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By Gayla Cawley The reopening plan, announced by By David McLellan model, and a hybrid model. ITEM STAFF Superintendent Dr. Patrick Tutwiler ITEM STAFF At the beginning of her presentation, on Wednesday night, was unanimously Angelakis said 90 percent of school dis- LYNN — The city’s school district has approved by the School Committee in SWAMPSCOTT — The teachers union tricts in the state areDEALS considering either opted to start off the school year with a meeting that had to be streamed on and superintendent are in agreement: an in-person or hybridOF model TH forE the fall. remote learning only for the majority of Facebook Live due to the overwhelming Bringing students back to school for ful- In Swampscott’s case, the fully in-person students. attendance in the Zoom meeting. ly in-person learning the rst week of model is “not possible,”$ with $building In-person learning will be offered to September is not safe. 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LYNN, A3 son learning model, a remote learning SWAMPSCOTT,DEALS A3 OF THE $DAY$ Saugus BaptismPG. 3 Pop under re Warner DEALS for BurnsOF THE punts on By Gayla Cawley$DAY $ ITEM STAFFPG . 3 season LYNN — When Greater Lynn Senior Ser- vices CEO Kathryn Burns assumed her By Elyse Carmosino new position in March, she knew she was ITEM STAFF taking the helm during a challenging time for the organization. SAUGUS — Saugus Pop But while some people may have been Warner has suspended its deterred from taking on a leadership role 2020 football and cheer- during such upheaval, those challenges leading season. were part of what attracted Burns, a veter- The organization’s pres- an in elder care, to the job. ident, Michael Fronduto, “(One) thing that really sold me on GLSS said his board unani- was the outstanding leadership team that mously made the dif cult has survived a lot of stuff over the past few call this week when it be- years,” said Burns. “I saw the challenges came apparent planning a they faced and how they just kept on going socially-distanced season because the mission was important.” simply wouldn’t be feasi- Before Burns, 60, of Salem, started her ble. new position on March 16, the Lynn-based “It took me a while. I agency had been without a permanent lead- lost sleep over it and it er since last September, when then-CEO really killed me for it to Paul Crowley was placed on paid leave fol- come out of my mouth, but lowing a poor performance review from the really, it’s the right move Board of Directors. for the football and cheer Crowley eventually resigned last October community and Saugus in ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO 31 amid allegations from a former staff mem- general,” he said. “I just ber that he had harassed one of the seniors. don’t know how to keep Kathryn Burns took over as the CEO of the Greater Lynn Senior Services back everybody safe in these in March during a challenging time for the company. BURNS, A3 circumstances, and even if I did, it was going to be so much work that I didn’t COVID think we’d get through the Lynn eld alums 32 new cases season even if we were al- reported in lowed to play.” Lynn. A2 Although Saugus held off longer than many sur- plot their return Peabody rounding communities be- YMCA extends ‘fun fore making its nal deci- all summer long’ to sion, Fronduto said it was to college Sept. 11. A2 clear that even if allowed to play, many of the orga- By Alex Ross Opinion nization’s usual fundrais- FOR THE ITEM Turns out, ing opportunities would price of privacy be heavily disrupted by LYNNFIELD — With just weeks to go before many is quite cheap. A4 state-mandated safety colleges and universities are set to begin fall semes- protocols. ter, ve Lynn eld High alumni represent a nation of LOOK! In particular, concession undergraduate students struggling to continue their Students make stand and door-to-door higher education journeys. the grade, snack sales, two of Pop Some schools, such as Harvard University, have opted prepare for Warner’s biggest mon- to go fully remote for the fall in the wake of the coro- new year. A8 ey-makers, would have navirus, allowing only 40 percent of undergraduates been impossible under (their rst-year students) to live on campus. Other Lynn-area current COVID-19 regu- schools, including Virginia Commonwealth University students lations. (VCU) in Richmond, Va., are prepared to welcome their graduate from “Fundraising is what students back to campus for a mix of in-person and on- UMass Amherst. A8 makes this entire organi- line classes. zation go around,” Fron- “Classes that are over 30 people are going to be [all] ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO Sports Ferncroft’s duto said, adding that online,” said VCU sophomore Ashley Barrett. “But cer- From left, Mackenzie Schenna, 18, Ashley nding places for the foot- Jared Mscisz wins tain majors, like engineering, are going to be hybrid.” Sjoberg, 17, and Cooper Merengi, 20, plan to re- ball players and cheer- 45th North Shore leaders to practice would COLLEGE, A2 turn to college this fall. Amateur. B1 have also been exceeding- ly dif cult. “If schools aren’t going to open fully, there was no Food chain links way they were going to let us use their facilities,” he said. “Where do I house Chelsea, Nahant, my cheerleaders once it gets cold and dark early? It just was going to be Revere and Winthrop too dif cult a situation to manage.” A statement released on By Elyse Carmosino SPW’s website this week ITEM STAFF said football and cheer- NAHANT — Nahant’s American Legion makes sure lo- leading are both consid- ered “high risk sports cal veterans have food on their table, especially during the for the transmission of COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19,” and stated Roughly a dozen volunteers gathered outside Ameri- that there’s currently no can Legion Post 215 Wednesday morning to hand out ful- indication from the Massa- ly stocked bags of collard greens, bananas, pasta, beans, chusetts Executive Of ce ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO eggs, peanut butter, and other fresh, frozen, and nonper- of Energy and Environ- Noreen Lazar, Lynn resident and American Legion Auxiliary ishable food items to residents signed up for the Veterans mental Affairs’ that the member, packs away food for veterans to pick up on Wednesday Food Network program. POP WARNER, A3 morning at the Nahant Life Saving Station. FOOD PROGRAM, A3

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Philip J. O’Blenes, 65 YMCA extends ‘fun all 1954-2020 LYNN—Philip J. O’Blenes, summer long’ to Sept. 11 age 65, passed away peace- fully on Saturday, August 1, 2020, at Care One Nursing By Anne Marie Tobin which has been providing Home in Peabody. He was the ITEM STAFF food assistance to low-in- beloved husband of Debra come families since 1968. (Arena) O’Blenes, with whom PEABODY — A popu- The association also re- he shared 44 wonderful years lar Beach Boys lyric pret- ceived funding from the of marriage. ty much sums it all up $6.1 million Massachu- Born in Lynn, MA on Novem- for YMCA of the North setts COVID-19 Relief ber 9, 1954, he was a son Shore’s summer campers: Fund through the Essex of the late Burpee and Ma- “We’ve been having fun all County Community Foun- rie (Porelle) O’Blenes. Philip summer long.” Well that dation. Walsh said Metro attended Lynn English High fun isn’t about to end any North currently is feeding School. Following his educa- time soon. about 500 kids a day. tion, Philip went on to work Campers at the Pea- “It’s much appreciat- for General Electric for over 33 body, Saugus and Melrose ed because these camp- years before his retirement. branches have already ers come with no lunch For all who knew him, Philip been the beneficiaries of a or little lunch and we was a fun loving person who Daphne McAleer; his sisters, new lunch and breakfast are now able to provide ITEM PHOTOS | OLIVIA FALCIGNO could light up any room with Judith Sneider of Saugus, program since mid-Ju- them with a nice balanced his incredible sense of humor. and Patricia Joseph of ME, his ly. Now, thanks to Metro meal, which is fabulous,” Kyra Kimber, 6, enjoys the sprinklers at the He loved telling stories and beloved dog Chief, as well as North’s recent decision to Walsh said. “I can’t predict YMCA in Peabody on Wednesday afternoon. keeping his friends and family many other dear cousins and extend all camp programs what will happen with Conway said she has seen quite as many because entertained. In his free time, friends. through Sept. 11, campers COVID-19 in the near fu- a spike in the number of some of our college kids Philip liked to travel, listen to Service information: At will now be able to enjoy ture, but I do know that people struggling to feed are going back to school music, and learn everything the request of the family two bonus weeks before the need for food programs their families. and things like that, but he could about NASA. Above services will be held pri- they have to say goodbye will not change anytime “We see the number of we hope to be able to take all else though, Philip loved vately. As an expression of to the summer. soon. Even if the economy requests for food growing 100-120.” his family. He was a devoted sympathy, donations may be Metro North CEO Kath- does hit phase four, food every day,” she said. “I’ve Walsh said this sum- husband, father, and grand- made in Philip’s honor to leen Walsh said Metro insecurity was on the rise had parents tell me they mer’s programs have father, who cherished every American Heart Association, North already had a food before the pandemic. More are relying on Dollar Tree been the most successful memory he made with his PO Box 417005 Boston, MA program in place at the partnership and funding to feed their kids on a bud- she has ever experienced loved ones, especially his 02241-7005. To leave an on- Lynn branch. A statement for this program will be get. Some of these parents in her 15-year YMCA ca- wonderful grandchild. line message or condolence, on Metro North’s web- crucial in the long road are managing two or three reer. Along with his loving wife, please visit www.cuffemc- site stated that the food ahead to a ‘new normal.’ jobs to make it all work “I was just down there Philip is survived by his chil- ginn.com. program expansion was Kids are going to need this and this way they can and talking to the kids and dren, Marisa McAleer of Sa- developed in partnership safety net more than ever, spend their funds on other they are having a blast,” lem, and Corey O’Blenes of with the Department of especially with school necessities for the kids.” said Walsh. “They are all Lynn; his grandchildren, Isa- Elementary and Second- openings postponed.” ® Currently there are complying with the safe- bella, Raymond, Delilah, and LIFE WELL CELEBRATED ary Education and its Saugus Family YMCA about 150 kids at Metro ty procedures. They are Summer Eats program, Executive Director Jen North’s Camp Eastman enjoying being with their in Peabody and another peers, they are having fun 200 combined at Camp and being creative. I’ve Julio “Chico” M. Diaz, Jr., 78 Melstone in Melrose and been doing this for a long 1941-2020 Camp Sachem in Saugus. time and this year’s sum- All kids are eligible for the mer surveys have been, by Life long resident of Lynn. meal program and pre reg- far, more positive than I’ve ITOA taxi driver. istration is not required. ever seen. It’s been a great Enjoyed watching sports Walsh said the camps nor- summer.” especially boxing, the Patriots mally run through the end Registration for the ex- and the Red Sox of August, shutting down tended summer camp Predeceased by his parents just before the start of program is open. To reg- Julio M. Diaz, Sr. and Irene school. ister, go to Metro North’s G. (Bradley) Diaz; his broth- “We’ll go right up to website, https://www. er Johnny Diaz, his son Mark Sept, 11, but space will be ymcametronorth.org/sum- Diaz and his granddaughter limited based on how we mer-camp/. Michelle Diaz. can staff it,” said Walsh. Anne Marie Tobin can be Chico leaves behind his chil- Marcus Andrade, 6, gets out of the pool at the “We anticipate probably reached at atobin@item- dren Michael Diaz of Worces- YMCA in Peabody on a hot Wednesday afternoon. not being able to take live.com. ter and his son Michael, Jr.; Matthieu Diaz of Worcester and his children Andre, Adri- anna, Shamar, Sharnece, and Pete Hamill, legendary New York Kiana; Tanya Connelly of North Carolina, her husband Paul and their children Skylah and her husband Manny and their Zakkariah; Tiffany Diaz Bercy daughter Stephanie. columnist and novelist, dies of Lynn, her husband Alan and Service information: Final By Thalia Beaty Pete Hamill was one of remembered through the their children Jarel and DeVon. arrangements have been ASSOCIATED PRESS the city’s last great crusad- dreamscape of black and Chico is survived by his sis- made through Goodrich Fu- ing columnists and links white photography — a ters Paula Brown on Michigan, neral Home in Lynn. A memo- NEW YORK — Pete Ha- to journalism’s days of New York of egg creams her husband Bob, their daugh- rial service will be at a later mill, the self-taught, street- chattering typewriters and and five-cent subway ter Jennifer Harrison and a son date when it is safer for fam- wise newspaper columnist smoked-filled banter, an rides, stickball games and Mario; Rhoda Pires of Maine, ily and friends to gather. whose love affair with New Irish-American both tough wide-brimmed hats, when York inspired a colorful and and sentimental who re- the Dodgers were still in uniquely influential jour- lated to the underdog and Brooklyn and there were nalistic career and produced mingled with the elite. more daily papers than you 32 new cases several books of fiction and Well-read, well-rounded AP FILE PHOTO could count on one hand. nonfiction, died Wednesday and very well connected, Pete Hamill, one of “I have the native son’s morning. He was 85. Hamill was at ease quoting irrational love of the Hamill died at a Brook- New York’s last crusad- reported in Lynn poetry and Ernest Hem- ers, was 85. place,” Hamill wrote in his lyn hospital from heart ingway, dating Jacque- 2004 book, “Downtown: My and kidney failure, his line Onassis or enjoying boxing and riots to wars in Manhattan.” “New York is By Gayla Cawley Peabody has reported nine brother Denis confirmed a drink and a cigarette at Vietnam, Nicaragua, Leb- a city of daily irritations, ITEM STAFF new cases since Monday to in an email. the old Lion’s Head tavern anon and Ireland. But he occasional horrors, hourly bring the city’s total num- With 32 new cases re- “Pete was truly one of in Greenwich Village. would always look back to tests of will and even cour- ber of cases to 1,160. The the good guys,” Denis Ha- His topics ranged from the New York he grew up age, and huge dollops of ported on Wednesday, the number of deaths remained new coronavirus surge mill said. baseball, politics, murders, in, a pre-digital age best pure beauty.” at 174 on Wednesday and continues in Lynn. 876 people have recovered The city now has 4,075 from the virus, according to cases, with 570 active ones. Lynnfield alums plot their return to college the health department. The death toll re- Saugus has diagnosed 19 mained the same at 111 VCU, Syracuse, and Bos- will be in-person, albe- to play football at Endicott new cases since last Thurs- COLLEGE on Wednesday and 3,394 ton University. it with social distancing as a freshman this fall. day. Numbers updated on From A1 Lynn residents have now BU sophomore Justin measures and manda- Wednesday show the town Endicott has since delayed recovered from the virus, Barrett is also part of an- Nardella has access to his tory mask-wearing, said has 598 cases and 38 deaths. the season into 2021, according to city data. other student demograph- school’s extensive “Learn Sjoberg. In comparison, Numbers remained the though the boys’ parents, Revere is also experi- ic — she, along with twin from Anywhere” pro- VCU’s website states its same in Lynnfield (106 cas- Kristine and David, re- encing a spike in cases. sister Brianna, are just gram, allowing students total undergraduate popu- es, 11 deaths) and Nahant main optimistic about the Seventeen new cases were two of many student ath- to return to campus for a lation is 23,172. (50 cases, six deaths) and situation as a whole. reported to bring the city’s letes scheduled to move in mix of in-person and on- Endicott College in Bev- were not updated in Mar- “We do feel comfortable caseload to 2,083. Aug. 4. line classes, should they erly plans to be a fully blehead or Swampscott. as parents sending them After weeks of being in “I’m a little nervous [to choose. Nardella is opting residential campus in the As of Monday, Marble- to college in the fall,” Kris- the single-digits, the sev- play],” said the field hock- for online only. fall, much like HPU. While head has 251 cases and 30 tine said. “The mental, en-day average of new cas- ey forward. “But hopefully “I do anticipate online Sjoberg doesn’t have the deaths and Swampscott has physical, and educational es in Revere is now 14.1. with all of the precautions classes to be more difficult option to commute, Endi- Ninety-three people 145 cases and 10 deaths. consequences of keeping we’ll be fine as long as we than in-person classes,” cott junior Cooper Maren- have died and 1,678 have Gayla Cawley can be my kids behind a comput- stay within all the rules.” said Nardella. “But my gi does. recovered from the virus reached at gcawley@item- Barrett said that each er all day in their bedroom plan is to live at home and “I’ve been talking about in Revere, according to the live.com. Follow her on day, she will have to fill is why we’re leaning this travel to campus a couple commuting a lot with city website. Twitter @GaylaCawley. out a health form report- way. They’re excited and of times per week since I my mom and my dad re- ing any symptoms and eager to get back to nor- am fortunate enough to cently,” Marengi said. He have her temperature tak- mal life, and we have con- live within 30 minutes of RIDE RIGHT TRANS. INC. en. raises a sticking point for fidence in knowing they Mac Schena, an incom- Boston.” many students and par- will both do it as safely as Now Hiring: ing freshman at Syracuse There is also the ques- ents alike. “Why am I go- possible.” University in Syracuse, tion of dining hall access ing to pay full tuition to go Wheelchair Van Drivers N.Y., finds herself in a facing freshmen, such as take online classes or see Schena and High Point no more than nine people Safe similar position regarding 781-593-7700 781-289-9999 Professional testing as she prepares to University freshman Ash- in the same spot?” Publishing Daily, except Sundays Service. ley Sjoberg, who won’t Though Endicott cur- Revere 781-284-5300 head off to campus. 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All classes brother, Clayton, was set THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2020 THE DAILY ITEM A3 Baptism under fire for Burns Saugus Pop Warner BURNS ed with personal protec- case management have 55 and 60,” said Burns. punts on season From A1 tive equipment. gone up during the pan- “My personal goals are Another challenge was demic, because many se- to increase the positive pointed to learn one of Around the same time, balancing how to provide niors are asking for help POP WARNER awareness of Greater their favorite activities in September 2019, care to their clients while that would otherwise be From A1 Lynn Senior Services and had been added to the the Massachusetts Bay keeping staff safe without provided by now-remote all of its great programs, reopening standards for growing list of COVID Transportation Authority clear directives at the be- family members. to sort of be the ambassa- youth sports will change cancellations. (MBTA) announced that ginning of the outbreak. Despite the challenges, dor for all of the good work within the next six months. “I guess the only pres- it was dropping GLSS as GLSS was tested on Burns said she is excited that’s happening here.” “The health and safety sure I really had was from a service provider for The that front in the first few about the new direction Burns has nearly 20 of our athletes … remains my two boys,” he said. RIDE, which transports weeks, when two of their that GLSS is taking. years of experience work- a priority,” the statement “They’re not very happy many seniors and others Meals on Wheels drivers “GLSS has a lot of in- ing in senior services. said. right now, but they under- with disabilities to essen- tested positive for the vi- teresting and exciting Before joining GLSS, she When it came to reac- stand.” tial services such as gro- rus. As a result, 14 drivers collaborations and other served as executive di- tions from athletes and Those with questions cery stores and doctors’ had to self-quarantine for adventures ahead of us,” rector of Mercy LIFE of their families, Fronduto offices. two weeks, which left the said Burns. “Right now, are encouraged to contact Massachusetts, which is said most people have GLSS ceased delivery of agency in a bind. we’re working really hard the board at sauguspop- part of the state’s PACE been understanding — [email protected]. all transportation services But Burns said the to repair some community program. Before that, she on July 1, effectively end- GLSS team stepped up to collaborations and get into partially save for his Elyse Carmosino can be ran the PACE program at own two sons, ages 10 reached at ecarmosino@ ing decades of providing continue delivering meals some more joint ventures Harbor Health Services services for The RIDE, and 12, who were disap- itemlive.com. through the program, with with other community Inc. in Mattapan for five which Burns called a “big staff and local volunteers agencies to best serve the years. loss. assuming those driving broadest scope of people She was director of geri- “We lost 310 of our em- duties temporarily. The or- we can.” Swampscott super asks atric services at Northeast ployees because of it and ganization delivers meals She is particularly excit- Health Systems at Bev- we were sorry to lose that to homebound people aged ed to be working with El- erly Hospital and chief to keep students home great team because they 60-plus through Meals on ement Care and the Lynn operating officer at Ele- were truly the face of Wheels. Community Health Cen- GLSS in the community,” “This also required us ter on several collabora- ment Care in Lynn, when SWAMPSCOTT in-person learning from 8 said Burns. to partner very closely tive efforts which include it was known as the Elder From A1 a.m. to 11 a.m., before the On top of all that up- with Lynn Housing Au- helping the health center Service Plan of the North school is cleaned from 11 heaval, Burns joined thority to make sure when with data tracking and Shore. school on Sept. 16 with a a.m. to noon, and Group GLSS as the COVID-19 our staff went into those reporting, and continuing During her time at El- remote-learning model be- B would go to school from pandemic was starting to buildings they were safe to provide meals to many der Service, Burns worked fore switching to a hybrid noon to 3 p.m. Students impact all facets of daily and not exposing the el- of Element Care’s PACE closely with GLSS team model on Oct. 26 as long learn remotely outside life. As it became apparent ders,” said Burns. (Program of All-Inclusive members and cites the as state guidelines remain these times. On Wednes- that the virus was becom- “Because of the right Care for the Elderly) sites. agency’s founding CEO, the same. Angelakis said days, the school would ing a crisis, she said GLSS work at the time, we were And she knows the im- Vince Lique, who died in starting off with remote receive a “deep cleaning” had to move fast and pro- able to make those con- portance of rebuilding 2006, as an inspiration. learning gives the dis- while students do assign- ductively to best serve nections and make it a trust with the community “When the GLSS CEO trict several weeks to as- ments remotely. their clients in Lynn and safe process. Thankful- following the agency’s re- position opened up, I sess other school districts Leading up to the meet- surrounding towns. ly, no one else got sick on cent difficulties, which she thought finally, I can come that do start with in-per- ing, the local teachers As GLSS was still pro- the Meals on Wheels team cited as one of her major back and keep Vince’s mis- son learning. It also gives union, Swampscott Edu- viding transportation ser- and we were able to get goals as CEO. sion alive and thriving,” more time for COVID-19 cation Association, penned vices through its MBTA back to delivering meals “My main goal is to get said Burns. faculty and staff testing, a letter advocating for re- contract at the time, in the regular way.” us back out into the com- Gayla Cawley can be further building assess- mote learning for the fall, Burns said the organiza- Burns said requests for munity as a positive force reached at gcawley@item- ments, and the creation of at least to start the semes- tion had to ensure that services such as Meals on for good provision of care live.com. Follow her on outdoor learning areas. ter — teachers unions in their drivers were provid- Wheels, home care, and for elders and folks under Twitter @GaylaCawley. By the paper’s deadline, Marblehead, Nahant, and the School Committee had Revere also signed the let- not yet voted on a model. ter. The intention was to vote More than 190 people at- Lynn opts primarily for remote learning Wednesday night. Look tended the virtual School for a follow-up article in- Committee meeting. LYNN masks, social distancing, io were not shared, as Tut- science and the data, they cluding the School Com- “As a rule, whenever re- mittee’s decision in Fri- and being smart.” wiler, citing enrollment go hand in hand with opening takes place, the From A1 day’s paper and at www. number of cases rises,” Tutwiler said he thinks challenges, said the school why the remote should be itemlive.com. Swampscott teacher Tom team, staff, and district a phased reopening is district has determined where we start so I appre- The remote learning Reid said. “Are we ready families. the best approach for the that the model with the ciate that.” Citing the recent spike in school district. His plan required social distancing model would have stu- to have that in Swamp- Committee member dents take 20-minute scott?... Our answer is no.” virus cases in the city, and includes the potential for can only work in certain Jared Nicholson said the students who have test- a shift to a hybrid system schools at the elementary classes via the video-con- Sticking with a re- district’s decision to start ferencing service Zoom, mote-learning model en- ed positive in one school — a mix of in-person and level. remotely does not mean district that reopened to with time in between tirely, without switching remote learning — later Unlike Boston Public school officials are not in-person instruction in in the school year, which classes for students to go to a hybrid or in-person Schools, which will let concerned about what stu- another state, Tutwiler would be dependent on individual schools deter- over their work and ask model at any point in the dents will be losing by not said it would be irrespon- improving health met- mine whether to deliver questions with teachers. fall, could prevent the learning in a classroom sible to reopen city schools rics. instruction in a full re- Wednesday would be a district from being eligi- in any capacity other than Tutwiler said the school mote or hybrid scenario, setting. half day. ble for federal grants and a remote learning model district will make a deter- Tutwiler said his team has Tutwiler acknowledged Angelakis’ suggested funds, Angelakis said. this fall. mination the Friday prior determined it would be in- the challenges to remote hybrid model, which the Faculty and staff will be “This is something over to Thanksgiving in terms appropriate to vary plans learning, admitting that district could switch to on tested for COVID-19 be- which I’ve agonized for of whether instruction will on a school-by-school ba- it was not the preferred Oct. 26, breaks students fore returning to school, some time,” said Tutwiler. shift to a hybrid model on sis and has opted to take choice of district fami- into two groups. On Mon- Angelakis said. “We’ve sweated the de- Dec. 1. Schedules for both a uniform approach across lies based on the results days, Tuesdays, Thurs- David McLellan can be tails, turned every stone remote and hybrid learn- the district. of a community survey, days, and Fridays, Group reached at dmclellan@ and paid attention to the ing have been prepared The state Department but said that the district A would go to school for itemlive.com. trends both locally and for the elementary, middle of Elementary and Sec- has taken steps to vastly statewide. It’s clear to me and high school levels. ondary Education (DESE) improve the online learn- the state is trending in a With the exception of the has tasked school districts ing experience from last (troubling) direction. The high schools, the schedules with preparing plans for spring when schools were positive cases in Lynn in for remote learning mirror three different reopening shut down. the 14 days prior to July those for hybrid learn- scenarios: in-person learn- He said that includes 29 were the highest in the ing for students, which is ing, hybrid learning, and purchasing devices to state.” aimed at providing a more fully remote learning. ensure that all students Mayor Thomas M. Mc- seamless transition, Tut- School districts are re- grades 3-12 will have a Gee, chairman of the wiler said. quired to submit their fi- computer, with a plan to School Committee, said For instance, under a nal reopening plans to the secure devices for grades the data shows that the hybrid model, elemen- state by Aug. 10. K-2, and implementing city’s positive test rate tary students would re- School Committee mem- a new learning manage- between July 26 and Aug. ceive two days of in-per- bers spoke favorably of ment system for online in- 1 was 9.71 percent. The son instruction per week Tutwiler’s decision to re- city’s rate has not been and three days of remote open schools in a full re- struction. that high since mid-May, learning while high school mote learning scenario “To say that remote he said. students would operate on this fall, although some learning is vastly im- The value of each coupon shown here is equal to “We definitely are sub- an A/B schedule, with two noted the challenges that proved is actually an un- or greater than the price of the newspapernewspaper.. stantially upticking com- teams of students switch- working families with derstatement,” said Tut- pared to other commu- ing between a week of young children will face. wiler. “It is a complete and nities,” said McGee. “I in-person instruction and “We would be falling total new experience.” ATTENTION BUSINESS OOWWNERS!NERS! think it’s really important spending another week on deaf ears if we start- Gayla Cawley can be If you would like to participate in to reiterate that we are learning remotely. ed with a hybrid model,” reached at gcawley@item- The Daily Item’s Deal of the Day, the ones that can change Schedules for a fully said committee member live.com. Follow her on the dynamic by wearing in-person learning scenar- Michael Satterwhite. “The Twitter @GaylaCawley contact us at 781-593-7700, ext. 1280 Food chain links Chelsea, Nahant, Revere and Winthrop TODAY’S DEAL OF THE DAY

