June 5, 2025 • 28 mins
We kicked off the program with four news stories we thought you'd like to know more about!
In this NightSide News Update we chatted with:
Emily Sweeney – Boston Globe Cold Case Files Reporter & Blotter Tales Columnist: Son offering $50,000 reward for information about Brighton mother who vanished in 1975; Boston police asking for public’s help.
Libby Zuccarello – Girl Scout & Belmont High Student – Founder of Senior Outreach Club at Belmont High: Belmont High Schooler Develops the Senior Outreach Club & runs tech help classes for seniors to help them adapt to the world of technology & overcome tech anxiety.
Mark Anastasio – Coolidge Corner Theatre Director of Programming: The Coolidge Corner Theatre Announces Its Summer 2025 Outdoor Screening Line-Up.
Captain Bree Barker – The Salvation Army in Cambridge: For National Donut Day, The Salvation Army of Massachusetts will deliver donuts to police, fire, and veterans across the state.
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In this NightSide News Update we chatted with:
Emily Sweeney – Boston Globe Cold Case Files Reporter & Blotter Tales Columnist: Son offering $50,000 reward for information about Brighton mother who vanished in 1975; Boston police asking for public’s help.
Libby Zuccarello – Girl Scout & Belmont High Student – Founder of Senior Outreach Club at Belmont High: Belmont High Schooler Develops the Senior Outreach Club & runs tech help classes for seniors to help them adapt to the world of technology & overcome tech anxiety.
Mark Anastasio – Coolidge Corner Theatre Director of Programming: The Coolidge Corner Theatre Announces Its Summer 2025 Outdoor Screening Line-Up.
Captain Bree Barker – The Salvation Army in Cambridge: For National Donut Day, The Salvation Army of Massachusetts will deliver donuts to police, fire, and veterans across the state.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Night's eye, Dan Ray. I'm telling you eazy Boston's
News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Thank you very much, Madison. As we head through a
warm Thursday night, it has been a very warm Thursday,
and an equally warm Thursday night. Wherever you are, I
hope that the windows are open, the breeze is blown,
or the air conditioning is working one or the other.
My name is Dan Ray and the host of Nightside
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(00:27):
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(00:48):
wherever you are, anywhere in the world. We have a
great show coming up tonight, going to talk a lot
about some things the President has done in the last
twenty four hours, including attempted to bar foreign students from
being accepted Harvard University, as well as reinstating a US
travel band about various countries around. We'll talk about that
later after nine o'clock. We have four interesting guests here tonight.
(01:10):
Back in the control room is Rob Brooks along with
his top deputy assistant, Shane, and we're ready to rock
and roll here. We want to start off with a
great friend of the program who we are going to
have on more regularly. I'm not exactly sure if we
had this schedule all worked out, but Emily Sweeney from
the Boston Globe. She does a program at the Globe.
It's called Cold Case Files. She's also the Blotter Tales columnist. Hi,
(01:35):
Emily Sweeney, Welcome back to Night's Side.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Hey Dan, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I'm going about seventy eight RPM here because we got
so much to cover, but I want to slow it
down here and talk about a case you have been
working on that deals with the disappearance of a bright
mom right by what was the old Boston Garden right
down downtown Boston near Canal Street. Disappeared in nineteen seventy
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five along with her car, and now her son, who
lives in Pennsylvania, is offering a fifty thousand dollars reward
for any information. He has no hope of finding his
mom alive, but he just wants to provide her with
a decent burial. This is a heartbreaking story, Emily tell
us about it.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, it really is a really important case too. Dorothy
Garashko was going out to meet some friends for drinks
at the Old Penalty Box on June fourth, nineteen seventy five,
and that was the last place that known sighting of
where she was. She was seen walking out of the bar,
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leaving her friends, walking towards her car and disappeared, vanished
without a trace in her car too. And to this
day she's not been found, but there have been so efforts,
and actually there are search efforts underway. I learned of
a new development today where there's a possibility that her
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car might be in the Charles River. We don't know,
but I spoke with Hans Huge. He's a he runs
a company called Sona Searching Recovery up in New Hampshire,
and he ran Sona on the Charles River and he
found five cars that he's going to be diving to
see if maybe, just maybe one of them is Dorothy's car.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Wow, it's amazing to think that a car could be
put into the Charles river. And I don't know the
depth of the Charles River. Obviously we all have seen
the sailboats on the river and other watercraft, but I
assume that Charles River is not that deep, particularly near
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near the shoreline. I mean, how do you see there's
really no bridges you can drive a car off. When
you think about it, this, yeah, well, I'm wondering if
if with license plates, assuming the license plate wasn't removed,
but you have to wonder if fifty years underwater oxidation
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would not have destroyed whatever enumeration might be on a
license plate. Have you talked to him about any of
that aspect. I hate to throw this at your gold
because we don't know these Those are the thoughts that
are running through my mind right now.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Absolutely absolutely, Dan, and I asked Hans the same thing.
You know, so he knows the five cars that would
may have been on the route that Dorothy may have
you know, taken or you know, maybe somebody who you
know did something bad to her, may have taken her
and her cap uh. And you know the Childs River,
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you know, the cas are in different like you know,
have been decomposed over the years. And Hans says like
it's really had compared to like diving in the Charles
River sometimes so like diving in chocolate milk and here
trying to like see as you can imagine, and so
the conditions change a lot from time to time. And
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the thing is about license plates, he said that usually
they survived that like they're made of material aluminum that
can you survive, you know, years and years underwater. So
a license plate could be a way to identify because
or could be a hood or ornaments, it could be
any number of things, like just to rule it out,
so you know that that's what we're you know, we're
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hoping for.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And it's astonishing about the stories that you find out
about and you get involved with various police departments. We
always assume that on crimes like that there's a solution,
but often there isn't. And yeah, because the story, the
story will be a big story for a few days
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depending upon the story. Uh, and then maybe a month
later someone does a follow up story and then it's
lost to the to antiquity. And to think that this
man in I guess he lost his mom. Was he
fourteen years old? Is that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
He was Rick Dorothy's son, was just fourteen when she
went missing.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And we're f fifty years later, right, this is fifty
years from nineteen seventy five. Yeah, he's sixty four. I
has to have left an indelible mark on his life.
