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FRIDAY, MAY <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong><br />

MORTARBOARDS AND MEMORIES<br />

Lessons<br />

for the<br />

future at<br />

Fenwick<br />

By Anthony<br />

Cammalleri<br />

ITEM STAFF<br />

PEABODY — Bishop<br />

Fenwick High School presented<br />

129 diplomas and<br />

sunflowers to the graduating<br />

class of <strong>2022</strong> at<br />

their 60th Annual Commencement<br />

Thursday,<br />

<strong>May</strong> 26.<br />

As the Fenwick Band<br />

performed a rendition<br />

of Elton John’s “I’m Still<br />

Standing,” the graduat-<br />

ITEM PHOTO | JAKOB MENENDEZ<br />

St. Mary’s Class of <strong>2022</strong> throws their caps in the air to signal the end of<br />

their commencement ceremony.<br />

FENWICK, A7<br />

St. Mary’s<br />

graduates<br />

‘deserve<br />

this’<br />

By Steve Krause<br />

FOR THE ITEM<br />

LYNN — <strong>The</strong> most emphatic<br />

words spoken at<br />

St. Mary’s commencement<br />

ceremony Thursday were<br />

spoken by Head of School<br />

Dr. John Dolan, who told<br />

the graduates “you deserve<br />

this.”<br />

“You deserve this,” he<br />

said, “and you earned<br />

this.”<br />

Dolan explained to the<br />

PHOTOS | ERIC CLARK<br />

Family and friends look on as the Class of <strong>2022</strong> at Bishop Fenwick High<br />

School make their way onto the field before the start of the graduation<br />

ceremony.<br />

ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK<br />

Lynn resident Aya Mohamed delivers her commencement speech during<br />

North Shore Community College’s graduation ceremony on Thursday.<br />

DESERVE, A6<br />

NSCC grad<br />

shares<br />

her story<br />

By Magella Cantara<br />

ITEM STAFF<br />

LYNN — North Shore<br />

Community College held<br />

their 55th commencement<br />

ceremony for the graduating<br />

class of <strong>2022</strong> on Thursday<br />

at 1 p.m. Out of 55<br />

ceremonies at NSCC, this<br />

is the first ceremony to be<br />

live in-person since 2019,<br />

and the first on Lynn’s<br />

campus. In addition to<br />

this, its commencement<br />

speaker Aya Mohamed,<br />

is a 19-year-old Muslim<br />

woman graduating with<br />

her STEM degree in<br />

NSCC, A7<br />

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PG. 3<br />

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A positive<br />

development<br />

at River’s End<br />

By Paul Halloran<br />

FOR THE ITEM<br />

LYNN — As speakers<br />

came to the podium to<br />

express their pride and<br />

pleasure with the West<br />

Lynn housing development<br />

on which the ribbon<br />

had just been cut, a young<br />

Black Volunteer<br />

Regiment honored<br />

at Pine Grove<br />

By Oksana Kotkina<br />

ITEM STAFF<br />

LYNN –– <strong>The</strong> Grand<br />

Army of the Republic Hall<br />

and Museum (G.A.R.)<br />

held its annual Memorial<br />

Day ceremony at Pine<br />

Grove Cemetery Civil War<br />

Lot. This year’s event was<br />

planned to include a key<br />

ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK<br />

Lynn <strong>May</strong>or Jared Nicholson, left, speaks<br />

during the ribbon cutting of the River’s End<br />

Townhomes in Lynn on Thursday.<br />

couple came out of one of<br />

the townhomes, golf clubs<br />

in hand, heading off for an<br />

afternoon on the links.<br />

Mission accomplished.<br />

<strong>The</strong> celebration Thursday<br />

was for the official<br />

opening of the River’s<br />

RIVERS END, A3<br />

PHOTO | ERIC CLARK<br />

Camp Five Commander Paul Kenworthy, left,<br />

Master of ceremonies and Dexter Bishop G.A.R<br />

trustee.<br />

speaker to honor the 54th<br />

regiment from Massachusetts<br />

that was known as<br />

the Black Volunteer Regiment<br />

(BVR). Joe Zellner,<br />

who represents the BVR<br />

reenactment group, was<br />

unable to participate last<br />

minute due to traffic, but<br />

PINE, A3<br />

Saugus School Committee chair puts kids first<br />

By Oksana Kotkina<br />

ITEM STAFF<br />

SAUGUS –– <strong>The</strong> School<br />

Committee elected Vincent<br />

Serino as their new chair after<br />

Thomas Whittredge resigned<br />

to take care of his two<br />

kids, as his wife passed away<br />

last year because of breast<br />

cancer. <strong>The</strong> School Committee<br />

members remembered his<br />

accomplishments as a chair,<br />

and Whittredge told <strong>The</strong> <strong>Item</strong><br />

about his resignation.<br />

“Right before the election,<br />

cancer took a turn for the<br />

worse, and I got re-elected to<br />

the School Committee, and<br />

then three weeks later, my<br />

wife passed away from breast<br />

cancer on Thanksgiving Day,”<br />

said Whittredge.<br />

According to him, although<br />

his wife, <strong>The</strong>resa, was a very<br />

tough and “just unbelievable”<br />

woman “when it came to fight<br />

for her life,” the returned cancer<br />

spread throughout her<br />

body “after many-many battles.”<br />

“She was probably one of<br />

the toughest people I’ve ever<br />

met,” said Whittredge.<br />

Thomas Whittredge and his<br />

wife have two kids – Brody,<br />

13, who is a middle school<br />

student, and Finley, a first<br />

grader with special needs —<br />

she has a rare Smith-Magenis<br />

syndrome, which is complicated<br />

by autism, and she is<br />

also non-verbal.<br />

“I have to get babysitters<br />

that understand her syndrome<br />

and understand her,<br />

because she is also non-verbal,”<br />

said Whittredge.<br />

After a few months of trying<br />

to fulfill both his role in the<br />

School Committee and take<br />

care of his kids, because his<br />

wife supported him in his career<br />

“and really pushed” him<br />

COMMITTEE, A3<br />

LOOK!<br />

Veterans Food<br />

Market in Nahant<br />

Continues Through<br />

Summer. A8<br />

CORRECTION<br />

INSIDE<br />

Sports<br />

Lynnfield girls<br />

lacrosse closes<br />

season with a<br />

win. B1<br />

Due to a reporter’s error, a story on the<br />

LOOK! page (A8) in Thursday’s <strong>Item</strong><br />

(“Lynn Rotary Club announces <strong>2022</strong><br />

scholars”) misspelled the name of<br />

Richard Maloney. We regret the error.<br />

OBITUARIES ..............................A2<br />

OPINION ...................................A4<br />

POLICE/FIRE .............................A5<br />

LOOK! .......................................A8<br />

SPORTS ................................ B1-2<br />

COMICS ....................................B4<br />

DIVERSIONS .............................B5<br />

CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7<br />

THIS WEEK IN PHOTOS ..............B8<br />

HIGH 80°<br />

LOW 65°<br />

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VOL. 142, ISSUE 455<br />

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A2 THE DAILY ITEM FRIDAY, MAY <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong><br />

OBITUARIES<br />

Laura A. (Buckwell) Herald, 87<br />

1935 - <strong>2022</strong><br />

BURLINGTON/SAUGUS -<br />

Mrs. Laura A. (Buckwell) Herald,<br />

age 87, died on Tuesday<br />

morning at her home in Burlington.<br />

She was the wife of the<br />

late Carl W. Herald for 67 years.<br />

Born in Lynn, MA, she was<br />

the daughter of the late Arthur<br />

and Lillian (Walther) Buckwell<br />

of Saugus. A resident of Burlington<br />

for the last 3 years, Mrs.<br />

Herald had previously lived and<br />

raised her family in Saugus.<br />

Laura was a true homemaker<br />

with a knack for home décor<br />

and flower arranging. She enjoyed<br />

building their cabin with<br />

her husband and family and<br />

“heading up North” for weekends.<br />

She is survived by her three<br />

children; Cynthia Bridges of<br />

Bedford, NH, Gary Herald and<br />

his wife Nancy of Hudson, NH,<br />

and Lisa Butler of Seabrook,<br />

NH. She was the proud grandmother<br />

of 10 grandchildren<br />

and 21 great grandchildren.<br />

Laura was the sister of Eunice<br />

Case of Wilmington, MA, Nancy<br />

Gibb of Crystal Beach, FL and<br />

Stephen and his wife Laurie<br />

of Hamilton. Mrs. Herald was<br />

pre-deceased by her son-inlaws;<br />

Scott Bridges and Robert<br />

Butler. She was the sister-inlaw<br />

of Judith Herald of Weekie<br />

SAUGUS - Mr. Charles C.<br />

Thomas, age 89, died on Tuesday<br />

morning at Lahey Hospital<br />

of Burlington. He was the husband<br />

of Lois (Hobbs) Thomas<br />

with whom he shared 66 years<br />

with.<br />

Born in Revere, he was the<br />

son of the late Ceasar and<br />

Josephine (Devillis) Thomas<br />

of Italy. Charles was a retired<br />

Fire Captain for the Saugus<br />

Fire Department. Longtime<br />

member of the Saugus Knights<br />

of Columbus and Lions Club.<br />

Charlie enjoyed spending time<br />

in his garden and surrounded<br />

by family.<br />

Besides his wife, Charles is<br />

the father of Charles C. Jr. and<br />

his wife Lori of Saugus; Darren<br />

Thomas of Peabody; Lisa<br />

Lawrence and her husband<br />

Bob of FL; Pamela Ferreira and<br />

her husband Mike of Saugus;<br />

and the late Brian Thomas.<br />

Charles is also survived by<br />

his 10 Grandchildren and 7<br />

Great-grandchildren.<br />

In lieu of flowers Charlie requested<br />

donations to be made<br />

to the Saugus firefighters relief<br />

association @ Saugusfirereliefassociation.com<br />

and or the<br />

Saugus Lions Club for eye research,<br />

P.O. Box 1121, Saugus,<br />

MA 01906.<br />

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story go untold.<br />

Share your loved one’s story.<br />

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Service Information: Relatives<br />

and friends are invited<br />

to attend an hour of visitation<br />

in the Bisbee-Porcella<br />

Funeral Home, 549 Lincoln<br />

Ave., SAUGUS, on Tuesday<br />

10:30 – 11:30 a.m. followed<br />

by a funeral service in the<br />

funeral home at 11:30. Interment<br />

will follow at Puritan<br />

Lawn Memorial Park,<br />

Peabody. For directions &<br />

condolences www.Bisbee-<br />

Porcella.com.<br />

Charles C. Thomas, 89<br />

1932 - <strong>2022</strong><br />

Service Information: Relatives<br />

and friends are invited<br />

to attend visiting hours in<br />

the Bisbee-Porcella Funeral<br />

Home, 549 Lincoln Ave.,<br />

SAUGUS, on Tuesday 7:30<br />

– 9:30 a.m. followed by a funeral<br />

mass at Blessed Sacrament<br />

Church, 14 Summer<br />

Street, Saugus at 10 a.m.<br />

Interment will follow at Riverside<br />

Cemetery, Saugus.<br />

For directions & condolences<br />

www.BisbeePorcella.com.<br />

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Marjorie “Marge” Nihan, 90<br />

1931 - <strong>2022</strong><br />

NORTH WATERFORD, ME -<br />

NORTH WATERFORD- Marjorie<br />

“Marge” (Cooney) Nihan, 90,<br />

of North Waterford, ME died<br />

peacefully in her home on Friday<br />

<strong>May</strong> 20, <strong>2022</strong>.<br />

Marge was born in Lynn, MA<br />

on September 15th, 1931, the<br />

daughter of Loring and Hazel<br />

(Dennis) Cooney. She was<br />

educated in Lynn schools and<br />

graduated from Lynn English<br />

High School, class of 1949,<br />

where she met her soulmate<br />

and life partner, John “Jack”<br />

Nihan. Married in 1954, Marge<br />

and Jack raised their family<br />

in Lynn and shared 55 joyful<br />

years together.<br />

After raising her children,<br />

Marge received her degree<br />

from Salem State College and<br />

taught in Lynn Public schools<br />

for 15 years. Following her<br />

teaching career, she and Jack<br />

retired to their beloved house<br />

on Papoose Pond in Maine.<br />

Marge was an avid sports fan,<br />

especially of the Red Sox. She<br />

was very active in the lives of<br />

her children, grandchildren,<br />

and great-grandchildren. She<br />

enjoyed putting her incredible<br />

knitting skills to good use for<br />

new family arrivals, as well as<br />

providing donations for children<br />

in need.<br />

Marge was a member of St.<br />

Joseph Catholic Church, where<br />

she was a sacristan and an<br />

Extraordinary Minister of Holy<br />

Communion. She was also a<br />

proud member of the Daughters<br />

of Union Veterans of the<br />

Civil War and the Retired Teachers<br />

Association.<br />

Marge was the cherished<br />

mother of nine children. She<br />

is survived by Paul Nihan and<br />

his wife, Patricia of Peabody,<br />

MA, Mark Nihan of Peabody,<br />

MA, Diane Suslak and her<br />

husband, Tom of Haverhill, MA,<br />

Michael Nihan of Wilmington,<br />

MA, Joann Nihan-Teed and her<br />

husband, Howard of Boxford,<br />

MA, John R. Nihan of Haverhill,<br />

MA, Katherine Holmes and<br />

her husband, Edward of North<br />

Andover, MA and Christopher<br />

Nihan of Andover, MA.<br />

Marge was predeceased<br />

by her devoted husband John<br />

C. Nihan, daughter Donna M.<br />

Nihan, and two brothers William<br />

and Francis Cooney. She<br />

will be dearly missed by her<br />

eighteen grandchildren and<br />

10 plus great-grandchildren.<br />

Marge also leaves behind a<br />

dear friend, Roberta “Bobbie”<br />

Cardone of Harrison, ME with<br />

whom she shared a fervent<br />

passion for the Catholic faith<br />

and Jeopardy.<br />

Nana was truly a blessing in<br />

the lives of those she touched.<br />

Her family is comforted knowing<br />

she is at peace, sharing a<br />

fond reunion with those she<br />

loved in the arms of our Lord.<br />

Please join us in celebrating<br />

her life. Visitation hours will<br />

be held at Chandler Funeral<br />

Home, 8 Elm Street, Bridgton<br />

ME on the evening of Wednesday<br />

June 1, from 4-7:00. A funeral<br />

mass will be held at St.<br />

Joseph’s Catholic Church in<br />

Bridgton on Thursday June 2<br />

at 11am. Burial will be in the<br />

Harrison Lutheran Cemetery at<br />

a later date. In lieu of flowers,<br />

donations may be made to<br />

St. Jude Children’s Research<br />

Hospital or the St. Joseph’s<br />

Food Pantry in Bridgton, ME.<br />

To make an online condolence<br />

please visit www.chandlerfunerals.com<br />

A flashback to ‘70s,<br />

begins to grow<br />

with stagflation<br />

By Paul Wiseman<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

FILE PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

Cars line up in two directions at a gas station<br />

in New York City in 1973.<br />

WASHINGTON — Stagflation.<br />

It was the dreaded<br />

“S word” of the 1970s.<br />

For Americans of a<br />

certain age, it conjures<br />

memories of painfully<br />

long lines at gas stations,<br />

shuttered factories and<br />

President Gerald Ford’s<br />

much-ridiculed “Whip Inflation<br />

Now” buttons.<br />

Stagflation is the bitterest<br />

of economic pills: High<br />

inflation mixes with a<br />

weak job market to cause<br />

a toxic brew that punishes<br />

consumers and befuddles<br />

economists.<br />

For decades, most economists<br />

didn’t think such<br />

a nasty concoction was<br />

even possible. <strong>The</strong>y’d long<br />

assumed that inflation<br />

would run high only when<br />

the economy was strong<br />

and unemployment low.<br />

But an unhappy confluence<br />

of events has economists<br />

reaching back<br />

to the days of disco and<br />

the bleak high-inflation,<br />

high-unemployment economy<br />

of nearly a half century<br />

ago. Few think stagflation<br />

is in sight. But as a<br />

longer-term threat, it can<br />

no longer be dismissed.<br />

Last week, Treasury<br />

Secretary Janet Yellen<br />

invoked the word in remarks<br />

to reporters:<br />

“<strong>The</strong> economic outlook<br />

globally,” Yellen said, “is<br />

challenging and uncertain,<br />

and higher food and<br />

energy prices are having<br />

stagflationary effects,<br />

namely depressing output<br />

and spending and raising<br />

inflation all around the<br />

world.”<br />

On Thursday, the government<br />

estimated that<br />

the economy shrank at a<br />

1.5 percent annual rate<br />

from January through<br />

March.<br />

Abrams-Kemp slugfest promises<br />

to be pricey, long, and ugly<br />

By Jeff Amy<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

ATLANTA — Georgia<br />

voters didn’t get much of a<br />

break from election talk on<br />

the day after the Tuesday<br />

primary in which Republican<br />

Gov. Brian Kemp demolished<br />

GOP challenger<br />

David Perdue and Democrat<br />

Stacey Abrams finally<br />

clinched a nomination<br />

waiting for her after no<br />

other members of her party<br />

jumped in.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Republican Governors<br />

Association, a key contributor<br />

to Kemp’s victory,<br />

launched a television ad<br />

attacking Abrams Wednesday.<br />

And the state Democratic<br />

Party announced the<br />

launch of its coordinated<br />

campaign that seeks to<br />

grab victories in November<br />

for Abrams, U.S. Sen. Raphael<br />

Warnock and others.<br />

Those were opening<br />

moves in what will be a<br />

brutal slog of a governor’s<br />

race between Abrams and<br />

Kemp, a contest that Republican<br />

strategist Ryan<br />

Mahoney estimated could<br />

cost $250 million overall<br />

after campaigns and other<br />

groups finish spending.<br />

Kemp’s romp, where he<br />

won nearly 75 percent of<br />

the Republican vote despite<br />

former President Donald<br />

Trump’s support of Perdue,<br />

made headlines worldwide<br />

as proof that Republicans<br />

could defy Trump and<br />

thrive. And Abrams, once<br />

unknown, vaulted to first<br />

rank of national Democrats<br />

with her 2018 loss to Kemp<br />

and subsequent advocacy<br />

for voting rights.<br />

Kemp is eager to tie<br />

Abrams to President Joe<br />

Biden in this year’s rematch,<br />

seeking to drag her<br />

down with the weight of<br />

the Democratic president’s<br />

unpopularity.<br />

“She has embraced the<br />

disastrous Biden agenda<br />

at every single turn,” Kemp<br />

told supporters Tuesday in<br />

his victory speech.<br />

Abrams, meanwhile,<br />

wants to make the campaign<br />

all about the shortcomings<br />

in Kemp’s record,<br />

repeating multiple times in<br />

a Tuesday news conference<br />

that Kemp “doesn’t care<br />

about the people of Georgia.”<br />

US economy shrank by 1.5 percent<br />

in Q1 but consumers kept spending<br />

By Paul Wiseman<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

WASHINGTON — <strong>The</strong><br />

U.S. economy shrank in<br />

the first three months<br />

of the year even though<br />

consumers and businesses<br />

kept spending at a solid<br />

pace, the government<br />

reported Thursday in a<br />

slight downgrade of its<br />

previous estimate for the<br />

January-March quarter.<br />

Last quarter’s drop in the<br />

U.S. gross domestic product<br />

— the broadest gauge<br />

of economic output — does<br />

not likely signal the start<br />

of a recession. <strong>The</strong> contraction<br />

was caused, in<br />

part, by a wider trade gap:<br />

<strong>The</strong> nation spent more on<br />

imports than other countries<br />

did on U.S. exports.<br />

<strong>The</strong> trade gap slashed<br />

first-quarter GDP by 3.2<br />

percentage points.<br />

And a slower restocking<br />

of goods in stores and<br />

warehouses, which had<br />

built up their inventories<br />

in the previous quarter for<br />

the 2021 holiday shopping<br />

season, knocked nearly 1.1<br />

percentage points off the<br />

January-March GDP.<br />

Analysts say the economy<br />

has likely resumed<br />

growing in the current<br />

April-June quarter.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Commerce Department<br />

estimated that the<br />

economy contracted at a<br />

1.5 percent annual pace<br />

from January through<br />

March, a slight downward<br />

PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Georgia Democratic candidate Stacey<br />

Abrams in Decatur, Ga.<br />

revision from its first estimate<br />

of 1.4 percent, which<br />

it issued last month. It<br />

was the first drop in GDP<br />

since the second quarter<br />

of 2020 — in the depths of<br />

the COVID-19 recession<br />

— and followed a robust<br />

6.9 percent expansion in<br />

the final three months of<br />

2021.<br />

<strong>The</strong> nation remains<br />

stuck in the painful grip<br />

of high inflation, which<br />

has caused particularly<br />

severe hardships for lower-income<br />

households,<br />

many of them people of<br />

color. Though many U.S.<br />

workers have been receiving<br />

sizable pay raises,<br />

their wages in most cases<br />

haven’t kept pace with inflation.<br />

In April, consumer<br />

prices jumped 8.3 percent<br />

from a year earlier, just<br />

below the fastest such rise<br />

in four decades, set one<br />

month earlier.<br />

High inflation is also<br />

posing a political threat to<br />

President Joe Biden and<br />

Democrats in Congress as<br />

midterm elections draw<br />

near. A poll this month<br />

by <strong>The</strong> Associated Press-<br />

NORC Center for Public<br />

Research found that<br />

Biden’s approval rating<br />

has reached the lowest<br />

point of his presidency —<br />

just 39 percent of adults<br />

approve of his performance<br />

— with inflation a<br />

frequently cited contributing<br />

factor.


