Page 2 THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2021 ANGELO’S FULL SERVICE Regular Unleaded $2.959 Mid Unleaded $2.999 Super $3.119 Diesel Fuel $3.149 "42 Years of Excellence!" 1978-2020 KERO $4.65 DEF $3.49 9 Diesel $2.799 9 HEATING OIL 24-Hour Burner Service Call for Current Price! (125—gallon minimum) DEF Available Open an account and order online at: www.angelosoil.com (781) 231-3500 (781) 231-3003 367 LINCOLN A A DA R Councillor wants action on abandoned shopping carts By Adam Swift eturning your shopping cart after you’ve loaded the groceries in the car is just good manners. But in Revere, there’s been an ongoing problem with the carts getting away from the store. Over the past month, Ward 1 www.eight10barandgrille.com We Have Reopened for Dine-In and Outside Seating every day beginning at 4 PM Councillor Joanne McKenna said, she’s counted over 150 derelict carts on her own that have been dumped on city streets, sidewalks and property. At last Monday night’s City Council meeting, McKenna introduced a motion asking representatives from some of the city’s bigger grocery and box stores to appear before the council and address the problem. “In the last couple of months, I don’t know if anyone has seen the overwhelming amount of shopping cars that are in the city,” said McKenna. Revere has an ordinance on the books where it can charge $25 per abandoned and stored shopping cart it picks up, but McKenna said the issue is that the city has no place to store the abandoned buggies. “What the city has been doing is they have been working overtime and putting them back in the Market Basket where someone from those stores will come and retrieve the shopping carts within two days. However, McKenna said that from what she has seen the stores have not been picking up the carts, and that they should be removed from the city streets sooner than in two days. Councillor-at-Large Steve MoJOANNE MCKENNA Ward 1 Councillor stores,” she said. “What good is this? We have to come up with some kind of solution.” The stores either need to hire someone to pick up the shopping carts, or install a system where there are brakes on a cart that locks the wheels if someone tries to take it past a certain boundary. “All the shopping carts are getting thrown all over our city, and they are littering our city, but we can’t do anything about it because we don’t have any place to store them,” McKenna said. Ward 2 Councillor Ira Novoselsky said there are phone numbers listed for Stop & Shop and rabito said the abandoned carts are a public safety issue. “We have two supermarkets, one on the west side of Revere and one near Beachmont,” he said. “We have main roads like Washington Avenue, Salem Street, Revere Beach Parkway, State Road; this is a public safety issue. These carriages – we have one night of wind, high winds – these are going right into someone’s car; it’s going to cause a major accident and maybe even cost someone’s life.” Morabito said the fines for abandoned carts should be increased and corporate supermarkets held accountable. Councillor-at-Large Jessica Ann Giannino suggested the council look at an ordinance where larger stores with shopping carts have to install a braking system. Options on the table for redistricting By Adam Swift At a public meeting last week, A WE'RE OPEN! 8 Norwood Street, Everett (617) 387-9810 STAY SAFE! s the community that saw the biggest percentage jump in population with the 2020 U.S. Census, the City has a lot of work to do when it comes to redistricting. city offi cials laid out six potential redistricting maps they are looking to get more input on before bringing one or two plans before the City Council later this month. Those potential redistricting maps look to even out the six city wards so they are close in population to each other, according to Reuben Kantor, Revere’s Chief Innovation Offi cer. Some of the draft maps presented during the public forum seek to make the wards more geographically even, while others seek to keep the lines as close as possible to the current boundaries while making sure the city still meets state and national legal requirements for the population fl uctuations between wards. “A lot has changed in Revere in the last 10 years since the 2010 census,” said Kantor. The two biggest changes are the 20 percent jump in total population and the large jump in Hispanic/Latino population in the city. The 2020 census pegs the Revere population at 62,186 residents, the highest growth of any municipality in the state. According to Kantor, the city saw growth in all wards. The greatest amount of growth was in Ward 2 at nearly 32 percent. In 2010, 62 percent of Revere’s population identifi ed as white, while in 2020, that number is down to 45 percent. During the past decade, the Hispanic/Latino population increased from 24 percent to 37 percent. POPULATION | SEE Page 16 Prices subject to change FLEET
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