a provin-cial outpost with this wife(Noomi Rapace). There, Leosoon discovers other myste-rious deaths with similarcircumstances and con-vinces his new boss (GaryOldman) that a deranged se-rial killer is on the loose —and must be stopped beforehe strikes again in thiselectrifying thriller!

THE DEAD LANDS(Blu-ray)

Magnolia Home Ent.Hongi (James Rolleston),

a Maori chieftain’s teenageson, must avenge his father’s

murder in order to bringpeace and honor to the soulsof his loved ones after histribe is slaughtered throughan act of treachery. Vastlyoutnumbered by a band ofvillains led by Wirepa(Te Kohe Tuhaka), Hongi’sonly hope is to pass throughthe feared and forbiddenDead Lands and forgean uneasy alliance withthe mysterious “Warrior”(Lawrence Makoare), a ruth-less fighter who has ruledthe area for years.

BLACK BOX(DVD)

Lionsgate Home Ent.Inside a mysterious black

box lies the secret to one’sdesires. As the black boxchanges hands, each newowner must resist whatthey covet most or prepareto defend their salaciousgreed against an immortalassassin. As several livescollide, the question is, canthey escape the effects ofgreed and the black box?Cast includes Brad Dourif,Jason London, Ray Park andKevin Sorbo. Mysteries, se-crets and lies run rampant!

SHARK WEEK:DOMINATING THE DEEP

(3-DVD)Cinedigm

Jump into the feedingfrenzy for your favoritesummertime ritual withthis 3-disc set. Now, morepopular than ever, cable’slongest-running program-ming event needs no intro-duction or explanation.So strap on your gear, climbinto the cage, and watchthe ocean explode into a wildfury as Great Whites, Ham-merheads, Whale Sharks,and others take you on afin-gripping ride throughtheir underwater world.Shark Week has ten episodesthat provide more than eighthours of remarkable new in-sights into the lives of thesemagnificent, elusive crea-tures.LAST DAYS OF THE NAZIS

(DVD)Lionsgate Home Ent.

Rarely broadcast on televi-sion, this dark history ofNazism is told from a differ-ent perspective — the Nazisthemselves. In 1945, the Al-lies rounded up, and inter-rogated thousands of partyofficials, war criminals, ad-vocates, and Nazis. Theseinterrogations are a fasci-nating, largely forgotten partof the historical record. Sub-jects include leading propa-gandist Julius Streicher;Albert Speer, Hitler’s archi-tect and Minister of Arma-ments; the commandant ofAuschwitz, Rudolf Hoss; BDMleader Melita Maschmann;and Nazi doctor Karl Geb-hardt. Through chilling tes-timony, this inside look intothe minds and motivationsof eyewitness participantspresents a horrifying portraitof the most evil regime inhistory!

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12TH ANNUALBOCCE TOURNAMENTThe 12th annual Bocce

Tournament of the Taste ofthe North End will be heldthis year on Sunday, Sep-tember 13th, at the LangoneBocce Courts. This event isheld to raise scholarshipfunds for kids in the NorthEnd community.

Come and be a part of thisNorth End tradition. Watchhere for more details. Forfurther information, youcan call Pam Modugno at781-956-7441.

LOTS OF FIREWORKSON THE WAY

The Boston Harbor Asso-ciation and the City of Bos-ton will be holding a LaborDay Weekend FireworksShow on Boston Harbor onSeptember 5th at 9:00 pm.Say goodbye to summer witha big send off on the harbor.IF YOU’RE THINKING OF A

TEXAS VACATION ...If you have kids and love

the Texas heat, you shouldthink about a vacation toSan Antonio and check outtheir zoo. It is much morethan just a zoo. For moredetails, go to www.sazoo.org.

Also, if you want to findyour inner cowboy or cowgirl,you can gather you herd andhead to Celebrate Banderafrom September 4-6, 2015.Check out www.BanderaCowboyCapital.com.IF YOU LOVE IRISH MUSIC

YOU SHOULD ...Check out an Album Re-

lease Party for CarolineBrennan for her first soloalbum Leap on Sunday, Au-gust 23rd, at Kelly’s Cellar in

Quincy Center. Caroline isthe daughter of Winnieand the late Noel Henry.Brennan sings with the NoelHenry Irish Show Band.For more information, go towww.carolinebrennanmusic.com.

MULTI-CHAMBERBARBECUE AUGUST 27TH

The 6th Annual Multi-Chamber Barbecue Fund-raiser will be held this yearat the East Boston Neighbor-hood Health Center and willbenefit the North SuffolkMental Health Organization.

FISHERMAN’S CLUBHONORS PERI

The North End’s annualFisherman’s Feast honoringthe Madonna del Soccorsorecently honored AngelaPeri, the founder of BostonCasting, with its Italian-American of the Year Award.The Boston Globe also rana great photo of Peri withmy good friend ThereseDiecidue, aka Mrs. Bosco.

I’M LOVINGWKOX 1430 AM

Conservative talk radio isgrowing in the Boston area.There’s WRKO with Howieand the Kuhner Man.There’s WMEX 1510. There’smy new favorite, WKOX 1430AM with Glenn Beck,Rushbo, Sean Hannity andMark Levin. I listen more to1430 than to WRKO. I neverlisten to that station’s newmorning show unless I’mtrying to get a little extrasleep. Five minutes of KimCarrigan and I’m out cold.

WHY THE BIG GULFON PRICES?

Depending on your loca-tion when you need to fill

the gas tank, prices areall over the place. If you arein the East Boston/Winthroparea, the price is around$2.49. If you are way over inthe Dedham/West Roxburyarea, it drops to $2.29/$2.33.If you get struck in Char-lestown you need $2.93,Egleston Square $2.99, Bythe Pine Street Inn $2.84and Quincy about $2.43.

Does any of this makesense to anyone?

LOOKING FOR A GOODSHAVING CREAM/

WATER FIGHT?On Friday, August 28th, at

2:00 pm, the Salesian Boys’& Girls’ Club in Eastiewill be holding an afternoonof great fun for the kiddoswith an old-fashioned shav-ing cream and water fight.I hope the anti-SecondAmendment crowd doesn’tget a heart attack over theplanned fun afternoon.

SALESIANFAMILY FUN

SEPTEMBER 6TH

The Salesian Boys’ & Girls’Club will be celebrating DonBosco’s Bicentenary Birth-day on Saturday, September26th. All the fun starts at1:00 pm. For more informa-tion, call 617-455-9849.

KNIGHTS OFDUNKIN’ DONUTS

RELOCATESThe Knights of Dunkin’

Donuts up in the Heightshas relocated to the Beach-mont store during renova-tions of the BenningtonStreet store. The place issmaller but it comes witha TV screen in case youwanted to know.

details like a sip of applecider or a yellow schoolbus can signal the startof an exciting new season.Let us become seasonaldetectives, paying close at-tention to the evidence ofnature’s eternal cycle. Bydoing this, we becomeclosely attuned to the

Mother Earth which hasnourished us and our ances-tors for so long, and we learnto live in the moment by un-derstanding the naturalbeauty of the here and now.If we welcome every seasonwith optimism and a healthydose of respect, then thebounty of the Earth will love

us in kind, no matter whichlatte we drink!

Ally Di Censo Symynkywiczis a Graduate Student inHistory at the University ofMassachusetts Boston. Sheappreciates any commentsand suggestions about Italianholidays and folklore [email protected].

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Related Beal won ap-proval to construct whatwill be one of the largestentirely affordable andworkforce residentialprojects in Boston. Knownas Parcels 1B and 1C (for-merly “The Merano”project), the developmentwill include 239 rentalunits aimed at house-holds making between 30and 165 percent of areamedian income. With nomarket-rate units, theproject represents a de-parture from the recentwave of high-end down-town housing develop-ments. Related’s proposalsupports Mayor Walsh’s goal of adding 20,000new middle-income units to Boston’s hous-ing stock over the next 15 years.

The mixed-use project, designed by CBTArchitects to be LEED Silver certifiable, willalso include a 220 key hotel and 10,000square feet of commercial space on theground floor. Residents and hotel guests will

BRA Approves New Bullfinch Triangle ProjectHundreds of Affordable, Workforce Housing Units and a Hotel Slated

have convenient accessto the nearby North Sta-tion transit-hub. A 220-space parking garageserved by valet operatorswill be available to ten-ants and guests.

Apart from the housingcomponent, the developerhas committed to a num-ber of other benefits. Re-lated Beal will make a$500,000 contribution todesign and build a newpark. Several hundredthousand dollars will bededicated to other infra-structure improvementsin the neighborhood. Andto meet the project’s link-

age obligations, the developer will contrib-ute over $467,000 to the Neighborhood Hous-ing Trust and more than $93,500 to the Neigh-borhood Jobs Trust.

Related Beal is seeking a 121A tax agree-ment to help finance a portion the projectand to offset the high cost of land andconstruction downtown.


