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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2019 Lynn eld College looks to end student homelessness By Gayla Cawley The “intergenerational, home-sharing” will contractual agreement that they would town ITEM STAFF app, similar to the vacation rental site, enter into with their landlords, Gentile said. AirBnb, would match NSCC students who “For us, it’s another strategy of helping LYNN — For many North Shore Commu- are unable to afford housing with “empty our students nd affordable housing and nity College students struggling with hun- clerk ger and homelessness, doing well in school nesters,” or older residents who want to rent stay in school, so they can complete their can be especially challenging, said college out an empty room in their homes. educational journey,” Gentile said. “For the President Patricia Gentile. Rents would be below market value and city, it’s a help for those empty nesters who heading North Shore Community College (NSCC) could be reduced by students taking on want to stay in their own homes and might is working to address the pervasive issue by chores around the house. The college is need some help around the house, or just partnering with a mobile housing app, Nest- working with Harvard Business School company.” North erly, to match its homeless students with af- Alumni to be able to provide a subsidy to The college is working with the city of fordable housing options in the city, Gentile further reduce housing costs. Students By Anne Marie Tobin said. would pay their rents through Nesterly’s at- NSCC, A2 ITEM STAFF LYNNFIELD — Another high-level town employee is calling it quits. Lynn eld Town Clerk Tru- IN THE LAND OF BIG BLUE, dy L. Reid tendered her res- ignation at the Dec. 20 se- lectmen’s meeting at the Al A GREEN THUMB Merritt Media and Cultural Center at MarketStreet. Reid’s last day on the job will be Dec. 19. She will then take some time off to prepare for her new position as town clerk in North Andover. “I’ve enjoyed my time in Lynn eld and feel that I have done a lot during the last few years,” said Reid. “I’ve had incredible support from the town administra- tion and of cials, which is critical because you can’t survive without support and it’s been great. “But I want to get more involved in municipal licens- ing, which I can’t do here, so I feel that North Ando- ver came along at the right time and offers a much more challenging situation, so I am anxious to get in there December 30 and be ready to get to work Jan. 2.” Reid was appointed Lynn eld Town Clerk in 2014, succeeding Amy Sum- mers, who resigned in Janu- ary 2014 to accept the Town Clerk position in Stoughton. Under her leadership, Reid brought the town’s election process, Town Meeting, and Swampscott’s McLaughlin decks out town for holidays many other aspects of town governance into the elec- By Thor Jourgensen decorations from Town Hall’s windows and Floral arranger John tronic age. She implemented ITEM STAFF doors. But McLaughlin has demonstrated an McLaughlin has abiding interest in organizing efforts to beauti- spruced up Swamp- online vital records requests SWAMPSCOTT — If holly, red ribbons, and and attendant payment sys- fy the building that extend beyond the holiday scott Town Hall for pine garlands put you in a holiday mood, then tem and online dog registra- season. the holidays with thank John McLaughlin for Town Hall’s festive tion and payment system. “He doesn’t like the limelight but he has been arrangements and Reid served on the Town facade. an unbelievable asset,” said Gino Cresta Jr., decorations. Meeting study committee The life-long town resident and retired Dan- Assistant Town Administrator for Operations. and implemented electronic vers public school teacher waves off taking A fan of facts and gures, McLaughlin said ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO check-in and voting systems credit for the wreaths and colorful planting Kane’s Flower World provided 30 pine bough to increase ef ciency and pro- adorning Town Hall’s exterior and nearby wreaths to decorate Town Hall’s exterior as vide enhanced voter privacy. town monuments. well as the Civil War monument and 120 feet McLaughlin prefers to credit town public LYNNFIELD, A3 works employees for their work hanging the SWAMPSCOTT, A3 STEVE KRAUSE AN APPRECIATION Mom wants a Peter Frates special Christmas was a pro le for her family in courage By Elyse Carmosino John F. Kennedy said once, in an offhand ITEM STAFF comment during a news conference, that Kellee is turning to Item Santa this year life was unfair. In the case of Peter Frates, for help in making Christmas special for that goes triple. her young family. Frates battled Amyotrophic Lateral The single mother of three says her Sclerosis for seven years. In that time, he youngest, 5-year-old