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Boston Polling Stations Changes

Submitted by OTC on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 1:06pm

Beginning with the State Primary on
Tuesday,
September 16, 2008
, you may be voting at a new polling location.
 
Please check the list below for polling location changes.
 
If you are not sure where to vote, or need information regarding
your voting status, please call the Boston Election Department at 617-635-3767
, or visit the website:
www.cityofboston.gov/elections
.

 

 

EAST BOSTON
POLLING LOCATION CHANGES

 

WARD 1 PRECINCTS 6
AND
8

OLD LOCATION:
     
LITTLE
FOLKS DAY
CARE
CENTER, 65-67 TRENTON ST
.
       

NEW LOCATION:
   
EAST
BOSTON
HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM,
86 WHITE ST
.

 

WARD 1 PRECINCT 7

OLD LOCATION:
     
O'DONNELL SCHOOL,
33 TRENTON ST
.

NEW LOCATION:
   
EAST
BOSTON
HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM,
86 WHITE ST
.

 

WARD 1 PRECINCTS 9
AND
10

OLD LOCATION:
     
FIRE
STATION,
360 SARATOGA ST
.

NEW LOCATION:
   
EAST
BOSTON
HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM,
86 WHITE ST
.
 
       

 

WARD 1 PRECINCT 12

OLD LOCATION:
     
ORIENT HEIGHTS LIBRARY,
18 BARNES
AVE
.
  

NEW LOCATION:
   
ORIENT
HEIGHTS
YACHT CLUB,
61 BAYSWATER ST
.

 

WARD 1 PRECINCT 15
AND
WARD 13 PRECINCT 3

OLD LOCATION:
     
HARBOR POINT,
1 NORTH POINT DRIVE
           

NEW LOCATION:
   
HARBOR
POINT
TECHNOLOGY
CENTER
,
15 HARBOR POINT BLVD.
 

 

 

SECOND
SUFFOLK
SENATORIAL DISTRICT
 
POLLING LOCATION CHANGES
 

 

WARD 8 PRECINCT 2

OLD LOCATION:
     
BLACKSTONE
SCHOOL
,
380 SHAWMUT
AVE
.

NEW LOCATION:
   
CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM,
1336 WASHINGTON ST
.

 

WARD 8 PRECINCTS 3
AND
4

OLD LOCATION:
     
ORCHARD
GARDENS
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
,
906 ALBANY ST
.
      

NEW LOCATION:
   
ORCHARD
GARDENS
COMMUNITY CENTER
,
2 DEARBORN ST
.

 

WARD 8 PRECINCT 5

OLD LOCATION:
     
MASON
SCHOOL
,
150 NORFOLK
AVE
.
  

NEW LOCATION:
   
ORCHARD
GARDENS
COMMUNITY CENTER
,
2 DEARBORN ST
.

 

WARD 9 PRECINCT 2

OLD LOCATION:
     
UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS / HARRIET TUBMAN HOUSE

                               
   
566 COLUMBUS
AVE
.

NEW LOCATION:
   
WASHINGTON
MANOR,
1701 WASHINGTON ST
.

 

WARD 10 PRECINCT 9

OLD VOTER ENTRANCE:
   
JAMES
M.
CURLEY
SCHOOL
,
PERSHING
ROAD
          

NEW VOTER ENTRANCE:
MARY
E.
CURLEY
SCHOOL
,
493 CENTRE STREET
, VOTER

ENTRANCE THROUGH
DRIVEWAY ON PERSHING RD.
 
VOTE IN CAFETERIA.

 

WARD 11 PRECINCT 3, WARD 12 PRECINCTS 8
AND
9

OLD LOCATION:
     
DAVID
A.
ELLIS
SCHOOL
,
302 WALNUT
AVE
.

NEW LOCATION:
   
GEORGE A. LEWIS SCHOOL GYMNASIUM,
131 WALNUT
AVE
.
 

 

WARD 14 PRECINCTS 8
AND
14

OLD LOCATION:
     
SOLOMON
LEWENBERG
SCHOOL
,
20 OUTLOOK RD.

NEW LOCATION:
   
MORNING
STAR
BAPTIST
CHURCH
,
1257
BLUE
HILL
AVE
.
 

 

 

HYDE PARK
POLLING LOCATION CHANGE

 

WARD 18 PRECINCT 20

OLD LOCATION:
     
SAINT ANNE?S SCHOOL,
20 COMO
ROAD

NEW LOCATION:
   
HEMENWAY CAMPUS OF THE FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT K-8 SCHOOL,
30 MILLSTONE
ROAD

                                   
(FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE
OLD
ARCHIVES
BUILDING
)

 

 

WARD 4 POLLING LOCATION CHANGE

 

WARD 4 PRECINCT 10

OLD LOCATION:
     
 SIMMONS
COLLEGE
,
VOTER ENTRANCE AVENUE
LOUIS PASTEUR,
PARK
SCIENCE
BUILDING
HP ENTRANCE IN REAR.

