Last shot before the big drawing this week. There are still tickets available, and they need to be sold.   The Somerville High Scholarship Foundation is having its annual $10K drawing this Friday evening, May 16, at the Highlander Café at Somerville High (gym entrance off Highland Avenue). This foundation has been busy now for just over 25 years and has given thousands and thousands of dollars to students to go on to college. Call Eugene Brune at 617 -628-5835 only 250 tickets will be sold.  Lots of door prizes for those that attend, and a great night for a worthy cause. If you haven’t been before, come at 7p.m. to the Highlander Café. Refreshments will be served.

Eagle Feathers #52 – Miss America

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

“May Day” in this country is a day when the sight of budding trees and flowers tells us that winter is over and the children sing around the May poles to celebrate the arrival of spring. In other countries, like Russia, it’s a day of viewing parades and exhibiting national pride. Kate Smith would spend her life celebrating both of these practices. She was a singing patriot. She was born on May 1, 1907, May Day, and she died on June 17, 1986, Bunker Hill Day. Kathryn Elizabeth Smith grew up in the nation’s capital. At eight years old, she sang for World War I veterans and, while attending nursing school as a teen, she sang for patients.

Add ours to the chorus of voices thanking Tom Taylor for his decades of service to the city and its residents.

The former Ward 3 alderman, now the city’s first “alderman emeritus,” was honored last week in an emotional ceremony during the opening portion of the Board of Aldermen’s meeting. While he holds the title of the city’s longest-serving ward aldermen, it was the quality of his service –and his character- that was truly the reason for the citations and certificates of appreciations given to him.

By Jim Clark

Police were dispatched to a Winter Hill Circle apartment complex last week on reports of a dispute between a landlord and a tenant.

Upon arrival, officers learned that the tenant, Anna Nikitenko, 29, had reportedly failed to pay her second month’s rent on a room that she was renting and the landlord put a lock on her door. It was for this reason that Nikitenko called the police.

Former Somerville Times Reporter Andrea Gregory edits a new literary magazine out of U/MASS Boston where she is studying for her MFA. I had the noted critic Dennis Daly take a look at this journal of poetry and prose.

Our guest poet writes: “My name is Salvatore Ghamo, and I’m a Communications Major at Endicott College. I’ve enjoyed piecing together short stories since I was a young boy but never thought to truly pursue my craft. My freshman year of college I took a creative writing class. Since my experience in that class, I’ve seen the world with a whole new perspective. It is a perspective I hope to keep reflecting on in my writing.”