MAC: All-Scholastics & All-Stars
By Joe DeFeliceDid you know …
The Boston Globe named Canton High senior Johnny Hagan as one of its Boys Hockey Athletes of the Year for 2019-20. Hagan, the Hockomock League MVP, finished his high school career with 160 points while leading the Bulldogs to two Division 2 state championships. Hagan was also named to the Boston Herald and Patriot Ledger All-Scholastic teams.
In addition to Hagan, senior Chris Lavoie was named a Patriot Ledger All-Scholastic while Hagan, Lavoie, Jack Connolly, and Owen Lehane were all named Hockomock League all-stars.
Also earning Ledger All-Scholastic honors this year for hockey was Brendan Spinale of Canton, a senior defenseman on the Blue Hills Regional boys hockey team.
On the girls’ side, freshmen Olivia Maffeo and Carolyn Durand were both named to the Boston Globe Girls Hockey All-Scholastic Team. Maffeo had 33 goals and eight assists as a defenseman while Durand backstopped the Bulldogs (19-1-4) to a share of the Division 2 state title with 14 shutouts, allowing only 17 goals during the season. Maffeo was also named to the Boston Herald’s All-Scholastic Dream Team, one of only six girls to be named to the team.
Canton girls hockey players named as Hockomock all-stars were Meg Aldrich, Alexa Maffeo, Lizzie Tassinari, and Olivia Maffeo. Durand was recognized as an all-league honorable mention.
The Boston Globe named Canton’s Anna Amico as its Division 4 Boys Track Coach of the Year. Amico is in her seventh year as head coach of both the boys and girls track teams.
Canton boys track athletes named to the Hockomock all-star team included Jonathan Chery, Deyontai Dennis, Zach Goldstein, Junior Sainvil, and Cameron Sanchez.
CHS senior Bronwyn Mahoney was named a Hockomock all-star for girls track.
Canton wrestler Eddie Marinilli was named to the Hockomock all-star team.
CHS swimmers named to the Hockomock all-star team included Javier Ferstler and Matthew Thompson for the boys and Shauna Harney and Jessica Hart for the girls.
Canton’s Eric Mischler was named a Hockomock all-star for boys basketball. League all-stars for the girls team included Sydney Gallery and Kiara Cerruti.
According to 2017 data (the most recent available), Boston, as a whole, is made up of 45 percent white residents, 23 percent black residents, 19 percent Hispanic, 9 percent Asian or Pacific Islander, and 4 percent other.
The Medicare payroll tax for 2020 is 2.9 percent, split between worker and employer. Medicare is 5 percent of the federal budget.
In 2018, nearly 33 percent of pedestrians killed in traffic accidents had a blood alcohol level over .08 percent. Most states consider that intoxicated. The 6,590 pedestrian deaths in 2019 made it the deadliest year since 1982, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association. While the survey made no direct connection to cell phone distractions, pedestrian deaths did begin to climb as the number of smartphone users grew from 50 million in 2009 to 285 million in 2018.
The U.S. Senate’s Special Committee on Aging reported in 2019 that Americans 65 and older lose roughly $3 billion to fraud each year. Scammers from around the world tend to target older Americans in particular because they have wealth, tend to be trusting, and may be less sophisticated about technology.
According to AARP Magazine, 67 percent of taxpayers got a refund last year, receiving an average of $2,860 from the IRS after filing. The magazine goes on to say that you should stash your refund in a Roth IRA where investment growth is tax-free and all withdrawals are free of federal taxes if you are age 59 1/2 or older and have had the account for five years.
Women make up 66 percent of the nearly 6 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s.
In Massachusetts, 33.7 percent of adults 65 and over in fair health or better reported no physical activity other than what their jobs required in the past 30 days. Looks like the state has too many couch potatoes, and this was before the coronavirus took over our lives.
Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it. –MH McKee
This is all for now folks. See you next week.
Joe DeFelice can be reached at manaboutcanton@aol.com.
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Posted by Joe DeFelice
on May 14 2020. Filed under Featured Content, Man About Canton, Opinion.
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