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AC/DC — August 22, 2015. TheNorth American Tour announcementcomes days after AC/DC deliveredan explosive performance of theircurrent single “Rock or Bust” andtheir classic “Highway to Hell” kick-ing off the 57th annual GrammyAwards. This marked the Grammywinning band’s first time perform-ing on U.S. television in over 14 years.AC/DC are also confirmed to head-line the Coachella Valley Music andArts Festival on April 10th and 17th.Chris Slade will be on drums forthe upcoming Rock or Bust WorldTour. AC/DC’s latest album, Rock orBust, was released on December 2ndand immediately topped sales chartsaround the globe. The album’sfirst two singles, “Play Ball” and“Rock or Bust,” were added to rockradio and featured in ad campaignsfor major brands like Major LeagueBaseball and Beats headphones.AC/DC last toured the world from2008-2010 with the Black Ice WorldTour, which had the band playing toover 5 million fans in 108 cities inover 28 countries. The Black IceWorld Tour earned AC/DC a PollstarAward for Major Tour of the Year in2010.

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J GEILS BAND — August 27, 2015.Massachusetts legends, the J GeilsBand, come to the Blue Hills BankPavilion. Best known for their ’70sparty tunes, “Southside Shuffle,”“Musta Got Lost,” “Looking for a Love”and their ’80s super hits “Centerfold”and “Freeze Frame.” J Geils Band’slast touring adventure was with BobSeger on a late 2014/early 2015 run.The band played R&B-influenced

blues rock in the 1970s before mov-ing towards a more new wave soundin the 1980s. Since its initial break-up in 1985, the band has reunitedseveral times.

TD GARDEN100 Legends Way, Boston, MA617-624-1050www.TDGarden.com

MADONNA — September 26, 2015.Madonna continues to be one ofthe most successful touring artistsin history — her shows are legend-ary. Along with extraordinary criticalacclaim as an artist, songwriter andproducer, Madonna’s reputation asone of the most successful liveperformers of all time speaks for it-self. Madonna has sold more than300 million records worldwide and isrecognized as the best-selling femalerecording artist of all time by GuinnessWorld Records. She is the best-sellingfemale rock artist of the twentiethcentury. The “Material Girl” was in-ducted into The Rock & Roll Hall ofFame in 2008. Madonna hits include:“Borderline,” “Crazy for You,” “Into theGroove,” “Like a Prayer,” “Like aVirgin,” “Lucky Star,” “Material Girl,”“Papa Don’t Preach,” “Ray of Light” and“Vogue.”

CASINO BALLROOM169 Ocean BoulevardHampton Beach, NH603-929-4100www.CasinoBallroom.com

BUDDY GUY with ETHAN TUCKER— October 1, 2015. At age 78, Guy is aRock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee,a major influence on rock titans likeJimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and StevieRay Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago’sfabled West Side sound, and a livinglink to that city’s halcyon days of elec-tric blues. He has received 6 GrammyAwards, along with a 2015 LifetimeAchievement Grammy Award, 34Blues Music Awards (the most anyartist has received), the Billboardmagazine Century Award for distin-guished artistic achievement, and thePresidential National Medal of Arts.

WEST END MUSEUM150 Staniford Street, Boston, MA617-723-2125www.TheWestEndMuseum.org

TIDE POWER IN COLONIAL BOS-TON — Now through September 19,2015. The West End Museum, one ofBoston's small and fascinating historymuseums dedicated to preserving thehistory of this neighborhood prior todemolation/reconstruction in the1950s, is opening a new exhibit onthe role of tides in Colonial Boston.The exhibit shows how earlyBostonians harnessed power from thetides to fuel mills producing flour, fab-ric, lumber, and chocolate - productsthat helped the colony grow and pros-per prior to the industrial revolution -and how the lust for creating newland for the city's expansion eventu-ally led to their downfall.

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA617-267-9300www.MFA.org

DRAWING IN THE GALLERIES —Now through August 26, 2015. Joinus every Wednesday evening for anopportunity to sketch from live mod-els and/or from objects in our collec-tions. A drawing instructor providesinsights on drawing technique andthe artist-model relationship as it in-forms the creation of artwork.Limited drawing materials areprovided to encourage spontaneousparticipation. Gallery location varies;ask at the Sharf Visitor Center.

MUSEUMS

“The Sicilian Corner” — every Friday 10:00 am to Noon with hosts TomZappala and Mike Lomazzo and “The Italian Show” with Nunzio DiMarcaevery Sunday from 9:00 am to Noon. Go to www.1110wccmam.com.

“Italia Oggi” — Sundays 11:00 am to Noon with host Andrea Urdi1460 AM. Go to www.1460WXBR.com.

“Dolce Vita Radio” — Sundays DJ Rocco Mesiti 11:00 am-1:00 pm; 90.7 FM or online www.djrocco.com.

“The Nick Franciosa Show” — Sundays from Noon to 3:00 pm onWLYN 1360 AM and WAZN 1470 AM.

“Guido Oliva Italian Hour” — Sundays 8:00 am–9:00 am on WSRO650 AM and online at www.wsro.com.

“Tony’s Place” on MusicAmerica WPLM FM 99.1 — Sundays9:00 pm–10:00 pm on MusicAmerica. Host Ron Della Chiesa presents Tony'sPlace. Visit www.MusicNotNoise.com.

“L’Italia Chiamo Italian Radio Show” hosted by Stefano Marcheseand Elisa Meazzini — Thursdays 3:00 pm–4:15 pm. Visit litaliachiamo.com;email: [email protected]. Tel. 857-334-0868.

“Intervallo Musicale” — Sundays 10:00-10:30 am; Host CarmineGuarino on WUNR 1600 AM and online at www.wunr.com.

ITALIAN RADIO PROGRAMS

BOSTON OPERA HOUSE539 Washington St., Boston, MA617-259-3400www.BostonOperaHouseOnline.com

KINKY BOOTS — Now throughAugust 30, 2015. Set in provincialNorthampton, England, Kinky Bootstells the story of London-boundCharlie Price, who is surprised tosuddenly inherit his beloved father’sshoe factory and even more surprisedto find that handmade men’s dressshoes are no longer quite as in vogueas they used to be. Facing closure,a dejected Charlie chances uponLola, the charismatic, brassy andfabulous drag queen and finds himselfforming an unlikely business part-nership, creating custom shoes for dragqueens which will change their livesforever. Based on a true story, KinkyBoots is the uplifting story of unlikelyfriendship, finding your passion,overcoming prejudice and recognisingthat, underneath it all, we’re not sodifferent.

THE LOEB DRAMA CENTERAT AMERICAN REPERTORYTHEATRE64 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MAwww.Boston-Theater.com

WAITRESS — Now through Sep-tember 27, 2015. Waitress Jenna(Mueller) longs for escape from thesmall southern town where she liveswith her bullying husband, Earl. Hopeis at hand in the form of a pie-makingcontest in a nearby town, with a pos-sibly life-changing cash prize. At thediner where she works, Jenna isfamed for her fluffy pastries and crin-kly crusts, and knows that this con-test may be the one chance she getsto turn her life around.

WANG THEATERCiti Performing Arts Center270 Tremont Street Boston, MA02116www.CitiCenter.org

JE’CARYOUS JOHNSON’S THINGSYOUR MAN WON’T DO — October22, 2015. Leading African-Americanplaywright and inspirational speakerJe’caryous Johnson is back with abrand-new touring play that is set tocatch the stage on fire! Not so much alove triangle as a love square, thisstory tells the funny efforts that anemotionally unintelligent man must

NORTH SHORE MUSIC THEATRE62 Dunham Road, Beverly, MA978-232-7200www.NSMT.org

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER THEMUSICAL — Now through August 23,2015. A New England Regional Pre-miere that will leave you with “NightFever!” Based on Nik Cohn’s 1975 NewYork Magazine article “Tribal Rites ofthe New Saturday Night” and theNorman Wexler’s 1977 screenplay itinspired, this cultural phenomenoncenters around Tony Manero, aBrooklyn youth whose weekend isspent at the local dance hangout.There he escapes into the admira-tion of the crowd, a growing relation-ship and the pulse of the beat thatenables him to forget the realities ofhis life, his dead-end job and his gangof deadbeat friends. This mega-musi-cal takes you back to the bell bot-toms, loose hips and the irresistiblegroove of disco!.

THE CROSBY WHISTLE STOP24 Roland Street, Charlestown, MA978-884-7690www.BostonSwingCentral.com

SWING DANCE EVERY FRI-DAY NIGHT — Come and check outBoston’s most exciting swing dance.Conveniently located in SullivanSquare less than a five-minute walkfrom the T. Free parking is available.A killer line up of DJ’s and live bandsevery Friday night. Beautiful 3,000 sqft dance hall with exposed brick. Abeginner lesson is included in theprice of admission from 8:00-9:00 pmprior to social dancing from 9:00 pm-midnight. No partner or prior experi-ence is required. All ages and dancelevels welcome.

DANCE

THEATER

Rolling Stone ranked him in the top25 of its “100 Greatest Guitarists ofAll Time.” 2012, in fact, has provento be one of Guy’s most remarkableyears ever. He was awarded the 2012Kennedy Center Honors for life-time contribution to American cul-ture and, earlier in the year, at a per-formance at the White House, heeven persuaded President Obama tojoin him on a chorus of “Sweet HomeChicago.” Now the story continueswith Rhythm & Blues, 21tracks whichfeature contributions from a stellarand wide-ranging set of guests, in-cluding Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, andBrad Whitford of Aerosmith and ris-ing guitar wizard Gary Clark, Jr. Hehad a specific inspiration for a duetwith his friend Kid Rock, real-izingthat “Messin’ with the Kid” —a 1960 hit for Guy’s long-time part-ner Junior Wells — was a perfectfit lyrically and musically. Probablythe most unexpected guest onRhythm & Blues is country superstarKeith Urban, who joins Guy on anemotional ballad called “One DayAway.”

