THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023 Page 9 ~ LETTER TO THE EDITOR ~ Point of Pines Riverside and Oak Island Dear Editor, I am writing to those of you who received the anonymous letter about acting Mayor Patrick Keefe and Wheelabrator. I have lived here for 40 years and have been fi ghting against the Saugus Wheelabrator incinerator and ash dump for decades. I am suspect of the anonymous “neighbor” since everyone I know fi ghting against Wheelabrator would have had no problem signing their full name to this letter. If the actual letter writer would like to reach out, I’d love to have further discussions but it’s hard to address an “anonymous” source about the innuendos, speculation, and scenarios contained in the letter. I can only tell you what my experience has been with him. Whenever I have asked for support, Patrick Keefe in his capacity as a City Councillor or as acting Mayor, has always stepped up to sign a letter or vote with us on Wheelabrator issues. Because I wanted to be certain about where he stood during this election season, I reached RevereTV Spotlight A re you ready for the City of Revere’s preliminary election? It is already next week, Tuesday, September 19. To learn more about everyone running in the preliminary election, watch statements from each candidate now playing on RevereTV. Time slots of equal time were off ered to every candidate on the ballot, and the videos are strung together by candidacy in the order they will appear on the ballot. The videos are scheduled at various times up until the election. You can watch them all together or individually at your convenience on YouTube. The videos are featured on the RevereTV YouTube homepage in separate playlists. The city held a Brazilian Flag Raising Ceremony outside City Hall last week for Brazilian Independence Day. Speakers included Acting Mayor Patrick Keefe, State Representatives Jessica Giannino and Jeff Turco and Brazilian community members. The event concluded with cultural music and dancing. Although this fi rst aired on RevereTV live, you can still watch replays of the ceremony on the RTV Community Channel or on YouTube. Believe it or not, the Revere High School football season has begun. RevereTV will be covering all games this season, so please tune in! The season kicked off with a game versus Peabody last Friday. If you missed it live last week, watch it as it replays on the Community Channel, or you can fi nd it in the “RHS Football- Fall 2023” playlist on YouTube. RevereTV thanks everyone involved in game coverage ahead of this season, including the staff that travels to each game and the volunteer play-by-play announcers that help carry along the footage. Revere’s city government meetings continued after the Labor Day weekend. Watch replays of the Conservation Commission, the return of the Human Rights Commission last Thursday, the most recent Revere High School Building Committee Meeting, and this week’s Legislative Aff airs Subcommittee, Committee of the Whole, Revere City Council and Commission on Disabilities meetings. All government meetings play live on RevereTV unless they are double booked. All meetings replay on RTV GOV in the weeks following the meeting and stay posted to YouTube to be viewed at any time. Be sure to tune in to RevereTV on Tuesday, September 19, for real-time election coverage as the results come in. RTV GOV is channel 9 for Comcast subscribers and channels 13 and 613 for RCN subscribers. The studio will be streaming this election coverage live on YouTube for those who cannot watch on television. Remember that results shown during this coverage are reported and unoffi cial until fi nal confi rmation by the Revere Election Department. out to him yesterday and asked about this letter. His answer was “I’ll always support Revere over the ash landfi ll.” We all must make our own decisions about who gets our votes. It’s hard enough to decide which candidates to support without receiving anonymous letters with no basis in facts. Signed, Loretta LaCentra Riverside community activist Here’s just a dozen reasons why Joanne has been re-elected to four terms as your Ward 1 Councillor. Joanne proudly stands by her record. Just like the voters. RE-ELECT Joanne McKenna Your Ward 1 City Councillor (Pol. Adv.)
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