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Oh, brother<br />
You may have heard that the Super Bowl was played a few weeks ago. If so, you’re well versed on<br />
the Kelce brothers. Travis and Jason Kelce seemingly became the most famous brothers since Jack,<br />
Bobby, and Ted.<br />
The Kelces were the first brothers to play against one another in the Super Bowl – but brother<br />
acts have been prevalent in sports for years. Remember Hank and Tommie Aaron and Jim and<br />
Gaylord Perry? I think there was a second Canseco along with Jose. John and Jim Harbaugh made<br />
history by becoming the first brothers to coach against each other in the Super Bowl.<br />
In college basketball, Aaron and Andrew Harrison helped Kentucky to a 38-1 record and the<br />
verge of an NCAA championship in 2015. College football had the Selmons: LeRoy, Dewey, and<br />
Lucious. There were a slew (six) of Sutter brothers in the NHL; in the NBA are the Curry and Ball<br />
brothers and in MLB, Bengie, José, and Yadier Molina, who won the World Series with various<br />
teams, and Ken and Clete Boyer.<br />
Closer to home were Doug and Darren Flutie at BC. Toner brothers Eddie, Tom, Mark, Bill,<br />
Paul, and John played college ball (Tom at Idaho State, the rest at UMass), and Eddie and Tom<br />
went on to the pros (as did Eddie’s son Ed); Tony and Billy Conigliaro made the big leagues; and<br />
Bobby and Frank DeFelice coached in high school and college.<br />
These are the ones I remember; I'm sure there are more.<br />
(I'm not forgetting Shemp, Moe and Curly Howard, but that’s another story.)<br />
All of which make Lynnfield High hockey fans shrug.<br />
What’s the big deal?<br />
The Pioneers have more sets of siblings – five – than they have losses this season (15-0-1 at<br />
press time).<br />
Jack and Jay Carpenter, Drew and Dylan Damiani, John and Michael Marenghi, and Aidan<br />
and Will Norton have all helped the Pioneers get out to a blazing start this season. Oh, by the way,<br />
head coach Jon Gardner and associate coach Jason Gardner are twins.<br />
In a game earlier this season, Drew Damiani scored his 100th career point on an assist from his<br />
brother Dylan, a story that you cannot make up. In another game, Aidan Norton recorded his first<br />
career varsity goal, assisted by his brother Will.<br />
Mark Aboyoun scores with the story.<br />
The brothers aren’t the only success stories in this edition of <strong>01940</strong>.<br />
Joey Barrett highlights the accomplishments of Mia Muzio, Lynnfield High’s first female<br />
athletic director who is big on teamwork and organization.<br />
A tip of the cap also is due Charles Arakelian, whose company – ChucksBuckets – produces<br />
hats in the colors of your favorite team. Emily Pauls has you covered (get it? covered?) with that<br />
story, and she also goes writer-on-writer with a feature on Lynnfield High graduate (and former<br />
Essex Media Group intern) Alex Ross’ work with People Magazine.<br />
Alexandra Rodriguez puts high school student Lucas Cook and his commitment to making<br />
birthday bags for homeless women and children in the spotlight. Rodriguez also takes us into the<br />
world of Laura Brodigan, who created a fashion line that has attracted celebrities such as multiple<br />
Olympic gold-medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles.<br />
Elsewhere, Steve Fantone is a wildlife recorder who creates creature features by using trail<br />
cameras to video Lynnfield wildlife. Charlie McKenna has the story. Speaking of trails, Kathryn<br />
Price is blazing one of her own as she seeks the Abbot World Marathon Majors status given to<br />
those who complete the top six marathons in the world. And Ryan Vermette tells the story of<br />
Lynnfield Fire Department mechanic Capt. Kevin Mutti and how he became the caretaker of a<br />
109-year-old Ford Model T fire truck.<br />
Finally, I was never much of a Celtics guy. I bounced from the DeBusschere/Bradley/Frazier<br />
Knicks as a kid to the Magic/Kareem/Worthy Lakers and now today’s LeBron Lakers. But after<br />
hearing from my friend and former colleague Tom Dalton of Lynnfield, and then reading our<br />
Sports Editor Barrett’s story, I have a new-found appreciation of Chris Ford.<br />
It’s among the highlights of this edition of <strong>01940</strong>.<br />
Enjoy it.<br />
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WHAT'S UP<br />
Get your vote on<br />
What: The annual town election and<br />
Town Meeting are Lynnfield springtime<br />
rituals.<br />
Where: The high school, 275 Essex St.,<br />
is the traditional election and meeting<br />
location.<br />
When: The annual election is Tuesday,<br />
April 11, 7 a.m. - 8 p.m. and Town<br />
Meeting is Monday, April 24, 7 p.m.<br />
Tales to tell<br />
What: MarketStreet Lynnfield Barnes<br />
& Noble hosts storytime tales.<br />
Where: Check Barnes & Noble's<br />
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sneak peek.<br />
When: Thursdays, 11 a.m. - noon<br />
through Dec. 31.<br />
Class Act<br />
What: Lynnfield Community Schools<br />
offers youth-oriented programs<br />
including yoga, music and dance.<br />
Where: Visit the school website at bit.<br />
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When: School-based programs are<br />
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Mia Muzio (yellow shirt), Lynnfield<br />
High's first female athletic director,<br />
is all smiles surrounded by members<br />
of the high school football team.<br />
PHOTOS: MIA MUZIO<br />
Well worth<br />
the wait<br />
for Muzio<br />
By Joey Barrett<br />
Magazine Staff<br />
Life paths are strange. Sometimes,<br />
they go as planned like a straight line<br />
– while other times, they come out<br />
more like a scribble. Lynnfield athletic<br />
director Mia Muzio called her path<br />
“convoluted,” but said she’s exactly<br />
where she belongs.<br />
Muzio, who also serves as the kindergarten<br />
- grade 12 Physical Education,<br />
Health and Wellness Coordinator, is<br />
the first female athletic director in<br />
Lynnfield High history.<br />
“Females are slowly starting to really<br />
prove that we’re capable of doing this<br />
job,” Muzio said. “They should be in<br />
these roles; they should be represented.”<br />
Muzio’s first day as Lynnfield’s AD<br />
was on July 1, but her story started long<br />
before that. After attending Rockport<br />
High, she played field hockey at Ithaca<br />
College. After her senior year there,<br />
she still helped out and fell in love with<br />
coaching – despite it “derailing” her<br />
intended future in law.<br />
She eventually started coaching<br />
North Reading field hockey (junior<br />
varsity, then varsity), to which she said<br />
“it was pretty much the best thing I<br />
