Times-GazetteWarren eastbayri.com WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013 VOL. 147, NO. 16 $1.00 Steve Calenda Warren runner skips Boston Marathon this year If it wasn't for a tough winter training season, Warren runner Steve Calenda might have run the Boston Marathon Monday. Offi- PPoliceolice busierbusier thanthan everever cials were reporting that two bombs were detonated at the RICHARD W. DIONNE JR. race's finish line around 3 p.m., Sgt. Michael Marcello and his fellow officers on the Warren Police killing at least three people. Department had a busy year in 2012. Crime in Warren: By the numbers "That would have been right Warren Polcie Chief Peter Achilli on Monday released a study of around the time I'd be crossing the crime, accidents and overall police activity Warren in 2012. See finish line," Mr. Calenda said Mon- Officers arrested nearly 600 last www.warrenri.for the full report; here are some highlights: day afternoon. "I didn't run this ■ Officers arrested 585 people over the course of the year, up 23 year. I'm watching the news (about year, logged 27,995 calls for service percent from 2011. the bombings) on the TV." ■ At 55, drug arrests were at a three-year low, down from 69 in Mr. Calenda last ran the Boston BY TED HAYES in his four-page report. 2011 and 71 in 2010. Marathon in 2011, and he is a reg- [email protected] ■ ular sight on Warren's highways The numbers Disorderly conduct charges plummeted, from 145 in 2010 to 132 Warren police made more in 2011 to 62 last year. and side roads. He considered run- arrests than ever last year, charging Though arrests stood at 585 for ■ Officers were called to the scene of 424 accidents, one of them ning this year but a tough winter nearly 600 men and women with the year, other numbers are just as fatal. That's a seven-year low, and is down 16 from 2011. Apart and hamstring injury conspired to crimes ranging from arson to DUI revealing, the chief said. from the lone fatality, 83 people were reported injured in accidents. keep him out. to drug possession and assault. Warren's crime index, a compo- ■ Also plummeting were parking tickets. Police issued 590 of "I would have been coming The 585 arrests officers made in sition of particular criminal offens- them, down 550 from the previous year (1,140). Traffic violations through" right around the time the 2012 represents a nearly 25 percent es which gauge the overall volume were about the same as last year, though, with 1,950. blasts occurred, he said. jump in arrests from 2011, the and rate of crime, stayed about the ■ Police averaged nearly 77 calls for service per day. A reporter wasn't the first to call highest percentage jump over the same from last year. Despite police ■ Metacom Avenue continues to be the site of the most accidents Mr. Calenda after news of the past seven years. It, and dozens of efforts to reduce that index, the in town. Descending in order from there were Main Street, Child bombing started getting out Mon- other statistics on crime in Warren, chief said, the number has Street and Market Street. day afternoon. He said he'd are contained in a yearly crime remained high (313 this past year ■ Speeding was the most common citation issued. Over the course already received a few texts and report given to the Warren Town vs. 311 in 2011). The index rose of the year 644 people were cited for speeding. In second place calls from runner friends who Council Monday by Warren Police mostly due to an increase in the for citations were drivers with inspection violations (483). wondered if he was OK. Chief Peter Achilli (see sidebar). number of break-ins, while larce- ■ Officers drove a collective 128,556 miles over the "I'm fine," he said. "We need to proactively patrol nies, sexual assaults and aggravat- course of the year. Another previous Boston neighborhoods, increase public ed assault crimes all decreased. Marathon runner, Susan Ran- awareness and education, as well Chief Achilli said the increase in The Department was staffed with 22 full-time officers, including court, also stayed out of this year's as encourage neighborhood watch the police chief. race. Race records indicate that programs," the police chief wrote See POLICE Page 9 nobody from Warren ran this year. Hall of Fame Warren Athletes enter prestigious club. PAGE 20 Page 2 Warren Times-Gazette April 17, 2013 Warren musician goes back for inspiration Otis Reed to perform acumen wasn't enough to please hymns written by his in-laws. Records indicate that ancestor 200 years ago he married the daughter of a wealthy family as