EV Vol. 33, No.10 -FREEEVE ER TT Spring Ahead One Hour Saturday Night! D OCAT www.advocatenews.net Free Every Friday Former Tide football star Mike Sainristil’s stock is rising in next month’s NFL Draft E Michigan defensive back Mike Sainristil (0) of Everett proudly poses with the national championship trophy after the Wolverines defeated the Washington Huskies, 34-13 at NRG Stadium in Houston on Monday, Jan. 8. The former Crimson Tide standout is now focusing on next month’s NFL Draft in Detroit after having a very good showing at the annual Scouting Combine in Indianapolis last week. (Courtesy photo / Detroit Free Press / Junfu Han) By Joe McConnell W hat’s up with Everett’s Mike Sainristil, the highly touted former University of Michigan national championship cornerback and captain? Well, he just took his fi rst steps into the world of the National Football League (NFL) last week at the annual NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. He was there with hundreds of other prospects trying to impress the league’s 32 teams to take them early in next month’s draft. Sainristil fi rst learned the game right here in Everett as a Pop Warner player. He then learned how to win on the high school level under the direction of legendary Everett High School (EHS) coach SAINRISTIL | SEE PAGE 20 SINCE 1921 Messinger Insurance Agency 475 Broadway Everett, MA 02149 Phone: 617-387-2700 Fax: 617-387-7753 NEW COMPETITIVE AUTO RATES AND BENEFITS AVAILABLE ACCIDENT FORGIVENESS DISAPPEARING COLLISION DEDUCTIBLE 11% DISCOUNT WITH SUPPORTING POLICY 10% COMBINED PAY IN FULL DISCOUNT AND GREEN DISCOUNT 10% GOOD STUDENT DISCOUNT Celebrating 100 years of excellence! Monday thru Friday: 8am to 6pm Saturdays 9am to 1pm! Check out our NEW website! www.messingerinsurance.com WINNING SPLIT: The fi nal four lucky winners of the Everett Chamber of Commerce $10,000 raffl e prize, shown from left to right, are, William Carafa of Carafa Funeral Homes; John Murphy, Exec. Director of MembersPlus Credit Union; David LaRovere of LaRovere Insurance; and Everett Police Off . Raoul Goncalves during Tuesday’s event in Lynnfi eld. See pages 12-13 for photo highlights. (Advocate photo) ADVOCTE 617-387-2200 Friday, March 8, 2024 Trump, Biden winners in Tuesday’s Primary Day Democrats to meet Saturday to pick delegates By Neil Zolot verett voters abstained from casting ballots in large numbers on Presidential Primary Election Day, Tuesday, March 5. Only 2,864 out of 22,918, or 12.49%, went to the polls. “It was defi - nitely lower than what I expected, but we did expect a low turnout because there weren’t many contested races,” City Clerk Sergio Cornelio said on election night, in reference to forgone conclusions in the presidential races and all ward party committee candidates being elected. The only competitive races were those for state party committees to represent Everett, Chelsea and other communities. Weather also aff ects turnouts and it was a cold and rainy day. In the Democratic presidential primary, President Joe Biden got 1,096 voters (69.19%), ahead of 237 No Preference votes, Dean Phillips’ 122 and Marianne Williamson’s 64 and 63 Blanks. Statewide, Biden received 83% of the votes. In the Republican presidential primary, former President Donald Trump got 972 votes (80.9%), ahead of former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s 198 (16.4%), 10 as No Preference, 5 each for Chris Christie and Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy’s 3, Asa Hutchinson’s 2, 2 Blanks and 1 Ryan Binkley. Christie, DeSantis, Hutchinson, Ramaswamy and now Haley had all previously withdrawn from the race. Statewide, Trump received 60% of the votes, Haley 36%. There was also a presidential primary for the Libertarian Party. Half the votes (16) expressed No Preference and 5 were Blank, followed by Jacob Hornberger’s 3, 2 each for Michael Rectenwald, Chase Oliver and Michael Ter Maat and 1 for Lars Mapstead. Among the Democratic Ward Committee races, in the Ward 1 Democrat Committee race, its City Councillor, Wayne Matewsky, and Councillor-at-Large Stephanie Smith each got 134 votes; its School Committee MemWINNERS | SEE PAGE 17 Everett Chamber $10k Raffl e Winners
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