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MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2018 Lynn Fire Department is $3.45 million SAFER By Gayla Cawley Emergency Response (SAF- to adequately protect the com- overtime spending, and an add- that staffing level of 183 fire- ITEM STAFF ER) grant through the Federal munity,” said Lynn Fire Chief ed benefit of improved morale fighters has to be maintained Emergency Management Agen- Stephen Archer in a statement. within the department itself.” over the three-year period. If LYNN — The Lynn Fire De- cy (FEMA). “We’ve seen reductions in our According to Lynn Fire Capt. there’s a retirement, the posi- partment has been awarded The SAFER program helps numbers in recent years due to Joseph Zukas, the hires made tion has to be filled. a $3.45 million federal grant, organizations maintain or in- attrition and a hiring freeze that under the 3-year grant need SAFER is a matching grant. which will allow the city to hire crease the number of trained have left us down 25 firefighters to be made by Jan. 31 and will The city has to pay 25 percent of 20 new firefighters. front line firefighters available from where we were just five bring the department’s staffing the salaries for the 20 hires for the first two years and then 65 The Lynn Fire Department in their communities. years ago. The new hires will level to 183 firefighters, which is percent for the third year, Zukas was one of four departments “This grant allows us to hire mean an immediate improve- closer to the department’s opti- said. statewide to be awarded the vitally needed firefighters to get ment in the level of service, a mal staffing goal of 190. Staffing for Adequate & Fire us closer to where we need to be reduction in the department’s With the grant, Zukas said SAFER, A7 Artists from beyond US walls converge on Lynn ITEM PHOTO | STEVE KRAUSE Janice Jarosz puts the nishing touches on a cable documen- tary of the centenni- al graduating class of Saugus High. Saugus Class of 1918 comes to life By Steve Krause ITEM STAFF SAUGUS — The first thing that occurred to Janice Jarosz once she began doing research on the Saugus High class of Second Beyond Walls mural festival begins today 1918 is that tremendous number of them who were By Bella diGrazia today. background and multicultural, He expresses himself through first-generation Ameri- ITEM STAFF Beyung was born in Montre- multi-geographic upbringing. neo-muralism movement and cans. al, Canada, into a refugee fam- Through her art, she finds so- has created large scale murals LYNN — Beyond the walls, ily. His upbringing in Canada, lace in the fact that home is not across the world. He has work Their perspective is a where murals will be created, little bit different than and his Chinese-Cambodian so much a geographical place, across Mexico, Morocco, Swit- are the stories of the artists background, have major influ- but a state of mind. zerland, and Thailand. the outlooks of high school who will paint them. graduates a century later. ences on his work, along with Leon Keer is a world-leading Eltono is a French artist who There are more than two doz- his expertise in graphic de- artist in the anamorphic street will be working with the Good “The graduates (in 1918) en artists working on 27 murals were so grateful just to sign. He has worked on murals art from Utrecht, The Nether- to Go Crew. He has worked on throughout downtown Lynn in have graduated,” said throughout Montreal’s China- lands. He has commissions exe- pieces in Madrid, Beijing, and the second year of the Beyond Jarosz, a former select- town, one of them even being cuted in Europe, the U.S., Mex- southern France. He has made Walls art project, which begins woman who has worked awarded the International Cor- ico, The United Arab Emirates, his mark on streets in 90 cit- today. Many have traveled here on many town commit- porate Art Award 2017 in Italy. Saudi Arabia, Russia, New Zea- ies around the world and is internationally and some are tees and is a one-time JUURI calls both Tokyo, land, Australia, and a number even showcased in a number of from neighboring communities. Town Meeting member. Japan, and Oklahoma City, of Asian countries. world renowned museums and Each of them has a story, one Okla., home. Her murals are Fikos was born in Athens, “A lot of people back then that got them to where they are influenced by her mixed-race Greece, where he still lives. may have made it to their BEYOND, A7 sophomore years, but then they had to leave school and go to work. They had to keep their families All signs are afloat.” Jarosz, earlier this year, came across a number of pointing to scrapbooks from the 1918 Saugus High yearbooks INSIDE that her great-aunt be- Marblehead queathed to her many LOOK years ago. Lynn native “She didn’t graduate Arts exhibit authors a ‘perfectly with that class,” Jarosz snowy’ children’s By Bella diGrazia book. A8 said. “I don’t even know ITEM STAFF how she got them.” MARBLEHEAD — Most peo- Sports But Jarosz is glad she Lynn Babe Ruth ple just admire vintage neon signs did. From the writings of 16-18s in a 0-2 hole when they pass them by. Kristen the 1918 graduates, she in world series. B1 Nyberg sees, and has captured their feels she’s come to know • images, as works of art. them on a personal lev- Gannon Golf el — and she loves what The Marblehead resident and sin- Course Ladies she’s found out. So much gle mother spent the majority of Classic tournament so that she’s working on a her adulthood after college working underway. B1 presentation in conjunc- freelance jobs in order to pave her tion with Saugus cable TV way through life. director Ronald Nadeau Now, with her only daughter off she hopes will air in Sep- at college, she’s given herself per- tember that brings to life mission to pursue the art she’s been some of the writings of the wanting to create since she gradu- ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE ated from art school, which is using graduates. Kristen Nyberg with one of her paintings that will hang in her 1918, A7 ARTS, A7 new exhibit called Modern Moonlight. 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