Page 12 THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – FriDAy, SEpTEmbEr 23, 2022 Saugus seniors go dancing into the fall season T By Tara Vocino he Senior Center welcomed the start of autumn with a Fall Ball last Thursday afternoon. Board of Selectmen Vice Chair Debra Panetta (at left) welcomed new Senior Center Director Laurie Davis. (Advocate photos by Tara Vocino) The Journeymen, pictured from left to right: Joseph Picano on drums, Thomas Reppucci on saxophone and John Carmilia on piano provided jazz, swing and easy listening music. Kathy Billings and Rollin Alcott embraced each other. Seniors are shown dancing to the music. Millie and William Mahaney slow danced to “Pennies from Heaven.” Ruth Berg danced to “Rolling Along the River.” William Buchan and Cabrina Johnson danced to “Let’s Boogie.” Eleanor Blaney and Patricia Botto thanked Chestnut Woods Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center for sponsoring the donut bar. Annette Slocomb and John Serino danced to “Let Me Call You Sweetheart.” SELECTMENS | FROM PAGE 3 ests and buildings. Everything you find in the air is also in the ash. So when there is a spill and HAZMAT comes down to WIN Waste with their special suits, the ash tests Toxic. WIN Waste’s nitrogen oxide levels are supposed to be at 150 PPM. They are currently at 185 PPM, and they buy emission credits to satisfy this requirement. That doesn’t help Saugus residents. Even with the improvements they discussed tonight, we just heard that the best they can do is 175 PPM which means they still will need to purchase emission credits. Girlfriend Clara Cotter and Maurice DiBlasi, 102, are shown during last Thursday afternoon’s Fall Ball at the Senior Center. That isn’t satisfactory to me. We deserve to breathe clean air too. Breathing high levels of nitrogen oxides can cause rapid burning, spasms, and swelling of tissues in the throat and upper respiratory tract, reduced oxygenation of body tissues, a build- up of fluid in your lungs, and death. In Lynn, they have a machine by their water department that measures NOx levels. We have nothing like that in Saugus. The City of Revere has six air quality monitors. There are two at Gibson Park (a park close to the WIN Waste facility) which show that air pollution is way over the normal limits. WIN Waste does have a permit to truck ash out The Journeymen performed jazz swing music. of Saugus without using Saugus roads. This would not impact the neighborhoods and should be further discussed. WIN Waste should also look into other uses for the landfill, including a solar farm. There has been no discussion of a closure committee. There has been no talk on remediation – what will happen when the landfill closes. I attended all the WIN Waste / Landfill Committee meetings, and I didn’t hear anybody question the need for 25 years. The monetary benefit they propose has a big caveat. WIN Waste will pay Saugus $10 Million (instead of $18.8 Million) if required to invest more than $5 Million due to regulatory requirements. This is about the quality of life for the people that live in Saugus, Revere, and Lynn … especially for residents living in Precincts 10 and 3. Haven’t these residents taken on enough of this burden? This should not be a payoff to entice the Town of Saugus to continue to pollute. There is a heavy cost for allowing and supporting this expansion. This is not ‘free’ money or ‘found’ money. It’s money that attempts to mitigate the health and well-being of Saugus residents and our surrounding communities. And as we heard at the Landfill committee meeting, this has a negative impact on our property values. Chestnut Woods Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center Administrator-in-training Kalie Cordeiro provided cider donuts. The vote tonight is either that you are for a 25-year expansion (with no engineering report, no surveys, no expert opinions), or you are against an expansion. We are the policy makers in the Town, so if this Board does vote in favor of this tonight, then we should also revoke the policy we have in place regarding air & ash emissions. Remember: The ash is either going into one of three places: 1/ air emissions, 2/ captured in the ash and blown around, or 3/ with no liner – getting into the water system & environment including our food chain. I do hope when the DEP SELECTMENS | SEE PAGE 13
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