By Seth Daniel

Wellness Center Direc-tor Karen Avila has resigned from her position as of Tues-day afternoon amidst continu-ing questions about her stated qualifications – among them earning a master’s degree from Tufts University in nu-trition.

City officials confirmed late on Tuesday afternoon

that Avila had resigned from her position as the director of the Center – a position she has held since it opened in March 2016. The resignation came after a few days of questions about the legitimacy of Avi-la’s qualifications, and that came amidst concerns for months about the work cul-ture at the Wellness Center.

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bill Perkins was presented with a sweatshirt from Coach thelux-on Pierre at the annual everett high football banquet on sun-day, Feb. 3, in anthony’s of Malden. Football players, cheerlead-ers and community supporters were honored at the banquet, with first-year head Coach theluxon Pierre thanking everyone for their effort in the 2018 season. see Page 7 for more photos.

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steven garrity was joined by friends and family for a super bowl party, his final gath-ering before being deployed with the army National guard Unit this week. garrity was joined by sisters, Rebecca and Colleen, his mother Michelle, and Councilor Mike Mc-Laughlin, who present-ed him with a citation from the City of everett. It was all capped off with an exciting super bowl win by the Patri-ots, 13-3, over the Rams. see Page 9 for more photos.

By Seth Daniel

One woman has alleged a detailed a story of sexual ha-rassment by former Supt. Fred Foresteire during what was supposed to be a job interview in 2013, disclosing her alleged story to School Committee members in a pointed e-mail to all members last December.

She has exclusively shared her alleged story with the In-dependent on the condition her name not yet be revealed. Her identity is known to School Committee members and many in the City and she

has said she is willing to give her name later in order to sup-port other victims in court.

She also said she has ap-proached Attorney Tara Swartz to let her know she is willing to detail her alleged story under oath if it would help defendants being repre-sented by Swartz in sexual harassment claims against Foresteire and the Everett Schools.

Now out of teaching, the woman said she works in the real estate world in a near-

ZBA approves special permit for Encore shuttle bus contractor

By Adam Swift

Despite concerns from the City Planner that it does not meet the intent of the new Commercial Triangle Eco-nomic Development District, the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) granted a special per-mit for a bus and shuttle busi-ness at 373 Second St.

Although it was listed as a “bus terminal” on the legal notice for Monday night’s public hearing, Attorney Da-vid O’Neil said the location will be used only as a hub for DPV Transportation’s fleet.

DPV has a three-year con-tract with Encore Boston Harbor to provide free shut-tle service to the casino for employees and customers, O’Neil said. The former Gen-eral Steel site will be used as offices for DPB dispatchers, as well as for repairs to and storage of the fleet’s approxi-mately 20 full-size buses and 20 smaller shuttle buses, he said.

“This is not a bus termi-nal,” O’Neil said. “People will not be going there to get on the bus.”

With the buses running a

ZBA grants variance for “temporary” Encore parking lot

By Adam Swift

Monday night, the Zon-ing Board of Appeals (ZBA) approved a variance allow-ing for a 625-space outdoor community parking lot on Air Force Road in the Village.

The lot was initially intro-duced as an employee park-ing lot late last year by Wynn officials at Encore Boston Harbor. But at a ZBA meet-ing in January, Wynn officials switched the plan to the com-munity parking lot, which would be open to commuters

By Seth Daniel

Officials at Exelon said this week they have had conver-sations in the recent past with developers expressing interest in purchasing the old power plant site on Lower Broad-way abutting the Alford Street Bridge.

Mark Rodgers, a spokes-man for Exelon, said there

is no official sales process in place, they have been ap-proached about selling off the old, decommissioned part of the power plant – what was once known as Mystic gener-ators 1 through 6.

“There is no official sales process, but there have been interested developers that have talked to us about por-tions of the facility no longer

in active use,” he said. “We’ve had talks.”

Rodgers said there is no broker in place, and the prop-erty hasn’t been put on the market, but he said there has been interest from outside.

The property in question was once the Boston Edison plant, and features several

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By Seth Daniel

For years Encore Boston Harbor and the City of Everett have been telling people to be prepared for the day that they begin starting to fill the 5,000 jobs that are going to be need-ed to run the massive resort casino on Lower Broadway.

That day has come.Encore rolled out 5,000

jobs with more than 500 job titles late last week on their website, with their eye on

hiring local people at three major hiring events at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston this February, March and April. It is likely one, if not the, largest hiring event for one, single company in the history of the region.

All of the jobs are now posted for review by the gen-eral public at encoreboston-jobs.com.

The events will be punc-tuated by walk-in interviews for people seeking any of the thousands of jobs.

“We’ve rolled out all our jobs now,” said John Tocco of Encore. “These jobs are going to be filled at three major hir-ing events in February, March and April at the Hynes Con-vention Center. They will con-duct interviews on site at these events and you could go out having made significant prog-ress in the process to be able to be a finalist candidate. We have all kinds of hiring needs, from cage managers count-

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by city. Her 2013 Everett job interview – the very first teaching interview she ever had – was the first of many reasons she left the teaching world, a world she dreamed she would work in for the rest of her life so she could make a difference in the lives of small children.

However, in that very first job interview, she said that de-spite all her qualifications and preparations, the alleged con-versation eventually focused on her anatomy and her ward-robe. She said she was floored when it happened, and she never ended up working for the Everett Schools and de-cided not to take legal action for fear of being blacklisted.

“It was my first teach-ing position after graduating from Lesley College,” she said. “The interview with the principal went well and they said it seemed like I was go-ing to get the job – my first real teaching job. I was so excited. The interview with the superintendent was go-ing well too, and they said I would get the job. All the sud-den, allegedly the next thing I know we’re talking about my boobs. At first, I didn’t think I heard it correctly. Then we talked for some time about my wardrobe, my cleavage and my boobs again. He al-legedly said I could have the job, but I needed to make sure I was prepared for the param-eters and requirements. I was shocked beyond belief. I went home and thought about it. I talked to my family and I talked with an attorney, but I didn’t want to bring litigation after my first interview. No other school district would have touched me. I would have been marked, so I let it go. I let it go because when you’re new you’re all by yourself. I was all alone in this. The union isn’t there for you when you’re new. No one in the school system would help me because he was so powerful. He was a very pow-erful man, I could tell.”

Attorneys for former Supt. Fred Foresteire at Spruce Law did not return multiple calls to comment on the allegation, but Foresteire has remained clear in media interviews that he is innocent of all the claims of sexual harassment made against him.

The story was first discov-

ered by the Independent via a public information request of e-mails to and from the School Committee over the past several months. In that trove of e-mails was one sent to all members from the wom-an detailed above. The Inde-pendent then reached out to her for further comment and verification. In that conversa-tion, she detailed the alleged event from 2013.

In the e-mail, she mentions to School Committee mem-bers that Foresteire allegedly called her a “hussy” and said the Everett Schools don’t hire women that dress like “whores.”

That e-mail sparked a con-versation between School Committee members after-ward.

“Note the ‘hussy’ com-ment,” wrote Committeeman Frank Parker.

“Wow….another check mark against FFF,” replied School Committeeman Tom Abruzzese, regarding Forest-eire.

“Can’t you hear him saying it!” replied Parker.

Abruzzese said last week that the allegation is trou-bling if true, and that there isn’t much they can say at the moment due to the ongoing investigations.

“Like most of the stuff we’ve heard, it’s deeply dis-turbing if true, but other than that we can’t really comment on it now, especially with our investigation and the MCAD investigation and who knows what others are coming down the pike. We’re going to be as transparent as possible as this goes on and let the process play out.”

He said they expect the independent School Commit-tee investigation by Attorney Ryan to conclude within the next 45 days.

For the woman detailed above in the job interview, she said it was a humbling experi-ence. She had hoped to work in early childhood education in Everett, and had come for the interview with Foresteire after interviewing with the principal at the school site.

She said it was a very hot day, and the school adminis-tration building did not have the air conditioning on. After waiting more than 30 minutes, she said she got very hot and started to sweat due to the heat

and her nerves. She decided to remove her cardigan and wear just her modest teacher’s dress into the interview. She said she still doesn’t know if that sparked the alleged con-versation or not.

“It wasn’t a sun dress or a nightclub dress and I wasn’t wearing a push-up bra or anything,” she said. “It was a simple teacher’s dress. I couldn’t believe it. I’ve had kids and I’m not flat-chested. I’m just a regular woman. I couldn’t believe it – a hussy is what he allegedly called me. Over the years I’ve reflected on it a lot and with the #Me-Too movement, things started building up…I was so excited to be hired by a school system and having to talk about my breasts was so humiliating. Even now, I wear my collar up to my neck. It was just so hot in there and I wanted to be comfortable and relaxed for the interview. Ever since that day, I’ve always been so self-conscious and that’s nev-er gone away.”

The woman said she let the alleged incident stew for years until she picked up a newspa-per this past December and saw the story about Forest-eire being accused of sexual harassment. That prompted her e-mail to the School Com-mittee. It also prompted her to reach out to Attorney Swartz to let her know that she want-ed to help the alleged victims.

She said she is ready to stand up in court and testify to her alleged story, and she said she wants to do it because it’s the right thing to do for all women who have been in her shoes.

“You can pass so many tests and jump so many hur-dles and you’re so profes-sional and prepared and it all comes down to your cleav-age,” she said. “My mother was a teacher and my grand-mother was a teacher. I had big dreams of making a dif-ference. Imagine if it were a man and at the conclusion of the interview they told him to unzip his pants in order to talk about what’s going on down there because they want to make sure it’s all appropriate before they hired him. I think there are so many women that just internalize this stuff, and like me, they just walk around their entire life with it.”

By Seth Daniel

The Everett School Com-mittee has voted to engage the Massachusetts Association of School Committees (MASC) to help in beginning the search for a new permanent superin-tendent of schools.

Chair Tom Abruzzese said the Committee voted at its meeting on Monday to get the process started, and while there are some disagreements on the timeline for getting a new school leader, everyone is ready to get started.

“I think we want to get started as soon as possible,” he said. “The letters have gone out to them and we’re waiting for guidance. We have to real-ly get going on this. It has to be advertised. We have to get together a job description…It would be pointless to go back and get the last job descrip-tion from 30 years ago. It’s all changed. So, we’re really en-tering uncharted waters here.”

