My Dorchester, Brought to you by SCI & DotWell
 
Wednesday, February 1 
2nd Annual Cupid Splash Kick-Off Party
Harpoon

Meet at Harpoon Brewery on Wednesday for the 2nd Annual Cupid Splash kick-off party! The Cupid Splash, sponsored by Save The Harbor / Save The Bay, will help raise funds to support the Better Beaches program. 

Click HERE for more information.

BYZ Summer Teen Employment Program  

Youth Zone

The Boston Youth Fund (BYF) provides thousands of Boston's teens 15 - 17 years of age with summer jobs. Earn money in jobs such as administrative assistants, mural painters, peer leaders and more! Click HERE for application guideline or further information on the program.

Thursday, February 2      
Get Your Dream Job: HR Secrets Revealed
Onein3

Human Resource professionals from all over Boston will teach participants the importance of personal branding, professional communication, and how to write a winning resume. Click HERE for more information.

MBTA MBTA Public Hearings
The MBTA is holding a series of public hearings on proposed fare hikes and service cuts which will affect local transit users, especially those in Dorchester.   Click HERE to learn more about the two meetings taking place this Thursday.
Friday, February 3      
VietAid Dinner on the Corner
Celebrate the New Year with Viet-AID at the Vietnamese American Community Association who will be hosting with food, drinks, and cultural performances! To RSVP, please click HERE.
Saturday, February 4   
Give Kids a Smile 
Kids Smile

Give Kids a Smile will be held at Codman Square Health Center this Saturday with dental staff volunteering their time to provide free dental care, including examinations, professional cleanings, fluoride treatments, sealants, restorations, oral surgery, and x-rays!  More information can be found HERE.

Black History Month @ Grove Hall Branch
Grove Hall Branch Grove Hall Library has several events lined up for Black History Month, beginning with Carolyn Roberts, a doctoral candidate at Harvard University, holding a discussion of the movie, The Help. Click HERE for dates and times of upcoming events.
Franklin Park Winter Festival
Winter Festival

Spend the afternoon sledding, snowshoeing, building snow people, and tracking animal prints at Franklin Park Coalition's Winter Snow Festival. Click HERE to find out when and where you sign up.

BPS Charter School Showcase
BPS Showcase

Join Boston Public Schools at their Charter School Showcase, where parents can learn about the schools with some of the best MCAS scores in the city and complete applications for next fall.  Click HERE for more information.
Sunday, February 5     
Winter Farmers' Market Continues
Farmers' Market
The Winter Farmers' Market will continue this Sunday with: Healthy Eating! This week Bowdoin Street Health Center sponsors, with acoustic songs from local musician Bethel Steele and massages from 1-3. Click HERE to learn more about this week's market.
February 1, 2012 
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In This Issue
2nd Annual Cupid Splash Kick-Off Party
BYZ Summer Teen Employment Program
Get Your Dream Job: HR Secrets Revealed
MBTA Public Hearings
Dinner on the Corner
Give Kids a Smile
Black History Month @ Grove Hall Branch
Franklin Park Winter Festival
BPS Charter School Showcase
Farmers' Market Continues
Readiness Roundtable
Food in the 'Hood Meeting
HOT in DOT
Photo Contest
Tips for Thriving Kids
Save the Date!
Dorchester Flashback
Wednesday, February 8  
Thrive in 5 Readiness Roundtable
Thrive in 5

Fields Corner Children Thrive/Dorchester Cluster invites parents, caregivers, community members and service providers to join the next Fields Corner Children Thrive School Readiness Roundtable. Click HERE to RSVP.

Food in the 'Hood Food in the 'Hood Meeting
Are you interested in helping to improve access to healthy food in the neighborhood through farmers' markets, community supported agriculture (CSA), urban agriculture, and healthy corner store initiatives? Click HERE for time and location of the second Food in the 'Hood meeting of 2012.
HOT in the DOT
FREE Tax Preparation @ DotWell Sites

As a member of the Boston Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Coalition, DotWell offers FREE tax preparation for hard working Dorchester families. Taxpayers who earned less than $50,000 in the previous tax year can have their taxes prepared for free and claim important tax credits such as the EITC. There are two DotWell sites currently providing this service.  MORE INFO

*If you are looking to assist and would like to volunteer with tax preparation, please contact Arjun Verma by either calling 617.822.8269, or emailing arjun.verma@dotwell.org*
 
IVSA Dreams Scholarships

Any graduating high school senior in New England who is of Vietnamese descent is eligible to apply for a $1,000 scholarship and $500 Vietnamese community scholarship.  Applications can be sent three separate ways, but must be done by March 8th.  MORE INFO


Union Carpenters' Apprenticeship Info Sessions
There will be two information sessions at the Boston Carpenter Training Center in Dorchester for those interested in a carpentry apprenticeship.  The first session will be held next Monday.  Click on the link for an attached PDF with MORE INFO.
MyDorchester Photo Contest
Can you identify where in Dorchester this photo was taken? Can you take one yourself and leave others guessing where it is? Email eblast@mydorchester.org if you know where!

Attention Participants! 
For a limited time, MyDorchester will be giving away 8 x 10 prints to the contest winner. 
Photo of the Week

 

Location:  

View of Boston, taken from Venezia Waterfront 
Weekly Photo Contest



Tips for Thriving KidsThrive in 5
Talk together!

Talking with your toddler helps her expand her vocabulary and learn more complex sentence structures.  Talking together also develops her literacy skills as she is more comfortable and confident with language.  Talk as you: ride in the car, do errands together, make a meal, take a walk.  Research shows that talking with children during everyday routines increases their vocabularies.

 

What you can do:

Notice the number, size, shape and color of the things around you.  If you are at the supermarket, you can talk about the colors of different fruits, count out the apples as you put them in a bag, and notice that there are big fruits (like pineapple) and little fruits (like grapes).

 

Tips for Thriving Kids are brought to you by: Thrive in 5 

Save the Date





~Sun. Feb 19: Great Chocolate Cook-Off

~Mon. Feb 20: The Presidency and Civil Rights

~Tue. Feb 21: BRA Fairmount/Indigo Planning Initiative
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Please check our regularly updated Calendar for lots of other events
Dorchester Flashback
Illustration of the WeekDorchester Illustration of the Day

Ray Bolger (January 10, 1904 - January 15, 1987) was an American entertainer of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Scarecrow (and the farmworker "Huck") in the 1939 film classic, The Wizard of Oz.

Ray Bolger was born Raymond Wallace Bulcão to a Roman Catholic family of Portugueseand Irish extraction inDorchester, Massachusetts, a heavily Irish neighborhood at the time.

His father was a house-painter, his mother a homemaker. He was inspired by the vaudeville shows he attended when he was young to become an entertainer himself.  (Source: Wikipedia 2006)

 

The Illustration of the Day is brought to us by www.DorchesterHistoricalSociety.org. 
If you would like to join the google group, please click on the link, or contact Earl Taylor by email or call (617) 293-3052.
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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