It Takes a Village to Make a Community
By Carol Masshardt City streets, the people who occupy them and the cars that share them are nothing new to Safety Officer/Crossing Guard, Stacey Menjin. Living in Chelsea until she married husband, James, twenty-nine years ago, she has lived in South Boston in the multi-generational house where he was raised and where they then raised their two daughters and one son. Her beat now, after having worked for many years at the Perry School and then as a crossing guard in Dorchester, is on the corner of “I” and Broadway. Stacey is practical and outgoing with her eye on the cityscape while focused on the footsteps and greetings of children and parents. “In the past, it was great to have hours that worked when [...]