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THE PRINT EDITION

THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2020

VOLUME XIX- ISSUE 74

Breakfast After the Bell Senator Collins votes to pass legislation aimed to improve nutrition in K-12 Schools

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ast Thursday, the Massachusetts Senate unanimously passed legislation to fight childhood hunger and boost participation rates in school breakfast programs in the Commonwealth’s lowincome schools. The bill, An Act regarding breakfast after the bell (S.2460), would require all public K-12 schools with 60 percent or more students eligible for free or reduced-price meals under the federal National School Lunch Program to offer breakfast after the school day begins.

Ma ssachu set t s current ly requ ires a l l ‘ hig h-pover t y’ schools to provide breakfast to every eligible student. However, because breakfast is typically offered before the bell and in t he ca feteria, pa rticipation

levels are low— at less than 40 percent— compared to 80-90 percent participation for free and reduced lunch. Moving breakfast from before the bell to after the bell is a proven strategy to boost breakfast participation to ensure that all students have the nutrition they need to start their day ready to learn.

As a federally reimbursed program, Breakfast After the Bell has the potential to provide up to $30 million statewide to Massachusetts school districts that increase participation rates to 80 percent and above. These payments are made directly to school nutrition departments, helping to support jobs, update kitchen equipment, and provide he a lt h ie r me nu opt ion s .

“W hat’s clea r is t hat students who have access to a health breakfast get better grades, miss fewer days of

Changing the World Together SBCA News: Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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e can change the world together!

The students at South Boston Catholic Academy celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday by reflecting on how they can make the world a better place. One of Dr. King’s inspiring quotes is, “The time is

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always right to do what is right.”

The K1 teachers at South Boston Catholic Academy read the book, “Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Jean Marzollo to their students.

They had class discussions about what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. did to change the world to make it a better place.

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A Look Back at, and a Plug for, 2019

ou’ve probably gotten tired of hearing about the New Year by now, even though the Year of 2020 A.D. had lots of bellsand-whistles attached to it when it arrived just over three weeks ago. An important reason for all the fanfare is that 2020 starts a decade that begins with the 400th Anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival at Provincetown and Plymouth in 1620. Back then, they had truly come to “The New World”!

Also, this currently young decade that we are calling the “ Twent y-Twent ie s” end s in 2029-2030, which is the 400th A nniversar y of the Cit y of Boston. A thousand of John Winthrop’s Purita ns arrived during the two years of 1629 and 1630, to establish what he biblically called “A City on a Hill” - f irst in Charlestown, later in what are now Downtown Boston and the North End (seeking a reliable supply of fresh water), and also including a semi-

accurate anchoring in the “Old Harbor” waters, off what would later become South Boston.

And this coming Saturday’s date of January 25 starts the Chinese New Year as well, beginning another 12-year cycle of New Years. Yes, it is the Year of the Rat. And the Rat is first - #1 in the Far Eastern dozenyear-chain of New Years. (FULL DISCLOSURE: The writer is a Rat.) And finally, if that’s not enough emphasis already, 2020 is also a major Election Year, perhaps the most important one in a (ver y) long time.

But what about poor, put-down 2019? Actually, in an economic sense, 2019 was as good as it gets. At midyear, 2019 broke the previous record for non-stop economic expa nsion, wh ich wa s set back in the 1990s. Even more important, the unemployment rate is still as low as it ever has been. In Massachusetts, 2019 ended with an unbelievably

low 2.9% unemployment rate, meaning that anyone who really wanted work could find it. And that says nothing about the stock market’s record highs in 2019. A very strong American economy has been around for more than a decade, which includes all of 2019. Will it last through 2020?

Were you awa re t hat A mer ic a n s’ tot a l per son a l charitable donations in 2019 a mounted to approx imately $1,50 0,0 0 0,0 0 0 (one-a nd-ahalf billion dollars) per DAY?!?

That’s not only fantastic, but it is the best of any year ever.

A nd locally, according to a WalletHub survey, Boston was in the top 10% of the “Most Caring Cities” in America last year. Not too shabby, eh wot?

Will 2020 manage to do as well as 2019? We’ll see, won’t we?

Now, 2 019 certainly wasn’t perfect. Perhaps politics created the biggest stains on that entire year – from opioids and affordabilit y in Boston,

to in f ra st r uc t u re problems statewide, to the impeachment and massive gridlock in the nation’s capital. You can make 2020 better than 2019 in a political way, but only if you vote. So please VOTE this year!