Abruzzese said he is glad they chose to work with the MASC, and they have capped any expenditure for the search at $30,000. He said MASC is very experienced, but he also said Everett is pretty far be-hind when it comes down to time.

“They have assisted in hun-dreds of these searches,” he said. “Although every com-munity is different, there are certain basic stuff you have to look for. At the same time, we’re sort of behind and real-ly, really want to get going on it. We’ve just started.”

Abruzzese is of the opinion that the process could play out quickly and they could hope-fully have someone in place by the next school year, per-haps even before the end of

this school year.“Hopefully the process is

more streamlined and quick-er than we anticipate,” he said. “I’m keeping my fingers crossed for having some-one by the beginning of next school year. It would be great if we could complete it before the end of this school year, but that may be too optimistic.”

School Committeeman Frank Parker said he would rather wait another year to make the final decision, stay-ing with Interim Supt. Janice Gauthier and putting a new person in place by September 2020.

“My opinion is it’s go-ing to be a long process,” he said. “It’s February and we haven’t engaged with MASC or had any applicants. In the meantime, there are plenty of other districts that have a head start, including Chel-sea. I would advocate having a permanent superintendent by the beginning of the 2020 school year…I’m very, very comfortable with the job that Janice Gauthier, Kevin Shaw and Charlie Obremsky are do-ing. We have to be cautious, methodical and cautious. We don’t want to be searching for another superintendent in three years. Some really good superintendents go from con-tract to contract.”

He also said he felt it would be better to wait until the in-vestigations are concluded be-fore bringing in a new leader.

“I don’t think we can start going out and getting candi-dates until the independent investigation is over,” he said. “That give us an inkling of what’s really going on and when it comes time to make that decision, the candidate would know what the deal is prior to accepting.”

The process would like-ly include forming a search committee that is made up of a cross section of the commu-nity. That committee would do the initial interviews and weed through all the appli-cants (they are expecting up to 150 applicants) with the help of the MASC. The search committee would then recom-mend a small number of final-ists.

That would transition into

public interviews of the can-didates by the School Com-mittee. A final decision would come after those interview.

Parker said one aspect that could be introduced is the idea of forming Focus Groups made up of certain specific groups – such as a focus group of teachers or students or par-ents. From those groups, he said, even more public input could be gathered during the early stages of the search.

Abruzzese said by all ac-counts, the job is a desirable one for any superintendent candidate.

“We have new schools, a new high school and a voca-tional school just opening,” he said. “There are just so many positives about the po-sition and I think you could ease into the position and quickly get up and running. At the same time, the idea from outside likely is this job might need a full re-build and nothing could be further from the truth. It’s a very attractive position for any candidate, I think.”

Parker said he hopes to welcome 14 candidates that are now licensed within the district, as well as a good crop of candidates from outside the district.

NOTEBOOK – •In other School Commit-

tee business, the members approved a new contract for interim Supt. Janice Gauthier. Abruzzese said Gauthier will only be the superintendent now, and she will be looking to hire a Director of Curricu-lum.

Abruzzese said he had lob-bied for her to only take the one job, and didn’t feel a su-perintendent should be trying to handle two jobs.

Gauthier would be going from $145,000 per year to $190,000.

•Additionally, Attorney Bob Galvin of the South Shore has been signed on as the new School Committee attorney, replacing James Spencer To-bin, who resigned in Decem-ber as the long-time attorney. Galvin originally represented the Committee on the special investigation, and now is the permanent attorney as well.

School Committee moves to begin Superintendent Search process

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Music Director Robert Lehmann will conduct the North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra in its Winter Con-cert with a program highlight-ed by trumpeter Joseph Foley playing the Trumpet Concert by Johann Nepomuc Hum-mel on Sunday, February 17, at 3 p.m. at Swampscott High School.

Antonin Dvorak’s “Sla-vonic Dances” and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 4 complete the program.

Tickets are $30, $25 for seniors and students, and chil-dren 12 and under are admit-ted free. Tickets will be avail-able at the door on the day of the concert and are available for advance purchase through the Orchestra’s website HY-PERLINK “http://www.nspo.org” \t “_blank” www.nspo.org.

Hummel’s short (under 20 minutes) but spirited con-certo was composed in 1803 and is well-known for its pert rhythms and pleasant melo-dies. First written for trum-pets in the “pre-valve” age, it wide range and inflection and dancing quality has made it a popular staple of the classical repertoire.

Soloist Joseph Foley is well-known throughout New England as principal trum-pet of both the Rhode Island Philharmonic and Portland (Maine) Symphony Orches-tra. He has performed with the Boston Pops, Boston Classical Orchestra and Bos-ton Landmarks Orchestra and his recording “Nightsongs” earned critical praise.

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symphony is a brilliant, if controversial, example of the composer’s work. While some considered it to contain errors in orchestration, others regarded it as daring and in-novative. Regardless of his-torical commentary, the work has grown to be regarded as one of the great symphonies of all time. Leonard Bern-stein recorded the work with the New York Philharmonic and praised its “image of Ro-mantic Man, the Artist-God, escaping from the treacherous earth on the aerieal currents of a masterpiece.”

Schumann’s Fourth is to-day regarded as rising above the blinders and conventions of its time.

Antonin Dvorak wrote the Slavonic Dances as a series of 16 orchestral pieces in 1878

and 1866. The NSPO will play Nos. 6, 7, and 8 of Opus 46. Dvorak was inspired to write the dances by the work of Johannes Brahms, whose Hungarian Dances were high-ly regarded.

The North Shore Phil-harmonic Orchestra plays three subscription concerts at Swampscott High School. The 2018-2019 season marks the Orchestra’s 71st Anni-versary. The Orchestra is supported in part by a grant from the Swampscott Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachu-setts Cultural Council, a state agency. For more information about the NSPO, visit the Or-chestra’s website at HYPER-LINK “http://www.nspo.org” \t “_blank” www.nspo.org. or on Facebook.

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Music Director robert Lehmann will conduct the North shore Philharmonic orchestra in its Winter Concert on sunday, Febru-ary 17 at 3 p.m. at swampscott high school.

ing money to IT tech people to horticulturists to florists to security. There are all kinds of roles. Now is the time, and there is literally something for everyone’s interests.”

So far, Encore has sched-uled the February event for Feb. 24 and 25, from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. both days at the Hynes in Boston’s Back Bay.

However, Everett residents will have a preference and an edge in that process. All this week, Everett residents can report to the satellite office in City Hall to pre-register for a particular job and an inter-view time – severely curtail-ing the wait times that will be encountered at the event.

“This week we’ve had a se-ries of interview and pre-reg-istration for our host and surrounding communities, including Everett,” said Toc-co. “Any Everett resident can go to the career office in City Hall and pre-register for a set time and a specific job. You will be pre-registered for that job title you are looking for.”

He said those utilizing that advantage should come in prepared, having already looked at the website and de-ciding which job they would

like to pursue. They should also come ready with a re-sume and all applicable pa-perwork. That will get them streamlined and ready for the interview time slot.

The jobs range in skills and experiences.

For instance, there are sev-eral postings put up on Mon-day for Turndown (Guest Room) Attendants. That job would entail cleaning assigned guest rooms and facility ar-eas according to Wynn stan-dards and procedures. They would also have to provide a comfortable evening envi-ronment by refreshing rooms before bedtime. The require-ments are that a person have a high school degree and are 21 years old. It does require registration with the Massa-chusetts Gaming Commission (MGC), and also to be able to speak conversational English. However, knowing a second language is a plus.

Another more unexpected opening showed up on Sun-day and is for a K-9 officer, responsible for handling, up-keep, maintenance, deploy-ment and care of either a K-9 explosive detector dog or bed-bug detector dog.

“The officer will assist Se-curity by performing random, special event, and dignitary explosive detection and pro-tective mailroom/hotel room/ballroom/luggage sweeps, as well as any special projects and additional related duties as assigned by the Director of Security,” read the job post-ing.

Another listing came Sun-day and is in the legal depart-ment, looking for a Title 31 Compliance officer. That per-son would be responsible for making sure all of the rules and regulations from the fed-eral government and the MGC are followed.

Last week, the casino rolled out a position as a barber at the resort. They would be responsible for “performing various hair cutting and shav-ing procedures and techniques for guests; ensure positive/friendly customer relations, and to perform all assigned functions/duties in accor-dance with established guide-lines/procedures.”

It’s just a sampling of the thousands of jobs now out publicly and available for re-viewing and pursuing.

constant schedule of routes, O’Neil said it is unlikely that there will ever be the full complement of 40 vehicles on Second Street.

Pick-up sites will be as distant as Millbury and Lon-donderry, NH. In Everett it-self, the shuttle buses will run 24/7 and mirror some current MBTA bus routes.

While the service will pri-marily be a shuttle service to the casino, O’Neil said Ever-ett residents will be free to use the buses to get around in the city.

“This will help allevi-ate traffic congestion,” said O’Neil. “This will also take some of the burden off the MBTA.”

The transportation center will have 15 full-time em-ployees such as dispatchers on site, and there will also be about 80 drivers needed for the shuttle service. Addition-

ally, each bus on the property, valued up to $500,000 each, will be registered in the city, O’Neil said.

“That’s a lot of jobs and a lot of revenue for the city, and it will be a good step in im-proving a blighted area,” he said.

But Tony Sousa, the city’s planning and development director, said the proposal was not in harmony with the recently approved zoning for the Commercial Triangle dis-trict – which seeks to limit the industrial and commercial uses in favor of residential, re-tail and office/lab uses.

“It’s not consistent with the vision (for the area) and the approved zoning,” said Sou-sa. “It’s not in harmony with the zoning ordinance and I ask the ZBA to hold up the exist-ing zoning ordinance. You are looking at a project that is go-ing to be there for the next 30

to 40 years.”The new zoning in the Tri-

angle that pushes residential, office and retail uses in large developments, similar to what is already going on at the old Harley Davidson building by developer Andy Montelli.

