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Haitian Flag Day is the celebration of the Haitian flag. Raising the flag is an opportunity to celebrate and bring communities together to learn about the contribution of Haiti to freedom and human rights through out the world.

PJ Dionne Company, a proud signatory to UA Plumbers Local 12 and the Greater Boston Plumbing Contractors Association, recently organized a field trip for Somerville High School plumbing shop students to help inspire them as the next generation of plumbers.

Thank you for celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Somerville Rotary Club. Tuesday night was a fantastic evening and a great deal of fun. Special thanks to our honorees, Nancy Kavanagh, Star Market, and Pat Reardon.

Sargent Avenue tenants and those representing their interests rallied for protection measures to be implemented in favor of renters. — Photos courtesy of CAAS

More than 70 residents gathered at 22 Sargent Avenue in Somerville last Monday to urge legislative action on pending tenant protection measures and demand that real estate investor and landlord Ryan Pinto negotiate in good faith with his tenants.

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By Chris Dwan

Rafi Properties submitted a revised version of their proposed zoning overlay to the City Council last Thursday and it may come as a surprise to some when I say there’s a lot to like about this one. The development team has clearly been listening to the community, both in public sessions like the ones hosted by the Union Square Neighborhood Council (USNC) and also in smaller sessions in living rooms and meeting spaces around town.

Somerville’s Memorial Parade will step off at 11:00 a.m., Sunday, May 26, from the Davis Square rotary. The parade will go up Holland Street and proceed through Teele Square, ending on Broadway and North Street. The annual Memorial Day remembrance ceremony at Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery (on Broadway between Alewife Brook Parkway and North Street) will follow on Monday, May 27, at 10:00 a.m. To learn more, visit somervillema.gov/memorialday. The ceremony will be livestreamed on the CityTV Facebook page (facebook.com/SomervilleCityTV) and broadcast after the event on GovTV (RCN channels 13 or 613; Comcast channel 22) and on the city’s YouTube channel (youtube.com/SomervilleCityTV).

Expectant mothers in Cambridge, Somerville, and Medford are invited to Riverside Early Head Start’s free community baby shower on Wednesday, May 29.

Riverside’s Early Head Start (EHS) program prepares children to successfully enter preschool and helps families learn important parenting skills. To introduce families to the program, they are holding a free community baby shower on Wednesday, May 29, at 474 Broadway, Somerville, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

SCES CEO Marta Corvelo, Rep. Thomas Stanley, Sen. Patricia Jehlen, Mass Home Care Executive Director Betsey Crimmins.

Last week, local nonprofit Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services (SCES) welcomed more than 50 local legislators, city councilors, and nonprofit and healthcare leaders to its first annual Legislative Breakfast.