THE EVERETT ADVOCATE – FRiDAy, ApRil 28, 2023 Page 13 COLEMAN | FROM PAGE 13 2023 Black Excellence Honorees with their nominating legislator on the Grand Staircase at the State House. Mayor DeMaria Announces the City of Everett is Offering Outdoor Dining to Businesses Special to The Advocate M ayor Carlo DeMaria is pleased to announce the City of Everett will once again be offering the option to have outdoor dining to businesses in Everett. Permits will be available to those who fill out and submit an application form by email or in-person to the Planning & Development Department, Room 25, on the second floor of Everett City Hall, 484 Broadway. As Summer approaches, we understand how important outdoor dining can be to local restaurants and cafés in our community. We would like to help by offering the chance to take part in this opportunity. Businesses can request or submit an application form to OutdoorDining@ ci.everett.ma.us or by visiting in person at the Department of Planning & Development office, Room 25 on the second floor of Everett City Hall, 484 Broadway. The application can also be found in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Haitian Creole Author Joanna Schaffhausen at Parlin Library – May 2 at 7:00 p.m. A re you fascinated by crime? Why did they do it? How were they caught? If so, you’re going to love our next author, Joanna Schaffhausen. She can wield a scalpel, which she learned while studying neuroscience. She has a doctorate in psychology and a long-standing interest in the brain – how it develops and how it can go so very wrong. As an editorial producer for ABC News, she wrote programs for World News Tonight, Good Morning America and 20/20. She is also the 2016 winner of the Mystery Writers of America/St. Martin’s Minotaur Books sponsored First Crime Novel Award. But it is her writing, the pace, the characters and the stories that get you. When asked how she gets her ideas, Schaffhausen says, “Anywhere and everywhere, but especially from true crime stories. I still go to sleep at night to the dulcet tones of Forensic Files. I mine the stories for how investigators feel on the City of Everett website by visiting the following URLs: English – cityofeverett.com/document/outdoor - din i ng-appl i ca - tion-english Spanish – cityofeverett.com/document/outdoor - din i ng-appl i ca - tion-spanish/ Portuguese – cityofeverett.com/document/ outdoor-dining-application-portuguese/ Haitian Creole – cityofeverett.com/document/ outdoor-dining-application-haitian-creole/ State Rep. Joe McGonagle with Antoine Coleman and his mother, Annette Coleman, and Everett Veteran’s Affairs Agent Gerri Miranda. I certainly look up to. Everett’s veterans, and the greater community of Everett are extremely lucky to have someone like Antoine around.” Black Excellence on the Hill is an annual event hosted by the MBLLC to commemorate Black Community leaders and trailblazers who are moving the needle forward in cities and towns across the state. This year’s event was held at the State House and included remarks from MBLLC Chair Bud Williams, Governor Maura Healey and Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll. Joanna Schaffhausen Author about their cases; how they talk and think. I also find it fascinating how initially there will be lots of avenues to follow, each with many clues, and the thrill of discovery is in learning which of these pieces of evidence turns out to be the key to solving the case.” Learn more about her books, her process and her villains on Tuesday, May 2 at 7:00 p.m. Coffee and pastries will be provided by the Friends of the Everett Libraries.
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