April 25, 2025 | Vol. 54, Issue 8
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Month: December 2013

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How to have a happy holiday without stress or smoke

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By the Asian Smokers’ Quitline Holidays are supposed to be an enjoyable time when family and friends gather together with food and drinks, but it can also be stressful as people rush from place to place. A cigarette can sound like the perfect way to destress, especially during a busy holiday season, but cessation coaches at the Asian Smokers’ Quitline have tips and encouragement for people attempting to quit, or want to stay quit through the season. “There can be […]

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Youth Voices: Procrastination

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By Tiffany Du Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock the clock goes ticking away. The room shifts into a wonderland of inanimate objects alive. Papers, pencils and pens talk as they would in a dream. Blank pages fill themselves with scribbles, sketches and scumbles. Then I wake up from my daydream, and gawk over my progress. I still have time, I tell myself then I read my comics. Page two, 10, 12 they pass by like a rocket. A few […]

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Paying for child care

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Submitted by Bernadette Davidson, director of child care services at Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Why is child care so expensive? It is because young children need more one-to-one attention from caregivers in order to grow and flourish. While school-age children may be taught in classrooms as large as 30 students by one teacher, young children need more attention to flourish. For babies in licensed early care and education centers, one teacher by law can only care for three at a […]

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Chinatown meeting roundup: CCBA, CNC, CRA, CSC

by Ling Mei Wong

By Ling-Mei Wong The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, Chinatown Neighborhood Council, Chinatown Resident Association and Chinatown Safety Committee met in November and December. The CCBA had a presentation on developing the Tai Tung Village parking lot on Harrison Avenue into housing. Preliminary sketches by Winn Development would place a residential building with underground parking on the 35,000 square foot lot. The CRA heard presentations on renovating Liberty Tree Plaza and bilingual ballots. CNC Richard Chang, co-headmaster of Quincy Upper School […]

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Confessions of a youth leadership coordinator

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By See Vang, AACA youth leadership coordinator Youth-focused programs often tout “youth empowerment,” the notion that these programs exist to help youth realize their own voices and their potential to effect positive changes in their communities. I am by no means suggesting these programs are not needed, as youth voices have historically been excluded from major decisions that oftentimes directly affect them. What I am criticizing is the one-way street assumption that inspiration, empowerment, impact, engagement and learning travel from […]

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