ZBA Chairman Joseph DeSisto said the transporta-tion proposal represented a cleaner, less detrimental busi-ness for the area than General Steel. He said it didn’t make sense to allow a more detri-mental business to continue to operate on the site when there was a better option.

“If we were just waiting for everyone to move out or sell out, we would all be dead,” DeSisto said.

The special permit passed with a 4-1 vote, with Mary Gerace casting the lone no vote.

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towering smoke stacks and a vacant building. It was sold to Exelon in 1994, and has been unused for years. The facility fronts Lower Broadway di-rectly across from the Encore Boston Harbor casino, and the City has not been shy in mov-ing to promote something bet-ter on the site.

Eversource Last month, Mayor Car-

lo DeMaria said he would like to get the Designated Port Area (DPA) restriction removed from the property so they could create a more people-friendly development there. He said he would like to see a nice hotel that would be

a great addition to the planned Entertainment District along Lower Broadway.

City officials are also in the process this year of looking at the entire waterfront to see how things could be enhanced or changed, with the Exelon parcel in question being one piece of that review.

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The Massachusetts Senate passed two comprehensive re-ports updating the Senate and Joint Rules related to harass-ment, diversity, and transpar-ency. Sen. Sal DiDomenico (D-Everett) served as Chair of the temporary Senate Com-mittee on Rules, charged with reviewing and making recom-mendations on changes to the Senate and Joint Rules.

Sen. DiDomenico led weeks of negotiations amongst his colleagues on the Committee regarding how to update the Senate and House’s policies and proce-dures for conducting official business. After releasing the Committee’s proposals, Sen-ators had the opportunity to file amendments, and Sen. Di-Domenico lead the debate on the two rules packages on the Senate floor.

“I would like to thank Sen-ate President Spilka and my colleagues who served with me on the temporary Senate Committee on Rules for their collaboration and dedication to ensuring a safe environ-ment, transparency, and in-tegrity in our body,” said Sen. DiDomenico. “These rules are the result of a truly col-

laborative process, and I am grateful to every member who reached out over the past few weeks to share their thoughts on our rules and suggestions on how we can improve the ways we conduct our busi-ness. I am confident that the policy procedures adopted today will lay the foundation for thoughtful debate in our chamber and a productive leg-islative session.”

“We create the culture of the Senate by how we work together and the respect we show each other,” stated Sen-ate President Karen E. Spilka (D-Ashland). “The adoption of these rules will help guide us as we continue to build a Senate that celebrates diver-sity, seeks to prevent harass-ment and discrimination, and encourages transparency. I applaud the work of the tem-porary Senate Committee on Rules for their thoroughness and thoughtfulness, and thank everyone who contributed to this process.”

In May 2018, the Senate Special committee to review the sexual harassment poli-cies and procedures submit-ted its report with a series of recommendations for updates

to the Senate’s policies and procedures. Key highlights to the Senate rules proposal include tightening up existing protocol by creating a new rule that explicitly prohibits harassment, requiring timely training of all members and staff, and including interns in Senate policies. The proposal also requires all rule viola-tions, including harassment, to be referred to the Commit-tee on Ethics.

The Senate also adopted an amendment filed by Senator Diana DiZoglio (D-Methuen) prohibiting the Senate from utilizing nondisclosure agree-ments (NDAs) or similar clauses in an agreement or contract, and enforcing previ-ously entered into NDAs.

“I want to thank Senate President Spilka and Chair DiDomenico for working with members to send a clear, un-mistakable message, that we are committed to protecting the rights of those working in this building and will take no part in protecting politicians or their employees who en-gage in predatory behaviors or be a party to the silencing of victims of harassment, dis-crimination or assault,” said

Sen. DiZoglio.The Senate rules proposal

also includes the creation of the position of an Officer of Diversity and Inclusion, who will be part of the Senate’s human resources department and who will focus on the re-cruitment and retention of a diverse workforce.

Building on the work of the 2018 Special Legisla-tive Commission on Public Records the Senate adopted amendments to both the Sen-ate and the Joint rules to im-prove efficiency, transparency and access to records. The Senate rules proposal codifies the current practice of provid-ing copies of Senate session broadcasts upon request to members and the public in a timely manner. It also in-cludes provisions to ensure timely notification of Senate hearings and Senate commit-tee action.

The Joint Rules package:· Requires both Senate and

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are our futureIt is an undeniable fact of history that all Americans other

than Native Americans are descendants of immigrants.It also is undeniably true that immigrants have not always

been welcome with open arms, starting most conspicuously with the Know-Nothing Party of the 1840s-50s, which rose to some degree of political prominence solely based on its opposi-tion to immigration, specifically Catholics and Irish.

On the other hand, Americans have at times been more than willing to accept immigrants. Here is a news item from one of our newspapers, the Winthrop Sun-Transcript, that appeared in January of 1949:

“Four Latvian refugees, including Capt. Rosenberg and his wife, who were among the 29 refugees who landed in Boston aboard a 65-foot ketch in July, will open the Home Pastry Shop in the Centre, formerly Eliot and Taylor’s Bread and Pie Shop. The group has received the financial backing of kindhearted people in the area.”

What also is true is that immigrants have contributed might-ily to making America arguably the greatest and most powerful nation on earth, from the days of our founding to the present time.

From Alexander Hamilton, who was a native of the island of Nevis in the Caribbean; to Enrico Fermi (Italian-born), Ed-win Teller (Hungarian-born), and Robert Oppenheimer (a son of immigrants), who developed the atomic bomb; to Steve Jobs (whose father was an immigrant from Syria); to the founders of Google (whose parents are Russian), it has been immigrants who have contributed greatly to both the reality and promise of American exceptionalism.

It also is undeniably true that declining birth rates in Ameri-ca today will mean that there will be fewer young people to pay for, and take care of, our rapidly-aging population.

To those who seek to impose strict quotas on immigration, perhaps they should think of immigration this way: If you are building a successful sports team, you need to have the best and hardest-working players -- and in the case of global com-petition, that means we need to be open to receiving people from around the world. Immigrants always have led the way in taking America to the next level.

In our view, our nation will thrive in the 21st century only if we remain committed to attracting the world’s most industrious minds.

Dear Rusty: I will be 64 years old in 2019 and think-ing about Social Security. My full retirement age is 66 and two months, and I’m trying to figure out the best way to get the most out of my retirement. I have a lot of questions, but just need to know the right direction to go. I’ve been told by family members that I have to sign up for Medicare by the age of 65 even though I can't get full benefits from social security until I am 66 and two months. I don't understand exactly how that works. Do I have to pay out of pocket for Medicare until my Social Se-curity starts? Can my wife get benefits from me? Thanks in advance. Signed: Confused

Dear Confused: Medicare and Social Security are two independent benefit programs, even though you enroll in Medicare through Social Se-curity. You do not need to en-roll in both at the same time. You can wait until you reach your full retirement age, or up to age 70, to take your Social Security benefits, but age 65 is when you should enroll in

Medicare for your healthcare coverage. You have a sev-en-month window to do that, starting three months before the month you turn 65 and ending three months after the month you turn 65.

If you have other “cred-itable” healthcare coverage from your or your spouse’s employer, you can decline enrolling in Medicare Part B (coverage for doctors and other outpatient services) and thus avoid the Part B premi-um. Medicare Part A is free because you are also eligible for Social Security (but you don’t need to claim SS to get Medicare Part A).

If you do not have other creditable healthcare cover-age, you should enroll in both Medicare Part A and B at age 65 and, at that time, make ar-rangements with Medicare to pay the premium direct-ly (2019 base premium is $135.50/month), which can be done three different ways: You can set up an automatic payment from your bank, you can complete a form request-ing Medicare to automatically debit your bank account on

the 20th of each month, or you can be billed directly and pay by check, money order or credit card in three month in-crements using coupons they will provide. By enrolling in Medicare at age 65 you avoid any potential late enrollment penalty if you enroll later.

You can enroll in Medicare either online at www.ssa.gov, or by contacting your local Social Security office direct-ly (find it at www.ssa.gov/locator). Then later, after you claim your Social Security benefits, Social Security will automatically deduct your Medicare Part B premium di-rectly from your Social Secu-rity payment. At age 65, you should also seek creditable prescription drug coverage (known as Medicare Part D), because if you don’t take a Part D plan within your ini-tial enrollment period you’ll be subject to a late enrollment penalty if you take a Part D plan later.

As for your wife getting benefits from you, I’m not clear if you’re referring to Medicare benefits or Social Security benefits. If your wife

isn’t eligible for Medicare on her own (doesn’t have enough Social Security credits) she can enroll on your record when she turns 65. If you are referring to your wife getting Social Security spousal ben-efits from you, she may be able to when you have started to collect your own benefit, if she is at least 62 and if any benefit she is due on her own is smaller than she is eligible for as your spouse.

This article is intended for information purposes only and does not represent le-gal or financial guidance. It presents the opinions and interpretations of the AMAC Foundation’s staff, trained and accredited by the Nation-al Social Security Association (NSSA). NSSA and the AMAC Foundation and its staff are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Social Security Admin-istration or any other gov-ernmental entity. To submit a question, visit our website (amacfoundation.org/pro-grams/social-security-adviso-ry) or email us at ssadvisor@amacfoundation.org.

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· Directs the clerk of the House and Senate to estab-lish temporary rules for joint committees unable to come to agreement on rules

· Requires joint committees to provide text or summaries of legislation to members pri-or to consideration at execu-tive session

· Requires all recorded votes of joint committees to be posted on the General Court website

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Avila’s position entails overseeing the nutrition and meals program, as well as the athletic training and fitness center operations in the Old High School.

Questions began to surface on Monday – and even prior – about whether her qualifi-cations and certifications as a nutritionist and dietician were up to date. Avila has stated that she has a Master’s Degree in nutrition from Tufts Uni-versity and that she is a Reg-istered Dietician (RD).

It was questioned whether or not she needed a state nutri-tionist or dietician license as well, but those licenses were not required for the Wellness Center job.

An inquiry by the Indepen-dent with Tufts University did not reveal any initial re-cords of Avila (or her maid-en name Karpenko) having graduated with a master’s degree from Tufts. A spokes-person from the university said they checked all of the initial places, including elec-tronic records from several of the schools, and even had searched the paper records from several of the schools, but had found nothing yet by press time.

