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Boston Scenes

Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week

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Faced with more than $4 million in unpaid debt to OneUnited bank, Rev. Gregory Groover Sr., pastor of the Charles Street AME Church, stands behind Rev. Eugene Rivers in a poorly attended demonstration last week against today’s scheduled foreclosure auction of church property. (Eric Esteves photo)

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Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts CEO Ruth Bramson and members of the Roxbury Girls Scout Troop celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the organization. (Photo courtesy of the Girl Scouts)

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Astrid Pena, a youth organizer with the Hyde Square Task Force, reviews data on relations between Boston youth and the MBTA Police at a March 13 press conference in Jackson Square T Station. Task Force youth surveyed 700 of their peers and graded the MBTA Police in areas of communication, race relations, behavior, effort, and follow-through on previous promises to make changes. Youth gave the police a D+ average and called for more police training and an official MBTA Police Youth Advisory Board. (Mark Saperstein photo)

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Mayor Thomas M. Menino (C) joins the guest lecturers at the 2012 Boston Flower & Garden Show Preview Party fundraiser March 13 at the Seaport World Trade Center. The experts included Patti “Garden Girl” Moreno of Roxbury (R), Nancy Mangion, owner of Beekeepers’ Warehouse (L), and Dr. Gustavo Romero, editor of the Harvard Papers in Botany. (Jon Seamans photo)

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Simmons College Arts and Sciences Dean Renee T. White; Simmons College School of Nursing and Health Sciences Dean Judy Beal; Founder of the Black Women’s Health Imperative Byllye Avery; Dr. Paula Johnson of Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Cassandra Clay of Boston University; and Eleanor Hinton-Hoytt of the Black Women’s Health Imperative. (Diane Hammer photo, Simmons College)