Did he have siblings, do you know?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah, two other brothers, and you know it's very difficult,
you know for them, I mean again, and they still
don't have answers. I mean just think, you know, one
day your mom's there, the next day she's not, and
you have no answers as to like, what happened to her?
Is she coming home? Meanwhile, you still have to continue
going to school, and you know it was obviously it
changed their lives, you know, forever, and to this day
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they're still wondering. And that's why the family's offering a
fifty thou read all the reward for any information that
could lead to the recovery of you know, her remains
and the vehicle she was driving, just to get it out.
There was a gold nineteen seventy nineteen seventy Ford Maverick
with a black roof. And again, you know, they're hoping
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that somebody might have information, somebody might have seen something.
And yeah, so trying.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
When I think of this. We're so fortunate to have
you work these cases and report them to us. But
when you think about this, she had to have had friends.
I'm sure the police must have investigated. I'm sure there
might have been suspects. But all of that obviously gets
boxed up in a nice little file cabinet somewhere and
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gets put away and is not looked at for decades,
and now hopefully maybe some leave will get this going.
Obviously she's not alive, I'm sure, but you talk about closure,
I'm sure that family wants to know what happened to
their mom on that night fifty years ago in which
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she probably lost her life. Emily, thanks so much. These stories,
to me are fascinating. I covered crime, not to the
level that you have, but I covered crime as a reporter,
and there are police out there. They want to solve
these cases, they really do. And you would even think
that if somebody did this, you hope that there's a
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deathbed confession. You think about things like that. You know,
they get someone really going to die and not you know, say,
you know on their last breath. Look here's what I did.
I regretted it for the rest of my life. I
don't know. Humanity is a very complex area to investigate,
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but you do it so well. Emily. As always, thanks
so much, thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, thank you, thank you, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Thanks, thanks sticking with this and we'll talk to you soon.
Thanks Emily.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Oh all right, we get back.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
We're going to talk about a high school high schooler
from Belmont who has developed a senior outreach collaborator high school.
This isn't for seniors in high school. This is to
help seniors, people of a certain vintage, to help them
adapt to the world of technology. We will be talking
with Libby Zuccarello right after the break and should her
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family be proud of her? Where do you hear this story?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Thanks very much, Madison, We of course are now we're
in summer. Okay. We went from spring last weekend or
late winter, whatever you want to call it, this summer
in a matter of about seventy two hours. And it
couldn't be more appropriate for us to bring back Mark
on Anastasio, who's the coolest. Corner Theater director of Programming.
They have announced their summer twenty twenty five outdoor screening lineup,
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And as I look at it, Mark, not only are
there some great movies here, but they're going to be
shown in different locations. How many years now have you
been doing this outdoor screening lineup? I think, if I'm
not mistaken, we talked to you guys about this year ago,
did we not.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
That's right, Dan, We've been doing outdoor screenings at a
few of these locations for going on ten years now,
and they're pretty remarkable places like the Rose Kennedy Greenway,
the Charles Rivers Speedway here in Austin, Brighton Mount Auburn Cemetery,
and the Rocky Woods, which is one of the locations
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of the Trustees of Reservations. And each each location we
really try to, you know, play play films that kind
of that kind of bring out where where we're at.
It's it's a lot of fun. And each each place,
you know, presents a new challenge to to our projection team,
and it's a lot. It's it's a great time.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
So you start not this Friday night, but eight nights
from now on Friday the thirteenth, how appropriate? And you yeah,
you have a Friday the thirteenth double feature.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
That's right, this is. This is probably our tenth or
eleventh year of running a Friday the thirteenth double feature
out at the Rocky Woods with the trustees. It's it's
a site that we visited. They called us out to
it a decade ago and said, we'd like you to
take a look at this property and let us know
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if you can think of any good films that you'd
like to put on here. And it is. It's a
lakeside property with a cabin on the lake. And the
minute I set foot on it, I said, you know,
would you be opposed to us playing a couple of
horror movies out here because the location itself, it makes
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you feel like you're in one of the Friday the
Thirteenth movies. And luckily they were game for that, and
we've Yeah, it's a decade plus us celebrating. Help me
celebrating out there.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I don't know everything. Where is Rocky Woods? Where is
it located?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Rocky the Rocky Sure, the Rocky Woods is in Medfield, Massachusetts. Oh,
I know, Okay, Yeah, it's a it's a great it's
a great area. It's on Hartford Street in Medfield. It's
it is a little tricky you're gonna have to plug
it into your GPS in order to get there. And
the the screening location itself is set a little ways
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up up a road from the parking lot, but we
make sure to put lots of spooky lanterns out to
light the way, to sort of set the mood as
people approach the cabin and where the screen and the
projector are set up. And for these Friday the thirteenth shows,
we even we even hire an actor to dress up
as Jason Vorhees to to scare people as they're they're
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coming on to the property.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Let's do this. I want to just give people a
sense of it. So that's Friday the thirteenth, And obviously
they can go to the website, which is like the
Coolidge dot org slash type slash outdoor hype and screenies.
