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THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2020 CHERYL CHARLES COMMENTARY Crash sends car off General Edwards Bridge By Elyse Carmosino area below. from Revere, was unharmed, but his I care about ITEM STAFF State police reported the 2006 Nissan 56-year-old female passenger was taken collided with a 2002 Toyota Tundra at the to North Shore Medical Center in Salem. LYNN — A 62-year-old woman from end of the bridge nearest the Lynnway. The condition of both injured people is Muslim Coral Springs, Fla., collided with a car She was trapped in the car and had to unknown and the cause of the crash re- on the General Edwards Bridge just af- be extricated by the Lynn Fire Depart- mains under investigation. ter midnight Wednesday, and the im- ment. She was taken to Massachusetts persecution. pact sent her Nissan pickup truck over General Hospital for treatment. Elyse Carmosino can be reached at the bridge’s guardrail and into a wooded The other driver, a 65-year-old man [email protected]. And so should you. Freezin’ in Nahant New This rst column of the new year should be about resolutions, regrets voter or reminiscing. But I can’t, in good conscience, focus on trivial pursuits, or even system self-absorbed re ection of my past follies and foibles. We’re entering a new decade (I’m not entertaining any arguments on whether it starts this takes year or next), but we need to clean up and work on the past one that threat- ens everyone’s existence. effect While we all will have to work together to deal with the reality of climate change — as if one day of 57 BOSTON (AP) — Mas- degrees followed by a snow day is sachusetts launched its normal in any way — we also have automatic voter registra- to acknowledge what happens when tion system on Wednes- one minority group is systematically day. being threatened, tortured and killed, The new system will and voices remain silent, condone automatically update a the violence, or simply turn away in person’s voter registra- complicity. tion when that person When did Muslims, and their prac- noti es a state agency tice of Islam, become the new black? like the Registry of Motor And by new black, I mean the group Vehicles of a new address considered unworthy of any respect, or other change in status. dignity, or peace. When did one of the Those automatically reg- world’s oldest religions suddenly be- istered to vote will then come marginalized? And why should be noti ed by mail of the we care? opportunity to choose a If you believe the myths of our American history, you were told this political party or to de- country was founded by people in cline to register. search of religious freedom. If you Republican Gov. Char- have researched more this century lie Baker signed a bill about the real rst Thanksgiving, the approving the system genocide of the indigenous people, the last year, joining more trail of tears, the horror of coloni- than a dozen other zation and slavery (the Civil War states and the District wasn’t about states’ rights nor was it of Columbia in making Northern Aggression, it was always it easier to register and about the right to enslave human vote in elections. beings), you may also have picked up Advocates said then that the Puritans left their native that the new law could land because they didn’t believe their add up to 700,000 eligi- country’s religious practices were ble voters to the voter harsh enough. Calling it religious rolls in Massachusetts. freedom puts a prettier bow on it, and Automatic voter regis- feeds into our white-washed narra- tration was scheduled to tive about freedom. begin in January 2020, But our idea of freedom has been an in time for the next pres- ever-shifting tide, depending on who is in charge. idential primaries. And our idea of religious freedom ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK Secretary of State Wil- liam Galvin reminded has become harsher and uglier. A participant in the 2020 Freezin’ for a Reason Polar Plunge submerges her- The current administration was voters that there’s six self in the water off of Short Beach in Nahant on Wednesday. For story and weeks left to register to swept into of ce on a populist wave of additional photos, see LOOK! Page A8. fear, ignorance, religious intolerance, vote in the March 3 pres- and naked racism. Fear that other idential primaries. The people were taking something they Nahant Sports registration deadline is Town, Northeastern butted Spartans take down Lynn Jets fall Feb. 12. Galvin is expect- CHARLES, A3 heads last year. A6 Williams in CCL battle. B1 to Somerville. B1 ing a high turnout. 