WILBUR THEATRE246 Tremont St., Boston, MA617-248-9700www.TheWilburTheatre.com

FRANKIE VALLI — November 7,2015. Frankie Valli, who came to famein 1962 as the lead singer of the FourSeasons, is hotter than ever in thetwenty-first century. Thanks to thevolcanic success of the Tony-winningmusical Jersey Boys, which chroniclesthe life and times of Frankie and hislegendary group, such classic songsas “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like aMan,” “Rag Doll,” and “Can’t Take MyEyes Off You” are all the rage all overagain. With the play in its seventhblockbuster year on Broadway, andfive other casts performing Jersey Boysnightly from Las Vegas to London, thereal Frankie Valli is also packing ven-ues around the world.

ALFIO IN CONCERT — November12, 2015. Italian-Australian croonerALFIO brings a new approach to thetenor tradition. Beloved around theworld for his modern interpretationsof Italian standards, classical takes oncontemporary chart-toppers, andoriginal compositions that bridgemusical genres.

Legendary blues guitarist Buddy Guy will take down thehouse at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom this fall.See MUSIC SECTION for further details.

SPECIALEVENTS

WILBUR THEATRE246 Tremont St., Boston, MA617-248-9700www.TheWilburTheatre.com

OLATE DOGS RESCUE TOUR —September 24, 2015. The Olate Dogsare the winning participants fromSeason 7 of America’s Got Talent,scooping up the $1,000,000 prize andheadlining The Palazzo in Las Vegas.Led by Richard Olate and his sonNicholas Olate, the Olate Dogs(www.olatedogs.tv) are a high-energy,fast-paced canine theatrical act filledwith amazing dog tricks, human acro-batics and humor. Embodying theAmerican Dream, Richard grew up inSouth America in a poor family. Hegot his start as a young boy of 10 whenhe rescued his first street dogs andfound he had a gift. He combined thisgift of training dogs and compassionwith incredible hard work. This en-abled him to support his entire familyby age 12 with his dog troupe. He cameto the attention of a circus group andfound himself performing in the UnitedStates at age 33. That is when therise of the Olate Dogs began in ear-nest. Winning America’s Got Talentin 2012 was the beginning of theirdreams comes true. Opening doorspreviously only imagined, they are nowAmerica’s most recognized dog enter-tainers.

OMNI PARKER HOUSE60 School Street, Boston, MA877-613-0134www.BostonTheater.com

INTIMATE ILLUSIONS — Decem-ber 26-27, 2015. Brilliant, Hilarious &Enthralling. A world-renowned illu-sionist and entertainer, Ivan Amodei

delights in creating one-of-a-kindstage experiences using a blend ofmagnificent magic, music, drama andcomedy that transport you, the audi-ence, into a fantastic new world! Ut-terly enthralling, Amodei’s myriad tal-ents range from daring telekinesis todazzling telepathy, and much more,including dazzling world-class illu-sions! Featuring an incredible scoreincluding everything from Mozart toHans Zimmer and Celine Dion’s con-cert Cellist, Intimate Illustions is aspectacular, spontaneous and wittyshow about destiny, courage, life andlove and is most definitely like noth-ing you’ve ever seen before!

NORTHEAST COMIC CON ANDCOLLECTIBLES EXTRAVAGANZA— December 5-6, 2015. A line-up offamily fun including celebrity guests,K!DZ activities, cosplay, video gamesand holiday shopping. As a specialevent offering the largest selection ofcollectibles, geek crafts, comics, toys,comic art and pop culture artifacts forsale in New England, this show hasbecome the holiday shopping showfor nerds and the people who lovethem. Everything a fan or collectorcould possibly want, that you couldnot find anywhere else, is displayedon over 300 tables from vendors trav-elling from 10 states. For completedetails visit the website.

make in order to win back the love ofhis life. But when he enlists the helpof his friend, he finds that there isanother person in the race for thiswoman’s affections. Rachel Braxtonis one fed up woman. Despite givingher boyfrend Demetrius McAlister hertime, money and her love, he simplywont commit. Instead, he is involvedin a highly dysfunctional relationshipwith his cousin Katrina, who is adrama queen at the best of times, andwildly unstable at the worst. Rachelsees red and ditches him, much tohis horror and disbelief. Realizing thathe must get Rachel back, he enliststhe help of his best friend Blake, anewly divorced psychologist who ea-gerly agrees to assist him. But as ittranspires that Rachel is the one whoBlake let get away, he decides thatlove trumps friendship, and uses hisknowledge to win Rachel back forhimself, doing all the things thatDemetrius didn’t.

COMEDYWILBUR THEATRE246 Tremont St., Boston, MA617-248-9700www.TheWilburTheatre.com

THE MEN FROM MAINECOMEDY SHOW FEATURING BOBMARLEY — October 9, 2015. You’veheard the crazy misadventures of the“Men from Maine” on The Loren &Wally Morning Show weekdays at6:15 am and 7:15 am on 105.7 WROR.You’ve bought their CDs and theirentire line of merchandise — fromBBQ to boxer shorts-on WROR.com.You’ve even embarrassed yourselfretelling the stories to family mem-bers (and former friends). Now you cansee them live, featuring the ‘real’ Manfrom Maine, Comedian Bob Marley!A’yuh!

XFINITY CENTER885 S. Main St., Mansfield, MAwww.LiveNation.com

THE ODDBALL COMEDY &CURIOSITY FESTIVAL: AZIZANSARI & AMY SCHUMER —Sep-tember 11, 2015. Two of the hottestmultimedia comedy stars this year arejoining forces to take their ComedyFestival on tour. The Festival has beencredited with launching some of thebiggest names in comedy, and thistour will feature a slew of young com-edy up-and-comers. Joining Ansariand Schumer are a rotating cast ofperformers that include: Nick Kroll,Nikki Glaser, Tim Minchin, Todd Barry,Michael Che, Jay Pharoah, T.J. Miller,Rory Scovel, Dave Attell, BridgetEverett and Rachel Feinstein.


Procrastination. After a Michigan womanwas arrested, frisked, fingerprinted, andbriefly jailed for failing to renew her dog’s $10license. Becky Rehr said she was “pretty ner-vous” when she was put in a cell “with allthese inmates in orange jumpsuits.”

Moron? A Calgary, Alberta, man wasarrested after he flew over the city in a lawnchair affixed to 100 helium balloons andhad to parachute out when be rose too high.“I was looking down at a 747,” said Dan Boria.“It was surreal.”

News from Inzago, Italy. “Lady Jihad:” It is astory that has gripped Italy. And last weekthe case of Maria Giulia Sergio — a 27-year-old former Catholic who joined the IslamicState of Iraq and Syria — took another dra-matic turn when police arrested her parentsand sister as they allegedly prepared to travelto Syria, too. Sergio came to public attentionin 2009, when she took part in a TV debateand called for tolerance for all faiths. Shereturned to headlines last year as “LadyJihad,” after she moved to Syria and glee-fully told her family during Skype calls aboutISIS executions of “non-believers.” Her sis-ter Marianna, 31, was reportedly keen to fol-low her to the Middle East, but their motherAssunta Buonfiglio, 60, was only persuadedwhen promised that the jihadists would giveher a washing machine.

Billy Joel celebrated the Fourth of July withhis fourth wedding, marrying pregnant girl-friend Alexis Roderick in a surprise cer-emony at his annual holiday bash in LongIsland, N.Y. Joel, 66, and Roderick, 33, hadtheir first child this summer. Joel’s secondwife, Christie Brinkley, sent a backhandedcompliment to the musician’s new wife, say-ing that her own 29-year-old daughter wouldhave “a wonderful friend in Alexis.”

Wow! A California family shouted in excite-ment as dolphins swam and leaped along-side their 21-foot boat — until one of the350-pound mammals jumped over the rail.“It hit my wife and knocked her over andpunched my daughter,” said Dirk Frickman.He pulled his wife out from under the pan-icked, thrashing dolphin and headed back toport. There he and two dockworkers man-aged to rope and release the dolphin. “I’msure it was just as traumatized as we were,”said wife, Chrissie, magnanimous despitetwo broken ankles.

A 39-year-old English woman sleepwalkedinto the sea, waking up just in time to avoiddrowning. Marie Lord arose around 1:30 amand strolled a half-mile through town —straight into Bristol Channel. The taste ofsea salt and the chill of crashing wavesroused her, and she screamed for help. Ahotel porter rushed to her aid and coveredher in blankets until she was transported toa hospital, in the early stages of hypother-mia. “It all seemed like a dream,” Lord said.

And from Australia, the U.S. SupremeCourt’s decision to legalize same-sex mar-riage has left Australia looking “backwardand silly,” said Greg Jericho in SBS.com.au.Australia is now the only country in the En-glish-speaking world where gay marriage isilIegal, and their conservative prime minis-ter, Tony Abbott, wants to keep it that way.

Perhaps you have heard, Carnival cruiseships are headed to Cuba. The cruisecompany says it has been granted approvalby the U.S. government for trips to theisland. Carnival says it will provide bi-weekly, seven-night cruises that facilitate“cultural, artistic, faith-based, and humani-tarian exchanges” beginning in May 2016.