To close our 2019 lookback, not one of us needs to be reminded that once again, the Vince Lombardi trophy resides in Boston (or Foxboro or New England, whatever you prefer).

The NFL’s pair of oldest ever Coach and Quarterback to win that trophy brought it home once again in 2019, and for the sixth time. That (obviously) is not going to happen in 2020.

Even though they’re only games, South Bostonians love their sports. But would you like to place a bet that there will be another sports championship trophy brought back to Boston in 2020, like there was in 2019?

It’s up to you, of course, but please don’t knock 2019 until you see how 2020 turns out.

Brand in his irreverent, heartfelt, honest and vibrant ode to the 12-steps provides lived experience and focuses on human connection. (russellbrand.com).

DPH in their downtown offices continue to put lipstick on a pig and call it “increasing access, reducing barriers and insuring individual treatment”.

Surely, we can do better.

Consider these ideas: half way houses that of fer dif ferent services. Currently treatment facilities must accept all comers regardless of their fitness to participate. Someone who has been through the system 7 times may be roommates with someone who is brand new to treatment.

In the old days we had a system in place where your treatment history could be reviewed, and appropriate placement based on the past. The ubiquitous

provision of buprenorphine (Suboxone) reminds me of the days of oxycontin distribution as we now had pain as the fifth vital sign to justify this medication. The argument today for buprenorphine distribution including to adolescents as young as 16 and at doses that biologically cannot be supported is that we are “saving lives”. Is it possible that those behind closed doors think that recovery from opioid use disorder is nearly hopeless and the best we can do is keep someone alive? We are selling our patients short with medication for all rather than offering comprehensive care. Medication without full assessment and wrap around support is lazy and shows little understanding of recovery. Just ask someone you know who is in recovery from all drugs and alcohol.

Lipstick on a Pig By: Brianne Fitzgerald NP, MPH

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n mid-Ja nu a r y t he Commissioner of Public Health and members of the Public Health Council issued a briefing on proposed amendments on the licensure of substance use disorder treatment program (105 CMR 164.000).

The Bureau of Substa nce Addiction Ser vices (BSA S) proposed revisions include what is called General Streamlining, Reorganizing and Modernizing.

Item number one under this goal was called terminology.

The term client will be changed to pat ient to empha si z e that addiction is a medical disease. Detox now becomes w it hd rawa l m a n a g e m e nt , levels of care become services and inpatient now becomes

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hour d i v e r s i o n a r y.

Massachusetts has a very serious drug problem, although many still are calling it an opioid crisis evidenced by BSAS and DPH who are implementing increa sed acc e ss to bot h buprenorphine and methadone.

Those who have experienced substance use issues (including alcohol) know that medications and changes in terminology are not even close to the core issues.

Simply put addiction is an unhealthy attachment.

The source of addiction is lack/loss of human connection, hence the reach outside of one’s self for relief. Addiction begins with pain and ends in pain. The response is not in providing full or partial agonists to all comers including adolescents. Responses include varied and nuanced interventions to address the disorder. Russell

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Two Residences; Two DHA Presentations

Presentation of the renovations to the DHA.

by Rick Winterson

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ast Tuesday evening, the 21st, the Dorchester Heights Association (the DHA), one of South Boston’s eight such associations, held its first monthly meeting of the year – and the decade.

Several updates on topics like police actions, traffic problems, and the Dorchester Heights National Park were presented. Two major presentations took place as well, which described proposals to modernize a couple of properties in the Dorchester Heights neighborhood. These are located at 472 East Fourth Street and 75 G Street.

South Boston Online is reporting on the DHA Meeting in part because it demonstrates a couple of responses to the major shortage of housing in South Boston. In addition (and even more important, in our view), we think

this meeting shows a commendable level of neighborhood participation in projects like these. The “back-andforth” input on both of them was open, to the point, and cordially presented.

The proposal at 472 East Fourth will result in five renovated, singlebedroom units – six had been originally proposed. The five will continue to be rental units in the 600-700 square foot size range after renovations. The work at 75 G Street will result in four units, one of which will be quite large at 2,000+ square feet. The other three range from 821 to 953 square feet.

Also, what was once a stable will be relocated to another site on the property.