FOOD PROGRAM want to go to the super- check-in … It works out re- From A1 market or for whatev- ally well because they also er reason, since COVID get to talk to somebody.” One of four communities started in March, we’ve In addition to helping on the North Shore to partic- gone up about 15, 20 per- ease financial burdens, ipate, the veterans services cent,” he said. Lazar also added that ex- office in Nahant, as well as Volunteer and American tra food is given to the Na- the VSO in Revere, Win- Legion member Bob Fields hant Council on Aging. throp, and Chelsea, receive added: “Some of our older ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO “If there’s any surplus food, monthly groceries from the veterans are living on a it gets donated to them,” he Boston Food Bank meant to The Nahant American fixed income, and especial- said. “They in turn use it to ease the financial burden of Legion hosts a food ly times like this, when prepare meals for the se- food shopping for veterans. drive for veterans on they’re unable to leave the nior citizens of Nahant so “It’s a group of towns Wednesday morning house, we’re able to help it doesn’t go to waste. It’s a working through the veter- at the Nahant Life fill a need. It’s not every- good partnership.” ans service offices in some- Saving Station. thing, but it’s a little bit.” Elyse Carmosino can be thing like a veterans food Thankfully, volunteers reached at ecarmosino@ serves a total of 55 resi- collaborative,” said Veterans are able to hand-deliver itemlive.com. Services Officer Jon Lazar. dents in Nahant, and 610 bags to those unable to “We have a pretty unique residents throughout the pick them up themselves, LAW OFFICES OF partnership here … The region. which fields said has even AMES ARRIGAN reason why it’s so successful Although it’s been in the resulted in some friend- J J. 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Ext. 3 action settlement per- privacy is worth these Anyone who has Newsroom taining to the now-de- days — a cup of coffee or shopped for something if you’re lucky enough to [email protected] funct Google Plus. online is familiar with [email protected] The email notified me receive the maximum pay- how often they are re- EDITORIAL that my rights may have ment for the data breach, minded of their possible Ext. 4 been affected by a breach a takeout lunch. purchases through the Sports of privacy that impacted Google notes in its email constant advertisements [email protected] former Google Plus users that people who claim of that particular prod- Ext. 5 Compromise and in 2018. their payment by Oct. 8 uct that pop up on every forfeit their right to sue Retail and Online Apparently, the former social media page or site Advertising social media service ex- the company over the mat- they visit after the fact. [email protected] perienced two software ter. The lawsuit was filed And how often has Siri speed are needed ADVERTISING bugs that year that ex- by former Google Plus us- or Amazon Alexa inter- posed the personal in- ers. rupted one of our con- Ernie Carpenter Jr. formation of hundreds The Google settlement versations without being Director of Advertising on relief bill of thousands of users, is just another remind- prompted? The unantici- and Business Development, ext. 1355 er of how little privacy [email protected] Editorial from the Minneapolis Star Tribune ed- including names, email pated remarks can be hu- people have these days. Ralph Mitchell itorial board addresses, occupations morous at the time, but and ages, according to a We are living in a time somewhat unsettling in Sales Representative, ext. 1313 where everything we put [email protected] Just like the country itself, the nation’s capital is report from Business In- hindsight. online stays in cyber- Eric Rondeau deeply divided on nearly every critical issue. But sider. The safest approach space forever, no mat- seems to be to avoid put- Sales Representative, ext. 1280 Congress and the White House must compromise According to the email, Google records indicate ter how much we try to ting any personal infor- [email protected] and coalesce on continuing aid for the millions of that I may be a settlement delete posts from our mation online altogeth- Patricia Whalen Americans facing economic calamity due to the class member since I had younger and more naive er. But in an age where Sales Representative, ext. 1310 coronavirus pandemic. a Google Plus account be- years. people are penalized for [email protected] The need is intense and immediate. Unemploy- tween Jan. 1, 2015 and It is hard to count how not having an online BUSINESS OFFICE ment was at 11.1 percent in June, and last week’s April 2, 2019, and am many stories I have seen presence, keeping a low data suggest that the grim conditions will contin- Susan J. Conti therefore eligible to re- about people losing their profile is not always an ue. Second-quarter gross domestic product con- Controller, ext. 1288 ceive a payment from the jobs or at the very least, option. [email protected] tracted at an annual 32.9 percent rate, and week- enduring public scrutiny So, post and share if you settlement. Ted Grant ly jobless claims surged to 1.43 million. Although Google has over past tweets, posts must, but remember to do Just days after those bracing reports, the sup- Publisher, ext. 1234 agreed to pay $7.5 million or comments from years it at your own risk. You [email protected] plemental $600 on top of standard unemployment as part of the settlement, ago. never know who may be Marian Kinney benefits expired, as did the moratorium on most eligible class members Not only are job appli- watching. evictions. The lapsing of the legislation will exac- ext. 1212 will only receive up to a cants being scrutinized Gayla Cawley is a staff [email protected] erbate the concurrent unemployment and home- $12 payment, depending for their résumés or cov- reporter with the Daily Will Kraft lessness crises and threatens to accelerate the on the number of claim- er letters these days, but Item. rapid contraction (if not permanent closure) of Chief Financial Of cer, ext. 1296 small businesses across the U.S. [email protected] All of this comes amid a pandemic that is “ex- Paula Villacreses traordinarily widespread,” according to Dr. Deb- SIMONE CAMPBELL A/R Specialist, ext. 1205 orah Birx, who is coordinating the White House [email protected] coronavirus response. In fact, the infection rate Mike Shanahan is intensifying in most states, and despite a dra- Chief Executive Of cer, ext. 1956 matically accelerated process, a vaccine is still Crises highlight [email protected] months away — at best. Carolina Trujillo In May, the House passed a broad-based $3 tril- Community Relations Director, ext. 1226 lion bill that includes an unemployment benefit [email protected] extension, a new round of stimulus checks, aid to racial inequality Jim Wilson states and municipalities, and other items. Chief Operating Of cer, ext. 1200 Meanwhile, the Republican-majority Senate [email protected] has prioritized — but not passed — a $1 trillion If there is any bless- billion). our nation’s economic and CIRCULATION bill, with COVID-19 liability protection a red line ing in the medical and Congress’ Joint Com- racial injustice, but they for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. But so far financial crises brought mittee on Taxation says did not create it. Lisa Mahmoud about by COVID-19, it is Manager, ext. 1239 GOP senators cannot find caucus agreement, let the average recipient of For the past 40 years, [email protected] alone common ground with Democrats. the light they’ve shone this “Millionaires Give- American tax and spend- And the Trump administration is reportedly on our tragic economic away” will enjoy a $1.6 ing policy has widened CUSTOMER SERVICE inequality. And the Unit- million tax cut this year mulling more unilateral action. divides between rich and La’ Mosha Ball None of the approaches are perfect. But all sides ed States’ bold reckoning alone. Compare that with poor, Black and white, Customer Service, ext. 1276 must compromise and avoid using the crisis as a with race has broadened the $1,200 checks given to private gain and public [email protected] the meaning of that in- most Americans. cudgel in their narrative for the November elec- pain. By repeatedly cut- GRAPHICS tion. equality and heightened Congress and the presi- ting taxes on the rich Yes, there are likely some instances when the the urgency to confront dent should enact a mas- and corporations, and Trevor Andreozzi it. sive new COVID-19 aid Designer additional $600 weekly supplement is a disincen- then attempting to cover [email protected] tive to return to work. But multiple studies sug- Low-income and Black, package, including sub- the lost revenue through gest it’s a lack of work to return to that is the crux Latinx and Native Amer- stantial federal support cuts to services that sup- Mark Sutherland icans are more likely for collapsing state and Creative Director, ext. 1330 of the crisis, or the fact that some workers also are port working families, [email protected] caregivers for COVID-19 patients — or have been than wealthy whites to city services. the federal government stricken themselves. contract coronavirus, The Health and Eco- has abrogated its most NEWSROOM More government workers also could join the more likely to die from it nomic Recovery Omnibus basic duties to the peo- Mike Alongi jobless ranks because of plummeting tax revenue, and more likely to lose a Emergency Solutions, or ple. Sports Editor, ext. 1228 making it critical for the federal government to job due to the recession. HEROES, Act passed by Such coldhearted and [email protected] boost state and local government aid. This is espe- Meanwhile, U.S. billion- the House of Represen- shortsighted policies fail Bill Brotherton cially crucial since many government workers are aires — overwhelmingly tatives in May allocat- to promote the general Features Editor ext. 1338 on the pandemic front lines, including educators white and male — have ed $875 million to over- welfare, fail to establish [email protected] seen their fortunes swell whelmed state and local who will need more, not fewer, resources to teach justice and fail to create a Elyse Carmosino by more than $700 bil- governments. It would amid an unprecedented upending of the educa- more perfect union. Reporter, ext. 1264 lion during the first four also extend and improve [email protected] tional model due to the pandemic. We can do better — and months of the pandemic. the unemployment bene- Since the initial outbreak, President Donald in these perilous times, Gayla Cawley Much discussion, in- fits that are keeping mil- Trump has been reluctant, or has refused out- we must. We can end Reporter, ext. 1236 right, to acknowledge the severity of the virus trospection and, for com- lions of households afloat, [email protected] munities of faith, prayer, and offer another, more special tax breaks and and the related economic collapse. He should not Cheryl Charles are needed to plumb the generously distributed set tax rates so that the compound this error with a misguided push for richest people and most News Editor, ext. 1278 a payroll tax cut, as some have suggested, since depths of the moral fail- round of $1,200 coronavi- [email protected] ing that led to this dead- rus payments. profitable corporations that would only accelerate the decline of desper- Olivia Falcigno ly inequality. But there The HEROES Act also pay their fair share. With ately needed tax revenue and increase the defi- the significant revenue Photographer, ext.1224 cit spending that is a legitimate concern cited by are clear, practical, pub- repeals the Millionaires [email protected] lic actions we can take Giveaway, thus raising raised, we can build a some Republicans. Spenser Hasak right now to alleviate nearly $250 billion. fairer society and stron- A divided society has produced a divided gov- ger economy, so that Photographer, ext. 1332 suffering and build a The relief package Sen- [email protected] ernment. But unity must be forged — and soon. America works for every- The American people need help. community of equal op- ate Republicans finally portunity. unveiled in late July fails one, not just the mostly Thor Jourgensen white families on top. Editorial Page Editor, ext. 1267 First, the government to meet the moment. It [email protected] should stop giving bil- contains no general aid to In short, we can do more than survive our tribu- Daniel Kane lionaires and other rich local governments, dras- Sports Reporter, ext. 1228 people even more mon- tically cuts unemploy- lations — we can emerge [email protected] ey. That may sound ob- ment benefits, leaves the better from them. vious, given the needs Millionaires Giveaway Sister Simone Camp- Steve Krause Writer-at-Large, ext. 1229 of the sick and poor in in place and does little bell is executive director [email protected] a nationwide pandem- to narrow racial income of NETWORK, a Cath- ic. But the biggest coro- gaps. olic social-justice advo- David McLellan Reporter, ext. 1317 navirus relief package Though still embroiled cacy organization. This [email protected] so far, March’s CARES in our multiple emergen- column was produced for Act, gave three times as cies, we must consider the Progressive Media Anne Marie Tobin Sports Reporter, ext. 1307 much ($135 billion) in how best to employ the Project, which is run by [email protected] one tax break to million- relative calm that will The Progressive maga- aires than it spent on eventually return. The zine, and distributed by TECHNOLOGY safety net programs ($42 current crises spotlight Tribune News Service. Tim Noyes Director ext. 1247 TO SUBMIT YOUR LETTERS, PLEASE MAIL TO THE DAILY ITEM, P.O. BOX 5, LYNN, MA 01903 OR EMAIL TO [email protected] [email protected] THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2020 THE DAILY ITEM A5 POLICE/FIRE

