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WalkUP Roslindalestarting talks with MBTA

Parkway Organizations awardedgrants from Vistaprint

Cappy’s Last Dance

WalkUP Member Steve Gag outlined the scope of the meeting andemphasized that more is on the way.

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JefJefJefJefJeff Sullivf Sullivf Sullivf Sullivf SullivanananananStaff Reporter

Walk Urban PlanningRoslindale (WalkUPRoslindale) hosted a commu-nity meeting last week withabout 50 residents and advo-cates to share with the publicwhere they are on theRoslindale Gateway cycle andpedestrian path.

The meeting was centeredaround the MBTA parcel ofland located in between theRoslindale Commuter Stationand the Arnold Arboretum.WalkUP co-founder Matt

Lawlor said they wanted to getcommunity input with theneighborhood before they wentto the MBTA with a plan. Hesaid basically, before theMBTA can sign off on a leasefor that property (for the next100 years or so), WalkUPneeded to present as finalizeda plan as possible so the MBTAcould go through its internalmechanisms for setting up alease.

“This is only about 1,500feet of the path or so, and I wantto give you a little context,”

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Matt MacDonaldMatt MacDonaldMatt MacDonaldMatt MacDonaldMatt MacDonaldStaff Reporter

On Tuesday night, July 24,there was a party going on inWolcott Square, as Cappy’sTavern put on one last goodtime before closing its doorsduring its 80th anniversaryyear.

Though relatively quiet out-

side, once inside the neighbor-hood institution, it had the lookand feel of New Year’s Eve,with people jammed in, musicplaying (courtesy of deejayFanci Nanci), beer and boozeflowing, and owner RayCapobianco – who has been onthe job since around 1970 –

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Vistaprint announced thisweek that they have awardedthousands of dollars in grants toParkway organizationsRoslindale Arts Alliance (RAA)and the Chef’s Table Founda-tion.

RAA Co-Founder JaniceWilliams and Chef’s Table Co-Founder Joe Murphy both saidthey were amazed to be recog-nized by Vistaprint’s Wish Pro-gram. Williams said they willuse the $1,000 they were grantedto help their It’s All About theArts e-magazine, which theystarted as an addendum to theirBoston Neighborhood NetworkTV show of the same name.

“I’m hoping to pay somewriters,” she said. “Just to helppay for some of the expensesand get some quality writing inthere and be able to pay peoplefor it. About 20 percent of thead revenue for the magazinegoes to our Youth ScholarshipProgram.”

Chef's Table should be getting a little lift for its camera equipment thisweek, which will allow co-founder Joe Murphy (right) a little moretime to teach cooking techniques. COURTESY PHOTO

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Ray Capobianco (fourth from left) poses for a photo with well wishers.Cappy's closed its doors last Tuesday after 80 years in business.

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105A South Huntington Avetower up for sale

“The Serenity” at 105 South Huntington Ave. is for sale with 195 mar-ket-rate units. PHOTO BY: RICHARD HEATH

RicharRicharRicharRicharRichard Heathd Heathd Heathd Heathd HeathStaff Reporter

“The Serenity” at 105ASouth Huntington Ave., a 13-story, 195-unit luxury apart-ment tower, is for sale.

Developed by Cedar Val-ley Development, a subsid-iary of The LongwoodGroup, “The Serenity” wasopened on May 24,2017.

The Boston Real EstateTimes reported onJuly21,that NFK CapitalMarkets had been retained asexclusive sales agent for Ce-dar Valley. In their prospec-tus, NFK calls it “a high risetrophy asset which will ap-peal to a variety of potentialinvestors.”

The question is whetherthose potential investors willabide by the AffordableRental Housing Agreement ofNov. 3,2015.

Cedar Valley Develop-ment agreed to build 42 af-fordable units off-site. Sec-tion 1B of the Agreementstated that the proponent wasrequired to identify the loca-tion and size of each unit onor before the certificate of oc-cupancy. Failure to complymeant that Cedar Valleywould be required to pay $8.4million into the InclusionaryDevelopment Fund.

On May 18,BPDA Direc-tor of Compliance PeterSasso wrote to AnthonyNader, Vice President of Ce-dar Valley.

”You obtained a formalcertificate of occupancy onMarch 16,” Sassowrote.“This letter is to in-form you that the conditionsof the interim Milestone 1Bof the Agreement has notbeen met. . . the BPDA ishereby informing you that...,the proponent is required tomake a cash contribution tothe Inclusionary Develop-ment Fund in the amount of$8.4milion prior to the firstanniversary of the C/O onMarch 16, 2019.”

CedarValley put the build-ing up for sale two monthslater. The BPDA respondedon July 25 to the question ofhow the Affordable Agree-ment would be fulfilled if thetower were sold.

“The BPDA is aware thatthe project is for sale,” thestatement read.“The BPDAhas not granted any approv-als relative to the conveyanceof the project. If the projectis sold, the new owner willbe responsible for the $8.4million in IDP payment asoutlined in the [May 18] let-ter.”

Neither Anthony Nader,

VP of Cedar Valley or Mat-thew Kiefer, attorney for Ce-dar Valley, responded to TheBulletin calls for clarificationand explanation; in an e-mail,Cedar Valley communica-tions consultant Tom Palmerrefused to talk with The Bul-letin.

Representative JeffreySanchez was deeply upsetwith the proposed sale. Hefired off a let ter to bothMayor Walsh and BPDA Di-rector Golden on July 23 re-questing a public hearing toupdate the community on thestatus of the affordable unitsin light of the proposed saleof the property.

This is strike two for Ce-dar Valley development. OnJune 2, 2017,one week afterribbon cutting, 24 units ofThe Serenity was leased toChurchill Living, the corpo-rate housing giant that spe-cializes in short-term, fullyfurnished apartments.

Livid that this seemed tobe in violation of the June2013 BPDA Article 80 agree-ment, the Jamaica PlainNeighborhood Council meton June 28, 2017 and votedon a letter of protest to theBPDA.

The BPDA in a statementof June 30, 2017 said thatshort-term rentals do not vio-late the agreement betweenthe BPDA and the develop-ment.

This is part of a muchlarger trend. Cedar ValleyDevelopment is the fourth de-veloper of very large scaleresidential buildings in Ja-maica Plain to put their prop-erties up for sale after theoften lengthy Article 80 com-munity review process andBPDA and zoning approvals;two of which were sold evenbefore construction began.The many residents who par-ticipated in the Article 80process are then faced withunknown new owners.

Tracking the original af-fordable housing agreements

is a challenge that the BPDAreadily admitted to the Ja-maica Plain NeighborhoodCouncil on Nov. 27, 2017.

The first was the very con-troversial, 196-unit OlmstedPlace at 161 South Hunting-ton Ave. built by the BostonResidential Group and com-peted in November 2015.Built for $84 million, it wassold to Bell Partners for $103million on June 20, 2017.

Boston Residential groupwas responsible for provid-ing 30 on–site affordableunits. Bell Partners acquiredthe building and the agree-ment.

“We are committed to sup-ply the 30 units,” a spokes-man for Bell Partners re-gional office in New YorkCity told The Bulletin onJuly25. “We have assumedthe obligation and we’re try-ing for thirty- seven units.”

The BPDA said in a July25 statement that it is moni-toring that commitment. OnSept. 2,2016 almost one yearto the day after receiving zon-ing approval and before con-struction had even started,3200 Washington Street, themost contentious develop-ment of them all, was sold toBerkeley Investments for$6.2 million.,

Esther Chung Byun is theproject manager for the newdeveloper of the 73 units intwo, six-story buildings.

“Berkeley assumed the af-fordable housing require-ments of nine rental units andthree condo units,” she toldThe Bulletin.

