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14WEEKLYNEWS.NET - 978-532-5880 FEBRUARY 4, 2021PHOTO | SPENSER HASAKState Sen. Brendan Crighton is a strong proponent for climatechange legislation.Landmarkclimate changebill awaitsBaker’s approvalBy Guthrie ScrimgeourBOSTON – TheMassachusetts State Senateand House of Representativeshas passed legislation that,if approved by GovernorCharlie Baker, would overhaulstate climate laws, drivedown greenhouse gas emissions,create clean-energyjobs, and protect environmentaljustice communities.“I am proud to have contributedmeaningful languageto the new law andhope that other states lookto what we are doing here asa blueprint for meaningfulaction,” said RepresentativeLori Ehrlich, D-Marblehead,after the measure was passedThursday. “We owe a livableplanet to future generations.”The bill, An Act Creatinga Next-Generation Roadmapfor Massachusetts ClimatePolicy, was passed by thelegislature but vetoed byBaker at the end of the lastlegislative session due to disagreementsabout buildingcodes and the timeline foremission reductions.“I hope that he reconsidershis position, and we’ll certainlyreview what he sendsover to us,” said SenatorBrendan Crighton, D-Lynn.“It’s a strong bill. We want tolead the country in emissionsreduction, and we stand bythe goals that we set.”Notably, the legislationwould set a statewide netzerolimit on greenhouse gasemissions by 2050 and mandateemissions limits everyfive years, as well as limitsfor specific sectors of theeconomy like transport andbuildings.The legislation would alsoincrease the requirementsfor offshore wind energyprocurement, require emissionreduction goals forMassSave, the state’s energyefficiency program, establishthe criteria in statutes thatdefine environmental justicepopulations, increase supportfor clean-energy workforcedevelopment programs, andimprove gas-pipeline safety.The focus on gas-pipelinesafety comes after a seriesof gas explosions rocked theMerrimack Valley in 2018,killing 18-year-old LeonelRondon.The National SafetyTransportation Board reportedthat the explosioncame as a result of inadequatemanagement and pooroversight that led to a castironpipe being improperlyabandoned by Columbia Gas,which owned the pipelines.The measures in the billinclude increased fines forsafety violations and regulationsrelated to training andcertifying utility contractors.“(I’m) proud to join mylegislative colleagues to reenactthe climate bill thatwould take swift and substantiveaction to protectour planet,” said SenatorJoan B. Lovely, D-Salem.“Thank you to SenatePresident (Karen) Spilka,House Speaker (Robert)Mariano, Senator (Michael)Barrett and Representative(Thomas) Golden for theirLEGAL NOTICEMORTGAGEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATEBy virtue of and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgagegiven by Senka Huskic and Nidzad Huskic to Mortgage Electronic RegistrationSystems, Inc, as mortgagee, acting solely as nominee for Mortgage Master, Inc.,dated February 27, 2004 and recorded in Essex County (Southern District)Registry of Deeds in Book 22443, Page 495 (the "Mortgage") of which mortgageU.S. Bank Trust National Association as trustee of Tiki Series IV Trust is the presentholder by Assignment from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. to IxisReal Estate Capital Inc. dated July 15, 2010 and recorded at said Registry ofDeeds in Book 29606, Page 359, and Corrective Assignment from MortgageElectronic Registration Systems, Inc. to Natixis Real Estate Capital, Inc. f/k/a IxisReal Estate Capital, Inc. dated May 16, 2018 and recorded at said Registry ofDeeds in Book 36766, Page 432, and Assignment from Ixis Real Estate Capital,Inc. to Homeward Residential, Inc. dated August 14, 2012 and recorded at saidRegistry of Deeds in Book 31755, Page 220, and Corrective Assignment fromNatixis Estate Holdings LLC, successor in interest by merger to Natixis Real EstateCapital, Inc. f/k/a Ixis Real Estate Capital, Inc. to Homeward Residential, Inc.dated August 8, 2018 and recorded at said Registry of Deeds in Book 36965,Page 373, and Assignment from Bank of America, N.A., successor by merger toBAC Home Loans Servicing LP f/k/a Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP toAmerican Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc. dated May 29, 2012 and recorded atsaid Registry of Deeds in Book 31806, Page 86, and Assignment from HomewardResidential, Inc., FKA American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc. to NationstarMortgage LLC dated November 3, 2015 and recorded at said Registry of Deeds inBook 34792, Page 373, and Assignment from Nationstar Mortgage LLC to MTGLQInvestors, L. P. dated January 18, 2017 and recorded at said Registry of Deeds inBook 35812, Page 38, and Assignment from MTGLQ Investors, L. P. to U.S. BankTrust National Association as trustee of Tiki Series IV Trust dated February 11,2020 and recorded at said Registry of Deeds in Book 