FRIDAY, MAY <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong> THE DAILY ITEM A3<br />

PINE<br />

From A1<br />

Black Volunteer Regiment<br />

honored at Pine Grove<br />

COMMITTEE<br />

From A1<br />

his message was not lost.<br />

According to Zellner, the<br />

current BVR is a reenactment<br />

group and a historical<br />

society, and every<br />

member of it focuses on<br />

adopting an actual member<br />

of the 54th regiment<br />

of the past to “form a character<br />

to reenact and represent<br />

it to the public.”<br />

Zellner chose to represent<br />

Solomon Pierce from<br />

Monson, MA, to portray<br />

the notion of “all gave<br />

some, some gave all,” i.e.,<br />

to explain to the public<br />

the sacrifice the first BVR<br />

members gave for their<br />

country, even knowing<br />

that “you might die sooner<br />

than your appointed day<br />

by virtue of military service.”<br />

“This particular Black<br />

family, they gave their<br />

all,” said Zellner.<br />

He said that in the<br />

Pierce family, after their<br />

first son died in the Civil<br />

War in 1863, his father,<br />

Solomon, and their second<br />

son, aged 19, decided<br />

to join the army. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

survived and came back<br />

home.<br />

According to Wendy Joseph,<br />

the G.A.R. Museum<br />

curator, the 54th BVR<br />

is also a direct link to a<br />

very important battle of<br />

Fort Wagner on July 18,<br />

1863 that was an unsuccessful<br />

assault led by the<br />

54th Massachusetts African<br />

American infantry,<br />

famously depicted in the<br />

movie Glory (1989).<br />

“It’s an annual memorial<br />

Service that G.A.R. does<br />

since 1868,” said Wendy<br />

Joseph, the G.A.R. Museum<br />

curator.<br />

<strong>The</strong> event is sponsored<br />

by Camp 5 Sons of Union<br />

Veterans. <strong>The</strong> special<br />

thing about this year’s<br />

ceremony was that it featured<br />

the original service<br />

or “Order of Exercise” of<br />

Camp 5 that Joseph found<br />

online, and that service<br />

included the hymn that<br />

was used by the original<br />

members of Camp 5.<br />

At the memorial service<br />

it was read by Dexter<br />

Bishop, the G.A.R. Museum<br />

trustee. <strong>The</strong> hymn<br />

reads as follows, “Who,<br />

when our land was rife<br />

with terror, storm, and<br />

strife, so nobly gave his<br />

life, and freedom won.”<br />

“I think it has so much<br />

to say about why we are<br />

here today,” said Bishop.<br />

Rev. Edwin Murphy<br />

from the First Baptist<br />

Church of Lynn gave the<br />

invocation at this year’s<br />

ceremony, and Camp 5<br />

Commander Paul Kenworthy<br />

led the memorial<br />

service that ended in a<br />

salute.<br />

According to Kenworthy,<br />

Camp 5 is the descendant<br />

organization of G.A.R.,<br />

and that was the first veterans<br />

organization in the<br />

U.S. to allow enlisted men<br />

to join, although there<br />

were organizations for officers<br />

before that.<br />

“We are here to commemorate<br />

these men who<br />

fought for our union and<br />

died in their service,” said<br />

Kenworthy.<br />

Kenworthy reminded<br />

the visitors that Memorial<br />

Day, which later became<br />

a national holiday, was<br />

originally introduced by<br />

G.A.R. over 150 years ago<br />

as a Decoration Day to<br />

decorate the graves of the<br />

fallen soldiers.<br />

Today the descendants<br />

of veterans still put flowers<br />

on the graves of the<br />

soldiers who lost their<br />

lives in the Civil War, and<br />

the residents come to honor<br />

their relatives.<br />

“My great-grandfather,<br />

Charles Pendexter, is buried<br />

here, and it’s a way to<br />

honor him and his memory,”<br />

said Patti Pendexter,<br />

trustee of the G.A.R.<br />

Laura Eisener, member<br />

of Civil War Round Table,<br />

a discussion group on the<br />

Civil War, said that she<br />

and her husband had been<br />

participating in this memorial<br />

service for the last<br />

decade and a half, because<br />

they wanted “to remember<br />

the Civil War soldiers who<br />

fought to end slavery and<br />

preserve the Union.”<br />

Oksana Kotkina can be<br />

reached at oksana@itemlive.com.<br />

Saugus School Committee<br />

chair puts kids first<br />

to “run again” for the committee,<br />

Whittredge finally<br />

decided that his own kids<br />

came first.<br />

“I really tried to make<br />

it work, but my kids have<br />

really been through a<br />

traumatic experience,<br />

and they really need me<br />

home,” said Whittredge.<br />

School Committee member<br />

John Hatch said he<br />

was “really lucky to have<br />

known Mr. Whittredge<br />

most of his life.” According<br />

to him, Whittredge is a<br />

very driven man, and “he<br />

is completely community<br />

oriented.”<br />

“A lot of what Tom is,<br />

is because of his inner<br />

strength and how he is so<br />

giving to everyone,” said<br />

Hatch.<br />

According to Hatch,<br />

Whittredge “really believes<br />

in our town and<br />

especially doing whatever<br />

he can for the kids and<br />

children of our town,” said<br />

Hatch. He also paid tribute<br />

to Whittredge’s wife,<br />

who kept him going, “she<br />

never wanted him to miss<br />

an event on her account,<br />

she wanted him to continue,”<br />

said Hatch.<br />

“It’s amazing that he<br />

found time to do everything<br />

that he did in spite<br />

of his wife’s illness, and<br />

she was an inspiration to<br />

all of us,” said Hatch.<br />

According to him,<br />

Whittredge’s major accomplishment<br />

as School<br />

Committee Chair were<br />

bringing in a full-day free<br />

kindergarten to Saugus,<br />

improvements in the culture<br />

and safety and quality<br />

of life of the students,<br />

and a program to bring<br />

Saugus from bottom 10<br />

percent educationally to<br />

top 10 percent through “an<br />

aggressive 5-year plan.”<br />

Ryan Fisher from the<br />

School Committee said<br />

that Whittredge always<br />

wanted to give 100 percent<br />

to everyone who needed it,<br />

and that he would “hang<br />

in there longer than anyone<br />

else.”<br />

“He’ll speak his mind<br />

even if he’s the only one in<br />

the room that thinks that<br />

way, but he never lets disagreement<br />

get in the way<br />

of what matters most,”<br />

said Fisher.<br />

According to him, as<br />

School Committee chair,<br />

Whittredge had the most<br />

difficult job in town at the<br />

most difficult time, as the<br />

last board had been fractured<br />

with infighting, and<br />

there was no manual for<br />

COVID, which hit right<br />

in the middle of a school<br />

consolidation and a superintendent<br />

search.<br />

“He got us through it<br />

all,” said Fisher.<br />

According to Hatch, leaving<br />

the School Committee<br />

was one of the toughest<br />

decisions that Whittredge<br />

made in recent years, “because<br />

he believed in it so<br />

much.” Whittredge said<br />

that although his first job<br />

now is to be a dad, and everything<br />

else is secondary<br />

for him, he would still like<br />

to return to the School<br />

Committee at some point<br />

in the future.<br />

“I hate to step off the<br />

School Committee, because<br />

I enjoyed it so<br />

much, but my kids really<br />

need me home, and that’s<br />

where I need to be,” said<br />

Whittredge.<br />

Oksana Kotkina can be<br />

reached at oksana@itemlive.com.<br />

Trump ally Zinke fights claim<br />

he’s too liberal for Montana<br />

By Matthew Brown<br />

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Republican Ryan Zinke<br />

first ran for Congress, the<br />

former Navy SEAL faced<br />

false accusations amplified<br />

by Democrats that his military<br />

career had ended in<br />

disgrace.<br />

After winning in 2014<br />

and two years later getting<br />

picked as President Donald<br />

Trump’s interior secretary,<br />

Zinke is seeking a return<br />

to Congress and facing a<br />

near-identical smear campaign<br />

— this time from the<br />

right wing of his own party.<br />

A website allied with one<br />

of his opponents accuses<br />

Zinke of exaggerating his<br />

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Zinke’s bid for a political<br />

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Montana’s electoral scene<br />

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the 2018 election in a failed<br />

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U.S. Sen. Jon Tester.<br />

Zinke’s status as a former<br />

Trump Cabinet member<br />

is simply not enough anymore<br />

for some in his party.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y say he’s too liberal<br />

and too soft on guns and<br />

didn’t do enough to build<br />

Trump’s envisioned wall on<br />

the U.S.-Mexico border.<br />

Zinke has also been<br />

dogged by problems of his<br />

own making, including recent<br />

revelations that he<br />

lied to a federal ethics official<br />

before his 2018 resignation<br />

from the Department<br />

of Interior.<br />

This month came a disclosure<br />

from Politico that<br />

Zinke’s wife, Lolita, designated<br />

her family’s California<br />

home as her primary<br />

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A positive<br />

development<br />

at River’s End<br />

RIVERS END<br />

From A1<br />

End Townhomes, 12<br />

units spread among four<br />

buildings at the intersection<br />

of Burns and River<br />

streets on property that<br />

was once owned and used<br />

by General Electric, but<br />

had been vacant for the<br />

better part of three decades.<br />

“This is a great example<br />

of the kind of development<br />

we are looking for<br />

in the City,” said <strong>May</strong>or<br />

Jared C. Nicholson. “It<br />

enriches a neighborhood<br />

with thoughtful planning<br />

that creates a project with<br />

the whole being greater<br />

than the sum of its parts.”<br />

River’s End represents<br />

the third phase of a $9.8<br />

million development plan<br />

in the area undertaken<br />

by Neighborhood Development<br />

Associates, the<br />

development arm of the<br />

Lynn Housing Authority<br />

& Neighborhood Development.<br />

NDA invested<br />

$3.5 million in the River’s<br />

End project, according<br />

to Peggy Phelps, director<br />

of planning and development<br />

for LHAND and the<br />

project manager.<br />

NDA built and sold four<br />

single-family homes on<br />

Minot Street in 2019 and<br />

four on Richard and Light<br />

streets in 2021, Phelps<br />

said, also on former GE<br />

land.<br />

<strong>The</strong> fourth phase, six<br />

units on Western Avenue,<br />

is under construction on<br />

a former brownfield site<br />

that the City transferred<br />

to the Economic Development<br />

& Industrial Corporation<br />

(EDIC/Lynn),<br />

which obtained two<br />

grants for a clean-up that<br />

restored it to residential<br />

use, according to EDIC/<br />

Lynn Executive Director<br />

James Cowdell. EDIC<br />

then entered into a development<br />

agreement with<br />

NDA.<br />

“We are committed to<br />

providing more housing<br />

opportunities,” said<br />

LHAND Executive Director<br />

Charles Gaeta, who<br />

noted that, while 25 percent<br />

of the units at River’s<br />

End were earmarked for<br />

low and moderate-income<br />

buyers, the rest were<br />

priced so that they would<br />

be affordable for a wide<br />

range of people.<br />

Gaeta credited Realtor<br />

Eileen Jonah Daley<br />

of Century 21 Northeast<br />

with effectively marketing<br />

and selling the units<br />

for NDA and the boards<br />

of both LHAND and NDA<br />

for supporting the project.<br />

Gaeta thanked Salem<br />

Five bank for providing<br />

the financing, and praised<br />

Phelps for her work in<br />

seeing the project through<br />

from start to finish.<br />

State Rep. Peter Capano,<br />

a lifelong West Lynn<br />

resident, said it took a<br />

coordinated effort among<br />

LHAND, the City, GE,<br />

and the state delegation<br />

to get this project done.<br />

“<strong>The</strong>re were a lot of<br />

broken beer bottles and<br />

weeds on this property,”<br />

Capano said. “To see<br />

where we were years ago<br />

to where we are now is<br />

amazing. It looks beautiful.”<br />

Ward 6 Councilor Fred<br />

Hogan said residents in<br />

the area are “excited to<br />

have this development.<br />

To turn parking lots into<br />

homes is amazing. And<br />

we’re attracting new people<br />

to the City. This is exciting<br />

for Lynn.”<br />

City Council President<br />

Jay Walsh, who represents<br />

Ward 7 in West<br />

Lynn, said while it is unfortunate<br />

that so many<br />

jobs at GE have been lost<br />

over the years, this development<br />

helps turn that<br />

negative into a positive.<br />

“It’s a perfect example of a<br />

stepping stone” to future<br />

development.<br />

Longtime NDA board<br />

member Christine Newhall<br />

said she continues<br />

to be impressed by the<br />

quality of the projects<br />

NDA completes. “Every<br />

one of these new projects<br />

that is completed I think<br />

it is the best one ever,<br />

then the next one is better,”<br />

she said. “<strong>The</strong> projects<br />

continue to evolve<br />

and integrate into Lynn’s<br />

neighborhoods.”<br />

“<strong>The</strong>se homes represent<br />

something uniquely<br />

American – the opportunity<br />

to have home ownership<br />

for hard-working<br />

people to get ahead,” said<br />

Salem Five Senior Vice<br />

President Mark Leff. “You<br />

have really smart people<br />

and extraordinary leadership<br />

in Lynn.”<br />

Phelps attributed the<br />

success of the project to<br />

teamwork, singling out<br />

for praise architect John<br />

Crowell, engineer and<br />

surveyor Chuck Faia, site<br />

manager Jim Connors,<br />

and others who worked on<br />

the development.<br />

“We met with the neighbors<br />

to see what they<br />

wanted,” Phelps said. “We<br />

didn’t want to push a plan<br />

on them.”<br />

Looking at the final result,<br />

four well-appointed<br />

buildings that fit seamlessly<br />

into the neighborhood,<br />

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After the Uvalde<br />

massacre, will Americans<br />

finally say “enough”?<br />

Editorial from the Dallas Morning News<br />

<strong>The</strong> feeling is too familiar now. It hits like a shock and<br />

then twists into emotions of horror, anger, sadness, and<br />

fear until it settles in the mind as a sickening numbness<br />

that we don’t know what to do with.<br />

<strong>The</strong> place this time is Texas. Uvalde. <strong>The</strong> deaths for<br />

now include 19 children and two adults.<br />

Schoolchildren. Teachers. Executed on their own campus.<br />

Murdered in the place where they should be safe,<br />

where they should be growing and becoming.<br />

As a nation, we lack the capacity — morally, intellectually,<br />

politically — to seriously grapple with the evil<br />

sickness that has set in, manifested in the incomprehensible<br />

nihilism of a murderer who would destroy the<br />

lives of the most innocent among us.<br />

But the rage spreads through all of us as we spin in<br />

the powerless frustration that nothing is done, that<br />

nothing will be done, and that we will simply await the<br />

next slaughter.<br />

Politically and legally, this country refuses to accept<br />

or act upon the obvious connection between the easy<br />

availability of powerful weapons designed to kill humans<br />

and the way they get into the hands of young<br />

men, even boys, with histories of disturbing behavior.<br />

Our political conscience as a nation is so stunted now<br />

that we cannot even enforce laws that are on the books<br />

to stop these shootings. We cannot seriously discuss,<br />

much less legislate, common-sense laws that could get<br />

broad agreement that might stop the next shooter. We<br />

cannot even agree that we should use the resources of<br />

the federal government to study gun violence.<br />

We believe in the right to bear arms. But every human<br />

right is balanced with human responsibility. No<br />

right is unlimited. Every leading Republican has made<br />

more permissive gun access a political cause while doing<br />

precious little or actively undermining efforts to<br />

enforce existing regulation.<br />

We do not know many details about the Uvalde murderer.<br />

We do not know his motive. We do not know<br />

much beyond the fact that he was 18, he wanted to kill<br />

children and he had the means to do it.<br />

It is time to re-enact the restrictions in the Federal<br />

Assault Weapons Ban that were so foolishly permitted<br />

to expire. It is time to limit high-capacity magazines. It<br />

is time to ensure that background checks and red flag<br />

laws have the most serious and uniform enforcement.<br />

And it is time to open broad debate about other measures.<br />

Saying this law or that law would not have prevented<br />

what happened is Uvalde is not enough. We must<br />

demand from our elected officials that they study, propose,<br />

and enact legislation that has an effect. If you are<br />

in elected office, this is your job. It is urgent — a moral<br />

imperative.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re will be calls for addressing mental illness.<br />

Those are valid. But if one thing is clear from mass<br />

shooting after mass shooting, it is that killers generally<br />

acted with careful planning and clear intent. <strong>The</strong>y understood<br />

the depravity and evil of their actions. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

did these things because they knew they were terrible<br />

and because they had the ready means to do them.<br />

After so much blood of so many children has been<br />

spent, after so many mothers and fathers and sisters<br />

and brothers have been left with lives of agony and<br />

mourning and loss, after all of this horror and pain, are<br />

we still unable to act?<br />

I always leave Arlington National<br />

Cemetery with more than I bring<br />

Family lore holds that<br />

the name inscribed in pale<br />

stone in Arlington National<br />

Cemetery’s columbarium<br />

above the name of my<br />

daughter’s grandfather was<br />

the alias George Sohl used<br />

during his service as a Naval<br />

intelligence officer.<br />

<strong>The</strong> truth is tucked away<br />

in some Pentagon filing cabinet,<br />

or it has disappeared<br />

into the past, save for the<br />

tantalizing mystery it proffers<br />

every time I have the<br />

honor to visit Arlington.<br />

It takes a little effort to<br />

find the columbarium with<br />

its stone walls filled with<br />

names. It’s not on one of Arlington’s<br />

main roads leading<br />

to the Tomb of the Unknown<br />

Soldier or the hill where the<br />

Kennedys are buried.<br />

My wife and I wandered<br />

beyond the columbarium<br />

on a September morning 20<br />

years ago and came upon<br />

a simple monument on<br />

the cemetery’s edge where<br />

visitors had tucked notes<br />

into the monument’s stone<br />

seams.<br />

Across the Potomac River,<br />

the Pentagon loomed squat<br />

and solid, and it took me a<br />

minute to realize the monument<br />

was a tribute to lives<br />

lost a year earlier on Sept.<br />

11.<br />

We ended up in Arlington’s<br />

Section 60 on a wet<br />

June afternoon 15 years<br />

ago and saw people, many<br />

of them young, huddled<br />

LETTER TO THE EDITOR<br />

in front of graves. Some<br />

clutched flowers, others had<br />

brought balloons and personal<br />

mementos, and we<br />

realized that Father’s Day<br />

for these people meant visiting<br />

the graves of dads, sons,<br />

husbands, and fiancés killed<br />

in Iraq and Afghanistan.<br />

I had the honor to be present<br />

for William Manning’s<br />

Arlington burial. His service<br />

to our country spanned<br />

through World War II, Korea,<br />

and Vietnam. He shared<br />

an affinity for military life<br />

with my late father-in-law<br />

and he was captured on<br />

Wake Island in December,<br />

1941. <strong>The</strong> Japanese made<br />

him work in a mine and I’m<br />

told it was an experience he<br />

rarely, if never, talked about.<br />

<strong>The</strong> burial unfolded with<br />

crisp military efficiency and<br />

I couldn’t help but feel Bill<br />

Manning wasn’t being laid<br />

to rest under a pall of sadness,<br />

but rather, he was being<br />

welcomed to Arlington<br />

by thousands of silent comrades.<br />

I think about my visits to<br />

Arlington on the days leading<br />

up to Memorial Day and<br />

I’m glad that every day I<br />

walk down Monument Avenue<br />

in Swampscott is Memorial<br />

Day, if only for the<br />

time it takes me to recite the<br />

Pledge of Allegiance once<br />

the big town flagpole comes<br />

into view and then whisper<br />

four words as I pass the memorials<br />

saluting Jared Raymond<br />

and Jennifer Harris.<br />

“Freedom is not free,” I<br />

remind myself as I spot<br />

parents walking their kids<br />

across Linscott Park to<br />

school and see the banner<br />

of inclusivity waving in<br />

the breeze in front of First<br />

Church.<br />

I walk without fear of<br />

missiles and artillery shells<br />

driving my family into a<br />

cellar to hide. A painting in<br />

my den memorializes the<br />

defense of Wake Island and<br />

makes it easy for me to remember<br />

Bill Manning’s service.<br />

I’m overdue to visit Arlington<br />

again, and maybe my<br />

granddaughter — George<br />

Sohl’s great-granddaughter<br />

— will be with me on<br />

my next trip. She will look<br />

at the letters engraved in<br />

the smooth white stone and<br />

ask, “Who was he?” I will<br />

answer, “He was the brother<br />

of all the other people whose<br />

names you see here.”<br />

I will never be able to repay<br />

the debt of gratitude I<br />

owe those who we remember<br />

on Memorial Day; but l<br />

never forget that the debt is<br />

owed.<br />

Memorial Day and sacrifices made<br />

Marblehead Police Department statement on Uvalde shootings<br />

To the editor:<br />

Chief Dennis King and<br />

the Marblehead Police<br />

Department wish to offer<br />

their condolences to all<br />

those affected by the horrific<br />

events that occurred<br />

yesterday at Robb Elementary<br />

School in Uvalde,<br />

Texas.<br />

“On behalf of all the<br />

members of the Marblehead<br />

Police Department,<br />

I send my deepest condolences<br />

to the families,<br />

friends, and loved ones of<br />

EDITORIAL<br />

all the victims of yesterday’s<br />

senseless tragedy in<br />

Uvalde, Texas.<br />

“In an effort to make<br />

students and staff more<br />

comfortable in the wake of<br />

this tragedy, Marblehead<br />

Police will maintain an increased<br />

police presence at<br />

Marblehead Public Schools<br />

until further notice. This<br />

is purely a precautionary<br />

measure as no threats<br />

have been made to any<br />

schools in the district.<br />

“Our Department works<br />

regularly with Marblehead<br />

JEFFREY BLONDER<br />

Opportunity, legacy, duty,<br />

purpose, patriotism — the<br />

reasons behind choosing<br />

military service differ from<br />

person to person. But as<br />

varied as the reasons are,<br />

there’s a universal understanding:<br />

Service means<br />

sacrifice, even if that sacrifice<br />

is one’s own life.<br />

When service members<br />

die, the impact ripples<br />

through our community.<br />

<strong>The</strong>ir deaths touch more<br />

than just the lives of their<br />

loved ones and friends. As<br />

their stories are shared in<br />

our neighborhoods, schools,<br />

and places of worship, these<br />

men and women become a<br />

part of the collective identity<br />

of our hometowns.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se stories, our Memorial<br />

