Don't
forget Ball Square Café will be celebrating 2 years of being in
business – Open House Tomorrow – so stop by and meet Mike and Omar and
say hi, hopefully Omar will perform some of his kitchen magic for you,
at least have a slice of cake. It will be from 6:30am to 3:00pm.
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Federal
Realty Investment Trust, along with Mayor Joe, will be hosting the 2nd
Annual Fireworks Display on the banks of the Mystic River on Saturday,
October 3rd from 4pm to 8pm – just follow the crowd down behind the
stores at Assembly Square. Great time and show last year, this should
be just as nice – a great way to celebrate the new beginning of
Assembly Square for all of us here in Somerville, thanks to Mayor Joe
Curtatone and Federal Realty.
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Last
Thursday night at the Board of Alderman meeting the board, along with
the Mayor, honored life-long resident and great guy John McKenzie of
Davis Square. Alderperson Rebekah presented him, along with the Mayor,
a citation for his many years of service to the city. John and Marge
have been married for 62 years, his daughter Joyce who owns Nellie's
Wildflowers on Holland Street were on hand with a large group of
neighbors and family. We know John – he's a great guy – always pleasant
to everyone and a huge smile.
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Somerville
Chamber of Commerce member Marianne Brown informs us she recently
opened her own law office. Marianne is an experienced trial attorney
committed to helping the Somerville business community resolve today's
challenges. She can be reached at (781) 608-8230, or stop in at her new
office at 22 Mill Street in Arlington. You can also visit
www.marianne-brown.com for more detailed information.
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Don't forget next Wednesday, September 23rd (earlier we stated it was tonight, we are sorry for the confusion) at Redbones for re-election efforts, Alderperson Rebekah is having her fundraiser from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Also, the fundraiser to re-elect Jamie Norton as the Ward 4 School Committee member is on Monday, September 28th starting at 6pm – at "On the Hill Tavern" in Magoun Square.
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We hear some
shuffling of jobs up at City Hall, people moving around taking on new
jobs – Jackie from the mayor's office is moved over to work with Tom
Champion and Carlene Campbell was moved out of CDBG.
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The
other night one of our newstalkers was out walking around various
streets in the city and handing out copies of The News – and was very
pleased to find out that even those that don't live near the squares
read and like The News. The Farm Team paper is as big as ours is in
pages, but not in original stories. We're going to have a nice big
surprise for all our readers around the city very soon.
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Condolences
go out to the family of Patricia Leblanc. Patricia sadly passed away
last week. She was the mom of our friend Bobby Leblanc and she was the
nicest lady that you could ever meet. Patricia will be missed by many.
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This
week will mark the last meeting of the past two years of our own Jamie
Norton as Master of one of the oldest Masonic Lodges in North America –
King Solomon's Lodge. He will preside over his last meeting this
Thursday night to a large gathering of members and on this Saturday the
new Master-Elect, Jose Jorge, will be installed by the Kilwinning Club
of Boston in full Scottish regalia and pipes – the installation is open
to the public at 125 Highland at 4pm.
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The
Somerville Lion's Club is asking you to please donate your old,
unwanted eye glasses so that they can be given to and reused by those
less fortunate. You can drop them off right at The Somerville News
office located at 21A College Avenue – Monday through Friday 9am to 3pm
– just come in and meet and introduce yourself to our own Cam Toner and
Bobbie Toner and leave your old glasses.
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