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Both Brissette and Tim Sul-
livan, the city’s head of inter-
governmental affairs, are ac-
cused of bullying Crash Line
Productions, the Boston Call-
ing promoter, by threatening
to withhold city permits unless
they complied with their de-
mands.
Defense attorneys have ar-
gued that there was no such
threat, suggesting that concert
promoters and city officials
both wanted to avoid an em-
barrassing protest by the
union, which had threatened
to picket the festival with a
large, inflatable rat on City
Hall Plaza. They have accused
prosecutors of seeking to crim-
inalize ordinary City Hall poli-
tics by calling it extortion.
Rull testified that Sullivan,
a former labor leader before he
joined the Walsh administra-
tion, approached him in the
spring and early summer of
2014 to request a meeting with
him and union members who
had been complaining about
Crash Line’s non-union con-
cert production. The threat of
a union demonstration came
up during the meeting, he
said.
“With my knowledge, with
unions and picket lines, there
is typically a rat that goes with
the picket line,” Rull said.
Rull said he told Sullivan to
seek an agreement between
the union and the concert or-
ganizers. Prosecutors have al-
leged that Sullivan and Bris-
sette pressured Crash Line to
help Walsh politically but Rull
told jurors that he made clear
to Sullivan that “the mayor
wants the show to go on, it ba-
sicallyiswhatitis.”
“The show is going on,” Rull
testified. “The mayor is the
boss, the show goes on.”
Rull’s testimony came a day
after Joyce Linehan, Walsh’s
chief of policy, told jurors that
Crash Line had complained to
her in the weeks before the
September festival that it was
being pressured to hire union
workers, and that she relayed
to Walsh that the last-minute
financial burden was unrea-
sonable.
Linehan told jurors she did
not know whether Walsh read
her communications to him.
Walsh has not disclosed
whether he knew about the
conflict between Crash Line
and the union, but Rull’s testi-
mony suggested he had been
made aware several months
before the concert.
Separately Thursday, the
head of the non-union produc-
tion company that did the

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stagehand work for Crash Line
testified that concert organiz-
ers were mad over being pres-
sured into hiring union work-
ers but felt they had no other
option: They seemed worried
the city would withhold alco-
hol permits.
Bill Kenney, head of Bill
Kenney Productions, said
more than 50 of his non-union
employees had already began
setting up the stage in late Au-
gust when he was approached
by concert organizers and told
of the change.
“You’re under contract with
my company... I’d advise you,
you don’t have to do that,”
Kenny said he told the organiz-
ers.
“We just have to play nice
in the sandbox... so we can
have a smooth event,” they re-
plied.
He said he told organizers
Brian Appel and Mike Snow
that they should complain to
the city: He had set up con-
certs on City Hall Plaza with-
out union workers before.
But, he added, “I did it dur-
ing the [Mayor Thomas] Meni-
no era, and I didn’t know if
anything was subject to
change.”
Snow is slated to testify on
Friday, and prosecutors could
then rest their case. After near-
ly two weeks of testimony, 16
witnesses have taken the
stand.

Milton J. Valencia can be
reached at
[email protected].
Follow him on Twitter
@miltonvalencia.

stressful, especially with an in-
fant in tow. Now, though, Tor-
res has a place to live, and can
work full time without having
to worry about child care.
Horizons for Homeless Chil-
dren’s Roxbury classroom looks
identical to that of any other
preschool — young children
play with building blocks, tum-
ble around on the carpet, and
scream the lyrics to “Old Town
Road” at the top of their lungs
while jumping up and down
with glee.
The difference: All the kids
are homeless, or recently were.
Horizons, marking its 30th
anniversary this year, stresses
continuity — with so much un-
certainty in the lives of home-
less children, it’s nice to have
some semblance of a routine.
It’s a “sense of ‘I’m part of a
community. I’m part of some-
thing bigger,’ ” said Deanna
Dwyer, the nonprofit’s spokes-
woman.
The organization has more
than 90 play spaces — mini-
child-care sites housed within
shelters — around the state, as
well as three early education
centers in Boston where 175
children up to age 6 are served
two meals a day and receive
preschool education from cer-
tificated teachers. Horizons al-
so offers a partnership program

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that helps parents like Torres
find careers, education, and
housing.
“We recognize that home-
lessness is often generational,
so if we can get Itzamarie up on
her feet, it will make her kids’
prospects much better going
forward,” Dwyer said.
In Massachusetts, most
homeless families with children
are eligible to be placed in a
family shelter. A roof over your
head might be preferable to
sleeping on the street, but Hori-
zons says shelter conditions are
not conducive to helping young
children learn and develop.
Horizon’s mission is to “pro-
vide the means and the oppor-
tunity and the oversight to ac-
tually have the kind of play ex-
periences that most children
have in their house everyday,”
said Kate Barrand, the organi-
zation’s CEO. “When you’re
barely able to survive, you’re
not likely to go out and buy
books.”
The play spaces are a large
part of that vision.
“Outside of play space, these
kids have no control over what’s
going on in their lives,” said
Lynne Gaines, the Boston re-
gion’s play space director. In-
side, they’re “empowered.”
Unlike traditional schools,
Horizon’s education centers op-
erate year-round, filling a sum-
mertime void for homeless chil-

dren whose families can’t afford
expensive camps. Jayd Rodri-
gues, a former teacher who
oversees the three centers, said
she’s seen first-hand the posi-
tive impact early education has
on children.
“It’s the most important part
of development — the first six
years of life,” Rodrigues said.
All of Horizons programs
are free for families; the non-
profit is mostly funded through
private and corporate dona-
tions, Dwyer said, with some
money coming from federal
Head Start program grants.
Next fall, the organization
will consolidate its three educa-
tion centers into one large
headquarters in Roxbury, add-

ing space for 50 more kids to
learn and grow.
Four-year-old Ayden won’t
be there to see it — he’s getting
ready to graduate from the pre-
school program and head to a
nearby Catholic school for kin-
dergarten.
Torres, who’s pursuing her
GED, has changes coming, too.
“I never stop thinking,
‘What’s next?’ ” she said. “Be-
cause I have to think about two
little humans that count on me
to make their life easier and
better for them.”