That search did continue for a record of her degree after

press time. It was a degree that was stipulated in her tag line on all official communica-tions under the letters “MS.”

It was confirmed on Mon-day that Avila had let her RD certification expire in August as she did not take the con-tinuing education classes to keep the certificate current. So, at the end of August, it did lapse. On Monday, she had in-dicated through a spokesman that she intended to take the courses to make her RD cer-tificate current. However, that was no longer applicable on Tuesday after her resignation.

Avila declined to comment on the situation.

City officials would not comment on the matter other than to say she had resigned. They indicated that they are legally prohibited from speak-ing about personnel matters to the public, and thus could not comment any further on her situation.

Councilor Michael Mc-Laughlin said he was sad to see the situation unfold in the manner it did, but he said he had to raise the issue for the sake of the people of Everett who use the Center. He said he first heard that Avila’s qualifi-cations might not be accurate late last week.

After he asked several

questions about the matter, he said he wasn’t getting the an-swers he hoped for.

He said he felt betrayed and was very disappointed the matter came out this way.

“I am surprised beyond words to know this news that someone the administration put its faith and blind trust in treated our community with such disrespect for the law and for the residents of our community,” he said. “I be-lieve she should have been fired and should have not had the opportunity to resign. She should be held to whatever standards are in place for such offenses she has committed.”

McLaughlin had planned to put the matter on the City Council calendar for this com-ing Monday in order to try to get answers. He said one of the items on the calendar calls for everyone in every City de-partment to prove their certi-fication.

“That’s more important than ever now,” he said. “I think every employee with any certification should in the next 30 days prove they have the documents they need to do their job. I’m going to be introducing that on Monday at the Council.”

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and residents as well as pro-viding some overflow parking for the casino and employee parking.

The variance from the ZBA was needed because outdoor parking facilities are not al-lowed by right in the River-front Overlay District.

The plan by Wynn officials is to keep the parking lot open for three years, with develop-ment of that 6.5-acre parcel for other uses after that time.

“This is going to be a com-munity lot, not an employee lot, and it can be used by any-one,” said Chris Gordon, pres-ident of Wynn Massachusetts Design and Development. “There will be overflow park-ing for Encore employees, and there will be a charge to use the lot, with the first three hours being free.”

The three free hours will allow residents to use the Riv-erWalk and playground being constructed on the site, ac-cording to Gordon. He added that the lot will be staffed and monitored 24 hours per day.

There was concern about the community lot by some City officials when it was first changed from an employee lot last month.

But on Monday night, the major issues of concern were mainly raised by the local Bike-to-the-Sea group, who were worried about increased

traffic and safety issues, es-pecially at the Prescott Street access point.

“We support this project with some conditions and concerns,” said Margaret Lee, an Everett resident and Bike-to-the-Sea member. She and several other group members said they would like to see a gate closing off access to the bike path at Prescott Street.

City Councilor Michael McLaughlin initially balked when Wynn officials changed the project to a community lot. But after some engineering tweaks and discussions with Wynn, the councilor said he now supports the three-year use of the parcel as a tempo-rary parking lot.

However, McLaugh-lin said, the residents in the neighborhood do not want to see the Prescott Street access gated off.

“The residents of the neigh-borhood want the gate open,” he said. “If it is closed, there will be a bottleneck for the en-tire neighborhood.”

He added that the City can work with Encore to ensure a better system for safety and traffic mitigation at the bike path.

Gordon noted that there will be improvements made at that area, but that it will be up to city officials as to wheth-er the gate will be opened or

closed.Tony Sousa, the City’s

planning and development director, said he supported the Encore parking lot with a number of conditions which the ZBA included in its deci-sion.

Some of those conditions included not allowing long-term parking of more than 30 days at the lot, improvements to the Prescott Street crossing of the Northern Strand bike path, and for the variance to expire after three years, with an option for Encore to re-apply for a new variance if it wishes to keep using the park-ing lot beyond that time.

Gordon said he does not ex-pect there to be an extension of the variance.

“That (lot) is worth more to the City and to us as a devel-opment,” he said. “We don’t intend to leave it as a parking lot.”

The Air Force Road lot will be in addition to the 823-space parking lot across from the Wynn site on Lower Broad-way that has already been approved for temporary over-flow parking. That lot would be in operation by a third-par-ty for up to three years and would serve to accommodate additional traffic related to the casino and the new Harbor-Walk park upon opening.

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The New England Patriots took to the streets of Boston Tuesday, Feb. 5, to celebrate their win in front of millions of fans from all over the re-gion in a rolling Duck Boat rally – as has become the cus-tom for each of the six Super Bowl championships. Play-ers enjoyed a very mild win-ter day and had fun with the throngs of fans who reveled in number six.

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Everett High School celebrated its annual football banquet at Anthony’s in Malden on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 3. Foot-ball players and cheerleaders were joined by their family and friends for dinner and collected their varsity jerseys and sweat-shirts. Graduating Senior Declan Smith was recognized with the Unsung Hero, presented by Everett sports hero Jack Mc-Grath.

Interim superintendent Janice gauthier expressed her pride in the Crimson tide team.

Coach theluxon Pierre thanked students for their hard work and dedication in his first year as coach.

sen. sal DiDomenico congrat-ulated everett high school students on another great year on the gridiron.

everett high school Principal erick Naumann congratulated the football players and cheer-leaders on their hard work this past year.

Crimson tide freshman cheerleaders were recognized at the 2019 banquet. 

graduating seniors celebrated their last high school football banquet on super bowl sunday.graduating cheerleaders celebrated their final Crimson tide banquet on super bowl sunday at anthony’s in Malden. 

Crimson tide sophomore cheerleaders, Denora Landaverde, Jes-sica santos, and shayla Vaughn were recognized at the banquet. 

Junior cheerleaders were pleased to represent everett at the Crimson tide banquet.

sophomore football players celebrated at the Crimson tide banquet on super bowl sunday.

senior Declan smith (second from left) was awarded the Un-sung hero award, presented to him by sen. sal DiDomenico, Jack Mcgrath, and Coach theluxon Pierre.

Junior football players were honored at the everett Crimson tide banquet on sunday everett Crimson tide freshman were pleased to participate in their first year on the everett high school football team.

For their hard work behind the scenes recording and announc-ing each game for fans to view at home, Josh Delgaizo (the public address announcer) and bill Meunier (part of the ehs tV crew) were presented with Crimson tide sweatshirts from assistant superintendent Charlie obremski and Coach theluxon Pierre.

al Poste was presented with the fan of the year award at the football banquet on sunday for supporting the team through-out the football season. 

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PHOTOS BY KATY ROGERS

City officials and several res-idents have applauded the

efforts of the Department of Public Works and its sub-

contractors for their efforts to remove snow during last

Thursday’s snow storm. The Mayor’s Office indicated they

have received many positive comments, and councilors

such as Michael McLaughlin said he wanted to praise the work of the City crews in the difficult

storm.Here, a plow moves through Nichols Street on Thursday, with crews working for hours to keep

ahead of the storm, which dumped about 13.5 inches on Everett. Meanwhile, residents like

Jimmy Aversa joined his family in clearing the sidewalks as the storm was in full force.

PHOTO BY KATY ROGERS

School Committee member Bernie D'Onofrio (photo right)

– the newly elected chair of the Committee - was announced

and accompanied by his daughter Michela Tejeda at

the Inaugural Ball last Tuesday night, Jan. 2, in honor of the

City’s 125th anniversary. Short-ly after, Mayor Carlo DeMaria and his wife, Stacy, were introduced as they entered the Ball. The soiree was held immediately after

the official Inauguration ceremonies at Everett High School, and the Ball was coordinated by City Clerk Sergio Cornelio’s office.

See Page 5 for more photos.

By Joseph Domelowicz Jr.Longtime Everett public servant Millie Cardello has returned to public service and the Everett School Commit-tee following Monday night’s super-intense vote of the Joint Convention of the Ev-erett City Council and Everett School Committee.Cardello won by a vote of

10-9 of Amanda (Burley) Pat-terson, with the outcome of the vote coming down to the wire as candidates and their surrogates lobbied hard for votes through last weekend.

There were actually two School Committee appoint-ments to be made on Monday, with the Cardello/Patterson vote being the more contro-versial of the two.City Clerk Sergio Corne-

lio began the proceedings for Cardello and Patterson by opening nominations to fill the vacancy created by the December death of School Committee member Richard Baniewicz.As reported in the Indepen-

dent last week, in the weeks since Baniewicz’s death, two viable candidates to fill the

vacancy emerged in former School Committee, Common Councilor and Alderman Car-dello and former EHS stu-dent-athlete Patterson, who is also the daughter of City Council Clerk John Burley.

Patterson was nominated by City Councilor Michael McLaughlin, who gradat-ed EHS with Patterson, and Councilor Anthony DiPierro seconded the motion.School Committeeman

Thomas Abruzzese nominated Cardello, with the nomination seconded by Councilor Ste-phen Simonelli.The roll call vote resulted in

a 10-9 vote for Cardello, with Councilors Richard Dell Iso-la, Rosa DiFlorio, Leo McK-innon, and Simonelli voting with School Committee mem-bers Abruzzese, Marcony Almeida, Bernardino D’Onof-rio, Joseph LaMonica, Lester MacLaughlin and Frank Park-er voting for Cardello.Councilors Fred Capone,

DiPierro, John Hanlon, Mi-chael Marchese, Wayne Matewsky, McLaughlin and Peter Napolitano voted with

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Jason Cardinale of Everett beats a Lynn defender to the puck

at Connery Skating Rink in Lynn on Saturday, Jan. 6, during

a league matchup against the combined Lynn Jets team. The

Crimson Tide, however, lost 10-5 to a tough Lynn team. see Page

7 for more photos.

By Seth DanielEverett Fire Chief Tony Carli said two firefighters showed great tenacity on Monday, Jan. 8, in saving two people from an upstairs unit at a two-alarm fire on Hillside Street.

