DEALS OF THE $DAY$ PG. 3 WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2020 DEALS OF THE The coronavirus as seen through young eyes $DAY$ BY GINA TERRAZZANO I miss seeing all my friends and my teachers on a PG. 3 daily basis. Especially the seniors, my heart breaks My name is Gina Terrazzano, and I’m a sopho- for them. Our coach and softball team are trying to more at Peabody High. The shutdown has affected plan things we can do to make the senior softball me in many ways mentally and physically. The players feel special because their last season got number one thing that got me down is that our taken away. softball season got taken away. It’s heartbreaking Hopefully everything goes back to normal soon. DEALS to me because this is the season I wait for and A lot of us would like to play sports in the summer. train for all year long. I’ve been training alone in I’m just glad all of my family and friends stayed OF THE my yard hitting, family members playing catch healthy through all this. with me and running. $DAY$ Online learning has been a process to get used Gina Terrazzano is a sophomore at Peabody PG. 3 to. I would much rather be in school with everyone. High School. DEALS OF THE $DAY$ STUDENTS’ DREAMS PG. 3 TRASHED BY DEALS OF THE $DAY$ PG. 3 ITEM GRAPHIC BY TREVOR ANDREOZZI Big events can’t The vague Sadness in loss of be pushed back and uncertain nal softball season BY JULIANNA PERRY BY MAIA ANASTOPOULOS BY AMANDA WILKINS As (Lynn English) Class President I can say that Our school system closed on the ironic date of Friday Never in a million years would I have believed it if COVID-19 has stripped away one of the biggest events the 13th in March, and our shutdown for the remainder someone had told me back in September that my Senior my fellow class officers and I have given our time and of the school year became officially permanent yester- year would be cut short and my final season of softball dedication to. We spent hours discussing what would day. Although disappointing, the recent news was not a would not take place. make the perfect prom and a night to remember for our surprise. Reported cases are still on the rise in our state, But here we are and that is exactly what has hap- classmates and selves. The hard work that was put in so there does not appear to be a predictable end to this pened, to my utter disbelief. since the day after our Junior Prom has been for noth- crisis. I actually feel some relief that we won’t be going I had held out hope that even though it didn’t seem ing. Prom and graduation are not events we can just back given that we’re not past the worst yet. Reports say likely that schools would re-open on May 4, some way, push back, because the truth is no one knows how far that younger people are less susceptible to the effects of somehow they would. When Governor Charlie Baker back is enough. This pandemic that has taken away our this virus, but what about those of us who have asthma made his announcement last week, you could have last few months of high school might be taking away and other conditions, our teachers, and the parents and knocked me over with a feather. To say I was in shock our few first months of our freshmen year of college grandparents who will get sick if we do? is an understatement! I had tried to put the thought EVENTS, A6 UNCERTAIN, A6 SOFTBALL, A6 Not able to show ‘This has slowly A reality that hit accomplishments been changing me’ as hard as bricks BY ANONYMOUS BY LEZMARI CASTRODAD BY CARLOS PRUDENCIO (This was written by two Lynn Classical High School Recently, I found out about the schools being closed An unscheduled vacation from school; just what every students who wished to remain anonymous.) for the remainder of the school year and will be starting high schooler wants — except when there is pandemic Students have spent 13-plus years waiting for this ex- up again next year. This came as a shock to me and ulti- going around and it threatens our lives. act moment; graduating high school and continuing to a mately left me feeling down because I enjoyed the time It is not the fact we are in our houses that makes this higher level of education or pursuing a career. Through- spent with all my teachers and want to keep working difficult. It is that we can’t see our friends in person, out the hardships and struggles of school, losing moti- with them. This whole epidemic has slowly been chang- can’t sit at a restaurant, and can’t go out without think- vation and yet still moving forward with huge efforts in ing me. I’d like to share what I’ve been feeling and how ing that the person next to us might infect us. order to obtain a celebration