At 3521-3529 Washing-ton Street, the old Flanaganand Seaton site developed bySSG and New Boston Ven-tures, the development wasbroken up into thirds. SSG isnearing completion on a four-story self storage building inthe back third., New Bostonsold its interests in the front

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21st Taste of Allston returns, though a little lateJefJefJefJefJeff Sullivf Sullivf Sullivf Sullivf SullivanananananStaff Reporter

The 21st annual Taste ofAllston kicked off on Satur-day, though a month laterthan expected, at Zone 3 onWestern Avenue in Allston.

The Taste was originallyset for June 23, but inclem-ent weather made it impos-sible, though many of thevendors scheduled for thatdate managed to come out toZone 3 to make this Taste oneto remember.

“It’s going great, I’m gladwe were able to find a post-ponement date where it’s notraining and cold,” saidAllston Village Main Streets(AVMS) Executive DirectorEmma Walters. “We’ve got alot of good restaurants hereand it’s a great representationof Allston and its diversity.”

Walters said the postpone-ment also allowed them tothink outside the box and in-clude a series of lawn gamesfrom the play advocacy groupKnucklebones in the day’sactivities.

“It felt like a good way toengage people in this spacefor the longer term and makeit more of a hangout and thekids now have something todo too,” she said.

The sounds of music per-meated the scene as residentsfrom Allston and beyondcame out to try everythingand anything the neighbor-hood had to offer. And as al-ways at an Allston orBrighton event,Commonwheels was there toprovide any bicycle repairsresidents may have neededduring the day.

Brighton Allston Improve-ment Association TreasurerAnnabelle Gomes said shewas glad to see the Tastemake such a splash.

“It’s really good, it’s agood selection and it’s get-t ing c rowded now,” shesaid. “Emma did a good joband I think this is somethingthat still has some room togrow every year.”

Res iden ts Ron andEmma Stoloff said thoughthey were expec t ing alarger list of vendors (somecouldn’t make it out to thenew date) it was still a re-ally good representation ofwhat Allston has to offer.

“We were planning oncoming to the original amonth ago and the list ofvendors was a l i t t l e b i tdeeper,” Ron Stoloff said.“The vendors that are heredo a really good job though,

The Taste of Allston went off a little late, but without any problems on Western Avenue last Saturday.PHOTO BY JEFF SULLIVAN

the food is really tasty and Ihaven’ t had a fa lse b i teyet.”

Residents Zack Racenetand Chris t i DeLuca saidthough i t’s not the MurrCenter, where the eventwas originally supposed totake place, it was still a funtime.

“I like the venue betterbecause you get that corridorfrom the Harvard Murr Cen-ter and you get to lie on the

grass, but it’s still good,”Racenet said. “You’ve got afew people that have comeback that I really like too.”

Deluca said despite nothaving a grassy spot to laydown, there was still an amaz-ing amount of food to pick at.

“I really like the variety offood here,” she said.

For more information onAVMS and its upcoming pro-gramming, go toallstonvillage.com.

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Editorial Cape Ann vs. Cape Gloucester

My Kindof Town/Joe Galeota

If you follow Route 128 toits very northern end, begin-ning in Danvers without the I-95 overlay, you will have ar-rived in Cape Ann.

You’ve got to admit thatGloucester, located at the tipof Cape Ann, is a charmingtown, at least in the summertime. It may not be toney likeits Cape neighbor, Rockport, oreven as quaint as Chatham,Oak Bluffs, orStockbridge: there are manyblue-collar workers who maketheir living in Gloucester as partof the fishing industry. Indeed,it has rugged appeal.

It is blessed with greatbeaches, among themAnnisquam, Half Moon,Wingaersheek, and Good Har-bor, the last of which shame-lessly gouges out-of-townerswith its unethical parking fees.

Gloucester also has its verywell-to-do part out on AtlanticAvenue and on Eastern Pointwhere mansions are valued inseven figures.

It’s a great day trip whetherone drives to the beach orcatches the Purple Line to thisfascinating town, the basis forSebastian Junger’s classicbook and award-winningmovie, “The Perfect Storm.”

But mention “Gloucester”to a wizened, semi-hard-of-hearing veteran of World WarII’s Pacific theater and hemight ask, “You mean Cape

Gloucester?”Gloucester, Massachusetts,

is not known for any WorldWar II story, but CapeGloucester certainly is.

Exactly, where is CapeGloucester? It’s on New Brit-ain, but not that city of thesame name inConnecticut. And the island ofNew Britain, in Melanesia, isnortheast of the much largerisland of New Guinea, whichis divided into two parts. Theeastern half is Papua NewGuinea and the western part isPapua (now part ofIndonesia), comprised of morethan 300,000 square miles tomake it the second largest is-land in the world afterGreenland.

On the day after Christmasin 1943, while most Bostonians’living rooms still had balled-upXmas paper and empty boxesfrom Jordan’s, R.H. White’s,and Gilchrist’s on the floor, the7th Marines (and shortly after-wards, the 1st Marines) landedon the area known for itsmuck, mire, and at the time ofthe year, the monsoons. Forthree straight weeks, as torren-tial downpours occurred dailybogging down soldiers,amtracs, and tanks, noleatherneck could remain dry,not that this was this most im-portant part of their “visit.”

Ultimately, 310 Marinespaid with their lives and an-other 1,083 were wounded; thenumber of Japanese dead ex-ceeded 2,000.

There never has been anydiscussion whether the takingof Cape Gloucester was nec-essary, unlike the debate aboutthe need for landing at Peleliu.

The tragedy of the wonder-fully sounding name of CapeGloucester is that many Ameri-cans and even more Japanese,died there, period. Never mind,they perished without anyproper burial because of theconditions set by a ruthlessMother Nature. May they allrest in peace while countlesstoddlers and children cavort inthe peaceful sunshine in thecalm waters and tidal pools ofour Gloucester on Cape Ann.

LOCAL STUDENTSUPPORTSNEW SCHOOL

To the Editor:I am a resident of West

Roxbury and high school stu-dent and I have taken advantageof everything this communityhas to offer - baseball, basket-ball, football, lacrosse, BoyScouts, Holy Name Youth Ser-vice Project, the WRCC andthe YMCA, just to name a few.I hope Roxbury Prep is allowedto build a new high school at361 Belgrade Ave. It won’t helpme, but it will help all the fami-lies with younger kids. I at-tended Holy Name School, thenentered the citywide public lot-tery for a seat at Boston Colle-giate Charter School inDorchester. I love Boston Col-

legiate but we eat in our class-rooms, we have no sports fields,gymnasium or swimming pools.What we do have are amazingteachers and incredible out-comes, 100 percent of BostonCollegiate’s graduates havebeen accepted into a four-yearcollege.

I really want my neighborsto know that in high school wedon’t have recess, just like atRoxbury Prep. In my highschool experience, students arestaying after school for sports,clubs, or extra help. Others aregoing home to babysit siblings,going to after school jobs, or anactivity in another part of thecity. For example, I am on theMayor’s Youth Council, I leaveschool and take the Red Lineto Boston City Hall and I am alifeguard at Boston College, Itake the green line to ChestnutHill. I walk to through theneighborhood that my school islocated in to take the MBTAand stop at local shops and res-taurants along the way. I wouldimagine Roxbury Prep’s stu-dents would also support localbusinesses like we do.

I love living in WestRoxbury and I love that it’s notoverly congested, but there isdevelopment happening allaround us, why not welcome a

new school building? The kidsat Roxbury Prep aren’t allowedto drive to school, they take theMBTA. That’s very differentfrom Holy Name Parish Schoolwhere the students are 3 yearsold to 12 years old. That’s whytheir parents drive them toschool on their way to work.

The students across Bostondeserve high-performing, tu-ition-free public schools, par-ents deserve to send their chil-dren to good schools in safecommunities, and 361 BelgradeAve. is on the MBTA in aGREAT neighborhood, it seemsperfect to me. I know somereaders will object to my letterbecause I don’t drive yet but Iwill soon enough.