All address information, particu- they do this all the time while Proposal to disband Minneapolis larly arrests, reflect police records. In they wait for food. The kids then the event of a perceived inaccuracy, reportedly proceed to eat in the it is the sole responsibility of the con- parking lot and leave trash ev- police blocked from ballot erywhere. Police dispersed the cerned party to contact the relevant group from the private property. police department and have the de- A caller reported a tree fell partment issue a notice of correction into a house and caused dam- to the Daily Item. Corrections or clar- age to the windows at 5:46 p.m. ifications will not be made without Tuesday on Pickwick Road. The express notice of change from the building inspector was notified arresting police department. for the structural damage. Police reported some of the property was preserved with tarp in the LYNN attic and the homeowner con- tacted a board up company. Arrests Joshua Cromwell, 40, of PEABODY 200 Essex St., was arrest- ed on a courtesy booking at Accidents 8:48 a.m. Wednesday. Katie Dyer-Garcia, of 4 A report of a motor vehicle Lincoln St., was arrested on crash at 4:42 p.m. Tuesday at warrant charges of Class A 10 Centennial Drive. William drug distribution subsequent Gomes Ferriera Guima, 28, offense, conspiracy to violate was summoned for unlicensed the drug law, cocaine distribu- operation of a motor vehicle. tion subsequent offense, and A report of a motor vehicle drug possession with intent to crash with injuries at 5:43 distribute at 4:36 p.m. Tuesday. p.m. Tuesday at Mattress Gi- COURTESY PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS ant at 262 Andover St. This combination of file photos provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office in Minnesota in A report of a motor vehicle Accidents hit and run crash at 7:15 p.m. June shows Derek Chauvin, from left, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao. Prosecu- Tuesday at The Cheesecake tors say they may revisit the issue of audio-visual coverage of the trials of four former Minneap- A report of a motor vehicle olis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd. crash with personal injury at Factory at 210C Andover St. 7:14 a.m. Wednesday at 219 ment over Floyd’s death. the amendment. That’s be- to keep them from doing it,” Union St. Complaints By Amy Forliti ASSOCIATED PRESS It would have replaced the cause the City Council was he said. A report of a motor vehicle Police Department with a required only to consult the The process has unfolded crash at 10:10 a.m. Wednes- A report of a disturbance MINNEAPOLIS — A “Department of Communi- commission and was not during a violent summer in day at Lynnfield Street and at 6:47 p.m. Tuesday at The Minneapolis commission ty Safety and Violence Pre- bound by their action. But Minneapolis after Floyd’s Regina Road. Cheesecake Factory at 210C Andover St. A caller reported decided Wednesday to take vention” that backers said the lack of a final decision death, with shootings dra- someone threw a rock at her more time to review a City would take a more “holistic” means the proposal won’t matically higher than last Overdose car and spit on it. Council amendment to dis- approach. That approach clear deadlines to make the year. Many residents are mantle the Police Depart- A report of an opiate over- wasn’t fully defined. ballot this November. worried about a proposal to ment in the wake of George The proposal would have A similar move by the “abolish” police officers. dose at 5:02 p.m. Tuesday on SWAMPSCOTT Floyd’s death, ending the Harwood Street. allowed for some armed commission effectively Some City Council mem- possibility of voters decid- police officers. It called for ended a proposed charter bers promised a robust Accidents ing the issue in November. Theft a division of licensed peace change in 2018 that would process to get public input A report of a motor vehicle The Charter Commission officers, who would have have given the City Council on how a new department A report of a larceny at 6:33 crash at 12:05 p.m. Tuesday had expressed concern that answered to the new de- more control over the de- would look and work. a.m. Wednesday at 1 Kingsley at 430 Paradise Road. the process to change the partment’s director. partment. Council member Steve Terrace; at 7:17 a.m. Wednes- city’s charter was being “The council says ‘Trust us. Mel Reeves, a longtime Fletcher, one of the au- day at 1 Kingsley Terrace. Assaults rushed after Floyd died fol- We’ll figure it out after this community activist, said thors of the proposal, said lowing an encounter with a is approved. Trust us.’ Well he was not surprised, and before the vote that even if Vandalism A woman came to the po- Minneapolis police officer. I don’t, and we shouldn’t,” called the commission’s de- the commission decided it lice station, 531 Humphrey Some commissioners said said Barry Clegg, chairman cision a delay tactic. needed more time, the city A report of motor vehicle van- St., to report a past sexual they were more concerned of the Charter Commission. “We talk about living in would continue to move dalism at 7:14 p.m. Tuesday at assault at 1:58 p.m. Tuesday. with making the right “Charter change is too im- a democracy, but if you re- ahead with the communi- 21 High Rock St.; at 10:21 a.m. changes, rather than mak- portant.” ally want to be democratic, ty engagement process to Wednesday at 18 Lander St. Complaints ing them fast. The issue would likely sometimes it’s damn near “build a collective vision of The proposed amend- have gone to voters if the impossible. If people really what we really want the fu- MARBLEHEAD A report of suspicious activ- ment followed widespread commission had acted deci- want to do something, there ture of public safety to look ity at 12:44 p.m. Tuesday at criticism of law enforce- sively either for or against are all kinds of mechanisms like.” 10 Valley Road Complaints A report of a hazardous con- An Atlantic Avenue employee dition at 8 p.m. Tuesday at 374 reported there were about 12 Humphrey St. A caller reported a State Department: Russia pushes to 15 kids “doing wheelies and sailboat had broken loose and hanging out” in the parking lot was drifting toward the beach. at 4:37 p.m. Tuesday. She said The harbormaster was notified. disinformation in online network By Amanda Seitz the U.S. would offer a HUD awards Mass. ASSOCIATED PRESS reward of up to $10 mil- lion for information that CHICAGO — The State identifies people work- affordable housing grant Department says Russia ing with foreign govern- is using a well-developed ments to interfere in the online operation that in- By Elyse Carmosino Health and Human Ser- U.S. election through ille- ITEM STAFF cludes a loose collection vices/Medicaid agencies to gal cyber activity. provide permanent housing of proxy websites to stir The department de- BOSTON — Massa- for persons with disabilities; up confusion around the tailed a Russian-backed chusetts will receive $6.9 and identifying innovative coronavirus by amplify- misinformation cycle that million in grant funding and replicable ways for us- ing conspiracy theories spreads false information from the U.S. Department ing and leveraging Project and misinformation. online through state of- of Housing and Urban De- Rental Assistance funds. The disclosure on velopment (HUD) to sup- “The Trump Adminis- Wednesday was rare for ficials and state-funded port affordable housing tration has strongly sup- the Trump administra- media reports, by infil- PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS for extremely low-income ported our efforts to serve tion, which has been cau- trating U.S. social me- persons with disabilities. this population, including tious about blaming the dia conversation, and Pages from the U.S. State Department’s Global Part of $74 million in making $15 million in sup- Kremlin for disinforma- leveraging a deceptive Engagement Center report released on Wednes- grant money given to 12 plemental funds available tion campaigns, especial- internet framework of day. state housing financeunder the CARES (Coro- ly around the U.S. elec- websites. The Kremlin’s agencies across the coun- efforts have most recent- navirus Aid, Relief, and tion. Despite evidence tween the Kremlin and try, the award will support ly focused on conspiracy as “proxies” for Russia, Economic Security) Act to that Russia launched a have peddled a series of state-funded media that up to five years of rental help prevent, prepare for, divisive disinformation theories around the pan- conspiracy theories about often promote the same assistance for 2,400 hous- operation on social me- demic, the report found. and respond to coronavi- the pandemic that have ing units currently partic- rus,” Carson added. dia during the 2016 U.S. “Russia is playing a sig- misinformation from been widely spreading ipating in project rental The funds were awarded presidential election, the nificant role in creating their own channels, Ga- and hotly debated across assistance through HUD’s to state housing agencies State Department’s re- and spreading misinfor- brielle said. social media platforms Section 811 Supportive that are working closely port did not examine how mation and propaganda “That’s what makes Housing for Persons with like Facebook, Twitter with their state Medicaid — if at all — Russia is around many topics,” said them effective,” Gabrielle Disabilities program. Lea Gabrielle, head of the and Instagram. and Health and Human waging another online in- said. “It’s difficult for the “This funding will have a Services counterparts to fluence campaign in this State Department’s Glob- The online news outlets average person online to tremendous impact in bring- identify, refer, and con- year’s election. al Engagement Center. appear independent from ing stability to the lives of duct outreach to persons Secretary of State Mike The department named the Russian government, look at these sites and some of our most vulnerable with disabilities who also Pompeo did, however, an- more than a half-dozen but in reality serve as a know the Russian affili- citizens,” said David Tille, require long-term services nounce Wednesday that websites that, serving “connective tissue” be- ation.” HUD New England Re- to live independently. gional Administrator. “We’re Other cities receiving proud to be a partner in pro- funding include Phoenix, Colorado State investigates athlete viding permanent support- Ariz.; Denver, Colo.; Hart- ive housing solutions to per- ford, Conn.; Chicago, Ill.; sons with disabilities here in Indianapolis, Ind.; Ba- Massachusetts.” ton Rouge, La.; St. Paul, claims on COVID reporting In a public statement, Minn.; Kansas City, Mo.; HUD Secretary Ben Car- Trenton, N.J.; Raleigh, FORT COLLINS, Colo. full transparency. are expected later this “This is unacceptable son said the grants will N.C.; and Austin, Texas. (AP) — Colorado State “The story raises con- week. and will be dealt with aid in the Section 811 pro- Each state’s housing president Joyce McCon- cerns about whether the “We take the concerns of swiftly,” Parker main- gram’s purpose of ensuring agency will use the grant nell says she will launch health and well-being of our student athletes ex- tained. low-income people who suf- money to identify system- an investigation into how our student athletes is tru- tremely seriously,” McCon- Rams football head fer from a disability have ic approaches for provid- the athletic department ly the top priority of Col- nell said. “If we learn that coach Steve Addazio add- access to safe, sanitary, ing rental assistance to handled COVID-19 safety orado State University,” there are any employees ed in a statement: “Health accessible, and affordable multi-family properties that protocols amid a report McConnell said in a state- of CSU Athletics who do and welfare of our stu- rental homes, as well as the have units targeted specifi- that players were told not ment. “Let me reiterate: not share Colorado State dent-athletes on the Colo- supportive services they cally for use by low-income to reveal symptoms. the health and well-being University’s commitment rado State football team is need to live independently. persons with disabilities. The investigation stems of the CSU community is to student health and our top priority, and I fully More than 35,000 house- “These awards showcase from an article published our top priority.” well-being above all else, support president McCo- holds now receive assis- the critical partnership in the Coloradoan on Colorado State volun- we will address the issue nnell’s investigation into tance through the program, between HUD and state Tuesday. According to the tarily paused football immediately.” concerns about whether which also supports increas- agencies to reach and sup- newspaper report, Colo- team activities on July Director of athletics Joe these protocols were prop- ing the supply of accessible port this vulnerable pop- rado State football play- 29. The school said there Parker said in a state- erly followed by everyone rental housing units for in- ulation,” said Assistant ers and members of the have been 16 positive cas- ment he embraces the in- involved with our pro- dividuals with disabilities Secretary for Housing and athletic staff say coaches es among all student-ath- vestigation. He said the gram.” by integrating such units Federal Housing Commis- told them not to report letes, including 11 in foot- report that student-ath- Addazio was hired in within existing, new, or ren- sioner Dana Wade. “This coronavirus symptoms ball. letes were instructed to December after spending ovated multi-family devel- funding is going directly and threatened players On Monday, Colorado withhold symptoms would seven seasons with Bos- opments; creating effective, to those who have the ex- with reduced playing time State announced it had “run counter to repeated ton College. The Rams successful, and sustainable perience and knowledge at should they quarantine. conducted 150 tests on communications we have are scheduled to open the partnerships between state the local level to effectively McConnell promised a student-athletes for the had with our staff and stu- season Sept. 19 by hosting housing agencies and state reach those most in need.” swift investigation and coronavirus. The results dent-athletes.” Northern Colorado. A6 THE DAILY ITEM THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2020 30 days, 30 winners in NEW ENGLAND BRIEFS Boston transit agency names year contradicted the po- new safety chief lice account of the incident. Christopher Ayala-Me- My Brother’s Table raffle BOSTON (AP) — A lendez’s federal lawsuit longtime Chicago public filed this month alleges transit executive has been excessive force by police, LYNN — My Brother’s be re-entered into the raf- line. alone, it served 86,446 named chief of operation- malicious prosecution and Table soup kitchen has fle, allowing the possibili- The raffle is sponsored meals compared to 16,980 al and construction safety violation of his civil rights seen a dramatic increase ty of winning more than by North Shore Medi- during June of last year. for the Massachusetts Bay during his arrest last Oct. in meals served during once. cal Center, Salem Five MBT’s mission is to Transportation Authority, 26, The Telegram & Ga- the pandemic, and now Raffle tickets are priced Bank, Institution For Sav- nourish its community ev- the Boston area’s public zette reported Tuesday. the charity is holding a at $30 for one, $50 for two ings bank, Eaton Vance, eryday through hospitali- transit agency, officials say. Ayala-Melendez, 24, was creative raffle through- and $100 for five. Winners MG+M The Law Firm, ty, free meals and uncondi- Ronald L. Ester Jr. was charged with assaulting out September to raise will be notified via email and Knights of Pythias. tional love. It is privately appointed to the position a police officer but prose- much-needed funds. and announced daily on Since 1982, My Broth- funded and does not re- of chief safety officer for cutors dismissed charges A prize will be given the My Brother’s Table er’s Table, the largest ceive or seek federal, state the MBTA after more than after reviewing the video. away every day during the website and social media soup kitchen on the North or local aid to ensure the 28 years with the Chicago “If the video hadn’t ex- month. platforms. Shore, has served more privacy of its guests and to Transit Authority, officials isted, it would have been Prizes include restau- Tickets are on sale now. than four million free, hot serve the greatest number announced Tuesday. their word against mine,” rant gift cards, scratch To purchase tickets online, meals to women, men and of people in need. Fund- “Ron has walked in the he said. “It would have tickets and more. Each please visit www.mybroth- children in need. The need ing comes from individu- shoes of both the Chief changed my life.” ticket purchased offers 30 erstable.org. To purchase has grown dramatically. al donations, events and Safety Officer and transit Ayala-Melendez was ar- chances to win. Every day tickets by cash or check, Since the start of 2020, private grants. MBT also operations,” Steve Poftak, rested the night of a large in September, a name will please mail to 98 Willow MBT has served 257,000 relies heavily on donated general manager of the fight at the beer garden. be drawn and one lucky Street, Lynn MA 01901 meals, surpassing the food from supermarkets, MBTA, said in the state- He lived near the bar, and person will win that day’s and include your contact 204,770 meals it served in restaurants, food drives ment. “This unique blend had been out for a walk prize. Winning tickets will information in the memo all of 2019. In June 2020 and individuals. of experience will serve with his girlfriend. He said the MBTA well and help he approached an officer to us deliver a best-in-class ask if he could get home. safety program.” The police report said USS Constitution, associated Ayala-Melendez became Ester will be responsible for “strategic policy de- aggressive. He was taken velopment, management, to the ground by an officer and oversight of safety and bitten by a police dog. museum to reopen Friday Ayala-Melendez said programs” officials said. An MBTA Safety Panel the video confirms that BOSTON (AP) — The report released in Decem- he was not acting aggres- U.S.S. Constitution, and ber found that “safety is not sively or yelling when he the U.S.S. Constitution a priority” for the agency. pointed in the direction of Museum in Boston plan his apartment. to reopen to the public lat- Man dies when pickup The district attorney’s office and the police de- er this week after being strikes vehicle clearing closed for several months partment declined to com- ment, citing the pending because of the coronavirus storm debris litigation. pandemic. CHELMSFORD (AP) — Both attractions are A 22-year-old Massachu- Woman charged with fatally scheduled to reopen on setts man died when the Friday, according to a pickup truck he was driv- stabbing man held without bail statement. ing struck a town-owned BOSTON (AP) — A Guests on board the ship vehicle that was cleaning 38-year-old woman known as “Old Ironsides” up debris after Tropical charged with fatally stab- as well as in the museum Storm Isaias, authorities bing a man in a Boston will be required to wear a say. park told police that the face coverings. Guest ca- Michael Franklin, of victim tried to sexually as- pacity will be limited and Westford, struck the buck- sault her, authorities said. the museum will require et of a front-end loader Mary Fox was held with- owned by the town of timed tickets. out bail after pleading not PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS Chelmsford that was as- Both the ship and the guilty Tuesday to murder The parking lot is filled with cars at Patriot Square as patients queue sisting with the removal of in connection with the early museum will undergo fallen trees at about 9:30 up outside the Carewell Urgent Care for a COVID-19 test, Wednesday, in morning death of Michael more frequent cleanings. p.m. Tuesday, according to Dennis. Dezrick, 48, in Clifford The U.S.S Constitution a statement Wednesday Park in the city’s Roxbury is the world’s oldest com- from Middlesex District SMITH COLLEGE wrote in a letter to stu- lines are restoring region- neighborhood. Fox also had missioned warship afloat, Attorney Marian Ryan REMOTE CLASSES dents. al service for the first time her bail revoked on three and played a crucial role and Chelmsford police She called the decision since late March. open but unrelated cases. in the Barbary Wars and The president of Smith Chief James Spinney. “profoundly disappointing.” Concord Coach Lines, Fox and Dezrick had the War of 1812, actively College announced Franklin died at the The decision was made Dartmouth Coach, and been involved in a dispute defending sea lanes from Wednesday that the school scene. The driver of the hours before the stabbing, not just to protect the stu- Boston Express will be has changed its plans for loader, a 53-year-old man, according to a statement 1797 until 1855. The ship dents, faculty and staff of running again on Aug. the fall semester and will was transported to Lowell from the Suffolk district was undefeated in battle the prestigious women’s 16 with operations that now offer all courses re- General Hospital with se- attorney’s office. and destroyed or captured college, but also to protect include service to Logan 33 enemy vessels. motely over coronavirus its host city of Northamp- rious injuries. Fox told police that she dangers. International Airport, the The crash remains un- It earned the nickname ton, she said. had asked Dezrick for a “Given new scientific ev- companies said in a state- der investigation. “Old Ironsides” during the The school had an- cigarette and when she idence, as well as recent ment. went to take the cigarette, War of 1812 when British nounced last month that and troubling trends na- The bus lines have in- Man sues police over arrest he tried to sexually assault cannonballs were seen it planned to bring about tionally and in Massachu- 60 percent of its rough- stalled plexiglass shields her, according to the Bos- bouncing off its wooden after video contradicts report setts, I have come to the ly 2,500 students back to around every headrest, ton Herald. She told police hull. difficult conclusion that campus this fall. will run at a reduced ca- WORCESTER (AP) — A she grabbed a knife that The museum collects, we should not bring stu- pacity, and installed up- former Worcester man has the victim had in his pock- preserves, and interprets dents back to campus for BUS SERVICE graded air filtration sys- sued the city police depart- et and stabbed him in the the stories of the ship and the fall semester,” Presi- RESTORED tems, among other safety ment after video of his ar- stomach. She told police its crew. dent Kathleen McCartney Three New England bus protocols. rest at a beer garden last she threw the knife away. New Hampshire investigates taxation of remote workers

