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Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week:
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| Children from Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) Head Start programs all across the city marched around Boston Common as part of ABCD’s annual Head Start Parade. These young marchers from ABCD’s Roxbury Head Start program take a break to mug for the camera. ABCD Head Start serves more than 2,400 low-income children and families all across Boston. Enrollment is free, and open now for families who qualify. (Don West photo) |
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| A host of city, state, federal and MBTA officials came together Tuesday to celebrate renovations to the Morton Street Commuter Rail Station on the Fairmount Line. In attendance were (from left): state Rep. Liz Malia, state Sen. Jack Hart, Dick Doyle of the Federal Transit Administration, City Councilor Charles Yancey, state Rep. Willie Mae Allen, Mayor Thomas M. Menino, state Secretary of Transportation Bernard Cohen, state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, MBTA General Manager Daniel Grabauskas and state Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry. (Photo courtesy of the City of Boston Mayor’s Office) |
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| Sidney Cooper, tennis director of Sportsmen’s Tennis Club in Dorchester (left), takes a moment to pose for a photo with the club’s youth volunteers at a recent event held at Sportsmen’s, located on Blue Hill Avenue. (Tony Irving photo) |
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| Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois (left), listens to his chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, during a July 12 forum at the NAACP convention in Detroit. (AP photo/Paul Sancya) |
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| A young girl poses in front of a glass box containing over 10,000 cigarettes in Xiamen, China’s Fujian province in this May 2007 file photo. Artist Chen Wenqin made the installation to remind Chinese people of the harms of smoking, dangers all too well known to the American public. The U.S. Senate is considering a bill that would give the Food and Drug Administration regulatory authority over cigarettes. (AP photo) |
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