We'll give that again.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
But yeah, no, well they we can. We we can
shorten it. If you just do Coolidge dot org slash outdoor,
it'll take you there, perfect, Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
So then the following Wednesday, you're doing one of the
Charles River Speedway. I don't want to sound like a
knuckle ahead, but what is the Charles River Speedway?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
The Charles River Speedway is a great uh, it's a
great revitalized set of buildings. It's it's it's an old
racetrack from the late eighteen hundreds and for years it
kind of sat vacant. But in the last five years
or so the property was redone and now there are
all sorts of shops and restaurants and and a wonderful
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beer garden run by the folks at Notch Brewery, and
it's it's a great place for people in the neighborhood
to hang out and get us.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Is that is that on on Western Avenue.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yeah, it's right on Western Avenue, right right by the river.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
It's right behind well, it's right behind the old WBZ.
Well what for me was the old buildings exactly where
Henry's Diner used to.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Be, right, That's that's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Okay, now, okay, I never knew it as Charles Rivers
speed Well. You're gonna uh, you're gonna show good Burger there.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Yeah, yeah, we're showing we show good We're showing good
Burger on Wednesday. These are films. The films that we
play at the Speedway are movies that kind of fit
into our our rewind program that we usually host here
at the theater. These are these are films that people
in their twenties and thirties are nostalgic for, you know,
movies that came out anywhere from like the mid nineties.
(14:48):
You know, there's some eighties films of mid nineties through
the early opts. Is like the Wheelhouse.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
So they get to a couple more of these here.
We got a blade Runner on the week later, June
twenty fifth at sunset, and that is at the Rose
Kennedy Greenway. Everyone knows where the Rose Kennedy Greenway is downtown,
followed by point break again. This is Wednesday, July sixteenth
at sunset. Okay, Then July twenty third, at sunset, you
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go back to the Charles River Speedway on Western Avenue
for mean Girls. It's just perfect. And then we're gonna
really get a little retro here, and we're gonna go
and watch the Blob from nineteen eighty eight August thirteenth
on the Greenway. And then we got Twin Peaks fire
(15:40):
Walk with Me August twentieth at the Charles River Speedway.
We're getting a lot of Charles River Speedways here.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
And then yeah, the monthly.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Here's one Cemetery Cinema, The Sweet Hereafter and The Gates
of Heaven, The Coolest Returns Little Spooky to the Mount
Auburn Cemetery twenty sixth.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Yeah, the Mount Auburn we've done. We took a little
bit of a hiatus. There was like a five year
break with us putting on the Cemetery Cinema program. But
there they're a location that we love showing films at
and they are open to showing films that are about grief,
that are about reflections on death. Last year's program was
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maybe a little bit more fun. We screened ingmar Bergman's
The Seventh Seal and Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, both
films that feature, you know, personified representations of death. But
this year we've got we've got a new restoration. No, no,
it's well, the Bill and Ted film is a comedy,
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but you know, we're starting this program for Sweet here After,
followed by Gates of Heaven. Sweet Hereafter is definitely a
somber film that deals with grief and it's an excellent film.
And then we're going to lighten things up by playing
Errol Morris's Gates a heaven. Aer Morris a filmmaker from Cambridge,
incredible documentarian. He's allowing us to screen his first film,
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Gates of Heaven, which is a film about a pet
cemetery needing to be moved. But it is. It's it's
filled with so many wonderful characters reflecting on you know,
how they'd like to have a place to grieve the
loss of their past. It doesn't sound like something that
would be heartwarming, but it really is.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And it should.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
It should, it should lighten the mood playing second in
the program. But the cemetery is such a gorgeous location
and there's not a lot of folks that are allowed
to do things there after dark. So this is a
really unique opportunity for me.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Okay, And then then we're going to finish up. We
got two more, both going to be at the Charles
River Speedway on Western Avenue across from where Henry's Diner
used to be. Teen Age Ninja Turtles a favorite of
my son back when he was about three years old
for several years. And then that is September seventeenth, and
on Wednesday, October fifteenth, I Know what you did last summer.
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That's also at the Charles River Speedway. So it looks
to me like everything at the Childs River Speedway is Wednesdays.
A lot of these are middle of the week. There's
none that I can see that any of them are
on the only Friday the thirteenth. Others it's the middle
of the week, which means it's great you can go
and have a lot of fun and enjoy movies. I'm
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going to ask the tough question, are these free? Are
they these? Are these free movies or is there most
of them?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Let's see, there are charges for the Friday the thirteenth
program and for the program at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Those
are ticketed streams, but everything else we've talked about is
completely free.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
And let's have the website one more time, the most
important part of our conversation. We've had a lot of
fun telling people what they are going to see, How
can they make sure they get there? What is the website?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
They can just go to coolidge dot org, slash Outdoors perfect.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
And we are exactly finished, almost to the second of
where where we were supposed to finish. And we got
a lot in, which is great. We got a lot in.
Thank you so much, Dan Oh my pleasure. You guys
are great, great Coolidge Corner Theater. Unbelievable asset to our region.
And Mark Anastasio, thanks so much, the director of programming
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at the Coolidge Corner Theater. We will talk to her again. Thanks,
my friend. Have a great night. Think I lost him there?
Did we lose them? I guess we did. Okay. Tomorrow
is one of those days should be on your calendar.
It's National Donut Day, and we're going to celebrate it
in advance. No, we can't give you any donuts over
the radio. No, that's not possible. However, the Salvation Army
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of Massachusetts we'll be delivering donuts to police, fire and
veterans across the state. Lucky people on Friday, June sixth,
which of course is also also the anniversary of the
D Day invasion from nineteen forty four. So we're gonna
be talking with Captain Bree Barker of the Salvation Army
in Cambridge, and we're going to talk about National Donut Day.
(20:07):
For me, every day is National don't Day. I only
get it coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
It's Nightside Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Well, as they mentioned earlier, tomorrow is the day that
is marked on my calendar every year, one of the
great holidays in America, National Donut Day. It also happens
to be on the anniversary of the D Day Invasion.
And no, the D Day Invasion was not named for
the for the word donut day at all. Let's let's
first of all eliminate that with me. Is Captain Bree Barker.
