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FRIENDS OF THE NORTH END LIBRARY FUND RAISER!

TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE
DON'T MISS OUT!!

Please join us at the first annual Friends of the NE Library Fund
Raiser.  To be held on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at the Battery
Fairmont Hotel from 7-9 pm.

Tickets:   $40 each - cash bar.  Advance sale only through Friday,
February 12, 2010.  Tickets are available at the library or by
contacting Jane Connolly - janeandjimconnolly@comcast.net  or Lisa LeBlanc - leblanc.lisa@gmail.com.  They may also be purchased from one of the following:
    Robin Ardito, Christine Bergstrom, Peter Greene, Paula Luccio,
Donna Wells, Phyllis Vitti, Lauren Wolf or Pam Knight

We appreciate the support from our friends and neighbors!  With all
the budget cuts across the City this year, our North End Library needs our help.

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Citi Performing Arts Center City Spotlights Neighborhood Ensembles (4 Boston neighborhoods, including North End)

Are you between the ages of 11 and adult? Want to work with the largest theatre in Boston to help shine a spotlight on your community? Interested in having fun and performing on the Shubert Theatre stage? Citi Performing Arts Center is now accepting registration forms for spring City Spotlights Neighborhood Ensembles taking place Wednesday and Thursday evenings from March 22 - May 15, 2010.

Neighborhood Ensembles will rehearse and create an original theatre piece in Beacon Hill & Back Bay, Fenway, North End and Mission Hill/Roxbury. You do not need to reside in one of these communities to join and all levels of experience are welcome. Please contact Anthony Victoria at avictoria@citicenter.org to register.

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Friday
29Jan2010

Fire at Bricco - 241 Hanover Street

Boston Fire Department tweets about tonight's fire at 241 Hanover Street, at the Bricco Restaurant. (Tweets in reverse time order.)

Boston Fire Dept. BostonFire Fire is out. Companies starting to make up their equipment at 7:50 pm

 Boston Fire Dept. BostonFire Building is 4 stories with the restaurant on the first floor. Incident Commander calls for a City Food Inspector to the scene. 
 Boston Fire Dept. BostonFire Response to 241 Hanover St. in the North End at 7:28 pm for a fire in the vent of the restaurant Bricco.  

Boston FD Local 718 LOCAL_718 UPDATE: BOX 1221 CMD RPTS FIRE IN VENT OF REST ALL COS WORKING

 Boston FD Local 718 LOCAL_718 BOX 1221 STRUCK FOR 239 HANOVER ST L1 REQ BOX FOR FIRE IN BLDG

There was also a fire in October 2009 at this building on the roof with $300,000 of estimated damages.

Friday
29Jan2010

Greenway Conservancy Meeting Agenda for February 2, 2010

Friday
29Jan2010

North End/Waterfront Police Blotter

Highlighted incidents from this week's Boston Police Journal Log:

Larceny in a Building
01/23/10          1:00am
Victim reports his laptop was stolen from inside his Salem St. kitchen, by an unknown person who was over his house visiting.

Assault & Battery
01/23/10          9:20pm
Victim reports the known male suspect punched her in the face in the hallway of her Thatcher St. building. Victim declined medical attention at this time.

View the entire police blotter (pdf).

Thursday
28Jan2010

Neighborhood Theater Ensembles Being Organized

Citi Performing Arts Center City Spotlights Neighborhood Ensembles (4 Boston neighborhoods, including North End)

Are you between the ages of 11 and adult? Want to work with the largest theatre in Boston to help shine a spotlight on your community? Interested in having fun and performing on the Shubert Theatre stage? Citi Performing Arts Center is now accepting registration forms for spring City Spotlights Neighborhood Ensembles taking place Wednesday and Thursday evenings from March 22 - May 15, 2010.

Neighborhood Ensembles will rehearse and create an original theatre piece in Beacon Hill & Back Bay, Fenway, North End and Mission Hill/Roxbury. You do not need to reside in one of these communities to join and all levels of experience are welcome. Please contact Anthony Victoria at avictoria@citicenter.org to register.

Thursday
28Jan2010

Family Dinner To Be Sponsored by North End Against Drugs

North End Against Drugs will have another Family Dinner/Family Talk on Monday February 8th at 5:15pm at the Nazzaro Center. All North End/Waterfront Families are invited to attend. Once again dinner will be prepared by Mary and Frank Romano. There will be pasta, meatballs, sausages, salad and bread and Butter along with dessert and soda. The event will feature a speaker who is not yet determined. This event is free and is sponsored the a grant received from the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority. It is also supported by NSTAR Electric Company, NEAD's Corporate Sponsor. Special Thanks to Carl Ameno and the Nazzaro Community Center.
 
Please RSVP by Friday Feb 5th to John Romano at patjr@comcast.net. Space is limited. All family members are invited including grandparents, however all adults must be accompanied by their children or grandchildren and all children must be accompanied by their parents/grandparents. We will have a small raffle, we will have 3 prizes - Jason Varitek Bobble Head Doll, Kevin Garnett Collectors Figure and a Fenway Park Winter Classic Commemorative Scarf - all prizes were donated by Sports Images.
  

Thursday
28Jan2010

Extra Help at North End Branch Library

The North End Library is offering a special program where local high school students offer children help with homework, research or even just to interact and read with them.

A student named Siji, from the Commonwealth School in the Back Bay comes on Tuesdays and her colleague, Alexander, comes on Thursdays. The hours are 3:30 - 5:30.

