The fifth annual Adams Corner Crawl across Dorchester, which honors the memory of Sgt. Adam P. Kennedy, a Norfolk, Mass. native with cousins in Dot, will be held a week from Saturday, April 7. Sgt. Kennedy, a sergeant in the US Army and member of the 4th brigade combat team of the 25th infantry division, was killed in action in Iraq on April 8, 2007. His cousins started the Adams Corner Crawl in 2008 as a way to celebrate his life and memory, according to Lauren (Smyth) Woods, an organizer and one of the cousins.

The order of the crawl through Dorchester is as follows: April 7 at 1 p.m. @ Harp and Bard, 2 p.m. @ JJ’s Irish Pub, 3 p.m. @ Peggy O’Neil’s, 4 p.m. @ Blarney Stone, 5 p.m. @12 Bens, 6 p.m. @ Eire Pub, and 7 p.m. @ Old Dorchester Post for further evening festivities. Supporters include Boston Police Area C-11, Eldred Stewart of Stewart Designs, Collegehype, the Currach, and friends and family.
For more information about Adam, please visit: sgtadamkennedy.com.

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The University of Massachusetts Boston honored Assistant District Attorney Daniel P. Mulhern, chief of the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Gang Unit and Safe Neighborhood Initiative, with the Robert H. Quinn Award for Outstanding Community Leadership at the university’s 26th annual Community Breakfast on Tuesday.

“Assistant District Attorney Daniel Mulhern is as comfortable in the community as he is in the courtroom, because he sees prevention and intervention as an important aspect of his job as a prosecutor,” UMass Boston Chancellor J. Keith Motley said. “Toward that end, he works regularly with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, as well as a diverse group of grassroots, faith-based, and non-profit organizations.”

Also honored at the Community Breakfast was Carlos Vargas, president of Vargas & Vargas Insurance Agency, Inc., who received the Chancellor’s Award for Longstanding Community Commitment and Service. Vargas and his staff partner with many local charities and nonprofit groups to help support their work and to educate the public on how they can support these organizations in their communities.
The Quinn Award was established in honor of Robert H. Quinn, a former speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, former attorney general, and former chair of the UMass Board of Trustees. The award is presented annually by UMass Boston to honor individuals whose contributions have significantly improved the quality of life in the Greater Boston area.

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Greg Penella, a junior forward for Boston Latin School varsity hockey team, has been selected by the Mass State Hockey Coaches Association to the play in the 2012 Massachusetts Sophomore/Junior High School Hockey All-Stars Cross the Border Challenge on April 1. The game against the Connecticut All-Stars will start at 3p.m. at the Milford Ice Pavilion in Milford, CT. Greg, 17, is a lifelong resident of Dorchester and the oldest child of Joe and Maureen Penella of Franconia Street. He has patcipated in the Dorchester Youth Hockey program since age 5 in the mites program Greg’s youngest brother William is also a DYH player and was part of the Pee Wee A team that just won a state championship. When Greg is not playing hockey, he enjoys working as a youth mentor at the Leahy Holloran Community Center in Neponset.