By Cary Shuman

The City Council will further discuss at a sub-committee meeting Coun-cilor-at-Large George Rotondo’s proposal to in-vestigate the feasibility of having cottage food oper-ations in Revere.

Rotondo proposed the motion at the April 5

Council meeting. It would basically allow residents to produce food in their own kitchens and sell those items directly to consumers.

Rotondo indicated that cottage food operations are permitted in other Massachusetts communi-ties and in 28 states across the nation.

“I would love to have this for the City of Re-vere,” began Rotondo in his remarks. “It particu-larly helps a certain group in a community. This is something that is done in Boston. It’s done in other communities, in 28 states, and throughout Europe.

Gov. Charlie Baker speaks during a visit to the East Boston Neigh-borhood Health Centers COVID-19 vaccination site at the Oceanside Events Center in Revere. At right is Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito.Inset: Mayor Brian Arrigo and Sen. Joseph Boncore are pictured as the Oceanside Evcents Center during Governor Baker’s visit on April 7. See more photos on Page 10.

By Cary Shuman

There is a flyer being circulated on social me-dia, and a protest is being planned for Saturday to voice opposition against the DCR’s new parking meters that have been in-stalled on Revere Beach Boulevard.

The new metered-park-ing stations were visible during the weekend on the non-residential side of the entire Boulevard.

The Revere Journal has tried vigorously to contact at least one of the sup-posed organizers of the protest, but the Journal has been unsuccessful in its efforts.

The city’s opposition to the new parking meters, which will cost residents and non-residents $1.25 per hour, has been vigor-

ous. Many residents have complained that there was no public meeting held in-side a Revere venue about the issue, though there was at least one public meeting held remotely.

Nevertheless, city of-ficials and Revere’s state legislative delegation are not at all pleased about the DCR’s decision to begin metered-parking on May 1 on the Boulevard.

Ward 5 Councilor John Powers has been from the outset of the plan, in his words, “100 percent against the parking me-ters.”

Powers said he will be attending Saturday’s pro-test and will speak during the event “if I am allowed to.”

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By Cary Shuman

Eric Lampedecchio has spent the last five years attending City Council meetings in person at City Hall and via Zoom from home during the pandem-ic.

Lampedecchio has been a strong and articulate spokesperson for the resi-dents of the ward, display-ing an ability to get to the point quickly and concise-

ly in his remarks. He also served admirably on the Riverfront Development Advisory Group.

Twice in the 2017 and 2019 municipal elections, Lampedecchio conducted excellent campaigns offer-ing “a fresh perspective on the Council” while chal-lenging incumbent Ward 5 Councillor John Powers for his seat. Lampedec-chio fell just short of being elected on both occasions

and many expected the well-known 36-year-old resident to put his hat in the ring again.

But Lampedecchio an-nounced this week that he will not be a candidate in this year’s election for Ward 5 councilor.

“Due to some personal obligations, my family re-ally needs to be my priori-ty for the next year or so,”

Lampedecchio will not run for council seat

CITY-WIDE WATER FLUSHING TO BEGIN IN MAY

The City of Revere, Water, Sewer & Drain di-vision will be conducting a city-wide water system flushing beginning May 2021

Please carefully read the details below:

• Flushing will oc-cur nightly between the hours of 9pm and 2am, monday thru thursday.

• Flushing of the water system requires the use of hydrants in your area.

• Flushing may cause water discolor-ation. If this occurs, run cold-water from tub or outdoor spigot until water runs clear.

• Flushing will not cause water service dis-ruption.

• Flushing will take approximatley eight to twelve weeks to complete city-wide.

As always, we apol-ogize for any inconve-nience & appreciate your patience.

If you have any ques-tions, please call the water & sewer office at 781-286-814

5HUD ALLOCATE FUNDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) an-nounced the allocation of more than $16.9 million to Massachusetts through the nation’s Housing Trust Fund (HTF) for affordable housing, this funding is

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BAKER VISITS OCEANSIDE EVENTS CENTER CLINIC

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RPS poised for a great fiscal yearBy John Lynds

At the Revere Public School Committee Ways and Means meeting last week Superintendent Dr. Dianne Kelly reported that RPS has kicked off its lengthy budget process and funding for next year looks better than it has in decades.

“This coming school

year we will actually have $132 million that we could spend just in this next school year on our school department,” said Kelly at the meet-ing. “That’s almost a $30 million, increase over last year, which is absolutely astronomical. It’s the kind of funding that we should have had phased in over the last two decades.”

Over the next several weeks Kelly in the school committee will begin the process of how to best spend the increase in fund-ing for the next school year that will most likely focus on getting students back to where they need to be post-pandemic.

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Council considers residential selling of foods

PARKING PROTEST

Residents plan Revere Beach rallyon Saturday against parking meters

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Inset: The proud family of State Rep. Jeffrey Rosario Turco attended his official inauguration ceremony at the State House in Boston. Jeffrey Turco and Melissa Turco are pictured with their six children, (front row) Matteo Turco, Grace Turco, Dominic Turco, and Sonny Turco; (back row) Mary Turco and Joseph Turco.

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Motor vehicle inspec-tions at local stations are expected to resume.

Tommy DiGrego-rio, long-time owner of Broadway Motors, said he

called state officials and they informed him that the state’s vehicle inspection computer system would be back online this week.

RMV officials were also slated to visit stations across the state to assist

with the workstation reim-aging process.

There had been an out-age in the vehicle inspec-tion computer system that is run by the state’s private

Vehicle inspections expected to resume

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Gov. Charlie Baker administers the oath of office to Jeffrey Rosario Tur-co as the new state representative for the 19th Suffolk Dis-trict that includes a portion of Revere. Also pictured at the inauguration ceremony at the State House is Mr. Turco’s wife, Melis-sa Turco.

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part of $689,565,492.92 being allocated nationally. The Housing Trust Fund was launched in 2008 as an affordable housing pro-duction program that com-plements existing federal, state, and local efforts to increase and preserve the supply of decent, safe, and sanity affordable housing for low- and extremely low-income households, including families experi-encing homelessness.

“This past year has re-minded us just how im-portant it is to have ac-cess to safe and stable housing. But too many Americans are struggling to keep or find an afford-able home,” said Secre-tary Marcia L. Fudge “We are excited to announce this historic funding al-location, which will en-able states to expand and preserve affordable hous-ing for our neighbors who need our support the most.”

The Housing Trust Fund is capitalized through the contributions made by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This year’s allocation is a significant increase in funding from last year’s allocation of $322,564,267.66. This program is specifically fo-cused on housing for some of our most vulnerable populations. HUD annual-ly allocates HTF funds by formula. A state must use at least 80 percent of each annual grant for rental housing; up to 10 percent for homeownership; and up to 10 percent for the grantee’s reasonable ad-ministrative and planning costs. HTF funds may be used for the production or preservation of affordable housing through the acqui-sition, new construction, reconstruction, and/or re-habilitation of non-luxu-ry housing with suitable amenities. All HTF-assist-ed units will be required to have a minimum afford-ability period of 30 years. The Housing Trust Fund has supported the con-struction or rehabilitation of 775 rental units nation-ally since the first were al-located in 2017. There are currently 480 additional projects under construc-tion. This year’s funding is expected to produce more than 5,400 additional af-fordable units.

NATIONAL GRID REMINDS CUSTOMERS TO CALL 8-1-1 BEFORE DIGGING

April is designated as National Safe Digging Month, and National Grid urges anyone who is plan-ning on digging to call 811 to prevent serious person-al injury, property damage and service interruptions caused by accidentally digging into electric, gas, telephone, water, sewer or cable facilities.

Nationally every nine minutes, an underground utility line is damaged because someone didn’t contact 811 before dig-ging. Knowing where underground utility lines are buried before you dig will help protect you and your family from injury. With more people staying home and relying on their utilities to work and com-municate, inconvenient outages are important to avoid.

“This year, it’s critically important to call 811 be-fore you start digging to ensure all utility lines are marked. Even when dig-ging only a few inches or taking on a small outdoor project, the risk of striking an underground utility is high,” said Mark Prewitt, VP Gas Pipeline Safety and Compliance. “This is a big responsibility that we all need to take a small part in. By spreading the word to call 811 we can decrease damages, service interruptions, and inju-ry—or even save a life.”

Striking a single un-derground utility line can cause injury, repair costs, fines, and inconvenient outages. Every digging project, no matter how large or small, warrants contacting 811. Wheth-er you’re planting a tree or shrub, or installing a deck or pool, every job requires a call to 811 to know what’s below before digging.

The depth of utility lines can vary for several reasons, such as erosion, previous digging projects and uneven surfaces. Util-ity lines need to be prop-erly marked because even when digging only a few inches or digging in a lo-cation that’s previously been marked, the risk of striking an underground utility line still exists. A call to 811 is the best safe-guard and the first line of defense to preventing strikes on underground utility lines.

A quick phone call to 811 several days before digging connects callers to their local one call center, which notifies the appro-priate utility companies of their intent to dig. Profes-sional locators then arrive at the digging site to mark the approximate locations of underground lines with flags, spray paint or both. The service is easy to use and free of charge.

State laws mandate that 811 must be contacted a few days in advance of beginning projects that re-quire excavation. Failure to call 811 may be pun-ishable by fines, which in some states can be as high as $1,000 for a first offense and $10,000 for subsequent offenses.

National Grid works closely with local fire and police departments and, with their strong support, people are calling before

they dig. Calling 811 can potentially avoid an inci-dent that requires police and fire response.

PRESSLEY, WARREN APPLAUD COMMITMENT

Congresswoman Ayan-na Pressley and Sen. Eliz-abeth Warren released a statement last week ap-plauding the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-vention’s (CDC) commit-ment to address centuries of structural racism and discrimination in the U.S. public health system.

In February, the law-makers reintroduced the Anti-Racism in Public Health Act, a bicameral bill to declare structural racism a public health cri-sis and confront its public health impacts by creating a National Center for An-ti-Racism and a Law En-forcement Violence Pre-vention Program within the CDC.

“The COVID-19 pan-demic, which has led to over 500,000 deaths and tens of millions infected,

has made it impossible to ignore the legacy of struc-tural racism and how it has created deep dispar-ities in health outcomes for Black, Brown, AAPI, and Indigenous commu-nities. Black and Brown people are nearly three times more likely than white people to contract COVID-19 and one to two times more likely to die from the disease.

“As the sponsors of the Anti-Racism in Public Health Act, we welcome the actions by the CDC to acknowledge racism as a serious public health threat and to invest in health equity measures to combat these challenges. In addition to the threat of COVID-19, people of col-or are also disproportion-ately affected by chronic health conditions such as diabetes, asthma, hepati-tis, and hypertension; in-fant mortality; maternal mortality and morbidity; and police brutality—not to mention the lasting im-

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MVES’ Emergency Closet receives hundreds of donations

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More than 75 mem-bers of The Thursday Fortnightly Club donated hundreds of needed items to Mystic Valley Elder Services’ (MVES) Emer-gency Closet and brought the items to the Brookline Bank in Medford Square. The donations were over-whelming and due to the generosity of The Thurs-day Fortnightly Club members, Mystic Valley Elder Services will be able to stock their Emergency Closet with the necessary items.

The Mystic Valley El-der Services’ Emergency Closet provides its care managers who work with low-income older adults and adults living with dis-abilities a place to access new towels, new sheets, new blankets, toiletries, and large print puzzle books for their consumers who need them. Having these items in the agency immediately available can make a huge difference in someone’s life and they depend solely on dona-tions.

The Thursday Fort-nightly Club has been supportive of the mission and making contributions to MVES for decades.

If you are interested in helping, you can contact the Mystic Valley Elder

Services Development office at development@mves.org.

Celebrating 100 years of service to the Medford Community, The Thurs-day Fortnightly Club is a philanthropic group whose mission is to pro-vide philanthropic help to charities within our com-munity. The women nor-mally gather at five events during the year, with two of these events being their major fundraisers. The women of the Thursday Fortnightly Club have been gathering and raising money since 1920. If you would like more informa-tion on the Thursday Fort-nightly Club of Medford, you can visit their website at: www.thursdayfort-nightly.org.

Pictured from left to right:  Mark from DPW;  Joseph Caira, Brookline Bank and Mystic Valley Elder Services Board Member;  Steve, DPW; Judy Lonergan, Chairperson of Thursday Fortnightly; volunteers Rosemary Ardagna, Bob-bi Johansen, and Tina Caruso all from Thursday Fortnight-ly; Jenny Vanasse, Development Director and Dan O’Leary, CEO, both of Mystic Valley Elder Services.

Judy Lonergan, Chair-person of the Thursday Fortnightly Club of Medford gives Dan O’Leary, CEO of Mystic Valley Elder Services, the checks and gift cards also collected from their St. Patrick’s Day fundraiser.

Last week was full of city government meetings that can currently be viewed as they replay on RevereTV.

These meetings include Public Safety, Zoning, and Appointments sub-committees, Revere City Council,

Revere Board of Health, and a Riverfront Master Planning meeting. All city meetings are played live

on Comcast channel 9, RCN channels 13 and 613, on RTV’s Facebook page, and on YouTube. If you missed a meeting and would like to watch it, meetings can

be found and replayed at any time on YouTube. Meetings replay on cable access television for a few

weeks after the initial air date.

Governor Baker visited Revere’s vaccination location set up by East Boston Neighborhood Health Center

at the Oceanside Ballroom site by Wonderland. Although this press conference is accessible on the state’s usual platforms as all of Baker’s messages are, RevereTV was present to cover his visit to the city. RTV’s coverage is what has been playing on

the channel, and also what was uploaded to social media. Revere has been one of the hardest hit

communities by COVID-19 in the state since the start of the pandemic, and Governor Baker was hoping to emphasize the efficacy and importance of vaccines to Revere residents. Mayor Arrigo reiterated this

message as he spoke at the press conference as well. The mayor thanked Lauren Buck, Revere’s Board of Health Director, for her work done for vaccination

outreach and pop-up clinics, and Manny Lopes of EBNHC for making vaccines more accessible to

Revere with this site. To book an appointment at the EBNHC Wonderland site, go to ebnhc.org or call 617-

568-4870.

There were a few new community member program episodes last week. “En la Cocina de Rafa,” is a cooking show that plays at 11am on Saturday

and 7pm on Tuesday. “Latin X Charlando con la Comunidad,” is an informational interview show that focuses on current issues and events around the community. You can watch the latest episode

on Saturday at 9am and Tuesday at 6pm. Soon, the replays of the Revere High School basketball seasons on RTV will end as volleyball and football are going

to start. RevereTV will be covering a few home games for each season. All past game coverage can

be found on RTV YouTube.

SPOTLIGHT

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The U.S. Postal Service celebrates America’s love of coffee this month with the issuance of four new stamps. Whether milky, dark as night, sweetened, flavored or highly concentrated, many coffee drinks have one thing in common — they begin with espres-so.

This booklet of 20 stamps features four unique de-signs illustrating popular espresso drinks — espresso, cappuccino, caffe latte and caffe mocha. It may be purchased at usps.com.

Capturing the inviting atmosphere of an early 20th-century café, artist Terry Allen created each dig-ital illustration with the style of 1920s and 1930s ad-vertising posters in mind.

The names of the espresso drinks appear in art de-co-inspired lettering above or below each enticing cup.

Art director Greg Breeding designed the stamps with original artwork by Allen.

Espresso drinking in the United States is at an all-time high. With the growing popularity of artisanal coffee shops, extensive research on the roasting and brewing process, and continued innovation in ma-chinery to make the perfect cup, specialty coffee is better than it has ever been.

When it comes to espresso, most Americans rely on a barista working at a coffeehouse to carefully craft their specialty drink, but at-home espresso machines are also growing in popularity. Whether a routine part of getting going in the morning or a reason to gather socially at a local café, drinking beverages made with espresso has become increasingly trendy.

Customers may purchase stamps and other phil-atelic products through the Postal Store atusps.com/shopstamps, by calling 844-737-7826, by mail through USA Philatelic, or at Post Office locations nationwide.

The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for oper-ating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, prod-ucts and services to fund its operations.

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pacts racism has on men-tal health for Black and Brown communities.

“We will continue push-ing in Congress to pass this important legislation, and look forward to work-ing with the CDC to tackle these challenges and en-sure health equity across this nation. This is a great step in the right direction, but we must now fight to confront these forces head on so that Black and Brown communities no longer disproportionate-

ly suffer from systemic racism and inequality in our health system and be-yond.”

RED CROSS AIMING TO MAKE MORE THAN 600 HOMES SAFER

The American Red Cross of Massachusetts is on a mission to make more than 600 homes across the state safer between now and May 8.

Volunteers will meet

with residents by appoint-ment – either virtually or socially-distanced outside their homes – to share crucial fire safety infor-mation, help create an escape plan, and practice a two-minute drill. This information is free and available to anyone who makes an appointment. In some communities, the Red Cross is working with partner fire departments to offer free smoke alarm installations when it be-comes safe to do so.

“Home fires remain the most frequent disas-ter during COVID-19, yet most of us don’t realize we have just two minutes to safely escape,” said Holly Grant, CEO of the Red Cross of Massachu-setts. “We’re still spend-ing more time than ever inside during the pandem-ic, so it’s critical that we help our neighbors protect themselves from these ev-eryday disasters.”

This effort comes as part of a larger national push to educate 100,000 people about home fire safety in high-risk communities. Here in Massachusetts, fo-cus cities include Worces-ter, Brockton and Quincy, although individuals in any city or town (owner or renter) may participate.

To sign up for free home fire safety ed-ucation, please visit SoundTheAlarm.org /Massachusetts. The Red Cross is also looking for additional volunteers to train as home fire safety educators and offer this training in their own com-munity.

The Red Cross of Mas-sachusetts is grateful for

the support of our spon-sors, National Grid and Harvard Pilgrim. This effort would not be pos-sible without the support of the focus cities, with special thanks to Mayor Joseph Petty of Worcester, Mayor Robert Sullivan of Brockton and the Quin-cy, Worcester and Brock-ton fire departments and emergency management teams.

PRESSLEY AND CLARK SECURE COBRA SUBSIDIES

Massachusetts Con-gresswomen Ayanna Pressley and Katherine Clark, and some of their colleagues, applauded the U.S. Department of La-bor’s recently-released guidance confirming that striking workers are eligi-ble for COBRA subsidies under the American Res-cue Plan, a victory for strik-ing workers nationwide. The expanded guidance, which marks a major reversal from the 2009 American Recovery and

Reinvestment Act, comes after Pressley, Courtney, McGovern and Clark sent a letter to Treasury Sec-retary Janet Yellen, IRS Commissioner Charles Retting, and Labor Sec-retary Marty Walsh, re-questing that any guid-ance issued to implement the American Rescue Plan clarify that workers exer-cising their right to strike under the National Labor Relations Act are covered by the COBRA subsidies.

The American Rescue Plan does not explicit-ly address the issue of striking workers, but the letter requested that any guidance issued regard-ing eligibility of workers to receive subsidized CO-BRA coverage explicitly clarify that these workers are eligible in order to en-sure that striking workers are not unintentionally harmed. This decision will prevent striking workers from having to pay the extremely high cost of COBRA out of pocket, lose their providers, or be-come disconnected from

their providers during ex-pensive and complicated treatments in the middle of a pandemic.

“I’m glad we were able to secure these subsidies for workers in Massachu-setts and across the coun-try exercising their right to organize and collectively bargain,” Rep. Pressley said. “Health care is a human right. And when workers choose to with-hold their labor to demand and secure safer working conditions, better wag-es or better benefits, that choice shouldn’t come at the expense of their health care.”

“This is an important victory for workers,” said Rep. Clark. “This guid-ance ensures that work-ers exercising their legal right to organize can re-ceive the COBRA subsi-dies they need to maintain their health care coverage during the global pandem-ic. I applaud the Biden Administration for this important step to protect our workers’ rights.”

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Workers from the City’s DPW, Don Ciarmella (left) and Joe Lake, with volunteer Mike Chie-sa (center), give the thumbs up during the groundbreaking of the new Senior Bocce Court at Susan B. Anthony.

In a nice gesture, Mayor Brian Arrigo offered his personal congratulations to Fatou Drammeh (left) on her being the recipient of a Certification of Appreciation from the Revere City Council in recognition of her commitment and dedica-tion to the Revere community. Ms. Drammeh is the coordi-nator of Revere Community School and has more than 30 years of experience working in the fields of social justice, economic development, and adult education programs. She holds a Master’s Degree from Brandeis University, a prestigious college located in Waltham.

FATOU DRAMMEH RECEIVES CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION

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LETTERS to the EditorNUMB TO THE NUMBERSWith just about all of the states now reopening their

economies, the conventional wisdom among most Americans is that the worst days of the coronavirus are behind us.

Yet the reality is that hundreds of Americans continue to die and tens of thousands more are contracting the disease each and every day.

This past Monday, April 12, for example, the New York Times -- which gets its data from Johns Hopkins University -- reported that 476 Americans died from the virus and that there were 72,286 new cases on that day.

Admittedly, these numbers pale in comparison to the 3000 Americans who were dying and the 300,000 new cases that were being reported each day at the pandem-ic’s height this past winter.

But even these lower daily figures still are huge, ri-valing the numbers that were in evidence last spring and summer.

Yet despite the ongoing tragedies of friends and fam-ily members across the country who are succumbing to the pandemic, there has been a complacency developing among most Americans about the virus.

To be sure, all of us are suffering from virus fatigue, attributable to the quarantining, restrictions, and omni-present fear of catching the disease.

In addition, with the vaccine rollout proceeding ahead of projections, most of us believe that the worst is behind us.

And while that may be true, we still have a rough road ahead. With the announcement earlier this week that the one-and-done Johnson & Johnson vaccine is linked to serious side-effects in a tiny number of recip-ients, the national vaccination program will be facing a slowdown.

More ominously, the so-called United Kingdom vari-ant of the virus now is the dominant case-type in the U.S. -- and that variant has been shown to be 60% more contagious AND 67 percent more deadly.

Even more worrisome, the variants that have been attributable to Brazil and South Africa are thought to be more resistant to vaccine-efficacy AND have been shown to reinfect persons who previously had caught the disease.

The arithmetic is this: More Americans still are dying each and every week from the coronavirus than were killed on 9/11. Let that sink in for a moment.

For those of us who like to compare the fight against COVID-19 to a war, the proper analogy to WWII is this: We may have won the war in Europe (V-E Day was on May 8), but American troops still were fighting and dying in the Pacific in epic battles on Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, we are not at the end of this pandemic and, in view of the huge numbers we are seeing nationwide, we may not even be at the beginning of the end.

Although we may be at the end of the beginning, it is premature to let our guard (which is to say, our masks) down.

The reality that we all must acknowledge is this: We still have a long way to go before we can declare victory over COVID-19.

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By Dr. Glenn Mollette

Like most everyone else, I’m tired of wearing a mask.

Every time I go to the grocery, a restaurant, church, or work I have to put on a mask. Not long ago, if we wore a mask into a bank or convenience store, the attendants would be alarmed and call 911. Today if we don’t wear one, we are in trouble and not welcomed.

A lot of people have died from Covid-19 and thus I understand masks are important in this pan-demic era. I don’t want a disease. I have had two Pfizer shots and I wear a mask most every place I go.

Is it our American, God given right to take off our masks? While we are free to take off our masks, oth-

ers are free to ask us to put them on. The business owner has the freedom to require a mask. The air-lines have the freedom to require masks. The re-ligious assembly has the freedom to require you to wear a mask. People with whom you socialize may ask that you wear a mask. Of course, you are free to not patronize those busi-nesses, forsake religious assembly and not hang out with certain people.

You are free to go mask-less if you want to. How-ever, you aren’t free to be in someone else’s face without a mask if they don’t want you there with-out one. There are many places where you aren’t allowed to smoke. There are some businesses that will not allow your pet. They have the freedom to refuse you service and you have the freedom to

go somewhere else. This is America.

We’ve all been to the funeral home around sick people. A dear friend of mine eulogized a funer-al in late November. Two people were in attendance who had Covid-19. He caught the virus and was dead by mid-Decem-ber. He spent his last two weeks of life isolated in intensive care. He meant well in trying to help out a family in their time of grief. It cost him his life. He had been very active and healthy.

I’ve spoken in churches and to groups where peo-ple would come up and shake my hand and then say, “Well, I’ve been sick, but I came anyway.” They acted like they should have received a trophy for coming and contaminating everyone. In reality, their actions were inconsiderate

of everyone else’s health. State governments

may remove mask man-dates. However, keep in mind that business own-ers still have the right to require masks. Churches still have the right to re-quire masks. You don’t have to let anyone in your home without a mask if you choose.

We have freedom in America to make choices - all of us.

Glenn Mollette is the publisher of Newburgh Press, Liberty Torch and various other publishing imprints; a national col-umnist – American Issues and Common Sense opin-ions, analysis, stories and features appear each week In over 500 newspapers, websites and blogs across the United States.

LETTER TO COMMISSIONER MONTGOMERY

Dear Commissioner Montgomery,

I am writing in refer-ence to the parking meters being installed on Revere Beach Boulevard on both the east and west sides of the street.

While I understand you heard testimony back in October, I have been to enough of these meeting to recognize that many of the decisions to do things such as fare and rate hikes, street reconfigurations, and other projects that impact the public are fore-gone conclusions prior to the public input phase; this appears to be another one of those situations.

Revere Beach is Amer-ica’s first public beach and a National Historic Landmark. It has been the source of passive rec-reation for Revere resi-dent, and for people and families across the Com-monwealth for more than a century. In fact, one of the key factors that lead many people to invest and choose to live in Revere is our oceanfront. We are proud of our beach and its history. We are proud to have provided genera-tions of children and their parents with an affordable way to get together and enjoy a day in the sun.

However, as is the case with so many other things, the state has chosen to help balance their increas-ing budget on the backs of the people who are just trying to make ends meet, particularly in this recent time of crisis. It is discour-aging to say the least.

As a homeowner and businessowner in the city of Revere, a few things tied to this proposal are disturbing. First, I am dismayed as to why no provision has been made for Revere residents who are already paying sig-nificantly higher rates for water & sewer, tolls, and auto insurance due to our city’s growing density and proximity to Boston, that would allow them to continue to park for free with a resident sticker. I am also confused as to why the revenue derived from these meters is not going directly into a sep-arate fund that would be

used to clean and maintain Revere Beach exclusive-ly. And lastly, how was it determined that Revere Beach would be outfitted with meters while oth-er surrounding beaches have been exempted. I believe Revere residents have done more than their fair share over the years in helping to balance the budget for the state of Massachusetts- It is time that we get some consid-eration.

In the interest of fair-ness, I ask that you please consider these modifica-tions

Dan Rizzo

MAYORS URGE BAKER TO GIVE ALL ADULTS VACCINE IN 20 HARDEST-HIT COMMUNITIES

Dear Editor, We, the undersigned

mayors and municipal managers, respectful-ly urge Governor Baker immediately to allow all distributors of COVID-19 vaccines in the 20 most vulnerable communities in Massachusetts to offer them to all residents over 18 years of age -- or 16 in the case of Pfizer -- with-out any other restrictions related to age or medical condition.

Another strategy would be to make all household members immediately eli-gible for vaccination when any single member of that household is eligible.

Despite initial chal-lenges, the system set up by the Commonwealth has helped us to achieve one of the highest rates of vaccination in the country. We also appreciate that the Administration has specif-ically designated 20 cit-ies and towns as being at higher risk of COVID, and deserving of additional re-sources, communication efforts, and vaccines.

Even with these efforts, we still face challenges achieving an equitable distribution of vaccines. Current estimates indicate 39% of white residents in the Commonwealth have received at least one dose per capita, while only 25% of Black and 18% of Lat-inx residents have done so.[1]

First dose vaccination rates in the 20 communi-ties designated by the Bak-er Administration as most

vulnerable are running, on average, 15% (for Black residents) and 24% points (for Latinx residents) be-hind the statewide aver-age for white residents. Of course, we expect that similar trends exist in among low-income popu-lations and populations of color in many of the oth-er cities and towns in the Commonwealth, even be-yond the 20 communities designated by the Admin-istration.

Public health data indi-cates we may be headed into another surge, with higher case rates among younger people (16–39 years old), most of whom are not now eligible for vaccination under state guidelines and who rep-resent a larger percentage of residents in the 20 mu-nicipalities. While young-er people have been less likely to suffer serious complications or die from COVID, they are still at risk of serious illness and longer-term consequenc-es. And they can transmit the disease to unvaccinat-ed individuals.

Once again – as in all previous surges – infec-tion rates are higher in vulnerable urban commu-nities, where residents are poorer, receive lower pay, frequently face more ex-posure to conditions that lead to illness, and are more likely to be front line workers who are unable to work from home.

One way to counter-act these trends would be to press for a faster and higher rate of vaccination in the 20 most vulnerable communities by making all residents immediately eligible for vaccinations if they are over 18 years of age (or 16 for Pfizer).

Since these commu-nities also contain many inter-generational house-holds and still face rela-tively high infection rates, another strategy would be to make all household members eligible for vaccination if any single member of the household qualifies. Getting as many people as possible vacci-nated as soon as possible is imperative to protect our residents.

We recognize that all age groups are expected to be eligible on April 19. However, we also rec-ognize that on that date, millions of residents from throughout the Common-wealth will become eli-gible, forcing the more

vulnerable residents of high-impact communities to compete for a limited number of appointments even as the supply of vac-cines grows. Giving the lower-income and more vulnerable residents of these 20 cities and towns a head start would help to ensure earlier access and a faster rate of vaccine up-take in communities that have already suffered an unconscionable rate of ill-ness and loss. Even after April 19, it will be import-ant to focus efforts on vac-cinating groups at higher risk of infection, including lower-income populations and people of color, not only in the 20 communi-ties, but broadly through-out the Commonwealth.

Already more than 40 states across America have expanded vaccine eligibil-ity to all residents over the age of 16 or those in spe-cific locations. Our neigh-boring state of Rhode Island, which continues to implement age restric-tions in most of the state, eliminated age restrictions in more vulnerable postal codes weeks ago. Mas-sachusetts should do the same in the 20 cities and towns the Administration has already designed as the most severely at risk. We feel this would help to accomplish a key Admin-istration goal, which we all share: to ensure that all residents of the Common-wealth, regardless of race, income, or resources, have an equal opportunity to get vaccinated at the soon-est possible time.

Robert Sullivan, Mayor of Brockton

Thomas Ambrosino, City Manager of Chelsea

Carlo DeMaria,Mayor of Everett

Yvonne Spicer, Mayor of Framingham

James Fiorentini, Mayor of Haverhill

Eileen Donoghue, City Manager, Lowell

Thomas McGee, Mayor of Lynn

Gary Christenson, Mayor of Malden Neil Perry, Town

Manager, RandolphBrian Howard, Mayor

of MethuenBrian Arrigo,

Mayor of RevereJoseph Curtatone,

Mayor of Somerville Marc Draisen,

Executive Director, Metropolitan Area

Planning Council

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2021 Water & Sewer Senior Discount Program

The period to apply for your 2021 discount will begin on Friday April 30th, through September 30th.

During the month of May, a tent will be in the City Hall parking lot located at 281 Broadway on the following days and times:

Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday 9:00am – 12:00PM

May 3rd through May 31st

***All forms that are received MUST be accompanied by a copy of Massachusetts state driver’s license or picture ID***

***Forms will also be available online at Revere.org

To qualify:

• Applicant must be owner of the record/occupy the property and Water bill & Tax Bill must be in his or her name.

• Applicant or spouse must turn age 65 during the calendar year to which the discount will be applied.

• The discount applies only to the owner of one, two and three family dwellings.

• Applicant must provide a valid Massachusetts state driver’s license or picture ID that shows the date of birth and property address. ****Additional documentation may be required****

• The applicant must complete and return the application form no later than September 30th of the calendar year the discount is in effect.

• Discount is only applied to one billing period annually.

Please call 781-286-8145 with any further questions.

Thank you!

2021 Water & Sewer Senior Discount Program

The period to apply for your 2021 discount will begin on Friday April 30th, through September 30th.

