Boston Pauses for 911 Anniversary

The more than 200 people with direct ties to Massachusetts who died on Sept. 11, 2001 have been remembered as the state joins the nation in marking the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. This morning the Governor read off the names of everyone who was lost on that day. Yesterday at the Public Garden, a slow trickle of people stopped by a low-profile stone memorial, where they silently read the names of 9/11 victims inscribed in the pink granite. A wreath was also placed at the state’s 9-11 memorial in the Boston Public Garden. The Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund will gather on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway to put together care packages for Bay State military personnel overseas. Anyone is welcome to help out in putting these together from 11-2 today.

Boston vs. New York Food Truck Throwdown

The first ever Food Truck Throwdown is coming! As if Boston needed another event to compete against with New York, this new type of competition is certainly heating up. Food trucks have become very popular in the last couple years. Trucks now carry anything from cupcakes and cookies to hot dogs and grilled cheeses. Voting is now open for the event which will take place on October 13th in Dewey Square. Seven Boston contendors are up for this voting and will be accepting votes through the end of this week. Make sure you vote for your favorites and help Boston out with this event! You can vote and get more information about the event here: http://www.foodtruckthrowdown.com/

Walk for Hope

More than 8,000 walkers took to the Boston Marathon route yesterday to raise money and inspire hope for cancer patients, organizers said.

The Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund walk from Hopkinton to Boston raises funds for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, for both cancer research and treatment.

“It’s an act of hope and positive action in a situation that has been very challenging,” said walk director Ann Beach.

Walkers included Monica Vinasco, who moved her family to Boston from Puerto Rico to get treatment for her son’s leukemia. The Jimmy Fund hopes to raise $7.5 million by Dec. 31.

BU Hockey Team Continues to Receive Bad Reports

As you may remember from last Spring the BU men’s hockey team has been under some pressure lately. After accusations of sexual assult took place there were some very upset people in our community. Now, as fall semester is underway, a recent Boston University report finds a culture of “sexual entitlement” exists among some of the school’s men’s ice hockey players. The school has been looking into all of their issues further and this report came out yesterday from the task force. The report claims players’ elevated social status as five-time national champions is partly to blame. This task force was assigned by Boston University president after the events last spring. While two players were accused of sexual assult, one of the charges were eventually dropped while the other plead guilty. Ice hockey is certainly a popular sport in the Boston area and it may continue to be a very touchy subject.

Olympic champion and  former BU player Mike Eruzione, who was consulted by the task force, also  applauds the university for taking a critical look. “I think athletes, men and  women, sometimes feel a sense of entitlement because of the stature that they  carry at a university — whether it’s a hockey player at BU, football player at  Texas or a woman basketball player at UConn. What I was happy about is that they  found is that’s really nothing drastically wrong with the BU hockey program — I  think it’s more the culture of college athletics,” he said.

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