to show how hard we have a 7th-grade girl is going about this whole experience Without a doubt we do admit that we don’t mind been working to get to where we are today. It’s dis- with you. sleeping in and watching Netflix. But school hasn’t gone heartening to hear that we won’t be able to show off our Not only do I worry about how online learning will anywhere. Our grades still exist, and to just stop in the accomplishments to friends and family in the traditional benefit me for the remaining months we still have of middle of the semester really scares us and makes us ways like everyone else; crossing the stage at graduation school, but I also have been worrying about how things anxious. You see, some of us didn’t do well on a test, and along with our other peers. The only motivation that will play out for me for the following year. My teachers it dropped our grade. However, we thought we could ACCOMPLISHMENTS, A6 CHANGE, A6 REALITY, A6 Lynn Museum/LynnArts director Kane’s: Now you can design Art teacher channels her love of Man sought by police after crash gives back during coronavirus donuts before eating them, A3 Boston skyline into Swampscott in Nahant, A5 crisis, A2 beach sticker, A3 Swampscott school board, Driver killed after crashing into YMCA of Metro North launches teachers union reach tentative COVID-19 cases tracking lower on house in Nahant, A5 virtual water safety program, A2 deal, A3 the North Shore, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 58° VOL. 141, ISSUE 135 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-2 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 42° POLICE/FIRE .............................A5 COMICS ....................................B4 FOOD ........................................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2020 OBITUARIES Lynn Museum/LynnArts director Jean B. Burke, 89 gives back in coronavirus crisis LYNNFIELD — Jean B. (Berry) Burke, 89, beloved wife of the By Bill Brotherton late John V. Burke, died peace- ITEM FEATURES EDITOR fully on Sunday, May 17, 2020 at the Academy Manor Health LYNN — With each Care Center in Andover. passing week of the coro- Born and raised in Lynn, she navirus pandemic, Donee- was the daughter of the late ca Thurston, the director Robert and Mildred (Phelps) of Lynn Museum & His- Berry. She received education torical Society/LynnArts, in the Lynn school system, realized tough nancial graduated from Lynn English decisions had to be made. High School and continued All Massachusetts muse- her education at the former ums were forced to close Boston Secretarial School. and rentals of the historic A resident of Lynn eld for building, a major revenue 60 years, Mrs. Burke dedicat- source, vanished due to the ed her life to raising her fam- no-more-than-10-person ily. She was a loving mother, social distancing order. Pallleschi, Robert, Alan, Frank grandmother, great-grand- So, what did she do? She and Alfred Berry. mother, sister and friend who gave back some of her sala- Service information: There will be missed by all who knew ry and got a second job at a will be a drive-up visitation grocery store, ensuring that ITEM FILE PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK her. held on Saturday, May 23 Surviving her are six daugh- her hard-working part-time Lynn Museum & Historical Society/LynnArts Director Doneeca Thur- from 9-11 a.m. at the CON- staff wouldn’t be laid off ters, Sharon Stephson of Cal- WAY, CAHILL-BRODEUR Fu- ston has given back some of her salary and gotten a second job at a gro- ifornia, Deborah Imbrescia and the organization could cery store, ensuring that her hard-working part-time staff wouldn’t be neral Home, 82 Lynn St., Pea- survive the pandemic. and her husband, Frank of body. Family and friends are laid off and the organization could survive the pandemic. Lynn eld, Theresa Desaute- “I knew that a pay cut was respectfully invited to attend. inevitable and it didn’t feel ls and her husband, Neil of Everyone is asked to enter over mine, as I’m able to conducting research, plan- the LynnArts building at Lynn eld, Andrea Walsh and right furloughing my staff make some money working ning online-only programs 25 Exchange St., whose the parking lot of the funer- or reducing their hours, her husband, Eugene of Mar- al home via the entrance on a second job at Trader Joe’s and mapping out in-person tenants include many art- and not bearing some of ietta, Ga., Marguerite Negri Lynn Street, and then a staff in Peabody, where I worked exhibitions, even though ists and arts profession- the burden myself,” said and her husband Ralph of member will direct you ac- in 2017-18.