If there is one thing that most Somerville residents can agree on it’s the importance of supporting initiatives that help solve the problem of addiction and recovery in our community and others.

In recognition of International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD) on Saturday, August 31, and National Recovery Month in September, advocates and officials in Somerville have united in their call for Somervillians to observe both events in a few simple but powerful ways. From displaying purple lights and ribbons to attending vigils and events, residents can send a message of support and hope for recovery.

Eagle Feathers #186 – Man’s Best Friend

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

John Winthrop kept a record book that gave a clear picture of his early life at Ten Hills. He wrote about October 11, 1631, when he took an after-supper walk, got lost in the direction of today’s Tufts University, and after a fearful night around a campfire, safely returned the next day.

Virtual Reality Demo & Open House

Wednesday, August 28 from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.

Come have fun and explore our new Virtual Reality station at VOX POP. Adam Stone, Studio & Technical Manager at Somerville Media Center will host a fun interactive session for the community. They will have Google Tilt Brush which lets you paint in 3D space with virtual reality. Unleash your creativity with three-dimensional brush strokes, stars, light, and even fire. You can also play with Beat Saber, a VR rhythm game, where your goal is to slash the beats which fit perfectly into precisely handcrafted music.

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Review by Robert Cable

These poems reward our senses of sight, hearing, smell and taste! The poet observes that “ordinary seeing makes us blind.” She herself, however, has cultivated particularly keen perceptions, which she shares in these colorful, musical, fragrant, tasty poems. A winner in the Maria C. Faust Sonnet Contest, Provost’s poems tend to be of 14 lines, more or less. They are short and sweet, as is the poet herself. (Last night I had a front row seat at her public reading.) A few longer poems also tell interesting stories.

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Tim Young is looking forward to a milestone birthday this January 2020, when he turns seventy. He began writing poetry in high school and has continued to do so. His poetry has appeared in Kaffe in Katmandu, Fictionaut, and other publications. In 2005 he began chasing the novel form and has since produced four unpublished works. He was a resident of Manhattan’s famed Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. Tim is also a singer/songwriter/guitarist.

Weiying Olivia Huang, Director/Producer (left), and Mengyuan Lin, Cinematographer/Editor (right) ~Photo credit: Ru Fang

Grolier Poetry Book Shop: The Last Sacred Place of Poetry

Arrests:
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Terrence Morrison, of 21 Michigan Ave., August 19, 10:17 a.m., arrested at home on charges of resisting arrest and multiple counts of assault and battery on a police officer, and on warrant charges of larceny of credit card, credit card fraud under $1200, receiving a stolen motor vehicle, and larceny over $1200.

Ithamar Santana, of 11 Rowson Rd., Arlington, August 19, 3:12 p.m., arrested at Elm St. on a charge of disorderly conduct.

Join Mayor Joseph Curtatone and Ward 1 City Councilor Matthew McLaughlin on Tuesday, August 27, at 11:00 a.m. for a ribbon cutting ceremony at the East Somerville School Field, located at 50 Cross St. The ceremony will celebrate the refurbishment of the existing synthetic turf field.

S. Lester Ralph, former Mayor of Somerville.

The Reverend S. Lester Ralph, formerly of Reading and Somerville, passed away August 20, 2019 at his home in Reading, Massachusetts. He was 88 years old.