During the month of May, a tent will be in the City Hall parking lot located at 281 Broadway on the following days and times:

Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday 9:00am – 12:00PM

May 3rd through May 31st

***All forms that are received MUST be accompanied by a copy of Massachusetts state driver’s license or picture ID***

***Forms will also be available online at Revere.org

To qualify:

• Applicant must be owner of the record/occupy the property and Water bill & Tax Bill must be in his or her name.

• Applicant or spouse must turn age 65 during the calendar year to which the discount will be applied.

• The discount applies only to the owner of one, two and three family dwellings.

• Applicant must provide a valid Massachusetts state driver’s license or picture ID that shows the date of birth and property address. ****Additional documentation may be required****

• The applicant must complete and return the application form no later than September 30th of the calendar year the discount is in effect.

• Discount is only applied to one billing period annually.

Please call 781-286-8145 with any further questions.

Thank you!

By Cary Shuman

Baris Berk, owner and president of United Bro-kers, guided his firm to the top of the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) in sales in Revere during 2020, a historic year when the COVID-19 pandemic dra-matically affected busi-nesses everywhere.

Berk said his real estate agents maintained a pos-itive outlook and stayed true to the firm’s philos-

ophy of having a strong work ethic amidst the health crisis that struck hard against the Revere community.

“We worked hard. We never stopped. We approached our clients through Zoom, online, and by phones and we conducted virtual tours of the homes,” said Berk. “And we were able to market the homes and at-tract some buyers with the CDC guidelines and able

to sell. We were very bold in our decisions, but we took safety measures for us and our clients.”

Berk oversees a staff of 50 agents that work out of the company’s spacious offices at 283 Cushman Ave. Last winter, his firm was holding comprehen-sive training sessions be-fore the pandemic hit.

“In the third week of our nine-week training program, we transferred the entire program to Zoom,” recalled Berk. “We continued to have staff meetings every week on the Zoom platform. We kept our agents motivated instead of focusing on the negative impacts of the pandemic.”

Berk said his firm’s high number of home sales are a reflection that Revere is a much sought-after com-munity in which people want to live and enroll their children in an out-standing school district. He credited Mayor Brian

Arrigo for his stellar lead-ership of the city.

“Revere is an awesome, beautiful city that is close to Boston and the airport,” said Berk. “Mayor Arri-go has encouraged a lot of new development and the feeling in this region is that Revere is booming and it’s attracting profes-sionals who are moving here from downtown Bos-ton. Thanks to our mayor, Revere is a vibrant city with a bright future.

“The city offers a lot more to people. Re-vere Beach is here. The (MBTA) trains are here. And the schools (led by Supt. Dr. Dianne Kelly) have a much-deserved reputation for being excel-lent at all levels,” conclud-ed Berk.

United Brokers’ main focus is on single-fami-ly home sales with some work on commercial and rental properties.

Berk, who grew up in Turkey and emigrated to

the United States in 1998, is in his 20th year in the field of real estate. He is proud of his firm’s growth and the warmth in which Revere residents have welcomed its presence in the city.

“I never take things for granted,” said Berk. “Our firm has to better today than yesterday. I never look back. If we do make any mistakes, we learn from them. And I don’t compete with anybody but myself.”

Berk hopes that his work ethic and his real-ization of the American Dream inspires others.

He intends to be a part

of the Revere business community for many years to come. “Buying this location (on Cush-man Avenue) is one of my milestones,” said Berk, who lives in Revere with his wife, Diana Ochoa-Berk and their son, Sebas-tian, a high school student.

Berk added that peo-ple seeking careers in real estate are welcomed to contact him at his of-fices. “We are looking for people who believe in our core values and have the integrity, work ethic, and self-confidence,” said Berk. “We hire people not for who they are, but who they can become.”

MAN, UNITEDBaris Berk’s local real estate firm was No. 1 sales in Revere in 2020

Baris Berk, owner and president of United Brokers, is pic-tured in front of the firm’s “Core Values” message inside the offices on Cushman Avenue.

Real Estate Agent Alberio Lopera (left) and Owner and President Baris Berk are pictured at the Untied Brokers offices in Revere.

said Lampedecchio. “A lot of things weighed into my decision. It’s tough because over the past five years, I’ve literally spent every other Monday at City Council meetings. It’s going to be a change for sure.”

The 36-year-old Tap-ley Avenue resident said along the way he built “so many great relationships with so many people.”

“I think we made some real positive change in the city and I just hope that continues,” said Lampe-decchio.

He will continue to work at Metro Credit Union where he is vice president of training and development. Metro has more than $2.5 billion in

assets. “I started out as a part-

time, branch sales and service rep at Metro,” said Lampedecchio. “So it’s

been a great ride.”Lampedecchio and his

fiancée, Jennifer Moura, will be married in August.

Eric Lampedecchio and his fiancée, Jennifer Moura.

annino and Jeffrey Turco also voiced their opposi-tion to the new parking meters.

“I want to make it very clear that as Revere’s State Representative now, and as a City Councillor in October, 2020, I advocat-ed against and was strong-ly opposed to placing parking meters on Revere Beach,” said Rep. Gianni-no. “I am working on this issue at the state level, and am looking for a solution for our residents. This is America’s First Public Beach, and it should be open and equitable for all. I thank Mayor Arri-

One of the DCR’s new parking meter stations is pictured above on Revere Beach Boulevard across the street from the Beach House Apartments.

go, Senator Boncore and Representative Turco for their support, and rest as-sured, as Revere’s State Delegation, we are on the same page and are trying to seek relief for Revere residents.”

Turco, who was inau-gurated as state represen-

tative last week and is the former president of the Revere Beach Partnership, said,

“I join the residents of Revere in their alarm and concern over the DCR’s implementation of paid parking on America’s First Public Beach. Mayor Ar-

rigo, Senator Boncore Rep. Giannino, members of the Revere City Coun-cil and I are working with the DCR to address our collective concerns. “We look forward to working cooperatively for a solu-tion that benefits the resi-dents of Revere.”

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Special to the Journal

Revere resident Mo-nique Nguyen along with Massachusetts resi-dents Abdulkader Hayani and Niall Lennon were honored last night, Tues-day, April 6, 2021, at The Immigrant Learning Center Immigrant He-roes Award Benefit. The event paid tribute to the tremendous achievements of three honorees and to the 1.2 million immi-grant essential workers in Massachusetts without whom the COVID-19 pandemic would have been much worse. Hon-orees were given their awards at a socially dis-tanced ceremony held at the Royal Sonesta Bos-ton in Cambridge and broadcast online to a na-tionwide audience.

Mayor Brian M. Arrigo was unable to attend due to COVID precautions, but sent a pre-record-ed message saying, “On behalf of our entire city, I’d like to extend a sin-cere thank you to all the immigrant hero essential workers that have kept the region running and kept us safe throughout the pan-demic.” Senator Edward J. Markey also sent a video message to tell immigrant essential workers every-where, “You have stepped up during the COVID-19 pandemic and done the critical but often very dif-ficult work that had to be done, whether that was in a hospital saving lives, in virtual classrooms teach-ing our children, or in a grocery store keeping food on the shelves.” Senator Elizabeth Warren agreed in her pre-recorded mes-sage, saying, “They teach in our schools, work in our restaurants and hospitals, discover groundbreaking

cures. Immigrants make our country stronger, and our communities are bet-ter and brighter because of the invaluable contribu-tions of immigrants.”

Monique Nguyen was born in Canada to par-ents from Vietnam and moved with her family to the United States as a child. As the executive director of the Matahari Women Workers’ Center in Boston, Nguyen created the MassUndocuFund last year with Mass Jobs with Justice and One Fair Wage to assist undocumented immigrants who lost em-ployment or wages due to the pandemic. According to the organization, there are an estimated 250,000 undocumented immi-grants who live and work in Massachusetts and contribute about $184.6 million in state and local taxes. Because of their im-migration status, none of these residents are eligible for federal stimulus funds or state unemployment benefits. MassUndocu-Fund has raised $1.5 mil-lion and distributed grants to workers in the restau-rant industry, agriculture, construction, domestic workers and more in all 14 counties in Massachusetts.

Abdulkader Hayani, a refugee from Syria, was honored for providing masks when they were urgently needed. When the pandemic hit in early 2020, he was laid off from his job as a tailor and turned his full attention to making and donating masks. In conjunction with the Shapiro Foundation, he was able to produce and distribute more than 2,000 masks in 22 states early in the pandemic when masks were in limited supply. A humble man, this ac-complishment is some-

thing Hayani calls, “just something very small to help the American peo-ple.”

A native of Ire-land, Niall Lennon is a se-nior director at the Broad Institute of MIT and Har-vard and a critical mem-ber of the team that, in conjunction with the Mas-sachusetts Department of Public Health, has made more than 15 million COVID-19 tests possi-ble and counting. Starting with the first test in March 2020 through the current processing of 120,000 tests each day, Lennon has spearheaded clinical validation and been a pri-mary liaison with the Food and Drug Administration as well as partners such as the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke. Residents in COVID hotspots, nurs-ing homes, long-term care facilities, hospitals, home-less shelters, and low-in-come housing com-plexes, as well as students in 140 public and private colleges and universities throughout the Northeast and K-12 schools across Massachu-setts, have benefited from these efforts.

A recording of the award ceremony as well as resources about im-migrant essential work-ers in Massachusetts and the United States can be found on The Immigrant Learning Center’s web-site at www.ilctr.org.

Other elected officials who contributed messages of thanks and congratula-tions included Congress-woman Katherine Clark, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Mike Ken-nealy, Massachusetts Senator Jason Lewis and Revere Mayor Brian M. Arrigo. Business and community leaders also showed their support through pre-recorded messages, including Mas-sachusetts Competitive Partnership President and CEO Jay Ash, Boston Business Journal Execu-tive Editor Doug Banks, Deshpande Foundation Founder Desh Desh-pande, and New England Patriots Foundation Presi-dent Josh Kraft.

The Immigrant Learning Center, Inc. of Malden, MA, is a not-for-profit organiza-tion that gives immigrants a voice in three ways. The English Language Program provides free, year-round English classes to immi-grant and refugee adults in Greater Boston to help them become successful workers, parents and com-munity members. The Pub-lic Education Institute in-forms Americans about the economic and social con-tributions of immigrants in our society, and the Insti-tute for Immigration Re-search, a joint venture with George Mason University, conducts research on the economic contributions of immigrants. For more in-formation, visit the website http://www.ilctr.org. The ILC can also be found on Facebook, Twitter, Pinter-est, YouTube and Pinterest.

Monique Nguyen honored as Immigrant Hero

Shown from left to right Monique Nguyen, Abdulkader Hayani, Niall Lennon. 

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“The RMV shares the frustrations and disap-pointment with the tre-mendous inconvenience Applus’s outage is causing and recognizes the signifi-cant impacts on customers and business owners across the Commonwealth,” said Acting Registrar of Motor Vehicles Colleen Ogil-vie. “The RMV remains committed to its efforts to ensure Applus makes

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Due to the nationwide system outage of motor vehicle inspection ser-vices by its vendor Applus Technologies (Applus) impacting inspection sta-tions and motor vehicle owners, the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehi-cles (RMV) is allowing a grace period for specific motor vehicle inspection requirements outlined be-low. The RMV is working in close partnership with the Executive Office of Public Safety and Secu-rity (EOPSS), the Massa-chusetts Chiefs of Police Association (MCOPA), the Massachusetts State Police (MSP) and other stakeholders to mitigate the impacts of the outage.

The RMV continues to urge Applus to safely and swiftly restore services and provide additional in-formation on the extent of the outage’s impact, which began on Tuesday, March 30. The three-phase pro-cess required to return the MA Vehicle Check pro-gram to full service that is secure and safe has been in progress. These phases are 1) Remediation (com-pleted), 2) Restoration and System Testing (cur-rent phase), and 3) Go-Live and Post- Go-Live Support. The restoration phase, which is the current

phase, involves a deliber-ate and methodical reset-ting of Applus Technolo-gies’ IT environment and will take some time to re-store the safety and emis-sions stations to testing capabilities fully. Based on recent conversations, inspections were not per-formed Monday, April 5, Tuesday, April 6, Wednes-day, April 7, Thursday, April 8, or Friday, April 9.

“The RMV shares the frustrations and disap-pointment with the tre-mendous inconvenience Applus’s outage is caus-ing and recognizes the significant impacts on customers and business owners across the Com-monwealth,” said Acting Registrar of Motor Vehi-cles Colleen Ogilvie. “The RMV remains committed to its efforts to ensure Ap-plus makes Massachusetts a priority in quickly and safely returning the in-spection program to oper-ation.”

The RMV is allowing a grace period for certain expired motor vehicle inspections. The RMV has advised law enforce-ment that compliance with the safety/emis-sions inspection require-ment has not been pos-sible since March 30, in light of the outage caused by the malware attack against Applus.

Motor vehicles with expired inspection stick-ers from March 2021 (“3” sticker on windshield) should be granted until April 30, 2021, to obtain an inspection.

Vehicles newly pur-chased or registered on or after Tuesday, March 23, 2021, should be granted until April 30, 2021, to ob-tain an inspection. Newly purchased vehicles must typically be inspected within seven (7) days of registration.

Customers who recent-ly had an inspection rejec-tion and are in the 60-day free retest window will be afforded one extra day for each day Applus’s system remains unavailable but should plan to facilitate their inspection as soon as possible once the system is restored and stations are online.

The RMV is taking these and other steps to mitigate the impacts of Applus’s outage. Addi-tionally, the RMV, in part-nership with the Depart-ment of Environmental Protection, has formally notified Applus that it is in breach of its contract and is exploring all possible remedial measures pur-suant to the terms of the contract as Applus works to restore service as expe-diently as possible.

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this year is that our funding is different than it’s been in decades,” said Kelly. “We have been thinking a lot about how we can im-prove the district and ways to leverage this additional funding to really influ-ence the outcomes for our students. What really im-pacted some of the deci-sions are the vast amount of input that we got from our community meetings just over a year ago, when

we thought we were going to have some funding for Fiscal Year 2021. How-ever, this funding was not realized because the pandemic caused the state to pull back the funding we anticipated from the Student Opportunity Act (SOA). So what we are hoping to do is to set an overarching vision for this funding.”

Kelly said the addition-al funding that RPS has

on top of SOA funding are other grants like the American Recovery Act that are forthcoming.

“These are sizable amounts (of funding) as well,” said Kelly.

After expenses last year, the School Commit-tee agreed to reserve about $878,000 in the fall left over from the 2019/2020 school year.

“We agreed that we should leave that funding

unspent because we were not sure at the time what our fiscal status would be for next school year,” said Kelly. “So when all of that was said and done we had $99 million to operate the school department. Then we received some addi-tional funding because of COVID.”

Throughout the pan-demic Kelly said RPS re-ceived one grant for $2.2 million and an addition-

al $320,000 in Remote Learning Technology grants, which RPS used to buy the Chromebooks that went to students.

“We also had at one point almost $1.7 mil-lion in Coronavirus Re-lief funding,” said Kelly. “Most of that was targeted for the purchase of PPE and other things that we needed to ensure that our schools were safe. So our grand total we had to spend for the school year was $103 million.”

Kelly said now with

SOA funding hopefully coming through finally to the tune of $11 million for RPS the schools will be in real good shape fiscally.

“This year we had $108.7 million to spend on the school district,” said Kelly. “Again that’s a sizable jump over last year’s budget of $103 million and we antici-pate with grants and SOA funding that we’ll have $132 million to spend on our schools--an increase of nearly $30 million.”

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Michael Wells is the new director of municipal inspections after being ap-pointed by Mayor Brian Arrigo and receiving the wholehearted support of the City Council.

At the sub-committee on his appointment, Chair Arthur Guinasso asked Wells, who has worked in the department for five years, to explain the na-ture of his responsibilities and his intentions in his vital position in city gov-ernment.

“Our mission and goal for the department under building, health inspec-tions, and weights and measures is to offer first-class service to our resi-dents and our contractors and to ensure that we’re living up to the standards in building code and safety and helping out anybody that we possibly can to get them to do what they need to do,” said Wells.

Councilor-at-Large Jes-sica Giannino spoke en-thusiastically about Wells’ promotion.

“I think this is a won-derful appointment and I want to thank Michael for being so responsive,” said Giannino.

Ward 1 Councillor Jo-anne McKenna said Wells was her student at Revere High School. “I’ve known the Wells family for almost 40 years,” said McKenna. “He’s been a hard worker for the city. He’s doing a wonderful job. It’s an ex-cellent appointment.”

Council President An-thony Zambuto congratu-lated Wells on his appoint-ment and “for his hard work” especially during the year-long COVID-19 pandemic. “He stepped up to the plate and I’m happy that the mayor is reward-ing that.”

Counci lor-a t -Large Gerry Visconti said that Wells always conducts himself “professionally, politely – and one of the biggest attributes that you have is the fact that you’re approachable to the res-idents, contractors, and businesses.”

Ward 4 Council-or Patrick Keefe noted Wells’ past experience in

the restaurant industry. “You’re a hard-working person and I know you’ve been in this role for some time on an interim basis and this is well deserved,” said Keefe.

Councillor-at-Large Steve Morabito said Wells has raised his family in Re-vere and that he frequents local establishments. “I like that aspect that he’s rooted in Revere,” said Morabito. “He knows our businesses and he wants to make sure they stay within code.”

Guinasso, who has known Wells since his childhood, said, “The po-sition [director of munic-ipal inspections] you’re coming into is so well-de-served. The manner in which you present your-self and the response you give to councilors and residents is so genuine, so truthful, so factual, and so informative. I know you had good vision back then and I know you’ll do a great job for our city.”

A Revere High School and Johnson and Wales

graduateMichael Wells is a 1989

graduate of Revere High School. He went on to attend one of the nation’s foremost culinary arts col-leges, Johnson and Wales in Providence. He has an Associate’s degree in Cu-linary Arts and a Bache-lor’s degree in Food Ser-vice Management.

Wells, 46, started his career at Spirit of Boston, the Boston Harbor cruise ship, and was a general manager at 99 Restaurant for 13 years.

In 2016, Wells began his work in the city depart-ment he will now lead.

Wells said he will be able to build on the pro-fessional relationships he has had with local busi-ness owners as a result of his previous work in his position of food inspector.

He noted that all restau-rants in the city are cur-rently operating at 100 capacity with a six-foot distance in between tables.

Wells’ offices will be located in the American Legion Building. He will administer the 18-mem-ber Municipal Inspections Department.

Wells expressed his gratitude to Mayor Brian Arrigo for the appoint-ment.

“I’m very grateful to Mayor Arrigo for his con-fidence in me to lead one of the biggest departments in City Hall,” said Wells.

Michael is the son of retired Revere firefighter Stanley Wells and Mary Ellen Wells, a popular waitress at Maggio’s for 37 years.

Michael and his wife, Joan Wells, have four children, Mackenzie, who

works at East Boston Savings Bank, Jenna, a former three-sport stand-out and class president at Revere High School who is a sophomore at Salem State University, Michael, a senior at Northeast Re-gional specializing in the electrical program, and Jonathan, an eighth grader at Garfield Middle School.

Michael is also the younger brother of Jen Wells, one of the great-est Revere High softball pitchers in history. It was Jen who engineered the biggest upset in the pro-gram’s history in the 1989 season, a win over Bishop Fenwick in the Division 1 sectional at Hill Park.

“I knew she was great since the day she started pitching,” said Michael.

Jen’s masterful pitch-ing performance preceded Bishop Fenwick’s streak of seven consecutive Di-vision 1 state champion-ships. It likely would have been eight in a row if not for the day Jen Wells and Revere High stunned the Massachusetts high school softball community.

Michael Wells appointed city’s Director of Municipal Inspections

By John Lynds

With recent state leg-islation passed that will once and for all set criteria of what defines environ-mental justice communi-ties like Revere --Guber-natorial Candidate, former State Senator and Eastie resident Ben Downing outlined his climate plan that he’d make a priority if elected to the state’s cor-ner office in 2022.

In his plan, the Pitts-field native who now lives in Orient Heights with his wife and two sons, said he wants to achieve 100 per-cent clean electricity in the Commonwealth by 2030

and 100 percent clean en-ergy by 2040.

Downing, who became a clean energy business leader at a leading renew-able energy company af-ter leaving the Senate in 2017, unveiled his plan via his newly launched BEN TV (https://tinyurl.com/DowningClimate).

Downing said the first part of his campaign’s policy agenda would be to focus on climate action.

“The Downing Climate Plan” is focused on urgen-cy, equity, innovation, jus-tice and jobs.

Aside from reaching 100 percent clean ener-

gy Downing said he’s also committed to requir-ing 50 percent of climate spending to directly ben-efit environmental justice communities; undertake “Restructuring 3.0” to reform utilities and mod-ernize the grid; create a climate impact mandate across state government; and maximize the eco-nomic benefit of a clean energy economy in Mas-sachusetts

“For years, the Massa-chusetts state government has approached climate change with sluggishness and delay,” said Down-ing during the launch of

his climate agenda. “So barely two weeks after we finally saw a major cli-mate bill signed into law, we still find ourselves be-hind. It’s past time we had a Governor who under-stands the fierce urgency of our changing climate, the disparate impact of our failures on disenfran-chised communities, and the reality that if there is one resource we are flat out of, it is time. In the years ahead there is no greater priority for our state than undertaking an aggressive, all-hands-on-deck campaign to bring emissions down, reform

our energy sector, maxi-mize green jobs, build up climate resilience, and for-tify communities shoul-dering environmental in-justice.”

Downing said his cli-mate policy plan is the first of many in his campaign.

“It’s critical to me that voters understand my vi-sion and priorities from the start,” said Downing. “Our campaign’s policy agenda will be a living, breathing effort, and we’re looking forward to sharing ideas in the months ahead, getting feedback, listening to concerns, and building out a collective vision for

a fairer, stronger Massa-chusetts.”

Downing was a leading voice for climate action during his 10 years in the state senate. He served as Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Telecom-munications, Utilities, and Energy where he passed transformative legislation to improve energy effi-ciency, jumpstart renew-able development, and help the state meet its car-bon reduction goals.

He later served as Vice President at Nexamp and also served on the board of the Environmental League of Massachusetts.

Gubernatorial candidate Ben Downing outlines his climate plan

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We have so much to of-fer. We have a very, very diverse community. Why not give families the op-portunity that cannot rent commercial space to start a business in their homes and hopefully get a co-sharing facility?”

Rotondo said the city has a wide variety of restaurants on Shirley Avenue, stating that “you can experience the world there.”

Ward 3 Councilor Ar-thur Guinasso spoke in opposition to Rotondo’s motion.

“I think that’s the ex-act reason why I would have reservations about this – because we have established places called restaurants, places where you can pick up food.

“But the most import-ant thing is that the buy-er is being protected by oversight responsibility by Inspectional Services checking the kitchen to make sure it’s clean and sanitized. This is a process that’s being done in plac-es where there are remote

areas. We have beautiful businesses on Broadway. You can get any kind of food you want.”

Guinasso said such food businesses operating out of homes could hurt the bottom line of established restaurants and bakeries.

Guinasso added, “If someone’s making 400 bucks selling lasagna out the back door, that’s wrong. I would be so against this [proposal]. I can’t imagine buying food from someone else’s house. And I don’t think other people should do the same because there’s no protection for them.”

Councillor-at-Large Steven Morabito spoke in favor of the proposal.

“The last time I checked, this is the land of hope and opportunity,” said Morabito. “Having residential kitchens will give the average person the opportunity of creat-ing a business without the overhead start-up costs of running a business. It’s the same thing as having a festival where Italians

use to sell rice balls at the corner of Shirley Avenue. It just gives the food entre-preneur the opportunity to create and sell homemade foods.”

Dimple Rana, director of Revere On The Move, made an informative pre-sentation on behalf of Rotondo’s motion, stating that it would be of great benefit to Revere residents and its food economy.

Rana said the propos-al would allow residents to start their own small businesses without all the overhead and capital expenses. Residentials would be required to ap-ply for a state or local per-mit and comply with local ordinances.

Rana verbally provided the councilors with a list of foods that residential kitchens would be allowed to produce and sell “under cottage laws.”

“They could sell baked goods, a loaf of bread, pas-tries, cookies, cakes, fruit pies, candies, pop corn, cotton candy, jams and jellies and preserves, dried

fruits, dried herbs, season-ings and mixtures, cereals, granola, fruited or unfruit-ed nuts, and vinegar and flavored vinegars without any oil,” said Rana.

Rana ended her remarks by stating that “this is a great motion that our city and our residents can ben-efit from.”

City Council President Anthony Zambuto invited Rana to provide informa-tion at the Council’s sub-committee meeting.

“In order to get people on board, we’re going to have to educate people as to the safety of this,” said Zambuto.

Ward 6 Councilor Rich-ard Serino concluded the discussion, stating that he initially had concerns about the proposal, but af-ter listening to Rana’s pre-sentation about the safety precautions that would be implemented, “I look forward to learning more about this in sub-commit-tee, and I think it’s a great idea and that we should allow it.”

Michael Wells is the new di-rector of municipal inspec-tions for the City of Revere.

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OBITUARIES

A Funeral Mass was celebrated on April 12 in the Immaculate Concep-tion Church for James A. “Jimmy” Ackerman, 68, who died peacefully in his sleep on Wednesday, April 7 at his Revere residence.

Jimmy was born in Chelsea and raised and ed-ucated in Revere. He was a proud graduate of Re-vere High School, Class of 1971. He furthered his education at North Shore Community College, where he earned an Asso-ciate’s Degree in Liberal Arts.

Jimmy will be remem-bered for his kindness, humor, and intelligence. He was a self-taught lin-guist who spoke several languages fluently, among them: Greek, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and French.

He had a natural ear for languages and was able to learn simply by listening and speaking with native speakers. Most recently he had been learning Arabic. He had a vast knowledge of cultures and history and an insatiable curiosity that endeared him to many non-English speakers, as he took the time to learn how to communicate with them.

He was able to use his linguistic abilities when he worked as a concierge at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, greet-ing and assisting people visiting the hospital in their own language.

Jimmy was an avid gardener and landscap-er and for many years, along with his mother, he grew a sumptuous vege-table garden. His love of culture and organic farm-ing spread to his cooking where he prepared won-derful meals and freshly baked cookies for his fam-ily and he was the keep-er of his mother’s many

Greek recipes. Jimmy loved being out-

doors and could be fre-quently seen along Revere Beach, either running or walking, from Elliot Cir-cle to the Point of Pines.

Although he had many personal struggles, Jimmy was always quick to help others displaying deep compassion and empathy. Jimmy found solace in his strong faith and his friend-ship with Bill W.

The devoted son of the late Thomas E. Ackerman and Mary P. (Theophiles) Ackerman, he was the cherished brother of Mary Lauriat and her husband, Philip of Wakefield, Patri-cia “Patti” Ackerman-Felt of Saugus, Janis DelGaizo and her husband, John of Lynnfield, Thomas F. Ackerman and his wife, Cindy of Lynnfield, Mar-garet “Peggy” Ackerman of Nahant, Michael Ack-erman and his wife, Judy of Melrose, the late Ste-phen M. Ackerman and Jimmy’s partner of 30 years, Ricky Adams. He is also lovingly survived by many loving nieces, neph-ews, grandnieces, grand-nephews, cousins and his dear friend, John Catino.

Remembrances may be made to Fenway Health 118 Pembroke St., Boston, MA 02118. To send online condolences, please visit www.vertuccioandsmith.com. Funeral Arrange-ments entrusted to the care and direction of the Ver-tuccio & Smith, Home for Funerals.

Family and Friends are invited to attend a Me-morial Visitation on Sat-urday, April 17 from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Vertuccio & Smith, Home for Funer-als, 773 Broadway (Route 107) Revere for Rosema-rie (Mastascusa) Drinan, 73, who passed away at the Kaplan Family Hos-pice House in Danvers on April 10 following a battle of overwhelming illness.

A Funeral Service will be conducted in the fu-neral home at 5:15 p.m. immediately following the visitation. Interment will be held privately.

Face masks must be worn at all times and so-cial distancing must be maintained in the funeral home. All attendees are required to provide their name and phone num-ber for contact tracing and temperatures will be checked prior to entering the funeral home. Only 25 people are allowed in the Funeral Home at one time.

Guests are asked to visit briefly and to exit the fu-neral home to allow others to enter.

Rosemarie was born and raised in Revere and was a graduate of Revere High School. She soon married David J. Drinan and the couple resided in Everett where they began their family.

They later settled in Chelsea, where they re-mained for many years until taking residence in-Saugus where they made their home for over 30 years. They shared nearly 54 years of marriage to-gether.

Rosemarie was a devot-ed wife and mother and

she also worked outside of the home to help support her family. She worked for several years in Bos-ton’s Logan Airport at the duty-free shop and then began working for Stop & Shop Supermarket. Her career there as a clerk spanned 25 years until her retirement.

Rosemarie enjoyed spending time with her family and always held St. Anthony of Padua Church very dear to her heart.

The beloved wife of 54 years to David J. Drinan, Sr. of Saugus, she was the devoted mother of Da-vid J. Drinan, Jr. and his wife, Joyce of Revere, Denise M. Grassa and her husband, Nicholas and Diana M. LaVertue and her husband, George, all of Saugus; cherished grandmother of Sabrina, Justin, Katie and Isabel-la; dear sister of Joyce D. DiNuccio and her hus-band. Thomas L., Sr. of Revere and cherished aunt of Thomas L. DiNuccio, Jr. and his wife, Stacey of Winthrop. She was the daughter of the late John A. and Jennie G. (Caggia-no) Mastascusa.

In lieu of flowers, re-membrances may be made to St. Jude Children’s Re-search Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-9959.

To send online con-dolences or for more in-formation, please visit www.vertuccioandsmith.com.

Funeral Arrangements entrusted to the care and direction of the Vertuccio & Smith, Home for Funer-als of Revere.

John J. Franovich of Revere, lov-ing father, grandfather,

and devoted husband of 57 years of Regina (Roach) passed away on Saturday, April 10.

Born in Cambridge, the son of the late Leo and Rose Franovich and brother of Elizabeth (Bet-ty) Caruso of Peabody and Leo Jr. of Somerville, John was a graduate of Somerville High School where he played football and basketball before serving his country in the Air Force during the Ber-lin crisis. He worked as a buyer for Raytheon for over 25 years.

He is also survived by his daughter, Robin M. Hartnett and her hus-band, Mark S. Hartnett of Revere, his son John A Franovich and his wife, Lisa (Chase) of Rockland, formerly of Revere, David D. Franovich and his wife, Bridget of Maryland, for-merly of Revere and 11 grandchildren.

He loved basketball, the Red Sox and taking pic-tures, but his true love was his family.

A visitation will be

held at the Paul Buonfi-glio & Sons-Bruno Fu-neral Home, 128 Revere Street, Revere on Thurs-day, April 15 from 4 to 8 p.m. Due to current ca-pacity limits, we ask that you keep your visit brief to allow others to enter. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Friday at the Immaculate Concep-tion Church, 133 Beach Street, Revere at 10 a.m. (Everyone to meet direct-ly at church). Relatives and friends are kindly in-vited. Masks and social distancing are required at the church and funeral home. Interment Wood-lawn Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Project Bread 145, Border Street, Bos-ton, MA 02128 or at pro-jectbread.org. For guest-book, please visit www.buonfiglio.com.

Norma (Sasso) Davis, a lifelong resident of Re-vere, passed away sur-rounded by her loving family on April 10 at the age of 89.

Born in Revere on No-vember 8, 1931 to the late Peter and Sophie (DeMat-teis), she was the beloved wife of the late Richard Davis, devoted mother of Elaine Moschella of Re-vere, Stephen Davis and his wife, Denise of Ohio and Nancy Maniscalco and her husband, John of Revere. She was the cherished grandmother of nine, adored great grand-mother of four, dear sister of Robert Sasso, Edward Sasso and Elaine Marino, all of Revere, and was preceded in death by Lucy Savastano, Thelma Manz and Jean Sasso. She is also survived by many loving nieces and nephews.