An Illinois man named Rod has survivedbeing struck by lightning for the second timein his life. Rod Wolfe, 58, was working in hisgarden when a lightning bolt hit a nearbytree, flung him through the air, and knockedhim out cold. He was treated at the hospitalfor bruised ribs and cardiac problems and toldby doctors and friends that he was exception-ally lucky to escape worse injury. But Wolfe,who was also hit by lightning 18 yearsago, and is therefore known to friends asLightning Rod, doesn’t think he’s particularfortunate. “Lucky people,” he said, “don’t getstruck by lightning.”

Gee, we learned from Martha Stewart

Living thatafter moppinga floor, rinsethe mop headthoroughly ina bucket ofclean, hot water or in a utility sink. Becauseeven a touch of dirty water left on a mop cancreate a foul odor, “keeping a mop impecca-bly clean is essential.” And a dish spongeshould be rinsed and wrung out after everyuse, then set where it can air-dry. Replacethe sponge every two weeks and don’t zap itin a microwave. That trick disinfects but canalso start a fire.

Up to 5 million workers could soon receivebumps in their paychecks, said DavidJackson in USA Today. President Obamaproposed to raise the salary threshold belowwhich workers automatically qua1ify fortime-and-a-half overtime from $23,660 to$50,440.

According to the great Steven Sebestyen,the average man’s modest ambition is tomake his weekly paycheck last a week.Steve’s astute wife Theresa thinks in the“good old days,” the biggest grab for a man’ssalary took place after he got home.

A factory worker in Akron complained, “Ifthere’s one more deduction from my take-home pay, I won’t have any home to take mypay to.”

One more time! The TV great Tom Bergeronwas once employed by WBZ News at Noon.Bergeron began his broadcasting career in1972 at WHAV in his hometown Haverhill,Massachusetts. At one time, he resided inBelmont with his wife and two daughters.

Huh? The Statue of Liberty marks its l30th

year in the U.S. June 17th marked 130 yearssince “Liberty Enlightening the World,” nowknown as the Statue of Liberty, was first pre-sented as a gift from France to the UnitedStates. The idea for the monument was pro-posed in 1865 by French political thinkerEdouard de Laboulaye, who believed that asculpture honoring the United States —which shared common ideals with France— would inspire the French people to call fora return to the cause of democracy. Thestatue was designed by French sculptorFrederic Auguste Bartholdi, who choseNew York’s Bedloe’s Island as the locationbecause it was visible to every ship enteringNew York Harbor, at the “gateway to America.”Construction began in 1876, with Frencharchitect Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel buildingthe statue’s iron frame work. When finished,Lady Liberty was shipped from France to theU.S., then re-assembled by scores of U.S.workers, many of whom were immigrants.The Statue of Liberty was finally unveiledon October 28, 1886, before a crowd of morethan one million people. A replica of thestatue can be seen in Paris to this day, alasting symbol of liberty, freedom, andFrench-American friendship.

Wee bit of Italian-American history. In 1894,Frank Cotillo arrives from Naples and settleshis family into several cramped, sunlessrooms in an East Harlem tenement. Cotillosupports his family by opening a smallconfectionery store on Broadway where heintroduces spumoni to America.

The ageless musicologist, Al Natale,recently celebrated his birthday but nocandles were allowed on the birthday cakesince it would be a bonfire! And from the greatAl Natale we learned what Eve Arden had tosay about Ginger Rogers. “Not that she wasstandoffish. Not to me, not much conde-scending, yes. It was the girls with smallerroles, with token lines of dialogue or no linesat all, that she treated like mosquitoes.”

One more time! The great musician andcharitable Al Natale celebrated his birthdayon Tuesday, August 18th. Other notables whowere also born on this date, Shelley Winters,Robert Redford and Patrick Swayze. Also, onAugust 18th, the 19th Amendment to the U.S.Constitution was ratified, giving women theright to vote.

Ah. Al Natale, Boston’s North End gift to theworld! Again, again, again! Happy Birthdaydear friend!AMERICA IS A BEAUTIFUL ITALIAN NAME

Recipes from theHomelandHomelandHomelandHomelandHomeland

by Vita Orlando Sinopoli

COPYRIGHT, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

BISCOTTIBISCOTTIBISCOTTIBISCOTTIBISCOTTI

Mix sugar and oil. Addbeaten eggs and vanilla.Gradually add flour and bak-ing powder. Fold in choppedwalnuts last. Spoon mixtureby tablespoon onto highlygreased cookie sheet, form-ing a long strip about twoinches wide and one inchthick. Place each strip abouttwo inches apart becausemixture spreads while bak-ing. Bake at 350°F in pre-heated over about fifteen totwenty minutes or until firmwith bottoms slightlybrowned.

Allow cooling only aminute. With spatula, care-fully lift one strip at a timeonto cutting board. Withsharp serrated knife, slice

4 cups flour4 beaten eggs1 cup vegetable oil1½ cups sugar

4 teaspoons baking powder3 teaspoons vanilla**1 cup chopped walnuts*

each into 1-inch thickbiscotti. As you slice, placesliced portions on thebaking tray, side down.Return full tray into heatedoven of 350°F for about tento fifteen minutes to toastlightly.

After toasting, removefrom cookie sheet to cool.These store well in a largecanister.

OPTIONAL** To make anise biscotti,

replace vanilla flavoringwith two teaspoons of anise.

* Walnuts optional.

These old-time popularItalian treats are wonderfulwith coffee, tea or alone. Theyare also well received byfamily members or friends asa gift during holidays.

Run date: 8/21/15

To all persons interested in the abovecaptioned estate, by Petition of PetitionerJoseph Rutigliano of Evanston, IL, a Will hasbeen admitted to informal probate.

Joseph Rutigliano of Evanston, IL hasbeen informally appointed as the PersonalRepresentative of the estate to serve withoutsurety on the bond.

The estate is being administered underinformal procedure by the Personal Represen-tative under the Massachusetts Uniform Pro-bate Code without supervision by the Court.Inventory and accounts are not required to befiled with the Court, but interested parties areentitled to notice regarding the administrationfrom the Personal Representative and canpetition the Court in any matter relating to theestate, including distribution of assets andexpenses of administration. Interested partiesare entitled to petition the Court to instituteformal proceedings and to obtain orders ter-minating or restricting the powers of PersonalRepresentatives appointed under informal pro-cedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any,can be obtained from the Petitioner.

Commonwealth of MassachusettsThe Trial Court

Probate and Family CourtMiddlesex Division

208 Cambridge StreetCambridge, MA 02141

(617) 768-5800Docket No. MI15P3916EA

Estate ofCHRISTINA RUTIGLIANO

Also Known AsCHRISTINA R. RUTIGLIANODate of Death April 20, 2015

INFORMAL PROBATEPUBLICATION NOTICE

LEGAL NOTICE


The Probate and Family CourtDepartment

Middlesex, SS DivisionDocket No. MI15P4276PO

NOTICE OFPETITION FOR REMOVAL

OF TRUSTEE AND APPOINTMENTOF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE

NOTICE

LEGAL NOTICE

To all persons interested in the PhyllisComfort Revocable Trust, of Medford, in saidCounty of Middlesex, for the benefit ofbeneficiaries listed in the schedule ofbeneficiaries, a petition has been presentedby Sean Fitzpatrick of Medford in theCounty of Middlesex in the above-captionedmatter praying that, Mary L. AndersonA/K/A Mary Lee Comfort of Pasadena in theState of Texas be removed as a trustee andappoint Sean Fitzpatrick or some other suit-able person to be a successor trustee withoutsureties on his/her bond.

If you desire to object thereto, you or yourattorney should file a written appearance insaid court at Cambridge before ten o’clock inthe forenoon on September 1st, 2015.

WITNESS, HON. EDWARD F. DONNELLY, JR.,Esquire, First Justice of said Court atCambridge, this 4th day of August, in the yearof our Lord Two Thousand and Fifteen.

Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of Probate Court


Middlesex Probate and Family Court208 Cambridge StreetCambridge, MA 02141

(617) 768-5800Docket No. MI15D2747DRDIVORCE SUMMONS BY

PUBLICATION AND MAILINGSIMON PETER KABONGE

VS.TRACY BROWN

LEGAL NOTICE

To the Defendant:The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce

requesting that the Court grant a divorce forIrretrievable Breakdown of the Marriage 1B.

The Complaint is on file at the Court.An Automatic Restraining Order has been

entered in this matter preventing you from takingany action which would negatively impact thecurrent financial status of either party. SEESupplemental Probate Court Rule 411.

You are hereby summoned and requiredto serve upon Simon P. Kabonge, 186 GardnerSt. Apt. B1, Arlington, MA 02474, your answer,if any, on or before September 30, 2015. If youfail to do so, the court will proceed to thehearing and adjudication of this action. You arealso required to file a copy of your answer, ifany, in the office of the Register of this Court.

WITNESS, HON. EDWARD F. DONNELLY, JR.,First Justice of this Court.

Date: August 12, 2015

Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of ProbateRun date: 8/21/15



(617) 768-5800Docket No. MI14D4055DRDIVORCE SUMMONS BY

PUBLICATION AND MAILINGSAMUEL BISASO WALULYA

VS.CAMILLE CLARISSA CAIN-WALULYA

LEGAL NOTICE

To the Defendant:The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce

requesting that the Court grant a divorce forIrretrievable Breakdown of the Marriage 1B.