Questions about possibly converting 472 East Fourth to condos instead of rental units arose. The owner of East Fourth stated that his leases will forbid renters from applying for resident parking stickers. What was the stable at 75 G is still structurally sound, so there’s a requirement that it has to be preserved.

DHA members asked if this is practical to do (it is). In general, the two proposals seemed to be acceptable to the DHA. When the presentations were finished, straw votes among the DHA members present at Tuesday’s meeting approved both the East Fourth project (5-2) and the 75G project (unanimously, 7-0).

The residence at 472 East Fourth Street.

The residence at 75 G Street (corner of Thomas Park).

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school, and have better longterm health outcomes,” said State Senator Nick Collins.

“However, many kids in Boston don’t have that access right now, and that is unacceptable.

This bill will address that disadvantage, giving all children the opportunity to start the day right, succeed in school, and achieve their full potential.”

“We have spent the last two years building a strong coalition of support, which includes school

stakeholders, hunger advocates and legislators,” said Catherine D’Amato, CEO at The Greater Boston Food Bank, which leads the Rise and Shine Massachusetts coalition. “This is the moment we have been waiting for and we are looking forward to passing a bill that will assist with increasing access to school brea k fast to over 150,000 low-income students across Massachusetts.”

This legislation would require approximately 600 Massachusetts

schools ser ving low-income students to offer breakfast after the tardy bell through a variety of delivery models, including breakfast in the classroom, graband-go, and second-chance breakfast. This f lexibility allows school districts to select the model that best fits their students’ needs Now that the Senate has passed its version, it will move to reconcile the legislation with a similar version that passed the House of Representatives.

Councilors Flynn & Flaherty File for Hearing on Traffic Master Plan

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oston City Councilors Ed Flynn and Michael Flaherty will be filing a hearing order at next week’s Council meeting to discuss the creation of a South Boston traffic master plan. With South Boston being at the center of Boston’s development boom, transportation and traffic are critical issues that greatly impact both long-time and new South Boston residents alike. The hearing order calls for discussion on the establishment of a traffic master plan for South Boston to assess the neighborhood’s shortterm and long-term transportation needs and capacity, so that the city and residents can better understand the potential impact of upcoming

developments on traffic and congestion for the neighborhood.

With numerous large scale developments being proposed or approved in South Boston, the neighborhood is absorbing a substantial portion of the city’s housing goals to-date, and will continue to absorb additional growth in the years to come. Notable proposals include 776 Summer Street (the Edison Project), the Mary Ellen McCormack housing development, the Bayside Expo Center, Washington Village, the Fort Point 100 Acre plan, and multiple proposals along the South Boston Dorchester Avenue Corridor. Every major corridor that connects South Boston to the rest of the city now either have proposed or approved developments. These

projects will dramatically increase the overall density of and daily trips to the area, while bringing tens of thousands of residents, commuters and visitors to the neighborhood.

While there is an ongoing South Boston Waterfront Strategic Transportation Plan, the plan only accounts for the impact of growth and the respective impacts on various modes of transportation in and out of the South Boston Waterfront. There is currently no master plan that accounts for the impact of other large scale developments on other major transportation corridors of the neighborhood. With the recent creation of an East Boston Transportation Action Committee that aims to reduce congestion and improve street safety that builds on community input, South Boston should have a similar traffic planning mechanism that can assess and address the neighborhood’s transportation needs in the midst of its building boom.

“Traffic and congestion are some of the biggest issues affecting our residents’ quality of life and safety.

The amount of development that we are witnessing along major corridors in South Boston will undoubtedly

increase traffic in areas that are already experiencing heavy congestion,” said Councilor Flynn. “We need a comprehensive plan to carefully assess the impact of this development boom in terms of traffic and transportation throughout our neighborhood. Thank you to Councilor Flaherty for partnering with me on this hearing order, and I look forward to this discussion.”

“Our residents spend countless hours in meetings about development projects in South Boston and one of the recurring questions we hear is: ‘Has there been a traffic study for this project and does it take into account other projects happening in the neighborhood?’”, said Councilor Flaherty. “Residents deserve to fully understand the cumulative implications of all of these large projects on traffic and pedestrian safety in the short and long term so they can make informed decisions on whether they support or oppose projects.”

For more information, please contact Councilor Flynn’s office at 617-635-3203 or Ed.Flynn@ Boston.gov, or Councilor Flaherty’s office at 617-635-4205, or at Michael.Fla hert y@Boston.gov.