Luke BortolottoWest Roxbury

DIFFERS WITH SALON IMMIGRATION

To the Editor:I am writing in reply to Sal

Giarratani’s letter to the Bulle-tin. I always enjoy reading hismissives and usually agree withthem, but on the topic of hisJuly 19 letter – There is a rightway to enter this country – Ifind it necessary to reply.

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We frequently opine that colleges and universities need tohandle themselves like businesses. In an ideal world a com-pany needs to listen to its customers and, to keep everyonehappy, and avoid politics as much as possible.

To the latter point, many CEOs and their companies do breakour rules based on both whims and the quest for profitability.Schools, however, are a different beast and are dependent onfederal funding. However, they too need to walk away fromthat cash if the strings attached prove offensive to students,faculty and the public at large.

This week, a protest assembled at Northeastern Universityto rail against a research U.S. Immigration and Customs En-forcement.

According to WBUR: “Northeastern’s Institute of Securityand Public Policy, has received more than $2.7 million fromICE since 2016 to analyze exports of technologies that havecivilian uses but could also be used in making weapons. ICEissued a statement Wednesday saying ‘cancelling a criticalresearch effort to help combat terrorist explosive attacks wouldbe unproductive and short-sighted to say the least.’”

The funding, despite that warning, does dry up on Aug. 31.It was unrelated to the Trump administration’s controversialborder policies.

The project and contract doesn’t bother us too much. Itsounds like good work focused on anti-terrorism efforts. Theprotesters were a bit short-sighted.

Our problem, however, is how the school reacted.“Efforts to restrict which federal agencies a faculty mem-

ber can approach for research funding are antithetical to aca-demic freedom,” a university spokeswoman said in a state-ment.

Therein our problem lies. In any presidential regime, no mat-ter who is in office, there can be shady goings-on and hotly-debated activities that a reputable school should stay far awayfrom. The school’s official statement, to the contrary, suggeststhat any aversion to a particular government agency and itsagenda is akin to censorship is absurd. Government moneymay be welcomed, but maintaining a core of morality and ob-jectivity is even more important for an institute of higher learn-ing.

The ICE initiative itself was fine in our book. But it is hardto swallow the school’s stand that any government money isgood money. It is a terrible yardstick for an institution thatshould keep morality at its core.

PEDAL POWERWe often take charitable efforts for granted. This is the

season when, every weekend ,walks and fun runs dominateBoston Common and the city’s suburbs. To a point, it starts tobecome overload and the events, although well intended andcommendable, blur together.

The Pan-Mass Challenge, however, is an event that standsalone. The physical prowess required by the two-day bike rideis impressive and the amount of money raised is astounding.

Best of all, talk to anyone associated with the Dana FarberCancer Institute and you will learn about the incredible workbeing done with the donations raised. The ride is measurablysaving lives.

Let’s take a moment this weekend to applaud all the riders.

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Williams said she and her husbandGlenn (who confounded theRAA) first started the scholar-ship program earlier this yearwhen they were celebrating theorganization’s 20th anniversary.

“We raised money at our cel-ebration at that time to give outscholarships, and that followingMay we gave three $500 schol-arships to kids in the Parkway forthem to pursue music, acting, artsor any program they wanted topursue.... We’re going to continueto fundraise for that and continuethe program.”

Williams said RAA is now,

however, focused on the upcom-ing Porch Fest event for Sept. 15in the neighborhood.

“We’re going to continue todo our show and we’re lookingforward to Porch Fest,” she said.“We’re really happy to havelaunched this magazine andwe’re about to put out our fifthedition on Aug. 1 and it’s reallya great way to highlight what’sgoing on in the arts in our neigh-borhood, which doesn’t get a lotof exposure in the mainstreammedia.”

Williams said she found outabout the program while trawl-ing through her inbox.

“I do a lot of business withVistaprint, and so they’re alwaysin my inbox, and I noticed theywanted to give away somemoney so my first thought wasto put in for the Chef’s Table, andthen I said ‘hey, I’m going to tryit for myself and for our artsstuff,’ and so I applied and that’swhat happened,” she said.

Williams also works for theChef’s Table for developmentand marketing purposes, andMurphy said they are looking touse the funds to purchase a newcamera for the organization’scooking show.

“Janice works for us, and shehad put it in and I had got a letterand saying we won the award andit was for real and they just likewhat we’re doing,” he said.“We’ve been trying to find themoney to buy new cameras andthings because they’re so expen-sive and they wanted to supportthat effort and they gave us the$2,500. We’re getting a Sony, a$3,400 video camera that will giveus enough money to put someother money with it to get goingbecause we’ve got to replacewhat we have. We’re alwayslooking for more money, and this

is a good start.”The Chef’s Table Foundation

runs a cooking television showthat runs on public access stationsthroughout most of New Englandand some other areas of the U.S.Murphy and his co-founder CarolO’Connor started the Foundationa few years back to raise fundingfor cooking school scholarshipsfor underprivileged youth andU.S. veterans. The group raisesfunds for the scholarships by sell-ing tickets to the tapings of theshow, which are usually well-at-tended. Murphy said he still can’tbelieve the help they got, espe-cially after the amount of doorshe said he knocks on almost con-tinuously asking for funds.

“We’re really grateful to themand it’s amazing when you don’tever expect any money fromwherever and something like thisappears,” he said. “It was reallygreat for us because when you’rebanging on doors for a long timeand you get a nice little hit likethat, it really encourages you.”

Murphy said now, the showis branching out to health issuesthat can be addressed with nutri-tion. He said they want to raiseawareness for childhood obesityand childhood malnutrition.

“The percentage of kids notgetting fed in Boston during theday is incredible,” he said. “Somany kids, the only time they getto eat is when they come toschool.”

Murphy said they will behosting two instances of theFoundation’s Great GrilledCheese Festival in Newton andWalpole, as well as furtherfundraising events. For more in-formation on the Chef’s TableFoundation, go tochefstablefoundation.org. Formore information on RAA, go toroslindalearts.org

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Hyde Park native receives VA honor

World War II Navy veteran and Hyde Park native Sam Aprea got apleasant surprise for his 92nd birthday on June 11.

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Matt MacDonaldMatt MacDonaldMatt MacDonaldMatt MacDonaldMatt MacDonaldStaff Reporter

Last month, World War IINavy veteran Sam Aprea re-ceived a special honor from theU.S. Department of VeteransAffairs.

On June 11, his 92nd birth-day, he was named Veteran ofthe Day.

Shortly after receiving thisrecognition, Aprea took sometime to speak of this, and someof the experiences that broughtit about, while visiting his nieceat the Blake Estates.

Raised in the house at 9 EastGlenwood Ave. with his five sis-ters and one brother, Aprea en-listed in the Navy as a 17-year-old in 1944, intent on avengingthe death of his brother-in-law,who had been killed in action atAnzio.

“I was going to kill all theGermans,” Aprea said. “Andthey sent me to Japan.”

Assigned to an LST (Land-ing Ship Tanks), Aprea was de-

ployed to the Pacific with a crewof 101 shipmates, most whomwere from the South.

“They said they were still

fighting the Civil War, and theywere,” Aprea said with a laugh.

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The Charles River Water-shed Association (CRWA),Boston Parks and Recreation,Southwest Boston CommunityDevelopment Corporation(SWBCDC), and TD Bank cel-ebrated the ongoing restorationwork at Sherrin Woods UrbanWild in Hyde Park by recogniz-ing the receipt of a TD GreenStreets grant. Commissioner ofthe Boston Parks and Recre-ation Department, ChristopherCook, At-Large City CouncilorAnnissa Essaibi-George andDistrict 5 City Councilor TimMcCarthy, were present at theJuly 27 ceremony as well.

“The TD Green Street Granthas helped us plant more than80 trees in Sherrin Woods andalong Hyde Park Avenue,” ex-plained Lisa Kumpf of theCRWA.