2019 2019 BC bowled over by Birmingham memories A YEAR IN THE REAR-VIEW MIRROR Thurman: ‘1984 THEN Holey: ‘I Notable all over again’ remember it well’ By Harold Rivera By Steve Krause local ITEM SPORTS EDITOR ITEM STAFF LYNN — The Boston College football LYNN — Peter Holey always had a deaths team hopes to end its season on a win- dream. He wanted to play football for ning note Thursday afternoon (3) when the University of Alabama. the Eagles square off against No. 23 “When I was growing up, I wanted to The area said goodbye Cincinnati in the Birmingham Bowl at play for (late Crimson Tide coach) Bear to several notable locals, Alabama’s Legion Field. Bryant,” he said. from the teacher who On the same eld, 35 years ago, Lynn’s It didn’t happen, of course. He ended mentored drama students Tony Thurman, the city’s only consen- for several decades, to up at Boston College, and for two of the athletes and coaches who sus All-America, anchored Boston Col- four years he was on the roster, the Ea- mentored, nurtured and lege’s defense with three interceptions TODAY gles played Alabama, against Bryant’s inspired future genera- — a program record for a single game successor Ray Perkins, at the old Fox- tions; to a world renowned that he achieved twice, and shares with boro Stadium his junior season and at and beloved Broadway 14 other Eagles — in a 38-31 win over Birmingham’s Legion Field. and movie actress, who then No. 9-ranked Alabama. “It was such a huge deal, playing rst appeared locally, but “My mother (Marion Jean Thurman) against Alabama,” he said. “Alabama is was known globally; to the was from there so she came down with the Mecca of college football.” doctor who brought more family members, which was a good thing Thirty- ve years later, the Eagles nd than 5,000 babies into the for them to come watch the game,” said themselves back on Legion Field today world and a host of others. Thurman, a defensive back. “It was a in the Birmingham Bowl against 23d Here is a list of some of high-scoring game. It was a great atmo- ranked Cincinnati. the people we said good- sphere, that’s for sure. On one of those Holey remembers that game 35 years bye to in 2019: interceptions, I wasn’t even supposed ago very clearly. Dr. Charles L. Bland- to be there. I took off in the wrong di- “As I remember it, we were down big er: The obstetrician, who rection but it worked out anyway. Don in the rst half,” he said, “but ... we DEATHS, A6 THURMAN, A3 Thurman, left, and Holey in their BC days. HOLEY, A3 OBITUARIES .......................... A2-3 ENTERTAINMENT .......................A7 COMICS ....................................B4 HIGH 47° VOL. 142, ISSUE 20 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 LOW 40° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2020 MORE OBITUARIES, PAGE A3 OBITUARIES Robert J. Nobrega, 80 Virginia DeRosa, 81 George F. Clarke, 90 1938-2019 1929-2019 Robert J. Nobrega, better WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — known by his loved ones as — Ms. Virginia (Nicotera) Mr. George F. Clarke, 90, of Bob, dad, or grandpa a man DeRosa, 81, of West Palm So. Berwick, Maine formerly that had a smile at all times. Beach, Florida, formerly of of Lynn passed away on Sat- Bob was a true survivor, he Saugus Massachusetts died urday, December 28, 2019 in beat cancer at 21 years old peacefully at her residence Lahey Clinic Burlington follow- and again at the age of 68. surrounded by her sons and ing a brief illness. He is the He did all this with a smile on close friends on December husband of the late Theresa E. his face until his last day on 2, 2019. Born in September (McGurn) Clarke. this earth! 1938, in Everett, MA she is George was born November He was well known and predeceased by her parents 28, 1929 in Lynn. He is the loved by his staff at Nobre- Anthony and Lucy Nicotera of son of the late George and ga’s Discount House where Saugus, Massachusetts and Bertha Clarke. He was a res- he treated everyone as if they her son Anthony DeRosa. ident of Lynn for many years were family. Until this day; I After graduating from Girl’s before moving to Largo, FL. In run into people that shopped High School in Boston, she early 2018 George returned to at Nobrega’s and loved the married Pasquale DeRosa So. Berwick Maine. service they received from and raised her four children He was a graduate of Lynn Bob, I get the same answer Anthony, Michael, Richard and English High School Class of from everyone “he was the kind, gentle, funny and full of David.