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She's with the Salvation Army in Cambridge and you, Captain Barker,
welcome to Nightside. First of all, how are you tonight?
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
I'm doing great. I'm trying to stay cool.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
It really is, isn't it. Yeah, it's it was a hot.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Day to day and you guys, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
You got a big job in front of you tomorrow. Now, look,
we've never talked before as far as I'm as far
as I know, correct.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Correct, yep, okay, And I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Want to be impertinent because I have to ask you
a very awkward question, even though this is a conversation.
What's your favorite donut? Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:19):
My favorite donut. It's hard to pick just one, but
I love a blueberry donut.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Oh, that's excellent. I'm a glaze stick guy from duncan myself,
and I'm not even sure if a glaze stick qualifies
as a donut.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
So I might you know what, We're open to all
kinds of donuts.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Well I am as well. Trust me this never I've
never really had a donut that I didn't like. So
tell us about is this an annual effort by the
Salvation Army and is it being done justin Cambridge? You're
across the commonwealth. Tell us the extent of this effort.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yeah, this has been going on since nineteen thirty eight,
when the Salvation Nowmy established National Old Donut Day. And
so it doesn't just happen in Cambridge, Boston or Massachusetts.
That happens all over the nation. And so we are
excited to celebrate the donut I mean every day, but
specifically on Donut Day.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Okay, So for example, now give us an idea about
how many different locations will the Salvation Army in Cambridge
cover tomorrow. You've got fire stations, police stations. I know
that firefighters and police officers and people joke about it,
but the reason that they love donuts is because you
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know they never know where they're going to be called
into action. When you get a chance to have a
cup of coffee and a donut, particularly in the winter time.
You can't say no. I mean I found that out
many Yeah, you.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Know, it's very true.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
So we are delivering donuts all over tomorrow, but also
we are doing programs with the children that are in
our place, our daycare for children experiencing homelessness. We're doing
donuts and our men to drop in shelter. In fact,
for those that are going to be in the Dorchester area,
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the Boston Croc, the Salvation Army is Boston Kroc will
be doing a drive through starting at nine am. So
get your free donuts, get your sugar fixed for the day.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Where do you do that? I mean, I'm not going
to go over there myself, but where's that location for people?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Yeah, give it to us again it is sure. It's
six point fifty Dudley Street in Dorchester. So that's the
Salvation Army's Boston Croc center. And so starting at nine am,
they'll be doing a drive through and then also delivering
around town with our Emergency Disasters vehicle, so area police
area fire stations. You know, we want to make sure
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everyone has access to a sweet treat tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
So here's the question, how many donuts And I hate
to quantify this, but how many hundreds or thousands of
donuts do you think the Salvation Army will be delivered
tomorrow in honor of National Donant Day?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
You know, if I could, yeah, if I could count
the grains of sand, you know, I think it might
come close. Thousands and thousands across not just Massachusetts but
the US. And in fact, the Donut Lassies that were
kind of celebrating as well tomorrow, they made up to
nine thousand doughnuts a day to serve to the troops
in World War One. So we're hoping to at least,
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you know, come close to their efforts.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
So who's the group that you said that used to
produce nine thousand donuts a day? What was the group's name?
Speaker 5 (24:33):
So, the Donut Lassies, they were young women who went
to World War One as volunteers. They were the Salvation
Army War Service, and they were sent with the direction
to lift the spirits of the men overseas. And they
realized pretty quickly that one good way to lift a
man's spirit is through his stomach. And so they made
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these donuts sweet treats and they served up to nine thousand.
They were boiling them in some instances in an old
unused soldiers metal helmets, you know, with basic ingredients. But
the men would line up because it just brought this
sweet treat from home and it just helped them there
to feel loved and careful.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Well, that's probably where the phrase an army travels on
its stomach arose.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
From, because it could be right.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, and what'd you call him? The laffies l A
F f e ys?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Was that? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:31):
I ees donut lassies Laffi's.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Okay, I like that. It almost sounds like that might
have been a British term. Or am I imagining things?
Speaker 5 (25:40):
I would say, so misamisnami started in England in eighteen
sixty five, and so I think some of those words
are transferred over.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Oh. Absolutely, see, now we're getting a little bit of
the history. I did not realize to be I thought
I knew a lot about the Salvation Army. But it
started in England, jolly olding in eighteen sixty five. And
when did it emigrate across the pond.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
As we would say, you know, fairly quickly in the
grand scheme of things. In eighteen eighty the Salvation Namy
officially landed in New York at Battery Park, but just
a few years earlier, actually, I sixteen year old girl
immigrated here and she kind of started the Salvation Army
by herself and did such a great job that General
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Booth said, all right, well, I'm sending a troop over
to get the work officially started in the United States.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Well that's great, that's great. And how long Captain Barker,
have you been a member of the Salvation Army.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
I have been working, volunteering and a member of the
Salvation Army for twenty years. This year this is my anniversary.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
So you're despite the fact that you're obviously an officer,
you work as a volunteer. Well, thank you for your service,
especially science, it's a volunteer service. What sort of career
work do you do? If I could ask it. Don't
mean to pry or anything like that, but I thought
that most of the folks who we talked to from
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the Salvation Army of people who were employed by the
Salvation Army. What sort of work do you do outside
of your volunteer work for the Salvation Army.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Well, yeah, I am an employee of a salvash Namy.
I'm an officer, which means that I am a pastor
but also a director of a local location. So for me,
that's Cambridge. I would actually say, you know, my other
hat probably would be donut connoisseur. But by my main role, yes,
is working with a savage nummier. But I started as
a volunteer and just you know, fell in love with
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the mission and love to just serve others and to
help people.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Right and well, Will said, I misunderstood, So I just
wanted to be clear on that. And I think that
the second responsibility of a donut connoisseur. If when I
served in the military, I was called a thirty six
K twenty, I think that's what was my mos. I
would have wish there had been a donut connoisseur back
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in the day. I would have been qualified for that,
even at an early age. Captain Bribon, thank you so much.
