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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2019 BILL BROTHERTON COMMENTARY Judge: Lynn slighted in Sinful study Former Personal- nance website WalletHub has It’s the damnedest city I’ve ever lived in in.” released its 2019 report on the Most Sinful Lynn, Lynn the city of sin In the late 1980s, I was in Bermuda Cities in America. Lynn is nowhere on the You never come out, the way you came in.” for a golf holiday. My playing partners, Trump list. What the (expletive)! Or this version: three retired strangers who had nev- The “experts” who compiled the data “Lynn, Lynn the city of sin er been to New England, asked what I must not be familiar with this popular re- What looks like gold is really tin did for a living. “I’m a newspaperman frain: You ask for water, they give you gin in Lynn, Massachusetts,” I replied with aide “Lynn, Lynn the city of sin The girls say no, but always give in pride. “Oh, ‘Lynn, Lynn the city of sin …’” You never come out, the way you came in If you ain’t bad, you can’t get in they started singing. Perhaps they were You ask for water, but they give you gin It’s the damnedest city I’ve ever lived in fans of local ska punk band Big D and must The girls say no, yet they always give in Lynn, Lynn the city of sin If you’re not bad, they won’t let you in You’ll never come out, the way you came BROTHERTON, A3 testify Founder By Mark Sherman ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A federal of Lynn judge has ordered former White House counsel Donald McGahn to appear before Congress in a set- non-pro t back to President Donald Trump’s effort to keep his top aides from testifying. courts The outcome could lead to re- newed efforts by House Demo- crats to compel testimony from at-risk youth other high-ranking of cials, in- cluding former national security adviser John Bolton. By Gayla Cawley Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ITEM STAFF ruled Monday in a lawsuit led by LYNN — Keith Lee knows the research. the House Judiciary Committee. Kids who come from low-income fami- McGahn was a star witness in lies, commonly referred to as at-risk youth, special counsel Robert Mueller’s are more likely to become teen mothers, investigation, and Democrats involved in gangs and other criminal ac- wanted to question McGahn about tivity and are less likely to graduate from possible obstruction of justice by a four-year college, according to statistics Trump. That was months before shared by Social Solutions. the House started an impeach- Lee, 45, of Lynn, hasn’t learned about ment inquiry into Trump’s effort the risk factors from a textbook. He grew to get Ukraine to announce an up in poverty and was on the cusp of be- investigation of former Vice Presi- coming a statistic himself. dent Joe Biden. “I was on the verge of gangs and selling An appeal is likely. drugs,” Lee said. “I was getting ready to go The White House has argued sell some drugs one day before I enrolled that McGahn and other witness- in North Shore (Community College). The es have “absolute immunity” from bag broke in my mouth. I laughed because testifying. it was a sign. I knew I wasn’t supposed But Jackson disputed the ad- to be doing it. Luckily, I was headstrong ministration’s reasoning in a 118- enough to realize it.” page ruling. “That is to say, howev- Lee enrolled in NSCC the next day and er busy or essential a presidential later went on to earn a scholarship to aide might be, and whatever their attend Prairie View A&M University in proximity to sensitive domestic Texas, where he played basketball and and national-security projects, the helped the team to its rst NCAA tour- President does not have the power nament bid. to excuse him or her” from com- He credits nding a small support group plying with a valid congressional and basketball with keeping him off the subpoena, Jackson wrote. She is streets and guiding him down the right an appointee of President Barack path. But he said he found himself at a Obama. crossroads of almost falling into criminal Whether McGahn has to pro- behavior because of a lack of guidance ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO vide all the information Congress early on coupled with few available re- seeks, though, is another matter, sources. Keith Lee has started a new nonpro t aimed at providing mentor- the judge wrote. The president It’s that experience that led Lee to start ship and basketball opportunities for at-risk youth. He’s in the pro- may be able to assert “executive cess of working with a teen transitioning out of a gang