November 2006I talked with Corey Dolgon, chair of the sociology department at Worcester State, about the “Mending Fences” report that looked at the impact of social service programs on one Worcester neighborhood. (We have a summary of the report.)
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When I get around to transcribing this, I’ll post the transcription here.
From tonight’s city council agenda:
8i. Councilor Paul P. Clancy, Jr. and Mayor Timothy P. Murray request that Central St. to Main St. be renamed MLK, Jr. Boulevard, and, that Front St. from Main St. to Washington Sq. be renamed JFK Boulevard.
Also:
9.17
PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENTS
Police DepartmentA. Informational Communication Relative to the Number of Ambulance, Fire First Responder, and/or Police calls to 72-80 Cambridge Street for 2004, 2005, 2006 Related to Drug Overdoses, Weapons, and/or Physical Violence.
I’m told this is a Salvation Army building. Happy holidays.
Thanks to an anonymous reader for submitting these.
We had a fair amount of site traffic on Thanksgiving, with lots of folks looking for Wal-Mart’s Thanksgiving hours and ending up at Mark Dixon’s Wal-Mart article. So I added a note at the top of the article about Buy Nothing Day.
Worcester: Dave McMahon has a blog.
Breaking news: Local man likes Jasmine Guy.
Snow Ghost: Bruce’s latest studio tracks are available for download. Note that he was last month’s Employee of the Month at Happy Birthday Mike Leslie.
Naming a Worcester street after MLK: Efforts are moving forward.
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Here’s a chat about Evergreens Market, 596 Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Bruce reads the T&G at Evergreens Market
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This review of Kristen E. Heyer’s Prophetic and Public starts by recalling a visit to the South Bend Catholic Worker community and a presentation by Margie Pfeil. It continues by referencing the academic work of SBCW member Mike Baxter.
Margie Pfeil and Mike Benedetti, Mike Baxter with an axe
I have a couple comments on the review; if I can get my hands on the book, I’ll comment on that, too.
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Since today is a FEAST day, I thought it would be appropriate to share a recipe for pie here at Pie and Coffee. For some time I have been searching for the perfect pumpkin pie. I may have found it today. I have experimented with a lot of different pumpkin pie recipes but this one is the best to date.
This pie was made from basic ingredients, I started with a whole pumpkin and went from there. To make the mashed pumpkin — a couple of weeks ago I sliced a pumpkin into chunks and baked it at 350 degrees until they were soft, and then put them in the freezer. Yesterday I took some of it out of the freezer and let it thaw, and then mashed the pulp this morning with an electric mixer. I did not use a pie pumpkin, just an ordinary “jack-o-lantern” pumpkin that I got from a local farmer through the Oklahoma Food Coop.
The RECIPE (with notes about which farms I got the various ingredients from):
3 cups mashed pumpkin (from McLemore Farms in Colony)
1 cup honey (Honey Hill Farm north of Edmond)
3 eggs (from Lehman’s Eggs in Newcastle)
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
16 ounces cream (Wagon Creek Creamery in Helena)
Combine all ingredients and mix well. Pour into two unbaked pie crusts. Bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes, then at 350 degrees for 45 minutes, until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
To make the pie crust, I use “Dorothy’s Never Fail Pie Crust” recipe:
3 cups flour (Shawnee Mills, Shawnee)
1-1/4 cup butter (Wagon Creek, Helena)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 egg (Charles Horn, Cordell)
5 tablespoons water
I don’t know who “Dorothy” was — it presumably isn’t Dorothy Day — but her pie crust recipe works nicely. Mix the flour and salt, then add the butter and work the flour into the butter very thoroughly. Mix the vinegar and water, add the egg (slightly beaten), add to flour and mix thoroughly. Roll out between two pieces of wax paper.
As an experiment, I baked these pies covered with foil — this was suggested by Jo Logan, the bee keeper I got the honey from, since honey-sweetened baked goods tend to brown faster. The pies cooked just fine, but they did take an extra 15 minutes, so if you bake them covered, add 15 minutes to the 350 degree baking time. The crust came out lightly browned and not burnt.
There will be a memorial event for those who have died homeless the evening of December 21. The event will begin at Union Station and end at St. John’s Church.
(announcement follows:)
The Longest Night: Worcester Homelessness Memorial Day rally and memorial service will take place on Thursday, December 21, 2006, the first day of winter and the longest night of the year.
This memorial observance is part of the National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day that since 1990 has called attention to the tragedy of homelessness and those who have paid the ultimate price for our nation’s failure to end homelessness.
On December 21st, Worcester Homelessness Memorial Day, a coalition of concerned Worcester residents and organizations will gather at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall Plaza (behind City Hall), where we will hold a rally and vigil to remember our homeless neighbors who died in 2006. We will then walk to St. John’s Rectory (44 Temple Street) for a 7:15 p.m. memorial service.
The rally behind City Hall will include a call to action as well as a reading and remembrance of the names of homeless individuals in Worcester who died in 2006.
At the memorial service at St. John’s Rectory, religious leaders from a variety of faiths will each say a few words about the loss of homeless members of our community.
Together these memorial events will honor those who have died and call our community to recommit to the task of ending homelessness.
Please join us on December 21st – The Longest Night. Together we can make our communities safer and healthier for all.
Funeral: The Telegram & Gazette reported yesterday on the funeral of Michael A. Cerrone in Worcester. Cerrone was killed by a car bomb in Iraq.
Godzilla: The Worcester Public Library will be screening “Godzilla, King of Monsters” Saturday at 2pm.
Oaxaca: Infamous Worcesterite ChaCha Connor is in Oaxaca. Indymedia has an interview with her about the situation there. MP3 (original post)
KNIMBY: The West Side’s anonymous author writes:
Now I know that most of the politically correct crowd is going to say that it is naive to believe that drug and/or alcohol abuse does not occur in our neighborhood. That may be so. However it would also be ridiculous to say that our area is riddled with substance abuse on par with other parts of the community.
(According to Technorati, we’re the first blog to link to The West Side. And we’re darn proud of it.)
Winslow Street Park:
schematic
Bad buildings: WoMag profiles the ten worst propeties in the city.
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For the past year I’ve been trying to attend a KNIT meeting or get on their mailing list, but they don’t return my calls and e-mails.
So I was happy to see there was a KNIT table at last night’s Doherty siting hearing, and happier that KNIT’s Chris Comeaux was willing to talk to me about the group.
My first question: What is the deal with Protect Our Children?
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Another episode of the green-tinged podcast.
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