Great to chat with you and enjoy the day tomorrow
and all that it brings. I hope you have great weather.
I hope it cools off a little bit as well.
Thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Thank you, thank you for what you.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
And the Salvation Army do. It's a great organization.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
We love what we do.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Talk to you soon. All right, we get back on
the other side. We're going to get to the to
the issues at hand, and we're going to start off
with the president's proclamation barring foreign students from attending Harvard University.
I think he's way over the line on this. Some
of you will agree, some of you will disagree. Let's
get the conversation started right after the nine o'clock news
It's Night's eye, Dan Ray. I'm telling you eazy Boston's
News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Thank you very much, Madison. As we head through a
warm Thursday night, it has been a very warm Thursday,
and an equally warm Thursday night. Wherever you are, I
hope that the windows are open, the breeze is blown,
or the air conditioning is working one or the other.
My name is Dan Ray and the host of Nightside
heard every Monday through Friday night, whether it be cool
nights in the winter or hot nights in their late
(00:27):
spring early summer, right here on WBZ, Boston's News Radio
ten thirty and your AM dial. Remind you to get
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us your first preset, so that WBZ will never be
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(00:48):
wherever you are, anywhere in the world. We have a
great show coming up tonight, going to talk a lot
about some things the President has done in the last
twenty four hours, including attempted to bar foreign students from
being accepted Harvard University, as well as reinstating a US
travel band about various countries around. We'll talk about that
later after nine o'clock. We have four interesting guests here tonight.
(01:10):
Back in the control room is Rob Brooks along with
his top deputy assistant, Shane, and we're ready to rock
and roll here. We want to start off with a
great friend of the program who we are going to
have on more regularly. I'm not exactly sure if we
had this schedule all worked out, but Emily Sweeney from
the Boston Globe. She does a program at the Globe.
It's called Cold Case Files. She's also the Blotter Tales columnist. Hi,
(01:35):
Emily Sweeney, Welcome back to Night's Side.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Hey Dan, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I'm going about seventy eight RPM here because we got
so much to cover, but I want to slow it
down here and talk about a case you have been
working on that deals with the disappearance of a bright
mom right by what was the old Boston Garden right
down downtown Boston near Canal Street. Disappeared in nineteen seventy
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five along with her car, and now her son, who
lives in Pennsylvania, is offering a fifty thousand dollars reward
for any information. He has no hope of finding his
mom alive, but he just wants to provide her with
a decent burial. This is a heartbreaking story, Emily tell
us about it.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, it really is a really important case too. Dorothy
Garashko was going out to meet some friends for drinks
at the Old Penalty Box on June fourth, nineteen seventy five,
and that was the last place that known sighting of
where she was. She was seen walking out of the bar,
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leaving her friends, walking towards her car and disappeared, vanished
without a trace in her car too. And to this
day she's not been found, but there have been so efforts,
and actually there are search efforts underway. I learned of
a new development today where there's a possibility that her
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car might be in the Charles River. We don't know,
but I spoke with Hans Huge. He's a he runs
a company called Sona Searching Recovery up in New Hampshire,
and he ran Sona on the Charles River and he
found five cars that he's going to be diving to
see if maybe, just maybe one of them is Dorothy's car.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Wow, it's amazing to think that a car could be
put into the Charles river. And I don't know the
depth of the Charles River. Obviously we all have seen
the sailboats on the river and other watercraft, but I
assume that Charles River is not that deep, particularly near
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near the shoreline. I mean, how do you see there's
really no bridges you can drive a car off. When
you think about it, this, yeah, well, I'm wondering if
if with license plates, assuming the license plate wasn't removed,
but you have to wonder if fifty years underwater oxidation
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would not have destroyed whatever enumeration might be on a
license plate. Have you talked to him about any of
that aspect. I hate to throw this at your gold
because we don't know these Those are the thoughts that
are running through my mind right now.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Absolutely absolutely, Dan, and I asked Hans the same thing.
You know, so he knows the five cars that would
may have been on the route that Dorothy may have
you know, taken or you know, maybe somebody who you
know did something bad to her, may have taken her
and her cap uh. And you know the Childs River,
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you know, the cas are in different like you know,
have been decomposed over the years. And Hans says like
it's really had compared to like diving in the Charles
River sometimes so like diving in chocolate milk and here
trying to like see as you can imagine, and so
the conditions change a lot from time to time. And
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the thing is about license plates, he said that usually
they survived that like they're made of material aluminum that
can you survive, you know, years and years underwater. So
a license plate could be a way to identify because
or could be a hood or ornaments, it could be
any number of things, like just to rule it out,
so you know that that's what we're you know, we're
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hoping for.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And it's astonishing about the stories that you find out
about and you get involved with various police departments. We
always assume that on crimes like that there's a solution,
but often there isn't. And yeah, because the story, the
story will be a big story for a few days
(05:57):
depending upon the story. Uh, and then maybe a month
later someone does a follow up story and then it's
lost to the to antiquity. And to think that this
man in I guess he lost his mom. Was he
fourteen years old? Is that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
He was Rick Dorothy's son, was just fourteen when she
went missing.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And we're f fifty years later, right, this is fifty
years from nineteen seventy five. Yeah, he's sixty four. I
has to have left an indelible mark on his life.
Did he have siblings, do you know?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah, two other brothers, and you know it's very difficult,
you know for them, I mean again, and they still
don't have answers. I mean just think, you know, one
day your mom's there, the next day she's not, and
you have no answers as to like, what happened to her?