NEW LOCATION:
   
SIMMONS
COLLEGE
, LEFAVOUR HALL
AND
BEATLEY LIBRARY,
 

2 AVENUE LOUIS PASTEUR.
 

*
Vote in the
Kotzen
Meeting
Center
and Terrace, Rooms L-001 and L-002. *

 

Home Makeover Project

Submitted by OTC on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 10:29am

Do you have a home in need of a fresh look?  Have
you fallen on hard times and are unable to make needed cosmetic changes
to your home?  The International Furniture and Design Association
(IFDA) is taking applications for families in need of assistance to
take part in a "Home Makeover" contest.  This contest is open to
members from any community in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. One
lucky winner will have a crew of approximately 25 professionals
providing cosmetic improvements to their home over the course of two
days (a Saturday & Sunday) in the month of October.

If you would like to be considered for this contest or
if you would like to nominate a home in need, please click here and
fill in your information.  The application deadline is September
11, 2008.  The winning home will be picked and notified by a
committee shortly thereafter.

Save The Date: July 27 Concert in Dot Park!

Submitted by OTC on Fri, 07/25/2008 - 1:40pm

On Sunday, July 27 our neighborhood will host a Music Concert in
Dorchester Park, featuring Boston's Landmarks Orchestra under the
direction of conductor Charles Ansbacher. The Boston Landmarks
Orchestra is one of only two professional orchestras in the country
whose mission is to perform all free concerts. Over 160,000 people have
attended more than 125 concerts during the past seven years.

The Landmarks Orchestra utilizes some of the finest musicians in
Boston to help create a vibrant cultural scene all summer long,
including summer-long Wednesday night concerts at the Hatch Shell on
the Charles River. Now that we have arranged to have our own local
performance in Dot Park, it surely will add to the seasons enjoyment
for scores of local residents.

For questions or comments, please call Ed at 617-834-7577 or Bill at 617-851-9630.

In Dot, it's a beautiful night in the neighborhood to connect

Submitted by OTC on Tue, 06/03/2008 - 3:47pm

Civic groups are hoping to get all of the diverse, spread out neighborhoods in Dorchester together for a night of socializing, entertainment, and community building.

 

MyDorchester Night, going on Thursday at the Codman Square Tech Center on Washington Street from 6 to 9 p.m., is a free event designed to build social networking and create a sense of togetherness across the urban residential neighborhood.

"One of our main goals is to bring people together from all of Dorchester's neighborhoods," said Jennifer Gerber, 23, of Weston, an Americorps volunteer involved in the event. "Having worked in the community, I've heard a lot about how people sometimes don't like to go into neighborhoods they're not from. We want to get all of the nine neighborhoods together in one place and get to know each other, breaking down the stereotypes."

The event is being put on by SCI Dorchester, a partnership between Social Capital Inc., a statewide community building organization, and DotWell, a nonprofit group providing clinical services in the neighborhood.

Part of the evening will feature four networking rooms, each with a different theme - expand, connect, share, and enjoy - and with its own focus, such as signing up volunteers for area nonprofits, or pointing out services offered in the city like Big Brothers/Big Sisters and the Ella J. Baker House for at-risk youths. There will be a coffeehouse in the "enjoy" room, featuring poetry, dance, spoken word, and jazz music.

It's all about building "social capital," organizers say.

"Social capital is the idea that the more people in a community each person knows, and the more connected they are to local resources, the better off the community is," Gerber said. "Economic capital is not the only capital that really matters to make a community sustainable, vital, and a safe place for everyone."

 

Original Article
JOHN GUILFOIL

© Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company.
www.boston.com

 

Organic Groups: Enable users to create collaborative groups

Submitted by OTC on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 4:36pm

SCI Dorchester has added a new feature to MyDorchester.org: Organic Groups. Here's a description of this feature from Drupal.org: 

Organic groups enables users with permissions to create and manage their own groups. Community members often need to self organize or spontaneously organize around a topic of interest. Organic Groups allows community members to organize. Organazing is important part of a healthy community.
Each group can have subscribers, and maintains a group home page where subscribers communicate amongst themselves. Group members can do so by posting different contents.
Groups may be selective or not. Selective groups require approval in order to become a member, or even invitation -only groups. There are lots of preferences to configure groups as you need to suit your needs to organize around a topic of interest. (http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/og)

CLICK HERE TO START A GROUP!

CLICK HERE TO SEE EXISTING GROUPS!

Boston Civic Summit

Submitted by OTC on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 2:04pm

 

Are you civically engaged?

Do you want to get involved, but don't know how?
Then, you should consider attending the first Boston Civic Summit.

