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MARIO “#1 ” MARIO REAL ESTATE “# 1” REAL ESTATE 877-765-3221 877-765-3221 Ed Deveau Liliana Monroy Jorge Bentancur Javier Bedoya Linda Otero Angelo Stifano Roxanne Curzi [email protected] 617 828-0048 617 820-6649 508 677-5570 617 610-4428 617 935-9358 617 651-6120 617 669-7974 [email protected] REVERE JOURNAL YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1881 VOLUME 19, No. 69 WEDNESDAY Revere man dies from September 19, 2018 shark attack on Cape INDEX By Sue Ellen Woodcock Editorial 4 Sports 11 Friends and family are mourning the loss of Revere Police News 8 resident Arthur Medici, 26, Real Estate 18 after he was bitten by a shark Classifieds 18 in Wellfleet and died on Sat- urday. DEATHS The attack happened off Ernest Dascoli Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet around 12:15 p.m. Michael Dellorfano Medici, of Beachland Avenue, was an active boogie-board- The late Arthur Medici. Willard A. Lindquist er and was on his board with his future brother-in-law Isaac Medici was taken to Cape Martin ‘Marty’ Millerick Rocha nearby, riding the Cod Hospital in Hyannis, waves about 30 feet off shore where he was pronounced Obituaries Page 6 when a great white shark came dead, according to State Police from behind and bit him. He spokesman David Procopio. INDEPENDENT was wearing a wetsuit and According to his Facebook NEWSPAPER GROUP swim fins. Medici’s femoral page, Medici was an engi- PHOTO BY KEIKO HIROMI arteries were severed when neering student at Bunker Hill Revere firefighters, with help from surrounding communities’ Fire Departments, battled a de- the back of his legs and the Community College and he structive 5-alarm fire on Franklin Avenue which left dozens displaced. Seen above, Revere Fire calves were bit and he bleed had worked for the Capital fighters douse the building from above in an attempt to quell the flames. to death. His friend and anoth- Grill in Burlington, but was er bystander and park ranger recently working for a piz- 50 CENTS pulled him on to the beach 5-alarm fire guts Franklin Avenue complex where CPR was performed. See SHARK ATTACK Page 2 By Sue Ellen Woodcock Tom Todisco. Medford, Somerville, Stone- NEWS The fire in the 36-unit build- ham and Wakefield Fire De- At first the Revere Fire ing soon turned to a 5-alarm partments. REMEMBERING LOST LIVES BRIEFS Department responded to 10 blaze that made roughly 100 Battling this fire came on the Franklin Ave. it was to re- people homeless and knocked heels of Revere and other fire NARFE TO MEET spond to an alarm sounding down three firefighters with departments helping out with The North Shore Chapter on the fourth floor at 2:08 p.m. heat related injuries. the gas explosion and fires in Lawrence, Andover and North of the National Active and Sunday. When firefighters -ar Fire crews from Revere Engine 1, 3, 4, 5 Ladder 1, 2 Andover over the weekend. Retired Federal Employees rived they searched each floor responded to the scene. Mu- “Once it became clear it was (NARFE) will hold its month- and found a haze floating in tual aid also came in from ly meeting on Wednesday, the air. “And then the fire made it- Cambridge, Chelsea, Ever- Oct. 3 at 1 pm at the Peabody See FIRE Page 20 self known,” said Fire Capt. ett, Lynn, Malden, Massport, Community Life Center, 75R Central Street, Peabody. This very important business meet- ing will include election of of- ficers for the coming year. Re- City Council discusses missing water meters freshments will be served. For further information, contact By Cary Shuman was told, was escorted off the ing evolved into an internal Mike Evers, 781- 842-3619. property and placed on unpaid city government communica- Councillor-at-Large Dan administrative leave because tions issue for other council- CLARK, MERKLEY Rizzo has asked that Mayor of a problem with meters and lors, who said that they only Brian Arrigo appear before serial numbers not matching.” learned about the water me- ANNOUNCE the City Council to discuss Rizzo said the City Council ter issue through rumors, on LEGISLATION TO PUT missing or unaccounted wa- should not be learning from Facebook, and on the Internet, MENTAL HEALTH ter meters for potentially 120 residents about issues that are before they were officially no- homes in the city. happening at City Hall. tified in an email from Mayor COUNSELORS IN “This was another situation “That’s unbelievable. Arrigo. that the city is now having to At bare minimum, the City Council President Jessica PHOTO BY KEIKO HIROMI EVERY K-12 PUBLIC Under candlelight last Sunday night, Sept. 16, Nor Al Abadi deal with,” said Rizzo. “What Council should have been no- Giannino asked Human Re- SCHOOL remembers a loved one lost to drugs and/or alcohol during troubles me the most about tified right away.” said Rizzo. sources Director John Viarella Marking National Suicide the 12th Annual Revere Beach Memorial at the Bandstand. The this is that I had residents call- The water meter discussion Memorial has been a longstanding way for residents to remem- Prevention Week, Congress- See WATER METERS Page 2 ing me and asking me about at Monday’s Council meet- ber those lost to the opiate epidemic and to misuse of other See BRIEFS Page 3 an employee of the city, who I substances. See more photos on Page 10. RCN gearing up for cable television option FOOTBALL SEASON STARTS By Sue Ellen Woodcock work from Everett. “We have been trying to Residents have been no- activate 2,500 per homes per ticing RCN trucks on local month and will do to the end streets and special mailers in of June 2019,” Carlson said. the mail from RCN. Soon “People may have already re- they’ll be able to choose their ceived mail pieces, there are cable service from Comcast or also billboards and we will FINAL RCN. RCN obtained its license See RCN Page 3 MARKET from the city in the past year and since then RCN has been establishing its fiber optic net- DAYS! work. Jeff Carlson, senior vice president and general man- Price subject to change ager for RCN, said that this without is a $10 million investment notice in the Revere network. RCN expects to have 11,000 homes .52 $ Per active by the end of this year, Gallon roughly half the city. RCN is Running back Captain Darius McNeil (#24) eludes a Marblehead • 1002 Gal. 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