The Sherrin Woods UrbanWild, a 24-acre natural area, isa primarily a wooded uplandwith two wetland areas and alarge ledge outcropping. It is avaried natural landscape withina highly dense, urbanizedneighborhood.

The community surround-ing Sherrin Woods has partici-pated in meetings and events atthis site for many years. The

SBCDC has partnered with theBoston Parks and RecreationDepartment to help engage thecommunity and to use this valu-able greenspace. It has alsofunded summer youth crews(such as the Green Team) forimprovement projects with theguidance of the Urban WildsManager Paul Sutton.

“We did a clean up hereabout a year ago,” explainedPat Alvarez, the Assistant Di-rector of the SBCDC. “We havecome so far in just one year!”Alvarez manages the GreenTeam, who was present at thevolunteering event. The GreenTeam has 21 young members,ages 15-17, who help clean andbeautify Hyde Park’s businessdistrict and work on the resto-ration of Hyde Park’s UrbanWilds.

“It is important to know thatthere are 35 Urban Wilds inBoston, and eight of them arein Hyde Park,” Alvarez ex-plained.

The Green Team impressedvolunteers with what they havelearned while helping Boston’sUrban Wilds. Many team mem-bers can identify a variety ofdifferent trees, and even taughtvolunteers that the garlic mus-tard plant is an invasive species,and their seeds can remain vi-able in the ground for up to 15

years.The natural landscape areas

surrounding Sherrin Woods arealso environmentally-friendly,Julie Wood of the CRWA ex-plained the volunteers.

“The plants help soak upwater after heavy rains, and re-duce runoff that goes into oursewers and ultimately ends upin the Charles River.”

Boston Parks and Recre-ation Commissioner Christo-pher Cook made a speech atthe ceremony. “Boston hasamazing parks, and it is easyto take for granted the green

spaces in our cities.” Cook alsothanked the CRWA, the South-west Boston Community De-velopment Corporation, andthe Green Team. “You guys areour future environmental lead-ers.”

After the recognition cer-emony, volunteers participatedin work to help beautifySherrin Woods. Half of thevolunteers removed invasiveplants, while the others did atree inventory. Volunteerscame as far away as Maine andNew Hampshire. ElizabethHealey, who works with TD

Bank, drove an hour and a halffrom New Hampshire toSherrin Woods to help volun-teer.

“I like to give back to thecommunity, and my passion iswildlife. I think areas likeSherrin Woods are great sinceeveryone can enjoy them,” re-marked Healey. “A lot of cit-ies don’t do activities like this,but Boston does.”

Councilor Tim McCarthytold volunteers they should bevery proud of their hard work.“This is going to be here for along, long time,” he stated.

Members of TD Bank and the Boston Parks Department came together for a cleanup of the Sherrin Woodson Friday.

PHOTO BY ARIANE KOMYATI


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Watch The Chefs’ Table Se-ries… The weekly show is airedon your local access TV station:ch 23 Comcast/ch 83 RCN, ch84-3 Comcast Digital: Mon5:30pm & Wed 5am.

The Chefs’ Table Series® isproduced by the 501(c)3 non-profit Chefs Table Foundationwhose mission is to support U.S.Veterans and underprivilegedyoung adults in need with a culi-nary arts education.

For more information aboutChefs Table Foundation and TheChefs’ Table Series® TV show,please visitwww.chefstablefoundation.org. Ifyou are interested in attending alive taping and dinner,contact co-host/chef Joe Murphyat 617-645-9043

IT’S ALL ABOUT ARTSIt’s All About Arts announces

a new exhibit at the BNN Neigh-borhood Art Gallery for themonths of August and Septem-ber, 2018. The exhibit will becreative fiber art from variousartists. There will be a receptionwith the artists on Monday Au-gust 13, from 5:30-7pm. All arewelcome. Open to the public.Light refreshments will beserved. Located at BNN MediaCenter, 3025 Washington Street,Egleston Square, Boston, MA02119.

Participating artists: LizNania - Roslindale, MA, LizHardy-Jackson - Hyde Park,

MA, Paul Sedgwick - JamaicaPlain, MA, Paulina Perlwitz -Putnam, CT, Elaine CroceHappnie - Dorchester, MA,Rogerson House Sewing Group- Roslindale, MA, Janice Will-iams - Roslindale, MA

It’s All About Arts supportslocal arts and culture with aweekly community access tele-vision show produced at BNNMedia, a monthly EMagazine,curated exhibits and events.More info at https://www.facebook.com/pg/TalkArtsand http://www.artstudio99.com.

PARKARTS CHILDREN’SWORKSHOPS RETURN INJULY AND AUGUST

The Boston Parks and Rec-reation Department’s annualParkARTS program, sponsoredby Holly and David Bruce, ispleased to announce the returnof its series of children’s artsworkshops giving kids the op-portunity to express their creativ-ity while working on fun projectswith local artists. From Allstonto Mattapan, children ages threeto ten can enjoy painting, maskand jewelry making, treasurecreations, and more at the Art-ists in Residence Workshopsheld from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. inparks across the city.

Participation is free and allmaterials are provided, butyoung children must be accom-panied by an adult. Groups ofsix or more must make prior ar-rangements by calling the ParksDepartment at (617) 635-4505. Now in its 22nd year, ParkARTSbrings a wide range of culturalofferings to city parks.

In addition, the New En-gland Aquarium will bring itstraveling tide pool exhibit to ninelocations and the Marionette

Puppet Show series will returnin July and August at 11 a.m. atvarious children’s workshops. See Boston’s parks come alivewith these whimsical puppetshows that will delight the childin everyone. Experience theunique charm of Rosalita’s Pup-pets featuring marionettes madeby professional actor-puppeteerCharlotte Anne Dore.

Children are invited to cooloff this summer, listen to mu-sic, and play games and dancein our spray features at SplashDance Parties in July and Au-gust at parks across Boston. Presented with support fromPerfectly Free frozen treats andHot 96.9.

For information on this andother ParkARTS programs,please call the Boston Parks andRecreation Department at (617)635-4505, visitw w w . f a c e b o o k . c o m /bostonparksdepartment orwww.boston.gov/parks or fol-low @BostonParksDept.

Artists in Residence Work-shops dates and locations are asfollows 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.:

WEDNESDAYS: AUGUST1, 8, 15 Ringer Playground,Allston Rosalita’s PuppetsMarionette Performances are at11 a.m. Dates and locations areas follows:

For information on this andother ParkARTS programs,please call the Boston Parks andRecreation Department at 617-635-4505, visit our website orf a c e b o o k . c o m /bostonparksdepartment, or fol-low @BostonParksDept.

ALLSTON/BRIGHTON

Brighton Sounds: UnpluggedBrighton Main Streets, Sat-

urday. August 18, 2018, 10:00am – 10:00 pm BrightonSounds: Unplugged is a new,unique cultural experience.For one summer Saturday, lo-cal businesses will host liveacoustic music, entertainingvisitors and increasing foottraffic in the business district.It’s a “porchfest”-style eventin Brighton’s shops & restau-rants.

Stay tuned for schedulesand set times! For detailed in-formation, please visit: http://www.brightonmainstreets.org/brighton-sounds-unplugged

HARVARD UNIVERSITYNeighborhood Coffee Hour

Government Affairs & Com-munity Relations at HarvardUniversity Thursday, Septem-ber 6, 2018, 8:00 am – 9:00am.

The Neighborhood CoffeeHour gives residents a uniqueopportunity to speak directlywith Government Affairs &Community Relations and stafffrom Harvard University aboutAllston/Brighton Planning &Development and the new com-munity and campus that will bebuilt. Areas of discussion couldinclude institutional, the Enter-prise Resource Campus, Bea-con Park Yards, other HarvardAllston/Brighton holdings andcurrent and future communitybenefits (products & services).

