Not enough organizers with enough time.

Promo for a documentary by the Hyde Square Task Force's Health Career Ambassadors on youth violence in Boston:

Info on the documentary's premiere, May 29 at the John D. O'Bryant African-American Institute, Northeastern University.

Liz writes that the Hyde Square Task Force could win a $100,000 grant if enough people click in a competition that begins July 9. Hey, if you can do it for Hideki, do it for Hyde Square (and no cracks about what this says about the state of American philanthropy that it's been reduced to popularity contests).

Elizabeth Albritton noticed an interesting sign at a Hyde Square tree where a bike used to be chained (e-mail address is not blanked out on the actual paper):

Continuing dialog about the development of the Blessed Sacrament Church and Campus. The effect of the project on traffic, parking and density will be discussed.

When: Thursday, January 19, 2006, 6:30 - 9:00PM (food at 6:00PM)

Where:  Cheverus School (behind the church), 365 Centre St., Hyde Sq., Jamaica Plain

Info: 617-524-2424 x279  or kbarnett[at]jpndc.org

Sarah comes back to Boston from California for a visit:

... I got off the T at a station I'd never been to before, Stonybrook, and felt a huge wash of happiness as soon as I saw the three-story Victorians quietly absorbing summer rain under a row of tossing green trees. Those houses really do a number on me in a kind of primordial way. They say "home," and "why don't you rearrange your life right now so that you can live in one of us, because what else could be more important?" My friend Emily G lives in a wonderful apartment in one of those houses, in what seems to be a really great neighborhood in Jamaica Plain called Hyde Square (because every place in Boston is a square). It's funny that it's so familiar even though I've never been here before. ...