Kellsun, absolute- became in many ways a spokesman for ly loves Christmas and considers it his the disease and the fundraising that was favorite holiday, and, like any child, “his undertaken in many quarters for research into the disease that was named for base- eyes glow at the sight of presents beneath ball great Lou Gehrig. our lit Christmas tree.” She writes that FILE PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS Each spring, there were Peter Frates Kellsun is a lover of snow, fuzzy pajamas, Former Boston College baseball captain Pete Frates, left, is pre- baseball games. Among the venues hosting and watching lms like “How the Grinch sented with the 2017 NCAA Inspiration Award by NCAA President those games was Lynn’s Fraser Field. Stole Christmas” and “The Polar Express.” Mark Emmert, right, as Frates’ wife, Julie, center, and 2-year-old In 2014, two years into Frates’ struggle The precocious kindergartener may have daughter, Lucy, look on at their home in Beverly. Frates died on only just begun his educational career, but Monday at the age of 34. FRATES, A2 Kellsun is already making his mother proud. She says that since starting school this fall, he’s been given the distinction of “Perfect Attendance” and was presented Opinion with his school’s “Core Value” award. Brotherton: Wreck the halls EMG PERSONS OF THE YEAR TO BE HONORED Like any mother, Kellee wants nothing with boughs of folly. A4 The Persons of the Year votes are in, are: Dr. Kiame Mahaniah, Lynn; Rich- more than to give her son the comfortable Sports and we have our winners. ard and Carmela Dalton, Lynn eld; Christmas she knows he deserves, but she Inzana wraps up Swampscott The third annual Essex Media Group Helaine Hazlett, Marblehead; George writes: “each year since he was born, there career in dream fashion. B1 2019 Persons of the Year event will be Markos, Nahant; Deanne Healey, Pea- has been less under our roof and tree.” at the Lynn Museum on Tuesday, Jan. body; Jessica Giannino, Revere; Veron- The burden of knowing she’s unable to 14, 2020 from 6-8 p.m. This award is ica Robles, Saugus; and Phyllis Sagan, English girls basketball looks to keep give her son a Christmas comparable to given to those exemplary individuals Swampscott. what many of his schoolmates will enjoy building on last season. B1 who demonstrate the utmost standards Tickets for this event are available on of civic and social responsibility in their the Itemlive.com site or by calling the ITEM SANTA, A3 Saugus continues upward trend. B1 communities. For 2019, the winners Daily Item of ce at 781-593-7700. OBITUARIES ..............................A2 ENTERTAINMENT .......................A7 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 60° VOL. 141, ISSUE 309 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 33° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 BUSINESS ................................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2019 OBITUARIES College looks to end Emmanuel P. Mikedis, 84 George T. Grilli, 67 student homelessness place to live while they LYNN — Emmanuel P. “Manny” LYNN — George T. Grilli, 67, NSCC From A1 were attending school. Mikedis, 84, of Lynn, died Sun- of Lynn, died Friday, Dec. 6 “We know that’s a signif- day, Dec. 8, 2019, surrounded from complications of cancer. Lynn, Year Up Great- icant barrier to staying in by his loving family at home, Born in Lynn to the late E.F. er Boston, and Harvard school,” Gentile said. “It’s after a long battle with cancer. Renato and Elda (Angelucci) Business School Alumni, hard to do well if you don’t Manny was born and raised Grilli, George lived most of his and plans to start offering eat.” in Mirmigki Chios, Greece, to life in Lynn. He was a 1971 the Nesterly opportunity Eighty- ve percent of the late Penelope and Pante- graduate of Lynn English High to students in January. the college’s students are li Mikedis. He proudly served and then received a political NSCC is actively work- working, but are often not in the Greek military before science degree from Suffolk ing to recruit empty nest- earning enough to offset moving to Lynn, and lived on University. ers who may be interest- to rising housing costs. At the same street for almost 60 George retired from the ed in renting a room to a NSCC, where the average years with his beloved wife Postal Service after working student for 10 months to age of those enrolled is 26, Betty (Andros) Mikedis. many years as a letter car- a year. There’s particular more than half of those Manny worked for Old Neigh- rier in Reading. Later in life, interest in older residents adult learners are juggling borhood Foods, before own- George returned to Northeast- who live along a bus line, their studies with working ing and operating an Amoco ern University and received a since many students lack full-time, Gentile said.