Day observances, and<br />

the memorials and plaques<br />

dedicated to our military<br />

dead instill a sense of pride<br />

among the citizens. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

inspire new generations<br />

to raise their hands in service.<br />

Because there may be<br />

no greater sacrifice than to<br />

offer one’s own life for the<br />

lives of others. We don’t just<br />

honor them at home. Remembrances<br />

and tributes to<br />

their sacrifice begin at the<br />

very spots where they selflessly<br />

gave their lives—both<br />

for the brothers and sisters<br />

they stood shoulder to<br />

shoulder with and for their<br />

country. Tributes include<br />

the Battlefield Cross, which<br />

some historians say has its<br />

roots in the Civil War. Today,<br />

it’s most recognizable as a<br />

helmet resting on top of an<br />

inverted rifle stuck in the<br />

ground with boots placed in<br />

front. Dog tags hang from<br />

the rifle.<br />

Public Schools to teach<br />

students and staff about<br />

safety measures to use in<br />

the event of an emergency.<br />

All school staff are trained<br />

in ALICE, a training that<br />

helps prepare individuals<br />

to handle the threat of<br />

an active shooter, which<br />

stands for Alert, Lockdown,<br />

Inform, Counter, and<br />

Evacuate. Our Department<br />

also assists school administration<br />

in conducting<br />

age-appropriate drills with<br />

all students at each school<br />

throughout the year.<br />

THOR JOURGENSEN<br />

COMMENTARY<br />

Thor<br />

Jourgensen<br />

On the battlefield, members<br />

of the unit can come<br />

to this temporary memorial<br />

to pay their final respects.<br />

Even the process of returning<br />

those killed in battle<br />

home, known as a dignified<br />

transfer, reflects the respect<br />

and honor owed.<br />

Small teams conduct the<br />

solemn duty of moving a<br />

transfer case onto a waiting<br />

aircraft and draping<br />

an American flag over the<br />

case for the service member’s<br />

journey back to Dover<br />

Air Force Base in Delaware.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re, a team meets the remains<br />

and begins the preparation<br />

to return the service<br />

member to loved ones.<br />

But some who died while<br />

serving have not yet made<br />

it back home to the United<br />

States. We honor them<br />

through tributes such as<br />

the Missing Man Table, displayed<br />

to honor those who<br />

are still missing in action<br />

or prisoners of war. We don’t<br />

just reflect.<br />

We act by continuing the<br />

search for those still missing.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Defense POW/MIA<br />

Accounting Agency (DPAA)<br />

sends teams all over the<br />

world, searching land and<br />

sea to recover the missing’s<br />

remains.<br />

DPAA estimates that<br />

more than 81,600 service<br />

members are still missing.<br />

Among them are 41,000<br />

who are presumed to be<br />

lost at sea in the Indo-Pacific<br />

region. Some of those<br />

still missing at sea were<br />

killed aboard Japanese “hell<br />

ships” during World War II.<br />

Hell ships were unmarked<br />

Japanese merchant ships<br />

that sailed between the<br />

“In coordination with Superintendent<br />

John Buckey,<br />

we formed a School Safety<br />

Committee, which meets<br />

regularly to discuss school<br />

safety issues and create<br />

plans on how to respond to<br />

them collectively.<br />

“In addition to working<br />

with the district, we<br />

partner with places of<br />

worship and businesses<br />

in town to help prevent<br />

such incidents, including<br />

by teaching staff about<br />

the ‘Run, Hide, Fight and<br />

Power of Hello’ method to<br />

Philippines and Japan<br />

during the war and appeared<br />

to only be carrying<br />

Japanese military personnel<br />

and supplies. But below<br />

deck, crammed into dark,<br />

sweltering holds were Allied<br />

Prisoners of War.<br />

<strong>The</strong> conditions were deplorable.<br />

People were often<br />

heaped on top of each other,<br />

with no access to bathrooms<br />

or light, and with little to no<br />

food or water. It’s estimated<br />

that 126,000 Allied Prisoners<br />

of War were moved this<br />

way.<br />

More than 1,500 men died<br />

in their holds from heat,<br />

thirst, or being killed by<br />

Japanese guards. But more<br />

than 19,000 died when the<br />

U.S. Navy and other Allied<br />

forces carried out attacks on<br />

these ships.<br />

We must continue to share<br />

their stories so we can remember<br />

what they sacrificed<br />

for the rest of us. Because<br />

few men and women<br />

choose to put their lives on<br />

the line to serve and defend<br />

the Constitution. Few go<br />

toward danger and willingly<br />

face atrocities most of us<br />

can’t fathom.<br />

Few volunteer to serve,<br />

knowing that death may<br />

be the outcome. But we can<br />

ensure that those who do<br />

make this choice and make<br />

the ultimate sacrifice can<br />

rest knowing they served<br />

with the thanks of grateful<br />

citizens and knowing that<br />

they won’t be forgotten.<br />

Jeffrey Blonder, USN, is<br />

the retired commander of E.<br />

F. Gilmore Disabled American<br />

Veterans Chapter 64 -<br />

Swampscott/Lynn.<br />

diminish threats.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> Marblehead Police<br />

Department will continue<br />

to work to provide education<br />

and offer training<br />

surrounding emergency<br />

situations, as well as<br />

support to the community<br />

in any way we can during<br />

this difficult time.<br />

“If you or your child become<br />

aware of any threat<br />

toward a school or institution<br />

in town, please notify<br />

the Marblehead Police<br />

Department at 781-631-<br />

1212 immediately.”<br />

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All address information, particularly<br />

arrests, reflect police records.<br />

In the event of a perceived inaccuracy,<br />

it is the sole responsibility<br />

of the concerned party to contact<br />

the relevant police department and<br />

have the department issue a notice<br />

of correction to the <strong>Daily</strong> <strong>Item</strong>.<br />

Corrections or clarifications will not<br />

be made without express notice of<br />

change from the arresting police<br />

department.<br />

LYNN<br />

Arrests<br />

Abdu Hamid, 34, of 234<br />

South Common St., was arrested<br />

and charged with a<br />

second defense liquor OUI<br />

and drinking alcohol from an<br />

open container at 2:36 a.m.<br />

Thursday.<br />

Brittney Patient, 32, of<br />

52 Conant St., was arrested<br />

and charged with operating<br />

under the influence of alcohol,<br />

breaking and entering<br />

at nighttime with the intent<br />

to commit a felony, disorderly<br />

conduct, drinking alcohol<br />

from an open container, third<br />

offense for resisting arrest,<br />

reckless driving of a motor<br />

vehicle, hit-and-run with<br />

property damage, assault<br />

and battery with a dangerous<br />

weapon, and assault and battery<br />

of a police officer at 1:17<br />

a.m. Thursday.<br />

Wonteoung Souvannarath,<br />

18, of 60 Fayette St., was<br />

arrested and charged with receiving<br />

a stolen motor vehicle<br />

at 12:59 p.m. Wednesday.<br />

Accidents<br />

A report of a hit-and-run accident<br />

at 1:36 p.m. Wednesday<br />

at 147 Washington St.<br />

A report of a motor vehicle<br />

accident with injury at 8:36<br />

p.m. Wednesday at Commercial<br />

and Warren St.; at<br />

8:36 p.m. Wednesday at 56<br />

Commercial St.; at 7:50 p.m.<br />

Wednesday at 157 Walnut St.<br />

A report of a motor vehicle<br />

accident at 1:51 p.m.<br />

Wednesday at Western Ave.<br />

and Whiting St.; at 1:51 p.m.<br />

Wednesday at 605 Western<br />

Ave.; at 3:37 p.m. Wednesday<br />

at Boston and Summer St.;<br />

at 4:24 p.m. Wednesday at<br />

204 Walnut Street.; at 5:30<br />

p.m. Wednesday at Boston<br />

and Keslar Ave.; at 7:50 p.m.<br />

Wednesday at 157 Walnut<br />

St.; at 3:04 a.m. Thursday at<br />

1067 Western Ave.; at 9:17<br />

a.m Thursday at Boston and<br />

Kirtland St.<br />

Assaults<br />

A report of an assault at<br />

11:05 a.m. Thursday at 26<br />

Endicott St.<br />

A report of an assault and<br />

battery with a deadly weapon<br />

at 8:17 p.m. Wednesday at<br />

Ridgeway Street and Ridgeway<br />

Court.<br />

POLICE/FIRE<br />

Vandalism<br />

A report of vandalism of a<br />

motor vehicle at 9:31 a.m.<br />

Thursday at Ellis St. and<br />

School St.; at 9:59 a.m.<br />

Thursday at 9 Magner Rd.; at<br />

10:19 a.m. Thursday at 11<br />

Magner Rd.; at 11:11 p.m.<br />

Wednesday at 25 Magner Rd.<br />

Overdoses<br />

A report of an opiate overdose<br />

at 3:42 p.m. Wednesday<br />

at 1 Brightwood Terrace.<br />

<strong>The</strong>ft<br />

A report of theft at 7:54<br />

p.m. Wednesday at Bulfinch<br />

Street and Forest Street.<br />

A report of shoplifting at<br />

9:21 p.m. Wednesday at 40<br />

Federal St.<br />

Trespassing<br />

A report of trespassing at<br />

4:17 a.m. Thursday at 35<br />

Market Square.; at 9:43 p.m.<br />

Wednesday at 3 Kingsley Terrace;<br />

at 7:14 p.m. Wednesday<br />

at 14 Pinkham St.<br />

Larceny<br />

A report of larceny at 1:02<br />

p.m. Wednesday at 149<br />

Franklin St.; at 1:24 p.m.<br />

Wednesday at Currier Rd.; at<br />

3:44 p.m. Wednesday at 50<br />

State St.<br />

SAUGUS<br />

Accidents<br />

A report of an accident at<br />

5:56 p.m. Wednesday at 92<br />

Broadway St.<br />

Larceny<br />

A report of larceny reported<br />

at 2:54 p.m. Wednesday on<br />

128 Winter St.<br />

Breaking and Entering<br />

A report of breaking and entering<br />

into a car at 2:46 p.m.<br />

Wednesday at 400 Lynn Fells<br />

Parkway.<br />

PEABODY<br />

Accident<br />

A report of a motor vehicle<br />

crash at 7:37 a.m. Thursday<br />

at 525 Lowell St.<br />

Larceny<br />

A report of missing cash<br />

from a safety deposit box at<br />

11:05 a.m. at 1 Newbury St.<br />

Biden to console<br />

families in Uvalde,<br />

press for action<br />

By Zeke Miller<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

WASHINGTON — President<br />

Joe Biden and first<br />

lady Jill Biden will travel<br />

to Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday<br />

to console families and<br />

honor victims of Tuesday’s<br />

mass school shooting in<br />

which 19 children and two<br />

teachers were killed.<br />

<strong>The</strong> White House said<br />

the Bidens would “grieve<br />

with the community that<br />

lost 21 lives in the horrific”<br />

shooting at Robb Elementary<br />

School. Press secretary<br />

Karine Jean-Pierre<br />

said the president would<br />

meet with the community<br />

and religious leaders and<br />

victims’ families.<br />

Jean-Pierre, the parent<br />

of an elementary school<br />

student, delivered an<br />

impassioned plea at the<br />

White House for lawmakers<br />

to come together to address<br />

gun violence.<br />

“<strong>The</strong>se were elementary<br />

school kids, they should<br />

be losing their first teeth<br />

not losing their lives,” she<br />

said.<br />

Asked about the propriety<br />

of the National Rifle<br />

Association going ahead<br />

with its planned conference<br />

in Houston this<br />

weekend, Jean-Pierre,<br />

said, “What is inappropriate<br />

is that the leadership<br />

of the National Rifle Association<br />

has proven time<br />

and time again, that they<br />

are contributing to the<br />

problem of gun violence,<br />

not trying to solve it.”<br />

“It’s shameful that the<br />

NRA and their allies have<br />

stood in the way of every<br />

attempt to advance measures<br />

that we all know<br />

will save lives,” she said.<br />

Jean-Pierre echoed<br />

Biden, who in remarks<br />

Tuesday evening, spoke<br />

from personal experience<br />

about the pain of losing<br />

a child, and called on the<br />

country to tighten gun<br />

laws in response to the<br />

shooting.<br />

‘”When in God’s name<br />

are we going to stand up<br />

to the gun lobby?” he said.<br />

“Why are we willing to<br />

live with this carnage?<br />

Why do we keep letting<br />

this happen?”<br />

___<br />

FRIDAY, MAY <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong> THE DAILY ITEM A5<br />

Kevin Spacey to face four sex<br />

assault charges in Britain<br />

By Jill Lawless<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

LONDON — British<br />

prosecutors said Thursday<br />

they had authorized<br />

police to charge actor Kevin<br />

Spacey with four counts<br />

of sexual assault against<br />

three men, an announcement<br />

that came as the<br />

actor was in court in New<br />

York testifying in a different<br />

case.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Crown Prosecution<br />

Service said it had “authorized<br />

criminal charges”<br />

on the four sex assault<br />

counts and one of “causing<br />

a person to engage in penetrative<br />

sexual activity<br />

without consent.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> alleged incidents<br />

took place in London between<br />

March 2005 and<br />

August 2008, and one in<br />

western England in April<br />

2013. <strong>The</strong> alleged victims<br />

are now in their 30s and<br />

40s.<br />

Rosemary Ainslie, head<br />

of the service’s Special<br />

Crime Division, said the<br />

charges followed a review<br />

of evidence gathered by<br />

London’s Metropolitan Police.<br />

Prosecutors initially said<br />

Spacey had been charged.<br />

However, they later clarified<br />

that charges had been<br />

authorized, but the formal<br />

charging by police had not<br />

yet taken place.<br />

<strong>The</strong> authorization to<br />

charge means criminal<br />

proceedings against Spacey<br />

are underway. <strong>The</strong> police<br />

force said Spacey —<br />

who is not currently in<br />

Britain — “will be formally<br />

charged at a later date.”<br />

If Spacey does not return<br />

to Britain to face the<br />

charges, prosecutors could<br />

seek to start extradition<br />

proceedings.<br />

Spacey, a 62-year-old<br />

double Academy Award<br />

winner, was questioned<br />

by British police in 2019<br />

about claims by several<br />

men that he had assaulted<br />

them. <strong>The</strong> former<br />

“House of Cards” star ran<br />

London’s Old Vic <strong>The</strong>atre<br />

between 2004 and 2015.<br />

Spacey won a best supporting<br />

actor Academy<br />

Award for the 1995 film<br />

“<strong>The</strong> Usual Suspects” and<br />

a lead actor Oscar for the<br />

1999 movie “American<br />

Beauty.”<br />

But his celebrated career<br />

came to an abrupt halt in<br />

2017 when actor Anthony<br />

Rapp accused the star of<br />

assaulting him at a party<br />

in the 1980s, when Rapp<br />

FILE PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

Kevin Spacey attends a pretrial hearing at district court in Nantucket.<br />

was a teenager. Spacey<br />

denies the allegations.<br />

Spacey testified Thursday<br />

in a courtroom in<br />

New York City in the civil<br />

lawsuit filed by Rapp.<br />

Spacey didn’t respond to<br />

reporters as he left the<br />

courthouse talking on his<br />

mobile phone.<br />

<strong>The</strong> British charges<br />

were mentioned briefly<br />

by Rapp’s lawyers during<br />

the court hearing, and<br />

Spacey’s lawyers were<br />

asked about it by reporters<br />

during a break in testimony.<br />

PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, speaks on the Senate floor, at the Capitol<br />

in Washington.<br />

Will Congress act on guns after<br />

Sandy Hook, Buffalo, Uvalde?<br />

By Lisa Mascaro<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

WASHINGTON — Senate<br />

Majority Leader Chuck<br />

Schumer swiftly set in<br />

motion a pair of background-check<br />

bills for gun<br />

buyers Wednesday in response<br />

to the school massacre<br />

in Texas. But the<br />

Democrat acknowledged<br />

Congress’ unyielding rejection<br />

of previous legislation<br />

to curb the national<br />

epidemic of gun violence.<br />

Schumer implored his<br />

Republican colleagues<br />

to cast aside the powerful<br />

gun lobby and reach<br />

across the aisle for even<br />

a modest compromise bill.<br />

But no votes are being<br />

scheduled.<br />

“Please, please, please<br />

damn it — put yourselves<br />

in the shoes of these parents<br />

just for once,” Schumer<br />

said as he opened the<br />

Senate.<br />

He essentially threw<br />

up his hands at the idea<br />

of what might seem an<br />

inevitable outcome: “If<br />

the slaughter of schoolchildren<br />

can’t convince<br />

Republicans to buck the<br />

NRA, what can we do?”<br />

<strong>The</strong> killing Tuesday of at<br />

least 19 children and two<br />

teachers at an elementary<br />

school in Uvalde, Texas,<br />

has laid bare the political<br />

reality that the U.S.<br />

Congress has proven unwilling<br />

or unable to pass<br />

substantial federal legislation<br />

to curb gun violence<br />

in America.<br />

In many ways, the end<br />

of any gun violence legislation<br />

in Congress was<br />

signaled a decade ago<br />

when the Senate failed to<br />

approve a firearms background<br />

check bill after 20<br />

children, mostly 6- and<br />

7-year-olds, were killed<br />

when a gunman opened<br />

fire at Sandy Hook Elementary<br />

School.<br />

Despite the outpouring<br />

of grief Wednesday after<br />

the starkly similar Texas<br />

massacre, it’s not at all<br />

clear there will be any different<br />

outcome.<br />

Sen. Chris Murphy,<br />

D-Conn., called it a “putup<br />

or shut-up moment.”<br />

While President Joe<br />

Biden said “we have to<br />

act,” substantial gun violence<br />

legislation has been<br />

blocked routinely by Republicans,<br />

often with a<br />

handful of conservative<br />

Democrats.<br />

“Where’s the backbone,<br />

where’s the courage to<br />

stand up to a very powerful<br />

lobby?” Biden said<br />

Wednesday, speaking at<br />

the White House before<br />

signing an executive order<br />

on policing.<br />

“When in God’s name<br />

will we do what’s needed<br />

to be done?” asked the<br />

president. who announced<br />

that he and first lady Jill<br />

Biden would visit Uvalde<br />

soon.<br />

Police say Texas gunman was<br />

inside the school for over an hour<br />

By Jake Bleiberg<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

UVALDE, Texas — It was<br />

11:28 a.m. when the Ford<br />

pickup slammed into a<br />

ditch behind the low-slung<br />

Texas school and the driver<br />

jumped out carrying an<br />

AR-15-style rifle.<br />

Twelve minutes after<br />

that, authorities say,<br />

18-year-old Salvador Ramos<br />

was in the hallways of<br />

Robb Elementary School.<br />

Soon he entered a fourthgrade<br />

classroom. And<br />

there, he killed 19 schoolchildren<br />

and two teachers<br />

in a still-unexplained<br />

spasm of violence.<br />

At 12:58 p.m., law enforcement<br />

radio chatter<br />

said Ramos had been killed<br />

and the siege was over.<br />

What happened in those<br />

90 minutes, in a working-class<br />

neighborhood<br />

near the edge of the little<br />

town of Uvalde, has fueled<br />

mounting public anger and<br />

scrutiny over law enforcement’s<br />

response to Tuesday’s<br />

rampage.<br />

“<strong>The</strong>y say they rushed<br />

in,” said Javier Cazares,<br />

whose fourth-grade daughter,<br />

Jacklyn Cazares, was<br />

killed in the attack. He<br />

raced to the school as the<br />

massacre unfolded. “We<br />

didn’t see that.”<br />

On Thursday, authorities<br />

largely ignored questions<br />

about why officers had<br />

not been able to stop the<br />

shooter sooner, with Victor<br />

Escalon, regional director<br />

for the Texas Department<br />

of Public Safety, telling reporters<br />

he had “taken all<br />

those questions into consideration”<br />

and would offer<br />

updates later.<br />

<strong>The</strong> media briefing,<br />

called by Texas safety officials<br />

to clarify the timeline<br />

of the attack, provided bits<br />

of previously unknown information.<br />

But by the time<br />

it ended, it had added to<br />

the troubling questions<br />

surrounding the attack,<br />

including about the time<br />

it took police to reach the<br />

scene and confront the<br />

gunman, and the apparent<br />

failure to lock a school door<br />

he entered.<br />

After two days of providing<br />

often conflicting information,<br />

investigators said<br />

that a school district police<br />

officer was not inside<br />

the school when Ramos<br />

arrived, and, contrary to<br />

their previous reports, the<br />

officer had not confronted<br />

Ramos outside the building.<br />

Instead, they sketched<br />

out a timeline notable for<br />

unexplained delays by law<br />

enforcement.