Lt. Jay Lewis and Firefight-er Joe DeSisto of the Ladder 2 company are being giv-en credit for the saves, one of which was on a man who was not able to move quick enough to escape. However, Chief Carli also added that in addition to the two firefighters singled out, then entire crew did a fantastic job of prevent-ing loss of life.“Right after we got a report

of a fire and got on scene, there was a report that someone was in the second unit who could not ambulate on his own for medical reasons,” said the chief. They went in and made the grab. There was another

Joint Committee elects Cardello to fill School Committee vacancy

By Seth DanielWhether it was a 25-cent sub, an animated conversation or the institution of his sub shop, long-time Angelina’s Sub Shop owner Ali S. Ali created a business that made him into an Everett legend.

That legend passed away peacefully on Friday, Jan. 5, surrounded by family in his home at the age of 91.His passing marked yet

another icon of old Everett lost to time, though his shop has been out of existence for about two years now – and he had been retired since 2012.

“He was an icon; he was re-ally someone special,” said his son, Sam Ali, this week. “We take it for granted because we were around it all the time.”

Said his daughter, Amele Ambrosino, “He was just a great guy and he loved Everett and loved the customers who came into his Everett store. Often, he would actually sleep on the counter of the shop because he was so exhausted and had to open up early the next morning. He was so tired because he would never close, never wanted to miss some-one who might come in for a sandwich. He instilled that work ethic into all six of his kids. When he was at Angeli-

na’s, he just loved Everett and loved the people in Everett.”

Angelina’s started in Lynn in 1954, and soon expanded to Broadway Everett. After opening in a small store in

the 600th block of Broadway, Ali eventually settled at 696 Broadway until he retired in 2012. Family members tried to keep it running, but illness-es prevented it from continu-

ing and they closed for good two years ago – though they still own the building.The name Angelina’s, Han-

nan Ali said, came from when the business started with family member Isa Ali. Not wanting to call it Ali’s Subs, the two were searching for a name while taking deliver-ies of their first products. As it happened, the first product they received was ‘Angelina’s Pure Italian Olive Oil.’ It hit a chord with the two, and that became the name that grew to legendary status in Everett.

Part of the legend was the fact that the sandwiches were chock full of ingredients, and that they were just 25 cents.

His favorites were the Reg-ular American (Salami, Amer-ican Cheese and Bologna), the Italian and the Steak Bomb with Salami – all of which were made with Piantedosi breads.

“He just had it; he knew what to do,” said Sam Ali. “He would pile on everything. He said it had to have lots and lots of ingredients. The Regu-lar American was his first big one. It was simple, but that was the beauty of it – the reg-ular. Then he expanded to the Italian and others. He used to

EHS HOCKEY

Firefighters Lewis, DeSisto lauded for saving tenants on Hillside Street

The Regular American: Sub shop icon Ali S. Ali passes at 91

INAUGURAL BALL

A picture of Ali S. Ali (in the red apron) in front of Angelina’s Sub

Shop on Broadway with a group of devoted customers, includ-

ing Tom Rogers, the late Richard Baniewicz and others. The

photo was taken with Ali around 1990 and hung on the wall of

his shop for years.

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$1.5 MILLION FOR NORTHERN STRAND COMMUNITY TRAILThe 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 WoodcockFor 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 jobsSpecial to The JournalMonday 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 WoodcockThe 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 saidThe 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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Counters SS Refrig. Fireplace LV Oversized

finished basement, C/AC, Deck with IG Pool Extremely well maintained home Must See! Won’t Last! $499,900SALE PENDING

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WINTHROPHard to Find! A Vacant lot (over 5,000 s.f.) with

a foundation on it! Also has a 2 story garage.

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EAST BOSTON GREENWAY LOCATION!

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See NEWS BRIEFS, Page 2

$1.5 MILLION FOR NORTHERN STRAND COMMUNITY TRAILThe 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 WoodcockFor 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 jobsSpecial to The JournalMonday 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 WoodcockThe 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 saidThe 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

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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

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Girls basketballsplits two contests

The Everett High gils bas-ketball team split its two games this past week to re-main squarely at the.500 mark with a 7-7 record.

The Lady Crimson Tide earned one of their biggest victories of the season with a

59-47 triumph over Swampscott, one of the top teams in the Northeastern Conference, last Tuesday.

Everett jumped out to a 15-3 advantage in the open-ing period thanks to a com-bination of a fierce full-court trap defense and the offensive production of Carolann Cardi-nale, who hit for 10 of her 18 points on the night, primarily thanks to offensive rebounds that Carolann converted into second-chance buckets for her team.

Although the visiting Lady Big Blue, who entered the EHS gym sporting a 9-1 re-cord in the Northeastern Con-ference, second-best in the NEC behind only undefeated Peabody, sliced the gap to 21-17 by halftime, the Everett girls regained the momentum after the intermission to move out to a 33-25 lead at the third buzzer.

Although the first three pe-riods had been dominated by the teams’ defenses, the of-fenses took over in the fourth quarter. Both Everett and Swampscott began to drop in three-pointers in a fiery exchange of long-range mis-siles. Piper Baker and Mad-dy Duraes were the principal bomb-throwers for Everett, who matched their Swamp-scott counterparts trey-for-trey.

By the time the final buzz-er sounded, Everett had out-pointed their guests 26-22 in the final eight minutes to pre-

vail by a score of 59-47.After Cardinale’s 18

points, Duraes was next on the point-scoring chart with 17. Jackie Emmanuel reached double figures with 10 points, followed by Baker with six, Veronica Bento with five, and Maya Kirnon with three points, all of which were clutch foul shots by Maya down the stretch that fended off any hopes of a Swamp-scott comeback.

Three nights later the Lady Crimson Tide trekked to Bev-erly to take on a Lady Panther squad that, similar to Everett, also is right around the .500 mark.

Everett led at the first two junctures, 16-15 and 34-25, but then endured a disastrous third period in which the Lady Crimson were outscored 25-7, allowing Beverly to move out to a 50-41 lead that Everett never was able to overcome en route to a 72-59 defeat.

Duraes enjoyed a fine game, hitting for 20 points. Cardinale added 15 points and Emmanuel struck for nine. Kirnon chipped in seven, fol-lowed by Sara Thompson wth three and Saunti Benton and Briana Hippolyte with two apiece.

“A lack of consistency has been a problem for us all sea-son,” noted EHS head coach Tammy Turner. “We played superbly against a Swamp-scott team that is one of the best in the area, but then against Beverly, we had a real-ly bad period that changed the entire direction of the game.”

Turner and her crew need to win three of their remaining six contests in order to qual-ify for the post-season state tourney and finish with the re-quired .500 record.

They were scheduled to host Marblehead last night

(Tuesday) and will travel to Lynn English Friday evening. They will entertain Somerville next Tuesday and go back on the road to Lynn Classical next Thursday.

They will wrap their season with Senior Night against Sa-lem on Friday, February 15, and then host non-league rival Haverhill on President’s Day.

EHS indoor trackteams conclude season

The Revere High boys and girls indoor track and field teams concluded their du-al-meet regular season last Wednesday against Marble-head at the Somerville field-house.

Lucia Seide was the top performer for the Lady Crim-son Tide, sprinting to victory in the 50 yard dash in a time of 6.4 seconds. Teammate Jes-sica Santos sped to a second place finish in a clocking of 6.7.

Victoria Chaparro scored three points for the Everett side of the scoresheet with a second-place performance in the 300 dash in 43.1.

AnnLaurie Pierre add-ed a point for Everett with a third-place effort in the shot put with a throw of 21’-11”. Lyanne Murphy also finished third in her event, the 50 yard hurdles, with a time of 8.6.

On the boys’ side, three Crimson Tide athletes fin-ished in second place: Mac Shillingford in the 600 dash in 36.5; Jason Louis in the 600 in 1:30.8; and Arthur Rose in the mile in 5:26.1.

Four Everett boys scored a point for their third-place finishes: Mario Sheard with a shot put throw of 37’-8”; Fab-rice Jacques in the hurdles in 7.9; Clarence Jules in the 50 dash in 5.8; and Ryan Vu in the 1000 in 1:31.3.

SIXTH GRADEHigh HonorGabriel Costa FernandesGabriel CunhaMelissa GomezIsabella GonzalezBelma IkanovicLuira LeiteLucas MoreiraAbegail MustoCarter NguyenEmily NogueiraTracy PhamRuby Renderos BatiaAshley SewardChristine VansonHonorSadie AlmeidaMakayla AlphonseJoshua Alves,Jude BachJevaun BerberenaTre’von CarringtonSonia Constanzs FloresAlbert CorreaFahema CoudoVatte FabertMama GassamaMarie-Judette GermainMarie-Judith GermainAngel Jaikaran GuevaraMayra GutierrezAngel HernandezSarah KieferCarlos Mungia PalaciosAisha OliverHenrique PintoLeanette RiveraVictoria RodriguesKimberly SanabriaAlbert SantanaCreditClarice AlexisJessica Alonzo GuevaraLuis BitencourtAura LinaresRebecca Louis-JaquesBryan Martinez OchoaMarc NaceusDominc PapaEmily PindeaAileen RamosJonathan RenderosJonathan RodriguezAnthony SantizoAngelina Vazquez

SEVENTH GRADEHigh HonorsIsadora AlvesAna Julia BarretoLuis Fernando SantanaMichelle GermainYasmine LaabadlaLeyna LamotheAngel Lemus-PazLuiz MaximianoMyrsa PrinstonEmmanuela RaymondHonorsMebelin Aguilar VieraNataly Clara AlvarengaStasy Alvargena Lemus

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EIGHTH GRADEHigh HonorAbid AkroutGabriel De AndradeXenia Garcia LemusYan Giestas SantanaMaria GoncalvesBenjamin Ikanovic Kamili Vitoria Luiz JoaquimNancy MaharjanBrandon Orellana LemusMarcos PereiraSicari ShandRoger Vasquez HonorAlba Alvarado CotoJessica Escalon LandaverdeKaren Escobar AguilarAniyah Eutsay Leah FerulloNilthon Flores GranadosSteven Hernandez EspinozaKimberly HerreraBrandon Huezo Luca Jean Noel Anthony MelaraMustafa MohammedMauricio MoralesMariana Najarro

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Parlin School Quarter two honor roll

Jada VauGHan namEd to ua dEan’S LiSt

Jada Yavette Vaughan of Everett, was named to The University of Alabama Dean’s List for fall 2018.

