Page 2 THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, January 21, 2026 Kilbride Memorial Bench Unveiling R Valentine's Special SAVE OVER $100!!! Buy three colors or highlights and get the 4th FREE! Includes cut and blow dry Located inside of Clickers Hair Salon 960 Broadway, Revere ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS! CALL 857-310-7872 Payments accepted: card, cash, venmo Offer expires to Jan. 14, 2026 Over 30 years experience Gerry D’Ambrosio Attorney-at-Law Is Your Estate in Order? Do you have an update Will, Health Care Proxy or Power of Attorney? If Not, Please Call for a Free Consultation. 14 Proctor Avenue, Revere (781) 284-5657 Real estate developer Cummings invites staff to guide its holiday giving Special to The Advocate L ocal nonprofits are celebrating the season with a combined $520,000 in funding through Cummings Community Giving. This annual program allows employees of Woburn-based real estate developer Cummings Properties to each direct up to $2,000 from the company to a nonprofit of their choice, with Malden organizations receiving a combined $11,000. Now in its 14th year, the initiative is designed to support the communities where Cummings team members live and work. More than 240 organizations across approximately 80 local cities and towns will benefit from this cycle of Cummings Community Giving. “This program is meaningful for so many of our team members,” said President Eric Anderson. “It puts philanthropy directly in their hands, allowing them to further support the causes that matter most to them.” Anderson noted that 100 percent of all rental profits at Cummings go to nonprofits. “The work our staff does every day to ecently, the family of Kevin Kilbride gathered at Trafton Park in Malden’s Maplewood area to mark the one year anniversary of his untimely passing with the unveiling of a memorial bench in his honor. Kevin, a beloved educator, retired at the end of the school year in 2024 after working in the Malden School system for over 30 years as an educator and later as an administrator. The family chose Trafton Park because of the many years Kevin spent at his neighborhood park. Kevin would say he could hear his mother calling him home from the back porch on Webber Street. Pictured behind the bench are Kevin’s son Eamon, wife Maura, daughter Maeve and son Conor. keep our buildings full helps to support hundreds of local nonprofits,” said Anderson. “They all have a role in our organization’s success, and we want them to have a role in its giving as well.” Each eligible nonprofit may receive up to $6,000 per cycle. Through this year’s cycle, five Malden organizations received donations: Bread of Life: 1,000. Immaculate Conception Parish: 2,000. MLF Forever19, Inc: 2,000. Mystic Valley Elder Services Inc.: 4,000. New Funsoccer Inc.: 2,000. More information about Cummings Community Giving is available at www.cummings. com/ccg. Beacon Hill Roll Call By Bob Katzen THE HOUSE AND SENATE: Beacon Hill Roll Call records local senators' votes on roll calls from the week of January 1216. There were no roll calls in the House last week. OFFER TAX CREDIT TO COVER LARGE PROPERTY TAX INCREASES (S 2899) Senate 37-1, approved and sent to the House a bill that supporters said would give cities and towns the ability to shield their most vulnerable taxpayBHRC | SEE PAGE 8
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