ever did.”<br />
Just like that scribble, she said her<br />
path “spiraled in a good way from<br />
there.”<br />
A few more stops later, Muzio got<br />
her first AD job at Weymouth in 2019<br />
before taking the same job at Wilmington<br />
in 2020. And when talking about<br />
her most recent change of scenery,<br />
Muzio said her nerves went away because<br />
Lynnfield “was the most supportive<br />
environment that I’ve been in” as a<br />
new member of a school district.<br />
“It’s been a long path, but I’ve finally<br />
made it,” Muzio said. “Everything,<br />
ultimately, has its purpose.”<br />
Muzio values relationship-building,<br />
helping kids, and having people around<br />
her feel comfortable.<br />
“It may have taken me a little bit<br />
longer to get here, but I really pride<br />
myself on the fact that I don’t see this<br />
as an administrative job,” Muzio said.<br />
“My goal is to reach kids and have<br />
them be comfortable.”<br />
She’s also “hyper-focused” on being<br />
organized and having things in place<br />
– to which she jokingly admitted to<br />
going overboard at times.<br />
“Having things like a student-athlete<br />
handbook, or having things like a really<br />
well-organized website, [or] moving<br />
MUZIO, continued on page 8
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MUZIO, continued from page 6<br />
from paper registration to online registration<br />
was a big change that we made<br />
this year,” Muzio said.<br />
In a position of leadership, Muzio<br />
also said she enjoys seeing people do<br />
the right thing.<br />
“I’m less concerned about what team<br />
went 18-2 as opposed to what team I<br />
see after practice picking up chairs and<br />
picking up their teammates,” Muzio<br />
said. “They’re [student-athletes] not<br />
going to remember a game they won on<br />
October 17; they’re going to remember<br />
their teammates.”<br />
Muzio admires Lynnfield for its<br />
passion towards athletics, and said its<br />
student-athletes are “the greatest group<br />
of kids.”<br />
“I’ve never seen a group of kids that<br />
are so into supporting each other,”<br />
Muzio said. “They’re just a solid<br />
group.”<br />
She has her “fingers crossed” her<br />
role at Lynnfield is her last stop, also<br />
adding “you have to sometimes pinch<br />
yourself ” when talking about some<br />
parts of the job.<br />
“The nerves kind of stopped pretty<br />
quickly when I realized I finally found<br />
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Lynnfield's Charles Arakelian is the<br />
owner of ChucksBuckets and Stretch<br />
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STAFF PHOTOS: SPENSER HASAK<br />
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By Emily Pauls & Sylvia Chen<br />
Magazine Staff<br />
When you go to a sports game,<br />
whether that be baseball, hockey,<br />
basketball or football, there is a sea of<br />
fans wearing jerseys for their favorite<br />
players. This may be changing in the<br />
future because Lynnfield native Charles<br />
Arakelian has a new product for sports<br />
fans to wear: “a hat that resembles a<br />
jersey.”<br />
“The way I really started the hat<br />
business was an idea I had, of instead<br />
of wearing a jersey to a game, why not<br />
wear a hat. So I know a lot of people<br />
aren't fond of wearing jerseys that can<br />
be bulky sometimes,” Arakelian said.<br />
So he started his new business called<br />
ChucksBuckets in 2019. The first hats<br />
he made were for the local teams like<br />
the Bruins and Patriots which he sold<br />
to fans.<br />
“The idea was to have a hat, the<br />
color of their jersey, and the number<br />
in the numbers on the front, the same<br />
color as their numbers on their jerseys,”<br />
Arakelian said. “So that would be the<br />
front of the hat and the back of the hat<br />
would either be a logo or a nickname<br />
that describes the athlete.”<br />
After the initial success of the hats,<br />
they grew in popularity spreading to<br />
professional athletes.<br />
“Through networking, and a lot of<br />
people I know. I was able to get them<br />
on to the professional athletes heads<br />
themselves,” Arakelian said. “So we've<br />
had a lot of professional athletes wear<br />
our hats, which has been really cool.<br />
We've had hockey players nationwide<br />
wear our hats, we've had people in the<br />
music world wear our hats, people on<br />
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HATS, continued from page 10<br />
he is thinking of extending to other<br />
clothing such as shirts.<br />
“Maybe have a large number on the<br />
front of a T-shirt. But really my goals<br />
and path is towards the hats end of<br />
things but I may incorporate clothing<br />
as well,” Arakelian said.<br />
The hat business isn’t the only<br />
endeavor Arakelian has in the athletic<br />
world, he is also the franchisee of a<br />
Stretch Zones in Wayland and Woburn.<br />
The company, which is based out<br />
of Fort Lauderdale, “provides a service<br />
called assisted stretching,” he said.<br />
“At Stretch Zone we use patented<br />
equipment to position and stabilize<br />
muscles, allowing for long lasting<br />
results, some benefits of practitioner<br />
assistance stretching, or keeping your<br />
muscles strong, flexible and healthy,”<br />
Arakelian said.<br />
They also can prevent injuries,<br />
reduce soreness and improve posture.<br />
Their clients range from age 15 to 80<br />
and those who are and aren’t active.<br />
“We stretch people that are professional<br />
athletes, people that are runners,<br />
cyclists, tennis players, golfers, we<br />
service all sorts of ailments from lower<br />
body to upper body. The first stretch<br />
we provide is always free. So there's no<br />
strings attached,” Arakelian said.<br />
Before finding success in his professional<br />
life, Arakelian grew up in Lynnfield<br />
and graduated from Lynnfield<br />
High School in 2008.<br />
“They provided an amazing education<br />
for me that led to the path of me<br />
going to college,” Arakelian said. “But<br />
a lot of the things I learned growing up<br />
in the Lynnfield school system, I can<br />
definitely relate to the success I've had<br />
in the business world and the designing<br />
I've done.”<br />
Being an entrepreneur is something<br />
that he has wanted to do since he was<br />
a kid.<br />
“I grew up in a family where my<br />
father was a business owner, my grandfather<br />
was a business owner, and my<br />
great grandfather was a business owner.<br />
So it was kind of always instilled in me<br />
and I've always wanted to just own my<br />
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own business,” Arakelian said.