Norma had a passion for cooking since a very young age and was her happiest when serving her famous recipes to family and friends. In addition to cooking, some of Norma’s pleasures included travel-ing, playing scrabble and cards with friends, watch-ing Jeopardy, volunteering at the historical society, and playing in a bocce league. Norma took pride in making everyone feel welcome in her home. She adored caring for not only her own grandchildren, but many of their friends who adopted her as their grandmother as well. Norma had an unbreak-able faith and devotion to

God. Giving back to those in need was Norma’s life purpose. Her generosity is well known by anyone who has met her and she held a special place in her heart for the many founda-tions she contributed to.

A visitation will be held at the Paul Buonfiglio & Sons-Bruno Funeral Home 128 Revere St., Re-vere today, Wednesday, April 14 from 4 to 8 p.m. We ask that you make your visit brief to allow others to pay their respects. Rela-tives and friends are kindly invited to a Funeral Mass at St. Anthony’s Church in Revere on Thursday at 10 a.m. (Everyone meet directly at church). Masks and social distancing are required at church and the funeral home. Inter-ment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, do-nations can be made in Norma’s name to the Reid Landry Garrant Founda-tion, RLG Foundation in care of Paula Garrant, 20 Berry St, Unit 2110, North Andover, MA 01845 or at reidsrebels.com. For guest book please vis-it www.buonfiglio.com.

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First Year Anniversary

Joan M. LarsenApril 14, 2020- April 14, 2021

Deeply Loved & Sadly Missed by the Larsen

Family

Birthday Remembrance

Katherine J. BrightApril 16, 1931

"And in the end,the Love you take

is equal to the Love you make"

- The Beatles

With love & thanks, your children,

grandchildren, &great-grandchildren xo

"Mom"Birthday Remembrance

Katherine J. BrightApril 16, 1931

"And in the end,the Love you take

is equal to the Love you make"

- The Beatles

With love & thanks, your children,

grandchildren, &great-grandchildren xo

"Mom"

I cant be contented with yesterdays glory... I cant live on promises winter to spring,

Today is the moment and now is my story, Ill laugh, Ill cry and ill sing…

Miss you so, — Love Deb and the boys

6th Year Memoriam

Colm Bohill2015 April 13 2021

Our “Rose”In Loving Memory

Michael A. Coppola26th Anniversary

April 16th

You are always in our hearts & in our thoughts.

Your Loving Family & Friends

Mom - Dad - Cheryl - Matt - Steve -

Jackie

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 T H E R E V E R E J O U R N A L Page 9

Special to the Journal

Mayor Brian Arrigo and Chief of Police Da-vid Callahan announced that the Revere Police Department has been awarded a grant from the Executive Office of Pub-lic Safety and Security’s Office of Grants and Re-search (OGR) to increase the number of distracted driving patrols during April’s Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Revere Police will join other de-partments across the state, along with the Massachu-setts Department of State Police in the national Dis-tracted Driving enforce-ment campaign.

“Distracted drivers put everyone at risk, es-pecially pedestrians and cyclists,” said Chief Cal-lahan of the Revere Po-lice Department. “These funds will increase our traffic enforcement pres-ence. The Massachusetts Hands-Free law is an im-portant tool to keeping roads safe for everyone.”

“We are constantly distracted by electronic devices and communi-cations in our everyday lives. These distractions are most dangerous when we’re behind the wheel,” said Kevin Stanton, Ex-ecutive Director of the Executive Office of Pub-lic Safety and Security’s OGR. “We urge drivers to place their cell phones out of reach so that they can focus on safe driving.”

“Just drive,” said Jeff Larason, Division Direc-tor of the OGR’s High-way Safety Division. “The time you spend behind the wheel is, for most people, the most dangerous thing you’re likely to do today. Adding distractions, like your cell phone, is irre-sponsible and dangerous.”

Although the follow-ing trends show a decline, traffic safety experts be-lieve driver inattention is a contributing factor to these incidents:

• The five-year aver-age of traffic fatalities in Massachusetts for 2016 – 2020 was 353, down from 354 reported from 2015 – 2019.

• From 2016 – 2020, 168 people died in crash-es involving a distracted driver in Massachusetts.

This is a 23% decline from the 217 deaths reported from 2015-2019.

• Fatalities in a crash in-volving a distracted driver from 2016 – 2020 were 9.5% of all traffic fatal-ities reported during the same period. This is a sig-nificant decline from the 12.3% reported for 2015 – 2019.

• The five-year aver-age of crashes involving a distracted driver in Mas-sachusetts has declined nearly 2% from 11,098 for 2015 – 2019 to 10,885 for 2016 – 2020.

• From 2016 – 2020, se-rious injuries were report-ed in 1.8% of all crashes involving a distracted driver. Minor injuries were reported in 13.4% of all crashes involving a dis-tracted driver.

• The five-year aver-age of crashes involving a distracted driver using an electronic device (oper-ating or talking) dropped 5.5% from 3,413 for 2015 – 2019 to 3,226 for 2016 – 2020.

• From 2016 – 2020, se-rious injuries were report-ed in 1.6% of crashes in-volving a distracted driver using an electronic device. Minor injuries were re-ported in 13.1% of crashes during the same period.

• From 2016 – 2020, nearly 70% of all distract-ed driving-involved fatal-ities occurred between 9 am and 9 pm. The period from 12 pm – 2:59 pm was the most dangerous, with 35 of the 168 deaths accounting for 20.8% of fatalities.

• From 2016 – 2020, pe-

destrians accounted for 49 of the distracted driver-in-volved crash fatalities. This is an 18.3% decline from the 60 pedestrian fa-talities reported from 2015 – 2019.

• Of the 49 pedestrians killed in a distracted driv-er-involved crash from 2016 - 2020, 24 were age 65 or older. There were only four pedestrian deaths under age 15.

COMPLYING WITH THE HANDS-FREE

LAW:Vehicles without built-

in GPS, Apple Car Play, or Android Audio must be equipped with a phone mount on the dash or windshield for GPS navi-gation.

To properly equip your vehicle, here are the op-tions (most are powered by vehicle cigarette light-er port):

Vehicles without Blue-tooth or an Aux port:

• Standalone hands-free device with built-in Blue-tooth, speaker, and micro-phone.

• Bluetooth adapter with FM transmitter to use car speakers for audio. Some come with a microphone; others rely on the phone’s microphone.

• Single-ear earpiece with Bluetooth to pair with a phone for calls.

• Replacement head unit (if available) that includes either Apple CarPlay, An-droid Auto, or Bluetooth. Must be professionally in-stalled.

Vehicles with An Aux port, but without Blue-tooth - Bluetooth adapter

that plugs into the ciga-rette lighter and includes a cable for connecting to aux port for phone au-dio. Some include micro-phones and a dash-mount-able button to answer calls. Others rely on the phone’s microphone.

Vehicles Equipped

with Bluetooth - A phone mount is all you need for GPS navigation. All phone communication can be routed through the Bluetooth connection.

To fully comply with the law, using a voice as-sistant on the phone or through the car’s infotain-ment system is required. Both Apple’s Siri and Google Assistant must be enabled and used to issue commands to place calls, listen to text messages and respond to text messages.

The OGR offers these additional tips for motor-ists not using hands-free technology:

• Before driving, please turn your phone off and put it out of reach.

• Set your iPhone to “Do Not Disturb While Driving” mode.

• Let your friends and family know that you’ll be driving and can’t take their calls or texts.

• If you have to make a call or send a text, pull over.

• Watch for pedestrians and bicyclists – especially at night.

• Remember to buck-le up! Seat belts are your best defense against a dis-tracted driver.

10 years agoApril 14, 2011The ball is officially

rolling on the new McKin-ley School, as the state School Building Authori-ty (MSBA) approved the project for its capital pipe-line last week. Getting the new school built has been a fight that has lasted for several generations, with disappointments stretch-ing back to the 1970s for parents and city officials who have hoped to replace the 110-year-old school. Mayor Tom Ambrosi-no was the driving force behind the approval, as was Superintendent Paul Dakin, and both said this week that not only did they get the ball rolling on the school, but they will prob-ably get a much bigger school than anticipated.

Federal Bureau of In-vestigation (FBI) agents arrested a Revere police of-ficer yesterday morning at his Revere home for lying to FBI agents – specifical-ly about an incident where he allegedly accepted $200 in cash from a cooperating witness (CW) in exchange for the officer’s assistance with a criminal case pend-ing in Chelsea District Court against a friend of the CW. The FBI alleges

the officer, who is 40 years old, made false statements and representations regard-ing an ongoing public cor-ruption investigation.

As part of the Wonder-land Transit Oriented De-velopment, a new pedestri-an bridge that will traverse Wonderland Station to the Beach over Ocean Avenue will be designed by Mi-guel Rosales of Boston’s Rosales & Partners, who was the lead architect of the now-iconic Zakim Bridge in Boston.

Hanna, Soul Surfer, and Scream 4 are playing at the Revere Showcase Cin-emas.

20 years agoApril 18, 2001The City Council is

debating the merits of filling the seat left vacant by the recent death of long-time councilor Jo-seph Del Grosso. Coun-cilor-at-Large Dan Rizzo has suggested that Fred Sannella, the runner-up in the last election, should fill the spot.

City officials say they are facing a $2 million in-crease in health insurance costs for city employees, which will have a devas-tating effect on the budget.

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independent wrestling or-ganization, is developing a following in Revere, where 300 fans recently saw matches at the Sky-line Club at Wonderland Ballroom.

Revere will receive an extra $513,944 in state lot-tery funds after State Rep. Bob DeLeo dug deep into the lottery’s revenues.

Pokemon 3: The Mov-ie, Bridget Jones’s Diary, and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles are playing at the Revere Showcase Cinemas.

30 years agoApril 17, 1991Abutters of the former

Grover Manor Hospi-tal property are pleased with the decision by the Planning Board to reject a proposal for a 32-unit housing subdivision by the present owners of the property. The owners had sought to build the homes on 6600 sq. ft. lots, which is less than the 10,000 sq. ft. now required under the city’s zoning laws.

The School Commit-tee approved a School Dept. budget for FY 1992 of $22,235,353, which is predicated on the voters approving a Prop. 2 and 1/2 override of $2.09 million.

The MWRA has ap-proved a budget that will increase Revere’s assess-ment by $1.2 million, which will further burden local homeowners who already pay an average of $442 annually to the MWRA in water bills.

School Supt. Dr. Rocco Malfitano has announced plans to consolidate all seventh and eighth grad-ers to the Beachmont and Garfield Schools for the coming year.

New Jack City, The Silence of the Lambs, and Dances With Wolves are playing at the Revere Showcase Cinemas.

40 years agoApril 15, 1981The School Commit-

tee voted 4-3 to approve a $12,204,286 budget for the Revere schools for next fiscal year, a reduction of $1,917,000 from this year’s budget. The five-hour meeting was punctuated with outbursts between members. The new bud-get means that numerous layoffs will be required, including teachers, school librarians, substitutes, caf-eteria workers, administra-tors, and custodians.

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Alice was born and raised in Revere and was a proud graduate of Revere High School, Class of 1947. As a young girl, Al-ice’s first and greatest love was Revere Beach. Alice loved being at the beach throughout the summers or simply walking along the beach taking in the ocean air and the beautiful seren-ity it bestowed. Many of Alice’s fondest and dear-est memories were there. Alice and her family later moved to Lynn, where she remained most of her life, until moving to Melrose in the middle 1990’s.

Alice worked in bank-ing for most of her work-ing career and was a Bank

Manager at Chelsea Savings Bank. Alice had a great talent for playing the piano and would al-ways entertain her family on holidays and events by playing. She was also an avid reader and loved to learn new things about people, history and plac-es around the world. She was a devotee of St. An-thony of Padua Church in Revere and Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in Lynnfield and was also a member of Our Lady’s choir.

Alice had a great devo-tion and affection to her family and all her nieces and nephews. She was the epitome of a lady of grace, her elegant presence and warm friendly smile was always how she presented herself.

She was a former mem-ber of the Revere Wom-en’s Club and a family club, “The Cousins Club.”

The beloved wife of the late Stanley J. DeMattia, she was the dear sister of the late Fedele C. Perotti and her late husband, Pe-ter C. Perotti, Dr. Ralph Zolla, M.D. and his late wife, Ida, Dr. Vito Zol-la, D.D.M. and his late wife, Helen, Dr. Henry “Hank” Zolla, D.D.M., Pilgrim Zolla and his late wife, Fran, Joseph Zolla and his late wife, Gina, Victor Zolla and Eleanor M. Nazzaro and her late husband, Frank A. Nazza-ro. She is survived by her sister-in-law, Jennie Zol-la of Bedford; cherished aunt of Frank J. Nazzaro and his wife, Marianne of Danvers, Paul J. Naz-zaro of Jupiter, FL, Paula M. Nazzaro of Plano, TX, Diane M. Zolla – Hager and her husband, Kevin of Bedford, Henry Zolla

and his wife, Tina of Os-sipee, N. H, Stephen J. Zolla and his wife, Kathy of Bedford, Dr. Laurence P. Perotti and his wife, Carolina of San Antonio, TX, Roberta A. Garrett of Katy, TX, Christine D. (Zolla) Ralton of Marsh-field, Arlene A. Zolla of Walpole, J. David Zolla of Plainville, Anne C. (Zolla) Spitaleri of Winthrop and by many loving grand-nieces, grandnephews, great-grandnieces and great-grandnephews.

Family and friends are invited to attend Visiting Hours on Friday, April 16 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the Vertuccio & Smith, Home for Funerals, 773 Broadway (Rt. 107) Re-vere for Alice M. (Zolla) DeMattia, 92, who died on Sunday, April 11 at the Chestnut Woods Rehabil-itation Center in Saugus following a brief illness. A Funeral Service will follow the Visitation in the Funeral Home at 1:15 p.m. followed by inter-ment in Woodlawn Ceme-tery, Everett.

Face masks must be worn at all times and so-cial distancing must be maintained in the funeral home. All attendees are required to provide their name and phone num-ber for contact tracing and temperatures will be checked prior to entering the funeral home. Only 25 people are allowed in the Funeral Home at one time. Guests are asked to visit briefly and to exit the fu-neral home to allow others to enter. A Memorial Mass will be announced at a lat-er time by Alice’s family.

In lieu of flowers, re-membrances may be made to St. Jude Children’s Re-search Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-9959. To send on-line condolences, please visit www.vertuccioand-smith.com.

Funeral Arrangements entrusted to the care and direction of the Vertuccio & Smith, Home for Funer-als.

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A new resource cen-ter for people in recovery from drugs opened its doors in Orient Heights Square earlier this month.

Run by North Suffolk Mental Health Association (NSMH) Recovery on the Harbor at 983 Benning-ton St. will offer those in recovery access to a wide array of resources and pro-grams to help on their road to recovery.

On Friday NSMH staff was joined by Eastie’s elected officials, members of the recovery communi-ty and Mass Secretary of Health and Human Ser-vices Marylou Sudders to cut the ribbon on Recov-ery on the Harbor.

“It was a really good turnout,” said NSMH’s Katherine O’Leary. “Ev-eryone that stopped by on Friday loved it. It’s a nice big wide open space, it has really high ceilings, the acoustics are great, there’s various different rooms and there’s a garage door in the middle of the space

so we can shut it and have completely different spac-es and can have meetings on both sides if neces-sary.”

The only requirement for somebody to use this center is 24 hours of re-covery and they have to be 18 years old or over. O’Leary said It will be a member driven program based on a peer to peer participatory process. So the members will decide to include things like par-enting classes; AA and NA meetings; Smart Re-covery meetings; Refuge Recovery meetings and multiple other pathways to recovery programs. There is some discussion to in-clude vocational training or a parent support group.

It’s really just meant to empower and enhance the community and strengthen the recovery community overall.

“Some of the sober homes in the area--East Boston Rehab the Recov-ery Home have already sent some people down to use the computers,” said O’Leary. “Meridian Hous-es have utilized the space and now we’re starting to get more interest from the sober houses. I reached out to all of the AA and NA meetings that were kind of displaced because of COVID and all of those meetings will start to be rejuvenated in that space. So all of the mutual aid groups that kind of went away will now have a new home. The former direc-tor of Meridian house is going to do the NA group that was at the Social Center on Friday nights and the women’s meeting will come back and do a Codependency Anony-mous meeting on Thurs-

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By John Lynds

Last week Get Kon-nected!, a local business networking organization, released its first ever list of Boston’s Most Impactful Black Women, and Dis-trict 1 City Councilor Lyd-ia Edwards was on the list.

Get Konnected! CEO Colette Phillips said the honors included two sub-groups, the 25 Most Im-pactful Black Women in Health Care and Sciences, as well as the 25 Most Im-pactful Black Women Pio-neers.

Edwards joined a dis-tinguished list of female Black leaders that includ-ed City Councilor Andrea Campbell, WBUR’s Paris Alston, and Boston Public

Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius.

“Black women rule right now,” said Phil-lips. “These women have forged trails as powerful and impactful as early Boston activists from abo-litionist Elizabeth Riley to civil-rights leader and icon Melnea Cass.” It’s part of the mission at Get Kon-nected! to showcase the contributions of people of color in the state, and the list is a logical next step to promote those achieve-ments. To see the full list, take a look at the video below.

Edwards, who was elected as District 1’s first African American wom-

Councilor Lydia Edwards named one of Most Impactful Black Women in Boston

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Eastie parents to join State House rally Saturday

By John Lynds

At 3 p.m. on Saturday outside the State House, East Boston resident Abdi Mohamed Warsame Dirie will joining fellow Eastie parents and a coalition of BIPOC (Black, Indige-nous and people of color) parents to denounce what they argue is the Massa-chusetts Department of Education’s exclusion of parent and family voices from full school opening policy-making.

The group of parents ar-gue specifically that Com-missioner Jeff Riley has overstepped his authority with, “a rashly-decided, poorly-planned mandate to fully open schools five days a week for in-person learning” without proper safety measures in place. They added that Riley has not seriously consid-ered the health impact and disparities for students, teachers, or building staff or BIPOC and immigrant families hit hard by the pandemic.

Dirie said the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impact-ed Black and Brown com-munities in Eastie and oth-er Boston neighborhoods and Riley’s decision was made without the voices of these communities.

“Our governor and education commission-er decided to fully open schools five days a week for in-person learning on April 5 without proper safety measures in place,” said Dirie, who has a 5th grader in school in East-ie. “The state hasn’t made an investment to improve HVAC systems in all school facilities and free/clear cleaning at every school to prevent the ex-acerbation of certain med-ical conditions, including asthma and eczema, af-

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By Seth Daniel

Even when the City was in total crisis mode a year ago within the orig-inal and deadly surge of COVID-19, the economic impacts on City coffers was already in the back of minds of many local leaders.

In a year’s time, rev-enues from airport and hospitality industries have plummeted, and the job-lessness from it all has gobbled up millions in emergency relief – much of it paid for by the City. Now, the City has been assured of several million dollars in aid from the American Rescue Plan, and more importantly, from an allocation from Gov. Charlie Baker – to-taling perhaps as much as $40 million in the first di-rect federal aid funds for municipalities.

The total amounts from both sources likely won’t trickle down from the fed-eral government for an-other month, but already local leaders are prioritiz-ing what needs to be done.

City Manager Tom Ambrosino said they still have COVID-19 relief to tend to, but a high priority will be replacing millions in lost revenues – particu-larly due to the slowdown

at Logan Airport.“With respect to spend-

ing, our first order of business is for the City to restore its lost revenues from COVID, which may amount to $15 million or more by the time the pandemic ends,” he said. “Any additional funds will be utilized by the City to address COVID impacts, including hous-ing instability, food inse-curity and small business losses. These have been the priority areas for the City since the pandemic began, and we will con-tinue to prioritize these areas with any new mon-ies from ARPA.”

Councilor Leo Rob-inson said he would like to see more youth op-portunities, but first and foremost he said the City should take it very slowly when deciding where to put the funds.

“My biggest priority is not to run out and spend the money,” he said. “Let’s sit down and talk about the best uses for this money. Once every-one sees we got all these federal dollars, they’ll be trying to grab it. I have already had conversations about being careful. We need clear priorities. Will

By Seth Daniel

After weeks of negoti-ating with local leaders in Chelsea and Everett after being shorted by the feder-al American Rescue Plan (ARP) and the federal del-egation, Gov. Charlie Bak-er announced his Admin-istration would dedicate a total of $100 million of additional federal funding to those two communities – and two others that were shorted.

The additional funding announcement brought Everett and Chelsea fur-ther up from the low levels of funding they did have under the Plan, but still far behind more affluent com-munities like Newton and Brookline and others.

“When this issue was first brought to our atten-tion and when you look at the numbers general-ly, when you have what I would describe as relative-ly better-off financially communities getting $70, $80, and $90 million, and

you have places like Chel-sea and Everett…, which have been hit pretty hard by the pandemic and don’t have the kinds of resourc-es many of these other communities have, getting $6, $7 and $8 million – it was pretty clear there was a problem there,” said Gov. Baker. “We began serious conversations with the local leaders in those communities to figure out how we might frame this to figure out how to solve it. Once we reached what I would describe as a gener-al agreement to the prob-lems they were trying to deal with as part of their own initiative, we then talked to the folks in the legislative leadership here to incorporate that into the planning we do here on how we do allocate federal resources that are part of the ARP.”

The details were still very fuzzy when an-nounced on Thursday,

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By Seth Daniel

The Chelsea Public Schools (CPS) vaccina-tion clinic has become the hot place to be for educators from across the region, as the district seeks to vaccinate its staff

and others in preparation for re-starting school this month.

Supt. Almi Abeyta and a huge collaboration be-tween many folks came together for the third and largest vaccine clinic for educators on Friday,

March 26, at the Burke Complex. Offering the one-shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine, the dis-trict opened up the clinic to the Five District Part-nership (Chelsea, Revere,

Teachers from region flock to Chelsea educator vaccine clinic

Above, CPS Buildings and Grounds Director Joe Cooney receives his vaccine from CHS Nurse Kim Sammons.

Right, New CPS Health Tech Cindy Brown and Supt. Almi Abeyta help to check people out from the clinic.

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By Seth Daniel

There will be a day when folks in the future look back at the work of Chelsea photographer Darlene DeVita and her ‘People of Chelsea’ proj-ect – particularly during the last year of the pan-demic – and marvel at it.

But why wait for the future when her work is ready and available now?

DeVita has had banners on the fence of the Chelsea Public Library for many months, but now she has created new banners and expanded the project to Chelsea High School on Everett Avenue.

“The banners are there and they are to celebrate,” she said. “I just finished putting up new and larger banners at Chelsea High School along Everett Av-enue. It’s still pandemic work, but these are new portraits. There are quite a few new ones and some old ones too. There’s new Black Lives Matter im-ages from last summer and the holidays at La Colaborativa and giving out food. There’s joyful ones and people dancing. Who knew it would turn into this? Even without the pandemic, I’ve always been amazed by this com-munity.”

DeVita said it was one year ago this week after the pandemic set in that she ventured out with her camera to see what she could find. She had already been doing her ‘People of Chelsea’ project for some time, and wasn’t sure what to do when COVID hit. The answer came quickly when she found people and organizations, fami-lies and neighbors, coping with the tragedy as – well – People of Chelsea.

That early work turned

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By Cary Shuman

Attorney Jeffrey Ro-sario Turco of Winthrop carried the communities of Revere and Winthrop in impressive fashion to win the special election for the 19th Suffolk District seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Turco received 1,861 votes in the district to fin-ish first in the field of three candidates. Independent candidate Richard Fucillo Jr. was second with 473 votes while Republican

candidate Paul Caruccio was third with 466 votes.

Turco succeeds former state representative Rob-ert A. DeLeo of Winthrop, who served for 30 years in the position and became the longest-serving House Speaker in the history of the Commonwealth with 12 years (2009-20) at the helm of the 160-member governmental body.

Turco has strong ties to both Revere, the commu-nity in which he grew up,

By Cary Shuman

Come June 1, people who take the Wonderland bus to Haymarket or Mav-erick Square will have minutes sliced off their travel time.

Because that’s the day the city’s long-awaited and much-anticipated “bus lane” pilot program on Broadway (southbound) will begin, according to city transportation planner Julie DeMauro.

DeMauro gave the Re-vere Traffic Commission headed by Paul Argenzio an update on the program at its March 25 meet-ing. She further elabo-rated on the program in a post-meeting interview.

The bus lane will go southbound from the in-tersection of Revere Street and Broadway and pro-

ceed all the way through the Revere downtown business district and on to the Revere-Chelsea line across from the Cronin Rink parking lot adjacent to Chelsea Creek. The bus lane will be clearly paint-ed on the street. The hours of operation will be from 4 a.m. to 9 a.m.

“The 116 and 117 bus-es, the 411 bus, and the 119 bus (which takes a left at Central Avenue onto Broadway) will use the lane,” said DeMauro.

Motorists will not be able to park in any spac-es along the bus route on Broadway. Delivery trucks would still be able to park along the route and make deliveries during those hours.

The bus pilot program was originally scheduled to start in October, 2020

and run on a three-month trial basis through Decem-ber 31, 2020. But due to weather concerns and a delay in signing the agree-ment with the MBTA, the program was pushed back to June 1, 2021 and ex-tended to a six-month trial period through Dec. 31, 2021.

“It will definitely speed up a person’s trip on the bus,” said DeMauro. “School buses will also be allowed to use the lane. Also our first responders, the Fire Department and ambulances, will also be allowed to use the lane if necessary.”

In addition to the re-stricted bus lane, there will be a traffic signalization upgrade on Broadway, meaning the city would be

Special to the Journal

Redgate announced that restaurateur Michael Aldi will debut ‘TYDE’ this summer at the Ryder proj-ect – bringing a high-end contemporary American dining experience to the breathtaking site over-looking Revere Beach.

Executive Chef Greg Reeves’ menu will fo-cus on locally sourced, high-quality cuts of dry aged beef and fresh-caught seafood, as well as local produce and oth-er premium ingredients. In addition to 120 seats on the interior of TYDE, the restaurant will feature an over 100-seat outdoor

dining concept that pro-vides a relaxed, tropical vacation-like escape just steps from the front doors of Ryder residents. Ryder is located at 21 Revere Beach Boulevard.

“Revere Beach corridor is an exceptional location that rivals any other beach-front property in Massa-chusetts,” said Aldi, who is also the creator of Dryft and Fine Line at Redgate’s 500 Ocean Avenue. “We are taking advantage of the beachfront scene to create a vibrant new at-mosphere with the goal of revitalizing the sidewalk, and bringing back the cul-

BOARD OF HEALTH SURPASSES 5,000 DOSES ADMINISTERED

Mayor Brian Arrigo and the Revere Board of Health provided an update on COVID-19 vaccina-tion efforts in the city. As of Thursday, March 25, 2021, more than 8,700 Revere residents had been fully vaccinated, and an additional 6,000+ had re-ceived the first of a two-dose vaccine. The City is averaging 20.9 new cas-es of COVID-19 per day and our positivity rate is 3.75%. Positive cases had continued to slowly de-cline over the course of the month of March, but have begun to rise over the past week.

To-date the Revere Board of Health has ad-ministered more than 5,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Revere res-idents and workers, in-cluding at more than two dozen clinics offered at Rumney Marsh Academy, on-site at senior hous-ing facilities and house calls to homebound resi-dents. The Revere Board of Health will continue to serve as a vaccination provider as supply allows, including at an upcoming mobile clinic for essential workers.

Vaccination options for Revere residents have been further bolstered with last week’s opening of a vaccination site at the Oceanside/Wonderland Ballroom, in partnership with East Boston Neigh-borhood Health Center (EBNHC). Vaccination at the site is by appointment only and available to eligi-ble residents. EBNHC re-ceives a limited supply of

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Mayor Brian Arrigo an-nounced $300,000 in grant funding will be awarded

to 15 independently-run Revere restaurants to support their recovery through the spring and summer months. Follow-

ing responses from dozens of qualified applicants, the City increased total available funding through the pilot program from $250,000 to $300,000, with businesses receiving monthly funding install-ments, technical assis-tance and operational safe-ty support.

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Arrigo announces $300,000 in COVID-19 Recovery Grant funding for 15 restaurants

Mayor Brian Arrigo and Tech Leng present a grant to Thmor Da on Shirley Avenue.

State Representative-Elect Jeffrey Rosario Turco arrives, with thumbs up, celebrating his victory as he enters Casa Lucia.

State Representative-Elect Jeffrey Rosario Turco with his family at his victory celebration at Casa Lucia.

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Good Friday – April 2, 1-3pm

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-The breakfast at First Church following the Sun-rise Service is cancelled this year.

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By Cary Shuman

Attorney Jeffrey Ro-sario Turco of Winthrop carried the communities of Revere and Winthrop in impressive fashion to win the special election for the 19th Suffolk District seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Turco received 1,861 votes in the district to fin-ish first in the field of three

candidates. Independent candidate Richard Fucillo Jr. was second with 473 votes while Republican candidate Paul Caruccio was third with 466 votes.

Turco received 1,385 votes in Winthrop while Caruccio (88) and Fucillo (68) were second and third respectively.

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By Seth Daniel

Supt. Priya Tahiliani and her finance team an-nounced a School Bud-get on Monday night to the School Committee that was unlike any that Everett Public Schools (EPS) has seen – one that looked toward long-term investments in a pro-posed three-year plan.

This year’s School Budget plan has a lot of elements at play - in-cluding federal CARES Act funding for schools, the first year of Student Opportunity Act (SOA) funding, and now a cal-culated long-term plan to return more money to students and school building leaders.

The overall School Budget ask is $129.395 million – but the ask is coming in a way never seen before in the School Department. Supt. Tahil-iani said the Budget is a break from the past ways of formulating it, plan-ning it and presenting it. In creating the Bud-get, all of the principals, school leaders, directors

and teachers have been part of the crafting of it – so there are no pre-sentations or “asks” from each school. Instead, that has all been rolled into the Budget presentation, which is more of a blue-print for overall strategy than a line-by-line nego-tiation for spending on things such as paper tow-els or lab equipment.

“It really is meant to reflect the scope of in-vestment in our students and schools,” said Tahil-iani.

At Monday night’s special School Commit-tee meeting, Supt. Ta-hiliani and School CFO Anu Jayanth introduced

By Seth Daniel

Deep into Everett’s in-dustrial landscape off of Market Street lies a typ-ical, expansive asphalt parking lot, and now, a river runs through it.

It’s not often that a riv-er is unearthed from what has been generations of industrial wasteland, but that’s exactly what has happened this month as about 500 feet of the pre-viously underground Is-land End River has been “daylighted” – freeing itself from a failing un-derground culvert and creating a brand new, environmentally friendly stream that will drasti-cally improve flooding problems in the southern half of the city.

The project has been in the making for years upon years, but was re-cently unlocked in a pub-lic-private partnership between the City, state, federal government and The Davis Companies – a private developer that purchased the Bos-

ton Market Terminal in 2019 and committed to taking on a very expen-sive replacement of the underground portion of the culvert. That under-ground phase will come later, and in cooperation with Chelsea, but the current daylighting proj-ect is nearly finished and has quickly transformed an area that seemed unre-deemable.

“We have removed the old failing culvert and unearthed the Island End River with an open swale

that is reinforced to help reduce flooding frequen-cy upstream and to re-store the site for an eco-logical improvement of the environment and pro-vide a corridor for spe-cies to come up the riv-er,” said Zach Chornyak, an engineer with Tighe and Bond, who has long consulted with the City on proposed improve-ments to the stream. “The daylighting is real-ly the first major piece of

By Seth Daniel

After weeks of nego-tiating with local leaders in Chelsea and Everett after being shorted by the federal American Res-cue Plan (ARP) and the federal delegation, Gov. Charlie Baker announced his Administration would dedicate a total of $100 million of additional fed-eral funding to those two communities – and two others that were shorted.

The additional funding announcement brought Everett and Chelsea fur-ther up from the low lev-els of funding they did have under the Plan, but still far behind more af-fluent communities like Newton and Brookline and others.