a young man and, though they spent their lives BY TED HAYES together and had several children, [email protected] her family never approved of Mr. When Warren musician Otis Reed and his humble upbringing. Reed steps up to the microphone After learning more about his this Sunday at the Newman Con- great-great-great-great uncle, Mr. gregational Church in Rumford, he Reed started traveling to the his- won't just have a choir accompa- Otis Reed torical society in New Haven, nying him. One where many more of his ancestor's of his ancestors, "I went and bought the book and hymns are archived. He's also EBN042013 EBN042013 gone for nearly got really into it," he said. enlisted the help of a Brown Uni- % $ 200 years, will His far-off uncles' story’s a rivet- versity student, who with him is 10 off 10 off be by his side. ing one, he said. transcribing many of the unpub- ORDERS OVER $20 ORDERS OVER $60 Mr. Reed has a The elder Reed was an entrepre- lished hymns. The ultimate goal is Cannot be combined with any other offer. Must be Cannot be combined with any other offer. Must be reputation as an neur, store owner and fought in the to publish more of his pieces and presented at time of order. Expires April 30, 2013 presented at time of order. Expires April, 2013 accomplished Revolutionary War. Like many write a biography of the noted local musician composers of his day, he wrote the writer. DINING AND TAKE-OUT AVAILABLE who plays music for his pieces and had lyrics Sunday's concert is the first 306 County Road | Barrington, RI Daniel Reed acoustic guitar prepared for him by a writer (in his time Mr. Reed has sung any of the and teaches the case, noted lyricist Isaac Watts pieces in public. Two choirs will 401-289-2591 • 401-289-2592 instrument. But on Sunday, he'll wrote many of his lyrics). He wrote perform; one will sing Reed pieces Mon-Thurs 11am-10pm leave the six-string behind as he hymns for several decades, while published in the famous "Sacred Fri & Sat 11am-10:30pm • Sun 12-9pm and two choirs present a concert of running a general store in New Harp" hymnal, and the other will hymns written by his great-great- Haven, Conn., and would often sing songs transcribed into shape great-great uncle, the noted com- travel from town to town teaching note, a style of musical tablature poser Daniel Reed. hymn singing at local churches. that was popular in Mr. Reed's day, Born in Attleboro in 1757, Daniel "He would make the rounds, particularly in the south. Reed was one of New England's going all over the place," Otis Reed The choice of Newman Congre- most prolific hymn writers during said. gational as the site for Sunday's the Revolutionary and post-Revo- Mr. Reed believes his ancestor concert is especially fitting. Daniel lutionary periods. When he died in was also a keen businessman, in Reed's great-great-grandfather New Haven, Conn. in 1836, he had that several of his songs bear the John Reed (Otis Reed's great- published hundreds of songs in names of towns in which he spent great-great-great-great-great- seven volumes and had many hun- time. Thus, he has published grandfather) was one of the dreds more that were unpublished. pieces entitled "Bristol," "Warren," founders of Newman Congrega- Otis grew up with music and had "Rehoboth," and others, though tional Church and is buried in the long known about his ancestor's the name of the towns can't be church's cemetery. history in the late 18th and early found anywhere in the lyrics. Sunday's concert starts at 3 19th century music business. But "He was just trying to sell the p.m. Tickets are $10 and can be he never seriously looked into the songs," Otis Reed said, reckoning purchased at the door or by call- composer's life until a few years that the titles were probably an ing 431-1972. Proceeds benefit ago, when a book of hundreds of early case of marketing. the Newman Congregational his hymns was published. Evidently, though, his business Church music program. GIANT • SPECIALIZED • TREK • MIRRACO HARO • REDLINE • THULE • YAKIMA • BMX Bikes • Kid's Bikes • Cycling Apparel • Electric Bicycles • Accessories • Computerized • Fitness Equipment Bike Fitting www.EastProvidenceCycle.com 414 Warren Ave., East Providence, RI 02914 401-434-3838 Warren Times-Gazette April 17, 2013 Page 3 Gunshot still echoes, 25 years later Former bully tells students of the day his life changed forever BY ERIC DICKERVITZ [email protected] Twenty-five years after a bullet to the head nearly killed him, for- mer bully Steven Bernard still bears the scars, physical and emotional, of that cold day in 1988.