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Cancelled due to Weather - DotBike Giveaway 
The Ashmont Cycles Wednesday night ride group is meeting for the last time this season and will be giving away blinky lights to Dorchester riders. After the meeting, the bikers will choose a couple of locations to spend some time handing out the lights then spend some time socializing. | |
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Board of Trade's 100 Year Anniversary
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The Dorchester Board of Trade will be having its 100th birthday this week, and to celebrate, Dorchester will recognize some of the neighborhood's longest-standing businesses and gear up for another successful century. Fitzpatrick Brothers Corp.,
an autobody on Centre Street, is one of several Dorchester Businesses that is at least 100 years old!
The event will take place at Port Norfolk's Venezia Restaurant and will highlight some
of the neighborhood's oldest businesses - Dolan Funeral Home, Keaney Funeral Home, D.J. Cutter Oil Heating, and Fitzpatrick Brother's Auto Body Repair. Organizers also hope to draw newer businesses into their network and present a unified voice for Dorchester's large business community - 3,500 strong!
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Dorchester Open Studios
 This year, the event will take place the weekend of October 22nd, with an opening reception on the 21st. The event will feature over 70 artists exhibiting in 14 different locations, including: First Parish Church, Pearl Street Studios, Humphreys Street Studio, The Boston Home, and The Great Hall in Codman Square. There will be poetry and fiction readings at Pilgrim Congregational Church in Upham's Corner, and film screenings at the auditorium in Carney Hospital. | |
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Pink and Black Free Workshop 
Pink isn't the only color associated with Breast Cancer. Did you know that breast cancer is the most common cancer amongBlack women? Pink and Black Ambassadors are breast cancer patients and survivors who wish to end this health disparity by speaking out about prevention, treatment and survivorship. Pink & Black are hosting a FREE workshop at Codman Square Health Center with the first TEN participants receive a Pink & Black hat!
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Re-Opening of Martin Playground 
Welcome back a new and improved playground to Dorchester! The Martin Playground has undergone a $374,000 renovation in the last year. Mayor Menino will join Dorchester residents to celebrate the re-opening of the playground. The event will include face-painting, live music, refreshments, and fun. The playground now has two age-appropriate structures, a new drinking fountain, and improved fencing and shade structures.
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| Pumpkin Float @ Pope John Paul II Park | |
Bring your carved jack-o-lanterns to Pope John Paul II Park and watch them float in Davenport Creek, at the 10th Annual Great Pumpkin Float! Children and adults are welcome, and all are encouraged to wear Halloween costumes. Bring a 6 - 8 inch pumpkin that has been carved at home. Jack-o-lanterns can be no larger than 8 inches, or else they will not float. You will be provided with a float and a candle for your jack-o-lantern.
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DotBike Tour of Open Studios
Join DotBike for the annual Public Bike Tour of Dorchester Open Studios! The tour will be 8 miles of biking taken at a relaxed pace with several brief stops to view some great outdoor art! Helmets are required. A map of the events, locations, and times can be found here.
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$5 Food Challenge
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Think healthy, delicious cooking has to be expensive? The Dorchester Community Food Co-op invites you to the $5 Healthy Dish Challenge! Bring a $5 dish to this Potluck Dinner that can serve 2 - 4 people, using only $5 of ingredients. Show off your creation and share it with friends and neighbors!
Think you're the best cook in Dorchester? Prove it! Enter your dish in the contest component of the $5 Healthy Dish Challenge. Dorchester Comedian Debra Farrar-Parkman will lead a panel of Dorchester Restaurant Chefs in choosing the tastiest $5 dish entered into the contest.
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DotOUT Harvest Mixer
Join DotOUT on Saturday, October 23rd for the 2nd Annual Harvest Lounge Mixer at Savin Hill Bar & Kitchen. It will be just before Halloween, and immediately follow the city council election forum. There will be fall refreshments and tasty snacks to go around! Step out in your fall colors and help raise money for "It Gets Better." Everyone who comes gets a chance to win something from a cornucopia of door prizes - including gift cards / certificates to your favorite local restaurants!