By Holly Ramer states who were working Republican Gov. Chris asking him to reconsider. In other coronavirus-re- who are responding to the ASSOCIATED PRESS in Massachusetts before Sununu said in a state- “That’s unfair, that’s lated news from New coronavirus pandemic. the pandemic are subject to ment. “We will take imme- anti-worker, that’s an- Hampshire: The Democratic dele- CONCORD, N.H. — New Massachusetts’ income tax diate steps to stop any at- ti-public health, and it gation had asked the ad- Hampshire is investigat- BACK ON THE BUS while they work from home. tempts to impose income rests on, at best, shaky ministration to extend ing whether other states The regulation, which is taxes on Granite Staters legal grounds,” they wrote. Three New England bus the New Hampshire Na- are improperly taxing its in effect until Dec. 31 or in a manner that violates “In the interest of public lines that shut down in tional Guard’s activation residents during the coro- March because of the coro- through Dec. 31. Accord- navirus pandemic. 90 days after the state of the law or the New Hamp- health, protecting work- emergency in Massachu- shire or United States ers, and protecting our re- navirus will resume ser- ing to the delegation, the The review by the state vice this month between setts is lifted, raised strong Constitution.” gional relationship, we re- request has been granted, Department of Justice an- destinations in Maine, objects in New Hampshire, Meanwhile, Democratic spectfully encourage you but starting Aug. 21, the nounced Wednesday was New Hampshire, Massa- one of nine states without state Sens. Dan Feltes and to withdraw the tax rule state will be reimbursed sparked by a recent emer- chusetts and New York. at only 75 percent instead an income tax. Lou D’Allessandro wrote change penalizing New gency regulation enacted Concord Coach Lines, of 100 percent. Only Texas “We need to maintain to Massachusetts Depart- Hampshire residents who in neighboring Massachu- Dartmouth Coach and and Florida will be fully that New Hampshire ment of Revenue Commis- now work remotely due to setts. According to the July Boston Express will re- supported, they said. 21 rule, residents in other advantage at all costs,” sioner Geoffrey Snyder COVID-19.” sume service Aug. 16 with “Considering the enor- trips to Boston. Service to mous financial strain that New York will be limited the state is under as a to Dartmouth Coach trips result of COVID-19, full on Fridays and Sundays. federal support for the MERCURY RECOVERY PROGRAM The bus lines have put Guard’s deployment re- numerous safety proto- mains vital,” the delega- cols in place. Each bus will tion said in a joint state- Mercury is an element that can be harmful to human health run at reduced capacity, ment. masks are required and Republican Gov. Chris and the environment if not disposed of properly. plexiglass shields have Sununu had asked that been installed around the activation be extended headrests. Air filtration through September. Mercury is found in products such as: has been upgraded in ter- THE NUMBERS minals and on buses, and new cleaning procedures As of Tuesday, 6,693 peo- are in place. ple had tested positive for Separately, the Gover- the virus in New Hamp- nor’s Office of Emergency shire, an increase of 33 Relief and Recovery re- from the previous day. One cently approved a request new death was announced, from the state Depart- for a total of 418. The sev- en-day rolling average of Thermostats Thermometers Button-Cell Mercury Switches Fluorescent ment of Transportation for daily new cases has risen Batteries Lamps funding to help intercity bus service resume. over the past two weeks; it was 21 new cases per day NATIONAL GUARD on July 20, and 28 new cas- Please contact your local Board of Health or Department of Public EXTENSION es per day on Aug. 3. SPONSORED BY New Hampshire’s Con- For most people, the vi- Works for information on where to safely dispose of these items. gressional delegation rus causes mild or moder- expressed disappoint- ate symptoms. For some, ment Wednesday that the especially older adults and Trump administration the infirm, it can cause keepmercuryfromrising.org has reduced support for more severe illness and National Guard members can lead to death. THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2020 THE DAILY ITEM A7 Biden won’t go to Milwaukee to accept Democratic nomination By Bill Barrow sion and online. Charlotte, N.C. ASSOCIATED PRESS A DNC official said all DNC officials later au- speakers and presenters for thorized organizers to Joe Biden will not trav- the Aug. 17-24 convention plan for virtual proceed- el to Milwaukee to accept are now expected to speak ings, then added an explic- the Democratic presiden- from remote locations. it call for delegates not to tial nomination because of Wisconsin Gov. Tony travel to Milwaukee. More concerns over the corona- Evers, a Democrat, praised than 4,000 delegates al- virus, party officials said Biden for leading by exam- ready were casting mail Wednesday, signaling a ple. ballots for Biden’s nom- move to a convention that “The upcoming Demo- ination and a platform essentially has become en- cratic convention is differ- that had been written and tirely virtual. ent than we’d imagined. approved in meetings con- It is the latest example A lot has changed since ducted online. But until of the pandemic’s sweep- we set out on this jour- Wednesday, it was expect- ing effects on the 2020 ney more than a year ago ed that Biden and his run- presidential election and now, but the one thing ning mate would speak the latest blow to tradi- that hasn’t is Democrats’ from Milwaukee. tional party nominating commitment to putting Biden is in the final days FILE PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS conventions that histor- health and safety first,” of deciding on a vice presi- Cori Bush’s victory over longtime Rep. William Lacy Clay Tuesday in ically have marked the Evers said in a statement. dent, who he has said will Missouri’s Democratic primary came in a rematch of 2018, when she start of fall general elec- “It has never been more be a woman. failed to capitalize on a national Democratic wave that favored political tion campaigns. important for elected of- Trump was far more re- newcomers such as Bush’s friend, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “From the very begin- ficials to lead by example luctant than Biden to al- ning of this pandemic, we — that’s the kind of leader ter his convention plans, put the health and safety Joe is, and that’s the kind as he sought to downplay of the American people of president we need. I the pandemic’s signifi- Cori Bush ousts 20-year first,” said Democratic Na- know he will continue to cance and push the coun- tional Committee Chair have a presence in Wis- try to return to normal Tom Perez. “We followed consin, virtually or other- operations. Trump jousted U.S. Rep. Clay in Missouri the science, listened to wise, and I look forward to with North Carolina Gov. doctors and public health doing everything we can Roy Cooper, a Democrat, experts, and we continued to win Wisconsin.” because Cooper wouldn’t By Summer Louis showed up today.” people.” making adjustments to President Donald Trump guarantee the president Ballentine Bush’s campaign spokes- Both Clay and Bush are our plans in order to pro- has abandoned his own that he’d lift restrictions ASSOCIATED PRESS woman, Keenan Korth, Black, and Black residents tect lives. That’s the kind plans to accept the Re- on large public gatherings said voters in the district slightly outnumber whites of steady and responsi- publican nomination in so that Trump could pack Cori Bush, a onetime were “galvanized.” in the district that in- homeless woman who led ble leadership America person. On Wednesday, he Charlotte’s NBA arena. “They’re ready to turn cludes St. Louis and north protests following a white deserves. And that’s the mused about potentially Trump then said he’d the page on decades of St. Louis County. police officer’s fatal shoot- leadership Joe Biden will making his acceptance travel to Jacksonville, failed leadership,” Korth Bush became ill while ing of a Black 18-year-old bring to the White House.” speech from the White Fla., to make his address, said. pregnant with her sec- in Ferguson, ousted long- Neither the Biden cam- House. a decision welcomed at the Bush, 44, also had back- ond child in 2001 and had time Rep. William Lacy paign nor DNC officials Biden and Democrats time by Republican Gov. ing from political action to quit her job at a pre- Clay Tuesday in Missou- offered details about how for months have moved Ron DeSantis. Florida has committee Justice Demo- school. When she and her ri’s Democratic primary, Biden might accept the toward a virtual conven- since seen its COVID-19 then-husband were evict- ending a political dynasty crats and Fight Corporate nomination, which even tion, first by delaying the cases spike, part of a that has spanned more Monopolies this election. ed from a rental home, the in the pandemic could be convention from its orig- national trend that led than a half-century. She campaigned for Ver- couple, their newborn and a made-for-screen event inal mid-July date to the Trump to yield to public Bush’s victory came in mont Sen. Bernie Sanders 14-month-old son lived out that reaches tens of mil- week before Republicans’ health experts and cancel a rematch of 2018, when during his presidential of a Ford Explorer for sev- lions of voters via televi- scheduled convention in the event. she failed to capitalize bid. eral months. on a national Democratic Bush’s primary win es- Eventually, the couple wave that favored political sentially guarantees her divorced. Bush earned a newcomers such as Bush’s a seat in Congress repre- nursing degree. She also friend, Rep. Alexandria senting the heavily Dem- became a pastor. Ocasio-Cortez. ocratic St. Louis area. Michael Brown’s death But this time around, Missouri’s 1st Congressio- in 2014 in Ferguson vault- Bush’s supporters said nal District, which encom- ed her into another role: protests over the death passes Ferguson, has been activist. She became a of George Floyd in police represented by Clay or his leader of some of the many custody in Minneapolis father for a half-century. protests that followed the and outrage over racial in- Bill Clay served 32 years fatal police shooting of the justice finally pushed her before retiring in 2000. Black, unarmed 18-year- over the edge. William Lacy Clay, 64, was old. She was back on the An emotional Bush, elected that year. streets in 2017 after a speaking to supporters Clay didn’t face a seri- white St. Louis officer was while wearing a mask, ous challenger until Bush. acquitted in the shooting said few people expected This year, he ran on his death of a Black suspect. her to win. decades-long record in She continues to lead “They counted us out,” Congress. protests. she said. “They called me “This election is a sim- “She’s being buoyed by — I’m just the protester, ple choice,” Clay said in a this movement, and the PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS I’m just the activist with Monday statement. “Cori movement’s origin is in no name, no title and no Bush’s Empty Rhetoric, or Ferguson,” Justice Demo- Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden will real money. That’s all they my record of real results crats spokesman Waleed not travel to Milwaukee to accept his party’s White House nomination said that I was. But St. and real reforms for the Shahid said. because of concerns over the coronavirus. WNBA players urge people to vote against team owner, senator Can’t get to BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) was taken that we felt like — WNBA players urged in doing so all the ideas people to vote against At- we had been focused on lanta Dream co-owner Kel- weren’t lost.” the store? ly Loeffler, a Republican Williams, who is regis- U.S. senator running to tered to vote in Georgia, keep her seat in Georgia. said that wearing the shirts Loeffler, who spokewas optional and that she Get home out publicly against the thought the teams playing league’s social justice plans Wednesday night would and sent a letter to WNBA also wear them. Commissioner Cathy En- One of the initiatives that delivery. gelbert objecting to the ini- the players came into the tiatives to honor the Black season was to get people to Lives Matter movement vote. The shirts were taking once the season began last it a step further by support- month, is facing opposition ing a specific candidate. FILE PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS from Raphael Warnock. He Loeffler blasted theMembers of the Phoenix Mercury, left, and Los is a Black pastor in Atlanta. league in a statement Tues- Angeles Sparks stand for a moment of silence Players from the Atlan- day night, decrying what in honor of Breonna Taylor before a WNBA bas- ta team, as well as players she calls “cancel culture.” ketball game in July. from the Seattle Storm, “This is just more proof Chicago Sky and Phoenix that the out of control can- for bigotry. We celebrate advance to a runoff in Jan- Mercury, wore “Vote War- cel culture wants to shut the courage and resolve of uary. nock” on T-shirts before out anyone who disagrees these players standing for Other top candidates in their games on Tuesday. with them. It’s clear that justice, and I am proud to the race include Republican Storm point guard Sue the league is more con- stand with them.” U.S. Rep. Doug Collins and Bird, a four-time Olym- cerned with playing politics Loeffler is a wealthy busi- Democrat Matt Lieberman, pic gold medalist, came up than basketball,” she said. nesswoman who took office the son of former senator with the idea, and players Warnock has been en- earlier this year after being and vice presidential candi- had conference calls with dorsed by a slate of state appointed to the Senate date Joe Lieberman. Warnock before the show of and national Democratic by Republican Gov. Brian Loeffler was chosen by Subscribe for half the support. leaders. He also issued a Kemp. Warnock is pastor of Kemp in part to appeal Dream forward Elizabeth statement in response to the Atlanta church where toward suburban women, newsstand price. Williams used social me- the support. the Rev. 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All candidates in Georgia, joined the race to be strategic, intentional of history,” Warnock said. will face off against each in January, Loeffler has or call 781-593-7700, ext. 1239 about our words and lan- “We are in a moment of other in one big jumble in increasingly staked out guage,” the Dream’s cap- generational, transforma- November. If no candidate staunchly conservative po- tain said. ”We wanted to tive change, and there is tops 50 percent of the vote, sitions to guard against at- make sure whatever action no place in that movement the top two finishers will tacks from the right. A8 THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2020 LOOK! Balloons to Heaven Day, National Fresh Breath Day, National Root Beer Float Day

