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SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2020 Summertime and the livin’ isn’t easy By Anne Marie Tobin tually taking — a traditional summer theme parks to the nation’s great na- ITEM STAFF vacation. tional parks, many businesses in the Whether looking to stay close to home tourist and recreation industry are in a With beaches, parks, swimming pools, and visit local attractions or get away to holding pattern as states gradually be- fishing holes and other recreational ac- popular tourist destinations, COVID-19 gin the process of reopening. tivities reopening Monday on Memorial has presented would-be vacationers, One Lynnfield family, wishing to re- Day, it would seem that life couldn’t be and the businesses that serve them, main anonymous, plans to spend the trending any better for people planning with unprecedented challenges and week of June 26-July 3 on Nantucket. summer vacations. uncertainty. Questions abound as to Whether or not they can get there is an- However, unlike the popular George whether there will ever be enough nor- other question. Gershwin tune, “Summertime,” this malcy to have a semblance of summer The family booked the trip in February summer, the livin’ may be far from easy at all. when it comes to planning — and ac- From Cape Cod beaches to Florida SUMMERTIME, A6 Salem HAPPY (VIRTUAL) has MEMORIAL DAY its act ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO Stacie Graciale sits on her front porch in Lynn after recently surviv- Together ing COVID-19. By David McLellan ITEM STAFF Lynn’s SALEM — There’s been tough times before. The same city that is Graciale known worldwide for a 17th century “witch” hysteria has faced fires, storms, droughts, wars, fought economic crises, and oth- er catastrophes over the last four centuries, and its COVID — leaders want residents to know it will again over- come a disaster. and won In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the By Steve Krause mayor’s office, the Pea- ITEM STAFF body Essex Museum, Sa- LYNN — Stacey Graciale, 31, endured lem State University, and nine of the sickest days of her life last The Salem News have teamed up to provide sto- month. Yet she feels blessed. ries of past hardships and “I am extremely blessed,” she said, accomplishments by the ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK talking about her battle with the COVID-19 virus at the end of April. “I was city of Salem and its res- Doris Syrakos of Lynn, the Gold Star Mother of SPC Antonio J. Syrakos, U.S. idents under the hashtag not in the hospital. I was not intubated. Army, plants ags at the graves of World War 1 veterans in Pine Grove Ceme- I’d say that for me, I had a ‘mild’ case of #SalemTogether. tery in Lynn on Friday in honor of Memorial Day. “We really are going to this — though if it were simply the flu, it wouldn’t have been a mild case.” need to remember that emonies recorded in the days leading up to or By Gayla Cawley The day she came down with the virus our city has been through ITEM STAFF streamed live on Memorial Day. tough times before. These began like any other. Although the virus has largely made this “I got up, took a shower, and felt fine,” same streets and many Since the coronavirus has canceled Memo- year’s Memorial Day a virtual holiday, com- of our buildings housed she said. “I worked for an assisted living rial Day parades and traditional ceremonies, munities have still been carrying out other people who felt similar de- North Shore communities have opted to take facility in Danvers, and we wear masks, spair,” said Salem Mayor annual traditions, such as flagging their vet- gloves, and all kinds of protective gear. a different approach to ensure their fallen erans’ graves, while some municipalities are Kimberley Driscoll. veterans are honored this year. The residents were on one floor, and I was also incorporating new ways to honor their on another.” These stories are post- Local cities and towns are still holding fallen. But at 10 a.m. that morning, she began ed throughout a network Memorial Day ceremonies, but many are of websites and blogs, in- “Because of COVID-19 we have to do feeling “weird.” choosing to pre-record their observances and cluding the city’s Facebook things differently, but some things don’t “I told my manager, and he said my eyes broadcast them on their local television sta- page, the city’s Twitter change and one thing that doesn’t change is looked watery,” Graciale said. “I took my tions for the remainder of the week. page, the Streets of Salem our obligation to remember the fallen,” said temperature and it was 99. I didn’t think To adhere to social distancing protocols, TOGETHER, A2 the public won’t be in attendance at any cer- MEMORIAL DAY, A3 GRACIALE, A3 Saugus vet INSIDE has built a Saugus Saugus Board of Health votes to ease solid legacy restrictions on some businesses. A5 • By Elyse Carmosino Veterans