The Boston Civic Summit is a first of its kind effort to assemble Boston area civic and community leaders from every neighborhood with the purpose of having an open discussion on how we can strengthen the vitality of the city life by promoting greater civic engagement and fostering dialogue between community groups. The event will be held the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center on Saturday, May 3rd from 8:15-3:45 pm .

THE PURPOSE
We can build a better city but only by working together. The foundation for this future is our diverse civil society groups and their leaders whose partnership with the city sustains and improves the quality of life in our communities. But increasingly, the ranks of these groups is thinning, growing older and operating in isolation from other organizations.

This summit will start a conversation on how we can strengthen the overall vitality of city life by promoting greater civic engagement and fostering dialogue between community groups. It will also provide current and prospective community leaders with tools, training and support to better exercise their important civic responsibility.

THE GOALS
1.To begin a conversation on city-wide strategies to improve and expand overall civic engagement and foster better cooperation and communication between communities and neighborhood organizations.
2.To provide current and prospective community leaders with tools, training and support to make their exercise of civic responsibility more effective for city residents.
There will be opportunities to build your social networks, learn and share best practices and find ways to get better involved in your community.
For more event information or to register visit www.bostoncivicsummit.org

Website Updates

Submitted by OTC on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 12:52pm

It's now possible to create recurring events on the community calendar. Simply edit an existing event or create a new one, by clicking the "repeat" link below the start and end time (see attached
screenshot). The instructions are available in smaller letters pertaining to how the events repeats.

We also have added drop down categories for the community calendar in hopes of making it easier for users to find events of interests to them.

We Want Your Feedback

Submitted by OTC on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 3:10pm

SCI is conducting a survey to learn more about community life, how our weekly email and other SCI activities have helped and how we can improve. Please visit our survey webpage, and answer the questions therein. Keep in mind that your responses are completely confidential. The survey ends the first week in March, and taking the survey gives you the chance to win a 10 dollar gift card to Panera Bread*. Thank you in advance for your participation!

*Did you take the survey but not get a chance to enter the raffle? If so, please contact us.

Washington Street/Talbot Avenue Corridor Safe Neighborhood Initiative (SNI)

Submitted by OTC on Thu, 01/31/2008 - 2:53pm

The Washington Street/Talbot Avenue Corridor Safe Neighborhood Initiative (SNI) held its first community-wide safety meeting this month to facilitate the communication and collaboration among residents, youth, businesses and government agencies around the effort of improving the quality of life in the area and reducing violent crime.
 
Over 80 people (about 60 of them representing organizations or government agencies and about 20 being residents of the area) convened at the Perkins Community Center on January 9 to begin the work.  After listening to 3 speakers give very short endorsements of the Initiative and viewing a powerpoint presentation explaining the Initiative, the participants broke into groups of 8.  Each group, led by a prepared facilitator, spent 40 minutes listing their concerns and desires in three areas:  1) key problems facing the community, 2) resources in the community (both untapped and underutilized), and 3) goals they wish to see the SNI pursue.
 
The Washington Street/Talbot Avenue Corridor Safe Neighborhood Intiative (SNI) serves the area bound by Washington Street (eastern border), Blue Hill Avenue (western border), Columbia Road (northern border), and Armandine Street (southern border).
 
The lists created by the small groups are being transcribed and emailed to all attendees at the Jan 9 meeting and will be made available at the next Community-Wide Safety Meeting scheduled for Thursday, February 21, 6:00-9:00 at the Blue Hill Avenue Boys and Girls Club (15 Talbot Avenue).  This date falls during the school vacation week for BPS students.  The SNI seeks the participation and leadership of youth, and especially wishes to convey its desire to attract youth to these community meetings and to serving on the steering committee.  
 
"We would like have a great many more residents, especially youth, at our community meetings and on our steering committee," noted Adam Gibbons, the SNI project coordinator.  "We will be conducting monthly community meetings for months and years to come, but we hope residents - both adults and youth - will come out soon, as we are working in the next couple of meetings on developing our goals and vision for the SNI's work.  With so many agencies and resources at the table - at our monthly steering committee meetings - District Attorney, police, re-entry specialists and organizations, street workers, youth advocates and youth services, DYS, DSS, health centers, Boys and Girls club, businesses and resident - the SNI is an initiative with unique resources to connect residents/businesses with agencies that can coordinate and collaborate in response to specific concerns and requests in the community."
 
For more information about the Safe Neighborhood Initiative, contact the project coordinator, Adam Gibbons, at 617-822-8378 or adam.gibbons@state.ma.us
 

Massachusetts Civic Summit

Submitted by OTC on Tue, 11/20/2007 - 3:43pm

 

Members of SCI Dorchester traveled to attend the Massachusetts Civic Summit in Worcester . The civic summit was great  summit . The SCI Dorchester members that attended  were Marisa Luse, Carlotta Richardson and Carla Smith.

To learn more about it click on the link " SCI Helps Make Summit a Success" .

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