38274, Page 173, andAssignment from MTGLQ Investors, L. P. to U.S. Bank Trust National Association astrustee of Tiki Series IV Trust dated April 28, 2020 and recorded at said Registry ofDeeds in Book 38618, Page 473, for breach of conditions of said mortgage andfor the purpose of foreclosing the same, the mortgaged premises located at 20Beacon Boulevard, Peabody, MA 01960 will be sold at a Public Auction at 11:00AM on February 17, 2021, at the mortgaged premises, more particularly describedbelow, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, to wit:The land in said Peabody, with the buildings thereon, being all of Lots 153 and aten foot strip of the southeast side of Lot 152 on Plan of Thomas Villa, C.A. Thayer,Engr., May, 1907, recorded with Essex South District Registry of Deeds, Book ofPlans 16, Plan 7.Said premises are more particularly bounded and described as follows:Northeast by Beacon Boulevard, sixty (60) feet;Southeast by Lot 154 on said plan, eighty seven and 14/100 (87.14) feet;Southwest by Lot 174 and 175 on said plan, sixty (60) feet; andNorthwest by the remaining part of Lot 152, about eighty six and 72/100 (86.72)feet.Said premises are conveyed subject to and with the benefit of easements,reservations, restrictions and rights of way of record so far as the same are now inforce and applicable.For mortgagor's title see deed recorded with the Essex County (Southern District)Registry of Deeds in Book 22443, Page 493.The premises will be sold subject to any and all unpaid taxes and other municipalassessments and liens, and subject to prior liens or other enforceableencumbrances of record entitled to precedence over this mortgage, and subject toand with the benefit of all easements, restrictions, reservations and conditions ofrecord and subject to all tenancies and/or rights of parties in possession.Terms of the Sale: Cashier's or certified check in the sum of $5,000.00 as adeposit must be shown at the time and place of the sale in order to qualify as abidder (the mortgage holder and its designee(s) are exempt from thisrequirement); high bidder to sign written Memorandum of Sale upon acceptance ofbid; balance of purchase price payable by certified check in thirty (30) days fromthe date of the sale at the offices of mortgagee's attorney, Korde & Associates,P.C., 900 Chelmsford Street, Suite 3102, Lowell, MA 01851 or such other time asmay be designated by mortgagee. The description for the premises contained insaid mortgage shall control in the event of a typographical error in this publication.Other terms to be announced at the sale.U.S. Bank Trust National Association as trustee of Tiki Series IV TrustKorde & Associates, P.C.900 Chelmsford StreetSuite 3102Lowell, MA 01851(978) 256-1500Huskic, Nidzad and Senka, 12-009570Item: January 21, 2021 and Weekly News: January 28 and February 4 2021The Leonard Co.Residential Window& Screen CleaningYard clean-upsGutter cleaningPower WashingComp. 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FEBRUARY 4, 2021Christopher BorrelliChicago TribuneCHICAGO — “I still haveto face these people,” ChristieTate says, tugging her pandemicmask into place, then sinkingher head into the pillowy foldsof her long black parka. “Twicea week!”Wind runs off the lake andacross Hyde Park; it’s colderthan expected, grayer and flatter.“The problem is,” she continues,“I’m a people pleaser.And I want everyone to alwayslike me, and when you write amemoir, that’s just, uh — that’snot the standard, I suppose. Thenagain, this is a unique book,about a unique process. So therewas no standard.”We found a park bench nearher home, the chill ebbed.Tate, a Chicago-based lawyerfor the federal government, andnow bestselling author, is casual,easy to talk to, accommodating.She feels like someoneyou could confide in. She’sfar from the hot mess depictedin her memoir, “Group: HowOne Therapist and a Circle ofStrangers Saved My Life.” It’sa portrait of Tate as a flailingyoung lawyer, unsure if she deserveslove, eager to be loved,self-pitying, haunted by impostersyndrome, a loose canonprimed for bad decisions, goingfrom bad boyfriend to worseboyfriend. Reese Witherspoon,who picked “Group” for her onlinebook club, tweeted: “Haveyou ever read a book that madeyou want to hug the author?”Tate’s only anchor in “Group”is the ongoing group therapysession she joins in the Loop,run by a Dr. Jonathan Rosen.Before joining, she imagines thenewly divorced doctor’s heart as“a red grammar school cutout forValentine’s Day with hash marksetched across the surface .... Butthen a twist: a second chanceat love with a new wife.” Tatecomes off as needy, and evenpathetic at times, and the book,at first, reads like a treatment fora darkest ever Hallmark Channelmovie. But then, it gets darker.By the end of “Group,” Tate isphoning Rosen at all hours andscreaming messages into hisvoicemail, lashing out at thegroup — and slowly improving.But here’s what doesn’thappen: The expected momentwhere Tate leaves the