A6 THE DAILY ITEM FRIDAY, MAY <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong><br />

CAPS OFF TO THE<br />

Daniel Gjeta screams with joy after the ceremonial cap toss at the St. Mary’s High School graduation.<br />

ITEM PHOTO | JAKOB MENENDEZ<br />

St. Mary’s graduates ‘deserve this’<br />

DESERVE<br />

From A1<br />

85 graduates that he<br />

heard one of their classmates<br />

speak at the baccalaureate<br />

Mass Wednesday.<br />

Colin Martin reflected on<br />

the beginnings of the coronavirus<br />

pandemic, which<br />

occurred his sophomore<br />

year, and how all the attention<br />

seemed to be devoted<br />

to the juniors and<br />

seniors.<br />

“I will admit,” Dolan<br />

said, “that we didn’t talk<br />

about the sophomores<br />

much. We may not have<br />

talked about them at all.”<br />

Dolan reflected that he<br />

was the middle child of a<br />

large family and that he<br />

knew what it was like to<br />

be an afterthought.<br />

“You do what you have<br />

to do to get along,” he said.<br />

And so did the sophomores,<br />

he said. He watched<br />

them develop into a boisterous,<br />

fun-loving class<br />

that distinguished itself<br />

by the spirit it showed at<br />

sporting events and other<br />

social gatherings.<br />

During the ceremony,<br />

the school’s 141st, special<br />

presentations were made<br />

to Golden Jubilarian<br />

Maryanne Roone-Hegan,<br />

one of the members of the<br />

Class of ‘72, who will mark<br />

off their 50th reunion later<br />

this year. She accepted<br />

a Golden Jubilee pin on<br />

behalf of her class.<br />

Also honored was Thomas<br />

L. Demakes, CEO and<br />

owner of Old Neighborhood<br />

Foods, who received<br />

an honorary diploma. Demakes<br />

is one of the city’s<br />

principal benefactors,<br />

whose charity has extended<br />

to St. Mary’s as well as<br />

the new YMCA across the<br />

street.<br />

Demakes spoke of his<br />

family’s origins in Lynn<br />

and the lessons he learned<br />

finding himself.<br />

“Those who work the<br />

hardest go furthest,”<br />

he said. “And the only<br />

thing that counts more<br />

than hard work is integrity.”<br />

That sentiment<br />

was echoed by Lawrence<br />

Doherty, an English teacher<br />

chosen by the students<br />

to be the faculty speaker.<br />

“Character counts,” he<br />

Head of School Dr. John Dolan stands with Golden Jubilarian recipient<br />

Maryanne Rooney-Hegan who was once the development director at<br />

St. Mary’s and now carries the same title at St. Anthony Shrine on Arch<br />

Street in Boston.<br />

said. “I’ll repeat it again,<br />

as teachers often do.<br />

Character counts. Your<br />

good name is your most<br />

important possession.<br />

Once it’s lost, it’s difficult<br />

to win back.”<br />

Also on the stage were<br />

William S. Mosakowski,<br />

board chair; Brianna Skory,<br />

salutatorian; Gabriela<br />

Mogavero, valedictorian;<br />

Heath Whelan, English<br />

teacher, who presented<br />

faculty recognition awards<br />

to Doherty and Frances<br />

White; Senior Dean Michael<br />

Jalbert, Principal<br />

David J. Angeramo and<br />

Assistant Principal James<br />

Ridley; Rev. Brian J Flynn,<br />

pastor of St. Mary’s<br />

parish; and Vivian Iannotti,<br />

a trustee.<br />

Skory said that one of<br />

the most valuable lessons<br />

she learned at St. Mary’s<br />

was that high school was a<br />

time of important self-discovery.<br />

“None of us are the<br />

same as we were when we<br />

came staggering in here<br />

as freshmen,” she said. “I<br />

know my freshman self<br />

would have been terrified<br />

at the idea of speaking at<br />

graduation. I am not that<br />

girl anymore.”<br />

Skory said she was<br />

afraid to share her<br />

thoughts with others and<br />

was basically a quiet person<br />

who sat in the corner.<br />

“We all have our own<br />

stories to share,” she said,<br />

“and that’s one of the<br />

beautiful components of<br />

high school. So tonight,<br />

St. Mary’s boys basketball star Ali Barry was<br />

all smiles as he walked across the stage at<br />

graduation.<br />

we celebrate cracking that<br />

shell and finding out who<br />

we are. This is just the beginning.”<br />

Mogavero said that ever<br />

since she was in kindergarten,<br />

she was told that<br />

she could change the<br />

world.<br />

“Now,” she said, “that almost<br />

seems like a cliché.<br />

But I totally believe that<br />

we can.”<br />

Of course, she said, much<br />

of that depends on how<br />

you define “the world.”<br />

“For many people, the<br />

world is our community …<br />

St. Mary’s was our world<br />

for four years, and it was<br />

a small world.”<br />

Whatever her classmates<br />

chose to do, she<br />

said, they had the power<br />

to change that part of<br />

the world, whether it was<br />

medicine, business, entertainment,<br />

or something<br />

else.<br />

One other thing she<br />

said she learned was that<br />

“high school is authentic<br />

and real. And authenticity<br />

trumps superficiality every<br />

time.<br />

“We will touch life wherever<br />

life takes us,” she<br />

said.<br />

St. Mary’s Najoude Claude places a white rose on the ground in front of a statue of St. Mary before finding her seat at the graduation ceremony<br />

Thursday night.


FRIDAY, MAY <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong> THE DAILY ITEM A7<br />

<strong>2022</strong> GRADUATES<br />

Students cheer as they officially become graduates of North Shore Community College.<br />

ITEM PHOTOS | SPENSER HASAK<br />

North Shore Community College grad shares her story<br />

NSCC<br />

From A1<br />

Biology.<br />

“My long-term goal is<br />

to open my own clinic one<br />

day in Sudan,” said Mohamed.<br />

Born in Syria, Mohamed<br />

grew up in Indonesia<br />

where she learned the English<br />

language. She then<br />

went on to graduate high<br />

school in Nigeria and was<br />

accepted into Ahfad University<br />

in Sudan. However,<br />

the healthcare in<br />

Sudan is anything but accessible.<br />

With the lack of<br />

resources and rising prices,<br />

Mohamed was unable<br />

to attend. For students<br />

going to University in Sudan,<br />

it’s not uncommon<br />

that the power goes out<br />

during class.<br />

“Never give up, never let<br />

someone talk you down<br />

into getting an education<br />

because that’s part of<br />

Francilene DeOliveira of Wilmington takes a<br />

selfie after receiving her diploma during North<br />

Shore Community College’s graduation ceremony<br />

on Thursday.<br />

the freedom that women<br />

need,” said Mohamed.<br />

It was because Mohamed<br />

watched her grandmother<br />

struggle when she had a<br />

back injury after having<br />

a bad fall. Without being<br />

provided with the proper<br />

care, she was unable to<br />

fully recover. It was then<br />

that Mohamed decided<br />

she was going to study<br />

medicine.<br />

At first, when moving<br />

to Lynn, Mohamed was<br />

under the misconception<br />

that going to a community<br />

college would be less of an<br />

education than a four-year<br />

university. NSCC opened<br />

this perspective for her after<br />

advisors helped guide<br />

her and supported her to<br />

go out of her comfort zone.<br />

Mohamed earned herself a<br />

position as vice president<br />

of culture and inclusion,<br />

to reastablish the Muslim<br />

Student Association<br />

on campus, which, to her<br />

surpise, she learned had<br />

been dormant for a while.<br />

“I was very happy to connect<br />

with the Muslim community<br />

here on campus,”<br />

Lessons for the future at Fenwick<br />

said Mohamed.<br />

Mohamed emphasized<br />

the importance to keep<br />

moving forward and remain<br />

hopeful regardless of<br />

what the challenge is.<br />

William Heineman,<br />

president of NSCC, stood<br />

at the podium center stage<br />

before 120 graduates out<br />

of the total 875, congratulating<br />

the class of <strong>2022</strong>.<br />

“It’s really important for<br />

our students to celebrate<br />

this accomplishment, and<br />

doing four in one day is<br />

not easy,” said Heineman.<br />

With great organization<br />

and hard-work, Heineman<br />

is proud of his people<br />

to make all of these<br />

ceremonies happen live.<br />

Graduates walked across<br />

the stage enthusiastically,<br />

awaiting being awarded<br />

their degree, and shook<br />

hands with Pres. Heineman.<br />

“I am grateful for the<br />

love and support I found<br />

here at North Shore<br />

Community College, as it<br />

shaped the woman I am<br />

today,” said Mohamed.<br />

David Austin Dole of North Reading throws<br />

his hand up in celebration as he crosses the<br />

stage to collect his diploma during North<br />

Shore Community College’s commencement<br />

ceremony.<br />

FENWICK<br />

From A1<br />

graduating class, many<br />

holding their caps down to<br />

keep the wind from blowing<br />

them away, formed a<br />

line at the field. Friends<br />

and family members<br />

rushed to take photos of<br />

the graduates’ excited and<br />

nervous faces.<br />

After the winner of the<br />

John J. Meehan Service<br />

award, Administrative<br />

Assistant Patricia Lafleur,<br />

was announced by Salutatorian<br />

Patrick O’Neil,<br />

Valedictorian Ethan Troy<br />

Henshaw delivered a bittersweet<br />

speech in which<br />

he contemplated his regret<br />

for having spent his<br />

high school years studying<br />

and rarely socializing.<br />

“Younger me came here<br />

with a rather warped view<br />

of reality and life [...] I had<br />

to get perfect grades and<br />

take the hardest classes,<br />

and my time here would<br />

only be so enjoyable. I<br />

didn’t mind that, I wanted<br />

to take the path less traveled.<br />

I can assure you it’s<br />

less traveled for a damn<br />

good reason,” Henshaw<br />

said. “When your mind becomes<br />

trapped in the future,<br />

you forget to live in<br />

the present.”<br />

Henshaw went on to advise<br />

his former classmates<br />

to use their regrets from<br />

high school to pave their<br />

lives in college.<br />

“I stand here unsure of<br />

whether to be proud of my<br />

accomplishments or angry<br />

at myself for wasting so<br />

much time [...] As painful<br />

as it may feel to hold the<br />

regrets that I do, they’re<br />

more tools I can use to<br />

better myself,” Henshaw<br />

said. “Contemplate those<br />

regrets and the lesson<br />

they give you. Do not try<br />

to forget them and do not<br />

try to bury them.”<br />

As President Thomas<br />

Nunan and Assistant<br />

Dean of Students Christopher<br />

Canniff handed diplomas<br />

to the graduates,<br />

the crowd, who had been<br />

instructed to hold their<br />

applause, honked and<br />

cheered for their family<br />

members and friends.<br />

Following the changing<br />

of the tassel, Nunan<br />

delivered a charge to the<br />

graduates in which he<br />

quoted Martin Heidegger,<br />

Bob Dylan, Ed Sheeran,<br />

and Jesus Christ. He reminded<br />

students that<br />

they were each other’s<br />

“Shelter From the Storm”<br />

throughout the pandemic,<br />

PHOTOS | ERIC CLARK<br />

Bishop Fenwick’s Class of <strong>2022</strong> tosses their caps<br />

in the air following their graduation Thursday.<br />

and promised the graduating<br />

class that each one<br />

of them could call Bishop<br />

Fenwick home at any<br />

time.<br />

“Be that light. Think of<br />

yourself as a high beam<br />

flashlight and bring light<br />

into the world that desperately<br />

needs it,” Nunan<br />

said. “Believe, hope, even<br />

in times of transition you<br />

will be fine. I pray that<br />

each of you have found<br />

love and felt love here,<br />

right where you are now.<br />

In struggle and success, in<br />

tragedy and triumph, in<br />

bad times and good, come<br />

back to Fenwick. This is<br />

your school, this is your<br />

home, this is your family.<br />

We will be here for you always,<br />

we will be light, and<br />

warmth, and joy, and shelter,<br />

and love, and forever,<br />

you will be family.”<br />

Anthony Cammalleri<br />

can be reached at anthony@itemlive.com.


A8 FRIDAY, MAY <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong><br />

Nothing to Fear Day<br />

ILLUSTRATION |<br />

SAM DEEB<br />

National Grape Popsicle Day, National Wig Out Day, Old-Time Player Piano Day<br />

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Lynn Rotary Club honors eighth graders<br />

ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK<br />

<strong>The</strong> Rotary Club of Lynn honors Lynn eighth-graders, from left, Hecmarie Borgos Rivera, Lynn<br />

Vocational Technical Institute; Cilian Gomez, Pickering Middle School; Issy Reyes, St. Mary’s;<br />

Rojeiris Cruz Santana, Marshall Middle School; Marleny Nolasco Hernandez, Breed Middle<br />

School, for their achievements on Thursday. Presenting the awards were Rotary Club members<br />

Ray Bastarache, left, and Richard Ruth.<br />

Ellen DeGeneres ends daytime<br />

show with plea for compassion<br />

By Lynn Elber<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

LOS ANGELES — Ellen<br />

DeGeneres brought her<br />

nearly two-decade daytime<br />

talk show to an end<br />

Thursday with a celebrity<br />

lovefest and a forceful assertion<br />

of her achievement<br />

as a gay woman daring to<br />

be herself.<br />

DeGeneres and guests<br />

Jennifer Aniston, Billie<br />

Eilish and Pink shared<br />

memories and affection<br />

as “<strong>The</strong> Ellen DeGeneres<br />

Show” concluded its Emmy-winning,<br />

3,200-plus<br />

episode run that began in<br />

September 2003.<br />

“Twenty years ago, when<br />

we were trying to sell<br />

the show, no one thought<br />

Veterans<br />

Food Market in<br />

Nahant Continues<br />

Through Summer<br />

By Oksana Kotkina<br />

ITEM STAFF<br />

NAHANT — <strong>The</strong> town<br />

continues to have the<br />

Veterans Mobile Food<br />

Market — a farmer’s market<br />

style distribution of<br />

assorted foods for Veterans<br />

in need, and their families.<br />

<strong>The</strong> food is distributed at<br />

the Town Hall from the<br />

side entrance at Pleasant<br />

Street. According to Jon<br />

Lazar, the town’s veterans<br />

agent, they will be<br />

preparing food for about<br />

50 families for their next<br />

event in June.<br />

“In terms of the numbers,<br />

they went down a<br />

little, to about 40; during<br />

COVID it was about 60.<br />

Since <strong>May</strong> the numbers<br />

are going up, maybe it has<br />

something to do with the<br />

economy,” said Lazar.<br />

<strong>The</strong> next events are<br />

planned for June 1 and<br />

July 6 from 9 to 10:30<br />

a.m. at Town Hall, and<br />

all veterans, widows, and<br />

widowers, as well as the<br />

dependents of veterans<br />

are invited to participate.<br />

All first-time participants<br />

need to verify their veteran<br />

status.<br />

“This is designed for veterans,<br />

widows of veterans,<br />

and their families,” said<br />

Lazar. “We get proteins,<br />

fruits, and vegetables, and<br />

we do this once a month.”<br />

Veterans Mobile Food<br />

Market is sponsored by<br />

the Town of Nahant’s<br />

Department of Veterans’<br />

Services, in partnership<br />

with the Greater Boston<br />

Food Bank and Bank of<br />

America. <strong>The</strong> food market<br />

also has partnerships<br />

with the American Legion<br />

Auxiliary and the Nahant<br />

Council on Aging.<br />

<strong>The</strong> communities of<br />

Nahant, Chelsea, Revere,<br />

and Winthrop hold<br />

these events on the first<br />

Wednesday of every<br />

month. <strong>The</strong> food is provided<br />

by donations from<br />

the Greater Boston Food<br />

Bank.<br />

“We get about 1,000<br />

pounds of food on average,”<br />

said Lazar. “You have<br />

people in teams packaging<br />

the food and delivering the<br />

food to the communities.”<br />

According to Lazar, the<br />

event grew since it first<br />

began in 2016 – at first<br />

there were around 22<br />

recipients at events each<br />

month. <strong>The</strong> following year<br />

that number increased<br />

to up to 45 recipients on<br />

average. In 2020 the food<br />

market saw up to 60 people<br />

a month.<br />

“When the pandemic<br />

was at its highest, we had<br />

around 60 people show up<br />

each month,” said Lazar.<br />

“It shifted back to 40 to<br />

45, but with these new<br />

variants I think it could go<br />

up again soon.”<br />

Lazar said around 14<br />

volunteers are helping<br />

this year, along with the<br />

Department of Public<br />

Works (DPW), which will<br />

help deliver food. <strong>The</strong> participants<br />

are required to<br />

bring their own reusable<br />

cloth grocery bags; as the<br />

town’s supply is very low.<br />

<strong>The</strong> veterans are responsible<br />

for transporting the<br />

food distributed to them,<br />

and for that end they are<br />

strongly encouraged to<br />

bring someone who can<br />

assist them or to send<br />

their authorized representatives.<br />

In advance of the next<br />

events, the town reminds<br />

that everyone who<br />

has participated in our<br />

program in the past is already<br />

registered. For more<br />

information, please visit<br />

https://nahant.org/veterans-services/foodbank/.<br />

Oksana Kotkina can be<br />

reached at oksana@itemlive.com.<br />

Singing about suffrage, and thinking about current struggles<br />

By Jocelyn Noveck<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

NEW YORK — Phillipa<br />

Soo says she noticed a<br />

change in the audience<br />

immediately.<br />

News had just dropped<br />

of the Supreme Court’s<br />

leaked draft opinion that<br />

would overturn Roe v.<br />

Wade, and there was a<br />

different vibe coming from<br />

the audience at “Suffs,” in<br />

which the former “Hamilton”<br />

star plays an early<br />

20th-century suffragist.<br />

Some audience members<br />

at the Public <strong>The</strong>ater<br />

seemed to be clearly<br />

feeling a link, she says,<br />

that this would work. Not<br />

because it was a different<br />

kind of show, but because I<br />

was different,” DeGeneres<br />

said of the pushback from<br />

TV stations.<br />

When the syndicated<br />

show went on the air, she<br />

was prevented from saying<br />

the word “gay” or even the<br />

pronoun “we,” DeGeneres<br />

said, since the latter would<br />

imply she had a partner.<br />

She didn’t specify who<br />

imposed the ban. “Sure<br />

couldn’t say wife, and<br />

that’s because it wasn’t<br />

legal for gay people to get<br />

married — and now I say<br />

‘wife’ all the time,” DeGeneres<br />

added, with a touch<br />

of defiance, as actor Portia<br />

de Rossi watched from the<br />

studio audience.<br />

between two struggles<br />

100 years apart — over<br />

a woman’s vote, and over<br />

women’s reproductive<br />

rights.<br />

“<strong>The</strong>re’s a difference in<br />

how people were hearing<br />

this play,” says Soo,<br />

who plays real-life labor<br />

lawyer and activist Inez<br />

Milholland in the musical.<br />

She describes “audience<br />

members literally reaching<br />

their hands up in<br />

solidarity with what we’re<br />

saying — in the same<br />

week that all of this stuff<br />

was happening in the<br />

news surrounding abortion<br />

and bodily autonomy.”<br />

“Suffs” creator and star<br />

Shaina Taub had the<br />

same feeling that Tuesday<br />

in early <strong>May</strong>. That<br />

afternoon, Taub had led<br />

many of her cast members<br />

in song — “How Long,”<br />

a cry for liberty — at a<br />

lower Manhattan rally<br />

reacting to the Supreme<br />

Court leak. Taub told the<br />

crowd how the scene, with<br />

protesters and their giant<br />

banners, looked strikingly<br />

like a suffrage rally a<br />

century earlier. “I wanted<br />

to write a play that was<br />

there for us on days like<br />

that,” Taub says.<br />

It was one of many<br />

impactful moments the<br />

cast recalls of an eventful,<br />

PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, is embraced<br />

by Jennifer Aniston during the final taping of<br />

“<strong>The</strong> Ellen DeGeneres Show” at the Warner<br />

Bros. lot in Burbank, Calif.<br />

emotional run that began<br />

in April with huge buzz<br />

and advance sales, then<br />

was sorely challenged by<br />

COVID-19, forcing some<br />

20 canceled shows including<br />

opening night itself.<br />

Extended three times, the<br />

run now closes <strong>May</strong> 29,<br />

and there are certainly<br />

hopes of a renewed life<br />

elsewhere.<br />

“I think the show should<br />

live on and give as many<br />

people as possible the<br />

opportunity to see it,” says<br />

director Leigh Silverman,<br />

asked if there were hopes<br />

of a Broadway transfer.<br />

“That’s my hope for it.”<br />

PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

Nikki M. James during a performance of the<br />

musical “Suffs” at <strong>The</strong> Public <strong>The</strong>ater in New<br />

