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The Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester (BGCD) hosted a ceremony last week that honored the life and legacy of former professional basketball player and longtime BGCD athletic director Bruce Seals, who died last December at age 67. Mayor Wu joined a speakers’ program during which Seals was recalled lovingly by family and colleagues before a banner featuring him in action as an
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June 2, 2021
Rebeca Pereira, Reporter Correspondent Queenie Santos s goal: Get kids ready for the next steps of life. Flavio D photography
Last March, Quennette “Queenie” Santos’s mother, Izora Kindell, succumbed to renal failure after a tough battle against kidney and lung cancer. She was 92.
Much like her daughter, who herself had been diagnosed with stage four bilateral breast cancer five years earlier, “Momma” wore a smile on her face throughout her treatment and kept the doors to her home in Harbor Point open to the children who passed through the Walter Denney Youth Center next door.
PORTSMOUTH – The inaugural Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Seacoast Leaders awards ceremony Sunday night, Feb. 28, went well and will be an annual event, according to organizers.
Clifton West Jr., one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter Seacoast, the host organization for the event, said he was pleased with the evening.
“It went better than I thought it would, for the first time,” said West. “I found the stories that were told, and the passion displayed inspiring. It was such a beautiful event. I look forward to the next one.”
The event is intended to highlight people of color whose work has benefitted the Seacoast region.
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