group,healed.In the book, Tate changed thename of her therapist (his nameis not “Dr. Rosen”), and shechanged the names and someof the details of the members ofher therapy session. But as uglyas “Group” gets — and it getsnakedly, frothing-at-the-mouthuncomfortable — Tate is still apart of this group. That therapistshe writes about — at times witha slight sexual longing — is stillWEEKLYNEWS.NET - 978-532-5880 15Christie Tate talks “Group”her therapist. They all meet onZoom these days, but they arestill together, twice a week.The literary memoir genre— nay, the explosive-memoirgenre, the sort of tell-all that’sfull of revelations and unsightlypersonal details, the kind whereevery bridge behind the author isburning — often comes with anassumption of distance betweenauthor and main characters.Someone’s dead, someone’shistory, someone’s left, someone’snever spoken to again.Otherwise, how does an authorgo on living?The answer is, very carefully.The great Chicago essayistMegan Stielstra, who has writtenextensively about her familyand friends, told me: “A lot ofmemoirists live by that famousAnne Lamott line that ‘If peoplewanted you to write warmlyabout them, they should havebehaved better,’ but for me atleast, there are relationships thatare sacred. And I am just not interestedin putting it all out thereinto the world. The only thingwe owe anyone in the world isto be a good person, and tellingevery detail about my life isn’tnecessary to that goal.”The group therapy sessionsTate recounts in “Group” havebeen going on a couple of decadesnow. She’s a lifer, she said.Despite having written aboutthem, she has no plans to leavethem.Still, again, you have towonder: How do you write sofreely about the people withwhom you share your ugliestself — and who share theirlowest points with you — whenyou still have those relationshipsand see each other all thetime? Tate’s answer was unusualfor a memoir writer: Soon afterstarting “Group” in 2015, sheallowed everyone in her group— including her therapist — toread drafts and request changes.Anything in those drafts theydidn’t want in, she took out.Which cuts to the foundationalheart of a memoir:Whose story is it anyway?One group member asked notto be included at all in Tate’s book— disguised or otherwise — andTate agreed. “So other membersof the group confronted me:‘She gets a pass and I have tobe in your book?’ Which is fair.”In the end, none asked her tochange a thing — only the wifeof a member, who had access toa draft and requested two detailscome out. (Tate agreed.) It couldhave been worse — the groupcould have decided they didn’twant to be written about afterall, and likely, Tate might havepulled the book entirely. Beforepublication, when she attendedwriting conferences and workshopsand told teachers aboutthis deal, they mostly flinched.Tate had, as she explained it herself,“promised away my right totell my own story.”“I made a lot of mistakes,” shesays now, “and I got lucky.”Still, she adds, “I’ve talked toso many writers who are like ‘Ican’t do this kind of writing — Ican’t write what I want to writeuntil my parents die.’ I understand,I couldn’t do this if (themembers of the group) didn’thave veto power. But a friend ofmine is writing a book about herson’s suicide and she’s worriedabout betraying him, and he’sdead. It’s not that I think artistsshould do whatever they wantwhenever, but they should havemore choices. I could be wrong.”Writers of memoirs, indeed,rarely agree on questions ofprivacy and propriety. Eachapproaches writing about thepeople in their lives somewhatdifferently than the next.“I don’t give people vetopower over my work,” said KimBrooks, a Chicago writer whose2018 book, “Small Animals,”recounted the fallout of a splitseconddecision to leave her4-year-old son alone in the carwhile she ran into a store. “Youdon’t have to try to be hated ifyou write about your life, but dependinga situation, you do haveto be willing to be hated.”Brooks teaches a memoir-writingclass for theRavenswood workshopStoryStudio. “The mostcommon question I hear is,‘How do I write this if I knowit will kill my mother?’ My answeris, ‘It’s hard.’ When I waswriting ‘Small Animals,’ nearthe end of the process, I wentthrough it with a lawyer. Youstop at every place you mentionsomeone: Is there anything theymight find objectionable? At onepoint, she asked: ‘Are you sureyour mother won’t sue?’ And mymother is one of the most funcharacters in the book! But see,our stories are subjective experiences.Your story interacts withothers, so you have an ethicalresponsibility to consider how itaffects them.”When a memoir upsets, theresult can rival whatever fireworksare found in the bookitself.Karl Ove Knausgaard, theNorwegian bestselling authorof the six-part “My Struggle”books (published as fiction,but a thinner-than-thinly veiledautobiography), was threatenedwith lawsuits from familymembers, many of whom refuseto talk to him now. AugustenBurroughs settled a $2 millionlawsuit brought by subjects inhis bestseller “Running WithScissors.” Mary Karr, whose1995 memoir “The Liars’ Club”is often credited with popularizingcontemporary memoir, understandsso well the ficklenessof memory and perspective thatwhenever she teaches memoirwriting at Syracuse University,she stages a fight inside theclassroom between herself andan instructor; then asks studentsto write about what happened.Karr sends drafts to anyone shewrites about; she’s doesn’t trusther memory.When Pulitzer Prize-winningcritic Margo Jefferson waswriting her acclaimed 2015memoir “Negroland,” aboutgrowing up as a member ofChicago’s Black bourgeoisie, “Imade a decision that I would notuse the names of people who Iwent to elementary school andhigh school with. Their namesbelong to them. But their stories,those are part of my story.I approached this question abit differently based on degreeof closeness and intimacy. Mymother, she knew she was acharacter in it and would periodicallysay she’s a private person— she preferred the sanctityof her Chicago life. She hadreservations, so I showed herportions of the book where sheappeared, to set her at ease. Youhave to consider with great carewhat might be an emotional violation.You do get some degreeof license with family, but it’stricky.”“The Survivors: A Story ofWar, Inheritance and Healing,”the 2019 memoir by formerBarack Obama speechwriterAdam Frankel, was partly aboutFrankel’s discovery that his fatherwas not his biological father.But he made a decision not topublish while his grandparents(whom he assumes did not knowthis) were living. Other familymembers ”expressed concernabout what I was writing aboutand called and lobbied not toinclude certain details and factsof our family — things I thoughtwere important. I was grapplingwith secrets, knowing they haverepercussions.”He didn’t give them the optionof changing anything.Gina Frangello, a Chicagonovelist whose infidelity to her(now ex-) husband is the backboneof the upcoming memoir“Blow Your House Down,” saidcircumstances helped: Her parentsare dead, she has no contactwith her former husband (a characterin the book), her children“kind of don’t care” and her currenthusband (a character in thebook) is a writer himself. Sheoffered her kids (”to the point ofannoyance”) a chance to weighin. Her husband, also given theoption, told her to tell the storyshe intended to tell. “He understandsif you’re trying to pleaseeveryone, it’s not an honestbook. At the same time, I waswilling to look just as harshly atmyself as at everyone. The oneperson who should be cringingthe most because of a memoir isthe memoirist.” But just beforethe divorce was finalized, herex-husband introduced a curveballto the settlement: Frangellocould never write about him,their marriage or children. Sherefused.“In the end,” she writes, “ourdivorce went through without acaveat.”The irony of Christie Tate allowingthe subjects of “Group”such significant veto power overher writing is that, a couple ofyears ago, for the WashingtonPost, Tate wrote an essay abouther daughter, who had askedher mother not to write abouther anymore. Tate expected this,but she still didn’t know how torespond. Eventually, she agreedto show her daughter what shewas writing, but she refused toavoid motherhood or having adaughter as a subject itself. Theessay — partly because of subsequentonline anger towardsTate’s decision — became aviral smash.Privacy, she says now, reflecting,“is a conversation thatlacks nuance.”And yet privacy — specifically,invasion of privacy — wasthe natural concern while writing“Group.” According to AmyCook, a Chicago lawyer whoworks often with writers, defamationand invasion of privacylawsuits are the biggest fears ofmemoirists. The latter, though, isparticularly hard to prove: Anyirritated character in a memoirmust show that the contestedmaterial in a book is outside ofthe “public concern,” and yetjudges have ruled that proof ofpublic concern can include publicationof the book itself. Cooksaid it’s rare for anyone to win alawsuit against a memoir writer,but still, the risk “makes a lot ofpeople not even want to try.”Tate, however, was so cautiousand thoughtful aboutprivacy, she didn’t even askthe group or her therapist tosign waivers. (Her publisher,Counterpoint, still had a lawyerread it anyway.)The outcome, Tate says, sincepublication, the group is probablycloser than it has ever been.Soon after the book came outlast fall, she got a phone call onenight from one of the womenin the group who told Tate thatshe finally read the book. Tatebraced for bad news — she hadthought everyone had all read italready? The woman said, no,no, she hadn’t read it, becauseshe did not want to relive everyharrowing episode that Tate hadalready gone though with them.“She told me she couldn’t believehow much I loved themand how much of that came outin the writing. And so I thoughtto myself right then, I shouldprobably just show it more inperson.”
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