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BOOK YOUR POST IT Call Your Advertising Rep T IMES -F REE P RESS (781)485-0588 East BostonWednesday, January 2, 2019 East Boston Times 2018 Persons of the Year Kerri Abrams, Jordan Weymer, 2018 Woman 2018 Man of the Year of the Year It was perhaps the most un- selfish act one person could Since taking over the reigns do for another but once Kerri at the Donald McKay School Abrams learned that longtime in East Boston Principal Jor- East Boston resident John Nu- dan Weymer has elevated the cci was in desperate need of school’s profile and achieve- a lifesaving kidney transplant ments not only in Eastie but she did not hesitate. the entire city. Life came full circle for This year the McKay, under Nucci and Abrams, who owns Weymer’s leadership, won Kinship Florist in Revere. the prestigious EdVestors Thirty-five years ago Thomas W. Payzant School on Abrams’ parents, Kim and Al, the Move Prize. were political supporters and In the award’s 13 year his- friends of Nucci. At the time tory no Eastie school has ever Nucci nor the Abrams could Woman of the Year Kerri Abrams (right) with John Nucci and his received the $100,000 prize. Donald McKay School Principal Jordan Weymer have ever guessed that Kim wife, Peggy. Abrams donated her kidney to save Nucci life in For this Jordan Weymer is and Al’s daughter would do- June. the East Boston Times 2018 nate her kidney to help save Man of the Year. Nucci’s life nearly four de- “Kerri is just an amazing and “Everything was finalized “It feels incredible,” said organization in Boston, has Prize,” said Boston Mayor cades later. brave woman. To read about in May,” said Nucci. “Testing Weymer after his school won awarded its $100,000 Thom- Martin Walsh. Nucci, 66, suffers from my story, step up and undergo continued right up until last the award this year. “The as W. Payzant School on the The McKay is a K-8 school Polycystic Kidney Disease, all the testing and agreeing to week. We are both in good best thing about it is the sup- Move Prize to recognize rap- where 60 percent of students the same kidney disease that go through with donating her shape, we are both healthy port we’ve received from the idly-improving schools that are English Language Learn- killed his dad at the age of 64. kidney to me after she found but I still ask for everyone’s community and other schools. have made exemplary prog- ers (EL). The 800-student He and Abrams underwent the out she was a match is some- prayers.” You don’t do this work for the ress in advancing the academ- Donald McKay K-8 has ex- lifesaving kidney transplant thing that is so moving to me Nucci, Suffolk University’s awards you do it to make a ic achievement of all students. perienced significant growth surgery in June. and my family.” Vice President of Governmen- difference but this award just “Great schools like Don- under Weymer’s leadership– “My kidneys went from In fact, when Nucci first tal Affairs that also sits on the confirms the great work the ald McKay are the beating climbing steadily from the 12 percent down to two per- met Abrams’ parents decades Massport board of directors, teachers and kids are doing at heart of our city and I applaud bottom 6 percent of schools cent since February,” said an ago he was well aware that joked that if it wasn’t for a de- our school.” the teachers and staff at the statewide six years ago, to emotional Nucci on the eve of someday he would need a kid- For the past 13 years Ed- school for being awarded this surpassing the district average his surgery Monday evening. ney transplant to save his life. See ABRAMS Page 4 Vestors, a school improvement year’s School on the Move in literacy and math by em- 2018: A Year in Review January the widely successful school Monday. “It was amazing be something residents here Walsh Sworn in to lunch pilot program that be- how it all happened and it’s might have to get used to as Second Term gan in Eastie last year. The so easy to get caught up in the sea level rises. Mayor Martin Walsh takes program aims to bring fresh- the pomp and circumstance. January’s ‘Bomb Cyclone’ the Oath of Office from state ly prepared school lunches to However, afterward, when we that brought heavy snow and Supreme Judicial Court Jus- students instead of the current were here at City Hall before wind to the Northeast also tice Kimberly Budd on Jan. program that is mostly frozen the meeting, I met a woman brought flooding to Eastie’s 1, at Cutler Majestic Theatre. prepackaged processed lunch- who was serving coffee in the waterfront. Looking on are former Vice es that are simply heated up Green Room. She said hello Portside at Pier I, the Ship- President Joe Biden, Mary by school cafeteria staff. to me and told me that she yard and Marina, Clippership Walsh (the mayor’s mother) “We’re also going to scale had voted for me. It turns out Wharf and Liberty Plaza all and Lorrie Higgins. up our new food pilot program she is a Latina woman from experienced a good amount of In front of a packed audi- that’s working at East Boston East Boston and she was at flooding as the Boston Harbor ence at the Cutler Majestic High School (EBNHS) , the work on New Year’s Day. It spilled over into the neighbor- Theater in Boston, Mayor Kennedy School, the Brad- made me see that here was hood, and made waterfront Martin Walsh took the Oath of ley School, and East Boston a hard-working woman who developments like Portside Early Education Center, until 2018 Veterans Day Parade: Patrick J. Kennedy School first grade came out to work on a cold look like a floating cruise Office for the second time as student Sofia Castano presents veteran Richard Gay with a gift Mayor of Boston and vowed every student gets at least two day, on New Year’s Day, when ship. fresh, nutritious meals, every as veteran Rich Duvall looks on. The presentation of gifts to most aren’t working. It said For the very first time in to expand the city’s school honored guests was part of the school’s Veterans Day celebra- lunch pilot program that be- day, all across the district,” something about hard-work- Boston since record-keep- said Walsh. tion last Friday at the Kennedy School. See pages 4 and 5 for ing people who show up on a ing began in 1921, the water gan in East Boston to all Bos- more photos of 2018. ton Public Schools. Walsh For thousands of low-in- day like this. I’m here to work level reached 15.16 feet on was administered the oath for come students, school lunch with the Council and Mayor have the best opportunity to for them.” Jan 4, 2018. This is above his second term by Massachu- is the lion’s share of nutrition Martin Walsh in a grand cer- lead the city in how to get big flood stage, the level at which setts Supreme Judicial Court students get during the day. emony at the Cutler Majestic things done while not forget- Bomb Cyclone’ Floods flooding occurred, and caused Associate Justice Kimberly Theatre in downtown Boston ting our history or character Parts of Eastie significant tidal flooding in Budd with former Vice Pres- City Councilor Lydia New Year’s Day morning. of our neighborhoods. “ East Bostonians can take many waterfront parts of Bos- ident Joseph Biden presiding Edwards sworn in for “I am honored and excit- “It’s still very surreal,” she the snow, wind, frigid cold ton-including Eastie. over the ceremony. first term ed to serve with humility and said following the Council and space savers, but a new “I waded into more than 18 inches of cold Atlantic water One program Walsh Lydia Edwards stepped up compassion,” she said fol- meeting at noon, which fol- element has been added into touched upon in his speech is lowing the ceremony. “We lowed the inauguration on the wintery mix that may on Jan. 1, to be inaugurated See REVIEW Page 8 St. Joseph - St. Lazarus Parish - Don Orione Fathers 59 Ashley Street, East Boston FIFTH ANNUAL CHOIR FESTIVAL SUNDAY, JAN. 6, 2019 | 3 PM Join us for a wonderful musical afternoon with many local choirs! 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