March 22, 2007 — Vol. 42, No. 32
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Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week:


With the Lincoln Memorial seen in the background, demonstrators marched over the Arlington Memorial Bridge from the National Mall to the Pentagon in Washington last Saturday during a protest opposing the war in Iraq. Over the weekend, protests marking the four-year anniversary of the war were held in cities across the country. (AP photo/Gerald Herbert)

Gov. Deval Patrick (left) speaks to Paul Guzzi (right), president and CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce during the Chamber of Commerce’s Government Affairs Breakfast, held Feb. 28. In the early months since he took office, Patrick’s administration has been marked by a series of political mistakes and subsequent apologies. (AP photo/Chitose Suzuki)

The Louis D. Brown Peace Institute held its Peacemakers’ Breakfast on Friday, March 16 at the Mary Baker Eddy Library at the Christian Science Center. Institute President and CEO Clementina Chéry (right) and breakfast co-chairs Boston Children’s Hospital President and CEO James Mandell (center) and Wheelock College President Jackie Jenkins-Scott (left) joined with other area leaders in the fields of public health and education at the fundraiser, which raised $12,000. (Rhonda Harrison photo)

(Left to right): Rich Robison, executive director of the Federation for Children with Special Needs (FCSN), recently honored Darlene Jones-Inge of Jamaica Plain and Sharon Williams of Dorchester with FCSN’s Community Partnership Award. Jones-Inge and Williams are the program coordinators of the after-school program at Patrick O’Hearn Elementary School, located in Dorchester. (Photo courtesy of the Federation for Children with Special Needs)

First-grade students from Martin Luther King Open School receive a tour of Cambridge City Hall from Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves on Wednesday morning, March 7. Reeves invited the children into his office, presented them with a special “key to the city” and told them they are always welcome in Cambridge. In return, the children presented the mayor with the “keys to their classroom” and a pillow created by the students of King Open, so that he may have a comfortable rest when he gets tired. (Photo courtesy of the City of Cambridge Mayor’s Office)

Dorchester resident Deborah Bolling (right) is joined by Patricia Villani, regional vice president of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage at a recent corporate awards ceremony at which Bolling received the International Sterling Society Award for outstanding achievement in real estate sales volume. Bolling is the daughter of the late Sen. Royal L. Bolling Sr. (Photo courtesy of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage)

Mt. Washington Bank President and CEO Edward J. Merritt (left) was recognized by the University of Massachusetts Boston with the Chancellor’s Longstanding Community Commitment and Service Award, presented by UMass Boston Chancellor Dr. Michael Collins (right). (Photo courtesy of Mt. Washington Bank)

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