All participants will enjoycoffee and breakfast treats.Swissbäkers 168 Western Ave,Allston

HARVARD EDPORTAL EVENTS

Harvard Ed Portal’s 2018Summer Concert Series:Wednesday, August 8, 2018 @5:30 pm. Karen K & the Jitter-bugs Bug Out! with Karen K andher imaginary friends, the Jit-terbugs: Hop, Stinky, and SlugBug. Best known for Karen’saward-winning, well-craftedand totally catchy tunes, theJitterbugs deliver one of themost entertaining live musicalexperiences on the East Coast.All concerts are rain or shine.Family-friendly Free and opento the public. No RSVP is re-quired. Ray Mellone Park be-hind Honan Allston Public Li-brary 300 North Harvard St,Allston Rain Location: HonanAllston Public Library Audito-rium

ESL CLASSAn ESL conversation group

meets at 12:30 pm every Mon-day. Come practice your lan-guage skills in an informal andfriendly setting with other newEnglish speakers. BrightonBranch Library/40 AcademyHill Road/(617) 782-6032

BEGINNINGINTERNET CLASS

Help is available on a one onone basis to get you started.Call for an appointment and askfor Alan, Brighton Branch Li-brary/40 Academy Hill Rd.(617) 782-6032.

HYDE PARK

CONCERTS IN THEGARDEN SUMMER 2018

August 2 Marshall RichardsOpera Classics, August 9 TheJazzabelles Jazz Band, August16 Bird Mancini The 60’s and70’s Folk-Rock-Pop, August 23Tony Cibotti AmericanSongbook, On days of extremeheat or rain, please join us in thebranch library’s Menino Hall.Hyde Park Branch Library, 35Harvard Ave, Hyde Park, MA,0 2 1 3 [email protected]

5TH URBAN ARTSFESTIVAL

The 5th Urban Arts Festivaltakes place on September 8,2018 from 12pm to 5pm locatedat the Martini Shell MemorialPark on 1015 Truman Parkway,Hyde Park. The festival is freefor all ages. There will be per-formances, artists, games, arts &crafts, give aways, music, ven-dors, spoken word, steam rollermega print. For more informa-tion please [email protected] or call857-719-9467.

LOOKING FOR HYDE PARK HSClass of 67, 68 and 69 gradu-

ates! The Class of ’68 is cel-ebrating their 50th Reunion onSaturday, October 27, 2018, 7pm, at the Brookmeadow Coun-try Club, 100 Everendon Road,Canton, MA 02021. Graduatesfrom the class of ’67 and ’69 areinvited to join us. Fifty years isa long time and locating mem-bers of our class is proving chal-lenging. If you know anyonewho graduated about that time,please help us spread the word. Tickets are $80 and include din-ner, music, dancing, and more. We’ve all experienced a lot overthe years and we look forwardto hearing each others’ stories. To register send your checkmade payable to Hyde Park HSClass of 1968 and send to AmieGoodwin, PO Box 57, Canton,MA 02021. For further informa-tion [email protected] [email protected]. GoBlue Stars!

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Jimmy Fund hosts first 5K, raises $100KJefJefJefJefJeff Sullivf Sullivf Sullivf Sullivf SullivanananananStaff Reporter

The Jimmy Fund hosted itsfirst ever 5K race at Millen-nium Park two weeks ago, anddespite the rain, hundreds ofrunners came to support thefoundation and raised about$105,000 for the organization.

Jimmy Fund DevelopmentOfficer Kelly Wicks said theywere extremely pleased withthe result, which will go di-rectly to patient care and re-search at the Dana-Farber Can-cer Institute.

“We’re over $105,000 rightnow and that’s before any day-of race registration,” she said.“I think it went really well, itwas definitely stressful as ourfirst ever event, but everythingwent off pretty well in the endand we’re having a good timenow.”

Resident Ryan Lynch saidhe came out because it was afamily affair.

“My sister actually works atDana-Farber in Boston, so shekind of helped fundraise thiswhole event and she asked meto sign up,” he said. “So thenmy mom and my dad signed upas well and it became a sort offamily fun run for us.”

Lynch said he had never runthe Millennium Park circuitbefore, but said it was a good

challenge.“It’s pretty hilly, more than

I was expecting,” he said.Residents Chris Collier,

George Lobaton and JohnMurphy said they all came outto support the band ModestyShorts, which was slated to playduring the event. Murphy, amember of the band, said therain made that impossible dueto the high voltage required forlive music, but they all stillcame out to support the eventanyway.

“I play guitar, we play covermusic and unfortunately due tothe weather we’re not going tobe playing but we actuallystarted the band a few of themembers ran for Dana-Farberin the Boston Marathon, and westarted the band to raise moneyfor Dana-Farber,” said Murphy.“Their office reached out to usto see if we wanted to play andwe said sure. It’s all for thecause.”

Collier said he felt like therace was a homecoming ofsorts.

“There’s some great viewscoming around the bend of thearea and the river, and I’ve livedin West Roxbury for a few yearsand I’ve come here with myfamily in the past so it’s greatto come back,” he said.

District 6 City Councilorand avid runner Matt O’Malley

said Dana-Farber actually ap-proached him earlier in the yearfor possible locations for theorganization’s first 5K, and hesaid Millennium was his firstpitch.

“I’m delighted to haveworked with the folks of theDana-Farber and the JimmyFund to bring it here,” he said.“They came to my office backin February saying they wantedto do it somewhere in the dis-trict, they were thinking maybeFranklin Park or the ArnoldArboretum, but I said you knowwhat? Let’s do it at MillenniumPark. I run it, you can get a 5Kin there, it’s challenging but it’s

a great field for an after party.”O’Malley said they were

happy to have exceeded expec-tations for sign-ups.

“We were hoping to get 600runners and 900 registered,”he said. “Some probably didn’tcome because of the weatherbut this was a fabulous inau-gural 5K and I can’t wait untilnext year.”

Resident Jeff Palmer saidhe volunteered as a race guidebecause he and his family havea connection with the Dana-Farber Institute.

“My wife and son are bothcancer survivors, so they’reheavily involved with Dana-

Farber,” he said. “My wifedoes a skateboard race for theorganization and we try to helpout any way we can. I wasn’tup for running today but mywife and two sons are both run-ning. The camaraderie and sup-port here is just amazing.”

Resident Quinn Marchettisaid her friend HannahAlmeida got her to go the run,as she had never done one be-fore.

“It was awesome,” saidMarchetti. “She’s a runner, I’mnot and so I thought I’d try itout. It wasn’t so bad. It feelsgood to help out.”

Almost a thousand people came out for the first annual Jimmy Fund 5K at Millenium Park in West Roxbury.PHOTO BY JEFF SULLIVAN


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CESSO

Angeline J. Of Roslindale,July, 23, 2018, formerly of theNorth End and Canton. Daugh-ter of Carmella Mazzola andSalvatore Natalie. Beloved wifeof sixty-seven years to the lateStephen N. Cesso. Mother ofNicholas and his wife Joan ofHyde Park, and Step Grand-mother of Kaitlin Manning ofMilton, Erica Green of Quincyand Richard Green of NewYork. Mother of Stephen andhis wife Sheila of Canton.Grandmother of Tracey Cessoand her husband Keith Nolfi ofQuincy, Margaret Donahue andher husband John Donahue ofWestwood, Stephen T.Z. Cessoof Canton. Great Grandmotherof Fiona Donahue, JohnnyDonahue, Leonardo Nolfi andStella Nolfi. Mother of ThomasCesso and his partner Maria

