Malden Ward 6 Councillor Winslow helps MHS students with bike safety

Malden Ward 6 Councillor Stephen Winslow recently visited Malden High School to meet with MHS educator Mitch Abbatessa and donate a boxful of bicycle safety lights. Abbatessa is the advisor for the MHS Bicycle Club, which twice a month makes use of the school’s FLEX Joy Class Block to venture outside the building for supervised, 30-minute biking trips around the school, primarily on the Malden part of the Northern Strand Community Trail. Courtesy of Councillor Winslow, the safety lights will be distributed free of charge by Abbatessa to students who need them.

“We are grateful to Councillor Winslow for his generosity and caring for our students. He has been generous with other donations of bicycles and repair tools for our mini-shop in the past,” Abbatessa said.

“It is easy to see that many Malden High students are using bikes to get to and from school, judging by the numbers of bicycles that are at the bike racks outside the school. It is great to see,” said Councillor Winslow, who cofounded Bike to the Sea, Inc., which is based in Malden. Bike to the Sea has worked to create and install the well-used and popular Northern Strand Community Trail, which runs through Malden.