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Charles Arakelian, owner of Stretch<br />
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SALE DATE: December 7, 2022<br />
LIST PRICE: $1,599,000<br />
TIME ON MARKET: 40 days<br />
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PREVIOUS SALE PRICE:<br />
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YEAR BUILT: 1954, but full<br />
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LOT SIZE: .39 acres (16,988 sq. ft.)<br />
LIVING AREA: 5,412 sq. ft.<br />
ROOMS: 10<br />
BEDROOMS: 3<br />
BATHROOMS: 3.5<br />
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an open-concept living room, formal<br />
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other bedrooms, a bonus room, and<br />
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finished attic. The basement includes a<br />
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Magazine Staff<br />
Alex Ross decided to become a journalist<br />
while sitting in a chair at the dentist's<br />
office at age 13. Now, she’s interviewing<br />
celebrities for People Magazine.<br />
“I was obsessed, like my whole life<br />
trying to figure out what I wanted to do,”<br />
Ross said. “My dentist knew that I was<br />
always talking about what I wanted to<br />
do when I grew up, and he came in one<br />
day, I think it was in eighth grade and he<br />
was like, alright, like, what is it this time?<br />
And I was like … I'm deciding whether<br />
or not I want to be a news anchor or a<br />
CIA operative and he was like, okay, cool,<br />
let me know which one you go with and<br />
I thought about it and I was like, yeah, I<br />
think I think I'm gonna be a news anchor.”<br />
Ross grew up in Lynnfield and after deciding<br />
she wanted to pursue journalism her<br />
mom took her to New York City in 2015<br />
to see the Today Show in person.<br />
“I used to record the today show on<br />
DVR so that I could watch it when I<br />
came home from school because I'm like<br />
that obsessed with that show and all the<br />
anchors and so she took me because all I<br />
wanted to do was go stand on the (Rockefeller)<br />
Plaza and meet them all,” Ross said.<br />
Her “claim to fame” happened that day<br />
when she went to NYC. She brought a<br />
sign that said “Natalie, can I do the news<br />
with you?” Natalie Morales was one of the<br />
anchors at that time.<br />
"The guy whose job it is to produce the<br />
people out on the plaza, his name was Alex<br />
and my name is Alex so we get to chatting<br />
and he's like, ‘I'm gonna like see what I can<br />
do for you,’" Ross said.<br />
This producer was able to have Ross<br />
actually do the news on the Today Show<br />
that day.<br />
“He was like, ‘OK, let's go inside like<br />
we're gonna mic you up and you're gonna<br />
CARPET, continued on page 18<br />
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do the news with Natalie,’” Ross said. “The<br />
very first time I read off a teleprompter,<br />
which is like a weird journalism niche<br />
thing to say but meant a lot to me, was in<br />
Studio One A standing next to Natalie<br />
Morales on the Today Show .”<br />
This only solidified her dream to become<br />
a journalist.<br />
“I remember looking around being like,<br />
this is insane, these people are wonderful.<br />
I want to do this for the rest of my life,”<br />
Ross said.<br />
After high school Ross attended Boston<br />
University’s College of Communication<br />
which she graduated from in 2021. While<br />
at BU she worked for BUTV10, the broadcasting<br />
program at the university.<br />
Going to college during COVID-19<br />
was interesting as a journalism student, she<br />
said. It went from really hands-on to being<br />
stuck at home.<br />
“It kind of just lit a fire under me to the<br />
point where when we were finally able to<br />
go back, like some of the classes weren't<br />
even back in session yet but they allowed us<br />
to get back into the studio. So I was doing<br />
like Zoom classes, but still kind of producing<br />
my news show and it felt very true to<br />
the core of what journalism is,” Ross said.<br />
Doing the news on the Today Show<br />
was an Alex Ross dream come true.<br />
When COVID-19 struck she decided<br />
to intern for her local paper — The Daily<br />
Item . She said it was a “gift” to report and<br />
write for the place she grew up in.<br />
“I got to do some really special stories<br />
while I was there,” Ross said. “My high<br />
school AP biology teacher was retiring, and<br />
I got to go and have lunch with her and<br />
then I wrote up a piece and it was so lovely,<br />
and so special and I still keep in touch with<br />
her like she and I email back and forth.<br />
That meant a lot.”<br />
While at BU where she got her start in<br />
entertainment journalism while interning<br />
for E! News.<br />
Entertainment journalism is never where<br />
Ross thought she would be, her initial<br />
interests were in the political sector of the<br />
field. But the opportunity to intern for E!<br />
just sort of fell into place.<br />
