April 2004

Items that missed the printed issue:

Apology:
The BPD Area C-11 meeting date was printed in the newsletter as taking place on the second Wednesday of each month. The correct date is the second THURSDAY. We apologize for the mistake.


ART/TALKS in April
Art Department Award Recipients, Spring 2004: Presentation of Work
Thursday, April 29th, 1 - 2 PM. The student recipients of awards given by the Art Department will discuss their current academic and/or studio work and, where appropriate, describe the project which the award enables them to pursue. The scholarships: the Sam Walker Scholarship, the Vivian Carolyn Savio Scholarship and the Ruth Butler Travel Scholarship have each been funded in honor of a person associated with the department and are awarded annually on a competitive basis. Harbor Gallery: 1st Floor McCormick. Carry-in lunches are welcome.
For more Information: 617-287-5347

CSHCA Meeting Childcare Reminder
At our general meetings we offer free childcare for our membership. Please bring along any personal items that your child may need during the course of the evening. Make sure you arrive on the early side to give your child some time to adjust and settle in.


50/50 Raffle
The CSHCA runs a 50/50 raffle at each of our general monthly meetings. Please participate. Tickets are only $1 each and three for $2 and can be purchased at the front desk when checking in. The winning ticket will be drawn at the conclusion of the meeting.


Little House Food Pantry
The CSHCA collects nonperishable food, toiletries and household cleaning items at our monthly meetings to donate to The Little House Food Pantry. We have our collection basket located at the sign in desk. Thanks so much !!!


April is:
Stress Awareness Month, Thai Heritage Month, Community Service Month, National STD Education and Awareness Month and National Garden Month.


Click here for CSHCA Beautification Committee Updates


Dorchester Recycling Coalition:
To receive your FREE blue recycling bin or for more info about how to recycle call (617) 635-4959.


Rock the Night:
A benefit for the Maintenance of the New Edward Everett Schoolyard. You're Invited!
Join the Friends of the Schoolyard on Saturday, May 1st 8 PM-Midnight at the James J. Rice Am Vets Post 28, 33 Romsey Street. Featuring music by Catbasket and The Mood Swings. Donation:$15 per person (adults only) Cash Bar. Checks can be made payable to:"Edward Everett Schoolyard". For advance ticket purchase (please include your name, address and phone#) or donation mail to: Edward Everett Schoolyard Benefit, 71 Pleasant Street Dorchester, MA 02125. Hope to see you there!


Monthly Community Meeting - BPD Area C-11:
Join us at our monthly meeting at the District C-11 Community Service Office, Guardroom, 40 Gibson Street on the second Thursday of each month at 7 PM. A featured guest speaker is invited each month. For more information call our office at 617-343-4524. This is a forum that you can address your neighborhood concerns and questions.


Circle This Date:

20th Annual Savin Hill Park Cleanup:
Saturday, May 1, 9 AM to 3 PM at the top of the hill by Rockmere. Refreshments and gardening tools will be available. For more information call Bill at 617-282-0609 or email bill.walczak@codman.org See you at the "Dome"!
~Bill Walczak


South Bay Shopping Center:
Edens & Avant have changed their design of the building, to have windows facing Massachusetts Avenue. Even so, there is a BRA "phantom" design team that wants to move the building closer to Massachusetts Avenue, disregarding votes taken at the meetings of the CSHCA, McCormack Association and the IAG team at our last meeting. Massachusetts Avenue must be restored to its original condition and the cost should be absorbed by the city and not in mitigation by the proponent. If necessary, then the cost should be shared by all businesses in the immediate area.
~ Joe Chaisson


Click here for CSHCA Super 88 Committee Updates


Park/Playground: Ryan Playground:
July 15, 22 and 29
August 5, 12 and 19
Hours: 9:30 AM - 12 Noon
Professional craft artisans have been selected to conduct a series of workshops in our neighborhood park. Craft projects include yarn painting, a fairy house, treasure bottles and jewelry making. Once a week during the morning hours the artist will work with children (between the ages of 3 - 12 years old) making keepsake crafts that they complete and take home. More info forthcoming.
~Susan M. Fenton


The Dorchester Historical Society - Dorchester Oral History:
The Dorchester Historical Society is planning an oral history project to be implemented during the months of April, May and June of this year. The first step in getting ready for the project is to identify people who would make good subjects for an oral history interview and to identify others to be interviewers. We will be holding instructional meetings in April for interview volunteers. Can you help by suggesting people who could share their stories of living in Dorchester and by suggesting others who are willing to become interviewers? It would be most helpful to receive phone numbers, addresses and emails of those people. Everyone who is willing to talk about their Dorchester experience will make a good candidate. One of our project goals is to locate representatives of all communities: young and old, East/West/North and South, new and old immigrants, always been here or people who come only for employment. For more information or to volunteer contact Earl Taylor at 800-663-6063 (days)or email ermmwwt@aol.com
~Earl Taylor


Cash for Class - To help benefit the Edward Everett School
South Shore Plaza wants to help you earn cash for your school.....
It's easy... Every time you, your family, and friends shop at South Shore Plaza, have your receipts stamped at the Simon Marketplace (Customer Service), to help your favorite participating school get closer to winning valuable prizes. Your school can win prizes ranging from $300 to #3,000 !!

