SAT., JUNE 9
Annual Greater Roxbury Track Club Classic
Track & field games for all ages. Free T-shirts/Award to top finishers. Registration is at 9 a.m. $2 donation. White Stadium, Franklin Park, Boston.
NeighborWalk Celebration and Walking Challenge
Jamaica Pond, The Jamaica Way, Jamaica Plain, 9 a.m.- 12 p.m. Bring your family, friends, and neighbors to the 4th annual Neighbor Walk Celebration. This unique free event brings people from Boston neighborhoods together to walk for health and fun. Challenge yourself to walk the circuit around beautiful Jamaica Pond 1, 2, 3, or 4 times! Awards, giveaways, raffles, steel drum band, and refreshments. Children’s activities include face painting and balloon hats. Fitness and healthy eating demonstrations. Bring a team of 20 walkers and get a gift certificate and iPod raffle opportunity. For further information visit www.bphc.org/neighborwalk or call 617-534-5960. Sponsored by the Boston Public Health Commission.
Get Lei’d on the Van during Pride
The Pride Health Van is going Hawaiian at this year’s Fritz Block Party. Get free HIV & STD testing and hepatitis vaccinations. Door prizes include $5-$10 gift cards and a drawing for a pool party at Felt for 20 people. Featuring the Wahines and Boys from Fenway Community Health and Project Health MOVES. Fritz Pride Block Party. Corner of Chandler & Berkeley Streets, Boston. 1:30 p.m.-6 p.m.
Community Boating — Sailing on the Charles Open House
Join us from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. for a free sail. Community Boating Boathouse in the Esplanade, 21 David G. Mugar Way, Boston. Cost and registration: Free. More info: Website: www.community-boating.org. Email: info@community-boating.org. Phone:
617-523-1038. Contact: Charles Zechel. Community Boating Inc. (CBI) is the nations oldest and largest community sailing program. We are mad about sailing. If you love to sail, windsurf, and kayak then we are the place for you. Are you new to these sports? Do you want to learn to sail, windsurf, and kayak? With a fleet of over 160 vessels and a volunteer teaching faculty of over 50 we’ll have you sailing independently in no time at all. We are community based and volunteer supported, and we’re also more than sailing, windsurfing, kayaking. We have cookouts on the dock, moonlight sails, harbor trips, Swing and Salsa dances. The greatest fireworks display in the world (Boston’s 4th of July celebration happens right in front of our dock), and we can even teach you to speak like a pirate (this is an advanced class with prerequisites).
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SAT., JUNE 9
Ninth Annual Safe Summer Fun Day
Marlborough Hospital, 157 Union St., Marlborough, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The event will feature fingerprinting and child identification kits from the Molly Bish Foundation, educational health programs, face painting, tours of fire trucks and ambulances, music, games, contests and raffles. Bicycle and skateboard helmets will be fitted and given to children free of charge while supplies last. For more information, call Melissa Hodgson at 508-486-5806.
Property Owner Resource Fair
Attention Property Owners. Think you need better tools to take care of your property? Think again. Join us for our Property Owner Resource Fair, from 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership, 125 Lincoln St., 5th Floor, Boston. Free admission, free food, free parking, free raffle prizes, and free information. The Fair will also feature workshops on: Section 8 and Inspections; Home Rehabilitation; De-leading and Pest Control; Landlord/Tenant Law. To RSVP, call Jennifer at 617-425-6637. For more information, visit www.mbhp.org.
Haitian Youth Rally
Young People are cordially invited to be a part of the second annual Haitian Youth Rally — “The Power of Faith.” 9-4 p.m. at St Gregory Catholic School, 2214 Dorchester Ave., Dorchester.
The Young Professionals of Boston present:
Ghettonation
A Conversation with Cora Daniels
With Ghettonation, acclaimed journalist and author, Cora Daniels, takes on one of the most explosive issues in our country today in this thoughtful critique of America’s embrace of a ghetto persona that is demeaning to women, devalues education, celebrates the worst African American stereotypes, and contributes to the destruction of civil peace. Join us for this interactive discussion with the author. 2-4 p.m. John D. O’Bryant African American Institute, Northeastern University, 40 Leon St., Boston. For more information call 617-373-5420 or email info@ypnboston.org.
SUN., JUNE 10
Musical Concert
Rev. James E. Dove and First Lady Rita Smith Dove celebrates the 8th Pastoral Anniversary. 4 p.m., Ebenezer Baptist Church, 157 West Springfield St., Boston. 617-262-7739. No cost. All are welcome!
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A Community Conversation
to Address Violence as a Public Health Issue
How can we mobilize to address the problem of youth violence as a major public health epidemic? Come speak out at a series of community conversations on violence as it affects our mental, physical, and spiritual health. Admission is free and open to the public. These conversations will be taped for air on Boston Neighborhood Network, Channels 9 and 23. Upcoming Conversations: June 11, 5:30-8:00 p.m., Dorchester House, Multi-Service Center, 1353 Dorchester Ave.; June 26, 5:30-8:00p.m., Mildred Avenue Middle School, 5 Mildred Ave., Mattapan. Moderator: Dr. Deborah Prothrow Stith., Public Health Practice, Harvard School of Public Health. To RSVP: Kelley Chunn & Associates, E-mail kcprmail@aol.com,
617-427-0997.
After-School Music Lessons
Berklee College of Music’s City Music Program will be hosting a free information session from 2:30–5:00 p.m. at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) Theater, located at 458 Broadway, Cambridge. The event will feature a live performance by the Berklee City Music All-Stars, followed by a reception and mixer. Children and their parents attending the session can apply to be admitted to the Berklee City Music Program, at no cost to them, in 2008. For more information, please call
617-747-2447 or visit www.berklee.edu/community
/citymusic.html.
THURS., JUNE 14
My Home Sweet Home Project
Hawthorne Youth and Community Center invites you to a reception honoring 6-12 year olds who created models, photos, drawings, and writings in the My Home Sweet Home Project from 6:30-7:45 p.m. at Parker Hill Branch Library, 1497 Tremont St., Mission Hill. Exhibit can be viewed during library hours from June 4-29. For info call 617-427-0613.
Find Out How to Hold on to Your HOME
With Almost 20,000 foreclosures filed in MA, last year alone, more are predicted for 2007. The Neighborhood Development Corporation OF Grove Hall is sponsoring aCommunity Meeting on Foreclosure Prevention. “Find Out How to Hold on to Your HOME,” 6:30-8:30 p.m., William E. Reed Auditorium, 24 Washington St., Grove Hall Dorchester. Panel participants include: James A. Williams and Company (CPA); Jackie Cooper, Financial Education Associates; Greg Burton, Burton & Associates. For info call: Neighborhood Development Corporation of Grove Hall, 617-445-2284.
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