“I interned for the Today Show which<br />
was a dream come true,” Ross said. “After<br />
that, because E! news was owned by NBC,<br />
so my next NBC internship happened to<br />
be with E! and I didn't even apply to that.<br />
I had applied to news internships and<br />
nobody wanted me.”<br />
When she hadn’t heard back from the<br />
news internships a recruiter told her that<br />
she sent Ross’ resume to E!.<br />
“I ended up hearing from E! and I was<br />
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like I never in a million years would have<br />
thought of this,” Ross said.<br />
At first, she didn’t like the job and felt<br />
like she didn’t belong because she said she<br />
didn’t know anything about people like the<br />
Kardashians.<br />
“Then I kind of actually gave it a chance,<br />
because one of my favorite things about<br />
the Today Show is that Savannah Guthrie<br />
can be interviewing world leaders at 7:30<br />
in the morning, and then she's making<br />
pancakes with Martha Stewart at eight. So<br />
I love just the duality of that,” Ross said.<br />
The first red carpet she attended was<br />
with E! News, she said.<br />
“I kind of pitched my way there, it was<br />
in New York, I was still at BU,” Ross said.<br />
Ross said her bosses knew of her fandom<br />
for Law and Order: SVU . One of the<br />
stars of the show, Mariska Hargitay, was<br />
honored at Glamour Magazine’s Women<br />
of the Year event.<br />
“I was like ‘guys I don't know if you<br />
need anyone to like, write about this,’ me<br />
thinking like I'll do it from my dorm room<br />
‘but like, I'll help in any way possible.’ And<br />
my boss was like, ‘Oh, do you want to go?’<br />
And I was like, ‘What do you mean? Of<br />
course I want to go.’ So I got on a train like<br />
two days later … and I went to this red<br />
carpet,” Ross said.<br />
Since then she has been to many<br />
red-carpet events and interviewed people<br />
like Chris Hemsworth and eventually Mariska<br />
Hargitay. She stayed with E! News<br />
after graduating from BU in 2021 and<br />
then made the move to People Magazine .<br />
“I am doing work for both the print and<br />
digital side of the magazine,” Ross said.<br />
“I get to help with the three big entertainment<br />
teams, which is TV, music and<br />
movies.”<br />
Most recently she reported on the <strong>2023</strong><br />
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moments on the red carpet and award<br />
winners such as Samara Joy who won Best<br />
New Artist.<br />
While she is in the digital writing and<br />
print side of journalism right now, she<br />
said might return to the broadcasting side<br />
again.<br />
“I think about why I wanted to get in<br />
journalism in the first place … my agenda<br />
was to tell good stories and I do feel like<br />
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the people reading it and I think that they<br />
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times four<br />
By Mark Aboyoun<br />
Magazine Staff<br />
The Lynnfield hockey team (10-0-1)<br />
is off to a flying start this season. And if<br />
you’ve gone to a game, you might have<br />
seen multiple players with the same<br />
last name on more than one occasion.<br />
You weren’t going crazy – the Pioneers<br />
currently have four sets of siblings on the<br />
varsity team.<br />
Jack and Jay Carpenter, Drew and<br />
Dylan Damiani, John and Michael<br />
Marenghi, as well as Aidan and Will Norton<br />
are all on the team and contributing<br />
to the hot start. Even on the bench, head<br />
coach Jon Gardner and associate coach<br />
Jason Gardner are twins.<br />
Senior captain Drew Damiani recently<br />
picked up his 100th career point off of an<br />
assist from, guess who, his brother Dylan.<br />
“It was awesome to be able to get<br />
that huge milestone and have it be from<br />
my brother in the rink that we grew up<br />
playing together in. [It] was just special,”<br />
Drew Damiani said. “[It’s] something I’ll<br />
never forget.”<br />
As for the on-ice chemistry, it was in<br />
full effect.<br />
“You know the next move he’s going to<br />
make and where the puck is going to go,”<br />
Drew said. “It makes everything click that<br />
much easier.”<br />
Another milestone occurred this year<br />
in a 4-1 win over Groton Dunstable as<br />
Aidan Norton scored his first varsity goal<br />
– assisted by his twin brother Will.<br />
“He [Will] was going down the corner<br />
and I went through,” Aidan said. “He<br />
found me because of the chemistry – he<br />
knew exactly where I would be.”<br />
Despite the bonds on the ice, it’s the<br />
bonds off it that Jon Gardner likes the<br />
most.<br />
“It creates a nice family environment,”<br />
Jon Gardner said. “If you’re friends with<br />
the older brother, then you’ve known the<br />
younger brother his whole life and his<br />
friends, too. Everyone knows each other.”<br />
Drew Damiani and Aidan Norton both<br />
described the team as “one big family.”<br />
“We’ve always played together, we<br />
hang out together outside of school and<br />
all of our families are friends,” Drew said.
