Leader Staff Report
The city council meeting Monday night was cancelled due to a technical malfunction of the speaking system.
Several meetings have had to be cancelled in recent months due to technical malfunctions, a situation that was supposed to end when the city spent hundreds of thousands to redo the audio and video systems used by ECTV to allow for seamless productions to take place.
Sometimes things just don’t want to work despite everyone’s best efforts.
The meeting has been rescheduled. The day and time will be listed by the city clerk in the days to come.
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There has been quite a bit of discussion about what’s going on with Crimson Tide football and the saga of the winning coach stepping down.
There’s still plenty of time to hire a new coach, and several new assistant coaches, if needed.
After all, Crimson Tide football isn’t just about the coaches.
It is about the football players themselves, and their need for stability and proper support from adults who run the football program.
Why the coach left, why he isn’t coming back, what has caused this resignation, are all significant questions for lovers of the Crimson Tide and its vaunted football program.
No one seems to know what exactly is going on – and the former coach isn’t saying anything other than to thank everyone for his three year winning stint.
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The mayor has a well attended fund raiser recently at the Kowloon. Several hundred guests attended, and presumably donated, many of them city employees and friends of the mayor. He didn’t not announce what he raised. That will show up in the official state reports required of all politicians. We will report this when it is made public.
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The Everett High School Percussion Ensemble has won just about every award that can be won as it made its way to the national championship in Dayton, Ohio this week.
The Ensemble’s tremendous success, the individual member’s devotion to themselves and to their bandmates, was detailed with passion and emotion by a number of parents and especially by Senator Sal DiDomenico who made an inspiring speech about the Percussion group (his son is a member) at last week’s School Committee meeting.
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The Everett Chamber of Commerce Raffle Dinner held April 5 was a great success…as usual.
Five very lucky members shared in the $10,000 prize they won.
They are: Anna Indrisano, Matt Stead, Gisella DiPaola and Lisa Scopa.
Colin Kelly was the presiding Everett Chamber officer who ran the raffle.
The annual event was held at Spinelli’s in Lynnfield. More than 200 guests attended the event.
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One of Everett’s newest appointees on the fire department is David Joyner. We published his photo when he was recently sworn in.
The Joyner’s are an Everett firefighting family with a great deal of tradition going for the family.
An uncle, retired Everett firefighter Rick Joyner, David’s father, retired firefighter Dave Joyner and firefighter Derek Joyner, David’s twin brother, all attended the festivities at the city council, along with all the members of the proud family.
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The city has been racing to up its effort to become more racially inclusive and aware.
The city’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion director Cathy Draine held yet another monthly lunch and learn.
The lunch and learn is intended to bring together Everett city employees to share ideas and experiences and to discuss all sorts of relevant topics over a lunch.
Draine has been working hard to bring the city into the 21st Century with its diversity needs.
She is trying to head off a federal probe now ongoing about racism in Everett.
Day to day, she is doing just that.