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! TO CONTRIBUTE TO LOOK!, PLEASE EMAIL [email protected] OR MAIL YOUR SUBMISSION TO THE ITEM, P.O. BOX 5, LYNN, MA 01903. Students make the grade, Lynn author is all about romance By Bill Brotherton prepare for new year ITEM FEATURES EDITOR LYNN — Lina Rehal, a longtime city resident, Tania Shadari, a Mar- and small group sessions average of 4.0 or higher has just self-published keting major at Lasell with new students to help during the semester. her fifth contemporary ro- University in Newton, has foster community while The following students mance, “Someday is Here.” been selected as an Ori- away from campus. Orien- have been named to the She describes the action. entation Leader for the tation itself took place in 2020 spring semester “Photographer Blair 2020-2021 academic year. a virtual format in June, Dean’s List at the Univer- Emerson reconnects with Shadari, of Swampscott, with additional sessions sity of Minnesota Twin Jace Cooper, the hand- is one of 13 selected OLs planned. Cities: Noelle Bostley, some electrical engineer to work with incoming Max Blake of Peabody, a junior in the College who left town 15 years students at Lasell as they who is majoring in Game of Liberal Arts, and Lila transition into the univer- Production Management, Frankenstein, a soph- ago to sail around the sity community. As an OL, has been named to the omore in the College of world. Excited that he’s Shadari participated in President’s List for the Liberal Arts. Bostley and found Blair again through training throughout the Spring 2020 semester at Frankenstein are both social media, Jace invites Lina Rehal displays a copy of her novel, “Some- spring semester to pre- Champlain College in Bur- from Marblehead. the beautiful ex-wife of a day is Here.” pare to welcome Lasell’s lington, Vt. Students on Graduates honored at former business associate newest students. The the President’s List have UMass Lowell’s 2020 to visit him at his home brary, She said her char- tos about growing up in group held a Q&A panel achieved a grade point Commencement included in Fort Lauderdale. Reluc- acters “are generally age 1950s-’60s Revere and tantly, she accepts. When 45 and up. My stories are Lynn, was Rehal’s first LYNN SAUGUS SALEM things heat up between about couples who find published book. A novella, them, it becomes diffi- Djhoanna M. Thomas, Oscar A. Arau- Rumana Alam, Benjamin Nathan a second chance at love. “October in New York: A Katherine N Moloney, Christopher cult for him to honor his jo, Jairo F. Soriano,Taniqua Hunter, Shutt, Patrick Riley, Alvin Jak Sing They have some sizzle, Love Story,” followed in Paul Nadeau, Justin Tyler Sudenfield promise of a no-strings- but are not explicit. I like 2016, and then came the Heather Edukugho, Ky Vongsa, Chris- Lam, Xulun Jiang, Katherine Mary attached vacation.” to leave something to the full-fledged contemporary vtopher Griffin, Kingsley Babatunde Muise, Anne Marie DiCredic, Thomas SAUGUS W. Stewar, John Louis Gaeta, Chris- The book cover is also reader’s imagination.” romance of “Loving Dan- Abiodun Agbedun, Daniel Suarez, Erin B. Donohue, Nicholas Robert tian James Patterson, David James quite steamy, unlike her Rehal started writing iel,” the first book in her Jonathan Musangu, Shnaidie Monaco Baumann, Kathleen T. Thai, Lowre Vir- previous works. early, when she was in the Tucker’s Landing series Shienantha Macajoux, Robert Joel gie Aristil, Andreas Dominovic, Amari- SWAMPSCOTT “I got brave,” she said, fifth grade, working with about people in a small Pichardo, Daisy Angel, Josiah Martin ah MeiShu Condon, Alexis P. Lever, Reuben Bernard Resnick then laughed. Revere classmates on a coastal town in Massachu- Alexander, Katie Barnes, Leaksmy Victoria Lee Pugh, Evan Benjamin Rehal, retired from mimeographed yearbook. setts, and “Jillian & Sam,” The following students made the Heng, Newton Isaac Rufino, Paulo Smith, Alicia Lee MacArthur, Ryan her executive secretary She later wrote features the initial book in her Sathler, Dara Kim, Riley Stephen Joseph Cummings and Alyssa Carol Dean’s List at the University of Con- position at the Jewish Re- and travel articles for “Love in the Cove” series. McManus, Ahmad Shuhibar, Asif Hos- Corrado necticut: habilitation Center, is an North Shore newspapers, Her books are available sain, Brenda Melanie Brown, Nelson Graduates from the University of Con- LYNN active member of The Red including The Item. on Amazon.com in paper- Daniel Barrios, Shawn Richard Nagle, necticut Class of 2020 include: Rock Rewriters, a weekly “Carousel Kisses,” a back and Kindle formats. Katelyn Yamartino Braulio Antonio Lopez, Ryan Edward LYNN writing group that meets 2011 series of nostalgic For more information MacDonald, Qingtian Li, Guensly Katelyn Anne Yamartino LYNNFIELD at Swampscott Public Li- essays, poems and pho- visit www.linarehal.com. Thelemaque, Sulayman Makalo, LYNNFIELD Lauren Gallucci Mulika Chhorn, Michael Samuel, Local Student Earns Dean’s List Honors at Cameron J DeGeorge, Lauren E Gal- MARBLEHEAD Mathieu Joseph Bruneau, Jasmin lucci Alondra Rivera Ramirez, Abigail Jane Audrey Demilo, Victoria Donlon, Brit- Providence College for Spring 2020 Semester MARBLEHEAD Tavernese, Megan Margaret Geaney, tany Lydon Audrey Beatrice DeMilo ,Victoria Liam Faulkner, son of carried a minimum of nine Caige J. Sadler, Jodi Thompson and Anne Donlono, Brittany Lydon PEABODY Emily McMahon, Julie and Bobby Faulk- credit hours during that PEABODY Lacey Bornstein, Benjamin Shmase ner of Swampscott, has semester and be enrolled NAHANT Lacey Bornstein, Aubrey L Irvine, SAUGUS earned Dean’s List honors in a degree program. Jesse Jeffrey Haynes-Lewis and Erick- Melissa A Neary, Benjamin Shmase, at Providence College for Founded in 1917, Prov- son Eaton Vasili S Stefanopoulos Danny Barletta, Chris Pedicini the spring 2020 semester. idence College is the only Dean’s List honors are college or university in The following students Stephenson of Salem, (President’s List), Sarah earned by full-time under- the United States admin- received degrees from the Matthew Connolly of Long of Peabody (Dean’s graduate students who, at istered by the Dominican University of New Haven Nahant,Travis Fraser of List), Jeffrey Parziale of the end of the semester, Friars. The Catholic, in Connecticut: Isabel Saugus, Chenysse Hill of Saugus (President’s List). have attained a GPA of 3.55 liberal arts college has an Sleeman of Marblehead, Lynn, Meredith McIn- Two Lynn students have or better (on a 4.0 scale), Liam Faulkner undergraduate enrollment Henry C. Lee College tosh of Lynn, Quinn graduated from Dickin- with no grade lower than of approximately 4,000 of Criminal Justice and Brinkler of Lynn, Robyn son College in Carlisle, “C,” and with no incomplete Education must be in good students and offers degrees Forensic Sciences, Bache- Hendry of Salem, Lexi Pa. Wrutoe Bonwin, grades (“I” or “NM”). academic standing (de- in 50 academic majors. lor of Science in Forensic Howard of Salem and daughter of Isaac Bon- For the spring 2020 se- fined as a cumulative GPA Since 1997, Providence Science; Gloria Kosova Anthony Nikolakakis win of Lynn, graduated mester, students could only of 2.0 or above) and, at the College consistently has of Saugus, College of Arts of Lynn. with a BA in political elect one standard letter end of the spring semester been ranked among the top and Sciences, Bachelor The following local stu- science. Elizabeth Dada, grade as a “pass” grade to term, have attained an five regional universities in of Science in Biology; dents at The University daughter of Victoria remain eligible for the list. average of 3.25 or higher the North according to U.S. Gianna Scire of Sau- of Alabama in Tuscaloosa Dada of Lynn, graduated Part-time students in with no grade less than News & World Report’s gus, College of Arts and were named to the Dean’s cum laude with a BA in the School of Continuing “C.” They also must have “America’s Best Colleges.” Sciences, Bachelor of Arts List with an academic educational studies and in Communication. record of 3.5 or above or sociology, Both young Katryn Barr of Lynn the President’s List with Lynn-area students graduate from UMass Amherst women are graduates made the Dean’s List for an academic record of 4.0: of KIPP Academy Lynn the Spring 2020 semes- Jada Vaughan of Lynn AMHERST – Approxi- Theodore Colin Bostley, Mi- mantha Robles, Samnang Ros, Collegiate. ter at The University of (President’s List), Kris- mately 6,600 students re- randa Clingen, Katerina Ker- Tong Shen, Dhimiter Shosho. Maine at Farmington. ten Boehner of Lynn- The following local resi- ceived bachelor’s degrees astaris, Van Francis McCoole, SALEM The following students field (President’s List), dents received bachelor of at the University of Mas- Kendrick Charles McDonald, Karen Cevallos, Joanna have been named to the Michael Blaney of Mar- arts degrees from Ham- sachusetts Amherst as the Bardia Mehr, Jordan Robin Elaine Coleman, Olivia Ma- Dean’s List for the spring blehead (President’s List), ilton College in Clinton, university held a virtual Mitchell, Joshua Okon, Henry rie Comeau, Kaitlin N Cope- 2020 semester at Plym- Sydney Ciulla of Mar- NY: Carlos Espindola commencement celebration William Power, Hunter R Prou- las, Hibo Elmi, Cameron Alan outh State University in blehead (President’s List), Gomez of Lynn (majored for the Class of 2020 on May lx, Kayla Jenette Serowik, Ben- Fraser, Anna Greer Hayden, New Hampshire: Alexan- Mark Cohen of Marble- in biochemistry/molecular 8. Here is a list of local stu- jamin Murphy Taliesin, Coles Christian Joseph Howard, Jack dra Balunas of Marble- head (Dean’s List), Liam biology), William Fitz- dents who earned a degree. Buckley Tompkins. Robert McCarthy, Niamh Luna head, Ashley Leblanc Coughlin of Marblehead patrick of Marblehead LYNN PEABODY Quinn Tierney, Victoria Evelyn of Swampscott, Jasmine (Dean’s List), Madison (majored in economics), Saleh Ahmed, Claudia Mari- Tiana Allen-Rodriguez, Anal- Rulnick, Leo Paul Smart. 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Cold Warm Stationary Last 3...... $132 Last 3...... $93 Pressure H L AUG. 11 AUG. 19 High Low Showers Rain T-storms Flurries Snow Ice TODAY TOMORROW SATURDAY <-10 -0s0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110+ P’Cloudy | High 82, Low 67 Showers | High 74, Low 65 AM Showers | High 76, Low 66 NATIONAL SUMMARY: A wedge of dry air will keep thunderstorms away from New England, but storms can be heavy and gusty in the mid-Atlantic and in parts of the South today. Storms will dot parts of the Plains with isolated severe storms over eastern Colorado. Most areas from the Rockies to the West Coast will be dry. A few storms may erupt in northwestern Montana. ©2020 AccuWeather, Inc. SPORTS B THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2020 Ferncroft’s Jared Mscisz wins North Shore Amateur By Mike Alongi great to come out and get day and was able to at- ITEM SPORTS EDITOR the job done,” said Mscisz. tack where he needed to, “I was able to go out there making birdie on the par-4 BOXFORD — When and hit some good shots 10th hole en route to his you’re the only player and make some putts.” to shoot par in the nal 71. Mscisz, who recently was round of a tournament, “There were some tough named Northeast-10 Con- you’re usually going to be pins out there for sure, in pretty good shape. ference Rookie of the Year but it wasn’t as windy as Such was the case for following his freshman (Tuesday), so it was a little Ferncroft Country Club’s season at Southern New easier,” said Mscisz. “I did Jared Mscisz Wednesday Hampshire University, a good job of staying below afternoon, as the Danvers opened the 36-hole stroke the hole most of the day play tournament with a native shot a score of 1-un- and that gave me a few 3-over 75 on Tuesday, but der 71 in the nal round to good looks at birdie. he knew that he was close take home the title at the “I made a great bird- to a breakthrough. 45th annual North Shore ie on 10 with a long putt “I honestly have been Amateur at Far Corner after hitting a great shot Golf Club. His total score playing a little shaky all in there, so that gave me for the tournament was summer, so it was good to ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO 75-71-146. come out and play a solid some good momentum,” “I knew I had to go low round to put myself in po- said Mscisz. Danvers resident Jared Mscisz, a player at Ferncroft CC, won the North (Wednesday) in order to sition to win,” said Mscisz. Shore Amateur at Far Corner Golf Club in Boxford on Wednesday after- have a chance, so it was He came out on Wednes- MSCISZ, B2 noon. Bruins fall to Lightning 3-2, drop to at-best No. 3 seed TORONTO (AP) — Ty- urday. this year with the stop- ler Johnson scored the “At this point, I don’t page of play. We knew the tiebreaking goal with 87 think anyone’s really rules going into it. seconds left to lead the thinking about what hap- “We’re just trying to win Tampa Bay Lightning to a pened in the pandem- a hockey game right now,” 3-2 victory over Boston on ic-shortened regular sea- Cassidy said. “Would I Wednesday and send the son,” Johnson said. “This rather be the No. 1 seed? Presidents’ Trophy-win- is a whole new thing for Absolutely. But that’s not ning Bruins to their sec- us and we’re trying to play going to happen.” ond straight loss in the the best hockey we can.” Charlie McAvoy and NHL’s playoff seeding Tuukka Rask made 32 Chris Wagner scored to round. saves for the Bruins, who help Boston rally from a Andrei Vasilevskiy led the NHL with 100 2-0 de cit. But in the nal stopped 25 shots for the points before the coronavi- minutes Yanni Gourde re- Lightning, who improved rus shutdown but can now ceived a long pass at the to 2-0 in the three-game nish no higher than the blue line and shot it off Rask’s left skate. PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS round-robin. Tampa Bay, No. 3 seed in the Eastern which was second in the Conference. The puck was sitting Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask (left) makes a glove save as East with 92 regular-sea- “That part sucks, I’m not there for Johnson to  ick Lightning center Blake Coleman (20) and Bruins defenseman Zdeno son points, would earn the going to lie to you,” Bruins it in. Chara (right) look on during the second period of Wednesday night’s top seed with a victory coach Bruce Cassidy said. round-robin game. over Philadelphia on Sat- “But that’s the situation BRUINS, B2 Signs ominous and hopeful as college sports hangs in balance

ASSOCIATED PRESS New York, versus Mi- ami, Florida, they’re very, The announcements very different. And those came within 40 minutes schools are going to have of each other Wednesday to operate consistent with morning, one bleak, the their local municipal pol- other providing a glimmer icies, their state policies, of hope for a college foot- federal policies, and then ball season that is looking also whatever they decide iffy at best right now. collectively in the confer- First, Connecticut can- ence. celed what was supposed “So it really isn’t the to be its rst season as time where you can say a major college football we’re going to have one independent because rule to govern all of foot- it could not endure the ball or all of any sport in strains of the coronavirus that sense.” pandemic. Instead of making a Then the Big Ten un- broad decision across PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS veiled the conference-on- three divisions, the Board ly schedule it devised Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland hits on the range during practice for the PGA Championship of Governors set parame- golf tournament at TPC Harding Park Wednesday in San Francisco. to withstand COVID-19 ters for each to make its disruptions, with football own call. games slated to kick off in Within hours of the a month. board’s announcement, PGA Championship will add to Those two decisions presidents councils from epitomized the current both Division II and III state of college sports canceled fall sports cham- and help explain why pionships and determined historic legacy of Harding Park the NCAA Board of Gov- they will not be made up ernors on Wednesday in the spring. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) champion. One thing already is cer- along Skyline Boulevard. directed each division of According to the board’s — Harding Park is a pub- Is it something about tain: This is a different The  ashing lights from the association to decide decision, at least 50 per- lic golf course with a histo- this municipal gem, kind of PGA Champion- a portable marquis along independently by Aug. 21 cent of teams competing ry of elite champions. carved through Monterey ship. the streets warn of road whether it will be able to in a fall sport in any divi- Tiger Woods was No. 1 in cypress trees along the It looks like a major with work, not a major golf safely conduct champion- sion must conduct a reg- the world when he won a shore of Lake Merced, that fairways that are narrow tournament in the area. ship events in fall sports ular season this fall for a World Golf Championship allows the best in golf to but not to the extent they Woods feeds off the en- such as soccer and low- championship to be held. here in 2005, and when he shine? Or is it merely a co- look like bowling alleys. ergy from big galleries, er-division football. The board emphasized went 5-0 in his matches incidence? The rough is thick, even which have followed him NCAA President Mark that all fall sports activity, at the Presidents Cup in The PGA Championship, more because of the damp- for his entire career and Emmert told The Associ- whether it be preseason 2009. Rory McIlroy was which starts Thursday, g- ness from a marine layer his 15 majors, and he isn’t ated Press that whether practices, regular-season No. 1 when he became the ures to add to that legacy. expected to shroud Hard- sure what to expect. college sports, and more games or postseason na- rst player who had to win “It tests all aspects of ing Park all week. “There’s going to be plen- speci cally major college tional championship tour- seven matches to capture the game,” McIlroy said But that’s about all that ty of energy from the com- football, can play through naments, must follow the the Match Play in 2015. Wednesday. “It’s a big golf makes this feel like a ma- petitive side,” Woods said, the pandemic is likely to NCAA’s return-to-sport The San Francisco Open course, but it’s not wide jor. a nod to the strongest eld be determined not by the guidelines. nally came to Harding open. ... Look, I think it’s Gone are the specta- of the four majors. “But as association or even con- “What we did today Park in 1944. The winner maybe a little bit of a co- tors, typical of any tour- far as the energy outside ferences. with the board is we said, was Byron Nelson. incidence that the top nament during the year the ropes, that is an un- “It’s actually going to look, you have to meet It hosted a PGA Tour players come here and of a COVID-19 pandemic known. Hopefully, I can have to be each institu- these kinds of standards event in the 1960s called win most of the times. that shut the sport down put myself in a position tion,” Emmert said. “You and you have to provide the Lucky International. But I think it says a lot for three months and left where I can ... feel what it have to look at the huge these kinds of opportu- Six of the seven champi- about the course that it players thankful they at feels like to have no fans variability around the nities and this kind of ons are now in the World lets guys play, and it lets least get to compete for coming down the stretch country. When you look information to students Golf Hall of Fame. The them have the freedom to major trophies. with a chance to win.” at what are the facts on to even move forward on other was George Archer, go out there and play the Gone is the row of cor- the ground in Syracuse, this,” Emmert said. who became a Masters way they want to.” porate chalets and traf c PGA, B2 B2 SPORTS THE DAILY ITEM THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2020

TV/RADIO Baseball 1:30 p.m...... Minnesota at Pittsburgh...... MLB Network Ferncroft’s Jared Mscisz wins 4 p.m...... LA Angels at Seattle...... MLB Network 7:07 p.m...... Chi. Cubs at Kansas City...... Fox Pro basketball 1:30 p.m...... New Orleans at Sacramento...... NBATV 4 p.m...... Miami at Milwaukee...... TNT 45th North Shore Amateur 6 p.m...... WNBA: Seattle at Atlanta...... ESPN2 6:30 p.m...... LA Clippers at Dallas...... TNT 8 p.m...... WNBA: Connecticut at Dallas...... NESN MSCISZ I think it’s going to be a Holbrook in fourth place place (81-82-163), Tedesco 9 p.m...... LA Lakers at Houston...... TNT From B1 great tournament,” said (76-77-153), Salem Coun- Country Club’s Brendan 10 p.m...... WNBA: Chicago at Phoenix...... ESPN2 Mscisz, who used to com- try Club’s Ryan Daly in a Locke in a tie for 22nd Golf 1 p.m...... LPGA: Marathon Classic...... Golf With the North Shore pete at Gannon back in his tie for fifth place (77-78- place (80-87-167), Gannon 4 p.m...... PGA Championship...... ESPN Amateur now out of the high school days at Dan- 155), Kernwood Country Golf Club’s Jay Fiste in a US Women’s Amateur...... Golf vers High. “Anytime we Club’s Max Emmerich in tie for 22nd place (79-88- way, Mscisz is turning his Men’s hockey can go and play something ninth place (72-86-158), 167), Olde Salem Greens’ 2:30 p.m...... Vancouver vs. Minnesota...... NHL Network attention to next week’s locally like that it’s always Olde Salem Greens’ Tim Nick Angeramo in a tie 4 p.m...... Washington vs. Philadelphia...... NBCSN Massachusetts Amateur fun, so I hope I can go up Richmond in a tie for 14th for 26th place (82-86-168), 6:30 p.m...... Vegas vs. St. Louis...... NHL Network Public Links Champion- 8 p.m...... Toronto vs. Columbus...... NBCSN there and play well.” place (83-78-161), Kern- Ferncroft’s Colin Natale in 10:30 p.m...... Calgary vs. Winnipeg...... CNBC ship, set to be held at Gan- Other local golfers who wood’s Robert Parisi in a 29th place (82-87-169) and Horse racing non Golf Club. finished well at the 45th tie for 18th place (83-79- Salem State’s Ian Paskow- 2 p.m...... Saratoga Live...... FS2 “I haven’t played Gan- North Shore Amateur in- 162), Olde Salem Greens’ ski in a tie for 31st place Men’s soccer 7:30 p.m...... Europa: Round of 16 (tape)...... CBSSN non much recently, but cluded Ferncroft’s Mike Ethan Doyle in 20th (84-88-172). 8 p.m...... MLS semifinal: Orlando City vs. Minnesota...... ESPN2 10 p.m...... Liga MX: Tigres at Tijuana...... FS1