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“Everyone on the team is close. We<br />
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brother, but everyone on the team,” Aidan<br />
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During practice, Drew and Aidan<br />
weren’t shy in admitting they can “be<br />
annoying” to their brother when they have<br />
the opportunity.<br />
“You always take that chance. It’s just<br />
making them better,” Drew said. “We’re<br />
here to play hockey and to play the sport<br />
we love.”<br />
“Sometimes Will and I will get mad at<br />
each other for a bit, but we move past it<br />
and keep on going,” Aidan said.<br />
The coaching staff keeps an eye out to<br />
make sure no one takes unnecessary shots<br />
at their sibling. Jon Gardner mentioned<br />
that if the Norton twins get into it, they’re<br />
“pretty good at catching themselves now.”<br />
“It’s good though. They’re holding their<br />
siblings to a higher standard, knowing<br />
what they can and cannot take,” Gardner<br />
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Lynnfield Fire Department Capt. Kevin<br />
Mutti backs the department's 1914<br />
Ford Model T into South Station.<br />
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By Ryan Vermette<br />
Magazine Staff<br />
Capt. Kevin Mutti of the Lynnfield<br />
Fire Department has worked<br />
on a multitude of different vehicles<br />
in his lifetime.<br />
Before becoming a firefighter, he<br />
had worked on dirt bikes, muscle<br />
cars, motorcycles, you name it. However,<br />
when he became the mechanic<br />
for Lynnfield Fire, becoming the<br />
caretaker of a 1914 Ford Model<br />
T fire truck was certainly a new<br />
experience.<br />
Before joining the force in 2004,<br />
he had pursued a career in carpentry.<br />
He and his brother opened and ran<br />
a business, K and M Automotives,<br />
together and worked on a number of<br />
vehicles there for a few years.<br />
“I’ve always been playing with<br />
mechanical vehicles,” Mutti said.<br />
That passion and experience<br />
fixing and tinkering with vehicles<br />
helped Mutti begin his career as a<br />
fire mechanic. Though he seemed to<br />
be committed to a career in carpentry,<br />
Mutti was intrigued by firefighting,<br />
and when Peter McGonell of<br />
Lynnfield Fire invited him down to<br />
the station for coffee, he realized he<br />
could have it both ways.<br />
“We were just hanging around<br />
and I really enjoyed being in this<br />
atmosphere and he encouraged me<br />
to apply,” Mutti said.<br />
McGonell, who was the depart-
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ment's mechanic at the time, not only<br />
invited him to apply, but helped Mutti<br />
learn how to drive and work on the<br />
truck along with former firefighter<br />
Kenny Burnham. When McGonell retired,<br />
he became the next mechanic for<br />
Lynnfield Fire, and subsequently took<br />
over the reins of the century-old truck.<br />
"They were the ones that taught me<br />
how to drive it,“ he said. ”When Peter<br />
retired, I got hired full time as the Fire<br />
Department mechanic, and that’s kind<br />
of how I ended up with it."<br />
The truck is stored at the department’s<br />
South station on Salem Street.<br />
Its small body is tucked away in the<br />
corner of the garage behind a much<br />
larger modern-day fire truck that<br />
would be unrecognizable to those that<br />
drove the now-antiquated engine.<br />
The truck’s red body paint is lighter<br />
than that of the modern truck, but the<br />
gold finish on the very front and on<br />
the bell, which is front and center just<br />
beyond the seating, gives it a classic<br />
touch.<br />
The engine roars when Mutti gets it<br />
running after a few attempts and lets<br />
it idle on four thin, wooden-spoked<br />
wheels.<br />
Any truck that is nearly 110 years<br />
old is likely to have somewhat of a<br />
unique story. When the town of Lynnfield<br />
was two separate communities,<br />
an owner of a nearby business that is<br />
no longer legal today, decided to make<br />
a donation of two Model T trucks to<br />
each of the towns’ fire departments.<br />
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department refused the offer while the<br />
other accepted, and the truck has remained<br />
with Lynnfield Fire ever since.<br />
Mutti said the truck may have<br />
“disappeared” a few times in the mid<br />
1900’s, but has always made its way<br />
back. Now, he cleans and maintains<br />
the ModelT, and teaches others how to<br />
drive it.<br />
Surprisingly, the most difficult of the<br />
three, Mutti said, is teaching people<br />
how it operates.<br />
“It is so different from anything<br />
you drive today,” said Mutti. “Your<br />
gas pedal is actually on the steering<br />
column, your brake is where your gas<br />
pedal would be, your reverse is a pedal<br />
where your brake would be. It can be<br />
confusing when you haven’t driven it<br />
for a while.”<br />
With no computers, no chips, and<br />
no extra parts that take weeks to be<br />
shipped from overseas, Mutti said<br />
maintaining the truck is actually relatively<br />
easy.<br />
Mutti gets the parts that are needed<br />
from two main locations, including<br />
a magazine specifically for Model T<br />
parts. His other source is a mechanic in<br />
Maine who has a barn full of parts for<br />
the truck.<br />
“It’s so simple compared to today's<br />
vehicles. You have to make sure it has<br />
fuel, make sure it has oil, and just make<br />
sure the tires have air. It’s pretty simple<br />
to maintain because it’s so basic,”<br />
Mutti added.<br />
Now with two decades of driving<br />
and fixing the historic truck, Mutti is<br />
preserving it not only for the next mechanic<br />
who takes over, but as an iconic<br />
piece of the town for parades, or even<br />
when he takes it a mile down the road<br />
for a spin.<br />
As a carpenter-turned-fire-mechanic<br />
who took over the reins of an original<br />
Model T fire truck, Mutti says he has<br />
had a great time since he became its<br />
caretaker and loves the historic impact<br />
it has on the town.<br />
“I’ve enjoyed it. I enjoy bringing it<br />
out and having people see it. You get<br />
a lot of beeps and waves when you're<br />
driving it. I think people enjoy seeing<br />
something that old on the road, and<br />
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Driving a 109-year-old truck is a lost<br />
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By Charlie McKenna<br />
Magazine Staff<br />
Lynnfield isn’t widely known for its<br />
abundance of wildlife, but if you ask<br />
Steve Fantone, who runs the YouTube<br />
channel Hike Walk Paddle, there’s lots<br />
to discover in the area.<br />
As the channel’s name might suggest,<br />
Fantone is an avid outdoorsman<br />
and has recorded himself hiking, walking,<br />
and paddling across the region,<br />
including along the Independence<br />
Greenway in neighboring Peabody, the<br />
Ipswich River, and Lynnfield’s own<br />
Patridge Island. He posts videos of his<br />
adventures to the YouTube channel and<br />
to a website of the same name.<br />
Fantone explains that Hike, Walk,<br />
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Paddle was born out of a love for outdoor<br />
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for now. The YouTube channel began<br />
when Fantone obtained a license allowing<br />
him to fly a drone in 2018, which<br />
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He posted his first YouTube video in<br />
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One of the very first things Fantone<br />
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“With a drone, I can get up over the<br />
