Page 10 THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2021 Local family raises $20K for Breast Cancer research Mayor donates buses for travel to Boston fundraiser Back row, pictured from left to right: Billy, Karen, Derek, Zack, Billy and Sherice Reed, friend Kevin Rosado, Kathy and Billy Mercurio, family friend Christy Cann and Jamie Mercurio. Front row, pictured from left to right: Stephanie, Dante and Giovanni Reed, Matthew Connor, CJ Cann and Patti Difonzo. By Tara Vocino T he Reed family has raised approximately $20,000 for breast cancer research across 20 years in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk. Breast cancer 26-year surviBack row, from left to right: breast cancer survivor Karen Reed, husband Billy and their sons Billy, Derek and Zachary Reed. Front row, from left to right: daughterin-law Stephanie, grandson Dante, daughter-in-law Sherice and grandson Giovanni Reed. vor Karen Reed and her team, Bosom Babes, raised approximately $5,000 on Sunday’s walk around the Charles River in Boston. Mayor Brian Arrigo donated two courtesy buses to leave from Beachmont Veterans Memorial School in Revere to go into Boston early Sunday morning. “It’s awesome to have family and friends here walking with me,” Reed said. LETTER | FROM Page 7 private sectors. Let us work with MGH/Brigham, Boston Medical Center, the State of Massachusetts Department of Public Health to address substance abuse disorder and regional homelessness collectively. The current approach by acting Mayor Janey is to dump Boston’s most needy, who have substantial health needs at a secluded hotel which is next to a liquor store in Revere isolated by a highway and miles away from the mecca of medicine and addiction recovery in Boston. Janey is irresponsible and reckless. In closing, we need to stand against Mayor Janey’s Master Plan to gentrify the area and her fi nal solution to warehouse the affl icted in a remote hotel. The afflicted cannot be further negatively impacted by Janey’s poor leadership and reckless fi nal solution! Sincerely, George Rotondo RN Revere City Councilor
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