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To Your Health-City Councilor Michael Ross (right) and Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services Mission Hilll Coordinator Will Onuoha join youngsters on the 11th Annnual Mission Hill Walk for Health April 21. The event, sponsored by Mission Hill Youth Collaborative, drew about 350 walkers who raised $40,000 for groups serving youth in the neighborhood.
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Community Alliance of Mission Hill, third Weds. of every month, 7pm, Kresge Building, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave. Info: rjohnson@camhonline.
"Neighborhood Nights" at the Gardner Museum, live performances and art-making activities that celebrate art music and community, Thurs., July 10, July 24, Aug 7, 5-8pm, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway, free. Info: www.gardnermuseum.org.
Mass of Thanksgiving, Mission Church, Sun., July 27, 12:30 pm, farewell Mass for Fr. Richard Bennett, rector, and Fr. Matt Allman CSsR who will both be moving on to new as-signments. The new rector is Rev. Ray Collins CSsR.
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July 7, 2008
Secret Deals, Mystery Math
College payments to City examined
Northeastern University is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization. But in return for all the city services it consumes, Northeastern—like many other Boston nonprofit institutions—makes a voluntary payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) every year.
Its total PILOT for Fiscal Year 2008: $30,571.
That roughly equals the total property tax on seven houses like the one owned by City Councilor Steve Murphy, who is vowing to reform the PILOT system.
"It's just outrageous," Murphy told the Gazette.
Northeastern's PILOT was lower than that of Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT), which has less than one-seventh of Northeastern's student population on a campus half the size.
Crowd: Lab plan too big
After a crowd of more than 100 residents last month weighed in on his company's proposed eight-story laboratory building on Huntington Avenue, Beal Companies vice president Peter Nichols said he heard the message clearly: the building's "use and height" are the big issues.
"We learned a lot of information tonight," Nichols told the Gazette after the June 4 meeting at Mission Church. "It's kind of like drinking from a fire hose."
7-year-old boy shot
A 7-year-old boy was wounded by a stray bullet last week during a shootout on Tremont Street between a bicyclist and men in a car, according to the Boston Police Department (BPD).
The wounded boy ran into a nearby parking lot at the Mission Main housing development, where he reportedly lives, after the June 30 shooting. He was reportedly in stable condition at Boston Medical Center. Witnesses said his bloody shirt was left at the scene.
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