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About Town in Greater Uphams Corner - more local news and events
including
- Tenean Beach plunge
- Gift giving to Historic Boston (HBI)
- Seed swap
- Happy Holidays from
- Four Corners Main Street
- Boston Fire Dept
- Cristo Rey Boston
- Boston Natural Areas Network
- Winter Farmers' Market starting up
- Councillor Yancey - a voice in the wilderness
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Highlights on Events in Greater Uphams Corner
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Location: Dudley Adult Literacy Center
At the Dudley Branch Library
65 Warren Street, Roxbury, MA 02119
Dates:
- Thursday, January 20th 1PM
- Tuesday, March 8th 5PM
- Friday, April 8th 9:30AM
- Tuesday, June 7th 1PM
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Grow Well Eat Well - The Food Project Workshops
Jan - April 2013
 This
winter and early spring, plan to exercise your green thumb and your
growing interest in ethnic cooking by attending The Food Project
workshops.
Grow Well Gardening Workshops are held at the Dudley Greenhouse while
the Eat Well Cooking Workshops are at The Food Project Kitchen.
Learn how to plan your garden, have an indoor garden, grow from seeds
and getting an early start. Cooking will introduce Chinese,
Guyanese and Cape Verdean styles.
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Featured from Prior Issues
From the Editor's Desk:
Save the Casey Overpass and Preserve the Sense
of Village
 Dec 13, 2012
The Casey Overpass has been in the design stages for at least 1.5 years
and a design has been selected. The train is moving down the tracks and
is unlikely to change direction. That doesn't mean that alternative
ideas aren't still important to put out onto the table.
It is from a sense of nostalgia on how much freedom and how many
looking glass options the Casey Overpass provided my family growing
up. It is also from an abhorrence of the California Highway look
that bends our position in favor of rebuilding the Casey Overpass into
a modern, useful and structure that seeks to serve all segments of the
population.
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Upham's Corner InSight into the News
Santa Claus says He plans to carry a Gun
Dec 23, 2012
 Santa had
agreed to meet with UC News - an exclusive - traveling all
the way from the North Pole down to Uphams Corner - to talk about his
happy life in the 21st-century.
But when he arrived, it didn't take him long to make a pronouncement:
"'Enough is Enough. I am going to use guns to protect myself and my Sleigh."
Why
has Santa's life and his love - making kids smile with gifts - turned to a
reliance on weapons? Santa describes his reasons in detail then
does a double-take.
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A New Hallelujah Dedicated to All those who have been Lost to Violence
Dec 24, 2012
Sandy Hook Elementary is forever emblazoned on our memories as a place
of suffering and mourning. 'A Christmas Hallelujah' is a new work
celebrating the birth of Jesus but written within the context of
pain.
We remember all those who have died at the hands of violence. Based on
Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, 'A Christmas Hallelujah' retains the
original melancholic tune and song structure but adds new lyrics.
The "story" of the new hallelujah includes a retrospective look at
Sandy Hook, "The Voice" singing Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen and his 1984
creation and the new lyrics.
"A Christmas Hallelujah" reaches out to everyone who has lost a loved one
to violence and especially to those whose lives have been forever
altered by December 14. This work is also part of the continuing
celebration of the 150th anniversary of Pilgrim Church.
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For Newtown: "Rights of Passage" Missing from the Conversation
Dec 23, 2012
From guest writer Shannon Flattery: "Beyond the need for so many
to come together to end the kind of violence witnessed in Newtown, CT,
there is one discussion that I've not seen."
Her focus is on the "Rights of Passage" tradition which she says is
missing from our culture. Yes, there are "showy" teen-year
rituals glorified with extravagant expenditures of money, but a real
test of our young people's gifts and abilities, an authentic induction
into adulthood? No.
Consider, she says, this African proverb: "If we fail to initiate
our youth into the center of the tribe, they will burn down the village
just to feel the heat."