York.<br />

WEATHER<br />

LOTTERY<br />

SUN, MOON, TIDES<br />

Sunrise today 5:12 a.m.<br />

Sunset today 8:10 p.m.<br />

Sunrise tomorrow 5:11 a.m.<br />

High tide today 10:25 p.m.<br />

Low tide today 4:07 p.m.<br />

High tide tomorrow11:07 p.m.<br />

MAY <strong>27</strong> JUNE 3<br />

National weather<br />

Seattle<br />

e<br />

59/49<br />

San Francisco<br />

66/556/<br />

Pressure<br />

H L<br />

High Low<br />

Los Angeles<br />

72/58<br />

L<br />

Billings<br />

ings<br />

76/53 Minneapolis<br />

76/59<br />

Denver<br />

86/56<br />

6<br />

El Paso<br />

101/71<br />

1/<br />

Kansas City<br />

77/60<br />

H<br />

Houston<br />

92/68<br />

AccuWeather.com<br />

Forecast for Friday, <strong>May</strong> <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong><br />

Bands separate high temperature zones for the day.<br />

Chicago<br />

63/52<br />

Cold<br />

Detroit<br />

73/56<br />

Atlanta<br />

80/62<br />

Fronts<br />

Warm<br />

New York<br />

77/65<br />

7<br />

Washington<br />

76/64<br />

6<br />

Miami<br />

90/78<br />

Stationary<br />

Showers Rain T-storms Flurries Snow Ice<br />

-0s 0s<br />


SPORTS<br />

B<br />

Lynnfield wraps<br />

with a victory<br />

GIRLS LACROSSE<br />

By Mike Alongi<br />

ITEM SPORTS EDITOR<br />

LYNNFIELD — <strong>The</strong><br />

Lynnfield girls lacrosse<br />

team closed out its <strong>2022</strong><br />

regular season in style<br />

Thursday evening, notching<br />

a 14-10 win over Malden<br />

Catholic in a non-conference<br />

battle at Pioneer<br />

Stadium.<br />

“It really was a great<br />

way to close out the season,”<br />

said Lynnfield coach<br />

Christina Serra, who is in<br />

her first season at the<br />

helm. “We had a rough<br />

game the other night, so<br />

it was great to see the<br />

girls bounce back and<br />

have a great performance<br />

(Thursday). I was really<br />

proud of their effort.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> Pioneers also celebrated<br />

“Youth Night” at<br />

Pioneer Stadium Thursday,<br />

as a number of young<br />

lacrosse players from<br />

FRIDAY, MAY <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong><br />

Hayes, Do win Div. 5 state titles<br />

By Mike Alongi<br />

ITEM SPORTS EDITOR<br />

Wednesday night<br />

kicked off the 53rd season<br />

of the Lynn Woods<br />

Summer Running series,<br />

as more than 150 runners<br />

came out for the<br />

opening series of races.<br />

As always, three races<br />

were run Wednesday evening<br />

— a kids race, a<br />

short race and a long<br />

race.<br />

In the 1.59-mile long<br />

kids race, the winner was<br />

Melrose’s Caroline Skeirik<br />

(14:21). Fellow Melrose<br />

native Caedmon<br />

Lohnes finished close behind<br />

in second place<br />

(14:23), while Stoneham’s<br />

Lauren Sloat<br />

(15:51), Lynn’s Sarah<br />

Terrien (15:59) and Lynnfield’s<br />

Julia Hutter<br />

(16:33) rounded out the<br />

top five. <strong>The</strong> rest of the<br />

top 10 was made up of<br />

Lynnfield’s Brian Hutter<br />

(16:33), Lynnfield’s Emily<br />

Conlon (16:55), Lynn’s<br />

Michael Conlon (16:55),<br />

Lynn’s Krista Cuozzo<br />

(16:57) and Lynn’s Andrew<br />

Lindsey (16:58).<br />

In the 2.3-mile long<br />

race to Steel Tower, Melrose’s<br />

Daniel Skeirik<br />

took first place with a<br />

time of 16:01. <strong>The</strong> Lincoln<br />

duo of Emma Kjaersgaard<br />

and Frank Kjaersgaard<br />

took the next two<br />

spots with identical<br />

times of 16:23, while<br />

ITEM FILE PHOTO<br />

Lynnfield’s Sarah Powers, right, had three goals and three assists in a win over Malden Catholic<br />

Thursday evening at Pioneer Stadium.<br />

COURTESY PHOTO<br />

Swampscott junior Anastasia Hayes won the Division 5 state championship in the discus Thursday<br />

afternoon at Weston High School. She broke her personal record by more than eight feet.<br />

SCHOOL ROUNDUP<br />

By Mike Alongi<br />

ITEM SPORTS EDITOR<br />

Swampscott’s Anastasia<br />

Hayes and Joey Do are<br />

Division 5 track and field<br />

state champions, as the<br />

two picked up first-place<br />

finishes in their respective<br />

events to capture<br />

state titles at Weston<br />

grades K-12 gathered for<br />

a group picture pregame<br />

and ran some drills<br />

during the halftime<br />

break.<br />

“It was an amazing<br />

night,” said Serra, who is<br />

also the director of the<br />

youth lacrosse program in<br />

Lynnfield. “To have so<br />

many young girls come<br />

out and be a part of the<br />

festivities and then be up<br />

in the stands all night<br />

cheering, it really gave us<br />

a boost out there.”<br />

As for the action on the<br />

field, it was a pair of<br />

freshmen and a senior<br />

captain who led the offensive<br />

attack for the Pioneers.<br />

Freshman Sarah<br />

Powers had three goals<br />

and three assists to lead<br />

the way, while fellow<br />

freshman Taylor Valiton<br />

and senior captain Anna<br />

Kaminski each had three<br />

goals and one assist.<br />

High School Thursday afternoon.<br />

Hayes threw a distance<br />

of 109 feet, eight inches in<br />

the discus — beating the<br />

second-place finisher by<br />

more than a foot. She<br />

broke her personal record<br />

by eight feet on the throw.<br />

Lynnfield’s Riley Hallahan<br />

also had a strong<br />

showing in the event, finishing<br />

fourth overall after<br />

throwing a distance of 92<br />

feet, six inches.<br />

As for Do, he took home<br />

the state title in the triple<br />

jump after leaping a distance<br />

of 43 feet, five inches.<br />

His win was a much<br />

closer one, as he only<br />

bested second-place finisher<br />

Joey Cucciniello of<br />

Lynnfield (43-3 1/2) by an<br />

inch and a half.<br />

SOFTBALL<br />

Amesbury 2, Peabody 1<br />

<strong>The</strong> Tanners were one<br />

out away from grabbing a<br />

crucial non-conference win<br />

at Kiley Field, but a twoout,<br />

two-run home run<br />

from Ella Bezanson in the<br />

top of the seventh helped<br />

hand Peabody the loss.<br />

ROUNDUP, B2<br />

Lynn Woods<br />

Summer Running<br />

starts 53rd season<br />

nado (16:30) and Lynn’s<br />

Anthony Perez Aguilar<br />

(16:34) rounded out the<br />

top five. <strong>The</strong> rest of the<br />

top 10 was made up of<br />

Jason Osgood (17:15) and<br />

<strong>The</strong> final race of the<br />

evening was a 4.6-mile<br />

Stone Tower and back,<br />

rose’s Adam Cook with a<br />

time of 29:54. Lynn’s<br />

Matt Viega finished in<br />

ly’s Erich O’Neil (32:34)<br />

rounded out the top five.<br />

<strong>The</strong> rest of the top 10 was<br />

made up of Nahant’s<br />

Steve Dickenson (32:43),<br />

Lynn’s Nakri Dao (32:56),<br />

schmit (33:48), Boulder,<br />

no (33:58) and Lynn’s Ian<br />

Lynn Woods Summer<br />

Running is held at Lynn<br />

Woods every Wednesday<br />

6:30 p.m. from the last<br />

Wednesday in <strong>May</strong> until<br />

the last Wednesday in<br />

Lynn’s Franklin Maldo-<br />

Lynn’s Elijah Phommachanh<br />

(16:35), Melrose’s<br />

Andrew Skeirik<br />

(16:58), Lynn’s Edwin<br />

Gomez (17:10), Lynn’s<br />

Lynn’s Bryan Robles<br />

(17:40).<br />

track running out to<br />

and it was won by Mel-<br />

second place (29:58),<br />

while Swampscott’s Nelson<br />

Knudsen (31:00),<br />

Amesbury’s William Mc-<br />

Clory (32:22) and Bever-<br />

Lynn’s Nathan Hammer-<br />

Colo.’s Matthew Iarrobi-<br />

Edwards (34:12).<br />

evening beginning at<br />

September.<br />

Mullins, Holland tournaments set to kick off this weekend<br />

By Mike Alongi<br />

ITEM SPORTS EDITOR<br />

LYNN — Memorial Day<br />

weekend will mark the return<br />

of tournament baseball and<br />

softball in Lynn for the first<br />

time in a few years, as the<br />

John Holland Memorial Softball<br />

Tournament makes its return<br />

for the 24th year and the<br />

Doug Mullins Memorial Baseball<br />

Tournament will play in<br />

its inaugural year.<br />

<strong>The</strong> action gets started Friday<br />

at Fraser Field, with the<br />

Mullins Tournament featuring<br />

four tournament-bound teams<br />

in Lynn Classical (14-4), Lynn<br />

English (12-6), St. Mary’s (10-<br />

8) and Swampscott (12-6). <strong>The</strong><br />

tournament — named for the<br />

late English baseball coach<br />

who died of Osteosarcoma in<br />

October 2020 at the age of 34<br />

— will begin with the Classical-St.<br />

Mary’s matchup at 4<br />

p.m. before English and<br />

Swampscott meet in the nightcap<br />

at 7 p.m. <strong>The</strong> action continues<br />

Saturday, with the consolation<br />

game at 1 p.m. and<br />

LYNNFIELD, B2<br />

the championship game at 4<br />

p.m.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re will be a $5 admission<br />

fee per day for the tournament,<br />

with all proceeds going<br />

toward a scholarship for a<br />

graduating senior from each<br />

participating school.<br />

As far as the Holland Tournament<br />

— named for the<br />

founder of Lynn Babe Ruth<br />

softball who died from cancer<br />

in 1996 at the age of 49 — the<br />

action there will feature the<br />

same four teams, but the<br />

games will begin on Saturday<br />

at Breed Middle School. Classical<br />

and St. Mary’s will meet<br />

in a battle of tournament-bound<br />

squads at 4 p.m.,<br />

while English and Swampscott<br />

— both of which need big<br />

showings to earn a playoff bid<br />

— will meet at 6 p.m. <strong>The</strong> tournament<br />

will wrap up Sunday<br />

back at Breed, with the consolation<br />

game at 11 a.m. and the<br />

championship game at 1 p.m.<br />

This will be the first Holland<br />

Tournament since 2019 after<br />

it was canceled the previous<br />

two years due to COVID.<br />

ITEM FILE PHOTO<br />

Former Lynn English baseball coach Doug Mullins, center, will be honored with his own memorial<br />

tournament beginning Friday at Fraser Field.


B2 SPORTS THE DAILY ITEM FRIDAY, MAY <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong><br />

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS SCHEDULE<br />

FRIDAY<br />

Baseball<br />

Chelmsford at St. John’s Prep (4)<br />

Everett at Saugus (4)<br />

Doug Mullins<br />

Memorial Tournament<br />

at Fraser Field, Lynn<br />

St. Mary’s vs. Lynn Classical (4)<br />

Swampscott vs. Lynn English (7)<br />

Brendan Grant<br />

Memorial Tournament<br />

at Belmont High School<br />

Lynnfield at Burlington (4:30)<br />

Softball<br />

Lynnfield at Austin Prep (3:45)<br />

Swampscott at Hamilton-Wenham (4)<br />

Lynn Tech at Nashoba (4)<br />

Saugus at Marblehead (4:30)<br />

Girls Lacrosse<br />

Ipswich at Marblehead (4)<br />

Outdoor Track<br />

MIAA Divisional Meets (TBD)<br />

SATURDAY<br />

Baseball<br />

Nashoba at Lynn Tech (10)<br />

Hillie Classic Baseball Tournament<br />

at Trinity Stadium, Haverhill<br />

Marblehead vs. Tewksbury/Salem<br />

(TBD)<br />

Salem vs. Lawrence/Marblehead<br />

(TBD)<br />

James Geanoulis<br />

Memorial Tournament<br />

at Donohue Field, Peabody<br />

Pentucket at Peabody (4)<br />

Brendan Grant<br />

Memorial Tournament<br />

at Belmont High School<br />

Lynnfield vs. TBD (TBD)<br />

Doug Mullins<br />

Memorial Tournament<br />

at Fraser Field, Lynn<br />

St. Mary’s vs. Lynn English/Swampscott<br />

(TBD)<br />

Swampscott vs. Lynn Classical/St.<br />

Mary’s (TBD)<br />

Softball<br />

John Holland<br />

Memorial Tournament<br />

at Breed Middle School, Lynn<br />

Lynn Classical at St. Mary’s (4)<br />

Swampscott at Lynn English (6)<br />

Courtney Corning<br />

Memorial Tournament<br />

at Beverly High School<br />

Bishop Fenwick at Beverly (9)<br />

Danvers at Peabody (11)<br />

Boys Lacrosse<br />

St. John’s Prep at Hingham (12)<br />

SUNDAY<br />

Baseball<br />

Central Catholic at St. John’s Prep (3)<br />

James Geanoulis<br />

Memorial Tournament<br />

at Donohue Field, Peabody<br />

Peabody vs. Andover/Wakefield<br />

(TBD)<br />

Softball<br />

John Holland<br />

Memorial Tournament<br />

at Breed Middle School, Lynn<br />

St. Mary’s vs. Lynn English/Swampscott<br />

(11)<br />

Swampscott vs. Lynn Classical/St.<br />

Mary’s (1)<br />

Courtney Corning<br />

Memorial Tournament<br />

at Beverly High School<br />

Peabody vs. Danvers/Pentucket (TBD)<br />

Bishop Fenwick vs. Danvers/Pentucket<br />

(TBD)<br />

Outdoor Track<br />

MIAA Divisional Meets (TBD)<br />

TV/RADIO<br />

TV<br />

NBA Playoffs<br />

8:30 p.m...............Miami at Boston.........................................................ESPN<br />

MLB<br />

7:10 p.m...............Baltimore at Boston......................................... Apple TV+<br />

9:38 p.m...............Toronto at LA Angels........................................ Apple TV+<br />

Women’s College Lacrosse<br />

5 p.m...........NCAA Tournament: Boston College vs. Maryland...... ESPNU<br />

Golf<br />

7:30 a.m...............DP World Tour: Dutch Open.......................................Golf<br />

1 p.m.....................Senior PGA Championship..........................................Golf<br />

4 p.m.....................PGA: Charles Schwab Challenge...............................Golf<br />

7 p.m.....................LPGA Match Play...........................................................Golf<br />

Stanley Cup Playoffs<br />

8 p.m.....................Colorado at St. Louis....................................................TNT<br />

Radio<br />

NBA Playoffs<br />

8:30 p.m...............Miami at Boston......................................... WBZ-FM 98.5<br />

MLB<br />

7:10 p.m...............Baltimore at Boston..................................WEEI-FM 93.7<br />

CONFERENCE<br />

FINALS<br />

Monday, <strong>May</strong> 23<br />

Boston 102, Miami 82<br />

Tuesday, <strong>May</strong> 24<br />

Dallas 119, Golden State 109,<br />

Golden State leads series 3-1<br />

Wednesday, <strong>May</strong> 25<br />

Boston 93, Miami 80, Boston leads<br />

series tied 3-2<br />

SECOND ROUND<br />

Monday, <strong>May</strong> 23<br />

Tampa Bay 2, Florida 0, Tampa Bay<br />

wins series 4-0<br />

Colorado 6, St. Louis 3<br />

Tuesday, <strong>May</strong> 24<br />

N.Y. Rangers 4, Carolina 1, series<br />

tied 2 -2<br />

Edmonton 5, Calgary 3, Edmonton<br />

leads series 3-1<br />

Wednesday, <strong>May</strong> 25<br />

AMERICAN LEAGUE<br />

East Division<br />

W L Pct GB<br />

New York 31 13 .705 _<br />

Tampa Bay 26 17 .605 4½<br />

Toronto 23 20 .535 7½<br />

Boston 20 23 .465 10½<br />

Baltimore 18 <strong>27</strong> .400 13½<br />

Central Division<br />

W L Pct GB<br />

Minnesota <strong>27</strong> 17 .614 _<br />

Chicago 22 21 .512 4½<br />

Cleveland 18 22 .450 7<br />

Detroit 15 28 .349 11½<br />

Kansas City 14 28 .333 12<br />

West Division<br />

W L Pct GB<br />

Houston 29 16 .644 _<br />

Los Angeles <strong>27</strong> 18 .600 2<br />

Texas 19 23 .452 8½<br />

Oakland 19 <strong>27</strong> .413 10½<br />

Seattle 18 <strong>27</strong> .400 11<br />

Thursday’s Games<br />

N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 6:40 p.m.<br />

Cleveland at Detroit, 7:10 p.m.<br />

Kansas City at Minnesota, 7:40 p.m.<br />

Boston at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.<br />

Toronto at L.A. Angels, 9:38 p.m.<br />

Texas at Oakland, 9:40 p.m.<br />

Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 12:35 p.m.<br />

Colorado at Washington, 7:05 p.m.<br />

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7:20 p.m.<br />

Milwaukee at St. Louis, 7:45 p.m.<br />

L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.<br />

Friday’s Games<br />

Baltimore (Bradish 1-3) at Boston (Whitlock<br />

1-1), 7:10 p.m.<br />

Cleveland (Bieber 1-3) at Detroit (Faedo<br />

1-1), 7:10 p.m.<br />

N.Y. Yankees (Taillon 4-1) at Tampa Bay<br />

(Springs 2-1), 7:10 p.m.<br />

Kansas City (Keller 1-4) at Minnesota<br />

(Ober 1-1), 8:10 p.m.<br />

Toronto (Manoah 5-1) at L.A. Angels<br />

(Silseth 1-1), 9:38 p.m.<br />

Houston (Verlander 6-1) at Seattle (Flexen<br />

1-6), 9:40 p.m.<br />

Texas (Gray 1-2) at Oakland (Irvin 2-2),<br />

9:40 p.m.<br />

San Francisco (Rodón 4-3) at Cincinnati<br />

(TBD), 6:40 p.m.<br />

Colorado (Gomber 2-4) at Washington (Sanchez<br />

3-3), 7:05 p.m.<br />

<strong>May</strong> <strong>27</strong><br />

1823 — A $20,000 match race<br />

between American Eclipse (representing<br />

<strong>The</strong> North) and Henry<br />

(representing <strong>The</strong> South) is held<br />

at Union Course, Long Island, N.Y.<br />

American Eclipse wins in twoof-three<br />

heats, after his original<br />

jockey, William Crafts, is replaced<br />

by Samuel Purdy before the second<br />

heat. <strong>The</strong> race, witnessed by<br />

60,000 spectators, is the first to<br />

have been timed by split-second<br />

chronometers, which were imported<br />

for the event.<br />

NBA PLAYOFFS<br />

STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS<br />

MLB<br />

TODAY IN SPORTS<br />

Thursday, <strong>May</strong> 26<br />

Dallas at Golden State, 9 p.m. TNT<br />

Friday, <strong>May</strong> <strong>27</strong><br />

Miami at Boston, 8:30 p.m. ESPN<br />

Saturday, <strong>May</strong> 28<br />

x-Golden State at Dallas, 9 p.m. TNT<br />

Sunday, <strong>May</strong> 29<br />

x-Boston at Miami, 8:30 p.m. ESPN<br />

Monday, <strong>May</strong> 30<br />

x-Dallas at Golden State, 8 p.m. TNT<br />

St. Louis 5, Colorado 4, OT, Colorado<br />

leads series 3 - 2<br />

Thursday, <strong>May</strong> 26<br />

N.Y. Rangers at Carolina, 7 p.m.<br />

Edmonton at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.<br />

Friday, <strong>May</strong> <strong>27</strong><br />

Colorado at St. Louis, 8 p.m.<br />

Saturday, <strong>May</strong> 28<br />

x-Carolina at N.Y. Rangers, TBA<br />

x-Calgary at Edmonton, TBA<br />

NATIONAL LEAGUE<br />

East Division<br />

W L Pct GB<br />

New York 29 17 .630 _<br />

Atlanta 21 23 .477 7<br />

Philadelphia 20 24 .455 8<br />

Miami 18 24 .429 9<br />

Washington 15 30 .333 13½<br />

Central Division<br />

W L Pct GB<br />

Milwaukee 28 16 .636 _<br />

St. Louis 24 19 .558 3½<br />

Chicago 18 25 .419 9½<br />

Pittsburgh 18 25 .419 9½<br />

Cincinnati 13 30 .302 14½<br />

West Division<br />

W L Pct GB<br />

Los Angeles 29 14 .674 _<br />

San Diego 28 16 .636 1½<br />

San Francisco 24 19 .558 5<br />

Arizona 23 22 .511 7<br />

Colorado 20 23 .465 9<br />

Philadelphia (Eflin 1-3) at N.Y. Mets (Carrasco<br />

4-1), 7:10 p.m.<br />

Miami (Rogers 2-5) at Atlanta (Anderson<br />

3-3), 7:20 p.m.<br />

Milwaukee (Woodruff 5-2) at St. Louis<br />

(Hudson 3-2), 8:15 p.m.<br />

L.A. Dodgers (Gonsolin 4-0) at Arizona<br />

(Bumgarner 2-2), 9:40 p.m.<br />

Pittsburgh (Quintana 1-2) at San Diego<br />

(Manaea 2-3), 9:40 p.m.<br />

Saturday’s Games<br />

Baltimore at Boston, 12:10 p.m., 1st game<br />

Kansas City at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.<br />

Texas at Oakland, 4:07 p.m.<br />

Cleveland at Detroit, 4:10 p.m.<br />

N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m.<br />

Baltimore at Boston, 6:10 p.m., 2nd game<br />

Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 7:15<br />

p.m.<br />

Toronto at L.A. Angels, 10:07 p.m.<br />

Houston at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.<br />

Milwaukee at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.<br />

Colorado at Washington, 4:05 p.m.<br />

Miami at Atlanta, 4:10 p.m.<br />

San Francisco at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m.<br />

Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 7:15<br />

p.m.<br />

L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 7:15 p.m.<br />

Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets, 7:15 p.m.<br />

Pittsburgh at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.<br />

1873 — Survivor is the winner of<br />

the first Preakness Stakes.<br />

1882 — Trainer Robert Walden<br />

wins his fifth consecutive Preakness<br />

Stakes, with Vanguard.<br />

Walden would win a total of seven<br />

Preaknesses, a record for a trainer.<br />

1968 — “Papa Bear” George<br />

Halas retires as head coach of the<br />

Chicago Bears.<br />

1972 — Mark Donohue wins the<br />

Indianapolis 500 over two-time defending<br />

champion Al Unser with a<br />

record average speed of 162.962<br />

mph.<br />

ITEM FILE PHOTO<br />

<strong>The</strong> Lynnfield girls lacrosse team wrapped up the <strong>2022</strong> regular season with a victory Thursday evening<br />

