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Committee challenged to Hats off Class of 2018 School diversify teaching staff By Barbara Taormina 2010 graduate of Salemwood School was back in Malden this week with a message for the School Committee: the school district needs to hire more teachers of color. Lorna Closeil, who is now a junior at Centre College in Kentucky, challenged school committee members to do more to live up to Malden’s ideals of diversity and inclusion. Closeil’s challenge followed a powerful presentation by a group of current Salemwood eighth graders who described different types of racism, exclusion and aggression they have seen and experienced as students in Malden. “I am here to share the impact that having a teacher of color has had on my life,� Closeil who told committee members.
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With the toss of their caps, over MHS seniors from the Class of 2018 celebrate their graduation on Sunday, June 3. Congrats to the entire graduating class, and a special congratulations to Valedictorian Matthew Chin and Salutatorian Hong Li Zheng. See more photo highlights on pages 11-13. (Advocate photo by Al Terminiello)
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Closeil said that during her early years at Salemwood she was cast as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;troubled student,â&#x20AC;? a label that became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Her grades crashed, and she was constantly in and out of inhouse suspension. But when she reached the seventh grade, Closeil connected with math teacher Jennifer Hedrington, her first teacher of color. Meeting a teacher who came from a similar background who could relate to her beyond the classroom and help her understand herself had a profound impact on Closeil. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was able to shift my selfconcept as a troubled student to one that reaffirmed my ability to be a leader in and out of the classroom,â&#x20AC;? she said.
By Barbara Taormina
n Tuesday, June 19, the City Council Ordinance Committee and the Planning Board will hold a joint public hearing on zoning, use regulation, special permit regulations and requirement for marijuana establishments. City Councilors have spent more than a year trying to hammer out an ordinance that will regulate new retail marijuana shops and other marijuana businesses such as growers and manufacturers of marijuana products. The ordinance is still a work in progress, but councilors and members of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cannabis Review Committee are getting closer to a set of workable rules. This week, the discussion focused on whether the city should limit the number of marijuana establishments to four or five, and what should be included in Maldenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s host community agreement, which potential marijuana establishments will need to get a license to operate from the state. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also still unclear which city board will oversee marijuana businesses once they are up and running.
As part of the host community agreement, Malden can require marijuana businesses to pay a fee of up to three percent of their annual revenue to offset any costs the city incurs because of the new industry. That fee is in addition to the three percent tax on sales the city will collect from marijuana establishments. Ward 2 Councilor Paul Condon has been adamant that any marijuana mitigation money that the city collects be channeled into drug awareness education and treatment
programs. State law requires that mitigation fees be directly tied to impacts from marijua-
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