The Somerville Pop Warner $5 Pasta Dinner Fundraiser is coming up on Thursday, April 16 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Somerville City Club on Innerbelt Road, across from Holiday Inn. Join the SPW Family for a $5 pasta dinner night complete with dessert, raffles, and a 50/50 drawing. Please support an organization that supports over 250 of our city’s kids. What a great organization for the kids. The adults are very committed to these kids and this is money that is needed to run the organization. Please support the kids.

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Another reminder about Sunday, April 26, 4-8 p.m. at the Somerville City Club, when the family and friends of former Ward 3 Alderman Tom Taylor, who passed away recently, holds a “celebration of life” for Tom. It will also be Tom and Celia’s 25th anniversary on May 12. The invitations went out on Facebook, but if the family missed anyone please feel free to add yourself to this event. The family will need some help with food, drinks, and desserts. This is open to all of Tom’s friends who he knew over the many years.

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Next Monday, April 20, join in as the city celebrates Patriots’ Day and the 240th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride to warn the colonists that the British were coming.   Paul Revere rode the countryside, what is now Broadway up Winter Hill right onto Main Street. Join the Mayor Joe Curtatone as he greets Paul Revere at Foss Park at Fellsway West. 10–11:30 a.m. rain or shine. Bring the entire family to the Colonial Fair and play games, greet Paul Revere, enjoy refreshments and music by the SHS Band.

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On a sad note, one of our own is back in MGH. This time not doing so well and maybe not making it home. We want you to send all your good thoughts and prayers to our own Carmilla Toner. She has been part of our family here at the newspaper for many years. Among other things, she is the creator of Ms. Cam’s Olio. What a great lady. We are praying hard that God will make her comfortable. She knows she’s loved by her huge family and all the friends she’s made.

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A little late, but we found out that the lady who is considering a run for Ward 6 Alderman is Robin Ackerman. So far it’s just Charles Chisholm and Ms. Ackerman that are considering the run. Maybe one more we are hearing about, we will keep you posted. So far we found that Ms. Ackerman has connections to the progressive movement statewide, but we also hear that some progressives here in the city aren’t too happy about her running. We hear they are searching for someone else.

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A wine event/fundraiser for the Somerville Homeless Coalition will be held on Monday, February 23, 7:30-9:30 p.m. at Dave’s fresh pasta, 81 Holland Street. $80 per person. Join them for this fun and delicious annual event to benefit an outstanding non-profit organization and their mission. They will be pouring 9 excellent wines, and serving a variety of tasty pairings from the kitchen. Three favorite importers will be there to talk about their wines. Learn about all of the good deeds this organization accomplishes everyday from Somerville Homeless Coalition’s Executive Director Mark Alston-Follansbee and his staff.

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Ward 5 Alderman Mark Niedergang will be hosting campaign kickoff/fundraiser on Wednesday, April 29 from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the Olde Magoun Saloon in Magoun Square, next to CVS. Please join Mark to eat, drink, and make new friends and kick off his reelection campaign. The special guest speaker will be Alderman At-Large Bill White with a short program starting around 6:30 p.m. Complimentary food. Cash bar. The suggested minimum contribution is $50 per person, but please come and give what you can.

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Happy Birthday to just a few of our fans this week who are celebrating: The honorable lady from Ward 7, the current Alderman Katjana Ballantyne is celebrating her birthday this coming weekend. We wish her the very best. A former resident from another popular family here in the city, Talt Gregory Shackelford IV is celebrating as well and we wish him the best. Local realtor Winsland George is celebrating this week, as well as another local realtor, Sory DeOliveira. Another big happy birthday to Ms. Cheryl Constantine Leatham. Linda Rock Coutoumas is also celebrating this week, we wish her the very best. A good friend of ours, Janet Potts, a realtor from Key Realty Services is also celebrating this week. To all of the above and to many more out there we wish you the very best of birthdays.

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We’re sorry to hear about Patsy’s Pastry Shop will be closing on May 4, hopefully not for good. We’re going to miss the cinnamon bread, not to mention the pizza along with all the goodies Sal and Vic have made for us since 1968. What a tragic loss. Keep your fingers crossed that they either find another home or come back with the property once it’s rebuilt. All the great customers over the years that are still loyal to Patsy’s, go on down and stock up on your favorites.

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Last week we mentioned that the new proposed zoning law will go down in flames big time. A lot of work and effort went into it, but maybe the process can be done better with all of us having some real input next time. It seems when this department has meetings, it has a thing for separating everyone into little sections after a talk. Divide and get the results you want?

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Somerville Open Studios will kick off Thursday, April 30 with the 4th annual Beyond the Pattern fashion show, a runway presentation featuring wearable art made by local artists. Models will display a range of work that represents the artists’ exploration of fashion in art. This year attendees will see original designs that have been influenced by history, indigenous cultures, significant life events, ecology, the cosmos and the beauty of the human form. The show will also showcase local students from Somerville High School’s Fashion Club as part of the Young Designers Challenge, in an effort to support art education at a grassroots level. These students will be modeling the pieces they have designed and constructed with the guidance of their instructor. Local Somerville fashion designers presenting will include: Jennifer Weigel, JoAnne Coppolo, Joolie Cahill, Kim Bloomfield, Sadiya Akasha, Annie Blazejack, Kimberley Pendleton, Habeus Corpus, Nancy Moskin, Rebecca D’Antonio, and Consuelo Perez. Thursday, April 30, 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. at Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave., Somerville. For more information contact JoAnne Coppolo or Joolie Cahill, Co-Coordinators, at beyondthepattern@somervilleopenstudios.org and visit them online at www. somervilleopenstudios.org/fashion.