“When this issue was first brought to our atten-tion and when you look at the numbers general-ly, when you have what I would describe as rela-tively better-off financial-ly communities getting $70, $80, and $90 million, and you have places like Chelsea and Everett…, which have been hit pret-ty hard by the pandemic and don’t have the kinds of resources many of these other communities have, getting $6, $7 and $8 million – it was pretty clear there was a problem there,” said Gov. Baker. “We began serious con-versations with the local leaders in those communi-ties to figure out how we might frame this to figure out how to solve it. Once we reached what I would describe as a general agreement to the prob-lems they were trying to deal with as part of their own initiative, we then talked to the folks in the

legislative leadership here to incorporate that into the planning we do here on how we do allocate feder-al resources that are part of the ARP.”

The details were still very fuzzy when an-nounced on Thursday, March 25, at a regu-lar COVID-19 update press conference, but those close to the situa-tion seemed to indicate that Chelsea and Everett might be in line for about $28 million each in ad-ditional funding, while Methuen and Randolph would receive slightly less amounts.

For Everett, that would bring up their total fund-ing (including county re-sources) to approximately $41.59 million. For Chel-sea, that would bring their approximate Rescue Plan funding up to $39.61 mil-lion. That still trails more affluent communities who weren’t hard hit with COVID-19 by a long shot. Under the original Plan – assuming no more federal dollars were awarded to them – Newton is fund-ed at $65.29 million and Somerville at $79.06 mil-lion. However it would bring them on par with communities like Revere, which got $30.54 million.

“As a result of the way the bill was de-signed, Chelsea, Everett, Methuen and Randolph are due to receive signifi-cantly smaller levels of funding compared to oth-er significantly hard-hit communities,” continued the governor. “We believe it’s critically important these communities get the resources they need to

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By Seth Daniel

The Everett License Commission met on March 24 and approved a plan to start outdoor dining in a no-frills pro-cess this spring, and also approved a package store license for a drug store in-side Encore Boston Har-bor.

Chair Phil Antonelli of-fered up a vote to allow the Planning Department to take over outdoor dining applications at last week’s meeting, and called for businesses to begin apply-ing for the permits.

Last year’s process eventually was moved to the Planning Department for an administrative pro-cess that didn’t require License Commission re-view, and now that pro-cess will start anew. The outdoor dining option was a saving grace for many restaurants last summer and fall, and was popular with the public as well.

“We have opened up our outdoor dining pro-gram again,” said Anton-elli. “Any licensee that serves alcohol and wants to have a fenced-in or roped off area in front of their restaurant needs to apply now. The Planning Department will be han-dling that in conjunction with City Attorney Keith Slattery.”

Antonelli said the Plan-ning Department and Slattery will review ap-plications for safety and completeness and adher-ence to regulations. Then, they will simply inform the Commission of the administrative approval. Any issues that arise af-terward would potentially

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Mayor Carlo DeMaria hosted a French flag raising ceremony in collaboration with the French Consulate of Boston, the Haitian Consulate of Boston, the Everett Haitian Com-munity Center, and other Francophonie constituents of the City of Everett to celebrate the Month of the Francophonie on Wednesday, March 24, at 11:30 a.m. Pictured are City Councilor Fred Capone, State Rep. Joe McGonagle, Haitian General Consul Hans Charles, French General Consul Arnaud Mentre, Rev. Myrlande DesRosiers, Mayor Carlo DeMaria, City Councilor Gerly Adrien, City Councilor John Hanlon, Adeleine Celestin of the Everett School Department. See page 14 for story and more photos.

CITY OF EVERETT RAISES THE FRENCH FLAGBy Cary Shuman

Lynn’s Ben Bowden is a Ma-jor League Baseball player now. He’s made it to The Show.

Bowden will begin the 2021 MLB season on the Colorado Rockies’ roster. The Rockies play the reigning World Series cham-pion Los Angeles Dodgers in their opening series.

Ben’s parents, Larry Bowden and Stephanie Bowden, were hoping to be at Coors Field in Denver for their son’s debut with the Rockies, according to Derek Dana, who is Ben’s uncle.

“Obviously we couldn’t be any prouder – it was just an awesome day Tuesday,” said Dana, speak-ing on behalf of the family. “Ben gives you a call. He’s so excited and you’re just so happy for him. He’s worked so hard. To finally get the chance and to do it on an Opening Day roster, making the team - we all were very excited

to hear that. It’s just awesome.”Bowden, a 6-foot-4-inch

lefthander, had an outstanding spring pitching for the Rockies during their Cactus League exhi-bition season in Arizona.

Bowden began his local base-ball journey in the East Lynn Little League where his father served as league president. He was named the Mass. Gatorade Player of the Year in his senior season at Lynn English High School where he was coached by Joe Caponigro. He was an All-Star player in the Lynn Babe Ruth organization.

The news of Bowden’s ele-vation to the Major League was welcomed with joy and pride by his Babe Ruth coaches, includ-ing current president Jeff Earp, past presidents Jim Beliveau and John Kasian, and coach Mike Mageary.

“What a great feeling it is for all of us,” said Earp. “It’s out-

standing. He’s just such a great kid. His father is such a class act. The fam-ily is terrific. We’ll be watching the Rockies’ games on TV and we’re planning a trip to see Ben pitch in person, proba-

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$1.5 MILLION FOR NORTHERN STRAND COMMUNITY TRAIL

The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs has approved a $1.5 million grant regarding the development of the Northern Strand Community Trail led by a Revere on the Move part-ner organization, Bike to the Sea.

Revere has a one-mile stretch in North Revere. The Northern Strand Community Trail has been in development for over 20 years. The North Revere segment is a major part in the project that creates a continuous 7.5-mile rail trail running from West Everett, through Malden and Revere to the Saugus River and soon into Lynn. The North Revere segment allows users to en-joy spectacular views of the Rumney Marsh.

The funding, awarded through the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs’ (EEA) Gateway City Parks Program, enables the design of the trail, develop-ment of bid-ready construc-tion documents, and receipt of all necessary construction permits. When completed, the trail will span 10 miles and

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REVERE RECREATION HOSTS PAINT & SKATE NIGHT AT CRONIN RINK

Joseph Arrigo was all smiles at the Revere Recreation Paint & Skate Night on Feb. 10 at the Cronin Skating Rink in Revere. Please see more photos on Page 10.

By Sue Ellen Woodcock

For years the abutters of Route 1 have put up with the noise from millions of cars, and now some city councillors want to have Mayor Brian Ar-rigo contact the MassDOT to install barriers along Route 1 between Route 16 and Cope-land Circle.

Ward 5 Councillor Charles Patch, Ward 4 Councillor Patrick Keefe and Ward 1 Councillor Joanne McKen-na teamed up on a motion at last last week’s council meet-ing. Patch said he and the late

Councillor Robert Haas Jr. tried to get barriers installed in 2011 and received no re-sponse.

“We should get more re-spect from the state and fed-eral government,” Patch said..

Keefe noted that more af-fluent communities are often granted sound barriers.

Ward 2 Councillor Ira No-voselsky pointed out that Sau-gus got barriers along Route 1 installed along a new ball field.

“It’s a quality-of-life is-sue,” he said.

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Have you ever had an idea for how you could make im-provements to the Revere community? So have the ap-plicants to the mini-grant pro-grams hosted by Revere on the Move and the Alcohol, To-bacco and Other Drugs Task Force; and this time, these ideas are going to become a reality.

Every year a group of Re-vere residents and institution-al leaders meet together to select the awardees of mini-grants offered to the public through the community-led organizations, Revere on the Move and the Alcohol, Tobac-co, and Other Drugs (ATOD)

Task Force. Both the ATOD Task Force and Revere on the Move are initiatives of the MGH Revere CARES Coa-lition. Revere on the Move is additionally co-led by the Healthy Community Initia-tives Office at the City of Re-vere.

This year over $20,000 was awarded to fund ideas to make Revere a healthier place to work, to play, and to raise a family. The Revere on the Move mini-grant program offered $10,605 in funding for permanent changes, pro-gram implementation, and youth-led projects that would help prevent or reduce obe-

sity in children and adults. The ATOD Task Force fund-ed projects totaling $9,500 to reduce youth substance use, improve their mental health, and increase opportunities for positive youth engagement.

In addition to the mini-grants already funded, Revere on the Move has extended their permanent change and program mini-grant appli-cations to Sunday, March 4. Up to $1,395 is available for ideas that make it easier to eat healthy and be active for all. The application is open

Revere's TNDreceives $50,000state grant for jobs

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Monday morning the Bak-er-Polito Administration awarded $500,000 to nine projects through the Urban Agenda Grant Program. The Revere arm of The Neigh-borhood Developers (TND) was one group given $50,000 in funding to help establish workforce development ser-vices in Revere to support lo-cal residents to acquire newly created jobs.

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito along with Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash came to Revere City Hall to present the check to the Neighborhood Developers.

“Our administration under-stands the importance of local leadership and its impact on the lives of residents,” said Lt. Governor Karyn Polito. “The Urban Agenda Grant Program relies on the strong partnerships between local government, non-profits and

the business community that are critical to fostering eco-nomic success and building stronger neighborhoods in ev-ery region in Massachusetts.”

Revere is rebuilding its economic and employment base by utilizing large-scale and high value assets includ-ing Suffolk Downs, Wonder-land, a soon-to-close NECCO plant, and the MassDevelop-ment TDI Waterfront District.

The program seeks to un-lock community-driven re-sponses to local obstacles, and promote economic devel-opment opportunities through partnership-building, problem solving, and shared account-ability in urban centers. The competitive awards offer flex-ible funding for local efforts that bring together commu-nity stakeholders to pursue economic development ini-tiatives. These awards will fund projects in Boston, Clin-

Real estate values continue to be strong in Revere

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Ann Houston of The Neighborhood Developers, State Rep. RoseLee Vincent, Bob O' Brien of Revere Economic Department, Mayor Brian Arrigo and Secretary of Housing and Ecomonic Development Jay Ash at the announcement of the Urban Agenda Grant Program on Monday morning in the Revere City Council Chambers.

By Sue Ellen Woodcock

The Revere real estate mar-ket in 2017 was definitely a good one with higher prices for homes than in 2016, but a drop in the number of new listings, making home-buying an adventure.

“These are the highest pric-es we’ve seen in the last eight years,” said Maureen Celata, owner/broker of MCelata Real Estate. “And 2018 is going to be another banner year. Inven-tory is low now, but everyone is looking to the spring.”

According to figures from the Massachusetts Associa-tion of Realtors, the median sales prices was $376,250, a 4.9 increase over prices in 2016.

Homes also were also on the market 41 days, a 26.8 percent increase over the 56

days on the market in 2016.The number of listings in

2017 also dropped to 265, 10.8 percent down from 297 in 2016. The good news for sellers is that the original list-ing price was matched 100 percent of the time.

The condominium mar-ket saw similar trends with the median sales price at $315,000, up 16.7 percent over 2016. Days on the mar-ket also dropped from 67 in 2016 to 47 days on the market

“Inventory is low now and everyone is looking toward the spring,” Celata said

The rental market is also strong with rents ranging from $1,200 to $3,000. Cleat noted that if someone is paying big rent they just might be capable of buying and taking advan-tage of first-time homebuyers programs.

“2017 was a fantastic year to be in real estate,” said Joe Mario of Century 21 Ma-rio Real Estate. “There’s a lot of confidence and equity in homes. For 35 years now it’s been positive. Now is the time to sell. Revere is getting the overflow from the Boston market and people are moving to Revere.

Mario said Revere is desir-able because of its proximity to Boston, and it’s a hidden gem with a beautiful beach.

Mario is looking forward to the spring market, drawing from Boston and surrounding communities. He added that the Revere School system is also a draw for buyers.

“It all adds to the future growth of Revere,” he said.

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Gerardo Iannuzzi

Patricia Muse

Paul Penta, Jr.

Antonetta Salamone

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$1.5 MILLION FOR NORTHERN STRAND COMMUNITY TRAIL

The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs has approved a $1.5 million grant regarding the development of the Northern Strand Community Trail led by a Revere on the Move part-ner organization, Bike to the Sea.

Revere has a one-mile stretch in North Revere. The Northern Strand Community Trail has been in development for over 20 years. The North Revere segment is a major part in the project that creates a continuous 7.5-mile rail trail running from West Everett, through Malden and Revere to the Saugus River and soon into Lynn. The North Revere segment allows users to en-joy spectacular views of the Rumney Marsh.

The funding, awarded through the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs’ (EEA) Gateway City Parks Program, enables the design of the trail, develop-ment of bid-ready construc-tion documents, and receipt of all necessary construction permits. When completed, the trail will span 10 miles and

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REVERE RECREATION HOSTS PAINT & SKATE NIGHT AT CRONIN RINK

Joseph Arrigo was all smiles at the Revere Recreation Paint & Skate Night on Feb. 10 at the Cronin Skating Rink in Revere. Please see more photos on Page 10.

By Sue Ellen Woodcock

For years the abutters of Route 1 have put up with the noise from millions of cars, and now some city councillors want to have Mayor Brian Ar-rigo contact the MassDOT to install barriers along Route 1 between Route 16 and Cope-land Circle.

Ward 5 Councillor Charles Patch, Ward 4 Councillor Patrick Keefe and Ward 1 Councillor Joanne McKen-na teamed up on a motion at last last week’s council meet-ing. Patch said he and the late

Councillor Robert Haas Jr. tried to get barriers installed in 2011 and received no re-sponse.

“We should get more re-spect from the state and fed-eral government,” Patch said..

Keefe noted that more af-fluent communities are often granted sound barriers.

Ward 2 Councillor Ira No-voselsky pointed out that Sau-gus got barriers along Route 1 installed along a new ball field.

“It’s a quality-of-life is-sue,” he said.

Barriers are easily seen

Have you ever had an idea for how you could make im-provements to the Revere community? So have the ap-plicants to the mini-grant pro-grams hosted by Revere on the Move and the Alcohol, To-bacco and Other Drugs Task Force; and this time, these ideas are going to become a reality.

Every year a group of Re-vere residents and institution-al leaders meet together to select the awardees of mini-grants offered to the public through the community-led organizations, Revere on the Move and the Alcohol, Tobac-co, and Other Drugs (ATOD)

Task Force. Both the ATOD Task Force and Revere on the Move are initiatives of the MGH Revere CARES Coa-lition. Revere on the Move is additionally co-led by the Healthy Community Initia-tives Office at the City of Re-vere.

This year over $20,000 was awarded to fund ideas to make Revere a healthier place to work, to play, and to raise a family. The Revere on the Move mini-grant program offered $10,605 in funding for permanent changes, pro-gram implementation, and youth-led projects that would help prevent or reduce obe-

sity in children and adults. The ATOD Task Force fund-ed projects totaling $9,500 to reduce youth substance use, improve their mental health, and increase opportunities for positive youth engagement.

In addition to the mini-grants already funded, Revere on the Move has extended their permanent change and program mini-grant appli-cations to Sunday, March 4. Up to $1,395 is available for ideas that make it easier to eat healthy and be active for all. The application is open

Revere's TNDreceives $50,000state grant for jobs

Special to The Journal

Monday morning the Bak-er-Polito Administration awarded $500,000 to nine projects through the Urban Agenda Grant Program. The Revere arm of The Neigh-borhood Developers (TND) was one group given $50,000 in funding to help establish workforce development ser-vices in Revere to support lo-cal residents to acquire newly created jobs.

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito along with Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash came to Revere City Hall to present the check to the Neighborhood Developers.

“Our administration under-stands the importance of local leadership and its impact on the lives of residents,” said Lt. Governor Karyn Polito. “The Urban Agenda Grant Program relies on the strong partnerships between local government, non-profits and

the business community that are critical to fostering eco-nomic success and building stronger neighborhoods in ev-ery region in Massachusetts.”

Revere is rebuilding its economic and employment base by utilizing large-scale and high value assets includ-ing Suffolk Downs, Wonder-land, a soon-to-close NECCO plant, and the MassDevelop-ment TDI Waterfront District.

The program seeks to un-lock community-driven re-sponses to local obstacles, and promote economic devel-opment opportunities through partnership-building, problem solving, and shared account-ability in urban centers. The competitive awards offer flex-ible funding for local efforts that bring together commu-nity stakeholders to pursue economic development ini-tiatives. These awards will fund projects in Boston, Clin-

Real estate values continue to be strong in Revere

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Ann Houston of The Neighborhood Developers, State Rep. RoseLee Vincent, Bob O' Brien of Revere Economic Department, Mayor Brian Arrigo and Secretary of Housing and Ecomonic Development Jay Ash at the announcement of the Urban Agenda Grant Program on Monday morning in the Revere City Council Chambers.

By Sue Ellen Woodcock

The Revere real estate mar-ket in 2017 was definitely a good one with higher prices for homes than in 2016, but a drop in the number of new listings, making home-buying an adventure.

“These are the highest pric-es we’ve seen in the last eight years,” said Maureen Celata, owner/broker of MCelata Real Estate. “And 2018 is going to be another banner year. Inven-tory is low now, but everyone is looking to the spring.”

According to figures from the Massachusetts Associa-tion of Realtors, the median sales prices was $376,250, a 4.9 increase over prices in 2016.

Homes also were also on the market 41 days, a 26.8 percent increase over the 56

days on the market in 2016.The number of listings in

2017 also dropped to 265, 10.8 percent down from 297 in 2016. The good news for sellers is that the original list-ing price was matched 100 percent of the time.

The condominium mar-ket saw similar trends with the median sales price at $315,000, up 16.7 percent over 2016. Days on the mar-ket also dropped from 67 in 2016 to 47 days on the market

“Inventory is low now and everyone is looking toward the spring,” Celata said

The rental market is also strong with rents ranging from $1,200 to $3,000. Cleat noted that if someone is paying big rent they just might be capable of buying and taking advan-tage of first-time homebuyers programs.

“2017 was a fantastic year to be in real estate,” said Joe Mario of Century 21 Ma-rio Real Estate. “There’s a lot of confidence and equity in homes. For 35 years now it’s been positive. Now is the time to sell. Revere is getting the overflow from the Boston market and people are moving to Revere.

Mario said Revere is desir-able because of its proximity to Boston, and it’s a hidden gem with a beautiful beach.

Mario is looking forward to the spring market, drawing from Boston and surrounding communities. He added that the Revere School system is also a draw for buyers.

“It all adds to the future growth of Revere,” he said.

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Amanda Mena, the incredibly talented vocalist from Lynn and St. Mary’s High School, saw her journey end on the American Idol television show Sunday night.

Celebrity judge and music leg-end Lionel Richie delivered the news to Mena via a large-screen connection from his residence.

The decision caught Mena’s thousands of followers by sur-prise. Mena was simply sensa-tional during her audition in front of Richie and the other famous judges, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan.

Mena was hoping to gain a spot among the final 24 contes-tants.

Mena’s accomplishment of advancing to Idol’s Hollywood Week and her excellent perfor-mances in front of millions of

Idol viewers on national televi-sion will no doubt elevate her rising career in the recording in-dustry.

Many consider Idol the gold standard of music/reality shows.

Mena’s showcasing of her vocal talents on a big stage and her in-teraction with giants in the indus-try like Richie, Perry, and Bryan and Idol’s amazing host Ryan Seacrest had to be a thrilling ex-perience for the 18-year-old sing-er.

Mena will be returning to the recording studio to work on her next album.

Jamie Marsh, general manag-er of the Lynn Auditorium, told the Lynn Journal that he hopes to schedule Mena for a concert per-formance later this year.

Colin Jamieson of Boxford (who has family connections in Lynn including softball great Martha Jamieson, Berklee Col-lege of Music student Grace Kin-stler, and Berklee graduate Bren-nan Hepler (whose stage name is “Beane”) all advanced to Idol’s round of 24.

Mena’s journey ends on American Idol

Amanda Mena is pictured during her appearance on the American Idol television show.

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bly at Citi Field (the Mets’ home ballpark) in New York .”

Lynn English Director of Athletics Dick Newton extend-ed his congratulatory wishes to Bowden.

“The entire Lynn English High School athletic program congrat-ulates Ben Bowden on making it to the Major Leagues,” said Dick Newton, a former college base-ball star at St. Leo’s University. “We are all very excited about the news and wish him continued success in his career.”

Dana, who played profession-al baseball in the San Francisco Giants organization, recalled his message to his nephew when he first entered the Vanderbilt Uni-

versity baseball program.“Ben used to tell me how

good these kids were at Vander-bilt when he first got there and I just said, ‘you’re one of those guys – you just have to believe in yourself,’’’ said Dana. “When he got to professional baseball, same thing. I said, ‘Ben, you’re a second-round draft pick, you’re one of those guys. Just believe in yourself and good things are going to happen.’ He always did believe in himself. He kept be-lieving in himself and he’s there now.”

Ben Bowden earns a spot on Colorado Rockies’ Opening Day roster

Ben Bowden has earned a spot on the 2021 Colorado Rock-ies’ Opening Day roster. Ben is pictured on some of the baseball cards during his earlier days in the Rockies’ organization.

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Mayor Brian Arrigo (right) joins Gov. Baker, state officials, and medical personnel on a tour of the COVID-19 vaccination site at the Oceanside Events Center.

State Sec. of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders is pictured with Revere City Council President Anthony Zambuto and State Rep. Jeffrey Turco during a tour of the vaccination site at Oceanside Events Center.

East Boston Neighborhood Health Center President and CEO Manny Lopes, Gov. Charlie Baker, and Mayor Brian Arrigo tour the vaccination site at Oceanside Events Center.

Members of the United States military listen as Gov. Charlie Baker provides an update on the Commonwealth’s COVID-19 vaccination distribution process.

Dedication ceremo-nies for the new Joseph A. Rossetti Senior Center at 363 Revere St. will be held Monday afternoon.

Mayor George V. Colel-la has filed legislation, ap-proved by the City Coun-cil, that will seek to use $120,000 realized from tax lien foreclosure sales to prevent the layoffs of seven public safety em-ployees in the police and fire departments.

Students at the Immac-ulate Conception School held their annual art ex-hibit recently.

Lily Tomlin stars in The Incredible Shrinking Woman at the Kincade Theatre in Winthrop.

50 years agoApril 15, 1971After a month’s delay,

the School Committee unanimously approved Mrs. Eletta DiBattista Graceffa as the new prin-cipal of the Henry Waitt elementary school in North Revere.

The School Committee has demanded a meeting with the City Council to discuss the council’s ac-tion in slicing $282,509 from the School Depart-ment budget.

Sgt. Paul Bellofatto has earned his second Bronze Star within four years for distinguished service in Vietnam. Sgt. Bello-fatto is a member of the Army’s Special Forces, known as the Green Be-rets. Sgt. Bellofatto led a platoon deep inside ene-my territory on a mission to determine the enemy’s strength. Bellofatto res-cued one of his comrades who had been wounded in the face of enemy fire and called in an air strike against the enemy just 25 meters from his platoon’s position.

Four youths ages 18-20 were arrested after going on a rampage Monday night with an air gun and blowing out numerous car windows in the Mountain Ave. area.

MDC Commissioner John Sears was the guest speaker at a recent joint meeting of the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs.

George C. Scott stars in Patton at the Revere Drive In.

60 years agoApril 20, 1961Congressman Thomas

Lane has announced that the federal Department of Health, Education, and Welfare has approved the city’s application for $61,622 in federal funds, representing reimburse-ment for students in the local schools who are the children of parents work-ing for federal govern-ment agencies.

A pair of two-alarm fires within 12 hours of each other Saturday at 54-56 Bellingham St. and 580 Beach St. has left 21 per-

sons homeless.A Census Bureau re-

port reveals that 1364 of the city’s 12,854 dwelling units are substandard. A total of 6363 of the city’s dwelling units are own-er-occupied, 5485 are rented, and 1006 are va-cant. Almost one half of the vacant units are in the substandard category. A total of 19 housing units in Revere are occupied by non-whites.

Carl W. O’Neil is the new Exalted Ruler of the local Lodge of Elks.

Fred Mastracci is the new Commander of the Leon Mottola VFW Post.

Disney’s 101 Dalma-tians is playing at the Re-vere Theatre. Jerry Lewis stars in The

Geisha Boy at the Re-vere Drive In.

70 years agoApril 19, 1951Members of the School

Committee, clearly an-gered by the attitude of the Revere school teachers who have been demanding that their pay raises be ret-roactive to January 1, fired back at the teachers and voted to make the raises retroactive to April 1.

Police Lieut. James F. Dooley, who served as Acting Chief at various times, has retired after 25 years of service with the local police force and will take a disability pension.

Two hold-up men made off with $96 cash and took the car of one of the own-ers of the Gulf Service Station on Broadway. The car later was recovered on Malden St.

The dispute between President Harry S. Truman and Gen. Douglas MacAr-thur over the course of the war in Korea has captured local attention.

The city’s Youth Com-mission basketball leagues closed out their best sea-son ever Saturday, with many new champions crowned.

Van Johnson and Kathryn Grayson star in Grounds for Marriage at the Revere and Boulevard Theatres.

80 years agoApril 17, 1941A score of local boys,

members of the Columbi-an Squires of the Knights of Columbus, took over the various offices of city government for the day Tuesday.

The Revere Visiting Nurse Association is con-ducting its annual fund-raising campaign.

The Most Reverend Richard J. Cushing, Aux-iliary Bishop of Boston, administered the Sacra-ment of Confirmation to 171 boys and girls of Our Lady of Lourdes Church yesterday afternoon.

Rita Hayworth stars in Strawberry Blonde at the Revere and Boulevard Theatres.

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The Revere High hock-ey team wrapped-up its pandemic-shortened sea-son this past week.

The so-called Winter II season already had been reduced to an eight-game schedule with playoffs, but a COVID-19 quar-antine resulted in the Pa-triots playing only four regular-season contests and then one playoff game for the Greater Boston League Cup.

The Patriots’ final reg-ular-season contest came on Senior Night two weeks ago with a 2-1 loss to Somerville. After fall-ing behind 2-0 in the first half (the teams played two halves of 22:30 instead of the usual three periods of 15 minutes each), Patriot senior captain James Ma-rini found the back of the Highlander net to make it a 2-1 affair.

However, Revere was unable to notch the equal-izer before the final horn. Goalie Nick Fabrizio played well in net for the Pats.

The Patriots then were scheduled to play four more games over eight days against their GBL rivals, but a positive COVID-19 test among one of the team members necessitated a quarantine.

Revere was unable to play or practice for almost

two weeks and did not re-turn to action until a con-test with first-place Med-ford in the semifinal round of the GBL Cup playoffs this past week.

The Patriots grabbed 1-0 lead thanks to a goal by sophomore Chris Ce-cca and maintained their advantage heading into the final 10 minutes be-hind some superb goalten-ding by Cam Wickens.

However, a penalty gave the Mustangs a pow-er play and then match-ing-minors left the Patriots shorthanded on defense (both of the penalties were called on Revere’s starting defensemen).

Medford took full ad-vantage of the opportuni-ty, scoring two goals, and then adding a third for the 3-1 finale.

“It was unfortunate that we were forced to take a layoff, because we hadn’t skated for two weeks when we had to play Medford,” said RHS head coach Joe Ciccarello.

Still, Ciccarello and his team were grateful for the opportunity to get on the ice at all during the pan-demic.

“This was a great group of kids and a great group of seniors in particular,” said Ciccarello. “We faced a lot of adversity from the beginning, but the team met the challenges and made the most of the sea-son.”

As many of you know, the Winthrop Marketplace has been closed since April 3. The floors that we in-stalled two years ago were defective and had to be replaced. When we went ahead with installing the new flooring, we decided to make some changes with the checkout lanes as well. The original checkout lanes were designed for plastic bags and, due to the plastic bag ban, they were no longer effective for our store. Therefore, we sought out a local professional that could personalize our checkout lanes to fit out store en-vironment while also allowing an efficient checkout process.

Since starting this project we have run into some major problems, which pushed us back. What was supposed to be a four day project has gone on almost two weeks. We knew that the building was an older building and has unique characteristics, but we didn’t foresee some of the issues that have arisen. After facing these delays and changing companies, our new flooring company has been moving along well and we can’t thank them enough for getting in here under such short notice.

On another note, we want to thank all our employees and our customers for your ongoing support. The phone calls, the e-mails, and the text messages have really helped us get through this long and frustrating project. It has been made even harder because we have not been able to give concrete answers to when we will be open. We want nothing more than to open our doors again to all of you and can’t wait to welcome everyone back.

The Winthrop Marketplace plans on being in this community for a long time and continue to be big part of the town of Winthrop now and in the future.

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The year was 1982 and the Revere “Bombers” girls Basketball team managed to take home the runner-up position in a local basketball tournament. In the first row, left to right, Janet D’Allesandro, Stacey Dipisa, DeAnne Mantia and Rosey Guarino. In the back row, Coach Jeff D’Agostino, Kim Stuppia, Kelly Coleman, Allison Jewel, Michele Missina and Karen McLaughlin.

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Staff report

The MBTA this week announced updates to cur-rent fare pilots that include an extension of the Five-day Flex Pass on mTicket, as well as upcoming fare change proposals that in-clude improvements to the Youth Pass and convert-ing all Outer Express Bus Routes to Inner Express Bus fares. These changes help to improve reduced fare programs and simpli-fy complex fares for both customers and operations.

“We’re pleased to tem-porarily extend the avail-ability of the Five-day Flex Pass, which has been a popular fare option for our Commuter Rail rid-ers as travel patterns have adjusted and evolved during the pandemic,”

said MBTA General Man-ager Steve Poftak. “We’re also excited about our upcoming fare proposals that make improvements to the Youth Pass and Ex-press Bus Route fares. If approved by the FMCB next month, these propos-als – converting all Outer Express Bus Routes to the lower Inner Express Bus fare, and providing Youth Pass users with reduced fares on Commuter Rail, Express Bus, and ferries – will allow the MBTA to continue to meet the needs of riders through incre-mental fare improvements that matter now more than ever as we enter the ‘new normal’.”

Fare Pilot UpdatesMBTA staff announced

that the Five-day Flex

Pass will be extended, the Lynn Zone 1A Fare Pilot will end on June 30, as previously planned, and Quincy Center Station’s Zone 1A fare designation will end June 30:

•Five-day Flex Pass: An attractive option for rid-ers with in-person work schedules limited by the pandemic, the Five-day Flex Pass has continued to serve Commuter Rail rid-ers with over 5,600 passes sold through March 2021. The Five-day Flex Pass will continue to be avail-able on mTicket for 90 days following the end of the Commonwealth’s state of emergency.

•Lynn Zone 1A Fare Pilot: Zone 1A fares were piloted in Lynn to relieve crowding on nearby buses and improve social dis-

tancing and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on ridership data and surveys of Lynn rid-ers, it was found that the Lynn Zone 1A Fare Pilot has not reduced crowding on nearby bus routes. As a result, this fare pilot will end June 30, as previously announced with Lynn Sta-tion returning to a Zone 2 fare beginning July 1.

•Quincy Center Zone 1A mitigation: Zone 1A fares were temporarily accepted at Quincy Cen-ter Station in order to mitigate Red Line service impacts during both the closure of Wollaston Sta-tion and North Quincy Garage Development con-struction. Wollaston was reopened in August 2019, surface parking currently provides sufficient access to North Quincy, and the North Quincy Garage is anticipated to open later in 2021. As a result, Quin-cy Center Station’s Zone 1A fare designation will end June 30, 2021, with Quincy Center returning to a Zone 1 fare beginning July 1.

Proposed Fare ChangesMBTA Fare Transfor-

mation staff presented two fare change proposals to be voted on by the Fiscal and Management Control Board (FMCB) on May 10, 2021, that aim to ben-efit nearly 2,200 current Youth Pass participants (about 4,600 pre-pandem-ic) and to simplify Express Bus fares:

•The Youth Pass Pro-gram is a partnership be-tween the MBTA and par-ticipating cities and towns that offers young adults with low incomes roughly 50-percent reduced one-way fares or $30 month-ly LinkPasses on the bus and subway. MBTA staff have proposed that the Youth Pass also be valid for reduced fares on Com-muter Rail, Express Bus, and ferries. Youth Pass holders are already able to purchase half-price Com-muter Rail tickets through a reduced fare pilot that ends on June 30. This proposed fare change, if approved by the FMCB, would make the Youth Pass Commuter Rail pilot a permanent policy and also provide reduced Ex-press Bus and ferry fares effective July 1, 2021.

