Meet the Boston Secretary Who Might Stop a Mega Casino
Fears that gambling will enrich the owners and spoil East Boston
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Celeste Myers sees herself as a modern-day Paul Revere, warning East Boston about imminent invasion. This time it isn’t the British coming, but companies planning a $1 billion gaming resort in her hometown.
During the day, the 42-year-old is a secretary at a local bakery, but for the past five years, after work and on weekends, she’s become a tireless unpaid campaigner for her nonprofit, No Eastie Casino, which argues the plan will damage East Boston. “I’m all for jobs,” Myers says. “I’m all for improving employment. But it needs to be an improvement, it needs to be better than what we have.”