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Wednesday’s Games 4:10 p.m. Philadelphia 11, N.Y. Yankees 7, 7 innings, 1st N.Y. Yankees (Montgomery 1-0) at Philadelphia game (Eflin 0-0), 6:05 p.m. St. Louis at Detroit, ppd., 1st game Cincinnati (Castillo 0-1) at Cleveland (Carrasco Miami at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m., 1st game 1-1), 6:10 p.m. Boston at Tampa Bay, 6:40 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Chatwood 2-0) at Kansas City Detroit at St. Louis, ppd., 2nd game (Keller 0-0), 7:07 p.m. Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. Houston (Bielak 2-0) at Arizona (Gallen 0-0), Cincinnati at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m. 7:07 p.m. Toronto at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m. Toronto (Pearson 0-0) at Atlanta (Toussaint 0-0), N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, ppd. 7:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Philadelphia, 7:35 p.m., 2nd Baltimore (LeBlanc 1-0) at Miami (TBD), 7:35 PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS game p.m. Chicago Cubs at Kansas City, 8:05 p.m. Milwaukee (Lindblom 0-0) at Chicago White Sox Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy (88) makes a save against Boston Bruins Milwaukee at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m. (González 0-0), 8:10 p.m. Baltimore at Miami, 8:35 p.m., 2nd game center Charlie Coyle (13). Houston at Arizona, 9:10 p.m. Friday’s Games Texas at Oakland, 9:10 p.m. Baltimore at Washington, 6:05 p.m. L.A. Angels at Seattle, 9:40 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 6:40 p.m. Thursday’s Games Detroit at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. Detroit (TBD) at St. Louis (TBD), ppd. Toronto at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Minnesota (Maeda 2-0) at Pittsburgh (Brubaker Minnesota at Kansas City, 8:05 p.m. Bruins’ late rally falls short 0-0), 1:35 p.m. Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m. Texas (Minor 0-2) at Oakland (Fiers 0-0), 3:40 L.A. Angels at Texas, 9:05 p.m. p.m. Houston at Oakland, 9:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Bundy 1-1) at Seattle (Walker 1-1), Colorado at Seattle, 9:40 p.m. in 3-2 loss to Lightning NBA The first period was all with his skate into the net kiy but hit the post and EASTERN CONFERENCE WESTERN CONFERENCE BRUINS Atlantic Division Southwest Division From B1 Tampa Bay. to make it 2-0. sat there in the crease be- W L Pct GB W L Pct GB Brayden Point back- But the Bruins cut the fore Wagner reached in to x-Toronto 48 18 .727 — x-Houston 42 25 .627 — “We’re treating it as if handed a loose puck in deficit to one goal with x-Boston 44 23 .657 4½ x-Dallas 41 29 .586 2½ tap it in. x-Philadelphia 41 27 .603 8 Memphis 32 37 .464 11 it’s do or die right now,” front through Rask’s legs three minutes left in the Brooklyn 32 35 .478 16½ San Antonio 29 38 .433 13 about 7½ minutes into second when Bergeron UP NEXT New York 21 45 .318 27 New Orleans 29 38 .433 13 Lightning forward Blake Southeast Division Northwest Division Coleman said. “Seeding the game to make it 1-0. won a faceoff, tapping it Lightning: Finish the W L Pct GB W L Pct GB still matters, and obvious- Then just 13 seconds into back to Torey Krug at the seeding round against the x-Miami 43 25 .632 — x-Denver 45 23 .662 — Orlando 32 36 .471 11 x-Utah 43 25 .632 2 ly the teams that are com- a Boston penalty for too point. He slid it over to Philadelphia Flyers on Charlotte 23 42 .354 18½ x-Oklahoma City 41 25 .621 3 peting in the qualifiers many men on a defensive McAvoy, who slapped it Saturday. Washington 24 44 .353 19 Portland 31 38 .449 14½ are going to be ready. It’s pairing change, Victor past Vasilevskiy. Atlanta 20 47 .299 22½ Minnesota 19 45 .297 24 Bruins: Wrap up the Central Division Pacific Division really on us to treat it the Hedman’s shot from the Wagner tied it early W L Pct GB W L Pct GB right way, and if you don’t blue line went off Sean in the third when Zdeno round-robin against the y-Milwaukee 54 14 .794 — z-L.A. Lakers 51 15 .773 — x-Indiana 42 26 .618 12 x-L.A. Clippers 45 22 .672 6½ you’re going to be behind Kuraly’s stick and then Chara’s shot from the blue Washington Capitals on Chicago 22 43 .338 30½ Phoenix 29 39 .426 23 the eight ball.” Alex Killorn redirected it line got through Vasilevs- Sunday. Detroit 20 46 .303 33 Sacramento 28 39 .418 23½ Cleveland 19 46 .292 33½ Golden State 15 50 .231 35½ x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference

Wednesday’s Games L.A. Clippers at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Utah 124, Memphis 115 Portland at Denver, 8 p.m. Denver 132, San Antonio 126 L.A. Lakers at Houston, 9 p.m. Philadelphia 107, Washington 98 Friday’s Games Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, 6:30 p.m. Utah at San Antonio, 1 p.m. Toronto at Orlando, 8 p.m. Oklahoma City at Memphis, 4 p.m. Brooklyn at Boston, 9 p.m. Thursday’s Games Sacramento at Brooklyn, 5 p.m. New Orleans at Sacramento, 1:30 p.m. Orlando at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m. Indiana at Phoenix, 4 p.m. Washington at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Miami at Milwaukee, 4 p.m. Boston at Toronto, 9 p.m.

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EASTERN CONFERENCE WESTERN CONFERENCE Toronto Edmonton N.Y. Rangers 0, Carolina 3 Chicago 1, Edmonton 1 Saturday, Aug. 1: Carolina 3, N.Y. Saturday, Aug. 1: Chicago 6, Edmon- Rangers 2 ton 4 Monday, Aug. 3: Carolina 4, N.Y. Monday, Aug. 3: Edmonton 6, Chica- Rangers 1 go 3 PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday, Aug. 4: Carolina 4, N.Y. Wednesday, Aug. 5: Chicago vs. Rangers 1 Edmonton, 10:30 p.m. Mark Hubbard hits from a bunker to the 15th green during practice for the PGA Championship Florida 1, N.Y. Islanders 2 Friday, Aug. 7: Chicago vs. Edmonton, golf tournament at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco Tuesday. Saturday, Aug. 1: N.Y. Islanders 2, 6:45 p.m. Florida 1 x-Saturday, Aug. 8: Edmonton vs. Chi- Tuesday, Aug. 4: N.Y. Islanders 4, cago, TBD Florida 2 Calgary 2, Winnipeg 1 Wednesday, Aug. 5: Florida 3, N.Y. Saturday, Aug. 1: Calgary 4, Winnipeg PGA Championship will add to Islanders 2 1 Friday, Aug. 7: Florida vs. N.Y. Island- Monday, Aug. 3: Winnipeg 3, Calgary ers, noon 2 x-Sunday, Aug. 9: N.Y. Islanders vs. Tuesday, Aug. 4: Calgary 6, Winnipeg Florida, TBD 2 historic legacy of Harding Park Montreal 1, Pittsburgh 1 Thursday, Aug. 6: Winnipeg vs. Cal- Saturday, Aug. 1: Montreal 3, Pitts- gary, 10:30 p.m. burgh 2, OT x-Saturday, Aug. 8: Calgary vs. Winni- PGA ball in the rough and see Open moved from June to Pepperell of England were peg, TBD Monday, Aug. 3: Pittsburgh 3, Mon- From B1 if he could get a 5-wood to September. The British not comfortable flying over treal 1 Arizona 2, Nashville 1 Wednesday, Aug. 5: Montreal vs. Sunday, Aug. 2: Arizona 4, Nashville the green on the 515-yard Open was canceled. to San Francisco. Branden Pittsburgh, 8 p.m. 3 Along with missing the ninth hole. It squirted out Lowry could become the Grace tested positive last Friday, Aug. 7: Montreal vs. Pitts- Tuesday, Aug. 4: Nashville 4, Arizona to the right side of the fair- third player since 2008 to week for the coronavirus 2 noise, British Open cham- burgh, 4 p.m. pion Shane Lowry won- way, into the side of a bun- win the British Open and and has to self-isolate for x-Saturday, Aug. 8: Pittsburgh vs. Wednesday, Aug. 5: Arizona 4, Nash- Montreal, TBD ville 1 dered how much tougher ker some 80 yards short of the PGA Championship 10 days, ruling him out of Columbus 1, Toronto 1 Friday, Aug. 7: Arizona vs. Nashville, the course would play for the green. in consecutive majors. the first major of the year. 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 2: Columbus 2, Toronto those who can’t keep the “You don’t want to be The other two had Irish But it still has all the 0 x-Sunday, Aug. 9: Nashville vs. Arizo- na, TBD here,” Lowry said when he blood — McIlroy in 2014, stars. Tuesday, Aug. 4: Toronto 3, Columbus ball in the short grass. Minnesota 1, Vancouver 1 0 No spectators means no saw a familiar face walk- Padraig Harrington in Brooks Koepka is going Sunday, Aug. 2: Minnesota 3, Van- Thursday, Aug. 6: Columbus vs. ing by. 2008. They didn’t go a year for his third straight PGA couver 0 foot traffic to trample Toronto, 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4: Vancouver 4, Minne- the rough over four days. Lowry is another re- without playing majors. Championship title, a feat Friday, Aug. 7: Columbus vs. Toronto, sota 3 8 p.m. There will be no escap- minder of these strange “Very strange times the never accomplished since Thursday, Aug. 6: Minnesota vs. Van- x-Sunday, Aug. 9: Toronto vs. Colum- ing errant tee shots from times. He is the last player last six or eight months,” it switched to stroke play couver, 2:30 p.m. bus, TBD Friday, Aug. 7: Minnesota vs. Vancou- the thick grass of cypress to win a major, the British Lowry said. “Yeah, I am in 1958. Woods is going for ROUND ROBIN (determines Stanley ver, 10:45 p.m. trees. Open at Royal Portrush, the most recent major his record-tying fifth Wa- Cup Playoff seeding) x-Sunday, Aug. 9: Vancouver vs. Min- Sunday, Aug. 2: Philadelphia 4, Bos- “Bethpage last year was even though that major champion, although it namaker Trophy. The pos- nesota, TBD ton 1 similar to this,” Lowry was more than a year ago. doesn’t feel like it because sibility of a career Grand ROUND ROBIN (determines Stanley Monday, Aug. 3: Tampa Bay 3, Wash- Cup Playoff seeding) said. “Really thick rough, The PGA Championship it was so long ago.” Slam looms for Jordan ington 2, SO Sunday, Aug. 2: Colorado 2, St. Louis where if you hit it a good was supposed to be played Even the field is differ- Spieth. Jon Rahm, Bryson Wednesday, Aug. 5: Tampa Bay 3, 1 bit offline, you’re actually May 14-17, a month after ent, with only 91 of the DeChambeau and Xander Boston 2 Monday, Aug. 3: Las Vegas 5, Dallas Thursday, Aug. 6: Philadelphia vs. 3 OK. That’ll be interesting the Masters, until the pan- top 100 players. Fourteen Schauffele are going for Washington, 4 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5: Dallas vs. Colo- to see how that plays.” demic shut down golf. The players have either with- their first major. Dustin Saturday, Aug. 8: Washington vs. rado, 6:30 p.m. Lowry was playing a Masters moved to Novem- drawn or declined special Johnson and Justin Thom- Boston, TBD Thursday, Aug. 6: St. Louis vs. Las practice round Monday, his ber. The PGA moved to Au- invitations. Some of them as want more than one, Sunday, Aug. 9: Tampa Bay vs. Phila- Vegas, 6:30 p.m. delphia, TBD Saturday, Aug. 8: Colorado vs. Las first look at Harding Park, gust, where it used to be were pandemic-related. and they figure it’s time to Vegas, TBD when he decided to drop a for some 70 years. The U.S. Lee Westwood and Eddie get going. THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2020 THE DAILY ITEM B3 NATION U.S. virus testing dropping, even as deaths mount By Matthew Perrone, Americans to test them- ly testing rate peaked in Nicky Forster and selves — but would also be mid-July but has declined Michelle Liu less accurate. 20 percent in the last two ASSOCIATED PRESS “There’s a sense of des- weeks. peration that we need to “We have the capacity. U.S. testing for the coro- do something else,” said Iowans just need to test,” navirus is dropping even Dr. Ashish Jha, director of Gov. Kim Reynolds said as infections remain high Harvard’s Global Health and the death toll rises last week. by more than 1,000 a day, Institute. Jessica Moore of rural a worrisome trend that Widespread testing is Newberry, S.C., said that officials attribute largely considered essential to after a private lab lost to Americans getting dis- managing the outbreak her COVID-19 test re- couraged over having to as the U.S. approaches a sults in mid-July, she had wait hours to get a test mammoth 5 million con- to get re-tested at a pop- and days or weeks to learn firmed infections and more up site organized by the the results. than 157,000 deaths out of state. An Associated Press over 700,000 worldwide. Moore and her hus- analysis found that the Testing demand is ex- band arrived early on a number of tests per day pected to surge again this Saturday morning at the slid 3.6 percent over the fall, when schools reopen site, a community center, past two weeks to 750,000, and flu season hits, most where they waited for two with the count falling in likely outstripping sup- hours for her test. Moore 22 states. That includes plies and leading to new watched in the rear-view delays and bottlenecks. mirror as people drove up, places like Alabama, Mis- PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS sissippi, Missouri and Some of the decline in saw the long line of cars, Iowa where the percent- testing over the past few and then turned around Healthcare workers gather information before conducting an antigen age of positive tests is high weeks was expected af- and left. test, Wednesday at a COVID-19 testing site outside Hard Rock Stadium and continuing to climb, ter backlogged commer- “If people have some- in Miami Gardens, Fla. an indicator that the virus cial labs urged doctors thing to do on a Saturday is still spreading uncon- to concentrate on their and they want to get test- Schumacher signed up to er hour. Others who had the line,” Schumacher trolled. highest-risk patients. But ed, they’re not going to go to a drive-up testing gone through the line told said. Amid the crisis, some some health and govern- wait for two hours in the site in Orlando with her them that they wouldn’t The number of confirmed health experts are calling ment officials are seeing South Carolina heat for a husband. They were giv- get their results until five infections in the U.S. has for the introduction of a growing public frustration test, especially if they’re en a one-hour window in days later, a Monday, at topped 4.7 million, with different type of test that and waning demand. not symptomatic,” Moore which to arrive. the earliest. They were new cases running at would yield results in a In Iowa, state officials said. They got there at the planning to travel the next nearly 60,000 a day on matter of minutes and are reporting less interest Before traveling from start of the window, but af- day, so they gave up. average, down from more would be cheap and sim- in testing, despite ample Florida to Delaware last ter 50 minutes it looked as “Monday would have than 70,000 in the second ple enough for millions of supplies. The state’s dai- month, Laura DuBose if the wait would be anoth- been pointless, so we left half of July. Tribe, economy hurt as virus hits Choctaws By Leah Willingham Usually, if I started cry- ASSOCIATED PRESS ing, she started crying too,” she said. “She always PHILADELPHIA, Miss. had that faith in me, that (AP) — When Sharon Tay- I could do it, even when I lor died of coronavirus, her doubted myself. She knew family — standing apart, I could do it before I did.” wearing masks — sang That day, Sharon Taylor her favorite hymns at her took her daughter to the graveside, next to a tiny family plot at Holy Rosa- headstone for her still- ry. It was always special: PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS born daughter, buried 26 a place to mark import- years ago. Fresh flowers ant events, to be together, Clarissa Munoz, who is infected with COVID-19, shares a photo of her baby at DHR Health last marked row after row of to visit the grave of baby week in McAllen, Texas. Munoz was separated from her child after giving birth. new graves. Holy Rosary Kerri. Other relatives are is one of the only cemeter- buried there, too, and it’s ies in this Choctaw Indian where Sharon wanted her family’s community, and final resting place. ‘We are no less American’: it’s running out of space — But the Rev. Bob Good- a sign of the virus’s mas- year says there’s not sive toll on the Choctaw much more room to ex- Deaths pile up on Texas border people. pand, in part because of As confirmed corona- another pandemic. The virus cases skyrocket in Spanish flu of 1918 took By Paul J. Weber nally arrived to give birth, At DHR Health, one of into their lungs. Mississippi, the state’s ASSOCIATED PRESS she was blindsided by an- the largest hospitals on “It’s a really, really ugly lives so quickly residents only federally recognized didn’t even have time to other complication: A test the border, nearly 200 feeling,” Muñoz said of American Indian tribe RIO GRANDE CITY, revealed that she too was of the 500 beds belong watching her son being put up markers, and 400 has been devastated. victims are buried in an Texas (AP) — When la- infected. to coronavirus patients taken away. bor pains signaled that COVID-19 has ripped open field on cemetery Hours later, Muñoz was isolated in two units. A Texas reopened quicker Clarissa Muñoz was at through Choctaw families, grounds. granted just a few seconds third unit is in the works. than most of the U.S., only last going to be a mom, many of whom live togeth- “I pray it doesn’t come to lay eyes, but no hands, That doesn’t even include to backtrack in the face of she jumped in a car and er in multigenerational to that this time,” said headed two hours down on her first born, who was the COVID-19 maternity massive outbreaks. Health homes. Almost 10 per- Goodyear, whose Catholic the Texas border into one quickly whisked away. ward, where mothers and officials say the worst of cent of the tribe’s rough- church has always buried of the nation’s most dire On America’s southern newborns are separated a summer resurgence ap- ly 11,000 members have Choctaws, regardless of coronavirus hot spots. doorstep, the Rio Grande immediately. pears to be behind the state tested positive for the vi- faith. The tribe recently She went first to a hos- Valley, the U.S. failure to Doctors and nurses as a whole, but the border rus. More than 75 have voted to establish a com- pital so desperate for help contain the pandemic has rushed Muñoz’s baby out is a bleak exception. Doc- died. The once-flourishing munity cemetery nearby, that nurses recently made been laid bare. For near- of the delivery room and tors fear another punishing Choctaw economy is stag- which will ease the bur- 49 phone calls to find a ly a month, this border- down a hallway sealed wave is around the corner. nant, as the tribal govern- den, said Goodyear, who bed 700 miles away to land of 2 million people in by a zippered tarp to re- This predominantly His- ment put in place tighter isn’t a Choctaw but has airlift a dying man with South Texas pleaded for a strict contaminated air. panic region is cruelly restrictions than those im- ministered in the reser- the virus. From there, field hospital, but not un- Seven hours later, she still vulnerable to COVID-19. posed by the state. vation community for de- she was taken to a bigger til Tuesday was one ready did not know his weight. The prevalence of diabetes July brought a glim- cades. hospital by ambulance. and accepting patients. In Across the street, alarms here is roughly three times mer of hope, with some Dr. Thomas Dobbs, the Along the way, she passed July alone, Hidalgo Coun- blared constantly in a the national average, and numbers dropping among state health officer, said a funeral home that typ- ty reported more than 600 coronavirus intensive-care households have among the Choctaws, but health offi- that like other Native ically handles 10 services deaths — more than the unit, summoning nurses lowest incomes in America, cials worry that with cas- American communities, a month but is up to nine Houston area, which is to roll patients onto their adding to the difficulty of es rising elsewhere in the coronavirus deaths among a week. And when she fi- five times larger. stomachs to force more air thwarting the virus. state, the reprieve is only the Mississippi Band of temporary. On Friday, Choctaw Indians have Mississippi recorded its been driven by underlying highest single-day coro- conditions such as diabe- Wall Street rallies again; S&P 500 navirus-related fatality tes, cardiovascular disease count, 52. and high blood pressure, As a community health present in more than 80 pulls within 2 percent of record technician, Taylor, 53, took percent of deadly Missis- the virus seriously from sippi cases. The reserva- By Stan Choe and The Dow Jones Industri- U.S. government having below the 1.2 million that the start. She answered tion hospital, where Tay- Alex Veiga al Average rose 373.05, or recently expired. economists had forecast. calls from tribe members lor worked, can’t handle ASSOCIATED PRESS 1.4 percent, to 27,201.52, Treasury Secretary Ste- It highlights the damage with symptoms and de- severe coronavirus cases. livered medicine. In June, and the Nasdaq composite ven Mnuchin said late that a resurgence in coro- They’re sent to facilities NEW YORK (AP) — Wall she fell ill herself. added 57.23, or 0.5 per- Tuesday that the two sides navirus cases across much elsewhere in the state - Street’s big rally keeps Kristina Taylor, 18, one Taylor died 80 miles from cent, to set another record set a goal of reaching an of the country is doing to rolling, and the S&P 500 of Sharon’s five children, home, in Jackson. at 10,998.40. agreement by the end of the economy. It also puts rose for a fourth straight learned just before her In Neshoba County, Much of Wall Street’s fo- the week to permit a vote an even brighter spotlight day Wednesday to sit just mother was admitted to named for the Choctaw 1.7 percent below its re- cus this week has been on next week, though nego- on Friday’s more compre- the hospital that she’d word for wolf, more than cord. Washington, where Con- tiators said the two sides hensive jobs report coming been named valedicto- 25 percent of residents The S&P 500 climbed gress and White House remain far apart on key from the Labor Depart- rian of the tribal high live under the pover- 21.26 points, or 0.6 per- officials are negotiating issues. ment. school. Sharon had pre- ty line. It’s a rural area, cent, to 3,327.77, echoing on more aid for an econ- The pressure on Wash- Investors across the stock dicted the accomplish- characterized by dusty gains for stocks across omy that’s shown some ington to act quickly is market seem to be assum- ment for years — in some red clay and rolling pine- Europe and Asia. If the improvement but is still mounting. A report on ing that Congress will of their last moments to- filled hills. The Golden U.S. market has just a few hobbling. Investors say Wednesday suggested that reach a deal sooner rather gether, Kristina showed Moon Casino on High- more days like that, it will such a package is crucial hiring was far weaker last than later, as well as that her mom the speech she’d way 16, with a glittering erase the last of the his- and needs to arrive quick- month than economists ex- the economy will contin- prepared for graduation moon on its roof, serves toric losses it’s taken since ly, with millions of Ameri- pected. Private employers ue to improve despite the and the Choctaw bead- as a welcome to Choctaw February because of the cans still out of work and added just 167,000 jobs, pandemic, said Willie Del- work her sister used to land. From there, the res- coronavirus pandemic and $600 in weekly unemploy- according to a survey by wiche, investment strate- decorate her cap. ervation spreads out over the recession it caused. ment benefits from the payroll processor ADP, well gist at Baird. “We were just in tears. 35,000 acres. B4 THE DAILY ITEM THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2020 COMICS