Kellen Browning can be reached
at [email protected],
or on Twitter at
@kellen_browning.

JOHN BLANDING/GLOBE STAFF


STORM CLEANUP —Workers at the Annisquam Yacht Club struggled Thursday with a storage locker that washed
overboard during the storm Wednesday afternoon that also overturned boats at the club in Lobster Cove. Gloucester


Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken said a burst of winds up to 94 miles per hour hit Annisquam Village. No one was hurt,
but officials urged the public to avoid travel because many roads were impassable.


Roxbury program boosts homeless children


Aides aimed to


maintain Walsh’s


union reputation


JESSICA RINALDI/GLOBE STAFF
Students played at recess during a summer educational
program at Horizons for Homeless Children.

‘Youcan’tdothat,


it’snotlegal.’


JOE RULL,the city’s former
chief of operations, who testified
he told Ken Brissette that
withholding permits or pulling
a reality show’s footage was
against the law.

PAT GREENHOUSE/GLOBE STAFF


day authority for parish admin-
istration.”
The diocese did not elabo-
rate on the timeframe or the
details of the allegations.
Barboza, 64, who was also
chief marshal of the Fourth of
July parade five years ago and
served on multiple boards and
commissions in Bristol, was
shunned by furious residents
after publication of the story.
His biography was removed
from the Fourth of July Com-
mittee website. The Bristol
town administrator said he is
looking at what to do about
Barboza’s life membership in
the volunteer fire department.
And the Rotary Club said it’s as-


uBRISTOL
Continued from Page B


sessing Barboza’s membership.
The Bristol Town Democrat-
ic Committee, which Barboza
served on until several years
ago, condemned the alleged
abuse.
“When several accusers
speak up and speak out, it must
be taken seriously,” said chair-
man Erich Haslehurst. “We
stand with these victims who
have had their innocence taken
away and their lives so signifi-
cantly impacted.”
Barboza is fighting a lawsuit
by a man who says Barboza re-
peatedly sexually assaulted him
in the 1970s. Robert Powers,
54, said Barboza was a Bristol
police officer when the abuse
took place, starting when Pow-
ers was 9 or 10 years old.

Barboza’s lawyer, Fausto An-
guilla, declined to comment.
Powers’s lawyer, Andrew Tine,
said he’ll seek a deposition of
Barboza in that civil lawsuit.
Powers was the third person
to make allegations against
Barboza. Another Bristol man
told the Globe Barboza molest-
ed him multiple times at a fire
station in the 1970s, starting
when he was 6. That man, now
54, also said that over the years
he told multiple authorities of
the abuse.
Nothing came of his com-
plaints, he said.
Barboza was arrested only
in 1982, when Bristol police
charged him with soliciting a
14-year-old boy. The charge
was dismissed without preju-

dice but never refiled.
Steve Annarummo, one of
the officers who initially han-
dled the case, said Thursday
that he never doubted the boy’s
accusations and was dismayed
when the case was dropped. He
doesn’t doubt Powers, either.
Annarummo said he has
known Powers and his family
for decades.
“When I think of what was
going on, I wish he’d said some-
thing to me back then,” he said.
“Robert Powers is a very credi-
ble person. He’s a very decent
person. He would not make
this up.”

Amanda Milkovits
can be reached at
[email protected].

By Aidan Ryan
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
More than a month after
state legislators convened to
iron out differences in a long-
awaited hands-free driving bill,
they have failed to compromise
before their August recess.
No final bill had been sent
out of committee to the Senate
and House early Thursday —
just hours after Senate Presi-
dent Karen Spilka said she ex-
pected to finish one before the
summer recess. On Wednesday,
House Speaker Robert DeLeo
said he was “waiting anxiously”


for a bill.
Proposed is a ban on the use
of hand-held devices while driv-
ing. Eighteen other states have
passed such legislation.
Senator Joseph Boncore and
Representative William Straus,
who cochair the Joint Commit-
tee on Transportation, said the
conference committee that’s
trying to come up with a final
bill had generally positive talks,
and an agreement in principle
had been reached before the ne-
gotiations faltered.
“Considering it was late in
the State House last night, we

agreed to put it on hold,” he
said, adding that the confer-
ence committee will continue
meeting during the recess.
“I don’t think we can wait on
such a big issue until we come
back” in September, he added.
Straus said a bill might be
handled in an informal session
in August.
Though there was agree-
ment at one point, a House-
Senate miscommunication led
to a standstill. Boncore told the
State House News Service legis-
lators had not agreed on the
bill’s language; House members

thought it was a done deal.
DeLeo said that despite his
disappointment, he’s confident
legislation will be sent to Gover-
nor Charlie Baker soon. In a
statement, Spilka also ex-
pressed confidence that there
will be a compromise soon.
The state in 2010 banned
texting while driving, but pro-
hibiting the use of hand-held
devices has been under discus-
sion for years.

Material from the State House
News Service was used in this
report.

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