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South Boston’s Life Sciences Are Booming

by Rick Winterson

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t apparently began nine years ago, back in early 2011, when VERTEX announced they were relocating from crowded, high-priced Kendall Square to the South Boston Waterfront, on a site being developed by the Fallon Company.

Ground was broken in mid-2011.

Three years later, in 2014, the ribbon was cut, formally opening V ERT E X Pha rmaceutic a ls’ new, worldwide head offices and bringing 1,500 of their employees here to South Boston.

VERTEX left Kendall Square because of a lack of space. They have always been in an expansion mode and there simply was no room left to expand within the confines of Kendall Square. Unoccupied space essentially doesn’t exist there any longer - it’s a fat, round zero. And the demand for space to house life sciences, especially large, highly sophisticated laboratories, continues to grow by leaps and bounds.

VERTEX now plans to expand into the eastern end of the Seaport – to the Flynn Marine Park and a locus entitled Innovation Square, essentially next to the Innovation and Design Building itself. The deal-making needed to effect such an expansion is still underway , and therefore is “Business-

Confidential”. But it will amount to approximately 300,000 square feet when finished, and it bears repeating that VERTEX is planning a real expansion here. They won’t be giving up any part of their existing Fan Pier facilities.

As examples of VERTEX’s technology/business profile, the company develops medicines and treatments for rare diseases. One collaborator is CRISPR Therapeutics – note that they use CRISPR as a research technique (and yes, we spell-checked CRISPR).

Late last year, the U.S. FDA approved a VERTEX drug named “Trikafta”, their treatment for cystic fibrosis.

South Boston Online has so far focused on Seaport developments connected with VERTEX. But these aren’t the only ones happening.

Foundation Medicine (occupying five locations right now) will lease a halfmillion square foot space at 400 Summer Street (across from the Convention Center, near D Street), and will move its 1000-person workforce there in 2022, two-and-a-half years from now.

Foundation has developed “genomic profiling tests” that select the best drug for treating cancers in each individual patient. What is equally interesting, Foundation was bought last year by Roche (Switzerland), a 123-year-old business, a pioneer in diagnostics, and the largest biotech firm in the world.

Who knows what this venture might

The highly visible VERTEX logo dominates the Fan Pier Boulevard street view. eventually bring to South Boston?

And the addresses of 99 A Street and 105 West First Street are worth remembering. The current aim for these properties, now in the hands of developers, is to build high-level laboratories for scientific pursuits (read: “Life Sciences”, in our opinion).

All of these transactions have been publicly announced in the media over recent months. Still, listing them all together generates a very powerful picture of scientific laboratory growth – most of it to benefit human health and treat rare, difficult diseases.

The expansion trend that South Boston Online has tried to illustrate spills over: According to a bulletin from Bisnow Boston, UMass Boston is talking

to developers about using Bayside Expo for building laboratory space (welcome to Kosciusko Circle, everyone). The Globe property on Morrissey is also engaging in talks with high-tech developers. One key attraction for them is our dear old Red Line. Whatever you say for (or against) that stretch of the “T”, whenever it runs, it’s only 15 minutes to Kendall Square, M.I.T., or Harvard, where many of those enterprises came from in the first place.

And another Bisnow Boston issue lists these enterprises that followed VERTEX to the South Boston Seaport: Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Amazon, Goodwin, MassMutual, PricewaterhouseCoopers, P TC , a nd R e e b ok .

Enough said!

Rep. Biele Votes to Pass Bill Protecting Persons with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities from Harm

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epresentative David Biele joined his colleagues in the House of Representatives to unanimously

pass legislation to create a registry of care providers who harmed a person or persons with an intellectual or developmental disability. The bill seeks to prevent those providers from being hired for programs funded or operated by the Department of Developmental Services (DDS).

The legislation, An Act to Protect Persons with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities from Abuse, creates a registry of care providers against whom the Disabled Persons Protection Commission (DCCP) has made a final decision regarding “substantiated findings” of acts resulting in serious physical or

emotional injury of a person with an intellectual or developmental disability.

“This legislation will protect the most vulnerable in our communities and across the Commonwealth,” said Rep. Biele. “I was proud to join my colleagues in passing this important legislation to help prevent abuse of persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities and help save lives.”

