ABCD appeals for help with Toy Drive and Help Fund

The Toy Drive & Holiday Help Fund of Action for Boston Community Development needs your assistance to put smiles on the faces of children across the city this year and help families survive and thrive during the holiday season and beyond!

ABCD President/CEO John Drew notes that many families need assistance with critical basic needs. Therefore ABCD has expanded its traditional toy drive into the “ABCD Toy Drive & Holiday Help Fund” to provide not only toys for children, but assistance to near-desperate families with food, clothing, rent payments, heating oil and other needs.

Reporter’s Notebook: With sincere apologies to the Flying Circus troupe

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This casino bill is no more. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its legislative maker. It’s a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. This… is an ex-bill.

At least that’s what lawmakers opposed to – and even some proponents of –expanding gambling in Massachusetts say. “I think that the clock has run out,” said state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz, whose Second Suffolk District seat includes parts of Dorchester.