Page 8 THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, February 18, 2022 Mystic Valley Elder Services elects new board members T he Board of Directors of Mystic Valley Elder Services (MVES) recently elected three new members. The board is comprised of 26 members, all of whom represent the 11 communities that MVES serves. More than 50 percent of the board members are at least 60 years old, and more than half of them were appointed by MVES’s area municipal Councils on Aging, ensuring that MVES is governed by the people that it serves. “Mystic Valley Elder Services 425r Broadway, Saugus Located adjacent to Kohls Plaza Route 1 South in Saugus at the intersection of Walnut St. We are on MBTA Bus Route 429 781-231-1111 At this time, the state requires everyone to wear masks We are a Skating Rink with Bowling Alleys, Arcade and two TV’s where the ball games are always on! 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She is retired from 30 years of teaching in the public schools of Melrose and the suburbs of Philadelphia. Post-retirement Buckley spent a few years managing a home care program for her parents with the incredible help of dedicated caregivers from AgeSpan. She has traveled throughout the United States, done some cross country in a little green Volkswagen with her sister and several friends and visited Europe. Buckley favors reading mystery, history and psychology books but will delve into almost any type of book. Art has been a lifelong interest of Buckley’s, and she is now happily painting in watercolors and acrylics and printing some designs as greeting cards, which she fi nds very satisfying. • Debbie Peczka of Revere launched her airline career with New York Air in 1982 and retired after a 37-year tenure with United Airlines. Travel is a passion that she continues to pursue, frequently visiting family members across the United States. Prior to her appointment as director of Elder Aff airs at the Rossetti-Cowan Senior Center, Peczka worked as Mayor Brian Arrigo’s administrative assistant for the entirety of his fi rst administration. Peczka loves her job at the Senior Center, where she works every day to bring fun, innovative activities to seniors while also providing them with important resources. Peczka has served on the Board of Directors for United We Care and Revere TV. • Kristen Spence of Stoneham has been working with older adults for most of her career. Currently she is the director of the Stoneham Council on Aging; previously she worked in elderly housing as a Resident Service Coordinator. She has volunteered with MVES as a Money Manager and Somerville Elder Services as well. She was a Board Member of the Massachusetts Association of Resident Service Coordinators in Housing for eight years before changing her career path in July of 2021 to work at the Council on Aging. Spence completed her master’s Susan Buckley Debbie Peczka Kristen Spence in Human Service Administration from Springfi eld College’s School of Human Services. She also earned her Bachelor of Science in Gerontology from the University of Maryland. Spence lives in Medford with her husband, twin daughters and their two cats. Malden Public Library to present “Freedom: A US History” he Malden Public Library is proud to present “Freedom: A US History,” a traveling exhibition developed by the Gilder ~ Home of the Week ~ SAUGUS...Riverside Condo offer this top floor unit! four rooms, two bedrooms, eat-in kitchen, living room with slider to private balcony overlooking Saugus River. Coin-op in building, extra storage, off street parking, unit is in need of updating and TLC. Great opportunity to get into home ownership! Unit will be delivered vacant. Offered at $265,000 335 Central Street, Saugus, MA 01906 (781) 233-7300 View the interior of this home right on your smartphone. View all our listings at: CarpenitoRealEstate.com Lehrman Institute of American History and the Meserve-Kunhardt Collection. This exhibition documents and illustrates critical fi gures and events while tracing the evolving concept of freedom from its founding until 1968. The exhibition will be in the Converse Memorial Building and will be open on Tuesdays from 6-8 p.m. and on Wednesdays from 2-4 p.m. throughout the month of March. Freedom is an exciting, even dangerous idea. It means independence – the ability to act without being coerced by others. Freedom requires risk taking, courage and a willingness to struggle for the possibility of a better future. Freedom is one of the founding principles of the United States. The United States has off ered hope for people seeking freedom. At the same time, many Americans have been denied freedom. When the Bill of Rights was written, slavery was an accepted institution and married women were considered their husbands’ property. The freedoms that today off er us protection and opportunities for change should not be taken for granted. Our constitutional freedoms are being hotly debated in Congress and all across the United States. The exhibit reproduces revolutionary documents – primary sources – of our history that proclaimed our rights to self-government and freedom. It shows evidence – letters, photographs, artwork – of the work of courageous men and women who took great risks as concepts of freedom evolved. The exhibit is based on the book “Freedom: A History of US” by Joy Hakim. Copies of the companion book and PBS media series are available on the library’s website and catalog at maldenpubliclibrary.org.
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