The bill requires care provider employers to check the registry prior to hiring or retaining any person as a care provider and prevents employers from hiring or retaining any provider who appears on the registry. Those

employers include those with DDS licenses for day services, those that have contracts with DDS, and those receiving funding from DDS. Under the bill, DCCP imposes monetary fines or other penalties on any employer that fails to comply. The legislation also includes due process protections for care providers.

The legislation builds on ongoing increased support for those departments serving adults and children with intellectual or developmental disabilities. From 2012 to 2020, DPPC funding has increased by 93 percent.

The bill will now go to the Senate for further consideration.

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Fort Point Exhibits: January, 2020

by Rick Winterson

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ver the years, South Boston’s Fort Point neighborhood has been one of Boston’s (and indeed, all of New England’s) most important art colonies. At times, Fort Point has been New England’s largest gathering of fine artists. It is located on the Fort Point Channel, which floats its own creative works of sculpture, directly across from the original Fort Point, a colonial Boston Harbor fortification close to where the International Hotel is now sited.

South Boston Online encourages you to view two exhibits that have opened in Fort Point this month – works of art at the FP3 Gallery by Steven J. Duede (still life photography), and a dual exhibit at the FPAC Gallery by Richard Hackel (panoramic scenic photography) and Michael Bourque (abstract painting).

Creative and artistic photography in America began

to come into its own 150 years ago, with Mathew Brady, the Civil War photographer. Brady studied under Samuel F. B. Morse - artist, photographer, and inventor of the telegraph’s “Morse Code”. Abstract art has many roots that came together in the 20th Century, especially during the so-called “Lost Generation” of the 1920s and the later migration to the U.S. by artists fleeing the catastrophic effects of World War II. It’s also fitting that these exhibits take place right now. Four hundred years ago, in 1620, the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth. The end of the current decade in 2030 will mark the settling of Boston by John Winthrop’s Puritan migrants, and the siting of the original Fort Point.

Please forgive South Boston Online for our excursion into both history and geography, but when you visit the above-mentioned exhibits, we would like you to get a sense, or even a deep feeling, for how photography and abstract art

Steven J. Duede and his “Untitled 37”, part of his Evanescence Project at FP3 Gallery.

Richard Hackel, next to two of his striking panoramic photos at the FPAC exhibit.

Michael Bourque exhibits his geometric abstract painting in the FPAC Gallery have evolved in modern times. And both art forms are still new, young, and developing - they didn’t even exist when America began in the New World four centuries ago.

Enough said.

At the FP3Gallery (first f loor, 346 Congress Street), Steven Duede’s large photographs are parts of a project he calls Evanescence – a word that means “disappearance” or a “passing on”. These works picture highly colored arrays of waste that will become compost, and thus be re-used to treat soil beneficially and then grow things anew. His works are affecting. They reminded the writer of the full-spectrum still lifes by certain Dutch masters. Be sure to view his smaller photos of wilting flowers and model houses as well. They will talk to you.

Richard Hackel is a panoramic photographer now exhibiting at the Fort Point Arts Community (FPAC) Gallery (lower level, 300 Summer Street). “Striking” is the word for his photographic works.

Hackel is trained and employed in ophthalmic photography. You can easily see the truly time spanning effects he achieves through the use

of special lenses in his photographs.

His spacious, wide scale scenes that include both landscapes and seascapes will “wrap around” you as you view them. It is worth taking the time to simply gaze at each of Hackel’s photographs for a while; you will be visually rewarded if you do.

Also exhibiting at the FPAC Gallery is abstract painter Michael Bourque.

Currently, Bourque is an award-winning professional interior designer, who has been developing his painterly skills in a way that enhances his creativity. In a metaphorical way, he is “swimming back upstream” in order get at the basics of his art, an art that will combine his parallel experiences in design, painting, and photography. After you view Bourque’s abstract paintings – please take note of his tall, slender, colorful “totem” – take a (very) close look at his unique brush work, a technique that he is still developing.

For more detailed information on the FP3 and FPAC Galleries and their exhibits of Duede, Hackel, and Bourque, please consult the Internet: www.fp3gallery. com; w w w.fortpointsarts.org

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“Amazing Grace”: Connections

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ndoubtedly, the hymn called “Amazing Grace” is the favorite religious song in America. It’s the religious composition most often sung during worship here. The words to “Amazing Grace” were originally written in England by the Rev. John Newton and the poet William Cowper. Their words were first recited in a sermon on New Year’s Day in 1773, a connection to our recent New Year’s Day of 2020.