A total of 12,332 students enrolled during the 2018 fall term at UA were named to the Dean’s List with an academic record of 3.5 or above or the President’s List with an aca-demic record of 4.0 (all A’s).

The UA Dean’s and Presi-dent’s lists recognize full-time undergraduate students. The lists do not apply to graduate students or to undergraduate

students who take less than a full course load.

The University of Alabama, the state’s oldest and largest public institution of higher education, is a student-cen-tered research university that draws the best and brightest to an academic community com-mitted to providing a premier undergraduate and graduate education. UA is dedicated to achieving excellence in scholarship, collaboration and intellectual engagement; providing public outreach and service to the state of Alabama and the nation; and nurturing a campus environment that

fosters collegiality, respect and inclusivity.

LaSELL CoLLEGE StudEntS namEd to dEan’S LiSt

Students at Lasell College were named to the Dean’s List for their strong academic per-formance in the fall 2018 se-mester:

Mariana McCarthy of Ev-erett

Jennifer Polanco of EverettTo be named to the Dean’s

List, they needed to complete at least 12 credits as a full-time student and achieve a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher.

LOCAL StudEntS earn academic honors

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The Garrity family cele-brated the Super Bowl a little differently this year, as Steven Garrity plans to depart on a deployment for the military today, Feb 6. On Wednesday, Garrity will be deployed with the Army National Guard Unit and will be gone for at least one year, stationed over-seas. Councilor Mike Mc-Laughlin surprised the family

with a citation from the City of Everett during their Su-per Bowl celebration at their home on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 3.

McLaughlin expressed that while many people look up to Super Bowl heroes, it is important to recognize home-town heroes, such as Steven Garrity.

Councilor Mike McLaughlin surprised steven garrity with a citation at his home in everett on sunday afternoon during the family’s super bowl party.  garrity will be deployed with the army National guard Unit for one year.

steven garrity was joined by proud mom, Michelle goudey, at their family home on sunday afternoon.

steven garrity was joined by his proud aunt, anne Cosgrove, at the family’s super bowl party.

CounCilor Mike MClaughlin honors steven garrity for his upCoMing serviCe

On Jan. 17th members of the Zonta Club of Chel-sea gathered at Anthony’s in Malden to celebrate the 2018 District 1 Amelia Earhart’s Fellowship Awards dinner. Together with sister clubs of Malden and Medford they honored six recipients, four of whom were present. Three of the fellows attend MIT and one attends UMass Amherst. All of the recipients are pur-suing PH.D/doctoral degrees in aerospace applied sciences or aerospace applied engi-neering. Amelia Earhart was a member of the Zonta Club of Medford and every year thou-sands of dollars are given in her name to deserving wom-en. It was a wonderful night and gave us all hope that the

future is in very capable hands with these young women.

Upcoming Zonta Club Meeting : Thursday, Feb. 21, at 6 p.m. at The Double-tree Hotel in Chelsea. At this meeting the club will be rec-ognizing the recipient of the Jane M. Klausman Women in Business Scholarship award. The recipient is a Chelsea sponsored applicant who is pursuing a degree at MIT. Her field of study is Enterprise Management.

Contact chelseazonta@zontadistrict1.org for more in-formation about our club and future events. Zontal Club services the communities of Chelsea, Revere, Everett, Winthrop and Lynn.

Zonta Club of Chelsea Celebrates aMelia earhart with fellowship awards dinner

amelia earhart awards winner Left to right-Nisha Chandramoorthy, srishti Kashyap, akshata Krishnamurthy, Clara Maurel.

Left to right,seated-Zonta members sheila arsenault, Joan Lanzillo-hahesy, elizabeth Fama, standing, Patricia o’Flaherty, Christine DePrizio, Mary Jane o’Neill, theresa DiPiertro and barbara Lawlor.

Left to right, Zonta member bonnie Fishman, Zonta guests, ellie Lynch, abby Lynch, Luna hernan-dez, and Zonta member georgia green.

According to the American Autism Association, every 11 minutes a child is diagnosed with autism in the United States. To update parents in the most advanced treatments, last week the Child Behavior Institute of Miami organized the first International Confer-ence with Updates on Autism Treatment at Harvard Univer-sity. Several mothers from Ev-erett, led by Fernanda Rocha, president of EPS Special Edu-cation Advisory Council, were

in attendance. The conference was orga-

nized for bilingual parents and designed for parents, caregiv-ers, educators, pedagogues, psychologists, and child health professionals. Rocha, who is also president of the support group of Brazilian mothers of autistic children of Massachusetts (known as the Special Gift of Being a Moth-er Group), led a workshop on parents’ interaction with autis-tic children.

Everett mother leads special needs mothers to Harvard

a panel discussion on autism updates featured everett’s Fernanda Rocha.

everett’s Fernanda Rocha addressing the autism confer-ence at harvard University.

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Glendale Christian Lighthouse ChurchNews and Notes

Adult Sunday School at 9:30 AM. Teaching from the book of Ephesians.

Sunday 10:30 AM Worship service.

Wednesday at 7:00 PM “Hour of Power” Worship, prayer, and the study of God’s Word.

Come join us in prayer ev-ery Friday at 6 am.

> Saturday, February 9 at 3 PM, Christian Movie Matinee (Walk by Faith)

“In you, Lord, I have taken refuge;

let me never be put to shame.”

Psalm 71:1 “In Pursuit of Spiritual Ex-

cellence”Righteousness, Godliness,

Faith, Love, Truth• Domingo 9:30 am

Escuela Dominical de Adul-tos. (en ingles)

Servicio de Alabanza y Adoracion a las 10 am (en in-glés)

• Miércoles a las 7 pm Hora de Poder, Estudio de la

Palabra de Dios Alabanza, Oración y Koinonia. No faltes (en español)

• Ven unete a nosotros para orar todos los viernes a las 6 am

• Domingo Servicio de alabanza y adoracion a las 4pm (Servicio en español)

Mayores informes de los servicios en español (617) 306-3518

“En ti, Señor, me he refu-giado;

Que nunca me avergüence.Salmo 71: 1En busca de la excelencia

espiritual “Rectitud, Divinidad, Fe,

Amor, Verdad”GLENDALE CHRISTIAN LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH

701 BROADWAYEVERETT,

MASSACHUSETTS 02149617-387-7458

Rev. Larry Russi, Sr. Pastorpastorlarry@

thelighthousechurch701.net

Grace Anglican Episcopal Church is open & welcoming to all.

There are 3 services on Sundays: 10am English, 1pm South Sudanese (Dinka) and 3pm Haitian Creole. We have Sunday school during each service in the Children’s Room. Coffee Hour starts after the 10am service in the Parish Hall (entrance on 11 Liberty St.)

Come all and let us walk to-

gether in this season of hope, renewal and new beginnings.

We are located at 67 Nor-wood Street, Everett, MA

Phone 617-387-7526 or 508-243-8487

Grace Anglican Episcopal Church

67 Norwood Street, Everett, MA

Phone 617-387-7526 or 508-243-8487

Grace Episcopal ChurchNews and Notes

J.F. WardFuneral Home

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Glendale United Methodist ChurchNews and Notes

Glendale United Methodist Church is open to all and we welcome people of all faiths, race, nationalities and sexu-al preference. No one is ever turned away. If you are look-ing for a new home church, we would like you to check us out and let us know what we can do to make church a better fit in your life.

Bible Study: Consider join-ing us for Bible study on Sun-day. We meet in the Church Parlor off the Chapel from 9:30 to 10:00 a.m.

Sponsor the bulletin! For a $5 donation, you can dedicate the Sunday bulletin to recog-nize family, friends, or special occasions. There is a sign-up sheet in the Pastor’s study. Feel free to choose your par-ticular week and leave a copy of your dedication in the mail in that is on the Pastor’s door. Please contact the Pastor if you have any questions.

Boy Scout Troop 814: Meet in Cooper Hall on Tues-day evenings from 6-9 p.m. Cub Pack 11 meets on Satur-day mornings.

NA Meetings – Mon. Bring Your Own Book 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.; Thurs. I Can’t But We

can, 8:00 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.AA Meeting – Saturday

evenings from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Pastor’s Office Hours: Sat-urdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Other times by appointment.

Bread of Life Donations – This outreach is being done to honor the United Methodist Women’s Group, who for so many years were our outreach source. Please bring any food item(s) to church and place in the box located on the altar.

We are on the Internet http://www.glen-

daleumc-everett.org Glendale United

Methodist ChurchPastor David Jackson

392 Ferry Street (across from Glendale Towers) Please enter the church by the driveway on

Walnut Street617-387-2916

PastorDavidJackson58@gmail.com

Pastor’s Office Hours: Saturdays 10 AM to 2 PM.

Other times by appointment.

Mystic Side Congregation-al Church is located in Ever-ett, on Malden-Everett border, at 422 Main Street. We offer a warm, inviting atmosphere, and all are welcome. Our Sunday Church service starts at 10:30 a.m. and Communion is offered on the first Sunday

of each month. A very pleas-ant coffee hour and socializ-ing follow our services. Park-ing is available in our lot next to the church on Wyllis Ave. (one way off Main Street). We look forward to welcom-ing you this Sunday.

Mystic Side Congregational ChurchNews and Notes

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Our Parish Staff: Fa-ther Joseph Chacha Marwa, S.M.A. Administrator;

Father Ernest Egbedike, S.M.A. Parochial Vicar;

Secretary Barbara CannonRichard Randazzo, Pasto-

ral Associate, Business Man-ager;

Philomene Pean, Pastoral Associate, Haitian Commu-nity

Weekly Mass Schedule at Immaculate Conception is as follows:

Saturday (Sunday Vigil) 4:00 p.m., Sunday 7:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m. (Family Mass), 11:00 a.m., and 5:30 p.m.

12:15 p.m. Spanish Com-munity

4:00 p.m. Haitian Commu-nity

Masses are being held in the Chapel.

