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By Rebeca Pereira, Reporter Correspondent
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.
By Bill Forry, Editor
Bill Forry, Editor
Bruce Seals in his office at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester building on Deer Street. Bill Forry photo
The news radiated across the neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon and, for so many of us, it was a gut punch: Bruce Seals, the Louisiana native who had made the Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester his professional home since 1990 and from there helped raise thousands of our kids, was dead at age 67.
One of the many indignities of this cruel year is that most of us didn’t know that Bruce was suffering from cancer. Bob Scannell, the head of the Boys and Girls Club who worked alongside Bruce for three decades at the Deer Street campus, was stunned that his friend and colleague was suddenly gone. How could it be?