Former Somerville Ward 3 Alderman Bob McWatters is enjoying some vacation time in Furnas, a civil parish in the municipality of Povoação on the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese Azores. He is pictured here with with John Correia and Mario Riberio.

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A screening of The Last Sacred Place of Poetry and talk with Olivia Huang and Doug Holder will take place on September 3, 6:00 p.m., at the Cambridge Public Library.

When I first met Olivia Huang she was in the midst of making a documentary about the famed Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Harvard Square titled The Last Sacred Place of Poetry: Grolier Poetry Book Shop. And I was proud to be one of the talking heads in this film about the much-revered shop.

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Ron A. Kalman was born in Haifa to parents who fled Budapest during the Hungarian uprising of 1956, and after living near Paris for a few years, he came to America at age 6. He received his MFA from Emerson College and works as a limo driver in the Boston area. His poems and translations have appeared in The Exquisite Corps Annual, The Main Street Rag, Muddy River Poetry Review, Beacon Street Review and other publications.

Arrests:

Shami Grant Sampson, of 162 Medford St., Charlestown, August 10, 4:43 p.m., arrested at Marshall St. on warrant charges of failure to wear a seatbelt, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle operator misuse of a mobile phone.

Come join in for a night under the stars watching original youth produced videos. Somerville Media Center will be hosting their fourth annual Out Takes Youth Film Festival on Thursday, August 15, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., at the Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave.

They will be showing a selection of youth produced videos from the 2018-2019 school year and summer youth media program.  The event is outdoors, so feel free to bring a lawn chair or a picnic blanket to spread out and get comfy.

The East Somerville Foodie Crawl is back for its 9th edition with diverse restaurants, a beer garden featuring Aeronaut and Small Change Breweries, and live entertainment.

On September 17, come and take a cultural crawl through the East Somerville restaurant corridor.

The Somerville Public Library and St. Mark Community Education Program will host a free, 12-part Citizenship Interview Preparation Class on Saturdays this fall in partnership with Project Citizenship. The class is designed to prepare participants for all parts of their citizenship test, from literacy to U.S. history and government while improving English speaking and listening skills.  

Director of Outreach and Community Relations at Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Nathan Lamb.

By Nathan Lamb

They say the best things in life are free, and the same goes for many of the services and programs offered at Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services (SCES).

As a state and federally designated elder services access point, our mission is helping people live in the setting of their choice, which is usually their own home. We offer a wide range of programs to help with that goal. Some are free and available for the general public, others are free for those who meet eligibility requirements.

Please join Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and Somerville Public Schools Superintendent Mary Skipper for a “topping off” ceremony at Somerville High School on Monday, August 12, at 2:30 p.m. on the SHS concourse. This celebration marks a major milestone in the construction of the new high school when the final steel beam of the new building’s western wing – and the highest point of the new school – will be set into place. A second ceremony will be held later this year when the final beam of the new eastern wing is installed.

Monica Fernandes, Jay Landers and Julie Schneider congratulate Charlotte Kafka-Gibbons, Ben Botner, Henry Zou, Max Nadeau, Robert McCarthy, Bishan Rai, Simran Jeet, Isabel Silva on winning Somerville Math Fund renewable scholarships for outstanding work in math and science.

The Somerville Mathematics Fund recently announced the winners of their renewable mathematics scholarships for 2019. The Math Fund was founded to celebrate and encourage math achievement and these students deserve to be celebrated for their work in math and science while in high school. Thanks to the generosity of many individuals and a few organizations, this year we were able to award a record nine scholarships, totaling $36,000 over four years.