after taking down Malden Catholic at Pioneer Stadium.<br />

Lynnfield closes season with win<br />

LYNNFIELD<br />

From B1<br />

ROUNDUP<br />

From B1<br />

Emma Bloom had two<br />

hits and the lone RBI for<br />

the Tanners, while Abby<br />

Bettencourt had a multihit<br />

game. Avery Grieco<br />

also had a hit in the loss.<br />

Peabody (16-2) will wrap<br />

up its season over the<br />

weekend at the annual<br />

Courtney Corning Memorial<br />

Tournament. <strong>The</strong> Tanners<br />

will take on Danvers<br />

in the opening round Saturday<br />

morning (11) at<br />

Beverly High School.<br />

BASEBALL<br />

Winthrop 17,<br />

Chelsea 0 (F/5)<br />

<strong>The</strong> bats were on fire for<br />

the Vikings, who recorded<br />

their first 10-win season<br />

in 14 years with the victory.<br />

Three different players<br />

hit home runs in the win,<br />

with Evan Rockerfeller (1-<br />

for-1, four RBI), Colin Kinsella<br />

(1-for-2, one RBI) and<br />

Pete Silverman (1-for-2,<br />

one RBI) all going yard.<br />

Joe Ferullo went 3-for-4<br />

with a double and three<br />

RBI, while Cam Martin<br />

went 0-for-2 with two RBI.<br />

Matt DeCarney (2-for-2)<br />

and Anthony Indrisano (1-<br />

for-2) each had one RBI,<br />

while Joe Hayes went<br />

2-for-4 with a double.<br />

Three Winthrop pitchers<br />

combined for the two-hit<br />

shutout, as Ferullo got the<br />

win after going three innings<br />

and allowing one hit<br />

with eight strikeouts and<br />

Indrisano and Chris Gibbons<br />

each threw an inning<br />

of scoreless relief.<br />

Winthrop wraps up the<br />

regular season at 10-10<br />

and now awaits its seeding<br />

in the upcoming Division<br />

4 state tournament.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Vikings are currently<br />

the No. 24 team in the<br />

latest MIAA power rankings.<br />

Hillie Classic<br />

Baseball Tournament<br />

at Trinity Stadium,<br />

Haverhill<br />

Tewksbury 10,<br />

Salem 3<br />

Salem (1-15) will close<br />

its season in the consolation<br />

game of the Hillie<br />

Classic, where it will face<br />

Lawrence OR Marblehead<br />

Saturday (10) back at<br />

Trinity Stadium.<br />

BOYS LACROSSE<br />

Marblehead 10,<br />

Salem 0<br />

Marblehead (15-3) now<br />

Chloe Considine added<br />

three goals in the victory,<br />

while Maddie Mastrangelo<br />

and Catherine Sweeney<br />

each scored one goal.<br />

Lynnfield closes the regular<br />

season at 5-11 and<br />

hopes to earn enough<br />

ranking points to sneak<br />

into the upcoming Division<br />

4 state tournament. <strong>The</strong><br />

Pioneers are currently the<br />

No. <strong>27</strong> team in the latest<br />

MIAA power rankings, but<br />

they do not have an automatic<br />

bid because they finished<br />

below .500 on the<br />

season. <strong>The</strong> top 32 teams<br />

make it into the bracket.<br />

“As far as I know it’s still<br />

up in the air, but we feel<br />

pretty good because we<br />

came into the week ranked<br />

<strong>27</strong>th and we went 2-1 to<br />

close the year after that,”<br />

said Serra. “We’ll take a<br />

couple days off, see where<br />

we stand and then hopefully<br />

start preparing for the<br />

tournament. Either way, it<br />

was an exciting season and<br />

I’m excited to see where we<br />

go from here.”<br />

Peabody girls lacrosse takes down Dracut<br />

ITEM FILE PHOTO<br />

Madi Barrett had three goals and one assist for Peabody in a win over Dracut<br />

in the Tanners’ regular-season finale Thursday.<br />

has a full week off before<br />

hosting Wakefield in its<br />

regular-season finale<br />

Thursday night (7) at Piper<br />

Field.<br />

Salem (0-15) closes out<br />

its season Tuesday (5) at<br />

home against Danvers.<br />

GIRLS LACROSSE<br />

Peabody 15, Dracut 7<br />

McKayla Fisher led the<br />

way with four goals and<br />

one assist, while Brooke<br />

Lomasney led the team in<br />

points after a three-goal,<br />

three assist effort. Madi<br />

Barrett added three goals<br />

and one assist, while Lauren<br />

Woods scored two<br />

goals and Ally Bettencourt<br />

had one goal and three<br />

assists. McKenna Forni<br />

added one goal and two<br />

assists, while Aaliyah<br />

Sainato scored one goal<br />

and Katie Amico notched<br />

one assist.<br />

Peabody wraps up the<br />

regular season at 15-3 and<br />

now awaits its seeding in<br />

the upcoming Division 1<br />

state tournament. <strong>The</strong><br />

Tanners are currently the<br />

No. 24 team in the latest<br />

MIAA power rankings.


FRIDAY, MAY <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong> THE DAILY ITEM B3<br />

NATION<br />

CEO pay rose 17 percent in 2021<br />

By Stan Choe<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

NEW YORK — Even<br />

when regular workers<br />

win their biggest raises in<br />

decades, they look minuscule<br />

compared with what<br />

CEOs are getting.<br />

<strong>The</strong> typical compensation<br />

package for chief<br />

executives who run S&P<br />

500 companies soared<br />

17.1 percent last year, to a<br />

median $14.5 million, according<br />

to data analyzed<br />

for <strong>The</strong> Associated Press<br />

by Equilar.<br />

<strong>The</strong> gain towers over the<br />

4.4 percent increase in<br />

wages and benefits netted<br />

by private-sector workers<br />

through 2021, which<br />

was the fastest on record<br />

going back to 2001. <strong>The</strong><br />

raises for many rank-andfile<br />

workers also failed to<br />

keep up with inflation,<br />

which reached 7 percent<br />

at the end of last year.<br />

CEO pay took off as<br />

stock prices and profits<br />

rebounded sharply as the<br />

economy roared out of its<br />

brief 2020 recession. Because<br />

much of a CEO’s<br />

compensation is tied to<br />

such performance, their<br />

pay packages ballooned<br />

after years of mostly moderating<br />

growth.<br />

In many of the most<br />

eye-popping packages,<br />

such as Expedia Group’s,<br />

valued at $296.2 million<br />

and JPMorgan Chase’s<br />

$84.4 million, boards gave<br />

particularly big grants of<br />

stock or stock options to<br />

recently appointed CEOs<br />

navigating their companies<br />

through the pandemic<br />

or to established<br />

leaders they wanted to<br />

convince to hang around.<br />

<strong>The</strong> CEOs often can’t<br />

cash in on such stock<br />

or options for years, or<br />

possibly ever, unless the<br />

Trump loses appeal,<br />

must testify in<br />

New York civil probe<br />

By Michael R. Sisak<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

FILE PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon attends<br />

the inauguration the new French headquarters<br />

of the bank in Paris.<br />

NEW YORK — Former<br />

President Donald Trump<br />

must answer questions<br />

under oath in New York<br />

state’s civil investigation<br />

into his business practices,<br />

a state appeals court<br />

ruled Thursday.<br />

A four-judge panel in<br />

the appellate division of<br />

the state’s trial court upheld<br />

Manhattan Judge<br />

Arthur Engoron’s Feb.<br />

17 ruling enforcing subpoenas<br />

for Trump and<br />

his two eldest children to<br />

give deposition testimony<br />

in Attorney General Letitia<br />

James’ probe.<br />

Trump had appealed,<br />

seeking to overturn the<br />

ruling. His lawyers argued<br />

that ordering the<br />

Trumps to testify violated<br />

their constitutional<br />

rights because their answers<br />

could be used in a<br />

parallel criminal investigation.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> existence of a<br />

criminal investigation<br />

does not preclude civil<br />

discovery of related<br />

facts, at which a party<br />

may exercise the privilege<br />

against self-incrimination,”<br />

the four-judge<br />

panel wrote, citing the<br />

Fifth Amendment right<br />

against self-incrimination.<br />

Message seeking comment<br />

were left with lawyers<br />

for the Trumps and<br />

with James’ office. <strong>The</strong><br />

Trumps could still appeal<br />

the ruling to the state’s<br />

highest court, the Court<br />

of Appeals.<br />

James, a Democrat, has<br />

said her investigation<br />

has uncovered evidence<br />

Trump’s company, the<br />

Trump Organization,<br />

used “fraudulent or misleading”<br />

valuations of assets<br />

like golf courses and<br />

skyscrapers to get loans<br />

and tax benefits.<br />

Thursday’s ruling could<br />

mean a tough decision<br />

for Trump about whether<br />

to answer questions,<br />

or stay silent, citing his<br />

Fifth Amendment right<br />

against self-incrimination.<br />

Anything Trump<br />

says in a civil deposition<br />

could be used against<br />

him in the criminal probe<br />

being overseen by the<br />

Manhattan district attorney’s<br />

office.<br />

company meets performance<br />

targets. But companies<br />

still must disclose<br />

estimates for how much<br />

they’re worth. Only about<br />

a quarter of the typical<br />

pay package for all S&P<br />

500 CEOs last year came<br />

as actual cash they could<br />

pocket.<br />

Whatever its composition,<br />

the chasm in pay<br />

between CEOs and the<br />

rank-and-file workers<br />

they oversee keeps widening.<br />

At half the companies<br />

in this year’s pay survey,<br />

it would take the worker<br />

at the middle of the company’s<br />

pay scale at least<br />

186 years to make what<br />

their CEO did last year.<br />

That’s up from 166 a year<br />

earlier.<br />

At Walmart, for example,<br />

the company said its<br />

median associate made<br />

$25,335 in compensation<br />

last year. That means half<br />

its workers made more,<br />

and half made less.<br />

That’s up 21 percent<br />

from $20,942 a year earlier<br />

and came as the company’s<br />

average hourly<br />

wage for U.S. associates<br />

rose from $14.50 in January<br />

2021 to more than $17<br />

currently. That increase<br />

was bigger than the raise<br />

CEO Doug McMillon got,<br />

on a percentage basis. But<br />

his 13.7 percent raise netted<br />

him a total package<br />

valued at $25.7 million.<br />

Anger is growing over<br />

such an imbalance. Surveys<br />

suggest Americans<br />

across political parties see<br />

CEO pay as too high, and<br />

some investors are pushing<br />

back.<br />

Workers are trying to organize<br />

unions across the<br />

country, and the “Great<br />

Resignation” has emboldened<br />

millions to quit to<br />

find better jobs elsewhere.<br />

US Census Bureau:<br />

Big-city exodus<br />

tied to pandemic<br />

By Mike Schneider<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

Ko Im always thought<br />

she would live in New<br />

York forever. She knew<br />

every corner of Manhattan<br />

and had worked hard<br />

to build a community of<br />

friends. Living in a small<br />

apartment, she found her<br />

attitude shifting early in<br />

the coronavirus pandemic.<br />

After her brother accepted<br />

a job in Seattle in<br />

the summer of 2020, she<br />

decided to move there too.<br />

“It was fine until it<br />

wasn’t,” Im, 36, said of her<br />

time in New York. “<strong>The</strong><br />

pandemic really changed<br />

my mindset about how I<br />

wanted to live or how I<br />

needed to live.”<br />

Eight of the 10 largest<br />

cities in the U.S. lost population<br />

during the first<br />

year of the pandemic,<br />

with New York, Los Angeles<br />

and Chicago leading<br />

the way. Between<br />

July 2020 and July 2021,<br />

New York lost more than<br />

305,000 people, while<br />

Chicago and Los Angeles<br />

contracted by 45,000 residents<br />

and 40,000 people,<br />

respectively.<br />

San Francisco suffered<br />

the largest rate of decline,<br />

losing almost 55,000 residents,<br />

or 6.3 percent of<br />

its 2020 population, the<br />

highest percentage of any<br />

U.S. city.<br />

<strong>The</strong> population estimates<br />

released Thursday<br />

by the U.S. Census Bureau<br />

capture a time early<br />

in the pandemic and don’t<br />

reflect changes since last<br />

summer. Whether the<br />

virus has permanently<br />

altered the urban landscape<br />

of America remains<br />

an open question.<br />

Brookings Institution<br />

demographer William<br />

Frey said he believes the<br />

population declines in<br />

most of the largest U.S.<br />

cities from 2020 to 2021<br />

have been “short-lived<br />

and pandemic-related.”<br />

Among the 10 largest<br />

U.S. cities, only San Antonio<br />

and Phoenix gained<br />

new residents, but they<br />

added only about 13,000<br />

people each, or less than<br />

1 percent of their populations,<br />

according to the<br />

bureau’s 2021 vintage<br />

population estimates.<br />

Stocks rise broadly<br />

on retailers’ gains,<br />

including Macy’s<br />

By Damian J. Troise<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

NEW YORK — Stocks<br />

rose broadly in afternoon<br />

trading on Wall Street<br />

Thursday as investors<br />

cheered a strong set of<br />

quarterly results from<br />

Macy’s and other retailers.<br />

<strong>The</strong> S&P 500 rose 2.1<br />

percent as of 12:38 p.m.<br />

Eastern and is solidly in<br />

the green for the week following<br />

a choppy few days<br />

of trading. <strong>The</strong> S&P 500 is<br />

coming off seven straight<br />

weekly losses, its longest<br />

such stretch since 2001.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Dow Jones Industrial<br />

Average rose 525<br />

points, or 1.6 percent, to<br />

32,647 and the Nasdaq<br />

rose 2.8 percent. Smaller<br />

company stocks also<br />

made strong gains, a sign<br />

of bullishness on the economy.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Russell 2000 index<br />

rose 2.5 percent.<br />

Bond yields rose. <strong>The</strong><br />

yield on the 10-year Treasury,<br />

which helps set interest<br />

rates on mortgages,<br />

rose to 2.78 percent from<br />

2.74 percent late Wednesday.<br />

Retailers led the broader<br />

market higher. Macy’s<br />

surged 17.1 percent after<br />

it raised its profit forecast<br />

for the year following a<br />

strong first-quarter financial<br />

report. Dollar General<br />

surged 13.1 percent<br />

and Dollar Tree jumped<br />

20.5 percent after the discount<br />

retailers reported<br />

solid earnings and gave<br />

investors encouraging<br />

forecasts.<br />

<strong>The</strong> retail sector is being<br />

closely watched by<br />

investors looking for<br />

more details on just how<br />

much pain inflation is inflicting<br />

on companies and<br />

consumers. Weak reports<br />

from the several big companies<br />

last week, including<br />

Target and Walmart,<br />

spooked an already volatile<br />

market.<br />

“We’re not convinced<br />

that we’re completely out<br />

of the woods here,” said<br />

Philip Orlando, chief equity<br />

market strategist<br />

FILE PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

<strong>The</strong> New York Stock Exchange has experienced<br />

some rocky weeks, but the major stock<br />

indicators were positive on Thursday.<br />

at Federated Hermes.<br />

“<strong>The</strong>re were a lot of negative<br />

reports last week and<br />

what those companies<br />

have talked about is what<br />

is going on through the<br />

economy.”<br />

Inflation is at a four-decade<br />

high and businesses<br />

have been raising<br />

costs on everything from<br />

food to clothing to offset<br />

higher costs. <strong>The</strong> impact<br />

from Russia’s invasion of<br />

Ukraine worsened inflation<br />

pressures by fueling<br />

higher energy and key<br />

food commodity costs.<br />

Supply chain problems<br />

worsened in the wake of<br />

China’s lockdown for several<br />

major cities as it tried<br />

to contain COVID-19 cases.<br />

Consumers have been<br />

resilient about spending,<br />

but the pressure from inflation<br />

remains persistent<br />

and could be prompting a<br />

pullback or shift in spending<br />

from more expensive<br />

things to necessities.<br />

<strong>The</strong> broad gains on<br />

Thursday follow a late<br />

push for markets on<br />

Wednesday prompted by<br />

details from the Federal<br />

Reserve’s latest meeting,<br />

which confirmed expectations<br />

of more interest rate<br />

hikes.<br />

Investors have been uneasy<br />

over the impact of<br />

interest rate hikes in the<br />

United States and other<br />

Western economies that<br />

are meant to cool surging<br />

inflation. <strong>The</strong> key concern<br />

is whether the Fed<br />

can temper inflation with<br />

aggressive interest rate<br />

hikes without crimping<br />

economic growth to the<br />

point that the U.S. falls<br />

into a recession.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> Fed’s got to be really<br />

aggressive here and<br />

job number one is to stuff<br />

the inflation genie back in<br />

the bottle and I don’t believe<br />

the market has fully<br />

priced that in,” Orlando<br />

said.<br />

Technology stocks also<br />

did much of the heavy lifting.<br />

TurboTax maker Intuit<br />

jumped 4.8 percent.<br />

Dominant coronavirus mutant contains ghost of pandemic past<br />

By Laura Ungar<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

<strong>The</strong> coronavirus mutant<br />

that is now dominant<br />

in the United States is a<br />

member of the omicron<br />

family but scientists say it<br />

spreads faster than its omicron<br />

predecessors, is adept<br />

at escaping immunity and<br />

might possibly cause more<br />

serious disease.<br />

Why? Because it combines<br />

properties of both<br />

omicron and delta, the nation’s<br />

dominant variant in<br />

the middle of last year.<br />

A genetic trait that harkens<br />

back to the pandemic’s<br />

past, known as a “delta<br />

mutation,” appears to<br />

allow the virus “to escape<br />

pre-existing immunity<br />

from vaccination and prior<br />

infection, especially if you<br />

were infected in the omicron<br />

wave,” said Dr. Wesley<br />

Long, a pathologist at<br />

Houston Methodist in Texas.<br />

That’s because the original<br />

omicron strain that<br />

swept the world didn’t have<br />

the mutation.<br />

<strong>The</strong> omicron “subvariant”<br />

gaining ground in the U.S.<br />

— known as BA.2.12.1 and<br />

responsible for 58 percent<br />

of U.S. COVID-19 cases<br />

last week — isn’t the only<br />

one affected by the delta<br />

mutation. <strong>The</strong> genetic<br />

change is also present in<br />

the omicron relatives that<br />

together dominate in South<br />

Africa, known as BA.4 and<br />

BA.5. Those have exactly<br />

the same mutation as delta,<br />

while BA.2.12.1 has one<br />

that’s nearly identical.<br />

This genetic change is bad<br />

news for people who caught<br />

the original omicron and<br />

thought that made them<br />

unlikely to get COVID-19<br />

again soon. Although most<br />

people don’t know for sure<br />

which variant caused their<br />

illness, the original omicron<br />

caused a giant wave<br />

of cases late last year and<br />

early this year.<br />

Long said lab data suggests<br />

a prior infection with<br />

the original omicron is not<br />

very protective against reinfection<br />

with the new mutants,<br />

though the true risk<br />

of being reinfected no matter<br />

the variant is unique to<br />

every person and situation.<br />

In a twist, however, those<br />

sickened by delta previously<br />

may have some extra<br />

armor to ward off the new<br />

mutants. A study released<br />

before it was reviewed<br />

by other scientists, by researchers<br />

at Ohio State<br />

University, found that<br />

COVID patients in intensive<br />

care with delta infections<br />

induced antibodies<br />

that were better at neutralizing<br />

the new mutants<br />

than patients who caught<br />

the original omicron.<br />

SARS-CoV-2 virus particles are linked to COVID-19.<br />

FILE PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS


B4 THE DAILY ITEM FRIDAY, MAY <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong><br />