Is she coming home? Meanwhile, you still have to continue
going to school, and you know it was obviously it
changed their lives, you know, forever, and to this day
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they're still wondering. And that's why the family's offering a
fifty thou read all the reward for any information that
could lead to the recovery of you know, her remains
and the vehicle she was driving, just to get it out.
There was a gold nineteen seventy nineteen seventy Ford Maverick
with a black roof. And again, you know, they're hoping
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that somebody might have information, somebody might have seen something.
And yeah, so trying.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
When I think of this. We're so fortunate to have
you work these cases and report them to us. But
when you think about this, she had to have had friends.
I'm sure the police must have investigated. I'm sure there
might have been suspects. But all of that obviously gets
boxed up in a nice little file cabinet somewhere and
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gets put away and is not looked at for decades,
and now hopefully maybe some leave will get this going.
Obviously she's not alive, I'm sure, but you talk about closure,
I'm sure that family wants to know what happened to
their mom on that night fifty years ago in which
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she probably lost her life. Emily, thanks so much. These stories,
to me are fascinating. I covered crime, not to the
level that you have, but I covered crime as a reporter,
and there are police out there. They want to solve
these cases, they really do. And you would even think
that if somebody did this, you hope that there's a
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deathbed confession. You think about things like that. You know,
they get someone really going to die and not you know, say,
you know on their last breath. Look here's what I did.
I regretted it for the rest of my life. I
don't know. Humanity is a very complex area to investigate,
(08:52):
but you do it so well. Emily. As always, thanks
so much, thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, thank you, thank you, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Thanks, thanks sticking with this and we'll talk to you soon.
Thanks Emily.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Oh all right, we get back.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
We're going to talk about a high school high schooler
from Belmont who has developed a senior outreach collaborator high school.
This isn't for seniors in high school. This is to
help seniors, people of a certain vintage, to help them
adapt to the world of technology. We will be talking
with Libby Zuccarello right after the break and should her
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family be proud of her? Where do you hear this story?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Thanks very much, Madison, We of course are now we're
in summer. Okay. We went from spring last weekend or
late winter, whatever you want to call it, this summer
in a matter of about seventy two hours. And it
couldn't be more appropriate for us to bring back Mark
on Anastasio, who's the coolest. Corner Theater director of Programming.
They have announced their summer twenty twenty five outdoor screening lineup,
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And as I look at it, Mark, not only are
there some great movies here, but they're going to be
shown in different locations. How many years now have you
been doing this outdoor screening lineup? I think, if I'm
not mistaken, we talked to you guys about this year ago,
did we not.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
That's right, Dan, We've been doing outdoor screenings at a
few of these locations for going on ten years now,
and they're pretty remarkable places like the Rose Kennedy Greenway,
the Charles Rivers Speedway here in Austin, Brighton Mount Auburn Cemetery,
and the Rocky Woods, which is one of the locations
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of the Trustees of Reservations. And each each location we
really try to, you know, play play films that kind
of that kind of bring out where where we're at.
It's it's a lot of fun. And each each place,
you know, presents a new challenge to to our projection team,
and it's a lot. It's it's a great time.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
So you start not this Friday night, but eight nights
from now on Friday the thirteenth, how appropriate? And you yeah,
you have a Friday the thirteenth double feature.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
That's right, this is. This is probably our tenth or
eleventh year of running a Friday the thirteenth double feature
out at the Rocky Woods with the trustees. It's it's
a site that we visited. They called us out to
it a decade ago and said, we'd like you to
take a look at this property and let us know
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if you can think of any good films that you'd
like to put on here. And it is. It's a
lakeside property with a cabin on the lake. And the
minute I set foot on it, I said, you know,
would you be opposed to us playing a couple of
horror movies out here because the location itself, it makes
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you feel like you're in one of the Friday the
Thirteenth movies. And luckily they were game for that, and
we've Yeah, it's a decade plus us celebrating. Help me
celebrating out there.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I don't know everything. Where is Rocky Woods? Where is
it located?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Rocky the Rocky Sure, the Rocky Woods is in Medfield, Massachusetts. Oh,
I know, Okay, Yeah, it's a it's a great it's
a great area. It's on Hartford Street in Medfield. It's
it is a little tricky you're gonna have to plug
it into your GPS in order to get there. And
the the screening location itself is set a little ways
(12:35):
up up a road from the parking lot, but we
make sure to put lots of spooky lanterns out to
light the way, to sort of set the mood as
people approach the cabin and where the screen and the
projector are set up. And for these Friday the thirteenth shows,
we even we even hire an actor to dress up
as Jason Vorhees to to scare people as they're they're
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coming on to the property.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Let's do this. I want to just give people a
sense of it. So that's Friday the thirteenth, And obviously
they can go to the website, which is like the
Coolidge dot org slash type slash outdoor hype and screenies.
We'll give that again.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
But yeah, no, well they we can. We we can
shorten it. If you just do Coolidge dot org slash outdoor,
it'll take you there, perfect, Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
So then the following Wednesday, you're doing one of the
Charles River Speedway. I don't want to sound like a
knuckle ahead, but what is the Charles River Speedway?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
The Charles River Speedway is a great uh, it's a
great revitalized set of buildings. It's it's it's an old
racetrack from the late eighteen hundreds and for years it
kind of sat vacant. But in the last five years
or so the property was redone and now there are
all sorts of shops and restaurants and and a wonderful
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beer garden run by the folks at Notch Brewery, and
it's it's a great place for people in the neighborhood
to hang out and get us.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Is that is that on on Western Avenue.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yeah, it's right on Western Avenue, right right by the river.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
It's right behind well, it's right behind the old WBZ.
Well what for me was the old buildings exactly where
Henry's Diner used to.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Be, right, That's that's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Okay, now, okay, I never knew it as Charles Rivers
speed Well. You're gonna uh, you're gonna show good Burger there.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Yeah, yeah, we're showing we show good We're showing good
Burger on Wednesday. These are films. The films that we
play at the Speedway are movies that kind of fit
into our our rewind program that we usually host here
at the theater. These are these are films that people
in their twenties and thirties are nostalgic for, you know,
movies that came out anywhere from like the mid nineties.
