Mayor Keefe visits newly beautified traffic island and praises workers for their effortsBy Cary ShumanMayor Patrick Keefe made a special visit to Dale Street to view the traffic island that Revere neighbors are calling “a botanical masterpiece.”Keefe met with Frankie Ippolito, owner of Ippolito Snow Services, and his employees at their ‘adopted’ island. “You go above and beyond, and I don’t want this work to go unrecognized,” Keefe told Ippolito. “Thank you very much.”Ippolito said his company adopted the Dale Street traffic island three years ago, building each year toward a modern version of “a 16th-century English knot garden.”“Because it’s a fast space that people [motorists] go by and it’s a quick impact, we did very bold colors,” said Ippolito. Their abundance will keep blooming throughout the season.”How long will the traffic island maintain its current beauty? “The colors will probably last until the first frost [mid-October according to long-range forecasts],” said Ippolito.