The Complaint is on file at the Court.An Automatic Restraining Order has been

entered in this matter preventing you from takingany action which would negatively impact thecurrent financial status of either party. SEESupplemental Probate Court Rule 411.

You are hereby summoned and requiredto serve upon Richard S. Cabelus, Esq., Maroun& Cabelus, LLC, 397 Main Street, Woburn, MA01801, your answer, if any, on or beforeSeptember 30, 2015. If you fail to do so, thecourt will proceed to the hearing andadjudication of this action. You are also requiredto file a copy of your answer, if any, in the officeof the Register of this Court.




LEGAL NOTICEREQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITYTHOMAS P. GLYNN

CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Run date: 8/21/2015

The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Authority) is soliciting professional services for MPA CONTRACT NO. L1439, SUSTAINABILITY PLAN IMPLEMENTATION AND REPORTING SERVICES – LOGAN (FY16 – FY18) FOR LOGAN AIRPORT. The Authority is seeking a qualifi ed consulting fi rm to assist with implementation of sustainability initiatives at Logan International Airport. The services provided will be based on the recently completed 2015 Logan Airport Sustainability Management Plan (SMP). The awarded contract will be for a 3 year term in a total not-to-exceed amount of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000). The Authority expects to select one consultant. However, the Authority reserves the right to select a different number if it is deemed in its best interest to do so. Each consultant shall be issued a contract in an amount up to but not exceeding a total of $250,000. Project assignments will be issued on a work order basis.A Supplemental Information Package will be available on Wednesday, August 26, 2015, on the Capital Bid Opportunities webpage of Massport: http://www.massport.com/doing-business/_layouts/CapitalPrograms/default.aspx as an attachment to the original Legal Notice, and on COMMBUYS (www.commbuys.com) in the listings for this project. If there is diffi culty fi nding the notice, please contact Susan Brace at Capital Programs via email: [email protected] Supplemental Information Package will provide detailed information about Scope of Work, Selection Criteria and Submission Requirements.By responding to this solicitation, consultants agree to accept the terms and conditions of Massport’s standard work order agreement. A copy of the Authority’s standard agreement can be found on the Authority’s web page at http://www.massport.com/business-with-massport/capital-improvements/resource-center. The exception to this standard agreement is the insurance requirement of $1,000,000 of commercial general liability. The Consultant shall specify in its cover letter that it has the ability to obtain the requisite insurance coverage. This submission, including the litigation and legal proceedings history enclosed in a separate sealed envelope as required, shall be addressed to Houssam H. Sleiman, PE, CCM, Director of Capital Programs and Environmental Affairs and received no later than 12:00 Noon on Thursday, October 1, 2015 at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Logan Offi ce Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 02128-2909. Any submission which is not received in a timely manner shall be rejected by the Authority as non-responsive. Any information provided to the Authority in any Proposal or other written or oral communication between the Proposer and the Authority will not be, or deemed to have been, proprietary or confi dential, although the Authority will use reasonable efforts not to disclose such information to persons who are not employees or consultants retained by the Authority except as may be required by M.G.L. c.66.


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We were always doingsomething during the sum-mer months when I was akid. We traveled with Dadwhen he played the countyfairs all over the northeast,we vacationed at severalresorts in between, andlater, my folks bought a cot-tage in Winthrop, Maine.

I once asked my motherabout summer vacationswhen she was a kid. Her an-swer was, “What was a sum-mer vacation? Don’t forget,my parents were hard-work-ing and had a blue-collarmentality. Vacations, in thetrue sense of the word, werefor the rich as far as theywere concerned. Family get-togethers at specific loca-tions or in our backyard werewhat were considered vaca-tions, and that’s what wedid.”

The story Mom remem-bered took place during thesummer when she was achild. Babbononno, UnclePaul and Uncle Nick (bothpre-teen) played in the Ital-ian Marine Band in Boston.On a particular Sunday, theband was booked to play aconcert at Wood Island Parkin East Boston.

For those of you youngerthan I, you might not re-member Wood Island Park. Itwas a local recreation areathat was entered off NeptuneRoad. It had a beach, a coupleof ball fields, a refreshmentstand and a bandstand. Idon’t remember if they hada bathhouse, but I think so.

Well, Babbononno packed-up Nanna and the kids,along with the instruments,food and drink, and headedto a trolley that would dropthem off at Neptune Roadwhere the entrance of thepark was located. Therewere benches in front ofthe bandstand, but I don’tremember if Mom said thatthey sat there or spread outa blanket for all to rest on.Nanna would make surethat there was an umbrellato protect herself and mymother from the sun. I thinkpart of the ancestry onNanna’s side must havebeen due to Viking invadersin Avellino. Nanna and mymother had skin so light thata few minutes in the sunwould produce a burn.

At a certain hour (I thinkit was 2:00 pm), the bandwould begin to play Ital-ian favorites and Americanmarches. Babbononno playedthe snare drum and myuncles played clarinets inthe reed section of the band.On a side note, one of the

musicians, Guy Giraffa,would one day form the RomaBand in the North End. Forgenerations, they playedmany, many concerts, espe-cially during the summermonths when there was asaint’s feast day and festivalevery weekend.

During intermission, Nannawould break out the food shehad prepared for the after-noon. Knowing her style,there were no sandwicheson white bread. She probablyhad Italian cold cuts, anassortment of cheeses, acontainer of meatballs and acouple of loaves of bread — around one for Babbononnoand sliced scali for everyoneelse. Knowing my uncles andmother, they probably wouldhave wanted to go swim-ming, but would be givenevery excuse in the book byNanna, who was extremelyafraid of water. I don’t knowwho won out. My mothertried to adopt Nanna’s fear ofthe ocean, but it was to noavail. As I grew up, I grew tolove the water and she hadto learn how to put up withit.

Wood Island Park servedthe East Boston communityfor a few generations, butby the time I was in myteens, it had fallen into dis-array. Following WWII, localsheaded for Revere Beach forfun in the sun, food andamusements. The one partof Wood Island Park that wasalive in the late ’40s and’50s was the parking lot. Itwas used at night by youngpeople who went parking,or using the term of theday, “watching the subma-rine races.” Periodically thepolice from Station 7 woulddrive through at night andkick everyone out, but manyof them had compassion forthe young folks who wereparked at La Montaniele,the nickname given to WoodIsland Park.

In the early 1960s, theland was given or sold toLogan Airport. Dump truckscruised Neptune Road withland fill that slowly allowedWood Island Park to becomepart of an ever-growinginternational airport. Tocomply with the wishes ofhome owners on NeptuneRoad, local politician GeorgeDeLorenzo became a humanbarrier trying to stop thetrucks, but the handwritingwas on the wall, and soonWood Island Park becamepart of history.

Whenever I mentioned thelong-gone park to my folks oruncles, they all had stories

about how wonderful thepark was when they werekids. All but Uncle Gino aregone and I hope there arepeople left who will keep thememory of Wood Island Parkalive.

I’m going to change thesubject for the rest of thecolumn due to an obituaryI read prior to writing today’sstory. Grace Manfredoniapassed away last week. Sheand her husband, Ralph,were our landlords, theowners of 74 Eutaw Street,when I was a kid. Grace’sparents, Giuseppina andAngelo Barranco, owned thehouse when we first movedin during WWII; then Graceand her husband Ralph tookit over after the old-timersdied off.

Actually, Grace had beenfriendly with my mothergrowing up, and Ralph andmy father were high schoolchums, all from the sameneighborhood. When theybecame the landlords, it waslike family collecting therent. Each first of the month,Mom, Dad and I would go tothe Manfredonia house fordinner and Dad would paythe rent.

In 1948, when TV hit Bos-ton, the Manfredonia’s wereamong the first in the neigh-borhood to buy one. Threeof their children, John,Adelaide and Fred, with metagging along, would spendhours in their den watchinglive TV with Grace makinghot chocolate each time.

Her late son, John, was bornexactly one week before Iwas, and during our forma-tive years we were insepa-rable. When we became ofage, we went separate ways,John into the service andI to college. Not long after Iwas out of school, we movedout of East Boston, but Mom,Dad, Ralph and Grace kept intouch on a continual basis.

I keep informed as to whatthe Manfredonia families areup to due to John’s son,John. But, that’s a story foranother day.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Politics 101“When you play golf, you

can play it one of two ways,you can either look at theperson you are playingagainst, or you can play yourown game. I find that whenI play my own game, I play alot better.”

— Ohio Gov. John KasichSomething Wrong with

this PictureA suburban Denver baker

refused to bake a weddingcake for a same sex coupleciting religious beliefs, butthe Colorado Court of Ap-peals ruled the bakercouldn’t use his Christian-ity to refuse customers. TheCourt ruled that since hisbusiness was open to thepublic he couldn’t start “pick-ing and choosing customersbased on their sexual orien-tation.”

Why should a baker be re-quired to promote a messageon a cake with which he dis-agrees? His attorneys fromthe Arizona-based AllianceDefending Freedom will prob-ably take this case furtherup the line. First to the Colo-rado Supreme Court and, ifneeded, to the U.S. SupremeCourt.

Under the thinking of thethree judge panel in this lat-est case, would a Jewishbaker be required to makea wedding cake for a coupleof Neo-Nazis?