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You know, there's some eighties films of mid nineties through
the early opts. Is like the Wheelhouse.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
So they get to a couple more of these here.
We got a blade Runner on the week later, June
twenty fifth at sunset, and that is at the Rose
Kennedy Greenway. Everyone knows where the Rose Kennedy Greenway is downtown,
followed by point break again. This is Wednesday, July sixteenth
at sunset. Okay, Then July twenty third, at sunset, you
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go back to the Charles River Speedway on Western Avenue
for mean Girls. It's just perfect. And then we're gonna
really get a little retro here, and we're gonna go
and watch the Blob from nineteen eighty eight August thirteenth
on the Greenway. And then we got Twin Peaks fire
(15:40):
Walk with Me August twentieth at the Charles River Speedway.
We're getting a lot of Charles River Speedways here.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
And then yeah, the monthly.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Here's one Cemetery Cinema, The Sweet Hereafter and The Gates
of Heaven, The Coolest Returns Little Spooky to the Mount
Auburn Cemetery twenty sixth.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Yeah, the Mount Auburn we've done. We took a little
bit of a hiatus. There was like a five year
break with us putting on the Cemetery Cinema program. But
there they're a location that we love showing films at
and they are open to showing films that are about grief,
that are about reflections on death. Last year's program was
(16:23):
maybe a little bit more fun. We screened ingmar Bergman's
The Seventh Seal and Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, both
films that feature, you know, personified representations of death. But
this year we've got we've got a new restoration. No, no,
it's well, the Bill and Ted film is a comedy,
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but you know, we're starting this program for Sweet here After,
followed by Gates of Heaven. Sweet Hereafter is definitely a
somber film that deals with grief and it's an excellent film.
And then we're going to lighten things up by playing
Errol Morris's Gates a heaven. Aer Morris a filmmaker from Cambridge,
incredible documentarian. He's allowing us to screen his first film,
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Gates of Heaven, which is a film about a pet
cemetery needing to be moved. But it is. It's it's
filled with so many wonderful characters reflecting on you know,
how they'd like to have a place to grieve the
loss of their past. It doesn't sound like something that
would be heartwarming, but it really is.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And it should.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
It should, it should lighten the mood playing second in
the program. But the cemetery is such a gorgeous location
and there's not a lot of folks that are allowed
to do things there after dark. So this is a
really unique opportunity for me.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Okay, And then then we're going to finish up. We
got two more, both going to be at the Charles
River Speedway on Western Avenue across from where Henry's Diner
used to be. Teen Age Ninja Turtles a favorite of
my son back when he was about three years old
for several years. And then that is September seventeenth, and
on Wednesday, October fifteenth, I Know what you did last summer.
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That's also at the Charles River Speedway. So it looks
to me like everything at the Childs River Speedway is Wednesdays.
A lot of these are middle of the week. There's
none that I can see that any of them are
on the only Friday the thirteenth. Others it's the middle
of the week, which means it's great you can go
and have a lot of fun and enjoy movies. I'm
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going to ask the tough question, are these free? Are
they these? Are these free movies or is there most
of them?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Let's see, there are charges for the Friday the thirteenth
program and for the program at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Those
are ticketed streams, but everything else we've talked about is
completely free.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
And let's have the website one more time, the most
important part of our conversation. We've had a lot of
fun telling people what they are going to see, How
can they make sure they get there? What is the website?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
They can just go to coolidge dot org, slash Outdoors perfect.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
And we are exactly finished, almost to the second of
where where we were supposed to finish. And we got
a lot in, which is great. We got a lot in.
Thank you so much, Dan Oh my pleasure. You guys
are great, great Coolidge Corner Theater. Unbelievable asset to our region.
And Mark Anastasio, thanks so much, the director of programming
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at the Coolidge Corner Theater. We will talk to her again. Thanks,
my friend. Have a great night. Think I lost him there?
Did we lose them? I guess we did. Okay. Tomorrow
is one of those days should be on your calendar.
It's National Donut Day, and we're going to celebrate it
in advance. No, we can't give you any donuts over
the radio. No, that's not possible. However, the Salvation Army
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of Massachusetts we'll be delivering donuts to police, fire and
veterans across the state. Lucky people on Friday, June sixth,
which of course is also also the anniversary of the
D Day invasion from nineteen forty four. So we're gonna
be talking with Captain Bree Barker of the Salvation Army
in Cambridge, and we're going to talk about National Donut Day.
(20:07):
For me, every day is National don't Day. I only
get it coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
It's Nightside Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Well, as they mentioned earlier, tomorrow is the day that
is marked on my calendar every year, one of the
great holidays in America, National Donut Day. It also happens
to be on the anniversary of the D Day Invasion.
And no, the D Day Invasion was not named for
the for the word donut day at all. Let's let's
first of all eliminate that with me. Is Captain Bree Barker.
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She's with the Salvation Army in Cambridge and you, Captain Barker,
welcome to Nightside. First of all, how are you tonight?
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
I'm doing great. I'm trying to stay cool.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
It really is, isn't it. Yeah, it's it was a hot.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Day to day and you guys, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
You got a big job in front of you tomorrow. Now, look,
we've never talked before as far as I'm as far
as I know, correct.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Correct, yep, okay, And I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Want to be impertinent because I have to ask you
a very awkward question, even though this is a conversation.