Receipts must be dated between July 15, 2003 and May 15, 2004 and every school is a winner

!st Place $ 3,000
2nd Place $ 2,000
3rd Place $ 1,500
4th Place $ 1,000
5th Place $ 700
6th -10th Place $ 500
11th - 15th Place $ 400
16th - 20th Place $ 350
21st - 30th Place $ 300

Here is what you do. Bring your original cash register receipt from any South Shore Plaza store to the Simon Market Place (Customer Service) and they will credit your school, stamp your receipt and hand it back to you. Your school will receive five (5) points for each dollar shown on the receipts.

Participating schools in this year's 2003-2004 Cash for Class program:
Academy Avenue School, Beechwood Knoll, Charles A. Bernazzani, Collicot Elementary, Cunningham Elementary, Dawe Elementary, Delphi Academy, Donald Ross School, East Middle School, Edward Everett School, Elizabeth G. Lyons, Gate of Heaven, Glover Elementary, Heights Elementary, Hollis Elementary, John F. Kennedy, J.W. Rogers M.S., Liberty School, Murphy Primary School, Sacred Heart School, Squantum Elementary School, St. Agatha School, St. Ann's Neponset, St. Brendan School, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Joseph's School, Saint Mark School, St. Peter School, West Elementary, and Wollaston Elementary.

Cash for Class info call Lynda Howland at (617) 635-8779 from 3:30 to 5:30 Monday-Friday.


Click here for A Little Miss Dorchester Contest Application


Support Our Local Businesses who Support the CSHCA!

Below is a list of the Columbia Savin Hill Civic Association's Merchant Members.
Remember, the folks who run these businesses support us and have invested in our community. Please extend the same support to them by shopping in their stores, seeking their services or eating in their restaurants.
A Hohmann Oil Co. Inc. 1146 Dorchester Avenue
Anna's Bakery, Inc. 1035 Dorchester Avenue
At Home Real Estate Group 109 Savin Hill Avenue
Avenue Auto Wholesales, Inc.  1121 Dorchester Avenue
The Banshee Pub 934 Dorchester Avenue
Bayside Exposition Center 200 Mt. Vernon Street
The Boston Globe 135 Morrissey Blvd.
C.F. Donovan's Restaurant 120 Savin Hill Avenue
Coleen’s Flower Shop 912 Dorchester Avenue
Corcoran Jennison Mgmt 150 Mt. Vernon Street
Creative Wrappings 22 Carson Street  
Dorchester Avenue Auto Repair  887 Dorchester Avenue
Dorchester Tire Service 1160 Dorchester Avenue
Dorchester Market 951 Dorchester Avenue
Gately Insurance Co. 983A Dorchester Avenue
Lee Myles Transmission 1110 Dorchester Avenue
Lee's Store & Bakery 982 Dorchester Avenue
McKenna’s Café 113 Savin Hill Avenue
Murphy Funeral Home 1020 Dorchester Avenue
Nash’s Pub 1154 Dorchester Avenue
NEALCO Environmental Svcs. 5 Caspian Way
P. Gioioso & Sons Construction 50 Sprague Street, Hyde Park (BWS project)
Pat Jay’s Pharmacy 940 Dorchester Avenue
Savin Hill Variety 110 Savin Hill Avenue
The Shanti Restaurant 1111 Dorchester Avenue
Spire Printing 65 Bay Street
Sports Lab 1152 Dorchester Avenue
Venice Pizza 39 Savin Hill Avenue
Vina Realty/MSC Travel 988 Dorchester Avenue

Merchant Memberships are $25.00 a year. Please note that this is a non-voting membership. If interested in becoming a Merchant Member please print out and complete the membership form at the bottom of this online newsletter and forward with your check in the amount of $25.00 made payable to the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association. We will list all Merchant Members each month in our newsletter.


The Little House Youth Recreation Program:
A "Good Bye Party" for Gerry- April 1st 6-8 p.m. at the Little House. Gerry Johnson our LH administrative/food pantry coordinator is retiring after 25 years (April 2nd) and we want to give her a royal send off as she is about to depart for Florida.JOIN US!

Summer Camp Registration takes place on April 26th - Call (617) 282-2180 for more information.

Spaghetti Dinner April 28th at 6 P.M. at the Little House to benefit the LH youth programs.

For more information call John M. at (617) 282-2180.



