The Future Looks Bright: 16 Southie Students Awarded Sports Hall of Fame Scholarships
By Ginger DeShaney Sixteen outstanding South Boston students were awarded $2,000 grants from the South Boston Sports Hall of Fame Scholarship Trust Fund on Nov. 26. “It’s been an incredibly difficult last 20 months for everybody,” ceremony emcee and Trustee John Beatty said at the Walsh Gym. People have been affected in different ways, he said: “Some with physical hardship [...]
Hilco Redevelopment Partners Donates 1,000 Turkeys to South Boston Families
By Ginger DeShaney Like a good neighbor, Hilco Redevelopment Partners is there. HRP, the owner and developer of 776 Summer St., a 1.68-million-square-foot redevelopment of the former Edison Power Plant, donated 1,000 turkeys to South Boston families in need, working in collaboration with South Boston Association of Non-Profits (SBANP) to distribute them. “We know that the pandemic hit families really [...]
Missing Ingredients: BPL Donation Initiative Looks to Spice Up Local Food Pantries
By Ginger DeShaney They say variety is the spice of life, but you’d be hard-pressed to find any spices in a food pantry. Stephanie Chace, nutritional literacy coordinator for Boston Public Library and organizer of its Spice Bank Collective, is on a mission to change that. “It’s an idea I’ve carried with me for a very long time, probably 8 [...]
Bob Monahan Completes 47 Years of Service
Bob Monahan is a born and brought up South Bostonian, who is concluding his 47th consecutive year of community service. He’s a family man, the oldest of five brothers – Bob himself, Kevin, Sean, Danny, and Terry. He recalls growing up, going to summer camps in his pre-teens, and coaching some of South Boston’s many sports teams; he was [...]
Fairway’s ‘Fairgiving’ Initiative Benefits St. Monica’s
By Ginger DeShaney Happy Fairgiving! Or rather, Happy Thanksgiving, thanks in part to Fairway Independent Mortgage. Fairway has donation boxes in nine South Boston businesses to collect food for St. Monica’s Thanksgiving meals. But Fairway isn’t just collecting the regular items. “[St. Monica’s] suggested some fun desserts: cake mixes and frosting and brownie mixes in addition to instant potatoes, cornbread, [...]
Wicked High Tides a Wake-up Call on Climate Change
By Ginger DeShaney The wicked high tides that flooded Long Wharf and other parts of the city the weekend of Nov. 6 provided a wake-up call for Boston. “Even though this is a natural event that we’re experiencing right now, it’s already been influenced by climate change,” said Rebecca Shoer, education and community engagement program manager for the Stone Living [...]