Capolla and grandmother ofIsabella Cessa of Boston. Sis-ter-in-law of Anthony Cessoand his wife Phyllis of Revere,Biagio Conte of Framingham,Ann Natalie of Roslindale andcousin of Yvonne Lysack ofSalem. Survived by manynieces, nephews and friends.Predeceased by brothers andsisters Thomas Natalie, FrankNatalie, Salvatore Natalie,Antoinette DiPlacido, MargaretAmato and Helen Rose. RetiredTeachers Aid for the BostonSchool Department, member ofthe West Roxbury YMCA,Sons of Italy Roslindale andBoston Lodge of Elks #10. Fu-neral from the William J.Gormley Funeral Home, 2055Centre St., WEST ROXBURY.Interment St. Michael Cem-etery. For directions andg u e s t b o o kwww.gormleyfuneral.com Wil-liam J. Gormley Funeral Ser-vice 617-323-8600

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James Mitchell “Jimmy” OfRoslindale July 23, 2018. Be-loved son of Madeline(Maloof) and the late MitchellCorey. Dear brother of GlenCorey and Susan of Foxboro.Loving uncle of Melissa andBrandon Corey. Nephew ofDorothy Ridolfi and the lateEdward, Abraham and John

Corey, and Mary Sullivan.Cousin of John Sullivan,Roberta Ridolfi and KennethRidolfi. Funeral from theKfoury Keefe Funeral Home 8Spring St. (at the corner of Cen-tre St.) WEST ROXBURY. Inlieu of flowers, please makecontributions in Jimmy’smemory to the Church or toBrigham and Women’sFaulkner Hospital DialysisClinic 1153 Centre Street,Belkin House Boston, MA02130. Interment Mt. BenedictCemetery. Guestbook atwww.KfouryFuneral.com.Kfoury Keefe Funeral HomeWest Roxbury 617-325-3600

LENNON

Paul E. Sr. Of West Roxburyand Sandwich formerly of Ja-maica Plain, suddenly July 27,2018. Beloved husband of thelate Claire L. (Mulvey) Lennon.Devoted father of Paul E.Lennon Jr. of California, JosephLennon of Norfolk, StephenLennon and his wife Sharon ofFalmouth, Mary Connolly andher husband Terrance ofMansfield, Kathleen Koch ofQuincy, Patricia Lennon ofMansfield, and ChristinaLennon of Falmouth and the late

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Court denies appeals to WR PipelineJeff SullivanJeff SullivanJeff SullivanJeff SullivanJeff Sullivan

Staff Reporter

It appears that the fight tostop the already-installed WestRoxbury Lateral Pipeline(WRLP) is all but over.

The U.S. Court of Appealsfor the District of Columbia Cir-cuit last week released its deci-sion to deny all appeals to theoriginal decision put forth by theU.S. District Court two yearsago.

The Boston Delegation, theDedham Delegation and a num-

ber of environmental activistsand abutters originally filed anappeal of the Federal EnergyRegulatory Commission’s(FERC) decision to allow theWRLP to continue. The WRLPis a spur, currently connectedand running, off of the AlgonquinIncremental Market Pipeline(AIM) that runs through fourstates. A number of other del-egations from those states arealso filing against the AIM fortheir own environmental rea-sons.

The community came outoriginally against the WRLP foryears because of its proximityto the West Roxbury CrushedStone Quarry, which regularlyblasts with dynamite. FERC al-lowed 750 pounds-per-squareinch pipeline through becausethe blasting would not affect it,though many disagreed.

In the original lawsuit filedby the City of Boston and

Dedham, Boston representa-tives basically argued thatSpectra had not consulted in anyway shape or form with thecity’s departments and didn’thave the plans to lay the pipe.District Judge William Youngruled in favor of Spectra andbasically gave the companyeminent domain for the projectbecause he said U.S. policy atthe time was to increase gasinfrastructure. That decisionseemed to be in error whenworkers hit a water main onWashington Street as they wereputting the pipeline in.

This denial of appeal for thatprevious decision from Youngbasically puts the nail in the cof-fin for the effort to dig up andremove the West Roxbury Lat-eral Pipeline, though the wholeproject for the AIM is continu-ing, and more information canbe found at facebook.com/resistaim/.

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Bernard Lennon. Loving grand-father of Jennifer, Nicole, Julian,Stephen Michael, Shannon,Melissa, Isabella, and Christo-pher. Brother of the late Joseph,Bernard and Andrew Lennonand Mary Trowbridge. Also sur-vived by several nieces andnephews. U.S. Army KoreanWar Veteran. Retired vehiclesupervisor for the U.S. PostalService. Member of NationalAssociation of PostalSupervisors. Funeral from P.E.Murray - F.J. Higgins, GeorgeF. Doherty & Sons FuneralHome 2000 Centre St. WestRoxbury on Thursday, Aug. 2at 9 a.m., followed by a FuneralMass at St. Theresa of AvilaChurch at 10 a.m. Relatives &friends kindly invited. IntermentGardens of Gethsemane. Ex-pressions of sympathy may bemade in Paul’s memory to St.Jude Children’s Research Hos-pital, 501 St. Jude Pl., Memphis,TN 38105-1905.

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Thomas J. “TJ” Suddenly,in West Roxbury formerly ofBrookline on July 22, 2018.Loving son of the late Peter andMary (Lynch) Mattimoe. Dearbrother of Peter J. Mattimoe

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Stephen F. Of Readville,formerly of Roslindale, July 22,2018. Beloved husband ofMary (Will) Zozula and the lateCaroline Zozula. Devoted fa-ther of Stephen F. Zozula andhis wife Joan of Roslindale, andRichard Zozula of Roslindale.Grandfather of Christine

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parcel of a five-story, mixed-use eighty- eight rental unitsignature building at Washington and McBride streets toBack Bay Development on Sept 11,2017.

Approved over three years ago, the project now has anew development team, SSG/Back Bay Development, anew architect and a new name, The Vita.

In November 2017 David Williams, Director of Devel-opment for SSG, told The Bulletin that the new team willabide by its affordable housing obligations.

“ It is our intention to live up to our commitment onthe affordable units which is twelve units in the front partof the property,” he said.“New Boston Ventures is build-ing forty- four units on Burnett Street and are responsiblefor seven units.”

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“ The project is required to provide nineteen on–siteunits upon completion of the project. An Affordable Hous-ing Agreement was signed between the BPDA and newdeveloper in October[2017].”

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Now the headache is up for sale.

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circulating around the roommuch as usual, aside from thefact that the party this eveningwas for him.

Family, friends, and neigh-bors were all present, with manyexpressing – as Capobianco hadsaid of his own feelings at retir-ing – mixed emotions: sadnessat this community gatheringplace closing, but happiness atCapobianco having the oppor-tunity to relax.

Monica Verity (néeCapobianco), who grew upworking in Cappy’s as a cook andbartender, celebrated birthdaysand graduations here, and mether husband here, described theclosing as “emotional” and ex-pressed a couple of them as shecontinued.

“I’m excited for him to bewith my grandchildren. I have a3-year-old and a 1-year-old, andthey are his best pals, as he callsthem,” Verity said, then addingher own relief. “People don’t re-alize: yes, it’s a great place forpeople to come out, but it’s con-stant liability, and it’s constantworry as family members be-cause everybody else comes andgoes. The bartenders come andgo. The cooks come and go. Buthe’s ultimately responsible foreveryone.”

And now everyone will haveto find a new place to go, includ-ing Faith Krusz, who would of-ten stop by for a couple of drinksafter finishing her Saturday shiftat Super Liquors (formerly

known as Lank’s) at 1055Truman Highway.

“I’ll probably go to the Vil-lage Manor,” she said, echoingthe contingency plan of morethan a few in the room that night.“But it won’t be the same. Thisis Hyde Park people.”

And many, in fact, whomoved away have been comingback, including Readville nativeRicky Carrara and his wifeKerrie, also from Hyde Park,who now live in Braintree.

“We’d go to her mother’shouse and drive by and stop inand maybe see some of ourfriends,” Ricky said beforespeaking of the generations offamilies who had made this theirplace. “It really tied the commu-nity together.”

He pointed out a woman en-joying a drink with friends, say-ing that she had been hisbabysitter when he was twoyears old.

