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| Free Program for Seniors |
 Are you 60+ and want to:
- Learn more healthy recipes?
- Get in better shape?
- Volunteer in the community?
- Just have fun and meet new people?
Dynamic Seniors in Action offers FREE Healthy Cooking Workshops, Fitness Groups, and Volunteer Opportunities. Come for your first cooking class and learn more about the program! If you miss it today, come to the next session Mar. 18!
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| How to Purchase Foreclosed Property |
This seminar is designed for buyers interested in buying property at pre and post foreclosure sales. Topics covered include short sales, auctions, and buying property from a lender (REO).
The seminar provides direction in preparing the buyer for the process, selecting a team of real estate professionals to assist with the purchase, and tips on making the process more understandable.
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| Free Boston Ballet Performance |
 Boston Ballet, in partnership with the Mayor's Office of Arts and Tourism and Special Events, and Boston Public Schools, present two free, interactive performances featuring Boston Ballet company dancers, Boston Ballet II dancers, and Boston Ballet School students at The Strand Theatre.
The performances, developed specifically for The Strand Theatre, will feature a dynamic program of contemporary dance, classical ballet, and new works created for The Strand Theatre.
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| Ashmont Nursery School Benefit |
Come and join the friends and family of the Ashmont Nursery School for a night of food, fun and entertainment. Bid in silent and live auctions for wonderful items donated by local businesses and individuals.
Enjoy music, free food, cash bar.
Free admission!
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| Free Play: Caribbean Folklore |
 Quintessence Edutainment presents: "A Walk with Nanny: A Journey Through Caribbean Folklore" a fun 45-minute educational and highly interactive play. Unique, emphasizing core values, tradition, responsibility, leadership, teamwork, overcoming the loss of family, all while giving a brief history lesson.
This is a storytelling adventure with song, dance, and drumming centered on traditions and values. FREE.
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| Burning Ideas: Fahrenheit 451 |
This is one installment in a series of events at the Adams Street Library about freedom, censorship, and the free expression of thought.
The 1966 film Fahrenheit 451, directed by Francois Truffaut, is based on the 1951 Ray Bradbury novel. Guy Montag is a firefighter who lives in a lonely, isolated society where books have been outlawed by a government fearing an independent-thinking public. It is the duty of firefighters to burn any books on sight.
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| Dorchester Day Committee Meeting |
The Dorchester Day Parade Committee meetings are held Monday nights.
Meetings are scheduled for March 15, April 12, and May 17.
Meetings are open to all, and residents are encouraged to attend and pitch in on the planning.
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| 2010 Youth Work Intensive Conference |
 Health Resources in Action hosts an annual conference at UMass Boston, Youth Work Intensive, for youth workers. The Youth Work Intensive, or YWI, brings together over 250 youth workers to gain knowledge and skills to serve young people more effectively. With over 30 different workshops and youth workers from all over the region, this is a fantastic networking event for youth workers in the region. March 15-16, 2010.
Registration is filling fast, ACT NOW!
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| Bowdoin-Geneva Main Streets Breakfast |
 Bowdoin-Geneva Main Streets is hosting a Business Networking Breakfast at Restaurante Cesaria. Only five dollars per person!
The Keynote speaker will be Ed Merritt of Mt. Washington Bank and Councilors Maureen Feeney and Charles Yancey will give us their vision for the district for '2010'. You will partake of a sumptuous breakfast while networking with a group of your peers and having your concerns addressed.
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| Hampstead Players Present The Secret Garden |
 Join us on an adventure into the classic tale of The Secret Garden at Lower Mills Branch Library. Please register with Ms. Maija. Free! Geared for Kindergarten - 8th Grade.
Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden is an enchanting story about a young orphan girl, Mary Lennox, who comes to live with her uncle in the English countryside. Through her curiosity and determination, Mary finds a garden filled with memories, that has been locked for years. Her youth and enthusiasm breathe life into each character she meets, bringing love back into the family.
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| Gotcha Youth Job Fair |
Learn about youth job opportunities in the City of Boston on Mar 17 at the Bird Street Community Center, 500 Columbia Rd, Dorchester.
Make sure you register with the HOPELINE by Mar 16.
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| Free Flu Clinics This Week |
 The following Boston flu clinics are free and are now open to the General Public. Get your H1N1 or seasonal flu vaccine to ward off that sickness in advance!
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| Seekers of Knowledge Presents 3rd Annual Spelling Bee |
 Participate in the Third Annual Spelling Bee on Friday, March 19. The Spelling Bee is for girls ages 6-12 years old. There will be three age categories for the spelling bee and winners: Ages 6 & 7, Ages 8-10, and Ages 11 & 12.