Political CorrectnessStrikes Again

The University of Texas inAustin has decided to movea statue of Confederate

President Jefferson Davisfrom an outdoor mall to anindoor exhibit. The statuehas been outdoors on displaysince before World War II.Critics say the statue hon-ors slavery and honors atraitor to his country.

When the Civil War ended,the idea was to bind up allthe wounds and become onecountry again.

When I was in school, theCivil War studies did notturn Jefferson Davis orRobert E. Lee into pseudo-Nazis. They were consideredAmericans, too, and the warwas a bloody mess thatkilled over 600,000 Ameri-cans on both sides. Slaverywas one of many issues thatled to the war, but clearly notthe only one. Mostly, that warwas fought over power be-tween the federal govern-ment and states’ rights.

It is okay to rememberJefferson Davis or GeneralLee as great men whohad great dreams. They arepart of our U.S. history. Put-ting today’s values into thelives of nineteenth centuryleaders is unfair. Just asunfair is attacking folkslike Thomas Jefferson andthe rest of our foundingfathers. Nations grow intime, they evolve into betterplaces, but we can’t do thatby pretending the past didn’thappen. We had a Civil War.We had slavery. We had JimCrow Laws. We landed a Manon the Moon. We elected Bar-rack Obama. It is all part ofour history.

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To all persons interested in the matter ofDesirea Michelle Johns, of North Readingin the County of Middlesex.

A Petition has been presented by theguardians A. Tyrone Johns and Robyn D.Johns in the above-captioned matter pray-ing for the authority to remove the minor fromthe Commonwealth of Massachusetts andrelocate to the Commonwealth of Virginia.

IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO,YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILEA WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAIDCOURT AT MIDDLESEX PROBATE ANDFAMILY TRIAL COURT, 208 CAMBRIDGESTREET, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02141, ON ORBEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE FORENOON(10:00 a.m.) on August 31st, 2015.

WITNESS, EDWARD F. DONNELLY, JR.,Esquire, First Justice of said Court atCambridge, Massachusetts, this 10th day ofAugust in the year of our Lord Two Thousandand Fifteen.




Middlesex DivisionDocket No. MI09P5587GD

NOTICEIN THE GUARDIANSHIP OFDESIREA MICHELLE JOHNS

LEGAL NOTICE

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Giuseppe Melchiorre Sartowas born in Italy, in whatis today the province ofTreviso, in 1835. He wasthe second of ten childrenborn to Giovanni BattistaSarto (1792–1852) andMargarita Sanson (1813–94). Though Giuseppe’schildhood was one of pov-erty, his parents valuededucation, sending him toa school 6 kilometers awayto which Giuseppe walkedeach day.

At a young age, Giuseppestudied Latin with hisvillage priest, and went onto study at the gymnasiumof Castelfranco Veneto. “In1850 he was given a schol-arship from the Diocese ofTreviso” to attend the Semi-nary of Padua, “where he

finished his classical, philosophical, and theological stud-ies with distinction.” On September 18, 1858, Giuseppe wasordained a priest, and became chaplain at Tombolo.

While at Tambolo, Father Sarto expanded his knowledgeof theology, studying both Saint Thomas Aquinas and canonlaw. In 1867, he was named pastor of Salzano in the dio-cese of Treviso. He restored the Church and expanded thehospital through funds obtained from his own begging andlabor; his two sisters, who acted as his housekeepers, wereoften at wit’s end as their brother gave away much of hisown clothing and food to the needy. He became popular withthe people through his efforts to assist the sick during thecholera plague that hit northern Italy in the early 1870s.After nine years as pastor, he was appointed Canon of thecathedral of Treviso and chancellor of the Diocese whilealso holding offices such as spiritual director and rector ofthe Treviso seminary, and examiner of the clergy. As chan-cellor, he made it possible for public school students toreceive religious instruction. As a priest and a later bishop,he often struggled over solving problems of bringing reli-gious instruction to rural and urban youth who did not havethe opportunity to attend Catholic schools. When the dio-cese of Mantua fell vacant in 1884, Pope Leo XIII namedCanon Sarto as bishop of that diocese.

Bishop Sarto found in his diocese that there was a generalopposition of the government to religion manifested inmany ways — monasteries had been suppressed, manyreligious institutions were government-managed, andChurch property was heavily taxed. All these political dis-turbances had a far-reaching effect on both the clergy andthe laity. Bishop Sarto set to work to put his diocese inorder. He gave first attention to the seminary, where byhis own example of zeal and teaching, he won back theclergy to full and faithful service. The laxity of the peoplewas attributed to neglect of parish priests in the instruc-tion of the catechism. Bishop Sarto often taught suchclasses himself and, in his pastoral visits and letters, heurged the establishment of the Confraternity of ChristianDoctrine in all parishes. In 1893, Pope Leo XIII elevatedBishop Sarto, making him Cardinal and appointing himPatriarch of Venice.

Pope Leo XIII died on August 4, 1903, Cardinal Sarto wasnamed Pope after only a four-day conclave, by a majorityof 55 out of a possible 60 votes. The humble farm boy toldhis fellow Cardinals that his name would be Pius. “As Ishall suffer, I shall take the name of those Popes who alsosuffered.”

Two of the most outstanding accomplishments ofthis saintly Pope were the inauguration of the liturgicalrenewal and the restoration of frequent communion fromchildhood. He also waged an unwavering war against theheresy and evils of Modernism, gave great impetus to bibli-cal studies, and brought about the codification of CanonLaw. His overriding concern was to renew all things inChrist.

Pope Pius X passed away on August 20, 1914. The Italianpress wrote, “A Saint is Dead.” He was canonized on May29, 1954

His last will and testament includes the striking sen-tence: “I was born poor, I have lived in poverty, and I wishto die poor.” His feast day is August 21st.

Saint Pope Pius Xby Bennett Molinari and Richard Molinari

On Thursday, August 13th,VFW Post 144 of the North Endsponsored their 3rd AnnualBocce Tournament at theoutdoor courts adjacent toAndrew Puopolo Park. Thepurpose of the tournament isto show respect and honor tothe service of the residentsof the Chelsea Soldiers’Home. The Friends of theNorth End, members of VFWPost 144 and the veterans alltook part in the matches.

Chelsea Soldiers Home, VFW Post 144 (North End)and Friends of the North End

Bocce Tournament and Cookout

Front (L-R): Leo Egan, Vietnam; Fran Voss, Vietnam; Peter Bertolami, Vietnam; BobCaggiano, WWII and Ralph Masciulli, Vietnam. Back (L-R): Dawn Gemme, Iraq; PaulSperra, Vietnam and Joe Blazzo, Vietnam.

The competition was friendlyand enjoyable for all the play-ers. At the conclusion of thetournament, a gift certifi-cate was awarded to the win-ners from the Soldiers’ Home.

This beautiful and worth-while summer’s day endedwith everyone enjoying acatered lunch provided by theVFW.

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Middlesex, SS Division

Docket No. MI15P2155EANOTICE OF

PETITION FOR REMOVALOF TRUSTEE AND APPOINTMENT

OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEENOTICE

LEGAL NOTICE

To all persons interested in the AlexanderDalgarno Revocable Trust, of Cambridge, insaid County of Middlesex, for the benefit ofbeneficiaries listed in the schedule ofbeneficiaries, a petition has been presentedby Fergus Dalgarno in the above-captionedmatter praying that Elizabeth Rich and DonnaFriedman be removed as a trustee and ap-point James F. Comeau or some other suit-able person to be a successor trustee withoutsureties on his/her bond.

If you desire to object thereto, you or yourattorney should file a written appearance insaid court at Cambridge before ten o’clock inthe forenoon on October 8th, 2015.

WITNESS, HONE. EDWARD F. DONNELLY, JR.,Esquire, First Justice of said Court atCambridge, this 13th day of August, in theyear of our Lord Two Thousand and Fifteen.


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To all persons interested in the Guardian-ship of incapacitated person, Lynn R.Lefkowitz, of Boston, formerly of Newton inthe County of Middlesex. A petition has beenpresented in the above captioned matter pray-ing for further authority to reinstate to treatthe respondent with anti-psychoticmedication(s) in accordance with the treat-ment plan.

IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO,YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILEA WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAIDCOURT AT MIDDLESEX PROBATE ANDFAMILY TRIAL COURT, 208 CAMBRIDGESTREET, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02141, ON ORBEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE FORENOON(10:00 a.m.) on September 10th, 2015.

WITNESS, EDWARD F. DONNELLY, JR.,Esquire, First Justice of said Court atCambridge, Massachusetts, this 13th day ofAugust in the year of our Lord Two Thousandand Fifteen.




Middlesex DivisionDocket No. MI11P0411GD

NOTICEIN RE:

GUARDIANSHIP OFLYNN R. LEFKOWITZ

LEGAL NOTICE

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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITYTHOMAS P. GLYNN

CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Run date: 8/21/2015

Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. M530-C1, WATERLINE VALVE REPLACMENT, FISH PIER, SOUTH BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Offi ce, Suite 209S, Logan Offi ce Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2015, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly. NOTE: PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT MASSPORT’S FISH PIER MARITIME CONFERENCE ROOM, 212 NORTHERN AVENUE, SOUTH BOSTON AT 10:00 A.M. LOCAL TIME ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015.