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| Boston Alliance Networking Event | |
The Boston Alliance for Community Health brings together neighborhood coalitions and other public health and community partners to create a healthy Boston through data-driven, evidence-based health planning and improvement initiatives on the neighborhood and city-wide levels. On October 24th, they will be hosting a networking event with a continental breakfast and a chance to network with other organizations addressing health issues in Boston!
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| Community Wide Meeting |
 The Dorchester Civic Associations are hosting a Community Wide meeting on Wednesday, October 26th. The meeting will start with the Boston Police providing an update on the recent spate of community wide crimes. The Candidates portion of the meeting will commence afterwards. Click on the link below to find location and time. ALL are welcome and encouraged to attend!
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Groundbreaking @ Codman Health Center 
On Wednesday, you are invited to join Mayor Menino and members of the Dorchester Community at a groundbreaking ceremony and reception to celebrate the expansion of Codman Square Health Center and Codman Academy! The event is a very exciting moment for healthcare and education in Codman Square. To find more about the event and how to RSVP click on the link below.
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| JVS Bridges to College |
JVS Bridges to College is now recruiting students for its next classes (morning and evening) which begin on January 23, 2012. We serve immigrants as well as people born in the U.S.
The basic requirements remain the same: 18+, high school diploma or GED, a high level of English (since there will be both native and non-native speakers of English in the same classes), and the commitment to go to college in 2012.
Our cycles will be longer (23 weeks) to allow students more time to improve their English and math skills as well as to gain more personal readiness, career readiness, and general college knowledge.
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SCI Online Auction
On October 19, SCI's fall online auction will be going "live". This auction is chocked-full of great prizes! Take your family away on any one of the fabulous vacations for a steal of a deal, win gift cards to give out at the holidays, win event tickets and
memorabilia - like an autographed Steven Tyler guitar! This is an auction you don't want to miss out on. You could literally get your holiday shopping done early, while donating to a great nonprofit - SCI.
To win some great prizes at really great prices, visit our auction here.
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Calling All Volunteers!!
If you are interested in giving your time to a worthy cause and work towards a greater good please do not hesitate to contact the MyDorchester.org Volunteer Coordinator by emailing volunteer@mydorchester.org, or calling 617.822.8296.
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Send Us Your Photos for the MyDorchester Photo Contest!
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If you have photos of unique Dorchester outdoor artwork, monuments, you name it, email eblast@mydorchester.org with your pictures of Dorchester and their locations so we can keep the photo contest up and running. We'll credit you as the author, of course.
Want to know where the past Photos of the Week were taken? Visit our Archive.
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Dorchester Flashback
 Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1650 Church of the Holy Spirit
The Church of the Holy Spirit was a mission of All Saints' Church in the 1880s. It was during George Bennitt's tenure that All Saints' began services in Mattapan, which later resulted in the establishment of the Church of the Holy Spirit, the only mission of All Saints' to become a parish. Father Bennitt went to Mattapan because Annie Rotch offered to assist in the work there. In April 1895 fourteen communicants were set off from All Saints' to Mattapan. The Church building was given by Annie Lawrence Lamb in memory of her father Benjamin Rotch. It is Dorchester's second stone Gothic Revival church and was designed by Arthur Rotch to draw the puddingstone of the church and the grounds into a rural ensemble sensitive to the topography of the site. The Church of the Holy Spirit is the first recorded association of Ralph Adams Cram with church architecture, for he was an apprentice in Rotch's office and drew sketches of the church. Twenty-five years later, after he designed All Saints', Ashmont, and after he had become perhaps the most eminent ecclesiastical architect in the United States, Cram designed the parish house next to Rotch's church.
If you would like to receive a historical image via daily e-mail, please
join the Dorchester Historical Society's group by joining this google group. You may also want to contactEarl Taylor
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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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