Whether these words were set to music that day is unknown – possibly they were chanted or simply spoken aloud.

Rev. Newton was not always a minister. He was drafted into the Royal Navy and afterwards deserted his ship. He was then sentenced to the crew of a ship involved in the Atlantic slave trade, and was enslaved himself because of his obscene behavior. When finally returning home, his ship was caught in a violent storm. According to him, Newton pleaded with God to save him and

suddenly realized the evil of his role in the slave trade. Later, he worked with William Wilberforce to ban slavery in the British Empire, which was done. This week, on January 20, we observed Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, America’s most eminent civil rights advocate, who forged many other, very important connections to the spirit behind “Amazing Grace”.

“Amazing Grace”, although always popular, was even more so in the folk revival of the early 1960s.

Here in America, it had been set to music in 1835, in a way that resembled the creation of “The Star Spangled Banner”, our National Anthem. In recent years, “Amazing Grace” has become a black spiritual with great symbolism. And you’ll often hear it in South Boston during our own religious services, or as a bagpiped tune at ceremonies memorializing South Boston’s veterans – all of which form many more connections to the meaning of “Amazing Grace”.

St. Brigid Church Coffee & Refreshment Get-Together All Are Welcome!

All are welcome to come to the St. Brigid Church Coffee & Refreshment Get-Together, held downstairs in Cardinal Cushing Hall, after the 10:30AM Family Mass at St. Brigid Church on East Broadway this coming Sunday morning, January 26, 2020.

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SBCA Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by ref lecting on how they could make the world a better place.

The students did an art project drawing a picture of the world with blue and green ink and glued a paper hand in front of their drawing of the world with the words to finish the sentence related to the book, “To change the world I will...” Some of the responses included, “Play with someone who has no one to play with”, “Smile”, “Say hi to Jesus every morning”, “Share my toys”, “Help my mom and dad”, “Be a good listener”, “Be kind to people” and “Plant seeds to grow f lowers”. Thank you and

God Bless you, Dr. King, for making the world a better place!

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Where did the Time Go?

Gate of Heaven & St. Brigid Adult Confirmation Classes Classes are open to anyone who is over the age of 18, has been Baptized into the Catholic Church, and has received First Penance and First Holy Communion but has not yet been Confirmed. Documentation for Baptism and First Holy Communion must be provided. Classes will meet in the Parish Office – 841 East Broadway from 6:30 to 8PM.

Class Dates: Thursday, February 27th Thursday, March 5th Thursday, March 12th Thursday, March 19th Thursday, March 26th If anyone you know is interested in being Confirmed, contact Kevin Delehanty at kdelehanty.sbgh@gmail.com or call Kevin at the Parish Office. All Classes are Mandatory

South Boston’s street clock on West Broadway will be temporarily removed, restored over the winter, and return in the spring. The project will restore the exterior and interior surfaces as well as all the gears, weights and pulleys that keep the clock running. The work will be paid for by the City’s Edward Ingersoll Browne Fund.

South Boston’s historic clock is believed to be the last remaining gas illuminated street clock in the country. It was made by the E. Howard Company which was established in Boston in 1842. Howard Company clocks were the gold standard for public clocks. Illuminating the clock dials was a significant innovation by the company. In additional to street clocks, the Howard Company provided clocks to the Custom House Tower in Boston, the New York Life Building and the Kimball Building in Chicago.

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Public Meeting

Public Meeting

South Boston Innovation Campus Thursday, January 30 5:30 PM

1 City Hall Square

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

City Hall, 9th Floor Room 900

Project Proponent: Digital Signage

Project Description: Rescheduled BPDA-hosted Article 80 Public Meeting for the proposed South Boston Innovation Campus project at 2 Harbor Street in the Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park. The Proposed Project calls for the demolition of the existing warehouse on-site and construction of a ten (10)-story, approximately 381,000 square foot building including laboratory, research and development, office, and supporting uses.

Parking for 325 vehicles is also proposed in surface lots and a belowgrade garage.