ART/TALKS in April
An Informal Series of Presentations Sponsored by:
Arts on the Point, The UMB Art Faculty & The Harbor Gallery
These presentations invite members of the UMB community and our neighbors to participate in an expanding discourse on contemporary art. In an informal series of conversations, members of the UMB faculty, sculptors, curators and art critics will show and discuss their work, describe the context from which it comes, and discuss its relationship to the role of contemporary art in Boston. All welcome.

Boston Sculptors: A Collective Perspective
Making the Space to Show Your Work
Thursday, April 15th, 1 - 2 PM. Founding members and newcomers to this celebrated Boston based collective of artists will discuss the history, process, and logistics involved in creating an artist's collective as a way to assure exhibition space for their work. The talk will serve as a compliment their current exhibition at the Harbor Gallery, 1st Floor McCormick Origins < = > Outcomes.

For more information about this or other AOP events call: (617) 287-5347 or visit: www.artsonthepoint.org
~Wendy Baring-Gould

Art/Talks - A Spring Class
Sponsored by: Arts on the Point & The Dorchester Center for Adult Education
Class Description: This class offers participants the opportunity to spend three Saturday afternoons exploring museums, artist's studios and public art sites in greater Boston. Guided by members of UMB art faculty, we will visit several Boston artists in their studios, attend the current "Gauguin Tahiti" exhibition at The Museum of Fine Arts, be introduced to the upcoming public art installation at Edward Everett Square and visit other public art sites in the Boston area. These informal and informative afternoons begin at a local coffee house with a complimentary snack where the group boards a UMB van to be chauffeured from site to site. Museum admission and a sketch/note book are included in the fee. This new offering is back by popular demand and is limited to 12 participants. Cost: $25 for CSHCA members and $30 for the general public.

Class Dates & Times
Saturdays: May 1st, 8th and 15th All classes are from 1:00 to 4:30 PM
For Information and Registration call DCAE: 617- 474 -1170


Arts on the Point
The Search for Self Definition: A Community Outreach Project - Spring 2004
with: Teens from The Walter Denny Youth Center, Columbia Point

Project Overview: Over April Vacation Week, twenty teens from the Walter Denny Youth Center at Columbia Point will work with ten UMB art students to create individual artists' books which explore issues of identity, self definition, and self esteem. These will be created in the UMB Print Lab under the direction of Liz Marran, printmaker and member of UMB art faculty. The books will be presented at public exhibitions held consecutively at the Walter Denny Youth Center and the new Campus Center at UMB. Each exhibition will include an opening reception for the community and include the artists' presentation of their work. Details to follow.


Click here for 215 Sydney Street Updates


Remember your CSHCA dues must be paid for a minimum of thirty days prior to our monthly general meetings in order to be a voting member in good standing.
~Nora McDonnell



CSHCA Membership Renewal/Application for Membership
Please keep current with your annual membership dues if you wish to remain a voting member in good standing and continue to receive a copy of the newsletter, "The Neighbors". NOTE: Check address label for your membership expiration date. It would be greatly appreciated if your memberships were renewed early.

CSHCA Annual Memberships are only $5 per person ($25 Merchant Sponsor - non-voting member) Checks can be made payable to: CSHCA

Simply print out the form below and give with payment to our Treasurer, Nora McDonnell at our next meeting or mail to:

CSHCA Membership
c/o Ms. Nora McDonnell, CSHCA Treas.
7 Buttonwood Court
Dorchester, MA 02125

Individual membership(s) ____
Merchant Sponsor _____


Name(s): ____________________________________________

Street: _____________________________ Apt: __________

City/Town: ___________________________ State: _____

Postal Code: ____________

Phone: ______________________________

Email: ______________________________

Merchant Sponsor Name: _____________________________

Dorchester Day - upcoming events
Kickoff Meatloaf Dinner - March 25, 6:30 PM at The First Parish Church cost: $8
$10K Drawing - April 22 6:30 PM at Florian Hall. $100 ticket includes dinner.
Only 300 available…. Don't get shut out!
Dorchester Landing Day - June 5th
Dorchester Day Parade - June 6th

Contact a Dorchester Day committee representative at our civic association meeting for more information.


Appreciations
Many Thanks to Spire and UMass for helping us get this newsletter to your door.

Special thanks to Jos. J. Corcoran, Bayside Expo, Distinctive Gourmet, and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for hosting the Community Reception and extending 2004 New England Flower Show invitations. It was a most enjoyable evening.


Newsletter Submissions
Have you something you'd like to share in our newsletter "The Neighbors"?
We welcome all appropriate submissions. Letters to the Editor, local events, announcements, meetings...etc. You can email us at janderson@uusc.org call (617) 282-1277 or fax (617) 868-7102 attn: John (call (617) 868-6600 - John -in advance).

The next Newsletter Deadline for submission is April 19th, 2004!




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