What's your favorite donut? Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:19):
My favorite donut. It's hard to pick just one, but
I love a blueberry donut.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Oh, that's excellent. I'm a glaze stick guy from duncan myself,
and I'm not even sure if a glaze stick qualifies
as a donut.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
So I might you know what, We're open to all
kinds of donuts.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Well I am as well. Trust me this never I've
never really had a donut that I didn't like. So
tell us about is this an annual effort by the
Salvation Army and is it being done justin Cambridge? You're
across the commonwealth. Tell us the extent of this effort.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yeah, this has been going on since nineteen thirty eight,
when the Salvation Nowmy established National Old Donut Day. And
so it doesn't just happen in Cambridge, Boston or Massachusetts.
That happens all over the nation. And so we are
excited to celebrate the donut I mean every day, but
specifically on Donut Day.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Okay, So for example, now give us an idea about
how many different locations will the Salvation Army in Cambridge
cover tomorrow. You've got fire stations, police stations. I know
that firefighters and police officers and people joke about it,
but the reason that they love donuts is because you
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know they never know where they're going to be called
into action. When you get a chance to have a
cup of coffee and a donut, particularly in the winter time.
You can't say no. I mean I found that out
many Yeah, you.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Know, it's very true.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
So we are delivering donuts all over tomorrow, but also
we are doing programs with the children that are in
our place, our daycare for children experiencing homelessness. We're doing
donuts and our men to drop in shelter. In fact,
for those that are going to be in the Dorchester area,
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the Boston Croc, the Salvation Army is Boston Kroc will
be doing a drive through starting at nine am. So
get your free donuts, get your sugar fixed for the day.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Where do you do that? I mean, I'm not going
to go over there myself, but where's that location for people?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Yeah, give it to us again it is sure. It's
six point fifty Dudley Street in Dorchester. So that's the
Salvation Army's Boston Croc center. And so starting at nine am,
they'll be doing a drive through and then also delivering
around town with our Emergency Disasters vehicle, so area police
area fire stations. You know, we want to make sure
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everyone has access to a sweet treat tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
So here's the question, how many donuts And I hate
to quantify this, but how many hundreds or thousands of
donuts do you think the Salvation Army will be delivered
tomorrow in honor of National Donant Day?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
You know, if I could, yeah, if I could count
the grains of sand, you know, I think it might
come close. Thousands and thousands across not just Massachusetts but
the US. And in fact, the Donut Lassies that were
kind of celebrating as well tomorrow, they made up to
nine thousand doughnuts a day to serve to the troops
in World War One. So we're hoping to at least,
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you know, come close to their efforts.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
So who's the group that you said that used to
produce nine thousand donuts a day? What was the group's name?
Speaker 5 (24:33):
So, the Donut Lassies, they were young women who went
to World War One as volunteers. They were the Salvation
Army War Service, and they were sent with the direction
to lift the spirits of the men overseas. And they
realized pretty quickly that one good way to lift a
man's spirit is through his stomach. And so they made
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these donuts sweet treats and they served up to nine thousand.
They were boiling them in some instances in an old
unused soldiers metal helmets, you know, with basic ingredients. But
the men would line up because it just brought this
sweet treat from home and it just helped them there
to feel loved and careful.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Well, that's probably where the phrase an army travels on
its stomach arose.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
From, because it could be right.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, and what'd you call him? The laffies l A
F f e ys?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Was that? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:31):
I ees donut lassies Laffi's.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Okay, I like that. It almost sounds like that might
have been a British term. Or am I imagining things?
Speaker 5 (25:40):
I would say, so misamisnami started in England in eighteen
sixty five, and so I think some of those words
are transferred over.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Oh. Absolutely, see, now we're getting a little bit of
the history. I did not realize to be I thought
I knew a lot about the Salvation Army. But it
started in England, jolly olding in eighteen sixty five. And
when did it emigrate across the pond.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
As we would say, you know, fairly quickly in the
grand scheme of things. In eighteen eighty the Salvation Namy
officially landed in New York at Battery Park, but just
a few years earlier, actually, I sixteen year old girl
immigrated here and she kind of started the Salvation Army
by herself and did such a great job that General
(26:25):
Booth said, all right, well, I'm sending a troop over
to get the work officially started in the United States.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Well that's great, that's great. And how long Captain Barker,
have you been a member of the Salvation Army.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
I have been working, volunteering and a member of the
Salvation Army for twenty years. This year this is my anniversary.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
So you're despite the fact that you're obviously an officer,
you work as a volunteer. Well, thank you for your service,
especially science, it's a volunteer service. What sort of career
work do you do? If I could ask it. Don't
mean to pry or anything like that, but I thought
that most of the folks who we talked to from
(27:07):
the Salvation Army of people who were employed by the
Salvation Army. What sort of work do you do outside
of your volunteer work for the Salvation Army.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Well, yeah, I am an employee of a salvash Namy.
I'm an officer, which means that I am a pastor
but also a director of a local location. So for me,
that's Cambridge. I would actually say, you know, my other
hat probably would be donut connoisseur. But by my main role, yes,
is working with a savage nummier. But I started as
a volunteer and just you know, fell in love with
(27:37):
the mission and love to just serve others and to
help people.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Right and well, Will said, I misunderstood, So I just
wanted to be clear on that. And I think that
the second responsibility of a donut connoisseur. If when I
served in the military, I was called a thirty six
K twenty, I think that's what was my mos. I
would have wish there had been a donut connoisseur back
(28:02):
in the day. I would have been qualified for that,
even at an early age. Captain Bribon, thank you so much.
Great to chat with you and enjoy the day tomorrow
and all that it brings. I hope you have great weather.
I hope it cools off a little bit as well.
Thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Thank you, thank you for what you.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
And the Salvation Army do. It's a great organization.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
We love what we do.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Talk to you soon. All right, we get back on
the other side. We're going to get to the to
the issues at hand, and we're going to start off
with the president's proclamation barring foreign students from attending Harvard University.
I think he's way over the line on this. Some
of you will agree, some of you will disagree. Let's
get the conversation started right after the nine o'clock news
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