Eucharistic Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: Ad-oration of the Blessed Sacra-ment is held every Thursday from 7:45 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Each Thurs-days’ adoration will conclude the Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament at 6:30 p.m. All are invited to spend a few moments with Our Blessed Lord

Church Breakfast – Our

next monthly Church Break-fast is scheduled for every second Sunday in the lower Church Hall. Cost is $4.00 per person. Pancakes, scram-bles eggs, sausage, toast, juice, coffee and tea is served. All you can eat. Please join us after Mass.

New Ministry - At the back of the Church in the Vestibule area on Sundays following Masses, there is a team of volunteers who will answer your questions regard-ing our Church Ministries, etc. Please feel free to stop by and ask questions, sched-ule a Mass, register as a new Parishioner, etc.

Bring a Book-Buy a Book - We have a new Fundraiser Program in the back of the Church. It’s called Bring a Book-Buy a Book. All books are a dollar and any mon-ey collected will go towards our Stain Glass Fund. Brink a Book and Buy a Book and make a donation. Our selec-tions are great and varied. Please stop by the table and see what we have. Thank you

Immaculate Conception Parish

489 BroadwayEverett, Mass 02149Phone 617-389-5660

Immaculate Conception ParishNews and Notes

Kevin ‘Bobo’ WashingtonRemembered as a great Everett High School athlete; member of K of C and Schiavo Club

Kevin “Bobo” Washington, a lifelong resident of the Ev-erett community, died on Jan. 29.

The son of the late George and Evalee Washington, Kev-in attended Everett Public schools. He was a great ath-lete in high school and shone tremendously on the football field. He also attended college at Northeastern University and worked for Marchese & Sons Construction for many years.

In his leisure time, Bobo enjoyed spending time with family and friends. He also, was a member of local social clubs, The Knights of Colum-bus and the Schiavo Club.

He left behind his brothers Irving Washington of Everett, Gregory Washington and his sister-in-law, Gail Washington of Lynnfield, sisters Victoria Washington of Baltimore and Rhonda Washington of Ever-ett. He was preceded in death by his loving sisters, Charlene Strother and Valerie Hinder-lie. He also leaves a host of nieces, nephews and tons of cousins and good friends. Bobo held a special place in his heart for his nephew Baby Bubba and his Goddaughter

Whitney Evalee Washington. Bobo was also preceded in death by his late “wife” The great Sammy Ragucci, lol.

Kevin was loved by so many in his community and his infectious smile and laugh will be greatly missed.

Funeral Services will be held from Salvatore Rocco & Sons Funeral Home, 331 Main Street, Everett. Visiting hours will be at the funeral home on Thursday, Feb. 7 from 4 to 7:30 p.m. A Memo-rial Service will immediately follow in the funeral home at 7:30 p.m. For guestbook and more information, please vis-it:www.roccofuneralhomes.com or 1-877-71-Rocco

Lillian AlfonseOf Everett

Lillian M. (Boudreau) Al-fonse of Everett passed away peacefully on Sunday, Feb. 3 at the age of 95.

The daughter of the late James and Lily (Marchant) Boudreau, Lillian was the sis-ter of Lorraine Boudreau and the late Evelyn Pettine. She was the beloved mother of James Alfonse and his wife, Janet, Teresa “Terry” Al-fonse Baldwin-Williams and her husband, Peter Williams, Joseph Alfonse and the late John Alfonse. She leaves two grandsons, Zachary and Jus-tin Alfonse.

The family has request-

ed a private service which is being arranged by the Freder-ick Cafasso & Sons Funeral Home in Everett. Donations may be made to Compassion-ate Care Hospice, 800 West Cummings Park – Ste. 3100, Woburn, MA 01801.

Anita Chan-Bovio Founder and face of Everett’s Tasty Garden

Restaurant for nearly 30 years

Anita Chan-Bovio passed away on Jan. 27 surrounded by her loved ones.

She is survived by her lov-ing husband, Peter Bovio; her mother Lai Cheung Chan; her brothers Alan, David, Leo, Peter, John; her sister Ann and her nephews and nieces Anson, Alicia, Brian, Chris, Ryan, Daniel, and Jordan.

Anita’s journey has brought her from a small village in Hong Kong, to Rhode Island and California, before she set-tled in her home in Everett. In every place she went and ev-ery life she touched, she was a pillar of strength for her loved ones and her community.

Many know her as the face and founder of Tasty Garden Restaurant in Everett for near-ly 30 years. Others may know her for her tireless contribu-tions and support for the local community.

As a Buddhist and member of Soka Gokai International in Brookline, Anita lived her life on the foundation of a great principle; to be strong and help support those around us. If you were tired she would offer you her chair; if you were hungry, she would offer you the food on her plate; if you were poor, she would give

you the money in her pocket. Anita has traveled far and

impacted many lives along the way, but her journey does not end with her passing. She will be memorialized in a pri-vate ceremony with imme-diate family. In lieu of tears, Anita would ask you to stand powerfully and support those around you. In lieu of flowers, she would ask you to create a positive impact for anoth-er. Please send donations to a foundation of your choice in her name.

Her funeral services will be private. Arrangements are by the Campbell Funeral Home, 525 Cabot Street, Beverly. Online condolences atwww.campbellfuneral.com.

bare stageMichael Walker’s new dramat-ic play, “bare stage,” confront-ing censorship, artistic freedom and “objectification” on stage, is performed Feb. 8-March 2: Wednesday-Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2,8 p.m. Sunday, 2 p.m. at Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Theater, 539 Tremont St., South End, Boston. 617-426-5000.

sWeet saLeM’s seVeN gabLes OFFerINgsAs part of Salem’s So Sweet fes-tivities, the House of the Seven Gables invites visitors to look for a special ice sculpture, enjoy a free tour, special discount at the museum store, eat Valentine cookies, create crafts and more, Feb. 9,10. Free crafts, register at salemrec.com. Information

about Salem’s activities, salem-mainstreets.org.

bOstON COMeDY FestIVaLJim cCue headlines the Best of the Boston Comedy Festival, Feb. 9,8 p.m., performing with Bethany Van Delft, Peter Martin and Kathe Farris, 395 Main St., Stoneham.781-279-2200, boxof-fice@stonehamtheatre.org.

sHaKesPeare aND tHe LaWAdam Sanders directs Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and the Boston Lawyers’ Chapter of the Federalist Society’s produc-tion of “Shakespeare and the Law:Belief and the Burden of Proof,“ through the lens of six

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stILL staNDINgNew Repertory Theatre presents Anita Hollander, performing her one-woman musical play, “Still Standing,” Feb.9-March 3, at Mosesian Center for the Arts Black Box Theater, 321 Arsenal St., Watertown.$19-$42, stu-dent, senior, group discounts. 617-923-8487, newrep.org.

LIttLe sHOP OF HOrrOrsThat voracious man-eating plant is at it again- this time at the Firehouse Center for the Arts, Feb. 8-17, and its production

of horror musical “Little Shop of Horrors,” Market Square, Newburyport. $30. Judith Ellen Sanders’ exhibition of large col-orful pieces is on display through Feb. 24, at the Institution for Savings Art Gallery at the Firehouse. Artist reception is Feb. 10,12:30-2:30 p.m. 978-462-7336, firehouse.org.

CaNtata sINgersAs part of their chamber series, the Cantata Singers perform Feb. 8,7:30 p.m., at the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge.

Free gUIDeD tOUrAs part of its community pro-gram, the House of the Seven Gables offers free guided tours to Marblehead residents, Feb. 10, 115 Derby St., Salem.7gables.org.

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SPAMILTON: AN AMERICAN PARODYBefore opening Feb. 12, Huntington Theatre Company has extended the run of the North American Tour of Gerard Alessandrini’s acclaimed musical com-edy to April 7, at the Boston Center or the Arts, Calderwood Pavilion,527 Tremont St., South End, Boston: select Tuesdays-Thursdays, 7:30 p.m.; Friday,

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PHOTOS BY KATY ROGERS

City officials and several res-

idents have applauded the

efforts of the Department of

Public Works and its sub-

contractors for their efforts

to remove snow during last

Thursday’s snow storm. The

Mayor’s Office indicated they

have received many positive

comments, and councilors

such as Michael McLaughlin said he wanted to praise the work of the City crews in the difficult

storm.Here, a plow moves through Nichols Street on Thursday, with crews working for hours to keep

ahead of the storm, which dumped about 13.5 inches on Everett. Meanwhile, residents like

Jimmy Aversa joined his family in clearing the sidewalks as the storm was in full force.

PHOTO BY KATY ROGERS

School Committee member

Bernie D'Onofrio (photo right)

– the newly elected chair of the

Committee - was announced

and accompanied by his

daughter Michela Tejeda at

the Inaugural Ball last Tuesday

night, Jan. 2, in honor of the

City’s 125th anniversary. Short-

ly after, Mayor Carlo DeMaria and his wife, Stacy, were introduced as they entered the Ball. The soiree was held immediately after

the official Inauguration ceremonies at Everett High School, and the Ball was coordinated by City Clerk Sergio Cornelio’s office.

See Page 5 for more photos.

By Joseph Domelowicz Jr.

Longtime Everett public

servant Millie Cardello has

returned to public service and

the Everett School Commit-

tee following Monday night’s

super-intense vote of the

Joint Convention of the Ev-

erett City Council and Everett

School Committee.

Cardello won by a vote of

10-9 of Amanda (Burley) Pat-

terson, with the outcome of

the vote coming down to the

wire as candidates and their

surrogates lobbied hard for

votes through last weekend.

There were actually two

School Committee appoint-

ments to be made on Monday,

with the Cardello/Patterson

vote being the more contro-

versial of the two.

City Clerk Sergio Corne-

lio began the proceedings for

Cardello and Patterson by

opening nominations to fill

the vacancy created by the

December death of School

Committee member Richard

Baniewicz.As reported in the Indepen-

dent last week, in the weeks

since Baniewicz’s death, two

viable candidates to fill the

vacancy emerged in former

School Committee, Common

Councilor and Alderman Car-

dello and former EHS stu-

dent-athlete Patterson, who

is also the daughter of City

Council Clerk John Burley.

Patterson was nominated

by City Councilor Michael

McLaughlin, who gradat-

ed EHS with Patterson, and

Councilor Anthony DiPierro

seconded the motion.