•MBTA staff also pro-

posed converting all Outer Express Bus Routes ($5.25 per trip) to Inner Bus fares ($4.25 per trip) effective July 1. Maintaining a sep-arate fare for a small num-ber of Outer Express Bus Routes has become unnec-essarily complicated for riders and bus operators. Due to service changes as a result of the pandemic, the MBTA is currently op-erating only a single Outer Express route (352/354), which is most recently serving about 100 Outer Express rides per day. The route also serves an Inner Express stop and requires a complicated procedure to avoid overcharging customers. As a result, if approved by the FMCB in May, the MBTA has pro-posed converting fares for Express Route 352/354 as well as any future Express Bus Routes to the Inner Express fare of $4.25 be-ginning July 1.

The public is able to comment on these pro-posed changes at mbta.com/2021FareChanges. The Title VI analysis will be shared with FMCB and posted to mbta.com by April 26.

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On April 2, members of the Massachusetts Co-alition for Occupation-al Safety and Health’s (MassCOSH) Health Technical Committee had a letter to the editor pub-lished in the Clinical In-fectious Diseases journal that rebutted findings of a study published by the journal that played a role in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) changing its social distancing guidelines in public schools from 6 feet to 3 feet. The guidelines

are being adopted by dis-tricts nationwide.

The letter questions the methods conducted in the journal article, Effective-ness of three versus six feet of physical distancing for controlling spread of COVID-19 among prima-ry and secondary students and staff: A retrospec-tive, state-wide cohort study. Authors of that arti-cle only looked at the writ-ten plans for distancing, not the actual implemen-tation of those plans. They excluded all schools that were remote during the study period, which were

most of the major cities in Massachusetts. They did include schools that were open just 5 percent of the time, which may have been much more influ-ential on COVID-19 risk than their written distanc-ing plans.

The Department of El-ementary and Secondary Education in Massachu-setts (DESE) has used this flawed study to require that schools open for full, in-person learning across the Commonwealth. The result is classrooms filled to a much higher capaci-ty than what may be safe.

Last week, even before students returned to the classroom at higher num-bers, Massachusetts saw the most COVID-19 cases in schools yet, a combined 1,045 infections between students and staff.

“It is critical that de-cisions about the return to in-person learning be based in science,” said Jodi Sugerman-Brozan, MassCOSH Executive Di-rector. “Unfortunately, a problematic study riddled with flaws, conducted right here in Massachu-setts, has led to what is likely a dangerously high

number of students return-ing to classrooms across the country at a time when cases are on the rise.”

The return to full-in per-son learning in the Com-monwealth comes shortly on the heels of a DESE decision to remove all capacity limits on school buses in Massachusetts. To justify this decision, DESE claims that two things make social dis-tancing unnecessary: the effectiveness of masks and the high ventilation rates on a school bus. Neither the CDC nor any other leading public or occupa-

tional health experts sup-port DESE’s position that masks or ventilation make social distancing unneces-sary. Bus drivers have al-ready been hit hard by the pandemic. In Boston, two active school bus drivers and a bus manager died of COVID-19 in April 2020. A recent study of COVID-19 deaths among Massachusetts workers found that, from March to July of last year, transpor-tation workers lost their lives to COVID-19 at twice the rate of the aver-age worker.

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By Penny & Ed Cherubino

Have you ever noticed that the stew you made over the weekend tastes much better as a Monday leftover? That may be, in part, because you didn’t have to cook after a busy day, but it is also because a stew, in our opinion, is one of those dishes that is at its best after it has had a rest.

For us, the same is true of chili, braised meat, and some soups. This recom-mendation, like so many in the food world, has its friends and foes. Af-ter extensive testing, The Serious Eats Food Lab concluded that with these foods, it really doesn’t make a difference and told readers to do whatever they wanted, rest or don’t rest.

The popular no-knead bread dough recipes call on long, slow, cool fer-mentation to improve the flavor, texture, and some say the bread’s digestibil-ity. It also allows the bak-er more flexibility about when they want to bake a loaf.

A Must for ChowderIn his book, “50 Chow-

ders One Pot Meals, Clam, Corn & Beyond,” Boston Chef Jasper White recom-mends the step of letting a chowder rest or “cure,” as New Englanders call it. He writes, “Do not under-estimate the importance of this process. It is during the resting and cooling-off period that chowder un-dergoes a metamorphosis, emerging with a deeper flavor and richer texture.”

We find this is also true of other soups. We make a variety of soups that are combinations of vegeta-bles with a sausage. After a day in the refrigerator, a sausage like kielbasa or chorizo will have shared its seasoning with the rest of the soup to a greater degree than when first cooked.

Short NapsRest time may be short

or long. If you’ve grilled a steak, you may have learned to cover it with foil and let it rest for five to ten minutes to allow the heat in the meat to finish cooking and for the juices to redistribute. That time will extend to 20 to 30 minutes for a large roast.

When we make quick pickles, salad dressings,

or herb and yogurt sauces like riata or tzatziki, we’ll make those first as we be-gin to cook, so they have some time for the herbs and seasonings to infuse into the liquids.

In baking, the rest times are often for totally dif-ferent reasons. Cookie and pastry dough call for a time out in the refriger-ator to allow the flour to be completely hydrated by the wet ingredients and let the fat, be it butter or lard, reharden for a tender or flaky result.

Food Safety FirstWhile telling you to let

your chowder cure, Chef White, a long-time restau-rateur, addresses the food safety aspect of allowing food to rest. He says, “A 1-hour resting will im-prove your chowder im-mensely, and refrigerating overnight or longer is even better! If you decide to re-frigerate your chowder, let it cool at room tempera-ture for 30 minutes, then place it in the refrigerator uncovered. Covering can prolong the cooling pro-cess, resulting in a warm center that is ideal for bac-terial growth. Bacteria ru-ins the flavor and shortens the shelf life of food. Cov-er the chowder only after it has chilled completely.”

We would add that you should always use a food thermometer to ensure that your resting food stays out of the danger zone of 40°F to 140°F, where bacteria proliferate.

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Dr. William Heineman, Provost at Northern Es-sex Community College, is the unanimous choice of the North Shore Com-munity College Board of Trustees to become the college’s fifth President.

The Board’s recommen-dation of Dr. Heineman is pending affirmation by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education. Given that approval, it is antici-pated Dr. Heineman will take office July 1.

Dr. Heineman is deeply

familiar with Massachu-setts’ public higher edu-cation system and its par-ticipants having amassed a decades-long record of successive leadership and service as a faculty mem-ber, administrator in aca-demic affairs and student affairs, and much more at NECC.

He holds an Ed.D from the University of Massa-chusetts Boston, an MPP from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a BA History, Graduated magna cum laude with

Distinction from the Uni-versity of Rochester, NY. In addition, Dr. Heineman participated in the Aspen Presidential Fellowship for Community College Leadership, the Ameri-can Association of Com-munity Colleges Future Leaders Institute, and the Massachusetts Commu-nity College Leadership Academy.

NSCC Board of Trust-ees Chair Dr. J.D. LaRo-ck said, “Dr. Heineman is already known as one of the finest academic lead-ers in the Massachusetts

public higher education system. But his analytical and business acumen im-pressed us as well. He un-derstands that American higher education is facing immense pressures, and that to thrive, all colleges – including NSCC – will need to innovate.”

Dr. Heineman noted, “I am honored by the sup-port of the Trustees and the constituent groups of North Shore Communi-ty College. What I saw during the interview pro-cess is a strong institution with a deep commitment

to its students and its com-munity. What I heard was a passionate desire to meet the challenges fac-ing North Shore together, collaboratively and that is what we will do. The challenges that our rap-idly changing world pose to North Shore and its community are significant enough that only a team effort can meet them and I am fully committed to leading that team.”

“I look forward to the remaining steps in the presidential appointment process and getting to

know North Shore Com-munity College and its community better in the months ahead,” he added.

Dr. William Heineman Selected as Northshore Community College’s fifth President

Dr. William Heineman

Staff report

The MBTA will con-duct a virtual public hear-ing on April 15 to hear feedback from riders and stakeholders regarding proposed Fare Evasion Regulations 703 CMR 5.00 to decrease fine lev-els associated with fare evasion on the MBTA.

As a part of the Fare Transformation project, the MBTA is moving to all-door boarding to make bus, Green Line, and Mat-tapan Line trolley services faster and more reliable. A key component of this move to all-door boarding is a shift to a fare verifica-tion system in which rid-ers carry and present proof that they have paid to use the system. The Transpor-tation Bond Bill, adopted in January 2021, gave the MBTA the authority to build a team to verify fares and issue fare evasion cita-tions. The Bill also called

for the MBTA to set fare citation fine levels through a regulatory, rather than statutory, process. The MBTA has proposed de-creasing fine levels from their current minimum of $100 for a first offense to $50. Riders and com-munity members can re-view the proposed regula-tions (703 CMR 5.00) on the MBTA website.

As a part of the regulato-ry process, the MBTA will hold a virtual public hear-ing on April 15 at 6 PM to hear feedback from riders and stakeholders on the proposed regulations. Tes-timony may be presented orally at the public hearing or in writing. While the MBTA encourages all in-terested parties to submit testimony in advance of the hearing, written com-ments will be accepted un-til 5 PM on Friday, April 30. Written comments must be submitted by email or postal mail to the

following address. Email is strongly preferred.

Email: fareregula-

tions@mbta.comPostal Mail: Massachusetts Bay

Transportation AuthorityAttn: Rachel Morse

Office of the General Counsel

10 Park Plaza, Room 3510

Boston, MA 02116Public Hearing Details:Thursday, April 15, at 6

PMFor help registering for

these virtual public meet-ings, please call the MBTA Community Engagement team at 857-366-1871.

Any questions can be emailed to fareregula-tions@mbta.com. The public can learn more about getting involved in the Fare Transfor-mation project by vis-iting www.mbta.com/fares/fare-transformation/get-involved.

Staff report

Spanning cultures and geographies, and some-times millennia too, “New Light: Encounters and Con-nections” presents more than 50 works of art from across the MFA’s collec-tion, many of which are on view for the first time. The exhibition is organized into 21 conversations—

in each, a contemporary piece that has recently joined the collection is juxtaposed with one or two objects acquired ear-lier in the Museum’s his-tory.

The contemporary piec-es include work by emerg-ing as well as local or Bos-ton-born artists—among them Dana C. Chandler,

Jr., Eben Haines, Stephen Hamilton, Tomashi Jack-son, Lavaughan Jenkins and Alison Croney Moses. The objects in conversa-tion with these recent addi-tions range from a carving of a princess from ancient Egypt to experimental miniature vases made by French ceramicist Au-guste Delaherche. Placed in dialogue, these objects old and new invite visi-tors to explore an array of subjects. A portrait by Ste-phen Hamilton featuring weaving and dyeing tech-niques learned in Nigeria engages 20th-century tex-tiles from southwestern Nigeria and Gee’s Bend, Alabama in a meditation on ancestral heritage, while encounters else-where address childcare, queer communities and Native resistance, among other topics. Together, these conversations reveal the potential of every ad-dition to the collection to spark unexpected connec-tions and new narratives.

“New Light: Encoun-ters and Connections” is generously supported by the Callaghan Family Fund for Contemporary Exhibitions. Additional support from the Barbara Jane Anderson Fund, The Bruce and Laura Monrad Fund for Exhibitions, and the Diane Krane Family and Jonathan and Gina Krane Family Fund.

MBTA to hold public hearing on fare evasion

‘New Light: Encounters and Connections’ highlights

Museum of Fine Art’s collection

IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTIST.

Joseph Lewis as Eze Nri (2018), Stephen Hamilton. © Stephen Hamilton.

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Rest is Best!

This Rhode Island clam chowder is a dish that benefits from a rest or, as Jasper White calls it, “time to cure.”

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The following incidents are among the calls to which the Revere police responded on the listed dates:

FRIDAY, APRIL 2

0757: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) at No. Shore Rd. and Mills Ave. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the op-erator.

0843: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Campbell Ave. and arrested the operator, Angel Rivera Ortolaza, 41, of 19 Walnut Place, on three outstanding war-rants and for the criminal offenses of operating a MV after his right to oper-ate had been revoked, re-sisting arrest, using a MV without authority, and two counts of carrying a dan-gerous weapon.

0846: Domestic distur-bance on Pomona St. The officer restored the peace.

0936: Unwanted person on Ocean Ave. The officer filed a report.

0938: Motor vehicle ac-cident on Broadway. The officer assisted the parties with the exchange of pa-pers.

1018: Motor vehicle accident on Salem St. The officer assisted the parties with the exchange of pa-pers.

1046: Disabled motor vehicle (MV) at Copeland Circle. The officer provid-ed assistance.

1200: A MV that had been reported as stolen was recovered on Broad-way.

1213: Parking com-plaint on Beachland Ave. The officer provided as-sistance.

1236: Suspicious activ-ity on Lantern Rd. The of-ficer provided assistance.

1248: Parking com-plaint at Folsom Ave. and Broadway. The officer provided assistance.

1250: Motor vehicle ac-cident on Furlong Drive. The officer provided as-sistance.

1305: Suspicious activ-ity on Broadway. The of-ficer provided assistance.

1325: MVA on Lee Bur-bank Highway. The officer provided assistance.

1515: Disturbance on Nerious Ave. The officer restored the peace.

1616: The trespass tow of a MV was reported on Ocean Ave.

1620: An officer issued a parking ticket to a MV parked in a handicapped spot on Eastern Ave.

1641: Motor vehicle ac-cident on VFW Parkway. The officer assisted the parties with the exchange of papers.

1725: Parking com-plaint at Rand and Oxford Sts. The officer provided assistance.

1751: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Beach St. for a civil moving violation and issued a citation to the op-erator.

1753: Motor vehicle ac-cident at Washington Ave. and Carmen Lane. The officer assisted the parties with the exchange of pa-pers.

1928: Officers respond-ing to a report of a distur-bance on Beachland Ave. arrested Kebin L. Oso-rio-Portillo, 36, of East Boston, for the criminal offense of violating a do-mestic abuse prevention restraining order pursuant

to c. 209A.1936: Shoplifting on

Squire Rd. The officer filed a report.

1955: Unwanted person on Squire Rd. Officers ar-rested a 20 year-old Low-ell man on an outstand-ing warrant.

2022: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Walnut Ave. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

2038: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on the Revere Beach Parkway for a civil mov-ing violation and issued a citation to the operator.

2115: Parking com-plaint on Cooledge St. The officer provided as-sistance.

2127: Disabled MV at Mills Ave. and No. Shore Rd. The officer provided assistance.

2128: An officer pro-vided assistance to anoth-er agency on Broadway.

2137: Parking com-plaint on Pines Rd. The officer issued a parking ticket.

2219: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Shirley Ave. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

2225: A MV was re-ported stolen on Park Ave. The officer provided assis-tance.

2229: Suspicious activ-ity at Orr. Sq. The officer provided assistance.

2258: Hit-and-run MVA with property damage on Squire Rd. The officer provided assistance.

2312: Harassing phone calls on Reservoir Ave. The officer filed a report.

2326: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Mountain Ave. for a civil moving viola-tion and issued a citation to the operator.

2334: Noise disturbance on Sigourney St. The offi-cer provided assistance.

SATURDAY, APRIL 30014: An officer

stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on the Revere Beach Parkway for a civil mov-ing violation and issued a citation to the operator.

0015: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Squire Rd. for a civil moving violation and issued a citation to the op-erator.

0101: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) at Mahoney Circle for a civil moving viola-tion and issued a citation to the operator.

0144: Noise disturbance on Pines Rd. The officer provided assistance.

0201: Noise distur-bance on State Rd. The of-ficer provided assistance.

0215: Blocked drive-way on Pines Rd. The MV was moved.

0231: Motor vehicle accident (MVA) at Brown Circle. The officer issued a citation to a 30 year-old Lynn man for the criminal offense of negligent oper-ation of a MV.

0703: Motor vehicle ac-cident (MVA) on Arcadia St. The officer assisted the parties with the exchange of papers.

0927: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Ocean Ave. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1009: An officer stopped a motor vehi-

cle (MV) on the Revere Beach Parkway for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the op-erator.

1049: Motor vehicle ac-cident (MVA) on Broad-way. The officer assisted the parties with the ex-change of papers.

1114: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Beach St. The officer issued a citation to a 33 year-old Lynn man for the criminal offense of operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license.

1116: Harassing phone calls on Thornton St. The officer filed a report.

1139: Motor vehicle ac-cident (MVA) on Squire Rd. The officer assisted the parties with the ex-change of papers.

1146: An officer stopped a MV on Hich-born St. and ordered the MV to be towed.

1152: Motor vehicle ac-cident (MVA) at Mahoney Circle. The officer assist-ed the parties with the ex-change of papers.

1322: Domestic distur-bance on Oak Tree Lane. The officer restored the peace.

1509: The trespass tow of a MV was reported on the Revere Beach Park-way.

1559: An officer pro-vided public safety ser-vices on Walnut Ave.

1604: Fraud on Revere Beach Blvd. The officer filed a report.

1714: The trespass tow of a MV was reported on Broadway.

1714: Suspicious activ-ity on Squire Rd. The of-ficer provided assistance.

1724: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Shirley Ave. for a civil moving violation and issued a citation to the operator.

1726: Disturbance on VFW Parkway. Officers issued summonses for a court hearing to two per-sons, a 58 year-old Re-vere woman for the crim-inal offense of assault by means of a dangerous weapon and a 20 year-old Chelsea woman for the criminal offense of assault & battery.

1751: Noise disturbance on Broadsound Ave. The officer restored the peace.

1757: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Ward St. for a civil moving violation and issued a citation to the op-erator.

1839: Motor vehicle ac-cident on Mountain Ave. The officer assisted the parties with the exchange of papers.

1902: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Shirley Ave. for a civil moving violation and issued a citation to the operator.

1913: An officer stopped a motor vehi-cle (MV) on the Revere Beach Parkway for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the op-erator.

1915: Parking com-plaint on Fenley St. The officer provided assis-tance.

1916: Motor vehicle accident at Broadway and Prince St. The officer as-sisted the parties with the exchange of papers.

1925: Disturbance on Fenley St. The officer filed a report.

1931: Shoplifting on Furlong Drive. The officer

provided assistance.1934: Motor vehicle ac-

cident on Broadway. The officer assisted the parties with the exchange of pa-pers.

1939: Abandoned MV on Burnett Rd. The officer issued a parking ticket.

1953: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) at Butler Circle for a civil moving violation and issued a citation to the operator.

2113: Parking com-plaint on Hichborn St. The officer provided as-sistance.

2145: Domestic dis-turbance on Rose St. The officer restored the peace.

2201: Domestic distur-bance on Dolphin Ave. The officer filed a report.

2239: suspicious activi-ty on Broadway. The offi-cer provided assistance.

2240: Suspicious ac-tivity on Furlong Dr. The officer spoke to the party.

2306: Noise distur-bance on Butler St. The officer restored the peace.

2306: The trespass tow of a motor vehicle (MV) was reported on Overlook Ridge Drive.

2308: The trespass tow of a motor vehicle (MV) was reported on Overlook Ridge Drive.

2309: The trespass tow of a motor vehicle (MV) was reported on Overlook Ridge Drive.

2320: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on VFW Parkway for a civil moving viola-tion and issued a citation to the operator.

2324: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) at the Revere Beach Parkway and No. Shore Rd. for a civil moving vio-lation and issued a citation to the operator.

2331: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) at E. Mountain Ave. and Oliver Terr. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the op-erator.

2336: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Bennington St. for a civil moving vio-lation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

2358: An officer pro-vided assistance to a citi-zen on Wadleigh Ave.

SUNDAY, APRIL 40013: Noise distur-

bance on Mountain Ave. The officer restored the peace.

0047: An officer pro-vided assistance to anoth-er agency on Squire Rd.

0347: Noise distur-bance on Orris Rd. The officer restored the peace.

0810: An officer stopped a motor vehi-cle (MV) on the Revere Beach Parkway for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the op-erator.

0821: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) at Mills Ave. and No. Shore Rd. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the op-erator.

0849: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Lantern Rd. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1009: An officer re-sponded to a dispute in-volving a civil matter on the Revere Beach Park-way and filed a report.

1025: Disabled MV on No. Shore Rd. The officer provided assistance.

1224: Hit-and-run motor vehicle accident (MVA) on Sigourney St. The officer provided as-sistance.

1316: MVA at Brown Circle. The officer will file

a report.1345: An officer

stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on American Le-gion Highway for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the op-erator.

1354: Motor vehicle ac-cident (MVA) on Broad-way. The officer assisted the parties with the ex-change of papers.

1450: Noise disturbance on Revere St. The officer provided assistance.

1546: Disturbance on Neponset St. The officer filed a report.

1616: Citizen complaint on Ambrose St. The offi-cer restored the peace.

1616: Disturbance on Belle Isle Ave. The officer restored the peace.

1647: An officer pro-vided assistance to a citi-zen on the Revere Beach Parkway.

1653: Motor vehicle ac-cident (MVA) at Malden St. and Milano Ave. The officer assisted the parties with the exchange of pa-pers.

1931: Hit-and-run MVA on Bennington St. The of-ficer will file a report.

2007: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Proctor Ave. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

2100: Domestic distur-bance on Ocean Ave. Of-ficers arrested Joseph P. Venuti, 49, of Ocean Ave., for the criminal offense of assault.

2129: Disturbance on Lantern Rd. The officer restored the peace.

2225: Disturbance on Bennington St. The officer restored the peace.

2235: The trespass tow of a MV was reported on Overlook Ridge Terrace.

MONDAY, APRIL 50021: Noise distur-

bance at Augustus and Malden Sts. The officer restored the peace.

0037: A repossession company reported the repo of a MV on Furness St.

0106: Disturbance on Squire Rd. The officer provided assistance.

0107: Motor vehicle accident (MVA) on Win-throp Ave. Officers arrest-ed Josue A. Moran Bena-vides, 31, of Everett, for the criminal offenses of operating a MV while un-der the influence of liquor and reckless operation of a MV. He also was cited for the civil infraction of having an open container of an alcoholic beverage while operating a MV.

0733: Disturbance on Lee Burbank Highway. The officer restored the peace.

0831: MVA on Newell St. The officer assisted the parties with the exchange of papers.

0934: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Broadway for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

0958: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Washington Ave. for a civil moving vio-lation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1027: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Revere St.. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1035: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Broadway for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1058: An officer pro-vided assistance to anoth-er agency on Newhall St.

1105: An officer

stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Broadway for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1117: An officer provid-ed assistance to another agency on Salem St.

1128: Shoplifting on VFW Parkway. The owner gave a No Trespass notice to the suspect.

1142: MVA at Brown Circle. The officer gave a verbal warning to the op-erator.

1143: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Central Ave. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1156: Domestic distur-bance on Mountain Ave. The officer restored the peace.

1200: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Broadway for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1213: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Central Ave. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1219: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Broadway for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1230: MVA at Squire Rd. and McCoba St. The officer assisted the parties with the exchange of pa-pers.

1241: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Broadway for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1253: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Broadway for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1459: Suspicious activ-ity on Dashwood St. The officer provided assis-tance.

1548: MVA on Squire Rd. The MV was towed.

1645: Citizen complaint on Warren St. The officer provided assistance.

1853: Vandalism on Pa-triot Parkway. The officer filed a report.

2032: Threats to kill on Ambrose St. The officer filed a report.

2120: A MV was report-ed stolen on Broadway.

TUESDAY, APRIL 60010: Domestic dis-

turbance on Hillside Ave. The officer restored the peace.

0223: Disturbance on Parkside Place. The offi-cer provided assistance.

0321: Abandoned MV on No. Shore Rd. The of-ficer provided assistance.

0624: Disturbance on Squire Rd. The officer re-stored the peace.

0740: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Fenno St. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

0759: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Fenno St. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

0809: Larceny on Re-vere Beach Blvd. The of-ficer filed a report.

0903: Abandoned MV on Squire Rd. The officer provided assistance.

0936: An officer served a 209A restraining order upon a Howard St. resi-dent.

0937: MCA on VFW Parkway. The officer will file a report.

0949: Breaking & en-tering into a building on

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Shirley Ave. The officer filed a report.

0950: A MV that had been abandoned on Bates St. was ordered to be towed.

0958: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Fenley St. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1002: The trespass tow of a MV was reported on No. Shore Rd.

1013: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Constitution Ave. for a civil moving vi-olation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1018: An officer pro-vided assistance to a citi-zen on Broadway.

1021: An officer pro-vided assistance to anoth-er agency on Everard St.

1025: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Adams St. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1032: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Broadway for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1036: An officer pro-vided assistance to anoth-er agency on American Legion Highway.

1041: Disturbance on Dix St. The officer re-stored the peace.

1056: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Broadway for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1101: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Broadway for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1123: MVA at Brown Circle. The officer assist-ed the parties with the ex-change of papers.

1125: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Adams St. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1135: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Fenno St. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1143: Parking com-plaint on Hillside Ave. The officer spoke to the party.

1157: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Adams St. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1203: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Adams St. and issued a citation to the op-erator, a 37 year-old Re-vere man, for the criminal offense of unlicensed op-eration of a MV.

1240: Disturbance on Beach St. The officer re-stored the peace.

1303: MVA on Proctor Ave. The officer assisted

the parties with the ex-change of papers.

1404: Assault at Eller-ton and York Sts. The of-ficer provided assistance.

1436: Unwanted per-son on American Legion Highway. The officer re-stored the peace.

1455: Threats on How-ard St. The officer restored the peace.

1513: Animal com-plaint on Oakwood St. The officer provided as-sistance.

1520: An officer served a 209A restraining order upon a Malden St. resi-dent.

1533: Citizen complaint on Newhall St. The officer provided assistance.

1621: Larceny on Sa-lem St. The officer filed a report.

1712: Noise distur-bance on Dix St. The offi-cer restored the peace.

1753: Motor vehicle ac-cident (MVA) on Furlong Drive with property dam-age. The officer issued a citation to a 63 year-old Revere man for the crim-inal offenses of operating a MV with a suspended license (subsequent of-fense) and leaving the scene of an accident after causing property damage.

1800: Parking com-plaint on Sprague St. The officer issued a parking ticket.

1806: Parking com-plaint at Sagamore and Shawmut Sts. The offi-cer ordered the MV to be towed.

1917: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Broadway for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

2124: Domestic distur-bance on Mountain Ave. Officers arrested a 23 year-old Chelsea man on an outstanding warrant.

2154: A repossession company reported the repo of a MV on Eastern Ave.

2228: Disturbance on Squire Rd. The officer provided assistance.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 70933: Damage to prop-

erty on Central Ave. The officer provided assis-tance.

0943: An officer stopped a motor vehi-cle (MV) on the Revere Beach Parkway for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the op-erator.

1015: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Adams St. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1017: Unwanted person on Florence Ave. The offi-cer spoke to the party.

1050: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Constitution Ave. for a civil moving vi-olation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1110: An officer provid-ed assistance to another agency on Revere Beach Blvd.

1113: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Mountain Ave. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the op-erator.

1125: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Squire Rd. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1128: Suspicious activi-ty on Walnut Ave. The of-ficer provided assistance.

1142: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Broadway for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1149: Hit-and-run MVA with property damage on Broadsound Ave. The of-ficer provided assistance.

1212: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Cushman Ave. for a civil moving vio-lation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1220: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Adams St. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1238: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Constitution Ave. for a civil moving vi-olation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1244: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Cushman Ave. for a civil moving vio-lation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1248: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Cushman Ave. for a civil moving vio-lation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1306: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on No. Shore Rd. for a civil moving vio-lation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1306: Motor vehicle ac-cident (MVA) on Squire Rd. The officer issued a citation to a 88 year-old Revere woman for the criminal offense of negli-gent operation of a MV.

1311: Suspicious activ-ity on the Revere Beach Parkway. The officer spoke to the party.

1313: Vandalism on Sagamore Ave. The officer filed a report.

1332: Harassment on Ambrose St. The officer filed a report.

1341: Landlord-tenant disturbance on Salem St. The officer spoke to the party.

1428: A MV was re-ported stolen on American Legion Highway. The offi-cer filed a report.

1434: MVA at Shirley Ave. and No. Shore Rd. The officer assisted the parties with the exchange of papers.

1709: Citizen complaint

on Furlong Drive. The of-ficer provided assistance.

1716: Unwanted person on Lee Burbank Highway. The officer restored the peace.

1752: Suspicious activi-ty on Vinal St. The officer provided assistance.

1759: An officer pro-vided assistance to a citi-zen on Squire Rd.

1853: Animal complaint on Atwood St. The officer provided assistance.

1914: Domestic distur-bance on Overlook Ridge Terrace. The officer pro-vided assistance.

2040: MVA with fire and injuries on Washing-ton. Ambulance transport was refused. The officer assisted the parties with the exchange of papers.

2058: Parking com-plaint on Fenno St. The officer issued a parking ticket.

2112: Domestic distur-bance on Campbell Ave. The officer filed a report.

2242: Noise distur-bance on Shirley Ave. The officer restored the peace.

2313: Larceny on Over-look Ridge Terrace. The officer provided assis-tance.

2331: Parking com-plaint on Kimball Ave. The officer ordered the MV to be towed.

THURSDAY, APRIL 80113: Noise distur-

bance on Shirley Ave. The officer restored the peace.

0151: An officer pro-vided assistance to another agency on No. Shore Rd.

0613: Violation of a 209A restraining order on

Hichborn St. Officers ar-rested Antwon Trinh, 38, of Hichborn St., for the criminal offense of vio-lating a 209A restraining order.

0638: MVA on Broad-way. The officer assisted the parties with the ex-change of papers.

0720: Parking in a handicapped spot on Alice St. The officer provided assistance.

0820: Suspicious activi-ty on Rumney Rd. The of-ficer provided assistance.

0822: Vandalism on Morris St. The officer pro-vided assistance and filed a report.

0841: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Orvis Rd. for a civil moving violation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

0912: Suspicious activ-ity on Nell Rd. The officer spoke to the party.

0936: Traffic control on Yeamans St. The officer ordered a MV to be towed.

0959: An officer pro-vided assistance to anoth-er agency on Tuckerman St.

1035: An officer pro-vided assistance to anoth-er agency on Park Ave.

1040: Parking com-plaint at Steeple St. and Rumney Rd. The officer provided assistance.

1126: Landlord-tenant disturbance on the Revere Beach Parkway. The offi-cer restored the peace.

1140: MVA on Shirley Ave. The officer restored the peace.

1241: Vandalism on Prince St. The officer filed

a report.1250: Unwanted person

on Broadway. The officer restored the peace.

1251: Vandalism on Witherbee Ave. The offi-cer filed a report.

1343: Disturbance on Campbell Ave. The officer restored the peace.

1344: Parking com-plaint on Crescent Ave. The officer filed a report.

1517: An officer pro-vided assistance to a citi-zen on Standish Rd.

1518: Disturbance on Dix St. The officer provid-ed assistance.

1520: Fraud on Hutchn-son St. The officer provid-ed assistance.

1624: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on VFW Parkway for a civil moving vio-lation and gave a verbal warning to the operator.

1656: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Winthrop Ave. and issued a citation to a 26 year-old Revere woman for the criminal offense of unli-censed operation of a MV.

1704: Domestic distur-bance on Broadway. The officer provided assis-tance.

1729: An officer pro-vided assistance to a citi-zen on the Revere Beach Parkway.

1737: An officer pro-vided assistance to an-other agency on Revere Beach Blvd.

1743: An officer stopped a motor vehicle (MV) on Squire Rd. for a civil moving violation and issued a citation to the op-erator.