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thing and show people how nice it's<br />
going to be once we finally get that<br />
finished,” he says. “That was one of the<br />
first things I used the drone for.”<br />
The majority of the videos Fantone<br />
posts are those that show the viewer<br />
what they might encounter while<br />
walking along a trail in the area. He<br />
explains that he sets out with a camera<br />
and records himself as he walks along<br />
the trail, before speeding the video up<br />
and posting it to YouTube.<br />
“I like to go walk where people can<br />
walk and video what it is like to walk<br />
there,” he says. “I try to document<br />
the walk and that includes video and<br />
pictures of each location. The video is<br />
not the most cinematic video, usually<br />
it's me just walking down the trail but<br />
I wanted to capture what it's like to<br />
actually walk down the trail. That was<br />
the best way to illustrate that.”<br />
The videos have evolved as Fantone<br />
has finetuned his style. Each trail<br />
video now features music underneath<br />
the footage of the walk, as well as<br />
still photos interspersed to point out<br />
interesting or notable landmarks, and<br />
captions pop up every so often to tell<br />
the viewer something he hopes will be<br />
“informative.”<br />
Fantone’s fascination with the outdoors<br />
dates back as far as his childhood,<br />
where school teachers would<br />
often find that he had wandered off<br />
into the woods.<br />
“I've always liked to be outdoors. I've<br />
always liked to get out on the water<br />
or go for a walk,” he says. “This really<br />
helped me capture my hobby, and do<br />
something productive with it.”<br />
And productive it has been.<br />
Since the channel launched, Fantone<br />
has posted more than 70 videos, racked<br />
up more than 350 subscribers, and garnered<br />
nearly 58,000 views. He says the<br />
channel doesn’t make him any money,<br />
and is simply a labor of love.<br />
Some of Fantone’s most popular recent<br />
videos are those documenting the<br />
wildlife in the area. He explains that<br />
he does so by setting up trail cameras<br />
in a particular area — be it Reedy<br />
Meadow, the Lynnfield Woodlot, or<br />
the Ipswich River — and then simply<br />
waiting for wildlife to pass by. Fantone<br />
himself doesn’t stake out the wildlife,<br />
which often appears in the early hours<br />
of the morning, instead employing<br />
motion-detecting cameras attached to<br />
trees to get snapshots of all sorts of<br />
animals, primarily beavers, coyotes, and<br />
deer.<br />
Steve Fantone, owner of Hike Walk<br />
Paddle, places a trail camera in<br />
Reedy Meadow Conservation Area<br />
with the hopes of getting videos of<br />
wildlife.<br />
He said he scopes out trees with evidence<br />
of beaver activity, like those that<br />
have been gnawed on.<br />
“I set them up in various locations in<br />
the woods and I leave them out for four<br />
to seven days and then I go back and I<br />
collect them and I see what they've got<br />
on them,” Fantone explains.<br />
Fantone says he has no plans to slow<br />
down Hike Walk Paddle.<br />
“I plan to visit more location, I plan<br />
to make better videos of older videos,<br />
new versions, and I plan to try new formats<br />
like the 360 virtual reality videos,”<br />
he says. "That's what's on the horizon<br />
for me. I really like the wildlife trail<br />
camera videos. But I'm trying to keep<br />
a healthy mix of all the different videos.<br />
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Magazine Staff<br />
What derived in 2019, during the<br />
holiday season when Lucas Cook and<br />
his sisters made stockings for the Ruth<br />
Kelley Ummis House (RKUH), a program<br />
that provides housing and intensive<br />
case management to women and children<br />
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and their children are spending their<br />
Birthdays.<br />
“Over the summer it kind of dawned<br />
on me, I wonder what they are doing for<br />
their birthdays,” said Cook.<br />
Cook, a 17-year-old senior from Lynnfield<br />
High School and a hockey player for<br />
the Captain team wears the number 17 in<br />
each one of his sports jerseys in honor of<br />
his uncle Michael who wore the number<br />
17 while he played Hockey and Football<br />
at the high school and college level.<br />
Cook’s uncle, passed away from an<br />
accidental overdose just five years ago, in<br />
his honor, the Think of Michael Foundation<br />
was born, with the purpose to<br />
provide scholarships in sober homes, raise<br />
awareness, eradicate stigmas, and support<br />
individuals affected by substance abuse.<br />
“I’ve heard so many great things about<br />
him during sports, so I thought I could<br />
play the same way he did and dedicate<br />
every game to him,” said Cook.<br />
Humble and bashful, with no interest<br />
in accolades, Cook’s monthly trip to<br />
RKUH to deliver birthday bags with everything<br />
for children and women to celebrate<br />
their birthdays, from cake mixes,<br />
party favors, paper goods, steamers, and<br />
books. Cook understands what brought<br />
him to RKUH to deliver the birthday<br />
bags was number 17.<br />
“As I stood in the quiet Roxbury<br />
neighborhood, I realized that number<br />
17 brought me there. When playing<br />
sports and going about my life, this grit,<br />
BIRTHDAY, continued on page 32<br />
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“Number 17 has led me on my journey<br />
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A philanthropist at a young age,<br />
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derived from his family, “It’s in the genes,<br />
I guess. But Lucas’s hockey coach, who<br />
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It’s amazing how generous people<br />
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For Cook, The Birthday Project is<br />
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Laura Brodigan traces her fashion love<br />
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PHOTOS: LAURA BRODIGAN<br />
From Lynnfield<br />
to BROdenim<br />
By Alexandra Rodriguez<br />
Magazine Staff<br />
When it comes to knowing all it takes<br />
to be a successful entrepreneur in the<br />
modern world, Lynnfield's Laura Brodigan<br />
knows precisely what it takes.<br />
In just five years, Brodigan founded<br />
a personalized clothing brand worn in<br />
sporting events across the United States<br />
where fans and family members of athletes<br />
wear their favorite teams and players<br />
through one-of-a-kind pieces - BROdenim.<br />
Brodigan's entrepreneurial life began at<br />
a young age when Brodigan created jewelry<br />
pieces and sold them at local fairs.<br />
“I’ve always had that entrepreneurial<br />
background, and I think, in Lynnfield,<br />
that's where I kind of had my first experience<br />
with that, doing the jewelry and selling<br />
it at the pumpkin patch fair and other<br />
local fairs in the area,” said Brodigan.<br />
“And then, when I went to college, I<br />
started another business, a babysitting<br />
company. Following another entrepreneurial<br />
endeavor, and then post-college a<br />
few years later, I sort of broke down. So<br />
I kind of always had that entrepreneurial<br />
spirit and I didn't necessarily know where<br />
I'd end up or what I'd be doing, but I<br />
always knew that I wanted to run my<br />
own business and be my own boss,” added<br />
Brodigan.<br />
Brodigan studied finance and marketing<br />
at Boston College’s Carroll School of<br />
Management. She quit her job in finance<br />
to pursue her career in fashion with<br />
BROdemim.<br />
What was at one point a creative outlet,<br />
turned into a job, when Brodigan made a<br />