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Love Tones add a Note of Grace to the Christmas Season
Dec 23, 2012
The Love Tones blessed Pilgrim Church on Sunday, December 23, 2012 with an hour long
concert of traditional gospel and spiritual music. Ministering with
words of healing and encouragement, their singing offered distinctly
graceful notes to the Christmas Season.
Their almost non-stop singing included many favorites: Steal
Away, Walk with Jesus, Break Bread Together and familiar Christmas
carols.
Love Tones has produced two CD's - Jubilee and Standing on the Rock.
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Corridor-Wide Advisory Group (CAG) responds to Globe article on
Transportation Inequity
Dec 14, 2012
The
Fairmount Indigo Planning Intiative (FIPI) is a two year BRA study
announced in February 2012 by Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino. The
planning initiative will identify corridor wide opportunities for
commercial and
residential development, transit access, public realm enhancements, and
community building initiatives.
Members of a corridor-wide advisory group (CAG), working with the BRA
and the consultants, are mindful of transportation equity issues such
as fair fares,
expanded daily service and increasing the number of station
areas.
The Boston Globe's 11/25/12 article: 'Black Commuters Face Longer Trips
to Workl' energized members of the CAG to respond enthusiastically with a "Letter to the
Boston Globe Editor."
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Hyde Jackson Square Main Street Open House - Great Success
Dec 6, 2012
 The
Dec 6, 2012 Holiday Open House was the first Hyde Jackson Square Main
Street event since Gerald Robbins took over in late July,
2012.
Held at Gail's Cafe, 268 Centre St, the event seemed almost boisterous.
People were laughing, trading stories and eating spicy chicken, pasta
with broccoli, sauteed tangy potatoes, meat balls in meat sauce, salad
and spinach pie. Just excellent.
Mr. Robbins has already introduced himself to 130 of the 139 businesses
along this long and interesting "Main Street." He encourages
everyone to drop by and get to know him and the Main Street program.
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Boston Natural Areas Network Helping Community Gardens to Prepare for
Winter
Dec 21, 2012
 Community
leaders manage community gardens but Boston Natural Areas Network (BNAN
- they own the property) works to support the gardeners' efforts. Best
practices that promote the best gardens and relationships with the
surrounding neighbors is part of the BNAN staff effort.
Recently they created "Best Practices for Closing Down Gardens for the
Winter," which you might think would be obvious but they are not.
WIth its focus on safety, protection of tools, equipment and
infrastructure, gardening best practices can be learned but hopefully
with BNAN procedures, not the hard way.
Boston Natural Areas Network is sharing their procedures with
EVERYONE. We all have a lot to learn because the new normal is
LOCAL.
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Community Letters to the Problem Properties Task Force
December 14, 2012
Bakersfield Street (27-37) recently came under the radar of the Problem
Properties Task Force (PPTF). Despite concerted efforts on the part of
the Task Force to effect a property "turnaround" by working with the owner,
the City was forced to escalate its enforcement efforts including six weeks of 24
hour police coverage.
The PPTF levied a fine of $24k against the property owner and she is appealing.
Residents have responded with at least two letters in support of the
PPTF's decision because of how much harm was done to their community
through her negligence. One is from the McCormack Civic
Association and the second, from the Uphams Corner Improvement
Association.
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McCormack Civic Supports Problem Properties Task Force
Dec 4, 2012
The Executive Board of the John W. McCormack Civic Association
supports the Problem Properties Task Force for actions taken on the
Bakersfield Arms property and urges them to reject the landlord's
appeal. The landlord's actions came only after the city instituted
extreme measures to highlight the issues and protect the area residents.
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UCIA Letter of Support for the Problem Properties Task Force
Dec 12, 2012
The Uphams Corner Improvement Association supports actions taken by the
Problem Properties Task Force (PPTF) on Bakersfield Arms.
Based on the property owner's slow, negligent and many month response
to City of Boston requests, UCIA believes that the actions taken by the
PPTF on behalf of the residents living near the property were
appropriate and necessary for effecting change. We ask that you
do not rescind the fines levied for City services rendered.'
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