Page 16 THE REVERE ADVOCATE – Friday, February 14, 2020 Revere CARES Coalition announces 2020 mini-grants recipients Special to Th e Advocate T he Revere CARES Coalition is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s minigrants. Revere CARES is grateful for all the community members who want to see Revere thrive and took the initiative to submit their ideas. Every year, a group of Revere residents and community leaders meet to select the awardees of mini-grants offered to the public through the Revere CARES Coalition. This year over $20,000 was awarded to individuals, organizations and groups interested in promoting healthy eating and active living, preventing substance use disorders, improving mental well-being and engaging young people in positive activities. The 2020 awardees are as follows: Creating a Therapeutic Environment in the Garfi eld Counseling Offi ce: awarded $706.72 to the Garfi eld Middle School to create a soothing and therapeutic environment in the counseling offi ce. The area will be a place to deescalate confl icts and help students self-regulate, and a comfort zone to those experiencing trauma. Phones Down, Adventures Up Nature Program: awarded $1,200 to Revere Parks & Recreation in support of its program to connect Revere kids to the great outdoors by bringing middle and high school students to hiking trails in Massachusetts. Revere Police Student Boxing Club: awarded $2,135 to the Revere Police Department to start a student boxing club. The program will provide a free positive alternative sports activity for youths. Offi cers will lead “no contact” classes that will include warm-ups, stretching, boxing fundamentals and bodyweight calisthenics. Books for At-Risk Students: awarded $375.77 to create a special Revere High School library cart. The new library cart will off er books for at-risk students, especially English Language Learners, who are encountering mental health issues related to immigration and acculturation. Some of the books will be in the students’ native languages. Equipment to Support Safe Active Play for Children: awarded $1,517.58 to the Revere Community School. Community school staff and volunteers provide childcare while adults learn. The funds will support the purchase of equipment to promote safe physical play among the children. Middle School Ceramics Program and Empty Bowls Event: awarded $4,365 to the Garfi eld Middle School for the purchase of a kiln to integrate ceramics into the arts curriculum and for an extended learning time enrichment class. Students will experience mental well-being as they develop studio habits of mind, which include observing, envisioning and crafting to understand the world. Bowls created by students will also support an Empty Bowls event. Empty Bowls is a grassroots movement established by local artists who wanted to facilitate a solution to food insecurity and hunger. Funds raised at the event will be donated to a local food pantry. Stress Management and African-American History Month Mindfulness: awarded $2,000 to Youth Zone. A consultant from the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine will train Youth Zone members in stress management and mindfulness. WINS | FROM PAGE 10 ~ Home of the Week ~ SAUGUS Quaint 6 room, 3 bedroom colonial featuring living room with wood leading out to nice three season screened shed, full basement, newer rubber roof, View the interior of this home right on your smartphone. two wins was the performance of senior guard Erika Cheever, who poured in a combined 54 points against Medford and Malden. Cheever exploded for 30 points, which included eight 3-pointers, in a 65-52 victory over the Lady Mustangs during Revere’s Senior Night last Friday. It was the second season in a row Cheever has gone off for 30 against Medford. Nearly duplicating that eff ort, Cheever poured home 24 in a 13-point win over Malden on Monday. Head coach Matt Willis, who has not been able to coach the team in recent games due to personal matters, praised the job his assistant coaches are doing in his absence. He also said the fi nal scores of several games have not always refl ected how competitive his team has been. “In some of our games, the scores look worse than it really is,” he said. “For a team that’s been through as much adversity with sickness and injuries, I A curriculum that student leaders can use to do additional peer education will also be developed. Redesign of the Coast Collaborative: awarded $959.97 to the Revere High School Coast Collaborative. The collaborate serves students who need an alternative pathway to graduation and might be struggling with social-emotional challenges. Staff will work jointly with students to create a more inviting and therapeutic environment in their current space. New Hydration Station at the Beachmont School: awarded $1,459 to the Beachmont School for a new water filling station. The goal of the project is to promote the importance of proper hydration to students and reduce the number of dehydration-related visits to the nurse’s offi ce. Fitness Classes: awarded $1,350 to Women Encouraging Empowering (WEE). The mission of WEE is to support immigrants, refugees and low-income women and their families, to promote their rights and to develop their leadership thought educational services. Funding will support fitness classes to improve the well-being of members. Afterschool Yoga Club: awarded $1854.4 to the Susan B. Anthony Middle School for materials needed to start an afterschool yoga club. The program will be open to all students to help them cope with stress. “Circle Up” Lunch and Learn Program for Young Women: awarded $350 to SeaCoast MINI-GRANTS | SEE PAGE 19 can’t say enough about the way the players have stuck with it all year. It’s good that they’re now beginning to see some benefi ts of their hard work.” Willis added that his team is small and is almost always undersized against any team they go up against. But the team’s tenacity and hard work has kept it competitive despite that disadvantage. Last Thursday’s 42-36 home loss to a 13-win Saugus team was a perfect example of Revere’s fight. The Lady Patriots were defeated by 28 points at Saugus a couple of weeks earlier but were in last Thursday’s contest to the very end. Guard Skyla DeSimone led Revere’s scoring with 11 points in the loss. The Revere girls close out their season at Beverly on Sunday afternoon (scheduled 4:15 p.m. tip). Players honored at last week’s Senior Night game were guards Cheever and Katie O’Connell, who also served as this year’s captains.
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