Black Cyan Magenta Yellow CONGRATULATIONS, CLASS OF 2018 CONGRATULATIONS, CLASS OF 2018 CONGRATULATIONS,Check Out Our Graduation Special! CLASS Pages OF 42018 – 9 BOOK YOUR POST IT Call Your Advertising Rep T IMES -F REE P RESS (781)485-0588 East BostonWednesday, June 20, 2018 NE Association of EAST BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL 2018 GRADUATION Schools and John Nucci receives life Colleges grants saving kidney transplant EBHS accreditation By John Lynds Abrams was a kidney donor match. Nucci, 66, suffers from By John Lynds Life has come full circle for Polycystic Kidney Disease, With nearly 300 students East Boston’s John Nucci and the same kidney disease that graduating East Boston High Kerri Abrams, who owns Kin- killed his dad at the age of 64. School (EBHS) last Friday ship Florist in Revere. He and Abrams underwent the and a four-year graduation Thirty-five years ago lifesaving kidney transplant rate hovering at 75 percent, Abrams’ parents, Kim and Al, surgery Tuesday. students, faculty and staff were political supporters and “My kidneys went from have had a lot to celebrate this friends of Nucci's. At the time 12 percent down to 2 percent school year. neither Nucci nor the Abrams since February,” said an emo- EBHS recently added yet could have ever guessed near- tional Nucci on the eve of another reason to pull out ly four decades later that Kim his surgery Monday evening. the proverbial party hats as and Al’s daughter would do- “Kerri is just an amazing and the New England Associa- nate her kidney to help save brave woman. To read about tion of Schools and Colleges Nucci’s life. my story, step up and undergo (NEASC) voted to award the Nucci announced Sunday to the East Boston Times that school continued accredita- Please see NUCCI Page 3 tion. The NEASC, the coun- try’s oldest accreditation as- Mayor Walsh sings city ordinance sociation serving more than 2,000 public and independent to regulate short term rentals schools, gave its coveted ac- creditation to Eastie’s public By John Lynds not knowing who is coming high school. This was EBHS East Boston High School graduating senior Richard Bynam is embraced by his teacher, Lauren and going week after week. second accreditation from Owens, as Bynam's two-year-old daughter, Zamyrah, looks on during last Friday's EBHS grad- Longtime Webster Street After months of complaints the NEASC, the first occur- uation at East Boston Memorial Stadium. resident John McCarthy lives by residents like McCarthy ring a decade ago. Accord- next to a property being used the Boston City Council voted ing to their report on EBHS, as an Airbnb. While he does 11-2 last week in favor of cre- the NEASC wrote that the The birth of his baby girl changed not begrudge anyone from ating an ordinance to regulate accreditation committee was making a little extra money on short-term rentals like Airbnb. impressed with many of the the side, he feels there should The ordinance to establish programs and services at the him, now he’s off to college be some sort of regulation. guidelines and regulations to school. “It’s getting out of control,” better track and regulate short “The committee was re- By John Lynds was a sophomore and turned one of the most beloved and said McCarthy. “I’ll tell you, term rentals in the City of 16 his whole life changed popular students at East Bos- some of the people renting the Boston was signed last Friday Please see EBHS Page 3 Anyone who was at last with the birth of his daughter, ton High. Airbnb are not the people you by Mayor Martin Walsh. Friday’s East Boston High Zamyrah. “He always made a point to want to live next to.” "My goal in regulating School (EBHS) graduation at “He was in my Creative use his popularity to include McCarthy said he’s had short-term rentals has always Air quality East Boston Memorial Stadi- Writing class and he wrote everyone...he looked out for to deal with loud parties, an been to responsibly incorpo- um saw an overjoyed Richard beautifully,” said his teach- those who needed help,” said increase in litter around his rate the growth of the home- monitoring pilot Bynum walk onto the stage er Lauren Owens. “He had a Owens. building and in the backyard, with his 2-year-old daughter, baby in his sophomore year, By his senior year Bynam as well as the discomfort of Please see RENTALS Page 3 program begins Zamyrah, and accept his high and it changed him. He be- was doing everything right school diploma. came much more focused and and, teacher Tiana Tassinari’s Bynam’s story is one that is dedicated to his work.” College English class, penned By John Lynds truly inspiring and while we While becoming a teen his college essay. East Boston Olin College usually report on those who parent might derail most, the Bynam chose to make his students, Taylor Sheneman easily succeed academically birth of his daughter put By- essay a letter to his 2-year-old and Christine Dimke have in high school, it’s stories like nam on the path to success. daughter. begun to install instruments Bynam’s that need to be told. He realized, above all else, “Zamyrah, my daughter, that will consciously measure By his own admission By- his mission in life was to keep you are 2-years-old now, and a wide array of pollutants nam had an ‘I don’t care’ at- his daughter safe and send her you have not yet seen the hor- caused by fossil fuels emanat- titude since he was a young down the right path to be suc- rors that this world can bring ing from Logan International boy because, he said, there cessful. to a person. Since you came Airport. was nobody around that real- The only way Bynam could into my life, I realized that The pilot program is a col- ly cared or worried about him see his daughter being a suc- my attitude needed to change, laboration between Olin, East when he was growing up. cess in life was to first be a especially the way that I carry Boston’s AIR Inc., Eastie’s He had a rocky start to high success himself. myself,” he wrote. “I under- airport mitigation advocacy school. 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