Page 16 THE EVERETT ADVOCATE – FRiDAy, MARCH 31, 2023 City hosts successful second annual G.I.R.L.S. Day event Over 100 girls participated in the City of Everett’s second annual G.I.R.L.S. Day to learn about public safety careers in police and fire while having plenty of fun. The ladies representing the Everett Police and Fire Departments alongside the City’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Director, Cathy Draine (in G.I.R.L.S. Day shirt). Everett Police Department: Officers Lyanna Batista, Jillian Donnelly, Janelle Grasso, Rachel Hall, Hayli Hill, Nicole O’Donnell, Lauren Pagliuca, Colleen Stabile and Marie Sylvain. Everett Fire Department: Private Tori Cyrus. Elected officials, City of Everett employees and community members all came out to take part in the G.I.R.L.S. Day festivities. Blue: Group C (8-9 year olds). The ladies representing the Massachusetts State Police: Trooper Christina Cavagnaro, Trooper Mia Cefalo, Trooper Stephanie Devlin, Lt. Marion Fletcher, Trooper Giselle Munoz, Sgt. Jennifer Penton and Trooper Jenny Rincon. Pink: Group A (4-5 year olds). Yellow: Group D (10-11 year olds). Purple: Group B (6-7 year olds). Special to The Advocate I Orange: Group E (12-14 year olds). n commemoration of Women’s History Month, the City of Everett shared with over 100 young females the power, importance and strength of women in public safety at the second annual G.I.R.L.S. Day. In addition to celebrating women and girls, this event was a tremendous success and showed participants there are women just like them who serve in public safety and that these careers are options for them in the future, too. Participants were broken up into different age groups – Pink: 4-5 year olds, Purple: 6-7 year olds, Blue: 8-9 year olds, Yellow: 10-11 year olds, Orange: 12-14 year olds – and led by female police officers and firefighters from the Everett Police and Fire Departments, the Massachusetts State Police and Tufts University’s Department of Public Safety. The groups cycled between the Recreation Center, Everett Police Station and the Everett Fire Department’s Ferry Street Station, where they would find various activities to learn about caG.I.R.L.S. DAY | SEE PAGE 29
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