Many events and meetings were canceled this week due to the amount of snow. The committee meeting at City Hall to discuss the Snow Ordinance is now set for Wednesday, February 25 at 6 p.m. Also rescheduled is the proposed zoning ordinance, now set for March 5. The fundraiser and kickoff campaign for Alderman At Large Mary Jo Rossetti is reset for Monday, March 2 at Tony’s C’s in Assembly Row, beginning at 6 p.m.

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Monday night, the 23rd, Dave’s Fresh Pasta at 81 Holland Street will be hosting a Wine Event/Fundraiser for the Somerville Homeless Coalition, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $80 per person. Please join in 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 of their favorite importers will be there to talk about their wines. Also, learn about all of the good deeds this organization accomplishes everyday from Somerville Homeless Coalition’s Executive Director Mark Alston-Follansbee and his staff. Raffle prizes will be a fun addition to the evening. All kinds of terrific donated prizes from friends and neighbors in the Somerville community will be raffled off. All proceeds to benefit SHC. They are very excited about this event. The Somerville Homeless Coalition is a wonderful organization doing good work, and Dave’s Fresh Pasta is proud to support them. Last year’s fundraiser was a huge success, raising over $7000. Their wine tastings are always fun, very tasty, and a terrific buying opportunity. This event has the added bonus that you are helping to support this very important organization in our community. Like all of their events, you will have the opportunity to shop the entire store with a 10% discount after the event. A percentage of those sales will also be donated toward supporting the good work of the Somerville Homeless Coalition.

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The city purchased a snow melter called the Snow Dragon 900. Maybe we need a few of them. There is so much snow and it is so cold out, this snow will be with us until April and when it starts to melt it’s going straight into basements around the city. But again, with all the hard work our DPW crew – headed by Commissioner Stan Koty – has done a magnificent job considering the amount of snow everywhere. Driving down the east/west streets here in the city you can see marked improvement. They are doing a great job. There will be some who disagree, but only a minority. Overall, the City of Somerville has done a good job, considering it’s less than 4 square miles with over 60,000 registered cars, and a population of about 75K. We salute and congratulate Mayor Joe Curtatone and DPW Commissioner Stan Koty for a great job well done.

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By the way, we need to help our local restaurants right here in Somerville. Local small businesses have struggled these past few weeks. We are fortunate in that most of us can walk out our doors – and not that far – and hit a local restaurant. We support local restaurants and hope everyone here in the city does as well.

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Happy Birthday this week to some of our fans here and all are Villens at heart. Big time old friend and popular lady from Somerville, Denise Racicot-Kallis is celebrating this week. We wish her the very best and a happy birthday. Retired Somerville Police Officer Scott Gamble is celebrating his birthday this week. A great guy who works over at Bostonian Florist on Highland Avenue, Robert Lamanno is celebrating as well. Local guy and well known Dennis Leary of Leary Electrical, we wish him the very best of birthdays. A local electrical union guy who is very popular here in the city, Brian Barton is celebrating as well. Finally, we wish the very best of birthdays to Cheryle Snow of the very popular Snow family. She and her husband Wayne are the best CPA’s in the business, now located on Main Street in Charlestown.

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Best wishes to our good friends Ed Smith, who is one of Somerville’s best attorneys, is sharing his space now with another one of Somerville’s great attorneys, Mr. Neil J. Berman. Their office is located on 403 Highland Ave. here in Davis Square.

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Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Ward 2 Alderman Maryann Heuston, and the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development invite all interested community members to the first Lincoln Park DESIGN community meeting with our team of landscape architects who will introduce their staff, provide an analysis of the park’s existing conditions, and explain their plans for the design process ahead. The meeting will be held at the Argenziano School Cafeteria, 290 Washington St., on Tues., Feb. 24 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. All are welcome to attend and share the ideas. Spanish and Portuguese interpreters will be available. For more information, please contact Arn Franzen at 617-625-6600 ext. 2545, or AFranzen@somervillema.gov.

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The GLX Working Group meeting that was cancelled this week due to the weather has been rescheduled for 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. on Monday, February 23. The meeting will still take place at the Center for the Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Avenue in Somerville.

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Somerville’s Union Square staple, The Independent, has reopened its doors after undergoing some minor cosmetic improvements. Established in 2001 by restaurateur Ken Kelly, The Independent also has updated their menu of gastropub cuisine with the support of Consulting Chef Patrick Gilmartin (Executive Chef of the Indo’s sister restaurant, River Bar; formerly of Staff Meal food truck & Rialto).

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Two restaurants from Somerville are participating in the Friends of Dana-Farber’s 17th annual Chefs Cooking for Hope on Thursday, March 5, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Enjoy a night on the town with friends as you sip award-winning wine and sample delicious food from Boston’s top chefs at this culinary extravaganza features signature specialties from Boston’s most popular restaurants, including more than 30 restaurants, caterers, and wineries. Restaurants from Somerville participating include: Bergamot, 118 Beacon St. and Posto, 187 Elm St. The event will also recognize honorary chefs William Kovel of Catalyst, Lisa Sewall of Lineage, and Jeremy Sewall of Lineage, Island Creek Oyster Bar, Row 34, and Eastern Standard. Tickets are $125 and all proceeds benefit adult and pediatric cancer research and care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 617-632-3909 or visit www.dana-farber.org/friends. Tickets may also be purchased at the door. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a principal teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, is world-renowned for its leadership in adult and pediatric cancer treatment and research. Designated as a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), it is one of the largest recipients among independent hospitals of NCI and National Institutes of Health grant funding.