customized jacket for a friend as a gift and<br />
people were asking her to make them one.<br />
“A lot of people after were asking me to<br />
make them one and you know, it wasn't<br />
really something that I was really interested<br />
in doing at the time. But as it got<br />
more and more people asked me to do it,<br />
I started making a few more and sending<br />
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BRODENIM, continued from page 33<br />
them out to people on social media entrepreneurs<br />
and yeah, that's kind of how it<br />
began. You know, it was something I fell<br />
into,” said Brodigan.<br />
Her drive, ambition, and willingness to<br />
take the risks others won’t take brought<br />
BROdemin to work with prestigious<br />
brands in on-site events and corporate<br />
and talent gifting across the country.<br />
With a pop-up shop in Tampa, Florida,<br />
and a seasonal Nantucket store that is<br />
Nantucket merchandise-based, Brodigan<br />
is in the process of opening a new store in<br />
Martha’s Vineyard this summer.<br />
In her online store, customers can shop<br />
anywhere from denim jackets, sweaters,<br />
blazers, T-shirts, and even handbags, all<br />
customized to the customers liking with<br />
custom patches to custom client-designed<br />
creations.<br />
“I really enjoy creating pieces, fashionable<br />
sports pieces for women because<br />
I feel like you know, there's not a ton<br />
of really fashion-forward pieces being<br />
offered to them and it's something that I<br />
really enjoy creating and I really feel like,<br />
through these pieces, they're so custom<br />
and individualized that people are allowed<br />
to really tell their stories through the<br />
items that they wear,” said Brodigan.<br />
When it comes to Brodigan, sweaters<br />
are her most-worn item, “for me, sweatshirts<br />
are always fun, adding the patches<br />
on to them can be really cute especially<br />
if you're able to dress it up. The jackets<br />
are also great, especially if you have like<br />
a particular event to wear them to,” said<br />
Brodigan.<br />
According to Brodigan, pursuing your<br />
true passion while staying true to who you<br />
are and your vision for your business, is<br />
key to the success of a business. With new<br />
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changing, being flexible, changing with<br />
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to take that feedback and implement it<br />
are things that helped with the success of<br />
her brand.<br />
Not only does Brodigan offer customized<br />
clothing for the sports industry, but<br />
she also offers a wedding collection with<br />
customized clothing for their special day,<br />
“ I had a few friends that were getting<br />
married so I made them jackets for their<br />
weddings and definitely saw that there<br />
was an opportunity there that you know<br />
brides would want fun pieces to show<br />
their new last names on or to wear to<br />
bachelorette party, events or whatnot,”<br />
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“I really enjoy creating pieces,<br />
fashionable sports pieces for<br />
women because I feel like you know,<br />
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them and it's something that I really<br />
enjoy creating and I really feel like,<br />
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Chris Ford, shown here getting<br />
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the court, and a fierce competitor<br />
on it.<br />
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By Joey Barrett<br />
Magazine Staff<br />
Chris Ford was a lot of things. A husband, father,<br />
grandfather, member of the Boston Celtics – you name it.<br />
And through all of his life experiences, there seemed to<br />
be one constant – in the game of life, there weren’t many<br />
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Ford died in a Philadelphia hospital on Jan. 17 at the<br />
age of 74. No official cause was given, but Ford suffered a<br />
heart attack earlier in January.<br />
Ford played for the Boston Celtics and won a championship<br />
in 198. After retiring in 1982, he was an assistant<br />
CHARACTER, continued on page 38
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CHARACTER, continued from page 37<br />
coach for the Celtics for seven seasons,<br />
helping Boston reach two more<br />
championships (1984, 1986) alongside<br />
Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, and other<br />
green-wearing greats.<br />
Years later, Ford replaced Jimmy<br />
Rodgers as the Celtics’ head coach for<br />
five seasons – beginning in 1990.<br />
He also lived in Lynnfield for several<br />
years. One of his neighbors on Melody<br />
Lane, and retired sports medicine<br />
surgeon Jeff Polansky, said Ford was<br />
“a wonderful guy” who was always<br />
“straightforward about what’s right and<br />
what’s wrong.”<br />
“I’m still so sad, still,” Polansky said.<br />
“I’m shocked.”<br />
Alongside his wife Kathy, Ford has<br />
four children: Christopher, Katie,<br />
Anthony, and Michael. Polansky<br />
commented on how involved Ford was<br />
with his children, and also remembers<br />
a specific story from when Ford was<br />
coaching a Peabody-Lynnfield youth<br />
basketball team.<br />
Regardless of what some parents<br />
wanted, Ford made sure every kid<br />
played the same amount of minutes<br />
“regardless of their ability.”<br />
By the time the season was said and<br />
done – and despite mixed emotions<br />
on the strategy – Ford’s team won the<br />
whole thing. A chuckling Polansky said<br />
Ford took all of his players along, while<br />
other teams just brought the stars.<br />
“He [Ford] insisted that every child<br />
be given a fair chance,” Polansky said.<br />
“The world would be better if everyone<br />
adhered to his code of coaching – or<br />
ethics.”<br />
Jeff ’s wife, Sue, also used the word<br />
“shocked” when describing her reaction<br />
to the news.<br />
“It gives me goosebumps because it’s<br />
the end of an era,” Sue Polansky said.<br />
“[He was] very involved with the community<br />
when he was around.”<br />
She noted Ford’s impact on youth<br />
basketball teams, adding Ford was<br />
“awesome” and “very calm” with the<br />
kids.<br />
“They were lucky to have a professional<br />
basketball coach coaching their<br />
little 11-year-old basketball team,” Sue<br />
Polansky said.<br />
Ford was also involved with the<br />
Wayne Embry Basketball Camp alongside<br />
Lynn native Dennis Skeadas – who<br />
said the news “was like getting hit with<br />
a ton of bricks.”<br />
When asked about Ford, the first<br />
thing Skeadas said was “he’s like your<br />
neighbor.” Whenever there was a<br />
problem, or whenever Skeadas needed<br />
advice, Ford was his man.<br />
“It wasn’t because he was a Boston<br />
Celtic,” Skeadas said. “It was because<br />
we just became friends, and we cared<br />
about each other’s family.”<br />
In the world of basketball, Ford left<br />
Former Celtics head coach and<br />
Lynnfield resident Chris Ford scans<br />
the court on Boston's bench.<br />
his footprint on the game. He was<br />
credited with the league’s first threepoint<br />
basket, averaged 15.6 points per<br />
game his first season in Boston, and<br />
played college basketball for Villanova<br />
before being drafted by the Detroit<br />
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By Mark Aboyoun<br />
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Kathryn Price is a Lynnfield resident<br />
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It wasn’t until after college that she<br />
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Kathryn Price in the middle of the<br />
finishing the Chicago Marathon.
