| Spring Clean-Up at Franklin Park |
 Join your park neighbors and stewards for a morning of clearing invasive plants, picking up litter and making Franklin Park tidy for all to enjoy. Bring work gloves and tools if you have them.
Donuts to start the day! Meet at Valley Gates parking lot.
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| Boston's Very First Fair Trade Crawl |
 Fair Trade Boston, a campaign of the Boston Faith & Justice Network, is organizing Boston's first Fair Trade Crawl across fifteen locations in Boston to celebrate World Fair Trade Day on Saturday, May 8. Each location will offer Fair Trade-related promotions & discounts, food sampling, entertainment and educational offerings and much more!
Participating Locations In and Around Dorchester:
*Flat Black Coffee Company, 1906 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester
*Haley House Bakery and Cafe, 12 Dade Street, Roxbury
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| My Family, My Community & Me |
 Attend a free interactive community event that will unearth the many issues that we face as a community of color.
Several guests involved, including Daniel Rivers, Nexus Alliance; Scotland Willis, Clear Strategies Consulting; Conan Harris, StreetSafe Boston; Dr. Ingrid Tucker, Mother Caroline Academy; Lakenya Johnson, F.A.M.I.L.Y. Movement; Jamoul (Celey) Muhammad, INROADS; Ashley Rose Salomon, Poet.
Free event, open to the public!
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| Youth Peace Conference: Think Outside the Block |
 On Saturday, May 8, 2010, some 700 Boston youth will come together at Teen Empowerment's 18th annual Youth Peace Conference, Think Outside the Block, Change is Around the Corner, at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School, 60 Washington St., Dorchester.
The Boston youth organizing the conference will call on those in attendance to stop fighting one another and instead focus their energies on fighting to preserve funding for youth jobs, teen programs and quality education. The event will feature speeches and rap and poetry performances by teens interspersed with an original play. There will be opportunities for youth to offer ideas for solutions to pressing community issues and to sign on to campaigns to take action on those issues.
*Food*Ice-Cream*Theatre*Poetry*Dance
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| 14th Annual Mother's Day Walk for Peace |
 Are you upset about youth violence in Boston, but not sure how to help?
Every year, people from across the state gather to participate in the annual 3.6 mile Louis D. Brown Peace Institute Mother's Day Walk for Peace. Among those walking are elected officials, law enforcement professionals, neighbors, clergy, educators, advocates, family members and friends of people who've been murdered. The Walk is one way to show that people care.
How You Can Help:
*Walk with the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute! Create a team or set your own personal goal. Ask family, friends, co-workers, neighbors and classmates to sponsor you. >>MORE INFO |
| Safe City Unity Basketball League: My Dorchester Night |
 Safe City Unity Basketball League Game, Parent Night.
This Monday, May 10th, 2010 from 3:30pm - 8pm at the Dorchester House Multi-Service Center Gym. Free!
Free Raffle for Gift Certificates to Dorchester Businesses!
Featuring:
Teen-created PSAs Against Bullying Sign Up for DotWell Volunteer Program
Learn About AmeriCorps Programs and SCI Dorchester @ DotWell
Learn New Ways to Use Mydorchester.org
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| Exhibition of Photographs from a Dorchester Neighborhood |
 Keiko Hiromi's "Monadnock Street," a series of black and white photographs on view during the week of May 10 to May 14 at Doric Hall in the Massachusetts State House, features photographs of neighborhood residents, many of them first and second generation immigrants living in Dorchester, MA, where Hiromi also lives.
Her raw, yet sensitive photographs show the daily lives of the people who live on Monadnock Street. This series has also been exhibited at the Brookline Arts Center. Sponsored by State Representative Marie St. Fleur, 5th Suffolk District.
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| Learn to Make Helen's Lace Pie Wedge Shawl |
 FREE - Chelsea's project for May was group-inspired during an April evening at Stitch House. Learn to knit "Helen's Lace Pie Wedge Shawl" - a light-as-air semi-circular shawl in Lorna's Laces beautiful Helen's Lace, a silk and wool blend. After you've completed it, you'll have a gorgeous light shawl perfect for fending off air conditioning chill and cool Boston evenings!
The workshop is free but Stitch House hopes you'll support a local business and purchase your yarn at the store (pattern calls for a US 8 needle). You should know how to knit and purl. Check out the stunning blue-green model in the store and reserve your seat!
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| Don't Spot the Dot PSA Contest: Win $750 |
 Did you know food containers, chip bags, and plastic bottles will not decompose in your lifetime?
The Dorchester Youth Council invites youth to help bring awareness to the litter problem in the community, help increase public knowledge of the impacts of litter and provide ways everyone can make a difference in keeping Dorchester litter-free.
The Dorchester Youth Council will now be accepting print PSAs (including posters, comic strips, photograph PSAs, or radio PSAs) in addition to video PSAs. Also, due to a generous donation of $1000 from SCI ( Social Capital Inc.), the Dorchester Youth Council will award three cash prizes.
· First Place: $750
· Second Place: $450
· Third Place: $300
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| Save the Date! |
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Sat. May 15: Little Miss Dorchester Competition
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Sun. May 16: Boston City Singers Concert
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Sat. May 22: Franklin Park Walk & Draw for Artists
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Sat. May 22: Dining on Main Street Walk
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Sun. May 23: Boston Children's Chorus's "Kids Can..."
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Sun. Jun. 6: Dorchester Day
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MyDorchester Photo Contest |
Congratulations to Irene Duff for correctly guessing last week's photo as the Pierce House on Oakton Avenue. The participation in our contest continues to grow, so be sure to get in your guesses as soon as you can! Here is this week's photo. Can you identify where it was taken?
 Want to know where the past Photos of the Week were taken? Visit our Archive. |
| Dorchester Flashback | |
Postcard image of Codman Square from 1909. Caption on front: Dorchester, Mass. Codman Square and Public Library. On verso: The Hugh C. Leighton Co., Manufacturers, Portland, ME USA 27884. Made in Germany.
Postmarked Dec 21, 1909. Essex Street Station. With one cent stamp. Click the image for a larger version.
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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