Memorial ITEM STAFF Park in Saugus will receive upgrades as SAUGUS — A talent- well as spring cleaning. ed carpenter, World War A5 II veteran and Saugus resident Peter Ruggeri Boston has spent most of his life EMS Week organizer building things. Dennis Cataldo speaks From the small ranch- at Fenway ceremony. Marblehead’s Fort Sewall style home on Lenox Av- A6 enue he shares with his daughter, Jennifer, and Opinion closed for renovations dog, Toto, to countless Each death represents pieces of furniture inside, a personal tragedy. A4 By David McLellan placement of stairs, window Fort Sewall it seems Ruggeri, 92, has ITEM STAFF bars, and brick coating ongo- will be never shied away from LOOK! ing. Other projects at the fort closed for a project, no matter how Faces of faith in MARBLEHEAD — Fort include regrading the path- the summer big. Marblehead. A8 Sewall will be closed this sum- ways, making the property ful- with an eye “We lived in a marshy Sports mer, but when it reopens there ly handicapped accessible, and toward a area in Revere,” he said of will be replica 19th century Peabody/Lynn eld’s renovating the bathrooms. September his upbringing. “Where I ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO Sammie Mirasolo cannons, full accessibility, and According to Larry Sands, lived is gone, it’s all high- reopening. World War II veter- named 2019-2020 Item park rangers on site knowl- chairman of the Fort Sewall way and everything else, an and Saugus resi- Player of the Year for edgeable about the 376-year- Oversight Committee, the ITEM PHOTO | but it makes no difference dent Peter Ruggeri girls hockey. B1 old fort. renovations and restorations OLIVIA FALCIGNO because this (house) my “Phase 2” of the Fort Sewall should make visiting the fort wife and I built. Every re ects on his life as restoration project began May a husband, carpenter 11, with masonry work, re- SEWALL, A6 RUGGERI, A3 and time in the war. Take a LOOK at how Swampscott beachgoers have COVID covered. A8 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 SPORTS ................................ B1-2 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 64° VOL. 141, ISSUE 138 OPINION ...................................A4 POLICE/FIRE .............................B3 CLASSIFIED ...............................B6 LOW 45° LOOK! .......................................A8 COMICS ....................................B4 REAL ESTATE .............................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2020 OBITUARIES Peter Dennis Dawson, 73 Hannah Zold, 92 Haralambos Panagopoulos 1929-2020 Peter Dennis Dawson PEABODY — Hannah PEABODY — Haralambos passed away peacefully in his (Galanter) Zold, 92 years of “Harry” Panagopoulos beloved sleep at his beautiful home in age, of W. Peabody formerly husband of Stavroula “Voula Lighthouse Point Florida af- of Michigan and Middleton, Damianakos” Panagopoulos, ter an aggressive battle with entered into eternal rest due died Monday, May 18, 2020 mesothelioma on May 17th to Covid-19 on May 18, 2020. in Kalamata, Greece. at 73 years old. He was born Beloved mother of Joyce Burke Born in Koutifari, Messina, on February 10, 1947 at Win- of Middleton, Ellen Zold Gold- Greece, he immigrated to Mel- chester Hospital and grew up man of N. Reading, and Diane bourne, Australia in 1957 and in Stoneham Massachusetts. Zold-Gross of Haverhill, MA, in 1959, married the love of He was born to the late Virgin- and their families. Cherished his life Voula, in the 1970’s, ia Carter Dawson of Winthrop grandmother of 9 and great the family then came to Pea- and Charles W. Dawson of grandmother of 2 with family body, Massachusetts to make Stoneham. in MI, NV, WA, MD and OH. She their home. Peter graduated Stoneham follows into rest her parents, high school class of 1965. He He was employed at WJ Rabbi Simon Galanter and Young in Peabody in the early attended UMASS Amherst for Lena Galanter, her husband of his bachelors degree in edu- 70’s then working in restau- 38 years, Samuel Hillel Zold, rant industries until his retire- cation while making a mark and brother and sister, Max in the UMASS athletics com- did well. He was respected Hannah’s memory may be ment. Panagopoulos and his wife by the kids, the parents and Galanter and Tema Rabinow- made to any organization Harry was known as a Sonia Karkalas. His beloved munity as competitive hockey itz. After raising her children, player graduating in 1969. Pe- the coaches alike. He prided related to love and care for hard-working, caring and granddaughters Stavroula himself on lending his knowl- Hannah then found her calling children, dogs, painting, a gentle man, he was loved by and Eva Panagopoulos, and ter D continued his education at the Jewish Community Cen- to get his Masters Degree at edge and love for the game cure for dementia, cancer, many, and will never be forgot- his beloved great grandson ter preschool in West Peabody Boston College.