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started to get into distance running.<br />
“I liked the atmosphere and the comradery<br />
that comes with it,” Price said.<br />
Fast forward and Price is back doing<br />
what she used to do in high school<br />
- relays. Except this relay was a lot<br />
longer and more meaningful.<br />
After the Boston Marathon bombings<br />
in 2013, Price learned about a<br />
country-wide relay called the “One Run<br />
for Boston." A run that started in Los<br />
Angeles and finished in Boston. People<br />
around the country could sign up and<br />
take part in the run across the country.<br />
“I was particularly touched by it,”<br />
Price said. “I’ve seen the Boston Marathon<br />
so many times in person and I felt<br />
like the running community was my<br />
people.”<br />
“I signed up to run two legs in the<br />
area I grew up in southwestern Connecticut,”<br />
Price said. "Then I signed<br />
up to run the final leg in Boston that<br />
started in Newton and finished at the<br />
Boston Marathon’s finish line.”<br />
Through the Facebook group dedicated<br />
to this relay, people were raising<br />
money for the "One Fund Boston" for<br />
the victims of the bomings. This is<br />
where Price learned about Abbott.<br />
“It kind of just piqued my interest,”<br />
Price said. “I started to follow it and<br />
in the meantime, I got inspired by the<br />
group and ended up signing up for the<br />
Los Angeles Marathon. I fundraised<br />
for a charity in Los Angeles that supports<br />
people with HIV and AIDS.”<br />
After Los Angeles, Price’s next race<br />
was in Philadelphia. Price insists she’s<br />
“not a fast runner," but enjoys the<br />
aspect of running and says “the pride is<br />
in the completion."<br />
In 2015, Price lost her grandmother<br />
and decided to complete the Abbott<br />
majors to honor both her grandmother<br />
and uncle’s memories.<br />
Since then, Price has run five of the<br />
six majors with Tokyo the only one left<br />
on the list. In 2020, Price was signed<br />
up to run the Tokyo Marathon, however,<br />
due to the pandemic, Price was<br />
given a deferral.<br />
Between the time Tokyo canceled<br />
the marathon, the pandemic did not<br />
enter America yet so, thanks to another<br />
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but the marathon eventually got<br />
canceled. Despite it getting canceled,<br />
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“My sister and I ran the course unsupported.<br />
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Price said. “In 2021, everyone<br />
who ran the virtual marathon was able<br />
to run it in person.”<br />
Price was registered to run the Tokyo<br />
Marathon in <strong>2023</strong> due to the referral.<br />
However, she chose not to run this year.<br />
“I was worried about paying to travel<br />
there and then having the possibility of<br />
it being shut down again,” Price said. “I<br />
decided to just reenter the lottery for<br />
next year.”<br />
Price brings her family to all of her<br />
races which was another factor in her<br />
deciding to postpone the Tokyo trip.<br />
However, Price may not need to rely<br />
on the lottery as she signed up to run<br />
a virtual marathon where four people<br />
will automatically be eligible for next<br />
year's race.<br />
When asked what marathon was her<br />
favorite, Price said that was “hard to<br />
answer” because they all mean something<br />
different.<br />
“London was meaningful because we<br />
got to visit my granny’s hometown,”<br />
Price said. “My mom and dad came<br />
[along with] my sister and her whole<br />
family. It was just an emotional day.”<br />
“My favorite course to run was probably<br />
New York because it is really well<br />
supportive there,” Price said. “There is<br />
always someone cheering you on there.<br />
There is nowhere on the course where<br />
someone is not cheering you on, which<br />
is really motivating.”<br />
“Running Boston was probably the<br />
best. It is such a storied course. We had<br />
friends come on the course too, it just<br />
felt really special. Especially coming<br />
off of covid and being lucky to be out<br />
there,” Price said.<br />
Price is set to earn her sixth star next<br />
year and finish an incredible achievement.<br />
So far, only 8,147 people in the<br />
world have earned all six stars. In 2024,<br />
Price is set to add her name to the<br />
exclusive list.<br />
“I think I'm going to be sad when<br />
it’s over. I loved having this goal for<br />
so many years. I’m going to miss being<br />
part of something that is larger than<br />
40<br />
myself,” Price said.<br />
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