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Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week:
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| USS John F. Kennedy sails into Boston Harbor on March 1 for a five-day final visit to the 35th president’s home state. The aircraft carrier will be decommissioned later this month in Florida. The Kennedy, with a crew of about 4,600, is more than 1,050 feet long, displaces 82,000 tons and can carry 70 combat aircraft. The ship was christened in 1967 by JFK’s then 9-year-old daughter Caroline, and it entered Navy service the following year. (AP photo/The Boston Globe, David L. Ryan) |
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| (Foreground, from left): U.S. Navy sailors Atif Omer, Roger Villalta, Alex Litovtchenko and Pamela Leach, all stationed aboard the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy, are sworn in as U.S. citizens during a special citizenship ceremony aboard the carrier last Friday in Boston. Admiral Harold Starling watches in the background, second from right. More than 300 residents took the Oath of Allegiance to become citizens during the ceremony aboard the ship during its final visit to Boston before being decommissioned in Florida later this month. (AP photo/Lisa Poole) |
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| Saturday Engineering Enrichment and Discovery (SEED) participants and their teaching assistant, Chris Pena, enjoy the SEED kick-off event at the La Sala de Puerto Rico in the Stratton Student Center at MIT. SEED is a free academic enrichment and career exploration program for Boston and Cambridge public high school students overseen by current MIT student instructors. From left to right: Tarik Mubassir, Mia Harvey, Kidus Mezgebu, Lydia Zamparelli, Mohammed Islam, Pena, Jared Hughes, Zaipporah Guerin and Rebekah Prescott. (Photo courtesy of Weber Shandwick Worldwide) |
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| (Left to right): Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa; Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman Phil Johnson; Frederica Williams, CEO of Whittier Street Health Center; Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.; and Dr. Ebi Okara were all in attendance at the fundraiser Johnston was hosting for Harkin on Monday afternoon at the UMass Club in Boston. Obama had just left his first Massachusetts fundraiser, held across the hall from the Harkin event. (Photo courtesy of Whittier Street Health Center) |
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| Kenny Perry (with microphone), owner of Perry’s Authentic Soul Food, enjoys a moment with supporters during his restaurant’s recent grand opening at 499B Washington Street. Perry spent four years growing his business as a client of Nuestra Culinary Services, which provides classes, technical training, legal assistance and affordable access to kitchen space to budding entrepreneurs. (Photo courtesy of Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation) |
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| Dorchester resident Andre Tilahun, an eighth-grader at The Rivers School in Weston, was awarded a Silver Key last month from The Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards, a competition that judges artwork in a variety of media from students across Massachusetts. Tilahun won for the above photograph “Self Portrait with Straw in My Mouth,” which was judged against 3,560 entries from nearly 400 Massachusetts public, private and parochial schools. (Andre Tilahun photo) |
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| The Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS) in Dorchester held an open house Feb. 28 at their office in Upham’s Corner. About 100 people attended to learn about programs, meet staff and community members and enjoy music and dancing. MAPS provides a variety of health and social service for Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole speakers. (Photo courtesy of MAPS) |
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