School Committeeman

Thomas Abruzzese nominated

Cardello, with the nomination

seconded by Councilor Ste-

phen Simonelli.

The roll call vote resulted in

a 10-9 vote for Cardello, with

Councilors Richard Dell Iso-

la, Rosa DiFlorio, Leo McK-

innon, and Simonelli voting

with School Committee mem-

bers Abruzzese, Marcony

Almeida, Bernardino D’Onof-

rio, Joseph LaMonica, Lester

MacLaughlin and Frank Park-

er voting for Cardello.

Councilors Fred Capone,

DiPierro, John Hanlon, Mi-

chael Marchese, Wayne

Matewsky, McLaughlin and

Peter Napolitano voted with

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PHOTO BY JARED CHARNEY

Jason Cardinale of Everett beats a Lynn defender to the puck

at Connery Skating Rink in Lynn on Saturday, Jan. 6, during

a league matchup against the combined Lynn Jets team. The

Crimson Tide, however, lost 10-5 to a tough Lynn team. see Page

7 for more photos.

By Seth Daniel

Everett Fire Chief Tony

Carli said two firefighters

showed great tenacity on

Monday, Jan. 8, in saving two

people from an upstairs unit

at a two-alarm fire on Hillside

Street.Lt. Jay Lewis and Firefight-

er Joe DeSisto of the Ladder

2 company are being giv-

en credit for the saves, one

of which was on a man who

was not able to move quick

enough to escape. However,

Chief Carli also added that in

addition to the two firefighters

singled out, then entire crew

did a fantastic job of prevent-

ing loss of life.

“Right after we got a report

of a fire and got on scene, there

was a report that someone was

in the second unit who could

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chief. They went in and made

the grab. There was another

Joint Committee elects Cardello

to fill School Committee vacancy

By Seth Daniel

Whether it was a 25-cent

sub, an animated conversation

or the institution of his sub

shop, long-time Angelina’s

Sub Shop owner Ali S. Ali

created a business that made

him into an Everett legend.

That legend passed away

peacefully on Friday, Jan. 5,

surrounded by family in his

home at the age of 91.

His passing marked yet

another icon of old Everett

lost to time, though his shop

has been out of existence for

about two years now – and he

had been retired since 2012.

“He was an icon; he was re-

ally someone special,” said his

son, Sam Ali, this week. “We

take it for granted because we

were around it all the time.”

Said his daughter, Amele

Ambrosino, “He was just a

great guy and he loved Everett

and loved the customers who

came into his Everett store.

Often, he would actually sleep

on the counter of the shop

because he was so exhausted

and had to open up early the

next morning. He was so tired

because he would never close,

never wanted to miss some-

one who might come in for

a sandwich. He instilled that

work ethic into all six of his

kids. When he was at Angeli-

na’s, he just loved Everett and

loved the people in Everett.”

Angelina’s started in Lynn

in 1954, and soon expanded

to Broadway Everett. After

opening in a small store in

the 600th block of Broadway,

Ali eventually settled at 696

Broadway until he retired in

2012. Family members tried

to keep it running, but illness-

es prevented it from continu-

ing and they closed for good

two years ago – though they

still own the building.

The name Angelina’s, Han-

nan Ali said, came from when

the business started with

family member Isa Ali. Not

wanting to call it Ali’s Subs,

the two were searching for a

name while taking deliver-

ies of their first products. As

it happened, the first product

they received was ‘Angelina’s

Pure Italian Olive Oil.’ It hit a

chord with the two, and that

became the name that grew to

legendary status in Everett.

Part of the legend was the

fact that the sandwiches were

chock full of ingredients, and

that they were just 25 cents.

His favorites were the Reg-

ular American (Salami, Amer-

ican Cheese and Bologna), the

Italian and the Steak Bomb

with Salami – all of which

were made with Piantedosi

breads.“He just had it; he knew

what to do,” said Sam Ali.

“He would pile on everything.

He said it had to have lots and

lots of ingredients. The Regu-

lar American was his first big

one. It was simple, but that

was the beauty of it – the reg-

ular. Then he expanded to the

Italian and others. He used to

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Firefighters

Lewis, DeSisto

lauded for

saving tenants

on Hillside Street

The Regular American: Sub shop icon Ali S. Ali passes at 91

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A picture of Ali S. Ali (in the red apron) in front of Angelina’s Sub

Shop on Broadway with a group of devoted customers, includ-

ing Tom Rogers, the late Richard Baniewicz and others. The

photo was taken with Ali around 1990 and hung on the wall of

his shop for years.

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Diet-related illnesses are at an all-time high in our coun-try, and the City of Everett faces one of the highest child-hood obesity rates in the state. To overcome such an obsta-cle, Mayor Carlo DeMaria has remained committed to making Everett the healthiest city in America.

The Mayor and his admin-istration have started a new conversation and that is to provide healthier food and raise the bar on nutritional content throughout Everett schools. Everett would join school districts across the country and as close by as Boston, which have increased nutritional standards for school food in recent years.

Mayor DeMaria stated, “I recognize the importance of healthy eating to student suc-cess and quality of life. Incor-porating healthy eating into their daily school routine will empower them to have more energy, focus, and develop healthy habits during early childhood that will continue into adulthood.”

As the school food contract is about to expire, the Mayor and his administration want

to explore healthy options to help Everett children build healthy habits for life. At a re-cent School Committee meet-ing, the Mayor highlighted that Aramark and every other food vendor is welcome to bid on the new contract. That means vendors will need to be able to meet those require-ments to succeed in winning the contract.

The Mayor stressed that one of those requirements would be keeping and em-ploying all current cafeteria workers.

Mayor DeMaria stated, “Cafeteria workers are central to our schools and go above and beyond for our students, offering a warm consistent presence across all grade lev-els and schools in addition to doing their jobs and that no one is looking to displace them, and no one will lose their jobs.”

This is not the first time the DeMaria administration has worked to improve nutrition in food programming. At the Connolly Center, senior meals used to be contracted out to an external provider, but now they are prepared fresh

DeMaria speaks to students, school officials on healthy food options

in-house and are far healthier and more greatly enjoyed by many, which is what the May-or envisions in all schools.

The DeMaria administra-tion has provided healthy eat-ing options, through commu-

nity gardens and the Healthy Meals program. In 2016, the City established the first municipal Health and Well-ness Center in the country at the old Everett High School, which features exercises pro-

grams, weight lose challenges, equipment and also includes healthy kids cooking classes, kids fit camps, and specialized kids fit equipment.

The Mayor has remained committed when it comes to

providing the best and inno-vative ways in keeping the residents of Everett active and healthy and he wants to make sure children of Everett re-ceive the same opportunities.

Mayor Carlo DeMaria with students and school officials at his discussion on his commitment to making Everett the healthiest city in America.

By Seth Daniel

Mayor Carlo DeMaria has submitted his concept plan for the Urban Renewal Plan (URP) of Everett Square to the City Council, a document that discusses major changes and property acquisitions to the Square.

The URP – brought by the Everett Redevelopment Au-thority (ERA) – has been long in the making and relies upon several other studies in its for-mation, including the Everett Square Action Plan from 2016 done by Utile. It is a study that was called for by the City Council, and acted on in the last few years by the mayor and the administration.

In a recent meeting with business leaders, Mayor De-Maria said he was very happy

to get the plan underway. He also said that if a property is blighted, they would be look-ing to take it under the URP.

That was repeated in no un-certain terms in the plan sub-mitted to the Council, which is slated to be discussed on Feb. 11.

“The vision serves as the foundation on which the URP recommendations were devel-oped,” read the report. “Plan implementation is expected to increase employment oppor-tunities and tax revenue, in-crease commercial occupancy rates, and improve the adja-cent neighborhood area. Re-development within the URA involves strategic acquisition, potential business relocation, spot clearance, environmen-tal assessment, parcel assem-blage, infrastructure improve-ments, and, ultimately, the

disposition ofdevelopment sites.”The most exciting part of

the plan right off the bat are the proposed public actions to be taken, which include sug-gestions to take several prop-erties.

The concept plan calls for the ERA to acquire 29 prop-erties or portions of proper-ties and transfer 11 municipal properties to the ERA. That assemblage of property would result in 10 parcels ready for redevelopment.

The plan also recommends that 10 new buildings be con-structed on those parcels, and that 18 existing properties be rehabilitated.

“Façade improvements are encouraged where feasible to restore original features and improve aesthetics,” read the report. “Proposed uses for

new or rehabilitated proper-ties within the URA include business, mixed-use residen-tial and commercial, hospital-ity, and municipal facilities. The URP is expected to have a 20- to 25-year implementa-tion phase.”

Other actions include:•Modifying the intersec-

tion of Broadway and School Street to make a more versa-tile and pedestrian-friendly area that could also be a pub-lic plaza for special events.

•Provide new green spac-es in the URP, particularly at a new City Hall and the Old Everett High School.

•Extend Marlboro Street from Victoria Street to Broad-way.

• Implement Complete Street and streetscape im-provements in Everett Square, including signalization/pedes-

trian crossing adjustments at four intersections, curb ex-tensions at three unsignalized intersections, the addition of bicycle lanes, and improving connections to the Northern

Strand Community Trail.• Install wayfinding signage

consistent with an areawide signage and wayfinding pro-gram.

The City plans to use a new mixed-use zoning overlay dis-trict to accomplish the plan, and that would include en-couraging retail, commercial, residential and public uses. It would also include a new parking plan for the area.

“The new overlay district will also establish reduced off-street parking require-ments, instead relying more on shared public parking, public

transportation, and lower

vehicular trip generation rates associated with the walkable, mixed-use type of develop-ment envisioned,” read the plan.

The plan focuses on the idea that the Square is classified as “Decadent,” which means that it is improbable that the area would be redeveloped per the ordinary operations of private enterprise. It also means that the area is in such disrepair and so obsolete that it could not be rehabilitated through simple repairs, but rather only through wholesale change.

The plan is more than 100 pages long, and examines ev-ery parcel of land and its own-ership on the Broadway Cor-ridor from Sweetser Circle to Lexington/Hosmer Streets.

Mayor DeMaria files plan with City Council for Everett Square