Everett and world class sculpture
About 45 years ago, world renowned sculptor Douglas Abdell (shown above) was working daily casting, cutting, sanding, painting and creating large scale modern sculptures at the Duncan Galvanizing yard in Everett.
At the time, he was a sculptor and thinker on the rise.
Today, he lives in Spain, a much older, much wiser man and sculptor still working every day with a passion to advance his art.
His work and his lifelong devotion to his art and his skill set find Abdell at the top of his form among the pantheon of great 20th and 21st Century artists and sculptors.
He is very likely the only sculptor to have used a foundry in Everett to create steel works that today are displayed in museums, in public places in the great cities of the world, and which are held like prizes in private collections around the globe.
And to think his career as a sculptor placed him in Everett!
Sean Hogan
Everett Firefighters Union 143 secretary and treasurer Sean Hogan is a very careful man, meticulous in many ways.
When he presented a check to The Pink Angels for $3,500 from the union he represents last week at the Hancock Street fire station, this represented for him a pretty big moment.
After all, $3,500 is a lot of money to raise to fight cancer – and he was satisfied that all his brothers and sisters in Firefighters Union 143 had banded together to produce such a rich outpouring of charity for a very good cause.
He is shown in the above photo with Eugene and Joanne Seneta, co presidents of The Pink Angels, and Laurel Newsom, also an official with the organization.
Everett Kiwanis
Last week, the Everett Kiwanis Club announced a $1,000 donation to Evelyn’s Little Public Libraries Network.
There are, of course, two public libraries in Everett.
However this donation will sustain the birth of yet another little public library in Everett which will be located in Glendale Park near the high school.
We wish her luck on this new venture which will naturally expand access to great reading materials for our school children and residents of all ages.
Kiwanis is headed up by Attorney, former Councilor, Fred Capone.
Reporting the news
Last week’s edition of the Leader Herald featured six stories of local interest on our front page – a sure sign we are covering local news and presenting our readers with a well rounded number of features and news stories.
A key story reported last week is the news that the city is facing a substantial shortfall of tax revenues in the next three years – something
like $55 million because of the changing nature of the local commercial and industrial real estate marketplace in the city.
As much bigger traditional sources of tax income get sold off for lesser uses – like the Exxon Mobil property and the Mystic Power Plant – the tax implications become a burden to deal with.
The city will survive but in the short term city spending should likely be cut just a tad to dent the shortage. That would be the sensible thing to do.
We also point with pride to our own home grown eclipse photograph taken by Kate Resnek in Santa Monica on the morning of the celestial event. Resnek is the daughter of Josh Resnek, publisher and editor of the Leader. She is a Boston University graduate of their School of Communications and is working in Los Angeles in the television and movie industry.