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ROSE IS ROSE / PAT BRADY

GARFIELD / JIM DAVIS BIG NATE / LINCOLN PEIRCE

ARLO AND JANIS / JIMMY JOHNSON

HERMAN / JIM UNGER ZIGGY / TOM WILSON

THE BORN LOSER / ART AND CHIP SANSOM

CROSSWORD DEAR ABBY Favorite son’s jabs at brother’s wife causes family friction DEAR ABBY: I mar- myself slipping into de- ried “Darius” two years Dear Abby is written by Abigail pression. We are both ago. I have had problems lucky enough to still be with my brother-in-law Van Buren, also known as Jeanne working, so I’m not just ever since Darius and I Phillips, and was founded by her sitting around dwelling first began dating five mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact on it. But when I can- years ago. celed my prenatal vita- From my husband’s Dear Abby at DearAbby.com or P.O. min subscription the oth- perspective, his parents Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. er day, it hit me like a ton have always favored his of bricks. younger brother, “Adonis.” I know we are lucky to “Anything goes” is their not have bigger woes attitude where he is con- he’s drinking and making spine and inform his “lit- than this right now, but cerned. Adonis takes constant “jokes” about tle” brother he drinks too I’m heartbroken. Any ad- things without asking, me. much, and he wants the vice would be appreciat- lies and constantly I feel bad for my hus- sniping stopped. Your fa- ed. makes disrespectful com- band because we have ther-in-law is a mile off ments toward us. He was missed out on seeing base. It isn’t ridiculous to HOLDING OFF ON never reprimanded as a family members and en- want to avoid verbal MOTHERHOOD joying ourselves at events abuse from a drunk, and child, and now he’s an DEAR HOLDING adult (24), the sniping because I don’t want to he, too, should have a talk create a scene. Darius OFF: I am sorry for your continues. with Adonis. Until that heartache. I know this is A few months ago, he supports the way I feel, happens, you are right to but says he can’t demand painful. It’s important showed up unannounced keep your distance. No- that you not hold these at my home and insulted a an apology from his body likes pain, and your brother. I feel if I back sad feelings inside. Talk guest who was visiting at brother-in-law appears with your fiance about the time. (She also doesn’t down now, Adonis’ behav- unwilling to stop being a ior will continue for the them and share with care for him.) I asked him large one in a southern close friends and family. to leave to avoid making rest of my life. I don’t portion of your anatomy. think I should be treated Pour your feelings into waves with her. the journal you started. this way. How should I DEAR ABBY: I am a I think Adonis owes me resolve this issue? Your road to mother- an apology, but he refuses 32-year-old woman, en- hood may be longer than to give me a sincere one. FAMILY PROBLEM gaged to a wonderful you initially thought, but My father-in-law thinks I IN NEW JERSEY man. We were supposed it’s going to be an inter- should just “get over it” to start trying to get esting journey. I hope you and says I am being ridic- DEAR FAMILY pregnant, but because of will take comfort in the ulous because I no longer PROBLEM: I’m glad the virus, we decided to knowledge that postpon- want to attend family you wrote. Adonis is get- put it off. I know we are ing your pregnancy was a events if Adonis is pres- ting away with this be- making the right choice. decision you and your fi- ent. Mostly the reason is cause your in-laws are I had already started a ance made for the right I no longer want to toler- enabling it. Your husband journal/planner and was reasons and didn’t take ate his behavior while should straighten his so excited. But now I feel lightly. BRIDGE

Long odds underdogs rarely succeed Suppose that the final of a world The Polish declarer, Piotr Gawrys, bridge championship is between one received a diamond lead. He won highly rated team and one that has with his ace and immediately played surprised everyone by getting so far. the club queen. However, when West When that happens, the bookies will smoothly contributed the four, declar- not take bets on the favorites. er, afraid of a diamond ruff, played However, in 1991, the underdogs “safe,” going up with dummy’s ace. did win. In Yokohama, Japan, Ice- Now he could no longer make his land (Gudmundur Arnson-Thorlakur contract! Declarer continued trumps, Jonsson, Orn Arnthorsson-Gudlau- but had to lose two spades, one club gur Johansson and Jon Baldurs- and one diamond ruff: down two. son-Adalsteinn Jorgensen) defeated The Polish West, trusting his part- Poland over 160 boards by 415 in- ner’s lead-directing double, led a ternational match points to 376. spade. After East took the first two It was amazing. The Icelanders tricks in the suit, Jonsson had no op- were in the zone. This deal is from tion but to take the club finesse. He that match. Both teams reached five cruised home. clubs by South. In this auction by Ice- The spade lead looked the worst landers Arnarson (North) and Jons- for South, but it forced him into a son, after clubs were agreed, they winning line. In contrast, the appar- control-bid first- and second-round ently beneficial diamond opening controls at random. (Don’t try that gave declarer just enough rope to at home!) hang himself. THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2020 THE DAILY ITEM B5 TV BEST BETS THIS WEEK IN MOVIES

Hitmen Peacock New Series! Back to the Booth In this British comedy, best friends Jamie (Mel Gie- droyc) and Fran (Sue Perkins) are trying to make their way in the world with only each other to rely on. They also just happen to kill people for a liv- ing. Fueled by their antics and frivolous bickering, each job inevitably gets derailed, leading them into bizarre misadventures, full of oddball characters and unexpected dilemmas. An American Pickle HBO Max Original Film! Seth Rogen plays dual roles in this tale of an immi- grant in 1920 America who falls into a vat of pickles and is brined for 100 years. When he emerges in 2020 Brooklyn, he meets his great-grandson, whom he cannot even begin to understand. The Rain Netflix Season Premiere! The popular Danish series — one of Netflix’s most- watched non-English original series, which has been viewed by about 30 million people — returns for a third and final season, picking up where Season 2 left off. Years after the rain decimated the popula- tion of Scandinavia, Simone and Rasmus find them- selves at odds on how to save humanity. Rasmus wants to infect everyone with the same beta version of the virus that turned him into a superhuman, while Simone insists there must be a cure. Can they put their differences aside to do the right thing? Star Trek: Lower Decks CBS All Access New Series! This humorous, animated addition to the Star Trek- franchise is developed by Mike McMahan (Rick and Morty) and focuses on the support crew serving aboard one of Starfleet’s least important ships. By Paul Hall vard. Even so, Elle tells us becomes secondary for these interesting, the stories need- Summer Under the Stars: “Burt Lancaster” the two spent the whole sum- kids. ed to hone in and not deal Two years ago, we were TCM, beginning at 6am mer together and it was glo- If you aren’t confused and with seemingly everything treated to The Kissing Booth, Catch a Classic! rious. But now, as she starts find yourself mildly intrigued a sweet little romantic com- the characters experience in Burton Lancaster, the one-time circus acrobat who her senior year with her by the above narrative, The their senior year relation- edy for the teenage crowd boyfriend across the country Kissing became one of the most legendary movie stars that found an audience at ships. ever, is today’s daylong film focus. Watch him in fa- from her in Boston, how does Booth 2 just may be for you. Despite the film’s faults, I Netflix. So much so that a se- she handle the long-distance Fact is, the film is a pleas- miliar classics like his Best Actor Oscar-nominated quel was created with much enjoyed King’s performance performance (and iconic embrace in the surf with relationship? ant story focusing on surviv- and the characters and actors of the original cast and direc- Long-distance relationships ing relationship issues that Deborah Kerr) in 1953’s From Here to Eternity; his tor Vince Marcello back for who exist here. The whole Best Actor Oscar-nominated turn in Birdman of Al- rarely work and are fraught pop up with many of today’s thing feels like it was genu- another crack at things with with peril, and that is exact- youth. The music works catraz(1962); his Best Actor Oscar-winning title role The Kissing Booth 2, now on inely better suited for a tele- in Elmer Gantry(1960); and the World War II thriller ly what happens to Elle and and fits the story, and the vision series than a film, but Netflix. Noah. Should the relation- young men and women are The Train(1964). You’ll also see Lancaster in earli- I’ll take what we get, as that Our sequel does a good job ship continue, or will jealousy quite beautiful, hence why I er, maybe lesser-seen films like the 1947 film noir is passing in my book. of catching viewers up on and fear rule the equation? found myself using the word Brute Force. where the first film left off But Elle’s relationship with “hunky” twice in writing Sure, a kissing booth seems Lost Sharks of Easter Island in the first 90 seconds or so her bestie Lee (Joel Court- about the film. unlikely anymore in life, but Nat Geo, 12 p.m. of this effort, but if you are ney) is having its own prob- This is a film that 16-year- close your eyes and remem- In the shadow of the legendary Easter Island, in one on Netflix, you can of course lems as Lee’s girlfriend Ra- old me would love to have ber back to the easier times of the most distant corners of the Pacific, a remark- stream the whole thing be- chel (Meganne Young) feels fallen upon and blissful- from the beginning of this able ocean world is on the brink of devastation. fore you start here, or just like the third wheel. Also ly enjoyed. But as an adult year. The Kissing Booth 2 re- Golf: PGA Championship: First Round dive right in to the sequel. enter new hunky guy Marco now, there are faults to the minds us love is real, friend- ESPN, 4 p.m. Live Lead Elle Evans (Joey (Taylor Zakhar Perez) to the sequel. It is too long. The ship is real and our lives go Brooks Koepka shoots for a third straight PGA King) is now a senior in high mix to add relationship is- Kissing Booth 2 really need- on, no matter what is thrown Championship as the rescheduled tournament — school. Her crush from the sues for all of these friends, ed to be trimmed back under at us. Sometimes it is OK to now the first major of 2020 — takes place at TPC first film — spoiler alert — and, as you can imagine, the two-hour mark. The film just love and be loved. Harding Park in San Francisco. ESPN and CBS tele- that is hunky Noah (Jacob drama, laughs and romance also needed to focus a bit. Al- vise through Sunday’s final round. Elordi) has moved on to Har- abound as navigating school though the characters were Paul’s Grade: C+

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By Mari Yamaguchi ASSOCIATED PRESS HIROSHIMA, Japan — The atomic bomb that ex- ploded over Hiroshima 75 years ago didn’t just kill and maim. The survivors have also lived for decades with lin- gering shame, anger and fear. Many in Japan be- lieved radiation sickness is infectious or hereditary. Some hid their status as survivors. Some harbored thoughts of revenge in their hearts. Some watched as loved ones died, one by PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS one, because of radiation A drone picture shows the scene of an explosion that hit the seaport of from the bombing, and Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday. wondered — Am I next? As they grow old — their average age now exceeds 83 — many now feel an PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS Negligence suspected in Beirut extreme urgency. They are desperate to rid the Koko Kondo speaks in front of the cenotaph for blast involving chemicals world of nuclear bombs the atomic bombing victims near Hiroshima and share with the young Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, west- By Bassem Mroue killed at least 135 people Both individuals spoke to the first-hand horror they ern Japan, Wednesday. and Zeina Karam and wounded about 5,000, The Associated Press un- witnessed on Aug. 6, 1945. ASSOCIATED PRESS Health Minister Hamad der condition of anonymity Here are some of the Still, she suffered years demand Japan do more to Hassan said. Hospitals because they were not au- stories of survivors inter- of humiliation and preju- ban nuclear weapons. BEIRUT — Investigators were overwhelmed — one thorized to discuss intel- viewed by The Associated dice that she had to over- Some 20,000 ethnic Kore- began searching through that was damaged in the ligence briefings publicly. Press. come as she grew up. One an residents of Hiroshima the wreckage of Beirut’s blast had to evacuate all Both officials told the AP day as an adolescent she are believed to have died port Wednesday for clues KOKO KONDO, 75 its patients to a near- that at the moment, the was told to undress except in the nuclear attack. The to the cause of the mas- Koko Kondo had a secret by field for treatment. explosion seems to have for her underwear at a city had a large number of sive explosion that ripped mission as a girl: Revenge. Buildings were damaged been caused by improper medical conference in an Korean workers, including across the Lebanese cap- She was determined for miles around the city, storage of explosives. auditorium. Her fiance re- those forced to work with- ital, and the government to find the person who jected her because she was out pay at mines and fac- and Beirut’s governor said Fueling speculation that ordered port officials put dropped the atomic bomb an atomic bomb survivor. tories under Japan’s 1910- Wednesday that hundreds negligence was to blame under house arrest amid on Hiroshima, the person On the eve of Thursday’s 1945 colonization of the of thousands might not for the accident, an official speculation that negli- that caused the suffering memorial at the cenotaph Korean Peninsula. be able to return to their letter circulating online gence was to blame. and the terrible burns she of Hiroshima Peace Park, At a memorial Wednes- homes for two or three showed the head of the The investigation is fo- saw on the faces of girls at Kondo held a moment of day for Korean victims, Lee months. customs department had cusing on how 2,750 tons her father’s church — and silence and prayed for laid flowers and prayed for warned repeatedly over of ammonium nitrate, a It was the worst, most then square off and give the victims, and for Lew- those who perished. “I ask highly explosive chemical destructive single explo- the years that the huge them a punch. is. That meeting changed younger people to never used in fertilizers, came to sion to strike Lebanon in a stockpile of ammonium She got her chance in her way of thinking and forget us and to under- be stored at the facility for history filled with destruc- nitrate stored in a hangar 1955. helped her overcome the stand the tragedy, absur- six years, and why noth- tion, in a 1975-1990 civil in the port was a danger, Ten-year-old Kondo ap- difficulties later in her dity and cruelty of the war ing was done about it. war, conflicts with Israel and asked judicial officials peared on an American life, she said. so that nuclear weapons International aid flights and periodic terror attacks. for a ruling on a way to re- TV show called “This is Now, Kondo is following will be eliminated from the began to arrive as Leba- A senior U.S. Defense move it. Your Life” that was fea- in her father’s footsteps, world as soon as possible.” non’s leaders struggled Department official and Ammonium nitrate is turing her father, Rev. Ki- busy telling her stories to On the morning of Aug. to deal with the shocking member of the U.S. intel- a component of fertilizer yoshi Tanimoto, one of six younger people. 6, 1945, 16-year-old Lee aftermath of Tuesday’s ligence community said that is potentially explo- survivors profiled in John Hiroshima has become a watched the blue summer blast, crippled by an eco- there were no indications sive. The 2,750-ton cargo Hersey’s book “Hiroshima.” beautiful place, but atomic sky turned yellowish or- nomic crisis and facing a the massive explosion that had been stored at the Kondo stared in hatred at bombs still exist, she says, ange. He suffered burns public that blames chronic erupted on Tuesday eve- port since it was confiscat- another guest: Capt. Robert and another nuclear attack on his face and neck that mismanagement and cor- ning in Lebanon’s capital ed from a ship in 2013, and Lewis, co-pilot of the B-29 would destroy the world. took four months to heal. ruption among the ruling was the result of an attack on Tuesday it is believed bomber Enola Gay that “It’s time we human be- When he returned to elite for the disaster. by either a nation state or to have detonated after a dropped the bomb. ings get together and abol- work, co-workers stayed The explosion at the port proxy forces. fire broke out nearby. While Kondo, who sur- ish nuclear weapons,” she away, saying he had vived the bombing as an said. “We have hope.” “A-bomb disease.” He de- infant, was wondering if cided not to tell anyone LEE JONG-KEUN, 92 she would act on her fanta- about the atomic bombing. sy and punch him, the host Lee kept his secret as an That would only “double” asked Lewis how he felt af- atomic bombing survivor for his suffering when he was ter dropping the bomb. nearly 70 years, not even trying hard to hide his Ko- “Looking down from telling his wife, always fear- rean identity. thousands of feet over Hi- ing people might notice the His parents talked in roshima, all I could think burn marks on the face. Korean and wanted him to of was, ‘God, what have we But today Lee, a sec- learn the language, but he done?’” he said. ond-generation Korean didn’t like going outside Kondo saw tears well in born in Japan, is training with them, fearing people Lewis’ eyes, and her ha- young people to tell sur- would notice their Korean tred melted away. vivors’ stories. He also accent. “He was not a monster; wants them to learn about So Lee lived under a he was just another hu- the difficulty that Koreans Japanese name, Masaichi man being. ... I knew that have faced in Japan. Egawa, until eight years I should hate the war, not “Survivors won’t be here ago when he began speak- him,” Kondo told The As- 20 years from now, but ing out. sociated Press. She said our stories must be,” said “To tell my story, I had to she was grateful she met Lee, who will meet Prime explain why Koreans are Lewis because it helped Minister Shinzo Abe after in Japan,” he said. “Now I the hate go away. Thursday’s memorial to have nothing to hide.”