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A Revere woman has been arrested and ar-raigned for trafficking multiple victims for sex through Crystal’s Day Spa in Revere, which she was allegedly operating as a front for human traf-ficking, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today.

Geralda De Matos Gar-land, age 57, of Revere, was arrested on Friday without incident in Re-vere by Massachusetts State Police assigned to the AG’s Office, the Re-vere Police Department, and Department of Home-land Security Investiga-tions (HSI). Garland was

charged with Trafficking of Persons for Sexual Ser-vitude, Deriving Support from Prostitution, Money Laundering and Conspir-acy.

At her arraignment in Chelsea District Court on Monday, Garland pleaded not guilty to the charges and bail was set at $50,000 cash with the conditions of release that she be mon-itored by GPS, surrender her passport, stay away from and have no contact with victims, and be pro-hibited from leaving the state. A probable cause hearing is scheduled for May 11 in Chelsea District Court.

These charges are the result of an investigation

by Massachusetts State Police assigned to the AG’s Office, with assis-tance from the Revere Police Department, the Division of Professional Licensure, and the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.

During the course of the investigation, author-ities developed evidence indicating that Garland allegedly ran a profitable and organized criminal enterprise through Crys-tal’s Day Spa, which she owned and set up as a front for human trafficking.

The AG’s Office alleges that Garland knowingly facilitated commercial sexual activity by recruit-ing victims and offering

sexual activity between victims and buyers in exchange for a fee. The AG’s Office alleges that Garland also posted online advertisements offering commercial sex, arranged commercial sex appoint-ments with sex buyers, collected money from sex buyers, and profited from this commercial sexual ac-tivity.

AG Healey’s Victim Services Division is work-ing with victim service or-ganizations to ensure vic-tims have the assistance and services they need.

The investigation re-mains ongoing. These charges are allegations, and all defendants are presumed innocent until

proven guilty.AG Healey has a dedi-

cated Human Trafficking Division that focuses on policy, prevention and prosecution and includes a team of specialized pros-ecutors, victim advocates and Massachusetts State Police troopers who han-dle high impact, multi-ju-risdictional human traf-ficking investigations and prosecutions across the state. Through the Human Trafficking Division, the AG’s Office has charged more than 60 individuals in connection with human trafficking since the law was passed.

This case is being pros-ecuted by Assistant Attor-ney General Nancy Roth-

stein of the AG’s Human Trafficking Division, with assistance from Deputy Chief of the AG’s Victim Services Division Re-becca Quigley, Financial Investigators Jill Petruzz-iello and Patrick Cooney, and the AG’s Digital Ev-idence Lab. The investi-gation was handled by the Massachusetts State Po-lice assigned to the AG’s Office, with assistance from the Revere Police Department, the Division of Professional Licen-sure, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, and Department of Home-land Security Investiga-tions (HSI).

Revere woman arrested, arraigned for trafficking multiple victims for sex at ‘day spa’ in Revere

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STUDENTS GO BACK TO SCHOOL

CHELSEA - Little Rebecca Guerra Ulloa pressed her face to the school bus as it round-ed the corner and pulled into the parking lot of the Mary C. Burke Complex last week just around 8:30 a.m.

Anxious teachers – many of whom had not been back to their class-rooms for more than a year since school shutdown for COVID-19 in 2020 – waited for their students coming off the bus.

Ulloa had never actual-ly been to a Chelsea school – having transferred in last year after COVID closed the schools. Though she had about a year of Chel-sea schooling under her belt, she had never been in a Chelsea school.

She had never met her teacher, either, except on Zoom.

And so as the bus stopped, the first grader recognized her teacher and when the doors opened, she sprinted as fast as she could to give her teacher a fist bump and revel in the excitement of really meeting and really going to school.

Monday signified the first day that students in special education class-es or sub-separate class-rooms, who amounted to the first students to return to the schools since last year, came back to school.

They will be going five days a week, with all the protocols and testing pro-cedures in place.

Barring any major set-backs, on April 12, in-per-son learning will expand to Grades 1-4 at the ELC, Berkowitz, Hooks, Kelly and Sokolowski Schools – plus the grades 5-6 Camin-os a the Kelly. It amount to the rollout of a re-opening plan that no one thought would ever happen this year, even as recently as late January.

Last week, the School Committee approved a Memorandum of Under-standing (MOU) signed by the Teacher’s Union and the Superintendent.

Supt. Almi Abeyta was at the Berkowitz School Monday morning, and welcomed back students and teachers coming in for their first day.

“Welcome back to in-person teaching to many of our educators,” she wrote in a letter later in the day. “It has been

just over a year since we have delivered instruction in-person to our students in the Chelsea Public Schools. It was so nice to see so many teachers and students face-to-face this morning. We saw many smiles underneath the masks, toe bumps, and beautiful teacher-student first moments in-person.”

GOVERNOR TOURS VACCINATION SITE

CHELSEA - Gov. Char-lie Baker was the most recent elected official to tour the La Colaborativa/East Boston Neighbor-hood Health Center (EB-NHC) vaccination site recently, where he held his COVID press briefing and announced a mobile vaccination program for Chelsea.

Gov. Baker toured the 6th Street Food Pantry with Health Secretary Ma-rylou Sudders and other elected officials before coming to the vaccination site on Broadway to see the operations and give the weekly press briefing.

There, he announced that due to the partnership with the federal FEMA program at the Hynes Convention Center mass vaccination site – an-nounced last week – they would be able to stand up mobile units that would come to Chelsea, Revere, Boston, Fall River and New Bedford.

“Our collaboration with the feds gives us the chance to create a hub and spoke model which means a portion of the vaccine we get from that central hub can be distributed to mobile vaccination units in nearby communities and pop-up clinics with a focus on vaccine equity,” he said. “Starting next week we’ll be working with local communities to launch mobile vaccination clinics in Chelsea, Revere, Boston, Fall River and New Bedford…These cit-ies were selected based on the CDC’s special mobili-ty index and their proxim-ity to the Hynes. The ef-fort will ramp up but we’ll be able to do 500 vaccines per day in these communi-ties.”

As part of that program, which began this week in Chelsea, the mobile units would pick up the vac-cine at the Hynes and then come to Chelsea and set up in a park or parking lot for easy access.

That program is ex-

pected to last about eight weeks.

Sec. Sudders announced that Chelsea would get $150,000 as part of the BEST Value grant pro-gram that is awarding $4.7 million statewide. That money will be used however Chelsea deems it necessary, though it must be used for programming that would further the vac-cination efforts.

Meanwhile, she also announced that the 20 COVID equity communi-ties – including Chelsea – will see more than 200 grass-roots organizers hit-ting the streets to spread awareness and informa-tion about vaccination.

“Starting next week more than 200 bi-lingual, locally-hired community organizers will hold 83 outreach events in all 20 of out equity communities,” said Sudders. “There will be door-to-door outreach and business walks. It’s like a political campaign that’s vaccine canvass-ing. We’ll also support phone banking efforts to help with vaccine registra-tions.”

EBNHC CEO Manny Lopes indicated that the Chelsea vaccination site would now be able to open seven days a week, and some of the sites operated by EBNHC would also be open 12 hours a day – all furthering the mission of helping people on their vaccine journey.

“Today I’m happy to announce we will expand our efforts at this Chel-sea location and at all our locations,” he said. “We will begin operating seven days a week and at some locations 12 hours a day. Although we’re acting as fast as we can, I’d like to take this opportunity to preach patience. Every-one has their own vaccine journey. For some, it will take time and especial-ly in communities like Chelsea where distrust is widespread. Vaccinations in Chelsea isn’t just about ‘yes’ and ‘no,’ it’s about facts, feelings, frustra-tion, family, finances and of course, about fair. Ad-dressing these barriers is what we have in front of us.”

La Colaborativa Di-rector Gladys Vega used the opportunity to call for young people in Chelsea and the Latino community to get vaccinated and pro-tect loved ones.

“I ask those between the

ages of 20 and 35 to please make a decision on vacci-nating,” she said. “We’ve been doing door knocking and that’s been our biggest challenge – convincing in-dividuals that are 35 and under. They don’t believe in the vaccination, but they believe in parties and hav-ing gatherings. I urge you to make that choice and if you’re not able to make that choice, make it for the family member – the grandmother that wants to give you a hug. Do it for the sake of others. This is not a joke. You’ve seen the numbers. You’ve seen how many families have lost loved ones…Don’t be afraid of the vaccination; be afraid of COVID-19 that has taken so many lives away from us.”

•CHELSEA GETTING SHORTED BY THE FEDS

Gov. Baker and others also touched on the news over the last three weeks with Chelsea getting much less than expected in the federal Rescue Plan last month – much less than more affluent communi-ties, in fact.

He thanked Sen. Sal DiDomenico for his advo-cacy on the matter, and re-iterated they had directed

$100 million to Chelsea and three other communi-ties to try to make up for the shortfall that got past the federal delegation.

“Just this month we worked with local leaders to make sure Chelsea got the funds it deserved from the federal relief pack-age,” said the governor. “As many know, the fed-eral bill passed had restric-tions that severely limited dollars that would have gone to some communi-ties hardest hit by COVID, including Chelsea and Ev-erett – both of which are in Sen. Sal DiDomenico’s district.

“So it probably shouldn’t come as a sur-prise that the first person I heard from at the state level after having conver-sations with folks at the federal level was Sen. Di-Domenico,” he continued. “We very much appreciate the relationship and also the head’s up on that is-sue.”

Vega said the gover-nor visiting was a dream come true, and thanked him for his quick action on the federal shorting of the City.

“It’s a dream come true to have the gover-nor here; it’s incredible we have his whole team here,” she said. “It’s also incredible he responded to the call for funding. For me I was extreme-ly appalled we didn’t get much funding two weeks ago and when we called the governor’s office and organized – he responded to our call…People kept saying we wouldn’t hear from the governor’s office for about a month, but you responded in days…It’s an incredible day for Chel-sea. It’s hopeful because we now have resources to work with.”

TAKING A STAND AGAINST HATE CRIMES

EVERETT - When long-time Everett High Principal Erik Naumann walked to the podium at Wehner Park with his elderly mother – the pop-ular and light-hearted ed-ucator was nearly moved to tears and the hate crimes inflicted on Asian Americans all over the country in the last month were clearly weighing on him.

He held his mother,

Iko’s, hand tightly, and said for the first time in his like – he is worried about what might happen to her.

“I’m proud to say I’m from Everett and lived in Everett most of my life – 37 years as a stu-dent, educator and ad-ministrator in the Everett Public Schools,” he said. “I never thought I would have to worry about my mother walking down the street. This is my mother; her name is Iko and she’s from Okinawa. Am I concerned? Yes, a lot. My mother is my hero. She’s a human, a person and a mom. Get to know your neighbors and the people around you…Even if it’s not easy, we need to stand for all mar-ginalized populations and step up against hate.”

MANY FAVOR TRANSPORTATION PLANS

EVERETT - A new sur-vey unveiled this week by the Reimagine Broadway effort shows that a ma-jority of those surveyed – those that use the bus and those that don’t – approve of the idea of having a one-seat ride from Glen-dale Square to downtown Boston.

In that survey, 442 peo-ple in Everett were sur-veyed online and on the street, and 277 used the bus primarily and 165 did not. However, 341 of them wanted to see the bus con-tinue from Everett Square to downtown Boston in a dedicated lane. Anoth-er 312 wanted to see the dedicated bus lane con-tinue from Everett Square to Glendale Square. New dedicated bus lanes on Sweetser Circle and during the afternoon hours northbound on Broadway were key provisions in the Reimagine Broadway ini-tiative launched early last fall.

The survey paves the way for the potential of a new extension of the Sil-ver Line using dedicated bus lanes in Everett to take residents on a quick trip into jobs and ameni-ties and unlocking the po-tential for more housing development along the Broadway corridor.

“Getting people from

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U.S. CONGRESSWOMAN PRESSLEY PITCHES IN AT THE EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN 

Above, Soup Kitchen vol-unteers were busy bagging meals for distribution last Tuesday during U.S. Con-gresswoman Ayanna Press-ley’s visit.Shown Right, U.S. Congress-woman Ayanna Pressley volunteered at the East Boston Community Soup Kitchen. Pressley was on hand to see how the newly adopted Ameri-can Rescue Plan is helping on a local level. 

By John Lynds

Everybody can agree the Class of 2020 across the United States got a raw deal.

For hundreds of Revere High School (RHS) seniors, the last year of high school is a right of passage and one that is remembered for a lifetime. The final year of high school is usually filled

with a tremendous amount of excitement and accom-plishment.

However, the Class of 2020 has been living in a strange time since the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered schools back in March.

The usual traditions of senior prom, senior day and, above all, graduation exercises were all can-

celled.However, Revere Public

School Superintendent Dr. Dianne Kelly informed the school committee recently that Revere High is con-tinuing to honor the wishes of the Class of 2020 and al-low them to take the lead on how graduation will be af-ter the June celebration was

Zoning Board of Appeals approves two projectsBy Journal Staff

The Revere Zoning Board of Appeals voted to approve a change to one project on Shirley Avenue and voted again to allow a 36-unit apartment building to be constructed on Wash-ington Ave. at its meet-ing last Wednesday after-noon.

The project at 191 Shir-ley Ave. initially had been approved by the board as a

four-story building in late 2019, but the developer, Craig Halajian of Cam-bridge, came before the board seeking to add a fifth floor that would have eight additional single-bedroom units.

Atty. Cory Rhoades, who represented the developer, told the board that because of the pandemic, financing would be easier if the de-veloper could increase the number of rental units. He

noted that even with the fifth floor, the building still would remain within the height restrictions of the area. Rhoades added that the additional floor would blend in nicely with the new buildings in the neigh-borhood that the board had approved at their June meeting.

Although parking is-sues concerned the com-

350 MASS ACTION ENDORSES GRAVELLESE FOR STATE REP 

350 Mass Action’s State Political Team, represent-ing 350 Mass Action chap-ters from across the state, has unanimously endorsed Joseph Gravellese for State Representative for the Suf-folk 16th district, including parts of Revere, Saugus, and Chelsea.

350 Mass Action is a statewide network of vol-unteers dedicated to ad-dressing climate and en-vironmental challenges, by moving toward a just, healthy, and sustainable en-ergy future.

“While some state-lev-el progress has been made around climate protection and environmental justice issues, there is much more to do,” said 350 Mass Ac-tion Political Manager, Ca-bell Eames. “The health and prosperity of our cities and towns requires that Mas-sachusetts prioritize these issues. We are happy to endorse Joe Gravellese be-cause we expect him to be a climate champion in future Legislatures.”

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Special to the Journal

The Humanitarian Aid group under the Turkish Cultural Center (TCC) held a meat drive on Mon-day, August 3rd for Eid al

Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) (EAA) at the Turkish Cul-tural Center on Revere Street.

According to Islam, the Feast of Sacrifice com-memorates Prophet Abra-

ham’s obedience to God as he was tested to sacrifice his beloved son. Mahmut Bekin of the Humanitari-an Aid Group at the TCC

Mayor Brian Arrigo (center) stands with members and officials from the Turkish Cultural Center behind care packages filled with meats, supplied by the Turkish Cultural Center and fresh produce, provided by the City, set to be delivered to families in need in the city as part of the TCC’s Food Drive for Eid al Adha (Feast of Sacrifice).

Turkish Cultural Center hosts food drive

Council, School Committee select Jannino-Elam to Regional School Committee

By John Lynds

An East Boston teen has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of Yaseen Butt, 20, of Revere outside Twist and Shake ice cream shop on Revere Beach Blvd.

State Police and the Suf-folk County District Attor-ney’s Office said Felix Mar-tinez, 19, of East Boston had been charged in Butt’s death. Martinez was taken into custody last Thursday, four days after the fatal shooting.

The incident occurred just after 10 p.m. on Sun-

day, July 26 when Troopers from the State Police-Re-vere Barracks and Re-vere Police responded to a shooting.

Troopers and Officers were on scene within min-utes and located a 20-year-old male, later identified as Butt, suffering from a gun-shot wound. The victim was conscious upon Troopers’ arrival and was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was lat-er pronounced deceased.

Preliminary investiga-tion suggests the shooting

Eastie teen charged in connection to fatal Revere Beach Boulevard shooting

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By Cary Shuman

Melissa Jannino Elam will succeed her father, the late Ronald Jannino, as Re-vere’s representative on the Northeast Regional Voca-tional School Committee.

Mr. Jannino served with distinction for 35 years on the Committee before his passing on June 20, 2020. He was usually one of the top vote-getters in the Northeast school district, a tribute to his popularity and his dedication to his job.

Under the Northeast Re-gional Vocational School Committee’s rules on suc-cession, the local boards se-lect the new representative to the Committee. The Re-vere School Committee and City Council held a joint meeting July 27 and unani-mously selected Elam to the position.

“I just want to thank you all – Mayor Arrigo, the City Council, the School Com-mittee – for giving me this opportunity today,” Elam said following the vote. “I really appreciate being

able to complete the term that my father left sadly and suddenly vacant. I have cherished watching him for the last 35 years shape and advance the technical ed-ucation in the city. And I hope that in the next three months that I can do half as much as he has for the City of Revere and Northeast Voke and I appreciate it.”

Elam, 45, said she has watched her father serve on the Committee “practically my whole life. – and I’m very proud of his record.”

Revere has the second highest number of stu-dents enrolled at Northeast among the 12 communities in the district. Mr. Jannino paved the way for many Revere students to attend the school. Graduates have gone on to enjoy successful careers in various trades or to attend college.

Elam works for a food service distributor. “I work with a lot of chefs, so I work with people who come from vocational education back-

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By Laura Plummer

The Winthrop Town Council met remotely on Aug. 4 for its regularly scheduled weekly meeting. In case you missed it, here are the highlights.

COVID-19Dept. of Public Health

(DPH) Director Meredith Hurley provided an update on COVID-19 cases in Winthrop. Since the start of the pandemic, Win-throp has seen 306 positive COVID-19 cases, with 269 in recovery, 13 in isolation and 24 deceased. Hurley

said rates were slowing since the spike in July, and the town’s percent posi-tive rate was the lowest it has been since the end of May. The town’s current 3.41 percent positive rate is more evenly spread among individuals of all ages. DPH is currently prioritizing the safe reopening of schools.

In terms of reopening Town Hall and other town departments, Town Man-ager Austin Faison said he is working to see how this could be done safely.

“The priority is the pub-lic health issue,” he said.

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The Winthrop Art Asso-ciation (WAA) is pleased to announce the ‘Museum Without Walls’ Street Art Exhibit at French Square in Winthrop Center. The Art will be presented later this month on the parking spac-es created with the removal of French Square and will be a temporary enhance-ment of the total area.

Frank Costantino, WAA Artist Member and local resident proposed the idea to town officials and asked for the support of WAA. The ‘Museum Without Walls’ Exhibit’ will serve as a prototype for a larger ini-tiative to paint other spaces and walls in Town, with the adaptation of Master Art-works from any period or source chosen by our mem-ber artists. The goal of this art initiative is to attract vis-itors and involve the artist community as we develop Winthrop as a strong visible presence for residents and visitors.

The anticipated Paint Day will be on Sunday in August 16 (August 23 rain date) from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. to minimize disruption for businesses and area res-idents. The painters may take as long as needed to complete the work, but should finish their work no later than Sunday evening. Space distancing and face masks will be required. Se-lections will be made for the first round of the ‘Muse-um Without Walls’ Exhibit with space assigned on a first selected basis. A sec-ond round of painting will be required to complete the

Enjoying the great pizza at the Prince House of Pizza and the comedy at Giggles under the tent, Jim Nestor, Lynda DiMuro, Mary Jane Abery, Tina Baptista, Nancy Williams-Anderson, Alice Anderson and Gabe Baptista during last Wednesday’s annual fundraiser for the Win-throp-based “Those Who Can for Those in Need.” See more photos on Page 14.

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By Kate Anslinger

Resident and local busi-ness owner, Danielle Logan has had no shortage of chal-lenges in her life. Shortly after she married the love of her life, Steve Logan, an emergency surgery due to Necrotizing Pancreatitis, brought Steve to the Inten-sive Care Unit, followed by a six month stay in the hos-pital. As Danielle watched Steve take a near-fatal turn, she stood by his side nurs-ing him back to health. He currently has 20% of his pancreas intact and contin-ues to endure severe health complications.

On July 2, just two weeks before her 37th birth-day, Danielle’s role of care-taker quickly switched to patient, when she received

the news that she has stage 3 breast cancer. When she started getting debilitating night sweats, she knew that something was awry in her

body. She decided to stop taking her birth control with the hopes that the sweats would end, but within three weeks she found three lumps in her right breast and was told to come in for a scan immediately.

“I knew something wasn’t right when the ul-trasound technician asked if I wanted to schedule an appointment to see the sur-geon before I even had my biopsy results.”

Taking the technician’s advice, she scheduled an appointment with a surgeon before she had the results, then waited three days be-fore receiving the call that she had three different forms of cancer in her right breast, one of which is in

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By Kate Anslinger

On Monday evening, the school committee made a unanimous decision to implement a hybrid mod-el for learning in the fall. The hybrid model, which consists of both in-person and remote learning meets and exceeds the guidance for mask-wearing, prop-er social distancing, hand washing, and cleaning and sanitization schedules.

While districts through-out the Commonwealth are considering different approaches to the hybrid model, Winthrop’s return to school task force has chosen option two, which will allow for two in-person days of learning, and three remote days for students in

grades Pre-K through 12. Students will be broken up into cohorts, either blue or gold, and they will attend in-person lessons on ei-ther Monday and Tuesdays of every week or Thurs-days and Fridays of every week. Wednesdays will be reserved for cleaning the school buildings while all students work remotely. Siblings will be prioritized and placed in the same co-horts when possible, to ease the burden on parents, and students with high needs will have the opportunity to attend in-classroom learn-ing four days a week.

“There are pros and cons to each of the options and option two best fits the

School Committee adopts hybrid learning model for fall 2020

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Council hears updates onCOVID, library, school reopening

By Maxim Tamarov

It was Tuesday afternoon and two P. Gioioso & Sons construction vehicles were circling around Harold E. French Square, working on a segment of the Center Business District (CBD) construction project.

The CBD project, which aims to replace decaying in-frastructure and upgrade the water main, sewer, drain, roadway, sidewalk, and streetscapes of the business district, is about a quarter of the way done. Slated for completion in late 2021, it

has been a necessary nui-sance for the adjacent shops and restaurants.

“It definitely affects our business,” Shahid Mah-mud, owner of Square Mar-ket, said of the work being done outside his store. Be-tween morning and 3 p.m., he said, “Nobody can get in here.”

Winthrop Chamber of Commerce Executive Di-rector Betsy Shane said that the businesses that she’d spoken with, told her the construction company, P. Gioioso & Sons, Inc., was easy to work with and un-

CBD project a necessary nuisance to nearby businesses

derstanding of their needs. Other businesses in the

area have not felt the effects of the CBD project because they already had seen a decrease in their business volume because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Such is the case with Roger Oliveira, owner of Winthrop Cafe. Covid-19 hit his business hard, he said, so he was grateful for the CBD work happening when his business was al-ready slow. Oliveira added that the CBD project would benefit his business direct-ly. The cafe’s basement, he said, regularly flooded and he hoped the construction would put an end to that.

Oliveira also said that he hoped the end of construc-tion would coincide with the pandemic running its course.

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By John Lynds

Last year, City Coun-cilor Lydia Edwards was a champion of the recre-ational marijuana shop in Maverick Square because it satisfied the city’s cannabis equity ordinance.

However, because the Zoning Board of Appeals approved an adult use fa-cility on Meridian Street that is now up and running, East Boston Bloom needed a variance from the zoning board because it was less than a half mile from Berk-shire Roots on Meridian.

While there are no state regulations of how close adult use facilities can be to one another the City of Boston adopted zoning that created a half mile buffer and prohibits two facilities from being within that half mile.

Many, including Ed-wards, went to bat for East Boston Bloom and support-ed the proposal because it met criteria for adult-use facilities in the neighbor-hood as well as being ful-ly owned and operated by

Eastie residents that were majority Latino.

While East Boston Bloom eventually got its variance from the ZBA it was a headache for all in-volved and the owners still are awaiting final approval from the state.

The issue with the two cannabis shops in Eastie shed light on some of the holes in the city ordinance like the half mile buffer rule as well as the host commu-nity agreement process.

Last week Edwards and Councilor Kim Janey filed amendments to Boston’s cannabis equity ordinance in an effort to bring trans-parency to the munici-pal approval process for marijuana businesses by changing the process for executing host community agreements. The Boston Cannabis Board adopted its final rules and regula-tions on July 22. Under those rules and regulations, the host community agree-ments are negotiated after approval by the BCB and

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The East Boston Neigh-borhood Health Center’s (EBNHC) Let’s Get Mo-vin East Boston Farmers Market has been safely in full swing for over a month now and according to EB-NHC’s Program Coordina-tor of Community Initia-tives Nancy Slamet there have been some exciting new additions.

While the East Boston Times previously reported that the Veronica Robles Cultural Center’s Danc-ing Elotes experience has returned to the weekly Farmers Market in Central Square for another season, Slamet said EBNHC wel-

comed a new vendor last week.

Slamet said Sherman & Cherie’s Beezy Bees will be on hand one or two Wednesdays a month offer-ing honey, creams and lip balms.

“Other great news is that Wicked Fresh Market Dollars from the City of Boston will be available to customers who come to our market over the next sev-eral weeks,” said Slamet. “These dollars can be used to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables, and non –produce vendors will of-fer deals where customers can receive market dollars when they buy their prod-ucts.”

Another exciting addi-tion that will kick off this month is online delivery from the Farmers Market.

Using the WhatsGood app or website customers can order and pay for their produce and have it deliv-ered straight to their homes. Customers can also use the app to place an order at the market and pick it up at the market’s pre-order pick-up Tent on Border Street across from the Marshalls in Liberty Plaza. Slamet said payment with SNAP/EBT will also be an option.

Slamet said the City of Boston Census Bureau staff will also be at the week-

Mail-in ballots for upcoming elections areon their way

By John Lynds

Despite President Don-ald Trump voting by mail during elections in 2017, 2018 and 2020, POTUS has spent the past week threat-ening to sue states that will allow mail-in voting for this upcoming Presidential Election--falsely claiming it will lead to widespread election fraud.

While Trump has even suggested the November election should be post-poned, Boston is going for-ward with sending residents ‘vote by mail’ applications.

At a press conference last week, Mayor Martin Walsh said that registered voters in East Boston and the rest of the city should expect to get a mail-in ballot applica-tion in the mail this week, if they haven’t received one already.

“This year, everyone can vote by a mail-in ballot,” said Walsh. “In the past, Massachusetts residents had to show that they had a disability, that their reli-

Mosquito spraying Monday in Eastie

By John Lynds

With the COVID-19 pandemic keeping most people at home, backyards have been sanctuaries for residents trying to enjoy the outdoors while still remain-ing socially distanced.

However, there’s been a nuisance all summer that has kept East Boston res-idents from venturing out and enjoying their yards.

Residents living near the beach and marshy areas in Orient Heights have com-plained that mosquitoes are worse than ever this season.

Many residents com-plained that all hours of the day--morning, noon and night--mosquitoes were abundant and inflicting itchy bites on those trying to do yard work or enjoy a cookout with family mem-bers.

“I can’t even enjoy my yard,” said Orient Heights

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By John Lynds

Dr. Jim Pedulla, Med-ical Director, Neighbor-hood PACE of East Bos-ton Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC), said this week although the inci-dents of coronavirus has lessened since April and May in Massachusetts, it is still very present in the state, with hundreds of new cases every day.

“It is thus very import-ant that we continue to take every precaution to protect ourselves and others from the spread of this very con-tagious virus,” said Pedulla.

Dr. Pedulla said this is

especially important for older adults, especially those older than 65, who are at a much higher risk for becoming very sick or dying from infection. Oth-er persons at high risk in-clude--but are not excluded to--people with multiple chronic conditions such as cancer, chronic kidney disease, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary dis-ease), transplant recipients, obesity, heart disease, or diabetes.

In response to keeping the high risk population safe, EBNHC has launched

EBNHC launches campaign for high risk COVID-19 patients

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By John Lynds

Last week over 100 Bos-ton Teachers Union (BTU) members, including nurses and educators, joined a sit-in protest at City Hall Pla-za rejecting Superintendent Dr. Brenda Cassellius’s draft reopening plan she re-cently submitted to the Bos-ton School Committee.

The BTU members were calling on Cassellius, Mayor Martin Walsh and city leaders to safely and equitably reopen schools for in-person instruction with verifiable assurance that proper COVID-19 safeguards and facilities upgrades are in place. The nurses are also demanding “a seat at the table” to give meaningful feedback and input into reopening plans

and decisions. “No students or staff

should be asked to risk their lives or their loved ones by going back in person - not even under a hybrid plan - until all possible health and safety precautions are addressed and verified,” said BTU President Jessica Tang. “The District should work with educators, es-pecially our school nurses, to plan and prepare for a reopening that is safe, eq-uitable and healthy for ev-eryone.”

According to the BTU the draft reopening plans provided by BPS does not meet the standards neces-sary to ensure the safety of Boston school facilities, adequate staffing and sup-plies, and comprehensive guidance for families and

school personnel regard-ing COVID-19. Reopening plans must be guided by health and safety consid-erations and led by health care experts.

“Overall, the district must be transparent in all aspects of assessing and planning for safety in the schools,” said Jonathan Haines, BTU member and nurse. “How can fam-ilies decide whether or not to send their children to school, if they don’t even know how it’s being cleaned?”

More than 100 Boston Teachers Union nurses are responsible for the health and safety of all 55,000 BPS students. These health care professionals were left out of the reopening plan’s

School nurses reject reopening plan

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Wynn Resorts believes Encore has more demand than allowed

By Seth Daniel

With Encore Boston Har-bor closed for all of the sec-ond quarter this year, it was to be expected that the earn-ings report call on Tuesday afternoon would be grim, but CEO Matt Maddox did have one high-point about Encore – saying there was more demand in Boston than they were able to yet provide due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Encore closed down just before the end of the first quarter in March, and then remained closed through the second quarter – so there were literally no earnings and the resort lost $53.8 million during the quarter. That didn’t include the expenditures through the quarter to pay employ-ees their regular wages and benefits, which amount-ed to $19.3 million over quarter. That amount was a commitment made by Mad-dox at the closure of the re-sort, and continued through mid-June.

That said, since opening on July 12 – which is in the third quarter – he said there is more demand than the state will allow them to provide due to tough COVID-19 restrictions.

“Total volumes are off and probably dispropor-tionately in Massachusetts compared to some jurisdic-tions because of the very tough restrictions in place,” said Maddox. “As an ex-ample, Craps and Roulette are still not open…and the number of positions at the gaming tables are restrict-ed. We are working with the Gaming Commission on that. I do think there is more demand and demand for future growth in the market and it is limited by our continued restrictions the market.”

Craig Billings, Wynn CFO, said he believes they can break even at Encore in the coming third quarter, especially given their re-ductions in costs and staff-ing.

“We can obviously break even in this environment,” he said. “As the volume comes back, we believe we’ll have a positive (earn-ings), especially with re-ducing costs. A good chunk of what we’ve done (with costs) is more permanent in nature and we won’t open up anything unless it’s rev-enue generating.”

The report indicated that since opening on July 12, slot handles are up com-pared to the 4th quarter in

CHELSEA IN BLACK AND WHITE

By Seth Daniel

State leaders have moved to provide some positive certainty this week in one of the most uncertain City and School Budget years on record – hopeful-ly staving off potential job cuts and preserving school positions that have been feared during the first two months of the fiscal year.

In a joint announcement from the State Senate, the State House of Represen-

tatives and Gov. Charlie Baker’s Office, the State Government offered up the first indication of where numbers might be for Lo-cal Aid and School Fund-ing (known as Chapter 70). The numbers are very pos-itive considering what was expected, with all cities and school districts assured level funding and a pot of money available to ad-dress inflationary costs so that level funding does not mean a cut in the budget.

