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Healthy Lynnfield Coalition receives Youth Risk Survey grant By Christopher Roberson
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he Healthy Lynnfield Coalition recently received a $17,000 grant from Lahey Health to fund the Youth Risk Behavior Survey this fall for students in grades 7-12. For the first time, a Parent Survey will also be added. “I can’t tell you how much this is going to help all of our students,” said Superintendent of Schools Jane Tremblay during the Aug. 16 donation event, adding that three years have passed since a Youth Risk Behavior Survey was conducted in Lynnfield. Tremblay is also looking forward to incorporating the new parent com-
ponent, saying that the district needs to utilize the strong relationship that it has with parents. “None of us do this work in isolation,” she said. “We’ll really be able to pinpoint the areas we should be looking at; if our students are not psychologically and physically safe, it’s very hard to educate them.” Although there is always a minimal margin of error, Tremblay said she is not concerned about students providing false information when they take the survey. “It’s anonymous, so we really think that they are honest,” she said. Shown, from left to right, are Selectman Philip Crawford, Lahey Health COO Denis Gallagher and Lynnfield Superintendent of Schools Jane Tremblay during the Aug. 16 donation event.
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Terranova, Shaffer and Berardino “put on the gloves” in LYFC matter By Christopher Roberson
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ore than two years after they were accused of taking money from Lynnfield Youth Football and Cheerleading (LYFC), Thomas Terranova, Wayne Shaffer and Stephen Berardino have gone on the offensive. On Aug. 3, they filed a $67,000 lawsuit against Selectman Philip Crawford, the CBS Corporation, CBS reporter Ryan Kath, Joseph Maney, Jr. and five other defendants who will be added in at a later date. The 12-page lawsuit also includes three counts of defamation and one count of negligent supervision. In his Complaint, Attorney Bradford Keene emphasized that Terranova, Shaffer and Berardino only held volunteer positions with LYFC. “In their affiliation with LYFC, Plaintiffs Terranova, Berardino and Shaffer received no compensation monetary or otherwise,” he said. “Each position held by them was as a volunteer, to a charity.” However, Keene said that in May 2015, information submitted by Lynnfield residents compelled the State Attorney General’s Office to launch an investigation in which LYFC was asked to disclose its financial records and tax returns going back to 2011. Although the requested documents were provided by June 30, 2015, Keene said additional documentation was needed from Berardino regarding his compa-
ny, State Line Graphics. Keene said those documents were also produced without hesitation. By July 2016, Keene said the assistant attorney general supervising the case had applied for a Civil Investigative Demand that put State Line Graphics under the microscope. However, he said no wrongdoing was found after 27 months of documents were reviewed by both an independent certified public accountant and the Attorney General’s Office. However, CBS could not stay away and assigned reporter Ryan Kath to the story. “As part of their ‘investigative investigation,’ Defendants CBS Corporation and Ryan Kath plotted to conduct a series of ‘ambush’ audio/video interviews of the Plaintiffs,” said Keene. The matter got explosive when the story aired on April 10 of this year. During the broadcast, Crawford and Maney were both interviewed with Maney appearing in a blacked out silhouette “for fear of retribution.” Keene said that at the time, both Maney and Crawford made “defamatory and wholly false statements” against Terranova, Shaffer and Berardino. However, he said Crawford did not make his allegations known to LYFC until the time of the broadcast.
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