COMICS<br />

OFF THE MARK / MARK PARISI<br />

MODERATELY CONFUSED / JEFF STAHLER<br />

DILBERT / SCOTT ADAMS<br />

ROSE IS ROSE / PAT BRADY<br />

GARFIELD / JIM DAVIS<br />

BIG NATE / LINCOLN PEIRCE<br />

ARLO AND JANIS / JIMMY JOHNSON<br />

HERMAN / JIM UNGER<br />

ZIGGY / TOM WILSON<br />

THE BORN LOSER / ART AND CHIP SANSOM<br />

CROSSWORD<br />

DEAR ABBY<br />

Conniving boyfriend sabotages longtime friendship with lies<br />

DEAR ABBY: I have a<br />

gay friend I’ll call “Allen.”<br />

We have been close<br />

friends for 13 years. Allen<br />

has visited me often with<br />

his friends from England,<br />

and two years ago, when<br />

I could finally afford to<br />

visit him, he invited me<br />

to stay in the home he<br />

shares with his boyfriend,<br />

“Rupert.” Rupert<br />

took an instant dislike to<br />

me. He treated me rudely<br />

and mocked my American<br />

accent the entire<br />

time I was there. I let it<br />

be and concentrated on<br />

the beautiful scenery, the<br />

beautiful people I met<br />

and my longtime friend.<br />

On my last day there,<br />

Rupert offered to take me<br />

around London, which<br />

surprised me. But I was<br />

happy to get into the city,<br />

so I agreed. It was extremely<br />

unpleasant. He<br />

berated me loudly in public,<br />

called me old and ugly<br />

and yelled at me at top of<br />

his lungs in a gift shop.<br />

I texted Allen later that<br />

day asking if I could stay<br />

the last night at a hotel<br />

instead of their guest<br />

room. He replied by telling<br />

me all the stuff Rupert<br />

had texted to him<br />

that day about how I had<br />

been treating HIM badly.<br />

I was shocked. I hadn’t<br />

mentioned anything<br />

about Rupert, but simply<br />

asked if he would be able<br />

to drive me to a hotel<br />

near the airport for my<br />

last night in England. I<br />

have since tried to reach<br />

out to Allen to explain my<br />

side of the story, but he<br />

continues to ignore me.<br />

Any advice on how to<br />

move forward would be<br />

helpful.<br />

SAD TRAVELER<br />

IN NEVADA<br />

DEAR SAD TRAV-<br />

ELER: For whatever<br />

reason, Rupert regarded<br />

your long friendship<br />

with Allen as a<br />

threat, so he used the<br />

afternoon in London to<br />

cut you off at the knees.<br />

As long as Allen continues<br />

to ignore your<br />

efforts to mitigate the<br />

Dear Abby is written by Abigail<br />

Van Buren, also known as Jeanne<br />

Phillips, and was founded by her<br />

mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact<br />

Dear Abby at DearAbby.com or P.O.<br />

Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.<br />

damage, consider him<br />

unreachable. With the<br />

passage of time, he<br />

may eventually realize<br />

how devious Rupert is,<br />

but this is a conclusion<br />

he must arrive at without<br />

your help. Please<br />

accept my sympathy<br />

for the loss of your<br />

friendship, which I am<br />

sure was important to<br />

you.<br />

DEAR ABBY: Everywhere,<br />

it seems, there are<br />

books and guides for caring<br />

for aging parents. But<br />

what about aging siblings?<br />

<strong>The</strong> age difference<br />

is smaller, so it can end<br />

up with the elderly caring<br />

for the elderly — especially<br />

if there isn’t a<br />

next generation of family<br />

members on whom to<br />

rely.<br />

As we baby boomers hit<br />

our 70s, we can find ourselves<br />

caring for siblings<br />

in their early 80s, and<br />

they’re even less likely to<br />

listen to us than our parents<br />

were. Frankly, some<br />

of us are already worn<br />

out from caring for elderly<br />

parents. We’re at the<br />

point of concern about<br />

our own health and that<br />

of our spouses. When<br />

you’ve got a 73-year-old<br />

trying to take care of an<br />

80-year-old who is childless<br />

and lives 700 miles<br />

away, and who says only,<br />

“I’ll let you know when I<br />

need you,” it’s frightening.<br />

Any guidance?<br />

DAUNTING IN<br />

THE SOUTH<br />

follow the directive of<br />

your 80-year-old sibling<br />

and wait to be asked for<br />

ing.” Familiarize yourself<br />

with what senior services<br />

be needed. In addition,<br />

take whatever relevant<br />

guidance you can from<br />

the books on caring for<br />

parents, because in many<br />

ways, there may be great<br />

DEAR<br />

Yes, I think<br />

DAUNTING:<br />

you should<br />

help instead of “hover-<br />

are available<br />

community<br />

your fingers<br />

in<br />

and<br />

they will<br />

their<br />

cross<br />

not<br />

similarities.<br />

BRIDGE<br />

Half of almost any battle is recognizing<br />

the potential dangers.<br />

Sometimes it is fatal to rush headlong<br />

down a path, however safe it<br />

appears to be. You should pause<br />

and consider the potential traps.<br />

As someone wrote many years ago,<br />

“Quidquid agas, prudenter agas, et<br />

respice finem.” (Whatever you do, do<br />

cautiously, and look to the end.)<br />

On today’s deal, almost everyone<br />

would go down in six spades because<br />

they wouldn’t spot the danger.<br />

Would you have seen it without the<br />

advantage of looking at all 52 cards?<br />

South, with only three losers,<br />

was worth his strong and artificial<br />

two-club opening. North, holding<br />

14 points, asked, “Did you say one<br />

club or two, partner?” When assured<br />

it was definitely two clubs, North<br />

gave a positive response. <strong>The</strong>n, after<br />

South showed five or more spades,<br />

Anticipate the danger<br />

North launched into Blackwood. He<br />

tabled his cards, sure that South<br />

would be claiming the slam almost<br />

immediately.<br />

However, it didn’t work out like<br />

that. Declarer won the heart lead in<br />

hand and played a trump. West won<br />

with the ace and led a second heart,<br />

East’s ruff defeating the slam.<br />

South started grumbling, suggesting<br />

North should have bid six notrump,<br />

not six spades. North agreed,<br />

but he pointed out that South could<br />

have played better. As a 5-1 heart<br />

break was more probable than a 6-1<br />

diamond split (and very likely given<br />

that North had bid hearts), South<br />

should have cashed the club ace at<br />

trick two. He would have crossed to<br />

dummy with a diamond to the jack<br />

and discarded his second heart on<br />

the club king. Only then would it have<br />

been safe to lead a trump.


FRIDAY, MAY <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong> THE DAILY ITEM B5<br />

WHAT TO WATCH<br />

8 p.m.<br />

NBC<br />

<strong>The</strong> Blacklist<br />

In the season finale, Red and Cooper (James Spader,<br />

Harry Lennix) square off, each with a different<br />

endgame in mind for their mutual traitor. Meanwhile,<br />

a major secret about the Task Force falls into the<br />

worst hands imaginable. Diego Klattenhoff also<br />

stars. NBC has renewed this crime drama for another<br />

season.<br />

9 p.m.<br />

PBS<br />

Great Performances<br />

<strong>The</strong> new 90-minute documentary “Keeping Company<br />

With Sondheim” takes an inside look at British<br />

director Marianne Elliott’s critically acclaimed<br />

if controversial reimagining of the 1970 Stephen<br />

Sondheim-George Furth musical “Company.” While<br />

the original Broadway production revolved around<br />

Robert, a 35-year-old bachelor, Elliott flips the character’s<br />

gender into Manhattan single gal Bobbie. <strong>The</strong><br />

film, which includes interviews with Elliott and revival<br />

stars Katrina Lenk and Patti LuPone, also chronicles<br />

the challenges of transferring this London production<br />

to Broadway in the middle of the COVID-19<br />

pandemic.<br />

9 p.m.<br />

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Dynasty<br />

In the new episode “Do You Always Talk to Turtles,”<br />

Fallon (Elizabeth Gillies) resorts to extreme measures<br />

to expand her company, while things don’t<br />

go as planned for Blake and Cristal (Grant Show,<br />

Daniella Alonso) as they try to open PPA. Elsewhere,<br />

Adam (Sam Underwood) needs Liam’s (Adam Huber)<br />

assistance in his new business venture, while<br />

Sam (Rafael de la Fuente) turns to Kirby (Maddison<br />

Brown) to help execute a plan to aid Culhane (Robert<br />

C. Riley).<br />

1 a.m.<br />

PBS<br />

Great Performances<br />

<strong>The</strong> new 90-minute documentary “Keeping Company<br />

With Sondheim” takes an inside look at British<br />

director Marianne Elliott’s critically acclaimed<br />

if controversial reimagining of the 1970 Stephen<br />

Sondheim-George Furth musical “Company.” While<br />

the original Broadway production revolved around<br />

Robert, a 35-year-old bachelor, Elliott flips the character’s<br />

gender into Manhattan single gal Bobbie. <strong>The</strong><br />

film, which includes interviews with Elliott and revival<br />

stars Katrina Lenk and Patti LuPone, also chronicles<br />

the challenges of transferring this London production<br />

to Broadway in the middle of the COVID-19<br />

pandemic.<br />

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By Leanne Italie<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

NEW YORK — Queen Elizabeth II<br />

just might have the hardest working<br />

wardrobe on the planet.<br />

“Every outfit worn in public is carefully<br />

calibrated to inspire or remind,<br />

to signal gratitude or respect, to convey<br />

a sense of power or familiarity,”<br />

wrote <strong>The</strong> Mail on Sunday in 2015.<br />

“Her Majesty neither sets trends nor<br />

follows them — but while she is deaf<br />

to the siren call of fashion, she has<br />

her own singular style.”<br />

From her tiaras, hats and Hermes<br />

scarves to her Launer London handbags<br />

and even her umbrellas, the<br />

queen’s style has been hyper-documented<br />

since her birth, young princess<br />

days, ascension to the throne<br />

and now, more than 70 years into<br />

her reign, as she celebrates her Platinum<br />

Jubilee at age 96.<br />

Now known for her bright coats (so<br />

as to be seen by huge crowds) with<br />

matching brimmed hats, the queen<br />

was a young, glamorous princess<br />

and monarch in earlier decades.<br />

Some highlights of the queen’s<br />

style through the years:<br />

HER CHILDHOOD<br />

Cotton or wool? <strong>The</strong> queen’s very<br />

birth prompted style debate, writes<br />

Bethan Holt, fashion editor of <strong>The</strong><br />

Telegraph and author of this year’s<br />

“<strong>The</strong> Queen: 70 Years of Majestic<br />

Style.”<br />

Her wardrobe from the get-go was<br />

a topic of national fascination with<br />

a layette sewn by her mother and<br />

grandmother, and a little help from<br />

underprivileged women throughout<br />

Britain. Declaring that babies in wool<br />

looked like “little gnomes,” Lilibet’s<br />

mum, then the Duchess of York, opted<br />

for frilly cotton, rejecting anything<br />

too fussy.<br />

When sister Margaret came along<br />

four years later, the princesses often<br />

twinned it, dressing alike into their<br />

teens. But the future queen as a girl<br />

ENTERTAINMENT<br />

A look at Queen Elizabeth II’s<br />

style through the decades<br />

“never cared a fig” about clothes,<br />

according to her former governess,<br />

Marion Crawford.<br />

“She wore what she was told without<br />

argument, apart from a long,<br />

drab mackintosh that she loathed,”<br />

Crawford wrote in her controversial<br />

memoir, “<strong>The</strong> Little Princesses.”<br />

THE YOUNG HEIRESS<br />

With the tumultuous abdication of<br />

her uncle and the rise of her father<br />

to become King George VI, Princess<br />

Elizabeth became heiress presumptive<br />

(absent any future male heir,<br />

who never materialized).<br />

Enter couturier Norman Hartnell,<br />

according to Holt. While there were<br />

other designers, he was entrusted<br />

with dressing the family as they<br />

emerged on the world stage, including<br />

the two princesses at ages 11<br />

and 6. <strong>The</strong>ir “bow-adorned dresses<br />

and little cloaks signalled a return to<br />

the calm dependability of the monarchy,”<br />

Holt wrote.<br />

During World War II, 18-year-old<br />

PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

From left, Princess Margaret Rose feeding a biscuit to a Pembrokeshire Corgi held by Princess Elizabeth<br />

on July 5, 1936, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose on June 7, 1938, and Princess Margaret<br />

Rose and Princess Elizabeth at the International Horse Show in London on June 21, 1939. <strong>The</strong> princesses<br />

often dressed alike as children and into their teens.<br />

Elizabeth began to make more public<br />

appearances, training as a mechanic<br />

in early 1945 toward the end<br />

of the war. It was the only time she<br />

routinely wore trousers (and boiler<br />

suits), according to Holt.<br />

<strong>The</strong> queen was, and remains, a<br />

practical dresser when necessary,<br />

but also glamorous in sparkly gowns<br />

when the moment beckoned. And<br />

she often went short sleeved or<br />

with no sleeves at all, something<br />

that doesn’t happen today. She<br />

stood for photos with Prince Philip<br />

in a simple, light-colored dress with<br />

sleeves above the elbow and peekaboo<br />

low heels on her size 4 (6 U.S.)<br />

feet shortly before their wedding in<br />

1947.<br />

“People want to see their royals<br />

looking like royals, but equally, they<br />

don’t want to think that taxpayers’<br />

money is being blown away,” said<br />

Nick Bullen, editor in chief of True<br />

Royalty TV.<br />

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B6 CLASSIFIED THE DAILY ITEM FRIDAY, MAY <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong><br />

French movement calls out<br />

sexual misconduct in politics<br />

By Jade Le Deley<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

PARIS — Rape accusations<br />

against a newly<br />

named French minister<br />

have galvanized a movement<br />

aimed at exposing<br />

sexual misconduct in<br />

French politics and encouraging<br />

women to speak<br />

out against abusers.<br />

Left-wing groups are<br />

using the issue to rally<br />

opposition to President<br />

Emmanuel Macron's centrist<br />

party in next month's<br />

legislative election. But<br />

French politicians across<br />

the spectrum have been<br />

accused of sexual abuses<br />

in recent years, and the<br />

movement is seeking a<br />

broad reckoning to hold<br />

abusers accountable.<br />

Hundreds of protesters<br />

gathered in Paris on<br />

Tuesday to decry a "government<br />

of shame," and<br />

call for the resignation<br />

of Damien Abad, the new<br />

minister for the disabled<br />

and social welfare, who<br />

is accused of rape by two<br />

women. He denies wrongdoing.<br />

"To name as minister<br />

a man who was accused<br />

of rape is an offense to<br />

women," said Anne-Claire<br />

Boux, a deputy mayor of<br />

Paris from the Greens<br />

party.<br />

<strong>The</strong> demonstration<br />

was organized by a new<br />

left-wing feminist group<br />

called the Observatory on<br />

Sexual and Gender-based<br />

Violence in Politics, which<br />

stemmed from an online<br />

movement dubbed #Me-<br />

TooPolitique. Fiona Texeire,<br />

a political assistant<br />

and co-founder of the observatory,<br />

said it aims to<br />

denounce the "systemic<br />

nature" of the issue and to<br />

get political parties to act<br />

against it.<br />

Activists say France has<br />

taken too long to address<br />

sexism and sexual misconduct<br />

in politics, business<br />

and other spheres. Many<br />

in France dismissed the<br />

U.S.-led #MeToo movement<br />

as American-style<br />

puritanism. French politicians'<br />

private lives were<br />

long kept out of public discourse.<br />

But sexual and gender-based<br />

violence is an<br />

increasingly important issue<br />

in France, and Abad's<br />

appointment added fuel to<br />

PHOTO | ASSOCIATED<br />

A woman shows a poster reading “Macron, President of rapists” during<br />

a demonstration organized by a feminist association called the Observatory<br />

on Sexual and Gender-based Violence in politics in Paris.<br />

the fire.<br />

<strong>The</strong> weekend before the<br />

first Cabinet meeting of<br />

Macron's new government,<br />

French media revealed<br />

two accusations targeting<br />

Abad. One woman filed<br />

two complaints against<br />

Abad, in 2012 and 2017,<br />

but they were dropped for<br />

lack of evidence. Another<br />

woman said Abad raped<br />

her while she was unconscious,<br />

but hasn't pressed<br />

any charges.<br />

Germany calls for<br />

global work on<br />

climate change<br />

and ending war<br />

By Jamey Keaten<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

DAVOS, Switzerland —<br />

German Chancellor Olaf<br />

Scholz expressed hopes<br />

Thursday for global cooperation<br />

on climate change,<br />

hunger and war, while<br />

dozens of climate activists<br />

demonstrated in the Swiss<br />

town of Davos as a meeting<br />

of global elites ended<br />

with many words but little<br />

concrete action to solve the<br />

world's most pressing crises.<br />

<strong>The</strong> German leader ratcheted<br />

up his criticism<br />

of Moscow's military onslaught<br />

in Ukraine during<br />

a speech on the last day<br />

of the World Economic Forum's<br />

annual gathering.<br />

He said Russian President<br />

Vladimir Putin "wants to<br />

return to a world order in<br />

which the strongest dictate<br />

what is right, in which<br />

freedom, sovereignty and<br />

self-determination are not."<br />

Voicing hopes for countries<br />

to work together on<br />

shared crises, Scholz said<br />

today's world is no longer<br />

bipolar as it was during<br />

the Cold War era — when<br />

United States and the Soviet<br />

Union dominated geopolitics.<br />

"If some want to take us<br />

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imperialism and<br />

war, our answer is 'not<br />

with us.' We stand for the<br />

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major address of this<br />

week's Davos event. "When<br />

we realize that our world is<br />

becoming multipolar, then<br />

that must spur us on to<br />

even more multilateralism,<br />

to even more international<br />

cooperation."<br />

As he spoke, about 50<br />

young people protested<br />

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that read "Cut the (BS)!"<br />

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they want to improve the<br />

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<strong>The</strong> gathering in the<br />

Swiss Alps — twice suspended<br />

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Ukraine, rising food and<br />

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can-do spirit by many innovators<br />

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LEGAL NOTICE<br />

MORTGAGEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE<br />

PUBLIC HEARING - TOWN OF SWAMPSCOTT PLANNING BOARD<br />

By virtue of and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain<br />

Notice mortgage is hereby given by given Francisco that the O. pursuant Cabral and to Lynda M.G.L. Coco Chapter to Ameriquest 40A, Section Mortgage 5 the<br />

Planning Company, Board dated of June the 15, Town 2004 of Swampscott and recorded will in hold Essex a County virtual (Southern public hearing District) to<br />

regarding Registry of proposed Deeds in amendments Book 23152, to Page the Town 28 (the of Swampscott "Mortgage") Zoning of which By-law mortgage and<br />

Zoning Deutsche Map. Bank <strong>The</strong> National virtual public Trust hearing Company, will be as held Trustee, on MONDAY, in trust for JUNE the 13, registered <strong>2022</strong>,<br />

at holders 7:00 PM of via Ameriquest the following Mortgage Zoom link: Securities Inc., Quest Trust 2004-X3, Asset<br />

https://swampscottma.zoom.us/j/84432128165<br />

Backed Certificates, Series 2004-X3 is the present holder by Assignment from<br />

Ameriquest Mortgage Company to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as<br />

At Trustee, the public in trust hearing, for the registered the Planning holders Board of Ameriquest will consider Mortgage the following Securities related Inc.,<br />

amendments Quest Trust 2004-X3, to the Town's Asset Zoning Backed By-law Certificates, and Zoning Series Map 2004-X3 and members dated January of the<br />

public 30, 2009 and interested and recorded parties at said will be Registry given the of Deeds opportunity in Book to heard 28333, regarding Page 35, these for<br />

proposed breach of amendments: conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same,<br />

the mortgaged premises located at 45 Arlington Street, Lynn, MA 01902 will be<br />

Amend sold at Section a Public 2.1.2.0 Auction of the at Zoning 10:00 By-law AM on to <strong>May</strong> establish 17, <strong>2022</strong>, a new Overlay at the mortgaged District by<br />

adding premises, the more following particularly subsection described 2.1.2.7 Glover below, Multifamily all and singular Overlay the District premises and<br />

to described amend Section in said mortgage, 2.1.3.0 of to the wit: Zoning By-law and the Zoning Map to show the<br />

location of the new Multifamily Overlay District as covering the same area as the<br />

Smart <strong>The</strong> land Growth in Lynn, (MGL together 40R) Zoning with Overlay the buildings District thereon, identified known in Section as 452.1.2.4 Arlington as<br />

shown Street, on bounded the current and Zoning described Map. as follows:<br />

Amend Southwest the by Zoning Arlington By-law Street, to add 44 a feet, new 9 Section inches; 4.10.0.0 Regulations Pertaining<br />

to the Glover Multifamily Overlay District immediately following existing Section<br />

4.9.0.0. Northwest <strong>The</strong> by new land section now or formerly contains of comprehensive J.B. Nichols, 89 zoning feet, 6 regulations inches; for the new<br />

Glover Multifamily Overlay District, including without limitation, the purpose, scope<br />

and Northeast authority by land establishment now or formerly and of Samuel delineation Porter, of the 46 overlay feet; andistrict; definitions;<br />

that a multifamily development project is allowed as of right; dimensional and<br />

parking Southeast regulations; by land now design or formerly standards; of Charles affordable H. Delnan, housing 90 feet, requirements; 6 inches. an<br />

administrative, plan approval and public hearing process; waiver authority;<br />

effective BEING the date same and related property provisions. conveyed to Francisco O. Cabral and Lynda Coco by<br />