In Chelsea, this means that Local Aid will be level funded at $8.721 million, and there is also a pot of money to accommodate inflationary increases. In Chelsea, the Council passed a budget expecting up to a 30 percent cut in Local Aid – prompting spending from Rainy Day Funds and reductions in services over the first two months of the fiscal year (beginning on

By Seth Daniel

Cindy Weisbart didn’t know much at all about Chelsea prior to COVID-19, but like many with a cam-era, she was drawn to the city as it struggled mighti-ly with COVID-19 and job loss and hunger.

Yet, Weisbart wasn’t just looking to document the human condition, she was looking to participate

and find a slice of human-ity. There were more than a few slices she found in the end.

“When Governor Bak-er’s COVID closure orders were extended this spring, I began to think about what the new economy was go-ing to look like - how and which small businesses would be able to sprout up from the disruption of the old way of doing things,”

she said. “My parents were small business owners who were not able to adapt their business model to the new world of ‘the malls’ in the 1980s. Now I began to in-vestigate how communities were supporting each other in this time of unprecedent-ed uncertainty and little government investment in 2020.”

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By Seth Daniel

A virtual debate has been agreed to by all four can-didates in the two Chelsea state representative races, with GreenRoots conduct-ing the debate with a host of collaborators on Aug. 13 at 6 p.m. online.

The forum will featured State Rep. Dan Ryan and Candidate (and City Coun-cillor) Damali Vidot for the district representing Charlestown and Chelsea. It will also feature State Rep. Candidate Joe Gravellese and State Rep. Candidate (and Revere city councillor) Jessica Giannino for the district representing Prat-tville, Revere and part of Saugus.

“While this election season feels very different given the COVID-19 pre-cautions, we feel it is an important opportunity to discuss issues of concern facing Chelsea with the candidates who are running for the two State Repre-sentative seats in Chelsea,” said GreenRoots Director Roseann Bongiovanni. “All of the candidates have com-mitted to participate and we have a number of co-spon-sors. I believe the forum will be informative and en-gaging and will touch upon real issues impacting Chel-

sea residents’ lives.”Some of the co-sponsors

include the Chelsea Record, TND, Chelsea Collabora-tive and others.

Giannino said she is looking forward to partic-ipating in the GreenRoots forum.

“I’m very much look-ing forward to next week’s GreenRoots forum,” said Giannino. “Representing my community on envi-ronmental injustices is one of the reasons I became in-volved in politics in the first place. From introducing the motion to ban single-use plastic bags in Revere to being a founding member of the Alliance for Health and Environment to being extremely vocal about the lack of accountability from the region’s biggest pol-luter, Wheelabrator -- my constituents know that I am headstrong and will contin-ue to work diligently to im-prove their overall quality of life.”

Candidate Gravellese said he was thankful he could bring his message di-rectly to the voters of Chel-sea.

“I’m looking forward to the opportunity to partici-pate,” he said. “I’m thank-ful GreenRoots is working

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Walk-in Graduation today and tomorrow

Though no one is technically invited, Chelsea High Class of 2020 members who have registered with the schools will hold their in-person walking graduation on Thursday and Friday, Aug. 6 and 7.

Members of the Class of 2020 had their regular graduation in June cancelled due to COVID-19 re-strictions, but were able to have a Virtual Graduation in July. However, students fought for the right to have a walk-in graduation if the data allowed it. After some study, it was deemed safe to be able to have a walk-in graduation in August.

Students registered for appointments, and were able to bring six family members to share in the fun. They get to walk across the stage, get their diploma and then have a family photo taken.

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By Seth Daniel

School configurations come in hundreds of dif-ferent ways this year, and Chelsea Public Schools (CPS) will be no differ-ent – proposing a preferred re-opening plan to the School Committee on July 30 that includes a five-day hybrid model with the op-tion of also going fully on-line.

Supt. Almi Abeyta has said there will be choices for parents to make, and ahead of Monday’s submis-sion to the state Department of Elementary and Second-ary Education (DESE), she laid out three required plans to the School Committee and explained a preferred option.

“This document serves as a preliminary plan for a safe

return to in-person learning via a hybrid model or con-tinued remote learning for all students in the Chelsea Public Schools,” she wrote. “As we created this plan, please know that safety is of the utmost importance for us in the Chelsea Public Schools; we are committed to ensuring our students and staff return safely to school in the fall of 2020. We are excited to welcome our stu-dents back to school and recognize that significant adjustments to our existing practices and protocols will need to be made to keep stu-dents and families safe and to ensure a positive learning experience for all.”

The preferred option will give parents a tough choice to make, whether to keep

Chelsea Schools present preferred plan for opening with online-only option

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Sunday morning at Ev-erett Stadium Chuck Leo was doing what he has done for the better part of five decades: instructing youths about the finer points of football.

Leo, Crimson Tide Pop Warner’s director of foot-ball, is leading instructional clinics on Sundays from 10 a.m. to noon at Everett Vet-erans Memorial Stadium.

Leo is beginning his 42nd consecutive year of affiliation with Everett Pop Warner football. It can be

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Chuck Leo was the first to arrive on the field to get things ready for the players. The first game is scheduled for Mid Septem-ber.

Staff Report

Just a few short weeks ago, signs of activity and excitement returned to the Everett High School cam-pus as the Crimson Tide Marching Band became the first district-approved organization to reassem-ble amidst the nationwide COVID-19 pandemic.

Although their under-takings are going on inside a well-protected “Band Bubble,” the word is out and the enthusiasm behind

this project is something the entire community can appreciate during such trying times. What began on July 1 as a multi-week online launch process, has now become a refreshing new reality for many of Everett’s students. Sever-al weeks into the process, the Staff boasts nothing but smooth sailing and encour-aging results. We reached out to Band Director Gene O’Brien and Assistant Band Director Mark Sachetta re-garding the details of this

remarkable new develop-ment, hoping they could share a bit more about the Kick-Off, the process of re-turning to a “new normal,” and the unparalleled chal-lenges they face in taking this risk in a time of great apprehension across the country.

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By Seth Daniel

Everett heroics don’t necessarily have to happen in Everett, and that’s just the story that unfolded in Lincoln, NH, last month when (Temp.) Fire Capt. Jim Collins and his high school classmate, Tracy Bolster, were in the same place at the same time and played key roles in saving the life of a Connecticut man who crashed his mo-torcycle and was trapped in

a life-threatening situation.“We did go to high school

together at Everett High,” said Collins. “I didn’t know it right there at the time, giv-en the situation, but when we were doing this, I think she mentioned it to me.”

Said Bolster, “I thought I recognized Jim and his wife, Jodi, when we start-ed working together to save the man. I asked them where they were from and they said Boston. I said, ‘How about Everett?’ They

looked at me really weird and I said that I think I went to high school with them. We laughed about it and it was so amazing. Growing up and living in Everett, I al-ways see people that I went to high school with. My kids make fun of me for it. It’s like this long-standing joke. When we were walk-ing away from the scene, I told my son, ‘Guess what?’ He said, ‘Oh, did you go to

When tragedy strikes…Everett people step in to help

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Mayor Carlo DeMaria (second from right) presented citations on Tuesday morning to three folks who helped save the life of a man who wrecked his motorcycle in New Hampshire. Tracy Bolster, Melodie Rivera and Temp. Fire Capt. Jim Collins were all coincidentally in the same place at the same time and played key roles in extricating and tending to the man last month. Ironically, Bolster and Collins went to high school together.

With Band Director Gene O’Brien’s hat in the forefront, the Everett High School Band drumline takes its place at rehearsal this week. The EHS Band is the first student activ-ity approved to return for the upcoming school year and it was done with the strictest standards in place and very careful thought that started in April. Directors O’Brien and Mark Sachetta said they are one of the few high school marching bands to be approved to return to playing. Attendance and interest has been at an all-time high after three weeks of rehearsals.

By Seth Daniel

With Encore Boston Har-bor closed for all of the sec-ond quarter this year, it was to be expected that the earn-ings report call on Tuesday afternoon would be grim, but CEO Matt Maddox did have one high-point about Encore – saying there was more demand in Boston than they were able to yet provide due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Encore closed down just before the end of the first quarter in March, and then remained closed through the second quarter – so there were literally no earnings and the resort lost $53.8 mil-lion during the quarter. That didn’t include the expendi-tures through the quarter to pay employees their regular wages and benefits, which amounted to $19.3 million over quarter. That amount was a commitment made by Maddox at the closure of the resort, and continued through mid-June.

That said, since opening on July 12 – which is in the third quarter – he said there is more demand than the state will allow them

to provide due to tough COVID-19 restrictions.

“Total volumes are off and probably disproportion-ately in Massachusetts com-pared to some jurisdictions because of the very tough restrictions in place,” said Maddox. “As an example, Craps and Roulette are still not open…and the number of positions at the gaming tables are restricted. We are working with the Gaming Commission on that. I do think there is more demand and demand for future growth in the market and it is limited by our continued restrictions the market.”

Craig Billings, Wynn CFO, said he believes they can break even at Encore in the coming third quarter, especially given their reduc-tions in costs and staffing.

“We can obviously break even in this environment,” he said. “As the volume comes back, we believe we’ll have a positive (earn-ings), especially with re-ducing costs. A good chunk of what we’ve done (with costs) is more permanent in nature and we won’t open

Wynn Resorts believes Encore has more demand than allowed

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Everett Police, Pressley differ on police in schools

By Seth Daniel

The City’s federal law-makers and Everett elected officials – including Police Chief Steven Mazzie – are citing tremendous differ-ences on a proposal to end funding for police officers in the schools, a program in op-eration since the 1990s and known as the School Re-source Officer (SROs).

Last week, Congress-woman Ayanna Pressley, joined by other colleagues in the House, and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren filed a bill to end funding for school-based police, and use the money for counselors, social workers, nurses and mental health professionals instead.

The bill was filed with comments about “demilita-rizing the schools,” some-thing the chief, and Mayor Carlo DeMaria took excep-tion to as they have had a long record of successful youth relationship building within that program and oth-er school-based police pro-grams.

“Every student should be able to learn in a setting free from fear,” said Con-gresswoman Pressley. “But for too many young peo-ple—particularly Black and brown students, immigrant students, students with dis-abilities, LGBTQ+ students and other historically mar-ginalized students—the very presence of police officers in schools increases the likeli-hood that they will be crim-inalized and put on a path to confinement for everyday childhood behavior. Instead of criminalizing our students and funding an ever growing police presence in our public schools, it’s time to finally invest in the critical staff like

Verizon Wireless sues City Council for denial of two 5G cell nodes

By Seth Daniel

After a long and conten-tious battle on cell phone towers, the Everett City Council is getting discon-nected.

Last week, Verizon Wire-less filed a two-count law-suit in Federal Court against the City Council for denying two cell notes on Woodlawn and Vaughan Streets at its June 8 meeting – a 10-0 vote in denial of the 5G nodes that Verizon contends vio-lates federal law.

Verizon is calling on the court to vacate the denial, and to institute an approval and permit for the compa-ny to install the two 5G cell nodes.

Cell towers, nodes and antennae are a constant topic of conversation at the City Council and have eat-

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$1.5 MILLION FOR NORTHERN STRAND COMMUNITY TRAIL

The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs has approved a $1.5 million grant regarding the development of the Northern Strand Community Trail led by a Revere on the Move part-ner organization, Bike to the Sea.

Revere has a one-mile stretch in North Revere. The Northern Strand Community Trail has been in development for over 20 years. The North Revere segment is a major part in the project that creates a continuous 7.5-mile rail trail running from West Everett, through Malden and Revere to the Saugus River and soon into Lynn. The North Revere segment allows users to en-joy spectacular views of the Rumney Marsh.

The funding, awarded through the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs’ (EEA) Gateway City Parks Program, enables the design of the trail, develop-ment of bid-ready construc-tion documents, and receipt of all necessary construction permits. When completed, the trail will span 10 miles and

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REVERE RECREATION HOSTS PAINT & SKATE NIGHT AT CRONIN RINK

Joseph Arrigo was all smiles at the Revere Recreation Paint & Skate Night on Feb. 10 at the Cronin Skating Rink in Revere. Please see more photos on Page 10.

By Sue Ellen Woodcock

For years the abutters of Route 1 have put up with the noise from millions of cars, and now some city councillors want to have Mayor Brian Ar-rigo contact the MassDOT to install barriers along Route 1 between Route 16 and Cope-land Circle.

Ward 5 Councillor Charles Patch, Ward 4 Councillor Patrick Keefe and Ward 1 Councillor Joanne McKen-na teamed up on a motion at last last week’s council meet-ing. Patch said he and the late

Councillor Robert Haas Jr. tried to get barriers installed in 2011 and received no re-sponse.

“We should get more re-spect from the state and fed-eral government,” Patch said..

Keefe noted that more af-fluent communities are often granted sound barriers.

Ward 2 Councillor Ira No-voselsky pointed out that Sau-gus got barriers along Route 1 installed along a new ball field.

“It’s a quality-of-life is-sue,” he said.

Barriers are easily seen

Have you ever had an idea for how you could make im-provements to the Revere community? So have the ap-plicants to the mini-grant pro-grams hosted by Revere on the Move and the Alcohol, To-bacco and Other Drugs Task Force; and this time, these ideas are going to become a reality.

Every year a group of Re-vere residents and institution-al leaders meet together to select the awardees of mini-grants offered to the public through the community-led organizations, Revere on the Move and the Alcohol, Tobac-co, and Other Drugs (ATOD)

Task Force. Both the ATOD Task Force and Revere on the Move are initiatives of the MGH Revere CARES Coa-lition. Revere on the Move is additionally co-led by the Healthy Community Initia-tives Office at the City of Re-vere.

This year over $20,000 was awarded to fund ideas to make Revere a healthier place to work, to play, and to raise a family. The Revere on the Move mini-grant program offered $10,605 in funding for permanent changes, pro-gram implementation, and youth-led projects that would help prevent or reduce obe-

sity in children and adults. The ATOD Task Force fund-ed projects totaling $9,500 to reduce youth substance use, improve their mental health, and increase opportunities for positive youth engagement.

In addition to the mini-grants already funded, Revere on the Move has extended their permanent change and program mini-grant appli-cations to Sunday, March 4. Up to $1,395 is available for ideas that make it easier to eat healthy and be active for all. The application is open

Revere's TNDreceives $50,000state grant for jobs

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Monday morning the Bak-er-Polito Administration awarded $500,000 to nine projects through the Urban Agenda Grant Program. The Revere arm of The Neigh-borhood Developers (TND) was one group given $50,000 in funding to help establish workforce development ser-vices in Revere to support lo-cal residents to acquire newly created jobs.

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito along with Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash came to Revere City Hall to present the check to the Neighborhood Developers.

“Our administration under-stands the importance of local leadership and its impact on the lives of residents,” said Lt. Governor Karyn Polito. “The Urban Agenda Grant Program relies on the strong partnerships between local government, non-profits and

the business community that are critical to fostering eco-nomic success and building stronger neighborhoods in ev-ery region in Massachusetts.”

Revere is rebuilding its economic and employment base by utilizing large-scale and high value assets includ-ing Suffolk Downs, Wonder-land, a soon-to-close NECCO plant, and the MassDevelop-ment TDI Waterfront District.

The program seeks to un-lock community-driven re-sponses to local obstacles, and promote economic devel-opment opportunities through partnership-building, problem solving, and shared account-ability in urban centers. The competitive awards offer flex-ible funding for local efforts that bring together commu-nity stakeholders to pursue economic development ini-tiatives. These awards will fund projects in Boston, Clin-

Real estate values continue to be strong in Revere

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Ann Houston of The Neighborhood Developers, State Rep. RoseLee Vincent, Bob O' Brien of Revere Economic Department, Mayor Brian Arrigo and Secretary of Housing and Ecomonic Development Jay Ash at the announcement of the Urban Agenda Grant Program on Monday morning in the Revere City Council Chambers.

By Sue Ellen Woodcock

The Revere real estate mar-ket in 2017 was definitely a good one with higher prices for homes than in 2016, but a drop in the number of new listings, making home-buying an adventure.

“These are the highest pric-es we’ve seen in the last eight years,” said Maureen Celata, owner/broker of MCelata Real Estate. “And 2018 is going to be another banner year. Inven-tory is low now, but everyone is looking to the spring.”

According to figures from the Massachusetts Associa-tion of Realtors, the median sales prices was $376,250, a 4.9 increase over prices in 2016.

Homes also were also on the market 41 days, a 26.8 percent increase over the 56

days on the market in 2016.The number of listings in

2017 also dropped to 265, 10.8 percent down from 297 in 2016. The good news for sellers is that the original list-ing price was matched 100 percent of the time.

The condominium mar-ket saw similar trends with the median sales price at $315,000, up 16.7 percent over 2016. Days on the mar-ket also dropped from 67 in 2016 to 47 days on the market

“Inventory is low now and everyone is looking toward the spring,” Celata said

The rental market is also strong with rents ranging from $1,200 to $3,000. Cleat noted that if someone is paying big rent they just might be capable of buying and taking advan-tage of first-time homebuyers programs.

“2017 was a fantastic year to be in real estate,” said Joe Mario of Century 21 Ma-rio Real Estate. “There’s a lot of confidence and equity in homes. For 35 years now it’s been positive. Now is the time to sell. Revere is getting the overflow from the Boston market and people are moving to Revere.

Mario said Revere is desir-able because of its proximity to Boston, and it’s a hidden gem with a beautiful beach.

Mario is looking forward to the spring market, drawing from Boston and surrounding communities. He added that the Revere School system is also a draw for buyers.

“It all adds to the future growth of Revere,” he said.

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Gorgeous detail throughout

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Marie Butera

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Theresa Conte

Dr. Adrian Costanza

Dorothy Cordaro

Gerardo Iannuzzi

Patricia Muse

Paul Penta, Jr.

Antonetta Salamone

Obituaries Pages 8 + 9

See NEWS BRIEFS, Page 2

$1.5 MILLION FOR NORTHERN STRAND COMMUNITY TRAIL

The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs has approved a $1.5 million grant regarding the development of the Northern Strand Community Trail led by a Revere on the Move part-ner organization, Bike to the Sea.

Revere has a one-mile stretch in North Revere. The Northern Strand Community Trail has been in development for over 20 years. The North Revere segment is a major part in the project that creates a continuous 7.5-mile rail trail running from West Everett, through Malden and Revere to the Saugus River and soon into Lynn. The North Revere segment allows users to en-joy spectacular views of the Rumney Marsh.

The funding, awarded through the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs’ (EEA) Gateway City Parks Program, enables the design of the trail, develop-ment of bid-ready construc-tion documents, and receipt of all necessary construction permits. When completed, the trail will span 10 miles and

See DeLEO Page 3

REVERE RECREATION HOSTS PAINT & SKATE NIGHT AT CRONIN RINK

Joseph Arrigo was all smiles at the Revere Recreation Paint & Skate Night on Feb. 10 at the Cronin Skating Rink in Revere. Please see more photos on Page 10.

By Sue Ellen Woodcock

For years the abutters of Route 1 have put up with the noise from millions of cars, and now some city councillors want to have Mayor Brian Ar-rigo contact the MassDOT to install barriers along Route 1 between Route 16 and Cope-land Circle.

Ward 5 Councillor Charles Patch, Ward 4 Councillor Patrick Keefe and Ward 1 Councillor Joanne McKen-na teamed up on a motion at last last week’s council meet-ing. Patch said he and the late

Councillor Robert Haas Jr. tried to get barriers installed in 2011 and received no re-sponse.

“We should get more re-spect from the state and fed-eral government,” Patch said..

Keefe noted that more af-fluent communities are often granted sound barriers.

Ward 2 Councillor Ira No-voselsky pointed out that Sau-gus got barriers along Route 1 installed along a new ball field.

“It’s a quality-of-life is-sue,” he said.

Barriers are easily seen

Have you ever had an idea for how you could make im-provements to the Revere community? So have the ap-plicants to the mini-grant pro-grams hosted by Revere on the Move and the Alcohol, To-bacco and Other Drugs Task Force; and this time, these ideas are going to become a reality.

Every year a group of Re-vere residents and institution-al leaders meet together to select the awardees of mini-grants offered to the public through the community-led organizations, Revere on the Move and the Alcohol, Tobac-co, and Other Drugs (ATOD)

Task Force. Both the ATOD Task Force and Revere on the Move are initiatives of the MGH Revere CARES Coa-lition. Revere on the Move is additionally co-led by the Healthy Community Initia-tives Office at the City of Re-vere.

This year over $20,000 was awarded to fund ideas to make Revere a healthier place to work, to play, and to raise a family. The Revere on the Move mini-grant program offered $10,605 in funding for permanent changes, pro-gram implementation, and youth-led projects that would help prevent or reduce obe-

sity in children and adults. The ATOD Task Force fund-ed projects totaling $9,500 to reduce youth substance use, improve their mental health, and increase opportunities for positive youth engagement.

In addition to the mini-grants already funded, Revere on the Move has extended their permanent change and program mini-grant appli-cations to Sunday, March 4. Up to $1,395 is available for ideas that make it easier to eat healthy and be active for all. The application is open

Revere's TNDreceives $50,000state grant for jobs

Special to The Journal

Monday morning the Bak-er-Polito Administration awarded $500,000 to nine projects through the Urban Agenda Grant Program. The Revere arm of The Neigh-borhood Developers (TND) was one group given $50,000 in funding to help establish workforce development ser-vices in Revere to support lo-cal residents to acquire newly created jobs.

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito along with Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash came to Revere City Hall to present the check to the Neighborhood Developers.

“Our administration under-stands the importance of local leadership and its impact on the lives of residents,” said Lt. Governor Karyn Polito. “The Urban Agenda Grant Program relies on the strong partnerships between local government, non-profits and

the business community that are critical to fostering eco-nomic success and building stronger neighborhoods in ev-ery region in Massachusetts.”

Revere is rebuilding its economic and employment base by utilizing large-scale and high value assets includ-ing Suffolk Downs, Wonder-land, a soon-to-close NECCO plant, and the MassDevelop-ment TDI Waterfront District.

The program seeks to un-lock community-driven re-sponses to local obstacles, and promote economic devel-opment opportunities through partnership-building, problem solving, and shared account-ability in urban centers. The competitive awards offer flex-ible funding for local efforts that bring together commu-nity stakeholders to pursue economic development ini-tiatives. These awards will fund projects in Boston, Clin-

Real estate values continue to be strong in Revere

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Ann Houston of The Neighborhood Developers, State Rep. RoseLee Vincent, Bob O' Brien of Revere Economic Department, Mayor Brian Arrigo and Secretary of Housing and Ecomonic Development Jay Ash at the announcement of the Urban Agenda Grant Program on Monday morning in the Revere City Council Chambers.

By Sue Ellen Woodcock

The Revere real estate mar-ket in 2017 was definitely a good one with higher prices for homes than in 2016, but a drop in the number of new listings, making home-buying an adventure.

“These are the highest pric-es we’ve seen in the last eight years,” said Maureen Celata, owner/broker of MCelata Real Estate. “And 2018 is going to be another banner year. Inven-tory is low now, but everyone is looking to the spring.”

According to figures from the Massachusetts Associa-tion of Realtors, the median sales prices was $376,250, a 4.9 increase over prices in 2016.

Homes also were also on the market 41 days, a 26.8 percent increase over the 56

days on the market in 2016.The number of listings in

2017 also dropped to 265, 10.8 percent down from 297 in 2016. The good news for sellers is that the original list-ing price was matched 100 percent of the time.

The condominium mar-ket saw similar trends with the median sales price at $315,000, up 16.7 percent over 2016. Days on the mar-ket also dropped from 67 in 2016 to 47 days on the market

“Inventory is low now and everyone is looking toward the spring,” Celata said

The rental market is also strong with rents ranging from $1,200 to $3,000. Cleat noted that if someone is paying big rent they just might be capable of buying and taking advan-tage of first-time homebuyers programs.

“2017 was a fantastic year to be in real estate,” said Joe Mario of Century 21 Ma-rio Real Estate. “There’s a lot of confidence and equity in homes. For 35 years now it’s been positive. Now is the time to sell. Revere is getting the overflow from the Boston market and people are moving to Revere.

Mario said Revere is desir-able because of its proximity to Boston, and it’s a hidden gem with a beautiful beach.

Mario is looking forward to the spring market, drawing from Boston and surrounding communities. He added that the Revere School system is also a draw for buyers.

“It all adds to the future growth of Revere,” he said.

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Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) announces that it has been exclusively retained by South Harbor Associates LLC to sell 800-810 Lynnway, a fully-enti-tled, 550-unit, 100 percent mar-ket-rate apartment development site located less than 10 miles northeast of Downtown Boston in Lynn, Massachusetts. NKF Co- Head of U.S. Capital Mar-kets Robert Griffin, Executive Managing Director Michael By-rne, Managing Director Thomas Greeley, Associate Casey Grif-fin, Director Devlin Man and Senior Financial Analyst Nick

Dailey will oversee the market-ing and sale process.

Owner Pat McGrath of South Harbor Associates LLC said, “I have owned the property for 13 years and have worked on the approval process for the last three years. This is an exciting project for the City of Lynn and I look forward to seeing the de-velopment move forward and becoming the gateway into the City.”

Encompassing 8.46 acres of land directly off the Gener-al Edwards Bridge and along

By John Lynds

On Saturday, Cardinal Seán O’Malley ordained a new priest to St. Joseph Parish in Lynn.

Father Fernando José Vivas, who has been serving his dea-con internship at St. Joseph Par-ish, Lynn, joined four other new Archdiocese priests that were or-dained during a Mass Saturday.

Fr. Vivas celebrated his first Masses of Thanksgiving at St. Joseph on Aug. 2 in both English and Spanish.

Born in Managua, Nicaragua on Dec. 16, 1984, Fr. Vivas is a son of the late Luis Ramon Vivas Perez and Ana (Alvardo San-chez) Perez. He is the youngest

Father Fernando José Vivas ordained, appointed to St. Joseph Parish, Lynn

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Father Fernando José Vivas ordained is St. Joseph Parish in Lynn’s newest priest. Fr. Vivas was ordained by Cardinal O’Malley Saturday and celebrat-ed his first Mass at St. Joseph on Sunday. 

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By Cary Shuman

The Greater Lynn Chamber of Commerce unveiled its new website to its members and the Lynn community Tuesday.

“There has been a lot of posi-tive reaction to it,” GLCC Exec-utive Director Colin Codner told the Lynn Journal.

Codner said the impetus for a new website was the organi-zation’s desire from a strate-gic standpoint “to to be able to provide value to not only to our members but also to the mem-bers of our community.

“That’s an underlying theme of who we are: an organization enhancing the vitality of our re-gion. “And one of the ways we

felt that we could do this was providing a tool and a resource for the members of our commu-nity to engage with each other and find opportunities to indi-vidually socialize, network and come together and know what’s going on in the community.”

Codner said the Chamber website’s “Community Calen-dar” will provide an updated list of all activities in the area for families.

Codner worked on the devel-opment of the new website with Operations Manager Christine Neals, Membership and Events Coordinator Samantha McHugh, Executive Board members, and the Board of Directors. The

Chamber’s Executive Board consists of Chair Joe Scianatico, Vice Chair Eddy Staco, Secretary Christine Pierce, Treasurer Peter Deiulis, and Officer-at-Large Pe-ter Colarusso.

“This was an organization-al initiative,” said Codner. “I’m proud of the fact that all of our organizational initiatives are based on collaboration.”

A new installation on the web-site is the addition of the Cham-ber’s two main social media ac-counts, Facebook and Instagram, on the GLCC home page. The website has also added a Spanish language translation button.

Greater Lynn Chamber of Commerce unveils new website

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On Friday, August 31, the Lynn Family Forward Resource Center gave out 48 “summer fun buckets” to 35 local fami-lies. The buckets were filled with outside activities for children like bubbles, jump rope, and bouncy balls. They also received one anti-racism book for children and a hygiene bucket. These buckets were free. The Lynn Family Forward Resource Center is a single-point walk-in service that provides families with access to resources within the community and referrals.

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Everett to downtown Boston on a one-seat ride would be a game-chang-er,” said Julia Wallerce, a program manager for the Institute for Trans-portation & Development Policy (ITDP). “There is a value for sacrifice and not having parking on the curb. The more you rec-ognize what you get back for that, the more you are willing to make that sac-rifice. Everett will most likely be included in that (Silver Line) corridor. Ev-erett is a great partner and is willing to build out in-frastructure. Everett is on track to continue to be a leader in access and mo-bility…Everett is doing everything the right way.”

Reimagine Broadway is a partnership between a number of organizations like ITDP, Ad Hoc Indus-tries, the City and the state – among others. It has become a precursor for the Silver Line Extension study that is underway right now, and that has a public meeting scheduled on April 27. For Ever-ett, enhancing Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) facets has been a major priority for Mayor Carlo DeMaria since his Administration introduced the region’s first dedicated bus lane southbound on Broadway many years ago.

The Reimagine effort has included adding the northbound afternoon lane to Everett Square, adding a spur on Main Street off Sweetser Circle, and add-ing the permanent lane on Sweetser Circle. Oth-er measures have been branding pieces that in-clude new color schemes for bus facilities and COVID-19 safety kits/markings (called the ‘Dis-tance of Care’).

There’s also a part of it that includes a little fun and enjoyment for riders – all courtesy of Adrien Gill of Ad Hoc Industries, who has been intimately in-volved in the planning of Reimagine and previously coordinated BRT oddities such as the Flower Bomb on Everett Square bus stops two years ago.

“When you’re looking at transit, we’re also look-ing at overall experience to maximize the engagement we have with people,” he said. “We want to make sure BRT is accessible not just in transit circles, but also for the broader com-munity…A lot of times people focus on getting on and getting to where they want to go quickly. The place they experience the pain is during the wait. So we focus on the wait and acknowledge it is a pain point.”

Another pain point is crowded buses, a major issue during COVID-19. However, the survey showed that after Reimag-ine Broadway, respon-dants that use the bus re-ported the buses were less crowded.

“They said that be-fore they were hesitant to get on because the buses were too crowded,” said Wallerce. “They felt that after the bus lanes were in, the buses were less crowded. That’s probably because without the buses being stuck in traffic, they could run more buses up and down the corridor and reduce crowding.”

In the survey, some 42 percent reported having refused to get on a bus in Everett because it was too crowded. However, they also said they felt the bus-es were now less crowded with the new bus lanes. Some 231 out of those sur-veyed agreed buses were less crowded, and only 26

said a definant ‘no.’ Many (139) were not sure.

As for safer bus stops in COVID due to the ‘Dis-tance of Care’ campaign and markings at the stops, 178 said they felt safer and that it had produced less crowding and more direc-tion for people waiting for the bus and those walking past the stop.

The overall survey of the Reimagine Broad-way measures showed 259 were satisfied, 66 were somewhat satisfied, 61 were neutral, 13 were somewhat dissatisfied, 24 were dissatisfied and 19 did not respond.

One part that gave mixed results was the Shared Street initiative.

Gill said part of the overall effort was to also make feeder routes for pedestrians getting to bus stops more safe. That in-cluded slowing down vehicles and using tem-porary measures like par-klets to change driver be-haviors.

“The Shared Streets ef-fort was mixed and some of that might have been how it was rolled out,” said Wallerce.

While people surveyed agreed with the concept of slowing down traffic on major bus stop feeder roads, they didn’t like how it was simply plopped down one day last year without a lot of notice.

Of those surveyed, in cooperation with local community groups like the Everett Haitian Com-munity Center, the majori-ty of those asked respond-ed in Haitian Creole (193), with the second largest language being English (180). There were 50 that responded in Spanish and 19 in Portuguese. Some 256 responses were col-lected online, and 186 on the street.

The key takeaway for Wallerce and Gill was the fact that so many wanted to see an extension of the dedicated bus lanes and the potential of making the Broadway corridor a major transit corridor for quick mobility to Boston and Cambridge without a car. Some 70 percent wanted to see it extended to Glendale Square, and 77 percent wanted to see it extended to Sullivan Sta-tion or downtown Boston.

