1M Prize Scratched in Lynn Winning Ticket Sold at Norm’S Variety Caleb Neelon of Cambridge Works on by Thomas Grillo 33 Munroe St
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SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017 $1M prize scratched in Lynn Winning ticket sold at Norm’s Variety Caleb Neelon of Cambridge works on By Thomas Grillo 33 Munroe St. in Lynn ITEM STAFF on Friday during the Beyond Walls mural LYNN — William Gendron of festival. ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK Lynn is the rst $1 million prize winner in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s new “100X” instant game that launched last month. The winning ticket was purchased at Norm’s Variety on Eastern Ave- nue. Roger Patel, the store owner, said he wasn’t present when the ticket was sold last week, but one of his employees told him Gendron bought a single ticket for $10 and scratched it in the store. “He asked the employee to verify if the ticket was really a $1 million winner,” Patel said. “He was shak- ing when we told him it was.” This is the rst time Patel has sold a $1 million winning ticket. “I’ve been here for 15 years and it’s never happened,” he said. “The man who owned it before me had the store for 35 years and he never had a $1 million winner.” Gendron chose the cash option on the prize and received a one-time payment of $650,000, less taxes, the Lottery said. The store wins too. They receive a $10,000 bonus for its sale. Four $4 million prizes and 14 priz- es of $1 million are still available in the instant game. Gendron could not be reached for comment. Saugus pins Thomas Grillo can be reached at [email protected]. a new deputy By Bridget Turcotte ITEM STAFF SAUGUS — There’s a new deputy re chief in town. Deputy Chief Thomas D’Eon was among ve members of the Saugus Fire Depart- ment to be sworn in to a new position by Town Manager Scott Crabtree Friday morning. D’Eon, Lt. Mark Gannon, Capt. Scott Phelan, Capt. James Hughes, and acting Lt. Damian Drella each celebrated their promotions, surrounded by their proud family members in a crowded ceremony in the foyer of Town Hall. The new deputy chief will ll the role of PHOTO | MASS. STATE LOTTERY former Deputy Chief Donald Shea, who retired on New Year’s Eve 2016 after 38 William Gendron of Lynn is years of service. the rst $1 million prize win- Shea began his career as a dispatcher ner in the Massachusetts and continued to work for seven differ- ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK State Lottery’s new “100X” in- ent chiefs over ve decades. He became a stant game that launched last Jake D’Eon, 10, pins the deputy re chief of Saugus badge onto his dad, month. DEPUTY, A7 Thomas, after a swearing-in ceremony at Saugus Town Hall on Friday. Malden robotics Argument leads team goes global to shooting and before going home stabbing in Lynn By Thomas Grillo ITEM STAFF By Steve Freker said Chris Bazzinotti, a Mal- FOR THE ITEM den High technology teacher LYNN — An early Friday morning ar- who serves as advisor to the gument between two men on New Park MALDEN — They fell Robotics Team. Street led to a shooting and a stabbing, short in the end, but the When the students won according to police. city’s high school robotics the New England title in Lt. James Shorten said the suspected team marched over glob- May, they immediately be- shooter was arrested and the gunshot vic- al competitors during this gan a fundraising drive tim was taken to Salem Hospital. His in- week’s International Botball which raised nearly $8,000 juries are not considered life threatening. Tournament. to fund the trip to the Mid- Police declined to provide the names of They had already pushed west to participate in the the people involved. the envelope by winning the International Botball Cham- “The altercation, in the middle of the school’s rst New England pionship, where teams from street, was over money,” said Police Lt. Regional Botball Champi- around the world battled for Michael Kmiec. “One of the individuals onship. Little did they know the world crown in a compe- received a small laceration from a stab they would not only knock off tition hosted by the Global wound who came to the station and then the top-seeded team in the Conference on Educational we were informed by Salem Hospital that world and then advance to Robotics (GCER). they had a gunshot victim up there. We believe the person who was stabbed did the Elite Eight in the world According to the Botball the shooting and he was arrested.” before bowing to a former, re- Educational Robotics Pro- cent World Champion. gram “Botball competitions What a week in Norman, revolve around using stu- Okla., for the students from dent-made robots to com- COURTESY PHOTO INSIDE Malden. plete a series of tasks, such as “It was a great showing collecting objects and moving Malden High Robotics