If you are interested in participating in the 2010 Spelling Bee please contact Cynthia Gaines @ 617-379-2421 or Dawn Martin at Codman Square Tech Center. Please leave a message if no one answers.
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Highlighted DotWell Programs
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| Community Health Careers Internships at DotWell |
 Looking for an internship? Want to jumpstart your career? Apply to be a community health ambassador in DotWell's summer internship program.
The DotWell Community Health Careers Internship Program (CHCIP) is a 7-week youth workforce development program that will introduce youth ages 15-17 to careers in the community health sector.
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| Does Your Organization Need Volunteers? |
 Do you work or serve with an organization that needs volunteers? We at SCI Dorchester @ DotWell are here to help connect your organization with potential volunteers as part of our mission to promote civic engagement in Dorchester.
For more information, call SCI Dorchester at 617-822-8296 or email Lauren Anderson.
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| Support DotWell's DFSI Marathon Team |
It's that time of year again and DotWell is excited to support the 114th Boston Marathon on April 19th, 2010!
Kathy Gorman, DotWell's Diabetes Initiative Program Manager, David Mark, Codman Square Health Center's doctor in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, and David Jesser, teacher at the Lee School are all running to support the Dorchester FAMILY School Initiative (DFSI) at DotWell.
To help support our team, please click the "Donate Now" link below and select the runner you'd like to support under the "Program Designation" tab. Thank you for your interest in DFSI and our marathon team!
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| Have DotWell Prepare Your Taxes for Free |
 DotWell, in partnership with the Boston EITC Coalition, will professionally prepare your taxes for FREE if you worked and earned less than $49,000 this year. Free tax clinics take place at the Codman Square Tech Center, 450 Washington Street, Dorchester, and at Dorchester House Multi-Service Center, 1353 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester.
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| Nominate a Business to Be Our Business of the Month |
We are accepting nominations for April's business of the month for Mydorchester.org.
In an effort to support local business, especially those businesses who give to the Dorchester community, MyDorchester features a local business each month! Businesses are selected based on three criteria: contribution to the Dorchester community, quality of service/product, and being locally owned in Dorchester. If you know of a business that meets these criteria, email us with your reasons why the business should be nominated. |
| The DotBoard: Job Postings, Opportunities & More |
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| Save the Date! |
Fri. Mar. 19: Seekers of Knowledge Presents 3rd Annual Spelling Bee
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Sat. Mar. 20: Taste of Ireland
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Sat. Mar. 20: St. Ann's Color Guard Fundraiser
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Mon. Mar. 22: The Big Read Monday Movie Matinee: The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
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Wed. Mar. 24: Dinosaur Club
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Thurs. Mar. 25: UMass Community Breakfast
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Thurs. Mar. 25: Teen Trivia Night - Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
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Thurs. Mar. 25: Annual Meatloaf Dinner - Dorchester Day Fundraiser ---
Please check our regularly updated Calendar for lots of other events! |
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MyDorchester Photo Contest |
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Congratulations again to Michael Mulyk for identifying last week's photo as First Parish Church of Dorchester.
Can you be the first to identify where in Dorchester this photograph was taken? Be the first to identify and have your name entered into a drawing for a free print!
Want to know where the past Photos of the Week were taken? Visit our Archive. |
| Dorchester Flashback |
 Dorchester Illustration of the Week
Here we have a photograph from 1903 of the interior of Pilgrim Church in Upham's Corner, published in Services of Dedication & Commemoration.
"On the evening of November 2, 1862, during the troubled days of the Civic War, sixteen persons met at the home of the Rev. Edmund Squire in Dorchester and united themselves together into what they described as 'an unsectarian Church of Jesus Christ.' This humble beginning has grown into what we now know as Pilgrim Church." - Pilgrim Church Website
"The [physical] foundations of a new church were begun in November, 1888, at 540 Columbia Road, but following Rev. Ballantine's resignation, there was a delay in the construction until Rev. Allbright began his pastorate. Finished in 1892 to a design by Stephen Earle, the Pilgrim Church is in the Romanesque Revival style."
- Dorchester Historical Society The Illustration of the Day is sent out via email by Earl Taylor of the Dorchester Historical Society. If you would like to get these daily images, please visit this site and join the group. Questions? Call 781-272-6700. |
SCI Dorchester's mission is to strengthen the Dorchester community by connecting diverse individuals and organizations through civic engagement initiatives. We envision a community where individuals are strongly connected to their neighbors and play an active role in shaping the destiny of our community. This increase in 'social capital' will result in a community that is safer, healthier and more vital. For more information click here.
The mission of DotWell is to work in collaboration with our founding health center partners - Codman Square Health Center and Dorchester House Multi-Service Center -
to provide integrated clinical and community services that address
health disparities, build social capital, and meet the complex needs of
our communities.
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