THE WORK TO BE PERFORMED UNDER THIS CONTRACT INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO:THE FURNISHING AND INSTALLATION OF REPLACEMENT GATE VALVES AND NEW LINE GATE VALVES AS SHOWN ON THE PLANS. A TEMPORARY WATER SERVICE WILL BE REQUIRED DURING THE REPLACEMENT OF THE VALVES TO MAINTAIN UNINTERRUPTED WATER SERVICE. THIS WORK ALSO INCLUDES ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORK AND RESTORATION OF PAVEMENT AND CONCRETE SIDEWALKS, EXCAVATION AND BACKFILL, AND MAINTENANCE AND PROTECTION OF VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC. THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF THE PROPOSED APPURTENANCES:

• (16) NEW 4” GATE VALVES• (3) NEW 10” GATE VALVES• (2) NEW 6” GATE VALVES• NEW HYDRANT ASSEMBLY• TEMPORARY WATER MAIN

Bid documents will be made available beginning MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2015.Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Offi ce, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form.The estimated contract cost is $300,000.A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for fi ve (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub-bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to fi ve (5) percent of the sub-bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certifi ed check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualifi ed to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid.The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifi cations, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and /or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater.The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of $1,000,000.00. Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.This Contract is also subject to Affi rmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in Article 84 of the General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affi rmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifi cations (Executive Order 11246).The General Contractor is required to submit a Certifi cation of Non-Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective sub-contractors of the requirement for such certifi cation where the sub-contract exceeds $10,000.Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Offi ce at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals.

BOSTON POST-GAZETTE, AUGUST 21, 2015

EXTRA InningsInningsInningsInningsInningsby Sal Giarratani

Old-Timers GameBrings Back MemoriesThis past Monday, I was

watching NECN down at theBeachmont Dunkin’ Donutsin Revere and caught aquick glimpse of the sportssegment. I instantly recog-nized Jim Lonborg from theImpossible Dream Team of1967. I still can’t believethat year is now 47 yearsago. I grew up with somehorrible Sox teams in the’50s and ’60s when there wasno Red Sox Nation. Therewas only constant pain forfans.

It was a long way betweengreatness. It took forever toget from Ted Williams’ lasthomer in 1960 and the 1967pennant tram of Yaz andLonborg.

Now that Pedro is in …

Now that Pedro Martinezwas inducted into the RedSox Hall of Fame, isn’t ittime to induct two otherRed Sox legends, too? I amthinking Tony Conigliaroand Dick Radatz. What do youthink out there? Am I right?Tony C’s career was cutshort by that horrible 1967beaning. And Radatz, whobetween 1962-64 won 40games as our closer andprobably saved at least 100games, too.

Why I ThinkOrtiz is a Crybaby

Yes, Dave Ortiz has had agreat career as a Red Soxslugger and reminds manyof Red Sox slugger of old,Jimmy Foxx. But when itcomes to his crying, I can’ttake it without laughing.Earlier this season when he

was really struggling at theplate, he stated the follow-ing, “The schedule we haveis just unbelievable. It’spretty bad, man. It’s prettybad. I’m not using that as anexcuse (HE ISN’T?) but we’rehuman and we go every-where to play, right?”

This Letter Writeron the Mark

A while back, I read a greatletter in the Boston Globe bya Paul Mahoney of Winthropand clipped it out, I likedit so much. The letterwas printed about a monthago. Mahoney stated, “DavidOrtiz thinks the 502-foothomer by Ted Williams in1946 was bull. I use thesame word every time Iwatch Big Papi hit into theshift instead of the wide-open left field — somethingWilliams did with ease.There are hitters and thereare sluggers. I’ll take a hit-ter every time.”

Kudos to Paul Mahoney!

Ted Williams

Tony Conigliaro

David “Big Papi” Ortiz

Dick Radatz

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(617) 768-5800Docket No. MI15P4403EA

Estate ofMILDRED R. ROSENZWEIG

Also Known AsMILDRED RUTH ROSENZWEIG

Date of Death July 1, 2015CITATION ON PETITION FOR

FORMAL ADJUDICATION

LEGAL NOTICE

To all interested persons:A Petition for Formal Probate of Will with

Appointment of Personal Representativehas been filed by David S. Rosenzweig ofAndover, MA, requesting that the Court entera formal Decree and Order and for such otherrelief as requested in the Petition.

The Petitioner requests that David S.Rosenzweig of Andover, MA, be appointedas Personal Representative(s) of said estateto serve Without Surety on the bond in anunsupervised administration.

IMPORTANT NOTICEYou have the right to obtain a copy of the

Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court.You have a right to object to this proceeding.To do so, you or your attorney must file awritten appearance and objection at thisCourt before 10:00 a.m. on the return day ofSeptember 8, 2015.

This is NOT a hearing date, but a dead-line by which you must file a written appear-ance and objection if you object to thisproceeding. If you fail to file a timely writtenappearance and objection followed by anaffidavit of objections within thirty (30) daysof the return day, action may be taken with-out further notice to you.

UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATIONUNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM

PROBATE CODE (MUPC)A Personal Representative appointed

under the MUPC in an unsupervised admin-istration is not required to file an inventoryor annual accounts with the Court. Personsinterested in the estate are entitled to noticeregarding the administration directly fromthe Personal Representative and may peti-tion the Court in any matter relating to theestate, including the distribution of assetsand expenses of administration.






(617) 768-5800Docket No. MI15P4442EA

Estate ofJACINTO BOTELHO

Also Known AsJACINTO SOUSA BOTELHO

Date of Death July 7, 2015CITATION ON PETITION FOR

FORMAL ADJUDICATION

LEGAL NOTICE

To all interested persons:A Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intes-

tacy and Appointment of Personal Repre-sentative has been filed by Robin A. Botelhoof Somerville, MA, requesting that the Courtenter a formal Decree and Order and for suchother relief as requested in the Petition.

The Petitioner requests that Robin A.Botelho of Somerville, MA, be appointed asPersonal Representative(s) of said estate toserve With Personal Surety on the bond in anunsupervised administration.



This is NOT a hearing date, but a dead-line by which you must file a written appear-ance and objection if you object to thisproceeding. If you fail to file a timely writtenappearance and objection followed by anaffidavit of objections within thirty (30) daysof the return day, action may be taken with-out further notice to you.






Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of Probate

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(617) 768-5800Docket No. MI15P2042EA

Estate ofALEXANDER DALGARNODate of Death April 9, 2015

CITATION ON PETITION FORFORMAL ADJUDICATION

LEGAL NOTICE

To all interested persons:A Petition for Formal Probate of Will with

Appointment of Personal Representativehas been filed by Fergus Dalgarno ofWarrington, UK, requesting that the Court entera formal Decree and Order and for such otherrelief as requested in the Petition.

The Petitioner requests that FergusDalgarno of Warrington, UK, be appointed asPersonal Representative(s) of said estate toserve Without Surety on the bond in anunsupervised administration.



This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadlineby which you must file a written appearanceand objection if you object to this proceed-ing. If you fail to file a timely written appear-ance and objection followed by an affidavitof objections within thirty (30) days of thereturn day, action may be taken withoutfurther notice to you.





Date: July 9, 2015




(617) 768-5800Docket No. MI15P1239EA

Estate ofALAN J. PARKER

Date of Death December 3, 2014CITATION ON PETITION FOR

FORMAL ADJUDICATION

LEGAL NOTICE

To all interested persons:A Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intes-

tacy and Appointment of Personal Repre-sentative has been filed by Bernard Goldbergof Cambridge, MA, requesting that the Courtenter a formal Decree and Order and for suchother relief as requested in the Petition.

The Petitioner requests that BernardGoldberg of Cambridge, MA, be appointed asPersonal Representative(s) of said estateto serve on the bond in an unsupervisedadministration.



This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadlineby which you must file a written appearanceand objection if you object to this proceed-ing. If you fail to file a timely written appear-ance and objection followed by an affidavitof objections within thirty (30) days of thereturn day, action may be taken withoutfurther notice to you.






Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of Probate

Run date: 8/21/15

To all persons interested in the abovecaptioned estate, by Petition of PetitionerJames M. Geary of Stoneham, MA, a Will hasbeen admitted to informal probate.

James M. Geary of Stoneham, MA, hasbeen informally appointed as the PersonalRepresentative of the estate to serve withoutsurety on the bond.

The estate is being administered underinformal procedure by the Personal Represen-tative under the Massachusetts Uniform Pro-bate Code without supervision by the Court.Inventory and accounts are not required to befiled with the Court, but interested parties areentitled to notice regarding the administrationfrom the Personal Representative and canpetition the Court in any matter relating to theestate, including distribution of assets andexpenses of administration. Interested partiesare entitled to petition the Court to instituteformal proceedings and to obtain orders ter-minating or restricting the powers of PersonalRepresentatives appointed under informal pro-cedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any,can be obtained from the Petitioner.