Close of Comment Period: 2/14/2020

BostonPlans.org

Monday, January 27

Boston, MA 02201

22 Drydock Avenue 3rd Floor Conference Room Boston, MA 02210

mail to: Aisling Kerr Boston Planning & Development Agency One City Hall Square, 9th Floor Boston, MA 02201 phone: 617.918.4212 email: aisling.kerr@boston.gov

Digital Signage

Project Description: The BPDA is recommending an adjustment in the permitted times for digital sign operation. Currently digital signs are permitted to operate between 7am and 2 am. The BPDA is recommending to change the permitted times of operation to 6am to 12am. Additionally, the BPDA is recommending changes to Section 11-7 of the Boston Zoning Code (Electronic Signs). The BPDA is recommending that language referencing Article 7 (Variances) be inserted into Section 11-7.

mail to: Mark McGonagle Boston Planning & Development Agency One City Hall Square, 9th Floor Boston, MA 02201 phone: 617.918.4283 email: mark.mcgonagle@boston.gov BostonPlans.org

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Teresa Polhemus, Executive Director/Secretary

Public Meeting

The Law Office of

Paul J. Gannon PC General Practice of Law

Criminal Defense Personal Injury Motor Vehicle Accidents Establishment of Corporations, LLCs Wills & Estate Planning Real Estate Litigation Probate No Charge for Initial Consultation

82 West Broadway South Boston, MA (617)269-1993 pgannon@paulgannonlaw.com

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Teresa Polhemus, Executive Director/Secretary

Six Glover Court Thursday, January 23 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Tierney Learning Center 125 Mercer Street South Boston, MA 02127

Project Proponent: Six Glover Court, LLC Project Description: Six Glover Court, LLC propose to construct a five-story, residential development totaling approximately 33,546 square feet. The proposed project will have thirty-four (34) home ownership units which includes six (6) IDP Units, and fourteen (14) garage parking spaces. * An alternate date of Tuesday, January 28 is scheduled in the event of inclement weather on January 23 mail to: John Campbell Boston Planning & Development Agency One City Hall Square, 9th Floor Boston, MA 02201 phone: 617.918.4282 email: john.campbell@boston.gov

Close of Comment Period: 2/7/2020

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Teresa Polhemus, Executive Director/Secretary

SOUTHBOSTONONLINE.COM THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2020

“Hygge” at Library, Saturday, February 1 and 29, 2-4 p.m.

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Garage Parking Space Available Location: Columbia Road $425./month Contact 617-877-1791 or Tracyvineyard@gmail.com

Parking Spaces Available Here at South Boston Online, the word “Hygge” caught our eye recently.

We saw that word in an activity notice at the South Boston Branch Library (646 East Broadway). Hygge is a Danish word that stands for “Cozy”, and according to the Branch Library’s notice, “(Hygge) is a good way to cope with long, dark winters.” Perhaps the German practice of “Gemutlichkeit” (coziness) is the other custom most similar to Hygge.

To experience Hygge locally, plan to stop by the Branch Library from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, February 1 or

February 29 (yes, 2020 is a Leap Year – the coming month of February has a 29th). The Library staff will provide you with warm beverages, snacks, soft music, and adult coloring pages.

They’ll also give you tips on how to incorporate cozy Hygge ideas into your own home. And please note that Hygge at the Branch Library on both February 1 and 29 is for the grownups – from late ‘teens up to adults of any age.

For those of us who don’t speak Danish (most of us?), Hygge is pronounced “Hyoo-guh”.

Location: East Fourth St between O and P $300./month

Contact 617-596-6268

ZONING HEARING The Zoning Commission of the City of Boston hereby gives notice, in accordance with Chapter 665 of the Acts of 1956, as amended, that a public hearing will be held on February 12, 2020, at 9:15 A.M., in Room 900, Boston City Hall, in connection with a petition for approval of the First Amendment to the Development Plan for Planned Development Area No. 107, Washington Village Project/235 Old Colony Avenue, South Boston (“First Amendment”), filed by the Boston Redevelopment Authority d/b/a the Boston Planning & Development Agency.

Said First Amendment would increase the number of rental units from 124 to 214 and would be contained in one building (Building A/B) instead of two buildings (Buildings A and B) as originally proposed.

A copy petition, the First Amendment and a map of the area involved may be viewed at the office of the Zoning Commission, Room 952, Boston, City Hall, between 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. any day except Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays.

For the Commission Jeffrey M. Hampton Executive Secretary

SOUTHBOSTONONLINE.COM THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2020 THE PRINT EDITION

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2020 SPECIAL EDITION CALENDAR

Rooney Real Estate hopes your are enjoying your 2020 special edition calendar.

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Wishing you the best the new year has to offer.

Rooney Real Estate, LLC.

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