BOOK YOUR POST IT Call Your T HE L YNN J OURNA L Advertising Rep (781)485-0588 Thursday, June 21, 2018 THANK YOU, LESLIE GOULD A Labor of Love Galatis worked hard to create Red Sox tribute to Harry Agganis By Cary Shuman As a young boy, Bill Galatis would listen to the stories his fa- ther would tell about the legend- ary Lynn Classical athlete, Harry Cyan Agganis. “Growing up in Chelsea, my dad [Bill Sr.] followed Harry’s Magenta career at Lynn Classical and BU, not only because my dad was Greek, but my dad played semi- pro football for the Ipswich Red Yellow The Lynn Area Chamber of Commerce honored President and CEO Leslie Gould at a farewell celebration in Raiders,” recalled Galatis. “The her honor at Mission on the Bay in Swampscott. LACC members and friends thanked Gould for her out- fact that my father talked about standing leadership and dedication and wished her good luck in her new position as executive director of Harry as much as he did, had an Black the Greater Beverly Chamber of Commerce. Pictured above with Leslie Gould are some of the many guests who attended the celebration. impact on my life.” Bill Galatis Galatis said he admired Ag- ganis so much that he wanted to attend Boston University, Aggan- is’s alma mater. impact he had, not only on Lynn Lynn City Council holds second budget hearing “I was admitted to BU, but un- Classical and BU, but on the Red fortunately I couldn’t go because Sox,” said Galatis. “So I asked By John Lynds essential financial and public the ‘optimal’ number of officers we didn’t have enough money,” Gordon if the Red Sox would safety staff, specifically, the city's for a city of Lynn’s size. said Galatis, who eventually at- consider honoring Harry.” On Tuesday the Lynn City first fulltime Chief Financial Of- The budget includes a tended Suffolk University, but Edes responded to Galatis that Council held a second budget ficer, 20 new firefighters pending $300,000 increase for the city’s later became an adjunct professor he talked with Red Sox senior hearing and plans to vote on the the awarding of a federal grant, snow removal and ice budget at BU for eight years. management and the organiza- proposed $319.5 million Fiscal and 10 new police officers. for Public Works (DPW) and Agganis played two seasons tion wanted to honor Agganis. Year 2019 budget next Thursday. McGee said to close the city’s will allow DPW Commissioner with the Boston Red Sox and “I came up with the idea of The point of Tuesday’s hearing growing fiscal crisi, the city will Andrew Hall to hire one more Galatis - never forgetting those honoring Harry on June 27 as was to hear from city department borrow $9.5 million to close the full-time employee. However, childhood tales from his father part of a wider Greek Heritage heads on their wants and needs FY 2018 budget gap and borrow Hall cautioned that even with the about "The Golden Greek" - celebration and the Red Sox ap- before next week’s vote. another $4 million for FY 2019. increase the city will most like- wanted to do something special proved it,” said Galatis, noting Department heads from varios Back in February the Council ly spend over the snow and ice at Fenway Park to honor the that the date has special signifi- city agencies like Lynn Police, voted in favor of a home rule pe- budget. memory of the former Sox first cance as it falls on the 63rd anni- Public Works, School Depart- tition that will allow the city to Over at the School Depart- baseman, who died in 1955 at the versary of Agganis’s death. ment Veterans Affairs and the borrow up to $14 million from ment, Superintendent Dr. Cath- age of 26. Next Wednesday prior to the Mayor Office all reported that the Department of Revenue to erine Lathman reported on the “I met with Gordon Edes, the they were satisfied with their re- close the city's $8.1 million bud- $147.2 million allocated in the Red Sox historian, and talked to Please see GALATIS Page 3 spective budgets, signaling that get gap. The home rule petition budget for her department. him about Harry Agganis and the the Council will most likely pass that passed also raised some fees For years, said Lathman, Lynn the FY 2019 budget next week. on residents and lifted a restric- Again, Mayor Thomas McGee tion that requires voter approval Please see COUNCIL Page 3 sent a letter to the Council saying before the city can borrow more that the balanced budget, which than $4 million. includes an $847,564 in reserves, At Tuesday’s hearing Lynn Next week fully funds the city’s net school Police Chief Michael Mageary spending requirement for educa- testified that he will add ten new tion. McGee added that the pro- officers plus an additional nine posed budget correctly budgets through a federal COPS grant BLUE the City's share of health insur- from the U.S. Department of Jus- ance costs based on projected tice. This will strengthen Lynn’s Recycling week 100 percent utilization at a cost police force to 183 officers, just For more info. call the of $47.3 million. 10 shy of Lynn’s police force size Lynn DPW at McGee added the proposed back in the 1990s. Having 193 781-477-7099 budget includes the addition of officers, Mageary said, would be 2 Page 2 THE LYNN JOURNAL Thursday, June 21, 2018 editorial IS THIS REALLY AMERICA? The national disgrace that is occurring at our southern border is something that we never could have imagined happening in the Unit- ed States of America. The images of children separated from their parents and locked behind chain link fences evokes the worst horrors of the 20th century -- the concentration camps and gulags to which millions of people were consigned by the very worst dictatorial regimes. For almost 250 years, America has been not merely a place, but an ideal for the proposition that all men are created equally and that every person has a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In less than a few days' time however, the principles that Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Fathers so eloquently, yet simply, put into words in the Declaration of Independence have been destroyed. The justification for what, by any standards of decency, amounts to an inhumane policy resembles a classic case of reductio ad absurdum. The New York Times columnist David Brooks (who is a conserva- tive writer) put it this way in his analysis of the language that is being used when they talk about the situation: "This is what George Orwell noticed about the authoritarian bru- talists: They don’t use words to illuminate the complexity of reality; they use words to eradicate the complexity of reality." 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