FILE PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. sending highest official to Markings points to a patch of penguin guano on an image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite mission. Taiwan since ties cut in 1979 By Johnson Lai “solemn complaints” over In a tweet, Taiwan’s Min- Poop scoop: Satellite images ASSOCIATED PRESS the visit with U.S. officials istry of Foreign Affairs said in both Beijing and Wash- it looks forward to welcom- TAIPEI, Taiwan — The ington. ing Azar and his delegation. reveal Antarctic penguin haunts U.S. secretary of Health “The Taiwan issue is the “This is the highest-level and Human Services is most important and sen- visit by a U.S. Cabinet offi- scheduled to visit Taiwan By Frank Jordans 58 degrees Fahrenheit. tury. sitive issue in China-U.S. cial since 1979! Taiwan and in coming days in the ASSOCIATED PRESS Researchers have long re- Some of the newly dis- relations,” Wang said at the U.S. are like minded highest-level visit by an lied on aerial photographs covered colonies are locat- a daily briefing. He said partners cooperating close- BERLIN — British sci- American Cabinet official and satellites to spot colo- ed far offshore, on sea ice Washington needs to stop ly in combating coronavi- entists say there are more since the break in formal nies of the flightless ma- that has formed around all forms of official contact rus and promoting freedom emperor penguin colonies rine birds. grounded icebergs and diplomatic relations be- with Taiwan and make in Antarctica than previ- tween Washington and democracy & human rights Peter Fretwell, a British which is particularly at good on its commitment worldwide.” ously thought based on Antarctic Survey geogra- risk of disappearing. Taipei in 1979. to Beijing to “avoid serious The ministry said Azar evidence of bird droppings pher and the study’s lead Yan Ropert-Coudert, an The visit by Alex Azar, damage to China-U.S. re- will meet with indepen- spotted from space. author, called the latest ecologist who wasn’t in- and especially a planned lations and peace and sta- dence-minded President A study published count “good news” but not- volved in the latest study, meeting with Taiwan’s bility across the Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen, with whose Wednesday by scientists ed that the newly spotted said that while satellite president, will likely cre- Strait.” government Beijing cut off at the British Antarctic colonies were small. images are a powerful ate new friction between The U.S. maintains only virtually all contacts four Survey counted 61 emper- “(They) only take the tool for tracking penguin the U.S. and China, which unofficial ties with Taiwan or penguin colonies dotted overall population count colonies, large-scale explo- claims Taiwan as its own in deference to Beijing, years ago, and with For- around the southernmost up by 5-10 percent to just rations and counts on the territory to be annexed by but is the island’s most eign Minister Joseph Wu continent, 11 more than over half a million pen- ground are also needed force if necessary. Taiwan important ally and provid- and top health officials. the number previously guins or around 265,500 whenever possible. is a key irritant in the trou- er of defense equipment. Tsai tweeted to Azar confirmed. – 278,500 breeding pairs,” Reliable assessment of bled relationship between The American Institute that “Your timely visit Scientists used images he said. local and global popula- the world’s two largest in Taiwan, which oper- is another testament to from Europe’s Sentinel-2 Emperor penguins are tions are necessary for economies, which are also ates as Washington’s de the strong Taiwan-US satellite mission to look vulnerable to the loss of conservation bodies to at odds over trade, tech- facto embassy on the is- partnership based on our for smudges on the ice that sea ice predicted to oc- decide what actions are nology, territorial claims in land, said Wednesday that longstanding friendship & indicated large amounts of cur because of man-made needed to protect the spe- the South China Sea and Azar’s “historic visit will shared values.” guano, or penguin poop. global warming. Some cies, said Ropert-Coudert, China’s response to the strengthen the U.S.-Tai- AIT said Azar will dis- The majestic emperor researchers suggest the who heads the biological coronavirus pandemic. wan partnership and en- cuss the disease, global penguin breeds in remote number of colonies could sciences section of the Sci- In Beijing, foreign minis- hance U.S-Taiwan cooper- health and Taiwan’s role areas where temperatures drop by more than 30 per- entific Committee on Ant- try spokesman Wang Wen- ation to combat the global as a supplier of medical can drop as low as minus cent by the end of the cen- arctic Research. bin said China has lodged COVID-19 pandemic.” equipment and technology. B8 THE DAILY ITEM THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2020 ENTERTAINMENT Music’s last Perry, best hope is Hart live streaming stick up

By Scott Duke zoomed in close, viewers for Ellen Kominers could feel as if they were TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE on stage with Ma himself. By Christie D’Zurilla A replay was available, TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE Except for the biggest but only for the next 24 pop acts, like the Rolling Katy Perry cast a mid- hours. dle-of-the-night smile on Stones or Rihanna, and a The economics of this few hot shows like “Ham- Ellen DeGeneres, posting type of event might work her take on the embat- ilton,” musicians have out quite well. A ticket to struggled to fill concert tled talk show host for the a typical streamed con- whole world to see. The halls. But now the entire cert costs something like business of live perfor- pop musician is not the $8. If the artist can reach only celebrity coming to mance is in trouble, even 10 times as many viewers for the top stars, thanks to DeGeneres’ defense. Actor that way, that matches Kevin Hart also chimed in the COVID-19 pandemic: the revenue brought in theaters and performance with his support Tuesday by an in-person show that PHOTO | TRIBUNE NEWS SERVIVE morning. halls have been closed costs $80 a ticket, a price since March — and with Yo-Yo Ma performs on SiriusXM’s Symphony Hall hosted by David Sreb- “I know I can’t speak that’s hardly unheard of. nik at SiriusXM Washington D.C. Studios. for anyone else’s experi- social distancing in force, And so long as the event they probably won’t open ence besides my own but is advertised effectively, a I want to acknowledge any time soon. little travel required. question is pricing. Cur- world, then they might 10-fold audience multipli- that I have only ever had Live performance has The performing arts rent approaches mostly not bother with a local er shouldn’t be difficult to positive takeaways from been one of the few have been slow to adapt seem to be pegged to stan- cover band. But with mu- achieve: An online concert my time with Ellen & on ways for musicians to to digital transformation. dard theater pricing mod- can draw viewers from sic distribution over the the @theellenshow,” Perry make money after cheap But now that they’ve been els — either one-off ad- anywhere — including Internet, at least, the op- wrote in a couple of tweets streaming services under- forced to, the benefits are missions or season tickets. places that wouldn’t be on posite effect has held true in the wee hours Tuesday. mined sales of most re- already becoming clear. But some, like New York’s a regular tour schedule. as well: the possibility of “I think we all have wit- Digital platforms can Metropolitan Opera, are corded music. If live per- And even for people who reaching a wider audi- nessed the light & contin- even help artists engage formances are off limits, live nearby, there’s a lot of offering library-like sub- ence has enabled other- ual fight for equality that the industry may face its convenience to being able directly with their fans. scriptions more akin to wise niche artists to gain she has brought to the greatest crisis yet. to listen at home. (Ma, for example, took Netflix: your favorite op- a global following. world through her plat- But all may not be lost, Plus $8 isn’t nearly as questions submitted over era on demand. Whatever the case, form for decades,” Perry provided performers and big an expenditure — live chat after his perfor- I expect we’ll see fur- the music industry has added. “Sending you love the businesses they work about the same as paying mance.) They may also be ther innovation here be- to adapt the live-perfor- & a hug, friend.” for are willing to adapt to to stream a new movie — better at managing and cause, unlike with seats mance business to the Comedian Hart joined digital platforms. These so many more people will tracking customers to gen- in a concert hall, digital current reality. Streaming in hours later, calling it electronic venues might erate sustained interest streams have no capacity be able to afford it. And it may not have the gravity “crazy” to see what De- even become a part of the — and recurring revenue. constraints. Perhaps pro- also means that tuning in and sparking acoustics of Generes is going through. industry’s post-pandemic And they may have the moters will start offering to a paid stream doesn’t a performance at Carnegie Hart is familiar with future. digital tools to help artists unlimited replays for an have to be as much of a Hall or the raucous vibe of backlash, given the dra- Consider the follow- find new listeners, per- additional fee — or pack- production as going to Madison Square Garden, ma surrounding his old ing example: On a recent a show in person. If you haps in the same way that ages that make it less ex- but it may be the future. homophobic tweets that weekend, I tuned into a miss a beat or two, it’s not streaming music service pensive to buy additional Scott Duke Kominers is prompted him to back concert that renowned a big deal. You can listen Spotify does for recorded tickets for related house- the MBA Class of 1960 As- out of hosting the 2019 cellist Yo-Yo Ma streamed while you’re cooking, even content. holds. Oscars. He later talked sociate Professor of Busi- through the Berlin-based — and who wouldn’t want Other logistical issues Post-pandemic, we may about his discussion with ness Administration at classical music platform a dinner show featuring will be harder to solve. also see hybrid models DeGeneres — stirring up IDAGIO. The concert pro- the likes of Ma or Mick. Streaming a solo perfor- with performances that Harvard Business School, yet another round of de- gram was totally new — For the performers and mance or a quartet is one are both in-person and and a faculty affiliate of bate, this time aimed at Ma put it together just for promoters, there can be thing; convening a full streamed simultaneously the Harvard Department both of them. this performance. It’s not cost savings on the pro- symphony orchestra or the — the best of both worlds. of Economics. Previously, “I have known Ellen for on YouTube or any other duction side: streams can cast of a Broadway musi- To be sure, one risk with he was a junior fellow at years and I can honestly platform — and like any be run from small studios cal is another. But it’s pos- all of this is that global ac- the Harvard Society of Fel- say that she’s one of the other live concert, it was rather than performance sible: Broadway has been cess might lead to an even lows and the inaugural re- dopest people on the ... visceral, ephemeral and halls, reducing overhead. streaming high-defini- more winner-take-all en- search scholar at the Beck- planet,” Hart wrote Tues- exclusive. Plus, it was For solo acts, this can be tion recordings at special vironment for superstars. er Friedman Institute for day in an Instagram post. somehow deeply person- done near where the artist events for years. If everyone can tune in to Research in Economics at “She has treated my fam- al — with the cameras lives — meaning there’s Another unresolved the best performers in the the University of Chicago. ily and my team with love and respect from day 1. The internet has become a Reynolds, Lively crazy world of negativity ... . we are falling in love with peoples down fall. It’s apologize for honestly sad ... When did we get here?” plantation wedding He added that his post was “not meant to disre- gard the feelings of others By Christi Carras and their experiences ... . TRIBUNE NEWS SEERVICE It’s simply to show what my experiences have been Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds has ad- with my friend. Love you dressed his controversial 2012 wedding to for life, Ellen.” American actress Blake Lively, which was Their support comes held at Boone Hall, a former plantation in amid the #ReplaceEllen South Carolina. hashtag trending on Twit- In a new interview with Fast Company, ter this week, with users published on Tuesday, the “Detective Pik- suggesting who should achu” star expressed the couple’s remorse take DeGeneres’ place if for the decision and explained that he and she were to exit her show. Lively later “got married again at home” Perry has appeared on years ago. “The Ellen DeGeneres “It’s something we’ll always be deeply Show” 13 times since and unreservedly sorry for,” he said. “It’s 2008, according to IMDb, impossible to reconcile. What we saw at and Hart has been on the the time was a wedding venue on Pinter- PHOTO | TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE program 14 times since est. What we saw after was a place built 2012. upon devastating tragedy. ... Sarah Snook and Seth Rogen appear in “An American Pickle.” The “Be kind to one an- “Shame works in weird ways. A giant ... other” comedian and her mistake like that can either cause you to talk show have been fac- shut down or it can reframe things and ing an onslaught of bad move you into action. It doesn’t mean you Seth Rogen was in a real pickle publicity in recent months won’t [mess] up again. But repatterning after longstanding rumors and challenging lifelong social condition- By Peter Sblendorio ic blueprint it had to follow was for a century after he becomes of a toxic work environ- ing is a job that doesn’t end.” TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE actually appealing to me.” submerged in a tank full of pickle ment surfaced publicly in Reynolds and Lively have taken action To make the movie, which brine in a freak accident. a number of ways. They in recent months, donating $200,000 to Seth Rogen relished playing debuts Thursday on HBO Max, Once he resurfaces at the ex- culminated in a July sto- the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in May two characters in “An Ameri- Rogen and the filmmakers shot act same age, Herschel unites ry by BuzzFeed News in “to honor not just George Floyd, Ahmaud can Pickle.” all of the scenes featuring the with his only living relative, which former and current Arbery, Breonna Taylor and Eric Garner, The funnyman stars in the bearded Herschel first, with a Ben, a socially conscious app employees reported expe- but all the Black men and women who new comedy as both Herschel stand-in sometimes filling in designer. Herschel’s wildly of- riencing racism and in- have been killed when a camera wasn’t Greenbaum — a Jewish im- to give the actor someone to in- fensive, outdated viewpoints timidation. rolling.” The pair also pledged to raise an- migrant from Eastern Europe teract with. cause nothing but trouble for About 10 days after that tiracist children, as well as “stay educated who wakes up 100 years after Rogen, 38, then shaved, and his great-grandson. report came out, show and vote in every local election.” being preserved in a pickle vat they went back and shot all of The film, which is based on a producers said they were “We’re ashamed that in the past we’ve — and Ben Greenbaum, his Ben’s scenes. 2013 written serialization by looking into the allega- allowed ourselves to be uninformed about Brooklyn-based great-grand- “When I’m acting, I’m gen- Simon Rich that ran in the New tions of a toxic workplace. how deeply rooted systemic racism is,” son who struggles to teach his erally trying to serve the big- Yorker, featured themes that Last week, DeGeneres fi- Reynolds and Lively said in a joint state- ancestor about modern times. ger picture,” Rogen explained. Rogen was eager to dive into. nally addressed the situ- ment on Instagram in May. “We want to “It was very complicated, but I “That is how I approach it. I’m “This idea of what would our ation. educate ourselves and talk to our kids was up for the challenge,” Rogen used to having more than one ancestors think of us? Would “As we’ve grown expo- about everything, all of it ... especially our told the Daily News on Monday job on a movie, so it was not they be proud of us? ... My nentially, I’ve not been own complicity. of his dual roles. “I knew what that weird, honestly. I very grandparents saw me become able to stay on top of ev- “We talk about our bias, blindness and I was getting into. I’d directed much felt like I was just serv- someone who starred in films, erything and relied on our own mistakes. We look back and see so things where people play two ing the story as best I could as and they were not that im- others to do their jobs as many mistakes which have led us to deep- characters before, so I under- both characters.” pressed by it,” Rogen said. “They they knew I’d want them ly examine who we are and who we want stood how complicated and tech- The film follows Herschel and were very impressed by the fact done,” the host said in to become.” nical it could be. his wife in 1919 as they’re driv- that I could afford a lot of nap- a memo viewed by The Last week, Reynolds announced a self-fi- “I longed for it in some ways. en out of the fictional country of kins and paper towels, so it just Times. “Clearly some nanced diversity initiative, the Group Ef- Some of the movies we make are Shlupsk by militant Cossacks shows how this Depression-era didn’t. That will now fort, designed to create opportunities for so loose that this idea of making and into a new life in New York mentality never left them. Like, change and I’m commit- nonwhite people to train and work on his something that was pretty regi- City. Herschel takes a job at a being a movie star was not an ted to ensuring this does future productions. mented and had a pretty specif- pickle factory, but isn’t heard from accomplishment. not happen again.”