“It’s sad to see it go becauseit’s a Hyde Park staple,” Kerrieadded.

“Lot of memories here,”Ricky mused while sipping abeer.

“I’m going to miss Ray foras long as I live,” Bob Mitchellsays from his place in a boothby the bar. When asked wherehe would go now, one of hisbooth mates says, “Come to myhouse!” to some laughter beforehe answers seriously.

“That’s a very good ques-tion. I don’t know. There are no

places left.”As Fanci Nanci calls

Capobianco to the front of theroom to take a call from Ger-many, Steve Verity, whose sonis married to Monica, gives simi-lar thoughts about what’s next.

“We really don’t know. We’llfigure it out,” he said.

Kathi Ryan Flynn, formerbartender and architect ofCappy’s annual Toys for TotsExtravaganza, shared anothersentiment on Capobianco’s re-tirement held by many.

“He’s been here workinghard, doing for the community.He’s the best,” Flynn said.

Flynn went on to say thatshe’s hoping to have one moreExtravaganza this Christmasdedicated to the Capobiancofamily, with all proceeds goingto the Riverside Theatre, whereshe would like to have it.

She also shared a positivethought on what Capobiancoclosing the place down.

“I think the best thing is hisfather opened the doors 80 yearsago, and he’s going to closethem,” Flynn said before repeat-ing it once more. “I think that’sthe best thing.”

It’s 10:30 p.m. with closingtime listed as half an hour ago.Ray’s daughter had said that hemight extend the hours for thislast night and the crowd showsno sign of thinning.

But soon enough, the clockwill strike twelve.

Not such a bad time to leave.

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First, so as to get it out of theway, he is wrong to find agree-ment with Hal Shurtleff forthere is nothing ever right orgood with Mr. Shurtleff’s intol-erant John Birch Society view-points; indeed, they are anti-thetical to all that this greatcountry stands for. Second, Iwould remind Sal that immigra-tion has always been an issueof great controversy in this na-tion. While Native Americanshave the first and most legiti-mate complaint about “the rightway to enter” once Europeansbegan arriving, the complaintsabout legitimacy have beenraised by every group that pre-ceded the next. One of my an-cestors arrived in Boston as anindentured servant (I have noidea if it was a “legal” entry)and as a heretical Baptist leftfor Providence as fast as hecould get away from the intol-erant Puritans. His distantgrandchild, my father, com-plained frequently about theIrish and Italians, who made upmost of the workforce he man-aged, claiming that they were“slow to assimilate” – whateverthat meant. The father of myIrish-American high school girl-friend complained about the

Mexicans taking over the otherside of the tracks in the Mid-western town I grew up in ig-noring the fact that they wereessential labor to the surround-ing farms.

I work in health care and cantell Sal that the majority of thenon-skilled home health work-ers filling this essentialworkforce are immigrants, manyof whom have questionable “le-gal’ status. We have a brokenimmigration system in thiscountry because of prejudice;most of the immigration lawspassed in the years since ourfounding were done out of in-tolerance for and a desire to ex-clude “different” peoples. Wehad better get over this dysfunc-tional method of legislatingquick because the forces driv-ing immigration are escalatingas a result of rapidly advancingclimate change. As has beenseen in the waves of refugeestrying to get into Europe, droughtand famine have triggered insta-bility in countries like Syria, Sudan,and Chad. Similar climate relatedproblems are occurring in Cen-tral America and will only worsenas the equatorial latitudes heat up,dry out, and/or are hit with ex-treme weather events such as we

saw with the hurricanes that dev-astated Puerto Rico and otherCaribbean islands last year. Wehave plenty of space in this coun-try to take more people and willbenefit from the economic activ-ity brought by their determinationand industriousness that has beenthe dominant characteristic of themany generations of immigrantsthat came seeking refuge in theUnited States. Sal’s, Hal’s, andmy ancestors came here seekinga better life and with determina-tion made a contribution to theirnew homeland. We are better offfor it and will be better off mak-ing it easier for those seeking tocome now even if they are “dif-ferent.” And, by the way, CesarChavez was “opposed” to illegalimmigration (but not to immigra-tion) because the California farm-ers he was battling were exploit-ing poor laborers from Mexico tobreak the backs of his labor or-ganizing. This same tactic wasused by many of the industriesthat lured our ancestors here andlobbied Congress to let them in.History keeps repeating itselfbut we seem to not learn its les-sons.

Alan WrightRoslindale

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said WalkUP member SteveGag. “We are very close tocompleting the 25 percent de-sign for the whole pathway, butwe wanted to get a jump on thisMBTA portion... We’re lookingto obtain (Community Preser-vation Act) funds to do the finaldesign for the CPA fundinground in September, and we re-ally need to have some sort ofagreement along the path andget some understanding onwhat that lease arrangement isgoing to be.”

According to JenniferRelstab of Horsley Witten, thedesign firm WalkUP has hiredfor this project, a 25 percentdesign is one where they haveactually gotten on-the-groundsurveys of the topography, thetrees there, the layout and whatmaterials might work for thepath. She said it is also the pointwhere the actual cost of thewhole project will come intoplay, which will help narrowdown the plan for the MBTAportion of the path and the en-tirety of the path moving for-ward.

She said for the MBTA por-tion, they are looking at an areawhere the grading is quitesteep, and towards the arbore-tum end of the MBTA parcel,they are looking to install aboardwalk made of Ipe woodthat would make the path acces-sible under the terms of theAmericans with DisabilitiesAct.

“That would allow bicyclesand pedestrians to come fromthis low spot and enter the Ar-boretum,” she said, adding thatthere may also be room for anobservatory platform on theboardwalk because of the viewsfrom that particular section atthe Arboretum edge of the prop-erty. “We have not discussedthat in full but that would be anice amenity in terms of edu-cational opportunities.”

Relstab said the Ipe materialfor the boardwalk is hardwoodand would shed water ratherquickly. Residents were con-cerned that if the wood was toosmooth, it would allow for icesheets to form during the win-ter months. Though she did saythat snow buildup could be aproblem and WalkUP wouldhave to work out with theMBTA and the Arboretumwhose responsibility it wouldbe to shovel or plow the pathand the boardwalk.

The path itself is set forabout 10 feet throughout theparcel. Relstab said that therewould be edged vegetation ar-eas to define where the path it-self is and provide a grace areafor cyclists.

“This is to make sure ifyou’re biking, you’re not goingoff into the wild woods andpossibly use the vegetation tocontain the bicyclists if they

were to fall off for some rea-son,” she said.

Relstab said there are alsotwo major dips in the propertynot on the path itself, and theseareas would most likely beprone to water retention. Shesaid while they had toyed withthe idea of permeable pavement,which would allow stormwaterto infiltrate through the patharea, she said it would be tooexpensive to maintain. Theproblem with permeable pave-ment is that dirt and dust cancollect and block the permeablenature of the substance, and itwould actually have to be vacu-umed out. It was her recom-mendation that they instead gofor a stabilized soil.

“It’s like crushed stone butit has a polymer added to it,”she said, adding that the poly-mer makes the soil act like apavement. “It’s an organic poly-mer that would reduce pollut-ants. That was important to usto make it look like the Arbore-tum.”

With that in mind, Relstabsaid the two dips in the areaaround the path combined withthe steep grading to the path’snorth and the fact that a 10-footwide, 1,500-foot long area ofthe actual path would no longerinfiltrate stormwater, there hasto be an accommodation madefor that water. She said the ideawould be to put bioswales, orrain gardens, that would takethe natural ecology of the areaand infiltrate any water cominginto the area and keep floodingon the path to a minimum.

Many residents wantedlighting to be in place for thewhole path, but Relstab saidthat is an issue residents wouldhave to work out with the Ar-boretum. The Arboretum lead-ership does not want to inviteresidents to use the park afterhours, which is after dusk, andis currently against any light-ing in the path.