and bringing LEE, A3 a semi-professional basketball team to Lynn. McGAHN, A3 Myron Stone: The man who brought the Jaurons to Swampscott By Steve Krause Lynn to Swampscott,” Stone recalled. “So, they ITEM STAFF moved into the other apartment and for almost 20 years, we all grew up as family.” MARBLEHEAD — For someone who never Richard “Dick” Jauron, of course grew up to be played a down of football in his life, Swamp- among the most renowned local high school ath- scott’s Myron Stone looms large in the legend of the Big Blue. letes in the area as a star running back for the Back in the early 1960s, Stone had bought, Big Blue, and for Yale as well. An all-pro defen- and moved his family into, a duplex in Swamp- sive back for the Detroit Lions and the Green scott and was looking for a tenant. Around the Bay Packers, Jauron was the NFL’s Coach of the game time, Bob Jauron had come to the area, Year in 2001 while with the Chicago Bears. and was coaching the Lynn Lions, a football There’s a kicker to this story. Years later, Stone was on the treadmill at the Jewish Community ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO team that combined Lynn’s public high schools. By the time the two men met, Jauron’s son, Center in Marblehead when John Toner, whose Bob Green, left, speaks with Myron Stone during the Old-Tim- Richard, had already started turning heads as brother, Ed, played for the old Boston Patriots, ers annual banquet dinner at the Gerry 5 VFA in Marblehead an athlete. Monday. “He said he wanted to move his family from STONE, A3 Opinion On a collision course with climate change. A4 LOOK! Grocery-carrying A former helper nds himself needing help this year robots are coming. Do we need them? A8 By Gayla Cawley “It’s been dif cult putting food on the table this Christmas. ITEM STAFF and asking family to help us as we were the Unfortunately, his boys’ gift requests ar- Sports ones always helping everyone else,” he wrote en’t cheap either, with their lists including Anderson to host One family that has spent past holidays to Item Santa. “Requesting help for the rst LEGOs, race cars with remote controls, sci- rst annual striving to help others is now in the uncom- time is an experience, but I can’t see sad fac- ence projects, learning toys, clothes and gift basketball clinic. B1 fortable position of having to ask for assis- es this Christmas.” cards. tance this Christmas. Along with struggling to feed his family, the The whole experience has been “extreme- Guerrero leads One father of four young boys was left pressure on the father is exacerbated by his ly depressing,” he wrote. In addition to the Classical defense. B1 shocked and devastated after he lost what he four boys, ranging from 2 to 10 years old, ask- family’s devotion to their faith and reliance considered to be his “dream job” after two de- ing on a daily basis if everything is going to cades of employment with the same company. be OK and if Santa will still pay them a visit ITEM SANTA, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 ENTERTAINMENT .......................A7 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 60° VOL. 141, ISSUE 298 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 40° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 BUSINESS ................................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2019 OBITUARIES Robert B. White, 57 Olybia Kritikou, 99 Thomas A. McAuley, 74 1962-2019 DANVERS — Robert B. White, SALEM — Mrs. Olybia (Dario- LYNN — Mr. Thomas A. McAu- a Civil War enthusiast and col- 57, of Danvers, died Friday tis) Kritikou, age 99, of Salem, ley, age 74, of Lynn, died Thurs- lected lead soldiers. He was a evening, Nov. 22, 2019 at the formerly of Swampscott, died day, Nov. 21 at the Hunt Nursing tireless campaign worker and Lahey Hospital in Peabody. He on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019 at and Rehabilitation Center in served on the committees for was the husband of Patricia A. the Kaplan Family Hospice Danvers after a brief illness. He many local politicians. He en- (Acres) White. House. She was the wife of was the husband of Jeanne E. joyed watching his grandchil- Born in Leicester, England the late Apostolos Kritikou. (Ring) McAuley, with whom he dren play baseball, and was a on June 14, 1962, he was the Born in Granitseika Pyrgos shared 55 years of marriage. fan of West Lynn, Pine Hill and son of Doreen M. (Boland) Elias, Greece, she was the Born in Lynn, he was the East Lynn Little Leagues and (White) O’Leary of Danvers daughter of the late Kostanti- son of the late Walter E.