Deed recorded 11/10/03 in Book 22191, Page 137.<br />

<strong>The</strong> complete text and maps relative to the proposed amendments are available<br />

for Parcel/Tax inspection I.D. at #: the 720-022-001 Office of Community Development, Town Hall, 22 Monument<br />

Avenue, Swampscott, during normal business hours, which are Monday, Tuesday,<br />

Thursday Commonly from known 8:00 as: AM 45 Arlington 5:00 PM Street, and Lynn, Wednesday MA 01902. from 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM<br />

and on the Town website using this link:<br />

https://www.swampscottma.gov/planning-board/pages/proposed-zoning-law<br />

For mortgagor's title see deed recorded with the Essex County (Southern<br />

-changes District) Registry of Deeds in Book 22191, Page 137.<br />

ITEM: <strong>The</strong> <strong>May</strong> premises <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong> will & June be sold 6, <strong>2022</strong> subject to any and all unpaid taxes and other<br />

municipal assessments and liens, and subject to prior liens or other enforceable<br />

encumbrances of record entitled to precedence over this mortgage, and subject to<br />

and with the benefit of all easements, restrictions, reservations and conditions of<br />

record and subject to all tenancies and/or rights of parties in possession.<br />

NOTICE COMMONWEALTH OF MORTGAGEE'S OF MASSACHUSETTS<br />

SALE OF REAL ESTATE<br />

THE TRIAL COURT<br />

Premises: 23 Pinehurst Road, PROBATE Saugus, AND Massachusetts FAMILY COURT<br />

DIVORCE SUMMONS BY<br />

By virtue and in execution PUBLICATION of the AND Power MAILING of Sale contained in a certain<br />

mortgage given by Jedidiah Leonard and Jennifer Leonard to Mortgage Electronic<br />

Registration Systems, Inc., Docket as nominee No. ES19D2177DR<br />

for Mortgage Master, Inc., said mortgage<br />

dated December 24, 2014, and recorded in the Essex County (Southern District)<br />

Registry of Deeds, in Book Essex 33778 Probate at and Page Family 519 Court and now held by U.S. Bank<br />

National Association by virtue 36 of Federal an assignment Street from Mortgage Electronic<br />

Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee Salem, MA for 01970 Mortgage Master, Inc., its successors<br />

and assigns to U.S. Bank National Association dated March 16, 2016 and<br />

recorded March 25, 2016 in the Essex County (Southern District) Registry of<br />

Deeds in Book Maria 34795 I Mendez at Page Chavez 246, for breach vs Enemias of the conditions C Martinez<br />

said mortgage<br />

and for the purpose of foreclosing the same, will be sold at Public Auction on <strong>May</strong><br />

To 3, the <strong>2022</strong> Defendant: at 11:00 AM Local Time upon the premises, all and singular the premises<br />

described in said mortgage, to wit:<br />

<strong>The</strong> Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court<br />

grant <strong>The</strong> land a divorce in Saugus, for Irretrievable Essex County, Breakdown Massachusetts, with the buildings thereon,<br />

being shown as Lot A-44 on a plan entitled "Plan of Land, Saugus, Mass., drawn<br />

<strong>The</strong> for Complaint Leonard D. is on Mariello," file at the dated Court. March 14, 1972, Henry Seaver, R.L.S., duly<br />

recorded with Essex South District Registry of Deeds in Book 5858, Page 1. Said<br />

An lot Automatic is further bounded Restraining and Order described has been as follows: entered Southeasterly in this matter by Pinehurst preventing Road, you<br />

from as shown taking on any said action plan, which fifty (50) would feet; negatively Southwesterly impact the by land current now financial or formerly status of<br />

of Brown, either ninety party. (90) SEE Supplemental feet; Northwesterly Probate by land Court now Rule or formerly 411. of Chin, twenty-five<br />

(25) feet; Southwesterly again still by land of Chin, ninety (90) feet; Northwesterly<br />

You again are by hereby Maple summoned Road, ten and (10) required feet; Northeasterly to serve upon: by Lot A-78, as shown on said<br />

Jesse plan, ninety P Stephens, (90) feet; Esq. Northwesterly again still by Lot A-78, fifteen (15) feet; and<br />

Northeast NORTHEASTERLY Legal Aid again by land now or formerly of Vieira, ninety (90) feet.<br />

35 Containing John St 5400 square feet of land according to said plan. Subject to and with<br />

Suite the benefit 302 of restrictions, rights, easements and takings of record so far as are<br />

Lynn, now in MA force 01852 and applicable. For title, see deed recorded at Book 33245, Page<br />

435.<br />

your answer, if any, on or before 06/17/<strong>2022</strong>. If you fail to do so, the court will<br />

proceed <strong>The</strong> to description the hearing of and the adjudication property that of appears this action. in the You mortgage are also to required be foreclosed to file<br />

a shall copy control of your in answer, the event if any, of a in typographical the office of error the Register in this publication. of this Court.<br />

Terms of the Sale: Cashier's Selling or certified check in a the sum house? of $5,000.00 as a Buying a house?<br />

date of sale.<br />

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deposit must be shown at the time and place of the sale in order to qualify as a<br />

bidder (the mortgage holder and its designee(s) are exempt from this<br />

requirement); high bidder to sign written Memorandum of Sale upon acceptance of<br />

bid; balance of purchase price payable by certified check in thirty (30) days from<br />

the date of the sale at the offices of mortgagee's attorney, Korde & Associates,<br />

P.C., 900 Chelmsford Street, Suite 3102, Lowell, MA or such other time as may be<br />

designated by mortgagee. <strong>The</strong> description for the premises contained in said<br />

mortgage shall control in the event of a typographical error in this publication.<br />

Other terms to be announced at the sale.<br />

WITNESS, For Mortgagors' Jennifer M R Title Ulwick, see First deed Justice dated of March this Court. 10, 2014, and recorded in Book<br />

33245 at Page 435 with the Essex County (Southern) Registry of Deeds.<br />

Date: April 28, <strong>2022</strong><br />

TERMS OF SALE: Said premises will be sold and conveyed Pamela Casey subject O'Brien to all<br />

liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and Register assessments, of Probateif<br />

any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.<br />

<strong>Item</strong>: <strong>May</strong> <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong><br />

FIVE THOUSAND ($5,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by<br />

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sale by the purchaser. <strong>The</strong> balance of the purchase price shall be paid in cash,<br />

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THE TRIAL COURT<br />

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Andres A Gamez vs. Blanca L Toledo Gamez<br />

<strong>The</strong> Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court<br />

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LEGALS<br />

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of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.<br />

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon:<br />

Andres A Gamez<br />

28 Rockingham Street<br />

Lynn, MA 01902<br />

your answer, if any, on or before 05/26/<strong>2022</strong>. If you fail to do so, the court will<br />

proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file<br />

a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.<br />

WITNESS, Hon. Jennifer M.R. Ulwick, First Justice of this Court.


FRIDAY, MAY <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong> THE DAILY ITEM B7<br />

INTERNATIONAL<br />

Palestinians: Israel deliberately killed Al Jazeera reporter<br />

By Imad Isseid<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

RAMALLAH, West<br />

Bank — <strong>The</strong> Palestinian<br />

Authority on Thursday<br />

announced the results of<br />

its investigation into the<br />

shooting death of Al Jazeera<br />

journalist Shireen<br />

Abu Akleh, saying it had<br />

proven she was deliberately<br />

killed by Israeli forces<br />

as she tried to flee.<br />

<strong>The</strong> findings echoed the<br />

results of a preliminary<br />

investigation announced<br />

nearly two weeks ago and<br />

were widely expected. Israel<br />

rejected the findings,<br />

with its military chief saying,<br />

“no soldier fired intentionally<br />

at a journalist.”<br />

Abu Akleh, a veteran<br />

Palestinian-American<br />

reporter for Al Jazeera’s<br />

Arabic service, was shot<br />

in the head on <strong>May</strong> 11<br />

during an Israeli military<br />

raid in the city of Jenin in<br />

the occupied West Bank.<br />

Witnesses and Palestinian<br />

officials have said<br />

she was hit by Israeli fire.<br />

Israel says she was shot<br />

during a battle between<br />

Israeli soldiers and Palestinian<br />

militants. It says<br />

that only a ballistic analysis<br />

of the bullet — which<br />

is held by the Palestinian<br />

Authority — and the soldiers’<br />

guns can determine<br />

who fired the fatal shot.<br />

Announcing the results<br />

of his probe at a news conference<br />

in the West Bank<br />

city of Ramallah,, Palestinian<br />

Attorney General<br />

Akram Al Khateeb said<br />

he had determined there<br />

were no militants in the<br />

immediate area where<br />

Abu Akleh was located.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> only shooting was<br />

by the occupation forces,<br />

with the aim of killing,” he<br />

said.<br />

In a statement, Israeli<br />

Defense Minister Benny<br />

Gantz called that conclusion<br />

“a blatant lie.”<br />

Abu Akleh was in a<br />

group of journalists wearing<br />

helmets and protective<br />

vests marked “press.”<br />

Al Khateeb said the army<br />

saw the journalists and<br />

knew they were journalists.<br />

He accused Israel of<br />

shooting Abu Akleh “directly<br />

and deliberately” as<br />

she tried to escape. He also<br />

repeated the Palestinian<br />

position that the bullet<br />

will not be handed over to<br />

the Israelis for study. He<br />

said they decided not even<br />

to show images of the bullet<br />

“to deprive (Israel) of a<br />

new lie.”<br />

Al Khateeb said his investigation<br />

was based on<br />

interviews with witnesses,<br />

an inspection of the scene<br />

and a forensic medical report.<br />

In a speech later Thursday,<br />

Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi<br />

said it was impossible to<br />

know who fired the bullet<br />

FILE PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

Yellow tape marks bullet holes on a tree and a portrait and flowers create a makeshift memorial<br />

at the site where Palestinian-American Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and<br />

killed in the West Bank city of Jenin.<br />

and once again called on<br />

the Palestinians to cooperate<br />

to “get to the bottom”<br />

of what happened.<br />

“But there is one thing<br />

that can be determined<br />

with certainty,” the military<br />

chief said. “No soldier<br />

fired intentionally<br />

at a journalist. We investigated<br />

that. We checked<br />

it. That is the conclusion.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is no other.”<br />

Israel denies targeting<br />

journalists and has offered<br />

two possible scenarios,<br />

saying Abu Akleh was<br />

either shot by Palestinian<br />

militants who were firing<br />

recklessly at an Israeli<br />

army convoy or that she<br />

was hit by Israeli gunfire<br />

aimed at a nearby militant.<br />

<strong>The</strong> military has<br />

identified the rifle that<br />

may have been used in<br />

that scenario, but says it<br />

needs to test the bullet to<br />

make any final determination.<br />

An AP reconstruction of<br />

events has lent support to<br />

eyewitnesses who say she<br />

was shot by Israeli troops.<br />

But the reconstruction<br />

said it was impossible to<br />

reach a conclusive finding<br />

without further forensic<br />

analysis.<br />

Palestinian witnesses<br />

say there were no militants<br />

or clashes anywhere<br />

near Abu Akleh. <strong>The</strong> only<br />

known militants in the<br />

area were on the other<br />

side of the convoy, some<br />

300 meters (yards) from<br />

her position. <strong>The</strong>y did<br />

not have a direct line of<br />

sight, unlike the convoy<br />

itself, which was some 200<br />

(meters) away on a long<br />

straight road.<br />

Israel has publicly called<br />

for a joint investigation<br />

with the PA, with U.S. participation,<br />

and has asked<br />

the PA to hand over the<br />

bullet for testing.<br />

Russia slams sanctions, seeks to blame West for food crisis<br />

By Ricardo Mazalan<br />

and Elena Becatoros<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

KYIV, Ukraine — Moscow<br />

pressed the West on<br />

Thursday to lift sanctions<br />

against Russia over the<br />

war in Ukraine, seeking to<br />

shift the blame for a growing<br />

food crisis that has<br />

been worsened by Kyiv’s<br />

inability to ship millions<br />

of tons of grain and other<br />

agricultural products due<br />

to the conflict.<br />

Britain immediately accused<br />

Russia of “trying to<br />

hold the world to ransom,”<br />

insisting there would be<br />

no sanctions relief, and a<br />

top U.S. diplomat blasted<br />

the “sheer barbarity, sadistic<br />

cruelty and lawlessness”<br />

of the invasion.<br />

Russian President<br />

Vladimir Putin told Italian<br />

Prime Minister Mario<br />

Draghi that Moscow<br />

“is ready to make a significant<br />

contribution to<br />

overcoming the food crisis<br />

through the export of<br />

grain and fertilizer on the<br />

condition that politically<br />

motivated restrictions imposed<br />

by the West are lifted,”<br />

according to a Kremlin<br />

readout of the call.<br />

Ukraine is one of the<br />

world’s largest exporters<br />

of wheat, corn and sunflower<br />

oil, but the war and<br />

a Russian blockade of its<br />

ports has halted much of<br />

that flow, endangering<br />

world food supplies. Many<br />

of those ports are now also<br />

heavily mined.<br />

Russia also is a significant<br />

grain exporter, and<br />

Kremlin spokesman Dmitri<br />

Peskov said the West<br />

“must cancel the unlawful<br />

decisions that hamper<br />

chartering ships and exporting<br />

grain.” His comments<br />

appeared to be an<br />

effort to lump the blockade<br />

of Ukrainian exports<br />

with what Russia says are<br />

its difficulties in moving<br />

its own goods.<br />

Western officials have<br />

dismissed those claims.<br />

U.S. Secretary of State<br />

Antony Blinken noted last<br />

week that food, fertilizer<br />

and seeds are exempt<br />

from sanctions imposed<br />

by the U.S. and many others<br />

— and that Washington<br />

is working to ensure<br />

countries know the flow of<br />

those goods should not be<br />

affected.<br />

With the war grinding<br />

into its fourth month,<br />

world leaders have<br />

ramped up calls for solutions.<br />

“This food crisis is real,<br />

and we must find solutions,”<br />

World Trade Organization<br />

Director-General<br />

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said<br />

Wednesday at the World<br />

Economic Forum meeting<br />

in Davos, Switzerland.<br />

PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

Children walk among buildings destroyed during fighting in Mariupol,<br />

in territory under the government of the Donetsk People’s Republic,<br />

eastern Ukraine.<br />

In Lebanon, a nascent<br />

reform movement<br />

faces tough road<br />

China’s foreign<br />

minister starts Pacific<br />

tour in the Solomons<br />

Patients seek damages<br />

from Fukushima<br />

nuclear plant<br />

By Zeina Karam<br />

and Lujain Jo<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

BEIRUT — Ramy Finge<br />

spent two years braving<br />

tear gas and rubber bullets,<br />

sometimes trying to<br />

scale the cement walls<br />

surrounding Lebanon’s<br />

parliament during anti-government<br />

protests.<br />

Soon he’ll be able to<br />

walk in through the front<br />

door. <strong>The</strong> dentist from<br />

the northern city of Tripoli<br />

is among 13 independent<br />

newcomers who won<br />

seats in parliament in<br />

<strong>May</strong> 15 elections, building<br />

on the protest movement<br />

seeking to break<br />

the long domination by<br />

traditional parties.<br />

<strong>The</strong> unexpectedly strong<br />

showing by civil society activists<br />

restored some hope<br />

among despairing Lebanese<br />

that change in their<br />

ailing country is possible.<br />

But the nascent reform<br />

movement is fragmented,<br />

and faces enormous challenges<br />

in fighting an entrenched<br />

ruling clique.<br />

Many worry the incoming<br />

parliament will exacerbate<br />

polarization and<br />

paralysis at a time when<br />

the country is dealing with<br />

one of the worst economic<br />

meltdowns in history. It is<br />

hobbled by divisions between<br />

the old guard and<br />

newcomers, as well as<br />

between supporters and<br />

opponents of the powerful<br />

militant group Hezbollah.<br />

In the run-up to the elections,<br />

candidates drawn<br />

from the protest movement<br />

that formed in October<br />

2019 ran on competing lists.<br />

Broadly, they share the<br />

view that the decades-old<br />

grip on power by civil warera<br />

warlords and sectarian-based<br />

political dynasties<br />

is the root cause behind<br />

rampant corruption, mismanagement,<br />

lack of services<br />

and lack of accountability<br />

that have driven the<br />

country into ruin.<br />

But in the details, they<br />

are divided on almost everything,<br />

from their approach<br />

to reforming the economy<br />

and restructuring the collapsed<br />

banking sector, to<br />

their views on Hezbollah’s<br />

weapons and whether disarming<br />

the Iranian-backed<br />

group should be prioritized.<br />

By Nick Perry<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

WELLINGTON, New<br />

Zealand — China’s Foreign<br />

Minister Wang Yi<br />

and a 20-strong delegation<br />

arrived in the Solomon<br />

Islands Thursday at<br />

the start of an eight-nation<br />

tour that comes amid<br />

growing concerns about<br />

Beijing’s military and financial<br />

ambitions in the<br />

South Pacific region.<br />

China says the trip<br />

builds on a long history<br />

of friendly relations between<br />

Beijing and the island<br />

nations.<br />

But Australia scrambled<br />

to counter the move<br />

by sending its own Foreign<br />

Minister Penny<br />

Wong to Fiji to shore up<br />

support in the Pacific.<br />

Wong had been on the job<br />

just five days following<br />

an Australian election<br />

and had just arrived back<br />

Wednesday night from a<br />

meeting in Tokyo.<br />

In Fiji, Wong said it was<br />

up to each island nation<br />

to decide what partnerships<br />

they formed and<br />

what agreements they<br />

signed, but urged them<br />

to consider the benefits of<br />

sticking with Australia.<br />

“Australia will be a<br />

partner that doesn’t come<br />

with strings attached nor<br />

imposing unsustainable<br />

financial burdens,” Wong<br />

said. “We are a partner<br />

that won’t erode Pacific<br />

priorities or Pacific institutions.”<br />

Meanwhile, the Media<br />

Association of Solomon<br />

Islands called on<br />

its members to boycott a<br />

news conference in the<br />

capital, Honiara, held by<br />

Wang and his counterpart<br />

from the Solomon<br />

Islands, Jeremiah Manele,<br />

following a meeting<br />

between the pair.<br />

That’s because only selected<br />

media were invited<br />

to the event, and the<br />

schedule allowed for just<br />

a single question to be<br />

asked of Wang by China’s<br />

state-owned broadcaster<br />

CCTV.<br />

“Its a tough call to make<br />

regarding the media boycott<br />

for the press event on<br />

Thursday,” wrote association<br />

president Georgina<br />

Kekea on Twitter.<br />

By Mari Yamaguchi<br />

ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />

TOKYO — A Tokyo<br />

court began hearings<br />

Thursday in a lawsuit<br />

seeking nearly $5 million<br />

in damages for six people<br />

who were children in<br />

Fukushima at the time<br />

of its 2011 nuclear power<br />

plant disaster and later<br />

developed thyroid cancer.<br />

<strong>The</strong> plaintiffs are suing<br />

the operator of the nuclear<br />

plant, saying radiation<br />

released in the accident<br />

caused their illnesses.<br />

It is the first group lawsuit<br />

filed by Fukushima<br />

residents over health<br />

problems allegedly linked<br />

to the disaster, their lawyers<br />

say.<br />

One plaintiff, identified<br />

only as a woman in her<br />

20s, testified from behind<br />

a screen that she had to<br />

give up plans to attend<br />

university because of repeated<br />

operations and<br />

treatments.<br />

“Because of the treatments,<br />

I could not attend<br />

university, or continue my<br />

studies for my future job,<br />

or go to a concert. I had to<br />

give up everything,” she<br />

said. “I want to regain my<br />

healthy body, but that’s<br />

impossible no matter how<br />

hard I wish.”<br />

She and the five other<br />

plaintiffs are seeking a<br />

total of 616 million yen<br />

($4.9 million) in damages<br />

from Tokyo Electric Power<br />

Company Holdings for<br />

allegedly causing their<br />

cancers.<br />

On March 11, 2011,<br />

a magnitude 9.0 earthquake<br />

and massive<br />

tsunami destroyed the<br />

Fukushima plant’s cooling<br />

systems, causing<br />

three reactor cores to<br />

melt and release large<br />

amounts of radiation.<br />

Critics say the plant operator<br />

should have known<br />

that a large tsunami was<br />

possible at the site.<br />

<strong>The</strong> plaintiffs, who were<br />

6 to 16 years old at the<br />

time of the accident and<br />

lived in different parts<br />

of Fukushima, were diagnosed<br />

with thyroid<br />

cancer between 2012 and<br />

2018, their lawyers said.


B8 THE DAILY ITEM FRIDAY, MAY <strong>27</strong>, <strong>2022</strong><br />

THIS WEEK IN PHOTOS<br />

ITEM PHOTOS | SPENSER HASAK<br />

Keiko Zoll of Swampscott scrolls through the online free baby formula exchange platform she created<br />

to help alleviat the nation-wide baby formula shortage.<br />

Marblehead’s Liam Mcilroy flies through the air<br />

as he fires a throw at first base.<br />

Lynn Police Officer Francis Previna raises the Haitian flag at Lynn City<br />

Hall last Friday.<br />

St. Mary’s Michaela Walker leaps to make a catch.<br />

Parker Kench of Swampscott plants a new flag<br />

ahead of Memorial Day in the Veterans Section<br />

of Swampscott Cemetery on Tuesday.<br />

Zackary Perry of Lynn played General Lafayette, at the end of a plaque commemorating Lafayette’s<br />

visit to Lynn in 1824.

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