“There’s a fair amount ofinterest in lighting,” saidLawlor, adding residents mightwant to work together to makethis an issue with the Arbore-tum leadership.

Resident Alan Wright saidhe’s also concerned about thewildlife in the area.

“There are deer, foxes, tur-keys, raccoon, opossums andcoyotes that go through thatparcel,” he said. “That has beena concern of the abutters inthere. That area has been a realwildlife area that people don’tgo into, so how can we keepthat a sanctuary for wildlife?”

Lawlor said WalkUP islooking to host a 25 percentdesign meeting for the full pathin a month or two. For more in-formation and the completepresentation given at lastweek’s meeting, go towalkuproslindale.org/

WalkUP continued from page 1Nonetheless, Aprea said,

over their first year together, ev-eryone melded together to be-come “shipmates and brothers”as LST 972 steamed from PearlHarbor to New Guinea to theMarshall Islands to Guam to thePhilippines, among other lo-cales.

Describing a memory fromthat time, Aprea spoke of beingassigned the midnight to 4 a.m.watch while the LST wasbeached under some palm trees.

Rumor had it that the Japa-nese would drop down from thetrees at night onto the ships,stabbing servicemen while theyslept.

Given a Thompsonsubmachine gun, Aprea wasgiven his orders by theBotswain’s Mate.

“Don’t use that unless youhave to. Use a knife so youdon’t wake the crew up,” Aprearecalled. “Well, I put my backup against the bulkhead and Iprayed for four hours, and Ithink I lost 20 pounds… Thatwas the most horrible momentof my life.”

Eventually, Aprea and hisshipmates made their way toOkinawa in 1945 to train withthe Americal Division for theanticipated invasion of Japan.

“When they dropped theBomb, we were in Naha Bayat Okinawa and all you couldsee were ships as far as the eyecould see, ready to go to Japan.Thank God they dropped theBomb and saved us.”

Instead of invading Japan,three days after the war hadended Aprea was walking downone of its port city’s streets onliberty with an armed guard, as-signed to help set up quartersfor occupation troops.

“They didn’t know how theJapanese people were going totake us,” he said about that firsttrip to Japan. “You’d walk downthe sidewalk and the Japanesepeople would step into the gut-ter and let you by. By the timewe got there the second time,they would push you off thesidewalk.”

Getting back home after be-ing discharged in 1946 startedoff well for Aprea. The night hegot back, he met the woman hewould marry a year later at aReadville block party. Theywould remain together for 71years and have four daughtersand two sons.

All, however, was not wellwith Aprea. He had sustainedtwo badly damaged eardrumsduring the war and a case ofbattle fatigue.

“I was so nervous, I couldn’tleave the house because Icouldn’t control my bladder,” hesaid.

Aprea had mentioned theseissues when he was being dis-

charged but, told thathe would have to stayon for an additionaltwo weeks in order fora doctor to examinehim, he opted to hurryback home instead,waiving treatment.

“It just wore off,”he said of his difficultycontrolling his bladder.“It took 10 years forme to be able to benormal by urination.Ten years. Urinationwas the battle fa-tigue.”

As for his dam-aged eardrums, Apreasaid that he had gottenused to the pinging inhis ears by the time hemade it back homeand just lived with it.

A couple of years ago, how-ever, he did finally submit a suc-cessful disability claim retroac-tive to the time of the applica-tion.

His daughter, MaryCavagnaro – with whom Apreahas lived in Holbrook since hiswife died – expressed somefrustration at the situation.

“He could have been collect-ing a pension when he left theservice…”

Aprea, on the other hand,took a different position.

“Well, no. I never claimed

anything,” he said.He went on to offer high

praise for Veterans Affairs.Recently diagnosed with lung

cancer, he had just finished hisfirs round of radiation at the VAHospital in Jamaica Plain.

“Anybody that says the VAis not doing its job, they’recrazy. They gave me wonder-ful, wonderful care. Theytreated me like a king.”

And – for one special day,at least – as the Veteran of theDay.

Apreacontinued from page 6

Seaman 1st Class Sam Aprea (left) withthe LST 972's cook, circa 1945.

PHOTO COURTESY OF SAM APREA

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plants, but experience workingwith children is preferred. If youare interested, please contact theManager of Children’s Educationby August 24 for an interview.E m a i l :[email protected] Website: http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/support/volunteer/volunteer-to-be-a-guide/

WEST ROXBURY/ROSLINDALE

PLANS ANNOUNCED FORROSSI HIGH REUNION

A reunion for all who attendedRoslindale High School will takeplace on Saturday, October 6 atthe Dedham Holiday Inn at 55Ariadne Road in Dedham. The

reunion will start at 7:30 p.m. andend at midnight. Graduates of theClass of 1968 will be celebrating50 years. Graduates of the Classof 1969 are planning a 49th re-union and graduates of the classof 1973 will be celebrating 45years.

Tickets will be e-mailed toeach guest responding. The re-union is limited to 250 guestswhich may prevent tickets beingsold at the door. For updates onthe reunion, go towww.roslindalehighschool.com.

4TH ANNUAL ROSLINDALEPORCH FEST SATURDAYSEPTEMBER 15

The Roslindale Arts Allianceannounces that the 2018Roslindale Porch Fest will be

held on Saturday September 15from 1:30-5:30 pm, with a raindate of Sunday September 16.This family-friendly eventshowcases local talent all overRoslindale hosted by residentseager to provide their porches,driveways, yards, and gazebos asvenues for free musical perfor-mances. Roslindale Porch Fest isfree to all, thanks to our gener-ous sponsors. Last year’s eventfeatured live music at 70 locationsacross Roslindale, with 110 mu-sic acts participating in stylesranging from folk to jazz to rockto reggae to classical, and acrowd estimated in the thousands.

Registration is now open forboth hosts and musicians at http:// w w w. r o s l i n d a l e a r t s . o rg /porchfest. The registration dead-line is August 1

Roslindale Arts Alliance -w w w. r o s l i n d a l e a r t s . o r g /porchfest - www.facebook.com/roslindaleporchfest

MAYOR OFROSLINDALE CONTESTFOR ROSLINDALEDAY PARADE

The 43rd Annual RoslindaleDay Parade will take placeon Sunday, October 14th, 2018,stepping off at 1:00 p.m. fromWashington Street in RoslindaleVillage. The parade will proceedup South Street, to Belgrade Av-enue, taking a right at WestRoxbury Parkway, throughGottwald Rotary, to CentreStreet, to South Street, and end-ing at Fallon Field. This year theParade will honor as Grand Mar-shals the Families of John Mor-gan and Jack Lynch, co-ownersof Roslindale’s Pleasant Cafe,which just celebrated its 80thAnniversary last year.

In addition to parade partici-pants, the Committeeis seeking candidates to join inour 20th Annual ”Mayorof Roslindale” Contest whichwill run through the end of Sep-tember. The winner of the con-test will be honored in the Pa-rade on Sunday, October 14th. The deadline for registration forthe Mayor of Roslindale contestis August 15th.

For information about thecontest, as well as Parade par-ticipation opportunities for yourorganization or business, pleasev i s i twww.roslindaleparade.com, e-m a i lto [email protected],or call 617-327-4886.

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Oh, most beautiful flower of Mt.Carmel, fruitful vine, splendor ofHeaven, Blessed Mother of the Sonof God, Immaculate Virgin, assist mein this necessity. Oh Star of the Sea,help me and show me herein youare my mother. Oh Holy Mary,Mother of God, Queen of Heavenand Earth, I humbly beseech theefrom the bottom of my heart to succorme in my necessity (make request).There are none that can withstandyour power. Oh Mary, conceivedwithout sin, pray for us who haverecourse to thee (three times). HolyMary, I place this cause in your hands(three times). Say this prayer for threeconsecutive days and then you mustpublish and it will be granted to you.

Grateful thanks. —E.M.L.



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