On Wednesdays, there is Carrie, a teacher from the Boston Public Schools, who is available to help students between 4-6 p.m.  

They are available to help in ALL subject areas, and ALL students, no matter where they attend school (public, private, or parochial).  They are very happy to talk and interact with children of all ages!  The North End Branch Library is at 25 Parmenter Street. Call 617-227-8135 for more information.

Tuesday
26Jan2010

More Help for Haiti

Sal LaMattina
Boston City Councilor, District 1

Friends…

I am humbled by the response that came from you after the call went out for bottled water to send to Haiti. Some 2,500 cases were delivered to the shipyard in East Boston, most from neighborhood residents and civic groups. I’ve been told that the vessel’s departure is now scheduled for this Friday, and therefore there is time for more donations -- specifically, baby formula and medical supplies are needed.

Let us make another concerted push here to send help directly to the Haitian people in their hours and days of need. If you could bring these items to the Boston Harbor Shipyard & Marina at the end of Marginal Street in East Boston, your efforts would be greatly appreciated. If you have questions you can reach the shipyard manager, Dan Noonan, at 617-567-8200 or 781-953-6786.

Again, I thank you for your compassion and generosity in the wake of this terrible catastrophe.

Sincerely,

Salvatore LaMattina
District 1 City Councilor

Monday
25Jan2010

North End Cleanliness Tip Sheet

The Clean Streets Committee has released an updated version of the North End Cleanliness Tip Sheet, a guide for residents on Street Sweeping, Residential Trash, Recycling, Daily Cleanliness and Snow Removal. Click the image below to enlarge or view the PDF version.

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View the PDF version of the Cleanliness Tip Sheet.

Monday
25Jan2010

Italian Program at Caffe Paradiso

Ciao a Tutti!!
There are 3 separate courses being offered at Caffe Paradiso on Hanover Street beginning soon that are dedicated solely to "Independent and Proficient" speakers of Italian.

The courses are as follows:
1. Intermediate (B2) - Literature and Advanced Grammar 1 (Thursday evenings)
2. Upper Intermediate (C1) - Literature and Advanced Grammar 2 (Sunday afternoons)
3. Advanced (C2) - Italian Film and Advanced Topics (Sunday afternoons)

* The exact times of these 3 classes will be determined soon, and will partly depend on student's availability. The details of these 3 "upper level" courses will be discussed at an orientation meeting that is scheduled to be held this weekend in the downstairs "classroom" of Caffe Paradiso at 255 Hanover Street. The orientation for these classes will take place on SUNDAY, JANUARY 24 FROM 4:00-5:00......after which an Italian movie 'Mio fratello e`figlio unico' will be shown on a huge screen for those in attendance
to enjoy.

Please note that this meeting is ONLY being scheduled for those who are at least INTERMEDIATE speakers of Italian who want detailed information about the 3 Upper level courses being offered.

If anyone that has read this posting is interested in one of these courses, or at least in attending this Orientation meeting on Sunday, then I suggest you contact me as soon as possible at the following
email address: ITALIANPROGRAM@GMAIL.COM......and/or you call me at the following phone number: 617-233-9876.

Seating for the orientation will be limited to approximately 15 people and there are already 8-9 people expected to be there.
Thank you.
John

Sunday
24Jan2010

Part IV - LaMattina on Hanover St., Technology & "A Day in the Life"

This is the fourth and last in a series of articles from an interview with District 1 City Councilor Salvatore LaMattina following his recent inauguration. Councilor LaMattina is beginning his second full term representing the North End/Waterfront neighborhood as well as East Boston, Charlestown and parts of Beacon Hill & Downtown.
Click here to read Part I of this series.

Click here to read Part II of this series.
Click here to read Part III of this series.

Day in the Life of the District 1 City Councilor
LaMattina likes to be a hands-on councilor and is known for visiting houses to talk to constituents. "This is a full-time job and I am here everyday. I love going to the events. I love helping people and look forward to the phone calls from the neighborhoods." He wants to be known as accessible at City Hall and being visible in the neighborhoods. "I especially like visiting the seniors. They're great." (View a photo album of "A Day in the District.")

Technology
"I have a website that we will develop more this term."(www.SalLaMattina.com). The Councilor also has a Facebook page but does not Twitter as some of his other council members. LaMattina hopes to send out emails every 2 weeks informing the community about his activities. He supports the Mayor's initiatives to use technology to handle constituent requests and is developing similar systems for his own office to track the problems.
Hanover Street Initiative
LaMattina has chosen Hanover Street to be a special project during his second term. A few years ago, he proposed closing part of the street to vehicle traffic which received a negative neighborhood reaction and one of LaMattina's "lesson learned."

Along with State Representative Aaron Michlewitz, he hopes to get both State and City money to fund an independent evaluation of how to improve the famous street.

One possibility is making Hanover Street into a one-way street. "If you look at Hanover Street on busy weekends, people can't walk down the street, there is constant double-parking and its too noisy."

"I get upset when I see trucks delivering to restaurants after 12pm because it creates a mess. That's something we need to work on with the businesses."

Closing Thought
In closing, Councilor LaMattina summed up his message for his second term with "I can get things done." He encourages residents and businesses to contact his office and promises that every call and letter will receive a response.

Email: salvatore.lamattina@cityofboston.gov
Phone: 617-635-3200
Website: www.cityofboston.gov/citycouncil
Neighborhood Services: Kathy Carangelo-McIsaac: katherine.carangelo@cityofboston.gov

Thank you to Councilor LaMattina for granting this interview and taking the time to discuss the issues.

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