Chelsea, MA Unsorted, 23 Jun 2023

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From YouTube: Crossing Guard Breakfast 2023

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City of Chelsea, Chelsea Public Schools

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Good morning, welcome to the crossing guide for breakfast um I'd like to do a little housekeeping. First. uh Has everyone signed in first of all, second of all: has everyone gotten enough to eat and, third of all, after the breakfast, we will be attending the.

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Mandatory State.

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Ethics training upsty is directly after the breakfast and don't worry uh the IT department will get you through. Okay,.

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Good morning, I would like to thank everyone for coming to the 2022 2023 Crossing guide appreciation breakfast many of you. This is your first time attending. So let me give you a little history.

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Many many years ago way before my time this day was started by the school department as a.

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Way to show the.

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City's appreciation to each and every one of you each and every one of you Brave the cold ice, snow, rain, wind and now I'll add drivers each and every day.

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We have been unable to participate in this event for a few years now, but we are back to honor each and every one of you speaking on behalf of the crossing guides. We would like to thank Dr albeda engineer staff at central office, the city councilors in school committee members, the Chelsea Police Department for their support throughout the year the cafeteria staff we in Chelsea cable, the I.T Department.

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Lastly, I would like to personally thank Mr Joseph Clooney and Frank Henry.

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Words of encouragement, your words of wisdom, but, most importantly, you're human without further Ado I would like to ask miss.

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Liam Boyd our executive director of administration and finance to introduce our invited. Yes,.

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So good morning, everyone just like you Kim, is always telling me what to do as well. So I am tasked with first thanking you all for for what you do. I'm out there walking around and seeing you and hearing how hard it is on a daily basis, we're we're trying hard to keep up our staff to try to make physical improvements, wherever we can to help your safety and help the safety of the students. So we.

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That it is a hard job and we love and appreciate you guys so we do have. We know this is where the party is at today. So you do have quite a few dignitaries here with us. We have Miss Jeanette Velez from our school committee.

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Dr Almia beta.

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And Ricky from Chelsea, cable.

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And, of course, Joe and Frank, who have already been it out, so thank you all.

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If any of our invited guests would like to come up and say a few words.

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Hello, I'm Jeanette Valles from it I just want to give a heartfelt thank you for all the work that you do for those who know me, you should know that I value each employee within our school district, because each department is very important to make our operations work smoothly. Like Kim said, we see you out there rain snow, hot cold.

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You guys are great, because I don't think I could do that. I think some of you guys just jumped in front of 18 wheelers.

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Oh my god, um because it's nerve-wracking but I know you guys are doing it to take care of our students in our families, and we appreciate you so much and Dr Benson sometimes I call her because I worry about you guys and if I see something I'm like oh know that we do care for you. We are looking out for you and that we appreciate you very very much.

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I just want to say thank you for all that you do. You I watch our crossing guards across the city and I'm like I prayed for you, I'm like I, don't I I see what you do and every single day the traffic that you have to stop the kids, but you also are building relationships with our students and I, see that I see how you talk to our kids as they come into school and you greet them and they always have. You always have a smile on your face and I know the crossing guard.

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The city hall always greet me good morning. Miss all me and you guys are probably the only good morning, wasami that I get and then I go into City, Hall and I have to deal with everything um so I, just I love. You guys and thank you for your hard. Your work and Jeanette is correct.

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I do get phone calls from Hurricane I'm a little worried about the crossing guard over here. Can you look into this or um so people are watching you and they appreciate all that you do and when you're not there, I also get the calls, and so when, when we don't have a crossing guard at a certain stop or whatever I do get those calls and people notice that you guys are not present when there's maybe a spot that doesn't have guard Junior, whatever circumstance.

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So you are noticed, you are needed and desperately needed and I just wanted.

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You guys are our unsung heroes and I know that you're building relationships with children and continue to do that because you might be the good morning greeting that a student gets or that a superintendent gets, and we appreciate that and thank you for all that you do.

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Good morning, everyone, why don't you turn to the person next to you and give them up this book and say you are awesome.

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I want everyone to know that you truly are amazing. You're awesome, you do very, very a very difficult job. That is sometimes not always recognized, but we see you. We appreciate you. Our community sees you and you are a vital part of our district. My job in HR is to make sure that you all are happy with your physician. You are feeling celebrated and that you want to get more people to join your ranks. So we're happy to announce.

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Kim has done a really good job advocating for you all, so we are going to be rolling out a bonus or referrals so for crossing guards. If you have other people that you want to refer, we will be offering a 150 bonus once they pass their formationary period. You will receive it, so we hope that they'll encourage you to kind of find more people who can work alongside you and do the important work that you do every day. The second thing that we're trying to launch in HR is making sure you all feel appreciated.

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So one thing that Kim and I talked about was doing a peer-to-peer appreciation, so starting next fall, you'll all have the chance to recognize your peers and once a month there will be one person that is recognized and that is to celebrate the work that you're doing amongst your staff and to give appreciation to all the hard work that you're all doing. So those are some things. We're excited to launch and so I will pass it off to Kim.