Club advisor Chris Bazzinot- In Lynn In Sports and despite the intensity, them to another location or ti and Malden students are shown at the Interna- Fran’s undergoes Peabody it was a lot of fun and very tional Botball Tournament held this past week in renovation to softball bounced satisfying for our students,” MALDEN, A7 Norman, Okla. become housing. A3 by Burkett. B1 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 POLICE/FIRE .............................A5 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 73° VOL. 139, ISSUE #185 LYNN .........................................A3 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 64° OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 REAL ESTATE .............................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017 OBITUARIES John A. DiGiulio, 54 Baker remains opposed NEW PORT RICHEY, friends. He will be Fla. — John A. DiGi- deeply missed. to GOP health care bill ulio, age 54, of Flor- He was prede- ida and formerly of ceased by his par- BOSTON (AP) — Repub- those the governor out- health coverage and cost under the revised bill, and Massachusetts and ents, Margaret and lican Gov. Charlie Baker lined in a letter to the the state $8.2 billion by administration officials New Hampshire, died Pasquale DiGiulio said Friday a preliminary state’s all-Democratic con- 2025, due to cuts in fed- said they would take into unexpectedly on July of Swampscott and review by his administra- gressional delegation last eral funds that paid for account a Congressional 2, 2017. Florida, and his tion of the latest version month after the release of an expansion of Medicaid Budget Office analysis an- Born in Lynn and brother-in-law Wil- of the Senate GOP health the initial Senate Repub- and a proposed future cap ticipated next week. raised in Swamp- liam E. Shanahan. He care bill has not changed lican plan for repealing on Medicaid payments to Baker is not the only Re- scott, John attended St. John also leaves his children, John, the Evangelist School and Nicole, and Jennifer DiGiulio; his view that it would be former President Barack states. publican governor voicing graduated from Swampscott grandchildren Dylan, Aria harmful to Massachusetts. Obama’s health care law. Baker also has warned objections to the latest High, Class of 1981. John and Madelynne; his siblings “This proposal would Majority Leader Mitch the federal legislation Senate GOP plan. Ohio’s also attended Northeastern Patricia Shanahan, Pamela leave more people unin- McConnell later withdrew could jeopardize $600 mil- John Kasich said Friday University and later complet- and her husband Thomas sured, eliminate certain the first proposal when lion in safety net funding the bill was “still unac- ed his degree in engineering Burkardt, Steven and his wife essential health benefits, it became clear that not that was part of a Medic- ceptable,” largely because at Wayland University in Texas Cathy DiGiulio, Nancy and further destabilize in- enough GOP senators aid waiver his adminis- of the Medicaid cuts that while serving in the Air Force her husband Linus O’Donnell, surance markets, reduce supported it. tration negotiated with are “too deep.” as a pneumatics specialist on as well as many nieces and federal funding and neg- That initial plan, the Obama’s administration. Both Kasich and Bak- aircraft. nephews, aunts and uncles, atively impact important Baker administration es- Friday’s statement did er have urged Congress John was a gifted and tal- cousins, extended family, and family planning services, “ timated, would have re- not say if those earlier es- to adopt a bipartisan ap- ented individual, and spent friends. Baker said in a statement. sulted in 264,000 Massa- timates of the impact on proach to health care re- the majority of his professional Service information: Pri- The concerns echoed chusetts residents losing Massachusetts would hold form. career working for Henkel Cor- vate family services took poration, where he designed place in Florida on Thurs- and built prototypes for manu- day, July 6, 2017. Arrange- facturing solutions. Throughout ments coordinated by MOR- FBI: Buried body is fugitive his career John attained nu- GAN Funeral Home, 6025 merous licenses and accredi- Trouble Creek Road, New tations, including becoming an Port Richey, FL 34653. Lo- electrician and a commercial cal services will take place accused in police chief slaying insurance adjuster. on Tuesday, July 18, 10 a.m. John was extremely bright, at St. John the Evangelist By Denise Lavoie the thought that the kill- loving, and affable, and always Church, 174 Humphrey St., ASSOCIATED PRESS er was still at large. willing to share his immense Swampscott, Ma 01907. “I guess I’m angry at her skills with anyone who needed Burial will be private. All BOSTON — A decade- at this point because she assistance.