COMING SOON: ANOTHER OFFERING BY ELIZABETH Winthrop, MA 02152 | 617-846-9900 EstablishedCall Elizabeth Ferrara in (781) 1882 718-7094 op’s P thr ion in ee W Wr INTHROPWinthrop Newspaper SSUNUN TTRANRANSCRIPTS CRIP T E stABLI S H E D IN 1882 Published by the Independent Newspaper Group 50 C E N ts THURSDAY, April 4, 2019 Council hears INDEX Police Report 2 from Town Editorials 4 Through The Years 5 officials on Then and Now 5 Obituaries 6 Classified 14 FY’20 budget Business Directory 15 By Sue Ellen Woodcock Next year’s budget season INDEPENDENT is right on track, and in-cludes town department heads mak- ing a brief presen-tation to the Town Council. Tuesday night department heads from Veteran’s Ser-vic- es, Human Resources, Trea- surer, Assessors, the Council on Aging, and the ferry ser- vice/MIS/EB Newton came Newspaper Group before the council. Steve Roche, deputy as- Briefs sessor, said the town had $20 NEWS million in new growth, a re- cord for the town. WINTHROP HEALTH “Property values are up NEEDS ASSESSMENT Trinity Rist (junior), Elizabeth Collins (junior), Max Correia (sophomore), Kevin Webber (sophomore), Jude Heberlein (sophomore), and we hope to see continued Ayat Walid (sophomore), Trevor Franklin (freshman), Tatyana Lewis (freshman). NOT PICTURED are Leo Correia (Grade 7, junior growth,” he said. DEADLINE IS APRIL 7 member), w/ STEM Director Rosemary McCarthy and the three mentors: Paulo Correia, Rick Bryan, and Keith Heberlein. Tanji Cufini, who heads the For the first time, Chel- ferry service, said a $161,000 sea, Revere and Winthrop are subsidy will be given to the combining forces to conduct High School students launch first robotics club town because of the stop in a comprehensive regional Quincy. Another $150,000 is the motivated group of future of them; they had to recruit al grants, the newly estab- Community Health Needs By Kate Anslinger coming from MassDEP. engineers. three engineer mentors and lished Robotics Club received Assessment (CHNA) and “Water traffic should in- In early October of the “Rosemary was the best raise more than $6,000 to get $4,000 from the FIRST Ro- design a Community Health crease because traffic will be 2018-2019 school year, high choice, by far,” said Max Cor- the program up and running. botics Rookie Grant. The club Im-plementation Plan (CHIP). bad,” she said, referring to the schoolers Liz Collins and reia, one of the original club In came Paulo Correia, Rick received $500 from the 11 Major hospitals, along with Tobin Bridge construc-tion Trinity Rist approached ev- members. Bryan, and Keith Heberlein, Foundation and $1,000 from health centers, human ser- over the next two years. vices providers and non-prof- ery STEM and science teach- The students had witnessed real-world engineers and com- the Viking Pride Foundation. robotics clubs well underway munity members who agreed In addition, they took it upon its that serve ar-ea residents, er in the school, asking if In other business: they would be willing to lead in surrounding school dis- to dedicate every Tuesday, themselves to start a GoFund- are working with municipal • Kathleen Napoli, who the robotics club that they tricts, and they felt that they Thursday and Saturday after- Me page and attend town leaders, health depart-ments spearheaded the rally about dreamed of starting. While deserved a chance to learn the noons to guiding the students events requesting donations and the boards of health of the sky-high water rates several teachers didn’t have skillsets needed to build a ro- in building a robot. for the remaining $500. each community to devel- turned in 300 signatures to the the time to add more to their bot and contend with schools “We like to say that we are “These kids did not have a op the plan. Residents of the Town Council to call for an already-packed schedules, in the upcoming FIRST Ro- rookies as well, and we steer lot of money to work with and three communities are being audit of the water and sew-er Middle School STEM Di- botics Competition. butt don’ necessarily drive the they hustled for it,” said Mc- urged to go online and fill out system. rector, Rosemary McCarthy, Once they had McCarthy projects,” said Rick Bryan, a Carthy. “I tip my hat to them.” a survey that asks about local • The Council appropriated stepped in and offered her ex- on their side, the students career software engineer. health issues and other aspects $487,850 to replace lead water pertise, unable to turn down had an even bigger job ahead After applying to sever- See ROBOTICS Page 3 of community life. lines to residences throughout The effort is being co-coor- the town. Funds will be bor- dinated by the North Suffolk rowed from the MWRA Lead Public Health Collaborative Replacement Program. There and the Mass General Hospital Winthrop, the world, all are 840 full lead line services Center for Community Health and this particular appropria- Improvement (CCHI) with the on the same recycling ride tion will remove 100 of them. ultimate goal of identifying, • Somerset Avenue resident By Sue Ellen Woodcock he knows the recycling mar- prioritizing and addressing kets aren’t great. Tom Reilly told the council the most urgent health needs You think you’re doing the When recycling really took he had been given a couple faced by each community and right thing by recycling your off in the late ‘80s and early the region. Such assess-ments plastic milk jug, your card- ‘90s, cities and towns made See COUNCIL Page 4 are often used to apply for tar- board and cans. money off recyclables. SEE ARTICLE PAGE 3 geted funding to help ad-dress Environmentally, you are Much of the recyclables community needs. still doing the right thing, but were shipped to China and Every three years, most for cities and towns, it costs other countries for processing, hospitals conduct a commu- more to dispose of recyclable but now the markets are flood- nity health needs assessment trash as opposed to regular ed and China has closed their to meet requirements set by trash. In Winthrop it all goes markets entirely. the Affordable Care Act. The to the same place – the in- Town Manager Austin Massachusetts Attorney Gen- cinerator – the hauler Capital Faison said the town’s trash eral also requires such a report Waste decides where the trash contract ends in the next fis- and is encouraging regional and recycling go. cal year and he wants to take collaboration among stake- Mike Merolo, one of the holders, including among owners at Capital Waste, said healthcare systems who share See RECYCLING Page 3 the same service areas. “This is one of the first regional as- sess-ments of its type in Mas- Ruby Viens. sachusetts,” said Jeff Stone, Director of the North Suffolk Ruby Viens recognized for artwork Price subject Public Health Collaborative. to change WHY COOK THIS WEEKEND?? By Kate Anslinger as part in the Youth Art Show. without According to Town Manag- notice er Faison, “This is an import- Sponsored by the Massachu- WE HAVE OUR COOKED CHICKENS ant pro-cess for Winthrop. 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No an- parking lot of Cumberland Pleasant and Somerset Ave- Mary Kelly Park on Morton Officers report the male lives Jefferson Street. Spoke with swer on call back and unable Farms asking for money. nue. Street. Items were picked up. on Hale according to room- the male party who is intox- to get accurate ping. Verizon Spoke to the party who was DPW reports a man using MBTA Police walk-in to mate.