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But thank you so much again for all you do, and we hope that these few things will help encourage you.

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Foreign thanks I'll be real quick. um You guys are the first adult Chelsea Public School staff, that many of our kids see on their day and the last space they see on their way home and what I've observed in most Corners that I go by. Is it's not just getting kids across safely, but welcoming more being very warm to them and and starting their day off in a positive way, is so important for us. I just did some quick math off to the side. We have about 4 000 students who don't take the bus.

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um We have 180 days of school and we go morning and then afternoon so quick count by my count. You have safely as a team gotten students to and from school um one million 440 000 trips.

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Active Mark here with this team, you guys together, have done some phenomenal work and it's not just the numbers and obviously safety first, but aside from the safety you've had over a million kids start their day off happy and end their day off. Happy so wanna want to. Let you guys know how much we're grateful for all of you, foreign.

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On a moment's notice at different locations throughout our city, I, thank you for your willingness and concern for the safety of our students and citizens of our community. I appreciate your flexibility and your willingness to be true. Team plays.

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Wake up I'm doing this without my glasses, so yeah you need to bear with me. Another tradition has been Crossing guides our acknowledge and given years of service pins when they reach certain milestones, for example, 10 years 15 and 20 years again, you're catching up.

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To present the perfect attendance Awards and.

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Years of service.

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So the first one is George Collins and he has been with us for.

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George Collins.

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Oh he's not here today: okay, okay, so our next person is Carlos Andrade and he was with us for 12 years.

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Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.

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Okay, the next person is James Olson for completing 12 years of service.

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So the next awards are perfect attendance Awards, so we have Paul yanetti. Oh my God.

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How many days is that is this two ships?

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Another perfect attendance board award is Madeline Reyes Montanez.

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And the next award is for Edgar party, perfect attendance.

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Hang on for a minute, not only has Edgar had perfect attendance this year, but this is his seventh consecutive year of not missing a day.

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You doctor okay, drum roll four may I now present for 2023 Crossing guide, video.

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Happiness is finding a pencil pizza with sausage telling the time happiness is learning to whistle tying your shoe for the very first time happiness.

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Is playing the drum in your own School.

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And happiness his walking hand in hand.

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Happiness is two kinds of ice cream. Knowing a secret climbing a tree happiness is five different crayons catching a firefly setting him free happiness is being alone every now and then and happiness.

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Happiness is morning and evening daytime at night time for happiness is anyone anything at all? That's.

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A Sister sharing a sandwich.

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I was born in a.

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All my friends are so small town, my parents live in the same small town.

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Let us tell you about our friends who.

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Means so much to us some very special friends who make us all so proud of our crossing guards to keep us safe from harm when we need to cross the street. That's why we sing We love. We love, we love our crossing guards, you're always there for us. We can't thank you enough.

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That's why we sing. We love, we love. We love our crossing.

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For being such a friend, we want.

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To thank thank.

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Thank you. That's why we sing We Love Our Crossing God, blessed from harm when we need to cross the street. That's why we sing. We love, we love, we love our crossing guards, you're always there for us. We can't thank you enough.

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That's why we sing. We love, we love. We love our Crossing God.

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Let us tell you about our friends.

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Who means so much to us some very special friends who make us all so proud, We, Love, Our crossing guards to keep us safe from harm when we need to cross the street? That's why we sing we love, we love, we love our crossing guards, you're always there for us. We can't thank you enough.

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That's why we sing. We love, we love. We love our crossing guards.

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Thank you, oh thank you.

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I'll be alone each and every night, while.

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Forget to write bye-bye.

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See you it's September.

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It's taking you away.

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Cannot help but share an encounter I experience at this year's graduation.

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You might may have noticed the picture of the three young men heading into the stadium to graduate as I congratulated them. One said you were the lady that taught us how to cross the street when I went to the complex.

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Let me tell you I nodded my head, but I was really saying to myself um it's time to do some math now he's graduating.

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How many years has it been since he's been down the comp at the complex, well, I nod my head and said: yes, you remembered and I can't tell you honestly if it was a raindrop on my cheek or Kia.

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So seriously he went on to say what really got me was. He went on to say this. Past fall, I was walking to the store with my little brother.

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He said in you know, I'm on my cell phone texting like oh, he said and then I felt a tug on my my jacket and my little brother said to me: get off your cell phone and hold my hand, and he said I said to him what lady at the complex this week told us do not cross the street texting.

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You're with an older person, pull the person's hands, and you know what else taught us to look left. Look right and left again.

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So why am I sharing this story with you today? There are many times when motorists may say unkind words to You and use unkind gestures.

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And you might say to yourself: what's the sense, what is the sense, but just remember those smiling faces on the little ones you cross every day and the lessons that you teach them believe me.

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Make a difference, and they will remember just like that story that I shared with you guys I thank each and every one of you I. Thank you for your loyalty I. Thank you for all that.

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You do day in and day out today is your day.