“No matter how peo-ple use the corridor, even if they don’t use the bus, the survey shows us they see the importance of the bus lane and know transit is key to this corridor in Everett,” said Wallerce. “It sets up Everett as a pri-ority community to tran-sit…The more that is pub-licly recognized and there is buy-in of what might seem like a sacrifice…it supports the vision of a sustainable and equitable future for Everett.”

PRESSLEY VOLUNTEERS AT FOOD BANK

EAST BOSTON - As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, as many as 25 million adults and 10 million children may not always have access to nu-tritious food.

The newly adopted “American Rescue Plan” is providing millions of dollars nationwide to food distribution sites that have been on the front lines combating hunger throughout the pandemic.

One of these sites, the East Boston Community Soup Kitchen (EBCSK), was forced to shift gears, and reinvent itself in the age of COVID and social distancing.

Since the start of the pandemic, EBCSK stopped serving in-per-son meals on Tuesdays at Our Saviour’s Luther-an Church and became a busy food distribution site for the homeless and those in need of a hot meal on Mondays and Tuesdays.

With generous support through community do-nations, Boston Resilien-cy Fund grants and now aid from the American Rescue Plan, EBCSK has been able to continue its mission in Eastie.

Last Tuesday afternoon U.S. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley visited EBCSK to talk to volun-teers and see first hand the impact the American Rescue Plan is having on a local level.

Pressley spent the af-ternoon not only talking with volunteers but being a volunteer herself. Press-ley rolled up her sleeves and got to work helping EBCSK package meals for distribution as well as loading prepared meals that would be deprived around Eastie.

“It was great to spend time in East Boston and see firsthand how the com-munity has stepped up to meet the needs of the com-munity during this chal-lenging time,” said Press-ley. “Pastor John (Searles), Sandra (Nijjar), and all the staff and volunteers at the East Boston Community Soup Kitchen have been doing incredible work to address hunger and food insecurity across Eastie, and I’m glad the American Rescue Plan will support their work by providing critical resources to help the one in six Massachu-setts households—includ-ing one in three Black and Latinx households with children—who are strug-gling to afford food.”

“Monday and Tuesday were such fulfilling days,” said EBCSK Sandra Nijjar. “On Tuesday we had our Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley visit us and she helped distribute bags of groceries. This is how our Eastie’s commu-nity comes together in dif-ficult times to support each other and to do all it takes to help our neighbors. Words cannot describe the immense gratitude we, our Soup Kitchen’s board of directors and our leader-ship team members.”

Nijjar said during Pressley’s visit EBCSK delivered bags of gro-ceries, reserved bags of groceries for pick up, and distributed bags of grocer-ies and boxes of food and distributed meal vouchers to folks who don’t have a place to cook.

“We are incredibly grateful to be able to help our neighbors,” said Nijjar. “Once again we had a bountiful day filled with such an amazing outpouring of food dona-tions. We are out of words to describe our immense gratitude for so much goodness, kindness and generosity directed to us. Thank you so much for all you do to keep our Soup Kitchen alive and thriv-ing.”

CITY OFFERS INCENTIVES FOR EMPLOYEES

EAST BOSTON - The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many inequities in our society. From the virus predominately af-fecting people of color to essential workers not hav-ing the luxury of working from home -- thus jeop-ardizing their health and safety.

Many essential work-

ers who have been on the frontlines throughout the pandemic have relied heavily on public trans-portation.

Now a new pilot pro-gram in East Boston and other neighborhoods heavily impacted by the COVID-19 crisis will make public transporta-tion more equitable for es-sential workers.

Acting Boston May-or Kim Janey announced that the City of Boston is piloting a new program to offer up to a $60 credit for MBTA and Bluebikes passes for 1,000 employ-ees who work in Eastie’s Main Streets District, as well as employees in four other Main Streets Dis-tricts.

City officials have be-gun registering employees in Main Streets Districts in Eastie, Mission Hill, Jamaica Plain, Nubian Square, and Fields Corner for the pilot program. The registration will end on April 19.

These five Main Street districts are all served by MBTA subway and Blue-bikes stations.

“Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many essential workers have continued to utilize public transportation be-cause they have been un-able to work from home,” said Janey. “I’m proud to launch this pilot program with the MBTA and Blue-bikes to learn more about the impacts on commuter patterns when the cost of public transit is covered. And as more workers be-gin in return to workplac-es, making transit more accessible is critical to our equitable recovery from the pandemic.”

Janey said the goal of the program is to incentiv-ize employees returning to work and workers who currently drive to work to use public transit. With an expected increase in post-COVID-19 traffic, the City of Boston is piloting this incentive program to help alleviate small busi-ness districts of conges-tion and free up curb space for local neighborhood customers. The pilot pro-gram also seeks to lessen vehicular traffic to help reduce its environmental impact.

“We are excited to part-ner with our local Main Street Districts to pilot free public transit options for those working in Bos-ton’s neighborhoods,” said Transportation Com-missioner Greg Rooney. “Creating incentives to use public transit or bike to work options helps our economy, our environment and our local businesses. As more workers plan on restarting their commute, the Boston Transportation Department is committed to exploring creative ways to reduce traffic, carbon emissions and support Boston’s workers.”

The city managed pi-lot program is aimed at measuring how financial incentives for public tran-sit impact commuting be-havior and will be phased over the next two months.

Of the 1,000 qualified workers, some individuals will be randomly selected to get an MBTA pass with the full $60 credit loaded, and the remainder of the individuals will receive smaller stipends over time, which will end up totaling $60.

Bluebikes pass-holders will be able to take unlim-ited trips during the two-month period. Bluebikes trips must be completed within 45 minutes to avoid usage charges. There is no obligation to continue

paying for the Bluebikes pass once the two months are over.

Data from the pilot program will be used to supplement the city’s long-term transportation demand management strategy.

To learn more about the pilot or to sign up for the program, please visit: boston.gov/FREEride or text FREEride to 866-396-0122.

GRAND OPENING RECENTLY HELD

LYNN - During this pandemic era a new busi-ness model has emerged. Since many people work at home, some may soon need additional space. The INC.UBATE COWORKING facility inside the Flatiron building on Washington Street in Lynn now offers flexible workspaces with amenities, such as High-Speed WiFi, Technology Platform, 24/7 access, and much more.

CEO Michael Lucer-to expanded his Workbar business recently into Lynn as he said, “There is a need for shared office space, since people are working remotely from home much more. The city of Lynn is in a unique situation with a dynamic workforce of local en-trepreneurs; the down-town development area is attracting new business people into the city. I am hoping for this space to be a melting pot within this community.”

INC.UBATE CO-WORKING offers mem-berships to freelancers, business owners, and re-mote workers. The Work-bar concept is convenient and affordable for anyone in need of a private office, a place to meet clients or a conference rooms for meetings.

Daily and monthly flex-ible membership plans are available. Other Work-bar facilities are located in Winthrop and soon to be in Hamilton. For more information call 617-455-8674 or email – michael@incubatecoworking.com.

COUNCIL HEARS RATE STUDY, COVID UPDATES

WINTHROP - The Winthrop Town Council met remotely on Tuesday, April 6, where it heard a water study proposal and updates on the pandemic. Around 25 members of the public attended.

Council President Phil Boncore opened the meet-ing with a moment of si-lence for Michael DeGre-gorio, a Winthrop resident who passed away this past week after a battle with Parkinson’s Disease.

Pres. Boncore congrat-ulated resident Jeff Turco for his victory in the elec-tion for State Representa-tive. He also issued a spe-cial citation to Winthrop’s own Jillian Dempsey, the Captain of the Bos-ton Pride in the National Women’s Hockey League, calling her an inspiration to “athletes of all ages and genders.”

Water Loss StudyThe Town is working

with the Abrahams Group and with Environmental Partners to realize a study of the town’s water loss and water rate. The aim of the study is to answer the community’s questions about the recent water/sewer rate increases.

The study is already underway and a full re-port should be delivered in

early June in time for the FY22 budget. The full pre-sentation will be available on the town’s website. A comprehensive overview will also be featured in next week’s publication.

COVID-19Winthrop is currently

in the Yellow Zone with a 2.75 percent positive rate, slightly higher than two weeks ago. The town has had 2,155 cases with 35 deceased and 48 in isola-tion.

To date, 7,282 Win-throp residents have re-ceived at least one dose of the Moderna vaccine, or almost 40 percent of residents over the age of 18. Starting April 19, all members of the public age 16 and older will be able to get vaccinated.

The schools welcomed children back for in-per-son learning on April 5, in what Council Pres. Bon-core called “a successful day.”

“Kids were fantastic and flexible,” he reported. “All the kids were happy to be back in school and see their friends and teach-ers.”

Students can now be tested for COVID on-site using rapid testing tech-nology.

Winthrop was allo-cated $1.83 million in COVID relief funding from the American Res-cue Plan Act. An addition-al amount was granted to Suffolk county, bringing Winthrop’s total to $5.4 million, paid out in two installments. The funds must be used by the end of the 2022 calendar year. Rather than treating this as “found money”, Town Manager Austin Faison intends to “plug the gaps” leftover from 2020, and to boost the sustainability of ongoing health projects.

The town manager still plans to open Town Hall to the public beginning on May 1. In-person business will take place Monday through Thursday from 9am to 12pm by appoint-ment only. Sanitization and mask-wearing will be compulsory.

Faison is also working with technology experts to prepare the Harvey Room for in-person meetings for boards and committees. To date, it has been unable to accommodate both remote attendance via Zoom and live streaming by WCAT.

General UpdatesThe Council for Ap-

pointments, Commissions and Committees has fin-ished its reviews of town employees. A vote to ac-cept the reviews will be held at the next council meeting.

The Town will be in-stalling four additional fully-accessible bus shel-ters on town sidewalks in the hopes of increasing bus ridership.

Work continues as scheduled in the Center Business District, with all utility due to be completed in the coming weeks.

The School Department approved a preliminary budget for the next fis-cal year in the amount of $23.5 million.

There are immediate openings on the Airport Hazards Committee, the Board of Appeals, the Planning Board and the Transportation Safety Ad-visory Committee.

The juveniles responsi-ble for the fire at Ingleside Playground earlier this year are being given the option to repay their debt to the community through a program that helps non-vi-olent youth offenders avoid the criminal justice system.

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With the cost of a life-saving transplant of-ten exceeding $800,000, most transplant families are unable to shoulder that financial burden. The Children’s Organ Trans-plant Association (COTA) is a national 501(c)3 char-ity dedicated to organizing and guiding communities in raising funds for trans-plant-related expenses.

In Newburyport, volun-teers are raising funds for COTA in honor of trans-plant patients like local child, Heeth Atanasoff.

Heeth is the son of Mol-ly and Todd Atanasoff. Born in 2012, Heeth was diagnosed with Aplastic Anemia. The transplant team at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, rec-ommends a life-saving bone marrow transplant. Newburyport volunteers

are raising $100,000 for COTA to assist with trans-plant-related expenses.

Volunteers are needed for this COTA communi-ty campaign. Individuals and groups interested in more information should contact Community Co-ordinator Kerry Marshall at 978.609.0866 or kerry-marshall48@gmail.com.

COTA helps transplant families avoid financial devastation. Transplant

procedure costs range from $100,000 to more than $800,000. Once the transplant is complete, families face significant transplant-related expens-es, including medication; transportation to and from the transplant center; lodg-ing; and expenses while parents are out of work and often living with the hospitalized child far from home. These out-of-pock-et expenses add up to tens

of thousands of dollars an-nually for transplant fami-lies with lifetime totals of-ten exceeding $1,000,000. In cases where a shortfall exists, COTA helps bridge the financial gap.

Heeth’s family has asked for assistance from the Children’s Organ Transplant Association. One hundred percent of all funds raised for COTA in honor of patients assist with transplant-related ex-

penses.Contributions may be

sent to the Children’s Or-gan Transplant Associ-ation, 2501 West COTA Drive, Bloomington, Indiana, 47403. Checks should be made payable to COTA, with “In Honor of Heeths Hope” written on the memo line. Secure credit card gifts are ac-cepted online at www.CO-TAforHeethsHope.com.

Donations sought for area child in need of life-saving transplant

LEGAL NOTICEA-21-16

Public HearingNotice is hereby given in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 40A of the Massachu-setts General Laws and Title 17 of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Revere that the City of Revere Zoning Board of Appeals will conduct a public hearing via Zoom on Wednesday evening, April 28, 2021 at 5:00 P.M. on the application of Eastern Equity Partners, LLC, 1040-1048 North Shore Rd., Unit 2B, Revere, MA 02151 requesting the following variances of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Revere to enable the appellant to raze the existing structures and construct a new building comprising of forty-five residential units at 60-66 Shirley A, Revere, MA 02151:1. Section 17.24.010, minimum lot area re-quirement of 10,000 s.f. within the GB District; 2. Section 17.24.010, minimum frontage requirement of 100 feet within the GB District; 3. Section 17.24.010, maximum Far of 1.5 within the GB District; 4. Section 17.24.010(q), minimum side yard re-quirement of 15 feet for residential uses within the GB District; 5. Section 17.24.010(q), minimum front yard set-back requirement of 20 feet for residential use within the GB District; 6. Section 17.28.020, minimum parking re-quirement for apartment use; 7. Section 17.28.050, minimum two way drive-way width of 22 feet within the GB District; 8. Section 17.32.050 with respect to minimum screening area of 6 feet between multi-family parking and residential uses.Please use the link below to join the hearing:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86827456704Telephone: US: +1 301 715 8592Webinar ID: 868 2745 6704A copy of the aforemen-tioned proposed plan and application (A-21-16) is on file and available for public inspection, by appointment only, in the office of the City Clerk, Revere City Hall, Revere, Massachusetts, Monday through Thursday from 8:15 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. and Friday from 8:15 A.M. to 12:15 P.M.In accordance with an Executive Order issued on March 12, 2020 by Governor Baker, the pub-lic hearing as advertised will be held remotely. Remote meeting participation information will be published on the Zoning Board of Appeals agenda at least 48 hours in advance of the public

hearing, not including weekends or holidays at www.revere.org/calendar. Alternatively, commentary on this public hearing may be submitted in writing to amelnik@revere.org or by mail to Office of the City Clerk, Revere City Hall, 281 Broadway, Revere, MA 02151.Ashley E. Melnik, ClerkCity of RevereZoning Board of Appeals

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LEGAL NOTICEA-21-14

Public HearingNotice is hereby given in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 40A of the Massachu-setts General Laws and Title 17 of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Revere that the City of Revere Zoning Board of Appeals will conduct a public hearing via Zoom on Wednesday evening, April 28, 2021 at 5:00 P.M. on the application of Frank A. and Lisa M. Barry, 40 Stone Street, Revere, MA requesting variances of Section 17.24.010 minimum side yard setback, Section 17.16.260(D) maximum height for an accessory structure, and Section 17.16.260(F)(1) max-imum coverage of an accessory structure of the rear yard of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Revere to enable the appellant to construct a 24’ x 28’ garage at 40 Stone Street, Revere, MA 02151.Please use the link below to join the hearing:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86827456704Telephone: US: +1 301 715 8592Webinar ID: 868 2745 6704A copy of the aforemen-tioned proposed plan and application (A-21-14) is on file and available for public inspection, by appointment only, in the office of the City Clerk, Revere City Hall, Revere, Massachusetts, Monday through Thursday from 8:15 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. and Friday from 8:15 A.M. to 12:15 P.M.In accordance with an Executive Order issued on March 12, 2020 by Governor Baker, the pub-lic hearing as advertised will be held remotely. Remote meeting participation information will be published on the Zoning Board of Appeals agenda at least 48 hours in advance of the public hearing, not including weekends or holidays at www.revere.org/calendar. Alternatively, commentary on this public hearing may be submitted in writing to amelnik@revere.org or by mail to Office of the City Clerk, Revere City Hall, 281 Broadway, Revere, MA 02151.

Ashley E. Melnik, ClerkCity of RevereZoning Board of Appeals

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LEGAL NOTICEA-21-15

Public HearingNotice is hereby given in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 40A of the Massachu-setts General Laws and Title 17 of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Revere that the City of Revere Zoning Board of Appeals will conduct a public hearing via Zoom on Wednesday evening, April 28, 2021 at 5:00 P.M. on the application of Nahant, LLC, 1040-1048 North Shore Rd., Unit 2B, Revere, MA 02151 requesting the following variances of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Revere to enable the appellant to raze the existing structure and construct a new building comprising of thirty-eight residential units at 13 Nahant Avenue, Revere, MA 02151:1. Section 17.24.010, minimum lot area of 10,000 s.f. in the GB District; 2. Section 17.24.010, minimum frontage of 100 feet within the GB District; 3. Section 17.24.010, maximum FAR of 1.5 within the GB District; 4. Section 17.24.010(q), minimum front yard setback of 20 feet for residential use within the GB District.; 5. Section 17.24.010(q), minimum side yard set-back requirement of 15 feet for residential use within the GB District; 6. Section 17.24.010(q), minimum rear yard setback of 20 feet for residential use within the GB District; 7. Section 17.28.020, minimum parking requirements for apart-ment use; 8. Section 17.28.050(B), minimum two way drive-way width of 22 feet within the GB District; 9. Section 17.32.050 minimum screening width of 6 feet between multi-family parking an residential uses.Please use the link below to join the hearing:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86827456704Telephone: US: +1 301 715 8592Webinar ID: 868 2745 6704A copy of the aforemen-tioned proposed plan and application (A-21-15) is on file and available for public inspection, by appointment only, in the office of the City Clerk, Revere City Hall, Revere, Massachusetts, Monday through Thursday from 8:15 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. and Friday from 8:15 A.M. to 12:15 P.M.In accordance with an Executive Order issued

on March 12, 2020 by Governor Baker, the pub-lic hearing as advertised will be held remotely. Remote meeting participation information will be published on the Zoning Board of Appeals agenda at least 48 hours in advance of the public hearing, not including weekends or holidays at www.revere.org/calendar. Alternatively, commentary on this public hearing may be submitted in writing to amelnik@revere.org or by mail to Office of the City Clerk, Revere City Hall, 281 Broadway, Revere, MA 02151.Ashley E. Melnik, ClerkCity of RevereZoning Board of Appeals

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LEGAL NOTICEC-21-08

PUBLIC HEARINGNotice is hereby given in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 40A of the Massachusetts General Laws and Sec-tion 17.40.030 of the Re-vised Ordinances of the City of Revere that the Revere City Council will conduct a public hearing via remote participation on Monday evening, April 26, 2021 at 6:00 P.M. on the application of Robert Inello, 727 Revere Beach Parkway, Revere, MA 02151 seeking permission from the Revere City Council for the reconstruction and modification of the preexisting nonconform-ing structure and use, which will be a two-story building utilized as two commercial units, with the first unit being used for electrical contracting companies or similar businesses with professional offices, including indoor parking and indoor storage of equipment and supplies and the second unit being used for self-stor-age units at 727 Revere Beach Parkway, Revere, MA 02151.A copy of the aforemen-tioned proposed plan and application (C-21-08) is on file and available for public inspection, by appointment only, in the office of the City Clerk, Revere City Hall, Revere, Massachusetts, Monday through Thursday from 8:15 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. and Friday from 8:15 A.M. to 12:15 P.M.Please use the link below to join the public hearing:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88252245149Or Telephone: +1 312 626 6799Webinar ID: 882 5224 5149In accordance with an Executive Order issued on March 12, 2020 by Governor Baker, the pub-lic hearing as advertised will be held remotely.

Remote meeting partic-ipation information will be published on the City Council agenda at least 48 hours in advance of the public hearing, not including weekends or holidays at www.revere.org/calendar. Alterna-tively, commentary on this public hearing may be submitted in writing to amelnik@revere.org or by mail to Office of the City Clerk, Revere City Hall, 281 Broadway, Revere, MA 02151.Attest:Ashley E. MelnikCity Clerk

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LEGAL NOTICEALAMEDA COUNTY

SUPERIOR COURT24405 Amador Street

Hayward, CA 94544SUPERIOR COURTOF CALIFORNIA,COUNTY OFALAMEDAPETITION FORDISSOLUTION(DIVORCE)OF MARRIAGECase Number:HF20082820Petitioner:Nicholas CarrickRespondent: HermesIvan Roque Salazar1. LEGAL RELATIONSHIPWe are married2. RESIDENCE REQUIRE-MENTSPetitioner has been a resident of this state for at least six months and of this county for at least three months immediate-ly preceding the filing of this Petition.3. STATISTICAL FACTSDate of marriage 10-22-2019Date of separation 8-22-20204. MINOR CHILDRENThere are no minor children5. LEGAL GROUNDS (Family Code sections) 2200-2210, 2310-2312)Divorce - Irreconcilable differences8. SPOUSAL OR DOMES-TIC PARTNER SUPPORTTerminate the court’s ability to award support to Petitioner/Respon-dent.9. SEPARATE PROPERTYConfirm as separate property the assets and debts in Property Decla-ration (form FL-160).10. COMMUNITY AND QUASI-COMMUNITY PROPERTYDetermine rights to community and quasi-community assets and debts. All such assets and debts are listed in Property Declaration (form FL-160).12. I HAVE READ THE RESTRAINING ORDERS ON THE BACK OF THE SUMMONS, AND I UN-DERSTAND THAT THEY APPLY TO ME WHEN THIS PETITION IS FILED.I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct.

Date: 12-2-2020Nicholas CarrickDate: 12-2-2020Kinna CrockerPetitioner’s attorney819 Third Street, Suite 100Santa Rosa, CA 95404

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MASSACHUSETTS LAND COURT

DEPARTMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT

ORDER OF NOTICETO:

21 SM 000376Hassan Chbani and Maria Delvecchio Chbani a/k/a Maria Delvec-chio-Chbaniand to all persons entitled to the benefit of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, 50 U.S.C. c. 50§3901 (et seq)CT Gibbs Financial, LLCclaiming to have an interest in a Mortgage covering real property in 72 South Ave, Revere, MA given by Hassan Chbani and Maria Delvecchio Chbani to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc, as nominee for Fremont Investment & Loan dated December 21, 2006, and recorded in Suffolk County Registry of Deeds in Book 41020, Page 144 has/have filed with this court a complaint for determination of Defendant’s/Defendants’ Servicemembers status.If you now are, or recently have been, in the active military service of the United States of America, then you may be entitled to the benefits of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. If you object to a foreclosure of the above-mentioned proper-ty on that basis, then you or your attorney must file a written appearance and answer in this court at Three Pemberton Square, Boston, MA 02108 on or before 5/24/2021 or you may lose the opportunity to challenge the foreclosure on the ground of non-compliance with the Act.Witness, Gordon H. Piper, Chief Justice of this Court4/6/2021Attest:Deborah J. PattersonRecorder

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OF MASSACHUSETTSTHE TRIAL COURT

PROBATE ANDFAMILY COURT

Suffolk Probateand Family Court24 New Chardon St.Boston, MA 02114(617)788-8300CITATION ON PETITION FORFORMALADJUDICATION

Docket No.SU21P0701EAEstate of:Larry FrancisParadisoDate of Death06/13/2020To all interested persons:A Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intestacy and Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by John L. Paradiso of Revere, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition.The Petitioner requests that: John L. Paradiso of Revere, MA be appointed as Personal Represen-tative(s) of said estate to serve on the bond in administration.IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Pe-tition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before: 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 05/17/2021.This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an affidavit of objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you.UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC)A Personal Representa-tive appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inven-tory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the adminis-tration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including the distribution of assets and expenses of administration.WITNESS, Hon. Brian J. Dunn, First Justice of this Court.Date: April 05, 2021Felix D. ArroyoRegister of Probate

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LEGAL NOTICECOMMONWEALTH

OF MASSACHUSETTSTHE TRIAL COURT

PROBATE ANDFAMILY COURT

Suffolk ProbateAnd Family Court24 New Chardon St.Boston, MA 02114(617)788-8300CITATION ON PETITION FORFORMAL

ADJUDICATIONDocket No.SU20P0391EAEstate of:Marybeth BencicDate of Death:08/14/2019To all interested persons:A Petition for S/A - Formal Probate of Will has been filed by Sharon Kenny of Framingham, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition.The Petitioner requests that: Sharon Kenny of Framingham, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve on the bond in unsupervised administration.IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Pe-tition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before: 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 05/10/2021.This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an affidavit of objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you.UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC)A Personal Representa-tive appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inven-tory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the adminis-tration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including the distribution of assets and expenses of administration.WITNESS, Hon. Brian J. Dunn, First Justice of this Court.Date: April 05, 2021Felix D. ArroyoRegister of Probate

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LEGAL NOTICENOTICE OF MONTHLY

BOARD MEETINGNotice is hereby given in accordance with Section 23A of Chapter 38 of the General Laws, that a meeting of the Revere Housing Authority will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 70 Cooledge Street, Revere, Massa-chusetts. REVERE HOUSING

AUTHORITYBy: Patricia E. DuffyInterim Executive Director

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LEGAL NOTICECOMMONWEALTH

OF MASSACHUSETTSTHE TRIAL COURT

PROBATE ANDFAMILY COURT

Suffolk Probateand Family Court24 New Chardon St.Boston, MA 02114(617)788-8300CITATION ON PETITION FORFORMALADJUDICATIONDocket No.SU21P0607EAEstate of:Ralph F. ForgioneDate of Death01/24/2021To all interested persons:A Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intestacy and Appointment of Per-sonal Representative has been filed by Joan M. Forgione of Revere, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition.IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Pe-tition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before: 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 05/18/2021.This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an affidavit of objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you.UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC)A Personal Representa-tive appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inven-tory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the adminis-tration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including the distribution of assets and expenses of administration.WITNESS, Hon. Brian J. Dunn, First Justice of this Court.Date: April 06, 2021Felix D. ArroyoRegister of Probate

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Staff Report

The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) will work with artists to reach under-served communities with

COVID-related public health messages, includ-ing the importance of get-ting vaccinated.

Over the next few months, nine artists and artist teams will create

posters, videos, postcards, public art, comic strips and other accessible art-works that can be used by health agencies, mu-nicipalities and commu-nity groups to spread the word about COVID-relat-ed public health advice.

As vaccination eligibil-ity expands, communities will face new challenges related to the equitable deployment of effective, simple and evidence-ba-sic information. To meet this need, in Febru-ary, MAPC invited artists, designers and creatives to pitch concepts to inspire safe and healthy behav-iors.

Over 30 artists and artist teams applied for grants. Of these, MAPC and an

advisory committee of lo-cal public health, public art and community repre-sentatives chose nine to distribute $45,000 in grant funding among. Priority was given to projects that engage diverse ethnic, cultural and BIPOC com-munities, and many of the completed projects will be available in multiple lan-guages.

Once completed, MAPC will make the art-works available for digital download and sharing.

“Read i ly -ava i l ab le vaccine communication resources are not always resonating with commu-nities of color that have been treated unjustly by medical systems,” said MAPC Arts and Culture

Director Jennifer Sien Er-ickson. “Many materials also aren’t designed to reach communities speak-ing languages other than English. We are excited to partner with this diverse team of local artists to pro-mote equity in communi-ty access to the vaccines.”

For more informa-tion, visit www.mapc.org/covid19-art. Reach out the MAPC Digital Commu-nications Specialist Elise Harmon at eharmon@mapc.org for more infor-mation or to arrange inter-views.

Selected local artists and artist teams were:

•The Greater Boston Artist Collective, an arts organization whose mis-sion is to uplift voiceless

artists and to provide a platform for all communi-ties and cultures to share their stories. The Collec-tive includes Gisell Builes, Karen Elisa Garcia, Jen-nifer Medrano and Sa-mantha Valletta. Learn more: www.greaterbos-tonartistcollective.com

“Art has always had the power to help heal, espe-cially during these trying times,” said Valletta. “Us-ing the power of film and multimedia, GBAC looks forward to creating a piece dedicated to the commu-nities hit hardest by the virus. Our goal is to en-courage everyone to come together for this last push, allowing us all to come out on the other side safer, refreshed and renewed.”

Staff report

A vehicle repaired by Northeast Metro Tech's Auto Body and Automo-tive Technology programs will now be driven by a local veteran, thanks to a partnership between the District and Second Chance Cars.

The car was presented to Maria Roca, of Haver-hill, a 19 year National Guard veteran and single mother of three children, on Tuesday, April 6 at Northeast Metro Tech.

Those in attendance included Roca and her children, administrators, teachers, students, Second Chance Cars Director Dan Holin, Massachusetts Na-tional Guard Coordinator Gregory Sacca, students, and Wally Johnston and Jane Hotchkiss of Con-cord, who donated the vehicle to Second Chance Cars.

"Taking care of three young kids in a small

apartment during COVID has been incredibly hard. Then my car stopped working and everything just became a lot hard-er," Roca said. "When my support team from the VA and National Guard introduced me to Second Chance Cars I was excit-ed but not sure if it was real. I'm relieved to say that we got a car--my kids are super excited and I can now go shop and get to my medical appointments."

During the last few months, a small group of students worked with in-structors to repair a Ford C-Max hybrid car for Sec-ond Chance, an innovative local nonprofit that awards affordable donated cars to working people.

"I couldn't be happier to be working with Sec-ond Chance Cars," said Instructor Paul Murphy, who oversaw administra-tive aspects of the project. "It gives us great satisfac-tion to know that our stu-

dents are sharpening their automotive service skills while also contributing to a great cause."

"It's always an exciting opportunity for our stu-dents to work on a proj-ect that gives back to the community, and this has been no exception. We're thrilled to have had this

chance to support Second Chance Cars' work and for the hands-on and remote learning experience it gave our students," Super-intendent David DiBarri said.

Northeast Metro Tech had begun conversations before the pandemic with Second Chance Cars to have students repair a ve-hicle during vocational classes.

However, student par-ticipation was temporarily delayed because North-east Metro Tech began the year with a fully remote learning model due to the COVID-19 pandem-ic. Robert MacGregor, the Department Head of Collision Repair and Re-finishing, instead began repairing the Ford C-Max, which had been rear-end-ed, creating remote les-sons and demonstrations for 16 sophomore students last fall.

“This partnership was particularly special, be-cause not only is this car

going to a well-deserving local veteran, but it also helped students learn re-motely during the pan-demic,” Second Chance Cars Director Holin said. “This has been an incred-ible collaboration, and we’re thankful to Wally and Jane for their kind do-nation, Northeast Metro Tech for their partnership in repairing the vehicle, Metro Credit Union for the car loan and LKQ, who donated a replace-ment rear door as well."

MacGregor began working on the vehicle in October and finished this December, just before the district began its hybrid learning model, allowing students to provide hands-on help for the final steps of the work.

“The live demon-strations of the repairs I watched helped me to learn and understand the repair process by seeing how it gets done rather than just reading about it," said Andrea Hart, a sopho-

more from Revere. "I was able to get a visual of what happens when repairing a car."

After body repairs were finished, the car was tak-en to the district's Auto Technology Department for mechanical repairs. Automotive Technology Instructor Clune and three senior students then began making those repairs to the car. They finished their work on Jan. 22.

"I’m happy to work with Second Chance Cars and repair the Ford C-Max," said Cristofer Davis Romero, a senior, from Chelsea. "I learned how to repair a parking brake line. Also get to help to make sure the vehicle is safe."

Second Chance Cars is able to operate thanks to the donations of gen-tly used vehicles from the public. To learn more about the nonprofit and the vehicle donation pro-cess, visit www.second-chancecars.org.

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Northeast Voke automotive students give car a second chance with new owner

COURTESY PHOTO

Maria Roca, administrators, teachers, students, and representatives from Second Chance Cars, the Massachusetts National Guard, Metro Credit Union gathered on Tuesday as Roca received a car from Second Chance, repaired by Northeast Metro Tech.

COURTESY PHOTO NORTHEAST METRO TECH

From left: Sophomore students William Sagastume Gonzalez of Chelsea, Jaiden Diaz of Chelsea, Curtis Belliveau of Winthrop, Matthew McCarthy of Woburn, Andrea Hart of Re-vere and Nathaniel Oteri of Wakefield.

MAPC, artists team up to better reach communities with COVID communications