 Councilman Pete Capano (front center) joined the Lynn Tech E-Team on the steps of St. Stephen's Church Saturday afternoon. Pictured seated in the front row from left are teacher Tim Roach, students Shawna Bickford and Marvin Benjamin, second row from left, Tony Dunn, Lenroy Thomas, and Jennifer Fader, and third row from left teachers Joe Fountain, Jorge Figueroa, and student David Eckmann. (Item Photo/ Reba M. Saldanha)Apprentice ironworkers donate railings to St. Stephen’s Church
By David Liscio/The Daily Item
LYNN - Two years in the making, a group of apprentice ironworkers and high school metal shop students delivered the fruit of their labor Saturday to St. Stephen’s Church.
“Several different classes of Lynn Tech students and several E-Team groups worked long and hard on these iron railings,” said Tony Dunn, a spokesman for the E-Team apprentice machinist program sponsored jointly by ECCO, IUE-CWA Local 201, and the Boston Tooling and Machining Association.
According to Dunn, the church sexton approached the high school and the machinist program two years ago, seeking help to improve the railings leading to a vestibule on the parking lot side entrance.
Joseph Fountain, an E-Team instructor and a faculty member at Lynn Vocational Technical Institute’s shop program, took the lead in creating a railing system designed to round a corner.
“The two railings are each about 5-6 feet long, but they’re not your average railing. These are really built, and they’re finally ready to be installed.”
Dunn said the present railing inside the church ended near the top of the stairs, offering no support or safety to elderly parishioners. “The older parishioners who use those stairs had nothing to grab onto, especially in the winter,” he said. “Now they will.”
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