Probate and Family CourtMiddlesex Division

208 Cambridge StreetCambridge, MA 02141

(617) 768-5800Docket No. MI15P4132EA

Estate ofRITA MARIE GEARY

Also Known AsRITA M. GEARY

Date of Death April 28, 2010INFORMAL PROBATEPUBLICATION NOTICE

LEGAL NOTICE

BOSTON POST-GAZETTE, AUGUST 21, 2015

by Richard Preiss

HOOPS and HOCKEY in the HUB

On His Best Night

Boxing RingsideWITH BOBBY FRANKLIN

On a number of occasionsI have speculated, as all box-ing fans do, about what theoutcome of dream matchesbetween greats of the pastwould be. It is a favorite topicof discussion when fightpeople congregate. Alongwith these one-on-one hypo-thetical matches, fightpeople also are fond of lists,such as the ten greatest ineach division, the hardestpunchers, the fastest,smartest, most durable, and,of course, the pound forpound best of all time. Thesediscussions are quite livelyand often turn into heateddebates with each fan hav-ing his bias for a certainfighter or style of fighting.Some are convinced that thefighters of today are supe-rior, while others are solidold school devotees.

In his fine book The Godsof War, author SpringsToledo has his list of thepound-for-pound greatest ac-cording to some very inter-esting criteria he sets out.It is one of the best I haveseen and worth checkingout. He is thoughtful, andwhile you may not agreewith his choices, you mightenjoy applying his methodwhile creating your own list.

One of his criterions is lon-gevity. The amount of timea fighter was active in thering while remaining aviable force. I agree that thelength of a career is a veryimportant factor when rat-ing a fighter as an all-timegreat, but what about whenpicking a winner in a one-on-one match up? How do wego about picking a winner,what criteria do we use inthat case?

I thought about a matchupbetween Joe Louis and JoeFrazier. Frazier fought from1965 until 1976 (he did havean ill-advised comebackfight in 1981, but I won’tcount that.) He had a total of37 fights with 4 losses.

Joe Louis fought from 1937until 1949, with a total of 56fights, losing only once. Hethen made a comeback in1950 with 10 fights, of whichhe lost only 2, for a recordcareer totalof 66 wins. Thatis considerably more thanJoe Frazier had.

Now, to take things a stepfurther, I would like to ex-plore how long each boxerwas at or near his peak per-formance during his career.Both had a number of fightsas they rose through theranks and were fine-tuningtheir skills. Joe Frazier re-ally stepped into the majorleagues with his devastat-ing stoppage of GeorgeChuvalo in 1967. He contin-ued to improve after that,and I would have to say hewas at his peak from 1969to 1971. In this period,he defeated Jerry Quarry,Jimmy Ellis, Bob Foster, andMuhammad Ali. After hisincredible victory over Ali, Ibelieve Joe began to deterio-rate rapidly. He was de-stroyed by George Foremantwice, taken the distance byJoe Bugner, had repeat winsagainst Ellis and Quarry(both of whom were well pasttheir primes at that point),and beat Ron Stander andTerry Danils, hardly top tierfighters. He did give Ali twovery tough fights, but Ali wasa shell of his former self bythen as well.

Joe Louis, on the otherhand, defended his title 27times over 11 years. Withthe exception of the firstWalcott fight, all of the BrownBomber’s defenses were de-cisive. Billy Conn gave himall he could handle for 13rounds, but in the end theformer light heavyweightchamp was counted out.Louis was also inactive for aperiod during WW II and wasshowing a bit of age as hiscareer continued into thelate 1940s, but he was stilldominant. Even during hiscomeback, he was a forceto be reckoned with, losingonly to Ezzard Charles andRocky Marciano.

The question now is howwould you look at a matchupbetween these two greatchampions. Looking at theirtotal careers, I would thinkmost boxing aficionadoswould rate Joe Louis thegreater fighter. But whathappens if you put then inopposite corners on the bestnight of their careers? Say,the Louis of the secondSchmeling fight versus theFrazier of the first Ali fight?

And this is where boxinggets interesting. WhenLouis fought Schmeling thesecond time, his will to win,his desire to avenge his onlyloss, coupled with the pres-sure to defend the honor ofthe country, put him in anemotional state that alongwith his amazing skillsmade him perform at a levelI don’t think he could everachieve again.

When Frazier stepped intothe ring on that Marchevening in 1971, he also hada desire to win so strong thatI believe Ali would have hadto kill him in order to defeathim. While I believe Joe wasin better physical shape forthe Ellis fight (Joe was over-trained and not well thenight of the Ali fight), he waslike a man possessed and itshowed.

Both Louis and Frazierin their primes weregreat fighters. Louis’s primelasted much longer thenFrazier’s, but what wouldhave happened had theymet on their best nights?

The major intangible hereis the emotional state ofeach champion on thatnight. While I am sure theywould both bring their all toa match up as they alwaysdid, I just don’t think eachwould be in the same emo-tional state that they werefor those bouts. I also believethe Louis of the secondSchmeling fight was the ul-timate fighting machine.His adrenaline surge madehim almost super humanthat night. He was neversharper and took the Ger-man apart with not onlypower but also skill. Yes, hefought with rage, but hechanneled that rage into hisamazing ability and boxingknowledge. It was beautifuland terribly brutal to watch.

With Frazier, I have to sayhe beat Ali by will; he brokeMuhammad down, but tooka beating while doing it. Notto take away from his skill,but he was an unstoppableforce that night.

Seeing two greats fromthe past fight is somethingall of us dream about. See-ing them on their bestnights takes it a stepfurther.

Joe Frazier hits Ali with a left hook.The Brown Bomber, JoeLouis.

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As the month of Augustprogresses and the count-down to the opening of Sep-tember training camp comescloser, it will be interestingto see how the philosophyof Bruins General ManagerDon Sweeney will shape theB’s as they move forward.

We were going to say newGM, but it really doesn’tseem to fit exactly in this in-stance since Don has beenin the B’s front office for agood number of years — in-cluding his last post as assis-tant GM. Thus, he has at-tended just about all of thenumerous meetings withexecutives, coaches and staffover the last several seasons.

“I think one of the distinctadvantages I have is thatI’ve been a Boston Bruin,”noted Sweeney. “I was a Bos-ton Bruins player for 15years, knocked on the door-step of the Stanley Cup andthen won it as part of themanagement group. There’sa tremendous amount ofgreat people that I have hadthe opportunity to work with,day in and day out, over thepast eight years in a numberof different capacities. It’s anadvantage to know peopleand have people being com-fortable working with me. Iwould hope that I’m anapproachable person in thatway. I also expect people tochallenge me to make theright decisions.”

To be sure, Sweeney doeshave what he calls “an insti-tutional knowledge” of theBruins from a number of per-spectives. “I’m excited aboutthe challenges to get backwhere we need to go. I knowwhat it’s like to be booed inthis city, to be cheered in thiscity and I expect at times totake criticism.”

Getting back to the post-season may not be that big astep. It’s true that the B’s didnot make the Stanley Cupplayoffs last spring. But theywere in contention for a play-off berth until the last nightof the regular season. As theNCAA National Champion-ship game between BostonUniversity and ProvidenceCollege was being played atthe Garden back on April 12,the B’s were sent to theNHL sidelines while on theroad.

They had finished the sea-son with 96 points — not quitegood enough. Over the courseof the long 82-game season,another win or two by theB’s, or another loss or twoby other contending teams,and there would have beenpostseason action on Cause-way Street. It was that close.Indeed, perhaps what hurtthe most was how close theycame.

“You don’t want to be on theoutside looking in,” notedSweeney. “I know that intalking to our players that’sthe way they feel as well.They are anxious to get backand move forward with theprocess.”

One characteristic that willnot change is how Sweeneyinteracts with players —something that he has been

doing for years in his dualcapacities with the B’s andthe Providence Bruins.

“A big part of my makeup isthe communications aspect.I’ve spoken to every playerthat’s ever gone up and downin terms of to Providence andto Boston. I’ve had one-on-one conversations with eachof them. That’s not going tochange in terms of my com-munication with players andbeing comfortable in a lockerroom. That was where I wascomfortable for a lot of yearsand I’m going to continue todo that. That way, you have apulse on things.”

Sweeney is big on acquir-ing young players, educat-ing them and mentoringthem as they progress andmature through the system.Although there have beentrades this summer — send-ing some players on theirway and acquiring others —Sweeney has made it clearthat he hopes to put moreemphasis on developing play-ers from within the B’sorganization.

“It starts with the develop-ment camp,” said Sweeney,who actually was in chargeof the event for several years.“The whole impetus behindthe development camp is tobe able to give young playersan idea of what it’s goingto take [to play professionalhockey]. We get to knowthem, they get to know usand they get to know abouteach other.”

Sweeney stressed thatplayers need to be given timeto develop. “When we’ve donethe process well, we’ve devel-oped players. But they’re notready-made players whenthey get here. It’s not a plugand play system. That’s wherethe impatience comes in attimes. We’ve made somemistakes and allowed someplayers to leave this organi-zation that we might regret.But going forward, I’d like toallow us the opportunity tonot have the impatience andto work with them and allowthem the proper time at theNHL level to get acclimated.You can’t trade anything inthis league for experience.”

He indicated that a big partof the process is gettingyoung players to be able toidentify with the organiza-tion — about what it meansto be a Bruin. “It’s incrediblyimportant. Spend some timewith the players in Provi-dence and you come tounderstand. It’s one thing tothrow the words culture andidentity around, it’s anotherthing to live them, breathethem and teach them. Sowe need to be effective incommunicating what that’slike.”

Of course the prime playersof seasons past — ZdenoChara, Patrice Bergeron,David Krejci, Brad Marchandand Tuukka Rask — remainas the centerpieces of theteam. Sweeney will ask themto be leaders on the ice whilehe provides direction fromthe office. Working together,a berth in the 2016 playoffsmay well become a reality.

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